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Title: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 21, 2012, 11:21:27 AM

This Day in History for 21st December


Historical Events

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French President                                                 Author and Nobel                  First Director of the FBI J             
Charles de Gaulle                                       Laureate Gerhart Hauptmann           Edgar Hoover


1163 - Hurricane hits villages in Holland/Friesland, causing floods
1561 - Archbishop Granvelle installed
1582 - Flanders adopts Gregorian calendar, tomorrow is Jan 1 1583
1598 - Battle of Curalaba: The revolting Mapuche, led by cacique Pelentaru, inflict a major defeat on     
           Spanish troops in southern Chile; all Spanish cities south of the Biobio river are eventually 
           taken by the Mapuches, and all conquest of Mapuche territories by Europeans practically
            ceases, until the 1870s "Pacification of Araucania".
1620 - 103 Mayflower pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock [OS=Dec 11]
1650 - Johan de Witt installed as Dutch pension advisor of Dordrecht
1688 - Pro-James II-earl of Devonshire occupies Nottingham
1784 - John Jay becomes 1st US secretary of state (foreign affairs)
1788 - Hue Tay Son becomes emperor Quang Trung of Vietnam
1829 - 1st stone arch railroad bridge in US dedicated, Baltimore
1835 - HMS Beagle sails into Bay of Islands (New Zealand)
1844 - The Rochdale Pioneers commence business at their cooperative in Rochdale, England, starting
           the Cooperative movement.
1849 - 1st US skating club formed (Phila)
1864 - General Sherman conquers Savannah, Georgia
1866 - Cheyennes, Arapho's, Sioux, Fetterman Massacre
1890 - Pim Mulier 1st & only trip to "Alvesteddetocht"
1891 - 18 students play 1st basketball game (Springfield College)
1898 - Scientists Pierre & Marie Curie discovers radium
1900 - Gerhart Hauptmann's "Michael Kramer," premieres in Berlin
1907 - Dutch government of De Master falls due to war budget
1909 - 1st junior high school established (Berkeley California)
1909 - Clyde Fitch' "City," premieres in NYC
1909 - U of Coopenhagen rejects Cook's claim that he was 1st to North Pole
1910 - Explosion in coal mine in Hulton England, 344 mine workers dies
1912 - Denmark, Norway & Sweden declare neutrality in Comende war
1913 - 1st crossword puzzle (with 32 clues) printed in NY World
1914 - "Tillie's Punctured Romance," 1st six-reel feature comedy debuts
1914 - 1st feature-length silent film comedy, "Tillie's Punctured Romance" released. (Marie Dressler,
           Mabel Normand & Charles Chaplin)
1915 - 10.17" (25.83 cm) of rainfall, Glenora, Oregon (state record)
1918 - Red Sox trade Dutch Leonard, Ernie Shore & Duffy Lewis to Yankees for Ray Caldwell & Slim
           Love, Frank Gilhooey, Al Walters & $15,000
1919 - J Edgar Hoover deports anarchists/feminist Emma Goldman to Russia
1920 - Jerome Kern/BG DeSylva's musical "Sally," premieres in NYC
1921 - Supreme Court rules labor injunctions & picketing unconstitutional
1923 - Nepal changes from British protectorate to independent nation
1925 - Eisenstein's movie Potemkin premieres in Moscow
1925 - Stork Hendry scores 325 for Victoria against NZ
1926 - Soccer team DOS Struggle forms
1929 - 1st group hospital insurance plan offered (Dallas Tx)
1932 - Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers, 1st joint movie (Flying Down to Rio)
1932 - Giants sign former outfielder Billy Southworth as a coach
1933 - Dried human blood serum 1st prepared, Univ of Pennsylvania
1933 - Fox signs Shirley Temple, 5, to a studio contract
1933 - Newfoundland reverts to being a crown colony
1936 - Bradman's 2nd consecutive Test Cricket duck! Australia all out 80
1937 - 1st feature-length color & sound cartoon premieres (Snow White)
1937 - O'Reilly completes 14-98 for cricket match, NSW v South Aust
1939 - Hitler named Adolf Eichmann leader of "Referat IV B"
1941 - Chicago Bears Ray McLean makes last NFL drop kick for an extra point
1941 - Chicago bears win the NFL championship
1941 - David Diamond's 1st Symphony, premieres
1941 - German submarine U-567 sinks
1941 - Last NFL drop kick for an extra point (Ray McLean, Chicago Bears)
1942 - US Supreme court declares Nevada separation legal
1944 - Cards' Marty Marion wins NL MVP
1945 - "Billion Dollar Baby" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 219 performances
1945 - Gould/Comden/Green's "Billion Dollar Baby," premieres in NYC
1946 - "If the Shoe Fits" closes at Century Theater NYC after 20 performances
1946 - Earthquake in South Japan, kills 1,086
1946 - Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life," premieres
1946 - Morton Gould's "Minstrel Show," premieres in Indianapolis
1948 - O'Neil Place in the Bronx erronously renamed O'Neill Place
1948 - State of Eire (formerly Irish Free State) declares its independence
1949 - Dutch 1st Chamber accept soeveregnty of Indonesia
1950 - Cole Porte's musical "Out of this World" premieres at New Century Theater NYC for 157 perfs
1951 - Joe DiMaggio announces his retirement
1952 - Broadway Tunnel opens in SF
1952 - WSBT TV channel 22 in South Bend, IN (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 - KOMU TV channel 8 in Columbia, MO (NBC/PBS) begins broadcasting
1954 - Dr Sam Sheppard's wife Marilyn is murdered (he is accused of crime)
1957 - Indonesia proclaims end to state of war
1958 - Charles De Gaulle wins 7 year term as 1st pres of 5th Rep of France
1959 - 10th largest snowfall in NYC history (13.7")
1959 - Citizens of Deerfield Ill block building of interracial housing
1959 - Tom Landry accepts coaching job with Dallas Cowboys (stays until 1988)
1961 - Beatles record "Sweet Georgia Brown" & "Ready Teddy"
1961 - JFK & British PM MacMillan meet in Bermuda
1962 - Angolin leaves Comecon
1962 - US & Cuba accord, releases bay of pigs captive
1966 - USSR launches Luna 13; soft-landed in Oceanus Procellarum
1968 - Apollo 8 (Borman, Lovell & Anders) 1st manned Moon voyage
1968 - David Crosby, Stephen Stills & Graham Nash premiere together in Calif
1969 - Diana Ross final TV appearance as a Supreme (Ed Sullivan Show)
1969 - Vince Lombardi (Redskins) coaches his last football game, losing
1970 - WUTV TV channel 29 in Buffalo, NY (IND) begins broadcasting
1971 - UN Security Council chooses Kurt Waldheim as 4th secretary General
1972 - Soviet Union signs a separate peace with East Germany
1973 - Israel, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, US & USSR meet in Geneva
1973 - The Geneva Conference on the Arab-Israeli conflict opens.
1975 - "Hello, Dolly" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 51 performances
1975 - "Very Good Eddie" opens at Booth Theater NYC for 307 performances
1975 - 1st NY Jet to gain 1,000 yards rushing (John Riggins)
1975 - 64th Davis Cup: Sweden beats Czechoslovakia in Stockholm (3-2)
1975 - Madagascar adopts constitution
1975 - Buffalo Sabres set NHL record of 40 points beating Caps 14-2 scoring 5 goals vs Washington   
           Caps in 4:57
1976 - 20th Islander shut-out opponent-Billy Smith 3-0 vs Bruins
1976 - Patricia R Harris named secretary of HUD
1976 - UN General Assembly passes a resolution declaring 1979-Year of Child
1976 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1978 - "Broadway Musical" opens/closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC
1978 - Police in Des Plaines Ill, arrest John Wayne Gacy Jr for murder1979 - Gary Unger plays in
            record 914th consecutive NHL game
1979 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1979 - Zimbabwe adopts constitution
1980 - Harold Carmichael ends NFL streak of 127 consecutive game receptions
1981 - Cincinnati beats Bradley 75-73 in 7 OTs (NCAA record)
1983 - Musical "Tap Dance Kid" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 669 performances
1983 - NBA Indiana Pacers end a 28 game road losing streak
1983 - NCAA rules rescinded last 2-minute men's basketball free throw rule
1984 - Islander Kelly Hrudy's 1st shut-out win-Whalers 1-0
1984 - USSR launches Vega 2 for fly-by of Halley's Come
1985 - ARCO Anchorage runs aground near Port Angeles, WA
1985 - Alice Miller/Don January wins LPGA Mazda Golf Championship
1985 - Heart's "Heart," album goes #1
1986 - 75th Davis Cup: Australia beats Sweden in Melbourne (3-2)
1986 - Amy Alcott/Bob Charles wins LPGA Mazda Golf Championship
1987 - 3 white NY teens convicted of manslaughter in death of a black man
1987 - Soyuz TM-4 launches 3 cosmonauts to space station Mir
1987 - Vladimir Titov & Musa Manarov launched
1988 - Drexel agrees guilt to security felonies, pays a $650 million fine
1988 - NY bound Pan Am jumbo jet explodes over Scotland all 258 aboard die
1988 - Vladimir Titov & Musa Manarov return to earth (a year) with Chretien
1988 - Pan AM Flight 103 was destroyed by a bomb killing 243 passengers and 16 crew (also known
           as the Lockerbie bombing)
1989 - VP Quayle sends out 30,000 Xmas cards with word beacon spelled beakon
1990 - Steve & Mark Waugh complete 464* partnership for NSW v WA
1991 - 95 share in Madrid Spain $1.3 billion lottery (#47996)
1991 - El Sayid Nosair acquitted of killing Meir Kahane
1991 - Soviet Union formally dissolves 11 of 12 republics sign treaty forming Commonwealth of
           Independent States
1992 - Dutch DC-10 in fire at landing on Faro Portugal, 56 die
1994 - Bomb goes off on #4 train on Fulton Street NYC
1995 - Martina Ertl of Germany wins her 3rd giant slalom world cup
1995 - SF Giants announce plans to build a new stadium to open in 2000
1995 - The city of Bethlehem passes from Israeli to Palestinian control.
1996 - Pakistan all out 67 to lose to Tasmania by an inning
1997 - Detroit Lions Barry Sanders is 3rd to run for 2,000 yards in a season
1997 - Detroit Lions linebacker Reggie Brown, knocked unconscious in game
1997 - Lexus Senior Golf Challenge
1997 - Wendy's Three-Tour Senior Golf Challenges
1997 - Wendy's Three-Tour LPGA Challenge
1999 - The Spanish Civil Guard intercepts a van loaded with 950 kg of explosives that ETA intended to use to blow up Torre Picasso in Madrid.
2006 - Puzzle Play aired to network Ten, replacing In the Box
2007 - The Schengen Agreement area increases to include 9 European Union member states; Czech 
           Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia on land and sea borders.

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 21, 2012, 11:49:42 AM

This Day in History for 21st December


Famous Weddings

1762 - British Explorer Captain James Cook marries Elizabeth Batts
1959 - Shah of Persia marries Farah Diba
1977 - American Jewish playwright and screenwriter "Glengarry Glen Ross" David Mamet marries 1st
           wife actress Lindsay Crouse   
1983 - Loretta Swit weds Dennis Holahan
1991 - Actress Jane Fonda (55) weds CNN founder Ted Turner at the groom's home in north Florida
1996 - Famous singer Lionel Richie (47) weds clothing designer Diane Alexander (30) at Metropolitan 
           Club in New York
2008 - Talk show host Craig Ferguson (46) weds art dealer Megan Wallace Cunningham (26) in
           Chester, Vermont

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 21, 2012, 02:14:50 PM

This Day in History for 21st December


Famous Divorces

1945 - American author and journalist "The Old Man and the Sea" 
           Ernest Hemingway and journalist Martha Gellhorn divorce after 5 years of marriage.
2010 - "The Lord of The Rings" actor Sean Bean (51) divorces actress Georgina Sutcliffe (32) due to
           irreconcilable differences after 2 years of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 21, 2012, 02:27:55 PM

This Day in History for 21st December


Famous Birthdays

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Archbishop of Canterbury                     Actress Jane Fonda (1937)            Actor Samuel L Jackson (1948)             
Thomas Becket (1117)                                       


1117 - Thomas Becket, Cheapside, London, archbishop of Canterbury (1162-1170), (d. 1170)
1401 - Tommaso Masaccio, Italian painter (d. 1428)
1518 - Mark van Vaernewijck, Flemish nobleman/politician
1537 - Johan III, king of Sweden (1569-92)
1596 - Petro Mohyla, Moldovan Orthodox Metropolitan Bishop of Kiev and Galicia (d. 1646)
1603 - Roger Williams, English theologian and colonist (d. 1684)
1616 - Pietro Andrea Ziani, composer
1628 - Samuel Friedrich Capricornus, composer
1639 - Jean Racin, writer
1714 - John Bradstreet, Canadian-born soldier (d. 1774)
1728 - Hermann Friedrich Raupach, composer
1756 - Thomas Anton Kunz, composer
1778 - Anders Sandøe Ørsted, Danish politician (d. 1860)
1795 - Leopold von Ranke, German historian (d. 1886)
1800 - Barnwell Rhett Robert, (Confederacy), died in 1876
1804 - Benjamin Disraeli, (Tory) British PM (1868, 1874-80)
1805 - Thomas Graham, British chemist and father of colloid chemistry (d. 1869)
1810 - Ludwig Schuncke, composer
1815 - Thomas Couture, French painter/author
1818 - Amalia, wife of king Otto of Greece
1818 - Lewis H Morgan, US, etnologist (Systems of Consanguinity)
1823 - Jean Henri Fabre, France, entomologist (insects & spiders)
1826 - Ernst Pauer, composer
1832 - John Henry Ketcham, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1906
1840 - Mehmed N Kemal, Turkish journalist (Vatan)
1843 - Thomas Bracken, Irish-born New Zealand poet (d. 1898)
1848 - Edward Everett Rice, composer
1849 - James Lane Allen, US writer (Kentucky Cardinal)
1850 - Zdenek Fibich, composer
1851 - Thomas Chipman McRae, American politician, 34th Governor of Arkansas (d. 1929)
1853 - Isolde Kurz, German writer/poetess (Meine Mutter)
1859 - Gustave Kahn, France, poet (claimed to have invented vers libre)
1860 - Henrietta Szold, founder (Hadassah)
1867 - John Winter Thompson, composer
1872 - Albert P Terhune, US, novelist (Lad, a Dog)
1872 - Sidney Ainsworth, British actor (d. 1922)
1873 - Blagoje Bersa, Croatian composer (d. 1934)
1874 - Juan Bautista Sacasa, pres of Nicaragua (1932-36)
1878 - Jan Łukasiewicz, Polish philosopher and mathematician (d. 1956)
1879 - Theodore Limperg, business economist (substitute value)
1885 - Frank Patrick, Canadian hockey player (d. 1960)
1886 - George Norman Peterkin, composer
1886 - Hermann A J Kees, German Egyptologist (Problems of Egyptology)
1889 - Sewall Wright, American biologist (d. 1988)
1890 - Fred M Vinson, US Supreme Court Justice (1946-53)
1890 - Hermann Joseph Muller, American geneticist and Nobel laureate (d. 1967)
1891 - John W McCormack, (D) Speaker of House (1962-70)
1892 - Rebecca West, [Cicily I F Andrews], Engl author (Meaning of Treason)
1892 - Walter Hagen, Rochester NY, PGA golfer (US Open 1914, 19)
1892 - Amy Key Clarke, English mystical poet (d. 1980)
1895 - Paul Hoffer, composer
1896 - Carl Romme, Dutch catholic foreman/KVP-min Socialist Business
1896 - Constantine Rokossovski, Russian marshal/vice-premier of Poland
1896 - Leroy Robertson, composer
1898 - Ira S Bowen, US physicist/astronomer (Mt Wilson/Palomar)
1899 - Guy Wilkerson, TX, actor (Dead or Alive, West of Texas, Shootin' Iron)
1900 - Oda Schaefer, German author/poet (Die Windharfe, Ladies Only)
1900 - Wischnewski, writer
1901 - Juan A de Zunzunegui y Loredo, Spanish writer
1901 - Robin Irvine, London England, actor (Easy Virtue)
1905 - Anthony Powell, England, novelist (Infants of Spring)
1907 - Garmt Stuiveling, Dutch literary (Poet in Love)
1908 - Pat Weaver, LA California, TV Executive (started Today show)
1909 - George Ball, Iowa, lawyer/undersecretary of state
1909 - Seicho Matsumoto, Japanese mystery writer and journalist (d. 1992)
1911 - Josh Gibson, pro baseball player, "Negro Babe Ruth" (hit 800+ HRs)
1911 - Paul Burkhard, composer
1913 - Raich Carter, soccer star
1914 - Ivan Generalić, Austro-Hungarian-born Croatian painter (d. 1992)
1915 - Werner von Trapp, member of the Trapp Family Singers (d. 2007)
1916 - Eve Perrick, journalist
1916 - John Boon, publisher
1917 - Alicia Alonso, Havana Cuba, ballerina (American Ballet Theatre)
1917 - Andre Eglevsky, choreographer (Limelight)
1917 - Sophie Masloff, American politician
1918 - Donald Regan, White House staffer/US Secretary of Treasury (1981-85)
1918 - Kurt Waldheim, Nazi/4th UN Sec-Gen (1972-81)/Austrian pres (1986-92)
1919 - Gert Fredriksson, Sweden, 1K kayak (Olympic-gold-1948, 52, 56)
1920 - Bob Bindig, American cartoonist (d. 2006)
1920 - Jean Gascon, Canadian actor (d. 1988)
1921 - Alica Alonso, Havana, ballerina
1921 - James Tye, safety expert
1921 - Joan Dickson, cellist
1922 - Paul Winchell, NYC, ventriloquist (Jerry Mahoney, Knucklehead Smith)
1923 - Intizar Hussain, Urdu writer and columnist of Pakistan
1924 - Joe Paterno, football coach (Penn State, SI Sportsman of 1986)
1924 - Johan W "Jo" van Marle, KNVB-chairman (1980-93)
1924 - Rita Reys, [Maria Reijs], Dutch jazz singer
1926 - John Herbert McDowell, composer
1926 - Pedro Gonzales-Gonzalez, Aguilares Tx, actor (Rio Bravo)
1926 - Joe Paterno, American football coach
1927 - Michael Carreras, film director
1928 - Ed Nelson, New Orleans La, actor (Peyton Place, A Long Came a Spider)
1928 - Thomas Rajna, composer
1929 - Jack Philip Cannon, composer
1930 - Willem R "Wim" van der Zee, secretary of Council of Churches
1931 - Caroline Kaart, [Paterson Raitt], Dutch alto singer
1931 - David Baker, Indianapolis Indiana, composer (Reflections)
1932 - Ilja Zeljenka, composer
1932 - Edward Hoagland, American essayist
1933 - Huib Eversdijk, Dutch 2nd chamber member (CDA)
1933 - Jackie Hendriks, cricketer (West Indian wicket-keeper of 60's)
1933 - Miklos Kocsar, composer
1934 - Hanif Mohammad, cricketer (prolific Pakistani batsman 1952-69)
1935 - Phil Donahue, Cleve Ohio, talk show host (Phil Donahue Show)
1935 - Lorenzo Bandini, Italian racecar driver (d. 1967)
1935 - Yusuf Bey (Joseph Stephens), American activist (d. 2003)
1935 - Edward Schreyer, Canadian politician, Premier of Manitoba
1937 - Harald V, King of Norway (1991-present)
1937 - Jane Fonda, NYC, actress (Barbarella, Klute), physically fit
1937 - Donald F. Munson, American politician
1938 - Larry Bryggman, Concord CA, actor (Dr John Dixon-As the World Turns)
1939 - Lloyd Axworthy, Canadian politician
1940 - Frank Zappa, Baltimore, rocker (Mothers of Invention, Catholic Girls)
1940 - Paul, [Ray Hildebrand], Tx, singer (Hey Paula)
1942 - Carla Thomas, US singer (Let Me Be Good to You)
1942 - Hu Jintao, Chinese president
1942 - Reinhard Mey, German singer
1943 - Albert Lee, rocker
1943 - Jack Nance, actor (Rubbed Out)
1943 - Walter Spanghero, French rugby player
1943 - André Arthur. Quebec radio host
1944 - Jared Martin, NYC, actor (Varian-Fantastic Voyage, Dusty-Dallas)
1944 - Michael Tilson Thomas, LA California, conductor (NY Phil Young People)
1944 - Zheng Xiaoyu, Chinese bureaucrat (d. 2007)
1944 - Bill Atkinson, English footballer
1945 - Doug Walters, cricketer (Aussie batting genius 1965-81 Extrovert)
1945 - Millie Hughes-Fulford, Wells Tx, astronaut (STS 40)
1946 - Carl Dean Wilson, Hawthorne California, rock vocalist (Beach Boys-Barbie)
1946 - Christopher Keene, Berkeley California, conductor (La Traviata)
1946 - Josh Mostel, NY, actor (Windy City, Animal Behavior, Money Pit)
1947 - Paco de Lucía, Spanish musician
1948 - Barry Gordon, Brookline Mass, actor (Gary-Archie Bunker's Place)
1948 - Carol Potter, NYC, actress (Beverly Hills 90210, Today's FBI)
1948 - Dave Kingman, baseball player (Mets, Yanks, Giants)
1948 - Samuel L Jackson, Washington DC, actor (Amos & Andrew, White Sand, Pulp Fiction)
1948 - Willem AFG Vermeend, Dutch economist/undersecretary of Finance (1994-)
1948 - Willi Resetarits, Austrian musician
1949 - Nikolaos Sifounakis, Greek politician
1950 - Jeffrey Katzenberg, American film producer
1950 - Lillebjørn Nilsen, Norwegian singer-songwriter
1952 - Dennis Boutsikaris, Newark NJ, actor (Batteries Not Included)
1952 - Steve Furniss, US swimmer (Olympics-bronze-1972)
1952 - Joaquín Andújar, Dominican baseball player
1953 - Andras Schiff, Budapest Hungary, pianist (Tchaikovsky-1974)
1953 - Arie Luyendyk, Netherlands, Indy-car racer (1990 Indianapolis 500)
1953 - Betty Wright, US gospel/singer/TV hostess (Little Miss Broadway)
1953 - Tina Brown, journalist (New Yorker)
1954 - Chris Evert Lloyd Mills, Fort Lauderdale, tennis pro 'Miss pokerface'
1955 - Jane Kaczmarek, American actress
1955 - Kazuyuki Sekiguchi, Japanese musician
1956 - Kevin Burnham, Hollis NY, 470 yachter (Olympics-8th-1992, 96)
1956 - Lee Roy Parnell, Abilene Texas, country singer (Oughta be a Law)
1957 - Joshua Mostel, NYC, actor (Delta House, At Ease)
1957 - Lisa Gerritsen, LA California, actress (Bess-Mary Tyler Moore Show)
1957 - Ray Romano, Queens NY, actor (Ray Barone-Everybody Loves Raymond)
1957 - Tom Henke, American baseball player
1957 - Ray Romano, Italian-American comedian
1959 - Florence Griffith Joyner, LA California, runner (Olympic-3 gold-1988)
1960 - Andy Van Slyke, baseball player
1960 - Michael Swain, Elizabeth NJ, judoka (Olympics-bronze-88)
1960 - Roger McDowell, Cincinnati OH, pitcher (NY Mets, Balt Orioles)
1960 - Louis Demetrius Alvanis, London-based pianist
1961 - Trevor Bayliss, cricketer (NSW batsman)
1961 - Francis Ng, Hong Kong actor
1961 - Ryuji Sasai, Japanese composer
1962 - Christy Forester, Lookout Mt Ga, country singer (Forester Sister-Men)
1964 - Ed Jongsma, Dutch pop bassist (Sleeze Beez-Look Like Hell)
1964 - Joey Kocur, Calgary, NHL right wing (Vancouver Canucks)
1964 - Keith Taylor, NFL safety (Washington Redskins)
1964 - Rob Kelly, English football manager
1964 - Fabiana Udenio, Argentine actress
1965 - Andy Dick, Charleston SC, actor (Matthew-Newsradio)
1965 - Gabrielle Glaser, musician (Luscious Jackson)
1965 - Rodney Thomas, WLAF cornerback (Barcelona Dragons)
1965 - Sue Thomas, Texarkana TX, LPGA golfer (1991 Orix Hawaiian Ladies-14th)
1965 - Anke Engelke, German comedian
1966 - Karri Turner, American actress
1967 - Ervin Johnson, NBA center (Seattle Supersonics, Milwaukee Bucks)
1967 - Kristi Cooke, Marion Ohio, Miss Ohio-America (1991)
1967 - Terry Mills, NBA forward (Miami Heat, Detroit Pistons)
1967 - Mikhail Saakashvili, Soviet-born President of Georgia
1968 - Anthony Lynn, NFL running back (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1968 - Khrystyne Haje, Santa Clara, Cal, actress (Simone-Head of the Class)
1969 - Chuck Smith, NFL defensive end (Atlanta Falcons)
1969 - Julie Delpy, actress (Before Sunrise)
1969 - Leon Searcy, NFL offensive tackle (Pittsburgh Steelers, Jackson Jaguars)
1969 - Mihails Zemļinskis, Latvian footballer
1970 - Irving Spikes, NFL running back (Miami Dolphins)
1970 - Monique Ambers, WNBA forward (Phoenix Mercury)
1970 - Ronnie Woolfork, WLAF linebacker (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1971 - Ernest Hunter, NFL running back (Cleveland Browns)
1971 - Irena Slavutskay, Israel, athlete (Oly-1996)
1971 - Jey Phillips, WLAF DB (Amsterdam Admirals)
1971 - Tommie Boyd, NFL/WLAF receiver (Detroit Lions, Rhein Fire)
1971 - Mathieu Chedid, French musician
1971 - Fenton Keogh, Australian celebrity chef
1971 - Brett Scallions, American singer (Fuel, The X's)
1972 - Latroy Hawkins, American baseball player
1972 - Dustin Hermanson, American baseball player
1972 - Erwin Schrott, Uruguayan opera singer
1973 - Mike Alstott, fullback (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1973 - Karmen Stavec, German-born Slovenian singer
1974 - Karrie Webb, Ayr Queensland Aus, LPGA golfer (1994 Aust Strokeplay)
1974 - Raymond Austin, cornerback/safety (NY Jets)
1974 - Tommie Boyd, wide reciever (Detroit Lions)
1975 - Paloma Herrera, Argentine ballet dancer
1976 - Mirela Manjani, Greek javelin thrower
1978 - Amber Corwin, Harbor City Ca, figure skater (1997 National Sr - 5th)
1978 - Michael Vitar, LA California, actor (D2, D3, Sunset Grill, Sandlot Kids)
1979 - Tuva Novotny, Swedish actress and singer
1980 - Royce Ring, American Major League Baseball Player
1981 - Cristian Zaccardo, Italian football player
1981 - Frankie Abernathy, American actress, The Real World: San Diego (d. 2007)
1981 - Sajid Mahmood, English cricketer
1981 - Lynda Thomas, Mexican singer
1982 - Mike Gansey, American basketball player
1982 - Erica Hayden, American journalist and radio personality
1982 - Philip Humber, American baseball player
1982 - Iljo Keisse, Belgian cyclist
1984 - Darren Potter, Irish football player
1984 - Jackson Rathbone, American Actor
1985 - James Stewart Jr., American motorcycle racer
1987 - Valerie Concepcion, Filipino Actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 21, 2012, 02:36:57 PM

This Day in History for 21st December


Famous Deaths

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US Secretary of State Frank                  US General George S Patton                         
    Kellogg (1937)                                                      (1945)                           


72 - Thomas the Apostle
918 - Conrad I, Duke of Franconia/German King (911-918), dies
1295 - Marguerite Berenger of Provence, wife of Louis IX of France (bc. 1221)
1308 - Henry I, the Child, 1st landgrave of Hessen (1256-1308), dies at 64
1375 - Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian poet (Vita di Dante), dies
1504 - Bertold von Henneberg-Römhild, German archbishop and elector (b. 1442)
1549 - Marguerite of Navarre, wife of Henry II of Navarre (b. 1492)
1579 - Vicente Masip, Spanish painter
1597 - Petrus Canisius, Dutch jesuit/saint, dies at 76
1674 - Rutger van Haersolte, viceroy of Overijsselse, dies at about 66
1734 - Philipp Hyacinth Lobkowitz, composer, dies at 54
1736 - Alessandro Galilei, Italian architect (Cappella Corsini), dies at 45
1755 - Caspar Ruetz, composer, dies at 47
1807 - John Newton, English cleric and hymnist (b. 1725)
1820 - Charles-Francois Dumonchau, composer, dies at 45
1824 - James Parkinson, English physician, geologist, paleontologist, and political activist (b. 1755)
1859 - Nicolaas C Kist, Dutch church historian/archivist, dies at 66
1864 - William Henry Fry, composer, dies at 51
1873 - Francis Garnier, French explorer (b. 1839)
1889 - Joseph B Lightfoot, English theologist/bishop of Durham, dies at 61
1889 - Friedrich August von Quenstedt, German geologist (b. 1809)
1890 - Niels Vilhelm Gade, Danish composer, dies at 73
1900 - Roger Wolcott, American political figure, 39th Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1847)
1906 - Adalbert von Goldschmidt, composer, dies at 58
1907 - Oskar Lassar, German dermatologist (public baths), dies at 58
1914 - A O Jones, cricketer (12 Tests for England 1899-1909), dies
1920 - Claude Tozer, cricketer (dashing NSW batsman, shot to death
1921 - P B S Pinchback, major Reconstruction politician, dies at 84
1927 - Jack Saunders, cricketer (79 wickets-14 Tests for Aust 1902-08), dies
1928 - Harry Butt, cricketer (England wicket-keeper v South Africa 1895-96), dies
1928 - Luigi Cadorna, Italian fieldmarshal (WW I, Caporetto), dies at 78
1933 - Knud J V Rasmussen, Danish Pole explorer (Thule), dies at 54
1935 - Kurt Tucholsky, Ger journalist/writer (Panter, Tiger & Co), dies at 45
1937 - Frank Kellogg, US Secretary of State and Nobel laureate, dies at 80
1940 - F Scott Fitzgerald, author (Zelda), dies of a heart attack at 44
1942 - Leendert Round, sculptor (Giraffen, Blijdorp), dies at 63
1945 - George S Patton, US General (Sicily/Normandy), dies in car crash at 60
1948 - Seishiro Itagaki, Japanese General/min of War, hanged
1955 - Dorothy Bernard, actress (Margaret-Life With Father), dies at 65
1956 - Lewis M Terman, psychologist (Genetic studies of genius), dies at 79
1957 - Eric Coates, composer, dies at 71
1958 - H[arry] B[yron] Warner, actor (10 Commandments, New Moon), dies at 83
1958 - Lion Feuchtwanger, philosopher/writer (Der falsche Nero), dies at 74
1959 - Rosanjin, Japanese calligrapher, restaurateur and ceramicist (b. 1883)
1963 - Jack Hobbs, cricketer (61 Tests for England), dies
1964 - Carl Van Vechten, American writer and photographer (b. 1880)
1965 - Claude Adonai Champagne, composer, dies at 74
1967 - Louis Washkansky, 18 days after 1st heart transplant, dies at 55
1967 - Stuart Erwin, actor (Trouble With Father), dies of heart attack at 64
1972 - Horace Mann Bond, president of Lincoln University (Pa), dies at 70
1974 - Richard Long, actor (Nanny & Professor), dies at 47
1974 - James Henry Govier, British artist (b. 1910)
1975 - William Lundigan, announcer (CBS Mystery Theater), dies at 61
1976 - Edward Bartlett, cricketer (WI Test batsman in 5 Tests 1928-31), dies
1979 - Bill Anderson, cricketer (Test for NZ 1946, scored five & one), dies
1980 - Marc Connelly, playwright (One Minute Please), dies at 90
1981 - Allan Dwan, Canadian-born American director and screenwriter (b. 1885)
1983 - Rod Cameron, actor (Santa Fe Passage, Stampede), dies at 73
1983 - Paul de Man, Belgian-born literary critic (b. 1919)
1987 - Robert Paige, actor (Son of Dracula, Pardon My Sarong), dies
1987 - John Spence, founding No Doubt member (b. 1969)
1988 - Bob Steele, [Robert Bradbury], dies after short illness at 60
1988 - Nicholas Tinbergen, Dutch/British biologist, dies at 81
1989 - Jan Cikker, composer, dies at 78
1990 - Clarence "Kelly" Johnson, American aeronautical engineer (Lockheed Skunk Works; b. 1910)
1992 - Albert King, US blues singer/guitarist (Crosscut Saw), dies at 71
1992 - Nathan Milstein, Ukrainian/US violist (Beethoven, Bach), dies at 87
1992 - Stella Adler, US actress (Love on Toast), dies at 90
1992 - Sybil Andrews, English/Canada painter, dies at 94
1993 - Philip Christison, British general (Rangoon), dies at 100
1994 - Dean Rusk, US Sect of State, dies at 85
1994 - Shauna McDonald Brown, British TV producer, dies at 37
1995 - Robert Francis Vere Heuston, professor of law, dies at 72
1995 - Trenchard Cox, museum director, dies at 90
1996 - Margaret E Rey, author of children's books, dies at 90
1996 - Olga Maria Nicolis di Robilant, patron of the arts, dies at 96
1997 - Bruce Woodcock, boxer, dies at 76
1997 - Juzo Itami, film director/actor (Lord Jim, Yuuguremade), dies at 64
1997 - Michael Lyne, air-marshal, dies at 78
1998 - Roger Avon, Durham actor (b. 1914)
1998 - Karl Denver, Scottish singer (b 1931)
1998 - Ernst Gunther Schenck, German doctor who joined the Sturmabteilung in 1933 {b. 1904)
2001 - Dick Schaap, American sports journalist (b. 1934)
2003 - Prince Alfonso of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Spanish playboy and businessman (b. 1924)
2004 - Autar Singh Paintal, Indian medical scientist (b. 1925)
2005 - Elrod Hendricks, American baseball player and coach (b. 1940)
2006 - Scobie Breasley, Australian jockey (b. 1914)
2006 - Saparmurat Niyazov, President of Turkmenistan (b. 1940)
2007 - Ken Hendricks, American businessman (b. 1941)
2010 - Enzo Bearzot, Italian football player and manager (b. 1927)

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Post by: MysteRy on December 22, 2012, 04:01:32 PM

This Day in History for 22nd December


Historical Events

401 - St Innocent I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
795 - Leo III succeeds pope Adrianus I
1135 - Norman nobles recognize Stefanus van Blois as English king
1216 - Pope Honorius III delegates degree "Religiosam vitam eligentibus"
1465 - Peace of St Truiden: Louis van Bourbon becomes bishop of Luik
1536 - English scholar Reginald Pole appointed cardinal
1596 - Ferryboat Meuniers crashes in Paris, 150 die
1642 - Pope Urbanus VIII publishes degree In eminente
1688 - Pro-James II, Earl of Danby occupies York
1689 - Heavy earthquake strikes Innsbruck
1715 - English pretender to the throne James III lands at Peterhead
1731 - Dutch people revolt against meat tax
1772 - Moravian missionary constructs 1st schoolhouse west of Allegheny
1775 - Continental navy organized with 7 ships
1790 - The Turkish fortress of Izmail is stormed and captured by Suvorov and his Russian armies.

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Post by: MysteRy on December 22, 2012, 04:05:23 PM

This Day in History for 22nd December


Famous Weddings

1968 - Julie Nixon weds Dwight David Eisenhower
2000 - Pop singer Madonna (42) weds film director Guy Ritchie (32) at Skibo Castle in Scotland
2005 - "Ospreys" Rugby star Shane Williams (28) weds Gail Lacey at Twyn Church in Garnant, West Wales
2005 - Brazilian actress Danielle Winits (31) weds model Cassio Reis at Capela Santa Ines in Rio de
           Janeiro
2007 - Former "Saturday Night Live" host Jimmy Fallon (33) weds Hollywood producer Nancy Juvonen (40) on Necker Island in Caribbean
2011 - "Big Bang Theory" Indian actor Kunal Nayyar (30) weds Miss India 2006 winner Neha Kapur
           (28) in New Delhi, India

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Post by: MysteRy on December 22, 2012, 04:06:39 PM

This Day in History for 22nd December


Famous Divorces

2006 - "Grey's Anatomy" actress Sandra Oh (35) divorces Oscar-winning Sideways director Alexander
            Payne (45) due to irreconcilable differences after 5 years of marriage

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Post by: MysteRy on December 22, 2012, 04:11:20 PM

This Day in History for 22nd December


Famous Birthdays

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US Secretary of State
Frank Kellogg (1856)                           

1095 - Roger II of Sicily, King of Sicily (d. 1154)
1178 - Emperor Antoku of Japan (d. 1185)
1400 - Luca della Robbia, Italy, sculptor (Madonna of Rose Garden)
1428 - Richard Neville Warwick, 2nd earl of Salisbury
1459 - Djem Sultan, son of Turks sultan Mehmed II
1515 - Mary of Lorraine, France, pro-French Regent of Scotland
1523 - Charles "Cardinal" of Bourbon, archbishop Rouen
1546 - Kuroda Yoshitaka, Japanese Daimyo (d. 1604)
1550 - Cesare Cremonini, Italian philosopher (d. 1631)
1573 - Ernst Casimir, count of Nassau-Dietz/mayor of Frisia/Groningen
1624 - Tomas Micieres, composer
1639 - Jean Racine, French dramatist (d. 1699)
1643 - Rene-Robert Cavelier La Salle, France, French explorer (Louisiana)
1666 - Guru Gobind Singh, Sikh guru (d. 1708)
1684 - Johann J Dillenius, [Dillen], German botanist (Historia Muscorum)

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Post by: MysteRy on December 22, 2012, 04:13:21 PM

This Day in History for 22nd December


Famous Deaths

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Children's Author Beatrix
Potter (1943)                           

69 - Aulus Vitellius, Roman Emperor for 8 months, executed by the troops of his successor Vespasian in Rome
1100 - Duke Bretislaus II of Bohemia
1337 - Daito Kokushi, leader of O-To-Kan Rinzai school in Japan, dies at 54
1419 - John XXIII, [Baldassare Cossa], Italian Pope (1410-15), dies
1440 - Bluebeard, pirate, executed
1550 - Richard Plantagenet (Richard of Eastwell) possibly a son of Richard III
1603 - Mehmed III, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1566) Reigned 1595-1603.
1646 - Peter Mogila, Orthodox Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia (b. 1596)
1660 - André Tacquet, Flemish mathematician (b. 1612)
1668 - Stephen Day, 1st British colonial printer, dies
1681 - Richard Alleine, English Puritan clergyman (b. 1611)
1708 - Hedwig Sophia, duchess of Holstein-Gottorp, Swedish writer (b. 1681)
1721 - Nathaniel Hawes, tortured & executed in England for robbery
1723 - Jacques Basnage, French/Dutch historian/vicar, dies at 70
1738 - Jean-Joseph Mouret, composer, dies at 56

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Post by: MysteRy on December 24, 2012, 10:05:27 PM

This Day in History for 23rd December


Historical Events

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US President Thomas Jefferson          US President Woodrow Wilson                  Dictator Fidel Castro 


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Mystery Writer Agatha Christie          38th US President Gerald R Ford

619 - Boniface V begins his reign as Catholic Pope
962 - Byzantine-Arab Wars: Under the future Emperor Nicephorus Phocas, Byzantine troops
          stormed the city of Aleppo, recovering the tattered tunic of John the Baptist.
1482 - Peace of Atrecht
1493 - Georg Alt's German translation of Hartmann Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle is published.
1620 - French huguenots declare war on King Louis XIII
1672 - Giovanni Cassini discovers Rhea, a satellite of Saturn
1688 - English king Jacob II flees to France
1690 - John Flamsteed observes Uranus without realizing it's undiscovered
1715 - Russian/Prussian troops occupy Stralsund
1724 - Emperor Charles VI names Maria Elisabeth land guardian of Aust Neth
1728 - Prussian Emperor Karel VI sign Treaty of Berlin
1751 - France sets plan to tax clergymen
1776 - Continental Congress negotiates a war loan of $181,500 from France
1776 - Thomas Paine writes "These are the times that try men's souls"
1779 - Benedict Arnold court-martialed for improper conduct
1783 - General George Washington resigns his military commission as Commander-in-Chief of the
           Army to Congress
1788 - Maryland votes to cede a 10 sqaure mile area for Dist of Columbia
1793 - Thomas Jefferson warned of slave revolts in West Indies
1823 - "Visit from St Nicholas" by C Moore published in Troy (NY) Sentinel
1832 - Dutch troops in Antwerp surrender
1834 - Joseph Hansom of London receives patent for Hansom cabs
1852 - 1st Chinese theater in US, Celestial John, opens in San Francisco
1862 - Union General Ben "Beast" Butler is proclaimed a "felon, outlaw & common enemy of mankind"
           by Jefferson Davis
1867 - 1st self-made millionairess (Sarah Breedlove-hair straightner)
1876 - Turkey's 1st constitution proclaimed
1888 - Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh cuts off his left ear
1893 - Opera "Hansel und Gretel" is produced (Weimar)
1894 - Debussy's ballet "L'aprés-midi d'un faune," premieres in Paris
1899 - British Fieldmarshall Lord Roberts departs Southampton to South Africa for the 2nd Boer
           War
1899 - Tentative Turkish & German treaty on construction of Baghdad railway
1907 - 1st all-steel passengar railroad coach completed, Altoona, Pa
1909 - Albert becomes king of Belgians
1911 - Frank Wedekind's "Oaha, die Satire der Satire," premieres in Munich
1911 - Opera "I Giojelli Della Madonna" is produced (Berlin)
1912 - 1st "Keystone Kops" film, titled "Hoffmeyer's Legacy"
1912 - Aswan Dam in Nile begins operation
1913 - President Woodrow Wilson signs Federal Reserve Act into law
1914 - World War I: Australian and New Zealand troops arrive in Cairo, Egypt.
1915 - J Kern/S Greene's musical "Very Good Eddie," premieres in NYC
1916 - World War I: Battle of Magdhaba - Allied forces defeat Turkish forces in Egypt's Sinai
            peninsula.
1917 - 3 British warships come close to Holland
1919 - 1st hospital ship built to move wounded naval personnel launched
1919 - Alice H Parker patents gas heating furnace
1920 - Ireland divided into 2 parts, each with its own parliament
1920 - King George V signs Home Rule Act
1921 - Visva-Bharati University is inaugurated.
1922 - BBC Radio began daily newscasts
1922 - Pope Pius XI pleas for peace: encyclical Ubi arcano
1923 - Yankees pitcher Carl Mays sold to Reds for $85,000
1925 - Sultan Ibn Saud of Nedzjed conquers Djeddah
1926 - KEX-AM in Portland OR begins radio transmissions
1928 - NBC sets up a permanent, coast-to-coast radio network
1930 - Bette Davis arrives in Hollywood under contract to Universal Studios
1930 - Police Bureau of Criminal Alien Investigation started in NYC
1933 - Howie Morenz takes over NHL career goal lead at 251
1933 - Marinus van der Lubbe sentenced to death
1933 - Train crash in Eastern Paris; 230 die
1936 - Colombia becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1937 - First flight of the Vickers Wellington bomber.
1938 - Margaret Hamilton's costume catches fire in filming of "Wizard of Oz"
1938 - Discovery of the first modern coelacanth in South Africa.
1939 - Finnish counter offensive at Summa
1939 - South Australia score 7-821 against Queensland
1940 - John Van Druten's "Old Acquaintance," premieres in NYC
1941 - American forces on Wake Island surrender to Japanese
1941 - British troops overrun Benghazi Libya
1941 - Japan begins assault on Rangoon Burma
1942 - Allies air attack on Den Helder
1943 - 1st telecast of a complete opera (Hansel & Gretel), Schenectady, NY
1943 - Gen Montgomery told he is appointed commandant for D-day
1944 - Beginning of harsh winter
1945 - Frederick Astons "Cinderella" premieres in London
1945 - Pope Pius XII encyclical Orientals omnes, about Rutheense church
1946 - Belgian Council of State forms
1946 - Highest ridership in NYC subway history (8.8 million passengers)
1946 - U of Tenn refuses to play Duquesne U, because they may use a black player in their basketball game
1947 - Transistor invented by Bardeen, Brattain & Shockley in Bell Labs
1951 - Last Belgian communities get electricity
1951 - 1st coast-to-coast televised football game (Dumont paid $75,000) LA Rams beat Cleveland
           Browns 24-17 in NFL championship game
1953 - Dodgers 2nd baseman Jim "Junior" Gilliam wins NL Rookie of Year
1954 - The first human kidney transplant is performed by Dr. Joseph E. Murray at Peter Bent
           Brigham Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.
1957 - Test Cricket debut for Wally Grout & Bobby Simpson v South Africa
1958 - "Party with Comden & Green" opens at John Golden NYC for 38 perfs
1958 - Abdallah Ibrahim forms government of Morocco
1960 - De Quay's Dutch government falls
1960 - King Saudi of Saudi-Arabia takes power
1961 - KICU TV channel 43 in Visalia-Fresno, CA (IND) begins broadcasting
1961 - Train accident in Italy, 70 die
1961 - Fidel Castro announces Cuba will release 1,113 prisoners from failed 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion for $62M worth of food & medical supplies
1962 - Cuba starts returning US prisoners from Bay of Pigs invasion
1962 - Dallas Texans beat Houston Oilers 20-17 in AFL championship game
1963 - Beach Boys 1st appearance on "Shindig"
1963 - Fire on Greek ship Laconia, 128 die
1964 - India & Ceylon hit by cyclone, about 4,850 killed
1966 - Britains rock TV show, "Ready Steady Go," last program
1967 - Brussels: NATO-Council accept "Flexible Response"-strategy
1968 - 1st US case of space motion sickness
1968 - 82 members of US intelligence ship `Pueblo' released by North Korea
1968 - Borman, Lovell & Anders become 1st men to orbit Moon
1968 - North Korea releases Pueblo crew
1970 - 7,511th performance of Agatha Christie's "Mousetrap" (record)
1970 - French author Régis Debray freed in Bolivia
1970 - NY World Trade Center reaches highest point (411 m)
1970 - USSR performs nuclear test
1972 - 16 plane crash survivors rescued after 70d, survived by cannabalism
1972 - 6.25 Earthquake destroys central Managua Nicaragua, 10,000 die
1972 - Chandrasekhar takes 8-79 India v England at Delhi
1972 - Islanders end 15 games winless streak
1972 - "Immaculate Reception" Steelers turns around a 7-6 defeat with a last second touchdown
            reception against Raiders to win 13-7
1973 - "Young & Restless" premieres on TV
1973 - 6 Persian Gulf nations double their oil prices
1973 - French Caravelle crashes in Morocco, 106 killed
1974 - "Good News" opens at St James Theater NYC for 16 performances
1974 - Leningrad: premier of Dmitri Sjotakovitsj' Michelangelo-liederen
1975 - Congress passes Metric Conversion Act
1975 - Peter Seitz makes Andy Messersmith & Dave McNally free agents
1978 - Islanders scored 7 goals in 1 period against NY Rangers, Trottier scores 8 points vs Rangers,
           5 goals-NHL record 6 pts in 1 period
1979 - NY Islanders greatest shutout lose (8-0) vs Chicago Black Hawks
1979 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1980 - Sam Shepard's "True West," premieres in NYC
1981 - Boycott becomes leading run-scorer in Test Crickets with 8033
1982 - The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces it has identified dangerous levels of dioxin in the soil of Times Beach, Missouri.
1983 - Journal Science publishes 1st report on nuclear winter
1984 - Viv Richards scores 208 in Test Cricket at MCG
1986 - Experimental airplane Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan & Jeana Yeager, complete 1st nonstop,
           round-the-world flight without refueling lands
1986 - Rutan & Yeager make 1st around-the-world flight without refueling
1987 - Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, serving a life sentence for attempted assassination of Pres Gerald
           R Ford escapes from Alderson Prison
1990 - "Lettice & Lovage" closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 284 perfs
1990 - Slovenians vote to secede from Yugoslavia
1991 - NY Daily News publisher Kevin Maxwell resigns
1994 - Baseball owners impose salary cap, fiercely opposed by players
1996 - 4 women ordained priests in Jamaica, 1st in 330-year Anglican history
1997 - Chic Bull coach Phil Jackson is quickest to reach 500 wins (682 games)
1997 - Colo Avalanche Jari Kurri is 8th NHLer to score 600 career goals
1997 - Terry Nichols found guilty of manslaughter in Oklahoma bombing
1997 - US Agriculture Dept estimates it costs $149,820 to raise a child to 18
2002 - A MQ-1 Predator is shot down by an Iraqi MiG-25, making it the first time in history that an aircraft and an unmanned drone had engaged in combat.
2003 - PetroChina Chuandongbei natural gas field explosion, Guoqiao, Kai, Chongqing, China, killing at least 234.
2004 - Macquarie Island in the Southern Ocean is hit by an 8.1 magnitude earthquake.
2005 - Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 217 from Baku, Azerbaijan, to Aktau, Kazakhstan crashes shortly after takeoff killing 23 people.
2005 - Chad declares a state of war against Sudan following a December 18 attack on Adré, which left about 100 people dead.

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Post by: MysteRy on December 24, 2012, 10:19:00 PM

This Day in History for 23rd December


Famous Weddings

1997 - Woody Allen, 62 weds Soon-Yi Previn 27, adopted daughter of Mia Farrow
2004 - CBS executive Les Moonves (55) weds CBS' "Early Show" co-host Julie Chen (34) on a private     
           estate in Acapulco
2005 - Soccer star player Kaka (23) weds Brazilian singer Caroline Celico (18) at Igreja Renascer em Cristo in Sao Paulo, Brazil
2005 - "Are You Being Served?" actor John Inman (70) weds Ron Lynch at Westminster Register
            Office
2005 - "Jurassic Park" actress Laura Dern (38) weds musician Ben Harper (36) in Los Angeles
2007 - "Dr. Izzie Stevens" actress Katherine Heigl (29) weds singer-songwriter Josh Kelley (27) at Stein Eriksen Lodge in Park City, Utah

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Post by: MysteRy on December 24, 2012, 11:13:12 PM

This Day in History for 23rd December


Famous Birthdays

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Queen of the Palmyrene Empire    Religious Leader Joseph Smith Jr (1805)              Cosmetics Mogul Madame
in Roman Syria Zenobia (245)                                                                                        C J Walker (1867)

245 - Zenobia, Palmyra, Syria, Queen of Palmyra, (d. 274)
1173 - Louis I, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1231)
1513 - Thomas Smith, English diplomat and scholar (d. 1577)
1537 - King John III of Sweden (d. 1592)
1544 - Anna, duchess of Saxson/wife of prince Willem of Orange (1561-71)
1548 - Pieter C Bockenberg, historian (Annales Hollandiae et Zeelandiae)
1582 - Severo Bonini, composer
1597 - Martin Opitz, Germany, poet "Father of Modern German Poetry"
1613 - Carl Gustaf Wrangel, Swedish soldier (d. 1676)
1621 - Edmund Berry Godfrey, English magistrate (d. 1678)
1621 - Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Nottingham, Lord Chancellor of England (d. 1682)
1644 - Tomas de Torrejon y Velasco, composer
1689 - Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, composer
1699 - Joseph Gibbs, composer
1709 - Jean-Noel Hamal, composer
1714 - Johann Siebenkas, composer
1716 - Johann Heinrich Rolle, composer
1732 - Richard Arkwright, inventor (spinning frame)
1743 - Ippolit Bogdanovich, Russian poet (d. 1803)
1749 - Johann Lukas Schubaur, composer
1750 - Frederik Augustus I, the Righteous, king of Saxony (1806-27)
1758 - Nathan Wilson U.S. Representative from New York
1763 - John Davy, composer
1777 - Aleksandr I P Romanov, tsar of Russia (1801-25)
1780 - Charles-Louis Panckoucke, French publisher
1790 - Jean-Francois Champollion, deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphics
1795 - Philippe Vandermaelen, Flemish cartographer (Atlas Universel)
1804 - Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve, French critic/writer (Informal Talk)
1805 - Joseph Smith Jr, Sharon Vermont, founder (Mormon Church), (d. 1844)
1808 - Thomas Turner, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1883
1812 - Samuel Smiles, Scotland, author (Self-Help, Character, Duty)
1812 - William Hauser, composer
1815 - Henry Highland Garnet, Maryland, minister/abolitionist/diplomat
1818 - David Addison Weisiger, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1899
1819 - Jan Jakob Lodewijk ten Kate, Dutch poet and clergyman (d. 1889)
1822 - Wilhelm Bauer, German engineer (d. 1875)
1823 - Alexandru Flechtenmacher, composer
1827 - Wilhelm Freiherr von Tegetthoff, Austrian admiral (Helgoland/Lissa)
1828 - Mathilde Wesendonk, German writer/poet (Tagebuchblatter)
1830 - Adam Minchejmer, composer
1843 - Richard Conner, American Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient (d. 1924)
1845 - Emmanuel-Persillier Lachapelle, dr (found Notre Dame Hosp Montreal)
1845 - Gustave Ador, union president of Austria (1919)
1854 - Henry B. Guppy, British botanist (d. 1926)
1855 - Alan Gray, composer
1858 - Vladimir Nemirovitch-Dantshenko, playwright (Life in Russian Theater)
1860 - Harriet Monroe, Chicago, poet/editor of Poetry magazine (You & I)
1862 - Henri Pirenne, Belgian historian (History of Belgium)
1864 - Zorka of Montenegro, Princess of Serbia (d. 1890)
1867 - Madame C J Walker, Louisiana, cosmetic mogul (Madam C.J. Walker Manufacturing Company), (d. 1919)
1878 - Stephen Timoshenko, Ukrainian-born mechanical engineer (d. 1972)
1883 - Hubert M E Pierlot, Belgian advocate/premier (1939-45)
1885 - Pierre Brissaud, French artist (d. 1964)
1886 - Albert Ehrenstein, Austria writer (Message from the Madhouse)
1887 - Eric Blore, London England, actor (Great Gatsby, Bowery to Baghdad)
1887 - John Cromwell, Toledo OH, actor/director (Spitfire, Of Human Bondage)
1888 - Eric Blore, English/US actor (Great Gatsby, Bowery to Baghdad)
1888 - Friedrich Wolf, writer
1891 - Alexandr Rodchenko, Russian painter and photographer (d. 1956)
1893 - Ann O'Neal, Missouri, actress (Nana-Professional Father)
1894 - Arthur Gilligan, cricketer (England captain in 1920's)
1896 - Alberto Hemsi, composer
1896 - Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Sicilian writer (Der Leopard)
1897 - Julien Carette, Paris France, actor (Sylvia & the Phantom)
1900 - Otto Soglow, American comics artist (d. 1975)
1901 - Gene Sarazen, golfer (PGA 1922, 23, 33)
1902 - Norman Maclean, American author (d. 1990)
1903 - Fredi [Fredericka] Carolyn Washington, actress (Black & Tan)
1903 - Michael Kalatozov, Russian producer (When the Cranes Fly)
1905 - Arn Bjornsson, composer
1906 - Ross Lee Finney, Wells Minnesota, composer (Landscapes Remembered)
1907 - Don McNeill, Galena Ill, host (Don McNeill TV Club)
1907 - Manuel Lopes, Cape Verdean writer and poet (d. 2005)
1907 - Avraham Stern, Polish-born Zionist leader (d. 1942)
1908 - Yousuf Karsh, portrait photographer (Life Magazine)
1909 - Barney Ross, NYC, Welterweight Boxing Champ (1934)
1909 - Don Cleverley, cricketer (two Tests for NZ 1932 & 1946, took 0-130)
1909 - Maurice Denham, Beckenham England, actor (Mr Love, Damn the Defiant)
1910 - Kurt Meyer, German SS officer (d. 1961)
1911 - James Gregory, Bronx NYC, actor (My Favorite Martian, Barney Miller)
1911 - Niels Jerne, immunologist
1913 - Hans Henkemans, composer
1913 - Leo A Ketelaars, Dutch oratorio vocalist
1914 - Dezider Kardos, composer
1916 - Dino Risi, Italian film director and screenwriter
1918 - Helmut Schmidt, Chancellor of Germany (SPD, 1974- )
1918 - Jose Greco, Italy, flamenco dancer (Holiday for Lovers)
1918 - Kumar Pallana, Indian-born American actor
1919 - Kenneth M. Taylor, American pilot (d. 2006)
1921 - Gerald S O'Loughlin, NYC, actor (Storefront Lawyer, Rookies, Wheels)
1922 - Ian Powell Bancroft, civil servant
1922 - Micheline Ostermeyer, France, shot-put/discus thrower (Oly-gold-1948)
1923 - Bob Barker, Darrington Wash, TV host (Price is Right)
1923 - James Stockdale, admiral (Vietnam)/Ross Perot's 1992 running mate
1923 - Kenneth Henry Lowry Lamb, broadcaster
1923 - Leonard Stern, NYC, producer/TV writer (Phil Silvers Show, Get Smart)
1923 - Lucas M Mangope, 1st president of Bophuthatswana (1977-94)
1923 - Milt Okun, Bkln NY, orchestra leader (Starland Vocal Band Show)
1923 - Ruth Roman, Boston Mass, actress (Sylvia-Knots Landing, Dallas)
1923 - Günther Schifter, Austrian music journalist
1923 - Claudio Scimone, Italian conductor
1923 - Onofre Marimón, Argentine racing driver (d. 1954)
1924 - Floyd Kalber, Omaha Neb, newscaster (NBC Weekend News Anchor-1973)
1925 - Harry Guardino, NYC, actor (Monty Nash, Perry Mason, Hill St Blues)
1926 - Dusan Kostic, composer
1926 - James Dewar, journalist/documentary film-maker
1926 - Robert Bly, US, poet/editor/translator (Loving a Woman in 2 Worlds)
1927 - Joseph Castaldo, composer
1928 - Chronis Aidonidis, Greek singer
1929 - Dick Weber, pro bowler (16, 300 games)
1929 - Chet Baker, American jazz trumpet player (d. 1988)
1931 - Ronnie Schell, Richmond Cal, comedian (Gomer Pyle, Good Morning World)
1932 - Revjames Cleveland, rocker
1932 - Tertius Metcalf, businessman
1933 - Akihito, emperor of Japan (1989- )
1935 - Esther Phillips, [EM Jones], US singer (When a Woman Loves a Man)
1935 - Paul Hornung, Green Bay Packer (the Golden Boy)
1936 - Bobby Ross, NFL coach (San Diego Chargers)
1936 - Claude Albert Coppens, composer
1936 - Frederic Forrest, Waxahachie TX, actor (Music Box, Lonesone Dove)
1936 - James Stacy, LA California, actor (Fred-Adv of Ozzie & Harriet)
1937 - Karol Joseph Bobko, NYC, Col USAF/astronaut (STS 6, STS 51D, STS 51J)
1938 - Bob Kahn, American Internet pioneer
1939 - Johnny Kidd, [Frederick Heath], London, rocker (Johnny Kidd & Pirates)
1940 - Eugene Record, US singer (Chi Lites-Give it Away)
1940 - Jorma Kaukonen, Wash DC, rock guitarist (Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna)
1940 - Robert Labine, French-Canadian politician
1941 - Elizabeth Hartman, Youngstown Ohio, actress (Walking Tall, Beguilled)
1941 - Tim Hardin, Oregon, singer (If I Were a Carpenter, Bird on a Wire)
1941 - Ron Bushy, American musician
1941 - Tim Hardin, American musician (d. 1980)
1941 - Serge Reding, Belgian weightlifter (d. 1975)
1942 - Friedrich Schenker, composer
1942 - Jerry Koosman, pitcher (NY Mets)
1943 - Derek Small, rocker (Spinal Tap)
1943 - Harry Shearer, LA California, actor (SNL, Simpsons, Pure Luck)
1943 - Peter Quaife, Devon England, rock bassist (Kinks-Long Tall Sally)
1943 - Roelof den Ambtman, Dutch actor/director (One Evening at Eva)
1943 - Ross Edwards, composer
1943 - Silvia Sommerlath, German wife of King Carl XVI of Sweden (1973- )
1943 - Stephen Wallace, director (For Love Affair, Hunger, Mail Order Bride)
1943 - Mikhail Gromov, Russian-born mathematician
1943 - Elizabeth Hartman, American actress (d. 1987)
1944 - D J D Dees, pharmacist/Dutch minister of WVC (VVD)
1944 - U C Joshi, cricketer (Sussex off-spinner 1970-74 from India)
1944 - Wesley Clark, American military officer
1945 - Georges Aperghis, composer
1945 - Richard C Wohlhuter, 800m runner (Olympic-bronze-1976)
1945 - Ronald Bushy, rocker (Iron Butterfly-Ina gada davida)
1946 - Tony Craig, [Kulasa], Pittsburgh PA, actor (That Boy Next Door)
1946 - Edita Gruberova, Slovak operatic soprano
1947 - Bill Rodgers, marathon runner (Boston, NY)
1948 - Susan Lucci, Scarsdale NY, actress (All My Children, Mafia Princess)
1948 - Jack Ham, American football player (Steelers)
1948 - Leslie Moonves, American television executive
1949 - Luther Grosvenor, rocker (Spooky Tooth)
1949 - Wally Edwards, cricketer (three Tests Australia v England 1974)
1949 - Adrian Belew, American musician
1950 - Michael C. Burgess, American politician
1950 - Ilchi Lee, Korean educator and author
1951 - Johnny Contardo, singer (Sha Na Na)
1952 - Hans Abrahamsen, composer
1952 - William Kristol, American political commentator
1953 - John Callahan, Brooklyn NY, actor (Craig-Santa Barbara, Falcon Crest)
1953 - Tatsumi Fujinami, wrestler (WWF/NWA)
1953 - Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna of Russia
1954 - Brian Teacher, San Diego Cal, tennis star
1956 - Michele Alboretto, formula-1 racer (Ferrari)
1956 - Dave Murray, London, English heavy metal guitarist and songwriter (Iron Maiden)
1957 - Dan Bigras, Canadian singer
1957 - Trisha Goddard, English television presenter
1958 - Denise McConnell, Weisbaden Germany, playmate (March, 1979)
1958 - Joan Severance, Houston Tx, actress (Hear No Evil, See No Evil)
1958 - Victoria Williams, American singer
1959 - Geoff Willis, British engineer
1960 - William Sinnot, Scottish pop musician (Shamen-Move Any Mountain)
1960 - Zindzi Mandela, daughter of Nelson & Winnie Mandela
1961 - Carol Smillie, British television personality
1962 - Jerry Reynolds, NBA guard/forward (Milwaukee Bucks)
1962 - Bertrand Gachot, Belgian racing driver
1962 - Kang Je-gyu, South Korean film director
1963 - Carol Peterka, Little Falls MN, team handball back court (Oly-92, 96)
1963 - Jim Harbaugh, NFL quarterback (Indianapolis Colts)
1963 - Keiji Muto, wrestler (NWA/WWC/NJPW)
1963 - Donna Tartt, American author
1964 - Andy Gabel, Chicago Ill, short track skater (Olympics-1994)
1964 - Petr Klima, Chaomutov Cze, NHL right wing (Tampa Bay Lightning)
1965 - Eddie Vedder, heavy metal singer (Pearl Jam-Justine)
1966 - Hans van Arum, Dutch soccer player (Vitesse, Willem II)
1967 - Lamar Lathon, NFL linebacker (Carolina Panthers)
1967 - Carla Bruni, Italian-French model and singer
1967 - Tim Fountain, British playwright
1968 - Quincy Jones III, Swedish-American musician
1969 - Rodney Culver, NFL running back (San Diego Chargers)
1969 - Stephen Grant, NFL linebacker (Indianapolis Colts)
1969 - Greg Biffle, American racecar driver
1969 - Rob Pelinka, American sports agent
1970 - Kimberly Ann Cooley, Grand Forks ND, Miss America-ND (1996)
1970 - Martha Byrne, actress (Lily Grimaldi-As the World Turns)
1970 - Raymont Harris, NFL running back (Chicago Bears)
1970 - Shannon Noelle DePuy, Lynchburg Va, Miss Virg-America (1991-top 10)
1971 - Corey Haim, Toronto, actor (Silver Bullet, Lucas, License to Drive)
1971 - Pete Bercich, NFL linebacker (Minnesota Vikings)
1971 - Steve Stenstrom, quarterback (Chicago Bears)
1971 - Michalis Klokidis, Greek footballer
1971 - Masayoshi Yamazaki, Japanese singer-songwriter
1971 - Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, British socialite
1971 - Wim Vansevenant, Belgian cyclist
1973 - Tony Graziani, quarterback (Atlanta Falcons)
1974 - Agustín Delgado, Ecuadorian footballer
1975 - Sky Lopez, American actress
1975 - Vadim Sharifijanov, Russian ice hockey player
1976 - Dimitris Mavrogenidis, Greek footballer
1976 - Brad Lidge, American baseball player
1976 - Jamie Noble, American professional wrestler
1977 - Becky Ruehl, Lakeside Park Ky, diver (Olympics-4th-1996)
1977 - Helen Mahmastol, Miss Universe-Estonia (1996)
1977 - Alge Crumpler, American football player
1977 - Jari Mäenpää, Finnish guitarist and singer
1977 - Paul Shirley, American basketball player
1978 - Andra Davis, American football player
1978 - Esthero, Canadian musician and singer
1978 - Jodie Marsh, British glamour model
1978 - Víctor Martínez, Venezuelan baseball player
1978 - Estella Warren, Canadian model and actress
1979 - Summer Altice, American model and actress
1979 - Scott Gomez, American ice hockey player
1979 - Holly Madison, American model
1979 - Kenny Miller, Scottish football player
1980 - Cody Ross, American baseball player
1981 - Yuriorkis Gamboa, Cuban boxer
1981 - Beth, Spanish singer
1983 - Michael Chopra, English footballer
1983 - Hanley Ramírez, Dominican baseball player
1985 - Harry Judd, British drummer (McFly)
1985 - Luke O'Loughlin, Australian actor
1988 - Eri Kamei, Japanese singer
1990 - Anna Maria Perez de Tagle, American actress, model, and singer
1993 - Nathan Waddle, New Zealander

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 24, 2012, 11:18:47 PM

This Day in History for 23rd December


Famous Deaths

558 - Childebert, king of France (511-58), dies at about 62
679 - Dagobert II, king of Austrasia (676-679), murdered
910 - Naum of Preslav, Bulgarian scholar
918 - Conrad I, East Frankish/German king (911-18), dies. Born 890
1116 - Ivo van Chartres, French canonist/bishop of Chartres/saint, dies
1230 - Berengaria of Navarre, queen of Richard I of England
1236 - Philippus Cancellarius, French theologist/poet (Summa Cum Laude), dies
1502 - Margaretha, English princess of Burgundy, dies at 57
1556 - Nicholas Udall, English playwright (b. 1504)
1568 - Roger Ascham, tutor of Elizabeth I of England
1569 - St Philip II, Metropolitan of Moscow, martyred by Ivan the Terrible
1575 - Akiyama Nobutomo, Japanese warrior (hanged) (b. 1531)
1588 - Hendrik de Guise, French leader of Catholic League, murdered at 37
1619 - Johan Sigismund, elector of Brandenburg/duke of Prussia, dies at 47
1631 - Michael Drayton, English poet (b. 1563)
1646 - François Maynard, French poet (b. 1582)
1652 - John Cotton, Mass Bay Puritan preacher, dies at 68
1675 - Caesar, duc de Choiseul, French marshal and diplomat (b. 1602)
1688 - Jean-Louis Lully, composer, dies at 21
1696 - Johann David Mayer, composer, dies at 60
1722 - Pierre Varignon, French mathematician (b. 1654)
1761 - Alestair Ruadh MacDonnell, Scottish Jacobite spy
1771 - Marie-Marguerite d'Youville, Canadian saint (b. 1701)
1779 - Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol, British admiral and politician (b. 1724)
1789 - Charles-Michel de l'Épée, French philanthropist (b. 1712)
1793 - Johann Adolph Hasse, German composer (b. 1699)
1793 - Antoine François Prévost, French author and novelist (b. 1697)
1795 - Henry Clinton, British general (b. 1730)
1805 - Pehr Osbeck, Swedish explorer and naturalist (b. 1723)
1812 - Michel Delalande, composer, dies at 73
1834 - Reverend Thomas Malthus, English demographer and economist (b. 1766)
1846 - Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent, French naturalist (b. 1780)
1891 - Holger Simon Paulli, composer, dies at 81
1908 - Eduard Wachmann, composer, dies at 72
1908 - Francois A Gevaert, Belg/Dutch composer (Diable au Moulin), dies at 68
1911 - Karl L Hoschna, composer, dies at 34
1912 - Otto Schoetensack, German anthropologist (b. 1850)
1913 - James Middleton, cricketer (24 wkt of lefty pace S Af 1895-1903), dies
1915 - Roland Leighton, dies at 20
1925 - A S C Wallis, [Adele von Antal-Opzoomer], writer (Vorstengunst), dies
1930 - Johannes H Been, Brielle archivist, dies at 71
1931 - Wilson Bentley, American scientist (b. 1865)
1938 - Robert Herrick, US writer (Chimes), dies at 70
1939 - Anthony H G Fokker, Dutch airplane builder (Spider), dies at 49
1943 - Theo[dorus J] Thijssen, Dutch writer (Kees de Jongen), dies at 64
1945 - Mogens Klitgaard, Danish author (Brunkul), dies at 39
1946 - John A. Sampson, American gynecologist (b. 1873)
1948 - Hideki Tojo, Japan PM (1941-44) & 6 Japs, hanged for war crimes at 64
1950 - Vincenzo Tommasini, composer, dies at 72
1951 - Alfreds Kalnins, composer, dies at 72
1951 - Benito Lynch, Irish/Argentine writer (Palo Verde), dies at 66
1953 - Lavrenti P Beria, soviet minister of internal security, executed
1954 - René Iché, French sculptor (b. 1897)
1959 - Edward FLW Halifax, English viscount/viceroy of India, dies at 78
1959 - Lester Lonergan Jr, actor (Growing Paynes), dies at 65
1959 - Lord Irwin, ambassador to US (1940-46), dies at 78
1961 - Kurt Meyer, German SS officer (b. 1910)
1962 - George Saiko, writer, dies at 70
1962 - Luis Alberni, actor (Topaze), dies at 76
1964 - Arrigo Pedrollo, composer, dies at 86
1966 - Hv Doderer, writer, dies at 70
1966 - Robert Keith, actor (Battle Circus, Men in War), dies at 68
1967 - Karen Verne, actress (Ships of Fools, Underground), dies at 49
1967 - Richard Flury, composer, dies at 71
1967 - Ruth Fuller Sasaki, head of 1st Zen Institute of America, dies at 75
1969 - Donald Foster, actor (Scaramouche), dies after long illness at 80
1970 - Charlie Ruggles, actor (Ruggles, Aesop-Bullwinkle Show), dies at 84
1971 - Carlo Jachino, composer, dies at 84
1972 - Andrej N Tupolev, Russian aircraft builder, dies at 84
1972 - Charles Atlas, [Angelo Siciliano], body builder, dies at 79
1973 - Arthur Richardson, cricketer (9 Tests 1924-26), dies
1975 - Richard S Welch, CIA station chief in Athens, shot dead
1976 - Frank Forest, actor (Big Broadcast of 1937, Champagne Waltz), dies
1976 - Paul M Frank Forest, dies at 80
1976 - Walter Bauer, writer, dies at 72
1979 - Peggy Guggenheim, American art collector (b. 1898)
1982 - Jack Webb, actor (Joe Friday-Dragnet), dies of a heart attack at 62
1982 - Norman Dinnerstein, composer, dies at 45
1983 - Colin Middleton, Northern Irish artist (b. 1910)
1984 - Joan Lindsay, Australian author (b. 1896)
1985 - James Vance (20) & Raymond Belknap (18), commit suicide, sparking their families to sue rock group Judas Priest for subliminal messages
1989 - Josef Alexander, composer, dies at 82
1990 - Frank King, cricketer (WI fast bowler played 14 Tests 1953-56), dies
1991 - Byron Q Griffith, producer/actor, dies at 73
1992 - Cyril Walters, cricketer (11 Tests for England, 784 runs), dies
1992 - Eddie Hazel, US pop guitarist (Funkadelic-Knee Deep), dies at 42
1993 - Gertrude "Trudi" Duby Blom, actress, shot to death at about 92
1994 - Charles Shirley, jazz arranger, dies at 74
1994 - Didier Rocher, son of French cosmetic maker Yves Rocher, dies at 41
1994 - Nora Dunfree, US actress (Grass Harp), dies at 78
1994 - Sebastian Lewis Shaw, actor (High Season, Ace of Spades), dies at 89
1995 - David Land, impressario, dies at 77
1995 - Gabrielle Keiller, collector/golfer, dies at 87
1995 - Patric Reginald Lawrence Knowles, actor (Chisum, Mutiny), dies at 84
1996 - Rina Ketty, singer, dies at 85
1996 - Ronnie Scott, musician/club-owner, dies at 69
1997 - Austin Whitaker, schoolmaster classical scholar/archivist, dies at 90
1997 - Brian Malzard Foss, psychologist, dies at 76
1997 - Donald Gunn MacRae, sociologist, dies at 76
1997 - Hrvoje Horvatic, video artist, dies at 39

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 24, 2012, 11:34:07 PM

This Day in History for 24th December


Historical Events

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Captain/Explorer James Cook             Ford Motor Company Founder
                                                                        Henry Ford

563 - The Byzantine church Hagia Sophia in Constantinople is dedicated for the second time after being destroyed by earthquakes.
640 - John IV begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1046 - Pope Clement II, [Suitger] elected
1294 - Cardinal Benedetto Gaetani chosen as Pope Boniface VIII
1476 - 400 Burgundian soldiers freeze to death during siege of Nancy
1515 - Thomas Wolsey appointed English Lord Chancellor
1565 - Compromise of the Nobles closes against inquisition
1568 - Uprising of Morisco's in Granada
1593 - Storm hits Texel: 40 ships hit, 500 killed
1651 - John van Riebeeck departs to Cape of Good Hope
1715 - Swedish troops occupy Norway
1724 - Benjamin Franklin arrives in London
1777 - Kiritimati, also called Christmas Island, is discovered by James Cook
1798 - Russia & England sign Second anti-French Coalition
1799 - Jakobijns plot against Napoleon uncovered
1814 - Treaty of Ghent (end of US-Britain's War of 1812) signed
1818 - "Silent Night" composed by Franz Joseph Gruber; 1st sung next day
1832 - 1st US Negro hospital founded by whites chartered, Savannah, Georgia
1832 - HMS Beagle anchors in Wigwam Bay at Cape Receiver
1851 - Fire devastates US Library of Congress in Washington, destroys 35,000 volumes
1860 - Joseph Jefferson's "Rip Van Winkle," premieres in NYC
1864 - Battle of Gordonsville, VA
1865 - Several Confederate veterans form Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski, Tn
1871 - Giusseppi Verdi's "Aida" premieres in Cairo, at Suez canal opening
1874 - Pope Pius IX proclaims a jubilee for 1875
1884 - Austria-Hungary admits King Leopold II's Congo Free State
1889 - Daniel Stover & William Hance patent bicycle with back pedal brake
1893 - Henry Ford completes his 1st useful gas motor
1894 - Scheveningse fishing boats destroyed by storm
1894 - Soccer team Achilles '94 forms in Axes
1898 - Herman Heijermans' "Ghetto," premieres in Amsterdam
1900 - Herman Heijermans' "Hope of Blessing" premieres in Amsterdam
1904 - German SW Africa abolishes slavery of young children
1906 - Reginald A Fessenden became 1st to broadcast music over radio (Mass)
1910 - Luisa Tetrazzini sings to 250,000 people at Lotta's Fountain
1912 - Irving Fisher patents archiving system with index cards
1914 - German plane drops bombs on Dover England
1920 - Enrico Caruso gives his last public performance (NYC)
1922 - BBC sends 1st British radio play "Truth about Father Christmas"
1922 - London Coloseum opens
1924 - 1st radio transmission of NCRV in Netherlands
1924 - Albania becomes a republic (ex-premier Ahmed Zogoe's coup)
1924 - Richard Rodgers Theater (46th St Chanin's) opens at 226 W 46th NYC
1924 - School in Babb's Switch, Oklahoma catches fire, 36 die
1927 - Test Cricket debut of Walter Hammond, who scored 51 & took 5-36 v S Af
1928 - George Abbott Theater (Adelphi, 54 St) opens at 152 W 54th St NYC
1930 - Bandung, Java: ir Sukarno 4 years jail sentenced
1930 - F Garcia Lorca's "La Zapatera Prodigiosa," premieres in Madrid
1932 - Arturo Alessandri wins presidental election in Chile
1933 - Paris express train derails & kills 160, injures 300 (France)
1934 - Grimmett takes 9-180 for SA as Queensland make 430
1935 - Bradman scores 233 in 191 mins, SA v Queensland, 28 fours 1 six
1935 - National Council of Negro Women forms
1936 - 1st radioactive isotope medicine administered, Berkeley, Ca
1937 - Dutch government recognizes Italian king Emanuel III as emperor of Abyssinia
1939 - World War II: Pope Pius XII makes a Christmas Eve appeal for peace.
1941 - 1st ships of admiral Nagumo's Pearl Harbor-fleet return to Japan
1942 - 1st powered flight of V-1 buzz bomb, Peenemunde, Germany
1942 - Red army occupies German airports at Tasjinskaja & Morozowsk
1943 - FDR appoints Gen Eisenhower supreme commander of Allied forces
1943 - Terence Rattigan's "While the Sun Shines," premieres in London
1946 - 4th French republic established
1946 - US General MacNarney gives 800,000 "minor nazi's" amnesty
1946 - France's Fourth Republic is founded.
1948 - 1st US house completely sunheated is occupied (Dover Mass)
1948 - Greek government disbands due to state of war, press censorship
1950 - Cleveland Browns win NFL championship, beat LA 30-28
1951 - 1st televised opera (Amahl & Night Visitor)
1951 - United Kingdom of Libya gains independence from Italy via UN
1953 - 2 fast express trains crash head-on killing 103 (Czechoslovakia)
1953 - KHOL (now KHGI) TV channel 13 in Kearney, NB (ABC) begins broadcasting
1953 - KOA (now KCNC) TV channel 4 in Denver, CO (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 - René Coty elected pres of France
1953 - Wellington-Auckland (NZ) express train swept away in flood kills 166
1954 - Council for the Children Protection forms in Neth
1954 - Laos gains its independence
1956 - "I Love Lucy" Christmas show airs, never put in syndication
1956 - Ferdinand de Lesseps statue blown up in Port Said Egypt
1960 - Dutch bishops question papacy values
1961 - Houston Oilers beat San Diego Chargers 10-3 in AFL championship game
1962 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1963 - Greek & Turks riot in Cyprus
1964 - Shooting begins on "The Cage" the pilot for Star Trek
1966 - "Joyful Noise" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 12 perfs
1966 - Luna 13 lands on Moon
1966 - USAF C144 military charter crashes near Binh Thai Vietnam kills 129
1967 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1967 - Pirate Radio Pegasus starts broadcasting off New Zealand
1968 - Apollo 8 astronauts read passages from Book of Genesis
1968 - WATU (now WAGT) TV channel 26 in Augusta, GA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1970 - 9 Jews are convicted in Leningrad of hijacking a plane
1970 - Walt Disney's "Aristocats" is released
1971 - Peruvian Airlines Electra crashes at headwaters of Amazon, killing all except Juliane Margaret
           Koepcke found 10 days later
1973 - Ferryboat capsized off coast of Equador, drowning 200
1973 - District of Columbia Home Rule Act is passed, allowing residents of Washington, D.C. to elect
           their own local government.
1974 - Cardinals' Lou Brock is named Sportsman of the Year
1979 - 1st Ariane-rocket launched
1980 - Americans remembered Iran hostages by shining lights for 417 seconds
1981 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1982 - Chaminade, with a student body of only 850 students, beats #1 ranked Virginia 77-72 in a
           Honolulu holiday basketball classic
1984 - Palace coup in Mauritania
1986 - French hostage Aurel Cornea, held in Lebanon for 9 months, released
1986 - Iran offensive against Iraqi islands of Shatt al-Arab
1989 - Charles Taylor enters Liberia to unseat President Samuel K Doe
1989 - Panama's dictator, Manual Noriega seeks asylum at Vatican embassy
1990 - Expos trade Tim Raines to White Sox for Ivan Calderon & Barry Jones
1990 - Saddam says Israel will be Iraq's 1st target
1991 - Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of Soviet Union
1992 - Pres Bush pardons Caspar Weinberger of Iran-contra affair
1994 - 4 Moslem fundamentalists capture Air France pilot in Algiers
1997 - 1st time a Channukah candle is officially lit in Vatican City
1997 - The Sid El-Antri massacre (or Sidi Lamri) in Algeria kills 50-100 people.
1997 - The Dominican Republic becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
2000 - The Texas 7 hold up a sports store in Irving, Texas. Police officer Aubrey Hawkins is shot during the robbery.
2003 - The Spanish police thwart an attempt by ETA to detonate 50 kg of explosives at 3:55 p.m. 
            inside Madrid's busy Chamartín Station.

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 24, 2012, 11:37:17 PM

This Day in History for 24th December


Famous Weddings

1914 - Agatha Miller (later best selling detective author) marries aviator Archibald Christie
1981 - Guardian Angels Curtis Sliwa & Lisa Evers marry

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 24, 2012, 11:56:27 PM

This Day in History for 24th December


Famous Birthdays

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Poet/Critic Matthew Arnold (1822)            Singer/Actor Ricky Martin (1971)           Author Stephenie Meyer (1973)

3 - Galba, Roman Emperor (d. 69)
1167 - John "without a land", King of England (1199-1216)
1389 - John VI, Duke of Brittany (d. 1442)
1475 - Thomas Murner, German writer (d.c. 1537)
1491 - Ignatius of Loyola, Spanish founder of the Jesuit order (d. 1556)
1508 - Pietro Carnesecchi, Italian humanist (d. 1567)
1564 - Abraham C Bloemaert, painter/cartoonist/engraver
1588 - Constance of Austria, queen of Poland (d. 1631)
1609 - Philip Warwick, English writer and politician (d. 1683)
1635 - Mariana of Austria, second wife of king Philip IV of Spain (d. 1696)
1653 - Georg Motz, composer
1679 - Domenico Natale Sarro, composer
1689 - French van Mieris "the Young", Dutch painter/historian
1698 - William Warburton, English Bishop of Gloucester (d. 1779)
1714 - Rainieri De Calzabigi, Italian's literary (1st European Lottery)
1716 - Patrice F earl De Neney, South Netherlands chairman of Secret Council
1719 - Johann Christoph Altnikol, composer
1724 - Johann Conrad Ammann, Swiss physician and naturalist (d. 1811)
1726 - Johann Ernst Hartmann, composer
1745 - Benjamin Rush, Byberry Pa, physician/general/signer (Decl of Indep)
1754 - George Crabbe, Aldeburgh England, poet (Everlasting Mercy)
1761 - Selam III, poet/composer/sultan of Turkey (1789-1808)
1761 - Jean-Louis Pons, French astronomer (d. 1831)
1773 - Joseph Wolfl, composer
1784 - Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna of Russia (d. 1803)
1791 - A Eugene Scribe, French dramatist (Bertrand et Raton)
1798 - Adam B Mickiewicz, Poland, national poet (Pan Tadeusz)
1809 - Christopher "Kit" Carson, KY, Union brig-general/indian fighter/frontiersman (d. 1868)
1810 - Wilhelm Marstrand, Danish painter (d. 1873)
1812 - Henry Russell, composer
1812 - Karl Eduard Zachariae, German jurist (d. 1894)
1813 - Henry Wellington Greatorex, composer
1818 - James Prescott Joule, physicist (discovered conservation of energy)
1822 - Charles Hermite, French mathematician (E is Transcendent)
1822 - Matthew Arnold, Laleham, Middlesex,, poet/critic (Dover Beach), (d. 1888)
1824 - Peter Cornelius, composer
1826 - Ignacy Krzyzanowski, composer
1829 - Benjamin Ipavec, composer
1829 - Jose Rogel, composer
1837 - Sissi, Emperor of Austria
1843 - Lydia Koidula, Estonian poet (d. 1886)
1859 - Roman Statkowski, composer
1867 - Manuel de Oliveira Lima, Brazilian historian/diplomat
1867 - Kantaro Suzuki, 42nd Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1948)
1868 - Emanuel Lasker, Germany, world chess champion (1894-21)
1869 - Henriette GA Roland Holst-van der Schalk, Dutch poet (Women in Forest)
1870 - Rosario Scalero, composer
1871 - Henri Stroethoff, Dutch actor (A Chique Little Boy)
1879 - Stanislav Pylypovych Lyudkevych, composer
1879 - Émile Nelligan, Quebec poet (d. 1941)
1880 - Johnny Gruelle, American cartoonist, children's book writer and creator of Raggedy Ann (d. 1939)
1881 - Bronislaw Zygmunt Szulc, composer
1881 - Charles Wakefield Cadman, composer
1881 - Juan Ramon Jiménez, Spain, poet (Distant Gardens, Nobel 1956)
1885 - Arthur Dolphin, cricketer (Yorkshire & England keeper, later Test ump)
1886 - Michael Curtiz, Hungarian-born director (d. 1962)
1887 - Louis Jouvet, Crozon France, actor (Volpone, Topaze, La Marseillaise)
1889 - Vladimir Sokoloff, Moscow Russia, actor (Road to Morocco)
1893 - Carl Brisson, Copenhagen Denmark, actor (Murder at the Vanities)
1893 - Ruth Chatterton, US actress (Madame X, Sarah & Son)
1894 - Georges Guynemer, French WW I pilot
1895 - E. Roland Harriman, American financier (d. 1978)
1898 - Héctor Scarone, Uruguayan footballer (d. 1967)
1898 - Baby Dodds, American jazz drummer (d. 1959)
1900 - Joey Smallwood, Canadian politician, Premier of Newfoundland (d. 1991)
1904 - Daniel K Womack, singer/guitarist
1904 - Herbert D Riley, US vice-admiral (WW II, Guadalcanal, Okinawa)
1904 - Joseph Moses Juran, American industrial engineer and philanthropist.
1905 - Anna "Ans" van Dike ("the Young"), Jewish nazi collaborator
1905 - Howard Hughes, reclusive billionaire (Hughes Aircraft)/inventor
1906 - John Walker, museum director
1906 - Franz Waxman, German film composer (d. 1967)
1907 - I[sidore] F[einstein] Stone, US journalist (IF Stone's Weekly)
1909 - Adam Popovich, composer
1909 - Adam Rapacki, Polish minister of Foreign Affairs (1956-68)
1910 - Betty Ann Davies, London England, actress (Tough Guy)
1910 - Fritz [Reuter] Leiber Jr, US, sci-fi author (Bazaar of the Bizarre)
1910 - Mitchell Ayres, Milwaukee Wisc, orchestra leader (Hollywood Palace)
1910 - Max Miedinger, typeface designer, famous for creating Helvetica in 1957. (d. 1980)
1911 - Eric Briault, educationalist
1911 - Malcolm MacEwen, writer
1913 - Karl Michael Komma, composer
1914 - Dorothy Hyson, actress (Ghoul, Spare a Copper, Sing as We Go)
1914 - Guus Verstraete Sr, [August de Graef], Dutch actor/dir (Black Magic)
1917 - Kim Jong-suk, Wife of Kim Il-sung, mother of Kim Jung-Il, "The Heroine of the Anti-Japanese Revolution" (d. 1949)
1920 - Dave Bartholomew, La, jazz artist/songwriter (Blueberry Hill)
1920 - Evgeniya Rudneva, Russian World War II heroine (d. 1944)
1921 - Bill Dudley, NFL halfback (Pittsburgh, Detroit, Washington)
1921 - Gerard Thomas Victory, composer
1922 - Ava Gardner, Grabtown NC, actress (On the Beach, Night of the Iguana)
1923 - Wilton S Mkwayi, South African ANC leader
1923 - George Patton IV, American general (d. 2004)
1923 - Michael DiBiase, American wrestler (d. 1969)
1924 - Roy Miller, cricketer (WI all-rounder in one Test 1953, 23 & 0-28)
1924 - Willem Drees, economist/Dutch politician (DS'70)
1924 - [Irving] Lee Dorsey, New Orleans, vocalist (Working in the Coal Mines)
1924 - Lee Dorsey, American singer (d. 1986)
1924 - Grigory Kriss, Russian Olympic champion fencer
1925 - Mohd. Rafi, Indian actor and playback singer (d. 1980)
1925 - Yafa Yarkoni, Israel, singer (Road to Jerusalem, Don't Say Goodbye, Say I will see You)
          (d.2012)
1926 - Ronald Draper, cricketer (South African batsman v Australia 1949-50)
1926 - Paul Buissonneau, French-born Quebec theatre director
1927 - Mary Higgins Clark, suspense novelist
1927 - Teresa Stich-Randall, US soprano (Vienna State Opera)
1929 - Mary Higgins Clark, Bronx NY, author (Cry in the Night, Stillwatch)
1929 - Noel Da Costa, composer
1930 - Robert Joffrey, [Abdullah Jaffa Anver Bey Khan], US, dancer
1931 - Jill Bennett, Penang Malay, actress (Lady Jane, Concrete Jungle)
1931 - Mauricio Kagel, Argentina/German composer
1932 - Colin Cowdrey, cricketer (in India England batsman, 1st to 100 Tests)
1932 - [Michael] Colin Cowdrey, English cricket player
1932 - On Kawara, Japanese conceptual artist
1934 - Stjepan Mesić, president of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Secretary General of Non-Aligned Movement and president of Croatia.
1937 - Félix Miéli Venerando, Brazilian football player
1938 - Ralp Inbar, Dutch TV host (Banana Split)
1938 - Valentim Loureiro, Portuguese politician, and former football chairman of Boavista F.C. and Liga Portuguesa de Futebol Profissional
1940 - Anthony Fauci, US health official
1940 - Paul Tagliabue, NFL commissioner (1989- )
1941 - John Levene, British actor
1943 - Christiane Schmidtmer, Heidelberg Germany, actress (Ship of Fools)
1943 - Tatton Sykes, English baron/large landowner
1943 - Tarja Halonen, President of Finland
1944 - Erhard Keller, German FR, 500m speed skater (Olympic-gold-1968, 72)
1944 - Mike Curb, Savannah Ga, singer (Mike Curb Congregation)
1944 - Oswald Gracias, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Bombay
1945 - Lemmy, [Ian Kilminster], rocker (Hawkwind, Motorhead-Built for Speed)
1945 - Nicholas Meyer, director (Star Trek II Wrath of Khan)
1946 - John Akkerman, Dutch guitarist/composer (Focus-Can't Stand Noise)
1946 - Judy Tyler, LA CA, playmate (Jan 1966)
1946 - Sharon Farrell, Sioux City Iowa, (Lori-Hawaii 5-0, Young & Restless)
1946 - Brenda Howard, American bisexual activist (d. 2005)
1946 - Jeff Sessions, American politician
1947 - Kevin Sheedy, coach of Australian Football League club Essendon FC
1949 - Cameron Seward, LPGA golfer
1949 - Randy Neugebauer, American politician
1949 - Warwick Brown, Australian racing driver
1950 - Libbi Larsen, composer
1950 - Peter te Bos, Dutch singer (Claw Boys Claw)
1950 - Dana Gioia, American poet
1951 - Johnny Contardo, rocker (Sha Na Na-Shannon)
1951 - John D'Acquisto, baseball player
1953 - François Loos, French politician
1955 - Anwar Khan, cricketer (bowled four overs for Pakistan 1979)
1955 - Clarence Gilyard Jr, Moses Lake Wash, actor (Chips, Duck Factory)
1955 - Grand L. Bush, American actor
1956 - Stephanie Hodge, comedian/actress (I Madman, Happily Ever After)
1957 - Ian Burden, S Yorks England, rock bassist (Human League-Only Human)
1957 - Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan
1957 - Diane Tell, Quebec singer
1958 - Munetaka Higuchi, Japanese drummer
1959 - Keith Deller, British darts player
1959 - Anil Kapoor, Indian actor
1960 - Glenn McQueen, American animator (d. 2002)
1960 - Carol Vorderman, British television presenter
1961 - Ilham Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan Republic
1961 - Jay Wright, American basketball coach
1962 - Michael Ray, rocker
1963 - Mary Ramsey, singer (10,000 Maniacs)
1963 - Timo Jutila, Tampere FIN, hockey defenseman (Team Finland)
1963 - Jay Bilas, American basketball analyst
1963 - Caroline Aherne, British comedienne, writer and actress
1964 - Elbert Shelley, NFL cornerback (Atlanta Falcons)
1964 - Gary Muller, South Africa, tennis star
1964 - Marcel van der Net, Dutch soccer player (FC Utrecht)
1964 - Mark Valley, Odgensvurg NY, actor (Days of Our Lives)
1965 - Erika von Heiland, Angeles City Phil, US badminton player (Oly-92,96)
1965 - Michael Haynes, NFL wide receiver (NO Saints, Atlanta Falcons)
1965 - Nancy Reno, Elmhurst Ill, WPVA volleyballer (Olympics-96)
1965 - Winston Moss, NFL linebacker (Seattle Seahawks)
1965 - Millard Powers, American musician and songwriter
1966 - Deidrich Bader, Wash DC, actor (Oswald-Drew Carey Show)
1967 - Mikhail Shchennikov, Russian race walker
1968 - Joe Scuderi, cricketer (South Australian all-rounder)
1968 - Doyle Bramhall II, American guitarist
1968 - Marleen Renders, Belgian athlete
1969 - Kenny "Damn" Kelly, Paterson NJ, rapper (Riff-Judy had a Boyfriend)
1970 - Filmel Johnson, NFL defensive back (Buffalo Bills)
1970 - Marian Smerciak, Martin CZE, hockey defenseman (Team Slovakia 1998)
1970 - Michael Batiste, NFL/WLAF defensive tackle (Cowboys, Frankfurt Galaxy)
1970 - Romeo Wouden, Dutch soccer player (Dordrecht '90, Heerenveen)
1970 - Amaury Nolasco, American actor
1970 - Will Oldham, American singer and songwriter
1971 - Ricky Martin, San Juan, Puerto Rico, singer (Menudo)/actor (General Hospital)
1971 - Tamir Bloom, NYC, fencer-epee (Olympics-96)
1971 - Christopher Daniels, American professional wrestler
1971 - Giorgos Alkaios, Greek singer
1972 - Alvaro Mesen, Costa Rican footballer
1973 - Eddie Pope, Greensboro NC, soccer defender (Olympics-gold-96)
1973 - Stephenie Meyer, Hartford, Connecticut, Author (Twilight)
1974 - Marcelo Salas, Chilean footballer
1974 - Ryan Seacrest, American television host
1975 - Natalie Ward, Australian softball shortstop/2nd baseman (Oly-br-96)
1978 - Yıldıray Baştürk, Turkish footballer
1979 - Chris Hero, American professional wrestler
1980 - Tomas Kalnoky, American musician (Streetlight Manifesto)
1981 - Dima Bilan, Karachay-Russian pop artist
1982 - Aiba Masaki, Japanese singer and actor
1982 - Robert Carmine, American singer
1985 - David Ragan, American race car driver
1986 - Edward Southall, British composer
1986 - Riyo Mori, Miss Universe 2007 from Japan
1992 - Melissa Suffield, English actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 25, 2012, 12:02:58 AM

This Day in History for 24th December


Famous Birthdays

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Actor & Writer Toshiro Mifune (1997)

427 - Archbishop Sisinnius I of Constantinople
1069 - Godfried II, with the Beard, duke of Neder-Lutherans, dies
1257 - John I, Count of Hainaut (b. 1218)
1380 - John von Neumarkt, German bishop/Chancellor Karel IV, dies
1453 - John Dunstable, English composer, dies
1524 - Vasco da Gama, Portuguese explorer/viceroy of Cochin, dies at about 55
1541 - Andreas R Bodenstein von Carlstadt, radical Lutheran, dies at about 61
1548 - Maximilian of Egmond, Dutch count/stadholder of Frisia, dies
1660 - Mary, 1st British Princess Royal and the Princess of Orange (b. 1631)
1707 - Noel Coypel, French painter, dies at 78
1813 - Empress Go-Sakuramachi of Japan (b. 1740)
1823 - Philipp Christoph Kayser, composer, dies at 68
1862 - Joseph Funk, composer, dies at 84
1863 - W M Thackeray, writer, dies at 52
1865 - Sir Charles Lock Eastlake, British painter and writer (b. 1793)
1868 - Adolphe d'Archiac, French paleontologist and geologist (b. 1802)
1869 - Edwin M[cMasters] Stanton, US Secretary of War (1861-65), dies at 55
1872 - William John Macquorn Rankine, British physician and engenier (b. 1820)
1873 - Johns Hopkins, Baltimore philanthropist and businessman (b. 1795)
1885 - Louis-Prosper Gachard, Belgian historian, dies at 85
1889 - Jan Jakob Lodewijk ten Kate, Dutch poet and clergyman (b. 1819)
1898 - Eugeniusz Pankiewicz, composer, dies at 41
1898 - Sharbel Makhluf, Lebanese monk canonized in 1977 by Pope Paul VI (b. 1828)
1904 - Juliaan Dillens, Flemish sculptor, dies at 55
1907 - Isidor Feinstein "Izzy" Stone, journalist (IF Stone's Weekly), dies
1908 - Francois-Auguste Gevaert, Belgian musicologist/composer, dies at 80
1909 - Nicolaas G Pierson, director Suriname/Dutch Bank, dies at 80
1914 - John Muir, British naturalist (b. 1838)
1930 - Eduard David, German minister (constitution of Weimar), dies at 67
1930 - Oskar Nedbal, composer, dies at 56
1932 - Eyvind Alnaes, composer, dies at 60
1935 - Alban Maria Johannes Berg, composer, dies at 50
1938 - Bruno Taut, German architect (b. 1880)
1941 - Siegfried Alkan, German composer (b. 1858)
1942 - Friedrich Klose, composer, dies at 80
1942 - Jean LXF Darlan, French admiral, murdered by gaullists
1942 - K Balmont, writer, dies at 75
1944 - Joseph Gustav Mraczek, composer, dies at 66
1945 - Francisco Pujol, composer, dies at 67
1952 - Henry A "Hans" Kramers, Dutch theoretical physicist, dies at 58
1955 - Nana Bryant, actress (Mrs Nestor-Our Miss Brooks), dies at 67
1957 - Norma Talmadge, US actress (Within the Law, Sign on Bay), dies at 60
1961 - Guy de Lioncourt, composer, dies at 76
1965 - William M. Branham, Christian minister (b. 1906)
1966 - Gaspar Cassado Moreu, composer, dies at 69
1971 - Maria Koepcke, ornithologist (b. 1924)
1972 - Charles Atlas, bodybuilder, dies at 79
1972 - Ernst Kreuder, writer, dies at 69
1974 - Tilly Losch, actress (Duel in the Sun, Good Earth), dies at 70
1975 - Bernard Herrmann, US movie composer, dies at 64
1976 - Victor Stanitsin, actor (War & Peace, Jubilee), dies at 79
1976 - Duarte Nuno, Duke of Braganza, heir to the throne of Portugal (b. 1907)
1977 - Samael Aun Weor, Columbian writer (b. 1917)
1979 - Dirk Uipko Stikker, Dutch CEO (Heineken)/sect-gen NATO, dies at 82
1979 - Rudi [Rudolf] Dutschke, German student leader, dies at 39
1980 - Alec Lafayette Chew Wilder, composer, dies at 73
1980 - Karl Dönitz, German naval admiral, and last leader of Nazi Germany (b. 1891)
1980 - Siggie Nordstrom, model, actress, entertainer, socialite and lead singer of The Nordstrom Sisters (b. 1893)
1982 - Louis Aragon, French writer (b. 1897)
1984 - Ian Hendry, actor (Assassin, Get Carter, Repulsion), dies at 53
1984 - Peter Lawford, actor (Thin Man), dies of cardiac arrest at 61
1986 - Gardner F[rancis] Fox, author (Kothar-Barbarian Swordsman), dies at 75
1986 - Gardner Fox, American writer (b. 1911)
1987 - John M "Joop" de Uyl, Dutch social-dem premier (1973-77), dies at 68
1987 - Joop den Uyl, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1919)
1987 - M. G. Ramachandran, Chief Minister of the Tamil Nadu (b. 1917)
1990 - Thorbjørn Egner, Norwegian author (b. 1922)
1991 - Walter Hudson, 1,025 lb man, dies at 46
1992 - Abdulkadir Widjojoatmodjo, Java diplomat, dies
1992 - Pierre Culliford [Peyo], Belgian cartoonist (Smurfs), dies at 64
1993 - Alexander Mackendrick, British/US director (Lady Killers), dies at 81
1993 - Norman Vincent Peale, rev (Power of Positive Thinking), dies at 95
1993 - Yen Chia-kan, PM/Pres of Taiwan (1963-72, 75-78), dies
1994 - Jimmy Buddy Lee Land Ace, singer, dies at 57
1994 - John Eastburn Boswell, medievalist, dies at 47
1994 - John James Osborne, playwright, dies at 65
1994 - John Keith Wright, English Asst Sect of State (1971-84), dies at 66
1994 - John Osborne, English playwright (Entertainer, Luther), dies at 65
1994 - Julie Haydon, [Donella Donaldson], US actress (Scoundrel), dies at 84
1994 - Louise H "Lous" Hensen, actress (Uncle Wanja, Charlotte), dies at 74
1994 - Nathan I. Daniel, inventor (Guitars), dies at 82
1994 - Rossano Brazzi, It resistance fight/actor (Final Justice), dies at 78
1995 - Geoffrey Pinnington, journalist, dies at 76
1995 - Harry McLevy, trade unionist, dies at 59
1996 - Edward Leadbitter, politician, dies at 77
1996 - Nguyen Huu Tho, Pres of Vietnam (1980-81), dies
1996 - Peter Dormer, arts writer, dies at 47
1997 - Alan Fluck, musical educationalist, dies at 69
1997 - Anthea Joseph, music producer, dies at 57
1997 - James Komack, producer (Courtship of Eddie's Father), dies at 67
1997 - Toshiro Mifune, Japanese actor (Shogun), dies at 77
1997 - Pierre Péladeau, Quebec businessman, founder of Quebecor (b. 1925)
1999 - João Baptista de Oliveira Figueiredo, President of Brazil (b. 1918)
1999 - Bill Bowerman, American track and field coach
1999 - Maurice Couve de Murville, French politician, Prime minister of France (b. 1907)
2000 - John Cooper, English race car designer (b. 1923)
2000 - Nick Massi, American singer (The Four Seasons) (b. 1935)
2002 - Kjell Aukrust, Norwegian author (b. 1920)
2002 - Laci Peterson, American murder victim (b. 1975)
2004 - Johnny Oates, baseball player and manager (b. 1946)
2005 - Michael Vale, American commercial actor (b. 1922)
2006 - "Braguinha", Brazilian songwriter (b. 1907)
2006 - Frank Stanton, American television executive (b. 1908)
2006 - Kenneth Sivertsen, Norwegian singer, poet and comedian (b. 1961)
2007 - Nicholas Pumfrey, British judge (b. 1951)
2007 - Akbar Radi, Iranian dramatist and playwright (b. 1939)
2008 - Harold Pinter, British playwright (b. 1930)
2009 - George Michael, American sportscaster (The George Michael Sports Machine) (b. 1939)
2009 - Rafael Caldera, lawyer, sociologist, writer, speaker, politician, and ex-president of Venezuela (b. 1916)
2010 - Elisabeth Beresford, British author and creator of The Wombles (b. 1926)
2010 - Orestes Quércia, Brazilian politician (b. 1938)
2010 - Eino Tamberg, Estonian composer (b. 1930)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 25, 2012, 09:25:13 PM

This Day in History for 25th December


Historical Events

1 - 1st Christmas, according to calendar-maker Dionysus Exiguus
274 - Roman Emperor Aurelian dedicates a temple to Sol Invictus on the supposed day of the winter solstice and day of rebirth of the Sun.
337 - Earliest possible date that Christmas was celebrated on Dec 25th
352 - 1st definite date Christmas was celebrated on Dec 25th
390 - Roman emperor Theodosius admits debt on mass murder in Thessalonica
498 - French king Clovis baptises himself
597 - England adopts Julian calendar
604 - Battle at Etampes (Stampae): Burgundy beat Neustriers
800 - Pope Leo III crowns Charles the Great (Charlemagne), Roman emperor
875 - Charles, the Bare, crowned emperor of Rome
967 - John XIII crowned Otto II the Red German compassionate emperor
969 - Johannes I Tzimisces, crowned emperor of Byzantium
979 - Rotardus appointed as bishop of the kingdom
999 - Heribertus becomes bishop of Cologne
1000 - Monarch Istvan crowned king of Hungary

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 25, 2012, 09:29:57 PM

This Day in History for 25th December


Famous Weddings

1949 - British born actor "Notorious" Cary Grant (45) weds actress Betsy Drake (26)
1950 - Dick Tracy marries Tess Truehart
1997 - Actress Rue McClanahan (64) weds actor-producer Morrow Wilson (58) at Manhattan's
           Waldorf-Astoria

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 25, 2012, 09:45:22 PM

This Day in History for 25th December


Famous Deaths

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Physicist & Mathematician
Isaac Newton (1642)

795 - Adrian I, Italian Pope (772-95), dies aged 95
820 - Leo V, the Armenian, Byzantine gen/Emperor (813-20), murdered
1156 - Peter Venerabilis, Fr theologist/9th abbot of Cluny, dies at about 61
1249 - Peter Nolascus, Spanish monastery founder/St, dies
1513 - Johannes Amerbach, Swiss publisher/printer, dies at about 70
1530 - Babur, emperor of Delhi, dies
1635 - Samuel de Champlain, French explorer and founder of Quebec City (b. 1567)
1676 - Matthew Hale, Lord Chief Justice of England (b. 1609)
1676 - William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle, English soldier (b. 1592)
1683 - Kara Mustafa Pasha Turkish grand-vizier (1676-83) and Ottoman general, executed. (b. 1634)
1758 - James Hervey, English clergyman (b. 1714)
1765 - Antonio Tonelli, composer, dies at 79
1765 - Václav Prokop Diviš, Czech theologian and natural scientist (b. 1698)
1784 - Yosa Buson, Japanese painter (b. 1716)
1788 - John Logan, Scottish conductor (Ode to the Cuckoo), dies at about 40

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 26, 2012, 07:41:19 AM

This Day in History for 26th December


Historical Events

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First US President                                 Baseball Great Babe Ruth                 Actress Judy Garland             
George Washington                                                 

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Playwright Tennessee Williams              US General George S Patton             Rock Guitarist Jimi Hendrix

268 - Pope St Dionysius dies
418 - Pope St Zosimus dies
795 - St Leo III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1198 - French bishop Odo van Sully condemns Zottenfeest
1481 - Battle at Westbroek: Dutch army beats Utrecht
1492 - 1st Spanish settlement in New World founded, by Columbus
1568 - Uprising of Morisco's against suppression in Granada
1620 - Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth, MA
1620 - Elizabeth Báthory's crimes are uncovered.
1659 - Long Parliament reforms in Westminster
1748 - France & Austria signs treaty about Southern Netherlands
1773 - Expulsion of tea ships from Philadelphia
1776 - George Washington defeats Hessians at Battle of Trenton in American Revolutionary War
1792 - The final trial of Louis XVI of France begins in Paris.
1793 - Battle of Geisberg: French defeat Austrians.
1799 - George Washington is eulogized by Col Henry Lee as "1st in war, 1st in peace & 1st in hearts
           of his countrymen"
1805 - France & Austria signs Peace of Pressburg
1805 - Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts established, Philadelphia
1809 - English invasionary troop leaves Vlissingen
1811 - A theater fire in Richmond, Virginia kills the Governor of Virginia George William Smith and the 
          president of the First National Bank of Virginia Abraham B. Venable.
1813 - Zamose, Modlin, Torgau surrenders to allied armies
1825 - Erie Canal opens
1830 - Gaetano Donizetti's opera "Anna Bolena," premieres in Milan
1831 - Vincenzo Bellini's opera "Norma," premieres in Milan
1848 - 1st gold seekers arrive in Panama en route to SF
1848 - William & Ellen Craft escape from slavery in Georgia
1848 - The Phi Delta Theta fraternity is founded at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.
1854 - Wood-pulp paper 1st exhibited, Buffalo
1860 - Maiden voyage of 1st steamship owned by 1 man (C Vanderbilt)
1860 - Major Robert Anderson, under cover of darkness, concentrated his small force at Ft Sumter
1860 - The first ever inter-club football match takes place between Hallam F.C. and Sheffield F.C. at
            the Sandygate Road ground in Sheffield, England.
1862 - -Dec 28th) Battle of Dumfries, VA
1862 - 1st US navy hospital ship enters service
1862 - 38 Santee Sioux Indians hanged in Mankato Minnesota, due to their uprising
1865 - James H Mason (Mass) patents 1st US coffee percolator
1870 - The 12.8-km long Fréjus Rail Tunnel through the Alps is completed.
1871 - Gilbert and Sullivan collaborate for the first time, on their lost opera, Thespis. It does
            modestly well, but the two would not collaborate again for four years.
1872 - 4th largest snowfall in NYC history (18")
1877 - Socialist Labor Party of North America holds 1st natl convention
1878 - 1st US store to install electric lights, Philadelphia
1879 - John Brahms' "Tragic Ouverture," premieres
1883 - The Harbour Grace Affray between Irish Catholics and Protestant Orangemen causes five deaths in Newfoundland.
1890 - King Mwanga of Uganda signs contract with East Africa Company
1892 - Opera "Cristoforo Colombo" is produced (La Scala)
1899 - Mafeking: Bathe-Powells failed assault up fort Game Tree: 24 killed
1902 - Most knock downs in a fight, Oscar Nelson (5) & Christy Williams (42)
1908 - Jack Johnson TKOs Tommy Burns in 14 for heavyweight boxing title, becomes 1st black
           heavyweight champion
1916 - Joseph Joffre becomes marshal of France
1917 - 1st NHL defensemen to score a goal: Toronto Maple Leaf Harry Cameron
1917 - Fed government took over operation of American RR for duration of WW I
1918 - 1st day of 1st-class cricket in Aust after WW I (Vic v NSW)
1919 - Yanks & Red Sox reach agreement on transfer of Babe Ruth
1924 - Judy Garland, 2½, billed as Baby Frances, makes her show business debut
1925 - 1st East West football game at Ewing Park before 25,000 fans
1925 - NHL record 141 shots as NY Americans (73) beat Pitt Pirates (68) 3-1
1925 - Turkey adopts Gregorian calendar
1925 - NY's Jake Forbes makes 67 saves, Pitt's Ray Waters makes 70
1925 - The Communist Party of India is founded.
1926 - Prince-regent Hirohito becomes emperor of Japan
1928 - Johnny Weissmuller announces his retirement from amateur swimming
1928 - World record 10th wicket stand 307 (Kippax / Hooker) NSW v Vic
1931 - George/Ira Gershwin's "Of Thee I Sing," premieres in NYC
1931 - Pulitzer Prize-winning musical play "Of Thee I Sing" opens on Bdwy
1933 - Bradman scores 187* NSW v Victoria, 294 mins, 13 fours
1933 - US forswears armed intervention in Western Hemisphere
1933 - FM radio is patented.
1934 - Yomiuri Giants, Japan's 1st professional baseball team forms
1935 - Stalin views Dmitri Sjostakovitsj' opera "Lady Macbeth"
1936 - Israel Philarmonic Orch forms
1938 - Bradman scores 225 South Aust v Qld before Christ gets him out
1938 - Tom Goddard takes a cricket hat-trick for England v South Africa
1939 - Earthquake in East Anatolia Turkey
1939 - Mine strikes in Borinage Brussels
1940 - 1st-class debut of Arthur Morris, who scores 148
1940 - JA Fields/J Chodorov's "My Sister Eileen," premieres in NYC
1941 - Winston Churchill becomes 1st British PM to address a joint meeting of Congress, warning
           that Axis would "stop at nothing"
1943 - British sink German battle cruiser Scharnhorst
1943 - Chicago Bears win NFL championship
1943 - Earl Claus von Stauffenberg vain with bomb to Hitlers headquarter
1944 - Battle of Bastogne-US Gen Patton's 4th Pantzers repulse Germans
1944 - Budapest surrounded by soviet army
1944 - Tennessee Williams' play "Glass Menagerie," premieres in Chicago
1945 - CFP franc and CFA franc are created.
1946 - "Beggar's Holiday" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 111 performances
1946 - "Toplitzky of Notre Dame" opens at Century Theater NYC for 60 perfs
1946 - 35th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Melbourne (5-0)
1946 - Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas opens (start of an era)
1947 - "Cradle Will Ruck" opens at Mansfield Theater NYC for 34 performances
1947 - British transfer Heard & McDonald Is (Indian Ocean) to Australia
1947 - Heavy snow blankets Northeast, buries NYC under 25.8" of snow in 16 hrs That same day, LA
           set a record high of 84°F
1948 - Hungarian cardinal Mindszenty arrested
1950 - Gillette & Mutual buy All Star & World Series rights ($6M for 6 yrs)
1954 - "The Shadow," airs for last time on radio
1954 - Cleveland Browns win NFL Championship, beating Detroit 56-10
1955 - Cleveland Browns win NFL Championship, beating Los Angeles Rams 38-14
1955 - RKO is 1st to announce sale of its film library to TV
1957 - Roger Sessions' 3rd Symphony premieres in London
1960 - "Do Re Mi" opens at St James Theater NYC for 400 performances
1960 - Musical "Do re mi" with Phil Silvers premieres in NYC
1960 - Philadelphia Eagles beat Green Bay Packers 17-13 in NFL championship game
1963 - "Double Dublin" opens at Little Theater NYC for 4 performances
1963 - Beatles release "I Want To Hold Your Hand"/"I Saw Her Standing There"
1963 - US furnishes cereal to USSR
1964 - Beatles' "I Feel Fine," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 3 weeks
1964 - Buffalo Bills beat San Diego Chargers 20-7 in AFL championship game
1964 - Moors Murderers claim last victim
1965 - "Funny Girl" with Barbra Streisand closes on Broadway
1965 - Buffalo Bills beat San Diego Chargers 23-0 in AFL championship game
1965 - Paul McCartney is interviewed on pirate radio station Radio Caroline
1966 - Maulana Karenga establishes Kwanzaa (1st fruits of harvest) holiday
1966 - Jimi Hendrix writes "Purple Haze" backstage at the Upper Cut Club
1967 - BBC broadcasts "Magical Mystery Tour"
1967 - Dave Brubeck Quartet formally disbands
1968 - Arab terrorists in Athens fire on El Al plane, kills 1
1968 - Jay Allens "Forty Carats," premieres in NYC
1968 - Led Zeppelin's concert debut in Denver as opener for Vanilla Fudge
1968 - Bruin Ted Green sets NHL penalty record of 3 minors, 2 majors & 2 game misconducts in a
           game against NY Rangers in NY's Madison Square Garden
1973 - "Exorcist," starring Linda Blair & rated X, premieres
1973 - 2 Skylab 3 astronauts walk in space for a record 7 hours
1973 - Soyuz 13 returns to Earth
1974 - Washington Capitals 1st NHL sellout
1975 - 1st supersonic transport service (USSR-Tupolev-144)
1975 - A crowd of 85661 attends the 1st day of the Aust-WI MCG Test Cricket
1976 - "Music Is" closes at St James Theater NYC after 8 performances
1976 - The Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist-Leninist) is founded.
1977 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1978 - India's former PM, Indira Gandhi, released from jail
1979 - Soviet Special forces take over presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan.
1980 - Aeroflot puts the Ilyushin Il-86 into service.
1981 - One of the great day's Test Cricket at the MCG Aust v WI
1982 - TIME's Man of the Year is a computer
1982 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1983 - Test Cricket debut of Gregory Richard John Matthews, v Pakistan MCG
1983 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1985 - Test Cricket debut of Steve Waugh, v India at the MCG
1986 - Captured Iraqi Airways Boeing-737 in Saudi Arabia, about 60 killed
1986 - Doug Jarvis, 31, sets NHL record of 916 consecutive games
1986 - TV soap "Search for Tomorrow" ends 35 year run
1987 - "Les Miserables" opens at National Theatre of Iceland, Reykjavik
1988 - "Legs Diamond" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 64 performances
1988 - Anti African student rebellion in China PR
1989 - ODI debut for Mark Taylor & Sanath Jayasuriya at cricket MCG
1990 - Garry Kasparov beats Antatoly Karpov to retain chess championship
1990 - Reggie Williams becomes 1st GM of WLAF's NY-NJ Knights
1990 - Senior Professional Baseball Association folds
1991 - Chuck Knolls retires as NFL coach after 23 years
1991 - Jack Ruby's gun sells for $220,000 in auction
1991 - Militant Sikhs kill 55 & wound 70 in India
1991 - NY Islander Derek King ties NJ Devils 5-5 with ½ second left
1992 - NY Jet announcer Marty Glickman retires at 75
1993 - Antonov-26 crashes at Gyumri, Armenia, 36 killed
1993 - Floyd, Nicklaus & Rodriguez wins Wendy's 3-Tour Challenge Golf Tourn
1994 - French commando's terminate Air France hijacking in Marseille
1995 - Muttiah Muralitharan no-balled for throwing (SL v Aust, MCG)
1995 - Paul Adams becomes S Afr's youngest Test Cricket player, 18 yrs 340 ds
1996 - Start of the largest strike in South Korean history.
1996 - The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification goes into force.
1996 - Six-year-old beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey is found beaten and strangled in the basement
            of her family's home in Boulder, Colorado.
1997 - The Soufriere Hills volcano on the island of Montserrat explodes, creating a small tsunami
            offshore.
1998 - Iraq announces its intention to fire upon U.S. and British warplanes that patrol the northern
           and southern no-fly zones.
1998 - Severe gales over Ireland, northern England, and southern Scotland cause widespread
           disruption and widespread power outages in Northern Ireland and southern Scotland.
1999 - Severe weather in France kills over 100 people and causes extensive damage to property,
           trees and the French national power grid (see Lothar).
2003 - A magnitude 6.6 earthquake devastates southeast Iranian city of Bam, killing tens of
           thousands and destroying the citadel of Arg-é Bam.
2004 - A 9.3 magnitude earthquake creates a tsunami causing devastation in Sri Lanka, India,
           Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, the Maldives and many other areas around the rim of the Indian 
           Ocean, killing 230,000 people.
2005 - Boxing Day shooting on a busy shopping street in Toronto.
2006 - The 2006 Hengchun earthquake with 7.1 magnitude hit Taiwan.

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 26, 2012, 07:43:00 AM

This Day in History for 26th December


Famous Weddings

1613 - Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset, marries Frances Howard, occasioning John Donne's "Eclogue".
1793 - The wedding of Prince Friedrich Ludwig of Prussia and Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz takes place.
1931 - SS-Sturmbannfuhrer Reinhard Heydrich marries Lina von Osten
1993 - Comedian Rodney Dangerfield (72) weds Joan Child (41) at Silver Bells Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas
1994 - Actor Jason Hervey (22) weds Kelley Patricia O'Neill (27)
1994 - President Clinton's brother Roger Clinton (37) weds 8-mo pregnant Molly Nartin (25)
2001 - "Harry Potter" author J. K. Rowling (36) weds anesthesiologist Neil Murray (30) in Aberfeldy,
            Scotland
2002 - Los Angeles Lakers center Shaquille O'Neal (30) weds Shaunie Nelson at The Beverly Hills
           Hotel's Crystal Garden
2004 - "Kill Bill" actress David Carradine (67) weds Annie Berman (43) at the seaside in Malibu

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 26, 2012, 07:52:29 AM

This Day in History for 26th December


Famous Birthdays

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Inventor Charles Babbage (1792)         Author Henry Miller (1891)           Chinese Prime Minister
                                                                                                                 Mao Tse-Tung (1893)

1194 - Frederick II, Iesi Italy, German Emperor (1212-1250)/King of Sicily
1532 - Guilielmus Xylander, German classical scholar (d. 1576)
1536 - Yi I, Korean Confucian scholar (d. 1584)
1542 - Tokugawa Ieyasu, unifier of Japan and first Tokugawa Shogun (d. 1616)
1618 - Elisabeth, Paltsgravin of Rhine/abbess
1633 - Charles E Biset, Flemish painter, baptised
1646 - Robert Bolling, English settler in Virginia (d. 1709)
1660 - Peter Schenck, German/Neth engraver/publisher, baptised
1666 - Guru Gobind Singh, Tenth Guru of Sikhism (d. 1708)
1687 - Johann Georg Pisendel, German violinist/composer
1716 - Thomas Gray, English poet (Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard)
1716 - Jean François de Saint-Lambert, French poet (d. 1803)
1723 - Friedrich Melchior, baron von Grimm, German writer (d. 1807)
1731 - Anthony Ziesenis, architect/sculptor (Town Hall of Westzaan)
1737 - Prince Josias of Coburg, Austrian general (d. 1815)
1738 - Thomas Nelson, merchant, signer of Declaration of Independence
1751 - Clement Hofbauer, Austrian missionary and saint (d. 1820)
1762 - Franz Wilhelm Tausch, composer
1770 - Pierre earl de Cambronne, French general (Waterloo, Elba)
1771 - Heinrich J von Collin, Austria dramatist/poet (Regulus)
1771 - Julie Clary, queen consort of Naples (d. 1845)
1778 - Juan Lovera, Venezuela, artist
1780 - Mary Fairfax Somerville, British mathematician (d. 1872)
1782 - Filaret Drozdov, Metropolitan of Moscow (d. 1867)
1792 - Charles Babbage, London, inventor (calculating machine), (d. 1871)
1793 - Franz Hunten, composer
1797 - Hans Skramstad, composer
1805 - Joseph-Leon Gatayes, composer
1808 - Albert Grisar, composer
1809 - William Nelson Pendleton, Brig Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1883
1812 - Wilhelm Volkmar, composer
1815 - Israel Bush Richardson, Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
1819 - E. D. E. N. Southworth, American novelist (d. 1899)
1820 - Gustavus Adolphus Smith, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1885
1822 - Dion Boucicault, Irish/Us actor/playwright (Rip van Winkle)
1824 - Augustus Louis Chetlain, Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1914
1826 - Franz Coenen, composer
1826 - Martinus Nijhoff, founder Nijhoff's book/publisher (Van Dale)
1837 - Adm George Dewey, American naval hero of Manila
1837 - Morgan Bulkeley, American politician and baseball commissioner (d. 1922)
1845 - Salvatore Auteri Manzocchi, composer
1849 - Samuel E "Sam" van Beem, actor (Fanfan la Tulipe)
1853 - René Bazin, French novelist (d. 1932)
1855 - Arnold Ludwig Mendelssohn, composer
1859 - Johan F van Bemmelen, Dutch zoologist
1859 - William Stephens, U.S. political figure (d. 1944)
1861 - Friedrich Engel, German mathematician (group theory)
1862 - Alexander V Amfiteatrov, Russian/French/Italian writer [NS]
1869 - Harry Redman, composer
1872 - Norman Angell, British politician/cowboy/journalist, Nobel laureate (1933), (d. 1967)
1873 - Hubert Cuypers, Dutch composer/choir conductor (Minstrels)
1873 - Karel Moor, composer
1873 - Thomas Wass, English cricketer (d. 1953)
1878 - Isaiah Bowman, US, geography/co-founder (Geographical Review)
1879 - Armen Tigran Tigranyan, composer
1879 - Julius Weismann, composer
1883 - Carl Oscar Ahues, Germany, International Chess Master (1950)
1883 - Frank Debenham, Australian geographer/geologist
1887 - Arthur Ernest Percival, British Army officer (d. 1966)
1890 - Uncle Charlie Osborne, American fiddler (d. 1992)
1891 - Henry Miller, Manhattan, New York, author/artist (Tropic of Capricorn, Tropic of Cancer, Sexus), (d. 1980)
1893 - Evgeny Karlovich Tikotsky, composer
1893 - Yury Nikolayevich Tyulin, composer
1893 - Mao Tse-Tung [Zedong], Chinese Prime Minister (1949-76), (d. 1976)
1894 - Antonio Molina, composer
1894 - Jean Toomer, American writer (d. 1967)
1897 - Willie Corsari, [Wilhelmina A Schmidt], Dutch writer
1901 - Georgy Mikhaylovich Rimsky-Korsakov, composer [NS]
1901 - Victor Hely-Hutchinson, composer
1902 - Anatoli Lvovich Kaplan, Russian painter (d. 1980)
1903 - Elisha Cook Jr, San Francisco California, actor (Maltese Falcon, Shane, Magnum PI)
1904 - Alentejo Carpentier, Cubans/French writer (Guerra del Tiempo)
1906 - Imperio Argentina, Argentine actress and singer (d. 2003)
1908 - Ralph Hill, US, 5K runner (Olympic-1932)
1910 - Lucy Faithfull, children's campaigner
1911 - Arsenio Lacson, Filipino politician and sportswriter (d. 1962)
1911 - Steve Kordek, Chicago, Illinois, pinball machine designer, (d. 2012)
1913 - Frank Swift, English footballer and journalist (d. 1958)
1914 - Richard Widmark, Sunrise Mich, actor (Madigan, Judgement at Nuremberg)
1914 - Annemarie Wendl, German actress (d. 2006)
1915 - Hans [Henri A] Gomperts, Dutch literature (Duck on Attic)
1915 - Una Mae Carlisle, US pianist/vocalist (Walkin' at the River)
1916 - Helmut Eder, composer
1917 - Rosemary Woods, Nixon's secretary, keep her away from your tapes
1918 - George Rallis, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 2006)
1920 - Gote Carlid, composer
1921 - Steve Allen, NYC, comedian/TV host (Tonight Show, Steve Allen Show)
1921 - John Severin, Jersey City, New Jersey, comic book artist (Hulk, Mad Magazine), (d. 2012)
1922 - Richard Mayes, English actor (d. 2006)
1924 - Frank Broyles, American athlete, long time athletic director of the University of Arkansas.
1925 - Baron Baker, activist
1926 - Earle Brown, composer
1926 - Edgar D Ngoyi, South African ANC leader (17 yrs in Robbeneiland Jail)
1926 - Zlatko Pibernik, composer
1927 - Alan King, Bkln NY, comedian/actor (Anderson Tapes, Memories of Me)
1927 - Denis Quilley, London England, actor (Masada)
1927 - Stu Miller, American baseball player
1929 - Régine, French singer and nightclub owner
1930 - Donald Moffat, Plymouth England, actor (Kent-Logan's Run)
1930 - Sayed Mutawli imam ad-Darsh, scholar/broadcaster
1931 - Thomas Eden Binkley, musician
1931 - Thomas K "Tom" van Brook, actor/interpreter (Soldier of Orange)
1932 - Walter Leblanc, Belgian painter
1933 - Ugly Dave Gray, Australian television personality
1933 - Caroll Spinney, American puppeteer
1935 - Abdul "Duke" Fakir, Detroit MI, rock vocalist (Four Tops)
1935 - Barbara J Jacket, US athletic coach (Olympics 1972)
1935 - Rohan Kanhai, cricketer (one of West Indies' finest batsmen)
1936 - Kitty Dukakis, substance abuser/wife of Michael (Gov-Mass)
1937 - John Horton Conway, British mathematician
1937 - Jay Heimowitz, American poker player
1938 - Bahram Beizai, Iranian playwright and film director
1938 - Alamgir Kabir, Bangladeshi film director (d. 1989)
1939 - Lynn Martin, US secretary of Labor (1991-93)
1939 - [Harvey] Phil Spector, record producer (Wall of Sound)
1940 - Harmen Siezen, Dutch TV-journal host
1940 - Edward C. Prescott, American economist, Nobel laureate
1941 - Daniel Schmid, actor/director (Paloma, Violanta, Hecate, Amateurs)
1942 - Barry Wood, cricketer (England opener in early 70's)
1942 - Earl Cate, Ark, country singers (Cate Bros-Fire on the Tracks)
1942 - Ernie Cate, Ark, country singers (Cate Bros-Fire on the Tracks)
1942 - Rob de Nijs, Dutch singer (Put a candle in your window)
1942 - Marco Vinicio Cerezo Arévalo, Guatemalan president
1942 - Gray Davis, former Governor of California
1944 - Jane Lapotaire, actress (Spirit of the Dead)
1945 - John Walsh, activist/TV host (America's Most Wanted)
1946 - Gordon Edwards, rocker
1946 - Lisette Hordijk, Dutch TV broadcaster
1947 - Carlton Fisk, Vermont, all star catcher (Red Sox, White Sox)
1947 - Joyce Jillson, Cranston RI, psychic/actress (Superchick)
1947 - James T. Conway, 34th Commandant of the United States Marine Corps
1948 - Chris Chambliss, 1st baseman (NY Yankee)
1949 - Ira Newborn, NYC, orchestra leader (Manhattan Transfer)
1949 - José Ramos-Horta, President of East Timor, Nobel laureate
1950 - Michael Jones, rocker (BT Express-Here Comes the Express)
1950 - Victoria Racimo, NYC, actress (Corene-Falcon Crest)
1951 - Richard Skinner, British DJ
1952 - Andre-Michel Schub, Paris France, pianist (Van Cliburn-1981)
1953 - Matthew Harding, businessman/soccer supporter
1953 - Valeri Yuriyevich Sharov, Russian cosmonaut
1953 - Leonel Fernández, Dominican politician and current President of the Dominican Republic
1953 - Henning Schmitz, German musician (Kraftwerk)
1954 - Ozzie Smith, Mobile AL, infielder (St Louis Cardinals)
1954 - Peter Woods, rocker (Romeo Void-Girl in Trouble)
1954 - Susan H Butcher, dog sled driver (Idatarod)
1954 - Ullrich Diessner, German DR, 4 man cox (Olympic-gold-1976)
1954 - Walter Diessner, German DR, 4 man cox (Olympic-gold-1976)
1955 - Evan Bayh, American politician
1956 - Gail Tatterson, WBL center (NY Stars)
1956 - Karen Smith, WBL forward (NY Stars)
1956 - David Sedaris, American essayist
1957 - Dermot Murnaghan, British broadcaster
1958 - Adrian Newey, British engineer
1959 - Lesley Tomlinson, Derbyshire England, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1959 - Koji Morimoto, Japanese animated film director
1960 - Temuera Morrison, New Zealand actor
1960 - Jim Toomey, American syndicated cartoonist
1961 - Storm Davis, Dallas Texas, pitcher (KC Royals)
1961 - Tahnee Welch, [La Tahn Renee Welch], San Diego CA, actress (Cocoon)
1961 - John Lynch, Irish actor
1963 - Lars Ulrich, Danish/US heavy metal drummer (Metallica-Kill 'em All)
1964 - Colleen Dion, Newburgh NY, actress (Search for Tomorrow)
1964 - Jeff King, Marion IN, infielder (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1964 - Elizabeth Kostova, American author
1965 - Ben Husaby, Eden Prairie Minn, cross country skier (Olympics-1994)
1966 - Tim Legler, NBA guard (Washington Wizards/Bullets)
1967 - Tony Covington, NFL safety (Seattle Seahawks)
1968 - Darren Barber, Victoria BC, rower (Olympics-96)
1968 - Dennis Knight, American professional wrestler
1970 - Lisa Gathright, Moline Ill, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-17th-1993)
1970 - Radka Zrubakova, Bratislava Slovakia, tennis star (1994 Futures-GER)
1970 - Willie Williams, NFL cornerback (Pittsburgh Steelers, Seahawks)
1970 - James Mercer, American musician (The Shins)
1970 - Krissada Terrence, Thai singer and actor
1971 - Mark Lathwell, cricketer (England opening batsman v Australia 1993)
1971 - Jonathan M. Parisen, American film director
1972 - Burnell Roques, NFL wide receiver (Atlanta Falcons)
1972 - Derrick Cullors, running back (New England Patriots)
1972 - Jared Leto, Bossier City LA, actor (Jordan-My So Called Life)
1972 - Esteban Fuertes, Argentine footballer
1972 - Robert Muchamore, English children's author
1973 - Ryan Berube, US, 800m freestyle relay (Olympics-gold-96)
1973 - Reichen Lehmkuhl, American television personality
1974 - Tiffany Brissette, actress (Vicki-Small Wonder)
1974 - Tony Brackens, defensive end (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1975 - Marcelo Rios, Santiago Chile, tennis star (1995 Amsterdam)
1976 - Lea De Mae, Czech actress (d. 2004)
1977 - Brandee Layne Loving, Miss Mississippi Teen USA (1996)
1978 - Kaoru Sugayama, Japanese volleyball player
1979 - Fabián Carini, Uruguayan footballer
1979 - Dimitry Vassiliev, Russian ski jumper
1979 - Chris Daughtry, American singer
1979 - Mzbel, Ghanaian singer
1980 - Serena Phillips, Corvallis Ore, figure skater (1997 Pruetten champ)
1980 - Todd Dunivant, American soccer player
1982 - Kenneth Darby, American National Football League player
1982 - Oguri Shun, Japanese Actor/Model
1984 - Alex Schwazer, Italian race walker
1985 - Steven Hartman, Westlake CA, actor (Rick Forrester-Bold & Beautiful)
1985 - Yuu Shirota, Japanese Idol
1987 - Adam Walker, British flautist
1990 - Aaron Ramsey, Welsh footballer
1995 - Zach Mills, American actor

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 26, 2012, 07:56:34 AM

This Day in History for 26th December


Famous Deaths

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38th US President Gerald R Ford (2006)

1350 - Jean de Marigny, French bishop
1458 - Arthur III, Duke of Brittany (b. 1393)
1476 - Galeazzo Maria Sforza, duke of Milan, murdered
1530 - Zahir al-Din Mohammed Babur Shah, founder Mogols-dynasty, dies at 47
1574 - Charles Guise, archbishop/cardinal of Reims, dies at 50
1624 - Simon Marius, astronomer, dies in Bavaria at 54
1627 - Gonzaga, Italian monarch of Mantua/Monferrato, dies
1658 - Simon Guillain, French sculptor (Castle of Blois/Sorbonne), dies at 78
1676 - Domenicus van Tol, Dutch painter, dies
1679 - John van de Cappelle, Amsterdam landscape painter, dies at 53
1731 - Antoine Houdar de la Motte, French writer (b. 1672)
1736 - Antonio Caldara, composer, dies
1740 - Mauritius Louis II earl of Nassau, lt-gen (12 children), dies
1771 - Claude Adrien Helvétius, French philosopher (b. 1715)
1776 - Johann Gottlieb Rall, Hessian colonel/mercenary, dies in battle in American Revolutionary War
1780 - John Fothergill, English physician (b. 1712)
1784 - Seth Warner, American revolutionary leader (b. 1743)
1786 - Gasparo Gozzi, Italian critic and dramatist (b. 1713)
1797 - John Wilkes, English journalist/Higher/Lower house leader, dies at 72
1827 - Jan David Holland, composer, dies at 81
1836 - Hans Georg Nageli, composer, dies at 63
1837 - Martinus van Marum, chemist/physicist (giant salamander), dies at 87
1861 - Philip St George Cocke, Confederate brig-gen, commits suicide at 52
1866 - Samuel Ryan Curtis, Union general-major, dies at 49
1869 - Jean Louis Marie Poiseuille, French physiologist (b. 1797)
1879 - Jean Leonard Marie Poiseuille, dies
1887 - Jules Francois Blasini, Curacaos pianist/composer, dies at 40
1890 - Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist (Trojan War), dies at 86
1909 - Frederic Remington, American artist (b. 1861)
1916 - Bernhard Scholz, composer, dies at 81
1916 - Frank Penn, cricketer (one Test for England v Australia 1880), dies
1917 - Louise J Gautier, French poetess/daughter of Theophile G, dies at 71
1918 - Bertram Luard-Selby, composer, dies at 65
1923 - Dietrich Eckart, German Nazi politician (b. 1868)
1931 - Melvil Dewey, inventor of the Dewey decimal classification (b. 1851)
1933 - Lunatscharski, writer, dies
1933 - Anatoly Lunacharsky, Russian literary critic and politician (b. 1875)
1937 - Ivor Gurney, composer, dies at 47
1942 - Bosinier de la Chapelle, Fren murderer of adm Darlan, executed at 24
1950 - Emile Enthoven, composer, dies at 47
1950 - James Stephens, Irish poet (Crock of Gold), dies at 68
1952 - Pietro Pancrazi, Italian critic (Pegaso), dies at 59
1956 - Holmes Herbert, actor (The Kiss), dies at 74
1957 - Artur Malawski, composer, dies at 53
1958 - Harry Redman, composer, dies on 89th birthday
1960 - Eduard Ludwig, German architect (Hansa quarter, Berlin), dies at 54
1960 - Watsuji Tetsuro, Japanese philosopher (b. 1889)
1961 - Charlie Frank, cricketer (S Af Test centurion v Aust 1921-22), dies
1963 - "Gorgeous George" Wagner, wrestler, dies
1965 - Anthonie Donker, Dutch [Prof N Donkersloot], literary, dies at 63
1966 - Ina Boudier-Baker, Dutch author (Poverty), dies at 88
1966 - Klaziena "Ina" Boudier-Bakker, singer (Armoede, Finale), dies at 91
1966 - Noel Gallon, composer, dies at 75
1967 - S F Barnes, cricketer (27 Tests for England, 189 wickets), dies
1969 - Louise L de Vilmorin, French poet/author (History d'aimer), dies at 67
1970 - Lillian Board, British athlete (b. 1948)
1971 - Robert Lowery, actor (Circus Boy, Pistols 'n' Petticoats), dies at 57
1972 - Harry Truman, 33rd US Pres (1945-53), dies in KC Mo at 88
1973 - Harold B Lee, US head of Mormon Church, dies at 74
1973 - Steven Geray, actor (French Line), dies at 69
1973 - William Haines, actor (Little Annie Rooney), dies of cancer at 73
1974 - Jack Benny, comedian (Jack Benny Show), dies at 80
1974 - Knudage Riisager, composer, dies at 77
1974 - Robert Levine Sanders, composer, dies at 68
1974 - Farid al-Atrash, Arab composer, singer, virtuoso oud player, and actor (b. 1915)
1976 - Philip A Heart, (Sen-D-Mich), dies at 64
1977 - Howard Hawks, director (Rio Lobo, Hatari!), dies at 81
1977 - Ivan Rezak, composer, dies at 53
1980 - Tony Smith, American sculptor (b. 1912)
1981 - Savithri, Indian actress (b. 1937)
1981 - Amber Reeves, feminist writer (b. 1887)
1983 - Violet Carson, British actress (b. 1898)
1985 - Dian Fossey, zoologist (Gorillas in the Mist), murdered at 53
1985 - Harold P. Warren, American movie director (d. 1928)
1986 - Elsa Lanchester, actress (Bride of Frankenstein), dies at 84
1988 - John Loder, actor (Sabotage, Java Head), dies at 90
1988 - Glenn McCarthy, American oil tycoon and businessman (b. 1907)
1989 - Lennox Berkeley, composer, dies at 86
1989 - Peggy Thorpe-Bates, actress (Alcatraz Island), dies
1989 - Doug Harvey, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1924)
1990 - Nancy Cruznan, accident victim/right-to-die case, dies at 33
1991 - Dehl Berti, actor (John Taylor-Guns of Paradise), dies at 70
1991 - Sam Cresson, dies at 73
1992 - Bert [Lambertus H] Voeten, Dutch poet (Antipodes), dies at 74
1992 - Constance Carpenter, actress (2 Worlds), dies of stroke at 87
1992 - John G Kemeny, US computer pioneer (BASIC), dies
1992 - Nikita Magaloff, Russian/Swiss pianist, dies at 80
1993 - Jeff Morrow, actor (Robe, Harbor Lights, Blood Legacy), dies at 80
1994 - Asta ER Elstak, Suriname/Neth welfare worker, dies at 74
1994 - Johannes J "Joop" Klant, Neth/South African economist/author, dies
1994 - Karl Schiller, minister of RFA Economics (1966-72), dies
1994 - Robert Emhardt, actor (Mac Cory-Another World), dies at 80
1994 - Sylvia Brandts Buys, actress (Hague's Post), dies at 85
1994 - Sylvia Koscina, Croatian/Italian actress (Hercules), dies at 61
1997 - John Hinde, photographer/circus promoter, dies at 81
1997 - John Whitley, air-Marshal, dies at 92
1997 - Cornelius Castoriadis, Greek philosopher and economist (b. 1922)
1999 - Curtis Mayfield, American musician (b. 1942)
1999 - Shankar Dayal Sharma, President of India (b. 1918)
2000 - Jason Robards, American actor (b. 1922)
2001 - Nigel Hawthorne, English actor (b. 1929)
2002 - Herb Ritts, American photographer (b. 1952)
2002 - Armand Zildjian, American cymbal manufacturer (b. 1921)
2004 - Sir Angus Ogilvy, British businessman, husband of Princess Alexandra of Kent (b. 1928)
2004 - Marianne Heiberg, Norwegian mediator (b. 1945)
2004 - Jonathan Drummond-Webb, South African pediatric heart surgeon (b. 1959)
2004 - Sigurd Køhn, Norwegian jazz musician, in 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake (b. 1959)
2004 - Reggie White, American football player (b. 1961)
2004 - Aki Sirkesalo, Finnish musician, in 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake (b. 1962)
2004 - Mieszko Talarczyk, Lead singer/Guitarist of grindcore band, Nasum, in 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake (b. 1974)
2004 - Troy Broadbridge, Australian rules footballer, in 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake (b. 1980)
2005 - Erich Topp, German submarine commander (b. 1914)
2005 - Muriel Costa-Greenspon, American mezzo-soprano (b. 1937)
2005 - Kerry Packer, Australian businessman (b. 1937)
2005 - Vincent Schiavelli, American actor (b. 1948)
2006 - Ivar Formo, Norwegian skier (b. 1951)
2006 - Gerald R Ford, 38th President of the United States, dies at 93
2007 - John A. Garraty, American biographer (b. 1920)
2007 - Stu Nahan, American Sportscaster (b. 1926)
2007 - Joe Dolan, Irish singer and entertainer (b. 1943)
2008 - Gösta Krantz, Swedish actor (b. 1925)
2009 - Felix Wurman, American cellist and composer (b. 1958)
2010 - Teena Marie, American singer and composer (b. 1956)
2010 - Edward Bhengu, South African activist (b. 1934)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 27, 2012, 07:28:30 AM

This Day in History for 27th December


Historical Events

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Naturalist Charles Darwin              Soviet Union Premier Joseph Stalin              Actress Mae West           
                                                 

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NHL all-time top scorer                       264th Pope John Paul II                       Singer Harry Connick Jr
 Wayne Gretzky                         

418 - [Etalius] begins his reign as Catholic Pope
537 - The Hagia Sophia is inaugurated by the Emperor Justinian
1437 - Albrecht II von Habsburg becomes king of Bohemia
1503 - Battle at Garigliano] Spanish army under G Cordoba beats France
1512 - The Spanish Crown issues the Laws of Burgos, governing the conduct of settlers with
            regards to native Indians in the New World.
1521 - "Zwickauer profeten" appear in Wittenberg
1657 - The Flushing Remonstrance is signed.
1679 - Dutch troops capture Madurees prince Trunudjojo in Java
1703 - England & Portugal sign Methuen-Asiento-trade agreement
1741 - Prussian forces took Olmutz, Czechoslovakia
1814 - Destruction of schooner Carolina, the last of Commodore Daniel Patterson's make-shift fleet
           that fought a series of delaying actions that contributed to Andrew Jackson's victory at the 
           Battle of New Orleans.
1825 - 1st public railroad using steam locomotive completed in England
1831 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin departs England for South America
1836 - Worst English avalanche kills 8 of 15 buried (Lewes Sussex)
1845 - Ether 1st used in childbirth in US, Jefferson, Ga
1850 - Hawaiian Fire Dept established
1862 - Battle of Chickasaw Bluffs, MS (Chickasaw Bayou)
1862 - Battle of Elizabethtown, KY
1867 - Ontario & Quebec legislatures hold 1st meeting
1871 - World's 1st cat show (Crystal Palace, London)
1884 - Netherlands recognizes King Leopold II's Congo Free State
1887 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Blue Carbuncle" (BG)
1892 - Foundation Stone of Cathedral of St John laid (NYC)
1892 - N C Biddle beats Livingston 4-0 in 1st black college football game
1897 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Victorias beat Ottawa Capitals, 15-2
1900 - Carrie Nation's 1st public smashing of a bar (Carey Hotel, Wichita KS)
1903 - "Sweet Adaline," a barbershop quartet favorite, is 1st sung
1904 - Duke of York Theatre opens in London (1st musical Peter Pan)
1904 - W B Yeats/Lady Gregory's "On Baile's Strand," premieres in Dublin
1905 - M A Noble scores 281 (369 mins, 21 fours) NSW v Victoria
1906 - 1st annual meeting of American Sociological Society, Providence, RI
1918 - The Great Poland Uprising against the Germans begins.
1919 - Red Sox owner Harry Frazee announces they will deal any player except Harry Hooper, Hooper
           is sent to the White Sox after 1920 season
1923 - Unsuccessful attempt on prince-regent Hirohito of Japan
1926 - Depot Square in Bronx renamed Botanical Square
1926 - Latkin Square in Bronx named for 1st US Jewish soldier to die in WW I
1927 - Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein II's "Show Boat," premieres in NYC
1927 - Philip Barry's "Paris Bound," premieres in NYC
1927 - Stalin's faction wins All-Union Congress in USSR, Trotsky expelled
1932 - Radio City Music Hall opens (NYC)
1934 - 1st youth hostel in US opens (Northfield, Mass)
1934 - Shah of Persia declares Persia now Iran
1934 - Vernon Duke & James Hanley's musical premieres in NYC
1937 - Bradman scores 246 SA v Queensland, 364 mins, 20 fours
1937 - German immigration officials with no explanation bar Juan Carlos Zabala (Arg), 1932 Olympic
           marathon champion, from entering Germany
1937 - Mae West performs Adam & Eve skit that gets her banned from NBC radio
1939 - 1st American skimobiles (North Conway, NH)
1939 - Between 20,000 & 40,000 die in magnitude 8 quake (Erzincam Turkey)
1939 - Earthquake in Turkey, about 50,000 die
1941 - Japan bombs Manila even though it was declared an "open city"
1941 - Siberia: Dmitri Sjostakovitsj completes his 7th Symphony
1942 - 1st Japanese women camp (Ambarawa) goes into use
1942 - NFL Pro Bowl: NFL All-Stars beats Washington 17-14
1942 - The Union of Pioneers of Yugoslavia is founded.
1943 - France transfers most of her powers in Lebanon to Lebanese government
1943 - German warship "Scharnhorst" sinks in Barents Sea
1943 - Montgomery discusses Overlord with Eisenhower & Bedell Smith
1944 - Greece: British premier Churchill flies back to London
1945 - Arthur Laurent's "Home of the Brave," premieres in NYC
1945 - International Monetary Fund established-World Bank founded
1945 - The World Bank was created with the signing of an agreement by 28 nations.
1947 - 1st "Howdy Doody Show," (Puppet Playhouse), telecast on NBC
1949 - Queen Juliana (Netherlands) grants sovereignty to Indonesia
1949 - United States of Indonesia gains independence from Netherlands
1951 - 40th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in Sydney (3-2)
1953 - Detroit Lions beat Cleveland Browns 17-16 in NFL championship game
1954 - "Saint of Bleecker Street" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 92 perfs
1954 - Gian Carlo Menotti's opera "Saint," premieres in NYC
1956 - 45th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in Adelaide (5-0)
1956 - Bill Sharman (Boston) ends NBA free throw streak of 55 games
1959 - Balt Colts beat NY Giants 31-16 in NFL championship game
1960 - France performs nuclear test
1961 - "Subways Are for Sleeping" opens at St James Theater NYC for 205 perfs
1961 - Belgium & Congo resume diplomatic relations
1961 - Styne/Comden/Green's musical "Subways are for Sleeping," premieres
1962 - 28th Heisman Trophy Award: Terry Baker, Oregon State (QB)
1964 - Cleveland Browns beat Balt Colts 27-0 in NFL championship game
1966 - "At the Drop of Another Hat" opens at Booth Theater NYC for 105 perfs
1968 - Apollo 8 returns to Earth
1968 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1970 - "Hello, Dolly!" closes at St James Theater NYC after 2844 performances
1972 - "Purlie" opens at Billy Rose Theater NYC for 14 performances
1972 - Belgium recognizes German DR
1972 - LA Kings start Islanders on 12 game losing streak
1972 - New North Korean constitution comes into effect
1973 - LA Dodgers announce night games will start at 7:30 instead of 8
1974 - 40th Heisman Trophy Award: Archie Griffin, Ohio State (RB)
1974 - Dear Abby show ends run on CBS radio after 11 years
1974 - FSLN seizes government hostages at a private Managua party
1974 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1975 - Explosion at Chasnala Colliery collapses drowning 350 (Dhanbad India)
1976 - Albania constitution goes into effect
1978 - King Juan Carlos ratifies Spain's 1st democratic constitution
1978 - Spain becomes a democracy after 40 years of dictatorship.
1979 - "Knots Landing," premieres on CBS-TV
1979 - Red Army beats NY Rangers 5-2 at Madison Square Garden
1979 - Soviet troops invade Afghanistan, Pres Hafizullah Amin overthrown
1980 - Calvin Murphy (Rockets) begins longest NBA free throw streak of 78
1981 - Lillee becomes the leading wicket-taker in Test Crickets with 310
1981 - Oiler Wayne Gretzky becomes fastest NHLer to get 100 pts (38th game)
1981 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1982 - Imran Khan 8-60 to bring innings victory v India at Karachi
1983 - Pope John Paul II pardons man who shot him (Mehmet Ali Agca)
1983 - Propane gas fire devastated 16 blocks of Buffalo
1984 - Padres' free agent pitcher Ed Whitson signs with NY Yankees
1985 - Terrorists kill 20 & wound 110 attacking El Al at Rome & Vienna airports, President Reagan
           blames Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi
1986 - "Les Miserables" opens at Kennedy Center, Wash DC
1986 - 10th Soap Opera Digest Poll Awards - Young & Restless wins
1987 - Steve Largent sets all-time NFL record for career catches when he catches his 752nd pass
1987 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1988 - Bulgaria stops jamming Radio Free Europe after more than 3 decades
1989 - Oregon begins taking bids on NBA games
1991 - "Carol Burnett Show" last airs on CBS-TV
1991 - Bengals hire Dave Shula as youngest NFL coach (32)
1991 - Chuck Knox retires as Seattle Seahawk coach
1992 - "3 From Brooklyn" closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 45 perfs
1992 - "Les Miserables" opens at Ostregaswerks, Copenhagen
1992 - "Tommy Tune Tonite! Song & Dance Act" opens at Gershwin NYC for 10 per
1992 - 13th United Negro College Fund raises $11,000,000
1992 - Harry Connick Jr is caught with 9mm gun in NY's JFK airport
1992 - Nancy Sheehan wins LPGA Wendy's 3-Tour Challenge Golf Tournament
1993 - "Candles, Snow, & Mistletoe" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 7 perfs
1993 - Dow-Jones hits record 3792.93
1995 - Boon completes his 21st Test Cricket century (110 v SL, MCG)
1996 - Carquest Bowl 7: Miami beats Virginia, 31-21
1996 - Taliban forces retake the strategic Bagram air base which solidifies their buffer zone around
           Kabul.
1997 - Protestant paramilitary leader Billy Wright is assassinated in Northern Ireland.
2001 - The People's Republic of China is granted permanent normal trade relations with the United
            States.
2002 - Two truck bombs kill 72 and wound 200 at the pro-Moscow headquarters of the Chechen
           government in Grozny, Chechnya.
2004 - Radiation from an explosion on the magnetar SGR 1806-20 reaches Earth. It is the brightest
           extrasolar event known to have been witnessed on the planet.
2007 - Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is assassinated by a suicide bomber.

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 27, 2012, 07:30:31 AM

This Day in History for 27th December


Famous Weddings

1993 - Actress Teri Garr (44) weds John O'Neil (42)
2006 - Supermodel Niki Taylor (31) weds NASCAR driver Burney Lamar (26) at The Grande Colonial
           Hotel in La Jolla, California

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 27, 2012, 07:31:28 AM

This Day in History for 27th December


Famous Divorces

2011 - "New Girl" actress Zooey Deschanel (31) divorces "Death Cab for Cutie" singer Ben Gibbard (35)
           due to irreconcilable differences

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 27, 2012, 07:40:32 AM

This Day in History for 27th December


Famous Birthdays

(http://i.historyorb.com/johannes-kepler.jpg)                (http://i.historyorb.com/louis-pasteur.jpg)                 (http://i.historyorb.com/marlene-dietrich.jpg)                 
Astronomer Johannes Kepler (1571)     Bacteriologist Louis Pasteur (1822)    Singer/Actress Marlene Dietrich (1901)           
                       

1390 - Anne de Mortimer, claimant to the English throne (d. 1411)
1555 - Johann Arndt, German Lutherian theologist
1571 - Johannes Kepler, Weil der Stadt, Germany, astronomer (planetary Motion), (d. 1630)
1645 - Giovanni Adb Viscardi, Swiss architect, baptized
1654 - Jean/Jacobus Bernouilli, Swiss mathematician
1683 - Conyers Middleton, English minister (d. 1750)
1709 - Pieter de Swart, Dutch architect (Royal Palace, Hague)
1715 - Philippe de Noailles, duc de Mouchy, French soldier (d. 1794)
1717 - Pope Pius VI (d. 1799)
1721 - Franciscus "French" Hemsterhuis, Frisian philosopher
1748 - William Marshall, composer
1752 - Johann Georg Anton Mederitsch-Gallus, composer
1755 - Antons Klemens Theodor, king of Saksen (1827-36)
1761 - Michael A Barclay de Tolly, Scot/Russ minister of War
1773 - George Cayley, England, found science of aerodynamics
1776 - Nikolay Kamensky, Russian general (d. 1811)
1796 - Mirza Ghalib, Indian poet (d. 1869)
1800 - John Goss, composer
1801 - Guillaume L Baud, Dutch minister of Colonies (1848-49)
1802 - Thomas Fearnley, Norway, landscape painter
1803 - John ACA van Nispen Sevenaer, Member of Dutch 2nd parliament (1848-75)
1814 - James Henry Carleton, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1873
1816 - Eliakim Parker Scammon, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1894
1822 - John Roberts, composer
1822 - Louis Pasteur, Dole, France, bacteriologist (pasturization), (d. 1895)
1825 - Reinhold Finsterbusch, composer
1829 - James Clay Rice, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1864
1831 - Lucius Fairchild, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1896
1832 - Pavel Tretyakov, Russian businessman and patron of art (d. 1897)
1836 - Henricus Oort, Dutch theologist (Leidse translation)
1845 - Augusto de Oliviera Machado, composer
1855 - Paul Ehrenreich, German etnologist/mythologist
1856 - Andre Gedalge, composer
1859 - William Henry Hadow, composer
1864 - René Georges Hermann-Paul, French artist (d. 1940)
1874 - Max Ettinger, composer
1879 - Robert Greig, Australia, actor (Horse Feathers)
1879 - Sydney Greenstreet, Sandwich England, actor (Maltese Falcon)
1883 - Cyrus S. Eaton, Canadian-American financier, industrialist and philanthropist (d. 1979)
1884 - Bernard van Dieren, composer
1888 - Thea von Harbou, German author and actress (d. 1954)
1890 - Maurice Schoemaker, composer
1892 - Feliks Roderyk Labunski, composer
1892 - Alfred Edwin McKay, Canadian World War One flying ace (d. 1917)
1895 - Sig Arno, Hamburg, Germany, actor (Holiday in Havana)
1896 - Arch Ward, sportswriter (proposed baseball's all-star game)
1896 - Carl Zuckmayer, German/Swiss/US playwright
1896 - Ewan Calague, economist/statistician (Social Security Board)
1896 - Louis Bromfield, Mansfield Ohio, writer (Early Autumn, Pulitzer-1926)
1897 - Iwan S Konew, Russ marshal/supreme commander pact of Warsaw
1899 - Paul Costello, US, double sculls (Olympic-gold-1920, 24, 28)
1900 - Hans Stuck, German race car driver (d. 1978)
1901 - Irene Handl, London England, actress (Riding High, Morgan)
1901 - Marlene Dietrich [Maria Losch], Berlin Germany, singer/actress (Blue Angel), (d. 1992)
1902 - Ferenc Szabo, composer
1906 - Ivan Brkanovic, composer
1906 - Ivan Mark Waller, mountaineer
1906 - Oscar Levant, Pittsburgh, actor (American in Paris, Dance of Life)
1907 - Emile de Strijker, Belgian philosopher
1907 - Jan Willem van Otterloo, Dutch composer
1907 - Nils-Eric Ringbom, composer
1907 - Willem Van Otterloo, Winterwijk Holland, conductor (Melbourne 1967-71)
1907 - Sebastian Haffner, German journalist and writer (d. 1999)
1907 - Conrad L. Raiford, Goodwill Ambassador (d. 2002)
1908 - Louis JHCA de Bourbon, Dutch writer/poet (Black Banners)
1909 - Johan[nes B] Schmitz, Dutch actor/reciter (Lucifer, MacBeth)
1910 - Jack Massey, groundsman
1910 - Neville Crump, racehorse trainer
1910 - Charles Olson, American poet (d. 1970)
1911 - Endre Szervanszky, composer [or Jan 1]
1914 - Giuseppe Berto, Italian writer (Heaven Sees Red)
1914 - Ivan Sutton, British concert promoter
1915 - Mary Kornman, Idaho Falls ID, actress (Queen of the Jungle)
1915 - William Howell Masters, sex author/physician
1915 - Gyula Zsengellér, Hungarian footballer (d. 1999)
1916 - Werner Baumbach, German bomber pilot (d. 1953)
1917 - Earl of Inchcape, English large landowner/industrialist (P&O)
1917 - Onni Palaste, Finnish writer
1918 - John Celardo, American comic strip artist
1920 - Bruce Hobbs, American jockey (d. 2005)
1922 - Larry Osborne, navigator air traffic controller/supply specialist
1924 - James A McClure, (Sen-R-Idaho)
1924 - Mokta Ould Daddah, president Mauritania (1961-78)
1924 - Wouter Eijkelemboom, Dutch architect (Holy-hospital, Vlaardingen)
1925 - Allan Blank, composer
1925 - Michel Piccoli, Paris France, actor (Topaz, Peril, May Fools)
1926 - Jerome Courtland, Knoxville Tn, actor (Tonka, Tharus)
1927 - Antony Gardner, British politician
1927 - Agnes Nixon, American television producer, director, and writer
1930 - Jacqueline Fontijn, Flemish composer
1930 - Meg Greenfield, US politician(?)
1930 - Wilfrid Sheed, England, writer (Boys of Winter, Hack)
1931 - Scotty Moore, guitarist (for Elvis)
1934 - Larissa Latynina, Ukraine, gymnist (Olympic-gold-1956, 60, 64)
1935 - Norma Rae Beatty Ashby, broadcaster/TV producer
1936 - Lee Salk, doctor (CBS TV)
1936 - Phil Sharpe, cricketer (England middle order batsman during 60's)
1939 - John Amos, Newark NJ, actor (Good Times, Coming to America)
1940 - Jerry Lambert, jockey (rode Native Diver)
1940 - Pete Brown, rocker
1941 - Leslie Maguire, rocker (Gerry & Pacemakers-Ferry Crossed the Mersey)
1941 - Michael Pinder, rocker (Moody Blues-Nights in White Satin)
1942 - Byron Browne, baseball player
1942 - Charmian Carr, American actress
1943 - Cokie Roberts, newscaster (ABC-TV)
1943 - Dave Rowberry, Newcastle, rocker (Animals)
1943 - Joan Manuel Serrat, Spanish musician
1944 - Mick Jones, rock guitarist (Foreigner-Want to Know What Love is)
1944 - Tracy Nelson, Madison Wisconsin, American singer
1946 - Janet Street-Porter, British TV personality (Youth)
1947 - Peter Criss, rocker (Kiss-Beth)
1947 - Bill Eadie, professional wrestler known as "Ax" of Demolition
1947 - Janet Perry, American soprano
1947 - Willy Polleunis, Belgian athlete
1948 - Larry Byrom, rocker (Steppenwolf-Hour of the World)
1948 - Tovah Feldshuh, NYC, actress (Idolmaker, Terror out of the Sky)
1948 - Gérard Depardieu, French actor
1950 - Jack van Gelder, Dutch TV host
1950 - Terry Bozzio, rock drummer (Missing Persons-Hello I Love You)
1950 - Roberto Bettega, Italian footballer
1951 - William Waldorf 4th viscount Astor/English large landowner
1951 - Ernesto Zedillo, President of Mexico
1952 - Karla Bonoff, rock singer (New World, Restless Nights)
1952 - Tovah Feldshuh, American actress
1952 - Jay Hill, Canadian politician
1953 - Arthur Kent, newscaster [Scud Stud], (NBC-Gulf War coverage)
1953 - Kevin Wright, cricketer (Australian wicket-keeper 1979)
1955 - Barbara Olson, American political commentator (d. 2001)
1955 - Brad Murphey, Australian racing driver
1956 - Doina Melinte, Romanian running star (world record 1500 m/mile indoor)
1957 - Connie Chillemi, Eglin AFB FL, golfer (1994 Standard Register-13th)
1957 - James Sanford, US runner (world record 50m indoor)
1958 - Steffen Mensching, writer
1958 - Steven Glen Jones, Artesia NM, PGA golfer (1988 AT&T Pebble Beach)
1959 - Andre Tippett, NFL linebacker (New England Patriots)
1959 - Mary Holland, San Diego California, WPVA volleyballer
1959 - Gerina Dunwich, American author
1960 - Maryam D'Abo, London, actress (Living Daylights, Xtro, Until Sept)
1960 - Terry Price, Rockhampton QLD, Australasia golfer
1960 - Donald Nally, American choral conductor
1961 - Caroline Gowan, Greenville SC, LPGA golfer (SC Women's Amat-1981, 83)
1962 - Barbara Crampton, Levittown NY, actr (Body Double, Young & Restless)
1962 - Sherri Steinhauer, Madison WI, LPGA golfer (1992 du Maurier Ltd)
1962 - Timothy Hacker, Milwaukee Wisconsin, 10k runner
1962 - Mark Few, American basketball coach
1962 - Bill Self, American basketball coach
1963 - Dana Chladek, Decin Czech, US slalom Kayak (Olympics-br/silver-92, 96)
1963 - Jim Leyritz, Lakewood OH, catcher (NY Yankees)
1963 - Mark Pike, NFL defensive end (Buffalo Bills)
1963 - Gaspar Noé, Argentinian-born director
1964 - David Tikolo, Kenyan cricket batsman (1996 World Cup)
1964 - Randy Kirk, NFL outside linebacker (AZ Cardinals, SF 49ers)
1964 - Steve Wallace, NFL tackle (SF 49ers, KC Chiefs)
1964 - Ian Gomez, American actor
1965 - Gamini Wickremasinghe, cricketer (Sri Lanka wicket-keeper)
1965 - Salman Khan, Indian actor
1965 - Chris Mainwaring, Australian rules footballer (d. 2007)
1966 - Fabian Núñez, American politician
1966 - Wendy Coakley-Thompson, American writer
1966 - Eva LaRue, American actress
1966 - Bill Goldberg, American football player and professional wrestler
1967 - Niels Meijer, Dutch rock keyboardist (Bob Color)
1968 - Dean Palmer, Tallahassee FL, infielder (Texas Rangers)
1969 - Chris Humbert, Modesto California, water polo 2m offense (Olympics-96)
1969 - Suzanne Paxton, Balt Md, fencer-foil (Olympics-96)
1969 - Jean-Christophe Boullion, French race car driver
1969 - Chyna, American professional wrestler
1969 - Sarah Vowell, American author and journalist
1970 - Frank Messmer, WLAF defensive end (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1970 - Lorenzo Neal, NFL fullback (NO Saints, NY Jets)
1970 - Mike Salmon, NFL/WLAF safety (Houston Oilers, Rhein Fire, SF 49ers)
1970 - Steve Hoyem, WLAF offensive tackle (Rhein Fire)
1971 - Bryan Smolinski, Toledo OH, NHL forward (Team USA, Pitts Penguins)
1971 - James Stewart, NFL running back (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1971 - Duncan Ferguson, Scottish footballer
1972 - Charles Way, NFL fullback (NY Giants)
1972 - Dewayne Washington, NFL cornerback (Minnesota Vikings)
1972 - Thomas Wilson Brown, actor (Jason-Knots Landing)
1972 - Matt Slocum, American musician (Sixpence None the Richer)
1973 - Bill Clay, Yokosuka Japan, US sprint cyclist (Olympics-96)
1973 - Wilson Cruz, actor (My So Called Life, Ally McBeal)
1973 - Kristoffer Zegers, Dutch composer
1973 - Dee Ferris, British painter
1974 - Masi Oka, Japanese-American actor
1974 - Jay Pandolfo, American ice hockey player
1975 - Heather O'Rourke, San Diego California, actress (Happy Days, Poltergeist)
1975 - Patrick Paauwe, Dutch soccer player (PSV, Graafschap)
1976 - Fernando Pisani, Canadian/Italian ice hockey player
1976 - Aaron Stanford, American actor
1977 - Kate Nelson, Evanston Ill, rhythmic gymnast (Olympics-96)
1977 - Jacqueline Pillon, Canadian actress
1979 - David Dunn, English footballer
1979 - Carson Palmer, American football player
1980 - Claudio Castagnoli, Swiss wrestler
1980 - Cas Haley, American singer and guitarist
1981 - Emilie de Ravin, Australian actress
1981 - Javine, British singer
1982 - James Mead, American guitarist (Kutless)
1982 - Terji Skibenæs, Faroese guitarist, (Týr)
1983 - Cole Hamels, American baseball player
1984 - Gilles Simon, French tennis player
1984 - Pleasure P,American R&B Singer. Former member of Pretty Ricky (band)
1985 - Logan Bailly, Belgian football goalkeeper
1985 - Paul Stastny, Canadian-American ice hockey player
1988 - Rick Porcello, American baseball player
1990 - Luis Trujillo, Peruvian Football Player

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 27, 2012, 07:42:36 AM

This Day in History for 27th December


Famous Deaths

418 - Zosimus, Greek Pope (417-8), dies
975 - Balderik, bishop of Utrecht (918-75), dies
1065 - Ferdinand I, the Great, king of Castile, dies
1076 - Prince Svyatoslav II of Kiev (b. 1027)
1381 - Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March, English politician
1548 - Francesco Spiera, Italian Protestant jurist (b. 1502)
1590 - Emmanuel-Philibert of Lalaing, marquis of Renty, dies at 33
1595 - Pietro Pontio, composer, dies at 63
1603 - Thomas Cartwright, English Presbyterian publicist, dies at about 68
1631 - John Pijnas, Dutch painter, buried at about 47
1641 - Francois van d'Aerssen, ruler of Sommelsdijk/diplomat, dies at 69
1707 - Jean Mabillon, French palaeograopher and diplomat (b. 1632)
1737 - William Bowyer, English printer (b. 1663)
1743 - Hyacinthe Rigaud, French painter (b. 1659)
1771 - Henri Pitot, French engineer (b. 1695)
1782 - Henry Home, Lord Kames, Scottish philosopher (b. 1697)
1800 - Hugh Blair, Scottish preacher and man of letters (b. 1718)
1805 - Belle van Zuylen, Neth/Swiss writer (Trois Femmes), dies at 65
1812 - Shneur Zalman of Liadi, Lithuanian rabbi and founder of Chabad Hasidism (b. 1745)
1812 - Joanna Southcott, an English self-described religious prophetess.
1834 - Charles Lamb, English essayist (b. 1775)
1836 - Stephen Fuller Austin, founder of state of Texas, dies at 43
1858 - Alexandre Pierre Francois Boely, composer, dies at 73
1877 - Nikolai A Nekrasov, Russian poet (Metshty into Zvuki), dies at 56
1880 - Alessandro Nini, composer, dies at 75
1896 - John Brown, British manufacturer (b. 1816)
1900 - William G Armstrong, of Cragside, Brit const (hydr crane), dies at 90
1914 - Charles Martin Hall, American chemist and inventor (b. 1863)
1916 - Nikolay Feopemptovich Solov'yov, composer, dies at 70
1919 - Achilles Alferaki, composer, dies at 73
1919 - Theodoor H de Meester, Dutch lib premier (1905-08), dies at 68
1924 - William Archer, Scottish critic/playwright (Green Goddess), dies at 68
1925 - Louis Dosfel, Flemish lawyer/literary (Assault!), dies at 44
1925 - Sergei Yesenin, Russian poet (b. 1895)
1930 - William Courtleigh, actor (Madame X, Eyes of Youth), dies at 63
1931 - Peter Christian Lutkin, composer, dies at 73
1931 - Walter Courvoisier, composer, dies at 56
1936 - Hans von Seeckt, German Gen/advisor of Chiang Kai-shek, dies at 70
1938 - Emile Vandervelde, President (1900–1918) of the International Socialist Bureau and Minister of 3 Belgian governments dies at 72
1938 - O Mandelstam, writer, dies
1938 - Calvin Bridges, American geneticist (b. 1889)
1944 - Amy Marcy Cheney Beach, composer, dies at 77
1950 - Max Beckmann, German painter/graphic artist, dies at 66
1952 - Henri G Winkelman, Dutch supreme commander army/navy 1940, dies at 76
1952 - Patrick Joseph Hartigan, Australian Roman Catholic priest (b. 1878)
1953 - Julian Tuwim, Polish poet (b. 1894)
1955 - Alfred Francis Blakeney Carpenter, English soldier (b. 1881)
1956 - Lambert McKenna, Irish editor and lexicographer. (b. 1870)
1957 - Alan Bridge, actor (Hail the Conquering Hero), dies at 66
1959 - Alfonso Reyes, Mexican poet/historian/diplomat, dies at 70
1965 - Edgar Ende, German painter (b. 1901)
1966 - Guillermo Stábile, Argentine footballer (b. 1906)
1972 - Lester B Pearson (L), 14th Canadian PM (Nobel 1957), dies at 75
1974 - Amy Vanderbilt, US author (Complete book of etiquette), dies at 66
1974 - Raymond Glenn, actor (Raisin in the Sun, Carmen Jones), dies at 76
1978 - Bob de Lange, Dutch actor/director (Daniel), dies at 62
1978 - Chris Bell, rock guitarist (Big Star), dies at 27 in car crash
1978 - Houari Boumédienne, President of Algeria (b. 1932)
1979 - Hafizullah Amin, president of Afghanistan (1979), murdered
1981 - Hoagy Carmichael, US actor/songwriter (Stardust), dies at 82
1982 - John Leonard Swigert Jr, astronaut (Apollo 13), dies of cancer at 51
1983 - Walter Scott, rocker, dies
1985 - Dian Fossey, US naturalist (Gorillas in Mist), found dead in Rwanda
1986 - Lars-Eric Vilner Larsson, composer, dies at 78
1987 - Priscilla Dean, actress (Outside the Law), dies of injuries at 91
1987 - Rewi Alley, NZ author, pro Chinese communist, dies at 90 in Beijing
1987 - Geoffrey D Lloyd, Chairman of the guild of British Newspaper editors (b. 1933)
1988 - Fox Harris, actor (Alienator, Warlords, Sid & Nancy), dies
1988 - Hall Ashby, US director (Shampoo, 8 Million Ways to Die), dies at 59
1991 - Edward M Love, choreographer/dancer, dies of AIDS at 43
1991 - John Morgan Evans, actor, dies after lengthy illness at 49
1991 - W Hudson, US "strongest man to the world" (540 kg), dies
1992 - Cardew "the Cad" [Douglas] Robinson, Engl comedian (Alfie), dies at 75
1992 - Jan Peeters, Dutch watercolorist/monument artist, dies
1992 - Kay Boyle, American writer (b. 1902)
1993 - Youssef Sebti, Algerian scholar/poet, murdered at 50
1994 - Hans Berghuis, author/poet (Kleitabletten), dies at 70
1994 - Karl AF Schiller, West German economist/SPD-minister, dies at 83
1994 - Peter Barker Howard May, cricket (4537 runs-Eng 1951-61), dies at 64
1994 - Sadi de Gorter, Dutch author/diplomat (Abscess), dies at 82
1994 - J. B. L. Reyes, Filipino jurist (b. 1902)
1995 - Jeremy John Beadle, writer/broadcaster, dies at 39
1995 - Peter Refn, Danish journalist/director (Violets are Blue), dies at 54
1995 - Shura Cherkassky, pianist, dies at 86
1997 - Brendan Gill, journalist, dies at 83
1997 - Dorothy Stroud, garden historian, dies at 87
1997 - Ewart G Abner Jr, president (Motown Records), dies at 74
1997 - Tom Hudson, artist/teacher, dies at 75
1997 - Billy Wright, Irish Protestant paramilitary leader (b. 1960)
2002 - George Roy Hill, American film director (b. 1922)
2003 - Alan Bates, English actor (b. 1934)
2003 - Iván Calderón, Puerto Rican baseball player (b. 1962)
2004 - Hank Garland, American musician (b. 1930)
2005 - William Doody, Canadian politician (b. 1931)
2007 - Benazir Bhutto, former Prime Minister of Pakistan (assassinated) (b. 1953)
2007 - Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Polish film director (b. 1922)
2007 - Jaan Kross, Estonian writer (b. 1920)
2008 - Delaney Bramlett, American musician (b. 1939)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 28, 2012, 07:43:12 AM

This Day in History for 28th December


Historical Events

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Playwright George Bernard Shaw             Jazz Trumpeter Louis Armstrong                       
                                                 

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Playwright Tennessee Williams               Country singer Tammy Wynette

418 - St Boniface I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
801 - Louis the Vrome occupies Barcelona
1065 - Westminister Abbey consecrated in London
1308 - The reign of Emperor Hanazono, emperor of Japan, begins.
1614 - Sperm whale beached at Noordwijk
1732 - 1st known ad for "Poor Richard's Almanack" (Pennsylvania Gazette)
1768 - King Taksin was coronation achieved through conquest as a king of Thailand and established
           Thonburi as a capital.
1816 - American Colonization Society organizes
1821 - Naples: Gioacchini Rossini moves to Bologna
1828 - 6.8 earthquake strikes Echigo Japan, 30,000 killed
1832 - John Calhoun becomes 1st VP to resign (differences with Pres Jackson)
1836 - Spain recognizes independence of Mexico
1846 - Iowa becomes 29th state
1849 - M Jolly-Bellin discovers dry-cleaning, he accidentally upset lamp containing turpentine & oil on his clothing & sees cleaning effect
1850 - Rangoon Burma, destroyed by fire
1864 - Battle of Egypt Station, MS
1867 - United States claims Midway Island, the first territory annexed outside Continental limits.
1869 - William Finley Semple of Mount Vernon, Ohio, patents chewing gum
1877 - John Stevens, applies for a patent for his flour rolling mill
1878 - Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Quod apostolici muneris (socialism)
1879 - North British Railway's train falls as Firth bridge collapses (Scot)
1887 - Sir John Layton Jarvis, 1st British race horse trainer knighted
1893 - French lieutenant Boiteux annexes Tumbuktu
1895 - Film makers the Lumiere brothers, hold the first commercial film screening at Salon Indien du Grand Café, Paris
1897 - Edmond Rostand's "Cyrano de Bergerac," premieres in Paris
1902 - 1st indoor pro football game, Syracuse beats Phila 6-0 (Madison Square Garden, NYC)
1902 - Trans-Pacific cable links Hawaii to US
1903 - Clyde Fitch's "Glad of It," premieres in NYC
1904 - 1st daily wireless weather forecasts published (London)
1905 - Intercollegiate Athletic Association of US founded (becomes NCAA in 1910)
1905 - NSW all out for 805 vs Victoria, win by innings & 253
1906 - Ecuador adopts its constitution
1908 - Earthquake strikes Messina, Italy (nearly 80,000 died)
1910 - Opera "Konigskinder" is produced (NYC)
1912 - National Council of Young Israel convenes
1912 - SF Municipal Railway starts operation at Geary St (MUNI)
1912 - The first municipally owned streetcars take to the streets in San Francisco, California.
1915 - SF City Hall dedicated by Mayor James Rolph
1923 - George Bernard Shaw's "St Joan," premieres in NYC
1925 - George/Ira Gershwin's musical "Tip-Toes," premieres in NYC
1926 - Arthur Mailey takes 4-362 off 64 overs (no maidens) NSW v Vic
1926 - Imperial Airways begins England-India mail & passenger service
1926 - Ponsford scores 352 & Ryder 295 against NSW
1926 - Victoria all out for 1107 against NSW at the MCG Crowd 22,348
1927 - George Kaufman & Moss Hart's "Royal Family," premieres in NYC
1928 - Last recording of Ma Rainey, "Mother of the Blues," made
1928 - Louis Armstrong makes 78 recording of "West End blues"
1931 - Lin-Sen succeeds Chiang Kai-shek as president of Nanjing-China
1935 - W P A Federal Art Project Gallery opens in NYC
1935 - Pravda publishes a letter by Pavel Postyshev, who revives New Year tree tradition in the Soviet
           Union.
1937 - Fascist Octavian Goga becomes PM of Romania/begins spread of Judaism
1938 - Paul Gibb scores 106 on Test Cricket debut v South Africa
1939 - First flight of the Consolidated XB-24 Liberator bomber prototype.
1940 - Arthur Morris scores 111 in 2nd innings of 1st game after 148
1941 - State of siege goes into effect in Bohemia/Moravia
1942 - Oberkommando Wehrmacht orders strategist flight out of Kaukasus
1942 - Robert Sullivan becomes 1st pilot to fly Atlantic 100 times
1943 - All inhabitants of Kalmukkie deported, about 70,000 killed
1944 - Eisenhower & Montgomery meet in Hasselt Belgium
1944 - Former Wash 3rd baseman Buddy Lewis wins Distinguished Flying Cross
1944 - Leonard Bernstein's musical "On the Town," premieres in NYC
1945 - Congress officially recognizes "Pledge of Allegiance"
1947 - Chic Cards beat Philadelphia Eagles 28-21 in NFL championship game
1948 - IDF crosses Egyptian border
1948 - Middel-Java as a whole in Dutch hands
1948 - US announced a study to launch an Earth satellite
1948 - The DC-3 airliner NC16002 disappears 50 miles south of Miami, Florida.
1949 - 20th Century Fox announces it would produce TV programs
1950 - Chinese troops cross 38th Parallel, into South Korea
1950 - The Peak District becomes the United Kingdom's first National Park.
1952 - Detroit Lions beat Cleveland Browns 17-7 in NFL championship game
1953 - WLBT TV channel 3 in Jackson, MS (NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 - 43rd Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Sydney (3-2)
1954 - KEPR TV channel 19 in Pasco-Kennewick-Richl, WA (CBS) 1st broadcast
1955 - 44th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in New York (5-0)
1956 - Miss Frances [Horwich], last Ding Dong School on NBC-TV
1957 - CBS states it won't broadcast baseball where minor league games are on
1957 - USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
1958 - Chipmunks (Alvin, Simon & Theodore with David Seville) hit #1
1958 - What might be called greatest NFL game, Colts beat Giants 23-17
1961 - Tennessee Williams' "Night of the Iguana," premieres in NYC
1962 - UN troops occupies Elizabethstad Katanga
1963 - "Double Dublin" closes at Little Theater NYC after 4 performances
1963 - "Jennie" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 82 performances
1963 - Merle Haggard 1st appearance on country chart with "Sing a Sad Song"
1964 - Premier of Dmitri Sjostakovitch' Stefan Rasin
1964 - Principal filming of "Dr Zhivago," begins
1966 - 13 die in a train crash in Everett Mass
1966 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1967 - KTSB (now KSNT) TV channel 27 in Topeka, KS (NBC) begins broadcasting
1967 - Muriel Siebert is 1st women to own a seat on NY Stock Exchange
1968 - 100,000 attend Miami Pop Festival
1968 - 57th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Adelaide (4-1)
1968 - Beatles' "Beatles-White Album," goes #1 & stays #1 for 9 weeks
1968 - Israeli assault on Beirut Airport
1968 - KVOF (KUDO, now KWBB) TV channel 38 in SF, CA (IND) 1st broadcast
1969 - Neil Simon's "Last of the Red Hot Lovers," premieres in NYC
1969 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1969 - Dallas Cowboy kicker Mike Clark, attempting an on-side kick against Cleveland, missed the ball
1970 - "Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen" opens at Majestic NYC for 19 perfs
1970 - Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) adopts constitution
1971 - Hasj falls from now on under(neath) the Opiumwet
1972 - Kim Il-song, becomes president of North Korea
1972 - Martin Bormanns skeleton found in Berlin (Hitlers deputy)
1972 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1973 - Akron Ohio's Chamber of Commerce terminates itself from Soap Box Derby
1973 - Alexander Solzhenitsyn publishes "Gulag Archipelag"
1973 - Comet Kohoutek at perihelion
1974 - 6.3 earthquake strikes Pakistan: 5200 killed
1974 - Senegalese marxist group Reenu-Rew founds the political movement And-Jëf at a clandestine
           congress.
1975 - "Hail Mary Pass"-Cowboys beat Vikings 17-14 on last second pass
1975 - 1st broadcast of radio Hilversum IV (classic music)
1975 - Earthquake in Pakistan, 4,000 die
1975 - Gary Cosier scores 109 v West Indies at MCG on Test Cricket debut
1975 - Red Army beats NY Rangers 7-3 at Madison Square Garden
1976 - "Fiddler on the Roof" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 167 perfs
1976 - Genie Francis joind "General Hospital" as Laura Vining
1976 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1976 - Winnie Mandela banished in South Africa
1978 - 30th hat trick in Islander history (Mike Bossy)
1980 - Mexico terminated fishing agreements with US
1981 - Cleveland Metroparks Administrative offices move from downtown to Zoo
1981 - Warner-Elektra-Atlantic raises price of 45 records from $1.68 to $1.98
1981 - The first American test-tube baby, Elizabeth Jordan Carr, is born in Norfolk, Virginia.
1983 - 72nd Davis Cup: Australia beats Sweden in Melbourne (3-2)
1983 - Gavaskar achieves his 30th century, beating Bradman's 29
1983 - US say they will leave UNESCO on Dec 31, 1984
1983 - Warren Cromartie signs 3 year $2.5M contract with Yomiuri Giants
1984 - Creosote bush determined to be 11,700 years old
1984 - Rajiv Gandhi's Congress party wins election in India
1984 - TV soap "Edge of Night" ends 28 year run
1984 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1985 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1985 - Warring Lebanese Moslem & Christian leaders sign peace agreement
1986 - Pat Davis, ranked 412th among world tennis competitors wins Davis Cup
1987 - In Arkansas R Gene Simmons kills 2, later bodies of 14 of his relatives are found at his home
           near Dover Ark
1988 - John Tarrant, 1st Aust born Zen teacher, receives Dharma Transmission
1988 - US 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals affirms Yonkers is guilty of racism
1988 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1989 - Alexander Dubcek elected parliament chairman of Czech
1989 - Earthquake at Newcastle Australia, 11 die
1990 - 2 die in a NYC subway accident
1990 - Blockbuster Bowl 1: Florida State beats Penn State, 24-17
1991 - 8 are crushed to death at a RAP basketball game at City College, NYC
1991 - Blockbuster Bowl 2: Alabama beats Colorado, 30-25
1991 - Irene the Icon of Greek Orthodox church returns after being stolen
1991 - Ninibeth Beatriz Leal Jiminez, 20, of Venez, crowned 41st Miss World
1991 - Ted Turner is named Time Magazine Man of Year
1993 - Dow-Jones hits record 3793.49
1993 - Dutch Antilles government of Yandi Paula forms
1993 - John Maclean passes Kirk Muller as all-time NJ Devils scorer (521 pts)
1994 - Boon completes his 20th Test Cricket century (131 v England, MCG)
1994 - Tammy Wynette admitted to the hospital with bile duct infection
1996 - India all out for 66 at Durban after making 100 in cricket 1st inning
1997 - Sting beats Hollywood Hogan for WCW Championship
1999 - Saparmurat Niyazov is proclaimed President for Life in Turkmenistan.
2000 - U.S. retail giant Montgomery Ward announces it is going out of business after 128 years.
2005 - A U.S. immigration judge orders John Demjanjuk deported to Ukraine for crimes against
           humanity committed during World War II.
2007 - Nepal declared a federal democratic Republic by interim parliament, abolishing the monarchy.
2008 - The Detroit Lions finished the season 0-16 with a 31-21 lost to the Green Bay Packers The
           first time in National Football League history that a team went winless in a 16-game season.
2009 - 43 people die in a suicide bombing in Karachi, Pakistan, where Shia Muslims were observing
           the Day of Ashura.

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 28, 2012, 07:45:21 AM

This Day in History for 28th December


Famous Weddings

1936 - British best-selling romantic author Barbara Cartland (35) marries 2nd husband Hugh
            McCorquodale
1957 - "Rebel Without A Cause" actress Natalie Wood (19) weds actor Robert Wagner (27) at
            Scottsdale United Methodist Church in Scottsdale, Arizona
1994 - Billy Ray Cyrus (Achy Breaky Heart) weds Leticia Finley
2008 - "Cheers" actor Woody Harrelson (47) weds longtime girlfriend Laura Louie (43) in Maui Island
2010 - "Thor" actor Chris Hemsworth (27) weds spanish actress Elsa Pataky (34) in Indonesia
2011 - "Stargate SG-1" actor Christopher Judge (47) weds actress and model Gianna Patton (33)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 28, 2012, 07:46:20 AM

This Day in History for 28th December


Famous Divorces

2010 - Film and record company executive Justin Siegel (23) divorces actress-singer Emmy Rossum
           due to irreconcilable differences after a year-and-a-half of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 28, 2012, 07:54:19 AM

This Day in History for 28th December


Famous Birthdays

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US President Woodrow Wilson (1856)     Actress Maggie Smith (1934)                Actor Denzel Washington (1954)                         
 

1164 - Emperor Rokujō of Japan (d. 1176)
1484 - Joachim Vadianus, [von Watt], Swiss physician/mayor of Sankt Gallen
1522 - Margaret of Austria, regent of the Netherlands (d. 1583)
1619 - Antoine Furetière, French writer (d. 1688)
1631 - Ludolf Backhuysen, Dutch seascape painter/cartoonist
1635 - Princess Elizabeth of England (d. 1650)
1655 - Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, First Lord of the British Admiralty (d. 1698)
1665 - George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, British general (d. 1716)
1694 - Ceslav Vanura, composer
1731 - Christian Cannabich, German composer/royal chaplain master
1738 - Thaddaus Ferdinand Lipowsky, composer
1751 - Josef Blazej Smrcek, composer
1753 - Johan Wikmanson, composer
1763 - John Molson, founded Montreal brewery (Molsons)
1778 - Franciszek Ksawery Drucki-Lubecki, Polish politician (d. 1846)
1783 - Robert Gallenberg, composer
1787 - Hermanus J Abbring, Dutch writer/engineer on Curacao
1801 - James Barnes, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1869
1805 - Tomas Genoves y Lapetra, composer
1812 - Julius Reitz, composer
1822 - William Booth Taliaferro, Brig Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1898
1823 - Thomas Alexander Scott, Asst Secy War (Union), died in 1881
1826 - Conrad Busken Huet, Dutch vicar/literary (Country of Rubens)
1827 - Robert Latimer McCook, volunteers Brigadier General (Union), died in 1862
1828 - Karl L Kahlbaum, German psychiatrist (katatonie)
1833 - Charles Miller Shelley, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1907
1835 - Archibald Geikie, British geologist
1837 - Benjamin Johnson Lang, composer
1842 - Calixa Lavallee, composer
1845 - Homer Newton Bartlett, composer
1849 - Herbert von Bismarck, German politician/son of Otto of Bismarck
1856 - [Thomas] Woodrow Wilson, Staunton Va, (28 pres-D-1912-21, Nobel 1919)
1859 - Gerard Brucken Fock, composer
1859 - John W Fortescue, military historian
1860 - Alexander von Fielitz, composer
1865 - Félix E Vallotton, Switz/French painter/writer (Chaste Suzanna)
1866 - Szymon Askenazy, Polish historian and diplomat (d. 1935)
1868 - Marie van Regteren Altena, Dutch painter (Amsterdam's Joffers)
1880 - Christian DFL Leipoldt, South african physician/writer/poet
1882 - Arthur Eddington, England, astrophysicist/cosmologist/mathematician
1883 - A Wolfenstein, writer
1884 - Joseph Pholien, Belgian premier (1950-52)/communist hunter
1887 - Charles Dingle
1888 - Gabriel von Wayditch, composer
1889 - Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
1890 - Frank Butler, Oxford England, actor/sreenwriter (Road to Bali, China)
1894 - Andre de Meulemeester, Belgian WW I pilot (Eagle of Flanders)
1894 - Ed Healey, NFL tackle (Rock Island Independents, Chicago Bears)
1896 - Roger Huntington Sessions, Brooklyn NY, composer (Black Masks)
1898 - Carl-Gustaf Rossby, Swedish meteorologist (d. 1957)
1898 - Shigematsu Sakaibara, Japanese admiral (d. 1947)
1899 - Eugeniusz Bodo, Polish actor (d. 1943)
1902 - Mortimer J Adler, NYC, author (Encyclopedia Brittanica)
1902 - Shen Congwen, writer
1903 - John von Neumann, mathematician/astronomer (Bocher Award 1938)
1903 - Earl Hines, American musician (d. 1983)
1904 - Clabon W Allen, Australian/British astronomer
1904 - Sergei Yutkevich, St Petersburg Russia, director (Otello, Banya)
1905 - Cliff Arquette, Toledo Oh, comedian (Charlie Weaver)
1905 - Earl "Fatha" Hines, Duquesne Pa, jazz pianist (Deep Forest)
1905 - Gajapatairaj Vijaya Ananda the Rajkumar of Vizianagram (Ind)
1907 - Roman Palester, Polish composer: The Weichsel
1908 - Lew Ayres, Minn, actor (All Quiet on Western Front, Dr Kildare)
1909 - Billy Williams, Waco Tx, singer (Your Show of Shows)
1909 - Nikola J Vaptsarov, Bulgaria poet (Subrani Sutsjinenija)
1910 - John Kerr, NZ, cricketer (opening batsman in 1930s)
1911 - Phani Majumdar, film maker
1911 - Sam Levenson, NYC, humorist (Sam Levenson Show, Masquerade Party)
1913 - Lou Jacobi, Toronto Ontario, comedian (Dean Martin Show, Melba)
1914 - Bernard Youens, British actor (Coronation Street)
1914 - Lee Bowman, Cincinnati Ohio, actor (Ellery Queen, Miami Undercover)
1915 - Roebuck "Pops" Staples, US gospel/singer (Staple Singers)
1916 - Noel Johnson, British actor (Frenzy, Frightmare, Royal Flash)
1917 - Ellis Clarke, president Trinidad & Tobago (1976-87)
1919 - Inocenti Carreno, composer
1920 - Steve Van Buren, NFL halfback (Philadelphia Eagles), (d. 2012)
1921 - Eddy Doorenbos, Dutch vocalist/pianist/guitarist
1921 - Johnny Otis, R&B singer
1922 - Nyron Sultan Asgarali, cricketer (West Indian opening bat 1957)
1922 - Stan Lee, comics artist/creator (Spiderman, Incredible Hulk)
1923 - Andrew Duggan, actor (Secret War of Harry Frigg, Winds of War)
1924 - Johnny Otis, [Veliotes], composer (Every Beat of My Heart)
1924 - Rod Serling, Syracuse NY, writer/host (Twilight Zone, Night Gallery)
1924 - Milton Obote, President of Uganda (d. 2005)
1925 - Bill [William] Westwood, British bishop of Peterborough
1925 - Hildegard Knef, Ulm Germany, actress (Touch of Class, Mozambique), (d. 2002)
1926 - Donald Carr, cricketer (England player in 50's, later MCC honcho)
1927 - Anne Legendre Armstrong, ambassador (to UK)
1927 - Martin Milner, Detroit Mich, actor (Route 66, Adam 12, Life of Riley)
1927 - Simon Raven, English playwright/critic (Alms for Oblivion)
1928 - Kamillo Lendvay, composer
1928 - Moe Koffman, Canadian musician (d. 2001)
1929 - Maarten Schmidt, Neth/US astronomer (quasars)
1929 - Owen Bieber, United Auto Workers president
1929 - Terry Sawchuk, NHL goaltender (Redwings, Bruins, Maple Leaf, Rangers)
1931 - Georg "Org" Marais, South African economist/underminister of Finance
1931 - Guy Debord, situationist
1931 - John de Mol, Dutch vocalist/composer/producer
1932 - Clem Schouwenaars, Flemish poet/writer
1932 - Dorsey Burnette, Memphis, rocker (Tall Oak Tree, Hey Little One)
1932 - Manuel Puig, Argentina, writer (Blood of Requited Love)
1932 - Roy Hattersley, British journalist/Labour-parliament leader
1932 - Dhirubhai Ambani, Indian businessman (d. 2002)
1932 - Nichelle Nichols, American actress and singer
1933 - Jack Perkins, Cleve Ohio, newscaster (Prime Time Sunday, NBC Magazine)
1933 - John Y. Brown, Jr., American politician
1934 - David Warrilow, actor (Simon, Radio Days, Dakota Road, Barton Fink)
1934 - John Akers, business executive
1934 - Maggie Smith, Ilford England, actress (Death on Nile, Clash of Titans)
1934 - Peggy Wilson, golfer
1934 - Yujiro Ishihara, Japanese actor (d. 1987)
1935 - Fernando Lopes, Portugal, director (Encoberto, Matar Saudades)
1936 - Nichelle Nichols, Robbins Ill, actress (Uhura-Star Trek)
1936 - Jacques Mesrine, French criminal (d. 1979)
1936 - Lawrence Schiller, American journalist
1937 - Ratan Tata, Indian industrialist
1938 - Bruce Yarnell, LA California, actor (Outlaws)
1938 - Charles Neville, US rock vocalist/saxophonist (Neville Brothers)
1938 - Janet Hough Bryant, author/performing artist/educator
1938 - Richard Sudhalter, British(?) writer/jazz musician
1939 - Philip Anschutz, American businessman
1940 - Alvin Elliot Singleton, composer
1940 - Lonnie Liston Smith, US jazz performer (Cosmic Echoes, Magic Lady)
1941 - Don Francisco, Spanish variety show host (Sabado Gigante)
1941 - Intikhab Alam, Pakistan cricket leg-spinner (1959-77)
1942 - Paul Horowitz, NYC, physicist, META project (Sloan Award 1971-3)
1943 - Bobby Comstock, rocker
1943 - David Peterson, Toronto, premier of Ontario Canada (L) (1982- )
1943 - Oscar D Dhlomo, South African sect-gen of Inkatha (1978-90)
1943 - Richard Whiteley, British television presenter (d. 2005)
1944 - Johnny Isakson, American politician
1944 - Kary Mullis, American chemist, Nobel laureate
1945 - Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Deva, King of Nepal (1972- )
1945 - Dwight Bement, rocker (Gary Puckett & Union Gap-Young Girl)
1945 - Max Hastings, British editor-in-chief (Daily Telegraph)
1946 - Edgar Winter, Beaumont Tx, rocker (They Only Come Out at Night)
1946 - Hubie Green, golfer (US Open-1977, PGA-1985)
1946 - Jorge Velasquez, sportsman
1946 - Tim Johnson, American politician, senior senator from South Dakota
1947 - Andrew Olle, broadcaster
1947 - Aurelio Rodriguez, baseball player
1947 - Dick Diamonde, [Van Der Sluys], Hilversum, rock bassist (Easybeats)
1948 - Jorge Velasquez, jockey (Kentucky Derby-1981, Preakness-1981)
1950 - Alex Chilton, Memphis Tenn, rock guitarist/vocalist (Box Tops)
1950 - Øivind Blunck, Norwegian comedian and actor
1951 - Kenneth Pope, NFLer
1951 - Ian Buruma, Anglo-Dutch scholar and writer on Japan and the Far East.
1952 - Ray Knight, 3rd baseman (NY Mets, Balt Orioles)
1952 - S Epatha Merkerson, Saginaw MI, actress (Lt Van Buren-Law and Order)
1952 - Arun Jaitley, Indian Politician
1953 - Richard Clayderman, pianist (Amour, Romantic America)
1953 - Robert Pittman, TV executive/developer (MTV)
1954 - Denzel Washington, Mount Vernon NY, actor (Dr Chandler-St Elsewhere)
1954 - Rosie Vela, British singer (Zazu, Fools Paradise)
1954 - Tony Rosato, Naples Italy, comedian (SCTV, Saturday Night Live, Amanda's)
1956 - Kenneth Grant, bass/vocalist (Midnight Star-No Parking, Operator)
1956 - Michael Gibbons, rocker (Bo Donaldson & Heywoods-Billy Don't be a Hero)
1956 - Nigel Kennedy, English violinist
1957 - Anne Sargeant, Australian netballer
1958 - Carl Marsden, bodyguard
1958 - Carlos Carson, football player
1958 - Joe Diffie, Tulsa Ok, country singer/guitarist (Home)
1958 - Mike McGuire, Haleyville Ala, singer (Shenandoah-Sunday in the South)
1958 - Terry Butcher, British soccer player
1959 - Everson Walls, NFL cornerback (Dallas Cowboys, NY Giants)
1959 - Ana Torroja, Spanish singer (Mecano)
1959 - Phil Abrams, American actor
1960 - Chad McQueen, actor (Nightforce)
1960 - John Fitzgerald, Australia, tennis star
1960 - Marty Roe, Lebanon Ohio, singer (Diamond Rio-Meet in the Middle)
1960 - Raymond Bourque, Montreal, NHL defenseman (Team Canada, Boston)
1960 - Terri Garber, Miami FL, actress (Leslie Carrington-Dynasty)
1960 - Zane Smith, Madison WI, pitcher (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1961 - Heather Hafner, Santa Barbara Ca, WPVA volleyballer (National-7th-90)
1961 - Kent Nielsen, Danish footballer and football coach
1962 - Keith Lee, basketball player (Memphis State)
1962 - Rachel Z, American pianist
1962 - Melissa R. Kelly, former Maryland politician
1963 - Malcolm Gets, actor (Richard Karinsky-Caroline In the City)
1963 - Mel Stottlemyre Jr, pitcher (Toronto Blues Jays)
1963 - Willow Bay, TV host (Good Morning America)
1964 - Charles Sinek, dance skater (& Beata Handra-1997 Pac Coast Sr 3rd)
1964 - Maite Zúñiga, Spanish athlete
1965 - Colleen Dion, actress (Brett Gardner-Another World)
1965 - Martine Robine, newspaper writer/Miss Junior Miss-France (1984)
1965 - Mary Waddell Gainey, Hartsville SC, Miss SC-America (1991-2nd)
1966 - Joe Wolf, NFL guard (Arizona Cardinals)
1967 - Paul Lynch, Sydney NSW Australia, canoeist (Olympics-96)
1967 - Chris Ware, American cartoonist
1968 - Darrick Brownlow, NFL linebacker (Washington Redskins)
1968 - Jennifer Palmquest, Wilmot SD, Miss SD-America (1991)
1968 - Jozef Dano, Skalica CZE, hockey forward (Team Slovakia 1998)
1968 - Kurt Schulz, NFL safety (Buffalo Bills)
1969 - James Trapp, NFL cornerback (Oakland Raiders)
1969 - Linus Torvalds, Finnish computer programmer
1970 - Brenda Schultz-McCarthy, Haarlem Neth, tennis star (95, 96 Oklahoma City)
1970 - Elizabeth McIntyre, Dunbar WV, Miss America-WV (1996)
1970 - James Jett, NFL wide receiver (Oakland Raiders)
1971 - Melvin Nieves, San Juan Puerto Rico, outfielder (Detroit Tigers)
1971 - Michael Watkins, NFL wide receiver (San Diego Chargers)
1971 - Steve Morrison, NFL linebacker (Indianapolis Colts)
1971 - Frank Sepe, American bodybuilder
1971 - Benny Agbayani, American baseball player
1971 - William Gates, American basketball player
1972 - Adam Clawson, Salt Lake City UT, slalom single canoe (Olympic-19th-96)
1972 - Adam Vinatieri, WLAF punter/kicker (Amsterdam Admirals, NE Patriots)
1972 - Jean-Francois Jomphe, Havre St-pierre Ca, NHL right wing (Anaheim)
1972 - Jim Kitts, WLAF running back (Frankfurt Galaxy, Miami Dolphins)
1972 - Patrick Rafter, Queensland Aust, tennis star (1993 USTA/Aptos California)
1972 - Roberto Palacios, Peruvian footballer
1973 - Bobby Taylor, NFL cornerback (Philadelphia Eagles)
1973 - Garth John Da Silva, Auckland NZ, heavyweight boxer (Olympics-96)
1973 - Herborg Kråkevik, Norwegian singer and actress
1973 - Seth Meyers, American actor
1974 - Rob Niedermayer, Cassiar, NHL center (Florida Panthers)
1975 - Kesley Perrin, CFL defensive back (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1975 - Tannis Vallely, NYC, actress (Janice Lazorotto-Head of the Class)
1977 - Shane Elford, Australian rugby league player
1978 - Chris Coyne, Australian footballer
1978 - John Legend, American musician
1979 - James Blake, American tennis player
1979 - Bill Hall, American baseball player
1979 - Senna Guemmour, German Singer (Monrose)
1980 - Lomana LuaLua, Congo footballer
1980 - Vanessa Ferlito, American actress
1981 - Elizabeth Jordan Carr, 1st American test tube baby
1981 - Khalid Boulahrouz, Dutch footballer
1981 - Mika Väyrynen, Finnish footballer
1981 - Sienna Miller, British actress
1982 - Cedric Benson, American footballer
1982 - François Gourmet, Belgian decathlete
1982 - Quinton Porter, American footballer
1982 - Kevin Pereira, American television host
1983 - Mike He, Taiwanese actor
1984 - Leroy Lita, English footballer
1984 - Beverly Mullins, American Wrestler/Model
1984 - Alex Lloyd, British racing driver
1985 - Kamani Hill, American footballer
1986 - Tom Huddlestone, English footballer
1987 - Thomas Dekker, American actor
1989 - Mackenzie Rosman, American actress
1990 - David Archuleta, American Idol runner-up, American Singer

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 28, 2012, 07:58:33 AM

This Day in History for 28th December


Famous Deaths

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French Engineer Gustave Eiffel (1923)        Author Susan Sontag (2004)                       
 

300 - Theonas, Patriarch of Alexandria
1367 - Ashikaga Yoshiakira, Japanese shogun (b. 1330)
1446 - Clement VIII, (Sanchez Muñoz), Spanish anti-pope (1423-29), dies
1503 - Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1471)
1542 - Albert Pigge, [Pighius], Dutch theologist/astronomer, dies at about 52
1622 - Francois de Sales, French bishop of Geneva/writer/saint, dies at 55
1663 - Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Italian mathematician and physicist (b. 1618)
1671 - Johann Friedrich Gronovius, German classical scholar (b. 1611)
1673 - Joan Blaeu, Dutch cartographer/publisher (Atlas Major), dies at 77
1694 - Mary II, Queen of England, dies after 5 years of rule at 32 [NS=Jan 7]
1703 - Mustafa II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1664)
1706 - Pierre Bayle, French theologist (History of Criticism), dies at 59
1708 - Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, French botanist (b. 1656)
1715 - William Carstares, Scottish minister (b. 1649)
1734 - Robert Roy MacGregor, Scottish folk hero (b. 1671)
1772 - Ernst J earl van/of Biron, Russian duke of Courland, dies at 82
1775 - Peter A van de Parra, gov-gen of (Neth Indies), dies at 61
1779 - Gennaro Manna, composer, dies at 64
1793 - Louis earl of Bylandt, Dutch admiral, dies at about 75
1795 - Eugenio Espejo, Ecuadorian scientist (b. 1747)
1830 - Adrien-Joseph van Helmont, composer, dies at 83
1859 - Thomas Babington Macaulay, English essayist/historian, dies
1860 - Cornelius Broere, Dutch RC clergyman/poet, dies at 57
1862 - Joaquim Casimiro Junior, composer, dies at 54
1870 - Alexey Fyodorovich L'vov, composer, dies at 72
1870 - Peter van Schendel, Dutch painter, dies at 64
1872 - James Van Ness, Mayor of San Francisco (1855-1856) (b. 1808)
1878 - Jose Bernardo Alcedo, composer, dies at 90
1884 - Gerben Colmjon, Frisian linguist/publisher, dies at 56
1891 - Alfred Cellier, composer, dies at 47
1897 - Rev. William Corby, American Catholic priest (b. 1833)
1900 - Alexandre Alberto da Rocha de Serpa Pinto, Portuguese explorer (b. 1846)
1903 - George [Robert] Gissing, English novelist, dies at 46
1915 - Gerrit Jan van Heek, Dutch textile manufacturer/politician, dies at 78
1916 - Eduard Strauss, Austrian composer (318 dances), dies at 81
1917 - Alfred Edwin McKay, Canadian World War One flying ace (b. 1892)
1918 - George H White, last post Reconstruction congressman (Penn), dies
1918 - Olavo Bilac, Brazilian poet (b. 1865)
1919 - Johannes Rydberg, Swedish physicist (b. 1854)
1923 - Gustave Eiffel [Alexandre], engineer (Eiffel Tower), dies at 91
1924 - Léon Bakst, Russian artist (b. 1866)
1932 - John Blackham, cricketer (35 Tests as Aust WK, caught 37), dies
1935 - Clarence Day, writer (Life with Father), dies
1937 - Maurice J Ravel, Swiss/French composer (Bolero), dies in Paris at 62
1938 - Florence Lawrence, silent screen actress (Confidence), dies at 48
1943 - Steve Evans, American baseball player (b. 1885)
1945 - Theodore Dreiser, novelist (An American Tragedy), dies at 74
1946 - Carrie Jacobs Bond, American composer (I Love You Truly), dies at 85
1947 - Victor Emmanuel III, king of Italy (1900-46)/Ethiopia, dies at 78
1948 - Mahmud Nokrashy Pasha, PM of Egypt (19..-48), assassinated
1949 - Jack Lovelock, NZ/US surgeon/athlete (Olympic-gold-1936), dies at 39
1949 - W Hervey Allen, US writer/poet (Anthony Adverse), dies at 60
1952 - Fletcher Henderson, American musician (b. 1897)
1956 - Roelof Kranenburg, Dutch social democratic party-chairman, dies at 76
1959 - Ante Pavelić, leader of Nazi Germany puppet Independent State of Croatia (b. 1889)
1961 - Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, 1st lady (1915-21), dies at 89
1962 - Kathleen Clifford, American actress (b. 1887)
1963 - Abbott Joseph Liebling, American journalist/writer, dies
1963 - Paul Hindemith, German composer (Composer's World), dies at 68
1967 - Béla Schick, Hung/US children's physician (Scarlet Fever), dies at 90
1967 - Katharine McCormick, American women's rights activist (b. 1875)
1969 - Henry Oscar, actor (Saint in London), dies at 78
1970 - L Mendel Rivers, (Rep-D-SC), dies at 65
1971 - Maximilian Raoul Walter Steiner, composer, dies at 83
1976 - Freddie King, rocker, dies at 42
1976 - Katharine Byron, American politician (b. 1903)
1978 - Harry Winston, US jeweler for the "rich & famous", dies at 82
1980 - Amir Elahi, cricketer, 1st Pakistani Test cricketer to die
1980 - Jersey calf, lived 222 days with an artificial heart
1981 - Allan Dwan, Canadian-born film director (b. 1885)
1982 - Frederick Douglass Hall, composer, dies at 84
1983 - Dennis Wilson, drummer/singer (Beach Boys), drowns at 39
1983 - William Demarest, actor (My 3 Sons), dies in Palm Springs at 91
1983 - Jimmy Demaret, American golfer (b. 1910)
1984 - Sam Peckinpah, director, dies of cardiac arrest at 59
1986 - Andrei Tarkovsky, dies
1986 - Louis van Lint, Belgian painter, dies at 77
1987 - Charles Malik, Lebanon's 1st delegate to UN, dies at 81
1988 - Hal Ashby, academy-award winning director, dies of cancer at 59
1989 - Robert Wickler, dies
1989 - Hermann Oberth, German physicist (b. 1894)
1990 - Ed van der Elsken, Dutch photographer (Sweet Life), dies at 65
1990 - Kiel Martin, actor (Det LaRue-Hill Street Blues), dies of cancer at 46
1990 - Lucas Polhaupessy, Moluccan leader, dies
1991 - Cassandra Harris, actress (For Your Eyes Only), dies of cancer at 39
1991 - Jacques Aubuchon, actor (Hoax, Thunder Road), dies of heart failure
1992 - Mort Greene, US songwriter (My Grandfather's Clock), dies at 80
1993 - Howard Caine, dies
1993 - Joop Vervoort, Dutch soccer referee, dies at 61
1993 - William L Shirer, writer (Rise & Fall of 3rd Reich), dies at 89
1994 - Julian Belfrage, theatre agent, dies at 60
1995 - Harold Francis Collison, trade unionist, dies at 84
1997 - George Fleming, cyclist, dies at 80
1997 - James Lees-Milne, architecural historian, dies at 89
1997 - Ronald Clive Williams, actor/comedian, dies at 68
1999 - Clayton Moore, American actor (b. 1914)
2001 - Samuel A. Goldblith, American food scientist (b. 1919)
2001 - William X. Kienzle, American novelist (b. 1928)
2003 - Benjamin Hacker, American admiral (b. 1935)
2004 - Jerry Orbach, American actor (b. 1935)
2004 - Susan Sontag, American writer, dies from Myelodysplastic syndrome at 71
2006 - Jamal Karimi-Rad, Iranian Minister of Justice (b. 1956)
2007 - Benazir Bhutto, Pakistani Prime Minister (b. 1953)
2007 - Aidin Nikkhah Bahrami, Iran national basketball team player (b. 1982)
2009 - James Owen "The Rev" Sullivan, American musician drummer of Avenged Sevenfold (b. 1981)
2010 - Billy Taylor, American musician (b. 1921)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 29, 2012, 07:49:08 AM

This Day in History for 29th December


Historical Events

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Archbishop of Canterbury                       Composer/Pianist Franz Liszt                    Baseball Great Babe Ruth
Thomas Becket

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Singer & Actress                                      Reggae Musician Bob Marley
Barbra Streisand

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Tennis Player Martina Navratilova          Singer-Songwriter Courtney Love


1170 - Assassination inside Canterbury Cathedral of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury by
           followers of King Henry II; he subsequently becomes a saint and martyr in the Anglican
           Church and the Roman Catholic Church.
1503 - Battle at Carigliano: Spanish army beats France
1539 - St Jacobs Church burns after being hit by lightning
1541 - Isabella of Poland & King Ferdinand of Austria sign Treaty of Gyalu
1558 - Charles V, German Emperor, buried
1705 - Prosper Jolyot's "Idomenée," premieres in Paris
1708 - Great Alliance occupies Gent
1778 - English troops occupy Savannah, Georgia
1782 - 1st nautical almanac in US published by Samuel Stearns, Boston
1786 - French Revolution: The Assembly of Notables is convoked
1812 - The USS Constitution under the command of Captain William Bainbridge, captures the HMS
           Java off the coast of Brazil after a three hour battle.
1813 - British burn Buffalo, NY during War of 1812
1835 - The Treaty of New Echota is signed, ceding all the lands of the Cherokee east of the
           Mississippi River to the United States.
1837 - Canadian militia destroy Caroline, a US steamboat docked at Buffalo
1837 - Steam-powered threshing machine patented, Winthrop, Maine
1841 - King/grand duke Willem II installs Order of Eikenkroon
1845 - Texas admitted as 28th state
1848 - Gas lights 1st installed at White House (Polk's administration)
1851 - 1st American Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) chapter opened in Boston
           Massachusetts.
1852 - Emma Snodgrass arrested in Boston for wearing pants
1857 - Franz Liszt's "Die Hunnenschlacht," premieres in Weimar
1860 - The first British seagoing iron-clad warship, HMS Warrior is launched.
1862 - Battle of Chichasaw Bayou: confederate armies defeat Gen Sherman
1862 - Bowling ball invented
1864 - Fire Dept celebrates 1st annual ball
1867 - 1st telegraph ticker used by a brokerage house, Groesbeck & Co, NY
1876 - 11 passenger cars crash in a ravine near Ashtabula Ohio, 92 die
1885 - Gottlieb Daimler patents 1st bike (Germany)
1890 - US 7th Cavalry massacre 200+ captive Sioux at Wounded Knee, SD
1891 - Edison patents "transmission of signals electrically" (radio)
1895 - Dr L S Jameson begins failed raid on Johannesburg
1899 - English fleet brings German postschip Bundesrath up
1900 - General Viljoen surprise attack British garrison to Helvetia
1903 - French Equatorial Africa separates into Gabon, Chad & Ubangi-Shari
1906 - Montreal Wanderers beat New Glasgow (NS) for Stanley Cup (2nd of 1906)
1908 - Patent granted for a 4-wheel automobile brake, Clintonville, Wisc
1911 - Proclamation restores "Dei Gratia" from Canada's coins
1911 - SF Symphony formed
1911 - Sun Yat-sen becomes the first President of the Republic of China.
1911 - Mongolia gains independence from the Qing dynasty.
1913 - 1st movie serial, "Adventures of Kathlyn," premieres in Chicago
1920 - The netherlands/Venezuela recover diplomatic relations
1920 - Yugoslav government bans communist party
1921 - William Lyon Mackenzie King succeeded Arthur Meighen as Canadian PM
1922 - Dutch Constitution proclaimed
1922 - Revised Netherlands Law proclaims suffrage
1926 - Vatican puts French fascist Charles Maurras' work on the index
1926 - Victoria (1107) beat NSW (221 & 230) by an innings 656 runs
1929 - Police arrest Sukarno & 100s PNI-leaders
1930 - Fred P Newton completes longest swim ever (1826 miles), when he swam in the Mississippi
           River from Ford Dam, Minn, to New Orleans
1931 - Identification of heavy water publicly announced, HC Urey
1931 - Victoria score 7 for 435 in second innings to beat NSW
1933 - Yank refuses to release Babe Ruth so he can manage the Cin Reds
1934 - 1st collegiate basketball doubleheader (Madison Square Garden)
1934 - Federico Garcia Lorca's "Yerma," premieres in Madrid
1934 - Japan renounces Wash Naval Treaty of 1922 & London Treaty of 1930
1937 - 2nd Irish constitution goes into effect; Irish Free State renamed Erie
1937 - Ireland adopts constitution (Irish Free State becomes Eire)
1937 - Lou Thesz beats E Marshall in St Louis, to become wrestling champ
1937 - Pan Am starts San Francisco-to-Auckland, New Zealand service
1938 - Construction on Lake Washington Floating Bridge, Seattle, begins
1939 - First flight of the Consolidated B-24.
1940 - Germany begins dropping incendiary bombs on London (WW II)
1940 - NFL Pro Bowl: Chi Bears beats NFL All-Stars 28-14
1944 - Belgian nazi Leon Degrelle at default to the death sentenced
1944 - Gen Eisenhowers train returns to Versailles
1947 - Ship carrying Jewish immigrants driven away from Palestine
1948 - "Rape of Lucretia" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 23 performances
1948 - Canada recognizes Israel
1948 - US State Dept announces work on placing objects into Earth orbit
1949 - 1st UHF television station operating regular basis (Bridgeport Ct)
1949 - Hungary nationalized its industries
1951 - Flying Enterprise in difficulty in Canal
1952 - 1st transistorized hearing aid offered for sale (Elmsford NY)
1954 - Kingdom of Netherlands, with Netherlands & Netherlands Antilles as autonomous parts,
           comes into being
1955 - Barbra Streisand's 1st recording "You'll Never Know" at age 13
1957 - Detroit Lions beat Cleveland Browns 50-14 in NFL championship game
1957 - Singers Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme wed in Las Vegas
1958 - Balt Colts beat NY Giants 23-17 in NFL championship game
1958 - TV soap "Young Dr Malone" debuts
1959 - Saul Levitt's "Andersonville Trial," premieres in NYC
1962 - Doug Walters makes 1st-class debut for NSW 17 yrs 8 days
1963 - 52nd Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Adelaide (3-2)
1965 - "Thunderball" premieres in US
1965 - CBS purchases NFL TV rights for 1966-68 at $18.8 million per year
1965 - Supremes release "My World is Empty Without You"
1966 - Pirate Radio Phoenix, 1st transmission (Worcester, Mass)
1967 - Star Trek's "Trouble With Tribbles" 1st airs
1967 - Turkish-Cypriot government forms in Cyprus
1968 - Balt Colts beat Cleveland Browns 34-0 in NFL championship game
1968 - Israeli commandos destroy 13 Lebanese airplanes
1968 - NY Jets beat Oakland Raiders 27-23 in AFL championship game
1969 - NY Times reports Curt Flood will sue baseball & challenge the reserve clause
1972 - Eastern Tristar Jumbo Jet crashes near Everglades killing 101
1972 - Life magazine ceases publication
1972 - Test Cricket debut of Jeff Thomson & Max Walker v Pakistan at MCG
1974 - Murray Schisgal's "All Over Town," premieres in NYC
1975 - 11 killed, 75 hurt by terrorist bomb at LaGuardia Airport in NYC
1977 - Ronald Ribman's "Cold Storage," premieres in NYC
1978 - Shah of Iran, asks Shapour Bahktiar to form a civilian government
1978 - Spain constitution goes into effect
1978 - Test Cricket debut of Allan Robert Border, v England at the MCG
1979 - Red Army beats NY Islanders 3-2 at Nassau Coliseum
1980 - Shuttle STS-1 moves from Vandenberg AFB to Launch Complex 39A
1982 - Bob Marley postage stamp issued in Jamaica
1982 - Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant ends his career with Alabama (323 wins)
1983 - Gavaskar makes the highest Test Cricket score by an Indian, 236* v WI
1983 - Graeme Yallop completes 268 v Pakistan at cricket MCG
1983 - US announced withdrawal from UNESCO
1984 - 5th United Negro College Fund
1984 - Blues took 27 shots against Islanders in 1 period
1984 - Indian PM Rajiv Gandhi claims victory in parlimetary elections
1988 - Soviet Red Army Team edges NY Islanders, 3-2 at Nassau Coliseum
1988 - Victorian Post Office Museum in Australia closes
1989 - Jane Pauley says goodbye to NBC's "Today" show
1989 - Vaclav Havel becomes president of Czechoslovakia
1989 - Wayne Gretzky & Martina Navratilova, named athletes of decade by AP
1989 - Riots break-out after Hong Kong decides to forcibly repatriate Vietnamese refugees.
1991 - "Christmas Carol" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 14 perfs
1991 - 12th United Negro College Fund
1991 - Boeing 747-200F of China Airlines crash into mountain at Taipei
1992 - Gov Cuomo grants Jean Harris (Scarsdale Diet Dr killer) clemency
1993 - Courtney Love sues doctors for leaking news of her methadone treatment
1993 - Todd Bridges arrested for transporting methamphetamine (speed)
1994 - B737-400 flies into a mountain at Edremit East Turkey, 54 killed
1994 - Bangladesh government of Zia resigns
1994 - Last Dutch electro-magnetic telephone exchange shuts down
1994 - Shane Warne takes a hat-trick v England at cricket MCG
1996 - "Dreams & Nightmares" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC
1996 - "Skylight" closes at Royale Theater NYC after
1996 - "Taking Sides" closes at Atkinson Theater NYC
1997 - Carquest Bowl 8: Georgia Tech beats West Virginia, 35-30
1997 - Hong Kong begins slaughtering all its chickens to prevent bird flu
1997 - Orville Lynn Majors, 36, arrested for many deaths under his care
1997 - Russia signs agreement to build a $3B nuclear power plant in China
1998 - Leaders of the Khmer Rouge apologize for the 1970s genocide in Cambodia that claimed over
           1 million.
2001 - Mesa Redonda shopping center fire, Lima, Peru, at least 291 killed.

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 29, 2012, 07:51:47 AM

This Day in History for 29th December


Famous Weddings

1876 - Frederic A Bartholdi (Statue of Liberty sculptor) weds Jeanne-Emilie
1957 - "Steve and Eydie" singer duo Steve Lawrence (22) weds Eydie Gorme (29) at the home of
           Beldon Katleman in Las Vegas
1990 - Olympic gymnist Mary Lou Retton weds Shannon Kelley
1994 - Billionaire J Paul Getty Jr marries Victoria Holdsworth on Barbados
2004 - Former X-Files Gillian Anderson (36) weds former journalist and documentary filmmaker Julian
          Ozanne (42) on Shella island in Lamu, Kenya
2005 - "One Life To Live" actress Bree Williamson (26) weds surfer Josh Evans near the Flor Blanca
            Resort in Mal Pais, Costa Rica
2006 - Comedian Jay Mohr (36) weds "Las Vegas" actress Nikki Cox (28) at the Hotel Bel-Air in Los
           Angeles, California

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 29, 2012, 07:52:50 AM

This Day in History for 29th December


Famous Divorces

2006 - One Tree Hill actress Sophia Bush (24) divorces actor Chad Michael Murray (25) for the reason
           of fraud after 5 months of marriage
2006 - Greatest NBA basketball player of all time Michael Jordan (43) divorces Juanita Vanoy (47) due
           to irreconcilable differences after 17 years of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 29, 2012, 08:00:42 AM

This Day in History for 29th December


Famous Birthdays

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British Prime Minister                             Actress Mary Tyler Moore (1937)              Actress Sophia Loren (1968)
William Gladstone (1809)


1563 - Francesco Maria Guaitoli, composer
1586 - Francisco de Moncada, Spanish earl of Osuna/marquis of Aytona
1678 - Gotthard Wagner, composer
1709 - Elizabeth of Russia [Elizaveta Petrovna], Kolomenskoye, Moscow, tsarina of Russia (1741-62) and daughter of Peter the Great
1721 - Madame De Pompadour, mistress of French King Louis the 15th
1743 - Alexander van Bylandt, Dutch military officer
1767 - Aime Ambroise Simon Leborne, composer
1776 - Charles Macintosh, Scotland, patented waterproof fabric
1792 - Archibald Alison, Scottish historian (History of Europe)
1796 - Johann Christian Poggendorff, German physicist (d. 1877)
1800 - Charles Goodyear, New Haven, Connecticut, inventor (vulcanization process for rubber), (d.
           1860)
1808 - Andrew Johnson, Raleigh NC, (Unionist), 17th pres (1865-69)
1808 - Gyorgy Apponyi, Hungarian Parliament member
1809 - Albert Pike, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1891
1809 - William Ewart Gladstone, Liberal British PM (1868-74, '80-86, '92-94), (d. 1898)
1813 - Etienne-Joseph Soubre, composer
1816 - Carl Ludwig, German physician (d. 1895)
1831 - Adam Badeau, Bvt Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1895
1833 - John James Ingalls, (Rep-Ks)
1843 - Elisabeth of Wied (pen name was Carmen Sylva), queen of Romania and writer (d. 1916)
1850 - Tomas Breton y Hernandez, composer
1856 - Thomas J Stieltjes, mathematician (Stieltjes integral)
1859 - Venustiano Carranza, pres of Mexico (1915-20)
1866 - Joseph Limburg, liberal Second-Member of parliament (1905-19)
1869 - Bill Howell, cricketer (Australian bowler at turn of century)
1876 - Pablo Casals, Vendrell Catalonia Spain, violinist/conductor/composer
1879 - Billy Mitchell, aviation hero Gen (WW I)
1880 - Jean-Fernand Vaubourgoin, composer
1881 - Jess Willard, American boxer (d. 1968)
1887 - Kiyoshi Nobutoki, composer
1888 - Joseph Beran, Czech archbishop of Prague/cardinal
1892 - Emory Parnell, St Paul MN, actress (Rocket Man, County Fair)
1896 - David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexico, painter/muralist (Lib of Chile)
1897 - Hermann Heiss, composer
1898 - Jeanne Leleu, composer
1899 - Nie Rongzhen, People's Liberation Army Chief of General Staff (d. 1992)
1900 - Willie Humphrey, jazz Clarinetist
1902 - Nels Stewart, National Hockey League player (d. 1957)
1903 - Clyde McCoy, jazz trumpeter/bandleader
1907 - James Gardner, designer
1908 - Claire Dodd, AR, actress (Ex-Lady, In the Navy)
1908 - Gerben Sonderman, Dutch test pilot (Fokker)
1910 - Ronald Coase, British economist, Nobel Prize laureate
1912 - Peggy Glanville-Hicks, Melbourne Australia, composer (Triad)
1913 - Laurence Gower, academic
1914 - Billy Tipton, American musician (d. 1989)
1914 - Albert Tucker, Australian artist (d. 1999)
1915 - Charles L[eonard] Harness, US, sci-fi author (Paradox Men, Wolfhead)
1915 - John P W Meefout, Dutch sculptor (Laying Woman)
1915 - Robert Ruark, US writer (Something of Value)
1915 - Bill Osmanski, American football player (d. 1996)
1917 - Tom Bradley, (Mayor-D-LA) (1973- )
1917 - Tom Bradley, American politician (d. 1998)
1919 - Pieter Terpstra, Dutch journalist/writer (De dei is forroun/Havank-T)
1919 - Roman Vlad, composer
1920 - Syd Dernley, hangman
1920 - Viveca Lindfors, Uppsala Sweden, actress (Way We Were, Welcome to LA)
1921 - Dobrica Cosic, writer
1921 - Mala Powers, SF California, actress (Cyrano de Bergerac) [or 12/20/31]
1921 - Robert C. Baker, Inventor of the chicken nugget (d. 2006)
1922 - William Gaddis, American writer (d. 1998)
1925 - Pete Dye, American golf course architect
1927 - Jim Simpson, Wash DC, sportscaster (Monday Night Baseball)
1927 - Andy Stanfield, American athlete (d. 1985)
1928 - Bernard Cribbins, Oldham England, actor (Val Doonican Show)
1930 - Willy Giefer, composer
1931 - Barbara Steele, England, actress (Castle of Blood, Dark Shadows)
1931 - Prince Gu of Korea, Korean royalty (d. 2005)
1932 - Inga Swenson, Omaha Nebraska, actress (Gretchen-Benson)
1933 - Prez "Kidd" Kenneth, blues singer/guitarist
1934 - Ed Flanders, Minneapolis Mn, actor (Dr Westphall-St Elsewhere)
1934 - Tom Jarriel, LaGrange Ga, newscaster (ABC Weekend News, 20/20)
1935 - Tony Bramall, England, auto dealer/multi-millionaire (Harrogate)
1936 - Ray Nitschke, NFL linebacker (Green Bay Packers)
1936 - Vitaly Alexeyevich Godzyatsky, composer
1937 - Mary Tyler Moore, Bkln, actress (Mary Tyler Moore, Ordinary People)
1937 - Barbara Steele, British actress
1938 - Jon Voight, Yonkers, NY, actor (Deliverance, Midnight Cowboy)
1938 - Wayne Huizenga, CEO (Waste Management, Blockbuster, Miami Dolphins)
1939 - Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, president of Maldives (1978- )
1940 - Brigitte Kronauer, writer
1940 - Ed Buce, Keiser Ar, country singer (Texas)
1940 - Peter Koelewijn, Dutch writer/vocalist (Come off that Roof)
1941 - Ray Thomas, England, rock vocalist (Moody Blues-Nights in White Satin)
1942 - Jerry Summers, rocker
1942 - Rajesh Khanna, Indian actor, (d. 2012)
1943 - JHR Maij-Wegge, Dutch traffic minister (19..-94)
1944 - Rodney Redmond, NZ cricket (opener scored century in Test v Pak 1973)
1945 - Adje Roland, Dutch disc-jockey
1946 - Laffit Pincay Jr, jockey (Ky Derby 1984, Belmont 1982-84, Swale)
1946 - Marianne Faithfull, Hampstead England, vocalist (Money)
1946 - Paul Trible, (Sen-R-Va)
1947 - Cozy Powell, England, rock drummer (Jeff Beck Group, Whitesnake, ELP)
1947 - Ted Danson, SD California, actor (Sam Malone-Cheers, 3 Men & a Baby)
1947 - Vincent Winter, British actor (d. 1998)
1949 - Syed Kirmani, cricketer (Indian keeper after Engineer)
1950 - Jon Polito, Phila, actor (Fire With Fire, Homicide)
1951 - Laurel Masse, Holland Mich, jazz singer (Manhattan Transfer-Operator)
1951 - Yvonne Elliman, US actress/singer (I Don't Know How to Love Him)
1951 - Georges Thurston, Canadian singer (d. 2007)
1952 - Gelsey Kirkland, Bethlehem Pa, ballerina/druggie (Nutcracker)
1952 - Nikolai Andrianov, USSR, gymnist (Olympic-gold-1972, 76, 80)
1953 - Kate Schmidt, US javelin thrower (Olympic-bronze-1972)
1953 - Stanley Tookie Williams, American author/murderer (executed 2005)
1953 - Gali Atari, Israeli singer and actress
1954 - Glenn Myernick, Trenton NJ, US soccer coach (Olympics-gold-96)
1954 - Roger Voudouris, Sacramento Ca, rock vocalist
1954 - Prince Takamado of Japan (d. 2002)
1955 - Jan Pijnenburg, Dutch rock drummer (Doe Maar-Bomb)
1955 - Neil Giraldo, rocker (Pat Benatar Band)
1956 - Dolf de Vries, Dutch musical/director/arranger (Josephine)
1956 - Fred MacAulay, Scottish comedian
1957 - Brad Grey, American film producer
1957 - Paul Rudnick, American screenwriter/playwright
1958 - Curt Allen Byrum, Onida SD, PGA golfer (1989 Hardee's Golf Classic)
1959 - Leslie Graves, Silver City NM, actress (Brenda-Capitol)
1959 - Paula Poundstone, comedienne (Emmy Awards)
1960 - Dave Gilbert, cricketer (Aussie pace bowler in 9 Tests 1985-86)
1960 - David Boon, cricketer (short backward square from Tasmania)
1960 - Katerina Didaskou, Greek actress
1960 - Thomas Lubanga, founder and leader of Union of Congolese Patriots
1961 - Robert Louis Tewdwr Moss, journalist/travel writer
1961 - Jim Reid, Scottish singer (The Jesus and Mary Chain, Freeheat)
1962 - Devon White, Kingston Jamacia, outfielder (Florida Marlins)
1963 - Francisco Bustamante, Filipino billiard player
1963 - Dave McKean, British artist and filmmaker
1963 - Sean Payton, American football coach
1964 - Craig Grebeck, Cerritos CA, infielder (Florida Marlins)
1964 - Kimberly Russell, actress (Sarah-Head of the Class)
1965 - David Delfino, hockey goaltender (Team Italy 1998)
1965 - Dexter Holland, American musician (The Offspring)
1966 - Bruce Bulina, Vancouver BC, Canadian Tour golfer (1990 Alberta Open)
1966 - Drew Hartt, Calgary Alta, Canadian Tour golfer (1995 Desert Tour)
1966 - Stefano Eranio, Italian footballer
1967 - Henry Jones, NFL safety (Buffalo Bills)
1967 - Jason Gould, son of Elliot Gould/Barbra Streisand, (Prince of Tides)
1967 - Kevin Toth, Cleveland Ohio, shot putter
1967 - Tony Tolbert, NFL defensive end (Dallas Cowboys)
1967 - Ashleigh Banfield, Canadian journalist
1967 - Andy Wachowski, American director
1968 - Carlo H L Ponti Jr, son of Carlo Ponti & Sophia Loren
1968 - Darren Perry, NFL free safety (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1968 - James Mouton, Denver CO, outfielder (Houston Astros)
1969 - Jennifer Ehle, American actress
1969 - Allan McNish, Scottish race car driver
1970 - Yaroslav Ihorovych Pustovyi, Kostroma Ukraine, cosmonaut
1970 - Aled Jones, Welsh singer
1970 - Hidetoshi Mitsusada, Japanese racing driver
1970 - Glen Phillips, American musician (Toad The Wet Sprocket)
1970 - Kevin Weisman, American actor
1971 - Jay Fiedler, NFL quarterback (Philadelphia Eagles)
1971 - Jay Fiedler, WLAF QB (Amsterdam Admirals)
1971 - Margot Thien, SD California, synchronized swimmer (Olympics-gold-96)
1971 - Mark Montreuil, NFL cornerback (San Diego Chargers)
1971 - Toby Mills, WLAF corner (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1972 - Jessica Lee McMinn, Miss North Carolina USA (1996)
1972 - Malcolm Seabron, NFL wide receiver (Houston Oilers)
1972 - Melissa Hall, Miss USA-Minnesota (1997)
1972 - Randy Neal, NFL linebacker (Cin Bengals)
1972 - Jude Law, British actor
1972 - Evan Seinfeld, American musician (Biohazard) and actor
1973 - Tomas Perez, Barquisimeto Venezuela, infielder (Toronto Blue Jays)
1973 - Theo Epstein, American baseball general manager
1974 - Brad Hodge, cricketer (promising Victorian middle-order batsman)
1974 - James Darling, linebacker (Philadelphia Eagles)
1974 - Tom Knight, cornerback (Arizona Cardinals)
1974 - Mekhi Phifer, American actor
1974 - Richie Sexson, American baseball player
1975 - Kalin Olson, Hot Springs Ark, playmate (Aug 1997)
1975 - Jaret Wright, American baseball player
1976 - Danny R. McBride, American actor, writer, and producer
1977 - Katherine Moennig, American actress
1977 - Jimmy Journell, American baseball player
1978 - Alexis Amore, Peruvian pornographic actress
1978 - Kieron Dyer, English footballer
1978 - LaToya London, American singer
1979 - Laura Larson, Miss Maine Teen USA (1996)
1979 - Mitsuhiro Ishida, Japanese mixed-martial arts fighter
1979 - Ariel Schrag, American Cartoonist
1979 - Diego Luna, Mexican actor
1982 - Gabrielle Destroismaisons, Quebec singer
1983 - Jessica Andrews, American country/pop singer
1985 - Alexa Ray Joel, daughter of Billy Joel & Christie Brinkley
1986 - Kim Ok-bin, South Korean actress and model
1988 - Agnes Szavay, Hungary tennis player
1989 - Nathan Forbes, British footballer
1994 - Princess Kako of Akishino of Japan

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 29, 2012, 08:04:01 AM

This Day in History for 29th December


Famous Deaths

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Archbishop of Canterbury
Thomas Becket (1170)


721 - Empress Gemmei of Japan (b. 661)
1141 - Yue Fei, Chinese general, executed
1170 - Thomas Becket, English Archbishop of Canterbury, assassinated by 4 knights of King Henry II at 52
1558 - Hermann Finck, composer, dies at 31
1563 - Sebastian Castellio, French theologian (b. 1515)
1619 - Antoine Arnauld, French lawyer (Philippica), dies
1630 - Jan Baptist Stalpart van der Wiele, RC pastor/lyricist, dies at 51
1634 - John Albert Vasa, Polish bishop (b. 1612)
1661 - Antoine Gérard de Saint-Amant, French poet (b. 1594)
1689 - Olfert Dapper, Amsterdam historian/geographer, buried
1689 - Thomas Sydenham, English physician (b. 1624)
1731 - J Brook Taylor, English mathematician, dies at 46
1737 - Joseph Saurin, French mathematician (b. 1659)
1785 - Johann Heinrich Rolle, composer, dies at 69
1785 - Johan Herman Wessel, Norwegian poet (b. 1742)
1815 - Saartjie Baartman, Hottentot Venus, dies in Paris
1821 - Jean-Baptiste Dumonceau de Bergendael, S Neth general, dies at 61
1822 - Albert Christoph Dies, composer, dies at 67
1825 - Giuseppe Maria Gioacchino Cambini, composer, dies
1825 - Jacques-Louis David, French painter (Death of Marat), dies at 77
1835 - Charles-Joseph Tolbecque, composer, dies at 29
1836 - Johann Baptist Schenk, composer, dies at 83
1847 - William Crotch, composer, dies at 72
1871 - Ferdinand Marcucci, composer, dies at 71
1877 - Willem Sassen, Dutch attorney general on Curacao (Affair-S), dies
1890 - Big Foot, Sioux Indian chief, dies at Wounded Knee
1891 - Leopold Kronecker, German mathematician, dies at 68
1894 - Christina Rossetti, English poet, dies at 64 in London
1897 - William James Linton, American wood engraver and political reformer. (b. 1812)
1898 - Georg Goltermann, composer, dies at 74
1915 - Charles Beach Hawley, composer, dies at 57
1916 - Grigori Rasputin, Russian faith healer/intriguer, murdered at 45
1924 - Carl Spitteler, Swiss writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)
1925 - Félix E Vallotton, Swiss painter/writer (Chaste Susanne), dies at 60
1926 - Rainer M Rilke, Austrias songwriter/writer (Wise Queen), dies at 51
1929 - Wilhelm Maybach, German automobile designer (b. 1846)
1933 - Joh Georghe Duca, premier of Romania, murdered
1937 - Don Marquis, American author (b. 1878)
1942 - Frank D Adams, Canadian geologist, dies at 83
1943 - William H Singer, US painter/collector (Singer Museum), dies at 75
1947 - Joseph Cuvelier, Belgian historian/general, dies at 78
1952 - Beryl Rubinstein, composer, dies at 54
1953 - Violet MacMillan, American Broadway theatre actress(b. 1887)
1956 - Martin Albertz, German theologist (Jesus Christ's Church), dies at 73
1957 - Tom Richmond, cricketer (Notts leg-spinner took 2-86 in Eng Test), die
1958 - Doris Humphrey, US dancer/choreographer (Dances of Women), dies at 63
1959 - Robin Humphrey Milford, composer, dies at 56
1960 - Eden Phillpotts, British writer (b. 1862)
1960 - Philippe Panneton, Quebec physician, diplomat and writer (b. 1895)
1964 - Bernard von Brentano, German writer (Big Cats), dies at 63
1964 - Miroslav Krejci, composer, dies at 73
1965 - Kusaku Yamada, composer, dies at 79
1967 - Paul Whiteman, US orchestra leader (Fabulous Dorseys), dies at 77
1968 - Austin Farrer, English theologian and philosopher (b. 1904)
1970 - John de Mol, Dutch accordionist, dies at 58
1970 - Marie Menken, American experimental filmmaker and socialite (b. 1909)
1971 - Stuart Holmes, dies of stomach ailment at 87
1972 - Fritz Behrend, composer, dies at 83
1975 - Euell Gibbons, American outdoorsman and proponent of natural diets (b. 1911).
1976 - Ivo van Damme, Belgian 800/1500 m sprinter (Oly-silver-76), dies at 22
1980 - Roy Engle, actor (Police Chief-My Favorite Martian), dies at 67
1980 - Tim Hardin, US singer (Bird on a Wire), dies of a drug overdose at 39
1980 - Tim Hardin, American musician (b. 1941)
1980 - Nadezhda Mandelstam, Russian writer (b. 1899)
1981 - Guido Provoost, Belgian historian, dies at 41
1981 - Miroslav Krleža, Croatian writer (b. 1893)
1982 - Sol C Siegel, US film producer (High Society), dies at 79
1984 - Leo Robin, lyricist, dies of heart failure at 84
1986 - Andrei Tarkovski, Russian director (Stalker), dies at 54
1986 - John Antill, composer, dies at 82
1986 - [Maurice] Harold MacMillan, PM of Great-Britain (1957-63), dies at 92
1988 - Mike Beuttler, British racing driver (b. 1940)
1991 - Julia McCarthy, dies of cancer at 64
1992 - LH Ruitenberg, vicar/editor in chief (Reform Netherlands), dies at 87
1992 - Vivienne Segal, US actress (Broadway, Pal Joey), dies at 95
1993 - Frunzik Mkrtchyan, Soviet Armenian actor (b. 1930)
1994 - Eugene Tanner Jr, singer, dies at 58
1994 - Frank Thring, Australian actor (El Cid, Ben-Hur), dies at 68
1995 - Hope Clara Chenhalls, food inspector, dies at 85
1995 - Louise Chaplin, actress, dies at 87
1995 - Madeleine Barot, resistance heroine, dies at 86
1995 - Nello Celio, president of Switz (1972), dies at 81
1996 - Alma Birk, journalist/politician, dies at 77
1996 - Daniel Raphaeautl Mayer, journalist/resistance leader, dies at 86
1996 - Mireille Hartuch, singer/songwriter, dies at 90
1996 - Oswald Szemerenyi, philologist, dies at 83
1996 - Peggy (Margaret McCrorie) Herbison, politician, dies at 89
1996 - Robert Morris, lawyer, dies at 81
1996 - Willaim Brown, British TV executive, dies at 67
1996 - William Thomas Pennar Davies, poet author/theologian, dies at 85
1997 - (Hanlon) Pat Clarke, cyclist, dies at 82
1997 - Robert Steel, academic, dies at 82
1998 - Jean-Claude Forest, writer and illustrator of comics (Barbarella) (b. 1930)
1999 - Leon Radzinowicz, British criminologist (b. 1906)
2001 - Takashi Asahina, Japanese conductor (b. 1908)
2003 - Earl Hindman, American actor (b. 1942)
2003 - Dinsdale Landen, English actor (b. 1932)
2003 - Bob Monkhouse, English comedian and game show host (b. 1928)
2004 - Liddy Holloway, New Zealand actress (b. 1947)
2004 - Ken Burkhart, American baseball player (b. 1915)
2004 - Julius Axelrod, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
           1912)
2005 - Gerda Boyesen, Norwegian-born body psychotherapist (b. 1922)
2007 - Phil O'Donnell, Scottish footballer (b. 1972)
2007 - Kevin Greening, British radio presenter (b. 1962)
2008 - Freddie Hubbard, American jazz trumpet player (b. 1938)
2009 - "Dr. Death" Steve Williams, American former professional wrestler and football player (b. 1960)
2009 - Akmal Shaikh, British drug trafficker, executed by lethal injection in the People's Republic of
           China (b. 1956)
2010 - Bill Erwin, American actor (b. 1914)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 30, 2012, 08:46:22 AM

This Day in History for 30th December


Historical Events

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Naturalist Charles Darwin                First Director of the FBI J Edgar Hoover            Astronomer Edwin Hubble

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NHL all-time top scorer                       Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe
Wayne Gretzky


987 - French King Hugo Capet crowns his son Robert the compassionate king
1317 - Pontifical degree "Sancta Romania" against spiritualists
1460 - Wars of the Roses: Battle of Wakefield.
1621 - English king James I cracks Protestation of Parliament
1665 - "Messiah" Sjabtai Tswi departs to Constantinople
1666 - Abraham Crijnssen departs to Suriname
1672 - Baron Karl Rabenhaupt occupies Coevorden Neth
1685 - Don Francisco de Agurto installed as land guardian of S Netherlands
1689 - Henry Purcell & Tates opera "Dido & Aeneas," premieres in Chesea
1703 - Tokyo hit by Earthquake; about 37,000 die
1731 - 1st US music concert (Peter Pelham's great room in Boston)
1794 - French troops conquer Grave Neth
1809 - Wearing masks at balls forbidden in Boston
1813 - Danzig surrenders to allied armies
1816 - The Treaty of St. Louis is proclaimed.
1817 - 1st coffee planted in Hawaii (Kona)
1835 - After gold discovery in Ga, Cherokees forced to move across Miss R
1835 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin sails from NZ to Sydney
1836 - Lehman-theater in St Petersburg catches fire; 100s die
1844 - Opera "Stradella" after being rewritten is produced (Hamburg)
1853 - A dinner party is held inside a life-size model of an Iguanodon created by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins and Sir Richard Owen in south London.
1854 - Pennsylvania Rock Oil Co, 1st in US, incorporated in NYC
1861 - US, banks stops payments in gold
1869 - Philadelphia Knights of Labor forms
1873 - American Metrological Society forms (NYC) weights, measures & money
1875 - Andrassy Note calls for Christian-Muslim religious freedoms
1877 - Johnannes Brahms' 2nd Symphony in D, premieres in Vienna
1879 - Gilbert & Sullivan's "Pirates of Penzance," premieres
1884 - Anton Bruckner's 7th Symphony in E, premieres in Leipzig
1888 - Belgium: king Leopold II installs Order of African Star
1892 - Dr Miles V Lynk, physician, publishes 1st Black medical journal
1893 - Russia signs military accord with France
1896 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Victorias beat Winnipeg Victorias, 6-5
1896 - José Rizal is executed by firing squad in Manila.
1897 - Province of Zululand annexed to Natal colony
1903 - Electric arc lamp sets fire to Iroquois theater in Chicago leaving 602 dead in one of the deadliest blazes in American history
1903 - American Political Science Association founded at New Orleans
1903 - Fire at Chicago's Iriquois Theater kills 602
1905 - Former Governor Frank Steunenberg is assassinated near his home in Caldwell, Idaho.
1906 - Iran becomes a constitutional monarchy
1906 - The All India Muslim League is founded in Dacca, East Bengal, British India Empire, which later laid down the foundations of Pakistan.
1907 - Abraham Mills' commission declares Abner Doubleday invented baseball
1908 - Stanley Cup: Mont Wanderers outscore Edmonton, 13-10 in 2 game set
1911 - Crickets S F Barnes takes 5-6 in 1st 11 overs v Aust at MCG
1911 - Sun Yat-sen elected 1st pres of Republic of China
1913 - Barnes takes 17 wickets vs South Africa (8-56 & 9-103)
1915 - Cromarty Harbour, Scot-British cruiser Natal explodes: 405 die
1917 - -32°F (-36°C) in Mountain City, Tennessee (state record)
1917 - -37°F (-38°C) in Lewisburg, WV (state record)
1918 - John E Hoover decides to be called J Edgar Hoover
1919 - Lincoln's Inn in London admits its first female bar student.
1922 - Soviet Union organized as a federation of RSFSR, Ukrainian SSR, Belorussian SSR & Transcaucasian SSR
1924 - Edwin Hubble announces existence of other galactic systems
1925 - NSW score 705 against Victoria, go from 8-475 to 9-701
1926 - Paul Eliot Greens "In Abraham's Bosom," premieres in NYC
1926 - Chicago Tribune reports the Tigers threw a 4-game series to the White Sox in 1917 to help Chicago win the pennant (never substaniated)
1927 - Japan dedicates 1st subway in Orient (route under 2 miles long)
1929 - Cole Porter's musical "Wake Up & Dream," premieres in NYC
1929 - Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority incorporates
1932 - Bradman out for a duck v England at cricket MCG
1933 - -50°F (-46°C) in Bloomfield, Vermont (state record)
1933 - Government disallows NSB-membership for civil service
1933 - Jack Badcock scores 274 v Victoria, Tasmania's 1st double-ton
1935 - Italian bombers destroy Swedish Red Cross unit in Ethiopia
1936 - United Auto Workers stage 1st sit-down strike, at Fisher Body Plant
1938 - Electronic television system patented (V K Zworykin)
1939 - Bradman scores 267 SA v Vic, world record 34th double cricket century
1939 - O'Reilly takes 14-45 (8-23 & 6-22) as NSW crush Qld in 2 days
1940 - California's 1st freeway, (Arroyo Seco Parkway), opens
1941 - Nazibezetters oblige artsen member to become of Artsenkamer
1941 - Nazis require Dutch physicians to join Nazi organization
1941 - Winston Churchill addresses Canadian parliament
1943 - Phillies trade Babe Dahlgren to Pitts for Babe Phelps & cash
1943 - Subhash Chandra Bose raises the flag of Indian independence at Port Blair.
1944 - King George II of Greece, abdicates his throne
1947 - 36th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in New York (4-1)
1947 - King Michael of Romania, forced by communists abdicates his throne
1947 - Romanian republic proclaimed
1948 - "Kiss Me, Kate" opens at New Century Theater NYC for 1077 performances
1949 - India recognizes People's Republic of China
1950 - Vietnam, Laos & Cambodia become Independent states in France Union
1952 - Tuskegee Inst reports 1952 as 1st yr in 71 with no lynchings in US
1953 - The first ever NTSC color television sets go on sale for about USD at $1,175 each from RCA.
1954 - "House of Flowers" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 165 performances
1954 - 1st use of 24-sec shot clock in pro basketball (Rochester vs Boston)
1954 - Harold Arlen/Truman Capotes musical premieres in NYC
1956 - NY Giants beat Chicago Bears 47-7 in NFL championship game
1957 - Israeli government of Ben-Gurion, resigns
1957 - New York Giants win NFL championship
1958 - French franc devalued
1959 - George Washington, 1st ballistic missile sub commissioned
1961 - Moscow: premier of Dmitri Sjostakovitch' 4th Symphony (out 1936)
1962 - Green Bay Packers beat NY Giants 16-7 in NFL championship game
1963 - "Let's Make A Deal," debuts on NBC-TV
1963 - Congress authorizes Kennedy half dollar
1963 - Green Bay Packers win NFL championship
1964 - Edward Albee's "Tiny Alice," premieres in NYC
1965 - Ferdinand Marcos inaugurated as president of the Phillipines
1967 - Beatles' "Hello Goodbye," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 3 weeks
1967 - Great Western Forum opens in LA
1968 - -48°F (-44°C), Mazama & Winthrop, Washington (state record)
1969 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1971 - Long Island NHL franchise purchased (NY Islanders)
1971 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1972 - Pres Nixon halts bombing of North Vietnam & announces peace talks
1973 - 1st picture of a comet from space (Comet Kohoutek-Skylab)
1973 - Miami Dolphins beat Oakland Raiders 27-10 in AFC championship game
1973 - Minnesota Vikings beat Dallas Cowboys 27-10 in NFC championship game
1974 - Beatles are legally disbanded (4 years after suit was brought)
1975 - "Boccaccio" closes at Edison Theater NYC after 7 performances
1975 - Constitution of Democratic Republic of Madagascar comes into force
1976 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1977 - Carter holds 1st news conference by US pres in Eastern Europe (Warsaw)
1978 - "King & I" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 719 performances
1978 - Ohio State dismisses Woody Hayes as its football coach
1979 - Rock group, Emerson, Lake & Palmer break up
1979 - Togo adopts constitution
1980 - "Wonderful World of Disney," last performance on NBC-TV
1981 - Wayne Gretzky sets NHL record of 50 goals by 39th game of season
1982 - Anthony Shaffers "Whodunnit," premieres in NYC
1982 - England defeat Australia by three runs at cricket MCG
1982 - US Assay Office in New York City, NY closes
1984 - Miss Elizabeth (Hulette) & Macho Man Randy Savage (Poffo) wed
1985 - IBM-PC DOS Version 3.2 released
1985 - Pakistan restores constitution
1987 - Australia hang on for draw v NZ at MCG, 1 wkt left 17 runs short
1987 - Premier Mugabe elected president of Zimbabwe
1988 - Canadian Senate OK's free trade pact; with US
1988 - Former Soviet Pres Brezhnev's son-in-law sentenced to 12-yr (bribery)
1988 - Mercedes-Benz pays $20.2-M fine failed to meet '86 government fuel standard
1988 - North subpoenas Reagan & Bush as defense witnesses for upcoming trial
1989 - 10th United Negro College Fund raises $12,000,000
1989 - Dmitri Volkov swims world record 50m freestyle (27.15 sec)
1990 - "Miser" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 93 performances
1990 - 11th United Negro College Fund raises $10,000,000
1992 - Last day of Test Cricket for Michael Whitney
1992 - Shane Warne takes 7-52 to lead Australian MCG win v West Indies
1993 - "Candles, Snow, & Mistletoe" closes at Palace NYC after 7 perfs
1993 - Vatican recognizes Israel
1995 - Carquest Bowl 6: North Carolina beats Arkansas, 20-10
1995 - The lowest ever United Kingdom temperature of -27.2°C was recorded at Altnaharra in the Scottish Highlands. This equalled the record set at Braemar, Aberdeenshire on February 11, 1895 and January 10, 1982.
1996 - Proposed budget cuts by Benjamin Netanyahu spark protests from 250,000 workers who shut down services across Israel.
1997 - An abandoned building collapses on NY's 42nd St, no one hurt
1997 - In the worst incident in Algeria's insurgency, the Wilaya of Relizane massacres, 400 people are killed from four villages.
2000 - Rizal Day Bombings: A series of bombs explode in various places in Metro Manila, Philippines within a span of a few hours, killing 22 and injuring about a hundred.
2003 - U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft recuses himself and his office from the Plame affair.
2004 - A fire in the República Cromagnon nightclub in Buenos Aires, Argentina kills 194.
2005 - Tropical Storm Zeta forms in the open Atlantic Ocean, tying the record for the latest tropical cyclone ever to form in the North Atlantic basin.
2006 - Madrid Barajas International Airport is bombed.

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 30, 2012, 08:48:54 AM

This Day in History for 30th December


Famous Weddings

1816 - English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (24) marries
           2nd wife writer "Frankenstein" Mary Godwin (19) and daughter of early feminist writer Mary
           Wollstonecraft.
1941 - Al Capone's son Sonny marries in Miami Beach
1993 - Singer Deni Hines (22) weds INXS guitarist Kirk Pengilly (35)
1996 - "The Last Emperor" Chinese actress Vivian Wu (30) weds producer-director Oscar Costo (43)
           in Shanghai, China
2004 - Boston Red Sox centerfielder Johnny Damon (31) weds Michelle Mangan at Ritz Carlton
           Grande Lakes Hotel in Orlando, Florida
2006 - Canadian pair figure skaters David Pelletier (31) weds partner Jamie Sale (28) at the Fairmont
           Banff Springs hotel in Alberta, Canada
2011 - Scottish actor David Tennant (40) weds actress Georgia Moffett (27) in London, United
           Kingdom

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 30, 2012, 09:02:34 AM

This Day in History for 30th December


Famous Birthdays

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Poet Rudyard Kipling (1865)                    Singer Davy Jones (1945)                          Golfer Tiger Woods (1975)


39 - Titus, 10th Roman Emperor (79-81), conqueror of Jerusalem
1204 - Abû 'Uthmân Sa'îd Hakam al Qurashi, ruler of Minorca (d. 1282)
1552 - Simon Forman, English occultist and astrologer (d. 1611)
1566 - Alessandro Piccinini, composer
1569 - Georg Quitschreiber, composer
1642 - Vincenzo da Filicaja, Italian poet (d. 1707)
1644 - Philips van Almonde, Dutch Zeeuws lt-admiral
1673 - Ahmed III, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1736)
1678 - William Croft, composer
1722 - Charles Yorke, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (d. 1770)
1740 - Princess Elizabeth Caroline of Wales (d. 1759)
1741 - Bartolomeo Giacometti, composer
1756 - Pavel Vranicky, composer
1774 - Pieter G Witsen Geysbeek, Dutch historian/literary [or Dec 31]
1775 - Heinrich Carl Ebell, composer
1784 - Dorothea von Benckendorff, Baltic monarch of Lieven
1818 - James Cantey, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1874
1819 - John White Geary, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1873
1819 - Theodor Fontane, German writer (Effi Briest)
1828 - Mark Perrin Lowrey, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1885
1847 - John Peter Altgeld, German/US (Gov-Ill)/pardoned Haymarket-anarchists
1848 - Mary Frances Allitsen, composer
1851 - Asa Griggs Candler, developed Coca-Cola
1853 - Andre-Charles-Prosper Messager, composer
1855 - Heinrich Hart, German writer (Song of Humanity)
1859 - Josef Bohuslav Foerster, composer
1864 - Alessandro Longo, composer
1865 - Rudyard Kipling, Bombay, author (Jungle Book, Gunga Din-Nobel 1907), (d. 1936)
1867 - Simon Guggenheim, philanthropist (died aboard Titanic)
1869 - Adolphe Max, Belgian Rep (Lib)
1869 - Stephen Leacock, Canada, economist/humorist/professor
1872 - William A Larned, tennis champ (US Open-1901)
1873 - Al Smith, American politician (d. 1944)
1878 - William Aberhart, Canadian politician (d. 1943)
1879 - Sri Ramana Maharshi, Hindu philosopher/yogi (Maharshi Research Inst)
1880 - Alfred Einstein, German/US musicologist/nephew of Albert Einstein
1883 - Lester Patrick, NHL pioneer
1883 - Mary Forbes, Hornsey England, actress (Terror by Night)
1884 - Karl Heinrich David, composer
1884 - Tojo Hideki, Japanese PM during WW II
1887 - Henry George Ley, composer
1889 - Georg von der Vring, German painter/writer (Soldier Suhren)
1890 - Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, President of Mexico (d. 1973)
1891 - Antoine Pinay, French premier (1952)/minister of Foreign affairs
1892 - Jaromir Fiala, composer
1892 - John Litel, Albany WI, actor (Virginia City, My Hero)
1895 - August De Boodt, Belgian politician
1896 - Tom Keene, Rochester NY, actor (Our Daily Bread)
1897 - Alfredo Bracchi, Italian author (d. 1976)
1898 - Vincent Lopez, Bkln NY, orchestra leader (Welcome Aboard)
1899 - Helge Ingstad, Norwegian explorer (d. 2001)
1904 - Dmitri B Kabalevsky, St Petersburg Russia, composer (In the Fire) [NS]
1905 - Emmanuel Levinas, philosopher
1906 - Carol Reed, motion picture director (3rd Man)
1906 - Johan A earl von Kielmansegg, German general/commandant NATO-Europe
1907 - Christina E "Christine" Auwen, Dutch model/singer (Haghezangers)
1907 - Robert Grant Grant-Ferris, politician
1910 - Dennis Morgan, actor (Cattle Town, Canyon Pass, Waterfront)
1910 - Herman van der Horst, Dutch cinematographer (Faja Lobbi)
1910 - Paul Frederic Bowles, US composer/writer (Shelting Sky)
1911 - Jeanette Nolan, LA California, actress (Richard Boone Show, Virginian)
1913 - Svend Simon Schultz, composer
1913 - Elyne Mitchell, Australian author (d. 2002)
1914 - Bert Parks, [Jacobson], Atlanta Ga, TV host (Miss America)
1914 - Jo Van Fleet, American actress (d. 1996)
1917 - Nancy Coleman, Everett WA, actress (Edge of Darkness)
1917 - Seymour Melman, American industrial engineer (d. 2004)
1918 - W Eugene Smith, US photographer (Saipan, Walk to Paradise Garden)
1919 - David Valentine Willcocks, composer
1919 - Dick Spooner, England, cricket wicketkeeper (Godfrey Evans' shadow)
1919 - Jo Van Fleet, Oakland, actress (Gunfight at OK Corral, East of Eden)
1920 - Aad de Haas, Dutch religious painter/graphic artist/cartoonist
1920 - Michael Allinson, London England (George Washington)
1920 - Jack Lord, American actor (d. 1998)
1921 - Michael Hollings, catholic priest/crusader
1921 - Rashid Karami, Lebanon, 10 time PM: 1955..87 of Lebanon
1923 - Sara A Lidman, Swedish author (Jag Och Min Son, Samtal in Hanoi)
1926 - Stanley Tracey, composer
1927 - Bernard Barrow, NYC, actor (Ryan's Hope, Louie Slavinsky-Loving)
1927 - M Lawrence Antouin, college president (Emeritis)
1928 - Bo Diddley, [Ellas Bates], Miss, rock `n' roll pioneer (Bo Diddley)
1928 - Jack Lord, NYC, actor (Steve McGarrett-Hawaii 5-0, God's Little Acre)
1929 - Barbara Nichols, Jamaica NY, actress (Dear Heart, Disorderly Orderly)
1929 - Bob Bouma, Dutch TV host (For a Postcard in the Front Row)
1929 - Rosalind Hurley, British physician, barrister, ethicist and writer (d. 2004)
1930 - Jerome Theisen, benedictine
1931 - Charles A Bassett II, Dayton Ohio, Captain USAF/astronaut
1931 - Richard Christ, writer
1931 - Skeeter Davis, [Mary Penick], Dry Ridge Ky, singer (End of World)
1932 - John Hillerman, Denison Tx, actor (Magnum PI, Blazing Saddles)
1934 - Barry Briggs, NZ auto maker (World Champion 1957, 58, 64, 66)
1934 - Nicolas Coster, Lond, actor (Our Private World, Ryan's Four) [or 12/3]
1934 - Russ Tamblyn, LA California, actor (Win Place or Steal, Twin Peaks)
1934 - John Norris Bahcall, American physicist (d. 2005)
1934 - Joseph Bologna, American actor
1934 - Joseph P. Hoar, former US Central Command commander
1934 - Del Shannon, American singer (d. 1990)
1935 - Bruno Canino, composer
1935 - Omar [Albert B] Bongo, president of Gabon (1967- )
1935 - Sandy Koufax, Dodger pitcher (Cy Young '63, '65, '66, perfect-1967)
1935 - Jack Riley, American actor
1937 - John Hartford, NYC, country singer (Gentle on My Mind)
1937 - Paul Stookey, singer/musician (Peter, Paul, & Mary)
1937 - Gordon Banks, English footballer
1938 - Joseph Bologna, Brooklyn NY, actor (Citizen Cohn, My Favorite Year)
1939 - Del Shannon, [Charles Westover], Coopersville Mich, rocker (Runaway)
1939 - Doeke Eisma, sociologist/Dutch MP (D66)
1939 - Glenda Adams, Australian author (d. 2007)
1940 - James Burrows, TV producer/director (Mary Tyler Moore Show, Cheers)
1941 - Mel Renfro, American football player
1942 - Fred Ward, SD California, actor (Chain Reaction, Thunderheart, Equinox)
1942 - Michael Nesmith, Houston, rocker (Monkees-Last Train to Clarksville)
1942 - Robert Quine, rocker
1942 - Vladimir Bukovsky, Russian author and dissident
1942 - Guy Edwards, English racing driver
1942 - Janko Prunk, Slovenian historian
1943 - Rolf Gehlhaar, composer
1944 - William J. Fallon, U.S. Navy Admiral, former U.S. Central Command commander
1945 - Davy Jones, Manchester England, singer (Monkees-Last Train to Clarksville), (d. 2012)
1945 - John Kevin Moorhouse, test pilot
1945 - Preston Andrew Trombly, composer
1945 - Concetta Tomei, American actress
1945 - Vernon Wells, Australian actor
1947 - Jeff Lynne, rocker (ELO-Telephone Line, Travelling Wilburys)
1947 - Michael Burns, Mineola LI, actor (Barnaby West-Wagon Train)
1947 - Stephanus S "Tian" van Merwe, leader (South Africa Democratic Party)
1948 - Surinder Amarnath, cricketer (son of Lala 124 on debut v NZ 1976)
1949 - Bruce Davidson, equestrian 3-day (Olympics-silver-96)
1949 - Jim Flaherty, Canadian politician
1950 - Yunus I Mahomed, South African attorney/leader (UDF)
1950 - Lewis Shiner, American sci-fi/fantasy author
1951 - Nancy LaMott, singer
1951 - Doug Allder, English footballer
1952 - Larry Bartlett, photographic printer
1952 - Somtow Sucharitkul, [SP Somtow], Thailand, sf author (Utopia Hunters)
1952 - June Anderson, American soprano
1953 - Daniel T Barry, Norwalk Ct, PhD/MD/astronaut (STS 72)
1953 - Bill Kazmaier, American powerlifter
1953 - Harald Schmautz, German-born journalist
1953 - Meredith Vieira, American television journalist
1955 - Dindo Yogo, Congolese musician (d. 2000)
1956 - "Cherie" Samba (Mbimba N'zinga), Zaire painter (Pitie la prostituee)
1956 - Patricia Kalember, actress (Sisters)
1956 - Sheryl Lee Ralph, actress (Moesia, Designing Women)
1956 - Suzy Bogguss, Aledo Ill, singer (I Want to be a Cowboy's Sweetheart)
1957 - Matt Lauer, TV host (Today Show)
1957 - Patricia Kalember, Schnectady NY, actress (Georgie Whitsig-Sisters)
1958 - Brandon Clark, NYC, actor (Sean-The Fitzpatricks)
1958 - Steven L Smith, Phoenix Arizona, astronaut (STS 68, 82)
1958 - Rod Harrington, English darts player
1959 - Tracey Ullman, Slough England, singer/actress (Tracey Ullman Show)
1959 - Josée Verner, French Canadian politician
1960 - Addy Bucek, Australian 470 class yachter (Olympics-9-92, 96)
1961 - Ben Johnson, 100m runner (Olympic-gold-1988-disqualified)
1961 - Sue Malaxos, Australian marathoner (Olympics-96)
1961 - Douglas Coupland, Canadian author
1961 - Ben Johnson, Canadian athlete
1962 - Paul Crowder, rocker (The Adventures-Sea of Love)
1962 - Henry Cho, Korean-American comedian
1963 - Alessandra Mussolini, Naples Italy, actress (Ferragosto OK)
1963 - Johnny van 't Schip, Dutch soccer star (Ajax, Genua)
1963 - Milan Srejber, Czech, tennis star
1963 - Robert Jenkins, NFL tackle (Oakland Raiders)
1963 - Chandler Burr, American author
1964 - Kimberly Taylor, [Cindy], model/Penthouse Pet (1990)
1964 - Kris Tschetter, Detroit MI, LPGA golfer (1992 Northgate Computer)
1964 - Duglas T. Stewart, Scottish musician (BMX Bandits)
1965 - Brad McNamara, cricketer (NSW all-rounder)
1965 - David Baker, Sheffield England, UK cyclist
1965 - Tony Jones, WLAF receiver (Amsterdam Admirals, Frankfurt Galaxy)
1965 - Heidi Fleiss, American madam
1967 - Colleen Miller, Winnipeg Manitoba, rower (Olympics-96)
1968 - Kevin Dahl, Regina, NHL defenseman (Calgary Flames)
1968 - Sean Higgins, NBA guard/forward (Phila 76ers, Portland Trailblazers)
1969 - Anthuan Maybank, Georgetown SC, 200m/400m runner
1969 - Jeff Thomason, NFL tight end (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1969 - Michelle McGann, West Palm Beach FL, golfer (1995 Sara Lee Classic)
1969 - Dave England, American television personality
1969 - Jay Kay, English musician (Jamiroquai)
1970 - Grant Carter, CFL defensive end (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1970 - Gus Nketia, Auckland NZ, 100m sprint (Olympics-96)
1970 - Kevin Salvadori, NBA center (Sacramento Kings)
1970 - Robert Hall, WLAF wide reciever (Amsterdam Admirals)
1971 - Scotty Lewis, WLAF defensive end (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1971 - Steve Hardin, NFL/WLAF offensive tackle (Ind Colts, Rhein Fire)
1971 - Sylvester Wright, NFL linebacker (Philadelphia Eagles)
1971 - Thomas Strzalkowski, Krakow Poland, US fencer-sabre (Olympics-96)
1971 - Daniel Sunjata, American actor
1972 - Kerry Collins, NFL quarterback (Carolina Panthers)
1972 - Loren Meyer, NBA center (Phoenix Suns, Dallas Mavericks)
1972 - Maureen Flannigan, actress (Evie-Out of This World)
1972 - Paul Keegan, Irish footballer
1973 - Don Reid, NBA guard/forward (Detroit Pistons)
1973 - Robert Walker, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1973 - Ato Boldon, Trinidadian athlete
1974 - Johanna Sällström, Swedish actress (d. 2007)
1975 - Tiger Woods, Cypress, California, golfer (16 Major and 74 PGA wins)
1976 - Rhoshii Wells, Austin Tx, middleweight boxer (Olympics-bronze-96)
1976 - Solveig Lilja Gudmundsdottir, Miss Iceland Universe (1997)
1976 - A.J. Pierzynski, American baseball player
1977 - Laila Ali, American boxer
1977 - Grant Balfour, Australian baseball player
1977 - Scott Lucas, Australian rules footballer
1977 - Kenyon Martin, American basketball player
1978 - Dikla Hamdy, Miss Israel Universe (1997)
1978 - Zbigniew Robert Promiński, Polish drummer
1978 - Tyrese, American singer and actor
1979 - Flávio, Angolan footballer
1980 - Eliza Dushku, Boston MA, actress (This Boy's Life, True Lies, Journey)
1980 - Kenny Kwan, Hong Kong singer
1981 - Ali Al Habsi, Omani footballer
1981 - Michael Rodríguez, Costa Rican footballer
1981 - Matt Ulrich, American football player
1982 - Kristin Kreuk, Canadian actress
1982 - Dawan Landry, American football player
1982 - Dathan Ritzenhein, American runner
1983 - Rachel & Ross Trudeau, twins of Jane Pauley & Gerry Trudeau
1984 - Randall Azofeifa, Costa Rican footballer
1984 - LeBron James, American basketball player
1985 - Lars Boom, Dutch cyclist
1987 - Jake Cuenca, Filipino actor and commercial model
1988 - Leon Jackson, Scottish singer
1989 - Ryan Sheckler, American professional skateboarder

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 30, 2012, 09:06:19 AM

This Day in History for 30th December


Famous Deaths

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Iraqi President
Saddam Hussein (2006)


274 - St Felix I, dies and ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1218 - Richard de Clare, 4th Earl of Hertford, English politician (b. 1162)
1460 - Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, claimant to the English throne killed in Battle of Wakefield. (b. 1411)
1525 - Jacob Fugger, German banker/merchant, dies at 66
1572 - Galeazzo Alessi, Italian architect (Palazza Marino, Milan), dies at 60
1573 - Giovanni Battista Giraldi, Italian writer (b. 1504)
1591 - Innocent IX, [Giovanni Facchinetti], Pope, (1591 62 days), dies at 72
1621 - Saint Job of Maniava, Ukrainian Orthodox Saint (b. 1550)
1640 - John Francis Regis, French saint (b. 1597)
1644 - Jan Baptist van Helmont, Flemish chemist (b. 1577)
1662 - Archduke Ferdinand Charles of Austria (b. 1628)
1691 - Robert Boyle, Irish scientist (b. 1627)
1769 - Nicholas Taaffe, 6th Viscount Taaffe, Austrian soldier (b. 1685)
1777 - Maximilian III Jozef, elector of Bayern (1745-77), dies at 50
1788 - Francesco Zuccarelli, Italian rococo painter/etcher, dies at 86
1796 - Jean-Baptiste Lamoyne, composer, dies at 45
1821 - Angelo Maria Benincori, composer, dies at 42
1825 - Peter Gronland, composer, dies at 64
1828 - Waldemar Thrane, composer, dies at 38
1832 - Abijah Hammond, owned large portion of Greenwich Village, dies
1870 - ... Prim, Spanish general, murdered
1893 - Samuel White Baker, English explorer, dies at 72
1894 - Amelia Jenks Bloomer, suffragist (Bloomers named for her), dies at 76
1895 - LP Hartley, British writer, dies
1896 - Jose Mercado Rizal, anti-Spanish rule of Philippines proponent, dies
1899 - James Paget, English surgeon (disease of Paget), dies at 85
1908 - Thomas-Alfred Bernier, Canadian lawyer, journalist and senator (b. 1844)
1912 - Alfred von Kiderlen-Waechter, German foreign minister, dies at 60
1931 - Tyrone Power Sr, actor (Big Trial, Test of Donald Norton), dies at 62
1940 - Fritz Volbach, composer, dies at 79
1941 - El Lissitzky, Russian artist and architect (b. 1890)
1943 - Hobart Bosworth, actor (Woman of Affairs, Big Parade), dies at 76
1944 - Romain Roland, French writer/pacifist (Nobel 1915), dies at 78
1946 - Patty Smith Hill, songwriter (Happy Birthday To You), dies at 78
1946 - Charles Wakefield Cadman, composer, dies at 65
1947 - Han [Henricus A] van Meegeren, Dutch painter/art forger, dies at 58
1951 - Jozef E Stokvis, Dutch MP (SDAP), dies at 76
1952 - Ivan Olbracht, writer, dies
1955 - Rex Ingamells, Australian poet (b. 1913)
1959 - Maria Baers, Flemish social female worker/senator, dies at 76
1961 - Jacobus "Ko" van den Bosch, Dutch actor (Amsterdamned)/dir, dies at 53
1966 - Christian A Herter, US Min of Foreign affairs (1959-61), dies at 71
1966 - Trygve Halvdan Lie, 1st UN sect-general (1946-53), dies at 72
1967 - Bert Berns, US songwriter/producer (Twist & Shout), dies at about 38
1967 - Vincent Massey, Governor-General of Canada (b. 1887)
1968 - Trygve Lie, Norwegian politician, first United Nations Secretary General (b. 1896)
1970 - Sonny Liston, World heavyweight boxing champion (1962-64), found dead at 38
1971 - Dorothy Comingore, actress (Citizen Kane), dies after illness at 58
1971 - Jan Mul, composer, dies at 60
1971 - Melba Rae, American actress (Search for Tomorrow) (b. 1922)
1973 - Henri-Paul Busser, composer, dies at 101
1979 - Richard Rodgers, composer (Rogers & Hammerstein), dies at 77
1981 - Alfie Anido, Filipino actor (b. 1959)
1984 - Massa, oldest gorilla on record (b. 1930)
1986 - Jiri Jaroch, composer, dies at 66
1986 - Era Bell Thompson, American journalist (b. 1905)
1988 - Yuli Daniel, Russian writer (b. 1925)
1989 - Madoline Thomas, actress (Girl in the Canal), dies
1989 - Lenore Lemmon, wife of George Reeves (b. 1923)
1992 - Caesar [Caesar] Domela, painter/son of Ferdinand D Nieuwenhuis, dies
1992 - Ling-Ling, 1st panda China gave US, dies at 23
1993 - Mack David, US songwriter (Bachelor in Paradise), dies at 81
1993 - [Irving Paul] "Swifty" Lazar, superagent, dies of kidney failure at 86
1994 - Lloyd James Austin, french Scholar, dies at 79
1995 - Heiner Muller, dramatist, dies at 66
1995 - Roger W Suddards, solicitor, dies at 65
1996 - Jack Nance, actor (Meatballs 4, Whore, Voodoo), murdered at 53
1996 - Lew Ayres, screen actor (Salem's Lot, State Fair), dies at 88
1996 - Robert Grant-Ferris, politician, dies at 89
1997 - Shinichi Hoshi, Japanese novelist (b. 1926)
1998 - Johnny Moore, American singer (The Drifters) (b. 1934)
1998 - George Webb, English actor (b. 1911)
1999 - Fritz Leonhardt, German structural engineer (b. 1909)
1999 - Sarah Knauss, American, once considered the world's oldest living person (b. 1880)
2000 - Julius J. Epstein, American screenwriter (b. 1909)
2002 - Mary Brian, American actress (b. 1906)
2002 - Mary Wesley, English novelist (b. 1912)
2003 - David Bale, South African-born activist (b. 1941)
2003 - John Gregory Dunne, American writer (b. 1932)
2003 - Anita Mui, Hong Kong singer and actress (b. 1963)
2004 - Artie Shaw, American jazz clarinetist, composer, and bandleader, dies at 94
2005 - Rona Jaffe, American author (b. 1932)
2006 - Deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is hanged in Baghdad at 69
2006 - Terry Peck, Falkland Islander (b. 1938) who acted as a scout for 3rd Battalion, The Parachute
            Regiment in the Falklands War
2006 - Michel Plasse, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1948)
2008 - Dick Green, Canadian actor
2009 - Rowland S. Howard, Australian guitarist (The Birthday Party) (b. 1959)
2009 - Abdurrahman Wahid, 4th President of Indonesia (b.1940)
2010 - Bobby Farrell, Aruban singer (Boney M) (b. 1949)
2010 - Per Oscarsson, Swedish actor (b. 1927)
2011 - Eva Zeisel, Hungarian-born ceramic designer, dies at 105
2011 - Mirko Tremaglia, fiercely nationalist Italian politician, dies at 85

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 31, 2012, 04:46:23 PM

This Day in History for 31st December


Historical Events

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Classical music prodigy Mozart                Discoverer of Radium Marie Curie           Singer/Actor Frank Sinatra

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33rd US President                                   Russian President Boris Yeltsin
Harry Trumanr


406 - 80,000 Vandels attack the Rhine at Mainz
406 - Vandals, Alans and Suebians cross the Rhine, beginning an invasion of Gallia.
535 - Byzantine General Belisarius completes the conquest of Sicily, defeating the Ostrogothic garrison of Syracuse, and ending his consulship for the year.
765 - Coffin of Ho-tse Shen-hui interred in a stupa built in China
870 - Skirmish at Englefield: Ethelred of Wessex beats Danish invasion army
1229 - James I of Aragon the Conqueror enters Medina Mayurqa (now known as Palma, Spain) thus consummating the Christian conquest of the island of Majorca.
1492 - 100,000 Jews expelled from Sicily
1502 - Cesare Borgia (son of pope Alexander VI) occupies Urbino
1564 - Willem van Orange demands freedom of conscience/religion
1600 - British East India Company chartered
1604 - Admiral Steven van der Haghen's fleet reaches Bantam
1621 - Hungarian King Bethlen Gabor/Ferdinand II sign Treaty of Mikulov
1660 - James II of England is named Duke of Normandy by Louis XIV of France.
1669 - France & Brandenburg sign secret treaty
1670 - France & England sign Boyne-treaty
1680 - Amsterdam opera at Leidsegracht opens
1687 - 1st Huguenots depart France to Cape of Good Hope
1688 - Pro-James II-earl of Devonshire occupies Nottingham [OS=Dec 21]
1695 - A window tax is imposed in England, causing many shopkeepers to brick up their windows to avoid the tax.
1700 - Frisia/Groningen adopt Gregorian calendar, tomorrow is 1/12/1701
1708 - Great Alliance captures Bridge
1711 - Duke of Marlborough fired as English army commander
1744 - James Bradley announces discovery of Earth's nutation motion (wobble)
1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlies army meets with de Esk
1756 - Russia joins the Alliance of Versailles
1758 - British expeditionary army occupies Goree (Dakar) Senegal
1762 - Mozart family moves from Vienna to Salzburg
1775 - Battle of Quebec; Americans unable to take British stronghold
1776 - Rhode Island establishes wage & price controls to curb inflation: Limit is 70 cents a day for carpenters, 42 cents for tailors
1779 - English fleet beat Dutch Merchant vessels
1781 - Bank of North America, 1st US bank opens
1783 - Import of African slaves banned by all of the Northern states
1805 - End of French Republican calendar; France returns to Gregorianism
1831 - Gramercy Park is deeded to New York City.
1841 - Alabama becomes 1st state to license dental surgeons
1857 - Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa as new capital of Canada
1859 - Dutch colony in Dutch Indies counts 4,800 slaves
1861 - 22,990 mm of rain falls in Cherrapunji Assam in 1861, world record
1862 - -Jan 20th) Battle of Stone's River/Battle of Murfreesboro, Tennesse in American Civil War
1862 - President Lincoln signs act admitting West Virginia to the Union
1862 - Skirmish at Parker Cross Roads, Tennessee
1862 - Union ironclad ship "Monitor" sank off Cape Hatteras, NC
1870 - J D Schneiter patents rocket mail in France, (not done)
1879 - Cornerstone laid for Iolani Palace (only royal palace in US)
1879 - Cornerstone laid for Honolulu's Iolani Palace
1879 - Edison gives 1st public demonstration of his incandescent lamp
1879 - Gilbert and Sullivan's Opera "Pirates of Penzance," premieres in NYC
1890 - Ellis Island (NYC) opens as a US immigration depot
1896 - 25th auto built in US
1897 - Brooklyn's last day as a city, it incorporates into NYC (1/1/1898)
1902 - Boers & British army sign peace treaty
1904 - The first New Year's Eve celebration is held in Times Square, then known as Longacre Square, in New York, New York.
1906 - French/British/Italian treaty concerning rights on Abyssinia
1907 - For 1st time a ball drops at Times Square to signal new year
1907 - G Mahler conducts the Metropolitan Opera
1910 - US tobacco industry produced 9 billion cigarettes in 1910
1911 - Marie Curie receives her 2nd Nobel Prize
1914 - Colonel Jacob Ruppert & Cap Huston purchase NY Yankees for $460,000
1917 - Dutch Social-democratic trade union NVV counts 159,450 members
1918 - Kid Gleason replaces Pants Rowland as White Sox manager
1920 - Roy Park makes 1st-ball duck in only Test Cricket inn, v Eng at MCG
1921 - Last San Francisco firehorses retired
1923 - 1st transatlantic radio broadcast of a voice, Pittsburgh-Manchester
1923 - BBC begins using Big Ben chime ID
1923 - H Tierney/J McCarthy's musical "Kid Boots," premieres in NYC
1924 - Hubble announces existence of distant galaxies
1925 - 14th congress of CPSU decides to accelerate industry
1927 - Ponsford scores 336 against SA, giving him 1146 for month
1929 - Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Divini illius magistri
1930 - Pontifical encyclical Casti connubii against mixed marriages
1930 - US tobacco industry produced 123 billion cigarettes in 1930
1932 - John P O'Brien sworn-in as mayor of NYC
1934 - Helen Richey becomes 1st woman to pilot an airmail transport
1935 - CPH becomes Dutch Communist Party
1935 - Charles Darrow patents Monopoly
1938 - Dr R N Harger's "drunkometer," 1st breath test, introduced in Indiana
1938 - Dutch national debt hits ƒ3,986,629,805.70
1939 - 25 U boats sunk this month (81,000 ton)
1939 - Dutch national debt hits ƒ4,218,553,180.99
1940 - 37 U boats sunk this month (213,000 ton)
1941 - Young Park (2) in the Bronx named in honor of Samuel Young
1942 - 60 U boats sunk this month (330,000 ton)
1942 - Battle in Barents Sea
1942 - Potatoes rationed in Holland
1943 - NYC's Times Square greets Frank Sinatra at Paramount Theater
1944 - 48 people die in a train accident in Ogden, Utah
1944 - Japanese army evacuates harbor city Akyab
1944 - World War II: Hungary declares war on Germany.
1945 - Bradman scores 112, his 1st post-War century, SA v Aust Services
1945 - Ratification of UN Charter completed
1946 - French troops leave Lebanon
1946 - Pres Harry Truman officially proclaims end of WW II
1948 - Dutch police actions up Java gone on strike
1949 - 18 countries recognize Republic Indonesia
1950 - Jockeys W Shoemaker & Joe Culmone set record of 388 wins in a year
1951 - 1st battery to convert radioactive energy to electrical announced
1953 - Hulan Jack sworn in as Manhattan Borough president
1953 - WFBC (now WYFF) TV channel 4 in G'ville-Spartanburg, SC (NBC) begins
1953 - Willie Shoemaker shatters record, riding 485 winners in a year
1955 - "Vamp" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 60 performances
1955 - The General Motors Corporation becomes the first U.S. corporation to make over $1 billion USD in a year.
1957 - AAU awards Bobby Morrow, James Sullivan Memorial Trophy
1958 - 47th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Brisbane (3-2)
1958 - Cubans dictator Batista flees
1958 - International Geophyscial Year ends
1958 - Willie Shoemaker 1st jockey to win national riding championship 4X
1961 - "lrma La Douce" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 527 performances
1961 - 1st performance of Beach Boys
1961 - Beach Boys play their debut gig under that name
1961 - Failed coup by Syrian group in Lebanon
1961 - Green Bay Packers shutout NY Giants 37-0 in NFL championship game
1961 - Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than $12 billion
1962 - "Match Game" debuts on NBC with host Gene Rayburn
1962 - American Basketball League announces suspension of operation
1962 - Dutch leave New Guinea
1962 - Katanga becomes part of Democratic Republic of Congo
1962 - Ohio ends suit against Reds when they agree to stay in Cin for 10 yrs
1963 - Chicago Bears win NFL championship
1963 - Dear Abby show premieres on CBS radio (runs 11 years)
1963 - Jerry Garcia & Bob Weir played music together for the 1st time
1964 - Donald Campbell (UK) sets world water speed record (276.33 mph)
1964 - Indonesia proclaims expelled from the UN
1966 - Monkee's "I'm a Believer" hits #1 & stays there for 7 weeks
1966 - Pirate Radio 390 (Radio Invicata) off England, resumes transmitting
1966 - Test Cricket debut of Bishen Singh Bedi, India v WI Calcutta, 2-92
1966 - Toboggan Chutes begin operation in Cleveland Metroparks
1967 - "Henry, Sweet Henry" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 80 perfs
1967 - 1st NBA game at Great Western Forum, LA Lakers beat Houston 147-118
1967 - Oakland Raiders beat Houston Oilers 40-7 in AFL championship game
1967 - Packers beat Cowboys 21-17 in NFL championship game (-13°F)
1968 - 1st supersonic airliner flown (Russian TU-144)
1968 - 1st test flight of Tupolev TU 144
1968 - NY Jets win AFL championship
1969 - Congo-Brazzaville becomes People's republic, under major Ngouabi
1970 - Congress authorizes Eisenhower dollar coin
1970 - Paul McCartney files a lawsuit to disolve Beatles
1970 - President Allende nationalizes Chilean coal mines
1970 - Would have been start of Aust/Eng Test Cricket at MCG, washed out
1971 - KAID TV channel 4 in Boise, ID (PBS) begins broadcasting
1971 - Lt Gen Robert E Cushman, Jr, USMC, ends term as deputy director of CIA
1972 - 39th Sugar Bowl: Oklahoma 14 beats Penn State 0
1972 - Leap second day; also in 1973-79, 1987
1972 - Miami Dolphins beat Pittsburgh Steelers 21-7 in AFC championship game
1972 - Washington Redskins beat Dallas Cowboys 26-3 in NFC championship game
1973 - 40th Sugar Bowl: Notre Dame 24 beats Alabama 23
1973 - 61st Australian Mens Tennis: John Newcombe beats O Parun (63 67 75 61)
1973 - Johan Cruyff chosen European soccer Player of year
1974 - 41st Sugar Bowl: Nebraska 13 beats Florida 10
1974 - Free agent pitcher Catfish Hunter signs $3M 5 year NY Yank contract
1974 - Gold legal in US, Franklin Mint strikes Panama's Gold 100 balboa coin
1974 - Lindsey Buckingham & Stevie Nicks join Fleetwood Mac
1974 - NY Yankees sign Jim "Catfish" Hunter to 5 yrs for record $3.75 million
1974 - Popular Electronics displays Altair 8800 computer
1975 - 42nd Sugar Bowl: Alabama 13 beats Penn State 6
1976 - TV soap "Somerset" ends 6 year run
1976 - The Cars played their 1st gig
1977 - "Bubbling Brown Sugar" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 766 perfs
1977 - "Man of La Mancha" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 124 performances
1977 - Amir Sheikh Jabir al-Ahmad al-Jabir Al Sabah becomes leader of Kuwait
1977 - Cambodia drops diplomatic relations with Vietnam
1977 - Donald Woods, a banned white editor flees South Africa
1977 - Ted Bundy escapes from jail in Colorado
1977 - WFAT (Bkln NY pirate radio station) begins broadcasting on 1620 AM
1978 - "Magic Show" closes at Cort Theater NYC after 1859 performances
1978 - "Runaways" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 199 performances
1978 - CIA director, Admiral Stansfield Turner retires from the Navy
1978 - Iran shah names Chapour Bakhtiar premier
1978 - Taiwan's final day of diplomatic relations with US
1979 - Winterland Rock Concert Hall in SF closes after 556 concerts
1980 - A Jewish owned hotel in Nairobi Kenya is bombed killing 18
1980 - NY Islanders greatest shutout margin (9-0) vs Chicago Black Hawks
1980 - Senegal president Leopold Senghor resigns
1981 - CNN Headline News debuts
1981 - Lt Jerry Rawlings becomes head of Ghana, suspends constitution
1981 - Netherlands unemployment stands at record 475,000
1982 - CBS Mystery Theater final episode on radio after 8 years
1982 - NBC radio cancels almost all of its network daily features
1982 - TV soap "Doctors" ends 19 year run
1983 - Brunei gains complete independence from Britain
1983 - Jose Happart installed as mayor of Voeren Belgium
1983 - Nigeria's National Assembly dissolves after military coup
1984 - Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen loses his arm in a car crash
1984 - NYC subway gunman Bernhard Goetz surrenders to police in NH
1984 - Rajiv Gandhi takes office as India's 6th PM succeeds his mom, Indira
1984 - Test Cricket debut of Mohammad Azharuddin, v England at Calcutta
1984 - US leaves UNESCO
1986 - Dupont Plaza Hotel fire in San Juan, Puerto Rico kills 97
1986 - Russian TU-144 flies for 1st time faster than sound
1986 - WIS-AM in Columbia SC changes call letters to WVOC (now WOMG)
1989 - "Me & My Girl" closes at Marquis Theater NYC after 1420 performances
1989 - "Threepenny Opera" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC after 65 perfs
1989 - Fog Bowl: Heavy fog rolls in on Bears 20-12 victory over Eagles
1989 - Jockey Kent Desormeaux sets record with 598 wins in a year
1990 - Iraq begins a military draft of 17 year olds
1990 - Sci-Fi Channel on cable TV begins transmitting
1990 - United Somali Congress seizes Presidential Palace
1991 - CPN, Communist Party of Netherland, last day of existance
1991 - Daniel R McCarthy elected NY Yankee managing general partner
1991 - Dow Jones closes at record high 3168.83
1991 - J Donald Crump resigned as CFL Commissioner
1991 - USSR, last day of existence
1992 - Target date for Europe's single market
1993 - Barbra Striesand does her 1st live public concert in 20 years
1994 - 1st snowless December in Baltimore Maryland
1994 - Anti Apartheid Group of Netherlands (AABN) disbands
1994 - This date is skipped altogether in Kiribati as the Phoenix Islands and Line Islands change time zones from UTC-11 to UTC+13 and UTC-10 to UTC+14, respectively.
1995 - "Danny Gans on Broadway" closes at Neil Simon NYC
1995 - "Having Our Say" closes at Booth Theater NYC after 308 performances
1995 - "Heiress" closes at Cort Theater NYC after 340 performances
1995 - "Paul Roebson" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 14 performances
1995 - "Racing Demon" closes at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC after 48 perfs
1995 - "Tempest" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 71 performances
1995 - 62nd Sugar Bowl: Virginia Tech beats Texas
1995 - Cartoonist Bill Watterson ends his "Calvin & Hobbes" comic strip
1995 - Matthew Elliott scores separate cricket century same day for Victoria
1997 - Intel cuts price of Pentium II-233 MHz from $401 to $268
1997 - Marv Levy, retires as coach of Buffalo Bills
1997 - Microsoft buys Hotmail E-mail service
1997 - More Swedes died than were born in 1997, 1st time since 1809
1997 - Orlando Hernandez, half-brother of pitcher Livan, defects from Cuba
1997 - S Afr & US surgeons separate Zambian Siamese twins joined at the head
1998 - US movie box office hits record $6.24 billion for year
1998 - Exchange rates between the euro and legacy currencies in the Eurozone become fixed.
1999 - Control of Panama Canal reverts to Panama
1999 - Boris Yeltsin resigns as President of Russia, leaving Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as the acting President.
2004 - The official opening of Taipei 101, the current tallest skyscraper in the world, standing at a height of 509 metres (1,670 feet).
2007 - Bocaue Fire. Seven people injured when a fire razed several fireworks stores in the Municipality of Bocaue, Bulacan, Philippines.
2007 - The Massive Big Dig construction project in Boston, Massachusetts ends.

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Post by: MysteRy on December 31, 2012, 04:56:53 PM

This Day in History for 31st December


Famous Weddings

1852 - Future president & Mrs Rutherford B Hayes marry
1989 - Actress Annabella Sciorra (Jungle Fever) weds Joe Petruzzi
1992 - WCBS TV news anchor Carol Martin weds Joe Terry
1993 - Loveboat actress Jill Whelan (27) weds Brad St John (33)
1997 - "The Fresh Prince" Will Smith (43) weds actress and singer-songwriter Jada Pinkett (40) in
           Baltimore, Maryland
1997 - Academy Award-winning actress Helen Mirren (52) weds The Devil's Advocate director Taylor
           Hackford (53) at the Ardersier Parish Church near Inverness in the Scottish Highlands
2000 - Actress Kate Hudson (21) weds Black Crowes frontman Chris Robinson (34) in Aspen,
           Colorado
2001 - Glamour model and actress Coco Austin (33) weds rapper-actor Ice-T (54) in Las Vegas,
            Nevada
2002 - Actress Rachel Griffiths (34) weds Australian artist Andrew Taylor (35) at Star of the Sea
           Chapel in Gardenvale, Australia
2002 - Black Sabbath lead singer Ozzy Osbourne (54) weds TV host Sharon Osbourne (50) at The
            Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills, California
2003 - "Torn" singer and actress Natalie Imbruglia (28) weds "Silverchair" singer Daniel Johns (24) at
            Thala Beach Lodge in Port Douglas, Australia
2004 - Australian pop diva Natalie Imbruglia (28) weds "Silverchair" frontman Daniel Johns (24) on a
           beach ceremony in Port Douglas, Queensland, Australia
2004 - English actor Terence Stamp (64) weds Elizabeth O'Rourke (23) in London
2005 - "One Tree Hill" actress Bethany Joy Lenz (24) weds "Enation" musician Michael Galeotti in
            Hillsboro, Oregon
2005 - Olympic gold medal skater Jamie Sale (28) weds her pair figure skater David Pelletier (31) at
           Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel in Canada

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 31, 2012, 05:01:16 PM

This Day in History for 31st December


Famous Birthdays

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Impressionist Painter
Henri Matisse (1869)                               

695 - Muhammad bin Qasim, Syrian general (d. 715)
1378 - Callistus III, (Alfonso the Borja), Pope (1455-58)
1491 - Jacques Cartier, French explorer (d. 1557)
1514 - Andreas Vesalius, Brussels Belgium, anatomist (Fabrica)
1540 - Silvio Antoniano, Italian cardinal/theologist (Tre libri)
1572 - Emperor Go-Yozei of Japan, (d. 1617)
1668 - Hermannus Boerhaave, Dutch medical/botanist
1720 - [Bonnie Prince] Charles Edward Stuart, English pretender to throne
1724 - Franz Joseph Oehlschlagel, composer
1738 - Charles Lord Cornwallis, soldier/statesman "fire when ready Gridley"
1741 - Isabella Maria of Parma, wife of future Holy Roman emperor (d. 1763)
1763 - Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, French admiral (d. 1806)
1799 - Thomas Taglichsbeck, composer
1805 - Marie-C-S de Flavigny Agoult, [Daniel Stern], French author (Knife)
1815 - George Gordon Meade, Major General (Union Army), died in 1872

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Post by: MysteRy on December 31, 2012, 05:04:27 PM

This Day in History for 31st December


Famous Deaths

192 - Lucius AA Commodus, Emperor of Rome (180-192), murdered at 31
335 - St. Silvester I, Catholic Pope, dies in office
406 - Godagisel, King of the Vandals, dies in battle
439 - Melania the Younger, Roman monastery founder/saint, dies at about 56
1164 - Margrave Ottokar III of Styria (b. 1124)
1194 - Duke Leopold V of Austria (killed at a tournament) (b. 1157)
1297 - Humphrey de Bohun, 3rd Earl of Hereford, English soldier (b. 1249)
1302 - Frederick III, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1238)
1382 - Daigaku, Zen teacher/46th head of Engakuji, dies in Kamakura Japan
1384 - John Wycliffe, English religious reformer/bible translator, dies
1424 - Thomas Beaufort, 1st Duke of Exeter, English military leader
1460 - Edmund, Earl of Rutland, brother of Kings Edward IV of England and Richard III of England
          (executed) (b. 1443)
1460 - Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury, English politician (b. 1400)
1510 - Bianca Maria Sforza, wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1472)
1535 - William Skeffington, Lord Deputy of Ireland (b. 1465)                     

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Post by: MysteRy on January 01, 2013, 11:11:42 AM

This Day in History for 1st January


Famous Events

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     First US President                                         26th US President                            Ford Motor Company Founder                         
   George Washington                                    Theodore Roosevelt                                Henry Ford

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Country Singer Johnny Cash                     Motorcycle Daredevil Robert                    264th Pope John Paul II

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Radio shock jock Howard Stern                     Cartoonist Gary Larson


153 BC - Roman consuls begin their year in office.
45 BC - The Julian calendar takes effect for the first time.
1 - Origin of Christian Era
69 - Roman garrison of Mainz uprising
89 - Gov Lucius Antonius Saturninus of Germany becomes emperor of Rome
313 - Start of Roman (Pontifical) Indiction
404 - Last gladiator competition in Rome
630 - The Prophet Muhammad sets out toward Mecca with the army that captures it bloodlessly.
722 - Hofmeier Charles Martel flees from bishop Willibrord
990 - Russia adopts Julian calendar
1259 - Michael VIII Palaiologos is proclaimed co-emperor of the Empire of Nicaea with his ward John
           IV Laskaris.
1430 - Jews of Sicily are no longer required to attend conversionist services
1438 - Albrecht II von Habsburg becomes king of Hungary
1494 - Juw Dekama elected potentate of Frisia
1502 - Portuguese navigators discover Rio de Janeiro
1504 - King Louis XII loses last bulwark in Naples, Caeta
1515 - Francois, Duke of Angouleme succeeds Louis XII as Francois I of France
1515 - Jews are expelled from Laibach Austria
1515 - King Francis I of France succeeds to the French throne.
1527 - Croatian nobles elect Ferdinand I of Austria as king of Croatia in the Parliament on Cetin.
1573 - Geuzen sets fire to Woudrichem
1583 - 1st day of the Gregorian calendar in Holland & Flanders
1600 - Scotland begins its numbered year on January 1 instead of 25 March.
1610 - German astronomer Simon Marius 1st discovers the Jupiter moons, but does not officially
            report it, Galileo does on July 1 1610
1622 - Papal Chancery adopts Jan 1 as beginning of the year (was Mar 25)
1651 - Charles II Stuart crowned king of Scotland
1660 - 1st entry in Samuel Pepys' diary
1660 - General Moncks army battles with the Tweed on way to London
1660 - Thomas Fairfax' New Model-army occupies York
1672 - Jean Racine's "Bajazet," premieres in Paris
1673 - Regular mail delivery begins between NY & Boston
1675 - Don Carlos de Gurrea/Aragon becomes Spanish land guardian of S Neth
1689 - Pro-James II-earl of Danby occupies York
1700 - Protestant Western Europe (except England) begin using Gregorian calendar
1700 - Russia begins using the Anno Domini era and no longer uses the Anno Mundi era of the
           Byzantine Empire.
1707 - John V succeeds his father Pedro II as king of Portugal
1739 - J B C Bouvet de Lozier discovers Bouvet Island, near Antarctica
1770 - Date of action in the opera "Madeleine"
1772 - First traveler's cheques go on sale in London, can be used in 90 European cities
1776 - Gen George Washington hoists Continental Union Flag
1781 - 1,500 soldiers of the 6th Pennsylvania Regiment under General Anthony Wayne's command       
          rebel against the Continental Army's winter camp in Morristown, New Jersey as part of the 
           Pennsylvania (Continentals; Regiment) Mutiny of 1781.
1785 - "Daily Universal Register" (Times of London) publishes 1st issue
1788 - London's Daily Universal Registrar becomes the Times
1788 - Quakers in Pennsylvania emancipate their slaves
1797 - Albany replaces NYC as capital of NY
1798 - Russia appoints 1st Jewish censor to censor Hebrew books
1800 - Dutch East Indies Company dissolves
1801 - The Irish Parliament votes to join the Kingdom of Great Britain, forming the United Kingdom
           of Great Britain and Ireland
1801 - The dwarf planet Ceres is discovered by Giuseppe Piazzi.
1803 - Emperor Gia Long orders all bronze wares of the Tây Sơn Dynasty to be collected and melted
           into nine cannons for the Royal Citadel in Huế, Vietnam.
1804 - Haiti gains independence from France (National Day)
1807 - Curacao is taken by English (until March, 1816)
1808 - African Benevolent Society (education) forms
1808 - Congress prohibits importation of slaves
1808 - Sierra Leone becomes a British colony
1809 - Holland Brigade under brig gen Chasse reaches Madrid
1814 - Field marshal Blucher's troops cross the Rhine at Kaub
1818 - Official reopening of the White House
1826 - Baron Van der Capellen resigns as governor of Dutch-Indies
1827 - Dutch Trade Company NHM gets opium monopoly on Java
1831 - William Lloyd Garrison publishes 1st issue of abolitionist journal
1833 - British government demands Falkland islands
1833 - Curacao census: 2,602 whites, 6,531 free people & 5,894 slaves
1834 - German Tolunie goes into effect
1838 - 1st official horse race in South Australia-Adelaide
1840 - 1st recorded bowling match in US, Knickerbocker Alleys, NYC
1842 - 1st illustrated weekly magazine in US publishes 1st issue, NYC
1844 - 1st edition of New Rotterdam's Daily (3x per week)
1845 - The Cobble Hill Tunnel in Brooklyn is completed.
1846 - Yucatan declares independence from Mexico
1847 - Michigan is 1st state to abolish capital punishment
1847 - Neth's Haarlem's Current newspaper starts publishing
1848 - Britain takes Mosquito Coast from Nicaragua
1851 - City of Glasgow steamer inaugurates Philadelphia-Liverpool line
1852 - 1st US public bath opens, in NYC
1852 - National debt of Britain & Ireland is 765,126,582 pounds
1852 - Netherlands begins issuing postage stamps
1853 - 1st practical fire engine (horse-drawn) in US enters service
1854 - Lincoln University, a black college, chartered (Oxford, Penn)
1858 - Canada begins using decimal currency system
1860 - Slavery ends of in Neth Indies
1861 - Porfirio Diaz conquers Mexico City
1861 - President Lincoln declares slavery in Confederate states unlawful
1862 - 1st US income tax (3% of incomes > $600, 5% of incomes > $10,000)
1862 - Battle of Ft McRee, FL Battle of Port Royal, SC (Port Royal Ferry)
1863 - 1st homestead under the Homestead Act claimed, near Beatrice, Nebr
1863 - Battle of Galveston, Texas-Confederates recapture the city
1863 - Emancipation Proclamation (ending slavery) issued by Lincoln
1863 - Franz Schuberts "Missa Solemnis," premieres in Leipzig
1865 - -Apr 26th] Carolinas' campaign
1871 - Belgium disbands salt tax
1873 - Origin of Japanese Era
1874 - New York City annexes the Bronx
1876 - The Reichsbank opens in Berlin.
1877 - England's Queen Victoria proclaimed empress of India
1879 - John Brahms' Violin Concerto in D major premieres in Leipzig
1880 - Building of Panama Canal, begins
1881 - Dr John H Watson is introduced to Sherlock Holmes
1886 - 1st Tournament of Roses (Pasadena California)
1890 - Eritrea is consolidated into a colony by the Italian government.
1891 - French troops occupy Nioro, West-Sudan, 3000 killed
1891 - King Pakketvaart sails to Neth Indies
1892 - Ellis Island becomes reception center for new immigrants
1893 - 1st US college extension courses for credit, Univ of Chicago
1893 - Japan adopts the Gregorian calendar
1894 - Denmark adopts Mid-European time
1894 - Manchester Ship Canal in England opens to traffic
1895 - Norway adopts Mid-European time
1896 - Wilhelm Roentgen announces his discovery of x-rays
1897 - 1st football game between black colleges-Atlanta U 10, Tuskegee 0
1898 - Brooklyn merges with NY to form present City of NY
1898 - Lightship replaces whistling buoy at mouth of SF Bay
1898 - d'Annunzio's "Sogno d'un mattino di primavera," premieres in Rome
1899 - Cuba liberated from Spain by US (Natl Day) (US occupies till 1902)
1899 - Spanish rule ends in Cuba.
1900 - 1st date in John dos Passos' USA trilogy (The 42nd Parallel)
1900 - British protectorates of Northern & Southern Nigeria established
1900 - Compulsory education in Netherlands goes into effect
1901 - Australia declares independence from federation of UK colonies
1901 - Nigeria becomes a British protectorate.
1902 - 1st Rose Bowl game (Pasadena, California) (U of Mich-49, Sanford-0)
1902 - Nathan Stubblefield makes 1st public demonstration of radio, Penn
1904 - Neth Indies colony begins opium production
1905 - 9 hour work day for diamond miners
1906 - Dutch law makes driver's license mandatory
1907 - Pres Theodore Roosevelt shakes a record 8,513 hands in 1 day
1908 - 1st time, ball signifying new year dropped at Times Square
1908 - Jack Hobbs makes his Test debut at the MCG (83 & 28)
1909 - Robert Fowler runs then world record marathon (2:52:45.4)
1909 - Drilling begins on the Lakeview Gusher.
1910 - Simpson-Hayward (England) takes 6-43 on debut with underarm lobs
1911 - Belgian Mining law introduces 9½ hour work day
1911 - South Australia transfers Northern Territory to federal government
1912 - 1st running of SF's famed "Bay to Breakers" race (7.63 miles/12.3 km)
1912 - Sun Yat-sen forms Chinese Republic
1912 - The Republic of China is established.
1913 - Post office begins parcel post deliveries
1914 - 1st scheduled airline flight, St Petersburg-Tampa (Tony Jannus pilot)
1914 - Klaas ter Laan becomes Neth's 1st socialist mayor (Zaandam)
1914 - Northern & Southern Nigeria united in British colony of Nigeria
1915 - DW Griffith shows "Clansman" at a sneak preview
1915 - Jews of Laibach Austria expelled
1916 - 1st football game in Rose Bowl (Washington State-Brown)
1916 - 1st issue of "Journal of Negro History" published
1918 - Last day of the Julian calendar in Finland
1919 - Belorussian SSR established
1919 - Edsel Ford succeeds his father, Henry Ford, as president of the Ford Motor Company.
1920 - The Belorussian Communist Organisation is founded as a separate party.
1922 - Vancouver, BC starts driving on the right side of road
1923 - Union of Socialist Soviet Republics established
1923 - Britain's Railways are grouped into the Big Four: LNER, GWR, SR, and LMSR.
1924 - Grossdeutsche Volksgemeinschaft/Volkische Block replaces NSDAP
1925 - Norway's capital Christiania changes name to Oslo
1926 - Flood in Rhine strikes Cologne
1927 - Communist uprising in West Java
1927 - Dodgers announce release of future Hall of Fame Zack Wheat
1927 - Turkey adopts the Gregorian calendar: December 18, 1926 (Julian), is immediately followed by January 1, 1927 (Gregorian).
1928 - 1st US air-conditioned office building opens, San Antonio
1928 - Algemeene Vereeniging Radio Omroep (AVRO) begins broadcasting (Neth)
1929 - Roy Riegels runs 60 yds the wrong way with Rose Bowl fumble recovery
1930 - Earl Claus von Stauffenberg promoted to 2nd lieutenant
1930 - Jurgens & Van den Berg merge with Lever Brothers to form Unilever
1932 - Jacob Cocey Sr chosen as mayor of Massillon Ohio
1932 - Rasse und Siedlungshauptamt publishes Himmler's wedding laws
1932 - The United States Post Office Department issues a set of 12 stamps commemorating the 200th anniversary of George Washington's birth.
1934 - Alcatraz officially becomes a federal prison
1934 - Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (US bank guarantor) effective
1934 - International Telecommunication Union established
1934 - Nazi Germany passes the "Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring".
1935 - 1st Sugar Bowl & 1st Orange Bowl
1935 - Associated Press inaugurates Wirephoto
1935 - Eastern Airlines hires Eddie Rickenbacker as GM
1935 - Pres Mustapha Kemal Pasha names himself "Ataturk: Father of Turkey"
1936 - 1st newspaper to microfilm its current issues, NY Herald Tribune
1937 - Anastasio Somoza becomes president of Nicaragua
1937 - Count Claus von Stauffenberg promoted to captain
1937 - US Army Air Corps physiological research laboratory completed, Ohio
1937 - Safety glass in vehicle windscreens becomes mandatory in Great Britain.
1939 - Sydney, Australia, swelters in 45 ˚C (113 ˚F) heat, a record for the city.
1941 - Netherlands begins taxing wages
1941 - Russian general Zhukov appointed chief of general staff
1942 - Rose Bowl played in NC due to Japanese threat-Oregon 20, Duke 16
1942 - US & 25 other countries sign a united declaration against the Axis
1943 - Count Claus von Stauffenberg promoted to lt-colonel
1943 - Negro League star Josh Gibson suffers a nervous breakdown
1944 - 1st feature-length foreign movie, African Journey, shown on TV, NYC
1944 - Army defeats Navy 10-7 in football "Arab Bowl," Oran, North Africa
1944 - Gen Clark replaces Gen Patton as commander of 7th Army
1945 - France joins the UN
1945 - German air raid on allied airports at Eindhoven/Saint-Trond/Brussels
1946 - ENIAC, US 1st computer finished by Mauchly/Eckert
1946 - Emperor Hirohito of Japan announces he is not a god
1946 - National Assembly proclaims Hungary a republic
1947 - Benelux agress to work related issues
1947 - Britain nationalizes its coal industry
1947 - WTTG TV channel 5 in Washington, DC (MET) begins broadcasting
1948 - 1st color newsreel filmed (Pasadena, California)
1948 - Bradman scores 132 in the 1st innings of the 3rd Test v India
1948 - Britain nationalizes its railways
1948 - General Agreement on Tariffs & Trade effective
1948 - Italy adopts constitution
1948 - Orissa province accedes to India
1948 - British railways are nationalised to form British Rail.
1948 - After partition, India declines to pay the agreed share of Rs.550 million in cash balances to Pakistan.
1948 - The Constitution of Italy comes into force.
1949 - KPRC TV channel 2 in Houston, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
1949 - KTTV TV channel 11 in Los Angeles, CA (MET) begins broadcasting
1949 - Tokelau (Union) Islands declared part of New Zealand
1950 - Dutch government raises all wages 5%, minimally fl. 5 per week
1950 - Ho Chi Minh begins offensive against French troops in Indo China
1950 - The state of Ajaigarh is ceded to the Government of India.
1951 - Massive Chinese/North Korean assault on UN-lines
1952 - Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 5th string quartet
1953 - Ernest Blochs "Suite Hebraique," premieres
1953 - WBRE TV channel 28 in Wilkes-Barre Scranton, PA (NBC) 1st broadcast
1954 - KSLA TV channel 12 in Shreveport, LA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 - Rose & Cotton Bowl are 1st sport colorcasts
1954 - WWTV TV channel 9 in Cadillac-Traverse City, MI (CBS) 1st broadcast
1954 - Yugoslav parliament chairman/VP Milovan Djilas criticize communism
1955 - Bhutan issues its 1st postage stamps
1955 - WEAT (now WPEC) TV channel 12 in West Palm Beach, FL (CBS) begins
1956 - KHAS TV channel 5 in Hastings, NB (NBC) begins broadcasting
1956 - KOSA TV channel 7 in Odessa, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting
1956 - Sudan (Anglo-Egyptian Sudan) declares independence from Egypt & UK
1956 - WREC (now WREG) TV channel 3 in Memphis, TN (CBS) begins broadcasting
1956 - A new year event causes panic and stampedes at Yahiko Shrine, Yahiko, central Niigata,
           Japan, killing at least 124 people.
1957 - Benjamin Britten's ballet "Prince & the Pauper," premieres in London
1957 - France returns Saar to becomes the 10th state of German Federal Rep
1957 - International Geophysical Year begins; ends 6/30/1958 (18-mo year)
1957 - George Town, Penang becomes a city by a royal charter granted by Her Majesty Queen 
           Elizabeth II.
1957 - An Irish Republican Army (IRA) unit attacks Brookeborough RUC barracks in one of the most
           famous incidents of the IRA's Operation Harvest.
1958 - BOAC Britannia flies London to NY in a record 7h57m
1958 - European Economic Community (Common Market) starts operation
1958 - Treaties establish European Economic Community (Common Market)
1958 - WMBD TV channel 31 in Peoria, IL (CBS) begins broadcasting
1959 - Castro leads Cuba to victory as Fulgencio Batista flees to Dom Rep
1959 - Chad becomes autonomous republic in French Community
1959 - Rohan Kanhai completes 256 v India at Calcutta
1960 - Bank of France issues new franc, worth 100 times the value of existing francs
1960 - Cameroon (French Cameroon) gains independence from France
1960 - Johnny Cash plays 1st of many free concerts behind bars
1960 - Montserrat adopts constitution
1961 - Briggs Stadium is renamed Tigers Stadium
1961 - Houston Oilers beat LA Chargers 24-16 in AFL championship game
1961 - Largest check issued, Natl Bank of Chicago to Sears ($960.242 billion)
1961 - Russia introduces a new ruble worth $1.11
1962 - Beatles' Decca audition is unsuccessful
1962 - Rwanda granted internal self-government by Belgium
1962 - Western Samoa gains independence from New Zealand Susuga Malietoa Tanumafili II becomes
           co-chief of Western Samoa
1962 - United States Navy SEALs established.
1963 - G Woods succeeds Eugene Black as president of the World Bank
1963 - WTEV (now WLNE) TV channel 6 in Providence RI begins broadcasting
1964 - Federation of Rhodesia & Nyasaland dissolved
1964 - KNMT TV channel 12 in Walker, MN (CBS) begins broadcasting
1964 - KTVS TV channel 3 in Sterling, CO (CBS) begins broadcasting
1965 - International Cooperation Year begins
1965 - Palestinian al-Fatah organization forms
1965 - The People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan is founded in Kabul.
1966 - 12 day transit worker strike shuts down NYC subway
1966 - Milt coup by Col Jean-Bédell Bokassa in Central African Republic
1966 - Simon & Garfunkel's "Sounds of Silence" reaches #1
1966 - All US cigarette packs have to carry "Caution Cigarette smoking may be hazardous to your
           health"
1967 - CRU becomes the CAFA & turns over the Grey Cup trophy to the CFL
1967 - Day's play in the Calcutta Test v W Indies cancelled by riots
1967 - FCC requires AM-FM sister stations to be at least 50% different
1967 - Green Bay Packers beat Dallas Cowboys 34-27 in NFL championship game
1967 - KC Chiefs beat Buffalo Bills 31-7 in AFL championship game
1967 - St Helena adopts constitution
1967 - Tonga revises constitution
1967 - WABW TV channel 14 in Pelham, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 - ABC radio splits into 4 networks (Info, Entertainment, Contemp & FM)
1968 - Evel Knievel fails in his attempt to jump Caesar's Palace Fountain
1968 - Netherlands gets color TV
1968 - WDCO TV channel 15 in Cochran, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1969 - Jack Kent Cooke, owner of NHL's LA Kings, fines each player $100 for "NOT" arguing with the referee
1970 - "The Epoch" (Time 0 for UNIX systems, Midnight GMT)
1970 - Afro-American Historical Calendar Series Established
1970 - Charles "Chub" Feeney becomes president of baseball's National League
1970 - Neth Christian Workers Union (NCW) forms
1970 - Revised calendar for Western (RC) Church goes into effect
1971 - Cigarette advertisements banned on TV
1972 - "Company" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 690 performances
1972 - "On the Town" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 65 performances
1972 - "Promises Promises" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 1281 perfs
1972 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1972 - International Book Year begins
1972 - KDSD TV channel 16 in Aberdeen, SD (PBS) begins broadcasting
1973 - 47th Australian Women's Tennis: Margaret Court beats Goolagong (64 75)
1973 - Britain, Ireland & Denmark become 7th-9th members of Common Market
1973 - West African Economic Community formed (Benin, Ivory Coast, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Upper Volta)
1974 - Lee MacPhail takes over as AL president, succeeding Joe Cronin
1974 - NBC radio begins on the hour news 24 hours a day (following CBS lead)
1974 - World Population Year begins
1975 - Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell & Mardian convicted of Watergate crime
1975 - International Women's Year begins
1975 - Sweden adopts constitution
1976 - "Musical Jubilee" closes at St James Theater NYC after 92 performances
1976 - Liberty Bell moves to new home behind Independence Hall
1976 - NBC replaces the peacock logo
1976 - Venezuela nationalizes oil fields
1977 - 1st woman formally ordained an Episcopal priest (Jacqueline Means)
1977 - Belgium reapportions 2,359 communities into 596
1977 - Czech intellects begin Human Rights Group Chapter 77
1977 - Tony Dorsett runs for record 202 yards in the Sugar Bowl
1978 - "Your Arm's Too Short..." closes at Lyceum NYC after 429 perfs
1978 - Air India B747 explodes near Bombay killing 213
1978 - Pres Ford signs 1st major revision of copyright law since 1909
1979 - International Year of the Child begins
1979 - Jura, 26th canton of Switzerland, established
1979 - US & China (Peoples Republic) begin diplomatic relations
1980 - 54th Australian Womens Tennis: Barbara Jordan beats S Walsh (63 63)
1980 - Alabama beats Arkansas in Sugar Bowl for college football championship
1980 - Chrysler UK renamed Talbot
1980 - International Decade of Water & Sanitation begins
1980 - Mob storms Russian embassy in Teheran
1980 - Premier Adbou Diouf becomes president of Senegal
1980 - Sweden changes order of succession to throne
1980 - Victoria is crowned princess of Sweden.
1981 - Georgia beats Notre Dame in Sugar Bowl for college football title
1981 - Greece is 10th country to join European Economic Community
1981 - International Year for the Disabled begins
1981 - Palau (Trust Territory of Pacific Is) becomes self-governing
1981 - Roger Smith becomes CEO of General Motors
1982 - 30 Something stars Ken Olin & Patricia Wettig meet, later they marry
1982 - Clemson wins the Orange Bowl for college football championship
1982 - Javier Perez de Cuellar becomes sec-gen of UN
1982 - MTA launches a 5 year plan to upgrade the NYC subway system
1982 - Pope John Paul II prays for an end to martial law in Poland
1982 - TA launches 5 year capital program to overhaul NYC subway system
1983 - PGA inaugurates all-exempt tour
1983 - Penn State beats Georgia in Sugar Bowl for college football title
1983 - World Communications Year begins
1983 - TCP/IP protocols become the only approved protocol on the ARPANET, replacing the earlier NCP protocol
1984 - AT&T's 22 owned Bell system companies divests into 8 companies
1984 - Brunei becomes independent of UK
1984 - NYC transit fare rises from 75 cents to 90 cents
1985 - International Youth Year begins
1985 - US's 1st manadatory seat belt law goes into effect (NY)
1985 - VH-1 made its broadcasting debut
1985 - The Internet's Domain Name System is created.
1985 - The first British mobile phone call is made by Ernie Wise to Vodafone.
1986 - Aruba becomes independent from neighbor island Curacao
1986 - Barbra Striesand & Jon Peters relationship breaks up
1986 - International Peace Year begins
1986 - NYC transit fare rises from 90 cents to $1.00
1986 - Oklahoma wins Orange Bowl for college football championship
1986 - Spain & Portugal are 11th & 12th to join European Economic Community
1986 - Iowa's All-American running back, Ronnie Harmon, fumbles the ball 4 times in his last game-the Rose Bowl
1987 - 60 bodies recovered in Dupont Plaza Hotel fire in Puerto Rico
1987 - China's rudimentary civil code in effect
1987 - International Year of Shelter for Homeless begins
1988 - Czech born tennis star Hana Mandikova becomes an Australian Citizen
1988 - Miami beats Oklahoma for college football championship
1988 - Year of the Reader begins
1989 - NYC transit fare rises from $1.00 to $1.15
1989 - Year of the Young Reader begins
1990 - David Dinkins sworn in as 1st black mayor of NYC
1990 - Mitsuko Nishiwaki beats Nakano to become Japan Women wrestling champ
1990 - NYC MTA stops token redemption at subway stations
1990 - Sports News Network begins operation on cable TV
1990 - FCC implements "SYNDEX" giving independent stations more rights over cable TV outlets for exclusive syndicated programs
1991 - 5% sales tax on consumer goods & services goes into effect in USSR
1991 - Iraq rejects peace proposal from Egyptian Pres Hosi Mubarak
1991 - Les Miserables opens at Festival Theatre, Adelaide
1992 - Bush is 1st US pres to address Australian Parliament
1992 - Curacao becomes 1st in Dutch Antilles to have compulsory education
1992 - Europe breaks down trade barriers
1992 - International Space Year begins
1992 - NYC transit fare increases from $1.15 to $1.25
1993 - 12 member European Economic Community set up vast free trade zone
1993 - Blockbuster Bowl 3: Stanford beats Penn State, 24-3
1993 - Cigarette advertisements are banned in NYC's MTA
1993 - Czechoslovakia separates into Czech Republic (Bohemia) & Slovakia
1994 - "Flying Karamzov Brothers" closes at Helen Hayes NYC after 50 perfs
1994 - "Grand Night after Singing" closes at Criterion NYC after 52 perfs
1994 - Aleksandr Popov swims world record 100m free style (47.83)
1994 - Carquest Bowl 4: Boston College beats Virginia, 32-13
1994 - Howard Stern's New Year's Eve Beauty Pageant
1994 - International Year of Family
1994 - Jacobs Field opens with "Gateway's New Year's Eve Countdown to '94"
1994 - North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect
1994 - The Zapatista Army of National Liberation initiates twelve days of armed conflict in the Mexican State of Chiapas.
1995 - "Glass Menagerie" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 57 perfs
1995 - "Shadow Box" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 49 performances
1995 - Austria, Finland & Sweden act to join European Union
1995 - Centennial of Canadian Mounties presence in Canada's Yukon Territory
1995 - Fernando Henrique Cardoso installed as president of Brazil
1995 - International Year of Tolerance
1995 - Last "Far Side" by cartoonist Gary Larson (started 1980)
1995 - Raman Lamba & Ravi Sehgal score 464 for 1st wicket for Delhi
1995 - for"Tuna Christmas" closes at Booth Theater NYC 20 performances
1995 - The Draupner wave in the North Sea in Norway is detected, confirming the existence of freak
           waves.
1996 - After 27 years, Betty Rubble debuts as a Flintstone vitamin
1996 - Curacao gains limited form of self rule (Status Aparte)
1997 - The Republic of Zaïre officially joins the World Trade Organization, as Zaïre.
1998 - All California bars, clubs & card rooms must be smoke-free
1998 - Mongolia switches from a 46 hour to 40 hour work week
1998 - US Census Bureau estimates population at 268,921,733
1998 - Russia begins to circulate new rubles to stem inflation and promote confidence.
1998 - The European Central Bank is established.
1999 - International Year of Elderly
1999 - The Euro currency is introduced.
2000 - Gisbourne, New Zealand population 32,754 is first city in the world to welcome in the new
            millennium
2002 - The Open Skies mutual surveillance treaty, initially signed in 1992, officially comes into force.
2002 - Euro banknotes and coins become legal tender in twelve of the European Union's member
           states.
2002 - Taiwan officially joins the World Trade Organization, as Chinese Taipei.
2004 - In a vote of confidence, General Pervez Musharraf wins 658 out of 1,170 votes in the Electoral
          College of Pakistan, and according to Article 41(8) of the Constitution of Pakistan, was 
           "deemed to be elected" to the office of President until October 2007.
2006 - Sydney, Australia swelters through its hottest New Years Day on record. The thermometre
            peaked at 45 degrees celsius, sparking bushfires and power outages.
2007 - Bulgaria and Romania officially join the European Union. Also, Bulgarian, Romanian, and Irish
           become official languages of the European Union, joining 20 other official languages.
2007 - Slovenia officially adopts the Euro currency and becomes the thirteenth Eurozone country.
2007 - Adam Air Flight 574 disappears over Indonesia with 102 people on board.
2008 - A New Hampshire law legalizing civil unions for same-sex couples comes into effect.
2008 - Malta and Cyprus officially adopt the Euro currency and become the fourteenth and fifteenth
            Eurozone countries.
2009 - Slovakia officially adopts the Euro currency and becomes the sixteenth Eurozone country.
2009 - 61 die in nightclub fire in Bangkok, Thailand.
2009 - The government of the Republic of China adopts Hanyu Pinyin as its official Chinese
           romanization (before this time, the most commonly used was Tongyong Pinyin.
2010 - Suicide car bomb detonates at a volleyball tournament in Lakki Marwat, Pakistan, killing 105
           and injuring 100
2304 - Mid-CALENDAR day
6000 - 1st reversible date since 11/11/1999

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 01, 2013, 11:14:35 AM

This Day in History for 1st January


Famous Weddings

414 - King Ataulf of Narbonne marries emperor Honorius sister Galle Placidia
1958 - Sammy Davis Jr marries Loray White
1994 - Microsoft CEO Bill Gates (38) marries Melinda French (29)
2002 - Legendary guitarist Eric Clapton (56) weds Melia McEnery (25) at St. Mary Magdalen Church in
            Surrey, London
2003 - "Lord of The Rings" actress Miranda Otto (35) weds actor Peter O'Brien (44) at St. Mary's
            Cathedral in Sydney, Australia
2003 - "A Beautiful Mind" actress Jennifer Connelly (32) weds actor Paul Bettany in Scotland
2004 - Singer Lou Rawls (71) weds Nina Malek Inman at the Peabody Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee
2011 - Singer-songwriter Kellie Pickler (25) weds country music songwriter Kyle Jacobs (34) at the
           Jumby Bay Resort in Antigua
2011 - Singer-songwriter Shania Twain (46) weds Swiss business executive Frederic Thiebaud in
            Rincon, Puerto Rico
2011 - "Hot in Cleveland" star Valerie Bertinelli weds financial planner Tom Vitale at their home in
           Malibu, California

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 01, 2013, 11:26:04 AM

This Day in History for 21st December


Famous Birthdays

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Seamstress Credited with                            First Director of the FBI                Novelist J. D. Salinger (1919)
Creating the First American                          Edgar Hoover (1895)                       
 Flag Betsy Ross (1752)


766 - Ali al-Rida, Shia Imam (d. 818)
1431 - Alexander VI [Rodrigo Borgia], Spanish/Italian pope (1492-1503)
1449 - Lorenzo de 'Medici (The Magnificent), Florentine statesman (d. 1492)
1467 - Sigismund I, the old, king of Poland
1484 - Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss Protestant leader (d. 1531)
1504 - Caspar Cruciger, German church reformer
1511 - Henry, Duke of Cornwall (d. 1511)
1516 - Margaret Leijonhufvud, Queen of Gustav I of Sweden (d. 1551)
1520 - Franciscus Balduinus, [Francois Baudouin], lawyer
1557 - István Bocskay, Prince of Transylvania (d. 1606)
1600 - Friedrich Spanheim, Dutch theologian (d. 1649)
1614 - John Wilkins, English Bishop of Chester (d. 1672)
1618 - Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Spain, Baroque artist [baptized]
1622 - Isaac Sweers, Dutch Admiral/general/Civil rights activist
1628 - Christoph Bernhard, German composer
1638 - Antoinette du Ligier de la Guard Deshoulieres, French poet/playwright
1638 - Emperor Go-Sai of Japan (d. 1685)
1648 - Elkanah Settle, English writer (d. 1724)
1652 - Johann Krieger, composer
1655 - Christian Thomasius, German jurist (d. 1728)
1684 - Arnold Drakenborch, Dutch classical scholar (d. 1748)
1697 - Johann Pfeiffer, composer
1704 - Soame Jenyns, English writer (d. 1787)
1709 - Johann H H Butz, German/Dutch organ builder
1711 - Franz Freiherr von der Trenck, Austrian soldier (d. 1749)
1714 - Kristijonas Donelaitis, Lutheran pastor, Lithuanian poet (The Seas)
1723 - Christian Friedrich Gregor, composer
1729 - Edmund Burke, British author (Philosophy & Inquiry) [NS=Jan 12]
1734 - John F E Acton, cruel premier of Naples
1735 - Paul Revere, silversmith/US patriot (British are coming)
1745 - "Mad" Anthony Wayne, general
1748 - Giovanni Furno, composer
1750 - Frederick Muhlenberg, American statesman (d. 1801)
1752 - Betsy Ross [Elizabeth Griscom], seamstress widely credited with making the first American flag
1764 - John Kinker, Dutch linguist/philosopher/poet (Minderjarige Zangster)
1767 - Maria Edgeworth, Anglo-Irish novelist (d. 1849)
1774 - André Marie Constant Duméril, French zoologist (d. 1860)
1777 - Micah Hawkins, composer
1779 - William Clowes, English printer (d. 1847)
1784 - William Beale, composer
1800 - Sydney Nelson, composer
1800 - Vaclav Horak, composer
1809 - John Pieter Heije, Dutch physician/writer/poet (Silver Fleet)
1814 - Hong Xiuquan, Chinese rebel (d. 1864)
1815 - Charles Renouvier, French philosopher (neocriticism)
1819 - Arthur Hugh Clough, poet, friend of Matthew Arnold
1819 - George Foster Shepley, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1878
1823 - Sándor Petőfi, Hungarian poet and revolutionary (d. 1849)
1827 - William Lewis "Old Tige" Cabell, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1831 - William Joseph Westbrook, composer
1833 - Robert Lawson, New Zealand architect (d. 1902)
1834 - Ludovic Halévy, French playwright (d. 1908)
1838 - William Hugh Young, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1901
1843 - Nikolay Nikolayevich Lodizhensky, composer
1846 - Nikola Pasic, Serbian nationalist/premier (1891..1926)
1848 - John Goff, Irish lawyer (d. 1924)
1852 - Eugène-Anatole Demarçay, French chemist (d. 1904)
1853 - Hans Koessler, composer
1854 - James Frazer, Britain, anthropologist/author (The Golden Bough)
1862 - Snitz Edwards, Hungary, actor (College, Phantom of the Opera)
1863 - Aleko Konstantinov, Bulgarian writer (To Chicago & Back)
1863 - Pierre de Coubertin, France, baron (revived Olympic games)
1864 - Alfred Stieglitz, US photographer/art dealer (Camera Work)
1865 - Giuseppe Ferrata, composer
1867 - Charles Edward Montague, English author/critic (Fiery Particles)
1867 - Lew Fields, comedian (of Weber & Fields)
1868 - Snitz Edwards, American actor (d. 1937)
1873 - Mariano Azuela, Mexico, novelist (The Flies, The Bosses)
1874 - Hugo Leichtentritt, composer
1874 - Gustave Whitehead, German inventor (d. 1927)
1874 - Frank Knox, American Secretary of the Navy (d. 1944)
1875 - Charles Rist, French economist
1875 - N F Druce, cricketer (5 Tests for England v Australia 1897-98)
1876 - Johan C Altorf, sculptor (October 3rd monument)
1876 - Harriet Brooks, Canadian physicist (d. 1933)
1878 - Edwin Franko Goldman, composer
1878 - Agner Krarup Erlang, Danish scientist and engineer (d. 1929)
1879 - Edward M Forster, England, novelist (Howards End, Passage to India)
1879 - Emile Argand, Swiss geologist (Dekbladen Theory)
1879 - Ernest Jones, British psychoanalyst (Life & Work of Sigmund Freud)
1879 - William Fox, US film pioneer (Nickelodeon)
1880 - Edie Martin, London England, actress (Titfield Thunderbolt)
1880 - Shalom Asch, Poland, yiddish writer (Motke Ganev)
1881 - Carry van Bridges, [de Haan], Dutch author (Heleen, Eva)
1881 - Vajiravudh, King of Thailand (d. 1925)
1882 - W C Wendelaar, mayor of Alkmaar (1919-34)/Dutch MP (VVD)
1883 - Federigo Tozzi, Italian writer/journalist (La Torre, Tre Croci)
1883 - [Hei]ko E Arnoldi, Dutch actor (3 Drops of Water)/theater director
1885 - Roland Diggle, composer
1887 - Wilhelm Canaris, German admiral/head German military intelligence
1888 - John Garand, American inventor (d. 1974)
1889 - Alexander Smallens, St Petersburg, Russia, conductor
1889 - Charles Bickford, Cambridge Mass, actor (John-The Virginian)
1889 - Tadeusz Jarecki, composer
1889 - Tom Dugan, Dublin Ireland, actor (Circus Clown, Drag, Skyway)
1890 - Florence Lawrence, Hamilton Ont, silent screen actress (Confidence)
1890 - Anton Melik, Slovenian geographer (d. 1966)
1891 - Frank Pettingell, Liverpool England, actor (Gaslight, Goose Steps Out)
1892 - Artur Rodzinski, Spalato, Dalmatia, Poland, conductor/composer
1892 - Manuel Roxas y Acuna, 1st president Philippines
1892 - Miklos Radnai, composer
1894 - Shitsu Nakano, Japanese supercentenarian (d. 2007)
1894 - Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian mathematician (d. 1974)
1895 - J Edgar Hoover, Washington, D.C., first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (1924-72)
1895 - Nathaniel Shilkret, NYC, conductor
1896 - Maurice Jacobson, composer
1896 - Teinosuke Kinugasa, Japans actor/director (Jujiro, Jigoku-mon)
1896 - Yitzhak Edel, composer
1897 - Walter Greaza, St Paul Minn, actor (Martin Kane Private Eye)
1898 - George van Derton, Belgian racer (won 500 race)
1898 - Viktor Ullmann, opera composer (Der Kaiser von Atlantis)
1899 - Juozas Tallat-Kelpsa, composer
1899 - Lev V Kuleshov, Russian director/theorist (Po Zakonu)
1899 - Raymond Loucheur, composer
1900 - Hubert van Doorne, Dutch auto manufacturer (DAF)
1900 - William Haines, Staunton VA, actor (Fast Life, Little Annie Rooney)
1900 - Xavier Cugat, Barcelona Spain, bandleader (married Abbe Lane, Charo)
1900 - Chiune Sugihara, Japanese diplomat (d. 1986)
1901 - Christine WI Wittewaall van Stoetwegen, Dutch MP (CDD)
1902 - Buster Nupen, cricketer (1-eyed South African quick, great on matting)
1902 - Dimiter Nenov, composer
1904 - Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, Pakistani politician (d. 1982)
1904 - Ethan Allen, American baseball player (d. 1993)
1905 - Melvin Price, (Rep-D-IL, 1945- )
1905 - Stanisław Mazur, Polish mathematician (d. 1981)
1905 - Kamatari Fujiwara, Japanese actor (d. 1985)
1906 - Frank Stack, Canada, speed skater (Olympic-bronze-1932)
1906 - Giovanni D'Anzi, Italian songwriter (d. 1974)
1907 - Erich Schmid, composer
1908 - Kinue Hitoma, Japan, 800m runner (Oly-silver-1928)
1909 - Barry Goldwater, (Sen-R-Az, 1953-65, 69- )/Pres candidate (R) 1964)
1909 - D D Hindlekar, cricketer (Indian batsman & wicket-keeper 1936-46)
1909 - Dana Andrews, Collins Miss, actor (Battle of the Bulge, Laura)
1909 - Stepan Bandera, Ukrainian nationalist leader (d. 1959)
1910 - Russ Bender, actor/writer (Amazing Colossal Man, Space Monster)
1911 - Endre Szervanszky, composer [or Dec 27]
1911 - Hank Greenberg, Hall-of-Fame 1st baseman (Detroit Tiger)
1912 - Kim Philby, British spy/Soviet mole
1912 - Victor Reuther, Wheeling WV, labor leader
1912 - Boris Vladimirovich Gnedenko, Russian mathematician (d. 1995)
1913 - Eliot Janeway, financial writer (Economics of Chaos)
1914 - Noor Inayat Khan, Indian princess and SOE agent (d. 1944)
1915 - Francois Bondy, writer
1915 - Lewis Bingham Keeble, town planner
1916 - Earl Wrightson, Balt Md, singer (Paul Whiteman's Goodyear Revue)
1917 - Jule Gregory Charney, American meteorologist (d. 1981)
1917 - Albert Mol, Dutch actor (d. 2004)
1918 - Willy den Ouden, Dutch swimmer, (WR 100m, 1:04.06)
1918 - Patrick Anthony Porteous, Scottish Victoria Cross recipient (d. 2000)
1919 - Bernard Drukker, Dutch organist/pianist/orchestra leader (Devil's Wheel)
1919 - Carole Landis, Fairchild WI, actress (One Million BC, Topper Returns)
1919 - J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, NYC, novelist (Catcher in the Rye)
1919 - Rocky Graziano, New York City, US boxer (Middleweight champ) and entertainer (Pantomime Quiz, Miami Undercover)
1920 - Elisabeth Andersen, [Anna de Bruyn], Dutch actress (Yerma, Titania)
1920 - Roger Peacock, writer
1920 - Virgilio Savona, Italian singer (Quartetto Cetra)
1921 - Alain Mimoun O'Kacha, Algerian/French cross country (Oly-gold-1956)
1921 - Ismail al-Faruqi, Palestinian philosopher (d. 1986)
1922 - Ernest F Hollings, (Sen-D-SC, 1966- )
1923 - Chalmers Goodlin, US test pilot (XS-1)
1923 - Milton Jackson, US, vibraphonist (Milt of Bags)
1923 - Daniel Gorenstein, American mathematician (d. 1992)
1924 - Roberts Blossom, American actor and poet
1925 - George Conner, NFL tackle, linebacker (Chicago Bears)
1925 - Valentina Cortesa, Milan Italy, actress (Kidnap Syndicate)
1925 - Matthew "Stymie" Beard, American actor (d. 1981)
1925 - Raymond Pellegrin, French actor
1926 - Claire Polin [Schaff], composer flautist/musicologist
1926 - Richard Verreau, French-Canadian tenor (d. 2005)
1927 - Barbara Baxley, Stockton CA, actress (Norma Rae, Countdown)
1927 - Juliusz Luciuk, composer
1927 - Yuri Grigorovich, Leningrad, choreographer
1927 - Doak Walker, American football star (d. 1998)
1927 - Calum MacKay, Canadian hockey player (d. 2001)
1927 - Maurice Béjart, French choreographer (d. 2007)
1927 - Pat Heywood, Scottish actress
1927 - Vernon L. Smith, American economist, winner
1928 - Ernest R Tidyman, Ohio, novelist/screenwriter (French Connection)
1928 - Khan Mohammad, cricketer (Paki fast-med bowler, 54 wkts in 13 Tests)
1929 - Holling Gustav Vapor, character on Northern Exposure
1930 - Gaafar Muhammad Nimeiry, premier/president (Sudan)
1930 - Ty Hardin, NYC, actor (Riptide, Bronco) [or Jun 1]
1930 - Werner Heiden, composer
1930 - Frederick Wiseman, Boston, Massachusetts, documentary filmmaker
1931 - Carel Brons, composer
1931 - Siddig El Nigoumi, ceramicist
1932 - Arnfried G D P, Dutch manufacturer (breadcrumbs)/drugs dealer
1932 - Jackie Parker, American football player (d. 2006)
1933 - Anders Bo Leif Linde, composer
1933 - James A Abrahamson, USAF/astronaut
1933 - Joe Orton, England, actor/dramatist (Prick Up Your Ears) (d. 1967)
1933 - Frederick Lowy, Canadian educator
1933 - Norman Yemm, Australian actor
1935 - Harold Martina, Netherland Antilles, pianist/conductor
1935 - Valentin Nikolaevich N Benderov, Russia, cosmonaut
1935 - B. Kliban, American cartoonist (d. 1990)
1936 - Eve Queler, NYC, conductor
1936 - Willye B White, US jumper (Olympics-silver-1956)
1936 - James Sinegal, American businessman
1937 - Adam Wiśniewski-Snerg, Polish author (d. 1995)
1938 - Bill Emerson, (Rep-R-MO, 1981- )
1938 - Robert Jankel, British coachbuilder (d. 2005)
1939 - Michèle Mercier, French actress
1940 - Frank Langella, Bayonne NJ, actor (Dracula, Diary of a Mad Housewife)
1940 - Jack Kiefer, Columbia PA, PGA golfer (1994 Ralphs Senior Classic)
1940 - Laszlo Sary, composer
1940 - Richard Henry Orton, composer
1942 - Country Joe McDonald, California, rock guitarist/vocalist (& the Fish)
1942 - Don Novello, [Father Guido Sarducci], Ashtabula Oh, comedian (SNL)
1942 - Gennadi Vassilyevich Sarafanov, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 15)
1942 - George Couroupos, composer
1942 - Martin Frost, (Rep-D-TX, 1971- )
1942 - Alassane Ouattara, Former Prime Minister of Ivory Coast
1942 - Judy Stone, Australian pop singer
1943 - Jerilyn Britz, Minneapolis MN, LPGA golfer (1979 US Women's Open)
1943 - Raghunath Anant Mashelkar, Indian scientist
1943 - Tony Knowles, 9th Governor of Alaska
1943 - Don Novello, American actor
1944 - Charlie Davis, cricketer (WI batsman in 15 Tests 1968-73)
1944 - Jimmy Hart, American wrestling manager
1944 - Zafarullah Khan Jamali, Pakistani politician
1945 - Jacques Ickx, Belgium, Le Mans auto race (6-time winner)
1945 - Peter Duncan, Australian politician
1946 - Manfred Stengl, Austria, 2 man lugist (Olympic-gold-1960)
1946 - Carl B. Hamilton, Swedish economist and politician
1946 - Rivelino, Brazilian football player
1947 - Alexei Ivanovich Bobrov, Russia, cosmonaut
1947 - Gary "BB" Coleman, blues vocal/guitarist/producer
1947 - Peter Lankhorst, Dutch MP (PPR)
1947 - Vladimir Georgiyevich Titov, Rus cosmonaut (Soyuz T-8, TM-4, STS 63)
1947 - Jon Corzine, American politician
1947 - Paula Tsui, Hong Kong singer
1948 - Pavel Grachev, Russian general
1949 - Nikolai Tikhonovich Moskalenko, Russia, cosmonaut
1949 - Peter Dormer, arts writer
1949 - Daniel E Gawthrop, American composer
1950 - Morgan Fisher, rock keyboardist (British Lions)
1950 - Svetlana Georgievna Beregovkina, Russia, cosmonaut
1950 - Yevgeni Vladimirovich Saley, cosmonaut
1951 - Frans Kellendonk, author (Ruin, The Good for Nothing)
1951 - Jaco Pastorius, rocker
1951 - Ashfaq Hussain, Urdu poet
1951 - Nana Patekar, Indian film and stage actor
1951 - Hans-Joachim Stuck, German race car driver
1953 - Alpha Blondy, [Seydou Kone], Ivory coast, reggae singer (Jerusalem)
1953 - Kevin Hangon, composer
1953 - Rochelle S Abramson, violinist
1953 - Greg Carmichael, British guitarist (Acoustic Alchemy)
1954 - Fr David, Paris France, rocker
1954 - Bob Menendez, American politician
1955 - Michael James Sullivan, Gary IN, PGA golfer (1980 Southern Open)
1956 - Anatoli Borisovich Polonsky, Russia, lt-colonel/cosmonaut
1956 - Sergei Vasiliyevich Avdeyev, Russian cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-15, SK:TM-28)
1956 - Mark R. Hughes, American entrepreneur (d. 2000)
1956 - Kôji Yakusho, Japanese actor
1957 - Ewa Kasprzyk, Polish actress
1957 - Evangelos Venizelos, Greek lawyer, professor and politician
1958 - Grandmaster Flash, [Joseph Saddler], NYC, rocker (Message)
1958 - Ren Woods, Portland Oregon, actress (Fanta-Roots)
1959 - Abdul Ahad Mohmand, Afghanistan, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-6)
1959 - Azali Assoumani, Comorian president
1960 - Michael David Morrison, actor (Caleb Snyder-As the World Turns)
1961 - Irv Eatman, NFL tackle (Houston Oilers)
1961 - Marcia Cross, actress (Melrose Place)
1961 - Fiona Phillips, British television presenter
1961 - Mark Wingett, British actor
1962 - Ravshanbek Aliyev, Kirgiz, cosmonaut
1962 - Ari Up, German musician (The Slits)
1963 - Glenn Trimble, cricketer (son of Sam Two ODI's for Australia 1986)
1963 - Lance Smith, NFL guard (NY Giants)
1963 - Lina Kačiušytė, Lithuanian swimmer
1964 - DeDee Pfeiffer, actress (Cybill)
1964 - Juliana Donald, American actress
1965 - Andrew O Valmon, Brooklyn NY, 400m runner
1965 - Harry Galbreath, NFL guard (Green Bay Packers)
1965 - Mark Dewey, US baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1966 - Mika Nieminen, Tampere FIN, hockey forward (Team Finland, Oly-br-1998)
1966 - Rawley Valberde, Oceanside California, actor (Amado-Santa Barbara)
1967 - Andy Heck, NFL tackle (Seattle Seahawk, Chicago Bears)
1967 - Derrick Thomas, NFL linebacker (KC Chiefs)
1967 - Juanma Bajo Ulloa, Spanish film director
1967 - John Digweed, English DJ
1967 - Tim Dog, American rapper
1968 - John de Visser, soccer player (SC Heerenveen)
1968 - Sandy Beasley, Richmond BC, softball outfielder (Olympics-96)
1968 - Davor Šuker, Croatian footballer
1968 - Miki Higashino, Japanese composer
1969 - Morris Chestnut, actor (Boyz N the Hood)
1969 - Reemt Pyka, Bremerhaven GER, hockey forward (Team Germany)
1969 - Sophie Okonedo, British actress
1969 - Christi Paul, American news anchor
1969 - Verne Troyer, American actor
1969 - Nicolle Dickson, Australian actress
1970 - Brian Morton, Wollongong Australia, canoeist (Olympics-96)
1970 - Tom Sier, soccer player (SC Heerenveen)
1970 - Vadim Glovatskiy, hockey defenseman (Team Kazakhstan Oly-1998)
1970 - Gabriel Jarret, American actor
1971 - Beno Bryant, WLAF running back (Amsterdam Admirals)
1971 - Bobby Holik, Jihlava Cze, NHL left wing (NJ Devils, Team Czech Rep)
1971 - Bridget Pettis, WNBA guard (Phoenix Mercury)
1971 - Kevin Lee, NFL wide receiver (NE Patriots)
1971 - Kevin Mitchell, NFL linebacker (SF 49ers)
1971 - Sammie Henson, American wrestler
1972 - Barron Miles, NFL def back (Pittsburgh Steelers)/WLAF corner (Frankfurt)
1972 - Ivan Droppa, hockey defenseman (Team Slovakia 1998)
1972 - Lilian Thuram, French footballer
1972 - DJ Shadow, American DJ and songwriter
1973 - Clyde Wijnhard, soccer player (Ajax, RKC)
1973 - Fang Li, Hunan China, tennis star (1991 Futures-Bilbao-ESP)
1973 - Justin Armour, NFL wide receiver (Buffalo Bills)
1973 - Mercury Hayes, wide receiver (Atlanta Falcons)
1973 - Anwar Mansoor Mangrio, Sindhi poet & research scholar.
1974 - Johnie Church, NFL defensive end (Seattle Seahawks)
1975 - Becky Kellar, ice hockey defenseman (Canada, Oly-98)
1975 - Chris Anstey, NBA center (Dallas Mavericks)
1975 - Eiichiro Oda, Japanese Manga artist
1975 - Sonali Bendre, Indian model and actress
1975 - Joe Cannon, American soccer player
1976 - Caleb Wyatt, American motocross rider
1976 - Georgina Chapman, British fashion designer and actress
1977 - Hasan Salihamidžić, Bosnian footballer
1977 - Keeley Hawes, British actress
1978 - Paramahamsa Sri Nithyananda, Indian spiritualist
1978 - Nina Bott, German actress
1978 - Phillip Mulryne, Northern Irish footballer
1978 - Tarik O'Regan, British composer
1979 - Koichi Domoto, Japanese artist
1979 - Brody Dalle, Australian singer (The Distillers)
1980 - Elin Nordegren, Swedish model
1981 - Zsolt Baumgartner, Hungarian race car driver
1981 - Abdülkadir Koçak, Turkish boxer
1981 - Jonas Armstrong, Irish actor
1981 - Eden Riegel, American actress
1982 - David Nalbandian, Argentinian tennis player
1983 - Ali Bastian, English actress and model
1983 - Calum Davenport, English footballer
1983 - Emi Kobayashi, Japanese model
1984 - José Paolo Guerrero, Peruvian footballer
1984 - Alok Kapali, Bangladeshi cricketer
1984 - Michael Witt, Australian rugby league footballer
1984 - Shareefa, American singer
1985 - Steven Davis, Northern Irish footballer
1986 - Glen Davis, American basketball player
1986 - Vidya Balan, Indian actress
1987 - Gilbert Brule, Canadian professional hockey player
1987 - Meryl Davis, American ice dancer
1987 - Devin Setoguchi, Canadian professional hockey player
1989 - Marvin Austin, American football player
1991 - Kathleen Herles, American voice actor
1992 - Jack Wilshere, English footballer
1994 - He Kexin, Chinese gymnast
1996 - Mary Gibbs, American child actress
1998 - Marlene Lawston, American child actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 01, 2013, 11:28:20 AM

This Day in History for 1st January


Famous Deaths

379 - Saint Basil the Great, Bishop of Caesare and theologian (Moralia), dies
404 - Telemachus, Roman monk, murdered
874 - Hasan al-Askari, eleventh Shia Imam (b. 846)
898 - Odo, earl of Paris/king of France (888-98), dies at about 39
962 - Boudouin III, count of Flanders, dies
1204 - King Haakon III of Norway (c. 1170)
1387 - Charles, The Bad, King of Navarra (1349-87) dies burnt alive
1515 - Louis XII, "the Justified" king of France (1498-1515), dies at 52
1517 - Hermann Vischer, the Younger, German bronze merchant, dies
1554 - Pedro de Valdivia, Spanish conquistador (b. 1500)
1557 - Jacques Cartier, French explorer (Canada), dies at 65
1559 - Christian III, king of Denmark/Norway (1534-59), dies
1560 - Guillaume du Bellay, Sieur de Langey, French soldier, dies
1617 - Hendrick Goltzius, Dutch painter/cartoonist/engraver, dies
1626 - Cornelis Pieterse Hoft, Amsterdam merchant/regent, dies at 68
1630 - Tetsugen, Zen teacher (Jodo sect converted to Obaku Zen), dies
1631 - Thomas Hobson, the "Cambridge Carrier", eponym of Hobson's Choice (b. 1544)
1661 - Pieter Claesz, Dutch still life painter, dies at about 64
1697 - Filippo Baldinucci, Florentine biographer/historian (b. 1624)
1701 - Pietro Sanmartini, composer, dies at 64
1716 - William Wycherley, dramatist (The Country Wife), dies at about 75
1730 - Daniel Finch, 2nd earl of Nottingham, dies at 82
1730 - Samuel Sewall, English judge (b. 1652)
1742 - Peregrine Bertie, 2nd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (b. 1686)
1748 - Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1667)
1753 - Louis-Maurice de La Pierre, composer, dies at 55
1758 - Johann F von Cronegk, German playwright (Codrus), dies at 26
1759 - Jacques-Joachim Trotti, marquis de La Chétardie, French adventurer (b. 1705)
1766 - James III Edward, Old Pretender/king of Gt Britain/Ireland, dies at 77
1768 - Jean-Laurent Krafft, composer, dies at 73
1777 - Emanuele Barbella, composer, dies at 58
1782 - Johann Christian Bach, German composer/Mozarts tutor, dies at 46
1784 - Patrice F earl de Neney, South Neth Secret Council chairman, dies at 67
1787 - Arthur Middleton, US farmer (signed Decl of Independence), dies at 44
1789 - Christleib Siegmund Binder, composer, dies at 65
1789 - Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley, English politician (b. 1716)
1793 - Francesco Guardi, Italian painter, dies at 80
1796 - Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde, French mathematician (b. 1735)
1800 - Louis J M Daubenton, France, zoologist, dies at 83
1816 - Francois Alexander Sallantin, composer, dies at 60
1817 - Martin H Klaproth, German chemist (uranium), dies at 73
1818 - Fedele Fenaroli, composer, dies at 87
1850 - Raphael G Kiesewetter, Austria musicologist, dies at 76
1853 - Gregory Blaxland, Australian explorer (b. 1778)
1862 - Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky, Russian physicist (b. 1801)
1869 - Martin W. Bates, American politician (b. 1786)
1881 - Louis Auguste Blanqui, French political activist (b. 1805)
1887 - Johan Hendrik Koelman, portrait painter, dies at 66
1892 - Roswell B. Mason, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1805)
1894 - Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, German physicist (b. 1857)
1896 - Alfred Ely Beach, American inventor (b. 1826)
1901 - Ignatius Donnelly, US attorney/lt-governor (Minnesota), dies at 69
1906 - Joseph Miroslav Weber, composer, dies at 51
1906 - Sir Hugh Nelson, Premier of Queensland (b. 1835)
1907 - Cyrill Kistler, composer, dies at 58
1919 - William W Campbell, Canadian poet (Ian of the Orcades), dies at 60
1919 - Mikhail Drozdovsky, Russian general (b. 1881)
1920 - Paul Adam, French writer (L'enfant d'Austerlitz), dies at 57
1931 - Martinus Beijerinck, Dutch microbiologist and botanist (b. 1851)
1932 - C P Scott, British journalist, publisher and politician (b. 1846)
1934 - Jakob Wassermann, writer, dies at 60
1940 - Panuganti Lakshminarasimha Rao, Indian writer and essayist (b. 1865)
1942 - Jaroslav Jezek, composer, dies at 35
1943 - Colonel Andrew Summers Rowan, U.S. military officer who gave "a message to Garcia" (b. 1857)
1944 - C T B Turner, cricket (17 Tests 1886-95, 101 wkt All time great), dies
1944 - Sir Edward Lutyens, British architect who designed New Delhi (b. 1869)
1944 - Charles Turner, Australian cricketer (b. 1862)
1945 - Vit Nejedly, composer, dies at 33
1948 - Hermann K J Zilcher, German pianist/composer (Liebesmesse), dies at 66
1948 - Willem Louis Frederic Landre, composer, dies at 73
1949 - Malcolm Campbell, English cyclist (world speed-record), dies at 63
1953 - Hank Williams, country singer (Cold Cold Heart), dies at 29
1954 - Duff Cooper, British diplomat and writer (b. 1890)
1957 - Ruth Draper, US elocutionist, dies at 67 or 72
1957 - Seán South and Fergal O'Hanlon are killed in the Brookeborough Raid.
1958 - David Broekman, musican (Think Fast), dies at 55
1958 - Edward Weston, American photographer (b. 1886)
1960 - Margaret Sullavan, actress (Back Street), overdose at 48
1962 - Diego Martínez Barrio, Spanish president (1939), dies at 76
1964 - Alf Hall, cricketer (S Afr lefty quick took 40 wkts in 7 Tests), dies
1964 - Otto Emanuel Olsson, composer, dies at 84
1964 - Rika Hopper, Dutch actress (Comedia, Anastasia), dies at about 86
1964 - Bechara El Khoury, President of Lebanon (b. 1890)
1965 - Gertrude Michael, actress (Caged, Cleopatra), dies at 53
1965 - Juan Bautista Plaza-Alfonzo, composer, dies at 66
1966 - Vincent Auriol, President of France (1947-53), dies at 82
1967 - Maurice Leyland, cricketer (41 Tests for England, 2764 runs), dies
1967 - Moon Mullican, rocker, dies at 58
1969 - Barton Maclane, actor (Gen Peterson-I Dream of Jeannie), dies at 68
1969 - Bruno Söderström, Swedish athlete (b. 1888)
1971 - Saint Amphilochius of Pochayiv, Ukrainian Orthodox Christian Saint (b. 1894)
1972 - Jane Morgan, actress (Mrs Margaret Davis-Our Miss Brooks), dies at 91
1972 - Maurice A Chevalier, French actor (Can Can, Gigi), dies at 83
1975 - Arthur Pierson, actor/director (Hat Check Girl), dies at 73
1980 - Frank Clifford Wykoff, sprinter (Olympic-gold-28, 32, 36), dies at 70
1980 - Pietro Nenni, Italian politician (Socialists), dies at 88
1981 - Hephzibah Menuhin, American-Jewish concert pianist (b. 1920)
1982 - Paul Belmondo, French sculptor (Bathing Woman, Orleans), dies at 83
1982 - Victor Buono, actor (Mr Schubert-Man from Atlantis), dies at 43
1982 - Vladimir K Zworykin, Russ/American engineer (cathode-ray tube), dies
1984 - Alexis Korner, British blues musician (b. 1928)
1985 - Kamatari Fujiwara, Japanese actor (b. 1905)
1986 - Alfredo Binda, Italian cyclist (b. 1902)
1986 - Bruce Norris, American hockey executive (Detroit Red Wings) (b. 1924)
1987 - Gustav Knuth, actor (Heidi, Rats), dies at 85
1988 - Leo Steiner, NY Carnegie Deli's owner, dies
1990 - Charles Boost, Dutch film critic, dies at 82
1990 - Joe Hardstaff Jr, cricketer (23 Tests for England, 1636 runs), dies
1990 - Suzuki Sochu, Zen teacher (Rinzai line)/abbot of Ryutakuji, dies
1991 - Charles B Timmer, Dutch writer (Russia Black on White), dies at 83
1991 - Yvonne Waegemans, Flemish author (Gnome Patjoepelke), dies at 81
1992 - Constantin Poustochkine, jazz critic, dies
1992 - Corky Geil, dancer, dies in Long Beach CA at 64
1992 - Ginette Leclerc, actress (Baker's Wife), dies at 79
1992 - Grace Hopper, computer scientist, dies at 85
1992 - Hette G Abma, vicar/Dutch MP (SGP), dies
1992 - Mike Frankovich, US producer (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner), dies
1993 - June Clayworth, actress (Bodyguard, Criminal Court), dies of lymphoma
1993 - Phyllis Hill, actress (Singing in the Dark), dies of lung cancer at 72
1994 - Cesar Romero, US actor (Joker-Batman), dies at 86
1994 - Werner Schwab, Austrian playwright (Female Presidents), dies at 35
1995 - Eugene Wigner, physicist (Nobel prize for physics-1963), dies at 92
1995 - Frederick West, Engl contractor/serial killer, commits suicide at 53
1995 - Jess Stacy, US jazz pianist (Great Gatsby), dies at 90
1995 - Ted Hawkins, US blues singer (Watch Your Step), dies at 58
1996 - Arleigh Albert Burke, US Admiral, dies at 94
1996 - Arthur Rudolph, rocket Engineer, dies at 89
1996 - Hamish Imlach, folk singer/comic, dies at 55
1997 - Graham Kersey, cricket wicket keeper, dies in car crash
1997 - Joan Rice, actress (Payroll, Steel Key, Curtain Up), dies at 66
1997 - John Burgess, rugby administrator, dies at 71
1997 - Townes Van Zandt, musician, dies at 52
1997 - Hagood Hardy, Canadian composer and musician (b. 1937)
1998 - Helen Wills Moody Roark, tennis ace (31 Grand Slams), dies at 92
2000 - Colin Vaughan, Australian political journalist (b. 1931)
2001 - Ray Walston, American actor (b. 1914)
2002 - Julia Phillips, American film producer (b. 1944)
2003 - Joe Foss, American politician, fighter pilot and AFL Commissioner (b. 1915)
2003 - F. William Free, American advertising executive (b. 1928)
2003 - Cyril Shaps, English actor (b. 1923)
2005 - Shirley Chisholm, American politician (b. 1924)
2005 - Hugh Lawson, 6th Baron Burnham, British newspaperman (b. 1931)
2005 - Eugene J. Martin, American painter, artist (b. 1938)
2005 - Bob Matsui, American politician (b. 1941)
2006 - Harry Magdoff, American magazine editor (b. 1913)
2006 - Hugh McLaughlin, Irish publisher and inventor (b. 1918)
2006 - Dawn Lake, Australian TV comedienne (b. 1927)
2006 - Bryan Harvey, American musician (House of Freaks) (b. 1956)
2007 - A. I. Bezzerides, American novelist and screenwriter (b. 1908)
2007 - Ernie Koy, American baseball player (b. 1909)
2007 - Tillie Olsen, American writer (b. 1912)
2007 - Leon Davidson, American scientist known for studying UFOs (b. 1922)
2007 - Julius Hegyi, American conductor (b. 1923)
2007 - Roland Levinsky, South African medical scientist (b. 1943)
2007 - Leonard Fraser, Australian serial killer (b. 1951)
2007 - Darrent Williams, American football player (b. 1982)
2007 - Del Reeves, American country singer (b. 1932)
2007 - Tad Jones, American jazz music historian (b. 1952)
2008 - Salvatore Bonanno, son of Joseph Bonnano (b. 1932)
2008 - Peter Caffrey, Irish actor (b. 1949)
2008 - Pratap Chandra Chunder, union minister of India (b. 1919)
2008 - Harold Corsini, American photographer (b. 1919)
2009 - Claiborne Pell, U.S. senator (b. 1918)
2009 - Nizar Rayan, Hamas leader (b. 1962)
2011 - Marin Constantin, Romanian composer and conductor (b. 1925)
2011 - Reynaldo Dagsa, Filipino politician
2012 - Nay Win Maung, Burmese physician, and pro-democracy activist, dies from a heart attack at 50
2012 - Fred Milano, American doo-wop singer, member of the Vocal Group Hall of Fame, dies from lung cancer at 72
2012 - Marcelle Narbonne, French supercentenarian and oldest person in Europe, died at 113
2012 - Carlos Soria, Argentine lawyer and politician, dies from gunshot to the head at 62
2012 - Yafa Yarkoni, Israeli Singer, dies after years of Alzheimer's disease at 86
2012 - Hermann Guggiari, Paraguayan engineer and sculptor, dies at 88
2012 - Kiro Gligorov, President of the Republic of Macedonia 1991-1999
2012 - Bob Anderson, English Olympic fencer and renowned film fight choreographer, dies at 90
2012 - Elizabeth Brumfiel, American feminist archaeologist, dies of cancer at 66
2012 - Gary Ablett, English footballer and manager, dies of non-Hodgkins Lymphoma at 46
2012 - Alfredo Battisti, Roman Catholic Archdiosese of Udine, Italy, dies at 87
2012 - Ed Jenkins, American Congressman for Georgia, died at 78

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 02, 2013, 03:56:53 PM

This Day in History for 2nd January


Historical Events

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Russian Tsar Ivan the Terrible                   Pacifist and Spiritual Leader Gandhi               

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37th US President Richard Nixon                 Musician Sid Vicious                       


69 - Roman Lower Rhine army proclaims its commander, Vitellius, emperor
366 - The Alamanni cross the frozen Rhine River in large numbers, invading the Roman Empire.
533 - John II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1235 - Emperor Joseph II orders Jews of Galicia Austria to adopt family names
1492 - Spain recaptures Granada from the Moors (Granada Day)
1570 - Tsar Ivan the Terrible's march to Novgorod begins
1585 - Spain & Catholic France sign Saint League of Joinville
1602 - Spanish force in Ireland surrender to the English army at Kinsdale
1678 - Staatsoper Hamburg opens with Theiles "Adam und Eva"
1757 - British troops occupy Calcutta India
1776 - 1st revolutionary flag displayed
1776 - Austria ends interregation torture
1788 - Georgia is 4th state to ratify US constitution
1791 - Big Bottom massacre in the Ohio Country, marking the beginning of the Northwest Indian
           War.
1800 - Free black community of Phila petitions Congress to abolish slave
1811 - US Sen Thomas Pickering is 1st senator censured (revealed confidential documents
           communicated by the president of the US)
1814 - Lord Byron completes "The Corsair"
1818 - Lord Byron completes "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" (4th canto)
1818 - The British Institution of Civil Engineers is founded.
1831 - Liberator, abolitionist newspaper, begins publishing in Boston
1832 - 1st Curling club in US (Orchard Lake Curling Club) opens
1833 - Re-establishment of British rule on the Falklands.
1839 - 1st photo of the Moon (French photographer Louis Daguerre)
1842 - 1st US wire suspension bridge for general traffic opens in Penn
1843 - Wagner's opera "Der Fliegende Holländer" premieres, Dresden
1861 - SC seizes inactive Ft Johnson in Charleston Harbor
1861 - Colonel Charles Stone is put in charge of organizing DC militia
1863 - Battle of Murfreesboro (Stone's River) ends
1871 - King Amadeus I of Spain inaugurated at 25
1879 - 1st Test match hat-trick, Fred Spofforth at the MCG
1879 - British battleship Thunder explodes in Gulf of Ismid, 9 die
1879 - Dr Benjamin E Mays, named president of Atlanta Board of Education
1879 - Northwestern League (minor baseball league) organized, Rockford, Ill
1881 - Camille Saint-Saëns' 3rd Concerto in B, premieres
1882 - Because of anti-monopoly laws, Standard Oil is organized as a trust
1885 - Gen Wolseley receives last distress signal of Gen Gordon in Khartoum
1890 - Alice Sanger becomes 1st female White House staffer
1890 - Record 19'2" alligator shot in Louisiana by E A McIlhenny
1893 - 1st US commemoratives & 1st US stamp to picture a woman issued (Queen Isabella, patron
           of Columbus)
1893 - World's Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago [or 0501]
1896 - Battle at Doornkop, South Africa (Boers beat Dr Jamesons troops)
1900 - E Verlinger begins manufacturing 7" single-sided records (Montreal)
1900 - Gustave Charpentiers opera "Louise," premieres in Paris
1900 - John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China.
1903 - Pres T Roosevelt shuts down post office in Indianola Miss, for refusing to accept its appointed
           postmistress because she was black
1905 - Elara, a satellite of Jupiter, discovered by Perrine
1905 - Japanese troops capture Port Arthur
1905 - The American anarcho-syndicalist union known as the Industrial Workers of the World forms.
1908 - Canadian branch of the Royal Mint opens in Ottawa
1909 - 1st official Dutch 11 city skate (Minne Hoekstra in 13:50)
1910 - 1st junior high schools in US opens (Berkeley California)
1911 - Bkln Dodgers pres Charles Ebbets announces purchase of grounds to build a new concrete-
           and-steel stadium to seat 30,000
1913 - National Woman's Party forms
1914 - Philips installs research dept in Eindhoven
1917 - Royal Bank of Canada takes over Quebec Bank
1918 - Dodgers trade Casey Stengel & Cutshaw to Pitts for Grimes & Mamaux
1918 - NHL Montreal Wanderers disband after Westmount arena burns down
1919 - Anti-British uprising in Ireland
1919 - Lithuania gains independence
1920 - 10,000 US union & socialist organizers arrested (Palmer Raids)
1921 - 1st religious service radio broadcast in US, KDKA-Pittsburgh
1921 - DeYoung Museum in Golden Gate Park opens
1923 - Ku Klux Klan surprise attack on black residential area Rosewood Fla, 8 killed (compensation
           awarded in 1995)
1925 - Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region established (now in Tadzhik SSR)
1929 - US & Canada agree to preserve Niagara Falls
1932 - Young gang shoot dead 6 police in Springfield Missouri
1933 - Bradman scores 103* against the Bodyline attack in the 2nd Test
1933 - Bruins beat Rangers in NY 13-3
1933 - Ijmuider fishing strike begins (till July 11th)
1933 - US troops leave Nicaragua
1934 - 1st state liquor stores open, in Pennsylvania
1934 - Bradman scores 253 NSW v Queensland, 204 mins, 29 fours 4 sixes
1935 - Bruno R Hauptmann trial begins for kidnap-murder of Lindbergh baby
1936 - 1st electron tube to enable night vision described, St Louis, Mo
1936 - Bradman scores 357 for SA v Vic, 424 minutes, 40 fours
1938 - Book publisher Simon and Schuster founded
1939 - Bradman scores 107 SA v Victoria, his 4th consecutive century
1941 - World War II: German bombing severely damages the Llandaff Cathedral in Cardiff, Wales.
1941 - World War II: The U.S. government announces its Liberty ship program to build freighters in
           support of the war effort.
1942 - 28 nations, at war with Axis, pledge no separate peace
1942 - German troops in Bardia surrender
1942 - Japanese troops occupy Manila Philippines
1942 - The United States Navy opens a blimp base at Lakehurst, New Jersey.
1944 - 1st use of helicopters during warfare (British Atlantic patrol)
1945 - Allied air raid on Neurenberg
1945 - Kentucky begins 130 home basketball game win streak, ends in 1955
1945 - Radio Orange ends cooperation at Liese-Aktion
1947 - Mahatma Gandhi begins march for peace in East-Bengali
1948 - WNDT (now WNET) TV channel 13 in New York-Newark, NY (PBS) begins
1949 - KDKA TV channel 2 in Pittsburgh, PA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1949 - Luis Muñoz Marín becomes the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico.
1951 - Philip Barry's "Second Threshold," premieres in NYC
1952 - "Pal Joey" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 542 performances
1953 - NBA Baltimore Bullets begin a 32 game road losing streak
1954 - Herman Wouks "Caine Mutiny," premieres in NYC
1955 - 1st "Bob Cummings Show" premieres on NBC (later on CBS)
1955 - Panamanian president Jose Antonio Remon is assassinated.
1956 - Poujadists/communists win French parliamentary elections
1958 - Dmitri Shostakovitch' 2nd Piano concert, premieres in NY
1959 - Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista flees
1959 - USSR launches Mechta (Luna 1) for 1st lunar fly-by, 1st solar orbit
1960 - 1st redshank old world shore bird reported in North America (Halifax)
1960 - John Reynolds sets age of solar system at 4,950,000,000 years
1960 - Roger Sessions' 4th Symphony, premieres
1960 - Senator John F Kennedy, announces his candidacy for the US Presidency
1961 - 1st AFL Championship Game, Houston Oilers beat LA Chargers 24-16
1961 - Hawaii's, then all time low temperature, 14°F recorded atop Haleakale
1962 - Nighttime version of "Password" with Allen Ludden premieres on CBS
1964 - Failed assassination attempt on president Nkrumah of Ghana
1965 - Ayub Khan elected president of Pakistan
1965 - Martin Luther King Jr begins a drive to register black voters
1965 - NY Jets sign quarterback Joe Namath
1965 - Obverse design of all Canadian coins is changed to depict present-day
1966 - 1st Jewish child born in Spain since 1492 expulsion
1966 - Green Bay Packers beat Cleveland Browns 23-12 in NFL championship game
1968 - "Zizi" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 49 performances
1968 - Christian Barnard performs 2nd heart transplant
1968 - KBHK TV channel 44 in San Francisco, CA (IND) begins broadcasting
1969 - "Fig Leaves Are Falling" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 4 perfs
1969 - "Soviet Sport" calls Emile Zatopek a public enemy
1969 - Lorraine Hansberry's "To be Young, Gifted & Black," premieres in NYC
1969 - Luis Ferré becomes the first statehooder Governor of Puerto Rico.
1969 - Operation Barrier Reef begins in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam.
1970 - Dutch premiere of musical "Hair" in Amsterdam
1970 - US population is 293,200,000; Black population: 22,600,000 (11.1%)
1971 - A barrier collapses at Ibrox Park football ground at end of a soccer match in Glasgow
            Scotland, killing 66
1972 - "Rothschilds" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC after 505 perfs
1972 - Dallas Cowboys beat SF '49ers 14-3 in NFC championship game
1972 - Mariner 9 begins mapping Mars
1972 - Miami Dolphins beat Balt Colts 21-0 in AFC championship game
1974 - 55 MPH speed limit imposed by Richard Nixon
1974 - Worst fire in Argentine history destroys 1.2 million acres
1975 - US Dept of Interior designates grizzly bear a threatened species
1977 - Bowie Kuhn suspends Braves owner Ted Turner for one year due to tampering charges in
          Gary Matthews free-agency signing
1978 - Bulent Ecevit forms government in Turkey
1978 - Rhino Records releases their 1st album "Wildmania"
1979 - 30th Islander shut-out opponent-Glenn Resch 9-0 vs Vancouver
1979 - Gavaskar gets twin tons for India for the third time (v WI)
1979 - Sid Vicious' trial for murder of girlfriend Nancy Spungen begins
1980 - 68th Australian Men Tennis: Guillermo Vilas beat John Sadri (76 63 62)
1981 - Mary Terstegge Meagher swims female record 200 m butterfly (2:05.65)
1981 - Sylvester Clarke knocks out spectator with brick, WI v Pakistan
1982 - "Camelot" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 48 performances
1982 - 70th Australian Mens Tennis: Johan Kriek beats S Denton (62 76 67 64)
1982 - Islanders start 23 undefeated home streak (21-0-2) 14 straight wins
1982 - San Diego Chargers beat Miami Dolphins, 41-38 in 13:52 of OT
1983 - "Annie" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 2,377 performances
1983 - "Sophisticated Ladies" closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 767 perfs
1983 - Don Muraco beats Pedro Morales to become WWF Intercontinental Champ
1983 - Gary Trudeau takes a 20-month break from writing "Doonesbury"
1983 - Ken Anderson of Cincinnati completes record 20 consecutive passes
1984 - Darryl Cullinan, 16, scores his 1st first-class cricket century
1984 - Miami beats Nebraska in Orange Bowl for college football championship
1984 - Riot in Tunis kills over 100
1984 - Wilson Goode, sworn-in as Phila's 1st black mayor
1985 - 90th hat trick in Islander history-Brent Sutter
1985 - Australia beat WI by innings at SCG, Bob Holland 10 match wkts
1985 - Egyptian Pres Mubarak reappoints Coptic pope Shenuda III
1985 - Nevada-Las Vegas beats Utah 142-140, highest college basketball score
1985 - Undefeated BYU becomes college football champions
1986 - 191.66 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
1986 - NY Islander, Mike Bossy, scores his 500th goal
1987 - Penn State upsets Miami in Fiesta Bowl for college football champ
1987 - Troops of Chad President Habré conquer Fada oasis
1988 - Ashland Oil storage tank spills 3.8 million gallons, Penn
1988 - Mulroney & Reagan sign Canada-US free trade agreement
1989 - Notre Dame beats West Virginia for college football championship
1989 - UCLA wins a record 7th consecutive bowl game
1990 - Dow Jones hits record 2,800 (2,810.15)
1990 - Sting joins wrestlings 4 Horsemen (Flair, Arn Anderson, Ole Anderson)
1991 - Colorado wins its 1st AP national title poll
1992 - Test debut of Shane Warne, v India at Sydney
1993 - "Gypsy Passion" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 55 performances
1994 - "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" closes at Beaumont NYC after 40 perfs
1994 - "Shakespeare after My Father" closes at Helen Hayes NYC after 266 perf
1994 - Battles between army & rebellious indians in South Mexico, kill 57
1995 - Bus crashes in Luzon Philippines, 29 killed
1995 - Carquest Bowl 5: South Carolina beats West Virginia, 24-21
1995 - Most distant galaxy yet discovered found by scientists using Keck telescope in Hawaii (est 15
           billion light years away)
1997 - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Columbus OH on WBZX 99.7 FM
1998 - Autopsy of Chris Farley shows he overdosed of opiates & cocaine
1999 - A brutal snowstorm smashes into the Midwestern United States, causing 14 inches (359 mm)
          of snow in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and 19 inches (487 mm) in Chicago, where temperatures
           plunge to -13°F (-25°C); 68 deaths are reported.
2001 - Sila Calderón becomes the first female Governor of Puerto Rico.
2002 - Eduardo Duhalde is appointed interim President of Argentina by the Legislative Assembly.
2004 - Stardust successfully flies past Comet Wild 2, collecting samples that it will return to Earth
           two years later.

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 02, 2013, 04:41:25 PM

This Day in History for 2nd January


Famous Weddings

1815 - Leading Romantic Age poet Lord Byron (27) marries Anne Isabella Milbanke (22)by special licence, at Seaham Hall in County Durham.
2006 - NBC correspondent Chip Reid weds Nina Block in Hawaii
2010 - "American Idol" singer Jason Castro (22) weds Mandy Mayhall near Dallas, Texas
2011 - Dresden Dolls singer Amanda Palmer (34) weds author Neil Gaiman (50) in Berkley, California

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 02, 2013, 04:52:53 PM

This Day in History for 2nd January


Famous Birthdays

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British Army Officer that                          Country Singer Roger Miller (1936)      Actress Gabrielle Carteris (1961)
Defeated the French in                                                 
Canada James Wolfe (1727)


1642 - Mehmed IV, sultan (Turkey)
1647 - Nathaniel Bacon, leader of Bacon's Rebellion, Va (1676)
1699 - Osman III, sultan (Turkey)
1713 - Marie Dumesnil, French actress (d. 1803)
1719 - Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder (d. 1797)
1727 - James Wolfe, Westerham, Kent, England, British Army officer, defeated the French in Canada and captured Quebec
1728 - Louis Barbiano de Belgioioso, Austrian count/diplomat in Belgium
1732 - Franz Xaver Brixi, composer
1752 - Philip Freneau, poet of American Revolution (The American Village)
1777 - Christian D Rauch, German sculptor
1803 - Gugliemo Libri, [della Somaia], Ital/Fren mathematician/book collector
1807 - Tomasz Napoleon Nidecki, composer
1809 - Friedrich Wilhelm Jahns, composer
1822 - Rudolph J E Clausius, Germany, physicist (thermodynamics)
1827 - Peter Semenov of Tian Shan, Russian explorer (d. 1914)
1830 - Henry Kingsley, English/Australian writer
1831 - Justin Winston, historian/librarian (Harvard)
1833 - Frederick A. Johnson, American politician (d. 1893)
1835 - Charles Russell Lowell Jr, Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
1836 - Queen Emma of Hawaii, Consort of King Kamehameha IV (d. 1885)
1836 - Mendele Moykher Sforim, Jewish writer (d. 1917)
1837 - Mili Alexeyevich Balakirev, Nizhny-Novgorod, Russia, composer (Tamara)
1842 - Amy G C A Bonet-Maury, French reformed theologist
1846 - Sandor Erkel, composer
1857 - Frederick Opper, cartoonist (Maud, Alphonse & Gaston)
1857 - Martha Carey Thomas, educator/president (Bryn Mawr College)
1860 - William C Mills, museum curator (excavated Ohio Indian mounds)
1861 - Helen Herron Taft, 1st lady (1909-12)
1863 - Lucia Zarate, became lightest known adult human (2.1 kg at 17)
1866 - Prof Gilbert Murray, Australian classical scholar (d. 1957)
1870 - Ernst Barlach, writer
1873 - Anton Pannekoek, Dutch astronomer/marxist theorist (Communist Tactics)
1873 - Thérèse de Lisieux, French Roman-Catholic nun (d. 1897)
1877 - Slava Raskaj, Croatian painter (d.1906)
1879 - Johannes L "Jan" Walch, Dutch literary (Grimaces)
1879 - Pieter Tesch, Dutch geologist (Pedestal of Nederlands)
1880 - Louis Breguet, French aviation pioneer
1884 - Jacques Chardonne, [Boutelleau], French writer (l'Epithalame)
1885 - Johannes Ringers, Dutch water engineer (dikes)
1886 - Moyshe Leyb Halpern, Galican/US poet (In New-York)
1886 - Florence Lawrence, Canadian actress (d. 1938)
1886 - Apsley Cherry-Garrard, English Antarctic explorer (d. 1959)
1889 - Tito Schipa, Italy, tenor/composer (La Rondine)
1889 - Walter Baldwin, Ohio, actor (Gay Amigo)
1892 - Lura Anson, Nebraska, entertainer
1892 - Seiichiro Kashio, Japanese tennis player (d. 1962)
1893 - Lillian Leitzel, German acrobat and strongwoman (d. 1931)
1894 - Robert Nathan, NYC, poet, novelist (Portrait of Jennie)
1895 - Count Folke Bernadotte, Sweden, statesman (Red Cross, UN)
1896 - Dziga Vertiv, [Denis A Kaufman], Russian director (Sjagai, Soviet!)
1896 - Ernst-Lothar von Knorr, composer
1896 - Sir Lawrence Wackett, Australian aircraft engineer (d. 1982)
1897 - Jim Londos, Greek wrestler (d. 1975)
1899 - Alexander Tcherepnin, St Petersburg Russia, composer
1899 - Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgium, premier/sec-gen of NATO (1957-61)
1901 - Rex O'Malley, London England, actor (Camille, Zara, Midnight)
1901 - Robert Marshall, founder (Wilderness Society)
1901 - Torsten Ralf, Swedish tenor (Daphne)
1902 - Dan Keating, Irish republican (d. 2007)
1902 - Barry Goldwater, American politician (d. 1998)
1903 - Anton van Duinkerken, [Willem JMA Asselbergs], literary
1904 - James Melton, Moultrie Ga, opera tenor (Ford Festival)
1904 - Sally Rand, Hickory County MO, stripper (fan dance)
1905 - Michael Kemp Tippett, English composer/conductor (Child of our Time)
1905 - Lev Schnirelmann, Russian mathematician (d. 1938)
1907 - Edward Albert Radice, economist
1907 - Salvador Ley, composer
1908 - Ben Grauer, NYC, newscaster (Big Story)
1908 - Janis Kepitis, composer
1909 - Rene Etiemble, French literature historian (Parlez-vous Franglais)
1910 - Ulrich Becher, writer
1910 - Srirangam Srinivasarao, Telugu Poet (d. 1983)
1912 - Andre Ameller, composer
1912 - Anna Lee, Ightham England, actress (Scruples, Lila-General Hospital)
1912 - Barbara Pentland, Winnipeg Canada, composer
1912 - Renato Guttuso, Italian painter (Flight from Etna, Crucifixion)
1913 - Ernest Sidey, British air marshal
1913 - Gardner Read, Evanston, Illinois, composer
1913 - Juanita E Jackson Mitchell, US head (NAACP)
1913 - Leon P Teisserenc de Bort, France, meteorologist
1913 - Anna Lee, English actress (d. 2004)
1915 - John Hope Franklin, historian
1917 - Vera Zorina, German dancer (d. 2003)
1918 - Willi Graf, German anti-Nazi activist (d. 1943)
1920 - Duke of Devonshire, English large landowner/art collector
1920 - Isaac Asimov, Russia, scientist/writer (I Robot, Foundation Trilogy)
1920 - Penelope Jessel, politcal activist
1920 - Peter Harrison Swan, bomber pilot/stockbroker
1921 - Glen Harmon, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007)
1922 - Jason Evers, NYC, actor (Wrangler, Channing)
1922 - Nico Schuyt, composer
1922 - Renata Tebaldi, Pesaro Italy, lyric soprano
1925 - Andry Maryanovich Nikodemovich, composer
1925 - William J Crowe Jr, Kentucky, chairman joint chief of staff
1925 - Larry Harmon, American entertainer and TV producer (d. 2008)
1927 - David Herbert, publisher
1927 - Gino Marchetti, NFL defensive end (Dallas Texans, Baltimore Colts)
1927 - Richard Belmont Ray, (Rep-D-Ga) [or Feb 2]
1928 - Dan Rostenkowski, (Rep-D-Il, -94)
1928 - Gerhard Amanshauser, writer
1928 - Harry Hyams, English immovable goods owner (Center Point)
1928 - Howard Caine, Nashville TN, actor (Brushfire)
1928 - Tiberiu Olah, composer
1928 - Vaughn Beals, Cambridge Mass, CEO (Harley Davidson motorcycle)
1928 - Avie Bennett, Canadian philanthropist
1928 - Daisaku Ikeda, Japanese writer
1929 - Art Prysock, jazz musician
1930 - Julius LaRosa, Bkln NY, singer (fired by Arthur Godfrey on the air)
1931 - Toshiki Kaifu, premier of Japan (1989-91)
1932 - Dabney Coleman, Austin Texas, (That Girl, Mary Hartman, Buffalo Bill)
1933 - Ed Casey, Australian politician (d. 2006)
1933 - Morimura Seiichi, Japanese novelist
1936 - Roger Miller, Fort Worth Tx, country singer (King of the Road, Dang Me)
1937 - Marianne McDonald, classicist/philanthropist
1938 - John Considine, actor (Reginald Love-Another World)
1938 - Ian Brady, British serial killer
1938 - Hans Herbjørnsrud, Norwegian author
1939 - Jim Bakker, televangelist (PTL Club)/rapist (Jessica Hahn)
1940 - S. R. S. Varadhan, Indian-American mathematician
1942 - Hugh Shelton, 15th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
1943 - Barış Manço, Turkish singer and television producer (d. 1999)
1944 - Peter Eotvos, composer
1944 - Prince Norodom Ranariddh, Cambodian politician
1946 - Richard Cole, American tour manager
1947 - Aleksandr Tikhonova, USSR, biathalon relay (Oly-gold-1968, 72, 76, 80)
1947 - Calvin Hill, NFL running back (Dallas Cowboys)
1947 - Lanny Bassham, US, rifle-3 position (Olympic-gold-1976)
1947 - Jack Hanna, American zoologist
1948 - Kerry Minnear, Dorset, English rocker (Gentle Giant)
1949 - Chick Churchill, Wales, keyboardist (Ten Years After-I'm Going Home)
1949 - Christopher Durang, Montclair NJ, playwright/actor (Sister Mary)
1950 - Lou Gramm, rocker
1950 - David Shifrin, American classical clarinetist
1951 - Nadia Cassini, [Gianna Lou Muller], Woodstock NY, model (Oui)
1951 - Alexander Pogrebinsky, Russian painter
1952 - Ricky Van Shelton, Grit Va, country singer (Wild-Eyed Dream)
1952 - Wendy Phillips, Bkln NY, actress (Executive Suite, Promised Land)
1952 - Graeme Strachan, Australian rock singer (Skyhooks) (d. 2001)
1954 - Ludmila Borozna, USSR, volleyball player (Olympic-gold-1972)
1954 - Henry Bonilla, American politician
1954 - Dawn Silva, American singer (The Brides of Funkenstein, P-Funk)
1955 - Tex Brashear, American voice actor
1956 - Lynda Barry, American cartoonist
1957 - Joanna Pacula, Tomszowaubelski Poland, actress (Gorky Park, Kiss)
1958 - Vladimir Ovchinnikov, Russian pianist
1959 - Kirti Azad, cricketer (Indian off-spin all-rounder in 7 Tests 1981-83)
1960 - Raman Lamba, cricketer (Indian opening batsman 1986-87)
1960 - Naoki Urasawa, Japanese manga author
1961 - Gabrielle Carteris, Phoenix Az, actress (Andrea-Beverly Hills 90210)
1961 - Todd Haynes, American film director
1963 - David Cone, KC Mo, baseball pitcher (NY Mets/Tor Blue Jays/NY Yankees)
1963 - Edgar Martinez, NYC, baseball 1st baseman (Seattle Mariners)
1964 - Christopher John Gray, priest
1964 - Pernell Whitaker, boxer (Olympic-gold)
1964 - Rumesh Ratnayake, cricketer (Sri Lankan pacer in 23 Tests 1983-92)
1965 - Greg Swindell, Fort Worth TX, pitcher (Houston Astros, Cleve Indians)
1965 - Russ Courtnall, Duncan, NHL right wing (Vancouver Canucks)
1966 - Tia Carrere, [Althea Janairo], Honolulu, actress (Wayne's World)
1967 - Harlon Barnett, NFL safety (Minnesota Vikings)
1967 - Jón Gnarr, Icelandic comedian
1968 - Cuba Gooding Jr, actor (Boyz N the Hood, Glaadiator, Few Good Men)
1968 - Scott Mitchell, NFL quarterback (Detroit Lions)
1968 - Anky van Grunsven, Dutch dressage champion
1968 - Evan Parke, Jamaican actor
1969 - Christy Turlington, SF California, model (Calvin Klein Eternity)
1969 - Rick Tabaracci, Toronto, NHL goalie (Calgary Flames)
1969 - Robert Svehla, Martin Cze, NHL defenseman (Florida Panthers, Slovakia)
1969 - Stephen Davies, Aust field hockey forward/vice capt (Oly-sil-92, 96)
1969 - Karl-Heinz Grasser, Austrian politician
1969 - Glen Johnson, Jamaican boxer
1969 - Tommy Morrison, American boxer
1970 - Aleksandr Shimin, hockey goaltender (Team Kazakhstan Oly-1998)
1970 - Anthony Stuart, cricketer (Australian ODI pace bowler, hat trick 1997)
1970 - Glenn Cadrez, NFL linebacker (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1970 - Royce Clayton, Burbank CA, infielder (SF Giants, St Louis Cardinals)
1970 - Robert Fertitta, American opera singer
1970 - Sanda Ladoşi, Romanian singer
1971 - Aamer Nazir, cricketer (Pakistani pace bowler 1993- )
1971 - Aaron Williams, NBA center (Seattle Supersonics)
1971 - Brad Parpan, WLAF quarterback (Rhein Fire)
1971 - Horace Copeland, NFL wide receiver (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1971 - Robert O' Neal, WLAF DB (Amsterdam Admirals)
1971 - Taye Diggs, American actor
1971 - Lisa Harrison, American basketball player
1972 - Jeff Jackson, US baseball outfielder (Philadelphia Phillies)
1972 - Lake Dawson, NFL wide receiver (KC Chiefs)
1972 - Mattias Norstrom, Mora SWE, NHL defenseman (Team Sweden, LA Kings)
1972 - Christopher Lennertz, American composer
1973 - Abu Wilson, running back (Indianapolis Colts)
1973 - Chris Woodruff, Knoxville Tenn, tennis star (1993 NCAA Division I)
1973 - Fredric Ford, WLAF CB (Scotland Claymores)/NFL cornerback (Eagles)
1973 - Sarah Schwald, Bellingham Wash, 1.5k runner
1973 - Lucy Davis, British actress
1973 - Will Kirby, American actor
1974 - Juha Lind, NHL forward (Team Finland Oly-Bronze-1998, Dallas)
1975 - Chris Cheney, Australian musician (The Living End)
1975 - Doug Robb, American singer (Hoobastank)
1975 - Dax Shepard, American actor
1975 - Reuben Thorne, New Zealand rugby union player
1976 - Hrysopiyi Devetzi, Greek triple jumper
1976 - Danilo Di Luca, Italian cyclist
1976 - Cletidus Hunt, American football player
1976 - Mahée Paiement, Canadian actress
1976 - Paz Vega, Spanish actress
1977 - Ales Pisa, Czech ice hockey player
1977 - Scott Proctor, American baseball player
1978 - Devin Doherty, actor (Jimmy Clayton-Swan's Crossing)
1978 - Toyoguchi Megumi, Japanese seiyuu (voice actress)
1979 - Jonathan Greening, British footballer
1979 - Suranne Jones, British actress
1980 - Stephanie Stiegler, Santa Monica California, pairs skater (& Zimmerman)
1980 - Mac Danzig, American Mixed martial arts combatant
1981 - Hanno Balitsch, German footballer
1981 - Maxi Rodríguez, Argentine footballer
1981 - Ryan Garko, American baseball player
1981 - Kirk Hinrich, American basketball player
1982 - Athanasia Tsoumeleka, Greek race walker
1983 - Kate Bosworth, American actress
1984 - Colleen Taylor, American journalist
1985 - Heather O'Reilly, American soccer player
1987 - Loui Batley, British actress
1987 - Syesha Mercado, American singer
1988 - Jonny Evans, Northern Irish footballer

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 02, 2013, 04:58:19 PM

This Day in History for 2nd January


Famous Deaths

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Confederate General James
Longstreet (1904)                         


17 - Roman poet Ovid (in Latin: Publius Ovidius Naso), dies
1512 - Svante, Regent of Sweden (b. 1460)
1514 - William Smyth, English bishop and statesman (bc. 1460)
1557 - Pontormo, Italian painter (b. 1494)
1685 - Harbottle Grimston, English politician (b. 1603)
1694 - Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington, English politician (b. 1651)
1726 - Domenico Zipoli, composer, dies at 37
1740 - Johann Georg Weichenberger, composer, dies at 63
1763 - John Casteret earl Granville, English premier, dies at 72
1780 - Johann Ludwig Krebs, composer, dies at 66
1789 - Franz Joseph Leonti Meyer von Schavensee, composer, dies at 68
1790 - Joseph A Feuchtmayer (Feichtmayer), German rococo sculptor, dies
1801 - Johann C Lavater, Swiss vicar/philosopher, dies at 59
1803 - Ignaz Franz von Beecke, composer, dies at 69
1861 - Frederik Willem IV, King of Prussia (1840-61)/Germ (1849-61), dies at 65
1863 - Roger Weightman Hanson, Confederate brig-gen, dies in Battle of Murfreesboro at 35
1892 - George B Airy, English astronomer/writer, dies at 90
1893 - John Obadiah Westwood, British entomologist (b. 1805)
1904 - James Longstreet, Confederate general, dies at 82
1913 - Leon P Teisserenc de Bort, Fr meteorologist (stratosphere), dies at 57
1915 - Karl Goldmark, Austria-Hungarian composer (Queen of Saba), dies at 84
1917 - Edward B Tylor, English anthropologist, dies at 84
1918 - Sijbe K Bakker, vicar/theologist (Christian-Socialism), dies at 42
1921 - Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, Ger chancellor/PM (Prussia), dies at 64
1923 - Sam Carter, black resident of Rosewood Florida, lynched by KKK
1924 - Sabine Baring-Gould, English composer and novelist (b. 1834)
1929 - Erich Wichman[n], Dutch fascist painter/sculptor, dies at 38
1936 - Sir Francis Newdegate, Governor of Tasmania, Western Australia (b. 1862)
1937 - Ross Alexander, actor (Capt Blood, Boulder Dam), dies at 29
1939 - Roman Dmowski, Polish politician (b. 1864)
1941 - Mischa Levitzki, composer, dies at 42
1945 - Betram Home Ramsay, Engl adm/Cmdr Naval Forces (Normandy), dies at 61
1946 - Joe Darling, cricketer (Aussie captain 21 Tests, won 7 lost 4), dies
1950 - Emil Jannings, actor (The Way of All Flesh), dies at 65
1950 - James Dooley, Premier of New South Wales (b. 1877)
1951 - Sir William Campion, Governor of Western Australia (b. 1870)
1955 - Jose Antonio Remon, president of Panama (1952-55), assassinated
1960 - Cees [Cornelis J] Laseur, Dutch actor/dir (Hague Comedy), dies at 60
1960 - Chris van Abkoude, author (Pietje Bell, Kruimeltje), dies at about 79
1960 - Fausto Coppi, Italian, ran world record 45,798 km, dies at 40
1960 - Friedrich Adler, Austria soc-dem, murdered PM Storgkh, dies at 80
1960 - Paul Sauvé, Canadian politician (b. 1907)
1961 - Bob Catterall, cricketer (1555 runs/24 Tests for S Afr 1922-31), dies
1963 - Dick Powell, actor/director (Dick Powell Theater), dies at 58
1963 - Jack Carson, actor (Star is Born, Mildred Pierce), dies at 52
1965 - Staf Gustaf Frans Nees, composer, dies at 63
1968 - Sanoesi Pane, Indonesian writer, dies
1969 - Georges Renevant, actor (Cornered), dies after long illness at 74
1970 - Piotr Rytel, composer, dies at 85
1971 - Willard Maas, American educator and experimental filmmaker (b. 1906)
1974 - Tex Ritter, country singer (5 Star Jubilee), dies at 67
1974 - Tex Ritter, American actor (b. 1905)
1977 - Erroll Garner, jazz pianist (Misty), dies at 53
1977 - Errol Garner, American musician (b. 1921)
1980 - Larry Williams, rocker, dies at 44
1981 - David Lynch, singer (Platters-My Prayer), dies at 51
1983 - Bernard George Stevens, composer, dies at 66
1983 - Dick Emery, actor (Yellow Submarine, Loot, Baby Love), dies at 65
1983 - Harriet Parsons, producer (Susan Slept Here), dies at 76 of cancer
1986 - Una Merkel, US actress (Abraham Lincoln), dies at 82
1986 - Bill Veeck, American baseball executive (b. 1914)
1990 - Alan Hale Jr, Skipper on Gilligan's Island, dies of cancer at 71
1990 - Vladimir Alexis Ussachevsky, Manchuria composer (Creation), dies at 78
1991 - Renato Rascel, actor (7 Hills of Rome), dies of heart failure at 78
1992 - Virginia Field, actress (Dream Girl), dies of cancer at 74
1994 - Caesar Romero, actor (Joker-Batman), dies at 86
1994 - Dixy Lee Ray, chairwoman (US Atomic Energy Comm), dies at 79
1994 - Pierre-Paul Schweitzer, French director of IMF (1963-73), dies at 81
1994 - Sammy Taft, Canadian businessman (coined term "hat trick"), dies at 81
1995 - Graham Sharp, ice skater, dies at 77
1995 - Manuel Rivera, Spanish painter/co-founder (El Paso), dies at 67
1995 - Mohammed Siyad Barre, president of Somalia (1969-91), dies
1995 - Nancy Kelly, US actress (Bad Seed, Submarine Patrol), dies at 73
1995 - Siad Barre, general/president of Somalia (1969-91), dies at 84
1996 - Sydney Thompson, rock Climber, dies at 81
1996 - Thornton Page, astrophysicist, dies at 82
1996 - Karl Targownik, Hungarian psychiatrist (b. 1915)
1997 - Jim Rodger, sports writer, dies at 75
1997 - Randy California, [Wolfe], rock guitarist, dies at 45
1998 - Frank Muir, English writer, raconteur (b. 1920)
1999 - Sebastian Haffner, German journalist and author (b. 1907)
2000 - Patrick O'Brian, British novelist (b. 1914)
2000 - Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr., U.S. admiral (b. 1920)
2000 - Nat Adderley, American musician and composer (b. 1931)
2001 - William P. Rogers, American politician (b. 1913)
2001 - Teri Diver, American actress (b. 1971)
2002 - Armi Aavikko, Finnish singer (b. 1958)
2003 - Eric Jupp, British-Australian pianist, composer, arranger (b. 1922)
2004 - Jess Collins, American artist (b. 1923)
2004 - Lynn Cartwright, American actress (b. 1927)
2005 - Maclyn McCarty, American geneticist (b. 1911)
2005 - Cyril Fletcher, British comedian (b. 1913)
2005 - Edo Murtić, Croatian painter (b. 1921)
2005 - Frank Kelly Freas, American artist (b. 1922)
2005 - Ronald 'Bo' Ginn, American politician (b. 1934)
2006 - Cecilia Muñoz-Palma, first female Philippine Supreme Court Justice (b. 1913)
2007 - Teddy Kollek, Austrian-born mayor of Jerusalem (b. 1911)
2007 - David Perkins, Stanford University geneticist (b. 1919)
2007 - Mauno Jokipii, Finnish professor and World War II researcher (b. 1924)
2007 - Paek Nam-sun, North Korean Foreign Affairs minister (b. 1929)
2007 - Sergio Jiménez, Mexican actor (b. 1937)
2007 - Don Massengale, American PGA Tour golf player (b. 1937)
2007 - Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, American historian (b. 1941)
2007 - Robert C. Solomon, American scholar of continental philosophy (b. 1942)
2007 - Dan Shaver, NASCAR driver and ARCA race car driver/owner (b. 1950)
2007 - Richard Newton, Australian-born technology pioneer and professor (b. 1951)
2007 - Garry Betty, American CEO of Earthlink (b. 1957)
2008 - Gerry Staley, American baseball player (b. 1920)
2008 - Her Royal Highness Princess Galyani Vadhana Krommaluang Narathiwat Rajanagarindra, elder
           sister of His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand (b. 1923)
2008 - George MacDonald Fraser, British author (b. 1925)
2008 - Lee S. Dreyfus, American politician (b. 1926)
2009 - Maria de Jesus, Portuguese supercentenarian (b. 1893)
2011 - Anne Francis, American actress (b. 1930)
2011 - Pete Postlethwaite, English actor (b. 1946)
2011 - Szeto Wah, Hong Kong politician and educationalist (b. 1931)
2011 - Richard D. Winters, American Army officer (b.1918)
2012 - Larry "Rhino" Reinhardt, rock guitarist (Iron Butterfly) dies at 63
2012 - Ian Bargh, Canadian jazz pianist and composer, dies from lung cancer at 76
2012 - David Barron, British physicist and computer scientist, at 76 (b.1935)
2012 - Ivan Calin, Moldavian President and Prime Minister 1980-1990, dies at 76
2012 - William Carey, American businessman and philanthropist, died from complications after a heart
           attack at 81
2012 - Gordon Hirabayashi, civil rights activist and WWII internment opponent dies after Alzheimer's
           disease at 93

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 03, 2013, 09:48:53 PM

This Day in History for 3rd January


Famous Events

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Founder of Protestanism                        Author and Nobel Laureate                        Italian Dictator
               Martin Luther                              Gerhart Hauptmann                              Benito Mussolini

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British war time Prime Minister               Mount Everest Conquerer                       Rocker/Beatle John Lennon
               Winston Churchill                            Edmund Hillary                           

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New York Yankees Owner                        British Prime Minister                       
      George Steinbrenner                                 Margaret Thatcher   


236 - St Anterus ends his reign as Catholic Pope
269 - St Felix I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
936 - Duke Alberik II of Spoleto appoints his son Pope Leo VII
1338 - Jacob of Arteveld elected mayor of Ghent
1407 - Bloody battles between Hoeksen & Kabeljauwen in Dordrecht
1431 - Joan of Arc handed over to the bishop
1496 - Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine.
1521 - Martin Luther excommunicated by Pope Leo X from the Roman Catholic Church
1638 - Dutch Premier Van Joost speaks of "Hostage rights of Aemstel"
1638 - Schouwburg Theater, the 1st in Amsterdam, opens
1667 - Resistance of Androsovo in Russia-Poland
1746 - Bonnie Prince Charlies army leaves Glasgow, [NS=1/14]
1749 - Benning Wentworth issues the first of the New Hampshire Grants, leading to the
           establishment of Vermont.
1750 - Tax revolt in Haarlem Neth
1752 - East Indies invasion "Geldermalsen" leaves at Malakka: 92 killed
1777 - Washington defeats British at Battle of Princeton, NJ
1780 - Danish national anthem "Kong Kristian...," 1st sung
1823 - Stephen F. Austin receives a grant of land in Texas from the government of Mexico.
1825 - Scottish factory owner Robert Owen buys 30,000 acres in Indiana as site for New Harmony
           utopian community
1831 - 1st US building & loan association organized, Frankford, Penn
1833 - Britain seizes control of Falkland Islands in South Atlantic
1834 - The government of Mexico imprisons Stephen F. Austin in Mexico City.
1840 - 1st deep sea sounding
1848 - Joseph Jenkins Roberts is sworn in as the first president of the independent African Republic
           of Liberia.
1852 - 1st Chinese arrive in Hawaii
1861 - Delaware legislature rejects proposal to join Confederacy
1861 - US Ft Pulaski & Ft Jackson, Savannah, seized by Georgia
1862 - Romney Campaign-Stonewall Jackson moves north from Winchester
1865 - Con Orem & Hugh O'Neill box 193 rounds before darkness ends match
1868 - Meiji Restoration returns authority to Japan's emperors
1870 - Construction begins on Brooklyn Bridge in New York; completed May 24, 1883
1871 - Oleomargarine patented by Henry Bradley, Binghamton, NY
1872 - 1st patent list issued by US Patent Office
1888 - 1st wax drinking straw patented, by Marvin C Stone in Washington DC
1889 - Admissions convention meets in Ellensburg, WA, asks for statehood
1890 - 1st US college-level dairy school opens at University of Wisconsin
1896 - Emperor Wilhelm congratulates Pres Kruger on the Jameson Raid
1899 - The first known use of the word automobile, was seen in an editorial in The New York Times.
1900 - Gerhart Hauptmanns "Schluck und Jau," premieres in Berlin
1900 - Perihelion Passage
1902 - Reg Duff 104 on Test debut, v England at MCG
1910 - British miners strike for 8 hour working day
1911 - US postal savings bank inaugurated
1912 - South Pacific RR offers to bring Liberty Bell to Exposition, free
1914 - Kelman/Cushing/Heath' musical "Sari," premieres in NYC
1918 - US employment service opens as a unit of Dept of Labor
1920 - Arthur Honegger's "Chant de Nigamon," premieres
1920 - NY Yankees purchase Babe Ruth from Red Sox for $125,000
1921 - Turkey makes peace with Armenia
1922 - 1st living person identified on a US coin (Thomas E Kirby) on the Alabama Centennial half-
           dollar
1924 - British egyptologist Howard Carter finds sarcophagus of Tutankhamun
1925 - Benito Mussolini dissolves Italian parliament/becomes dictator
1926 - Greek gen Theodorus Pangulos names himself dictator
1929 - 27 year old William S Paley becomes CBS pres
1929 - Bradman scores 112 v England at MCG - his 1st Test century
1931 - Nels Stewart of Montreal Maroons scores 2 goals in 4 sec (record)
1932 - Martial law is declared in Honduras to stop revolt by banana workers fired by United Fruit.
1933 - Minnie D. Craig becomes the first female elected as Speaker of the North Dakota House of
           Representatives, the first female to hold a Speaker position anywhere in the United States.
1938 - March of Dimes established to fight polio
1939 - Gene Cox becomes 1st girl page in US House of Representatives
1940 - WPG-AM in Atlantic City NJ consolidates with WBIL & WOV as "new" WOV
1941 - Canada & US acquire air bases in Newfoundland (99 yr lease)
1941 - Italian counter offensive in Albania
1941 - Sergei Rachmaninov's "Symphonic Dances" premieres in Philadelphia
1942 - American-British-Dutch-Australian (ABDA) Command forms
1943 - 1st missing persons telecast (NYC)
1943 - Canadian Army troops arrive in North Africa
1944 - World War II: Top Ace Major Greg "Pappy" Boyington is shot down in his Corsair by Captain
            Masajiro Kawato flying a Zero.
1945 - Allies land on west coast of Burma, conquer Akyab
1945 - British Premier Winston Churchill visits France
1945 - Cato-Meridian School, NY, installs germicidal lamps in every room
1945 - Greek General Plastiras forms government
1945 - John Patrick's "Hasty Heart," premieres in NYC
1945 - US aircraft carriers attack Okinawa
1947 - 1st opening session of Congress to be televised
1947 - William Dawson becomes 1st black to head congressional committee
1948 - Bradman completes dual Test tons (132 & 127*) v India MCG
1949 - "Colgate Theater" dramatic anthology series premieres on NBC TV
1951 - 9 Jewish Kremlin physicians "exposed" as British/US agents
1951 - Fred Wilt wins AAU Sullivan Memorial Trophy (US athlete of 1950)
1952 - "Dragnet" with Jack Webb premieres on NBC TV
1952 - Australia beat W Indies by one wicket at the MCG, last stand 38
1953 - Frances Bolton and her son, Oliver from Ohio, become the first mother and son to serve
           simultaneously in the U.S. Congress.
1955 - Jose Ramon Guizado becomes president of Panama
1956 - A fire damages the top part of the Eiffel Tower.
1957 - 1st electric watch introduced, Lancaster Pa
           Mount Everest Conquerer Edmund Hillary 1958 - Edmund Hillary reaches South Pole overland
1958 - Lindsay Kline takes a hat-trick v South Africa at Cape Town
1958 - The West Indies Federation is formed.
1959 - Alaska admitted as 49th US state
1961 - Adam Clayton Powell elected Chairman of House Education & Labor
1961 - US breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba
1962 - Ground is broken for the Houston Astrodome
1962 - Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro
1963 - WOUB TV channel 20 in Athens, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
1964 - Jack Paar Show, shows a clip of the Beatles singing "She Loves You"
1966 - Floyd B McKissick, named national director of CORE
1967 - "Tonight Show" is shortened from 105 to 90 minutes
1967 - Carl Wilson of the Beach Boys is indicted for draft evasion
1967 - WJAN TV channel 17 in Canton, OH (IND) begins broadcasting
1969 - John Lennon's "2 Virgins" album declared pornographic in NJ
1969 - Rep Adam Clayton Powell Jr seated by Congress
1970 - "Jimmy" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 84 performances
1970 - "Mame" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 1508 performances
1970 - Marxist government takes over in Congo
1970 - WHAG TV channel 25 in Hagerstown, MD (NBC) begins broadcasting
1971 - "President's Daughter" closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC after 72 perfs
1971 - Baltimore Colts beat Oakland Raiders 27-17 in AFC championship game
1971 - Dallas Cowboys beat SF '49ers 17-10 in NFC championship game
1973 - George Steinbrenner III buys Yankees from CBS for $12 million
1974 - Arias Navarro succeeds Carrero Blanco as premier of Spain
1974 - Burma accepts its constitution
1974 - Gold hits record $121.25 an ounce in London
1974 - Miguel Pinero's "Short Eyes," premieres in NYC
1974 - NY Yankees sign Bill Virdon as manager
1976 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1977 - Apple Computers incorporate
1977 - Lindy McDaniel retires with 2nd most pitching appearances (987 games)
1978 - Chandrasekar takes 6-52 & 6-52 at MCG in Indian innings win
1980 - Gold hits record $634 an ounce
1981 - 55th Australian Womens Tennis: H Mandlikova beats W Turnbull (60 75)
1981 - Cleveland Cavaliers retire jersey # 34, Austin Carr
1981 - Greg Chappell scores 204 v India at the SCG
1981 - Mary Terstegge Meagher swims female record 100 m butterfly (58.91)
1983 - Tony Dorsett sets NFL record with 99-yd rush, Dallas vs Minnesota
1984 - Syria frees captured US pilot after appeal from Jesse Jackson
1985 - Azharuddin scores 110 in 1st Test innings
1985 - Israel government confirms resettlement of 10,000 Ethiopian Jews
1987 - "Oh Coward!" closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 56 performances
1987 - "Smile" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC after 48 performances
1987 - Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inducts 1st female artist Aretha Franklin
1988 - Israel orders 9 Palestinian "instigators" deported from W Beirut
1988 - Margaret Thatcher becomes longest-serving British PM this century
1989 - Jim & Tammy Bakker return to TV (Oy Vey!)
1989 - Russian newspaper Izvestia gets its 1st commercial advertisement
1990 - Panama's leader Gen Manuel Noriega surrenders to US authorities
1991 - Israel reopens consulate in USSR after 23 years
1991 - LA King Wayne Gretzky scores his 700th goal against NY Islanders
1992 - 32 Cubans defect to the US via helicopter
1992 - Boon completes 11 Test Cricket century, 129* v India at Sydney
1993 - "Catskills on Broadway" closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 452 perfs
1993 - "Christmas Carol" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 22 perfs
1993 - "Lost in Yonkers" closes at Richard Rodgers NYC after 780 perfs
1993 - "Secret Garden" closes at St James Theater NYC after 706 performances
1993 - "Tommy Tune Tonite!" closes at Gershwin NYC after 10 performances
1993 - Junk bond king Michael Milkin is released from jail after 22 months
1994 - "Gray's Anatomy" closes at Beaumont Theater NYC after 13 performances
1994 - 100s killed in Venezuela in prison revolt
1994 - Tupolev-154M crashes at Irkutsk, Siberia: 122 killed
1994 - 35-foot-tall Chief Wahoo, trademark of Indians on top of Stadium since 1962, is taken down,
           to be moved to Jacob's Field
1997 - Bryant Gumbel co-hosted his final "Today" show on NBC-TV
1997 - Eddo Brandes takes ODI hat-trick v England at Harare
1997 - Zimbabwe clean-sweep ODI series v England 3-0
1997 - The People's Republic of China announces it will spend $27.7 billion USD to fight erosion and
            pollution in the Yangtze and Yellow river valleys.
1998 - "Side Show," closes at Richard Rodgers NYC after 91 performances
1998 - Grandpa Jones suffers a stroke
1999 - Israel detains, and later expels, 14 members of Concerned Christians.
1999 - The Mars Polar Lander was launched.
2004 - Flight 604, a Boeing 737 owned by Flash Airlines, an Egyptian airliner, plunges into the Red
           Sea, killing all 148 people on board.
2007 - National Express has its worst ever coach crash just outside Heathrow Airport.
2009 - Israeli ground forces invade Gaza.

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 03, 2013, 10:11:06 PM

This Day in History for 3rd January


Famous Weddings

1987 - Singer/Miss America Vanessa Williams marries Ramon T Hervey in NYC
2003 - Actress Emily Mortimer (31) weds actor Alessandro Nivola (30) in Chilterns, Buckinghamshire
2004 - Singer Britney Spears (22) weds childhood pal Jason Allen Alexander in Las Vegas, Nevada

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 03, 2013, 10:11:54 PM

This Day in History for 3rd January


Famous Birthdays

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Roman Statesman &                                Writer J. R. R. Tolkien (1892)                  Formula 1 Racing Driver
 Philosopher Cicero (106 BC)                                                                                 Michael Schumacher (1969)


106 BC - Cicero, Roman statesman and philosopher (d. 43 BC)
1196 - Emperor Tsuchimikado of Japan (d. 1231)
1624 - William Tucker, 1st Black child born in America
1680 - Johann Baptist Zimmermann, German stucco worker
1698 - Pietro Metastasio, Italian poet (d. 1782)
1710 - Richard Gridley, American Revolutionary soldier (d. 1796)
1719 - Francisco José Freire, Portuguese historian (d. 1773)
1722 - Fredric Hasselquist, Swedish naturalist (d. 1752)
1730 - Charles Palissot de Montenoy, French writer/politician
1757 - Johann Abraham Sixt, composer
1760 - John Storm, American Revolutionary soldier (d. 1835)
1763 - Joseph Fesch, French cardinal/war commission/earl/senator
1777 - Louis Poinsot, French instrument worker
1777 - M A Elisa Bonaparte, Corsican monarch of Lucca/Piombino
1778 - Antoni Melchior Fijałkowski, Polish bishop (d. 1861)
1786 - Johann Christian Friedrich Schneider, composer
1789 - Carl G Carus, German physician/psychologist/philosopher
1793 - Lucretia Coffin Mott, US, teacher/minister/abolitionist/feminist
1802 - Feliks Ostrowski, composer
1802 - Charles Pelham Villiers, British House of Commons member (d. 1898)
1803 - Douglas William Jerrold, London, author/playwright/wit (Punch Mag)
1806 - Henriette Sontag, German soprano (d. 1854)
1810 - Antoine T d'Abbadie, French explorer (Ethiopia) [or Jul 24]
1810 - Eliza Von Bretton di Zerega, Danish West Indies, baroness
1819 - Thomas Hill Watts, Atty Gen (Confederacy), died in 1892
1819 - Charles Piazzi Smyth, Astronomer Royal for Scotland (d. 1900)
1823 - Jaak-Nikolaas Lemmens, Flemish composer
1828 - Karl Collan, Finnish composer
1829 - John G R Acquoy, theologist/church historian
1829 - Konrad Duden, German linguist (Der grosse Duden)
1830 - Alexander Ewing, composer
1835 - Larkin Goldsmith Mead, sculptor
1836 - Sakamoto Ryoma, Japanese revolutionary (d. 1867)
1840 - Father Joseph Damien de Veuster, Belgium, helped lepers in Hawaii
1853 - Iwan Knorr, composer
1855 - Hubert Bland, English socialist (d. 1914)
1861 - William Renshaw, British champion tennis player (d. 1904)
1862 - Sir Matthew Nathan, British Governor of Queensland and other places (d. 1939)
1865 - Henry Lytton, British actor and opera singer (d. 1936)
1868 - Franz V M Cumont, Belgian religious historian
1869 - Paul Charles Rene Landormy, composer
1870 - Henry Eichheim, composer
1870 - Henry Handel Richardson, Australia, novelist (Richard Mahoney)
1873 - Ichizo Kobayashi, Japanese businessman (d. 1957)
1876 - Wilhelm Pieck, co-founder German Communist Party/pres (1949-60)
1879 - Grace Anna Goodhue Coolidge, 1st lady (1923-29)
1882 - Willem Benoy, Flemish actor/director (Pygmalion)
1883 - Clement Richard Attlee, (L) British PM (1945-51)
1884 - Eli S Jones, US, evangelist (Christ of Indian road)
1884 - Raoul Armand Georg Koczalski, composer
1886 - Arthur Mailey, cricketer (great Aussie leg-spinner & cartoonist)
1886 - John G Fletcher, US, poet (Epic of Arkansas)
1886 - Josephine Hull, Newtonville MA, Academy award actress (Harvey)
1887 - Helen Parkhurst, US educator (Education on the Dalton plan)
1887 - August Macke, German painter (d. 1914)
1891 - Osip E Mandelstam, Polish/Russian poet/author (Kamenj) [NS=Jan 15]
1892 - John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, South Africa, philologist/writer (Lord of Rings)
1893 - Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, French novelist/essayist (Gilles)
1894 - ZaSu Pitts, American actress (d. 1963)
1895 - Boris Mykolayovich Lyatoshyns'ky, composer
1895 - Mihail Andricu, composer
1897 - Marion Davies, [Marion Cecelia Douras], Bkln, actress (Operator 13)
1897 - Pola Negri, [Barbara A Chalupec], Polish/US actress (Madame Bovary)
1898 - Johannes Hin, Holland, yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1920)
1898 - ZaSu Pitts, Parsons Kansas, actress (Life With Father, Dames)
1900 - Dorothy Arnzer, director
1900 - Maurice Jaubert, composer
1901 - Eric Voegelin, Germany, US philosopher (Order & History)
1901 - Ngo Dinh Diem, pres/dictator of South Vietnam (1955-63)
1902 - Henry Lennox d'Aubigny Hopkinson, diplomat/politician
1903 - Charles Foulkes, Canada, general
1904 - Boris Kochno, Russian ballet dancer (La Chatte)
1905 - Dante Giacosa, engineer/designer
1905 - Ray Milland, Neath Wales, actor (Lost Weekend-Acad Award 1945)
1905 - Anna May Wong, American actress (d. 1961)
1906 - Roman Brandstaetter, writer
1907 - Anna May Wong, LA California, actress (Impact, Study in Scarlet)
1909 - Victor Borge, [Borge Rosenbaum], Copenhagen Denmark, pianist/comedian
1910 - Thomas Stuart Willan, historian
1910 - Frenchy Bordagaray, American baseball player (d. 2000)
1911 - John Sturges, US, director (Old Man & Sea, Magnificent 7)
1912 - Robert Flemyng, Liverpool England, actor (Windom's Way, Young Winston)
1912 - Renaude Lapointe, Canadian journalist and senator (d. 2002)
1912 - Armand Lohikoski, Finnish director (d. 2005)
1914 - Jean Louvel, Flemish pianist/conductor/composer
1916 - Antonio Estevez, composer
1916 - Betty Furness, NYC, actress/journalist/consumer activist (Studio 1)
1916 - Bernard Greenhouse, American cellist
1917 - Vernon Walters, NYC, US permanent rep to the UN
1917 - Roger W. Straus, Jr., American publisher (d. 2004)
1918 - Maxene Andrews, Minn, singer (Andrew Sisters-Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy)
1919 - Jesse White, Buf NY, actor (Bedtime for Bonzo, Million Dollar Mermaid)
1920 - Renato Carosone, Italian musician (d. 2001)
1921 - John Russell, LA California, actor (Pale Rider, Rio Bravo)
1922 - Bill Travers, Newcastle-on-Tyne England, actor (Born Free, Gorgo)
1922 - Jacques Wildberger, Swiss composer (In My End is My Beginning)
1922 - Morten Nielsen, Denmark, poet/resistance fighter
1923 - Dragutin Gostuski, composer
1923 - Charles Tingwell, Australian actor
1924 - Andre Franquin, cartoonist
1924 - Henry M Fazzie, S Afr Union/UDF-leader
1924 - Roy Harding, British teacher
1924 - Nell Rankin, American singer (d. 2005)
1924 - Doug Ellis, British entrepreneur
1926 - Danny Overbea, blues singer/guitarist
1926 - George Martin, record producer (The Beatles)
1928 - Frank Ross Anderson, Canada, International Chess Master (1954)
1929 - Marilyn Lloyd, (Rep-D-TN, 1975- )
1929 - Sergio Leone, Italian, director (Fist Full of Dollars)
1929 - Ernst Mahle, Brazilian composer
1930 - Eddie Egan, Bronx NYC, actor (Joe Forrester)
1930 - Robert Loggia, Staten Island, actor (Officer & a Gentleman, THE Cat)
1930 - Marcel Dubé, Quebec playwright
1932 - Anatoli Petrovich Kuklin, Russia, cosmonaut
1932 - Jaswick Taylor, cricketer (WI pace bowler 50s, 10 wkts in 3 Tests)
1932 - Mara Corday, Santa Monica California, actress (Foxfire, Black Scorpion)
1932 - Coo Coo Marlin, American race car driver (d. 2005)
1934 - Bryan George Kelly, composer
1934 - Carla Hills, politician (US Pres Commission on Housing-1982)
1936 - Betty Rollin, actress (Crossing Delancey)/author (Last Wish)
1936 - David Vine, British(?) sport commentator
1936 - Jos Kunst, composer
1939 - Bobby Hull, NHL forward (Chicago Blackhawk 1957-72)
1939 - Nikos Alefantos, Greek football manager
1939 - Janice Crosio, Australian politician
1940 - Thelma Schoonmaker, actress/editor (Casino, Cape Fear, Good Fellas)
1941 - Shima Iwashita, actress (Red Lion, Hara-Kiri, Double Suicide)
1941 - Van Dyke Parks, Alabama, actor/musician (Bonino, Billy Crystal Hour)
1942 - John Thaw, British actor (d. 2002)
1942 - John Marsden, Australian lawyer, gay activist (d. 2006)
1944 - Christina von Saltza, US, swimmer (Olympic-3 gold/silver-1960)
1944 - David Atherton, English conductor
1944 - Blanche d'Alpuget, Australian novelist, biographer and second wife of Bob Hawke
1945 - Stephen Stills, Dallas TX, songwriter/guitarist (Cosby Stills & Nash)
1946 - John Paul Jones [John Baldwin], rock bassist (Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven)
1946 - Cissy King, American entertainer
1947 - Sergey Filipovich Protchenko, Russian cosmonaut
1948 - Larry McNeeley, Lafayette Ind, banjo player (Glen Campbell Hour)
1948 - Manfred Kokot, East German runner (world record 50 m indoor)
1949 - Sylvia Likens, American torture victim (d. 1965)
1950 - Victoria Principal, Fukuoka Japan, actress (Earthquake, Pamela-Dallas)
1950 - Beth Anderson, composer
1951 - Frank Chikane, sec-gen of S Afr Council of Churches
1951 - Gary Nairn, Australian politician
1952 - Jim Ross, American wrestling announcer
1953 - Angelo Parisi, France, heavyweight judo (Olympic-gold-1980)
1954 - Ross The Boss, rocker
1954 - Dean Hart, Canadian wrestler (d. 1990)
1954 - Ned Lamont, American businessman
1955 - Cynthia Sykes, Coffeyville Ky, actress (Flamingo Road, St Elsewhere)
1955 - Palmolive, English musician (The Slits, The Raincoats)
1956 - Mel Gibson, Peekskill NY, actor (Mad Max, Mrs Soffel, Lethal Weapon)
1956 - Willy T. Ribbs, American race car driver
1957 - Frank Dicopoulos, Akron OH, actor (Frank Cooper-Guiding Light)
1957 - Bojan Križај, Slovenian skier
1958 - Shim Hyung-rae, South Korean filmmaker
1959 - Rusty Golden, rocker (Boys Band)
1960 - Joan Chen, [Chen Chung], Shanghai China, actress (Last Emperor)
1960 - Sandeep Marwah Founder of Film City, Noida, India
1961 - Erwin Blom, Dutch singer/guitarist (Eton Crop)
1962 - Darren Daulton, US baseball catcher (Philadelphia Phillies)
1962 - Gavin Hastings, WLAF kicker (Scottish Claymores)
1962 - Mark Gardner, US baseball player (Florida Marlins)
1962 - Ulrike Lang, writer
1962 - Francesca Lia Block, American author
1963 - Aamer Malik, cricketer (Pakistani batsman in 13 Tests 1987-90)
1963 - Ashley Chinner, Cape Town South Africa, golfer (1992 CGIA Canadian Tour)
1963 - Jim Everett, NFL quarterback (LA Raiders, NO Saints, San Diego Chargers)
1963 - Vic Grimes, American professional wrestler
1963 - Jerome Young, American professional wrestler
1963 - Alex Wheatle MBE, black British novelist
1964 - Cheryl Miller, Riverside California, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1984)
1964 - Bruce LaBruce, Canadian filmmaker
1965 - Daniel Stubbs, NFL defensive end (Philadelphia Eagles, Miami Dolphins)
1965 - Mark Dewey, Grand Rapids MI, pitcher (SF Giants)
1966 - Chetan Sharma, cricketer (Ind Test bowler, World Cup hat-trick 1987)
1966 - John Kropke, CFL defensive tackle (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1966 - Luis Sojo, Barquisimeto Venezuela, infielder (Seattle Mariners)
1966 - Wendell Davis, NFL wide receiver (Indianapolis Colts)
1966 - Martin Galway, Northern Ireland composer
1967 - Demetri Davis, WLAF tight end (Barcelona Dragons)
1967 - Joseph Amor, San Jose, video game record holder (Space Invaders)
1967 - Magnus Gustafsson, Sweden, tennis star
1968 - Kent Carlsson, Sweden, tennis star
1968 - Kerry Huffman, Peterborough, NHL defenseman (Phila Flyers, Ottawa)
1968 - Shannon Sturges, actress (Savannah)
1968 - Thomas Rayam, CFL offensive linebacker (Edmonton Eskimos)
1969 - Matt LaBounty, defensive end (Seattle Seahawks)
1969 - Nikki Nelson, Topaz Lake Nev, country singer (Highway 101-Cry Cry Cry)
1969 - Steve Poapst, Cornwall, NHL defenseman (Washington Capitals)
1969 - Michael Schumacher, Hurth, Germany, Formula One racing driver (seven time world champion)
1970 - James Brown, NFL tackle (NY Jets)
1970 - Tony Farmer, NBA forward (Charlotte Hornets)
1970 - Trudi Jeffrey, Brisbane QLD, golfer (1990 Australian Jr Champion)
1970 - Yogi Johl, Vancouver BC, 130 kg Greco Roman wrestler (Olympics-96)
1970 - Mahaya Petrosian, Iranian actress
1970 - Christian Duguay, American comic actor
1970 - Matt Ross, American actor
1971 - Cory Cross, Lloydminster, NHL defenseman (Tampa Bay Lightning)
1971 - Ku'ualoha Taylor, Hawaii, Miss USA (Hawaii-Miss Congeniality-1996)
1971 - Rene van Rijswijk, Dutch soccer player (RKC)
1972 - Charles Johnson, NFL wide receiver (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1972 - Deborah Carter, WNBA forward (Utah Starzz)
1972 - Jacques Wildberger, composer
1972 - Yoon Chan, South Korean actor
1972 - Nichole Nordeman, American singer
1973 - Paula Knoll, Moorhead Minnesota, Miss America-Minnesota (1996)
1973 - Tyrone Brown, NFL wide receiver (Atlanta Falcons)
1974 - Stefan Ustorf, Kaufbeuren Ger, NHL right wing (Washington Capitals)
1974 - Todd Warriner, Blenheim, NHL left wing (Toronto Maple Leafs)
1974 - Alessandro Petacchi, Italian cyclist
1975 - Danica McKellar, actress (Winnie Cooper-Wonder Years) [or Mar 3]
1975 - Jason Marsden, actor (General Hospital, Eddie-Munsters Today)
1975 - Thomas Bangalter, French DJ (Daft Punk)
1976 - Mendel Witzenhauser, soccer player (Ajax, VVV)
1976 - Angelos Basinas, Greek footballer
1976 - Alisen Down, Canadian actress
1976 - Dinara Drukarova, Russian actress
1976 - Nicholas Gonzalez, American actor
1977 - Beata Handra, SF California, dance skater (& Sinek-1997 Pac Coast Sr 3rd)
1977 - Lee Bowyer, English footballer
1977 - A.J. Burnett, American baseball player
1977 - Mayumi Iizuka, Japanese voice actress (seiyū)
1978 - Kimberley Locke, American singer
1978 - Park Sol-mi, South Korean actress
1978 - Dominic Wood, English children's television presenter and magician
1978 - Mike York, American ice hockey player
1979 - Francesco Bellissimo, Italian mangaka
1980 - Angela Ruggiero, ice hockey defenseman (USA, Oly-98)
1980 - Rob Arnold, American guitarist (Chimaira)
1980 - Liya Kebede, Ethiopian model
1980 - David Tyree, American football player
1981 - Eli Manning, American football player
1981 - Chris Blais, California racecar driver
1985 - John David Booty, American football player
1986 - Lloyd Polite, American R&B singer
1986 - Jacob Timpano, Australian soccer player
1988 - Rodrigo de la Cadena, Mexican artist and performer
1989 - Anya Kop, Russian model and America's Next Top Model contestant
1989 - Alex D. Linz, American actor

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 03, 2013, 10:16:04 PM

This Day in History for 3rd January


Famous Deaths

235 - Pope St Anterus (b. unknown)
1098 - Walkelin, first Norman bishop of Winchester (b. unknown)
1322 - Philip V, the Tall, King of France (1316-22), dies
1437 - Catherine of Valois, wife of Henry V of England (b. 1401)
1501 - Ali Sjir Neva'i [Fani], Turkish poet/author, dies at 59
1543 - Juan Cabrillo, conqueror of Cen America, discoverer of California, dies
1552 - Henry II of Bavaria, bishop of Utrecht (1524-29), dies at 64
1560 - Peder Palladus, Danish church reformer (Visitasbog), dies at about 56
1570 - Bartholomeus Latomus, [Steinmetz], Flemish archbishop of Trier, dies
1571 - Joachim II Hector, elector (Brandenburg), dies at 65
1628 - Francesco Maria Guaitoli, composer, dies at 64
1641 - Jeremiah Horrocks, English astronomical prodigy, dies at 22
1656 - Mathieu Molé, French statesman (b. 1584)
1661 - Maria I Stuart, Queen of England/husband of Willem II, dies at 29 [NS]
1670 - George Monck, English general(-to the-sea), dies at 61
1690 - Hillel ben Naphtali Zevi, Lithuanian rabbi (b. 1615)
1701 - Prince Louis I of Monaco (b. 1642)
1743 - Ferdinando Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect and designer (b. 1657)
1759 - Marquis & Marquess of Tavora, Portugese nobles, executed
1761 - Willem de Fesch, Dutch violinist/composer (Joseph), dies at 73
1779 - Claude Bourgelat, French veterinary surgeon (b. 1712)
1785 - Baldassare Galuppi, Italian composer (b. 1706)
1795 - Josiah Wedgwood, British, ceramic craftsman/woodworker, dies at 64
1813 - Bennelong, Australian aboriginal interlocutor between his tribe and the British settlers (b. c. 1764)
1826 - Louis Gabriel Suchet, French marshal (b. 1770)
1829 - Robert Archibald Smith, composer, dies at 48
1836 - Friedrich Witt, composer, dies at 65
1841 - Wilhelmus Kist, writer/director of Dutch (Official) Gazette, dies at 82
1853 - Theodor Uhlig, composer, dies at 30
1858 - Rachel, [Elisabeth Rachel-Félix], Fr singer/actress (Muse), dies at 36
1865 - Jozef Lies, Flemish painter, dies at 43
1868 - Moritz Hauptmann, composer, dies at 75
1870 - Constantine D Uschinsky, Russian educationalist, dies at 46 [NS]
1873 - John Lodge Ellerton, composer, dies at 71
1875 - Baldassare Galuppi, Italian composer (opera's buff), dies at 68
1875 - George Bizet, composer, dies
1875 - Pierre Larousse, French editor (b. 1817)
1882 - William H Ainsworth, English writer (Guy Fawkes), dies at 76
1895 - James Merritt Ives, American lithographer with Nathaniel Currier (b. 1824)
1898 - James Wimshurst, British designer/inventor (vacuum pump), dies at 70
1900 - Edwin George Monk, composer, dies at 80
1903 - Alois Hitler, father of Adolf Hitler (b. 1837)
1907 - Josef Foerster, composer, dies at 73
1911 - Alexandros Papadiamantis, Greek author (b. 1851)
1912 - Felix Dahn, writer, dies at 77
1914 - Stephane Raoul Pugno, composer, dies at 62
1915 - James E Flecker, British diplomat/novelist (Hassan), dies at 30
1916 - Grenville M. Dodge, American Civil War Union Army Major General (b. 1831)
1923 - Jaroslav Hasek, Czech writer (Good Soldier Schweyk), dies at 39
1927 - Carle David Tolmé Runge, German physicist (b. 1856)
1931 - Joseph J C Joffre, French marshal, dies at 78
1933 - Wilhelm Cuno, German Reich's chancellor (1922-23), dies at 56
1933 - Jack Pickford, Canadian actor (b. 1896)
1938 - Arthur Boon, Flemish priest/philologist, dies at 54
1942 - Pauline Beersmans, [PLJM van Cuyck], Flemish actress, dies at 70
1943 - Sir Walter James, Premier of Western Australia (b. 1863)
1944 - Jurgis Baltrušaitis, Lithuanian poet (b. 1873)
1945 - Fyodor Akimenko, composer, dies at 68
1945 - Edgar Cayce, American psychic (b. 1877)
1945 - Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, Polish writer (b. 1879)
1946 - William Joyce, (Lord Haw Haw), hanged in Britain for treason
1951 - Fred Barlow, composer, dies at 69
1956 - Alexander Tikhonovich Gretshaninov, Russian/US composer, dies at 91
1956 - Joseph Wirth, 5th Chancellor of the Weimar Republic (Germany) (b. 1876)
1960 - Victor Seastrom, entertainer, dies at 80
1963 - Oscar Backing, Austria/Neth viola player, dies at 83
1965 - Betty Harte, entertainer, dies at 82
1965 - Julius Tannen, comedian, dies at 84
1966 - Rex Lease, actor (Perils of Pauline, Dakota, California), dies at 62
1967 - Jack Ruby, assassin who killed assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, dies at 55
1967 - Mary Garden, opera star, dies at 92
1969 - Howard McNear, actor (Irma La Douce), dies after long illness at 63
1969 - Jean Focas, Greco-French astronomer (b. 1909)
1970 - Gladys Aylward, British missionary in China; portrayed by Ingrid Bergman in The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (b. 1902)
1972 - Frans Masereel, Flem WWII resistance fighter (Le Soleil), dies at 82
1974 - Gino Cervi, actor (Becket, Don Camillo), dies at 72
1975 - Milton J Cross, TV announcer (Met Opera Auditions), dies at 87
1975 - Robert Neumann, Austrian/British author (False Flag), dies at 77
1975 - Walter Linck, Swiss sculptor, dies at 71
1976 - Mal Evans, Beatles' roadie, dies
1976 - Mateusz Glinski, composer, dies at 83
1976 - Michael V Love, US test pilot (X-24), dies in F-4 crash at 37
1977 - Avraham Ofer, Israeli minister of housing, commits suicide
1977 - Benno Stokvis, Dutch attorney/politician, dies at 75
1979 - Conrad Hilton, US founder (Hilton Hotels), dies at 91
1980 - Amos Milburn, rocker, dies at 52
1980 - Axel Springer Jr, German photographer, commits suicide at 38
1980 - Ivan Triesault, actor (Von Ryan's Express, Desert Fox), dies at 81
1980 - Joy Adamson, author (Born Free), killed by her servant at 69
1980 - Lucien Buysse, Belgian cyclist (b. 1892)
1980 - Joy Adamson, Czech conservationist (b. 1910)
1981 - Princess Alice of Albany (b. 1883)
1982 - Derek Sealy, cricketer (West Indies 1930-39), dies
1985 - Lucien Cailliet, composer, dies at 93
1986 - Jens Bjerre, composer, dies at 82
1988 - Gaston Eyskens, PM of Belgium (1949, 1958-61, 1968-72), dies at 82
1988 - William Cagney, actor (Torrid Zone), dies of a heart attack at 82
1988 - Rose Ausländer, German poet (b. 1901)
1988 - Joie Chitwood, American racedriver & Daredevil (b. 1912)
1989 - Sergei Lvovich Sobolev, Russian mathematician (b. 1909)
1990 - Ken Hill, actor (Cobra, Protocol), dies
1990 - Arthur Gold, American pianist, half of Gold and Fizdale duo (b. 1917)
1992 - Anthony Del Casino, band leader (Charlie Barnet Band), dies at 79
1992 - Judith Anderson, actress (Star Trek 3), dies of pneumonia at 93
1992 - Ken Grieves, cricketer (NSW & Lancashire leg-spin all-rounder), dies
1992 - Lewis Michael Friedman, pianist, dies at 47 of AIDS
1992 - Radomiro Tomic, Chilean president (1970), dies
1993 - Peter Brocco, blacklisted in the 1950's, dies of heart attack at 89
1993 - Johnny Most, American sports announcer (b. 1923)
1994 - Roel Bazen, Dutch sound technician (Van Kooten & The Bie), dies at 48
1994 - Heather Sears, British actress (b. 1935)
1995 - Al Duncan, drummer, dies at 68
1995 - Byron MacGregor, newscaster, dies at 56
1995 - Gerard W Taylor, South African/British surgeon, dies at 74
1995 - Robert Nesbitt, impresario, dies at 88
1996 - Geoffrey Pardoe, engineer, dies at 67
1996 - Terence Tenison Cuneo, artist, dies at 88
1997 - Burton Lane, composer, dies at 84
2002 - Juan García Esquivel, Mexican band leader (b. 1918)
2002 - Freddy Heineken, Dutch beer executive (b. 1923)
2003 - Sid Gillman, American football coach (b. 1911)
2004 - Des Corcoran, Premier of South Australia (b. 1928)
2004 - Leon Wagner, American baseball player (b. 1934)
2005 - Koo Chen-fu, Chinese negotiator (b. 1917)
2005 - Will Eisner, American comic book artist (b. 1917)
2005 - JN Dixit, Indian government official (b. 1936)
2006 - Bill Skate, Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea (b. 1954)
2006 - Steve Rogers, Australian rugby league footballer (b. 1954)
2007 - William Verity Jr., United States Secretary of Commerce 1987-1989 (b. 1917)
2007 - Michael Yeats, Irish Fianna Fáil senator 1961-1981 and son of W.B. Yeats (b. 1921)
2007 - Sir Cecil Walker, Ulster Unionist Member of Parliament for North Belfast 1983-2001 (b. 1924)
2007 - Earl Reibel, Canadian ice hockey forward Detroit Red Wings (b. 1930)
2007 - Janos Furst, Hungarian orchestral conductor (b. 1935)
2008 - Werner Dollinger, German politician and economist (b. 1918)
2008 - Aleksandr Abdulov, Russian actor (b. 1953)
2008 - Natasha Collins, British actress and television presenter (b. 1976)
2008 - Yo-Sam Choi, South Korean boxer/former WBC light flyweight champion (b. 1972)
2009 - Pat Hingle, American actor (b. 1924)
2009 - Ulf G. Lindén, Swedish entrepreneur (b. 1937)
2009 - Hisayasu Nagata, Japanese politician (b. 1969)
2010 - Professor Sir Ian Brownlie, International law specialist
2010 - Mary Daly, American theologian and feminist scholar (b. 1928)
2011 - Fadil Hadžić, Croatian film director (b. 23 April 1922)
2012 - Wylie Walker Vale, American Endocrinologist who discovered the stress hormone, dies at 70.
2012 - Robert L Carter, American civil rights activist and judge, dies after complications from a stroke
            at 94
2012 - Winifred Milius Lubell, American illustrator and writer, dies of congestive heart failure at 97
2012 - Josef Skvorecky, Czech writer and publisher, dies at 87
2012 - Bob Weston, British guitarist and songwriter (Fleetwood Mac), dies from a gastrointestinal hemorrhage at 64 (body found on this date)
2012 - Harold Zirin, American astronomer, dies at 82

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 04, 2013, 04:55:36 PM

This Day in History for 4th January


Historical Events

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Inventor/Industrialist Samuel Colt          Playwright George Bernard Shaw            United States founding father 
                                                                                                                                Benjamin Franklin

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Pacifist and Spiritual Leader Gandhi       Singer & Cultural Icon Elvis Presley


46 BC - Titus Labienus defeats Julius Caesar in the Battle of Ruspina.
274 - St Eutychian begins his reign as Catholic Pope
871 - Battle at Reading: Ethelred of Wessex beats Danish invasion army
1357 - Flemish earl Louis & Luxembourg Duke Wenceslaus sign peace treaty
1490 - Anna of Brittany announces that all those who would ally with the king of France will be
           considered guilty of the crime of lese-majesty.
1493 - Columbus left new world on return from 1st voyage
1519 - -6] 1st Altenburger sermon (Luther & Karl von Miltitz)
1570 - Spanish viceroy Alva banishes Zutphen City's only physician, Joost Sweiter, "because he is a
           Jew"
1642 - King Charles I with 400 soldiers attacks the English parliament
1698 - Most of the Palace of Whitehall in London, the main residence of the English monarchs, is
          destroyed by fire.
1717 - Netherlands, England & France sign Triple Alliance
1725 - Benjamin Franklin arrives in London [OS=Dec 24 1724]
1754 - Columbia University founded, as Kings College (NYC)
1762 - England declares war on Spain & Naples
1780 - Snowstorm hit Washington's army at Morristown, NJ
1781 - Andre Méchain discovers M80 (globular cluster in Scorpio)
1832 - Insurrection of Trinidad negroes
1843 - Gaetano Donizetti's opera "Don Pasquale," premieres in Paris
1843 - Royal Academy (Technical Hague court) Delft opens
1847 - Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the United States government.
1854 - The McDonald Islands are discovered by Captain William McDonald aboard the Samarang.
1861 - Pres Buchanan appoints a fast on account of threatened succession
1861 - US Ft Morgan, Mobile, seized by Alabama
1862 - Romney Campaign-Stonewall Jackson occupies Bath
1863 - 4 wheeled roller skates patented by James Plimpton of NY
1865 - The New York Stock Exchange opens its first permanent headquarters at 10-12 Broad near
           Wall Street in New York City.
1878 - Sofia is emancipated from Ottoman rule.
1881 - Johannes Brahms' "Academic Festival Overture" premieres, Breslau
1883 - Ontario Rugby Football Union (forerunner of CFL) forms
1884 - Last sighting of an eastern cougar (Ontario)
1884 - The Fabian Society is founded in London.
1885 - Dr W W Grant of Iowa, performs 1st appendectomy (on Mary Gartside, 22)
1887 - Thomas Stevens is 1st man to bicycle around the world (SF-SF)
1893 - US pres Cleveland grants amnesty to Mormon polygamy
1894 - France ratifies Duple Alliance with Russia
1896 - AFL charters Actors' National Protective Union, NYC
1896 - Following Mormon abandonment of polygamy, Utah admitted as 45th state
1898 - 1st installment of William Dean Howell's "Life & Letters" appears
1902 - Hugh Trumble takes a hat-trick v England at the MCG
1903 - Topsy, an elephant, was electrocuted by Thomas Edison during the War of Currents
           campaign.
1904 - Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 beat Winnipeg Rowing Club, 2 games to 1
1904 - Supreme Court rules Puerto Ricans cannot be denied admission to US
1906 - South Africa beat England by one wicket, their 1st Test win
1907 - George Bernard Shaw's "Don Juan in Hell," premieres in London
1912 - Smallest earth-moon distance this century, 356,375 km center-to-ctr
1912 - The Scout Association is incorporated throughout the British Commonwealth by Royal
           Charter.
1915 - 1st elected Jewish governor, Moses Alexander, takes office in Idaho
1915 - Trans-Caucausus Russian defeat Turkish troops
1920 - 1st Black baseball league, National Negro Baseball League, organizes
1920 - Amsterdam actors decide to strike for retirement benefits
1921 - Eugene O'Neill's "Diff'rent," premieres in NYC
1923 - 1st broadcast of "Barn Dance Show" (WBAP - Fort Worth Texas)
1923 - Lenin's "Political Testament" calls for removal of Stalin
1925 - French psychologist Emil Coué brings his self-esteem therapy to US "Every day in every way I
           am getting better & better"
1926 - Theodorus Pangalos resigns as Greek dictator
1932 - Bradman scores 167 for Australia v South Africa at the MCG
1932 - British East Indies Viceroy Willingdon arrests Gandhi & Nehru
1932 - State of siege proclaimed in Honduras
1934 - 1st Dutch talkie movie, Jan Teunissen's "Willem of Orange," premieres
1935 - Bob Hope 1st heard on network radio as part of "The Intimate Revue"
1935 - Ft Jefferson National Monument, Fla established
1936 - Billboard magazine publishes its 1st music hit parade
1936 - Grimmett becomes world record wicket taker with no 190 v South Africa
1939 - Frieda Wunderlich elected 1st woman dean of a US graduate school
1939 - Hermann Goering appoints Reinhard Heydrich head of Jewish Emigration
1941 - Resistance fighters counter d'Estienne d'Orves/Jan Doornik, 1st meet
1942 - NFL Pro Bowl: Chi Bears beats NFL All-Stars 35-24
1942 - Premier Churchill & General Marshall fly to Florida
1942 - Rogers Hornsby is 14th player selected to the Hall of Fame
1943 - Thomas Mann completes his tetralogy, "Joseph & His Brothers"
1944 - Ralph Bunche appointed 1st Negro official in US State Department
1945 - Germans execute resistance fighters in Amsterdam
1945 - US jeep-aircraft carrier Ommaney Bay sinks after kamikaze attack
1947 - "Park Avenue" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 72 performances
1947 - "Show Boat" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 417 performances
1948 - Burma declares independence from UK
1951 - During Korean conflict, Chinese forces capture Seoul
1953 - KTSM TV channel 9 in El Paso, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 - Elvis Presley records a 10 minute demo in Nashville
1954 - Soap Opera "The Brighter Day" premieres
1957 - "Blondie" situation comedy premieres on NBC TV (later on CBS)
1957 - Dodgers buy 44 passenger twin-engine airplane for $775,000
1958 - Sputnik 1 reenters atmosphere & burns up
1959 - Luna 1 (Mechta) becomes 1st craft to leave Earth's gravity
1960 - European Free Trade Association forms in Stockholm
1961 - Longest recorded strike ends-33 yrs-Danish barbers' assistants
1962 - 1st automated (unmanned) subway train (NYC)
1962 - New York City introduces a train that operates without a crew on-board.
1963 - Soviet Luna (4) reaches Earth orbit but fails to reach Moon
1965 - LBJ's "Great Society" State of the Union Address
1966 - Doug Walters scores second Test century in his second Test
1966 - WFLD TV channel 32 in Chicago, IL (IND) begins broadcasting
1968 - Duck hunter accidentally shoots endangered whooping crane in Texas
1968 - Leo Fender sells Fender Guitars for $13 million
1969 - "Fig Leaves Are Falling" closes at Broadhurst NYC after 4 perfs
1969 - France begins arms embargo against Israel
1970 - Beatles last recording session at EMI studios
1970 - KC Chiefs beat Oakland Raiders 17-7 in AFC championship game
1970 - Minnesota Vikings beat Cleveland Browns 27-7 in NFC championship game
1970 - NYC transit fare rises from 20 cents to 30 cents, new larger tokens used
1970 - Walter Cronkite ends hosting weekly documentary
1971 - Congressional Black Caucus organizes
1971 - Dr Melvin H Evans inaugurated as 1st elected governor of Virgin Is
1971 - Ohio agrees to pay $675,000 to relatives of Kent State victims
1971 - Philadelphia's Veteran Stadium dedicated
1972 - Rose Heilbron becomes the first female judge to sit at the Old Bailey in London.
1974 - Nixon refuses to hand over tapes subpoenaed by Watergate Committee
1975 - "Good News" closes at St James Theater NYC after 16 performances
1975 - "Gypsy" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 120 performances
1975 - "Over Here" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 341 performances
1975 - Ford Executive Order on CIA Activities within the US (No 11828)
1975 - Ice thickness measured at 4776 m, Wilkes Land, Antarctica
1975 - Montreal Canadiens shutout Washington Capitals 10-0
1976 - "Candide" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 740 performances
1976 - "Home Sweet Homer" opens & closes at Palace Theater NYC
1977 - Mary Shane hired by Chic White Sox as 1st woman TV play-by-play
1981 - "Frankenstein" opens & closes on Broadway
1981 - "Peter Pan" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC after 578 performances
1981 - 69th Australian Mens Tennis: B Teacher beats Kim Warwick (75 76 63)
1981 - British police arrest Peter Sutcliffe, the "Yorkshire Ripper"
1982 - Bryant Gumbel became co-host of NBC's "Today Show"
1982 - Chris Wallace becomes co-anchor of the Today Show
1982 - Golden Gate Bridge closed for 3rd time by fierce storm
1982 - ABC Direction Network (57 affiliates) & ABC Rock Network (40 affiliates) become the 5th & 6th ABC radio network
1983 - US Football League holds its 1st player draft
1984 - "Night Court" starring Harry Anderson premieres on NBC TV
1984 - Edmonton beats Minnesota 12-8 highest-scoring modern NHL game
1986 - David Boon's second Test century, 131 v India at Adelaide
1986 - NCAA basketball's David Robinson blocks a record 14 shots
1987 - 16 die in a train crash in Chase Md
1989 - Comet Tempel 1 at perihelion
1989 - US F-14s shoot down 2 Libyan jet fighters over Mediterranean
1989 - VP Bush is 1st since VP Van Buren to declare himself president
1991 - AT&T workers in Newark accidentally snap a cable
1991 - Fu Mingxia, 12, of China wins World Swimming Championships gold medal
1991 - Iraq agrees to send Aziz to Geneva to meet Baker on Jan 9th
1991 - Jan Krzystof Bielecki becomes premier of Poland
1992 - 8th largest wrestling crowd (60,000-Tokyo Dome)
1993 - 7th largest wrestling crowd (63,500-Tokyo Dome)
1994 - 10th largest wrestling crowd (58,000-Tokyo Dome)
1995 - Newt Gingrich (R) becomes speaker of the House
1996 - "Father" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 52 performances
1998 - "Funny Thing Happened," closes at St James NYC after 715 perform
1998 - "Ivanov," closes at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC after 51 performances
1998 - "Triumph of Love," closes at Royale Theater NYC
1998 - Wilaya of Relizane massacres in Algeria: over 170 are killed in three remote villages.
1998 - A massive ice storm hits eastern Canada and the northeastern United States, continuing
           through January 10 and causing widespread destruction.
1999 - Former professional wrestler Jesse Ventura is sworn in as governor of Minnesota.
1999 - Gunmen open fire on Shiite Muslims worshipping in an Islamabad mosque, killing 16 people
           and injuring 25.
2001 - Rapper Vanilla Ice spends night in jail after allegedly ripping out some of his wife's hair during
          a row
2004 - Spirit, a NASA Mars Rover, lands successfully on Mars at 04:35 UTC.
2006 - Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel suffers a second, apparently more serious stroke. His
           authority is transferred to acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
2007 - The 110th United States Congress convenes, electing Nancy Pelosi as the first female Speaker of the House in U.S. history.
2010 - The Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building is officially opened.
2010 - The Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
          removed HIV infection from its list of communicable diseases of public health significance.

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 04, 2013, 04:58:14 PM

This Day in History for 4th January


Famous Weddings

1997 - Czech Republic's first president Vaclav Havel (60) weds Czech actress Dagmar Havlova (43) in
           Prague, Czech Republic
1997 - "Smothers Brothers" actor-singer Dick Smothers (58) weds Denby Franklin (47) in Las Vegas
2012 - Roxy Music singer Bryan Ferry (66) weds PR executive Amanda Sheppard (29) in Turks and
          Caicos Island

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 04, 2013, 05:00:05 PM

This Day in History for 4th January


Famous Divorces

2004 - Britney Spears has her surprise marriage annulled less than 55 hours after tying the knot with   
           childhood friend Jason Alexander at the Little White Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 04, 2013, 05:09:56 PM

This Day in History for 4th January


Famous Birthdays

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Braille Inventor Louis Braille (1809)          Opera Singer Grace Bumbry (1937)


1077 - Emperor Zhezong of Song Dynasty in China (d. 1100)
1334 - Amadeus VI, [Green Count], Count of Savoy (d. 1383)
1567 - Franciscus Aguilon, physicist/mathematician/jesuit/architect
1579 - Willem Teellinck, Dutch theologist/vicar
1581 - James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh (gave age to Earth based on bible)
1604 - Jacob Balde, German jesuit/barok conductor (Jephthe)
1664 - Lars Roberg, Swedish physician (d. 1742)
1672 - Hugh Boulter, Irish Archbishop of Armagh (d. 1742)
1710 - Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Italian composer (Il Prigioniero Superbo)
1717 - Antonio Maria Mazzoni, composer
1720 - Johann Friedrich Agricola, German (court)composer/organist
1726 - Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Dutch engraver/art collector
1739 - Henrik C Cras, Dutch lawyer (Laudatio Hugonis Grotii)
1756 - Anne Nagell van Ampsen, Dutch politician
1759 - Maria Rosa Coccia, composer
1772 - Paul-Louis Courier, (de Mere), French writer/interpreter
1773 - Johann Peter Heuschkel, composer
1785 - Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm, Germany, philologist and folklorist and editor of "Grimm's Fairy
           Tales" (d. 1863)
1789 - Benjamin Lundy, philanthropist/abolitionist
1797 - Wilhelm Beer, Germany, amateur astronomer (constructed 1st Moon map)
1805 - Stephan Hale Alonzo Marsh, composer
1807 - Baltasar Saldoni, composer
1809 - Louis Braille, Coupvray France, developer (reading system for blind)
1813 - Alexander Freiherr von Bach, Austria attorney/premier (1852-59)
1813 - Isaac Pitman, Britain, inventor (stenographic shorthand)
1813 - Louis L Bonaparte, English/French linguist/senator
1821 - John James Peck, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1878
1822 - Joseph Jones Reynolds, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1899
1823 - Otto van Rees, gov-gen of Dutch-Indies (1884-88)
1823 - Peter Joseph Osterhaus, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1917
1832 - George Tryon, British admiral (d. 1893)
1837 - Casimiro de Abreu, Brazil, poet (Camoes e o jau)
1838 - Charles Stratton, [General Tom Thumb] (famous short person)
1839 - Carl Humann, German engineer (d. 1896)
1842 - Frederic T. Greenhalge, 38th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1896)
1844 - Thomas H Rollinson, composer
1847 - Hendrik Goeman Borgesius, Dutch politician
1848 - Katsura Taro, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1913)
1869 - Percy Pitt, composer
1869 - Tommy Corcoran, American baseball player (d. 1960)
1872 - Edmund Rumpler, Austria, auto/airplane builder
1874 - Josef Suk, Czech violinist/composer (Asrael)
1874 - Sven Fleuron, writer
1877 - Gibson Gowland, England, actor (Blind Husbands, Phantom of the Opera)
1878 - Alfred Edgar Coppard, England, writer (Black Dogs & Other Stories)
1878 - Augustus John, Welsh painter (d. 1961)
1881 - Wilhelm Lehmbruck, German painter/poet/sculptor (Seated Youth)
1882 - Aristarkh Lentulov, Russian artist (d. 1943)
1883 - Johanna Westerdijk, botanist/Neth 1st female prof (Utrecht, 1917-52)
1883 - Max Eastman, American critic/essayist and editor of The Masses (d. 1969)
1888 - Arthur Berry, England, soccer player (Olympic-gold-1908, 12)
1889 - Albertus W "Albert" van Dalsum, actor/director (Abandoned Child)
1890 - Alfred G Jodl, German Wehrmacht general/chief of staff
1890 - Mosa Pijade, Yugoslavia, MP (communist)
1891 - Edward Brooker, Premier of Tasmania (d. 1948)
1893 - Manuel Palau Boix, composer
1893 - Yone Minagawa, Japanese, became worlds oldest living person January 29, 2007. (d. Aug. 13,
          2007)
1894 - Wesley La Violette, composer
1894 - Manuel de Abreu, Brazilian physician (d. 1962)
1895 - Lourens G M Baas Becking, Dutch botanist/resistance fighter
1895 - Leroy Grumman, American industrialist (d. 1982)
1896 - Everett Dirksen, American politician (Sen-R-Ill) (d. 1969)
1898 - Roger Vuataz, composer
1900 - James Bond, American ornithologist (d. 1989)
1901 - C. L. R. James, writer and journalist (d. 1989)
1902 - John McCone, CIA Director (d. 1991)
1903 - Joris Diels, Flemish actor/director (Haagsche Comedy)
1905 - Sterling Holloway, Cedartown Ga, actor (Waldo-Life of Riley)
1908 - Angela Maria "Geli" Raubal, Austrian nude model/Hitler's lover
1908 - Walther Vanbeselaere, Flemish art historian
1910 - Arthur Villeneuve, Quebec painter (d. 1990)
1913 - Malietoa Tanumafili II, King of West-Samoa (1962- )
1914 - Mohammed Sahir, shah (Afghanistan)
1914 - Herman Franks, American baseball player
1916 - Catherina Elisabeth "Tootje" Vreede, portrait painter
1916 - Robert Parrish, Columbus Ga, director (Casino Royale)
1916 - Slim Gaillard [Bulee], Edinburgh, Scotland, American Jazz singer/songwriter (d. 1991)
1916 - Lionel Newman, American film music composer (d. 1989)
1917 - Maurice Wohl, English broker/multi-millionaire
1919 - Al "Jazbo" Collins, NYC, DJ (Tonight! America After Dark)
1919 - Havelock Henry Trevor Hudson, underwriter (Lloyd's of London)
1920 - Benito Perez Galdos, Spanish writer (Fortunata y Jacinta)
1920 - William Egan Colby, CIA director (Nixon)
1922 - Frank Wess, flutist/saxophonist/composer
1922 - Rosalie Crutchley, English actress (d. 1997)
1923 - Flavio Testi, composer
1924 - Sebastian Kappen, Indian theologian (d. 1993)
1925 - Veikko Hakulinen, Finland, 30K/50K cross country skier (Oly-gold-1956)
1927 - Barbara Rush, Denver Co, actress (Marsha-Peyton Place, Flamingo Road)
1927 - Paul Desmarais, Canadian businessman
1929 - Amitai W Etzioni, US sociologist (Active Society)
1929 - Bobby Tulloch, ornithologist
1929 - Yayoi Kusama, Japanese artist, sculptor
1930 - Don Shula, winningest NFL coach (Miami Dolphins)
1930 - Iain Cuthbertson, British actor (Guilty, Scandal, Rep, Danger UXB)
1930 - Sorrell Booke, Buffalo NY, actor (Bye Bye Braverman, Black Like Me)
1931 - Adi Lady Lala Mara, First Lady of Fiji (d. 2004)
1931 - Sir William Deane, Governor-General of Australia 1996-2001
1932 - Richard Stahl, Detroit Mich, actor (Howard-It's a Living)
1932 - Carlos Saura, Spanish director
1933 - Ed Jenkins, (Rep-D-GA, 1977- )
1933 - Ilia II Catholicos-Patriarch of all Georgia.
1934 - Rudolf Schuster, President of Slovakia
1935 - Floyd Patterson, heavyweight champ (1956-59, 1960-62) (Oly-gold-1952)
1935 - Kenneth Money, Canada, astronaut (STS 42-alt)
1937 - Dyan Cannon, Tacoma Wash, Mrs Cary Grant/actress (Heaven Can Wait)
1937 - Grace Bumbry, St Louis, mezzo-soprano (Venus in Tannhäuser)
1937 - R Surendranath, cricketer (Indian pace bowler in 11 Tests early 60s)
1938 - Louis Krebs Graham, Nashville TN, PGA golfer (1975 US Open)
1939 - Jon Appleton, composer
1940 - Anthony Skooter Teague, Texas, actor (How to Succeed in Business)
1940 - Brian Josephson, British physicist (Nobel 1973)
1940 - Helmut Jahn, German architect
1940 - Gao Xingjian, Chinese-born French novelist and dramatist, Nobel laureate
1941 - John Bennett Perry, Williamstown Mass, singer/actor (Falcon Crest)
1941 - Maureen Reagan, 1st daughter (Ronald Reagan)
1942 - John McLaughlin, rock guitarist (Sentimental Journey/Clouds of Joy)
1943 - Tom Wilkinson, CFL QB (Edmonton Eskimos)
1943 - Doris Kearns Goodwin, American writer
1944 - Volker Hornback, rocker (Tangerine Dream)
1945 - Jay Dee Maness, Loma Linda Ca, singer (Desert Rose Band-Love Reunited)
1945 - Vesa-Matti Loiri, Finnish entertainer
1945 - Richard R. Schrock, American chemist, Nobel laureate
1946 - Bernard Sumner, rocker (New Order-Round & Round)
1946 - Arthur Conley, McIntosh County, Georgia, US soul singer (Sweet Soul Music), (d. 2003)
1946 - Susannah McCorkle, American jazz singer (d. 2001)
1947 - Chris Cutler, English musician and composer (Henry Cow, Art Bears)
1947 - Rick Stein, English chef and television presenter
1948 - Eugeniusz Wycisło, Polish politician
1949 - Mick Mills, British(?) soccer player
1951 - Barbara Ann Cochran, Claremont NH, slalom skier (Olympic-gold-1972)
1953 - Norberto Alonso, Argentine footballer
1954 - Eugene Chadbourne, American composer and musician
1955 - Kathy Forester, Lookout Mt Ga, country singer (Forester Sister-Men)
1955 - Mark Hollis, English pop musician (Talk Talk, Dum Dum Girl)
1956 - Ann Magnuson, Charleston WV, actress (Anything But Love, Hunger)
1956 - Barney Sumner, rock guitarist/vocalist (New Order-Blue Monday)
1956 - Bernard Albrecht, English pop guitarist (Joy Division)
1956 - Nels Cline, American guitarist and composer
1957 - Patty Loveless, [Ramey], Pikeville Ky, singer (Blue Side of Town)
1958 - Matt Frewer, Washington DC, actor (Max Headroom, Doctor Doctor)
1958 - Nina Foust, Asheboro NC, LPGA golfer (1994 Hawaiian Ladies Open-6th)
1958 - Andy Borowitz, American comedian and satirist
1958 - Gary Jones, Welsh-born actor
1959 - Vanity, [Denise Marquardt], Ontario Canada, actress (52 Pick Up)
1959 - Yoshitomo Nara, Japanese pop artist
1960 - Cory Everson, Racine Wisconsin, body builder (6X Ms Olympia)
1960 - Michael Stipe, US rock vocalist (REM-Losing My Religion, Stand)
1960 - April Winchell, American actress
1961 - Lee Curreri, NYC, actor (Bruno Martelli-Fame)
1962 - Joe Kleine, NBA center (Phoenix Suns, Chicago Bulls)
1962 - Martin McAloon, rocker (Prefab Sprout-2 Wheels Good)
1962 - Patrick Cassidy, LA California, actor/composer (Fever Pitch, Off the Wall)
1962 - Laila Eloui, Egyptian actress
1962 - Peter Steele, American musician (Type O Negative)
1963 - Dave Foley, actor/comedian (Kids In The Hall, Dave Nelson-NewsRadio)
1963 - Linda Muri, Killingly Conn, rower (Olympics-96)
1963 - Till Lindemann, German singer (Rammstein)
1964 - Stephanie Maxwell-Pierson, Somerville NJ, US rower (Olympic-92)
1965 - David Glasper, rocker (Breathe-All I Need)
1965 - Guy Forget, Morocco, tennis star
1965 - Jergus Baca, Liptovsky Mikulas CZE, IHL defenseman (Team Slovakia 98)
1965 - John Jackson, NFL offensive tackle (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1965 - Julia Ormond, London England, actress (Sabrina, Legends of the Fall)
1965 - Kevin Wickander, US baseball pitcher (Cincinnati Reds)
1965 - Mitch Booth, Australian tornado yachter (Olympics-96)
1965 - Yvan Attal, French actor and director
1965 - Beth Gibbons, English singer (Portishead)
1965 - Cait O'Riordan, British musician (The Pogues)
1966 - Deana Carter, country singer
1967 - David Wayne Toms, Monroe LA, PGA golfer (1992 Northern Telecom-3rd)
1967 - Michael "Mike" Peterson, Wash DC, rower (Olympics-1996)
1967 - Rick Cunningham, NFL tackle (Minnesota Vikings, Oakland Raiders)
1967 - Johnny Nelson, English boxer
1967 - Marina Orsini, Canadian actress
1968 - Jackie Harris, NFL tight end (Green Bay Packers, Tampa Bay Bucs)
1968 - Mike Wilpolt, Head Coach of the Cleveland Gladiators of the Arena Football League
1969 - Corie Blount, NBA forward (LA Lakers)
1969 - Kees van Wonderen, Dutch soccer player (NEC/NAC)
1969 - Lindsay Kennedy, Atlanta Ga, actor (Jeb-Little House on the Prairie)
1970 - Colin Scrivener, CFL defensive tackle (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1970 - Sean Lumpkin, NFL safety (NO Saints)
1970 - Chris Kanyon, American professional wrestler
1971 - Carlos Perez, Dominican/US baseball pitcher (Montreal Expos)
1971 - Deb Sonnenberg, Edmonton Alberta, softball pitcher (Olympics-96)
1971 - Errol Brown, CFL defensive back (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1971 - Garrison Hearst, NFL running back (Arizona Cardinals, SF 49ers)
1971 - Jeremy Licht, LA California, actor (Mark-Valerie/Hogan Family)
1971 - Orlanda Truitt, wide receiver (Oakland Raiders)
1971 - Richard Chee Quee, cricketer (NSW opening batsman Fiji/Chin ancestry)
1971 - Junichi Kakizaki, Japanese artist, sculptor
1972 - Mike McCoy, WLAF quarterback (Amsterdam Admirals)
1972 - James Longley, American documentary filmmaker
1973 - Lamont Warren, NFL running back (Indianapolis Colts)
1973 - Ray Mickens, cornerback (NY Jets)
1973 - Todd Sauerbrun, NFL punter/kicker (Chic Bears)
1973 - Frank Høj, Danish cyclist
1973 - Harmony Korine, American film director and artist
1974 - Carl Powell, defensive end (Indianapolis Colts)
1974 - Ian Moor, English singer
1976 - Benoît Joachim, Luxembourg cyclist
1976 - Ted Lilly, American baseball player
1977 - Irán Castillo, Mexican actress
1977 - Dan Shanahan, Irish hurler
1977 - Tim Wheeler, Irish singer (Ash)
1978 - Dominik Hrbatý, Slovakian tennis player
1978 - Mai Meneses, Spanish singer
1979 - Tristan Gommendy, French racing driver
1979 - Jeph Howard, American musician (The Used)
1980 - Yaroslav Popovych, Ukrainian cyclist
1980 - Miguel Monteiro, Portuguese footballer
1980 - Greg Cipes, American actor
1980 - Erin Cahill, American actress
1982 - Paulo Ferrari, Argentinian footballer
1982 - Kang Hye-jeong, South Korean actress
1982 - Richard Logan, English footballer
1985 - Fernando Rees, Brazilian race car driver
1985 - Al Jefferson, American basketball player
1986 - James Milner, English footballer
1986 - Steve Slaton , American football player
1988 - Nabila Jamshed, Indian writer
1989 - Graham Rahal, American race car driver
1990 - Toni Kroos, German footballer
1991 - Olivia Tennet, New Zealand actress
1995 - María Isabel, Spanish singer
1995 - Harry Skinner, English skiier
2000 - Rhiannon Leigh Wryn, American actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 04, 2013, 05:18:45 PM

This Day in History for 4th January


Famous Deaths

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1st American-born Saint                          Author Albert Camus (1960)                  Author and Nobel Laureate T S Eliot (1965)                 
Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton
 (1821)

838 - Babak, Persian social/religious reformer, martyred
1248 - King Sancho II of Portugal (b. 1207)
1428 - Frederick I, Elector of Saxony, 'The Warlike' (b. 1370)
1564 - Hosokawa Ujitsuna, Japanese military commander (b. 1514)
1584 - Tobias Stimmer, Swiss painter/cartoonist/playwright, dies at 44
1612 - Henry L Spieghel, Dutch merchant/writer, dies at 62
1678 - Johan Maetsuyker, Dutch gov-general of Ceylon (1653-78), dies at 71
1695 - Duke of Luxembourg, Luxembourg/French marshal, dies
1701 - Ernst R Tarhemberg, Austria, field marshal, dies at 62
1707 - Louis Willem I, count of Baden-Baden, dies
1729 - Joseph de Montesquiou earl d'Artagnan, French lt-general, dies at 77
1729 - Meir Bacharach, Hebrew poet, dies
1745 - Willem I Kerricx, the Young, Flemish architect/painter, dies at 62
1752 - Gabriel Cramer, Swiss mathematician (paradox of Cramer), dies at 47
1761 - Stephen Hales, English vicar/inventor (ventilator), dies at 83
1765 - Joseph Franz Xaver Dominik Stalder, composer, dies at 39
1773 - Anton Losenko, Russian painter (b. 1737)
1778 - Charles D J Eisen, French engraver/painter, dies at 57
1782 - Ange-Jacques Gabriel, French architect (Ecole Military), dies at 83
1786 - Mozes Mendelssohn, Jewish/German philosopher (Haksalah), dies at 56
1793 - Bengt Lidner, Swedish poet (Medea/Yttersa domen), dies at 35
1804 - Charlotte Lennox, English novelist (The Female Quixote), dies
1809 - Bartolomeo Giacometti, composer, dies at 67
1821 - Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton, 1st native-born American saint, dies in Maryland at 46
1825 - Ferdinand I, King of Sicily/Naples (Ferdinand IV), dies at 73
1831 - Nikola P Neofit Rilski, Bulgaria abbot/poet, dies at 37
1843 - Petronella Moens, Frisian author/poetess, dies at 80
1864 - Mateo Ferrer, composer, dies at 75
1874 - Thomas Gregson, Premier of Tasmania (b. 1798)
1877 - Cornelius Vanderbilt, US robber baron, dies at 82
1880 - Anselm Feuerbach, German painter, dies
1882 - John William Draper, English scientist, photographer (b. 1811)
1883 - Nicolas Ledesma, composer, dies at 91
1883 - Antoine Eugène Alfred Chanzy, French general (b. 1823)
1885 - Eduard Yosif Kotek, composer, dies at 29
1886 - Ernest Panckoucke, French publisher (Horace), dies at 77
1891 - Joe Hunter, cricket wicket-keeper (England on 1884-85 Aust tour), dies
1891 - Antoine Labelle, Quebec catholic priest (b. 1833)
1896 - Joseph Hubert Reinkens, German Old Catholic bishop (b. 1821)
1898 - Frantisek Pivoda, composer, dies at 73
1903 - Geo[rge J H] Poggenbeek, Dutch surrealist painter, dies at 49
1903 - W H M "Dicky" Richards, cricketer (score 4 & 0 in Test for S Af), dies
1903 - Gulstan Ropert, Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1839)
1903 - Topsy the elephant (b. circa 1875)
1908 - Antony Winkler Prins, writer (Groiller Encyclopaedia), dies at 70
1910 - Leon Delagrange, French aviation pioneer, dies
1913 - Alfred von Schlieffen, Prussian general-field marshal, dies at 79
1914 - Silas Weir Mitchell, US physician/author (Free Quaker), dies at 84
1919 - Georg von Hertling, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1843)
1920 - Benito Pérez Galdós, Spanish novelist (b. 1843)
1924 - Alfred Grünfeld, Austrian pianist, composer (b. 1852)
1931 - Art Acord, western actor (Set Free, Spurs & Saddles), dies at 40
1933 - Lucas Lindeboom, Dutch evangelist (Vredebond), dies at 87
1940 - Conrad Weiss, German writer/poet (Heart of Words), dies at 59
1941 - Henri Bergson, French philosopher (Le Rire, Nobel 1928), dies at 81
1942 - Leon Jessel, composer, dies at 70
1944 - Henri "Hans" Flu, Indonesian/Dutch family doctor/antifascist, murder
1944 - Kaj Munk, [Harald Leininger], anti-fascist writer (Kaj Munk), dies
1946 - Barney Oldfield, daredevil, dies at 67
1947 - Forrest Reid, Irish author/critic (Young Tom, Apostate), dies at 71
1952 - Constantly Permeke, Flemish painter (Boerin), dies at 65
1953 - Arthur Hoyt, actor (Gold Rush Gertie, Lost World), dies at 78
1955 - Dominicus Johner, composer, dies at 80
1955 - Francois Rasse, composer, dies at 81
1955 - Jan D Domela Nieuwenhuis Nyegaard, Dutch preacher, dies at 84
1956 - Alexandr Tikhonovich Grechaninov, composer, dies at 91
1957 - Theodor Korner von Siegringen, Austrian pres (1951-57), dies at 84
1958 - Waverley John Anderson, Scot, viscount/governor of Bengal, dies at 75
1960 - Albert Camus, French author (Stranger), dies in an auto accident at 46
1961 - Barry Fitzgerald, actor (Going My Way), dies at 72
1961 - Erwin Schrodinger, Austrian physicist and Nobel Laureate, dies at 73
1962 - Hans Lammers, German SS officer (b. 1879)
1964 - Ralph Dumke, actor (Movieland Quiz), dies at 64
1965 - T S Eliot, poet and Nobel laureate (Washed Country), dies in London at 76
1967 - Donald Campbell, boat racer, dies trying to break 300 mph on water
1968 - Joseph Pholien, Belgian PM (1950-52) communist fighter, dies at 83
1969 - Montague Fawcett Phillips, composer, dies at 83
1969 - Daisy and Violet Hilton, British conjoined twins (b. 1908)
1970 - Jean-Étienne Valluy, French general (b. 1899)
1971 - Arthur Ford, American clairaudient (b. 1896)
1972 - Carl-Olof Anderberg, composer, dies at 57
1974 - Karel Janacek, composer, dies at 70
1975 - Carlo Levi, Italian writer (Parole Sono Pietre), dies at 72
1976 - Jan B Cammans, Flemish actor (Brothers Karamazov), dies at 84
1978 - Willem Bruynzeel, Dutch timber/lumber/wood manufacturer, dies at 76
1985 - Brian Gwynne Horrocks, English lt-general (A Full Life), dies at 89
1985 - Lovro von Matacic, Croatian conductor (b. 1899)
1986 - Christopher Isherwood, British writer (Lions & Shadows), dies at 81
1986 - Phil Lynott, rocker (Thin Lizzy), dies of overdose at 34
1987 - F van Heek, Dutch sociologist, dies at 79
1987 - Jack Martin, cricketer (Eng pace bowler, 1-111 & 0-18 in Test), dies
1987 - Peggy Bacon, author/illustrator (Off With Their Heads), dies at 91
1988 - Lily Laskine, French harpist (b. 1893)
1990 - Alberto Lleras Camargo, president of Colombia (1945-46, 58-62), dies
1990 - Robert F Adams, US, sci-fi author (Castaways in Time), dies at 57
1990 - Harold Edgerton, American electrical engineer (b. 1903)
1990 - Sir Henry Bolte, Premier of Victoria 1955-1972 (b. 1908)
1991 - Berry Kroeger, actor (Demon Seed), dies of kidney failure at 78
1991 - Harry Krimer, actor (Napoleon), committed suicide at 94
1991 - Leo N Wright, US saxophonist (I Left My Heart in SF), dies at 57
1992 - Earl Colbert, entertainer, dies
1992 - William Walker, stuntman/actor (Our Man Flint), dies at 74
1993 - Daniel H Craven, South African rugby coach, dies
1993 - Joe Keenan, actor (Conviction of Kitty Dodd), dies of cancer at 69
1993 - Charles Bridgford, Australian politician
1994 - Jim Booth, New Zealand producer (Heavenly Creatures), dies at 48
1994 - Michiel P "Michael" Gorsira, Gov of Curacao (1951-67), dies at 80
1994 - RD Burman, Indian musician (b. 1939)
1995 - D Elmina Davies, filmmaker, dies at 36
1995 - Dorothy Granger, US actress (Hog Wild, Dentist), dies at about 80
1995 - Eduardo Mata, Mexican conductor, dies in air crash at 52
1995 - Jonathan Zeitlyn, artist, dies at 43
1995 - Leonard Hirsch, Brit violinist/conducter (BBC Empire Orch), dies at 92
1995 - Robert Clifford Latham, pepys Scholar, dies at 82
1995 - Sol Tax, American anthropologist (b. 1907)
1996 - Ramon Vinay, operatic tenor/baritone, dies at 83
1996 - Roy McKelvie, soldier/sports writer, dies at 83
1997 - Harry B Helmsley, owner (Empire State Building), dies at 87
1998 - John Gary, singer, dies at 65
1998 - Mae Questel, American actress (b. 1908)
1999 - Iron Eyes Cody, American actor (b. 1904)
2000 - Tom Fears, American football player (b. 1922)
2001 - Les Brown, American bandleader (b. 1912)
2003 - Sabine Ulibarri, Mexican American writer (b. 1919)
2003 - Yfrah Neaman, Lebanese-born violinist (b. 1923)
2003 - Conrad Hall, American cinematographer (b. 1927)
2004 - John Toland, American historian (b. 1912)
2004 - Joan Aiken, English author (b. 1924)
2004 - Jake Hess, American singer (b. 1927)
2004 - Jeff Nuttall, English writer (b. 1933)
2004 - Brian Gibson (director), English film director (b. 1944)
2005 - Alton Tobey, American artist (b. 1914)
2005 - Robert Heilbroner, American economist (b. 1919)
2005 - Frank Harary, American mathematician (b. 1921)
2005 - Bud Poile, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1924)
2005 - Guy Davenport, American author, artist, and scholar (b. 1927)
2005 - Humphrey Carpenter, English author (b. 1946)
2006 - Irving Layton, Canadian poet (b. 1912)
2006 - Robert Howard White, Mayor of Papatoetoe, New Zealand (b. 1914)
2006 - Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates and Ruler of Dubai (b. 1946)
2007 - Marais Viljoen, former State President of South Africa (b. 1915)
2007 - Sir Lewis Hodges, British Air Chief Marshal (b. 1918)
2007 - Steve Krantz, American film and TV producer (Fritz the Cat) (b. 1923)
2007 - Osman Waqialla, Sudanese artist and calligrapher (b. 1925)
2007 - Gren, Welsh newspaper cartoonist (b. 1934)
2007 - Sandro Salvadore, Italian footballer (b. 1939)
2007 - Jan Schröder, Dutch cyclist (b. 1941)
2007 - Gáspár Nagy, Hungarian poet and writer (b. 1949)
2007 - Ben Gannon, Australian theatre film and television producer (b. 1952)
2007 - Helen Hill, American independent film-maker (b. 1970)
2008 - Joyce Carlson, American artist (b. 1923)
2008 - Xavier Chamorro Cardenal, Nicaraguan print editor (b. 1932)
2008 - Jimmy Nah, Singapore celebrity (b. 1968)
2009 - Giselle Salandy, Trinidad & Tobago female boxer (b. 1987)
2010 - Johan Ferrier, Surinamian politician (b. 1910)
2010 - Sandro, Argentine songwriter (b. 1945)
2010 - Casey Johnson, American heiress and socialite (b. 1979)
2010 - Rory Markas, American sportscaster (b. 1955)
2010 - Tsutomu Yamaguchi, Japanese Businessman, and Survivor of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic
           Bombings (b. 1916)
2011 - Mick Karn, Cypriot-born British musician (Japan) (b. 1958)
2011 - Dick King-Smith English Author (b. 1922)
2011 - Coen Moulijn, Dutch footballer (b. 1937)
2011 - Gerry Rafferty, British musician and songwriter (b. 1947)
2012 - Eve Arnold, American photojournalist, dies at 99
2012 - Ruben Ayala, American politician (California State Senator 1974-1998), dies of natural cause
           at 89
2012 - James Crow, American geneticist, dies at 95
2012 - Harry Fowler, English actor, dies at 85
2012 - Gatewood Galbraith, [Louis], lawyer, American political activist, iconic Kentucky political figure,
          dies from pneumonia at 64
2012 - Rod Robbie, Canadian architect and planner, dies at 83

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 05, 2013, 05:30:34 PM

This Day in History for 5th January


Historical Events

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US Defector General Benedict Arnold      Frontiersman/Soldier Davy Crockett        Baseball Great Babe Ruth

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Chinese Prime Minister Mao Tse-Tung    33rd US President Harry Truman              Singer Buddy Holly


1349 - Margaretha of Bavaria names her son Willem V earl of Holland/Zealand
1438 - Pope Eugenius IV deallocated council of Basel to Ferrara
1463 - French poet Francois Villon banished from Paris
1477 - Battle at Nancy, Burgundy vs Switz, 7000 + killed including their leader Charles Duke of Burgundy
1500 - Duke Ludovico Sforza's troops reconquer Milan
1527 - Felix Manz, a leader of the Anabaptist congregation in Zürich, is executed by drowning. (b. 1498)
1554 - Great fire in Eindhoven Neth
1593 - William Louis of Nassau becomes governor/viceroy of Drenthe
1638 - Petition in Recife Brazil leads to closing of their 2 synagogues
1649 - Francesco Cavalli's opera "Giasone," premieres in Venice
1675 - Battle at Turkheim (Colmar): French army beats Brandenburg
1709 - Sudden extreme cold kills 1000s of Europeans
1717 - Prussian King Frederik Willem I buys conscript for nobles
1719 - Engl/Hannover/Saxony-Poland/Austria sign anti-Prussian/Russian pact
1757 - Failed assassination attempt on French king Louis XV by Damiens
1776 - Assembly of New Hampshire adopts its 1st state constitution
1781 - British naval expedition led by Benedict Arnold burns Richmond, Va
1800 - 1st Swedenborgian temple in US holds 1st service, Baltimore
1804 - Ohio legislature passes 1st laws restricting free blacks movement
1809 - Treaty of Dardanelles concluded between Britain & France
1822 - Central America proclaims annexation to Mexican Empire
1828 - 1st edition of Amsterdam General Trade Journal (Algemeen Handelsblad)
1834 - Kiowa Indians record this as the night the stars fell
1836 - Davy Crockett arrives in Texas, just in time for the Alamo
1840 - Records show 95,820 licensed public houses in England on this date
1841 - James Clark Ross (UK) is 1st to enter pack ice near Ross Ice Shelf
1846 - The United States House of Representatives votes to stop sharing the Oregon Territory with
           the United Kingdom.
1850 - California Exchange opens
1854 - Steamship San Francisco wrecked-300 die
1859 - 1st steamboat sails, Red River
1861 - 250 Federal troops are sent from New York to Ft Sumter
1861 - Alabama troops seize Forts Morgan & Gaines at Mobile Bay
1875 - Charles Garnier's new Opera opens in Paris
1875 - President Grant sends federal troops to Vicksburg, Miss
1887 - 1st US school of librarianship opens at Columbia University
1888 - Dutch Heidemaatschappij established
1892 - 1st successful auroral photograph made
1895 - Henry James' play "Guy Domville" opens in London
1895 - Victor Trumper makes first-class debut for NSW 17 yrs 64 days
1895 - French Capt Alfred Dreyfus, convicted of treason, publicly stripped of his rank; later declared innocent
1896 - German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen's discovers x-rays
1896 - Isaac Albeniz' opera "Pepita Jiminez," premieres in Barcelona
1899 - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure-Charles Augustus Milverton (BG)
1900 - Irish leader John Edward Redmond calls for a revolt against British rule.
1903 - SF-Hawaii telegraph cable opens for public use
1904 - -34°F (-36.7°C), River Vale, New Jersey (state record)
1904 - -42°F (-41.1°C), Smethport, Pennsylvania (state record)
1904 - England beat Australia at the MCG, Rhodes 7-56 & 8-68
1905 - Charles Perrine announces discovery of Jupiter's 7th satellite, Elara
1905 - National Association of Audubon Society incorporates
1909 - Colombia recognizes Panama's independence
1911 - Portuguese expel Jesuits
1911 - San Francisco has its first air meet
1912 - 1st National Hockey Association game (Victoria)
1912 - The Prague Party Conference takes place.
1914 - Ford Motor Co wages jump from $2.40/9-hr day to $5.00/8-hr day
1916 - Austria-Hungary offensive against Montenegro
1918 - British premier Lloyd George demand for unified peace
1919 - National Socialist Party (Nazi) forms as German Farmers Party
1919 - Spartacus uprising in Berlin: state of siege
1920 - Boston Red Sox sell Babe Ruth to NY Yankees
1920 - NY Yankees announce purchase of Babe Ruth
1925 - James Gleason & Richard Tabers "Is zat so?" premieres in NYC
1925 - Nellie Taylor Ross became governor of Wyoming, 1st woman gov in USA
1925 - Under Polish control, Danzig establishes Port Gdansk post office
1925 - French Baseball Federation awards silver medals to John McGraw, Charlie Comiskey, & Hugh
           Jennings
1927 - Fox Studios exhibits Movietone
1927 - Judge Landis begins 3-day public hearing on charges that 4 games played between Chicago &
           Detroit in 1917 had been thrown to White Sox
1929 - Coup by King Alexander in South Slavia
1930 - Mao Tse-tung writes "A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire"
1931 - 1st woman to purchase a baseball team Lucille Thomas purchases Topeka franchise in the
           Western League
1933 - Work on Golden Gate Bridge begins, on Marin County side
1934 - Fenway Park catches fire for 2nd time (May 8th 1926 also)
1934 - National & American baseball leagues select a uniform ball
1937 - Fingleton & Bradman make record stand of 346 for 6th wkt
1937 - Only unicameral state legislature in US opens 1st session (Nebr)
1940 - FCC hears 1st transmission of FM radio with clear, static-free signal
1940 - Finnish offensive at Suomossalmi against Russia
1940 - FM radio is demonstrated to the FCC for the first time.
1941 - British/Australian troops conquer Bardia Lybia
1942 - 55 German tanks reach North-Africa
1943 - Teams agrees to start season later due to WW II
1943 - William H Hastie, civilian aide to secretary of war, resigns to protest segregation in armed
           forces
1944 - The Daily Mail becomes the first transoceanic newspaper.
1945 - Pepe LePew debuts in Warner Bros cartoon "Odor-able Kitty"
1945 - Surprise attack on Liese-Aktion-office on Marnix St, Amsterdam
1946 - "Show Boat" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 417 performances
1949 - General Spoor orders cease-fire on Sumatra
1949 - President Harry Truman labels his administration the "Fair Deal"
1950 - Carson McCuller's "Member of the Wedding," premieres in NYC
1951 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Ponte Vedra Beach Women's Golf Open
1952 - Flying Enterprise sinks
1953 - -6] Passenger ships Willem Ruys & Orange collide in the Red Sea
1953 - Samuel Beckett's "En Attendant Godot," premieres in Paris
1955 - KMSP TV channel 9 in Minneapolis-St Paul, MN (IND) 1st broadcast
1957 - Dodgers' Jackie Robinson retires rather than be traded to NY Giants
1957 - Eisenhower asks Congress to send troops to the Mid East
1959 - "Bozo the Clown" live children's show premieres on TV
1959 - Buddy Holly releases his last record "It Doesn't Matter"
1960 - Continental League, a proposed third major league, gets an assurance of congressional
           support from NY Senator Kenneth Keating
1961 - US breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba
1962 - Tony Sheridan & Beatles produce "My Bonnie" & "The Saints"
1963 - "Camelot" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 873 performances
1963 - "Carnival!" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 719 performances
1963 - San Diego beats Boston 51-10 in AFL championship game
1964 - Pope Paul VI visits Jordan & Israel
1964 - San Diego Chargers win AFL-championship
1967 - KLXA (now KTBN) TV channel 40 in Fontana-San Ana, CA (IND) begins
1968 - Dr Benjamin Spock indicted for conspiring to violate draft law
1968 - Dubcek succeeds pres Novotny as party leader of Czechoslovakia
1969 - "Maggie Flynn" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 82 performances
1969 - Bollingen prize for poetry presented to John Berryman & Karl Shapiro
1969 - Neville Williams' "Chronology of the Expanding World" completed
1969 - USSR Venera 5 launched for 1st successful planet landing (Venus)
1970 - 23,000 Belgian mine workers strike
1970 - KPTS TV channel 8 in Hutchinson-Wichita, KS (PBS) begins broadcasting
1970 - Soap Opera "All My Children," premieres on ABC
1971 - 1st one-day international, Australia v England at the MCG
1971 - Globetrotters lose 100-99 to NJ Reds, ending 2,495-game win streak
1971 - US heavyweight "Sonny" Liston's (36) corpse found
1972 - Largest crowd at Cleveland Arena (Cavs vs Lakers-11,178)
1972 - NASA announces development of space shuttle
1972 - NYC transit fare rises from 30 cents to 35 cents
1972 - Pres Nixon signs a bill for NASA to begin research on manned shuttle
1972 - West-Pakistani sheik Mujib ur-Rahman freed
1973 - Mali & Niger break diplomatic relations with Israel
1973 - Netherlands recognizes German DR
1974 - Raul Julia appears on Bob Newhart Show in "Oh, Brother"
1974 - An earthquake in Lima, Peru, kills six people, and damages hundreds of houses.
1975 - "Wiz" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 1672 performances
1975 - Charlie Smalls' "Wiz," premieres in NYC
1975 - Salyut 4 with crew of 2 is launched for 30 days
1975 - 14 die when British freighter "Lake Illawarra" rams pylon bridge between Derwent & Hobart,
            Tasmania & ship sinks
1976 - "MacNeil-Lehrer Report" premieres on PBS
1976 - Cambodia is renamed "Democratic Kampuchea"
1976 - Greg Chappell scores 182* at SCG against West Indies
1977 - Kenya president Jomo Kenyatta disbands parliament
1981 - "Nightline" with Ted Koppel extended from 20 mins to 30 mins
1981 - British police arrest Peter Sutcliffe, a truck driver later convicted of "Yorkshire Ripper" murders
           of 13 women
1982 - Arkansas judge rules against obligatory teaching of creation
1984 - Adrian Dantly (Utah), ties NBA record of 28 free throws
1984 - Greg Chappell scores 182* in his last Test innings
1985 - Bryan Trottier failed on 9th Islander penalty shot
1985 - Discovery moves to launch pad for STS 51-C mission
1987 - Surrogate Baby M case begins in Hackensack, NJ
1989 - 2 French TV newsmen arrested for trying to plant fake bombs on 3 airlines at JFK airport in
           security test
1989 - Baseball signs $400M with ESPN, showing 175 games in 1990
1990 - J Donald Crump appointed 8th Commissioner of CFL
1991 - "Oh, Kay!" closes at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC after 77 performances
1991 - Edwin Jongejans of Neth wins 1-meter springboard diving title
1991 - Kevin Bradshaw of US Intl scores NCAA Div 1 record 72 pts
1992 - "6 Degrees of Separation" closes at Vivian Beaumont NYC after 496 perf
1992 - "Crucible" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 32 performances
1992 - "On Borrowed Time" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 99 perfs
1992 - "Peter Pan" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 48 performances
1992 - Ravi Shastri scores 206 at SCG before being Warne's 1st crick Test wkt
1993 - Brian Lara completes 277 v Australia at cricket SCG
1993 - Price is Right model Janice Pennington sues CBS for show accident
1993 - Reggie Jackson elected to Hall of Fame
1993 - The oil tanker MV Braer runs aground on the coast of the Shetland Islands, spilling 84,700
           tons of crude oil.
1993 - Washington state executes Westley Allan Dodd by hanging (the first legal hanging in America
           since 1965).
1994 - Aleksandr Popov swims world record 100m free style (47.82)
1994 - Yat Weiju swims world record 100m butterfly stroke (58.71)
1994 - Zhong Weiju swims world record 25m pool record (58.71)
1995 - AFC beats NFC 41-13 in the pro bowl
1995 - Lockheed C-140 Jetstar crashes at Isfahan Persia, 18 killed
1996 - Miami Dolphin coach Don Shula announces his retirement
1996 - Muralitharan no-balled for throwing in ODI v WI at the Gabba
1996 - Hamas operative Yahya Ayyash is killed by an Israeli-planted booby-trapped cell phone.
1997 - "Juan Darien-Carnival Mass" closes at Vivian Beaumont NYC
1997 - "Love Thy Neighbor," closes at Booth Theater NYC
1997 - "Show Boat," closes at Gershwin Theater NYC
1998 - Ice storm knocks out electricity in Quebec & Ontario
1998 - Vandals decapitate Copenhagen's Little Mermaid
2005 - Eris, the largest known dwarf planet in the solar system, is discovered by the team of Michael
           E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz using images originally taken on October 21,
           2003, at the Palomar Observatory.

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 05, 2013, 05:39:07 PM

This Day in History for 5th January


Famous Weddings

1531 - Pope Clemens VII forbids English king Henry VIII to re-marry
1998 - "Hercules" actor Kevin Sorbo (39) weds actress Sam Jenkins (33) at the Beurge Chapel in
           Pacific Palisades, California
2002 - Former Atomic Kitten member Kerry Katona (21) weds "Westlife" member Brian McFadden
           (21) at the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Rathfeigh, County Meath, Republic of
           Ireland
2006 - Adult film actress Linsey Dawn McKenzie (27) weds former Wimbledon F.C. and Northern
           Ireland footballer Mark Williams (35) at the central London register office

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 05, 2013, 05:57:37 PM

This Day in History for 5th January


Famous Birthdays

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Physiologist Joseph Erlanger (1874)       German Chancellor Konrad                        Actress Diane Keaton (1946)
                                                                  Adenauer (1876)


1209 - Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1272)
1548 - Francisco Suarez, Spanish theologian (d. 1617)
1560 - William Cobbold, composer
1587 - Xu Xiake, Chinese geographer (d. 1641)
1592 - Shah Jahan, Mughal emperor of India (1628-58), built Taj Mahal
1596 - Henry Lawes, English composer
1614 - Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria (d. 1662)
1661 - Jacob Balthasar Schutz, composer
1667 - Antonio Lotti, Italian composer (b. 1740)
1679 - Pietro Filippo Scarlotti, composer
1696 - Giuseppe Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect/painter (d. 1757)
1710 - Friedrich Wilhelm Reidt, composer
1717 - William Wildman Shute Barrington, British statesman (d. 1793)
1729 - Paul C la Fargue, cartoonist/painter
1759 - Jacques Cathelineau, French royalist/army leader
1762 - Constanze Mozart, wife of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (d. 1842)
1769 - Jean Baptiste Say, French economist (Political Economics)
1773 - Pieter Fontijn, Dutch painter/drawer
1778 - Fortunato Santini, composer
1779 - Stephen Decatur, US, naval hero (War of 1812)
1779 - Zebulon Montgomery Pike, explorer (Pike's Peak)
1787 - John Burke, Irish genealogist (Burke's Peerage)
1788 - Kaspar Ett, German organist/composer
1806 - Andre H C van Hasselt, Belgian poet (La Belgium)
1810 - Auguste Mermet, composer
1811 - Cyrus Hamlin, educator/missionary (est Robert College, Turkey)
1813 - Thomas Neville Waul, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1903
1822 - Joseph Brevard Kershaw, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1894
1823 - William Rockstro, composer
1828 - August Valentine Kautz, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1895
1829 - Sir Roger Tichborne, missing U.K. heir who was the subject of the longest criminal trial in British history (d. c.1854)
1834 - William John Wills, English explorer of Australia, member of the Burke and Wills expedition (d. 1861)
1835 - Friedrich Richard Faltin, composer
1835 - Hendrik E van Rijgersma, Dutch gouvernement doctor on Saint Maarten
1837 - A Ch Swinburne, writer [or Apr 5]
1838 - Camille Jordan, French mathematician (d. 1922)
1840 - John Doby Kennedy, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1896
1846 - Rudolf Christoph Eucken, Germany, Idealist philosopher (Nobel 1908)
1848 - Khristo Botev, hero of Bulgarian revolt against Turkey, poet
1850 - Theodoor Verstraete, Flemish painter/etcher
1855 - King Camp Gillette, inventor (safety razor)
1858 - Gustaf af Geijerstam, Swedish author (Boken om Lillebror)
1859 - DeWitt B Brace, inventor (spectrophotometer)
1864 - Bob Caruthers, American baseball player (d. 1911)
1865 - Julio Garavito Armero, Colombian astronomer (d. 1920)
1871 - Frederick Shepherd Converse, Newton Mass, composer
1874 - Joseph Erlanger, San Francisco, California, American physiologist (shock therapy-Nobel 1944)
1876 - Konrad Adenauer, Cologne Germany, chancellor of Germany (BRD, 1949)
1879 - Hans Eppinger, Austrian physician (d. 1946)
1880 - Nicolai Karlovich Medtner, composer
1881 - Nikolay Andreyevich Roslavets, composer
1882 - Herbert Bayard Swope, U.S. journalist who coined the term "Cold War" (d. 1958)
1885 - Humbert Wolfe, Italian-British poet (d. 1940)
1889 - Albert van Dalsum, Dutch actor/director (Little Rascal) [or 1899]
1890 - Cora Witherspoon, New Orleans LA, actress (Bank Dick), dies
1891 - Johan Boskamp, Dutch actor/singer (Potasch & Perlemoer) [or 1893]
1892 - Francesca Bertini, Florence Italy, actress (Odette, Assunta Spina)
1893 - Friedrich Blume, German musicologist (Das Rassenproblem in der Musik)
1893 - Zoltán Böszörmény, Hungarian Nazi politician (d. unknown)
1893 - Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru (d. 1952)
1895 - Jeannette Piccard, balloonist/Episcopal priest
1895 - Elizabeth Cotten, American musician (d. 1987)
1896 - Hendrik Algra, Dutch MP (ARP)
1897 - Jack Wagner, OH, actor (Jive Junction)
1897 - Theo Mackeben, German pianist/composer (Lady Fanny, Bel Ami)
1900 - Dennis Gabor, Hung/Brit physicist (holography-Nobel 1971) [or Jun 5]
1900 - Paula Ludwig, writer
1900 - Yves Tanguy, French/US sailor/surrealistic painter
1901 - H L Honore comte d'Estienne d'Orves, French officer/resistance fighter
1901 - Mario Scelba, premier Italy (1954-55)
1902 - Dorothea "Stella" Gibbons, English author (Cold Comfort Farm)
1902 - Pierre Palla, Dutch pianist/organist
1903 - Leighton Lucas, composer
1903 - Harold Gatty, Australian aviator, navigator with Wiley Post (d. 1957)
1904 - Erica Morini, Vienna Austria, concert violinist (d. 1995)
1904 - Jeane Dixon, American astrologer (d. 1997)
1906 - Kathleen Kenyon, 1st person to place date on remains of Jericho
1907 - Anton Ingolic, Slavic author (After Splavih, After Prelomu)
1907 - Wilhelm J Soukop, Austrian/British sculptor
1907 - Willi Soukop, sculptor
1908 - George Dolenz, Trieste Italy, actor (Count of Monte Cristo)
1909 - Simon Harcourt Nowell-Smith, bibliophile
1909 - Stephen Cole Kleene, mathematician (Regular Expressions)
1910 - Hugh Brannum, American actor (d. 1987)
1911 - Jean-Pierre Aumont, Paris France, actor (Cat & Mouse, Happy Hooker) (d. 2001)
1912 - Frank Pace Jr, US Secretary of Army (1950-53)
1914 - George Reeves, [George Lescher Bessolo], Ashland Ky, actor (Superman, Gone With the Wind)
1914 - Nicolas de Staël, French-Russian painter (d. 1955)
1915 - Mabel Leigh, potter
1915 - Uta Graf, singer/teacher
1915 - Arthur H. Robinson, Canadian-born cartographer (d. 2004)
1917 - Reginald Smith Brindle, composer
1917 - Wieland Wagner, German opera director
1917 - Jane Wyman, St. Joseph, Missouri, American actress (Magnificent Obsession) and 1st Mrs Ronald Reagan (d. 2007)
1917 - Francis L. Kellogg, U.S. diplomat and prominent socialite (d. 2006)
1918 - Jean Dixon, psychic (Gift of Prophecy)
1919 - Severino Gazzelloni, Italian flautist (d. 1992)
1920 - Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Brescia Italy, pianist
1920 - Mohammad Aslam Khokhar, cricket (Pak bat scored 16 & 18 in only test)
1921 - Friedrich Dörrenmatt, Switzerland, playwright/novelist (Visit)
1921 - Jean BMRLAAM d'Aviano, grand duke of Luxembourg (1964- )
1921 - Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss writer (d. 1990)
1922 - Admiral Sir Anthony Synnot, Chief of the Australian Defence Force (d. 2001)
1923 - Robert L Bernstein, NYC, publisher (Random House)
1923 - Sam Phillips, musician/record founder (Sun)
1923 - Sam Phillips, American music producer (d. 2003)
1924 - Dr Gilbert Bogle, Australian scientist who died in the Bogle-Chandler case (1963)
1925 - Wolf Morris, actor (Decoy)
1926 - Claude (Buddy) Young, NFL running back (Yankees, Texans, Colts)
1926 - Robert Earle, Baldwin NY, TV host (GE College Bowl)
1926 - Hosea Williams, American activist (d. 2000)
1926 - William De Witt Snodgrass, American poet
1928 - Imtiaz Ahmed, cricketer (Pakistan wicket-keeper in 41 Tests 1952-62)
1928 - Walter Fritz Mondale, (Sen-D-Minn)/42nd VP (1977-81)
1928 - Zulfikar Ali Khan Bhutto, president/premier (Pakistan)
1928 - Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Pakistani statesman (d. 1979)
1929 - Wilbert Harrison, singer
1930 - Edward Galven Givens Jr, Quanah Texas, Major USAF/astronaut
1930 - Frederick Charles Tillis, composer
1930 - Richard Hayes, Passaic NJ, singer/emcee (Name That Tune)
1931 - Alfred Brendel, Wiesenberg Moravia, Austrian pianist
1931 - Alvin Ailey, choreographer (American Dance Theater)
1931 - Robert Duvall, San Diego California, actor (Great Santini, Taxi Driver)
1931 - Walter Davis, US, running high jumper (Olympic-gold-1952)
1931 - Joan Coxsedge, Australian politician
1932 - Chuck Noll, Cleveland, NFL coach (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1932 - Umberto Eco, author (Name of the Rose)
1932 - Umberto Eco, Italian writer
1934 - William Bendeck, Bolivian rally driver (d. 1971)
1935 - Nancy L Johnson, (Rep-R-CT, 1983- )
1936 - Florence King, American humorist
1938 - Edwin Elliason, Washington, US archer (Olympic-92)
1938 - Jim Otto, NFL center (Oakland Raiders)
1938 - Juan Carlos I, king of Spain (1975- )
1938 - Leo Avery, abbot of Quarr
1938 - Piet Kruiver, Dutch soccer star
1938 - Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Kenyan writer
1939 - Bridget Parker, England, equestrian 3 day event (Olympic-gold-1972)
1939 - Peter Struycken, statues/computer expert/teacher
1940 - Dany Saval, Oakland California, actress (Boeing Boeing, Moon Pilot)
1940 - Michael O'Donoghue, American writer (d. 1994)
1940 - Yuri Ershov, Russian mathematician
1940 - Athol Guy, Australian singer, member of The Seekers
1940 - General Sir Michael Rose, UK military officer, prominent in Bosnia
1941 - Bob Cunis, cricketer (New Zealand pace bowler of the late 60's)
1941 - Grady Thomas, US rock vocalist (Parliaments, Funkadelic, Maggot Brain)
1941 - Mansur Ali Khan, cricketer (Nawab of Pataudi, Indian batsman & capt)
1941 - Hayao Miyazaki, Japanese film maker
1942 - Charlie Rose, Henderson NC, newscaster (CBS Night Watch)
1942 - Cliff Potts, Glendale California, actor (Ted-Lou Grant)
1942 - Maurizio Pollini, Milan Italy, pianist
1942 - Jan Leeming, English television presenter and newsreader
1942 - Terenci Moix, Spanish writer (d. 2003)
1943 - Eusebio de Silva Ferreira, Mozamb/Port soccer star (Europa Cup 1 1962)
1943 - Ferreira da Silva Eusebio, Brazilan intl soccer player
1944 - Felix Arons, Dutch director/actor (Waaldrecht)
1944 - Tommie Smith, US, 200m dash (Olympic-gold-1968) [or Jun 5]
1945 - Sam Wyche, NFL coach (Cincinnati Bengals)
1945 - Chuck McKinley, U.S. tennis player (d. 1986)
1945 - Roger Spottiswoode, Canadian-born film director
1946 - "Crazy Barret Diamond" Syd, rocker (Pink Floyd)
1946 - Diane Keaton, [Hall], LA, actress (Annie Hall, Little Drummer Girl)
1947 - Michael DeWine, (Rep-R-Oh, 1983- )
1947 - Ted Lange, Oakland California, actor (Isaac-Love Boat, Mr T & Tina)
1947 - Mercury Morris, American football player
1948 - Parthasarathy Sharma, cricketer (Indian batsman of the mid-70's)
1948 - Thom Mooney, rocker
1949 - George Brown, rock drummer (Kool & the Gang-Celebration)
1950 - Chris Stein, rock guitarist and co-founder of Blondie (Heart of Glass, Call Me) born in Brooklyn, New York
1950 - Michael O'Donoghue, writer/performer
1950 - Ioan Petru Culianu, Romanian-born professor (d. 1991)
1950 - John Manley, Canadian politician
1950 - Charlie Richmond, Canadian entrepreneur
1951 - Steve Arnold, English footballer
1953 - Pamela Sue Martin, Westport Ct, actress (Nancy Drew, Fallon-Dynasty)
1953 - Steve Archer, American singer (The Archers)
1953 - Mike Rann, Australian politician
1953 - George Tenet, American CIA director
1954 - Bryan Hitt, rocker (REO Speedwagon-Keep on Loving You)
1956 - Chen Kenichi, Japanese-born chef
1957 - Vincent Calloway, Kentucky, trumpet player (Midnight Star-No Parking)
1957 - Kevin Hastings, Australian rugby league footballer
1958 - Suzy Amis, Oklahoma City, actress (Blame it on Rio, Where the Heart is)
1960 - Steve Jones, British aviator (Red Bull Air Race World Series)
1960 - Glenn Strömberg, Swedish footballer
1961 - Curt Bader, Bloomfield Iowa, sprint kayak (Olympics-96)
1962 - Brendon Kuruppu, cricketer (Sri Lankan batsman, 201* debut v NZ 1987)
1962 - Danny Jackson, US baseball pitcher (Royals/Phillies/Cardinals)
1962 - Donald John Cowie, Auckland NZ, yachting Star class (Olympics-96)
1962 - Joel Wyner, actor/director (Lyle Springer-Sirens, Listen, Club)
1962 - Suzy Amis, American actress
1962 - Perry Fenwick, English actor
1963 - Jeff Fassero, Springfield IL, pitcher (Montreal Expos)
1963 - Rick Ambrose, singer (Jewel)
1964 - John Erickson, Woodland Hills California, golfer (1991 Windsor Charity)
1964 - Ted Harris Poley, Englewood NJ, rocker (Danger Danger-Screw It)
1964 - Tracy Ham, CFL quarterback (Montreal Alouettes)
1965 - Rick Tuten, NFL punter (Seattle Seahawks)
1965 - Vinnie Jones, English-born Welsh footballer and actor
1966 - Kate Schellenbach, musician (Luscious Jackson)
1966 - Renaldo Turnbull, NFL defensive end (NO Saints, Carolina Panthers)
1967 - Chris Nabholz, US baseball pitcher (Boston Red Sox)
1967 - J B Brown, NFL cornerback (Miami Dolphins, Pittsburgh Steelers)
1967 - Ray Crockett, NFL defensive back (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1967 - Ricky Paull Goldin, SF, actor (Doug-Hail to the Chief, Another World)
1967 - Joe Flanigan, American actor
1968 - Carl Evans, Actor (Guilding Light)
1968 - Felton Spencer, NBA center (Utah Jazz)
1968 - Jean Zedlitz, Stockton CA, LPGA golfer (1994 Children's Med-14th)
1968 - Joe Juneau, Pont-rouge, NHL center (Washington Capitals)
1968 - Leila Meskhi, Tbilisi Georgia SSR, tennis star (1995 Hobart)
1968 - DJ Bobo, Swiss singer
1968 - Andrew Golota, Polish boxer
1968 - Carrie Ann Inaba, American dancer and choreographer
1969 - David Dixon, NFL guard (Minnesota Vikings)
1969 - Derrick Ned, NFL fullback (NO Saints)
1969 - Kurt Barber, NFL defensive end (NY Jets)
1969 - Marilyn Manson, singer/musician
1969 - Paul McGillion, Scottish actor
1970 - James Patton, NFL defensive end (Buffalo Bills)
1970 - Rick Campanelli, Canadian TV presenter
1971 - Eric Smith, NFL/WLAF wide receiver (Chicago Bears, Scotland Claymores)
1971 - Hillary Butler, WLAF linebacker (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1971 - Jason Bates, Downey CA, infielder (Colorado Rockies)
1971 - Mayuko Takata, Japanese actress
1972 - Joseph Patton, NFL guard (Washington Redskins)
1972 - Sakis Rouvas, Greek singer
1973 - Phil Joel, Australian bassist (Newsboys)
1974 - Calvin Collins, center/guard (Atlanta Falcons)
1974 - John Drew Nichols, Oklahoma, rocker (PC Quest-Can You See)
1974 - Michelle Scerri, Melbourne Australia, golfer (1995 Tasmanian)
1975 - Ray Morgan, announcer (I'd Like to See)
1975 - Warrick Dunn, running back (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1975 - Kylie Bax, New Zealand model
1975 - Bradley Cooper, American actor
1976 - Diego Tristán, Spanish footballer
1976 - Matt Wachter, American bassist (30 Seconds to Mars)
1978 - Franck Montagny, French Formula One driver
1978 - January Jones, American actress
1978 - Sabrina Harman, American military figure and accused torturer
1979 - Sarah Price, Miss Louisiana Teen USA (1997)
1979 - Ronnie O'Brien, Irish footballer
1980 - Garette Patrick Ratliff, actor (Return to Blue Lagoon)
1980 - Bennie Joppru, National Football League tight end
1981 - Corey Flynn, New Zealand rugby union footballer
1981 - Brooklyn Sudano, American actress
1982 - Janica Kostelić, Croatian skier
1983 - Sean Dockery, American basketball player
1984 - Amanda Hearst, American heiress
1985 - Michael Cuccione, Canadian actor (d. 2001)
1985 - Yoon So-Yi, South Korean actress
1986 - Deepika Padukone, Indian model and actress
1986 - Teppei Koike, Japanese actor and singer
1987 - Kristin Cavallari, American actress
1988 - Pauline, French singer
1989 - Krisztián Németh, Hungarian footballer
1996 - Max Baldry, English actor

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 05, 2013, 07:53:27 PM

This Day in History for 5th January


Famous Deaths

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30th US President Calvin Coolidge (1933)

842 - Al-Mu'tasim, Abbasid caliph (b. 794)
1066 - Edward de Belijder, the Confessor, king of England (1043-66), dies
1387 - Pedro IV, king of Aragon/conqueror of Sicily, dies at 67
1400 - John Montacute, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, English politician (executed) (b. ca. 1350)
1425 - John of Bavaria/Bayern, liege of Holland/Zealand/Dordrecht, poisoned
1448 - Christopher of Bavaria (b. 1416)
1465 - Charles, Duke of Orléans, French poet (b. 1394)
1477 - Charles, the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, dies at the Battle of Nancy at 43
1524 - Marko Marulic/Marulus/Splichanin/Pecinich, Croatian poet, dies at 73
1588 - Qi Jiguang, Chinese general (b. 1528)
1589 - Catherine de' Medici, Queen mother of France, dies at 69
1592 - Willem II, Duke of Gulik/Kleef/Gelre, dies at about 75
1595 - Ercole Procaccini, Italian painter, dies
1603 - Pieter Adriaansz van der Werff, mayor of Lead, dies at 73
1684 - Claude Audran II, French painter/engraver, dies at 44
1713 - Jean Chardin, French explorer (b. 1643)
1740 - Antonio Lotti, Italian opera composer, dies at about 72
1746 - Anton Simon Ignaz Praelisauer, composer, dies at 53
1759 - Thomas-Philippe et de Boussu, S Neth cardinal, dies at 79
1762 - Elizabeth of Russia [Elizaveta Petrovna], tsarina of Russia (1741-62), dies at 52
1771 - John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford, British statesman (b. 1710)
1783 - Friedrich Wilhelm Reidt, composer, dies on 73rd birthday
1788 - Johann Schneider, composer, dies at 85
1796 - Samuel Huntington, US judge (signed Decl of Independence), dies at 64
1807 - Michel Adanson, French biologist (Plant classes), dies at 79
1814 - Johann Gottfried Krebs, composer, dies at 72
1823 - Major George Johnston, Lieutenant-Governor of New South Wales (b. 1764)
1827 - Frederick of York, English duke/bishop/general, dies at 63
1846 - Alfred Thomas Agate, American artist (b. 1812)
1848 - Ferdinando Orlandi, composer, dies at 73
1856 - Pierre J David, [David d'Angers], French sculptor, dies at 67
1858 - Johann JWAFK Radetzky von Radetz, Austr earl/field marshal, dies at 91
1860 - St John Nepomucene Neumann, 1st male US saint, dies
1862 - Joseph Frohlich, composer, dies at 81
1883 - Charles Tompson, first Australian published poet (b. 1806)
1888 - Henri Herz, composer, dies at a day before 85th birthday
1891 - Guillaume L Baud, Dutch minister of Colonies (1848-49), dies at 89
1891 - Emma Abbott, American soprano (b. 1849)
1904 - Karl A von Zittel, German geologist/paleontologist (Libya), dies at 64
1922 - Ernest H Shackleton, Brit South pole explorer (Endurance), dies at 47
1933 - Calvin Coolidge, 30th President (1923-29), dies in Mass at 60
1937 - Marie Booth, child of William and Catherine Booth (b. 1864)
1939 - Amelia Earhart, American aviator declared dead after disappearance in 1937. (b. 1897)
1940 - Tina Modotti, [Maria del Carmen], Ital/Mexican communist, dies at 46
1940 - Humbert Wolfe, Italian-British poet (b. 1885)
1941 - Amy Johnson, English aviator (b. 1903)
1942 - Yves Paringaux, French chief of staff, murdered
1943 - George Washington Carver, famous black scientist, dies at 81
1944 - Adolph Goldschmidt, German/Swiss art historian, dies at 80
1946 - Kitty Cheatham, American singer (b. 1864)
1951 - Andrei P Platonov, Russian author (Prok, Kotlovan), dies at 51
1952 - Nawab of Pataudi, cricket (play polo 3 Tests for Eng 3 for Ind), dies
1952 - Victor Alexander John Hope, viceroy of India (1936-43), dies at 64
1954 - Rabbit Maranville, American baseball player (b. 1891)
1956 - Jeanne F Bourgeois, French head mistress (Moulin Rouge), dies at 84
1956 - Mistinguett, French singer (b. 1875)
1960 - Donald Knight, cricketer (54 runs in 2 Tests for England 1921), dies
1960 - Pavel P Parenago, Russia, cosmonaut, dies at 53
1963 - Rogers Hornsby, baseball player, dies of a heart ailment at 66
1965 - Neil Craig, actor (Calling Dr Kildare), dies at 73
1965 - Paul Arntzenius, painter/graphic artist/etcher, dies at 81
1966 - George Duckworth, cricketer (24 Tests for England, ct 45 stp 15), dies
1968 - Jean Murat, actor (On the Riviera), dies at 79
1969 - Franz T Csokor, Austria author (Gottes General), dies at 83
1969 - Tom Aherne, actor (Hustler, April Fools), dies of influenza in NY
1970 - Joseph A Yablonski, candidate for United Mine Workers pres, murdered
1970 - Max Born, German/British physicist (Nobel 1954), dies at 87
1970 - Roberto Gerhard, composer, dies at 73
1970 - Cyril Fagan, Irish astrologer (b. 1896)
1971 - Douglas Shearer, Canadian film engineer (b. 1899)
1973 - Cornelis van Dis, Dutch MP (SGP), dies at 79
1974 - Roy Bargy, orchestra leader (Jimmy Durante Show), dies at 79
1974 - Lev Oborin, Russian pianist (b. 1907)
1975 - Don Wilson, pitcher (Astro), dies at 29 of carbon monoxide poisoning
1976 - Georges E Migot, French composer, dies at 84
1976 - John A. Costello, Taoiseach of Ireland (b. 1891)
1977 - Onslow Stevens, actor (Mr Fisher-This is the Life), dies at 74
1979 - Charles Mingus, US jazz bassist/composer/orchestra leader, dies at 56
1981 - Harold C Urey, US chemist (Deuterium, Nobel 1934), dies at 87
1981 - Paul Félix, Flemish architect (Song of the Sun), dies at 67
1981 - Lanza del Vasto, Italian philosopher (b. 1901)
1982 - Hans Conried, actor (Bullwinkle Show, Make Room for Daddy), dies at 64
1982 - Harvey Lembeck, actor (Phil Silvers, Hathaways), dies at 56
1982 - Sir Edmund Herring, Australian military commander, Lieutenant Governor of Victoria (b. 1892)
1985 - Robert L. Surtees, American Oscar-winning cinematographer (Ben-Hur) (b. 1906
1987 - Margaret Laurence, Canadian author, dies at 60
1987 - Herman Smith-Johannsen, Norwegian-born Canadian cross-country skier (b. 1875)
1988 - "Pistol Pete" Mavarich, NBAer (Atlanta), dies of a heart attack at 40
1988 - Pete Maravich, American basketball player (b. 1947)
1990 - Arthur Kennedy, actor (Air Force), dies of a brain tumor at 76
1990 - Bart LaRue, entertainer, dies
1991 - John Eckhardt, actor born without legs (Freaks), dies at 82
1991 - Marie Madeline Sullivan, actress (Elvira Mistress of Dark), dies at 80
1991 - Vasko Popa, Serbian WW II-partisan/poet (Sporedno Nebo), dies at 68
1993 - George L George, Russian/US journalist/director/producer, dies at 85
1993 - Henk Knol, Suriname MP (PvdA), dies at 61
1993 - Jennifer Raine Bissell, daughter of Alan Napier, dies 60
1993 - Juan Benet Goitia, Spanish writer (Herrumbrosas Lanzas), dies at 65
1993 - Klaas Wiersma, Dutch sec of Justice (VVD), dies
1993 - Leonce Gras, Flemish singer/conductor, dies at 84
1993 - Nyamuisi Muvingi, Zaire minister of Culture, murdered
1993 - Ronnie Welsh, actor (Patterns), dies of brain cancer at 52
1993 - Westley A Dodd, US murderer, 1st hanging in US since 1965
1994 - Brian Johnston, cricketer (BBC radio commentator for 40 yrs), dies
1994 - Louis R J Ridder van Rappard, Dutch mayor of Zoelen, dies at 87
1994 - Thomas P "Tip" O'Neill, (D-Ma)/Speaker of House (1977-86), dies at 81
1994 - Victor van Os, Dutch jazz guitarist, dies at 39
1994 - William Raynor, writer, dies at 73
1994 - Tip O'Neill, American politician (b. 1912)
1995 - Francis Lopez, Fren dentist/operetta composer (Andalousie), dies at 78
1995 - Mansour Satari, brig-gen/commandant (Iran Air Force), dies at 46
1995 - Yahya Ayyash, PLO bomb maker, booby trapped cellular phone at 28
1996 - Jay Morris Arena, inventor/pediatrician, dies at 86
1996 - Joseph Daniel White, singer/bandleader, dies at 84
1996 - Lincoln Kirstein, ballet administrator, dies at 88
1996 - Richard Versaille, tenor, dies at 63
1997 - Andre Franquin, cartoonist, dies at 72
1998 - Georgi Sviridov, composer, dies at 82
1998 - Sonny Bono, (Rep-R-Ca)/singer (Sonny & Cher), dies skiing at 62
1998 - Ken Forssi, American musician (Love) (b. 1943)
2001 - Nancy Parsons, American actress (b. 1942)
2003 - Massimo Girotti, Italian film actor (b. 1918)
2003 - Roy Jenkins, British politician (b. 1920)
2003 - Doreen Carwithen, British composer, widow of William Alwyn (b. 1922)
2003 - Jean Kerr, American author (b. 1923)
2004 - Tug McGraw, American baseball player, father of Tim McGraw (b. 1944)
2005 - Danny Sugerman, American music manager (The Doors) (b. 1954)
2006 - Lord Merlyn-Rees, British politician (b. 1920)
2007 - Momofuku Ando, inventor of instant noodles and cup noodles (b. 1910)
2007 - Chih Ree Sun, Chinese-American physicist and poet (b. 1923)
2008 - Clinton Grybas, Australian sports commentator (b. 1975)
2009 - Ned Tanen, American movie executive (b. 1931)
2010 - Rory Markas, Angels baseball announcer (b.1955)
2010 - Murray Saltzman, Reform Jewish rabbi and civil rights leader (b. 1929)
2012 - Donald Carter, American professional bowler, dies from pneumonia and emphysema
           complications at 85
2012 - Frederica Maas, American playwright and screenwriter, dies at 111

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 06, 2013, 09:11:47 AM

This Day in History for 6th January


Historical Events

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Educator Maria Montessori                      Inventor Thomas Edison                         Singer & Cultural Icon Elvis Presley

1066 - King Harald of England crowned
1099 - Henry V crowned German king
1205 - Philip of Swabia becomes King of the Romans.
1227 - Ferrand of Portugal freed from the Louvre
1352 - French king Jean II introduces Order of the Star
1449 - Byzantine Emperor Constantine XI is crowned at Mistra.
1453 - Emperor Frederik III becomes archduke of Austria
1494 - The first Mass in the New World is celebrated at La Isabela, Hispaniola.
1496 - Moorish fortress Alhambra, near Grenada, surrenders to the Christi
1497 - Jews are expelled from Graz in Styria, Austria
1579 - Artois/Hainault/Dowaai sign pro-Spanish Union of Arras
1579 - The Union of Atrecht is signed.
1622 - Pope Gregory XV forms Congregatio the Propagande Fide
1639 - Virginia is 1st colony to order surplus crops (tobacco) destroyed
1649 - The Rump Parliament votes to put Charles I on trial for treason and other "high crimes"
1661 - The Fifth Monarchists unsuccessfully attempt to seize control of London.
1663 - Great earthquake in New England
1681 - 1st recorded boxing match (Duke of Albemarle's butler vs his butcher)
1690 - Joseph I, later Holy Roman Emperor and son of Emperor Leopold I, becomes King of the
           Romans.
1720 - The Committee of Inquiry on the South Sea Bubble publishes its findings.
1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlies army draws to Glasgow
1773 - Massachusetts slaves petition legislature for freedom
1781 - Battle of Jersey (Island in UK)
1784 - Turkey & Russia sign treaty in Constantinople
1832 - New England Anti-Slavery Society organizes (Boston)
1839 - 2 day storm off Irish & English coast immortalized as "Big Wind"
1842 - 4,500 British & Indian troops leave Kabul, massacred before India
1857 - Patent for reducing zinc ore granted to Samuel Wetherill, Penn
1861 - Florida troops seize Federal arsenal at Apalachicola
1861 - NYC mayor proposes NY become a free city, trading with N & S
1870 - The inauguration of the Musikverein (Vienna).
1873 - Pope Pius IX encyclical "On the Church in Armenia"
1873 - US Congress begins investigating Crédit Mobilier scandal
1880 - Record snow cover in Seattle - 120 cm
1883 - Ontario Rugby Football Union forms
1887 - `Abd-allah II of Harar opens the Battle of Chelenqo with an attack on the camp of the
            Shewan army of Negus Menelik II.
1893 - Great Northern Railway connects Seattle with east coast
1893 - The Washington National Cathedral is chartered by Congress. The charter is signed by
            President Benjamin Harrison.
1896 - 1st US women's 6-day bicycle race starts, Madison Square Garden
1896 - Cecil Rhodes resigns as premier of Cape colony
1898 - 1st telephone message from a submerged submarine, by Simon Lake
1900 - Boers attack at Ladysmith, about 1,000 killed or injured
1900 - Maurice Ravel's "Albaradode Gracioso," premieres in Paris
1903 - Dutch Press museum opens in Amsterdam
1906 - Maurice Ravel's "Miroirs," premieres in Paris
1907 - Maria Montessori opens her 1st (Montessori) school (Rome)
1912 - New Mexico becomes 47th state
1914 - Stock brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch founded
1922 - -13] Conference of Cannes concerning German retribution payments
1924 - Poulenc/Nijinska's ballet "Les Biches," premieres in Monte Carlo
1925 - Paavo Nurmi, sets indoor record, 4:13.6 mile & 14:44.6 5,000m
1926 - Kees Boeke opens 1st comprehensive school in Holland
1927 - US marines sent to Nicaragua
1928 - Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Mortalium animos (against oecumene)
1929 - Alexander I establishes a royal dictatorship in Yugoslavia
1929 - Mother Teresa arrives in Calcutta to begin a her work amongst India's poorest and diseased
           people.
1930 - 1st diesel engine automobile trip (in a Packard sedan) completed
1930 - Bradman scores 452* for NSW against Qld, 377 mins, 49 fours
1931 - Thomas Edison submits his last patent application.
1936 - Barbara Hanley became Canada's 1st woman mayor (Webbwood, Ontario)
1937 - Bradman scores 270 Aust v England at the MCG, incl 110 singles
1938 - Bronze memorial statue of Henry Hudson erected in Bronx
1939 - Daily newspaper comic strip "Superman" debuts
1940 - Mass execution of Poles, committed by Germans in the city of Poznań, Warthegau.
1941 - FDR's "4 Freedoms" speech (speech, worship, from want & from fear)
1942 - 1st around world flight (Pan Am "Pacific Clipper")
1942 - Bob Feller, enlists in Navy & reports for duty to Norfolk Virginia
1942 - Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to schedule a flight around the
           world.
1946 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Quemadmodum
1947 - Ray Lindwall smashes 100 v England in MCG Test
1950 - "Happy as Larry" opens at Coronet Theater NYC for 3 performances
1950 - Britain recognizes Communist government of China
1951 - "Pardon Our French" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 100 perfs
1951 - Indianapolis beats Rochester 75-73 in NBA-record 6 overtimes
1953 - WKBN TV channel 27 in Youngstown, OH (CBS) begins broadcasting
1956 - KGNS TV channel 8 in Laredo, TX (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1956 - Federal court bars former Little League Commissioner Carl Stotz from forming a rival group
1957 - Elvis Presley makes his 7th & final appearance on Ed Sullivan Show
1957 - Yeshiva Kol Ya'ackov opens in Moscow Russia
1958 - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to ee cummings
1958 - Gibson patents Flying V Guitar
1958 - WIPR TV channel 6 in San Juan, PR (PBS) begins broadcasting
1963 - "Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom" with Marlin Perkins begins on NBC
1963 - "Oliver!" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 774 performances
1964 - Charlie Finlay announces he wants to move KC A's to Louisville
1964 - Rolling Stones' 1st tour as headline act (with Ronettes)
1965 - Geoff Boycott takes 3-47 against South Africa, his best Test bowling
1967 - "Milton Berle Show" last airs on ABC-TV
1967 - KHTV TV channel 39 in Houston, TX (IND) begins broadcasting
1967 - 2 homemade buses collided on a mountain road in Terpate, Philippines plunging off a cliff,
            killing 84, injuring 140
1967 - United States Marine Corps and ARVN troops launch "Operation Deckhouse Five" in the
           Mekong River delta.
1968 - Beatles' "Magical Mystery Tour," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 8 weeks
1968 - Dr N E Shumway performs 1st US adult cardiac transplant operation
1968 - Surveyor 7 (last of series) launched by US for soft-landing on Moon
1969 - Supremes release "I'm Livin' In Shame"
1969 - WLIW TV channel 21 in Garden City, NY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1971 - Berkeley chemists announces 1st synthetic growth hormones
1971 - Cecil Partee elected president pro tem of Illinois state senate
1971 - Neil Young returns to his homeland of Canada for his first concert there since his pre-stardom
           days
1972 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn
1972 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Kenneth Shelley
1972 - Vladimir Bukovski is exiled from USSR
1973 - "Schoolhouse Rock," premieres on ABC-TV with Multiplication Rock
1974 - "CBS Mystery Theater," premieres on radio
1974 - England begins 3 day work week during mine strike
1974 - In response to the 1973 energy crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months
           early in the United States.
1975 - "AM America," premieres on ABC-TV with Bill Beutel as host
1975 - "Wheel Of Fortune," debuts on NBC-tv
1975 - 1000 Led Zeppelin fans, waiting overnight inside the lobby of the Boston Garden for tickets to the group's February 4th gig to go on sale, cause a riot and an esimated $30,000 damage
1976 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1976 - Ted Turner purchases Atlanta Braves for reported $12 million
1977 - EMI records drop punk rock group Sex Pistols
1978 - 1st postage stamp copyrighted by US (Carl Sandburg stamp)
1978 - US hand over St Stephan crown to Hungary
1979 - The Village People's Y.M.C.A becomes their only UK No.1 single. At it's peak it sold over
           150,000 copies a day
1980 - "1940's Radio Hour" closes at St James Theater NYC after 105 perfs
1980 - Indira Gandhi's Congress Party wins elections in India
1980 - Phil Flyers set NHL record of 35 straight games without a defeat
1980 - The beginning of the first GPS epoch.
1981 - 50th hat trick in Islander history-John Tonelli scored 5 goals
1984 - Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 41 B mission
1984 - Last day of Test cricket for Chappell, Marsh & Lillee
1986 - British Defense Secretary Michael Heseltine resigns
1986 - Impala Platinum fires 20,000 black mine workers in Johannesburg
1986 - Last day in Test cricket for Bob Holland
1986 - STS 61-C scrubbed at T-31sec because of liquid oxygen valve problem
1987 - 100th US Congress convenes
1987 - Astronomers at University of California see 1st sight of birth of a galaxy
1990 - NY Lotto pays $35 million to one winner (#s are 18-25-26-32-42-44)
1991 - "Gypsy" closes at St James Theater NYC after 477 performances
1991 - "Real Life With Jane Pauley" premieres on NBC-TV
1991 - Jorge Serrano Elias elected president of Guatemala
1991 - Qian Hong swims female world record 50m butterfly (27.30 sec)
1992 - NY Yankees sign free agent Danny Tartabul
1992 - Robert Schenkkan's "Kentucky Cycle," premieres in LA
1992 - Sachin Tendulkar completes 148* v Australia at the SCG
1992 - Shane Warne takes 1-150 in his 1st Test innings
1993 - Bill Wyman announces he will leave Rolling Stones
1993 - Jean Mueller discovers comet Mueller/1993a
1993 - Last day of Test cricket for Greg Matthews
1994 - "Government Inspector" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 37 performances
1994 - Dow-Jones hits record 3803.88
1994 - Ice skater Nancy Kerrigan is attacked by Tonya Harding's bodyguard
1994 - Yat Weiju swims world record 50m butterfly stroke (26.44)
1994 - Zhong Weiju swims world record 25m pool (26.44)
1995 - Atlanta Hawks' Lenny Wilkens becomes NBA's winningest coach (939)
1995 - A chemical fire in an apartment complex in Manila, Philippines, leads to the discovery of plans
           for Project Bojinka, a mass-terrorist attack.
1996 - Record $65.2 million British lottery won by 3 people (2-3-4-13-42-44)
1997 - "It's a Slippery Slope," closes at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC
1998 - Barry Switzer resigns as Dallas Cowboy coach
1998 - Don Sutton selected to Baseball Hall of Fame
2002 - Daniel Bedingfield returns to No.1 on the UK singles chart for the second time with Gotta Get
           Thru This
2004 - Costas Simitis announces his resignation as president of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement in
           Greece.
2005 - Mississippi Civil Rights Workers Murders: Edgar Ray Killen is arrested as a suspect for the 1964 murders of three Civil Rights workers.

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 06, 2013, 09:13:23 AM

This Day in History for 6th January


Famous Weddings

1759 - US 1st President George Washington marries Martha Dandridge Custis at White House
           Plantation
1945 - Future president George Bush marries Barbara Pierce at the First Presbyterian Church in Rye
           NY

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 06, 2013, 09:20:46 AM

This Day in History for 6th January


Famous Birthdays

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French National Heroine                          Rocker Syd Barrett (1946)                     Composer & Actor Rowan Atkinson (1955)
 Joan of Arc (1412)

1367 - Richard II, Bordeaux, France, King of England (1377-99) (d. 1400)
1412 - Joan of Arc, Domrémy, Roman Catholic Saint and national heroine of France (legendary date) (d. 1431)
1486 - Martin Agricola, [M Sore], German composer/cantor
1488 - Helius Eobanus Hessus, German poet (Silvae)
1525 - Caspar Peucer, German reformer (d. 1602)
1561 - Thomas Fincke, Danish mathematician (d. 1656)
1580 - (baptised) John Smith of Jamestown (d. 1631)
1585 - Claude Favre baron de Perouges seigneur de Vaugelas, French grammarian
1587 - Gaspar de Guzman, Count of Olivares, Premier of Spain (1621-43)
1595 - Claude Favre de Vaugelas, French man of letters (d. 1650)
1602 - Karl Rabenhaupt, German/Dutch baron of Sucha/army leader
1617 - Kristoffer Gabel, Danish statesman (d. 1673)
1655 - Eleonore-Magdalena of Neuburg, Holy Roman Empire Empress (d. 1720)
1655 - Jakob Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d. 1705)
1673 - 1st Duke of Chandos, English aristocrat, eponym of Handel's Chandos Anthems (d. 1744)
1683 - Francois de La Croix, composer
1692 - Rynoldus Popma van Oevering, composer
1695 - Giuseppe Sammartini, composer
1702 - Jose Melchior de Nebra Blascu, composer
1714 - Percivall Pott, English physician (d. 1788)
1728 - Charles-Joseph-Balthazar Sohier, composer
1728 - Domingos dos Reis Quita, Portuguese playwright/poet
1732 - Matija A Reljkovic, Croatia, writer (Satir iliti divji covic)
1745 - Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier, France, aeronaut (1st pioneer balloonist)
1745 - Étienne Montgolfier, French inventor (d. 1799)
1776 - Ferdinand von Schill, Prussian officer/rebel
1791 - Jose Melchor Gomiz y Colomer, composer
1793 - James Madison Porter, American politician (d. 1862)
1794 - Kaspar Masek, composer
1795 - Anselme Payen, French chemist (d. 1871)
1798 - Ferdinand Simon Gassner, composer
1799 - Jedediah Strong Smith, US fur trader/explorer
1800 - Willem A Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, Dutch politician
1802 - Ion Heliade-Radulescu, Romania, author/novelist/writer (Gramatica)
1803 - Henri Herz, composer
1807 - Joseph Holt, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1894
1807 - Ludwig Erk, composer
1807 - Jozef Maximilián Petzval, Slovak inventor (d. 1891)
1808 - Joseph Pitty Couthouy, American naval officer (d. 1864)
1811 - Charles Sumner, leading Reconstruction senator, died in 1874
1812 - Melchora Aquino, Filipino revolutionary hero (d. 1919)
1819 - Baldassare Verazzi, Italian painter (d. 1886)
1822 - Heinrich Schliemann, German polyglot/archeologist (Troje)
1826 - Herman Grimm, Germany, writer/novelist (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
1827 - John Calvin Brown, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1889
1827 - John Wesley Frazer, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), die in 1906
1829 - Kanagaki Robun [Bunzo Nozaki], Japanese humorist/gesaku-author
1832 - Gustave Doré, French painter and sculptor (d. 1883)
1838 - Max Bruch, Koln (Cologne), Germany, composer
1842 - Clarence King, mining engineer (geologist)
1850 - Eduard "Ede" Bernstein, German marxist (New Era)
1850 - Franz Xaver Scharwenka, German pianist/composer (Mataswintha)
1854 - Sherlock Holmes, Mycroft, fictional detective (via Arthur Conan Doyle)
1856 - Giuseppe Martucci, composer
1857 - Hugh Mahon, Irish-born Australian politician (d. 1931)
1857 - William E. Russell, 37th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1896)
1859 - Samuel Alexander, English philosopher (Moral order & progress)
1861 - Heinrich Gottlieb Noren, composer
1861 - George Exton Lloyd, Anglican bishop and theologian (d. 1940)
1864 - Ban Johnson, Norwalk Ct, baseball founder (American League)
1867 - Georges Martin Witkowski, composer
1868 - Vittorio Monti, composer
1870 - Gustav Bauer, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1944)
1872 - Alexander N Scriabin, Moscow, hallucinogenic composer (Prometheus)
1873 - Karl Straube, German organist/conductor
1874 - Fred Niblo, U.S. film actor, director, producer (d. 1948)
1878 - Carl Sandburg, US, poet/biographer of Lincoln (The People, Yes)
1878 - Dame Adeline Genée, Danish-British ballerina (d. 1970)
1880 - Tom Mix, Mix Run PA, silent screen cowboy actor (Dick Turpin), died 1940
1880 - Yuliya Lazarevna Veysberg, composer
1882 - Samuel Rayburn, Tenn, (Rep-D-Tx), speaker of the House (1940-57)
1882 - Aleksandra Ekster, Russian painter (d. 1949)
1882 - Fan S. Noli, Albanian bishop (d. 1965)
1883 - Khalil Gibran, Lebanon, mystic poet (The Prophet, Broken Wings)
1889 - Alan M Bateman, Canadian geologist (Yale professor)
1891 - Ted McDonald, cricketer (great Australian quick of 20's)
1892 - Ludwig Berger, writer
1896 - Abram N Pritzker, US businessman (Hyatt Hotels, McCall's magazine)
1896 - Freerk Siemon Wolters, notary/resistance fighter
1897 - Billy Greene, actor (Burton-One Man's Family)
1898 - Jan Filip Boon, Flemish author/editor (De Standaard 1929-39)
1898 - Charles E. Pont, American artist (d. 1971)
1899 - Phyllis Haver, Douglas KS, silent screen actress (What Price Glory)
1900 - Pierre-Octave Ferroud, French composer (Sarabande, Jeunesse)
1901 - Patrick Aherne, England, actor (Bwana Devil, Botany Bay, Q Planes)
1902 - Mark Brunswick, composer
1902 - Sofie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatte, composer
1902 - Helmut Poppendick, Nazi physician (d. 1994)
1903 - Boris Blacher, Newchwang China, German composer (Orchester-Ornament)
1903 - Francis L Sullivan, London England, actor (Missing Rembrandt)
1903 - Maurice Abravanel, Saloniki Greece, conductor/composer
1903 - Stanley Smith, KC MO, actor (Honey, King of Jazz, Soup to Nuts)
1905 - Eric Frank Russell, UK, sci-fi author (Hugo, Deep Space, Dark Tides)
1906 - Benedict Vilakazi, South Africa, poet/educator (Zulu-English Dictionary)
1906 - Jaap Wagemaker, [Adrian B], Dutch sculptor
1907 - David Fleay, Australian naturalist (d. 1993)
1908 - Menahem Avidom, composer
1909 - Johannes H Moesman, Dutch surrealist painter (Rumor)
1909 - Keith Davis, voice tutor/author
1910 - Wright Morris, US writer
1911 - Eduardo Frei Montalva, president of Chile (1964-70)
1911 - Joey Adams, Bkln NY, comedian/actor/columnist (ABC's Back That Fact)
1911 - Nikolai Afanasyevich Kryuchkov, actor (Telegram, Town People)
1911 - Yannis Andreou Papaioannou, composer
1912 - Jacques Cesar Ellul, writer
1913 - Edward Gierek, party leader (Polish CP)
1913 - Loretta Young, Salt Lake City Ut, actr (Farmer's Daughter, Stranger)
1913 - Tom Brown, NYC, actor (Ed-Gunsmoke, Lt Rovacs-Mr Lucky)
1914 - Arnold Richardson, composer
1914 - Danny Thomas, Deerfield Mich, comedian (Danny Thomas Show)
1914 - David Bruce, Kankakee Ill, actor (Harry-Beulah)
1915 - Alan Watts, Kent England, writer (Book on the Taboo)
1915 - Don Edwards, (Rep-D-CA, 1963- )
1915 - John C. Lilly, U.S. psychoanalyst, writer (d. 2001)
1916 - Philip Bezanson, composer
1916 - Vincent Serventy, Australian writer and conservationist (d. 2007)
1917 - Guillermo Rosario, Dutch Antilles, writer (E rais ku no ke muri)
1917 - Koo Chen-fu, Chinese negotiator (d. 2005)
1918 - Buddy Weed, Ossining NY, pianist (Penthouse Party)
1918 - Caspar MB "Cas" Baas, Dutch actor/playwright/director (Ciske the Rat)
1919 - Sylvia Syms, US singer (Hello Dolly, Dream Girl, Them There Eyes)
1920 - Earl Kim, composer
1920 - Early Wynn, Hartford Ala, baseball Hall of famer (pitcher)
1920 - Sun Myung Moon, evangelist (Unification Church-Moonies), (d. 2012)
1920 - Doris Stokes, British psychic medium (d. 1987)
1920 - John Maynard Smith, English biologist (d. 2004)
1921 - Cary Middlecoff, golfer (1956 Vardon Trophy, 1955 Byron Nelson Award)
1921 - Lou Harris, pollster (Lou Harris Poll)
1922 - Finn Einar Mortensen, composer
1923 - Leah Chase, master chef, in the creole tradition
1923 - Jacobo Timerman, Argentine writer (d. 1999)
1924 - Earl Scruggs, NC, bluegrass musician (& Flat-Ballad of Jed Clampett), (d. 2012)
1925 - John Z DeLorean, former automaker (DeLorean)
1926 - Pat Flaherty, American racecar driver (2002)
1926 - Kid Gavilan, Cuban boxer (d. 2003)
1926 - Mickey Hargitay, Hungarian-born actor and bodybuilder (d. 2006)
1926 - Ralph Branca, American baseball player
1926 - Kim Dae-jung, President of South Korea and Nobel laureate
1928 - George H. Ross, American businessman
1929 - Wilbert Harrison, R & B singer (Kansas City)
1929 - Babrak Karmal, Afghani politician (d. 1996)
1930 - Denis Pitts, journalist
1930 - Vic Tayback, Bkln NY, actor (Mel-Alice, Khan, Portrait of a Stripper)
1931 - Gerard van Muiden, Dutch MP (CDA)
1931 - Graeme Hole, cricketer (Australian batsman of the fifties)
1931 - Capucine, [Germaine Lefebvre], Toulon France, actress (Pink Panther, What's New Pussycat?) (d. 1990)
1931 - E. L. Doctorow, American author
1932 - Sacha Distel, French singer
1932 - Stuart A. Rice, American chemist
1933 - Emil Steinberger, Swiss comedian
1934 - Bobby Lord, Sanford Fla, country singer (Ozark Jubilee)
1934 - Harry M. Miller, Australian entrepreneur
1934 - Tassos Papadopoulos, president of the Republic of Cyprus
1935 - Nino Tempo, Niagara Falls NY, rock vocalist (Deep Purple)
1935 - Paul Wilson, US R&B-singer (Flamingos-Lovers Never Say Goodbye)
1935 - Margarita Gomez-Acebo y Cejuela, Tsaritsa of Bulgaria
1936 - Julio Maria Sanguinetti Cairolo, president of Uruguay (1985-90, 95- )
1936 - Rubén Amaro, Sr., Mexican baseball player
1936 - Darlene Hard, U.S. tennis player
1937 - Doris Troy, [Payne], US soul singer/songwriter (Just One Kiss)
1937 - Lou Holtz, US, football coach (NJ Jets)
1937 - Paolo Conte, Italian singer
1938 - Adriano Celentano, Italian singer and actor
1938 - Prof Adrienne Clarke, Australian botanist, Lieutenant Governor of Victoria
1938 - Mario Rodríguez Cobos "Silo", Argentine writer and spiritual leader
1939 - Murray Rose, Nairn Scotland, Australian Olympic swimmer (4x oly gold), (d. 2012)
1940 - Ed Zschau, (Rep-R-CA, 1983- )
1940 - Van McCoy, American musician (d. 1979)
1940 - Penny Lernoux, American journalist (d. 1989)
1941 - Sandy Denny, country singer (Fairport Convention-If You Gotta Go)
1942 - Barbara Lynn Alexander, producer
1943 - Osvaldo Soriano, writer
1943 - Paul James Nunn, mountaineer
1943 - Terry Venables, British soccer player/manager
1944 - Bonnie Franklin, Santa Monica Cal, TV actress (Ann-1 Day at a Time)
1944 - Henry Kravis, author (The Money Machine)
1944 - Robert Landers, Tarrant County TX, PGA golfer (Fort Worth-1976, 78, 80)
1944 - Terry Venables, British soccer player/manager [or 1943]
1944 - Van McCoy, US soul singer/songwriter (Hey Mr DJ, Hustle)
1944 - Rolf M. Zinkernagel, Swiss immunologist, Nobel laureate
1945 - Barry Holstein Lopez, US author (Of Wolves & Men)
1945 - Barry John, Welsh international rugby player
1945 - Pepe Le Pew, cartoon skunk (Au Dorable Kitty)
1945 - Allen Appel, American novelist
1946 - Harold Jackson, Hattiesburg, MS, NFL wide receiver (LA, New Engl)
1946 - Syd Barrett, Cambridge England, rocker (Pink Floyd-Wall)
1947 - Ian Millar, Halifax NS, dressage rider (World Cup 1988, 89, Oly-96)
1948 - Dayle Hadlee, cricketer (brother of Richard, NZ medium-pacer of 70's)
1948 - Guy Spencer Gardner, Alta Vista Va, Lt Col USAF/astro (STS 27, STS 35)
1948 - Robert E [Bob] Wise Jr, (Rep-D-WV, 1983- )
1949 - Michael Boit, Nandi Kenya, 800m runner (Olympic-bronze-1972)
1949 - Richard Horowitz, composer
1950 - Louis Freeh, former Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
1951 - Kim Wilson, rocker (Fabulous Thunderbirds)
1951 - Don Gullett, American baseball player
1952 - Armelia McQueen, NC (Bkln Conservatory), actress
1952 - Grant Goodeve, New Haven Conn, actor (David-8 is Enough, Dynasty)
1952 - Moondog Spot, American professional wrestler (d. 2003)
1952 - Frank Sivero, Italian-born American actor
1953 - Malcolm Young, Glasgow Scotland, guitarist (AC/DC-Highway to Hell)
1954 - Anthony Minghella, director (English Patient)
1954 - Norbert Hahn, German DR, 2 man luge (Olympic-gold-1976, 80)
1954 - Hans Robert Hiegel, German architect
1954 - Yuji Horii, Japanese video game designer
1954 - Trudie Styler, English actress
1955 - Rowan Atkinson, England, comedian/actor (Mr Bean, Blackadder)
1957 - C Michael Foale, Louth England, astronaut (STS 45, 56, 63, 84/86)
1957 - Nancy Lopez Knight, Torrance California, pro golfer (1981 Dinah Shore)
1958 - Themos Anastasiadis, Greek journalist, television presenter and newspaper editor
1958 - Scott Bryce, American actor
1959 - John Singleton, LA California, director (Boyz n The Hood)
1959 - Kapil Dev, cricketer (India's finest all-rounder 1978-94, Cup-1982)
1959 - Kathy Sledge, Phila, vocalist (Sister Sledge-We are Family)
1959 - Nancy Rubin Sharff, New Kensington, LPGA golfer (1991 Jamie Farr-9th)
1960 - Paul William Azinger, Holyoke MA, PGA golfer (1987 Phoenix Open)
1960 - Nigella Lawson, English chef and writer
1961 - Dirk de Vries, Dutch pop bassist (Kong-Slauerhoff)
1961 - Howie Long, former NFL tackle/actor/broadcaster (Broken Arrow)
1961 - Paul Azinger, golfer
1962 - Philip Brown, Birmingham Engl, 4x400m runner (Olympic-silver-1984)
1962 - Sean Landeta, NFL place kicker (NY Giants)
1963 - Norm Charlton, Fort Polk LA, pitcher (Seattle Mariners)
1963 - Paul Brindley, English pop bassist (Sundays, Can't Be Sure)
1963 - Philippe Perrin, Meknes Morocco, Lt Col FAF/astronaut
1964 - Charles Haley, NFL defensive end (Dallas Cowboys)
1964 - Mark O'Toole, bassist/drummer (Frankie Goes to Hollywood-Relax)
1964 - Rafael Vidal, Venezuelan athlete (d. 2005)
1964 - Henry Maske, German boxer
1964 - Jacqueline Moore, American wrestler
1964 - Yuri, Mexican actress and singer
1965 - Christine Wachtel, E German running star (world indoor record 800m)
1965 - Jose Dejesus, US baseball pitcher (Kansas City Royals)
1965 - Lindsay H Burns, Big Timber Mont, rower (Olympics-silver-96)
1965 - Tim McDonald, NFL player (SF 49ers)
1965 - Bjorn Lomborg, Danish mathematician
1965 - Muhammed al-Ahari, American Muslim writer
1965 - Konnan, Cuban-born professional wrestler
1966 - Bob Kratch, NFL guard (NE Patriots)
1966 - Donnell Woolford, NFL cornerback (Pittsburgh Steelers, Chicago Bears)
1966 - Shahid Saeed, cricketer (Pakistani batsman in Test v India 1989)
1966 - Andrew Wood, American singer (Mother Love Bone) (d. 1990)
1966 - Fernando Carrillo, Venezuelan actor
1966 - A. R. Rahman, Indian composer
1967 - David Belcher, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1967 - Larry Donald, Cincinnati Ohio, US boxer (Olympic-92)
1967 - Peter Loran, Teaneck NJ, rock vocalist (Trixter-Give It To Me Good)
1968 - Jerry Crafts, NFL/WLAF tackle (Philadelphia Eagles, Amsterdam Admirals)
1968 - John Singleton, director/screenwriter (Boyz in the Hood)
1968 - Vlastimil Plavucha, Banska Bystrica CZ, hockey forward (Team Slovakia)
1969 - Alvin Morman, Rockingham NC, pitcher (Houston Astros)
1969 - Jason Childs, NFL tackle (Green Bay Packers, Carolina Panthers)
1969 - Nick A'Hern, Australian 20k walker (Olympics-22-92, 96)
1969 - Norman Reedus, American model and actor
1970 - Daniel Naulty, LA California, pitcher (Minnesota Twins)
1970 - Gabrielle Reece, Trinidad, volleyball star/model (Extremists)
1970 - Geert Brusselers, soccer player (NAC)
1970 - John Gerak, NFL tight end/guide (Minnesota Vikings, St Louis Rams)
1970 - Keenan McCardell, NFL wide receiver (Cleveland Browns, Jaguars)
1970 - Kerrin Petty, Townshend Vt, cross country skier (Olympics-1994)
1970 - René Binken, soccer player (Volendam)
1970 - Julie Chen, American television presenter
1971 - Jed DeVries, NFL tackle (Cleveland Browns)
1971 - Mike Wells, NFL defensive end (Detroit Lions)
1971 - Myron Baker, NFL linebacker (Chic Bears)
1971 - Gary Wiseman, American punk-rock drummer
1972 - Denis Montana, CFL receiver (Montreal Alouettes, Toronto Argonauts)
1972 - Shae Marks, New Orleans LA, playmate (May, 1994)
1972 - Willie Clark, NFL cornerback (San Diego Chargers, Philadelphia Eagles)
1972 - Nek, Italian singer
1973 - Sairaj Bahatule, cricketer (promising Bombay leg-spin all-rounder)
1974 - Juan Roque, tackle (Detroit Lions)
1974 - Marcus Crandell, CFL quarterback (Edmonton Eskimos)
1974 - Paul Grant, NBA center (Minn Timberwolves)
1974 - Daniel Cordone, Argentine footballer
1975 - James Farrior, linebacker (NY Jets)
1975 - Laura Berg, Whittier CA, softball outfielder (Olympics-gold-96)
1975 - Yukana, Japanese seiyū
1975 - Jason King, English radio DJ (Radio 1)
1976 - Agnieszka Zielinska, Miss Poland Universe (1997)
1976 - Danny Pintauro, Milltown NJ, actor (Jonathan-Who's the Boss)
1976 - Jeremy Linn, US, 100m breaststroke (Olympics-silver/gold-96)
1976 - Richard Zednik, Bystrica CZE, NHL forward (Team Slovakia, Wash)
1977 - Amy Zappone, Wolcott Connecticut, Miss America-Connecticut (1996)
1977 - Stacey Gartrell, Sydney NSW Australia, swimmer (Olympics-96)
1978 - Steve Hartsell, Ann Arbor Mich, pairs skater (& Danielle Hartsell)
1978 - Nikki Einfeld, Canadian opera singer
1978 - Casey Fossum, Major League Baseball player
1978 - Tara Spencer-Nairn, Canadian actress
1980 - Steed Malbranque, French footballer
1980 - Hiromi Oshima, Japanese adult model
1981 - Mike Jones, American rapper
1981 - Rinko Kikuchi, Japanese actress
1981 - Jérémie Renier, Belgian actor
1981 - Asante Samuel, National Football League Defensive Back
1982 - Gilbert Arenas, American basketball player
1982 - Brian Bass, American baseball player
1982 - Tiffany Pollard, American reality television personality
1984 - Sean O'Brien, Australian professional windsurfer
1984 - A.J. Hawk, American football player
1985 - RP Singh, Indian cricketer
1986 - Paul McShane, Irish footballer
1986 - Alex Turner, English musician (Arctic Monkeys)
1989 - Baby lion-tailed macaques, at Woodland Park Zoo (Seattle)
1991 - Nikola Saric , Danish footballer

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Post by: MysteRy on January 06, 2013, 09:24:39 AM

This Day in History for 6th January


Famous Deaths

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Braille Inventor Louis Braille (1852)      26th US President Theodore Roosevelt (1919)

664 - Amr ibn al-A'as, Arab general (bc. 583)
1088 - Berengarius of Tours, French theologist, dies
1275 - Raymundus of Penafort, Spanish church law scholar, dies
1374 - Andreas Corsini, Italian saint/bishop of Fiesole, dies
1425 - Jan of Bavaria, liege of Holland/bishop/duke, dies
1448 - Christopher III, king of Denmark/Norway/Sweden, dies
1481 - Akhmat Khan, Khan of the Golden Horde
1536 - Baldassare Peruzzi, Italian architect/painter, dies
1541 - Bernard van Orley, Flemish royal painter of Hungary, dies at about 52
1592 - John Casimir of Simmern, German prince and regent for his nephew, Elector Frederick IV (b. 1543)
1616 - Philip Henslowe, English theatrical entrepreneur (bc. 1550)
1646 - Elias Hill, German architect of Augsburg, dies at 72
1685 - Malachias Siebenhaar, composer, dies at 68
1689 - Seth Ward, English mathematician and astronomer (b. 1617)
1693 - Mehmed IV, sultan (Turkey), dies at 51
1694 - Francesco Morosini, Italian army general, dies
1697 - Carlo Mannelli, composer, dies at 56
1702 - Thomas Franklin, English smith/uncle of B Franklin, dies [NS=Jan 17]
1718 - Richard Hoare, English goldsmith and banker (b. 1648)
1718 - Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina, Italian writer and jurist (b. 1664)
1725 - Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Jap playwright (Yotsugi Soga), dies at about 71
1731 - Étienne François Geoffroy, French chemist (b. 1672)
1734 - John Dennis, English dramatist whose thunder was stolen (b. 1657)
1738 - Franz Xaver Murschhauser, composer, dies at 74
1742 - Johann Georg Reinhardt, composer, dies
1785 - Haym Salomon, dies in Phila at 44, helped finance the revolution
1790 - Johann Trier, composer, dies at 73
1799 - W G Frederik, prince of Orange/general, dies at 25
1800 - William Jones, composer, dies at 73
1813 - Louis Baraguey d'Hilliers, French general (b. 1764)
1831 - Rodolphe Kreutzer, Fr composer/violinist (Kreutzersonate), dies at 64
1840 - Fanny Burney, English novelist and diarist (b. 1752)
1852 - Louis Braille, French teacher of the blind and inventor of braille (b. 1809)
1855 - Giacomo Beltrami, Italian explorer (b. 1779)
1882 - Richard Henry Dana, U.S. novelist (Two Years Before the Mast) (b. 1815)
1884 - Gregor Mendel, Austrian Augustine monk/heredity pioneer, dies at 61
1884 - Paul Taglioni, "the Great," Ital/Austrian choreographer, dies at 75
1885 - Peter C Asbjornsen, Norwegian fairy tale writer, dies at 72
1907 - Walter Read, cricketer (Engl batsman, 117 at no 10 v Aust 1884), dies
1913 - Frederick Hitch, English Victoria Cross Winner (b. 1856)
1915 - Reginald Wood, cricketer (one Test England v Australia 1886), dies
1917 - Hendrik P G Quack, lawyer/economist (Bank of Neth), dies at 82
1918 - Georg F L P Cantor, German mathematician: collection, dies at 72
1919 - Theodore Roosevelt, 26th Pres (1901-09), dies in NY at 60
1919 - Max Heindel, Danish astrologer and mystic (b. 1865)
1922 - Jakob Rosanes, German mathematician (b. 1842)
1928 - Alvin C Kraenzlein, track star (Olympic-4 gold-1900), dies at 51
1929 - Nicolas Nikolayevitch, grand-duke of Russia, dies at 72
1933 - Vladimir de Pachmann, Russian-German pianist (b. 1848)
1934 - Herbert Chapman , Legendary Manager of Arsenal and Huddersfield Town (b. 1878)
1935 - George P Baker, US playwright (Dramatic Technique), dies at 68
1936 - Charles A Stoneham, pres (NY Giants), dies
1937 - André Besette, Canadian religious figure (b. 1845)
1939 - Albert Ward, cricketer (England batsman in 7 Tests 1893-95), dies
1941 - Franz Hessel, writer, dies at 60
1941 - Charley O'Leary, American baseball player (b. 1882)
1942 - Emma Calvé, French soprano (b. 1858)
1944 - Ida Tarbell, American journalist (b. 1857)
1945 - Vladimir Vernadsky, Russian mineralogist (b. 1863)
1950 - Isaiah Bowman, geographer/co-founder (Geographical Review), dies at 71
1958 - Josephine CMA, princess of Belgium/nun, dies at 85
1959 - Jose Enrique Pedreira, composer, dies at 54
1960 - Edith Barstow, choreographer (Frankie Laine Time), dies at 52
1960 - Erik Lindahl, Swedish economist (Scope & Means), dies at 68
1961 - Regina Ullmann, writer, dies at 76
1962 - Jacob "Jaap" Nanninga, Dutch painter (France, N Africa), dies at 57
1963 - Lourens GM Baas Becking, Dutch botanist/resistance fighter, dies at 68
1964 - Edgar Maass, German/US author (Verdun), dies at 67
1965 - John Larkin, dir (Circumstanial Evidence), dies of heart attack at 52
1967 - Arnhem "Tata" Joseph Weiss, "the Zigeunerbaron," buried
1967 - Johnny Keane, baseball player/mgr (Cards, NY Yanks), dies at 55
1968 - Kurt Baschwitz, Germ/Dutch sociologist/journalist (Heksen), dies at 81
1972 - Chen Yi, Chinese military commander and politician (b. 1901)
1974 - David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexican sculptor/muralist, dies at 77
1975 - Noel Madison, actor (Jitterbugs, Black Raven), dies at 77
1978 - John D MacArthur, US insurance billionaire, dies at 80
1978 - Burt Munro, New Zealand motorcycle racer (b. 1899)
1981 - A[rchibald] J[oseph] Cronin, physician/author (Citadel), dies at 84
1981 - A. J. Cronin, Scottish writer (b. 1896)
1984 - Ernest Laszlo, Hungarian-U.S. cinematographer (b. 1898)
1985 - Robert H W Welch Jr, US founder/leader John Birch Society, dies at 85
1986 - Louis Lebeer, Dutch art historian, dies at 90
1988 - Brent Collins, soap actor (Another World), dies of heart attack at 46
1989 - Hirohito, Japan`s emperor (1922-89), dies at 87 after 62-year reign
1990 - Hans Jaray, actor (Lydia, Fedora), dies
1990 - Ian Charleson, actor (Gandhi, Chariots of Fire), dies of AIDS at 40
1991 - Ada Moore, entertainer, dies of cancer at 64
1992 - Avon Jaeger Hill, entertainer, dies of cancer at 44
1992 - Elaine McKenna, Australian actress (Peg Martin-Cell Block H), dies
1993 - Elisabeth, arch duch of Austria/princess of Liechtenstein, dies at 70
1993 - John B "Dizzy" Gillespe, blues trumpeter, dies of cancer at 75
1993 - Rudolph Nureyev, Russian ballet dancer (Kirov), dies of AIDS at 54
1994 - "Iron" Adriaan van Es, Dutch undersec of Navy (1963-72), dies at 80
1994 - Gerardus J Sizoo, physicist/director of Dutch Free University, dies
1994 - Morty the Moose, (Northern Exposure), dies at 6
1994 - Tip O'Neill, speaker of the house, dies of cancer
1994 - Virginia Kelley Clinton, Mother of Pres Clinton, dies at 70
1995 - Edward Sutcliffe, judge (British Central Criminal Court), dies at 77
1995 - James Clay, saxophonist, dies at 59
1995 - Joe Slovo, Latvian/South African attorney/sect-gen (SACR), dies at 68
1995 - Karl Guttmann, Austrian/Dutch playwright/director (Pinter), dies at 81
1996 - Duane Hanson, sculptor, dies at 60
1996 - Henry Lennox d'Aubigny Hopkinson, diplomat/politician, dies at 94
1996 - John Phillipps Kenyon, historian/teacher, dies at 68
1996 - Robert Russell "Chubby" Wise, musician, dies at 80
1997 - Ian Peter Leslie Smith, journalist, dies at 52
1997 - Litz Pisk, movement teacher, dies at 87
1997 - Vince Williams, actor (Hamp-Guiding Light), dies of cancer at 39
1997 - Catherine Scorsese, Italian-American actress (b. 1912)
1999 - French Jazz piano virtuoso Michel Petrucciani dies in New York following a brief respiratory illness at age 36
2000 - Don Martin, American cartoonist (b. 1931)
2004 - Francesco Scavullo, American photographer (b. 1921)
2004 - Charles Dumas, American athlete (b. 1937)
2004 - Pierre Charles, Prime Minister of Dominica (b. 1954)
2005 - Louis Robichaud, Premier of New Brunswick (b. 1925)
2005 - Lois Hole, Lt. Governor of Alberta (b. 1933)
2006 - Lou Rawls, American singer (b. 1933)
2006 - Hugh Thompson, Jr., decorated Vietnam War helicopter pilot (b. 1943)
2007 - Roberta Wohlstetter, military historian and strategist (b. 1912)
2007 - Sneaky Pete Kleinow, American musician and special-effects artist (b. 1934)
2007 - Mario Danelo, American football player (b. 1985)
2009 - Ron Asheton, The Stooges guitarrist (b. 1948)
2011 - Uche Okafor, Nigerian footballer (b. 1967)
2012 - Robert Dozier, Hollywood screenwriter, dies at 81
2012 - Louise Annand-MacFarquhar, Scottish painter and film-maker, dies at 96
2012 - Robert Holness, English radio and television presenter, dies at 83
2012 - William McBeth, American composer, dies at 78
2012 - Ellen Pence, social activist, dies from cancer at 63
2012 - Roger Boisjoly, American aerodynamicist, dies at 73

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 07, 2013, 10:17:57 AM

This Day in History for 7th January


Historical Events

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Russian Tsar Peter the Great                     33rd US President Harry Truman

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Dictator Fidel Castro                              White House Intern Monica Lewinsky


754 - Pope Stefanus II arrives in Ponthion
1325 - Afonso IV succeeds Dionysius as King of Portugal
1558 - Calais, last English possession in France, retaken by French
1566 - Antonio "Michele" Ghislieri is elected Pope Pius V
1579 - England signs an offensive & defensive alliance with Netherland
1584 - Last day of the Julian calendar in Bohemia & Holy Roman empire
1598 - Boris Godunov seizes Russian throne on death of Feodor I
1601 - Robert, Earl of Essex leads revolt in London against Queen Elizabeth
1608 - Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia
1610 - Galileo discovers 1st 3 Jupiter satellites, Io, Europa & Ganymede
1618 - Francis Bacon becomes English lord chancellor
1622 - Germany & Transylvania sign Peace of Nikolsburg
1654 - Fire after heavy storm destroys 2/3 of De Rijp Neth, 1 dies
1698 - Russian Czar Peter the Great departs Neth to England
1714 - Typewriter patented by Englishman Henry Mill (built years later)
1761 - Battle at Panipat India: Afghan army beats Mahratten
1782 - 1st US commercial bank, Bank of North America, opens in Philadelphia
1784 - 1st US seed business established by David Landreth, Philadelphia
1785 - 1st balloon flight across English Channel (Blanchard & Jeffries)
1797 - The modern Italian flag is first used.
1817 - 2nd Bank of US opens
1822 - 1st printing in Hawaii
1822 - Liberia colonized by Americans
1830 - 1st US Railroad Station opens (Baltimore)
1835 - HMS Beagle anchors off Chonos Archipelago
1842 - Gioacchino Rossini's opera "Stabat Mater" premieres in Paris
1861 - Florida troops takeover Ft Marion at St Augustine
1862 - Battle of Manassas Junction, VA
1862 - Romney Campaign-Stonewall Jackson march towards Romney, WV
1868 - Arkansas constitutional convention meets in Little Rock
1868 - Mississippi constitutional convention meets in Jackson
1888 - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Valley of Fear" (BG)
1890 - W B Purvis patents fountain pen
1892 - Mine explosion kills 100, Krebs, Oklahoma-blacks trying to help rescue white survivors, driven away with guns
1893 - Hermann Sudermanns "Heimat," premieres in Berlin
1894 - Motion picture experiment of comedian Fred Ott filmed sneezing
1896 - Fanny Farmer publishes her 1st cookbook
1899 - Walter Camp publishes his 1st All-American football team in Collier's
1903 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Blanched Soldier" (BG)
1903 - Vincent d'Indy's opera "L'etranger," premieres in Brussel
1904 - Marconi Co establishes "CQD" as 1st intl radio distress signal
1907 - Clyde Fitch' "Truth," premieres in NYC
1908 - England beat Australia by one wicket at the MCG
1910 - Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators sweep Galt (Ont) in 2 games
1911 - 1st airplane bombing experiments with explosives, SF
1911 - Dutch Scouts Organization established in Amsterdam
1913 - William M Burton patents a process to "crack" petroleum
1914 - 1st steamboat passes through Panama Canal
1916 - German troops conquer Fort Vaux at Verdun
1923 - Baltimore Sun warns of Ku Klux Klan
1925 - Musical "Big Boy" with Al Jolson premieres in NYC
1927 - Coml transatlantic telephone service inaugurated between NY & London
1927 - Harlem Globetrotters play 1st game (Hinckley, Illinois)
1929 - "Buck Rogers," 1st sci-fi comic strip, premieres
1929 - "Tarzan," one of the 1st adventure comic strips, 1st appears
1930 - Edwin Justus Mayer's "Children of Darkness," premieres in NYC
1931 - Guy Menzies flies the first solo non-stop trans-Tasman flight (from Australia to New Zealand) in 11 hours and 45 minutes, crash-landing on New Zealand's west coast.
1932 - 1st game played at Orchard Lake Curling Club, Mich
1933 - 1st edition of People & Fatherland published in Netherlands
1934 - "Flash Gordon" comic strip (by Alex Raymond) debuts
1935 - Zoe Akins' "Old Maid," premieres in NYC
1936 - Tennis champs Helen Moody & Howard Kinsley volley 2,001 times (1h18m)
1939 - US worker's union leader Tom Mooney freed (jailed since 1916)
1942 - WW II siege of Bataan starts
1944 - Air Force announces production of 1st US jet fighter, the Bell P-59
1945 - Lord Haw-Haw reports total German victory at Ardennen
1946 - Cambodia becomes autonomous state inside French Union
1947 - Aust v Eng at MCG drawn in 6 days, 1st cricket draw in Aust since 1882
1948 - US president Harry Truman raises taxes for Marshall-plan
1949 - 1st photo of genes taken at U of S California by Pease & Baker
1950 - "Happy as Larry" closes at Coronet Theater NYC after 3 performances
1950 - Hank Snow's 1st appearance on "Grand Ole Opry"
1950 - Mental health wing of Mercy Hospital burns, kills 41 (Davenport Ia)
1952 - French Plevin government falls
1953 - Pres Harry Truman announces development of hydrogen bomb
1954 - Georgetown-IBM experiment, the first public demonstration of a machine translation system,
           is held in New York at the head office of IBM.
1955 - Marian Anderson becomes 1st black singer to perform at Met (NYC)
1955 - WCIQ TV channel 7 in Mt Cheaha, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1956 - Vinoo Mankad scores 231 v NZ, 413 opening stand with Roy
1958 - USSR shrinks army to 300,000
1959 - US recognizes Fidel Castro's Cuban government
1961 - 1st NFL Playoff Bowl (runner-up bowl)-Detroit beats Cleveland 17-16
1961 - Trucial States (now UAE) issue their 1st postage stamps
1962 - AFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 47-27
1962 - Assassination attempt on Indonesian president Sukarno, fails
1962 - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to John Hall Wheelock
1963 - 1st class postage raised from 4 cents to 5 cents
1964 - Bahamas becomes self-governing
1964 - Dick Weber rolls highest bowling game in air (Boeing 707)
1965 - France announces it will convert $150 million of its currency to gold
1966 - Dance Theatre of Harlem debuts
1966 - Gene Kiniski beats Lou Thesz in St Louis, to become NWA champ
1967 - "Newlywed Game" premieres on ABC TV
1968 - "GE College Bowl" quiz show premieres on NBC TV
1968 - 1st class postage raised from 5 cents to 6 cents
1969 - US Congress doubles president salary
1970 - Farmers sue Max Yasgur for $35,000 in damages caused by "Woodstock"
1971 - -40°F (-40°C), Hawley Lake, Ariz (state record)
1972 - Iberian Airlines crashes into 800' peak on island of Ibiza, 104 die
1972 - LA Lakers chalk up 33rd consecutive win (NBA record)
1972 - Lewis F Powell Jr becomes a Supreme Court Justice
1972 - William Hubbs Rehnquist, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice
1972 - LA Lakers 33 straight win streak snapped, losing to Bucks 120-104
1973 - "Purlie" closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC after 14 performances
1973 - British Darts Organisation founded in North London
1973 - Jo Ann Prentice wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational
1973 - Johnny Watkins bowls six overs 0-21 v Pakistan Never again
1973 - US poet James Merrill wins Bollingen Prize
1973 - WNPB TV channel 13 in Marquette, MI (PBS) begins broadcasting
1974 - Dutch rations gasoline
1975 - "Shenandoah" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 1050 performances
1975 - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to AR Ammons (Sphere)
1975 - Gary Geld & Peter Udell's musical "Shenandoah," premieres in NYC
1975 - Led Zeppelin fans riot before Boston concert, causing $30,000 damage
1977 - Huyman Rights Charta '77 established in Prague
1978 - Angola revises its constitution
1979 - Vietnamese forces capture Phnom Penh from Khmer Rouge
1980 - Minn ends Phila Flyers' NHL record 35 game unbeaten streak ends
1982 - "Fame" premieres on NBC TV
1982 - Islander's Bryan Trottier's 10th career hat trick
1983 - Australia regain the Ashes with a 2-1 series win v England
1983 - Reagan ends US arms embargo against Guatemala
1984 - Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
1985 - "King & I" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 191 performances
1985 - Japanese space probe Sakigake launched to Halley's comet
1985 - KHQ-AM in Spokane WA changes call letters to KLSN (now KAQQ)
1985 - Lou Brock & Hoyt Wilhelm, elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame
1986 - Netherlands Bank issues 250 guilder notes
1986 - STS 61-C mission scrubbed at T -9m because of weather problems
1986 - US president Reagan proclaims economic sanctions against Libya
1987 - French airplanes harass Libyan positions in Duadi Doum
1987 - Kapil Dev takes his 300th Test wicket, at 28 the youngest
1989 - Akhito becomes emperor of Japan
1989 - Intl Conference on Limitation of Chemical Weapons opens in Paris
1989 - NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers longest win streak (11)
1989 - Cleve Cavs block 21 NY Knick shots tying NBA regulation game record
1990 - Lynn Jennings runs world record 5K indoor at 15:22.64
1990 - Tower Of Pisa closed to the public after leaning too far
1991 - "Nia Peeples Party Machine" premieres on TV
1992 - AT&T releases video-telephone ($1,499)
1992 - Last day of Test cricket for Imran Khan
1992 - Tom Seaver & Rollie Fingers elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame
1993 - The Fourth Republic of Ghana is inaugurated with Jerry Rawlings as President.
1994 - South Africa beat Australia in the Sydney Test by 5 runs
1994 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Tonya Harding
1994 - United Express commuter plane crashes in Ohio, killing 5
1995 - "Christmas Carol" closes at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC after 18 perfs
1995 - "Passion" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 280 performances
1996 - "Crazy after You" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 1622 perfs
1996 - "Fool Moon" closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after * performances
1996 - 16th United Negro College Fund raises $12,600,000
1997 - Newt Gingrich, narrowly re-elected speaker of the House
1998 - Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky signs affidavit denying she had an affair with
           President Bill Clinton
1999 - President Bill Clinton begins his impeachment trial in the Senate.
2012 - Hot air balloon crashes in Carterton, New Zealand, killing 11

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Post by: MysteRy on January 07, 2013, 10:20:33 AM

This Day in History for 7th January


Famous Weddings

1630 - Composer Pier Cavalli marries rich widow Maria Sosomeno
1879 - Dutch King Willem II marries Emma von Waldeck-Pyrmont
1934 - Princess Juliana marries German prince Bernhard von Lippe-Biesterfeld
1971 - American horror, sci-fi and fantasy author Stephen King marries Tabitha Spruce, author and
           activist
1995 - Actor-comedian Martin Lawrence (29) weds former Miss Virginia USA Patricia Southall (24) at
           Norfolk Waterside Marriott in Virginia
2006 - Punky pop singer Pink (26) weds motocross daredevil and The Surreal Life actor Carey Hart
          (30) at the Four Seasons Resort Costa Rica at Peninsula Papagayo in Guanacaste, Costa Rica
2012 - Lady Antebellum singer-songwriter Hillary Scott (26) weds drummer Chris Tyrrell (25) at the
           Appel Inn near Albany, New York

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 07, 2013, 10:21:45 AM

This Day in History for 7th January


Famous Divorces

1985 - Actress-singer Janet Jackson (18) divorces fellow R&B singer James DeBarge (21) only 4
           months after getting married

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 07, 2013, 10:30:16 AM

This Day in History for 7th January


Famous Birthdays

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13th US President                                   Writer & Filmmaker William                      Actor Nicolas Cage (1964)
 Millard Fillmore (1800)                             Peter Blatty (1928)

1355 - Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, son of Edward III of England (d. 1397)
1502 - Gregory XIII [Ugo Boncompagni], Bologna, Papal States, Italian pope (1572-85), introduced Gregorian calendar in 1582
1528 - Jeanne d'Albret, queen of Navarra/mother of French King Henry IV
1539 - Sebastian de Covarrubias Horozco, Spanish lexicographer
1611 - James Harrington, England, political author (Commonwealth of Oceans)
1612 - Paul de La Pierre, composer
1634 - Adam Krieger, German composer
1647 - Wilhelm Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1677)
1652 - Pavao Vitezovic, Croatia, writer/historian
1653 - Bernhard Albinus, Germany, court-physician (Frederick of Prussia)
1685 - Gerard George Clifford, Dutch director of East India Company
1685 - Jonas Alströmer, Swedish industrialist (d. 1761)
1706 - Johann Heinrich Zedler, German publisher (d. 1751)
1710 - Josef Antonin Sehling, composer
1718 - Israel Putnam, American Revolutionary War general (d. 1790)
1768 - Joseph Bonaparte, King of Naples (d. 1844)
1786 - John Catron, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1865)
1796 - Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales (d. 1817)
1799 - Daniel Tyler, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1882
1800 - Millard Fillmore, Locke NY, (Whig) 13th president (1850-53)
1808 - Jacob Ammen, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1894
1816 - Stephen Miller, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1881
1821 - Lucius Jeremiah Gartrell, Brigadier General (Confed Army), died in 1891
1822 - Lucius C M Bakker, Frisian physician/author (Goethe)
1822 - Theodor Aufrecht, German indologist (Rigveda's Hymns)
1824 - James Morrison Hawes, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1889
1827 - Sir Sandford Fleming, Canadian engineer; introduced Universal Standard Time (d. 1915)
1830 - (Samuel) Emerson Opdycke, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1830 - Albert Bierstadt, Germany, painter (US landscapes)
1832 - James Munro, Premier of Victoria (d. 1908)
1834 - Johann Philipp Reis, German physicist and inventor (d. 1874)
1842 - Johan Lindegren, composer
1844 - Marie-Bernarde Soubirous, [St Bernadette of Lourdes], saint/visionary
1845 - Louis III, last king of Bavaria (1913-18)
1845 - Paul Deusen, German philosopher (Schopenhauer-Gesellschaft)
1853 - Nikolai Arkas, composer
1858 - Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, key figure in the revival of Hebrew as a spoken language (d. 1922)
1860 - Emanuil Mandlov, composer
1868 - Abraham M "Mark" Lidzbarski, Polish/German orientalist
1870 - Lord Gordon Hewart, British judge (d. 1943)
1871 - Émile Borel, French mathematician and politician (d. 1956)
1873 - Adolph Zukor, Hungary, movie producer/director/executive (Paramount)
1875 - Thomas Hicks, English/US marathon runner: (Olympic-gold-1904)
1875 - Gustav Flatow, German gymnast (d. 1945)
1876 - William Yeates Hurlstone, composer
1877 - Johannes F Buziau, Dutch cabaret performer (1 great dog)
1879 - St Bernadette (Marie-Bernarde Soubirous), 1844(?), religious visionary
1883 - Andrew Browne, Irish/British admiral (WW II)
1890 - Henny Porten, Magdeburg Germany, silent screen star (Deception)
1890 - Maurice E McLoughlin, tennis champ (US Open-1912)
1891 - Zora Neale Hurston, American writer (d. 1960)
1892 - Rudolf Moser, composer
1894 - Jose Rozo Contreras, composer
1895 - Marie-Dominique Chenu, French Roman Catholic theologist
1895 - Clara Haskil, Romanian pianist (d. 1960)
1895 - Sir Hudson Fysh, Australian aviator and co-founder of QANTAS (d. 1974)
1896 - Arnold Ridley, Bath England, actor/dramatist (The Ghost Train)
1898 - Art Baker, NYC, TV host (You Asked For It)
1898 - Geronimo Baqueiro Foster, composer
1898 - Al Bowlly, British jazz singer (d. 1941)
1899 - Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc, Paris, composer/pianist (Les Biches)
1899 - Kenneth Thomson, Pitts, actor (Broadway Melody, Little Giant)
1900 - John Brownlee, Australian tenor (d. 1969)
1903 - Alan Napier, Birmingham England, actor (Alfred-Batman)
1903 - Albrecht Haushofer, writer
1903 - Shalva Azmayparashvili, composer
1903 - Vladimir Alexandrovich Vlasov, composer
1905 - Francis Taylor, builder
1907 - Nicanor Zabaleta, San Sebastian, Spain, harpist
1908 - Red Allen, American musician (d. 1967)
1910 - Alain JG de Rothschild, France, banker/baron
1910 - Jack Lovelock, NZ/US surgeon/runner (Olympic-gold-1936)
1910 - Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Pakistani poet (d. 1984)
1910 - Orval Faubus, Governor of Arkansas (d. 1994)
1911 - Merv Waite, cricketer (S Australian all-rounder)
1912 - Charles Addams, cartoonist (New Yorker, Addams Family)
1912 - Günter Wand, German conductor, composer (d. 2002)
1913 - Francis De Wolff, England, actor (From Russia With Love)
1913 - Shirley Ross, Omaha NE, actress (Cafe Society, Prison Farm)
1913 - Johnny Mize, American baseball player (d. 1993)
1915 - Herman Musaph, Dutch psychiatrist/sexologist/founder (NVSH)
1916 - Gerrit Schulte, [Le Fou Pedalant], Dutch 6 day bicyclist
1916 - Paul Keres, USSR, chess grandmaster (1950)
1917 - Ulysses Sipmson Kay, composer
1918 - Alessadro Natta, Italian political leader (Communist Party)
1918 - Colin Snedden, cricketer (Test NZ v England 1947, 0-46, did not bat)
1920 - Albert Meltzer, anarchist
1920 - Aubrey Brabazon, jockey/trainer
1920 - Lionel Alexander Bethune [Alastair] Pilkington, engineer/Industrialist
1921 - John Lanigan, tenor
1922 - Jean-Pierre [Louis] Rampal, Marseilles France, flautist
1922 - Vincent Gardenia, Naples Italy, actor (All in the Family, LA Law)
1923 - Charles Russell Woolen, composer
1923 - Hugh Kenner, Canadian literary critic (d. 2003)
1924 - Roloff Beny, Alberta, painter/photographer (A Time of Gods)
1924 - Pablo Birger, Argentine racing driver (d. 1966)
1925 - Gerald Malcolm Durrell, Britain, zoologist/writer (Mockery Bird)
1928 - Rajindranath, cricketer (4 stumpings in his only Test for India)
1928 - William Peter Blatty, NYC, author/director (The Exorcist)
1929 - Douglas Kiker, NBC newsman (1970 Peabody Award)
1929 - Kenneth Henry, US, 500m speed skater (Olympic-gold-1952)
1929 - Terry Moore, [Helen Luella Koford], LA Cal, actress (Little Sheba)
1931 - Mack Mattingly, (Sen-R-GA, 1981-86)
1932 - Joe Berinson, Australian politician
1933 - Elliot Kastner, NYC, producer (Bobo, Big Sleep, Ffolkes)
1934 - Charles Lamont Jenkins, NYC, 400m runner (Olympic-gold-1956)
1934 - Jean Corbeil, Canadian politician (d. 2002)
1935 - Noam Sheriff, composer
1935 - Valeri Nikolayevich Kubasov, cosmonaut (Soyuz 6, 19, 36/35)
1935 - Kenny Davern, American jazz clarinetist (d. 2006)
1935 - Tommy Johnson, American tubist (d. 2006)
1936 - Eldee Young, US bassist (Young Holt Unlimited-Hang on Sloopy)
1936 - Ben Cropp, Australian shark hunter and photographer
1938 - Jasperina de Jong, Dutch cabaret performer (Jan Rao en z'n Maat)
1938 - Paul Revere, Harvard Nebraska, pianist (Paul Revere & Raiders)
1938 - Roland Topor, French illustrator (d. 1997)
1939 - David Buchan, ethno-musicologist
1939 - Tom Kierman, British(?) rugby player
1939 - Prince Michael of Greece and Denmark
1940 - William Elgin Swinton, child psychiatrist
1941 - Ann Susan Hills, freelance journalist
1941 - Frederick Drew Gregory, Wash DC, Col USAF/astro (STS 51-B, 33, 44)
1941 - Robert Hicks, rocker (Paul Butterfield Blues Band)
1941 - Iona Brown, British violinist and conductor (d. 2004)
1941 - John E. Walker, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1942 - Vasiliy Ivanovich Alekseyev, USSR, weightlifter (Olympic-gold-72, 76)
1943 - Jim Lefebvre, Hawthorne California, baseball manager (Seattle Mariners)
1943 - Leona Williams, singer/songwriter (Ladies Get the Blues)
1943 - Nicholas Warner, test Pilot
1943 - Sadako Sasaki, Japanese child victim of the Hiroshima atomic bomb (d. 1955)
1943 - Sir Richard Armstrong, British conductor
1944 - Ad [GB] Nijhuis, Dutch MP (VVD)
1944 - Mike McGear, Liverpool, singer (Paul McCartney's brother)
1944 - Arne Scheie, Norwegian sports commentator
1944 - Tony Whitlam, Australian judge
1945 - Tony Conigliaro, Mass, baseball outfielder (Boston Red Sox)
1945 - Dick Marty, Swiss politician
1945 - Raila Odinga, Prime Minister of Kenya
1946 - Andy Brown, rock drummer (Fortunes Birmingham)
1946 - Jann S Wenner, publisher (Rolling Stone)
1947 - David Porcelijn, Dutch composer/conductor
1947 - Shobha De, Indian writer
1948 - Kaz Lux, Poland/Netherland, singer
1948 - Kenny Loggins, Everett WA, singer (& Messina-This is it, Footloose)
1949 - John Christopher Parry, rocker (Cure)
1949 - Marshall Chapman, Spartanburg SC, country singer
1949 - Anne Schedeen, American actress
1950 - Erin Gray, Honolulu Hawaii, actress (Silver Spoons, Buck Rogers)
1950 - Ross Grimsley, American baseball player
1950 - Johnny Lever, Indian actor
1951 - Talgat Amangeldyyevich Musabayev, Russian mjr/cosmonaut (TM-19, TM-27)
1951 - Mike Ward, Democratic Congressman for Kentucky & radio talk show host
1952 - Giuliano Ferrara
1953 - Agha Zahid, cricketer (open batting for Pak v WI 1975, scored 14 & 1)
1953 - Earl Wilber Force "Wire" Lindo, rocker (Bob Marley & the Wailers)
1954 - Alan Butcher, cricketer (one Test England v India, scored 14 & 20)
1955 - Sandra Bernhard, Arizona (Follow That Bird, King of Comedy)
1956 - Robin Walton, Boise ID, LPGA golfer (1995 GHP Heartland Classic-15th)
1956 - Rosalyn Bryant, Chic Ill, 4x400m runner (Olympic-silver-1976)
1957 - Katie Couric, [Katherine], Arlington VA, TV news host (Today)
1957 - Kristen Meadows, actress (Santa Barbara)
1957 - Nicholson Baker, American novelist
1957 - Julian Solis, Puerto Rican boxer
1957 - Reena Roy, Indian actress
1958 - Donna Rice, New Orleans La, model/Gary Hart's lover
1958 - Peter R Mokaba, president (South African Youth Congress)
1959 - Kathy Valentine, rocker (Go-Go's-We Got the Beat)
1960 - David Marciano, Newark NJ, actor (Det Ray Vecchio-Due South)
1960 - Tierre Turner, Detroit Mich, actor (Waverly Wonders, Cop & the Kid)
1960 - Loretta Sanchez, American politician
1961 - Andrew Thomson, Australian politician
1961 - Supriya Pathak, Indian actress
1961 - John Thune, American politician
1962 - Hallie Todd, actress (Check is in the Mail)
1962 - Jeff Montgomery, Wellston OH, pitcher (KC Royals)
1962 - Aleksandr Dugin, Russian politician
1963 - Craig Shipley, Australian/US baseball infielder (San Diego Padres)
1963 - Clint Mansell, English musician and composer
1964 - Francisco Maciel, Mexico, tennis star
1964 - Nicolas Cage, [Coppola], actor (Moonstruck, Racing with the Moon)
1965 - Mark Rushmere, cricketer (S Afr opening bat in comeback Test 1992)
1966 - Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, model/wife of John Kennedy Jr
1966 - Jennifer Luff, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1966 - Randy Burridge, Fort Erie, NHL left wing (Buffalo Sabres)
1966 - Ehab Tawfik, Egyptian singer
1966 - Corrie Sanders, Pretoria, South Africa, boxer, ( WBO heavyweight champion, 2003), (d. 2012)
1967 - Guy Hebert, Troy, NHL goalie (Anaheim Mighty Ducks, Team USA 98)
1967 - Scott Galbraith, NFL tight end (Washington Redskins, Dallas Cowboys)
1967 - Mark Lamarr, British comedian and broadcaster
1968 - Michael Rosati, hockey goaltender (Team Italy 1998)
1968 - Nathaniel Bolton, WLAF running back (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1969 - Chris Hatcher, US baseball outfielder (Houston Astros)
1969 - Doug E Doug, actor (Cosby)
1969 - Erric Pegram, NFL running back (Pit Steelers, NY Giants, San Diego Chargers)
1969 - Todd Kinchen, NFL wide receiver (St Louis Rams, Atlanta Falcons)
1969 - David Yost, American actor
1970 - Darryl Williams, NFL safety (Seattle Seahawks, Cin Bengals)
1970 - Frank "Cliff" Mannon, Amarillo TX, team handball (Olympics-1996)
1970 - Paul McCallum, CFL/WLAF kicker/punter (Claymores, Sask Roughriders)
1970 - Todd Day, NBA guard/forward (Boston Celtics)
1970 - Joao Ricardo, Angolan footballer
1971 - Bobby Hamilton, NFL/WLAF defensive end (Amsterdam Admirals, NY Jets)
1971 - Masato Itai, WLAF wide receiver (Amsterdam Admirals)
1971 - Todd Yeaman, NFL defensive tackle (NY Giants)
1971 - C.W. Anderson, American professional wrestler
1971 - Tina Anderson, American comic book writer
1972 - Aaron John Mcintosh, Auckland NZ, sailboard yachter (Olympics-96)
1972 - Chuck Levy, kick returner/running back (SF 49ers)
1972 - Donald Brashear, Bedford, NHL left wing (Montreal Canadiens)
1973 - Bobby Engram, wide receiver (Chicago Bears)
1973 - Brian Milne, fullback (Cincinnati Bengals)
1973 - Ricky Wood, Van Nuys California, diver (Olympics-96)
1973 - Robert Dunn, Glenn Cove NY, team handball left wing (Olympics-1996)
1973 - Jonna Tervomaa, Finnish singer
1974 - Jennifer LeRoy, Craig CO, playmate (Feb, 1993)
1975 - Robert Norman Waddell, Cambridge NZ, Single scull rower (Olympics-96)
1976 - Éric Gagné, Canadian baseball player
1976 - Alfonso Soriano, Dominican baseball player
1977 - Dustin Diamond, San Jose California, actor (Screech-Saved By Bell)
1977 - Michelle Behennah, British model
1977 - John Gidding, American architect and TV host (Designed to Sell)
1978 - Kevin Mench, American baseball player
1979 - Bipasha Basu, Indian model
1979 - Mariangel Ruiz, Venezuelan actress and model
1979 - Ryan Tedder, American singer
1981 - Alex Auld, Canadian ice hockey player
1981 - Marquis Daniels, American basketball player
1982 - Francisco Rodriguez, Venezuelan baseball player
1982 - Hannah Stockbauer, German swimmer
1982 - Ianina Zanazzi, Argentine racing driver
1983 - Liesbeth Mouha, Belgian beach volleyball player
1983 - Natalie Gulbis, American golfer
1984 - Jon Lester, American baseball player
1985 - Lewis Hamilton, English F1 racing driver
1986 - Grant Leadbitter, English footballer
1988 - Scott Pendlebury, Australian rules footballer
1988 - Haley Bennett, American Singer and Actress
1988 - Robert Sheehan, Irish actor
1989 - Emiliano Insúa, Argentine footballer
1990 - Liam Aiken, American actor
1990 - Elene Gedevanishvili, Georgian figure skater
1990 - Camryn Grimes, American actress
1990 - Gregor Schlierenzauer, Austrian skijumper
1991 - Max Morrow, Canadian actor
1996 - Abbey Speakman, England, born 19 days after her twin sister

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 07, 2013, 10:32:40 AM

This Day in History for 7th January


Famous Deaths

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Spanish Princess/Wife of Henry VIII
    Catherine of Aragon (1536)


312 - Lucianus of Antioch, theologist/saint, dies
1130 - Baldricus Burgoliensis, French historian/archbishop, dies at about 83
1285 - Charles I of Anjou, king of Naples/bro of King Louis IX, dies at 58
1325 - Dionysius, the justified, King of Portugal (1279-1325), dies
1400 - Thomas Holland, 1st Duke of Surrey, English politician (b. 1374)
1451 - Amadeus VIII, last anti-pope Felix V (1439-49), dies at 67
1529 - Peter Vischer, the Old, German count of Sebaldus, dies
1536 - Catherine of Aragon, 1st wife of England's King Henry VIII, dies at 50
1537 - Alessandro de' Medici, Italian monarch of Florence, assassinated
1566 - Ludovicus Blosius, [Louis de Blois "Dacrianus"], wrtier, dies
1590 - Jacob Andreae, German theologist (Formulae Concordiae), dies at 61
1591 - Jacobus de Kerle, French/Flemish composer, dies at about 59
1598 - Feodor I/Theodorus I, czar of Russia (1584-98), dies at 40
1619 - Nicholas Hilliard, English painter (bc. 1547)
1625 - Ruggiero Giovannelli, Italian composer (bc. 1560)
1655 - Pope Innocent X (Giambattista Pamfili), Reigned 1644-55, dies at 80
1658 - Theophilus Eaton, American colonist (b. 1590)
1678 - Johannes Flittner, composer, dies at 59
1694 - Charles Gerard, 1st Earl of Macclesfield, English general (bc. 1618)
1695 - Mary II Stuart, queen of England, dies at 32 [OS=Dec 28 1694]
1700 - Raffaello Fabretti, Italian antiquarian (b. 1618)
1715 - François Fénelon, French-Catholic theologian and writer (b. 1651)
1721 - Rochus Aerts, Flemish sculptor, dies [or 1739]
1722 - Antoine Coypel, French painter/poet, dies at 60
1736 - Ceslav Vanura, composer, dies at 41
1755 - Gallus Zeiler, composer, dies at 49
1758 - Allan Ramsay Sr, Scottish poet (Gentle Shepherd), dies at 71
1767 - Thomas Clap, 1st president of Yale University (b. 1703)
1770 - Carl Gustaf Tessin, Swedish politician (b. 1695)
1783 - William Tans'ur, English hymnist (b. 1700)
1786 - Jean-Étienne Guettard, French physician and scientist (b. 1715)
1790 - Antonio Corbisiero, composer, dies at 69
1810 - Joseph Lipavsky, composer, dies at 37
1830 - Infanta Carlota Joaquina, daughter of Charles IV of Spain and wife of John VI of Portugal, dies at 53
1830 - Thomas Lawrence, English painter (b. 1769)
1833 - Ramon Felix Cuellar y Altarriba, composer, dies at 55
1843 - Franz Schoberlechner, composer, dies at 45
1858 - Willem Broes, vicar/theologist (Textenrol), dies at 91
1864 - Caleb Blood Smith, 6th U.S. Secretary of the Interior (b. 1808)
1868 - William Batchelder Bradbury, composer, dies at 51
1870 - Karl Schwencke, composer, dies at 72
1872 - James Fisk, American entrepreneur (b. 1834)
1876 - Juste Olivier, Swiss poet (b. 1807)
1878 - François-Vincent Raspail, French chemist (b. 1794)
1887 - Abraham I van Lier, Dutch actor/director (Gran Theatre), dies at 74
1890 - Augusta Maria L Katharina, wife of Germ emperor Wilhelm I, dies at 78
1890 - Hans Matthison-Hansen, composer, dies at 82
1891 - Carl Gottfried Wilhelm Taubert, composer, dies at 79
1892 - Tewfik Pasja, viceroy of Egypt, dies at 39
1893 - Jožef Stefan, Slovenian physicist and mathematician (b. 1835)
1907 - Anton Urspruch, composer, dies at 56
1913 - Jack Boyle, American baseball player (b. 1866)
1920 - Edmund Barton, 1st Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1849)
1921 - Benno Erdmann, German philosopher (Logik I), dies at 69
1922 - Antonio Scontrino, composer, dies at 71
1929 - Henry Arthur Jones, English playwright (Silver King), dies at 77
1932 - Henri Stroethoff, Dutch actor (Bright Paradise), dies at 60
1936 - Howard Francis, cricketer (2 Tests S Af v Eng 1898-99, 39 runs), dies
1936 - Guy d'Hardelot, French composer, best known for Because (b. 1858)
1942 - Henry, Count of Baillet-Latour, pres of IOC (1925-42), dies at 63
1943 - Nikola Tesla, Yugoslavian physicist (tesla motor), dies at 86
1944 - J Verleun, Dutch resistance fighter, executed
1944 - Lou Hoover, U.S. First Lady (b. 1874)
1944 - Napoleon Lapathiotis, Greek poet (b. 1888)
1946 - Adamo Didur, Polish tenor (b. 1874)
1948 - Raoul Auernheimer, writer, dies
1951 - Johanna C H "Nelly" Bodenheim, painter (Luilekkerland), dies at 76
1951 - René Guénon, French-Egyptian author (b. 1886)
1953 - Osa Johnson, American explorer (b. 1894)
1955 - Gerald Hartigan, cricketer (S Afr batsman in 5 Tests 1911-14), dies
1957 - Al White, choreographer (NBC Comedy Hour), dies
1958 - Petru Groza, premier/president (Romania, 1945-58), dies at 74
1960 - Luis da Costa, composer, dies at 80
1960 - Dorothea Douglass Chambers (aka Katharine Lambert Chambers), UK tennis player (b. 1878)
1961 - Clarice Baright, 1st woman admitted to American Bar Association, dies at 74
1963 - Arthur Moore, Premier of Queensland (b. 1876)
1964 - Colin C McPhee, composer (H2O, Mechanical Princibles), dies at 62
1964 - Cyril Davies, American musician (b. 1932)
1967 - Carl Schuricht, composer, dies at 86
1967 - Sid Emery, cricket leg-spinner (NSW & Aus, 5 wkt in 1912 series), dies
1967 - David Goodis, American writer (b. 1917)
1968 - Prof James Smith, South African ichthyologist (b. 1897)
1970 - Robert [Harriot] Barrat, actor (Bad Lands, Go West), dies at 81
1971 - Dick Kollmar, actor (Broadway Spotlight, Guess What), dies at 60
1971 - Madame Spivy [LeVoe], actress (All Fall Down), dies at 64
1972 - Clarence Passailaigue, cricketer (487 for 6th wkt for Jamaica), dies
1972 - John Berryman, US poet (Imaginary Jew), dies
1972 - Eftichia Papagianopoulos, Greek lyricist
1979 - Zbigniew Turski, composer, dies at 70
1980 - Carl White, rocker, dies
1980 - Sarah Selby, actress (Tower of London), dies at 74
1981 - Jose Ardevol, composer, dies at 69
1981 - Alvar Lidell, UK radio broadcaster (b. 1908)
1981 - Eric Robinson, Australian politician (b. 1926)
1982 - Bert Oosterhuis, Dutch motor racer (Paris-Dakar), dies in race crash
1983 - August Cool, Belgian trade union leader, dies at 79
1984 - Alfred Kastler, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
1985 - Johnny Guarnieri, jazz pianist (Morey Amsterdam Show), dies at 67
1985 - Mary Hardy, Australian radio and television presenter (b. 1931)
1986 - Juan Rulfo, writer, dies
1986 - M Rooi, editor-in-chief (New Rotterdam Daily), dies at 79
1986 - Philip D. Eastman, American children's book writer and illustrator (b. 1909)
1987 - Larry Carr, pianist (Flight to Rhythm), dies at 72
1988 - Trevor Howard, actor (Ryan's Daughter), dies of bronchitis at 71
1988 - Michel Auclair, French actor (b. 1922)
1990 - Bronislau "Bronko" Nagurski, football hall of famer, dies at 81
1990 - Gail Lucas, entertainer, dies
1990 - Horace Stoneham, baseball owner (Giants), dies at 86
1990 - Joseph Robbie, lawyer/NFL owner (Miami Dolphins), dies at 73
1991 - Joe Hicks, baseball coach, dies of cancer at 64
1992 - Jhean Burton, entertainer, dies
1992 - Richard Hunt, puppeteer/actor (Muppet Movie), dies of AIDS at 40
1993 - Richard Branda, actor (2 Minute Warning), dies of colon cancer at 57
1994 - Bobby Pratt, jazz Trombone/Piano Player, dies at 67
1994 - Jay Blackton, broadway Conductor (Oklahoma!), dies at 84
1994 - Lewis Boddington, aerospace Engineer, dies at 85
1994 - Lynn Blessing, vibes Player, dies at 65
1994 - Phoumi Vongvichit, pres of Laos (1986-91), dies
1994 - Vittorio Mezzogiorno, actor (Cafe Express), dies of heart failure 52
1995 - Arthur Leavins, violinist, dies at 77
1995 - Harry Golombek, chess Grandmaster, dies at 83
1995 - Larry Grayson, British entertainer (Generation Game), dies at 65 or 71
1995 - Viktor Vorobyov, Russian general-major, dies in battle
1995 - William Larry White Grayson, comedian, dies at 71
1995 - Murray Rothbard, American economist (b. 1926)
1996 - James Holland, artist/exhibition organiser, dies at 90
1996 - Karoly Grosz, PM of Hungry (1987-88), dies at 65
1996 - Robley D Evans, nuclear physicist, dies at 88
1996 - Seton Howard Frederick Lloyd, archaeologist, dies at 93
1996 - Tarō Okamoto, Japanese avant-garde artist (b. 1911)
1997 - Desmond Flower, publisher, dies at 89
1997 - Sandor Vegh, violinist teacher/conductor, dies at 84
1998 - Owen Bradley, American record producer (b. 1915)
2000 - Gary Albright, American professional wrestler (b. 1963)
2002 - Avery Schreiber, American actor (b. 1935)
2002 - Jon Lee, Welsh musician (Feeder) (b. 1968)
2004 - Ingrid Thulin, Swedish actress (b. 1926)
2005 - Pierre Daninos, French novelist (b. 1913)
2005 - Eileen Desmond, Irish politician (b. 1932)
2006 - Heinrich Harrer, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1912)
2007 - Magnús Magnússon, Icelandic-born television presenter (b. 1929)
2007 - Bobby Hamilton, NASCAR team owner (b. 1957)
2008 - Alwyn Schlebusch, South African vice state president (b. 1917)
2010 - Willie Mitchell, American soul singer (b. 1928)
2011 - Derek Gardner, British Formula 1 car designer (b. 1931)
2012 - Ibrahim Aslan, Egyptian author, dies from heart failure at 77

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 08, 2013, 07:00:41 AM

This Day in History for 8th January


Historical Events

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13th US President                                   Military Leader George Marshall              Singer & Cultural Icon Elvis Presley
 George Washington 

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36th US President                                   French President Georges Pompidou             
 Lyndon B Johnson                           

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US President                                           Comedienne/Actor Roseanne             
 George H. W. Bush


624 - Battle of Badr, Muslim forces defeats Meccan Caravan
794 - Vikings attacked Lindisfarne Island
871 - Battle at Ashdown: Ethelred of Wessex beats Danish invasion army
1198 - Lotario di Segni elected Pope Innocentius III
1214 - Earl Ferrand of Flanders drops ties with France
1297 - Monaco gains its independence.
1558 - French troops under duke de Guise occupy Calais
1598 - Jews are expelled from Genoa, Italy
1656 - Oldest surviving commercial newspaper begins (Haarlem, Netherlands)
1675 - 1st American commercial corporation chartered (NY Fishing Co)
1705 - George F Handel's 1st opera "Almira," premieres in Hamburg
1716 - Dutch gang leader "Sjako" arrested
1734 - Premiere of George Frideric Handel's Ariodante at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
1745 - England, Austria, Neth & Saxon sign anti-Prussian Quadruple Alliance
1746 - Bonnie Prince Charlie's troops occupy Stirling [NS=Jan 19]
1760 - Comet C/1760 A1 (Great comet) approaches within 0.0682 AUs of Earth
1790 - 1st US President George Washington delivers 1st state of the union address
1798 - 11th Amendment ratified, judicial powers construed
1800 - Austrians defeat French in 2nd battle of Novi
1800 - Wild Boy of Aveyron discovered in southern France
1806 - Cape colony becomes English colony
1806 - Lewis & Clark find skeleton of 105' blue whale in Oregon
1811 - Louisiana slave revolt by Charles Deslondes at German Coast
1815 - Battle of New Orleans-War of 1812 ended 12/24/1814 but nobody knew
1833 - Boston Academy of Music, 1st US music school, established
1835 - The United States national debt is 0 for the first and only time.
1838 - 1st telegraph message sent using dots & dashes (NJ)
1838 - Rebellion at Amherstburg, Ontario breaks out
1842 - Dutch King Willem II charters Technical College Delft
1848 - Austrian soldiers kill 10 students, Pavia
1853 - 1st US bronze equestrian statue (of Andrew Jackson) unveiled, Wash
1856 - Dr John A Veatch discovers borax, Tuscan Springs, Calif
1857 - Dion Boucicauly's "Poor of NY," premieres in NYC
1863 - American Civil War: Second Battle of Springfield
1867 - Legislation gives suffrage to DC blacks, despite President Johnson's veto
1867 - African American men granted the right to vote in Washington, D.C.
1870 - US mint at Carson City, Nevada begins issuing coins
1877 - Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle with the United States Cavalry at Wolf
           Mountain (Montana Territory).
1878 - Secret meeting of King Leopold II's agent & Henry Morton Stanley
1884 - Chrome tanning process for leather patented by Augustus Schultz
1889 - Dr Herman Hollerith receives 1st US patent for a mechanical tabulating machine
1894 - Columbus World's fair in Chicago destroyed by fire
1897 - Michael Eagan wins 1st US national amateur handball championship
1901 - NSW score 918 all out vs South Australia in 560 minutes
1902 - 1st National Bowling Championship held (Chicago, Ill)
1904 - Pope Pius X banned low cut dresses in the presence of churchmen
1906 - A landslide in Haverstraw, New York, caused by the excavation of clay along the Hudson River,
           kills 20 people.
1912 - The African National Congress is founded.
1913 - Frank Chance becomes Yankee manager
1916 - World War I: Allied forces withdraw from Gallipoli.
1917 - Austria-Hungarian troops conquer Forlani Italy
1918 - Mississippi becomes 1st state to ratify 18th amendment (prohibition)
1918 - Pres Wilson outlines his 14 points for peace after WW I
1923 - Typography strike in Amsterdam
1925 - 1st all-female US state supreme court appointed, Texas
1926 - Abdul-Aziz ibn Sa'ud becomes king of Hejaz; renames it Saudi Arabia
1929 - 1st telephone connection between Netherlands & West-Indies
1929 - CBS radio network buys WABC in NYC
1931 - Phila Quakers set then NHL record of 15 straight loses
1932 - Ratification of present SF City Charter
1934 - Jaap Speyers "Bluejackets" premieres in Amsterdam
1935 - Spectrophotometer patented, AC Hardy
1937 - -50°F (-45.6°C), San Jacinto, Nevada (state record)
1938 - Bradman scores 107 for South Australia v Qld (1st innings)
1940 - Britain's 1st WW II rationing (bacon, butter & sugar)
1940 - World War II: Britain introduces food rationing.
1941 - British Air Marshal Richard Peirse resigns
1945 - "Youth for Christ" organizes
1947 - Gen George Marshall becomes Sect of State
1947 - Toronto Maple Leaf rookie Howie Meeker scores 5 goals in a game
1948 - Queen Wilhelmina signs death sentence against Ans van Dijk for treason
1949 - "Make Mine Manhattan" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 429 perfs
1949 - "My Romance" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 95 performances
1949 - "Small Wonder" closes at Coronet Theater NYC after 134 performances
1951 - Thought extinct since 1615, a Cahow is rediscovered in Bermuda
1952 - Jordan adopts constitution
1953 - Indians bar night games with Browns (who refuse to share TV receipts)
1953 - René Mayer forms French government
1954 - Elvis Presley pays $4 to a Memphis studio & records his 1st two songs, "Casual Love" & "I'll
           Never Stand in Your Way"
1955 - Furman sets NCAA basketball single-game scoring record with 154 pt
1955 - Georgia Tech ends Kentucky's 130-game home basketball win streak
1955 - Louise Sugg wins LPGA LA Golf Open
1955 - WUNC TV channel 4 in Chapel Hill, NC (PBS) begins broadcasting
1956 - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Conrad Aiken
1956 - Elvis Presley's "Don't Be Cruel/Hound Dog," single goes to #1 & stays #1 for a record 11
           weeks (for a single)
1956 - Operation Auca: Five U.S. missionaries are killed by the Huaorani of Ecuador shortly after
           making contact with them.
1958 - Cuban revolutionary forces capture Havana
1959 - Charles de Gaulle inaugurated as pres of France's 5th Republic
1961 - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Yvor Winters
1962 - Dutch express train crashes into slow commuter train, 93 die (Neth)
1962 - Golfer Jack Nicklaus, 21, 1st pro appearance, he came in 50th
1963 - "Mona Lisa," on loan, unveiled in America's National Gallery of Art
1963 - Dmitri Shostakovitch' Katharina Ismailova, premieres in Riga
1964 - European Parliament accept Mansholt Plan
1964 - President Lyndon B Johnson declares "War on Poverty"
1965 - Senator Everett Dirksen introduces a bill to make marigold the American natonal flower
           (doesn't pass)
1965 - Star of India returned to American Museum of Natural History
1966 - Beatles' "Rubber Soul," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 6 weeks
1966 - Beatles' "We Can Work It Out," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 3 weeks
1966 - Georges Pompidou appointed French premier
1966 - Who & the Kinks perform on the last "Shindig" TV show on ABC
1968 - Jacques Cousteau's 1st undersea special on US network TV
1971 - 29 pilot whales beach themselves & die at San Clemente Island, Calif
1971 - Voyageurs National Park, Minn established
1972 - Dmitri Shostakovitch' 15th Symphony, premieres in Moscow
1972 - NCAA announces freshman can play on teams starting in fall
1973 - "Tricks" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 8 performances
1973 - Greg Chappell's best Test bowling, 5-61 v Pakistan at SCG
1973 - Secret peace talks between US & North Vietnam resumed near Paris
1973 - USSR launches Luna 21 for Moon landing
1974 - E Wilson Jr's musical "Let My People Come," premieres in NYC
1974 - Gold hits record $126.50 an ounce in London
1974 - Loch Ness Monster photographed
1974 - Silver hits record $3.40 an ounce in New York
1975 - Judge Sirica orders release of Watergate's John W Dean III, Herbert W Kalmbach & Jeb Stuart
           Magruder from prison
1976 - Franklin Mint strikes 1st gold coins for Netherlands Antilles
1978 - Israeli government votes to `strengthen' settlements in occupied Sinai
1979 - 512 die as oil tanker Bantry Bay blows up
1979 - Argentina & Chile sign Beagle Canal accord
1979 - Today Show gets a new theme song
1979 - Vietnamese troops overtook Khmer Rouge & occupy Phnom Penh
1980 - Islander Glenn Resch's 20th shut-out opponent-Canucks 3-0
1980 - NCAA decides to sponsor women's championships in 5 sports
1981 - "Pirates of Penzance" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 772 performances
1981 - India all out 63 in one-day international v Australia
1981 - Reds become last team to sign a free agent (Larry Biitner)
1982 - AT&T agrees to divest itself of 22 Bell System companies
1982 - Johnny Cash Parkway opens in Hendersonville Tennessee
1982 - Justice Dept withdraws antitrust suit against IBM, pending since
1984 - NCAA announces that basketball tournament will have 64 teams
1984 - Wash Caps Bengt Gustafsson scores 5 goals to beat Phila 7-1
1985 - Japan launches Sakigake space probe to Halley's Comet
1986 - Willie McCovey is 16th elected to Hall of Fame in his 1st year
1987 - Dow Jones closes above 2,000 for 1st time (2,002.25)
1987 - Jack Sikma (Milwaukee) begins NBA free throw streak of 51 games
1988 - 9th largest NBA crowd 38,873-Chicago at Detroit
1988 - Dow Jones down 140.58 points
1988 - Hewlett-Packard introduces HP-28S Advanced Scientific Calculator
1988 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Debi Thomas
1989 - "42nd Street" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 3,486 perfs
1989 - "Starlight Express" closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 761 perfs
1989 - Boeing 737-400 crashes in England, 46 die
1989 - Soviet Union promises to eliminate stockpiles of chemical weapons
1989 - Beginning of Japanese Heisei era.
1991 - "Davis Rules," with Jonathan Winters & Randy Quaid premieres on ABC-TV
1991 - Gaylord Perry, Ferguson Jenkins & Rod Carew elected to Hall of Fame
1991 - Rod Carew is 22nd player elected to Hall of Fame on 1st try
1991 - Tamas Darnyi swims world record 400m medley (4:12.36)
1992 - George Bush gets ill & vomits on Japanese prime minister's lap
1993 - Chicago Bull Michael Jordan scores his 20,000th career point
1993 - Elvis Presley Commemorative Postage Stamp goes on sale
1993 - Michael Jordan scores his 20,000th career point
1993 - NBC offers "Tonight Show" to David Letterman
1994 - Rintje Ritsma skates world record 1500m (1:51.60)
1994 - Russian manned space craft TM-18, launches into orbit
1994 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Davis
1995 - "Guys & Dolls" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 1143 perfs
1995 - 15th United Negro College Fund raises $12,200,000
1995 - Mike Schmidt is elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame
1996 - Blizzard buries eastern US causing at least 50 deaths
1996 - For 1st time in 25 years no one is elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1998 - NY Giant GM George Young resigns to accept NFL position
1998 - Roseanne files for divorce from 3rd husband Ben Thomas
1998 - Unabomber suspect Theodore Kaczynski asks to act as his own lawyer
1998 - World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Ahmed Yousef sentenced to life
2002 - President George W. Bush signs into law the No Child Left Behind Act.
2004 - The RMS Queen Mary 2, the largest passenger ship ever built, is christened by her
            namesake's granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II.
2006 - A magnitude 6.9 earthquake with its epicenter just off the Greek island of Kythira hits much
           of the country and is felt throughout the entire eastern Mediterranean Sea.
2008 - New Jersey officially apologizes for slavery, becoming the first Northern state to do so.
2009 - A 6.2 magnitude earthquake hit Costa Rica´s region of Volcan Poás, with an epicenter near
           Cinchona. It was caused by Varablanca-Angel fault.
2011 - Attempted assassination of Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and subsequent
           shooting in Casas Adobes, Arizona at a Safeway grocery store kills 6 and wounds 13,
            including Giffords

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 08, 2013, 07:02:32 AM

This Day in History for 8th January


Famous Weddings

1930 - Belgium Princess Marie-Jose marries Italian's crown prince Umberto
2005 - Rapper and actor Nas (32) weds R&B singer Kelis (25) at Morningside Baptist Church in Atlanta,
           Georgia

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 08, 2013, 07:03:29 AM

This Day in History for 8th January


Famous Divorces

1499 - Louis XII of France after papal divorce marries Anne, Duchess of Brittany to keep duchy for the
            crown
1998 - Roseanne files for divorce from 3rd husband Ben Thomas

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 08, 2013, 07:10:56 AM

This Day in History for 8th January


Famous Birthdays

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Confederate General                                R&B Singer R Kelly (1969)              Singer & Cultural Icon Elvis Presley (1935)
James Longstreet (1821)                           


1081 - Henry V, Roman German king/emperor (1098/1111-25)
1556 - Uesugi Kagekatsu, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1623)
1583 - Simon Episcopius, Dutch bishop/theologist
1587 - Johannes Fabricius, Denmark, astronomer (discovered sunspots)
1589 - Ivan [Dzivo F] Gundulic, Dalmatisch writer (Dubravka)
1601 - Baltasar Gracián y Morales, Spanish writer (d. 1658)
1628 - Francois de Montmorency-Bouteville, duc de Luxemburg, French soldier
1632 - Samuel, Freiherr von Pufendorf, German jurist
1635 - Luis Manuel Fernández de Portocarrero, Spanish Archbishop (d. 1709)
1658 - Nicolas Coustou, French sculptor (Descente de Croix)
1668 - Jean Gilles, composer
1735 - John Carroll, American Roman Catholic archbishop (d. 1815)
1763 - Edmond Charles Genêt, French diplomat (d. 1834)
1767 - Abraham de Veer, Dutch governor-general of Suriname (1822-28)
1777 - Filippo Traetta, Italy, composer/musicologist
1779 - John White, composer
1786 - Nicholas Biddle, made 2nd bank of US 1st effective central bank
1787 - Johann Ludwig Bohner, composer
1788 - Erik Drake, composer
1788 - Archduke Rudolph of Austria (d. 1831)
1788 - Pavel Kiselyov, Russian general and politician (d. 1874)
1791 - Jacob Collamer, (Sen-Vt)
1792 - Lowell Mason, Medfield Mass, organist/composer (Zebulo)
1805 - John Bigler, American politician (d. 1871)
1805 - Orson Hyde, American religious leader (d. 1878)
1812 - Sigismond Fortune Francois Thalberg, composer
1812 - William Henry Holmes, composer
1814 - Johannes Kneppelhout, [Klikspaan], Dutch humorist
1814 - Thomas Green, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
1815 - George Webb Morell, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1883
1815 - Lawrence Pike Graham, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1905
1817 - John Selden Roane, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1867
1817 - Sir Theophilus Shepstone, South African statesman (d. 1893)
1821 - James Longstreet, Confederate general (1st Corps, ANV)
1822 - Alfredo Carlo Piatti, composer
1823 - Alfred Russel Wallace, British zoologist/co-discoverer (evolution)
1824 - Per August Olander, composer
1824 - William Wilkie Collins, English novelist (Woman in White)
1824 - Francisco González Bocanegra, Mexican poet (d. 1861)
1830 - Gouverneur Kemble Warren, Major Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1882
1830 - Hans von Bülow, German pianist and composer (d. 1894)
1836 - Fannie M Jackson, pioneer & educator, 1st US Black woman college grad
1836 - Lawrence Alma Tadema, Dutch/British painter/husband of Laura Epps
1843 - Frederick Abberline, British police investigator (d. 1929)
1843 - John H. Moffitt, American politician (d. 1926)
1846 - Albert Cahen, composer
1846 - William Wallace Gilchrist, composer
1852 - James Milton Carroll, American pastor and author (d. 1931)
1860 - Nancy Jones, US black missionary in Africa
1862 - Frank Nelson Doubleday, publisher/founder (Doubleday & Co)
1864 - Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (d. 1892)
1866 - William G. Conley, American politician (d. 1940)
1867 - Emily Green Balch, US, sociologist/feminist/pacifist (Nobel 1946)
1868 - Frank Dyson, proved Einstein right about light bent by gravity
1870 - Miguel Primo de Rivera Orbaneja, dictator of Spain (1923-30)
1871 - James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon, Irish politician (d. 1940)
1873 - Lucien Capet, composer
1873 - Iuliu Maniu, Romanian politician (d. 1953)
1873 - Elena of Montenegro, queen of Italy (d. 1956)
1881 - Henrik Shipstead, American politician (d. 1960)
1883 - Josue Teofilo Wilkes, composer
1883 - Pavel Filonov, Russian painter (d. 1941)
1883 - Patrick J. Hurley, United States Secretary of War (d. 1963)
1885 - John Curtin, Victoria, Australian PM (Labor, 1941-45)
1885 - A. J. Muste, Dutch pacifist and activist (d. 1967)
1886 - Noble Drew Ali, [Timothy Drew], NC, prophet (Moorish Science Temple)
1888 - Matt Moore, County Meath Ireland, actor (Coquette, Deluge)
1888 - Richard Courant, German-American mathematician (d. 1972)
1888 - Matthew Moore, Irish-American actor (d. 1960)
1889 - Paul Hartmann, Furth Germany, actor (Haunted Castle)
1890 - Sandor Rado, Hungarian/US psycho analyst
1891 - Bronislava Nijinska, ballet choreographer
1891 - Walter Bothe, Germany, subatomic particle physicist (Nobel 1954)
1891 - Storm Jameson, English writer (d. 1986)
1892 - Werner Wehrli, composer
1894 - St Maximilian Kolbe, Polish martyr (d. 1941)
1896 - Jaromir Weinberger, Prague Czechoslovakia, composer (Bird's Opera)
1896 - Manuel Rojas Sepulveda, Chile, writer (Men of the South)
1896 - Arthur Ford, American psychic (d. 1971)
1897 - Dennis Wheatley, British author (d. 1977)
1899 - Solomon WRD Bandaranaike, premier of Ceylon (1956-59)
1900 - Queen Marie, of Yugoslavia
1901 - Edmond Vandercammen, French/Belgian writer (L'amour responsable)
1902 - Alexander Gray, Wrightsville Pa, actor (This is Music)
1902 - Carl R[ansom] Rogers, US, psychologist (Client-Centered Therapy)
1902 - Georgy M Malenkov, Stalin's successor as head of CPSU, PM (1953-55)
1902 - Gret Palucca, German dancer/choreography (Silent Song)
1903 - Gene Roth, [Eugene Stutenroth], SD, actor (She Demons, Spider)
1904 - Peter Arno, NYC, cartoonist (New Yorker)
1904 - Karl Brandt, Alsacian Nazi war criminal (d. 1948)
1905 - Carl Gustav Hempel, German Logical Positivist philosopher
1905 - Giacinto Scelsi, composer
1906 - Jan A H J S Bruins Slot, Dutch founder illegal Trouw/MP (ARP)
1906 - Serge Poliakoff, Russian/French painter/guitarist
1908 - (Fearless) Mary Nadia Wadia, actress
1908 - William Hartnell, London England, actor (Agitator, Jackpot)
1909 - Bruce Mitchell, cricketer (South African bat, their top run-scorer (3471))
1909 - Willy Millowitsch, German actor (d. 1999)
1909 - Evelyn Wood, American educator (d. 1995)
1910 - Richard Cromwell, [LeRoy Melvin Radabaugh], LA California, actor (Jezebel)
1910 - Galina Ulanova, St Petersburg Russia, ballerina (Bolshoi)
1911 - Andrej Ocenas, composer
1911 - Butterfly McQueen, [Thelma], Tampa Fla, actress (Gone With the Wind)
1912 - José Ferrer, San Juan Puerto Rico, actor/director (Blood Tide, Dune)
1912 - Rudolf G Escher, Dutch composer (True Face of Peace)
1913 - Horace Smith, cricketer (NZ, only Test wkt off his 1st ball (Paynter))
1914 - Charles Borromeo Mills, composer
1915 - Walker Cooper, American baseball player (d. 1991)
1917 - Peter Taylor, US writer
1917 - Stanley Prager, NYC, comedian (College Bowl)
1920 - Hendrikus J Wittebold, civil servant/resistance fighter
1921 - Herta Bothe, Nazi concentration camp guard
1922 - Abbey Simon, NYC, pianist
1923 - Giorgio Tozzi, Chicago Illinois, basso
1923 - Iva Michiels, [Rik Ceuppens], Flemish writer (Ksiega Alfa)
1923 - Johnny Wardle, cricketer (Yorkshire & England left-arm bowler of 50's)
1923 - Joseph Wiezenbaum, artificial intelligence pioneer
1923 - Larry Storch, NYC, comedian (F Troop, Larry Storch Show)
1923 - Joseph Weizenbaum, German-American author and computer scientist (d. 2008)
1924 - Antai Ribari, composer
1924 - Benjamin Lees, [Lysniansky], Harbin Manchuria, composer
1924 - Robert Starer, Vienna Austria, composer
1924 - Ron Moody, London England, actor (12 Chairs, Wrong is Right)
1925 - James Saunders, English chemist/playwright (Ark)
1925 - Helmuth Hubener, German activist (d. 1942)
1926 - Evelyn Lear, [Shulman], Brooklyn, NY, soprano, (d. 2012)
1926 - Jani Christou, composer
1926 - Soupy Sales, [Milton Hines], NC, comedian (Soupy Sales Show)
1926 - Kelucharan Mohapatra, Indian Odissi dancer (d. 2004)
1927 - Charles Tomlinson, British poet and translator
1928 - Sander Vanocur, Cleve Ohio, news anchor (NBC Weekend News)
1928 - Gaston Miron, Quebec poet and editor (d. 1996)
1929 - Saeed Jaffrey, Indian actor
1930 - Doreen Wilber, US, archer (Olympic-gold-1972)
1931 - Bill Graham, Germany, rock promoter (Fillmore)
1931 - May Wynn, [Donna Lee Hickey], NYC, actress (Caine Mutiny, Noah's Ark)
1933 - Charles Osgood, NYC, news anchor (CBS Weekend News)
1933 - Jean-Marie Straub, France, director (Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach)
1933 - Ko Un, Korean poet
1934 - Jacques Anquetil, France, Tour de France bicycle racer (5-time winner)
1934 - Michael Grierson Jarrett, archaeologist
1934 - Piet Dankert, Dutch politician (PvdA)
1934 - Roy Kinnear, Lancashire England, actor (TW3, Help!, The 3 Musketeers)
1934 - Gene Freese, American baseball player
1934 - Alexandra Ripley, American writer (d. 2004)
1935 - Elvis Aaron Presley, Tupelo Miss, singer (Blue Suede Shoes, Hounddog)
1935 - Jesse Garon Presley, stillborn twin brother of Elvis
1935 - Nolan Miller, Burkburnett Tx, fashion designer (Dynasty, Love Boat)
1935 - Ian Bargh, Prestwick, Scotland, Canadian jazz pianist and composer (d.2012)
1936 - Ferdinand Hartzenberg, South African minister of Education (1979-82)
1936 - Zdeněk Mácal, Czech conductor
1936 - Robert May, Baron May of Oxford, Australian-born British scientist
1937 - Robert Moran, composer
1937 - Shirley Bassey, Cardiff Wales, singer (Goldfinger, Moonraker)
1938 - Bob Eubanks, Flint Mich, TV host (Newlywed Game)
1940 - Anthony Gaurdine, (Little Anthony & Imperials-Goin Out of My Head)
1940 - Cristy Lane, US, country/gospel singer
1940 - Little Anthony [Gourdine], rocker (& Imperials)
1941 - Graham Chapman, England, comedian (Monty Python's Flying Circus)
1941 - Boris Vallejo, Peruvian illustrator
1942 - John Peterson, rocker
1942 - Stephen Hawking, English physicist (Black Holes & Baby Universes)
1942 - Vyacheslav Dmitriyevich Zudov, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 23)
1942 - Junichiro Koizumi, Japanese politician
1942 - Yvette Mimieux, Los Angeles California, American actress (Time Machine, Where the Boys Are)
1943 - Lee Jackson, rocker (Nice)
1943 - Marcus Hutson, rock vocalist (Whispers)
1944 - Terry Brooks, US, sci-fi author (Sword of Shannara)
1945 - John Peters, rock drummer (Harpers Bizarre)
1945 - Terry Sylvester, rocker (Hollies)
1946 - Elaine Cheris, Dotham Al, fencer-epee (Olympics-96)
1946 - Kathleen Noone, actress (All My Children, Party of 5, Knots Landing)
1946 - Robby Krieger, Los Angeles, California, American guitarist (Doors-Light My Fire)
1946 - Tod Brannan, VP (Logos Network Corp)
1947 - David Bowie, [Jones], London, singer/actor (Major Tom, Ziggy Stardust)
1947 - Igor Ivanov, Leningrad, Canadian chess champion (1981-84, 1985- )
1947 - Terry Sylvester, rocker (Hollies-You are the Air that I Breathe)
1947 - Don Bendell, American author & karate master
1947 - Samuel Schmid, Swiss politician
1948 - Gillies Mackinnon, director (Playboys)
1948 - Mel Pritchard, rocker
1949 - Lawrence Rowe, cricketer (prolific WI batsman, 302 v Eng 1974)
1951 - John McTiernan, Albany NY, actor (Predator, Die Hard, Medicine Man)
1951 - Paul Dresher, composer
1951 - Kenny Anthony, Saint Lucian politician
1952 - Lauri Walters, SF California, actress (8 is Enough, Harrad Experiment)
1952 - Norm Jarvis, Prince Albert Sask, golfer (1984 Chilliwack)
1952 - Vladimir Feltsman, Russian-American pianist
1953 - Bruce Sutter, pitcher (Cubs, Cards, Braves)
1955 - Mike Reno, Vancouver BC Canada, rock vocalist (Loverboy)
1955 - Spiros Livathinos, Greek footballer
1957 - Nacho Duato, Spanish classical dancer and choreographer
1958 - Rey Misterio, Sr., Mexican wrestler
1959 - Michael Harwood, Sydney NSW, Australasia golfer
1959 - Paul Hester, Australian drummer (d. 2005)
1960 - Jolanda Egger, Luzean Switz, playmate (June, 1983)
1961 - Shoaib Mohammad, cricketer (son of Hanif Patient & prolific batsman)
1961 - Kazuki Takahashi, Japanese creator of Yu-Gi-Oh
1961 - Calvin Smith, American athlete
1962 - Chris Marion, American musician
1963 - Hiromi Kobayashi, Fukushima Japan, LPGA golfer (1993 JAL Big Apple)
1964 - Peter [Ped] Gill, rocker (Frankie Goes to Hollywood-Relax) [or 3/5]
1964 - Virgil Hill, Missouri, middleweight boxer (Olympic-silver-1984)
1965 - Champaka Ramanayake, cricketer (Sri Lankan opening bowler)
1965 - Eric Wohlberg, Sudbury Ontario, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1965 - Maria Pitillo, Matwah NJ, actress (Ryan's Hope)
1965 - Michelle Forbes, actress (Julianna Cox-Homicide)
1966 - Darryl Hall, CFL linebacker (Calgary Stampeders)
1966 - Loretta Lee, [Lee Lai Chan], China, actress (Happy Ghost)
1966 - Andrew Wood, American musician (d. 1990)
1967 - Hollis Conway, Chicago Ill, high jumper (Olympics-silv/bronze-88, 92)
1967 - Kent Jones, Portales NM, golfer (NM State Amateur-1990-91)
1967 - Roger Rowland, Jacksonville FL, Nike golfer (1990 Macon Open-2nd)
1967 - Willie Anderson, US, NBA guard (NY Knicks, Olympic-bronze-1988)
1968 - Alexander Alexeev, NHL defenseman (Belarus, Oly-98)
1968 - Ami Dolenz, LA California, actress (General Hospital, Can't Buy Me Love)
1968 - Brian Johnson, Oakland California, catcher (San Diego Padres)
1968 - Mark Duane Croghan, Akron Ohio, 3k steeplechase (Olympics-5th-96)
1968 - Paul Carey, US baseball infielder (Baltimore Orioles)
1968 - Keith Mullings, American boxer
1969 - Brian Boehringer, St Louis MO, pitcher (NY Yankees)
1969 - R Kelly [Robert Sylvester Kelly], Chicago, Illinois, American R&B singer (I Wish I Could Fly)
1969 - Jeff Abercrombie, American musician
1970 - Jon Klemm, Calgary, NHL defenseman (Colorado Avalanche)
1971 - Billy Joe Hobert, NFL quarterback (Oakland Raiders)
1971 - Branislav Janos, hockey forward (Team Slovakia 1998)
1971 - Brenda Lee Armstrong, Albert Lea Minn, Miss Minn-America (1991)
1971 - Brook Mahealani Lee, Miss Universe/Miss USA (1997-Hawaii)
1971 - Darren Langdon, Deere Lake, NHL left wing (NY Rangers)
1971 - Jason Giambi, West Covina CA, infielder (Oakland A's)
1971 - Roosevelt Potts, NFL running back (Indianapolis Colts)
1971 - Stephane Barin, hockey forward (Team France 1998)
1971 - Pascal Zuberbühler, Swiss footballer
1972 - Brandie Burton, San Bernardino CA, LPGA golfer (1993 du Maurier Ltd)
1972 - Devlin Murphy, Honolulu Hawaii, canoe (alt-Olympics-96)
1973 - Mark Knight, English sound designer
1973 - Sean Paul, Jamaican singer
1974 - Arjan Blaauw, Dutch soccer player (FC Groningen)
1974 - Brian Roberson, wide receiver (NY Giants)
1975 - Vitali Yachmenev, Chelyabinsk Russia, NHL right wing (LA Kings)
1975 - DJ Clue, American DJ and producer
1975 - Harris Jayaraj, Indian music composer
1976 - Jenny Lewis, Las Vegas Nevada, actress (Becky-Life With Lucy)
1976 - Brad Snyder, Ontario, shot putter (Olympics-96)
1976 - Carl Pavano, American baseball player
1977 - Pearl Amoah, Miss Universe-Ghana (1996)
1977 - Ryan Frances, actor (Trevor-Sisters)
1977 - Amber Benson, American actress
1977 - Ron Pederson, Canadian actor
1977 - Lee Yoo-jin, Korean actress
1978 - Petra Minarova, Miss Czech Republic Universe (1997)
1978 - Boris Avrukh, Israeli chess grandmaster
1979 - Sarah Polley, actress (Sweet Hereafter)
1979 - Sequoyah, chimpanzee (son of Washoe)
1979 - Adrian Mutu, Romanian footballer
1979 - Stipe Pletikosa, Croatian footballer
1979 - Seol Ki-Hyeon, South Korean footballer
1980 - Rachel Nichols, American actress
1981 - Jeff Francis, Canadian baseball player
1981 - Xie Xingfang, Chinese badminton player
1982 - Gaby Hoffman, actress (Field of Dreams, Uncle Buck, Now & Then)
1982 - Emanuele Calaiò, Italian footballer
1982 - John Utaka, Nigerian footballer
1982 - wiL Francis, American singer
1983 - Chris Mordetzky, American wrestler
1983 - Felipe Colombo, Argentine-Mexican actor and singer
1984 - Jeff Francoeur, American baseball player
1985 - Rachael Lampa, American singer
1986 - Jaclyn Linetsky, Canadian actress (d. 2003)
1986 - David Silva, Spanish footballer
1988 - Adam T. Siska, American musician
1990 - Maci Wainwright, American singer
1991 - Asuka Hinoi, Japanese singer

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 08, 2013, 07:19:49 AM

This Day in History for 8th January


Famous Deaths

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Astronomer & Physicist             Poet/Novelist Kenneth Patchen (1972)      Premier of the People's Republic of China
 Galileo Galilei (1642)                                                                                                        Zhou Enlai (1976)


482 - Severinus, German monastery founder/saint, dies
624 - Abu Sufjan becomes Quraish chief and leader of Mecca after loss at Battle of Badr against Muslim forces
1100 - Antipope Clement III (bc. 1029)
1107 - Edgar of Scotland (b. 1074)
1198 - Pope Celestine III [Giacinto Bobo], Reigned 1191-98, dies. (bc. 1106)
1324 - Marco Polo, Venetian explorer, dies at 69
1336 - Giotto di Bondone, Italian Renaissance painter, dies at about 71
1455 - Laurentius Justitianus, [Lorenzo Giustiniani], saint, dies at 73
1456 - St Lawrence Justinian, Italian bishop and first Patriarch of Venice (b. 1381)
1464 - Thomas Ebendorfer, Austrian historian (b. 1385)
1557 - Albert the Warlike, Prince of Bayreuth (b. 1522)
1567 - Jacob Vaet, Flemish composer/royal chaplain master, dies at about 37
1570 - Philibert de l'Orme, French architect (bc. 1510)
1598 - Johan Georg, elector of Brandenburg (1571-91), dies at 72
1642 - Galileo Galilei, Italian physicist/astronomer, dies at 77 in Italy
1651 - Giovanni Battista Gagliano, composer, dies at 56
1696 - Michael de Ronghe, composer, dies at 75
1707 - John Dalrymple, 1st Earl of Stair, Scottish politician (b. 1648)
1711 - Philips van Almonde, Zealand lt admiral, dies at 66
1713 - Arcangelo Corelli, composer/violinist (Concerti Grossi), dies at 59
1775 - John Baskerville, English printer/type designer, dies at 68
1789 - Jack Broughton, English boxer (bc. 1703)
1790 - John Stinstra, Dutch baptist vicar, dies at 81
1794 - Justus Möser, German statesman (b. 1720)
1796 - Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois, Fren Nat Convention chairman, dies at 46
1808 - Messenger, horse that sired many great trotters, dies
1811 - Friedrich Nicolai, writer, dies
1811 - Samuel Story, Dutch rear admiral (Battle of Kamperduin), dies at 58
1815 - Edward Pakenham, Engl general (Battle of New Orleans), dies in battle
1819 - Christian Gottlob Saupe, composer, dies at 55
1825 - Eli Whitney, American inventor (b. 1765)
1831 - Franz Vinzenz Krommer, composer, dies at 71
1842 - Viscount Pierre Cambronne, French General during the wars of the Revolution and the Napoleonic Era, dies at 71
1854 - William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, British general and politician (b. 1768)
1858 - Friedrich Karl Kuhmstedt, composer, dies at 48
1859 - Antoine GB Schayes, Belgian historian/archaeologist, dies at 50
1864 - Victor-Charles-Paul Dourlen, composer, dies at 83
1865 - Aimé, duc de Clermont-Tonnerre, French general (b. 1779)
1874 - Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, French writer and historian (b. 1814)
1880 - [Joshua] Norton I, Emperor of US/Protector of Mexico, dies at 60
1891 - Fredrik Pacius, composer, dies at 81
1892 - John Heykamp, old-catholic archbishop of Utrecht, dies at 67
1894 - Pierre-Joseph van Beneden, paleont (life of tapeworms), dies at 84
1896 - William Rainey Marshall, Governor of Minnesota (b. 1825)
1896 - Paul Verlaine, French poet (b. 1844)
1900 - Billy Bates, cricketer (656 runs & 50 wkts in 15 Tests for Eng), dies
1901 - John Barry, Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1873)
1907 - Theodoor Verstraete, Flemish painter/etcher, dies at 57
1916 - Ada Rehan, Irish-born American actress (b. 1860)
1916 - Rembrandt Bugatti, Italian sculptor (b. 1884)
1918 - Michael Hertz, composer, dies at 73
1918 - Ellis H. Roberts, American politician (b. 1827)
1919 - Peter Altenberg, writer, dies at 59
1921 - Luis Villalba Munoz, composer, dies at 48
1922 - Charles R Young, colonel, dies at 58, in Lagos Nigeria
1926 - Emile Paladilhe, composer, dies at 81
1928 - Dumitru Kiriac-Georgescu, composer, dies at 61
1932 - Eurosia Fabris, Italian Catholic (b. 1866)
1934 - Alexandre Stavisky, French swindler, dies
1934 - Andrei Bely, Russian writer (b. 1880)
1937 - John Felix August Korling, composer, dies at 72
1938 - Johnny Gruelle, Creator of Raggedy Ann and Andy (b. 1880)
1941 - Robert Baden-Powell, founder (Boy Scout movement), dies at 83
1942 - Arvo Hannikainen, composer, dies at 44
1942 - Joseph Franklin Rutherford, American religious publisher (b. 1869)
1943 - Richard Hillary, Australian Spitfire pilot and author (b. 1919)
1944 - William Kissam Vanderbilt II, member of the Vanderbilt family (b. 1878)
1945 - Jac[obus] P Thijsse, Dutch biologist (Omgang met planten), dies at 79
1945 - Karl Krafft, Swiss astrologer who was manipulated by the Nazi regime (b. 1900)
1948 - Kurt Schwitters, writer, dies at 60
1948 - Richard Tauber, Austrian tenor (b. 1891)
1950 - George Rowe, cricketer (15 wckts in 4 Tests for S Af 1895-1902), dies
1950 - Joseph A Schumpeter, Aus/US economist/Minister of Finance, dies at 66
1950 - Joseph Issac Shneerson, Jewish Lubavitch Chabal leader, dies
1952 - Antonia Maury, discoverer (supergiant, giant & dwarf stars), dies
1952 - Joseph Arendt, Belgian worker's union leader, dies at 66
1953 - Heinrich Kaspar Schmid, composer, dies at 78
1953 - Admiral Sir Hugh Binney, British naval commander and Governor of Tasmania (b. 1883)
1956 - Jim Elliot, American Christian missionary (b. 1928)
1958 - Paul Pilgrim, American athlete (b. 1883)
1963 - Stark Young, US writer (So Red the Rose), dies at 81
1963 - Kay Sage, American artist and poet (b. 1898)
1964 - Arnoldus JC Krafft, theologist (Atlas of Neth Antilles), dies at 71
1964 - Julius Raab, Austrian Chancellor (1953-61), dies at 72
1965 - Aloys-Henri-Gerard Fornerod, composer, dies at 74
1967 - Zbigniew Cybulski, Polish actor (See You Tommorrow), dies at 39
1969 - Albert Hill, British athlete (b. 1889)
1970 - Georges Guibourg, French performer (b. 1891)
1971 - Adriano Lualdi, composer, dies at 85
1972 - Kenneth Patchen, US writer (See You in the Morning), dies at 60
1975 - Anthony Warde, actor (Big Punch, Buck Rogers), dies at 66
1975 - Gertrude Olmsted, actress (Cobra, Torrent), dies at 70
1975 - John Dierkes, actor (Red Badge of Courage), dies at 69
1975 - John Gregson, actor (Rooney, Assassin), dies at 55
1975 - Louis J H C A de Bourbon, Dutch writer/poet (Gypsy Blood), dies at 66
1975 - Richard Tucker, [Reuben Ticker], US tenor (La Gioconda), dies at 61
1976 - Chou En-lai, China's PM (1949-76), dies of cancer in Beijing at 78
1976 - Zhou Enlai, Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1898)
1976 - Robert Forgan, British fascist (b. 1891)
1978 - Walter Keirnan, TV panelist (I've Got a Secret), dies at 75
1980 - Oscar Ewing, US government official (Everybody's Business), dies at 90
1980 - John Mauchly, American physicist (b. 1907)
1981 - Matthew Beard, entertainer, dies
1981 - Woody Chamblis, actor (Mr Lathrop-Gunsmoke), dies at 66
1982 - Gregoire Aslan, actor (Concrete Jungle), dies of 73 of a heart attack
1982 - Reta Shaw, actress (Ghost & Mrs Muir), dies of emphysema at 69
1983 - Gale Page, actress (4 Daughters, Knute Rockney), dies of cancer at 72
1983 - Lois Wilson, actress (Alice-Aldrich Family), dies at 88
1983 - Tom McCall, Governor of Oregon (b. 1913)
1983 - Gerhard Barkhorn, German fighter pilot (b. 1919)
1983 - Ron Frazer, Australian actor (b. 1924)
1986 - Yaroslav Seifert, Czech poet (Nobel 1984), dies at 84
1986 - Pierre Fournier, French cellist (b. 1906)
1987 - P G Joshi, cricketer (12 Tests for India 1951-60, ct 18 stp 9), dies
1987 - Peter Adams, actor (Alternative, Blowing Hot & Cold), dies at 69
1988 - Frank Pace Jr, US Secretary of Army (1950-53), dies at 76
1989 - Johnny Jordaan, [Jan van Musscher], Dutch folk singer, dies at 64
1989 - Kenneth McMillan, actor (Malone, Concrete Beat), dies of heart attack at 56
1990 - Terry Thomas, Engl comic (Heroes), dies of Parkinson's disease at 78
1991 - Steve Clark, guitarist (Def Leppard-Hysteria), dies at 30
1992 - Abderrahim Bouabid, Morroco prime secretary (1972), dies
1992 - Johnny [Jan] Meijer, Dutch king of accordians (Body & Soul), dies
1992 - Menachim Begin, Israeli PM, dies at 78 of a heart attack
1993 - Asif Nawaz, Pakistani general, dies
1993 - Hakija Turajlic, Bosnian vice-premier, murdered
1993 - Theo Bruins, Dutch pianist/composer (Syncope), dies at 63
1994 - Edward Duke, actor (Decadence, Silver Bears), dies of cancer at 40
1994 - Harvey Haddix, pitcher (12 perfect inning game), dies at 68
1994 - Jay Blackton, US conductor/arranger (Oklahoma!), dies at 84
1994 - Lady Caithness, wife of Brit undersecretary, commits suicide
1994 - Pat Buttram, actor (Haney-Green Acres), dies of kidney failure at 78
1994 - Sri Chandrashekhara Saraswathi, guru of Kanchi, dies at 99
1994 - Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Italian actor (Octopus), dies at 52
1995 - Carlos Monzon, [El Macho], Argentine medium weight boxing champ (1970-77), dies at 52
1995 - Joyce McCartan, peace campaigner, dies at 68
1996 - Francois Mitterrand, Pres of France (1981-95), dies of cancer at 79
1996 - Kurt Schmucker, member (Union of Christian Democrats), dies
1996 - William Mac Lance "Tiny" McCloud, musician/songwriter, dies at 52
1996 - Howard Taubman, American music and theater critic (b. 1907)
1997 - Carole Carr, singer/actress (Down Among the Z Men), dies at 68
1997 - Jesse White, actor (Maytag repairman), dies at 77
1997 - Joseph George Handy Hendleman, musician, dies at 76
1997 - Melvin Calvin, scientist, dies at 85
1997 - Phyllis Hartnoll, writer/editor, dies at 90
1997 - Ronald William Eastman, cinematogrpaher, dies at 60
1998 - Michael Tippett, English composer/conductor (Child of our Time) dies at 93
1998 - Walter Diemer, inventor (bubble gum 1928), dies of heart failure at 93
2000 - Fritz Thiedemann, German equestrianist (b. 1918)
2002 - Alexander Prochorow, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (b. 1916)
2002 - Dave Thomas, American fast food entrepreneur (b. 1932)
2003 - Ron Goodwin, British composer and conductor (b. 1925)
2004 - John A. Gambling, American radio talk-show host (b. 1930)
2005 - Campbell McComas, Australian impersonator and broadcaster (b. 1952)
2005 - Warren Spears, American choreographer and dancer
2005 - Michel Thomas, Polish linguist (b. 1914)
2006 - Tony Banks, British politician (b. 1943)
2007 - Jane Bolin, first African American female judge (b. 1908)
2007 - Yvonne De Carlo, Canadian-born actress (b. 1922)
2007 - Francis Cockfield, British politician (b. 1916)
2007 - David Ervine, Northern Irish politician (b. 1953)
2007 - Iwao Takamoto, American animator (b. 1925)
2008 - George Moore, Australian champion jockey (b. 1923)
2008 - Clyde Otis, American song writer and music producer (b. c. 1924)
2009 - Richard John Neuhaus, Canadian-American Christian writer and editor (b. 1936)
2010 - Monica Maughan, Australian actor (b. 1933)
2010 - Tony Halme, Finnish boxer and politician (b. 1963)
2011 - Thorbjørn Svenssen, Norwegian footballer (b. 1924)
2011 - John Roll, United States Federal Judge (b.1947)
2011 - Vang Pao, charismatic Laotian general who commanded a secret army of his mountain people
            in a long, losing campaign against Communist insurgents, dies at 81

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 09, 2013, 06:36:58 AM

This Day in History for 9th January


Historical Events

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Russian Tsar Ivan the Terrible                  Naturalist Charles Darwin                   WW2 General Douglas MacArthur

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NBA Player Oscar Robertson                  Chinese Prime Minister Mao Tse-Tung

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British Prime Minister                              Singer/Actor Frank Sinatra
Margaret Thatcher


475 - Byzantine Emperor Zeno is forced to flee his capital at Constantinople.
1296 - Earl Floris V signs accord with French king
1317 - Phillips V, the Tall, crowned king of France
1349 - 700 Jews of Basel Switzerland, burned alive in their houses
1431 - Judges' investigations for the trial of Joan of Arc begin in Rouen, France, the seat of the
           English occupation government.
1464 - 1st meeting of States-General of Netherlands
1493 - 1st sight of manatees (by Christopher Columbus)
1522 - Adriaan F Boeyens elected only Dutch pope (Adrian VI)
1558 - Geneva becomes independent from Berne canton, Switzerland
1570 - Tsar Ivan the terrible kills 1000-2000 residents of Novgorod
1718 - France declares war on Spain
1760 - Afghans defeat Marathas in battle of Barari Ghat
1768 - Philip Astley stages the first modern circus in London.
1788 - Connecticut becomes 5th state
1792 - Russia & Turkey sign Peace of Jassy
1793 - 1st hot-air balloon flight in the US lifts off in Philadelphia, piloted by Jean Pierre Blanchard
1793 - Dutch Prince Willem V establishes 2 brigades Drive Artillery
1799 - British Prime Minister William Pitt introduces income tax to raise funds for the war against
           Napoleon.
1806 - Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson receives a state funeral and is interred in St Paul's Cathedral.
1811 - 1st Women's Golf Tournament held
1812 - Swedish Pomerania (Germany) seized by Napoleon
1834 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin arrives in Port San Julian, Patagonia
1839 - Daguerrotype photo process announced at French Academy of Science
1839 - Thomas Henderson measures 1st stellar parallax (Alpha Centauri)
1847 - 1st SF newspaper published (California Star)
1848 - 1st commercial bank in SF established
1848 - People's uprising in Palermo Sicily
1854 - Astor Library opens in NYC
1855 - Clipper Guiding Star disappears in Atlantic, 480 dead
1857 - 7.9 earthquake shakes Fort Tejon Calif
1858 - Anson Jones, the last President of the Republic of Texas, commits suicide.
1861 - 1st hostile act of Civil War; Star of West fired on, Sumter, SC
1861 - Mississippi becomes 2nd state to secede
1863 - -Jan 11th] Battle of Arkansas Post, AR (Ft Hindman)
1866 - Fisk University establishes
1878 - Umberto I becomes King of Italy.
1879 - Cheyenne prisoners led by Dull Knife revolt at Ft Robinson
1879 - Kirland Warbler discovered on Andros Island in Bahamas
1880 - 6' (1.8 meters) of snow falls in Seattle in 5 days
1880 - The Great Gale of 1880 devastates parts of Oregon and Washington with high wind and
            heavy snow.
1894 - "Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze" released in movie theaters
1894 - Georges Feydeau's "Un à la Patte," premieres in Paris
1894 - New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone
           switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts.
1901 - NSW (918) defeat S Australia (157 & 156) by innings & 605
1903 - 2 NYers buy Baltimore baseball franchise for $18,000 & moved it to NY
1903 - Baseball's National & American Leagues make peace
1903 - Wind Cave National Park, SD established
1903 - Frank Farrell & Bill Devery purchase AL Balt franchise for $18,000 & move it to NYC (Yankees)
1905 - Bloody Sunday-demonstrators fired on by tsarist troops (1/22 NS)
1908 - Frans Schollaert succeeds De Trooz as premier of Belgium
1908 - Muir Woods National Monument, California established
1909 - Ernest Shackleton reaches 88°23' south
1912 - US marines invade Honduras
1915 - Exposition (now Civic) Auditorium dedicated, SF
1916 - The Ottoman Empire prevails in the Battle of Çanakkale, as the last British troops are
           evacuated.
1917 - World War I: the Battle of Rafa occurs near the Egyptian border with Palestine.
1922 - KQV-AM in Pittsburgh PA begins radio transmissions
1922 - Rotterdam metal strike ends
1923 - Juan de la Cierva makes 1st autogiro (helicopter) flight, Spain
1925 - German Postal Minister A Hofle resigns due to corruption
1927 - Dmitri Shostakovitch' Octet opus 11, premieres in Moscow
1927 - Fire in Laurier Palace cinema in Montreal, 78 children died
1928 - Eugene O'Neill's "Marco Millions," premieres in NYC
1929 - Buddy DeSylva & Lew Brown's musical "Follow Thru" premieres in NYC
1929 - KDB-AM in Santa Barbara CA begins radio transmissions
1930 - Boston Bruins wins then NHL record 14th straight game
1933 - Amsterdam confectionery worker go on strike against wage reduction
1936 - Noel Coward's "Astonished Heart," premieres in London
1936 - Semi-automatic rifles adopted by US army
1937 - Italian regime bans marriages between Italians & Abyssinians
1937 - Maxwell Anderson's "High Tor" premieres in NYC
1940 - 2 German officers make emergency landing in Belgium
1940 - J Thurber & E Nugent's "Male Animal," premieres in NYC
1941 - 6,000 Jews exterminated in pogrom in Bucharest Romania
1941 - Maiden flight by Canada's British-built Avro Lancaster military plane
1942 - Joe Louis KOs Buddy Baer in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
1942 - US Joint Chiefs of Staff created
1943 - Japanese government in Java limits sale & use of motorcars
1945 - US soldiers led by Gen Douglas MacArthur invades Philippines
1946 - "Would-Be Gentleman" opens at Booth Theater NYC for 77 performances
1947 - "Street Scene" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 148 performances
1947 - Roger Sessions' 2nd Symphony, premieres in SF
1947 - Elizabeth "Betty" Short, the Black Dahlia, is last seen alive.
1948 - Walter Piston's 3rd Symphony in E, premieres in Boston
1951 - Life After Tomorrow, 1st film to receive an "X" rating, premieres
1951 - Washington Capitals NBA club folds
1952 - Belgian Pholien government resigns
1952 - Karel Sys wins European heavyweight boxing title
1952 - Marines give notice that they will recall Ted Williams to active duty
1953 - Bevo Francis, Rio Grande College, scores 116 pts in basketball game
1953 - Korean ferryboat "Chang Tyong-Ho" sank off Pusan killing 249
1954 - -87°F (-66°C), Northice Station, Greenland (Greenland record)
1954 - Bert Olmstead, Mont Canadiens, ties NHL record of 8 points in game
1954 - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Louise Bogan & Leonie Adams
1956 - Abigail Van Buren's "Dear Abby" column 1st appears in newspapers
1956 - Samir el-Rifai forms government in Jordan
1957 - British premier Anthony Eden resigns
1957 - Checheno-Ingush ASSR reformed in RSFSR
1957 - Dutch Newspaper Society expels communist daily paper "Truth"
1957 - Kalmyk Autonomous Region reformed in RSFSR
1957 - Karachayevo-Cherkess Autonomous Region reestablished in RSFSR
1958 - In basketball Oscar Robertson (Cin) scores 56, Seton Hall team 54
1959 - "Rawhide" with Clint Eastwood premieres on CBS TV
1959 - Dam across Tera River collapses after heavy winter rains, 135 die
1959 - Pat O'Connor beats Dick Hutton in St Louis, to become NWA champ
1960 - Building of Aswan dam in Egypt, begins
1961 - Twins agree on $500,000 payment to AA for Minn/St Paul territory
1962 - Mister M (Dr X) beats Verne Gagne in Minn, to become NWA champ
1962 - NFL prohibits grabbing of face masks
1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 - Mao Tse-tung writes his poem "Reply to Comrade Kuo Mo-jo"
1964 - Anti-US rioting broke out in Panama Canal Zone
1965 - Beatles' 65 album goes #1 & stays #1 for 9 weeks
1966 - Polish government denies exit visa to Cardinal Wyszynski revisionism
1967 - Georgia legislature seats Rep Julian Bond
1967 - NFL New Orleans' franchise takes name "Saints"
1968 - 1st ABA All-Star Game: East 126 beats West 120 at Indiana
1968 - Surveyor 7 space probe soft lands on Moon
1969 - 1st trial flight of Concorde
1969 - Concorde jetliner's 1st test flight (Bristol England)
1970 - Constitution of Singapore enacted
1971 - "Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen" closes at Majestic NYC after 19 perf
1972 - Billionaire Howard Hughes says Clifford Irving's bio is a fake
1972 - Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational
1972 - Passenger ship Queen Elizabeth destroyed by fire
1973 - Luna 21 launched, to Moon
1975 - 600 employees of Royal Canadian Mint go on strike
1975 - Australia beat England by 171 runs in 4th Test to regain Ashes
1976 - Bryan Trottier failed in 4th Islander penalty shot
1976 - CW McCall CB song "Convoy" hit #1 on the country music charts
1976 - Ringo releases "Oh My My" in UK
1977 - "Porgy & Bess" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 122 performances
1977 - Superbowl XI: Oakland Raiders beat Minnesota Vikings, 32-14 in Pasadena Superbowl MVP:
           Fred Biletnikoff, Oakland, WR
1978 - Commonwealth of Northern Marianas established
1979 - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to WS Merwin
1979 - High-school player Daryl Moreau makes 126th consecutive free throws
1979 - K-Mart pulls Steve Martin's "Let's Get Small" for being in "bad taste"
1979 - Supreme Court strikes down (6-3) PA law requiring doctors performing an abortion to try to
           preserve lives of potentially viable fetuses
1980 - 63 beheaded in Mecca, Saudi Arabia
1981 - Francisco Balsamao elected pres of Portugal
1982 - 5.9 earthquake in New England & Canada; 1st since 1855
1982 - Steve D'Innocenzo scores 3 hockey goals in 12 sec in Mass HS game
1983 - British PM Margaret Thatcher visits Falkland Islands
1984 - "TV's Bloopers & Practical Jokes" premieres on NBC TV (Whoops)
1984 - Braves pitcher Pascual Perez is arrested for cocaine possession
1984 - EAA moves operations to Oshkosh
1984 - John Lennon releases "Nobody Told Me"
1985 - Flames set NHL record 264th regular season game without being shut-out
1986 - NY Islanders greatest shutout margin (9-0) vs Pittsburgh Penguins
1986 - After losing a patent battle with Polaroid, Kodak must give up its instant camera business.
1987 - Chinese/Vietnamese border fights, 1500 killed
1987 - New Nicaraguan constitution takes effect
1988 - August Wilson's "Piano Lesson," premieres in Boston
1988 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano
1989 - "Pat Sajak Show" premieres on CBS
1989 - Johnny Bench & Carl Yastrzemski elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1990 - 64th US manned space mission STS 32 (Columbia 10) launches into orbit
1990 - Boston Celtics worst ever (6 pts in 2nd vs NJ Nets) & lose 87-78
1990 - Jim Palmer & Joe Morgan elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1990 - Supreme Court strikes down Dallas' ordinance imposing strict zoning on sexually oriented
           businesses
1991 - Baker & Aziz meet in Geneva; talks fail to defuse gulf crisis
1991 - Baseball officially bans Pete Rose from being elected to Hall of Fame
1991 - Dean Smith of NC is 6th to win 700 career coaching basketball games
1993 - Franziska van Almsick swims world record 100 m free style (53.33)
1994 - 14th United Negro College Fund raises $11,000,000
1994 - Gunda Niemann skates world record (167.282 pts)
1994 - Rintje Ritsma skates world record (156.201 points)
1995 - Ecuador & Peru involve in boundary fight
1995 - Worker accidentally cuts electrial wires at Newark Airport
1996 - First episode of "Third Rock from the Sun" screened on NBC
1997 - Heart attacks sends Frank Sinatra back to hospital
1998 - Anatoly Karpov defeats Viswanathan Anand to retain chess title
1998 - Anatoly Solovyov & Pavel Vinogradov spacewalk record 3 hrs 8 mins
1998 - Boston Red Sox Mo Vaughn pleads not guilty to drunken driving
1998 - Decapitated head of Danish Little Mermaid is returned
1998 - Hockey News selects Wayne Gretzky best NHL player ever
2001 - ABC-TV deputs "The Mole" for the first time
2001 - Shenzhou 2, an unmanned Chinese spacecraft, is launched.
2001 - Apple announced iTunes at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco, for organizing and playing
           digital music and videos. Now widely used by Windows and Mac users.
2002 - Michael Jackson receives the Artist of the Century award at the American music awards
2005 - The signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, commonly known as the Naivasha
           Agreement between the Government of Sudan and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement
           rebel group in Naivasha, Kenya.
2005 - Elections are held to replace Yasser Arafat as head of the Palestine Liberation Organization. He
           is succeeded by Rawhi Fattouh.
2007 - Apple Inc CEO, Steve Jobs announces the iPhone.

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 09, 2013, 06:39:32 AM

This Day in History for 9th January


Famous Weddings

1428 - Pope Martinus V declares Jacqueline, Countess of Haintaut's marriage to Humphrey Duke of
           Gloucester invalid
1987 - Sir Rudolph Bing (of NY Met Opera) marries Lady Carroll Douglass
1988 - English earl of St Andrews marries Sylvana Tomaselli
2005 - "Motley Crue" lead singer Vince Neil (43) weds Lia Gerardini at the Four Seasons hotel in Las
            Vegas
2007 - "Ugly Betty" actress Ashley Jensen (37) weds actor and writer Terence Beesley in a ceremony
           in the woods of Big Sur, California
2009 - High School Musical actress KayCee Stroh (24) weds Ben Higginson (24) at Salt Lake Temple
           in Salt Lake City, Utah
2010 - Food writer and former fashion model Sophie Dahl (32) weds British jazz singer Jamie Cullum
          (30) in Hampshire, England

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 09, 2013, 06:47:56 AM

This Day in History for 9th January


Famous Birthdays

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37th US President                                   Musician Dave Matthews (1967)              Duchess of Cambridge & Wife
Richard Nixon (1913)                                                                                      of Prince William Kate Middleton (1982)     


1554 - Gregory XV, [Alessandro Ludovisi], pope (1621-23)
1571 - Karel Bonaventura Buquoy, French soldier (d. 1621)
1574 - Christoph Buel, composer
1620 - Johann Weichmann, composer
1624 - Empress Meishō (d. 1696)
1695 - John E Loovens, lawyer
1699 - Robert J Pothier, French lawyer
1728 - Thomas Warton, poet laureate of England (Pleasures of Melancholy)
1745 - Caleb Strong, 6th and 10th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1819)
1748 - Stefan Paluselli, composer
1773 - Cassandra Austen, English watercolorist and sister of Jane Austen (d. 1845)
1790 - Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom, Swedish poet (Lycksalighetens)
1803 - Christopher Gustavus Memminger, Secy Treas (Confederacy) died in 1888
1811 - Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, English writer (d. 1856)
1815 - William Jackson, composer
1816 - John Palmer Usher, Secy Int (Union) died in 1889
1819 - James Francis, Premier of Victoria (d. 1884)
1820 - Pavel Krizkovsky, composer
1822 - John Porter Hatch, volunteers Bvt Major General (Union), died in 1901
1829 - Adolf von Schlagintweit, German explorer (Tarimbekken)
1829 - Thomas William Robertson, England, playwright (Caste)
1832 - Esquire Maurits A de Savornin Lohman, Dutch governor of Suriname
1832 - Félix-Gabriel Marchand, journalist, author and politician, Premier of Quebec (d. 1900)
1839 - John Knowles Paine, Portland Maine, composer
1843 - Christiaan A Ulder, Curacao, composer (waltzes/tumbas)
1848 - Princess Frederica of Hanover (d. 1926)
1849 - John Hartley, English tennis player, double winner of Wimbledon (d. 1935)
1851 - Giuseppi Gallignani, composer
1854 - Jennie Jerome, American society beauty and mother of Winston Churchill (d. 1921)
1856 - Anton Askerc, Slavic priest/poet (Primoz Trubar)
1856 - Lizette Woodworth Reese, US poet (Branch of May, Tears)
1856 - Stevan Mokranjac, composer
1857 - Henry B Fuller, American writer (Under the Skylights)
1859 - Carrie Chapman Catt, women's rights leader
1859 - Carrie Lane Chapman Catt, founder (League of Women Voters)
1859 - Frederik Pijper, Dutch vicar/church historian (The Monasteries)
1864 - Vladimir Steklov, Russian mathematician (d. 1926)
1866 - Albert Baertsoen, Flemish painter/etcher
1867 - Jacques Urlus, Dutch tenor (Opera of Leipzig, Song of the Earth)
1868 - S. P. L. Sørensen, Danish chemist (d. 1939)
1870 - Joseph B Strauss, civil engineer/builder (Golden Gate Bridge)
1871 - Charles Kortright, British(?) cricket player
1873 - Hayyim Nahman Bialik, Hebrew poet (d. 1934)
1875 - Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, American socialite (d. 1942)
1876 - Hans Bethge, writer
1879 - John Broadus Watson, behaviorist psychologist
1881 - Giovanni Papini, Italy, writer (Il Diavolo)
1881 - Lascelles Abercrombie, English poet/critic (Revaluations)
1881 - Edouard Beaupré, horse lifter (d. 1904)
1890 - Karel Capek, Czech, writer (R U R); coined the word "robot"
1890 - Kurt Tucholsky, German journalist/writer (Panther Tiger & Co)
1891 - August Gailit, Estonia, writer (Ekke Moor)
1892 - Eva Bowring, American politician (d. 1985)
1894 - Henryk Stazewski, Polish abstract painter/graphic artist
1896 - Warwick Braithwaite, New Zealand-born British conductor (d. 1971)
1897 - Luis Gianneo, composer
1897 - Karl Löwith, German philosopher (d. 1973)
1898 - Gracie Fields, [Stansfield], England, music hall/vaudeville performer
1898 - Vilma Banky, Budapest Hungary, silent screen actress (Eagle, Rebel)
1898 - Wally Baker, American supercentenarian
1900 - Joseph Frederick Wagner, composer
1900 - Richard Halliburton, American adventurer (presumed dead 1939)
1901 - Chic Young, cartoonist (Blondie)
1902 - Rudolph Bing, opera manager (NY Metropolitan Opera)
1903 - Hem Vejakorn, Thai illustrator (d. 1969)
1908 - Simone de Beauvoir, France, author (Mandarins, 2nd Sex)
1909 - Herva Nelli, soprano
1910 - Dick Henry Jurgen, bandleader
1911 - Richard Selwyn Francis Schiling, professor of occupational health
1911 - Stafford WIlliam Somerfield, British newspaper editor
1912 - Ralph Tubbs, architect
1913 - Lavad "Dr Hepcat" Durst, vocal/piano
1913 - Peter John Norton, naval diplomat/artist
1913 - Richard Nixon, Yorba Linda, California, 37th President (R) of the United States (1969-74)
1914 - Derek Allhusen, England, equestrian (Olympic-gold-1968)
1914 - Gypsy Rose Lee, [Rose Hovick], Seattle, burlesque actress (Gypsy)
1914 - Kenny [Klook] Clarke, Pittsburgh, jazz/drummer, composer (Epistrop)
1915 - Anita Louise, NYC, actress (My Friend Flicka)
1915 - Fernando Lamas, Buenos Aires Argentina, actor ("You look marvelous")
1916 - Alain Bernardin, impressario (Crazy Horse Saloon)
1916 - Vic Mizzy, Bkln NY, orchestra leader (Don Rickles Show)
1916 - Peter Twinn, English World War II code-breaker (d. 2004)
1917 - Herbert Lom, Czech, actor (Pink Panther Strikes Again, Dorian Gray)
1920 - Chan Canasta, Polish-British magician (d. 1999)
1920 - Clive Dunn, British actor, (d. 2012)
1920 - Hakim Mohammed Said, Pakistani scholar
1921 - Seymour Barab, composer
1921 - Lister Sinclair, Canadian broadcaster and playwright (d. 2006)
1922 - Har G Khorana, India/Canada bio-chemist (Nobel 1968)
1922 - Ahmed Sékou Touré, President of Guinea (d. 1984)
1924 - Sergei Parajanov, Armenian film director (d. 1990)
1925 - Abdelhamid Benhadugah, novelist
1925 - Lee Van Cleef, NJ, actor (For a Few Dollars More, Escape from NY)
1926 - Jean-Pierre Côté, Canadian politician, Lieutenant governor of Quebec (d. 2002)
1928 - Domenico Modugno, Italy, rocker (Polignano A Mare)
1928 - Fernand J St Germain, (Rep-D-RI, 1961- )
1928 - Judith Krantz, NYC, author (Scruples, Princess Daisy, Dazzle)
1929 - Heiner Muller, dramatist
1929 - Brian Friel, Irish dramatist
1929 - Dorothea Puente, American serial killer
1931 - Algi[rda]s [Jonas] Budrys, Prussia, sci-fi author (Man of Earth)
1931 - Geoffrey Wragg, British(?) reorganizer
1933 - Robert Garcia, (Rep-D-NY, 1978- )
1933 - Sonia Garmers, [Justina], Curacao, author (Dear Queen)
1933 - Wilbur Smith, Zambian-British novelist
1934 - Bart Starr, NFL quarterback/coach (Green Bay)
1934 - Julian B Coco, Antilles, guitarist/tutor (Princess Christina)
1935 - Bob Denver, New Rochelle NY, actor (Dobie Gillis, Gilligan's Island)
1935 - Dick Enberg, Mt Clemens Mich, sportscaster (Where's Huddles)
1935 - Kenneth "Buddy" Scott, blues guitarist/Singer
1935 - Bob Denver, American actor (d. 2005)
1935 - Earl G. Graves, Sr., African-American Publisher
1935 - Brian Harradine, Australian independent Senator
1936 - Peter Fletcher, music teacher
1936 - Anne Rivers Siddons, American writer
1937 - K Schlesinger, writer
1938 - Aad Kosto, Dutch theologist/actor/asst secretary of Justice
1940 - Barbara Buczek, composer
1940 - Jimmy Boyd, McComb Mo, singer/actor (Howard-Bachelor Father)
1940 - Al Downing, American singer (d. 2005)
1940 - Ruth Dreifuss, Swiss politician
1941 - Joan Baez, Staten Island, folk singer/human rights advocate
1941 - Susannah York, London, actress (A Man for All Seasons, Tom Jones)
1941 - Gilles Vaillancourt, Quebec politician
1942 - K Callan, Dallas Tx, actress (Joe's World, Martha-Lois & Clark)
1942 - Lee Kun-hee, Korean industrialist, chairman of Samsung
1943 - Dick Yount, rocker (Harpers Bizarre)
1943 - Kenneth Kelley, US singer (Manhattans, One Life to Live)
1943 - Rob Hoeke, Dutch pianist/singer (Drinking on My Bed)
1943 - Robert Drewe, Australian author
1943 - Elmer MacFadyen, Canadian politician (d. 2007)
1943 - Freddie Starr, English comedian and singer
1944 - Jimmy Page, London, rock guitarist (Led Zeppelin-Stairway to Heaven)
1944 - Scott Engel, vocalist (Walker Brothers-Sun Aint Gonna Shine Anymore)
1944 - Ian Hornak, American Painter, Draughtsman and Sculptor (d. 2002)
1945 - Frank J Biondi Jr, president (HBO)
1945 - Harun Farocki, actor/director (Nicht loeschbares Feur)
1945 - John Doman, American actor
1946 - Leo Gullotta, actor (Sinbad of the 7 Seas)
1947 - Ronnie Landfield, American artist
1948 - Bill Cowsill, Newport RI, rock guitarist/vocals (Cowsills-We Can Fly)
1948 - Paul King, Dagenham Essex, English rocker (Blue Oyster Cult)
1950 - David Johansen, [Buster Poindexter], NY, singer (Hot! Hot! Hot!)
1950 - Rio Reiser, rock singer
1951 - Crystal Gayle, Ky, country singer (Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue)
1952 - Eveline L Herfkens, Dutch MP (PvdA)
1952 - Hugh Bayley, British politician
1953 - Morris Gleitzman, British-Australian children's author
1954 - Lance Hoppens, rocker (Orleans-Still the One, Dance With Me)
1955 - Michiko Kakutani, American literary critic
1955 - J. K. Simmons, American actor
1956 - David Smith, cricketer (England lefty batsman in 2 Tests v WI 1986)
1956 - Kimberly Beck Hilton, Glendale California, actress (Kim-Peyton Place)
1956 - Imelda Staunton, British actress
1956 - Mike Walczewski, American Public Address Announcer at Madison Square Garden
1957 - Phil Lewis, lead singer of L.A. Guns
1958 - Mehmet Ali Ağca, Turkish attempted assassin of Pope John Paul II
1958 - Stephen Neale, British philosopher
1959 - Otis Nixon, US baseball outfielder (Boston Red Sox, Texas Rangers)
1959 - Mark Martin, American race car driver
1959 - Rigoberta Menchú, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
1959 - Cristi Minculescu, Romanian musician
1960 - David Peoples, Augusta ME, Nike golfer (1991 Buick Southern Open)
1960 - Lisa Walters, Prince Rupert BC, LPGA golfer (Itoki Hawaiian-1992, 93)
1961 - Oliver Goldstick, American screenwriter
1962 - Phil Lewis, London England, rock vocalist (LA Guns-It's Over Now)
1963 - Michael Everson, expert in writing systems and Unicode
1964 - Stan Javier, S P de Macoris Dom Rep, outfielder (Oak A's, SF Giants)
1965 - Atsuo Kudo, hockey defenseman (Team Japan 1998)
1965 - Carin Garbarra, East Orange NJ, soccer forward (Olympics-96)
1965 - Cindy Brooks, East Hampton CT, rower (Olympics-96)
1965 - Darren Bennett, NFL punter (San Diego Chargers)
1965 - Georg Franz, Straubing GER, hockey forward (Team Germany, Landshut)
1965 - Muggsy Bogues, NBA guard (SF Warriors)
1965 - Vincent Brown, NFL inside linebacker (NE Patriots)
1965 - [Tyrone] Muggsy Bogues, NBA guard (Charlotte Hornets, Wash Bullets)
1965 - Eric Erlandson, American musician
1966 - Jimmie Jones, defensive end/defensive tackle (Philadelphia Eagles)
1966 - Candi Milo, American voice actress
1967 - Dave Matthews, singer/musician (Dave Matthews Band)
1967 - Dave Mcllwain, Seaforth, NHL center (Pitts Penguins)
1967 - Jamie Huscroft, Creston, NHL defenseman (Calgary Flames)
1967 - Claudio Caniggia, Argentinian footballer
1967 - Steven Harwell, American singer and musician (Smash Mouth)
1968 - Jimmy Adams, cricketer (prolific West Indian lefty bat since 1992)
1968 - Katie Anderson, Kingston Jamaica, Canada 100m hurdler (Oly-7th-92, 96)
1968 - Mardi Lunn, Liverpool Sydney Australia, golfer (1991 Thailand Open)
1968 - Joey Lauren Adams, American actress
1968 - Al Schnier, American rock guitarist (moe.)
1969 - Domingo Jean, Dominican/US baseball pitcher (Houston Astros)
1969 - Johanna Ikonen, ice hockey defenseman (Finland, Oly-98)
1970 - Graciela Schutt, El Paso Tex, WPVA volleyballer (Deerfield-25th-1995)
1970 - Lara Fabian, Belgian singer
1970 - Alex Staropoli, Italian keyboardist (Rhapsody Of Fire)
1971 - Bill Schroeder, NFL wide reciever (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1971 - Elizabeth Punsalan, Syracuse NY, American ice skater (Oly-15-94)
1971 - Scott Thornton, London, NHL left wing (Edmonton Oilers)
1971 - Daniel Dumile, American hip hop artist
1971 - Hal Niedzviecki, Canadian author
1971 - Yusuke Naora, Japanese game art director
1972 - Eddie Mason, NFL linebacker (NY Jets)
1972 - Jay Powell, Meridian MS, pitcher (Florida Marlins)
1972 - Kristie Hicks, Bardstown Kentucky, Miss America-Kentucky (1996)
1972 - Sarah Beeny, British TV personality
1972 - Angie Martinez, American radio and television personality
1972 - Jay Powell, baseball player
1973 - Aaron Holbert, US baseball infielder (St Louis Cardinals)
1973 - Ronald Hamming, soccer player (FC Groningen, Fortuna Sittard)
1974 - Craig Wishart, cricketer (Zimbabwe Test batsman vs South Africa 1995)
1974 - Jamain Stephens, NFL offensive tackle (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1974 - Farhan Akhtar, Indian Bollywood Director, Actor, Producer, Singer.
1975 - Justin Huish, Fountain Valley CA, archer (Olympics-gold-1996)
1975 - Mariano Friedick, Tarzana California, pursuit cyclist (Olympics-96)
1975 - Kiko Calero, Puerto Rican baseball player
1975 - Kimberley Ann Scott Mathers, former wife of Eminem
1976 - Amy Safe, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1976 - Radek Bonk, Koprivnice Cze, NHL center (Ottawa Senators, Team Czech)
1976 - Todd Grisham, American professional wrestling interviewer
1977 - Beth Troutman, American production assistant
1978 - Gennaro Gattuso, Italian footballer
1978 - Mathieu Garon, Canadian ice hockey player
1978 - Chad Johnson, American football player
1978 - AJ McLean, American singer (Backstreet Boys)
1978 - Maggie Rizer, American model and AIDS activist
1979 - Lavinia Magruder, Miss Vermont Teen USA (1996)
1979 - Tomiko Van, Japanese singer
1980 - Sergio García, Spanish golfer
1981 - Euzebiusz Smolarek, Polish footballer
1982 - Kate Middleton, Reading, England, Duchess of Cambridge and wife of Prince William
1987 - Lucas Pezzini Leiva, Brazilian and Liverpool Footballer
1987 - Sam Bird, English racing driver
1987 - Paolo Nutini, Scottish singer/songwriter
1987 - Pablo Santos, Mexican actor (d. 2006)
1989 - Michaella Krajicek, Dutch tennis player
1997 - Lauryn McClain, American actress and singer

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 09, 2013, 06:49:54 AM

This Day in History for 9th January


Famous Deaths

1150 - Emperor Xizong of Jin was murdered by Prince Hailing of Jin in a Coup d'état.
1282 - Abû 'Uthmân Sa'îd Hakam al Qurashi, ruler of Minorca (b. 1204)
1283 - Wen Tianxiang, Prime Minister of China (executed) (b. 1236)
1499 - Johan Cicero, elector of (Brandenburg, 1486-99), dies at 43
1514 - Anna, Duchess of Brittany, queen of Charles VIII of France (b. 1477)
1543 - Guillaume du Bellay, French diplomat and general (b. 1491)
1562 - Amago Haruhisa, Japanese warlord (b. 1514)
1571 - Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon, French naval officer (b. 1510)
1598 - Jasper Heywood, English translator (b. 1553)
1677 - Aernout "Aert" van der Neer, cartoonist/landscape painter, dies at 73
1679 - Werner Fabricius, composer, dies at 45
1757 - Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, French scientist and man of letters (b. 1657)
1757 - Louis Bertrand Castel, French mathematician (b. 1688)
1766 - Thomas Birch, British historian (b. 1705)
1798 - Pedro Pablo Abarca d Bolea earl of Aranda, Spanish officer, dies at 79
1799 - Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian scientist (b. 1718)
1800 - Jean Étienne Championnet, French general (b. 1762)
1805 - Noble Wimberly Jones, American Continental Congressman (b. 1723)
1828 - Pieter 't Hoen, Dutch journalist/patriot (Neder-Rhijn), dies at 83
1843 - Caroline Herschel, "1st lady of astronomy", dies at 98 in Germany
1843 - William Hedley, British industrial engineer (b. 1773)
1848 - Caroline Herschel, German-born astronomer (b. 1750)
1849 - Jan Kops, Dutch agriculturist/vicar, dies at 83
1853 - Juan N Gallego, Spanish poet/interpreter (El dos de Mayo), dies at 75
1854 - Filippo Traetta, [Philip Trajetta], Ital composer, dies at 77
1858 - Anson Jones, 5th and last President of Texas (suicide) (b. 1798)
1863 - Ferdinand Huber, composer, dies at 71
1873 - Emperor Napoleon III of France (b. 1808)
1876 - Samuel Gridley Howe, American abolitionist (b. 1801)
1877 - Alexander Brullov, Russia painter (b. 1799)
1878 - Victor Emmanuel II, King of Sardinia (1849-61) and Italy (1861-78), dies at 57
1879 - Don Joaquin BF Espartero, fieldmarshall/viceroy of Navarra, dies at 86
1886 - Jakob Eduard Schmolzer, composer, dies at 73
1893 - Mohara, Arab ivory/slave trader, dies in battle & is eaten
1895 - Aaron Lufkin Dennison, American watch manufacturer (b. 1812)
1901 - Richard Copley Christie, English scholar (b. 1830)
1902 - Gustaaf Rolin-Jaequemyns, Belgian lawyer/Interior minister, dies at 66
1904 - Alfred Richard, cricketer (6 & 0 in only Test for S Af 1895-96), dies
1908 - Abraham Goldfaden, US Yiddish stage performer (Shulamis), dies at 67
1908 - Wilhelm Busch, writer, dies
1911 - Edwin Arthur Jones, composer, dies at 57
1911 - Edvard Rusjan, Slovene flight pioneer (b. 1886)
1918 - Émile Reynaud, French scientist (b. 1844)
1923 - Katherine Mansfield, NZ/British writer (Dove's Nest), dies at 34
1927 - Houston S Chamberlain, British/German race theorist, dies at 71
1929 - Heiner Muller, writer, dies
1930 - Edward W Buck, Dutch/US editor (Ladies Home Journal), dies at 66
1931 - Claude Anet [Jean Schopfer], French writer (La fille perdue), dies
1931 - Wayne Munn, wrestler (b. 1896)
1936 - John Gilbert, actor (Love, Downstairs), dies at 40
1939 - Johann Strauss, Austrian conductor/Royal ball director, dies at 72
1941 - Ko Boezeman, Dutch resistance fighter, dies
1943 - Robin G Collingwood, English philosopher (Roman Britain), dies at 53
1945 - Jüri Uluots, Estonian Prime Minister (b. 1890)
1946 - Countee Cullen, US poet (Black Christ, One Way to Heaven), dies at 42
1946 - Dimitrios Golemis, Greek athlete (b. 1874)
1947 - Karl Mannheim, sociologist (Diagnosis of Our Time), dies at 53
1947 - Lambertus Zijl, sculptor (Merchant Exchange-Amsterdam), dies at 80
1949 - Amilcare Zanella, composer, dies at 75
1953 - Hans Aanrud, Norwegian author (Storken), dies at 89
1957 - Mary Carr Moore, composer, dies at 83
1958 - Paul Fechter, German writer/historian (God's Magician), dies
1959 - Paul Malengreau, composer, dies at 71
1960 - Elsie J. Oxenham, British children's author (b. 1880)
1961 - Emily Greene Balch, American writer, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1867)
1962 - LeRoy B Shield, US pianist/composer (Union Pacific Suite), dies at 68
1964 - Halide Edib Adevar/Salih, Turkish feminist (Handan), dies at about 80
1966 - Haro Levoni Step'anyan, composer, dies at 68
1968 - Kokichi Tsuburaya, Jap marathoner (Oly-bronze-1964), commits suicide
1968 - Louis-Francois-Marie Aubert, French composer (Habanera), dies at 90
1969 - Ladislav Vycpalek, composer, dies at 86
1971 - Giannis Christou, Greek composer (b. 1926)
1971 - Elmer Flick, baseball player (b. 1876)
1972 - Ted Shawn, US dancer, dies at 80
1975 - John Slater, actor (Deadlock, 3 on a Spree), dies at 58
1975 - Pierre Fresnay, French actor (Monsieur Vincent), dies at 77
1975 - Pyotr Sergeyevich Novikov, Russian mathematician (b. 1901)
1977 - Alexey Kozlovsky, composer, dies at 71
1977 - Hal Sawyer, TV host (Sawyer Views Hollywood), dies at 62
1978 - Eddie Gilbert, cricket (Aboriginal Qld quick got Don for a duck), dies
1979 - Avery Claflin, composer, dies at 80
1979 - Sara Carter, vocalist/guitarist (Carter Family), dies at 80
1979 - Pier Luigi Nervi, Italian engineer and architect (b. 1891)
1981 - Kazimierz Serocki, composer, dies at 58
1982 - Paul Lynde, actor (Bye Bye Birdie, Bewitched), dies at 55
1984 - Wolfgang Staudte, German director (Ciske de Rat), dies at 77
1985 - Don Brennan, cricket wicketkeeper (England in 2 Tests 1951), dies
1985 - Robert Mayer, British businessman and philanthropist (b. 1879)
1987 - Arthur Lake, actor (Dagwood-Blondie), dies at 81
1987 - Marion Hutton, American singer (b. 1919)
1989 - Bill Terry, baseball player (b. 1898)
1990 - Sir Edward McTiernan, Australian jurist, lawyer and politician (b. 1892)
1990 - Spud Chandler, baseball player (b. 1907)
1992 - Steve Brodie, actor (Desperate, Bodyguard), dies of cancer at 72
1992 - William JF "Bill" Naughton, Irish/Brit playwright (Alfie), dies at 81
1993 - Alois Brunner, German/Syrian commandant of KZ-Lower Drancy, dies
1993 - Felix Grucci, fireworks expert, dies of Alzheimer's disease at 87
1993 - Sir Paul Hasluck, Governor-General of Australia (b. 1905)
1994 - Silas Hogan, blues singer/guitarist, dies at 82
1995 - Peter Cook, English comic/actor (Peter n' Dud, Bedazzled), dies at 57
1995 - Souphanouvong, [Red Prince], president of Laos (1975-87), dies at 85
1996 - Fearless Mary Nadia Wadia, actress, dies at 88
1996 - Kurt Schmucker, German RFA minister of Economy (1963-66), dies
1996 - Michael Lynn Synar, politician, dies at 45
1997 - Edward Osobka-Morawski, prime minister of Poland (1945-47), dies
1997 - Junaidu ibn Buhari, scholar, dies at 90
1998 - Kenichi Fukui, Japanese Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1981) dies at 79
1998 - Charito Solis, Filipino actress (b. 1935)
2000 - Nigel Tranter, Scottish historian and author (b. 1909)
2001 - Maurice Prather, American photographer (b. 1926)
2003 - Will McDonough, American sports journalist (b. 1935)
2004 - Norberto Bobbio, Italian philosopher (b. 1909)
2005 - Gonzalo Gavira, Mexican film sound technician (b. 1925)
2006 - Andy Caldecott, Australian motorcycle racer (b. 1964)
2006 - Mikk Mikiver, Estonian actor, director (b. 1937)
2007 - Elmer Symons, South African motorcycle racer (b. 1977)
2008 - Johnny Grant, American radio personality, television producer (b. 1923)
2008 - William Quinn, Irish Republican Army soldier (b. 1950)
2008 - Mehran Ghassemi, Iranian journalist (b. 1977)
2008 - Sir John Harvey-Jones, chairman of ICI from 1982 to 1987 (b.1924).
2009 - T. Llew Jones, Welsh author (b. 1915)
2010 - Vimcy, Sports writer (b. 1925)
2012 - Malam Bacai Sanhá, President of Guinea-Bissau, dies of diabetes at 64
2012 - Brian Curvis, British boxer and 1960 welterweight champion, dies from leukemia at 74
2012 - Ruth Fernandez, Puerto Rican singer and politician, dies from septic shock and pneumonia at
           92
2012 - Bridie Gallagher, Irish singer, dies at 87
2012 - William Roll, parapsychologist, dies at 85

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 10, 2013, 07:22:26 AM

This Day in History for 10th January


Historical Events

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King of England King Charles I           Oil Industrialist John D Rockefeller
   
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Russian Revolutionary Leon Trotsky       Country Singer Jerry Lee Lewis


49 BC - Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signaling the start of civil war.
69 - Roman emperor Galba adopts Marcus Piso Licinianus as Caesar
236 - St Fabian begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1072 - Robert Guiscard conquers Palermo
1356 - German emperor Charles I delegates Golden Degree
1429 - Order of Golden Fleece established in Austria-Hungary & Spain
1430 - Order of the Guilder forms
1475 - Stephen III of Moldavia defeats the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Vaslui.
1514 - Complutensian New Testament in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek & Latin finished
1550 - 1st sitting of "Vurige Chamber" in Paris
1642 - King Charles I & family flee London for Oxford
1663 - King Charles II affirms charter of Royal African Company
1731 - Charles Farnese becomes duke of Parma/Piacenza
1776 - "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine, published
1799 - Friedrich von Schiller's "Die Piccolomini," premieres in Weimar
1806 - Dutch in Capetown surrender to British
1808 - Herman Daendels succeeds A Wiese as gov-gen of Neth Indies
1811 - Louisiana slaves rebell in 2 parishes
1833 - Felix Mendelssohn's "Die erste Walpurgisnacht," premieres in Berlin
1839 - Tea from India 1st arrives in UK
1840 - Penny Post mail system starts
1845 - Poets Elizabeth Barrett & Robert Browning begin corresponding
1853 - Charles Reade's "Gold," premieres in London
1861 - Ft Jackson & Ft Philip are taken over by LA state troops
1861 - US forts & property seized by Mississippi
1861 - American Civil War: Florida becomes 3rd state to secedes from the Union.
1862 - Battle of Big Sandy River, KY (Middle Creek)
1862 - Battle of Romney, WV
1863 - 1st underground railway opens in London
1863 - General McClernand's Union troops surround Fort Hindman Ark
1863 - January-uprising begins in Poland
1870 - Georgia legislature reconvenes
1870 - John D Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil
1878 - US Senate proposes female suffrage
1883 - Fire at uninsured Newhall Hotel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin kills 71. General Tom Thumb of P T
           Barnum fame, escapes unhurt
1889 - Ivory Coast declared a protectorate of France
1890 - Edward Macdowell's "Lancelot & Elaine," premieres
1890 - Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Sapientiae Christianae
1893 - Richard Drigo's ballet "Magic Flute" premieres, St Petersburg
1897 - Henrik Ibsen's "John Gabriel Borkman," premieres in Helsingfors
1897 - Vincent d'Indy's "Istar" premieres in Amsterdam & Brussels
1900 - Lord Roberts & Lord Kitchener reach Capetown
1901 - Oil discovered in Texas
1902 - Alphons Diepenbrock's "Te Deum" premieres (Amsterdam)
1910 - 1st international air meet in US held, in LA
1910 - Lunt-Fontanne Theater (Globe) opens at 205 W 46th St NYC
1911 - 1st photo in US taken from an airplane, San Diego
1911 - Honduras signs treaty turning over customs to US (not ratified)
1911 - Trumper scored double cricket ton v South Africa, goes on to get 214
1912 - Caillaux government in France resigns
1912 - World's 1st flying boat's maiden flight, (Glenn Curtiss in NY)
1914 - 1st edition of Hague's Post under SF van Oss, published
1914 - Oscar Mathisen skates world record 500 m in 43.7 sec in Oslo
1916 - Russian offensive in Kaukasus
1920 - League of Nations established
1920 - Mont Canadiens (14) & Tor St Patricks (7) score NHL record 21 goals
1920 - Silver reaches record $1.37 an ounce
1923 - Last US troops leave Rhineland (Germany)
1923 - Lithuania seizes & annexes country of Memel
1925 - France-Saarland forms
1925 - Miriam (Ma) Ferguson sworn in as TX gov, nation's 2nd woman governor
1927 - Fritz Lang's Metropolis premieres
1928 - G/I Gershwin/Romberg/Wodehouse's musical "Rosalie," premieres in NYC
1928 - Soviet Union orders exile of Leon Trotsky
1929 - Elmer Rice's "Street Scene," premieres in NYC
1930 - Commencement of NZ's 1st Test, v England Christchurch
1930 - Maurice Allom takes Test hat-trick England v NZ Christchurch
1930 - Mordovian Autonomous Region in RSFSR constituted
1931 - Phila Quakers defeat Montreal, ends NHL-record 15-game losing streak
1932 - "Mickey Mouse" & "Silly Symphony" comics syndicated
1932 - "Pete the Tramp" cartoon strip by C D Russell debuts
1938 - Eduard van Beinum becomes world's 1st conductor at Concert Hall
1938 - Jean Anouilh's "La Sauvage," premieres in Paris
1938 - Paul Vincent Carroll's "White Seed," premieres in NYC
1939 - Bradman hits 186 SA v Qld before Christ catches him at short-leg
1941 - Joseph Kesselring's "Arsenic & Old Lace," premieres in NYC
1941 - Seyss-Inquart begins registration of Jews
1941 - World War II: The Greek army captures Kleisoura.
1942 - Japan invades North-Celebes, Neth Indies
1943 - Russian offensive against German 6th/4th Armies near Stalingrad
1943 - 1st US pres to visit a foreign country in wartime-FDR leaves for Casablanca, Morocco
1944 - 1st mobile electric power plant delivered, Phila
1944 - British troops conquer Maungdaw, Burma
1945 - Baseball writers again fail to elect a new Hall of Famer
1945 - LA Railway (with 5 streetcar lines) forced to close
1945 - No one is elected to baseball's Hall of Fame
1946 - 1st radar contact with Moon
1946 - UN General Assembly meets for 1st time (London)
1946 - US Army establishes 1st radar contact with Moon, Belmar, NJ
1947 - "Finian's Rainbow" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 725 performances
1947 - British stop ships Independence & In-Gathering from landing in Israel
1947 - Greek steamer "Himara" strikes a wartime mine in Saronic Gulf south of Athens with loss of
           392 of 637 aboard
1948 - "Call Me Mister" closes at National Theater NYC after 734 performances
1949 - 1st Jewish family show "Goldbergs" premieres on CBS
1949 - RCA introduces 45 RPM record
1951 - 1st jet passenger trip made
1951 - UN headquarters opens in Manhattan NY
1952 - Jean Anouilh's "La valse des toréadors," premieres in Paris
1953 - "My Darlin' Aida" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 89 perfs
1953 - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Archibald MacLeish
1953 - NFL Pro Bowl: National Conference beats American Conference 27-7
1954 - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to W H Auden
1956 - Elvis records "Heartbreak Hotel"
1957 - Anthony Eden resigns & Harold Macmillan becomes PM Britain
1957 - Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick rules Bing Crosby can keep token stock in the Det Tigers,
           even though he owns part of Pittsburgh Pirates
1958 - Jerry Lee Lewis' "Great Balls of Fire" reaches #1 on the UK pop charts
1960 - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Delmore Schwartz
1962 - 4,000 die in avalanche, Ranrahirca, Peru
1962 - Eruptions on Mount Huascaran in Peru destroy 7 villages & kill 3,500
1964 - Battles between moslems & hindus in Calcutta
1964 - Panama severs diplomatic relations with US
1964 - US version of "That Was The Week That Was," premieres
1965 - Bollingen prize for poetry awarded to Horace Gregory
1965 - NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 34-14
1965 - WKBD TV channel 50 in Detroit, MI (IND) begins broadcasting
1966 - India & Pakistan sign peace accord
1966 - Julian Bond denied seat in Ga legislature for opposing Vietnam War
1967 - Edward Brooke, takes (Sen-R-Mass) seat as 1st popular elected black
1967 - Lester Maddox inaugurated as governor of Georgia
1967 - PBS (the National Educational TV) begins as a 70 station network
1968 - US Surveyor 7 lands near lunar crater Tycho
1969 - Pirate Radio Station Free Derby begins operation by Northern Ireland
1969 - Sweden (1st Western country) recognizes North Vietnam
1969 - USSR's Venera 6 launched for parachute landing on Venus
1970 - Preview Center Opens
1971 - "Light, Lively & Yiddish" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 87 perfs
1971 - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Richard Wilbur
1972 - Sheik Mujib ur-Rahman arrives in Dacca, East-Pakistan
1972 - Triple album set "Concert for Bangladesh" released in UK
1973 - Gas tank on Staten Island explodes, 40 die
1977 - 20th hat trick in Islander history - Bobby Nystrom
1978 - Soyuz 27 carring 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station, launched
1979 - 1st brother Billy Carter makes allegedly anti-Semitic remarks
1979 - Entertainer of the Year Awards
1980 - Last broadcast of "Rockford Files" on NBC
1980 - Jim Stewart, Bruin's rookie goalie allows 3 goals in his 1st 4 mins & a total of 5 in 1st period;
            he never again plays in NHL
1981 - El Salvador guerrilla group FMLN opens "general offensive"
1981 - John Severin sets 100-mi unicycle speed record, 9 h 21 m
1982 - -17°F (27.2°C) in Braemar Grampian (equals UK record)
1982 - Bengals beat Chargers in -59°F (-51°C) to win AFC championship
1982 - Petra Schneider swims world record 1500 m freestyle (15:43.31)
1983 - NY Supreme Court issues a preliminary injunction barring NY Yankees from playing season-opening series against Tigers in Denver
1984 - Argentine ex-president/general Bignone arrested
1984 - Bulgarian Tupolev 134 crashs at Sofia airport in Bulgaria, 50 die
1984 - Clara Peller 1st asks, "Where's the Beef?"
1984 - Luis Aparicio, Harmon Killebrew, & D Drysdale elected to Hall of Fame
1984 - US establishes full diplomatic relations with Vatican after 117 years
1985 - Daniel Ortega Saavedra inaugurated as president of Nicaragua
1986 - Palau signs Compact of Free Association with US
1986 - STS 61-C mission scrubbed T -9m because of bad weather at Kennedy
1988 - "Don't Get God Started" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 86 perfs
1990 - "Les Miserables," opens at Mechanic Theatre, Baltimore
1990 - China lifts martial law (imposed after Tiananmen Square massacre)
1990 - NCAA approves random drug testing for college football players
1991 - Japan ends routine fingerprinting of all adult ethnic Koreans
1991 - US Congress begins debate on Persian Gulf crisis
1992 - 8th Soap Opera Digest Awards
1993 - "My Favorite Year" closes at Vivian Beaumont NYC after 37 perfs
1993 - "Sea Gull" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 48 performances
1993 - Maiden flight of Ultrair (Houston to LA)
1994 - Trial of Lorena Bobbitt who cut off her husband's penis, begins
1994 - Ukraine says it will give up world's 3rd largest nuclear arsenal
1994 - Uzbekistan & Kazakhstan agrees to abolish trade tariffs
1995 - "Late Late Show" with Tom Snyder premieres on CBS at 12:30 AM
1996 - Israel frees hundreds of Palestinian prisoners
1996 - Jimmy Johnson announced as new coach of Miami Dolphins
1997 - "Rehersal," closes at Criterion Theater NYC
1997 - 1st Comet of 1997 Discovered: Comet 1997 A1
1997 - 4,000th episode of "Entertainment Tonight"
1997 - Dow Corning provides $295 billion to settle breast implant suits
1997 - Italy's new 1,000 lire coin shows divided Germany on map
1997 - Right-winger Arnoldo Aleman sworn in as president of Nicaragua
1998 - 18th United Negro College Fund raises (rebroadcasted Jan 17th)
1999 - Fatboy Slim (Norman Cook) achieves his third UK No.1 single with 'Praise You'
2001 - A large piece of the chalk cliff at Beachy Head collapses into the sea.
2005 - A mudslide occurs in La Conchita, California, killing 10 people, injuring many more and closing
          the Highway 101, the main coastal corridor between San Francisco and Los Angeles, for 10 days.

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 10, 2013, 07:23:46 AM

This Day in History for 10th January


Famous Weddings

1430 - Duke Philip the Good marries Isabella of Portugal
1942 - Actress Ava Gardner (19) weds actor Mickey Rooney (21) in Ballard, California
1967 - Dutch Princess Margret marries Pieter van Vollenhoven
1998 - Major League Baseball outfielder Barry Bonds (33) weds Elizabeth Watson (28) at Ritz-
           Carlton Hotel in San Francisco
2009 - "The Black Eyed Peas" singer Fergie (33) weds actor Josh Duhamel (36) at Church Estate
            Vineyards in Malibu, California

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 10, 2013, 07:24:38 AM

This Day in History for 10th January


Famous Divorces

1810 - French church annuls marriage of Napoleon I & Josephine

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 10, 2013, 07:32:45 AM

This Day in History for 10th January


Famous Birthdays

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Actor Paul Henreid (1908)                        Singer Rod Stewart (1945)                Boxing Champ George Foreman (1949)


1480 - Margaret of Austria, Regent of the Netherlands (d. 1530)
1502 - Hendrik Niclaes, German/Dutch merchant/cult leader (Children of God)
1538 - Louis of Nassau, Dutch general (d. 1574)
1573 - Simon Marius, German astronomer (d. 1624)
1607 - Isaac Jogues, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1646)
1628 - Jan Theunisz Blanckerhoff, [Jan Maet], seascape painter)
1638 - Nicolas Steno, Danish Scientist and Bishop (d. 1686)
1644 - Louis Boufflers, marshall of France
1654 - Joshua Barnes, English scholar (d. 1712)
1683 - Gasparo Visconti, composer
1701 - Johann Caspar Simon, composer
1702 - Johannes Zick, German fresco painter (d. 1762)
1715 - Christian August Crusius, German philosopher and theologian (d. 1775)
1738 - Ethan Allen, Revolutionary War fighter (lead the Green Mtn Boys)
1747 - Abraham L Breguet, French clock maker
1750 - Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine, British Lord Chancellor (d. 1823)
1760 - Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg, composer
1766 - Louis Massonneau, composer
1768 - James Varicick, 1st AME Zion Bishop
1769 - Michel Ney, French marshal (Waterloo)
1780 - M Heinrich C Lichtenstein, German zoologist
1797 - Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, German writer (d. 1848)
1810 - Jeremiah S. Black, American statesman (d. 1883)
1812 - Georg Hermann Nicolai, German architect (d. 1881)
1814 - Aubrey de Vere, Irish writer (Victorian Observer)
1815 - Alexander Brydie Dyer, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1874
1815 - Thomas Williams, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
1825 - Alexander Travis Hawthorn, Brig Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1899
1828 - Herman Koeckemann, German Catholic prelate (d. 1892)
1834 - John Acton, English historian/MP
1836 - Charles Ingalls, father of Laura Ingalls Wilder (d. 1902)
1840 - Louis Nazaire Bégin, French Canadian archbishop and cardinal (d. 1925)
1843 - Frank James, American outlaw (d. 1915)
1850 - John Wellborn Root, American architect (d. 1891)
1854 - Peter Gast, composer
1855 - Peter J Blok, Dutch historian (History of the Dutch People)
1858 - Heinrich Zille, German illustrator and photographer (d. 1929)
1864 - George Washington Carver, agricultural scientist [or Jul 12]
1864 - Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia, son of Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich (d. 1931)
1865 - Mary Ingalls, sister of Laura Ingalls Wilder (d. 1928)
1871 - Enrica Freiin von Handel-Manzetti, Austrian author (Jesse & Maria)
1873 - Jack O'Neill, Irish-born baseball player (d. 1935)
1873 - George Orton, Canadian athlete (d. 1958)
1876 - Johannes W "Jan" Eisenloeffel, Dutch goldsmith
1877 - Frederick Gardner Cottrell, inventor (elecrostatic precipitator)
1880 - Eduard M Meijers, Dutch lawyer (Short Cause)
1880 - Frans van Cauwelaert, Flemish minister/mayor of Antwerp
1880 - Grock, [Adrien Wettach], Swiss clown/circus director
1880 - Manuel Azaña y Diaz, PM/pres of 2nd Spanish republic (1936-39)
1882 - Charles Trowbridge, Vera Cruz Mexico, actor (Fatal Hour)
1883 - Aleksei Tolstoi, Russian poet/writer (Pjotr Peroyj) [NS]
1883 - Florence Reed, Phila, silent film actress (Dancing Girl)
1883 - Francis X Bushman, Norfolk VA, silent film actor (Ben Hur)
1884 - James Philip Dunn, composer
1886 - Jose Antonio de Donostia, composer
1887 - Robinson Jeffers, US, poet/playwright (Tamar & Other Poems, Medea)
1888 - Emile van Bosch, Dutch revue/operetta-artist (Fair Folks)
1888 - Grock, Switzerland, clown
1890 - Douglas MacLean, Phila, silent film comedian/producer (Going Up)
1890 - Ernest Milton, SF CA, actor (Cat Girl, Fiddler's Three)
1890 - Grigory Landsberg, Russian physicist (d. 1957)
1891 - Jos Speybrouck, Flemish painter
1892 - Dumas Malone, Miss, historian (Jefferson & His Time)
1893 - Albert Jacka, Australian soldier, first Australian World War I Victoria Cross winner (d. 1932)
1894 - Reginald Denham, London, Broadway director (Obsession, The Bad Seed)
1897 - Albert Moeschinger, composer
1898 - Sergei M Eisenstein, Russian director (Alexandr Nevski) [OS]
1901 - Pauline Starke, Joplin MO, actress (Dante's Inferno, Dance Magic)
1903 - Barbara Hepworth, English abstract sculptor/actress (Rescued by Rover)
1903 - Jean Morel, Abbeville France, conductor
1903 - Voldemar Väli, Estonian wrestler (d. 1997)
1903 - Violet Wilkey, American actress (d. 1976)
1904 - Jesus Garcia Leoz, composer
1904 - Ray Bolger, Dorchester Mass, actor/dancer (Wizard of Oz)
1908 - Bernard Lee, London, English actor (M in James Bond movies)
1908 - Paul Henreid, Trieste, actor (Casablanca, 4 Horsemen of Apocalypse)
1909 - Grace Mitchell, educator
1909 - Rudolf Kubin, composer
1910 - Dorothy Stroud, garden historian
1910 - Jean Martinon, Lyons France, conductor/composer
1911 - Jan Boon, [Tjalie Robinson], Dutch East Indies publicist (Tong Tong)
1912 - Maria Mandel, Camp leader at Auschwitz (d. 1948)
1913 - Gustav Husak, president of Czechoslavakia (1975-89)
1913 - Haywood Frank Henry, sax player
1913 - Mehmet Shehu, Albanian politician (d. 1981)
1914 - Claude Gallimard, France, publisher
1914 - Polly Rowles, Phila Pa, actress (Aunt Laurie-Jamie)
1914 - Yu Kuo-hwa, former Premier of Taiwan (d. 2000)
1915 - Dean Dixon, Zug Switzerland, conductor
1916 - Sune Bergström, Swedish biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2004)
1916 - Don Metz, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007)
1917 - Jerry Wexler, music producer (Aretha Franklin/Bob Dylan)
1918 - Arthur Chung, President of Guyana (d. 2008)
1920 - Georges Marchal, Nancy France, actor (Evil Eden, Gina, Milky Way)
1920 - Max Patkin, American baseball player (d. 1999)
1921 - Rodger Ward, American race car driver (d. 2004)
1923 - Ingeborg Drewitz, writer
1924 - Ludmilla Chiraeff, ballet dancer
1925 - Maxwell Roach, composer
1926 - Musallam Bseiso, Palestinian journalist, thinker, and politician
1927 - Gisele MacKenzie, Winnipeg Manitoba, singer/actress (Your Hit Parade)
1927 - Johnnie Ray, Dallas OR, pop singer (Cry)
1927 - Lee Philips, Bkln NY, actor (Ellery Queen)
1927 - Otto Stich, Swiss politician
1928 - Donald Brooks, fashion designer (Emmy 1983)
1928 - Wallace Berry, composer
1928 - Philip Levine, American poet
1929 - Derek Hammond-Stroud, English operatic baritone
1930 - Byron "Wild Child" Gipson, blues singer
1930 - Roy Edward Disney, American film executive and CEO of Disney
1931 - Alexander L "Alex" Boraine, South Africa vicar/MP
1931 - Ron Galella, celebrity photographer (sued by Jackie O)
1931 - Peter Barnes, English writer (d. 2004)
1932 - Elaine Devry, American actress
1933 - Akira Miyoshi, composer
1933 - Len Coldwell, cricket bowler (Engld medium-fast in 7 Tests 1962-64)
1933 - Leonard John Coldwell, cricketer
1934 - Leonid Kravchuk, Ukrainian politician
1935 - Georg Katzer, composer
1935 - Sherrill Milnes, Hinsdale Illinois, baritone
1935 - Ronnie Hawkins, American musician
1936 - Burnum Burnum, Australian Aboriginal activist, actor, author and dreamer (d. 1997)
1936 - Stephen Ambrose, American historian (d. 2002)
1936 - Robert Woodrow Wilson, American physicist and radio astronomer, Nobel laureate
1936 - Al Goldstein, American publisher and pornographer
1937 - Thomas Penfield Jackson, American judge
1938 - Francis W "Frank" Mahovlich, Canadian ice hockey player
1938 - Frank Mahovlich, NHL Hall of Famer (Mont Canadians)
1938 - Ivan Twigden, English contractor/multi-millionaire (Twigden PLC)
1938 - Willie "Stretch" McCovey, 1st baseman (SF Giant #44)
1938 - Donald Knuth, American mathematician and computer scientist
1939 - Bill Toomey, Phila Pa, decathelete (Olympic-gold-68)
1939 - Sal Mineo, NYC, actor (Exodus, Rebel Without a Cause)
1939 - Jared Carter, American poet
1939 - David Horowitz, American author and political commentator
1939 - William Levy, Dutch writer
1939 - Scott McKenzie, American singer, (d. 2012)
1940 - Harry Gant, NASCAR driver
1940 - Ntare VI of Ankole, Omugabe of Nkole
1940 - Guy Chevrette, Quebec politician
1942 - Aleksandr Yakovlevich Petrushenko, Russia, cosmonaut
1942 - Jack Regan, broadcaster
1942 - Jim Croce, Phila, rock vocalist (Time in a Bottle)
1942 - Walter Hill, director (48 Hours, Extreme Prejudice)
1943 - Jim Croce, American singer (d. 1973)
1944 - Frank Sinatra Jr, Jersey City NJ, American singer/bandleader (Golddigers)
1944 - Rory Byrne, South African racing car designer
1944 - Bernard Derome, Canadian news presenter (Le Téléjournal)
1944 - William Sanderson, American actor
1945 - Rod Stewart, London, British singer (Maggie Mae, Do You Think I'm Sexy)
1945 - Edward Wiskoski, American professional wrestler
1946 - Alexis Nihon Jr, Bahamas, wrestler (Olympics-1968)
1946 - Aynsley Dunbar, rocker (Journey, Jefferson Starship)
1946 - Bob Lang, rock bassist (Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders)
1947 - George Alec Effinger, US, sci-fi author (Nick of Time)
1947 - Afeni Shakur, mother of Tupac "2Pac" Shakur, member of the Black Panther Party
1948 - Cyril Neville, US singer/percussionist (Neville Bros-Yellow Moon)
1948 - Donald Fagen, Passaic NJ, rock vocalist/keyboardist (Steely Dan-Peg)
1948 - William Sanderson, Memphis Tenn, actor (Larry-Newhart, Blade Runner)
1948 - Mischa Maisky, Latvian cellist
1948 - Bernard Thévenet, French cyclist
1949 - George Foreman, Houston Tx, world HW boxing champ (1973-74, 95)
1949 - Teresa Graves, Houston Tx, actress (Laugh-in, Get Christie Love)
1949 - Walter S Browne, US chess champion (1974-78, 1980-84)
1949 - James Lapine, American stage director
1950 - Cyril Neville, rocker (Neville Brothers)
1951 - Kathleen Bradley, Youngstown Oh, model (Price is Right)
1952 - Scott Thurston, keyboardist/guitarist (Motels-Only the Lonely)
1953 - Bobby Rahal, Indy-car racer (over 15 wins)
1953 - Pat Benatar, [Andrezejewski], Bkln NY, singer (Hell Is for Children)
1955 - Luci Martin, rocker vocalist (Chic)
1955 - Michael Schenker, heavy metal rocker (MSG-Coming on Strong, Scorpions)
1956 - Shawn Colvin, American singer
1956 - Antonio Muñoz Molina, Spanish writer
1957 - Robert Thompson, Houston TX, Nike golfer (1990 Boise Open-2nd)
1957 - Greg Walden, U.S. Congressman from Oregon
1958 - Shawn Colvin, singer/guitarist
1958 - Anatoly Pisarenko, Soviet weightlifter
1959 - Chandra Cheesborough, Jacksonville Fla, 4X100 runner (Olympic-gold-84)
1959 - Don Letts, rocker (Big Audio Dynamite)
1959 - Kirk & Curtwood, musician (Meat Puppets)
1959 - Fran Walsh, New Zealand screenwriter
1960 - Benoît Pelletier, Canadian politician
1960 - Samira Said, Moroccan singer
1961 - Evan Handler, NYC, actor (Dear Mr Wonderful)
1961 - Janet Jones, Bridgeton MO, actress (American Anthem, Flamingo Kid)
1961 - Nadja Salerni-Sonnenberg, Rome Italy, concert violinist
1962 - Jim Lindeman, US baseball outfielder (NY Mets)
1962 - Michael Fortier, Canadian politician
1963 - Frank Wijnhoven, Dutch soccer player (NEC, Treffers)
1963 - Mark Pryor, American politician
1964 - Karen Josephson, Bristol Ct, synchronized swimmer (Olympic-gold-1992)
1964 - Krista Tesreau, St Louis Mo, actress (Tina-OLTL, Silk Stalkings)
1964 - Sarah Josephson, Bristol Ct, synchronized swimmer (Olympic-gold-1992)
1964 - Brad Roberts, Canadian singer (Crash Test Dummies)
1965 - James Washington, NFL safety (Dallas Cowboys, Wash Redskins)
1965 - Nathan, rocker (Brother Beyond-Can You Keep a Secret)
1965 - Butch Hartman, American animator
1966 - Steve Kramer, American politician
1967 - Micky Michelle, [Ingrid Hankers], Dutch dancer (Josephine, Sound of Motown)
1967 - Trini Alvarado, actor (Frighteners)
1967 - Johan Laats, Belgian judoka
1968 - Lyle Menendez, NY, accused of killing his parents (Menendez Brothers)
1968 - Malcolm Showell, WLAF defensive end (Amsterdam Admirals)
1969 - Doug E Doug, rapper/comedian (Operation Dumbo Drop, Jungle Fever)
1969 - Juanita Clayton, Manitou Manitoba, softball catcher (Olympics-96)
1970 - Cameron MacKenzie, Australian 100m/200m/400m (Olympics-96)
1970 - Deon Figures, NFL cornerback/PR (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1970 - James Wilson, WLAF defensive end (Rhein Fire)
1970 - Marcus Bagwell, American professional wrestler
1971 - Guylaine Cloutier, Levis QUE, 100m breaststroke swimmer (Oly-4-92, 96)
1971 - Sergi Bruguera, Italy, tennis star
1972 - Thomas Lewis, NFL wide receiver (NY Giants)
1972 - Brian Lawler, American professional wrestler
1973 - Berry Radstraat, Dutch soccer player (NEC, SCH)
1973 - Glenn Robinson, Gary In, NBA forward (Milw, Olympics-gold-96)
1973 - Travis Davis, NFL strong safety (NO Saints, Jacksonville Jaguars)
1973 - Ryan Drummond, American voice actor
1974 - Andre Kirwan, CFL receiver (Toronto Argonauts)
1974 - Hollis Thomas, defensive tackle (Philadelphia Eagles)
1974 - Davide Dionigi, Italian footballer
1974 - Akari Kaida, Japanese composer
1974 - Jemaine Clement, New Zealand actor
1974 - Steve Marlet, French footballer
1974 - Hrithik Roshan, Indian actor
1975 - Shannon Kavanaugh, Boston Mass, rocker (Ivory Soul)
1975 - Jake Delhomme, American football player
1976 - Adam Kennedy, American baseball player
1978 - Brent Smith, American singer (Shinedown)
1979 - Chris H E Smith, [Daddy Mack], Atlanta, rapper (Kris Kross-Warm it Up)
1980 - Matt Roney, American baseball player
1980 - Sarah Shahi, American actress and model
1981 - Brian Joo, Korean-American singer
1982 - Josh Ryan Evans, American actor (d. 2002)
1983 - Danilo Dirani, Brazilian racing driver
1983 - Li Nina, Chinese aerial free-style skier
1986 - Saleisha Stowers, American model
1990 - Tao Li, Singaporean Olympic swimmer

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 10, 2013, 07:51:16 AM

This Day in History for 10th January


Famous Deaths

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Inventor/Industrialist Samuel Colt (1862)      Actor Spalding Gray (2004)


681 - Agatho, Sicilian pope (678-81), dies
866 - Lin-chi I-hsuan, [J Rinzai Gigen], Zen teacher, dies
976 - John I Tzimisces/Tzimiskes, Byzantine Emperor (969-76), dies at 51
1094 - Caliph Al-Mustansir of Cairo (b. 1029)
1271 - Otto II, the Lame, earl of Gelre, dies
1276 - Pope Gregory X, (Tedaldo Visconti), dies. (bc. 1210)
1542 - Gerardus Noviomagus, [Gerrit Geldenhauer], Dutch theologist, die at 59
1645 - William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, beheaded, for treason, in the Tower of London at 71
1654 - Nicholas Culpeper, English botanist, herbalist, physician, and astrologer (b. 1616)
1662 - Prince Honoré II of Monaco (b. 1597)
1674 - Jacob de Witt, Dutch mayor (Dordrecht)/MP, dies at 84
1698 - Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont, French historian (b. 1637)
1707 - Philibert, comte de Gramont, French writer (b. 1621)
1754 - Daniel Raap, Dutch porcelain salesman/politician, dies at about 51
1754 - Edward Cave, English editor and publisher (b. 1691)
1761 - Edward Boscawen, British admiral (b. 1711)
1768 - Charles Cressent, French court furniture maker, dies at 82
1775 - Jemeljan Pugatshov, Russian kosak leader/"czar Peter III", dies
1777 - Spranger Barry, Irish actor (b. 1719)
1778 - Carolus Linaeus "Carl von Linne", Swedish botanist/explorer, dies at 70
1780 - Francesco Antonio Vallotti, Italian organist/composer, dies at 82
1789 - Pierre Lyonet, Dutch zoologist/cryptologist, dies at 82
1792 - Jean-Louis Laruette, composer, dies at 60
1794 - Georg Forster, German scientist and revolutionary (d. 1754)
1800 - Johan Wikmanson, composer, dies at 46
1811 - Marie-Joseph Chénier, French poet (b. 1764)
1824 - Victor Emanuel I, king of Sardinia (1802-21), dies at 64
1828 - François de Neufchâteau, French statesman and intellectual figure (b. 1750)
1833 - Adrien Marie Legendre, dies
1833 - Antoinio da Silva Leite, composer, dies at 73
1846 - Etienne P de Senancour, French writer (De l'Amour), dies at 75
1851 - Karl Freiherr von Müffling, Prussian field marshal (b. 1775)
1855 - Mary Russell Mitford, Engl playwright/poet (Julian), dies at 67
1862 - Samuel Colt, American inventor (6 shot revolver), dies at 47
1863 - Lyman Beecher, US Presbyterian clergyman, temperance movement leader (b. 1775)
1866 - Pyotr Pletnyov, Russian poet (b. 1792)
1871 - Pierre A du Terrail, French writer, dies at 41
1876 - Charles EH de Coussemaker, Belgian musicologist/historian, dies at 70
1883 - Dr Samuel A. Mudd, American medical doctor (b. 1833)
1889 - Martin Andreas Udbye, composer, dies at 68
1892 - Heinrich Ludwig Egmont Dorn, composer, dies at 91
1895 - Benjamin Louis Paul Godard, composer, dies at 45
1899 - Gerard Keller, Dutch writer (Vlugmaren), dies at 69
1901 - Sir James Dickson, Premier of Queensland, Australian Minister for Defence (b. 1832)
1904 - Jean-Léon Gérôme, French painter and sculptor (b. 1824)
1905 - Kārlis Baumanis, Latvian composer (b. 1835)
1908 - Anna S Barbiers, Dutch actress (Klaasje Zevenster), dies at 65
1917 - Buffalo Bill Cody
1922 - Frank Tudor, Australian Labor Opposition leader (b. 1866)
1934 - Marinus van der Lubbe, Dutch communist, beheaded in Berlin at 24
1935 - Charlie McGahey, cricket (MCC tour of Aus 1901-02 cured his TB), dies
1935 - Edwin H Flack, English 800/1500m runner (Oly-gold-1896), dies at 60
1936 - Charles Wright, cricketer (3 Tests England v South Africa 1895-96), dies
1938 - Willem de Vreese, Flemish linguist, dies at 68
1939 - Jameson Thomas, actor (Piccadilly, Farmer's Wife), dies at 50
1939 - Julius Bittner, Austria composer (Missa Austriaca), dies at 64
1941 - Frank Bridge, English violinist/composer (Sea), dies at 61
1941 - Joseph Schmidlin, German church historian, murdered at 67
1941 - Sir John Lavery, Northern Irish artist (b. 1856)
1941 - Joe Penner, Hungarian-born comedian and actor (b. 1904)
1943 - Agustin P Justo y Rolon, pres Argentina (1931-38), dies at 66
1943 - J Arthur S Berson, Austrian meteorologist, dies at 83
1945 - Rudolf Borchardt, writer, dies at 67
1949 - Erich von Drygalski, German geographer, geophysicist, and polar scientist (b. 1865)
1951 - Athos Palma, composer, dies at 59
1951 - Harry Sinclair Lewis, US writer (Nobel 1930), dies at 65
1951 - Sinclair Lewis, writer, dies at 65
1951 - Yoshio Nishina, Japanese physicist (b. 1890)
1953 - Theo Mackeben, German pianist/composer (Golden Cage), dies at 56
1954 - Fred Raymond, composer, dies at 53
1956 - Henricus P Bremmer, Dutch art historian (Beeldende Kunst), dies at 84
1956 - Karl L Schmidt, German/Swiss theologist (Urchristentum), dies at 64
1957 - Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet (Nobel Prize 1945), dies at 67
1958 - Charles de Trooz, Belgian writer, dies at 52
1960 - Jack Laviolette, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1879)
1961 - Dashiell Hammett, US detective writer (Thin Man, Maltese Falcon), dies at 66
1963 - Tadeusz Szeligowski, composer, dies at 66
1964 - A Marja, Dutch author (Man of Day & Night), dies at 46
1966 - George Cresswell, cricketer (Took 13 wkts in 3 Tests for NZ), suicide
1966 - Hermann Kasack, writer, dies at 69
1967 - Emerson Treacy, actor (Prowler), dies after surgery at 66
1967 - Vilem Petrzelka, composer, dies at 77
1968 - Basil Sydney, actor (Hamlet, Simba), dies of pleurisy at 73
1968 - Howard Smith, actor (Harvey Griffin-Hazel), dies at 74
1968 - Josue Teofilo Wilkes, composer, dies at 85
1968 - Louis-Francois-Marie Aubert, French composer (La Momie), dies at 90
1969 - John Brownlee, Australian tenor (b. 1900)
1970 - Pavel Ivanovich Belyayev, USSR, cosmonaut (Voskhod II), dies at 44
1971 - Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, French fashion designer, dies at 87
1972 - Al Goodman, Russian/US orchestra leader (NBC Comedy Hour), dies at 81
1972 - Georg Rendl, Austriam miner/beekeeper (Satan on Earth), dies at 68
1972 - Sverre Jordan, composer, dies at 82
1972 - Aksel Larsen, Danish politician (b. 1897)
1976 - Chester Arthur Burnett, US blues pianist/harmonica player, dies at 65
1976 - Howlin' Wolf, singer/guitarist, dies following brain surgery at 65
1978 - John D Rockefeller III, US billionaire/philanthropist, dies at 71
1978 - Pedro Joaquín Chamorro, of La Prensa, assassinated in Managua
1978 - Zeb Turner, country-rock performer (Chew Tobacco Rag), dies at 62
1978 - Don Gillis, American composer (b. 1912)
1980 - George Meany, labor leader, dies at 86
1980 - Bo Rein, American college football coach (b. 1945)
1981 - Richard Boone, actor (Paladin-Have Gun Will Travel), dies at 63
1981 - Fawn M. Brodie, American historian (b. 1915)
1982 - Lazar Weiner, composer, dies at 84
1982 - Paul Lynde, comedian (Uncle Arthur-Bewitched), dies at 55
1984 - Suvanna Phuma, premier of Laos, dies at 82
1984 - Souvanna Phouma, Prince and Prime Minister of Laos (b. 1901)
1985 - Anton Karas, Austrian zither player and composer (b. 1906)
1986 - Joseph Kraft, US columnist, dies at 61
1987 - Marion Hutton, American singer and actress (b. 1919)
1987 - Sir David Robinson, English philanthropist and entrepreneur (b. 1904)
1989 - Herbert Morrison, American radio reporter (b. 1905)
1989 - Colin Winchester, Australian Assistant Police Commissioner, murdered (b. 1933)
1990 - Juliet Berto, screenwriter/actress (Bastienne Bastien), dies at 42
1990 - Yvonne Peattie Marquard, actress (Donovan's Reef), dies
1991 - Dimitris Myrat, dies of cancer at 62
1992 - Barbara Couper, British actress (Last Days of Dolwyn), dies at 89
1992 - Roberto Bonomi, Argentine racing driver (b. 1919)
1993 - Diana Adams, ballerina, dies
1993 - Noorjahan Begum, "adulterous" wife in Bangladesh, stoned to death
1994 - Catharina I "Ien" Dales, min of Internal affairs (1989-94), dies at 62
1994 - Charles "Chub" Feeney, baseball pres (National League), dies at 72
1994 - Michael Aldridge, actor (Murder in the Cathedral), dies at 73
1995 - Elaine Greene, literary Agent, dies at 74
1995 - Halton Kathleen Tynan, writer, dies at 57
1995 - Souphanouvong, leader of Pathet Lao (1957), dies
1996 - Alexander Robertus, organic chemist, dies at 88
1996 - Arthur Sydney Martin, spycatcher, dies at 81
1997 - Alvinio Misciano, Italian tenor, killed in a fall from a window
1997 - Elspeth Josceline Huxley, writer, dies at 96
1997 - George Young, footballer, dies at 74
1997 - Hilary Grover Barratt Brown, conservationist, dies at 71
1999 - Sir Edward Williams, Australian judge (b. 1921)
2000 - Sam Jaffe, American producer (b. 1901)
2002 - W.A. Criswell, American (Baptist) preacher (b. 1909)
2004 - Spalding Gray, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1941)
2004 - Alexandra Ripley, American author (b. 1934)
2005 - Gene Baylos, American comedian (b. 1906)
2005 - Margherita Carosio, Italian soprano (b. 1908)
2005 - James Forman, American civil rights leader (b. 1928)
2005 - Kalevi Hämäläinen, Finnish cross country skier (b. 1932)
2005 - Erwin Hillier, British cinematographer (b. 1911)
2005 - Jack Horner, American sports journalist (b. 1912)
2005 - Joséphine-Charlotte, Grandduchess of Luxembourg (b. 1927)
2005 - Metropolitan Wasyly Fedak, primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada (b. 1909)
2007 - Carlo Ponti, Italian film producer (b. 1912)
2007 - Bradford Washburn, American explorer (b. 1910)
2008 - Christopher Bowman, American figure skater (b. 1967)
2008 - Maila Nurmi, aka Vampira, Finnish-born American actress (b. 1921)
2008 - Mikhail Minin, Russian Soviet soldier (b. 1922)
2009 - William Frederick "Bill" Stone, British World War I veteran (b. 1900)
2011 - Margaret Whiting, American singer (b. 1924)
2012 - Gevork Vartanian, Soviet intelligence agent, dies at 87

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 11, 2013, 06:59:28 AM

This Day in History for 11th January


Historical Events

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Philosophe Voltaire                               Physician Elizabeth Blackwell                US Secretary of State Frank Kellogg

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First Director of the FBI                           Actor/Comedian Bill Cosby
J Edgar Hoover


532 - Nika-revolt against Justianus & Theodora in Hippodrome Constantinople
1055 - Theodora is crowned Empress of the Byzantine Empire.
1158 - Vladislav II of Bohemia becomes king
1558 - Westmunster Church in Middelburg destroyed by heavy storm
1569 - 1st recorded lottery in England is drawn in St Paul's Cathedral
1571 - Emperor Maximilian II grants Austrian adel freedom of religion
1599 - Jacob van Necks fleet leaves Bantam Java with pepper, clove & muskaat
1693 - Mt Etna erupts, Sicily
1709 - Colley Cibber's "Rival Fools," premieres in London
1753 - Ferdinand VI of Spain & Pope Benedictus XIV sign concord
1758 - Russian troops occupy Königsberg, East-Prussia [NS=Jan 22]
1759 - 1st American life insurance company incorporated, Philadelphia
1765 - Frisia bans Voltaires "Traité sur la tolérance"
1774 - Messier adds M51 (spiral galaxy in Canes Venatici) to his catalog
1775 - Francis Salvador becomes 1st Jew elected to office in America (SC)
1779 - Ching-Thang Khomba is crowned King of Manipur.
1785 - Continental Congress convenes in NYC
1787 - Titania & Oberon, moons of Uranus, discovered by William Herschel
1790 - Statisten & Vonckisten unite as Belgium
1794 - Robert Forsythe, a U.S. Marshal is killed in Augusta, Georgia when trying to serve court
           papers, the first US marshal to die while carrying out his duties.
1803 - Monroe & Livingston sail for Paris to buy New Orleans; they buy La
1805 - Michigan Territory organizes
1813 - 1st pineapples planted in Hawaii (or 1/21)
1839 - Earthquake at Martinique destroys half of Port Royal - 700 die
1849 - Elizabeth Blackwell becomes 1st woman in US to earn medical degree
1861 - Alabama becomes 4th state to secede from the Union
1861 - Mexico City captured by Juarez (Lib) in War of Reform
1863 - Naval engagement near Galveston between CSS Alabama & USS Hatteras
1863 - Union forces capture Arkansas Post, or Ft Hindman, Arkansas
1864 - Charing Cross Station opens in London
1865 - Battle of Beverly, WV
1866 - Steamship London sinks in storm off Land's End, England and kills 220
1867 - Benito Juárez becomes the Mexican president again.
1873 - 1st livestock market newspaper published, Drover's Journal, Chicago
1879 - Zulu war against British colonial rule in South Africa begins
1885 - Henrik Ibsen's "Vildauden," premieres in Oslo
1892 - Hawaiian Historical Society founded
1892 - William D McCoy of Indiana appointed US minister to Liberia
1893 - Jaap Eden skates world record 1500m (2:35)
1897 - M H Cannon becomes 1st woman state senator in US (Utah)
1904 - Herero people of South West Africa, now Namibia, begin uprising
1913 - 1st sedan-type car (Hudson) goes on display at 13th Auto Show (NYC)
1913 - Bread & Roses Strike begins
1915 - Col Jacob Ruppert & Col Tillinghast Huston purchase Yanks for $460,000
1916 - French troops capture/Serbian army flees to Corfu
1917 - Guy Bolton & PG Wodehouse's "Have a Heart," premieres in NYC
1919 - 3 year old German communist party (Spartacus) crushed
1919 - Romania annexes Transylvania
1920 - French passenger ship Afrique sinks near La Rochelle; 553 die
1922 - Insulin 1st used to treat diabetes (Leonard Thompson, 14, of Canada)
1923 - 1st Dutch Dada-evening (Theo Van Doesburg & Kurt Schwitters)
1923 - French & Belgian troops occupy Ruhr to collect reparations
1925 - Frank Kellogg replaces Charles Hughes on as US Sect of State
1927 - Royale Theater (Golden, CBS Radio Playhouse) opens at 242 W 45th NYC
1935 - Amelia Earhart flies from Honolulu to Oakland Ca (non-stop, of course)
1936 - Charles Anderson enters Kentucky House of Representatives
1938 - Bradman scores a second innings 113 v Qld after a ton in the 1st
1938 - Frances Moulton elected 1st woman president of a US national bank
1940 - Sergei Prokofiev's ballet Romeo & Juliet premieres in Leningrad
1941 - Princess Irene Brigade established in Congleton
1942 - -23°F (-31°C), Kingston, Rhode Island (state record)
1942 - Japan conquers Kuala Lumpur, Malaya
1943 - US & Britain relinquish extraterritorial rights in China
1944 - Crakow-Plaszow Concentration Camp established
1946 - Bert Bell becomes 2nd NFL commissioner, moves Chicago HQ to Phila
1946 - Enver Hoxha declares People's Rep of Albania with himself dictator
1949 - Snowfall 1st recorded in Los Angeles
1952 - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Marianne Moore
1953 - J Edgar Hoover declines 6 figure offer to become president of International Boxing Club
1954 - 2 ton locomotive swept into ravine by avalanche 10 die (Austria)
1957 - The African Convention is founded in Dakar.
1957 - Mass-murderer Jack Gilbert Graham is executed via the Gas Chamber.
1959 - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Theodore Roethke
1959 - Hanif Mohammad completes 499 for Karachi, then 1st class world record
1959 - Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Mayfair Golf Open
1959 - NFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 28-21
1960 - Chad declares independence from France
1960 - Lamar Clark sets pro boxing record of 44 consecutive knockouts
1961 - Racial riot at University of Georgia
1962 - Volcano Huascaran in Peru, erupts; 4,000 die
1963 - 1st discotheque opens, Whiskey-a-go-go in LA
1963 - Beatles release "Please Please Me" & "Ask Me Why"
1964 - "She Loves Me" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 302 perfs
1964 - 1st government report warning smoking may be hazardous to one's health
1964 - Beatles "I Want to Hold Your Hand" is #80 in US (Cashbox)
1964 - Panama ends diplomatic relations with US
1964 - US Surgeon General Luther Terry reports that smoking may be hazardous
1966 - "Daktari" African adventure series premieres on CBS TV
1966 - 550 die in landslides in mountains behind Rio de Janeiro after rain
1967 - Romeinse Curie installs Council for Pontifical Study commission
1968 - Explorer 36 (GEOS-B) launched into earth orbit (1080/1570 km)
1969 - "Hooked on a Feeling" by BJ Thomas peaks at #5
1969 - Jethro Tull's This Was Jethro Tull album debuts
1970 - Superbowl IV: KC Chiefs beat Minnesota Vikings, 23-7 in New Orleans Superbowl MVP: Len
           Dawson, Kansas City, QB
1971 - 1st "Quickie" Divorce granted in UK
1971 - Tigers ace reliever John Hiller, 27, sufferes a heart attack, but later makes a remarkable comeback to record 38 saves
1972 - East-Pakistan becomes independent state of Bangladesh
1972 - Abu Sayeed Chudhury becomes president & sheik Mujib ur-Rahman premier
1973 - American League adopts designated hitter rule
1973 - Famous victory at the SCG Pakistan chasing 158 all out 106
1973 - Trial of Watergate burglars begins in Wash DC
1974 - ABC airs final episode of "Love, American Style"
1975 - Soyuz 17 carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 4
1976 - "Pacific Overtures" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 193 perfs
1976 - Dorothy Hamill wins her 3rd consec natl figure skating champions
1976 - Military coup in Ecuador, Pres Guillermo Lara leaves
1976 - Stephen Sondheim's musical "Pacific Overtures," premieres in NYC
1976 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Dorothy Hamill
1976 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Terry Kubicka
1977 - Bollingen Prize awarded to David Ignatow
1977 - Cubs trade outfielder Rick Monday to Dodgers for Bill Buckner
1977 - France releases Abu Daoud, a Palestinian suspected of involvement in massacre of Israeli athletes at 1972 Munich Olympics
1978 - Gov Askew dedicates RCUC solar office building
1978 - Soyuz 27 links with Salyut 6 & Soyuz 26 (1st time 3 spacecraft link)
1979 - "Grand Tour" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 61 performances
1980 - Debut of Pretenders
1981 - "Tintypes" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 93 performances
1981 - Palau adopts constitution
1981 - Brit team led by Ranulph Fiennes completes longest & fastest crossing of Antarctica, reaching Scott base after 75 days (2,500 miles)
1982 - Atlanta Ga's temperature goes below zero F
1982 - Honduras adopts constitution
1983 - Billy Martin named NY Yankee manager for 3rd time
1984 - Denver Nuggets 163, San Antonio Spurs 155-highest-scoring NBA game
1984 - STS 41-B vehicle moves to launch pad
1984 - Supreme Court reinstated $10M award to Karen Silkwood's family
1986 - 1st black lt gov since reconstruction sworn in (Douglas Wilder of Va)
1987 - Largest crowd (76,633) at NFL NY Giant Stadium (beat Wash 17-0)
1988 - Test debut of Phil Simmons, WI v India, Madras
1988 - USSR announces it will participate in Seoul Summer Olympics
1989 - 140 nations agree to ban chemical weapons (poison gas, etc)
1989 - Denver Nuggets' rookie Jerome Lane misses 7 free throws in a game against Milwaukee, one missed by 2 feet
1989 - Kindergarten student caught with loaded handgun at Bronx school
1990 - 200,000 demand return of Lithuania's independence
1990 - Actor Joseph Cotton undergoes vocal cancer operation at 84
1990 - Bobby Knight becomes basketball's Big 10 winningest coach (229)
1990 - Pat Lafontaine sets NY Islander record of scoring goals in 11 straight
1991 - Congress empowers Bush to order attack on Iraq
1991 - Ric Flair wins NWA/WCW wrestling title
1991 - Soviets storm buildings in Vilnius to block Lithuania independence
1991 - Ben Johnson 1st race after being stripped of his 1988 Olympic Gold medal for steroid use, he finished 2nd
1992 - Algeria's Pres Chadli announces his resignation
1992 - Paul Simon opens a tour in South Africa
1992 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Kristi Yamaguchi
1993 - Howard Stern's radio show begins transmitting to Buffalo NY (WKBW)
1993 - Independent pres candidate Ross Perot publicly returns to politics
1994 - Hyderabad score 6 for 944 against Andhra Pradesh in Ranji Trophy
1994 - Irish government announces end of a 20-year broadcasting ban on IRA
1995 - 5th TV network (WB) Warner Brothers begins (WPIX-TV in NYC)
1995 - Birmingham Barracudas granted CFL franchise
1995 - DC-9 crashes near Maria La Baya, Colombia: 51 die, 9 yr old girl lives
1995 - NHLPA & owners agree to end NHL strike
1996 - Space Shuttle STS 72 (Endeavour 10), launches into space
1996 - Haiti becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1997 - 23rd People's Choice Awards: Bill Cosby wins
1997 - Martina Hingis beats Jennifer Capriati at Sydney Tennis Intl
1997 - Telstar 401 Satellite Fails
1998 - "Proposals," closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 76 performances
1998 - 24th Annual People's Choice Awards - Seinfeld, Tim Allen win
1998 - AFC Championship: Denver Broncos beat Pitt Steelers 24-21
1998 - NFC Championship: Green Bay Packers beat SF 49'ers 23-10
1998 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Michelle Kwan
1998 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldredge
1998 - Sidi-Hamed massacre takes place in Algeria, over 100 people are killed.

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 11, 2013, 07:01:26 AM

This Day in History for 11th January


Famous Weddings

1892 - Paul Gauguin marries a 13-year-old Tahitian girl
2003 - "How Stella Got Her Groove Back" actor Taye Diggs (32) weds broadway actress Idina Menzel
            (31) at Round Hill Hotel and Villas in Montego Bay, Jamaica
2003 - "The Sixth Sense" actress-singer Toni Collette (30) weds musician Dave Galafassi in a
            Buddhist ceremony near Sydney, Australia

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 11, 2013, 07:02:47 AM

This Day in History for 11th January


Famous Divorces

1971 - 1st "Quickie" Divorce granted in UK

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 11, 2013, 07:10:44 AM

This Day in History for 11th January


Famous Birthdays

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1st US Secretary of Treasury                         Actor Rod Taylor (1929)                          Singer-Songwriter
Alexander Hamilton (1755)                                                                                         Mary Jane Blige (1971)


347 - Emperor Theodosius I "The Great" of Rome (d. 395)
889 - Abd-ar-Rahman III, Emir and Caliph of Cordoba (d. 961)
1322 - Emperor Komyo of Japan (d. 1380)
1359 - Emperor Go-En'yu of Japan (d. 1393)
1395 - Michelle of Valois, Duchess of Burgundy (d. 1422)
1403 - Jan IV, Duke of Brabant/Limburg
1449 - Domenico Ghirlandajo, Italy, renaissance painter
1503 - Francesco Parmigianino, Italian artist (Madonna with the Long Neck)
1591 - Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, English Civil War general (d. 1646)
1630 - John Rogers, American President of Harvard in the US (d. 1684)
1671 - François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie, French military leader (d. 1745)
1703 - Columban Praelisauer, composer
1720 - Gijsbert John van Hardenbroeck, Utrechts regent
1723 - Prithvi Narayan Shah, began the unification of modern Nepal (d. 1774)
1727 - Franz Sebastian Haindl, composer
1746 - Frantisek Adam Mica, composer
1746 - William Curtis, English botanist/publisher (Botanical Magazine)
1750 - Johann Jakob Walder, composer
1755 - Alexander Hamilton, Charlestown, Nevis, West Indies, 1st United States Secretary of the
           Treasury, (d. 1804)
1757 - Samuel Bentham, English mechanical engineer (d. 1831)
1788 - William Thomas Brande, English chemist (d. 1866)
1800 - Ányos Jedlik, Hungarian physicist (d. 1895)
1801 - John Lodge Ellerton, composer
1807 - Alfred Eugene "Mudwall" Jackson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1807 - Ezra Cornell, founder (Western Union Telegraph, Cornell University)
1808 - Antoine GB Schayes, Belgian historian/archaeologist
1814 - James Paget, English surgeon (disease of Paget)
1814 - Richard Griffith, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1862
1815 - John A MacDonald, (C) 1st PM of Canada (1867-73)
1816 - Fitz-Henry Warren, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1878
1818 - John Reese Kenly, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1891
1825 - Bayard Taylor, U.S. poet and writer (d. 1878
1831 - James Ronald Chalmers, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1898
1839 - Eugenio Maria de Hostos, Puerto Rico, patriot/scholar
1842 - William James, US, psychologist/philosopher
1843 - Charles Yelverton O'Connor, Irish-Australian engineer (d. 1902)
1849 - Oskar Lassar, German dermatologist (bath house)
1850 - J C Arthur, Lowville NY, botanist (studied rusts)
1850 - Philipp la Renotiere von Ferrary, famous philatelist
1852 - Konstantin Fehrenbach, German chancellor (1920-21)
1853 - Gustav Falke, German author/poet (Der Mann im Nebel)
1853 - Georgios Jakobides, Greek painter (d. 1926)
1856 - Christian August Sinding, Kongsberg Norway, composer
1857 - Fred[erick J] Archer, English jockey (won 5 Derbys)
1858 - Harry Gordon Selfridge, American retailer (d. 1947)
1859 - [Gerard] Jan Ligthart, Dutch educator (Nog bij mother, Ot & Sien)
1860 - Marie Bashkirtseff, Russian/French painter/author (Journal)
1864 - Thomas Dixon, US attorney/playwright (Flaming Sword)
1867 - Edward B. Titchener, British psychologist. (d. 1927)
1868 - Cai Yuanpei, Chinese educator (d. 1940)
1870 - Alexander Stirling Calder, American sculptor (d. 1945)
1872 - Paul Graener, composer
1872 - George Washington Pierce, American physicist (d. 1956)
1873 - John Callan O'Laughlin, American political and military figure and journalist (d. 1949)
1875 - Reinhold Gliere, composer
1876 - Elmer Flick, American baseball player (d. 1971)
1878 - Theodorus Pangalos, Greek general/dictator (1926)
1879 - Antonio Beltramelli, writer
1880 - Rudolf T Palm, Curacao, pianist/composer
1885 - Alice Paul, ERA advocate/founder (National Woman's Party)
1885 - Jack Hoxie, American actor, rodeo performer (d. 1965)
1886 - George Zucco, England, actor (Adv of Sherlock Holmes, Capt Fury)
1887 - Aldo Leopold, founder (Wilderness Society)
1888 - Chester Conklin, Oskaloosa IA, actor (Every Day's a Holiday, Greed)
1889 - Calvin Bridges, American geneticist (d. 1938)
1890 - Monte Blue, Indianapolis IN, silent film actor (Montana, Oh Boy)
1890 - Oswald de Andrade, Brazilian author (d. 1954)
1890 - Max Carey, American baseball player (d. 1976)
1894 - Jaroslav Vogel, composer
1896 - Eva Le Gallienne, London England, actress/director (Resurrection)
1896 - Paddy Driscoll, NFL QB/coach (Chic Cardinals, Bears)
1897 - August Heissmeyer, German SS officer (d. 1979)
1898 - Hans Rudolf Krik, Danish writer/critic (Fiskerne, Slaven)
1899 - Eva Le Gallienne, English-American actress (d. 1991)
1901 - Andries D Copier, Dutch glass manufacturer (Gildeglass)
1901 - Kwon Ki-ok, Korean pilot (d. 1988)
1902 - Maurice Durufle, French organist/composer
1903 - Alan Paton, South Africa, writer (Cry, the Beloved Country)
1904 - Frederick Boland, Irish diplomat/president (UN General Assembly)
1905 - John Henry Jacques, co-operative retailer
1905 - Clyde Kluckhohn, American anthropologist (d. 1960)
1906 - Albert Hofmann, Switzerland, chemist (discovered LSD)
1906 - Johannes Paul Thilman, composer
1906 - Robert Nesbitt, impresario
1907 - Pierre Mendès-France, French Premier (1954-55) (d. 1982)
1908 - Lionel Stander, NYC, actor (Max-Hart to Hart, Unfaithfully Yours)
1909 - Gunnar Johnsen Berg, composer
1909 - Marguerite Kelsey, English model/painter (Haunting)
1910 - Izler Solomon, St Paul, Minn, conductor
1910 - Trygve Martin Bratteli, Norwegian PM (Labour) (1971-72, 1973-76)
1910 - Sir Shane Paltridge, Australian politician (d. 1966)
1911 - Nora Heysen, Australian artist (d. 2003)
1911 - Zenko Suzuki, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2004)
1912 - Donald Barry, Houston Tx, actor (Mr Gallo-Mr Novak)
1912 - Roger Lewis, aviation exec (Lockheed, Curtiss Wright, Pan Am)
1912 - Thomas "Schoolboy" Rowe, Waco Texas, pitcher (Detroit Tigers)
1914 - Dorothy Jeakins, costume designer
1915 - Robert Blair Mayne, British soldier, co-founder Special Air Service (d. 1955)
1916 - Bernard Blier, Buenos Aires Argentina, actor (Les Miserables)
1916 - James H [Jimmy] Quillen, (Rep-R-TN, 1963- )
1918 - Albert Weisser, composer
1919 - Veda Ann Borg, Boston MA, actress (Avalanche, Accomplice)
1920 - John Powell, campaigner
1921 - Gory Guerrero, professional wrestler (d. 1990)
1922 - Kathleen Byron, London England, actress (Abdication, Profile, 4 Days)
1922 - Neville Duke, English test pilot
1922 - Tony Charmoli, Minn, choreographer (Cher, Julie Andrew)
1922 - Ernle Bradford, English historian and writer (d. 1986)
1923 - Carroll Shelby, American race car driver, automobile designer and businessman, (d. 2012)
1924 - Don Cherry, Wichita Texas, singer (Dean Martin Summer Show)
1924 - Slim Harpo [James Moore], Lobdell, Louisiana, American blues musician
1924 - Sam B. Hall, American politician (d. 1994)
1926 - Alexander Gibson, conductor
1926 - Elisabeth M J "Elly" Bakker, Dutch actress (The Miser)
1926 - Grant Tinker, broadcasting executive (NBC-TV)
1926 - Lev Stepanovich Demin, Russia, cosmonaut (Soyuz 15)
1926 - Phil Sidey, broadcaster
1927 - John Hayes, cricketer (NZ fast bowler in 15 Tests 1951-58)
1927 - Wilton "Bogey" Gaynair, saxophonist
1928 - David L Wolper, producer (Devil's Brigade)
1928 - Mitchell Ryan, Cincinnati Oh, actor (Chase, Executive Suite)
1929 - Nicoletta Orsomando
1929 - Rod Taylor, Sydney, Australian actor (Bearcats, Time Machine)
1929 - Wanda Wilkomirska, Warsaw, Poland, violinist
1930 - Ron Mulock, Australian politician
1931 - Ed Hall, Roxbury Mass, actor (Dr Bicker-Medical Center)
1931 - Betty Churcher, director of the National Gallery of Australia
1932 - Alfonso Arau, Mexican film director
1933 - Goldie Hill, Karnes County Tx, country singer (Grand Ole Opry)
1934 - Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare, Computer scientist
1935 - Chuck Barksdale, US singer (Dells-I Can Sing a Rainbow)
1935 - Ghita Nørby, Danish actress
1936 - Linda Lawson, Ann Arbor Mich, actress (Don't Call Me Charlie)
1936 - Meindert Leerling, Dutch TV director/MP (RPF)
1938 - Fischer S Black Jr, financial theorist
1938 - Michael Fenn, docker/socialist
1938 - Arthur Scargill, Socialist Labour Party (UK) leader
1939 - Anne Heggtveigt, Canada, slalom (Olympic-gold-1960)
1939 - Anne Heggtveit, Canadian alpine skier
1940 - Mark DeVoto, composer
1941 - Gérson, Brazilian footballer
1942 - Clarence Clemons, rock saxophonist (Bruce Springsteen's E St Band)
1943 - William Albert Penn, composer
1943 - Henry Cecil, Aberdeen, Scotland, English horse racing trainer
1944 - York Georg Holler, composer
1944 - Mohammed Abed Elhai, Sudanese writer and academic (d. 1989)
1944 - Shibu Soren, Indian politician
1945 - Christine Kaufmann, Austria, actress (Town Without Pity, Red Lips)
1945 - Samdech Preah Sanghareach Bour Kry, Supreme Patriarch of the Cambodian Dhammayutt Order
1946 - Ludmila Poradnik, USSR, team handball (Olympic-gold-1976, 80)
1946 - Naomi Judd, [Diana Ellen], Ashland Ky, singer (Judds-Why Not Me)
1946 - Tony Kaye, rocker (Yes)
1946 - John Piper, American theologian
1947 - Anna Calder-Marshall, Kensington England, actress (Zulu Dawn)
1947 - Bryan Robson, English international soccer star
1948 - Madeline Manning-Jackson-Mimms, US 800m runner (Oly-gold-1968)
1949 - Tom Netherton, Munich Germany, singer (Lawrence Welk Show)
1949 - [Frederick] Dennis Greene, rocker (Sha Na Na-Shannon)
1949 - Daryl Braithwaite, Australian rock singer
1951 - Willie Maddren, English former footballer (d. 2000)
1952 - Ben Daniel Crenshaw, Austin TX, PGA golfer (1976 Bing Crosby)
1952 - Lee Ritenour, LA California, jazz musician
1952 - Massimo Lopez, Italian comedian
1952 - Bille Brown, Australian actor and playwright
1952 - Michael Forshaw, Australian politician
1953 - Anna Marchesini, Italian entertainer
1953 - John Sessions, Scottish actor
1954 - Saskia ten Batenburg, Dutch actress (Factory, Hunk)
1956 - Kuniaki Kobayashi, wrestler (WAR/NJPW)
1956 - Robert Earl Keen, American singer
1957 - Darryl Dawkins, NBA center (Philadelphia 76ers, NJ Nets)
1957 - Bryan Robson, English footballer and manager
1958 - Lourdes Ann Kananimanu Estores, Honolulu Hawaii, playmate (Jun, 1982)
1958 - Vicki Peterson, LA California, rock guitarist/vocalist (Bangles)
1958 - Diego León Montoya Sánchez, former Columbian crime boss
1959 - Brett Bodine, auto racer
1961 - Paul Skansi, NFL wide receiver (Seattle Seahawk)
1961 - Jasper Fforde, British author
1962 - Donn Pall, Evergreen Park IL, pitcher (Philadelphia Phillies, Fl Marlins)
1962 - Julie Moran, TV hostess (Entertainment Tonight, Independence Day)
1962 - Kim Coles, Bkln NY, actress (Synclaire-Living Single)
1962 - Susan Lindauer, American peace activist and accused spy
1963 - Jason Connery, London England, actor (Robin Hood)
1963 - Kate Gompert, Ames lA, tennis star
1963 - Petra Schneider, E German swimming star (world record 400m)
1963 - Tracy Caulkins, Winona Minn, swimmer (Olympic-3 gold-1984)
1965 - Barbara Belding, San Diego Cal, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-17th-1994)
1965 - Joely Richardson, London England, actress (Body Contact, Wetherby)
1965 - Karl Van Calcar, Torrance California, 3k steeplechase
1965 - Loredana Romito, Benevento Italy, model/actress (Fatal Temptation)
1965 - Olivia Barash, Miami Fla, actress (Laura-Out of the Blue)
1965 - Steve Vancil, Oregon City Ore, golfer (1989 City of Portland)
1965 - Roland Scholten, Dutch Darts Player
1966 - Christian Pouget, hockey forward (Team France 1998)
1966 - Marc Acito, American novelist and humorist
1966 - Kelley Law, Canadian curler
1967 - Jeff Bankett, Pittsburgh Pa, actor (Tyler-1 Life to Live)
1967 - Richmond Webb, NFL tackle (Miami Dolphins)
1967 - Ronnie Stern, St-Agathe, NHL right wing (Calgary Flames)
1968 - Ben Rivera, Dominican/US baseball pitcher (Philadelphia Phillies)
1968 - Sharon Brown, NYC, actress (Chantal-Generations)
1968 - Tom Dumont, American musician
1969 - Darren Anderson, NFL cornerback (KC Chiefs)
1969 - Dave Cruikshank, Northbrook Ill, speed skater (Olympics-1994)
1969 - Frank Robinson, WLAF defensive back (Scottish Claymores)
1969 - Reemt Pyka, hockey forward (Team Germany 1998)
1969 - Kyle Richards, American actress
1970 - Franco Davin, Argentina, tennis star
1970 - Joy Nilo, Filipino Composer
1971 - Alexander Delgado, Palmerejo Venezuela, catcher (Boston Red Sox)
1971 - Karmeeleyah McGill, WLAF linebacker (Scottish Claymores)
1971 - Mary Jane Blige, New York, American R&B singer-songwriter
1971 - Noah Cantor, CFL defensive tackle (Toronto Argonauts)
1971 - Stephen Smith, Indianapolis Indiana, high jumper
1972 - Amber Medlin, Virginia Beach Virginia, Miss America-Virginia (1996)
1972 - Dexter Seigler, NFL cornerback (Seattle Seahawks)
1972 - Huub Loeffen, Dutch soccer player (Vitesse)
1972 - Rey Ordonez, Havana Cuba, infielder (NY Mets)
1972 - Yang Wenyi, Chinese swim star (WR/OR 50m freestyle)
1972 - Marc Blucas, American actor
1973 - Dave Dickenson, CFL quarterback (Calgary Stampeders)
1973 - Rahul Dravid, cricket batter (prolific Karnataka, Tests for India 96)
1973 - Joanna Brodzik, Polish actress
1973 - Rockmond Dunbar, American actor
1974 - Echo Leta Johnson, Austin TX, playmate (Jan, 1993)
1974 - Goran Lozanovski, Australian soccer midfielder (Olyroos, Olympics-96)
1974 - Rod Jones, NFL guard (Cincinnati Bengals)
1974 - Toderick Malone, WLAF wide receiver (London Monarchs)
1974 - Warren Morris, Alexandria LA, baseball infielder (Olympics-bronze-96)
1974 - Jens Nowotny, German footballer
1975 - Brad Badger, guard (Washington Redskins)
1975 - Jacky Verbeek, Dutch soccer player (RKC)
1975 - Rory Fitzpatrick, Rochester, NHL defenseman (Montreal Canadiens)
1976 - Efthimios Rentzias, Greek basketball player
1977 - Shomari Buchanan, American football player
1977 - Nadia Turner, American singer
1978 - Michael Duff, Northern Irish footballer
1978 - Emile Heskey, English footballer
1978 - Holly Brisley, Australian actress
1979 - Darren Lynn Bousman, American film director
1979 - Siti Nurhaliza, Malaysian singer
1980 - Lovieanne Jung, American softball player
1980 - Mike Williams, American football player
1980 - Deanna Wright, American actress
1981 - Jamelia Niela Davis, Birmingham, English singer
1981 - Tom Meighan, British singer (Kasabian)
1982 - Ashley Taylor Dawson, British actor and singer
1982 - Son Ye-jin, South Korean actress
1983 - Matthew Palleschi, Canadian soccer player
1983 - Adrian Sutil, German racing driver
1985 - Rie fu, Japanese singer
1985 - Kazuki Nakajima, Japanese racing driver
1985 - Newton Faulkner, British singer
1987 - Scotty Cranmer, American professional BMX rider
1988 - Alexandria L'Esperance, quintuplet
1988 - Danielle L'Esperance, quintuplet
1988 - Erica L'Esperance, quintuplet
1988 - Raymond L'Esperance, quintuplet
1988 - Veronica L'Esperance, quintuplet
1993 - Flora Cross, American actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 11, 2013, 07:17:51 AM

This Day in History for 11th January


Famous Deaths

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Writer & Satirist                                         Nobel Laureat Physicist                          Mount Everest Conquerer
Ambrose Bierce (1914)                              Carl David Anderson (1991)                    Edmund Hillary (2008)

314 - St. Miltiades
705 - John VI, Catholic Pope (701-05), dies
802 - St. Paulinus II of Aquileia
812 - Staurakios, Byzantine Emperor
844 - Michael I Rhangabes, Byzantine Emperor
1055 - Constantine IX Monomachos, emperor of Byzantium, dies
1083 - Otto of Nordheim, Duke of Bavaria (c. 1020)
1494 - Domenico Ghirlandaio, Italian artist (b. 1449)
1495 - Pedro González de Mendoza, Spanish cardinal and statesman (b. 1428)
1547 - Pietro Bembo, Italian author, literary theorist, and Catholic cardinal (b. 1470)
1552 - Johannes Cochlaeus, [Dobeneck], German humanist/theologist, dies
1641 - Franciscus Gomarus, [Francois Gomaer], French theologist, dies
1641 - Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar, Spanish poet (b. 1583)
1650 - Paul Hallman, composer, dies at 49
1674 - Jan Zoet, actor/playwright/poet (Brutal-Roffel), dies at 58
1696 - Charles Albanel, French missionary explorer in Canada (b. 1616)
1703 - Johann Georg Graevius, German classical scholar and critic (b. 1632)
1713 - Pierre Jurieu, French Protestant leader (b. 1637)
1735 - Danilo I , Vladika of Montenegro (b. c. 1670)
1753 - Hans Sloane, English physician (British Museum), dies at 92
1762 - Louis-François Roubiliac, French sculptor (b. 1695)
1763 - Caspar Abel, German theologian, historian, and poet (b. 1676)
1771 - Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, marquis d'Argens, French author, dies at 66
1775 - Yemelyan Pugachov, Don Cossack rebel, executed by tsarist Russia
1775 - Prithvi Narayan Shah, began the unification of modern Nepal (b. 1723)
1784 - Ferdinand Philipp Joseph Lobkowitz, composer, dies at 59
1791 - William Williams Pantycelyn, Welsh hymnist (b. 1717)
1797 - Francis Lightfoot Lee, US farmer (singer Decl of Independ), dies at 62
1801 - Domenico Cimarosa, Italian composer (Matrimonio segreto), dies at 51
1836 - John Molson, Canadian brewer (b. 1763)
1837 - John Field, Irish pianist/composer (Nocturnes), dies at 54
1843 - Francis Scott Key, composer (Star Spangled Banner), dies at 63
1847 - Caroline von Wolzogen [von Lengefeld], German author, dies at 83
1856 - Nikolai I Nadezjdin, Russian archaeologist, dies [NS=Jan 23]
1867 - Sir Stuart Donaldson, first Premier of the Colony of New South Wales (b. 1812)
1870 - Adolf Ganz, composer, dies at 73
1877 - Pietro Romani, composer, dies at 85
1882 - Theodor Schwann, German physiologist (b. 1810)
1891 - Georges-Eugene Haussmann, French senator/baron, dies at 81
1893 - Benjamin F Butler, US gen/pres candidate (anti-monopoly), dies at 74
1898 - Gaetano Capocci, composer, dies at 86
1901 - Vasily Sergeyevich Kalinnikov, composer, dies at 34
1902 - Johnny Briggs, cricketer (118 wkts for England), dies in an asylum
1905 - Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter, Hasidic rabbi (b. 1847)
1914 - Ambrose Bierce, American writer and satirist, dies at 71
1914 - Carl Jacobsen, Danish brewer and patron of the arts after whom the Carlsberg brewery was named (b. 1842)
1923 - Constantine I, king of Greece (1913-17, 20-22), dies at 54
1928 - Thomas Hardy, novelist (Maddening Crowd), dies near Dorchester at 87
1929 - Julio Antonio Mella, Cuban revolutionary, murdered at about 28
1931 - Oscar Fetras, composer, dies at 76
1931 - James Milton Carroll, American Baptist pastor, leader, historian, and author (b. 1852)
1941 - Emanuel Lasker, German chess player (b. 1868)
1943 - Carlo Tresca, NY's Italian newspaper editor/anti-fascist, murdered
1944 - Galeazzo count of Cortellazzo Ciano, Italian politician, dies
1947 - Eva Tanguay, Canadian-born singer and entertainer (b. 1879)
1950 - Karin Michaelis, writer, dies at 77
1952 - Jean JM de Lattre de Tassigny, gen (N-Africa/Indo-China), dies at 61
1952 - Aureliano Pertile, Italian tenor (b. 1885)
1953 - Ernst H Ridder Rappard, Dutch Nazi founder (NSNAP), dies at 53
1953 - Marcel Canneel, Flemish painter, dies at 58
1953 - Noach Zjordanija, Georgian Premier (1918-21), dies at 84
1954 - Edgar Tytgat, Flemish painter/etcher/drawer, dies at 77
1954 - Emmy Arbous, Dutch actress/cabaret performer (Boefje), dies at 56
1954 - Oscar Straus, Austrian composer (Brave Soldier), dies at 83
1955 - Rodolfo Graziani, Italian East-Africa Minister of Defense, dies at 72
1957 - Sir Robert Garran, Australian lawyer and early leading expert in Australian constitutional law (b. 1867)
1958 - Alec Rowley, composer, dies at 65
1959 - Mohammed Zakaria Ghonein, discoverer of 6,000 yr old pyramid, dies
1960 - Johan E Elias, Dutch historian (Elias Family), dies at 84
1961 - Elena Gerhardt, German mezzo-soprano singer (b. 1883)
1963 - Arthur D Nock, English/Americans historian (St Paul), dies at 60
1966 - Albert Giacometti, Swiss/French painter/sculptor, dies at 64
1966 - Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indian premier (1964-66), dies at 61
1966 - Hannes Kolehmainen, Finnish runner (b. 1889)
1968 - Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
1969 - Richmal Crompton, British author (b. 1890)
1973 - Isabel Randolph, actress (Missing Corpse), dies at 83
1973 - Rudolf Kubin, composer, dies a day after 64th birthday
1975 - Max Lorenz, German heldentenor famous for Wagner roles (b. 1901)
1976 - Mervyn Grell, cricketer (Test WI v England 1930, 21 & 13, 0-17), dies
1978 - Michael Bates, actor (Clockwork Orange, Salt & Pepper), dies at 57
1978 - Ibn-e-Insha, Pakistani humorist and Urdu poet (b. 1927)
1979 - Jack Soo, actor (Nick Yemana-Barney Miller, Green Berets), dies at 63
1980 - Barbara Pym, English novelist (b. 1913)
1981 - Beulah Bondi, actress (It's a Wonderful Life), dies at 88
1983 - Nikolaj V Podgorny, president USSR, dies at 79
1983 - Shri Ghanshyam Das Birla, Indian industrialist and educator (b. 1894)
1984 - Fritz Geissler, composer, dies at 62
1984 - Jack La Rue, TV narrator (Lights Out), dies at 81
1985 - Sir William McKell, Premier of New South Wales, Governor-General of Australia (b. 1891)
1986 - Sid Chaplin, UK novelist (b. 1916)
1987 - Albert Ferber, Swiss-English pianist (b. 1911)
1988 - Gregory (Pappy) Boyington, ace WW II pilot, dies at 75 of cancer
1988 - Isidor Isaac Rabi, nuclear physicist (Nobel Prize-1944), dies at 89
1988 - Florence Knapp, American, one-time oldest person in the world (b. 1873)
1990 - Mary Jane Carr, actress (Forbidden Trail, Second Wife), dies
1991 - Jason Christmas, dies of gunshot wound during robbery in NY at 49
1991 - Carl David Anderson, American physicist, Nobel laureate, dies at 85
1993 - Lacey Fosburgh, author (Closing Time), dies of breast cancer at 50
1994 - John Bradley, raised US flag at Iwo Jima, dies at 70
1994 - Roger "Ram" Ramirez, jazz piano player/composer, dies at 80
1994 - Helmut Poppendick, Nazi physician (b. 1902)
1995 - Adrian J "Ad" Kaland, Dutch MP (CDA 1977-93), dies at 72
1995 - John AG Gere, English art historian (Raphael & his Circle), dies at 73
1995 - Onat Kutlar, Turkish screenplay/producer (Hazal), murdered at 59
1995 - Willem N "Pim" Koot, pianist (Concert Building), dies at 76
1995 - Josef Gingold, Russian-American violinist (b. 1909)
1996 - Eric Hebborn, artist/faker, dies at 61
1996 - Harold Walter Bailey, philologist, dies at 96
1996 - Hubert Nicholson, poet/novelist, dies at 87
1996 - Ike Isaacs, guitarist, dies at 76
1997 - Cavan O'Connor, singer, dies at 97
1997 - Duncan Wood, television director/producer, dies at 71
1997 - Helen Foster Snow, writer, dies at 89
1997 - Joshua William Steward, polymath, dies at 83
1997 - Sheldon Leonard, producer/director (Dick Van Dyke), dies at 89
1998 - Klaus Tennstedt, conductor, dies at 71
1999 - Naomi Mitchison, Scottish novelist and poet (b. 1897)
1999 - Brian Moore, Irish-born writer (b. 1921)
1999 - Fabrizio de André, Italian singer (b. 1940)
2000 - Betty Archdale, Anglo-Australian educationalist and cricketer (b. 1907)
2000 - Ivan Combe, American inventor (b. 1911)
2000 - Bob Lemon, American baseball player (b. 1920)
2001 - Sir Denys Lasdun, English architect (b. 1914)
2001 - Michael Williams, British actor, husband of Judi Dench (b. 1935)
2002 - Henri Verneuil, French playwright and film director (b. 1920)
2002 - Struan Sutherland, Australian medical researcher (b. 1936)
2003 - Richard Simmons, American actor (b. 1913)
2003 - Maurice Pialat, French actor and director (b. 1925)
2003 - Mickey Finn, English drummer (T. Rex) (b. 1947)
2005 - Miriam Hyde, Australian composer (b. 1913)
2005 - Spencer Dryden, American drummer (Jefferson Airplane) (b. 1938)
2005 - James Griffin, American musician (Bread) (b. 1943)
2005 - Fabrizio Meoni, Italian motorcyclist (b. 1957)
2006 - Markus Löffel (Mark Spoon), German DJ (b. 1966)
2006 - Nixzmary Brown, American child abuse victim (b. 1998)
2007 - Puchi Balseiro, Puerto Rican singer & songwriter (b. 1926)
2007 - Robert Anton Wilson, American author (b. 1932)
2007 - Solveig Dommartin, French-German actress (b. 1961)
2008 - Carl Karcher, founded the Carl's Jr. hamburger chain (b. 1917)
2008 - Sir Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer/1st to climb Mt Everest in 1953, dies from a heart attack at 88
2009 - David Vine, British sports broadcaster (b. 1936)
2010 - Miep Gies, Dutch Humanitarian, discoverer of Anne Frank's diary (b. 1909)
2010 - Mick Green, British guitarist (b. 1944)
2010 - Joe Rollino, American strongman, weightlifter, and boxer (b. 1905)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 12, 2013, 07:50:29 AM

This Day in History for 12th January


Historical Events

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Composer George Friedrich Handel        Naturalist Charles Darwin                Magician & Escape Artist Harry Houdini

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Pacifist and Spiritual Leader Gandhi        Queen Elizabeth II                                   Musician Barry Manilow

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Earl of Wessex Prince Edward                  NFL Running Back and                            Golfer Tiger Woods
                                                               Convicted Criminal OJ Simpson

475 - Basiliscus becomes Byzantine Emperor, with a coronation ceremony in the Hebdomon palace in Constantinople.
1493 - Last day for all Jews to leave Sicily
1528 - Gustav I of Sweden crowned king of Sweden.
1552 - Dutch west coast hit by heavy storm, 100s killed
1583 - Holland begins use of Gregorian calendar (yesterday was 1/1/1583)
1598 - Pope Clement VIII seizes duchy of Ferrara on death of Alfonso
1616 - Brazilian city Belem (the entrance gate to the Amazon) founded by Captain Major Francisco
           Branco
1701 - Frisia & Groningen (Netherlands) begin use of Gregorian calendar
1723 - Handel's opera "Ottone" premieres, London
1755 - Tsarina Elisabeth establishes 1st Russian University
1773 - 1st US public museum established (Charlestown SC)
1777 - Mission Santa Clara de Asis founded in Calif
1806 - French evacuate Vienna
1807 - Gunpowder-ship explodes in Leiden Neth, 150 die
1808 - The organizational meeting that led to the creation of the Wernerian Natural History Society, a
           former Scottish learned society, is held in Edinburgh.
1809 - British take Cayenne (French Guiana) from French (until 1814)
1812 - 1st cargo arrives in New Orleans by steam, from Natchez
1816 - France decrees Bonaparte family excluded from the country forever
1820 - Royal Astronomical Society founded in England
1836 - Battle of Wetumka, Fla
1836 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reach Sydney Australia
1839 - Anthracite coal 1st used to smelt iron, Mauch Chunk, Penn
1842 - Franciscan nuns begin missionary work on Netherland Antilles
1861 - FL state troops demand surrender of Ft Pickens
1863 - President Davis delivers his "State of Confederacy" address
1865 - -13] Union fleet bombs Fort Fisher NC
1866 - The Royal Aeronautical Society is formed in London.
1867 - Leo Tolstoy's "Smert Ioonna Groznogo," premieres in St Petersburg
1872 - Yohannes IV is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum, the first imperial coronation in that city
           in over 200 years.
1875 - Kwang-su becomes emperor of China.
1879 - British Zulu War begins: Lt-General Chelmsford invades Zululand
1895 - The National Trust is founded in Britain.
1896 - 1st X-ray photo in US (Dr Henry Smith, Davidson NC)
1898 - Ito Hirobumi begins his third term as Prime Minister of Japan.
1900 - Freeland Colony founded in US
1903 - Harry Houdini performs at Rembrandt theater, Amsterdam
1903 - Rhodes Opera House burns in Boyertown Pa, killing 170
1904 - Southwest-Africa uprising under Samuel Maherero against German garison
1906 - 1st time Dow Jones closes above 100 (100.26)
1906 - Football rules committee legalizes forward pass
1906 - Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's cabinet (which included amongst its members H.H. Asquith,
           David Lloyd George, and Winston Churchill) embarks on sweeping social reforms after a
            Liberal landslide in the British general election.
1907 - Britain grants responsible government to former colony of Transvaal
1908 - A long-distance radio message is sent from the Eiffel Tower for the first time.
1911 - The University of the Philippines College of Law is formally established; three future Philippine
            presidents are among the first enrollees.
1912 - -47°F (-44°C), Washta, Iowa (state record)
1915 - House of Reps rejects proposal to give women right to vote
1916 - Britain proclaims Gilbert & Ellice Is colony in Pacific
1918 - Montreal Canadien Joe Malone scores 5 goals beating Ottawa 9-4
1918 - Finland's "Mosaic Confessors" law went into effect, making Finnish Jews full citizens.
1920 - Annual drafting of baseball players from minor leagues to be done in inverse order of the final
           standings, agreed to
1921 - Kenesaw Mountain Landis becomes 1st commissioner of baseball
1924 - History of Science Society organized at Boston
1925 - John Howard Lawson's "Processional," premieres in NYC
1928 - Philip Barry & Elmer Rice's "Cock Robin," premieres in NYC
1929 - Seatrain (RR cars on ships) service begins, New Orleans-Havana
1930 - NHL's Boston Bruins win then-record 14th consecutive game
1932 - France's Laval government falls
1932 - Hattie W Caraway elected 1st woman senator (D-Ark)
1932 - Philip Barry's "Animal Kingdom," premieres in NYC
1933 - US Congress recognize independence Philippines
1933 - Uprising of Guardia Civil in Spain, 25 dies
1937 - Plow for laying submarine cable patented
1940 - World War II: Soviets bombs cities in Finland.
1942 - British troops reconquer Sollum
1942 - Dutch troops on Tarakan surrender
1942 - National War Labor Board created
1943 - Frankfurters replaced by Victory Sausages (mix of meat & soy meal)
1944 - Churchill & de Gaulle begin a 2-day wartime conference in Marrakesh
1944 - Failed resistance raid on distribution office of Borgerstraat Amsterd
1945 - German forces in Belgium retreat in Battle of Bulge
1945 - US Task Force 38 destroys 41 Jap ships in Battle of South China Sea
1945 - World War II: The Soviets begin a large offensive against the Nazis in Eastern Europe.
1946 - "Polonaise" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 113 performances
1946 - Edouardo de Filippo's "Questi Fantasmi!," premieres in Rome
1946 - NFL champs Cleveland Rams given permission to move to LA
1948 - 1st Supermarket in UK opens
1948 - Mahatma Gandhi begins his final fast
1948 - US Supreme Court decision (Sipuel v Oklahoma State Board of Regents)
1949 - "Arthur Godfrey & His Friends" premieres on CBS TV
1949 - Dutch court affirms death sentence against SS chief Hanns Rauter
1950 - Swedish tanker rams British submarine Truculent in Thames, 64 die
1950 - USSR re-introduces death penalty for treason, espionage & sabotage
1951 - Ezzard Charles TKOs Lee Oma in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
1952 - NFL Pro Bowl: National Conference beats American Conference 30-13
1952 - University of Tennessee admits it's 1st black student
1953 - 9 "Jewish" physicians arrested for "terrorist activities" in Moscow
1954 - Austria's worst avalanche-kills 200; 9hrs later 2nd one-kills 115
1954 - Queen Elizabeth II opens NZ parliament
1957 - Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC) founded
1958 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Sea Island Golf Open
1958 - NCAA adds 2 point conversion to football scoring
1958 - NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 26-7
1958 - Syracuse National Dolph Schayes sets NBA record at 11,770 points
1959 - KOED TV channel 11 in Tulsa, OK (PBS) begins broadcasting
1960 - Sobers & Worrell complete 399 stand for 4th wkt v England
1960 - Syracuse National Dolph Schayes is 1st NBA'er to score 15,000 points
1961 - "Show Girl" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 100 performances
1961 - UN genocide pact goes into effect
1963 - "Go Away Little Girl" by Steve Lawrence peaks at #1
1963 - Spin bowler Bobby Simpson takes 5-57 for Australia v England
1964 - NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 31-17
1964 - Revolution overthrows Sultan of Zanzibar, 1 month after independence
1965 - "Hullabaloo" premieres on NBC-TV
1965 - At 10:58 am PST burn up a nuclear rocket in Nevada
1966 - "Batman" with Adam West & Burt Ward premieres on ABC TV
1966 - 12 day NYC transit strike ends
1966 - LBJ says US should stay in S Vietnam until communist aggression ends
1966 - Red Auerbach wins his 1,000th game as coach of NBA Boston Celtics
1967 - Louisville, Ky, draft board refuses exemption for boxer Muhammad Ali
1967 - Dr. James Bedford becomes the first person to be cryonically preserved with intent of future resuscitation.
1968 - Beatles Film Production Ltd changes name to Apple Film Production Ltd
1968 - Nighttime version of "Hollywood Squares" premieres on NBC TV
1969 - "Golden Rainbow" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 355 performances
1969 - Superbowl III: NY Jets beat Balt Colts, 16-7 in Miami Superbowl MVP: Joe Namath, NY Jets, QB
1970 - Biafran War ends, Biafra surrenders to Nigeria
1970 - Boeing 747 makes its maiden voyage
1970 - Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian civil war.
1971 - "All in the Family" premieres on CBS featuring 1st toilet flush on TV
1971 - "Soon" opens at Ritz Theater NYC for 3 performances
1971 - Congressional Black Caucus organizes
1971 - Fed grand jury indicts Rev Philip Berrigan & 5 others, including a nun & 2 priests, on charges
          of plotting to kidnap Henry Kissinger
1972 - Tigers sign a lease to build a $126M domed stadium (doesn't happen)
1974 - "Joker" by Steve Miller Band peaks at #1
1974 - Libya & Tunisia announces they are merging as "Islamic Arab Republic"
1975 - Chrysler Corp offers 1st car rebates
1975 - Superbowl IX: Pittsburgh Steelers beat Minnesota Vikings, 16-6 in New Orleans Superbowl
           MVP: Franco Harris, Pittsburgh, RB
1976 - UN Security Council votes 11-1 to seat Palestine Liberation Org
1977 - "Ipi Tombi" opens at Harkness Theater NYC for 39 performances
1977 - Anti-French demonstrations takes place in Israel after Paris released Abu Daoud, responsible 1972 Munich massacre of Israeli athletes
1979 - 6th American Music Award: Barry Manilow, Linda Ronstadt win
1979 - LA's Hillside Strangler, Kenneth Bianchi, arrested in Bellingham
1979 - Record blizzard struck midwest killing over 100
1980 - Mike Bratz (Phoenix) begins NBA free throw streak of 57 games
1981 - "Dynasty" with Joan Collins premieres on ABC-TV
1981 - -35°F (-37°C), Chester, Massachusetts (state record)
1981 - Dynasty, a prime time soap opera inspired by Dallas, premieres on ABC
1983 - Brooks Robinson & Juan Marichal elected to Hall of Fame
1983 - NCAA creates football Kickoff Classic to begin in August
1986 - 24th space shuttle (61-C) mission-Columbia 7-launched
1986 - Chic Blackhawk Denis Savard scores at 4 seconds of 3rd period
1986 - Miami Dolphins win AFC football championship
1987 - Britain's Prince Edward resigns from his Royal Marines training
1988 - Willie Stargell (Pitts Pirate), elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1989 - 6 claim to survive in rubble, 35 days after Armenian quake (hoax)
1989 - Idi Amin expelled from Zaire
1990 - Civil Rights activist Rev Al Sharpton is stabbed in Bensonhurst Bkln
1990 - Romania bans Communist party (1st Warsaw Pact member to do so)
1991 - Largest crowd to watch Atlantic Coast Womens Basketball game (11,520)
1991 - Melvin Stewart swims world record 200 m butterfly (1:55.69)
1991 - US Congress gives George Bush authority to wage war against Iraq
1992 - 13th ACE Cable Awards: HBO wins 27 awards
1992 - Last building in Gateway area in Cleveland is demolished
1992 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Christopher Bowman
1992 - Algeria's general elections canceled after strong gains by Islamic Salvation Front in the 1st
           round
1992 - A new constitution, providing for freedom to form political parties, is approved by a
           referendum in Mali.
1993 - Doctors announce Pitts Penguin Mario Limeux has Hodgkin's disease
1994 - Malcolm X's daughter arrested for plotting Louis Farrakham's murder
1994 - Steve Carlton (Phillies) elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1995 - Major earthquake kills 5,092 in Kobe Japan
1995 - Murder trial against OJ Simpson, begins in LA
1995 - Pope John Paul II begins visit to SE Asia
1996 - Russian troops arrived in Bosnia (joint operation with US)
1997 - 17th United Negro College Fund raises
1997 - Annika Sorenstam wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Tournament of Champions
1997 - Chrysler-Plymouth LPGA Tournament of Champions
1997 - HAL became operational (2001: A Space Odyssey)
1997 - Ice skater Oksana Baiul injured slightly whiled driving intoxicated
1997 - Space Shuttle STS 81 (Atlantis 18), launches into space
1997 - Tiger Woods wins Mercedes Championships
1997 - wins Chrysler-Plymouth Tournament Of Champions
1998 - Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning.
2004 - The world's largest ocean liner, RMS Queen Mary 2, makes its maiden voyage.
2005 - Deep Impact (space mission) launches from Cape Canaveral on a Delta 2 rocket.
2006 - A stampede during the Stoning the Devil ritual on the last day at the Hajj in Mina, Saudi
           Arabia, kills at least 362 Muslim pilgrims.
2006 - Turkey releases Mehmet Ali Ağca from jail after he served 25 years for shooting Pope John
            Paul II.
2006 - The French warship Clemenceau reaches Egypt and is barred access to the Suez Canal.
           Greenpeace activists board the ship.
2006 - The foreign ministers of the United Kingdom, France, and Germany declare that negotiations
           with Iran over its nuclear program have reached a dead end and recommend that Iran be
            referred to the United Nations Security Council.
2007 - Comet McNaught reaches perihelion becoming the brightest comet in more than 40 years.
2010 - Earthquake occurs in Haiti killing 230,000 and destroying the majority of the capital Port-au-
           Prince

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 12, 2013, 07:54:21 AM

This Day in History for 12th January


Famous Weddings

1684 - French king Louis XIV marries Madame Maintenon
1993 - MTV hostess Martha Quinn marries longtime boyfriend Jordan Tarlow
2004 - Two-time Oscar-winning cinematographer Janusz Kaminski (44) weds ABC-TV correspondent
            Rebecca Rankin in Los Angeles
2006 - Skateboarding legend Tony Hawk (37) weds Lhotse Merriam at Tavarua Island Resort in Fiji

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 12, 2013, 08:04:13 AM

This Day in History for 12th January


Famous Birthdays

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Fairytale writer                                                 Radio shock jock                            Amazon.com founder             
Charles Perrault (1628)                                  Howard Stern (1954)                        Jeff Bezos (1964)


1483 - Count Henry III of Nassau-Breda, Stadholder of Holland and Zeeland 1515-1521 (d. 1538)
1492 - Andreas Alicatus, Italian author
1562 - Charles Emanuel I, the great, Duke of Savoy
1576 - Peter Scriverius, Dutch lawyer/historian
1579 - Jan Baptist van Helmont, Flemish chemist, (found boiling point temperature)
1580 - Lord Alexander Ruthven, Scottish nobleman (d. 1600)
1588 - John Winthrop, 1st governor (Mass Bay Colony)
1591 - José Ribera/Jusepe de Ribera, Spanish painter and printmaker, nicknamed Lo Spagnoletto (d. 1652)
1597 - François Duquesnoy, French sculptor (d. 1643)
1599 - Adrian van Utrecht, Flemish painter
1628 - Charles Perrault, Paris France, author (Mother Goose)
1638 - Ernst R Tarhemberg, Austrian fieldmarshal (Turkish Wars)
1674 - Reinhard Keiser, composer
1711 - Gaetano Latilla, composer
1715 - Jacques Duphly, composer
1716 - Antonio de Ulloa, Spanish general (d. 1795)
1721 - Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick, Prussian general (d. 1792)
1723 - Samuel Langdon, American college educator (d. 1797)
1729 - Edmund Burke, British author (Philosophy & Inquiry) [OS=Jan 1]
1729 - Lazzaro Spallanzani, Modena Italy, physiologist
1730 - Johann Joachim Christoph Bode, composer
1737 - Brizio Petrucci, composer
1746 - Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Switzerland, educator [OS]
1749 - Ferdinand Trauttmansdorff, Austrian earl/prince/diplomat
1751 - Ferdinand I, king of Sicily & Naples. (d. 1825)
1751 - Jacob M R Lenz, writer (Das Leidende Weib)
1772 - Count Mikhail Speransky, Russian reformer (d. 1839)
1780 - Wilhelm M L de Wette, German exegetist/theologist
1783 - Erik Gustaf Geijer, Swedish historian/poet (Natthimmelen)
1786 - Sir Robert Inglis, Bt, English politician (d. 1855)
1792 - Robert Patterson, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1881
1792 - Johan August Arfwedson, Swedish chemist (d. 1841)
1797 - Gideon Brecher, Austrian physician (d. 1873)
1804 - Hippolyte Monpou, composer
1807 - Jan T Beelen, Dutch/Belgian bible expert
1808 - Paul "the Great" Taglioni, Vienna, ballet choreographer
1810 - Ferdinand II, king of Sicily
1814 - Jones Mitchell Withers, Mjr General (Confederate Army), died in 1890
1819 - Zealous Bates Tower, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1900
1821 - Nikolai Afanisev, composer
1822 - Étienne Lenoir, French engineer (d. 1900)
1825 - Joseph Robert Davis, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1896
1826 - Charles Cruft, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1883
1832 - Richard Waterhouse Jr, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1876
1837 - Adolf Jensen, composer
1837 - Carlos Troyer, composer
1842 - Francois Coppee, French poet
1849 - Jean Béraud, French painter (d. 1935)
1852 - Joseph J C Joffre, French fieldmarshal (Indo China, Marne)
1853 - Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro, Italian mathematician (tensor analysis)
1856 - John Singer Sargent, US, portrait painter (Wyndham Sisters)
1860 - Henry Larkin, American baseball player (d. 1942)
1863 - Vivekananda, Calcutta, Hindu religious leader/reformer
1871 - Paul Guthnick, German astronomer
1873 - Spiridon Louis, Greek marathon runner (d. 1940)
1875 - Marika Stiernstedt, Swedish author (Ulla Bella)
1876 - Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, Venice Italy, composer
1876 - Jack London, American writer/socialist (Call of the Wild)
1877 - Frank J. Corr, American politician (d. 1934)
1878 - Ferenc Molnar, Hungarian/US playwright (A Pal Utrai Fiuk)
1879 - Ray Harroun, American race car driver (d. 1968)
1882 - Jakob Jud, Swiss linguist/etymologist
1882 - Milton Sills, American actor (d. 1930)
1884 - Louis Horst, composer
1884 - Texas Guinan, American actress (d. 1933)
1888 - Claude Delvincourt, composer
1890 - Mordecai W Johnson, educator
1892 - Mikhail Gurevich, Russian aircraft designer (d. 1976)
1893 - Hermann Goering, propoganda minister (Nazi Germany)
1893 - Alfred Rosenberg, German Nazi official (d. 1946)
1896 - Rex Ingram, Ireland, actor/director (Elmer Gantry, God's Little Acre)
1896 - David Wechsler, American psychologist (d.1981)
1897 - Hendrik J Valk, painter/cartoonist/graphic artist
1898 - Jose Forns y Cuadras, composer
1899 - Paul H Muller, Swiss chemist (DDT-Nobel 1948)
1899 - Pierre Bernac, French baritone (d. 1979)
1900 - Vaino Hannikainen, composer
1902 - Ibn Abdul-Aziz Saud, Kuwait, king (Saudi Arabia)
1902 - Ray Teal, Grand Rapids Mich, actor (Sheriff Roy Coffee-Bonanza)
1902 - Simon H Spoor, Dutch gen/intelligence officer for Gen MacArthur
1903 - Igor V Kurtshatov, Russian nuclear physicist - helped develop 1st Soviet nuclear weapon
1904 - Mississippi Fred McDowell, jazz artist
1905 - James Bennett Griffin, American archaeologist (d. 1997)
1906 - Henny Youngman, England, comedian (Take my wife please...)
1906 - Tex Ritter, Texas, country singer (5 Star Jubilee, Wayward Wind)
1906 - Daniil Kharms, Russian playwright (d. 1942)
1907 - Sergei Korolev, scientist
1907 - Patsy Kelly, American actress (d. 1981)
1908 - Ben Seijes, Dutch historian (WW II)
1908 - Jose Limon, Mexican/US dancer (I, Odysseus)
1908 - Clement Hurd, American illustrator (d. 1988)
1909 - Mauritz Hugo, Sweden, actor (Atomic Blonde, Road Agent)
1910 - Charles Martin, cartoonist
1910 - Luise Rainer, Austria, actress (Escapade, Good Earth, Big City)
1910 - Patsy Kelly, Bkln, actress (Rosemary's Baby, North Ave Irregulars)
1912 - Peter Pooley, broadcaster
1914 - Edqard John Gurney, politician
1915 - Ernest Armstrong, miner/politician
1915 - Frank Annunzio, (Rep-D-IL, 1965- )
1915 - Joseph Roy George Ralston, pilot
1915 - Martin Agronsky, journalist (1952 Peabody, 1961 DuPont-Columbia)
1915 - Paul Jarrico, American writer (d. 1997)
1915 - Joseph-Aurèle Plourde, Catholic archbishop of Ottawa
1916 - A P[ieter] W Botha, Orange Free State, president of South Africa
1916 - Jay McShann, American musician (d. 2006)
1916 - William Pleeth, British cellist (d. 1999)
1917 - Walter Hendl, West New York NJ, conductor
1917 - Jimmy Skinner, Canadian hockey coach (d. 2007)
1917 - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Indian spiritualist (d. 2008)
1920 - James Farmer, Marshall, Tex, civil rights leader
1920 - Prof Jerzy Zubrzycki, Polish-born Australian sociologist
1921 - John Henry Davis Jr, Smithtown NY, weightlifter (Olym-gold-1948, 52)
1921 - Leo Smit, Phila Penn, pianist/composer
1922 - Tadeusz Żychiewicz, Polish journalist and art historian (d. 1994)
1923 - Ira Hayes, American soldier (d. 1955)
1924 - Jan Willem Radecker, sculptor/son of John Raedecker
1925 - Bill Burrud, Hollywood California, host (Safari to Adventure, Animal World)
1925 - Laurentiu Profeta, composer
1925 - Ralph Legall, cricket wicket-keeper (WI v India 1954)
1925 - Scottie MacGregor, American actress
1926 - Morton Feldman, NYC, composer
1926 - Ray Price, country singer (Good Times)
1927 - Leopold Ahsen, writer
1927 - Salvatore Martirano, composer
1928 - Lew Gallo, Mt Kisko, actor (12 O'Clock High)
1928 - Ruth Brown, American singer (d. 2006)
1929 - Colin Berry Haycraft, publisher
1929 - Alasdair MacIntyre, Scottis-born American philosopher
1930 - Glenn Yarborough, singer (Limeliters-Honey & Wine, Jubilee)
1930 - Jennifer P Johnston, Irish author (Fool's sanctuary)
1932 - Alain Teister, Dutch sculptor/writer
1932 - Des O'Connor, British television presenter
1933 - Michael Aspel, British talk show host
1934 - Burdette Haldorson, US, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1956, 60)
1934 - Mick Sullivan, English rugby league footballer
1935 - "Amazing" Kreskin, Montclair NJ, mentalist/telepath
1935 - Ron Harper, Turtle Creek Pa, actor (Wendy & Me, Planet of the Apes)
1935 - William Lee Gloden, Brewton Al, country singer (Oak Ridge Boys)
1937 - Liliana Cavani, Bologna Italy, director (Berlin Affair)
1937 - Marie Dubois, Paris France, actress (Wise Guys, Jules & Jim)
1937 - Vicente Sardinero, Spanish baritone (d. 2002)
1938 - Lewis Fiander, Australian actor
1939 - Helmut Eisendle, writer
1939 - Jacobus M "Jacques" Hamelink, Dutch writer/poet (Cold Unrest)
1940 - Dick Motz, cricketer (1st NZer to take 100 Test wickets)
1941 - Jaime B Fuster, (Rep-D-PR, 1985- )
1941 - Long John Baldry, England, blues vocalist (Don't try to Lay No Boogie)
1942 - Vladimir Sergeyevich Kozelsky, cosmonaut (Soyuz 24 backup)
1942 - Bernardine Dohrn, former leader of the radical leftist organization Weather Underground
1943 - Henri J "Adriaan" Adriaansen, mime/director (Stinging Nettle King)
1944 - Joe Frazier, Beaufort SC, HW boxer (Olympic-gold-1964)/champ (1968-73)
1944 - Vlastimil Hort, Czech/German chess player
1944 - Hans Henning Atrott, Prussian euthanasia advocate
1944 - Viktoria Postnikova, Russian pianist
1944 - Carlos Villagrán, Mexican actor
1945 - Maggie Bell, Glasgow Scotland, rocker
1946 - Cynthia Robinson, rock trumpeteer (Sly & Family Stone-Everyday People)
1946 - George Duke, San Rafael Ca, rocker
1946 - Lady Cosgrove, Scottish judiciary figure
1947 - Tom Dempsey, NFL record-holder (longest field goal, 63 yards)
1948 - Anthony Andrews, London England, actor (Under the Volcano)
1948 - Kenny Allen, English footballer
1948 - Khalid Abdul Muhammed, American Nation of Islam spokesman (d. 2001)
1948 - William Nicholson, English writer
1949 - James W Dietz, rower
1949 - Wayne Wang, director (Chan is Missing, Slamdance)
1949 - Kentaro Haneda, Japanese composer (d. 2007)
1949 - Ottmar Hitzfeld, German football manager
1949 - Haruki Murakami, Japanese novelist
1949 - Michael W. Vannier, American radiologist
1950 - Bob McEwen, (Rep-R-OH, 1981- )
1950 - Marilyn R Smith, microbiologist
1950 - Sheila Jackson Lee, American politician
1950 - Göran Lindblad, Swedish politician
1950 - Dorrit Moussaieff, First Lady of Iceland
1950 - Ricky Ray Rector, American murderer (d. 1992)
1951 - Bill Madlock, 4X NL batting champ (Chicago Cubs)
1951 - Chris Bell, Memphis Tn, rock guitarist (Big Star)
1951 - Drew Pearson, former NFL all-pro receiver
1951 - Kirstie Alley, Wichita Ks, actress (Star Trek II, Cheers-Rebecca)
1951 - Larry Hoppens, rocker (Orleans-Still the One, Dance With Me)
1951 - Rush Limbaugh, Girardeau Missouri, American right wing radio personality
1951 - Ann Althouse, American law professor
1952 - Ricky Van Shelton, country musician
1952 - Charles Faulkner, American motivational speaker and author
1952 - Walter Mosley, American author
1954 - Howard Stern, Roosevelt NY, "Radio's Bad Boy" (WKRK, WYSP, WJFK)
1955 - Patty Hayes, LPGA golfer
1955 - Rockne S. O'Bannon, American screenwriter
1957 - John Lasseter, American animation director
1958 - Curt Fraser, American ice hockey coach
1959 - Per Helmstad Gessle, Sweden, singer (Roxette-Must Have Been Love)
1959 - Blixa Bargeld, German singer and musician (Einstürzende Neubauten, Nick Cave and the Bad
           Seeds)
1959 - Lasana M. Sekou, Saint Martin, Caribbean, poet/author (The Salt Reaper
1960 - Dominique Wilkins, NBA forward (Atlanta Hawks)
1960 - Rob Derksen, Australian baseball head coach (Olympics-1996)
1960 - Oliver Platt, Canadian actor
1961 - Andrea Carnevale, soccer player (Napoli)
1962 - Richie Richardson, cricketer (elegant West Indian batsman 1983-95)
1962 - Joe Quesada, American comic book writer
1963 - François Girard, French-Canadian film director and screenwriter
1964 - Laura Gildemeister, Argentina, tennis star
1964 - Lynne Marie Thurik, Vancouver Wash, Miss Washington-America (1991)
1964 - Jeff Bezos, Albuquerque New Mexico, American entrepreneur and founder of Amazon.com
1965 - Henry Thomas, defensive tackle (Detroit Lions, New England Patriots)
1965 - John Francis, model
1965 - Mark Moore, rocker (S'Express-Winter Course)
1965 - Rob Zombie, American musician
1966 - Craig Parry, Sunshine VIC, Australasia golfer
1966 - Linda Ferrando, Italy, tennis star
1966 - Olivier Martinez, French actor
1967 - Farrah Forke, Texas, actress (Dweebs, Mr Rhodes, Disclosure, Heat)
1967 - Marco Boogers, Dutch soccer player (RKC, Sparta, West Ham United)
1967 - Mike Simms, Whittier CA, outfielder (Houston Astros)
1967 - Ulf Dahlen, Ostersund SWE, NHL forward (Team Sweden, San Jose)
1967 - Vendela [Kirsebom], Stockholm Sweden, model (Sports Illustrated 1993)
1968 - Heather Mills, Aldershot England, model/writer (Out on a Limb)
1968 - Vince Buck, NFL safety (NO Saints)
1968 - Junichi Masuda, Japanese composer
1968 - Mauro Silva, Brazilian footballer
1969 - Cam Russell, Halifax, NHL defenseman (Chicago Blackhawks)
1969 - Robert Prosinečki, Croatian footballer
1970 - Jenny Griffith, Burbank California, WPVA volleyballer (National-13th-1995)
1970 - Nigel Wilson, Canadian/US baseball outfielder (Florida Marlins)
1970 - Takahiro Ikenoue, WLAF defensive linebacker (Rhein Fire)
1970 - Raekwon, American rapper
1970 - Zack de la Rocha, American musician (Rage Against the Machine)
1971 - Andy Fox, Sacramento CA, infielder (NY Yankees)
1971 - Oscar Sturgis, NFL defensive end (Dallas Cowboys)
1971 - Scott Burrell, NBA guard/forward (Chicago Bulls, Charlotte Hornets)
1971 - Shane Dronett, NFL defensive end (Atlanta Falcons, Denver Broncos)
1972 - Dominique Ross, NFL running back (Dallas Cowboys)
1972 - Priyanka Gandhi, daughter of Rajiv Gandhi
1972 - Randy Sklar, American comedian
1973 - Greg Morton, Milwaukee Wisc, actor (Scarecrow & Mrs King)
1973 - Dan Haseltine, American singer (Jars of Clay)
1973 - Matt Wong, American musician (Reel Big Fish)
1973 - Hande Yener, Turkish singer
1974 - Melanie Jayne Chisholm, "Sporty Spice", Widnes, vocalist (Spice Girls)
1974 - Tor Arne Hetland, Norwegian cross-country skier
1975 - Chase Hampton, Oklahoma City Oklahoma, rocker (Party-Rodeo, That's Why)
1975 - Jocelyn Thibault, Montreal, NHL goalie (Montreal Canadiens)
1975 - Jason Freese, American musician
1976 - Miki Nakatani, Japanese actress and singer
1977 - Sara Walsh, South Bend In, fencer-foil (Olympics-96)
1977 - Dominic Etli, American soccer player
1977 - Yoandy Garlobo, Cuban baseball player
1977 - Cade McNown, American football player
1977 - Piolo Pascual, Filipino actor
1978 - Bonaventure Kalou, Ivorian footballer
1978 - Amerie, American singer and songwriter
1978 - Luis Ayala, Mexican baseball pitcher
1978 - Jeremy Camp, American musician
1978 - Kim Sa Rang, Korean actress
1978 - Kris Roe, American musician (The Ataris)
1979 - Jenny Schmidgall, ice hockey forward (USA, Oly-98)
1979 - Grzegorz Rasiak, Polish footballer
1980 - Bobby Crosby, American baseball player
1981 - Dan Klecko, American football player
1982 - Sherzod Abdurahmonov, Uzbekistanian boxer
1982 - Paul-Henri Mathieu, French tennis player
1982 - Dimitrios Tsiamis, Greek triple jumper
1982 - Hans Van Alphen, Belgian decathlete
1982 - Chris Ray, American baseball player
1982 - Dontrelle Willis, American baseball player
1984 - Scott Olsen, American baseball player
1985 - Yohana Cobo, Spanish actress
1985 - Artem Milevskiy, Ukrainian footballer
1986 - Miguel Ángel Nieto, Spanish footballer
1987 - Andrew Lawrence, Phila, actor (Andy Roman-Brotherly Love)
1987 - Naya Rivera, actress (Cindy-Fresh Prince of Bel Air)
1987 - Salvatore Sirigu, Italian footballer
1987 - Will Rothhaar, American actor
1988 - Chris Casement, Irish footballer
1988 - Joseph Dundas, British TV Presenter
1990 - Sergey Karjakin, Ukrainian chess player
1992 - Mao Kobayashi, Japanese gravure idol
1995 - Laurel McGoff, American singer
1996 - Sarah Morales, Mexico, Siamese twin (survived)
1996 - Sarahi Morales, Mexico, Siamese twin (died on Jan 27, 1996)
1998 - Nathan Gamble, American child actor

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 12, 2013, 08:06:49 AM

This Day in History for 12th January


Famous Deaths

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Mystery Writer Agatha Christie (1976)                                               


689 - Benedict Biscop, English saint, dies
1049 - Abu Sa'id ibn Aboa al-Chair, Persian mystic, dies at 81
1167 - Aelred of Hexham/Rievaulx, English abbot/saint, dies at about 56
1321 - Maria of Brabant, wife of Philip III of France (b. 1256)
1390 - Peter van Herenthals, Dutch theologist/church historian, dies at 67
1519 - Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1459)
1537 - Lorenzo di Credi, Italian painter, dies
1665 - Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician (Fermat therorem), dies at 63
1674 - Giacomo Carissimi, Italian bandmaster/composer (Jephta), dies at 68
1700 - Marguerite Bourgeoys, saint (b. 1620)
1705 - Luca Giordano, Italian artist (b. 1634)
1732 - John Horsley, British archaeologist (b. 1685)
1735 - John Eccles, English composer (b. 1668)
1759 - Anne of Hannover, English princess, dies at 49
1765 - Johann Melchior Molter, composer, dies at 68
1777 - Hugh Mercer, American Revolutionary War officer (mortally wounded in battle) (b. 1726)
1781 - Richard Challoner, English Catholic prelate (b. 1691)
1807 - Adriaan Kluit, Dutch historian, dies at 71
1807 - Joan Lucaz, Dutch scholar/journalist/patriot, dies at 60
1817 - Juan Andres, Spanish Jesuit (b. 1740)
1829 - Friedrich von Schlegel, German cultural philosopher/poet, dies at 56
1829 - Michael Gottard Fischer, composer, dies at 55
1833 - Marie-Antoine Carême, French chef (b. 1784)
1834 - William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1759)
1839 - Joseph A Koch, Aust painter/cartoonist/etcher/illustrator, dies at 70
1851 - Johan Herman Koekkoek, painter, dies at 72
1856 - Ľudovít Štúr, Slovak politician, author of Slovak language, (b. 1815)
1860 - Martinus J Niewindt, bishop on Curacao (christened slaves), dies at 63
1867 - Victor Cousin, French philosopher/minister of Education, dies at 74
1897 - Isaac Pitman, British inventor (Pitman Shorthand) (b. 1813)
1899 - Hiram Walker, American distiller (b. 1816)
1909 - Hermann Minkowski, German mathematician (b. 1864)
1921 - Gervase Elwes, English tenor (b. 1866)
1925 - Oskar Brefeld, German botanist, dies at 85
1926 - Sir Austin Chapman, Australian politician (b. 1864)
1928 - Ruth Snyder, 1st woman to die in electric chair
1933 - Vaclav Suk, composer, dies at 71
1934 - Pawel Kochanski, Polish violinist, composer and arranger (b. 1887)
1938 - Gösta Ekman (senior), Swedish actor (b. 1890)
1940 - Erich R Jaensch, German psychologist (eidetiek), dies at 56
1942 - George Francis, cricketer (WI Test fast-bowler, 23 wkts in 10), dies
1943 - Jan R T Campert, Dutch resistance fighter/poet (18 Dead), dies at 40
1944 - Lance C. Wade, American pilot (b. 1915)
1947 - Jonas Cohn, German/English philosopher (Wertwissenschaft), dies at 77
1950 - Koos van de Griend, composer, dies at 44
1953 - Simeon Roncal, composer, dies at 82
1956 - John Raedecker, Dutch sculptor (WW II Monument Amsterdam), dies at 70
1956 - Norman Kerry, actor (Air Eagles, Phantom of Opera), dies at 61
1958 - Arthur Shepherd, composer, dies at 77
1958 - Charles Mallory Hatfield, U.S. rainmaker (b. 1875)
1960 - Nevil Shute [Norway], Eng/Aust author (Town like Alice), dies at 60
1962 - Ernie Kovacs, comedian (Ernie Kovacs Show), killed in auto crash at 42
1962 - Richard de Guide, composer, dies at 52
1962 - Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams, Russian writer and feminist (b. 1869)
1964 - C R Browne, cricket leg-spinner (WI in 4 Tests, 6 wkts), dies
1965 - Lorraine Hansberry, US playwright, dies in NYC, dies at 34
1965 - Porcupine, in Washington DC zoo, dies at 27; oldest known rodent
1970 - Blanche Stuart Scott, US pilot, dies at 84
1972 - Padraic Colum, Irish poet/writer/founder (Irish Review), dies at 90
1975 - Caryn Campbell, Bundy victim, disappears from Snowmass, Colo
1976 - Agatha Christie, mystery writer (10 Little Indians), dies at 85
1977 - Henri-Georges Clouzot, director (Diabolique, Truth), dies at 69
1978 - Nancy Spungen, stabbed to death by boyfriend Sid Vicious
1980 - Hans Ebeling, cricketer (Vict stalwart, bowled for Aust 1934), dies
1981 - Beulah Bondi, actress (It's a Wonderful Life), dies at 89
1981 - Isobel Elsom, actress (Unseen, Jane Eyre, Illegal), dies at 87
1983 - Rebop Kwaku Baah, Nigerian percussionist (b. 1944)
1986 - Marcel Arland, French author (L'ordre, Lumière du Soir), dies at 86
1988 - Connie Mulder, South African politician (b. 1925)
1990 - Laurence J Peter, author (Peter Princible), dies of a stroke at 70
1990 - Paul Amadeus Pisk, composer, dies at 96
1991 - Keye Luke, actor (Charlie Chan's No 1 Son), dies after a stroke at 86
1991 - Vasco Pratolini, Italy, writer (Ragazze di San Frediano), dies at 77
1992 - Harry van Doorn, Dutch MP (KVP/KRO-chairman/PPR/CRM), dies at 76
1992 - Walt Morey, US children's book writer (Gentle Ben), dies at 84
1993 - Carles Mira, Spanish director (Que Nos Quiten Lo Bailao), dies at 45
1994 - Bob Horen, dies of cancer at 67
1994 - Samuel Bronston, Romanian/US producer (El Cid), dies at 85
1995 - Francis Lopez, songwriter, dies at 77
1995 - George Price, cartoonist (New Yorker), dies at 93
1995 - Marion Herbst, German/Dutch jewelry designer, dies at 50
1996 - Edmund Happold, engineer, dies at 65
1996 - John Howard Purnell, scientist, dies at 70
1996 - Peggy Braithwaite, lighthouse-keeper, dies at 76
1996 - Joachim Nitsche, German mathematician (b. 1926)
1997 - Charles Huggins, surgeon/medical researcher, dies at 95
1997 - Jean Writer-Edern Hallier, dies at 60
1997 - Jill Summers, actress (Agatha Coronation Street), dies at 86
1999 - Betty Lou Gerson, American voice actress (b. 1914)
1999 - Doug Wickenheiser, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1961)
2000 - Marc Davis, American animator (b. 1913)
2000 - Bobby Phills, American basketball player (b. 1969)
2001 - Affirmed, American racehorse (b. 1975)
2001 - Luiz Bonfá, Brazilian guitarist and composer (b. 1922)
2001 - William Hewlett, American engineer and businessman (b. 1913)
2002 - Stanley Unwin, South African comedian (b. 1911)
2002 - Cyrus Vance, 57th U.S. Secretary of State (b. 1917)
2003 - Dean Amadon, American ornithologist (b. 1912)
2003 - Kinji Fukasaku, Japanese director (b. 1930)
2003 - Leopoldo Galtieri, dictator of Argentina (b. 1926)
2003 - Maurice Gibb, British singer, songwriter, and musician (Bee Gees) (b. 1949)
2003 - Allan Nunn May, English physicist and Soviet spy (b. 1911)
2004 - Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya, Russian mathematician (b. 1921)
2004 - Randy VanWarmer, American singer and songwriter (b. 1955)
2005 - Alessia di Matteo, first survivor of eight transplants in one operation (b. 2003)
2005 - Amrish Puri, Indian actor (b. 1932)
2005 - Edmund S. Valtman, Estonian-born cartoonist (b. 1914)
2007 - Sir James Killen, Australian politician (b. 1925)
2007 - Alice Coltrane, American jazz musician (b. 1937)
2009 - Claude Berri, French movie director (b. 1934)
2009 - Arne Næss, Norwegian philosopher (b. 1912)
2010 - Hasib Sabbagh, Palestinian businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of Consolidated
           Contractors Company (b. 1920)
2010 - Daniel Bensaid, French philosopher (b. 1946)
2012 - Reginald Hill, British crime author, dies of brain cancer at 75
2012 - Bill Janklow, four-term Governor of South Dakota, dies of brain cancer at 72
2012 - Charles Price, American businessman and diplomat, dies at 80

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 13, 2013, 06:40:39 AM

This Day in History for 13th January


Historical Events

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Satirist Jonathan Swift                              Composer Richard Wagner                         Author and Nobel
                                                                                                                            Laureate Gerhart Hauptmann

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Ford Motor Company Founder                Baseball Player Hank Aaron                Basketball Superstar Michael Jordan
Henry Ford

888 - Odo, Count of Paris becomes King of the Franks.
1099 - Crusaders set fire to Mara Syria
1547 - Earl Henry Howard of Surrey sentenced to death
1559 - Elizabeth I crowned queen of England in Westminster Abbey
1605 - The controversial play Eastward Hoe by Ben Jonson, George Chapman, and John Marston is
           performed, landing two of the authors in prison.
1607 - The Bank of Genoa fails after announcement of national bankruptcy in Spain.
1610 - Galileo Galilei discovers Callisto, 4th satellite of Jupiter
1621 - Jan Pieterszoon Coen's fleet sets sail to Moluccas (from Jacarta)
1630 - Patent to Plymouth Colony issued
1673 - Jean Racine's "Mithridate," premieres in Paris
1695 - Jonathan Swift ordained an Anglican priest in Ireland
1733 - James Oglethorpe & 130 English colonists arrive at Charleston, SC
1770 - De Beaumarchais' "Les Deux Amis," premieres in Paris
1785 - John Walter publishes 1st issue of London Times
1794 - Congress changes US flag to 15 stars & 15 stripes
1822 - The design of the Greek flag is adopted by the First National Assembly at Epidaurus.
1830 - Great fire in New Orleans thought to be set by rebel slaves
1840 - The steamship Lexington burns and sinks four miles off the coast of Long Island with the loss
           of 139 lives.
1842 - Dr. William Brydon, a surgeon in the British Army during the First Anglo-Afghan War,
           becomes famous for being the sole survivor of an army of 16,500 when he reaches the safety
           of a garrison in Jalalabad.
1849 - Vancouver Island granted to Hudson's Bay Co
1854 - Anthony Foss patents accordion
1863 - Chenille manufacturing machine patented by William Canter, NYC
1863 - Thomas Crapper pioneers one-piece pedestal flushing toilet
1865 - -Jan 15th] BBT & CPT Ft Fisher, NC
1869 - Colored National Labor Union, 1st Black labor convention meets in Wash DC
1873 - P B S Pinchback relinquishes office at Louisiana governor
1874 - Battle between jobless & police in NYC, 100s injuried
1874 - US troops land in Honolulu to protect the king
1882 - Richard Wagner completes his opera "Parsifal"
1883 - Fire in circus Ferroni in Berditschoft Poland kills 430
1883 - Henrik Ibsen's "En Folkefiende," premieres in Oslo
1888 - National Geographic Society founded (Washington, DC)
1893 - British Independent Labor Party forms (Keir Hardie as its leader)
1893 - U.S. Marines land in Honolulu from the U.S.S. Boston to prevent the queen from abrogating
           the Bayonet Constitution.
1894 - Revolution in Sicily crushed by government troops
1895 - Oscar Wilde's "Ideal Husband," premieres in London
1898 - Emile Zola publishes his open letter (J'accuse) in defense of Dreyfus
1902 - Textile workers strike in Enschede Neth till June 1
1906 - 1st radio set advertised (Telimco for $7.50 in Scientific American) claimed to receive signals up
           to one mile
1908 - French pilot Henry Farman is 1st European to fly roundtrip
1908 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Wanderers sweep Ottawa Victorias in 2 games
1908 - Rhoads Opera House fire in Boyertown, PA killing 171 people.
1910 - JM Synge's "Deirdre of the Sorrows," premieres in Dublin
1911 - Gerhart Hauptmann's "Die Ratten," premieres in Berlin
1911 - Roald Amundsens anchors at Walvis Bay
1911 - South Africa's 1st win over Australia, at Adelaide
1912 - -40°F (-40°C), Oakland, Maryland (state record)
1913 - Delta Sigma Theta, the world's largest Black Women's Sorority is founded at Howard
           University, Washington DC
1914 - IWW-leader/songwriter Joe Hill arrested "Girl from Utah" East-Prussia
1915 - Earthquake in Avezzano Italy kills 29,800
1915 - W Churchill presents plan for assault on Dardanelles
1919 - Dutch Soccer team OSV forms
1920 - NY Times editorial (falsely) reports rockets can never fly
1922 - Buck Weaver, a Black Sox, applies unsuccessfully for reinstatement
1922 - Conference of Cannes concerning German retribution payments ended
1922 - WHA-AM in Madison WI begins radio transmissions
1924 - Nationalist Wafd-party wins Egyptian parliament elections
1927 - US & Mexico battle over oil interests
1929 - Humanist Society established, Hollywood Calif
1930 - "Mickey Mouse" comic strip 1st appears
1934 - The Candidate of Science degree is established in the USSR.
1935 - Plebiscite in Saar, indicates a desire (90.3%) to join Nazi Germany
1938 - The Church of England accepts the theory of evolution.
1939 - Belgian premier signs Burgos-treaty for trade relations with Franco
1939 - The Black Friday bush fires burn 20,000 square kilometres of land in Australia, claiming the
            lives of 71 people.
1942 - Allied Conference for war trials
1942 - German U-boats begin harassing shipping on US east coast
1942 - Henry Ford patents a method of constructing plastic auto bodies
1942 - Interallied war trial conference publishes St James Declaration
1942 - World War II: First use of aircraft ejection seat by a German test pilot in a Heinkel He 280 jet fighter.
1943 - British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Casablanca
1943 - Hitler declares "Total War"
1943 - Russian offensive at Don under general Golikov
1943 - US infantry captures Galloping Horse-ridge Guadalcanal
1945 - Prokofchev's 5th Symphony premieres in Moscow
1948 - 1st country music TV show, Midwestern Hayride, premieres on WLW Cin
1949 - "Along 5th Avenue" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 180 perfs
1951 - German general F Christian freed early from Dutch prison
1953 - Gas explosion in Belgium coal mine kills 14
1953 - KOLD TV channel 13 in Tucson, AZ (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 - Marshal Josip Tito chosen president of Yugoslavia
1954 - Milt rule in Egypt; 318 Mohammedan Brotherhood arrested
1954 - WEAR TV channel 3 in Pensacola-Mobile, FL (ABC) begins broadcasting
1957 - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Allen Tate
1957 - Mickey Wright wins Sea Island Golf Open
1957 - NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 19-10
1957 - Wham-O Company produces the 1st Frisbee
1958 - 9,000 scientists of 43 nations petition UN for nuclear test ban
1958 - US newspaper "Daily Worker" ceases publication
1958 - Moroccan Liberation Army ambushes Spanish patrol in the Battle of Edchera.
1959 - De Gaulle grants amnesty to 130 to Algerian death row convicts
1959 - King Boudouin promises Belgian Congo independence
1962 - "Do Re Mi" closes at St James Theater NYC after 400 performances
1962 - Wilt Chamberlain of Warriors scores then NBA-record 73 pts vs Chicago
1963 - AFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 21-14
1963 - NFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 30-20
1964 - Karol Wojtyla becomes archbishop of Krakow
1964 - Hindu-Muslim rioting breaks out in the Indian city of Calcutta - now Kolkata - resulting in the
           deaths of more than 100 people.
1966 - 1st black selected for pres cabinet (LBJ selects Robert C Weaver-HUD)
1966 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967 - Coup in Togo
1967 - Rolling Stones appear on Ed Sullivan Show
1968 - "Hallelujah, Baby!" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 293 perfs
1968 - "Illya Darling" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 320 perfs
1968 - Minn North Stars center Bill Masterton fatally injured (dies on 15th)
1969 - Beatles release "Yellow Submarine" album
1971 - "Soon" closes at Ritz Theater NYC after 3 performances
1972 - Former umpire, now housewife Bernice Gera wins her suit against baseball, initiated on March
           15, 1971 to be allowed to umpire
1973 - "Tricks" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 8 performances
1973 - Efskind skates world record 1000m (1:17.6)
1974 - Superbowl VIII: Miami Dolphins beat Minnesota Vikings, 24-7 in Houston Superbowl MVP:
           Larry Csonka, Miami, RB
1974 - Seraphim is elected Archbishop of Athens and All Greece.
1976 - Sarah Caldwell is 1st woman to conduct at NY's Metropolitan Opera House as she led
           orchestra in a performance of "La Traviata"
1979 - Charlie Daniels hosts Volunteer Jam
1979 - YMCA files libel suit against Village People's YMCA song
1980 - "King of Schnorrers" closes at Playhouse Theater NYC after 63 perfs
1980 - Head of narcotic brigade arrested for drug smuggling in Belgium
1980 - Togo's constitution becomes effective
1981 - Barbara Sonntag, Colo, crochets record 147 stitches/min for 1/2 hour
1981 - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to May Swenson & Howard Nemerov
1981 - Islander's Mike Bossy's 15th career hat trick-4 goals
1982 - Hank Aaron & Frank Robinson elected to Hall of Fame
1982 - Air Florida 737 took off in a snowstorm, crashes into 14th St Bridge in Washington, DC, &
          falls into Potomac River, killing 78
1983 - AMA urges ban on boxing sites Muhammad Ali's deteriorating condition
1983 - Quebec Nordiques play 251st NHL game without being shut out
1984 - TV anchor Christine Craft wins $325,000 in her case against KMBC-TV
1985 - 23rd Tennis Fed Cup: Czech beats USA in Nagoya Japan (2-1)
1985 - 99-yr-old Otto Bucher scores a hole-in-one at Spanish golf course
1985 - Blackhawk Doug Wilson failed on 12th penalty shot against Islanders
1985 - Cerberal Palsy telethon raises $17,100,000
1985 - Express train derails in Ethiopia, kills at least 428
1986 - NCCA institutes eligibility requirements based on college exams
1986 - South Yemen Pres Ali Nasser Mohammed's bodyguard shoots opponents
1987 - 7 top NY Mafia bosses sentenced to 100 years in prison each
1987 - W German police arrest Mohammed Ali Hamadi, suspect in 1985 hijacking
1988 - LA Dodger/SD Padre Steve Garvey retires
1988 - Supreme Court rules (5-3) public school officials have broad powers to censor school
            newspapers, plays & other expressive activities
1989 - "Friday the 13th" virus strikes hundreds of IBM computers in Britain
1989 - "Ryan's Hope" ends 13½ year run on ABC-TV
1989 - Computers across Britain hit by "Friday the 13th" virus
1989 - Jerry Parks, Oklahoma defensive back, charged with shooting a teammate
1989 - Ruins of Mashkan-shapir (occupied 2050-1720 BC) found in Iraq
1989 - Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz begins 1-year jail sentence
1990 - 1st elected US black governor inaugurated (Douglas Wilder-Virginia)
1991 - 12th ACE Cable Awards: HBO wins 25 awards
1991 - 42 killed in exhibition soccer match in Johannesburg South Africa
1991 - Phil Mickelson wins PGA Northern Telecom Golf Open
1991 - Pres Mario Soares of Portugal re-elected
1991 - Soccer stadium riot in Orkney South Africa, at least 40 die
1991 - UN Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar meets with Saddam
1992 - Excavation of new ballpark at Gateway (Jacobs Field) begins
1992 - US serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer pleads guilty but insane
1992 - Japan apologizes for forcing Korean women into sexual slavery during World War II.
1993 - STS-54 (Endeavour) launches into orbit
1993 - Super Bowl XXVII in Pasadena - Cowboys beat Bills
1994 - Italian government of Ciampi resigns
1994 - Tonya Harding's bodyguard, Shawn Eric Eckardt & Derrick Brian Smith arrested & charged
           with conspiracy in attack of skater Nancy Kerrigan
1995 - 26 HNL teams unanimously ratify agreement to end NHL strike
1995 - America3 becomes 1st all-female crew to win an America's Cup race
1998 - "Patti LaBelle On Broadway," opens at St James Theater NYC
1998 - CBS pays $4 billion to televise AFC games for 8-years
1999 - Basketball player Michael Jordan announces his retirement only to return in 2001
2000 - Microsoft chairman Bill Gates steps aside as chief executive and promotes company president
            Steve Ballmer to the position
2001 - Earthquake measuring magnitude 7.6 strikes El Salvador, killing more than 840 people
2003 - Rock musician Pete Townshend of The Who was arrested in London on suspicion of
            possessing indecent images of children. He was later cleared.
2007 - Two thirds of the Venus's southern hemisphere suddenly brightened as something triggered
            aerosols to form at a furious rate.
2012 - Cruise ship, Costa Concordia, runs aground at Isola de Giglio, Italy, with at least 15 deaths

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 13, 2013, 06:41:50 AM

This Day in History for 13th January


Famous Weddings

2006 - "The Diary of Anne Frank" actress Shelley Winters (85) weds Gerry DeFord a few hours before 
            her death

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 13, 2013, 06:51:24 AM

This Day in History for 13th January


Famous Birthdays

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French Emperor                                              Seinfeld Comedienne
Napoleon Bonaparte (1807)                           Julia Louis-Dreyfus (1961)

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Actor Patrick Dempsey (1966)                        Actor Orlando Bloom (1977)

1334 - King Henry II of Castile (d. 1379)
1381 - St Colette, abbess/reformer (Poor Clares)
1406 - Matteo Palmieri, Italian writer (Della vita civile)
1505 - Joachim II Hector, ruler (Brandenburg)
1562 - Mark Alexander Boyd, Scottish poet (d. 1601)
1596 - Jan J Goyen, Dutch landscape painter
1610 - Maria Anna of Austria, Electress of Bavaria (d. 1665)
1616 - Antoinette Bourignon, Flemish mystic/French religious fanatic
1635 - Philipp Jakob Spener, German theologian (d. 1705)
1651 - Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington, English politician (d. 1694)
1683 - Johann Christoph Graupner, German composer
1690 - Gottfried Heinrich Stolzel, composer
1720 - Richard Hurd, English bishop and writer (d. 1808)
1727 - Johann Christoph Schmugel, composer
1734 - Luca Sorkocevic, composer
1749 - Friedrich Müller, painter and dramatist (d. 1825)
1778 - Anton Fischer, composer
1787 - John Davis, 14th and 17th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1854)
1788 - Carl Ludwig Cornelius Westenholz, composer
1802 - Eduard von Bauernfeld, Vienna, comedic playwright
1804 - Paul Gavarni, French caricaturist (d. 1866)
1805 - Thomas Dyer, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1862)
1807 - Napoleon Bonaparte Buford, Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1883
1808 - Salmon P Chase, (Sen-R) cabinet member, 6th chief justice (1864-73)
1812 - Humphrey Marshall, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1872
1812 - Victor de Laprade, French poet and critic (d. 1883)
1815 - William Henry French, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1881
1824 - Ignacy Marceli Komorowski, composer
1832 - Horatio Alger, Jr., Chelsea Massachusetts, American minister and author (Lost at Sea, Work & Win)
1835 - Gustaaf Rolin-Jaequemyns, Belgian jurist/minister of the Interior
1845 - Félix Tisserand, French Astronomer (d. 1896)
1850 - Leon Francis Victor Caron, composer
1858 - Oskar Minkowski, Biologist (d.1931)
1859 - Karl Bleibtreu, German author (Revolution of Literature)
1859 - Kostis Palamas, Greek poet (d. 1943)
1861 - Max Nonne, German neurologist (d. 1959)
1864 - Wilhelm K W Wien, German physicist (Nobel 1911)
1865 - Princess Marie of Orléans (d. 1908)
1866 - Vasily Sergeyevich Kalinnikov, composer
1869 - Emanuele F, duke of Aosta, Italian general (WW I)/fascist
1870 - Henryk Opienski, Polish composer/conductor (St Moniuszko)
1870 - Ross Granville Harrison, American biologist (d.1959)
1874 - Jozef E van Roey, Flemish cardinal/archbishop of Mechlin
1878 - Lionel Groulx, Canadian nationalist (d. 1967)
1881 - Essington Lewis, Australian industrialist (d. 1961)
1884 - Johannes Elsensohn, Dutch actor/writer (Arie, novel from the Jordan)
1884 - Sophie Tucker, [Kalish], Russia, singer/last of red hot mammas
1885 - Alfred Fuller, CEO (Fuller Brush Man)
1886 - Art Ross, Canadian ice hockey player and executive (d. 1964)
1887 - George Gurdjieff, Armenian-Greek mystic (d. 1949)
1890 - Jüri Uluots, Estonian Prime Minister (d. 1945)
1892 - Paul Smart, US, yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1948)
1893 - Clarke Ashton Smith, US, sci-fi author (Lost Worlds, Genius Loci)
1893 - Jan Evangelista Zelinka, composer
1893 - Roy Cazaly, Australian rules footballer (d. 1963)
1895 - Anton Betzner, writer
1895 - Fortunio Bonanova, Palma de Mallorca Spain, opera singer
1898 - Pedro DE Teixeira de Mattos, Dutch diplomat
1898 - Kai Munk, Danish playwright and Lutheran pastor, martyr (d. 1944)
1898 - Carlo Tagliabue, Italian baritone (d. 1978)
1899 - Kay Francis, American actress (d. 1968)
1900 - Yasuji Kiyose, composer
1901 - A. B. Guthrie, American novelist, historian (d. 1991)
1901 - Mieczysław Żywczyński, Polish historian and priest (d. 1978)
1903 - Kay Francis, [Katherine E Gibbs], Oklahoma City, actress (False Madonna)
1904 - Richard Addinsell, London England, composer (Taming of Shrew)
1905 - Percy Humphrey, musician
1906 - Maxime Jacob, composer
1907 - Sabine Zlatin, nurse
1909 - Danny Barker, jazz guitarist
1909 - Marinus van der Lubbe, Dutch communist
1911 - Johannes Bjelke-Petersen, premier (Queensland)
1913 - Jeff Morrow, NYC, actor (Bart-Union Pacific, Temperatures Rising)
1913 - Ralph Edwards, Merino Colo, TV host (This is Your Life)
1915 - Edward Frederick Weston Goodman, property developer
1916 - Bella Lewitsky, choreographer
1916 - Osa Massen, Copenhagen Denmark, actress (Jack London, Rocketship XM)
1917 - Felix Guerro Diaz, composer
1918 - Lester Sill, pioneer music publisher/record producer
1918 - Steve Dunne, Northampton Mass, actor (Professional Father)
1918 - Ted Willis, prolific English screenwriter (It's Great to be Young)
1919 - Army Archerd, Hollywood columnist/TV host (Movie Game)
1919 - Robert Stack, LA California, actor (Eliot Ness-Untouchables, Airplane)
1921 - Dachine Rainer, British writer (d. 2000)
1923 - Danil Shafran, cellist
1923 - Jack Watling, London, actor (Nanny, Adventure for 2, Naked Heart)
1924 - Philip Rawson, artist/teacher
1924 - Paul Feyerabend, Austrian-born philosopher (d. 1994)
1925 - Gwen Verdon, LA, actress/singer/dancer (Cotton Club, Sweet Charity)
1925 - Rosemary Murphy, Munich Germany, actress (Margaret-Lucas Tanner)
1926 - Carolyn Heilbrun, [Amanda Cross], author (Lady Ottoline's Album)
1926 - Pamela M Cunnington, English architect/author (Change of Use)
1926 - Michael Bond, British writer
1927 - Brock Adams, American politician (d. 2004)
1927 - Sydney Brenner, British Nobel Laureate
1928 - David Sheiner, NYC, actor (Paul-Mr Novak, Norman-Diana)
1928 - Gregory Walcott, Wilson NC, actor (87th Precinct)
1929 - Joseph Anthony Pass, guitarist
1929 - Wim Bary, Dutch actor/theater director (Nice Boys)
1930 - Frances Sternhagen, Wash DC, actress (Outland, Starting Over)
1930 - Liz Anderson, rocker
1930 - Roman Ciesiewicz, artist/graphic designer
1931 - Charles Nelson Reilly, NYC, actor (Match Game, Ghost & Mrs Muir)
1931 - Ian Hendry, English actor (d. 1984)
1933 - Nurdin Jivraj, Tanzanian/British hotel magnate (Buckingham Intl)
1933 - Ron[ald Joseph] Goulart, US, sci-fi author (Deadwalk, Plunder)
1933 - Tom B Gola, NBA Hall-of-Famer
1934 - Rip Taylor, Washington, D.C., American actor and comedian (Gong Show, $1.98 Beauty Show)
1935 - Mauro Forghieri, Italian automotive & mechanical engineer (Scuderia Ferrari)
1935 - Elsa Martinelli, Italian actress
1936 - Ami Maayani, composer
1936 - Edward R Madigan, (Rep-R-IL, 1973- )
1936 - Renato Bruson, Italian operatic baritone
1938 - Billy Gray, LA California, actor (Bud-Father Knows Best)
1938 - Paavo Johannes Heininen, composer
1938 - William B. Davis, Canadian actor
1938 - Tord Grip, Swedish football manager
1939 - Jacek Gmoch, Polish footballer and coach
1940 - Edmund White, American author
1941 - Meinhard Nehmer, German DR, 2 man bobsledder (Olympic-gold-1976)
1941 - Pasqual Maragall, Spanish politician
1943 - Richard Moll, Cal, actor (Night Court, House, Dungeonmaster, Survivor)
1943 - William Duckworth, composer
1945 - [Eileen] Joy[ce] Chant [Rutter], UK, sci-fi author (High Kings)
1946 - Eero Koivistoinen, Finnish musician
1947 - John Lees, England, rock guitarist/vocalist (Medicine Man)
1947 - Peter Sundelin, Sweden, yachtsmen (Olympic-gold-1968)
1947 - Jacek Majchrowski, Mayor of Kraków
1947 - Carles Rexach, former Spanish-Catalan footballer and coach
1948 - Kenia Jayantilal, cricketer (5 at Kingston 71 his only inns for India)
1948 - T Bone' Burnett, rocker
1948 - Gaj Singh, Maharaja of Jodhpur
1949 - Brandon Tartikoff, TV exec (NBC)
1949 - Rakesh Sharma, India, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-11)
1950 - Bob Forsch, American baseball player
1950 - John McNaughton, American film director
1952 - Cornelius Bumpus, keyboardist (Doobie Bros-Minute by Minute)
1952 - Sharon Gabet, Fort Wayne IN, actress (Edge of Night, Another World)
1954 - Vicki McCarty, Los Angeles Ca, playmate (Sep, 1979)
1955 - Fred White, rocker (Earth Wind & Fire-Shining Star, Easy Lover)
1955 - Jay McInerney, author (Bright Lights, Big City)
1955 - Titus M Mafolo, S Afr journalist/ANC-leader
1955 - Trevor Rabin, rocker (Yes)
1955 - Paul Kelly, Australian singer
1956 - Janet Hubert-Whitten, actress (Vivian Banks-Fresh Prince of Bel Air)
1956 - Jay McInerney, writer (Bright Lights, Big City)
1956 - Malcolm Foster, rock bassist (Pretenders-Mystery Achievement)
1957 - Christina Seufert, Sacraento California, diver (Olympic-bronze-1984)
1957 - Don Snow, rocker (Squeeze)
1957 - Mark Francis O'Meara, Goldsboro NC, PGA golfer (1984 Greater Milw)
1957 - Lorrie Moore, American writer
1958 - Ricardo Acuna, Chile, tennis star
1959 - Kevin Anderson, IL, actor (Hoffa, Sleeping with the Enemy)
1959 - James Lomenzo, American musician (Megadeth)
1960 - Takis Lemonis, Greek footballer and coach
1961 - Graham "Suggs" McPherson, Sussex, rock vocalist (Madness-Our House)
1961 - Julia Louis-Dreyfus, NYC, comedienne (SNL, Seinfeld, Soul Man, Troll)
1961 - Kelly Hrudey, Edmonton, NHL goalie (LA Kings)
1961 - Kent Hull, NFL center (Buffalo Bills)
1961 - Suggs, English singer
1962 - Brett Maxie, NFL safety (Carolina Panthers, Green Bay Packers)
1962 - Kevin Mitchell, US baseball outfielder (NY Met, SF Giants, Cin Reds)
1963 - Dirk Tazelaar, cricketer (Queensland & Surrey left-arm pace bowler)
1963 - Felita Carr, Fort Lauderdale Fl, dance skater (& Komarov-1995 Pac Champ)
1963 - Tim Patrick Kelly, Trenton NJ, guitarist (Slaughter-Stick it Live)
1963 - Kevin McClatchy, American businessman
1964 - Penelope Ann Miller, LA Ca, actress (Kindergarden Cop) [or Feb 13]
1964 - Ronan Rafferty, Northern Irish golfer
1966 - Joseph Harper, Ventura California, canoe (alt-Olympics-96)
1966 - Marcus Turner, NFL cornerback/safety (NY Jets)
1966 - Patrick Dempsey, Lewiston Me, actor (Mike-Fast Times)
1966 - Tabitha Stevens, fictional character (Bewitched)
1967 - Annie Jones, Australian actress
1967 - George Paterson, Scottish singer/songwriter DMP
1968 - Kelly Boucher, Calgary Alberta, Canadian basketball forward (Olympics-96)
1968 - Mike Whitlow, English footballer
1968 - Chara, Japanese singer and actress
1969 - Andre Cason, US runner (world record 50 indoor)
1969 - Dan Footman, NFL defensive end (Cleveland Browns, Indianapolis Colts)
1969 - John Flannery, guard/corner (Dallas Cowboys)
1969 - Katarzyna Nowak, Lodz Poland, tennis star (1994 Futures France)
1969 - Kevin Foster, US baseball pitcher (Chicago Cubs)
1969 - Orlando Miller, Changionola Panama, infielder (Houston Astros)
1969 - Robert Wilson, NFL running back (Miami Dolphins)
1969 - Stephen Hendry, Edinburgh, Scottish professional snooker player
1970 - Anne-Marie Goddard, Utrechtum Netherlands, playmate (Jan, 94)
1970 - Frank Kooiman, soccer player (Sparta)
1970 - Keith Coogan, Palm Springs, actor (Adv in Babysitting, Hiding Out)
1970 - Keith Mitchell, Palm Springs California, American actor (Jeffrey-Waltons, Gun Shy)
1970 - Nachi Abe, WLAF tight end (Scotland Claymores)
1970 - Marco Pantani, Italian cyclist (d. 2004)
1970 - Shonda Rhimes, American screenwriter/creator Grey's Anatomy
1971 - Elmer Dessens, Hermosillo Mexico, pitcher (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1971 - John Mallory Asher, American film actor/director
1972 - Byron "Bam" Morris, NFL running back (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1972 - Nicole Eggert, Glendale California, actress (Charles in Charge, Baywatch)
1972 - Richard Woodley, NFL cornerback (Detroit Lions)
1972 - Atoosa Rubenstein, Iranian-born American magazine editor
1972 - Vitaly Scherbo, Belarusian gymnast
1973 - Nikolai Khabibulin, Sverdlovsk Russia, NHL goalie (Winnipeg Jets)
1973 - Gloria Yip, Hong Kong actor
1974 - Matt Lepsis, NFL tackle (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1974 - Sergei Brylin, Moscow Russia, NHL center (NJ Devils)
1975 - Angela Holbeck, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1976 - Gary Brent, cricketer (Zimbabwe ODI pace bowler 1996)
1976 - Vaclav Batlik, Costa Mesa California, canoe (alt-Olympics-96)
1976 - Michael Peña, American actor
1977 - Orlando Bloom, Kent England, English actor (Pirates of the Caribbean, The Lord of the Rings)
1977 - James Posey, American basketball player
1979 - Jill Wagner, American Actor
1980 - Krzysztof Czerwinski, Polish conductor and organist
1980 - Nils-Eric Johansson, Swedish footballer
1980 - Akira Kaji, Japanese footballer
1980 - Michael Rupp, American ice hockey player
1981 - Reggie Brown, American football player
1981 - Shad Gaspard, American professional wrestler, bodyguard, and actor
1981 - Jason James, Welsh musician (Bullet for My Valentine)
1981 - Darrell Rasner, American baseball player
1982 - Guillermo Coria, Argentine tennis player
1983 - Julian Morris, English actor
1983 - William Hung, American Idol contestant
1983 - Ronny Turiaf, French basketball player
1986 - Joannie Rochette, Canadian figure skater
1989 - Bryan Arguez, American soccer player
1989 - Triinu Kivilaan, Estonian singer

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 13, 2013, 06:54:48 AM

This Day in History for 13th January


Famous Deaths

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OK Corral Sheriff Wyatt Earp (1929)          Novelist & Poet James Joyce (1941)


86 BC - Gaius Marius, Roman general and politician (b. 157 BC)
533 - Remigius van Reims, 1st bishop of Reims (459-533)/saint, dies about 96
703 - Empress Jitō of Japan (b. 645)
858 - Aethelwolf, king of Wessex (Battle at Aclea), dies
888 - Charles III, the Fat One, King of Franconia/Roman emperor, dies
1049 - Derrick IV, Count of Holland (1039-49), dies in battle
1138 - Simon I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1076)
1151 - Abbot Suger, French statesman and historian (b. 1081)
1177 - Hendrik Jasomirgott Babenberg, Duke of Austria, dies. (b. 1107)
1307 - Arnoud van Foreest, Dom deacon of Utrecht, dies
1330 - Frederick I (III), the Fair, Duke of Austrian/German anti-king, dies (b. 1286)
1363 - Meinhard III of Gorizia-Tyrol (b. 1344)
1488 - Hermann Vischer, "the Old", buried
1599 - Edmund Spenser, poet (Faerie Queene), dies at about 46
1625 - Pieter Bruegel "the Older", (Bloemenbruegel), Flemish painter, dies
1630 - Yuan Chonghuan, Chinese military commander (b. 1584)
1651 - Abraham C Bloemaert, painter/cartoonist/engraver, dies at 86
1658 - Edward Sexby, English Puritan soldier (b. 1616)
1682 - Simon van Leeuwen, Dutch lawyer/historian, dies at 55
1691 - George Fox, founder of Quakers, dies at 66
1702 - Peter Rabus, Dutch poet/translator (Great Name Book), dies at 41
1762 - Leonhard Trautsch, composer, dies at 68
1766 - King Frederick V of Denmark (b. 1723)
1790 - Luc Urbain de Bouexic, comte de Guichen, French admiral (b. 1712)
1795 - Francois-Joseph Krafft, composer, dies at 73
1796 - John H. D. Anderson, Scottish scientist and inventor (b. 1726)
1797 - Elisabeth C von Brunswick-Bevern, wife of Frederick II, dies at 81
1828 - Alexandre-Auguste Robineau, composer, dies at 80
1832 - Thomas Lord, English cricketer, founder of Lord's cricket ground (b. 1755)
1838 - Ferdinand Ries, German composer dies at 53
1853 - Theophilos Kairis, Greek priest, humanist and revolutionary (b. 1783)
1860 - William Mason, American politician (b. 1786)
1864 - Stephen Foster, composer (My Old Kentucky Home), dies at 37 in NY
1879 - WF Hendrik the Navigator, prince of Neth/viceroy of Lux, dies at 58
1882 - Wilhelm Mauser, German weapon designer and manufacturer (b. 1834)
1885 - Schuyler Colfax, American politician (b.1823)
1889 - Solomon Bundy, American politician (b. 1823)
1892 - Charles Albert White, composer, dies at 62
1894 - Nadezhda von Meck, Russian patroness of Pyotr Tchaikovsky (b. 1831)
1901 - Carlo Angeloni, composer, dies at 66
1905 - George Thorn, Premier of Queensland (b. 1838)
1906 - Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Russian physicist (b. 1859)
1913 - Thomas P Krag, Norw author/novelist (Jon Graeff, Ulf Ran), dies at 44
1914 - Bernardus H Heldt, Dutch MP, dies at 72
1914 - Valentin de Zubiaurre y Unionbarrenechea, composer, dies 76
1915 - Mary Slessor, Scottish missionary (b. 1848)
1924 - Georg H Quincke, German physicist (Test of Quincke), dies at 89
1928 - Johan Peter Koch, Danish officer/explorer, dies at 57
1929 - Wyatt Earp, US marshall (OK Corral), dies at 80
1929 - H. B. Higgins, Australian politician and judge (b. 1851)
1930 - C-E Auguste Rateau, French inventor (R-steam turbine), dies at 66
1932 - Sophia of Prussia, consort of Constantine I of Greece (b. 1870)
1934 - Jean-Baptiste Marchand, soldier/explorer (Sudan), dies at 70
1937 - Walter Brearley, cricketer (17 wkts in 4 Tests for Eng 1905-12), dies
1939 - Jacob Ruppert, CEO (NY Yankees, 1915-39), dies
1941 - James Joyce, novelist (Ulysses), dies in Zurich Switzerland, at 58
1943 - Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Swiss artist (b. 1889)
1947 - Veit Valentin, German/US historian (German People), dies at 61
1954 - Roland Diggle, composer, dies at 69
1958 - Edna Purviance, actress (Charlie Chaplin, Sunnyside), dies at 61
1958 - John Lindeboom, Dutch vicar/church historian, dies at 75
1958 - Jesse L. Lasky, U.S. film producer (b. 1880)
1960 - Sibilla Aleramo, [Rina Faccio], Ital poet (Una Donna), dies at 83
1962 - Ernie Kovacs, comedian, dies in a car crash in West LA, at 42
1963 - Leonardus G Kortenhorst, Dutch MP (KVP), dies at 76
1968 - Bill Masterson, NHL player for the Minnesota Northstars checked into the boards, dies two days later
1969 - Fred Price, cricket wicket-keep (Engld, v Aust Headingley 1938), dies
1969 - Wilton Graff, actor (Bloodlust, Just Before Dawn), dies at 65
1971 - Bernard "Heinz" Lammerding, Germ SS-gen/contractor (Tulle), dies at 65
1971 - Robert Still, composer, dies at 60
1971 - Robert Still, English composer (b. 1910)
1974 - Raoul Jobin, Canadian tenor (b. 1906)
1974 - Salvador Novo, Mexican writer and poet (b. 1904)
1976 - Margaret Leighton, Brit actress (Much ado about nothing), dies at 53
1978 - Hubert Humphrey, (Sen-D-Minn, VP), dies at 66 in Waverly, Minn
1978 - Joseph V McCarthy, baseball manager (NY Yankees), dies at 96
1979 - Donny Hathaway, Chicago Ill, rocker (Ghetto), commits suicide at 33
1979 - Marjorie Lawrence, Australian soprano (b. 1907)
1980 - Andre Kostelanetz, Russian conductor, dies at 78
1981 - Emiel van Hemeldonck, Belgian writer (Mary, My Child), dies at 83
1982 - Marcel Camus, French director (Orfeu Negro), dies at 69
1983 - Arthur Space, actor (Doc Weaver-Lassie), dies of cancer at 74
1983 - D Mack Reynolds, US writer (Amazon Planet, Once Departed), dies
1983 - Doodles Weaver, comedian (Spike Jones & City Slickers), dies at 71
1983 - John McHugh, actor (Unspeakable), dies of a heart attack at 69
1985 - Carol Wayne, Johnny Carson's teatime movie hostess, dies at 42
1987 - E van Ruller, Dutch journalist/co-founder (Trouw, Loyal), dies
1988 - Chiang Ching-huo, president of Taiwan (1978-88), dies at 69
1989 - Joe Spinell, actor (Maniac, Star Crash, Strike Force), dies at 51
1992 - Josef Neckermann, German founder mail-order firm/travel bureau, dies
1992 - Yvonne Bryceland, actress (Road to Mecca), dies of cancer at 66
1993 - Rene Pleven, PM of France (1950-51, 51-52), dies
1993 - Camargo Guarnieri, Brazilian composer (b. 1907)
1994 - Frederick William Sternfield, musicologist, dies at 79
1994 - Johan J Holst, Norwegian min of defense/foreign affairs, dies at 56
1995 - Arnold Smith, painter (Vigelius Prize 1935), dies at 89
1995 - Arthur Mervyn Stockwood, bishop, dies at 81
1995 - Maxwell Henley Harris, Austrian poet/publisher (Critics), dies at 73
1995 - Ruby Starr, vocalist (Grey Ghost), dies of brain tumor at 44
1996 - Denise Grey, [Edouardine Verthuy], actress (Julietta), dies at 99
1996 - Willian Myuon Bany Guerrilla leader, dies
1997 - William Mills, painter, dies at 74
2001 - Michael Cuccione, Canadian actor and singer (b. 1985)
2002 - Ted Demme, American film director (b. 1963)
2002 - Gregorio Fuentes, Cuban fisherman, reputed model for Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea (b. 1897)
2002 - Frank Shuster, Canadian comedian (b. 1916)
2003 - Norman Panama, American screenwriter and director (b. 1914)
2004 - Arne Næss Jr., Norwegian mountain climber (b. 1937)
2004 - Harold Shipman, British serial killer (b. 1946)
2005 - Earl Cameron, Canadian broadcaster (b. 1915)
2005 - Nell Rankin, American mezzo-soprano (b. 1924)
2006 - Frank Fixaris, American sportscaster (b. 1934)
2006 - Marc Potvin, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1967)
2007 - Michael Brecker, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1949)
2007 - Danny Oakes, racecar driver (b. 1911)
2008 - Sergei Larin, Lithuanian tenor (b. 1956)
2008 - Johnny Podres, American baseball player (b. 1932)
2009 - Doña Mary Ejercito, Filipino supercentarian, mother of Joseph Ejercito Estrada (b. 1905)
2009 - Patrick McGoohan, American actor (b. 1928)
2009 - Mansour Rahbani, Lebanese composer and lyricist (b. 1925)
2009 - Nancy Bird Walton, Australian aviator (b. 1915)
2009 - William De Witt Snodgrass, American poet under the pseudonym S. S. Gardons (b. 1926)
2010 - Teddy Pendergrass, American R&B singer (b. 1950)
2010 - Jay Reatard, American garage punk musician (b. 1980)
2010 - Kalifa Tillisi, Libyan writer and linguist
2012 - Rauf Denktash, leader of Turkish Cypriots, dies of multiple organ failure at 87
2012 - Gianpiero Moretti, steering wheel designer, dies from cancer at 71

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 14, 2013, 07:16:19 AM

This Day in History for 14th January


Historical Events

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Classical music prodigy Mozart               Composer Giacomo Puccini           Ford Motor Company Founder Henry Ford

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British war time Prime Minister          Singer & Cultural Icon Elvis Presley                  Goddess of Pop Cher
Winston Churchill                                                                                                       (Cherilyn Sarkisian)

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Pop Star Madonna                                   Comedian David Letterman                 Recording Artist Jennifer Lopez


1129 - Formal approval of the Order of the Templar at the Council of Troyes.
1301 - Andrew III of Hungary (1290-1301) dies at 50, ending the Arpad dynasty in Hungary.
1501 - Martin Luther, age 17, enters the University of Erfurt.
1514 - Pope Leo X issues a papal bull against slavery.
1526 - Charles V & Francis I sign Treaty of Madrid, forcing Francis to give up claims to Burgundy,
           Italy & Flanders
1539 - Spain annexes Cuba.
1601 - Church authorities burn hebrew books in Rome
1639 - 1st Connecticut constitution (Fundamental Orders) adopted in Hartford, published by Rodger
            Ludlow
1641 - United East Indian Company conquerors city of Malakka, 7,000 killed
1659 - Battle at Elvas: Portuguese beat Spanish
1690 - Clarinet invented, in Nurnberg, Germany
1699 - Massachusetts holds day of fasting for wrongly persecuting "witches"
1717 - German mob leader "Sjako" sentenced to death in Amsterdam
1724 - Spanish King Philip V abdicates throne
1739 - England & Spain signs 2nd Convention of Pardo
1746 - Bonnie Prince Charlie's army leaves Glasgow [OS=Jan 3]
1783 - Congress ratifies peace treaty between US & England
1784 - Revolutionary War ends; Congress ratifies Treaty of Paris
1785 - Mozart completes "Dissonantenkwartet" (opus 10)
1794 - Dr Jessee Bennet of Edom Va, performs 1st successful Cesarean section operation on his wife
1799 - Eli Whitney receives government contract for 10,000 muskets
1799 - King of Naples flees before advancing French armies
1813 - Gideon Hawley becomes 1st state school superintendent in US (NY)
1814 - King of Denmark cedes Norway to King of Sweden by treaty of Kiel
1822 - Greek War of Independence: Acrocorinth is captured by Theodoros Kolokotronis and
           Demetrius Ypsilanti.
1858 - French Emperor Napoleon III escapes attempt on his life by Felice Orsini, an Italian patriot who
          was later executed
1861 - Ft Pikens, FL falls into state hands
1863 - Battle between gunboats at Bayou Teche Louisiana
1864 - Battle of Cosby Creek, TN
1864 - General Sherman begins his march to the South
1868 - NC constitutional convention meets in Raleigh
1868 - SC constitutional convention, meets with a black majority
1873 - "Celluloid" registered as a trademark
1873 - P B S Pinchback elected to Senate
1874 - I D Shadd elected Speaker of lower house of Miss legislature
1878 - US Supreme court rules race separation on trains unconstitutional
1897 - 6,960-m (22,834') Cerro Aconcagua (Argentina) 1st climbed
1898 - Joe Darling hits the 1st six in Tests (out of the ground)
1900 - Giacomo Puccini's opera "Tosca," premieres in Rome
1905 - Hubbell, Shubert & Smith's musical "Fontana," premieres in NYC
1907 - An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica kills more than 1,000.
1908 - Roger Hartigan scores century on Test debut v Eng Adelaide (116)
1909 - Coöp. Far. Central Management forms
1912 - Raymond Poincaré becomes premier of France
1914 - Henry Ford introduces assembly line, for T-Fords
1916 - Dutch South Sea dike cracks
1918 - Finland & USSR adopts New Style (Gregorian) calendar
1919 - John McGraw, Charles A Stoneham, & Judge MCQuade buy NY Giants
1924 - Allies direct Fiume (Rijeka) in Italy
1925 - Alban Berg's atonale opera "Wozzeck," premieres in Berlin
1927 - Toronto Maple Leafs 1st hat trick (Hap Day) vs NY Rangers
1929 - Afghan King Amanullah forced to resign
1932 - 1st totalisator (to record racetrack bets) in US installed, Hialeah
1932 - Horse racing legend Eddie Arcaro won his 1st race
1935 - Oil pipeline Iraq-Mediterranean goes into use
1936 - L M (Mario) Giannini elected president of Bank of America
1938 - National Society for Legalization of Euthanasia forms (NY)
1939 - All commercial ferry service to East Bay ends
1939 - Norway claims Queen Maud Land in Antarctica
1940 - Commissioner Kenesaw Landis gives free agency to 91 Detroit Tigers
1940 - NFL Pro Bowl: Green Bay beats NFL All-Stars 16-7
1942 - Japanese troops land at oil center Balikpapan in Borneo
1943 - Alex Smart (Mont) is 1st NHLer to score hat trick in his 1st game
1943 - FDR & Winston Churchill confer in Casablanca concerning WW II
1943 - Heinrich Himmler views Warsaw
1944 - Soviet army begins offensive at Oranienbaum/Wolchow
1946 - 2 jetties collapse in Ganges-160 Hindu pilgrims are crushed
1949 - Black/Indian race rebellion in Durban, South Africa; 142 die
1950 - "As the Girls Go" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 420 perfs
1950 - US recalls all consular officials from China
1951 - NFL Pro Bowl: 1st since 1942, Americans beat Nationals 28-27
1952 - "Today Show" premieres with Dave Garroway & Jack Lescoulie on NBC-TV
1952 - Rationing of coffee in Netherlands ends
1952 - Snow storm in Sierra Nevada kills 26
1953 - Vaughan William's "Sinfonia Antartica," premieres in Manchester
1953 - WALA TV channel 10 in Mobile, AL (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 - Yugoslavia elects it's 1st president (Marshal Tito)
1954 - Sandy Wilson's musical "Boyfriend," premieres in London
1954 - The Hudson Motor Car Company merges with Nash-Kelvinator Corporation forming the
           American Motors Corporation.
1955 - Heitor Villa-Lobos' 8th Symphony, premieres in Phila
1956 - Jordan government refuses to join Pact of Baghdad
1956 - Little Richard releases "Tutti Frutti"
1960 - Tuindorp-Oostzaan in Northern Amsterdam, flooded
1960 - US Army promoted Elvis Presley to Sergeant
1961 - Chic Bear Willard Dewveall becomes 1st NFLer to join AFL
1962 - NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 31-30
1963 - George C Wallace sworn in as governor of Alabama, his address states "segregation now;
           segregation tomorrow; segregation forever!"
1964 - 14th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 111-107 at Boston
1964 - Bapu Nadkarni 32-27-5-0 v England, 21 maiden overs in a row
1964 - Jacqueline Kennedy's 1st public appearance (TV) since assassination
1966 - David Bowie releases his 1st record (Can't Help Thinking About Me)
1967 - 20,000 attend Human Be-In, SF
1967 - Earthquake in Sicily kills 231
1967 - NY Times reports Army is conducting secret germ warfare experiments
1967 - Sonny & Cher release "Beat Goes On"
1968 - Superbowl II: Green Bay Packers beat Oakland Raiders, 33-14 in Miami Superbowl MVP: Bart
           Starr, Green Bay, QB
1969 - 25 members of US aircraft carrier Enterprise die during maneuvers
1969 - Soyuz 4 launched; rendezvous with Soyuz 5 two days later
1969 - An explosion aboard the USS Enterprise near Hawaii kills 27 people.
1971 - John Snow takes 7-40 for England to beat Australia by 299 runs
1972 - "Sanford & Son" starring Redd Foxx premieres on NBC TV
1972 - WMAH TV channel 19 in Biloxi, MS (PBS) begins broadcasting
1972 - WMAU TV channel 17 in Bude, MS (PBS) begins broadcasting
1972 - WMAW TV channel 14 in Meridian, MS (PBS) begins broadcasting
1973 - Grateful Dead bass player, Phil Lesh, busted on drugs in Calif
1973 - Superbowl VII: Miami Dolphins beat Wash Red Skins, 14-7 in LA
1973 - Tap dancer Ray Castle measured at 1440 taps/min on BBC TV
1973 - Superbowl MVP: Jake Scott, Miami, S
1974 - World Football League founded
1975 - Anita Wold (Norway) sets women's ski jump distance record-98 m
1975 - USSR breaks trade agreement with US
1976 - "Bionic Woman" with Lindsay Wagner debuts on ABC (later NBC)
1976 - Ted Turner becomes CEO of Atlanta Braves
1978 - Sex Pistols' final concert (Winterland, SF)
1979 - Pres Carter proposes Martin Luther King's birthday be a holiday
1980 - Shakuntala Devi, mentally multiplies 2 13-digit #s in 28 sec
1981 - FCC frees stations to air as many commercials an hour as they wish
1984 - Madonna 1st sings "Holiday" on American Bandstand
1985 - 16 indicted by US for granting sanctuary to Central American refugees
1985 - M Navratilova is 3rd to win 100 tennis tournaments (Connors & Evert)
1985 - British pound (£) sinks to record low $US1.11
1986 - Constitution of Guatemala takes effect
1986 - Vinicio Cerezo becomes only 2nd freely elected president of Guatemala since CIA-sponsored coup in 1954
1987 - Catfish Hunter & Billy Williams are elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1989 - "Romance/Romance" closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 297 perfs
1989 - 1,000 muslims burn Salman Rushdies' "Satanic Verses" in Bradford England
1989 - 29 year old French woman gives birth to sextuplets in Paris
1989 - Former Belgian premier Paul Vanden Boeynants kidnapped
1990 - "Simpsons" premiered on Fox-TV
1990 - 11th ACE Cable Awards
1990 - Perez de Cuellar says he has lost all hope for peace in Gulf
1991 - "Barbara DeAngelis Show" premieres on CBS-TV
1991 - Jorge Serrano Elias sworn in as president of Guatemala
1991 - Tyne Daly arrested for drunk driving in Van Nuys Calif
1991 - Valentin Pavlov become new premier of USSR
1993 - "Anna Christie" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 54 performances
1993 - David Letterman announces his show is moving from NBC to CBS
1993 - Polish ferry boat capsizes in storm, 50 die
1994 - Inna Lassovskaya triple-jumps ladies world record (14.61m)
1994 - Kathleen Kinmont files for divorce from Lorenzo Lamas
1994 - Russian manned space craft TM-17, lands
1995 - 10,000s South Africans attend state funeral of Joe Slovo
1995 - 16th ACE Cable Awards: HBO wins 23 awards
1996 - "Holiday" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 49 performances
1996 - "Swinging On a Star" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 97 perfs
1996 - Liselotte Neumann wins Chrysler-Plymouth Tournament of Golf Champions
1998 - 100th episode of "Ellen," airs
1998 - Charles Barkley pleads not guilty to an assault charge
1998 - Researchers in Dallas, Texas present findings about an enzyme that slows aging and cell
           death (apoptosis).
2000 - A United Nations tribunal sentences five Bosnian Croats to up to 25 years for the 1993 killing of over 100 Muslims in a Bosnian village.
2001 - Jennifer Lopez scored her first UK No.1 single with 'Love Don't Cost A Thing.'
2004 - The national flag of Georgia, the so-called "five cross flag", was restored to official use after a   
            hiatus of some 500 years.
2005 - Landing of the Huygens probe on Saturn's moon Titan.
2011 - Stampede near Sabarimala in Kerala, India kills 104 devotees and injures 100 more
2011 - Ben Ali, former Tunisian president, fled the country to Saudi Arabia after popular protests
           (dubbed as Jasmine Revolution) requesting his departure.
2012 - Suicide bomber kills 53 and injures 130 in Basra, Iraq
2012 - Ma Ying-jeou wins re-election as President of the Republic of China with 51% of the vote

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 14, 2013, 07:30:30 AM

This Day in History for 14th January


Famous Weddings

1236 - English King Henry III marries Eleonora of Provence
1914 - Danish "Out of Africa" author Karen Blixen (28), pen name Isak Dinesen marries her 2nd
           cousin Baron Hans von Blixen-Finecke
1954 - NY Yankee Joe DiMaggio weds actress Marilyn Monroe (27) in her 2nd marraige at San
           Francisco City Hall
1954 - NY Yankee Joe DiMaggio weds actress Marilyn Monroe (27) in her 2nd marraige at San
           Francisco City Hall
2011 - "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" actor James Marsters (48) weds longtime girlfriend Patricia Rahman
           in Los Angeles

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 14, 2013, 07:31:37 AM

This Day in History for 14th January


Famous Divorces

1994 - Kathleen Kinmont files for divorce from Lorenzo Lamas
2010 - "Easy Rider" director and actor Dennis Hopper (73) divorces his fifth wife Victoria Duffy due to
            irreconcilable differences and out-of-control spending

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 14, 2013, 07:38:10 AM

This Day in History for 14th January


Famous Birthdays

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US Defector General                                  Actress Faye Dunaway (1941)               Actor/Rapper L L Cool J (1968)
Benedict Arnold (1741)


83 BC - Marcus Antonius, Roman politician (d. 30 BC)
1131 - King Valdemar I of Denmark (d. 1182)
1451 - Franchinus Gaffurius, composer
1467 - Henry van Stolberg & Wernigerode, German gov/viceroy of Frisia
1477 - Hermann of Wied, German Catholic archbishop (d. 1552)
1507 - Catherine of Habsburg, Infanta of Spain and queen of Portugal (d. 1578)
1551 - Alberico Gentili, Italian jurist (d. 1608)
1566 - Angelo Notari, composer
1592 - Sjihab al-Din Sultan Choerram Sjah Djahan, leader of India
1615 - John Biddle, English minister (Unitarian)
1618 - Jan Six, Dutch mayor of Amsterdam
1655 - Angelo Predieri, composer
1664 - Simon van Slingelandt, Dutch grand pensionary (1727-36)
1684 - Jean-Baptiste Vanloo, French painter
1684 - Johann Matthias Hase, German scientist (d. 1742)
1702 - Nakamikado Emperor of Japan (d. 1737)
1705 - Jean-Baptiste C Bouvet de Lozier/Lozier-Bouvet, governor (Reunion Is)
1722 - Friedrich Gottlob Fleischer, composer
1730 - William Whipple, merchant/judge (Declaration of Independence signer)
1741 - Benedict Arnold, Norwich Connecticut, US general turned traitor (Revolutionary War)
1751 - Corona Elizabeth Wilhelmine Schroter, composer
1780 - Francois-Joseph Dizi, composer
1791 - Calvin Phillips, became shortest known adult male (67 cm; 2' 2")
1792 - Christian Julius De Meza, Danish general (d. 1865)
1793 - John C. Clark, American politician (d. 1852)
1798 - Isaac da Costa, Dutch writer/lawyer
1798 - Johan R Thorbecke, Premier of Netherlands (Lib-1849..72)
1800 - Ludwig Alois Ferdinand Köchel, Austrian musicologist (d. 1877)
1804 - John Park, composer
1806 - Matthew Fontaine Maury, Naval Commander (Confederacy)
1806 - Sir Charles Hotham, Governor of Victoria (d. 1855)
1812 - Carl Gradener, composer
1814 - Johannes Josephus Viotta, composer
1817 - Harmen S Sytstra, Dutch poet/editor (Iduna)
1818 - Zacharias Topelius, Finnish historical novelist (Surgeon's Stories)
1819 - Fabio Campana, composer
1819 - Frederick Steele, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1868
1822 - Nicholas Mori, composer
1824 - Vladimir Stasov, Russian art and music critic (d. 1906)
1831 - John Bullock Clark Jr, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1903
1834 - William Cleaver Francis Robinson, composer
1836 - [Hugh] Judson Kilpatrick, Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1881
1836 - Henri Fantin-Latour, French painter (d. 1904)
1839 - Emil Bohn, composer
1841 - Berthe M P Morisot, French painter/aquarellist
1844 - Clara Kathleen Rogers, composer
1845 - Henry C K Petty-Fitzmaurice 5th marquess of Landsdowne/gov-gen Canada
1850 - Jean de Reszke, [Jan Mieczyslaw], Polish tenor
1850 - Pierre Loti, French writer (d. 1923)
1851 - Theophile EA de Bock, Dutch painter/etcher/drawer
1856 - J. F. Archibald, Australian journalist and publisher (d. 1919)
1861 - Wilhelm von Polenz, German writer (Der Pfarrer von Breitendorf)
1863 - Pieter Oosterlee, Dutch educator
1868 - Catharina A M de Savornin Lohman, Dutch author (Belief)
1870 - Sir George Pearce, Australian politician (d. 1952)
1871 - Pauline Beersmans, [PLJM van Cuyck], Flemish actress (Hofslachter)
1874 - Thornton Waldo Burgess, author (Peter Rabbit)
1875 - Albert Schweitzer, doctor/humanitarian/organist (Nobel 1954)
1878 - Victor A D Segalen, [Max Anely], French writer
1882 - Hendrik W van Loon, Netherland, commentator/writer (Story of America)
1886 - Hugh Lofting, England, writer & illustrator (Dr Dolittle)
1889 - Vincenzo Davico, composer
1892 - Hal Roach, early film director/producer (1 Million BC)
1892 - Martin Niemöller, clergyman (German Protestant); imprisoned by Hitler
1895 - George Richard Samways, children's writer
1896 - John dos Passos, novelist (1919, Big Money, 42nd Parallel)
1897 - Hasso von Manteuffel, German general and politician (d. 1978)
1898 - Helen Flint, Chicago, actress (Sea Devils, Married Before Breakfast)
1899 - Fritz Bayerlein, German lt-general (WW I, Poland, Libya, St-Lo)
1899 - Carlos Romulo, Filipino diplomat and author (d. 1985)
1901 - Bebe Daniels, Scotland, actress (42nd Street, Lonesome Luke)
1901 - Carlos P Romulo, Philippine general/diplomat/jurist
1902 - Alfred Tarski, Warsaw, mathematician/logician
1902 - F C Terborgh, [Reijnier Flaes], Dutch writer (De Turkenoorlog)
1903 - Veronica Turleigh, County Donegal Ireland, actress (Promoter)
1904 - Cecil Beaton, England, royal family photographer
1904 - Emily Hahn, American writer (d. 1997)
1905 - Takeo Fukuda, 67th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1995)
1906 - Walter Knape, composer
1906 - William Bendix, NYC, actor (Lifeboat, Babe Ruth Story, Life of Riley)
1907 - Derek Richter, British neuro chemist (Aspects of learning & memory)
1907 - Sophie Redmond, Suriname's 1st female physician
1907 - Georges-Émile Lapalme, Quebec politician (d. 1985)
1908 - Carl Esmond, Vienna Austria, actor (Address Unknown, Hitler)
1908 - Ruggiero de Rudolpho Columbo, US singer/actor (Miracle of Women)
1909 - Joseph Walton Losey, Wisconsin, director (Damned, Accident)
1910 - Renier van der Velden, composer
1911 - George Amadee Tremblay, composer
1911 - Helmut Degen, composer
1911 - Anatoly Rybakov, Russian writer (d. 1998)
1913 - Tillie Olsen, American writer (Tell Me a Riddle)
1914 - Harold Russell, actor (Best Years of Our Life)
1915 - Andre Frossard, Catholic columnist
1915 - Mark Goodson, American game show producer (d. 1992)
1916 - John Oliver Killens, novelist
1919 - Andy Rooney, Albany NY, CBS news correspondent (60 Minutes)
1919 - Giulio Andreotti, 7 x premier (Italy)
1920 - Bertus de Harder, Dutch soccer star (Bordeaux)
1920 - Donald Beard, cricketer (NZ pace bowler in the 1950's)
1920 - George Herman, newsman (CBS-TV)
1921 - Charles Gaupp, German/Dutch painter
1921 - Mark Lawrence, Wash DC, pianist (Alice Pearce)
1921 - Murray Bookchin, American libertarian socialist (d. 2006)
1924 - Guy Williams, NYC, actor (Zorro, Lost in Space), (d. 1989)
1925 - Yukio Mishima, Japan, novelist (Temple of Golden Pavilion)
1925 - Louis Quilico, Canadian baritone (d. 2000)
1926 - Frank Aletter, Long Island NY, actor (Mac-It's About Time, Tom-Nancy)
1926 - Harold Wolpe, sociologist lawyer/Soth African activist
1926 - Tom Tryon, Hartford CT, actor (Cardinal, All That Glitters)
1926 - Warren Mitchell, English actor
1927 - Ivan Kalita, USSR, equestrian dressage (Olympic-silver-1968)
1927 - Zuzana Ruzickova, Czech harpsichordist
1928 - Gerald Arpino, Staten Island NY, choreographer
1928 - Garry Winogrand, American photographer (d. 1984)
1929 - Aleksander Petrovic, film director
1929 - Billy Walker, Ralls Tx, country singer (Ozark Jubilee)
1930 - Edgar Sergeyi Hovhanesyan, composer
1930 - Ernest Just, Black biologist, served as VP of American Zoologists
1931 - Juraj Pospisil, composer
1931 - Frank Costigan, Australian lawyer
1932 - Caterina Valente, Paris France, singer (Entertainers)
1932 - Harriet Andersson, Stockholm Sweden, actress (Cries & Whispers)
1932 - Don Garlits, American race car driver
1933 - Stan Brakhage, American filmmaker (d. 2003)
1934 - Richard Briers, English actor
1935 - Lucille Wheeler, Canadian alpine skier
1936 - Clarence Carter, US singer (Thread the Needle)
1936 - John Paul Cain, Sweetwater TX, PGA golfer (1989 Greater Grand Rapids)
1936 - Ludmila Pinayeva, USSR, 500m kayak (Olympic-gold-1964, 1968, 1972)
1936 - Reiner Klimke, German FR, equestrian dressage (Olympic-gold-1984)
1937 - Billie Jo Spears, country singer
1937 - Ken Higgs, cricketer (effective Engld pace-bowler in 15 Tests 1965-68)
1937 - Erland Kops, Danish badminton player
1937 - Shoban Babu, Indian actor
1938 - Allen Toussaint, [Naomi Neville], pianist/songwriter (Ride Your Pony)
1938 - Jack Jones, LA California, singer (Love Boat Theme)
1940 - Julian Bond, Nashville Tenn, (D-Ga) civil rights leader
1941 - C L "Gibby" Gilbert Jr, Chattanooga TN, PGA golfer (1976 Danny Thomas)
1941 - Marjoe Gortner, Long Beach Ca, actor (Speak Up America, Falcon Crest)
1941 - [Dorothy] Faye Dunaway, Bascom Fl, actress (Chinatown, Bonnie & Clyde)
1941 - Milan Kučan, Slovenian statesman
1942 - Amichand Rajbansi, South African politician
1942 - Carol Bellamy, Planfield NJ, (City Council Pres-D-NYC, 1978-85)
1942 - Ian Brayshaw, Australian cricketer and footballer
1942 - Dave Campbell, American baseball player
1943 - Holland Taylor, Phila, actress (Bossom Buddies, Camilla-Naked Truth)
1943 - Jose Luis Rodriguez, Caracas Venezuala, singer (Dueno De Nada)
1943 - Ronald Hunter, Boston Mass, actor (Lazarus Syndrome)
1943 - Shannon Lucid, Shanghai China, astronaut (STS 51G, 34, 43, 58, 76/79)
1943 - Mariss Jansons, Latvian conductor
1944 - Graham Vivian Marsh, Kalgoorlie Australia, PGA golfer (1977 Heritage)
1944 - Marjoe Gortner, American evangelist
1944 - Nina Totenberg, American journalist
1945 - Einar Hakonarson, Icelandic painter
1945 - Maina Gielgud, British ballet dancer and administrator
1946 - Harold Shipman, British serial killer (d. 2004)
1947 - Bill Weberniuk, Canadian snookers player
1948 - Carl Weathers, New Orlean La, actor (Apollo Creed-Rocky)
1948 - T-Bone Burnett, musician/producer
1948 - Tim Harris, rocker (Foundations)
1949 - Christine Belford, Amityville NY, actress (Banacek, Empire, 90210)
1949 - Lawrence Kasdan, Miami FL, director/writer (Accidental Tourist)
1949 - Paul Chubb, Australian actor (d. 2002)
1949 - Mary Robison, American writer
1951 - Gil Pak Jong, Korea PR, judo (Olympic-1976)
1951 - William Risrook, rocker (BT Express-Here Comes the Express)
1952 - Sydney Biddle Barrow, madam/autohr (Mayflower Madam)
1952 - Maureen Dowd, American writer
1952 - Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu, Prime Minister of Romania
1954 - Jim Duggan, American wrestler
1956 - Étienne Daho, French singer and songwriter
1956 - Ben Heppner, Canadian singer
1957 - Suzanne Danielle, English actress
1957 - Anchee Min, Chinese writer
1958 - Colin Ferguson, murderer (6 people on the LIRR on Dec 7, 1993)
1959 - Carl Chas Smash Smyth, rock bassist (Madness-Our House)
1959 - Geoff Tate, vocalist (Queensryche-Breaking the Silence)
1959 - Paul Terry, cricketer (in Germany Two Tests England v WI 1984)
1959 - Susan Smith, Beloit WISC, playmate (Sept, 1981)
1961 - Robert Edwin Hall, mountaineer/businessman
1962 - Patrica Morrison, rocker (Sisters of Mercy-Walk Away, Black Planet)
1962 - Michael McCaul, American politician
1964 - Sergei Nemchinov, Moscow Russia, NHL center (NY Islanders, Oly-Silver-98)
1964 - Steven Soderbergh, writer (Mimi, Schizoplis)
1964 - Mark Addy, British actor
1964 - Ernest Miller, American wrestler
1964 - Shepard Smith, American news anchor
1965 - Dave Lowry, Sudbury, NHL left wing (Florida Panthers)
1965 - Desiree Nosbusch, Luxembourg, actress (The Fan)
1965 - Jemma Redgrave, London England, actress (Buddha of Suburbia)
1965 - Shamil Basayev, Chechen rebel (d. 2006)
1965 - Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, British chef
1966 - Daniel J Schneider, Memphis Tn, actor (Dennis-Head of the Class)
1966 - Matt Brock, NFL defensive end/tackle (NY Jets)
1967 - Emily Watson, actress (Breaking the Waves, Boxer)
1967 - Terry Wooden, NFL linebacker (Seattle Seahawks, KC Chiefs)
1967 - Tom Rhodes, actor (Tom Rhodes-Mr Rhodes)
1967 - Kerri Green, American actress
1967 - Saskia Wickham, British actress
1967 - Zakk Wylde, American musician (Black Label Society)
1968 - Fred[ric] Honebein, SF California, rower (Olympics-5th-1996)
1968 - L L Cool J, [James Todd Smith], St Albans NY, rapper (Bigger & Deffer)
1968 - Ruel Fox, English footballer
1969 - Dave Grohl, drummer (Nirvana, Foo Fighters)
1969 - David Webb, WLAF linebacker (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1969 - Jason Kent Bateman, Rye NY, actor (David-Valerie, Hogan Family)
1969 - Martin Bicknell, cricketer (England pace bowler 1993)
1969 - Rico Smith, NFL wide receiver (Cleveland Browns)
1970 - Eric Charron, Verdun, NHL defenseman (Washington Capitals)
1970 - Steve Cooke, Kanai Hawaii, pitcher (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1970 - Tyrone Hughes, NFL cornerback (New Orleans Saints, Chicago Bears)
1970 - Gene Snitsky, American professional wrestler
1971 - Antonios Nikopolidis, Greek footballer
1971 - Lasse Kjus, Norwegian skier
1972 - Kyle Brady, NFL tight end (NY Jets)
1972 - Michael Davis, NFL cornerback (Cleveland Browns)
1972 - Predrag Gosta, Yugoslav-born conductor
1972 - Raimondas Rumšas, Lithuanian cyclist
1973 - Ed Howard, NFL wide receiver (Atlanta Falcons)
1973 - Lethon Flowers, NFL defensive back (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1973 - Rod Myers, Conroe TX, outfielder (KC Royals)
1973 - Giancarlo Fisichella, Italian race car driver
1974 - Hugues Legault, Montreal Quebec, 50m swimmer (Olympics-96)
1974 - Kevin Jefferson, NFL linebacker (Cin Bengals)
1974 - Michael Dritlein, WLAF wide receiver (Rhein Fire)
1974 - Nancy Napolski, Hinsdale Idaho, air rifle (Olympics-1996)
1974 - Kevin Durand, Canadian actor
1975 - Marcel Koning, soccer player (FC The Hague/NEC)
1977 - Terry Ryan, St Johns, NHL left wing (Montreal Canadiens)
1977 - Darren Purse, English footballer
1978 - Just Blaze, American hip hop producer
1978 - Shawn Crawford, American sprinter
1979 - John Reuben, American hip hop artist
1979 - Karen Elson, British supermodel
1979 - Angela Lindvall, American supermodel
1980 - Sosuke Sumitani, Japanese announcer
1980 - Clive Clarke, Irish footballer
1980 - Cory Gibbs, American soccer player
1980 - Ossama Haidar, a Lebanese soccer player
1980 - Byron Leftwich, American football player
1980 - Hiroshi Tamaki, Japanese actor and model
1981 - Abdelmalek Cherrad, Algerian football
1981 - Rosa López, Spanish singer
1981 - Pitbull, American rapper
1982 - Léo Lima, Brazilian footballer
1982 - Víctor Valdés, Spanish goalkeeper
1983 - Maxime Monfort, Belgian cyclist
1984 - Mike Pelfrey, American baseball player
1986 - Gary Brolsma, American internet celebrity
1986 - Cristina Aicardi, Peruvian badminton player
1988 - Jamie Altman, son of Lynda Carter & Robert Altman
1988 - Jordy, French singer
1988 - Mikalah Gordon, American singer
1988 - Jack P. Shepherd, English actor
1989 - Sextuplets, Paris France, (to a 29-year-old woman)
1994 - Samir Patel, American spelling bee winner

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 14, 2013, 07:43:47 AM

This Day in History for 14th January


Famous Deaths

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Author of Alice in Wonderland        MacDonalds Entreprenuer Ray Kroc (1984)      Actress Shelley Winters (2006)
Lewis Carroll (1898)


973 - Ekkehard I, monk of St Gallen (Vita Waltharii manu fortis), dies
1163 - Ladislaus I Arpad, king of Hungary (1162-63), dies
1236 - Sava [Rastko], son of Serbia's king/saint, dies at 64
1331 - Odoric, Italian explorer (b. 1286)
1623 - Paolo Sarpi, Italian church historian/politician, dies at 70
1640 - Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry, English lawyer and judge (b. 1578)
1648 - Casparus Barleaus, Flemish theologist/poet (Muiderkring), dies at 63
1676 - Pier Francesco Cavalli, Italian (opera)composer, dies at 73
1679 - Jacques de Billy, French mathematician (b. 1602)
1701 - Tokugawa Mitsukuni, Japanese warlord (b. 1628)
1742 - Edmond Halley, English scientist (b. 1656)
1766 - Frederik V, king of Denmark/Norway (1746-66), dies at 42
1786 - Meshech Weare, Governor of New Hampshire (b. 1713)
1786 - Michael Arne, English composer (b. 1740 or 1741)
1788 - François Joseph Paul, marquis de Grasetilly, comte de Grasse, French admiral (b. 1722)
1802 - Marie Allard, French ballerina, dies at 59
1817 - Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, composer, dies at 87
1819 - Peter Pindar, English satirist (b. 1738)
1822 - Franz Innocenz Joseph Kobell, German landscape painter, dies at 72
1825 - George Dance the Younger, English architect (b. 1741)
1830 - Johann G Repsold, German instrument maker, dies at 59
1833 - Seraphim of Sarov, Russian Orthodox saint (b. 1759)
1847 - Gov Bent, 5 others in US occupation, killed by revolt in New Mexico
1850 - Anthony van Hoboken, Rotterdam merchant/ship owner, dies at 93
1867 - Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, French painter (b. 1780)
1868 - Heinrich Schenker, Austrian musicologist (Ursatz), dies at 66
1887 - Friedrich von Amerling, Austrian painter, dies at 83
1887 - Peter "Peerke" Donders, missionary (Father of Melaatsen), dies at 77
1888 - Stephen Heller, composer, dies at 74
1889 - Ema Puksec, Croatian singer (b. 1834)
1890 - Francesco D'Arcais, composer, dies at 59
1892 - Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence, British prince (b. 1864)
1898 - Lewis Carroll, writer (Alice in Wonderland), dies at 65
1901 - Charles Hermite, French mathematician (e is transcendent), dies at 78
1901 - Mandell Creighton, English bishop/historian, dies at 57
1901 - Victor Balaguer, Catalaans historian/politician/author, dies at 76
1902 - Cato M Guldberg, Norwegian mathematician, dies at 65
1905 - Ernst Abbe, German physicist (Carl Zeiss Optics Company), dies at 64
1907 - Karl von Perfall, composer, dies at 82
1907 - Sir James Fergusson, British politician, and governor of South Australia, New Zealand and Bombay (b. 1832)
1908 - Holger Drachmann, writer, dies
1909 - Sinovi P Rozhestvensky, Russian admiral, dies at 60
1912 - Otto Liebmann, German philosopher (Kant & Epigones), dies at 71
1915 - Richard Meux Benson, founder of Anglican religious order (b. 1824)
1916 - Otto Ammon, German anthropologist/sociologist, dies at 73
1920 - John Francis Dodge, American automobile pioneer (b. 1864)
1923 - Zübeyde Hanım, Mother of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (b. 1857)
1924 - Arne Garborg, Norwegian playwright (Mannfolk), dies at 72
1925 - Willem Devout, self employed (V & Dreesmann), dies
1929 - Cornelis W Lely, Dutch Governor of Suriname (1902-05), dies at 74
1931 - William Ernst Johnson, British mathematician, dies
1937 - Jaishankar Prasad, Hindi poet, dramatist and novelist (b. 1889)
1942 - Porfirio Barba-Jacob, Colombian writer (b. 1883)
1943 - Adolf Sandberger, composer, dies at 78
1944 - Mohammed Emin Yurdakul, Turkish poet, dies at about 74
1945 - Sandor Vandor, composer, dies at 43
1948 - Anna "Ans" van Dike, Dutch Jewish Nazi-collaborator, executed at 42
1949 - Joaquín Turina, Spanish pianist/conductor/composer (Rima), dies at 66
1952 - Artur Kapp, Estonian composer (b. 1878)
1956 - Siegfried F Nadel, Aust/Brit anthropologist (Nuba), dies at 52
1957 - Humphrey Bogart, actor (Casablanca, Caine Mutiny), dies at 57
1961 - Ernest Thesiger, actor (Brass Monkey, Ghoul), dies at 81
1961 - Henry Geehl, composer, dies at 79
1963 - Gustav Regler, writer, dies at 64
1965 - Jeanette MacDonald, soprano (When I'm Calling You), dies at 63
1966 - Sergei Korolev, Russian space station constructor, dies
1966 - Bill Carr, American athlete (b. 1909)
1967 - Renato Lunelli, composer, dies at 71
1968 - Dorothea Mackellar, Australian poet (My Country) (b. 1885)
1970 - John J "Johnny" Murphy, US baseball pitcher (NY Yankees), dies at 61
1970 - William Feller, Croatian mathematician (b. 1906)
1971 - Ethel Glenn Hier, composer, dies at 82
1972 - Frederik IX, [Christiaan FFMKW], king of Denmark (1947-72), dies at 72
1974 - Josef Smrkovsky, Czechoslovakia parliament chairman, dies at 62
1976 - Margaret Leighton, actress (Best Man, Go-Between), dies at 53
1977 - Abdul Razak bin Hussain, premier of Malaysia (1970-77), dies at 53
1977 - Anthony Eden, British premier (1955-57), dies at 79
1977 - Peter Finch, actor (Network, Nun's Story, Judith), dies at 60
1977 - Anaïs Nin, French author (b. 1903)
1978 - Blossom Rock, actress (Grandmamma-Addams Family), dies at 81
1978 - Robert Heger, composer, dies at 91
1978 - Harold Abrahams, British athlete (b. 1899)
1978 - Kurt Gödel, Austrian mathematician (b. 1906)
1979 - Thomas DeSimone, gangster associate of the Lucchese crime family (b. 1950)
1980 - Robert Ardrey, American author (b. 1908)
1981 - John O'Grady, Australian writer (Nino Culotta) (b. 1907)
1984 - Mary Zeldenrust-Noordanus, Dutch sexuologist (NVSH), dies at 55
1984 - Paul Ben Haim, composer, dies at 86
1984 - Ray Kroc, founder of MacDonalds/owner San Diego Padres, dies at 81
1985 - Jetta Goudal, French actress (White Gold), dies at 86
1986 - Donna Reed, actress (Donna Reed Show, Dallas), dies of cancer at 64
1986 - Walter Leblanc, Belgian painter, dies at 53
1986 - Daniel Balavoine, French singer (b. 1952)
1987 - Douglas Sirk, director (Zu Neuen Ufern, Boefje), dies at 86
1988 - Georgy M Malenkov, PM of USSR (1953-55), dies at 86
1990 - David Arkin, actor (I Love You Alice B Toklas), dies
1990 - Mani Madhava Chakyar, Koodiyattam artist and Sanskrit scholar (b. 1899)
1991 - Sallah Kharaf, [Abu Iyad], co-founder (Al-Fatah), assassinated
1991 - Gordon Bryant, Australian politician (b. 1914)
1992 - Hari Rhodes, actor (Earth II, Detroit 9000), dies at 59
1993 - Elisabeth A de Vreugd, chambermaid for Dutch Queen, dies at 98
1993 - Manfred Lachs, Polish lawyer (Intl Court of Justice), dies
1994 - Esther Ralston, US actress (Tin Pan Alley, SF Docks), dies at 91
1994 - Federica Montseny, anarchist/Sp minister of Health (1936), dies at 80
1995 - Alexander Gibson, Brit conductor/founder (Scottish Opera), dies at 68
1995 - Alexander Gibson, conductor, dies at 69
1995 - Mark Finch, film festival organizer, dies at 33
1995 - Stafford WIlliam Somerfield, newspaper editor, dies at 84
1996 - Eric Briault, educationalist, dies at 84
1996 - Pamelo Mounk'a, musician, dies at 50
1997 - King Hu, film director, dies at 64
1997 - Dollard Ménard, French Canadian general (b. 1913)
1999 - Jerzy Grotowski, Polish theatre director (b. 1933)
2001 - Burkhard Heim, German physicist (b. 1925)
2003 - Koloman Sokol, Slovak painter (b. 1902)
2004 - Uta Hagen, American actress (b. 1919)
2004 - Ron O'Neal, American actor (b. 1937)
2004 - Valfar, Norwegian musician (Windir) (b. 1978)
2005 - Charlotte MacLeod, American writer (b. 1922)
2005 - Conroy Maddox, English painter (b. 1912)
2005 - Rudolph Moshammer, German fashion designer (b. 1940)
2005 - Jesús-Rafael Soto, Venezuelan kinetic artist (b. 1923)
2006 - Shelley Winters, American actress, dies at 85
2006 - Henri Colpi, French film editor and director (b. 1921)
2006 - Jim Gary, American sculptor (b. 1939)
2006 - Mark Philo, English footballer (b. 1984)
2007 - Darlene Conley, American actress (b. 1934)
2007 - Barbara Kelly, Canadian-born actress (b. 1924)
2008 - Judah Folkman, Surgeon that developed Angiogenesis (b. 1933)
2009 - Jan Kaplický, British architect of Czech origin (b. 1937)
2009 - Ricardo Montalbán, Mexican actor (b. 1920)
2010 - Petra Schürmann, German model and TV announcer, Miss World 1956 (b. 1935)
2011 - Trish Keenan, lead vocalist of English band Broadcast (b. 1968)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 15, 2013, 06:39:36 AM

This Day in History for 15th January


Historical Events

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Classical music prodigy Mozart                Composer Tchaikovsky                              Baseball Great Babe Ruth

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Tennis Player Martina Navratilova         Boxing Champ George Foreman               Basketball Player Dennis Rodman


588 BC - Nebuchadrezzar II of Babylon lays siege to Jerusalem under Zedekiah's reign. The siege 
             lasts until July 23, 586 BC.
69 - Otho seizes power in Rome, proclaiming himself Emperor of Rome, but only rules for three
        months before committing suicide.
708 - Sisinnius begins his reign as Pope (dies 20 days later)
946 - Caliph al-Mustaqfi blinded/ousted
1346 - Emperor Louis IV of Bavaria gives his wife Margaretha, Holland/Zealand
1535 - Henry VIII declares himself head of English Church
1552 - France signs secret treaty with German Protestants
1562 - 3rd sitting of Council of Trente opens
1582 - Russia cedes Livonia & Estonia to Poland, loses access to Baltic
1586 - Battle at Boxum: Spanish troops under Tassis beat state army
1752 - Tobias Smollett publishes pamphlet accusing Fielding of plagiarism
1754 - Riot at burial of doelist Daniel Raap in Amsterdam
1759 - British Museum opens in Montague House, London
1762 - Fraunces Tavern opens in NYC
1777 - People of New Connecticut (Vermont) declare independence from England
1780 - Continental Congress establishes court of appeals
1785 - Mozarts string quartet opus 10 premieres
1797 - 1st top hat worn (John Etherington of London)
1822 - Greek War of Independence: Demetrius Ypsilanti is elected president of the legislative
            assembly.
1831 - 1st US-built locomotive to pull a passenger train makes 1st run
1831 - 1st US railroad honeymoon trip, Mr & Mrs Pierson, Charleston, SC
1833 - HMS Beagle anchors at Goeree Tierra del Fuego
1844 - U of Notre Dame receives its charter in Indiana
1847 - 1st Swedish magazine in US, Skandinavia, published in NYC
1851 - Gen Arista replaces Mexican Pres Herrera
1857 - 1st first-class game in Sydney, NSW v Vic at The Domain
1861 - Steam elevator patented by Elisha Otis
1863 - 1st US newspaper printed on wood-pulp paper, Boston Morning Journal
1865 - Ft Fisher, NC falls to Union troops
1866 - Bedrich Smetana's opera "Branibori v Cechach," premieres in Prague
1870 - Donkey 1st used as symbol of Democratic Party, in Harper's Weekly
1877 - US Assay Office in Helena, Montana opens
1882 - 1st US ski club forms (Berlin NH)
1886 - Weekly Herald, 1st Vancouver, BC newspaper, publishes 1st issue
1889 - The Coca-Cola Company, then known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, is originally
           incorporated in Atlanta, Georgia.
1892 - Basketball rules published in Triangle Magazine, Mass
1895 - Albert Trott takes 8-43 on Test debut, then a record
1895 - French fleet reaches Majunga, Madagascar
1895 - Tchaikovsky's ballet "Swan Lake" premieres, St Petersburg (1/27 NS)
1896 - Henry Arthur Jones' "Michael & his Lost Angel," premieres in London
1900 - SCNEC soccer team forms
1905 - Coen de Koning becomes world champion all-round skater
1907 - 3-element vacuum tube patented by Dr Lee De Forest
1907 - Gold dental inlays 1st described by Wm Taggart, who invented them
1908 - C Hill & R J Hartigan make 8th wkt partnership 243 for Aust
1915 - Japan claims economic control of China
1915 - Sydney, Kern & Smith's musical "Love o' Mike," premieres in NYC
1919 - 2 million gallons of molasses flood Boston MA, drowning 21
1919 - Frank Wedekind's "Die letzten Tage der Menschheit," premieres
1919 - Pianist & statesman Ignace Paderewski becomes 1st premier of Poland
1919 - Semana Tragica (Tragic Week): Bloodbath in Buenos Aires
1919 - W Collison & O Harbach's "Up in Mabel's Room," premieres in NYC
1919 - Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, two of the most prominent socialists in Germany, are
           tortured and murdered by the Freikorps.
1922 - Irish Free State forms; Michael Collins becomes 1st premier
1924 - 3rd Dutch government Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms
1925 - Hans Luther forms German government, with DNVP
1930 - George Headley scores century on debut v England (made 176)
1934 - 8.4 earthquake in India/Nepal, 10,700 die
1934 - Babe Ruth signs a 1934 contract for $35,000 ($17,000 cut)
1935 - 300 Dutch ice cream salesmen protest against Italian competition
1935 - Clifford Odets' "Waiting for Lefty," premieres in NYC
1936 - 1st all-glass windowless structure in US completed, Toledo, Ohio
1936 - Horace Stoneham elected president of NY Giants
1936 - Non-profit Ford Foundation incorporates
1939 - 1st NFL pro bowl, NY Giants beat All Stars 13-10 in Wrigley Field
1939 - Municipal Railway & Market St RR begin service to Transbay Terminal
1940 - German U-Boot torpedoes Dutch trade ship Arendskerk (Eagle's Church)
1942 - Cubs, drop plans to install lights at Wrigley due to WW II
1942 - FDR asks commissioner to continue baseball during WW II
1943 - 1st transport of Jews from Amsterdam to concentration camp Vught
1943 - World's largest office building, Pentagon, completed
1943 - 1,000 workers complete air conditioning system for Pentagon
1944 - European Advisory Commission decides to divide Germany
1944 - General Eisenhower arrives in England
1944 - Vught Concentration Camp puts 74 women in 1 cell, 10 die
1945 - "Make Mine Manhattan" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 429 perfs
1945 - Every Amsterdammer gets 3 kg sugar beets
1945 - Red Army frees Crakow-Plaszow concentration camp
1947 - The brutalized corpse of Elizabeth Short ("The Black Dahlia") is found in Leimert Park, Los Angeles, California.
1949 - Mao's Red army conquers Ten-tsin
1950 - 4,000 attend National Emergency Civil Rights Conference in Wash DC
1951 - "Cloud of Death" rolls down Mount Lamington, New Guinea kills 3-5,000
1951 - Supreme Court rule "clear & present danger" of incitement to riot is not protected speech & can be a cause for arrest
1953 - 16 car Federal Express train loses brakes & crashes in Wash DC station
1953 - GDR Min of Foreign affairs Georg Dertingen arrested for "espionage"
1955 - 1st official act of Princess Beatrice, launches tanker Vasum
1955 - D Shostakovitch' "From Jewish Folk Poetry," premieres in Leningrad
1955 - USSR ends state of war with German Federal Republic
1956 - Bauer Marlene wins LPGA Sea Island Golf Open
1956 - D Shostakovitch appointed honorary member of Academia Santa Cecilia
1956 - KWAB TV channel 4 in Big Spring, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
1956 - NFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 31-30
1957 - Brooklyn Dodgers sign a new 3 year lease for Ebbets Field
1958 - NY Yankees sign million dollar plus deal to show 140 games on WPIX TV
1961 - NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 35-31
1961 - Suggs wins LPGA Sea Island Women's Golf Invitational Open
1961 - Supremes signed with Motown Records
1962 - 50th Australian Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats R Emerson (86 06 64 64)
1962 - Dutch & Indonesian navy encounter in Etna Bay New Guinea
1964 - Baseball agrees to hold a free-agent draft in NYC
1964 - Teamsters negotiate 1st national labor contract
1965 - Rock group Who releases 1st album "I Can't Explain"
1965 - Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor Mich forms
1966 - AFL Pro Bowl: All-Stars beats Buffalo 30-19
1966 - NFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 36-7
1967 - Superbowl I: Green Bay Packers beat KC Chiefs, 35-10 in LA Superbowl MVP: Bart Starr, Green Bay, QB
1967 - The first Super Bowl is played in Los Angeles, California.
1968 - KDCD TV channel 18 in Midland, TX (IND) begins broadcasting
1969 - Nuclear test at Pacific Ocean
1969 - Soyuz 5 launched by Soviet Union
1970 - Milwaukee Brewers make their 1st trade (with Oakland A's)
1970 - Republic Biafra disbands/joins Nigeria
1971 - "Ari" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 19 performances
1971 - Aswan Dam official opens in Egypt
1971 - George Harrison releases "My Sweet Lord"
1972 - Heavyweight Joe Frazier KOs Terry Daniels
1973 - 4 Watergate burglars plead guilty in federal court
1973 - Gene Shalit joins Today Show panel
1973 - Pope Paul VI has an audience with Golda Meir at Vatican
1973 - Pres Nixon suspends all US offensive action in N Vietnam
1974 - "Happy Days" begins an 11 year run on ABC
1974 - 24th NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 134-123 at Seattle
1974 - Expert panel reports 18½ minute gap in Watergate tape, 5 separate erasures
1975 - Portugal signs accord for Angola's independence
1975 - Space Mountain opens (Disneyland)
1976 - Sara Jane Moore sentenced to life for attempting to shoot Pres Ford
1976 - US-German Helios B solar probe launched into solar orbit
1976 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1977 - Coneheads debut on "Saturday Night Live"
1977 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Colgate Triple Crown Golf Tournament
1978 - Theodore Bundy kills Fla State U coeds Lisa Levy & Margaret Bowman
1978 - Superbowl XII: Dallas Cowboys beat Denver Broncos, 27-10 in N Orleans Superbowl MVP:
           Harvey Martin, Dallas, DE & Randy White, Dallas, DT
1980 - Pam Gems' "Piaf!," premieres in London
1981 - "Hill Street Blues" premieres on NBC-TV
1981 - Bob Gibson elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame
1982 - "Forbidden Broadway" by/with Gerard Alessandrini premieres in NYC
1983 - Dutch political party DS'70 disbands
1983 - Hartford Whalers smallest crowd 4,812 (beat Devils) during blizzard
1983 - Javed Miandad & Mudassar Nazar make 451 stand v India
1983 - Thom Syles keeps a life saver intact in his mouth for over 7 hours
1984 - Hana Mandlikova ends Martina Navratilova's 54-match winning streak
1984 - Schonbrun skates world record 5 km (7:39.44)
1985 - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to John Ashbery & Fred Chapell
1985 - Civil rights activist Tancredo Neves elected president
1985 - Mike Gatting & Graeme Fowler both scores 200's v India
1985 - Tancredo Neves becomes 1st elected president of Brazil in 21 years
1986 - Living Seas opens (Disneyland)
1988 - Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder makes racist remarks about black athletes
1988 - Kiran More stumps five WI batsman at Madras, world Test record
1988 - Narendra Hirwani takes 16-136 (8-61 & 8-75) v WI on Test debut
1989 - "Ain't Misbehavin'" closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 176 perfs
1989 - 10th ACE Cable Awards: HBO wins 35 awards
1989 - Betsy King wins LPGA Jamaica Golf Classic
1989 - Big John Studd wins WWF's 1st Royal Rumble
1989 - Cerberal Palsy telethon raises 22,600,000
1990 - 42 year old George Foreman KOs George Cooney in 2 rounds
1990 - 6th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Knots Landing wins
1990 - AT&T experiences long distance problems due to a computer glitch
1990 - Blue Jay Cecil Fielder signs with Detroit as a free agent
1990 - NY Knicks Trent Tucker scores with 1/10 sec, beats Bulls, 109-106
1991 - Australia beat NZ 2-0 to win the World Series Cup
1991 - UN's deadline for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait (they don't)
1992 - Bulgaria recognizes Macedonia
1992 - Cleaning woman finds intimate photos of Sarah Ferguson with US man
1992 - Supreme Court rules 5-3 that Joseph Doherty isn't entitled to asylum
1993 - 7.5 earthquake strikes northern Japan, 2 die
1993 - Soap opera "Santa Barbara" final show on NBC TV
1993 - Top mafia leader Salvatore "Toto" Riina arrested in Palermo
1994 - 15th ACE Cable Awards: HBO wins 34 awards, Showtime wins 10
1994 - Hague motorist with .51% alcohol in blood, breaks Dutch record (.47%)
1994 - Queen Elizabeth falls off her horse & breaks her left wrist
1995 - Dawn Coe-Jones wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Tournament of Golf Champion
1995 - San Diego Chargers beat Pitt Steelers 17-13 for AFC championship
1995 - SF 49ers beat Dallas Cowboys for NFC championship
1995 - Southern Alabama begins using new area code 334
1995 - Western Washington begins using new area code 360
1997 - Chicago Bull Dennis Rodman kicks cameraman, Eugene Amosin the groin
1997 - Space Shuttle Atlantis docks with Mir Space Station
1998 - NASA announces John Glenn, 76, may fly in space again
1999 - The Racak incident: 45 Albanians in the Kosovo village of Racak are killed by Yugoslav security
           forces.
2001 - Wikipedia, a free Wiki content encyclopedia, goes online.
2005 - ESA's SMART-1 lunar orbiter discovers elements such as calcium, aluminum, silicon, iron, and other surface elements on the moon.
2005 - An intense solar flare blasts X-rays across the solar system.
2007 - Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, former Iraqi intelligence chief and half-brother of Saddam Hussein,
           and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, former chief judge of the Revolutionary Court, are executed by 
           hanging in Iraq.
2009 - US Airways Flight 1549 makes an emergency landing into the Hudson River shortly after
           takeoff from LaGuardia Airport in New York City. All passengers and crew members survive.
2011 - Wikipedia the free internet encyclopedia turns 10 years old

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 15, 2013, 06:46:48 AM

This Day in History for 15th January


Famous Weddings

2011 - PGA golfer Hunter Mahan (28) weds former Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader Kandi Harris in Dallas,
          Texas

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 15, 2013, 06:53:43 AM

This Day in History for 15th January


Famous Birthdays

(http://i.historyorb.com/edward-teller.jpg)                  (http://i.historyorb.com/martin-luther-king-jr.jpg)                  (http://i.historyorb.com/charo-murcia.jpg)           
Father of the H-bomb                          Clergyman and civil rights activist               Actress Charo (1951)
Edward Teller (1908)                               Martin Luther King Jr, (1929)


1432 - Afonso V "the African", king of Portugal (1438-1481)
1481 - Ashikaga Yoshizumi, Japanese shogun (b. 1511)
1507 - Johann Oporinus [Herbster], Swiss book publisher (Koran)
1538 - Maeda Toshiie, Japanese general (d. 1599)
1622 - Molière, French playwright (d. 1673)
1671 - Abraham de la Pryme, English antiquarian (d. 1704)
1674 - Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, French writer (d. 1762)
1716 - Philip Livingston, American businessman and politician (signed Declaration of Independence)
1730 - John Malchair, composer
1733 - Joseph Lederer, composer
1742 - Eugene Godecharle, composer
1747 - John Aikin, English doctor and writer (d. 1822)
1754 - Richard Martin, Irish animal rights activist (d. 1834)
1779 - Jean Coralli, Paris, ballet producer/choreographer
1791 - Franz Gillparzer, Austrian tragic dramatist (Golden Fleece)
1795 - Willem de Clerq, Dutch merchant/man of letters
1795 - Alexandr Griboyedov, Russian playwright (d. 1829)
1798 - Thomas Crofton Croker, Irish story teller (Fairy legends)
1803 - Marjory Fleming, Scottish writer and poet (d. 1811)
1809 - Cornelia Connelly, Phila, founder (Society of the Holy Child Jesus)
1809 - Pierre Joseph Proudhon, France, politician (libertarian socialist)
1812 - Peter C Asbjornsen, Norwegian fairy tale writer
1813 - James Marion Sims, SC, surgeon/gynecologist (vesicovaginal operation)
1815 - Henry Morris Naglee, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1886
1816 - Marie LaFarge, French murderer (d. 1852)
1817 - Lewis Golding Arnold, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1871
1821 - Lafayette McLaws, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1897
1824 - Marie Duplessis, French courtesan (d. 1847)
1826 - Mikhail Saltykov, Spas-Ugol Russia, satirist (Family of Noblemen)
1841 - Lord Frederick Stanley, presenter of hockey's Stanley Cup
1842 - Blessed Mary McKillop, Australian candidate for sainthood (d. 1909)
1842 - Josef Breuer, Austrian psychologist (d. 1925)
1845 - Ella Flagg Young, 1st woman pres (National Educational Association)
1845 - Heinrich Vogl, composer
1850 - Mihail Eminesco, [Eminovici], Romanian poet (Samanul Dionis)
1850 - Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician. (d. 1891)
1855 - Jacques Damala, Greek military officer and actor (d. 1889)
1858 - Giovanni Segantini, Italy, painter
1859 - Archibald Peake, Premier of South Australia (d. 1920)
1863 - Adolph Goldschmidt, German historian
1863 - Wilhelm Marx, premier (Prussia)
1866 - Nathan Söderblom, Swedish archbishop, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1931)
1868 - Noach Zjordanija, Georgian veterinarian/premier (1918-21)
1869 - Stanisław Wyspiański, Polish dramatist (d. 1907)
1870 - Johan Peter Koch, Danish officer/explorer (Greenland)
1870 - Pierre S. du Pont, American businessman (d. 1954)
1871 - Bertram Shapleigh, composer
1872 - Arsen Kotsoyev, Russian writer (d. 1944)
1873 - Max Adler, Austria sociologist/socialist theorist
1875 - Tom Burke, American runner (d. 1929)
1877 - Lewis M Terman, Ind, psychologist (developed Stanford-Binet IQ test)
1878 - Johanna Muller-Hermann, composer
1879 - Ernest Thesiger, London England, actor (Bride of Frankenstein, Ghoul)
1879 - Mazo de la Roche, Canadian author (d. 1961)
1882 - Florian Znaniecki, Polish/US sociologist (Polish Peasant in Europe)
1882 - Princess Margaret of Sweden (d. 1920)
1885 - Lorenz Böhler, Austrian physician (d. 1973)
1885 - Huang Yuanyong, Chinese writer (d. 1915)
1885 - Grover Lowdermilk, American baseball player (d. 1968)
1888 - Joseph Henabery, Omaha NE, director (Cobra)
1890 - Tommy Fleming, American soccer player (d. 1965)
1891 - Osip E Mandelstam, Warsaw Poland, Russian poet (Noise of Time)
1891 - Ray Chapman, American baseball player (d. 1920)
1892 - Frank Hutchens, composer
1892 - Rex Ingram, [Reginald IM Hitchcock], Irish director (4 Horsemen of Apocalypse) (d. 1950)
1893 - Ivor Novello (David Ivor Davies, Cardiff Wales, composer/writer/actor (Truth Game)
1893 - Dragisa Cvetkovic, Serbian premiere of Yugoslavia (1939-4.)
1894 - Edmond Rubbens, Belgian attorney/minister of colonization
1895 - Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Finnish chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1973)
1896 - Jacobo Ficher, composer
1897 - Xu Zhimo, Chinese poet (d. 1931)
1899 - Goodman Ace, radio/TV actor/columnist/humorist (Better of Goodman)
1900 - Caesar Domela, Dutch painter (Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis son)
1902 - Abd al-Aziz ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Faisal al-Saud, king (Saudi Arabia)
1903 - Paul A. Dever, 58th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1958)
1905 - Torin Thatcher, English actor (d. 1981)
1906 - Aristotle Onassis, Greece, rich shipping magnate
1906 - Rezso Kokai, composer
1908 - Edward Teller, Budapest Hungary, fathered H-bomb (Manhattan Project), (d. 2003)
1908 - Roberta Bitgood, composer
1909 - Elie Siegmeister, NYC, composer (Plough & the Stars)
1909 - Enrique Sasal y Chapi, composer
1909 - Gene Krupa, Benny Goodman's drummer (Sing Sing Sing)
1909 - Jean Bugatti, German-born automobile designer (d. 1939)
1911 - Cy Feuer, NYC, Bdwy producer (Feuer & Martin-Chorus Line)
1911 - Wim Kan, Dutch cabaretier
1912 - Michel Debré, French politician (d. 1996)
1913 - Lloyd Bridges, San Leandro California, actor (Sea Hunt, Roots, Airplane)
1913 - Miriam Hyde, Australian composer (d. 2005)
1913 - Alexander Marinesko, captain of the S-13 submarine, which sank the German ship Wilhelm Gustloff (d. 1963)
1914 - Lord Dacre of Glanton, British historian
1916 - Mikki Doyle, journalist
1918 - Andreas M Donner, Dutch jurist (constitutional law)
1918 - Gamal Abdel Nasser, President of Egypt (1954-1971)
1918 - João Figueiredo, President of Brazil (d. 1999)
1920 - John J "Cardinal" O'Connor, Phila, Roman Catholic Archbishop of NY
1920 - John Junor, British editor in chief (Sunday Express)
1920 - Steve Gromek, American baseball player (d. 2002)
1921 - Frank Thornton, English actor
1922 - Sir Eric Willis, Australian politician (d. 1999)
1923 - Lee Teng-hui, president of ROC (Taiwan), head of KMT (1988- )
1923 - Ivor Cutler, Scottish poet (d. 2006)
1925 - Keith Bentley, international racing cyclist
1925 - Ruth Slenczynska, Sacramento, California, pianist
1926 - Maria Schell, Vienna Austria, actress (Space 1999)
1926 - Florence Buchsbaum, French theater director (d. 1996)
1927 - Francis Routh, composer
1927 - Norm Crosby, Boston MA, comedian (Young at Heart Comedians)
1929 - "Queen Ida" Guillory, Ziadaco music
1929 - Eva Badura-Skoda, composer
1929 - Martin Luther King Jr, Atlanta, American clergyman and leader of the Civil Rights Movement (Nobel 1964)
1930 - Eddie Graham, American professional wrestler (d. 1985)
1931 - Derek Meddings, special effects technician
1931 - Murad Kazhlayev, composer
1931 - Thomas Hoving, NYC, news correspondent (20/20)
1932 - Dean Smith, US actor/relay runner (Olympic-gold-1952)
1932 - Enrique Raxach, composer
1932 - Louis Woodard Jones, New Rochelle NY, 4X400m relayer (Oly-gold-56)
1933 - Ernest J. Gaines, American author
1935 - Malcolm Frager, St Louis, Missouri, pianist
1935 - Robert Silverberg, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Regan's Planet)
1937 - Margaret O'Brien, San Diego, actress (Jane Eyre, Meet Me in St Louis)
1938 - Chuni Goswami, Indian footballer and cricketer
1939 - Charles Christopher Steel, composer
1941 - Captain Beefheart, [Don Van Vliet], rocker (Bongo Fury, Shiny Beast)
1942 - Edward "Sonny" Bivins, US singer (Manhattans-Kiss & Say Goodbye)
1943 - Mike Marshall, MLB pitcher (1974 Cy Young Award)
1945 - Vince Foster, American lawyer (d. 1993)
1945 - William R. Higgins, USMC colonel (d. 1990)
1945 - Princess Michael of Kent, British royal
1947 - Andrea Martin, Portland ME, comediene (SCTV, Club Paradise)
1947 - Pete Waterman, rocker (Stock Aitken & Waterman-Road Block)
1948 - Dini Petty, Canadian talk show host (CITY-TV)
1948 - Ronnie Van Zant, rocker (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
1948 - Tommy Nolan, Montreal Canada, actor (Jody-Buckskin)
1949 - Howard Allen Twitty, Phoenix AZ, PGA golfer (1979 BC Open)
1949 - Luis Alvarado, Puerto Rican baseball player (d. 1987)
1949 - Panos Mihalopoulos, Greek actor
1950 - David Lynn Jones, Bexar Ark, country singer (Bonnie Jean)
1950 - Marius Trésor, French footballer
1951 - Charo [Maria Baeza], Spanish-American actress, comedienne and flamenco guitarist (Chico and the Man, Love Boat)
1951 - Martha Davis, California, vocalist/guitar (Motels-Only the Lonely, Shame)
1952 - Melvyn Gale, rocker (ELO)
1953 - Boris Blank, rocker (Yello)
1953 - Randy White, NFL tackle (Dallas Cowboys)
1953 - Kent Hovind, American evangelist
1953 - Ta-Tanisha, American actress
1954 - Nikos Sarganis, Greek footballer
1954 - Jose Dalisay, Jr., Filipino writer
1955 - Enrico Mentana, Milan Italy, Italian newscaster (RAI)
1956 - Paul Parker, cricketer (one Test England v Australia 1981)
1956 - Vera Sosulya, USSR, toboggan (Olympic-gold-1980)
1956 - Mayawati, Indian politician
1957 - Mario Van Peebles, Mexico, actor (Posse, South Bronx Heroes)
1957 - Patrick Dixon, English entrepreneur
1958 - Julian Sands, actor (One Night Stand)
1958 - Boris Tadić, President of Serbia
1959 - Pete Trewavas, Middlesbrough, bassist, (Marillion-Clutching at Straws)
1959 - Pavle Kozjek, Slovenian climber (d. 2008)
1960 - Tim Curtis, cricketer (England righty batsman in 5 Tests 1988-89)
1960 - Kelly Asbury, American director and actor
1960 - Aaron Jay Kernis, American composer
1961 - Iris DeMent, Paragould Ar, country singer (Our Town)
1961 - Yves P. Pelletier, Canadian comedian and film director
1962 - Creflo Dollar, American televangelist
1962 - Conrad Lant, English musician
1963 - Erling Kagge, Norway, explorer (South Pole)
1963 - Lijuan Geng, Hebei China, Canadian tennis player (Olympics-96)
1963 - Richard Nasheim, hockey forward (Team Austria 1998)
1963 - Yaro Dachniwsky, Chic Ill, team handball goalie (Olympics-1996)
1964 - Cees van der de Linden, soccer player
1964 - Paula Schnurr, Kirkland Lake Ontario, 1.5k (Olympics-8-92, 96)
1964 - Osmo Tapio Räihälä, Finnish composer
1965 - Derek B, rocker (Bullet from a Gun)
1965 - Michael Clemons, CFL running back (Toronto Argonauts)
1965 - Maurizio Fondriest, Italian cyclist
1965 - Bernard Hopkins, American boxer
1965 - James Nesbitt, Northern Irish actor
1967 - Lisa Lisa, [Velez], rock vocalist (& Cult Jam)
1967 - Richard Blakey, cricketer (England wicket-keeper in India 1993)
1967 - Ted N Tryba, Wilkes-Barre PA, PGA golfer (1995 Anheuser-Busch Golf)
1968 - Bob Dahl, NFL guard (Washington Redskins)
1968 - Chad Lowe, Dayton Ohio, actor (Spencer, Apprentice to Murder)
1968 - Felton Spencer, NBA center (SF Warriors)
1968 - Laurie Fellner, Appleton Wisc, team handball goalie (Olympics-92, 96)
1968 - Steve McConaghy, Australian soling yachter (Olympics-96)
1968 - Iñaki Urdangarín, Spanish royalty
1969 - Adam Burt, Detroit, NHL defenseman (Hartford Whalers)
1969 - Delino DeShields, Seaford DE, infielder (Montreal Expos, LA Dodgers)
1969 - Demetra Hampton, actress (Valentina)
1969 - Leonard Wheeler, NFL safety/cornerback (Cin Bengals, Minnesota Vikings)
1969 - Marsha Miller, Rochester NY, WPVA volleyballer (National-17th-1995)
1969 - Rob van Dijk, Dutch soccer player (Feyenoord)
1969 - Rod de Highden, Australian 5k/10k/marathoner (Olympics-96)
1969 - Siupeli Malamala, NFL guard/tackle (NY Jets)
1970 - Dan Landry, San Diego Ca, volleyball opposite hitter (Olympics-96)
1970 - Elroy Kromheer, soccer player (FC Volendam)
1970 - Michele Granger, Anaheim California, softball pitcher (Olympics-gold-96)
1971 - LeShon Johnson, running back (Arizona Cardinals)
1971 - Regina King, LA California, actress (Brenda Jenkins-227)
1971 - Max Beesley, English musician and actor
1972 - Ernie Reyes Jr, San Jose California, actor (Ernie-Sidekicks)
1972 - Kimberly Anne Massaro, St Louis Mo, Miss America (Missouri-5th-1997)
1972 - Claudia Winkleman, English television presenter
1973 - Daniel Nijhof, Dutch soccer player (FC Twente)
1973 - Randy Srochenski, CFL linebacker (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1973 - Essam El-Hadary, Egyptian footballer
1974 - Aubrey Jo Hiller, Missoula Montana, Miss America-Montana (1997)
1974 - Mike Minter, safety (Carolina Panthers)
1974 - Ray King, American baseball player
1975 - Greg Loveridge, cricketer (NZ leg-spinner, did not bowl v Zim 1996)
1975 - Mary Pierce, Montreal Canada, tennis star (1995 Australian Open)
1975 - Edith Bowman, Scottish television and radio presenter
1976 - Corey Chavous, American football player
1976 - Dorian Missick, American actor
1978 - Franco Pellizotti, Italian cyclist
1978 - Eddie Cahill, American actor
1979 - Drew Brees, American football player
1979 - Young Dro, American rapper
1979 - Ken Chu, Taiwanese singer-actor and taichi champ
1979 - Martin Petrov, Bulgarian footballer
1980 - Matt Holliday, American baseball player
1981 - El Hadji Diouf, Senegalese footballer
1981 - Sean Lamont, Scottish rugby union footballer
1981 - Howie Day, American singer
1982 - Armando Galarraga, Venezuelan baseball player
1982 - Prince Philip and Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia
1983 - Jermaine Pennant, English footballer
1983 - Hugo Viana, Portuguese footballer
1984 - Megan Jendrick, American swimmer
1984 - Victor Rasuk, American actor
1985 - Kenneth Emil Petersen, Danish footballer
1986 - Fred Davis, American football player
1987 - Greg Inglis, Australian rugby league player
1987 - Aria C Jalali, American musician
1987 - David Knight, English footballer
1987 - Michael Seater, Canadian actor
1990 - Fernando Forestieri, Italian footballer
1990 - Chris Warren Jr., American actor

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 15, 2013, 06:55:27 AM

This Day in History for 15th January


Famous Deaths

69 - Servius Sulpicius Galba, 6th emperor of Rome (68-69), lynched at 70
570 - Saint Ita, Irish nun (b. 475)
936 - King Rudolph of France
1208 - Peter of Castelnau, French nobleman, murdered
1345 - Martin Zaccaria, Italo-Greek ruler
1595 - Murat III, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1546)
1672 - John Cosin, English clergyman (b. 1594)
1683 - Philip Warwick, English writer and politician (b. 1609)
1684 - Caspar Netscher, Dutch portrait painter, dies at about 48
1705 - Walraad, the Young, earl of Nassau-Ottweiler/gov of Nijmegen, dies
1744 - Charles-Hubert Gervais, composer, dies at 72
1755 - Azzolino Bernardino Della Ciaia, composer, dies at 83
1765 - Carlmann Kolb, composer, dies at 61
1775 - Giovanni Battista Sammartini, composer, dies
1781 - Marianne Victoria of Borbón, queen regent of Portugal (b. 1718)
1788 - Gaetano Latilla, composer, dies at 77
1790 - John Landen, English mathematician (b. 1719)
1804 - Dru Drury, English entomologist (b. 1725)
1812 - Johannes Herbst, composer, dies at 76
1815 - Emma, Lady Hamilton, English mistress of Lord Nelson (b. 1761
1816 - Henry Harington, composer, dies at 88
1844 - Joseph Mazzinghi, composer, dies at 78
1864 - Isaac Nathan, UK-Australian composer (b. 1792)
1866 - M T d'Azeglio, writer, dies
1876 - Eliza Johnson, U.S. First Lady (b. 1810)
1893 - Fanny Kemble, British actress and author (b. 1809)
1896 - Matthew B Brady, US photographer (Civil War), dies at about 72
1904 - Eduard Lassen, composer, dies at 73
1909 - Ernest Reyer, composer, dies at 85
1909 - Ernest von Wildenbruch, German playwright (Das Edle Blut), dies at 63
1909 - Arnold Janssen missionary (b. 1837)
1911 - Wilhelm Berger, composer, dies at 49
1915 - Guillaume Couture, composer, dies at 63
1916 - Modest Tchaikovsky, Russian writer (b. 1850)
1919 - Karl Liebknecht, Marxist revolutionary, murdered at 47
1919 - Rosa Luxemburg, Marxist revolutionary, murdered
1922 - John Kirk Barry, Dr/explorer David Livingstone's companion, dies at 89
1924 - Geza Zichy, composer, dies at 74
1926 - Enrico Toselli, composer, dies at 42
1932 - Georg Kerschensteiner, German educationalist, dies at 77
1934 - Hermann Bahr, Austrian writer (Concert), dies at 70
1934 - Patrick O'Malley, US policeman, killed by John Dillinger
1936 - Henry Forster, cricket (Hants & Oxford U, Gov-Gen of Australia), dies
1942 - Melvin Winfield Sheppard, runner (Olympic-gold-08, 12), dies at 58
1947 - Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia (b. 1924)
1949 - Black Dahlia, murder victim found in LA (basis of the movie)
1949 - Pompeo Aloisi, Italian baron/diplomat/senator, dies at 63
1950 - Gen Henry "Hap" Arnold, U.S. General of the Air Force (b. 1886)
1952 - Ned Hanlon, Premier of Queensland (b. 1887)
1953 - Viktor Patrick Vretblad, composer, dies at 76
1955 - Yves Tanguy, French/American sailor/surrealistic painter, dies
1961 - Francesco Maria Saraceni, composer, dies at 49
1962 - Kenneth MacKenna, actor (Men Without Women), dies of cancer at 62
1964 - Weldon John "Jack" Teagarden, US jazz trombonist/singer, dies at 58
1965 - Pierre Ngendandumwe, premier of Burundi, murdered
1966 - Betsy Mitchell, US 100m backstroke swimmer, dies at 25
1967 - Albert Szirmai, composer, dies at 86
1967 - David Burliuk, Ukrainian artist (b. 1882)
1968 - Bill Masterson, 1st NHLer fatally injured during a game (Jan 13), dies
1968 - John Davidson, actor (Dick Tracy vs Crime Inc), dies at 80
1968 - Leopold Infeld, Pol nuclear physcist (Motion & Relativity), dies at 69
1968 - Bill Masterton, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1938)
1969 - Theodor Werner, German painter, dies at 82
1971 - John Dall, actor (Corn is Green, Rope), dies of heart attack at 50
1972 - Daisy Ashford, English child writer (The Young Visiters) (b. 1881)
1973 - Jef Alpaerts, Flemish pianist/conductor, dies at 68
1973 - Ivan Petrovsky, Russian mathematician (b. 1901)
1973 - Coleman Francis, American film director (b. 1919)
1974 - Karel Salmon, composer, dies at 76
1978 - Margaret Bowman & Janet Levy, Chi Omega, FSU, killed by Ted Bundy
1981 - Emanuel Celler, (Rep-D-NY, 1923-73), dies at 92
1982 - Red Smith, sportscaster (Pulitzer, Fight Talk), dies at 76
1983 - Meyer Lansky, reputed mobster, dies in Miami Beach Fla at 80
1983 - Shepperd Strudwick, actor (Psychomania), dies of cancer at 75
1986 - James H "Jim" Crowley, US football player (Notre Dame), dies at 83
1987 - Dolores Hawkins, singer (Guy Mitchell Show), dies at 58
1987 - Gerrit Borgers, Dutch literary, dies at 69
1987 - Ray Bolger, actor/dancer (Wizard of Oz), dies at 83
1988 - Sean MacBride, Ireland, commander of Irish Republican Army, dies at 83
1989 - Wilf Slack, cricketer (whilst bat in Gambia England player 1986), dies
1990 - Gordon Jackson, actor (Hamlet), dies after a short illness at 66
1992 - Dee Murray, English bassist (b. 1946)
1993 - Henry Iba, basketball coach, dies at 88
1993 - Huub H Jacobse, Dutch MP (VVD), dies at 68
1993 - Ken Cory, dies of AIDS at 51
1993 - Sammy Cahn, American songwriter (b. 1913)
1994 - Gyorgy Cziffra, Hungarian/French pianist (Chopin/Liszt), dies at 72
1994 - Harry Nilsson, rock vocalist (Everybody's Talkin'), dies at 52
1994 - Philippe Brun, jazz trumpeter, dies at 85
1995 - Sollie McElroy, singer, dies at 61
1996 - Les Baxter, singer/orchestra leader/composer (Born Again), dies at 73
1996 - Moshushu II, King of Lesotho (1966-90), dies at 51
1996 - Richard Charles Cobb, historian, dies at 78
1997 - Jose Ignacio Domecq, wine maker, dies at 82
1997 - Kenneth Thimann, botanist, dies at 92
1998 - Amos "Junior" Wells, blues musician, dies at 63
1998 - Gulzarilal Nanda, temporary PM of India (1964, 66), dies
1998 - Junior Wells, blues harpist, dies at 63
1999 - Betty Box, British film producer (b. 1915)
2000 - Georges-Henri Lévesque, Canadian Dominican priest and sociologist (b. 1903)
2000 - Fran Ryan, American actress (b. 1916)
2000 - Željko Ražnatović, aka Arkan, Serbian paramilitary leader (b. 1952)
2001 - Ted Mann, American screenwriter (b. 1916)
2002 - Steve Gromek, American baseball player (b. 1920)
2003 - Doris Fisher, American singer and songwriter (b. 1915)
2005 - Elizabeth Janeway, American author (b. 1913)
2005 - Ruth Warrick, American actress (b. 1915)
2005 - Walter Ernsting, German author (b. 1920)
2005 - Victoria de los Angeles, Catalan soprano (b. 1923)
2005 - Deem Bristow, American video game voice actor (b. 1947)
2005 - Dan Lee, Canadian animator (b. 1969)
2006 - Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1926)
2007 - Bo Yibo, Chinese politician (b. 1908)
2007 - James Hillier, Canadian inventor of electron microscope (b. 1915)
2007 - David Vanole, American soccer player (b. 1963)
2007 - Pura Santillan-Castrence, Filipino writer and diplomat (b. 1905)
2007 - Awad Hamed al-Bandar, former chief judge of the Iraqi Revolutionary Court (b. 1945)
           (executed)
2008 - Mark Haigh-Hutchinson, Game Designer (b. 1964)
2008 - Brad Renfro, American actor (b. 1982)
2011 - Nat Lofthouse, English Footballer (b. 1925)
2012 - Edward Derwinski, Chicago congressman 1959-83 and first Secretary of Veteran Affairs, dies
           of cancer at 85

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 16, 2013, 06:57:26 AM

This Day in History for 16th January


Historical Events

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Roman Emperor Augustus Caesar              Naturalist Charles Darwin               Russian Revolutionary Leon Trotsky

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First Secretary of the                              Playwright Tennessee Williams               Jaws Novelist Peter Benchley
Communist Party of the Soviet
Union Nikita Khrushchev

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King of Pop Michael Jackson                    Islamic Militant & Terrorist
                                                                 Osama bin Laden


27 BC - The title Augustus is bestowed upon Gaius Julius Caesar Octavian by the Roman Senate.
550 - Gothic War (535-552): The Ostrogoths, under King Totila, conquer Rome after a long siege,
          by bribing the Isaurian garrison.
1120 - The Council of Nablus is held, establishing the earliest surviving written laws of the Crusader
           Kingdom of Jerusalem.
1219 - Floods in Northern Netherlands after storm, 1,000s killed
1362 - A great storm tide in the North Sea destroys the German island of Strand and the city of
           Rungholt.
1412 - The Medici family is appointed official banker of the Papacy.
1492 - The first grammar of a modern language, in the Spanish language, is presented to Queen
           Isabella.
1493 - Columbus returns to Spain on his 1st trip
1531 - English Reformation parliament's 2nd sitting
1547 - Ivan IV the Terrible (17) crowns himself 1st tsar of Moscow
1556 - Emperor Karel appoints his son Philip II, king of Spain
1572 - Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk is tried for treason for his part in the Ridolfi plot to
            restore Catholicism in England.
1581 - English parliament passes laws against Catholicism
1605 - The first edition of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (Book One of Don Quixote)
           by Miguel de Cervantes is published in Madrid.
1756 - England & Prussia sign Treaty of Westminster
1759 - British Museum opens in London
1761 - The British capture Pondicherry, India from the French.
1765 - Charles Messier catalogs M41 (galactic cluster in Canis Major)
1776 - Continental Congress approves enlistment of free blacks
1777 - Vermont declares independence from NY
1780 - Battle at Cape St Vincent: admiral Rodney beats Spanish fleet
1795 - French army under Pichegru occupies Utrecht Neth
1809 - Peninsular War: The British defeat the French at the Battle of Corunna
1819 - Godert baron van der de Capellen becomes governor of Dutch-Indies
1832 - Charles Darwin lands at San Tiago, Cape Verde
1847 - John C. Fremont is appointed Governor of the new California Territory.
1863 - -Aug 23rd) Cruise of CSS Florida
1864 - Heavy fighting takes place near Dandridge, Tennessee
1865 - Drunken sailor attacks munitions at Ft Fisher NC, 40 die
1865 - Gen Wm Sherman issues Field Order #15 (land for blacks)
1865 - SF Dramatic Chronicle started
1868 - Refrigerator car patented by William Davis, a fish dealer in Detroit
1870 - Virginia becomes 8th state readmitted to US after Civil War
1871 - Jefferson Long of Georgia sworn in as 2nd black congressman
1877 - Color organ (for light shows) patented, by Bainbridge Bishop
1878 - Captain Burago with a squadron of Russian Imperial army dragoons liberates Plovdiv from
           Ottoman rule.
1879 - January record 13" of snow falls in NYC (broken Jan 7, 1996)
1883 - Pendleton Act creates basis of US Civil Service system
1883 - Quebec Rugby Football Union forms
1887 - Cliff House damaged when schooner "Parallel"'s powder cargo explodes
1889 - 128°F (53°C), Cloncurry, Queensland (Australian record)
1896 - Defeat of Cymru Fydd at South Wales Liberal Federation AGM, Newport, Monmouthshire.
1897 - John Dewey's essay "My Pedagogic Creed" appears in School Journal
1900 - The United States Senate accepts the Anglo-German treaty of 1899 in which the United
           Kingdom renounces its claims to the Samoan islands.
1905 - Baseball outfielder Frank Huelsman completes eighth transaction in 8 months
1905 - Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Dawson City (Yukon) in 2 games Ottawa Silver 7 beats
           Dawson City (Yukon) 23-2 for Stanley Cup, this is most lopsided playoff game, Frank McGee
           scores 14 goals
1906 - -13] Conference of Algeciras (about Morocco)
1906 - -Apr 13] Conference of Algeciras (about Morocco)
1908 - Pinnacles National Monument, California established
1909 - British explorer Ernest Shackleton finds magnetic south pole
1909 - David, Mawson & Mackay reach south magnetic pole
1911 - Pandora becomes 1st 2-man sailboat to round Cape Horn west to east
1913 - British House of Commons accepts Home-Rule for Ireland
1914 - Writer Maksim Gorki returns to Russia
1915 - Congress authorizes $1 & $50 Panama-Pacific Intl Expo gold coin
1919 - Prohibition ratified by 3/4 of states; Nebraska is 36th
1920 - 18th Amendment, prohibition, goes into effect; repealed in 1933
1920 - 1st assembly of League of Nations (Paris)
1920 - Georgia declares independence
1925 - Gen M Froense replaces Trotsky as People's Commissioner of Defense
1925 - Leon Trotsky dismissed as CEO of Russian Revolution Military Council
1931 - Bradman scores 223 Australia v WI, 297 mins, 26 fours
1933 - Bert Oldfield flattened by Larwood delivery in Adelaide Test
1936 - 1st photo finish camera installed at Hialeah Race track in Hialeah Fla
1936 - Screen Actors Guild incorporates with King Vidor as president
1936 - Spanish socialists/communists/anarchists form Unidad Popular
1938 - 1st jazz concert was held at Carnegie Hall (Benny Goodman)
1941 - US vice admiral Bellinger warns of an assault on Pearl Harbor
1941 - War Dept forms 1st Army Air Corps squadron for black cadets
1942 - William Knudsen becomes 1st civilian appointed a general in US army
1943 - -60°F (-51°C), Island Park Dam, Idaho (state record)
1943 - 1st US air raid on Ambon
1943 - German 2nd SS-Pantzer division evacuates Charkow
1943 - Red Army recaptures Pitomnik airport at Stalingrad
1944 - Gen Eisenhower took command of Allied Invasion Force in London
1945 - Scottish 52nd land division/1st Commando brigade-assault at Heinsberg
1945 - US 1st & 3rd army meet at Houffalise
1947 - Vincent Aurial elected president of France
1948 - 35 Haganah members are ambushed & killed in Gush Etzyon
1949 - "Rape of Lucretia" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 23 perfs
1949 - KNBH (now KNBC) TV channel 4 in Los Angeles, CA (NBC) 1st broadcast
1949 - WTOP (now WUSA) TV channel 9 in Washington, DC (CBS) 1st broadcast
1950 - Belgium, Luxembourg & Netherlands recognize Israel
1951 - Viet Minh offensive against Hanoi
1951 - World's largest gas pipeline opens (Brownsville Tx, to 134th St, NYC)
1952 - New Dutch bible translation finished
1952 - US Standard Board clears Stan Musial to get an $85,000 salary
1953 - 27th Australian Womens Tennis: Maureen Connolly beat J Sampson (63 62)
1953 - 41st Australian Mens Tennis: Ken Rosewall beats Mervyn Rose (60 63 64)
1953 - Egyptian Premier Gen Naguib disbands all political parties
1953 - KXLY TV channel 4 in Spokane, WA (ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 - "South Pacific" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 1928 performances
1955 - Jackie Pung wins LPGA Sea Island Golf Open
1955 - NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 26-19
1956 - Egyptian pres Nasser pledges to reconquer Palestine
1957 - 3 B-52s leave California for 1st non-stop round world flights
1957 - Cavern Club opens on Matthews Street in Liverpool, England, home of The Beatles' 1st
           appearance
1958 - William Gibson's "Two for the Seesaw," premieres in NYC
1961 - "Conquering Hero" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 8 performances
1961 - Russian espionage ring detected in Great Britain
1962 - Shooting begins on "Dr No"
1962 - Suit accuses NYC Board of Education uses "racial quotas"
1963 - Khrushchev claims to have a 100-megaton nuclear bomb
1963 - Tennessee Williams' "Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore," premieres
1964 - "Hello, Dolly!" opens at St James Theater NYC for 2,844 performances
1964 - AL owners vote 9-1 against Charlie Finley moving KC A's to Louisville
1965 - "Oh What a Lovely War" closes at Broadhurst NYC after 125 performances
1965 - "Outer Limits" last airs on ABC-TV
1965 - AFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 38-14
1965 - Searchers' "Love Potion #9" peaks at #3
1965 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1966 - Harold R Perry becomes 2nd black Roman Catholic bishop in US
1966 - Metropolitan Opera House opens in Lincoln Center
1967 - 1st black government installed in Bahamas
1967 - Lucius Amerson, becomes 1st southern (Ala) black sheriff in 20th cent
1968 - 21st NHL All-Star Game: Toronto beat All-Stars 4-3 at Toronto
1968 - Jay Allen's "Prime of Miss Jean Brodie," premieres in NYC
1968 - The Youth International Party is founded.
1969 - Soviet Soyuz 4 & Soyuz 5 perform 1st transfer of crew in space
1970 - Col Kadhaffi becomes premier of Libya
1970 - Curt Flood files a civil lawsuit challenging baseball's reserve clause
1970 - NFL realigns into 3 divisions (down from 4)
1970 - AAU player Steve Myers makes a basketball field goal of 92'3½" from out of bounds, Tacoma-
           it shouldn't have counted, but was allowed
1970 - Buckminster Fuller receives the Gold Medal award from the American Institute of Architects.
1971 - Ard Schenk skates world record 1500m (1:58.7)
1972 - Atje Keulen-Deelstra becomes European all-round lady skating champ
1972 - Super Bowl VI: Dallas Cowboys-24, Miami-3 in New Orleans Superbowl MVP: Roger Staubach,
           Dallas, QB
1973 - NBC presents 440th & final showing of "Bonanza"
1973 - USSR's Lunakhod 2 begins radio-controlled exploration of Moon
1974 - "Jaws" by Peter Benchley is published
1974 - L A Landslide kills 9, Canyonville, Oregon
1974 - NY Yankees Mickey Mantle & Whitey Ford elected to Hall of Fame
1976 - "Donny & Marie" [Osmond] musical variety show premieres on ABC TV
1976 - Peter Frampton released platinum live album "Frampton Comes Alive"
1977 - Cap's H Monahan scored on 2nd penalty shot against Islanders
1978 - 5th American Music Award: Stevie Wonder, Fleetwood Mac & C Twitty
1978 - Soyuz 27 returns to Earth
1979 - Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi of Iran flees Iran for Egypt
1980 - Paul McCartney jailed in Tokyo for 10 days on marijuana possession
1981 - Boxer Leon Spinks is mugged, his assailants even took his gold teeth
1981 - John Lennon releases "Woman" in UK
1981 - Protestant gunmen shoot & wound Bernadette Devlin McAliskey & husband
1981 - Ivan Lendl intentionally loses a match in Volvo Masters in order to avoid having to play Bjorn
           Borg
1984 - 11th American Music Award: Michael Jackson
1984 - Paul & Linda McCartney arrested in Barbados-possession of cannabis
1985 - "Playboy" announces end of stapling centerfolds
1986 - Police arrested 3 IRA-terrorists in Amsterdam
1986 - First meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force.
1988 - 4th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Days of Our Live wins
1988 - Jimmy "the Greek" Snyder fired from CBS for racial remarks
1988 - NFL St Louis Cardinals announce move to Phoenix
1989 - Police arrest writer Vaclav Havel in Prague
1989 - USSR announces plan for 2-yr manned mission to Mars
1990 - 2 Bank of Credit & Commerce members plea guilty to money laundering
1991 - 7th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Days of Our Live wins
1991 - US & 27 allies attack Iraq for occupying Kuwait (US time)
1992 - "2 Shakespearean Actors" opens at Cort Theater NYC for 29 performances
1994 - Scott skates world record 1000m (1:12.54)
1995 - UPN (Universal-Parmount Network) begins telecasting (WWOR in NYC)
1997 - Anthony Stuart takes ODI hat-trick, Aus v Pakistan, MCG
2001 - Congolese President Laurent-Désiré Kabila is assassinated by one of his own bodyguards.
2001 - US President Bill Clinton awards former President Theodore Roosevelt a posthumous Medal of
           Honor for his service in the Spanish-American War.
2002 - The UN Security Council unanimously establishes an arms embargo and the freezing of assets
           of Osama bin Laden, Al-Qaida, and the remaining members of the Taliban.
2003 - The Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107 which would be its final one.
            Columbia disintegrated 16 days later on re-entry.
2006 - Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is sworn in as Liberia's new president. She becomes Africa's first female
           elected head of state.

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 16, 2013, 06:58:39 AM

This Day in History for 16th January


Famous Weddings

1325 - Laure de Noves, beloved of Petrarch, marries Hugues de Sade
1865 - Confederate soldier during US Civil War Brigadier General John Pegram marries Hetty Cary
1999 - "General Hospital" actor Steve Burton (29) weds model Sheree Gustin (22) at a cliffside
           church in Dana Point, California

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 16, 2013, 07:06:26 AM

This Day in History for 16th January


Famous Birthdays

(http://i.historyorb.com/andre-michelin.jpg)                  (http://i.historyorb.com/susan-sontag.jpg)                  (http://i.historyorb.com/john-carpenter.jpg)           
Industrialist Andre Michelin (1853)         Author Susan Sontag (1933)                      Horror film director
                                                                                                                              John Carpenter (1948)

1245 - Edmund Crouchback, son of Henry III of England (d. 1296)
1409 - René I of Naples (d. 1480)
1477 - Johannes Schöner, German astronomer and cartographer (d. 1547)
1501 - Anthony Denny, confidant of King Henry VIII of England (d. 1559)
1587 - Alexander Adriaenssen, Flemish painter
1616 - François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort, French soldier (d. 1669)
1626 - Lucas Achtschellinck, Flemish painter (d. 1699)
1634 - Dorthe Engelbrechtsdatter, Norwegian poet (d. 1716)
1672 - Francesco Mancini, composer
1675 - Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French writer (d. 1755)
1697 - Richard Savage, English poet
1728 - Niccolo Piccinni, Italian composer (Buona Figliuola)
1749 - Vittoria A Alfieri, Italian count/poet (Maria Stuarda)
1757 - Samuel McIntire, woodcarver/architect (architect of Salem)
1804 - Karl August Krebs, composer
1807 - Charles Henry Davis, Rear Admiral (Union Navy), died in 1877
1815 - Adolph Trube, composer
1815 - Henry Wagner "Old Brains" Halleck, Maj-General (Union Army)
1834 - Albert Lindley Lee, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1907
1836 - King Francis II of the Two Sicilies (d. 1894)
1837 - James Phillip Simms, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1887
1838 - Franz Brentano, German philosopher and psychologist (d. 1917)
1844 - Ismail Qemali, Albanian nationalist (d. 1919)
1853 - Andre Michelin, France, industrialist/tire manufacturer (Michelin)
1853 - Johnston Forbes-Robertson, English actor/theater director (Kathleen)
1853 - Gen Sir Ian Hamilton, British military commander (d. 1947)
1853 - Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov, Russian philosopher (d. 1900)
1864 - Frank Bacon, actor/author (Lightnin)
1868 - Cyril Metodej Hrazdira, composer
1870 - Wilhelm Normann, German chemist (hardening of oils)
1872 - Edward G Craig, actor/director (On the art of theatre)
1872 - Henri-Paul Busser, composer
1873 - Boyd Alexander, English explorer
1874 - Robert Service, England, Canadian poet (Cremation of Sam McGee)
1875 - Leonor Michaelis, German enzyme kinetic theorist (d. 1947)
1878 - Harry Carey [Henry DeWitt Carey II], Bronx New York, American actor (Aces Wild, Border Cafe, Air Force)
1878 - Robert Garbe, German poet (Gorniek)
1885 - Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz, president of Poland (1939-40)
1885 - Zhou Zuoren, Chinese writer (d. 1967)
1887 - John Hamilton, Penn, actor (Perry White-Superman)
1888 - Osip Brik, Russian writer (d. 1945)
1890 - Karl Freund, Czech/Austrian cameraman/director
1890 - Lloyd Bacon, San Jose CA, actor (Charlie Chaplin)
1893 - Daisy Kennedy, Australian violinist (d. 1981)
1894 - Guy Chamberlin, early NFL end/coach (Canton, Frankford, Cards)
1894 - Irving Mills, American jazz music publisher (d. 1985)
1895 - Nat Schachner, American author (d. 1955)
1896 - Ruth Rose, American screenwriter (d. 1978)
1897 - Carlos Pellicer, Mexican poet (d. 1977)
1898 - Margaret Booth, American film editor (d. 2002)
1898 - Irving Rapper, UK-US film director (d. 1999)
1901 - Fulgencio Batista, president/dictator of Cuba (1933-44, 1952-59)
1901 - Frank Zamboni, American inventor (d. 1988)
1902 - Eric Liddell, China, English 400m runner (Olympic-gold-1924)
1902 - Evelyn Levine, composer
1904 - Max Vredenburg, composer
1905 - Ernesto Halffter, composer
1906 - Clement Greenberg, art critic
1906 - Diana Winyard, London, actress (Cavalcade)
1907 - Alexander Knox, Canada, actor (Gorky Park, 2 of a Kind)
1907 - Phillip Humphrey Vellacott, classicist
1907 - Paul Nitze, American government official (d. 2004)
1908 - Ethel Merman, stage & screen actress (Anything Goes, Call Me Madam)
1908 - Günther Prien, German World War II submarine captain (d. 1941)
1910 - David McCampbell, US pilot/capt (WW II-Pacific-downed 34 Jap planes)
1911 - Gilbert Gadoffre, French scholar
1911 - Jay Hanna "Dizzy" Dean, HOF baseball pitcher (St Louis Cardinals)
1911 - Roger Lapébie, French cyclist (d. 1996)
1912 - Franz Tumler, Austria, author/novelist (Cloak, Aufruf)
1914 - Roger Aubert, Belgium, church historian (Le Pontificat de Pie IX)
1914 - Roger Wagner, American choral musician (d. 1992)
1916 - Frederick Stewart, British geologist
1917 - Buddy Lester, Chicago Ill, actor (Nick-Phil Silvers Show)
1917 - Carl Karcher, founded the Carl's Jr. hamburger chain (d. 2008)
1918 - Stirling Silliphant, screenwriter
1918 - Nel Benschop, Dutch poet (d. 2005)
1918 - Clem Jones, Lord Mayor of Brisbane, Australia (d. 2007)
1919 - Bob Boucher, Kent Ohio, orchestra leader (Music on Ice)
1920 - Elliot Reid, NYC, actor (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes)
1921 - Francesco Scavullo, American photographer (d. 2004)
1922 - Ernesto Bonino, Italian singer (d. 2008)
1923 - Martin Stokken, Norway, nordic relay (Olympic-silver-1952)
1923 - Roy Lanham, rocker (Sons of the Pioneers)
1923 - Willem Aantjes, Dutch politicial leader (CDA)
1923 - Gene Feist, American stage actor and producer
1923 - Anthony Hecht, American poet (d. 2004)
1924 - Katy Jurado, Mexico, actress (High Noon, Trapeze, Barabbas, AKA Pablo)
1926 - John "Jack" Layden, local politician
1928 - Ezra Sims, composer
1928 - John William Fozard, aircraft designer
1928 - William Kennedy, US writer
1928 - Pilar Lorengar, Spanish soprano (d. 1996)
1929 - Allard Lowenstein, radical (Students for Democratic Action)
1929 - Francesco Scavullo, Staten Island NY, celebrity photographer
1929 - Tage Nielsen, composer
1930 - Norman Podhoretz, Brooklyn NY, author/editor (NY Post)
1930 - Clarence Ray Allen, American murderer (d. 2006)
1931 - Vladimir Skutina, writer playwright/journalist
1931 - Johannes Rau, German politician (d. 2006)
1932 - Dian Fossey, zoologist (Gorillas in the Mist)
1932 - Jim Berry, cartoonist (Berry's World)
1933 - Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 12, 18A, 27, T-3)
1933 - Susan Sontag, NYC, author/film director (Benefactor, 1966 Pol Award)
1934 - Bill Alexander, (Rep-D-AR, 1969- )
1934 - Marilyn Horne, Bradford, Pa, mezzo-soprano
1934 - Richard Wernick, Boston Mass, composer
1935 - A J Foyt, Houston, auto race driver (Indy 500 1961, 64, 67, 77)
1936 - Michael White, theater/film producer (From Russia With Love)
1937 - Bob Bogle, Portland, rock bassist/guitarist (Ventures-Batman Theme)
1937 - Conny Vandenbos, Dutch singer (My rose, my little rose)
1937 - Lorraine Bayly, Australian actress
1937 - Luiz Bueno, Brazilian racing driver
1938 - Michael Pataki, Youngstown Ohio, actor (Get Christie Love)
1938 - Jô Soares, Brazilian author, musician and TV personality
1939 - Cliff Thorburn, English snookers player
1941 - Christine Janes, tennis player
1941 - Richard Bohringer, Paris France, actor (Diva, I Married a Shadow)
1942 - Barbara Lynn, rocker
1942 - Bill Francis Mobile Al, rocker (Dr Hook)
1942 - Tony P Hall, (Rep-D-OH, 1979- )
1942 - William Francis, rocker
1942 - René Angélil, Canadian music executive
1943 - Brian Ferneyhough, composer
1943 - Gavin Bryars, composer
1944 - Chris de Marigny, painter/designer
1944 - Jim Stafford, Eloise Fla, singer (Spiders & Snakes, My Girl Bill)
1944 - Ronnie Milsap, Robbinsville NC, country singer (Legend in My Time)
1945 - Kabir Bedi, actor (Thief of Baghdad, Terminal Entry)
1946 - Michael L Coats, Sacramento Ca, Capt USN/astr (STS 41-D, 29, 39)
1947 - Georgette Mosbacher, CEO (La Prairie cosmetics)
1947 - Juliet Berto, Grenoble France, actress (Le Sex Shop)
1947 - Magdalen Nabb, British author (d. 2007)
1947 - Harvey Proctor, British politician
1948 - Anatoli Yakovlevich Solovyov, Riga, cosmonaut (TM-5,9,15,26, STS 71)
1948 - Christopher Moran, English financier/multi-millionaire
1948 - Cliff Thorburn, Victoria, BC, champion snooker player
1948 - John Carpenter, Carthage NY, director (Halloween, The Thing)
1948 - Dalvanius Prime, New Zealand entertainer (d. 2002)
1948 - Ruth Reichl, American magazine editor
1950 - Caroline Munro, Windsor England, actress (Spy Who Loves Me) [or 12/16]
1950 - Debbie Allen, Houston Tx, dancer/actress (3 Girls 3, Lydia-Fame)
1950 - Jesse Dizon, Oceanside CA
1950 - Brian Castro, Australian author
1950 - Damo Suzuki, Japanese singer (Can)
1951 - Richard Thompson, rocker (BT Express-Here Comes the Express)
1952 - Lloyd Blaine Hammond Jr, Savannah Ga, Major USAF/astr (STS 39, 64)
1952 - Roberta Baskin, NY, correspondent (48 Hours)
1952 - King Fuad II of Egypt
1953 - Robert Jay Mathews, American neo-Nazi (d. 1984)
1955 - Jerry M Linenger, Mt Clemens Mich, PhD/Cmdr USN/astronaut (STS 81/84)
1956 - Wayne Daniel, cricketer (WI fast bowler 1976-84)
1956 - Jennifer Dale, Canadian actress
1956 - Martin Jol, Dutch football manager
1956 - Ivan Safronov, Russian journalist (d. 2007)
1958 - Anatoli Boukreev, mountaineer
1958 - Lena Ek, Swedish politician
1959 - Juanita Bynum, American televangelist
1959 - Sade, Nigerian-born singer
1961 - Paul Raven, English musician (Killing Joke) (d. 2007)
1961 - Jill Sobule, American singer-songwriter
1962 - Jan Koster, Dutch drummer (Sleeze Beez-Powertool)
1962 - Kevin Ross, NFL safety (Atlanta Falcons, KC Chiefs)
1962 - Paul Webb, rocker (TalkTalk)
1962 - Joel Fitzgibbon, Australian Labor Party politician
1963 - James May, English television presenter
1964 - Gail Graham, Vanderhoof BC, LPGA golfer (1995 Fieldcrest Cannon)
1964 - Mark Collins, NFL cornerback/safety (NY Giants, KC Chiefs, GB Packers)
1964 - Trevor Barsby, cricketer (Queensland opening batsman since 1984-85)
1965 - Maxine Jones, American singer (En Vogue)
1966 - Anthony Washington, Glasgow Montana, discus thrower (Olympics-4th-96)
1966 - Jack McDowell, Van Nuys CA, pitcher (NY Yankees, White Sox, Indians)
1967 - Jeff Branson, Waynesboro Miss, infielder (Cin Reds)
1967 - Maxine Waters Jones, rocker (En Vogue)
1968 - David Chokachi, actor (Baywatch)
1969 - Chelan Kozak, Revelstoke BC, equestrian (Olympics-96)
1969 - Roy Jones, Pensacola Fla, Light-MW boxer (Olympic-silver-1988)
1970 - Don MacLean, NBA forward (NJ Nets, Denver Nuggets)
1970 - Ron Villone, Englewood NJ, pitcher (San Diego Padres)
1970 - Garth Ennis, Irish comic book author
1971 - Josh Evans, actor (Ricochett, The Doors)
1971 - Jukka-Pekka Nummi, WLAF cornerback (Scottish Claymores)
1971 - Junior Bryant, NFL defensive end (SF 49ers)
1971 - Michel Kreek, Dutch soccer player (Ajax)
1971 - Scott Williams, Orange California, field hockey defender (Olympics-96)
1971 - Sergei Bruguera, Spain, tennis star
1971 - Ulrich van Gobbel, Suriname/Dutch soccer player (Feyenoord)
1972 - Desiree Leipham, Spokane Wash, WPVA volleyballer (Nationals-17th-1995)
1972 - Joe Horn, wide receiver (KC Chiefs)
1972 - Lee McIntyre, Peak Hill Aust, golfer (T3 1995 NSW Trainee Champ)
1972 - Dameon Clarke, Canadian actor
1972 - Salah Hissou, Moroccan long-distance runner
1972 - Joe Horn, American football player
1972 - Richard T. Jones, American actor
1972 - Greg Page, Australian musician and actor
1973 - Josie Davis, LA California, actress (Sarah-Charles in Charge) [or Jun 19]
1973 - Mario Bates, NFL-running back (New Orleans Saints)
1973 - Willie Whitehead, CFL defensive end (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1974 - Kate Moss, Addiscomb Surrey England, model (Calvin Klein)
1975 - Greg Strause, American visual effects creator
1975 - Gillian Iliana Waters, American actress
1976 - Trisha Stillwell, Miss USA-Oklahoma (1997, top 10)
1976 - Viktor Maslov, Russian racing driver
1977 - Jeff Foster, American basketball player
1978 - Alfredo Amézaga, Mexican baseball player
1979 - Aaliyah, American singer (d. 2001)
1979 - Brenden Morrow, Canadian ice hockey player
1979 - Jason Ward, Canadian ice hockey player
1980 - Seydou Keita, Malian footballer
1980 - Lin Manuel Miranda, American actor, composer, lyricist (In The Heights)
1980 - Albert Pujols, Dominican-born baseball player
1980 - Michelle Wild, Hungarian model
1981 - Nick Valensi, American guitarist (The Strokes)
1981 - Bobby Zamora, English footballer
1982 - Tuncay Şanlı, Turkish footballer
1982 - Samuel Preston, British singer (The Ordinary Boys)
1983 - Emanuel Pogatetz, Austrian footballer
1984 - Jared Slingerland, Canadian musician
1985 - Jonathan Richter, Danish professional football midfielder
1986 - Mason Gamble, actor (Dennis the Menace)
1987 - Lauren McAvoy, British fashion model
1988 - Nicklas Bendtner, Danish footballer

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 16, 2013, 07:08:14 AM

This Day in History for 16th January


Famous Deaths

308 - Marcellus I, Catholic Pope (-308), dies
429 - Honoratius of Arles, bishop/saint, dies [or 430]
960 - Polyeuctus, Patriarch of Constantinople
1343 - Robert of Anjou, king (Naples), dies
1400 - John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter, English politician (executed) (b. 1352)
1545 - George Spalatin, German reformer (b. 1484)
1547 - Johannes Schöner, German astronomer and cartographer (b. 1477)
1554 - Christiern Pedersen, Danish humanist (b. 1480)
1585 - Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln, English admiral (b. 1512)
1595 - Murad III, sultan of Turkey (1574-95), dies
1659 - Charles Annibal Fabrot, French lawyer (b. 1580)
1703 - Matteo Coferati, composer, dies at 64
1710 - Emperor Higashiyama of Japan (b. 1675)
1711 - Joseph Vaz, Apostle of Ceylon (b. 1651)
1747 - Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet (b. 1680)
1748 - Arnold Drakenborch, Dutch classical scholar (b. 1684)
1750 - Ivan Trubetskoy, Russian field marshall (b. 1667)
1752 - Francis Blomefield, English topographer (b. 1705)
1794 - Edward Gibbon, historian (Decline & Fall), dies in London at 56
1809 - Sir John Moore, British General, at the Battle of Corunna (b. 1761)
1817 - Antonin Josef Alois Volanek, composer, dies at 55
1817 - Alexander J. Dallas, American statesman (b. 1759)
1834 - Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette, French mathematician (b. 1769)
1838 - Aleksandr I Polezjajev, Russian poet (Sasjka), dies at 33 [OS]
1842 - Thomas Freanby, Norwegian landscape painter, dies
1849 - Wilhelm M L de Wette, German theologist, dies at 69
1856 - Thaddeus William Harris, American naturalist (b. 1795)
1864 - Anton Schindler, German violinist/biographer (Beethoven), dies at 68
1865 - Edmond François Valentin About, French writer (b. 1828)
1879 - Octave Crémazie, French Canadian poet (b. 1827)
1886 - Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer (La Gioconda), dies at 51
1891 - Clement Philibert Leo Delibes, composer (Lakmé), dies at 54
1892 - Imakita Kosen, Zen teacher/abbot of Engagkuji monastery, dies
1893 - Johan Philip Koelman, painter/sculptor/architect, dies at 74
1898 - Charles Pelham Villiers, longest-serving MP in the British House of Commons (b. 1802)
1901 - Hiram Revels, dies at 73
1901 - Jules Barbier, French opera librettist (b. 1825)
1901 - Arnold Böcklin, Swiss painter (b. 1827)
1906 - Marshall Field, founder of Marshall Field and Company (b. 1834)
1907 - Alfred Shaw, cricketer (seven Tests for England 1877-82), dies
1912 - Georg Heym, writer, dies at 24
1916 - Arnold Aletrino, Dut physician-criminologist (From Death), dies at 57
1917 - George Dewey, U.S. admiral (b. 1837)
1919 - Jaroslav Jeremias, composer, dies at 19
1919 - Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves, President of Brazil (b. 1848)
1920 - Reginald De Koven, composer, dies at 60
1924 - Winifred Cochrane, Countess of Dundonald, philanthropist (b. 1859)
1934 - Annie Patterson, composer, dies at 65
1935 - Richard Wetz, composer, dies at 59
1935 - Ma Barker, American criminal (b. 1871)
1936 - Albert Fish, American serial killer (b. 1870)
1939 - Albert Fish, mass murderer, executed
1942 - Barbara Lynn, [Ozen], US singer (You'll Lose a Good Thing), dies
1942 - Carole Lombard, actress, (Bolero), & mom killed in plane crash at 32
1943 - Franz Courtens, Flemish painter (Sunny Lane), dies at 88
1945 - Dennis Donnini, Brit rifleman (Victoria Cross), dies in battle at 19
1946 - Johanna HC Albregt, actress/wife of Henri Dons (Paradise), dies at 71
1954 - Michail M Prishvin, Russian writer, dies
1955 - Jonkheer Reneke de Marees van Swinderen, Dutch min (1908-13), dies
1955 - Reneke de Marees van Swinderen, Dutch minister (1908-13), dies at 94
1957 - Alexander Cambridge, gov-gen (S Afr 1923-31/Canada 1940-5), dies at 82
1957 - Arturo Toscanini, Italian US conductor (NBC), dies in NYC at 89
1961 - Janos Viski, composer, dies at 54
1962 - Emanuel Stickelberger, Swiss writer (Holbein in England), dies at 77
1962 - Ivan Meštrović, Croatian sculptor (b. 1883)
1962 - Frank Hurley, Australian photographer (b. 1885)
1963 - Gilardo Gilardi, composer, dies at 73
1963 - Ike Quebec, American tenor-saxophone player (b. 1918)
1966 - Margarete Susman, writer, dies at 91
1967 - Dirk Vansina, Flemish playwright (Sage of Kai-Roi), dies at 72
1967 - Robert J Van De Graaff, US nuclear physicist, dies at 65
1968 - Robert R "Bob" Jones, founder (Bob Jones University), dies at 84
1969 - Jan Palach, protesting Soviet invasion of Czech, self immolates at 20
1969 - Vernon Duke, composer, dies at 65
1970 - Armijn Pane, Indonesian writer (Djinak-djinak merpati), dies at 61
1971 - Kermit Maynard, cowboy actor (Saturday Roundup), dies at 68
1971 - Philippe Thys, Belgian cyclist (b. 1890)
1972 - David Seville, singer (Alvin & Chipmunks), dies at 52
1972 - Teller Ammons, American politician (b. 1895)
1973 - Ray Barrett, sportscaster (Gillette Summer Sports Reel), dies at 65
1979 - Fred Elizalde, composer, dies at 71
1979 - Ted Cassidy, actor (Lurch-Addams Family), dies at 46
1979 - August Heissmeyer, German SS officer (b. 1897)
1980 - Anna van Wageningen-Salomons, Dut author (Unspoilt Dream), dies at 94
1981 - Bernard Lee, English actor (Fallen Idol, Dr No), dies at 73
1982 - Red Smith, American sports columnist (b. 1905)
1985 - Robert Fitzgerald, U.S. poet and translator (b. 1910)
1986 - Herbert W. Armstrong, American evangelist, author, and publisher (b. 1892)
1987 - Earl Wilson, Bdwy columnist (Midnight Earl), dies in Yonkers at 79
1987 - Ilse Langen, writer, dies at 87
1987 - Joyce Jameson, comedienne (Spike Jones Show), dies at 54
1987 - Bertram Wainer, Australian pro-abortion campaigner (b. 1928)
1988 - Andrija Artuković, Croatian war criminal (b. 1899)
1989 - Pierre Boileau, screenwriter (Vertigo), dies at 82
1989 - Romo Vincent, actor (Naked Jungle), dies
1989 - Trey Wilson, actor (Bull Durham, Twins, Raising Arizona), dies
1992 - Roselle Novelle, silent film actress, dies at 95
1993 - Florence Desmond, [Dawson], actress (Sally in Our Alley), dies at 87
1993 - Glenn Corbett, US actor (Shenandoah, Chisum, Midway), dies at 63
1993 - Sathasivam Krishnakumar, Sri Lanka commander, commits suicide
1993 - Jón Páll Sigmarsson, Icelandic strength athlete (b. 1960)
1994 - Harry Nilsson, singer/Songwriter, dies at 52
1994 - Martin Kosleck, German/US actor (Hitler Gang), dies at 86
1994 - Stephen Kritsick, veterinarian (Good Morning America), dies at 42
1995 - William Dillard, trumpeter/singer, dies at 83
1996 - Harry Potts, footballer/manager, dies at 75
1996 - Kaye Webb, publisher, dies at 81
1996 - Marcia Davenport, American author and music critic (b. 1903)
1997 - Charlie Alfred Galbraith, jazz trombonist, dies at 76
1997 - Innis Cosby, son of Bill Cosby, murdered on LA highway at 29
1997 - Jim Kensil, NFL president (NY Jets), dies of heart failure at 66
1997 - Stephen Fitz-Simon, entrepreneur, dies at 59
1998 - David "Junior" Kimbrough, blues musician, dies at 67
1998 - Peter Diamand, artistic administrator, dies at 84
1998 - Dimitris Horn, Greek actor (b. 1921)
1999 - Jim McClelland, Australian solicitor, politician, Minister, Royal Commissioner, judge (b. 1915)
2000 - Will "Dub" Jones, American singer (The Coasters) (b. 1928)
2000 - John Morris Rankin, musical entertainer (b. 1959)
2001 - Laurent-Désiré Kabila, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1939)
2001 - Auberon Waugh, British author and journalist (b. 1939)
2002 - Robert Hanbury Brown, British-Australian astronomer and physicist (b. 1916)
2002 - Michael Bilandic, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1923)
2002 - Bobo Olson, American boxer (b. 1928)
2002 - Eddie Meduza, Swedish composer (b. 1948)
2002 - Ron Taylor, American actor (b. 1952)
2003 - Richard Wainwright, English politician (b. 1918)
2004 - Kalevi Sorsa, Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1930)
2005 - Marjorie Williams, American journalist (b. 1958)
2006 - Stanley Biber, American physician, pioneer of transgender surgery, (b. 1923)
2007 - Ron Carey, American actor (b. 1935)
2007 - Benny Parsons, American racecar driver and commentator (b. 1941)
2009 - Joe Erskine, American boxer and long distance runner (b. 1930)
2009 - John Mortimer, British barrister, screenwriter and author. (b. 1923)
2009 - Andrew Wyeth, American realist painter (b. 1917)
2012 - Jimmy Castor, American pop and funk musician, died of heart failure at 71.
2012 - Gustav Leonhardt, Master Dutch harpsichordist, organist and conductor,dies at 87

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 17, 2013, 07:48:05 AM

This Day in History for 17th January


Historical Events

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Captain/Explorer James Cook              Confederate General James Longstreet               Author and Nobel
                                                                                                                              Laureate Gerhart Hauptmann

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Musician Barry Manilow                           Country Singer Kenny Rogers              Basketball Player Dennis Rodman


1287 - King Alfonso III of Aragon invades Minorca.
1377 - Pope Gregory XI moves the Papacy back to Rome from Avignon.
1501 - Cesare Borgia returns in triumph to Rome from Romagna
1524 - Beginning of Giovanni da Verrazzano's voyage to find a passage to China.
1536 - Francois Rabelais absolved of apostasy by Pope Paul III
1562 - Edict of St Germain recognizes Huguenots in France
1584 - Bohemia adopts Gregorian calendar
1595 - French King Henri IV declares war on Spain
1601 - France gains Bresse, Bugey, Valromey & Gex in treaty with Spain
1605 - First publication of Don Quixote.
1656 - Brandenburg & Sweden sign Treaty of Königsberg
1718 - Avalanche destroys every building in Leukerbad, Switz; kills 53
1746 - Battle of Falkirk Muir, the Jacobites under Charles Stuart defeat Hanoverian forces.
1757 - German Diet declares war on Prussia
1773 - Capt James Cook becomes 1st to cross Antarctic Circle (66° 33' S)
1775 - 9 old women burnt as witches for causing bad harvests, Kalisk, Pol
1775 - R B Sheridan's "Rivals," premieres in London
1779 - Capt Cooks last notation in ship's log Discovery
1799 - Maltese patriot Dun Mikiel Xerri, along with a number of other patriots, was executed.
1821 - Mexico permits Moses Austin & 300 US families to settle in Texas
1827 - Duke of Wellington appointed British supreme commander
1832 - Johannes van den Bosch appointed gov-gen of Dutch-Indies
1852 - British recognize independence of Transvaal (in South Africa)
1861 - Flush toilet patented by Mr Thomas Crapper (Honest!)
1862 - -Jan 22nd) BBT Ft Henry, TN by USS Lexington
1863 - Civil War skirmish near Newtown, Virginia
1864 - General Longstreet's command ends heavy fighting at Dandridgem TN
1871 - 1st cable car patented, by Andrew S Hallidie (begins service in 1873)
1873 - A group of Modoc warriors defeat the United States Army in the First Battle of the
           Stronghold, a part of the Modoc War.
1874 - Armed Democrats seize Texas government ending Radical Reconstruction
1882 - 1st Dutch female physician Aletta Jacobs opens office
1885 - Brits beat Mahdists at Battle of Abu Klea in Sudan
1893 - -17°F (-27°C), Millsboro, Delaware (state record)
1893 - Queen Liliuokalani deposed, Kingdom of Hawaii becomes a republic
1895 - French president Casimir-Perier resigns
1895 - Félix Faure installed as president of France
1899 - US takes possession of Wake Island in Pacific
1904 - Anton Chekhov's "Cherry Orchard" opens at Moscow Art Theater
1905 - Punchboards patented by Charles Brewer & C G Scannell, Chicago
1911 - Failed assassination attempt on premier Briand in French Assembly
1911 - Percy Mackaye's "Scarecrow," premieres in NYC
1912 - Robert Scott expedition arrives at South Pole, 1 month after Amundsen
1913 - Raymond Poincaré elected president of France
1914 - Gerhart Hauptmann's "Der Bogen des Odysseus," premieres in Berlin
1915 - Antoni van Leeuwenhoek's Hospital in Amsterdam opens
1915 - Russia occupies Bukovina & Western Ukraine
1916 - 1st PGA Championship: Jim Barnes at Siwanoy CC Bronxville NY
1916 - Professional Golfer Association (PGA) forms in NYC
1917 - US pays Denmark $25 million for Virgin Islands (or 3/21)
1920 - Paul Deschanel elected president of France
1923 - Belgian Working people Party protest against occupied Ruhrgebied
1923 - Origin of Brown lunation numbers
1928 - 1st fully automatic photographic film developing machine patented
1929 - Popeye makes 1st appearance, in comic strip "Thimble Theater"
1933 - Bradman takes second Test wicket, Hammond, bowled
1934 - Carl Hubbell, NL MVP winner, gets $18,000 contract by the NY Giants
1934 - Electric Home & Farm Authority incorporated
1934 - NY Giants reward MVP pitcher Carl Hubbell with $18,000 contract
1938 - Supreme Soviet elects Michail Kalinin as presidium chairman
1939 - Ed Barrow is elected Yankee president succeeding deceased J Ruppert
1941 - Kuomintang forces under orders from Chiang Kai-Shek open fire at communist forces, resuming the Chinese Civil War after World War II.
1943 - Tin Can Drive Day
1944 - Korvet Violet sinks U-641 in Atlantic Ocean
1945 - Auschwitz concentration camp begins evacuation
1945 - Gilbert Dodds, record miler (4:05.3), retires to do gospel work
1945 - Liberation of Warsaw by Soviet troops (end of Nazi occupation)
1945 - Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, credited with saving tens of thousands of Jews from the Nazis, arrested by secret police in Hungary
1946 - United Nations Security Council holds its 1st meeting
1947 - Muiden Neth ammunition factory explodes, 16 die
1948 - Netherlands & Indonesia agree to a cease fire
1948 - Trial of 11 US Communist party members begins in NYC
1949 - The Goldbergs, the first sitcom on American television, first airs.
1950 - "Alive & Kicking" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 46 perfs
1950 - The Great Brinks Robbery - 11 men rob $1.2M cash & $1.5M securities from armored car company Brink's offices in Boston, Massachusetts
1951 - China refuses ceases-fire in Korea
1954 - Jacques Cousteau's 1st network telecast airs on "Omnibus" (CBS)
1954 - NFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 20-9
1954 - Suggs Louise wins LPGA Sea Island Golf Open (Cloister)
1955 - Submarine Nautilus begins 1st nuclear-powered test voyage
1957 - 9-county commission recommends creation of BART
1959 - "Say, Darling" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 332 performances
1960 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Sea Island Women's Golf Invitational
1960 - NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 38-21
1961 - Eisenhower allegedly orders assassination of Congo's Lumumba
1961 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a televised farewell address to the nation three days before leaving office, in which he warns against the accumulation of power by the "military-industrial complex".
1962 - A NASA civilian pilot Neil A Armstrong takes X-15 to 40,690 m
1962 - Roy Harris' 8th Symphony, premieres in SF
1963 - Joe Walker takes X-15 to altitude of 82 km
1963 - Wilt Chamberlain of NBA SF Warriors scores 67 points vs LA
1966 - B-52/KC-135 tankers crash near Spanish coast at Palomares, 7 die
1966 - Martin Luther King Jr opens campaign in Chicago
1968 - Soyuz 4 & 5 completed 1st docking of 2 manned spacecraft
1969 - Beatles release Yellow Submarine album in UK
1969 - Debut album of Led Zeppelin released in US
1969 - Soyuz 5 lands
1970 - 357 baseball players are available in the free-agent draft
1970 - AFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 26-3
1970 - John M Burgess installed as bishop of Protestant Episcopals (Mass)
1970 - Sporting News names Willie Mays as Player of the Decade for the 1960s
1971 - Super Bowl V: Balt Colts-16, Dallas Cowboys-13 in Miami Superbowl MVP: Chuck Howley,
           Dallas, LB
1972 - Section of Memphis' Highway 51 South renamed Elvis Presley Blvd
1973 - City of Amsterdam decides to support Hanoi
1973 - New Philippine constitution names Marcos president for life
1974 - Styne, Comdem & Green's musical "Lorelei," premieres in NYC
1976 - "I Write the Songs" by Barry Manilow hits #1
1976 - Hermes rocket launched by European Space Agency
1977 - KC releases Tommy Davis, ends an 18-year career with 10 teams
1977 - NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 24-14
1977 - Zaire president Mobutu visits Belgium
1979 - NY Islanders didn't get a shot off in 1 period against NY Rangers
1979 - Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi flees Iran
1979 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1980 - NASA launches Fltsatcom-3
1981 - Philippino president Marcos ends state of siege
1982 - "Cold Sunday" in the United States would see temperatures fall to their lowest levels in over 100 years in numerous cities.
1983 - 10th American Music Award: Kenny Rogers
1983 - Alabama Gov George C Wallace, becomes governor for record 4th time
1983 - Nigeria expels 2 million illegal aliens, mostly Ghanaians
1984 - Supreme Court rules (5-4) oks private use of home VCRs to tape TV programs for later
           viewing does not violate federal copyright laws
1985 - Azharuddin scores second Test century in second Test (v England)
1986 - Tim Witherspoon beats Tony Tubbs in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1987 - Pres Reagan signs secret order permitting covert sale of arms to Iran
1988 - "Teddy & Alice" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 77 performances
1988 - Leslie Manigay elected president of Haiti
1989 - Al Arbour wins his 600th NHL game as coach
1989 - Gunman opens fire in California schoolyard; 5 students slain, 30 wounded
1989 - Murden & Metz are 1st women to reach South Pole overland (on skis)
1989 - Phoenix Suns cancel game at Miami Heat, due to racial unrest in Miami
1990 - 5th Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Awards: Bobby Darin
1990 - Dave Stewart signs record $3,500,000 per year Oak A's contract
1990 - Who, Simon & Garfunkel, 4 Seasons, 4 Tops, Hank Ballard, Platters &
1990 - Kinks inducted into Cleveland's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
1991 - Iraq fires 8 Scud missiles on Israel
1991 - Mountie Jacques Rougeau beats Hart for WWF intercontinental title
1991 - Operation Desert Storm begins-US led allies vs Iraq
1991 - Operation Desert Storm: 1st US pilot shot down (Jeffrey Zahn)
1991 - Harald V becomes King of Norway on the death of his father, Olav V.
1992 - Sarah Ferguson attends dinner of Everglades club (club excludes Jews)
1993 - 14th ACE Cable Awards: HBO wins 32 awards
1993 - Russian Irina Privalova cycles world record 300m indoor (35.45")
1994 - 6.6 Earthquake hits Los Angeles killing 60, $30B in damage
1994 - Liz Taylor released from the hospital after hip treatment
1995 - "Carousel" closes at Beaumont Theater NYC after 322 performances
1995 - 7.2 earthquake destroys Kobe Japan (5,372 die)
1995 - Australia beat Australia A 2-0 to win the World Series Cup
1995 - LA Rams announce that they are moving to St Louis
1996 - The Czech Republic applies for membership of the European Union.
1997 - NBA suspends Dennis Rodman indefinitely for kicking cameraman
1998 - Pres Clinton faces sexual harrament charges from Paula Jones
2001 - President Bill Clinton posthumously raises Meriwether Lewis' rank from Lieutenant to Captain.
2002 - Mount Nyiragongo erupts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, displacing an estimated 400,000 people.
2007 - The Doomsday Clock is set to five minutes to midnight in response to North Korea nuclear
            testing.
2010 - 2010 &ndash: 2010 Penang dragon boat accident occurs in Penang, Malaysia

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 17, 2013, 07:49:14 AM

This Day in History for 17th January


Famous Weddings

38 BC - Roman Republican Leader Octavian, later Augustus 1st Roman Emperor, marries Livia Drusilla.
1926 - George Burns marries Gracie Allen

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 17, 2013, 07:56:59 AM

This Day in History for 17th January


Famous Birthdays

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United States founding father                  Gangster Al Capone (1899)                     Heavyweight Boxing Champ   
Benjamin Franklin (1706)                                                                                         Muhammad Ali (1942)


1342 - Philip, the Bold, duke of Burgundy
1463 - Frederick III, the Wise, elector of Saxony (1486-25), protector Luther
1484 - George Spalatin, German reformer (d. 1545)
1501 - Leonhard Fuchs, Germany, botanist (History of Plants)
1504 - Pius V, [Antonio Ghislieri] saint, pope (1566-72)
1517 - Antonio Scandello, Italian composer (Passion of Johannes)
1545 - Antonio Pace, composer
1560 - Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist (d. 1624)
1574 - Robert Fludd, composer
1600 - Calderon, writer
1612 - Thomas Fairfax, Lord Fairfax, English Parliamentary general
1657 - Pieter van Bloemen, [Standaart], Flemish painter, baptized
1659 - Antonio Veracini, composer
1683 - Gerard van Loon, Dutch historian
1686 - Archibald Bower, Scottish historian (d. 1766)
1706 - Benjamin Franklin, Boston, Mass., kite flyer/statesman/wit/inventor, (d. 1790)
1712 - John Stanley, composer
1719 - Jean-Joseph Vade, composer
1719 - William Vernon, American merchant (d. 1806)
1728 - Johann Gottfried Muthel, composer
1732 - Stanislaw II August Poniatowski, last king of Poland (1764-95)
1733 - Thomas Linley, composer
1734 - Francois-Joseph Gossec, Belgian-French composer (Les Pêcheurs, Mirza)
1745 - Nicolas Roze, composer
1759 - Paul Cuffe, Mass, merchant/shipbuilder/black nationalist
1761 - James Hall, Scotland, geologist
1769 - Ole Andreas Lindeman, composer
1771 - Charles Brockden Brown, father of American novel (Wieland)
1789 - August Neander, German theologian (d. 1850)
1806 - James Madison Randolph, (Jefferson's grandson) 1st born in White House
1814 - Ellen Wood, English author (East Lynne, Pomeroy Abbey)
1818 - Antoine Dorion, (L) joint premier of Canada (1858, 1863-64)
1820 - Anne Bronte, English novelist/poet (Tenant of Wildfell Hall)
1828 - Lewis Addison Grant, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1918
1828 - Eduard Remenyi, Hungarian violinist (d. 1898)
1831 - Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria (d. 1903)
1834 - Wilhelmina J R Albregt-Engelman, Dutch actress/daughter of Mimi Bia
1834 - August Weismann, German biologist (d. 1914)
1835 - Antanas Baranauskas, Lithuanian bishop/poet/dialectologist
1835 - Johan Filip von Schantz, composer
1836 - Jose Silvestre de los Dolores White Lafitte, composer
1842 - Anton G van Hamel, founder (Roman Philology in Netherlands)
1845 - Lucas Lindeboom, Dutch vicar/evangelist (Vredebond)
1850 - Alexander Sergeyevich Taneyev, St Petersburg Russia, composer
1851 - A. B. Frost, American illustrator (d. 1928)
1853 - Alva Belmont, American socialite & suffragette (d. 1933)
1857 - Eugene Augustin Lauste, developer (1st sound-on-film recording)
1857 - Wilhelm Kienzl, Austrian composer (Evangelimann)
1858 - Tomas Carrasquilla, Colombian author (Frutos de mi Tierra)
1860 - Douglas Hyde, President of Ireland (d. 1949)
1862 - John E Akkeringa, Dutch painter/etcher
1863 - David Lloyd George, (L-PM-Britain, 1916-22)
1863 - Henry Charles Tonking, composer
1863 - Konstantin S Stanislavski, Russia, director (Stanislavski Method)
1864 - Lucien Herr, France, scientist (Corresp entre Schiller et Schiller)
1865 - Gen Sir Charles Fergusson, Governor-General of New Zealand (d. 1951)
1867 - Carl Laemmle, German-born film executive (d. 1939)
1871 - David Earl Beatty British admiral (d. 1936)
1873 - Francois Rasse, composer
1875 - Florencio Sánchez, Uruguayan dramatist (d. 1910)
1876 - Olga Fastrova, writer
1876 - Frank Hague, American politician (d. 1956)
1877 - Hans Jelmoli, composer
1877 - May Gibbs, Australian children's author (d. 1969)
1878 - Oscar Apfel, Cleve, actor (Abraham Lincoln, Inspiration, Before Dawn)
1880 - Mack Sennett, movie creator (Keystone Kops)
1881 - Alfred R Radcliffe-Browne, British anthropologist (Andaman Islanders)
1881 - Antoni Łomnicki, Polish mathematician (d. 1941)
1884 - Noah Beery, US actor (Mark of Zorro, Sea Wolf)
1885 - E Ball-Hennings, writer
1885 - Joseph Arendt, Belgian worker's union leader
1886 - Glenn Luther Martin, aviator (Collier Trophy-1933)
1886 - Ronald Firbank, London, novelist (Flower Beneath the Foot)
1887 - Ola Raknes, Norwegian psychoanalyst and philologist (d. 1975)
1891 - Marjorie Gateson, Bkln NY, actress (One Man's Family)
1891 - Norman "Squab" Read, US aviator who lived to be 101
1891 - Walter Eucken, German economist
1896 - Harry Reser, Ohio, orchestra leader (Sammy Kaye Show)
1897 - Nils Asther, Malmö Sweden, actor (Bluebeard, Night Monster)
1897 - Marcel Petiot, French mass murderer (d. 1946)
1899 - Al Capone, Italy, gangster (Chicago bootlegging)
1899 - Nevil Shute [Norway], London, novelist (On the Beach, Town Like Alice)
1899 - Robert Maynard Hutchins, US, educator/civil libertarian
1899 - Roel [Martinus F] Houwink, Dutch literary (1 Man Without Character)
1900 - Olga Maria Nicolis di Robilant, patron of the arts
1901 - Vasily Petrovich Shirinsky, composer
1901 - Aron Gurwitsch, Lithuanian-born philosopher (d. 1973)
1902 - Geoffrey W Lloyd, British minister of Brandstoffen/Energy (1951-55)
1903 - Warren Hull, Gasport NY, actor (Strike it Rich, Who in the World)
1903 - Jyoti Prasad Agarwala, Assamese poet, playwright, film maker (d. 1953)
1904 - Grant Withers, Pueblo CO, actor (Oklahoma, Annie)
1904 - Patsy Ruth Miller, actress (Quebec, Wide Open, Sap, Twin Beds)
1905 - Franz Schmid, Germany, ascended northside of Matterhorn (1931)
1905 - Guillermo Stábile, Argentine footballer (d. 1966)
1905 - Ray Cunningham, American baseball player (d. 2005)
1907 - Henk H Badings, Bandung Indonesia, Dutch opera composer (Orestes)
1908 - Akkineni LV Lakshmi Varaprasada Rao Prasad, producer
1908 - Cus D'Amato, American boxing manager (d. 1985)
1910 - Edith S Green, (Rep-D-Ore)
1910 - Michael Economides, restaurateur
1911 - Hermann Pfrogner, Austria, musicologist (Zerrissene Orpheus)
1911 - Luis W Alvarez, US, physicist (sub atomic, Nobel 1968) [or Jun 13]
1912 - Orest Alexandrovich Evlahkov, composer
1913 - Werenfried [Flip] van Straaten, founder (Oostpriesterhulp)
1913 - Yuvraj of Patiala, cricketer (scored 24 & 60 in only Test India v Eng)
1914 - Anacleto Angelini, Chilean businessman (d. 2007)
1916 - Joel Herron, Chicago Ill, orchestra leader (Jaye P Morgan Show)
1917 - Maruthur Gopalan Ramachandran, (MGR), Indian film star, politician
1917 - Oskar Morawetz, Svetla Czechoslovakia, composer
1917 - Ulyses Simpson Kay, composer
1917 - Ramón Cardemil, Chilean huaso (d. 2007)
1918 - Joseph Walker Barr, banker/politician
1920 - Joseph George Handy Hendleman, musician
1920 - Nora Kaye, NYC, prima ballerina
1921 - Dehl Berti, Pueblo Colo, actor (John Taylor-Guns of Paradise)
1921 - Antonio Prohias, Cuban cartoonist (d. 1998)
1922 - Betty White, Oak Park, actress (Mary Tyler Moore Show, Golden Girls)
1922 - Luis Echeverria Alvarez, president Mexico
1922 - Nicholas Katzenbach, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, lawyer (US Attorney General), (d. 2012)
1923 - Onno Molenkamp, Dutch actor (Lifespan, Broken Mirrors, The Lift)
1923 - Carol Raye, Australian actress
1924 - Jewel Plummer Cobb, educator/pres (California State U at Fullerton)
1925 - A H Kardar, cricketer (Pak 1st Test capt, prev played for India)
1925 - Annie Delorie, Dutch opera singer (Scenes & Arias)
1925 - Duane Hanson, US sculptor
1925 - Robert Cormier, American author (d. 2000)
1925 - Edgar Ray Killen, American convict, former preacher and K.K.K. member
1926 - Clyde Walcott, cricketer (one of the three W's, later ICC chairman)
1926 - Moira Shearer, Dunfermline Scotland, ballerina (Red Shoes)
1926 - Richard Michael Hills, comedy script writer
1926 - Newton N. Minow, American lawyer and statesman
1927 - Donald Erb, Youngstown, Ohio, composer
1927 - Eartha Kitt, singer/actress (Catwoman-Batman)
1927 - Michael Herford Wooller, TV/film producer
1927 - Dr Tom Dooley, American humanitarian (d. 1961)
1928 - Ken Archer, cricketer (Australian batsman, 5 Tests early 50s)
1928 - Vidal Sassoon, London, hair stylist/CEO (Vidal Sasson), (d. 2012)
1928 - Jean Barraqué, French composer (d. 1973)
1929 - Jacques "Jake the Snake" Plante, Quebec, NHL goaltender (#1)
1930 - Bill Benyon, English large landowner/Conservative Lower house leader
1930 - Robert Ceely, composer
1930 - Eddie LeBaron, American football player
1931 - Frederick Alfred Fox, composer
1931 - James Earl Jones, Miss, actor (Darth Vader, Exorcist II, Soul Man)
1931 - L Douglas Wilder, (Gov-D-Va)
1931 - Don Zimmer, American baseball coach
1933 - Aga Khan, religious leader (Muslims)
1933 - Bruno Schroder, British baron/banker/multi-millionaire
1933 - Dalida, Cairo, actress/singer, Miss Egypt (The 6th Day)
1933 - Sheree North, [Dawn Bethel], LA, actress (Mary Tyler Moore Show)
1933 - Yolande Christina Dalida, Cairo Egypt
1934 - Donald Cammell, film director
1934 - Shari Lewis, Bronx NY, ventriloquist/puppeteer (Lamb Chop)
1934 - Sydney Phillip Hodkinson, composer
1935 - Jimmy Powell, Dallas TX, PGA golfer (1990 Southwestern Bell Classic)
1935 - Paul O[sborne] Williams, US, sci-fi author (Ends of the Circle)
1935 - Ruth Ann Minner, Governor of Delaware
1936 - Jerry Fogel, Rochester NY, actor (Jerry-Mothers-in-Law, White Shadow)
1938 - John Bellairs, US, sci-fi author (Chessmen of Doom)
1939 - Antao D'Souza, cricketer (Pakistani pace bowler in six Tests 1959-62)
1939 - Maury Povich, TV host (Current Affair, Maury)/Mr Connie Chung
1939 - Toini Gustafson, Sweden, 5K/10K cross country skier (Oly-gold-1968)
1940 - H Kipchoge "Kip" Keino, Kenya, 1500m runner (Olympic-gold-1968, 72)
1940 - Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali, South African poet (Fireflames)
1941 - Dame Gillian Weir, New Zealand organist
1942 - Muhammad Ali [Cassius Clay], Louisville Kentucky, heavyweight champ boxer (1964-7 74-8)
1942 - Randy Boone, Fayetteville NC, actor (Cimarron Strip, Virginian)
1942 - Ita Buttrose, Australian journalist and businesswoman
1942 - Ulf Hoelscher, German violinist
1942 - Nancy Parsons, American actress (d. 2001)
1943 - Chris Montez, rocker
1943 - Daniel Charles Brandenstein, Watertown Wi, ast (STS 8, 51-G, 32, 49)
1943 - René Préval, President of Haiti
1943 - Geoffrey Deuel, American actor
1944 - Françoise Hardy, French singer
1945 - William Hart, US singer (4 Gents, Delfonics-I'm Sorry)
1945 - Javed Akhtar, Indian lyricist, poet and scriptwriter
1946 - Michèle Deslauriers, Quebec actress
1947 - Gail Toushin, LPGA golfer
1947 - Jane Elliot, NYC, actress (Baby Boom, Gen Hospital, Knots Landing)
1947 - Todd Susman, St Louis Mo, actor (Goodnight Beantown)
1947 - Ulysses Dove, dancer/choreographer
1948 - Alexander "Alec" Erwin, South African worker's union leader
1948 - Mick Taylor, rock bassist (Rolling Stones-Brown Sugar)
1948 - Anne Queffélec, French pianist
1949 - Andy Kaufman, NYC, comedian/actor (Latka Gravas-Taxi)
1949 - Debbie Watson, La Mirada California, actress (Karen, Tammy)
1950 - Luis López Nieves, Latin American writer
1951 - Rolando Thoeni, Italy, slalom (Olympic-bronze-1972)
1952 - Larry Fortensky, former husband of Liz Taylor (7th)
1952 - Ryuichi Sakamoto, Jap, rocker (Academy Award 1988, Yellow Magic Orch)
1952 - Darrell Porter, American baseball player (d. 2002)
1953 - Sheila Hutchinson, rocker
1954 - Janet Dykman, Monterey Park California, archer (Olympics-1996)
1954 - Robert F Kennedy Jr, attorney (Natural Resources Defense Council)
1954 - Susan Kiefel, Australian lawyer and judge
1955 - Steve Earle, San Antonio Tx, country singer (Guitar Town)
1956 - David Caruso, actor (NYPD Blue, Michael Hayes)
1956 - Mitch Vogel, Alhambra California, actor (Jamie-Bonanza)
1956 - Paul Young, rock vocalist/keyboardist (Every Time You Go Away)
1957 - Donna Stone, NJ, fencer-epee (Olympics-96)
1957 - Steve Harvey, American actor, comedian and radio personality
1957 - Ann Nocenti, American comic book writer
1957 - Michel Vaarten, Belgian cyclist
1958 - Jez Strode, rocker (Kajagoogoo)
1959 - Susanna Hoffs, actress/rocker (Bangles-Walk Like an Egyptian)
1959 - Momoe Yamaguchi, Japanese singer and actress
1960 - Chili Davis, Kingston Jamacia, outfielder (California Angels)
1960 - John Crawford, Palo Alto Ca, bass (Berlin-You Take My Breath Away)
1960 - Chatchai Plengpanich, Thai actor
1961 - Maia Chiburdanidze, Kutaisi USSR, women's world chess champ
1961 - Brian Helgeland, American writer and film director
1962 - Jim Carrey, Ontario Canada, actor (Living Color, Dumb & Dumber, Mask)
1962 - Sebastian Junger, American journalist and author
1963 - Kai Hansen, German singer and guitarist (Gamma Ray)
1964 - Jeff Tabaka, US baseball pitcher (San Diego Padres)
1964 - Michelle Obama, wife of Barack Obama
1965 - Nikos Nioplias, Greek footballer
1965 - Sylvain Turgeon, Canadian ice hockey player
1966 - Anna Ivan, La Jolla Cal, tennis star
1966 - Don Myrah, Oakland California, cyclist (Olympics-20th-96)
1966 - Karissa Rushing, Benton Arkansas, Miss Arkansas-America (1991)
1966 - Rexton Gordon, Jamaican dj/rapper (Shabba Ranks-Extra Naked)
1966 - Shabba Ranks, reggae singer
1966 - Trish Johnson, Bristol England, LPGA golfer (1993 Las Vegas)
1967 - Gregory Caccia, Bayshore NY, team handball right back (Olympics-1996)
1967 - William Michael Heinen Jr, Rayne LA, PGA golfer (1994 Shell Houston)
1967 - Filippo Raciti, Italian police officer (d. 2007)
1967 - Song Kang-ho, South Korean actor
1968 - Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, Dutch writer
1968 - Svetlana Masterkova, Russian athlete
1969 - Lukas Moodysson, Swedish film writer and director
1969 - Naveen Andrews, British actor
1969 - Tijs Verwest, (DJ Tiësto) Dutch DJ
1970 - Candace Murray, Vancouver BC, softball shortstop (Olympics-96)
1970 - Darnell Walker, NFL cornerback (Atlanta Falcons, SF 49ers)
1970 - Jeremy Roenick, Boston MA, NHL center (Team USA, Blackhawks, Coyotes)
1970 - Genndy Tartakovsky, Russian-born animator
1970 - James Wattana, Thai snooker player
1971 - Derek Plante, Cloquet, NHL center (Buffalo Sabres)
1971 - Peter Winter, Australian decathlete (Olympics-96)
1971 - Tyler Houston, US baseball catcher (Atlanta Braves)
1971 - Kid Rock, American singer
1971 - Richard Burns, English rally driver (d. 2005)
1971 - Leonardo Ciampa, Italian-American musician
1971 - Youki Kudoh, Japanese actress
1971 - Ann Wolfe, female boxer
1972 - Rohn Meyer, CFL offensive linebacker (Calgary Stampeders)
1972 - Wendall Gaines, NFL tight end (Arizona Cardinals)
1972 - Ken Hirai, Japanese singer and songwriter
1972 - Benno Fürmann, German actor
1973 - Amanda Elizabeth Spivey, Spartanburg SC, Miss America-SC (1996)
1973 - Cuauhtémoc Blanco, Mexican footballer
1973 - Liz Ellis, Australian netball captain
1974 - Derrick Mason, wide receiver (Tennessee Oilers)
1974 - Guillermo Mercedes, Dominican/US baseball infielder (Texas Rangers)
1974 - Marcus Spriggs, offensive tackle (Buffalo Bills)
1974 - Sharon Marie Ferris, NZ, yachter (Olympics-96)
1974 - Vesko Kountchev, Bulgarian musician
1974 - Yang Chen, Chinese footballer
1975 - Tom Jenkinson, English musician (Squarepusher)
1975 - Freddy Rodriguez, Puerto Rican-American actor
1975 - Rami Yacoub, Swedish songwriter/producer
1977 - Ali el Kattabi, soccer player (Sparta)
1977 - Kevin Fertig, American professional wrestler
1977 - Leigh Whannell, Australian screenwriter/actor
1978 - Irina A Borisova, Miss Universe-Ukraine (1996)
1980 - Maksim Chmerkovskiy, Ukrainian ballroom dancer
1980 - Gareth McLearnon, Northern Irish flautist
1980 - Zooey Deschanel, American actress
1980 - Kimberly Spicer, American model
1981 - Ray J, singer
1981 - Warren Feeney, Northern Irish footballer
1981 - Scott Mechlowicz, American actor
1981 - Ray J, American R&B singer
1982 - Dwyane Wade, American basketball player
1982 - Amanda Wilkinson, Canadian singer
1982 - Alex Varkatzas, American Singer (Atreyu)
1983 - Alvaro Arbeloa, Spanish Footballer
1983 - Andrea Lowell, American Model
1983 - Rick Kelly, Australian racing driver
1983 - Julie Budet, French Electronic-Pop Musician
1983 - Johannes Herber, German basketball player
1985 - Simone Simons, Dutch singer (Epica)
1985 - Riyu Kosaka, Japanese singer BeForU
1985 - Kang-In, South Korean singer/dancer/actor/MC/DJ(Super Junior)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 17, 2013, 07:59:46 AM

This Day in History for 17th January


Famous Deaths

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Chess Champion Bobby Fischer (2008)

395 - Theodosius I, the Great, Spanish emperor of Rome, dies at 49
1103 - Frutolf, German monk/musicologist/historian, dies
1119 - Boudouin VII Hapkin, count of Flanders, dies
1229 - Albert, Bishop of Riga/Albert of Buxhoeveden, founder of the Livonian Brothers of the Sword, dies at about 68
1369 - King Peter I of Cyprus (murdered) (b. 1328)
1468 - Skanderbeg, Albanian leader (b. 1405)
1598 - Fyodor I Tsar of Russia (b. 1557)
1604 - Santino Garsi, composer, dies at 61
1617 - Pieter C Bockenberg, Dutch historian, dies at 68
1617 - Faust Vrančić, Croatian inventor (b. 1551)
1620 - Diego Alvarez de Paz, Span missionary/writer (Peru), dies at about 59
1625 - Nicolo Rubini, composer, dies at 50
1654 - Paul Potter, Dutch painter, buried
1661 - Andres Malong, Philippines rebel leader, executed
1676 - Pier Francesco Cavalli, Italian opera composer, dies at 73
1702 - Thomas Franklin, English smith/uncle of B Franklin, dies [OS=Jan 6]
1705 - John Ray, English naturalist (b. 1627)
1718 - Captain Benjamin Church, Plymouth Colony settler and military leader
1737 - Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann, German architect (b. 1662)
1738 - Jean-Francois Dandrieu, composer, dies
1750 - Tomaso Albinioni, Italian composer (Adagio in G Minor), dies at 78
1781 - Marie de Negre Dables, marquess, dies
1788 - Alessio Prati, composer, dies at 37
1805 - Abraham-Hyacinthe Anquetil du Perron, French interpreter, dies at 73
1820 - Daniel W Wyttenbach, Dutch classicist/historian, dies at 73
1823 - Zacharius Werner, German playwright, dies at 36
1826 - Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Spanish composer (b. 1806)
1830 - W Waiblinger, writer, dies
1833 - James Ball Antyne, Scot founder (Ball Antyne Press), dies at about 60
1833 - William Rush, Indians sculptor (Spirit of the Schuylkill), dies
1834 - Giovanni Aldini, Italian physicist (b. 1762)
1856 - Thomas Attwood Walmisley, composer, dies at 41
1861 - Lola Montez, Irish-born adventurer (b. 1821)
1863 - E J Horace Vernet, French painter, dies at 73
1869 - Alexander Sergeyevich Dargomyzhsky, composer, dies at 55
1874 - Chang & Eng Bunker, Chinese/Thai Siamese twins, dies at 62
1884 - Hermann Schlegel, German ornithologist (b. 1804)
1887 - William Giblin, Premier of Tasmania (b. 1840)
1889 - Juan Montalvo, Ecuadorian author (Siete Tratados), dies at 56
1890 - Salomon Sulzer, composer, dies at 85
1891 - Johannes Josephus Hermanus Verhulst, composer, dies at 74
1892 - Alexandre Levy, composer, dies at 27
1893 - Rutherford B Hayes, 19th US Pres (1877-81), dies in Fremont Ohio at 70
1901 - Jacob G Agarah, Swedish algologist, dies at 87
1902 - Gideon Scheepers, South Africa Boer leader, executed
1903 - Ignaz Wechselmann, Hungarian architect and philanthropist (b. 1828)
1908 - Ferdinand IV SMJJBFLGRRJ, ruler of Toscane, dies at 72
1909 - Sir Francis Smith, Premier of Tasmania (b. 1819
1910 - Thomas Crapper, inventor (flush toilet), dies
1910 - Wilhelm F Kohlrausch, Germ physicist (Additiviteitsregel), dies at 69
1911 - Francis Galton, English scholar, dies at 88
1913 - Carl Baermann, composer, dies at 73
1917 - Hendrik Goeman Borgesius, Dutch politician, dies at 70
1927 - Juliette Gordon Low, American founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA (b. 1860)
1932 - Albert Jacka, VC, Australian soldier (b. 1893)
1933 - John Hodges, cricketer (6 wickets in Australia's 1st two Tests), dies
1933 - Louis Comfort Tiffany, American artist and designer (b. 1848)
1936 - Mateiu Caragiale, Romanian author (b. 1885)
1938 - William H Pickering, astronomer (predicted Pluto), dies at 79
1941 - Jose Leite de Vasconcelos, Portuguese scholar (Etnografia), dies at 82
1942 - Frederick Jerome Work, composer, dies at 61
1942 - Walther von Reichenau, German field marshal (b. 1884)
1946 - Gottfried Rudinger, composer, dies at 59
1947 - Pyotr Krasnov, Russian counter-revolutionary (b. 1869)
1947 - Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve, French Archbishop of Quebec (b. 1883)
1952 - Walter O "Spike" Briggs, owner (Det Tigers), dies at 74
1955 - J A Veraart, economist, dies at 68
1955 - Joannes A Veraart, Dut judge/MP, (Jews in Neth), dies at 68
1959 - Abdul Aziz, cricket, dies at 17 struck by ball in fc match for Karachi
1961 - Patrice Lumumba, African revolutionary, murdered at 36
1962 - Gerrit Achterberg, Dutch poet (Dead End), dies at 56
1964 - Terence Hanbury White, novelist (England Have My Bones), dies at 57
1964 - T.H. White, English author (b. 1906)
1966 - Vincent J Donehue, director (Lonelyhearts), dies of Hodgkin's at 50
1967 - Evelyn Nesbit, actress (Redemption), dies at 82
1968 - Julis Deutsch, Austria politician/general Spanish rep army, dies at 83
1969 - Grazyna Bacewicz, composer, dies at 59
1970 - Billy Stewart, singer (I Do Love You), dies in auto-accident at 32
1970 - Simon Kovar, Russian-American bassoonist (b. 1890)
1972 - Rochelle Hudson, actress (That's My Boy), dies at 55
1972 - Betty Smith, American writer and singer (b. 1896)
1973 - Fred Essler, actor (Unsinkable Molly Brown), dies at 77
1976 - Ad Verhoeven, soccer player (Xerxes/Sparta), dies in auto-accident
1977 - Gary Gilmore, executed in Utah, 1st US execution since 1967
1980 - Barbara Britton, actress (Pamela-Mr & Mrs North), dies at 59
1981 - Loukas Panourgias, Greek footballer (b. 1899)
1983 - Doodles Weaver, actor/comedian (Ring of Fire), shoots himself at 71
1987 - Hugo Fregonese, Argentine film director (b. 1908)
1989 - Sterling A Brown, US poet/critic (Southern Road), dies at 87
1990 - Charles Hernu, French minister of Defense (1981-85), dies
1991 - Olav AFEC van Sleeswijk-Holstein-S-G V, king of Norway (1957), dies
1992 - Bill Walker, actor (Big Mo, Mask, Harlem Globetrotters), dies at 95
1992 - Charlie Ventura, jazz sax (Bop for the people), dies at 75 of cancer
1992 - Dorothy Alison, actress (Maggie, 3rd Key, Long Arm), dies
1992 - Frank Pullen, English businessman and racehorse owner (b. 1915)
1993 - Ger ter Horst, Dutch soccer trainer (Sparta), dies
1993 - Albert Hourani, English historian (b. 1915)
1994 - Allan G Odell, Ad exec (Burma Shave), dies at 90
1994 - Chung Il Kwon, PM of S Korea (1964-70), dies
1994 - Grady "Fats" Jackson, tenor Sax Player, dies at 66
1994 - Han Jansen, Dutch journalist (Volkskrant), dies at 61
1994 - Klaas Peereboom, Dutch sports reporter (Het Parool), dies at 77
1994 - Noel Chiboust, trumpeter/sax, dies at 84
1994 - Helen Stephens, American 100m runner and double Olympic champion, dies at 75
1994 - Yevgeny Ivanov, Soviet spy involved in the Profumo affair (b. 1926)
1995 - Isador Caplan, lawyer/Aldeburgh Festival pioneer, dies at 82
1995 - Urias Nooteboom, Dutch journalist/critic (The Time), dies at 54
1996 - Barbara Charline Jordan, politician, dies at 59
1996 - Charles Henry Madge, poet writer/sociologist, dies at 83
1996 - Giles William Playfair, writer, dies at 85
1996 - John Adrian Hope, politician/businessman, dies at 83
1996 - Robert Covington, drummer/singer, dies at 54
1996 - Amber Hagerman, American namesake of the Amber Alert system (b. 1986)
1996 - Mostafa Sid Ahmed, Sudanese singer (b. 1953)
1997 - Andrea Fisher, artist, dies at 21
1997 - Asfa Wossen, [Amha Selassie], crown emperor of Ethiopia in exile, dies
1997 - Clyde William Tombaugh, discoverer (Pluto), dies at 90
1997 - Bert Kelly, Australian politician (b. 1912)
1998 - Emil Sitka, actor (3 Stooges shorts), dies of stroke at 82
1999 - Robert Eads, American transsexual (b. 1945)
2000 - Philip Jones, British trumpeter (b. 1928)
2001 - Gregory Corso, American poet (b. 1930)
2002 - Bishop Karas, Sudanese-born American religious leader (b. 1955)
2002 - Camilo Jose Cela, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
2002 - Queenie Leonard, American actress (b. 1905)
2003 - Richard Crenna, American actor (b. 1926)
2003 - Balint Vazsonyi, Hingarian pianist (b. 1936)
2004 - Harry Brecheen, American baseball player (b. 1914)
2004 - Czeslaw Niemen, Polish musician (b. 1939)
2004 - Ray Stark, American stage and film producer (b. 1915)
2004 - Noble Willingham, American actor (b. 1931)
2005 - Charlie Bell, Australian fast food executive (b. 1960)
2005 - Virginia Mayo, American actress (b. 1920)
2005 - Albert Schatz, American microbiologist (b. 1920)
2005 - Zhao Ziyang, Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1919)
2006 - Clarence Ray Allen, American murderer (b. 1930)
2006 - Pierre Grondin, French Canadian cardiac surgeon (b. 1925)
2007 - Art Buchwald, American humorist (b. 1925)
2007 - Yevhen Kushnaryov, Ukrainian politician (b. 1951)
2008 - Bobby Fischer, American chess player (b. 1943)
2008 - Ernie Holmes, American football player (b. 1948)
2008 - Allan Melvin, American actor (b. 1923)
2009 - Anders Isaksson, Swedish journalist, writer, and historian (b. 1943)
2010 - Jyoti Basu, Indian politician (b. 1914)
2010 - Daisuke Gouri, Japanese seiyu (b. 1952)
2010 - Gaines Adams, American football player (b. 1983)
2011 - Don Kirshner, American composer (b. 1934)
2012 - Johnny Otis, R&B musician and talent scout, known as the godfather of rhythm and blues, 
          dies at 90.
2012 - Marty Springstead, American Major League baseball umpire and umpire supervisor, dies of
          heart attack at 74

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 18, 2013, 06:48:08 AM

This Day in History for 18th January


Historical Events

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Captain/Explorer James Cook                 Chancellor Otto Von Bismarck            Soviet Union Premier Joseph Stalin 

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Jazz Trumpeter Louis Armstrong             Versatile Athlete Jim Thorpe

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264th Pope John Paul II                              Princess of Rock and Roll
                                                                      Lisa Marie Presley


336 - St Mark elected Catholic Pope
350 - General Maxentius drives out Western Roman emperor Constans
474 - Leo II briefly becomes Byzantine emperor.
532 - Nika uprising at Constantinople fails, 30-40,000 die
1126 - Emperor Huizong abdicates the Chinese throne in favour of his son Emperor Qinzong.
1307 - German king Albrecht I makes his son Rudolf king of Bohemia
1478 - Grand Duke Ivan II of Moscow occupies Novgorod
1520 - Christian II of Denmark & Norway defeats Swedes at Lake Asunde
1535 - Francisco Pizarro founds the city of Lima, Peru
1591 - King Naresuan of Siam kills Crown Prince Minchit Sra of Burma in single combat, for which this
           date is now observed marked as Royal Thai Armed Forces day.
1644 - Perplexed Pilgrims in Boston reported America's 1st UFO sighting
1650 - French Prince Louis II of Condé captured
1671 - Pirate Henry Morgan defeats Spanish defenders, captures Panama
1691 - English king Willem III travels to The Hague
1701 - Frederick I and Sophie Charlotte van Hanover crowned king/queen of Prussia
1733 - 1st polar bear exhibited in America (Boston)
1776 - James Wright, Royal Governor of Georgia, is placed under house arrest by Major Joseph
           Habersham
1777 - San Jose California, founded
1778 - Capt James Cook stumbles over Sandwich Islands (Hawaiian Islands)
1788 - The first elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from England to Australia arrives at
          Botany Bay to setup a penal colony
1795 - French admitted to Amsterdam without resistance
1795 - governor/viceroy Willem V flees Scheveningen to England
1817 - San Martinleads a revolutionary army over Andes
1840 - Electro-Magnetic Intelligencer, 1st US electrical journal, appears
1850 - British blockade Piraeus, Greece to enforce mercantile claims
1854 - Filibuster William Walker proclaims Republic of Sonora in NW Mexico
1861 - American Civil War - Georgia joins South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, and Alabama in
          seceding from the United States.
1862 - Confederate Territory of Arizona forms
1865 - Battle of Ft Moultrie, SC
1869 - Elegant California Theater opens in SF
1871 - 2nd German Empire proclaimed by Kaiser Wilhelm I & Bismarck
1884 - General Charles Gordon departs London for Khartoum
1884 - Dr. William Price attempts to cremate the body of his infant son, Jesus Christ Price, setting a
           legal precedent for cremation in the United Kingdom.
1886 - Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England.
1895 - Amsterdam's AFC soccer team forms
1896 - 1st demonstration of an X-ray machine in US (NYC)
1896 - British troops occupy Kumasi, West Africa
1900 - Jan Blockx's "Tÿl Uilenspiegel" premieres in Brussels
1901 - Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Graves De Communi Re
1905 - French government of Combes falls
1908 - Frederick Delius' "Brigg Fair," premieres
1911 - 1st shipboard landing of a plane (Tanforan Park to USS Pennsylvania)
1912 - English explorer Robert F Scott & his expedition reach South Pole, only to discover that Roald
           Amundsen had gotten there before
1913 - Turkish-Greek sea battle near Troy
1915 - Train crashes at Colima-Guadalajara Mexico, about 600 die
1915 - Japan issues the "Twenty-One Demands" to the Republic of China in a bid to increase its
            power in East Asia.
1916 - A 611 gram chondrite type meteorite stikes a house near the village of Baxter in Stone
           County, Missouri.
1919 - WW I Peace Congress opens in Versailles, France
1919 - Bentley Motors Limited is founded.
1921 - William Archer's "Green Goddess," premieres in NYC
1922 - Irish author Liam O'Flaherty & others occupy Rotunda in Dublin
1923 - 1st radio telegraph message from Netherlands to Dutch East Indies
1929 - "NY Daily Mirror" columnist Walter Winchell debuts on radio
1929 - Stalin proposes to ban Trotsky from the Politburo
1930 - -27°F (-33°C), Watts, Oklahoma (state record)
1930 - Shostakovitch' opera "The Nose," premieres in Leningrad
1933 - White Sands National Monument, NM established
1934 - Eugene O'Neill's "Days Without End," premieres in NYC
1938 - Bradman scores 104* for South Australia v NSW at the SCG
1938 - Pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander is elected to Hall of Fame
1939 - SA wicketkeeper Bradman gets his 6th straight ton, 135* v NSW
1942 - Nazi's arrest Frans Goedhart & Wiardi Beckman
1943 - Presliced bread sale banned to reduce bakery demand for metal parts
1943 - Soviets announce they broke long Nazi siege of Leningrad
1943 - US rations bread & metal
1944 - 1st Chinese naturalized US citizen since repeal of exclusion acts
1944 - The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City hosts a jazz concert for the first time. The
           performers were Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Artie Shaw, Roy 
           Eldridge and Jack Teagarden.
1945 - Warsaw freed by Soviet army
1947 - "Red Mill" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 831 performances
1947 - Detroit Tigers sell Hank Greenberg to Pirates (for $25-35,000)
1947 - Small river steamer sank on Yangtze River, kills 400
1948 - 1st courses begin at University of Ibadan, Nigeria
1948 - Ted Mack's "Original Amateur Hour" begins, DuMont (later NBC/ABC/CBS)
1949 - "They Stand Accused" courtroom drama premieres on CBS (later DuMont)
1949 - 1st US Congressional standing committee headed by Negro (W Dawson)
1950 - Christopher Fry's "Venus Observed," premieres in London
1950 - Indians pitcher Bob Feller, after 15-14 season, takes $20,000 salary cut to $45,000, pay cut
           is Feller's own suggestion
1951 - 1st use of lie detector in Netherlands
1951 - Hermann Flake sentenced to death due to "hate campaign against GDR"
1951 - NFL rules tackles, guards & centers ineligible for forward pass
1951 - NFL takes control of failing Baltimore Colts
1953 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open
1954 - Fanfani forms Italian government
1955 - Battle of Yijiangshan occurred.
1956 - German DR forms own army (National People's Army)
1957 - 3 B-52's set record for around-the-world flight, 45 hr 19 min
1958 - 1st black in NHL (William O'Ree, Boston Bruins)
1959 - Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open
1960 - US & Japan sign joint defense treaty
1961 - Zanzibar's Afro-Shirazi party wins 1 seat by a single vote & parliament by a single seat
1962 - Southern University closed due to demonstrations
1962 - US begins spraying foliage in Vietnam to reveal Viet Cong guerrillas
1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 - Reinier Paping wins Dutch 11-Cities Skating Race (10:59)
1964 - Beatles 1st appear on Billboard Chart (I Want to Hold Your Hand-#35)
1964 - Plans for World Trade Center announced (NYC)
1965 - H L de Vries appointed Dutch governor of Suriname
1966 - Robert C Weaver, confirmed as 1st black cabinet member (HUD)
1967 - 20th NHL All-Star Game: Montreal beat All-Stars 3-0 at Montreal
1967 - Albert DeSalvo (Boston Strangler) sentenced to life in prison
1967 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967 - Yellowknife replaces Ottawa as capital of NW Territories, Canada
1968 - "Happy Time" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 286 performances
1968 - Hester & Appolinar's musical "Your Own Thing," premieres in NYC
1968 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1969 - Expanded 4 party Vietnam peace talks began in Paris
1970 - Hasse Borjes skates world record 500m in 38.9 sec
1970 - NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 16-13
1971 - Ivan Koloff beats Bruno Sammartino in NY, to become WWF champ
1973 - Boston Red Sox sign Orlando Cepeda as 1st player signed as a DH
1973 - Islanders break 12 game losing streak, 20 game road winless streak
1973 - John Cleese's final episode on "Monty Python's Flying Circus," on BBC
1974 - "$6 Million Man" starring Lee Majors premieres on ABC TV
1974 - Israel & Egypt sign weapons accord
1975 - "Jeffersons" spinoff from "All in the Family" premieres on CBS
1976 - Superbowl X: Pittsburgh Steelers beat Dallas Cowboys, 21-17 in Miami Superbowl MVP: Lynn
           Swann, Pittsburgh, WR
1977 - Imran Khan takes 12 wickets in match for Pakistan win at the SCG
1977 - Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious
           Legionnaires' disease.
1978 - Geoff Boycott captains England for the 1st time, v Pak Karachi
1978 - Roof of 3-yr-old Civic Center in Hartford, Ct collapses (no injuries)
1978 - Thiokol conducts 2nd test firing of space shuttle's SRB
1979 - Peter Jenkins finishes "A Walk Across America," Florence Oregon
1980 - Gold reaches $1,000 an oz
1980 - Pink Floyd's "Wall" hits #1
1980 - Studio 54 owners Steve Rubell & Ian Schrager sentenced to 3½ years in prison for tax
           evasion & fined $20,000
1981 - Iran accepts US offer of $7.9 billion in frozen assets
1981 - Wendy O Williams arrested in Milwaukee for on-stage obscenity
1983 - IOC restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals 70 years after they were taken from him for being
           paid $25 in semipro baseball
1984 - 80th Islander & 3rd dual hat trick (Carroll & Bossy) 9-1 win
1985 - US renounces jurisdiction of World Court despite previous promise
1986 - 24th Space Shuttle (61-C) Mission-Columbia 7-returns to Earth
1986 - AIDS charity record "That's What Friends are For," hits #1
1986 - NY Lotto pays $30.5 million to one winner (#s are 19-20-27-34-41-46)
1987 - 11th Soap Opera Digest Poll Awards - Days of Our Live wins
1988 - Airliner crashes in SW China, killing all 108 on board
1989 - Astronomers discover pulsar in remnants of Supernova 1987A (LMC)
1989 - IBM announces earnings up 10.4% in 1988
1989 - Otis Redding, Dion, Rolling Stones, Temptations & Stevie Wonder
1989 - West Indies beat Australia 2-1 to win the World Series Cup
1990 - South Africa says its reconsidering ban on African Natl Congress
1990 - Wash DC, Mayor Marion Barry arrested in drug enforcement sting
1991 - Iraq launches SCUD missiles against Israel
1991 - US acknowledges CIA & US Army paid Noriega $320,000 over his career
1991 - WLAF's NY Knights become NY-NJ Knights
1991 - Longest tennis match at the Australian Open, Boris Becker beats Italy's Omar Camporese in 5
           hours & 11 mins
1991 - Eastern Air Lines goes out of business after 62 years, citing financial problems.
1992 - 43rd NHL All-Star Game: Campbell beat Wales 10-6 at Phila
1992 - 49th Golden Globes
1992 - Comedian Pat McCormick injured in a car accident
1992 - NHL All Star Game - Campbell-10, Wales-6 (Brett Hull, MVP) at Phila
1993 - Martin Luther King Jr holiday observed in all 50 states for 1st time
1993 - West Indies win the World Series Cup, beating Australia 2-0
1994 - The Cando event, a possible bolide impact in Cando, Spain. Witnesses claim to have seen a
           fireball in the sky lasting for almost one minute.
1995 - Kumble takes 16-99 in match for Karnataka v Kerala
1995 - Pope John Paul II begins visit to Australia
1996 - Baseball owners unanimously approve interleague play in 1997
1996 - Lisa Marie Presley files for divorce from Michael Jackson in NY
1997 - 47th NHL All-Star Game: East beat West 11-7 at San Jose Arena
1997 - In north west Rwanda, Hutu militia members kill 3 Spanish aid workers, 3 soldiers and
           seriously wound one other.
1997 - Boerge Ousland of Norway becomes the first person to cross Antarctica alone and unaided.
1998 - "Ragtime," opens at Ford Theater NYC
1998 - 48th NHL All-Star Game: North America beats World 8-7 at Vancouver
1998 - ABL All-Star Game at Disney complex in Orlando
1998 - Boston Celtics retire Robert Parrish's #00
1998 - Kelly Robbins wins Healthsouth Golf Inaugural
1998 - UCP Telethon
2000 - The Tagish Lake meteorite impacts the Earth.
2002 - Sierra Leone Civil War was finally declared over.
2003 - A bushfire kills 4 people and destroys more than 500 homes in Canberra, Australia.
2007 - The strongest storm in the United Kingdom in 17 years kills 14 people, Germany sees the
            worst storm since 1999 with 13 deaths. Hurricane Kyrill, causes at least 44 deaths across 20
            countries in Western Europe. Other losses include the Container Ship MSC Napoli destroyed
            by the storm off the coast of Devon, England.
2012 - Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) blackout becomes the largest protest in the history of the
           internet

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 18, 2013, 06:50:30 AM

This Day in History for 18th January


Famous Weddings

1486 - King Henry VII of England marries Elizabeth, daughter of Edward IV
1893 - British Poet and writer Rudyard Kipling (26) marries Carrie Balestier (29) in London
1949 - South African Rev Andries P Treurnicht marries Engela Dreyer
1989 - Candace Thomas marries Steve Garvey
1992 - Actress Joan Chen (Twin Peaks) marries Dr Peter Hui

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 18, 2013, 06:51:25 AM

This Day in History for 18th January


Famous Weddings

1996 - Lisa Marie Presley files for divorce from Michael Jackson in NY

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 18, 2013, 06:58:53 AM

This Day in History for 18th January


Famous Birthdays

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American Statesman                         Heart surgeon Daniel Williams (1858)             Actor Kevin Costner (1955)
Daniel Webster (1782)


885 - Daigo, Emperor of Japan (d. 930)
1519 - Isabella Jagiełło, queen of Hungary (d. 1559)
1543 - Alfonso Ferrabosco, composer
1641 - Francois Michel le Tellier, French statesman (Marquis de Louvois)
1657 - Hendrik Casimir II, Dutch Fieldmarshal (Nassau)
1672 - Antoine Houdar de la Motte, French writer (d. 1731)
1685 - Tiberius Hemsterhuis, Dutch Classical prof, baptized
1688 - Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (d. 1765)
1689 - Charles de Montesquieu, France, philosopher/writer (Letters Persanes)
1726 - Hendrik D F L, prince of Prussia/diplomat
1732 - Jean-Guillain Cardon, composer
1751 - Ferdinand Kauer, composer
1779 - Peter Roget, thesaurus fame/inventor (slide rule, pocket chessboard)
1782 - Daniel Webster, Salisbury NH, orator/politician/lawyer, (d. 1852)
1793 - William Henry Havergal, composer
1795 - Anna Paulowna Romanova, monarch of Russia/daughter of czar Paul I
1809 - Richard Caswell Gatlin, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1896
1813 - Joseph Farwell Glidden, inventor (1st coml useable barbed wire)
1815 - James Chesnut Jr, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1885
1815 - Richard Yates Gov, MC (Union), died in 1873
1815 - Constantin von Tischendorf, German biblical scholar (d. 1874)
1817 - Jacques Gregoir, composer
1818 - Johannes van Vloten, Dutch literary/theologist
1820 - Abraham Buford, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1884
1829 - Louis van Haecke, Flemish chaplain/author (Blood to Bridge)
1831 - Edward Ferrero, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1899
1835 - Caesar A Cui, Vilna Lithuania, fort architect/composer
1835 - Jan van Droogenbroeck, Flemish poet
1840 - Austin Dobson, England, poet/critic/biographer
1840 - Ernst Rudorff, composer
1841 - Alexis-Emmanuel Chabrier, France, composer (Le Roi Malgré Lui)
1842 - Albert Alonzo Ames, Mayor of Minneapolis (d. 1911)
1848 - Ioan Slavici, Transylvanian writer (d. 1925)
1849 - Edmund Barton, 1st PM of Australia (1900-03)
1850 - Seth Low, American politician (d. 1916)
1854 - Thomas A Watson, needed by Bell, inventor assistant (Telephone)
1856 - John Hyatt Brewer, composer
1857 - Otto von Below, German commandant (WW I)
1858 - Daniel Williams, Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, surgeon (1st open heart operation), (d. 1931)
1861 - Hans Goldschmidt, German chemist
1861 - Raymond Huntington Woodman, composer
1867 - Rubén Darío, Nicaraguan Journalist, Diplomat, Poet (d. 1916)
1869 - Willem De Vreese, Flemish linguist/biblographer
1870 - Berend Modderman, printer (Drukkers yearbook)
1872 - Paul Leautaud, [Maurice Boissard], France, writer (Petit ami)
1877 - Samuel Zemurray, U.S. businessman (d.1961)
1878 - Hendrik Baels, Belgian politician
1879 - Henri Giraud, French general (d. 1949)
1880 - Paul Ehrenfest, Austria/Neth physicist (adiabates hypothesis)
1881 - Gaston Gallimard, French publisher (Librairie Gallimard) [or 1908]
1882 - Alan Alexander Milne, English author (Winnie-the-Pooh)
1882 - Jacob Clay, Dutch philospher/phyicist (Mesones)
1882 - Sylvia Pankhurst, English feminist
1884 - Arthur Ransome, English author (Swallows & Amazons)
1886 - Antoine Pevsner, French sculptor
1886 - Peter Alma, Dutch painter/graphic artist
1892 - Oliver Hardy, Harlem Ga, comedy team member (Laurel & Hardy)
1892 - Paul Rostock, German surgeon (d. 1956)
1893 - John Lawrence Seymour, composer
1894 - Wilhelm HC Tenhaeff, Dutch parapsychologist
1896 - Hans H Holm, Norwegian poet (Jonsoknatt)
1896 - C. M. Eddy, Jr., American writer (d. 1967)
1901 - Arie Querido, Dutch social psychiatrist
1901 - Ivan Petrovsky, Russian mathematician (d. 1973)
1903 - Berthold Goldschmidt, German/British (opera)composer (Beatrice Cenci)
1904 - Cary Grant, England, actor (Arsenic & Old Lace, North by Northwest)
1904 - Henri-Georges Adam, French etcher/painter/sculptor (Grand Nude)
1904 - Anthony Galla-Rini, American accordionist (d. 2006)
1905 - Chick Chandler, Kingston NY, actor (Barney-One Happy Family)
1905 - Joseph Bonanno, Italian-born gangster (d. 2002)
1906 - Hans Aeschbacher, Swiss sculptor (Venus de Six-Tours)
1907 - Janos Ferencsik, Budapest Hungary, conductor (Budapest Opera)
1908 - Albert P Morano, (Rep-R-Conn, 1951-59)
1908 - Jacob Bronowsky, British mathematician/cultural historian
1908 - Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1972)
1910 - Arthur John Howard, actor (Frieda, Last Holiday, Paradiso, Glass Cage)
1911 - Gabor Darvas, composer
1912 - Charles Moeller, Belgian theologist (Humanism et saintete)
1912 - William Sansom, English writer (Loving Eye)
1913 - Danny Kaye, Bkln NY, UNICEF/comedian/actor (Danny Kaye Show)
1914 - Arno Schmidt, writer
1915 - Vassilis Tsitsanis, Greek singer and songwriter (d. 1984)
1916 - Alec Coxon, cricketer (England pace bowler in one Test, 2-90 & 1-82)
1916 - James Crow, Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, geneticist and influential educator (Genetic Theories and Influences: Comments on the Value of Diversity), (d. 2012)
1917 - Oscar Lewenstein, impressario
1917 - Wang Yung-ching, Taiwanese businessman
1918 - Adriano Mandarino Hypolito, priest
1918 - Bohuslav Jeremias, composer, dies at 58
1918 - Ton Brandsteder, CEO/founder (Sony Nederland)
1918 - Gustave Gingras, French Canadian physician (d. 1996)
1919 - Juan Antonio Orrego-Salas, Santiago Chile, composer
1921 - Bruce Woodcock, boxer
1921 - Robert Glaser, Providence, Rhode Island, educational psychologist (National Assessment of Educational Progress), (d. 2012)
1922 - Constance Moore, Sioux City Iowa, actress (Window on Main Street)
1922 - Yehezkiel Braun, composer
1922 - Bob Bell, American clown (d. 1997)
1924 - Donald Baverstock, TV producer
1925 - Anthony Joly de Lotbiniere, TV producer
1925 - Gilles Deleuze, philosopher
1925 - Roepie Kruize, Dutch field hockey player (Olympic-Bronze-48/Silver-52)
1927 - Sundaram Balachander, Indian veena player (d. 1990)
1932 - Joe Schmidt, NFL Hall-of-Famer
1932 - Robert Anton Wilson, US, sci-fi author (Trick Top Hat)
1933 - David Bellamy, English botanist/tv-program maker
1933 - John Boorman, producer/dir (Exorcist II, Deliverance, Zardoz)
1933 - Ray Dolby, sound expert/inventor (Dolby noise limiting system)
1933 - Vladimir Yevgrafovich Bugrov, cosmonaut
1935 - Raymond Briggs, English author (Fungus the Bogeyman)
1935 - Jon Stallworthy, English poet
1935 - Gad Yaacobi, Israeli minister (d. 2007)
1938 - Curt Flood, American baseball player (d. 1997)
1939 - Bernard Glassman, NY, Zen teacher/head (Zen Center of NY)
1940 - Pedro Rodriguez, Mexican racing driver (d. 1971)
1941 - Bobby Goldsboro, Marianna Fla, singer (Honey)
1941 - David Ruffin, Miss, vocalist (Temptations-Papa Was a Rolling Stone)
1941 - Iva Zanicchi, actress (Ragazza Tutta d'Oro)
1941 - Denise Bombardier, Quebec journalist, television host and novelist
1943 - Dave Greene, rocker
1943 - Kay Granger, American politician
1944 - Larry "Legs" Smith, rocker (Bonzo Dog Band-Urban Spaceman)
1944 - Relus ter Beek, Dutch Minister of defense (PvdA)
1944 - Paul Keating, twenty-fourth Prime Minister of Australia
1944 - Carl Morton, American baseball player (d. 1983)
1945 - José Luis Perales, Spanish singer
1946 - Katia Ricclarelli, actress (Falstaff, Otello, Turandot)
1946 - Joseph Deiss, Swiss Federal Councilor
1948 - Takeshi Kitano, Tokyo Japan, actor (Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence)
1949 - Philippe Starck, French designer
1949 - Bill Keller, American newspaper editor
1950 - Claudia de Colombia, Bogato Columbia, spanish singer (Yo Creo En Ti)
1950 - Gilles Villeneuve, Canadian auto racer
1950 - John Hughes, director (Breakfast Club, 16 Candles, Weird Science)
1951 - Bob Latchford, English footballer
1951 - Bram Behr, Surinamese journalist (d. 1982)
1952 - R. Stevie Moore, American singer, songwriter, and home recording pioneer
1952 - Michael Behe, American advocate of Intelligent Design
1953 - Brett Hudson, Portland Ore, comedian (Bonkers, Hudson Brothers Show)
1954 - Ted DiBiase, Retired Professional Wrestler
1955 - Johannes AM "Hans" van Tongeren, Dutch actor (Hunk)
1955 - Kevin Costner, Los Angeles California, American actor (Fandango, Silverado, Bull Durham)
1955 - Mable Fergerson, LA California, 4x400m runner (Olympic-silver-1972)
1956 - Mark Collie, Waynesboro Tn, country singer (Another Old Soldier)
1957 - Tom Bailey, rock vocalist/keyboardist (Thompson Twins-Doctor Doctor)
1958 - Jeffrey N Williams, Superior Wisc, Major Army/astronaut
1958 - Larry Smith, NBA player
1959 - Bob Rosenberg, rocker (Will To Power)
1961 - Mark D Messier, Edmonton Alberta, NHL Center (Edmonton, NY Rangers)
1961 - Peter Beardsley, English footballer
1961 - Jeff Yagher, American actor
1962 - Alison Arngrim, actress (Nellie-Little House of the Prairie)
1962 - David O'Connor, equestrian 3-day (Olympics-silver-96)
1963 - Jane Horrocks, Lancashire England, actress (Absolutely Fabulous)
1963 - Maxime Bernier, French Canadian politician
1963 - Martin O'Malley, Governor of Maryland
1963 - Yury Zakharevich, Soviet weightlifter
1964 - Brady Anderson, Silver Spring MD, outfielder (Baltimore Orioles)
1964 - Jenny Holliday, Australian softball pitcher (Olympics-bronze-96)
1964 - Enrico Lo Verso, Italian actor
1965 - Richard Dunwoody, British(?) jockey)
1965 - Dave Attell, American writer and comedian
1966 - Alexander Khalifman, Russian chess player
1966 - André Ribeiro, Brazilian racing driver
1967 - Kim Perrot, WNBA guard (Houston Comets)
1967 - M C Tab, [Sharon Richard], NYC, rapper
1967 - Peter Cox Jr, Bronxville NY, fencer-sabre (Olympics-96)
1967 - Iván Zamorano, Chilean footballer
1968 - Frank Quitely, Scottish comic book artist
1969 - Larry Webster, defensive tackle (Baltimore Ravens)
1969 - Marvin Pope, CFL defensive end (Calgary Stampeders)
1969 - Jesse L. Martin, American actor and singer
1969 - Dave Bautista, American professional wrestler
1970 - Leo Araguz, NLF/WLAF punter (Oakland Raiders, Rhein Fire)
1970 - DJ Quik, American rapper
1970 - Peter van Petegem, Belgian cyclist
1971 - Andre Coleman, NFL wide receiver/kick returner (San Diego Chargers)
1971 - Greg Engel, NFL center (San Diego Chargers)
1971 - Jonathan Davis, American singer (KoЯn)
1971 - Christian Fittipaldi, Brazilian race car driver
1971 - Josep Guardiola, Spanish footballer
1971 - Seamus O'Regan, Canadian broadcast journalist
1972 - Dwayne Carswell, NFL tight end (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1972 - Mike Lieberthal, Glendale CA, catcher (Philadelphia Phillies)
1972 - Ryan Kuehl, defensive tackle (Washington Redskins)
1972 - Steven Conley, linebacker (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1972 - Vinod Kambli, cricketer (prolific Indian batsman 1993-)
1973 - Crispian Mills, London, vocalist/guitarist (Kula Shaker)
1973 - Edward Jasper, defensive tackle (Philadelphia Eagles)
1973 - Junior Burrough, NBA forward (Boston Celtics)
1973 - Regilio Vreede, soccer player (Blue White, RKC)
1974 - Devon Odessa, actor (Sharon-My So Called Life, Girl of Limberlost)
1974 - Shane Burton, defensive tackle (Miami Dolphins)
1974 - Michael Tunn, Australian television and radio
1974 - Christian Burns, English musician (BBMak)
1974 - Maulik Pancholy, American actor
1974 - Princess Claire of Belgium
1975 - Derek Smith, linebacker (Washington Redskins)
1976 - Laurence Courtois, Kortrijk Belg, tennis star (1995 finalist Jakarta)
1976 - Vincent Polvliet, soccer player (FC Utrecht)
1976 - Damien Leith, Australian Idol 2006
1977 - Curtis Cregan, American actor
1977 - Alina Jidkova, Russian tennis player
1977 - Richard Archer, British singer (lead singer of Hard-Fi)
1978 - Brian Falkenborg, American baseball player
1979 - Paulo Ferreira, Portuguese footballer
1979 - Jay Chou, Taiwanese singer and producer
1979 - Brian Gionta, American ice hockey player
1979 - Kenyatta Jones, American football player
1980 - Robert Green, English footballer
1980 - Julius Peppers, American football player
1980 - Jason Segel, American actor
1980 - Estelle Swaray, English singer
1981 - Kimberly Gloudemans, Miss California Teen USA (1997)
1981 - Latoya Farley, Miss Oklahoma Teen USA (1996)
1981 - Khari Stephenson, Jamaican footballer
1981 - Kang Dong-won, South Korean model and actor
1981 - Olivier Rochus, Belgian tennis player
1982 - Joanna Newsom, American harpist
1983 - Samantha Mumba, Irish singer and actress
1984 - Benji Schwimmer, American dancer
1984 - Maarja Kivi, Estonian singer
1984 - Seung-Hui Cho, shooter at Virginia Tech
1984 - Kristy Lee Cook, American Idol 7 cast member
1984 - Michael Kearney, American child prodigy
1985 - Dale Begg-Smith, Australian freestyle skier
1985 - Riccardo Montolivo, Italian soccer player
1985 - Minnisha Lamba, Indian Actress and Model
1988 - Ronald Guglielmone Jr., American singer-songwriter
1993 - Morgan York, American actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 18, 2013, 07:02:23 AM

This Day in History for 18th January


Famous Deaths

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US President John Tyler (1862)                Poet Rudyard Kipling (1936)


52 BC - Publius Clodius Pulcher (murdered) (b. 93 BC)
474 - Leo I, Byzantine Emperor (b. 401)
1367 - Pedro I, king of Portugal (1357-67), dies at 46
1425 - Edmund de Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, English politician (b. 1391)
1471 - Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan (b. 1419)
1479 - Louis IX, the Rich, duke of Bayern (U of Ingolstadt), dies at 61
1580 - Antonio Scandello, Italian composer (Passion of John), dies at 63
1586 - Margaret of Austria, regent of The Netherlands (b. 1522)
1659 - Benedikt Lechler, composer, dies at 64
1664 - Moses Amyraut, French theologian (b. 1596)
1666 - Adriaen A Bloemaert, Dutch landscape painter, dies at about 56
1677 - John A van Riebeeck, Dutch founder Cape Colony, dies at 57
1760 - Claudio Casciolini, composer, dies at 62
1769 - Hakuin Ekaku, Zen teacher (reformer of Rinzai school), dies in Japan
1803 - Ippolit Bogdanovich, Russian poet (b. 1743)
1854 - Juda Turo, American philanthropist, dies
1862 - John Tyler, 10th US pres (1841-45), dies in Richmond Va at 71
1873 - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, English author (b. 1803)
1875 - Joseph Philbrick Webster, composer, dies at 55
1878 - Antoine César Becquerel, French physicist (b. 1788)
1886 - Michal Czajchovski, [Sadik Pasja], writer, dies
1886 - Baldassare Verazzi, Italian painter (b. 1819)
1890 - Amadeus I FM, king of Spain (1870-73), dies at 44
1892 - Anton Anderledy, Swiss Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1819)
1896 - Charles Floquet, French statesman (b. 1828)
1902 - Filippo Marchetti, composer, dies at 70
1906 - Bartolomé Mitre, president of Argentina (1862-70), dies at 84
1913 - Edmond R H Regout, Dutch industrialist/politician, dies at 49
1919 - John C F, son of English king George V, dies at 13
1921 - Adolf von Hildebrand, German sculptor, dies at 73
1923 - Wallace Reid, actor (Birth of a Nation), dies at 31
1936 - Rudyard Kipling, author (Gunga Din, Nobel 1907), dies at 70
1940 - Kazimierz P Tetmajer, Polish writer/poet (Young Poland), dies at 74
1951 - Robert Mark, US chairman (Caste World Congress), dies at 41
1952 - Curly Howard, American actor and comedian (b. 1903)
1954 - Sydney Greenstreet, actor (Conflict, Maltese Falcon), dies at 74
1962 - Raymond Moulaert, composer, dies at 86
1963 - Johnnie Moyes, journalist/cricketer (S Aust batsman), dies
1966 - Kathleen Norris, US author, dies at 85
1967 - Albert Conti, actor (Eagle, Jazz Heaven, Topaz), dies at 79
1967 - Barney Ross, welterweight Boxing Champ (1934), dies at 57
1967 - Harry Antrim, actor (Ma & Pa Kettle), dies of heart attack at 83
1967 - Reese "Goose" Tatum, basketballer (Harlem Globetrotters), dies at 45
1967 - Simon FHJ Berkelbach van der Sprenkel, vicar/theologist, dies at 84
1968 - Bert Wheeler, actor (Rainmakers, High Flyers, Dixiana), dies at 72
1968 - John Ridgely, actor (Air Force, Possessed, Big Sleep), dies at 58
1968 - Lee Tracy, actor (Martin Kane-Martin Kane Private Eye), dies at 69
1969 - Hans Freyer, German sociologist (b. 1887)
1970 - David O McKay, 9th Mormon president, dies at 96
1971 - Catherine Calvert, actress (Fires of Faith), dies of stroke at 80
1972 - Rudolf Wittelsbach, composer, dies at 69
1975 - Gertrude Olmstead, American actress (b. 1897)
1976 - Ad Verhoeven, soccer player (Xerxes, Sparta), dies in crash [or 1/17]
1976 - Sonia Dresdel, actor (Fallen Idol, Secret Tent), dies at 67
1977 - Carl Zuckmayer, German/Swiss/US playwright (Second Wind), dies at 80
1977 - Paul Nordoff, US composer (Frog Prince), dies at 67
1977 - Yvonne Printemps, actress (Paris Waltz, Voyage to America), dies at 81
1978 - Carl Betz, actor (Alex Stone-Donna Reed Show), dies at 56
1978 - Ivan Ivonovich Dzerzhinsky, composer, dies at 68
1978 - Hasan Askari, Pakistani philosopher, critic and writer (b. 1919)
1978 - Walter H. Thompson, English Scotland Yard detective, bodyguard of Winston Churchill (b. 1890)
1979 - Cyril Mockridge, composer, dies at 82
1980 - Cecil Beaton, British photographer, dies at 76
1982 - Burnet Corwin Tuthill, US composer (Laurentia), dies at 93
1982 - Trent Lehman, actor (Butch-Nanny & the Professor), dies at 20
1984 - Malcolm H Kerr, 9th pres of American U of Beirut, shot dead
1984 - Vassilis Tsitsanis, Greek singer and songwriter (b. 1915)
1985 - Mahmoud Taha, Sudanese Moslem leader, hanged at 76
1985 - Wilfrid Brambell, actor (Hard Day's Night, Boys), dies at 72
1986 - Claire James, actress (Jack Armstrong), dies
1989 - Bruce Chatwin, British writer, dies at 49
1990 - Melanie Appleby, rocker (Mel & Kim), dies of liver cancer at 23
1990 - Rusty Hamer, American actor (b. 1947)
1991 - Hamilton Fish, congressman (NY), dies at 102
1991 - Lillian Bond, actress (Air Mail, Pick-up, Blond Cheat), dies at 83
1991 - Nita Krebs, actor (Munchkin-Wizard of Oz), dies of heart attack at 85
1992 - John Remme, entertainer, dies of AIDS at 56
1992 - Tom Elios, entertainer, dies
1993 - M Eleonore Lippits, 1st Dutch female missionary doctor, dies at 85
1993 - Mia Meijer, Dutch playwright/director (Machine Child), dies
1993 - Mike Templeton, 2nd person to receive a heart pump, dies at 34
1993 - Eleanor Hibbert, British author (b. 1906)
1994 - Arthur Altman, songwriter, dies at 83
1995 - Adolph F J Butenandt, German bio-chemist (Nobel 1939), dies at 91
1995 - Charles Baskerville, vocalist, dies at 54
1995 - Joseph Kagan, businessman, dies at 79
1995 - Ron Luciano, American baseball umpire (b. 1937)
1996 - Leonor Fini, painter, dies at 87
1996 - Minnesota Fats, [Rudolf Wanderone Jr], billiard hustler, dies at 82
1996 - N T Rama Rao, PM of Andhra Pradesh India (1983-84, 84-89, 94-95), dies
1996 - Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao, Indian actor (b. 1923)
1997 - Myfanwy Piper, librettist, dies at 85
1997 - Neville Crump, racehorse trainer, dies at 86
1997 - Paul Tsongas, (Sen-D-Mass), dies at 55
2000 - Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Austrian architect (b. 1897)
2001 - Al Waxman, Canadian actor (b. 1935)
2003 - Edward "The Sheik" Farhat, American professional wrestler (b. 1926)
2005 - Lamont Bentley, American actor (b. 1973)
2006 - Jan Twardowski, Polish poet (b. 1915)
2007 - Brent Liles, American musician (Agent Orange/Social Distortion) (b. 1963)
2008 - Georgia Frontiere, American football team owner (b. 1927)
2008 - Frank Lewin, American composer and music theorist (b. 1925)
2008 - John Stroger, first African-American Cook County Board President (b. 1929)
2009 - Tony Hart, British artist and TV presenter (b. 1925)
2009 - Grigore Vieru, Romanian poet (b. 1935)
2009 - Bob May, American actor (b. 1939)
2011 - Sargent Shriver, American politician (b. 1915)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 19, 2013, 08:36:16 AM

This Day in History for 19th January


Historical Events

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1st Duke of Wellington &                          Inventor Thomas Edison                                Author and Nobel                     
British Prime Minister                                                                                             Laureate Gerhart Hauptmann
Arthur Wellesley

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Hall of Fame MLB shortstop                   Heavyweight Boxing Champ
Ernie Banks                                                       Muhammad Ali

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New York Yankees Owner                     Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat
George Steinbrenner


379 - Theodosius installed as co-emperor of East Roman Empire
973 - Pope Benedictus VI elected
1419 - French city of Rouen surrenders to Henry V in Hundred Years War
1493 - France cedes Roussillon & Cerdagne to Spain by treaty of Barcelona
1511 - Mirandola surrenders to the French.
1520 - Sten Sture the Younger, the Regent of Sweden, was mortally wounded at the Battle of
           Bogesund.
1607 - San Agustin Church in Manila is officially completed; it is currently the oldest church in the
           Philippines
1668 - King Louis XIV & Emperor Leopold I sign treaty dividing Spain
1714 - Richard Steele publishes "Crisis," defending Hanoverian success
1746 - Bonnie Prince Charlies troops occupy Stirling [OS= Jan 8]
1770 - Battle of Golden Hill (Lower Manhattan)
1785 - First manned balloon flight in Ireland
1793 - French King Louis XVI sentenced to death
1795 - Democratic revolution in Amsterdam ends oligarchy
1806 - Britain occupies Cape of Good Hope
1808 - Louis Napoleon signs 1st Dutch aviation law
1810 - Overnight temp at Portsmouth NH drops 50°F (10°C)
1812 - Peninsular War: After a ten day siege, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, orders British
           soldiers of the Light and third divisions to storm Ciudad Rodrigo.
1825 - Ezra Daggett & nephew Thomas Kensett patent food storage in tin cans
1829 - Johann von Goethe's "Faust, Part 1," premieres
1833 - Charles Darwin reaches Straits Ponsonby, Fireland
1839 - Aden conquered by British East India Company
1840 - Antarctica discovered, Charles Wilkes expedition (US claim)
1853 - Verdi's opera "Il Trovatore," premieres in Rome
1861 - Georgia becomes 5th state to secede
1861 - MS troops take Ft Massachusetts an Ship Island
1862 - Battle of Mill Springs, KY (Fishing Creek, Logan's Crossroads)
1863 - General Mieroslawski appointed dictator of Poland
1865 - NV Suriname Bank established
1865 - Union occupies Fort Anderson, NC
1871 - 1st Negro lodge of US Masons approved, New Jersey
1883 - The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins
            service at Roselle, New Jersey.
1884 - Jules Massenet's opera "Manon," premieres in Paris
1885 - Battle at Abu Klea Sudan: 800-1000 killed
1886 - Aurora Ski Club, 1st in US, founded in Minnesota
1893 - Henrik Ibsen's play The Master Builder premieres in Berlin.
1898 - Brown defeats Harvard 6-0 in 1st intercollegiate hockey game
1899 - Anglo-Egyptian Sudan forms
1903 - 1st regular transatlantic radio broadcast between US & England
1903 - New bicycle race "Tour de France" announced
1906 - Gerhart Hauptmann's "Und Pippa Tanzt!," premieres in Berlin
1909 - Eugene Walter's "Easiest Way," premieres in NYC
1910 - Germany & Bolivia ends commerce/friendship treaty
1910 - National Institute of Arts & Letters incorporated by Congress
1913 - Raymond Poincaré installed as president of France
1915 - 1st German Zeppelin attack over Great Britain, 4 die
1915 - Neon Tube sign patented by George Claude
1917 - Silvertown Essex's ammunition factory explodes; 300 die
1918 - Soviets disallows a Constitution Assembly
1918 - Finnish Civil War: The first serious battles between the Red Guards and the White Guard.
1919 - "Tidal wave" of molasses 15 m high x 25 m wide kills dozens, Boston
1920 - Alexandre Millerand forms French government
1920 - US Senate votes against membership in League of Nations
1921 - Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras & El Salvador sign Pact of Union
1922 - Geological survey says US oil supply would be depleted in 20 years
1923 - WMC-AM in Memphis TN begins radio transmissions
1925 - -48°F (-44°C), Van Buren, Maine (state record)
1927 - British government decides to send troops to China
1929 - Acadia National Park, Maine established
1929 - Clas Thunberg skates world record 500m in 42.8 sec
1932 - Charlie Conacher becomes 1st Toronto Maple Leaf to score 5 goals in a game, 1st coming at 7
           seconds of game
1934 - Kenesaw Mountain Landis denies Joe Jackson's appeal for reinstatement
1935 - KLM begins flight path between Curacao & Aruba
1935 - Coopers Inc. sells the world's first briefs.
1937 - Cy Young, Tris Speaker & Nap Lajorie elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1937 - Millionaire Howard Hughes sets transcontinental air record (7h28m25s)
1938 - General Motors begins mass production of diesel engines
1939 - Ernest Hausen of Wisconsin sets chicken-plucking record-4.4 sec
1941 - British offensive in Eritrea
1941 - British troops occupies Kassalaf Sudan
1942 - Japanese forces invade Burma
1942 - Titus Brandsma arrested by German occupiers
1943 - Uprising in Warsaw ghetto
1943 - Joint Chiefs of Staff decide on invasion in Sicily
1947 - SS Himera runs aground at Athens, kills 392
1949 - Cuba recognises Israel.
1950 - Maiden flight by Canada's Avro Canada CF-100 military plane
1952 - NFL takes control of NY Yanks
1952 - PGA approves allowing black participants
1953 - Jesse Owens named Illinois Athletic Commission secretary
1955 - "Millionaire" TV program premieres on CBS
1955 - "Scrabble" debuts on board game market
1955 - 1st presidential news conference filmed for TV (Eisenhower)
1956 - Hoboken dedicates a plaque honoring achievements of Alexander Cartwright in organizing
           early baseball at Elysian Field
1957 - USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
1958 - Canadian Football Council renamed Canadian Football League
1960 - Eisenhower & Premier Kishi sign US-Japanese Security pact
1961 - 1st episode for "Dick Van Dyke Show" is filmed
1964 - AFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 27-24
1964 - KFME TV channel 13 in Fargo, ND (PBS) begins broadcasting
1966 - Indira Gandhi elected India's 3rd prime minister
1966 - Neil Simons, Coleman & Fields' musical "Sweet Charity," premieres
1966 - Tippetts cantate "Vision of St Augustine," premieres in London
1967 - Herr Karl Tausch writes shortest will "Vse Zene" (All to wife)
1968 - WKBF TV channel 61 in Cleveland, OH (IND) begins broadcasting
1969 - AFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 38-25
1969 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational
1969 - NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 10-7
1970 - Dutch bishops says he is in favor of married priest
1970 - Nixon nominates G Harold Carswell to Supreme Court (fails)
1970 - UCLA fires Angela Davis for being a communist
1971 - "No, No Nanette" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 861 performances
1971 - 24th NHL All-Star Game: West beat East 2-1 at Boston
1971 - Beatles' "Helter Skelter" is played at Charles Manson trial
1971 - NHL Writers' Association renamed Professional Hockey Writers' Association
1972 - Sandy Koufax, Yogi Berra, & Early Wynn elected to Hall of Fame
1974 - Belgium government of Leburton falls
1974 - Notre Dame beats UCLA, ends NCAA-record 88-game basketball win streak
1975 - 4 mail truck assault on El Al B-747 in Paris, escape to Iraq
1975 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Colgate Golf Triple Crown
1975 - Triple J begins broadcasting in Sydney, Australia.
1977 - Ernie Banks elected to Hall of Fame
1977 - Pres Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (Tokyo Rose)
1977 - World's largest crowd-12.7 million-for Indian religious festival
1977 - Snow falls in Miami, Florida. This is the only time in the history of the city that snowfall has
           occurred. It also fell in the Bahamas.
1978 - Eddie Mathews elected to Hall of Fame
1978 - Judge William H Webster appointed head of FBI
1978 - The last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany leaves VW's plant in Emden. Beetle production
           in Latin America would continue until 2003.
1979 - John N Mitchell (former AG) released on parole from federal prison
1981 - Muhammad Ali talks a despondent 21 year old out of committing suicide
1981 - US & Iran sign agreement to release 52 American hostages
1982 - Aust-WI one-day game that produced a Privy Council libel case
1982 - Heater explodes at Star Elementary School-Oklahoma, kills 6 kids & teacher
1983 - Klaus Barbie, SS chief of Lyon in Nazi-France, arrested in Bolivia
1984 - Francesco Moser bicycles world record time: 50,808 km
1984 - California Supreme Court rejects quadriplegic Elizabeth Bouvia, who wants to starve herself to
          death in a public hospital
1985 - "Born In The USA" by Bruce Springsteen peaked at #9
1985 - 4 die in a car & train crash in Buda Ill
1986 - Cerebral Palsy telethon
1986 - Israeli premier Simon Peres visits Netherlands
1986 - Spain recognizes Israel
1987 - Guy Hunt becomes Alabama's 1st Republican governor since 1874
1988 - "48 Hours" premiers on CBS-TV
1989 - Pres Reagan pardons George Steinbrenner for illegal funds for Nixon
1990 - Test debut of Mushtaq Ahmed, v Australia at Adelaide
1991 - 42nd NHL All-Star Game: Campbell beat Wales 11-5 at Chicago
1991 - 48th Golden Globes: Dances with Wolves
1991 - Eastern Airlines shuts down operation
1991 - Jumbo Tsuruta beats Stan Hansen to win All Japan Triple Crown title
1991 - Sgt Slaughter defeats Ultimate Warrior for WWF championship belt
1992 - "City of Angels" closes at Virginia Theater NYC after 878 performances
1992 - Cerebral Palsy telethon raises 23,500,000
1992 - IBM announces a nearly $5B loss for 1992
1992 - Nature Boy Ric Flair becomes WWF champ at Royal Rumble
1992 - Rowdy Roddy Piper beats Mountie to become WWF Intercontinental Champ
1993 - Israel recognizes PLO as no longer criminal
1993 - Oakland A's unveil new elephant logo
1993 - Robert M Gates, ends term as 15th director of CIA
1993 - STS-54 (Endeavour) lands
1994 - -20°F (-29°C) (5:32 AM) coldest day ever recorded in Cleveland Ohio
1994 - -36°F (-38°C) in New Whiteland, Indiana (state record)
1995 - Jean-Claude Juncker (28) sworn in as premier of Luxembourg
1996 - NHL approves move of Winnipeg Jets to Phoenix
1997 - 54th Golden Globes: English Patient, Brenda Blethyn & Geoffrey Rush
1997 - Cerebral Palsy telethon
1997 - Michelle McGann wins LPGA Healthsouth Inaugural
1997 - Yasser Arafat returns to Hebron after more than 30 years and joins celebrations over the
           handover of the last Israeli-controlled West Bank city.
2006 - A Slovak Air Force Antonov An-24 crashes in Hungary.
2006 - The New Horizons probe is launched by NASA on the first mission to Pluto.
2006 - Terrorist blows himself up in Tel Aviv, killing only himself but injuring 20 people, one of them
            seriously.
2007 - Armenian Journalist Hrant Dink assassinated in front of his newspaper's office by 17 year old
          Turkish ultranationalist Ogün Samast.
2012 - FBI shuts down Megaupload.com for alleged copyright infringement, hacker group
           Anonymous responds by attacking government and entertainment industry websites

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 19, 2013, 08:37:24 AM

This Day in History for 19th January


Famous Weddings

2012 - Indian bollywood actress Deepshikha Nagpal (34) weds Indian actor Kaishav Arora in Mumbai

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 19, 2013, 08:44:39 AM

This Day in History for 19th January


Famous Birthdays

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Confederate General                               Author Edgar Allan Poe (1809)          Country singer Dolly Parton (1946)
Robert E Lee (1807)


399 - Pulcheria, Byzantine empress (d. 453)
570 - Mohammed, Islamic prophet (Koran)
1200 - Dogen Kigen, Japan, Zen teacher, 1st patriarch of the Japanese Soto
1544 - Francis II de Valois-Angouleme, king of France (1559-60)
1613 - Jacques Huyn, composer
1639 - Noel Alexandre, French theologian/historian
1676 - John Weldon, composer
1679 - Girolamo Chiti, composer
1686 - Hakuin Ekakuborn, Japan, Zen Buddhist
1736 - James Watt, Scotland, inventor (steam engine)
1736 - Laurens P van de Spiegel, Dutch regent/secretary of State 1787-95
1737 - Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Fr writer (Paul et Virgin)
1739 - Joseph Bonomi the Elder, Italian architect (d. 1808)
1749 - Isaiah Thomas, US, printer/editor/publisher/historian
1752 - James Morris III, American army officer (d. 1820)
1757 - Augusta Reuss-Ebersdorf, German Princess (d. 1831)
1760 - Melchor Lopez Jimenez, composer
1790 - Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom, Swedish historian/poet (Blommorna)
1798 - Auguste Comte, philosopher/founder (sociology & positivism)
1802 - [Jean] Silvain van de Weyer, 1st Belgium min of Foreign affairs (1831)
1806 - Vaclav Jindrich Veit, composer
1807 - Robert E Lee, Stratford Virginia, American Confederate General in Chief, (d. 1870)
1808 - Lysander Spooner, American philosopher (d. 1887)
1809 - Edgar Allan Poe, Boston, author (Pit & the Pendulum)
1813 - Henry Bessemer, engineer/inventor (Bessemer engine)
1816 - Henry Gray, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1892
1820 - John Haskell King, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1888
1827 - Carlos Guido y Spano, Argentina, conductor (Rafagas,)
1830 - George Blake Cosby, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1909
1832 - Ferdinand Laub, composer
1832 - Salvador Giner y Vidal, composer
1837 - William Williams Keen, surgeon (brain)
1839 - Bohumil Pazdirek, composer
1839 - Paul Cézanne, French painter (d. 1906)
1848 - John F. Stairs, Canadian businessman (d. 1904)
1851 - David Starr Jordan, NY, biologist/university pres (Leland Stanford)
1851 - Johannes C Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer
1858 - Eugene Brieux, French playwright (Blanchette, Lesson Avaries)
1859 - Alice Eastwood, Toronto, botanist (Handbook of Trees of California)
1863 - Werner Sombart, German fascist (Juden und das Wirtschaftsleben)
1866 - Harry Davenport, NYC, actor/director (Her Unborn Child, My Sin)
1868 - Gustav Meyrink, writer
1869 - Alfred R Zimmerman, mayor (Rotterdam 1906-22)/Dir (League of Nations)
1873 - Hans E Blaich, writer
1877 - Charles Coburn, Savannah Ga, actor (Devil & Miss Jones)
1878 - Herbert Chapman, English football player and manager (d. 1934)
1879 - Marie Koenen, author/wife of Felix Rutten (Wassend Cereal)
1879 - Boris Savinkov, Russian writer (d. 1925)
1883 - Hermann Abendroth, German conductor
1884 - Albert Louis Wolff, composer
1887 - Alexander Woollcott, NJ, short story writer (Man Who Came to Dinner)
1892 - Olafur Thors, Icelandic PM (6 times, 1942-63)
1897 - Natacha Rambova, Salt Lake City UT, costume designer
1897 - René Victor, Flemish lawyer/knight (Rechtskundig Weekblad)
1899 - [John] Herbert Whitton Sumsion, organist/composer
1902 - Heinrich Schmist-Barrien, German author (Moorkeerl)
1903 - Alfred Lane Beit, connoisseur
1904 - James Winston Watts, developer (Frontal Lobotomy)
1905 - Anne Schumacher Hummert, radio pioneer
1905 - Oveta Culp Hobby, government official/newspaper publisher/CEO (Houston Post)
1906 - Ish Kabbible, [Merwyn Bogue], Penns, comedian (Kay Kyser's Kollege)
1906 - Lanny Ross, Seattle, radio singer (Show Boat, The Swift Show)
1907 - Lillian Harvey, London England, actress (Invitation to the Waltz)
1908 - Aleksandr Gennadievich Kurosh, Russian mathematician (d. 1971)
1909 - Hans Hotter, German bass-baritone (d. 2003)
1910 - Willi Schmidt, Germany, director
1912 - Francis David Charteris, earl of Wemyss & March/Scottish landowner
1912 - Jean G H "Sjeng" Tans, Dutch soc dem chairman (1965-69)
1912 - Leonid V Kantorovich, St Petersburg Russia, economist (Nobel)
1913 - Phyllis Flowerdew, school Reading text author
1913 - Rex Ingamells, Australian poet (d. 1955)
1913 - "Minnesota Fats", American billiards player (d. 1996)
1914 - Lester Flatt, country musician (Flatt and Scruggs)
1914 - Bob Gerard, British racing driver (d. 1990)
1915 - Alvy West, Bkln NY, orchestra leader (Andy Williams Show)
1917 - John Raitt, Bonnie Raitt's father/singer/actor (Pajama Game)
1917 - Rudolf Maros, composer
1918 - John H Johnson, US, publisher (Negro Digest, Ebony, Jet)
1919 - Anthony Dexter, [Walter Fleischmann], NB Canada, actor (Valentino)
1919 - Dharam Singh, India, field hockey player (Olympic-gold-1964)
1920 - Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Peruvian United Nations Secretary General
1921 - Patricia Highsmith, [Plangman], US/Swiss writer (Strangers on a Train)
1921 - "Billy Batts" Devino, American gangster (d. 1970)
1922 - Arthur Morris, cricketer (great Australian lefty opening batsman)
1922 - Guy Madison, [Robert Moseley], California, actor (Wild Bill Hickok)
1922 - Ken Hughes, Liverpool England, director (Casino Royale)
1923 - Jean Stapleton, NYC, actress (Damn Yankees, Klute, All in the Family)
1923 - Markus Wolf, German spy (d. 2006)
1924 - 7th earl of Carnarvon, English large landowner
1924 - Jean Francois Revel, French journalist/author (Ni Marx ni Jesus)
1924 - Nicholas Colasanto, Providence RI, actor (Coach Ernie-Cheers)
1925 - Nina [Mary] Bawden, English author (Afternoon of a Good Woman), (d. 2012)
1926 - Fritz Weaver, Pitts Pa, actor (Josef-Holocaust, Day of the Dolphin)
1926 - Libera Carlier, Flemish author (Action Station Go!)
1928 - Dainin Katagiri, Osaka Japan, Zen teacher, associate of Shunryu Suzuki
1928 - Edward Gerard Schurmann, composer
1929 - Ulu Grosbard, Belgium, actor (Straight Time, Georgia, Falling in Love)
1930 - John Waite, cricket wicket-keeper (great South African)
1930 - Tippi Hedren, American actress
1931 - Robert MacNeil, Montreal, news anchor (NBC Weekend News, 1965-67)
1931 - Ron Packard, (Rep-R-CA, 1983- )
1932 - Joe Schmidt, NFL Hall of Fame linebacker (Detroit Lions)
1932 - Richard Lester, movie director (Hard Day's Night, Help!, Petulia)
1933 - Marc F A Andries, Flemish actor (Central Station)
1935 - Tippi Hedren, Minnesota, actress (The Birds, Marnie, Bold & Beautiful)
1936 - Elliott Schwartz, composer
1938 - Denny Smith, (Rep-R-OR, 1981- )
1938 - Eskil Hemberg, composer
1938 - Phil Everly, Brownie Ky, singer (Everly Bros-Wake Up Little Susie)
1940 - Barend J du Plessis, South African minister of Finance (1984- )
1940 - Mary Mills, LPGA golfer
1940 - Paolo Borsellino, Italian magistrate (d. 1992)
1940 - Mike Reid, English comedian (d. 2007)
1941 - Tony Anholt, British actor (d. 2002)
1941 - Colin Gunton, British theologian (d. 2003)
1941 - Pat Patterson, Canadian wrestler
1942 - Michael Crawford, England, Broadway star (Phantom of the Opera)
1942 - Shelly Fabares, Santa Monica California, actress (Donna Reed Show, Coach)
1943 - Janis Joplin, Port Arthur Tx, bluesy rock singer (Down on Me)
1943 - Joe Butler, rocker
1943 - Margriet Francisca, Dutch Princess
1943 - Petchara Chaowarat, Thai film actress
1944 - Dan Reeves, NFL Coach (NY Giants, Denver Broncos, Atlanta Falcons)
1944 - Pehr Henrik Nordgren, composer
1944 - Richard [Erskine Frere] Leakey, Nairobi Kenya, anthropologist
1944 - Shelley Fabares, American actress
1944 - Laurie London, English singer
1944 - Peter Lynch, American investor
1945 - Charles Amirkhanian, composer
1945 - Rod Evans, rocker (Deep Purple-Come Taste the Band)
1945 - Vadim Abdrashitov, director (Fox Hunt, Parade of Planets)
1946 - Alexandr Vladimirovich Shchukin, Russian cosmonaut
1946 - Dolly Parton, Sevierville Tn, country singer (Dolly, 9 to 5)
1946 - Julian Barnes, England, writer (Before She Met Me)
1947 - Alessandro Haber, actor (China is Near)
1947 - Ann Compton, news reporter (ABC TV)
1947 - Paula Deen, American chef and restaurateur
1948 - Harvey Hinsley, rocker
1949 - Robert Palmer, Batley England, singer (Power Station)
1950 - Sébastien Dhavernas, Quebec actor
1950 - Grant Nordman, Canadian politician
1951 - Linda Hayden, Middlesex England, actress (Blood on Satan's Claw)
1952 - Dewey Bunell, Yorkshire England, rock guitarist (America-Daisy Jane)
1953 - Desi Arnaz Jr, LA California, actor (Craig-Here's Lucy, Fakeout, Joyride)
1953 - Linda Hayden, English actress
1953 - Richard Legendre, Canadian politician
1954 - Katey Sagal, Los Angeles, California, singer/actress (Peggy Bundy-Married With Children)
1954 - Steve DeBerg, NFL quarterback (Broncos, Chiefs, Bucs, 49ers)
1954 - Cindy Sherman, American artist
1954 - Katharina Thalbach, German actress and film director
1955 - Simon Rattle, England, orchestra conductor (Birmingham Symph Orch)
1955 - Paul Rodriguez, Mexican-born actor and comedian
1956 - Carman Licciardello, American Christian singer
1957 - Mickael Virtue, rock keyboardist (UB40-Red Red Wine)
1957 - Ottis "O J" Anderson, NFL running back (NY Giants)
1957 - Kenneth McClintock, Puerto Rican politician
1958 - Thomas Kinkade, Sacramento, California, artist, (d. 2012)
1960 - Alfrederick Joyner, E St Louis Ill, triple jumper (Olympic-gold-1984)
1961 - Paul McCrane, actor (Hotel New Hampshire, We're Fighting Back)
1961 - William Ragsdale, AK, actor (Fright Night, Mannequin 2, Smooth Talk)
1962 - Chris Sabo, Detroit Michigan, third baseman (Cincinnati Reds, Baltimore Orioles)
1962 - Hans Daams, Dutch cyclist
1963 - Adele Peterson, LPGA golfer
1963 - Caron Wheeler, English singer (Soul II Soul-Keep on Movin')
1963 - Michael Adams, NBA guard (Charlotte Hornets)
1963 - Martin Bashir, Pakistani-born reporter
1964 - Janine Antoni, Bahamian artist
1964 - Ricardo Arjona, Guatemalan singer
1965 - Ricky Reynolds, NFL cornerback (NE Patriots)
1966 - Anthony Young, US baseball pitcher (NY Met, Chicago Cubs)
1966 - Ronnie Williams, NFL tight end (Miami Dolphins)
1966 - Stefan Edberg, Sweden, tennis player (Wimbledon 1988, US Open 1991)
1966 - Sylvain Cote, Duberger, NHL defenseman (Washington Capitals)
1966 - Lena Philipsson, Swedish singer
1967 - Christine Tucci, actress (Amanda Cory-Another World)
1967 - Javier Cámara, Spanish actor
1968 - Marty Conlon, NBA forward (Milwaukee Bucks)
1968 - Whitfield Crane, rocker (Ugly Kid Joe-Mad Man, Too Bad)
1969 - Andrew Murray Stone, Auckland NZ, Open 470 yachter (Olympics-96)
1969 - Junior Seau, NFL inside linebacker (San Diego Chargers), (d. 2012)
1969 - Luc Longley, NBA center (Chicago Bulls)
1969 - Orlando Palmeiro, Hoboken NJ, outfielder (California Angels)
1969 - Predrag Mijatović, Yugoslavian footballer
1969 - Edwidge Danticat, Haitian-born American author
1969 - Steve Staunton, Irish footballer
1970 - Ghetty Chasun, Erie Penn, actress (Red Lips)
1970 - Rick Krivda, Mckeesport PA, pitcher (Baltimore Orioles)
1970 - T J Mathews, Belleville IL, pitcher (St Louis Cardinals)
1970 - Kathleen Smet, Belgian triathlete
1970 - Udo Suzuki, Japanese comedian
1971 - Jeff Juden, Salem MA, baseball pitcher (Philadelphia Phillies, SF Giants)
1971 - Maurice Hofman, Dutch soccer player (MVV)
1971 - Reggie Brooks, NFL running back (Washington Redskins)
1971 - Shawn Wayans, actor (In Living Color)
1971 - John Wozniak, American singer and songwriter (Marcy Playground)
1972 - Tyrone Wheatley, NFL running back (NY Giants)
1972 - Joana Benedek, Mexican actress
1972 - Ron Killings, American professional wrestler
1972 - Princess Kalina of Bulgaria, titular Bulgarian royal family
1973 - Chris Stynes, Queens NY, infielder (KC Royals)
1973 - Antero Manninen, Finnish Cellist
1973 - Drea de Matteo, American actress
1973 - Aaron Yonda, YouTube celebrity
1974 - Amaury Telemaco, Higuey Dom Rep, pitcher (Chicago Cubs)
1974 - Gregory Playfair, Suriname/Dutch soccer player (PSV)
1974 - Tarik Oulida, soccer player (Ajax/Seville)
1974 - Walter Jones, tackle (Seattle Seahawks)
1974 - Jaime Moreno, Bolivian footballer
1974 - Frank Caliendo, American comedian
1975 - Natalie Harvey, Australian 3k/5k runner (Olympics-96)
1975 - Noah Georgeson, American Musician and Producer
1976 - Claire Grech, Miss Malta Universe (1997)
1976 - Sky Christopherson, Tucson Ariz, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1976 - Tarso Marques, Brazilian racing driver
1977 - Anne Miller, Midland Mich, tennis star (1995 Darmstadt Germany)
1977 - Taliesin Jaffe, Venice California, actor (Willy-Hail to the Chief)
1977 - Lauren Etame Mayer, Cameroonian footballer
1977 - Nicole, Chilean singer
1977 - Cocco, Ryukyuan singer
1979 - Josu Sarriegi, Spanish/Basque footballer
1979 - Svetlana Khorkina, Russian gymnast
1979 - Wiley, English Rapper (Grime)
1980 - Jenson Button, English Formula One driver
1980 - Kotoko, Japanese Singer
1981 - Asier Del Horno, Spanish footballer
1981 - Lucho González, Argentine footballer
1982 - Jodie Sweetin, actress (Stephanie Tanner-Full House)
1982 - Angela Chang, Taiwanese singer and actress
1982 - Mike Komisarek, American ice hockey player
1983 - Hikaru Utada, American-born Japanese singer and songwriter
1984 - Euan Blair, Eldest son of Tony Blair
1984 - Karun Chandhok, Indian racing driver
1984 - Thomas Vanek, Austrian ice hockey player
1985 - Benny Feilhaber, American soccer player
1985 - Esteban Guerrieri, Argentine racing driver
1985 - Rika Ishikawa, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
1987 - Edgar Manucharyan, Armenian footballer
1991 - Erin Sanders, American child actress
1992 - Logan Lerman, American child actor
1992 - Shawn Johnson, American Gymnastics Champion
1993 - John Bouvier Kennedy Schlossberg, son of Caroline Kennedy

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 19, 2013, 08:45:36 AM

This Day in History for 19th January


Famous Deaths

639 - Dagobert I, king of Austrasia/Soissons/Burgundy/Neustrië, dies
1479 - Johan II, king of Aragon/Navarra, dies at 81
1526 - Isabella of Burgundy, wife of Christian II of Denmark (b. 1501)
1547 - Henry Howard, earl of Surrey, army commander/poet, beheaded at 29
1549 - Barthout van Assendelft, 1st land advocate of Holland, dies
1576 - Hans Sachs, composer, dies at 81
1591 - Edmond Auger, French jesuit (under Henri III), dies at about 60
1625 - Erhard Buttner, composer, dies at 32
1629 - Abbas I, Shah of Persia (1588-1629), dies at 57
1647 - Johan van Beverwijck, physician (Treas of Ongesontheyt), dies at 52
1661 - Thomas Venner, Fifth Monarchist (executed) (b. 1799)
1669 - Leo Allatios, Greek/Italian theologist/literary, dies at about 82
1692 - John Commelin, director of Hortus Botanist (Amsterdam), dies at 62
1729 - William Congreve, English dramatist (Love for Love), dies at 58
1747 - Johann Bode, "discoverer" of Bode's Law, dies
1757 - Thomas Ruddiman, Scottish classical scholar (b. 1674)
1785 - Jonathan Toup, English classical scholar and critic (b. 1713)
1795 - Maria Teresa Agnesi, composer, dies at 74
1805 - Johann Gottlieb Karl Spazier, composer, dies at 43
1830 - Wenzel Thomas Matiegka, composer, dies at 56
1833 - Louis Joseph Ferdinand Herold, French composer (b. 1791)
1839 - Georg Abraham Schneider, composer, dies at 38
1851 - Esteban Echeverría, Argentine writer (b. 1805)
1865 - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, French philosopher and anarchist (b. 1809)
1874 - H v Fallersleben, writer, dies at 75
1878 - Henri V Regnault, French physicist/chemist, dies at 67
1885 - Fred Burnaby, English colonel/balloon pioneer, dies in battle
1893 - Julius Eichberg, composer, dies at 68
1894 - Francois Haverschmidt, Dutch writer, dies at 58
1905 - Debendranath Tagore, Indian philosopher (b. 1817)
1913 - David Emlyn Evans, composer, dies at 69
1927 - Charlotte MAAVCL, princess of Belg/emp of Mexico (1864-67), dies at 86
1927 - Empress Carlotta of Mexico (b. 1840)
1929 - Liang Qichao, Chinese scholar (b. 1873)
1934 - Armand Parent, composer, dies at 70
1939 - Cliff Heathcote, American baseball player (b. 1898)
1944 - Harold Fraser-Simson, composer, dies at 71
1945 - Ernest B Allo, French theologist, dies at 71
1948 - Tony Garnier, French architect (b. 1869)
1951 - Constantin Nottara, composer, dies at 60
1954 - Theodor Kaluza, German scientist (b. 1885)
1957 - József Dudás, Romanian/Hungarian resistance fighter (b. 1912)
1962 - Snub Pollard, actor (Limelight, Arizona Days), dies of cancer at 72
1964 - Firmin Lambot, Belgian cyclist (b. 1886)
1965 - Frank Reicher, actor (King Kong, Nazi Agent, Son of Kong), dies at 89
1967 - Grace Cunard, actress (Untamed, Ressurection), dies at 73
1968 - Ray Harroun, American race car driver (b. 1879)
1969 - Charles Winninger, actor (Cafe Metropole, Coney Island), dies at 84
1970 - Hal March, actor (Atomic Kit, Outrage, Yankee Pasha), dies at 49
1971 - Harry Shields, American musician (b. 1899)
1972 - Michael Rabin, American violinist (b. 1936)
1973 - Max Adrian, actor (Boy Friend, Her Favorite Husband), dies at 69
1975 - Thomas Hart Benton, American painter dies at 85 (b. 1889)
1976 - Kevin Coughlin, actor (T R Ryan-Mama), killed in hit-&-run at 30
1976 - Hidetsugu Yagi, Japanese electrical engineer (b. 1886)
1977 - Geraldine Brooks, actress (Faraday & Co, Dumplings), dies at 51
1979 - Paul Meurisse, actor (Diabolique, Truth, Suspects, Monocle), dies
1980 - Richard Franko Goldman, composer, dies at 69
1980 - William O Douglas, member US Supreme court (1939-75), dies at 81
1982 - Leopold Trepper, Polish/Israeli spy (WW II), dies at 77
1982 - Marc Demeyer, Belgian bicyclist (Paris-Roubaix '76), dies [or 1/20]
1982 - Elis Regina, Brazilian singer (b. 1945)
1984 - Max Bentley, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1920)
1987 - Gerald Brenan, English writer, dies at 92
1988 - Ballard Berkeley, actor (East meets West), dies at 83
1989 - Norma Varden, actress (Loose in London), dies
1990 - Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, indian guru, dies at 58
1990 - Herbert Wehner, German ex-communist/chairman (1958-73), dies at 83
1990 - Semprini, English musician (b. 1908)
1991 - Don Beddoe, actor (Bullwhip, Loophole, Texas), dies at 87
1991 - Glenn Langan, actor (Big Chase, Jungle Heat, Rapture), dies at 73
1991 - John Russell, actor/writer (Apache Uprising, Yellow Sky), dies at 70
1991 - Marcel Chaput, Quebec politician (b. 1918)
1993 - Chris Street, basketball player, dies at 20
1993 - Kees Scherer, Dutch photographer (World Press Photo), dies at 72
1993 - Reginald Lewis, CEO (Beatrice), dies of brain cancer at 50
1993 - William LeMassena, actor (All that Jazz), dies of lung cancer at 76
1995 - Eugene Fuller, polymath/linguist, dies at 80
1995 - Gene MacLellan, Canadian composer and singer (b. 1938)
1996 - Bernard Baily, comic artist, dies at 79
1996 - Donald Simpson, film producer, dies at 52
1996 - Harold Wolpe, sociologist lawyer/South African activist, dies at 70
1997 - Adriana Caseloti, voice (Snow White), dies at 70
1997 - George Armin Goyder, businessman/social philosopher, dies at 88
1997 - James Dickey, poet/novelist, dies at 84
1998 - Carl Perkins, singer/songwriter, dies at 65
1999 - Ivan Francescato, Italian rugby union footballer (b. 1967)
2000 - Bettino Craxi, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1934)
2000 - Hedy Lamarr, Austrian-born actress (b. 1913)
2001 - Dario Vittori, Argentinean actor (b. 1921)
2003 - Françoise Giroud, French writer and journalist (b. 1916)
2004 - Harry E. Claiborne, American judge (suicide) (b. 1917)
2004 - David Hookes, Australian cricketer and coach (b. 1955)
2005 - Anita Kulcsár, Hungarian handball player (b. 1976)
2005 - Bill Andersen, New Zealand communist and trade union leader (b. 1924)
2005 - K. Sello Duiker, South African novelist (b. 1974)
2006 - Anthony Franciosa, American actor (b. 1928)
2006 - Aoun Al-Sharif Qasim, Sudanese writer and Islamic scholar (b. 1933)
2006 - Geoff Rabone, New Zealand cricket player (b. 1921)
2006 - Wilson Pickett, American singer (b. 1941)
2007 - Scott "Bam Bam" Bigelow, American professional wrestler (b. 1961)
2007 - Hrant Dink, Turkish-Armenian newspaper editor (b. 1954)
2007 - Denny Doherty, Canadian singer (The Mamas and the Papas) (b. 1940)
2007 - Murat Nasyrov, Russian singer and composer (b. 1969)
2008 - Suzanne Pleshette, American actress (b. 1937)
2008 - John Stewart, American musician (The Kingston Trio) (b. 1939)
2008 - Don Wittman, Canadian sportscaster for CBC (b. 1936)
2010 - Bill McLaren Scottish rugby commentator (b. 1923)
2010 - Jennifer Lyon American reality television personality (Survivor) (b. 1972)
2011 - Ernest McCulloch, stem cell research pioneer (b. 1926)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 20, 2013, 07:29:48 AM

This Day in History for 20th January


Historical Events

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King of Great Britain Edward VIII                First Director of the FBI                         Singer Buddy Holly
                                                                          J Edgar Hoover

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Spanish Dictator Francisco Franco           Artist & Musician Yoko Ono            US President & Actor Ronald Reagan

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US President George H. W. Bush            42nd US President Bill Clinton              44th US President Barack Obama


250 - St Fabian ends his reign as Catholic Pope (236-50)
820 - Book of mother, published
1045 - Giovanni di Sabina elected Pope Sylvester III
1156 - According to legend, freeholder Lalli slays English crusader Bishop Henry with an axe on the ice of lake Köyliönjärvi in Finland.
1265 - 1st English Parliament called into session by Earl of Leicester
1320 - Duke Wladyslaw Lokietek becomes king of Poland
1356 - Edward Balliol abdicates as King of Scots.
1502 - The present-day location of Rio de Janeiro is first explored.
1503 - Casa Contratacion (Board of Trade) found (Spain) to deal with American affairs
1513 - Christian II succeeds Johan I as Danish/Norwegian king
1523 - Christian II is forced to abdicate as King of Denmark and Norway.
1576 - The Mexican city of León is founded by order of the viceroy Don Martín Enríquez de Almansa.
1613 - Peace of Knarodends War of Kalmar between Denmark & Sweden
1648 - Cornerstone of Amsterdam townhall laid
1667 - Treaty of Andrussovo-ends 13 year war between Poland & Russia
1778 - 1st American military court martial trial begins, Cambridge, Mass
1781 - 1st edition of Pieter It Hoens "Post of Neder-Rhijn" published
1783 - Hostilities cease in Revolutionary War
1785 - Samuel Ellis advertises to sell Oyster Island (Ellis Is), no takers
1788 - Pioneer African Baptist church organizes in Savannah, Ga
1801 - John Marshall appointed US chief justice
1807 - Napoleon convenes great Sanhedrin, Paris
1809 - 1st US geology book published by William Maclure
1839 - In the Battle of Yungay, Chile defeats a Peruvian and Bolivian alliance.
1840 - Dumont D'Urville discovers Adélie Land, Antarctica
1840 - Dutch King Willem II crowned
1841 - China cedes Hong Kong to British
1850 - Investigator, 1st ship to effect northwest passage, leaves England
1860 - Dutch troops conquer Watampone in Celebes
1866 - Prim's Insurrection in Spain ends
1868 - Florida constitutional convention meets in Tallahassee
1869 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton becomes 1st woman to testify before Congress
1870 - "City of Boston" vanishes at sea with all 177 aboard
1870 - Hiram R Revels elected to fill unexpired term of Jefferson Davis
1872 - California Stock Exchange Board organized
1879 - British troops under Lord Chelmsford set camp at Isandlwana
1883 - Billy Barnes takes a hat-trick, England v Aust MCG
1887 - US Senate approves naval base lease of Pearl Harbor
1892 - 1st basketball game played (Mass)
1910 - Ottawa Senators sweep Edmonton in 2 for Stanley Cup (2nd of 1910)
1920 - Dutch 2nd Chamber passes school laws
1920 - The American Civil Liberties Union is founded.
1921 - British submarine K5 leaves with man & mouse
1921 - Dagestan ASSR forms in RSFSR
1921 - Mountain Autonomous Republic established in RSFSR
1921 - Turkey declared in remnants of Ottoman Empire
1922 - Arthur Honegger's ballet "Skating Rink" premieres, Paris
1925 - USSR & Japan sign treaty of Peking, Seychelles back to USSR
1926 - 2nd German government of Luther begins
1929 - 1st feature talking motion picture taken outdoors, "In Old Arizona"
1930 - 1st radio broadcast of "Lone Ranger" (WXYZ-Detroit)
1934 - Japan sends Henry Pu Yi as regent to emperor of Manchuria
1936 - Edward VIII succeeds British king George V
1937 - -45°F (-43°C), Boca, California (state record)
1937 - 1st Inauguration day on Jan 20th, (held every 4th years there-after)
1939 - Charles Ives' 1st Sonate "Concord," premieres
1939 - Hitler proclaims to German parliament to exterminate all European Jews
1941 - Bela Bartok's 6th string quartet, premieres in NYC
1942 - Japanese air raid on Rabaul New Britain
1942 - Japanese invade Burma
1942 - Nazi officials hold notorious Wannsee conference in Berlin deciding on "final solution" calling
           for extermination of Europe's Jews
1943 - Lead SD, temp is 52°F, while 1.5 miles away Deadwood SD records -16°F
1943 - Operation-Weiss: Assault of German, Italian, Bulgarian & Croatian
1944 - RAF drops 2300 ton bombs on Berlin
1945 - FDR sworn-in for an unprecedented 4th term as president
1945 - Hungary ends its involvement in the Second World War, agreeing to an armistice with the
           Allies.
1946 - F Gouin follows De Gaulle as temporary leader of French government
1947 - Brigadier General Edwin K Wright, USA, becomes deputy director of CIA
1949 - J Edgar Hoover gives Shirley Temple a tear gas fountain pen
1949 - Pres Harry Truman announces his point 4 program
1950 - "Dance Me a Song" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 35 performances
1950 - Suriname becomes independent part in Realm of Netherlands
1952 - British army occupies Ismailiya, Suez Canal Zone
1952 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open
1953 - 1st US telecast transmitted to Canada-from Buffalo NY
1953 - 1st live coast-to-coast inauguration address (Eisenhower)
1954 - -70°F (-57°C), Rogers Pass, Montana (US 48 state record)
1954 - Dmitri Sjostakovitsj' "Concertino opus 94," premieres
1954 - The National Negro Network is established with 40 charter member radio stations.
1955 - 1st atomic sub, USS Nautilus, launched at Groton Conn
1956 - Buddy Holly records "Blue Days Black Night" in Nashville
1957 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open
1957 - Gomulka wins Poland's parliamentary election
1957 - Morton Gould's "Declaration," premieres in Washington, DC
1958 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open
1958 - KUED TV channel 7 in Salt Lake City, UT (PBS) begins broadcasting
1959 - Dmitri Sjostakovitsj' Moscow-Tsjerjomoesjki, premieres in Moscow
1960 - Patrice Lumumba sentenced to 6 months in Belgian Congo
1961 - Arthur M Ramsay becomes archbishop of Canterbury
1961 - Francis Poulenc's "Gloria," premieres in Boston
1961 - Robert Frost recites "Gift Outright" at JFK's inauguration
1961 - Yugoslav ex-vice-president Milovan Djilas flees
1962 - "Kean" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 92 performances
1964 - "Meet The Beatles" album released in US
1965 - Beatles appear on Shindig (ABC-TV)
1965 - Byrds record "Mr Tambourine Man"
1965 - JPL proposes modified Apollo flight to fly around Mars & return
1965 - Generalissimo Francisco Franco meets with Jewish representatives to discuss legitimizing
           Jewish communities in Spain
1968 - Houston ends UCLA's 47-game basketball winning streak, 71-69
1968 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming
1968 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Tim Wood
1968 - The Houston Cougars defeat the UCLA Bruins 71-69 to win the Game of the Century.
1969 - Richard M Nixon inaugurated as president
1969 - U of Az reports 1st optical id of pulsar (in Crab Nebula)
1970 - 20th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 142-135 at Philadelphia
1970 - 23rd NHL All-Star Game: East beat West 4-1 at St Louis
1970 - Super Fight, computer mock championship between Ali & Marciano
1971 - Ard Schenk skates world record 1000m (1:18.8)
1971 - John Lennon meets Yoko Ono's parents in Japan
1974 - 4th NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 15-13
1974 - 7th ABA All-Star Game: East 128 beats West 112 at Virginia
1974 - A college basketball game ends 210-67
1974 - Essex Comm College beats Englewood Cliffs 210-67 in basketball
1975 - 5th NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 17-10
1975 - Terrence McNally's "Ritz," premieres in NYC
1976 - 29th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 7-5 at Phila
1977 - George Bush, ends term as 11th director of CIA
1977 - Mr Knoche, serves as acting director of CIA
1978 - Columbia Pictures pays $9.5 million for movie rights to "Annie"
1980 - President Jimmy Carter announces US boycott of Olympics in Moscow
1980 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne
1980 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Charles Tickner
1980 - Superbowl MVP: Terry Bradshaw, Pittsburgh, QB
1980 - Superbowl XIV: Pittsburgh Steelers beat LA Rams, 31-19 in Pasadena
1981 - 52 Americans held hostage in Iran for 444 days freed
1981 - Adm Stansfield Turner, USN (Ret), ends term as 12th director of CIA
1981 - Frank C Carlucci, ends term as deputy director of CIA
1981 - Islander Glenn Resch's 25th & last shut-out opponent-Flames 5-0
1981 - Ronald Reagan inaugurated as president
1982 - 7 miners killed in an explosion in Craynor Ky
1982 - Honduras constitution goes into effect
1982 - Piet Dankert elected chairman of European Parliament
1984 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Rosalynn Sumners
1985 - Cold front strikes US, at least 40 die (-27°F (-33°C) in Chicago)
1985 - Superbowl XIX: SF 49ers beat Miami Dolphins, 38-16 in Stanford Superbowl MVP: Joe
            Montana, San Francisco, QB
1986 - 1st federal holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr
1986 - Chunnel announced (railroad tunnel under Canal)
1986 - Milt coup in Lesotho under gen-mjr Lekhanya & premier Leabua Jonathan
1987 - Anglican Church envoy Terry Waite taken hostage in Beirut, Lebanon
1987 - Rhino Records 1st #1-Billy Vera & Beaters' "At This Moment"
1988 - Andre Hoffman skates world record 1500m (1:52.06)
1988 - Arizona committee opens hearing on impeachment of Gov Evan Mecham
1989 - Bush inaugurated as 41st president & Quayle becomes 44th vice pres
1989 - Wayne Holdsworth takes a wicket 1st ball in 1st-class cricket
1989 - Reagan becomes 1st pres elected in a "0" year, since 1840, to leave office alive
1990 - 47th Golden Globes: Born on 4th of July, Driving Miss Daisy win
1990 - US 64th manned space mission STS 32 (Columbia 10) returns from space
1990 - Black January - crackdown of Azerbaijani pro-independence demonstrations by Soviet army in
           Baku.
1991 - "Black & Blue" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 829 performances
1991 - "Les Miserables," opens at Pantages Theatre, LA
1991 - "Peter Pan" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC or 45 performances
1991 - "Shogun - The Musical" closes at Marquis Theater NYC after 72 perfs
1991 - 13th UCP Telethon
1991 - Buffalo Bills beat LA Raiders 51-3 for AFC title
1991 - Jane Geddes wins LPGA Jamaica Golf Classic
1991 - US Patriot missiles begins shooting down Iraqi missiles
1991 - Matt Barr's field goal with no time left gives NY Giant 15-13 Victory over defending champs SF
           49ers, for NFC title
1991 - Sudan's government imposes Islamic law nationwide, worsening the civil war between the
           country's Muslim north and Christian south.
1992 - Australia beat India 2-0 to win the World Series Cup
1992 - Score begins selling international soccer cards
1993 - Adm Studeman, serves as acting director of CIA
1993 - Bill Clinton inaugurated as 42nd president
1995 - "Love! Valor! Compassion!" opens at Walter Kerr NYC for 276 perfs
1995 - 1994-95 NHL Season begin after a lengthy strike
1995 - Russian ruble drops to 3,947 per dollar (record)
1996 - 46th NHL All-Star Game: East beat West 5-4 at Fleet Center Boston
1996 - Australia defeat Sri Lanka 2-0 to win World Series Cup
1996 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Michelle Kwan
1996 - WPAT FM NYC radio station switches to English-Spanish format
1997 - Comet Hale-Bopp crosses Mars' orbit
1997 - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in New Orleans LA on KKND 106.7 FM
1997 - Pakistan defeat West Indies 2-0 to win Aust one-day Series
1998 - Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inducts Mama & Papas & Eagles
1998 - Warner Brothers TV Network begins Tueday night programming
1999 - The China News Service announces new government restrictions on Internet use aimed
           especially at Internet cafés.
2001 - Philippine president Joseph Estrada is ousted in the EDSA II Revolution and is succeeded by
          Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
2009 - Barack Obama, inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States of America, becomes
           the United States' first African-American president

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 20, 2013, 07:31:11 AM

This Day in History for 20th January


Famous Weddings

1382 - King Richard II of England marries Anne of Bohemia and daughter of the Holy Roman Emperor
          at Westminister Abbey. Anne died of plague in 1394.
1800 - Napoleon I's sister Carolina marries King Joachim Murat of Naples
2001 - "Fast Lane" actor Peter Facinelli (27) weds actress and director Jennie Garth (28) at Our Lady
           of Mount Carmel Church in Montecito, California

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 20, 2013, 07:37:54 AM

This Day in History for 20th January


Famous Birthdays

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Blues Musician Lead Belly (1888)              Actress Patricia Neal (1926)                 Astronaut Edwin Aldrin Jr (1930)


225 - Gordian III, Roman Emperor (d. 244)
1292 - Elisabeth I of Bohemia (d. 1330)
1358 - Eleanor of Aragon, wife of John I of Castile (d. 1382)
1435 - Ashikaga Yoshimasa, Japanese shogun (d. 1490)
1554 - King Sebastian of Portugal (d. 1578)
1586 - Johann Hermann Schein, German composer (Fontana d'Israel)
1622 - Susanna van Baerle, Dutch poet/wife of Geeraert Burns
1654 - Michiel de Swaen, South Netherland physician/poet
1664 - Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina, Italian writer and jurist (d. 1718)
1681 - Francesco Bartolomeo Conti, composer
1703 - Joseph-Hector Fiocco, composer
1716 - Carlos III, king of Naples/Spain (1759-88) Pompei/Jesuits
1716 - King Charles III of Spain (d. 1788)
1716 - Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, French writer and numismatist (d. 1795)
1732 - Richard H Lee, US farmer (signed Declaration of Independence)
1743 - Pascal Boyer, composer
1761 - Giovanni Domenico Perotti, composer
1762 - Jerome-Joseph de Momigny, composer
1763 - Theobald Wolfe Tone, Irish patriot
1775 - André-Marie Ampère, French physicist (d. 1836)
1781 - Joseph Hormayr Freiherr zu Hortenburg, Austrian politician (d. 1848)
1782 - Johan B J F S, archduke of Austria
1783 - Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer, German cellist and composer (d. 1860)
1798 - Anson Jones, 5th and last President of Texas (d. 1858)
1804 - Eugène Sue, French novelist (d. 1857)
1806 - Nathaniel Willis, writer/editor/founder (American Monthly Mag)
1809 - Sebastian de Iradier, Spanish composer (La Paloma)
1812 - Ralph Pomeroy Buckland, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1892
1812 - Thomas Meik, Scottish engineer (d. 1896)
1813 - Jacon Gartner Lauman, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1867
1820 - Anne Jemima Clough, England, promoted higher education for women
1831 - Pieter J Joubert, general (South Africa)
1834 - George D. Robinson, 34th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1896)
1837 - David Josiah Brewer, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1910)
1843 - Pierre-Paul Cambon, French diplomat (Madrid, Constantinople, London)
1844 - Johan Peter Selmer, composer
1847 - W R Pettiford, Founder (Alabama Penny Savings Bank)
1855 - Amedee-Ernest Chausson, composer
1865 - Friedrich A H von Waldeck, brother of queen Emma/last ruler of Waldeck
1866 - Richard Le Gallienne, English writer (Maker of Gainborg)
1867 - Yvette Guilbert, French singer and actress (d. 1944)
1870 - Guillaume Jean Joseph Nicolas Lekeu, composer
1873 - Charles A Ellwood, US, sociologist/psychologist
1873 - Johannes V Jensen, Denmark, novelist/poet (Energy Storage, Nobel 1944)
1876 - Józef Hofmann, Polish pianist (d. 1967)
1877 - Ruth St Denis, Newark NJ, ballerina (Dances of the 5 Senses)
1878 - Finlay Currie, Scotland, actor (Quo Vadis, Ivanhoe, Avengers)
1880 - Walter W. Bacon, American politician (d. 1962)
1883 - Betram Home Ramsay, English admiral/Commander Allied Naval Forces
1884 - A[braham P] Merritt, US, sci-fi author (Moon Pool, Creep Shadow!)
1888 - Lead Belly, Louisiana, blues 12 string guitarist (Rock Island Line), (d. 1949)
1889 - Allan Haines Loughead, American aviation executive (d. 1969)
1891 - Mischa Elman, Talnoye Ukraine, US violinist
1892 - Roscoe Ates, Grange Miss, actor (Dep Roscoe-Marshal of Gunsight Pass)
1893 - Kaj Birket-Smith, Danish etnologist/anthropologist (Eskimos)
1893 - Georg Åberg, Swedish athlete (d. 1946)
1894 - Harold L Gray, creator (Little Orphan Annie)
1894 - Walter Hamor Piston, Rockland Maine, composer (Incredible Flutis)
1895 - Eva A Jessye, US singer/actress/songwriter (Hallelujah)
1896 - Elmer R Diktonius, Finnish musicologist/author (Janne Kubik)
1896 - George Burns, [Nathan Birnbaum], NYC, actor/comedian (Oh God)
1896 - Rolfe Sedan, NYC, actor (Mailman-George Burns Show)
1896 - Isabel Withers, American actress (d. 1968)
1897 - Mae Busch, Australian/US actress (Cowboy Socialist)
1898 - Colin Clive, [Greig], St Malo France, actor (Bride of Frankenstein)
1898 - U Razak, Burmese politician (d. 1947)
1899 - Alexander Tcherepnin, composer
1899 - Kenjiro Takayanagi, VP (JVC)
1900 - Boris Semyonovich Shekhter, composer
1900 - Doris Deane, WI, entertainer
1900 - Colin Clive, British actor (d. 1937)
1903 - Leon Ames, Portland Indiana, actor (Mr Ed, Father of the Bride)
1903 - Sybil Marion Rosenfeld, theatre historian
1904 - Alexandra Danilova, Peterhof Russia, ballerina (Turning Point)
1904 - Renato Caccioppoli, Italian mathematician/grandson of Bakunin
1904 - Theodore Brameld, author/educator (Use of Explosive Ideas)
1907 - Roy Welensky, Premier (Rhodesia/Nyasaland 1956-63)
1908 - Ian Peebles, cricketer (Scottish leg-spinner, England 1927-31)
1908 - Paula Wessely, Austrian actress/producer (Masquerade)
1908 - Wilfred Conwell Bain, composer
1910 - Abram Hill, director/playwright/founder (American Negro Theater)
1910 - Ennio Porrino, composer
1910 - Joy Adamson, naturalist/author (Born Free)
1910 - Lauritz Lauritzen, German politician
1910 - Nina Verchinina, dancer choreographer/teacher
1912 - Christopher Casson, Irish actor (Zardoz, Educating Rita)
1912 - Walter Briggs, Jr., American sports executive (d. 1970)
1914 - Wensley Pithey, Cape Town South Africa, actor (Winston Churchill-Ike)
1915 - C W Ceram, [Kurt W Marek], German/US writer (March of Archaeology)
1915 - Joe Hitchcock, darts player (leader of St Dunstan's Four)
1915 - Ghulam Ishaq Khan, President of Pakistan (d. 2006)
1916 - Jopie [Johan A] Pengel, premier of Suriname (1963-69)
1916 - Walter Bartley, biochemist
1919 - Alex Nicol, Ossining NY, actor (Man From Laramie, Air Cadet)
1919 - Royalton Kisch, British(?) conductor
1919 - Stepan Lucky, composer
1920 - DeForest Kelley, Atlanta GA, actor (Dr McCoy-Star Trek)
1920 - Peter Clemoes, anglo-Saxon scholar
1920 - Richard John Copeland Atkinson, archaeologist
1920 - Sam M Gibbons, (Rep-D-FL, 1963- )
1920 - Thorleif Schjelderup, Norwegian author and ski jumper (d. 2006)
1921 - Bernt Engelmann, Germany, writer
1921 - Telmo Zarraonaindía, Spanish footballer (d. 2006)
1922 - Lord James Hanson, English industrialist/House of Lords (Conservative)
1922 - Ray Anthony, Penn, orchestra leader (Ray Anthony Show, Peter Gunn Theme)
1922 - Ray Anthony, American trumpeter, bandleader and actor
1923 - Nora Brockstedt, Norwegian singer
1924 - Yvonne Loriod, Houilles France, pianist
1924 - Slim Whitman, American singer
1925 - E Cardenal, writer
1925 - Edwin Gordon, NYC, VOA correspondant
1925 - Eugen Gomringer, writer
1925 - George Connol, NFL Hall-of-Famer
1926 - David Eugene Tudor, Phila Penn, composer
1926 - Michael Higgins, Brooklyn NY, actor (1918, Wanda, Black Stallion)
1926 - Patricia Neal, Packard Ky, actress (Hud, Subject Was Roses), (d. 2010)
1926 - Robert L Van Citters, cardiology/advisory panelist/UW dean
1926 - Jamiluddin Aali, Pakistani poet, essayist and columnist
1926 - Qurratulain Hyder, Pakistani novelist (d. 2007)
1927 - Geoffrey WT Atkins, British World Champion racket player (1954-72)
1927 - Olivier Strebelle, Belgian sculptor/ceramist
1928 - Martin Landau, Bkln NY, actor (Mission Impossible, Tucker, Space 1999)
1928 - Peter Donat, Kentville Nova Scotia, (Flamingo Road, Different Story)
1928 - William Berger, Austria, actress (Adventure of Hercules)
1929 - Arte Johnson, Chicago Ill, comedian (Laugh-in, Don't Call Me Charlie)
1929 - Bob Denard, French mercenary
1930 - Edwin Aldrin Jr, Montclair NJ, USAF/astro (Gem 12, Ap 11)
1931 - Sawako Ariyoshi, Japanese writer (Compound Pollution, Doctor's Wife)
1931 - Thomas Roy Garrett, museum curator
1931 - Hachidai Nakamura, Japanese songwriter and pianist (d. 1992)
1932 - Lou Fontinato, Canadian ice hockey player
1933 - Ron Townson, St Louis Mo, rock vocalist (5th Dimension-Up Up & Away)
1934 - Tom Baker, British actor (Angels Die Hard, Vault of Horror)
1935 - Joan Weston, Roller Derby Queen (d. 1997)
1936 - Eldred G Maduro, minister (Netherland Antilles)
1937 - Dorothy Provine, Deadwood SD, actress (Good Neighbor Sam, Darn Cat)
1938 - William Berger, Austrian actor (d. 1993)
1939 - Murle Breer, LPGA golfer
1939 - Nalin Chandra Wickramasinghe, Indian astronomer
1939 - Paul Coverdell, American politician (d. 2000)
1940 - Carol Heiss Jenkins, NYC, figure skater (Oly-gold/silver-56, 60)
1940 - Jorge Peixinho, composer
1940 - Krishnam Raju, Indian actor and politician
1941 - Pierre Lalonde, Quebec singer and television host
1942 - Slim Whitman, yoddler/country singer (Home on the Range)
1943 - Roeland HG "Roel" van Duyn, Dutch Provo politician
1943 - Farhad Mehrad, Iranian musician
1944 - Eddie Shah, English publisher (Today, Post)
1944 - Isao Okano, Japan, middleweight judo (Olympic-gold-1964)
1944 - Lieven Soete, Dutch publicist (Molotov-Ribbentrop-pact)
1945 - Eric Stewart, rock guitarist (10cc-I'm Not in Love)
1945 - Peter Beckwith, English real estate developer/multi-millionaire
1945 - Christopher Martin-Jenkins, cricket commentator and correspondent
1946 - David Lynch, Missoula Montana, actor/director (Dune, Eraserhead)
1947 - George Grantham, rocker (Poco-Crazy Eyes)
1947 - Malcolm McLaren, founded rock group (Sex Pistols-God Save the Queen)
1947 - Ronald Townson, rock singer (5th Dimension-We Can Fly)
1947 - Cyrille Guimard, French cyclist and directeur sportif
1948 - Jerry Ross, Ind, Lt Col USAF/astronaut (STS 61B, 27, 37, 55, 74,sk:88)
1948 - Melvyn Paul Pritchard, England, rocker (Barclay James Harvest)
1948 - Natan Sharansky, Russian-born physicist and politician
1948 - Nancy Kress, American writer
1949 - Kieron Walsh, academic
1950 - Henk Batenburgh, cabaret performer/singer (Waaldrecht)
1950 - Liza Goddard, British actress
1950 - Edward Hirsch. American poet
1950 - Chuck Lefley, Canadian ice hockey player
1950 - Mahamane Ousmane, President of Niger
1951 - Magomed Omarovich Tolboyev, Russian cosmonaut
1951 - Ivan Fischer, Hungarian conductor
1952 - Ian Hill, bass guitarist (Judas Priest-Breakin the Law)
1952 - Paul Stanley, [Eisen], rock guitarist (KISS-Beth)
1955 - Joe Doherty, Ireland, IRA activist (jailed in US)
1955 - Wyatt Knight, American actor
1955 - Hiromi Ōta, Japanese singer
1956 - Bill Maher, comedian (Politically Incorrect)
1956 - John McNally, Naha Okinawa, US rapid fire pistol (Oly-84, 88, 92, 96)
1956 - John Phillips Naber, Evanston Ill, swimmer (Olympic-4 gold/silver-76)
1956 - Maria Larsson, Swedish politician
1957 - Leonard C Clements, Cherry Point NC, PGA golfer (1994 Bob Hope-2nd)
1958 - Lorenzo Lamas, LA California, actor (Lance-Falcon Crest, California Fever)
1959 - Lea Antonoplis, West Covina Cat, tennis star
1963 - Scott Fisher, San Jose California, Australian basketball forward (Oly-96)
1963 - James Denton, American actor
1964 - Ozzie Guillen, Oculare del Tuy Venezuela, shortstop (Chic White Sox)
1964 - Roger Smith, Freeport Bahamas, tennis doubles player
1964 - Ron Harper, NBA guard (Chicago Bulls)
1964 - Victoria Sellers, London England, actress (Crime Zone, Warlords)
1964 - Kazushige Nojima, Japanese game scenario writer
1965 - Brad Brink, US baseball pitcher (SF Giants, Philadelphia Phillies)
1965 - Anton Weissenbacher, Romanian footballer
1965 - Colin Calderwood, Scottish footballer
1965 - Greg Kriesel, American bassist (The Offspring)
1965 - John Michael Montgomery, American singer
1966 - Bert Weidner, NFL guard (Miami Dolphins)
1966 - Chris Morris, NBA forward (Utah Jazz)
1966 - Rich Gannon, NFL quarterback (KC Chiefs)
1966 - Tracii Guns, rock guitarist (LA Guns-It's Over Now)
1967 - Joe Pasquale, rocker (Prey)
1967 - Mark Stepnoski, NFL center (Houston/Tennessee Oilers)
1967 - Stacey Dash, Bronx NY, actress (Dionne-Clueless)
1968 - Junior Murray, cricketer (WI keeper, no relation to Derryck or David)
1968 - Nick Anderson, NBA guard/forward (Orlando Magic)
1968 - Rainn Wilson, American actor
1969 - Andre Romal Cason, Virginia Beach VA, 100m runner
1969 - Melissa Rivers, NYC, TV hostess (MTV, CBS Morning News)
1969 - Tia Marie Zorne, Las Vegas Nevada, Miss Nevada-America (1991)
1969 - Patrick K. Kroupa, American computer hacker
1969 - Nicky Wire, British Musician (Manic Street Preachers)
1970 - Anita St Rose, Miss Universe-Great Britain (1996)
1970 - Dennis Hulshof, soccer player (Go Ahead Eagles)
1970 - Deon Figures, cornerback (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1970 - Marvin Benard, Bluefields Nicaragua, outfielder (SF Giants)
1970 - Rob Gaudreau, Lincoln, NHL center (Ottawa Senators)
1970 - Ron Carpenter, NFL/WLAF safety (NY Jets, Amsterdam Admirals)
1970 - Skeet Ulrich, actor (Scream)
1970 - Terry Kirby, NFL running back (Miami Dolphins, SF 49ers)
1970 - Thomas "Tom" Murray, Buffalo NY, rower (Olympics-1996)
1970 - Mitch Benn, UK comedian, songwriter, actor
1971 - Alan Young, NFL defensive end (NY Jets)
1971 - Andrei Skabelka, NHL forward (Belarus, Oly-98)
1971 - Johnny Mitchell, NFL tight end (NY Jets)
1971 - Karin Smith, Miss Minnesota USA (1996)
1971 - Gary Barlow, English singer (Take That)
1971 - Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson, American drummer (The Roots)
1971 - Brian Giles, American baseball player
1972 - Alcides Catanho, NFL outside linebacker (NE Patriots)
1973 - Eddie Kennison, wide receiver (St Louis Rams)
1973 - Jalen Rose, NBA guard (Denver Nuggets)
1973 - Princess Mathilde, Duchess of Brabant
1974 - Calvin Harrison, Orlando Florida, 200m/400m runner
1974 - Rae Carruth, wide receiver (Carolina Panthers)
1975 - David Eckstein, American baseball player
1975 - Norberto Fontana, Argentine racing driver
1977 - Paul "Goggo" Adams, cricketer (lefty very unorthodox bowler for S Afr)
1977 - Melody, Belgian singer
1978 - Sonja Kesselschläger, German heptathlete
1978 - Allan Søgaard, Danish footballer
1978 - Joy Giovanni, American actress and glamour model
1979 - Rob Bourdon, American musician (Linkin Park)
1979 - Asaka Kubo, Japanese gravure idol of 20th Century
1979 - Will Young, British singer
1980 - Philippe Cousteau Jr., Freanch oceanographer; grandson of Jacques Cousteau
1980 - Brigitte Olivier, Belgian judoka
1980 - Matthew Tuck, Welsh guitarist (Bullet for My Valentine)
1981 - Freddy Guzmán, Dominican baseball player
1981 - Christine Bleakley, BBC Television Host
1981 - Owen Hargreaves, English international footballer
1981 - Crystal Lowe, Canadian actress
1983 - Geovany Soto, Puerto Rican baseball player
1983 - Paula Taylor, English-Thai actress, model and presenter
1983 - Mari Yaguchi, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
1984 - Olivia Hallinan, English Actress
1984 - Toni Gonzaga, Filipina Actress and Singer

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 20, 2013, 07:40:58 AM

This Day in History for 20th January


Famous Deaths

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Actress Audrey Hepburn (1993)


250 - Fabianus, Pope (236-50)/saint, dies
287 - St. Sebastian
820 - Muslim jurist Abu Abdallah M ibn Idris al-Sjafi'i, dies
842 - Theophilus, Byzantine kaiser (829-42), dies
882 - Louis II/III the Younger, German king (876-82), dies
1156 - Bishop Henry, patron saint of Finland
1191 - Frederick VI, Duke of Swabia (b. 1167)
1479 - John II, king of Aragon/Navarra, dies at 81
1569 - Miles Coverdale, English bible translator Great bible, dies at 80
1612 - Rudolf II von Habsburg, emperor of Germany (1576-1612), dies at 59
1639 - Mustapha I, sultan of Turkey (1622-23), dies
1666 - Anna of Austria, queen of France/daughter of Philip III, dies at 64
1691 - Christian de Placker, composer, dies at 77
1707 - Humphrey Hody, English theologian (b. 1659)
1709 - François de la Chaise, French confessor of Louis XIV of France (b. 1624)
1713 - Pavao Vitezovic, Croatian historian, dies
1727 - John van Bylevelt, Catholic apostole, dies
1739 - Francesco Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect/designer (b. 1659)
1745 - Charles VII Albert, German emperor (1742-45), dies at 47
1751 - John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, English politician (b. 1665)
1770 - Charles Yorke, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1722)
1779 - John Burman, Dutch botanist/director (botanical gardens), dies at 71
1779 - David Garrick, English actor (b. 1717)
1789 - Johann Christoph Oley, composer, dies at 50
1798 - Christian Cannabich, German composer/royal chaplain master, dies at 66
1810 - Benjamin Chew, Chief Justice of colonial Pennsylvania (b. 1722)
1813 - C M Wieland, writer, dies at 79
1819 - Carlos IV, King of Spain (1788-1808), dies at 70
1830 - Michal Bogdanowicz, composer, dies at 50
1837 - John Soane, English architect (Book of Designs), dies at 84
1838 - Pierre-Louis Hus-Desforges, composer, dies at 64
1848 - Christian VIII of Denmark (b. 1786)
1850 - Adam Oehlenschläger, Danish poet (b. 1779)
1857 - Edward Francis Fitzwilliam, composer, dies at 32
1859 - B v Arnim, writer, dies at 73
1859 - Bettina Brentano, composer, dies at 73
1862 - Felix Zollicoffer, Gen killed after mistakenly riding into Union lines
1873 - The Venerable Father Basil Anthony Marie Moreau, Founder of the Congregation of Holy Cross (b. 1799)
1875 - Jean-François Millet, French painter (b. 1814)
1882 - John Linnell, British painter/minaturist/engraver, dies
1890 - Franz Paul Lachner, composer, dies at 86
1891 - David Kalakahua, emperor of Hawaii, dies
1896 - Heinrich M von Battenberg, German son-in-law of Victoria, dies at 37
1900 - John Ruskin, English writer (Dearest Mama Talbot), dies of flu at 81
1900 - Richard D Blackmore, English novelist (Lorna Doone), dies at 74
1901 - Zénobe Gramme, Belgian engineer (b. 1826)
1905 - Stanislaw Pilinski, composer, dies at 65
1914 - Emil Liebling, composer, dies at 62
1914 - Henry Southwick Perkins, composer, dies at 80
1920 - Georg Lurich, Estonian wrestler (b. 1876)
1936 - George V, King of Britain (1910-36), dies at 70
1936 - King George V of the United Kingdom (b. 1865)
1940 - Omar Bundy, U.S. army general (b. 1861)
1943 - Giacomo Benvenuti, composer, dies at 57
1944 - James McKeen Cattell, American psychologist (b. 1860)
1947 - Josh Gibson, Negro League slugger, dies of a brain tumor at age 35
1949 - Josephus T J Cuypers, architect (Amsterdam Stock Exchange), dies at 87
1952 - Arthur Farwell, composer, dies at 74
1954 - Fred Root, cricketer (Engld pace bowler in 3 Tests v Aus 1926), dies
1954 - Warren Bardsley, cricketer (41 Tests for Australia, 2469 runs), dies
1957 - James Connolly, 1st Oly winner (1896) since Barasdates (369 CE), dies
1959 - Carl Switzer, actor (Alfalfa-Our Gang), shot to death at 31
1960 - Matt Moore, actor (Deluge, Coquette), dies at 72
1962 - Robinson Jeffers, poet/playwright (Dear Judas), dies at 75
1964 - Jan Rychlik, composer, dies at 47
1965 - Alan Freed, DJ (Big Beat), dies at 42
1971 - Gilbert M Anderson, actor (1st Movie Cowboy), dies at 88
1973 - Amilcar L Cabral, fought for Guinea Bissau independence, murdered 51
1973 - Lorenz Böhler, Austrian physician (b. 1885)
1974 - Edmund Blunden, British poet/critic, dies at 77
1975 - Franz Andre, Belgian conductor, dies at 81
1979 - Gustav Winckler, Danish singer (b. 1925)
1982 - Marc Demeyer, Belgian cyclist (Paris-Brus 1974), dies at 31[or 1/19]
1983 - Garrincha, Brazilian footballer (b. 1933)
1984 - Johnny Weissmuller, US swimmer (Olympics-5 gold-1924, 28), dies at 79
1985 - Jo Juda, Dutch musician, dies at 75
1987 - Tom Dollery, cricketer (4 Tests for Eng 1947-50), dies
1988 - Philippe de Rothschild, Bordeaux Vineyard manager, dies in Paris at 86
1988 - Dora Stratou, Greek choreographer and folklorist (b. 1903)
1989 - Beatrice Lillie, actress (Thoroughly Modern Millie), dies at 94
1989 - Alamgir Kabir, Bangladeshi film director (b. 1938)
1990 - Barbara Stanwyck, [Ruby Stevens], actress (Big Valley), dies at 82
1990 - Miloslav Istvan, composer, dies at 61
1990 - Naruhito Higashi-Kuni, Japanese PM (1945), dies
1990 - Hayedeh, Persian singer (b. 1942)
1991 - Bill Riordon, US tennis promotor (Jimmy Connors), dies
1991 - Louis Seigner, actor (Eclipse, Special Section), dies in a fire at 87
1992 - Muhammad Abd al-Khaliq Hassuna, sec-gen of Arab League (1952-72), dies
1993 - Audrey Hepburn, actress (Roman Holiday), dies of colon cancer at 63
1993 - Joseph Anthony [Deuster], US director/actor (Rainmaker), dies at 80
1993 - Mercer McCleod, entertainer, dies of heart failure at 86
1994 - Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, Kenyan vice-pres (1963-66), dies at about 81
1994 - Matt Busby, Scottish soccer coach (Manchester United), dies at 84
1995 - John Halas, Hungarian/US cartoonist (Animal Farm), dies at 81
1995 - Mehdi Bazargan, director Iranian oil corp/premier (1979), dies at 86
1995 - Robert Shaw, town Planner, dies at 81
1996 - Buster Benton, singer/guitarist, dies at 63
1996 - David Robin Francis Guy Greville, 8th Duke of Warwick, dies at 61
1996 - Ellis Hillman, politician, dies at 68
1996 - Gerald Joseph Mulligan, baritone saxophonist/composer, dies at 68
1996 - Liesbeth Askonas, concert agent, dies at 83
1996 - Peter Stadlen, pianist/critic, dies at 85
1996 - Sidney Korshak, lawyer, dies at 87
1997 - Curt Flood, centerfielder (Cards), dies of throat cancer at 59
1997 - Edith Haisman, the oldest survivor of Titanic, dies at 100
1997 - Vladimir Yamnikov, owner (Kristall vodka), dies of cirrhosis at 56
1998 - Zevulun Hammer, Vice PM of Israel, dies
1998 - Bobo Brazil, American professional wrestler (b. 1924)
2002 - Carrie Hamilton, actress and singer (b. 1963)
2003 - Al Hirschfeld, American caricaturist (b. 1903)
2003 - Nedra Volz, American actress (b. 1908)
2003 - Bill Werbeniuk, Canadian snooker player (b. 1947)
2004 - Guinn Smith, American athlete (b. 1920)
2005 - Per Borten, Prime Minister of Norway (b. 1913)
2005 - Roland Frye, American literary critic and theologian (b. 1921)
2005 - Jan Nowak-Jeziorański, Polish journalist, writer, and politician (b. 1913)
2005 - Miriam Louisa Rothschild, British zoologist, entomologist, and author (b. 1908)
2008 - Ali Sadikin, former Jakarta famous governor (b. 1927)
2009 - Stéphanos II Ghattas, Patriarch Emeritus of Alexandria for the Coptic Catholic Church (b.
           1920)
2009 - Stan Hagen, Canadian politician (b. 1940)
2009 - David Newman, American jazz musician, nicknamed "Fathead" (b. 1933)
2009 - Sheila O'Nions Walsh (aka Sheila Walsh, Sophie Leyton), English romance writer (b. 1928)
2012 - John F Baker Jnr, United States Army Master Sergeant and Medal of Honour recipient dies at
           66
2012 - Etta James, American singer, dies from leukaemia at 73

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 21, 2013, 07:17:35 AM

This Day in History for 21st January


Historical Events

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Novelist Charles Dickens                  Magician & Escape Artist Harry Houdini           Playwright Moss Hart

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Author and Nobel                                     NHL all-time top scorer                          Actress Nicole Kidman
Laureate T S Eliot                                            Wayne Gretzky


1077 - German King Heinrich IV petitions Pope Gregory VII for forgiveness
1189 - Philip II, Henry II & Richard Lion hearted initiate 3rd Crusade
1276 - Pierre de Tarantaise elected Pope Innocence V
1287 - The treaty of San Agayz is signed. Minorca is conquered by King Alfons III of Aragon.
1324 - Zen Buddhist religious debate between Tendai & Shingon
1522 - Head inquisitor Adrian Florisz Boeyens elected pope
1525 - The Swiss Anabaptist Movement is born when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and about a dozen others baptize each other in the home of Manz's mother in Zürich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union.
1542 - Parliament passes bill of attainder against Queen Katherine Howard
1604 - Tsar Ivan IV defeats False Dmitri, who claims to be the true tsar
1664 - Count Miklos of Zrinyi sets out to battle Turkish invasion army
1677 - 1st medical publication in America (pamphlet on smallpox), Boston
1732 - Russia & Persia sign Treaty of Riascha
1749 - The Verona Philharmonic Theatre was destroyed by fire. It was rebuilt in 1754.
1789 - 1st American novel, WH Brown's "Power of Sympathy," is published
1793 - Prussia & Russia sign partition treaty (Poland divided)
1799 - Edward Jenner's smallpox vaccination is introduced
1813 - Pineapple introduced to Hawaii (or 01/111)
1818 - Keats writes his poem "On a Lock of Milton's Hair"
1821 - Paramaribo Suriname catches fire, 4 die
1824 - Ashantees defeat British at Accra, West Africa
1827 - Freedom Journal, 1st Black paper, begins publishing
1830 - Portsmouth (Ohio) blacks forcibly deported
1846 - 1st edition of Charles Dickens' "Daily News"
1853 - Envelope-folding machine patented by Russell Hawes, Worcester, Mass
1861 - Jefferson Davis of Mississippi & 4 other southern senators resign
1863 - City of Dublin leases part of Cattle Market for 100,000 years
1864 - The Tauranga Campaign starts during the Maori Wars.
1874 - Franz Grillparzer's "Libussa," premieres in Vienna
1879 - Henrik Ibsen's "Et Dukkehjem," premieres in Copenhagen
1880 - 1st US sewage disposal system separate from storm drains, Memphis
1887 - Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) forms
1887 - Brisbane receives a daily rainfall of 465 millimetres (18.3 inches), a record for any Australian
           capital city.
1890 - 1st issue of Propria Cures, Amsterdam student-weekly newspaper
1893 - The Tati Concessions Land, formerly part of Matabeleland, was formally annexed to the
            Bechuanaland Protectorate which is now Botswana.
1894 - Oscar Fredriksen skates world record 500m in 47.8 sec
1899 - Opel manufactured its first automobile.
1901 - Clyde Fitch's "Climbers," premieres in NYC
1903 - "Wizard of Oz," premieres in NYC
1903 - Harry Houdini escapes police station Halvemaansteeg in Amsterdam
1903 - International Theater (Majestic, Park) opens at 5 Columbus Circle NYC
1904 - Leos Janacek's opera "Jenufa," premieres in Brno
1907 - Kenora Thistles sweep Mont Wanderers in 2 for Stanley Cup
1908 - August Strindberg's "Spoksonaten," premieres in Stockholm
1908 - NYC regulation makes it illegal for a woman to smoke in public
1910 - British-Russian military intervention in Persia
1913 - Aristide Briand forms French government
1915 - Kiwanis International founded in Detroit
1919 - Sinn Fein proclaims parliament of Free Ireland
1921 - The Italian Communist Party was founded at Livorno.
1922 - 1st slalom ski race run, Murren, Switzerland
1925 - Albanian parliament announces itself a republic; Ahmed Zogoe pres
1926 - Belgian parliament accepts Locarno treaties
1927 - 1st national opera broadcast from a US opera house (Faust, Chicago)
1929 - Robert Sherriff's "Journey's End," premieres in London
1932 - USSR & Finland stop non-attack treaty
1935 - 12.0" (30.5 cm) of rain falls, Quinault RS, Wash (state record)
1935 - WFI-AM in Philadelphia Penn merges with WLIT as WFIL (now WEAZ)
1935 - Wilderness Society forms
1938 - Dutch government starts obligatory unemployment insurance
1939 - George Kaufman & Moss Hart's "American Way," premieres in NYC
1939 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Joan Tozzer
1939 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Robin Lee
1940 - Foreign correspondents in Netherlands under censorship
1941 - 1st anti-Jewish measures in Bulgaria
1941 - 1st commercial extraction of magnesium from seawater, Freeport, TX
1941 - Australia & Britain attack Tobruk Libya
1941 - British communist newspaper "Daily Worker" banned
1942 - Bronx magistrate rules all pinball machines illegal
1942 - Count Basie records "One O'Clock Jump"
1942 - Japanese air raid on Rabaul New Britain
1942 - Tito's partisans occupy Foca
1943 - Soviet forces reconquer Worosjilowsk
1943 - Soviet forces reconquer Gumrak airport near Stalingrad
1943 - Vice-admiral Cunningham appointed Brit adm of fleet
1944 - 447 German bombers attack London
1944 - 649 British bombers attack Magdeburg
1945 - British troops land on Ramree, near coast of Burma
1946 - "Nellie Bly" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 16 performances
1947 - "Sweethearts" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 288 performances
1947 - Arthur Honegger's 4th Symphony premieres in Basel
1948 - W Indies v England, Test debut Walcott, Weekes & Jim Laker
1949 - 1st inaugural parade televised (Harry Truman)
1950 - "Lend an Ear" closes at National Theater NYC after 460 performances
1950 - NY jury finds former State Dept official Alger Hiss guilty of perjury
1950 - T S Eliot's "Cocktail Party," premieres in NYC
1951 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Tampa Women's Golf Open
1952 - Nehru's Congress party wins general election in India
1953 - John Foster Dulles appointed as Secretary of State
1954 - 1st gas turbine automobile exhibited (NYC)
1956 - "Comedy in Music (Victor Borge)" closes at Golden NYC after 849 perfs
1956 - William Shawn succeeds Harold Ross as editor of New Yorker
1957 - KSAT TV channel 12 in San Antonio, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
1958 - KMOT TV channel 10 in Minot, ND (NBC) begins broadcasting
1958 - Phillies agree to televise 78 games into NYC (doesn't happen)
1960 - Little Joe 4 suborbital Mercury test reaches 16 km
1960 - Rock falls traps 437 at Coalbrook South Africa, 417 die of methane poisoning
1961 - "Conquering Hero" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 8 performances
1961 - KIFI TV channel 8 in Idaho Falls, ID (NBC) begins broadcasting
1961 - Portuguese rebels seize cruise ship Santa Maria
1962 - JFK arrives in Uruguay
1962 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Sea Island Women's Golf Invitational
1962 - Snow falls in SF
1964 - Carl T Rowan named director of US Information Agency
1965 - Persians premier Ali Mansoer injured
1967 - AFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 30-23
1967 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming
1967 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Gary Visconti
1968 - AFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 25-24
1968 - NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 38-20
1968 - US B-52 bombers with nuclear bomb crashes in Greenland
1968 - Vietnam War: Battle of Khe Sanh - One of the most publicized and controversial battles of the war begins.
1969 - 22nd NHL All-Star Game: West beat East 3-3 at Montreal
1970 - Panama Boeing 747 1st flight NY-London
1971 - "Alias Smith & Jones" premieres on ABC TV
1972 - Assam's North East Frontier Agency becomes Arunachal Pradesh terr
1972 - Belgium government of Eyskens-Cools forms
1972 - Manipur, Meghalaya & Tripura become separate states of Indian union
1972 - Mizoram, formerly part of Assam, creates an Indian union territory
1972 - Tripura becomes a full-fledged state in India.
1973 - 3rd NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 33-28
1973 - Leslie Nielson appears on M*A*S*H in "Ringbanger"
1974 - Gold hits record $161.31/silver hits record $3.97 an ounce in London
1975 - 28th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 7-1 at Montreal
1976 - Supersonic Concorde, 1st commercial flights, by Britain & France
1977 - Italy legalizes abortion
1977 - Pres Jimmy Carter pardons almost all Vietnam War draft evaders
1978 - Bee Gees' "Saturday Night Fever" album goes #1 for 24 weeks
1979 - Neptune becomes outermost planet (Pluto moves closer)
1979 - Price of gold increases to record $875 troy oz
1979 - Superbowl XIII: Pittsburgh Steelers beat Dallas Cowboys, 35-31 in Miami Superbowl MVP: Terry Bradshaw, Pittsburgh, QB
1980 - Gold hits record $850 an ounce
1980 - Les Henson, Virginia Tech, makes 89' 3" basketball field goal
1981 - "Shakespeare's Cabaret" opens at Bijou Theater NYC for 54 performances
1981 - Bernhard Goetz is assault for 1st time on a NY subway train
1982 - "Little Me" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 36 performances
1982 - NY Islanders begin then NHL record 15 game winning streak
1983 - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Anthony E Hecht
1983 - Reagan certifies El Salvador human-rights abuses have decreased making country eligible for US military aid
1984 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Hamilton
1985 - -19°F (-28°C), Caesar's Head, South Carolina (state record)
1985 - -34°F (-37°C), Mt Mitchell, North Carolina (state record)
1985 - Bomb attack on Borobudur temple in Java
1985 - Dennis Potvin ties Bobby Orr's career record of 270 NHL goals
1986 - 100 participate in Nude Olympics race in 38°F (3°C), Indiana
1986 - Allison J Brown, 17, of Oklahoma, crowned 4th Miss Teen USA
1986 - Bomb attack in East-Beirut, 27 killed
1987 - BB King donates his 7,000 record collection to U of Mississippi
1988 - US accept immigration of 30,000 US-Vietnamese children
1989 - A woman is assaulted & raped in room of an Oklahoma football player
1989 - Wayne Gretzky passes Marcel Dionne to become NHL's 2nd all time scorer
1990 - 41st NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 12-7 at Pittsburgh
1990 - Bob Goodenow succeeds Alan Eagleson as NHL players association exec director
1990 - John McEnroe becomes 1st ever player to be expelled from the Australian Open
1990 - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Jamaica Golf Classic
1991 - CBS News correspondant Bob Simon captured by Iraqis in Persian Gulf
1993 - Johan Koss skates world record 5 km in 6:38.77
1993 - Nigerian singer Fela Kuti arrested on suspicion of murder
1994 - Dow Jones passes 3900 (record 3,914.20)
1994 - Lorena Bobbitt found temporarily insane of chopping off spouse's penis
1995 - 52th Golden Globes: Forrest Gump, Tom Hanks, Jessica Lange
1996 - 53th Golden Globes: Mel Gibson, Nicole Kidman, John Travolta
1996 - Karrie Webb wins LPGA HealthSouth Inaugural Golf Tournament
1996 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Rudy Galindo
1998 - Pope John Paul II visits Cuba
1999 - War on Drugs: In one of the largest drug busts in American history, the United States Coast Guard intercepts a ship with over 4,300 kg (9,500 lb) of cocaine on board.
2002 - The Canadian Dollar sets all-time low against the US Dollar (US$0.6179).
2004 - Canada: The residence of reporter Juliet O'Neill is searched by the Royal Canadian Mounted
           Police (RCMP) investigating leaks concerning the deportation of Maher Arar.
2004 - NASA's MER-A (the Mars Rover Spirit) ceases communication with mission control. The
           problem lies with Flash Memory management and is fixed remotely from Earth on February 6.
2005 - In Belmopan, Belize, the unrest over the government's new taxes erupts into riots.
2007 - Awashima Marine Park in Japan catches a video tape of the rare frilled shark.
2008 - Black Monday in worldwide stock markets. FTSE 100 had its biggest ever one-day points fall,
           European stocks closed with their worst result since 9/11, and Asian stocks drop as much as
           15%.
2008 - The Eyak language in Alaska becomes extinct as its last native speaker dies.

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 21, 2013, 07:18:48 AM

This Day in History for 21st January


Famous Weddings

1966 - Beatle George Harrison marries model Patti Boyd
1989 - "Falcon Crest" actor Lorenzo Lamas (31) weds actress Kathleen Kinmont (23) at the Graceland
            Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 21, 2013, 07:19:44 AM

This Day in History for 21st January


Famous Divorces

2011 - Actress Jaime Pressly (35) divorces entertainment lawyer Simran Singh (33) due to irreconcilable
          differences after more than 1 year of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 21, 2013, 07:27:13 AM

This Day in History for 21st January


Famous Birthdays

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Confederate General                                Golfer Jack Nicklaus (1940)                  Pop star Emma Lee Bunton (1976)
Thomas Jackson (1824)


1337 - Charles V, the Wise, king of France (1364-80)
1338 - King Charles V of France (d. 1380)
1571 - John I Pontanus, physicist/historian (Amsterdam)
1659 - Adriaen van der Werff, Dutch portrait painter/engraver/architect
1721 - James Murray, British military officer, governor of Quebec (d. 1794)
1735 - Johann Gottfried Eckard, composer
1743 - John Fitch, inventor (had a working steamboat years before Fulton)
1746 - Johann H Pestalozzi, Zurich Switz, educator (Leonard & Gertrude) [NS]
1751 - Josephus Andreas Fodor, composer
1759 - Johan Valckenaer, Dutch politician/patriot
1762 - Giuseppe Antonio Silvani, composer
1771 - Arnold A Buyskes, Dutch vice-admiral/colonial director
1775 - Manuel Garcia, composer
1792 - Tsjalling Hiddes Halbertsma, Fries story teller (Rhymes & Tales)
1796 - John Gelinde van Blom, Frisian notary/author
1801 - Ramon Vilanova y Barrera, composer
1804 - Eliza Roxcy Snow, American poet (d. 1887)
1814 - Thomas Attwood Walmisley, composer
1815 - Horace Wells, dentist (pioneered use of medical anethesia)
1815 - John Bingham, American politician and lawyer (d. 1900)
1821 - John Cabell Breckinridge, (D) 14th US VP (1857-61)/mjr-gen (Confed)
1823 - Alexandre Edouard Goria, composer
1824 - Thomas Jackson ["Stonewall"], Clarksburg, Virginia, Lt Gen 2nd Corps (ANV, Confed), (d. 1863)
1825 - Imre Madách, Hungarian writer (d. 1864)
1827 - Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin, Russian mathematician (d. 1900)
1829 - Oscar II Frederik, King of Sweden (1872-1907)/Norway (-1905)/poet
1833 - Norman Willis, union leader (Britain's Trades Union Congress)
1840 - Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake, pioneer English woman physician
1848 - Henri Duparc, French composer
1855 - John M Browning, US, weapons manufacturer
1859 - Antoni Wincenty Rutkowski, composer
1860 - Karl Staaff, Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1915)
1867 - James Marcus, New York, American actor (The Eagle, The Lonely Trail)
1867 - Maxime Weygard, French general/gov-gen (Algeria)
1867 - Willem C Royaards, Dutch theater director (Summer Games)
1867 - Ludwig Thoma, German writer (d. 1921)
1872 - Jonkhr Frans Beelaerts van Blokland, Dutch foreign minister
1875 - John Lindworsky, German jesuit/psychologist (Der Wille)
1875 - Paul E Kahle, Germany, professor of oriental studies
1878 - Egon Friedell, Austria, journalist/actor/writer (Der Partylowe)
1882 - Pavel Florensky, Russian mathematician (d. 1937)
1883 - Olav Aukrust, Norway, poet
1883 - Amang Rodriguez, Filipino politician (d. 1964)
1884 - Katie Sandwina, Germany, legendary woman weight-lifter
1884 - Roger Nash Baldwin, founder (American Civil Liberties Union)
1885 - Umberto Nobile, Italian general
1886 - Gustaaf Sap, Belgian minister of Finance/Economy
1887 - Alfred Henry Ackley, composer
1887 - Georges Vézina, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1926)
1889 - Bert Collins, cricketer (Aussie batsman in the post WW I years)
1889 - Pitirim A Sorokin, Russian/US sociologist (Social mobility)
1891 - Francisco Lazaro, Portuguese runner
1891 - Nikolay Semyonovich Golovanov, composer
1891 - Timothy Mather Spelman, composer
1895 - Cristóbal Balenciaga, Spanish couturier (d. 1972)
1897 - J Carrol Naish, NYC, actor (Charlie Chan-Adv of Charlie Chan)
1897 - René Iché, French sculptor (d. 1954)
1898 - Avery Claflin, composer
1898 - John George, Syria, actor (Kolb-Adventures of Fu Manchu)
1901 - Ricardo Zamora, Spanish footballer (d. 1978)
1904 - Joseph Ford McGuinn, Brooklyn NY, actor (Dick Tracy's G-Men)
1904 - Richard P Blackmur, Mass, critic/poet (Good European)
1905 - Christian Dior, Normandy France, fashion designer (long-skirted look)
1905 - Karl Wallenda, German acrobat (d. 1978)
1906 - Fred Fehl, Austrian/US Broadway photographer
1906 - John Putz, journalist
1906 - Igor Moiseyev, Russian choreographer (d. 2007)
1909 - Todor Skalovski, composer
1910 - Lord Cayzer, British financier/swcheeps magnate/multi-millionaire
1910 - Eua Sunthornsanan, Thai composer and bandleader (d. 1981)
1911 - Stanley William Reed, cineaste
1912 - Konrad Bloch, Germany, biochemist (studied cholesterol-Nobel 1964)
1915 - Alan Hewitt, NYC, actor (Det Brennan-My Favorite Martian)
1916 - [JW] Al James Woodie exander, songwriter/vocalist
1917 - Rohan Butler, historian
1918 - Geoffrey Dawes, physiologist
1918 - Richard D. Winters, American war hero
1918 - Chichay, Filipino actress (d. 1993)
1919 - Jinx Falkenburg, Barcelona Spain, actress (Masquerade Party)
1920 - Donald Cuthbert Coleman, economic historian
1920 - Errol Walton Barrow, PM of Barbados (DLP) (1966-76, 1986-87)
1920 - Torsten Nilsson, composer
1921 - Barney Clark, 1st to receive a permanent artificial heart
1921 - John Doucette, Brockton Mass, actor (Lock Up, Big Town)
1921 - Todor Popov, composer
1921 - Howard Unruh, American mass murderer
1922 - Jean P Vroom, Dutch sculptor
1922 - Paul Scofield, Hurst England, actor (Man for All Seasons, Train)
1922 - Telly Savalas, American actor (d. 1994)
1923 - Judith Merril, [Josephine Juliet Grossman], sci-fi writer
1924 - Benny Hill, Southampton England, comedian (Benny Hill Show)
1924 - Telly Savalas, Garden City NJ, actor (Acapulco, Kojak)
1925 - Lola Flores, Cadiz Spain, singer/actress (Kuma Ching, Faraona)
1925 - Oswald "Ossie" Stevens Nock, railway writer
1926 - Franco Evangelisti, Italian composer
1926 - Paul Burke, New Orleans La, actor (Neal-Dynasty) [or Jul 21]
1926 - Raf Reymen, Flemish actor
1926 - Steve Reeves, Glasgow Montana, actor (Hercules, Hercules Unchained)
1926 - Brian Brockless, English organist (d. 1995)
1927 - Clive Churchill, Australian rugby league footballer (d. 1985)
1930 - Valentin Ignatyevich Filatyev, Russia, cosmonaut
1932 - Boris Shakhlin, Russia, gymnast (Olympic-gold-1956-60-64)
1933 - Itzhak Fuks, Israeli El Al captain, crashed in Amsterdam
1933 - William Wrigley III, chewing gum mogul (Wrigleys)
1933 - Joseph W. Eschbach, American doctor (d. 2007)
1934 - Audrey Dalton, Irish actress
1935 - Ann Wedgeworth, Abilene Tx, actress (Tiger's Tale, Men's Club, Bogie)
1936 - Koji Hashimoto, Japanese film director (d. 2005)
1937 - Prince Max, Duke in Bavaria
1938 - Wolfman Jack, [Bob Smith], Bkln NY, DJ (Midnight Special)
1938 - John Savident, British actor
1939 - Mary Ellen McAnally, Illinois, poet (Dance of the Zygotes)
1940 - Jack Nicklaus, Columbus Ohio, golfer (Player of Yr 1967,72,73,75,76)
1940 - Marquis of Tavistock, English large landowner/multi-millionaire
1941 - Edwin Starr, [Charles Hatcher], US singer (War)
1941 - Placido Domingo, Madrid Spain, opera tenor (Pinkerton-Mme Butterfly)
1941 - Richie Havens, Bkln, folk singer (Here Comes the Sun)
1941 - Stathis Giallelis, Greek actor
1941 - Ivan Putski, Polish-born American professional wrestler
1942 - Mac Davis, Lubbock Tx, singer/actor (Mac Davis Show, North Dallas 40)
1942 - Mac Davis, American musician
1944 - John Kenneth Tavener, composer
1944 - Neely Bruce, composer
1945 - Andrew Stein, pres of NYC council (D)
1945 - Chris Britton, rocker (Troggs-Rock & Roll Goldmine)
1946 - Vincent Placoly, Martinique, writer (L'eau-de-mort guildive)
1947 - Jill Eikenberry, New Haven Ct, (Ann Kelsey-LA Law, Manhattan Project)
1947 - Jimmy Ibbotson, Penn, country singer (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
1947 - Pye Hastings, English singer and musician (Caravan)
1947 - Michel Jonasz, French singer and composer
1950 - Billy Ocean, [Leslie S Charles], Trinidad, singer (Caribbean Queen)
1950 - Joseph R Tanner, Danville Ill, astronaut (STS 66, 82, sk: 97)
1950 - Richie Ranno, rocker
1952 - Marco Camenisch, Swiss environmental activist
1952 - Louis Menand, American writer and critic
1953 - Fausto Bara, Mexico, actor (Gaucho-Renegades)
1953 - Paul Allen, American entrepreneur, co-founder of Microsoft
1955 - Peter Fleming, NJ, tennis player (US Open Doubles 1979, 81, 83)
1955 - Robby Benson, Dallas Tx, actor (One on One, Running Brave, Chosen)
1955 - Jeff Koons, American artist
1956 - Bob Brill, NYC, drummer (Berlin-You Take My Breath Away)
1957 - Geena [Virginia] Davis, Wareham Mass, actress (Beetlejuice, Fly)
1957 - Jacob Green, NFL defensive end (Seattle Seahawk)
1957 - Shaukat Dukanwala, cricketer (Baroda off-spinner, UAE World Cup 1996)
1958 - Miguel Alejandro, NYC, actor (Popi)
1959 - Alex McLeish, Scottish footballer and manager
1961 - Sherry Ramsay, Stauton Va, actress (Trish Mason-As the World Turns)
1962 - Marie Trintignant, French actress (d. 2003)
1962 - Tyler Cowen, American economist
1963 - Cindy Schreyer, Forest Park GA, LPGA golfer (1993 Sun-Times Challenge)
1963 - Detlef Schrempf, Germany, NBA forward (Mavericks, Pacers, Supersonics)
1963 - Hakeem Abdul Olajuwon, Nigeria, NBA center (Rockets, Oly-gold-96)
1963 - Jessie Hester, NFL player (St Louis Rams)
1965 - Brian Bradley, Kitchener, NHL center (Tampa Bay Lightning)
1965 - Cordell Crockett, rocker (Ugly Kid Joe-Mad Man, Too Bad)
1965 - Eric Moore, NFL tackle (Cleveland Browns)
1965 - Tania Abitbol, Madrid Spain, LPGA golfer (1994 US Women's Open-4th)
1965 - Jam Master Jay, American disc jockey (d. 2002)
1966 - Chris Hammond, US baseball pitcher (Florida Marlins)
1966 - Katrine Michaelsen, Gentokte Denmark, Miss Denmark (1984)
1967 - Ulf Stenlund, Sweden, tennis star
1968 - Charlotte Ross, Chicago, actress (Eve-Days of Our Lives)
1968 - Tom Urbani, Santa Cruz CA, pitcher (St Louis Cards, Detroit Tigers)
1968 - Ulrica Messing, Swedish politician
1969 - Ashley Sheppard, NFL linebacker (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1969 - Matt Willig, NFL tackle/guard (Atlanta Falcons, NY Jets)
1969 - Rusty Greer, Ft Rucker AL, outfielder (Texas Rangers)
1969 - Ted Long, CFL slot back (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1969 - Karina Lombard, American actress
1969 - Tsubaki Nekoi, Japanese manga artist
1970 - Brennan Little, St Thomas Ont, golfer (1994 Western States mini-tour)
1970 - Ian Salisbury, cricketer (Sussex & England leg-spinner 1992-96)
1970 - Ken Leung, American actor
1970 - Mark Trojanowski, American musician (Sister Hazel)
1971 - Doug Edwards, NBA forward (Vancouver Grizzlies)
1971 - Doug Weight, Warren MI, NHL center (Edmonton Oilers, Team USA 98)
1971 - Tommy Puett, Gary Ind, actor (Tyler-Life Goes On, America's Top 10)
1971 - Alan McManus, Scottish snooker player
1972 - Alan Benes, Evansville IN, pitcher (St Louis Cardinals)
1972 - Howard Nathan, NBA guard (Atlanta Hawks)
1972 - Shelley Looney, ice hockey forward (USA, Oly-98)
1972 - Rick Falkvinge, Swedish politician
1972 - Yasunori Mitsuda, Japanese composer
1972 - Cat Power (Chan Marshall), American musician
1973 - Bubba Miller, corner (Philadelphia Eagles)
1973 - Grady Jackson, defensive tackle (Oakland Raiders)
1973 - Jamal Cox, WLAF linebacker (Rhein Fire)
1974 - Jerald Sowell, fullback (NY Jets)
1974 - Jerry Wunsch, tackle (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1974 - Orpheus Roye, defensive end (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1974 - Rove McManus, Australian television host and comedian
1974 - Alex Sperafico, Brazilian racing driver
1975 - Anette Oldenborg, Miss Universe-Denmark (1996)
1975 - Faghma Absalom, Miss Universe-Namibia (1996)
1975 - Willem Korsten, Dutch soccer player (Vitesse)
1975 - Ito, Spanish footballer
1975 - Nicky Butt, English footballer
1975 - Casey FitzRandolph, American speed skater
1975 - Yuji Ide, Japanese racing driver
1976 - Amanda Little, Miss USA-Texas (1997, top 6)
1976 - Emma Lee Bunton, "Baby Spice", Finchley London, vocalist (Spice Girls)
1976 - Lynn Thomas, Newport News VA, playmate (May 1997)
1977 - Al Baxter, Australian rugby union footballer
1977 - Phil Neville, English footballer
1977 - Rick Ross, American rapper
1978 - Faris al-Sultan, German-Iraqi triathlete
1978 - Tamir "Nokio" Ruffin, American Singer
1978 - Phil Stacey, American Idol finalist
1978 - Andrei Zyuzin, Russian ice hockey player
1979 - Kelly Gaudet, Miss Florida Teen USA (1996)
1979 - Byung-Hyun Kim, Korean baseball player
1979 - Spider Loc, American rapper, member of G-Unit
1979 - Brian O'Driscoll, Irish rugby union footballer
1980 - Aubrie Rippner, LA California, tennis star (1995 USTA National Girls 18)
1980 - Dave Kitson, English footballer
1980 - Nana Mizuki, Japanese voice actress and singer
1981 - Ivan Ergić, Serbian footballer
1981 - Gillian Chung Yan-tung, Hong Kong singer (Twins)
1981 - Jamie Dalrymple, English cricketer
1981 - Dany Heatley, Canadian ice hockey player
1981 - Andy Lee, Korean singer (Shinhwa)
1981 - Izabella Miko, Polish-born actress and model
1981 - Alex Ubago, Spanish-Basque singer-songwriter
1982 - Dean Whitehead, English footballer
1983 - Maryse Ouellet, French-Canadian model and professional wrestler
1983 - Moritz Volz, German footballer
1983 - Peter Philipakos, Greek-American soccer player
1985 - Alex Pérez, Spanish footballer
1985 - Sasha Pivovarova, Russian Model
1985 - Matt Unicomb, Australian basketball player
1986 - Coffin Joe, English drummer ( The Horrors)
1987 - Joe Ledley, Welsh footballer
1988 - William Johansson, Swedish composer
1990 - Jacob Smith, American actor
1994 - Laura Robson, Tennis Player
2004 - Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 21, 2013, 07:30:58 AM

This Day in History for 21st January


Famous Deaths

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Marxist Revolutionary                               Writer George Orwell (1950)
Vladimir Lenin (1924)


304 - Saint Agnes (martyred) (b. 291)
879 - Boudouin with the Iron Arm, earl of Flanders, dies
917 - Erchanger, Duke of Swabia (c. 880)
1118 - Pope Paschal II, born Raniero (1099-1118) dies
1519 - Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Spanish explorer (b. 1475)
1527 - Juan de Grijalva, Spanish conquistador (c. 1489)
1546 - Azai Sukemasa, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1491)
1596 - John Ligarius, German theologist/prime minister, dies at 66
1609 - Joseph Justus Scaliger, French inventor of "Julian Period", dies at 68
1626 - John Dowland, English composer (In Darkness We Dwell), dies at 62
1638 - Ignazio Donati, Italian composer (c. 1570)
1665 - Domenico Mazzocchi, composer, dies at 72
1670 - Honorat de Brueil seigneur de Racan, French playwright, dies at 80
1683 - Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st earl of Shaftesbury, dies at 61
1686 - Nicolas-Francois Blondel, French architect, dies
1699 - Obadiah Walker, English writer (b. 1616)
1704 - Willem B Schepers, Dutch merchant/ship owner, dies at about 83
1706 - Adrien Baillet, French scholar and critic (b. 1649)
1710 - Johann Georg Gichtel, German mystic (b. 1638)
1722 - Charles Paulet, 2nd Duke of Bolton, English supporter of William III of England (b. 1661)
1731 - Thomas Woolston, English theologian (b. 1669)
1746 - Gottfried Kirkhoff, composer, dies at 60
1766 - James Quin, English actor (b. 1693)
1773 - Alexis Piron, French writer (b. 1689)
1774 - Mustafa III, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1717). Reigns 1757 to 1774. Dies at 56
1793 - Louis XVI, French King (1774-93), beheaded by revolutionaries at 38
1795 - Samuel Wallis, English navigator (b. 1728)
1809 - Josiah Hornblower, American statesman (b. 1729)
1814 - Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, French writer and botanist (b. 1737)
1815 - M Claudius, writer, dies at 74
1823 - Cayetano José Rodríguez, Argentine cleric, journalist and poet (b. 1761)
1831 - Achim v Arnim, writer, dies at 49
1851 - Gustav Albert Lortzing, composer, dies at 49
1870 - Alexander Herzen, Russian writer (b. 1812)
1871 - John J Rochussen, gov-general of Neth-Indies (1845-51), dies at 73
1872 - Franz Grillparzer, Austrian playwright (Sappho/Libussa), dies at 81
1881 - Wilhelm Matthias Naeff, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1802)
1882 - Anton Emil Titl, composer, dies at 72
1883 - Jacopo Tomadini, composer, dies at 62
1884 - Auguste Franchomme, composer, dies at 75
1888 - Stephan Hale Alonzo Marsh, composer, dies at 83
1891 - Calixa Lavallee, composer, dies at 48
1892 - John Couch Adams, English co-discoverer of Neptune, dies
1894 - Guillaume Jean Joseph Nicolas Lekeu, composer, dies at 24
1901 - Elisha Gray, American inventor (b. 1835)
1903 - Hermanus J A M Schaepman, Dutch clergyman/politician, dies at 58
1914 - Theodor Kittelsen, Norwegian artist (b. 1857)
1919 - Gojong of Joseon, Emperor of Korea (b. 1852)
1924 - Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin, Russian leader, dies of a stroke at 53
1926 - Camillo Golgi, Ital medical research (malaria, Nobel 1906), dies at 81
1927 - Floris H Verster, Dutch painter/cartoonist/etcher, dies at 65
1928 - George Goethals, American army engineer (b. 1858)
1931 - Felix Blumenfeld, composer, dies at 67
1932 - [Giles] Lytton Strachey, British biographer/critic, dies at 51
1933 - George A. Moore, Irish novelist (b. 1852)
1937 - Marie Prevost, Canadian actress (b. 1898)
1942 - Henryk Opienski, Polish composer/musicologist/conductor, dies at 72
1943 - Otakar Sini, composer, dies at 61
1944 - Gustaaf DFL Schamelhout, Flemish physician/writer, dies at 74
1944 - Heinrich zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, German major/pilot, shot down
1948 - Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, composer, dies at 72
1950 - George Orwell, author (Animal Farm, 1984), dies in London at 46
1954 - Billy Jenkins, dies at 69
1955 - Maarten P Vrij, Dutch lawyer/criminologist/High Council, dies at 59
1955 - Archie Hahn, American athlete (b. 1880)
1956 - Sam Langford, Canadian boxer (b. 1883)
1957 - Arthur L Bowley, English statistician/economist, dies at 87
1959 - Cecil B[lount] de Mille, producer (10 Commandments), dies at 77
1959 - Lamar Stringfield, composer, dies at 61
1959 - Cecil B. DeMille, American director (b. 1881)
1961 - John Joseph Becker, composer, dies a day before 75th birthday
1962 - Andre Lhote, French painter/art historian, dies at 76
1963 - Al St John, actor (Law & Order, Devil Riders), dies at 70
1963 - Franz Jung, writer, dies at 74
1964 - Joseph Schildkraut, actor (Cleopatra, Diary of Anne Frank), dies at 68
1965 - Harvey Zorbaugh, doctor/TV host (Play the Game), dies at 68
1967 - Ann Sheridan, actress (Pistols 'n' Petticoats), dies of cancer at 51
1968 - Will Lang Jr., American magazine executive (b. 1914)
1971 - Richard B Russell, (Sen-D-Ga), dies at 73
1974 - Jan Arends, Dutch poet/author, dies at 48
1974 - Ken Viljoen, cricketer (played 27 Tests for South Africa 1930-47), dies
1974 - Lewis L Strauss, head US Atomic Energy Comm (1953-58), dies at 78
1975 - Marie Lohr, actress (Pygmalion, Small Hotel, Escapade), dies at 84
1977 - John Vincent, composer, dies at 74
1977 - Zoltan Vasarhelyi, composer, dies at 76
1977 - Sandro Penna, Italian poet (b. 1906)
1978 - Freda Utley, British scholar and author. (b. 1898)
1981 - Allyn Joslyn, actor (They Won't Forget, Cafe Society), dies at 79
1984 - Jackie Wilson, US singer (I Get the Sweetest Feeling), dies at 49
1984 - Giannis Skaribas, Greek writer, dramatist, and poet (b. 1893)
1985 - Barbara Cowsill, rocker (Cowsills), dies of emphysema
1985 - James Beard, American chef and author (b. 1903)
1985 - Eddie Graham, American professional wrestler and promoter (b. 1930)
1987 - Pieter G Buckinx, Flemish writer (7th Day), dies at 83
1987 - Charles Goodell, American politician (b. 1926)
1988 - Abraham Sofaer, actor (Naked Jungle, Elephant Walk), dies
1989 - Billy Tipton, American musician (b. 1914)
1989 - Carl Furillo, American Baseball player (b. 1922)
1991 - Frank Mitchell, actor (Music is Magic, Prairie Gunsmoke), dies
1991 - Howard "Red" Grange, football's galloping ghost, dies at 87
1991 - Richard Bolling, (Rep-D-Mo)/US civil-rights leader, dies at 74
1992 - William T "Champion Jack" Dupree, US boxer/pianist, dies at 81
1994 - Basel al-Assad, Syrian pres Assad son, dies in car accident at 31
1995 - Flavio "Negao" Pires da Conceicao, drug Trafficker, dies at 25
1995 - John Halas, animator, dies at 82
1995 - Philippe Casado, Moroccan/French cyclist, dies at 30
1996 - Roman Ciesiewicz, artist/graphic designer, dies at 65
1996 - Sam Green, industrialist/inventor, dies at 88
1996 - René Marc Jalbert, sergeant-at-Arms at the National Assembly of Quebec (b. 1921)
1997 - Colonel Tom Parker, manager (Elvis Presley), dies at 87
1997 - Dennis Main Wilson, TV/radio producer, dies at 72
1997 - Michael Duane, educationalist, dies at 81
1998 - Jack Lord, American actor (b. 1920)
1999 - Charles Brown, American blues singer and pianist (b. 1920)
1999 - Susan Strasberg, American actress (b. 1938)
2001 - Byron De La Beckwith, American white supremacist (b. 1921)
2002 - Peggy Lee, American singer (b. 1920)
2003 - Paul Haines, American-born Canadian poet (b. 1933)
2004 - Yordan Radichkov, Bulgarian writer (b. 1929)
2005 - Theun de Vries, Dutch writer (b. 1907)
2005 - John L. Hess, American journalist (b. 1917)
2005 - Parveen Babi, Indian actress (b. 1955)
2006 - Ibrahim Rugova, President of Kosovo (b. 1944)
2006 - Bedanand Jha, Nepalese politician
2007 - Maria Cioncan, Romanian athlete (b. 1977)
2007 - U;Nee, Korean pop artist (b. 1981)
2008 - Pam Barrett, Canadian politician (b. 1953)
2008 - Marie Smith Jones, last native speaker of the Eyak language (b. 1918)
2010 - Paul Quarrington, Canadian novelist, playwright, screenwriter, filmmaker, musician and
           educator (b. 1953)
2011 - E V V Satyanarayana, Indian Film Director, Producer. (b. 1958)
2011 - Dennis Oppenheim, American conceptual artist (b.1938)
2012 - Roy John Britten, American molecular biologist, dies at 92
2012 - Jonathan Idema, American torturer, kidnapper and con-artist, dies from Aids complications at
           55

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 22, 2013, 07:20:15 AM

This Day in History for 22nd January


Historical Events

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English Monarch Queen Elizabeth I          Naturalist Charles Darwin                          Playwright Arthur Miller

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French President Charles de Gaulle          Boxing Champ George Foreman           Heavyweight Boxing Champion
                                                                                                                                      Mike Tyson


565 - Eutychius is deposed as Patriarch of Constantinople by John Scholasticus.
871 - Battle at Basing: Danish invasion army beats Ethelred of Wessex
1371 - King Robert II Stuart of Scotland crowned
1506 - The first contingent of 150 Swiss Guards arrive at the Vatican.
1510 - Jews are expelled from Colmar Germany
1517 - Turks conquer Cairo
1521 - Emperor Charles V opens the Diet of Worms.
1528 - England & France declare war on Emperor Charles V
1575 - English queen Elizabeth I grants Thomas Tallis & William Byrd music press monopoly
1584 - Parts of Switzerland adopt Gregorian calendar (& parts in 1812)
1588 - Pope Sixtus V decrees "Immense aeterni" (Reformed curia)
1673 - Postal service between New York & Boston inaugurated
1689 - Lord Halifax becomes Speaker of English House of Lords
1689 - Prince Willem III calls English parliament together
1690 - Iroquois tribes renew allegiance to British against French
1758 - Russian troops occupy Königsberg, East Prussia [OS=Jan 11]
1760 - Battle at Wandewash India: British troops beat French
1771 - Spain cedes Falkland Islands to Britain
1775 - Marshal Oscar von Lubomirski expels Jews from Warsaw Poland
1798 - Coup of Midderigh
1813 - Americans capture Frenchtown, Michigan Territory
1814 - 1st Knights Templar grand encampment in US held, NYC
1816 - Lord Byron completes "Parisina" & "Siege of Corinth"
1817 - English freighter Diana sinks off Malaysia
1824 - Ashantis defeat British forces in the Gold Coast.
1831 - Charles Darwin takes his Bachelors of Art exam
1837 - Earthquake in southern Syria kills thousands
1840 - British colonists reach New Zealand.
1850 - Alta California becomes a daily paper, 1st such in Calif
1857 - National Association of Baseball Players founded, NY
1859 - Brahms' 1st piano concerto (in D minor) premieres, Hanover
1862 - Confederate government raises premium for volunteers from $10 to $20
1863 - Union General Burnside's "Mud March"
1873 - Britains SS Northfleet sinks at Dungeness England, 300 die
1877 - Arthur Tooth, an Anglican clergyman is taken into custody after being prosecuted for using
          ritualist practices.
1879 - Zulus attack British Army camp in Isandhlwana South Africa
1879 - James Shields (D) elected US senator from Missouri after previously serving as US senator
           from Illinois & Minnesota
1879 - Battle at Rorkes Drift: British garrison of 150 holds off 3,000-4,000 Zulus
1881 - Ancient Egyptian obelisk "Cleopatra's Needle" erected in Central Park
1883 - England complete 1st innings victory in Tests v Aust MCG
1889 - Columbia Phonograph was formed in Washington, D.C.
1890 - Jose Marti forms La Liga (Union of Cuban exiles) in NYC
1895 - National Association of Manufacturers organized in Cincinnati
1899 - Leaders of six Australian colonies meet in Melbourne to discuss confederation.
1901 - After 63 years England stops sale of Queen Victoria postage stamps series & begins King
           Edward VII series
1905 - Bloody Sunday: Russian demonstrators fired on by tsarist troops
1906 - SS Valencia runs aground on rocks on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, killing more than
           130.
1909 - Vassily Kandinsky forms Kunstlerverein in Munich
1910 - Opera "Germania," premieres in NYC
1914 - Paul Claudel's "L'échange," premieres in Paris
1918 - Ukraine proclaimed a free republic (German puppet)
1924 - Baldwin government resigns in England
1924 - Dutch Blast Furnace & Steel Factory opens
1924 - KGO-AM in San Francisco CA begins radio transmissions
1925 - Albania Republic proclaimed under Pres Achmed Zogu
1926 - Belgian chief of staff Gen Maglinse quits
1930 - -35°F (-37°C), Mount Carroll, Illinois (state record)
1931 - French government of Steeg falls
1931 - VARA begins experimental TV broadcast in Diamantbeurs Amsterdam
1931 - Sir Isaac Isaacs is sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia.
1932 - British Anglicans & Old-Catholic church merge
1934 - Dmitri Sjostakovitsj' opera "Lady MacBeth," premieres in Leningrad
1936 - French Laval government falls
1938 - "Our Town," Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer-winner of small-town life in Grover's Corners, NH,
            premieres (NJ)
1939 - Aquatic Park, near Fisherman's Wharf, SF, is dedicated
1939 - Uranium atom 1st split, Columbia University
1940 - 1st radio broadcast of "Road to Happiness" on CBS
1941 - 1st mass killing of Jews in Romania
1941 - British/Australian troops capture Tobruk from Italians
1942 - Japanese air raid on Rabaul, New Britain
1942 - Sietze de Groot wins 8th Dutch 11 city skate (8:44:06)
1943 - 66.3 cm precipitation at Hoegees Camp, California (state record)
1943 - Battle of Anzio: Italy; Allies stopped on beach[1944]-
1943 - Joint Chiefs of Staff determine invasion in Sicily for July 10th
1943 - Temperature rises 49°F (9°C) in 2 minutes in Spearfish, SD
1944 - During World War II, Allied forces begin landing at Anzio Italy
1945 - Burma highway reopens
1945 - Heavy US air raid on Okinawa
1946 - US president sets up CIA, Central Intelligence Agency
1947 - 1st commercial TV station west of Mississippi opens, Hollywood CA
1947 - KTLA TV channel 5 in Los Angeles, CA (IND) begins broadcasting
1948 - Jim Laker takes 7-103 in his 1st Test Cricket innings v WI Barbados
1949 - "All for Love" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 121 perfs
1949 - Chinatown telephone exchange closed
1950 - Polly Riley wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open
1951 - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Johncrowe Ransom
1951 - Fidel Castro ejected from a Winter League game after beaning batter
1953 - Arthur Miller's "Crucible," premieres in NYC
1955 - Norwegian government of Einar Gerhardsen forms
1956 - 30 die in a train crash in Los Angeles
1956 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open
1956 - Canadian Football Council forms
1957 - Israeli forces withdraw from Sinai Peninsula
1957 - Mad Bomber (George P Metesky) accused of 30 explosions, arrested
1958 - KRSD (now KEVN) TV channel 7 in Rapid City, SD (ABC) 1st broadcast
1959 - USAF concludes less than 1% of UFO's are unknown objects
1960 - 10th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 125-115 at Philadelphia
1960 - Coal mine of Johnburg caves-in, 417 die
1960 - French president De Gaulle escape attempt by general Massu
1960 - Paul Pender beats Sugar Ray Robinson for middleweight boxing title
1962 - The Organization of American States suspends Cuba's membership.
1963 - Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Naples Professional Golf Tournament
1963 - The Elysée treaty of cooperation between France and Germany was signed by Charles de
           Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer.
1964 - Kenneth Kaunda becomes premier of North-Rhodesia (Zambia)
1964 - World's largest cheese (15,723 kg) manufactured, Wisconsin
1965 - US launches TIROS 9 weather satellite
1967 - NFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 20-10
1968 - "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" premieres on NBC
1968 - Apollo 5 launched to Moon; unmanned lunar module tests made
1968 - NBA announces it will expand to Milwaukee & Phoenix
1969 - "Celebration" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 110 performances
1969 - Billy Preston becomes 5th Beatle
1969 - Orbiting Solar Observatory 5 launched into earth orbit
1969 - Roy Campanella & Stan Musial elected to baseball Hall of Fame
1970 - 1st commercial Boeing 747 flight, NY to London in 6½ hours
1970 - Test debut of Barry Richards, South Africa v Australia, Cape Town
1971 - John & Yoko record "Power to the People"
1972 - "Emergency" with Robert Fuller premieres on NBC TV
1972 - 22nd NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 112-110 at LA
1973 - George Foreman TKOs Joe Frazier in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
1973 - Roe vs Wade: US Supreme Court legalizes some abortions
1973 - US, North & South Vietnam & Vietcong sign boundary accord
1975 - Landsat 2, an Earth Resources Technology Satellite, launched
1976 - Bank robbery in Beirut nets $20-50 million (record)
1980 - Dissidents Andrei Sacharov & Jelena Bonner banished to Gorki
1980 - PGA begins a senior golf tour
1980 - West Indies beat England 2-0 to win 1st World Series Cup
1980 - Andrei Sakharov is arrested in Moscow.
1981 - 40th Islander shut-out opponent-3-0 vs Red Wings-Billy Smith 15th
1981 - O A "Bum" Phillips becomes head coach of New Orleans Saints
1982 - 75% of North America is covered by snow
1983 - 2nd flight readiness firing of Challenger's main engines; 22 seconds
1983 - Houston is 1st NBA team to be held scoreless in an overtime Portland Trail Blazers out score
           them 17-0 & win 113-96
1984 - Annette Kennedy of SUNY sets women's basketball record with 70 pts
1984 - Hilbert van de Thumb becomes European all-round skates
1984 - Superbowl XVIII: LA Raiders beat Wash Red Skins, 38-9 in Tampa Superbowl MVP: Marcus
           Allen, LA Raiders, RB
1985 - -30°F (-34°C), Mountain Lake Bio Station, Virginia (state record)
1985 - Cold wave damages 90% of Florida's citrus crop
1985 - Kelly Hu, 16, of Hawaii, crowned 3rd Miss Teen USA
1986 - Ghorbanifar 1st suggests diversion of cash to contras, says North
1987 - Blizzard in NJ, as 334 attend Devils-Flame NHL game, NJ wins 7-5
1987 - Pennsylvania politician R. Budd Dwyer shoots and kills himself at a press conference on live
            national television, leading to debates on boundaries in journalism.
1988 - 1st-class cricket debut of Brian Lara, Trinidad & Tobago v Leeward Is
1988 - 1st-class cricket debut of Hansie Cronje, OFS v Transvaal
1988 - Mike Tyson TKOs Larry Holmes in 4 for heavyweight boxing title
1989 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1989 - Superbowl XXIII: SF 49ers beat Cin Bengals, 20-16 in Miami Superbowl MVP: Jerry Rice, San
           Francisco, WR
1990 - 17th American Music Award: Milli Vanilli
1990 - Wasim Akram scores Test century (123) at Adelaide
1990 - Will Clark, NL's MVP signs a $15M 4-year contract with SF Giants
1990 - Robert Tappan Morris, Jr. is convicted of releasing the 1988 Internet worm.
1991 - Gulf War. Three SCUDs and one Patriot missile hit Ramat Gan in Israel, injuring 96 people.
            Three elderly people die of heart attacks.
1992 - Princess Sarah Ferguson wears paper bag over her head on airline ride
1992 - Space Shuttle STS-42 (Discovery 15) launches into space
1992 - Rebel forces occupy Zaire's national radio station in Kinshasa and broadcast a demand for the
           government's resignation.
1993 - Johan Koss skates world record 5 km in 6:38.77
1994 - 45th NHL All-Star Game: East beat West 9-8 at NY Rangers
1994 - 5.5 earthquake strikes Sumatra
1994 - 51st Golden Globes: Schlinder's List, Steven Speilberg
1994 - East beats West 9-8 in 45th NHL All Star Game at Madison Square Garden in NYC
1995 - Palestinian bomb attack in Beit Lid Israel, 21-22 killed
1995 - Pat Bradley wins LPGA HealthSouth Inaugural Golf Tournament
1997 - Space Shuttle Atlantis Returns to Earth, Successful
1998 - NHL's Minnesota franchise selects the nickname Wild
1998 - Rickey Henderson, rejoins Oakland A's for 4th time
1998 - STS 89 (Endeavour 12) launches into orbit
1998 - World League of American Football becomes NFL East
1999 - Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons are burned alive by radical Hindus
           while sleeping in their car in Eastern India.
2002 - Kmart Corp becomes the largest retailer in United States history to file for Chapter 11
           bankruptcy protection.
2003 - Last successful contact with the spacecraft Pioneer 10, one of the most distant man-made
            objects.
2006 - Evo Morales is inaugurated as President of Bolivia, becoming the country's first indigenous
           president.
2007 - The jury portion of the trial against Robert Pickton, accused of being Canada's worst serial
           killer, opens in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada.
2010 - Conan O'Brien's last Tonight Show episode after a big controversy over the Tonight Show
           timeslot.

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 22, 2013, 07:21:33 AM

This Day in History for 22nd January


Famous Weddings

1985 - Zak Starkey (Ringo's son) marries Sarah Menikides
2005 - Business magnate and "The Apprentice" host Donald Trump (56) weds former model Melania
            Knauss (34) at the Bethesda by the Sea Episcopal Church in Palm Beach, Florida
2006 - Princess of Rock and Roll Lisa Marie Presley (37) weds American guitarist and producer Michael
           Lockwood (44) at Kyoto, Japan

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 22, 2013, 07:29:17 AM

This Day in History for 22nd January


Famous Birthdays

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Statesman/Philosopher                               Ballet choreographer                                       INXS rocker
Francis Bacon (1561)                                  George Balanchine (1904)                      Michael Hutchence (1960)


1263 - Ibn Taymiya, Islamic scholar (d. 1328)
1440 - Ivan III, the Great, Russian czar (1462-1505)/conquered Lithuania
1553 - Mori Terumoto, Japanese warrior (d. 1625)
1561 - Francis Bacon, Strand, London, statesman/essayist (Novum Organum), (d. 1626)
1571 - Robert Bruce Cotton, English antiquary, politician
1592 - Pierre Gassendi, Champtercier Provence, scientist/philosopher
1649 - Pascal Collasse, composer
1654 - Richard Blackmore, English physician and writer (d. 1729)
1655 - Geleyn Evertsen, lt-admiral (Zealand)
1690 - Nicolas Lancret, French painter (d. 1743)
1707 - Carl Hockh, composer
1709 - Joseph Reipel, composer
1727 - Claude-Benigne Balbastre, composer
1729 - Giuseppe Luigi Tibaldi, composer
1729 - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Germany, critic/dramatist
1733 - Philip Carteret, British Naval Officer
1748 - Lewis Edson, composer
1753 - Peter Fuchs, composer
1756 - Vincenzo Righini, composer
1779 - Stefano Pavesi, composer
1781 - Francois-Antoine Habeneck, composer
1788 - Lord [George Gordon Noel] Byron, England, romantic poet (Don Juan)
1796 - Karl Claus, Russian chemist (d. 1864)
1797 - Maria Leopoldina of Austria, Empress of Brazil (d. 1826)
1799 - Ludger Duvernay, Canadian printer and publisher (d. 1852)
1802 - Richard Upjohn, US, gothic architect (Trinity Chapel, NY)
1815 - Ferdinand Christian Wilhelm Praeger, composer
1820 - Hermann von Lingg, German playwright/poet
1820 - Johan Hendrik Koelman, portrait painter (Jahresringe)
1820 - Joseph Wolf, German artist (d. 1899)
1824 - Josef Leopold Zvonar, composer
1826 - [Merriwether] Jeff Thompson, Partisan (Confederate Army), died in 1876
1840 - Ernest Roland Wilberforce, English bishop (d. 1907)
1842 - Charles Henri Marechal, composer
1845 - Jacob Verdam, Dutch philologist
1845 - Paul Vidal de la Blanche, France, geographer
1848 - Samuel Muller Fzn, Dutch historian/archivist (Middle Ages)
1849 - August Strindberg, Sweden, dramatist/novelist (Apologia)
1855 - Ernst Kullak, composer
1858 - Beatrice Potter Webb, England, economist
1858 - Frederick Lugard, British captain/baron (Congo)
1861 - Karel Stecker, composer
1865 - Friedrich Paschen, German physicist
1869 - Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk and confidant of Russian Tsar Nicholas II (d. 1916)
1870 - Charles Arnold Tournemire, composer
1871 - Leon Jessel, composer
1874 - Wincenty Witoz, Galicia, PM of Poland (1920-21, 1923, 1926)
1874 - Edward Harkness, American philanthropist (d. 1940)
1875 - Bonifacius C de Jonge, governor (Dutch East Indies)
1875 - D[avid] W Griffith, movie producer/director (Birth of a Nation)
1875 - Thomas W Ross, actor (Without Limit, Kings Row, 17, Mortal Storm)
1877 - Hjalmar Schacht, president of German Reichsbank/minister of Economics
1878 - Constance Collier, Windsor England, actress/writer (Kitty, Whirlpool)
1878 - Francis Picabia, French painter/illustrator
1882 - Theodore Kosloff, Russian-born actor, ballet dancer and choreographer (d. 1956)
1886 - John Joseph Becker, composer
1887 - Helen Hoyt, American poet (d. 1972)
1889 - Henri Pélissier, French cyclist (d. 1935)
1890 - Fred M Vinson, Ky, 13th Chief Justice of US Supreme Court (1946-53)
1890 - Vinko Zganec, Croatian ethnomusicologist (d. 1976)
1891 - Franz Alexander, Hungarian/US psycho analytical
1891 - Moise Kisling, Polish/French painter (La Souris Boiteuse)
1892 - Marcel Dassault, [Bloch], French airplane builder
1893 - Conrad Veidt, Potsdam Germany, actor (Cabinet of Dr Calgary)
1894 - Charles Morgan, England, writer (Fountain)
1894 - Matt McHugh, PA, actor (Taxi, Freaks, Barbary Coast, Innocent Affair)
1897 - Josef Stanislav, composer
1897 - Rosa Ponselle, opera diva (Casta Diva, La Forza del Destino)
1898 - Alexander Abramsky, composer
1898 - Ben van Eysselsteijn, Dutch writer (Arid Earth)
1898 - Gustaf Paulson, composer
1898 - Hans van Werveke, Flemish historian (Diocese Terwaan)
1898 - Ross R Barnett, lawyer/(Gov-D-Miss)
1899 - Guido Kisch, Czech/German/US historian (Jews in medieval Germany)
1900 - Franz Salmhofer, composer
1901 - Hans-Erich Apostel, Austrian composer (Sonata Ritmica)
1902 - Daniel Kinsey, American hurdler (d. 1970)
1903 - Robin Humphrey Milford, composer
1903 - Fritz Houtermans, Polish physicist (d. 1966)
1904 - George Balanchine [Giorgi Balanchivadze], ballet composer/choreographer, (d. 1983), [OS=Jan 9]
1904 - Arkady Gaidar, Russian children's writer (d. 1941)
1906 - Robert E[rvin] Howard, US, sci-fi author (Conan the Conqueror)
1906 - Willa B Brown (Coffey), US black air pioneer (NAAA)
1906 - Joe Gladwin, English actor (d. 1987)
1907 - Marie Dressler, actress (Anna Christie, Dinner at 8 )
1907 - Douglas Corrigan, American pilot (d. 1995)
1907 - Dixie Dean, English footballer (d. 1980)
1907 - Mary Dresselhuys, Dutch actress (d. 2004)
1909 - Ann Sothern, [Harriette Lake], ND, actress (Lady in a Cage)
1909 - Lev D Landau, Russian physicist (Nobel 1962)
1909 - [Sithu] U Thant, Burma, 3rd UN sec-genl (1962-72)
1909 - Porfirio Rubirosa, Dominican diplomat and international playboy (d. 1965)
1911 - Bruno Kreisky, Austria, bandleader/chancellor (1970-83)
1911 - Roberto Garcia Morillo, composer
1913 - Verdina Shlonsky, composer
1913 - William Cardinal Conway, Northern Irish clergyman (d. 1977)
1913 - Carl F. H. Henry, American theologian and publisher (d. 2003)
1914 - Dimitri Dragatakis, composer
1914 - Suzanne Danco, Belgian singer
1915 - Tom Burtt, cricketer (slow left-armer took 33 wickets for NZ)
1916 - Henri Dutilleux, Angers France, composer
1916 - Harilal Upadhyay, Gujarati Author, Poet, Astrologist (Gujarat is a State of India) (d. 1994)
1917 - Albert "Pud" Brown, clarinetist/saxophonist
1917 - Herwig Hensen, [Flor Mielants], Flemish poet/playwright
1918 - Richard Eastham, Opelousas La, actor (Falcon Crest) [or Jun 22]
1918 - Elmer Lach, Canadian ice hockey player
1920 - George Breakston, Paris France, actor/director (Jungle Stampede)
1920 - Piet Van Lishout, Flemish writer (Eva & I)
1920 - William Warfield, singer (Show Boat)
1921 - Andre Hodeir, composer
1921 - Andy Ganteaume, cricketer (WI batsman, 112 in only Test innings 1948)
1922 - Howard Moss, poet/editor (New Yorker)
1923 - Diana Douglas, Devonshire Bermuda, actress (The Cowboys)
1923 - Friedrich Zehm, composer
1923 - Leslie Bassett, composer
1924 - J J Johnson, composer/jazz trombonist
1924 - Margaret Whiting, big band singer
1925 - Leslie Silver, English paint manufacturer/multi-millionaire
1926 - Lord Erskine of Rerrick, peer
1926 - Tom Blackburn, writer
1927 - Joe Perry, NFL Hall-of-Famer
1927 - Lou Creekmur, Baseball Hall-of-Famer
1928 - Birch Bayh, (Sen-D-Ind)
1928 - Yoshihiko Amino, Japanese historian (d. 2004)
1929 - Rita Gillespie, TV director
1931 - Galina Zybina, USSR, discus thrower (15 world records between 1952-58)
1931 - Sam Cooke, American singer (d. 1964)
1932 - Piper Laurie, [Rosetta Jacobs], Detroit Mich, actress (Twin Peaks)
1932 - Berthold Grünfeld, Norwegian psychiatrist and former sexologist
1934 - Bill Bixby, SF California, actor (Incredible Hulk, My Favorite Martian)
1934 - Graham Kerr, chef (Galloping Gourmet)
1935 - Pierre S Du Pont IV, (gov-Del)
1935 - Sam Cooke, Chicago Ill, soul singer (You Send Me)
1935 - Seymour Cassel, Detroit, actor (Faces, Plain Clothes, Valentino)
1936 - Alan J. Heeger, American chemist, Nobel laureate
1936 - Ong Teng Cheong, 5th President of Singapore (d. 2002)
1937 - Joseph Wambaugh, East Pittsburgh Pa, police writer (Onion Fields)
1937 - Edén Pastora, Nicaraguan rebel leader
1938 - Altair, Brazilian footballer
1939 - Jeff Smith, American chef (d. 2004)
1940 - Addie "Micki" Harris, Passaic NJ, singer (Shirelles-Soldier Boy)
1940 - John Hurt, England, actor (Elephant Man, Alien, Midnight Express)
1940 - Tilo Medek, German composer
1940 - George Seifert, American football coach
1942 - Mimis Domazos, Greek footballer
1943 - H James "Jim" Saxton, (Rep-R-NJ, 1984- )
1943 - Marília Pêra, Brazilian actress
1945 - Michael Cristofer, actor/writer (Little Drummer Girl)
1945 - Oliver, rocker
1946 - Andrew Rubin, New Bedford Mass, actor (Hometown, Joe Bash) [or Jun 22]
1948 - Gilbert Levine, American conductor
1948 - Northern Calloway, American actor (d. 1990)
1949 - James P Pennington, rocker (Exile)
1949 - Rein P Hummel, Dutch MP (PvdA)
1949 - Steve Perry, Hanford California, vocalist (Journey-Open Arms, Oh Sherry)
1949 - Mike Caldwell, American baseball player
1951 - Ondrej Nepela, Slovak figure skater (d. 1989)
1952 - Karen Moe [Thornton], US swimmer (Olympics-gold-1972)
1952 - Teddy Gentry, Fort Payne Ala, country music star (Alabama-Mt Music)
1952 - Ace Vergel, Filipino actor (d. 2007)
1953 - Myung-Whun Chung, Seoul South Korea, pianist/conductor
1953 - Jim Jarmusch, American director
1954 - Chris Lemmon, LA California, actor (Brothers & Sisters, Duet) [or Jun 22]
1954 - Tully Blanchard, American professional wrestler
1954 - Peter Pilz, Austrian politician
1955 - Thomas David Jones, Balt Md, PhD/Astronaut (STS 59, 68, 80, sk: 98)
1955 - Timothy R. Ferguson, American politician
1956 - Becky Pearson, LPGA golfer
1956 - Steve Riley, American drummer
1956 - John Wesley Shipp, American actor
1957 - Mike Bossy, NHL forward (NY Islanders), 1st 50 goals in 50 game
1957 - Francis Wheen, English writer and journalist
1957 - Rene Requiestas, Filipino comedian (d. 1993)
1958 - Nikos Anastopoulos, Greek football player and manager
1959 - Linda Blair, St Louis Mo, actress (Exorcist, Chained Heat, Savage St)
1960 - Michael Hutchence, Australia, rock vocalist/actor (INXS-Dogs in Space)
1961 - Barb Thomas Whitehead, Sibley IA, LPGA golfer (1995 Hawaiian Open)
1962 - Robert Mailhouse, New Haven Ct, actor (Brian-Days of our Life)
1962 - Choi Min-sik, South Korean actor
1962 - Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin of Terengganu, Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia
1963 - Jeff Treadway, US baseball infielder (LA Dodgers)
1963 - Andrei Tchmil, Ukrainian-Belgian cyclist
1964 - Ann Rowe, Auburn Maine, Miss Maine-America (1991)
1964 - Maria Ellingsen, Reykjavik Iceland, actress (Katrina-Santa Barbara)
1964 - Stojko Vrankovic, NBA center (LA Clippers)
1964 - Wayne Kirby, Williamsburg VA, outfielder (Cleve Indians, LA Dodgers)
1965 - Diane Lane, NYC, American actress (The Perfect Storm, Lady Beware, Lonesome Dove)
1965 - Jazzy Jeff Townes, rapper (Parents Just Don't Understand)
1965 - Ray Mayhew, rocker (Sigue Sigue Sputnik-Love Missile F-111)
1965 - Steven Adler, Cleveland Ohio, drummer (Guns & Roses-Sweet Child)
1965 - Tim Prukop, WLAF linebacker-secondary coach (Amsterdam Admirals)
1965 - Brian McCardie, Scottish actor
1965 - Chintara Sukapatana, Thai actress
1966 - Carlton Haselrig, NFL guard (NY Jets)
1966 - Nishantha Ranatunga, cricket (bro of Arjuna Sri Lankan ODI allrounder)
1967 - Manabu Nakanishi, wrestler (NJPW)
1967 - Nicholas Gillingham, British swimmer (world record 200m freestyle)
1967 - Olivia d'Abo, London England, actress (Wonder Years, Single Guy)
1967 - Ecaterina Szabo, Romanian gymnast
1968 - Andrey Sokolov, hockey defenseman (Team Kazakhstan Oly-1998)
1968 - Brian Jones, NFL linebacker (NO Saints)
1968 - Mauricio Serna, Colombian footballer
1968 - Heath, Japanese bass guitarist (X Japan)
1968 - Frank Lebœuf, French footballer
1969 - Christina Marie Leardini, St Petersburg Fla, playmate (Apr, 1991)
1969 - Keith Gordon, US baseball outfielder (Cincinnati Reds)
1969 - Ousmane Bary, WLAF cornerback (Barcelona Dragons)
1969 - Shelley Sandie, Australian basketball guard (Olympics-88, 96)
1969 - Vinnie Clark, NFL cornerback (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1969 - Olivia d'Abo, English actress
1970 - Brian Gaskill, actor (David Michaels-Models Inc, Bob-All My Children)
1970 - Keith Wagner, NFL/WLAF tackle (NY Giants, Redskins, Scot Claymores)
1970 - Abraham Olano, Spanish cyclist
1970 - Alex Ross, American comic book painter (Marvels, Kingdom Come)
1971 - Bucky Brooks, wide receiver (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1971 - Jennifer Christine Joseph, Wendover Nev, Miss America-Nevada (1996)
1971 - Stan Collymore, English footballer
1972 - Steve Scifres, guard/tackle (Dallas Cowboys)
1972 - Toddrick McIntosh, NFL defensive end (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1972 - Gabriel Macht, American actor
1972 - Romi Paku, Japanese seiyu (voice actress)
1972 - Gonzalo Rodríguez, Uruguayan racing driver (d. 1999)
1973 - Deon Minor, Paris Texas, 400m runner
1973 - George Noga, CFL linebacker (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1973 - Reggie Barlow, wide receiver (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1973 - Said Larossi, soccer player (Emmen/Vitesse)
1973 - Vincent Bradford, linebacker (San Francisco 49ers)
1973 - Rogerio Ceni, Brazilian footballer
1974 - Pavel Mikhalevitch, soccer player (NEC)
1974 - Stephanie Rottier, St Niklaas Belgium, tennis star (1995 semi Prague)
1975 - Lee Maxwell Francis Vertongen, Palmerston North NZ, cyclist (Oly-96)
1975 - Felipe Giaffone, Brazilian racing driver
1976 - Balthazar Getty, actor (Young Guns 2, Lord of the Flies)
1976 - James Dearth, American football player
1977 - Hidetoshi Nakata, Japanese footballer
1977 - Jono Gibbes, New Zealand rugby union footballer
1978 - Chone Figgins, American baseball player
1979 - Melanie Winiger, Miss Switzerland Universe (1997)
1980 - Subhash Ram Prajapati, Nepalese Writer
1980 - Jake Grove, American football player
1980 - Christopher Masterson, American actor
1980 - Ben Moody, American guitarist (Evanescence)
1980 - Jonathan Woodgate, English footballer
1981 - Ibrahima Sonko, French footballer
1981 - Willa Ford, American singer
1981 - Beverley Mitchell, American actress
1982 - Kevin Sheridan, actor (Soul Man)
1982 - Fabricio Coloccini, Argentine footballer
1982 - Jason Peters, American football player
1983 - Shaun Cody, American football player
1983 - Robert Steinhäuser, German perpetrator of the Erfurt massacre (d. 2002)
1984 - Raica Oliveira, Brazilian supermodel
1984 - Maceo Rigters, Dutch footballer
1984 - Ben Eager, Canadian ice hockey player
1984 - Leon Powe, American basketball player
1985 - Mohamed Sissoko, Malian footballer
1986 - Lee Pa-ni, South Korean model
1986 - Daniel Wayne Smith, American actor, reality television personality (d. 2006)
1987 - Astrid Jacobsen, Norwegian cross-country skier
1988 - Greg Oden, American basketball player
2179 - Hikaru Walter Sulu, SF, California (character on Star Trek)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 22, 2013, 07:34:59 AM

This Day in History for 22nd January


Famous Deaths

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36th US President                                   Kennedy Family Matriarch                          Actor Heath Ledger (2008)
Lyndon B Johnson (1973)                       Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (1995)


1336 - Louis III, last Earl of Loon, dies
1531 - Andrea del Sarto, Italian painter, dies at 44
1536 - Bernhard Knipperdolling, German religious leader (b. 1495)
1552 - Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, beheaded for treason
1581 - Joost de Damhoudere, Flemish lawyer, dies
1581 - Seerp Galama, Dutch nobleman/military/politician, dies at 52
1599 - Cristofano Malvezzi, composer, dies at 51
1640 - Erasmus Quellinus I, Flemish wood carver, dies at about 55
1700 - Jacob Balthasar Schutz, composer, dies at 39
1750 - Franz Xaver Josef von Unertl, Bavarian politician (b. 1675)
1767 - Johann Gottlob Lehmann, German minterologist and geologist (b. 1719)
1779 - Claudius Smith, American Revolutionary War loyalist (b. 1736)
1779 - Jeremiah Dixon, English surveyor and astronomer (b. 1733)
1781 - Johann Siebenkas, composer, dies at 66
1796 - Bernhard Hupfeld, composer, dies at 78
1798 - Lewis Morris, US farmer (signed Decl of Independence), dies at 71
1798 - Matija A Reljkovic, Croatian writer (Satire of Wild Man), dies at 66
1799 - Horace B de Saussure, Swiss physicist/geologist/alpinist, dies at 58
1840 - Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German anthropologist (b. 1752)
1847 - Georges-Julien Sieber, composer, dies at 71
1850 - Vincenzo Pallotti, Italian saint, dies at 54
1852 - George Rodwell, composer, dies at 51
1868 - Moritz Ganz, composer, dies at 61
1879 - Anthony Durnford, British colonel, dies in Battle of Isandlwana
1879 - George Shepstone, British political affiliate, dies in battle
1892 - Joseph Philo Bradley, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1813)
1893 - Vincenz Lachner, composer, dies at 81
1895 - Edward Solomon, composer, dies at 39
1900 - David E. Hughes, American musician (b. 1831)
1901 - Victoria, [Alexandrine], Britain's Queen (1837-1901), dies at 81
1909 - Richard A C E Erlenmeyer, German chemist, dies at 83
1913 - Ferdinand van der Haeghen, Flemish librarian/bibliographer, dies at 82
1914 - Frederik Rung, composer, dies at 60
1916 - Iwan Knorr, composer, dies at 63
1921 - Captain George Streeter, American riverboat captain and circus owner (b. 1837)
1922 - Benedictus XV, [Giacomo Markies D Chiesa], pope (1914-22), dies at 67
1922 - Pope Benedict XV (b. 1854)
1931 - Alma Rubens, American actress (b. 1897)
1936 - Louis Glass, composer, dies at 71
1942 - Reimond Tollenaere, leader Flemishch Natl Front, dies at 81
1942 - Walter Richard Sickert, British painter (Free House!), dies at 81
1945 - A Wolfenstein, writer, dies at 61
1945 - Carlo Felice Boghen, composer, dies a day before 76th birthday
1945 - Johan Eykman, theologist (World Church), dies at 52
1945 - Else Lasker-Schuler, German-born poet (b. 1869)
1949 - William Thomas Walsh, American author (b. 1891)
1950 - Alan Hale, actor (Little John-Adv of Robin Hood), dies at 57
1950 - Corinne Luchaire, French actress (b. 1921)
1951 - Eastwood Lane, composer, dies at 71
1951 - Karl Nessler, inventor of the perm (b. 1872)
1952 - Roger Vitrac, French poet/dramatist (Mysteries of Love), dies at 52
1956 - P A M Speet, Dutch broadcast CEO (KRO), dies
1959 - A J Else Mauhs, German/Dutch actress (Hamlet, Nora), dies at 73
1959 - Mike Hawthorn, English race car driver and one-time F1 world champion (b. 1929)
1964 - Marc Blitzstein, US composer (Cradle Will Rock), dies at 58
1966 - Herbert Marshall, actor (Dark Angel, Duel in the Sun), dies at 75
1967 - Jobyna Ralston, actress (Wings, Girl Shy, Freshman), dies at 66
1967 - Robert Henriques, English writer (b. 1905)
1968 - Duke Kahanamoku, 100m swimmer (Olympics-3 gold-12, 20, 24), dies at 77
1973 - Lyndon B Johnson, president (1963-69), dies at his Texas ranch at 64
1974 - Leon Lontoc, actor (Henry-Burke's Law), dies at 64
1975 - Klaas Voskuil, Dutch journalist, dies at 79
1975 - Andrew George Burry, Swiss-born manufacturer and businessman (b. 1873)
1978 - Herbert Sutcliffe, cricketer (54 Tests for England 4555 runs), dies
1978 - Oliver Leese, British World War II general (b. 1894)
1979 - Ali Hassan Salameh, [Abu Hassan], killed by car bomb; believed to have helped mastermind massacre of 1972 Munich Olympics athletes
1980 - Iris Meredith, actress (Lawless Land, Gambling Terror), dies at 64
1981 - Fannie Thomas, US, dies at 113
1981 - Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani historian and educationist (b. 1903)
1982 - Eduardo Frei Montalva, president of Chile (1964-70), dies at 71
1983 - Fred Bakewell, cricketer (dashing England bat of 30s, 6 Tests), dies
1985 - Sir Arthur Bryant, British historian (b. 1899)
1987 - R Budd Dwyer, Penns State Treasurer, facing prison for conspiracy & perjury, shot himself to death at a televised news conference
1988 - Georgi M Malenkov, Russian premier (1953-55), dies at 86
1988 - Parker Fennelly, actor (Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm), dies at 96
1991 - Robert Choquette, French Canadian novelist, poet and diplomat (b. 1905)
1992 - A J Antoon, director (That Championship Season), dies at 47
1992 - Ali Amini, PM of Iran (1961-62), dies
1993 - Alexander Bodon, Hung-Dutch architect (RAI, Dollywood), dies at 86
1993 - Charlie Gehringer, baseball player, dies at 89
1993 - Kobo Abe, Japanese writer (Wife in the Sand), dies at 68
1993 - Maria Vlamynck, Flemish author, dies at 75
1994 - Frances Gifford, dies of emphysema, at 71
1994 - Irving B Kahn, inventer (teleprompter), dies at 76
1994 - Jean-Louis Barrault, French actor (La Ronde), dies at 83
1994 - Telly Savalas, actor (Kojak), dies of prostate cancer at 70
1994 - Rhett Forrester, American singer (Riot) (b. 1956)
1995 - Christopher Francis Palmer, orchestrator/Author, dies at 48
1995 - Mahmoud Sayed Selim, Egyptian moslim leader, shot to death at 29
1995 - Margaret Barbara Lambert, British historian (Saar), dies at 88
1995 - Nico Adriaans, founder of Rotterdam Junkiebond, dies of AIDS at 37
1995 - Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, mother of pres JFK, RFK, & Ted, dies at 104
1995 - Jerry Blackwell, American professional wrestler (b. 1949)
1996 - Edward Thomas, historian/intelligence expert, dies at 77
1996 - Efua Theodore Sutherland, writer, dies at 71
1996 - Mabel Leigh, potter, dies at 80
1996 - Yisrael Eldad, extremist politician, dies at 85
1997 - Ian Arthur Hoyle Munro, medical journalist, dies at 73
1997 - Irwin Levine, composer (Tie a Yellow Ribbon), dies at 58
1997 - Mollie Panter-Downes, writer , dies at 90
1997 - Wally Whyton, musician/broadcaster, dies at 66
1997 - Ron Holden, American singer (b. 1939)
1997 - Billy Mackenzie, Scottish musician (Associates) (b. 1957)
1999 - Graham Staines, Australian missionary (b. 1941)
2000 - Craig Claiborne, American writer and editor (b. 1920)
2000 - Anne Hébert, French Canadian author and poet (Kamouraska) (b. 1916)
2001 - Roy Brown, American clown (b. 1932)
2001 - Tommie Agee, American baseball player (b. 1942)
2002 - Stanley Marcus, American business executive (b. 1905)
2003 - Bill Mauldin, American World War II cartoonist (b. 1921)
2004 - Billy May, American composer and musician (b. 1916)
2004 - Thomas Mead, Australian politician and journalist (b. 1918)
2004 - Ann Miller, American actress and dancer (b. 1923)
2005 - César Gutiérrez, Venezuelan baseball player (b. 1943)
2005 - Carlo Orelli, Italian veteran of World War I (b. 1894)
2005 - Consuelo Velázquez, Mexican songwriter (b. 1924)
2005 - Rose Mary Woods, American Watergate scandal figure (b. 1917)
2007 - Doug Blasdell, American personal trainer
2007 - Ngô Quang Trưởng, South Vietnamese general (b. 1929)
2007 - Abbé Pierre, French priest (b. 1912)
2008 - Roberto Gari, American actor (b. 1920)
2008 - Heath Ledger, Australian actor (b. 1979)
2008 - Miles Lerman, Polish-American activist (b. 1920)
2009 - Billy Werber, American baseball player (b. 1908)
2010 - Jean Simmons, English-American actress (b. 1929)
2012 - Joe Paterno, American College Hall of Fame football coach, dies from lung cancer at 85
2012 - Dick Tufeld, American voice actor, dies at 85

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 23, 2013, 07:03:22 AM

This Day in History for 23rd January


Historical Events

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English Monarch Queen Elizabeth I         Physician Elizabeth Blackwell                   Heart surgeon Daniel Williams

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Soviet Union Premier Joseph Stalin         Playwright Arthur Miller                         Basketball Player Bill Russell

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Actor Mr. T (Laurence Tureaud)               Michael Douglas                             Comedian Jerry Seinfeld


3102 BC - Epoch (origin) of the Kali Yuga.
393 - Roman Emperor Theodosius I proclaims his nine year old son Honorius co-emperor.
638 - Start of Islamic calendar
909 - John of Rila aka Saint Ivan and the fable of two pies.
971 - In China, the war elephant corps of the Southern Han are soundly defeated at Shao by
          crossbow fire from Song Dynasty troops. The Southern Han state is forced to submit to the 
          Song Dynasty, ending not only Southern Han rule, but also the first regular war elephant
          corps employed in a Chinese army that had gained the Southern Han victories throughout the
           10th century.
1265 - 1st English Parliament formally convened (some authorities)
1368 - In a coronation ceremony, Zhu Yuanzhang ascends to the throne of China as the Hongwu
           Emperor, initiating Ming Dynasty rule over China that would last for three centuries.
1490 - 1st printing of Ramban's Sha'ar ha-Gemul
1492 - "Pentateuch" (Jewish holy book) 1st printed
1546 - Having published nothing for eleven years, Francois Rabelais publishes the Tiers Livre, his
           sequel to Gargantua and Pantagruel.
1552 - 2nd version of Book of Common Prayer becomes manditory in England
1556 - Most deadly earthquake kills 830,000 in Shensi Province, China
1570 - Earl of Moray, regent of Scotland, assassinated; civil war breaks out
1571 - Queen Elizabeth I opens Royal Exchange in London
1579 - Union of Utrecht signed, forming protestant Dutch Republic
1631 - France & Sweden sign anti-German Treaty of Barwald
1637 - Dutch governor Johan Mauritius lands in Pernambuco Brazil
1643 - Sir Thomas Fairfax takes Leeds for Parliamentarians
1647 - Scottish Presbyterians sell captured Charles I to English parliament
1656 - Blaise Pascal publishes the first of his Lettres provinciales.
1663 - King Louis XIV affirms covenant with Rÿnstaten
1668 - England, Netherlands & Sweden signs Triple Alliance against French
1719 - Principality of Liechtenstein created within Holy Roman Empire
1723 - Georg Friedrich Handel's opera "Ottone," premieres in London
1779 - Charles Messier catalogs M56 (globular cluster in Lyra)
1789 - Georgetown, 1st US Catholic college, founded
1793 - 2nd partition of Poland, between Prussia & Russia
1793 - Humane Society of Philadelphia (1st aid society) organized
1796 - Armand-Gaston Camus becomes chairman of Council of 500
1812 - 7.8 earthquake shakes New Madrid, Missouri
1833 - Joseph Pease, a Quaker, admitted to Parliament on his affirmation
1845 - Uniform US election day for president & VP authorized
1849 - Mrs Elizabeth Blackwell becomes 1st woman physician in US
1849 - Patent granted for an envelope-making machine
1855 - The first bridge over the Mississippi River opens in what is now Minneapolis, Minnesota, a
           crossing made today by the Father Louis Hennepin Bridge.
1856 - Steamer Pacific lost
1862 - Agoston Haraszthy, 1st vintner in Sonoma Valley, California imports 10,000 grape vine
           cuttings
1865 - -Jan 25th) Battle of City Point, VA (James River, Trent's Reach)
1870 - 173 Blackfoot (140 women & children) killed in Montana by US Army
1879 - National Archery Association forms (Crawfordsville Ind)
1889 - Daniel Williams forms Provident Hospital in Chicago
1894 - G W Bunbury of Dublin sets shorthand record of 250 wpm for 10 min
1896 - Edward Macdowell's 2nd Suite in E, premieres
1897 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Abbey Grange" (BG)
1897 - Elva Zona Heaster is found dead in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. The resulting murder
           trial of her husband is perhaps the only case in United States history where the alleged
           testimony of a ghost helped secure a conviction.
1899 - Emilio Aguinaldo is sworn in as President of the First Philippine Republic.
1902 - Winnipeg Victorias sweep Toronto Wellingtons in 2 for Stanley Cup
1904 - Ålesund Fire: the Norwegian coastal town Ålesund is devastated by fire, leaving 10,000 people
           homeless and one person dead. Kaiser Wilhelm II funds the rebuilding of the town in
           Jugendstil style.
1907 - Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes 1st Native American US senator
1908 - US & Great-Britain demand end of abuses in Congo
1909 - 1st radio rescue at sea
1912 - The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague.
1916 - Temp falls from 44°F (7°C) to -56°F (49°C) night of 23-24, Browning MT
1920 - Dutch refuse to turn over ex-kaiser Wilhelm I of Germany to allies
1923 - Taxi strike in Amsterdam begins (through March 9th)
1924 - Ramsey MacDonald forms 1st Labour government in Britain
1926 - Eugene O'Neill's "Great God Brown," premieres in NYC
1928 - "Abenteuer of brave Soldier Schwejk" premieres in Berlin
1930 - Clyde Tombaugh photographs planet Pluto
1930 - George Washington Birthplace National Monument, Va established
1930 - WIS-AM (now WOMG) in Columbia SC begins radio transmissions
1932 - El Salvador army kills 4,000 protesting farmers
1933 - 20th amendment changes date of presidential inaugurations to 1/20
1936 - Catholic People's Party (KVP) of Curacao forms
1937 - Karl Radek & 16 others go on trial in Stalin's great purge
1940 - Pianist Ignaz Paderewski becomes premier of Polish government in exile
1941 - Ground breaking for NACA (now NASA) Lewis Research Center
1941 - WOR-AM in Newark NJ moves to NYC
1942 - Japanese troops occupy Rabaul New Britain
1942 - Tank battle at Adzjedabia, African corps vs British army
1943 - 66.34 cm (26.12"), Hoegees Camp, California (state record)
1943 - British 8th army marches into Tripoli
1943 - Detroit Red Wings scores NHL record 8 goals in 1 period
1943 - Japanese Mount Austen on Guadalcanal captured
1943 - Duke Ellington plays at Carnegie Hall in New York City for the first time.
1944 - Arnold Schoenberg's "Ode to Napoleon," premieres in NYC
1944 - Det Red Wings score 15 goals against NY Rangers & NHL record 37 points, also most consecutive goals & most lopsided game 15-0
1945 - Dutch Premier Gerbrandy, exiled in London, offers his resignation
1945 - World War II: Karl Dönitz launches Operation Hannibal.
1946 - Rear Admiral Sidney W Souers, USNR, becomes 1st director of CIA
1948 - Bradman scores 201 in 272 mins v India, 21 fours 1 six
1948 - Huston's "Treasure of Sierra Madre" starring Humphrey Bogart opens
1948 - Test debut of Neil Harvey, v India at Adelaide
1950 - 3rd edition of Joseph Kane's Famous 1st Facts published
1950 - AP picks "Miracle Braves" of 1914 as greatest sports upset
1950 - Israeli Knesset resolves Jerusalem is capital of Israel
1950 - NFL rule changes open way for 2-platoon system (offense & defense)
1950 - Rebel army of cap Raymond Westerner occupies Bandung
1951 - 3rd Emmy Awards: Alan Young Show, Alan Young & Gertrude Berg
1953 - Bobby Simpson makes 1st-class debut for NSW 16 yrs 357 days
1953 - NFL Dallas Texans become Baltimore Colts (now Indianapolis Colts)
1953 - NFL's National & American conference become Eastern & Western conf
1954 - Harry van Thorn chosen chairman of Dutch KVP
1954 - Longest undefeated streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (18 games)
1955 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open
1955 - KORK (now KVBC) TV channel 3 in Las Vegas, NV (NBC) 1st broadcast
1958 - "Body Beautiful" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 60 performances
1958 - Dictator Marcos Perez Jiménez flees Venezuela, Larrazabal takes power
1958 - Hanif Mohammad completes 337 in 970 minutes v West Indies
1960 - Bathosphere "Trieste" reach bottom of Pacific (10,900 m)
1961 - Supreme Court rules cities & states have right to censor films
1961 - Venezuela adopts constitution
1962 - Bob Feller & Jackie Robinson elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1962 - British spy Kim Philby defects to USSR
1962 - Libya, Morocco, Algeria & Tunisia plan to form United Arab Maghreb
1964 - 24th Amendment to the United States Constitution ratified, barring poll tax in federal
           elections
1964 - Arthur Miller's "After the Fall," premieres in NYC
1965 - "King Family Show" (musical variety) premieres on ABC TV
1965 - BPAA All-Star Tournament won by Dick Weber
1965 - Boston Celtic center Bill Russell misses all 14 shots in loss to Philadelphia Warriors led by Wilt
           Chamberlain
1967 - Stan Musial is named GM of Cards
1968 - Joe Medwick elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1968 - Spy ship USS Pueblo & 83-man crew seized in Sea of Japan by N Korea
1969 - Cream releases their last album "Goodbye"
1970 - Australia's 1st amateur radio satellite (Oscar 5) launched (California)
1970 - Dolle Mina's burns her bra in Amsterdam
1970 - US launches 2nd generation weather satellite, ITOS 1
1970 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1971 - -80°F (-62°C) in Prospect Creek Camp, Alaska (US record)
1971 - 4th ABA All-Star Game: East 126 beats West 122 at Carolina
1971 - UCLA loses to Notre Dame, UCLA then wins next 88 games in a row
1972 - 2nd AFC-NFC pro bowl, AFC wins 26-13
1972 - Ard Schenk becomes European all-round skating champ
1972 - Bootlegger sells wood alcohol to wedding party-100 die-New Delhi
1972 - Entire population of Istanbul under 24 hour house arrest
1972 - NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 26-13
1973 - 23rd NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 104-84 at Chicago
1973 - Helgafell, island of Heimaey Iceland erupts for 1st time in 7,000 yrs
1973 - Jordan Air crash at Kano, Nigeria kills 176 Moslem pilgrims
1973 - Pres Nixon announces an accord has been reached to end Vietnam War
1974 - 1st edition of women's magazine "Story"
1975 - "Barney Miller" premieres on ABC TV
1975 - Ralph Kiner elected to baseball's Hall of Fame
1976 - Ian Redpath hits his only 2 sixes in Cricket Tests, v WI Adelaide
1976 - Wash Caps end 25 game winless streak (0-22-3) beat NY Rangers 7-5
1977 - $1.5-million Serge Lepage dress exhibited, Paris
1977 - Miniseries "Roots" premieres on ABC
1978 - Belgian industrial Haron Empain kidnapped in Paris
1978 - NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 14-13
1978 - Sweden becomes the first nation in the world to ban aerosol sprays, believed to be damaging
           to earth's ozone layer.
1979 - Willie Mays elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1981 - 1st Richard Nixon museum opens (San Clemente California)
1981 - Jochem Bird elected mayor of West Berlin
1981 - Mike Bossy becomes 1st in NHL to score 50 goals in 50 games
1981 - Red Sox trade Fred Lynn to Angels for Frank Tanana & Joe Rudi
1982 - Urbe Blanca (cow) produces record 110 kg of milk, Cuba (approx date)
1982 - World Airways DC-10 skids at Boston Logan Airport killing 2
1983 - "A-Team" with Mr T premieres on NBC
1983 - Bjorn Borg announces his retirement from tennis
1983 - Cerebral Palsy telethon raises $14,700,000
1983 - In NBA, Portland scores all 17 pts in overtime to beat Houston 113-96
1983 - Russian radioactive satellite falls into Indian Ocean
1983 - Schone skates ladies world record 5 km (7:40.97)
1984 - Buffalo Sabres win NHL record 10th straight road game
1984 - Greatest unpaced 1-hr bicycle distance, F Moser (Italy), 51.15 km
1984 - Hulk Hogan defeats Iron Sheik to become WWF champ
1985 - Britains House of Lords debate 1st televised
1986 - "Jerome Kern Goes to Hollywood" opens at Ritz Theater NYC for 13 perfs
1986 - Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center via Davis-Monthan AFB
1986 - 1st induction of Rock 'N' Roll Hall of Fame (Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Domino,
           Everly Bros, B Holly, J L Lewis & Elvis Presley)
1987 - Dow Jones rises 64 points then drops 110 points (44.15 pt loss)
1987 - Japan 1st exceeds military spending cap of 1% of GNP ($23 billion)
1988 - 45th Golden Globes: Last Emperor, Sally Kirkland, Michael Douglas
1988 - 62nd Australian Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Chris Evert (61 76)
1988 - Bob Benoit bowls 1st 300-pt game in a televised title match
1989 - Challenge to "who is a Jew" law filed in Israeli Supreme Court
1989 - NBA New Jersey Nets begin a 32+ game road losing streak
1990 - Dean Jones scores twin Test tons v Pakistan at Adelaide Oval
1991 - "Seinfeld" debuts on NBC-TV
1991 - World's largest oil spill, caused by embattled Iraqi forces in Kuwait
1992 - "Visit" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 45 performances
1993 - 50th Golden Globes: Scent of a Woman, wins
1993 - Graham Gooch scores his 100th 100, on tour at Cuttack
1993 - Indian Airlines B737 crashes art Aurangabad, 61 die
1993 - NY Newsday reports Ore Sen Bob Packwood sexually harassed 23 women
1993 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Nancy Kerrigan
1994 - Bernie Kosar is 2nd QB to throw TD passes in AFC & NFC Champ games
1994 - Worldwide Day for peace in Bosnia-Hercegovina
1996 - Chris Cairns scores 120, 96 balls, 10x4, 9x6 in Test NZ v Zim
1996 - The first version of the Java programming language was released.
1998 - Pope John Paul II condemns US embargo against Cuba
2001 - The Chinese Communist Party stages a self-immolation in Tiananmen Square to frame Falun
           Gong and escalate the persecution.
2002 - Reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan. He was subsequently murdered .
2002 - "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh returns to the United States in Federal Bureau of
            Investigation custody.
2003 - Final communication between Earth and Pioneer 10
2009 - Dendermonde nursery attack occurred in Dendermonde, Belgium.
2012 - European Union agrees to embargo Iranian oil in protest against Iran's alleged nuclear
           weapons program
3268 - Beginning of 2nd Julian Period (1/1 OS)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 23, 2013, 07:05:12 AM

This Day in History for 23rd January


Famous Weddings

1999 - Princess of Monaco Caroline (42) weds dynastic head of the House of Hanover and Britain's King
           George I descendant Prince Ernst August (45) in Monaco

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 23, 2013, 07:11:26 AM

This Day in History for 23rd January


Famous Birthdays

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Statesman John Hancock (1737)    Impressionist painter Edouard Manet (1832)     Actress Mariska Hargitay (1964)


1350 - Vincent Ferrer, Spanish missionary and saint (d. 1419)
1574 - Lucas I Franchoys, Belgian painter
1582 - John Barclay, Scottish satirist/Latin poet (Argenis)
1688 - Queen Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden (d. 1741)
1719 - John Landen, English mathematician (d. 1790)
1730 - Joseph Hewes, US merchant (Declaration of Independence signer)
1737 - John Hancock, merchant/statesman, (1st to sign Declaration of Independence), (d. 1793), [o.s. 1936-01-12]
1745 - William Jessop, English canal engineer (d. 1814)
1752 - Muzio Clementi, Italian composer
1761 - Friedrich von Matthison, German poet (Adelaide)
1762 - Christian A Vulpius, Germany, writer (Rinaldo Rinaldini)
1783 - Stendhal, [Marie Henri Beyle], France, writer (Le Rouge et de Noir)
1785 - Carl A Agardh, Sweden, botanist/bishop of Karlstad
1786 - Auguste de Montferrand, French architect (d. 1858)
1809 - Veer Surendra Sai, Indian Freedom Fighter
1813 - Franz Commer, composer
1816 - Carl Herrmann, near Hanover Germany, stage magician
1820 - Alexander Nikoleyevich Serov, composer
1827 - Takamori Saigo, Samurai, leader of Satsuma rebellion (d. 1877)
1828 - Calvin Edward Pratt, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1896
1830 - Gaston AA Marquis de Gallifet, French general/min of War (1899-1900)
1832 - Edouard Manet, Paris, French impressionist painter (Olympia, The Luncheon on the Grass), (d. 1883)
1833 - John Randolph Chambliss Jr, Brig Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1864
1837 - Amanda Berry Smith, American former slave, singer and evangelist
1840 - Ernst Abbe, Germany, physicist (Carl Zeiss Optics Company)
1843 - Hans Heinrich XIV Hochberg, composer
1855 - John Moses Browning, American inventor (d. 1926)
1857 - Andrija Mohorovicic, Croatian geologist (Moho discontinuity)
1862 - David Hilbert, Königsberg East Prussia, mathematician
1865 - Benjamin Delmonte, theater director/actor (Black Haired Whore)
1867 - Herbert Bedford, composer
1868 - Juventino Rosas, composer
1869 - Carlo Felice Boghen, composer
1869 - Herbert David Croly, US author (Promise of American Life)
1872 - Paul Langevin, French physicist (d. 1946)
1872 - Joze Plečnik, Slovenian architect (d. 1957)
1878 - Oton Zupancic, Slovenian poet (Zimzelen pod Snegom)
1878 - Rutland Boughton, composer
1884 - Ralph DePalma, Italian-American race car driver (d. 1956)
1885 - Boleslaw Wallek-Walewski, composer
1888 - Gilbert Ledward, British sculptor
1889 - Franklin Pangborn, Newark, actor (My Best Gal, Hats Off, Easy Living)
1889 - Prosper Arents, Flemish bibliographer (Rubens-bibliography)
1891 - Antonio Gramsci, Italian philosopher/marxist theorist
1893 - Frank Carlson, (Gov/Rep/Sen-R-Ks)
1894 - Remy Angenot, Flemish actor (Patriot/Idiot)
1896 - Charlotte A E M W, grand duchess of Luxembourg (1919-64)
1897 - Subhas Chandra Bose, Indian politician
1897 - Sir William Samuel Stephenson, Canadian soldier, W.W.II codename, Intrepid. Inspiration for James Bond. (d. 1989)
1897 - Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Austrian architect (d. 2000)
1898 - Randolph Scott, actor (Last of the Mohicans, Western Union)
1898 - Sergei Eisenstein, Russia, director (Battleship Potemkin) [NS]
1898 - Freda Utley, British scholar and author (d. 1978)
1899 - Joseph Nathan Kane, historian (Famous Firsts)
1899 - Glen Kidston, British aviator and racing driver (d. 1931)
1900 - Mary Philips, CT, actress (Farewell to Arms, Incendiary Blonde)
1900 - Ralph Graves, Cleve Ohio, actor (Dirigible, Flight, Dream Street)
1900 - William Ifor Jones, Welsh conductor and organist (d. 1988)
1901 - Benno Stokvis, Dutch attorney/politician
1902 - Benny Waters, saxophonist
1903 - Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Colombian politician (d. 1948)
1904 - Theodor Schaefer, composer
1905 - David Newell, Mo, actor (Runaway Bride, White Heat, Dangerous Curves)
1905 - Konstanty I Galczynski, Polish poet (Zielona Ges)
1906 - Bob Steele, Pendleton Oregon, actor (Duffy-F Troop, Big Sleep)
1907 - Dan Duryea, White Plains NY, actor (Pride of the Yankees)
1907 - Hediki Yukawa, Japan, physicist (Nobel 1949)
1908 - Hubert Nicholson, poet/novelist
1908 - Pak Saleman Siswowitono, Javan/Surinamese writer
1909 - Norman Fulton, composer
1910 - Django Reinhardt, Belgium, Gypsy jazz guitarist
1911 - Dan Smith, harmonica/gospel singer
1912 - Ank van der Moer, actress (Verkade, Dutch Comedy)
1914 - Napoleon L Bonaparte, French pretender to the throne
1915 - Herma Bauma, Austria, javelin thrower (Oly-gold-1948)
1915 - Potter Stewart, Mich, 94th Supreme Court justice (1958-81)
1916 - Airey Neave, British Major, politician and indictment server at the Nuremberg Trials (d. 1979)
1916 - David Douglas Duncan, American photo-journalist
1918 - Gertrude Belle Elion, NYC, biochemist/drug researcher (Nobel 1988)
1919 - Bob Paisley, English soccer player/trainer/manager of FC Liverpool
1919 - Ernie Kovacs, Trenton NJ, comedian (Ernie Kovacs' Show)
1919 - Nina Dumbadze, USSR, Discus thrower (Oly-bronze-1952)
1919 - Hans Hass, Austrian zoologist and underwater scientist
1920 - Erbet Pawel, biographer (Kafka)
1923 - Florence Halop, Queens, actress (Florence-Night Court, St Elsewhere)
1923 - Horace Ashenfelter, US, 3000m steeplechase (Olympic-gold-1952)
1923 - Walter M[ichael] Miller Jr, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, View from Stars)
1924 - Frank R Lautenberg, (Sen-D-NJ, 1983- )
1925 - Marty Paich, Oakland California, orchestra leader (Sonny & Cher, Glenn Campbell)
1927 - Lars-Eric Lindblad, Swedish-American entrepreneur and explorer (d. 1994)
1928 - Eugene Monti, Italy, bobsledder (Olympic-2 golds-1968)
1928 - Jeanne Moreau, Paris France, actress (Going Places, Jules & Jim)
1928 - Kees [Cornelis] Broekman, Dutch speed skater (Olympic-silver-1952)
1928 - Chico Carrasquel, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 2005)
1929 - Ian Thomson, cricketer (England seam bowler v South Africa 1964-65)
1929 - John Polanyi, Berlin, Canadian chemist (Nobel 1986)
1929 - Patriarch Filaret (Mykhailo Denysenko) of Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Kyiv Patriarchate
1930 - Derek Walcott, St Lucia, poet/writer (Omeros, Nobel 1992)
1930 - Ken Errair, rocker (Four Freshmen)
1930 - William Reid Pogue, Okemah Oklahoma, Colonel USAF/astronaut (Skylab 4)
1932 - Bud Shuster, (Rep-R-PA, 1973- )
1933 - Arlene Golonka, Chicago Ill, actress (Millie-Mayberry RFD)
1933 - Chita Rivera, Wash DC, actress (West Side Story, Sweet Charity)
1933 - Joel Spiegelman, composer
1934 - Lou Antonio, Oklahoma City, actor (Barney-Snoop Sisters, Makin' It)
1934 - Pierre Bourgault, Quebec politician and essayist (d. 2003)
1936 - Jerry Kramer, Green Bay Packer, author (Instant Replay)
1938 - Anatoly Marchenko, Siberia, Soviet dissident
1938 - Shohei Baba, Japanese professional wrestler (d. 1999)
1939 - Sonny Chiba, Japanese actor and martial artist
1939 - Arlene Golonka, American actress
1940 - Johnny Russell, country singer
1942 - Ivan Ivanovich Bachurin, cosmonaut
1942 - Laurie Mayne, cricketer (Australian pace bowler in 6 Tests 1965-70)
1942 - Willy Bogner Jr, Munich, director (On Her Majesty's Secret Service)
1942 - Razzak, Bangladeshi actor and director
1943 - Gil Gerard, Little Rock Ark, actor (Buck Rogers in 25th Century)
1943 - William E "Bill" Gibb, Scottish fashion designer
1943 - Gary Burton, American jazz vibraphonist
1944 - Jerry Lawson, US singer (Persuasions-Under the Boardwalk)
1944 - Marty Russo, (Rep-D-IL, 1975- )
1944 - Rutger Hauer, Dutch actor (Blade Runner, Ladyhawke, Osterman Weekend)
1944 - Sergey Belov, USSR, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1972)
1945 - Mike Harris, Canadian politician, Premier of Ontario
1946 - Asif Masood, cricketer (Pakistani quick with long & erratic run-up)
1946 - Don Whittington, American businessman, car & airplane racer and convicted felon
1947 - Thomas R Carper, (Rep-D-DE, 1983- )
1947 - Megawati Sukarnoputri, 5th President of Indonesia
1947 - Gatewood Galbraith, [Louis], Carlisle, Kentucky, Lawyer, American political activist, iconic Kentucky political figure, (d. 2012)
1948 - Anita Pointer, Oakland, rock vocalist (Pointer Sisters-She's So Shy)
1949 - Robert Cabana, Minneapolis, Mjr USMC/astronaut (STS 41, 53, 68, sk:88)
1950 - Bill Cunningham, rock keyboardist/bassist (Box Tops)
1950 - Danny Federici, rocker (E Street Band)
1950 - Patrick Simmons, guitarist/vocal (Doobie Brothers-Minute by Minute)
1950 - Richard Dean Anderson, Minneapolis, actor (MacGyver, Emerald Pt NAS)
1950 - Richard Gilliland, Fort Worth Tx, actor (Jonesy-Waltons, Tom-Heartland)
1950 - William Cunningham, rock bassist/pianist (Box Tops-Letter)
1950 - John Greaves, English musician (Henry Cow, National Health)
1950 - Luis Alberto Spinetta, Buenos Aires, Argentina, rock musician (Almendra, Pescado Rabioso, Invisible), (d. 2012)
1951 - Margaret Johnson Bailes, Bronx NY, 4X100 runner (Olympic-gold-1968)
1951 - Michael Matz, equestrian show jumper (Olympics-silver-96)
1952 - Omar Henry, cricketer (1st colored player for South Africa 1992)
1953 - Lamont Robin Zander, rocker (Cheap Trick)
1953 - Pat Haden, Westbury, NY, NFL quarterback (LA Rams)
1953 - Antonio Villaraigosa, Hispanic-American 52nd Mayor of Los Angeles
1954 - Edward Ka-spel, English singer/songwriter (Legendary Pink Dots)
1954 - Franco De Vita, Caracas Venezuala, spanish singer (Extranjero)
1954 - Rick Finch, rocker (KC & Sunshine Band-Give It)
1954 - Trevor Hohns, cricketer (Australian leg-spinner 1989)
1955 - Alexander O'Neal, R&B singer
1955 - Reginald Calloway, trumpet player (Midnight Star-No Parking)
1955 - Robin Zander, rocker vocalist/guitarist (Cheap Trick-Dream Police)
1957 - Caroline Louise Marguerite Grimaldi, Monte Carlo Monaco, princess
1957 - Lou Schuler, American fitness journalist
1958 - Lorraine Michaels, Canterbury England, playmate (Apr, 1981)
1959 - Earl Falconer, British reggae bassist (UB40-Red Red Wine)
1959 - Tyrone Power Jr, Los Angeles California, actor (Shag)
1960 - Greg Ritchie, cricketer (Qld & Aust batsman Fat Cat Mahatma Cote)
1960 - Misha Mck, East Orange NJ, actress (Gerri-Me & Mrs C)
1960 - Patrick de Gayardon, French skydiver and skysurfing pioneer (d. 1998)
1961 - Trey Junkin, tight end (Arizona Cardinals)
1961 - Mas Selamat bin Kastari, Singapore's most-wanted terror fugitive
1962 - Elvira Lindo, Spanish writer and journalist
1962 - Vasia Panayopoulou, Greek actress
1963 - Gail O'Grady, Detroit, actress (Hitman, Nobody's Perfect, NYPD Blue)
1963 - Hakeem Olajuwon, NBA center (Houston Rockets)
1963 - Rocco Romano, CFL guard (Calgary Stampeders)
1964 - Frank Winters, NFL center (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1964 - Mariska Hargitay, LA California, actress (Jesse Smith-Downtown, ER)
1965 - Tim Berrett, Tunbridge Wells Engl, Canadian 20k walker (Oly-14-92, 96)
1966 - Haywoode Workman, NBA guard (Indiana Pacers)
1966 - Mike Brim, NFL cornerback (Cin Bengals)
1966 - Scott Fortune, Newport Beach California, volleyballer (Oly-G-88,B-92, 96)
1967 - Christine Parris-Washington, Truro Nova Scotia, softball (Olympics-96)
1967 - Naim Suleymanoglu, Bulgaria, Turkish weight lifter (Oly-gold-1988)
1968 - Eric Metcalf, NFL receiver/running back (Atl Falcons, San Diego Chargers)
1968 - Lubomir Kolnik, Skalica CZ, hockey forward (Team Slovakia, Espoo)
1968 - Petr Korda, Prague Czech, tennis star (1993 Doubles-Cincinnati)
1968 - Todd Scott, NFL safety (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1969 - Brendan Shanahan, Mimico Ont, NHL left wing (Whalers, Red Wings)
1969 - Eric Carter, CFL cornerback (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1969 - Ariadna Gil, Spanish actress
1969 - Andrei Kanchelskis, Ukrainian-Russian footballer
1970 - Alan Embree, Vancouver WA, pitcher (Cleveland Indians)
1970 - Jim Schwantz, NFL linebacker (Dallas Cowboys, SF 49ers)
1970 - Mark Wohlers, Holyoke MA, pitcher (Atlanta Braves)
1970 - Marquel Fleetwood, WLAF quarterback (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1970 - Richard Smehlik, Ostrava Cze, NHL defenseman (Buf Sabres, Oly-Gold-98)
1970 - Sherman Obando, Changuinola Panama, outfielder (Montreal Expos)
1971 - Adam Parore, cricket wicket-keeper (NZ, 1st Maori Test centurion)
1971 - James Logan, WLAF linebacker (Scotland Claymores)
1971 - Julie Foudy, SD California, soccer midfielder (Olympics-96)
1971 - Kevin Mawae, NFL center/guard (Seattle Seahawks)
1971 - Mark Grimmette, Ann Arbor Mich, doubles luger (Olympics-1994)
1971 - Lorne Spicer, British TV presenter
1971 - Marc Nelson, American R&B singer and lyricist
1972 - Anthony Peterson, NFL linebacker (Chicago Bears, SF 49ers)
1972 - Gary Harrell, NFL/WLAF receiver (NY Giants, Frankfurt Galaxy)
1972 - Kez McCorvey, NFL wide receiver (Detroit Lions)
1972 - Tanya Harding, Australian softball pitcher (Olympics-bronze-96)
1972 - Ewen Bremner, Scottish actor
1972 - Marcel Wouda, Dutch swimmer
1973 - Mark Kolesar, Minnedosa, NHL right wing (Toronto Maple Leafs)
1973 - Lanei Chapman, American actress
1974 - Glen Chapple, cricketer (Lancashire & England A pace bowler)
1974 - Tiffani-Amber Theissen, Long Beach Ca, actress (Saved by Bell, 90210)
1974 - Rebekah Elmaloglou, Australian actress
1974 - Yosvani Pérez, Cuban baseball player
1974 - Richard T. Slone, British artist
1975 - Kevin Alexander, NFL wide receiver (NY Giants)
1975 - Tito Ortiz, American UFC fighter
1976 - Byron Hanspard, NFL running back (Atlanta Falcons)
1976 - Phil Boudreault, Copper Cliff Ontario, boxer (Olympics-96)
1976 - Brandon Duckworth, American baseball player
1976 - Angelica Lee, Taiwanese actress and singer
1976 - Nigel McGuinness, English professional wrestler
1979 - Sampsa Astala, Finnish musician (Lordi)
1979 - Larry Hughes, American basketball player
1979 - Juan Rincón, Venezuelan baseball player
1980 - Theresa Kulikowski, Tacoma Wash, gymnast (World-bronze-95, Oly-96)
1981 - Rob Friend, Canadian footballer
1981 - Greg Smith, American UFC fighter
1982 - Wily Mo Peña, Dominican baseball player
1984 - Arjen Robben, Dutch footballer
1985 - Dong Fangzhuo, Chinese footballer
1985 - Doutzen Kroes, Dutch supermodel
1986 - Steven Taylor, English footballer
1987 - Felicia Brandström, Swedish singer

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 23, 2013, 07:15:15 AM

This Day in History for 23rd January


Famous Deaths

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Painter/Print Maker                                 Painter Salvador Dali (1989)
Edvard Munch (1944)


1002 - Otto III, German king/emperor 983/996-1002, dies at 21
1199 - Yaqub, Almohad Caliph (b. 1160)
1356 - Margaretha of Bavaria, Emperess of Germany, dies
1516 - Ferdinand II, king of Aragon/Sicily, dies at 63
1548 - Bernardo Pisano, composer, dies at 57
1549 - Johannes Honter, Transylvanian Saxon humanist and theologian (b. 1498)
1567 - Jiajing, Emperor of China (b. 1507)
1622 - William Baffin, British explorer, dies at about 38
1639 - Francisco Maldonado da Silva Solis, Peruvian poet, burned at stake
1648 - Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla, Spanish poet (Del Rey Abajo), dies at 40
1708 - Thomas Bullis, composer, dies at 80
1744 - Giambattista Vico, Italian philosopher and historian (b. 1668)
1785 - Matthew Stewart, Scottish mathematician (b. 1717)
1789 - Frances Brooke, English writer (b. 1724)
1789 - John Cleland, English novelist (b. 1709)
1800 - Edward Rutledge, US attorney (signed Decl of Indep), dies at 50
1803 - Arthur Guinness, Irish brewer (b. 1725)
1805 - Vaclav Pichl, composer, dies at 63
1805 - Claude Chappe, French telecommunications pioneer (b. 1763)
1806 - William Pitt, the Younger, PM Great Britain (1783..1806), dies at 46
1812 - Robert Craufurd, British general (b. 1764)
1813 - George Clymer, US merchant (signed Decl of Independence), dies at 73
1814 - Georg Friedrich Theodor Wolf, composer, dies at 52
1820 - Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn
1833 - Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, British admiral (b. 1757)
1837 - John Field, composer, dies at 54
1838 - Arnold A Buyskes, Dutch vice-admiral/colonial director, dies at 67
1845 - Francesco Ruggi, composer, dies at 77
1864 - Michele Puccini, composer, dies at 50
1866 - Thomas Love Peacock, English satirist (b. 1785)
1875 - Charles Kingsley, English vicar/writer (Westward Ho!), dies at 55
1879 - Adolf Jensen, composer, dies at 42
1883 - Gustave Doré, French artist, engraver, and illustrator (b. 1832)
1891 - Boudouin LPMCAJL, prince of Belgium/count of Flaanders, dies at 21
1893 - Jose Zorrilla y Moral, Spanish poet (Granada), dies at 75
1893 - Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1825)
1898 - W A Remy, composer, dies at 66
1908 - Edward Alexander MacDowell, US composer (Indian Suite), dies at 47
1913 - Nazim Pasha, Turkey's PM, assassinated
1921 - Wlasyslaw Zelenski, composer, dies at 83
1922 - Arthur Nikisch, Hungarian conductor (b. 1855)
1923 - Max Nordau, Austrian author, philosopher, and Zionist leader (b. 1849)
1926 - Desire J Mercier, Belgian philosopher/cardinal, dies at 74
1926 - Joseph Carl Breil, composer, dies at 55
1931 - Anna Pavlova, Russian ballerina (Diaghilew, Dying Swan), dies
1936 - Dame Clara Butt, alto singer (Country of Hope & Glory), dies at 62
1937 - Orso Mario Corbino, Italian physicist (b. 1876)
1939 - Matthias Sindelar, Austria soccer star, commits suicide
1941 - Dobri Khristov, composer, dies at 65
1943 - Alexander Woollcott, critic, dies of a heart attack on radio, at 56
1944 - Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter (The Scream), dies at 80
1944 - Viktor Gusev, Russian poet (b. 1909)
1945 - Helmuth J Moltke, German politician ("July 20th Plot"), executed at 37
1946 - Feliks Nowowiejski, composer, dies at 68
1946 - Matteo Giulio Bartoli, linguist, dies at 72
1947 - Pierre Bonnard, French painter/illustrator, dies at 79
1947 - Roy Park, cricketer (prolific Victorian bat & official), dies
1956 - Alexander Korda, English movie producer (Henry VIII), dies at 62
1957 - Willie Edwards, US black, murdered by KKK at 25
1958 - Nikolaos Georgantas, Greek discus thrower (b. 1880)
1964 - Louis Horst, composer, dies at 80
1969 - Jaroslav Kricka, composer, dies at 86
1971 - Fritz Feigl, Austria-born chemist (b. 1871)
1973 - Alexander Onassis, Greek heir of the Onassis family (b. 1948)
1973 - Kid Ory, American jazz trombonist (b. 1886)
1975 - Karel Paul van der Mandele, director (Rotterdam Bank), dies at 94
1976 - Aleksey Vasilyevich Sorokin, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 44
1976 - Paul Robeson, athlete/lawyer/singer, dies in Philadelphia at 77
1976 - Paul Dupuis, French Canadian film and television actor (b. 1913)
1977 - Bernard "Toots" Shor, barkeeper, dies at 73
1978 - Jack Oakie, actor (Great Dictator, Gang Buster), dies at 74
1978 - Terry Kath, rock guitarist (Chicago), accidently shot in head at 32
1978 - Vic Ames, American singer (Ames Brothers) (b. 1925)
1981 - Bobby Sherwood, orchestra leader (Milton Berle Show), dies at 66
1981 - Samuel Barber, US composer (School for Scandal), dies at 70
1982 - Hope Hampton, actress (Star Dust, Lawful Larcency), dies at 83
1984 - Samuel Gardner, composer, dies at 92
1984 - Mu'in Bseiso, Palestinian poet (b. 1926)
1986 - Joseph Beuys, West German avant-garde artist/politician, dies at 64
1989 - Salvador Dalí, Catalan artist (b. 1904)
1990 - Albert Collins, guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd), dies of pneumonia at 57
1990 - Mariano Rumor, Italy's PM (1968-70, 73-1974), dies
1991 - Northrop Frye, Canadian writer and critic (b. 1912)
1992 - Freddie Bartholomew, child actor (Kidnapped), dies of emphysema at 67
1992 - Ian Wolfe, actor (Houdini, THX-1138, Homebodies), dies at 95
1992 - Simon Brand, South African banker/adviser to Pres De Klerk, dies
1993 - Dudley Stevens, entertainer, dies of AIDS at 57
1993 - Thomas A Dorsey, jazz pianist (Take My Hand, Precious Lord), dies
1994 - Nikolai Ogarkov, Russian marshal (Flight KAL 007), dies at 76
1994 - Oliver Smith, US set designer (Guys & Dolls-7 Tony Awards), dies at 75
1994 - Sherry Mathis, actress (Search for Tomorrow), dies of cancer at 44
1994 - Suzanne M Blum, French lawyer (Charlie Chaplin), dies at 95
1994 - Brian Redhead, English journalist and broadcaster (b. 1929)
1995 - Harold Collett Dent, journalist/educationist, dies at 100
1995 - Ken Hill, playwright/director, dies at 57
1995 - Michael Whalley Wickham, artist, dies at 91
1995 - Peter Ambrose Cyprian Luke, playwright, dies at 75
1996 - John Mackin, programmer, dies at 36
1996 - Norman MacCaig, poet, dies at 85
1996 - Shirley Carter Burden, patrician, dies at 54
1997 - Charles Craig, opera singer, dies at 77
1997 - David Waller, actor (Lady Jane, Perfect Friday, Hannay), dies at 76
1997 - Jeremy Stephen Maas, writer/art dealer, dies at 68
1997 - Laura "Dinky" Patterson, dies bungee jumping at Superbowl rehearsal at 43
1997 - Randy Greenawalt, convicted killer, executed by injection at 47
1997 - Richard Berry, lyricist (Louie Louie), dies at 61
1997 - Roger John Tayler, astrophysicist, dies at 67
1998 - Hilla Limann, president of Ghana in (1979-81), dies
1999 - Jay Pritzker, American businessman (b. 1922)
1999 - Prince Lincoln Thompson, Jamaican musician (b. 1949)
2002 - Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist (b. 1930)
2002 - Paul Aars, American racecar driver (b. 1934)
2002 - Robert Nozick, American philosopher (b. 1938)
2003 - Nell Carter, American singer and actress (b. 1948)
2004 - Bob Keeshan, American actor (b. 1927)
2004 - Helmut Newton, German-born photographer (b. 1920)
2005 - Morys George Lyndhurst Bruce, 4th Baron Aberdare, British politician (b. 1921)
2005 - Johnny Carson, American television host (b. 1925)
2006 - Chris McKinstry, Canadian scientist (b. 1967)
2007 - E. Howard Hunt, American Watergate figure (b. 1918)
2007 - Ryszard Kapuściński, Polish journalist and writer (b. 1932)
2007 - Syed Hussein Alatas, Malaysian Politician (b. 1928)
2009 - Robert W. Scott, American politician, governor of North Carolina (b. 1929)
2011 - Jack LaLanne, American fitness and nutritional expert (b. 1914)
2012 - Anthony Capo, DeCavalcante crime family hitman and informant, dies from heart attack at 
           52/53

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 24, 2013, 07:17:47 AM

This Day in History for 24th January


Historical Events

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Russian Tsar Peter the Great                   Naturalist Charles Darwin                     Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini

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Director Alfred Hitchcock                   Spanish Dictator Francisco Franco                     

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Boxing Champ George Foreman                 Actress Whoopi Goldberg


41 - Claudius succeeds his nephew Caligula as Roman Emperor after his assassination by Praetorian Guards.
817 - St Paschal I begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Stephen IV
1076 - Synod of Worms: German King Henry IV fires Pope Gregory VII
1118 - Giovanni Caetani elected Pope Gelasius II
1458 - Matthias I Corvinus chosen king of Hungary
1534 - Francois I signs classified treaty with evangelical German monarchy
1556 - Heavy earthquake strikes Shaaxi China, kills 830,000
1568 - Abdij Church in Middelburg destroyed by fire
1568 - In Netherlands, Duke of Alva declares William of Orange an outlaw
1613 - Amsterdams merchant Hans Bontemantel baptized
1616 - Jacques Le Maire discovers Street Lemaire/Cape Receiver
1634 - Emperor Ferdinand II declares Albrecht von Wallenstein a traitor
1639 - Connecticut colony organizes under Fundamental Orders
1644 - Battle at Nantwich Cheshire: Parliamentary armies win
1652 - Duke of Orleans joins Fronde rebels
1656 - 1st Jewish doctor in US, Jacob Lumbrozo, arrives in Maryland
1659 - Pierre Corneille's "Oedipe," premieres in Paris
1679 - King Charles II disbands English parliament
1722 - Czar Peter the Great begins civil system
1722 - Edward Wigglesworth appointed 1st US divinity professor (Harvard)
1742 - German leaders elect Charles VII Albert Emperor
1764 - Gov Winthrop Telescope, is destroyed in a Harvard fire
1776 - Henry Knox arrives at Cambridge, Massachusetts with the artillery that he has transported from Fort Ticonderoga.
1839 - Charles Darwin elected member of Royal Society
1847 - 1,500 New Mexican Indians & Mexicans defeated by US Col Price
1848 - James Marshall finds gold in Sutter's Mill in Coloma, Calif
1857 - The University of Calcutta is formally founded as the first full-fledged university in south Asia.
1859 - Political union of Moldavia and Wallachia; Alexandru Ioan Cuza is elected as ruler.
1861 - Arsenal at Augusta, Ga seized by Confederacy
1861 - Federal troops from Ft Monroe are sent to Ft Pikens
1862 - Romania principality arises under King Alexander Cuza
1862 - Bucharest proclaimed capital of Romania.
1874 - Gen J van Swieten conquerors Kraton Atjeh, after 1000's die
1874 - Mussorgsky's opera "Boris Godunov," premieres in St Petersburg
1875 - Camille Saint-Saëns' "Danse Macabre," premieres
1878 - The revolutionary Vera Zasulich shoots at Fyodor Trepov, the Governor of Saint Petersburg.
1892 - battle at Mengo, Uganda: French missionaries attack Brit missionaries
1899 - Belgium government of Vandenpeereboom forms
1899 - Rubber heel patented by Humphrey O'Sullivan
1900 - Battle at Tugela-Spionkop, South Africa (Boers vs British army)
1900 - Newcastle Badminton Club, world's oldest, forms in England
1901 - 1st games played in baseball's American League
1901 - Emily Hobhouse view lord Kitcheners concentration camp at Bloemfontein
1902 - Denmark sells Virgin Islands to USA
1908 - Gen Baden-Powell starts Boy-Scouts
1913 - Franz Kafka stops working on "Amerika"; it will never be finished
1914 - Opera "Madeleine," premieres in NYC
1915 - German-British sea battle at Doggersbank & Helgoland
1922 - -54°F (-48°C), Danbury, Wisconsin (state record)
1922 - Eskimo Pie patented by Christian K Nelson of Iowa (not an Eskimo)
1922 - Lehman Caves National Monument established
1923 - Aztec Ruins National Monument, NM established
1924 - Benito Mussolini disallows non-fascists work union
1924 - Russian city of St Petersburg renamed Leningrad
1925 - Moving picture of a solar eclipse taken from dirigible over Long Is
1925 - Sandler follows Branting as premier of Sweden
1927 - Director Alfred Hitchcock releases his first film, The Pleasure Garden, in England.
1930 - J E Mills scores 117 on Test Cricket debut, NZ v England, Wellington
1930 - Stewie Dempster scores New Zealand's 1st Test century
1933 - Noel Coward's "Design for Living," premieres in NYC
1935 - 1st canned beer, "Krueger Cream Ale," is sold by Kruger Brewing Co
1936 - Benny Goodman & orchestra record "Stompin' at the Savoy" on Victor Records
1936 - Albert Sarraut becomes Prime Minister of France
1939 - 30,000 killed by earthquake in Concepcion Chile
1939 - Eddie Collins, Willie Keeler & George Sisler elected to Hall of Fame
1939 - Spanish government moves to Figueras
1941 - British troops march into Abyssinia
1942 - Musical "Star & Garter," premieres in NYC
1943 - Hitler orders nazi troops at Stalingrad to fight to death
1943 - Jewish patients/nurses/doctors incinerated at Auschwitz-Birkenau
1944 - Allied troops occupy Nettuno Italy
1945 - Scottish 52nd Lowland division occupies Heinsberg
1947 - NFL adds 5th official (back judge) & allows sudden death in playoffs
1948 - "Music in My Heart" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 124 perfs
1948 - Australia all out 674 v India (Bradman 201, Hassett 198*)
1948 - Dutch Liberal Party forms-People's party for Freedom & Democracy (VVD)
1950 - Jackie Robinson signs highest contract ($35,000) in Dodger history
1951 - Dutch government Drees-van Schaik resigns
1952 - 1st NFL team in Texas, Dallas Texans formerly NY Yanks
1952 - Fire in main building of French Port Martin Antarctic base
1952 - Vincent Massey is sworn in as the first Canadian-born Governor-General of Canada.
1954 - BPAA All-Star Tournament won by Don Carter
1954 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Tampa Women's Golf Open
1956 - 96.5 cm precipitation at Kilauea Plantation, Hawaii (state record)
1958 - After warming to 100,000,000 degrees, 2 light atoms are bashed together to create a heavier
           atom, resulting in 1st man-made nuclear fusion
1959 - "Party with Comden & Green" closes at John Golden NYC after 38 perfs
1959 - Dmitri Shostakovitch's comedy "Cheryomushk," premieres in Moscow
1959 - WHCT TV channel 18 in Hartford, CT (IND) begins broadcasting
1960 - Algeria uprises against French president De Gaulle
1961 - Edward Albee's "American Dream," premieres in NYC
1961 - Lazard Brothers Ltd draw a check for $334,867,807.68
1962 - 28 refugees escape from East to West Germany
1962 - Brian Epstein signs management contract with the Beatles
1962 - Jackie Robinson is 1st Black elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1962 - Mickey Wright/Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Naples Pro-Am Golf Tournament
1963 - Buddy Rogers & Lou Thesz wrestle in Toronto, Rogers becomes WWF wrestling champ &
           Thesz becomes NWA champ
1964 - CBS purchases 1964 & 1965 NFL TV rights for $28.2 million
1964 - Martin Kresses final comic strip of Eric the Viking
1964 - 24th Amendment to US Constitution goes into effect & states voting rights could not be
           denied due to failure to pay taxes
1966 - WDIO TV channel 10 in Duluth, MN (ABC) begins broadcasting
1969 - Queen Juliana appointed honorary citizen of Addis Ababa
1969 - Spanish Gen Franco announces state of emergency
1970 - 3rd ABA All-Star Game: West 128 beats East 98 at Indiana
1970 - Valeri Muratov skates world record 500m (38.99 sec)
1971 - NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 27-6
1972 - WRIP (now WDSI) TV channel 61 in Chattanooga, TN (IND) 1st broadcast
1972 - Japanese Sgt. Shoichi Yokoi is found hiding in a Guam jungle, where he had been since the
           end of World War II.
1973 - Warren Spahn is elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1975 - "Hot l Baltimore" situation comedy premieres on ABC TV
1975 - Fastest Earth-bound object, 7200 kph, in vacuum centrifuge, England
1976 - Cleveland Cavaliers biggest margin victory-43 pts (beat Milwaukee 132-89)
1976 - George Foreman KOs Ron Lyle in 5th round of a real slugfest
1977 - 5 lawyers murdered by fascist in Madrid
1977 - Massacre of Atocha in Madrid, during the Spanish transition to democracy.
1978 - 31st NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 3-2 (OT) at Buffalo
1978 - Carter Executive Order on Intelligence (# 12036)
1979 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1981 - Islanders scored 5 power play goals against Nordiques
1981 - Kim Hughes scores 213 v India at Adelaide
1982 - Superbowl MVP: Joe Montana, San Francisco, QB
1982 - Superbowl XVI: SF 49ers beat Cin Bengals, 26-21 in Pontiac Mich
1983 - Hulk Hogan pins Iron Sheik for World Wrestling Federation title
1984 - Apple Computer Inc unveils its revolutionary Macintosh personal computer
1985 - 15th Space Shuttle (51-C) Mission-Discovery 3 is launched
1986 - 43th Golden Globes: Whoopi Goldberg, Color Purple win
1986 - NY Islander Mike Bossy scores his 1,000th point
1986 - South Yemen Premier Haydar Bakr al-Attas becomes interim-president
1986 - Voyager 2 makes 1st fly-by of Uranus (81,593 km), finds new moons
1987 - 61st Australian Womens Tennis: H Mandlikova beat M Navratilova (75 76)
1988 - 1st WWF Royal Rumble - Jim Duggan wins
1988 - 76th Australian Mens Tennis: M Wilander beats P Cash (63 67 36 61 86)
1988 - 9th ACE Cable Awards
1988 - Australia beat New Zealand 2-0 to win Cricket's World Series Cup
1988 - Cerebral Palsy telethon
1989 - 1st reported case of AIDS transmitted by heterosexual oral sex
1990 - Japanese MUSES-A (Hiten) launched towards moon
1991 - "Les Miserables," opens at Theatre St Denis, Montreal
1993 - 14th annual star-athon $24,000,000
1993 - Polish ferry boat John Heweliusz sinks, 52 killed
1993 - Soyuz TM-16 launches
1993 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Davis
1993 - Turkish journalist and writer Uğur Mumcu is assassinated by a car bomb in Ankara.
1994 - Dow Jones closes above 3,900 for 1st time (3,914.48)
2003 - The United States Department of Homeland Security officially begins operation.
2009 - Pope Benedict XVI rescinds the excommunications of four bishops consecrated without papal
           consent in 1988 by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre.
2011 - At least 35 died and 180 injured in a bombing at Moscow's Domodedovo airport.

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 24, 2013, 07:19:56 AM

This Day in History for 24th January


Famous Weddings

1328 - King Edward III of England marries Philippa of Henegouwen
1978 - Rose Dugdale and Eddie Gallagher become the first convicted prisoners to marry in prison in
           the history of the Republic of Ireland.
2004 - "Married ... With Children" actor David Faustino (33) weds actress Andrea Elmer (31) at the
            Little White Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas, Nevada

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 24, 2013, 07:25:08 AM

This Day in History for 24th January


Famous Birthdays

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Pulitzer prize winning novelist              Ballerina Maria Tallchief (1925)          Singer-songwriter Neil Diamond (1941)
Edith Wharton (1862)


76 - Publius A Hadrianus, 14th Roman Emperor (117-138)
1287 - Richard Aungerville, English bishop (d. 1345)
1444 - Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan (d. 1476)
1638 - Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, English poet (d. 1706)
1664 - John Vanbrugh, London, dramatist/architect (baptized)
1670 - William Congreve, English playwright (d. 1729)
1674 - Thomas Tanner, English bishop (d. 1735)
1679 - Christian von Wolff, German philosopher
1705 - Farinelli, [Carlo Broschi], Andria Italy, castrato
1712 - Frederick II, (the Great), king of Prussia (1740-86)
1712 - Georg F Schmidt, German engraver/etcher
1724 - Frances Brooke, English writer (d. 1789)
1732 - Pierre de Baumarchais, France, playwright (Barber of Seville)
1742 - Anne, Duchess of Cumberland and Strathearn (d. 1808)
1746 - Gustav III, king during Swedish Enlightenment (1771-92)
1750 - Wybo Fijnje, Dutch politician/patriot/journalist
1754 - Andrew Ellicott, American surveyor (d. 1820)
1758 - Johann Chrysostomus Drexel, composer
1763 - Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron, Russian general (d. 1831)
1767 - Antony CW Staring, Dutch lawyer/poet (Jaromir)
1774 - Karl Moser, composer
1776 - Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, German writer/judge/composer (Undine)
1778 - Charles F, duke of Berry/son of French king Charles X
1779 - Elizabeth Alexeievna (Louise of Baden), Russian tsarina (d. 1826)
1798 - Karl von Holtei, Silezian actor/playwright (Die Vagabunden)
1798 - Karl von Staudt, German math professor (projective geometrician)
1800 - Edwin Chadwick, British social reformer
1814 - Abraham Czn van Stolk, Dutch art collector
1820 - John Milton Thayer, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1906
1828 - Adam Jacoby Slemmer, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1868
1828 - Ferdinand J Cohn, German botanist/publicist
1828 - Karol Studzinski, composer
1829 - William Mason, composer
1832 - John Pegram, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1865
1848 - Vasily Surikov, Russian painter (d. 1916)
1859 - Alexander Alexandrovich Il'yinsky, composer
1862 - Edith Wharton [-Jones], New York NY, Pulitzer prize-winning novelist (Ethan Frome, House of Mirth), (d. 1937)
1864 - Marguerite Durand, French feminist leader (d. 1936)
1872 - Konstantin Bogaevsky, Russian painter (d. 1943)
1872 - Ethel Turner, Australian author (d. 1958)
1874 - Arthur Schomburg (Arturo Alfonso), Puerto Rico, archivist of African American history and culture
1880 - Elisabeth Achelis, creator (World Calendar)
1883 - Estelle Winwood, [Goodwin], England, actress (Miracle on 34th Street)
1886 - Henry King, American film director (d. 1982)
1888 - Ernst Heinrich Heinkel, German inventor (1st rocket-powered aircraft)
1888 - Hedwig "Vicki" Baum, Austrian/US author (Men Never Know)
1888 - Henry King, US, director (Jesse James, 12 O'Clock High)
1891 - Walter Model, German fieldmarshal
1895 - Albin Zollinger, Swiss poet/author (Der Halbe Mensch)
1895 - Eugen Roth, writer
1898 - Cliff Heathcote, American baseball player (d. 1939)
1902 - Oskar Morgenstern, German/US economist
1902 - Walter Keirnan, New Havens Ct, TV panelist (I've Got a Secret)
1902 - E. A. Speiser, American Bible scholar (d. 1965)
1903 - Robert Gwathmey, artist (Arts & Letters)
1906 - Norman Cook, museum curator
1907 - Alfonse Vranckx, Belgian lawyer/politician
1907 - Maurice Couve de Murville, France premier (1968-69)
1909 - Ann Todd, Hartford England, actress (Paradine Case, 7th Veil)
1909 - Tiny Winters, musician
1911 - C[atherine] L[ucille] Moore, US, sci-fi author (Judgment Night)
1912 - Ken Weekes, cricketer (WI batsman v England 1939, 137 at The Oval)
1913 - Mark Goodson, TV game-show proudcer (Goodson-Toddman)
1913 - Norman Dello Joio, [Dello Ioio], NYC, composer
1915 - Robert B Motherwell, US, painter (Elegies to the Spanish Republic)
1915 - Vitezslava Kapralova, composer
1916 - John Corner, scientist
1916 - Vic Stollmeyer, cricketer (bro of Jeff Scored 96 in only Test innings)
1916 - Jack Brickhouse, American sports broadcaster (d. 1998)
1917 - Ernest Borgnine, Hamden Ct, actor (Ice Station Zebra, McHale, Marty), (d. 2012)
1918 - Gottfried von Einem, Bern Switzerland, Austrian composer (Dantons Tod)
1918 - John McLiam, Alberta, actor (Parker-Men From Shiloh)
1918 - Oral Roberts, Pontotoc County Oklahoma, American Televangelist, founder Oral Roberts College
1919 - Leon Kirchner, Brooklyn NY, opera composer (Lily)
1919 - Nora Beloff, journalist/author
1920 - Don Saddler, Van Nuys California, dancer (Holiday Hotel)
1920 - Jerry Maren, actor (munchkin-Wizard of Oz, Mayor McCheese)
1921 - Bernard J Dwyer, (Rep-D-NJ, 1981- )
1922 - Neil Franklin, soccer star
1922 - Charles Socarides, American psychiatrist (d. 2005)
1923 - Simeon ten Holt, composer
1924 - 8th earl Spencer, English large landowner/father of Diane
1924 - David Craighead, composer
1924 - Klaus George Roy, composer
1924 - Marvin Kaplan, Brooklyn NY, actor (Top Cat, Henry-Alice)
1924 - Robert W Kastenmeier, (Rep-D-WI, 1959- )
1925 - Maria Tallchief, Fairfax Ok, ballerina
1925 - William Hudson, California, actor (I Led 3 Lives)
1926 - Georges Lautner, French director and screenwriter
1927 - Paula Hawkins, (Sen-R-FL, 1981-86)
1927 - Sir Patrick Macnaghten, 11th Baronet, British aristocrat (d. 2007)
1928 - Desmond Morris, English zoologist (Human Ape, Body Language)
1928 - Michel Serrault, French actor (d. 2007)
1930 - Bernard Matthews, English turkey farmer/multi-millionaire
1931 - Ib Norholm, composer
1932 - Werner Steger, composer
1933 - Ron Townson, rock vocalist (5th Dimension-Aquarius) [or Jan 29]
1933 - Zeke Carey, US R&B-singer (Flamingos-I Only Have Eyes For You)
1934 - Stanisław Grochowiak, Polish poet (d. 1976)
1935 - Eric Ashton, English rugby league footballer (d. 2008)
1936 - Daniel Goode, composer
1936 - Doug Kershaw, La, plays electric fiddle
1936 - Jack Scott, Canada, rocker (My True Love)
1938 - Julius Arthur Hemphill, saxophonist
1939 - Ray Stevens, Clarksdale Ga, singer (Ahab the Arab, Streak)
1940 - Flip Buurmeijer, Dutch MP (PvdA)
1941 - Aaron Neville, US singer/keyboardist (Neville Brothers)
1941 - Michael Chapman, Leeds England, rocker (Looking for 11)
1941 - Neil Diamond, Brooklyn NY, singer/actor (Jazz Singer)
1942 - Gary Hart, American professional wrestling manager and wrestler (d. 2008)
1943 - Julie Bennett, Beverly Hills CA, actress (Hey There It's Yogi Bear)
1943 - Sharon Tate, Dallas Tx, actress (Valley of the Dolls)
1943 - Subhash Ghai, Indian film director
1944 - David Gerrold, [Jerrold David Friedman], author (World of Star Trek)
1944 - Klaus Nomi, German singer (d. 1983)
1945 - D. Todd Christofferson, LDS apostle
1945 - John Garamendi, American politician
1946 - Hubert M "Jubi" Kirindongo, Curacaos sculptor/painter
1946 - John Harrison, South Africa correspondent (BBC)
1946 - Michael Ontkean, Vancouver BC, actor (Rookies, Slap Shot, Twin Peaks)
1947 - David Randall, priest
1947 - Giorgio Chinaglia, Carrara Italy, soccer star (Lazio of Italy, NY Cosmos), (d. 2012)
1947 - Warren Zevon, Chicago, rocker (Excitable Boy)
1947 - Masashi Ozaki, Japanese golfer
1948 - Elliott Abrams, asst secretary of state/supplied arms to the Contras
1948 - Michael Des Barres, British actor and rock singer
1949 - Bart Gordon, (Rep-D-TN, 1985- )
1949 - John Belushi, Chicago Ill, comedian/actor (SNL, Blues Brothers)
1950 - Daniel Auteuil, Algeria, actor (Elegant Criminal, Manon of Spring)
1950 - Benjamin Urrutia, Ecuadorian-born American writer
1951 - Yakov Smirnoff, Russia, comedian (It's a wonderful country)
1952 - William F Readdy, Quonset Point RI, astronaut (STS 42, 51, 79)
1953 - Brian Matthews, Phila, actor (Burning)
1954 - Jo Gartner, Austrian racing driver (d. 1986)
1955 - James Montgomery, US 100m swimmer (Olympic-3 gold-1976)
1955 - Julian Holland, rocker (Squeeze)
1956 - Hanne Krogh, Norwegian singer (Bobbysocks)
1956 - Lounès Matoub, a famous Berber Kabyle singer (d. 1998)
1957 - Adrian Edmondson, British comedian
1958 - Frank Ullrich, East Germany, world biathlon champion
1958 - Neil Allen, American baseball player
1958 - Jools Holland, British musician
1959 - David Mills, American author
1959 - Vic Reeves, English comedian
1961 - Nastassja Kinski, Berlin Germany, actress (Tess, Cat People)
1961 - Krasimir Mikhailov Stoyanov, Bulgaria, cosmonaut
1961 - Vince Russo, American writer
1961 - William Van Dijck, Belgian athlete
1962 - Sultan Zarawani, cricketer (United Arab Emirates capt 1996 World Cup)
1963 - Martyn Grimley, English field hockey player
1963 - Arnold Vanderlyde, Dutch boxer
1964 - Rob Dibble, Bridgeport Ct, pitcher (Cin Reds)
1964 - Ronnie McCann, Evander South Africa, Nike golfer (1993 Hawkeye-37th)
1965 - Ross MacDonald, Vancouver BC, star yachter (Olympics-96)
1965 - Carlos Saldanha, Brazilian film director
1966 - Kim Saiki, Inglewood CA, golfer (1994 Standard Register PING-13th)
1966 - Mike Forgeron, Main-A-Dieu Nova Scotia, rower (Olympics-96)
1966 - Jimeoin, Northern Irish comedian
1967 - Chris Warren, NFL running back (Seattle Seahawks)
1967 - Shannon Butler, South Lake Tahoe California, 10k runner
1967 - Phil LaMarr, American voice actor
1967 - John Myung, American musician (Dream Theater)
1968 - Mark Burmester, cricketer (Zimbabwe Test all-rounder in 3 Tests 1992)
1968 - Mary Lou Retton, Fairmont WV, gymnist (Oly-gold/2 silver/2 bronze-84)
1968 - Ross Powell, US baseball pitcher (Cincinnati Reds, Houston Astros)
1968 - Scott Mercier, Harbor City California, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1968 - Michael Kiske, German musician
1969 - Louise McPaul, Australian javelin thrower (Olympics-silver-92, 96)
1969 - Stephanie Romanov, actress (Teri Spencer-Models Inc)/model (Elite)
1969 - Hilmir Snær Guðnason, Icelandic actor
1970 - Chris Bartolone, hockey defenseman (Team Italy 1998)
1970 - Matthew Lillard, actor (Scream)
1971 - Cory Bailey, US baseball pitcher (Boston Red Sox)
1971 - Joe Panos, NFL guard/center (Philadelphia Eagles)
1971 - John Reece, WLAF/NFL cornerback (Amsterdam Admirals, Dallas Cowboys)
1971 - Saalman Raelyn, Fostoria Ohio, actress (Attack of 60' Centerfold)
1971 - Tonya Crowe, Long Beach California, actress (Olivia-Knots Landing)
1971 - Andrea Mackris, American television producer
1972 - Jay Walker, quarterback (Minnesota Vikings)
1972 - Joe Garten, WLAF center (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1972 - Raphael Graetz, WLAF linebacker (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1972 - Salima Davidson, Pittsburgh Penn, volleyball setter (Olympics-96)
1972 - Shannon Garrett, CFL defensive back (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1972 - Naoshi Mizuta, Japanese composer
1972 - Ulla Werbrouck, Belgian judoka and politician
1973 - Chris Ferraro, Port Jefferson, NHL right wing (Oly-94, NY Rangers)
1973 - Erik Gervais, Valleyfield Quebec, kayaker (Olympics-96)
1973 - Peter Ferraro, Port Jefferson, NHL right wing (Oly-94, NY Rangers)
1973 - Richard Aimonetto, hockey forward (Team France 1998)
1974 - Kristy Sargeant, Edmonton Alberta, ice pairs (1994 Skate Canada)
1974 - Layla Linn, Miss New Mexico USA (1996)
1974 - Tim Biakabutuka, running back (Carolina Panthers)
1974 - Ed Helms, American actor
1974 - Shii Ann Huang, American game show contestant
1975 - Danielle Connors, Miss Virginia USA (1996)
1975 - Rónald Gómez, Costa Rican footballer
1976 - Laure Belleville, Miss Universe-France (1996)
1976 - Shae-Lyn Bourne, Chatham Ontario, ice dancer (1995 World Champs-4th)
1976 - Shae-Lynn Bourne, Ontario, pairs skater (Bourne & Kraatz)
1976 - Cindy Pieters, Belgian cyclist
1977 - Lenka Cenkova, Trinec Czech, tennis star (1995 Futures-Vaihingen-GER)
1979 - Tatyana M Ali, NYC, actress (Sesame St, Fresh Prince of Bel Air)
1980 - Rocky Boiman, American football player
1980 - Nicole Marie Lenz, American actress
1981 - Travis Hanson, American baseball player
1983 - Shaun Maloney, Scottish footballer
1983 - Scott Speed, American race car driver
1984 - Witold Kiełtyka, Polish drummer (Decapitated) (d. 2007)
1984 - Scott Kazmir, American baseball player
1986 - Mischa Barton, English-born American actress
1986 - Raviv Ullman, Israeli-born American actor
1993 - Ashley Jade Stern, daughter of radio personality Howard Stern

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 24, 2013, 07:33:14 AM

This Day in History for 24th January


Famous Deaths

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3rd Roman Emperor Caligula (41)           British war time Prime Minister              First Black Supreme Court Justice
                                                                    Winston Churchill (1965)                         Thurgood Marshall (1993)


41 - Caligula, [G C Germanicus], Roman emperor (37-41), assassinated at 28 by Praetorian Guards.
         Known for his eccentricity and cruel despotism.
661 - Ali ibn Abu Talib, kalief of Islam (656-61), murdered
772 - Stephen III/IV, Catholic Pope (768-72), dies. (b. 720)
817 - Stefanus IV, Pope (816-17), dies
1125 - David IV of Georgia (b. 1073)
1336 - Alfonso IV, the Benignant, King of Aragon (1327-36), dies at 36
1376 - Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel, English military leader
1473 - Conrad Paumann, German blind organist/composer, dies
1547 - Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, executed for treason
1595 - Ferdinand II of Austria (b. 1529)
1626 - Samuel Argall, English adventurer and naval officer (b. 1580)
1639 - George Jenatsch, Grisons leader, assassinated
1666 - Johann Andreas Herbst, composer, dies at 77
1678 - Joan Maetsuyker, gov-gen of Neth East-Indies, dies at 72
1709 - George Rooke, English admiral (b. 1650)
1769 - François de Chevert, French general (b. 1695)
1805 - Giacomo Conti, composer, dies at 50
1812 - Eligio Celestino, composer, dies at 72
1851 - Gaspare Luigi Pacifico Spontini, Italian composer, dies at 76
1856 - Rabbi Yechezkel of Kuzmir, Polish Hasidic leader (b. 1775)
1862 - James McIntosh, US confederate brig-gen, dies in battle at about 33
1864 - Otto Jonas Lindblad, composer, dies at 54
1864 - Stephen Gardner Champlin, brig-general (Union), dies at about 36
1877 - Johann Christian Poggendorff, German physicist (b. 1796)
1882 - Levi Boone, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1808)
1883 - Friedrich von Flotow, German baron/composer, dies at 70
1884 - Johann Christian Gebauer, composer, dies at 75
1885 - Martin R Delany, politician & black nationalist, dies at 72
1895 - Lord Randolph Churchill, British politician (b. 1849)
1901 - Simon Hassler, composer, dies at 68
1904 - Franz Coenen, composer, dies at 77
1911 - Carl Eilhardt, composer, dies at 67
1911 - David Graham Phillips, American journalist and novelist (b. 1867)
1913 - Gustav Luders, composer, dies at 47
1918 - George Arthur Crump, Founder of the Pine Valley Golf Club in Clementon NJ (b. 1871)
1924 - Thephilo Braga, Portuguese poet/politician, dies at 80
1924 - Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (b. 1894)
1929 - Willem Royaards, theater directeor (Adam in Ballingschap), dies
1932 - Alfred Yarrow, English shipbuilder (b. 1842)
1939 - Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician and nutritionist (b. 1867)
1940 - Emile van Bosch, revue/operetta-artist, dies at 52
1943 - John Burns, English minister of Local Government (1905-14), dies
1947 - Felix Timmermans, writer/painter (Gift from St Nicholas), dies at 60
1948 - Maria Mandel, Camp Leader at Auschwitz (b. 1912)
1948 - Arthur Liebehenschel, Commandant at Auschwitz concentration camp (b. 1901)
1950 - Bull Montana, actor (Son of Sheik), dies at 62
1953 - [Karl R] Gerd von Rundstedt, gen-field marshal (Normandy), dies at 77
1955 - Ira Hayes, American World War II hero (b. 1923)
1957 - Daniel Taylor, cricketer (bro of Herbie, 2 Tests for S Af 1914), dies
1960 - John Miljan, actor (Charlie Chan in Paris, Yankee Clipper), dies at 66
1961 - Willem J M van Eysinga, people rights scholar, dies at 82
1961 - Alfred Carlton Gilbert, American swimmer and inventor (b. 1884)
1962 - Tom Shirley, actor/TV announcer (They're Off), dies at 62
1962 - Stanley Lord, captain of the SS Californian the night of the Titanic disaster (b. 1877)
1965 - Winston Churchill, PM of Britain (C) (1940-45, 51-55), dies at 90
1966 - Homi J. Bhabha, Indian physicist (b. 1909)
1967 - Howard Charles Shaiffer, entertainer, dies at 49
1969 - Pauline Hall, composer, dies at 78
1969 - Tom Zachary, baseball pitcher (Wash Senators), dies at 72
1970 - James "Shep" Shepherd, rocker (Shep & Limelites), beaten to death
1970 - Caresse Crosby, American poet (b. 1891)
1971 - Bill W., American co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (b. 1895)
1972 - Jerome Cowan, actor (Mr Dithers-Blondie), dies at 74
1973 - Alan Lisette, cricketer (took 3 wickets in 2 Tests for NZ 1956), dies
1973 - J Carrol Naish, actor (Charlie Chan-Adv of Charlie Chan), dies at 73
1973 - Masao Ohba, world champion Japanese boxer (b. 1949)
1975 - Larry Fine, actor (3 Stooges), dies at 72
1978 - Herta Oberheuser, German doctor (b. 1911)
1979 - Jerry Damon, comedian (That Was The Week That Was), dies at 51
1979 - Mabel Taliaferro, actress (My Love Come Back), dies at 91
1982 - Alfredo Ovando Candía, Bolivian president and dictator (b. 1918)
1983 - George Cukor, director, dies of stroke & heart attack at 83
1986 - Gordon MacRae, singer (Oklahoma, Carousel), dies at 64
1986 - L[aFayette] Ron[ald] Hubbard, author (Death Quest), dies at 74
1986 - Flo Hyman, American volleyball player (b. 1954)
1988 - Charles Glenn King, biochemist (discovered vitamin C), dies at 91
1988 - Werner Fenchel, German mathematician (b. 1905)
1989 - Ted Bundy, serial killer of up to 100 women, executed in Florida at 42
1989 - George Knudson, Canadian golfer (b. 1937)
1990 - Madge Bellamy, actress (White Zombie), dies at 87
1991 - George Gobel, comedian, dies of a heart attack at 71
1991 - Lawrence Lott, actor (Real Men, Phila Experiment), dies of AIDS at 40
1991 - John M. Kelly, Irish politician and academic (b. 1931)
1992 - Charles Moulin, French actor (French Tarzan), dies
1992 - John Bleifer, actor (Highway to Heaven), dies at 90
1992 - Tina Chow, model, dies of AIDs at 41
1992 - Ricky Ray Rector, American murderer (b. 1950)
1993 - Thurgood Marshall, 1st black supreme court justice (1967-91), dies 84
1993 - Ugur Mumcu, Turkish journalist (Cumhuriyet Murder), dies
1994 - Michalis Vranopoulos, head of Greek state bank, murdered at 48
1995 - Ian Prestt, English ornithologist, dies at 65
1995 - Victor Reinganum, artist, dies at 87
1995 - Wim H Sinnige, Amsterdam PvdA alderman of Finance, dies at 60
1996 - Sandor Iharos, athlete, dies at 65
1996 - Ursula Heathcote Nicholls, campaigner, dies at 75
1997 - Callum Alexander MacDonald, historian, dies at 49
1998 - Jay Monahan, husband of Katie Couric, dies of cancer at 42
2000 - Bobby Duncum, Jr., American professional wrestler (b. 1965)
2002 - Elie Hobeika, Lebanese Forces militia commander (b. 1956)
2002 - Peter Gzowski, Canadian broadcaster, writer and reporter (b. 1934)
2003 - Gianni Agnelli, Italian auto executive (b. 1921)
2004 - Leônidas da Silva, Brazilian footballer (b. 1913)
2005 - June Bronhill, Australian singer (b. 1929)
2005 - Vladimir Savchenko, Ukrainian writer (b. 1933)
2005 - Chalkie White, English rugby union coach (b. 1929)
2006 - Fayard Nicholas, American tap dancer, one-half of The Nicholas Brothers (b. 1914)
2006 - Schafik Handal, Salvadoran politician
2006 - Chris Penn, American actor (b. 1965)
2007 - Krystyna Feldman, Polish actress (b. 1916)
2007 - Guadalupe Larriva, Ecuadorian politician (b. 1956)
2007 - Emiliano Mercado del Toro, World's Oldest Military Veteran (b. 1891)
2008 - Randy Salerno, co-anchor of Chicago's CBS 2 News (b. 1963)
2009 - Reg Gutteridge, British Boxing Journalist (b. 1924)
2009 - Kay Yow, North Carolina State Univ. women's basketball head coach (b. 1942)
2009 - Gérard Blanc, French singer (b. 1947)
2010 - Pernell Roberts, American actor & singer, last surviving star of Bonanza (b. 1928)
2011 - Bernd Eichinger, German film producer and director (b. 1949)
2011 - Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, Indian Musician, Bharat Ratna Laureate (b. 1922)
2012 - James Farentino, American actor, dies from heart failure at 73
2012 - Patricia Neway, American opera and musical theatre singer, dies at 83

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 25, 2013, 06:52:10 AM

This Day in History for 25th January


Historical Events

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Russian Tsar Peter the Great                      Inventor Thomas Edison                 First Inventor Alexander Graham Bell

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US President John F. Kennedy                  Animator Walter Elias Disney                     264th Pope John Paul II

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Singer Whitney Houston                          New York Yankees Owner                      Tennis Star Martina Hingis
                                                                     George Steinbrenner


41 - After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman Emperor by the Senate.
1139 - Godfried II the Young becomes duke of Brabant
1327 - King Edward III accedes to British throne
1348 - Earthquake destroys Villach, killing 5,000
1494 - Alfonso II replaces his father as king of Naples
1554 - Sir Thomas Wyatt gathers an army in Kent, rebels against Queen Mary
1554 - Founding of São Paulo city, Brazil.
1565 - Battle at Talikota India: Moslems destroy Vijayanagar's army
1573 - Battle of Mikatagahara, in Japan; Takeda Shingen defeats Tokugawa Ieyasu.
1579 - Treaty of Utrecht signed, marks beginning of Dutch Republic
1721 - Czar Peter the Great ends Russian-orthodox patriarchy
1755 - Moscow University established on Tatiana Day.
1775 - Americans drag cannon up hill to fight British (Gun Hill Road, Bronx)
1787 - Shays' Rebellion suffers a setback when debt-ridden farmers, led by Capt Daniel Shays, fail to
          capture an arsenal at Springfield, Mass
1792 - The London Corresponding Society is founded.
1799 - 1st US patent for a seeding machine, Eliakim Spooner, Vermont
1802 - Napoleon elected president of Italian (Cisalpine) Republic
1817 - Rossini's opera "La Cenerentola" premieres in Rome
1825 - 1st US engineering college opens, Rensselaer Polytechnic, Troy, NY
1835 - Vincenzo Bellini's opera "I Puritani," premieres in Paris
1844 - Recontre between Reps Weller & Shriver, US House of Representative
1854 - Aleksandr Ostrovsky's "Bednost ne Porok," premieres in Moscow
1856 - Battle of Seattle; skirmish between settlers & Indians
1858 - Mendelssohn's "Wedding March" 1st played, at wedding of Queen Victoria's daughter Princess
           Victoria, to crown prince of Prussia
1863 - Battle of Kinston, NC
1863 - General Joseph Hooker replaces Burnside as head of Army of Potomac
1865 - CSS Shenandoah arrives in Melbourne, Australia
1870 - Soda fountain patented by Gustavus Dows
1875 - Anti-slavery society forms (NY)
1877 - Congress determines presidential election between Hayes-Tilden
1879 - The Bulgarian National Bank is founded.
1881 - Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
1882 - Bilu, a Russian Zionist organization, forms
1885 - Vincent d'Indy's "Saugefleurie," premieres
1890 - National Afro-American League forms in Chicago
1890 - Nellie Bly beats Phileas Fogg's time around world by 8 days (72 days)
1890 - United Mine Workers of America forms
1894 - James J Corbett KOs Charley Mitchell in 3 for heavyweight boxing title
1902 - Aleksandr Skriabin's 2nd Symphony in C premieres in St Petersburg
1904 - 179 die in coal mine explosion at Cheswick, Pennsylvania
1904 - J M Synge's "Ruders to the Sea," premieres in Dublin
1905 - Largest diamond, Cullinan (3106 carets), found in South Africa
1906 - Del Valle Inclans "El Marqués de Bradomin," premieres in Madrid
1907 - Julia Ward Howe is 1st woman elected to Natl Inst of Arts & Letters
1908 - John Blockx' opera "Baldie" premieres in Antwerp
1909 - Richard Strauss' premier of "Elektra" in Dresden
1910 - 1st stumping by a 12th man in Tests (N C Tufnell, SAf v Eng)
1910 - Children initiate idea of planting trees in Jerusalem
1915 - Alexander Graham Bell in NY calls Thomas Watson in SF
1915 - Giordano, Sardou & Moreau's opera "Madame Sans Gêne" premieres in NYC
1915 - Transcontinental telephone service inaugurated (NY to SF)
1916 - Montenegro surrenders to Austria-Hungary
1918 - Russia declared a republic of Soviets
1919 - Founding of League of Nations, 1st meeting 1 year later
1921 - Karel Capék's "RUR," premieres in Prague
1923 - NVV donates 100,000 gulden to mine workers of Ruhrgebied
1924 - 1st Winter Olympic games open in Chamonix, France
1929 - Bradman scores 340* for NSW v Victoria, 488 mins, 38 fours
1932 - 1st commencement exercises at Hebrew U in Jerusalem
1932 - Bradman scores 167 NSW v Victoria, 224 mins, 22 fours
1937 - 1st broadcast of "Guiding Light" on NBC radio
1937 - Miami-to-Tampa bus overturned in a canal, kills 13
1937 - Soap Opera "Guiding Light" premieres on radio
1938 - Ian Hay's "Bachelor Born," premieres in NYC
1939 - Earthquake hits Chillan Chile, 10,000 killed
1939 - Joe Louis KOs John Henry Lewis in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
1940 - Nazi decrees establishment of Jewish ghetto in Lodz Poland
1941 - Pope Pius XII elevates the Apostolic Vicariate of the Hawaiian Islands to the dignity of a
           diocese. It becomes the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu.
1942 - Lt General Rommels African corps reaches Msus
1945 - Dan Topping, Del Webb & Larry MacPhail purchase NY Yanks for $2.8 mil
1945 - Grand Rapids, Michigan becomes 1st US city to fluoridate its water
1945 - Japanese occupiers of Batavia arrest Indo-European youths
1945 - NY Yankees sold by Ruppert estate to Larry MacPhail, Dan Topping, &
1945 - West Africa 82nd division occupies Myohaung, Burma
1946 - Richard Strauss' "Metamorphosis," premieres in Zurich
1946 - United Mine Workers union rejoins American Federation of Labor
1949 - 1st Emmy Awards: Shirley Dinsdale & Pantomime Quiz (KTLA) win
1949 - 1st Israeli election - Ben-Gurion's Mapai party wins
1950 - 73°F (23°C) highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in January
1951 - UN begins counter offensive in Korea
1952 - Test debut of Richie Benaud, v West Indies at the SCG
1953 - WABI TV channel 5 in Bangor, ME (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 - Yuri Sergejev skates world record 500m in 40.9 sec
1955 - Jill Kinmont hits a tree & breaks her back in Snow Cup Ski Race
1955 - Russia ends state of war with Germany
1955 - US & Panama sign canal treaty
1955 - Columbia U scientists develope an atomic clock accurate to within one second in 300 years
1956 - 96.5 cm (38.0") of rainfall, Kilauea Plantation, HI (state record)
1957 - FBI arrests Jack & Myra Sobel, charged with spying for USSR
1959 - 1st transcontinental coml jet flight (American) (LA to NY for $301)
1959 - Pope John XXIII proclaims 2nd Vatican council
1961 - 1st live, nationally televised presidential news conference (JFK)
1961 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Naples Pro-Am Golf Tournament
1961 - Military coup in El Salvador
1961 - Walt Disney's "101 Dalmations" released
1964 - Beatles 1st US #1, "I Want to Hold your Hand" (Cashbox)
1964 - Echo 2, US communications satellite launched
1966 - WCMC (now WMGM) TV channel 40 in Wildwood, NJ (NBC) 1st broadcast
1968 - Risse St in Bronx named
1968 - Robert Anderson's "I Never Sang for My Father," premieres in NYC
1969 - US-North Vietnamese peace talks begin in Paris
1970 - Robert Altman's "M*A*S*H," premieres
1971 - Charles Manson & 3 women followers convicted of Tate-LaBianca murders
1971 - Himachal Pradesh becomes 18th Indian state
1971 - Military coup in Uganda under Gen Idi Amin Dada
1971 - Phila mint's 1st trial strike of Eisenhower dollar
1971 - WHMB TV channel 40 in Indianapolis, IN (IND) begins broadcasting
1972 - 25th NHL All-Star Game: East beats West 3-2 at Minnesota
1972 - 7' Ohio State center Luke Witte is stomped in face during a brawl in a game with Minnesota
1974 - Bulent Ecevit forms government in Turkey
1974 - Christian Barnard transplants 1st human heart without removal of old
1974 - Ray Kroc, CEO (McDonald's), buys SD Padres for $12 million
1975 - 10th hat trick in Islander history-Denis Potvin's 1st
1975 - Parliament disposes of premier sheik Mujib ur-Rahman
1976 - Surinder Amarnath scores 124 on Test debut Ind v NZ Auckland
1978 - Muriel Humphrey (D-Mn) appointed to fill late husband's Senate seat
1978 - Padres trade pitcher Dave Tomlin & $125,000 to Rangers for Gaylord Perry (He wins 1978 Cy
           Young Award)
1979 - 22.2-km Oshimizu railroad tunnel holed through, central Honshu, Japan
1979 - Pope John Paul II's 1st overseas trip as supreme pontiff
1980 - Bani Sadr elected president of Iran
1980 - Dutch government demands boycott of Olympics
1980 - Highest speed attained by a warship, 167 kph, USN hovercraft
1980 - Paul McCartney is released from Tokyo jail & deported
1981 - 52 Americans held hostage by Iran for 444 days arrived back in US
1981 - Mao's widow Jiang Qing sentenced to death
1981 - Superbowl XV: Oakland Raiders beat Philadelphia Eagles, 27-10 in New Orleans Superbowl
           MVP: Jim Plunkett, Oakland, QB
1982 - 9th American Music Award: Kenny Rogers win
1983 - China's supreme court commutes Chiang Ch'ing's death sentence to life
1983 - Infrared telescope satellite launched into polar orbit
1983 - Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie arrested in Bolivia
1985 - "Black & Blue," premieres in Paris
1985 - Test debut of Wasim Akram, v New Zealand at Auckland (2-105)
1986 - General Tito Okello's government flees Kampala Uganda
1987 - 75th Australian Mens Tennis: S Edberg beats Pat Cash (63 64 36 57 63)
1987 - Superbowl XXI: NY Giants beat Denver Broncos, 39-20 in Pasadena Superbowl MVP: Phil
           Simms, NY Giants, QB
1988 - 15th American Music Award: Anita Baker, Paul Simon & Whitney Houston
1988 - George Harrison releases "When We Was Fab"
1988 - Longest winless streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (15 games)
1988 - Ramsewak Shankar sworn in as pres of Suriname
1988 - VP Bush & Dan Rather clash on "CBS Evening News" as Rather attempts to question Bush
           about his role in Iran-Contra affair
1989 - Augusto Alcalde, 1st South American Zen teacher, receives Dharma Transmission
1989 - Michael Jordan scores his 10,000th NBA point in his 5th season
1989 - Yank owner George Steinbrenner meets with Pope John Paul II
1990 - Avianca Flight 52, runs out of fuel & crashes in Cove Neck NY, 73 die
1990 - Former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is transferred to a Miami jail
1990 - West-Europe's strongest hurricane
1990 - The Burns' Day storm hits northwestern Europe.
1990 - Honduras becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1991 - Brett Hull is 3rd NHLer to score 50 goals in less than 50 games (49)
1991 - Manuel Noriega is given access to assets frozen by US government
1991 - Mark Waugh scores ton in 1st Test Cricket innings, v England Adelaide
1991 - Soap opera "Generation's" last episode after a 2½ year run
1992 - 66th Australian Womens Tennis: Monica Seles beats M Fernandez (62 63)
1992 - Dan Jansen skates world record 500m in 36.41"
1992 - Hubble space telescope optics finds NGC3862/3C264
1993 - 20th American Music Award: Michael Jackson, Mariah Carey win
1993 - Puerto Rico adds English as its 2nd official language
1993 - Sears announces it is closing its catalog sales dept after 97 years
1993 - Five people were shot outside CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia resulting in two murders.
1994 - Australia beat South Africa 2-1 to win the World Series Cup
1994 - Mine fire at Asansol India, kills 55
1994 - US space probe Clementine launched
1994 - Accused of molesting a 13-year-old boy, Michael Jackson settles a civil lawsuit out of court
1995 - Jacques Santer succeeds Jacques Delors as chairman of Euro Committee
1997 - 71st Australian Womens Tennis: Martina Hingis beat Mary Pierce (62 62)
1998 - "Grease," closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 1,503 performance
1998 - "Patti LaBelle On Broadway," closes at St James Theater NYC
1998 - Britain's Queen Mother, 97, gets an emergency hip replacement
1998 - Helen Alfredsson wins Office Depot LPGA tournament
1998 - Spice Girl Victoria Adams (Posh) & soccer David Beckham get engaged
1998 - Superbowl XXXII: Denver Broncos beat Green Bay Packers 31-24
1998 - Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) suicide attack on Sri Lanka's Temple of the Tooth,
           killing 8 people injuring 25 others.
1999 - A 6.0 Richter scale earthquake hits western Colombia killing at least 1,000.
2001 - A 50-year-old Douglas DC-3 crashes near Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela killing 24
2002 - Wikipedia switches to the new version of its software ("Phase II") aka Magnus Manske Day.
2004 - Opportunity rover (MER-B) lands on surface of Mars.
2005 - A stampede at the Mandher Devi temple in Mandhradevi in India kills at least 258.
2006 - Three independent observing campaigns announce the discovery of OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb
            through gravitational microlensing, the first cool rocky/icy extrasolar planet around a main-
             sequence star.
2010 - Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 crashes into the Mediterranean Sea shortly after take-off from
           Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport, killing all 90 people on-board.
2011 - Egyptian Revolution of 2011 begins in Egypt, with a series of street demonstrations,
           marches, rallies, acts of civil disobedience, riots, labour strikes, and violent clashes in Cairo,
           Alexandria, and throughout other cities in Egypt.

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Post by: MysteRy on January 25, 2013, 06:53:45 AM

This Day in History for 25th January


Famous Weddings

1533 - England's King Henry VIII marries Anne Boleyn (approximate date), his 2nd wife

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 25, 2013, 06:59:40 AM

This Day in History for 25th January


Famous Birthdays

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Poet Robert Burns (1759)                        Author Virginia Woolf (1882)              Singer-songwriter Alicia Keys (1981)


749 - Leo IV, the Khazar, Byzantine emperor (775-80)
1037 - Su Tung-p'o, [J Sotoba], China, layman/poet/administrator [or Dec 19]
1477 - Anna de Bretagne, wife of Maximilian of Austria & Louis XII
1509 - Giovanni Morone, Italian theologist/diplomat/cardinal/"heretic"
1540 - Edmund Campion, London, saint/Jesuit martyr (Decem Rationes)
1615 - Govert Flinck, Dutch painter (Isaac blesses Jacob)
1626 - John van de Cappelle, Amsterdam, landscape painter
1627 - Robert Boyle, Ireld, physicist/chemist/author (experiments with color)
1634 - Gaspar Fagel, lawyer/pension advisor of Holland (1672-88)
1640 - William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire, English soldier and statesman (d. 1707)
1688 - Juraj Jánošík, famous Slovak outlaw (d. 1713)
1708 - Pompeo Girolamo Batoni, Italian painter
1736 - Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Turin, Italy, mathematician and astronomer
1739 - Charles François Dumouriez, French general (d. 1823)
1750 - Johann Gottfried Vierling, composer
1759 - Robert Burns, Alloway Scotland, poet (Auld Lang Syne), (d. 1796)
1766 - Hans CE Freiherr von Gagern, German advisor to Dutch king Willem I
1770 - Francis Burdett, British politician
1777 - Elias Canneman, Dutch liberal minister of Finance (1813-14)
1794 - François-Vincent Raspail, French chemist (d. 1878)
1796 - William McGillivray, Old Aberdeen, naturalist
1806 - Daniel Maclise, Irish painter
1814 - Francis Harrison Pierpont, governor (Union), died in 1899
1826 - Rembt T H P L A van Boneval Faure, Dutch MP
1834 - Pablo Hernandez Salces, composer
1839 - Seldon Connor, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1917
1841 - John Arbuthnot Fisher, Ceylon, 1st Baron Fisher/admiral of the fleet
1844 - Frederick E Kitziger, composer
1851 - Arne Garborg, Norwegian playwright (Bondestudentar)
1851 - Jan Blockx, Belgium, opera composer (Sea Bride princess of Herberg)
1858 - Giuseppi Radiciotti, composer
1858 - Kokichi Mikimoto, Japanese pearl farm pioneer (d. 1954)
1860 - Charles Curtis, (R) 31st US VP (1929-33)
1864 - Julije Kempf, Croatian historian and writer (d. 1934)
1866 - Emile Vandervelde, President (1900–1918) of the International Socialist Bureau and Minister
           of 3 Belgian governments (d. 1938)
1874 - Hewlett Johnson, [Red Dean of Canterbury], English bishop
1874 - [William] Somerset Maugham, Paris, British novelist/poet (Of Human Bondage)
1878 - Ernst Alexanderson, Swedish-born television pioneer (d. 1975)
1880 - Francis George Scott, composer
1881 - Emil Ludwig, German biographer (Diana, Son of Man)
1881 - Gustave Frederic Soderlund, composer
1882 - Virginia Woolf [Adeline] , London, author (Jacob's Room, To Lighthouse), (d. 1941)
1884 - Edward Kilenyi, composer
1885 - A J Else Mauhs, German/Dutch actress (Eline Vere, L'aiglon)
1885 - Kitahara Hakushū, Japanese poets and children's writers (d. 1942)
1886 - Wilhelm Furtwängler, German conductor (d. 1954)
1887 - Diego Valeri, Italian author/poet (Le Gaie Tristezze)
1889 - Vladimir Vladimirovich Scherbachov, composer
1891 - Dame Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, Britain, actress (Cleopatra)
1891 - William C Bullitt, 1st US ambassador to USSR
1896 - John Moores, British gambling magnate/multi-millionaire
1898 - Joachim Wach, German/US philosopher/sociologist (Understanding)
1899 - Ace Goodman, KC Mo, comedian (Easy Aces)
1900 - Mildred Dunnock, Balt, actress (Baby Doll, Nun's Story)
1900 - Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ukraine, genetist/writer (Mankind Evolving)
1900 - Yojiro Ishizaka, Japanese writer (d. 1986)
1901 - Eric Brown, architect
1901 - Martin De Alzaga, Argentine racing driver (d. 1982)
1902 - Gerard P M Knuvelder, Dutch literature historian (Vocation, Kitty)
1902 - Pablo Antonio, Filipino modernist architect (d. 1975)
1903 - "Sleepy" John Estes, rocker
1904 - Frans Goedhart, Dutch journalist/founder (Het Parool)
1908 - Lord Iliffe, English publisher (Coventry Evening Telegraph/Autocar)
1908 - W H V "Hopper" Levett, cricket keeper (England in 1 Test in Calcutta)
1910 - Harold Watkinson, politician/businessman
1910 - Hendrik Willem Hans Osieck, composer
1911 - Julia Frances Smith, composer
1912 - Lucius E Burch Jr, US lawyer/civil rights leader
1913 - Luis Marden, American photojournalist (d. 2003)
1915 - Michael Duane, educationalist
1917 - Ilya Prigogine, Russian scientist Nobel Laureate (d. 2003)
1917 - Jânio Quadros, Brazilian politician (d. 1992)
1918 - Ken Mayers, actor (Robbie Robertson-Space Patrol)
1918 - Ernie Harwell, American baseball sportscaster
1919 - Edwin Newman, NYC, newscaster/journalist/author (NBC-TV, Comment)
1919 - Patricia Louise Dalton, chair (Sherlock Holmes Society of London)
1921 - Alfred Reed, composer
1921 - Russell Reading Braddon, Australian author
1922 - Jules P de Palm, Antilles writer
1922 - Raymond Baxter, British TV host/author (Fast Lady)
1923 - Eva Zeller, writer
1923 - Rusty Draper, American country and pop singer (d. 2003)
1923 - Shirley Mason, American psychiatric patient (Commonly known as "Sybil") (d. 1998)
1924 - Lou "The Toe" Groza, AAFC, NFL tackle, kicker (Cleveland Browns)
1925 - Eric Dempster, cricketer (NZ slow bowl of mid-50's, bowling avg 109.5)
1925 - Giorgos Zampetas, Greek musician and songwriter (d. 1992)
1927 - Antonio Carlos Jobim, composer
1927 - Gregg Palmer, SF, actor (Scream, To Hell & Back)
1927 - Seung Sahn, zen teacher (Korean line)
1927 - Fernie Flaman [Ferdinand], Dysart, SK, CAN, Hall of Fame NHL player (Boston Bruins and
           Toronto Maple Leafs), (d. 2012)
1928 - Eduard Shevardnadze, Soviet Georgia, foreign minister of USSR (-91)
1928 - Jérôme Choquette, Quebec lawyer and politician
1930 - Tanya Savicheva, Russian diarist (d. 1944)
1931 - Dean Jones, Decatur Ala, actor (Ensign O'Toole, Company, Love Bug)
1931 - Harold Lloyd Jr, actor (Frankenstein's Daughter)
1931 - Paavo J Haavikko, finnish writer/poet/husband of Marja-Liisa Vartio
1931 - Stikkan, Stig Anderson, music entrepreneur
1933 - Corazon Aquino, 11th President of the Philippines
1934 - Elizabeth Allen, Jersey City NJ, actress (Laura-Bracken's World)
1935 - António Ramalho Eanes, 17th President of Portugal
1936 - Dan Schaefer, (Rep-R-CO, 1983- )
1936 - Diana Hyland, Cleve Hgts Ohio, actress (Peyton Place, 8 is Enough)
1937 - Don Maynard, NFL receiver (NY Jets), #13
1937 - Kathleen Tynan Halton, writer
1937 - Ange-Félix Patassé, President of the Central African Republic
1938 - Betico Croes, Arubian politician (Status Aparte)
1938 - Etta James [Jamesette Hawkins], Los Angeles, California, singer (Roll with Me, At Last), (d.
           2012)
1938 - Shotaro Ishinomori, Japanese manga author (d. 1998)
1938 - Leiji Matsumoto, sJapanese creator of anime.
1939 - Gabriel Romanus, Swedish politician
1941 - Elzie "Buddy" Baker, race-car driver
1941 - Gregory Sierra, American actor
1942 - Carl Eller, American football player
1942 - Eusébio, Portuguese footballer
1943 - Tobe Hooper, American film director
1944 - Anita Pallenberg, Italian model
1945 - Leigh Taylor-Young, Wash DC, actress (Peyton Place, Alice B Toklas)
1946 - Josephine M Verspaget, sociologist/Dutch MP (PvdA)
1946 - Ronnie Brandon, rocker (McCoys)
1946 - Silvio Blatter, writer
1947 - Tostão, Brazilian footballer
1947 - Ángel Nieto, Spanish motorcycle racer
1948 - Gueorgui Chichkine, Russian painter
1948 - Ros Kelly, Australian politician
1949 - John Cooper Clarke, English punk-poet
1950 - Gloria Naylor, US author (Women of Brewster Place)
1950 - Michael Cotton, rocker (Tubes)
1951 - Steve Prefontaine, Coos Bay Oregon, 5K (Olympics-4th-1972)
1952 - Sara Mandiano, French singer and songwriter
1952 - Timothy White, American journalist (d. 2002)
1953 - Malcolm Green, rocker (Split Enz-I Got You)
1953 - The Honky Tonk Man, American professional wrestler
1953 - Mark Weil, Uzbek theatre director (d. 2007)
1954 - Condredge Holloway, Alabama, CFL quarterback (Ottawa, Toronto)
1954 - Richard Finch, rock bassist (KC & Sunshine-That's the Way I Like It)
1954 - Ricardo Bochini, Argentinian footballer
1954 - Kim Gandy, American feminist
1956 - Andy Cox, rock guitarist (Fine Young Cannibals-She Drives Me Crazy)
1957 - Edmund Theodore Sylvers, rocker (Sylvers)
1957 - Jeff Gossett, NFL punter (Oakland Raiders)
1957 - Jenifer Lewis, actress (Girl 6, Meteor Man, Sister Act)
1957 - Martha Elizabeth Thomsen, Moses Lake Wash, playmate (May, 1980)
1957 - Eskil Erlandsson, Swedish politician
1957 - Andrew P. Harris, American politician
1958 - Dinah Manoff, NYC, actress (Elaine-Soap, Carol Weston-Empty Nest)
1958 - Gary Brian Tibbs, London, rock bassist (Adam & The Ants, Roxy Music)
1958 - Harti Weirather, Austrian alpine skier
1961 - Michele Tobin, Chicago Ill, actress (Fitzpatricks)
1961 - Vivian Balakrishnan, Singaporean politician
1962 - Chris Chelios, Chicago, NHL defenseman (Chicago Blackhawks, Team USA)
1963 - Carl Fysh, rocker (Brother Beyond-Can You Keep a Secret)
1963 - Joe Lloyd, Highland Park Ill, Canadian Tour golfer (1993 Space Coast)
1964 - Bob Sweeney, Concord, NHL center (NY Islanders, Calgary Flames)
1964 - Chip Foster, actor (Chip & Pepper's Surf's Up Saturday)
1964 - Pepper Foster, actress (Chip & Pepper's Surf's Up Saturday)
1964 - William Thomas Andrade, Fall River MA, PGA golfer (1991 Kemper Open)
1965 - Brian Holman, Winfield Ks, pitcher (Cin Reds, Seattle Mariners)
1965 - Esa Tikkanen, Helsinki FI, NHL left wing (Panthers, Canucks, Oly-B-98)
1966 - John [Vo] Velyvis, North Adams Mass, rower (Olympics-1996)
1966 - Mark Schlereth, NFL guard (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1966 - Paul Ranheim, St Louis, NHL left wing (Hartford Whalers)
1966 - Pavel Torgajev, Nizhnij Novgorod, NHL left wing (Calgary Flames)
1966 - Richie Lewis, US baseball pitcher (Florida Marlins)
1966 - Chet Culver, American politician, governor of Iowa
1967 - Mario Brunetta, hockey goaltender (Team Italy 1998)
1967 - Marty Calder, St Catharine ON, 62 kg freestyle wrestler (Oly-12-92,96)
1967 - Randy Mckay, Montreal, NHL right wing (NJ Devils)
1967 - Mark Bamford, American writer/director
1968 - Lynette Brooky, NZ, golfer (NZ Open 1993/94)
1968 - Roosevelt Collins, WLAF DL (Amsterdam Admirals)
1968 - Tim De Leede, cricketer (Holland batsman 1996 World Cup)
1969 - Heidi Wolfgramm, rocker (Jets)
1969 - Jesse Harte, Rome Ga, heavy metal vocalist (Southgang-Tainted Angel)
1969 - Nolan Harrison, NFL defensive tackle (Oakland Raiders, Pitt Steelers)
1969 - Penny Moore, WNBA guard/forward (Charlotte Sting)
1969 - Kina, American singer
1970 - Chris Mills, NBA forward (Cleveland Cavaliers, NY Knicks)
1970 - Milt Stegall, CFL receiver (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1970 - Pau Coll, WLAF kicker/safety (Barcelona Dragons)
1970 - Scott Hendrickson, CFL guard (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1971 - Herman Smith, NFL/WLAF defensive end (Tampa Bay Bucs, London Monarchs)
1971 - Jordan Young, Thunder Bay Ont, Canadian Tour golfer (1992 Purdue)
1971 - Kerry Taylor, US baseball pitcher (San Diego Padres)
1971 - Kevin Williams, receiver/kick returner (Az Cardinals, Dallas Cowboys)
1971 - Konstantin Matoussevich, Israel, Men's high jump (Oly-7th-1996)
1971 - Tommie Jones, WLAF cornerback (Amsterdam Admirals)
1971 - Vincent Brisby, NFL wide receiver (New England Patriots)
1971 - Luca Badoer, Italian race car driver
1971 - China Kantner, San Francisco, American actress and daughter of Grace Slick
1971 - Ana Ortiz, American actress and singer
1973 - Anthony Harris, linebacker (Miami Dolphins)
1973 - Elvis Presley Jr, alleged son of Elvis Presley
1973 - Marco Battaglia, tight end (Cincinnati Bengals)
1973 - Rodney Young, NFL safety (NY Giants)
1973 - Terrell Wade, Rembert SC, pitcher (Atlanta Braves)
1973 - Geoff Johns, American comic book writer
1973 - Chris Guy, American professional wrestler
1974 - Adam Meadows, offensive tackle (Indianapolis Colts)
1974 - Daniel Sproule, Australian field hockey halfback (Olympics-96)
1974 - Jonathan Bryan Colling, Boston, rocker (4 Fun-Unbelievable Fun Boys)
1974 - Robert Budreau, Canadian film director
1975 - John Piersma, US, 200m/400m freestyle swimmer (Olympics-4th-96)
1975 - Dat Phan, Vietnamese stand-up comedian
1975 - Mia Kirshner, Canadian actress
1975 - Tim Montgomery, American athlete
1976 - Tara Fleming, N York Ontario, LPGA golfer (1992 LPGA Corning-10th)
1976 - Mario Haberfeld, Brazilian racing car driver
1978 - Christine Lakin, actress (Alicia Lambert-Step by Step)
1978 - Mandy Carraway, Miss Kansas Teen USA (1996)
1978 - Denis Menchov, Russian cyclist
1978 - Jason Roberts, English-born footballer
1978 - Derrick Turnbow, Major League Baseball Player
1979 - Rodrigo Ribeiro, Brazilian racing driver
1979 - Pi Hongyan, French badminton player
1979 - Gabe Jennings, American distance runner
1980 - Amanda Michelle Burns, Miss West Virginia Teen USA (1997)
1980 - Xavi, Catalan Spanish footballer
1980 - Efstathios Tavlaridis, Greek footballer
1980 - Michelle McCool, American professional wrestler
1981 - Tose Proeski, Macedonian Singer (d. 2007)
1981 - Francis Jeffers, English footballer
1981 - Alicia Keys [Cook], New York NY, singer-songwriter (Fallin, Where Do We Go From Here)
1982 - Sho Sakurai, Japanese singer and actor
1982 - The-Dream, singer
1982 - Shawna Waldron, American actress
1983 - Andrée Watters, Canadian singer
1984 - Robinho, Brazilian footballer
1985 - Tina Karol, Ukrainian singer
1985 - Acie Law IV, National Basketball Association player
1986 - Chris O'Grady, English footballer
1986 - Shahriar Nafees, Bangladeshi cricketer
1987 - Maria Kirilenko, Russian tennis player
1988 - Tatiana Golovin, French tennis player
1989 - Sheryfa Luna, French singer

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 25, 2013, 07:06:30 AM

This Day in History for 25th January


Famous Deaths

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Gangster Al Capone (1947)


389 - Gregory Nazianzus, theologian and Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 329)
477 - Geiseric, King of the Vandals and Alans
844 - Pope Gregory IV
1067 - Emperor Yingzong of China (b. 1032)
1138 - Anacletus II, [Pietro Pierleone], Jewish anti-pope (1130-38), dies
1139 - Godfried I, with the Beard, duke of Brabant/earl of Leuven, dies
1366 - Henry Suso, German mystic
1431 - Charles II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1364)
1494 - Ferdinand I, cruel king of Naples, dies
1547 - Lieven Algoet, Flemish humanist, dies
1573 - Hirate Hirohide, Japanese samurai, dies at the Battle of Mikatagahara (b. 1553)
1586 - Lucas Cranach "the Young", German painter, dies at 70
1640 - Robert Burton, author (Anatomy of Melancholy), dies
1670 - Nicholas II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1612)
1726 - Guillaume Delisle, French cartographer (b. 1675)
1733 - Reinier V van Hompech, Dutch gen-maj cavalry, dies
1733 - Gilbert Heathcote, Mayor of London (b. 1652)
1744 - Domenico Natale Sarro, Italian opera composer, dies at 64
1751 - Paul Dudley, Attorney-General of Massachusetts (b. 1675)
1820 - Joseph F Weigl, German/Austria violin cellist, dies at 79
1821 - Johan Valckenier, Dutch politician/patriot, dies at 62
1829 - William Shield, composer, dies at 80
1852 - Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Russian explorer (b. 1778)
1855 - Dorothy Wordsworth, writer, dies at 83
1875 - Leopold Jansa, composer, dies at 79
1881 - Konstantin Thon, Russian architect (b. 1794)
1882 - Peter Singer, composer, dies at 71
1896 - Frans C Baeckelmans, Flemish architect (Court of Justice), dies at 68
1896 - Frederic Leighton, President of the Royal Academy (1878-96), dies
1899 - Alfredo d'Escragnolle, French/Brazilian writer (Innocencia), dies
1906 - Joseph Wheeler II, Confederate General, dies at 70
1906 - Pierre L Goossens, Belgian archbishop of Malines/Cardinal, dies at 78
1907 - René Pottier, French cyclist (b. 1879)
1908 - Mikhail Chigorin, Russian chess player (b. 1850)
1908 - Ouida, English writer (b. 1839)
1910 - Leon Walras, French economist (School of Lausanne), dies at 75
1917 - Edwin Tyler, cricketer (slow-lefty played once for England 1896), dies
1920 - Amadeo Modigliani, Italian sculptor/painter, dies at 35
1921 - Mykola Dmytrovich Leontovych, composer, dies at 43
1925 - Ivan Vucetic, Croatian anthropologist (b. 1858)
1940 - Elias Simojoki, Finnish clergyman and politician (b. 1899)
1942 - Eugene Samuel-Holeman, composer, dies at 78
1947 - Al Capone, Chicago gangster, dies of syphilis at 48
1949 - Emil Axman, composer, dies at 61
1949 - Makino Nobuaki, Japanese statesman　(b. 1861)
1952 - Sveinn Bjornsson, Danish 1st pres of Iceland (1944-52), dies at 70
1957 - Kiyoshi Shiga, Japanese physician and bacteriologist (b. 1871)
1957 - Ichizo Kobayashi, Japanese industrialist and Minister of Commerce and Industry (b. 1873)
1960 - Diana Barrymore, actress (Ladies Courageous), dies at 38
1960 - Rutland Boughton, composer, dies at 82
1963 - Wilson Kettle, Nfld, dies at 102, leaving 582 living descendents
1965 - Staff Nees, Flemish composer (Maria-oratorio), dies at 63
1968 - Virginia Maskell, actress (Only Two Can Play), dies at 31
1969 - Irene Castle, English dancer (b. 1887)
1970 - Eunice Hunton Carter, 1st black female DA in NY, dies at 70
1970 - Marie Benavente, actress (Paradise), dies at 84
1970 - Eiji Tsuburaya, Japanese television writer and producer (Ultraman) (b. 1901)
1972 - Erhard Milch, German field marshal (b. 1892)
1975 - Vivien Kellems, TV hostess (The Power of Women), dies at 78
1975 - Charlotte Whitton, Canadian politician, mayor of Ottawa (b. 1896)
1977 - Donald Kerr, actor (Devil Bat, Killer Bats), dies at 85
1978 - Tango Duke, dies in Australia at 42; oldest known thoroughbred horse
1979 - J Robertson Hare, actor (Fighting Stock), dies at 87
1980 - David Newell, actor (Dangerous Curves, White Heat), dies at 75
1980 - Queenie Watts, English actress (b. 1926)
1981 - Adele Marie Astaire, sister of Fred Astaire, dies at 82
1981 - Richard Talmadge, actor (Speed Reporter), dies
1981 - [Adele] Marie Astaire, actress (Last Man on Earth, Millie), dies at 82
1982 - Mihail A Suslov, Soviet party ideologist, dies at 79
1986 - Ernst Schnabel, writer, dies at 72
1986 - Horace Smith, cricketer (1 Test NZ v Eng 1933, one wkt at 113), dies
1987 - Emil Hlobil, composer, dies at 85
1988 - Colleen Moore, actress (These Girls Won't Talk), dies at 87
1990 - Alexander Lockwood, actor (Duel), dies
1990 - Ava Gardner, actress (Barefoot Contessa), dies of pneumonia at 67
1990 - Ian Dudley Hardy, entertainer, dies
1991 - Stanley Brock, actor (Tin Men), dies of heart attack at 59
1992 - John Touchstone, actor (Across Five Aprils), dies of cirrhosis at 59
1992 - Mahmoud Riad, sec-gen of Arab League (1972-79), dies
1992 - Nico Schuyt, Dutch composer, dies at 70
1992 - Vernon William Reed Sr, singer, dies after a long illness at 73
1994 - Stephen Cole Kleene, mathematician (Regular Expressions), dies at 85
1995 - Peter Black, TV critic, dies at 82
1995 - Tom Brugman, Dutch puppeteer (Brave Dodo), dies at 62
1995 - William Sylvester, actor (2001, Devil Doll, Blind Corner), dies at 72
1996 - Jonathan Larson, composer, dead Aortic aneurysm at 35
1996 - Ruth Berghaus, choreographer/director, dies at 68
1997 - Herbert Eugene Caen, columnist, dies at 80
1997 - Jean Dixon, psychic (Gift of Prophecy), dies of a heart attack at 79
1998 - Mohammad Yusuf Khan, prime minister of Afganistan in (1963-65), dies
1999 - Sarah "Sadie" Delany, American author (b. 1889)
1999 - Ted Mallie, American radio and television announcer (b. 1924)
1999 - Robert Shaw, American conductor (b. 1916)
2003 - Samuel Weems, Arkansas judge (b. 1936)
2004 - Fanny Blankers-Koen, Dutch athlete (b. 1918)
2004 - Miklós Fehér, Hungarian footballer (b. 1979)
2005 - Stanisław Albinowski, Polish economist and journalist (b. 1923)
2005 - William Augustus Bootle, American judge (b. 1902)
2005 - Philip Johnson, American architect (b. 1906)
2005 - Manuel Lopes, Cape Verdean writer and poet (b. 1907)
2005 - Ray Peterson, American singer (b. 1935)
2005 - Nettie Witziers-Timmer, Dutch athlete (b. 1923)
2006 - Anna Malle, adult film star (b. 1967)
2008 - Christopher Allport, American actor (b. 1947)
2008 - Evelyn Barbirolli,English musician (b. 1911)
2009 - Kim Manners, American television producer and director (b. 1951)
2010 - Ali Hasan al-Majid aka Chemical Ali, Iraqi defense minister and military commander (b. 1941)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 26, 2013, 01:43:00 PM

This Day in History for 26th January


Historical Events

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Classical music prodigy Mozart               Writer/Poet Oscar Wilde                          Versatile Athlete Jim Thorpe

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Spanish Dictator Francisco Franco               Singer Buddy Holly                        Singer & Cultural Icon Elvis Presley

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Singer/Actor Frank Sinatra                      Singer Whitney Houston                         Radio shock jock Howard Stern


66 - 5th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
1340 - English king Edward III proclaimed king of France
1500 - Vicente Yáñez Pinzón becomes the first European to set foot on Brazil.
1531 - Lisbon hit by Earthquake; about 30,000 die
1564 - The Council of Trent issued its conclusions in the Tridentinum, establishing a distinction
           between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism.
1589 - Job is elected as Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia.
1654 - Portuguese troops conquer last Dutch base on Recife
1666 - France declares war on England & Munster
1689 - Jean Racine's "Esther," premieres in Saint-Cyr
1697 - Isaac Newton receives Jean Bernoulli's 6 month time-limit problem, solves problem before
          going to bed that same night
1699 - Venice, Poland & Austria sign Treaty of Carlowitz with Ottoman Empire
1700 - The magnitude 9 Cascadia Earthquake took place off the west coast of the North America, as
           evidenced by Japanese records.
1736 - Stanislaus I of Poland abdicates his throne.
1748 - England, Netherlands, Austria & Sardinia sign anti-French treaty
1784 - Ben Franklin expresses unhappiness over eagle as America's symbol
1788 - Captain Arthur Phillip and british colonists hoist the English flag on Botany Bay, New South
           Wales, now celebrated as Australia Day
1789 - John Odell signs contract for £336 to build St Peter's church (Bronx)
1790 - Mozart's opera "Cosi Fan Tutte" premieres in Vienna
1797 - Russia, Prussia & Austria sign treaty
1802 - Congress passes an act calling for a US Capitol library
1808 - Rum Rebellion, the only successful (albeit short-lived) armed takeover of the government in
           Australia.
1833 - Gaetano Dinozetti's opera "Lucrezia Borgia," premieres in Milan
1837 - Michigan admitted as 26th US state
1838 - Tennessee enacts the first prohibition law in the United States
1841 - Hong Kong proclaimed a sovereign territory of Britain
1850 - 1st German-language daily newspaper in US published, NYC
1861 - Louisiana becomes 6th state to secede
1862 - Lincoln issues General War Order #1, calling for a Union offensive McClellan ignores order
1863 - American Civil War: Massachusetts Governor receives permission from Secretary of War to
           raise a militia organization for men of African descent (54th Massachusetts Regiment)
1870 - Virginia rejoins US
1871 - British Rugby Union forms
1871 - US income tax repealed
1875 - Electric dental drill is patented by George F Green
1881 - Union of Baptists Communities forms in Foxholl
1882 - France government of Gambetta falls
1884 - 1st Dutch Wagner version of Elizabeth aria
1885 - Muhammad Ahmed ("Mahdi") rebels conquer Khartoum
1886 - Karl Benz patents 1st auto with burning motor
1887 - Battle of Dogali: Abyssinian Emperor John IV defeats Italians
1891 - Oscar Wilde's "Duchess of Padua," premieres in NYC
1897 - Battle at Bida Gold Coast: British troops beat Nupe's army
1900 - Henrik Ibsen's "Naar vi Dode Vaaguer," premieres in Stuttgart
1905 - Arnold Schoenberg's "Pelleas und Melissande," premieres in Vienna
1905 - Han Yong-woon [Bongwan, Manhae] (1879-1944) ordained a monk in Korea
1905 - World's largest diamond, the 3,106-carat Cullinan, is found
1907 - 1st federal corrupt election practices law passed
1907 - J M Synge's "Playboy of Western World" opens; police are called
1907 - The Short Magazine Lee-Enfield Mk III is officially introduced into British Military Service, and
           remains the oldest military rifle still in official use.
1910 - Heavy rains cause floods in Paris
1911 - Glenn Curtiss pilots 1st successful hydroplane, San Diego
1911 - Richard Strauss's opera "Die Rosenkavalier" premieres, Dresden
1913 - Jim Thorpe relinquishes his 1912 Olympic medals for being a pro
1914 - 600 Dutch textile workers go on strike
1914 - Vatican puts Belgian Nobel winner Maeterlinck's works in their index
1915 - Rocky Mountain National Park, Colo established
1918 - Pres Hoover calls for "wheatless" & "meatless" days for war effort
1920 - Amadeo Modigliani's mistress jumps out of a window
1920 - Former Ford Motor Co. executive Henry Leland launches the Lincoln Motor Company which he
           later sold to his former employer.
1921 - Soccer team GVAV of Groningen Neth forms
1921 - Toronto St Pat Corb Denneny scores 6 goals vs Hamilton Tigers
1922 - Ralph Vaughan Williams' "Pastoral Symphony," premieres in London
1924 - Charles Jewtraw, US 500m skater, takes 1st Winter Olympics gold medal
1926 - Television 1st demonstrated (J L Baird, London)
1927 - Maxwell Anderson's "Saturday's Children," premieres in NYC
1929 - Indian National Congress proclaims goal for India's independence
1930 - Cleveland's Terminal Tower opens (52 stories)
1931 - Hungary-Austria sign peace treaty
1931 - Lynn Riggs' "Green Grow the Lilacs," premieres in NYC
1932 - British submarine M-2 sinks in Channel (60 dead)
1932 - KUT-AM in Austin Texas changes call letters to KNOW
1934 - Bradman scores 128 NSW v Victoria, 96 mins, 17 fours 4 sixes
1934 - Nazi Germany & Poland sign non-attack treaty for 10 years
1934 - The Apollo Theater reopens in Harlem, New York City.
1934 - German-Polish Non-Aggression Pact is signed.
1939 - Federal Hall National Monument established
1939 - Filming begins on "Gone With the Wind"
1939 - Franco conquers Barcelona
1940 - Nazi's forbid Polish Jews to travel on trains
1942 - 1st US force in Europe during WW II go ashore in Northern Ireland
1942 - Italian supreme command demands dismissal of German marshal Rommel
1945 - Soviet forces reach Auschwitz concentration camp
1947 - KLM Dakota crashes near Copenhagen, 22 die
1948 - Executive Order 9981, end segregation in US Armed Forces signed
1949 - WHIO TV channel 7 in Dayton, OH (CBS) begins broadcasting
1950 - India becomes a republic ceaseing to be a British dominion
1951 - Mel Ott & Jimmie Foxx elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1954 - Ground breaking begins on Disneyland
1956 - 7th Winter Olympic games open in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy
1956 - Buddy Holly's 1st formal recording session
1956 - Hank Greenberg & Joe Cronin are elected to Hall of Fame
1956 - Porkkala military base returned to Finland by USSR
1957 - Bernanos & Poulenc's opera "Dialogue des Carmelites," premieres
1957 - Dutch PSP, Pacifist Socialistic Party, forms
1957 - India annexes Kashmir
1957 - Joseph F Cairnes succeeds Lou Perini as Pres of Milwaukee Braves
1958 - H Laskow replaces Moshe Dayan on as Israeli minister of Defense
1958 - Jack Smith takes over for Art Baker as TV host of "You Asked for It"
1958 - Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Lake Worth Open Golf Invitational
1958 - Japanese ferry Nankai Maru capsized off southern Awaji Island, Japan, 167 killed.
1959 - Italy government of Fanfani resigns
1959 - KOKH TV channel 25 in Oklahoma City, OK (IND/PBS) begins broadcasting
1960 - High-school basketball sensation Danny Heater scores 135 points
1960 - Oakland enters AFL
1960 - Pete Rozelle elected NFL commissioner on 23rd ballot
1961 - "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" by Elvis Presley peaks to #1
1961 - 1st woman "personal physician to president"-JG Travell
1962 - Bishop Burke of Buffalo Catholic dioceses declares Chubby Checker's
1962 - Canadian Marine Service renamed Coast Guard
1962 - David Diamond's 7th Symphony, premieres in Philadelphia
1962 - US launches Ranger 3, misses Moon by 22,000-mi (37,000-km)
1962 - "Twist" is impure & bans it from all Catholic schools
1963 - "Milk & Honey" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 543 perfs
1963 - Major League Rules Committee votes to expand strike zone
1965 - South Vietnam milt coup under general Nguyen Khanh
1966 - Ard Schenk skates world record 1500m (2:06.2)
1966 - The Beaumont Children go missing from Glenelg Beach near Adelaide, South Australia.
1967 - USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR
1967 - Chicago Blizzard strikes with a record 23 inches of snow fall causing 800 buses and 50,000
           automobiles to be abandoned
1968 - Israeli submarine Dakar crashes in Mediterranean Sea, 69 die
1969 - "Red, White, & Maddox" opens at Cort Theater NYC for 41 performances
1970 - Pendleton, Ford & Cryer's "Last Sweet Days of Isaac," premieres in NYC
1971 - Charles Manson convicted of murder
1971 - Dutch 2nd Chamber accept law against limitation of war crimes
1972 - Stewardess Vesna Vulovic survives 10,160m fall without parachute
1973 - Belgium government of Leburton forms
1975 - Edward Albee's "Seascape," premieres in NYC
1976 - 6th AFC-NFC pro bowl, NFC wins 23-20
1976 - Belgium catholic elite start amnesty campaign for war criminals
1976 - David Mamet's "American Buffalo," premieres in NYC
1976 - Israel opens "Good Fence" to Lebanon
1976 - NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 23-20
1977 - Soviet figure skaters Sergei Shakrai & Marine Tcherkasova are 1st to perform a quadruple
          twist lift, Helsinki
1978 - Frank Herbert completes his novel "Destination: Void"
1978 - International Ultraviolet Explorer placed in Earth orbit
1978 - Mario Soares forms Portuguese government
1978 - Strikers riot in Tunisia, killing about 40
1979 - "Dukes of Hazzard" premieres on CBS's vast wasteland
1979 - Music Center Vredenburg opens in Utrecht Neth
1980 - 175,000 pay to hear FRANK SINATRA sing in Rio de Janeiro!
1980 - Islanders & Whalers play a NHL penalty-free game
1980 - Israel & Egypt establish diplomatic relations
1980 - Mary Decker became 1st woman to run a mile in under 4½ minutes
1981 - Sandeep Patil scores memorable 174 v Australia at Adelaide Oval
1982 - Islanders score 4 goals within 1:38, 5 within 2:37 vs Penguins
1982 - Mauno Koivisto elected president of Finland
1983 - Dutch/British infrared satellite IRAS launched from Calif
1984 - Nordiques' Michel Goulet scored on 9th penalty shot against Islanders
1984 - US navy exhibits Piasecki helistat-4 helicopters & a blimp able to lift 26 tons-Lakehurst, NJ
1985 - 42th Golden Globes: Amadeus wins
1985 - Edmonton Oiler Wayne Gretzky scores 50th goal in 49th game of season
1986 - Hein Vergeer becomes European skating champ
1986 - Val Skinner wins LPGA Mazda Golf Classic
1986 - Yoweri Museveni's rebel army conquerors Kampala Uganda
1986 - Superbowl XX: Chicago Bears beat NE Patriots, 46-10 in New Orleans Superbowl MVP:
           Richard Dent, Chicago, DE
1987 - 14th American Music Award: Whitney Houston, Lionel Richie & Alabama
1987 - Hart Foundation beat British Bulldogs for WWF tag team title
1988 - "Phantom of the Opera" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 4,000+ perfs
1988 - Australia's 200th anniversary-parade of tall ships in Sydney Harbor
1989 - "Black & Blue" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 829 performances
1989 - AT&T reports 1st loss in 103 years; $1.67 B in 1988
1989 - Allan Border takes 7-46 against the West Indies at the SCG
1989 - Madison Sq Garden announces 2-year $100 M renovation plan
1989 - Test debut of Mark Taylor, Australia v West Indies, Sydney
1989 - US computer security expert warns of catastrophic virus
1990 - Annular eclipse visible over Antarctica & South Atlantic
1990 - Boston Red Sox hires Elaine Weddington as asst GM (highest-ranking black female in a
           major-league front office)
1991 - "Few Good Men" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 497 performances
1991 - 65th Australian Womens Tennis: Monica Seles beats J Novotna (57 63 61)
1991 - Alfaro Vive guerrilla group of Ecuador gives arms to Catholic church
1991 - Houston guard Vernon Maxwell is 4th NBAer to score 30 pts in a quarter
1991 - Jan Stenerud becomes 1st pure placekicker to make NFL Hall of Fame
1991 - NY Lotto pays $90 million to nine winner (#s are 5-15-30-35-46-50)
1992 - "Little Hotel on the Side" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 41 perfs
1992 - 80th Australian Mens Tennis: Jim Courier beats S Edberg (63 36 64 62)
1992 - Americans with Disabilities Act went into effect
1992 - Superbowl XXVI: Wash Red Skins beat Buffalo Bills, 37-24 in Minn Superbowl MVP: Mark
           Rypien, Washington, QB
1993 - West Indies defeat Australia by one run in 4th Test at Adelaide
1995 - NJ Governor Christine Whitman, dedicates a rest stop to Howard Stern
1996 - "Les Miserables," opens at Musichall Theatre, Duisburg
1997 - "Ideal Husband" closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 308 performances
1997 - 85th Australian Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Carlos Moya (62 63 63)
1997 - Brunswick World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by John Gant
1997 - Superbowl XXXI: Green Bay Packers beat NE Patriots, 35-21 in New Orleans
1998 - 25th American Music Award: Spice Girls & Babyface win
1998 - Intel launches 333 MHz Pentium II chip
1998 - Pres Clinton says "I want to say one thing to the American people I did not have sexual
          relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky"
2001 - An earthquake hits Gujarat, India, causing more than 20,000 deaths.
2004 - President Hamid Karzai signs the new constitution of Afghanistan.
2004 - A whale explodes in the town of Tainan, Taiwan. A build-up of gas in the decomposing Sperm
           whale is suspected of causing the explosion.
2005 - Condoleezza Rice is sworn in as U.S. Secretary of State, becoming the first African American
           woman to hold the post.
2005 - Glendale train crash: Two trains derail killing 11 and injuring 200 in Glendale, California, near
           Los Angeles.
2006 - Western Union discontinues use of its telegram service.

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 26, 2013, 01:55:03 PM

This Day in History for 26th January


Famous Weddings

1940 - Actor Ronald Raegan (28) weds Academy Award-winning actress Jane Wyman (23) at the
          Wee Kirk o' the Heather church in Glendale, California
1990 - Boston Red Sox hires Elaine Weddington as asst GM (highest-ranking black female in a
           major-league front office)
2005 - Professional golfer champion Arnold Palmer (75) weds Kathleen Gawthrop in an intimate
          ceremony at a cottage on the beach at Turtle Bay Resort

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 26, 2013, 02:17:29 PM

This Day in History for 26th January


Famous Birthdays

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WW2 General                                            Hall of Fame rocker                              NHL all-time top scorer
Douglas MacArthur (1880)                         Eddie Van Halen (1955)                           Wayne Gretzky (1961)

1497 - Emperor Go-Nara of Japan (d. 1557)
1541 - Florent Chrestien, French writer (d. 1596)
1613 - Johann Jakob Wolleb, composer
1667 - Henricus Zwaardecroon, gov-gen of Neth-Indies
1708 - William Hayes, composer
1714 - Jean B Pigalle, French sculptor (Child with Bird Cage)
1715 - Claude Helvetius, Paris France, philosopher
1716 - George Sackville Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville
1722 - Prestonpans
1722 - Alexander Carlyle, Scottish church leader (d. 1805)
1742 - Johann Friedrich Ludwig Sievers, composer
1748 - Emmanuel Aloys Forster, composer
1763 - Charles XIV, French marshall, king of Sweden & Norway (1818-44)
1770 - Alexander Carlyle, Moderator of General Assembly
1771 - Jacob Andries van Braam, colonial director (Suriname)
1778 - Ugo Foscolo, Italian poet (Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis)
1781 - Ludwig Joachim "Achim" von Arnim, German poet (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)
1786 - Benjamin Robert Haydon, Plymouth, painter (Waiting for The Times)
1813 - Juan Pablo Duarte, Dominican founding father (d. 1876
1814 - Rufus King, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1876
1816 - Lloyd Tilghman, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1863
1819 - Abner Doubleday, Union general-major/inventor (baseball) [or Jun 26]
1826 - Julia Dent Grant, 1st lady (1862-76)
1828 - Johan T Buys, Dutch lawyer
1831 - Mary Mapes Dodge, NYC, writer (Hans Brinker & the Silver Skates)
1832 - George Shiras Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice (d. 1924)
1852 - Frederick Corder, composer
1852 - Pierre Brazza, explorer/colonial administrator (French Africa)
1855 - Arthur Hervey, composer
1857 - the 12th Dalai Lama (d. 1875)
1871 - Warner Fabian, [Samuel H Adams], US journalist/writer (Average Jones)
1877 - Kees van Dongen, Netherland, French painter
1878 - A W "Dave" Nourse, cricketer ("Grand Old Man" of South African cricket)
1879 - Ludovicus H [Lode] Baekelmans, Flemish (stage)author (Tille)
1880 - Douglas MacArthur, Little Rock Ark, general (WW II), he did return!, (d. 1964)
1884 - Edward Sapir, Germany, linguist/antropologist (indians)
1884 - Roy Chapman Andrews, US, scientist/explorer
1886 - Joannes A Veraart, Dutch economist/MP (Jews of the Netherlands)
1887 - Enrique E Ecker, Curacao, bacteriologist
1887 - Marc A "Pete" Mitscher, US lt-admiral (WW II-Task Force 58)
1887 - François Faber, Luxembourgian cyclist (d. 1915)
1891 - Ilya G Ehrenburg, Kiev Ukraine, writer (Fall of Paris, The Thaw)
1891 - Frank Costello, Italian-born gangster (d. 1973)
1891 - Wilder Penfield, American-born Canadian neurosurgeon (d. 1976)
1892 - Zara Cully, American actress (d. 1978)
1893 - Bessie Coleman, 1st black airplane pilot
1893 - Giuseppe Genco Russo, Sicilian mafioso (d. 1976)
1899 - Wyllis Cooper, Pekin Ill, TV narrator (Volume One)
1900 - Karl Ristenpart, German conductor (d. 1967)
1901 - Ervin Major, composer
1902 - Laurence "Bill" Craigie, jet pioneer
1902 - Menno ter Braak, Dutch writer/essayist (Carnaval of the Citizens)
1902 - Romney Brent, Saltillo Mexico, actor/writer (Dinner at the Ritz)
1904 - Douglas Evans, actor (South Pacific Trail)
1904 - Sean MacBride, Dublin, statesman/Amnesty Intl co-founder (Nobel '74)
1904 - Ancel Keys, American scientist (d. 2004)
1905 - Charles Lane, SF California, actor (Homer-Petticoat Junction, Lucy Show), (d. 2007)
1905 - John Carmel Heenan, Essex, cardinal archbp of Westminster (1963-75)
1905 - Maria Augusta von Trapp, Austria, singer, inspired "Sound of Music"
1905 - Marquess of Bath, English large landowner/multi-millionaire
1907 - Eddie Ballantine, Chicago, orchestra leader (Don McNeill TV Club)
1907 - Henry Cotton, English golfer (British Open 1934, 1937, 1948)
1908 - Stephane Grappelli, French jazz/violinist
1908 - Jill Esmond, English actress (d. 1990)
1910 - Elmar Klos, Czech director (Adrift)
1910 - Marijan Lipovsek, composer
1910 - Jean Image, Hungarian-born French animator (d. 1989)
1911 - Norbert Schultze, composer
1911 - Polykarp Kusch, US, nuclear physicist: Nobel 1955
1912 - Cora Baird, NYC, puppeteer (Kukla, Fran & Ollie)
1913 - Jimmy Van Heusen, songwriter (Love & Marriage)
1913 - William Prince, Nichols NY, actor (City in Fear, Cyrano de Bergerac)
1914 - Kaye Webb, English writer/publisher (Puffin Club)
1914 - Princess Hadice Hayriye Ayshe Dürrühsehvar (d. 2006)
1915 - William Hopper, NYC, actor (Paul Drake-Perry Mason)
1916 - Lothar Jensch, composer
1918 - Nicolae Ceausescu, Romanian president (1967-90)
1918 - Philip José Farmer, American writer
1919 - K C Ibrahim, cricketer (batted in 4 Tests India v WI 1948-49)
1920 - Derek Bond, Glasgow Scotland, actor (Nicholas Nickelby)
1920 - John Logan Gorlay, journalist
1921 - Akio Morita, Kasugaya Japan, CEO (Sony)
1921 - Frantisek Chaun, composer
1921 - Johannes Driessler, composer
1921 - Eddie Barclay, French producer (Barclay Records) (d. 2005)
1922 - Michael Bentine, England, author/comedian (Reluctant Jester)
1923 - Anne Jeffreys, NC, actress (Dick Tracy, Topper, General Hospital)
1924 - Warren Frank Benson, composer
1924 - Annette Strauss, American philanthropist and politician (d. 1998)
1924 - Alice Babs, Swedish singer
1925 - David Jenkins, Bishop (Durham)
1925 - Desmond Cassidi, British admiral
1925 - Joan Leslie, Detroit, actress (High Sierra, Yankee Doodle Dandy)
1925 - Paul Newman, Cleve, racer/popcorn mogul/actor (Hud, Hombre, Hustler)
1925 - Claude Ryan, Quebec newspaper editor (d. 2004)
1926 - Charles Tidbury, former chairman (Whitbread & Company)
1926 - Jose Maria Valverde, philosopher poet/translator
1926 - Ronnie Hilton, singer (Moonraker)
1926 - Farman Fatehpuri, Pakistani scholar
1927 - Jose Simon Azcona Hoyo, president of Honduras (1986-90)
1927 - William Redfield, NYC, actor (Jimmy Hughes Rookie Cop, Marriage)
1927 - Bob Nieman, American baseball player (d. 1985)
1928 - Eartha Kitt, SC, singer/actress (Catwoman-Batman)
1928 - Gene Snyder, (Rep-R-KY, 1963-65, 67- )
1928 - Philip Jose Farmer, Indiana, science fiction novelist (Riverworld)
1928 - Roger Vadim, France, director (And God Created Women, Barbarella)
1929 - Jules Feiffer, NYC, cartoonist (Passionella)/author (Little Murders)
1929 - M R Turner, publisher
1929 - Gordon Solie, American wrestling commentator (d. 2000)
1930 - A N Solomons, chairman (Singer & Friedlander)
1930 - Anne Macfarlane, Master (Court of Protection)
1930 - Harry "Buddy" Melges Jr, Wisc, yachter (Oly-gold/bronze-1964, 72)
1931 - Mary Murphy, Wash DC, actress (A Man Alone, Maggie-Investigators)
1932 - Christopher Price, Director (Leeds Metropolitan U)
1932 - George H Clements, first Roman Catholic Priest to adopt a child.
1932 - Ronald Allison, British author/broadcaster
1932 - Coxsone Dodd, Jamaican record producer
1933 - Ercole Baldini, Italian cyclist
1934 - Huey "Piano" Smith, pianist (Having a Good Time)
1934 - Roger Landry, Quebec businessman and newspaper publisher
1935 - Bob Uecker, Milwaukee Wisc, catcher/actor (Mr Belvedere)
1935 - Henry Jordan, Emporia Va, NFL defensive tackle (Cleveland, Green Bay)
1935 - Peter Ronnefeld, composer
1935 - Zbigniew Penherski, composer
1936 - Noel Harrison, London, singer/actor (Mark-Girl from UNCLE)
1936 - Sal Buscema, American comic book artist
1937 - Gerrit Gerritse, Dutch MP (CDA)
1937 - Joseph Saidu Momoh, gen/president (Sierra Leone)
1937 - S J B Langdale, Headmaster (Shrewsbury School)
1938 - Margaret Daly, British MEP
1939 - Marshall Lieb, rocker (Teddy Bears)
1941 - Henry Jaglom, London England, actor (Eating, Lucky Ducks, Always)
1941 - Scott Glenn, Pittsburgh, actor (Right Stuff, Personal Best, Backdraft)
1942 - Nigel Walmsley, chairman (Carlton UK Television)
1942 - William McLennan, CEO (Central Statistical Office)
1942 - Souad Hosni, Egyptian actress (d. 2001)
1943 - Jean Knight, vocalist (Mr Big Stuff)
1943 - Peter Kenton Winkler, composer
1943 - Sherian Grace Cadoria, brigadier general
1943 - César Gutiérrez, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 2005)
1944 - Angela Yvonne Davis, black activist/professor
1945 - Mick Hill, cricketer (NSW all-rounder 1964-75)
1945 - Jacqueline du Pré, English cellist (d. 1987)
1946 - Christopher Hampton, Azores, playwright (Oviri, Hotel du Lac)
1946 - Gene Siskel, movie critic (Siskel & Ebert)
1946 - Timothy Clifford, director (National Galleries of Scotland)
1947 - Patrick Dewaere, [PJMH Bordeaux], France, actor (Les Valseuses)
1947 - Michel Sardou, French singer
1948 - Corky Laing, rocker (Mountain)
1949 - Derek Holt, rocker (Climax Blues Band)
1949 - Paul Nurse, dr/director-general elect (Imperial Cancer Research Fund)
1949 - Jonathan Carroll, American author
1950 - David Strathairn, actor (LA Confidential, Eight Men Out)
1950 - Jorg Haider, Austrian polical leader (Austrian Freedom Pary)
1950 - Janet Lupo, American model
1951 - Andy Hummell, Memphis Tn, rock bassist (Big Star)
1951 - David Briggs, rock guitarist (Little River Band-Help is on it's Way)
1951 - Jarmila Kratochvilova, Czech, 400m/800m runner (Olympic-silver-1980)
1951 - Walt Willey, Ottawa Ill, actor (Jackson Montgomery-All My Children)
1952 - Mario Runco Jr, Bronx NY, Lt Cmdr USN/astronaut (STS 44, 54, 77)
1952 - Thomas Edward Henderson, SC, basketballer (Olympic-silver-1972)
1953 - Andree C van Es, Dutch MP (PSP)
1953 - Bert Heerink, Amsterdam, rock vocalist
1953 - Lucinda Williams, singer
1953 - Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Prime Minister of Denmark
1954 - Kim Hughes, cricketer (brilliant Australian batsman 1977-84)
1954 - Martin Dunn, British editor (Today)
1955 - Lucia Mendez, Mexico, spanish singer (Lucia es Luna Moreno)
1955 - Eddie Van Halen, Nijmegan Neth, rock guitarist (Van Halen-Jump, 1984)
1956 - Lisa Boray, [Schulte Nordholt], Dutch singer (Lovers Until the End)
1956 - Simon Howard, English large landowner (Castle Howard)
1957 - Ashok Malhotra, cricketer (Indian batsman in 7 Tests 1982-84)
1957 - Shivlal Yadav, cricketer (Indian off-spinner 102 Test wickets 1979-87)
1958 - Anita Baker, Toledo Oh, singer (Giving You the Best That I Got)
1958 - B James Lowry, rocker (Boys Band)
1958 - Dave Rummells, Cedar Rapids IA, Nike golfer (1993 Buick-2nd)
1958 - Ellen DeGeneres, New Orleans LA, comediene (Ellen Morgan-Ellen)
1958 - Norman Lamont Hassan, British reggae musician (UB40-Red Red Wine)
1958 - Salvador Sánchez, Mexican boxer
1960 - Gary Plummer, NFL linebacker (San Diego Chargers, SF 49ers)
1960 - Jeanette Bolden, LA California, 4x100m runner (Olympic-gold-1984)
1960 - Road Warrior Animal, American professional wrestler
1960 - Charlie Gillingham, American musician (Counting Crows)
1961 - Wayne Gretzky, Brantford Ont, NHL great scorer (Oiler, King, Rangers)
1962 - Roshan Guneratne, cricketer (wicketless in only Test SL v Aust 1983)
1962 - Tim May, cricketer (Australian off-spinner 1987-95)
1962 - Tom Keifer, rock guitarist/vocalist (Cinderella-Heartbreak Station)
1962 - Oscar Ruggeri, Argentine footballer
1963 - Andrew Ridgeley, England, rock guitarist (Wham-Wake Me Up)
1963 - Jazzie B, [Beresford Romeo], English rapper (Soul II Soul-Feel Free)
1963 - Simon O'Donnell, cricketer (Deniliquin NSW ODI all-rounder 1985-90)
1963 - José Mourinho, Portuguese football manager
1964 - Paul Johansson, American actor
1965 - Allison Hossack, Manitoba, actress (Olivia-Another World)
1965 - Lou Frazier, US baseball outfielder (Montreal Expos)
1965 - Tim McDonald, safety (San Francisco 49ers)
1965 - Natalia Yurchenko, Soviet gymnast
1965 - Thomas Östros, Swedish politician
1967 - Jeff Branson, US baseball infielder (Cincinnati Reds)
1967 - Katie Peterson-Parker, Bethesda MD, LPGA golfer (1995 Oldsmobile-5th)
1967 - Tim Pugh, Lake Tahoe CA, pitcher (Cincinnati Reds, KC Royals)
1967 - Pradip Somasundaran, Indian playback singer
1968 - Eric Davis, NFL cornerback (SF 49ers, Carolina Panthers)
1968 - Reggie Jordan, NBA guard (Minn Timberwolves)
1968 - Ravi Teja, Tollywood film actor
1970 - Dan Carlson, US baseball pitcher (SF Giants)
1970 - Dean Malkoc, Vancouver, NHL defenseman (Vancouver Canucks)
1970 - Ronald Moore, NFL running back (NY Jets, St Louis Rams, Az Cardinals)
1970 - Kirk Franklin, American singer
1971 - Jon Heidenreich, WLAF G (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1971 - Lamar Mills, WLAF DE (Amsterdam Admirals)
1971 - Lee Naylor, Australian 400m runner (Olympics-96)
1971 - Min Tang, Hunan China, tennis star (1995 Futures-Canberra AUS)
1971 - Bryan Callen, American actor
1971 - Dorian Gregory, American actor
1972 - Harrison Houston, NFL wide receiver (Chic Bears)
1973 - Mark Brook, WLAF LB (Rhein Fire)
1973 - Tatsuki Katayama, hockey defenseman (Team Japan 1998)
1973 - Tony Ramirez, tackle (Detroit Lions)
1973 - Mayu Shinjo, Japanese mangaka
1974 - Shannon Hale, American author
1976 - Paul Byrne, Australian 800m ruuner (Olympics-96)
1976 - Frankie Rayder, American model
1976 - Willie Adler, American guitar player
1977 - Cindy Cesar, Miss Mauritius Universe (1997)
1977 - Justin Gimelstob, NJ, tennis star (1994 doubles USTA Bakersfield)
1977 - Vince Carter, American basketball player
1978 - Reesa Starr Jr
1978 - Estéban Germán, Dominican baseball player
1978 - Corina Morariu, American tennis player
1978 - Kelly Stables, American actress
1979 - Sara Rue, American actress
1981 - Juan Jose Haedo, Argentinian Cyclist
1984 - Iain Turner, Scottish footballer
1984 - Luo Xuejuan, Chinese swimmer
1984 - Layla Kayleigh, British television personality
1986 - Gerald Green, American basketball player
1986 - Matt Heafy, American musician (Trivium)
1986 - Shantelle Taylor, Canadian professional wrestler
1987 - Vladimir Garin, Russian actor (d. 2003)
1988 - Mia Rose, British-Portuguese singer
1989 - Emily Hughes, American figure skater
1990 - Christopher Massey, American actor
1993 - Cameron Bright, Canadian actor
1997 - Pasaye, Palatine Ill, twin born 92 days after his brother (Oct 26)
2009 - Suleman octuplets

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 26, 2013, 02:27:58 PM

This Day in History for 26th January


Famous Deaths

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Director Victor Fleming (1949)            NYC Gangster Charles Luciano (1962)


946 - Eadgyth, German Queen
1109 - Albericus of Côteaux, French saint, dies
1567 - Nicholas Wotton, English diplomat
1630 - Henry Briggs, English mathematician (b. 1556)
1636 - Jean Hotman, Marquis de Villers-St-Paul, French diplomat (b. 1552)
1697 - Georg Mohr, Danish mathematician (b. 1640)
1706 - Guillaume Poitevin, composer, dies at 59
1744 - Ludwig Andreas Graf Khevenhüller, Austrian field marshal (b. 1683)
1750 - Albert Schultens, Dutch philologist (b. 1686)
1795 - Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, composer, dies at 62
1798 - Christian Gottlob Neefe, German organist/composer, dies at 49
1799 - Gabriel Christie, British general (b. 1722)
1803 - Georg von Pasterwiz, composer, dies at 72
1823 - Edward Jenner, English physician (b. 1749)
1824 - Théodore Géricault, French painter (b. 1791)
1849 - Thomas Lovell Beddoes, English poet (Death's Jest-Book), suicide at 45
1850 - Francis Jeffrey, Baron Jeffrey, judge/literary critic, dies
1855 - Gérard de Nerval, French writer (b. 1808)
1869 - Duncan Gordon Boyes, English recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1846)
1870 - Cesare Pugni, composer, dies at 67
1870 - Victor, 3rd duc de Broglie, French statesman and diplomat (b. 1785)
1885 - Charles George Gordon, Brit gov-gen (Sudan), executed at 51
1885 - Edward Davy, English inventor (b. 1806)
1886 - David Rice Atchison, American politician (b. 1807)
1891 - Nicholaus Otto, German auto pioneer (internal combustion engine), dies. (b. 1833)
1893 - Abner Doubleday, credit with inventing baseball, dies on 74th birthday
1895 - Arthur Cayley, mathematician, dies
1904 - John P R Tak, Dutch liberal politician, dies at 64
1904 - Whitaker Wright, English mining tycoon (b. 1846)
1911 - Charles Wentworth Dilke, English undersecretary of State, dies at 67
1920 - Matthias Enzberger, German minister of finance, murdered
1922 - Luigi Denza, composer, dies at 75
1926 - John Flannagan, 2nd president of St. Ambrose University
1932 - William K Wrigley, owner (Wrigley Gum, Chicago Cubs), dies
1933 - Alva Belmont, American socialite (b. 1853)
1939 - Armand Calinescu, Romania's PM, assassinated by the iron guard
1942 - Gerard L F Philips, Dutch manufacturer (Philips), dies at 83
1943 - Nikolai Vavilov, geneticist, Saratovv labour camp, dies
1943 - Harry H. Laughlin, American eugenicist (b. 1880)
1946 - Adriaan van Maanen, Dutch-American astronomer (b. 1884)
1947 - Grace Moore, American soprano/actress (One Night of Love), dies at 48
1947 - Gustav Adolf, crown prince of Sweden, dies in air crash
1948 - Ignaz Friedman, composer, dies at 65
1949 - Victor Fleming, director (Wizard of Oz, Gone With Wind), dies at 65
1950 - Betsy van den Arend, Dutch [Betje], actress (Miss Hobbs), dies at 78
1952 - Louis van Deyssel, Dutch writer (Diary of Franc Rozelaar), dies at 87
1952 - Khorloogiin Choibalsan, leader of Mongolia (b. 1895)
1953 - Martinus Nijhoff, Dutch poet/interpreter/linguist, dies at 58
1953 - Athanase David, French Canadian politician and businessman (b. 1882)
1954 - Carl J Eldh, Swedish sculptor, dies at 80
1961 - Morris Nichols, cricketer (41 wkts in 14 Tests for Eng 1930-39), dies
1962 - Charles "Lucky" Luciano, NYC Mafia gangster, dies at 65
1962 - Fran Lhotka, composer, dies at 78
1963 - John Sigvard Olsen, comedian (Olsen & Johnson), dies at 70
1965 - Ali Mansoer, premier of Persia, murdered
1967 - Albert Remy, actor (Blows), dies at 55
1967 - Kenneth Thomson, actor (White Gold), dies of emphysema at 68
1968 - Merrill C. Meigs, American newspaper publisher (b. 1883)
1968 - Yvor Winters, American poet (b. 1900)
1973 - Edward G Robinson, [Goldenberg], actor (Little Caesar), dies at 79
1973 - Meijer Sluyser, Dutch journalist/commentator (VARA), dies at about 71
1973 - Jay C. Higginbotham, American musician (b. 1906)
1974 - S v Vegesack, writer, dies at 85
1974 - Wiktor Labunski, composer, dies at 78
1975 - Lubov Orlova, actress (Moscow Laughs, Man of Music, Tanya), dies at 72
1976 - João Branco Núncio, Portuguese Bullfighter (b. 1901)
1977 - Margaret Hayes, actress (Robert Montgomery Presents), dies at 61
1978 - Leo Genn, actor (Lady Chatterley's Lover, Henry V), dies at 72
1979 - Nelson Rockefeller, former VP & (4X Gov-R-NY), dies at 70
1983 - Paul "Bear" Bryant, college football coach (Alabama), dies at 69
1985 - James Cameron, journalist, dies
1989 - Paul Daels, Flemish chairman (IJzerbedevaart committee), dies
1990 - FHP "Boy" Trip, Dutch minister, dies
1990 - Lewis Mumford, American historian (b. 1895)
1990 - Bob Gerard, British racing driver (b. 1914)
1991 - Johnny van Doorn, Dutch writer/poet, dies at 46
1992 - José Ferrer, Puerto Rican actor/director (Cyrano de Bergerac), dies at 80
1992 - Okke Jager, Dutch theologist/writer/poet, dies at 63
1993 - Axel Von Dem Bussche, German aristocrat, dies
1993 - Jan Gies, Dutch resistance fighter (helped Anne Frank), dies at 87
1993 - Robert Jacobsen, Danish sculptor (large iron sculptures), dies at 80
1993 - Jeanne Sauvé, Governor-General of Canada (b. 1922)
1995 - Bernardo Leighton, Chilian politician (1964-70), dies
1995 - Geoffrey Penwill Parsons, piano accompnaist, dies at 65
1995 - Louis Heren, journalist, dies at 65
1995 - Vic Buckingham, English soccer player/trainer (Ajax), dies at 79
1996 - David Schultz, wrestler (Oly-Gold-84), killed by John Du Pont
1996 - Harold Brodkey, writer, dies at 65
1996 - Henry Jay Lewis, conductor, dies at 63
1996 - Georg Alexander, Duke of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1921)
1996 - Stevie Plunder, Australian musician (b. 1963)
1997 - Margaret Hesse, princess of Hesse/the Rhine, dies at 83
1997 - Sarah Lucas, theatre Administrator, dies at 53
1997 - Jeane Dixon, American astrologer (b. 1904)
1998 - S P Leary, Texan Blues drummer (Muddy Waters), dies at 67
1998 - Shinichi Suzuki, music teacher (Suzuki Method), dies at 99
1998 - Walter Edmonds, writer (Drums Along the Mohawk), dies at 93
2000 - Don Budge, American tennis player (b. 1915)
2000 - Kathleen Hale, British author (b. 1898)
2000 - A. E. van Vogt, Canadian-born author (b. 1912)
2001 - Al McGuire, American basketball coach (b. 1928)
2003 - Valeriy Brumel, Soviet Olympic athlete (b. 1942)
2003 - Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton, English historian (b. 1917)
2003 - George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie, British politician (b. 1931)
2004 - Fred Haas, American golfer (b. 1916)
2006 - Khan Abdul Wali Khan, Pakistani opposition leader and Pashtun nationalist (b. 1917)
2006 - Len Carlson, Canadian actor (b. 1937)
2006 - Carol Lambrino, son of Carol II of Romania and Zizi Lambrino (b. 1920)
2007 - Hans J. Wegner, Danish furniture designer (b. 1914)
2007 - Gump Worsley, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1929)
2008 - Christian Brando, actor and son of Marlon Brando (b 1958)
2011 - Charlie Louvin, American musician (b. 1927)
2011 - Gladys Horton, American musician and singer, member of the group The Marvelettes (b. 1944)
2012 - Ian Abercrombie, English actor, dies from kidney failure at 77

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 27, 2013, 06:55:19 AM

This Day in History for 27th January


Historical Events

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Russian Tsar Peter the Great                     Inventor Thomas Edison                 Marxist Revolutionary Vladimir Lenin

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Actress Jane Fonda                                  King of Pop Michael Jackson

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Tennis Player Steffi Graf                          42nd US President Bill Clinton


98 - Trajan becomes Roman Emperor after the death of Nerva.
661 - Rashidun Caliphate ended with death of Ali.
672 - St Vitalian ends his reign as Catholic Pope
847 - Sergius II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1142 - Wrongful execution of noted Song Dynasty General Yue Fei.
1302 - Dante becomes a Florentine political exile
1343 - Pope Clement VI issues the Bull Unigenitus.
1538 - States of Gelderland accepts Willem van Kleef as viceroy
1556 - Willem of Orange becomes knight of Guilder Flies
1593 - Vatican opens 7 year trial against scholar Giordano Bruno
1662 - 1st American lime kiln begins operation (Providence RI)
1671 - Pirate Henry Morgen lands at Panama City
1695 - Mustafa II becomes the Ottoman sultan in Istanbul on the death of Ahmed II. Mustafa rules
           until his death in 1703.
1710 - Czar Peter the Great sets 1st Russian state budget
1736 - Abdication of Stanislas, last king of Poland
1778 - Piccinni's opera "Roland" premieres, Paris
1785 - 1st US state university chartered, Athens Georgia
1823 - President Monroe appoints 1st US ambassadors to South America
1825 - U.S. Congress approves Indian Territory (in what is present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way
           for forced relocation of the Eastern Indians on the "Trail of Tears."
1864 - Battle of Fair Gardens, TN
1864 - Civil War skirmish at Kelly's Ford, Va
1870 - 1st sorority (Kappa Alpha Theta) (DePauw U in Greencastle, Indiana)
1870 - After accepting 15th amendment, VA is readmitted to Union
1870 - Manitoba & Northwest Territories incorporated
1880 - Thomas Edison patents electric incandescent lamp
1886 - 1st British government of Salisbury resigns
1888 - National Geographic Society organizes (Wash DC)
1891 - Mine explosion kills 109 at Mount Pleasant Pennsylvania
1894 - 1st college basketball game, U of Chicago beats Chicago YMCA 19-11
1894 - Midwinter Fair opens in Golden Gate Park
1896 - Tasmania bowl out Victoria for 65 for their 1st ever innings victory
1897 - British troops occupy Bida Gold Coast (Ghana)
1900 - Social Democrat Party of America (Debs' party) holds 1st convention
1902 - 5 workers killed on explosion during IRT subway construction (NYC)
1905 - Maurice Rouvier forms government in France
1906 - Rudolf Gundersen skates world record 500m at 44.8 sec
1908 - Pasiphaë, a satellite of Jupiter, discovered by Melotte
1909 - The Young Left is founded in Norway.
1915 - US Marines occupy Haiti
1916 - Communist party "Spartacus Letters" 1st published in Berlin
1917 - Coen de Koning wins 2nd official 11 cities race (9:53) (record)
1918 - "Tarzan of the Apes," 1st Tarzan film, premieres at Broadway Theater
1918 - The first hostilities occurred in the Finnish Civil War.
1924 - Egyptian king Foead nominates Saad Zaghloel Pasja premier
1924 - Lenin placed in Mausoleum in Red Square
1926 - 1st public demonstration of television, John L Baird, London
1926 - US Senate agrees to join World Court
1933 - Otto Meisnner dines with British ambassador Rumbold
1934 - 27th Australian Men's Tennis Open: Fred Perry beat Crawford (63 75 61)
1934 - French government of Chautemps falls (Stavisky Affair)
1934 - VARA refuses to hire after commemoration of Marinus Van de Lubbe
1939 - First flight of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning.
1940 - -17°F (-27°C), CCC Camp F-16, Georgia (state record)
1941 - Peruvian agent Rivera-Schreiber warns of Japanese assault on Pearl Harbor
1942 - -19°F (-27.4°C), Netherland's coldest day since 1850
1943 - 1st US air attack on Germany (Wilhelmshafen)
1944 - Leningrad liberated from Germany in 880 days with 600,000 killed
1944 - Casey Stengel, manager of the Boston Braves since 1938, resigns Lou Perini, Guido Rugo, &
           Joseph Maney buy control of Boston Braves
1945 - Nazi occupiers forbid food transport to West (The Netherlands)
1945 - Russia liberates Auschwitz & Birkenau Concentration Camp (Poland)
1945 - S Romberg, H&D Fields' musical premieres in NYC
1945 - Wally van Hall, "banker in defiance," arrested
1948 - 1st locomotive to carry 1,000,000 pounds (450,000 kg) operates
1948 - 1st tape recorder sold
1949 - Chinese liner "Taiping" collides with a collier off south China
1950 - 2nd Emmy Awards: Ed Wynn Show & Texaco Star Theater win
1951 - "Peter Pan" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 320 performances
1951 - US begins 126 nuclear tests at Nevada Test Site
1953 - Netherlands end Marshall aid
1955 - "Plain & Fancy" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 476 perfs
1956 - NFL's NY Giants switches games from Polo Grounds to Yankee Stadium
1957 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Lake Worth Golf Open
1958 - Ferenc Munnich follows Kadar as premier of Hungary
1961 - "Sing Along with Mitch" [Miller] premieres on NBC TV
1962 - "Family Affair" opens at Billy Rose Theater NYC for 65 performances
1963 - Jevgeni Grishin skates world record 500m in 39.6 sec
1963 - Sam Rice, Eppa Rixey, Elmer Flick, & John Clarkson elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1964 - "Introducing the Beatles" album released in US
1964 - Barlow & Graeme Pollock complete 341 stand at Adelaide Oval
1964 - Margaret Chase Smith (Sen-R-Maine) tries for Republican Pres bid
1965 - 1st ground station-to-aircraft radio communication via satellite
1965 - Ground breaking for "Dragon Gateway" at Grant Avenue
1966 - Wisc State Circuit Court Judge Elmer W Roller rules either the Braves stay in Milwaukee or NL
           must promise Wisc an expansion team for 1966
1967 - Apollo 1 fire kills astronauts Grissom, White & Chaffee
1967 - Beatles sign a 9 year worldwide contract with EMI records
1967 - New Orleans Saints sign their 1st player (Paige Cothren-kicker)
1967 - Treaty banning military use of nuclear weapons in space, signed
1968 - "Darling of the Day" opens at George Abbott Theater NYC for 31 perfs
1969 - 14 spies hung in Baghdad
1969 - 9 Jews publically executed in Damascus Syria
1969 - Actress Thelma Ritter suffers a heart attack (she dies Feb 5th)
1969 - Noordiers vicar Ian Paisley sentenced to 3 years
1970 - Movie rating system modifies "M" rating to "PG"
1971 - Montgomery St Station, last link in BART, `holed thru'
1973 - UCLA's basketball team wins 61st consecutive game (NCAA record)
1973 - US & Vietnam sign cease-fire, ending longest US war & milt draft
1973 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn
1973 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Gordon McKellen Jr
1973 - William Rogers & Nguyen Duy Trinh sign US-N Vietnam treaty
1974 - "Lorelei" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 320 performances
1976 - "Laverne & Shirley" spinoff from "Happy Days" premieres on ABC TV
1976 - 9th ABA All-Star Game: Denver 144 beats ABA 138 at Denver
1976 - Morocco-Algeria battles in Westerly Sahara
1976 - Viv Richards scores his 1st Test century against Australia
1977 - 1st broadcast of "Roots" mini-series on ABC TV
1977 - Pres Carter pardons most Vietnam War draft evaders (10,000)
1979 - 36th Golden Globes: Midnight Express, Jon Voight & Jane Fonda
1979 - Islanders ends 23 undefeated games at home streak (15-0-8)
1980 - "Comin' Uptown" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 45 perfs
1980 - NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 37-27
1982 - "Joseph & the Amazing Dreamcoat" opens at Royale NYC for 747 perfs
1982 - Mauno Koivisto installed as president of Finland
1982 - Phila trades Larry Bowa & Ryne Sandberg to Cubs for Ivan DeJesus
1982 - Roberto S Cordova installed as president of Honduras
1982 - West Indies beat Australia 3-1 to win World Series Cup
1983 - World's longest subaqueous tunnel (53.90 km) opens, Honshu-Hokkaid
1984 - John & Yoko release "Milk & Honey" album
1984 - LA Kings end Wayne Gretzky's NHL-record 51-game scoring streak
1984 - Michael Jackson is burned during filming for Pepsi commercial
1985 - "Doug Henning & His World..." closes at Lunt-Fontanne NY after 60 perf
1985 - 15th Space Shuttle (51-C) Mission-Discovery 3 returns to Earth
1985 - Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Mazda Golf Classic
1985 - Mark Mckoy cycles world record 50m hurdles indoor (5.25)
1985 - NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 22-14
1986 - 13th American Music Award: Whitney Houston, Huey Lewis & C Gayle
1987 - Midnight Rockers beat Buddy Rose & Doug Somers for AWA World Tag Team
1988 - Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves nomination of Judge Anthony M Kennedy
           to US Supreme Court
1989 - German war criminals Fischer & Aus der Funten freed
1989 - Kevin Johnson (Phoenix) begins NBA free throw streak of 57 games
1989 - Okla's linebacker, Mark VanKeirsblilck assaults an Ok grad student
1990 - 64th Australian Women's Tennis Steffi Graf beats MJ Fernandez (63 64)
1991 - 79th Australian Mens Tennis: Boris Becker beats I Lendl (16 64 64 64)
1991 - Dutch PSP, Pacifist Socialistic Party, disbands
1991 - Nadine Strossen is 1st female president of the ACLU
1991 - Superbowl XXV: NY Giants beat Buffalo Bills, 20-19 in Tampa Superbowl MVP: Ottis
           Anderson, NY Giants, RB
1992 - "Crazy He Calls Me" opens at Walter Kerr Theater NYC for 7 perfs
1992 - 19th American Music Award: C & C Music Factory, Michael Bolton win
1992 - Jane Fonda undergoes arthroscopic surgery on her right knee
1992 - Mike Tyson goes on trial for rape (he is found guilty)
1992 - Pres candidate Bill Clinton (D) & Genifer Flowers accuse each other of lying over her assertion
           they had a 12-year affair
1993 - DC-3 crashes in Kinshasa, killing 12
1994 - "No Man's Land" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 61 performances
1994 - Carlos Reina succeeds pres Callejas in Honduras
1994 - Romanian social-democrats form government with anti-Semites
1995 - 69th Australian Womens Tennis: Mary Pierce beats A S Vicario (63 62)
1996 - 15 day old siamese twins separated-Sarah Morales survives, Sarahi dies
1996 - 70th Australian Womens Tennis: Monica Seles beats Anke Huber (64 61)
1996 - Catherine Roskam becomes the 1st NY female Episcopal bishop
1996 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1996 - Germany celebrates it's 1st Holocaust Rememberance Day
1996 - Monica Seles beats Anke Huber to win Australian Open
1996 - Shiv Chanderpaul scores 303* for Guyana v Jamaica at Kingston
1996 - Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara deposes the first democratically elected president of Niger,
           Mahamane Ousmane, in a military coup.
1997 - "Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus," opens at Gershwin NYC
1997 - 24th American Music Award: Toni Braxton & Alanis Morissette win
1998 - Crane crashes into Roosevelt Is (NYC) Tram, injuring 10
1998 - Roland Clarkson discovers 2^3021377-1 (37th known Mersenne prime)
1998 - WNBA begins filling rosters of Washington Mystics & Detroit Shock

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 27, 2013, 07:51:24 AM

This Day in History for 27th January


Famous Weddings

1186 - Henry VI, the son and heir of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I, weds Constance of Sicily.
1996 - "ER" TV actress Yvette Freeman (39) weds musical director Lawny Hartley (49) in Dunleith,       
            Delaware
2006 - Mexican Latin Grammy Award singer Ana Barbara (35) weds Jose Maria Fernandez in Mexico

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 27, 2013, 07:54:07 AM

This Day in History for 27th January


Famous Divorces

1997 - "Wall Street" actor Charlie Sheen (31) divorces model Donna Peele after nearly 5 months of
            getting married

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 27, 2013, 10:08:34 AM

This Day in History for 27th January


Famous Birthdays

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Classical music prodigy                          Author of Alice in Wonderland
Mozart (1756)                                               Lewis Carroll (1832)

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Physicist and Nobel                                  Actor Jack Haley (1964)
Laureate Samuel Ting (1936)


1443 - Albert, Duke of Saxony (d. 1500)
1546 - Joachim III Frederick, elector (Brandenburg)
1556 - Abbas I, "the Great," shah of Persia (1587-1629)
1585 - Hendrick Avercamp, Dutch painter (d. 1634)
1592 - Pierre de La Barre, composer
1603 - Harbottle Grimston, English politician (d. 1685)
1621 - Thomas Willis, English physician (d. 1675)
1662 - Richard Bentley, Oulton, scholar/controversialist
1679 - Jean-Francois de Troy, French painter
1701 - Johann N von Hontheim, German church historian/suffragan (bishop)
1715 - Vaclav Kalous, composer
1720 - Samuel Foote, England, actor/dramatist (Mirror)
1723 - Johann A Cramer, prime minister/poet
1741 - Hester Thrale, Welsh diarist (d. 1821)
1756 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austria, musical prodigy/composer (Figaro), (d. 1791)
1775 - Friedrich von Schelling, Germany, philosopher (Views on Christianity)
1775 - Manuel del Popolo Vicente Rodriguez Garcia, Spanish tenor/composer
1784 - Martin-Joseph Mengal, composer
1805 - Samuel Palmer, London, painter/etcher (Valley of Vision)
1805 - Sophie of Bavaria, archduchess of Austria (d. 1872)
1805 - Maria Anna of Bavaria, queen consort of Saxony (d. 1877)
1806 - Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Spanish composer (d. 1826)
1808 - David F Strauss, Germany, theologist (Jesus' Life)
1814 - Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, French architect (d. 1879)
1821 - John Chivington, American officer, (d. 1892)
1822 - Thomas Leiper Kane, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1883
1823 - Edouard-Victoire-Antoine Lalo, France, composer (Symphonie Espagnole)
1824 - Jozef Israels, Dutch painter
1826 - Richard Taylor, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1879
1828 - Louis Schubert, composer
1828 - Samuel Allen Rice, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1864
1830 - Georg Hellmesberger, composer
1830 - William Henry Fitzhugh Payne, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1832 - Lewis Carroll, [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], Halton, Cheshire, author (Alice in Wonderland),   
          (d. 1898)
1834 - Dmitri Mendeleev, chemist (discovered periodic table of the elements)
1834 - Robert Sanford Foster, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1836 - Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Austrian writer (masochism)
1841 - Arkhip Kuindzhi, Russian painter (d. 1910)
1848 - Togo Heihachiro, Japanese admiral (d. 1934)
1850 - Samuel Gompers, Dutch/US 1st president (American Federation of Labor)
1850 - Edward J. Smith, English captain of the Titanic (d. 1912)
1851 - Rafael Obligado, Argentina, writer (Santos Vega)
1858 - Neel [Cornelia H] Doff, Dutch/French/Belgian painter's model/writer
1859 - Wilhelm II, Potsdam, German emperor (1888-1918)
1867 - Claude Antoine Terrasse, composer
1868 - Cato Engelen-Sewing, Dutch soprano prima donna (Dutch Opera)
1869 - Will Marion Cook, composer
1872 - Learned Hand, Albany NY, Chief judge (US Court of Appeals)
1882 - Giuseppe Prezzolini, Italy, writer (La Voce, La Cultura Italiano)
1885 - Jerome Kern, NYC, Broadway composer (Showboat, Roberta)
1885 - Eduard Künneke, German composer (d. 1953)
1885 - Maeda Seison, Japanese painter (d. 1977)
1887 - Carl Blegen, Minneapolis, archaeologist (excavator at Troy, Pylos)
1889 - Balthasar van der Pol, physicist (Comparison of Van der Pol)
1891 - Ilja Ehrenburg, writer
1892 - Mitya Stillman, composer
1893 - Soong Ching-ling, Chinese wife of Sun Yat-sen (d. 1981)
1894 - Fritz Pollard, early black NFL star (1920-26)
1895 - Claudio Carneyro, composer
1895 - Joseph Rosenstock, Cracow Poland, conductor (Nippon Phil Orch 1936-41)
1895 - Harry Ruby, American composer (d. 1974)
1899 - Granville English, composer
1900 - Hyman G Rickover, US Admiral (father of modern nuclear navy)
1901 - Art Rooney, NFL team owner (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1901 - Willy Fritsch, German actor (Spies, Women in the Moon)
1903 - John Eccles, British physiologist/neurologist
1903 - Otto P. Weyland, American military figure (d. 1979)
1905 - Howard McNear, LA California, actor (Floyd-Andy Griffith Show, Jetsons)
1905 - Luther Diamond, radio personality
1906 - Radames Gnattali, composer
1907 - Henry Cotton, English golf champion (won 3x British Open)
1908 - William Randolph Hearst Jr, newspaper publisher (Hearst Publishing)
1908 - Oran Page, American musician (d. 1954)
1911 - Benay Venuta, SF California, actress (Annie Get Your Gun, Call Me Mister)
1911 - George Pope, cricketer (Eng pace bowler, 1-49 & 0-36 in his only Test)
1912 - Lawrence Durrell, Darjeeling, Indian/British writer (Private Country, Alexandria Quartet)
1912 - Arne Næss, Norwegian philosopher
1913 - Milton Adolphus, composer
1913 - Valery Viktorovich Zhelobinsky, composer
1914 - Anna Larina, revolutionary
1915 - Jack Brymer, clarinettist
1917 - Dunboyne, Lord
1917 - Merrivale, Lord
1918 - Elmore James, musician (Dust My Broom)
1918 - Skitch Henderson, Birmingham England, orchestra leader (Tonight Show)
1918 - William Seawell, United States Army Brigadier General (d. 2005)
1919 - David Seville, [Ross Bagdasarian], Fresno California, (Alvin & Chipmunks)
1919 - H D Halsey, Bishop of Carlisle
1919 - Nina Milkina, pianist
1920 - Helmut Zacharias, German violinist (d. 2002)
1920 - John Box, British film production designer and art director (d. 2005)
1921 - Donna Reed, Denison Iowa, (From Here to Eternity, Wonderful Life)
1922 - Wilfrid Bourne, QC/Clerk of the Crown in Chancery
1924 - Alexander Georgiyevich Chugayev, composer
1924 - Kenneth Corfield, CEO (STC)
1924 - Rauf Denktasj, Turkish-Cypriot politician
1924 - Brian Rix [The Lord Rix], Cottingham, Yorkshire, English actor
1924 - Sabu, [Dastagir], India, actor (Elephant Boy, Drum)
1924 - William van Straubenzee, British MP
1925 - Geoffrey Tucker, British political consultant
1925 - John Bury, designer
1926 - Fritz Spiegl, Austrian journalist (d. 2003)
1926 - Ingrid Thulin, Swedish actress (d. 2004)
1927 - Doretta Morrow, NYC, actress (Because You're Mine)
1927 - Joe Perry, AAFC/NFL Hall of Fame fullback (SF 49ers, Balt Colts)
1927 - Michael Craig, Poona India, actor (Escape 2000, Vault of Horror)
1927 - Nancy Dickerson, journalist (NBC)
1928 - Jean-Michel Damase, composer
1928 - Hans Modrow, a German politician, premier of East Germany
1929 - Ingrid Thulin, Solleftea Sweden, actress (Cries & Whispers, Damned)
1929 - Richard Du Cann, lawyer QC
1929 - Gastón Suárez, Bolivian novelist (d. 1984)
1930 - Bobby "Blue" Bland, Rosemark TN, blues singer (Call on the Drummer)
1930 - Esteban Edward Torres, (Rep-D-CA, 1983- )
1930 - Roger Sims, British MP
1931 - John Hopkins, writer
1931 - Mordecai Richler, Montreal author, (Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz)
1931 - Rudi Maugeri, rocker (Crew Cuts)
1931 - Vinson, Lord
1932 - Neville Trotter, British MP
1933 - Mohamed Al Fayed, CEO (Harrods)
1933 - Rita Hennessy, matron-in-chief (QARANC)
1934 - Donald Spiers, controller (Aircraft MoD)
1934 - Edithe Cresson, premier of France (1991-92)
1934 - Federico Mayor Zaragoza, Barcelona Spain, UNESCO director (1987- )
1934 - Julian Ogilvie Thompson, CEO (De Beers)
1935 - Gillian Beer, professor/president (Clare Hall-Cambridge)
1936 - Ismail Kadare, Albanian author/poet (Dimri i Madh)
1936 - Troy Donahue, NYC, actor (Surfside Six, Cockfighter, Hawaiian Eye)
1936 - Samuel Ting, Ann Arbor, Michigan, American physicist, Nobel Laureate
1937 - John Ogdon, Manchester England, pianist/composer
1938 - Kim Gardner, rocker (Byrds)
1938 - Timothy Elworthy, Captain of The Queen's Flight
1939 - Mike Hill, Jackson MI, PGA golfer (1977 Ohio Kings Island Open)
1939 - N R Bomford, head master (Harrow School)
1939 - Rawlings, Baroness
1939 - Tigran Yegiayi Mansuryan, composer
1940 - Brian T O'Leary, Boston Mass, astronaut
1942 - James Cromwell, LA California, actor (Stretch-All in the Family, Babe)
1942 - Petr Kotik, composer
1942 - John Witherspoon, American actor
1943 - A H Harper, CEO (Baltic Exchange)
1943 - Cumberlege, Baroness
1944 - Kevin Coyne, rocker
1944 - Nicholas Berkeley Mason, drummer (Pink Floyd-Brick in the Wall)
1944 - Peter Akinola, Nigerian religious leader
1945 - Mairead Corrigan-Maguire, North Irish peace activist (Nobel 1976)
1945 - Harold Cardinal, Cree political leader (d. 2005)
1946 - Kim Gardner, England, rock bassist (Ashton, Gardner & Dyke)
1947 - Nedra Telley, NYC, vocalist (Ronettes-Be My Little Baby)
1947 - Björn Afzelius, Swedish singer (d. 1999)
1947 - Vyron Polydoras, Greek politician
1948 - Chuck Larsen, rocker (Snuff)
1948 - Mikhail Baryshnikov, Riga Latvia, ballet dancer (That's Dancing)
1949 - Ethan Mordden, American author
1950 - Amos Grunebaum, Israeli-born physician
1950 - Derek Acorah, English spirit medium
1951 - Brian Downey, rock drummer (Thin Lizzy-Boys are Back in Town)
1951 - Scott Lane, NYC, actor (Gary-McKeever & the Colonel)
1951 - Seth Justman, Wash DC, rock keyboardist (J Geils Band-Centerfold)
1952 - Brian Gottfried, Baltimore Md, tennis star (Wimbledon Doubles 1976)
1952 - Peter Garland, composer
1952 - "White Shoes" Johnson, American football player
1954 - Kimberly J "Kim" Hughes, Australian cricketer
1954 - Peter Laird, American comic-book artist
1954 - Joko Ninomiya, Japanese martial artist
1955 - Richard Young, Glasgow Ky, singer (Kentucky Headhunters-Davy Crockett)
1955 - Brian Engblom, Canadian ice hockey player
1955 - John G. Roberts, 17th Chief Justice of the United States
1955 - Alexander Stuart, British author
1955 - Koji Ushikubo, Japanese racing driver
1956 - Mimi Rogers, Coral Gables Fla, actress (Paper Dolls, The Rousters)
1956 - Fred Quillan, Portland Oregon, WLAF offensive coach (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1957 - Frank Miller, US, comicbook writer (Batman-The Dark Knight Returns)
1958 - Alan Milburn, British MP
1958 - Charles Waltz, rocker (Shooting Star)
1958 - James Grippando, American novelist
1958 - Kadri Mälk, Estonian artist and jewelry designer
1959 - Chris Collinsworth, NFL wide receiver/TV sportscaster
1959 - Patti Cohoon, Whittier California, actress (Molly-Here Come the Brides)
1959 - Göran Hägglund, Swedish politician
1959 - Keith Olbermann, American news presenter
1961 - Charlotte Kemp, Omaha Ne, playmate (Dec, 1982)
1961 - Gillian Gilbert, Manchester England, rocker (New Order-Round & Round)
1961 - Jean-Paul Banos, Lavelanet France, Canada sabre (Oly-9/10-88, 92, 96)
1961 - Karen Velez, Rockville Ctr NY, playmate (December, 1984)
1961 - Margo Timmins, singer (Cowboy Junkies)
1961 - Martin Degville, rocker (Sigue Sigue Sputnik-Love Missile F-111)
1961 - Rudi Mauger, rocker (Crew Cuts)
1961 - Dina Bonnevie, Filipino actress
1961 - Narciso Rodriguez, American fashion designer
1962 - James F Doehring, Santa Barbara CA, shot putter (Olympics-silver-1992)
1962 - Michael Collins, clarinettist
1962 - Roberto Paci Dalò, Italian director and composer
1964 - Bridget Fonda, LA California, actress (Scandal, Single White Female)
1964 - Cathy Podewell, California, actress (Dallas)
1964 - Inga Thompson, Reno Nevada, US cyclist (Olympic-8th-88, 84, 92)
1964 - Jack Haley, NBA center (Chicago Bulls)
1964 - Migi, [Miguel Drummond] rock (Curiosity Killed Cat-Keep Your Distance)
1964 - Woody Austin, Tampa FL, PGA golfer (1995 Buick Open)
1965 - Igor Matoushkin, NHL defenseman (Belarus, Oly-98)
1965 - Alan Cumming, Scottish actor
1965 - Mike Newell, English football manager
1966 - Michael De Angelis, hockey defenseman (Team Italy 1998)
1966 - Tamlyn Tomita, Okinawa, actress (Karate Kid 2, Ming Li-Santa Barbara)
1967 - Alfred Oglesby, NFL defensive tackle (Cin Bengals)
1967 - Carrington Garland, LA California, actress (Kelly Capwell-Santa Barbara)
1967 - Dave Manson, Prince Albert, NHL defenseman (Winnipeg Jets)
1967 - Laura Golarsa, Italy, tennis star
1967 - Sue Palmer, Collingwood Ontario, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1967 - Bobby Deol, Indian actor
1967 - Byron Mann, Hong Kong actor
1968 - Anthony Pleasant, NFL defensive end (Cleveland Browns, Atlanta Falcons)
1968 - Eric Wedge, US baseball catcher (Boston Red Sox)
1968 - Matt Stover, NFL kicker (Cleveland Browns, Baltimore Ravens)
1968 - Mike Patton, Eureka Ca, rocker (Faith No More-The Real Thing)
1968 - Reggie Johnson, NFL tight end (Philadelphia Eagles)
1968 - Rusty Meacham, Stuart FL, pitcher (KC Royals, Seattle Mariners)
1968 - Tracy Lawrence, Atlanta Tx, country singer (Sticks & Stones)
1968 - Patrick Blondeau, French footballer
1968 - Tricky, English rapper
1969 - Kristen Danihy, Lawton Oklahoma, team handball circle/wing (Olympics-1996)
1969 - Phil Plantier, Manchester NH, outfielder (SD Padres, Red Sox, A's)
1969 - Shane Thomson, NZ cricket off-spin all rounder (since 1990)
1969 - Cornelius, Japanese musician and producer (Flipper's Guitar)
1969 - Michael Kulas, Canadian singer (James)
1969 - Patton Oswalt, American actor and writer
1970 - Carlos Javier Bernardo, Dutch prince
1970 - Dario Brose, Queens NY, US soccer halfback (Olympic-92)
1970 - Dean Headley, cricket (grandson of George, England ODI quick 1996)
1970 - Jon Douglas Rainey, American TV personality
1970 - Emmanuel Pahud, French-Swiss flautist
1971 - Mark Noordlander, soccer player (Sparta)
1971 - Patrice Brisebois, Montreal, NHL defenseman (Montreal Canadiens)
1972 - Bryant Young, NFL defensive tackle (SF 49ers)
1972 - Chad Askew, NFL wide receiver (NY Jets)
1972 - Mark Lawrence, Burlington, NHL right wing (Dallas Stars)
1972 - Bryant Young, defensive tackle (San Francisco 49ers)
1972 - Guillermo, Mexican-born American TV personality
1972 - Mark Owen, English pop singer
1972 - Janine Ilitch, Australian netballer
1973 - Eddie Davis, CFL cornerback (Calgary Stampeders)
1973 - Margot Bourgeois, Miss Universe-3rd place (Trinidad & Tobago, 1997)
1974 - ZP Theart, South African-born English singer (Dragonforce)
1975 - Chaminda Vaas, brilliant Sri Lankan cricket pace bowler (1994- )
1976 - Haimish Karrasch, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1976 - Mike Ferrier, Suriname/Dutch soccer player (FC Volendam, Salernitana)
1976 - Rhett Warrener, Shaunavon, NHL defenseman (Florida Panthers)
1976 - Clint Ford, American voice actor
1976 - Ahn Jung-Hwan, Korean football player
1976 - Ruby Lin, Taiwanese actress and singer
1978 - Pete Laforest, Canadian baseball player
1979 - Jessica Lynn Ferdinand, Miss New York Teen USA (1997)
1979 - Rosamund Pike, British actress
1979 - Liesbet Van Breedam, Belgian beach volleyball player
1979 - Daniel Vettori, New Zealand cricketer
1980 - Marat Safin, Russian tennis player
1980 - Chanda Gunn, ice hockey player
1981 - Jonny Lang, blues musician
1981 - Alicia Molik, Australian tennis player
1983 - Carlo Colaiacovo, Canadian ice hockey player
1983 - Gavin Floyd, American baseball player
1983 - Mike Zagurski, American baseball player
1984 - Davetta Sherwood, American actress
1987 - Lily Donaldson, British model
1987 - Katy Rose, American pop singer
1988 - Kerlon Moura Souza, Brazilian footballer

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 27, 2013, 11:09:21 AM

This Day in History for 27th January


Famous Deaths

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British Admiral Samuel Hood (1816)          Composer Giuseppe Verdi (1901)

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Gospel Singer Mahalia Jackson (1972)         Novelist J. D. Salinger (2010)


98 - Marius Cocceius Nerva, emperor of Rome (96-98), dies at about 67
661 - Death of Ali, the final Sunni Rashidun and first Shia Imam.(b. 599 or 600)
672 - Vitalianus, pope (657-72)/saint, dies
847 - Sergius II, pope (844-47), dies
1164 - Abraham ibn Ezra, poet/philosopher, dies
1490 - Ashikaga Yoshimasa, Japanese shogun (b. 1435)
1540 - Angela Merici, Italian monk/monastery, dies
1565 - Robrecht de Berghes, prince-bishop of Liege (1557-64), dies
1612 - Maarten van Valckenborch, Flemish painter, buried at about 77
1625 - Adriaen Valerius, notary/Neth Gedenck-clanck, dies at about 49
1629 - Hieronymus Praetorius, composer, dies at 68
1638 - Gonzalo de Céspedes y Meneses, Spanish novelist
1669 - Gaspar de Crayer, Flemish painter, dies at 87
1699 - William Temple, statesman, dies
1731 - Bartolomeo di Francesco Cristofori, Ital piano builder, dies at 75
1740 - Louis Henri, Duc de Bourbon, Prime Minister of France (b. 1692)
1763 - John Theodor of Bavaria, prince-bishop of Liege/cardinal, dies
1802 - Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg, composer, dies at 42
1814 - Johann Gottlieb Fichte, philosopher, dies
1814 - Philip Astley, theatre manager, dies
1816 - Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood/admiral, dies at 92
1850 - J Gottfried Schadow, German sculptor/cartoonist/writer, dies at 85
1850 - Philipp Roth, composer, dies at 70
1851 - John James Audubon, conservationist (Audubon Society), dies at 65
1851 - Karl Moser, composer, dies at 77
1857 - Dorothea von Benckendorff, Baltic monarch of Lieven, dies at 72
1858 - Gerrit van der Linde Jz, Dutch "Principal", poet, dies at 49
1859 - Carl A Agardh, Swedish botanist/bishop of Karlstad, dies at 74
1860 - János Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1802)
1864 - Franz von Klenze, German architect (palace Leuchtenberg), dies at 59
1866 - John Gibson, sculptor, dies
1880 - Edward Middleton Barry, English architect (b. 1830)
1889 - Ivan S Aksakov, Russian journalist, dies at 65
1893 - James G Blaine, US minister of foreign affairs, dies at 62
1901 - Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer, dies at 77
1904 - Adam Minchejmer, composer, dies at 73
1919 - Endre Ady, Hungarian poet (b. 1877)
1921 - Maurice Vincent Buckley, Australian soldier (b. 1891)
1922 - Giovanni Verga, Italian writer (I Mala Voglia), dies at 81
1927 - Georgios Grivas, Cyprus-born general in the Greek Army
1927 - Blessed Jurgis Matulaitis-Matulevičius (Matulewicz), Lithuanian bishop
1928 - Marie Verstraete, actress (Frou-Frou/Nora), dies at 74
1930 - Jean Hure, composer, dies at 52
1941 - Iver Paul Fredrik Holter, composer, dies at 90
1942 - Kaarel Eenpalu, Estonian Prime Minister (b. 1888)
1949 - Boris Asafiev, composer, dies at 64
1954 - Paul-Marie Masson, composer, dies at 71
1955 - Ernst Penzoldt, writer, dies
1956 - Erich Kleiber, Austrian conductor, dies
1963 - John Farrow, actor/director (Botany Bay), dies at 58
1964 - Lieb Glantz, composer, dies at 65
1965 - Theo Uden Marsman, Dutch orchestra leader, dies at 63
1967 - Alphonse Juin, French marshal, dies at 78
1967 - Edward Higgins White II, Lt Col USAF/astronaut (Gemini 4), dies at 36
1967 - Roger B Chaffee, astronaut, dies at 31 in Apollo I fire
1967 - Virgil I (Gus) Grissom, astronaut, dies at 40 in Apollo I fire
1969 - Charles Winninger, actor (Charlie Farrell Show), dies at 82
1969 - Hanns Jelinek, composer, dies at 67
1970 - Probir Sen, cricket (20 catch & 11 stumpings, 14 Tests for Ind), dies
1970 - Rita Angus, New Zealand painter (b. 1908)
1971 - Jacobo Arbenz, President of Guatemala (b. 1913)
1972 - Mahalia Jackson, gospel singer (He Got the Whole World), dies at 60
1972 - Richard Courant, German/US mathematician, dies at 84
1974 - Georgios Grivas, Greek gen/oppos leader on Cyprus (EOKA), dies at 75
1974 - Paula Ludwig, writer, dies at 74
1975 - Bill Walsh, American producer and writer (b. 1913)
1977 - Walter Baldwin, actor (Gay Amigo), dies at 88
1978 - Marguerite Canal, composer, dies at 87
1978 - Oscar Homolka, actor (7 Year Itch, Ball of Fire), dies at 79
1979 - Qalander Ba Ba Auliya, Sufi master (b. 1898)
1981 - Leo Collard, Belgian minister of Education (1946/54-58), dies at 78
1982 - Iris Korn, actress (Widder-Palmerstown USA), dies at 60
1983 - Louis De Funes, actor/writer (Mad Adv of Rabbi Jacobs), dies at 68
1983 - Paul "Bear" Bryant, US football coach (Alabama), dies at 69
1983 - Robert Christian, actor (Bustin' Loose), dies of cancer at 42
1984 - Lou Crosby, TV announcer (Mayor of Hollywood), dies at 72
1986 - L Ron Hubbard, novelist/founder (Church of Scientology), dies at 74
1986 - Lilli Palmer, German actress (Boys from Brazil, Kinder), dies at 71
1988 - Massa Makan Diabaté, Malian author (b. 1938)
1989 - Thomas Sopwith, British aviation pioneer (b. 1888)
1989 - Bayani Casimiro, Filipino dancer and actor (b. 1918)
1990 - Helen Jerome Eddy, actress (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm), dies at 92
1992 - Francesca Primus, columnist (Back Stage), dies at 45
1992 - Gene Harris, entertainer, dies after long illness
1992 - Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, Brit actress (Eliza Dolittle), dies at 101
1993 - Andre "the Giant" Roussimoff, WWF wrestler, dies of heart attack at 49
1994 - Claude Akins, actor (Rio Bravo, Lobo), dies of cancer at 67
1994 - Eddie Calhoun, jazz Bassist, dies at 72
1994 - Joe Mays, actor (Mr Saturday Night), dies of AIDS at 44
1994 - Stanley Adams, songwriter, dies at 86
1995 - Geoffrey Parsons, Australian/British pianist, dies at 65
1995 - Halsey S Colchester, British SAS/MI6-spy/priest, dies at 76
1995 - Jean Tardieu, author, dies at 91
1995 - Willem R "Wim" van der Zee, gen-sec Council of Churches, dies at 64
1996 - Barbara Skelton, writer, dies at 79
1996 - John Patrick Sutton Ludlow, actor (Agatha), dies at 93
1996 - Julian Hill, research chemist, dies at 91
1996 - Olga Havlova, political activist, dies at 63
1996 - Ralph Webster Yarborough, politician, dies at 92
1996 - Tommy Mitchell, cricket (Derbyshire leg-spin, 5 Tests for Eng), dies
1997 - Cecil Lewis, airman/writer, dies at 98
1997 - Matthew Coady, journalist, dies at 73
1997 - Gerald Marks, American songwriter (All of Me) (b. 1900)
2000 - Friedrich Gulda, Austrian pianist (b. 1930)
2001 - Stavros Damianides, Greek musician (b. 1941)
2003 - Henryk Jabłoński, President of Poland (b. 1909)
2003 - Louis Archambault, Quebec sculptor (b. 1915)
2004 - Jack Paar, American television show host (b. 1918)
2004 - Salvador Laurel, Vice President of the Philippines (b. 1928)
2006 - Johannes Rau, 8th President of Germany (b. 1931)
2006 - Gene McFadden, American singer and songwriter (b. 1948)
2006 - Jean-Christophe Lafaille, French mountaineer (disappeared) (b. 1965)
2007 - Tige Andrews, American actor (b. 1920)
2007 - Yang Chuan-kwang, Taiwanese athlete (b. 1933)
2008 - Gordon B. Hinckley, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1910)
2008 - Suharto, President of Indonesia (b. 1921)
2008 - Louie Welch, mayor of Houston (b. 1918)
2008 - Gordon B. Hinckley, President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
2009 - John Updike, American Novelist (b. 1932)
2009 - R. Venkataraman, 8th President of India (b. 1910)
2010 - J. D. Salinger, American novelist (b. 1919)
2010 - Howard Zinn, American historian (b. 1922)
2010 - Zelda Rubinstein, American actress (b. 1933)
2012 - Kevin White, American politician, dies at 82

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 28, 2013, 07:48:31 AM

This Day in History for 28th January


Historical Events

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Russian Tsar Peter the Great              Russian Revolutionary Leon Trotsky         Singer & Cultural Icon Elvis Presley

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Actor Dustin Hoffman                             CIA Director William Casey                      Singer Janet Jackson


1077 - German King Henry IV is absolved by Holy Roman Emperor Pope Gregory VII after his   
           penitent Walk to Canossa.
1099 - 1st Crusaders begins siege of Hosn-el-Akrad Syria
1262 - Flemish/Dutch coast ravaged by north western storm
1393 - Fire during Royal Ball at Paris, 4 die (Ball of the Ardents)
1495 - Pope gives his son Cesare Borgia as hostage to Charles VIII of France
1521 - The Diet of Worms begins, lasting until May 25.
1547 - 9-year-old Edward VI succeeds Henry VIII as king of England
1561 - By Edict of Orleans persecution of French Huguenots is suspended
1573 - Articles of Warsaw Confederation are signed, sanctioning freedom of religion in Poland.
1581 - James VI signs 2nd Confession of Faith in Scotland
1613 - Galileo may have unknowingly viewed undiscovered planet Neptune
1624 - Sir Thomas Warner founds the first British colony in the Caribbean, on Saint Kitts.
1689 - English parliament ends king Charles II reign
1724 - The Russian Academy of Sciences was founded in St. Petersburg by Peter the Great, and
           implemented in the Senate decree. It was called St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences until   
           1917.
1754 - Horace Walpole, in a letter to Horace Mann, coins the word serendipity
1760 - Pownal, Vermont created by Benning Wentworth as one of the New Hampshire Grants.
1787 - Philadelphia's Free Africa Society organizes
1788 - Captain Arthur Phillip forms English colony at Botany Bay, Sydney
1788 - Lord Gordon found guilty of libel of queen of France
1807 - London's Pall Mall is 1st street lit by gaslight
1813 - Pride and Prejudice is first published in the United Kingdom.
1814 - Stendahl's 1st book is published
1819 - Sir Stamford Raffles 1st lands in Singapore
1820 - Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev 
          discovered the Antarctic continent approaching the Antarctic coast.
1821 - Bellingshausen discovers Alexander Island off Antarctica
1824 - William Kneass becomes 3rd US chief engraver (1824-40)
1830 - Opera "Fra Diavolo," premieres in Paris
1846 - Battle of Allwal, Brits beat Sikhs in Punjab (India)
1848 - King of Naples grants his subjects a constitution
1851 - Northwestern University (Chicago) chartered
1855 - The first locomotive runs from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean on the Panama Railway.
1860 - Britain formally returns Mosquito Coast to Nicaragua
1864 - Battle of New Bern, NC
1865 - Pres Jefferson Davis names 3 peace commissioners
1871 - Paris surrenders to Prussians
1878 - 1st telephone exchange (New Haven, CT)
1878 - George W Coy hired as 1st full-time telephone operator
1878 - Yale Daily News published, 1st college daily newspaper
1881 - Battle at Laing's Neck Natal: Boers beat superior powered British
1887 - England all out for 45 v Aust SCG, their lowest total ever
1887 - In a snowstorm at Fort Keogh, Montana, the world's largest snowflakes are reported, being 
          15 inches (38 cm) wide and 8 inches (20 cm) thick.
1893 - Edward Mcdowell's "Hamlet & Ophelia," premieres in Boston
1899 - American Social Science Association incorporated by Congress
1902 - Carnegie Institute founded in Wash DC
1904 - 1st college sports letters given to Seniors who played on U of Chicago's football team are
           awarded blankets with letter "C" on them
1909 - US milt forces leave Cuba for 2nd time
1911 - Frenchman Henri Rougier wins 1st Rally of Monte Carlo
1914 - 1st Millrose Games (athletics) held (NYC)
1914 - Beverly Hills, Ca, is incorporated
1915 - 1st US ship lost in WW I, William P Frye (carrying wheat to UK)
1915 - US Coast Guard created from Life Saving & Revenue Cutter services
1915 - US Pres Wilson refuses to prohibit immigration of illiterates
1916 - 1st Jewish Supreme Court justice, Louis Brandeis, appointed by Wilson
1916 - German colony of Cameroon surrenders to Britain & France
1916 - Opera "Goyescas," premieres (NYC)
1917 - Municipally owned streetcars take to the streets of San Francisco, California.
1918 - Strike on Berlin ammunition's factory
1918 - Trotsky becomes leader of Reds
1918 - Finnish Civil War: Rebels seized control of the capital, Helsinki, and members of the Senate of
           Finland go underground.
1922 - American Pro Football Association renamed "National Football League"
1922 - J E Clair turns Green Bay franchise back to NFL
1922 - Knickerbocker Storm, Washington D.C.'s biggest snowfall, causes the city's greatest loss of
           life when the roof of the Knickerbocker Theater collapses.
1923 - 1st "Reichs Party" (NSDAP) forms in Munich
1923 - Demonstration against a Dutch University in Ghent
1923 - NSDAP 1st election in Munich
1925 - -46°F (-43°C), Pittsburgh, New Hampshire (state record)
1927 - Serbian-Croatian-Slavic government of Oezonowitsj falls
1928 - Christopher Hornsrud chosen PM of Norway
1931 - Bradman scores 220 NSW v Victoria, 308 mins, 13 fours
1932 - 1st US state unemployment insurance act enacted (Wisconsin)
1932 - Japan occupies Shanghai
1932 - Japanese forces attack Shanghai.
1933 - French government of Paul Boncour falls
1933 - German government of Von Schleicher falls
1933 - The name Pakistan is coined by Choudhary Rehmat Ali Khan and is accepted by the Indian
           Muslims who then thereby adopted it further for the Pakistan Movement seeking
            independence.
1934 - 1st US ski tow (rope) begins operation (Woodstock Vermont)
1935 - Iceland becomes 1st country to legalize abortion
1936 - Pravda criticizes Sjostakovitsj' "Lady Macbeth" opera
1941 - French-Thai War: Final air battle of the conflict. Japanese-mediated armistice goes into effect
           later in the day.
1942 - General Timoshenko's troops move into Ukraine
1942 - German troops occupy Benghazi Libya
1943 - Chic Blackhawks beats NY Rangers 10-1, Max Bentley scores 4 goals
1943 - Forward Doug Bentley sets NHL record with 5 points in a game
1944 - 683 British bombers attack Berlin
1944 - Leonard Bernstein's "Jeremiah," premieres in Pittsburgh
1944 - U-271 & U-571 sunk off Ireland
1945 - Dutch airplanes dump pamphlets on Java
1945 - Gen "Vinegar Joe" Stillwell & truck convoy reopen Burma Road to China
1945 - Swedish ships bring food to starving Netherlands
1947 - "Bay Psalm" book auctioned for a record $151,000
1949 - NY Giants sign their 1st black players, Monte Irvin & Ford Smith
1949 - UN Security council convicts Dutch aggression in Indonesia
1950 - Preston Tucker, auto maker, found not guilty of mail fraud
1951 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1951 - "La Vie Commence Demain," which depicted artificial insemination & is the 1st X-rated movie,
           opened in London
1953 - J Fred Muggs (the chimp) joins NBC's "Today Show"
1953 - WJTV TV channel 12 in Jackson, MS (CBS) begins broadcasting
1956 - Elvis Presley's 1st TV appearance (Dorsey Bros Stage Show)
1957 - "Tonight! America After Dark" premieres, with Jack Lescoulie & Al (Jazzbo) Collins on NBC
           (between Steve Allen & Jack Paar)
1958 - Construction began on 1st private thorium-uranium nuclear reactor
1958 - Dodger catcher Roy Campanella is paralyzed in an automobile wreck
1958 - The Lego company patented their design of Lego bricks, still compatible with bricks produced
            today.
1959 - Soviet Union wins 62-37 for 1st international basketball loss by US
1960 - 1st photograph bounced off Moon, Washington DC
1960 - Goon Show's final episode on BBC
1960 - NFL announces Dallas Cowboys (1960) & Minnesota Vikings (1961) franchises
1961 - Republic of Rwanda proclaimed
1962 - Johanne Relleke gets stung by bees 2,443 times in Rhodesia & survives
1963 - -34°F (-37°C), Cynthiana, Kentucky (state record)
1965 - The Who make their 1st appearance on British TV
1967 - Rolling Stones release "Let's Spend the Night Together"
1968 - 29th PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Chandler Harper
1968 - Goose Goslin & Kiki Cuyler elected to baseball Hall of Fame
1969 - 2nd ABA All-Star Game: West 133 beats East 127 at Louisville
1969 - Barbara Jo Rubin becomes 1st woman jockey to win in North America
1970 - Lubomír Strougal succeeds Cernik as premier of Czechoslovakia
1972 - Oral Roberts' Eddie Woods grabs 30 rebounds for 2nd consecutive game
1973 - "Barnaby Jones" premieres on CBS TV
1973 - Henry Boucha, Detroit Red Wings, scores 6 sec into a game vs Mont
1973 - Mickey Welch, George Kelly & Billy Evans elected to Hall of Fame
1973 - Ron Howard appears on M*A*S*H in "Sometimes You Hear the Bullet"
1974 - Sam Thompson, Jim Bottomley, & Jocko Conlan elected to Hall of Fame
1975 - 8th ABA All-Star Game: East 151 beats West 124 at San Antonio
1976 - Erapalli Prasanna takes 8-76 to rip through NZ at Eden Park
1976 - NBA Atlanta Hawks begin a 28 game road losing streak
1978 - "Fantasy Island" starring Ricardo Montalban premieres on ABC TV
1978 - Ranger's Don Murdoch failed on 4th penalty shot against Islanders
1978 - Ted Nugent autographs a fan's arm with his knife
1979 - "Wiz" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 1672 performances
1979 - Arthur Kopit's "Wings," premieres in NYC
1980 - 37th Golden Globes: Dustin Hoffman & Sally Field wins
1980 - USCGC Blackthorn (WLB-391) collides with the tanker Capricorn while leaving Tampa Florida
           and capsizes killing 23 Coast Guard crewmembers.
1981 - "5 O'Clock Girl" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 12 performances
1981 - William J Casey becomes 13th director of CIA (until 1987)
1981 - Olympic Glory tanker at Galveston Bay, Texas, spills 1 million gallons of oil in a ship collision
1982 - US Gen Dozier freed from Red Brigade of Padua Italy
1982 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1984 - 41th Golden Globes: Thornbirds wins
1984 - LA Kings stop Wayne Gretzky 51 game scoring streak
1984 - Record 295,000 dominoes toppled, Fuerth, West Germany
1985 - Charity single "We Are the World" is recorded by supergroup USA for Africa (Michael Jackson,
           Lionel Richie and other pop stars)
1985 - 12th American Music Award
1986 - "Uptown... It's Hot!" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 24 perfs
1986 - 25th Space Shuttle (51L)-Challenger 10 explodes 73 sec after liftoff
1986 - Angolan Unity Leader Jonas Savimbi visits Washington, DC
1987 - US Foreign minister George Shultz meets ANC-leader Oliver Tambo
1987 - Wrestler Jim Neidhart indicted for assaulting a flight attendant
1988 - "Saratina!" opens at Cort Theater NYC for 597 performances
1988 - Canada's Supreme court declares anti-abortion law unconstitutional
1989 - 46th Golden Globes: Rainman, Working Girl
1989 - 63rd Australian Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Helena Sukova (64 64)
1989 - Boon completes 7th Test century, 149 v WI at SCG
1990 - "Independent on Sunday" begins publishing in London
1990 - 78th Australian Mens Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats S Edberg (46 76 52-ret)
1990 - Superbowl XXIV: SF 49ers beat Denver Broncos, 55-10 in New Orleans Superbowl MVP: Joe
           Montana, San Francisco, QB
1991 - "A Closer Look" with Faith Daniels premieres on NBC-TV
1991 - 18th American Music Award: M C Hammer & Janet Jackson
1991 - Boon completes ninth Test century, 121 v England at Adelaide
1991 - Dictator Siad Barre flees Somalia ending 22 year rule
1992 - Boon completes twelfth Test century, 135 v India at Adelaide
1992 - Stan Hansen beats Jumbo Tsuruta to win All Japan Triple Crown
1994 - Helicopter crashes into office building in San Jose California, 1 dead
1994 - Inna Lassovskaja jumps ladies world record (14.78m)
1995 - 69th Australian Women's Tennis Open: Mary Pierce beats Vicario (63 62)
1995 - 83rd Australian Mens Tennis: Andre Agassi beats Sampras (46 61 76 64)
1995 - Memphis Mad Dogs granted CFL's 13th franchise
1996 - "Hello Dolly!" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC after 118 perfs
1996 - 84th Australian Mens Tennis: Boris Becker beats M Chang (62 64 26 62)
1996 - Superbowl XXX: Dallas Cowboys beat Pittsburgh Steelers, 27-17 in Tempe Superbowl MVP:
1998 - Michelangelo, "Christ & the Woman of Samaria," sold for $7.4 million
2002 - TAME Flight 120, a Boeing 727-100 crashes in the Andes mountains in southern Colombia
           killing 92.
2010 - Five murderers of President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman of Bangladesh: Lieutenant Colonel Syed
           Faruq Rahman, Lieutenant Colonel Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan, Major AKM Mohiuddin
           Ahmed, Major Bazlul Huda and Lieutenant Colonel Mohiuddin Ahmed were hanged.
2011 - Hundreds of thousands of protesters fill the Egyptian's streets against the Mubarak regime in
          demonstrations referred to as the "Friday of Anger"
2012 - Death toll from coordinated bombing attacks in Kano, Nigeria, reaches 185

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 28, 2013, 07:50:03 AM

This Day in History for 28th January


Famous Weddings

1984 - Mr Glynn Wolfe marries for non-bigamous record 26th time, Las Vegas
1994 - Actress Lorraine Bracco (39) weds actor Edward James Olmos (46)
2006 - London Broncos rugby football player Craig Gower (27) weds TV personality and model
           Amanda Flynn (24) in Sydney, Australia
2006 - "The Biggest Loser" TV personality Rasha Spindel weds Edwin Chapman at the Wai'oli Tea
            Room in Manoa Valley, Honolulu
2006 - A bright-eyed 18-month-old from Midland, Texas, who fall into abandoned well Jessica 
           McClure (19) weds Daniel Morales (32) in the Greenwood Church of Christ near Midland

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 28, 2013, 07:51:40 AM

This Day in History for 28th January


Famous Divorces

2011 - "Desperate Housewives" actress Eva Longoria (37) divorces NBA player Tony Parker (30) due to
            irreconcilable differences after 3 years of a storybook wedding

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 28, 2013, 07:59:48 AM

This Day in History for 28th January


Famous Birthdays

(http://i.historyorb.com/sidonie-gabrielle-colette.jpg)                  (http://i.historyorb.com/nicolas-sarkozy.jpg)                  (http://i.historyorb.com/elijah-wood.jpg)         
Novelist and Performer                             President of France                               Actor Elijah Wood (1981)
Colette (1873)                                          Nicolas Sarkozy (1955)                                                         


1225 - Saint Thomas Aquinas (d. 1274)
1312 - Queen Joan II of Navarre (d. 1349)
1457 - Henry VII, Pembroke Castle, 1st Tudor king of England (1485-1509)
1540 - Ludolph van Ceulen, German mathematician (d. 1610)
1578 - Cornelis Haga, Dutch lawyer/ambassador to Constantinople (1611-39)
1582 - John Barclay, Scottish satirist/poet (Euphormio's Satyricon)
1600 - Clement IX, [Giulio Rospigliosi], Pistoia, Italy, 238th pope (1667-69)
1608 - Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Naples, mathematician/astronomer
1611 - Johannes Hevelius, Danzig, astronomer (star cataloger)
1622 - Adrien Auzout, French astronomer (d. 1691)
1627 - Alfonso Marsh, composer
1645 - Gottfried Vopelius, composer
1688 - Jan Maurits Quinkhard, Dutch portrait painter
1691 - Johann Balthasar Konig, composer
1693 - Anna "Ivanovna", tsarina of Russia (1730-40) (2/7 NS)
1693 - Gregor Joseph Werner, composer
1701 - Charles Marie de La Condamine, French mathematician and geographer (d. 1774)
1702 - Hermanus Noordkerk, Dutch lawyer
1706 - John Baskerville, English printer (typeface inventor)
1712 - Tokugawa Ieshige, Japanese shogun (d. 1761)
1714 - Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor (Child with Pigeon)
1717 - Mustafa III, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1774). Reigned 1757-74.
1719 - Johann Elias Schlegel, German critic and poet (d. 1749)
1722 - Johann Ernst Bach, composer
1756 - Hans Adolf Friedrich von Eschstruth, composer
1757 - Antonio Bartolomeo Bruni, composer
1768 - Frederick VI, Danish king (1808-39); lost Norway to Sweden (1814)
1784 - George HG earl of Aberdeen, English secretary of State
1815 - Andrew Jackson Hamilton, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1875
1818 - George Sewall Boutwell, MC (Union), died in 1905
1822 - Alexander MacKenzie, (L) 2nd PM of Canada (1873-78)
1825 - George Edward Pickett, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1875
1828 - Michel Abeloos, Flemish sculptor
1828 - Thomas Carmichael Hindman, Mjr Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1868
1831 - Henry Brevard Davidson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1899
1832 - Franz Wullner, composer
1833 - Charles George Gordon, London, general (China, Khartoum)
1841 - Henry Stanley, Engld, journalist/explorer (found Livingstone in Africa)
1841 - Viktor Ernst Nessler, composer
1853 - Jose Martí y Perez, Cuba, poet/essayist/politician
1855 - William Seward Burroughs, NY, inventor (recording adding machine)
1863 - Ernst William Christmas, Australian painter (d. 1918)
1864 - Herbert Akroyd Stuart, English engineer - inventor of the first compression ignition engine (d.
           1927)
1865 - Lala Lajpat Rai, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1928)
1865 - Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg, first president of Finland (d. 1952)
1868 - Frederick Archibald Lamond, composer
1868 - Julian Aguirre, composer
1873 - Colette [Sidonie-Gabrielle], Paris, French novelist and performer (Gigi)
1873 - M A Noble, cricketer (great Australian all-rounder at turn of century)
1875 - Julian Antonio Carillo-Trujillo, composer
1878 - Walter Kollo [Kollodziepski], German composer (Der Juxbaron)
1880 - Herbert Strudwick, cricketer (Engld wicket-keeper before & after WW I)
1880 - Mary Boland, Phila, US, comedienne/actress (Ruggles of Red Gap)
1884 - Auguste Piccard, Switzerland, scientist/explorer (balloonist), twin brother of Jean Felix Piccard
1884 - Jean Felix Piccard, Switzerland, scientist/explorer (balloonist) twin brother of Auguste Piccard
1884 - Lucien H d'Azambuja, France, astronomer (chromosome of sun)
1886 - Marthe Bibesco, Romanian writer (d. 1973)
1886 - Hidetsugu Yagi, Japanese electrical engineer (d. 1976)
1887 - Artur Rubinstein, Lodz Poland, pianist
1887 - Lily Theresa Strickland, composer
1890 - Robert Stroud, American convict, the Birdman of Alcatraz (d. 1963)
1891 - Camille Melloy, [Paepe], Belgian poet (Parfum des Buis)
1891 - Karel Boleslav Jirak, composer
1891 - Bill Doak, American baseball player (d. 1954)
1892 - Ernst Lubitsch, Germany, actor, producer and film director (Love Parade)
1893 - Elliot Griffis, composer
1897 - Valentin Kataev, Odessa Ukraine, novelist/playwright (Embezzled) Died 1986
1898 - Vittorio Rieti, composer
1898 - Wies Moens, Flemish writer/nazi
1899 - Zilner T Randolph, jazz trumpeter/arranger
1899 - Elias Simojoki, Finnish clergyman and politician (d. 1940)
1900 - Alexandre AM Stols [Chl van Halsbeke], publisher (History of Ecuador)
1900 - Anni Holdmann, Germany, 100m runner (Olympic-1928)
1900 - Hermann Kesten, German writer (Allert de Lange)
1900 - Michael Dewar Head, composer
1900 - Alice Neel, American artist (d. 1984)
1903 - Dame Kathleen Lonsdale, crystallographer (1st woman in Royal Society)
1904 - Canuplin, Filipino magician and bodabil entertainer (d. 1979)
1906 - Allan Walker, actor/writer (Red Buttons Show)
1906 - Harry van Kruiningen, [Henri A Janssen], painter/graphic artist
1906 - Henry Foley, cricketer (batted in New Zealand's 1st Test 1930)
1907 - Constantin Regamey, composer
1908 - Hans [Hendrik AJ] Tiemeijer, Dutch actor/director/writer (Fear)
1908 - Paul Misraki, French composer and songwriter (d. 1998)
1909 - Lionel KP "Buster" Crabb, British diver (WW II-George Medal)
1910 - Arnold Moss, Bkln, actor (Loves of Carmen, Kim, Quebec, Viva Zapata)
1910 - John Banner, Vienna Austria, actor (Sgt Hans Schultz-Hogan's Heroes)
1910 - Verda Bryant, American author
1912 - Jackson Pollock, Cody Wyoming, expressionist painter (Lavender Mist)
1912 - William "Bill" Henson, English diplomat (Prague 1939)
1913 - Jan Masseus, composer
1913 - Oliver Chesterton, chartered surveyor
1916 - Peter Crossley-Holland, composer
1918 - Harry M Corbett, Bradford, puppeteer/entertainer (Sooty, Some People)
1918 - Suzanne Flon, Paris France, actress (One Deadly Summer, Moulin Rouge)
1918 - Trevor Skeet, British MP
1918 - Vito Scotti, SF California, actor (Flying Nun, Barefoot in the Park)
1918 - Wilson Ferreira Aldunate, Uruguayan politician/human rights worker
1920 - James Whyte, Moderator (General Assembly of Church of Scotland)
1921 - Alfred Marks, actor/comedian (Desert Mice, Scream & Scream Again)
1922 - Robert W Holley, US, biochemist, worked with RNA (Nobel '68)
1924 - Frank R Lautenberg, (Sen-D-NJ)
1925 - Henry Harris, British professor of medicine
1927 - Anthony Garner, director (Conservative Central Office)
1927 - J D Hughes, Principal (Ruskin College-Oxford)
1927 - James Callaghan, British MP
1927 - Ronnie Scott, jazz musician/club-owner
1928 - MG Falcon, CEO (Norwich Union Insurance Group)
1928 - Martin Sinnatt, Major-General/secretary (Kennel Club)
1928 - Slade Gorton, (Sen-R-WA, 1981- )
1929 - Acker Bilk, singer (Stranger on the Shore)
1929 - Claes Oldenburg, Stockholm Sweden, US pop artist (Alphabet/Good Humor)
1929 - Richard Clement Charles Thomas, rugby international/journalist
1930 - David Morris, British MEP
1930 - Luis de Pablo, composer
1931 - Timothy Kitson, former MP
1932 - David Thompson, CEO (Gestetner Holdings)
1932 - Thomas J Bliley Jr, (Rep-R-VA, 1981- )
1932 - W Parry O'Brien, California, shot putter (Oly-2 gold/silver-52, 56, 60, 64)
1932 - Windlesham, Lord
1934 - BR White, principal (Regent's Park College-Oxford)
1934 - Bill White, US, 1st baseman (Cards)/announcer (Yanks)/pres (NL)
1934 - Mitr Chaibancha, Thai actor (d. 1970)
1935 - David John Lodge, English writer (Soul & Bodies)
1935 - Leonid Grabovsky, composer
1935 - Manuel dos Santos Lima, Angolian revolutionary/poet (Pele do Diabo)
1935 - Nicholas Pryor, actor (Beverly Hills 90210)
1936 - Alan Alda, [Alphonso D'Abruzzo], NYC, actor (Hawkeye Pierce-M*A*S*H)
1936 - Bill Jordan, British trade unionist
1936 - Enid Castle, principal (Cheltenham Ladies' College)
1936 - Jack Scott, vocalist (My True Love)
1936 - Robert Suderburg, composer
1937 - Ken Hill, playwright/director
1938 - Leonid Zhabotynsky, Ukrainian weightlifter
1939 - John M Fabian, Goosecreek Tx, Col USAF/astronaut (STS 7, STS 51G)
1940 - Carlos Slim Helú, Mexican businessman
1941 - Joel Crothers, Cincinnati OH, actor (Edge of Night)
1943 - Dick Taylor, rock vocalist (Pretty Thing-Cry on Me)
1943 - Jean Knight, rocker
1943 - John Beck, Chic, actor (Mark-Dallas, Flamingo Road, Santa Barbara)
1943 - Susan Howard, Marshall Tx, actress (Donna-Dallas, Petrocelli)
1943 - Paul Henderson, Canadian ice hockey player
1944 - Arnold Muhren, Dutch pop bassist/singer (The Cats-Sailin' Home)
1944 - Brian Keenan, NYC, rock drummer (Chamber Bros-Time Has Come Today)
1944 - James Cran, British MP
1944 - John Edmonds, British trade unionist
1944 - John Tavener, composer (The Whale)
1944 - Martin Fried, rocker (Cyrkle-Red Rubber Ball)
1945 - Nick Raynsford, British MP
1945 - José Luis Perales, Spanish singer
1945 - Robert Wyatt, English musician
1946 - Renne Jarrett, Bkln NY, actress (Nancy)
1946 - Rick Allen, Ark, rock bassist (Box Tops-Letter)
1947 - MJ Ainsworth, CEO (Institute of Chartered Secretaries)
1947 - Valerie Bragg, principal (City Technology College-Kingshurst)
1948 - Gareth Roscoe, legal adviser (BBC)
1948 - Mamoru Mohri, Yoichi-machi Hokkaido Japan, astronaut (STS 47)
1948 - Charles Taylor, President of Liberia
1949 - Thomas J Downey, (Rep-D-NY, 1975- )
1949 - Gregg Popovich, NBA Basketball Coach
1950 - Barbi Benton, [Klein], California, Playboy model (Hee Haw, Sugar Time!)
1950 - David Carl Hilmers, Iowa, Col USMC/astronaut (STS 51-J, 26, 36, 42)
1950 - Glyn Ford, British MEP
1950 - Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifah, King of Bahrain
1950 - Bob Hay, American songwriter and musician
1951 - Gordon Prentice, British MP
1951 - Leonid Konstantinovich Kadenyuk, Kkishkov Ukraine, astronaut (STS 87)
1951 - William Nelson Jr, US bassist (Connections & Disconnections)
1951 - Brian Bilbray, American politician
1953 - Debbie Steinbach, LPGA golfer
1953 - Michael Day, rocker
1954 - Anicee Alvina, Paris France, actress (Friends)
1954 - Shawn Murray, rock drummer (Mink Deville)
1954 - Rick Warren, American pastor and author
1955 - Nicolas Sarkozy, Paris, President of France (2007-)
1956 - Peter Schilling, Stuttgart Germany, rocker
1957 - Harley Jane Kozak, actress (Arachnophobia, Necessary Roughness)
1957 - Nick Price, Durban South Africa, PGA golfer (1991 Byron Nelson Classic)
1957 - Frank Skinner English comedian
1959 - Dave Sharp, rock guitarist (Alarm-In the Summertime)
1959 - Frank Darabont, American filmmaker
1959 - Burkhard Dallwitz, German-born composer
1959 - Randi Rhodes, Nova M Radio personality
1960 - John Caliri, Providence RI, actor (Vinnie-Square Pegs, Double Trouble)
1960 - Robert von Dassanowsky, American cultural historian, writer, and producer
1961 - Luann L Lee, Santa Monica Ca, playmate (Jan, 1987)
1962 - Keith Hamilton Cobb, Tarrytown NY, actor (Noah Keefer-All My Children)
1962 - Michael Cage, NBA forward/center (Cleveland Cavaliers, NJ Nets)
1962 - Sam Phillips, singer/actress (Die Hard with a Vengeance)
1963 - Colleen Harp, Washington DC, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-9th-1994)
1963 - Danny Spitz, heavy metal guitarist (Anthrax-Protest & Survive)
1963 - Denise Beillmann, Switz, figure skater (Olympics-4th-1980)
1964 - Dwight Stone, NFL receiver/running back (Car Panthers, GB Packers)
1964 - Emlyn Aubrey, PGA golfer (1995 Nestles-25th)
1965 - Lynda Boyd, American actress
1966 - Jeff Uhlenhake, NFL center (NO Saints, Washington Redskins)
1966 - Michal Pivonka, Kladno Cze, NHL center (Washington Capitals)
1967 - Peter Hofstede, Dutch soccer player (Roda JC, FC Utrecht)
1967 - Tom Hodson, NFL quarterback (NO Saints)
1967 - Jan Lamb, Hong Kong disc jockey & stand-up comedian
1968 - Henry Hering, Pointe-Claire Quebec, rower (Olympics-9-92, 96)
1968 - Marnie McBean, Vancouver BC, rower (Olympics-gold-92, 96)
1968 - Peter Hofstede, Dutch soccer player (Roda JC, FC Utrecht)
1968 - Sarah McLachlan, folk singer (Fumbling Towards Ecstasy)
1968 - DJ Muggs, American musician (Cypress Hill)
1968 - Rakim, born William Michael Griffin Jr., American rapper
1969 - Giorgio Lamberti, Italian free style swimmer (world record 200m)
1969 - John Veenhof, Dutch soccer player (FC Groningen)
1969 - Kathryn Morris, American actress
1969 - Mo Rocca, American writer and comedian
1969 - Linda Sanchez, American politician
1970 - Barry Minter, NFL middle linebacker (Chic Bears)
1970 - Donald Tardy, US, death metal drummer (Obituary, Cause of Death)
1970 - James Atkins, NFL tackle (Seattle Seahawks)
1970 - Mike Chalenski, NFL defensive tackle (Philadelphia Eagles)
1972 - Carey Bender, NFL running back (Buffalo Bills)
1972 - Elena Baranova, WNBA center (Utah Starzz)
1972 - Frank Garcia, NFL center (GB Packers, Carolina Panthers)
1972 - Nicky Southall, English footballer
1973 - Bronwyn Thompson, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1973 - Jerome Allen, NBA guard (Minnesota Timberwolves)
1973 - Joe Stephens, NBA forward (Houston Rockets)
1973 - Robert Braknis, Montreal Quebec, 100m backstroke/4 x 100 (Olympics-96)
1974 - Derrick Mayes, NFL wide reciever (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1974 - Jermaine Dye, Oakland CA, outfielder (Atlanta Braves)
1974 - Tony Delk, NBA guard (SF Warriors)
1974 - Vitaly Tregubov, hockey defenseman (Team Kazakhstan Oly-1998)
1974 - Zack Bronson, safety (San Francisco 49ers)
1974 - Jermaine Dye, American baseball player
1974 - Magglio Ordóñez, Venezuelan baseball player
1975 - Anne Montminy, Montreal Quebec, 10m diver (Olympics-17-92, 96)
1975 - Julian Dean, Waihi NZ, team pursuit cyclist (Olympics-96)
1975 - David Zingler, American writer
1975 - Lee Latchford-Evans, English singer
1975 - Junior Spivey, American baseball player
1975 - Terri Colombino, American Actress
1976 - Miltiadis Sapanis, Greek footballer
1976 - Mark Madsen, American basketball player
1976 - Jarrod Montague, American drummer (Taproot)
1976 - Lee Ingleby, British actor
1976 - Emiko Kado, Japanese professional wrestler (d. 1999)
1977 - Matt DeVries, American guitarist (Chimaira)
1977 - Takuma Sato, Japanese Formula One driver
1977 - Daunte Culpepper, American football player
1977 - Joey Fatone, American singer (*NSYNC)
1977 - Lyle Overbay, American baseball player
1978 - Helga Bauer Salas, Miss Bolivia Universe (1997)
1978 - Gianluigi Buffon, Italian footballer
1978 - Papa Bouba Diop, Senegalese footballer
1978 - Jamie Carragher, English footballer
1979 - Ali Boulala, Swedish skateboarder
1980 - Nick Carter, singer (Backstreet Boys)
1980 - Jesse James Hollywood, American drug dealer and fugitive
1981 - Elijah Wood, Cedar Rapids Iowa, actor (Radio Flyer, Good Son)
1981 - Rick Razzano, American football player
1984 - Andre Iguodala, basketball & NBA player (Philadelphia 76ers)
1985 - Athina Onassis, daughter of Christina
1985 - Arnold Mvuemba, French footballer
1986 - Shruti Haasan, Indian actress
1986 - Jessica Ennis, English heptathlete
1988 - Henry Mortensen, American actor

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 28, 2013, 08:03:41 AM

This Day in History for 28th January


Famous Deaths

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Roman Emperor Charlemagne (814)


814 - Charlemagne, German emperor/Roman Emperor (800-814), dies at 71
1061 - Duke Spytihněv II of Bohemia (b. 1031)
1119 - Gelasius II, [Giovannis Caetani], pope (1118-19), dies
1256 - Willem II, earl of Holland/German emperor (1238, 47-56), dies at 22
1271 - Isabella of Aragon, queen of Philip III of France (b. 1247)
1393 - Earl of Joigny, burned at royal ball in Paris
1443 - Robert le Maçon, Chancellor of France
1528 - Philips of Cleve, ruler of Ravenstein, dies
1547 - Henry VIII, King of England (1509-47), dies at 55
1549 - Elia Levita, German-Yiddish writer (Habachur), dies at about 80
1560 - John a Lasco, [John Laski], Polish nobleman/reformed theologist, dies
1595 - Francis Drake, English pirate, Admiral and Governor of Newfoundland (Porto Bello West
            Indies), dies at 50
1606 - Carolus Gallus, [Karel de Haan], Dutch lawyer/pastor/vicar, dies at 85
1612 - Thomas Bodley, diplomat/founder (Bodleian Library), dies
1621 - Pope Paul V, [Camillo Borghese], 233rd pope (1605-21), dies at 68
1672 - Pierre Séguier, Chancellor of France (b. 1588)
1681 - Richard Allestree, English royalist churchman (b. 1619)
1687 - Johannes Hevelius, astronomer (star cataloger), dies on 76th birthday
1697 - John Fenwick, English conspirator
1754 - Ludvig Holberg, Danish lawyer/writer (Hendrig og Pernille), dies at 69
1768 - John Wainwright, composer, dies at 44
1782 - Jean-Baptiste-Bourguignon d'Anville, French geographer, dies at 84
1810 - Andrew Hofer, Tyrolian rebel against French & Bavarians, shot dead
1813 - Jan Joseph Rosler, composer, dies at 41
1817 - Friedrich Ludwig Emilius Kunzen, composer, dies at 55
1829 - William Burke, murderer/body snatcher, executed in Edinburgh
1832 - Augustin Daniel Belliard, French general (b. 1769)
1838 - Aleksandr I Polezjajev, Russian poet (Sasjka), dies at 33 [NS]
1859 - Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b.
           1782)
1864 - Émile Clapeyron, French engineer and physicist (b. 1799)
1868 - Adalbert Stifter, Austrian author (Witiko), commits suicide at 62
1869 - Prudent-Louis Aubery du Boulley, composer, dies at 72
1873 - Henry Hugo Pierson, composer, dies at 57
1895 - Francois Certain de Canrobert, French marshal, dies at 85
1896 - Joseph Barnby, composer, dies at 57
1898 - Alexandru Flechtenmacher, composer, dies at 74
1903 - Augusta Mary Anne Holmes, composer, dies at 55
1903 - Jean Robert Planquette, composer, dies at 54
1910 - Jose Garcia Robles, composer, dies at 74
1912 - Gustave de Molinari, Belgian economist (b. 1819)
1915 - Nikolay Umov, Russian physicist (b. 1846)
1918 - John McCrae, Canadian poet/physician, dies
1924 - Simon Abramsz, Dutch writer (Artist book), dies at 56
1930 - Clarence Skelton Wimble, cricket (score pair in Test for S Af), dies
1932 - Franz Xavier Arens, composer, dies at 75
1933 - Theodor Birt [Beatus Rhenanus], German classicist/writer, dies at 80
1935 - Mikhail Mikhaylovich Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russian composer, dies at 75
1937 - Anastasios Metaxas, Greek architect and shooter (b. 1862)
1938 - Bernd Rosemeyer, German race car driver, dies at 28
1938 - John Sharp, cricketer (England bat 1909, also soccer intl), dies
1939 - William Butler Yeats, Irish poet (Nobel), dies in France at 73
1942 - Pablo Luna y Carne, composer, dies at 61
1945 - Philip "Felix" Bekkers, actor (We Go on Trip), dies at 37
1947 - Reynaldo Hahn, composer, dies at 72
1949 - Gustaf Lazarus Nordqvist, composer, dies at 62
1950 - Nikolai Luzin, Russian mathematician (b. 1883)
1951 - Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, president of Finland (b.1867)
1953 - James Scullin, 9th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1876)
1953 - Derek Bentley (b. 1933) (executed)
1957 - Fred Stein, TV panelist (Live Begins at 80), dies at 88
1959 - Joseph Sprinzak, Speaker of Israel Knesset (1949-59), dies at 73
1959 - Viktor Joseph Keldorfer, composer, dies at 85
1960 - Jacques de Menasce, composer, dies at 54
1960 - Zora Neale Hurston, American author (b. 1891)
1963 - Jean Felix Piccard, swiss explorer, dies on his 79th birthday
1963 - Gustave Garrigou, French cyclist (b. 1884)
1965 - Jef van Durme, composer, dies at 57
1965 - Johan Fiolet, Dutch actor/director, dies at 63
1965 - Tich Freeman, cricket (3776 FC wickets leg-spin, 304 in 1928), dies
1965 - Maxime Weygand, French soldier (b. 1867)
1967 - Stanley Coen, cricket (2 Tests for S Af, hs 41 not out, avg 50), dies
1970 - Tommy Andrews (Aust) 16 Tests 1921-26, cricketer (592 runs), dies
1971 - Donald Winnicott, British psychoanalyst (b. 1896)
1972 - Adriaan B "Jaap" Wagemaker, Dutch sculptor, dies at 66
1973 - John Banner, actor (Schultz-Hogan's Heroes), dies on 62nd birthday
1974 - Dino Buzzati, writer, dies at 67
1975 - Ola Raknes, Norwegian psychoanalyst and philologist (b. 1887)
1976 - Chris Kenner, rocker (I Like it Like That), dies
1977 - Burt Mustin, actor (All in the Family, Andy Griffith Show), dies at 92
1979 - Eileen Shanahan, Irish Poet (b. 1901)
1983 - Billy Fury, actor (That'll Be the Day), dies at 42 of heart failure
1983 - Frank Forde, 15th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1890)
1984 - John Macvane, newscaster (United or Not), dies at 71
1986 - Christa McAuliffe, astronaut, dies in Challenger disaster
1986 - Ellison S Onizuka, Hawaii, Mjr USAF/ast, dies in Challenger disaster
1986 - Francis R Scobee, Wash, USAF/astronaut, dies in Challenger disaster
1986 - Judith Arlene Resnik, Akron Oh, astr, dies in Challenger disaster
1986 - Michael J Smith, Beaufort NC, Cmdr USN, astr, dies in Challenger
1986 - Ronald E McNair, Lake City SC, astr, dies in Challenger disaster
1986 - Greg Jarvis - Crew of Space Shuttle Challenger (b. 1944)
1988 - Klaus Fuchs, German physicist (b. 1911)
1991 - Dale Long, hit HRs in 8 consecutive games, dies at 66
1992 - Clark Tippet, dancer/choreographer, dies at 37
1992 - Nahman Avigad, Isr archaeologist (Discovering Jerusalem), dies at 86
1993 - Aben Kandel, screenwriter (Dinner at 8 ), dies of heart failure at 96
1993 - John Steadman, actor (Gator, Fade to Black), dies of lung ailment 83
1994 - Hal Smith, actor (Otis Campbell-Andy Griffith Show), dies at 77
1994 - Hermanus P "Piet" Mulder, Dutch journalist (Het Parool), dies at 79
1994 - William Levitt, builder (Levittown), dies of kidney failure at 86
1994 - Hal Smith, American actor (b. 1916)
1995 - Barrie Wilson, academic, dies at 59
1995 - George Woodcock, author, dies at 82
1995 - James P Grant, US director of UNICEF (1980-95), dies at 72
1995 - Jim Gilbert, artist, dies at 61
1995 - Philip H Burton, Welsh producer/Richard Burton's teacher, dies at 80
1995 - Walter Ernest Allen, writer/critic, dies at 83
1996 - Burne Hogarth, strip-cartoon artist, dies at 84
1996 - Dan Duva, boxing promoter, dies at 44
1996 - Jerry Siegel, comic book writer (Superman), dies at 81
1996 - John Mosely, recording expert/entrepreneur, dies at 81
1996 - Joseph Brodsky, poet, dies at 55
1996 - Or San Yu, president of Burma in (1981-88), dies
1996 - U San Yu, soldier/politician, dies at 77
1996 - Victor "Toby" Neuberg, teacher/writer, dies at 71
1997 - James Colin Ross Welch, journalist, dies at 72
1997 - Pietro Cavallero, bandit, dies at 68
1997 - Vivien Signy, nurse, dies at 80
1999 - Markey Robinson, Irish painter (b. 1918)
1999 - Torgny T:son Segerstedt, Swedish sociologist and philosopher (b. 1908)
2001 - Curt Blefary, American baseball player (b. 1943)
2002 - Astrid Lindgren, Swedish author (b. 1907)
2004 - Lloyd M. Bucher, U.S. Navy officer (b. 1927)
2004 - Don Cholito, Puerto Rican radio host (b. 1923)
2004 - Elroy Hirsch, American football player (b. 1923)
2004 - Don Stansauk, American professional wrestler (b. 1936)
2004 - Joe Viterelli, American actor (b. 1937)
2005 - Jim Capaldi, English singer and songwriter (b. 1944)
2005 - Karen Lancaume, French actress (suicide) (b. 1973)
2005 - Jacques Villeret, French actor (b. 1951)
2006 - Yitzchak Kaduri, rabbi (b. around 1900)
2006 - Henry McGee, English comedian (b. 1929)
2007 - Carlo Clerici, Swiss professional road racing cyclist (b. 1929)
2007 - Father Robert Drinan, Roman Catholic Priest and American politician (b. 1920)
2007 - Karel Svoboda, Czech composer of popular music (b. 1938)
2007 - Hsu Wei Lun, Taiwanese actress (b. 1978)
2007 - Yelena Romanova, Russian athlete (b. 1963)
2007 - Emma Tillman, the world's oldest living person from January 24-28, 2007 (b. 1892)
2008 - Christodoulos, Archbishop of Athens and All Greece (b. 1939)
2008 - Bengt Lindström, Swedish artist (b. 1925)
2009 - Billy Powell, American musician (b. 1952)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 29, 2013, 07:14:16 AM

This Day in History for 29th January


Historical Events

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Classical music prodigy Mozart               Animator Walter Elias Disney                      Baseball Great Babe Ruth

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Playwright Arthur Miller                         Versatile Athlete Jim Thorpe                   Rock Guitarist Jimi Hendrix

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Baseball Player Darryl Strawberry            CIA Director William Casey              Champion Tennis Player Pete Sampras


904 - Sergius III comes out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope
         Christopher.
1523 - Sermon of Constanz: Zwingli defends 67 Schlussreden
1574 - Sea battle of Reimerswaal - Admiral Boisot beats Spanish fleet
1587 - Deventer & Zutphen surrender to Spain
1595 - William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet is probably first performed.
1613 - Galileo observes Neptune but fails to recognize what he sees
1676 - Feodor III succeeds his father and becomes Tsar of Russia.
1728 - John Gays' "Beggar's Opera," premieres in London [NS=Feb 9]
1732 - Paris churchyard Saint-Medard closed after Jansenistic ritual
1781 - Mozart's opera "Idomeneo" premieres, Munich
1802 - John Beckley of Virginia appointed 1st Librarian of Congress
1834 - Pres Jackson orders 1st use of US troops to suppress a labor dispute
1845 - Edgar Allen Poe's "Raven" 1st published (NYC)
1848 - Sicily accepts new Constitution (choose parliament/freedom of press)
1850 - Henry Clay introduces a comprise bill on slavery to US Senate
1856 - Victoria Cross established to acknowledge bravery
1860 - American College established in Rome by Pope Pius IX
1861 - Kansas becomes 34th state
1863 - Battle at Bear River, Washington: US army vs indians
1872 - Francis L Cardoza elected State Treasurer of South Carolina
1879 - Custer Battlefield National Monument, Mont established
1886 - 1st successful gasoline-driven car patented, Karl Benz, Karlsruhe
1891 - Liliuokalani is proclaimed Queen of Hawaii, its last monarch.
1895 - King Koko's Kopermannen assault on Akassa Niger, 100's killed
1896 - Emile Grubbe is 1st dr to use radiation treatment for breast cancer
1900 - Boers under Joubert beat English at Spionkop Natal, 2,000 killed
1900 - American League organized in Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Indianapolis, Kansas City,
           Milwaukee & Minneapolis
1903 - Dutch railroad workers strike
1904 - 1st athletic letters given (Univ of Chicago football team)
1906 - Coen de King skates world record time: 32,370 km
1908 - Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, at Cornell University, incorporates
1912 - Martial law declared in textile strike in Lawrence, MA
1913 - Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, at Howard University, incorporates
1916 - 1st bombings of Paris by German Zeppelins takes place
1917 - English submarine K13 leaves Gaire Loch
1919 - Secretary of state proclaims 18th amendment (prohibition)
1920 - Walt Disney starts 1st job as an artist; $40 week with KC Slide Co
1921 - Hurricane hits Washington & Oregon
1922 - Union of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras & El Salvador dissolved
1923 - 1st flight of autogiro (Juan de la Cierva, Madrid Spain)
1924 - Ice cream cone rolling machine patented by Carl Taylor, Cleveland
1925 - British Liberals choose David Lloyd George as party leader
1927 - 4th German government of Marx forms
1929 - Seeing Eye Guide Dog Organization forms
1932 - Test debut of Bill O'Reilly, vs South Africa at Adelaide
1933 - German president von Hindenburg appoints Hitler chancellor
1936 - 1st players elected to Baseball Hall of Fame-Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy
           Mathewson & Walter Johnson
1942 - 1st broadcast of Roy Plomley's "Desert Island Discs" on BBC
1942 - German & Italian troops occupy Banghazi
1942 - Peru & Ecuador sign Protocol of Rio (boundary determiniation)
1943 - New Zealand's Kiwi cruiser collides with Jap sub I-1 at Guadalcanal
1943 - Sidney Kingsley's "Patriots," premieres in NYC
1944 - 285 German bombers attack London
1944 - USS Missouri the last battleship commissioned by the US Navy is launched.
1944 - World War II: The Battle of Cisterna takes place in central Italy.
1944 - World War II: About 38 men, women, and children die in the Koniuchy massacre in Poland.
1947 - Arthur Miller's "All My Sons," premieres in NYC
1948 - "Look Ma, I'm Dancin'" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 188 perfs
1948 - Commissioner Happy Chandler fines the Yankees, Cubs, & Phillies $500 each for signing high
           school players
1949 - Brit, Belgium, Lux, Neth, NZ & Switz recognize Israel
1951 - "Where's Charley?" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 56 performances
1951 - Baseball signs 6 year All-Star pact for TV-radio rights for $6 million
1951 - Liz Taylor's 1st divorce (Conrad Hilton Jr)
1953 - 1st movie in Cinemascope (The Robe) premieres
1954 - Arnold Schoenberg's "De Profundis," premieres in Cologne
1955 - John Williams Cox buys Yankee Stadium, sells grounds to Knights of Columbus, later leaves
           structure to Rice University (1962)
1956 - F Durrenmatt's "Der Besuch der Alten Dame," premieres in Zurich
1957 - Graham Greene's "Potting Shed," premieres in NYC
1958 - Murderer, Charles Starkweather, captured by police in Wyoming
1958 - Paul Newman & Joanne Woodward wed
1959 - Walt Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" released
1961 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Laurence Owen
1961 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Bradley Lord
1963 - Jim Thorpe, Red Grange & George Halas elected to football hall of fame
1964 - 9th Winter Olympic games open in Innsbruck, Austria
1964 - Beatles record in German "Komm, Gib Mir Diene Hand" & "Sie Leibt Dich"
1964 - Most lopsided high-school basketball score 211-29 (Louisiana)
1964 - NBC purchases AFL 5 year (1965-69) TV rights for $36 million
1964 - Stanley Kubrick's"Dr Strangelove," premieres
1964 - Unmanned Apollo 1 Saturn launcher test attains Earth orbit
1966 - "Sweet Charity" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 608 performances
1966 - Lawry & Simpson complete 244 opening stand v England, Adelaide
1966 - Snow storm in north east US kills 165
1966 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming
1966 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Allen
1967 - "Let's Sing Yiddish" closes at Brooks Atkinson NYC after 107 perfs
1967 - Branch Rickey & Lloyd Waner elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1967 - Kees Verkerk becomes European skating champ
1967 - WDAZ TV channel 8 in Devils Lake, ND (ABC) begins broadcasting
1968 - Nauru adopts constitution
1969 - Jimi Hendrix & Peter Townshend wage a battle of guitars
1969 - Sheahan & Connolly hang on for exciting draw Aust v W Indies
1970 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1971 - Test debut of Dennis Keith Lillee, v England at Adelaide
1972 - 5th ABA All-Star Game: East 142 beats West 115 at Louisville
1974 - 27th NHL All-Star Game: West beat East 6-4 at Chicago
1975 - "Men on the Moon" opens at Little Theater NYC for 5 performances
1975 - 1st Annual Comedy Awards of the Year hosted by Alan King
1975 - W I win Fifth Test against India to take exciting series 3-2
1976 - Zeiss planetarium in Hague destroyed by fire
1978 - Joanne Carner wins Colgate Triple Crown Match-Play Golf Championship
1978 - Sweden outlaws aerosol sprays due to their harmful effect on the ozone layer, becoming the
           first nation to enact such a ban.
1979 - 9th AFC-NFC pro bowl, NFC wins 13-7
1979 - Brenda Spencer kills 2, inspires Boomtown Rats "I Don't Like Mondays"
1979 - Chinese vice-premier Deng Xiaoping visits Washington, DC
1979 - Emerson, Lake & Palmer disband after 10 years together
1979 - NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 13-7
1979 - Pres Carter commuted Patricia Hearst's 7 year sentence to 2 years
1980 - 6 Iranian held US hostages escape with help of Canadians
1980 - Cleveland Cavaliers beat LA Lakers 154-153 in quadruple OT
1981 - AL approves sale of White Sox to Jerry Reinsdorf & Eddie Einhorn for $20 million, & 80% of
           Mariners to George Argyros for $104 million
1982 - Old Dominion ends La Tech's women's basketball rec 54-game win streak
1982 - Wayne Garland, baseball 1st millionaire free agent, waived by Indians
1983 - "Down Under" by Men At Work hit #1 on UK pop chart
1983 - 40th Golden Globes: Gandhi, ET & Tootsie win
1984 - 34th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 154-145 (OT) at Denver
1984 - NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 45-3
1984 - Pres Reagan formally announces he will seek a 2nd term
1984 - Silvia Bertolaccini wins LPGA Mazda Golf Classic of Deer Creek
1984 - Space Shuttle 41-B (STS-11) Challenger launched
1985 - Jari Kurri of Edmonton Oilers scores 100th pt of season in game 39
1986 - 193.8 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
1986 - Yoweri Museveni sworn in as president of Uganda
1987 - Lisa files for separation from husband NY Met Darryl Strawberry
1987 - William J Casey, ends term as 13th director of CIA
1988 - Canadian Ben Johnson breaks own 50-yard dash world record at 5.15
1988 - Detroit's Kirk Gibson signs a 3-year contract with Dodgers
1988 - Largest NBA crowd-Boston Celtics at Detroit (61,938)
1988 - United Airlines Boeing 747SP, circles world in 36h54m15s
1989 - 77th Australian Men Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats Miloslav Mecir (62 62 62)
1989 - Cleveland's Chris Dudley misses 5 free throws during 1 foul attempt
1989 - Dottie Mochrie wins Oldsmobile LPGA Golf Classic
1989 - Dow jumps 38.06 recoups 508-pt loss since Oct 1987; index at 2,256.43
1989 - Episcopal church appoints 1st female bishop
1989 - L I preacher Gene Profeta pleads guilty to tax-evasion
1989 - NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 34-3
1989 - Orlando Arena opens
1989 - USSR's Phobos II enters Martian orbit
1989 - Game-winning RBI, official statistic dropped after 9 years of use NY Mets Keith Hernandez is
           the all-time leader with 129
1990 - Exxon Valdez capt Joseph Hazelwood goes on trial due to oil spill
1991 - "Piano Lesson" closes at Walter Kerr Theater NYC after 320 perfs
1991 - Nelson Mandela & Mangosuthu Buthelezi meet after 28 years
1993 - Test debut of Vinod Kambli, prolific Indian batsman
1995 - Andre Agassi defeats Pete Sampras to win Australian Open
1995 - Greg Blewett scores century on Test debut vs England, Adelaide
1995 - Superbowl XXIX: SF 49ers beat San Diego Chargers, 49-26 in Miami
1995 - Superbowl MVP: Steve Young, San Francisco, QB
1996 - 23rd American Music Award: Garth Brooks wins
1996 - Last day of Test cricket for David Boon
1996 - 6,138th performance of "Cats" is held in London, surpassing record of Broadway's longest-
           running musical, "A Chorus Line"
1996 - La Fenice, Venice's opera house, is destroyed by fire.
1998 - "Capeman," opens at Marquis Theater NYC
1998 - Singers Bobby Brown found guiilty of DWI in Fort Lauderdale, Florida
1998 - Soyuz TM-27 launches to MIR
1998 - Thick Fog causes highway carnage in Belgium & Netherlands, 6 die
1998 - Woman's Clinic in Birmingham Ala bombed, 1 killed
2001 - Thousands of student protesters in Indonesia storm parliament and demand that President
           Abdurrahman Wahid resign due to alleged involvement in corruption scandals.
2002 - In his State of the Union Address, United States President George W. Bush describes
          "regimes that sponsor terror" as an Axis of Evil, in which he includes Iraq, Iran and North
           Korea.
2005 - The first direct commercial flights from the mainland China (from Guangzhou) to Taiwan since
           1949 arrived in Taipei. Shortly afterwards, a China Airlines carrier landed in Beijing.

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 29, 2013, 07:17:05 AM

This Day in History for 29th January


Famous Weddings

1839 - English Naturalist and author of Origin of the Species Charles Darwin marries Emma
           Wedgwood
1958 - Academy Award-winning actor Paul Newman (33) weds "The Three Faces of Eve" actress
           Joanne Woodward (27) at the El Rancho hotel-casino in Las Vegas
1984 - Actress Lynda Carter (Wonder Woman) marries Robert Altman
2005 - "New York Mets" catcher Mike Piazza (36) weds former "Baywatch" actress Alicia Rickter (32)
           at St. Jude Catholic Church in Miami, Florida

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 29, 2013, 07:18:20 AM

This Day in History for 29th January


Famous Divorces

1951 - Liz Taylor's 1st divorce (Conrad Hilton Jr)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 29, 2013, 07:26:49 AM

This Day in History for 29th January


Famous Birthdays

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25th US President                                     Actor Tom Selleck (1945)                  Talk show host Oprah Winfrey (1954)
William McKinley (1843)


1584 - Frederik Hendrik, count of Nassau/Prince of Orange
1632 - Johann Georg Graevius, German classical scholar and critic (d. 1703)
1688 - Emmanuel Swedenborg, Sweden, religious leader (Angelic Wisdom)
1689 - Hubert K Poot, Dutch poet
1700 - Daniel Bernoulli, Basel Switz, mathematician (10 time French award)
1703 - Carlmann Kolb, composer
1711 - Giuseppi Bonno, composer
1715 - Georg Christoph Wagenseil, Austrian (court) composer/pianist
1717 - Jeffrey Amherst, English gov-gen of America/fieldmarshal
1718 - Paul Rabaut, French Huguenot pastor (d. 1794)
1737 - Thomas Paine, political essayist (Common Sense, Age of Reason)
1749 - King Christian VII of Denmark (d. 1808)
1754 - Moses Cleaveland, founder of Cleveland (d. 1806)
1756 - Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee III, Congressman, Governor of Virginia and American General
1761 - Abraham AA "Albert" Gallatin, Switz, US minister of Finance (1801-14)
1763 - J G Seume, writer
1782 - Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber, French opera composer (Fra Diavolo)
1782 - Frantiszek Tucek Scigalski, composer
1783 - Vasili A Zjukovski, Russian folk poet/translator (Homerus) [NS=Feb 9]
1784 - Ferdinand Ries, composer
1798 - Henry Neele, London, poet
1801 - Johannes Bernardus van Bree, Dutch violinist/composer (Felix Meritis)
1803 - James Outram, Bulterley Hall Derbyshire, general
1810 - Earnest E Kummer, German mathematician
1821 - Isaac Ferdinand Quinby, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1891
1823 - Franklin Gardner, Major General (Confederate Army)
1824 - Karl von Perfall, composer
1836 - Benjamin Franklin Potts, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1887
1836 - James Meech Warner, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1897
1843 - William McKinley, Niles Ohio, 25th US President (1897-1901), (d. 1901)
1846 - Karol Olszewski, Polish scientist (d. 1915)
1850 - Ebenezer Howard, London, pioneer of garden cities
1850 - Lawrence Hargrave, inventor (box kite)
1852 - Frederic Hymen Cowen, composer
1852 - Ion Luca Caragiale, Romanian actor/playwright (O Noapte Furtunoasa)
1854 - Willem PC Knuttel, Dutch bibliographer/librarian
1860 - Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Tagarov Russia, playwright (Cherry Orchard)
1862 - Frederick Delius, Bradford England, composer (Hiawatha)
1864 - Adolf Philipp, composer
1866 - Romain Rolland, France, writer (Jean-Christophe) (Nobel 1915)
1867 - Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Spain, writer (4 Horsemen of Apocalypse)
1869 - Andrey Vladimirovich Scherbachov, composer
1871 - Eduardo Lopez-Chavarri y Marco, composer
1873 - Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi, Italy, explorer/climber (Mt St Elias)
1874 - John David Rockefeller Jr, Cleveland Ohio, philanthropist
1874 - Robert Lach, composer
1876 - Carl Henrik Ludolf Nielsen, composer
1876 - Havergal Brian, Dresden Staffordshire, composer
1877 - Georges Catroux, French general (d. 1969)
1878 - Barney Oldfield, Ohio, daredevil
1880 - W C Fields, [William Claude Dukenfield], Phila, actor (Bank Dick)
1884 - Juhan Aavic, composer
1887 - Albert Conti, Trieste Austria, actor (Jazz Heaven, Doomed Battalion)
1889 - Francisco Santiago, composer
1889 - Rudolf Mauersberger, composer
1890 - Marguerite Canal, composer
1891 - R Norris Williams, American tennis champ (US Open-1914) and survivor of the RMS Titanic sinking (d. 1968)
1892 - Clifford Gray, US, bobsled (Olympic-gold-1928)
1893 - Edric Cundell, composer
1893 - Martian Negrea, composer
1895 - Muna Lee, American poet (d. 1965)
1896 - Teddy Hoad, cricketer (pioneering West Indian Test batsman)
1898 - Fernand Quinet, Belgian cellist/composer/conductor (La Guerre)
1898 - Karl Bjarnhof, Danish blind journalist/writer (History of Sascha)
1900 - Marco Tajcevic, composer
1900 - Willem F K Hussem, Dutch painter/poet (Coastline, Lookout on Sea)
1901 - Allen B DuMont, inventor (perfected coml practical cathode ray tube)
1903 - Cornelis H Edelman, Dutch geologist
1905 - Barnett Newmann, US painter (postpainterly abstraction)
1906 - Franciscus Hin, Holland, yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1920)
1906 - Joe Primeau, NHL center
1908 - Adam Clayton Powell, (Rep-D-NY, 1945-70)
1909 - Alan Marshal, Sydney Aust, actor (White Cliffs of Dover, Lydia)
1909 - Tonypandy, Viscount
1910 - Paul Hodder-Williams, publisher
1910 - Colin Middleton, Irish artist (d. 1983)
1911 - George Burns, British major-general
1911 - Peter von Siemens, German industrialist (d. 1986)
1912 - "Professor" Irwin Corey, Brooklyn NY, comedian (Car Wash, Doc)
1912 - Jacob "Jaap" Balk, journalist (AH, Onder de Keizerskroon)
1913 - Victor Mature, Louisville KY, actor (1 Million BC, Samson & Delilah) (d. 1999)
1913 - Daniel Taradash, American screenwriter (d. 2003)
1913 - Peter von Zahn, German journalist and writer (d. 2001)
1915 - Frederic Ramsey Jr, folklorist/author
1915 - Halfdan Rasmussen, Danish poet/WWII resistance fighter (Skoven)
1915 - John Serry, Sr., American musician and arranger (d. 2003)
1916 - Barbara Skelton, writer
1917 - John Raitt, Santa Ana California, actor/singer (Chevy Show, Pajama Game)
1918 - John Forsythe, NJ, actor (Bachelor Father, Charlie's Angels, Dynasty)
1918 - William Rigney, baseball manager (SF Giants)
1919 - Norman F Simpson, British playwright (One Way Pendulum)
1920 - Alec Coppen, psychiatrist
1920 - José Luis de Villalonga, Spanish aristocrat (d. 2007)
1921 - Anthony George, American actor (d. 2005)
1922 - Gerda Steinhoff, Nazi concetration camp supervisor (d. 1946)
1923 - Paddy Chayevsky, [Sydney], US, dramatist (Marty, Hospital) (d. 1981)
1924 - Brian Trubshaw, British test pilot
1924 - Gregson, Lord
1924 - Luigi Nono, Venice Italy, composer (Canonic Variations)
1924 - Marcelle Ferron, Quebec painter and stained glass artist (d. 2001)
1924 - Peter Voulkos, American artist (d. 2002)
1925 - Anthony George, Endicott NY, actor (Untouchables, Checkmate)
1925 - Lane of Horsell, Lord
1925 - Pier Tania (Meinte Piet), radio/TV host (ANP, De Bezetting)
1926 - Abdus Salam, theoretical physicist
1926 - Bob Berry, cricketer (England slow lefty 1950)
1927 - Edward Abbey, US author (Desert Solitaire)
1928 - Bengt Hambraeus, composer
1928 - Marinus Peijnenburg, Dutch politician
1928 - Peter Byrne, actor (Postcards from America, Carry on Cabby)
1929 - Elio Petri, Italy, director (Property is no theft)
1929 - William McMillan, US, rapid pistol (Olympic-gold-1960) [or Jul 3]
1930 - John Junkin, actor/writer (A Hard Day's Night)
1930 - Derek Bailey, English guitar virtuoso (d. 2005)
1931 - Leslie Bricuse, English/US composer (Stop the world I want to get off)
1932 - Clyde, Lord
1932 - Raman Subba Row, CEO (Test/County Cricket Board)
1932 - George Allen, English footballer
1933 - A C Alston, bibliographer
1933 - Margaret Laird, Commissioner (Third Church Estates)
1934 - Paul Gutama Soegijo, composer
1936 - Malcolm Binns, concert pianist
1936 - James Jamerson, American bass guitarist for Motown Records (d. 1983)
1937 - Bobby Scott, jazz singer
1938 - Bill Christian, US, ice hockey player (Olympic-gold-1960)
1939 - Germaine Greer, Melbourne Australia, feminist/author (Female Eunich)
1939 - O P Kolomitsev, cosmonaut
1940 - Katharine Ross, American actress
1940 - Kunimitsu Takahashi, Japanese motorcycle racer and racing driver
1942 - Arnaldo Tamayo-Mendez, Cuba, cosmonaut (Soyuz 38)
1942 - Claudine Longet, France, former Mrs Andy Williams/singer
1942 - F R Hartley, Vice-Chancellor (Cranfield University)
1942 - Katharine Ross, Hollywood Cal, actress (Graduate, Francesca-Colbys)
1942 - Richard Needham, British MP
1942 - Robin Morgan, Lake Worth Fla, actress (Dagmar-Mama)
1943 - Charles Fitzgerald-Lombard, Abbot of Downside
1943 - Timothy Andrew James Souster, composer
1944 - Barbara Moore, Wardell Mo, actress (Lisa Rogers-Man From UNCLE)
1944 - Hans Plomp, Dutch writer/poet (Venus in Holland)
1944 - Yoweri Museveni, President of Uganda
1944 - Patrick Lipton Robinson, Jamaican judge
1945 - Donna Marie Caponi Young, Detroit, LPGA golfer (US Open 1969, 70)
1945 - James Nicholson, British MEP
1945 - Tom Selleck, Detroit Mich, actor (Lance-Rockford Files, Magnum PI)
1945 - Jim Nicholson, Irish politician
1947 - David Byron, vocalist (Uriah Heep)
1947 - Israel Wetrin, managing director (Elonex)
1947 - Michael Mavor, Head Master (Rugby School)
1947 - Linda B. Buck, American scientist, Nobel laureate
1947 - Marián Varga, Slovak musician
1948 - Bill Kirchen, singer/guitarist (Commander Cody & Lost Planet Airmen)
1948 - Felice Taylor, R&B singer (I Feel Love Comin' On)
1948 - Marc Singer, Vancouver Canada, actor (V, Dallas)
1948 - Pat Kenny, Irish TV presenter & radio host
1950 - Ann Jillian, Cambridge Mass, actress (Mr Mom, Jennifer Slept Here)
1950 - Jody Schecter, South African auto maker (World Driver's 1979)
1951 - Andy Roberts, cricketer (brilliant WI quickie with 202 wickets 74-84)
1952 - Tommy Ramone, [Erdelyi], Budapest, Hungary, rock drummer/bassist (Ramones)
1953 - Dalila di Lazzaro, Udine Italy, covergirl/model (Vogue)
1953 - Hwang Woo-Suk, South Korean biomedical scientist
1953 - Teresa Teng, Taiwanese singer (d. 1995)
1953 - Lynne McGranger, Australian actress
1954 - Dick Manitoba, vocalist (Dictators)
1954 - Oprah Winfrey, Mississippi, actress/TV host (Color Purple, Oprah)
1954 - Doug Risebrough, Canadian ice hockey player, coach and executive
1955 - John Tate, US, heavyweight boxer (Olympic-bronze-1968)
1955 - Lynne McGranger, Australian actress
1957 - Irlene Mandrell, Corpus Christi Tx, country singer (Mandrell Sisters)
1957 - Jac Bico, Dutch guitarist/singer (Tambourine)
1957 - Grazyna Miller, Italian poet, translator, and journalist
1958 - Judy Norton-Taylor, Santa Monica California, actress (Mary Ellen-Waltons)
1958 - Ole Mortensen, cricketer (pace bowler for Derbyshire & Denmark)
1959 - Paul McGann, actor (Dr Who)
1960 - Cho-Liang Lin, Taiwan, violinist (Queen Sophia 1st prize)
1960 - Eddie Jackson, bassist (Queensryche-Breaking the Silence)
1960 - Gregory Efthimos Louganis, San Diego Ca, diver (Olympic-gold-1984, 88)
1960 - Matthew Ashford, Davenport IA, actor (Jack Devaraux-Days of Our Lives)
1960 - Sean Kerly, hockey player
1960 - Steve Sax, 2nd baseman (LA Dodgers, NY Yankees, Chic White Sox)
1960 - Gia Carangi, American model (d. 1986)
1960 - J. G. Thirlwell, Australian-born musician
1961 - Mike Aldrete, US baseball infielder (Oakland Athletics, NY Yankees)
1962 - Nicholas Turturro, Queens NY, actor (James Martinez-NYPD Blue)
1963 - Michelle Bell, Melrose MA, LPGA golfer (1981 Mass School Girls Champ)
1963 - Bob Holly, American professional wrestler
1964 - Andre Reed, NFL wide receiver (Buffalo Bills)
1964 - John Gallagher, rugby league player
1964 - John Habyan, US baseball pitcher (St Louis Cardinals)
1964 - Roddy Frame, rock vocalist/guitarist (Aztec Camera-Stray)
1964 - Anna Ryder Richardson, British interior designer and television presenter
1965 - Dominik Hasek, Pardubice CZE, NHL goalie (Czech Oly-Gold-98, Buffalo)
1965 - Peter Lundgren, Sweden, tennis star
1965 - Tim Johnson, NFL defensive tackle (Washington Redskins)
1966 - Romário, Brazilian footballer
1967 - David Pitcher, CFL fullback (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1967 - Khalid Skah, Midelt Morocco, 5k/10k runner
1967 - Sean Burke, Windsor, NHL goalie (Hartford Whalers)
1967 - Stacey King, NBA forward/center (Miami Heat)
1968 - Aeneas Williams, NFL cornerback (Arizona Cardinals)
1968 - Chris Pringle, (New Zealand cricket pace bowler (since 1990)
1968 - Ed Burns, director/actor (Brothers McMullen)
1968 - Harold Green, NFL running back (Cin Bengals, Atlanta Falcons)
1968 - John Hudson, NFL center/guard (NY Jets, Philadelphia Eagles)
1968 - Kevin Roberson, US baseball outfielder (Chicago Cubs)
1968 - Edward Burns, American actor
1968 - Susi Erdmann, German bobsledder and luger
1968 - Sora Jung, Korean actress
1969 - Aeneas Williams, cornerback (Arizona Cardinals)
1969 - Flora Perfetti, Faenza Italy, tennis star (1995 Futures-Reims-FRA)
1969 - Karen Fonteyne, Calgary Alberta, synchro swimmer (Olympics-silver-96)
1969 - Robert Young, NFL player (St Louis Rams)
1969 - Hyde, Japanese singer
1970 - Eric Gouka, cricketer (Netherlands pace bowler 1996 World Cup)
1970 - Heather Graham, Milwaukee WI, actress (Drugstore Cowboy, Diggstown)
1970 - Scott Davis, guard (Atlanta Falcons)
1970 - Jörg Hoffmann, German swimmer
1971 - Chris Vargas, CFL quarterback (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1971 - Jamal Fountaine, NFL defensive end (SF 49ers, Atlanta Falcons)
1972 - Hessley Hempstead, NFL guard (Detroit Lions)
1972 - Scott Davis, Great Falls Mont, figure skater (Olympics-1994)
1972 - Simon Cook, cricketer (Victorian pace bowler joined NSW 1995-96)
1973 - Darnell Stephens, NFL linebacker (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1973 - Jason Schmidt, Lewiston ID, pitcher (Atlanta Braves)
1973 - Scott Milanovich, quarterback (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1974 - David LaFleur, tight end (Dallas Cowboys)
1974 - Jeff Mitchell, corner (Baltimore Ravens)
1974 - Kris Burley, Truro Nova Scotia, gymnist (Olympics-96)
1974 - Pat Walsh, WLAF Tackle (London Monarchs)
1975 - Hendrik Dreekmann, Germany, tennis star
1975 - Kelly Packard, Glendale CA, actress (Tiffani Smith-California Dreams)
1975 - Lorraine Magwenzi, Miss Zimbabwe Universe (1997)
1975 - Maarten Kerkhof, soccer player (Vitesse, De Graafschap)
1975 - Sara Gilbert, Santa Monica California, actress (Melissa-Roseanne)
1976 - Ilmira Shamsutdinova, Miss Universe-Russia/best costume (1996)
1976 - Charles Divins, American model and actor
1977 - Martin Hohenberger, hockey forward (Team Austria 1998)
1977 - Justin Hartley, American actor
1978 - Martin Schmitt, German ski jumper
1978 - Rob Bironas, American football player
1979 - Andrew Keegan, actor (Step by Step, Party of Five)
1979 - April Scott, American actress and model
1979 - Joseph Todd, Arena Football League player
1979 - Sui Feifei, Chinese basketball player
1980 - Jason James Richter, Medford OR, actor (Free Willy)
1980 - Yael Bar-Zohar, Israeli actress and model
1980 - Ivan Klasnić, Croatian football player
1981 - Álex Ubago, Spanish musician
1981 - Darío Lopilato, Argentine actor
1982 - Heidi Mueller, American actress
1983 - Nedžad Sinanović, Bosnian basketball player
1985 - Isabel Lucas, Australian actress
1985 - Marc Gasol, Spanish basketball player
1986 - Mark Howard, English football player
1986 - Simon Vukčević, Montenegrin football player
1986 - Chris Bourque, American pro hockey player
1986 - Drew Tyler Bell, American actor
1987 - Spencer Clark, American race car driver (d. 2006)
1987 - Matthew Wilson, English world rally driver
1988 - Stephanie Gilmore, Australian professional surfer
1991 - Hugh Grosvenor, Earl Grosvenor, Son of the Duke of Westminster
1993 - Michelle Larcher De Brito, Portuguese tennis player
1996 - Megan Jossa, English actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 29, 2013, 07:28:21 AM

This Day in History for 29th January


Famous Deaths

969 - Peter, tsar of Bulgaria (927-69), dies
1240 - Pelagio Galvani, Cardinal-Bishop of Albano (b. va. 1165)
1342 - Louis I, Duke of Bourbon (b. 1279)
1559 - Thomas Pope, English politician, benefactor, dies at about 52
1597 - Elias Ammerbach, German organist (b. 1530)
1608 - Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1557)
1647 - Francis Meres, English writer (b. 1565)
1663 - Robert Sanderson, Bishop of Lincoln (1660-63), dies
1676 - Tsar Alexis I of Russia (b. 1629)
1678 - Jeronimo Lobo, Portuguese Jesuit missionary (b. 1593)
1696 - Ivan V, co-tsar of Russia (1682-89), dies
1706 - Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, English poet and courtier (b. 1638)
1737 - George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney, British soldier (b. 1666)
1743 - Andre Hercule Fleury, French cardinal (1726-43), dies
1763 - Louis Racine, French poet (b. 1692)
1814 - Johann G Fichte, German philosopher (Wissenschaftslehre), dies at 51
1820 - King George III of the United Kingdom (b. 1738). Reigned 1760-1820.
1824 - Louise MC countess of Albany, Henegouws salon owner, dies at 71
1829 - Paul François Jean Nicolas Barras, French politician (b. 1755)
1837 - Aleksandr Pushkin, poet/novelist (Golden Cockeral), killed in a duel
1870 - Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1797)
1871 - Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé, French Canadian writer and Seigneur (b. 1786)
1879 - Antonia MB Antonucci, Italian cardinal/diplomat, dies at 80
1888 - Edward Lear, poet/author, dies at 75
1899 - Alfred Sisley, painter, dies
1899 - Robert J Fruin, Dutch historian (80-year war), dies at 75
1906 - Christaan IX, King of Denmark (1893-1906), dies
1910 - Edouard Rod, French/Swiss writer (Mishel' Tes'e), dies at 52
1912 - Hermann Bang, writer, dies at 54
1916 - Edward Hubertus Joannes Keurvils, composer, dies at 62
1917 - Evelyn Baring earl Cromer, English consul-general in Egypt, dies at 75
1921 - Billy Gunn, cricket (score 392 runs for Eng including a century), dies
1924 - Joseph Ludwig, composer, dies at 79
1928 - Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig/field marshal (WW I), dies at 66
1933 - Sara Teasdale, American poet (b. 1884)
1934 - Fritz Haber, German chemist (Nobel 1918), dies at 65
1941 - Ioannis Metaxas, Greek gen/dictator (1936-41), commits suicide at 69
1942 - Ladislao Joseph Philip Paul Zavrtal, composer, dies at 92
1944 - William Allen White, US journalist (Emporia Gazette), dies at 75
1946 - Harry L Hopkins, US min of Business (Loan & Lease law), dies at 55
1946 - Sidney James Jones, composer, dies at 84
1947 - Fred Barratt, cricket (5 wkts at 47 in 5 Tests for Eng 1929-30), dies
1948 - Tomislav II of Croatia, 4th Duke of Aosta, Italian aristocrat (b. 1900)
1950 - Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1885)
1951 - James Bridie, [Osborne Henry Mavor], dramatist, dies
1951 - Frank Tarrant, Australian cricketer (b. 1880)
1955 - Hans Hedtoft, premier of Denmark (1947.. 55), dies at 51
1956 - H[enry] L[ouis] Mencken, US essayist/critic (Smart Set), dies at 75
1960 - Louis Jean Heydt, actor (Joe-Waterfront), dies at 54
1962 - Fritz Kreisler, Austria/US violinist/composer, dies at 86
1963 - Robert Lee Frost, US poet (New Hampshire, 4 Pulitzers), dies at 88
1964 - Alan Ladd, actor (Shane), dies at 50 in Palm Springs Calif
1965 - John Larkin, actor (Saints & Sinners, 12 O'Clock High), dies at 52
1965 - Michael Spisak, composer, dies at 50
1966 - Josef Winckler, German dentist/writer (Tolle Bomberg), dies at 84
1966 - Pierre Mercure, composer, dies at 38
1967 - Wlodzimierz Pozniak, composer, dies at 62
1968 - Laxmidas Purshottamdas Jai, cricketer (Test for India), dies
1970 - Basil H Liddell Hart, English military historian, dies at 74
1973 - Johannes Paul Thilman, composer, dies at 67
1973 - Ludwig Stossel, Austrian actor (Man With a Camera), dies at 89
1976 - Michael Gwynn, actor (Dunkirk, Barabbas, Cleopatra), dies at 59
1977 - E P "Buster" Nupen, cricketer (50 wickets for S Af, lost eye), dies
1977 - Freddie Prinze, comedian/actor (Chico & the Man), shoots himself at 22
1978 - Tim McCoy, actor (Arizona Bound), dies at 86
1980 - Antonio Molina, composer, dies at 85
1980 - Jimmy Durante, comedian (Palooka, Jimmy Durante Show), dies at 86
1981 - Cozy Cole, rocker (Topsy Part II), dies
1984 - Frances Goodrich, (Diary of Anne Frank), dies at 93 of lung cancer
1986 - Leif Erickson, actor (John-High Chaparral), dies at 74
1987 - Ivo Lhotka-Kalinski, composer, dies at 73
1988 - Bantcho Bantchevsky, US opera singer, commits suicide
1988 - James R Killian Jr, MIT pres (1948-59), dies at 83
1988 - Rogier van Otterloo, Dutch composer/conductor, dies at 46
1989 - Halina Konopacka, Polish athlete (b. 1900)
1991 - Yasushi Inoue, Japanese historian, dies
1992 - Willie Dixon, blues composer (I'm a Man, Backdoor Man), dies at 76
1993 - Hank Werba, [Herman Werblowski], US journalist (Variety), dies at 79
1993 - Michel Renault, French ballet dancer (Giselle), dies
1994 - Jevgeni P Leonov, Russian actor (Gori, Moja Zvezda), dies at 67
1994 - Nick Cravat, midget (Gremlin-Twilight Zone), dies of lung cancer at 81
1994 - Ulrike Maier, olympic skier, breaks neck during world cup skiing at 26
1995 - Arthur Guy Clutton-Brock, English agronomist (Rhodesia), dies at 88
1995 - Chris de Marigny, painter/designer, dies at 52
1995 - Raymond Joseph Cecil, British architect, dies at 69
1995 - Richard Burnell, British rower (Olympics-gold-1948), dies at 77
1995 - Richard Desborough Burnell, oarsman, dies at 77
1996 - Jack Sutherland, journalist, dies at 79
1996 - John Terence Reese, bridge master, dies at 82
1997 - Eric Schneider, murderer of 2 teachers, executed in MO at 35
1997 - Louis Pauwels, writer/editor, dies at 76
1997 - Osvaldo Soriano, writer, dies at 54
1998 - Joseph Alioto, mayor of San Francisco (b. 1916)
1999 - Lili St. Cyr, American dancer (b. 1918)
2002 - Dick "Night Train" Lane, American football player (b. 1928)
2002 - Harold Russell, Canadian-born actor (b. 1914)
2003 - Frank Moss, American politician (b. 1911)
2004 - M. M. Kaye, British writer (b. 1908)
2004 - Janet Frame, New Zealand writer (b. 1924)
2005 - Eric Griffiths, Welsh guitarist (The Quarrymen) (b. 1940)
2005 - Ephraim Kishon, Israeli satirst (b. 1924)
2007 - Barbaro, American thoroughbred racehorse (b. 2003)
2007 - Dia Abdul Zahra Kadim, Iraqi extremist leader (b. 1970)
2008 - Raymond Jacobs, American soldier (b. 1925)
2008 - Philippe Khorsand, French actor (b. 1948)
2009 - Hélio Gracie, Brazilian martial artist (b. 1913)
2009 - John Martyn, Scottish singer and songwriter (b. 1948)
2009 - Bill Frindall, English cricket scorer and statistician (b. 1939)
2012 - Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, Italian politician, dies at 93
2012 - Camilla Williams, American operatic soprano, dies at 92

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 30, 2013, 07:28:12 AM

This Day in History for 30th January


Historical Events

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King of England King Charles I                  US President & General                          Comedian Charlie Chaplin
                                                                      Andrew Jackson

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Soviet Union Premier Joseph Stalin    Pacifist and Spiritual Leader Gandhi       Singer & Cultural Icon Elvis Presley

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US President John F. Kennedy                British war time Prime Minister             US President George H. W. Bush
                                                                   Winston Churchill

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Rock Vocalist George Michael                   American Football Player
                                                                        Emmitt Smith


1077 - Pope Gregory VII pardons German emperor Henry IV
1349 - Gunther of Schwarzburg chosen German anti-king
1349 - Jews of Freilsburg Germany are massacred
1467 - Battle at Velke Kostolany: Hung king Mátyás Corvinus beats Bratrici
1487 - Bell chimes invented
1522 - Duke of Albany takes captured French back to Scotland
1544 - Adrian van Goes becomes land advocate of Holland
1592 - Ippolito Aldobrandini elected Pope Clement VIII
1647 - Scots agree to sell King Charles I to English Parliament for £400
1648 - Spain & Netherlands sign Peace of Munster, ending Tachtigjarige War
1661 - Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England is ritually executed after
           having been dead for two years.
1667 - Treaty/Truce of Andrusovo signed between Tsardom of Russia & Polish-Lithuanian
          Commonwealth
1713 - England & Netherlands sign 2nd anti-French boundary treaty
1774 - Capt Cook reaches 71°10' south, 1820km from south pole (record)
1781 - Articles of Confederation ratified by 13th state, Maryland
1790 - Lifeboat 1st tested at sea, by Mr Greathead, the inventor
1797 - Congress refuses to accept 1st petitions from American blacks
1798 - Rep Matthew Lyon (Vt) spits in face of Rep Roger Griswold (Ct) in US House of
          Representatives, after an argument
1800 - US population: 5,308,483; Black population 1,002,037 (18.9%)
1804 - Mungo Park leaves England seeking source of Niger River
1806 - Prussia takes possession of Hanover
1806 - The original Lower Trenton Bridge (also called the Trenton Makes the World Takes Bridge),
           which spans the Delaware River between Morrisville, Pennsylvania and Trenton, New Jersey, is
           opened.
1815 - Burned Library of Congress reestablished with Jefferson's 6500 vols
1818 - Keats composes his sonnet, "When I Have Fears"
1820 - Edward Bransfield aboard Williams discovers Antarctica (UK claim)
1826 - The Menai Suspension Bridge, considered the world's first modern suspension bridge,
           connecting the Isle of Anglesey to the north West coast of Wales is opened.
1835 - Richard Lawrence misfires at Pres Andrew Jackson in Washington DC
1841 - A fire destroys two-thirds of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
1847 - Yerba Buena renamed San Francisco
1854 - 1st election in Washington Territory; 1,682 votes cast
1858 - Charles Halle founds Halle Orchestra in Manchester
1858 - William Wells Brown published 1st Black drama, "Leap to Freedom"
1862 - US Navy's 1st ironclad warship (Monitor) launched
1877 - Storm flood ravages Dutch coastal provinces
1879 - French President MacMahon resigns
1883 - England team presented with ashes of a bail after Sydney Test
1888 - Harry Moses 297 not out for NSW against Victoria
1889 - John Herschel uses camera obscura to photograph 48" (120cm) telescope
1889 - Victoria beat NSW after following on (NSW all out 63 needed 76)
1889 - Archduke Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian crown, is found dead
           with his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera in Mayerling.
1892 - Bobby Abel carries his bat for 132* for England in SCG Test
1892 - Capt Lugard occupies Uganda's King Mwanga's hide out
1894 - Pneumatic hammer patented by Charles King of Detroit
1894 - US flag fired on in Rio; prompt satisfaction exacted by Adm Benham
1895 - C J Eady (Tas) 1st Australian to score twin centuries (v Vic)
1895 - SS Elbe sinks after collision in North Sea, 332 killed
1895 - Tasmania beat Victoria for 1st F-C victory in 41 years
1911 - 1st rescue of an air passenger by a ship, near Havana, Cuba
1913 - House of Lords rejects Irish Home Rule Bill
1915 - German submarine attack on Le Havre
1915 - No 10 batsman F W Hyett scores century on debut, Vic v Tas
1917 - 1st jazz record recorded (Dark Town Strutters Ball)
1919 - Reds hire Pat Moran as manager as Christy Mathewson, is still in France with US Army
1921 - French rapist-murderer Henri-Desire Landru sentenced to death
1922 - Ted McDonald takes 8-58 in big Victorian win over NSW
1922 - World Law Day, 1st celebrated
1924 - Ponsford scores second 110 of the game in Vic win over NSW
1925 - Turkish government throws out Constantine VI of Constantinople
1927 - Left wins national election in Thuringen
1928 - 1st radio telephone connection between Netherlands & US
1928 - Bradman scores 134 not out (225 mins, 13 fours) NSW v Vic
1928 - Eugene O'Neill's "Strange Interlude," premieres in NYC
1930 - Vladimir Mayakovsky's "Banya," premieres in Leningrad
1930 - The world's first radiosonde is launched in Pavlovsk, USSR.
1931 - Charlie Chaplin's "City Lights" premieres at Los Angeles Theater
1932 - Grimmett 7-116 in South Africa 1st innings at Adelaide Oval
1933 - "Lone Ranger" begins a 21-year run on ABC radio
1933 - Adolph Hitler named German Chancellor, forms government with Von Papen
1933 - Grimmett takes 7-86 for SA in Qld 2nd inn, 13-135 for match
1934 - 1st theatrical presentation sponsored by US government, NYC
1934 - Bert Ironmonger ends Sheffield Shield career age 51 yrs 298 days
1934 - Hitler proclamation on German unified states
1935 - Ezra Pound meets Benito Mussolini, reads from a draft of "Cantos"
1936 - New owners of Boston Braves ask newspapermen to pick a new nickname
1936 - Victoria need 442 to win against NSW, but lose, all out for 415 They pick "The Bees" it
           doesn't catch on & is scrapped by 1940 season
1937 - 2nd of Stalin's purge trials; Pyatakov & 16 others sentenced to death
1939 - Heavy after shocks destroy some of Chile
1939 - Hitler calls for extermination of European Jews
1940 - Benjamin Britten's "Lesson Illuminations" premieres in London
1940 - Cor Jongert wins 6th Dutch 11 Cities Skating Race
1940 - Hassett's second 122 of the game for Vic can't stop a NSW win
1941 - Australian troops conquer Derna Libya
1942 - Japanese troops land on Ambon
1943 - 6 British Mosquito's daylight bomb Berlin
1943 - German assault on French in Tunisia
1943 - German under officers shot down in Haarlem Neth
1943 - Hitler promotes Friedrich von Paul to general-fieldmarshal
1943 - Illegal opposition newspaper Loyal begins publishing
1943 - USS Chicago sinks in Pacific Ocean
1944 - US invades Majuro, Marshall Islands
1944 - World War II: United States troops land on Majuro.
1945 - "Wilhelm Gustloff" torpedoed off Danzig by Soviet sub-c 7,700 die
1945 - German ship "Wilhelm Gustloff" torpedoed, 4,800 killed
1946 - 1st issue of Franklin Roosevelt dime
1948 - 5th Winter Olympic games open in St Moritz, Switzerland
1948 - Mahatma Gandhi assassinated by Nathuram Godse
1950 - "Robert Montgomery Presents" dramatic anthology premieres on NBC TV
1951 - Belgium refuses to allow communists to make speeches on radio
1952 - Lehmer verifies: 2^521-1 & 2^607-1 (183 ciphers) Mersenne-prime #
1952 - Paul Creston's 4th Symphony, premieres
1954 - Belgium ends trade agreement with USSR
1954 - Italy's Fanfani government resigns
1956 - Elvis Presley records his version of "Blue Suede Shoes"
1956 - KRMA TV channel 6 in Denver, CO (PBS) begins broadcasting
1956 - KTXS TV channel 12 in Sweetwater-Abilene, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
1956 - Martin Luther King Jr's home bombed
1957 - US Congress accepts "Eisenhower-doctrine"
1958 - 1st 2-way moving sidewalk in service, Dallas Tx
1958 - Baseball announces players & coaches rather than fans pick all stars
1958 - Dore Schary's "Sunrise at Campobello," premieres in NYC
1958 - House of Lords passes bill allowing women in
1959 - Australia 1-200 1st day 4th Test v England, Adelaide Oval
1959 - Paul Hindemith's symphony "Pittsburgh," premieres
1960 - CIA OKs Lockheed to produce a new U-2 aircraft (Oxcart)
1960 - Dutch communist trade union EVC'58 disbands
1960 - Riot curtails third days play at Port-Of-Spain WI v England
1960 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Carol Heiss
1960 - US male Figure Skating championship won by David Jenkins
1961 - Bobby Darin is youngest performer to headline a TV special on NBC
1961 - JFK asks for an Alliance for Progress & Peace Corp
1961 - KAET TV channel 8 in Phoenix, AZ (PBS) begins broadcasting
1961 - Lance Gibbs takes hat-trick (Mackay, Grout, Misson) at Adelaide
1962 - UN General Assembly censures Portugal (because of Angola)
1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1962 - 2 members of Flying Wallendas' high-wire act killed when their 7-person pyramid collapsed
          during a performance in Detroit
1964 - Military coup of Gen Nguyen Khanh in South Vietnam
1964 - Ranger 6 launched; makes perfect flight to Moon, but cameras fail
1965 - "The Name Game" by Shirley Ellis hits #3
1965 - State funeral of Winston Churchill
1966 - -19°F (-28°C), Corinth, Mississippi (state record)
1966 - -27°F (-33°C), New Market, Alabama (state record)
1966 - Ard Schenk skates world record 1500m (2:05.2)
1966 - Dmitri Sjostakovitsj completes his 11th string quartet
1968 - Bobby Goldsboro records his biggest hit, "Honey"
1968 - Vietcong launch Tet-offensive on US embassy in Saigon
1969 - Beatles perform their last gig together, a free concert
1969 - US/Canada ISIS 1 launched to study ionosphere
1971 - "Ari" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 19 performances
1971 - Dennis Lillee takes 5-84 in his 1st Test bowl, v England
1971 - UCLA starts 88 basketball game win streak
1972 - Bloody Sunday: Brit soldiers shoot on catholics in Londonderry, 13 die
1972 - Pakistan withdraws from Commonwealth
1973 - 26th NHL All-Star Game: East beat West 5-4 at NY Rangers
1973 - Jury finds Watergate defendants Liddy & McCord guilty on all counts
1973 - KISS plays their 1st show (Coventry Club in Queens NY)
1974 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1976 - 1st-class debut of Dav Whatmore, in Johannesburg
1976 - George Bush becomes 11th director of CIA (until 1977)
1976 - William E Colby, ends term as 10th director of CIA
1977 - 8th (final) part of "Roots" is most-watched entertainment show ever
1977 - Allan Border scores 36 in his 1st-class innings (NSW v Qld)
1977 - Edward W Stack replaces Paul Kerr president of Hall of Fame
1978 - Addie Joss & Larry MacPhail elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1978 - Mutual Broadcasting Network begins airing Larry King Show on radio
1979 - Rhodesia agrees to new constitution
1979 - Varig 707-323C freighter, flown by the same commander as Flight 820, disappears over the
           Pacific Ocean 30 minutes after taking off from Tokyo.
1980 - Edward Albee's "Lady from Dubuque," premieres in NYC
1981 - 8th American Music Award: Kenny Rogers wins
1982 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Rosalynn Sumners
1982 - Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an
           Apple boot program called "Elk Cloner".
1983 - Hilbert van Thumb becomes European skating champ
1983 - Pat Bradley wins LPGA Mazda of Deer Creek Golf Classic
1983 - Superbowl XVII: Wash Red Skins beat Miami Dolphins, 27-17 in Pasadena Superbowl MVP:
           John Riggins, Washington, RB
1988 - Hansie Cronje gets a pair in 2nd 1st-class game (OFS v N Tvl)
1989 - 16th American Music Award: Randy Travis & George Michael wins
1989 - 5 Pharaoh sculptures from 1470 BC found at temple of Luxor
1989 - Joel Steinberg found guilty of 1st degree manslaughter of daughter
1989 - Last day of 1st class cricket for Dav Whatmore
1989 - Olympian, Bruce Kimball, is sentenced to 17 years in prison for killing 2 teenagers in a drunk
           driving accident
1989 - The American embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan closes.
1992 - Space Shuttle STS-42 (Discovery 15) lands
1993 - 100,000n Europeans demonstrate against fascism & racism
1993 - 67th Australian Women's Tennis Open: Monica Seles beat Graf (46 63 62)
1994 - 68th Australian Women's Tennis Open: S Graf beats A S Vicario (60 62)
1994 - 82nd Australian Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Todd Martin (76 64 64)
1994 - Dan Jansen skates world record 500m (35.76)
1994 - Kapil Dev equals Richard Hadlee's world record of 431 Test wkts
1994 - Superbowl XXVIII: Dallas Cowboys beat Buffalo Bills, 30-13 in Atlanta Superbowl MVP: Emmitt
           Smith, Dallas, RB
1994 - Péter Lékó becomes the youngest chess grand master.
1995 - 22nd American Music Award: Boyz II Men & Ace of Base win
1995 - Belgium's TV channel 2 in Flanders goes on the air
1995 - Car bomb explodes in Algiers, 42 killed/296 injured
1995 - Kevin Eubanks officially becomes band leader of "Tonight Show"
1995 - Workers from the National Institutes of Health announce the success of clinical trials testing
           the first preventive treatment for sickle-cell disease.
1996 - Gino Gallagher, the suspected leader of the Irish National Liberation Army, is killed while
           waiting in line for his unemployment benefit.
1997 - Minuteman III launches
1998 - All-Star Fla Marlin catcher Darren Daulton, retires
1998 - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Indianapolis IN on WNAP 93.1 FM
1998 - Paul Simon's "The Capeman," premieres
2000 - Super Bowl XXXIV: St. Louis Rams beat Tennessee Titans, 23-16 at the Georgia Dome
           Atlanta MVP: Kurt Warner, St. Louis, QB
2000 - Off the coast of Ivory Coast, Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, killing
          169.
2003 - Belgium legally recognizes same-sex marriage.

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 30, 2013, 07:36:51 AM

This Day in History for 30th January


Famous Weddings

1853 - Emperor and French President Napoleon III marries Eugenie de Montijo, Countess of Teba
2011 - "Chuck" actress Sarah Lancaster (30) weds attorney Matthew Jacobs in Southern California

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 30, 2013, 07:44:11 AM

This Day in History for 30th January


Famous Birthdays

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32nd US President                                   Actor Gene Hackman (1930)                    46th US Vice-President
Franklin Roosevelt (1882)                                                                                          Dick Cheney (1941)


133 - Marcus Severus Didius Julianus, Roman Emperor (d. 193)
1505 - Thomas Tallis, English composer (d. 1585)
1563 - Franciscus Gomarus, [Francois Gomaer], Dutch theologist/opera singer
1566 - Alessandro Piccinini, composer
1615 - Thomas Rolfe, American colonial settler and only child of Pocahontas and John Rolfe (d. 1675)
1616 - William Sancroft, Archbishop (Canterbury)
1624 - Arnold Geulincx, South Netherland, philosopher (About Virtue)
1628 - George Villiers, 2nd duke of Buckingham England
1647 - Konrad Hoffler, composer
1661 - Charles Rollin, French historian (d. 1741)
1687 - [Johann] Balthasar Neumann, German architect, baptized
1694 - Joseph Joachim Benedict Munster, composer
1697 - Johann Joachim Quantz, German royal flautist/composer
1708 - Georg D Ehret, German/English cartoonist
1710 - Vigilio Blasio Faitello, composer
1720 - Charles De Geer, Swedish industrialist and entomologist (d. 1778)
1724 - Ignaz Franz Xaver Kurzinger, composer
1752 - Joseph Matthias Kracher, composer
1754 - John Lansing, Jr., American statesman (d. 1829)
1756 - Josef Preindl, composer
1760 - Franz Xaver Partsch, composer
1775 - Walter Savage Landor, Warwick, critic/writer (Imaginary Conversation)
1781 - A v Chamisso, writer
1789 - George Augustus Kollmann, composer
1797 - Edwin Vose Sumner, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
1814 - Jean-Baptist Capronnier, French/Belgian glass painter
1816 - Nathaniel Prentiss Banks, Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1894
1822 - John Basil Turchin, [Ivan Turchinoff], Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
1822 - Franz Ritter von Hauer, Austrian geologist (d. 1899)
1829 - Alfred Cummings, Georgia, Brig Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1910
1830 - James G Blaine, US, minister of foreign affairs
1832 - Infanta Luisa Fernanda, Duchess of Montpensier (d. 1897)
1834 - Lord Avebury, [John Lubbock], British banker/politician
1835 - Oliver Edwards, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1904
1841 - Alfred Townsend George, Civil War journalist, died in 1914
1841 - Félix Faure, 6th President of the French Third Republic (d. 1899)
1844 - Moritz F Freiherr von Bissing, German gen/gov-gen of Belgium (1914-17)
1846 - Francis H Bradley, British philosopher (neo-idealism)
1853 - Leland Hone, cricketer (England keeper 1879 without county experience)
1859 - Tony Mullane, Irish-born American baseball player (d. 1944)
1861 - Charles Martin Tornow Loeffler, Mulhouse Alsace, composer
1862 - Walter Johannes Damrosch, composer
1865 - Samuel Pl'h Naber, Dutch rear-admiral/librarian
1866 - Gelett Burgess, author (Purple Cow)
1871 - Seymour Hicks, St Helier Jersey, actor-manager (Scrooge)
1871 - Wilfred Lucas, actor (Pardon Us, Chump at Oxford)
1873 - Rose Melville, actress (Sis)
1873 - Georges Ricard-Cordingley, painter (d. 1939)
1878 - Anton Hansen Tammsaare, Estonian author (d. 1940)
1882 - Franklin Roosevelt, New Hyde Park NY, 32nd US President (1933-1945), (d. 1945)
1885 - John Henry Towers, aviator/naval hero
1889 - Jaishankar Prasad, Hindi poet, dramatist and novelist (d. 1937)
1892 - Charles Trowbridge Haubiel, composer
1892 - Grigore Gafencu, Roman minister of Foreign affairs (1938-39)
1894 - Boris III, czar of Bulgaria (1918-43)
1894 - Marcel Canneel, Flemish painter (Reuzenstoet)
1899 - Max Theiler, English/US microbiologist (Nobel 1951)
1900 - Isaak Iosifovich Dunayevsky, composer
1900 - Martita Hunt, Argentina, actress (Man in Grey, Becket)
1900 - Sandy Powell, Rotherham England, costume designer (Rob Roy)
1901 - Earl of Huntingdon, mural painter
1901 - H E Nossak, writer
1902 - Elise Cavanna, actress (Pharmacist, Dentist, Barber Shop)
1902 - Nikolaus Pevsner, Engl, art historian (The Buildings of England)
1903 - G Evelyn Hutchinson, British zoologist (Treatise on Limnology)
1906 - Greta Nissen, actress (Ambassador Bill)
1909 - Mihaly Hajou, composer
1909 - Richard Hearne, Norwich England, actor (Capt Horatio Hornblower)
1909 - Saul David Alinsky, Chic Ill, radical writer (John L Lewis)
1910 - Frans Dohmen, union leader (Dutch Catholic Mineworker's Union)
1910 - C Subramaniam, Indian politician (d. 2000)
1911 - Alexander George Ogston, biochemist
1911 - Hugh Marlowe, Phila Pa, actor (Ellery Queen)
1911 - Roy Eldridge, Pitts Pa, jazz trumpeter (Gene Krupa, Artie Shaw)
1911 - Roy Eldridge, American musician (d. 1989)
1912 - Barbara Tuchman, US, historian/author (Pulitzer, Guns of August)
1912 - Jadwiga Wajsowna-Marcinkiewicz, discus thrower (Oly-bronze-1932)
1912 - Francis Schaeffer, American Evangelical theologian and pastor (d. 1984)
1913 - Dicky Fuller, cricketer (one Test WI v England 1935, 1, 0-12)
1913 - Percy Thrower, English radio host
1914 - David Wayne, Traverse City Mich, actor (Andromeda Strain, Adams Rib)
1914 - John Ireland, Vancouver BC, actor (Rawhide, Gunfight at OK Corral)
1914 - Louis Osman, artist architect goldsmith medallist/craftsman
1915 - Dorothy Dell, actor (Little Miss Marker, Wharf Angel)
1915 - John D Profumo, England, politician (C)
1915 - Pierre Wissmer, Swiss composer/theory (Capitaine Bruno)
1915 - Joachim Peiper, German SS officer (d. 1976, by assassination)
1917 - Paul Frère, Belgian racing driver and motorsport journalist d. 2008)
1918 - David Opatoshu, NYC, actor (Bonino, Secret Empire, Masada)
1918 - Jarl Andre Bjerke, [Bernhard Borge], Norwegian poet/writer
1919 - Robert Suter, composer
1919 - Nikolay Glazkov, Russian poet (d. 1979)
1920 - George Skibine, Russ/US dancer/choreographer (Tragedy in Verona)
1920 - Patrick Heron, abstract painter
1920 - Carwood Lipton, American WWII veteran (d. 2001)
1921 - Bernie Leighton, West Haven Ct, orchestra leader (Chance of a Lifetime)
1922 - Dick Martin, Detroit Mich, actor/comedian (Laugh-In, Carbon Copy)
1922 - Pal Jardanyi, composer
1924 - Margaret Beda Nicholson, author (No Medals for the Major)
1924 - Lloyd Alexander, American writer (d. 2007)
1924 - Margaret Yorke [Margaret Beda Nicholson], Compton, Surrey, author (Patrick Grant novels), (d. 2012)
1925 - Dorothy Malone, Chic, actress (At Gunpoint, Night & Day, Peyton Place)
1925 - Douglas Engelbart, American computer scientist
1926 - Ruth Brown, Portsmouth Va, actress (Leona-Hello Larry, Checking In)
1926 - Lizbeth Webb, Reading,, UK, soprano, (d. 2013)
1927 - Olof Palme, Stockholm, PM of Sweden (1969-76, 1982-86) assassinated
1928 - Andrew Salkey, author editor/broadcaster
1928 - Harold Prince, US producer/director (West Side Story, Evita)
1928 - Mitch Leigh, composer
1929 - Hugh Tayfield, cricketer (celebrated South African off-spinner 1949-60)
1929 - Viscount Long
1929 - Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Canadian surgeon and international aid worker (d. 1996)
1930 - Magnus Adem Malan, South African minister of Defense (1980- )
1930 - Gene Hackman, San Bernardino California, actor (Bonnie & Clyde, Under Fire, Superman)
1930 - Sandy Amorós, Cuban baseball player (d. 1992)
1930 - Samuel J. Byck, American attempted assassin of Richard Nixon (d. 1974)
1931 - Jack Bowman, Chief Constable (Tayside)
1931 - Shirley Hazzard, Australian author (Transit of Venus)
1931 - Stewart B McKinney, (Rep-R-CT, 1971- )
1931 - John Crosbie, Canadian politician
1931 - Allan W. Eckert, American historian, naturalist, and author
1932 - Kazuo Inamori, Japanese business executive (Kyocera Ceramics Co)
1932 - Knock Yokoyama, Japanese comedian and politician
1933 - Bob Muddimer, CEO (Ranks Hovis McDougall)
1933 - Louis Rukeyser, financial whiz (Wall Street Week)
1933 - Richard Dufallo, Chicago Ill, clarinetist/conductor
1934 - Tammy Grimes, Lynn Mass, actress (Can't Stop the Music)
1935 - Richard Brautigan, Tacoma Washington, novelist/poet (Trout Fishing in America)
1935 - John George Hughes, bishop of Kensington
1935 - Martin Taylor, former vice-chairman, Hanson
1936 - F. Vernon Boozer, American politician
1936 - Patrick Caulfield, British painter and printmaker (d. 2005)
1937 - Boris Spassky, USSR, world chess champion (1969-72)
1937 - Vanessa Redgrave, London, actress (Blow-Up, Julia, Orient Express)
1937 - Ed Hansen, American film director and editor (d. 2005)
1938 - Marcel P A van Dam, Dutch politician/CEO (VARA Radio/TV)
1938 - Marlies van Alcmaer, [Smal], Dutch actress/director (Bridge too Far)
1938 - Islom Karimov, President of Uzbekistan
1939 - Eleanor Smeal, feminist/pres (NOW)
1939 - Frank R Wolf, (Rep-R-VA, 1981- )
1939 - Nick Gaselee, racehorse trainer
1940 - David Johnson, composer
1941 - Dick Cheney, Lincoln, Nebraska, 46th US Vice President
1941 - Joe Terranoua, rocker (Danny & The Juniors)
1941 - Gregory Benford, American author and scientist
1941 - Tineke Lagerberg, Dutch swimmer
1942 - Andres, [Dries Holten], Dutch singer (Sandra & Andres)
1942 - Christopher Howes, Crown Estate Second Commissioner
1942 - Dave Brown, cricketer (Warwicks pace bowler, played 26X for England)
1942 - Marty Balin, Cincinnati, singer (Jefferson Starship-Miracles)
1943 - Davy Johnson, baseball manager (NY Mets)
1943 - Sandy Deane, rocker
1944 - John Thornton, English chocolate factory/multi-millionaire
1944 - Lynn Harrell, NYC, cellist
1945 - Michael Dorris, writer
1945 - Robert Wittinger, composer
1946 - Lord Mackay of Drumadoon, British QC
1947 - Martin Christoph Redel, composer
1947 - Steve Marriott, rock guitarist/vocalist (Humble Pie-Eat It, Faces)
1947 - Les Barker, English poet
1948 - Earl of Huntingdon
1948 - Nicholas Broomfield, director/editor (Dark Obsession, Heidi Fleiss)
1948 - Paul Magee, Provisional Irish Republican Army member
1949 - William King, Alabama, soul trumpeteer (Commodores-Easy)
1949 - Peter Agre, American biologist, Nobel laureate
1950 - Bruce Howard Lidington, actor (Sword of Valiant, Mosses)
1950 - Silvia Bertolaccini, LPGA golfer
1950 - Trinidad Silva, American actor (d. 1988)
1951 - Bobby Stokes, footballer
1951 - Charles S Dutton, Balt Md, actor (Alien 3, Crocodile Dundee 2, Roc)
1951 - Clifford Leon Anderson, rocker (Cure)
1951 - Marv Ross, rocker (Quarterflash)
1951 - Phil Collins, England, singer/drummer (Genesis-Against All Odds)
1951 - Trevor Laughlin, cricketer (Australian all-rounder 1978-79)
1952 - Doug Falconer, Canadian football player
1954 - Alides Hidding, singer/guitarist (Time Bandits)
1955 - Curtis Strange, Norfolk VA, PGA golfer (1989 US Open)
1955 - Judith Tarr, US, sci-fi author (Isle of Glass, Ars Magica)
1955 - Michael Thompson, guitarist (Afterburn, Fresh, Sahara, Gridlock'd)
1956 - Jeremy Gittins, English actor
1956 - Keiichi Tsuchiya, Japanese racing driver
1957 - William Payne Stewart, Springfield MO, PGA golfer (1983 Walt Disney)
1958 - Brett Butler, Montgomery Ala, comedienne (Grace-Grace Under Fire)
1958 - Rob van Zandvoort, Dutch rock vocalist/keyboardist (Jack of Hearts)
1959 - Jody Watley, Chic, dancer (Solid Gold)/singer (Looking For a New Love)
1960 - Tony O'Dell, Pasadena California, actor (Alan Pinkard-Head of the Class)
1961 - Ranjit Madurasinghe, cricketer (3 Tests for Sri Lanka 1988-92)
1962 - King Abdullah II of Jordan
1962 - Mary Kay Letourneau, American convicted statutory rapist
1964 - Cheryl Akemi Toma, Pearl City Hawaii, Miss Hawaii-America (1991)
1965 - Julie McCullough, Honolulu Hi, playmate (Feb 86)/actr (Growing Pains)
1966 - Danielle Goyette, ice hockey forward (Canada, Oly-98)
1966 - Daphne Ashbrook, Long Beach California, actress (Liz-Our Family Honor)
1967 - Bill Leverty, Richmond Va, guitarist (Firehouse-Love of a Lifetime)
1967 - Jay Gordon, American musician
1968 - Bob Nardella, hockey defenseman (Team Italy 1998)
1968 - Felipe de Borbon, Prince of Asturias, heir to Spanish throne
1968 - Trevor Dunn, American musician (Mr. Bungle, Fantômas, Secret Chiefs 3)
1969 - Carolyn Kepcher, American businesswoman and reality TV show star
1970 - Edwin de Kruyf/Kruijff, soccer player (FC Utrecht, FC Groningen)
1970 - Hans Spark, soccer player (RKC)
1970 - Oleg Khmyl, NHL defenseman (Belarus, Oly-98)
1970 - Scott Levins, Spokane, NHL right wing (Ottawa Senators)
1971 - Brent Moss, WLAF running back (Amsterdam Admirals)
1971 - Chris Slade, NFL outside linebacker (New England Patriots)
1971 - Derek Allen, NFL/WLAF offensive linebacker (NY Giants, Rhein Fire)
1971 - Kevin Knox, WLAF receiver (Rhein Fire)
1971 - Kimo Von Oelhoffen, NFL defensive tackle (Cin Bengals)
1971 - Milko Pieren, Dutch soccer player (Sparta)
1971 - Quentin Neujahr, NFL center (Baltimore Ravens, Cleveland Browns)
1971 - Takeshi Yamanaka, hockey defenseman (Team Japan 1998)
1971 - Trent Klatt, Robbinsdale, NHL right wing (Phila Flyers)
1971 - Darren Boyd, British actor
1972 - Burt Thornton, CFL receiver (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1972 - Chris Simon, Wawa, NHL left wing (Colorado Avalanche)
1972 - Jill McGill, Denver CO, LPGA golfer (1995 British Open-2nd)
1973 - Brad Yamaoka, CFL running back (BC Lions)
1973 - Holly Noelle Roehl, Miss Indiana USA (1996)
1973 - Jalen Rose, NBA guard (Indiana Pacers)
1973 - Jimmy Oliver, NFL wide receiver (San Diego Chargers)
1973 - Sharone Wright, NBA center/forward (Toronto Raptors)
1974 - Christian Bale, Wales, actor (Empire of the Sun, Little Women)
1974 - Martina Jerant, Windsor Ontario, basketball center (Olympics-96)
1974 - Robert Rollins, cricketer (big-hitting Essex wicketkeeper-batsman)
1974 - Jemima Khan, English socialite
1975 - Juninho Pernambucano, Brazilian footballer
1975 - Yumi Yoshimura, Japanese singer (Puffy Amiyumi)
1976 - Florian Keller, Munchen GER, hockey player (Team Germany, Rosenheim)
1976 - Andy Milonakis, American comedian
1977 - Deltha O'Neal, American football player
1978 - Lnd Girchoukevitch, NHL goaltender (Belarus, Oly-98)
1978 - John Patterson, American baseball player
1979 - Diva Zappa, daughter of Frank
1979 - Karen Smith, Australian field hockey midfielder/halfback (Olympics-96)
1980 - Joãozinho, Brazilian footballer
1980 - Leilani Dowding, British glamour model
1980 - Wilmer Valderrama, American actor
1980 - Pavel Ponomaryov, Russian-Estonian actor
1981 - Dimitar Berbatov, Bulgarian footballer
1981 - Mathias Lauda, Austrian racing driver
1981 - Peter Crouch, English footballer
1981 - Josh Kelley, American musician
1982 - Jorge Cantu, Mexican baseball player
1984 - Jeremy Hermida, American baseball player
1985 - Aaadietya Pandey, Indian astrologer
1985 - Trae Williams, American football player
1986 - Sam Duckworth, British singer-songwriter
1986 - Nick Evans, American baseball player
1987 - Rebecca Knox, Irish professional wrestler
1988 - Rob Pinkston, American actor
1989 - Khleo Thomas, American actor and rapper
1990 - Jake Thomas, American actor
1990 - Eiza Gonzalez, Mexican actress/singer
1991 - Matthew Werkmeister, Australian actor
2005 - Prince Hashem bin Al Abdullah II, of Jordan

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 30, 2013, 07:53:41 AM

This Day in History for 30th January


Famous Deaths

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Seamstress Credited with                Pacifist and Spiritual Leader Gandhi (1948)     Aviator Orville Wright (1948)
Creating the First American Flag
 Betsy Ross (1836)

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Blues Singer Lightnin' Hopkins (1982)         Novelist Sidney Sheldon (2007)


1030 - William V, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 969)
1156 - Herman van Horn, bishop of Utrecht (1151/52-56), dies
1181 - Emperor Takakura of Japan (b. 1161)
1384 - Louis II of Flanders (b. 1330)
1393 - Aimery Poitiers, French nobleman, burned at royal ball
1393 - Yvain, son of earl of Foix, burned at royal ball
1574 - Damião de Góis, Portuguese philosopher (b. 1502)
1584 - Jonker Wigbold van Ewsum, mister of Nienoord, dies in battle
1584 - Pieter Jansz Pourbus, Flemish painter, dies
1606 - Everard Digby, English conspirator (b. 1578)
1644 - William Chillingworth, Engl theologian, Cambridge Platonist, dies
1649 - Charles I, King of Great Britain (1625-49), beheaded for treason
1730 - Peter II Alekseyevitch, tsar of Russia (1727-30), dies at 14
1774 - Frantisek Ignac Antonin Tuma, composer, dies at 69
1774 - Jean-Pierre Guignon, composer, dies at 71
1797 - Johann Abraham Sixt, composer, dies at 40
1816 - Reinier Vinkeles, Dutch engraver/cartoonist/art collector, dies at 74
1827 - Johann Philipp Christian Schulz, composer, dies at 53
1836 - Betsy Ross [Elizabeth Griscom], seamstress widely credited with making the first American
           flag (b. 1752)
1838 - Osceola, chief of Seminole indians, dies in jail
1858 - Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Dutch zoologist (b. 1778)
1860 - Francesco Antonio Norberto Pinto, composer, dies at 44
1867 - Emperor Kōmei of Japan (b. 1831)
1869 - William Carleton, Irish novelist (b. 1794)
1881 - Jaak Nikolaas Lemmens, Flemish composer, dies at 58
1888 - Asa Gray, US botanist (Flora of North America), dies at 77
1889 - Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria (b. 1858)
1890 - Karl Merz, composer, dies at 53
1897 - John Cottam, cricket (Test for Aust 1897, no Sheffield matches), dies
1900 - Vittorio Bersezio, [Carlo Nugelli], Italian playwright, dies at 71
1925 - Jakab Gyula Major, composer, dies at 66
1925 - John F Mellaerts, Flemish social founder (Boerenbond), dies at 79
1926 - Barbara La Marr, American actress (b. 1896)
1927 - Friedrich Ernst Koch, composer, dies at 64
1928 - Douglas Haig, Brit fieldmarshal (Sudan/Boer war/WW I), dies at 66
1928 - Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger, Danish scientist, Nobel laureate (b. 1867)
1929 - La Goulue, French Cancan dancer (b. 1866)
1934 - Frank Nelson Doubleday, American publisher (b. 1862)
1942 - Vasily Pavovlich Kalafati, composer, dies at 72
1945 - Gottlieb J Haberlandt, Hungarian/German botanist, dies at 90
1945 - William Busch, composer, dies at 43
1947 - Frederick F Blackman, English botanist, dies at 80
1948 - Mahatma Gandhi, India's political and spiritual leader, assassinated in New Delhi
1948 - Herb Pennock, pitcher (NY Yankees)/GM (Phillies), dies
1948 - Mahatma Ghandi, murdered by Hindu extremists in India
1948 - Orville Wright, US aviation pioneer, dies at 76
1951 - Ferdinand Porsche, German car inventor (Porsche), dies at 75
1953 - Louis H N Bosch van Rosenthal, Dutch resistance fighter, dies at 68
1956 - Gerrit Mannoury, mathematician/philosopher, dies at 88
1956 - Jane Seymour, actress (Young Mr Bobbin), dies at 56
1957 - Grigore Gafencu, Romanian min of Foreign Affairs (1938-39), dies at 65
1958 - Earnest H Heinkel, German airplane builder (WW II), dies at 70
1958 - Jean Crotti, Swiss artist (b. 1878)
1962 - Manuel de Abreu, Brazilian physician (b. 1894)
1963 - P F "Plum" Warner, cricketer (England mgr during Bodyline tour), dies
1963 - Francis Poulenc, French composer (b. 1899)
1964 - Berthold Altaner, German church historian, dies at 80
1965 - Vic Jackson, cricketer (NSW/Leicerstershire off-spinner), dies in car
1967 - Lee Morgan, actor (Dungeons of Harrow, Last Rebel), dies
1968 - Tsugouharu T Foujita, Japanese/French painter, dies at 81
1969 - Allan Welsh Dulles, US diplomat/director (CIA 1953-61), dies at 75
1969 - Dominique G Pire, clergyman, (Europe village Nobel 1958), dies at 58
1970 - Malcolm Keen, English actor (Uncle Chris-Mama), dies at 82
1972 - Karel Boleslav Jirak, composer, dies at 81
1973 - Jack McGowan, actor (On Our Selection), dies at 54
1974 - Bill Whitty, cricketer (37 wkts v South Africa 1910-11 series), dies
1975 - Boris Blacher, German composer (Purloined Letter), dies at 72
1976 - Jesse "Lone Cat" Fuller, SF Blues Great, dies at 80
1976 - Mance Lipscomb, rocker, dies at 80
1976 - Percy Tyson "Plum" Lewis, cricketer (pair in only Test for S Af), dies
1980 - Lil Dagover, actress (Destiny, Spiders), dies at 82
1980 - Professor Longhair, king of New Orleans music, dies at 61
1982 - Félix L V L J Labisse, French painter (libidoscaphes), dies at 76
1982 - Lightning Hopkins, rocker, dies of cancer at 69
1982 - Riccardo Nielsen, composer, dies at 73
1982 - Stanley Holloway, comedian (My Fair Lady, Our Man Higgins), dies at 91
1982 - Lightnin' Hopkins, American musician (b. 1912)
1983 - Joan Valerie, actress (Pier 13), dies of pneumonia
1983 - [Dallas] Mack/McCord Reynolds, sci-fi author (Earth War), dies at 65
1985 - Ken Mayers, actor (Robbie Robertson-Space Patrol), dies at 67
1986 - Ticker Freeman, pianist (Dinah Shore Show), dies at 74
1987 - Angelo Rutherford, actor (Willie-Gentle Ben), dies at 32
1987 - Ken Drake, actor (Crime & Punishment USA), dies
1988 - Cornelia D "Corry" Spark, Dutch cabaret performer, dies at 85
1991 - John McIntire, actor (Virginian, Psycho), dies of emphysema at 83
1991 - John Bardeen, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1908)
1991 - Clifton C. Edom, American photojournalism educator (b. 1907)
1993 - Taikichiro Mori, Japanese real estate developer, dies at 88
1994 - Bahjat Talhouni, PM of Jordan (1960-62, 64-65, 67-69, 69-70), dies
1994 - Byron "Wild Child" Gipson, blues Singer, dies at 64
1994 - Ernestine "Tiny" Davis, jazz vocalist/trumpeter, dies at 86
1994 - Jan L N Schaefer, Dutch undersecretary of Housing (PvdA), dies at 53
1995 - George H Poyser, English soccer player (Manchester City), dies at 84
1995 - George Richard James, saxophonist, dies at 88
1995 - Gerald M Durrell, British zoologist/author (Mockery Bird), dies at 70
1996 - Bob Thiele, record producer, dies at 73
1996 - Guy Doleman, actor (Deadly Bees, Idol, Thunderball), dies at 72
1998 - Ricky Sanderson, stabbed 16-year old girl in NC, executed at 38
1998 - Richard Cassilly, American tenor (b. 1927)
1999 - Huntz Hall, American actor (b. 1919)
1999 - Ed Herlihy, American broadcaster (b. 1909)
2001 - Jean-Pierre Aumont, French actor (b. 1911)
2001 - Johnnie Johnson, British fighter pilot (b. 1915)
2001 - Joseph Ransohoff, the father of modern neurosurgery (b. 1915)
2005 - Martyn Bennet, Canadian musician (b. 1971)
2005 - Wes Wehmiller, American musician (b. 1971)
2006 - Coretta Scott King, American activist and wife of Martin Luther King, Jr. (b. 1927)
2007 - Nikos Kourkoulos, Greek actor and artistic director (b. 1934)
2007 - Sidney Sheldon, American author, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1917)
2008 - Jeremy Beadle, British television host, (b. 1948)
2008 - Roland Selmeczi, Hungarian actor (b. 1969)
2008 - Marcial Maciel, Mexican religious leader (b. 1920)
2009 - Ingemar Johansson, Swedish heavyweight professional boxing champion of the world (b.
          1932)
2011 - John Barry, English film score composer (b. 1933)
2012 - Frederick Treves, English actor, dies at 86
2012 - Mary Grierson, Welsh botanical artist, dies at 99

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 31, 2013, 06:45:59 AM

This Day in History for 31st January


Historical Events

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Confederate General Robert E Lee                 Outlaw Jesse James                      Russian Revolutionary Leon Trotsky

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33rd US President Harry Truman          MacDonalds Entreprenuer Ray Kroc             Rocker/Beatle John Lennon

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Deaf Actress Marlee Matlin                       Tennis Star Martina Hingis     

314 - St Silvester I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
876 - Charles becomes king of Italy
1504 - By treaty of Lyons, French cede Naples to Ferdinand of Aragon
1531 - Kings Ferdinand of Austria/Janos Zapolyai of Hungary accept each other
1578 - Battle of Gembloers
1596 - Catholic League disjoins
1609 - Wisselbank of Amsterdam established
1627 - Spanish government goes bankrupt
1675 - Cornelia/Dina Olfaarts found not guilty of witchcraft
1679 - Jean-Baptiste Lully's opera "Bellerophon," premieres in Paris
1696 - Revolt of undertakers after funeral reforms (Amsterdam)
1747 - The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital.
1779 - Charles Messier adds M57 (Ring Nebula in Lyra) to his catalog
1804 - British vice-admiral William Blighs fleet reaches Curacao
1814 - Gervasio Antonio de Posadas becomes Supreme Director of Argentina.
1817 - Franz Grillparzer's "Die Ahnfrau," premieres in Vienna
1846 - After the Milwaukee Bridge War, Juneautown and Kilbourntown unified as the City of
           Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
1849 - Corn Laws abolished in Britain
1851 - Gail Borden announces invention of evaporated milk
1851 - SF Orphan's Asylum, 1st in California, founded
1854 - Dutch KNMI established (Royal Meteorological Institute)
1855 - Western railroads blocked by snow
1861 - Friedrich Hebbel's "Siegfrieds Tod," premieres in Weimar
1861 - State of Louisiana takes over US Mint at New Orleans
1862 - Telescope maker Alvin Clark discovers dwarf companion of Sirius
1863 - 1st black Civil War regiment, SC Volunteers, mustered into US army
1865 - Congress passes 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery in America (121-24)
1865 - Gen Robert E Lee named Commander-in-Chief of Confederate Armies
1867 - Maronite nationalist leader Youssef Karam leaves Lebanon on board of a French ship for
           Algeria
1871 - Millions of birds fly over western SF, darkens sky
1874 - Jesse James gang robs train at Gads Hill, Missouri
1876 - The United States orders all Native Americans to move into reservations.
1891 - The first attempt of a Portuguese republican revolution breakes out in the northern city of
           Porto.
1893 - "Westminster Gazette" begins publishing
1895 - Jose Martí & others leave NYC for invasion of Spanish Cuba
1901 - Boer general John Smuts & De la Rey conqueror Mud river Transvaal
1901 - Chekhov's "Three Sisters" opens at Moscow Art Theater
1901 - Winnipeg Victorias sweep Montreal Shamrocks in 2 for Stanley Cup
1904 - Bela Bartok's symphony "Kossuth," premieres
1905 - 1st auto to exceed 100 mph (161 kph), A G MacDonald, Daytona Beach
1905 - Carroll Wright appointed 1st US Commissioner of Labor
1906 - Strongest instrumentally recorded earthquake, Colombia, 8.6 Richter
1911 - Congress names SF as Panama Canal opening celebration site
1915 - 1st (German) poison gas attack, against Russians
1916 - Dutch Girl Guides form
1917 - Germany notifies US that U-boats will attack neutral merchant ship
1918 - A series of accidental collisions on a misty Scottish night leads to the loss of two Royal Navy
           submarines with over a hundred lives, and damage to another five British warships.
1919 - The Battle of George Square takes place in Glasgow, Scotland.
1920 - 1st Ukrainian daily newspaper in US (NYC) begins publication
1920 - Joe Malone, Quebec Bulldogs, sets NHL record with 7 goals in a game
1920 - Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, at Howard University, incorporates
1925 - Premier Ahmed Zogu becomes president of Angola
1927 - Intl allies military command in Germany disbands
1927 - NL Pres John Heydler rules Rogers Hornsby can't hold stock in the Cardinals & play for the
          Giants
1928 - Scotch tape 1st marketed by 3-M Company
1929 - Erich Maria Remarque publishes "Im Westen nichts Neues" in Berlin
1929 - Leon Trotsky expelled from Russia to Turkey
1930 - 1st US glider flight from a dirigible, Lakehurst, NJ
1931 - NHL's Quebec Bulldogs' Joseph Malone scores a record 7 goals
1931 - Philip Barry's "Tomorrow & Tomorrow," premieres in NYC
1932 - US railway unions accept 10% wage reduction
1933 - French government of Daladier takes power
1933 - Hitler promises parliamentary democracy
1934 - FDR devalus dollar in relation to gold at $35 per ounce
1936 - "Green Hornet" radio show is 1st heard on WXYZ Radio in Detroit
1940 - 40 U boats sunk this month (111,000 ton)
1940 - C Turney & J Horwin's "My Dear Children," premieres in NYC
1941 - 21 U boats sunk this month (127,000 ton)
1941 - Anti-German demonstration in Haarlem Netherlands
1941 - Joe Louis KOs Red Burman in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
1941 - Layforce set sail.
1942 - 62 U boats sunk this month (327,000 ton)
1943 - 39 U boats sunk this month (203,100 ton)
1943 - Chile breaks contact with Germany & Japan
1943 - Gen Friedrich von Paul surrenders to Russian troops at Stalingrad
1944 - Operation-Overlord (D-Day) postponed until June
1944 - U-592 sunk off Ireland
1944 - US forces invade Kwajalein Atoll
1945 - US 4th Infantry division occupies Elcherrath
1946 - Yugoslavia adopts new constitution, becomes a federal republic
1948 - J D Salinger's "A Perfect Day for Banana Fish" appears in NY
1948 - Magnetic tape recorder developed by Wireway
1949 - 1st daytime soap on TV "These Are My Children" (NBC in Chicago)
1950 - President Harry Truman publicly announces development of H-bomb
1950 - Pres Harry Truman OKs building of hydrogen bomb
1952 - Dutch Lutheran Church reunites after 1½ centuries
1952 - Harry Heilmann & Paul Waner elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1953 - "Princess Victoria" capsized off Stanraer Scotland; 133 die
1953 - Hurricane-like winds flood Netherlands drowning 1,835
1953 - NY, Cleveland, & Boston retaliate at Bill Veeck, forcing the Browns to play afternoon games to
           avoid sharing TV revenues
1955 - RCA demonstrates 1st music synthesizer
1956 - French government of Mollet forms
1956 - Juscelino Kubitschek becomes president of Brazil
1956 - Guy Mollet becomes Prime Minister of France.
1957 - Liz Taylor's 2nd divorce (Michael Wilding)
1957 - Trans-Iranian oil pipe line finished
1957 - Eight people on the ground in Pacoima, California are killed following the mid-air collision
           between a Douglas DC-7 airliner and a Northrop F-89 Scorpion fighter jet.
1958 - "Jackpot Bowling" premieres on NBC with Leo Durocher as host
1958 - James van Allen discovers radiation belt
1958 - US launches their 1st artificial satellite, Explorer 1
1959 - Joe Cronin signs 7 year pact to become head of AL
1961 - David Ben-Gurion resigns as premier of Israel
1961 - Ham is 1st primate in space (158 miles) aboard Mercury/Redstone 2
1961 - Houston voters approve bond to finance luxury domed stadium
1961 - Kanhai completes twin tons (117 & 115) v Aust at Adelaide
1961 - NATO secretary-general Paul-Henri Spaak says he'll resign
1961 - USAF launches Samos spy satellite to replace U-2 flights
1962 - Gen Charles P Cabell, USAF, ends term as deputy director of CIA
1962 - Samuel Gravely assumes command of destroyer escort "USS Falgout"
1963 - Tony Sheridan & Beat Brothers record "What'd I Say" & "Ruby Baby"
1964 - US report "Smoking & Health" connects smoking to lung cancer
1965 - Pud Galvin elected to baseball Hall of Fame
1966 - Belgian state police kills 2 striking mine workers
1966 - USSR launches Luna 9 towards Moon
1968 - Bobby Simpson takes 5-59 v India in his last Test for ten years
1968 - Nauru (formerly Pleasant Island) declares independence from Australia
1968 - Record high barometric pressure (1083.8 mb, 32"), at Agata, USSR
1968 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1968 - Viet Cong's Tet offensive begins
1969 - Beatles perform last live gig (42-min concert on roof of Apple HQs)
1969 - Vice Admiral Rufus L Taylor, USN, ends term as deputy director of CIA
1970 - Grateful Dead members busted on LSD charges
1971 - "My Sweet Lord" by George Harrison hit #1 on UK pop chart
1971 - Apollo 14 launched, 1st landing in lunar highlands
1971 - Jake Beckley, Joe Kelley, Harry Hooper, Rube Marquard, Chick Hafey
1971 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn
1971 - US male Figure Skating championship won by John Misha Petkevich
1971 - & Dave Bancroft & George Weiss elected to baseball Hall of Fame
1972 - Aretha Franklin sings at Mahalia Jackson's funeral
1972 - Birenda, becomes leader of Nepal
1972 - Military coup ousts civilian government of Ghana
1972 - US launches HEOS A-2 for interplanetary observations (396/244,998)
1974 - MacDonald's founder Ray Kroc buys San Diego Padres
1975 - Barry Manilow's "Mandy" goes gold
1975 - John Lennon releases "#9 Dream"
1975 - UCLA wins NCAA basketball championship
1976 - "Love Rollercoaster" by Ohio Players hits #1
1976 - Lance Gibbs becomes highest Test wicket-taker at 308
1977 - Frenchman Francois Claustre freed, after 33 months as hostage in Chad
1977 - Joe Sewell, Amos Rusie, & Al Lopez elected to baseball Hall of Fame
1978 - "Elvis: The Legend Lives!" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 101 perfs
1978 - Israel turns 3 milt outposts in West Bank into civilian settlements
1980 - Police storm occupied Spanish embassy in Guatemala City, killing 41
1981 - "The Tide Is High" by Blondie hits #1
1981 - 38th Golden Globes: Ordinary People, Coal Miner's Daughter
1981 - Gaetan Boucher skates world record 1000m (1:13.39)
1982 - 10 Arabian oryx (extinct except in zoos) released in Oman
1982 - 12th AFC-NFC pro bowl, AFC wins 16-13
1982 - 32nd NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 120-118 at New Jersey
1982 - Gustafson skates world record 10 km (14:26.59)
1982 - Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Whirlpool Golf Championship of Deer Creek
1982 - NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 16-13
1982 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Hamilton
1984 - 36th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 7-6 at NJ
1984 - Edwin Newman retires from NBC News after 35 years with the network
1984 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1985 - "Harrigan 'n Hart" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 5 performances
1985 - South African president PW Botha offers to free Mandela if he denounces violence
1986 - Mary Lund of Minn, is 1st female recipient of an artificial heart
1987 - 44th Golden Globes: Platoon, Marlee Matlin win
1987 - United Steel workers union ratified a concessionary with USX Corp
1988 - Barge sinks near Anacortes, WA, spills 70,000 gallons of oil
1988 - Superbowl XXII: Wash Redskins beat Denver Broncos, 42-10 in San Diego Superbowl MVP:
           Doug Williams, Washington, QB
1990 - 1st McDonalds in Russia opens in Moscow, world's biggest McDonalds
1990 - 1st ever all-sports daily "National" begins publishing
1990 - Jushin "Thunder" Liger beats Naoki Sano to become New Japan IWGP champ
1990 - The first McDonald's in the Soviet Union opens in Moscow, USSR.
1991 - Nugget's Michael Adams becomes shortest NBAer to get a triple-double
1991 - Robert Gibson flies record 27,040 feet altitude
1992 - MTA raised tolls on most NYC bridges from $2.50 to $3.00
1993 - "St Joan" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 49 performances
1993 - 81st Australian Mens Tennis: Jim Courier beats S Edberg (62 61 26 75)
1993 - Superbowl XXVII: Dallas Cowboys beat Buffalo Bills, 52-17 in Pasadena Superbowl MVP: Troy
           Aikman, Dallas, QB
1994 - Barcelona opera theater "Gran Teatro del Liceo" burns down
1994 - Dow Jones hits a record 3,978.36
1995 - President Bill Clinton authorizes a $20 billion loan to Mexico to stabilize its economy.
1998 - 72nd Australian Womens Tennis: Martina Hingis beats C Martinez (63 63)
1998 - STS 89 (Endeavour 12) lands
2000 - Alaska Airlines flight 261 MD-83, experiencing horizontal stabilizer problems, crashes in the
           Pacific Ocean off the coast of Point Mugu, California, killing all 88 persons aboard.
2001 - In the Netherlands a Scottish court convicts a Libyan and acquits another for their part in the
           bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 which crashed into Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988.
2003 - The Waterfall rail accident occurs near Waterfall, New South Wales, Australia.
2007 - Suspects are arrested in Birmingham in the UK, accused of plotting the kidnap, holding and
           eventual beheading of a serving Muslim British soldier in Iraq.
2009 - In Kenya, at least 113 people are killed and over 200 injured following an oil spillage ignition in
           Molo, days after a massive fire at a Nakumatt supermarket in Nairobi killed at least 25 people.

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 31, 2013, 06:48:01 AM

This Day in History for 31st January


Famous Weddings

1560 - Spanish king Philip II marries Elisabeth van Valois
1842 - 10th US President John Tyler's daughter Elizabeth marries in White House
1960 - Songwriter Adolph Green marries actress/singer Phyllis Newman in NYC
1974 - "The Outlaw" actress Jane Russell (52) weds real-estate broker John Calvin People (45) in
            Santa Barbara, California
2009 - "Stay" singer-songwriter Lisa Loeb (40) weds Late Night with Conan O'Brien music supervisor
            Roey Hershkovitz (30) at Manhattan restaurant in New York City

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 31, 2013, 06:49:04 AM

This Day in History for 31st January


Famous Divorces

1957 - Liz Taylor's 2nd divorce (Michael Wilding)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 31, 2013, 06:58:15 AM

This Day in History for 31st January


Famous Birthdays

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Novelist Norman Mailer (1923)                 Hall of Fame MLB shortstop                          Singer-songwriter
                                                                     Ernie Banks (1931)                             Justin Timberlake (1981)


36 BC - Antonia Minor, daughter of Mark Antony and Octavia Minor (d. 38 AD)
877 - Taejo of Goryeo, ruler of Korea (d. 943)
1512 - King Henry of Portugal (d. 1580)
1517 - Gioseffo Zarlino, composer
1543 - Tokugawa Ieyasu, Shogun of Japan (d. 1616)
1550 - Henry I, Duke of Guise, French Catholic leader (d. 1588)
1573 - Ambrosius Metzger, composer
1573 - Giulio Cesare Monteverdi, composer
1597 - John Francis Regis, French saint (d. 1640)
1601 - Pieter de Bloot, Dutch landscape painter
1607 - James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby
1612 - Hendrik Casimir I, count of Nassau-Dietz/mayor of Frisia
1614 - Nicolas Saboly, composer
1620 - Georg F von Waldeck, German commander-in-chief
1623 - Francois-Xavier de Laval
1633 - Nathaniel Crew, English bishop (Durham)
1673 - Louis de Montfort, French catholic priest and saint (d. 1716)
1686 - Hans Egede, Norwegian Lutheran missionary (d. 1758)
1734 - Julien-Amable Mathieu, composer
1734 - Robert Morris, merchant (signed Declaration of Independence)
1750 - Gerrit J Pijman, Dutch minister of War (1798-1800, 1803-06)
1752 - Gouverneur Morris, American lawmaker and diplomat (d. 1816)
1759 - Francois Devienne, composer
1778 - Franz Anton graaf von Kolowrat, Austrian premiere of Bohemia (1848)
1784 - Carl Wilhelm Henning, composer
1797 - Franz Peter Schubert, Lichtenthal Austria, composer (Unfinished Symphony)
1798 - Karl Gottlieb Reissiger, composer
1802 - Jan C J van Speijk, Dutch naval hero
1804 - Jozsef Bajza, Hungarian author/poet/critic
1810 - Daniel Ruggles, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1897
1812 - John Randolph Tucker, Capt (Confederate Navy), died in 1883
1813 - Samuel Sarphati, Amsterdam, physician/pharmacist/social activist
1817 - Antony Winkler Prins, Dutch writer (Groiler Encyclopaedia)
1818 - William Raine Peck, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1871
1820 - William B. Washburn, 28th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1887)
1830 - James G Blaine, the "Plumed Knight"
1835 - William Charles Lunalilo, Monarch of Hawaii (d. 1874)
1836 - Henryk Szulc, composer
1857 - George Jackson Churchward, Great Western Railway Chief mechanical engineer. (d. 1933)
1863 - F Henri Berz, French existensialist philosopher (Revue the Synthesis)
1865 - Henri Desgrange, Founder of the Tour-de-France (d. 1940)
1865 - Shastriji Maharaj, Indian spiritual leader (d. 1951)
1866 - Emil Strauss, Germany, writer (Naked Man)
1866 - Henry Forster, cricketer (Oxford blue 1887-89, later Aust Gov-General)
1868 - Theodore William Richards, chemist (atomic weights, Nobel-1914)
1869 - Henri Carton de Wiart, Belgian Count/literary/premier (1920-21)
1872 - Zane Grey, American West novelist (Riders of the Purple Sage)
1877 - Max Ettlinger, German philosopher
1878 - Willem J M van Eysinga, Dutch international law jurist
1881 - Irving Langmuir, inventor (tungsten filament lamp/Nobel 1932)
1881 - Joseph A Cushman, US, palaentologist
1882 - Anna Pavlova, St Petersburg Russia, ballerina/choreographer
1882 - Josephus RH van Schaik, Dutch lawyer/vice-premier
1884 - Nicholas Joy, Paris France, actor (Boss Lady)
1884 - Theodor Heuss, 1st President of Germany (Bundespräsident) (d. 1963)
1886 - Alfonso Lopez, Colombia, statesman (Pres UN security council-1948)
1889 - F R Foster, cricketer (330 runs & 45 wickets for England)
1890 - Adolf Bach, German language/sociologist (Deutsche Namenkunde)
1891 - Max Drischner, composer
1892 - Eddie Cantor, NYC, comedian (Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater)
1893 - Freya Stark, English explorer/ travel writer
1894 - Percy Helton, NY, actor (Jail Busters, Harbor of Missing Men)
1894 - Isham Jones, American musician (d. 1956)
1896 - Sofya Yanovskaya, Russian mathematician (d. 1966)
1901 - Blaz Arnic, composer
1901 - Marie Luise Kaschnitz, writer
1902 - Alva Myrdal, Uppsala Sweden, diplomat (Nobel Peace Prize-1982)
1902 - Jean C M Picart le Doux, France, carpet designer
1902 - Julian H Steward, US anthropologist/professor
1903 - Gardner Cowles, Iowa, publisher/founder (Look Magazine)
1903 - Tallulah Bankhead, Huntsville Ala, actress (Lifeboat, Die Die Darling)
1904 - E van Ruller, Dutch journalist/ARP-alderman/co-founder (Trouw)
1905 - Anna Blaman, [Johanna P Vrugt], Dutch writer (Wife & Friend)
1905 - John O'Hara, Pottstown Penn, novelist (Appointment at Samarra)
1906 - Benjamin Frankel, composer
1906 - R W Bonham, founder (International Braille Chess Association)
1908 - René Simone Mathieu, France, doubles tennis star (Wimbledon 1934)
1909 - Foley Newns, British colonial administrator
1909 - Miron Grindea, literary editor
1910 - Herbert Ashworth, CEO (Nationwide Building Society)
1911 - A G Ogston, president (Trinity College-Oxford)
1911 - Christina Foyle, book seller
1911 - Eddie Byrne, British actor (d. 1981)
1913 - Don Hutson, NFL end (Packers)
1913 - Hector Iglesias Villoud, composer
1913 - Wayne Millner, NFL end (Boston/Washington Redskins)
1914 - Carey Lofton, Blountsville Fla, actor (Skinner-Troubleshooters)
1914 - Jersey Joe Walcott, heavyweight boxing champ (1951-52)
1914 - Louis Osman, architect/artist/goldsmith
1914 - Sri Daya Mata, Hindu religious figure
1915 - Bobby Hackett, Providence RI, trumpeteer/orchestra leader (Air Time '57)
1915 - Garry Moore, [Thomas Garrison Morfit], Balt, host (I've Got a Secret)
1915 - John Profumo, president (Toynbee Hall)
1915 - Thomas Merton, France, Trappist monk/poet/essayist (7 Storey Mt)
1915 - William Crosbie, artist
1915 - Alan Lomax, American musicologist (d. 2002)
1916 - Ciro D Crown, premier of Dutch Antilles (1968-69)
1916 - Frank A Parker, tennis champ (US Open-1944)
1916 - Violet Cane, statistician
1917 - Erich Geiringer, general practitioner campaigner
1917 - Jose Maceda, composer
1919 - Jackie Robinson, Ga, 1st black major league baseball player (Dodgers)
1919 - Robert Lowry, Baron Lowry. Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland and a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary.
1920 - Patrick Heron, painter
1920 - Robert Hersant, press baron
1920 - Stewart L Udall, St Johns Ariz, US Secretary of Interior (1961-69)
1921 - Carol Channing, Wash, actress (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Hello Dolly)
1921 - John Agar, Chicago, actor (Fort Apache, Sands of Iwo Jima)
1921 - Mario Lanza, Phila, actor/singer (Great Caruso, Toast of New Orleans)
1921 - E. Fay Jones, American architect (d. 2004)
1922 - Michael Wilford, diplomat
1922 - William Sylvester, Oakland California, actor (2001, Gorgo, Gemini Man)
1923 - Eddie Ryder, NYC, actor (Slick Jones-General Hospital)
1923 - Joanne Dru, Logan WV, actress (Guestwood Ho, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon)
1923 - Norman Mailer, Long Branch NJ, NYC mayoral candidate/novelist (Naked & the Dead), (d. 2007)
1924 - Robert Gatehouse, former High Court judge
1924 - Tengiz Abuladze, filmmaker
1925 - Benjamin Hooks, civil rights leader
1925 - Charles Aidman, Frankfort Ind, narrator (New Twilight Zone)
1925 - Fred Catherwood, MP
1926 - Prunella Briance, founder (National Childbirth Trust)
1926 - Tom Alston, American baseball player (d. 1993)
1928 - Chuck Willis, rock vocalist (C C Rider)
1928 - Eric Ash, rector (Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine)
1928 - Richard Buckley, royal equerry
1928 - Robert Clatworthy, sculptor
1929 - Rudolf Mössbauer, German physicist, Nobel laureate
1929 - Jean Simmons, London, England, actress (Thorn Birds, Guys & Dolls)
1930 - Lynn Carlin, LA California, actress (Joan Hunter-James at 15)
1930 - Joakim Bonnier, Swedish racecar driver (d. 1972)
1931 - Bill Watson, cricketer (NSW & Australian opening batsman mid-50s)
1931 - Christopher Chataway, British MP/athlete (world record 5k)
1931 - Ernie Banks, Dallas Texas, "Mr Cub" Chicago Cubs, Hall-of-Famer (short stop/1st baseman)
1931 - Jean Burroughs, educationalist
1931 - Nicholas Gordon Lennox, diplomat
1932 - Pieter Brattinga, Dutch graphic artist
1932 - Rick Hall, country/R&B singer
1933 - Joseph D Early, (Rep-D-MA, 1975- )
1933 - Walter Paulis, mineworker/pilot/Dutch MP (CDA)
1933 - Bernardo Provenzano , Mafia Boss
1934 - Brian Bolus, cricketer (England opening batsman early 60's)
1934 - James Franciscus, Clayton Mo, actor (Mr Novak, Longstreet, Hunter)
1934 - Ron Weatherburn, jazz pianist
1935 - Bojidar Dimov, composer
1935 - Oe Kenzaburo, Japanese novelist (Catch, Personal Matter)
1936 - Marvin Junior, singer (Dells-Oh What a Night)
1937 - Philip Glass, Baltimore Md, minimal composer (Einstein on the Beach)
1937 - Steve Karmen, Bronx NY, jingle writer (I Love NY, This Bud's for You)
1937 - Suzanne Pleshette, NYC, actress (Birds, Emily-Bob Newhart Show)
1937 - Regimantas Adomaitis, Lithuanian actor
1937 - Andrée Boucher, Canadian politician (d. 2007)
1938 - Ajip Rosidi, Indonesian poet/writer (Madjalah Sunda, Pesta)
1938 - Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard, queen of Netherlands (1980- )
1938 - James G Watt, Colo, US Secretary of Interior (1981-83)
1939 - Claude Gauthier, Canadian singer and songwriter
1940 - Jessica Walter, Bkln NY, actress (Play Misty For Me, Amy Prentiss)
1940 - Stuart Margolin, Davenport Iowa, actor (Love American Style)
1941 - George S Mickelson, (Gov-SD)
1941 - Richard A Gephardt, (Rep-D-MO, 1977- )
1941 - Sharon Miller, LPGA golfer
1942 - Derek Jarman, actor/director (Angelic Conversation, Edward II)
1942 - Gerald Chanberlain, rocker
1942 - Daniela Bianchi, Italian actress
1944 - Anton Korteweg, Dutch poet (For the Good Order)
1944 - Charley Musselwhite, blues musician (Stand Back, Louisiana Fog)
1944 - Eugene Terre Blanche, S Afr leader of Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging
1944 - John Inverarity, cricketer (Australian batsman 1968-72)
1945 - Noah Creshevsky, composer
1946 - Glynn Turman, NYC, actor (Lew-Peyton Place, Manimal, Centennial)
1946 - Jonathan Banks, Wash DC, actor (Armed & Dangerous, Cold Steel)
1946 - Subroto Guha, cricketer (right arm swing bowler for India 1967-69)
1946 - Terry Kath, rocker (Chicago-If You Leave Me Now)
1947 - Jim Nollman, composer
1947 - Nolan Ryan, pitcher (Mets, Angels, Astros) (7 no-hitters, 5,714 Ks)
1948 - Muneo Suzuki, Japanese politician
1949 - Carol Hawkins, actress (Dialing for Dingbats)
1949 - Johan Derksen, Dutch footballer and sports journalist
1949 - Ken Wilber, American philosopher
1951 - Harry Casey, [KC], rock vocalist (KC & Sunshine Band-Give It)
1951 - Phil Manzanera, rock guitarist (Roxy Music-Let's Stick Together)
1951 - Presiley Baxendale, British QC
1951 - Dave Benton, Aruban-born singer
1952 - Rosanne Musgrave, headmistress (Blackheath HS)
1952 - Nadya Rusheva, Russian painter (d. 1969)
1953 - Aart Mol, Dutch bassist (Catapult)
1954 - Adrian Vandenberg, Amsterdam Neth, rock guitarist (Whitesnake)
1954 - Sheik Faoud Ahamul Bacchus, cricketer (West Indian bat late 70's)
1955 - Virginia Ruzici, Romania, tennis star
1956 - Johnny Rotten, [John Lydon], rocker (Sex Pistols-God Save the Queen)
1956 - Lloyd Cole, rocker
1956 - Trevor A Manuel, South African UDF/ANC-leader
1957 - Brett "the Hitman" Hart, Alberta Canada, WWF champion
1957 - Shirley F Babashoff, California, swimmer (Olympics-6 silver/2 gold-72, 76)
1958 - Rafael Santana, shortstop (NY Mets, NY Yankees)
1958 - Tom Schuman, pianist (Spyro Gyra-Morning Dance)
1959 - Anthony LaPaglia, actor (Murder One)
1959 - Kelly Lynch, actress (Drugstore Cowboy)
1959 - Kelly Moore, American stock car driver
1960 - Elaine Roque, Santa Monica Ca, beach volleyballer (Olympics-96)
1960 - Grant Morrison, British comic book author
1961 - Lloyd Cole, guitar/vocals (& the Commotions-Rattlesnakes)
1962 - Sophie Muller, Music video director
1963 - John Dye, Amory Mass, actor (Andrew-Touched by an Angel)
1963 - Scott Ian Rosenfeld, Bayside NY, rocker (Anthrax-Protest & Survive)
1964 - Oto Hascak, hockey forward (Team Slovakia 1998)
1964 - Remi Bouchard, Lasalle Que, Canadian Tour golfer (1989 India Open)
1964 - Sharon Cain, San Antonio TX, team handball center back (Olympics-1996)
1964 - Jeff Hanneman, American musician (Slayer)
1965 - Adam Johnson, Portland Ore, beach volleyballer (Olympics-96)
1965 - Bianca Yasmin Salahshourian, Fairfield Conn, Miss Conn-America (1991)
1965 - Bobby Dollas, Montreal, NHL defenseman (Anaheim Mighty Ducks)
1965 - Kim Clarke, Tulsa Oklahoma, team handball back court (Olympics-88, 92, 96)
1965 - René Trost, Dutch soccer player (Roda JC)
1966 - Al Jaworsky, [Alan Doughty], pop bassist (Jesus Jones)
1966 - Charles Dimry, NFL cornerback (Tampa Bay Bucs, Philadelphia Eagles)
1966 - Jamie Taras, CFL guard (BC Lions)
1966 - Dr Umar Alisha, A Sufi Master was Born at Pithapuram.
1967 - Fat Mike, American musician
1967 - Irene Wan, Hong Kong actress
1967 - Joey Wong, Taiwanese actress
1968 - Doug Pederson, NFL quarterback (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1968 - Michael Sinclair, NFL defensive end (Seattle Seahawks)
1968 - Steve Phoenix, US baseball pitcher (Oakland Athletics)
1968 - Patrick Stevens, Belgian athlete
1969 - Mathew Pallister, Sydney NSW Australia, canoeist (Olympics-96)
1970 - Greg Skrepenak, NFL tackle (Oakland Raiders, Carolina Panthers)
1970 - Rachel Jean Marteen, Atlanta GA, playmate (Aug, 1995)
1970 - Travis Hannah, NFL/WLAF receiver (Houston Oilers, Frankfurt Galaxy)
1971 - Brandi Sherwood, Miss USA-Idaho (1997, 2nd)
1971 - Corey Holliday, NFL wide receiver (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1971 - Minnie Driver, actress (Good Will Hunting)
1971 - Dimitris Markos, Greek footballer
1971 - Lee Young Ae, South Korean actress
1971 - Patrick Kielty, Northern Irish comedian
1972 - Ben Cavil, guard (Baltimore Ravens)
1972 - Fritz Fequiere, WLAF guard (Barcelona Dragons, London Monarchs)
1972 - Marvin Coleman, CFL defensive back (Calgary Stampeders)
1972 - Pulu Poumele, guard (San Diego Chargers)
1972 - Reinier Robbemond, Dutch soccer player (Dordrecht '90)
1973 - Latario Rachal, WLAF/NFL receiver (Amsterdam Admirals, San Diego Chargers)
1973 - Portia de Rossi, Australian actress
1974 - Bob Mulder, soccer player (Appingedam, FC Groningen)
1974 - Lorenzo Styles, NFL linebacker (Atlanta Falcons)
1974 - Othella Harrington, NBA forward (Houston Rockets)
1974 - Pavi Sald, ice hockey defenseman (Finland, Oly-98)
1974 - Tory Toogood, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1974 - Ariel Pestano, Cuban baseball player
1975 - Kenard Lang, defensive end (Washington Redskins)
1975 - Jackie O, Australian radio host
1975 - Preity Zinta, Indian actress
1976 - Traianos Dellas, Greek footballer
1976 - Buddy Rice, American race car driver
1977 - Naomi Darrell, Miss Bermuda Universe (1997)
1977 - Shingo Katori, Japanese actor and singer (SMAP)
1977 - Jim Kleinsasser, National Football League tight end
1977 - Kate Shindle, American actress
1977 - Kerry Washington, American actress
1978 - Fabián Caballero, Argentine footballer
1978 - Brad Rutter, Jeopardy! champion
1978 - Ray Shah, Irish DJ, TV, radio presenter
1979 - Daniel Tammet, British autistic savant
1980 - James Adomian, American actor
1980 - Ryan Kienle, American musician
1980 - Tiffany Limos, American actress
1981 - Sergio D. Acosta, Chicano Filmmaker
1981 - Julio Arca, Argentinian football player
1981 - Justin Timberlake, Memphis, Tennessee, singer-songwriter (Sexyback, My Love)
1982 - Yuniesky Betancourt, Major League Baseball shortstop
1982 - Andreas Görlitz, German football player
1982 - Bruno Nogueira, Portuguese actor, comedian and TV host
1982 - Elena Paparizou, Greek singer
1982 - Jānis Sprukts, National Hockey League player
1982 - Brad Thompson, Major League Baseball player
1983 - Tom Vangeneugden, Belgian swimmer
1983 - James Sutton, British television actor
1984 - Jeremy Wariner, American 400m runner
1984 - Vernon Davis, NFL player
1985 - Adam Federici, Australian footballer
1985 - Mario Williams, NFL player
1986 - Yves Makabu-Makalambay, Belgian football goalkeeper

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 31, 2013, 07:00:51 AM

This Day in History for 31st January


Famous Deaths

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English Catholic Conspirator
Guy Fawkes (1606)


743 - Muhammad al-Baqir, Shia Imam (b. 676)
1398 - Emperor Sukō (b. 1334)
1435 - Xuande, Emperor of China (b. 1398)
1561 - Menno Simonsz, Dutch priest/vicar (Foundation Book), dies
1561 - Bairam Khan, Great Mughal General, regent for Akbar
1580 - Henry, King of Portugal, Cardinal, Epilepticus and Regent. Reigned 1578-80 (b. 1512)
1606 - Guy Fawkes, convicted in the "Gunpowder Plot", executed at 35
1615 - Claudio Aquaviva, Italian Jesuit (b. 1543)
1632 - Joost Bürgi, Swiss clockmaker and mathematician (b. 1552)
1665 - Johannes Clauberg, German theologian and philosopher (b. 1622)
1686 - Jean Mairet, French dramatist (b. 1604)
1720 - Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford, English privy councillor (c. 1654)
1729 - Jakob Roggeveen, Dutch explorer (b. 1659)
1736 - Filippo Juvara, Italian architect (b. 1678)
1788 - Francesco Zannetti, composer, dies at 50
1788 - [Bonnie Prince Charlie] Charles E Stuart, English pretender to the throne, dies at 67
1790 - Thomas Lewis, Irish-born Virginia settler (b. 1718)
1794 - Marriott Arbuthnot, British admiral (b. 1711)
1815 - José Félix Ribas, Venezuelan independentist leader (b. 1775)
1828 - Alexandros Ypsilanti, Greek resistance fighter, dies at 35
1844 - Henri Gratien, Comte Bertrand, French general (b. 1773)
1861 - Franciscus J van Vree, Dutch Catholic foreman, dies at 53
1864 - Hamilton Rowan Gamble, US judge/governor of Missouri (1861-64), dies
1888 - John Bosco, Italian priest, youth worker, educator, founder of the Salesian Society (b. 1815)
1891 - Ernest Meissonier, French painter/etcher/sculptor, dies at 75
1892 - Charles Spurgeon, English preacher and evangelist (b. 1834)
1907 - Timothy Eaton, Canadian department store founder (b. 1834)
1919 - Paul Lindau, German playwright/critic (Estimate), dies at 79
1922 - Heinrich Reinhardt, composer, dies at 56
1933 - John Galsworthy, England, writer (Forsythe, Nobel 1932), dies at 65
1939 - George Thornton, cricketer (1 Test for South Africa 1902, 1* & 1-20), dies
1940 - René "Sascha" Schickele, German writer (Erbe am Rhein), dies at 56
1942 - Henry Larkin, American baseball player (b. 1860)
1942 - Rolf Wenkhaus, German actor (b. 1917)
1944 - Jean Giraudoux, French writer (b. 1882)
1945 - Eddie Slovik, 1st US executed for desertion since Civil War at 25
1949 - Henri de Vries, [Hendricus Walterop], actor (Cleopatra), dies at 84
1954 - Edwin H Armstrong, US radio inventor (FM), commits suicide at 63
1954 - Florence Bates, actress (Kismet, I Remember Mama), dies at 65
1955 - John R Mott, US theologist/founder (YMCA, Nobel 1946), dies at 89
1956 - A. A. Milne, English author (b. 1882)
1960 - Lowell Gilmore, actor (Calcutta, Roadblock), dies at 53
1966 - Elizabeth Patterson, actress (Tall Story), dies at 90
1967 - Chief Thundercloud, actor (Ambush, Colt 45, Typhoon), dies at 100
1967 - Otto Dibelius, German theologian/bishop, dies at 86
1967 - Eddie Tolan, American athlete (b. 1908)
1969 - Alexander Mikhaylovich Dzegelyonok, composer, dies at 77
1969 - Meher Baba, Indian guru (b. 1894)
1970 - Slim Harpo, [James Moore], rocker, dies at 28
1972 - Bir Bikram Shah Deva Mahendra, king of Nepal (1955-72), dies at 51
1972 - Howard Barlow, conductor (Voice of Firestone), dies at 79
1972 - Istvan Szelenyi, composer, dies at 67
1973 - Ragnar Frisch, Norwegian economist (Nobel 1969), dies at 77
1974 - Glenn Morris, olympian/actor (Tarzan's Revenge), dies at 61
1974 - Harry Baum, actor (Crime & Punishment), dies at 58
1974 - Paul Haesaerts, Flemish architect/painter (Flandre), dies at 72
1974 - Roger Pryor, actor (Lady by Choice), dies at 72
1974 - Samuel Goldwyn, Polish/English/US film magnate (MGM), dies at 91
1976 - Ernesto Miranda, American litigant (b. 1941)
1980 - J P Duminy, cricket (30 runs at 5 & 1 wkt at 39 in 3 Test S Af), dies
1987 - Yves Allégret, French film director (b. 1907)
1989 - Jack Douglas, humorist (My Brother Was an Only Child), dies at 80
1989 - Yasushi Akutagawa, composer, dies at 63
1990 - Rashad Khalifa, Egyptian-born imam (b. 1935)
1992 - Mel Hein, NFL center (NY Giants), dies at 82
1992 - Wim van Heumen, field hockey coach (Netherlands), dies at 63
1994 - Pierre Boulle, French writer (Executioner), dies at 81
1995 - George Abbott, playwright/actor/producer (Damn Yankees), dies at 105
1995 - James Johnson, English MP (Labour, 1950..83), dies at 86
1996 - Gustave Solomon, mathematician, dies at 65
1997 - Eve Lister, actress/singer (No Limit, Hyde Park), dies at 84
1997 - John Joseph Scanlan, Irish Catholic prelate (b. 1930)
1999 - Norm Zauchin, American baseball player (b. 1929)
1999 - Shohei Baba, Japanese professional wrestler
2000 - Gil Kane, Latvian-born comic book writer (b. 1926)
2001 - Gordon R. Dickson, Canadian writer (b. 1923)
2002 - Francis Gabreski, American fighter pilot (b. 1919)
2004 - Eleanor Holm, American swimmer (b. 1913)
2006 - Moira Shearer, Scottish actress (The Red Shoes) and ballerina (b. 1926)
2007 - Kirka Babitzin, Finnish singer (b. 1950)
2007 - Molly Ivins, American political columnist and author (b. 1944)
2007 - Lee Bergere, American actor (b. 1924)
2007 - Adelaide Tambo, South African activist and wife of Oliver Tambo (b. 1929)
2008 - Zeltim Odie Peterson, famous pug (b. 1997)
2009 - Nagesh, Indian comedian actor in Kollywood (b. 1933)
2012 - mike Kelley, American artist, commits suicide at 57
2012 - Anthony Bevilacqua, American cardinal, dies at 88
2012 - Dorothea Tanning, American artist, dies at 101
2012 - Tristram Coffin, American folklorist, dies from pneumonia at 89

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 01, 2013, 06:54:49 AM

This Day in History for 1st February


Historical Events

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The Sun King Louis XIV                            Inventor Thomas Edison                        Composer Giacomo Puccini

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Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini            37th US President Richard Nixon                   Goddess of Pop Cher
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Comedian David Letterman                          Singer Janet Jackson


772 - Adrian I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1327 - Teenaged Edward III is crowned King of England, but the country is ruled by his mother
           Queen Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer.
1539 - Emperor Karel & King Francois I sign anti-English treaty
1587 - English queen Elizabeth I signs Mary Stuarts death sentence
1662 - Dutch garrison on Formosa surrenders for Chinese pirates
1669 - French King Louis XIV limits freedom of religion
1709 - Alexander Selkirk [Robinson Crusoe] rescued from Juan Fernandez
1713 - The Kalabalik or Tumult in Bendery results from the Ottoman sultan's order that his
           unwelcome guest, King Charles XII of Sweden, be seized.
1717 - Henri d'Aguesseau's 1st appointment as chancellor of France
1720 - Sweden & Prussia sign peace treaty
1732 - Parliament of Ratisborn accept Pragmatic Sanctions
1742 - Sardinia & Austria sign alliance
1783 - William Herschel announces star Lambda Herculis as apex
1788 - 1st US steamboat patent issued, by Georgia to Briggs & Longstreet
1789 - Chinese troops driven out of Vietnam capital Thang Long
1790 - Supreme Court convenes for 1st time (NYC)
1793 - France declares war on England & Netherlands
1793 - Patent granted Ralph Hodgson, NY, for oiled silk & linen
1796 - The capital of Upper Canada is moved from Newark to York.
1809 - Dutch King Louis Napoleon accepts metric system
1810 - 1st insurance co managed by blacks (American Insurance Co of Phila)
1810 - Seville, Spain surrenders to French
1810 - US Population: 7,239,881, Black population: 1,377,808 (19%)
1814 - Lord Byron's "Corsair" sells 10,000 copies on day of publication
1814 - Volcano Mayon on Luzon Philippines erupts killing 1,200
1840 - Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, 1st in US, incorporated
1846 - Theophile Gautier publishes "Hashish Club" about his initiation
1856 - Auburn University is chartered as the East Alabama Male College.
1860 - 1st rabbi to open House of Representatives, Morris Raphall of NYC
1861 - Dike breaks in Gelderland Netherlands
1861 - American Civil War: Texas becomes the 7th state to secede from the United States.
1862 - Julia Howe publishes "Battle Hymn of Republic"
1864 - -Feb 8th] Battle of Yazoo River, MS
1864 - 2nd German-Danish war begins
1864 - Austrian/Prussian troops occupy Sleeswijk/Holstein
1865 - 13th amendment approved (National Freedom Day)
1865 - General Sherman's march through South Carolina begins
1865 - JS Rock, 1st black lawyer to practice in Supreme Ct, admitted to bar
1867 - Bricklayers start working 8-hour days
1871 - Jefferson Long of Georgia is 1st black to make an official speech in House of Reps (opposing
           leniency to former Confederates)
1880 - The first edition of theatrical newspaper The Stage is published.
1881 - US Assay Office in St Louis, Missouri authorized
1883 - French lt-col Gustave Borgnis-Desbordes reaches Bamako on the Niger
1884 - 1st volume of the Oxford English Dictionary, A-Ant, published
1887 - Harvey Wilcox of Ks subdivides 120 acres he owned in Southern California & starts selling it
           off as a real estate development (Hollywood)
1892 - Mrs William Astor invites 400 guests to a grand ball at her mansion thus beginning use of
          "400" to describe socially elite
1893 - Puccini's Opera "Manon Lescaut," premieres in Turin
1893 - Thomas Edison complete's worlds 1st movie studio (West Orange NJ)
1896 - Giacomo Puccini's Opera "La Boheme," premieres in Turin
1897 - Shinhan Bank, the oldest bank in South Korea, opens in Seoul.
1898 - 1st auto insurance policy in US issued, by Travelers Insurance Co
1902 - China's empress Tzu-hsi forbids binding woman's feet
1902 - Hermann Sudermanns "Es lebe das Leben," premieres in Berlin
1905 - Hague soccer team ADO froms
1905 - Hungarian premier Tisza resigns
1906 - 1st federal penitentiary building completed, Leavenworth, Kansas
1906 - English min of Frgn affairs Edward Grey's wife Dorothy fatally injured
1908 - King Carlos I of Portugal and his son, Prince Luis Filipe are killed in Terreiro do Paco, Lisbon.
1909 - US Assay Office in Salt Lake City, Utah opens
1910 - 1st British labour exchange opens
1910 - Dragoumis government forms in Greece
1914 - NY Giants & Chic White Sox play an exhibition baseball game in Egypt
1914 - Pennsylvania State Board of [motion picture] censors appointed
1914 - Tanganyika Railway opens
1917 - Admiral Tirpitz announces unlimited submarine war
1918 - Franz Lehars opera "Wo die Lerche singt," premieres in Budapest
1918 - Kern, Bolton & Wodehouse's musical premieres in NYC
1918 - Russia adopts Gregorian calender (becomes Feb 14)
1919 - Dodgers trade Jake Daubert to Reds for Tommy Griffith Daubert
1920 - 1st commercial armored car introduced (St Paul Minn)
1920 - Soccer team Quick Boys forms
1920 - Royal Canadian Mounted Police forms as Royal Northwest Mounted Police merge with
           Dominion Police
1923 - Allied ultimatum on Lithuanian occupation of Memel
1923 - Fascists Voluntary Militia forms in Italy under Benito Mussolini
1923 - Noel Coward's "Young Idea," premieres in London
1924 - Amsterdam's Netherlands Press Museum opens
1924 - New British MacDonald government recognizes USSR
1924 - Soccer team VSV Tonido forms in Voorburg
1924 - Soviet Union formally recognized by Britain
1925 - 1st national conference of KPD's Rotfrontkämpferbund in Berlin
1926 - Kirghiz Autonomous Region in RSFSR becomes Kirghiz ASSR
1926 - Land at Broadway & Wall Street sold at a record $7 per sq inch
1929 - 1st clean & jerk of 400 lbs (182 kg), Charles Rigoulet, 402½ lbs
1930 - Arnold Schönbergs opera, Von heute auf Morgen premieres in Frankfurt
1932 - Bradman makes 299* vs South Africa, runs out partner going for 300th
1933 - Colonial government arrests Anton de Kom in Paramaribo Suriname
1933 - Dutch bishops forbid membership in non-catholic unions
1933 - German Parliament disolves, Gen Ludendorf predicts catastrophe
1934 - Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss dissolves all political parties but his
1935 - 1st "March of Time" newsreel premieres at the Capitol
1935 - James T Farrell finishes his "Studs Lonigan" trilogy
1937 - Stapleton, Staten Island becomes a customs-free port
1940 - Russia begins new offensive against Finland
1941 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Jane Vaughn
1941 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Eugene Turner
1942 - 2nd Norwegian government of Quisling forms
1943 - German occupiers make Vidkun Quisling Norwegian premier
1943 - Mussert forms pro Nazi shadow cabinet (Neth)
1944 - Supreme Soviet enlarges soviet republics' autonomy
1944 - US 7th Infantry/4th Marine Division lands on Kwajalein/Roi/Namur
1945 - US Army arrives at Siegfriedlinie
1946 - Republic of Hungary proclaimed, Zolt n Tildy as communist president
1946 - Trygve Lie, a Norwegian socialist, becomes 1st Sec-Gen of UN
1947 - Aleide de Gasperi forms Italian government of christian-dems & communists
1947 - Dmitri Shostakovitch named professor at conservatory of Leningrad
1947 - NV United Dutch Fokker's Aircraft established
1948 - Federation Malaysia forms from 9 sultanates
1948 - Palestine Post building in Jerusalem bombed
1949 - 200" (5.08-m) Hale telescope 1st used [See June 3, 1948]
1949 - RCA releases 1st single record ever (45 rpm)
1950 - USSR demands condemnation of Emperor Hirohito for war crimes
1950 - Urko Kekkonen elected president of Finland
1951 - -50°F (-46°C), Gavilan, New Mexico (state record)
1951 - 1st X-ray moving picture process demonstrated
1951 - 1st telecast of atomic explosion
1951 - Alfred Krupp & 28 other German war criminals freed
1951 - UN condemns People's Republic of China as aggressor in Korea
1951 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1952 - General strike against French colonial management in Tunisia
1952 - SN Behrman's "Jane," premieres in NYC
1953 - "General Electric Theater" premieres on CBS TV; Reagan later hosts
1953 - "You Are There" with Walter Cronkite premieres on CBS television
1953 - Dr A de Waal appointed as Neth 1st female asst sect of state
1953 - Flooding in Netherlands, kills 1,835
1953 - WEEK TV channel 25 in Peoria, IL (NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 - 1st TV soap opera "Secret Storm" premieres
1954 - Scapino Ballet Studio in Amsterdam destroyed by fire
1954 - Soccer team The County froms in Doetinchem
1955 - HC Hansen appointed premier of Denmark
1956 - Hague Daily Newspaper reveals war crimes of Hague mayor Schokking
1956 - WSAV TV channel 3 in Savannah, GA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1957 - 1st black pilot (PH Young) on a US scheduled passenger airline
1957 - Gijsbert of Hall appointed mayor of Amsterdam
1957 - Felix Wankel's first working prototype DKM 54 of the Wankel engine was running at the NSU
           research and development department Versuchsabteilung TX in Germany
1958 - 1st US satellite (Explorer I) launched
1958 - Egypt & Syria announce plans to merge into United Arab Republic
1958 - WFTV TV channel 9 in Orlando, FL (ABC) begins broadcasting
1959 - Swiss males vote against voting rights for women
1959 - Texas Instruments requests patent of IC (Integrated Circuit)
1959 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Carol Heiss
1959 - US male Figure Skating championship won by David Jenkins
1959 - WVUE TV channel 8 in New Orleans, LA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1959 - Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Havana Golf Tournament
1959 - Zack Wheat unanimously elected to baseball Hall of Fame
1960 - 34th Australian Womens Tennis: Margaret Smith beats J Lehane (75 62)
1960 - 4 students stage 1st civil rights sit-in, at Greensboro NC Woolworth
1960 - 48th Australian Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats N Fraser (57 36 63 86 86)
1960 - Extreme right-wing rebels in Algiers surrender
1961 - 1st full-scale test of US Minuteman ICBM is successful
1961 - British minister Enoch Powell makes medical insurance more expensive
1961 - Mackay & Kline hang on for 100 mins for cricket draw vs West Indies
1962 - "New Faces of '62" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 28 performances
1962 - NL releases its 1st 162-game schedule
1963 - Nyasaland (now Malawi) becomes self-governing under Hastings Banda
1964 - "Stop the World, I Want to..." closes at Shubert NYC after 556 perf
1964 - Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your Hand," 1st #1 hit, stays #1 for 7 weeks
1964 - Indiana Governor Mathew Walsh tries to ban "Louie Louie" for obscenity
1964 - Suriname River dammed
1965 - Dutch Queen Juliana opens Brienenoord Bridge in Rotterdam
1965 - Martin Luther King Jr & 700 demonstrators arrested in Selma Ala
1965 - Peter Jennings, 26, becomes anchor of ABC's nightly news
1965 - NL adopts emergency team replacement plan to restock any club struck by disaster
1967 - Severe brush fires in Tasmania destroy $11 million & 60 lives
1967 - WCLP TV channel 18 in Chatsworth, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 - Former VP Richard Nixon announces candidacy for president
1968 - Vince Lombardi resigns as coach of Green Bay Packers
1968 - World trade conference Unctad 2 opens in New Delhi
1968 - Famous photo: Saigon police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan executes a Viet Cong officer with a pistol shot to head
1969 - Jim Morrison arrested for exposing himself in concert
1969 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn
1969 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Tim Wood
1969 - WPGH TV channel 53 in Pittsburgh, PA (IND) begins broadcasting
1970 - Ford Frick, Earle Combs & Jesse Haines elected to Hall of Fame
1970 - Stalled commuter train rammed by express in Argentina, 139 die
1970 - WMAA TV channel 29 in Jackson, MS (PBS) begins broadcasting
1970 - West-Germany & USSR sign gas contract
1972 - 1st scientific hand-held calculator (HP-35) introduced ($395)
1972 - Wings release "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" in UK
1972 - Kuala Lumpur becomes a city by a royal charter granted by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong of
           Malaysia.
1973 - Monte Irvin elected to baseball Hall of Fame
1974 - "Good Times" (spinoff from "Maude") premieres on CBS TV
1974 - Kuala Lumpur is declared a Federal Territory.
1975 - "Hoppy, Gene & Me" by Roy Rogers peaks at #65
1975 - "Men on the Moon" closes at Little Theater NYC after 5 performances
1975 - 1st successful Wash Cap penalty shot, Ken Lockett vs Vancouver Canucks
1975 - Lorne Henning scores on 3rd Islander penalty shot
1975 - Otis Francis Tabler is 1st open homosexual to get security clearance to work for the Defense
           Department
1976 - "Rich Man, Poor Man" mini-series premieres on ABC TV
1976 - Judy Rankin wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational
1976 - Sonny & Cher resume TV show, despite real-life divorce
1976 - East Lansing police arrest Dodgers reliever Mike Marshall for taking batting practice at Mich
           State U after he is warned not to
1977 - Heavy blizzard in New England claims 100 lives
1977 - Hillsdale High School defeats Person High School 2-0 in basketball
1978 - Harriet Tubman is 1st black woman honored on a US postage stamp
1978 - Director Roman Polanski skips bail & fled to France after pleading guilty to charges of
           engaging in sex with a 13-year-old girl
1979 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Iran after 15 yrs in exile
1979 - Patricia Hearst is released from a SF prison for bank robbery
1979 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1980 - Sears Radio Theater moves from CBS to Mutual Broadcasting System
1980 - Soap opera "Love of Life" ends a 28 year run
1981 - 11th AFC-NFC pro bowl, NFC wins 21-7
1981 - 31st NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 123-120 at Cleveland
1981 - Duke Ellington-musical "Sophisticated Ladies," premieres in NYC
1981 - Dutch Antilles census is 231,932
1981 - French government accord sends 60 Mirage fighter jets to Iraq
1981 - NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 21-7
1981 - Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Whirlpool Golf Championship of Deer Creek
1981 - Trevor Chappell bowls underarm to Brian McKechnie, WSC Final MCG
1982 - "Late Night With David Letterman" debuts on NBC-TV
1982 - Senegal & Gambia form loose confederation (Senegambia)
1983 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1984 - China & Netherlands regain diplomatic relations
1984 - Daniel Stern becomes NBA commissioner
1984 - Ravindara Mhatrem, Indian diplomat, kidnapped in England (killed 0203)
1985 - -61°F (-52°C), Maybell, Colorado (state record)
1985 - -69°F (-56°C), Peter's Sink, Utah (state record)
1985 - Azharuddin scores 3rd Test century in 3rd Test Cricket (122 v Eng)
1985 - Cards trade D Green, Jose Uribe, Dave LaPoint to Giants for Jack Clark
1985 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Tiffany Chin
1986 - KHJ-AM in Los Angeles CA changes call letters to KRTH
1987 - 163 day strike against Deere & Co ends, workers accept wage freeze
1987 - 38,873 NBA crowd watch Chicago at Detroit
1987 - Kathy Postlewait wins LPGA Mazda Golf Classic
1987 - NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 10-6
1989 - Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 at perihelion
1989 - Princess Diane of England visits NYC
1989 - The Western Australian towns of Kalgoorlie and Boulder amalgamate to form the City of
           Kalgoorlie-Boulder.
1991 - Afghanistan/Pakistan hit by earthquake, 1,200 die
1991 - Craig McDermott takes 8-97 v England at the WACA
1991 - President F W de Klerk, says he would repeal all apartheid laws
1991 - US Air & Skywest Fairchild jet collide at LA Airport killing 32
1992 - "Crazy He Calls Me" closes at Walter Kerr Theater NYC after 7 perfs
1992 - Barry Bonds signs baseball's highest single year contract ($4.7 mil)
1992 - Denis Potvin's #5 becomes 1st number retired by NY Islanders
1993 - NY Judge Sol Wachtler indicted for harassing Joy Silverman
1993 - Soyuz TM-16 lands
1994 - Irina Privalova runs world record 50m indoor (6.03 sec)
1994 - Large meteorite falls near Kusaie, Pacific Ocean
1995 - Amtrak NY-Tampa run ends
1995 - Amy van Dikes swims woman's world record 50 m butterfly (26.73)
1995 - Andy & Grant Flower make 269 stand vs Pak, brotherly record
1995 - Belgium's TV channel VT4 goes on the air
1996 - The Communications Decency Act is passed by the U.S. Congress.
1998 - "Street Corner Symphony," closes at Brooks Atkinson NYC after 79 perf
1998 - 86th Australian Mens Tennis: Petr Korda beats Marcelo Rios (62 62 62)
1998 - Australian Mixed: J Gimelstob & V Williams beat Suk & Sukova (62 61)
1998 - NFL Pro Bowl Game, AFC beats NFC 29-24
1998 - Rear Admiral Lillian E. Fishburne became the first female African American to be promoted to
           rear admiral.
2003 - Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates during reentry into the Earth's atmosphere, killing all
           seven astronauts aboard.
2004 - 251 people are trampled to death and 244 injured in a stampede at the Hajj pilgrimage in
           Saudi Arabia.
2004 - Janet Jackson's breast is exposed during the half-time show of Super Bowl XXXVIII, resulting
            in US broadcasters adopting a stronger adherence to FCC censorship guidelines.
2005 - Nepal King Gyanendra exercises Coup d'état to capture the democracy becoming Chairman of
           the Councils of ministers.
2005 - Canada introduces the Civil Marriage Act, making Canada the fourth country to sanction
            same-sex marriage.
2009 - Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir is elected as the first female Prime Minister of Iceland, becoming the
           first openly gay Head of State in the modern world.
2012 - At least 73 people are killed in the Egyptian football riots in Port Said

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 01, 2013, 06:56:25 AM

This Day in History for 1st February


Famous Weddings

1986 - Singer Diana Ross marries Norwegian businessman Arne Naess in Switz

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 01, 2013, 07:05:59 AM

This Day in History for 1st February


Famous Birthdays

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Actor Clark Gable (1901)                     Russian President Boris Yeltsin (1931)            Princess of Rock and Roll   
                                                                                                                                  Lisa Marie Presley (1968)                                                                                 
                                                                                                 

1261 - Walter de Stapledon, English bishop (d. 1326)
1459 - Conrad Celtes, German scholar (d. 1508)
1462 - Johannes Trithemius, German cryptographer (d. 1516)
1552 - Edward Coke, Mileham Norfolk, jurist/politician (defended common law)
1603 - Michael Trumper, composer
1605 - Isaac Aboab de Fonseca, Portuguese/Neth rabbi/mystic
1633 - Gabriel Schutz, composer
1635 - Marquard Gude, German archaeologist (d. 1689)
1659 - Jacob Roggeveen, Dutch Swiss lawyer/navigator (Easter Island)
1663 - Mother Ignacia del Espiritu Santo, foundress (d. 1748)
1669 - Miguel Lopez, composer
1690 - Francesco Maria Veracini, Italian opera composer
1710 - Konrad E Ackermann, German actor (Die Oberpfalz)
1757 - John P Kemble, England, actor/director (Drury Lane, Covent Garden)
1761 - Christian Hendrik Persoon, South African mycologist (d. 1836)
1763 - Thomas Campbell, founder (Church of Disciples in America)
1789 - Hippolyte-Andre-Baptiste Chelard, composer
1791 - Charles J Sax, Belgian music instrument builder
1796 - Abraham Emanuel Fröhlich, Swiss poet (d. 1865)
1801 - Adolf Fredrik Lindblad, composer
1801 - Thomas Cole, US, romantic landscape painter (Hudson River School)
1801 - Émile Littré, French lexicographer (d. 1881)
1805 - Auguste Blanqui, France, revolutionary (workers' leader)
1807 - William Bowen Campbell, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1867
1810 - Charles Lenox Remond, Salem Mass, famous black American orator and abolitionist
1819 - Henry Lawrence Eustis, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1885
1820 - George Hendric Houghton, American Protestant Episcopal clergyman (d. 1897)
1821 - Charles Samvei Bovy-Lysberg, composer
1827 - Alphonse de Rothschild, French banker
1829 - John Potts Slough, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1867
1833 - Henry McNeal Turner, black methodist bishop
1839 - James A Herne, [J Aherne], US playwright (Hearts of Oak)
1841 - William H H Davenport, Buffalo, stage medium
1844 - Eduard Adolf Strasburger, German botanist (Angiospermen)
1844 - Granville Stanley Hall, US, psychologist
1851 - Durham Stevens, American diplomat (d. 1908)
1859 - Victor August Herbert, Dublin Ireland, composer (Babes in Toyland)
1859 - Victor Herbert, Irish/US composer (Kiss in Dark)
1869 - Johannes F "Frits" Bakker Sr, actor (Holland Tooneelgezelschap)
1872 - Paul Fort, French poet/founder of Vers et Prose
1872 - Jerome F. Donovan, American politician (d. 1949)
1872 - Andrew Kehoe, American mass murderer (d. 1927)
1873 - Clara Butt, Southwick Sussex, contralto (Country of Hope & Glory)
1873 - Joseph Allard, Canadian fiddler (d. 1947)
1873 - John Barry, Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross (d. 1901)
1874 - Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austria, poet/dramatist/essayist
1875 - Eddie Pola, composer (Lullabye of Broadway)
1877 - Thomas Frederick Dunhill, composer
1878 - Hattie Wyatt Caraway, politician/teacher/1st woman elected to senate
1878 - Milan Hodža, Slovak politician (d. 1944)
1879 - Sydney Baynes, composer
1880 - Antonio Guarnieri, composer
1880 - Francesco Balilla Pratella, composer
1881 - Jose Ignacio Quinton, composer
1882 - Louis St Laurent, Compton Quebec, (L) 12th Canadian PM (1948-57)
1883 - Jevgeni B Vachtangov, Armenian/Russian actor/director (Eric XIV)
1884 - Yevgeny Zamyatin, Russia, novelist/playwright (We)
1885 - Camille Chautemps, premier France
1887 - Dirk Roosenburg, Dutch architect
1887 - Charles Nordhoff, English-born author (d. 1947)
1889 - Gertrude Caton-Thompson, British archaeologist (Zimbabwe, So Arabia)
1891 - James Price Johnson, composer
1892 - K Rudolf Mengelberg, composer/musicologist (Amsterdam Concert Hall)
1894 - James P. Johnson, American composer (d. 1955)
1895 - John Ford, Maine, director (Stagecoach, Air Mail, Quiet Man)
1896 - Anastasio "Tacho" Somoza, general/pres of Nicaragua (1937-56)
1897 - Denise Robins, London, romantic novelist (1st Long Kiss)
1900 - Stephen Potter, humorist/writer (School for Scoundrels, Shipbuilders)
1901 - Clark Gable, Cadiz Ohio, American actor (Gone With the Wind)
1902 - Carlo Borbolla, composer
1902 - Langston Hughes, poet/translator (Weary Blues)
1902 - Therese Brandl, Nazi concentration camp guard (d. 1947, by execution)
1903 - Georg Rendl, Austria miner/beekeeper/writer (The Bees Novel)
1904 - S J Perelman, Brooklyn, author/humorist (Around the World in 80 Days)
1905 - Emilio Segre
1905 - Ernst Carl Gerlach Stueckelberg
1906 - Hildegarde, Adell Wisc, night club vocalist (I'll Be Seeing You)
1906 - Pierre Cardevielle, French composer/conductor (Amants Captifs)
1907 - Alan Strode Campbell Ross, professor (coined the terms U & non-U)
1907 - Camargo Guarnieri, Brazil, composer/conductor
1907 - John Canaday, art critic (Metropolitan Museum of Art Portfolios)
1907 - Mozart Camargo Guarnieri, composer
1908 - Albie Booth, collegiate Hall of Fame football star (Yale)
1908 - Edward Staempfli, composer
1908 - George Pal, Hungarian/US director (When Worlds Collide, Puppetoons)
1909 - Douglas Hall, Governor (Somaliland Protectorate)
1909 - Helen Chandler, Charleston SC, actress (Christopher Strong, Dracula)
1910 - H Stanley Cayzer
1910 - Jahangir Khan, cricketer (father of Majid, Indian player 1932-36)
1910 - Michael Kanin, Rochester NY, director/writer/actor (Woman of the Year)
1913 - Jeffrey Kindersley Quill, Test pilot
1915 - Stanley Matthews, 1st British soccer player to be knighted
1916 - Gordon Hobday, Lord Lieutenant (Nottinghamshire)
1918 - Maurice Laing, life president (John Laing)
1918 - Muriel Spark, Edinburgh Scotland, novelist (Prime of Miss Jean Brodie)
1920 - Kenneth Bond, former vice-chairman
1921 - Peter Sallis, actor (Tast the Blood of Dracula)
1922 - Bogumil Witalis Andrzejewski, professor of Cushtic Languages
1922 - Clifford McWatt, cricketer (WI wicket-keeper in 6 Tests 1954-55)
1924 - H. Richard Hornberger, American writer (d. 1997)
1924 - Ben Weider, Quebec businessman and author
1926 - Douglas Johnson, historian
1926 - Peter Crill, Bailiff of Jersey
1926 - Stuart Whitman, SF California, actor (Capt Apache, Ransom, Cimarron Strip)
1927 - Galway Kinnell, Providence RI, author (Body Rags, Book of Nightmares)
1928 - Eric Evans, Dean (St Paul's)
1928 - Peter Gordon Dorrell, archaeologist/photographer
1928 - Sam Edwards, physicist
1928 - Thoams Eric Evans, dean (St Paul's)
1928 - Tom Lantos, (Rep-D-CA, 1981- )
1928 - Ursula Mamlok, composer
1930 - Peter Tapsell, British MP
1930 - Shahabuddin Ahmed, President of Bangladesh
1930 - Mario Beaulieu, Quebec politician (d. 1998)
1931 - Barrel, [ABM] Frinking, teacher/Dutch MP (CVP)
1931 - Boris Yeltsin, Ural Mts USSR, president of Russian SSR
1931 - Madeline Berthod, Switzerland, downhill skier (Olympic-gold-1956)
1931 - Mark Richmond, CEO (Science & Engineering Research Council)
1931 - Ton [ABM] Frinking, Dutch MP (CDA)
1932 - John Hart, Denver Colo, newsman (CBS News Retrospective, NBC News)
1932 - John Nott, British MP
1933 - Reynolds Price, US writer (Strengthened by a Pale Green Light)
1934 - Bob Shane, vocalist (Kingston Trio-Scarlet Ribbons)
1935 - Ruth Clarke, Moderator (General Assembly of the United Reform Church)
1935 - Vladimir Viktorovich Aksyonov, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 22, T-2)
1936 - G H Blake, Principal (Collingwood College, Durham U)
1936 - Azie Taylor Morton, 35th Treasurer of the United States (d. 2003)
1937 - Don Everly, Brownie Ky, vocalist (Everly Bros-Wake Up Little Susie)
1937 - Dr Hook, [Ray Sawyer], Ala, vocalist (Dr Hook-When You're in Love)
1937 - Garrett Morris, New Orleans La, actor (SNL, Martin, Carwash)
1938 - Jacky Cupit, golfer (Rookie of Year 1961)
1938 - Jimmy Carl Black, rocker (Mothers Of Invention)
1938 - Sherman Hemsley, Phila, actor (All in the Family, Jeffersons, Amen), (d. 2012)
1939 - Del McCoury, bluegrass singer/musician
1939 - Paul E Gillmor, (Rep-R-Ohio)
1939 - Ray Sawyer, rocker
1939 - Claude François, French singer (d. 1978)
1940 - Bibi Besch, Vienna Austria, actress (Star Trek 2, Beast Within)
1940 - Herve Filion, sulky driver (1969 Canadian Sports Hall of Fame)
1941 - Anatoliy Firssov, USSR, ice hockey play (Olympic-gold-1964, 68, 72)
1941 - Franco Nones, Italy, 30K cross country skier (Olympic-gold-1968)
1941 - Robert Walmsley, British Vice-Admiral
1941 - Karl Dall, German television host
1941 - Jerry Spinelli, children's author
1942 - Dave Sincock, cricketer (chinaman bowler played for Aust 1964-66)
1942 - Terry Jones, Colwyn Bay North Wales, comedian (Monty Python)
1942 - Muna Wassef, Wassef is a well known Syrian/Arab movie star and a United Nations Goodwill ambassador.
1943 - Josceline Dimbleby, cookery writer
1943 - Lord Mountevans
1943 - Tina Sloan, NY, actress (Lillian-Guiding Light, Search for Tomorrow)
1944 - Leo Burmester, Louisville Ky, actor (Flo, Chiefs, Abbys, Odd Jobs)
1944 - Tommy Duffy, rocker (Echos)
1944 - Mike Enzi, American politician, senator of Wyoming
1944 - Burkhard Ziese, German football manager
1945 - Ole Buck, composer
1946 - Bart Braverman, LA California, actor (Bobby-Vega$, Roy-New Odd Couple)
1947 - Adam Ingram, British MP
1947 - Terry Hibbitt, soccer star
1947 - Mike Brant, Israeli pop singer (d. 1975)
1947 - Normie Rowe, Australian singer
1948 - Debbie Austin, LPGA golfer
1948 - Jennifer Adams, superintendent (Central Royal Parks)
1948 - Elisabeth Sladen, British actress
1949 - Jimmy Lee Thorpe, Roxboro NC, PGA golfer (1985 Greater Milwaukee Open)
1950 - Mike Campbell, American guitarist and producer
1951 - Andrew Smith, British MP
1952 - Rick James, [James Johnson], rock/soul/funk vocalist (Super Freak)
1953 - Andy Mill, skier/husband of Chris Everet
1953 - C A Barnett, headmaster (Whitgift School)
1953 - Brendan Batson, English former footballer
1954 - Billy Mumy, California, actor (Will Robinson-Lost in Space, Dear Brigitte)
1954 - Mike Campbell, guitarist (Tom Petty & Heartbreakers-Breakdown)
1954 - Chuck Dukowski, American musician (Black Flag)
1955 - Kate Ashbrook, general secretary (Open Spaces Society)
1955 - Virginia Elliot, three-day eventer
1955 - Ernie Camacho, baseball player
1956 - Brahmanandam, Indian film actor
1956 - Exene Cervenka, American musician
1956 - Mike Kitchen, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1957 - Donna Adamek, Duarte California, bowler (BWAA Woman of Year 1978-81)
1958 - Maureen Madill, Coleraine No Ireland, golfer (Brit Open Amateur 1979)
1958 - Jackie Shroff, Indian actor
1958 - Luther Blissett, English footballer
1959 - Anthony LaPlagia, actor (Criminal Justice, Betsy's Wedding)
1959 - Carolyn Hill, Santa Monica CA, LPGA golfer (1994 McCall's Classic)
1959 - Mike Horan, NFL punter (NY Giants)
1959 - Wade Wilson, NFL quarterback (Dallas Cowboys)
1961 - Daniel M Tani, Ridley Park MD, astronaut
1961 - Gina Hull, Jacksonville FL, LPGA golfer (1989 USX Golf Classic-8th)
1962 - José Luis Cuciuffo, Argentinian footballer (d. 2004)
1962 - Tomoyasu Hotei, Japanese guitarist
1963 - Jani Lane, heavy metal drummer (Warrant-Cherry Pie)
1963 - Takashi Murakami, Japanese artist
1964 - Dwayne Rudolph Goettel, musician
1964 - Kaitlin Hopkins, NYC, actress (Kelsey-Another World)
1964 - Sharon Bruneau, Toronto Ontario, actress (Sensuous Muscle)
1964 - Mario Pelchat, Quebec singer
1964 - Linus Roache, English actor
1965 - Brandon Lee, Emerson Colo, actor (Showdown in Little Tokyo)
1965 - David Callaghan, cricketer (South African all-rounder in one-dayers 1992)
1965 - Sherilyn Fenn, Detroit Mich, actress (2 Moon Junction, Twin Peaks)
1965 - Stephanie Marie Elisabeth de Grimaldi, Monte Carlo Monaco, Princess
1966 - Donna Edmondson, Greensboro NC, playmate of year (Nov, 1986)
1966 - Eddie Zambrano, Venezuelan/US baseball outfielder (Chicago Cubs)
1966 - Michelle Akers, Santa Clara California, soccer forward (Olympics-96)
1966 - Rob Lee, English footballer
1967 - Tim Naehring, Cincinnati OH, infielder (Boston Red Sox)
1967 - Meg Cabot, American author
1967 - Patle Shishupal Natthu, Indian politician
1968 - George Quigley Jr, Cin Ohio, skeet (Olympics-1996)
1968 - Javier Sanchez, Spain, tennis star
1968 - Kent Mercker, Dublin OH, pitcher (Atlanta Braves, Balt Orioles)
1968 - Lisa Marie Presley Keough Jackson, Memphis Tenn, daughter of Elvis
1968 - Mark Recchi, Kamloops, NHL right wing (Montreal Canadiens)
1968 - Pauly Shore, Hollywood, comedian (Totally Pauly, Encino Man)
1968 - Sean Millington, CFL fullback (BC Lions)
1969 - Bryan Jacob, Palatka Fla, 59 kg (130 lbs) weightlifter (Oly-1992, 96)
1969 - John Moore, Australian baseball catcher (Olympics-1996)
1969 - Gabriel Batistuta, Argentine footballer
1969 - Joshua Redman, American musician
1969 - Brian Krause, American actor
1969 - Patrick Wilson, American musician (Drummer for Weezer)
1969 - Andrew Breitbart, Los Angeles, California, conservative blogger and publisher, (d. 2012)
1970 - Eric Mobley, NBA center (Vancouver Grizzlies)
1970 - Malik Sealy, NBA guard/forward (Detroit Pistons, LA Clippers)
1970 - Yasuyuki Kazama, Japanese racing driver
1971 - Ajay Jadeja, cricketer (Indian opening batsman)
1971 - Derek Byrd, NFL cornerback (NO Saints)
1971 - Robert O'Neal, WLAF safety (Amsterdam Admirals)
1971 - Tommy Salo, Surahammar SWE, NHL goalie (Team Sweden, NY Islanders)
1971 - Zlatko Zahovič, Slovenian footballer
1971 - Ron Welty, American musician
1972 - Brian Krause, actor (December, Sleepwalkers, Return to Blue Lagoon)
1972 - Geoff Sanderson, Hay River, NHL left wing (Hartford Whalers)
1972 - Richard Becker, Aurora IL, outfielder (Minnesota Twins)
1972 - [Thomas] Carlton Bruner, US, 1500m freestyle swimmer (Olympics-96)
1972 - Yoshi DeHerrera, American TV personality
1972 - Kami (musician), drummer of Japanese visual kei band Malice Mizer (d.1999)
1973 - Andrew DeClercq, NBA forward (Golden State Warriors, Boston Celtics)
1973 - Elena Makarova, Moscow Russia, tennis star (1993 Futures-Val)
1973 - Michael Joyce, Santa Monica CA, tennis star (1989 USTA Natl Boys' 18)
1973 - Tlia Reima, ice hockey center (Finland, Oly-98)
1973 - Yuri Landman, Experimental musical instrument builder, musician and comic book artist
1973 - Makiko Ohmoto, Japanese voice actress
1974 - Jennifer Lien, actress (Hannah Moore-Another World)
1974 - Lisa Marie Scott, Pensacola FL, playmate (Feb, 1994)
1974 - Walter McCarty, NBA forward (Boston Celtics)
1974 - Roberto Heras, Spanish cyclist
1974 - David Meca, Spanish long distance swimmer
1975 - Martijn Reuser, Dutch soccer player (Ajax)
1975 - Big Boi, American musician (Outkast)
1976 - Phil Ivey, American poker player
1977 - Kevin Kilbane, Irish footballer
1979 - Juan Silveira dos Santos, Brazilian footballer
1979 - Julie Augustyniak, American soccer player
1979 - Valentin Elizalde, Mexican Singer (d.2006)
1980 - Courtney Hamilton, Miss Arizona Teen USA (1996)
1980 - Moisés Muñoz, Mexican footballer
1980 - Otilino Tenorio, Ecuadorian footballer (d. 2005)
1980 - Héctor Luna, Dominican Republic baseball player
1981 - Luis Lamá, Angolan footballer
1981 - Graeme Smith, South African cricketer
1981 - Rob Austin, British racing driver
1982 - Shoaib Malik, Pakistani cricketer
1983 - Jurgen Van Den Broeck, Belgian cyclist
1983 - Kevin Martin, American basketball player
1984 - Darren Fletcher, Scottish footballer
1984 - Lee Thompson Young, American actor
1985 - Dean Shiels, Northern Irish footballer
1985 - Rachael Scdoris, American dog musher
1985 - Jodi Gordon, Australian actress and model
1986 - Lauren Conrad, American TV star
1987 - Giuseppe Rossi, Italian footballer
1989 - Hurricane Chris, American rapper
1990 - Laura Marling, British singer-songwriter

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 01, 2013, 07:11:26 AM

This Day in History for 1st February


Famous Deaths

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Frankenstein Author Mary Shelley (1851)           Abstract Painter Piet Mondrian (1944)


656 - Sigebert III, king of Austrasia, dies at about 25
1204 - Alexius IV Angelus, regent of Byzantium (1203-04), murdered
1248 - Hendrik II, duke of Brabant (1235-48), dies
1294 - Louis II, the Stern, ruler of Upper-Bayern, dies
1328 - Charles IV, the Handsome, King of France (1322-28), dies
1502 - Olivier de la Marche, Flemish writer/poet/governor, dies
1542 - Girolamo Aleandro, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1480)
1563 - Menas, Emperor of Ethiopia (died of fever)
1590 - Lawrence Humphrey,English clergyman and educator
1650 - Rene Descartes, philosopher "I think therefore I am", stops thinking
1666 - Sjihab al-Din Sultan C Shah Djahan, mogol of India (Taj-Mahal), dies
1669 - Abandoned child, Huygens friend poet Catharina Questiers, buried at 31
1691 - Alexander VIII, [Pietro Ottoboni], Italian Pope (1689-91), dies at 80
1691 - George Etherege, English stage writer (Love in a Tub), dies at 56
1694 - John L baron van Elderen, 63rd bishop of Liege (1688-94), dies at 73
1718 - Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury, English politician (b. 1660)
1733 - August II, the Strong, King of Poland (355 children), dies at 62
1734 - John Floyer, English physician and writer (b. 1649)
1743 - Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni, Italian composer, dies at 85
1747 - Jacobus E J Capitein, Dutch slave/vicar/merchant, dies
1761 - Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix, French historian (b. 1682)
1768 - Sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet, British cavalry officer (b. 1685)
1793 - William Wildman Shute Barrington, British statesman (b. 1717)
1795 - Giacomo Insanguine, composer, dies at 66
1818 - Giuseppi Gazzaniga, composer, dies at 74
1824 - Maria Theresia von Paradis, composer, dies at 64
1832 - Ecco Epkema, Dutch classic linguist (Frisian/Old Frisian), dies at 71
1832 - Archibald Murphey, North Carolina politician (b. 1777)
1838 - Abraham de Veer, Dutch gov-gen of Suriname (1822-28), dies at 71
1839 - Giuseppe Valadier, Italian architect/archaeologist, dies at 76
1850 - Edward Baker Lincoln, son of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln
1851 - Mary Shelley, novelist (Frankenstein), dies at 53
1869 - Frederik W Conrad, hydraulic engineer/railway pioneer, dies at 68
1871 - Alexander Nikoleyevich Serov, composer, dies at 51
1873 - Matthew Maury, hydrographer, dies
1875 - William Sterndale Bennett, composer, dies at 58
1877 - Joseph-Leon Gatayes, composer, dies at 71
1878 - George Cruikshank, English illustrator (Grimm), dies at 85
1883 - Pavel Melnikov, Russian historian/author, dies
1889 - Joseph Gungl, composer, dies at 78
1893 - George Henry Sanderson, Mayor of San Francisco (b. 1824)
1897 - Constantin von Ettingshausen, Austrian geologist (b. 1826)
1902 - Salomon Jaoassohn, composer, dies at 70
1903 - George G Stokes, British physicist/pres Royal Society, dies at 83
1904 - Peter PM Alberdingk Thijm, Dutch historian/writer, dies at 76
1905 - Oswald Aschenbach, German painter, dies at 77
1908 - Carlos I, King of Portugal (1889-1908), assassinated by mob at 44
1910 - Otto Julius Bierbaum, German writer (Irrgarten Der Liebe), dies at 44
1916 - Anton Simon, composer, dies at 65
1922 - William Desmond Taylor, director/actor (Broken Coin), dies at 49
1928 - Hughie Jennings, American baseball player and manager (b. 1869)
1929 - August Otto Halm, composer, dies at 59
1936 - Georgios Kondylis, general of the Greek army and Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1878)
1937 - Marguerite Audoux, writer, dies
1940 - Philip Francis Nowlan, science fiction writer, creator of Buck Rogers character (b. 1888)
1944 - Martin Lunssens, composer, dies at 72
1944 - Piet Mondrian, abstract painter (Composition in Blue), dies at 71
1945 - Johan Huizinga, Dutch culture historian (Homo Ludens), dies at 72
1946 - Hans Betghe, writer, dies at 70
1949 - Herbert Stothart, composer, dies at 63
1954 - Julius P Hoste, Belgium minister/newspaper publisher, dies at 69
1957 - Friedrich von Paulus, German field marshall (Stalingrad), dies at 66
1958 - Clinton Joseph Davisson, dies
1959 - Madame Sul-To-Wan, [Conley], actress (Birth of a Nation), dies at 85
1963 - Fleetwood Lindley, the last living person to see Abraham Lincoln's face (b. 1888)
1966 - Buster Keaton, [Joseph Francis], US comic (General), dies at 69
1966 - Hedda Hopper, [Elda Furry], US gossip columnist, dies at 75
1966 - Nicholas Piantanida, sets balloon flight record & dies in descent
1966 - William Harrigan, actor (Invisible Man, Girl in 419), dies at 71
1967 - Ernie Bromley, cricketer (2 Tests for Australia 1933-34), dies
1968 - Lawson Little, amateur golfer (US/Brit Opens 1934,35), dies at 57
1970 - Blaz Arnic, composer, dies at 69
1970 - Alfréd Rényi, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1921)
1971 - Jim A J Christy, cricket (10 Tests for S Af, 638 runs at 34 33), dies
1974 - Lynda Ann Healy, 1st Bundy murder victim, abducted in Seattle
1975 - Richard Wattis, actor (Dick & Duchess, Liberace), dies at 62
1976 - Edgar Pangborn, sci-fi author (Judgment of Eve, Davy), dies at 66
1976 - Werner C Heisenberg, physicist (Nobel 1932, field theory), dies at 74
1976 - George Whipple, American scientist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1878)
1977 - Edmond [Moore] Hamilton, US, sci-fi author (Danger Planet), dies at 72
1979 - Mort Marshall, actor (Cully-Dumplings), dies at 60
1980 - Jack Bailey, TV host (Queen for a Day), dies at 72
1980 - Romolo Valli, actor (Boom, La Viaccia), dies at 54
1980 - Gastone Nencini, Italian cyclist (b. 1930)
1981 - Donald W Douglas, US aviation pionieer/builder, dies at 88
1981 - Ernst Pepping, composer, dies at 79
1981 - Nils Geirr Tveitt, composer, dies at 72
1981 - Wanda Hendrix, actress (Sierra, Ride the Pink Horse), dies
1983 - Tullio Campagnolo, Italian bicycle manufacturer, dies
1986 - Alva Myrdal, Swedish Nobel peace prize winner (1982), dies at 84
1986 - Dick James, Beatles' music publisher (1962-70), dies in London at 58
1986 - Gino Hernandez, American wrestler (b. 1957)
1987 - Erin Westmore, makeup artist (Hollywood Backstage), dies at 82
1987 - Alessandro Blasetti, Italian film director (b. 1900)
1988 - Heather O'Rourke, (Poltergeist) star, dies of intestinal ailment at 12
1988 - Reinder Zwolsman, Dutch businessman, dies at 75
1989 - Elaine de Kooning, American artist (b. 1918)
1991 - Carol Dempster, actress (Sally of Sawdust, America), dies at 89
1991 - H J van Ommeren-Averink, Dutch MP (CPN), dies
1991 - James G MacDonald, cartoon voice (Mickey Mouse), dies at 84
1991 - Phil Watson, NHL coach (NY Rangers), dies
1992 - George Berkeley, actor (Life Stinks, Capts & Kings), dies at 70
1992 - Irving R Kaufman, federal judge (Rosenberg Case), dies at 81
1994 - Fouad Fram al-Boustani, Lebanese historian (Rawaeaa), dies at 88
1994 - Olan Soule, radio voice (Super Friends), dies of lung cancer at 83
1995 - George Abbot, director (Damn Yankees), dies at 107
1995 - John Smith, CEO (Liverpool FC), dies at 74
1995 - Michael Caesar, pope of pot, dies of liver cancer at 52
1996 - Clive Burton, neuropathologist, dies at 54
1997 - Herb Caen, columnist, Lung cancer, dies at 80
1997 - Mitchell Goodman, writer, dies at 71
1997 - Peter Morris, historian of France, dies at 50
1997 - Thelma Moss, psychologist, dies at 78
1999 - Paul Mellon, American philanthropist (b. 1907)
1999 - Barış Manço, Turkish singer, composer, television producer and celebrity. (b. 1943)
2001 - André D'Allemagne, Quebec teacher, political observer and essayist (b. 1929)
2002 - Hildegard Knef, German actress, singer, and writer (b. 1925)
2003 - Michael P. Anderson - crew of the STS-107 Mission (Space Shuttle Columbia disaster) (b. 1959)
2003 - David Brown - crew of the STS-107 Mission (Space Shuttle Columbia disaster) (b. 1956)
2003 - Kalpana Chawla - crew of the STS-107 Mission (Space Shuttle Columbia disaster) (b. 1961)
2003 - Laurel Clark - crew of the STS-107 Mission (Space Shuttle Columbia disaster) (b. 1961)
2003 - Rick D. Husband - crew of the STS-107 Mission (Space Shuttle Columbia disaster) (b. 1957)
2003 - Willie McCool - crew of the STS-107 Mission (Space Shuttle Columbia disaster) (b. 1961)
2003 - Ilan Ramon - crew of the STS-107 Mission (Space Shuttle Columbia disaster) (b. 1954)
2003 - Mongo Santamaria, Cuban percussionist and band leader (b. 1922)
2004 - May O'Donnell, American modern dancer and choreographer (b. 1909)
2005 - John Vernon, Canadian actor (b. 1932)
2006 - Dick Bass, American football player (b. 1937)
2006 - Bryce Harland, New Zealand diplomat (b. 1931)
2007 - Gian Carlo Menotti, Italian-born composer (b. 1911)
2007 - Seri Wangnaitham, Thai dance choreographer (b. 1937)
2007 - Ray Berres, American baseball player (b. 1907)
2007 - Ahmad Abu Laban, Danish Muslim leader (b. 1946)
2007 - Whitney Balliett, American jazz critic (b. 1926)
2012 - Wislawa Szymborska, Polish poet and Nobel Laureate, dies at 88
2012 - Angelo Dundee, American boxing trainer and cornerman, dies at 90
2012 - Gerlando Alberti, Sicilian Mafioso, dies from cancer at 88
2012 - Don Cornelius, American television host, commits suicide by gunshot at 75

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 02, 2013, 08:26:38 AM

This Day in History for 2nd February


Historical Events

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Composer George Friedrich Handel         Versatile Athlete Jim Thorpe                   Novelist & Poet James Joyce

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Singer/Actor Frank Sinatra                       Gangster Al Capone                                 Singer Buddy Holly

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Playwright Tom Stoppard                       264th Pope John Paul II

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Anti-apartheid activist/                          Country Singer Willie Nelson
South African President
Nelson Mandela


506 - King Alarik II of Visigoten delegates Lex Romania Visigothorum out
962 - Pope John XII crowns German King Otto I the Great Emperor
1032 - Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor becomes King of Burgundy, succeeding Rudolf III
1119 - Guido di Borgogna elected Pope Callistus II
1141 - Battle at Lincoln: King Stephen captured
1461 - 2nd battle of St Alban's-Lancastrian defeat Yorkists
1509 - The Battle of Diu takes place near Diu, India, between Portugal and Turkey.
1536 - Pedro de Mendoza finds Argentine city of Buenos Aires
1542 - Portuguese under Christovão da Gama capture a Moslem-occupied hillfort in northern Ethiopia
           in the Battle of Baçente.
1550 - English Edward Seymour duke of Somerset, freed
1633 - M Rossi's opera "Erminia sul Giordano," premieres in Rome
1637 - Zorilla's "El más Impropio Verdugo Para Las," premieres in Madrid
1653 - New Amsterdam becomes a city (later renamed New York City)
1709 - British sailor Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being marooned on a desert island for 5 years,
           his story inspires "Robinson Crusoe"
1714 - Nicholas Rowe's "tragedy of Jane Shore," premieres in London
1731 - Georg F Handel's opera "Poro," premieres in London
1732 - King Frederik Willem I moves Lutherans towards East-Prussia
1742 - British Walpole government resigns
1762 - Thomas Arnes opera "Artaxerxes," premieres in London
1787 - Arthur St. Clair is elected the 9th President of the President of the Continental Congress
           under the Articles of Confederation.
1795 - Joseph Haydns 102nd Symphony in B, premieres
1798 - Federal St Theater, Boston, becomes 1st in US destroyed by fire
1802 - 1st leopard exhibited in US, Boston (admission 25 cents)
1811 - Russian settlers establish Ft Ross trading post, north of SF
1823 - Rossini's opera "Semiramide" premieres in Venice
1829 - Madman Jonathan Martin sets York Cathedral afire, does £60,000 damage
1843 - US & British settlers in Oregon Country choose government committee
1848 - 1st ship load of Chinese arrive in SF
1848 - Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends Mexican War; US acquires Texas California, New Mexico &
           Arizona for $15 million
1852 - 1st British public men's toilet opens (Fleet St London)
1852 - Alexandre Dumas Jr's "Le Dame aux Camélias," premieres in Paris
1854 - Pope Pius IX encyclical "On persecution of Armenians"
1863 - Samuel Clemens becomes Mark Twain for 1st time
1864 - -Oct 7th) Cruise of CSS Florida
1869 - James Oliver invents removable tempered steel plow blade
1870 - Cardiff Giant (supposed petrified human) proved to be gypsum
1876 - Baseball's National League forms with teams in Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Hartford,
           Louisville, New York, Philadelphia, St Louis
1878 - Greece declares war on Turkey
1880 - SS Strathleven arrives in London with 1st Australian frozen mutton
1882 - Knights of Columbus forms in New Haven, Conn
1887 - In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania the first Groundhog Day is observed.
1892 - Bottle cap with cork seal patented by William Painter (Baltimore)
1892 - Johnny Briggs takes a hat-trick, England v Aust SCG
1892 - Longest boxing match under modern rules; 77 rounds in Nameoki, Illinois between Harry 
           Sharpe & Frank Crosby
1893 - 1st movie close-up (of a sneeze), Edison studio, West Orange, NJ
1894 - US warship Kearsarge wrecked on Roncador Reef, near Solomon Island
1899 - The Australian Premiers' Conference held in Melbourne decides to locate Australia's capital
           (Canberra) between Sydney and Melbourne.
1900 - Gustave Charpentiers opera "Louise" premieres in Paris
1901 - Female Army Nurse Corps established as a permanent organization
1901 - Queen Victoria's funeral takes place.
1906 - Pope encyclical against separation of church & state
1909 - Italian writer Marinetti publishes Futurist Manifest in Paris
1912 - Frederick R Law, parachutes from Statue of Liberty (stunt for Pathe)
1913 - NY football Giants sign Jim Thorpe
1913 - NYC's Grand Central Terminal opens
1914 - James Royce Shannon's musical "Shameen Dhu," premieres in NYC
1919 - Monarchist riot in Portugal
1920 - Estonia declares its Independence from Russia (Dorpat Peace)
1920 - France occupies (German) Memel territory
1920 - Tarto/Dorpat peace treaty: USSR recognizes Estonian independence
1922 - It was 2:22:22 on 2/2/22
1922 - James Joyce's "Ulysses" published in Paris (1,000 copies)
1923 - Ethyl gasoline 1st marketed, Dayton, Ohio
1923 - US signs friendship treaty with Central American countries
1924 - International Ski Federation (FIS) forms
1925 - Belgian episcopacy rejects liberalism, communism & socialism
1925 - Dogsleds reach Nome with emergency diphtheria serum after 1000-km
1925 - NL holds Golden Jubilee Year meeting at same hotel where NL began
1926 - 3 men dance Charleston for 22 hours
1927 - Harry Tierney/Joseph McCarthy's "Rio Rita," premieres in NYC
1927 - Ziegfeld Theater (Loew's Ziegfeld) opens at 6th Ave & 54th St NYC
1931 - 1st siyyum of Talmud celebrated by Daf Yomi students
1931 - 1st use of a rocket to deliver mail (Austria)
1932 - Al Capone sent to prison (Atlanta, Georgia)
1932 - Geneva disarmament conference begins with 60 countries
1932 - Grimmett takes 14 wickets v South Africa (7-116 & 7-83)
1932 - Reconstruction Finance Corp organized
1933 - 2 days after becoming chancellor, Adolf Hitler dissolves Parliament
1933 - Goering bans communist meetings/demonstrations in Germany
1933 - Ucicky's "Rotten Morning," premieres in Berlin
1934 - Dutch RC Bishops warn against fascism/nazism
1935 - Lie detector 1st used in court (Portage Wisc)
1935 - Leonarde Keeler tests the first polygraph machine.
1940 - Frank Sinatra's singing debut in Indianapolis (Tommy Dorsey Orch)
1942 - LA Times urges security measures against Japanese-Americans
1942 - US auto factories switch from commercial to war production
1943 - Battle of Stalingrad ends with final surrender of the German army
1943 - Cubs return to original uniform after experimenting with a vest
1943 - German 6th Army surrenders at Stalingrad, turning point of WW II
1944 - 4th US marine division conquerors Roi, Marshall Islands
1944 - Allied troops 1st set foot on Japanese territory
1944 - Baseball meets in NYC to discuss postwar action
1944 - Edward Chodorov's "Decision," premieres in NYC
1945 - Escape attempt at Mauthausen concentration camp
1946 - "Nellie Bly" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 16 performances
1946 - The Proclamation of Hungarian Republic is made.
1948 - President Harry Truman urges congress to adopt a civil rights program
1949 - 1st 45 RPM record released
1949 - Golfing champ Ben Hogan seriously injured in an auto accident
1950 - "Arms & the Girl" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 134 performances
1950 - 1st broadcast of "What's My Line," on CBS-TV
1951 - -35°F (-37°C), Greensburg, Indiana (state record until 1994)
1951 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1954 - Bevo Francis, Rio Grande College, scores 113 pts in basketball game
1954 - Pres Eisenhower reports detonation of 1st H-bomb (done in 1952)
1954 - Snow falls on Gibraltar
1955 - 1st presidential news conference on network TV-Eisenhower on ABC
1956 - Coasters sign with Atlantic Records
1957 - "Candide" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 73 performances
1957 - UN adopts a resolution calling for Israeli troops to leave Egypt
1958 - Fay Crocker wins LPGA Havana Biltmore Golf Open
1958 - Syria joins Egypt in United Arab Republic
1958 - WRIK (now WLUZ) TV channel 7 in Ponce, PR (PTC) begins broadcasting
1959 - Buddy Holly's last performance
1959 - Vince Lombardi signs a 5 year contract to coach Green Bay Packers
1960 - Michale Eufemia sinks 625 balls in pool match without a miss
1961 - Prince Bernhard opens new RAI building in Amsterdam
1962 - 1st pole vault over 16' (4.88m) (John Uelses-16', Melrose Games)
1962 - 8 of 9 planets align for 1st time in 400 years
1962 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1963 - Helen Shapiro begins tour (Beatles are part of undercard)
1964 - GI Joe, debuts as a popular American boy's toy
1964 - Sjoukje Dijkstra (Neth) wins Olympic gold for figure skating
1964 - Red Faber, Burleigh Grimes, Tim Keefe, Heinie Manush, John Montgomery Ward, & Miller
           Huggins are selected to Hall of Fame
1965 - Joe Ortons "Loot," premieres in Brighton
1966 - Pakistan suggests a six-point agenda with Kashmir dispute as number one item for the
           proposed Indo-Pak ministerial talks after 1965 war.
1967 - Bolivia adopts its constitution
1967 - Formation of American Basketball Association is announced
1968 - Springer Publishers in West Berlin, bombed
1969 - KMST TV channel 46 in Monterey-Salinas, CA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1969 - Stan Coveleski & Waite Hoyt are voted into baseball Hall of Fame
1970 - Pete Maravich becomes 1st to score 3,000 college basketball points
1971 - Idi Amin ousts Milton Obote to become dictator of Uganda
1972 - Lefty Gomez, Ross Youngs & William Harridge selected for Hall of Fame
1972 - Tom Stoppard's "Jumpers," premieres in London
1973 - "Midnight Special" rock music show debuts on NBC-TV
1973 - James R Schlesinger, becomes 9th director of CIA (until July)
1973 - Richath Helms, ends term as 8th director of CIA
1973 - Test Cricket debut of Richard John Hadlee, NZ v Pakistan, Wellington
1974 - Barbra Striesand's 1st #1 hit, "The Way We Were"
1974 - Pope Paul VI encyclical "To Honor Mary"
1974 - Smallest crowd at Cleveland Arena (Cavs vs Golden State-1,641)
1974 - The F-16 Fighting Falcon flies for the first time.
1975 - Army offensive against rebels in Eritrea Ethiopia
1975 - Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational
1975 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Dorothy Hamill
1975 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Gordon McKellen Jr
1976 - "Honeymooners Second Honeymoon" airs on TV
1976 - "Rich Little Show," debuts on NBC-TV
1976 - Roger Connor, Fred Lindstrom & ump Cal Hubbard elected to Hall of Fame
1977 - Burn up of Salyut 4 Space Station (USSR)
1977 - Radio Shack officially begins creating TRS-80 computer
1977 - Toronto's Ian Turnbull scores 5 goals, NHL REcord for a defenseman
1980 - FBI releases details of Abscam, a sting operation that targeted 31 elected & public officials for
           bribes for political favors
1982 - Government troops & Moslem-fundamentalists battle in Hamah Syria
1982 - San Diego beats Miami 41-38 in OT after blowing a 24-0 lead
1982 - Hama Massacre: The government of Syria attacks the town of Hama and kills thousands of
           people.
1983 - Chicago Absp Joseph L Bernardin is among 18 new cardinals invested
1983 - Pope John Paul II names 18 new cardinals
1984 - 8th Soap Opera Digest Poll Awards
1984 - Lebanese army fight in Beirut
1985 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano
1986 - "Jerome Kern Goes to Hollywood" closes at Ritz NYC after 13 perfs
1986 - Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic
1986 - Dalai Lama meets Pope John Paul II in India
1986 - NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 28-24
1986 - Oscar Arias Sanchez elected president of Costa Rica
1987 - KC Royal pitcher Dennis Leonard (3X 20 game winner), retires
1987 - Philippines adopts constitution
1988 - David Boon's 6th Test Cricket century, 184* v England at Sydney
1989 - 0°F (-18°C) or below in 15 US states
1989 - FW de Klerk replaces Botha as South Africa's National Party leader
1989 - NL announces Yanks' broadcaster Bill White will be 1st black president
1990 - South Africa's Pres FW de Klerk promises to free Nelson Mandela & legalizes ANC & 60 other
           political orgs
1991 - Aravinda De Silva scores 267 v NZ at Wellington
1991 - NH snaps its 32-game losing streak at home beating Holy Cross, 72-56
1991 - US postage is raised from 25 cents to 29 cents
1991 - Sting scores his second UK No.1 album with 'The Soul Cages'
1992 - Colleen Walker wins Oldsmobile LPGA Golf Classic
1992 - Danny Everett runs world record 400m indoor (45.02 sec)
1992 - David Boon's 13 Test Cricket century, 107 v India at Perth
1992 - IRS & Willie Nelson settle on $9M tax bill (of $16.7M)
1992 - Kieren Perkins swims world record 1500m freestyle (14:32.40)
1992 - NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 21-15
1993 - Frito Lay pays court ordered $2,500,000 to Tom Wait for using his song
1993 - Irina Privalova runs world record 50m indoor (6.05 sec)
1995 - "Moliere Comedies" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 56 performances
1995 - Henry Olonga no-balled for throwing in Zimbabwe-Pakistan Test Cricket
1995 - US space shuttle Discovery launched
1996 - Ali Landry, 22, (Louisiana), crowned 45th Miss USA
1997 - "Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus" closes at Gershwin NYC
1997 - Mark O'Meara wins Pebble Beach National Golf Pro-am
1997 - NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 26-23 (OT)
1997 - Royal Caribbean Senior Golf Classic
1998 - Daniel Baldwin hospitalized in NYC for cocaine overdose
1998 - Philippine DC-9 crashes apparently killing all 104 on board
2003 - Jennifer Lopez starts a three week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'All I Have'
2003 - Russian pop girl duo Tatu start a four-week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'All The
          Things She Said'
2012 - Cold snap across Europe kills more than 100 people (over 400 people by 08-02)
2012 - MV Rabaul Queen sinks off the coast of Papa New Guinea with 246 people saved and 126
           missing (100 of these estimated to be trapped inside)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 02, 2013, 08:29:11 AM

This Day in History for 2nd February


Famous Weddings

1870 - American writer (Huckleberry Finn) Samuel Langhorne Clemens, pen name Mark Twain, (34)
           marries Olivia Langdon (24) in Elmira, NY
1904 - US blues singer Gertrude Pridgett marries comic William Rainey
1957 - Liz Taylor's 3rd marriage (Mike Todd)
1990 - Marina Ogilvy (daughter of Engl princess Alexandra) weds Paul Mowatt
1997 - "American Idol" judge Paula Abdul (34) weds sportswear designer Brad Beckerman at The
           Beverly Hills Four Seasons Hotel
2002 - Crown Prince Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands (38) weds Argentinean born Maxima
           Zorreguieta (34) at the Beurs van Berlage
2008 - Singer-actress Katharine McPhee (23) weds producer Nick Cokas (42) at the Beverly Hills
           Presbyterian Church in Beverly Hills, California
2008 - 23rd French Republic President Nicolas Sarkozy (53) weds supermodel-turned-singer Carla
           Bruni (39) at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France
2010 - Former glamour model Katie Price (32) weds MMA fighter and former "Hollyoaks" actor Alex
           Reid (34) at the chapel in the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 02, 2013, 08:48:30 AM

This Day in History for 2nd February


Famous Birthdays

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Novelist & Poet James Joyce (1882)         Actress Farrah Fawcett (1946)                   Singer Shakira (1977)


1208 - James I of Aragon (d. 1276)
1455 - King John of Denmark (d. 1513)
1494 - Bona Sforza, queen of Sigismund I of Poland (d. 1557)
1502 - Damião de Góis, Portuguese philosopher (d. 1574)
1506 - René de Birague, French cardinal and chancellor (d. 1583)
1522 - Lodovico Ferrari, Italian mathematician (d. 1565)
1583 - Anna Roemers Visscher, Dutch poetess
1595 - Jacob van Campen, painter/architect (New Church, Amsterdam)
1600 - Gabriel Naudé, French librarian and scholar (d. 1653)
1613 - Noël Chabanel, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1649)
1621 - Johannes Schefferus, Alsatian-born humanist (d. 1679)
1649 - Benedict XIII, [Pierfrancesco Orsini], Italy, 245th pope (1724-30)
1650 - Nell [Eleanor] Gwyn, English actress/mistress (King Charles II)
1669 - Louis Marchand, composer
1695 - William Borlase, English naturalist (d. 1772)
1695 - François de Chevert, French general (d. 1769)
1711 - Wenzel Anton von Kaunitz, Austrian diplomat (d. 1794)
1714 - Gottfried August Homilius, composer
1717 - Ernst Gideon Freiherr von Laudon, Austrian field marshal (d. 1790)
1748 - Christian Gottfried Thomas, composer
1773 - Vincenc Tomas Vaclav Tucek, composer
1780 - Johannes van den Bosch, gov-gen (Neth East Indies)
1786 - Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, French mathematician (d. 1856)
1802 - Jean-Baptiste JD Boussingault, French chemist
1803 - Albert Sidney Johnston, Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1862
1804 - Leopold Eugen Mechura, composer
1815 - Nathaniel Collins McLean, Brig Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1905
1817 - John Glover, English chemist (sulfuric acid)
1817 - Jose Maria de la Purificacion Ventura, composer
1820 - Hans E Schack, Danish politician/writer (Phantasterne)
1827 - Abner Monroe Perrin, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
1827 - Oswald Aschenbach, German painter
1829 - Alfred Brehm, German zoologist (d. 1884)
1835 - Luigi Manzotti, Milano, ballet choreographer
1840 - Louis Bourgault-Ducoudray, composer
1841 - François-Alphonse Forel, Swiss hydrologist (d. 1912)
1842 - Yulian Vasilievich Sokhotski, Russian mathematician (d. 1927)
1844 - Leander Schlegel, composer
1847 - Jules Francois Blasini, Curacaos pianist/composer
1849 - Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, Slovak poet (d. 1921)
1850 - Carel V Gerritsen, Dutch free thinker
1851 - José Guadalupe Posada, Mexican artist (d. 1913)
1852 - Teunis Stoel, actor/director (Small Theater, Rotterdam)
1856 - Makar Grigori Ekmalyan, composer
1857 - Jan Six, Dutch art historian/art collector
1859 - Havelock Ellis, US physician/sexologist (Psychology of Sex)
1860 - Curtis Guild, Jr., 43rd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1915)
1861 - Mehmed VI, last sultan of Ottoman Empire (1918-22)
1861 - Solomon R Guggenheim, philanthropist (Guggenheim Museum NYC)
1873 - Freiherr Konstantin von Neurath, German secretary of State (1932-38)
1873 - Johan P earl van Limburg Stirum, Dutch diplomat
1873 - Leopold Fall, Austria, operetta composer (Dollar Princess)
1875 - Annette Kolb, German/French author (Small Fanfare)
1875 - Fritz Kreisler, Vienna Austria, violinist/composer
1878 - Christian Gauss, educator/writer (Phi Beta Kappa award namesake)
1878 - Alfréd Hajós, Hungarian swimmer (d. 1955)
1881 - Karl Frederick, pistol champ (Olympic-gold-1920)
1882 - James Joyce, Ireland, novelist/poet (Dubliners, Ulysses, Finnigan's Wake)
1882 - James Stephens, Irish poet (Crock of Gold)
1883 - Mikhail Fabianovich Gnesin, composer
1884 - Julis Deutsch, Austria politician/General Spanish rep army
1884 - S Z Sakall, Budapest Hungary, actor (Dolly Sisters, Casablanca)
1885 - Aldo Palazzeschi, [Giurlani], Italian writer (I cavalli bianchi)
1886 - Kurt Baschwitz, German/Dutch sociologist/journalist (Du und)
1887 - Ernst Hanfstängl, German pianist and politician (d. 1975)
1888 - Candelario Huizar, composer
1888 - Frank Lloyd, Scotland, actor/director (Mutiny on Bounty, Oliver Twist)
1888 - Frederick Lane, Australian swimmer (d. 1969)
1890 - Jean J M de Lattre de Tassigny, French gen (Indo-China)
1891 - Antonio Segni, premier/president (Italy)
1891 - Frank Foyston, NHL Hall of Famer (Seattle)
1893 - Cornelius Lanczos, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1974)
1893 - Raoul Riganti, Argentine racing driver (d. 1970)
1895 - George S Halas, [Papa Bear], end/coach (Bears), co-founder NFL
1896 - Jane Wilde, writer
1896 - Kazimierz Kuratowski, Polish mathematician and logician (d. 1980)
1897 - Howard Johnson, American hotelier (d. 1972)
1897 - Aimé Avignon, France's former oldest living man (d. 2007)
1898 - Josephina J "Fien" de la Mar, Dutch actress (Theatre De la Mar)
1899 - Benny Rubin, Boston Mass, actor/comedian (Benny Rubin Show)
1900 - Asa Smith Bushnell Jr, Springfield Ohio, Sec of US Olympics (1945-65)
1900 - Willie Kamm, MLB third baseman (d. 1988)
1901 - Connie Gilchrist, Bkln NY, actress (Cry Havoc, Letter to 3 Wives)
1901 - Jascha Heifetz, Vilna Lithuania, US violin virtuoso (Carnegie Hall)
1902 - Tyra Ryman, Arboga Sweden, actress (Peter the Tramp)
1902 - Newbold Morris, American politician (d. 1966)
1903 - Frank McGrath, Mound City Mo, actor (Wagon Train)
1904 - Buzurg Alavi, Persian author (Panjah va sih nafar, Namal'ha)
1904 - Jose Enrique Pedreira, composer
1905 - Ayn Rand, writer (Atlas Shrugged, Fountainhead)
1905 - Jean-Pierre Guerlain, cosmetics pioneer
1905 - Ayn Rand, Russian-born author and philosopher (d. 1982)
1907 - Bernardas Brazdzionis, Lithuania, poet/editor/critic
1908 - Anita Garvin, actress (Swiss Miss, Blotto, Charlatan, Hats Off)
1908 - Cal Tinney, Oklahoma, comedian (Stop Me If You Heard This One)
1908 - Clarence "Buster" Crabbe, California, swimmer (Olympic-gold-1932)/actor
1908 - Pavel Sivic, composer
1908 - Renzo Rossellini, Italian composer
1908 - Wes Ferrell, All-Star MLB pitcher (d. 1976)
1909 - Franc Albertson, Fergus Falls MN, actor (Psycho, Alice Adams)
1910 - Charlotte Auerbach, computer Pioneer/Mathematician
1910 - Hendrik H K Beernink, Dutch politician (CHU)
1911 - Jean-Jacques Grunenwald, French organist/composer
1911 - Johan J "Jussi" Bjorling, Swedish tenor
1912 - Burton Lane, Broadway composer (Finian's Rainbow)
1912 - Stefan Schnabel, German actor (Anna, Dracula's Widow, Firefox)
1912 - Millvina Dean, last living survivour of the RMS Titanic.
1913 - Poul Reichhardt, Danish actor (d. 1985)
1914 - Eric Kierans, Canadian politician and economist (d. 2004)
1915 - Evert Werkman, Dutch journalist (Het Parool)
1915 - Abba Eban, Israeli diplomat (d. 2002)
1915 - Stan Leonard, Canadian professional golfer (d. 2005)
1916 - Xuân Diệu, Vietnamese poet (d. 1985)
1918 - Hella [S Lelyveld-]Haasse, Dutch author (Cider for Poor People)
1919 - Allie Reynolds, NY Yankee pitcher (1952 AL ERA leader (2.07))
1919 - Lisa Debeljevic-della Casa, Swiss vocalist
1920 - An Wang, founder (Wang Labs, Wang Computers)
1923 - Al "Red" Schoendienst, baseball manager/2nd baseman (St Louis Cards)
1923 - Bonita Granville, NYC, actress (Hitler's Children, Lone Ranger)
1923 - James Dickey, Atlanta, poet/actor (Deliverance)
1923 - Mary Elizabeth "Liz" Smith, Tx, journlist/author (WNBC, NY Daily News)
1923 - Peter Fowler, physicist
1923 - Liz Smith, American gossip columnist
1924 - Tine Balder, [Clementine AL Cobbaut], Flemish actress (Antigone)
1924 - Elfi von Dassanowsky, Austrian-American producer and musician
1925 - David Abell Wood, priest
1925 - Michel Paul Philippot, composer
1926 - Elaine Stritch, Detroit Mich, actress (My Sister Eileen, Company)
1926 - Miguel Cardinal Obando y Bravo, 1st Cent American cardinal (Nicaragua)
1926 - Nydia M E Ecury, Arubian poet/actress (Kantika pa Mama Tera)
1926 - Wanda Lewis, Struther Ohio, actress (This is Music, Paul Dixon Show)
1926 - Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, French politician
1927 - Friedrich K Flick, German industrialist
1927 - Richard Ray, (Rep-D-GA, 1983- ) [or Jan 2]
1927 - Richard Vance Maxfield, composer
1927 - Stan Getz, Phila, jazz tenor saxophonist (Benny Goodman, Jimmy Dorsey)
1928 - Alan Fluck, musical educationalist
1928 - Howard Caine, Nashville Tn, actor (Californians)
1928 - Luigi Ciriaco De Mita, PM of Italy (1988-89)
1929 - Reiner Bredemeyer, composer
1931 - Andreas "Andries" van Agt, Dutch premier (CDA, 1977-82)
1931 - Dries van Agt, Dutch politician
1931 - Les Dawson, British comedian (d. 1993)
1931 - Judith Viorst, American author
1932 - Robert Mandan, Clever Mo, actor (Chester-Soap, James-3's a Crowd)
1933 - Than Shwe, ruler of Myanmar
1933 - Tony Jay, English actor (d. 2006)
1934 - [Clyde] Skip Batten, LA California, rocker (Byrds-Turn Turn Turn)
1936 - Duane Jones, American actor
1937 - Martina Arroyo, NYC, opera soprano (NY Met)
1937 - Tom Smothers, NYC, comedian (Smother Brother Show, Serial)
1937 - Don Buford, All-Star MLB outfielder
1937 - Remak Ramsay, American actor
1939 - Rachel English, London, author (My 1st 500)
1939 - Akbar Adibi, Iranian scientist, father of electronics in Iran (d. 2000)
1940 - Alan "Tea" Caddy, rock guitarist (Tornados-Globetrotter)
1940 - Thomas M[ichael] Disch, US, sci-fi author (Genocides, 102 H-Bombs)
1940 - David Jason, English actor
1940 - Wayne Fontes, American football coach
1941 - Serge Alexandrovich Tcherepnin, composer
1942 - Barry Diller, founder (Fox-TV)
1942 - Bo Hopkins, Greenville SC, actor (Dynasty, Doc Elliot, Rockford Files)
1942 - Graham Nash, guitarist (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young-Southern Cross)
1943 - Peter MacBeth, rocker (Foundations)
1944 - Andrew Davis, Ashbridge, England, conductor (New Phil Orch-London)
1944 - Katherine Crawford, LA California, actress (Gemini Man, Captains & Kings)
1944 - Ursula Oppens, NYC, pianist/co-founder (Speculum Musicae-NYC)
1944 - Karen Foss, American broadcaster
1944 - Geoffrey Hughes, British actor, (d. 2012)
1945 - Ronnie Goodson, rocker
1946 - Farrah Fawcett, Texas, actress (Charley's Angels, Burning Bed)
1946 - Howard Bellamy, Darby Fla, vocalist (Bellamy Bros-Let Your Love Flow)
1946 - Alpha Oumar Konaré, ex-president of Mali
1947 - Aleksandr Medved, USSR, wrestler (Olympic-gold-1964, 68, 72)
1947 - Derek Shulman, rocker
1947 - Peter Lucia, rock drummer (Tommy James & Shondells-Crystal Blue)
1948 - Alan McKay, rocker (Earth Wind & Fire-Boogie Wonderland)
1948 - Jessica Savitch, Kennet Sq PA, news anchor (NBC)
1948 - Tony DeMeur, rocker (Fabulous Poodles-Anna Rexia, Suicide Bridge)
1949 - Jetty Weels, Surinamese/Dutch vocalist (Mai Tai)
1949 - Ross Valory, SF, rock bassist (Journey-Who's Crying Now, Open Arms)
1949 - Sherry Mathis, actress (Search for Tomorrow)
1949 - Tom Tripplehorn, rocker (Gary Lewis & Playboys-This Diamond Ring)
1949 - Brent Spiner, Houston, Texas, American actor (Data-Star Trek the Next Generation)
1949 - Francisco Maturana, Colombian football manager
1950 - Barbara Sukowa, Germany, actress (Zentropia, Sicilian, Voyager, Lola)
1950 - Osamu Kido, wrestler (NJPW/UWF)
1951 - Alphonso Johnson, jazz bassist
1951 - Kim Zimmer, Mich, actress (Guiding Light, Doctors, One Life to Live)
1952 - Simon MacCorkindale, Cambridge Engl, actor (Jaws 3, MacBeth) [or 2/12]
1952 - Genichiro Tenryu, Japanese professional wrestler
1953 - James Mndaweni, South African worker's union leader/president (NACTU)
1953 - Penny Pulz, LPGA golfer
1953 - Duane Chapman, American bounty hunter.
1954 - Christie Brinkley, [Ex-Mrs Billy Joel], model/actress (SI, Vacation)
1954 - Jayantha Amerasinghe, cricketer (2 Tests for Sri Lanka v NZ 1983)
1954 - Ina Garten, American author and TV personality
1954 - Hansi Hinterseer, Austrian singer, actor, former skier
1955 - Michael Talbott, Waverly Iowa, actor (Stan-Miami Vice)
1957 - Laurie Mann, current DPS curator/geek
1957 - Sandra Joyce Cagle Milwukee WI, playmate (Feb, 1980)
1958 - Dexter Manley, NFLer (Wash Redskins)
1960 - Eric Shea, actor (Castaway Cowboy)
1960 - Lee Chill, Cleveland Ohio, Canadian Tour golfer (1977 Ohio Jr)
1961 - Joey Benjamin, cricket pace bowler (in St Kitts England in 1994)
1961 - Lauren Lane, American actress
1962 - Ben Testerman, Knoxville Tenn, tennis star
1962 - Michael T Weiss, Chicago, actor (Jarod-Pretender, Days of our Lives)
1962 - Andy Fordham, English darts player
1962 - Paul Kilgus, baseball player
1963 - Pebbles Flintstone, fictional character on "The Flintstones"
1963 - Stephen McGann, Liverpool England, actor (Catherine the Great)
1963 - Eva Cassidy, American singer (d. 1996)
1963 - Philip Laats, Belgian judoka
1965 - Harry Swayne, NFL tackle (San Diego Chargers, Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1965 - Carl Airey, English footballer
1965 - Naoki Sano, Japanese professional wrestler
1966 - Andrei Chesnokov, Russia, tennis star
1966 - Bob Alan Estes, Graham TX, PGA golfer (1994 Texas Open)
1966 - Tony Plourde, Chibougamau Quebec, sabre (Olympics-96)
1966 - Victor Muhammad, WLAF running back (London Monarchs)
1966 - D. C. Douglas, American actor and director
1967 - Arturs Irbe, Latvian hockey player
1967 - Laurent Nkunda, Congolese general
1968 - Paul McKenzie, Australian Finn class yachter (Olympics-96)
1968 - Sari Krooks, ice hockey right wing (Finland, Oly-98)
1968 - Scott Erickson, Long Beach CA, pitcher (Minnesota Twins, Balt Orioles)
1968 - Sean Elliott, NBA forward (San Antonio Spurs)
1968 - Steve Henson, NBA guard (Detroit Pistons)
1968 - Ventson Donelson, CFL cornerback (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1968 - Simon Wickham-Smith, composer and Mongolist
1969 - Ijaz Ahmed Jr, cricketer (one Test Pakistan v Sri Lanka 1995)
1969 - Jeff Christy, corner (Minnesota Vikings)
1969 - Jody Hull, Cambridge, NHL right wing (Florida Panthers)
1969 - Valeri Karpin, Russian footballer
1969 - Tim Sherwood, English footballer
1970 - Chris Luneburg, WLAF T (London Monarchs)
1970 - Diego Martos, WLAF linebacker (Barcelona Dragons)
1970 - Erik ten Hag, soccer player (FC Twente, RKC, FC Utrecht)
1970 - Ivan Vukov, soccer player (FC Volendam)
1970 - Nikolaos Michopoulos, Greek footballer
1970 - Roar Strand, Norwegian footballer
1970 - C. Ernst Harth, Canadian actor
1971 - Ken Dilger, NFL tight end (Indianapolis Colts)
1971 - Tony Miller, Mount Pleasant Texas, 400m runner
1972 - Charlie Williams, NFL safety (Dallas Cowboys)
1972 - Ivan Droppa, Liptovsky Mikulas CZE, NHL defenseman (Chicago)
1972 - Lance Brown, NFL defensive back (Arizona Cardinals)
1972 - Dana International, Israeli singer
1972 - Tego Calderón , nominated reggaeton singer/rapper.
1973 - Dan Brandenburg, linebacker (Buffalo Bills)
1973 - Jose White, WLAF/NFL defensive tackle (Minnesota Vikings, Frankfurt Galaxy)
1973 - Patrick Jeffers, NFL wide reciever (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1973 - Radka Bobkova, Prague Czech Rep, tennis star (quarter Bournemouth)
1973 - Sergio Gonzalez, rocker (Menudo-Cannonball)
1973 - Tim Denton, NFL cornerback (Atlanta Falcons)
1974 - David Buck, Honolulu Hawaii, kayak (alt-Olympics-96)
1974 - J R Conrad, offensive tackle/guard (NY Jets)
1974 - Jeff Cassar, soccer goalkeeper (Olympics-gold-96)
1975 - Macey Brooks, wide receiver (Dallas Cowboys)
1975 - Todd Bertuzzi, Sudbury, NHL right wing (NY Islanders)
1975 - Ieroklis Stoltidis, Greek footballer
1975 - Vaggelis Koutsoures, Greek footballer
1976 - Steven Dewick, Sydney NSW Australia, swimmer (Olympics-96)
1976 - James Hickman, British swimmer
1976 - Lori Beth Denberg, American actress
1977 - Shakira [Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll], Barranquilla, Colombian pop singer ('Whenever Wherever', 'Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)')
1977 - Libor Sionko, Czech football player
1977 - Heather Martin, American gospel singer
1978 - Annabel Ellwood, Canberra Australia, tennis star (1995 Futures NC)
1978 - Eden Espinosa, American singer and stage actress
1978 - Barry Ferguson, Scotish football player
1979 - Brandee Dawn McCoskey, Miss Alaska Teen USA (1996)
1979 - Lindsay Langston, Modesto California, archer (Olympics-1996)
1979 - Petra Cada, Prague Czech, Canadian table tennis player (Olympics-96)
1979 - Fani Halkia, Greek hurdler
1979 - Irini Terzoglou, Greek shot putter
1979 - Shamita Shetty, Indian actress
1980 - Teddy Hart, Canadian professional wrestler
1980 - Gucci Mane, African-American rapper
1980 - Oleguer Presas, Spanish football player
1981 - Jason Kapono, American basketball player
1982 - Brandy Talore, American pornographic actress
1982 - Han Ga In, South Korean model/actress
1982 - Sergio Castaño, Spanish footballer
1982 - Kelly Mazzante, American basketball player
1983 - Carolina Klüft, Swedish athlete
1983 - Alex Westaway, British musician
1983 - Will South, Thirteen Senses frontman
1983 - Jordin Tootoo, Canadian hockey player
1987 - Gerard Piqué, Spanish football player
1987 - Martin Spanjers, American actor
1992 - Rebop Rundgren, son of Michelle Gray & Todd
1992 - Danielle White, American singer
2338 - Data, android character on Star Trek Next Generation

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 02, 2013, 08:59:57 AM

This Day in History for 2nd February


Famous Deaths

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Musician Sid Vicious (1979)


672 - Saint Chad
1032 - Rudolf III, last independent king of Bourgundy, dies
1124 - Bořivoj II of Bohemia
1218 - Konstantin of Rostov, Prince of Novgorod (b. 1186)
1250 - Eric XI of Sweden (b. 1216)
1435 - Johanna II, lawless Queen of Naples (1414-35), dies at 61
1461 - Owen Tudor, Welsh founder of the Tudor dynasty of England
1491 - Martin Schongauer, German painter, dies at 40
1529 - Baldassare Castiglione, Italian writer (b. 1478)
1540 - George Schenck van Toutenburg, gov/viceroy of Frisia/Groningen
1563 - Hans Neusiedler, Hungarian/German luitist/author, dies at approx 54
1580 - Bessho Nagaharu, Japanese retainer (b. 1558)
1594 - Giovanni Perluigi da Palestrina, Italian composer, dies at 68
1597 - Lucas van Valckenborch, Flemish painter, buried at about 61
1648 - George Abbot, English writer
1660 - Govert Flinck, Dutch painter (Isaac blesses Jacob), dies at 45
1660 - Jean BG duke of Orleans, brother of French king Louis XIII, dies at 51
1661 - Lucas Holstenius, German humanist (b. 1596)
1673 - Kaspar Forster, composer, dies at 56
1685 - Charles II, King of England/Scotland/Ireland (1660-85), dies at 54
1688 - Abraham Duquesne, French naval officer (b. 1610)
1704 - Guillaume F A de l'Hospital, French mathematician, dies at about 62
1712 - Martin Lister, English naturalist and physician
1714 - John Sharp, English Archbishop of York (b. 1643)
1723 - Antonio M Valsalva, Italian anatomist, dies at 66
1750 - Johann Graf, composer, dies at 65
1768 - Robert Smith, English mathematician (b. 1689)
1769 - Clement XIII, [Carlo Rezzonico], Pope (1758-69), dies at 75
1779 - Georg Philipp Kress, composer, dies at 59
1789 - Armand-Louis Couperin, Fren composer/organist (Notre Dame), dies at 63
1793 - William Aiton, English botanist (Kew Gardens), dies at 61
1802 - Welbore Ellis, 1st Baron Mendip, British statesman (b. 1713)
1804 - Caesar Rodney, US judge (signed Declar of Independence), dies at 62
1804 - George Walton, Signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1749-50)
1822 - Jean-Baptiste Davaux, composer, dies at 79
1827 - Johann Nepomuk Kalcher, composer, dies at 62
1828 - Frederik Sigismund earl of Bylandt, vice-admiral, dies at 78
1852 - Francois MP Liberman, French founder (Congr of H Heart), dies at 49
1881 - Aleksej F Pisemski, Russian writer (Clodhopper), dies at 59
1882 - Fabio Campana, composer, dies at 63
1895 - Archduke Albert, Austrian general (b. 1817)
1902 - Emanuil Mandlov, composer, dies at 42
1904 - William C. Whitney, American financier (b. 1841)
1907 - Dmitri I Mendelejev, Russian chemist (Periodic Table), dies at 72
1909 - Adolf Stoecker, German anti-semite/prime minister, dies at 73
1918 - John L Sullivan, Mass, heavyweight boxing champ, dies at 59
1919 - Xavier Henry Napoleon Leroux, composer, dies at 55
1921 - Luigi Mancinelli, composer, dies at 72
1925 - Antti Aarne, Finnish sociologist, dies at 57
1926 - Vladimir Sukhomlinov, Russian general (b. 1848)
1931 - Theodor Batthynyi, Hungarian contra-revolutionary, dies at 71
1932 - Agha Petros, Assyrian nationalist leader
1934 - Ernesto Nazareth, composer, dies at 70
1941 - Johannes Schlaf, writer, dies at 78
1942 - Daniil Kharms, Russian playwright (b. 1905)
1945 - Karl F Goerdeler, mayor (Leipzig)/"July 20th plot", hanged at 60
1948 - Thomas W. Lamont, American banker; father or Corliss Lamont; great-grandfather of Ned Lamont (b. 1870)
1948 - Bevil Rudd, South African athlete (b. 1894)
1950 - Constantin Carathéodory, Greek mathematician (b. 1873)
1952 - Charles De Roche, actor (10 Commandments), dies at 72
1952 - Johann Babtist Thaller, composer, dies at 79
1953 - Gustav Strube, composer, dies at 85
1954 - Theodor Rogalski, composer, dies at 52
1956 - Charley Grapewin, actor (Ellery Queen), dies at 86
1956 - Pyotr Konchalovsky, Russian painter (b. 1876)
1957 - Grigory Landsberg, Russian physicist (b. 1890)
1959 - Frank DeCaires, cricketer (WI bat v Eng 1930, 3 Tests 232 runs), dies
1960 - Jeno Huszka, composer, dies at 84
1961 - Adolf Vogl, composer, dies at 87
1961 - Anna May Wong, actress (Thief of Baghdad), dies at about 56
1963 - Herman Bouber, [Blom], actor/playwright (Bluejackets), dies at 77
1965 - Richard P Blackmur, US, critic/publisher (Good European), dies at 61
1965 - Richard Wurz, composer, dies at 79
1969 - Boris Karloff, [Pratt], British actor (Frankenstein), dies at 81
1969 - Giovanni Martinelli, opera singer (NY Met), dies at 83
1970 - Bertrand Russell, philosopher, British MP, dies in Merioneth at 97
1970 - Jaroslav Vogel, composer, dies at 76
1970 - Lawrence Gray, American actor (b.1898)
1972 - Jessie Royce Landis, actress (North by Northwest), dies at 67
1972 - Natalie Clifford Barney, American writer (b. 1876)
1973 - Henry J Elias, Flemish historian/mayor of Gent, dies at 70
1973 - Hendrik Elias, Belgian politician (b. 1902)
1974 - Jean Absil, Belgian composer (Benedictions), dies at 80
1976 - Harry Elliott, England cricket wicketkeeper (3 Tests 1927-34), dies
1976 - Johan[nes A] Kaart, Dutch actor (My Fair Lady), dies at 78
1976 - Maurice Jacobson, composer, dies at 80
1978 - Wendy Barrie, TV hostess (Wendy Barrie Show), dies at 65
1979 - Jim Burke, cricketer (Australian opener), commits suicide
1979 - Sid Vicious, [John Simon Ritchie], bassist (Sex Pistols), OD's at 31
1980 - William H Stein, US biochemist (Nobel 1972), dies at 68
1981 - Donald W Douglas, US aircraft pioneer/builder, dies at 88
1981 - Jan Donner, Dutch chairman of High Council, dies at 89
1981 - Louise Lorraine, actress (Adventures of Tarzan), dies
1982 - Stringfellow Barr, US educationalist (100 Great Books), dies at 85
1982 - Paul Desruisseaux, French Canadian lawyer, businessman and politician (b 1905)
1983 - Bryan Valentine, cricketer (7 Tests for England, 454 runs), dies
1983 - Roy Horb, Suriname sergeant/putschist, commits suicide
1983 - Sam Chatman, elder statesman of the blues, dies
1987 - Alfred Lion, record founder (Blue Note), dies at 78
1987 - Patrick "Spike" Hughes, Brit jazz musician (Cinderella), dies at 78
1987 - Castilho, Brazilian footballer (b. 1927)
1987 - Alistair MacLean, Scottish novelist (b. 1922)
1988 - Clive Epstein, brother of Brian Epstein, dies at 51
1988 - G Mennen Williams, Supreme Court justice, dies at 76 in Detroit
1989 - John Cassavetes, US actor (Rosemary's Baby)/director, dies at 59
1989 - Ondrej Nepela, Slovak figure skater (b. 1951)
1990 - Joel Fluellen, actor (Man Friday, Burning Cross), dies at 79
1990 - Joe Erskine, Welsh boxer (b. 1934)
1992 - Bert Parks, [Jacobson], TV host (Miss America), dies at 77
1992 - Jack [John T] Aitken, British anatomist, dies at 78
1992 - Maurice J Hill, writer (Track of Thunder), dies of pneumonia at 89
1992 - Maurice L Kusell, dies
1994 - John Wesley Funchess Littlejohn, blues guitarist/singer, dies at 62
1994 - Stephen Barclay, actor (Pride of the Plains), dies at 75
1994 - Willie Mae Ford Smith, gospel Singer/Songwriter, dies at 89
1994 - Zilner T Randolph, jazz Trumpeter/ Arranger, dies at 95
1995 - Alexis d'Anjou de Bourbon-Condé, French prince/Russian, dies at 47
1995 - Andre Frossard, French publicist (Defense of Pope), dies at 80
1995 - David Kindersley, alphabet Designer/Cutter, dies at 79
1995 - Donald Pleasance, English actor (Halloween), dies at 75
1995 - Fred Perry, English tennis star (Wimbledon 1934-36), dies at 85
1995 - Phillip Borsos, Tasmanian/Canadian director (Mean Season), dies
1995 - Robert L Haller, coon Dog Trainer, dies at 32
1996 - Gene Kelly, actor/dancer (Singing in the Rain), dies at 83
1996 - Ray McIntire, chemical engineer, dies at 77
1996 - Shamus Culhane, animator, dies at 87
1997 - Chico Science Francisco Franca, musician, dies at 40
1997 - Godfrey Baseley, British radio executive, dies at 92
1997 - Erich Eliskases, Austrian chess player (b. 1913)
1997 - Sanford Meisner, American actor (b. 1904)
1999 - David McComb, Australian musician (The Triffids) (b. 1962)
2002 - Paul Baloff, American singer (Exodus) (b. 1960)
2002 - Claude Brown, American writer (b. 1937)
2003 - Lou Harrison, American composer (b. 1917)
2004 - Bernard McEveety, American film director (b. 1924)
2005 - Max Schmeling, German boxer (b. 1905)
2007 - Vijay Arora, Indian film and television actor (b. 1944)
2007 - Filippo Raciti, Italian police officer (b. 1967)
2007 - Masao Takemoto, Japanese gymnast (b. 1919)
2007 - Billy Henderson, American singer (The Spinners) (b. 1939)
2007 - Joe Hunter, American pianist and bandleader of The Funk Brothers (b. 1927)
2007 - Eric von Schmidt, American folk/blues singer-songwriter (b. 1931)
2008 - Katoucha, Guinean model and activist (b. 1960)
2011 - Defne Joy Foster, Turkish actress, presenter and VJ. (b. 1975)
2011 - Margaret John, Welsh actress (b. 1926)
2012 - Dorothy Gilman, American mystery writer, dies from Alzheimer's disease at 88

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 03, 2013, 06:39:44 AM

This Day in History for 3rd February


Historical Events

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Playwright Tennessee Williams               Rock Guitarist Jimi Hendrix                     Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat

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Baseball Player Darryl Strawberry            42nd US President Bill Clinton


1377 - Cardinal Robert of Geneva (anti-pope Clemens VII) starts term
1377 - Mass execution of population of Cesena Italy
1451 - Sultan Mehmed II inherits the throne of the Ottoman Empire.
1488 - Bartholomeus Diaz discovers Mosselbaai (Angra dos Vaqueros)
1509 - The Battle of Diu, between Portugal and the Ottoman Empire takes place in Diu, India.
1576 - Henry of Navarre (future Henry IV) escapes from Paris
1591 - German monarchy forms Protestant Union of Torgau
1653 - Cardinal Mazarin returns to Paris from exile
1660 - General Moncks army reaches London
1690 - 1st paper money in America issued (colony of Mass)
1740 - Charles de Bourbon, King of Naples, invites Jews to return to Sicily
1743 - Philadelphia establishes a "pesthouse" to quarantine immigrants
1752 - Dutch States-General forbid export of windmills
1781 - Dutch West Indies island of St Eustatia taken by British
1783 - Spain recognizes US independence
1807 - A British military force, under Brig-Gen. Sir Samuel Auchmuty captures the city of
           Montevideo, then part of the Spanish Empire now capital of Uruguay.
1809 - Territory of Illinois organizes (including present-day Wisconsin)
1815 - World's 1st commercial cheese factory established, in Switzerland
1825 - Dutch North Sea coast floods
1830 - The sovereignty of Greece was confirmed in a London Protocol.
1834 - Wake Forest University is established.
1836 - Whig Party holds its 1st national convention (Albany NY)
1844 - Hector Berlioz' "Carnaval Romain," premieres in Paris
1855 - Wisconsin Supreme Ct declares US Fugitive Slave Law unconstitutional
1860 - Thomas Clemson takes office as 1st US superintendent of agriculture
1864 - Sherman's march through Mississippi
1865 - Hampton Roads Peace Conference, Lincoln & Stephens reach an impasse
1867 - Prince Mutsuhito, 14, becomes Emperor Meiji of Japan (1867-1912)
1869 - Booth theater at 23rd & 6th opens in NYC (Romeo & Juliet)
1870 - 15th Amendment (Black suffrage) passed
1876 - Albert Spalding with $800 starts sporting goods co, manufacturing 1st official baseball, tennis
           ball, basketball, golf ball, & football
1882 - Circus owner PT Barnum buys his world famous elephant Jumbo
1887 - To avoid disputed natl elections, Congress creates Electoral Count Act
1892 - Russia closes down Yeshiva of Volozhin
1894 - 1st US steel sailing vessel, Dirigo, launched, Bath, Me
1895 - Wilhelm Mauseth skates world record 500 m (46.8 secs)
1900 - Rival forces fight for control of the Union Park ball grounds in Balt
1900 - Gubernatorial candidate William Goebel is assassinated in Frankfort, Kentucky.
1901 - Dutch troops under Gen Van Heutsz conquer Batu Ilië on Sumatra
1903 - Frederick Lugard occupies Kano West Africa
1908 - Supreme Court rules a union boycott violates Sherman Antitrust Act
1908 - Foundation of Panathinaikos in Athens, Greece.
1913 - 16th Amendment, federal income tax, ratified
1913 - Golden/Cawthorne's musical "Sunshine Girl," premieres in NYC
1915 - Turkish & German army reach Suez Canal
1916 - Canada's original Parliament buildings, in Ottawa, burns down
1916 - Tristan Tzar publishes Dada-manifest in Zurich Switzerland
1917 - US liner Housatonic sunk by German sub & diplomatic relations severed
1918 - Twin Peaks Tunnel longest (11,920') streetcar tunnel begins service
1919 - Herbert/Blossom's musical "Velvet Lady," premieres in NYC
1919 - League of Nations 1st meeting (Paris)
1919 - Socialist conference convenes (Berne Switzerland)
1923 - The Alpha Zeta chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia founded at Pennsylvania State University.
1924 - Alexei Ryko elected as Pres of People's commission (succeeds Lenin)
1927 - Uprising against regime of general Carmona in Portugal
1929 - Revolutionary Socialist Party forms in Amsterdam
1930 - Vietnamese Communistic Party forms
1930 - William Howard Taft, resigns as chief justice for health reasons
1930 - The Communist Party of Vietnam is established.
1931 - Arkansas legislature passes motion to pray for soul of H L Mencken after he calls state "apex
           of moronia"
1931 - The Hawke's Bay earthquake, New Zealand's worst natural disaster, kills 258
1933 - 1st interstate legislative conference in US opens, Washington, DC
1933 - German minister Goering bans social-democratic newspaper Vorwarts
1933 - Marinus van der Lubbe departs to Berlin
1937 - Bradman scores 212 (in 441 minutes!) in 5th Test Cricket v England
1938 - Paul Osborn's "On Borrowed Time," premieres in NYC
1941 - Supreme Court upheld Federal Wage & Hour law, sets min wages & max hrs
1942 - 1st Japanese air raid on Java
1942 - Baseball owners agree to permit each club up to 14 night games in 1942
1943 - 4 chaplains drown after giving up their life jackets to others
1944 - World War II: United States troops capture the Marshall Islands.
1945 - Almost 1000 Flying Fortresses drop 3000 ton bombs on Berlin
1945 - Walt Disney's "3 Caballeros" released
1947 - -81°F (-63°C), Snag Yukon (North American record)
1947 - 1st black reporter in Congressional press gallery (Percival Prattis)
1947 - Bradman bowled by Alec Bedser for a duck in 4th Test Cricket
1948 - Dick Button becomes 1st world figure skating champion from US
1950 - Nuclear physicist Klaus Fuchs arrested on spy charges
1951 - "Victor Borge Show," debuts on NBC TV
1951 - Dick Button wins US skating title for 6th time
1951 - Largest purse to date in horse racing, $144,323, won by Great Circle
1951 - Tennessee Williams' "Rose Tattoo," premieres in NYC
1953 - J Fred Muggs, a chimp, becomes a regular on NBC's Today Show
1954 - Jeen van den Berg wins Dutch Eleven Cities Skating race (7:32)
1956 - Autherine J Lucy admitted to U of Alabama, suspended 2/7 after a riot
1956 - Toni Sailor becomes 1st Olympic skier to sweep 3 alpine events
1957 - Patty Berg wins LPGA Havana Golf Open
1958 - Royal Teens' "Short Shorts" enters Top 40 chart & peaks at #3
1959 - American Airlines Electra crashes in NY's East River, killing 65
1961 - 6th largest snowfall in NYC history (17.4" (44.2cm))
1962 - John Uelses pole vaults record 489 cm
1962 - Pres Kennedy bans all trade with Cuba except for food & drugs
1963 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Sea Island Women's Golf Invitational
1964 - "Meet the Beatles" album goes Gold
1964 - Black & Puerto Rican students boycott NYC public schools
1965 - 105 USAF cadets resigned for cheating on exams
1965 - Geraldine McCullough wins Widener Gold Medal for Sculpture
1965 - Orbiting Solar Observatory 2 launches into Earth orbit (552/636 km)
1965 - Braves offer Milwaukee $500,000 to terminate their lease a year earlier, the proposal is turned
           down
1966 - 1st operational weather satellite, ESSA-1 launched US
1966 - 1st soft landing on Moon (Soviet Luna 9)
1967 - "Purple Haze" recorded by Jimi Hendrix
1967 - Ronald Ryan, the last person to be executed in Australia, is hanged in Pentridge Prison,
           Melbourne.
1969 - "Canterbury Tales" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 122 perfs
1969 - The Palestine National Congress appointed Yasser Arafat head of PLO
1971 - KTSC TV channel 8 in Pueblo-Colorado Spgs, CO (PBS) 1st broadcast
1972 - 11th Winter Olympic games opens in Sapporo, Japan (1st in Asia)
1972 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1973 - Dr Hook's "Cover of "Rolling Stone"" enters Top 40 & peaks at #6
1973 - President Nixon signs Endangered Species Act into law
1974 - "Pajama Game" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 65 perfs
1974 - Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational
1975 - Billy Herman, Earl Averill, & Bucky Harris elected to Hall of Fame
1976 - 26th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 123-109 at Philadelphia
1977 - Martin Dihigo John Lloyd elected to Hall of Fame
1978 - Australia beat India 3-2 on 6th day of final test
1978 - India needing 493 to beat Australia at Adelaide, all out 445
1979 - "YMCA" by Village People peaks at #2 on pop singles chart
1979 - Minnesota Twins trade Rod Carew to California for 4 players
1979 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne
1979 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Charles Tickner
1980 - 30th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 144-136 (OT) at Washington
1980 - Larry Holmes TKOs Lorenzo Holmes in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
1980 - Mohammed Ali tours Africa as Pres Carter's envoy
1981 - Australia beats NZ 3-1 to win World Series Cup
1981 - Gro Harlem Brundtland elected premier of Norway
1982 - Columbia Shuttle moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating for STS-3 mission
1982 - Greatest helicopter lift, 56,888 kg, Podmoscovnoe, USSR
1982 - John Sharples of England finishes disco dancing 371 hours
1982 - Porn star John Holmes ordered to stand trial for murder
1983 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Rosalynn Sumners
1984 - 10th Space Shuttle Mission (41B)-Challenger 4 launched
1985 - "Harrigan 'n Hart" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 5 performances
1985 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic
1986 - Pres Reagan announces formation of Comm on Challenger Accident
1987 - Expos trade Jeff Reardon to Twins for Neal Heaton
1987 - SD Yacht Club celebrates return of America's Cup
1989 - Bill White named NL president; 1st black major-league sports head
1989 - Military coup overthrows Alfredo Stroessner, dictator of Paraguay
1989 - Start 1st Test Cricket, NZ v Pak, washed out
1990 - Darryl Strawberry voluntarily enters Smither Center for Alcohol rehabilitation
1990 - Jockey Billy Shoemaker (58), retires after 40,350 horse race
1991 - Meg Mallon wins Oldsmobile LPGA Golf Classic
1991 - NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 23-21
1992 - Defense opens calling Noriega "our ally in war on drugs"
1992 - Labor strike at Royal Canadian Mint ends
1992 - Maximum NY State unemployment benefits raised to $300 per week
1993 - Cin Red owner Marge Schott suspended for 1 year due to racist comments
1993 - General Hospital's Tristan Rogers convicted of drunk driving
1993 - Federal trial of 4 police officers charged with civil rights violations in videotaped beating of
           Rodney King begins in LA Calif
1994 - "Les Miserables," opens at Kallang Theatre, Singapore
1994 - Pres Bill Clinton lifts US trade embargo against Vietnam
1994 - STS-60 (Discovery) launches into orbit
1995 - STS 63 (Discovery 19), launches into orbit
1997 - Carl Sagan Public Memorial at Ithaca NY
1997 - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Detroit MI on WKRK 97.1 FM
1998 - Britain issues a set of Princess Diana stamps
1998 - Fla Panther Dino Ciccarelli's is 9th NHLer to score 600 career goals
1998 - NY Yankees replace general manager Bob Watson with Brian Cashman
1998 - Stamps commemorating Princess Diana go on sale across Britain
1998 - US military plane clips cable car lines in northern Italy, kills 20
1998 - Mary Kay LeTourneau, 36, former teacher, violates probation with 14 year-old father of her
           baby
1998 - Karla Faye Tucker is executed in Texas becoming the first woman executed in the United
           States since 1984.
1999 - In Jammu and Kashmir the political party Democratic Janata Dal (Jammu and Kashmir) is
           revived.
2002 - Super Bowl XXXVI: New England Patriots beat St. Louis Rams, 20-17 at the Louisiana
           Superdome, New Orleans MVP: Tom Brady, New England, QB
2007 - A Baghdad market bombing kills at least 135 people and injures a further 339.
2011 - All available blocks of IPv4 internet addresses are officially distributed to regional authorities.

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 03, 2013, 06:41:22 AM

This Day in History for 3rd February


Famous Weddings

1112 - Ramon Berenguer III of Barcelona and Douce I of Provence marry, uniting the fortunes of
           those two states.
1547 - Russian czar Ivan IV (17) marries Anastasia Romanova
1994 - Actor Jean-Claude van Damme (32) weds Darcy Lapier (28) in Bangkok
2006 - "The Science Guy" Bill Nye (50) weds author/oboist Blair Tindall at Skirball Cultural Center in
           Los Angeles
2006 - Academy Award-winning actress Glenn Close (58) weds David Evans Shaw in Maine
2007 - Winner of "Strictly Come Dancing and "Eastenders" actress Jill Halfpenny (31) weds actor
           Craig Conway (32) at St. Andrew's Church in Newcastle
2007 - Jackass prankster Bam Margera (27) weds Missy Rothstein (26) in downtown Philadelphia

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 03, 2013, 06:49:14 AM

This Day in History for 3rd February


Famous Birthdays

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Physician Elizabeth Blackwell (1821)        Quarterback Fran Tarkenton (1940)         Actress Isla Fisher (1976)


1338 - Jeanne de Bourbon, wife of Charles V of France (d. 1378)
1368 - Charles VI, King of France (1380-1422)
1525 - Giovanni Perluigi da Palestrina, composer
1648 - Louis Bouteiller, composer
1655 - Francois Fagel, Dutch fieldmarshal, baptized
1677 - Jan Santini Aichel, Czech architect (d. 1723)
1690 - Richard Rawlinson, English minister (d. 1755)
1721 - Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz, Prussian general (d. 1773)
1736 - Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, Austria organist/composer
1740 - Guillaume Lasceux, composer
1747 - Samuel Osgood, American patriot (d. 1813)
1755 - Florido Tomeoni, composer
1763 - Caroline von Wolzogen, [von Lengefeld], German author
1784 - John Fane graaf van Westmorland, English (opera)composer/diplomat
1795 - Antonio José de Sucre, South American independence leader (d. 1830)
1805 - Otto T Freiherr von Manteuffel, premier Prussia
1807 - Joseph Eggleston Johnston, Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1891
1809 - Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Hamburg Germ, composer (Great Scherzos)
1811 - Horace Greeley, editor ("Go west, young man")
1817 - Emile Racine Gauthier Prudent, composer
1817 - Samuel Ryan Curtis, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1866
1817 - Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse, French geologist (d. 1881)
1820 - Elisha Kent Kane, US Arctic explorer (Kane Basin off NW Greenland)
1821 - Elizabeth Blackwell, Bristol England, 1st woman physician
1823 - Spencer F Baird, US biologist (Wood's Hole Station)
1824 - George Thomas "Tige" Anderson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1824 - Nathan George "Shanks" Evans, Brig Gen (Confederacy), died in 1868
1824 - Ranald MacDonald, Canadian-born Scottish educator and interpreter (d. 1894)
1826 - Walter Bagehot, England, economist/sociologist
1830 - Robert Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury (C), British PM (1885-1902)
1831 - Cyrus Ballou Comstock, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1910
1833 - Thomas T H Jorissen, Dutch historian
1842 - Sidney Clopton Lanier, US, composer/poet (Hall of Fame)
1845 - Ernest von Wildenbruch, German playwright (Sedan)
1851 - Johannes B van Heutsz, lt-gen/gov-gen Dutch East Indies
1851 - Lord Harris, cricketer (4 Tests for England MCC big-wig)
1859 - Hugo Junkers, German aircraft designer (d. 1935)
1865 - Martinus Ballings, Flemish jesuit/author (Will Power)
1868 - Damaso Ledesma, composer
1870 - Ada Negri, Italian poet/author (Il Libro di Mara)
1872 - Lou Criger, American baseball player (d. 1934)
1873 - Ernest B Allo, French theologist
1874 - Franklyn Dyall, Liverpool England, actor (Easy Virtue)
1874 - Gertrude Stein, Penn, author (Autobiography of Alice B Toklas)
1876 - William Tedmarsh, silent movie actor (d. 1937)
1878 - Joseph Gordon Coates, PM of New Zealand (1925-28)
1879 - Charles Follis, 1st black NFLer (Shelby, Ohio)
1880 - Arnoldus JH Aerts, bishop of Neth-Guinea (1920-42)
1882 - Trijntje Jansma-Boskma; oldest person in the Netherlands
1883 - Camille Bombois, French circus wrestler/painter
1883 - Clarence Mulford, Ill, western writer (Hopalong Cassidy)
1886 - Erwin Kroll, composer
1887 - Carlo Jachino, composer
1887 - Georg Trakl, Austrian poet (Autumn of the Lonely)
1887 - Silvio d'Amico, Italian theater critic (Tramonto del grande attore)
1887 - Juan Negrín, Spanish Prime Minister (d. 1956)
1888 - Joris Baers, Flemish bibliography/founder (Boekengids)
1889 - Carl Theodor Dreyer, Danish director (Passion of Jeanne d'arc)
1889 - Risto Ryti, Finnish premier/president
1890 - Charles [Andy] Correll, Peoria Ill, actor (Calvin & Colonel)
1891 - Jan Donner, Dutch minister of Justice (1926-33)
1891 - Peter H "Paul" Huf, actor/director (Great Neth Stage)
1893 - Gaston Julia, French mathematician (d. 1978)
1894 - Norman Rockwell, US, artist/illustrator (Sat Evening Post covers)
1895 - Izak Buys, cricketer (one Test for South Africa 1922, 0 & 4*, 0-52)
1895 - Nick Kenny, Astoria NYC, columnist/songwriter (Nick Kenny Show)
1895 - Victor Raul Haya de la Torre, politician (APRA-Peru) [or Feb 22]
1896 - Johannes Urzidil, writer
1898 - Alvar Aalto, Finland, architect (Finlandia House)
1898 - Paul Urysohn, Russian mathematician
1899 - Doris Speed, actress (Annie-Coronation Street)
1899 - Forrest "Red" DeBernardi, basketball hall of famer (elected 1961)
1899 - João Café Filho, Brazilian president (m.1970)
1899 - Lao She, Chinese writer (d. 1966)
1900 - Mabel Mercer, English cabaret vocalist (Fly Me to the Moon)
1903 - Priaulx Rainier, composer
1903 - Walter Linck, Swiss sculptor
1904 - Charlie "Pretty Boy" Floyd, FBI Most Wanted criminal
1904 - Luigi Dallapiccola, Pisino Istria, Italian composer
1904 - Roger Makins, diplomat
1905 - Arne Beurling, American mathematician(d. 1986)
1906 - Ludvig Nielsen, composer
1907 - James A Michner, NYC, writer (South Pacific, Hawaii, Space)
1907 - James Michener, American author (d. 1997)
1908 - Oddbjorn Hagen, Norway, cross country jumper (Olympic-gold-1936)
1909 - M Vasalis [Margaretha Droogleever Fortuyn-Leenmans], poet (Phoenix)
1909 - Simone Weil, Paris, social philosopher/Resistance fighter (WW II)
1910 - Blas Galindo Dimas, San Gabriel Mexico, composer (A la Patria)
1910 - Nelson Case, Long Beach California, TV host (Trash or Treasure)
1911 - Jehan [Ariste] Alain, French organist/composer
1911 - Jesse Thomas, blues singer
1911 - Robert Earl Jones, American actor (d. 2006)
1912 - Jacques Soustelle, French minister of information
1913 - Richard Seaman, British racing driver (d. 1939)
1914 - Cornelis "Kees" Andrea, Dutch painter/graphic artist/carpet designer
1914 - Felix Kelly, artist
1915 - Jann Willem Holsbergen, author (Zakenmensen Fair as Gold)
1915 - Richard Bales, composer
1916 - Vivien Signy, nurse
1918 - Joey Bishop, [Gottlieb], Bronx, talk show host (Joey Bishop Show)
1918 - Helen Stephens, Fulton Mo, American 100m runner (double Olympic gold-1936)
1920 - Bibi Osterwald, New Brunswick NJ, actress (Bridget Loves Bernie)
1920 - Henry Heimlich, doctor/inventor (Heimlich maneuver)
1920 - Stan Ockers, Belgian bicyclist (Tour de France 1955, 56)
1920 - Tony Gaze, Australian racing driver
1920 - George A. Miller, Charleston, West Virginia, cognitive psychologist (the magical number seven), (d. 2012)
1922 - Bill Chappell Jr, (Rep-D-FL, 1969- )
1923 - Alys Robi, Quebec singer
1925 - John Fiedler, Platville Wisc, actor (Mr Peterson-Newhart)
1925 - Joop C Swart, Dutch publisher/founder (World Press Photo)
1925 - Leon Schlumpf, member of the Swiss Federal Council
1926 - Arthur Arfons, auto racer/designer (Green Monster 1964-536.71 MPH)
1926 - Glen Tetley, US choreographer
1926 - Hans-Jochen Vogel, leader of West Germany's Social Democrats (SPD)
1926 - J Roy Rowland, (Rep-D-GA, 1983- )
1926 - Shelley Berman, Chicago, comedian (Son of Blob, Love American Style)
1927 - Kenneth Anger, American Underground Filmmaker
1927 - Val Doonican, Irish singer and entertainer
1927 - Joan Lowery Nixon, American writer (d. 2003)
1927 - Blas Ople, Filipino politician (d. 2003)
1928 - C V Gadkari, cricketer (Indian batsman in 6 Tests 1953-55)
1928 - Mr [Fred] Rogers, Latrobe, Pa, kid host (Mr Roger's Neighorhood)
1929 - Russell Arms, Berkeley California, vocalist (Your Hit Parade)
1929 - Val Doonican, Irish singer/entertainer
1929 - Ken Shipp, American football coach
1930 - Joan Rice, actress (Payroll, Steel Key, Curtain Up)
1930 - Gillian Ayres, English painter
1932 - J P "Pom-Pom" Felloes-Smith, cricketer (S Afr batsman v England 1960)
1932 - Maria Itkina, USSR, sprinter (9 world records)
1932 - Peggy Ann Garner, Canton Ohio, actress (Little Women, Daisy Kenyon)
1933 - Paul S Sarbanes, (Sen-D-MD, 1977- )
1934 - Jeremy Kemp, Chesterfield England, actor (Winds of War)
1935 - Johnny "Guitar" Watson, rock guitarist
1936 - Bobby Simpson, cricketer (great Australian batsman/capt/coach/slip)
1936 - Robert Simpson, Australian cricket player/manager
1938 - Victor Buono, SD California, actor (Man from Atlantis, Untouchables)
1938 - Vladimir Grigoryevich Fartushny, Russia, cosmonaut
1938 - Emile Griffith, US Virgin Islands professional boxer
1939 - Vladimir Yevgenyevich Preobrazhensky, Russian cosmonaut
1940 - Fran Tarkenton, Richmond Va, NFL QB (NY Giants, Minnesota Vikings)
1940 - Jim Hartz, newscaster (NBC-TV, Innovations)
1941 - Angelo D'Aleo, Bronx, tenor (Dion & Belmonts-Teenager in Love)
1941 - Bridget Hanley, Minneapolis Mn, actress (Here Come the Brides)
1941 - Carol Mann, Buffalo NY, golfer (LPGA Hall of Fame 1977, 1965 US Open)
1941 - Chuck Tharp, rock vocalist (Fireballs)
1941 - Gary Bartlett, cricket pace bowler (NZ in 10 Tests in the 1960's)
1941 - Neil Bogart, American record executive (d. 1982)
1943 - Blythe Danner, Phila PA, actress (Butterflies are Free)
1943 - Dennis Edwards, rocker (Temptations-Aint Too Proud To Beg, My Girl)
1943 - Eric Haydock, bassist (Hollies-He Aint Heavy He's My Brother)
1944 - Trisha Noble, Australian singer and actress
1945 - Bob Griese, NFL quarterback (Miami Dolphins, 1971 Player of Year)
1945 - Johnny Cymbal, rocker (Mr Bass Man)
1945 - Willeke Alberti, [Verbruggen], Dutch vocalist/actress (Small Truth)
1947 - Chose Alberts, [Krommenhoek], vocalist (Yet Many Years)
1947 - Dave Davies, London, rock vocalist/guitarist (Kinks-Lola)
1947 - Joe Coleman, baseball pitcher (Washington, Detroit)
1947 - Koos Alberts, [Krommenhoek], Dutch vocalist (Many More Years to Come)
1947 - Melanie, [Safka], Astoria, vocalist/songwriter (Candles in Rain)
1947 - Paul Auster, US author/poet/director (Mr Vertigo, Smoke)
1947 - Stephen McHattie, Canadian actor
1948 - Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo, East Timor politician, Nobel Peace laureate
1948 - Henning Mankell, Swedish author
1949 - Oscar Benton, Dutch blues vocalist/guitarist (Ze is Zoals Jij)
1949 - Arthur Kane, American musician
1949 - Hennie Kuiper, Dutch cyclist
1950 - Michael Dickinson, British(?) reorganizer
1950 - Morgan Fairchild, [Patsy McClenny], Dallas Tx, actress (Falcon Crest)
1951 - Felipe Munoz, Mexico, 200m backstroke swimmer (Olympic-gold-1968)
1951 - Eugenijus Riabovas, Lithuanian football manager
1952 - Fred Lynn, Chicago, baseball outfielder (Boston, California, Baltimore)
1952 - Jack Fields, (Rep-R-TX, 1981- )
1953 - Savvas Tsitouridis, Greek politician
1954 - Tiger Williams, Canadian ice hockey player
1955 - Stephen Euin Cobb, American novelist
1955 - Kirsty Wark, British broadcast journalist
1956 - Nathan Lane, Jersey NJ, actor (One of the Boys, Frankie & Johnnie)
1956 - Pamela Cossey, England, model/sister of transsexual Tula
1956 - John Jefferson, American football player
1956 - Lee Ranaldo, American musician (Sonic Youth)
1957 - Michele Greene, Las Vegas Nevada, actress (Abby Perkins-LA Law)
1958 - Lizzie Borden, director/writer (Love Crimes, Working Girls)
1958 - Joe Frank Edwards Jr, Richmond Va, Cmdr USN/astronaut (STS 89)
1958 - Lee Crystal, rocker (Joan Jett & Blackhearts-Ashes in the Wind)
1958 - N. Gregory Mankiw, American economist
1959 - Loi Tolhurst, rocker (Cure-Hell's Kitchen)
1959 - Molly Killingbeck, Jamaica, 4X400m relayer (Olympic-silver-1984)
1959 - Thomas Calabro, Bkln NY, actor (Michael Mancini-Melrose Place)
1959 - Yasuharu Konishi, Japanese musician (Pizzicato Five)
1960 - B J Jefferson, Dallas Tx, actress (Ronnie Laurance-Another World)
1960 - Richard Kotzen, rocker
1960 - Kerry Von Erich, American wrestler (d. 1993)
1960 - Marty Jannetty, American Wrestler
1961 - Keith Gordon, NYC, actor (Dressed to Kill, Legend of Billie Jean)
1961 - Jay Adams, American skateboarder
1961 - Linda Eder, American singer
1962 - Joe Handle, US baseball pitcher (Florida Marlins)
1965 - Dorcas Wonsavage, Madison Wis, cross country skier (Olympics-1994)
1965 - Kathleen Kimont, LA California, actress (Fraternity Vacation, Renegade)
1965 - Maura Tierney, Boston, actress (Lisa-Newsradio)
1965 - Karlous Marx Shinohamba, Namibian politician
1966 - Danny Morrison, cricket pace bowler (NZ since 1987)
1966 - Gillian Bonner, Athens GA, playmate (Apr, 1996)
1966 - Sean Patrick Wade, Houston Texas, NZ marathoner (Olympics-96)
1966 - Frank Coraci, American film director
1967 - Aurelio Vidmar, soccer player (Standard Luik, Feyenoord)
1967 - Jason Morris, Scotia NY, half-middleweight judoka (Oly-silver-92, 96)
1967 - Natalie Hunter, Melbourne VIC Australia, canoeist (Olympics-96)
1967 - Dave Benson-Phillips, Children's TV Presenter
1967 - Bob Taylor, English footballer
1968 - Frantisek Kucera, Prague Cze, NHL defenseman (Vanc Canucks, Oly-G-98)
1968 - Leroy Thompson, NFL running back (KC Chiefs)
1968 - Mark Koevermans, Netherlands, tennis star
1968 - Vlade Divac, Yugoslavia, NBA center (Charlotte Hornets, LA Lakers)
1969 - Casey Weldon, NFL quarterback (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1969 - Jeff Christy, NFL center (Minnesota Vikings)
1969 - Robert Pack, NBA guard (Washington Bullets, Dallas Mavericks)
1969 - Terry Bradshaw, US baseball outfielder (St Louis Cardinals)
1969 - Retief Goosen, professional golfer
1970 - Alonza Barnett, WLAF safety (Amsterdam Admirals)
1970 - Eric Curry, NFL defensive end (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1970 - Jason Muzzatti, Toronto, NHL goalie (Hartford Whalers)
1970 - Keith Carney, Providence, NHL defenseman (Chicago Blackhawks, Team US)
1970 - Oscar Cordoba, Colombian footballer
1970 - Warwick Davis, British actor
1971 - Eric Owens, Danville VA, outfielder (Cin Reds)
1971 - Marcus Buckley, NFL linebacker (NY Giants)
1971 - Roman Cechmanek, NHL goaltender (Team Czech Oly-Gold-1998)
1971 - Sean Dawkins, NFL wide receiver (Indianapolis Colts)
1971 - Elisa Donovan, American actress
1971 - Sarah Kane, English playwright (d. 1999)
1971 - Hong Seok-cheon, South Korean actor
1972 - Jermaine Smith, NFL defensive tackle (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1972 - Keith Elias, NFL running back (NY Giants)
1972 - Tyrone Poole, NFL cornerback (Carolina Panthers)
1972 - Mart Poom, Estonian football player
1973 - Jim Campbell, Worcester, NHL center (Anaheim Mighty Ducks)
1973 - Kyle Richardson, WLAF punter (Rhein Fire)
1974 - Konrad Gałka, Polish swimmer
1976 - Dwayne Rudd, linebacker (Minnesota Vikings)
1976 - Karen Bradley, Miss Rhode Island USA (1996)
1976 - Isla Fisher, Australian actress
1977 - Maitland Ward, Torrance CA, actress (Jessica-Bold & Beautiful)
1977 - Daddy Yankee , reggaeton singer/rapper.
1978 - Adrian R'Mante, American actor
1978 - Eliza Schneider, American actress and singer
1980 - Sarah Lewitinn, American writer
1981 - Maurice Ross, Scottish footballer
1981 - Alisa Reyes, American actress and singer
1982 - Alan Gurr, Australian V8 Supercar driver
1982 - Jessica Harp, American singer (The Wreckers)
1983 - Richard Bartel, National Football League quarterback
1983 - Silambarasan Rajendar,famous south Indian actor
1989 - Slobodan Rajković, Serbian footballer
1989 - Ryne Sanborn, American actor
1990 - Cody Newton Gifford, son of Kathie Lee & Frank Gifford
1990 - Sean Kingston, American reggae rapper
1994 - Tallulah Belle Willis, 3rd daughter of Bruce Willis & Demi Moore

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 03, 2013, 06:52:44 AM

This Day in History for 3rd February


Famous Deaths

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US President Woodrow Wilson (1924)       Singer Buddy Holly (1959)


474 - Leo I, Byzantine Emperor (457-74), dies
619 - Laurence of Canterbury, 2nd Archbishop of Canterbury
699 - Saint Werburgh
865 - Ansgar/Anscharius/Oskar, German 1st (arch)bishop of Hamburg/saint, dies
1014 - Sweyn Forkbeard, Viking king of Denmark, Norway and England (1013-14), dies
1014 - King Sweyn I of Denmark
1116 - King Coloman of Hungary (b. 1070)
1399 - John of Ghent, duke of Lancaster/king of Castile & Leon, dies at 58
1428 - Ashikaga Yoshimochi, Japanese shogun (b. 1386)
1451 - Murad II, sultan of Turkey (1421-51), dies
1468 - Johann Gensfleisch Gutenberg, printer, dies
1536 - Garcia de Resende, Port writer/publisher (Cancioneiro Geral), dies
1558 - Alfonsus de Castro, Spanish theologist (council of Trente), dies
1566 - George Cassander, Flemish theologian (b. 1513)
1602 - Paul Melissus, [Paul Schede], German poet/composer, dies at 62
1619 - Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham, English conspirator (b. 1564)
1679 - Jan Havicksz Steen, Dutch painter (St Nicolas Feast), dies at 53
1697 - Sjoucke Gabbes, Frisian sailor, dies/buried on Dirk-Hartog Island
1715 - Gottfried Vopelius, composer, dies at 70
1737 - Tommaso Ceva, Italian Mathematician (b. 1648)
1748 - Henri Madin, composer, dies at 49
1803 - Pedro R de Campomanes, Spanish economist/lawyer/literary, dies at 79
1814 - Johann Antonin Kozeluch, composer, dies at 75
1832 - George Crabbe, English vicar/poet (Borough), dies at 77
1846 - Joseph Weigl, Austria composer/conductor (Waisenhaus), dies at 79
1862 - Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist/astronomer, dies at 87
1866 - François-Xavier Garneau, French Canadian poet and historian (b. 1809)
1874 - Lunalilo, Hawaiian monarch (b. 1835)
1875 - Everhardus J Potgieter, writer (Liedekens van Bontekoe), dies at 66
1876 - Gino Capponi, Italian marquis/literary/premier of Toscane, dies at 83
1882 - Guglielmo Quarenghi, composer, dies at 55
1889 - Belle Starr, US female gangster, murdered at 40
1890 - Christophorus H D Buys Ballot, Dutch meteorologist, dies at 72
1900 - Ottokar Eugen Novacek, composer, dies at 33
1902 - Isaac Fransen van der Putten, Dutch PM (1866), dies
1903 - Frederick E Kitziger, composer, dies at 59
1909 - Johann Georg Herzog, composer, dies at 86
1921 - Max Wilhelm Zach, composer, dies at 56
1922 - Christiaan R de Wet, South African Boer general, dies at 67
1922 - John Butler Yeats, Northern Irish artist (b. 1839)
1924 - Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president (1913-21), dies at his home in Washington at 67
1925 - Jaap Eden, Dutch World champion bicyclist/speed skating, dies at 51
1929 - Agner Krarup Erlang, Danish scientist (b. 1878)
1931 - Hans Schardt, Swiss geologist, dies at 72
1935 - Hugo Junkers, German engineer (b. 1859)
1936 - Sophie of Schönburg-Waldenburg, consort of William of Wied, Prince of Albania (b.1885)
1937 - Marija Leiko, Latvian film actress (b. 1887)
1943 - Alexander Goode, rabbi who surrended his life jacket, drowns
1945 - Jose Rolon, composer, dies at 61
1945 - Roland Freisler, German Nazi judge (July 20th plotter case), dies
1947 - Anna Bahr-von Mildenburg, Austrian soprano/director, dies at 74
1947 - Marc A "Pete" Mitscher, US lt-adm (WW II-Task Force 58), dies at 60
1950 - Karl Seitz, president of Austria, dies at 80
1956 - Émile Borel, French mathematician (b. 1871)
1956 - Johnny Claes, Belgian racing driver (b. 1916)
1958 - Henry Kuttner, sci-fi author (Dark World, As You Were), dies at 42
1958 - Johannes F Buziau, Dutch cabaret performer, dies at 81
1959 - Big Bopper, rocker, dies in plane crash at 28
1959 - Buddy Holly, rocker (That'll be the Day), dies in a plane crash at 22
1959 - Richie Valens, rock vocalist (Donna), killed in plane crash at 17
1960 - Johannes G Geelkerken, Dutch reformed vicar, dies at 80
1960 - Fred Buscaglione, Italian singer and actor (b. 1921)
1961 - Anna May Wong, actress (Gallery of Mme Lui-Tsang), dies at 54
1961 - Viscount Dunrossil, Gov-Gen of Australia (1959-61), dies at 67
1962 - Werner Bock, writer, dies
1964 - Sir Albert Richardson, English architect (b. 1880)
1966 - June Walker, actress (War Nurses), dies at 65
1967 - Joe Meek, rocker (Tornados)/producer (Telstar), commits suicide
1967 - Winifred Kingston, silent screen actress (David Garrick), dies at 72
1969 - Eduardo C Mondlane, president of Mozambique, murdered
1971 - Jay C Flippen, actor (Ensign O'Toole), dies at 72
1972 - John Litel, actor (Big Boss, Crime Doctor, My Buddy), dies at 79
1973 - Edward Lockspeiser, composer, dies at 67
1975 - John Secondari, newscaster (Open Hearing), dies at 55
1975 - Robert Evett, composer, dies at 52
1975 - William D. Coolidge, American physicist and inventor (b. 1873)
1975 - Umm Kulthum, Egyptian singer (b. 1904)
1976 - Neville Lindsay, cricketer (S Afr batsman in Test v Aust 1921), dies
1977 - Pauline Starke, actress (Dante's Inferno, Viking, Sun Up), dies at 76
1979 - Jody Gilbert, actress (Willard, Shaggy, Blonde Dynamite), dies
1984 - Anne Townsend, lacrosse/tennis/field hockey star, dies
1984 - Ravindara Mhatrem, Indian diplomat, killed in England
1985 - Frank Oppenheimer, American physicist (b. 1912)
1989 - John Cassavetes, actor/director (Husbands, Dirty Dozen), dies at 59
1991 - Nancy Kulp, actress (Jane Hathaway-Beverly Hillbillies), dies at 69
1991 - Harry Ackerman, American TV executive producer (b. 1912)
1993 - Karel Goeyvaerts, Flemish composer (8 Horse Bet), dies at 69
1995 - John Pinsent, classical scholar, dies at 72
1995 - Turner Fodrell, blues singer/guitarist, dies at 66
1996 - Audrey Meadows, actress (Alice-Honeymooners), dies at 69
1996 - Broderick Vernon Chinnery Photographer-Haldane, dies at 83
1996 - Edward Adamson, art therapist/collector, dies at 84
1996 - Edward Frederick Weston Goodman, property Developer, dies at 81
1996 - Tibor Reich, textile designer, dies at 79
1996 - Wild Jimmy Spruill, blues guitarist, dies at 61
1997 - Anthony Cuthbert Baines, writer/curator, dies at 84
1997 - Bohumil Hrabal, writer, dies at 82
1997 - William Geoffrey Biddle, bomb disposal expert, dies at 79
1998 - Karla Faye Tucker, murderer, executed at 38
2000 - Richard Kleindienst, American politician (b. 1923)
2003 - Lana Clarkson, American actress (b. 1962)
2004 - Jason Raize, American musical theatre actor (b. 1975)
2005 - Corrado Cardinal Bafile, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1903)
2005 - Ernst Mayr, German-born biologist (b. 1904)
2005 - Zurab Zhvania, Prime Minister of Georgia (b. 1963)
2006 - Al Lewis, American actor (b. 1923)
2007 - Ralph de Toledano, Moroccan-born American political columnist and author (b. 1916)
2007 - George Becker, American president of United Steelworkers (1993-2001) (b. 1928)
2007 - Pedro Knight, Cuban-American musician, husband of legendary singer Celia Cruz (b. 1921)
2008 - Douglas Fraser, Scottish pilot (b. 1916)
2009 - Sheng-yen, Buddhist monk and founder of Dharma Drum Mountain. (b. 1930)
2010 - Regina, Crown Princess of Austria (b. 1925)
2011 - Maria Schneider, French actress (b. 1952)
2012 - Norton Zinder, American biologist, dies from pneumonia at 83
2012 - Christopher Samuel Youd, British science fiction writer, dies at 89
2012 - Ben Gazzara, American actor, dies from pancreatic cancer at 81
2012 - Zalman King, American actor and director, dies from cancer at 69

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 04, 2013, 06:48:04 AM

This Day in History for 4th February


Historical Events

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Astronomer Tycho Brahe                            Christian Science Founder
                                                                       Mary Baker Eddy

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Confederate General Robert E Lee     NFL Running Back and Convicted Criminal
                                                                          OJ Simpson


211 - Roman Emperor Septimius Severus dies, leaving the Roman Empire in the hands of his two
         quarrelsome sons, Caracalla and Geta.
960 - The coronation of Zhao Kuangyin as Emperor Taizu of Song, initiating the Song Dynasty period of China that would last more than three centuries.
1194 - Richard I Lion Hearted pays Leopold O Fenrik VI's ransom of 100,000
1454 - In the Thirteen Years' War, the Secret Council of the Prussian Confederation sends a formal
           act of disobedience to the Grand Master.
1508 - Maximilian I assumes imperial title without being crowned
1586 - Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester, becomes governor of Neth
1600 - Tycho Brahe & Johannes Kepler meet for 1st time near Prague
1620 - Prince Bethlen Gabor signs peace with emperor Ferdinand II
1657 - Oliver Cromwell grants residency to Luis Caravajal
1697 - 3 VOC-ships anchor at Dirk-Hartogeiland, Australia
1699 - 350 rebellious Streltsi executed in Moscow
1703 - In Edo (now Tokyo), 46 of the Forty-Seven Ronin commit seppuku (ritual suicide) as
           recompense for avenging their master's death.
1782 - British garrison surrenders to French & Spanish fleet
1783 - Worst quake in 8 years kills some 50,000 (Calabria, Italy)
1784 - 1st unmanned balloon flight in Ireland
1787 - 1st Anglican bishops of NY & Pennsylvania consecrated in London
1787 - Shays' Rebellion (of debt-ridden Massachusetts farmers) fails
1789 - 1st electoral college chooses Washington & Adams as Pres & VP
1794 - French National Convention proclaims abolishment of slavery
1797 - Earthquake in Quito, Ecuador kills 41,000
1803 - William Dunlap, adapts French melodrama "Voice of Nature"
1810 - Royal Navy seizes Guadeloupe.
1822 - Free American Blacks settle Liberia, West Africa
1824 - J W Goodrich introduces rubber galoshes to public
1846 - Mormons leave Nauvoo, Mo for settlement in west
1847 - 1st US telegraph co established in Maryland
1849 - University of Wisconsin begins in 1 room with 20 students
1854 - Alvan Bovay proposes name "Republican Party," Ripon, Wisc
1855 - Soldiers shoot Jewish families in Coro, Venezuela
1859 - The Codex Sinaiticus is discovered in Egypt.
1861 - Confederate constitutional convention meets for 1st time, Montgomery Ala, Ga, Fla, La, Miss
           & SC elect Jefferson Davis pres of Confederacy
1864 - Skirmish at Big Black River Bridge, Mississippi
1865 - Hawaiian Board of Education formed
1865 - Robert E Lee is named commander-in-chief of Confederate Army
1866 - Mary Baker Eddy cures her injuries by opening a bible
1880 - Steele MacKay's "Hazel Kirke," premieres in NYC
1887 - Interstate Commerce Act authorizes federal regulation of railroads
1895 - 1st rolling lift bridge opens, Chicago
1899 - Revolt against US occupation of Philippines
1899 - The Philippine-American War begins.
1903 - Stanley Cup: Montreal AAA beat Winn Victorias, 2 games to 1 & 1 tie
1904 - John Millington Synges "Well of Saints," premieres in Dublin
1913 - Louis Perlman patents demountable auto tire-carrying wheel rim
1913 - National Institute of Arts & Letters founded
1914 - US Congress approves Burnett-anti-immigration law
1915 - Experiments to find cause of pellagra begin at Miss Penitentiary
1917 - Belgium Council of Flanders established
1919 - City of Bremen's Soviet Republic overthrown
1920 - 1st flight from London to South Africa takes-off (lasts 1½ months)
1922 - WGY-AM in Schenectady NY begins radio transmissions
1924 - 1st Winter Olympic games close at Chamonix France
1924 - George Kelly's "Show-Off," premieres in NYC
1926 - Austrian chancellor Seipel wants to join Germany
1927 - KGA-AM in Spokane WA begins radio transmissions
1929 - Archie Jackson scores 164 on Test Cricket debut v England at Adelaide
1930 - 1st tieless, soundless, shockless streetcar tracks, New Orleans
1931 - National League adopts a deader baseball
1932 - 3rd Winter Olympic games open in Lake Placid, NY
1932 - Japanese troop occupy Harbin, Manchuria
1932 - World War II: Japan occupies Harbin, China.
1933 - -Feb 10] Crew of Dutch "7 Provinces" mutiny after pay cuts
1933 - German Pres Von Hindenburg limits freedom of the press
1936 - 1st radioactive substance produced synthetically (radium E)
1937 - Jim Margie, Philadelphia, bowls 900 in 3 (unsanctioned) games
1938 - "Our Town," by Thornton Wilder opens on Broadway
1938 - Hitler seizes control of German army & puts Nazi in key posts
1939 - Glenn Cunningham (top miler) says 4-min mile beyond human effort
1941 - British tanks occupy Maus Libya
1941 - Former Dutch premier De Geer flies to Berlin
1941 - United Service Organization (USO) founded
1942 - Clinton Pierce becomes 1st US general wounded in action in WW II
1943 - Bertolt Brecht's "Der gute Mensch von Sezuan," premieres in Zurich
1944 - Jean Anouilh's "Antigone," premieres in Paris
1944 - US 7th Infantry Division captures Kwajalein
1945 - FDR, Churchill & Stalin meet at Yalta
1946 - Garson Kanin's "Born Yesterday," premieres in NYC
1948 - Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) declares independence from UK
1949 - Failed assassination attempt on Shah of Persia
1951 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Sonya Klopfer
1951 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button
1952 - 1st black executive of a major TV station (Jackie Robinson-WNBC NY)
1956 - AL plans to test automatic intentional walk during spring training
1957 - 1st electric portable typewriter placed on sale (Syracuse NY)
1958 - "Oh, Captain!" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 192 performances
1958 - Hall of Fame fails to elect anyone for 1st time since 1950
1959 - Israel begins exporting copper ore
1960 - BBWAA voters fail to elect a new Hall of Fame member
1960 - Giants move their offices to Candlestick Park
1960 - Lionel Bart's musical "Fings ain't wot they used t'be," premieres
1961 - Sputnik 7 launches into Earth orbit; probable Venus probe failure
1962 - "Gay Life" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 113 performances
1962 - Russian newspaper Izvestia reports baseball is an old Russian game
1962 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Barbara Roles
1962 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Monty Hoyt
1964 - FAA begins 6 month test of reactions to sonic booms over Oklahoma City
1965 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1966 - All-Nippon Airways 727 crashes off Haneda Airport (Japan); kills 133
1967 - "Wild Thing" hits #20 on the pop singles chart by Senator Bobby
1967 - US launches Lunar Orbiter 3
1968 - "Golden Rainbow" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 355 performances
1968 - Bowie Kuhn replaces William Eckert as 5th commissioner of baseball
1969 - 41,163, then largest NBA crowd, watches doubleheader Cin-Det, SD-Bost
1969 - Beatles appoint Eastman & Eastman, as general cousel to Apple
1969 - John Madden is named head coach of NFL's Oakland Raiders
1969 - Lonnie Elder's "Ceremonies in Dark Old Men," premieres in NYC
1969 - Yassar Arafats takes over as chairman of PLO
1970 - "Charles Aznavour" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 23 performances
1970 - "Gantry" opens at George Abbott Theater NYC for 1 performance
1970 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1971 - Apollo 14 lander Antares lands on Moon (Shepard & Mitchell)
1971 - Baseball announces a special hall of fame wing for blacks
1971 - British car maker Rolls Royce declared itself bankrupt
1971 - Government exhibit under construction collapses, kills 65 in Brazil
1971 - National Guard mobilized to quell rioting in Wilmington NC
1972 - 6th round of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks ends in Vienna Austria
1972 - Sen Strom Thurmond suggests John Lennon be deported
1973 - "No, No Nanette" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 861 performances
1973 - Islanders & Sabres had a penalty free game
1973 - Manfred Kokot runs world record 50m indoor (5.61 sec)
1973 - Reshef, Israel's missile boat, unveiled
1974 - Benzine rationing ends in Netherlands
1974 - Chimpanzee Nim Chimsky signs his 1st word, at 2½ months
1974 - Gas rationing ends in Netherlands
1974 - Patricia Hearst (19) kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army
1975 - Haicheng earthquake, M 7.3, occurred in Haicheng, Liaoning, China.
1976 - 12th Winter Olympic games opens in Innsbruck, Austria
1976 - 7.5 earthquake kills 22,778 in Guatemala & Honduras
1976 - Judge Oliver upholds Seitz's decision on Andy Messersmith free agency
1976 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1977 - 30th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 4-3 at Vancouver
1977 - Elevated train jumps track, crashes onto Chicago st (11 die, 200 hurt)
1977 - Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" released
1977 - Wings release "Maybe I'm Amazed"
1979 - "Co-Ed Fever," TV Comedy, debut & cancelled that outing on CBS
1979 - End of last 3+day D/N game for 15 yrs (WSC, SCG)
1979 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Colgate Triple Crown Golf Tournament
1980 - Bani Sadr sworn in as premier of Iran
1980 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Whirlpool Golf Championship of Deer Creek
1982 - "Pump Boys & Dinettes" opens at Princess Theater NYC for 573 perfs
1982 - Indoor distance record for a paper airplane (47m) Tacoma Wash
1982 - Musical "Pump Boys & Dinettes," premieres in NYC
1982 - Suriname premier Chin A Sen flees
1983 - Jose Happart becomes mayor of Voeren Belgium
1983 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Hamilton
1984 - "9" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 739 performances
1984 - "Backstage Magic" opens at CommuniCore
1984 - Frank Aquilera sets world frisbee distance record (168m) Las Vegas
1985 - 20 countries (but not US) sign UN treaty outlawing torture
1985 - Naval exercises canceled when US refuses to tell NZ of nuclear weapons
1986 - 38th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 4-3 (OT) at Hartford
1986 - Israeli fighters intercept Libyan liner (passenger plane)
1987 - Pres Reagan's veto of Clean Water Act is overridden by Congress
1987 - Stars & Stripes beats Australia's Kookaburra 3, sweeps America's Cup
1987 - Sacramento Kings score only 4 points 1st quarter against Lakers; fewest in a period since
           introduction of 24 second shot-clock in 1954
1988 - Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega indicted on drug charges
1989 - Dean Jones scores 216 v WI at the Adelaide Oval
1990 - 10 Israeli tourists murdered near Cairo
1990 - Anders Holmertz swims world record 400 m freestyle (3:40.81)
1990 - Danny Everett runs world record 400m indoor (45:04)
1990 - Lyudmila Narozhi-Lenko runs world record 60m hurdles indoor (7.69)
1990 - NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 27-21
1990 - Pat Bradley wins Oldsmobile LPGA Golf Classic
1990 - Richard Hadlee takes his 400th Test Cricket wicket (Sanjay Manjrekar)
1990 - St Petersburg Pelicans beat West Palm Beach Tropics 12-4 to win 1st Senior Professional
           Baseball Association Championship
1991 - Hall of Fame's board of directors vote 12-0 to bar Pete Rose
1991 - Martin Crowe & Andrew Jones make 467 stand v SL, world record
1991 - US postage raises from 25 cents to 29 cents
1993 - Admiral Studeman, ends term as acting director of CIA
1993 - Marge Schott suspended from baseball for 1 year due to racism
1993 - Russian space agency tests a 82' wide space mirror
1994 - 10th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Days of Our Live wins
1994 - 20 die in armed assault on mosque in Khartum Sudan
1994 - Merlene Ottey runs world record 50 m indoor (6.00 sec)
1994 - Russian team beats ladies world record 4x800 m indoor (8:18.71)
1995 - Dean Jones completes 324* for Victoria v South Australia
1995 - Sandra Volker swims female European record 50m backstroke (27.77)
1995 - Zimbabwe's 1st Test Cricket victory, over Pakistan by an inning
1996 - NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 20-13
1997 - Mario LeMieux is 7th NHL player to score 600 goals
1997 - OJ Simpson found libel in murders of Ron Goldman & Nicole Simpson
1997 - Sec of State Margaret Albright announces she just discovered that her grandparents were
           Jewish
1997 - En route to Lebanon, two Israeli Sikorsky CH-53 troop-transport helicopters collide in mid-air
           over northern Galilee, Israel killing 73.
1997 - After at first contesting the results, Serbian President Slobodan Milošević recognizes
           opposition victories in the November 1996 elections.
1998 - Bill Gates gets a pie thrown in his face in Brussels Belgium
1998 - An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter Scale in northeast Afghanistan kills more than
           5,000.
1999 - The New Carissa runs aground near Coos Bay, Oregon.
1999 - Unarmed West African immigrant Amadou Diallo is shot dead by four plainclothes New York
            City police officers on an unrelated stake-out, inflaming race-relations in the city.
2000 - German extortionist Klaus-Peter Sabotta is jailed for life for attempted murder and extortion
           in connection with the sabotage of German railway lines.
2003 - The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is officially renamed to Serbia and Montenegro and adopts
            a new constitution.
2006 - A stampede occurs in the ULTRA Stadium near Manila killing 71.
2012 - Tens of thousands of people are stranded by floods in the Australian states of New South
           Wales and Queensland

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 04, 2013, 06:49:40 AM

This Day in History for 4th February


Famous Weddings

1875 - Princess Louise of Belgium marries Prince Philip von Saksen-Coburg-Gotha in Belgium
2006 - Daughter of June Carter and country singer Carlene Carter (50) weds Joe Brown began at
           Cinnamon Hill in Jamaica
2006 - 2004 Summer Olympics badminton player gold medalist Taufik Hidayat (24) weds Armi Dianti
           Gumelar at Hotel Mulia Senayan in Jakarta

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 04, 2013, 06:56:57 AM

This Day in History for 4th February


Famous Birthdays

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Civil Rights Activist                                        Actor & Director                               Rocker Alice Cooper (1948)
Rosa Lee Parks (1913)                                 George Romero (1940)

1465 - French van Brederode, leader of Hoeksen
1524 - Luis de Camões, Portugal's greatest poet. (d. 1580)
1549 - Eustache du Caurroy, composer
1575 - Pierre de Barulle, French cardinal
1581 - Daniel Selich, composer
1620 - Gustaf Bonde, Swedish statesman (d. 1667)
1646 - Hans A Freiherr von Abschatz, Silesian poet
1677 - Johann Ludwig Bach, German composer (d. 1731)
1688 - Pierre De Marivaux, Paris France, writer (Marianne)
1693 - George Lillo, bourgeois English dramatist (London Merchant)
1725 - Dru Drury, English entomologist (d. 1804)
1746 - Tadeusz Kościuszko, Polish, Lithuanian and American National hero and general (d. 1817)
1751 - Blas de Laserna, composer
1758 - Pierre-Gabriel Gardel, French ballet dancer/choreographer
1764 - Carel H Verhuell, Dutch/French vice-admiral/minister of Navy
1767 - Johann Franz Volkert, composer
1768 - Maurits C van Hall, Dutch ruler of Heicop & Boeicop, lawyer/politician
1769 - Samuel I Wiselius, Dutch lawyer/businessman/writer
1778 - A. P. de Candolle, Swiss botanist (d. 1841)
1799 - Joao Batista da Silva Leitao de Almeida Garret, Portuguese playwright
1802 - Mark Hopkins, US, educator/philosopher (Williams College)
1805 - Georg Andreas Henkel, composer
1805 - William H Ainsworth, English writer (Old St Paul's, Rookwood)
1808 - Josef Kajetán Tyl, Czech playwright, author of the Czech national anthem(d. 1856)
1819 - Joshua Norton, SF, Norton I, emperor of USA
1826 - Halbert Eleazer Paine, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1905
1831 - Oliver Ames, 35th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1895)
1841 - Clément Ader, French aviation pioneer (d. 1926)
1842 - Georg Brandes, [Morris Cohen], Danish literary-historian/critic
1842 - Vasili O Klyutshevski, Russian historian
1846 - Nikolay Umov, Russian physicist (d. 1915)
1848 - [Francois-Victor-]Jean Aicard, Fren playwright/poet (Jeune Croyances)
1849 - Jean Richepin, French poet/writer (Les Chansons de Gueux)
1859 - Timofei Mikhailov, Russian revolutionary, member of Narodnaya Volya (d. 1881)
1865 - Charles Bally, Swiss linguist (Le langage et la vie)
1868 - Constance Gore-booth Markiewicy, Irish patriot/playwright/MP
1871 - Friedrich Ebert, German politician, 1st Reichspräsident of the Weimar Republic (d. 1925)
1872 - Gotse Delchev, a great Macedonian revolutionary, (d. 1903)
1873 - Étienne Desmarteau, Canadian athlete (d. 1905)
1875 - Ludwig Prandtl, Germany, physicist (father of aerodynamics)
1875 - Raymond Moulaert, composer
1876 - Victor Jean Leonard Vreuls, composer
1881 - Kliment J Woroshilov, marshal/president USSR (1953-60)
1881 - Fernand Léger, French painter (d. 1955)
1884 - Julius Callewaert, Flemish dominican/bringing up children
1884 - Rolland Beaumont, cricketer (South African batsman in 5 tests 1912-14)
1885 - Cairine Ray Wilson, Montreal, 1st female Canadian senator (appointed)
1888 - Paul Althaus, German theologist (The Christian Truth)
1889 - Walter Catlett, SF CA, actor (Front Page, Tale of 2 Cities)
1891 - Yuri Losmann, Estonia, marathon runner (Olympic-silver 1920)
1891 - Madabhushi Ananthasayanam Ayyangar, Speaker of Lok Sabha (d: 1978).
1892 - Ugo Betti, Italian playwright
1892 - Andreu Nin, Catalan politician (d. 1937)
1892 - E. J. Pratt, Canadian poet (d. 1964)
1893 - Bernard Rogers, NYC, composer (Warrior, Marriage of Aude, Passion)
1893 - Raymond Dart, Australian paleoanthropologist (Australopithecus)
1895 - Annie [Anna HM] Romein-Verschoor, Dutch historian (Erflaters)
1895 - Hanns [Johann] Rauter, German SS-lt-general/SS police chief in Neth
1896 - Friedrich Glauser, writer
1896 - Friedrich Hund, German physicist (d. 1997)
1897 - Ludwig Erhard, chancellor of Germany (CDU)
1902 - Charles A Lindbergh, Detroit, pilot (1st fly solo across Atlantic)
1902 - Hartley Shawcross, British lawyer and politician (d. 2003)
1903 - Alexander Oppenheim, mathematician
1903 - Berend van den Amstel, [Bernard CED Hattink], actor (Beatrice)
1903 - Edwin Denby, Tientsin China, US dance critic/poet (Snoring in N)
1903 - Frank Howley, Hampton NY, Brigadier General (Answers for Americans)
1903 - Siro Cisilino, composer
1904 - Herman B Wiardi Beckman, Dutch politician (SDAP)/resistance fighter
1904 - MacKinlay Kantor, Webster City Iowa, novelist (Andersonville)
1904 - Predrag Milosevic, composer
1905 - Eddie Foy Jr, New Rochelle NY, actor (Eddie-Fair Exchange)
1905 - Hylda Baker, English comedy actress (d. 1986)
1906 - Clyde William Tombaugh, US, astronomer (discovered Pluto)
1906 - Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologist (Confessing Church)
1906 - Primo Carnera, Italian boxer (champ-1933)
1908 - Emmanuel "Manny" Klein, trumpeter
1908 - Gordon Fraser, Lawrence Mass, newscaster (All Star News)
1909 - Kenneth W Howell, English Anglican bishop (Chile/Bolivia/Peru)
1909 - Robert Coote, London, actor (Timmy-Rogues, Theodore-Nero Wolfe)
1910 - Alfred Mendelsohn, composer
1910 - Uys Krige, South African playwright/novelist (Orphan of the Desert)
1912 - Byron Nelson, Fort Worth Tx, PGA golfer (won 19 tournaments in 1945)
1912 - Erich Leinsdorf, Vienna Austria, available conductor & banana eater
1912 - James Craig, Nashville TN, actor (Devil & Daniel Webster, Cyclops)
1912 - Ola Skjåk Bræk, Norwegian politician (d. 1999)
1912 - Louis-Albert Cardinal Vachon, archbishop of Quebec (d. 2006)
1913 - Rosa Lee Parks, civil rights activist (bus protestor)
1914 - Alfred Andersch, German writer (Red Head)
1914 - Ida Lupino, London England, actress (Adventures of Sherlock Holmes)
1915 - William Talman, Detroit Mich, actor (Crashout, Hamilton-Perry Mason)
1915 - Ray Evans, American songwriter with Jay Livingston (d. 2007)
1916 - Basil Hembry, farmer/campaigner
1916 - Colin Morris, playwright/documentary filmmaker
1916 - David Vassall Cox, composer
1916 - Gavin Buchanan Ewart, English poet (Pleasures of the Flesh)
1916 - Shah Maghsoud Sadegh Angha, 41st master of the Oveyssi-Shahmaghsoudi Sufi Order (d. 1980)
1917 - Aga Yahya Khan, Pakistan military/politician
1918 - Ida Lupino, actress screenwriter director/producer (Jennifer)
1918 - Norman Wisdom, London England, comedian (Kraft Music Hall)
1918 - Luigi Pareyson, Italian philosopher (d. 1991)
1918 - Janet Waldo, American actress
1919 - Frank van Klingeren, Dutch architect (De Meerpaal, Dronten)
1920 - Derek Worlock, English RC archbishop (Liverpool)
1920 - John Hartford Worlock, Roman Catholic Bishop of Liverpool
1921 - Betty Friedan, Peoria Ill, feminist writer (Feminine Mystique)
1922 - Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, Indian Classical Singer
1923 - Conrad Bain, Alberta Canada, actor (Maude, Diff'rent Strokes), (d. 2013)
1925 - Russell Hoban, US children's book author (Riddley Walker/Pilgermann)
1926 - John Edward Caulwell Hearne, writer
1928 - Dave Ketchum, Quincy Ill, actor (Agent 13-Get Smart)
1929 - Mary Joan Nielubowicz, rear admiral/nurse
1929 - Paul Burlison, rocker
1929 - Jerry Adler, American actor
1931 - Argentina Rioja
1931 - Isabel Peron, [Maria Martinez], dancer/president Argentina
1932 - Ivan Davis, Electra Tx, pianist/writer (Hunger, Corn is Green)
1934 - Jouko Sakari Linjama, composer
1935 - Martti Talvela, Hiitola Karelia Finland, operatic basso
1935 - Wallis Mathias, cricketer (1st non-Muslim to play for Pakistan)
1936 - Daan van Golden, Dutch sculptor
1936 - Gary Conway, Boston Mass, actor (Burke's Law, Land of the Giants)
1936 - David Brenner, American comedian
1937 - Collin Wilcox, Highlands NC, actor (To Kill a Mocking Bird)
1937 - John Devitt, Australia, 100m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-gold-1960)
1937 - Magnar Solberg, Norway, 20K biathalete (Olympic-gold-1968, 72)
1937 - David Newman, American filmmaker (d. 2003)
1938 - Donald W Riegle Jr, (Sen-D-MI, 1976- )
1939 - Jacques Charlier, Belgian sculptor
1939 - John Schuck, Boston Mass, comedian (McMillan & Wife, Holmes & Yoyo)
1939 - Stan Lundine, (Rep-D-NY, 1976-86)
1940 - George A Romero, actor/director (Creepshow, Martin, 2 Evil Eyes)
1941 - John Steel, rock drummer (Animals-House of the Rising Sun)
1942 - Johnny Gamble, rocker (Classics)
1943 - Cheryl Miller, Sherman Oaks California, actress (Paula-Daktari, Born Free)
1943 - Alberto João Jardim, Portuguese president of the regional government of Madeira
1943 - Ken Thompson, American computer scientist
1944 - Daniel A Mica, (Rep-D-FL, 1979- )
1944 - Florence LaRue Gordon, Penn, rocker (5th Dimension-One Less Bell)
1945 - David Brenner, Phila, comedian/TV talk show host (Nightlife)
1946 - Mary Meyer, US, 500m speed skater (Olympic-silver-1968)
1946 - Roy Yeager, Doraville Ga, rocker (Atlanta Rhythm Section)
1947 - James Danforth "Dan" Quayle, Indianapolis Indiana, USA (Sen-R-Ind, 44th Vice President
           1989-93)
1947 - Jeannie Wilson, Memphis Tenn, actress (Simon & Simon, Stir Crazy)
1947 - Sanford Bishop, (Rep-D-Georgia)
1948 - Alice Cooper, [Vincent Furnier], Detroit, rocker (School's Out)
1948 - Rakesh Shukla, cricket leg-spinner (1 Test India v Sri Lanka 1982)
1948 - Robert Coover, novelist (Pricksongs & Descants)
1948 - Rod Grams, (Rep-R-Minnesota)
1949 - Michael Beck, Memphis Tn, actor (Hans Helms-Holocaust)
1950 - James Dunn, US vocalist (Stylistics-You make me feel Brand New)
1950 - Pamela Franklin, Tokyo Japan, actress (Satan's School for Girls)
1950 - Philip Ehart, rock drummer (Kansas)
1950 - Robert-John Stips, rock keyboardist/singer (The Nits)
1951 - Patrick Bergin, Irish actor
1951 - Dariush Eghbali, Iranian singer and musician
1951 - Stan Papi, American baseball player
1952 - Jerry Shirley, rock drummer (Humble Pie-Hot N Nasty, Eat It)
1952 - Lisa Eichhorn, Reading Pa, actress (Cutter's Way, Yanks)
1952 - Li Yinhe, Chinese sexologist
1953 - Svetlana Ulmasova, USSR, 3K (world title 1978)
1953 - Kitaro, Japanese composer
1955 - Mikuláš Dzurinda, Slovak Prime minister
1957 - Don Davis, American composer
1957 - Evan Wolfson, American attorney and activist
1958 - Mary Ann Pascal, actress (Samantha-Brothers)
1958 - Werner Schwab, writer
1958 - Tomasz Pacyński, Polish writer
1959 - Lawrence Taylor, [LT], NFL's greatest linebacker (NY Giants)
1959 - Zenani Mandela, daughter of Nelson & Winnie Mandela
1960 - Pamelyn Ferdin, actress (Happy Birthday Wanda June, Tool Box Murders)
1960 - Tim Booth, British singer (James)
1960 - Siobhan Dowd, British/Irish author (d. 2007)
1960 - Jenette Goldstein, American actress
1960 - Jonathan Larson, American composer (d. 1996)
1961 - Denis Savard, Pointe Gatineau Ca, NHL center (Chicago Blackhawks)
1961 - Vern Fleming, LIC NY, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1984)
1961 - Stewart O'Nan, American author
1962 - Clint Black, Long Branch NJ, country vocalist (A Better Man)
1962 - Dan Plesac, Gary IN, pitcher (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1962 - Vern Fleming, NBA guard (NJ Nets)
1962 - Alfred Twardecki, Polish historian
1962 - Michael Riley, Canadian actor
1963 - Jane Leary, Sydney Australia, golfer (1992 Australian Amateur Champ)
1963 - Pirmin Zurbriggen, Swiss alpine skier (Olympic-gold-1988)
1963 - Tracie Ruiz-Conforto, Hawaii, sync swimmer (Oly-2 gold/silver-84, 88)
1964 - Noodles, American guitarist (The Offspring)
1965 - John van Loen, Dutch soccer player (Feyenoord, San Frecce)
1966 - Barry Klein, Grand Rapids Mich, rower (Olympics-1996)
1966 - Marissa Laakso, Boston Mass, Miss Mass-America (1991)
1966 - Spike, rocker [or Sep 18]
1966 - Viatcheslav Ekimov, Russian cyclist
1967 - Sergei Grinkov, Russian ice skater
1968 - Kristen Marie, actress (Cheryl McKinnon-Another World)
1968 - Marko Matvere, Estonian actor
1969 - Brad Cornett, US baseball pitcher (Toronto Blue Jays)
1969 - Chris Crooms, WLAF safety (Barcelona Dragons)
1969 - Dallas Drake, Trail, NHL center (Winnipeg Jets)
1969 - Joe Sacco, Medford, NHL right wing (Anaheim Mighty Ducks)
1969 - Duncan Coutts, Canadian bassist (Our Lady Peace)
1969 - Brandy Ledford, American actress and model
1970 - Alisa Marie Kimble, Miss USA-California (1997)
1970 - Gabrielle Anwar, Laleham England, actress (Body Snatchers)
1970 - John Frascatore, US baseball pitcher (St Louis Cardinals)
1970 - Nicole Wood, Canton OH, playmate (Apr, 1993)
1970 - Todd Peterson, NFL kicker (Seattle Seahawks)
1971 - Kevin Farkas, NFL tackle (Carolina Panthers)
1971 - Maarten Atmodikoro, soccer player (Dordrecht '90, NAC)
1971 - Pete Pierson, NFL tackle (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1971 - Sterling Palmer, NFL defensive end (Washington Redskins)
1971 - Rob Corddry, American actor and comedian
1972 - Kelvin Anderson, CFL running back (Calgary Stampeders)
1972 - Giovanni Silva De Oliveira, Brazilian footballer
1973 - Michael Goorjian, actor (Party Of Five)
1973 - Oscar De La Hoya, Los Angeles California, US boxer (Olympic Gold 92)
1974 - Brandon Convery, Kingston, NHL center (Toronto Maple Leafs)
1974 - Chris Ward, defensive end (Baltimore Ravens)
1974 - Mijntje Donners, Dutch hockey international
1975 - Elana Eve Chomiszak, Providence RI, Miss America-Rhode Island (1997)
1975 - Miriam Ruppert, Miss Universe-Germany (1996)
1975 - Konstantinos Nebegleras, Greek footballer
1976 - Cam'ron, American rapper
1977 - Gavin DeGraw, American musician
1978 - Laurence Borremans, Miss Belgium Universe (1997)
1978 - Danna Garcia, Colombian actress
1979 - Andrei Arlovski, Russian mixed martial artist
1979 - Giorgio Pantano, Italian racing car driver
1980 - Kelly Marie Sodan, Miss Kentucky Teen USA (1996)
1981 - Tom Mastny, Indonesian baseball player
1981 - Johan Van Summeren, Belgian cyclist
1981 - Ben Hendrickson, American baseball player
1981 - Jason Kapono, America professional basketball player
1982 - Chris Sabin, American professional wrestler
1982 - Tomas Vaitkus, Lithuanian professional road racing cyclist
1982 - Kimberly Wyatt, American singer and dancer (Pussycat Dolls)
1984 - Mauricio Pinilla, Chilean footballer
1985 - Bug Hall, American actor
1986 - Mohammad Mahmudullah, Bangladeshi cricketer
1987 - Lucie Šafářová, Czech tennis player
1988 - Eoin McDowell, Irish rugby player
1988 - Alexandros Pagalis, Greek footballer
1988 - Carly Patterson, American gymnast
1990 - Haruka Tomatsu, Japanese Seiyū

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 04, 2013, 06:58:10 AM

This Day in History for 4th February


Famous Deaths

211 - Lucius Septimus Severus, emperor of Rome (193-211), dies at 64
708 - Sisinnius, Greek-Syrian pope (708, 20 days), dies
856 - Hrabanus Maurus, East France, archbishop of Mainz, dies
869 - Saint Cyril, Greek missionary to the Slavs (b. 827)
1189 - Gilbert of Sempringham, English monastery founder/saint, dies
1222 - Willem I, earl of Holland (1203-22), dies
1503 - Queen Elizabeth, consort of Henry VII of England, dies
1505 - Joan of Valois, Queen of France/saint, dies at 40
1508 - Conrad Celtes, German humanist scholar (b. 1459)
1553 - Caspar Othmayr, composer, dies at 37
1590 - Gioseffo Zarlino, composer, dies at 73
1615 - Dom Justo Takayama, Japanese warlord (b. 1552)
1615 - Giovanni Battista della Porta, Italian scholar, polymath and child prodogy (b. 1535)
1617 - Louis Elsevier, Dutch publisher, dies at about 76
1640 - Hendrick C Vroom, Dutch seascape painter, dies
1694 - Nataliya Kyrillovna Naryshkina, Tsaritsa of Russia (b. 1651)
1714 - Duke of Berry, French King Louis XIV's grandson, dies
1746 - Robert Blair, Scottish poet (Grave), dies at 46
1774 - Charles Marie de La Condamine, French mathematician and geographer (b. 1701)
1781 - Josef Myslivecek, composer, dies at 43
1781 - Willem Crul, admiral (West-Indies), dies in battle at 59
1799 - Étienne-Louis Boullée, French architect (b. 1728)
1815 - Geert Reinders, Dutch cattle breeder/inoculation proponent, dies at 77
1815 - Jacob van Strij, Dutch cartoonist/graphic artist, dies at 58
1816 - Meingosus Gaelle, composer, dies at 63
1834 - Amelie Julia Candielle, composer, dies at 66
1844 - Willem de Clerq, Dutch merchant/literary, dies at 49
1854 - Carl Ludwig Cornelius Westenholz, composer, dies at 66
1869 - Johan M Dautzenberg, Flemish author/novelist (Future), dies at 60
1894 - Antoine J "Adolphe" Sax, instrument maker (saxophone), dies at 79
1895 - Faustina Hasse Hodges, composer, dies at 71
1896 - Henry David Leslie, composer, dies at 73
1905 - Louis-Ernest Barrias, French sculptor (b. 1841)
1911 - Peter A "Piet" Cronje, South Africa Boer general, dies at about 75
1921 - Xavier Mellery, Belgian painter/illustrator, dies at 75
1927 - Thomas Linnemann Laub, composer, dies at 74
1928 - Hendrik A Lorentz, physicist (L transformation-Nobel 1902), dies at 74
1933 - Archibald Sayce, English educator (b. 1846)
1936 - Wilhelm Gustloff, German leader of the Swiss Nazi party (b. 1895)
1939 - Edward Sapir, US linguist/cultural antropologist (indian), dies at 55
1939 - Henri W A Deterding, Dutch oil magnate (Royal Oil, Shell), dies at 72
1940 - Nikolai Yezhov, Head of Soviet NKVD (b. 1895)
1941 - Johann Peter Kirsch, Luxembourg church historian, dies at 79
1943 - Frank Calder, 1st NHL president, dies
1944 - Yvette Guilbert, French singer and actress (b. 1867)
1944 - Arsen Kotsoyev, Russian writer (b. 1872)
1946 - Margarete Boie, writer, dies
1953 - Alexander Loudon, Dutch diplomat (League of Nations), dies at 60
1954 - Vaclav Vackar, composer, dies at 72
1956 - Leendert A Donker, Dutch soc dem party-minister of Justice, dies at 56
1956 - Peder Gram, composer, dies at 74
1957 - Joseph Hardaway, creator of Bugs Bunny, dies at 66
1957 - Miguel Covarrubias, Mexican illustrator, dies
1958 - Frederik de Merode, Belgian prince, dies at 46
1959 - Una O'Connor, actress (Banjo, Invisible Man), dies at 78
1964 - Siegfried T Bok, neurobiologist/anatomist (Cybernetica), dies at 71
1965 - U C Greyhound, champion trotter (horse), dies at 33
1966 - Gilbert H Grosvenor, president Natl Geographic Society, dies at 90
1967 - Albert Orsborn, 6th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1886)
1968 - Ed Baker, actor (Keystone Kops), dies of emphysema at 70
1968 - Gerard den Brabander, [Jan G Jofriet], poet (Nothing New), dies at 67
1968 - Neal Cassady, American writer (b. 1926)
1969 - Thelma Ritter, actress (All About Eve, Pillow Talk), dies at 63
1974 - Mihail Andricu, composer, dies at 79
1974 - Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian physicist (b. 1894)
1975 - Louis Jordan, American musician (b. 1908)
1975 - Howard Hill, American archer (b. 1899)
1976 - Edward Benjamin Britten, composer, dies at 62
1977 - Brett Halliday, American writer (b. 1904)
1978 - Bergen Evans, English professor ($64,000 Question), dies at 73
1982 - Sue Carol, actress (She's My Weakness), dies at 73 of a heart attack
1982 - Alex Harvey, Scottish musician (b. 1935)
1982 - Georg Konrad Morgen, German judge (b. 1909)
1983 - Jim Ameche, actor (Festival of Stars), dies at 68
1983 - Karen Carpenter, rock drummer (Carpenters), dies of anorexia at 32
1983 - Reginald Denham, director/writer (Death at BC House), dies at 89
1987 - Liberace, pianist (Liberace Show, Evil Chandell-Batman), dies at 67
1987 - Carl Rogers, American psychologist (b. 1902)
1989 - Kenneth "Jethro" Burns, country singer (Homer & Jethro), dies at 69
1990 - Whipper Billy Watson, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1917)
1991 - Bob Leslie, actor (Cinderella, Mako: Jaws of Death), dies at 64
1992 - Fred Slyter, dialogue coach, dies after long illness at 56
1992 - John Dehner, actor (Apache, Cowboy, Boys from Brazil), dies at 76
1994 - Han Jansen, Dutch painter, dies at 62
1994 - Harold Schneider, US producer (5 Easy Pieces, War Games), dies at 55
1994 - Jan Veldkamp, Dutch geophysicist/director (KNMI), dies at 84
1994 - Justinus Darmojuwono, Indonesian archbishop/cardinal, dies at 79
1995 - Betty Davis, British dance teacher of Dame Margot Fonteyn, dies
1995 - Patricia Highsmith, [Mary Patricia Plangman], US/Swiss, dies at 74
1995 - Roel Wiersma, Dutch soccer star (PSV), dies at 62
1997 - James Friell, political cartoonist, dies at 84
2000 - Carl Albert, American politician, 54th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1908)
2000 - Doris Coley, American singer (Shirelles) (b. 1941)
2000 - Phil Tonken, American radio and television announcer (b. 1919)
2001 - J. J. Johnson, American jazz trombonist and composer (b. 1924)
2001 - Iannis Xenakis, Greek composer and architect (b. 1922)
2002 - George Nader, American film and television actor (b. 1921)
2003 - Charlie Biddle, Canadian jazz bassist (b. 1926)
2003 - Benyoucef Ben Khedda, Algerian politician (b. 1920)
2003 - André Noyelle, Belgian cyclist (b. 1931)
2006 - Betty Friedan, American feminist (b. 1921)
2006 - Myron Waldman, American animator (b. 1908)
2007 - Steve Barber, American baseball pitcher (b. 1938)
2007 - José Carlos Bauer, Brazilian World Cup footballer (b. 1925)
2007 - Ilya Kormiltsev, Russian poet and translator (b. 1959)
2007 - Jules Olitski, Ukrainian-born American abstract painter and sculptor (b. 1922)
2007 - Barbara McNair, American singer and actress (b. 1934)
2008 - Stefan Meller, Polish foreign minister (b. 1942)
2009 - Lux Interior, Frontman of the garage rock band The Cramps (b. 1946)
2012 - Florence Green, last surviving veteran of World War One, dies at 110
2012 - Robert Glaser, American educational psychologist, dies from Alzheimer's disease at 91
2012 - Istvan Csurka, Hungarian writer and politician, dies at 77
2012 - Robert Daniel, five term American congressman for Virginia, dies at 75

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 05, 2013, 07:03:54 AM

This Day in History for 5th February


Historical Events

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Composer Giuseppe Verdi                       Comedian Charlie Chaplin                   WW2 General Douglas MacArthur

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WWF Wrestler Hulk Hogan                      Radio shock jock Howard Stern


816 - Frankish emperor Louis grants archbishop Salzburg immunity
1428 - King Alfonso V, orders Sicily's Jews to attend conversion sermons
1488 - Roman catholic German emperor Maximilian I caught in Belgium
1512 - French troops under Gaston de Foix rescues Bologna
1556 - Kings Henri I & Philip II sign Treaty of Vaucelles
1572 - Beggars assault Oisterwijk Neth, drive nuns out
1576 - Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours
1597 - A group of early Japanese Christians are killed by the new government of Japan for being
           seen as a threat to Japanese society.
1631 - Rhode Island, founder, Roger Williams arrives in Boston from England
1644 - 1st US livestock branding law passed, by Connecticut
1649 - Prince of Wales becomes king Charles II
1663 - Earthquake in Canada
1679 - German emperor Leopold I signs peace with France
1736 - Methodists John & Charles Wesley arrive in Savannah, Georgia
1777 - Georgia becomes 1st US state to abolish both entail & primogeniture
1778 - Articles of Confederation ratified by 1st state, South Carolina
1782 - Spanish take Minorca (western Mediterranean) from English
1783 - Earthquakes ravage Calabria, killing 30,000
1783 - Sweden recognizes US independence
1795 - Zealand Neth surrenders to French general Michaud
1817 - 1st US gas co incorporated, Baltimore (coal gas for street lights)
1818 - Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.
1825 - Hannah Lord Montague of NY creates 1st detachable shirt collar
1831 - Jan van Speijk blows up his gunboat in Antwerp, killing about 30
1846 - "Oregon Spectator" is 1st newspaper to be published on the West Coast
1850 - Adding machine employing depressible keys patented, New Paltz, NY
1855 - British government of Palmerston forms
1859 - Wallachia and Moldavia are united under Alexander John Cuza as the United Principalities.
1861 - 1st moving picture peep show machine is patented by Samuel Goodale
1861 - Kinematoscope patented by Coleman Sellers, Phila
1861 - Louisiana delegation except Mr Bouligny withdraws from Congress
1864 - Federals occupy Jackson, Mississippi
1865 - Battle of Hatcher's Run, VA (Armstrong's Mill, Dabney's Mill)
1870 - 1st motion picture shown to a theater audience, Philadelphia
1879 - Joseph Swan demonstrates light bulb using carbon glow
1881 - Phoenix, Az incorporates
1885 - News of fall of Khartoum reaches London
1887 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Otello" premieres at La Scala in Italy
1887 - Snow falls on SF
1893 - Alfred Naess skates world record 500m (49.4 sec)
1894 - Female suffrage organization in Amsterdam forms
1897 - Marcel Proust meets Jean Lorrain in a pistol duel
1900 - British troops under Gen Buller occupy Vaal Krantz, Natal
1900 - The United States and the United Kingdom sign treaty for Panama Canal
1901 - Loop-the-loop centrifugal RR (roller coaster) patented by Ed Prescot
1901 - Pierpont Morgan forms US Steel Corp
1904 - American occupation of Cuba ends
1907 - Arnold Schoenberg's 1st string quartet premieres in Vienna
1911 - Society of Dutch Composers forms in Amsterdam
1916 - Enrico Caruso recorded "O Solo Mio" for the Victor Talking Machine Co
1917 - Congress overrides Wilson's veto, curtailing Asian immigration
1917 - Morosco Theater opens at 217 W 45th St NYC (demolished 1982)
1917 - Present Mexican constitution adopted
1918 - 1st US pilot to down an enemy airplane, Stephen W Thompson
1918 - Separation of church & state begins in USSR
1919 - NL pres John Heydler dismisses charges that Hal Chase bet against his team & threw games
           in collusion with gamblers
1921 - Yankees purchase 20 acres in Bronx for Yankee Stadium
1922 - Reader's Digest magazine 1st published
1923 - General mine strike against wage cuts in Saar
1923 - Mass arrests of socialists & communists in Italy
1924 - The Royal Greenwich Observatory begin broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the
           Greenwich Time Signal or the "BBC pips".
1927 - Buster Keaton's movie "The General" released & bombed
1929 - Jimmy Hatlo's "They'll Do It Every Time" cartoon debuts in SF
1930 - 5th Aliyah to Israel begins
1931 - Maxine Dunlap becomes 1st US women to earn a glider pilot license
1933 - Marinus van der Lubbe passes Dutch/German boundary
1936 - National Wildlife Federation forms
1937 - 1st Charlie Chaplin talkie, "Modern Times," released
1937 - FDR proposes enlarging Supreme Court, "court packing" plan failed
1938 - Hans Engnestangen skates world record 500m (41.8 sec)
1940 - Gen Winckelman replaces Gen Reijnders as Dutch supreme commander
1940 - Glenn Miller & his Orchestra record "Tuxedo Junction"
1941 - Dutch Premier De Geer returns from Lisbon to Netherlands
1942 - "Woman of the Year," starring Hepburn & Tracy opens at Radio City
1942 - Braves get Tommy Holmes from Yanks for Buddy Hassett & Gene Moore
1943 - Amsterdam resistance group CS-6 shoots nazi general Seyffardt
1943 - Clandestine Radio Atlantiksender, Germany, 1st transmission
1944 - 358 RAF-bombers attack Stettin
1945 - Big Racket becomes fastest race horse at 69t.6 kph (440 yd/20.8 s)
1945 - British premier Churchill arrives in Yalta, the Krim
1945 - US troops under General Douglas MacArthur enter Manilla
1946 - The Chondoist Chongu Party is founded in North Korea.
1947 - Bolewet Beirut becomes president of Poland
1948 - "Nature of Things" science show premieres on NBC prime time
1948 - Dick Button becomes 1st US figure skating Olympic champion
1948 - Gretchen Fraser becomes 1st US woman Olympic slalom champion
1949 - Huaso sets official world equestrian high-jump record, 2.47 m, Chic
1953 - "Peter Pan" by Walt Disney opens at Roxy Theater, NYC
1953 - 5th Emmy Awards: I Love Lucy, Thomas Mitchell & Helen Hayes wins
1954 - WCDC TV channel 19 in Adams, MA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1956 - 7th Winter Olympic games close at Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy
1956 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Havana Golf Open
1956 - NY Mayor Robert Wagner & Bkln Boro Pres Frank Cashmore sponsor a bill to create a $30M
           Brooklyn Sports Center Authority to build
1957 - Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 2nd Piano Concert
1958 - Clifton R Wharton confirmed as 1st US black foreign minister (Romania)
1958 - Gamel Abdel Nasser nominated 1st president of United Arab Republic
1958 - Test Cricket debut of Lance Gibbs, WI v Pakistan, Port-of-Spain
1958 - Vanguard TV-3 back-up launches into Earth orbit; reaches 6 km
1959 - "Redhead" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 455 performances
1959 - Australia regain the Ashes with a 10 wicket victory at Adelaide
1962 - French President de Gaulle calls for Algeria's independence
1962 - Suit to bar Englewood NJ from "racial segregated" schools, filed
1962 - Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter & Saturn within 16 degrees
1963 - Maarten Schmidt discovers enormous red shifts in quasars
1963 - Soviet lunar probe failure
1965 - Beursschouwburg opens in Brussels
1966 - BBC opens a relay radio station on Ascension Island
1967 - "Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" premieres on CBS (later ABC, NBC)
1967 - Anastasio Somoza elected president of Nicaragua
1967 - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Robert Penn Warren
1968 - KDTV TV channel 39 in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX (IND) begins broadcasting
1968 - Skater Kees Verkerk wins olympic gold in the 1500m
1968 - Vietnam War: Battle of Khe Sanh begins.
1969 - "Turn-On," debuts & cancelled by ABC after flopping so badly
1969 - US population reaches 200 million
1969 - Vince Lombardi, becomes part owner, vp, gm & head coach of Redskins
1970 - 1st Test Cricket ton of Barry Richards, 126, 164 balls, 20 fours 1 six
1970 - Test Cricket debut of John Traicos, South Africa v Australia, Durban
1970 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1970 - WSCV TV channel 51 in Fort Lauderdale, FL (IND) suspends broadcasting
1971 - Apollo 14, 3rd US manned Moon expedition, lands near Fra Mauro Alan Shepard & Edward
           Mitchell (Apollo 14) walk on Moon for 4 hrs
1972 - "Another Puff" by Jerry Reed peaks at #65
1972 - Bob Douglas is 1st black elected to Basketball Hall of Fame
1972 - US airlines begin mandatory inspection of passengers & baggage
1973 - Comic strip "Hagar The Horrible" debuted
1973 - Funeral for LC William Nolde, last US soldier killed in Vietnam War
1973 - Juan Corona sentenced to 25 consecutive life terms for 25 murders
1974 - British mine strike
1974 - Mats Wermelin, Sweden, scores all points in 272-0 basketball win
1974 - Maximum speed on Autobahn reduced to 100 kph
1974 - Patty Hearst kidnapped
1974 - US Mariner 10 returns 1st close-up photos of Venus' cloud structure
1974 - John Murtha becomes the first Vietnam War veteran elected to the Congress of the United
           States.
1976 - Australia complete 5-1 series drubbing of West Indies
1976 - Last day of Test Cricket for Lance Gibbs & Ian Redpath
1977 - "CB Savage" by Rod Hart peaks at #67
1977 - "Dis-Gorilla (part 1)" by Rick Dees peaks at #56
1977 - "In The Mood" by Henhouse 5 Plus Too (Ray Stevens) peaks at #40
1977 - "Turn Loose On My Leg" by Jim Stafford peaks at #98
1977 - "Up Your Nose" by Gabriel Kaplan peaks at #91
1977 - General Mills Adventure Theater premieres on CBS radio
1977 - Sugar Ray Leonard beats Luis Vega in 6 rounds in his 1st pro fight
1977 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne
1977 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Charles Tickner
1978 - Fred Newman makes 88 consecutive basketball free throws blindfolded
1979 - Costliest single periodical ad, $3.2 million, Gulf + Western in Time
1979 - Sears Radio Theater premieres on CBS
1980 - 32nd NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 6-3 at Detroit
1980 - Egyptian parliament votes to end boycott of Israel
1981 - "Piaf" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 165 performances
1981 - Largest Jell-O made (9,246 gallons of watermelon-flavor) in Brisbane
1981 - Milt jury in NC convicts Robert Garwood of collaborating with enemy
1982 - Chin A Sen ends term as president of Suriname
1982 - DEA announces seizure of 3,192 tons of marijuana, 495 people
1982 - British airline Laker Airways collapses owing 270M pounds ($351M)
1982 - Suriname pres Chin A Sen resigns & flees to Neth
1983 - Former Nazi Gestapo official Klaus Barbie brought to trial
1984 - NZ beat England (82 & 93) by an innings in 3 days
1984 - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic
1986 - Corazon Aquino & Ferdinand Marcos appear on "Nightline"
1987 - Dow Jones avg closes above 2,200 for 1st time
1987 - Soyuz TM-2 launches
1988 - 1st prime-time wrestling match in 30 yrs-Andre beats Hulk Hogan
1988 - Arizona House of Reps vote to impeach Republican Gov Evan Mecham
1988 - Panamanian Gen Manuel Noriega indicted by US grand jury for drugs
1989 - Kareem Abdul-Jabar becomes 1st NBA player to score 38,000 points
1990 - Notre Dame becomes 1st team to sell its game to a major network (NBC)
1991 - A Michigan court bars Dr Jack Kevorkian from assisting in suicides
1991 - All American Bowl ends after 14 years
1991 - Big East Football conference forms
1991 - Joni Mitchel inducted into the Canadian Hall of Fame
1991 - LA King Dave Taylor becomes 29th NHler to score 1000 points
1991 - Howard Stern kisses NY Giant Leonard Marshall's ass over bet, Stern lost claiming the Giants
           would lose the Superbowl
1992 - Jury selection begins in the LA cops beating Rodney King case
1992 - Last day of Test Cricket cricket for Dilip Vengsarkar
1992 - Mike Whitney career-best 7-27 at WACA in Test Cricket win v India
1993 - Grenade explodes in Sarajevo, killing 63 & injuring 160
1993 - R James Woolsey, becomes 16th director of CIA
1994 - "Where On Earth Is Carmen San Diego," debuts on Fox TV
1994 - Medgar Evers' murderer Byron De La Beckwith sentenced to life, in Jackson Miss, 30 years
           after the crime
1995 - Japan's Shinshinto Party wins local elections
1995 - NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 41-13
1995 - Sandra Volker swims female European record 50m backstroke: 27.77
1997 - 3 Swiss banks create $70 million Holocaust fund
1997 - Brook Lee, Hawaii, crowned 46th Miss USA (en route to Miss Universe)
1998 - Alberto Acciarito convicted of harassing his ex-wife Ingrid Rossellini
1998 - Author Tom Clancy confirms he signed agreement to purchase Minnesota Vikings for slightly
           more than $200 million, an NFL franchise record
1998 - Nancy Kerrigan & Tonya Harding talk on FOX (Taped Dec 22nd)
2004 - Twenty-three Chinese people drown when a group of 35 cockle-pickers are trapped by rising
           tides in Morecambe Bay, England. Twenty-one bodies are recovered.
2004 - Rebels from the Revolutionary Artibonite Resistance Front capture the city of Gonaïves,
           starting the 2004 Haiti rebellion.
2008 - A major tornado outbreak across the Southern United States leaves at least 58 dead, the
           most since the May 31, 1985 outbreak that killed 88.
2009 - The United States Navy guided missile cruiser Port Royal runs aground off Oahu, Hawaii,
           damaging the ship as well as a coral reef.
2012 - Quarterback Eli Manning wins his second Superbowl Most Valuable Player Award after leading
           the New York Giants to a 21-17 victory over the New England Patriots in Superbowl XLVI

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 05, 2013, 07:05:09 AM

This Day in History for 5th February


Famous Weddings

2007 - "Rudo y Cursi" Mexican actor Diego Luna (28) weds actress and model Camila Sodi (21) in
            Mexico City

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 05, 2013, 07:11:44 AM

This Day in History for 5th February


Famous Birthdays

(http://i.historyorb.com/robert-peel.jpg)                  (http://i.historyorb.com/robert-hofstadter.jpg)                  (http://i.historyorb.com/hank-aaron.jpg)         
British Prime Minister                          Physicist Robert Hofstadter (1915)          Baseball Player Hank Aaron (1934)
Robert Peel (1788)


976 - Sanjō, Emperor of Japan (d. 1017)
1505 - Aegidius Tschudi, Swiss historian (d. 1572)
1519 - René of Châlon, (d. 1544)
1534 - Giovanni de' Bardi, Italian writer (d. 1612)
1589 - Honorat de Brueil seigneur de Racan, French playwright/poet
1589 - Esteban Manuel de Villegas, Spanish poet (d. 1669)
1608 - Gaspar Schott, German mathematician (d. 1666)
1626 - Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné, French author (d. 1696)
1662 - Giuseppi Vignola, composer
1703 - Gilbert Tennent, Irish-born religious leader (d. 1764)
1711 - Joseph Umstatt, composer
1723 - John Witherspoon, clergyman/signed Declaration of Independence
1725 - James Otis, American lawyer and patriot (d. 1783)
1732 - Nathanael Gottfried Gruner, composer
1744 - John Jeffries, colonial physician/meteorologist
1748 - Christian Gottlob Neefe, German composer/conductor/tutor of Beethoven
1753 - Coert L van Beyma thoe Kingma, Frisian regent/patriot
1770 - Alexandre Brongniart, Paris, mineralogist/geologist (Tertiary)
1775 - Margaretha J de Neufville, author (Small Pligten)
1784 - Nancy Hanks Lincoln, mother of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1818)
1788 - Karoly Kisfaludy, Hungarian literary (A Tat rok Magyarorsz gon)
1788 - Robert "Bobbie" Peel, British PM (1834-5; 41-46)/founder (British Conservative Party)/founder (Bobbies)
1795 - Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, Austrian mineralogist (d. 1871)
1799 - John Lindley, English botanist (Elements of Botany)
1804 - Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Finland, poet
1808 - Carl Spitzweg, German painter (d. 1885)
1810 - Ole Bull, Norwegian violinist (d. 1880)
1833 - John Watkinson, founder of British Chess Magazine (oldest chess mag)
1837 - Dwight Lyman Moody, US, evangelist (Student Volunteer Movement)
1840 - Hiram Stevens Maxim, inventor (automatic single-barrel rifle)
1840 - John Boyd Dunlop, Scotland, developer (pneumatic rubber tire)
1848 - Belle Starr [Myra Belle Shirley], US female outlaw (wild west)
1848 - Joris-Karl Huysmans, France, writer (Against the Grain)
1848 - Ignacio Carrera Pinto, Chilean war hero (d. 1882)
1856 - Otto Brahm, German critic/founder (Neue Deutsche Rundschau)
1862 - Felipe Villanueva y Gutierrez, Mexico, composer
1863 - Armand Parent, composer
1864 - Carl Tieke, composer
1865 - Harvey Worthington Loomis, composer
1866 - Arthur Keith, Scottish anthropologist
1866 - Henri [Hendrik J] Hall, Dutch MP/comic (Put a Lid on it)
1866 - Rossetter Gleason Cole, composer
1867 - Casper A Lingbeek, vicar/Dutch MP (HSP, 1925..37)
1868 - Lodewijk Mortelmans, composer
1871 - Jovan Ducic, Serb poet (Blue Legends)
1878 - André Citroën, French automobile pioneer (d. 1935)
1879 - Edward Rigby, England, actor (Star Look Down, Young & Innocent)
1881 - Frederick Leonard Lonsdale, British playwright (Balkan Princess)
1882 - Felice Lattuada, composer
1889 - Elias Henry "Patsy" Hendren, cricketer (prolific England bat of 20's)
1889 - Ernest Tyldesley, cricketer (1st Lancastrian to score 100 100's)
1889 - Ioan Dumitru Chirescu, composer
1891 - Elizabeth Ryan, Anaheim California, doubles tennis champ (6 time Wimbled)
1891 - Karl L Schmidt, German/Swiss theologist (Urchristentum)
1892 - George Saiko, writer
1893 - Roman Ingarden, Polish philosopher (Studia philosophica)
1897 - Dirk U Stikker, director (Heineken)/Dutch foreign minister/NATO
1900 - Adlai E Stevenson, (Gov-D-Ill), pres candidate (D) (1952, 1956)
1902 - Bronislaw Kaper, composer
1903 - Ivan Galamian, Tabriz Persia, violinist
1903 - Joan Whitney Payson, owner (NY Mets & horse stables)
1903 - Nathaniel Owings, Indianapolis, architect (Oak Ridge, TN; Sears)
1906 - John Carradine, Greenwich Village NY, actor (Grapes of Wrath, Howling)
1907 - Jan Klaasesz, Dutch governor Suriname (1949-56)
1907 - Norton Simon, business executive (Simon & Schuster)
1907 - Pierre E J Pflimlin, premier France
1908 - Daisy and Violet Hilton, British conjoined twins (d. 1969)
1909 - Grazyna Bacewicz, composer
1910 - Martha van Och-Scholl, German/Dutch resistance fighter (WW II)
1910 - Francisco Varallo, Argentine footballer
1910 - Charles Leblond, Canadian Cell Biologist (d. 2007)
1912 - Willard Parker, NYC, actor (Kiss Me Kate, What A Woman)
1912 - Zoltan Pongracz, composer
1913 - Rozelle Claxton, pianist/arranger
1914 - Alan Hodgkin, British physicist (Nobel 1963)
1914 - William S Burroughs, St Louis, novelist (Naked Lunch)
1915 - Robert Hofstadter, US atomic physicist
1918 - Charles J "Tim" Holt, US actor (Treasure of Sierra Madre)
1918 - Kara Abulfazogli Karayev, composer
1918 - Tim Holt, Beverly Hills CA, actor (Stagecoach, Hitler's Children)
1919 - Andrea George Papandreou, Greek premier (1981-89, 93- )
1919 - Red Buttons, [Aaron Chwatt], Bronx NYC, comedian/actor (Sayonara)
1920 - Frank Muir, British comedian (d. 1998)
1921 - John M Pritchard, London England, conductor
1922 - Bernard Kalb, spokesman (State Dept)/actor (Dave)
1922 - Alain de Changy, Belgian racing driver (d. 1994)
1923 - Stephen J Cannell, TV producer/writer
1923 - Claude King, American musician
1924 - Robert Lynn, anarchist
1926 - Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, NYC, publisher (NY Times)
1927 - Robert Brown, Herbrides Is, actor (Here Come the Brides, Primus)
1927 - Val Dufour, New Orleans LA, actor (Eugenie Grandet, Another World)
1927 - Ruth Fertel, American entrepreneur (d. 2002)
1928 - Andrew M Greeley, author/reverend
1928 - Pananayiotis Taki Vatikiotis, middle east scholar
1929 - Fred Sinowatz, Austrian politician
1929 - Al Worthington, baseball player
1932 - Cesare Maldini - Italian footballer and manager
1933 - Jorn Donner, Helsinki Finland, director (Anna, Tenderness)
1933 - Nick Georgiade, NYC, actor (Untouchables, Run Buddy Run)
1933 - Ron Wilson, US percussionist (Joy of Cooking)
1934 - Hank Aaron, baseball player (record 755 HRs, 1957 NL MVP)
1934 - Don Cherry, Canadian hockey commentator
1935 - Alex Harvey, rocker (Just Visiting This Planet)
1935 - John J "Jannie" Geldenhuys, supreme commander South African army
1937 - Cocky van Oost, [Kommertje van Vliet], Dutch dancer (Sylphides)
1937 - Gaston Roelants, Belgium, world cross-country champion
1937 - Stuart Damon, Bkln NY, actor (Alan Quartermaine-General Hospital)
1937 - Wang Xuan, Chinese scientist (d. 2006)
1938 - Dick van Niehoff, Dutch vocalist (Fouryo)
1939 - Brian Luckhurst, cricketer (England opener of 60's & early 70's)
1939 - Jane Bryant Quinn, newscaster/financial writer (Everyone's Money Book)
1940 - H R Giger, artist, special effects designer, (Alien)
1941 - Barrett Strong, Detroit, vocalist (Money, That's What I Want)
1941 - David Selby, Morganstown WV, actor (Falcon Crest, Flamingo Road)
1941 - Rick Laird, jazz musician (Gerry Niewood & Timepiece)
1941 - Stephen J Cannell, producer (Rockford Files)
1941 - Jane Bryant Quinn, American journalist
1941 - Kaspar Villiger, Swiss Federal Councilor
1942 - Cory Wells, Buffalo NY, rock vocalist (3 Dog Night-Joy to the World)
1942 - Roger Staubach, NFL quarterback (Dallas Cowboys)
1942 - Susan Hill, English playwright (Magic Apple Tree)
1943 - Charles Winfield, Penn, rocker (Blood Sweat & Tears-Spinning Wheel)
1943 - Craig Morton, Flint Mich, NFL quarterback (Dallas, Denver)
1943 - Ivan Alexandrovich Tcherepnin, composer
1943 - Larry Tamblyn, rock guitarist (Standells-Dirty Water)
1943 - Michael Mann, Chicago IL, actor/director (Sexpot, Close Friends)
1943 - Nolan Bushnell, founder (Atari)/creator (Pong)
1943 - Sven Johnson, rocker (Tangerine Dream
1944 - Al Kooper, rock keyboards/vocalist (Blood Sweat & Tears-When I Die)
1944 - Cory Wells, rocker
1944 - J R Cobb, Birmingham Ala, rocker (Atlanta Rhythm Section, Classic IV)
1946 - Charlotte Rampling, England, actress (Zardoz, Night Porter, Verdict)
1947 - Claude King, singer
1947 - David Ladd, LA California, actor (Raymie, Catlow, Misty, Deathline)
1947 - Mary Louise Cleave, Southampton NY, PhD/astronaut (STS 61-B, STS 30)
1947 - Darrell Waltrip, American race car driver
1948 - Barbara Hershey, [Herzstein], Atlanta, (Stuntman, Shy People)
1948 - Christopher Guest, NYC, actor (SNL, Heartbeeps, This is Spinal Tap)
1948 - David Denny, rock guitarist (Steve Miller Band-Abracadabra)
1948 - Elco [LC] Brinkman, Dutch minister WVC (CDA)
1948 - Nigel Tufnel, rocker (Spinal Tap)
1948 - Sven-Göran Eriksson, Swedish football manager
1949 - David Sullivan, English softporno/newspaper publisher (Sunday Sport)
1949 - Maidarjabyn Ganzorig, Mongolia, cosmonaut (Soyuz 39 backup)
1949 - Nigel Olsson, rock guitarist/drummer (Elton John Band)
1950 - Ann Sexton, US vocalist (You're Gone too Long)
1951 - Elizabeth Swados, Buffalo NY, composer/playwright (1972 TONY)
1952 - Daniel Balavoine, French singer and songwriter (d. 1986)
1953 - John Beilein, American basketball coach
1954 - Roseanne Katan, Jamacia, playmate (Sep, 1978)
1954 - Cliff Martinez, American musician
1955 - Debra Jo Fondren, Los Angeles Cal, playmate of year (September, 1977)
1955 - Mike Heath, baseball player
1956 - Hector Rebaque, Mexican racing driver
1956 - Betty Ong, flight attendant that died on September 11, 2001, on American Airlines Flight 11
1957 - Craig Wilson, Beeville TX, US water polo goalie (Olym-silver-84, 88)
1958 - Jennifer Jason Leigh, [Morrow], LA Cal, actress (Single White Female)
1959 - Glenn Dubis, Lincoln Neb, US 3x40 rifle (Olympics-1984, 88, 96)
1959 - Jennifer Granholm American Politician
1960 - Jane Geddes, Huntington NY, LPGA golfer (1987 Women's Kemper Open)
1960 - William John Readings, literary theorist
1960 - Aris Christofellis, Greek countertenor
1961 - Savvas Kofidis, Greek footballer and manager
1961 - Tim Meadows, American actor and comedian
1962 - Duff McKagan, [Michael], Seattle Wash, bassist (Guns & Roses)
1962 - Tommy Skeoch, rock vocalist (Tesla-Psychotic Supper)
1963 - Steven Shainberg, American film director
1964 - Jim Pugh, Burbank CA, tennis star
1964 - Alexia, Cypriot singer
1964 - Duff McKagan, American musician
1965 - Ben Lee, Rangoon Burma, US badminton player (Olympic-92)
1965 - James David McGovern, Teaneck NJ, PGA golfer (1993 Shell Houston Open)
1965 - Tarik Benhabiles, Algeria, tennis star
1965 - Gheorghe Hagi, Romanian footballer
1966 - Jose Maria Olazabal, golfer
1966 - Apostolos Nanos, Greek archer
1966 - Rok Petrovič, Slovenian skier (d. 1993)
1967 - Chris Parnell, American actor
1968 - Chris Barron, rocker (Spin Doctors)
1968 - Regina Rajchitova, Czech, tennis star
1968 - Roberto Alomar, Salinas Puerto Rico, infielder (Baltimore Orioles)
1968 - Will Furrer, NFL quarterback (Houston Oilers, St Louis Rams)
1968 - Nir Kabaretti, Israeli conductor
1968 - Eyþór Guðjónsson, Icelandic actor
1969 - Bobby Brown, Roxbury Ma, vocalist (Ghostbusters, Don't Be Cruel)
1969 - Michael Sheen, Welsh actor
1970 - Darren Lehmann, cricketer (SA & Vic LHB Australian ODI 1996)
1970 - Forey Duckett, NFL/WLAF cornerback/safety (Saints, Scot Claymores)
1971 - Dianne Norman, Sault Ste Marie Ontario, basketball forward (Oly-96)
1971 - Marcus Redman, actor (Raymond-Doogie Howser)
1971 - Peter "Chip" Cipollone, Ardmore Pa, rower (Olympics-1996)
1971 - Sara Evans, American singer
1972 - Chris Bailey, ice hockey defenseman (USA, Oly-98)
1972 - Erin Phillips, Mexico Missouri, Miss America-Missouri (1996)
1972 - Tony Johnson, tight end (New Orleans Saints)
1972 - Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark
1972 - Koriki Chōshū, Japanese comedian
1973 - Diego Serrano, Quito Ecuador, actor (Tomas Rivera-Another World)
1973 - Israel Raybon, defensive end (Carolina Panthers)
1973 - Laura Espinoza-Watson, Torrance CA, female infielder (Silver Bullets)
1973 - Richard Matvichuk, Ft Saskatchewan C, NHL defenseman (Dallas Stars)
1973 - Trijntje Oosterhuis, Dutch singer
1974 - Adrienne Johnson, WNBA guard (Cleveland Rockers)
1975 - Giovanni van Bronckhorst, Dutch soccer player (Feyenoord)
1975 - Jan l'Ami, Dutch soccer player (Willem II)
1975 - Adam Carson, American musician (AFI)
1976 - Nancy Feber, Antwerp Belgium, tennis star (1995 Puerto Rico)
1976 - Tony Jaa, Thai actor
1976 - Abhishek Bachchan, Indian actor
1976 - John Aloisi, Australian footballer
1976 - Brian Moorman, American football player
1977 - Ben Ainslie, British sailor
1977 - Adam Everett, American baseball player
1977 - Ahmad Merritt, American football player
1978 - Kristina Cherina, Miss Croatia Universe (1997)
1978 - Shawn Reaves, American actor
1978 - Brian Russell, American football player
1980 - Jo Swinson, British politician
1980 - Brad Fitzpatrick, American programmer
1980 - Prince Peter, American-born Yugoslav royalty
1981 - Loukas Vyntra, Greek football player
1981 - Nora Zehetner, American actress
1982 - Aidin Nikkhah Bahrami, Iranian basketball player (d. 2007)
1982 - Rodrigo Palacio, Argentine footballer
1982 - Tomas Kopecky, Ice hockey player
1982 - Kevin Everett, American football player
1984 - Carlos Tévez, Argentinine footballer
1984 - Nate Salley, American football player
1985 - Cristiano Ronaldo, Portuguese footballer
1985 - Laurence Maroney, American football player
1985 - Crystal Hunt, American actress
1985 - Lindsey Cardinale, American singer
1986 - Reed Sorenson, American racecar driver
1986 - Billy Sharp, English footballer
1986 - Manuel Fernandes, Portuguese footballer
1989 - Cristine Reyes, Filipino actress
1989 - Jeremy Sumpter, American actor

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 05, 2013, 07:13:16 AM

This Day in History for 5th February


Famous Deaths

995 - William IV, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 937)
1520 - Sten Sture the Younger, regent of Sweden (b. 1493)
1578 - Giovanni B Moroni, Italian portrait painter, dies
1591 - Gerard de Jode, Flemish publisher, dies
1658 - Maria Margaretha van Angels, Dutch prioress at Oirschot, dies at 52
1679 - Joost van den Vondel, Dutch poet (Gysbreght van Aemstel), dies at 91
1705 - Jean Gilles, composer, dies at 37
1705 - Philipp Jakob Spener, German theologian (b. 1635)
1721 - James Stanhope 1st earl of Stanhope, English general, dies at 47
1738 - Georg Reidel, composer, dies at 61
1745 - Coelestin Praelisauer, composer, dies at 49
1754 - Nicolaas S Cruquius, hydraulic engineer, (Haarlemmermeer), dies at 75
1758 - Bernhard Christian Weber, composer, dies at 45
1766 - Leopold Josef Graf Daun, Austrian field marshal (b. 1705)
1775 - Eusebius Amort, German Catholic theologian (b. 1692)
1790 - William Cullen, Scottish physician and chemist (b. 1710)
1807 - Pasquale Paoli, Corsican freedom fighter, dies at 80
1812 - Franz Schneider, composer, dies at 74
1822 - Ali Pasha of Janina, (Napoleon, Lord Byron), dies at about 77
1825 - Pierre Gaveaux, composer, dies at 64
1831 - John CJ van Speijk, commits suicide at 29
1838 - Philippe Libon, composer, dies at 62
1867 - Salomon Munk, published Arabic edition of Maimounides, dies
1881 - Thomas Carlyle, historian/essayist, dies in London at 85
1888 - Anton Mauve, Dutch painter/cousin of Vincent Van Gogh, dies at 49
1892 - Emilie Flygare-Carlén, Swedish novelist (b. 1807)
1897 - Hoss Radbourn, pitcher won 60 games in 1884, dies at 42
1907 - Ludwig Thuille, composer, dies at 45
1911 - Petrus A Cronjé, Transvaal Boer general, dies
1915 - Ross Barnes, baseball player (b. 1850)
1917 - Paul Rubens, composer, dies at 41
1917 - Jaber II Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1860)
1919 - Vasili V Rozanov, Russian philosopher/writer, dies at 62
1922 - James William Tate, composer, dies at 46
1922 - Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, Croatian inventor (b. 1871)
1924 - Alexis Hollander, composer, dies at 83
1926 - Andre Gedalge, composer, dies at 69
1927 - Inayat Khan, Indian sufi
1929 - Siegfried Ochs, composer, dies at 70
1937 - Lou [Andreas-]Salome, Russian/German author (Eroticism), dies at 75
1938 - Hans Litten, German jurist (b. 1903)
1941 - Banjo Paterson, Australian poet, author of "Walzing Matilda" (b. 1864)
1943 - Wim Gertenbach, Dutch resistance fighter (Slogan), shot by Nazis
1944 - Robert E Park, sociologist (human ecology, marginal man), dies at 79
1946 - George Arliss, actor/writer (Dr Syn, Voltaire), dies at 77
1947 - Ganzefles, Dutch nazi spy/Jews hunter, executed
1947 - Hans Fallada, writer, dies at 53
1948 - Johann Blaskowitz, German gen (surrendered at Wageningen), dies at 64
1949 - Juozas Tallat-Kelpsa, composer, dies at 50
1952 - Reginald Allen, cricketer (uncle of Gubby, Test Aust v Eng 1887), dies
1954 - Vittorio Gnecchi, composer, dies at 77
1956 - Savilly Tartakower, Austrian/Polish/French chess player, dies at 74
1957 - Sami Ibrahim Haddad, Lebanese surgeon (b. 1890)
1958 - Henry M Tomlinson, British writer (Under red ensign), dies at 84
1959 - Gwili Andre, actress (No Other Woman, Roar of the Dragon), dies
1960 - Louis Stricker, cricketer (S Afr open bat in 13 Tests 1909-12), dies
1960 - Rudolf Nelson, composer, dies at 81
1961 - Anthony G de Rothschild, British philanthropist, dies at 73
1962 - Jacques Ibert, French composer (Escales), dies at 71
1965 - Irving Bacon, actor (Fort Ti, Petticoat Fever), dies at 71
1967 - Herman Teirlinck, Belgian writer (Jokaste against God), dies at 87
1967 - Leon Leonwood Bean, American department store founder (b. 1872)
1968 - Luckey Roberts, composer, dies at 80
1969 - Thelma Ritter, actress (Miracle on 34th Street), dies at 63
1970 - Rudy York, American baseball player (b. 1913)
1971 - Mátyás Rákosi, Hungarian premier (1952..56), dies at 78
1972 - Marianne Moore, US poetess (Pulitzer 1951), dies at 84
1973 - George Morrison, dies at 82
1973 - L C William Nolde, last US soldier killed in Vietnam, funeral
1976 - Roger Livesey, actor (Drum, Vice Versa, Col Blimp), dies at 69
1976 - Rudy Pompilli, American musician (Bill Haley and His Comets) (b. 1926)
1977 - Izaak Boleslavski, Russian chess player, dies at 67
1977 - Oskar Klein, Swedish physicist (b. 1894)
1978 - Annie [Anna HM] Romein-Verschoor, Dutch historian (Omzien), dies at 83
1978 - Frans van Immerseel, Belgian graphic artist, dies at 68
1979 - Eddie Paynter, cricketer (20 Tests for England, avg 59.23), dies
1981 - Barend Barendse, Dutch sportscaster, dies at 73
1981 - Kuda Bux, Indian mystic (I'd Like to See), dies at 75
1981 - Ella Grasso, Governor of Connecticut (b. 1919)
1982 - Dolores Moran, actress (Yankee Doodle Dandy), dies at 56
1982 - Neil Aggett, South African worker's union leader, commits suicide
1982 - Wies [Aloisius CA] Moens, Flemish writer/nazi, dies at 84
1983 - Derk Roemers, Dutch union leader/politician (soc dem), dies at 67
1985 - Georges-Émile Lapalme, Quebec politician (b. 1907)
1989 - Joe Raposa, composer/songwriter (Sesame Street), dies at 51
1991 - Dean Jagger, US actor (Mr Novak, Rawhide, Oscar), dies at about 87
1991 - Pedro Arrupe, Spanish priest/Jesuit, dies at 83
1992 - Donald Zimmerman, editor, dies
1992 - Laura Liddell, actress (Shakespeare Wallah), dies at 83
1992 - Miguel Rolando Covian, Brazilian physiologist (b. 1913)
1993 - Jack Young, cricketer (8 Tests for England 1947-49, 17 wickets), dies
1993 - Joseph L Mankiewicz, US writer/director (All about Eve), dies at 83
1993 - Tip Tipping, [Tim], stuntman, dies in sky-diving accident at 34
1993 - Marcel Léger, Quebec politician (b. 1930)
1994 - Fred de Bruyne, Flemish cyclist/gang leader (Paris-Nice), dies at 63
1994 - Hermann Abs, German banker to Hitler & Adenauer, dies at 92
1994 - Kenneth "Buddy" Scott, blues guitarist/Singer, dies at 59
1995 - Courtenay E Benson, broadcaster, dies at 79
1995 - Doug Mcclure, US rodeo rider/actor (Trampas-Virginian), dies at 59
1995 - Frederick Craig Riddle, violist, dies at 82
1995 - Judith Fluks, Amsterdam's activist, dies
1995 - Kimberley Leston, journalist, dies at 35
1996 - Antonio Ruiz Soler, spanish dancer, dies at 74
1996 - Gianandrea Gavazzeni, conductor, dies at 86
1996 - Peter Pooley, broadcaster, dies at 84
1996 - W R Lee, language teacher, dies at 84
1997 - John Richard Patterson, businessman, dies at 51
1997 - Pamela Harriman, US Ambassador (to France), dies of stroke at 76
1998 - Tim Kelly, American musician dies at 34
1999 - Wassily Leontief, Russian economist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1906)
2000 - Claude Autant-Lara, French film director (b. 1901)
2003 - Helge Boes, American Central Intelligence Agency officer
2004 - John Hench, American animator (b. 1908)
2005 - Gnassingbe Eyadema, President of Togo (b. 1937)
2006 - Norma Candal, Puerto Rican actress and comedian (b. 1930)
2006 - Franklin Cover, American actor (b. 1928)
2007 - Alfred Worm, Austrian investigative journalist (b. 1945)
2007 - Leo T. McCarthy, American politician and 43rd Lieutenant Governor of California (1983-1995)
           (b. 1930)
2008 - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Indian guru, founder of Transcendental Meditation (b. ca. 1917)
2010 - Harry Schwarz, South African lawyer, politician and diplomat, leader of the anti-apartheid
            movement (b. 1924).
2011 - Brian Jacques, English author, author of the Redwall series (b. 1939)
2012 - Sam Coppola, American actor, dies at 79

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 06, 2013, 07:15:19 AM

This Day in History for 6th February


Historical Events

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Naturalist Charles Darwin                    Confederate General Robert E Lee                Comedian Charlie Chaplin

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Singer/Actor Frank Sinatra                          Queen Elizabeth II

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Heavyweight Boxing Champ                   Baseball Player Darryl Strawberry
Muhammad Ali 


337 - St Julius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1189 - Riots of Lynn in Norfolk spread to Norwich England
1508 - Maximilian I crowned Holy Roman Emperor
1577 - King Henri de Bourbon of Navarra becomes leader of Huguenots
1626 - Huguenot rebels & French sign Peace of La Rochelle
1651 - -7] Cardinal Mazarin flees Paris
1685 - James II of England and VII of Scotland becomes King upon the death of his brother Charles
           II.
1693 - Royal charter granted College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Va
1716 - England & Netherlands renew alliance
1778 - England declares war on France
1778 - France recognizes US, signs treaty of aid in Paris; 1st US treaty
1788 - Mass becomes 6th state to ratify constitution
1815 - NJ issues 1st US railroad charter (John Stevens)
1819 - Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founds freeport harbor Singapore
1820 - 1st organized emigration of blacks back to Africa (NY to Sierra Leone)
1820 - US population announced at 9,638,453 (1,771,656 blacks (18.4%))
1820 - The first 86 African American immigrants sponsored by the American Colonization Society
           started a settlement in present-day Liberia.
1832 - 1st appearance of cholera at Edinburgh, Scotland
1832 - US ship destroys Sumatran village in retaliation for piracy
1836 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reach Diemen's Land (Tasmania)
1840 - Waitangi Day; treaty signed between Britain & Maoris of NZ
1843 - The first minstrel show in the United States The Virginia Minstrels opens (Bowery
           Amphitheatre in New York City).
1851 - Robert Schumann's 3rd Symphony "Rhenisch," premieres in Dusseldorf
1854 - Composer R Schumann is saved from suicide attempt into the Rhine
1861 - 1st meeting of Provisional Congress of Confederate States of America
1861 - English Vice-Admiral Robert Fitzroy issues 1st storm warnings for ships
1862 - Gen Ulysses S. Grant captures Fort Henry in Tennessee
1862 - Naval Engagement at Tenn River-USS Conestago vs CSS Appleton Belle
1862 - Ulysses S. Grant begins military campaign in Mississippi
1864 - -7] Skirmish at Barnett's Ford Virginia
1865 - 2nd day of battle at Dabney's Mills (Hatcher's Run)
1865 - Robert E Lee appointed Confederate General in Chief
1867 - Peabody Fund forms to promote Black education in South
1869 - Harper's Weekly publishes 1st picture of Uncle Sam with chin whiskers
1891 - 1st great train robbery by Dalton Gang (Southern Pacific #17)
1899 - Spanish-American War ends, peace treaty ratified by Senate
1900 - Battle at Vaalkrans, South-Africa (Boers vs British army)
1902 - Young Women's Hebrew Association organizes in NYC
1904 - Russian-Japanese war began
1911 - 1st old-age home opened in Prescott, Ariz
1911 - Great fire destroys downtown Constantinople/Istanbul Turkey
1918 - Britain grants women (30 & over) vote
1919 - 1st day of 5-day Seattle general strike
1920 - Saarland administrated by League of Nations
1921 - "The Kid," starring Charlie Chaplin & Jackie Coogan, released
1922 - Cardinal Achille Ratti elected Pope Pius XI
1922 - US, UK, France, Italy & Japan sign Washington naval arms limitation
1926 - NFL rules college students ineligible until college classes graduates
1926 - St Louis Browns acquire catcher Wally Schang from NY Yankees
1929 - Rudy Vallee recorded "Deep Night"
1932 - 1st Olympic dog sled race, Lake Placid, NY (demonstration sport)
1932 - Fascist coup in the Memel territory
1933 - -90°F (-68°C), Oymyakon, USSR (Asian record)
1933 - 112' ocean wave observed near Manila
1933 - 20th Amendment goes into effect: Pres term begins in Jan not March
1933 - 20th amendment (terms of office) passed
1933 - Highest recorded sea wave (not tsunami), 34 m, in Pacific hurricane
1933 - Pres von Hindenburg & von Papen end Prussian parliament
1934 - Reds purchase 43-year-old Dazzy Vance from the Cards for $7,500
1934 - Far right leagues rally in front of the Palais Bourbon in an attempted coup against the French
           Third Republic, creating a political crisis in France.
1935 - "Monopoly" board game goes on sale for 1st time
1935 - 1st election to allow women to vote in Turkey
1936 - 4th Winter Olympic games open in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
1936 - Pravda criticizes Shostakovitch' ballet "Clear Brook"
1937 - K Elizabeth Ohi becomes 1st Japanese-US female lawyer
1939 - Spanish government flees to France
1941 - Auke Adema wins 6th official Dutch 11 Cities Skating Race (9:19)
1941 - Battle of Beda Fomm: Italian 10th army destroyed
1941 - British troops conquer Bengazi, Libya
1943 - 1st Spitfire in action above Darwin, Australia, Mu Ki-46 shot down
1943 - Singer Frank Sinatra debuts on radio's "Your Hit Parade"
1945 - 8th Air Force bombs Magdeburg/Chemnitz
1945 - Russian Red Army crosses the river Oder
1946 - "Lute Song" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 142 performances
1947 - Compton & Arthur Morris both complete dual tons in same Test Cricket
1948 - 1st radio-controlled airplane flown
1948 - Bradman retires hurt, 57 in his last Test Cricket innings in Australia
1948 - KNXT (now KCBS) TV channel 2 in Los Angeles, CA (CBS) 1st broadcast
1951 - "Broker Special" train crashes in Woodbridge NJ, killing 84
1951 - Radio commentator Paul Harvey arrested for trying to sneak into
1951 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site Argonne Atomic Lab (Ill), to demonstrate lax in
           security
1952 - England replaces King George VI stamp series with Queen Elizabeth II
1953 - Ian Craig makes Test Cricket debut at 17 yrs 239 days, youngest Aussie
1953 - US controls on wages & some consumer goods were lifted
1956 - Chicago's Daily Defender, begins publishing
1956 - French premier Guy Mollet pelted with tomatoes in Algiers
1956 - U of Alabama refuses admission to Autherine Lucy (because he's black)
1958 - Ted Williams signs with Red Sox for $135,000, making him highest paid
1959 - 1st successful test-fire of Titan ICBM
1959 - Fidel Castro is interviewed by Edward R Murrow
1961 - "Jail, No Bail" Jail-in movement starts in Rock Hill SC
1961 - KOAP TV channel 10 in Portland, OR (PBS) begins broadcasting
1962 - Schoolman Athletic Field in the Bronx named
1964 - "Rugantino" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 28 performances
1964 - France & Great-Britain sign accord over building channel tunnel
1964 - WCIU TV channel 26 in Chicago, IL (IND) begins broadcasting
1965 - "Kelly" opens & closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC
1965 - Righteous Brothers "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" hits #1
1967 - Cultural Revolution in Albania
1967 - Muhammad Ali TKOs Ernie Terrell in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1968 - 10th Winter Olympic games opens in Grenoble, France
1968 - Dutch 2nd Chamber condemns US bombing of North Vietnam
1968 - Former Pres Dwight Eisenhower shot a hole-in-one
1968 - KESD TV channel 8 in Brookings, SD (PBS) begins broadcasting
1969 - "Dear World" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 132 performances
1969 - Jerry Herman's "Dear World," premieres in NYC
1970 - Graeme Pollock completes 274 v Australia at Durban
1970 - NBA expands to 18 teams with Buffalo, Cleveland, Houston & Portland
1971 - 1st time a golf ball is hit on Moon (by Alan Shepard)
1973 - "Shelter" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 31 performances
1973 - 40,000 civil servants demonstrate against higher pension contribution
1973 - 6th ABA All-Star Game: West 123 beats East 111 at Utah
1973 - Bernice Fekete skips her curling rink to 2nd straight 8-ender, Edm
1974 - 3rd time Rangers shut-out Islanders 6-0
1974 - Dutch speed limit set at 100km due to oil crisis
1974 - US House of Reps begins determining grounds for impeachment of Nixon
1975 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1976 - George Harrison releases "This Guitar (Can't Keep From Crying)"
1977 - 4th time Rangers shut-out Islanders 4-0
1977 - Alain Prieur jumps his motorcycle 65 m over 16 buses, near Paris
1977 - Harley Race beats Terry Funk in Toronto, to become NWA wrestling champ
1978 - Muriel, wife of late Hubert Humphrey (Sen-D-Minn) takes his office
1978 - Snowstorm hits New England, parts of RI (54" (137cm))
1979 - Supreme court of Lahore affirms death sentence against premier Bhutto
1981 - "Brady Brides," debuts on NBC TV
1981 - Beatles McCartney, Starr & Harrison record a tribute to John Lennon
1981 - Suleiman Nyambui runs world record 5k indoor (13:20.4)
1982 - "Centerfold" by J Geils Band hit #1 on pop chart
1983 - 13th NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 20-19
1983 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic
1984 - Moslem militiamen take over West Beirut from Lebanese army
1986 - NJ Devil Peter McNab becomes 42nd NHLer to score 350 goals
1987 - No-smoking rules take effect in federal buildings
1987 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Jill Trenary
1988 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1989 - Lech Walesa begins negotiating with Polish government
1990 - Brett Hull becomes 1st son of NHL 50 goal scorer (Bobby) to score 50
1990 - Ground breaking begins on Baltimore Orioles' new $102 million stadium
1990 - Steve Briers of Wales recited the entire lyrics of Queen's album "A Night At The Opera" in 9
           minutes & 58.44 seconds backwards!
1991 - Mousey Davis becomes 1st coach of NY-NJ Knights
1992 - "Late Night's 10th Anniversary Show At Radio City Music Hall" on NBC
1992 - The Saami people of the Nordic countries have an official day celebrating their existence.
1993 - 44th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 16-6 at Montreal
1993 - Riddick Bowe TKOs Michael Dokes in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
1994 - "Government Inspector" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 37 perfs
1994 - Dawn Coe-Jones wins LPGA Healthsouth Palm Beach Golf Classic
1994 - Jose Maria Figueres elected president of Costa Rica
1994 - Leonid Voloshin triple jumps world record 17.77m
1994 - Martti Ahtisaari elected president of Finland
1994 - NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 17-3
1995 - Beachboy Brian Wilson wed Melinda Ledbetter
1995 - Darryl Strawberry suspended from baseball for 60 days
1995 - Greg Blewett scores his 2nd century in his 2nd Test Cricket
1996 - Heidi Fleiss scheduled to begin her 7 year jail sentence
1997 - Diane Blood, 32, in England, won right to use her dead husbands sperm
1998 - Twins trade Chuck Knoblauch to NY Yankees for $3M & 4 minor leaguers
1998 - Mary Kay LeTourneau, 36, former teacher, who violated probation by seeing 14 year old
           father of her baby, sentenced to 7 years
1998 - In Corsica, the prefect Claude Erignac is assassinated in Ajaccio, presumably by Yvan
           Colonna.
1998 - Washington National Airport is renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport.
2005 - Super Bowl XXXIX, the New England Patriots win 24-21 over the Philadelphia Eagles
2012 - 6.9 magnitude quake hits near the central Philipines with 43 confirmed deaths
2012 - Queen Elizabeth II marks her 60th anniversary of becoming Britain's Monarch becoming only
           the second to do so

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 06, 2013, 07:16:49 AM

This Day in History for 6th February


Famous Weddings

1995 - "The Beach Boys" leader and chief songwriter Brian Wilson (52) weds former model Melinda
            Ledbetter (47) at Palos Verdes in Peninsula, California
2009 - "The L Word" actress Sarah Shahi (29) weds actor Steve Howey (31) in Las Vegas, Nevada

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 06, 2013, 07:18:19 AM

This Day in History for 6th February


Famous Divorces

2007 - "Married ... With Children" actor David Faustino (32) divorces actress Andrea Elmer Faustino
            (31) due to irreconcilable differences after 3 years of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 06, 2013, 07:24:59 AM

This Day in History for 6th February


Famous Birthdays

(http://i.historyorb.com/babe-ruth.jpg)                  (http://i.historyorb.com/ronald-reagan.jpg)                  (http://i.historyorb.com/bob-marley.jpg)         
Baseball Great Babe Ruth (1895)                  US President & Actor                      Reggae Musician Bob Marley (1945)
                                                                   Ronald Reagan (1911)


1461 - Dzore Drzic, Croatian poet
1564 - Christopher Marlowe, English poet/dramatist (Dr Faustus)
1577 - Beatrice Cenci, Italian noblewoman (d. 1599)
1608 - Antonio Vieira, Portuguese Jesuit preacher
1611 - Chongzhen Emperor, Emperor of China (d. 1644)
1612 - Antoine Arnauld, [Grand Arnauld], French lawyer/theologist
1637 - Toyotomi Hideyoshi, unified Japan
1639 - Daniel Georg Morhof, German writer and scholar (d. 1691)
1665 - Anne Stuart, Queen of England (1702-14)
1673 - Maximilian Dietrich Freisslich, composer
1695 - Andre Cheron, composer
1695 - Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d. 1726)
1705 - Johann Matthias Leffloth, composer
1732 - Charles Lee, General in the American Revolution (d. 1782)
1744 - Pierre-Joseph Desault, French anatomist and surgeon (d. 1795)
1748 - Adam Weishaupt, founder of the Bavarian Illuminati (d. 1811)
1753 - Evariste Desire Desforges chevalier de Parny, French poet
1756 - Aaron Burr, Newark NJ, (D-R), 3rd US VP (1801-05), dueler
1757 - Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz, Polish scholar and statesman. (d. 1841)
1778 - Ugo Foscolo, Italy, poet (Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis)
1793 - Pietro Rovelli, composer
1797 - Joseph Maria von Radowitz, Prussian minister of Foreign affairs
1802 - Charles Wheatstone, English physicist/musician [or Feb 7]
1804 - Ragnerus L van Andringa de Kempenaer, Dutch officer/swindler
1807 - Hans Matthison-Hansen, composer
1811 - Henry George Liddell, father of the Alice in Alice in Wonderland (d. 1898)
1818 - William Maxwell Evarts, (Union), died in 1901
1830 - Marcellus Monroe Crocker, Brig gen (Union volunteers), died in 1865)
1832 - John Brown Gordon, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1904
1833 - James Ewell Brown "JEB" Stuart, Major General (Confederate Army)
1833 - José María de Pereda, Spanish novelist (d. 1906)
1834 - William Dorsey Pender, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1863
1834 - Ema Puksec, Croatian singer (d. 1889)
1838 - Henry Irving, [John H Brodribb], Engld, knighted 1895/actor (Hamlet)
1838 - Yisrael Meir Kagan, Chofetz Chayim (d. 1933)
1848 - Luigi Mancinelli, composer
1853 - Ignacij Klemenčič, Slovenian physicist (d. 1901)
1860 - Johan [Eliza J] de Meester, Dutch journalist/writer (Geertje)
1864 - John Henry Mackay, Scottish/German author/poet (Anarchists)
1866 - Karl T Sapper, German geography/geologist (Vulkankunde)
1872 - Theodor Lessing, writer [or Feb 8]
1874 - Milton Bennett Medary, US, architect (Washington Chapel)
1875 - Leonid Gobyato, Russian general (d. 1915)
1876 - Wilhelm Schmidtbonn[-Schmidt], German playwright (Der Sprechende Eros)
1878 - Waclaw Gieburowski, composer
1879 - Carl Ramsauer
1881 - Karl Weigl, composer
1887 - Josef Frings, German Archbishop of Cologne (d. 1978)
1888 - Ljudmil Stojanow, Bulgarian poet (Metsh i Slowo, Cholera)
1889 - Karel Wellens, Flemish painter
1889 - Siegfried Kracauer, writer
1892 - William Parry Murphy, American physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1987)
1893 - Muhammad Zafrulla Khan, pres of UN General Assembly (1962-63)
1894 - Eric Partridge, New Zealand lexicographer (d. 1979)
1895 - George Herman (Babe) Ruth, Baltimore, Maryland, baseball great (NY Yankees)
1897 - Alberto [de Almeida] Cavalcanti, Brazil, director (Nicholas Nickleby)
1897 - Louis Buchalter, Jewish American mobster (d. 1944)
1899 - Ramon Novarro, [Jose RG Samaniegos], Durango Mexico, actor (Ben Hur)
1900 - Roy Smeck, guitarist/banjoist
1900 - Rudolf Vornlund, Swedish playwright (Heliga Familjen)
1901 - Ben Lyon, Atlanta GA, actor (I Cover the Waterfront, Night Nurse)
1902 - Louis Nizer, lawyer (defended blacklisted stars in '50s, Catspaw)
1902 - George Brunies, American musician (d. 1974)
1903 - John Dunning, cricketer (NZ medium-fast bowler of 30's)
1903 - Pieter G Buckinx, Flemish writer (Temptation of Poverty)
1904 - Claudio Arrau, Chile, composer/pianist (Boston Symphony Orchestra)
1905 - Władysław Gomułka, Polish leader (d. 1982)
1907 - Sam Green, industrialist/inventor
1908 - Amintore Fanfani, premier of Italy
1908 - Edward Lansdale, general/model (Quiet American, Ugly American)
1908 - Thomas Dorrington Tomlinson, national Park Warden
1909 - Israel Citkowitz, composer
1910 - George H Poyser, English soccer player/manager (Brentford)
1910 - Irmgard Keun, German author (d. 1982)
1910 - Carlos Marcello, Tunisian-born gangster (d. 1993)
1911 - A W "Dooley" Briscoe, cricketer (batted in 2 Tests for South Africa 30's)
1911 - Ronald Reagan, IL, actor (Bedtime for Bonzo)/40th pres (R) (1981-89)
1912 - Eva Braun, mistress (Adolph Hitler)
1913 - John Lund, Rochester NY, actor (Wackiest Ship in the Army)
1913 - Mary Nicol Leakey, palaeontologist
1914 - Thurl Ravenscroft, American voice actor (d. 2005)
1915 - Derk Roemers, Dutch politician (Soc-Dem)
1916 - Bill Doggett, rocker
1916 - John Crank, British mathematician (d. 2006)
1917 - Zsa Zsa Gabor, [Zsa Sari], Budapest, actress (Queen of Outer Space)
1917 - Arthur Gold, Toronto, Canada, pianist
1917 - Liberato Firmino Sifonia, composer
1918 - Lothar-Günther Buchheim, German author (d. 2007)
1919 - Lindsay Tuckett, cricketer (son of Len, 9 Tests for South Africa 1947-49)
1919 - Louis Heren, journalist/writer (China's Three Thousand Years)
1920 - James H Scheuer, (Rep-D-NY, 1965-73, 75- )
1921 - Bob Scott [Robert], Wellington, NZ, Ruby player (All Black, 1946-54), (d. 2012)
1922 - Patrick MacNee, London England, actor (Jonathan Steed-Avengers)
1922 - Denis Norden, British television personality
1923 - Maurice Le Roux, composer
1924 - Billy Wright, English soccer player
1924 - Paolo Volponi, Italian communist/author (Road to Rome)
1924 - Jin yong, Chinese novelist
1926 - Haskell Wexler, American cinematographer
1926 - Walker Edmiston, American actor (d. 2007)
1927 - Smokey Burgess, baseball catcher (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1929 - Sixten Jernberg, Sweden, skier (Olympic-gold-1956/60/64), (d. 2012)
1929 - Pierre Brice, French actor
1929 - Oscar Sambrano Urdaneta, Venezuelan writer
1931 - Fred Trueman, [Fiery Fred], English cricket player
1931 - Freddie Trueman, cricketer ("Fiery Fred", 307 wickets for England)
1931 - Rip Torn, Tx, actor (Coma, Summer Rental, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)
1931 - Mamie Van Doren, American actress
1932 - Francois Truffaut, Paris, director (Jules & Jim, Fahrenheit 451)
1932 - Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban revolutionary (d. 1959)
1933 - Leslie Crowther, English TV-comic/quizmaster
1933 - Mamie Van Doren, Rowena SD, actress (Navy vs Night Monsters) [or 2/2]
1933 - Walter E Fauntroy, (Rep-D-DC, 1971- )
1934 - Bernard Erhard, American voice actor (d. 2000)
1936 - Otis Williams, rocker (Charms)
1936 - J. Howard Marshall III, American businessman
1937 - Baldev Singh Chahal, campaigner
1938 - Ellsworth Milburn, composer
1939 - Mike Farrell, St Paul Minn, actor (BJ Honeycutt-M*A*S*H, Battered)
1940 - Jimmy Tarbuck, English comic/golfer
1940 - Tom Brokaw, Yankton SD, news anchor (NBC Nightly News 1982- )
1941 - Gigi Perreau, LA California, actress (Journey to Center of Time)
1941 - Stephen Albert, composer
1942 - John London, bassist (Michael Nesmith band)
1942 - Sarah Brady, American gun-control activist
1942 - James Loewen, American sociologist and historian
1943 - Fabian Forte, Phila Pa, vocalist (Turn Me Loose, Tiger)
1943 - Gayle Hunnicutt, Fort Worth Tx, actress (Legend of Hell House, Dallas)
1943 - Fabian, American singer
1944 - Michael Tucker, Balt MD, actor (Stuart Markowitz-LA Law)
1944 - Christine Boutin, French politician
1945 - Bob Marley, Jamacian reggae musician and singer-songwriter (Whalers-No Woman)
1946 - Jim Turner, American politician
1946 - Kate McGarrigle, Canadian singer and songwriter
1947 - Charles Hickcox, US, 200m/400m medley swimmer (Olympic-3 gold-1968)
1949 - Frank Rich, US politician (?)
1949 - Manuel Orantes, tennis champ (US Open-1975)
1949 - Richie Zisk, baseball player
1950 - Mike Batt, composer/arranger
1950 - Natalie Cole, LA California, vocalist (Pink Cadillac, Miss You Like Crazy)
1950 - Punky Meadows, Washington DC, rock guitarist (Angel)
1950 - Rich Glover, NFLer
1951 - Maria Christina, Belgian princess/daughter of Leopold III
1951 - Marco Antônio, Brazilian footballer
1951 - Margo, Irish singer
1951 - Jacques Villeret, French film actor (d. 2005)
1952 - Richard Charsworth, Australian women field hockey head coach (Oly-96)
1952 - Ricardo Lavolpe, Argentine football coach
1953 - Susie Hutchison, Flintridge California, equestrian show jumper (Olymp-96)
1954 - Scott Kempner, "Top Ten" rocker (Del Lords)
1955 - Eric Money, NBAer
1956 - Jon Walmsley, Lancashire England, actor (Jason-Waltons)
1956 - Linda Grovenor, Baltimore MD, actress (Die Laughing, Wheels of Fire)
1957 - Jerry Marotta, rocker (Orleans-Love Takes Time)
1957 - Kathy Najimy, actress (Sister Act, Veronica's Closet)
1957 - Robert Townsend, Chicago, comedian/actor (Hollywood Shuffle, Ratboy)
1957 - Simon Phillips. Drummer of Toto (band)
1958 - Barry Miller, LA California, actor (Fame, Peggy Sue Got Married)
1958 - Bill Dawley, baseball player
1958 - Cecily Adams, Queens NY, entertainment caster (American Heart)
1958 - Kelly Leadbetter, Phoenix AZ, LPGA golfer (1986 Hennessy French Open)
1958 - Mark Hamilton, Louisville KY, sprint kayak Olympics-96)
1958 - Simon Baker, Australian speed walker, (Olympics-84, 88, 96)
1959 - Ken Nelson, English record producer
1960 - Megan Gallagher, Reading PA, actress (Slap Maxwell, Millennium)
1961 - Yuri Ivanovich Onufriyenko, Russian major/cosmonaut (Mir, Soyuz TM-23)
1961 - Bill Lester, American racecar driver
1962 - Axl Rose, [William Bailey], Lafayette In, vocalist (Guns & Roses)
1963 - David Capel, cricketer (England all-rounder in 15 Tests 1987-90)
1963 - Mike Hough, Montreal, NHL left wing (Florida Panthers)
1963 - Kevin Trudeau, American entrepreneur
1964 - Matt Hayes, Australian soling yachter (Olympics-96)
1964 - Skip Ewing, Redlands California, country vocalist (Coast of Colorado)
1966 - Alex Antonitsch, Austria, tennis star
1966 - Rick Astley, rock vocalist (Never Gonna Give You Up)
1966 - Tom Tupa, NFL punter/quarterback (Cleveland Browns, NE Patriots)
1967 - Bennie Dekker, Dutch soccer player (NEC/AZ/De Graafschap)
1967 - Mike Evans, WLAF defensive tackle (Amsterdam Admirals)
1967 - Randy Hilliard, NFL defensive back (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1967 - Anita Cochran, American singer
1967 - Izumi Sakai, Japanese singer (Zard) (d. 2007)
1968 - Imtiaz Abbasi, UAE cricket wicket-keeper (World Cup 1996)
1968 - Malika Mahfoud, Copenhagen Denmark, golfer (Gippsland Ladies Amateur)
1968 - Richard Newbill, WLAF linebacker (London Monarchs)
1968 - Adolfo Valencia, Colombian footballer
1968 - Akira Yamaoka, Japanese composer
1969 - Anna Acker-Macosko, Marshfield WI, LPGA golfer (1995 Gold Coast Tour)
1969 - April Lerman, Chicago Ill, actress (Lila-Charles in Charge)
1969 - Bob Wickman, Green Bay WI, pitcher (Chic White Sox, NY Yankees)
1969 - Greg Patrick, WLAF safety (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1969 - James Jones, NFL defensive tackle (Denver Broncos, Baltimore Ravens)
1969 - Kurt Abbott, US baseball player (Florida Marlins)
1969 - Rajindra Dhanraj, Trinidad cricket leg-spinner (WI 1994-95)
1969 - David Hayter, American Voice of Solid Snake
1970 - Jeff Rouse, US, 50m/100m backstroke swimmer (Olymp-gold/silver-92, 96)
1970 - Mark Hutton, Adelaide Australia, pitcher (NY Yankees)
1970 - Per Frandsen, Danish footballer
1971 - Brad Hogg, cricketer (WA chinaman all-rounder, Australia v India 1996)
1971 - Carlos Rogers, NBA forward/center (Toronto Raptors)
1971 - Lance Bade, Vancouver BC, US double trap (Olympics-bronze-1996)
1971 - Mana Endo, Hiroshima Japan, tennis star (1996 3rd round Aust Open)
1971 - Peter Tchernyshev, St Petersburg Russia, dance skater (& Naomi Lang)
1971 - Dana Eskelson, American actress
1971 - Brian Stepanek, American actor
1972 - David Binn, NFL safety (San Diego Chargers)
1972 - Mark Labbrook, Australian 200m/400m runner (Olympics-96)
1972 - Shawn Respert, NBA guard (Milwaukee Bucks, Toronto Raptors)
1973 - Arie Obdam, Dutch soccer player (FC Volendam)
1973 - Fred Miller, tackle (St Louis Rams)
1973 - Lulama Masikazana, cricket wicket-keeper (Kwazulu for E Province)
1974 - Nathan Davis, defensive tackle (Atlanta Falcons)
1974 - Olaf Lindenbergh, soccer player (Ajax, De Graafschap)
1975 - Chad Allen, Dallas Tx, baseball outfielder (Olympics-bronze-96)
1975 - Leo Insam, hockey defenseman (Team Italy 1998)
1975 - Svend-Allan Sørensen, Danish artist
1975 - Tomoko Kawase, Japanese singer
1976 - Elina Zisi, Miss Greece Universe (1997)
1976 - Kim Zmeskal, Houston TX, US gymnist (Olympic-92)
1976 - Tanja Frieden, Swiss snowboarder
1976 - Colin Teo, Singaporean Grand Prix driver
1977 - Jason Euell, English-born footballer
1979 - Dan Bălan, Moldovan singer and former member of the band O-Zone
1980 - Mamiko Noto, Japanese seiyu
1980 - Kim Poirier, Canadian actress
1980 - Luke Ravenstahl, American politician
1981 - Calum Best, American model
1981 - Jens Lekman, Swedish musician
1981 - Ty Warren, National Football League defensive lineman
1982 - Alice Eve, English actress
1982 - Tank, Mandopop singer.
1983 - Brodie Croyle, American football player
1983 - S Sreesanth, Indian cricketer
1983 - Jamie Whincup, Australian racing driver
1983 - Melrose Bickerstaff, American fashion model
1983 - Myron Wolf Child, Canadian politician
1984 - Brandon Hammond, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, American actor (Gregory Hines Show)
1984 - Darren Bent, English footballer
1984 - Piret Järvis, Estonian singer
1985 - Yang Yu, Chinese swimmer
1985 - Joji Kato, Japanese speedskater
1985 - Kris Humphries, American basketball player
1986 - Alice Greczyn, American actress
1986 - Brendan Taylor, Zimbabwean cricketer
1988 - Allison Holker, American dancer
1989 - Craig Cathcart, Irish footballer
2004 - Princess Louise of Belgium

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 06, 2013, 07:28:22 AM

This Day in History for 6th February


Famous Deaths

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Comic Book Artist and Writer
Jack Kirby (1994)


743 - Hisham ibn 'Abd al-Malik, 10th Moslem caliph, dies at about 52
891 - Photius, Byzantine theologist/patriarch of Constantinople/saint, dies
1140 - Thurstan, archbishop of York, dies
1378 - Jeanne de Bourbon, wife of Charles V of France (b. 1338)
1497 - John Ockeghem, Flemish singer/composer, dies at 79
1515 - Aldus Manutius, Italian printer
1585 - Edmund Plowden, English legal scholar (b. 1518)
1593 - Emperor Ogimachi of Japan (b. 1517)
1612 - Christopher Clavius, calendar reformer, dies (birth date unknown)
1617 - Prosper Alpinus/Prospero Alpini, Italian physician/botanist, dies at 63
1695 - Ahmed II, 21st sultan of Turkey (1691-95), dies
1699 - Jozef Ferdinand of Bavaria, heir of Spanish king Carlos II, dies
1725 - Johann Philipp Krieger, composer, dies at 75
1775 - William Dowdeswell, English politician (b. 1721)
1783 - Lancelot "Capability" Brown, English architect (Kew), dies at about 67
1785 - Iman Willem Falck, Dutch governor of Ceylon (1765-83), dies at 48
1793 - Carlo Goldoni, Italian author (L'avaro), dies at 85
1798 - Niels Schiorring, composer, dies at 54
1804 - Joseph Priestley, Engl/US theologist/philosopher/chemist, dies at 70
1807 - John Reid, composer, dies at 85
1812 - Carlo Goldoni, writer, dies at 104
1816 - Maria Ludwika Rzewuska, Polish szlachcianka (b. 1744)
1833 - Pierre André Latreille, French entomologist (b. 1762)
1834 - Richard Lemon Lander, British explorer (b. 1804)
1855 - Josef Munzinger, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1791)
1859 - Johannes Josephus Viotta, composer, dies at 45
1865 - John Pegram, US Confederate brig-gen, dies in battle at 33
1881 - Pieter Mijer, Gov-Gen of Neth Indies (1866-72), dies at 68
1896 - Abraham Czn van Stolk, Dutch art collector, dies at 82
1897 - Ebenezer C Brewer, British writer (Dictionary of Phrase & Fable), dies
1899 - Georg Leo earl von Caprivi, German chancellor, dies at 67
1899 - Prince Prince Alfred of Edinburgh (b. 1874)
1910 - Alfonso Maria Fusco. Beatified Italian Roman Catholic priest and founder (b.1839)
1914 - J Albert Neuhuys, Dutch painter (Hague School), dies at 69
1916 - Anne C A I van Diest, Belgian physician/feminist, dies at 73
1916 - Rubén Darío, Nicaraguan writer (b. 1867)
1917 - Edouard A Drumont, French anti-semite journalist, dies at 72
1918 - Gustav Klimt, Austrian painter/cartoonist, dies at 55
1919 - Friedrich W Mengelberg, German sculptor/painter, dies at 81
1923 - Edward E Barnard, US astronomer (5th moon Jupiter), dies at 65
1927 - Daniel F Scheurleer, Dutch musicologist/banker, dies at 71
1927 - Sam Maguire, Irish Republican and Gaelic footballer (b. 1879)
1930 - Eva Strittmatter, writer, dies at 17
1938 - Marianne V von Werefkin, Russ/German/Swiss house painter, dies at 77
1941 - Maximilien Luce, French painter, dies at 82
1942 - Wobbe de Vries, Dutch linguist, dies at 78
1943 - HA Seyffardt, Dutch lt-gen/NSB "minister", dies at 71
1945 - Jan Bos, Dutch resistance fighter, executed
1945 - Paul Bos, Dutch resistance fighter, executed
1947 - Albert JM Bakker, Dutch actor (Teun the night watch), dies at 82
1947 - Luigi Russolo, composer, dies at 61
1948 - Robert Brasillach, French author/nazi collaborator, dies at 38
1950 - Georges Imbert, Alsatian chemist (b. 1884)
1952 - George VI, King of Britain (1936-52), dies at 56
1952 - George VI of the United Kingdom (b. 1895)
1958 - 7 Manchester United soccer players die in an air crash near Munich
1958 - David Pegg, English footballer (b. 1935)
1958 - Tommy Taylor, English footballer (b. 1932)
1958 - Geoff Bent, English footballer (b. 1932)
1958 - Roger Byrne, English footballer (b. 1929)
1958 - Mark Jones, English footballer (b. 1933)
1958 - Frank Swift, English footballer and journalist (b. 1913)
1958 - Walter Crickmer, English football club secretary and manager
1960 - Jesse Belvin, rocker, dies at 26 in a car crash
1961 - Archibald T Davison, composer, dies at 77
1963 - Mohammed ibn al-Chattabi Abd el-Krim, Morocco opposition leader, dies
1963 - Werner Erich Josten, German composer (Jungle), dies at 77
1963 - Abd el-Krim, Moroccan politician
1964 - Sophocles Venizelos, premier of Greece (1944, 50-51), dies at 69
1964 - W L Cornford, England cricket wicket-keeper (4 Tests v NZ 1930), dies
1964 - Emilio Aguinaldo, Filipino general and President (b. 1869)
1965 - Jack Wagner, actor (Jive Junction), dies at 68
1966 - Johan Algot Haquinius, composer, dies at 79
1966 - Narcisa de Leon, Filipino film mogul (b. 1877)
1967 - Martine Carol, French actress (Nana), dies of heart attack at 46
1968 - C Montague Shaw, actor (Buck Rogers, Planet Outlaws), dies at 85
1970 - Roscoe Karns, actor (Capt Shafer-Hennesey), dies at 78
1972 - Julian H Steward, US anthropologist (South American), dies at 70
1973 - Ira S Bowen, US physicist/astronomer (Mt Wilson/Palomar), dies at 74
1976 - Vince Guaraldi, jazz pianist (Charlie Brown TV specials), dies at 43
1979 - Alain Teister, Dutch sculptor/writer, dies at 47
1979 - Arthur van Schendel, Dutch art historian, dies at 68
1981 - Hugo Montenegro, American film music composer (b. 1925)
1981 - Frederika of Hanover, Queen Consort of Greece (b. 1917)
1982 - Ben Nicholson, England, painter/sculptor (Circle), dies at 87
1985 - Charles Briggs, actor (13 Frightened Girls, Capt Newman), dies at 53
1985 - Dandy Nichols, actress (Confessions of a Window Cleaner), dies at 78
1985 - James Hadley Chase, English writer (b. 1906)
1986 - William Collier, actor (Up the River, She's My Weakness), dies
1986 - Frederick Coutts, Salvation Army general (b. 1899)
1986 - Minoru Yamasaki, American architect (b. 1912)
1988 - Lee Goodman, actor (Imitation of Life), dies of TB at 64
1988 - Marghanita Laski, English author (Victorian chaise-lounge), dies
1988 - Nuno Oliveira, Bass Player (b. 1925)
1989 - Andre Cayatte, dies
1989 - Barbara Tuchman, historian (Guns of August-Pulitzer), dies at 77
1989 - Chris Gueffroy, East German attempted defector (b. 1968)
1989 - Osbourne Ruddock, Jamaican Dub music performer (b. 1941)
1990 - Jane Novak, silent screen actress (Ghost Town), dies of stroke at 94
1990 - John Merivale, actor (Caltiki), dies
1991 - Danny Thomas, comedian (Jazz Singer), dies of a heart attack at 79
1991 - Marten Levendig, Dutch TV correspondent to Moscow, dies
1991 - Salvador Luria, Italian biologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1912)
1992 - Frank Wilson, actor (Beware, Sunday Sinners, Club), dies at 37
1992 - Wade Preston, actor (Man Called Sledge), dies at 62
1993 - Frances Hunt, actress (You're a Sweetheart), dies of stroke at 77
1993 - Arthur Ashe, tennis star (Wimbledon 1975), dies of AIDS at 49
1994 - Ignace Strasfogel, Polish/US pianist/conductor/composer, dies at 84
1994 - Jack Kirby, cartoonist (X-Men, Spiderman, Hulk), dies at 76
1994 - Joseph Cotten, actor (Citizen Kane), dies at 88
1994 - Norman Del Mar, conductor/writer (Conducting Brahms), dies at 74
1995 - Arthur S Taylor Jr, US drummer/author (Notes on notes), dies at 65
1995 - James Ingram Merrill, US poet (Braving the elements), dies at 68
1996 - Guy Madison, actor (Wild Bill Hickok), dies at 74
1996 - Ronald Fletcher, broadcaster, dies at 85
1996 - Rosemary Tsay, drama critic/SOE operator, dies at 76
1998 - Carl Wilson, rock vocalist (Beach Boy), dies of lung cancer at 51
1998 - Nazim al-Kudsi, Syrian PM (1949, 1950-51)/pres (1961-63), dies
1998 - [Johann Hoelzel] Falco, singer (Rock Me Amadeus), dies at 40
1998 - Haroun Tazieff, French vulcanologist and geologist (b. 1914)
2001 - Filemon Lagman, Filipino Communist revolutionary (b. 1953)
2001 - Fulgence Charpentier, Quebec journalist (b. 1897)
2002 - Max Perutz, Austrian molecular biologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1914)
2005 - Lazar Berman, Russian pianist (b. 1930)
2005 - Karl Haas, American radio presenter (b. 1913)
2007 - Lew Burdette, American baseball player (b. 1926)
2007 - Lee Hoffman, American author (b. 1932)
2007 - Len Hopkins, Canadian politician (b. 1930)
2007 - Willye White, American athlete (b. 1939)
2007 - Frankie Laine, American singer (b. 1913)
2008 - John McWethy, American journalist (b. 1947)
2008 - Tony Rolt, English racing driver (b. 1918)
2011 - Gary Moore, Irish musician (b. 1952)
2012 - Janice Voss, American astronaut, dies from breast cancer at 55
2012 - Antoni Tapies, Spanish artist, dies at 88
2012 - Peter Breck, American actor, dies at 82

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 07, 2013, 07:26:15 AM

This Day in History for 7th February


Historical Events

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Novelist Charles Dickens                        Baseball Legend Connie Mack                Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini

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WW2 General Douglas MacArthur                Actress Jane Fonda                              Playwright Arthur Miller

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Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat              Actor & Director Mel Brooks 

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Pop Star Madonna                                  Heavyweight Boxing Champion
                                                                          Mike Tyson


457 - Leo I becomes emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
1074 - Battle of Montesarchio in which the prince of Benevento, Pandulf IV, is killed battling the
           encroaching Normans.
1238 - The Mongols burn the Russian city of Vladimir.
1301 - Edward of Caernarion (later Edward II) becomes 1st prince of Wales
1522 - Treaty of Brussels: Habsburgers split into Spanish/Austrian Branches
1550 - Giovanni Maria del Monte elected Pope Julius III
1569 - King Philip II forms inquistion in South America
1613 - Michail Romanov (16) becomes czar of Russia
1639 - Academie Francaise begins Dictionary of French Language
1653 - Nicolas Fouquet appointed superintendant of Finance of France
1668 - Dutch Prince William III dances in premiere of "Ballet of Peace"
1792 - Austria & Prussia sign anti-French covenant
1792 - D Cimarosa's opera "Il Matrimonio Segreto," premieres in Vienna
1795 - 11th Amendment to US Constitution ratified, affirms power of states
1795 - Dutch Prince William V accepts British occupation of Dutch Indies
1812 - 8.2 earthquake shakes New Madrid, Missouri
1812 - Lord Byron makes his maiden speech in House of Lords
1818 - 1st successful US educational magazine "Academician," begins (NYC)
1827 - Ballet (Deserter) introduced to US at Bowery Theater (NYC)
1831 - Belgium adopts it's Constitution
1836 - "Sketches by Boz" (essays) published by Charles Dickens
1839 - Henry Clay declares in Senate "I had rather be right than president"
1842 - Battle of Debre Tabor: Ras Ali Alula, Regent of the Emperor of Ethiopia defeats warlord Wube
           Haile Maryam of Semien.
1856 - The colonial Tasmanian Parliament passes the first piece of legislation (the Electoral Act of 
           1856) anywhere in the world providing for elections by way of a secret ballot.
1862 - Federal fleet attack on Roanoke Island NC
1863 - HMS Orpheus sinks off the coast of Auckland, New Zealand, killing 189.
1864 - Federal troops occupy Jacksonville, Florida
1872 - Alcorn A & M College opens
1876 - Pres Grants private-secretary Orville acquitted in Whiskey Ring
1877 - 1st Guernsey Cattle Club organizes (NYC)
1881 - Battle at Ingogo, Transvaal: Boers beat superior British forces
1882 - Last bare knuckle champion John L Sullivan KOs Paddy Ryan in Miss
1883 - Lt-colonel Borgnis-Desbordes founds Fort Bamako Niger
1884 - Canadian Rugby Football Union forms
1889 - Astronomical Society of Pacific holds 1st meeting in SF
1891 - Great Blizzard of 1891 begins
1894 - The Cripple Creek miner's strike, led by the Western Federation of Miners, begins in Cripple
           Creek, Colorado.
1900 - British troops vacate Vaal Krantz, Natal
1900 - Labour Party forms in England
1903 - VVV '03 Soccer team forms in Venlo
1904 - Baltimore catches fire (1500 buildings destroyed in 80 blocks)
1905 - Dominican Rep signs treaty turning over customs collection to US
1907 - The Mud March was the first large procession organized by the National Union of Women's
           Suffrage Societies (NUWSS).
1908 - Connie Mack sells hurler Rube Waddell to St Louis Browns for $5,000
1910 - Edmond Rostand's "Chantecler," premieres in Paris
1912 - 2nd Dutch 11 city skate (Coen de Koenig wins (11:40)
1914 - Charlie Chaplin debuts "The Tramp" in "Kid Auto Races at Venice"
1914 - Steel work completed on Exposition (Civic) Auditorium, SF
1915 - 1st wireless message sent from a moving train to a station received
1915 - 2nd Battle of Masurian Lakes: German armies surrounded a Russian army
1922 - John Willard's "Cat & the Canary," premieres in NYC
1924 - Benito Mussolini government exchanges diplomats with USSR
1928 - 1st solo England to Australia flight takes off (Bert Hinkler)
1931 - US opera, "Peter Ibbetson," by Deems Taylor premieres at Met Opera NYC
1933 - Colonial troops in Suriname kill 2 demonstrators
1933 - Social-Dem meeting in Berlin "As thousands cheer" Marxism is dead
1934 - 1st contract for TVA power, Tupelo, Miss
1935 - Monopoly invented by Charles Darrow symbol Rich Uncle Pennybags
1936 - A flag is authorized for Vice President
1936 - Felix the Cat, Cartoon Character, by Van Beuren from Otto Messmer
1940 - British railroads nationalized
1940 - Walt Disney's 2nd feature-length movie, "Pinocchio," premieres (NYC)
1941 - Frank Sinatra & Tommy Dorsey orchestra record "Everything Happens to Me"
1942 - 1st indoor 15' pole vault (Cornelius Warmerdam 15' 3/8")
1943 - Shoe rationing begins in US (may purchase up to 3 more pairs in 1942)
1944 - Bing Crosby records "Swinging on a Star" for Decca Records
1944 - Germans launch counteroffensive at Anzio Italy
1945 - General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila
1945 - Harry Truman appoints Irwin C Mollison judge of US Customs Court
1945 - US 76th/5th Infantry divisions begin crossing Sauer
1946 - Filibuster in US Senate kills FEPC bill
1947 - Arabs & Jews reject British proposal to split Palestine
1948 - "Cradle Will Rock" closes at Mansfield Theater NYC after 34 perfs
1948 - Omar Bradley succeeds Dwight Eisenhower as Army Chief of Staff
1949 - Joe DiMaggio becomes 1st $100,000/year baseball player (NY Yankees)
1950 - Georges Bidault forms French government
1950 - Sen Joe McCarthy finds "communists" in US Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1950 - US & Great-Britain recognize Bao Dai Vietnamese regime
1956 - Autherine Lucy, 1st black admitted to U of Alabama, is expelled
1958 - 1st showing of DAF 600 auto
1958 - Dodgers officially become the Los Angeles Dodgers, Inc
1958 - Dutch auto-transmission car DAF 600 introduced
1959 - "Whoop-Up" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 56 performances
1959 - Castro proclaims new Cuban constitution
1959 - Cessna lands in Las Vegas after 65 d without landing (refuels in air)
1959 - Dorothy Rigney sells White Sox to Bill Veeck for a reported $27M
1960 - Old handwriting found in at Qumran, near the Dead Sea
1961 - Jane Fonda made her acting debut in the NBC drama "A String of Beads"
1962 - Gas explosion in Luisanthal coal mine Voelklingen Germany kills 298
1962 - President Kennedy begins blockade of Cuba
1962 - Sam Snead wins LPGA Royal Poinciano Plaza Golf Invitational
1962 - The United States bans all Cuban imports and exports.
1964 - Baskin-Robbins introduces Beatle Nut ice cream
1964 - Beatles land at NY's JFK airport, for 1st US tour
1964 - Cassius Clay becomes a black Moslem
1964 - Roger Sessions' 5th Symphony, premieres
1965 - Cassius Clay becomes a Muslim & adopts the name Muhammad Ali
1965 - George Harrison has his tonsils removed
1965 - Operations begin at Grupo Folklorico Antiyano on Curacao
1965 - US begins regular bombing & strafing of N Vietnam
1965 - WVIZ TV channel 25 in Cleveland, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
1966 - KWCM TV channel 10 in Appleton, MN (PBS) begins broadcasting
1967 - A fire at a restaurant in Montgomery, Alabama kills 25 people.
1968 - Arthur Miller's "Price," premieres in NYC
1968 - Belgium government of Vanden Boeynants falls
1968 - WLED TV channel 49 in Littleton, NH (PBS) begins broadcasting
1969 - "This Is Tom Jones," debuts on ABC TV
1969 - Al-Fatah-leader Yasser Arafat becomes president of PLO
1969 - Diane Crump becomes 1st woman jockey at a major US racetrack (Hialeah)
1969 - The original Hetch Hetchy Moccasin Powerhouse is removed from service.
1970 - "Hollywood Palace," last airs on ABC TV
1970 - "Jingle Jangle" hits #10 on the pop singles chart by Archies
1970 - LSU's "Pistol" Pete Marovich scores 69 pts in losing cause
1970 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn
1970 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Tim Wood
1971 - Swiss men accept female suffrage
1973 - 1st time Rangers shut-out Islanders 6-0
1973 - Senate createse Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities
1974 - Grenada gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1974 - Mel Brooks' "Blazing Saddles" opens in movie theaters
1975 - NBA New Orleans Jazz end a 28 game road losing streak
1976 - Darryl Sittler, Toronto, sets NHL record with 10 points in a game
1976 - FCC raids & shuts down pirate radio station WCPR (Bkln NY)
1976 - Larry Groce's "Junk Food Junkie" peaks at #9
1976 - World's largest telescope (600 cm) begins operation (USSR)
1977 - Soyuz 24 launches with 2 cosmonauts
1978 - Ethiopian offensive in Ogaden desert
1979 - "Supertrain," TV Anthology, Superbomb of 1979, debuts on NBC
1979 - Colonel Benjedid Chadli succeeds pres Boumedienne in Algeria
1979 - Faoud Bacchus scores 250 for WI v India at Kanpur
1979 - Pink Floyd premiered their live version of "The Wall" in Los Angeles
1979 - Toronto Maple Leaf Darryl Sittler scores NHL record 10 pts (6 goals)
1982 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic
1982 - Luis A Monge elected pres of Costa Rica
1983 - 1st female secretary of transportation sworn-in (Elizabeth Dole)
1984 - Bruce McCandless makes 1st untethered space walk (US)
1984 - David (born without immunity system) at 12, touches mom for 1st time
1984 - Michael Jackson awarded a 4-ft-high platinum disc by CBS
1985 - "New York, New York" became the official anthem of NYC
1985 - Marshall U's Bruce Morris scores a basket from 92'5"
1985 - NY Devil Don Lever becomes 57th NHLer to score 300 goals
1986 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Debi Thomas
1986 - Haiti's President-for-Life Jean-Claude Duvalier flees to France Henri Namphy becomes leader of
           Haiti
1986 - Philippine Corazon Aquino defeats incumbent dictator Ferdinand Marcos but fraudulent
            returns gave the election to Marcos
1987 - "Ronnies Rap" by Ron & DC Crew peaks at #93
1987 - Dennis Conner & Stars & Stripes bring America's Cup back to US
1987 - Madonna's "Open Your Heart," single goes #1
1987 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano
1988 - 38th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 138-133 at Chicago
1988 - NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 15-6
1988 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Mazda Golf Classic
1989 - 40th NHL All-Star Game: Campbell beat Wales 9-5 at Edmonton
1989 - Tennis superstar Bjorn Borg, apparently attempts suicide in Milan
1990 - Karachi police kill 22 anti-nationalistic demonstrators
1990 - USSR Communist party agrees to allow opposition political parties
1990 - Lisa Leslie of Morningside HS in Inglewood California scores 101 in 1st half, South Torrance
           HS decides not to play 2nd half & loses 102-24
1991 - Jean-Bertrand Aristide sworn in as Haiti's 1st elected president
1991 - Bob Knight, Larry O'Brien, Tiny Archibald, Dave Cowens, Harry Gallatin & Larry Fleisher elected
           to NBA Hall of Fame
1991 - The IRA launches a mortar attack on 10 Downing Street during a cabinet meeting.
1992 - Mike Tyson testifies in his rape trial
1992 - Shannon LA Rhea Marketic, 22, (California), crowned 41st Miss USA
1993 - NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 23-20
1993 - Pebbles Flintstone & Bamm Bamm Rubble wed
1993 - Tammie Green wins LPGA Healthsouth Palm Beach Golf Classic
1994 - 21st American Music Award: Whitney Houston wins
1994 - Howard Stern stops a would-be jumper on the George Washington Bridge
1994 - Jim Nabors undergoes a liver transplant
1995 - Last day of Test Cricket cricket for Graham Gooch & Mike Gatting
1997 - US & Russia announce summit set for Helsinki, March 20-21
1998 - 18th Winter Olympic games open at Nagano Japan
1998 - NHL's Dallas Stars retire Neal Broten's #7
1999 - Crown Prince Abdullah becomes the King of Jordan on the death of his father, King Hussein.
2000 - Bahria University is established through Presidential Ordinance No. V of 2000 by the
           Government of Pakistan.
2009 - Bushfires in Victoria left 173 dead in the worst natural disaster in Australia's history.
2010 - Super Bowl XLIV; New Orleans Saints defeated the Indianapolis Colts 31-17 to win their first
           super bowl.

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 07, 2013, 07:27:26 AM

This Day in History for 7th February


Famous Weddings

1901 - Queen Wilhelmina marries Prince Heinrich von Mecklenburg-Schwerin
1988 - Heavyweight boxing champ Mike Tyson marries actress Robin Givens
2009 - Actress and skating champ Kristy Swanson (39) weds 1993 World Pair Skater Champion
          Lloyd Eisler (45) at The Madonna Inn in San Luis Obispo, California

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 07, 2013, 07:33:23 AM

This Day in History for 7th February


Famous Birthdays

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Novelist Charles Dickens (1812)                Actor Ashton Kutcher (1978)


1102 - Empress Matilda, Princess of England and wife of Henry V of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1169)
1478 - Sir Thomas More, English statesman, humanist, and author (d. 1535)
1556 - Maria van Nassau, Dutch countess of Buren
1589 - Jacob de Witt, Dutch mayor (Dordrecht)/mathematician
1612 - Thomas Killigrew, English humorist/playwright/leader (King's Men)
1655 - Jean-Francois Regnard, French comedy writer (Slave in Algeria)
1688 - Maria Louise van Hessen-Kassel, [Marijke Meu], princess of Orange
1693 - Anna Ivanova Romanova, empress of Russia (1730-40) [NS]
1700 - Philippe Buache, French geographer/cartographer (Contourlijnen)
1707 - Carl August Thielo, composer
1710 - William Boyce, English organist/composer of Cathedral music
1739 - Joseph Pouteau, composer
1740 - Adam-Philippe Custine, French earl/general/MP
1753 - Rhijnvis Feith, Dutch mayor/writer (Zwolle/Thirsa)
1758 - Benedikt Emanuel Schack, composer
1801 - John Rylands, England, merchant/philanthropist
1804 - John Deere, pioneer manufacturer of agricultural implements
1809 - Frederik Paludan-Muller, Danish Romantic poet (Danserinden)
1812 - Charles Dickens, England, novelist (Oliver Twist, Tale of 2 Cities)
1817 - Leroy Pope Walker, US lawyer/Confederate minister of War (1861)
1822 - Joaquin y Garbayo Gaztambide, composer
1823 - Richard Genee, composer
1824 - William Higgins, discoverer (nature of spiral nebulae)
1825 - Crystobal Oudrid y Segura, composer
1833 - Ricardo Palma, Peru, writer/poet (Tradiciones Peruanas)
1834 - Dmitri I Mendelejev, Russian chemist (Periodic Table)
1837 - James Augustus Henry Murray, Scotland, created Oxford Dictionary
1839 - Nicolaas G Pierson, Dutch banker/Suriname premier (1897-1901)
1842 - Alexandre Ribot, French statesman (d. 1923)
1847 - Ernst Franck, German composer/conductor
1862 - Bernard Maybeck, US architect (Palace of Fine Arts, SF)
1863 - Mieczyslaw Soltys, composer
1864 - Arthur Collins, singer/comedian (Peerless Quartet)
1864 - Ricardo Castro Herrera, composer
1866 - Raf[ael] Verhulst, [Koen Ravestein], Flemish writer (Jesus of Nazarus)
1867 - Laura Ingalls Wilder, Wisc, kid book author (Little House on Prarie)
1869 - Jindrich S Baar, Czech pastor/writer (Jan Cimbura)
1870 - Alfred Adler, Austria, psychiatrist (Inferiority Complex)
1871 - Karl Wilhelm Eugen Stenhammer, composer
1872 - Nikolaos "Sokrates" Politis, Greek lawyer/diplomat/foreign minister
1875 - Erkki Gustav Melartin, composer
1875 - Walter Courvoisier, composer
1877 - Feliks Nowowiejski, composer
1877 - Godfrey H Hardy, England, number theorist
1877 - Julius Curtius, German minister of Foreign affairs (1929-..)
1878 - Ossip Gabrilovich, composer
1883 - Eubie Blake, ragtime composer/pianist (Memories of You)
1883 - Paul de Backer, Belgian radiologist
1885 - Sinclair Lewis, novelist/social critic (Main Street, Nobel 1930)
1887 - Eubie Blake, American musician and composer (d. 1983)
1889 - Harry Nyquist, important contributor to information theory (d. 1976)
1891 - Joachim Stutschewsky, composer
1891 - Ann Little, American actress (d. 1984)
1896 - Harold Hoffman, South Amboy NJ, (Gov-NJ)
1896 - Jacob Paludan, Danish pharmacist/writer (Jorgen Stein)
1897 - Quincy Porter, New Haven Ct, composer
1898 - Dock Boggs, American musician (d. 1971)
1899 - Arvid Pelshe, Latvian Communist leader, CPSU Politburo member
1901 - Bob den Doolaard, [Cornelis Spoelstra], Dutch writer (Grape Pickers)
1902 - Ethelda Blebtrey, Waterford NY, 100m swimmer (Olympic-gold-1920)
1904 - Milton Krims, writer (Speed)
1905 - Olf S von Euler-Chelpin, Swedish physiologist
1905 - Paul Nizan, French journalist/writer (L'Humanité, La Conspiration)
1905 - Ulf Svante von Euler, Sweden, physiologist (Nobel 1970)
1906 - Henry P'u-i, last emperor of China, puppet emperor of Manchukuo
1906 - Oleg Antonov, Soviet aircraft designer (d. 1984)
1907 - Arthur George Bottomley, politician
1907 - Yevgeniy Abalakov, Soviet mountaineer (d. 1948)
1909 - Joseph "Poeske" Scherens, Flem cyclist (champ sprinter 1932-37) [OS]
1909 - Hélder Câmara, Roman catholic archbishop (d. 1999)
1910 - Buster Crabbe, 400m US swimmer (Olympics-gold-1932)
1912 - Derek Farr, London, actor (8 O'Clock Walk, Doctor at Large)
1912 - Jane Ross, Spokane Wash, actress (Audrey-Phyllis, Coed Fever)
1912 - Russell Drysdale, Australian Artist {d. 1981}
1914 - David Ignatow, US poet (Tread the Dark, Rescue the Dead)
1914 - Jacques Mornard, [Ramon Mercader], murderer (Trotsky)
1914 - Ralph Whitlock, writer
1915 - Eddie Bracken, American actor (d. 2002)
1917 - Dick Emery, London England, actor (Yellow Submarine, Loot, Baby Love)
1918 - Markey Robinson, Northern Irish painter (d. 1999)
1919 - Ilse Pausin, Austria, figure skating pairs (Olympics-silver-1936)
1920 - Eddie Bracken, Astoria NYC, actor (Summer Stock, Young & Willing)
1920 - Oscar Brand, Winnipeg Canada, folk vocalist (Draw Me a Laugh)
1921 - Athol Rowan, cricketer (brother of Eric, South African off-spinner)
1921 - Bryan Woods, soldier/clerk
1922 - Hattie Jacques, English actress (d. 1980)
1923 - George H H Lascelles, English earl of Harewood/leader (Covent Garden)
1923 - Keefe Brasselle, Elyria Ohio, actor (Be Our Guest)
1923 - Martha Holmes, American photographer (d. 2006)
1924 - Cathy Long, (Rep-D-LA, 1985-86)
1924 - Dora Bryan, [Broadhurst], Southport England, actress (Taste of Honey)
1924 - Hattie Jacques, Kent England, actress (Carry on Doctor)
1924 - Johnny Jordaan, [Jan van Musscher], Amsterdam folk vocalist
1925 - Arthur Berry, artist
1925 - H Eisenreich, writer
1925 - Marius Constant, Rumania, Dutch composer/conductor (Paradise Lost)
1925 - Romolo Valli, actor (Bobby Deerfield, Fistful of Dynamite, La Viaccia)
1926 - Konstantin Petrovich Feokistov, USSR, cosmonaut (Voskhod I)
1927 - John Buller, composer
1927 - Vladimir Kuts, Russian runner (d. 1975)
1928 - Al "Fuzzy" Smith, baseball player
1932 - Alfred M Worden, Jackson Michigan, Colonel USAF/astronaut (Apollo 15)
1932 - Gay Talese, author (Honor Thy Father)
1933 - John Anderton, English footballer
1934 - Earl King, [Solomon Johnson], rocker
1934 - King Curtis, [Curtis Ousley], US vocalist (Memphis Soul Stew)
1934 - Piet Bukman, Dutch minister for Development Aid (CDA)
1934 - Earl King, American musician (d. 2003)
1934 - Eddie Fenech Adami, President of Malta
1935 - Herb Kohl, (Sen-D Wisconsin)
1938 - Juan Pizarro, baseball player
1938 - Robert Frank Baksa, composer
1938 - S. Ramachandran Pillai, Indian communist leader
1940 - Gary Bond, England, actor (Outback, Zulu, Anne of Thousand Days)
1941 - Peter Foxhall, Australian evangelist
1942 - Ton [ACHM] de Kok, Dutch MP (CDA)
1943 - Gareth Hunt, English actor (d. 2007)
1944 - Berend baron van Voorst tot Voorst, Dutch foreign state sect (CDA)
1944 - Berry [AH] Esselink, Dutch MP (CDA)
1944 - Michael A Andrews, (Rep-D-TX, 1983- )
1945 - Gerald Davies, British rugby player
1945 - Pete Postlethwaite, actor (The Boxer)
1945 - Ian Jack, Scottish journalist
1946 - Hector Babenco, director (Ironweed, Kiss of the Spider Woman)
1946 - Lawrence Ascott, rocker (Isotope)
1946 - Sammy Johns, rocker (Politics, Religion & Her), (d. 2013)
1947 - Joe Shea, American journalist
1948 - Jimmy Greenspoon, LA Cal, rock organist (3 Dog Night-Joy to the World)
1949 - Alan Lancaster, bassist (Status Quo-Down Down, On the Level)
1949 - Sunil Wettimuny, cricket (Sri Lanka open batsman 1975-79 World Cups)
1949 - Paulo César Carpegiani, Brazilian footballer and coach
1950 - Burt Hooton, baseball player
1950 - Dan Quisenberry, baseball pitcher (KC Royals)
1950 - Marilyn Cochran, Burlington Vt, skier (Olympics-1972)
1951 - Benny Ayala, baseball player
1951 - Manfred Schumann, German FR, bobsled (Olympic-silver/bronze-1976)
1952 - Vasco Rossi, Italian singer
1953 - Robert Brazile, NFLer
1953 - Dan Quisenberry, baseball player (d. 1998)
1954 - Miguel Ferrer, Santa Monica CA, actor (Robocop)
1954 - Dieter Bohlen German composer
1954 - Brian Morton, Scottish writer
1955 - Charlie Puleo, baseball player
1955 - Rolf Benirschke, Boston, NFL place kicker/TV host (Wheel of Fortune)
1955 - Mario Coutinho, Brazilian physician
1956 - Emo Philips, American comedian
1956 - Mark St. John, American musician (Kiss) (d. 2007)
1957 - Carney Lansford, baseball player
1957 - Damaso Garcia, baseball player
1957 - Richard Cook, British jazz writer (d. 2007)
1958 - Manuel Mijares, Mexico, spanish vocalist (Maria Bonita)
1958 - Michele Drake, La Jolla CA, playmate (May, 1979)
1958 - Matt Ridley, British science writer
1959 - Brian Travers, rock saxophonist (UB40-Red Wine)
1959 - Sammy Lee, British soccer player
1960 - James Spader, NYC, actor (Endless Love, Wall St, Mannequin)
1960 - Steve Bronski, rock synthesizer (Bronski Beat-Smalltown Boy)
1962 - Garth Brooks, Tulsa Oklahoma, country vocalist (No Fences, Double Live)
1962 - Alan Sippy, cricketer (dashing Bombay lefty batsman of 1980's)
1962 - David Bryan, rock keyboardist (Bon Jovi-You Give Love a Bad Name)
1962 - Eddie Izzard, British actor and comedian
1963 - Heidemarie M Stefanyshyn-Piper, St Paul Minn, Lt Cmdr USN/astronaut
1963 - Roland Lefebvre, cricket pace bowler (Glamorgan & Holland)
1964 - Cynthia "Sippy" Woodhead, Riverside California, swimmer (Olympic-silver-84)
1964 - Dona L Speir, Norwalk California, playmate (March, 1984)
1964 - Gretchen Magers, Pittsburgh PA/San Antonio TX, tennis star
1965 - Jason Gedrick, Chicago IL, actor (Heavenly Kid, Class of '96)
1965 - Kristal Parker-Gregory, Columbus OH, LPGA golfer (1995 Hawaiian-20th)
1965 - Reginald Thal, soccer player (MVV)
1966 - Chris Rock, comedian (SNL, CB4, Boomerang)
1967 - Joseph Tilford Leigh Greene, Dayton Ohio, long jumper (Oly-br-92, 96)
1967 - Richie Burnett, Welsh darts player
1967 - Cheung Man, Hong Kong actress
1968 - Ashely Allen, San Antonio TX, playmate (Aug, 1992)
1968 - Martin Sinner, Koblenz Germany, tennis star (1990 Pretoria)
1968 - Michael Stich, Germany, tennis star
1968 - Peter Bondra, Lutsk Ukr, NHL right wing (Washington Capitals)
1968 - Sully Erna, American singer (Godsmack)
1969 - Bucky Richardson, US football quarterback (Houston Oilers)
1969 - Fiona Robinson, Collie Western Aust, basketball player (Oly-bronze-96)
1970 - Chris Gardocki, NFL punter (Indianapolis Colts)
1970 - Denis Chasse, Montreal, NHL right wing (Winnipeg Jets)
1970 - Stanley Roberts, NBA center (LA Clippers, Minn Timberwolves)
1971 - Andrew Currey, Australian javelin thrower (Olympics-96)
1971 - Marvin Graves, CFL quarterback (Montreal Alouettes)
1972 - Aftab Habib, cricketer (Leicestershire righty batsman 1996)
1972 - John Slaney, St John's, NHL defenseman (LA Kings)
1972 - Essence Atkins, American actress
1972 - Alex Bassi, American race car driver
1972 - Robyn Lively, American actress
1973 - Billy Baumhoff, St Louis MO, soccer midfielder/forward (Oly-gold-96)
1973 - Juwan Howard, NBA forward/center (Washington Bullets/Wizards)
1973 - Kristin Godridge, Traralgon Aust, tennis star (1993 Futures-Singapore)
1973 - Leanne Schuster, Mesa Az, WPVA volleyballer (National-9th-1995)
1973 - Sonia Paquette, St-Janvier Quebec, hurdler (Olympics-96)
1973 - Tim Bowens, NFL defensive tackle (Miami Dolphins)
1974 - Ryan Phillips, linebacker (NY Giants)
1974 - Steve Nash, NBA guard (Phoenix Suns)
1974 - Emma McLaughlin, American novelist
1975 - Alexandre Daigle, Montreal, NHL center (Ottawa Senators)
1975 - Marika Lehtimaki, ice hockey center (Finland, Oly-98)
1975 - Wes Borland, American guitarist (Limp Bizkit)
1976 - Hrafnhildur Hafsteinsdottir, Miss Universe-Iceland (1996)
1976 - Terry Battle, running back (Detroit Lions)
1976 - Sreto Ristić, German footballer
1977 - Christine Scheels, New Berlin Wis, speed skater (Olympics-1994)
1977 - Hillary Wolf, Chicago, extra lightweight judoka (Olympics-96)
1977 - Mariusz Pudzianowski, Polish strongman competitor
1978 - Ashton Kutcher, American actor
1978 - Daniel Van Buyten, Belgian footballer
1978 - Endy Chávez, baseball player
1978 - David Aebischer, National Hockey League goaltender
1979 - Cerina Vincent, Miss Nevada Teen USA (1996)
1979 - Jon Leicester, American baseball player
1983 - Christian Klien, Austrian racing driver
1983 - Teshome Getu, Ethiopian footballer
1983 - Georgios Gougoulias, Greek footballer
1985 - Tina Majorino, actress, (Waterworld, When a Man Loves a Woman)
1985 - Clara Bryant, American actress
1986 - Deanna Casaluce, Canadian actress
1986 - Michael Orozco, American footballer
1988 - Ai Kago, Japanese singer
1988 - Matthew Stafford, American college football player
1989 - Louisa Lytton - British actress
1990 - Steven Stamkos, Canadian ice hockey player
1991 - Rachel Sibner, American actress
1992 - Miguel Andres Matienzo Guerra, Mexican athlete
1992 - Maimi Yajima, Japanese singer
1993 - David Dorfman, American actor
1993 - Philip Wiegratz, German actor
1996 - Mai Hagiwara, Japanese singer

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 07, 2013, 07:35:56 AM

This Day in History for 7th February


Famous Deaths

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Tyre Industrialist Harvey Firestone (1938)


590 - Pelagius II, Gothic Pope (579-90), dies from plague
999 - Boleslaus II of Bohemia
1045 - Emperor Go-Suzaku of Japan (b. 1009)
1317 - Robert, Count of Clermont, French founder of the House of Bourbon (b. 1256)
1560 - Bartolomeo Bandinelli, Italian sculptor (b. 1493)
1593 - Jacques Amyot, French humanist/abbot of Bellozanne, dies at 79
1609 - Ferdinand I, cardinal/ruler of Toscane, dies
1626 - William V, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1548)
1642 - William Bedell, English clergyman (b. 1571)
1690 - William Morice, English royalist statesman
1693 - Paul Pellisson, French writer (b. 1624)
1736 - Stephen Gray, English astronomer and scientist (b. 1666)
1743 - Lodovico Giustini, composer, dies at 57
1749 - Andre Cardinal Destouches, composer, dies at 76
1779 - William Boyce, composer, dies at 67
1799 - Qianlong, Emperor of China (b. 1711)
1801 - Daniel Chodowiecki, Polish painter (b. 1726)
1820 - Samuel Adams Holyoke, composer, dies at 57
1823 - Ann Radcliffe (Ward), English poet/author of horror novels, dies at 58
1827 - Franz Anton Dimmler, composer, dies at 73
1830 - Marcus Antonio da Fonseca Portugal, Portuguese composer, dies at 67
1837 - King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (b. 1778)
1839 - Karl August Nicander, Swedish poet (b. 1799)
1857 - Félix PBOG, Earl of Merode, Belgian minister of War, dies at 65
1862 - Frantisek Jan Skroup, composer, dies at 61
1865 - John Henry Winder, US Confederate brig-gen/provost marshal, dies at 64
1871 - Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg, piano manufacturer (Steinway & Sons) (b. 1797)
1873 - Sheridan Le Fanu, Irish writer (b. 1814)
1878 - Pius IX, "Pio Nono", [Giovanni Ferretti], Pope (1846-78), dies at 85
1881 - Fredrik Cygnaeus, Finnish poet/literature critic, dies at 73
1897 - Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist (Ferrari), dies at 49
1901 - Benjamin Edward Woolf, composer, dies at 64
1911 - Harry Graham, cricketer (6 Test for Australia 1893-96, 301 runs), dies
1915 - Wladyslaw Gorski, composer, dies at 68
1918 - Alexander Sergeyevich Taneyev, composer, dies at 68
1919 - William Halford, American naval officer and Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1841)
1920 - Alexander Koltsjak, adm/leader Russian counter-revolutionary, executed
1920 - Aleksandr Vasilevich Kolchak, Russian military commander (b. 1874)
1921 - Peter Kropotkin, Russ Prince/geologist/revolut anarchist, dies at 78
1931 - Ion Vidu, composer, dies at 67
1933 - Albert Gyorgy Earl Apponyi, Hung minister of Education, dies at 86
1937 - Elihu Root, US min of War/Foreign affairs (Nobel 1912), dies at 91
1938 - Harvey Firestone, American manufacturer, dies at 69
1939 - Boris Grigoriev, Russian painter (b. 1886)
1940 - Francis Ford, cricketer (5 Tests for Engld v Australia 1894-95), dies
1942 - Dorando di Desiderio Pietri, marathoner (Oly-gold-1908), dies at 56
1942 - Ivan Bilibin, Russian illustrator (b. 1876)
1944 - Lina Cavalieri, Italian soprano (b. 1874)
1948 - "Red" McKenzie, blues-jazz singer (played comb-with-tissue-paper), dies
1954 - Jan Adam Maklakiewicz, composer, dies at 54
1957 - Rudolph Reti, composer, dies at 71
1958 - Walter Kingsford, actor (My Favorite Blonde, Fly by Night), dies at 76
1959 - Daniel F Malan, premier of South Africa (1948-54), dies at 84
1959 - Napoleon Lajorie, baseball player, dies at 83
1959 - Slim [Eddie Jones] Guitar, rocker, dies at 32
1960 - Igor V Kurtshatov, Russian nuclear physicist, dies at 57
1962 - Arthur Carr, cricketer (11 Tests for Eng 22-29), dies shovelling snow
1962 - Clara Nordström, German writer and translator (b. 1886)
1963 - Learco Guerra, Italian cyclist (b. 1902)
1964 - Hermann A J Kees, German egyptologist, dies at 77
1964 - Lillian Copeland, US discus thrower (Oly-gold-32), dies at 59
1965 - Nance O'Neil, actor (Cimarron, Royal Bed, Rogue Song), dies at 90
1967 - Henry Morgenthau, US minster of Finance (devaluate dollar), dies at 74
1968 - Nick Adams, actor (Interns, Pillow Talk, FBI Story), ODs at 36
1968 - Stuart Foster, singer (Galen Drake Show), dies at 49
1969 - Bainbridge Crist, composer, dies at 85
1974 - Arline Judge, actress (Age of Consent), dies at 61
1975 - Brendan Fay, actor (Hustler, Man on a Swing), dies at 54
1977 - Herman Dooyeweerd, Dutch philosopher/lawyer, dies at 82
1979 - Josef Mengele, concentration camp doctor, drowns
1980 - Ernst Kunz, composer, dies at 88
1980 - Katherine Emery, actress (Maze, Isle of the Dead), dies at 73
1980 - Secondo Campini, Italian jet pioneer (b. 1904)
1981 - Frederika of Hanover, Queen of Greece (b. 1917)
1984 - Brooks West, actor (Richard-My Friend Irma), dies at 67
1985 - Albert Dondeyne, Belgian philosopher/theologist, dies at 83
1985 - Uday Merchant, cricket (bro of Vijay, prolific scorer), dies
1985 - Matt Monro, English singer (b. 1932)
1986 - Armand Preud'homme, Flemish organist/lyricist, dies at 81
1986 - Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegalese historian (b. 1923)
1988 - Lin[wood V] Carter, US, sci-fi writer (Lost World of Time), dies at 57
1990 - Dom Heider Camara, nonviolent/human rights Bishop of Brazil, dies
1990 - Jimmy Van Heusen, composer (Call Me Irresponsible), dies at 77
1990 - Nathan Wartels, publisher (Crown), dies at 88 of pneumonia
1990 - Alfredo M. Santos, First Four-star General of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, World War II hero (b. 1905)
1991 - Dick Winslow, actor (Tom Sawyer, Mutiny on the Bounty), dies at 75
1991 - Gladys LaVerne, dies of heart problems at 87
1991 - Amos Yarkoni, legendary Israeli soldier (b. 1920)
1991 - Jean-Paul Mousseau, Quebec painter, member of Les Automatistes (b. 1927)
1992 - Jeanne Gerson, dies of cancer & pneumonia at 87
1992 - Buzz Sawyer, wrestler (b. 1959)
1993 - W Sybout A Colenbrander, Dutch historian/journalist, dies at 82
1994 - Maarten Vrolijk, Dutch soc-dem minister (CRM 1965-66), dies at 74
1994 - Richard Bissell, US under director of CIA (Pig's Bay), dies at 84
1994 - Witold Lutosławski, Polish composer (b. 1913)
1995 - Helen Wallis, cartographer/Librarian, dies at 70
1995 - Massimo Pallottino, Ital archaeologist (Etruscologia), dies at 86
1996 - George Lowthian Trevelyan, designer/visionary, dies at 89
1996 - Isian Kehinde I K Dairo, musician/academic, dies at 65
1996 - Lillian Rambach, teacher violinist, dies at 84
1996 - Lydia Korneevna Chukovskaya, writer, dies at 88
1996 - Tiny Winters, musician, dies at 87
1996 - Phillip Davidson, US Army general (b. 1915)
1997 - Danil Shafran, cellist, dies at 74
1998 - Carl Dean Wilson, musician, dies at 51
1998 - Lawrence Sanders, American author (b. 1920)
1999 - King Hussein of Jordan (b. 1935)
1999 - Bobby Troup, American musician and actor (b. 1918)
1999 - José Silva, author of Silva Method and the Silva UltraMind ESP System (b. 1914)
2000 - Big Pun, Puerto Rican-American rapper (b. 1971)
2000 - Doug Henning, Canadian magician (b. 1947)
2000 - Dave Peverett, English musician (Foghat, Savoy Brown) (b. 1943)
2001 - Dale Evans, American actress and singer (b. 1912)
2001 - Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American author and aviator (b. 1906)
2002 - Jack Fairman, British racing driver (b. 1913)
2003 - Augusto Monterroso, Guatemalan author (b. 1921)
2003 - John Reading, Mayor of Oakland, California (b. 1917)
2005 - Bob Turner, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1934)
2006 - Princess Hadice Hayriye Ayshe Dürrühsehvar (b. 1914)
2008 - Tamara Desni, German-born British actress (b. 1913)
2009 - Brian Naylor (broadcaster), Australian television presenter (b. 1931)
2012 - Patricia Stephens Due, African-American civil rights activist, dies from Alzheimer's disease at
           72
2012 - Phil Bruns, American actor and writer, dies of natural causes at 80
2012 - Florence Holway, American rape victim and activist, dies at 96

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 08, 2013, 07:11:45 AM

This Day in History for 8th February


Historical Events

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Physicist & Mathematician                      Composer Tchaikovsky                           Animator Walter Elias Disney
Isaac Newton

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Queen Elizabeth II                                    Basketball Player Bill Russell                Magazine Publisher Larry Flynt 

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NHL all-time top scorer                                   Actor Jack Nicholson
Wayne Gretzky


421 - Flavius Constantine becomes Co-Emperor as Emperor Constantius III of the Western Roman
          Empire with Honorius
1526 - Heavy storm strikes Dutch coast, many die
1575 - University Leiden founded, and given the motto "Praesidium Libertatis"
1600 - Vatican convicts scholar Giordano Bruno to death
1601 - Earl Robert Devereux of Essex armies draws into London
1622 - King James I disbands the English parliament
1672 - Isaac Newton reads 1st optics paper before Royal Society in London
1690 - French & Indian troops set Schenectady settlement NY on fire
1690 - Lord Halifax resigns as Lord Privy Seal
1693 - William & Mary college is 2nd college chartered in US
1726 - The Supreme Privy Council is established in Russia.
1735 - 1st opera in US "Flora," opens in Charleston, SC
1743 - Comet C/1743 C1 approaches within 0.0390 AUs of Earth
1744 - French/Spanish fleet leaves Toulon
1750 - Minor earthquake in London
1775 - Leidse U 400th anniversary dinner
1776 - Wolfgang von Goethes' "Stella," premieres in Hamburg
1802 - Simon Willard patents banjo clock
1807 - Napoleon defeats Russians in battle of Eylau
1809 - Franz I of Austria declares war on France
1837 - 1st VP chosen by Senate, Richard Johnson (Van Buren admin)
1849 - New Roman Republic established.
1855 - The Devil's Footprints mysteriously appear in southern Devon.
1861 - Confederate States of America organizes in Montgomery, Ala
1862 - Battle of Roanoke Island NC, Federals gain control of Pamlico Sound
1862 - Opera "Lily of Killarney," premieres in London
1865 - 1st black major in US army, Martin Robinson Delany
1867 - The Ausgleich results in the establishment of the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary.
1879 - Sandford Fleming first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the
           Royal Canadian Institute.
1883 - Louis Waterman begins experiments to invents fountain pen
1887 - Aurora Ski Club of Red Wing, Minn became the 1st US ski club
1887 - Under the Dawes Act indians living apart from tribe granted citizenship
1887 - The Dawes Act authorized the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal
           land and divide it into individual allotments.
1889 - Flood ravages Dutch coast
1894 - Enforcement Act repealed, making it easier to disenfranchise blacks
1895 - Tchaikovsky/Petipa's "Swan Lake," premieres in Petersburg
1896 - Georges Feydeaus' "Le Dindon," premieres in Paris
1896 - Western Conference forms of Midwestern U, later renamed Big 10 Conf
1898 - John Ames Sherman patents 1st envelope folding & gumming mach (Mass)
1904 - Russo-Japanese War begins
1905 - Cyclone hit Tahiti & adjacent islands, killing some 10,000 people
1908 - Wilhelmina '08 soccer team forms in Weert Neth
1909 - France & Germany sign treaty about Morocco
1910 - The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce.
1911 - US helps overthrow Pres Miguel Devila of Honduras
1912 - 1st eastbound US transcontinental flight lands in Jacksonville, Fla
1914 - General Zamon becomes president of Haiti
1915 - "Birth of a Nation" opens at Clune's Auditorium in LA
1916 - French cruiser "Admiral Charner" torpedoed off Syrian coast, kills 374
1916 - NL votes down Charlie Ebbets proposal to limit 25 cent seats
1918 - "Stars & Stripes," weekly US armed forces newspaper, 1st published
1920 - Swiss men vote against women's suffrage
1922 - Radio arrives at the White House
1923 - Coal mine explosion at Dawson, New Mexico kills 120
1923 - German NSDAP Volkischer Beobachter newspaper becomes a daily
1924 - 1st coast-to-coast radio hookup: Gen John Joseph Carty speech in Chic
1925 - Kaufman & Berlin's "cocoanuts," premieres in NYC
1925 - Marcus Garvey enters federal prison in Atlanta
1926 - German Reichstag decides to apply for League of Nations membership
1926 - Sean O'Casey's "Plough & Stars" opens at Abbey Theater Dublin
1926 - Walt Disney Studios forms
1927 - Belgian-Swiss treaty signed
1928 - 1st transatlantic TV image received, Hartsdale, NY
1928 - Scottish inventor J Blaird demonstrates color-TV
1929 - KOY-AM in Phoenix Arizona begins radio transmissions
1930 - "Happy Days Are Here Again" by Benny Mereoff hits #1
1931 - Gas explosion Fire in Fushun-coal mine, Manchuria kills 3,000
1933 - -23°F (-31°C), Seminole, Texas (state record)
1933 - 1st flight of all-metal Boeing 247
1934 - Export-Import Bank organizes in Washington, DC
1934 - Gaston Doumergue forms new French government
1935 - 1st NFL draft; Jay Berwanger of U Chicago is 1st pick (by Eagles) He never plays in NFL
1936 - 1st NFL draft, Eagles select Heisman Trophy winner Jay Berwanger
1936 - 1st ski jumping tournament, Red Wing, Minn
1936 - 1st successful Toronto Maple Leaf penalty shot, Conacher vs Rangers
1936 - Pandit Jawaharlal follows Gandhi as chairman of India Congress Party
1937 - Maxwell Anderson's "Masque of Kings," premieres in NYC
1940 - Lewis & Hamilton's musical "Two for the Show," premieres in NYC
1940 - Lodtz, 1st large ghetto established by Nazis in Poland
1941 - Japanese armored barges cross Strait of Johore to attack Singapore
1941 - NSB'er Max Blokzijl begins nazi propaganda on Dutch radio
1942 - Stravinsky's "Danses Concertantes," premieres in Los Angeles
1942 - Congress advises FDR that, Americans of Japanese descent should be locked up en masse so
           they wouldn't oppose the US war effort
1943 - Red Army recaptures Kursk
1944 - 1st black reporter accredited to White House, Harry McAlpin
1944 - U-762 sunk off Ireland
1945 - Allied air attack on Goch/Kleef/Kalkar/Reichswald
1946 - Béla Bartók's 3rd Concert for piano/orchestra premieres in Philadelphia, PA, US
1946 - Premier Salazar of Portugal forbids opposition parties
1947 - Jan van der Hoorn wins 8th Dutch 11-cities skating race (10:51)
1947 - KSD (now KSDK) TV channel 5 in St Louis, MO (NBC) begins broadcasting
1948 - 5th Winter Olympic games close at St Moritz, Switzerland
1949 - Hungarian Cardinal Mindszenty sentenced to life in prison
1952 - "RCA Victor Show Starring Dennis Day," debuts on NBC TV
1952 - Elizabeth II is proclaimed Queen of the UK.
1953 - Betty Jameson wins LPGA Serbin Golf Open
1953 - WLVA (now WSET) TV channel 13 in Lynchburg-Roanoke, VA (ABC) begins
1955 - Malenkov resigns as USSR premier, Bulganin replaces him
1955 - The Government of Sindh abolished Jagirdari system in the province. One million acres (4000
           km²) of land thus acquired is to be distributed among the landless peasants.
1956 - Mine disaster in Quaregnon Belgium, 8 die
1957 - SF Public Library's bookmobile initiated in front of City Hall
1958 - Edgar Whitehead succeeds Garfield Todd as premier of South Rhodesia
1958 - French planes bomb Sakiet Tunisia, 75 die
1958 - KIRO TV channel 7 in Seattle, WA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1960 - Boston Celtic Bill Russell becomes 1st NBAer with 50 rebounds (51)
1960 - Congress opens hearings looking into payola
1960 - Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom issued an Order-in-Council, stating that she and
           her family would be known as the House of Windsor, and that her descendants will take the
           name "Mountbatten-Windsor".
1962 - KACB TV channel 3 in San Angelo, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 - 1st transmission of Clandestine Voice of Iraqi People (Communist)
1963 - AFL's Dallas Texans become KC Chiefs
1963 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1964 - Peter Shaffer's "Royal Hunt of the Sun," premieres in London
1964 - Rep Martha Griffiths address gets civil rights protection for women being added to the 1964
           Civil Rights Act
1965 - Eastern DC-7B crashes into Atlantic off Jones Beach NJ, kills 84
1965 - Supremes release "Stop In the Name of Love"
1967 - Longest losing streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (10 games)
1967 - Peter (Asher) & Gordon (Waller) discontinue their singing partnership
1967 - Pirate Radio UKGM (England) closes down
1967 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1968 - Officers kill 3 students demonstrating in SC State (Orangeburg)
1969 - Last edition of Saturday Evening Post
1969 - Meteorite weighing over 1 ton falls in Chihuahua, Mexico
1971 - Pedro Morales beats Ivan Koloff in NY, to become WWF wrestling champ
1971 - South Vietnamese troops invade Laos
1971 - The Nasdaq stock market index debuts.
1972 - Josh Gibson & Buck Leonard selected to Hall of Fame
1973 - Jean Kerrs "Finishing Touches," premieres in NYC
1973 - Mushtaq & Asif Iqbal make 350 stand for 4th wicket v NZ
1973 - Senate names 7 members to investigate Watergate scandal
1974 - "Good Times," debuts on CBS TV
1974 - Ringo releases "You're 16"
1974 - Skylab 4's astronauts land
1974 - Soap opera "Secret Storm" ends a 20 year run
1975 - 1800 Unification church couples' wed in Korea
1975 - Caps only got one shot in a period against Islanders
1976 - Hua Guofeng becomes premier of China PR
1976 - Jan Stephens wins LPGA Sarah Coventry Naples Golf Classic
1976 - Largest crowd at Cleveland Coliseum (Cavs vs Wash-21,130)
1977 - Earthquake in SF, at 5.0, strongest since 1966
1977 - Hustler publisher Larry Flynt sentenced due to
1978 - Crown Prince Sad Abdallah al-Salim Al Sabah becomes PM of Kuwait
1978 - Proceedings of the United States Senate are broadcast on radio for the first time.
1979 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1979 - Denis Sassou-Nguesso became the President of the Republic of the Congo for the first time.
1981 - "5 O'Clock Girl" closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 12 perfs
1981 - "Brigadoon" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 133 performances
1981 - Sally Little wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic
1981 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Elaine Zayak
1981 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Hamilton
1982 - Dodgers trade Davey Lopes to A's breaking up the longest-playing infield (Cey-Russell-
           Lopes-Garvey)
1983 - 35th NHL All-Star Game: Campbell beat Wales 9-3 at NY Islander
1983 - Baseball orders Mickey Mantle to sever ties with Claridge Casino
1983 - Eric Peters sets transatlantic sailboat record (E-W)-46 days
1983 - Tina Howe's "Painting Churches," premieres in NYC
1983 - Wayne Gretzky sets NHL all star record of 4 goals in 1 period
1983 - Champion thoroughbred Shergar kidnapped in Ireland; never found Lloyds of London pays
           $10.6 million insurance
1984 - 14th Winter Olympic games opens in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia
1984 - 1st time 8 people in space
1984 - A's take Yankees pitcher Tim Belcher as Type A free agent compensation
1984 - Soyuz T-10 launches with crew of 3 to Salyut 7
1985 - 1st-class cricket debut of Jimmy Adams (age 17), Jamaica v Barbados
1985 - Bruce Morris, Marshall Univ, makes a 92' 5½" basketball shot
1985 - Michael Gross swims world record 800m freestyle (7:38.75)
1985 - Opposition leader Kim Dae Jung returns to South-Korea
1986 - 5' 7" Spud Webb of Atlanta Hawks wins NBA Slam Dunk Competition
1986 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano
1986 - 1984 Summer Olympics head of the LAPD bomb squad, Arleigh McCree, and his partner
          Officer Ronald Ball of the Firearms and explosives unit were killed while trying to dismantle two
           pipe bombs when they responded to a call. McCree was recognized as one of the top
           explosive experts in the world.
1987 - 37th NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 154-149 (OT) at Seattle
1987 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic
1988 - NASA launches DOD-2
1989 - 5 cm of snow falls in outskirts of Los Angeles
1989 - Jockey Chris Antley begins record of 64 consecutive winning days
1989 - US Boeing 707 crashes into Santa Maria mountain, 145 die
1990 - David Hares "Racing Demon," premieres in London
1990 - "60 Minutes" commentator Andy Rooney suspended by CBS for racial remarks attributed to
           him by a gay magazine
1991 - Roger Clemens signs record $5,380,250 per year Red Sox contract
1992 - "I'm Too Sexy" by Right Said Fred peaks at #1
1992 - 16th Winter Olympic games opens in Albertville, France
1992 - Ulysses spacecraft passes Jupiter
1993 - Suchoi-24 crashes into Tupolev passenger flight, 134 die
1993 - GM sues NBC, alleging that "Dateline NBC" program had rigged 2 car-truck crashes to show
           that 1973-87 GM pickups were prone to fires
1994 - Jack Nicholson uses a golf club to attack a car
1994 - Kapil Dev sets world record for Test Cricket wickets with 432
1994 - Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee charge with possession of loaded firearm
1995 - 6.4 earthquake at Trujillo, Colombia (46+ killed)
1996 - NFL & Cleveland allows Art Modell to move his NFL franchise to Balt but he had to leave the
           Browns' name behind
1996 - The U.S. Congress passes the Communications Decency Act.
1996 - The massive Internet collaboration "24 Hours in Cyberspace" takes place.
1998 - 1st female ice hockey game in Olympic history Finland beats Sweden 6-0
1998 - 48th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 135-114 at NYC
1998 - NHL stops season until Feb 24th to accomodate the Olympics
2002 - XIX Winter Olympics opens in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
2005 - Israel and Palestinians agree to cease-fire.
2008 - Nebraska bans electric chair as sole execution method.

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 08, 2013, 07:13:31 AM

This Day in History for 8th February


Famous Divorces

2011 - Singer-songwriter and actress Ashlee Simpson (26) divorces rock band Fall Out Boy bassist
           Pete Wentz (31) due to irreconcilable differences after two and a half years of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 08, 2013, 07:18:26 AM

This Day in History for 8th February


Famous Birthdays

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Actress Lana Turner (1920)                      Actor James Dean (1931)                             Writer John Grisham (1955)

412 - St Proclus, patriarch of Constantinople
1191 - Yaroslav II of Russia (d. 1246)
1291 - Afonso IV, King of Portugal (1325-57)
1487 - Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1550)
1552 - Agrippa d'Aubigné, French poet and soldier (d. 1630)
1577 - Robert Burton, writer, Anglican clergyman (Anatomy of Melancholy)
1586 - Jacob Praetorius, composer
1612 - Samuel Butler, England, poet/satirist (Hudibras) (baptized)
1649 - Gabriel Daniel, French Jesuit historian (d. 1728)
1685 - Charles-Jean-François Hénault, French historian (d. 1770)
1708 - Vaclav Jan Kopriva, composer
1720 - Emperor Sakuramachi of Japan (d. 1750)
1741 - Andre-Ernest-Modeste Gretry, composer
1764 - Joseph Leopold von Eybler, Austrian composer
1789 - Ludwig Wilhelm Maurer, composer
1792 - Caroline Augusta of Bavaria, queen of Hungary and Bohemia (d. 1873)
1795 - Friedlieb F Runge, German chemist (Chinoline)
1795 - Moritz G [Moses] Saphir, Hungarian journalist/serial writer
1804 - Richard Lemon Lander, British explorer (d. 1834)
1807 - Franciscus J van Vree, Dutch Catholic foreman
1807 - Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, English sculptor and naturalist (d. 1889)
1810 - Norbert Burgmuller, composer
1811 - Edwin Denison Morgan, Sect of War (Confederacy), died in 1883
1813 - Jacob G Agarah, Swedish algologist
1817 - Richard Stoddert Ewell, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1872
1818 - Austin Blair, Gov/MC (Union), died in 1894
1819 - John Ruskin, writer/critic/artist/Gothic Revivalist (Prerafaelite)
1820 - William Tecumseh Sherman, Major General (Union Army), died in 1891
1822 - Maxime Du Camp, France, writer/traveler (Les Buveurs de Cendres)
1824 - Barnard Elliot Bee, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1861
1828 - Antonio Cagnoni, composer
1828 - Jules Verne, France, pioneered sci-fi (From the Earth to the Moon)
1847 - Hugh Price Hughes, English social reformer (d. 1902)
1851 - Kate O'Flaherty Chopin, novelist
1852 - Nikolai Garin [Michailovski], Russ author (Tjoma Kartashov) [NS=2/20]
1859 - John H Been, town's archivist of Brielle (Baasje & Witkop)
1876 - Paula Modersohn-Becker, German "entartet" painter
1878 - Martin Buber, German/Israeli philosopher/theologist (Ich und Du)
1880 - Franz Marc, German painter (Blaue Reiter)
1882 - George Siegmann, actor (Birth of Nation, Queen of Sheba, Oliver Twist)
1882 - Thomas Selfridge, First person to die in an airplane crash (d. 1908).
1883 - Joseph A Schumpeter, Austria/US economist/minister of finance
1884 - Reginald Baker, Australian athlete and actor (d. 1953)
1885 - Edith Evans, London England, actress (Tom Jones, David Copperfield)
1886 - Charlie Ruggles, LA California, actor (Ruggles, Aesop-Bullwinkle Show)
1888 - Matthijs Vermeulen, Dutch composer/music critic
1888 - Dame Edith Evans, British actress (d. 1976)
1890 - Claro Mayo Recto, Filipino nationalist/opponent of US colonialism
1891 - Edgar Palm, Curacao, pianist/composer
1892 - Fritz Todt, German Reichs minister (Organization Todt)
1893 - Ba Maw, Burmese politician (d. 1977)
1894 - Ludwig Marcuse, German philosopher
1895 - King Vidor, director (War & Peace, Stella Dallas)
1896 - Orville Caldwell, Ca, actor (Patsy, French Doll, Last Warning)
1900 - Guy Douglas Hamilton Warrack, composer
1900 - John Cameron, judge
1900 - Ivan Ivanov-Vano Soviet animator and Russian animation director (d. 1987)
1901 - Janina Spychajowa-Kurkowska, Poland, women's world champion archer
1902 - Lyle Talbot, [Lysle Hollywood], Pittsburgh, actor (Glen or Glenda)
1902 - Demchugdongrub, Mongolian politician (d. 1966)
1903 - Abdulrahman, minister of Internal affairs/premier of Malaysia
1903 - Greta Keller, Austrian-born cabaret singer and actress (d. 1977)
1904 - Igor' Fyodorovich Belza, composer
1905 - Truman Bradley, MO, TV host (Science Fiction Theater)
1906 - Artur Balsam, Polish/US pianist (Begeleidde Menuhin, Milstein)
1906 - Chester F Carlson, inventor (photocopy)
1906 - Henry Roth, Austria-Hungary/US writer (Call it Sleep)
1908 - Grigor Eghiazaryan, composer
1908 - Leslie Kenneth O'Brien, Lord O'Brien of Lothbury, missionary
1908 - Myron McCormick, Albany, actor (Hustler, Jolson Sings Again)
1909 - Henry Roth, writer
1911 - Anne Aitken, [nee Hopkins], Chicago, co-found (Diamond Sangha)
1911 - Elizabeth Bishop, US poet (North & South)/Pulitzer Prize (1956)
1911 - Henri Knap, Dutch resistance fighter/journalist/writer
1912 - Simon Jurovsky, composer
1913 - Betty Field, Boston MA, actress (Kings Row, Bus Stop)
1913 - John Grandy, Brits RAF-marshal
1914 - Bert Haas, baseball player
1914 - Jules van Ackere, Flemish musicologist (Eternal Music)
1915 - Lambros Georges Guetary Worloou, singer
1918 - John Intoxication, resistance fighter
1918 - Lord Maxd Rayne, English broker/multi-millionaire
1918 - Fred Blassie, American professional wrestler (d. 2003)
1919 - Buddy Morrow, orchestra leader (Jimmie Rodgers Show)
1920 - Buddy Blattner, baseball player
1920 - Lana Turner, Wallace Idaho, actress (Survivors, Falcon Crest)
1921 - Hoot Evers, baseball player
1922 - Joeri Averbach, Russian chess grandmaster
1922 - Audrey Meadows, American actress (d. 1996)
1923 - Andrew MacElhone, bar owner
1924 - Audrey Meadows, Wu Chang China, actress (Alice-Honeymooners)
1924 - Joe Black, baseball player
1925 - Alvin Brehm, composer
1925 - Jack Lemmon, Boston Mass, actor (Days of Wine & Roses, Missing)
1925 - Raimondo d'Inzeo, It, equestrian (Oly-gold/2 silver/3 bronze-1948-76)
1926 - Neal Cassady, American writer (d. 1968)
1927 - John T Myers, (Rep-R-IN, 1967- )
1927 - Stanley Baker, Ferndale Wales, actor (Concrete Jungle, Zorro, Zulu)
1927 - Zdenek Zouhar, composer
1928 - Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher, lawyer
1930 - Alejandro Rey, Buenos Aires, actor (Carlos-Flying Nun)
1930 - Arlan Stangeland, (Rep-R-MN, 1977- )
1930 - Catherine Hardy, Carollton Ga, 4x100m runner (Olympic-gold-1952)
1930 - Manuel Castillo, composer
1930 - James Deetz, American anthropologist (d. 2000)
1931 - James Dean, Marion IN, stage/film actor (Giant, Rebel Without a Cause)
1932 - Jan H Christiaanse, president Dutch political party (CDA)
1932 - John Towner Williams, Flushing NY, composer/conductor (Boston Pops)
1933 - Elly Ameling, Rotterdam Holland, soprano (Ilya-Idomeneo)
1933 - Jack Larson, LA California, actor (Jimmy Olsen-Superman)
1934 - Galina Bystrova, USSR, pentathelete (1957, 58)
1934 - Nick Nolte, Omaha Nebr, actor (Teachers, 48 Hrs, Rich Man Poor Man)
1935 - Vincent Weir 3rd baron Inverforth, Scottish shipping magnate
1936 - Cletis Boyer, 3rd baseman (NY Yankees)
1936 - Larry Verne, singer (Custer)
1936 - Manohar Hardikar, cricketer (batted in 2 Tests India v WI 1958-59)
1937 - Joe Raposa, composer/songwriter (Sesame Street)
1937 - Manfred Krug, Duisburg Germany, actor (Boxer)
1938 - Ray Sharpe, singer
1939 - Barry Mann, vocalist (Who Put the Bump)
1939 - Gerrit Lakmaaker, sculptor/painter (Leidsepleingroep)
1939 - José Maria Sison, Filipino communist
1940 - Averil Cameron, British(?) historian
1940 - Talib Rasul Hakim, composer
1940 - Ted Koppel, Lancashire England, American journalist (ABC Nightline)
1941 - Tom Rush, NH, rock guitarist/vocalist (Circle Game, Urge For Going)
1942 - Fritz Peterson, baseball pitcher (NY Yankees)
1942 - Robert Klein, Bronx, comedian/actor (Hooper, Deadly Rivals)
1942 - Terry Melcher, Rip Chords, Doris Day's son
1943 - Bob Oliver, baseball player
1943 - Creed Bratton, California, rock guitarist (Grass Roots-Sooner or Later)
1943 - Jose de Almeida Prado, composer
1943 - Pirzada Qasim, Pakistani poet and VC of Karachi University
1944 - Bunky Henry, golfer
1944 - Sebastião Salgado, Brazilian documentary photographer
1946 - "Fito" Adolpho De La Parra, LA California, rocker (Canned Heat-Hot Money)
1946 - Paul Wheatbread, rocker (Gary Puckett & Union Gap-Young Girl)
1947 - Sam Gannon, cricketer (Austr lefty quick, 3 Tests v India 1977-78)
1948 - Dan Seals, McCamey Texas, country singer (England Dan & John Ford Coley-You Still Move Me)
1948 - Lynda Lyon Block, American convicted murderer (d. 2002)
1949 - Brooke Adams, NYC, actress (Cynthia-OK Crackerby, Body Snatchers)
1949 - Julia Barr, Ft Wayne Ind, actress (Brooke-All My Children)
1949 - Scott Allen, USA, skater (Olympic-bronze-1964)
1950 - Jose Armando Lopez-Falcon, Cuba, cosmonaut
1950 - Michael Goodroe, rock bassist (Motels-Only the Lonely)
1950 - Ted Turner, rocker (Wishbone Ash)
1950 - Cristina Ferrare, American former supermodel and actress
1951 - Camille LaPierre, NHLer
1951 - Z'EV, American text/sound artist (born Stefan Weisser)
1952 - Hans Van de Lubbe, Dutch bassist/singer (Dike)
1952 - Nancy Lord, Libertarian VP candidate (1992)
1953 - Mary Steenburgen, Newport Ark, actress (Parenthood, Time After Time)
1953 - Roger Clavet, Québécois politician
1954 - "Sensational" Sherri Martel, [Russell], New Orl, wrestler (WWF/AWA)
1955 - Ethan Phillips, actor (Neelix-Star Trek Voyager)
1955 - Jim "the Anvil" Neidhart, wrestler (WWF/WCW/NJPW/CWFI/Calgary)
1955 - John Grisham, writer (Client, Firm, Pelican Brief)
1955 - Nancy Oliver, American playwright and television writer
1956 - Dave Meros, American bassist (Spock's Beard)
1958 - Sherri Martel, American professional wrestler (d. 2007)
1959 - Heinz Gunthardt, Switzerland, tennis star
1959 - Irina Kalinina, USSR, springboard diver (Olympic-gold-1980)
1959 - Pamela Jean Bryant, Indianapolis In, playmate (April, 1978)
1960 - Alex Scott, British horse trainer
1960 - Dino Ciccarelli, Ontario, NHL right wing (Minn North Stars, Wash Caps)
1960 - Linda Fratianne, LA California, figure skater (Olympic-silver-1980)
1961 - Sammy Llanas, rocker (Bodeans)
1961 - Vince Neil, American singer (Mötley Crüe)
1961 - Bruce Timm,TV Producer (DC Animated Universe)
1963 - Mohammad Azharuddin, cricketer (elegant Indian batsman 1984-)
1963 - Raleigh MCkenzie, NFL center/guard (Philadelphia Eagles, San Diego Chargers)
1963 - Joshua Kadison, American pianist and songwriter
1964 - Dennis Gibson, NFL inside linebacker (San Diego Chargers)
1964 - Trinny Woodall, British fashion guru
1965 - Carmen Savy, Brisbane QLD, golfer (1990 Brisbane & District)
1965 - Jim Thornton, NFL tight end (Houston Oilers)
1965 - Lee Knight, CFL full back (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1965 - Mathilda May, Paris France, actress (Lifeforce)
1965 - Rod Bernstine, NFL running back (Denver Broncos)
1965 - Terry McDaniel, NFL cornerback (Oakland Raiders, LA Raiders)
1966 - Gary Coleman, Zion Ill, American actor (Arnold-Diff'rent Strokes)
1966 - Kirk Muller, Kingston, NHL center (Toronto Maple Leafs)
1966 - Hristo Stoichkov, Bulgarian footballer
1967 - Yvon Corriveau, Ontario, NHL left wing (Wash Caps)
1968 - Joy Fawcett, Inglewood California, soccer defender (Olympics-96)
1968 - Ron Goetz, CFL linebacker (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1968 - Claudette Pace, Maltese singer
1969 - Herb Hohenberger, hockey defenseman (Team Austria 1998)
1969 - Mary McCormack, actress, (Murder One, Private Parts)
1969 - Shiva Rose, American actress
1970 - Alonzo Mourning, NBA center (Miami Heat, Charlotte Hornets)
1970 - Cameron Cuffy, cricketer (St Vincent & WI fast bowler 1994-)
1970 - John Filan, Australian footballer
1971 - Heidi Mark, Columbus OH, playmate (Jul, 1995)
1972 - Adrian Rollins, cricketer (Derbyshire batsman, bro of Robert of Essex)
1972 - Marcus Pollard, NFL tight end (Indianapolis Colts)
1973 - Andreas Gliatis, soccer player (NEC)
1973 - Dave Dopek, Bolingbrook Illinois, 200m runner
1973 - Eric Kresser, quarterback (Cincinnati Bengals)
1973 - Michelle Brogan, Australian basketball forward (Olympics-bronze-96)
1973 - Tom King, Australian 470 class yachter (Olympics-96)
1974 - Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, French disc jockey (Daft Punk)
1974 - Ulises de la Cruz, Ecuadorian footballer
1974 - Seth Green, American actor
1974 - Kimbo Slice, American mixed martial artist
1975 - Damon Denson, guard (New England Patriots)
1975 - Joshua Morrow. Juneau Alaska, actor (Nicholas Newman-Young & Restless)
1976 - Holly Manthei, Edina Minn, soccer midfielder/forward (Olympics-96)
1976 - Jim Parque, Norwalk California, baseball pitcher (Olympics-bronze-96)
1976 - Khaled Mashud, Bangladeshi cricketer
1976 - Adam Piatt, American baseball player
1977 - Yucef Merhi, Venezuelan artist
1977 - Dave Farrell, American musician (Linkin Park)
1977 - Barry Hall, Australian rules footballer
1977 - Bridgette Kerkove, American actress
1978 - Christa Williams, Houston TX, softball pitcher (Olympics-gold-96)
1979 - Tara Tucker, Miss Alabama Teen USA (1997)
1979 - Aaron Cook, American baseball player
1979 - Josh Keaton, American actor and singer
1980 - Ralf Little, English actor/comedian
1980 - Cameron Muncey, Australian guitarist (Jet)
1980 - Stephen Wright, English footballer
1981 - Tommy Michaels, Staten Island NY, actor (Timmy Hutton-All My Children)
1981 - Myriam Montemayor Cruz, Mexican singer
1982 - Eric Alexander, American football player
1982 - Satomi Kōrogi, Japanese voice actress
1982 - Sousuke Takaoka, Japanese actor
1982 - Danny Tamberelli, American actor
1983 - Jim Verraros, American singer
1984 - Panagiotis Vasilopoulos, Greek basketball player
1987 - Carolina Kostner, Italian European champion figure skater
1988 - Keegan Meth, Zimbabwean cricketer
1989 - Danielle Harmer, English actress
1995 - Jordan Todosey, Canadian actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 08, 2013, 07:23:36 AM

This Day in History for 8th February


Famous Deaths

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Russian Tsar Peter the Great (1725)     Baseball Legend Connie Mack (1956)          Mr Jaguar William Lyons (1985)

1124 - Stefanus of Thiers/Muret, founder of order of Grammond/saint, dies
1245 - Johannes de Rupella/de la Rochelle, French theologist, dies
1250 - Robert I of Artois, French crusader (b. 1216)
1250 - William II Longespee
1265 - Hulagu Khan, Mongol ruler (b. 1217)
1296 - King Przemysł II of Poland (b. 1257)
1303 - Nanshu, Zen teacher (Rinzai line)/founder (Zounan temple), dies
1513 - Alonso de Ojeda, Spanish explorer (Curacao & Bonaire), dies
1529 - Baldassare Castiglione, Italian writer and diplomat (b. 1478)
1599 - Robert Rollock, Scottish educator
1611 - Jan H Van Linschoten, traveller/writer (Reys-Gheschrift), dies
1623 - Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, English politician (b. 1546)
1650 - John Adriaensz, hydraulic engineer (Haarlemmermeer), dies at about 74
1676 - Aleksei M Romanov, 1st Romanov-czar of Russia, dies at 46
1686 - Francois Tak, Dutch diplomat on Java, murdered
1691 - Carlo di Girolamo Rainaldi, Italian architect/composer, dies at 79
1709 - Giuseppe Torelli, Italian composer, dies at 50
1725 - Peter the Great [Pyotr Alexeyevich Romanov], tsar of Russia (1682-1725) dies of uremia at
           52
1740 - Clement XII, [Lorenzo Corsini], blind Pope (1730-40), dies at 87
1749 - Jan van Huysum, Dutch still life painter, dies at 66
1750 - Aaron Hill, English writer (b. 1685)
1768 - George Dance the Elder, English architect (b. 1695)
1771 - Augusta von Saxen-Gotha, German prince Frederick Louis of Wales, dies
1797 - Johann Friedrich Doles, composer, dies at 81
1801 - Johann Chrysostomus Drexel, composer, dies at 43
1821 - Paul Anton Wineberger, composer, dies at 62
1824 - Rhijnvis Feith, Dutch mayor/writer (Zwolle, Julia), dies at 71
1849 - France Preseren, Slovenian poet (Sonetni Venec), dies at 48
1849 - Francois-Antoine Habeneck, composer, dies at 68
1856 - Agostino Bassi, Italian entomologist (b. 1773)
1874 - David F Strauss, German theologist, dies at 66
1878 - Elias M Fries, Swedish botanist (mycologicum), dies at 83
1884 - Arnold Henry Guyot, Swiss/US geologist/meteorologist, dies at 76
1907 - Hendrik W Bakhuis Roozeboom, chemist (fasenleer), dies at 52
1909 - Edouard Silas, composer, dies at 80
1909 - Mieczyslaw Karlowicz, composer, dies at 32
1910 - Hans Jæger, Norwegian writer and political activist (b. 1854)
1920 - Richard Dehmel, writer, dies at 56
1921 - Pjotr A Kropotkin, Russian ruler/anarchist, dies at 78
1921 - George Formby (Senior), English entertainer (b. 1876)
1924 - Gee John, US mobster (1st executed in gas chamber-Nevada), dies
1929 - Maria Christina, Queen Regent of Spain (b. 1858)
1932 - Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll, mobster, killed by Dutch Schultz gang
1935 - Max Liebermann, Ger impressionist painter/graphic artist, dies at 87
1937 - Scato Gocko de Vries, Dutch paleographer/librarian, dies at 75
1942 - Fritz Todt, German Reichs minister (Organization Todt), dies at 50
1944 - Clem Wilson, cricketer (bro of Rockley, 2 Tests for Engld 1896), dies
1946 - Miles Mander, actor/director (Murder, 3 Musketeers), dies at 57
1947 - Ernest Samuel Williams, composer, dies at 65
1949 - Franco Leoni, composer, dies at 81
1949 - Leonid Alexeyevich Polovinkin, composer, dies at 54
1953 - Cliff Clark, actor (Golden Hoofs, Kid Glove Killer), dies at 63
1954 - Mabel Paige, actress (Lucky Jordan), dies at 73
1956 - Connie Mack, baseball manager (Phila A's, 1901-50), dies at 93
1957 - John Von Neumann, astronomer, dies at 53
1959 - William J "Wild Bill" Donovan, Office Strategic Services, dies at 76
1960 - Giles Gilbert Scott, British architect (b. 1880)
1960 - John Langshaw Austin, British philosopher, (b. 1911)
1961 - William Duncan, actor (Hopalong Rides Again), dies at 81
1963 - Abdul Karim Kassem, PM of Iraq (58-63), assassinated in Baghdad at 48
1963 - George Dolenz, Italian actor (Count of Monte Cristo), dies at 55
1964 - Tom Terriss, English director (His Buddy's Wife, Sumuru), dies at 91
1968 - J Borremans, Belgian politician (Communist), dies at 56
1972 - Markos Vamvakaris, Greek musician and songwriter (b. 1905)
1973 - Herbie Taylor, cricketer (2936 runs in 42 Tests for South Africa), dies
1974 - Fern Andra, dies at 80
1974 - Fritz Zwicky, Swiss/US astronomer (supernova), dies at 75
1975 - Martyn Green, actor (Gilbert & Sullivan, Mikado), dies at 75
1975 - Robert Robinson, British chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1886)
1977 - Eivind Groven, Norwegian composer and ethnomusicologist (b. 1901)
1979 - Nikolay Semyonovich Tikhonov, Russian poet, dies at 82
1980 - Nikos Xilouris, Greek singer (b. 1936)
1982 - John Hay Whitney, US newspaper magnate, dies at 76
1984 - Karel Miljon, Dutch boxer (b. 1903)
1985 - Marvin Miller, actor (Michael Anthony-Millionaire), dies at 71
1985 - Tom Greenway, actor (Miami Story), dies of a heart attack at 75
1985 - William Lyons, British automobile manufacturer, dies at 84
1987 - Bronislawa Wajs [Papuscha], writer, dies
1987 - Harriet MacGibbon, actress (Mrs Drysdale-Beverly Hillbillies), dies
1987 - Hendrik Koekoek, founder (Dutch Boer party), dies at 74
1988 - Allan Cuthbertson, actor (Running Man, 7th Dawn), dies at 67
1989 - Maurits Kok, Dutch writer/poet (Railroad Strike), dies at 81
1990 - Del Shannon, rock vocalist (Runaway), shoots self at 50
1990 - Del Shannon, American entertainer (suicide) (b. 1934)
1991 - Miran Bux, cricketer (2 Tests for Pakistan 1954-55), dies at 47
1992 - Baruch Lumet, actor (Killer Shrews), dies at 93
1993 - Casper van den Berg, Dutch poet (Fashionable inconvenience), dies
1993 - Douglas Heyes, director/writer (Kitten with a Whip), dies at 73
1993 - Eliot Janeway, financial columnist (Eliot Doomsday), dies at 80
1993 - Franz Schnyder, Swiss director (10th of May), dies at 82
1993 - Paul Brickhill, Dutch/US WW II pilot/physician, dies
1993 - N. Shanmugathasan, Sri Lankan communist leader
1994 - Jacob Firet, Dutch theologist (Agogic Moment), dies at 70
1994 - Ken Hall, Australian director/producer (Kokoda front line), dies at 92
1994 - Raymond Scott, composer (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm), dies at 85
1995 - B G Hooghoudt, radiotelescope build (Dwingeloo/Westerbork), dies at 70
1995 - Wilhelm J Soukop, Austrian/British sculptor, dies at 88
1995 - William Fulbright, US politician, dies
1996 - John Hartford Worlock, RC Bishop (Liverpool), dies at 76
1996 - Mercer Kennedy Ellington, trumpeter bandleader/composer, dies at 76
1997 - Roy George Elroy Josephs, jazz dance teacher, dies at 57
1998 - William Lambert, Pulitzer prize-winning reporter, dies at 78
1998 - Julian Lincoln Simon, American economist and author (b. 1932)
1998 - Enoch Powell, British Conservative MP and shadow cabinet member (b.1912)
1999 - Iris Murdoch, Irish author (b. 1919)
2000 - Sid Abel, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1918)
2000 - Bob Collins, American radio broadcaster (b.1942)
2000 - Derrick Thomas, American football player (b. 1967)
2001 - Ivo Caprino, Norwegian animated film director (b. 1920)
2002 - Joachim Hoffmann, German historian (b. 1930)
2002 - Ong Teng Cheong, President of Singapore (b. 1936)
2004 - Julius Schwartz, American comic book and science fiction editor (b. 1915)
2005 - Jimmy Smith, American jazz musician (b. 1925)
2005 - Keith Knudsen, American drummer, vocalist and songwriter (The Doobie Brothers) (b. 1948)
2006 - Elton Dean, English musician (Soft Machine) (b. 1945)
2006 - Akira Ifukube, Japanese composer (b. 1914)
2007 - Anna Nicole Smith, Playboy playmate and tabloid fixture dies suddenly at 39
2007 - Ian Stevenson, Canadian-American professor and reincarnation expert (b. 1918)
2008 - Chua Ek Kay, Singaporean painter (b. 1947)
2009 - Marian Cozma, Romanian handball player (b. 1982)
2010 - John Murtha, American politician (b. 1932)
2011 - Tony Malinosky, American baseball player (b. 1909)
2012 - Luis Alberto Spinetta, Argentinian rock musician, dies from lung cancer at 62
2012 - Gunther Plaut, German-Canadian rabbi, dies at 99

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 09, 2013, 07:22:05 AM

This Day in History for 9th February


Historical Events

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474 - Zeno crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
1267 - Synod of Breslau orders Jews of Silesia to wear special caps
1499 - France & Venice sign treaty against Milan
1537 - Pope Paul III routes Cardinal Pole to England
1540 - The 1st recorded race meet in England (Roodee Fields, Chester)
1554 - Battle at London: Sir Thomas Wyatt defeated
1555 - Bishop of Gloucester John Hooper is burned at the stake.
1574 - Louis of Nassau ends siege of Maastricht
1621 - Alexander Ludovisi is elected Pope Gregory XV (-1623)
1667 - Treaty of Andrussovo: Russia/Poland signs peace treaty
1674 - English reconquer NY from Netherlands
1682 - Thomas Otway's "Venice Preserved," premieres in London
1742 - British ex-premier Walpole becomes earl of Orford
1744 - Battle at Toulon (French/Spanish vs English fleet of Adm Matthews)
1775 - English Parliament declares Mass colony is in rebellion
1788 - Austria declares war on Russia
1799 - USS Constellation captures French frigate Insurgents off Nevis, W I
1801 - France & Austrian sign Peace of Luneville
1807 - French Sanhedrin convened by Napoleon
1822 - American Indian Society organizes
1822 - Haiti invades the newly founded Dominican Republic.
1825 - House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams 6th US president
1849 - Roman Republic declared
1861 - Jefferson Davis & Alexander Stephens elected president & VP of CSA
1861 - Tennessee votes against secession
1861 - Confederate Provisional Congress declares all laws under the US Constitution were consistent
           with constitution of Confederate states
1863 - Fire extinguisher patented by Alanson Crane
1870 - US Army establishes US National Weather Service
1871 - Federal fish protection office authorized by Congress
1885 - 1st Japanese arrive in Hawaii
1886 - Pres Cleveland declares a state of emergency in Seattle because of anti-Chinese violence
1889 - The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is established as a Cabinet-level agency.
1891 - 1st shipment of asparagus arrives in SF from Sacramento
1893 - Canal builder De Lesseps & others sentenced to prison for fraud
1893 - Verdi's opera "Falstaff" premieres in Milan
1895 - 1st intercollegiate basketball game (Minn Agricult beats Hamline, 9-3)
1895 - Volleyball invented by W G Morgan in Massachusetts
1900 - Dwight Davis established a new tennis trophy, the Davis Cup
1904 - Japan declares war on Russia
1906 - Natal proclaims state of siege in Zulu uprising
1909 - 1st federal legislation prohibiting narcotics (opium)
1909 - 1st forestry school is incorporated at Kent, Ohio
1912 - US Tennis Association amends rule taking bye away from defending champion
1913 - -18] 10 Day Tragedy of Mexico-City; 3,000 die
1916 - Britain's military service act enforced (conscription)
1916 - NL votes down a proposal by Giants, Braves, & Cubs to increase club player limit from 21 to
           22 (The Reds want to decrease to 20)
1918 - Army chaplain school organizes at Ft Monroe Va
1918 - Sacha Guitry's "Deburan," premieres in Paris
1920 - International treaty recognizes Norwegian sovereignty over Svalbard
1920 - Joint Rules Com bans foreign substances & alterations to baseballs
1922 - Italian government of Bonomi falls
1922 - Snow on Mauna Loa, Hawaii
1922 - Brazil becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1923 - Soviet Aeroflot airlines forms
1924 - Nakhichevan ASSR constituted within Azerbaijan SSR
1925 - German Minister Stresemann proposes security treaty with France
1925 - Haifa Technion (Israel), opens
1926 - Teaching theory of evolution forbidden in Atlanta, Georgia schools
1929 - USSR, Estonia, Latvia, Poland & Romania sign Litvinov Pact
1932 - America enter Olympic 2-man bobsled competition for 1st time
1932 - US airship Columbia crashes during storm (Flushing, NY)
1933 - -63°F (-53°C), Moran, Wyoming (state record)
1934 - -14.3°F (-25.7°C), coldest day in New York City
1934 - -51°F (-46°C), Vanderbilt, Michigan (state record)
1934 - Balkan Entente alliance forms (Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey & Romania)
1935 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson
1935 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Robin Lee
1939 - Belgian Spaak government falls
1940 - Joe Louis beats Arturo Godoy in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1941 - British troops conquer El Agheila
1941 - Nazi collaborators destroy pro-Jewish café Alcazar Amsterdam (Alcazar refused to hang "No
           Entry for Jews" signs in front of cafe)
1942 - Daylight Savings War Time goes into effect in US
1942 - Japanese troops land near Makassar, South Celebes
1942 - Philadelphia "Phillies" change nickname (temporarily) to "Phils"
1943 - FDR orders minimal 48 hour work week in war industry
1943 - German riots at "plutocratenzoontjes," 1,200 in Vught Camp
1943 - Japanese evacuate Guadalcanal, ends epic battle
1943 - NL seeks buyer for Phillies, as owner Gerry Nugent, falls in arrears
1943 - Nazis arrest Dutch sons of rich parents
1944 - U-734/U-238 sunk off Ireland
1945 - -Feb 10] Germany destroys Ruhrdammen
1945 - WAAF-corporal flies along the tail of a Spitfire
1945 - The Battle of the Atlantic the HMS Venturer sinking U-Boat 864 off the coast of Norway.
1946 - Dutch Labor Party (Dutch Social Democratic Party) forms
1947 - Bank robber Willie Sutton escapes jail in Phila
1948 - WLWT TV channel 5 in Cincinnati, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting
1950 - Sen Joseph McCarthy charges State Dept infested with 205 communists
1951 - St Louis Browns sign pitcher Satchel Paige, 45
1953 - "Adventures of Superman" TV series premieres in syndication
1953 - WNEP TV channel 16 in Scranton Wilkes-Barre, PA (ABC) 1st broadcast
1953 - General Walter Bedell Smith, USA, ends term as 4th director of CIA Allen W Dulles, becomes
           acting director of CIA
1954 - Mario Scelba forms new government in Italy
1955 - Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts crematory law
1955 - US federations of trade unions merge into AFL/CIO
1956 - -5°F (15°C) in Sicily
1956 - KHPL (now KWNB) TV channel 6 in Hayes Center, NB (ABC) 1st broadcast
1956 - R Lacoste follows Catroux as premier of Algeria
1959 - Coasters's "Charlie Brown" peaks at #2
1960 - AFL & NFL agree verbally to a no tampering pact
1961 - Joseph Ileo appointed premier of Congo
1962 - Jamaica signs agreement to become independent
1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 - 1st flight of Boeing 727 jet
1963 - 7th largest snowfall in NYC history (42.4 cm, 16.7")
1964 - 1st appearance of Beatles on "Ed Sullivan Show" (73.7 million viewers)
1964 - 9th Winter Olympic games close at Innsbruck, Austria
1964 - GI Joe character created
1964 - Hanumant Singh scores 105 India v England on debut at Delhi
1964 - NYC news anchor Jim Jenson's 1st appearance on WCBS-TV
1966 - Dow-Jones Index hits record 995 points
1968 - Rotterdam metro opened by princess Beatrix
1969 - Boeing 747 made its 1st commercial flight
1969 - KGTO TV channel 36 in Fayetteville, AR (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
1969 - World's largest airplane, Boeing 747, makes 1st commercial flight
1971 - Apollo 14 returns to Earth
1971 - Probably 1st gay theme TV episode - All in the Family
1971 - Quake in San Fernando Valley kills 64 & causes over $½B damage
1971 - Satchel Paige becomes 1st negro-league player elected to baseball HOF
1972 - Brit government declares state of emergency after month-long miners' strike
1973 - Biju Patnaik of the Pragati Legislature Party elected leader of opposition in the state assembly
           in Orissa, India.
1974 - "Daddy What If" by Bobby Bare peaks at #41
1974 - "The Americans (A Canadian's Opinion)" by Gordon Sinclair peaks at #24
1974 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Dorothy Hamill
1974 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Gordon McKellen Jr
1975 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Naples Lely Golf Classic
1975 - Soyuz 17 returns to Earth
1976 - Oscar Charleston selected to baseball's the Hall of Fame
1979 - 21st Grammy Awards: Just the Way You Are, Taste of Honey
1979 - ABC airs "Heroes of Rock N Roll" special
1979 - Beginning of James Clavell's novel "Whirlwind"
1979 - Nigeria amends constitution
1980 - Rick Barry, Houston, is 1st in NBA to score 8, 3-pt goals in a game
1982 - 34th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 4-2 at Washington
1983 - Belgium buys 44 F-16s
1984 - "Rink" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 204 performances
1985 - Madonna's "Like a Virgin," album goes #1 for 3 weeks
1986 - 36th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 139-132 at Dallas
1986 - Halley's Comet reaches 30th perihelion (closest approach to Sun)
1986 - Haydar Bakr al-Attas appointed president of South Yemen
1986 - Marvin Johnson wins record 3rd time, light heavyweight boxing title
1986 - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic
1986 - Tomb of Tutanchamon's treasurer Maya found in Egypt
1986 - West German team swims world record 4x200 m freestyle (7:05.17)
1987 - Former national security adviser Robert McFarlane attempts suicide
1987 - NY Stock Exch installs ladies restroom in the Exchange Luncheon Club
1988 - 39th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 6-5 (OT) at St Louis
1988 - NH begins a NCAA record 32-game losing streak at home (ends Feb 1991)
1989 - Kevin Johnson (Phoenix) ends NBA free throw streak of 57 games
1989 - Michael Manley's Socialist Party wins Jamaica parliamentary election
1990 - "Bradys" return to TV for 6 episodes on CBS TV
1990 - Doina Melinte runs world indoor record 1.5k (4:00:27) & mile (4:17:13)
1990 - Galileo flies by Venus
1990 - Namibia's constitution ratified
1991 - "This Is Ponderous" by 2nu peaks at #46
1991 - Johann Olav Koss skates world record 5k (6:41:73)
1991 - Terry Norris knocks down Sugar Ray Leonard twice & beats him
1991 - US Supreme Court agrees to hear Joseph Doherty case
1991 - Wally Joyner wins record $2.1 million salary arbitration
1992 - "2 Shakespearean Actors" closes at Cort Theater NYC after 29 perfs
1992 - 42nd NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 153-113 at Orlando
1992 - Fastest yodeler-22 tones/15 falsetto in 1 sec by Thomas School of Germ
1992 - Heike Henkel high jumps female indoor world record (2.07m)
1992 - Jani Sievinen swims world record 400m medley (4:07.10)
1992 - NBA All Star Game - West beats East 153-113
1992 - Shelley Hamlin wins LPGA Phar-Mor Golf Tournament at Hamlin Inverrary
1993 - Army of opium king Khun Sa kills 60 in NE Burma
1994 - Israeli minister Shimon Perez signs accord with PLO's Arafat
1995 - "Heiress" opens at Cort Theater NYC for 340 performances
1995 - Irina Privalova runs female world record 50m (5.96 sec)
1996 - WYNY-FM in NYC changes calls to WKTU-FM
1996 - The Irish Republican Army declares the end of its 18 month ceasefire shortly followed by a
           large bomb in London's Canary Wharf.
1997 - 11th American Comedy Award: Debbie Reynolds
1997 - 47th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 132-120 at Cleveland
1997 - Kelly Robbins wins LPGA Diet Dr Pepper National Pro-Am
1997 - LG Senior Golf Championship
1997 - Mark O'Meara wins Buick golf invitational
1997 - Palm Beach National LPGA Pro-Am
1997 - Scotty Bowman, is 1st NHL coach to win 1,000 games
1997 - Fox cartoon series "Simpsons" airs 167th episode the longest-running animated series in
          cartoon history
1998 - Failed assassination attempt on Georgian Pres Eduard Shevardnadze
2001 - The American submarine USS Greeneville accidentally strikes and sinks the Ehime-Maru, a
           Japanese training vessel operated by the Uwajima Fishery High School.

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 09, 2013, 07:23:17 AM

This Day in History for 9th February


Famous Divorces

2012 - Actress Parminder Nagra files for divorce from photographer James Stenson due to irreconcilable
           differences after 3 years of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 09, 2013, 07:29:34 AM

This Day in History for 9th February


Famous Birthdays

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Economist Joseph E. Stiglitz (1943)         Novelist Alice Walker (1944)                   Cricketer Glenn McGrath (1970)

1404 - Constantine XI Dragases, last Byzantine Emperor
1441 - Ali Sjir Neva'i [Fani], Turkish poet/author (Mahbub al-kulub)
1533 - Shimazu Yoshihisa, Japanese samurai (d. 1611)
1578 - Giambattista Andreini, Italian playwright/actor (L'adamo)
1579 - John Meursius, [van Meurs], Dutch historian
1602 - Franciscus van de Enden, Flemish jesuit/free thinker/tutor of Spinoza
1607 - Abraham Megerle, composer
1645 - Johann Aegidius Bach, German violistian (d. 1716)
1666 - George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney, British soldier (d. 1737)
1735 - Adriaan Kluit, Dutch historian
1741 - Henri-Joseph Rigel, composer
1744 - Amos Bull, composer
1748 - Luther Martin, American patriot (d. 1826)
1756 - Karel Blazej Kopriva, composer
1763 - Ludwig I, Grand Duke of Baden (d. 1830)
1769 - Susette Gontard, the beloved of the poet Friedrich Hölderlin (d. 1802)
1771 - Daniel Belknap, composer
1773 - William Henry Harrison, Va, (Whigs) 9th Pres (March 4-April 4, 1841)
1775 - Farkas/Wolfgang Bolyai, Hungary, mathematician (parallel axiom)
1780 - Walenty Karol Kratzer, composer
1781 - Johann Baptist von Spix, German scientist (d. 1826)
1783 - Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet (d. 1852)
1789 - Franz Xaver Gabelsberger, German inventor of the stenography (d. 1849)
1808 - Francesco Gomez da Rocha, composer
1814 - Samuel Jones Tilden, philanthropist for NY Public Library
1822 - Charles T Stork, Dutch industrialist
1826 - John Alexander Logan, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1886
1830 - Abd-ul-Aziz, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1876)
1834 - Felix Dahn, writer
1834 - Franz Xaver Witt, composer
1839 - Silas Adams, American lawyer and politician (d. 1896)
1846 - Wilhelm Maybach, German engineer, designer of 1st Mercedes
1846 - Whitaker Wright, English mining tycoon (d. 1904)
1853 - Leander Starr Jameson, PM of South African Cape colony
1854 - Aletta [Henriette] Jacobs, 1st Dutch female physician
1854 - Edward Carson, 1st Baron Carson, lawyer/leader (Irish Unionist Party)
1857 - Johannes T de Visser, theologist/Dutch 1st minister of Education
1863 - Anthony Hope [Hopkins], London, novelist
1865 - Erich von Drygalski, Germany, geographer/glaciologist/Antarctic expl
1865 - Mrs [Beatrice] Patrick Campbell, England, actress (Pygmalion)
1866 - George Ade, US, journalist/playwright/humorist (Fables in Slang)
1867 - Edward Naylor, composer
1871 - Franc S Finzgar, Slovenian clergyman/writer (Our Blood)
1871 - Howard T Ricketts, US pathologist (studied typhus fever)
1874 - Amy Lowell, US poet/critic (Patterns, Sword Blades & Poppy Seed)
1874 - Vsevolod Meyerhold, Russian theatrical director/actor (Houligan)
1875 - Sidney Hugo Nicholson, composer
1876 - Martin Stixrud, Norway, figure skater (Olympic-bronze-1920)
1879 - Carl Natanael Berg, composer
1879 - Jacques Bainville, French historian/essayist/journalist
1880 - Lipót Fejér, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1959)
1882 - Thomas Campbell, South African cricket wicketkeeper (5 Tests 1909-12)
1884 - Frederik Gerretson, [Geerten Gossaert], Dutch poet/politician)
1885 - Alban Maria Johannes Berg, Vienna Austria, a Lulu of a composer!
1887 - Henry Zimmerman, baseball player (1912-batted .372 with 14 HRs)
1887 - Vital Celen, Flemish writer (Puppy Love)
1890 - Jacobus J P Oud, Dutch architect/co-founder (Stijl)
1891 - Pietro Nenni, Italy, socialist/minister of foreign affairs (1946-47)
1891 - Ronald Colman, England, 1947 Acad Award actor (Tale of 2 Cities)
1892 - Barend ter Haar, Dutch lawyer (Indonesian adat justice)
1892 - Peggy Wood, Bkln NY, actress (One Life to Live, Mama)
1892 - Tommy Treichel, American professional wrestler (d. 1936)
1895 - Hermann Brill, German politician (d. 1959)
1897 - Charles Edward Kingsford-Smith, pioneer Australian aviator
1901 - Brian Donlevy, Ireland, actor (Barbary Coast, Glass Key, Wake Island)
1901 - James Murray, American actor (d. 1936)
1902 - Blanche Calloway, US vocalist/dancer (12 Clouds of Joy)
1902 - Chester H Lauck, Allene AR, actor (Dreaming Out Loud, 2 Weeks to Live)
1902 - Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, German women's leader (d. 1999)
1903 - Georg Trexler, composer
1906 - Gwen Catley, British(?) soprano
1906 - André Kostolany, stock market expert and speculator (d. 1999)
1907 - Aubrey "Dit" Clapper, NHL hall of famer (Boston Bruins)
1908 - Jackie Fields, US, featherweight boxer (Olympic-gold-1924)
1909 - Carmen Miranda, Brazil, vocalist/actress (Copacabana, Date With Judy)
1909 - Dean Rusk, US Secretary of State (1961-69)
1909 - Harald Genzmer, composer
1909 - Heather Angel, Oxford England, actress (Informer, Last of Mohicans)
1909 - John Eustace Theodore Brancker, lawyer/parliamentarian
1910 - Jacques Monod, French biochemist
1911 - Eustace Wenworth Roskill, law lord
1911 - William Darby, American WWII Army officer (d. 1945)
1912 - Hubert William Dean, air armaments specialist
1913 - Leo van der Kar, masseur/businessman/founder (Sports funds)
1914 - Bill "Rhymes with Wreck" Veeck, baseball club owner
1914 - Ernest Tubb, Tx, guitarist/singer (I'm Walking the Floor over You)
1914 - Gypsy Rose Lee, Seattle Wash, stripper (or 0109 or 0208)
1914 - Max Manus, resistance fighter
1914 - Ralph Herman, Milwaukee Wisc, orchestra leader (Circus Time)
1915 - Lennard Pearce, English actor (d. 1984)
1916 - Tex Hughson, American baseball player (d. 1993)
1921 - B M Ducat-Amos, Air Commandant/director (RAF Nursing Service)
1921 - Charles Montgomery Monteith, publisher
1922 - James C "Jim" Laker, Bradford England, cricket off spinner
1923 - Brendan Behan, Dublin Ireland, author/poet (Hostage)
1923 - Kathryn Grayson, NC, vocalist/actress (Anchors Aweigh, Kiss Me Kate)
1923 - Norman E Shumway, Mich, pioneer cardiac transplant surgeon
1924 - George Guest, British organist
1925 - Vic Wertz, baseball player
1925 - Burkhard Heim, German physicist (d. 2001)
1926 - Garret FitzGerald, Prime Minister of Ireland
1927 - Donald Miller, CEO (Scottish Power)
1927 - Norman Adams, painter/ceramic sculptor
1928 - Roger Mudd, Wash DC, news ancher (CBS Weekend News, NBC Evening News)
1928 - Frank Frazetta, American illustrator
1928 - Rinus Michels, Dutch football coach (d. 2005)
1929 - Bill Barrett, (Rep-R-Nebraska)
1929 - James Mulcro Drew, composer
1929 - Lennox Butler, cricketer (1 Test WI v Aust 1955, 16 & 2-151)
1929 - Willem Kersters, Flemish composer (Parwati, Gospel Song)
1929 - Clement Meadmore, Australian-born sculptor (d. 2005)
1930 - Emil Petrovics, composer
1930 - Garner Ted Armstrong, American evangelist (d. 2003)
1931 - Robert Morris, sculptor
1931 - Xavier Benguerel, composer
1931 - Josef Masopust, Czech footballer
1932 - Tatsuro Hirooka, Japanese baseball player
1932 - Gerhard Richter, German painter
1933 - Countess of Airlie
1933 - Jo Ann Prentice, LPGA golfer
1933 - Justice Johnson
1933 - Lord Williams of Elvel
1934 - John A Ziegler Jr, Grosse Pointe Mich, 4th NHL pres (1977-92)
1935 - Paul Flynn, MP
1936 - Clive Swift, Liverpool, actor (Frenzy, Passage to India)
1936 - Stompin' Tom Connors, Canadian country singer
1937 - Brian Wenham, media consultant/journalist
1937 - Johnny Sayles, US vocalist (You Made Me Wiggle)
1937 - Clete Boyer, American baseball player (d. 2007)
1939 - Barry Mann, R&B singer (Who Put the Bomp in the Bomp Bomp Bomp)
1939 - Janet Suzman, South African actress (Dry White Season, Nuns on the Run)
1940 - Brian Bennett, London, rock drummer (Shadows)
1941 - Sheila James Kuehl, politician/actress (Zelda-Dobie Gillis)
1942 - Carole King, [Klein], Brooklyn NY, pianist/singer (Tapestry)
1942 - Charlie Morrow, composer
1942 - Milos Stedron, composer
1942 - Peder Lunde Jr, Norway, yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1960)
1943 - Barbara Lewis, US vocalist (Hello Stranger)
1943 - James King, New Orleans LA, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1968)
1943 - Joe Pesci, Newark NJ, actor (Half Nelson, Goodfellas)
1943 - Jonny Nilsson, Sweden, 10K speed skater (Olympic-gold-1964)
1943 - Ryland Davies, tenor
1943 - Squire Fridell, Oakland California, actor (Rosetti & Ryan)
1943 - Joseph E. Stiglitz, American economist, Nobel laureate
1944 - Alice Walker, US, novelist (Color Purple, Meridian)
1944 - Derryn Hinch, Australian media personality
1945 - Bill Bergey, NFLer
1945 - Mia [Maria] Farrow, LA, actr (Rosemary's Baby, Purple Rose of Cairo)
1946 - Annette Penhaligon
1946 - M J H Sterling, Vice-Chancellor (Brunel University)
1946 - Séan Neeson, Northern Irish politician
1946 - Vince Papale, American football player
1946 - Jim Webb, United States Senator from Virginia
1947 - Joe Ely, Amarillo Tx, country vocalist (Honky Tonk Masquerade)
1947 - Major Harris, US R&B-singer (Love won't Let me wait)
1947 - Carla Del Ponte, Swiss UN prosecutor
1949 - Bernard Gallacher, British golfer
1949 - Janet Issaca Ashford, writer
1949 - Judith Light, Trenton NJ, (Angela-Who's the Boss, 1 Life to Live)
1950 - Andrew N Meltzoff, developmental psychologist
1950 - Lloyd Weldon Keasor, Pumphrey Md, wrestler (Olympic-silver-1976)
1950 - Terry Hawkins, theatre administrator
1950 - Richard F. Colburn, American politician
1951 - Dennis "Dee Tee" Thomas, saxophonist (Kool & Gang-Celebration)
1951 - Jay Inslee, (Rep-D-Washington)
1951 - Penny Peyser, Irvington NY, actress (Rich Man Poor Man, Knots Landing)
1952 - Danny White, quarterback (Dallas Cowboys)
1952 - Mookie Wilson, American baseball player
1953 - Andre Sevard, NHLer
1953 - Antonius GM "Toon" Agterberg, Dutch actor (Hunk)
1953 - Gary Franks, (Rep-R-Connecticut)
1953 - Gabriel Rotello, American television documentary producer
1954 - Ulrich Walter, German FR, cosmonaut
1954 - Mary Jo Duffy, American comic book writer and editor
1954 - Christopher Gardner, American entrepreneur
1954 - Kevin Warwick, Cyborg Scientist
1955 - Charles Shaughnessy, London, actor (Shane-Days of our Lives, Nanny)
1955 - Jm J Bullock, Casper Wyoming, actor (Monroe-Too Close for Comfort)
1956 - Philip Jackson Ford Jr, NC, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1976)
1957 - Gordon Strachan, soccer player
1957 - Mohammed Valli Moosa, South African leader (UDF)
1958 - Alexander W B Lyle, Shrewsbury England, PGA golfer (1988 Phoenix Open)
1958 - Sandy Lyle, British golfer
1958 - Cyrille Regis, English former footballer
1960 - Peggy A Whitson, Mt Ayr Iowa, PhD/astronaut
1960 - Holly Johnson, Liverpool England, rock vocalist (Frankie Goes To Hollywood)
1961 - John Kruk, US baseball 1st baseman (Philadelphia Phillies)
1961 - Jussi Lampi, Finnish musician and actor
1962 - Diego Perez, Spain, tennis star
1962 - Martin D Lascelles, grandson of English princess Mary
1962 - Anik Bissonnette, Quebec ballet dancer (Les Grands Ballets Canadiens)
1963 - Bonnie Levin, Miami Beach Fla, WPVA volleyballer
1963 - Madusa Miceli, [Debra Ann], Milan Italy, wrestler (WCW)
1963 - Mike Rindel, cricketer (N Transvaal opening bat ODI ton v Pak 1995)
1963 - Travis Tritt, Marietta Ga, country vocalist (Country Club)
1963 - Brian Greene, American physicist
1964 - Rachel Bolan, rocker (Skid Row)
1965 - David Brandon, NFL linebacker (Atlanta Falcons, Atlanta Falcons)
1965 - Igor Malkov, Russian speedskater
1966 - Amanda Roocroft, opera singer
1966 - James "Rachel" Bolan, Pt Pleasant NJ, rocker (Skid Row-Psycho Love)
1966 - Ellen van Langen, Dutch athlete
1966 - Harald Eia, Norwegian TV - comedian
1967 - Kate Golden, Beaumont Texas, LPGA golfer (1992 Ping/Welch-5th)
1967 - Stevon Moore, NFL safety (Cleveland Browns, Baltimore Ravens)
1967 - Todd Pratt, US baseball catcher (Philadelphia Phillies)
1968 - Derek Strong, NBA forward (LA Lakers, Orlando Magic)
1968 - Marcus Meloan, Agana Guam, Canadian Tour golfer (1992 US Amat Champ)
1968 - Paul Claxton, Vidalia GA, Nike golfer (NIKE Central Georgia Open-38th)
1968 - Alejandra Guzmán, Mexican singer
1968 - Rahul Roy, Indian actor
1969 - Jeff Pahukoa, NFL guard/tackle (Atlanta Falcons)
1969 - Jimmy Smith, NFL wide receiver (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1969 - Peta Edebone, Australian softball outfielder (Olympics-bronze-96)
1969 - Thomas Brandl, Bad Tolz GER, hockey forward (Team Germany 1998)
1969 - Todd Lyght, US football quarterback (St Louis Rams)
1970 - Glenn McGrath, cricketer (NSW & Australian fast bowler 1993-)
1970 - Grant Moorhead, New Plymouth NZ, Australasia golfer
1971 - Gonzalo Floyd, CFL defensive end (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1971 - Jason Mathews, NFL tackle (Indianapolis Colts)
1971 - Jim Miller, NFL quarterback (Pittsburgh Steelers, Atl Falcons, Jaguars)
1971 - Ken Felder, US baseball outfielder (Milwaukee Brewers)
1971 - Pat O'Neill, NFL punter/place kicker (NE Patriots)
1971 - Sharon Case, Det Mich, actress (Sharon Collins-Young & Restless)
1971 - Johan Mjällby, Swedish footballer
1972 - Jason George, actor (Michael Bourre-Sunset Beach)
1972 - Norbert Rosza, Hungarian swimmer (100m freestyle record)
1972 - Crispin Freeman, American voice actor
1972 - Darren Ferguson, Scottish footballer
1973 - Amber Valletta, Phoenix AZ, model (Face, House of Style, Bazaar)
1973 - Svetlana Boginskaya, Soviet gymnast
1973 - Colin Egglesfield, American actor
1974 - Brad Maynard, punter (NY Giants)
1974 - John Wallace, NBA forward (Toronto Raptors)
1974 - Orlando Bobo, guard (Minnesota Vikings)
1975 - Viktor Chistiakov, Russian-born Australian athlete
1975 - Clinton Grybas, Australian Football commentator (d. 2008)
1976 - Georgios Korakakis, Greek footballer
1976 - Charlie Day, American actor
1976 - Vladimir Guerrero, Dominican baseball player
1978 - Airton Daré, Brazilian racing driver
1978 - Daniel Mann, British television commentator
1979 - David Gray, English snooker player
1979 - Akinori Iwamura, Japanese baseball pitcher
1979 - Zhang Ziyi, Chinese actress
1980 - Angelos Charisteas, Greek footballer
1980 - Shelly Martinez, American wrestler
1981 - Joël Camathias, Swiss racing driver
1981 - John Walker Lindh, American Taliban fighter
1982 - Ami Suzuki, Japanese singer
1983 - Mikel Arruabarrena, Spanish footballer
1984 - Han Kyung, Korean singer Super Junior
1984 - Dioner Navarro, Venezuelan baseball player
1985 - David Gallagher, American actor
1986 - Princess Raiyah bint Al Hussein, of Jordan
1987 - Magdalena Neuner, German biathlete
1987 - Joe O'Cearuill, Irish footballer
1989 - Wu Chia-ching, Taiwanese pool player
1989 - Gia Farrell, American singer
1990 - Camille Winbush, American actress
1996 - Jimmy Bennett, American actor

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 09, 2013, 07:32:26 AM

This Day in History for 9th February


Famous Deaths

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Novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1881)

1011 - Bernard I, Duke of Saxony
1199 - Minamoto no Yoritomo, Japanese shogun (b. 1147)
1450 - Agnès Sorel, mistress of King Charles VII of France (b. 1421)
1555 - John Hooper, deprived Bishop of Gloucester, burnt for heresy
1555 - Rowland Taylor, English pastor (executed) (b. 1510)
1567 - Henry Stuart, earl of Darnley/Consort of Mary Queen of Scots, murdered
1583 - Jeseph Sanalbo, Jewish convert in Rome, burned at stake
1588 - Marquis of Santa Cruz, Spanish admiral, dies
1617 - Hans Christoph Haiden, composer, dies at 44
1619 - Lucilio Vanini, Italian philosopher (b. 1585)
1640 - Murad IV, sultan of Turkey (1623-40), dies in Baghdad at 27
1670 - Frederik III, King of Denmark/Norway (1648-70), dies at 60
1675 - Gerrit Dou / Gerard Douw, Dutch painter (b. 1613)
1709 - François Louis, Prince of Conti, French general (b. 1664)
1740 - Vincenz Lubeck, composer, dies at 85
1751 - Henri F D'Aguesseau, Chancellor of France (1717..50), dies at 82
1752 - Fredric Hasselquist, Swedish naturalist (b. 1722)
1765 - Elisabetta de Gambarini, composer, dies at 33
1777 - Seth Pomeroy, American gunsmith and soldier (b. 1706)
1782 - Joseph Aloysius Assemani, Syrian orientalist (b. 1710)
1803 - Jean François de Saint-Lambert, French poet (b. 1716)
1811 - Nevil Maskelyne, 5th Astronomer Royal of England (1765-1811), dies
1812 - Franz Anton Hoffmeister, composer, dies at 57
1817 - Franz Wilhelm Tausch, composer, dies at 54
1824 - Anna K Emmerick/Emmerich, German poet, dies at 49
1846 - Henry Gally Knight, architect/writer, dies
1849 - Corneille Vander Planken, composer, dies at 76
1857 - Dionysios Solomos, Greek poet of the Greek national anthem (b. 1798)
1860 - Eduard W van Dam van Isselt, Dutch milt/liberal politician, dies at 63
1874 - Jules Michelet, French historian (History of France), dies at 75
1881 - Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist (Crime & Punishment), dies at 59
1891 - Johan B Jongkind, Dutch/French painter (Winter View), dies at 71
1906 - Paul Laurence Dunbar, black dialect poet, dies at 33 in Dayton, Ohio
1916 - Hynek Ignac Frantisek Vojacek, composer, dies at 90
1916 - Jack Barrett, cricketer (2 Tests for Australia 1890), dies
1917 - Francis Allan, cricket bowler (lefty in 1879 Aust-Eng Test), dies
1918 - Emiel van der Straeten, [Delrue], Flemish playwright, dies at 30
1924 - Nils Kj'r, Norwegian playwright (Det Lykkelige Valg), dies at 53
1932 - Junnosuke Inouye, Japanese minister of Finance, murdered
1935 - Karl Nef, Swiss musicologist, dies at 61
1936 - Jacques Bainville, French historian/essayist/journalist, dies at 57
1938 - Truby King, pioneer of mothercraft, dies
1940 - Eugene Bleuler, Swiss psychiatrist (b. 1857)
1943 - ... Reydons, wife of General Reydons, shot to death by resistance
1945 - George J L Maduro, resistance fighter (Madurodam), dies in Dachau
1945 - Jan Bakker, resistance fighter, executed at 26
1948 - Karl Valentin, German comic/writer, dies at 65
1949 - Poul Julius Ouscher Schierbeck, composer, dies at 60
1951 - Eddy Duchin, American musician (b. 1910)
1952 - Norman Douglas, essayist/novelist, dies
1957 - Miklos Horthy von Nagybanya, Hung admiral/regent (1920-44), dies at 88
1960 - Ernst von Dohnanyi, US composer, dies at 82
1960 - Alexandre Benois, Russian artist (b. 1870)
1961 - Grigory Levenfish, Intl chess grandmaster from Russia, dies at 70
1964 - Willie Bryant, singer (Sugar Hill Times), dies at 55
1966 - Sophie Tucker, Russ/US singer/actress (My Yiddish Mama), dies at 79
1968 - Barbara Everest, actress (Inquest, Madeleine), dies at 77
1968 - Frederik M baron van Asbeck, lawyer (League of Nations), dies at 78
1969 - Manuel Plaza Reyes, Chilean marathoner (Oly-gold 1928), dies at 68
1969 - [George] Gabby Hayes, actor (Albuquerque, Colorado), dies at 83
1973 - Max Yasgur, owner Woodstock-festival farmland, dies at 53
1973 - Vasiliki Maliaros, Greek actress (b. 1883)
1974 - Cees de Lange, Dutch conferencier, dies at 60
1975 - Constant Burniaux, Belgian art historian (L'amour Vivre), dies at 82
1976 - Percy Faith, Canadian musician (b. 1908)
1977 - Denys Amiel, French dramatist/playwright (Le mouton noir), dies at 92
1977 - Gaus, an orangautan who lived to be 59
1977 - Sergei Ilyushin, Russian airplane builder (Ilyushin), dies at 82
1978 - Kimberly Leach, killed by Ted Bundy in Lake City Fla at 12
1978 - Costante Girardengo, Italian cyclist (b. 1893)
1978 - Julio Jaramillo, Ecuadorian singer (b. 1935)
1979 - C I J Smith, cricket all-rounder (5 Tests for England 1935-37), dies
1979 - Dennis Gabor, Hungarian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1900)
1980 - Antoine Pompe, Belgian architect, dies at 106
1980 - Tom Macdonald, Welsh journalist and novelist (b. 1900)
1981 - Bill Haley, vocalist (Rock Around Clock), dies of heart attack at 55
1984 - Balasaraswathi, Indian classical dancer, dies in Madras
1984 - Yuri Andropov, Gen Sec of Soviet Communist Party (1982-84), dies at 69
1989 - Osamu Tezuka, Japanese manga artist (b. 1928)
1991 - James Cleveland, American gospel singer (b. 1931)
1993 - David Willis, British journalist (BBC World Service), dies at 54
1993 - Kate Wilkinson, actress (Clara-Another World), dies of cancer at 76
1993 - Nasrullah Mansoor, Afghan guerilla leader/governor of Paktia, dies
1994 - Arnold Smith, Brit 1st sec-gen of Commonwealth (1965-75), dies at 79
1994 - Jarmila Novotna, Czech/US soprano (Madame Butterfly), dies at 86
1994 - Louis Kaufman, US violinist/conductor (Gone with the Wind), dies at 88
1994 - Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (b. 1934)
1995 - David Wayne, [Wayne Mcmeekan], US actor (Dallas), dies at 81
1995 - J William Fulbright, (Sen-D-Ark)/anti-Vietnam War, dies at 89
1996 - Adolf Galland, general (Luftwaffe), dies at 83
1996 - Alistair Cameron Crombie, historian of science, dies at 80
1996 - Barry Troyna, teacher/educational sociologist, dies at 44
1996 - Charles Henry "Harry" Urwin, trade unionist, dies at 80
1996 - Gerald Savory, actor playwright/TV producer (3 Weeks), dies at 86
1996 - Neil Franklin, soccer star, dies at 74
1997 - Barry Evans, actor (Dr Upton-Dr in the House), dies at 53
1998 - Laxness, Iceland's Nobel Literature laureate, dies at 95
1999 - Bryan Mosley, British actor (b. 1931)
2001 - Herbert Simon, American economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1916)
2002 - Princess Margaret of the United Kingdom (b. 1930)
2002 - Vicente Sardinero, Spanish baritone (b. 1937)
2004 - Claude Ryan, Canadian newspaper director and politician (b. 1925)
2006 - Freddie Laker, British airline entrepreneur (b. 1922)
2006 - Nadira, Indian actress (b. 1932)
2007 - Hank Bauer, American baseball player (b. 1922)
2007 - Ian Richardson, Scottish actor (b. 1934)
2008 - Christopher Hyatt Occultist,Philosopher and Author.
2008 - Jazeh Tabatabai, Iranian avant-garde painter, poet and sculptor. (b. 1931)
2008 - Trichen Jurme Kunzang Wangyal, the eleventh Mindrolling Trichen, Tibetan Buddhist lama of
           the Nyingma school (b. 1930)
2008 - Scott Halpin, a one time drummer of The Who.
2009 - Eluana Englaro, an Italian woman who lived in a persistent vegetative state for 17 years (b.
          1970)
2010 - Phil Harris, American fisherman from Discovery Channel's Deadliest Catch (b. 1956)
2010 - Walter Frederick Morrison, American inventor (b. 1920)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 10, 2013, 08:20:12 AM

This Day in History for 10th February


Historical Events

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Military and Political Leader                30th US President Calvin Coolidge          Soviet Union Premier Joseph Stalin
Simon Bolivar

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Playwright Arthur Miller                                Singer Rod Stewart

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Anti-apartheid activist/                          King of Pop Michael Jackson
South African President
Nelson Mandela


60 - St Paul thought to have been shipwrecked at Malta
1098 - Crusaders defeat Prince Redwan of Aleppo at Antioch
1355 - The St. Scholastica's Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps     
           30 locals dead in two days.
1535 - 12 nude anabaptists run through Amsterdam streets
1549 - Tomé de Sousa appointed gov-gen of Brazil
1635 - Academie Francaise forms in Paris (by Cardinal Richelieu)
1676 - Wampanoag Indians under King Philip kill all men in Lancaster Mass
1713 - Neth & England sign accord concerning anti-French Barrier [OS=Jan 31]
1716 - Scottish pretender to the throne James III Edward returns to France
1720 - Edmund Halley appointed 2nd Astronomer Royal of England
1746 - English Pelham government resigns
1749 - 10th (final) volume of Fielding's "Tom Jones" is published
1763 - Treaty of Paris ends French-Indian War, surrendering Canada to England
1774 - Andrew Becker demonstrates diving suit
1794 - Joseph Haydn's 99th Symphony in E, premieres
1798 - Louis Alexandre Berthier invaded Rome, on February 15 proclaimed a Roman Republic and
           then on February 20 take Pope Pius VI as a prisoner.
1807 - US Coast Survey authorized by Congress
1814 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Champaubert
1824 - Simon Bolivar named dictator by the Congress of Peru
1846 - Beginning of Mormon march to west US
1846 - British defeat Sikhs in battle of Sobraon, India
1855 - US citizenship laws amended all children of US parents born abroad granted US citizenship
1859 - Gen Horsford defeats Begum of Oude & Nana Sahib in Indian mutiny
1860 - John Brahms' 2nd Serenade in A, premieres
1862 - Dutch 2nd government of Thorbecke forms
1863 - 1st US fire extinguisher patent granted to Alanson Crane, Virginia
1866 - Dutch government Frans van der Putte forms
1868 - Conservatives & military, seize Convention Hall in Florida
1870 - City of Anaheim incorporates (1st time)
1870 - YWCA (Young Women's Christian Association) forms (NYC)
1878 - Peace of Zanjón
1878 - Peter Tsjaikovsky's 4th Symphony in F, premieres
1879 - 1st electric arc light used (California Theater)
1879 - Henry Morton Stanley departs to the Congo
1880 - Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Arcanum about Christian marriage
1881 - Jacques Offenbach's opera "Les Contes d'Hoffman," premieres in Paris
1882 - Rimski-Korsakovs opera "Snyegurochka," premieres in St Petersburg
1883 - Fire at un-insured New Hall Hotel in Milwaukee Wisc, kills 71
1890 - Around 11M acres, ceded to US by Sioux Indians opens for settlement
1897 - NY Times begins using slogan "All the News That's Fit to Print"
1899 - -39°F (-39°C), Milligan, Ohio (state lowest record temperature)
1899 - US-Spain peace treaty signed by Pres McKinley. US gets PR & Guam
1900 - Peter Ostlund skates world record 500m (45.2 sec)
1904 - Japan & Russia declares war after Japan's surprise attack on Russian fleet at Port Arthur
           disabled 7 Russian warships
1906 - Britain's 1st modern & largest battleship "HMS Dreadnought" launched
1906 - State of siege proclaimed in Zululand
1908 - Tommy Burns KOs Jack Palmer in 4 for heavyweight boxing title
1912 - Hobbs & Rhodes make 323 cricket opening stand v Aust at MCG
1913 - Edward Sheldons "Romance," premieres in NYC
1916 - Conscription begins in Britain
1917 - Johanna Westerdijk installed as Neth 1st female professor
1920 - Baseball outlaws all pitches involving tampering with ball
1920 - Jozef Haller de Hallenburg performs symbolic wedding of Poland to the sea, celebrating
           restitution of Polish access to open sea.
1923 - Ink paste manufactured for 1st time by Standard Ink Company
1923 - Owen Davis' "Icebound," premieres in NYC
1923 - SDAP speaks out against allied occupation of Ruhrgebied
1924 - Bucky Harris, 27, becomes youngest baseball manager (Wash Senators)
1925 - 1st waterless gas storage tank put into service, Michigan City, Ind
1925 - AL decides to alternate leagues for game 1 of World Series each year
1926 - Building of Olympian Stadium Amsterdam, begins
1927 - Pres Calvin Coolidge asks for 2nd disarmament conference
1929 - Bishop Stephen Alencastre, dedicates the beautiful Romanesque church of Saint Patrick in
           Honolulu
1930 - Grain Stabilization Corporation authorized by Congress
1931 - New Delhi becomes capital of India
1931 - Richard Rodgers/Lorenz Harts premieres in NYC
1933 - -54°F (-48°C), Seneca, Oregon (state record)
1933 - Delivery of 1st singing telegram (Postal Telegram Co NYC)
1933 - Dutch seaplane bombs Dutch ship
1933 - Hitler proclaims end of Marxism
1933 - Mutiny on "7 Provinces" ends (began Feb 4th), 23 killed
1934 - 1st Jewish immigrant ship to break the English blockade in Palestine
1934 - Byrd souvenir sheet issued, NYC; 1st unperforated ungummed US stamp
1934 - Howard Hanson's "Merry Mount," premieres in NYC
1934 - Stalin ends 17th CPSU-congress, says "Life becomes merrier"
1934 - Thomson/Gertrude Steins opera premieres in NYC
1935 - 1st US streamlined electric RR engine begins service
1935 - Pennsylvania RR begins passenger service on new electric locomotive
1937 - Ragnhild Hveger swims world free style record 400m (5:14.2)
1938 - King Carol II of Romania drives out dictator Goga
1940 - "In The Mood" by Glenn Miller hits #1
1940 - Tom & Jerry created by Hanna & Barbera debut by MGM
1940 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Joan Tozzer
1940 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Eugene Turner
1941 - 1st highway post office makes 1st trip, Wash, DC-Harrisonburg, VA
1941 - Anti-nazi "Het Parool" begins publishing in Netherlands
1942 - Glenn Miller awarded 1st ever gold disc for selling 1 million copies of "Chattanooga Choo
           Choo"
1943 - "Manifesto of Algerian People" calls for equality & self-determination
1943 - 8th Army sweeps through North Africa to Tunisia
1943 - Van der Veen Resistance starts fire in Amsterdam employment bureau
1944 - Belgium resistance fighter/author Kamiel van Baelen arrested
1944 - U-666/U-545/U-283 sink off Ireland
1945 - "Rum & Coca Cola" by Andrews Sisters hits #1
1947 - Italy cedes most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia
1947 - Netherlands Radio Union forms
1947 - Province of Petsamo returned to Soviet Union by Finland
1947 - WW II peace treaties signed
1948 - Greek Gen Markos' guerrilla army bombs Saloniki
1949 - Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" opens at Morosco Theater, NYC
1951 - "John & Marsha" by Stan Freberg peaks at #21
1953 - Ice Dance Championship at Davos won by Westwood & Demmy GRB
1953 - Ice Pairs Championship at Davos won by Jennifer & John Nicks of GRB
1953 - Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Davos won by Tenley Albright USA
1953 - Men's Figure Skating Champion in Davos won by Hayes Alan Jenkins USA
1954 - Eisenhower warns against US intervention in Vietnam
1954 - Ice Dance Championship at Oslo won by Jean Westwood/Lawrence Demmy GRB
1954 - Ice Pairs Championship at Oslo won by Frances Dafoe/Norris Bowden CAN
1954 - Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Oslo won by Gundi Busch GER
1954 - Men's Figure Skating Championship in Oslo won by Hayes Alan Jenkins US
1956 - "My Friend Flicka" premieres on CBS (later NBC) TV
1957 - Fay Crocker wins LPGA Serbin Golf Open
1957 - Southern Christian Leadership Conference forms
1959 - Dutch Princess Wilhelmina publishes "Lonely, but not alone"
1959 - Tornado in St Louis kills 19 & injures 265
1960 - "Unsinkable Molly Brown" closes at Winter Garden NYC after 532 perfs
1960 - Charles Ives' "Lincoln, the Great Commoner," premieres
1961 - AFL's LA Chargers move to San Diego
1961 - Niagara Falls hydroelectric project begins producing power
1961 - Walter Piston's 7th Symphony, premieres
1962 - Jim Beatty sets American indoor mile record (3:58.9) in LA
1962 - USSR swaps spy Francis Gary Power to US for Rudolph Abel
1963 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA St Petersburg Women's Golf Open
1963 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Lorraine Hanlon
1963 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Thomas Litz
1964 - Australian destroyer "Voyager" sinks in collision, killing 82
1964 - WBGU TV channel 27 in Bowling Green, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
1964 - Destroyer Voyager sinks off Australia after colliding with aircraft carrier Melbourne
1966 - Harmel government in Belgium resigns
1967 - 25th Amendment (Presidential Disability & Succession) in effect
1968 - "Spooky" by Classics IV hits #3
1968 - Peggy Fleming wins Olympic figure skating gold medal, Grenoble, France
1969 - LSU Pete Maravich scores 66, despite losing to Tulane 101-94
1970 - 26.4 cm precipitation falls on Mount Washington NH (state record)
1970 - Dry powder avalanche moving at 120 mph smashes into youth hostel killing 40 Belgian,
           French, & German youths (Val d'Isere, France)
1971 - American Mensa, Ltd incorporates in NY
1971 - Bill White becomes 1st black baseball announcer (NY Yankees)
1971 - John Guares "House of Blue Leaves," premieres in NYC
1971 - Royal Albert Hall bans scheduled concert featuring Frank Zappa
1972 - BBC bans "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" by Wings
1972 - Ras al Khaima joins United Arab Emirates
1972 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1973 - 2nd time Rangers shut-out Islanders 6-0
1973 - 83m wide gas tank on Staten Island explodes, 40 die
1973 - Mushtaq Mohammad follows up 201 to take 5-49 v NZ Dunedin
1974 - "Gigi" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 103 performances
1974 - Gail Denenber wins LPGA Sears Women's Golf Classic
1974 - Iran/Iraqi border fight breaks out
1974 - Judy Ikenberry wins 1st Us women's marathon (2:55:17)
1974 - Silver futures hit record $4.81½ an ounce in London
1975 - William "Judy" Johnson selected to baseball Hall of Fame
1977 - "Party with Comden & Green" opens at Morosco Theater NYC for 92 perfs
1977 - Bomb explosion in Moskouse metro
1977 - Yehonathan Netanyou Lane in the Bronx named in honor of Bronx-born
1977 - Israeli soldier who died freeing hostages in Entebee Raid (1976)
1978 - Frank C Carlucci succeeds John F Blake as deputy director of CIA
1979 - "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" by Rod Stewart peaks at #1
1979 - Border is named 12th man for Australia, only Test Cricket he missed
1980 - Ianford Wilsons "Talley's Folly," premieres in NYC
1980 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic
1981 - 33rd NHL All-Star Game: Campbell beat Wales 4-1 at LA
1981 - 8 killed & 198 injured by fire at Las Vegas Hilton
1981 - Dennis Lillee becomes Australian Cricket's top wicket-taker with 249
1982 - 28 skiers perform backflips while holding hands, Bromont, Quebec
1983 - Anglican synod vote 338-100 against unilateral UK nuclear disarmament
1985 - Andrea Schöne skates ladies world record 5 km (7:32.82)
1985 - 35th NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 140-129 at Indiana
1985 - Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-E mission
1985 - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic
1985 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1986 - "John Lennon: Live in NYC" album is released
1987 - Philippine troops murder 17 civilians-Lupao Massacre
1988 - Rocky Malebane-Metsing coup in Bophuthatswana fails
1988 - 3-judge panel of 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in SF strikes down Army's ban on
           homosexuals (later overturned by appeal)
1989 - Celtic KC Jones & Cavalier Lenny Wilkens elected to NBA Hall of Fame
1989 - Miami Vice's 100th episode seen on TV
1989 - Minor League Football System opens organizational meeting, St Louis
1989 - Ron Brown chosen 1st black chairman of a major US party (Democrats)
1989 - Test Cricket debut of Aaqib Javed, Pak v NZ age 16 years 189 days
1989 - Tony Robinson of Jamaica becomes Nottingham's 1st black sheriff
1989 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1989 - To gain deregulation WWF admits pro wrestling is an exhibition & not a sport, in a NJ court
1990 - 6th Largest wrestling crowd (63,900-Tokyo Dome)
1990 - Pierrer Water pulls product from shelf due to benzine in water
1990 - South Africa president de Klerk announces Nelson Mandela will be free Feb 11th
1990 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Jill Trenary
1991 - "La Bete" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 24 performances
1991 - 41st NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 116-114 at Charlotte
1991 - Beth Daniel wins LPGA Phar-Mor at Inverrary Golf Tournament
1991 - Johann Koss skates world record 10 km (13:43.54)
1991 - Lithuania votes for independence from USSR
1991 - NBA All Star Game at Charlotte NC
1992 - "Dangerous Women" final episode on WWOR-TV
1992 - Bonnie Blair wins 1992 Olympics 1st gold medal for USA
1992 - Mike Tyson convicted of raping Desiree Washington in Indiana
1993 - Jani Sievinen swims world record 200m backstroke (1:55.59)
1993 - US officially backs peace plan in Bosnia
1993 - "Michael Jackson Talks To Oprah Winfrey" airs on ABC & drew an astounding 39.3 rating/56
           share, 90 million people
1995 - Chelsi Smith, 21, (Texas), crowned 44th Miss USA
1995 - Sun Cayun pole vaults female indoor world record (4.12m)
1995 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Nicole Bobek
1996 - IBM's Deep Blue defeats chess champ Gary Kasparov
1997 - 13th Soap Opera Digest Awards
1997 - 5th annual ESPY Awards presented
1997 - Comet Shoemaker-Holt 2 Closest Approach to Earth (1.9245 AU)
1997 - O J Simpson jury reaches decision on $25M in punitive damages
1997 - Soyuz TM-25 launches to the MIR
1997 - Lemrick Nelson found guilty in the fatal stabbing on Hasidic Jew Yankel Rosenbaum in Crown
           Heights Brooklyn in 1991
1998 - AOL raises monthly flat rate internet access from $19.95 to $21.95
1998 - Olympic figure skater Peggy Fleming undergoes breast cancer surgery
1998 - Voters in Maine repeal a gay rights law passed in 1997 becoming the first U.S. state to
           abandon that law.
2003 - France and Belgium break the NATO procedure of silent approval concerning the timing of
           protective measures for Turkey in case of a possible war with Iraq.
2008 - The 2008 Namdaemun fire severely damages Namdaemun, the first National Treasure of
           South Korea.

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 10, 2013, 09:29:15 AM

This Day in History for 10th February


Famous Weddings

1840 - British Queen Victoria (20) marries her cousin Albert (20) of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, later
           the Prince Consort at St James' Palace
1863 - PT Barnum stages wedding of Tom Thumb & Mercy Lavinia Warren, both midgets, in NYC
1920 - Jozef Haller de Hallenburg performs symbolic wedding of Poland to the sea, celebrating
            restitution of Polish access to open sea.
1934 - British born actor "North by Northwest" Cary Grant (30) weds "City Lights" actress Virginia
           Cherrill (26)
1946 - 1st black pro-baseball player Jackie Robinson marries Rachel Isum
1951 - Shah of Persia marries 19 year old Soraja Esfandiara Bakhtiari
2006 - "Creed" former lead singer Scott Stapp (32) weds Miss New York USA 2004 winner Jaclyn
            Nesheiwat (25) in Miami

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 10, 2013, 09:30:11 AM

This Day in History for 10th February


Famous Divorces

2011 - Former Playboy model Camille Donatacci (42) divorces "Frazier" actor-comedian Kelsey Grammer
           (56) due to irreconcilable differences after 14 years of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 10, 2013, 09:42:29 AM

This Day in History for 10th February


Famous Birthdays

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Novelist & Poet                                               Opera Soprano                                Golfer Greg Norman (1955)
Boris Pasternak (1890)                           Leontyne Mary Violet Price (1927)


1499 - Thomas Platter, Swiss humanist (d. 1582)
1524 - Albrecht Giese, German politician and diplomat (d. 1580)
1606 - Christine Marie of France, regent of Savoy (d. 1663)
1609 - John sorryling, English Cavalier poet/dramatist/courtier
1637 - Henriette Catharina van Nassau, Dutch daughter of Frederik Henry
1670 - Norbert van Flowers, [Cephalus], Flemish painter
1670 - William Congreve, England, writer (Old Bachelor, Way of the World)
1685 - Aaron Hill, English playwright/poet (Tragedy of Zara)
1686 - Johann F Gronovius, Dutch physician/botany
1696 - Johann Melchior Molter, composer
1702 - Jean-Pierre Guignon, composer
1717 - Pierre de La Garde, composer
1728 - Peter III Feodorovich, German/Russian czar of Russia (1761-62)
1735 - Johann Christoph Kuhnau, composer
1741 - Franz Adam Veichtner, composer
1750 - Stanislao Mattei, composer
1775 - Charles Lamb, London England, critic/poet/essayist
1783 - Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy, Russian painter (d. 1873)
1788 - Johann Peter Pixis, composer
1795 - Ary Scheffer, Dutch painter/etcher/sculptor
1807 - Abner Clark Harding, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1874
1818 - Isham Green Harris, Gov (Confederacy), died in 1897
1819 - Richard Storrs Willis, composer
1821 - William Read Scurry, (Confederate Army Brigadier General, died in 1864)
1824 - Samuel Plimsoll, Bristol England, inventor (Plimsoll line for ships)
1827 - Peter J Savelberg, Dutch Limburgs monastery founder
1841 - Walter Parratt, composer
1846 - Mildred Childe "Life" Lee, daughter of confederate General Robert E Lee
1846 - Charles Beresford, British admiral and politician (d. 1919)
1846 - Ira Remsen, American chemist (d. 1927)
1847 - A N Hornby, cricketer (pioneering England Test batsman)
1859 - Alexandre Millerand, French President (d. 1943)
1862 - W H "Gobo" Ashley, cricketer (7 wkts in 1 Test for South Africa 1889)
1866 - Bror Beckman, composer
1866 - Rafael Altamira Crevea, Spanish lawyer/historian
1868 - William Allen White, Emporia KS, editor (Pulitzer 1942)
1869 - Vasily Pavovlich Kalafati, composer
1870 - Fritz Klimsch, German sculptor/painter
1872 - Anne Anema, Dutch lawyer/journalist/politician (ARP)
1879 - Franz Carl Bornschein, composer
1880 - Jesse G Vincent, Arkansas, engineer designed 1st V-12 engine
1884 - Herbert Hordern, cricketer (pioneering leggie for Aust & Phila)
1884 - Frederick Hawksworth, GWR Chief mechanical engineer. (d. 1976)
1887 - [Fran J] Vital Celen, Flemish literary/author [or Feb 9]
1888 - G Ungaretti, writer
1889 - Howard Spring, British author/novelist/writer/critic (O Absalom)
1890 - Boris Pasternak, Moscow, Russian novelist/poet (Dr Zhivago, Nobel 1958)
1890 - Cor Ruys, Dutch actor (Princess Stage)
1890 - Fanny Kaplan, failed assassin of Vladimir Lenin. (d. 1918)
1891 - Harold RLG, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, Gov-gen of Canada (1945-52)
1892 - Alan Hale, [Rufus A Mackahan], Wash DC, actor (Little John-Robin Hood)
1893 - Jimmy Durante, NYC, long-nosed comedian (and goodnight Mrs Calabash)
1893 - William [Bill] T Tilden II, tennis player (US Open 1920-25, 29)
1894 - Roy D'Arcy, SF, actor (Warning Shadows, Revolt of Zombies)
1894 - [Maurice] Harold MacMillan, London, (C) British PM (1957-63)
1896 - Olin Howlin, Denver Colo, actor (Swifty-Circus Boy)
1897 - John Franklin Enders, Conn, microbiologist (polio-Nobel 1954)
1898 - Bertolt Brecht, Germany, playwright (Mother Courage)/composer
1898 - Joseph Kessel, French journalist/writer (Army of the Shadows)
1898 - Judith Anderson, Adelaide Aust, actress (Laura, Rebecca, Tycoon)
1898 - Robert Keith, Fowler IN, actor (Battle Circus, Branded, Wild One)
1900 - Rebecca Negrin
1902 - Armand Bernier, Belgian poet (Sorcier Triste)
1902 - Stella Adler, NY, actress (My Girl Tisa)
1902 - Walter H Brattain, Amoy China, US physicist (Nobel 1956-transistor)
1903 - Matvey Isaakovich Blanter, composer
1903 - Waldemar Hoven, German physician (d. 1948)
1903 - Matthias Sindelar, Austrian footballer (d. 1939)
1904 - John Farrow, Sydney Aust, director/actor (Botany Bay, Wake Island)
1905 - John Dierkes, OH, actor (Daughter of Dr Jekyll, Hanging Tree)
1905 - Max Schubert, winemaker
1905 - Vilko Ukmar, composer
1905 - Walter Brown, sports organizer (NBA)
1906 - Erik Rhodes, [Ernest Sharpe], actor (Top Hat, Night at the Ritz)
1906 - Henry Phelps Brown, historian/economist
1906 - John "Cat" Thompson, basketball hall of famer (elected 1962)
1906 - Lon Chaney Jr, Oklahoma City Oklahoma, actor (Hawkeye, Pistols 'n' Petticoats)
1906 - Walraven (Wally) van Hall, Dutch banker/resisted Nazis
1907 - Grace Hamilton, 1st black member of Georgia state legislature
1908 - Jean Coulthard, composer
1909 - Lord Milne
1910 - Dominique Pire, Belgium, educator, aided WW II refugees (Nobel 1958)
1910 - Douglas Spencer, actor (Thing, This Island Earth, River of No Return)
1910 - Joyce Grenfell, actress (Pickwick Papers, Americanization of Emily)
1910 - Paul Whitelaw, cricketer (NZ opening batsman v England 1933)
1912 - Lord Orr-Ewing
1913 - Philippa Bevans, actress (Notorious Landlady, World of Henry Orient)
1913 - Ragnhild Marie Hatton, historian
1914 - Larry Adler, Balt, hamonicist (Harmonicats) (blacklisted performer)
1916 - Edward R Roybal, (Rep-D-CA, 1963- )
1918 - Gordon Pirie, England, Group Captain
1918 - Idwal Pugh, British ombudsman
1920 - Alexander Comfort, English poet/writer (Wreath for the Living)
1920 - J Heslop-Harrison, botanist
1921 - Adrian Cruft, composer
1922 - Harold Hughes, (Gov-D-NJ)
1922 - Neva Patterson, Iowa, actress (Governor & JJ, Doc Elliot, Nichols)
1923 - Cesare Siepi, Milan Italy, basso (NY Metropolitan Opera)
1924 - Bud (Norman) Poile, NHLer
1924 - Randy Van Horne, El Paso Tx, vocalist (Nat King Cole Show)
1926 - Danny Blanchflower, British(?) soccer player
1927 - Jakov Lind, German/British author (Counting My Footsteps)
1927 - Leontyne Mary Violet Price, Laurel Miss, opera soprano (Porgy & Bess)
1927 - Nigel Bagnall, British field marshal
1927 - Viscount Cowdray, British financier/multi-millionaire
1928 - Gene Taylor, (Rep-D-St Louis, 1973- )
1928 - Hans Nielsen, Denmark, lightweight boxer (Olympic-gold-1924)
1929 - Hallgeir Brenden, Norway, 15K/18K cross country (Oly-gold-1952, 56)
1929 - Henk Heidweiler, Surinam ambassador (in Netherlands)
1929 - Jerry Goldsmith, pianist/composer (Twilight Zone)
1929 - Jim Whittacker, mountain climber (1st American to climb Mt Everest)
1930 - Peter Phillips, composer [or Jun 18]
1930 - Robert Wagner, Detroit Mich, actor (It Takes a Thief, Hart to Hart)
1931 - Gerhard Rosenfeld, composer
1931 - Makoto Shinohara, composer
1931 - Thomas Bernhard, writer
1931 - Doug Young, American voice actor
1932 - Donald Hilton, Moderator (General Assembly of United Reformed Church)
1932 - Rockin Dopsie Sr, [Alton Jay Rubin], Jazz-Fusion singer (Zydeco)
1934 - Fleur Adcock, New Zealand poet
1935 - Conrad Klapheck, German painter (typewriters)
1935 - Salvator Pueyo, composer
1935 - Theodore Antoniou, composer
1936 - Olwyn Bowey, painter
1936 - Sylvia Williams, museum director/curator
1937 - Don Wilson, rock guitarist (Ventures-Walk Don't Run, Batman Theme)
1937 - Lord Justice Rose
1937 - Yuriy Poyarkov, USSR, volleyball player (Oly-2 gold/1 silver-1964-72)
1937 - Roberta Flack, American singer
1939 - Barbara Kolb, Hartford Ct, composer (Trobar Jus)
1939 - Boris Pickett, vocalist (Monster Mash)
1939 - Roberta Flack, NC, vocalist (If Ever I Saw Your Face)
1939 - Adrienne Clarkson, 26th Governor General of Canada
1940 - Hamish Imlach, folk singer/comic
1940 - Jimmy Merchant, rocker
1940 - Mary Rand-Bignal-Toomey, England, long jumper (Olympic-gold-1964)
1940 - Peter Middleton, CEO (Lloyd's)
1941 - John Hampshire, cricketer (of Yorkshire Century on debut for Eng 1969)
1941 - Michael Apted, director/researcher (Granada TV)
1942 - Jimmy Merchant, rock vocalist (Frankie Lymon & Teenagers-Why Do Fools)
1942 - Michael Bishop, CEO (British Midland Airways)
1943 - Ral Donner, [Ralph Stuart], Black Mountain NC, singer (Starfires)
1944 - Peter Allen, Australia, vocalist/pianist (I Go to Rio, Legs Diamond)
1944 - Frank Keating, American politician
1944 - Rufus Reid, American musician
1945 - John Hayes, secretary-general (British Law Society)
1945 - Klas Tuinstra, Dutch MP (CDA)
1946 - Keith Mans, MP
1947 - Louise Arbour, Canadian judge
1947 - Butch Morris, American jazz cornetist and composer
1947 - Nicholas Owen, English newsreader
1948 - Conrad Cummings, composer
1948 - Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican politician (d. 1994)
1949 - Joe Lavender, NFLer
1949 - Maxime Le Forestier, French singer
1949 - Harold Sylvester, American actor
1950 - Gail Rebuck, CEO (Random House)
1950 - Mark Spitz, Modesto California, swimmer (Oly-9 gold/silver/bronze-68, 72)
1951 - Roxanne Pulitzer, Glendale California, author (Prize Pulitzer)
1951 - Zeudi Araya, Asmara Ethiopia, Miss Ethiopia (1969)
1951 - Robert Iger, American entertainment executive
1952 - Mike Varty, NFLer
1952 - Lee Hsien Loong, Prime Minister of Singapore
1953 - Carl Joseph Stone, composer
1953 - John Shirley, US, sci-fi author (Eclipse Penumbra, Eclipse Corona)
1954 - Larry McWilliams, baseball player
1955 - Greg Norman, Queensland, Australia, PGA golfer (1984 Kemper)
1955 - Lusia Mae Harris, Minter City Miss, basketball player (Oly-silver-76)
1955 - Chris Adams, British pro wrestler and judoka (d. 2001)
1955 - Jim Cramer, American television personality
1957 - Debbie Brinkley, Tasmania, golfer (1990 T25 Victorian Open)
1957 - Pranab Roy, cricketer (son of Pankaj, Indian batsman 1982)
1958 - Michael Weiss, American musician
1959 - Tonga, [Uliuli Fifita], wrestler (WCW/WAR/WWF, Ming, Haku, Islanders)
1959 - Lisa McPherson, Former Scientologist (d. 1995)
1960 - Lionel Cartwright, Ohio, country vocalist (I Watched it on the Radio)
1960 - Robert Addie, British actor (d. 2003)
1961 - David Ward, cricketer (prolific Surrey batsman)
1961 - Eva Pfaff, West Germany, tennis star
1961 - George Stephanopoulos, presidential adviser (Clinton)
1961 - Alexander Payne, American film director
1962 - Cliff Burton, rocker (Metallica)
1962 - Jean-Marie Banos, Lavelanet France, Canada sabre (Oly-9/10-88, 92, 96)
1962 - Bobby Czyz, American boxer
1963 - Bennie Thompson, NFLer (Saints, Chiefs, Cleveland Browns/Ravens)
1963 - Harris Huizingh, soccer player (FC Groningen)
1963 - Joakim Nystrom, Sweden, tennis star
1963 - Lenny Dykstra, centerfielder (NY Met, Philadelphia Phillies)
1964 - Francesca Neri, Trento Italy, actress (Ages of Lulu)
1964 - Mir Aimal Kansi, Quetta Pakistan, murderer (FBI Most Wanted)
1964 - Roger Reijners, soccer player (MVV)
1964 - Sam Graddy, Gaffney SC, 4x100m runner (Olympic-gold-1984)
1964 - Glenn Beck, American radio and television host
1964 - Arthur Lenk, Israeli diplomat
1965 - Lenny Webster, New Orleans LA, catcher (Montreal Expos)
1965 - Marjolein Macrander, Dutch actress (Drowned)
1965 - Mario Jean, Quebec comedian and television actor
1966 - Daryl Johnston, NFL running back (Dallas Cowboys)
1967 - Laura Dern, Los Angeles, California, American actress (Jurassic Park, Mask, Smooth Talk)
1967 - Bradley Hughes, Mordialloc VIC, Australasia golfer
1967 - Dwayne "Road Grader" White, NFLer (NY Jets, St Louis)
1967 - Armand Serrano, Filipino animator
1967 - Jacky Durand, French cyclist
1968 - Peter Popovic, Koping Swe, NHL defenseman (Montreal Canadiens)
1968 - Ryan Bowen, US baseball pitcher (Florida Marlins)
1968 - Atika Suri, Indonesian television newscaster
1969 - Jayhawk Owens, Cincinnati Ohio, catcher (Colorado Rockies)
1969 - Tim Clark, US baseball outfielder (Florida Marlins)
1969 - Joe Mangrum, American artist
1969 - Laurie Dhue, American television personality
1970 - Alberto Castillo, Dominican/US baseball catcher (NY Mets)
1970 - Bobby Jones, Fresno CA, pitcher (NY Mets)
1970 - Brendan Eppert, St Louis Mo, speed skater (Olympics-1994)
1970 - Åsne Seierstad, Norwegian journalist
1970 - Nobushige Kumakubo, Japanese racing driver
1970 - Noureddine Naybet, Moroccan footballer
1970 - Myrea Pettit, British illustrator
1971 - Kevin Sefcik, Oaklawn IL, infielder (Philadelphia Phillies)
1971 - Marty Nothstein, Allentown Pa, sprint cyclist Olympics-silver-96)
1971 - Wayne Gandy, tackle (St Louis Rams)
1971 - Louie Spicolli, American wrestler (d. 1998)
1972 - Michael Kasprowicz, cricketer (Australian Test fast bowler v WI 1996)
1972 - Nancy Christian, Scottsdale Az, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-17th-1995)
1972 - Sara Simmons, Belmont Mass, rower (Olympics-96)
1972 - Torey Hunter, NFL cornerback (Houston Oilers)
1974 - Andrew English, CFL receiver (BC Lions)
1974 - Lea Ghirardi-Rubbi, Colombes France, tennis star (1994 Futures NC)
1974 - Ty Law, NFL cornerback (NE Patriots)
1974 - Ivri Lider, Israeli singer
1974 - Tanoai Reed, American stunt performer
1975 - Tina Thompson, WNBA forward (Houston Comets)
1975 - Amber Frey, American witness in the Scott Peterson case
1975 - Kool Savas, German rapper
1975 - Hiroki Kuroda, Japanese born baseball player
1976 - Lance Berkman, American baseball player
1976 - Kev Brown, American rapper/producer
1977 - Stephanie Ann Foisy, Concord NH, Miss America-NH (1996)
1977 - Salif Diao, Senegalese footballer
1978 - Lorna Bailey, English ceramic designer
1978 - Don Omar, Puerto Rican singer
1979 - Daryl Palumbo, American musician
1979 - Ross Powers, American snowboarder
1980 - César Izturis, Venezuelan baseball player
1980 - Mike Ribeiro, Canadian ice hockey player
1980 - Steve Tully, English footballer
1981 - Holly Willoughby, British TV presenter
1981 - Tholomew Plague, drummer (Avenged Sevenfold)
1981 - Natasha St-Pier, Canadian singer
1981 - Andrew Johnson, English footballer
1982 - Keith Dunne, Irish footballer
1982 - Iafeta Paleaaesina, New Zealand rugby league player
1982 - Justin Gatlin, American sprinter
1984 - Alex Gordon, American baseball player
1984 - Kim Hyo-jin, South Korean actress
1985 - Anette Sagen, Norwegian ski jumper
1986 - Viktor Troicki, Serbian tennis player
1986 - Yui Ichikawa, Japanese actress and model
1987 - Choi Si Won, Korean singer (Super Junior)
1991 - Emma Roberts, American actress
1994 - Makenzie Vega, American actress
1997 - Chloe Moretz, American actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 10, 2013, 09:51:08 AM

This Day in History for 10th February


Famous Deaths

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Italian Pacifist                                            Writer Alex Haley (1992)                     Playwright Arthur Miller (2005)
Ernesto Teodoro Moneta (1918)


1126 - William IX, Duke of Aquitaine, poet (b. 1071)
1134 - Robert III/II Curthouse, Duke of Normandy, dies
1162 - King Baldwin III of Jerusalem, son of King Fulco of Anjou/husband of Theodora, dies. (b. 1130)
1242 - Emperor Shijō of Japan (b. 1231)
1278 - Margaret II of Flanders (b. 1202)
1482 - Luca della Robbia, Italian sculptor (majolica reliefs), dies at 81
1495 - William Stanley, Engl lord chamberlain, executed for conspiracy
1567 - Lord Darnley Stuart, husband of English queen Mary, murdered
1576 - Guilielmus Xylander, German classical scholar (b. 1532)
1588 - Joost Sybrantsz Buyck, Amsterdam merchant/regent, dies at about 82
1598 - Anna van Bull, 1st wife of Polish/Swedish king Sigismund II, dies
1657 - Sebastian Stosskopf, Elzabethian painter, dies at 59
1678 - Philip Vingboons, Amsterdam's master builder, buried
1686 - William Dugdale, Garter King of Arms (1677-86), dies
1711 - Lukas Fencer, Dutch poet (Meleager & Atalante), dies at 22
1722 - Bartholomew Roberts, Welsh pirate (b. 1682)
1755 - Montesquieu, French writer (b. 1689)
1758 - Thomas Ripley, English architect
1772 - Jozef Wenceslas, monarch of Liechtenstein/general, dies at 75
1774 - Florian Leopold Gassmann, composer, dies at 44
1782 - Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, German theologian (b. 1702)
1783 - James Nares, composer, dies at 67
1816 - Johann Paul Aegidius Martini, composer, dies at 74
1822 - Albert-Kasimir, duke of Saxon-Teschen/governor of Hungary, dies at 83
1825 - Paul van Hemert, Dutch theologist/philosopher (Kant), dies at 68
1829 - Leo XII, [Annibale Sermattei], Italian Pope (1823-29), dies at 68
1832 - Antonio Benedetto Maria Puccini, composer, dies at 84
1837 - Alexander S Pushkin, writer, dies at 37
1857 - David Thompson, Canadian explorer (b. 1770)
1861 - Francis Danby, Exmouth, painter, dies
1865 - Heinrich Lenz, German physicist (b. 1804)
1876 - Johan August Soderman, composer, dies at 43
1887 - Ellen Wood, English author (Pomeroy Abbey), dies at 73
1887 - Pieter JBCR van der Aa, Dutch geographer, dies at 54
1891 - Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician (b. 1850)
1902 - J N Krieger, German Selenographer, dies
1904 - John A. Roche, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1844)
1905 - Ignacy Krzyzanowski, composer, dies at 78
1906 - Ezra Butler Eddy, Canadian businessman (E.B. Eddy Company) and politician (b. 1827)
1912 - Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, surgeon (pioneer of antiseptic), dies
1915 - Albert J-BJ Thijs, Belgian Colonial pioneer (Congo), dies at 65
1917 - Emile Pessard, composer, dies at 73
1917 - John William Waterhouse, Italian-born artist (b. 1849)
1918 - Abdul Hamid II Ottoman Sultan (b. 1842)
1918 - Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian pacifist, Nobel Prize Laureate, dies at 84
1923 - Wilhelm Konrad von Rontgen, physicist (Nobel 1901), dies at 77
1932 - R H Edgar Wallace, British writer/journalist (3 Just Men), dies at 76
1939 - Pius XI, [Ambrogio D A Ratti], Italian Pope (1922-39), dies at 81
1943 - Wa'er, shot dead by Defiance
1944 - Eugène Michel Antoniadi, Greek astronomer, a crater on Mars and the Antoniadi crater on the
           Moon were named in his honor (b. 1870)
1945 - Juan de Hernandez, composer, dies at 63
1945 - Anacleto Diaz, Filipino jurist (b. 1878)
1948 - Ewart Astill, cricket all-rounder (9 Tests for England 1927-30), dies
1948 - Sergei Eisenstein, Russian director (Battleship Potemkin), dies at 50
1950 - Armen Tigran Tigranyan, composer, dies at 70
1950 - Marcel Mauss, French sociologist (b. 1872)
1951 - Joseph Bovet, composer, dies at 71
1952 - Henry Drysdale Dakin, British-American biochemist, known for the Dakin-West reaction (b. 1880)
1957 - Laura Ingalls Wilder, US author (Little House on Praries), dies at 90
1958 - Billy Vine, actor (54th Street Revue), dies at 42
1960 - Aloysius Stepinac, Croatian cardinal (b. 1898)
1962 - Willem Paerels, Neth/Belgian painter/graphic artist, dies at 83
1964 - Eugen Sänger, Austrian aerospace engineer (b. 1905)
1966 - Billy Rose, US theater producer (Diamond Horse Show), dies at 66
1968 - Pitirim A Sorokin, Russian/US sociologist, dies at 79
1975 - Nikos Kavvadias, Greek poet and writer (b. 1910)
1977 - Grace Mary Williams, composer, dies at 70
1982 - K R Meher-Homji, cricket wk (Test as Indian, catch no stumped), dies
1983 - Eduard Franz, actor (Zorro), dies at 80
1984 - David Von Erich, professional wrestler (b. 1958)
1985 - Johnny Mokan, baseball player (b. 1895)
1986 - Brian Aherne, actor (Juarez, My Sister Eileen, Rosie), dies at 83
1987 - Syed Sadequain Ahmed Naqvi, Pakistani painter, calligrapher and artist (b. 1930)
1989 - Dan Kelly, NHL sportscaster, dies at 52, "He shoots, he scores!"
1992 - Alex Haley, US writer (Autobiography of Malcolm X, Roots), dies at 70
1992 - Florence Tarlow, dies of cancer at 70
1992 - Mau Kopuit, Dutch editor-in-chief (New Israeli Weekly Newspaper), dies
1992 - Meade Roberts, screenwriter, dies of congestive heart failure at 61
1992 - Thomas Graftdijk, Dutch writer (Dr Faustus), dies
1992 - Wim Ramaker, Dutch director/writer (On Death Track), dies
1993 - John Grossman, Czech director (Process, Revisor), dies
1993 - Joy Garrett, actress (Days of Our Live), dies of liver failure at 47
1993 - Maurice Bourges-Maunoury, PM of France (1957), dies
1993 - Fred Hollows, New Zealand ophthalmologist (b. 1929)
1995 - Kenton Kilmer, poet/translator, dies at 85
1995 - Louis Sen A Kaw, Suriname's great dam builder, dies at 75
1995 - Paul Monette, writer, dies at 49
1995 - S van der Linde, church historian, dies at 89
1996 - Hugh Francis Lamprey, ecologist, dies at 67
1997 - Brian McManus Connolly, musician, dies at 47
1997 - Milton Cato, PM of San Vincent & Grenadines (1979-84), dies
1997 - Matthew Eappen of Newton Massachusetts (b. 1996)
1998 - Buddy the Wonder Dog, dog (Air Bud), dies of cancer at 9
1998 - Maurice Schumann, French foreign minister (1969-73), dies
2000 - Jim Varney, American actor (b. 1949)
2001 - Abraham Beame, Mayor of New York City (b. 1906)
2001 - George Holmes Tate, American jazz saxophonist and clarinetist (b. 1913)
2002 - Traudl Junge, Adolf Hitler's secretary (b. 1920)
2002 - Dave Van Ronk, American folk singer/songwriter (b. 1936)
2003 - Edgar de Evia, American photographer (b. 1910)
2003 - Curt Hennig, American professional wrestler (b. 1959)
2003 - Clark MacGregor, United States Congressman from Minnesota (b. 1922)
2003 - Al Ruffo, Mayor of San Jose, California (b. 1908)
2003 - Ron Ziegler, press secretary to Richard Nixon (b. 1939)
2004 - Guy Provost, Quebec actor (b. 1925)
2005 - Arthur Miller, American playwright, dies at 89
2006 - J Dilla, American rapper/producer (b. 1974)
2006 - Dick Harmon, American golf instructor (b. 1947)
2007 - Ned Austin, American character actor (b. 1925)
2007 - Jung Da Bin, South Korean actress (b. 1980)
2008 - Roy Scheider, American Actor (b. 1932)
2008 - Steve Gerber, American comics writer (b. 1947)
2009 - Jeremy Lusk, American freestyle motocross racer (b. 1984)
2010 - Charles Wilson, American politician (b. 1933)
2010 - Fred Schaus, American basketball coach and executive (b. 1925)
2012 - Geoffrey Cornish, Canadian golf course architect, dies at 97
2012 - Jeffrey Zaslow, American author and columnist, dies in a car accident at 53

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 11, 2013, 09:25:57 AM

This Day in History for 11th February


Historical Events

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Commercial Steamboat Inventor                Writer/Poet Oscar Wilde                 Soviet Union Premier Joseph Stalin
Robert Fulton

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British Prime Minister                           Heavyweight Boxing Champion                    Anti-apartheid activist/
Margaret Thatcher                                               Mike Tyson                                     South African President
                                                                                                                                         Nelson Mandela


660 BC - Traditional date for the foundation of Japan by Emperor Jimmu
55 - Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus, heir to the Roman Emperorship, dies under mysterious 
         circumstances in Rome. This clears the way for Nero to become Emperor.
385 - Oldest Pope elected; Siricius-bishop of Tarragona
824 - St Paschal I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1531 - Henry VIII recognized as supreme head of Church in England
1543 - Battle at Wayna Daga: Ethiopian/Portugese troops beat Moslem army
1543 - Karel/Henry VIII sign anti-French covenant
1575 - King Frederick of Denmark offers island of Hveen to Tycho Brahe
1659 - The assault on Copenhagen by Swedish forces is beaten back with heavy losses.
1720 - Sweden & Prussia sign peace (2nd Treaty of Stockholm)
1752 - Pennsylvania Hospital, the 1st hospital in the US, opened
1766 - Stamp Act declared unconstitutional in Virginia
1768 - Samuel Adams letter, circulates around American colonies, opposing Townshend Act taxes
1790 - Society of Friends petitions Congress for abolition of slavery
1793 - Prussian troops occupy Venlo Neth
1794 - 1st session of US Senate open to the public
1808 - Anthracite coal 1st burned as fuel, experimentally, Wilkes-Barre, Pa
1809 - Robert Fulton patents steamboat
1811 - President Madison prohibits trade with Britain for 3rd time in 4 years
1812 - Massachusetts Governor Elbridge Gerry signs a redistricting bill - 1st "gerrymander"
1814 - Norway's independence proclaimed
1826 - London University founded
1837 - American Physiological Society organizes in Boston
1840 - Gaetano Donizetti's Opera "La Fille du Regiment," premieres in Paris
1843 - Opera "I Lombardi," premieres in Milan
1851 - 1st cricket 1st-class game in Australia, Tasmania v Vic, Launceston
1852 - 1st British public female toilet opens (Bedford Street London)
1854 - Major streets lit by coal gas for 1st time
1855 - Kassa Hailu is crowned Tewodros II, Emperor of Ethiopia, by Abuna Salama III in a ceremony
           at the church of Derasge Maryam.
1858 - 1st apparition of Mary to 14-year-old Bernadette of Lourdes France
1861 - President-elect Lincoln takes train from Spingfield IL to Wash DC
1861 - US House unanimously passes resolution guaranteeing noninterference with slavery in any
           state
1873 - Spanish Cortes fires king Amadeus I
1878 - 1st US bicycle club, Boston Bicycle Club, forms
1878 - 1st weekly Weather report published in UK
1889 - Meiji constitution of Japan adopted; 1st Diet convenes in 1890
1895 - -17°F (-27.2°C) in Braemar, Grampian (UK record)
1895 - Georgetown became part of Wash DC
1896 - Oscar Wildes "Salome," premieres in Paris
1897 - White Rose Mission opens on East 97th Street, NYC
1898 - Owen Smith of NC, AME Zion minister, named minister to Liberia
1899 - -15°F (-26°C), Washington, DC (district record)
1899 - -61°F, Montana (record low temperature)
1902 - Police beats up universal suffrage demonstrators in Brussels
1903 - Anton Bruckner's 9th Symfonie premieres in Vienna
1905 - James Blackstone, Seattle, bowls 299½-last pin breaks but stands
1905 - Pope Pius X publishes encyclical Vehementer nos
1907 - De Master's Dutch government resigns
1907 - Passenger ship Larchmont sinks by Block Island, 322 die
1908 - Australia regain the Ashes with a 308 run cricket victory vs England
1908 - Heemskerk's government begins in Holland
1916 - Baltimore Symphony Orchestra presents its 1st concert
1916 - Emma Goldman arrested for lecturing on birth control
1919 - Friedrich Ebert (SPD), elected president of Germany
1921 - Ambassador Theater opens at 215 W 49th St NYC
1922 - "April Showers" by Al Jolson hits #1
1922 - US intervention army leaves Honduras
1926 - Tokelau (Union) Islands in South Pacific transfers to NZ
1927 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Beatrix Loughran
1927 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Nathaniel Niles
1928 - 2nd Winter Olympic games opens in St Moritz, Switzerland
1929 - Eugene O'Neill's "Dynamo," premieres in NYC
1929 - Vatican City (world's smallest country) made an enclave of Rome
1932 - 73°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in February
1935 - -11°F (-24°C), Ifrane, Morocco (African record low)
1935 - 1st US airplane flight with auto slung beneath fuselage, NY
1936 - Pumping begins to build Treasure Island in SF Bay
1937 - 44-day sit-down strike at General Motors in Flint Mich ends
1938 - Steve Casey beats Lou Thesz in Boston, to become wrestling champ
1941 - 1st Gold record presented (Glenn Miller-Chattanooga Choo Choo)
1941 - Lt-Gen Erwin Rommel arrives in Tripoli
1941 - Sicherheitsdienst complains about Dutch anti German sentiments
1942 - "Archie" comic book debuts
1943 - General Eisenhower selected to command the allied armies in Europe
1943 - Transport nr 47 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1944 - German troops reconquer Aprilia Italy
1944 - U-424 sunk off Ireland
1945 - 1st gas turbine propeller-driven airplane flight tested, Downey, CA
1945 - Yalta agreement signed by FDR, Churchill & Stalin
1948 - Billy Griffith scores cricket century on debut Eng v WI, out for 140
1948 - John Costello follows Eamon Da Valera as premier of Ireland
1948 - Test Cricket debut of Frank Worrell, v England Port-of-Spain
1949 - Willie Pep recaptures world featherweight boxing title
1950 - "Rag Mop" by The Ames Brothers hit #1
1951 - Kwame Nkrumah wins 1st parliamentary election on Gold coast (Ghana)
1953 - "Hazel Flagg" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 190 performances
1953 - J Styne/B Hilliard's musical "Hazel Flagg," premieres in NYC
1953 - Pres Eisenhower refuses clemency appeal for Rosenberg couple
1953 - Russia breaks diplomatic relations with Israel
1954 - 6th Emmy Awards: I Love Lucy, Donald O'Connor & Eve Arden wins
1957 - KUMV TV channel 8 in Williston, ND (NBC) begins broadcasting
1957 - NHL Players Association forms (NYC), Red Wings' Ted Lindsay elected president
1958 - 1st flight with black stewardess, RC Taylor, Ithaca NY
1958 - Marshal Chen Yi succeeds Chu En-lai as Min of Foreign affairs
1958 - Ruth Carol Taylor is 1st Afr-American woman hired as flight attendant
1958 - WTVC TV channel 9 in Chattanooga, TN (ABC) begins broadcasting
1959 - Vinoo Mankad ends his final Test Cricket (v WI at Delhi)
1960 - Jack Paar walks off his TV show
1961 - Robert Weaver sworn in with then highest federal post by a black
1961 - Trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem
1962 - Beatles record "Please, Please Me"
1963 - Beatles tape 10 tracks for their 1st album
1963 - CIA Domestic Operations Division created (pretty scary!)
1963 - Julia Child's show The French Chef premieres.
1964 - Beatles 1st live appearance in US; Washington DC Coliseum
1964 - Greek & Turks begin fighting in Limassol, Cyprus
1964 - Taiwan drops diplomatic relations with France
1965 - Braves propose to pay 5 cents from each ticket to bring a new team to Milwaukee
1966 - SF Giant Willie Mays signs highest contract, $130,000 per year
1968 - Israeli-Jordan border fight
1968 - Jeffrey Kramer survives 76-m jump, Wash Bridge, Hudson River NY
1968 - Madison Square Garden III closes Madison Square Garden IV opens (NYC)
1969 - Diana Crump becomes 1st US woman jockey to ride against men, Hialelah
1969 - Dorey Funk Jr beats Gene Kiniski in Tampa, to become NWA champ
1970 - 26.37 cm (10.38") of rainfall, Mt Washington, NH (state 24-hr rec)
1970 - Japan becomes 4th nation to put a satellite (Osumi) in orbit
1970 - John Lennon pays £1,344 fines for 96 protesting South African rugby team playing in
           Scotland
1971 - Montreal Canadien John Believau scores his 500th NHL goal
1971 - US, UK, USSR, others sign Seabed Treaty outlawing nuclear weapons
1973 - 1st one-day international for Pakistan & NZ
1973 - 1st sub 17-min 1,500m female free style swim (Shane Gould 16m56.9s)
1973 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Naples-Lely Golf Classic
1973 - Philadelphia 76ers lose their 20th NBA game in a row
1974 - Dick Woodson is 1st of 48 to invoke baseball's new arbitration rule
1974 - Titan-Centaur Test launch fails
1974 - 1st baseball arbitration Twins pitcher Dick Woodson seeking $29,000 wins, Twins offered
           $23,000
1975 - Margaret Thatcher defeats Edward Heath for Conservative leadership
1976 - Clifford Alexander Jr confirmed as 1st black secretary of Army
1977 - 20.2-kg lobster caught off Nova Scotia (heaviest known crustacean)
1978 - 16 Unification church couples wed in NYC
1978 - 25th hat trick in Islander history-Denis Potvin
1978 - China lifts a ban on Aristotle, Shakespeare, & Dickens
1978 - EOKA organization disbands in Cyprus
1979 - "They're Playing Our Song" opens at Imperial NYC for 1082 perfs
1979 - 43 million watch "Elvis!" on ABC
1979 - Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation
1979 - Iran's premier Bakhtiar resigns, Ayatollah Khomeini seizes power
1979 - Musical "They're Playing Our Song," premieres in NYC
1981 - Australia all out 83 v India at MCG chasing 143 to win
1981 - Polish premier Jozef Pinkowski replaced by Wojciech Jaruzelski
1982 - Ozzie Smith for Garry Templeton trade finally goes through
1983 - "Weird Al" Yankovic records "Ricky" & "Buckingham Blues" debut LP
1983 - 4th largest snowfall in NYC history (18"(46 cm))
1984 - 10th space shuttle mission (41-B)-Challenger 4-returns to Earth
1984 - Wayne Gretzky sets NHL short handed season scoring record at 11
1985 - Jordan king Hussein & PLO leader Arafat sign accord
1985 - Kent Hrbek signs 5-year, $6 million contract with Minnesota Twins
1985 - Wasim Akram takes 10 wickets in his 2nd Test Cricket, NZ still wins
1986 - Activist Anatoly Scharansky released by USSR, leaves country
1986 - Australia beat India 2-0 to win the World Series Cup
1986 - Iran begins Fajr-8 offensive against Iraq
1987 - British Airways begins trading stocks
1987 - England beat Australia 2-0 to win the World Series Cup
1987 - Philippines constitution goes into effect
1987 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1988 - Anthony M Kennedy appointed to Supreme Court
1989 - Barbara Clementine Harris consecrated 1st female bishop (Episcopalian)
1989 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Jill Trenary
1990 - 40th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 130-113 at Miami
1990 - James "Buster" Douglas KOs Mike Tyson in 10 to win heavyweight boxing crown
1990 - Nelson Mandela (political prisoner-27 years) freed in South Africa
1990 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldredge
1991 - UNPO, Unrepresented Nations & People Org forms in Hague Neth
1992 - F-16 jet crashes at residential district of Hengelo Neth (No deaths)
1992 - Michael Johnson runs indoor world record 400m (44.97 sec)
1993 - Howard Stern's radio show begins transmitting to Rochester NY (WRQI)
1993 - Irina Privalova runs world record 60m indoor (6.92 secs)
1993 - Janet Reno selected by Clinton as US Attorney General
1994 - Lu Parker, (South Carolina), crowned 43rd Miss USA
1994 - Space shuttle STS-60 (Discovery 18), lands
1995 - Danyon Loader swims world record 400m freestyle (340.46)
1995 - Mark Foster swims world record 50m butterfly (23.55 sec)
1995 - Sandra Volker swims European record 50m backstroke (27.67 sec)
1995 - Space shuttle STS-63 (Discovery 19), lands
1995 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldredge
1995 - West Indies score 5-660 against NZ
1996 - 46th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 129-118 at San Antonio
1997 - Bill Parcells becomes head coach of NY Jets
1997 - STS 82 (Discovery 22) launches
1998 - KVBC-FM (Las Vegas) offers Monica Lewinsky $5M for interview
1998 - Lyrics to "Candle in the Wind 1997," auctioned for $442,500
2007 - In Portugal, a national referendum legalizes non-therapeutic abortion when requested by the
           woman during the first 10 weeks of pregnancy.
2008 - In East Timor, assassination attempts were made on Xanana Gusmao and Jose Ramos-Horta.
           Both failed.
2011 - Egyptian Revolution culminates in the resignation of Hosni Mubarak and the transfer of power
           to the Supreme Military Council after 18 days of protests.
2012 - Israel Air Force conducts four air strikes in Gaza Strip

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 11, 2013, 09:27:52 AM

This Day in History for 11th February


Famous Weddings

1638 - Dutch countess Louise of Solms marries earl John of Brederode
1810 - French leader Napoleon I marries 2nd wife Marie-Louise of Austria
1965 - Beatle Ringo Starr marries Maureen Cox
2006 - Mexican telenovela actor Guillermo Capetillo (47) weds model Tania Amezcua in Mixcoac,
           Mexico

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 11, 2013, 09:34:05 AM

This Day in History for 11th February


Famous Birthdays

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Inventor Thomas Edison (1847)               Novelist Sidney Sheldon (1917)               Actress Jennifer Aniston (1969)


1377 - King Ladislas of Naples (d. 1414)
1380 - Gianfrancesco Poggio Bracciolini, Italy, humanist
1465 - Elizabeth of York, London, Consort of King Henry VII
1506 - Juliana van Stolberg, engraver of Nassau
1535 - Gregory XIV, [Niccolo Sfondrati], Roman Catholic pope (1590-91)
1557 - John Wtenbogaert, remonstrants theologist
1568 - Honoré d'Urfé, French writer (d. 1625)
1649 - William Carstares, Scottish minister (d. 1715)
1657 - Bernard Fontenelle, France, scientist/writer (Plurality of Worlds)
1755 - Albert Christoph Dies, composer
1764 - Marie-Joseph de Chénier, French poet (Cajus Graechus)
1774 - Hans Järta, Swedish political activist (d. 1847)
1776 - Ioannis Kapodistrias, Greek diplomat of the Russian Empire and first head of state of independent Greece (d. 1831)
1783 - Jarena Lee, African American travelling minister
1790 - Ignaz Assmayer, composer
1799 - Basil Moreau, French Founder priest (d. 1873)
1800 - William Henry Fox Talbot, Wiltshire England, photographic pioneer
1802 - Lydia Maria Child, US, author/abolitionist (Juvenile Miscellany)
1810 - Loisa Puget, composer
1812 - Alexander Hamilton Stephens, Vice Pres (Confederacy), died in 1883
1812 - Benjamin Franklin Sands, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1883
1813 - Otto Ludwig, German writer and critic (d. 1865)
1819 - Samuel Parkman Tuckerman, composer
1821 - Hermann Allmers, writer
1821 - Auguste-Édouard Mariette, French Egyptologist (d. 1881)
1829 - William Anderson Pile, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1889
1830 - Hans Bronsart von Schellendorf, composer
1830 - Peter Arnold Heise, composer
1833 - Melville Weston Fuller, 8th chief justice
1839 - Josiah Willard Gibbs, theoretical physicist/chemist
1840 - Sanuel Dana Greene, Lt Cmdr (Union Navy), died in 1884
1846 - William Fox Talbot, pioneer photographer/inventor
1847 - Thomas Alva Edison, Milan Ohio, lit up your life (held 1200 patents)
1860 - Rachilde, [Marguerite Vallette-Eymery], French author (Monsieur Venus)
1867 - August W Messer, German philosopher/educator/psychologist
1869 - Helene Kroller-Muller, Dutch museum founder (d. 1939)
1869 - Else Lasker-Schüler, German writer (d. 1945)
1873 - Feodor Chaliapine, Russian author/novelist (Pages from My Life)
1874 - Elsa Beskow, [Maartman], Swedish children's book/fairy tales author
1874 - Fritz Bennicke Hart, composer
1875 - Sara Wennerberg-Reuter, composer
1879 - Jean Gilbert, composer
1882 - Gheorghe Cucu, composer
1883 - Paul August von Klenau, Danish composer/conductor (Sulamith)
1887 - John van Melle, South African writer (Dawid Booysen)
1889 - John Mills, dancer (Mills Brothers)
1889 - Vladimir Mikhaylovich Deshevov, composer
1890 - John P M L de Vries, fairy tale writer
1890 - David Drummond, Australian politician (d. 1965)
1891 - J W Hearne, cricket leg-spinner (all-rounder for England in 24 Tests). Died 1965
1893 - Johan C P Alberts, Dutch literary (Festival)
1894 - Alfonso Leng, composer
1894 - Isaac M Kolthoff, chemist (Massenanalyse)
1895 - Viktor Nikolayevich Trambitsky, composer
1897 - Yves de La Casiniere, composer
1898 - Leo Szilard, Hungary, physicist/A-bomb worker/peace activist
1900 - Hans-Georg Gadamer, German philosopher
1900 - Thomas Hitchcock Jr, great polo player (Westchester Cup 1924,27,30,39)
1900 - Josei Toda, Japanese educator (d. 1958)
1901 - Roddy Connolly, Irish politician, son of James Connolly (d. 1980)
1902 - Arne Jacobsen, Danish architect (d. 1971)
1903 - Hans Redlich, composer
1903 - Rex Lease, WV, actor (Fast Bullets, Sunny Skies, Custer's Last Stand)
1904 - Henry R LaBouisse, headed UNICEF (1965-79)
1904 - Keith Holyoake, New Zealand PM (1960-72)
1905 - Beb [Elizabeth] Vuyk, Neth/Indonesian writer (Camp diary)
1906 - Denis Barnett, British air chief marshal
1907 - E W Swanton, author & sports commentator
1908 - Josh White, rocker
1908 - Sutan Takdir Alishahbana, Indonesian linguistic/author/novelist
1908 - Vivian [Ernest] Fuchs, geologist/explorer (British Antarctic Survey)
1909 - Joseph L Mankiewicz, Wilkes-Barre PA, film writer/director (Sleuth)
1909 - Max Baer, Omaha Nebraska, heavyweight boxing champ (1934-35)
1909 - Max Baer, American boxer and actor (d. 1959)
1911 - Alec Cairncross, chancellor (Glasgow U)
1912 - Roy Fuller, England, poet/novelist (Lost Season)
1912 - Rudolf Firkusny, Napajedla Czechoslovakia, pianist (Julliard)
1912 - Roy Fuller, English writer (d. 1991)
1913 - Lucio Diestro San Pedro, composer
1914 - French Duynstee, Dutch constitutional lawyer
1914 - Matt Dennis, Seattle Wash, vocalist (Matt Dennis Show)
1914 - Menelaos Pallantios, composer
1914 - Winand J Borgerhoff Mulder, court judge of Amsterdam
1915 - Haakon Stotijn, Dutch oboist (VARA Orch, Orkestgebouw Orch)
1915 - Mervyn Levy, artist/critic
1915 - Patrick Leigh Fermor, author
1916 - Bernice Levin Neugarten, social scientist/gerontologist
1917 - Richard Jock Kinneir, graphic designer
1917 - Sidney Sheldon, novelist (1947 Academy Award, 1959 Tony, Bloodline)
1917 - T. Nagi Reddy, Indian revolutionary (d. 1976)
1919 - Gretchen Fraser, Tacoma Wash, slalom skier (Olympic-gold-1948)
1919 - Eva Gabor, Hungarian-born actress (d. 1995)
1920 - Billy Halop, NYC, actor (Bert Munson-All in the Family)
1920 - Daniel F[rancis] Galouye, US, sci-fi author (Dark Universe, Last Leap)
1920 - Farouk I, Cairo, last King of Egypt (1936-52)
1920 - Paul Peter Piech, artist
1921 - Eva Gabor, Budapest Hungary, actress (Lisa-Green Acres, Gigi)
1921 - Lloyd Bentsen, (Sen-D-TX, 1971- )/1989 Dem VP nominee)
1921 - Edward Seidensticker, American scholar (d. 2007)
1922 - Tudor Jarda, composer
1923 - Baroness Sharples
1923 - Ronald Arculus, British diplomat
1924 - Mary Tregear, Oriental art historian
1925 - Kim Stanley, [Patricia Reid], Tularosa NM, actress (Right Stuff)
1925 - Peter Berger, British vice-admiral
1925 - Virginia E Johnson, doctor/sexologist (Masters & Johnson)
1925 - Kim Stanley, American actress (d. 2001)
1926 - Alexander Gibson, British conductor/founder (Scottish Opera)
1926 - Paul Bocuse, France, great chef (Legion of Honor)
1926 - Leslie Nielsen, Canadian actor (Forbidden Planet, Naked Gun)
1928 - Archibald Forster, CEO (Esso UK)
1928 - Conrad Janis, NYC, actor (Mork & Mindy, Quark, Bonino)
1928 - Gerry Alexander, cricket wicketkeeper (WI of 50s & 60s)
1928 - Raoul Cita, rocker
1929 - Leonard Gregory Kastle, composer
1930 - Alevtina Koltschina, USSR, cross coutry relay skier (Oly-gold-1960)
1930 - C H Dearnley, organist
1930 - Earl of Rosebery
1930 - Roy De Forest, American Painter (d. 2007)
1931 - Larry Merchant, author/boxing commentator (Showtime)
1932 - Dennis Skinner, MP
1932 - Jerome Lowenthal, Phila, pianist/prof (Jerusalem Academy of Music)
1934 - Francesco Pennisi, composer
1934 - John Surtees, British race car driver
1934 - Mary Quant, Kent England, fashion designer (Chelsea Look, Mod Look)
1934 - Patrick Holmes Sellors, ophthalmologist
1934 - Tina Louise, NYC, actress (Ginger-Gilligan's Island, Julie-Dallas)
1934 - Mel Carnahan, American politician (d. 2000)
1935 - Bent Lorentzen, composer
1935 - Gene Vincent, Norfolk Va, rock guitarist/vocalist (Be-Bop-A-Lula)
1936 - Burt Reynolds, Mich, actor (Evening Shade, Strip Tease, Cannonball)
1937 - Bill Lawry, cricketer (dour Australian lefty opener, Can talk a bit)
1937 - Lodewijk Boer, Dutch violinist/playwright (The Family)
1937 - Marilyn Butler, Rector (Exeter College-Oxford)
1937 - Peter Lashley, cricketer (4 Tests for West Indies 1960-66)
1938 - Bevan Congdon, cricketer (NZ batsman of 60s & 70s)
1938 - Boris Majorov, USSR, ice hockey (Olympic-gold-1964)
1938 - Manuel Antonio Noriega, Panamanian general/dictator (-1990)
1938 - Willy Correa de Oliveira, composer
1938 - Yevgeniy Majorov, USSR, ice hockey (Olympic-gold-1964)
1938 - Simone de Oliveira, Portuguese actress
1939 - Bryan Gould, MP
1939 - Gerry Goffin, Queens NY, rock lyricist (married Carole King)
1939 - Jane [Hyatt] Yolen, US, sci-fi author (Spider Jane, Heart's Blood)
1940 - Bobby "Boris" Pickett, rocker (Monster Mash)
1940 - Calvin Fowler, Pitts, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1968)
1941 - Glenn Randall Jr, stuntman (Species, Mrs Soffel, Return of the Jedi)
1941 - Jeremy Mackenzie, general
1941 - Sergio Mendes, jazz/pop musician (Brazil '66/'77/'88)
1942 - Archie Andrews, comic book character (Archie)
1942 - James Couchman, MP
1942 - Leon Haywood, US vocalist/keyboardist (It's Got to be Mellow)
1942 - Otis Clay, US gospel/R&B-singer (That's how it is)
1942 - Tony Colton, rock producer (On the Boards)
1943 - Iain Cameron, British brigadier
1943 - Win Griffiths, MP
1943 - Serge Lama, French singer
1944 - Bert Greene, golfer
1944 - Buddhadev Dasgupta, director (Charachar, Grihajuddha)
1944 - Michael G Oxley, (Rep-R-OH, 1981- )
1946 - M C Walker, CEO (Iceland Frozen Foods)
1946 - Timothy Chambers, pediatrician
1946 - Ian Porterfield, English footballer (d. 2007)
1947 - Joselito, Spanish singer
1947 - Kikko Matsuoka, Japanese actress
1948 - Sue Bernard, Los Angeles CA, playmate (Dec, 1966)
1949 - Charlie Hargrett, rock guitarist (Blackfoot)
1950 - Clarence Ellis, NFLer
1950 - Earnest Jim Istook, (Rep-R-Oklahoma)
1950 - Johanna E "Joke" Beerens, actress (Schipper Next to God)
1950 - Rochelle Fleming, US soul vocalist (First Choice, Smarty Pants)
1953 - Alan Rubin, music figure (Blues Brothers)
1953 - Philip Anglim, SF California, actor (Dane-Thorn Birds)
1953 - Stephen D Thorne, Frankfurt-on-Main, German FR, Lt Cmdr USN/astronaut
1953 - Jeb Bush, American politician
1954 - Catherine Hickland, Fort Lauderdale, actress (Capitol, Star Trek IV)
1954 - Noriyuki Asakura, Japanese composer
1954 - Wesley Strick, American screenwriter
1956 - Kathleen Beller, Queens NY, actress (Ft Apache the Bronx, Touched)
1956 - H.R., American singer
1956 - Didier Lockwood, French violinist
1958 - Michael Jackson, controller (BBC2)
1959 - Corinne Shigemoto, US judo coach (Olympics-96)
1960 - Richard A Mastracchio, Waterbury Ct, astronaut
1961 - Becky LeBeau, LA California, vocalist (Mischief)
1961 - Carey Lowell, NYC, actress (Me & Him, Guardian, Dangerously Close)
1961 - Mary Docter, US, 3000m speed skater (Olympics-1980, 84, 88, 92)
1962 - Scott Kolden, Torrance California, actor (Scott-Me & the Champ)
1962 - Tammy Baldwin, American politician
1962 - Sheryl Crow, American musician
1962 - Eric Vanderaerden, Belgian cyclist
1963 - Todd Benzinger, US baseball player (SF Giants)
1963 - José Mari Bakero, Spanish footballer
1964 - Sheryl Crow, vocalist (All I Want to Do-Grammy 1995)
1964 - Ken Shamrock, American martial artist
1964 - Sarah Palin, American politician
1965 - Angie Ridgeway, Wabash IN, LPGA golfer (1992 Sara Lee-8th)
1965 - Vicki Wilson, Australian netballer
1966 - Alexander Semak, Ufa Russia, NHL center (NY Islanders)
1966 - Anthony Parker, NFL cornerback (Minnesota Vikings, St Louis Rams, TB Bucs)
1966 - Patrick Kuhnen, West Germany, tennis star
1966 - Stephen Gregory, NYC, actor (Chase-Young & Restless)
1967 - Barbara Byrne, Princeton NJ, rower (Olympics-96)
1967 - Chris Reohr, Ridley Park Pa, fencer (Olympics-96)
1967 - Derek King, Hamilton, NHL left wing (NY Islanders)
1967 - John Patterson, US baseball infielder (SF Giants)
1967 - Uwe Daßler, German swimmer
1967 - Scott Shay, American linguist
1968 - Mo Willems, American author and screenwriter
1969 - Bryan Eversgerd, US baseball pitcher (St Louis Cardinals)
1969 - Jennifer Aniston, Sherman Oaks California, actress (Rachel-Friends)
1969 - Joe Valerio, NFL outside corner/tackle (KC Chiefs)
1969 - Kevin King, US baseball pitcher (Seattle Mariners)
1969 - Mark Atkinson, cricket wicket-keeper (Tasmanian batsman)
1969 - Mary Stoker, Miss Wisconsin USA (1996)
1969 - Shannon Long, Gladstone Australia, playmate (Oct, 1988)
1970 - Alistair Brown, cricketer (Surrey & England ODI opening batsman 1996)
1970 - Jason Allyn Scott, Iowa City Iowa, rower (Olympics-1996)
1970 - Fredrik Thordendal, Swedish musician
1971 - Jennifer Lynne Faucette, Burlington Vermont, Miss America-Vt (1996)
1971 - John Bock, NFL center (NY Jets, Miami Dolphins)
1971 - Linda Wild, Arlington Heights Ill, tennis star (1993 Melbourne Open)
1971 - Damian Lewis, British actor
1972 - Dennis Iliohan, Dutch soccer player (FC Lisse, ADO Den Haag)
1972 - Steve Mcmanaman, English footballer
1972 - Kelly Slater, American surfer
1973 - Tom Tumulty, linebacker (Cincinnati Bengals)
1973 - Ethan Iverson, jazz pianist
1973 - Jeon Do-yeon, Korean actress
1973 - Varg Vikernes, Norwegian musician
1974 - Brian Newman, guard (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1974 - Ronnie Ward, linebacker (Miami Dolphins)
1974 - Wally Richardson, quarterback (Baltimore Ravens)
1974 - D'Angelo, American singer
1974 - Alex Jones, American radio host
1974 - Zain Verjee, American newsreporter
1975 - Chuck Watanabe, kayak (alt-Olympics-96)
1975 - Jacque Vaughn, NBA guard (Utah Jazz)
1975 - Kim Weir, Miss USA-Nebraska (1997)
1975 - Andy Lally, American race car driver
1976 - Brice Beckham, Long Beach California, actor (Wesley-Mr Belvedare)
1976 - Tony Battie, NBA forward (Denver Nuggets)
1976 - André Wickström, Finland-Swedish comedian and actor
1977 - Jessica Carlson, Kalamazoo Mich, archer (alt-Olympics-1996)
1977 - Stephanie Richardson, Toronto Ontario, 200m/800m swimmer (Olympics-96)
1977 - Veronica Marie Duka, Campbellsville KY, Miss America (Ky-Top 10-1997)
1977 - Mike Shinoda, American musician, Linkin Park, Fort Minor
1979 - Brandy [Norwood], singer (Les Miserables, Moisha)
1980 - Matthew Lawrence, Montgomery Pa, actor (Matthew-Gimme a Break)
1980 - Natasha Bobo, Watsonville California, actress (Sally-Together We Stand)
1980 - Titi Buengo, Angolan footballer
1980 - Cormac McAnallen, Northern Irish Gaelic footballer (d. 2004)
1980 - Marco Bresciano, Australian soccer player
1981 - Kelly Rowland, American singer
1981 - Scot Thompson, American soccer player
1982 - Neil Robertson, Australian snooker player
1983 - Nicki Clyne, Canadian actress
1983 - Huang Shengyi, Chinese actress
1983 - Rafael Van der Vaart, Dutch footballer
1984 - Matt Good, American musician
1984 - Aubrey O'Day, American singer
1985 - Mike Richards, Canadian ice hockey player
1985 - William Beckett, lead singer of the American rock band The Academy Is...
1990 - Princess Ayah of Jordan
1990 - Q'orianka Kilcher, actress and activist (The New World)
1992 - Taylor Lautner, American actor
1992 - Blair Dunlop, English actor
1994 - Dominic Janes, American actor

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 11, 2013, 09:36:15 AM

This Day in History for 11th February


Famous Deaths

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Jaws Novelist Peter Benchley (2006)


641 - Heraclius, emperor of Byzantium (610-641), dies at about 65
731 - Gregory II, Greek-Syrian Pope, dies
821 - Benedict of Aniane, saint, dies
824 - Paschal I, Italian Pope (817-24), dies
867 - Theodora, the Saint, beauty queen/empress of Byzantine, dies
1141 - Hugo of St-Victor, philosopher/theologist/mystic, dies
1160 - Minamoto no Yoshitomo, Japanese general (b. 1123)
1503 - Elizabeth of York, Consort of King Henry VII, dies on 38th birthday
1511 - Henry, Duke of Cornwall, son of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon
1543 - Ahmed Gran, sultan of Adal, dies in battle at Wayna Daga
1622 - Alfonso Fontanelli, composer, dies at 64
1626 - Pietro Cataldi, Italian mathematician (b. 1552)
1650 - Rene Descartes, philosopher "I think therefore I am", stops thinking
1685 - David Teniers III, Flemish painter, dies at 46
1713 - Jahandar Shah, Mughal emperor of India (b. 1664)
1755 - Francesco Scipione, marchese di Maffei, Italian archaeologist (b. 1675)
1762 - Johann Tobias Krebs, composer, dies at 71
1763 - William Shenstone, English poet (b. 1714)
1797 - Antoine Dauvergne, composer, dies at 83
1806 - Vicente Martin y Soler, composer, dies at 51
1829 - Alexandr Griboyedov, Russian playwright (b. 1795)
1841 - J H Ferdinand Olivier, German painter, dies at 55
1862 - Elizabeth Siddal, British poet and artist (b. 1829)
1868 - Leon Foucault, discovers 1st physical proof of Earth's rotation, dies
1870 - Jacob M de Kempenaer, Dutch min of Internal Aff (1848-49), dies at 76
1870 - Leopold Eugen Mechura, composer, dies at 66
1879 - Honore Daumier, caricaturist/painter, dies
1879 - Willem J van Zeggelen, Dutch author/novelist/writer, dies at 67
1882 - Gustav Schmidt, composer, dies at 65
1892 - Erik Anthon Valdemar Siboni, composer, dies at 63
1894 - Pasqual Juan Emilio Arrieta y Corera, composer, dies at 70
1899 - George Morgan, 1st English motorist to die in an motor accident, dies
1901 - Milan I, king of Serbia, dies at 56
1903 - Henryk Szulc, composer, dies at 67
1907 - Peter J Savelberg, Dutch Limbourg monastery founder, dies at 80
1911 - Albert von Rothschild, baron/Austrian banker, dies at 66
1917 - Oswaldo Cruz, Brazilian physician (b. 1872)
1922 - Gerardus J P Bolland, Dutch philosopher (Bolland Society), dies at 67
1923 - Wilhelm Killing, German mathematician (b. 1847)
1931 - Charles Algernon Parsons, British inventor (steam turbine), dies at 76
1931 - Charles Parsons, inventor of the steam turbine, dies
1939 - Franz Schmidt, Austrian composer, dies at 64
1940 - John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, Gov-Gen of Canada (1935-40), dies
1941 - Rudolf Hilferding, Germ economist/Min of Finance (SPD), suicide at 63
1944 - Ivan Sollertinski, friend of Russian composer D Sjostakovitsj, dies
1945 - Al Dubin, Swiss songwriter (Tiptoe Thru The Tulips), dies at 53
1945 - J S H Lokerman, Dutch resistance fighter, dies in Neugengamme
1948 - Sergy Eisenstein, film director, dies at 50
1954 - Adolph M. Christianson, justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court (b. 1877)
1958 - Ernest Jones, British psychonanalyst (b. 1879)
1959 - Marshall Teague, American race car driver (b. 1922)
1961 - Eduard R Verkade, Dutch actor/director (Pygmalion), dies at 82
1961 - Patrice Lumumba, 1st premier Congo, murdered at 34
1963 - Sylvia Plath, poet/novelist (Ariel), kills herself in London at 30
1968 - Howard Lindsay, US playwright (State of the Union), dies at 78
1969 - James Lanphier, actor (Flight of Lost Balloon), dies at 48
1970 - Emil Abranyi, composer, dies at 87
1971 - Whitney Young Jr, National Urban League director, drowns in Nigeria
1972 - Jan Wils, architect (Olympian Stadium, Amsterdam), dies at 80
1973 - Hans D Jensen, German physicist (Nobel prize 1963), dies at 65
1974 - Anna Q Nilsson, actress (Toll Gate, Sorrell & Son), dies at 85
1975 - Richard Ratsimandrava, Malagasy soldier and statesman, assassinated (b. 1931)
1976 - Alice Allen, actress (Call of the Hills), dies
1976 - Charlie Naughton, actor (Frozen Limits), dies at 89
1976 - Lee J Cobb, actor (12 Angry Men, On the Waterfront), dies at 64
1976 - Alexander Lippisch, German scientist (b. 1894)
1976 - Frank Arnau, German writer (b. 1894)
1977 - Louis J M Beel, Dutch premier (1946-48, 58-59), dies at 74
1978 - James B Conant, headmaster (Harvard University), dies at 84
1978 - Harry Martinson, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1904)
1982 - Eleanor Powell, tap dancer/wife of Glenn Ford, dies at 69 of cancer
1982 - Takashi Shimura, Japans actor (Rashomon, 7 Samurais), dies at 76
1982 - Victor Jory, Alaskan actor (Kings Row, Manhunt), dies at 79
1985 - Heinz Eric Roemheld, composer, dies of pneumonia at 83
1985 - Henry Hathaway, actor/director (Nob Hill), dies of heart attack at 86
1985 - Ulysses Sipmson Kay, composer, dies at 68
1985 - Ben Abruzzo, American businessman and balloonist (b. 1930)
1986 - Frank [Patrick] Herbert, sci-fi author (Dune), dies at 65
1986 - Evelio Javier, Filipino politician, lawyer, and civil servant (b. 1942)
1987 - Sadequain, famous Pakistani painter and artist. (b. 1930)
1989 - George O'Hanlon, actor/director (Bop Girl, Zamba), dies at 71
1991 - Oscar Nitzchke, German architect (Alcoa building), dies at 90
1991 - Robert W. Holley, American biochemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1922)
1992 - Ray Danton, US actor/director (Psychic Killer), dies at 60
1993 - George A Stephen, inventor (Weber Kettle Grill), dies at 71
1993 - Joy Garrett, actress (Days of Our Lives), dies of liver failure
1993 - Oksana Kostina, Russian gymnist, dies in an auto accident
1994 - Antonio Martin, Spanish cyclist, dies in cycling accident at 23
1994 - Sorrell Brooke, actor (Mayor Hogg-Dukes of Hazzard), dies at 64
1994 - William Conrad, actor (Cannon), dies of a heart attack at 73
1996 - Amelia Rosselli, poet, dies at 65
1996 - Bob Shaw, science fiction writer, dies of cancer at 64
1996 - Cyril Poole, cricket (Notts 1946-62, England 1951-52 in 3 Tests), dies
1996 - Kebby Musokotwane, prime minister of Zambia in (1985-89), dies
1996 - Phil Regan, actor (Las Vegas Night, Dames, Housewife), dies at 88
1997 - Don Porter, actor (Gidget), dies at 84
2000 - Roger Vadim, French director (b. 1928)
2000 - Jacqueline Auriol, French aviatrix (b. 1917)
2002 - Barry Foster, British actor (b. 1931)
2002 - Frank Crosetti, baseball player (b. 1910)
2004 - Shirley Strickland, Australian athlete (b. 1925)
2005 - Jack L. Chalker, American author (b. 1944)
2006 - Jockey Shabalala, South African singer (b. 1943)
2006 - Peter Benchley, American author, dies at 65
2006 - Jackie Pallo, wrestler (b. 1926)
2007 - Marianne Fredriksson, Swedish author (b. 1927)
2008 - Tom Lantos, member of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1928)
2008 - Frank Piasecki, American aeronautical designer (b. 1919)
2009 - Estelle Bennett, American singer (b. 1941)
2010 - Alexander McQueen, English fashion designer (b. 1969)
2011 - Tom Carnegie, American sports announcer (b. 1919)
2011 - Chuck Tanner, American Baseball player (b. 1928)
2012 - Whitney Houston, American singer and actress, dies from an accidental drowning at age 48

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 12, 2013, 11:27:21 AM

This Day in History for 12th February


Historical Events

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British war time Prime Minister                      30th US President                       Theoretical Physicist Albert Einstein
Winston Churchill                                           Calvin Coolidge

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Basketball Player Bill Russell                     NHL all-time top scorer                        42nd US President Bill Clinton
                                                                          Wayne Gretzky

1049 - Bruno count of Egesheim & Dagsburg crowned Pope Leo IX
1111 - German King Hendry V arrives at St Peter, Rome
1130 - Pope Innocent II elected
1502 - Granada Moslems forced to convert to Catholicism
1502 - Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal on his second voyage to India.
1528 - Treaty of Dordrecht between emperor & ecclesiastical power
1541 - Santiago, Chile founded (or Feb 24)
1577 - Spanish land guardian Don Juan of Habsburg signs "Eternal Edict"
1624 - English parliament comes together
1700 - The Great Northern War begins in Northern Europe.
1709 - Alexander Selkirk, Scottish seaman is rescued after 4+ years from Fernandez Island
           (inspiration for Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe")
1719 - The Onderlinge van 1719 u.a., the oldest existing life insurance company in the Netherlands is
           founded.
1733 - Georgia founded by James Oglethorpe, at site of Savannah
1762 - English fleet occupies Martinique
1763 - John Casteret appointed British minister of foreign affairs
1771 - Gustav III becomes the King of Sweden.
1772 - Yves de Kerguelen of France discovers Kerguelen Archipelago, India
1793 - 1st US fugitive slave law passed; requires return of escaped slaves
1797 - Haydn's song "Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser," premieres in Vienna
1818 - Chile gains independence from Spain
1821 - Mercantile Library of City of NY opens
1825 - Creek Indian treaty signed. Tribal chiefs agree to turn over all their land in Georgia to the
           government & migrate west by Sept 1, 1826
1832 - Ecuador annexes Gal pagos Islands
1839 - Aroostock War: Boundary dispute between Maine & New Brunswick
1840 - Housatonic Railroad opens
1848 - Ballet "Faust" premieres, Milan
1850 - Original Washington's Farewell Address manuscript sells for $2,300
1855 - Michigan State University was established.
1861 - State troops seize US munitions in Napoleon, AK
1865 - Henry Highland Garnet, is 1st black to speak in US House of Reps
1870 - Official proclamation sets April 15 as last day of grace for US silver coins to circulate in Canada
1873 - Congress abolishes bimetallism & authorizes $1 & $3 gold coins
1874 - King David Kalakaua of Sandwich Is Hawaii, is 1st king to visit US
1876 - Al Spalding opens his sporting good shop
1877 - 1st news dispatch by telephone, between Boston & Salem, Mass
1877 - US railroad builders strike against wage reduction
1878 - Frederick Thayer patents catcher's mask (pat # 200,358)
1879 - 1st artificial ice rink in North America (Madison Sq Garden, NYC)
1879 - News about slaughtering of Isandlwana reaches London
1880 - National Croquet League organizes (Phila)
1882 - Social-Democratic Union forms in Amsterdam
1885 - Carl Peters founds German East-Africa Society
1886 - 2nd British government of Salisbury forms
1889 - Caesar Francks Symphony in D, premieres
1889 - Henrik Ibsens "Fruen fra Haven," premieres in Oslo
1894 - Anarchist Émile Henry hurls a bomb into Paris's Cafe Terminus, killing one and wounding 20.
1899 - -47°F (-44°C), Camp Clarke, Nebraska (state record)
1899 - 1st 2-man team 6-day bicycle race in US begins, Madison Square Garden, NYC
1901 - Dutch Penitentiary children's law proclaimed
1906 - George Cohans musical "George Washington," premieres in NYC
1908 - Anna Jeanes bequeaths $1,000,000 to Swarthmore to become all female
1908 - NY to Paris auto race (via Alaska & Siberia) begins in NYC George Schuster wins after 88 days
           behind the wheel
1909 - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) forms
1909 - Netherlands' SDAP suspends Marxist Tribune group (Gorter & Wijnkoop)
1909 - Robert Fowler runs world record marathon (2:46:52.6)
1912 - China adopts Gregorian calendar
1912 - Last Ch'ing (Manchu) emperor of China, Hsuan T'ung, abdicates
1914 - In Washington, DC, the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
1915 - Cornerstone laid for Lincoln Memorial in Wash DC
1916 - 1st edition of Joseph Patterson/Sidney Smith strip "Gumps"
1920 - -Apr 26] 14,000 Rotterdam/Amsterdam harbor workers strike
1920 - NL votes 6-2 for 1 commissioner AL votes 6-2 to keep group commission
1921 - Soviet troops invade Georgia (theirs, not ours)
1921 - Winston Churchill becomes British, minister of Colonies
1924 - George Gershwin's "Rhapsody In Blue" premieres at Carnegie Hall (NYC)
1924 - George Kaufman's "Beggar on Horseback," premieres in NYC
1924 - President Calvin Coolidge makes 1st presidential radio speech
1925 - 1st federal arbitration law approved by Congress
1925 - E Thieffry departs with Handley Page for the Belgian Congo
1925 - Estonia forbids communist Party
1926 - Barendrecht soccer team forms
1927 - British expeditionary army lands in Shanghai
1929 - Karst Leemburg wins Dutch 11 cities skate (11:30)
1931 - Vatican Radio begins broadcasting with the callsign HVJ
1932 - Communist Party of Holland forms Unemployed Combat Committees
1933 - German vice-chancellor von Papen demands Catholic aid for Nazis
1934 - Export-Import Bank incorporates
1934 - France hit by a general strike against fascists & royalists
1934 - The Austrian Civil War begins.
1935 - Great airship, USS Macon, crashes into Pacific Ocean
1937 - Cleveland (now Los Angeles) Rams granted an NFL franchise
1938 - Austrian chancellor Schuschnigg visits Hitler in Berchtesgaden
1938 - German troops entered Austria
1941 - Jewish Council for Amsterdam forms, under Ascher/Cohen
1941 - Occupation Police arrest "Jewish Foursome"
1942 - 3 German battle cruisers escape via Channel to Brest N Germany
1943 - General Eisenhower departs Algiers to Tebessa
1944 - Wendell Wilkie (R) enters presidential race
1945 - SF selected for site of UN Conference
1946 - World War II: Operation Deadlight ends after scuttling 121 of 154 captured U-boats.
1947 - Daytime fireball & meteorite fall seen in eastern Siberia
1947 - Record 100.5-kg sailfish caught, C W Stewart, Galapagos Islands
1948 - 1st Lt Nancy Leftenant becomes 1st black in army nursing corps
1949 - "Annie Get Your Gun" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 1147 perfs
1949 - Panic in Quito Ecuador, after "War of the World" played on radio
1949 - Team Canada beats Denmark 47-0 in hockey
1949 - Unidentified aircraft bomb Jerusalem
1950 - Albert Einstein warns against hydrogen bomb
1950 - Sen Joe McCarthy claims to have list of 205 communist government employees
1953 - USSR breaks relations with Israel
1955 - McGuire Sisters' "Sincerely" single goes to #1 & stays #1 for 10 weeks
1955 - Pres Eisenhower sends 1st US advisors to S Vietnam
1955 - Soviets decides space center built in Baikonur, Kazachstan
1955 - WTVY TV channel 4 in Dothan, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting
1956 - Fay Crocker wins LPGA Miami Beach Golf Open
1957 - Researchers announce Borazan (harder than diamonds) been developed
1958 - Celtic Bill Russell grabs 41 rebounds to beat Syracuse 119-101
1958 - Gen Miguel Ydegoras Fuentes elected president of Guatemala
1960 - Chinese army kills 12 Indian soldiers
1961 - Celtic Bill Russell grabs 40 rebounds to beat Warriors 136-125
1961 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open
1961 - Mushtaq Mohammad scores 1st Test Cricket century at 17 yrs 82 days
1961 - USSR launches Venera 1 toward Venus
1962 - Bus boycott starts in Macon, Georgia
1963 - Argentina asks extraditon of ex-president Peron
1964 - Beatles 1st NYC concert (Carnegie Hall)
1964 - End of Richie Benaud's 63-Test Cricket career
1964 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming
1964 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Allen
1965 - KHFI (now KBVO) TV channel 42 in Austin, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
1965 - Nuclear test at Pacific Ocean
1967 - Kees Verkerk becomes world champ all round skater
1967 - Keith Richards, Mick Jagger & Marianne Faithful busted for drugs
1967 - Pirate Radio Free Harlem (NYC) begins transmitting
1970 - Anthony Shaffers "Sleuth," premieres in NYC
1971 - Only Test Cricket for Ken Eastwood, who scored 5 & 0 Aust v England
1973 - 1st US POWs in N Vietnam released; 116 of 456 flown to Philippine
1976 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1977 - Toronto Maple Leafs shutout Washington Capitals 10-0
1978 - "Jesus Christ Superstar" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 96 perfs
1978 - Debbie Austin wins LPGA American Cancer Society Golf Classic
1978 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne
1978 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Charles Tickner
1979 - Kosmos 1076, 1st Soviet oceanographic satellite, launched
1980 - "Canterbury Tales" opens at Rialto Theater NYC for 16 performances
1980 - NY Islanders 2nd scoreless tie, vs Winnipeg Jets
1980 - Richard Hadlee becomes NZ's top wicket-taker with 117
1981 - Admiral Bobby R Inman, USN, becomes deputy director of CIA
1981 - Arbitrator Goetz declares Red Sox catcher Carlton Fisk a free agent
1981 - Cape Verde amends its constitution
1981 - Pete Squires sets record for 1575 steps of Empire State Bldg, 10m
1982 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1982 - Wayne Gretzky scores 153rd point of season, tieing NHL record
1984 - Alice Miller wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic
1984 - Cale Yarborough, becomes 1st Daytona 500 qualifier, above 200 MPH
1984 - Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean skate "Bolero" at Olympics
1984 - West Indies beat Australia 2-0-1 to win cricket World Series Cup receiving all perfect scores
           for quality & gold medal
1985 - 37th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 6-4 at Calgary
1985 - West Indies beat Australia 2-1 to win cricket World Series Cup
1986 - 1st-class cricket debut of Curtly Ambrose, Leeward Is v Guyana
1987 - Survivors of a black man murdered by KKK members awarded $7 M damages
1989 - 39th NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 143-134 at Houston
1989 - 5 Pakistani Moslem rioters killed protesting "Satanic Verses" novel
1989 - 50th PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Larry Mowry
1989 - Barbara Harris becomes 1st female bishop of a US Episcopal church
1989 - Gretzky sets 2 records, his 45th hat trick & 10th 40+ goal season
1989 - Thursday's Child sets sailing record, NY-Cape Horn-SF, 80 d 20 h
1989 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Christopher Bowman
1991 - Iceland recognizes Lithuania's independence
1991 - North & South Korea form a joint team for table tennis competition
1994 - 17th Winter Olympic games opens in Lillehammer, Norway
1994 - 20th century premiere of 6 restored Haydn-sonatas in Boston
1994 - Edvard Munch's painting "The Scream" stolen (in Oslo)
1994 - Inna Lassovskaya jumps world record 14.90m
1994 - Model Anna Nicole Smith hospitalized for drug overdose
1995 - 45th NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 139-112 at Phoenix
1995 - Angela Kennedy swims woman's world record 50m butterfly
1995 - Bonnie Blair skates female world record 500m (38.69 sec)
1995 - Dieter Baumann runs European record 3k indoor (7:37.51)
1995 - Jeff Rouse swims world record 50m backstroke (24.37 sec)
1995 - Moses Kiptanui runs world record 3k indoor (7:35.15)
1995 - PRI loses/PAN wins Mexican regional elections
1995 - Sun Cayun pole vaults indoor female world record (4.13m)
1995 - Susan Auch skates female world record 500m (38.94 sec)
1997 - Fred Goldman says he will settle for a signed murder confession from O J Simpson in lieu of
           his $20.5 million judgement
1998 - "Freak," opens at Cort Theater NYC
1998 - 250-car Italy pile-up due to fog, 4 die & 50 hurt
1998 - Dallas Cowboys sign Chan Gailey as their 4th head coach
1998 - Intel unveils its 1st graphics chip i740
1998 - US district judge T Hogan declares line-item veto law unconstitutional
1999 - President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial.
2001 - NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touchdown in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros becoming the first
           spacecraft to land on an asteroid.
2002 - US Secretary of Energy makes the decision that Yucca Mountain is suitable to be the United
           States' nuclear waste repository.
2002 - An Iran Air Tupolev Tu-154 crashes prior to landing in Khorramabad, Iran, killing 119.
2002 - The trial of former President of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milošević begins at
            the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague. He eventually dies four years later
            before its conclusion.
2004 - The city of San Francisco, California begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in
           response to a directive from Mayor Gavin Newsom.
2006 - A powerful winter storm blankets the Northeastern United States dumping 1 to 2 feet of
           snow from Washington DC up to Boston, Massachusetts. The storm dumped a record 26.9
            inches of snow in New York City.
2007 - A gunman opens fire in a mall in Salt Lake City, killing 5 people in the Trolley Square shooting.
2009 - Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashes near Buffalo in the state of New York killing 50 people.
2012 - Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow is re-elected president of Turkmenistan with 97% of the vote
2012 - Zambia defeat Ivory Coast 8-7 on penalties in the Africa Cup of Nations

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 12, 2013, 11:29:06 AM

This Day in History for 12th February


Famous Weddings

1736 - Maria Theresa Habsburg marries French Stefanus (emperor Francois I)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 12, 2013, 11:48:16 AM

This Day in History for 12th February


Famous Birthdays

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US President Abraham Lincoln (1809)     Naturalist Charles Darwin (1809)        Basketball Player Bill Russell (1934)

1074 - Conrad, King of Germany and Italy (d. 1101)
1211 - Henry VII, Roman catholic German king (1220-35)
1218 - Kujo Yoritsune, Japanese shogun (d. 1256)
1438 - Adolf van Egmond, duke of Gelre/earl of Zutphen
1474 - Lorenzo Campeggi(o), archbishop of Bologna/diplomat
1567 - Thomas Campion, England, composer/poet/physician
1584 - Casparus Barleaus, Flemish theologist/poet (Muiderkring)
1585 - Caspar Bartholin, Malmö , physician, theologian, writer on anatomy
1588 - John Winthrop, English attorney/puritan/1st gov of Mass
1606 - John Winthrop, the Younger, Governor of Connecticut (d. 1676)
1636 - Herman Witsius, [Wits], Dutch reformed theologist
1637 - Jan Swammerdam, Amsterdam, Dutch anatomist/entomologist (Bible of Nature)
1663 - Cotton Mather, witchcraft authority
1665 - Rudolph J Camerarius, German botanist/physician (sexuality plant)
1704 - Charles Pinot Duclos, French writer (d. 1772)
1706 - Josef Christian, German sculptor
1728 - Étienne-Louis Boullée, French architect (d. 1799)
1740 - Matej Sojka, composer
1751 - Joseph Waast Aubert Nonot, composer
1753 - Lambert-Francois Godecharle, composer
1753 - François-Paul Brueys D'Aigalliers, French admiral (d. 1798)
1758 - Christian Ignatius Latrobe, composer
1760 - Jan Ladislav Dussek, Bohemia, pianist/composer
1768 - Francis II, Florence Italy, last Holy Roman emperor (1792-1806)
1775 - Louise Catherine Johnson Adams, 1st lady (1825-1829)
1777 - Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, German poet (d. 1843)
1778 - Franz Joseph Volkert, composer
1785 - Pierre Louis Dulong, French physicist (d. 1838)
1791 - Jan D Zocher Jr, Dutch garden architect (Vondelpark, Amsterdam)
1791 - Peter Cooper, industrialist/philanthropist (Cooper Union)
1792 - Ferdinand de Braekeleer, Belgian painter
1794 - Alexander Petrov, Russian chess player (d. 1867)
1804 - Heinrich Lenz, German physicist (d. 1865)
1809 - Abraham Lincoln, Kentucky, (R) 16th US President (1861-65)
1809 - Charles Darwin, England, discovered evolution (Origin of the Species)
1818 - Otto Ludwig, German writer (Die Heiterethei)
1824 - Arya Samaj Maha Rishi Dayanand Sarsvati, Indian hindu leader
1828 - George Meredith, England, poet/novelist (Shaving of Shagpat)
1828 - Robert Ransom Jr, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1892
1831 - John Morrissey, boxer/developer of Saratoga Springs horse race track
1838 - Charles Carroll Walcott, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1898
1841 - Gijsbert van Tienhoven, Dutch mayor (Amsterdam) and Prime Minister of the Netherlands 
           1891-1894
1843 - John Graham Chambers, English athlete who wrote the Queensberry rules for boxing (d.
           1883)
1850 - Amaat Vyncke, Flemish missionary (Flemish Flag)
1852 - Hendrik Blink, geographer (Van de Eems tot de Schelde)
1853 - Bertram Luard-Selby, composer
1857 - Bobby Peel, cricketer (great English lefty 1884-96)
1861 - Lou [Andreas-]Salome, Russian/German author (Im Kampf um Gott)
1865 - Kazimierz P Tetmajer, Polish writer/poet (Young Poland)
1867 - Hedwig Courths-Mahler, German author (Warbride) [or Febr 18]
1867 - Joe Howard, NYC, vocalist (Gay Nineties Revue)
1868 - Johan H A Schaper, Dutch MP/founder (SDAP)
1869 - Hendrik P Marchant, Dutch minister of Education/Arts (VVD)
1870 - Marie Lloyd, English music-hall performer (d. 1922)
1876 - Thubten Gyatso, 13th Dalai Lama (d. 1933)
1880 - John Llewellyn Lewis, union leader (United Mine Workers, 1920-60)
1882 - Walter Vaes, Flemish painter/etcher
1883 - Ludwig Stossel, Austria, actor (Man With a Camera)
1884 - Max Beckmann, German painter/graphic artist
1884 - Marie Vassilieff, Russian artist (d. 1957)
1884 - Johan Laidoner, Estonian military commander (d. 1953)
1885 - Licinio Refice, composer
1886 - Gustaf Lazarus Nordqvist, composer
1886 - Michel Brusselmans, composer
1891 - Cecil Dixon, cricket off-spinner (1 Test for South Africa, 3-118, pair)
1891 - Maurice Yvain, composer
1891 - Max Terhune, actor (Arizona Stagecoach, Hit the Saddle, Range Justice)
1893 - Marcel G J Minnaert, Dutch astronomer
1893 - Omar Bradley, General of Army WW II (GI General)
1897 - Vola Vale, American actress (d. 1970)
1898 - Wallace Ford, [Samuel Jones Grundy], Batton England, actor (Deputy)
1898 - [Le]Roy Harris, Oklahoma, composer (When Johnny Comes Marching Home)
1899 - Albert Huybrechts, composer
1900 - Fred Emney, London England, actor (Let the People Sing, Lilac Domino)
1902 - William D Revelli, Spring Gulch Colorado, band leader
1902 - William Collier, American stage and film actor (d. 1987)
1903 - Chick Hafey, baseball player (d. 1973)
1903 - Joseph F. Biroc, American cinematographer (d. 1996)
1904 - Ted Mack, Denver Colo, TV host (Original Amateur Hour)
1905 - Harry Bellaver, actor (Sgt Arcaro-Naked City)
1907 - Clifton C. Edom, American photojournalism educator (d. 1991)
1908 - Jacques Herbrand, French logician and mathematician (d. 1931)
1908 - Jean Effel, French painter and journalist (d. 1982)
1908 - August Neo, Estonian wrestler (d. 1982)
1909 - Barry Wood, New Haven Ct, vocalist (Your Hit Parade)
1910 - Forsyth Hardy, documentary film pioneer
1910 - Lee Byung Chull, Korean industrialist/founder (Samsung Business)
1911 - Charles Mathiesen, Norway, 1500m speed skater (Olympic-gold-1936)
1911 - Frank Hercules, writer
1911 - Sylvstre A Guzman Fernandez, president (Dominican Republic)
1911 - Stephen H. Sholes, American recording executive (d. 1968)
1912 - Eddie J Bush, golf professional
1912 - Ernest Clark, London England, actor (Doctor in the House)
1912 - R. F. Delderfield, English author (d. 1972)
1913 - Pedro Gastao de Orleans e Braganca, grandson of emperor Pedro I
1914 - Gordon Tex Beneke, saxophonist/bandleader/vocalist (Glenn Miller Orch)
1914 - Nello Celio, Swiss president
1914 - Arvid Pardo, Maltese diplomat, a.k.a "Father of the Law of the Sea Conference" (d. 1999)
1915 - Andrew J Goodpaster, US, general/supreme commander (NATO-Europe)
1915 - Lorne Greene, Ottawa Canada, actor (Bonanza, Battlestar Galactica)
1916 - Joseph L Alioto, (Mayor-SF)
1916 - Karl Hubert Rudolf Schiske, Austrian composer (Vom Tode)
1917 - Thomas K Scherman, NYC, conductor (Little Orch Society 1947-75)
1917 - Raizo Matsuno, Japanese politician (d. 2006)
1918 - Dominic DiMaggio, baseball outfielder (Boston Red Sox)
1918 - Julian S Schwinger, US physicist
1919 - Forrest Tucker, Plainfield Ind, actor (O'Rourke-F Troop, Dusty Trail)
1920 - William Roscoe Estep, Baptist historian and professor (d. 2000)
1920 - Pran, Indian actor
1923 - Franco Zeffirelli, Florence Italy, director (Romeo & Juliet)
1923 - James Abdnor, (Sen-R-SD, 1981-87), (d. 2012)
1923 - Mel Powell, composer
1923 - Chaskel Besser, Orthodox rabbi
1924 - Hans Berghuis, Dutch author/poet (3 Women, Adam)
1925 - Sir Anthony Berry, British politician (d. 1984)
1926 - Joe Garagiola, St Louis Mo, sportscaster/host (Today Show)
1926 - Paul Hamlyn, English publisher/multi-millionaire (Octopus)
1926 - Charles Van Doren, American quiz show contestant
1927 - Anne Gillis, Little Rock Ark, actress (Adv of Tom Sawyer, Little Men)
1929 - Agustin Gonzalez Acilu, composer
1930 - Arlen Specter, (Sen-R-PA, 1981- )
1930 - Gerhard Rohm, writer
1931 - Constance A Morella, (Rep-R-Maryland)
1931 - Janwillem van de Wetering, Dutch author
1932 - Lincoln Kilpatrick, St Louis Mo, actor (BJ-Leslie Uggams Show)
1932 - Axel Jensen, Norwegian author (d. 2003)
1933 - Costa-Gavras, director
1933 - Ivan Nikolayevich Anikeyev, cosmonaut
1933 - Juanita [Ruth] Coulson, sci-fi author (Web of Wizardry, Space Trap)
1934 - Annette Crosbie, British(?) actress
1934 - Bill Russell, Monroe La, NBAer (Boston Celtics, Oly-gold-56)
1934 - Anne Krueger, American economist
1935 - Gene McDaniels, US vocalist/bandleader/actor (Young Swingers)
1935 - Ken Still, golfer
1936 - Arnost Parsch, composer
1936 - Fang Lizhi, Beijing China, Chinese astrophysicist/dissident (Tiananmen Square, 1989), (d. 2012)
1936 - Joe Don Baker, Groesback Tx, actor (Eischied, Walking Tall, Fletch)
1936 - Paul Shenar, Milwaukee Wisc, actor (Carrington-Roots)
1937 - Charles Everett Dumas, Tulsa Ok, high jumper (Olympic-gold-1956)
1938 - Judy Blume, author (Wifey)
1939 - Ray Manzarek, American keyboardist (Doors-Light My Fire, Unknown Soldier)
1939 - John D Hancock, actor/director (Black Marble, Traxx, Houston Knights)
1940 - Hank Brown, (Rep-R-CO, 1981-88)
1940 - Richard Lynch, American actor (Xaviar-Battlestar Galactica), (d. 2012)
1941 - Naomi Uemura, mountain climber (1st Japanese to scale Everest)
1941 - Ross Morgan, cricketer (NZ batsman in 20 Tests 1965-72)
1942 - Chananjit Vohra, Kenyan/British hotel magnate/multi-millionaire
1942 - Lionel Grigson, professor of jazz
1942 - Rick Frank, rocker
1942 - Ehud Barak, Prime Minister of Israel
1942 - Pat Dobson, American baseball player (d. 2006)
1944 - Charles Pasarell, tennis pro
1944 - Desmond Nuttall, English educator
1944 - Jackie Torrence, story teller/artist
1944 - Moe Bandy, Meridian Ms, country vocalist (Just Good Ol' Boys)
1945 - Cliff De Young, LA California, actor (F/X, Hunger, Shock Treatment)
1945 - Joe Schermie, Madison Wi, bassist (3 Dog Night-Joy to the World)
1945 - Maud Adams, Lulea Sweden, actress (Octopussy, Rollerball, Tattoo)
1946 - Ever Meulen, [Eddy Vermeulen], Dutch designer (children stamps 1992)
1946 - Ajda Pekkan, Turkish singer
1947 - Guus Willemse, Dutch bassist/singer (Solution)
1947 - Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, Indian leader of Damdami Taksal (d. 1984)
1948 - Cindy Hill, LPGA golfer
1948 - Raymond Kurzweil, American inventor and author
1949 - Gundappa Viswanath, cricketer (prolific Indian batsman of 70s)
1949 - Len Randle, baseball player (NY Mets)
1949 - Stanley Knight, country artist (Black Oak Arkansas-High on the Hog)
1950 - Michael Ironside, actor, (Starship Troopers)
1950 - Steve Hackett, rock guitarist (Genesis-Against All Odds/GTR)
1951 - Gil "The Bird" Moore, rocker (Triumph)
1951 - Steven Parent, Manson murder victim (d. 1969)
1952 - Salvador Pineda, Mexico City, doctor
1952 - Michael McDonald, St Louis, rock keyboardist/vocals (Doobie Brothers)
1953 - Joanna Kerns, [de Varona], SF California, actress (Maggie-Growing Pains)
1953 - Simon MacCorkindale, Cambridge, actor (Falcon Crest, Manimal) [or 2/2]
1953 - Nabil Shaban, British actor
1953 - Robin Thomas, American actor
1954 - Tzimis Panousis, Greek musician and stand-up comedian
1954 - Philip Zimmermann, American cryptographer
1955 - Arsenio Hall, comedian (Alan Thicke, Arsenio, Coming to America)
1955 - Daniele Masala, Italy, pentathelete (Olympics-1976)
1955 - Bill Laswell, American bassist and record producer
1955 - Chet Lemon, American baseball player
1956 - Ad P Melkert, Dutch minister of Social Affairs (1994- )
1958 - Ingrid Klich, Whittier California, rower (Olympics-96)
1958 - Ruth Guerri, St Louis Mo, playmate (July, 1983)
1958 - Grant McLennan, Australian musician (The Go-Betweens) (d. 2006)
1959 - Nancy Remy, reporter (NYC's Shadow Traffic)
1959 - Omar Hakim, drummer (Dire Straits, Weather Report)
1959 - Per Gessle, rocker (Roxette-Joy Ride)
1959 - Sigrid Thornton, Australia, actress (Amelia Lawson-Guns of Paradise)
1961 - Chris Heyne, Offenbach Germ, WLAF General Manager (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1961 - Jim Harris, Canadian politician
1962 - Jimmy Kirkwood, Irish-born field hockey player
1963 - Brent Jones, NFL tight end (SF 49ers)
1963 - John Michael Higgins, American actor
1963 - Ed Lover, American radio personality
1964 - Maurice Douglass, NFL safety (NY Giants)
1964 - Michel Petit, St Malo, NHL defenseman (Tampa Bay Lightning)
1964 - Milton Small, cricket pace bowler (WI v Australia 1984)
1964 - Raphael Sbarge, actor (Risky Business, My Science Project, Werewolf)
1965 - Ruben Amaro, US baseball outfielder (Cleveland Indians)
1966 - Boty Goodwin, artist
1967 - Andrew Dunkley, Kent England, golfer (1991-93 Co-Captain U of W Fla)
1967 - Chris McKinstry, Canadian computer scientist
1967 - Chitravina N. Ravikiran, Indian composer and musician
1968 - Chynna Phillips, LA California, vocalist (Wilson Philips-Hold On)
1968 - Josh Brolin, actor (Johnny-Private Eye, Jimmy Hickok-Young Riders)
1968 - Todd Fanning, Saskatoon Sask, golfer (Manitoba Amat-1984, 90, 91, 92)
1968 - Grégory Charles, French Canadian singer, dancer, pianist, radio and television host
1968 - Christopher McCandless, American nomad, subject of biography Into the Wild (d. 1992)
1969 - Colin Keely, Buffalo NY, water polo driver (Olympics-96)
1969 - Shauna Lyn Searles, Miss California USA (1996)
1969 - Darren Aronofsky, American director and writer
1969 - Hong Myung-Bo, Korean footballer
1969 - Meja, Swedish singer
1970 - Bryan Roy, Surinam/Dutch soccer star (Ajax)
1970 - Dell Demps, NBA guard (San Antonio Spurs)
1970 - Lamar Thomas, NFL wide receiver (Tampa Bay Bucs, Miami Dolphins)
1970 - Jim Creeggan, Canadian bassist (Barenaked Ladies)
1970 - Judd Winick, writer and artist
1971 - Lincoln Kennedy, tackle (Oakland Raiders)
1971 - Romeo Bandison, NFL defensive tackle (Cleveland Browns)
1971 - Shane Tonkin, Australian baseball pitcher (Olympics-1996)
1971 - Shante Carver, NFL defensive end (Dallas Cowboys)
1971 - Tracy Kennick, Miss Utah USA (1996)
1972 - Andrew Cassesse, actor (Revenge of Nerds II, TV 101)
1972 - Dulip Samaraweera, cricketer (Sri Lankan Test opening batsman 1993-)
1973 - Brendon Mark Cameron, Pirongia NZ, 4k pursuit cyclist (Olympics-96)
1973 - Kath Soucie, American voice actress
1973 - Tara Strong, Canadian voice actress
1974 - Ian Mcintyre, Montreal, NHL left wing (Vancouver Canucks)
1974 - Toranosuke Takagi, Japanese race car driver
1974 - Fonzworth Bentley, American hip-hop artist
1975 - Chris Szarka, CFL full back (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1975 - Matt Finkes, linebacker (NY Jets)
1975 - Scot Pollard, NBA center (Detroit Pistons)
1975 - Seth Payne, defensive tackle (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1976 - Christopher Pettiet, LA California, actor (Young Riders)
1976 - Anna Benson, American model
1976 - Christian Cullen, New Zealand rugby union footballer
1976 - Silvia Saint, Czech actress
1977 - Jimmy Conrad, American soccer player
1978 - Brett Hodgson, Australian rugby league footballer
1978 - Gethin Jones, British (Welsh) television presenter
1978 - Silver Meikar, Estonian politician
1979 - Antonio Chatman, National Football League runningback
1979 - Matt Mauck, American football player
1979 - Jesse Spencer, Australian actor
1980 - Christina Ricci, actress (Wednesday-Addams Family, Mermaids, Casper)
1980 - Sarah Lancaster, KC KS, actress (Rachel-Saved By Bell: New Class)
1980 - Juan Carlos Ferrero, Spanish tennis player
1982 - Onil Joseph, Dominican baseball player
1982 - Louis Tsatoumas, Greek long jumper
1983 - Carlton Brewster, National Football League player
1984 - Peter Vanderkaay, American mid-distance swimmer
1984 - Brad Keselowski, NASCAR Nationwide Series Driver
1984 - Lolly Badcock, English pornographic actress
1985 - Saskia Burmeister Croft, Australian actress
1991 - Faisal ibn Hamad Al Khalifah, prince of Bahrain (d. 2006)
1993 - Jennifer Stone, American actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 12, 2013, 11:53:01 AM

This Day in History for 12th February


Famous Deaths

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Department Store Founder                   Cartoonist Charles M Schulz (2000)
James Cash Penney (1971)


1128 - Toghtekin, slave/atabek of Damascus, dies
1242 - Hendrik VII, Roman Catholics German king (1220-35), commits suicide
1538 - Albrecht Altdorfer, German painter, dies at about 57
1554 - Jane Grey, queen of England for 9 days, beheaded at 17
1554 - Lord Guildford Dudley, Jane Grey's husband, beheaded
1571 - Nicholas Throckmorton, English diplomat and politician (b. 1515)
1590 - Francois Hotman/Hotomanus, French lawyer/diplomat, dies at 65
1595 - Archduke Ernest of Austria, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands (b. 1553)
1616 - John Drusius, of Driesschen, Flemish Hebraist, dies at 65
1624 - George Heriot, Scottish goldsmith and philanthropist (b. 1563)
1630 - Fynes Moryson, English traveler and writer (b. 1566)
1684 - Pietro Andrea Ziani, composer, dies at 67
1700 - Aleksei Shein, Russian general and statesman (b. 1662)
1724 - Elkanah Settle, English writer (b. 1648)
1728 - Agostino Steffani, Italian/German diplomat/composer, dies at 73
1738 - James Sherard, composer, dies at 71
1762 - Laurent Belissen, composer, dies at 68
1763 - Pierre de Marivaux, French writer (b. 1688)
1771 - Adolf Frederik, King of Sweden (1751-70), dies at 60
1787 - Ruggiero Boscovich, Ital physicist/astronomer/philosopher, dies at 75
1789 - Ethan Allen, American patriot (b. 1738)
1799 - Frantisek Xaver Dusek, composer, dies at 67
1799 - Lazzaro Spallanzani, Italian biologist (b. 1729)
1804 - Immanuel Kant, German philosopher (Zum ewigen Frieden), dies at 79
1820 - Guillaume Albert Teniers, composer, dies at 71
1834 - Friedrich Schleiermacher, German theologist/philosopher, dies at 65
1837 - Ludwig Borne, writer, dies at 50
1861 - Hippolyte-Andre-Baptiste Chelard, composer, dies at 72
1889 - Andrew Greenwood, cricketer (batted in Eng's 1st 2 Tests 1877), dies
1894 - Hans von Bülow, German pianist and composer (b. 1830)
1896 - Charles Louis Ambrose Thomas, French composer (Mignon), dies at 84
1896 - Isaac Murphy, jockey, 628 wins on 1,412 mounts (44.5%), dies at 35
1901 - Ramon de Campoamor bon Campoosorio, Spanish poet (Colon), dies at 83
1903 - Gaspar Núñez de Arce, Spanish dramatist and statesman (b. 1834)
1905 - Marcel Schwob, French writer/journalist (Coeur double), dies
1915 - Charles Emile Waldteufel, composer, dies at 77
1916 - J W Richard Dedekind, German mathematician, dies
1920 - Emile Sauret, composer, dies at 67
1920 - Jean Allemane, French socialist/communard (allemanisten), dies at 77
1920 - Ottalee Baker, Frank "Home Run" Baker's wife, dies at 31
1921 - Charles Leslie, cricketer (4 Tests England v Australia 1882-83), dies
1929 - Freiherr Albert von Schrenk-Notzing, Ger para-psychologist, dies at 66
1929 - Lillie Langtry, British singer and actress (b. 1853)
1931 - Samedbey Mehmandarov, Russian general (b. 1855)
1933 - Henri Duparc, French composer, dies at 85
1935 - Auguste Escoffier, French chef (b. 1846)
1942 - Grant Wood, US painter (American Gothic), dies at 49
1945 - Henrietta Szold, founder (Hadassah, Youth Aliyah), dies
1945 - Walraven [Wally] van Hall, Dutch banker/resisted Nazis, executed at 39
1945 - Antonio Villa-Real, Filipino jurist (b. 1880)
1947 - Sidney Toler, actor (Charlie Chan, Dark Alibi), dies at 72
1949 - Hassan al Banna, Egyptian founder of the Muslim Brotherhood (b. 1906)
1951 - Choudhary Rehmat Ali, Pakistani nationalist (b. 1897)
1954 - Dziga Vertov, [Kaufman], Russian dir (3 Songs of Lenin), dies at 58
1955 - Tom Moore, actor (Ladies be Seated, Majority Rules), dies at 71
1957 - Johannes Anker Larsen, Danish writer (Martha og Maria), dies at 82
1957 - Eric Alfred Knudsen, American folklorist (b. 1872)
1958 - Marcel Cachin, 1st communist French senator, dies at 88
1960 - Bobby Clark, vaudevillan (World's funniest circus clown), dies at 71
1965 - Henry Kulky, actor (Otto-Life of Riley), dies at 53
1969 - Johanna EFG Tourniaire, actress (Potasch & Perlemoer), dies at 80
1970 - Andre Souris, composer, dies at 79
1971 - George Shelton, actor (It Pays to be Ignorant), dies at 86
1971 - James Cash Penney, US founder (J C Penney), dies at 95
1973 - Benjamin Frankel, composer, dies at 67
1976 - James Clifton Williams, composer (Sinfonians), dies at 52
1976 - Sal Mineo, actor (Exodus, Rebel Without a Cause), stabbed at 37
1979 - Jean Renoir, French writer/director (Human Beast), dies at 84
1980 - Floyd Taliaferro Alderson, actor (Crossing Trails), dies
1980 - Muriel Rukeyser, American poet (b. 1913)
1981 - Jean Dixon, actress (Joy of Livng, You Only Live Once), dies
1982 - Cornelis Rijnsdorp, Dutch writer (Culprit), dies at 87
1982 - Hal Hooker, cricket (307 partners with Kippax for last wicket), dies
1982 - Victor Jory, actor (Adv of Tom Sawyer, 1st Lady, Jigsaw), dies at 79
1983 - Eubie Blake, ragtime-composer/pianist (Memories of You), dies at 100
1984 - Julio Cort zar, Argentina writer (Final del Juego), dies at 69
1984 - Anna Anderson, claimant to the throne of Russia (b. 1896)
1985 - Nicholas Colssanto, actor (Coach-Cheers), dies at 61
1986 - Guy Douglas Hamilton Warrack, composer, dies at 86
1986 - Sid Stone, comedian (Milton Berle Show), dies at 82
1987 - Lang Jeffries, Canadian actor (Skip-Rescue 8 ), dies at 55
1989 - Mauritius Balfoort, French/Flemish director, dies at 83
1989 - Thomas Bernhard, Dutch/Austrian writer (Heldenplatz), dies at 58
1991 - Edward A Blatt, director (Between 2 Worlds), dies at 88
1991 - Robert Wagner, mayor (NYC-D-1954-65), dies
1991 - Roger Patterson, American death metal bass player (b. 1968)
1992 - Bep [Lambertus] van Klaveren, boxing champ (Olympic-gold-1928), dies
1992 - Dorothy Tree, actress (Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Nazi Agent), dies
1992 - Ton Brandsteder, CEO (Sony Netherland BV), dies at 74
1993 - James Bulger, English child beaten to death at 2, by 10 yr old boys
1994 - Donald Judd, US furniture maker/architect/artist, dies at 65
1994 - Sue Rodriguez, Canadian assisted suicide advocate (b. 1950)
1995 - Earring George Mayweather, blues harmonica player, dies at 66
1995 - L Jansma, Fries publisher (Friese stamp), dies
1995 - Rachid Mimouni, Algerian author (L'Honneur de la Tribu), dies at 49
1995 - Terence Beckles, pianist/teacher, dies at 82
1995 - Tony Secunda, rock band manager, dies at 54
1996 - Roger Omond, journalist, dies at 51
1996 - Bob Shaw, Northern Irish novelist (b. 1931)
1997 - Nora Beloff, journalist, dies at 78
1997 - Walter Ritchie, sculptor, dies at 77
2000 - Screamin' Jay Hawkins, American musician (b. 1929)
2000 - Tom Landry, American football coach (b. 1924)
2000 - Andy Lewis, Australian musician (b. 1967)
2000 - Charles M Schulz, American cartoonist, dies at 77
2000 - Oliver, American pop singer (b. 1945)
2001 - Kristina Söderbaum, German actress (b. 1912)
2003 - Vali Myers, Australian painter (b. 1930)
2005 - Rafael Vidal, Venezuelan athlete (b. 1964)
2005 - Sammi Smith, American country music singer (b. 1943)
2007 - Randy Stone, American actor and casting director (b. 1958)
2007 - Peggy Gilbert, American jazz saxophonist and bandleader (b. 1905)
2008 - Oscar Brodney, American screenwriter (b. 1907)
2010 - Nodar Kumaritashvili, Georgian luger (b. 1988)
2011 - Mato Damjanović, Croatian chess grandmaster (b. 1927)
2011 - Betty Garrett, American actress and dancer (b. 1919)
2012 - Zina Bethune, American actress, dies from hit and run at 66
2012 - David Kelly, Irish actor, dies at 82
2012 - John Severin, America comic book artist, dies at 90         

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 14, 2013, 11:43:35 AM

This Day in History for 14th February


Historical Events

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Writer/Poet Oscar Wilde                                       Director Victor Fleming

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Middle/welterweight championship boxer            37th US President Richard Nixon
Sugar Ray Robinson

842 - Charles II & Louis the German sign treaty
1009 - First known mention of Lithuania, in the annals of the monastery of Quedlinburg.
1014 - Pope Benedict VIII crowns Henry II, Roman German emperor
1076 - Pope Gregory VII excommunicates Henry IV
1130 - Jewish Cardinal Pietro Pierleone elected as anti-pope Anacletus II
1540 - Emperor Charles V enters Ghent without resistance, executes rebels
1556 - Archbishop Thomas Cranmer declared a heretic
1610 - Polish king Sigismund III, Forges Dimitri #2 & Romanov family sign covenant against czar
           Vasili Shushki
1630 - Dutch fleet of 69 ships reaches Pernambuco Brazil
1670 - Roman Catholic emperor Leopold I chases Jews out of Vienna
1689 - English parliament places Mary Stuart/Prince Willem III on the throne
1711 - Handel's opera Rinaldo, premieres
1743 - Henry Pelham becomes British Prime Minister.
1746 - Henry Pelham appointed English premier
1766 - Dutch governor Falck signs Treaty of Batticaloa with rebels
1778 - "Stars & Stripes" arrives in foreign port for 1st time (France)
1794 - 1st US textile machinery patent granted, to James Davenport, Phila
1803 - Apple parer patented by Moses Coats, Downington, Penn
1803 - Chief Justice John Marshall declares that any act of U.S. Congress that conflicts with the
           Constitution is void.
1804 - Karadjordje leads the First Serbian Uprising against the Ottoman Empire.
1831 - Ras Marye of Yejju marches into Tigray and defeats and kills Dejazmach Sabagadis in the
           Battle of Debre Abbay.
1849 - In New York City, James Knox Polk becomes first serving US President to have his
           photograph taken ( by Matthew Brady).
1855 - Texas is linked by telegraph to the rest of the United States, with the completion of a
           connection between New Orleans and Marshall, Texas.
1859 - Oregon admitted as 33rd state
1862 - Galena, 1st US iron-clad warship for service at sea, launched, Conn
1867 - Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection & Insurance Co issues 1st policy
1867 - Morehouse College organizes (Augusta Georgia)
1872 - 1st state bird refuge authorized (Lake Merritt CA)
1876 - A G Bell & Elisha Gray apply separately for telephone patents Supreme Court eventually rules
           Bell rightful inventor
1879 - Chilean troops occupy Antofagasta
1883 - 1st state labor union legislation; NJ legalizes unions
1887 - Cubs sell Mike King Kelly to Boston for record $10,000
1889 - 1st train load of fruit (oranges) leaves LA for east
1890 - 1st NSW v South Australia 1st-class cricket game
1894 - Venus is both a morning star & evening star
1895 - Oscar Wilde's "Importance of Being Earnest," opens in London
1896 - George Lohmann takes a hat-trick v South Africa, 8-7 for inning
1896 - South Africa all out for 30 v England - their lowest ever
1896 - Stanley Cup: Winnipeg Victorias beat Montreal Victorias, 2-0
1896 - Theodor Herzl publishes "Der Judenstaat"
1899 - US Congress begins using voting machines
1900 - Date of events in movie "Picnic at Hanging Rock"
1900 - Russia responds to international pressure to free Finland by tightening imperial control over
           the country.
1903 - US Dept of Commerce & Labor forms
1907 - 1st US fox hound association forms in NYC
1912 - 1st US submarines with diesel engines commissioned, Groton, Ct
1912 - Arizona was admitted to the Union as the 48th state
1914 - High Council of Labor forms in Hague Netherlands
1918 - H Atteridge & S Rombergs musical "Sinbad," premieres in NYC
1918 - USSR adopts New Style (Gregorian) calendar (originally Feb 1)
1919 - United Parcel Service forms
1919 - The Polish-Soviet War begins.
1920 - League of Women Voters forms in Chicago
1921 - Canadian 5 cent nickel coin is authorized
1921 - Little Review faces obscenity charges for publishing "Ulysses," NY
1924 - IBM Corporation founded by Thomas Watson
1925 - State of emergency crisis in Bayern ends, NSDAP re-allowed
1929 - St Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago, 7 gangsters killed
1931 - Bradman scores 152 Aust v WI, 154 minutes, 13 fours 2 fives
1931 - Spanish government of General Damasco Berenguer falls
1932 - South Africa all out for 36 in 1st innings v Aust (Ironmonger 5-6)
1934 - NHL Ace Bailey Benefit Game: Toronto beats All-Stars 7-3 in Toronto
1936 - National Negro Congress organizes in Chicago
1936 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson
1936 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Robin Lee
1939 - Victor Fleming replaces George Cukor as director of Gone With the Wind
1940 - British merchant vessel fleet is armed
1941 - 1,000,000th vehicle traverses the NY Midtown Tunnel
1941 - Carson McCuller's "Reflections in a Golden Eye" published
1941 - Cebrie Park in the Bronx renamed Halsey Street
1941 - German Africa Corps lands in Tripoli, Libya
1942 - Japanese parachutists land near oil center Palembang Sumatra
1942 - Rotterdam's Maas tunnel opens
1942 - Battle of Pasir Panjang contributes to the fall of Singapore.
1943 - German offensive through de Faid-pass Tunisia
1943 - Soviets recapture Rostov
1943 - World War II: Rostov-on-Don, Russia is liberated.
1944 - Anti-Japanese revolt on Java
1944 - Carl Wick publishes "Salmon Trolling for Commercial & Sport Fishing
1945 - 8th Air Force bombs Dresden
1945 - Peru, Paraguay, Chile & Ecuador joins UN
1945 - World War II: Prague is bombed probably due to a mistake in the orientation of the pilots
           bombing Dresden.
1945 - World War II: Mostar is liberated by Yugoslav partisans.
1946 - Bank of England nationalized
1949 - 1st session of Knesset (Jerusalem Israel)
1949 - Dutch Drees government presents plan for the building of 30,000 houses
1950 - Moroney scores cricket twin centuries for Australia at Johannesburg
1950 - USSR & China sign peace treaty
1951 - Sugar Ray Robinson defeats Jake LaMotta & takes middleweight title
1952 - 6th Olympic winter games open at Oslo, Norway
1954 - Beverly Hanson wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open
1954 - Sen John Kennedy appears on "Meet the Press"
1954 - WTOC TV channel 11 in Savannah, GA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1955 - WFLA (now WXFL) TV channel 8 in Tampa-St Petersburg, FL (NBC) begins
1956 - 20th Congress of CPSU opens in Moscow
1956 - Indonesia withdraws from Neth Indonesian Union
1956 - Verhoeven/Nauta/De King/Wijnhout win Dutch 11 city skate
1957 - Georgia Senate unanimously approves Sen Leon Butts' bill barring blacks from playing
           baseball with whites
1958 - Arab Federation of Iraq & Jordan forms
1959 - $3.6 million heroin seizure in NYC
1960 - Beverly Hanson wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open
1960 - Marshal Ayub Khan elected president of Pakistan
1961 - Element 103, Lawrencium, 1st produced in Berkeley Calif
1961 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Royal Poinciana Golf Invitational
1962 - 1st lady Jacqueline Kennedy conducts White House tour on TV
1963 - US launches communications satellite Syncom 1
1966 - Australia introduces 1st decimal currency postage stamps
1966 - Wilt Chamberlain breaks NBA career scoring record at 20,884 points
1966 - Writers Andrei Sinjavski & Joeij Daniel found guilty
1966 - Australian currency is decimalised.
1967 - Aretha Franklin records "Respect"
1967 - Latin American nuclear free zone proposal drawn up
1968 - Pennsylvania Railroad/NYC Central merge into Penn Central
1968 - WHKY TV channel 14 in Hickory, NC (IND) begins broadcasting
1970 - "Gantry" closes at George Abbott Theater NYC after 1 performance
1971 - Movie "Ben Hur" 1st shown on television
1971 - Richard Nixon installs secret taping system in White House
1972 - John & Yoko co-host "Mike Douglas Show" for entire week
1972 - Luna 20 (Russia) launched to orbit & soft landing on Moon
1972 - CBS "Late Movie" premieres
1975 - Bomb explodes at annex of Amsterdam metro station
1976 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1978 - 1st "micro on a chip" patented by Texas Instruments
1978 - In girls' HS basketball, Chicago Latin beats Harvard St George
1979 - "Whoopee!" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 204 performances
1979 - In Kabul, Muslims kidnap the American ambassador to Afghanistan, Adolph Dubs who is later
           killed during a gunfight between his kidnappers and police.
1980 - "West Side Story" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 341 performances
1980 - 13th Winter Olympic games open in Lake Placid, NY
1980 - US launches Solar Maximum Mission Observatory to study solar flares
1981 - Stardust Disaster: A fire in a Dublin nightclub kills 48 people
1982 - "Night of 100 Stars" takes place at NY's Radio City Music Hall
1982 - Hollis Stacy wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic
1985 - Hostage CNN reporter Jeremy Levin is released in Beirut
1987 - 53,745 largest NBA crowd to date-Phila at Detroit
1988 - 49th PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Gary Player
1988 - Alfredo Stroessner re-elected president of Paraguay
1988 - Bobby Allison at 50 becomes oldest driver to win Daytona 500
1988 - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic
1989 - African National Congress (ANC) opens office in Amsterdam
1989 - Khomeini orders Moslems to murder "Satanic Verses" novelist Rushdie
1989 - Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 mill damages for Bhopol disaster
1989 - World's 1st satellite Skyphone opens
1989 - The first of 24 satellites of the Global Positioning System are placed into orbit.
1990 - Alan Ayckbourn's "Man of the Moment," premieres in London
1990 - Perrier recalls 160 million bottles of sparkling water after traces of benzene, a carcinogen, are
           found in some
1990 - Space probe Voyager 1 takes photograph of entire solar system
1991 - "Mule Bone" opens at Ethel Barrymore Theater NYC for 67 performances
1991 - NL Cy Young winner Doug Drabek wins record $3 mil salary arbitration
1992 - Andre Cason runs world record 6 m indoor (6.41 sec)
1992 - Cease fire in Somalia begins
1992 - Kieren John Perkins swims world record 800m freestyle (7:46.60)
1992 - Merlene Ottey runs world record 60m indoor (6.96 sec)
1993 - Fire in Linxi department store in Tangshan China, kills 79
1994 - Alexander Golubev skates Olympic record 500m (36.33)
1994 - Andrei Chikatilo, a Russian serial killer is executed by shooting.
1995 - Wellington 2-498d & 4-475 beat Canterbury 496 & 2-476d
1998 - Authorities in the United States announce that Eric Robert Rudolph is a suspect in an
           Alabama abortion clinic bombing.
2000 - The spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker enters orbit around asteroid 433 Eros, the first spacecraft
           to orbit an asteroid.
2002 - The Tullaghmurray Lass sinks off the coast of Kilkeel, County Down, Northern Ireland killing
           three members of the same family on board.
2004 - In a suburb of Moscow, Russia, the roof of the Transvaal water park collapses, killing more
           than 25 people, and wounding more than 100 others.
2005 - Lebanon's former Prime Minister, Rafik Hariri, is assassinated, prompting the country to fall
           into chaos.
2005 - Seven people are killed and 151 wounded in a series of bombings by suspected Al-Qaeda-
           linked militants that hit the Philippines' Makati financial district in Metro Manila, Davao City, and
           General Santos City.
2008 - Northern Illinois University shooting: a gunman opened fire in a lecture hall of the DeKalb
           County, Illinois university resulting in 24 casualties; 6 fatalities (including gunman) and 18             
           injured.
2011 - The 2011 Bahraini uprising commenced.

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 14, 2013, 01:06:54 PM

This Day in History for 14th February


Famous Weddings

1613 - King James I's daughter Elizabeth marries Frederik
1952 - Comedian Joey Adams marries gossip columnist Cindy Heller
1984 - Singer Elton John marries Renate Blauel in Sydney Australia
1988 - General hospital star Jackie Zeman marries Glenn Gorden
1994 - Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia (51) weds Deborah Koons (40) in Tiburon, California
1995 - Actress-comedienne Roseanne (42) weds bodyguard Ben Thomas (28) at Caesars Tahoe in
           Nevada
1996 - Secretary of Defense and former US Senator William Cohen of Maine (56) weds Black
           Entertainment Television host Janet Langhart (54) at United States Capitol in Washington,
           D.C.
1998 - Golden Globe Award-winning actress Sharon Stone (40) weds San Francisco Examiner
           executive editor Phil Bronstein (47) in Beverly Hills, California
2007 - Former Felicity actress Keri Russell (30) weds longtime boyfriend Shane Deary (30) in New
           York, New York
2007 - Former Atomic Kitten member Kerry Katona (26) weds Mark Croft in Gretna Green
2008 - Oasis singer Liam Gallagher (35) weds All Saints singer Nicole Appleton (33) at Westminster
           Register Office in London
2009 - Actress Salma Hayek (42) weds French billionaire and PPR CEO Francois-Henri Pinault (46) in
           Paris
2009 - Victoria's Secret Angel model Adriana Lima (31) weds NBA player Marko Jaric (33) in Jackson
           Hole, Wyoming

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 14, 2013, 01:09:25 PM

This Day in History for 14th February


Famous Divorces

1989 - Robin Givens is granted a divorce from Mike Tyson in the Dominican Republic

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 14, 2013, 01:23:11 PM

This Day in History for 14th February


Famous Birthdays

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Abolitionist                                              Investigative Reporter      Rock               Musician Rob Thomas (1972)
Frederick Douglass (1818)                         Carl Bernstein (1944)


1462 - Edzard I Cirksena, the Great, earl of East-Friesia (1494-1528)
1468 - Johann Werner, German mathematician (d. 1522)
1483 - Zahir al-Din Mohammed Babur Shah, prince/founder Mogols-dynasty
1487 - Henry II of Bavaria, bishop of Utrecht/Worms/Freising
1513 - Domenico Maria Ferrabosco, Italian composer
1515 - Frederick III, the Pious, elect of the Palts
1533 - Christianus Adrichomius, Dutch priest/writer (Vita Jesu Christi)
1546 - Johann Pistorius, German theologist/historian
1572 - Hans Christoph Haiden, composer
1602 - Pier Francesco Cavalli, Italian opera composer
1638 - Sybilla Schwarz, writer
1670 - Georg Gabriel Schutz, composer
1679 - Georg Friedrich Kauffman, composer
1680 - John Sidney, 6th Earl of Leicester, English privy councillor (d. 1737)
1692 - Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée, French writer (d. 1754)
1701 - Enrique Florez, Spanish historian (d. 1773)
1760 - Richard Allen, Phila, 1st black ordained by Methodist-Episcopal church
1763 - Jean Victor Marie Moreau, French general (d. 1813)
1766 - Thomas Malthus, England, population expert (Law of Malthus)
1778 - Fernando Joseph Maria Sor, composer
1788 - Fernando Sor, Spanish composer (d. 1839)
1800 - Emory Washburn, 22nd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1877)
1806 - Lajos, Count Batthy ny, revolutionary premier of Hungary (1848-49)
1812 - Alfred Thomas Agate, American artist (d. 1846)
1813 - Alexander Sergeyevich Dargomyzhsky, composer
1813 - John McNeil, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1891
1818 - Frederick Douglass, African-American abolitionist/lecturer/editor (exact year unknown)
1819 - James Green Martin, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1878
1819 - Christopher Sholes, Mooresburg Penn, newspaper man, politician and inventor of the typewriter
1824 - Winfield Scott Hancock, Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1886
1828 - Edmond François Valentin About, French writer (d. 1885)
1829 - Alfred Iverson Jr, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1911
1835 - Francois Haverschmidt, Dutch writer (Snikken en grimlachjes)
1838 - Margaret Knight, inventor, "the female Thomas Edison"
1845 - Cecil De Vere, 1st official British chess champion (1866)
1846 - Julian Scott, American artist and Civil War Medal of Honor recipient. (d. 1901)
1847 - Anna Howard Shaw, US, suffragette
1847 - Maria Pia of Italy, queen of Portugal (d. 1911)
1848 - Benjamin Baillaud, French astronomer (d. 1934)
1853 - Jan van Rijswijck, Flemish journalist/mayor (Antwerp)
1856 - Frank Harris, England, journalist/writer (My Life & Loves)
1858 - Charles Beach Hawley, composer
1858 - Joseph Thomson, Scotland, geologist (Thomson's gazelle)
1859 - George Washington Gale Ferris, engineer/inventor (Ferris Wheel)
1860 - Eugen Schiffer, German politician (d. 1954)
1864 - Israel Zangwill, England, Jewish author/Zionist (Children of Ghetto)
1864 - Robert E Park, US, sociologist (human ecology, marginal man)
1868 - Henricus A Poels, Dutch RC theologist/social foreman
1869 - Charles Wilson, English physicist (Wilson cloud chamber-Nobel)
1871 - Gerda Lundequist, Swedish actress (d. 1959)
1880 - Aida Overton Walker, US dancer/singer (In Dahomey, Salome)
1880 - Edgar Leslie Bainton, composer
1881 - Otto Selz, German psychologist
1881 - William John Gruffydd, Welsh poet/scholar (Ynys yr Hud)
1882 - George Jean Nathan, US, editor/author/critic (American Mercury)
1882 - Ignaz Friedman, composer
1884 - Hezekiah M. Washburn, missionary (d. 1972)
1884 - Joe Jagersberger, Austrian racing driver (d. 1952)
1884 - Kostas Varnalis, Greek poet (d. 1974)
1885 - Syed Zafarul Hasan, Prominent Muslim Indian/Pakistani philosopher (d. 1949)
1886 - Theodor Werner, German painter
1890 - Nina Hamnett, Welsh artist (d. 1956)
1892 - Nikolaj A Orloff, Russian/British pianist (Chopin)
1892 - Radola Gajda, Czech military commander (d. 1948)
1893 - Kay Fisker, Danish architect (Hornbeck House, Copenhagen)
1894 - Jack Benny, [Benjamin Kubelski], Waukegan Ill, "Oh! Rochester!"
1895 - Max Horkheimer, German philosopher/sociologist (Studies in prejudice)
1895 - Nigel Bruce, Baja Mexico, actor (Son of Lassie, Spider Woman)
1897 - Jorgen Bentzon, composer
1898 - Fritz Zwicky, Swiss astronomer (super nova)
1899 - John Randall Jr, Michigan, historian/philosopher (Western Man)
1902 - Fred Scott, Fresno California, vocalist/actor (Vincent Lopez)
1902 - Ray "Crash" Corrigan, Milwaukee, cowboy (Crash Corrigan's Ranch)
1902 - Stu Erwin, Squaw Valley California, actor (Stu Erwin Show)
1902 - Valentin Ruiz Azner, composer
1902 - Thelma Ritter, American actress (d. 1969)
1904 - Charles William Oatley, electrical engineer
1904 - Hanning Phillips, Lord Lieutenant (Dyfed)
1904 - Hertha Kuusinen, Finnish communist
1905 - Thelma Ritter, Bkln NY, actress (Miracle on 34th Street)
1907 - Johnny Longden, jockey/trainer (1958 Racing Hall of Fame)
1909 - A Moses Klein, Montreal, poet (Hath Not a Jew...)
1911 - Florence Rice, Cleveland OH, actress (Double Wedding, Riding on Air)
1911 - Willem J Kolff, Dutch/US internist/inventor (Artificial Kidney)
1912 - Edmund George Love, US, teacher/historian/author (A Small Bequest)=
1912 - Juan Pujol Garcia, [Garbo/Arabel], Spanish British/German double agent
1912 - Oliver Wendell Harrington, cartoonist
1912 - Tibor Sekelj, Croatian explorer (d. 1988)
1913 - Woody Hayes, [Wayne], college football coach (Ohio, 1968 coach of the year)
1913 - Ab [Albert] Visser, Dutch poet/writer (Man Without a Head)
1913 - James Pike, Oklahoma City, bishop (Beyond Anxiety)
1913 - Jimmy Hoffa, Teamsters leader who disappeared in 1975
1913 - Mel Allen, Birmingham Alabama, American sportscaster (voice of NY Yankees)
1914 - Margarete Mewes, Nazi overseer at concentration camp
1914 - Norman Von Nida, Australian golfer (d. 2007)
1915 - A W H Stewart-Moore, CEO (Gallaher)
1915 - Irving Gordon, songwriter
1916 - Edward Platt, Staten Island NY, actor (Chief-Get Smart)
1916 - Masaki Kobayashi, Japanese director (Joi-uchi)
1916 - Wawrzyniec Jerzy Zulawski, composer
1916 - Marcel Bigeard, French general
1917 - Herbert A Hauptman, NYC, x-ray crystallographer (Nobel 1985)
1920 - Arnold Elton, consultant surgeon
1921 - Albert Sloman, Vice-Chancellor (Essex U)
1921 - Hugh Downs, Akron Oh, TV journalist (20/20, Concentration)
1921 - Jeanne Demessieux, composer
1921 - Piet Kraak, Dutch soccer player
1921 - Skeezix, of "Gasoline Alley" discovered on Wallets' doorstep
1922 - Murray the K, American impresario and disk jockey (d. 1982)
1923 - Derrick Holden-Brown, CEO (Allied-Lyons)
1923 - Jay Herbert, golfer (1960 PGA winner)
1924 - Arghyris Kounadis, composer
1924 - Countess Mountbatten, of Burma
1925 - Elliot Lawrence, Phila, orchestra leader (Guide Right, Howard Cosell)
1926 - John Clark, CEO (Plessey Company)
1927 - Lois Maxwell, Kitchener Ontario, actress (Miss Moneypenny)
1928 - Ben Garrido Blaz, (Rep-R-Guam, 1985- )
1928 - Juan Garcia Hortelano, Spanish author (Tormenta de verano)
1929 - Matthew G Martinez, (Rep-D-CA, 1982- )
1929 - Vic Morrow, American actor (d. 1982)
1930 - Duncan Montgomery Stewart, principal (Lady Margaret Hall-Oxford)
1931 - Bernie "Boom Boom" Geoffrion, NHL right wing (Canadiens, Rangers)
1931 - Lord Rossmore
1931 - Phyllis McGuire, Middletown Oh, vocalist (McGuire Sisters)
1931 - Vic Morrow, Bronx NY, actor (Combat, Roots, Twilight Zone the Movie)
1931 - Brian Kelly, American actor (d. 2005)
1932 - Alexander Kluge, writer
1932 - Jack Hibbert, director (Central Statistical Office)
1932 - Jocelyn Stevens, CEO (English Heritage)
1932 - Michael Ball, Bishop (Truro)
1932 - Peter Ball, Bishop (Gloucester)
1933 - Andrey Mikhaylovich Volkonsky, composer
1933 - Bertram Jay Turetzky, composer
1933 - Evelyn Ebsworth, Vice-Chancellor (Durham U)
1933 - Madhubala, Indian actress (d. 1969)
1934 - Florence Henderson, Dale Ind, actress/singer (Carol-Brady Bunch)
1934 - Marlene Matthews, Australia, sprinter (Oly-2 bronze-1956)
1934 - Michel Corboz, Swiss conductor
1935 - Christine CT "Christel" Adelaar, Dutch actress (Pipo the Clown)
1935 - David Wilson, British governor (Hong Kong)
1935 - Lord Wilson of Tillyorn
1935 - Mickey Wright, San Diego CA, LPGA golfer (4 times LPGA champ)
1935 - Peter Phillips, printer
1936 - Andrew Pine, Jennings Fla, actor (V, WEB, Wide Country)
1936 - Fanne Foxe, [Annabella Battistella], Argentina, (Wilbur Mills affair)
1936 - Andrew Prine, American actor
1937 - John MacGregor, British MP
1937 - Magic Sam, rocker (Chicago Bluesman)
1938 - Lee Chamberlin, NYC, actor (Once Upon a Family, Rupture Fatale)
1939 - Chris Pyne, trombonist
1939 - Michael Rudman, English theater director/producer (Donkeys' Years)
1940 - Porpoise, 1st born in captivity in US (Marineland, Fla)
1941 - John Butterfill, MP
1941 - Paul Tsongas, (Sen-D-Mass)
1941 - Donna Shalala, American educator
1942 - Margaret Wright, chief commissioner (Guide Association)
1942 - Andrew Robinson, American actor
1942 - Ricardo Rodríguez, Mexican racing driver (d. 1962)
1943 - Eric Anderson, Pittsburgh Pa, vocalist (Avalanche, Be True to You)
1943 - Ischa Meijer, journalist/critic/actor (Boezemvriend)
1943 - Maceo Parker, US tenor saxophonist (King's One, Mo' Roots)
1943 - Robert J Murphy Jr, Brooklyn NY, PGA golfer (1968 Phila Classic)
1943 - Aaron Russo, American movie producer (d. 2007)
1944 - Alan Parker, English actor (Bugsy Malone, Evita)
1944 - Bruce Summerhays, St Louis MO, PGA golfer (Provo Open-1966, 91 93)
1944 - Carl Bernstein, Washington Post investigative reporter (Watergate)
1944 - Ronnie Peterson, Swedish racing driver (d. 1978)
1945 - Gregory Hines, NYC, actor/dancer (White Nights, Taps)
1945 - Hans Adam, prince of Liechtenstein
1945 - K M Jenkins, British director of personnel (Royal Mail)
1945 - Vic Briggs, England, rocker (Animals)
1945 - William Hill Boner, (Rep-D-TN, 1979- )
1945 - Ladislao Mazurkiewicz, Piriápolis, Uruguay, football goalkeeper, (d. 2013)
1946 - David Green, English TV/video producer
1946 - Tim Buckley, Wash DC, rocker (Blood, Sweat & Tears-When I Die)
1946 - Tina Aumont, Hollywood California, actress (Master of Love, Casanova)
1946 - Bernard Dowiyogo, President of Nauru (d. 2003)
1947 - Heidemarie Rosendahl, German FR, long jumper (Olympic-gold-1972)
1947 - Judd Gregg, (Rep-R-NH, 1981- )
1947 - Pham Tuan, Vietnam, cosmonaut (Soyuz 37/36)
1947 - Salah-ud-Din, cricketer (played 5 Tests for Pakistan 1965-69)
1948 - ... Teller, Phila, magician (Penn & Teller)
1948 - Jackie Martling, "Jackie the Jokeman", comedian (Howard Stern Show)
1948 - Pat O'Brien, reporter (Entertainment Tonight)
1948 - Wally Tax, Dutch guitarist
1949 - Ewa Aulin, Stockholm Sweden, actress (Candy, Fiorina LeVacca)
1949 - Jimmy Randell, rocker
1949 - Richard E Neal, (Rep-D-Massachusetts)
1950 - Raymond van het Groenewoud, Belgian vocalist/actor (Brussels by Night)
1950 - Roger Fisher, American musician (Heart)
1951 - Kevin Keegan, British soccer player/manager (Newcastle United)
1951 - Michael Doucet, singer/musician (Beausoleil)
1951 - JoJo Starbuck, American ice skater
1952 - Nancy Keenan, current NARAL president
1953 - Wayne Siegel, composer
1955 - R Jeremy H Lascelles, grandson of English princess Mary
1955 - Ronald Desruelles, Belgian athlete
1955 - James Eckhouse, American actor
1955 - Carol Kalish, American publishing executive (d. 1991)
1955 - Rip Rogers, American professional wrestler
1956 - Dave Dravecky, pitcher (SF Giants), had arm amputated
1956 - Howard Edward Davis Jr, Glen Cove NY, lw boxer (Olympic-silver-1976)
1956 - Ken Wahl, Chicago IL, actor (Wanderers)
1957 - Soile Isokoski, Finnish soprano
1957 - Alan Hunter, one of the original MTV VJs
1958 - Perry Stephens, Frankfurt Germany, actor (Loving, All My Children)
1958 - Grant Thomas, Australian rules footballer
1959 - Renée Fleming, American soprano
1960 - Jim Kelly, NFL quarterback (Buffalo Bills)
1960 - Meg Tilly, [Margaret], LA California, actress (Big Chill, Impulse)
1961 - Phillip Hamilton, American author
1961 - Latifa, Tunisian singer
1962 - Kevyn Aucoin, American cosmetologist (d. 2002)
1962 - Michael Higgs, English actor
1962 - Sakina Jaffrey, Indian actress
1963 - D'Wayne Wiggins, singer (Tony! Toni! Tone!)
1963 - Jeff Dellenbach, NFL center (NE Patriots, GB Packers-Superbowl 31)
1963 - John Marzano, Philadelphia PA, catcher (Seattle Mariners)
1963 - Zach Galligan, NYC, actor (Gremlins)
1963 - Enrico Colantoni, Canadian actor
1964 - Darrick Brilz, NFL center (Cin Bengals)
1964 - Gianni Bugno, Italian cyclist
1965 - Jessie Tuggle, NFL linebacker (Atlanta Falcons)
1966 - Clark Sherwood Dennis, Houston TX, PGA golfer (1990 Hawaiian Open-3rd)
1966 - Petr Svoboda, Most Cze, NHL defenseman (Phila Flyers, Oly-gold-1998)
1967 - Calle Johansson, Goteborg Swe, NHL defenseman (Washington Capitals)
1967 - Laura Martin, LaJolla California, WPVA volleyballer (Nationals-13th-1994)
1967 - Manuela Maleeva-Fragniere, Sofia Bulgaria, tennis player (1984 US Mix)
1967 - Stelios Haji-Ioannou, British entrepreneur
1968 - Chris Lewis, cricketer (in Guyana England all-rounder)
1968 - Jules Asner, American television personality
1969 - Chad Magee, Tyler TX, Nike golfer (1993 NIKE Shreveport Open-36th)
1969 - Harry Colon, NFL safety (Jacksonville Jaguars, Detroit Lions)
1969 - Jeff Graham, NFL wide receiver (Chic Bears, NY Jets)
1969 - Roy Barker, NFL defensive end (Minnesota Vikings, SF 49ers)
1969 - Shana Zadrick, Grand Junction Colo, model (Guess Jeans)
1970 - David Podlich, Brisbane QLD, Australasia golfer
1970 - Elaine Youngs, Orange California, volleyball outside hitter (Olympics-96)
1970 - Guillaume Raoux, France, tennis star
1970 - Kelly Stinnett, US baseball catcher (NY Mets)
1970 - Richard Smehlik, Ostrava CZE, NHL defenseman (Team Czech Rep, Buffalo)
1970 - Sean Hill, Duluth, NHL defenseman (Ottawa Senators)
1970 - Giuseppe Guerini, Italian cyclist
1970 - Simon Pegg, British comedian and actor
1971 - Derrick Witherspoon, NFL running back (Philadelphia Eagles)
1971 - Gheorghe Muresan, NBA center (Washington Bullets/Wizards)
1971 - Kenny Shedd, WLAF receiver (Barcelona Dragons, Oakland Raiders)
1971 - Lonnie Johnson, NFL tight end (Buffalo Bills)
1971 - Kris Aquino, Filipino Actress and TV Host
1971 - Noriko Sakai, Japanese singer
1971 - Tommy Dreamer, American professional wrestler
1972 - Bruno Heppell, CFL full back (Montreal Alouettes)
1972 - Drew Bledsoe, NFL quarterback (NE Patriots)
1972 - Erika Rachael Schwarz, Folsom La, Miss America (Louisiana-2nd-1997)
1972 - Mayne One, rocker (Young Nation)
1972 - Raymond Beerens, Dutch soccer player (PSV, FC Groningen)
1972 - Rob Thomas, lead singer of pop band Matchbox Twenty
1972 - Big Daddy V, American professional wrestler
1972 - Hiroshi, Japanese comedian
1972 - Najwa Nimri, Spanish actress
1973 - George Hegamin, NFL/WLAF tail back (Dallas Cowboys, Frankfurt Galaxy)
1973 - Michael "Mike" Theodore Lambert IV, Thomaston Ga, rower (Oly-1996)
1973 - Steve McNair, NFL quarterback (Houston Oilers)
1973 - Tyus Edney, NBA guard (Boston Celtics, Sacramento Kings)
1974 - Michael Lowery, NFL linebacker (Chicago Bears)
1974 - Rob Jahrling, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1974 - Filippa Giordano, Italian singer
1974 - Philippe Léonard, Belgian footballer
1975 - Jennifer Michelle Roberts, Greensboro NC, Miss America-NC (1997)
1975 - Yul Kwon, American Survivor contestant
1976 - Liv Kristine, Norwegian singer (Leaves' Eyes)
1977 - Nathan Osmond, Utah, vocalist (Osmond Boys)
1977 - Darren Bennett, a Professional Latin Ballroom Dancer
1977 - Cadel Evans, Australian cyclist
1977 - Darren Purse, English footballer
1977 - Elmer Symons, South African motorcycle racer (d. 2007)
1978 - Laurie Schwoy, soccer forward (Olympics-96)
1978 - Dean Gaffney, British actor
1978 - Richard Hamilton, American basketball player
1978 - Darius Songaila, basketball player
1978 - Dwele, American R&B/Soul singer
1979 - Pablo Pallante, Uruguayan footballer
1980 - Fátima Leyva, Mexican footballer
1980 - Michelle Ye, Hong Kong actress
1980 - Josh Senter, American screenwriter
1982 - Marián Gáborík, Slovak hockey player
1983 - Bacary Sagna, French footballer
1983 - Rhydian Roberts, Welsh Singer, X factor Runner Up
1984 - Hamed Namouchi, Tunisian footballer
1985 - Jacob Parker, actor (Evening Shade)
1985 - Natsume Sano, Japanese gravure idol
1985 - Philippe Senderos, Swiss footballer
1985 - Karima Adebibe, Moroccan-English actress and model
1985 - Tyler Clippard, American baseball player
1985 - Heart Evangelista, Filipina singer, TV and movie actress
1985 - Miki Yeung, Hong Kong singer and actress
1986 - Aschwin Wildeboer, Spanish swimmer
1986 - Michael Ammermüller, German racing driver
1986 - Roxanne Guinoo, Filipina actress
1987 - Joseph Pichler, American actor
1987 - Julia Savicheva, Russian singer
1987 - David Wheater, English footballer
1988 - Ángel Di María, Argentine footballer
1988 - Asia Nitollano, American dancer, Pussycat Dolls Present: The Search for the Next Doll winner
1988 - Eliska Sursova, American actress
1988 - Quentin Mosimann, Swiss singer, winner of Star Academy France 7
1992 - Freddie Highmore, English actor
1994 - Paul Butcher, American actor
1998 - Arpad Flynn Busson, NYC, son of model Elle MacPherson

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 14, 2013, 02:23:40 PM

This Day in History for 14th February


Famous Deaths

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Jurist William Blackstone (1780)            First Cloned Sheep Dolly (2003)


270 - St. Valentine marking Valentines Day (some sources say 269, others 273).
869 - Saint Cyril, Greek monk, scholar, theologian and linguist (b. 827) Called "apostle of Slavs"
1317 - Marguerite of France, queen of Edward I of England (b. 1282)
1400 - Richard II, king of England (1377-99), murdered at age 33 at Pontefract Castle
1405 - Timur/Tamerlan "Lenk", [Crippled], Mongols monarch, dies at about 68
1528 - Edzard I the Great, count of Austria-E Frisia (1494-1528), dies at 66
1571 - Benvenuto Cellini, Ital sculptor/writer (Perseus), dies at 70
1571 - Odet de Coligny, Cardinal of Châtillon/count of Beauvais, dies at 53
1676 - Abraham Bosse, French engraver and artist
1681 - Francesco Nigetti, composer, dies at 77
1714 - Maria Luisa of Savoy, Queen Consort of Spain (b. 1688)
1737 - Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot of Hensol, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1685)
1760 - Francois Collin de Blamont, composer, dies at 69
1779 - James Cook, British explorer killed by Native Hawaiians near Kealakekua on the Island of
           Hawaii at 50
1780 - William Blackstone, English lawyer, dies at 56
1790 - Capel Bond, composer, dies at 59
1808 - John Dickinson, American lawyer and Governor of Delaware and Pennsylvania (b. 1732)
1818 - John C Hespe, Dutch journalist/politician, dies at 61
1820 - Charles F, Duke of Berry, murdered at 42
1831 - Vincente Guerrero, Mexican revolutionary hero, dies
1841 - Antun Sorkocevic, composer, dies at 65
1846 - Cornelis F van Maanen, Dutch supreme court justice, dies at 76
1857 - Johannes Bernardus van Bree, Dutch violinist/composer/conductor, dies at 56
1870 - St. John Richardson Liddell, American Civil War Confederate General (b. 1815)
1873 - Charles Samvei Bovy-Lysberg, composer, dies at 52
1881 - Fernando Wood, New York City mayor (b. 1812)
1885 - Jules Vallès, French writer (b. 1832)
1891 - William Tecumseh Sherman, Union Civil War General, dies at 71
1894 - Eugène Charles Catalan, Belgian mathematician (b. 1814)
1901 - Edward John Hopkins, composer, dies at 82
1908 - Georges Jean Pfeiffer, composer, dies at 72
1916 - Petko J Todorov, Bulgaria writer (Zmejova), dies at 36
1922 - Heikki Ritavuori, Finnish politician (assassinated) (b. 1880)
1929 - Tom Burke, American runner (b. 1875)
1937 - Erkki Gustav Melartin, composer, dies at 62
1942 - Adnan Bin Saidi, Officer of the Malay Regiment killed in the defense of Singapore (b. 1915)
1943 - David Hilbert, German mathematician (Hilbert Space), dies at 81
1943 - Frieda Reiss, French 11 month old baby, murdered in Auschwitz
1943 - Dora Gerson, German actress, cabaret singer, and Holocaust victim (b. 1899)
1948 - Mordecai Brown, American baseball player (b. 1876)
1949 - Yusuf Salman Yusuf, Iraqi-Assyrian communist leader (b. 1901)
1950 - Eduard Hermann, German linguist (Homer), dies at 80
1950 - Karl G Jansky, Czech discoverer of cosmic radio sources, dies at 44
1952 - Maurice De Waele, Belgian cyclist (b. 1896)
1955 - Charles Cuvillier, composer, dies at 77
1958 - Abdul Rab Nishtar, veteran leader of Pakistan Movement, (b. 1899)
1959 - Baby Dodds, American jazz drummer (b. 1898)
1961 - Wallis Clark, actress (Easy Money), dies at 78
1965 - Desire-Emile Inghelbrecht, French composer/conductor, dies at 84
1967 - James Schneider, actor (Keystone Kops), dies at 85
1967 - Sig Ruman, actor (Schultz-Life With Luigi), dies at 82
1969 - Vito Genovese, US mafia chief, dies at 71
1969 - Wolfe Barzell, actor (Blue Angel), dies of heart attack at 72
1972 - Lambertus "Bertus" van Lyre, composer/conductor (Dike), dies at 65
1974 - C S Dempster, cricketer (10 Tests for NZ, 723 runs), dies
1975 - Heintje Davids, [Hendrika David], Dutch cabaret artist, dies at 87
1975 - Julian S Huxley, English scholar/dir-gen (UNESCO), dies at 87
1975 - Pelham G Wodehouse, English/US writer (Piccadilly Jim), dies at 93
1978 - Paul Governali, American professional football player (b. 1921)
1979 - Adolph Dubs, US ambassador to Afghanistan, murdered
1980 - Luitkonwar Rudra Baruah, Assamese composer and actor
1982 - Henk Schaer, [Hendricus J M Schaareman], Dutch actor, dies at 79
1983 - Lina Radke, German athlete (b. 1903)
1987 - Bola Sete, guitarist, dies at 63
1987 - Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, composer, dies at 82
1987 - Karolos Koun, Greek theater director (b. 1908)
1988 - Frederick Loewe, US composer (My Fair Lady), dies at 84
1989 - James Bond, American ornithologist (b. 1900)
1990 - Graeme Hole, cricketer (18 Tests for Australia, 789 runs), dies
1990 - Jean Wallace, [Walasek], actress (Big Combo), dies of hemorrhage at 66
1990 - Tony Holiday, German singer
1991 - Arno Breker, German sculptor (Third Reich), dies at 90
1991 - John A McCone, Head of CIA (1961-65), dies
1992 - Angelique Pettyjohn, actress (Biohazard), dies of cancer at 48
1992 - Jacob "Bob" de Uyl, journalist/author (Restless Travel), dies at 61
1992 - Roepie Kruize, hockey player (Olympic-bronze-48/silver-52), dies at 67
1993 - Buddy Pepper, composer, dies of heart failure at 70
1994 - Christopher Lasch, author (Culture of Narcissism), dies at 61
1994 - Gary "BB" Coleman, blues vocal/guitarist/producer, dies at 47
1995 - Alberto Burri, Ital physician/sculptor/painter, dies at 79
1995 - Michael Vincent Gazzo, US actor/playwright (Godfather 2), dies at 71
1995 - Nigel Lucius Graeme Finch, TV Director/film-maker, dies at 45
1995 - Patricia Highsmith, writer, dies at 74
1995 - Roger de Grey, English chairman of Royal Academy (1984-93), dies at 76
1995 - Siem Suurhoff, TV-director (Behind the News, Sonja), dies at 58
1995 - U Nu, PM of Burma (1948-56, 57-58, 60-62), dies
1995 - U Nu, Burmese politician (b. 1907)
1996 - Bob Paisley, football manager, dies at 77
1996 - Caroline Blackwood, writer, dies at 64
1996 - Eva Hart, Titanic survivor, dies at 90
1996 - Ivan William Hannaford, sociologist, dies at 64
1999 - John Ehrlichman, American presidential advisor (b. 1925)
1999 - Buddy Knox, American singer and songwriter (b. 1933)
2002 - Nándor Hidegkuti, Hungarian footballer (b. 1922)
2003 - Dolly the sheep, first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell dies young form a progressive
           lung disease aged 6
2003 - Johnny Longden, English jockey (b. 1907)
2004 - Marco Pantani, Italian cyclist (b. 1970)
2005 - Najai Turpin, American boxer
2005 - Rafik Hariri, Lebanese politician and billionaire businessman (b. 1944)
2006 - Shoshana Damari, Israeli singer and actress (b. 1923)
2006 - Lynden David Hall, British singer (b. 1974)
2006 - Darry Cowl, French musician and actor (b. 1925)
2007 - Gareth Morris, British flautist (b. 1920)
2007 - Ryan Larkin, Canadian animated film maker. (b. 1943)
2009 - Sir Bernard Ashley, Welsh businessman and entrepreneur. (b. 1926)
2010 - Doug Fieger, American musician The Knack (b. 1952)
2010 - Dick Francis, British jockey-turned-novelist (b. 1920)
2011 - Sir George Shearing, Anglo-American jazz pianist (b. 1919)
2012 - Dory Previn, American singer-songwriter, dies at 86

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 15, 2013, 08:43:29 AM

This Day in History for 15th February


Historical Events

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32nd US President                          Chinese Prime Minister Mao Tse-Tung             Animator Walter Elias Disney
Franklin Roosevelt 

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Hall of Fame Basketball/US                     Heavyweight Boxing Champ
Senator Bill Bradley                                        Muhammad Ali


399 - Philosopher Socrates sentenced to death
590 - Khosrau II is crowned as king of Persia
732 - Ho-tse Shen-hui, Zen teacher disputes founder of Northern Ch'an line
1145 - Bernardo elected Pope Eugene III
1313 - Peace of Angleur
1386 - Duke Philip the Stout forms Council of Flanders
1539 - Emperor Charles receives Cardinal Pole in Toledo
1552 - Dutch coast hit by heavy storm
1563 - Russian troops occupy Polotsk Lithuania
1637 - Ferdinand III succeeds Ferdinand II as Holy Roman Emperor
1677 - King Charles II reports anti-French covenant with Netherlands
1686 - Jean Baptiste Lully's opera "Armide," premieres in Paris
1689 - German Parliament declares war on France
1745 - Colley Cibbers "Papal Tyranny," premieres in London
1763 - Austria, Prussia & Saxony sign Peace of Hubertusburg
1764 - St. Louis, Missouri founded as a French trading post by Pierre Laclade Ligue
1768 - 1st mustard manufactured in America advertised, Philadelphia
1775 - Angelo Braschi chosen as Pope Pius VI
1797 - Battle of Cape St Vincent
1799 - 1st US printed ballots authorized, Pennsylvania
1804 - New Jersey becomes last northern state to abolish slavery
1805 - Harmony Society is officially formed.
1842 - 1st adhesive postage stamps in US (private delivery company), NYC
1845 - William Parsons, Earl of Rosse, 1st uses 72" (183 cm) reflector
1848 - Sarah Roberts barred from white school in Boston
1851 - Black abolitionists invade Boston courtroom rescueing a fugitive slave
1852 - Great Ormond St Hospital for Sick Children, London, admits 1st patient
1861 - Ft Point completed & garrisoned (but has never fired cannon in anger)
1862 - Grant's major assault on Ft Donelson, Tennessee
1864 - Fire in Rotterdam Neth damages Museum Boymans
1869 - Charges of Treason against Jefferson Davis are dropped
1870 - Ground broken for Northern Pacific Railway near Duluth, Minn
1876 - Historic Elm at Boston blown down
1879 - Congress authorizes women lawyers to practice before Supreme Ct
1882 - 1st cargo of frozen meat leaves NZ for Britain, on SS Dunedin
1891 - AIK is founded at Biblioteksgatan 8 in Stockholm by Isidor Behrens.
1895 - 23 cm (9") of snow falls on New Orleans
1898 - USS Maine sinks in Havana harbor, cause unknown-258 sailors die
1900 - General French relieves Kimberley/Cecil Rhodes
1902 - Underground railway (U-Bahn)
1903 - 1st Teddy Bear introduced in America, made by Morris & Rose Michtom
1905 - 1st race meet at Oaklawn Park (Hot Springs, Ark)
1906 - British Labour Party organizes
1910 - The Boy Scouts of America is founded.
1912 - Fram reaches latitude 78° 41' S, farthest south ever by ship
1913 - 1st avant-garde art show in America opens in NYC
1916 - NY Yankees buy Frank "Home Run" Baker from the Athletics for $37,500
1917 - SF Public Library (Main Branch at Civic center) dedicated
1918 - 1st WW I US army troop ship torpedoed & sunk by Germany, off Ireland
1918 - Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania adopt Gregorian calendar
1919 - American Legion organizes in Paris
1921 - Arthur Mailey completes 9-121 v England, Australian Test Cricket rec
1922 - Marconi begins regular broadcasting transmissions from Essex
1926 - Brooks Atkinson Theater opens at 256 W 47th St NYC
1926 - Contract air mail service begins in US
1930 - Weona beats Toluca in Illinois Basketball Tournament in 10 overtimes
1931 - 1st Dracula movie released
1931 - Spring training site of NY Yankees in St Petersburg is renamed Miller Huggins Field in honor of
           the team's late manager
1932 - 3rd Winter Olympic games close at Lake Placid, NY
1932 - Aust beat South Africa in cricket by an inn in 5 hrs 53 min playing time
1932 - George Burns & Gracie Allen debuted as regulars on "Guy Lombardo Show"
1932 - John Van Druten's "There's Always Juliet," premieres in NYC
1932 - US bobsled team member Eddie Eagan becomes only athlete to win gold in both Summer &
           Winter Olympics (1920 boxing gold)
1933 - Karl Radek praises invincible force of German communist party
1933 - Pres-elect Franklin Roosevelt survives assassination attempt
1933 - Social-democratic newspaper "Vorwarts" banned again in Berlin
1936 - -60°F (-51°C), Parshall, North Dakota (state record)
1936 - Hitler announce building of Volkswagens (starting slug-bug game)
1936 - Sonja Henie, Norway, wins 3rd consecutive Olympic figure skating gold
1939 - German battleship Bismarck was launched
1939 - Lillian Hellman's "Little Foxes," premieres in NYC
1941 - Duke Ellington 1st records "Take the A Train"
1942 - German U-boat shells at Antillian oil refinery
1942 - Japanese troops march into Palembang, South Sumatra
1942 - Singapore surrenders to Japanese
1943 - Women's camp Tamtui on Ambon (Moluccas) hit by allied air raid
1944 - 891 British bombers attack Berlin
1944 - Bombing & shooting at Monte Cassino convent Italy, begins
1946 - Bank of England nationalized
1947 - "Toplitzky of Notre Dame" closes at Century Theater NYC after 60 perfs
1948 - Mao Zedong's army occupies Yenan
1949 - Dmitri Shostakovitch' "Song of the Woods," premieres in Leningrad
1950 - KENS TV channel 5 in San Antonio, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting
1950 - WM Inge's "Come Back, Little Sheba," premieres in NYC
1950 - WSYR (now WSTM) TV channel 3 in Syracuse, NY (NBC) begins broadcasting
1950 - Walt Disney's "Cinderella" released
1952 - King George VI is buried in St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle.
1954 - 1st bevatron in operation-Berkeley, California
1954 - WRDW TV channel 12 in Augusta, GA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1955 - 1st pilot plant to produce man-made diamonds announced
1956 - Urho Kekkonen appointed president of Finland
1956 - Pirates & KC A's cancel an exhibition game in Birmingham Alabama, because of local ordinance
           barring black from playing against white
1957 - Andrei A Gromyko succeeds Dmitri Shepilov as Soviet foreign minister
1958 - Ice Dance Championship at Paris won by June Markham/Courtney Jones GRB
1958 - Ice Pairs Championship at Paris won by Barbara Wagner/Rob Paul of CAN
1958 - Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by Carol Heiss of USA
1958 - Men's Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by David Jenkins USA
1958 - Sjafroeddin Prawiranegara forms anti-government of Middle Sumatra
1959 - Antonio Segni forms Italian government
1959 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Tournament
1961 - Australia beat WI 2-1 in one of best Test Cricket series ever
1961 - Entire US figure skating team of 18, dies in Belgian Sabena 707 crash
1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 - 1st US female world figure skating champ (Tenley Albright)
1963 - Ken Lynch records "Misery," 1st Lennon-McCartney song by someone else
1964 - Beatles' "Meet the Beatles!," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 11 weeks
1964 - Bill Bradley scores 51 points for Princeton
1965 - Canada replaces Union Jack flag with Maple Leaf
1965 - John Lennon passes his driving test
1965 - Maple Leaf becomes official flag of Canada
1966 - Kees Verkerk becomes world champion all-round skater
1967 - 1st anti-bootleg recording laws enacted
1967 - D66 (D'66) wins 7 seats in Dutch 2nd Chamber
1967 - Longest dream (REM sleep) on record, Bill Carskadon, Chicago (2:23)
1968 - Anaheim's Les Salvage scores 10, 3-pt baskets in ABA game vs Denver
1968 - WVUT TV channel 22 in Vincennes, IN (PBS) begins broadcasting
1970 - Ard Schenk becomes world champion all-round skater
1970 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational
1970 - Dominican DC-9 crashes into sea at Santo Domingo, kills 102
1970 - KAMU TV channel 15 in College Station, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting
1970 - Nationalists disrupt UN session on Congo
1971 - After 1,200 years Britain abandons 12-shilling system for decimal
1971 - Decimalisation of British coinage is completed on Decimal Day.
1972 - Bill Torrey becomes 1st Islander General Manager
1972 - Dimitrios Papadopoulos becomes metropolitan of Imbros/Tenedos
1972 - Pres Velasco Ibarra of Ecuador deposed for 4th time
1972 - Sound recordings are granted U.S. federal copyright protection for the first time.
1973 - Friendsville Academy (Tenn) ends 138-game basketball losing streak
1973 - USSR launches Prognoz 3 to study sun (589/200,300 km)
1976 - 12th Winter Olympic games close at Innsbruck, Austria
1976 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic
1977 - Social-democrats win Danish parliamentary election
1978 - England all out 64 for 1st loss to NZ in cricket (Boycott capt)
1978 - Escaped mass murderer Ted Bundy recaptured, Pensacola, Fla
1978 - Leon Spinks beats Muhammad Ali in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1978 - Zaire revises constitution
1979 - 21st Grammy Awards: Just the Way You Are, Taste of Honey wins
1979 - Paul Shirley (21) of Australia, sorryed a lifesaver for 4 hrs 40 mins
1979 - Temple City Kazoo Orchestra appears on Mike Douglas Show
1979 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1980 - Eric Heiden skates Olympic record 500m in 38.03 sec
1980 - Wayne Gretzy assists on NHL-record-tieing 7 goals
1981 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic
1981 - Rocket-powered ice sled attains 399 kph, Lake George, NY
1982 - Dan Issel (NBA-Nuggets), begins streak of 63 consecutive free throw
1982 - Ocean Ranger oil-drilling platform lost off Newfoundland, 84 die
1984 - 500,000 Iranian soldiers move into Iraq
1985 - STS 51-E vehicle moves to launch pad
1985 - World chess championship match abandoned-Karpov 25, Kasparov 23
1986 - 44,180 largest NBA crowd to date-Phila at Detroit
1986 - Ferdinand Marcos wins rigged Philippines presidential election
1986 - Phil Natl Assembly authorizes 6 more years for Ferdinand Marcos
1987 - ABC-TV begins broadcasting "Amerika" mini-series
1987 - Karlstad skates world record 10km (14:03,92)
1987 - Nikolai Guljajev becomes world champion skater
1987 - Craig Stadler disqualified from Andy Williams Open for kneeling on a towel to make a shot
1988 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1989 - Israel attacks border strip Taba near Egypt
1989 - Soviet military occupation of Afgh nist n ends
1990 - Baseball owners lock out players
1991 - Freighter with dynamite explodes in Phang Nga Thailand, 120 die
1991 - Troy State sets NCAA Div II record with 103 points in 2nd half routing DeVry Institute 187-
           117
1992 - 100th episode of "Cops" airs on Fox
1992 - Jeffrey Dahmer found sane & guilty of killing 15 boys
1993 - Bomb strike on mafia drug lords in Bogot , Colombia; kills 14
1993 - Bombings by mafia drug lords kill 14 in Bogota Colombia
1993 - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Rochester NY on WNVE 95.1 FM
1993 - Katie Elizabeth Hillyard was born, famous English young composer of the year 2007.England
1994 - US asks Aristide to adopt a peace plan from Haiti
1995 - Burundi premier Anatole Kanyenkiko, resigns
1995 - Dow-Jones closes at record 3986.17
1995 - Population of People's Republic of China hits 1.2 billion
1996 - Mortar attack on the US Embassy in Athens, Greece.
1997 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Tara Lipinski
1997 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldridge
1998 - Dale Eggeling wins Los Angeles Women's Golf Championship
1998 - Daytona 500 race
1999 - Abdullah Öcalan, leader of the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party, widely recognized as terrorist
           organization), was arrested in Kenya.
2000 - Indian Point II nuclear power plant in New York State vents a small amount of radioactive
           steam when a steam generator fails.
2001 - First draft of the complete Human Genome is published in Nature
2002 - At the Tri-State Crematory in La Fayette, Georgia, investigators find uncremated bodies
           disposed of in the woods and buildings on the crematorium's property. The discovery reveals
            one of the worst incidents of abuse in the funeral service industry.
2003 - An estimated eleven million people around the world take to the streets to protest against the
           looming war with Iraq
2005 - YouTube, the popular Internet site on which videos may be shared and viewed by others, is
           launched in the United States.
2011 - Libyan protests begin opposing Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi's rule
2012 - United Kingdom unemployment rate reaches 17 year high of 8.4%
2012 - Fire at Comayagua prison, Honduras, kills 358

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 15, 2013, 08:45:16 AM

This Day in History for 15th February


Famous Weddings

1867 - "Crime and Punishment" Russian writer Fyodor Doestoyevsky marries Anna Snitkina in the
            Trinity Cathedral in St Petersburg
1996 - Chinese actress Gong Li (30) weds Singapore-born businessman Ooi Hoe Seong (46) at
            Singapore's Registry of Marriages

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 15, 2013, 08:52:44 AM

This Day in History for 15th February


Famous Birthdays

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Astronomer & Physicist                Suffragette Susan Brownell Anthony (1820)       Musician Brandon Boyd (1976)
Galileo Galilei (1564)


1368 - Sigismund, Nornberg Germany, Holy Roman emperor (1410-37)
1458 - Ivan the Young, Ruler of Tver (d. 1490)
1471 - Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (d. 1503)
1483 - Babur, founder of Mughal dynasty in India (1526-30
1497 - Philipp Melanchthon, German Protestant
1519 - Pedro Menendez de Aviles, explorer (found St Augustine Florida)
1524 - Charles de Guise, archbishop/cardinal of Reims
1557 - Alfonso Fontanelli, composer
1564 - Galileo Galilei, Pisa Italy, astronomer/physicist
1571 - Michael Praetorius, Kreuzberg Germany, composer (Syntagma music)
1620 - Francois Charpentier, French scholar/archaeologist
1650 - Anne Jules duke de Noailles, marshal of France (hugenot)
1660 - Frans Anneessens, Belgian merchant/dean of artisans
1666 - Antonio M Valsalva, Italian anatomist (eardrums, glottis)
1705 - Charles A Vanloo, French painter
1707 - Claude Prosper, Paris France, novelist
1710 - Louis XV the Well-Beloved, Versailles, King of France (1715-74)
1725 - Abraham Clark, American founding father (d. 1794)
1726 - Abraham Clark, farmer/lawyer, signed Declaration of Independence
1739 - Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart, French architect (d. 1813)
1740 - Ernst Eichner, composer
1748 - Jeremy Bentham, London England philosopher/originator (Utilitarian)
1759 - Friedrich A Wolfius, [Wolf], German philological (Prolegomena)
1760 - Jean-Francois Le Sueur, composer
1764 - Jens I Baggesen, Danish writer/linguist (Danske V'rker)
1766 - Thomas Malthus, Rookery Surrey UK, economist/demographer
1768 - Jozef B Cannaert, [Olim], Flemish lawyer
1774 - W G Frederik, prince of Orange
1780 - Carel Asser, Dutch jurist
1783 - Johann Nepomuk Poissl, composer
1785 - Claude Louis Marie Navier
1789 - Friedrich Fesca, composer
1795 - Charles Niellon, Belgian brigade general (10 day campaign)
1797 - Henry Engelhard Steinway, piano maker (Steinway)
1800 - Frederik W Conrad, Dutch hydraulic engineer/railway pioneer
1803 - John Augustus Sutter, Swiss/US colonist (New Helvetia Ca, Sutter Mill)
1807 - Ignacy Feliks Dobrzynski, composer
1809 - Cyrus Hall McCormick, inventor (Mechanical reaper)
1809 - André Dumont, Belgian geologist (d. 1857)
1811 - Domingo F Sarmiento, president of Argentina (1868-74)
1812 - Charles Lewis Tiffany, Killingly Ct, jeweler (Tiffany)
1817 - Charles F Daubigny, French restauranteur/painter
1820 - Susan Brownell Anthony, Adams Mass, woman's suffragette
1821 - Abraham de Amorie van der de Have, theologist/poet
1822 - Theodor Uhlig, composer
1823 - Li Hung-Tshang, Chinese rebel leader/viceroy of Tsheli Canton
1825 - Carter Harrison, Sr., American politician (d. 1893)
1826 - George J Stoney, Irish physicist
1828 - Johan H van Dale, schoolmaster (New Dutch Language Dictionary)
1829 - Silas Weir Mitchell, US physician/author (Roland Blake)
1834 - William Preece, English electrical engineer/wireless pioneer
1835 - Alexander Stuart Webb, Major General (Union Army), died in 1911
1835 - Demetrius Vikelas, Greek author (d. 1908)
1841 - Manoel Ferraz de Campos Salles, Brazilian politician (d. 1913)
1845 - Elihu Root, (R)/US Sec of State (1905-09)/Nobel Peace Prize (1912)
1847 - Robert Fuchs, composer
1855 - Gustav Hollaender, composer
1856 - Frank Harris, Galway England, writer
1856 - Emil Kraepelin, German psychiatrist (d. 1926)
1858 - William Pickering, Boston, astronomer (9th & 10th moons of Saturn)
1861 - Alfred North Whitehead, Engl mathematician/philosopher (Adv of Ideas)
1861 - Halford John Mackinder, Gainsborough Lincolnshire, geographer
1866 - Bannister Fletcher, London, architect & architectural historian
1874 - Emilis Melngailis, composer
1874 - Ernest H Shackleton, Kilkee Ireland, explorer (Endurance, Antarctica)
1877 - Louis Renault, French automobile executive (d. 1944)
1882 - John Barrymore, [Blythe], Phila, actor (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde)
1883 - Sax Rohmer (real name Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward), English author of Dr Fu Manchu novels (d. 1959)
1885 - Richard Wurz, composer
1887 - H M Bateman, Sutton Forest NSW, cartoonist
1890 - Robert Ley, Nazi politician. Committed suicide 1945.
1892 - James Forrestal, US, banker/minister of Navy
1893 - Harm H Kamerlingh Onnes, painter/etcher/ceramist
1893 - Walter Donaldson, US pianist/composer (Girl Crazy, Whoopee)
1894 - Oswaldo Aranha, Brazil, lawyer/statesman (1st pres of UN)
1895 - Earl Thomson, Canadian athlete (d. 1971)
1896 - Arthur Shields, Dublin Ireland, actor (River, Enchanted Island)
1897 - Earl H Blaik, Det, college football hall of fame coach (elected 1965)
1898 - Toto, (Antonio de Curtis), Naples Italy, actor (Motorizzate, Noi Duri)
1898 - Allen Woodring, American runner (d. 1982)
1899 - Gale Sondergard, Litchfield Mn, actress (Cat & Canary, Road to Rio)
1899 - Georges Auric, Lodve France, Composer
1899 - Lillian Disney, Mrs Walt Disney
1901 - Andre Parrot, French archaeologist/theologist (Assur)
1901 - Christmas Humphreys, Engld, lawyer/writer/Buddhist (Awakening of Zen)
1901 - Paul Haesaerts, Flemish architect/painter (Animisme)
1904 - Antonin Magne, French bicyclist (Tour de France 1931, 34)
1904 - Mary Adshead, muralist/painter
1905 - Harold Arlen, [Hyman Arluck], US, composer (Over the Rainbow)
1906 - Stephen Brown, CEO (Stone-Platt Industries)
1907 - Cesar Romero, NYC, actor (Joker-Batman, Ocean's 11, Thin Man)
1907 - Jean Langlais, composer
1908 - Sidney Gilliat, producer
1908 - Ypk fan der Fear, Frisian writer (Reade Runen)
1908 - Sarto Fournier, Quebec politician (d. 1980)
1909 - Harold Beeley, British diplomat
1909 - Miep Gies, Dutch biographer of Anne Frank
1910 - 9th earl of Jersey, English large landowner/art collector
1911 - Leonard Woodcock, labor leader (UAW)
1912 - George Mikes, Hungary, British writer (How to Be an Alien)
1913 - Willy Vandersteen, Belgian cartoonist (Suske & Wiske)
1913 - Erich Eliskases, Austrian chess player (d. 1997)
1914 - Arthur Sydney Martin, spy catcher
1914 - Kevin McCarthy, Seattle, actor (Invasion of Body Snatchers, Howling)
1914 - R W Woods, bishop (Worcester)
1914 - Hale Boggs, American politician (d. 1972)
1915 - Paul Ferris, British author
1916 - Ian Ballantine, publisher (Ballantine Books)
1916 - Mary Jane Croft, American actress (d. 1999)
1918 - Alan Arbus, NYC, actor (Dr Sidney Freedman-M*A*S*H)
1920 - Ingmar Milveden, composer
1920 - Piet van Aken, Flemish writer (Devil Sails to US, Niggers)
1920 - Richard O'Brien, CEO (Manpower Services Commission)
1920 - Endicott Peabody, 62nd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1997)
1921 - Radha Krishna Choudhary, Indian historian and writer (d. 1985)
1922 - Herman Kahn, NJ, writer (Thinking About the Unthinkable)
1922 - John Bayard Anderson, American politician
1923 - Justice Drake, British justice
1923 - Keene Curtis, Salt Lake City Utah, actor (Magician, Amanda's)
1923 - Yelena Bonner, Moscow, soviet disident/wife of Andre Sakharov
1927 - Frank Dunlop, director (Edinburgh International Festival)
1927 - Gottfrid Grasbeck, composer
1927 - Harvey Korman, Chicago, actor (Carol Burnett Show, Blazing Saddles)
1927 - William Bentley, diplomat
1929 - Countess of Dysart
1929 - Gerald Harper, broadcaster/actor (Tunes of Glory, Extra Day)
1929 - Graham Hill, London, auto racer (1962, 68 international racing champ)
1929 - James Schlesinger, US Secretary of Defense (1973-75)
1930 - C F Payne, Cleveland, British chief constable
1930 - Nico Minardos, American actor
1931 - W K Reid, British ombudsman
1931 - [Patricia] Claire Bloom, London, actress (Charly, Look Back in Anger)
1931 - Geoff Edwards, American television game show host
1932 - Adrian Swire, British aircraft magnate (Cathay Pacific)
1933 - Adolfo, Cardones Cuba, fashion designer (Nancy Reagan)
1934 - Niklaus Wirth, Switzerland, computer programmer/inventor (PASCAL)
1934 - Graham Kennedy, Australian actor (d. 2005)
1935 - John R Block, US Secretary of Agriculture (1981-86)
1935 - Roger B Chaffee, Grand Rapids Michigan, Lt Cmdr USN/astronaut
1935 - Susan Brownmiller, Brooklyn, feminist author (Against Our Wills)
1936 - Andrew Miller, British principal (Stirling U)
1937 - Nicholas Bayne, diplomat
1937 - P J Squire, British headmaster (Bedford Modern School)
1937 - Terry Everett, (Rep-R-Alabama)
1937 - Zoltan Pesko, composer
1937 - Gregory Mcdonald, American author
1938 - Jack Tinker, drama critic
1938 - Lord Justice Ward, British judge
1939 - Jo Clayton, US, sci-fi author (Irsud, Maeve, Star Hunters)
1939 - Tony Bloom, deputy CEO (Sketchley)
1939 - Robert Hansen, American serial killer
1940 - John Hadl, American football player
1940 - Hamzah Haz, Indonesian politician
1941 - Brian Holland, US pianist/producer (Holland/Dozier/Holland)
1941 - Dan Crompton, Nottinghamshire, Chief Constable
1941 - Florinda Bolkan, Ceara Brazil, actress (Damned, Last Valley, Word)
1944 - Aleksandr A Serebrov, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-7, T-8, TM-8, TM-17)
1944 - Mick Avory, rock drummer (Kinks-Lola)
1944 - Tineke Netelenbos, Dutch MP (PvdA)
1945 - John Helliwell, British musician (Supertramp)
1945 - Douglas Hofstadter, American academic and writer
1946 - Clare Short, British MP
1946 - John Greenway, British MP
1946 - Esko Seppänen, Finnish politician
1947 - John Adams, Worcester Mass, composer (Nixon in China)
1947 - Marisa Berenson, NYC, actress (Barry Lyndon, Death in Vienna, SOB)
1947 - Rusty Hamer, Tenafly NJ, actor (Rusty-Make Room for Daddy)
1948 - Ron "Penguin" Cey, Tacoma Wash, 3rd baseman (LA Dodgers)
1948 - Ron Cey, American baseball player
1948 - Art Spiegelman, American cartoonist
1949 - Christopher Rouse, composer
1949 - Earl of Carlisle
1949 - Jess Walton, Mich, actress (Jill Foster Abbott-Young & Restless)
1949 - Ken Anderson, NFL quarterback (Cincinnati Bengals)
1949 - Hans Graf, Austrian conductor
1950 - Donna Hanover Giuliani, TV news anchor (WPIX)/wife of Mayor Giuliani
1950 - Nikolai Sergeivich Grekov, Russia, cosmonaut
1951 - Jane Seymour, [Joyce Frankenberg], England, actress (Dr Quinn)
1951 - Melissa Manchester, Bronx NY, vocalist (Don't Cry Out Loud)
1953 - Derek Conway, British MP
1953 - Tony Adams, Irish film producer (d. 2005)
1954 - Matt Groening, cartoonist (Life in Hell, Simpsons)
1954 - Armand Parmentier, Belgian athlete
1955 - Bev Francis, Australia, world women's power-lifting champion
1955 - Clive Aslet, British editor (Country Life)
1955 - Christopher McDonald, American actor
1955 - Janice Dickinson, American Ex-Supermodel
1956 - Desmond Haynes, cricket (WI opener-greatest batsman in 1-day history)
1956 - Hilda Beatriz "Hildita" Guevara, Cuba, daughter of "Che" Guevara
1956 - Hitoshi Ogawa, Japanese racing driver (d. 1992)
1957 - Bienvenida Buck, Velencia Spain, lover of Brit Peter Harding
1957 - Charles Edward Pevensey Tennant, aristocrat
1957 - Jake E Lee, rocker (Badlands-Dreams in the Dark)
1957 - Jimmy Spencer, American race car driver
1957 - Steve Farhood, American boxing historian and analyst
1958 - Chrystine Brouillet, Quebec novelist
1959 - Ali Campbell, British reggae vocalist/guitarist (UB40-Red Red Wine)
1959 - Guy De Alwis, cricket wicket-keeper (Sri Lankan mid 80s)
1959 - Joe Hesketh, US baseball player (Boston Red Sox)
1959 - Hugo Savinovich, Ecuadorian wrestler
1960 - Darrell Green, NFL cornerback (Washington Redskins)
1960 - Jeanne Goldsmith, LA California, WPVA volleyballer (National-5th-1987)
1960 - Mikey Craig, rock bassist (Culture Club-Do You Really Want to Hurt Me)
1960 - Jock Hobbs [Michael], chairman of the New Zealand Rugby Union and 21 test All Black, (d. 2012)
1962 - [Babette] Renee Props, Oklahoma, actress (Elly Snyder-As the World Turns)
1964 - Chris Farley, actor (SNL, Wayne's World, Coneheads)
1964 - Mark Price, NBA guard (Washington Bullets, Orlando Magic)
1965 - Craig Matthews, cricket pace bowler (South African Test)
1966 - Melido Perez, Dominican/US baseball pitcher (NY Yankees)
1966 - Petra Huber, Austria, tennis star
1967 - Michael Easton, actor, (Ally McBeal)
1967 - Jane Child, Canadian musician
1968 - Kurt Robin McKinney, Louisville Ky, actor (Ned-General Hospital)
1968 - Michael Easton, LA California, actor (Tanner-Days of Our Lives)
1968 - Axelle Red, Belgian singer and songwriter
1968 - Mieke Suys, Belgian triathlete
1969 - Brian Williams, Lancaster SC, pitcher (Detroit Tigers, Astros)
1969 - Edgar Bennett, NFL running back (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1969 - Josh Marshall, American journalist
1969 - Bryan Williams, American record executive and rapper
1970 - Gloria Trevi, Mexico, sexy spanish vocalist (A Gatas)
1970 - Nathaniel Mills, Evanston Ill, speed skater (Olympics-1994)
1970 - Tyrone Legette, NFL cornerback (NO Saints)
1970 - Craig Gass, American impressionist and comedian
1971 - Barbara Failey-Herbert, South Africa, golfer (1989 winner SA Champ)
1971 - Jim Butler, Iowa City Iowa, table tennis player (Olympics-92, 96)
1971 - Renee O'Connor, actress, (Xena Warrior Princess)
1971 - Tyrone Legette, cornerback (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1971 - Ray Sefo, New Zealand kick boxer
1972 - Jaromir Jagr, Kladno Cze, NHL right wing (Penguins, Czech Oly-G-1998)
1972 - Lance Scott, NFL offensive linesman (Arizona Cardinals)
1973 - Amy Van Dyken, 50m/100m freestyle/100m butterfly swimmer (Oly-2 g-96)
1973 - Alex Borstein, American actress and animator
1974 - Erik Schulz, Port Huron Mich, pairs skater (& Ilana Goldfogel)
1974 - Jodie McMullen, Miss Universe-Australia/Miss Congeniality (1996)
1974 - Tim Hall, running back (Oakland Raiders)
1974 - Ugueth Urbina, Caracas Venezuela, pitcher (Montreal Expos)
1974 - Miranda July, American performance artist
1974 - Tomi Putaansuu, Finnish singer (Lordi)
1974 - Seattle Slew, American racehorse (d. 2002)
1974 - Alexander Wurz, Austrian race car driver
1975 - Robert Fuchs, soccer player (PSV)
1975 - Brendon Small, American comedian and animator
1976 - Brandon Boyd, American musician (Incubus)
1976 - Óscar Freire, Spanish cyclist
1976 - Ronnie Vannucci Jr., American musician (The Killers)
1977 - Brooks Wackerman, American musician (Bad Religion)
1978 - Kimberly Goss, American singer and musician (Sinergy)
1978 - Tuan Le, American poker player
1979 - Kaj-Erik Eriksen, actor (Quarantine)
1979 - Gordon Shedden, Scottish Race Car Driver
1979 - Alenka Kejžar, Slovenian swimmer
1979 - Josh Low, English footballer
1980 - Conor Oberst, American singer and songwriter (Bright Eyes)
1981 - Diego Martínez, Mexican footballer
1981 - Matt Hoopes, American musician (Relient K)
1981 - Olivia Longott, American singer
1981 - Jenna Morasca, American model
1983 - Russell Martin, Canadian baseball player
1983 - Ashley Tesoro, American actress and singer
1984 - Meera Jasmine, Indian actress
1984 - Dorota Rabczewska, Polish singer (Virgin)
1986 - Gabriel Paletta, Argentine footballer
1988 - Hironori Kusano, Japanese Idol
1990 - Erwin Sak, Polish footballer
1991 - Nicholas Garland, son of Pamela Sue Martin

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 15, 2013, 08:56:21 AM

This Day in History for 15th February


Famous Deaths

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Musician Nat King Cole (1965)                  Actor Kevin Smith (2002)


1043 - Gisela, wife of RC-German emperor Conrad II the Salier, dies at 52
1145 - Lucius II, [Gherardo Caccianemici], Italian Pope (1144-45), dies
1152 - Konrad III, Roman-German King (1138-1152), dies at about 58
1503 - Henry Deane, Archbishop of Canterbury (1501-03), dies
1568 - Hendrik van Brederode, Dutch noble (Compromise of Nobles), dies at 36
1580 - Cunerus Petri, Dutch theologist/bishop of Leeuwarden, dies
1597 - Pieter J Kies, Dutch mayor of Haarlem (1572-73), dies at about 66
1600 - Jose the Acosta, Spanish missionary (Peru), dies at 59(?)
1621 - Michael Praetorius, German composer (In Dulce Jubilo), dies at 50
1637 - Ferdinand II, King of Bohemia/Hun/German Emperor (1619-37), dies at 58
1660 - Klaas Geritsz Compaen, Dutch buccaneer/merchant, dies at 72
1680 - Jan Swammerdam, Dutch anatomist/entomologist (Bible of Nature), dies at 43
1701 - Adam Drese, German composer, dies at 80
1713 - Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, writer, dies
1738 - Matthias Braun, Czech sculptor (b. 1684)
1744 - Frantisek Antonin Mica, composer, dies at 49
1744 - John Hadley, inventor (sextant), dies
1759 - Alexander von Papenhoven, Flemish religious sculptor, dies at 89
1761 - Carlo Cecere, composer, dies at 54
1775 - Peter Dens, Flemish Catholic theologian (b. 1690)
1778 - Johann Gottlieb Gorner, composer, dies at 80
1781 - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Saxon playwright/critic, dies at 52
1818 - Charles XIII, King of Sweden (1809-18)/Norway (1814-18), dies at 69
1820 - Pierre-Joseph Cambon, member of Committee the Salut Public, dies at 63
1820 - William Ellery, US attorney (signed Decl of Independence), dies at 92
1831 - Henry Maudslay, inventor (metal lathe), dies
1832 - Hardenack Otto Conrad Zinck, composer, dies at 85
1835 - Henry Hunt, British politican, dies
1839 - Chevalier de Lorimier, Quebec notary (b. 1803)
1841 - Sibrand Acker Stratingh, Dutch dr/chemist (electrical car), dies at 53
1843 - Theodoros Kolokotronis, Greek military figure (b. 1770)
1844 - Henry Addington Lord Sidmouth, Brit premier (1801-04), dies at 86
1847 - Germinal Pierre Dandelin, Belgian mathematician (b. 1794)
1848 - Hermann von Boyen, Prussian field marshal (b. 1771)
1849 - Pierre F Verhulst, Belgian mathematician (logistic curve), dies at 44
1857 - Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka, Russian composer, dies at 53
1864 - Israel Zangwill, writer/Zionist/philanthropist, dies
1864 - William Dyce, painter, dies
1865 - Nicholas Wiseman, 1st Archbishop of Westminster (1850-65), dies
1869 - Mirza Ghalib, Indian poet (b. 1796)
1885 - Leopold Damrosch, composer, dies at 52
1887 - Alexander Borodin, composer, dies
1896 - E J Nicholson, writer, dies
1902 - Wilhelmina JR Albregt-Engelman, Dutch actress, dies at 68
1903 - Julie Verstraete-Lacquet, Flemish actress, dies at 69
1905 - Lewis Wallace, US diplomat/writer (Ben Hur), dies at 77
1910 - Albert Fuchs, composer, dies at 51
1911 - Theodor Escherich, German pediatrician (b. 1859)
1916 - Nikolay Nikolayevich Lodizhensky, composer, dies at 73
1917 - Charles A van Ophuysen, Dutch orientalist, dies at 60
1919 - Pieter K Pel, Dutch internist (Pel-Ebstein fever), dies at 66
1921 - Hans Haym, composer, dies at 60
1922 - Clara [G Meijer-]Wichmann, German/Dutch anarchist/feminist, dies at 36
1923 - Josephine B Willson Bruce, US black theorist, dies at 69
1924 - Lionel Monckton, English composer (Country Girl), dies at 62
1928 - Hubert H Asquith, premier Great-Britain (1908-16), dies at 75
1932 - Minnie Maddern Fiske, actress (Henrik Ibsen's plays), dies at 66
1933 - Anton J Cermak, (Mayor-D-Chicago), assassinated in Miami
1939 - Foppe G Scheltema, Dutch lawyer, dies at 47
1939 - Henri Jaspar, premier of Belgium (1926-31), dies at 68
1939 - Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Russian painter (b. 1878)
1942 - Guido Adler, Austrian musicologist, dies at 91
1942 - Stanislav Binicki, composer, dies at 69
1943 - William Victor Harris, composer, dies at 73
1955 - S Z Sakall, actor (Dolly Sisters, Casablanca), dies at 71
1959 - Owen W Richardson, English physicist (Nobel 1928), dies at 69
1961 - Jack Whiting, actor (Top Speed, Life of the Party), dies at 59
1961 - Marubel Vinaon Owen, figure skater (Olympic-silver-1932), dies
1962 - Vladimir Sokoloff, actor (Road to Morocco, Cloak & Dagger), dies at 72
1964 - Ken Hubbs, 2nd baseman (Chicago Cubs), dies in plane crash at 22
1964 - Robert L. Thornton, American businessman and politician (b. 1880)
1965 - Nat King Cole, singer (Unforgettable, Mona Lisa), dies at 49
1966 - Camillo Torres, Colombian priest/guerrilla fighter, dies
1966 - Gerard Ciołek, Polish architect (b. 1909)
1967 - Antonio Moreno, Spanish actor/director (It, Careers), dies at 79
1967 - William C Bullitt, 1st US ambassador in USSR, dies at 76
1968 - Little Walter, rocker, dies at 37
1970 - Sir Hugh Dowding, commander of RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain (b. 1882)
1971 - Marian Viktorovich Koval, composer, dies at 63
1971 - Dimitrios Loundras, Greek gymnast (b. 1885)
1972 - Edgar P Snow, US author/journalist (Battle for Asia), dies at 66
1972 - Jef [Josephus CF] Last, Dutch poet/Indonesian politician, dies at 73
1973 - Tim Holt, actor (Stagecoach, Hitler's Children), dies of cancer at 55
1973 - Wally Cox, actor (Mr Peepers, Hollywood Squares), dies at 48
1974 - Kurt Magnus Atterberg, composer, dies at 86
1975 - Julian Huxley, biologist, dies
1975 - Pelham G Wodehouse, writer, dies
1978 - Ilka Chase, actress (Masquerade Party), dies at 72
1979 - Alex Bradford, actor/composer (Your Arms too Short...), dies at 51
1979 - Mehdi Rahimi, Iran general/milt governor of Teheran, executed
1981 - Jack Crapp, cricketer (7 Tests for England 1948-49, 319 runs), dies
1981 - Mike Bloomfield, rocker (Electric Flag), dies of drug overdose at 36
1981 - Thomas Beversdorf, composer, dies at 56
1981 - Karl Richter, German conductor (b. 1926)
1982 - Rolfe Sedan, actor (Mailman-George Burns Show), dies at 86
1984 - Avon Long, dancer/actor (Roots: Next Generation), dies of cancer at 73
1984 - Ethel Merman, singer/actress (Kid Million), dies in her sleep at 76
1984 - Leamon Hunt, US director-General in Sinai, killed by communists
1987 - Jimmy Holiday, US singer (Baby I Love You), dies at 42
1987 - Osmo Uolevi Lindeman, composer, dies at 57
1988 - Frederick [Fritz] Loewe, composer, dies
1988 - Gardiner Means, US economist, dies at 91
1988 - Gerard Holt, architect, dies at 83
1988 - Neil R[onald] Jones, sf writer (Space War, Twin Worlds), dies at 78
1988 - Richard P Feynman, physicist (Nobel 1965, Physical Law), dies at 69
1990 - Henry Brandon, actor (Assault on Precinct 13), dies at 77
1990 - Jack Fletcher, actor (Any Wednesday), dies of heart attack at 68
1991 - Gary Gears, Chicago disk jockey, dies at 46 of a heart attack
1991 - Luis Escobar, Spanish actor (Don Juan My Love), dies at 78
1992 - William H Schuman, US composer (Pulitzer)/Pres of Julliard, dies at 81
1992 - María Elena Moyano, Peruvian activist (b. 1960)
1993 - George Wallington, [Giacinto Figlia], Italian bebop-pianist/, dies
1994 - Andrei Tsjikatilo, [Rostov Ripper], Russian mass murdered, executed
1994 - Tiger Haynes, US actor (Moscow on the Hudson, Cosby Show), dies at 79
1995 - Francis Taylor, builder, dies at 90
1995 - Joseph Ortiz, French-Algerian extremist/rebel, dies at 77
1995 - Lord Taylor of Hadfield, Brit pres of Taylor Woodrow Group, dies at 90
1995 - Nabila Diahnine, Algerian architect/feminist, murdered at 33
1995 - Sahnoun Jawhari, Tunisian Annahda-leader, dies at 40 in jail
1995 - Viscount Camrose, British large landowner/Conservative, dies
1996 - Bruno Ferenc Straub, Hungarian statesman, dies
1996 - Margaret Courtenay, actress (Royal Flash, Duet for One), dies at 72
1996 - McLean Stevenson, actor (M*A*S*H, Hello Larry), dies at 66
1996 - Oscar Abrams, community organiser, dies at 58
1996 - Tommy Rettig, actor (Lassie)/computer programmer (Clipper), dies at 54
1998 - Martha Gelhorn, female war correspondent (Reuters), dies at 89
1999 - Big L, American rapper (b. 1974)
1999 - Henry Way Kendall, American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1926)
2002 - Howard K. Smith, American journalist (b. 1914)
2002 - Kevin Smith, New Zealand actor (b. 1963)
2004 - Jens Evensen, Norwegian minister and jurist (b. 1917)
2004 - Jan Miner, American actress (b. 1917)
2005 - Samuel Francis, American journalist (b. 1947)
2005 - Pierre Bachelet, French singer and songwriter (b. 1944)
2007 - Walker Edmiston, actor (b. 1926)
2007 - Ray Evans, American songwriter (b. 1915)
2008 - Amnon Netzer, Iranian-Israeli historian (b. 1934)
2008 - Ashley Callie, South African actress (b. 1976)
2009 - Joe Cuba, Puerto-Rican musician (b. 1931)
2009 - Dr. Diether H. Haenicke, university president (b. 1935)
2012 - Charles Anthony, American Tenor dies from kidney failure at 82
2012 - Charles Anthony [Caruso], American tenor, dies from kidney failure at 82

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 16, 2013, 09:58:01 AM

This Day in History for 16th February


Historical Events

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Naturalist Charles Darwin                       Composer/Pianist Franz Liszt                 Archaeologist and Discoverer of         
                                                                                                                             Tutankhamun Howard Carter

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British war time Prime Minister                 Dictator Fidel Castro
Winston Churchill

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Singer & Cultural Icon Elvis Presley                 Actress Farrah Fawcett


374 - 9th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
600 - Pope Gregory the Great decreea saying "God bless You" is the correct response to a sneeze
1249 - Andrew of Longjumeau is dispatched by Louis IX of France as his ambassador to meet with   
           the Khan of the Mongols.
1486 - Diet of Frankfort
1512 - Battle at Valeggio: French troops beat Venetianen
1559 - Pope Paul IV calls for deposition of sovereigns supporting heresy
1641 - English king Charles I accept Triennial Act
1646 - Battle of Great Torrington, Devon - the last major battle of the first English Civil War.
1659 - 1st known check (£400) (on display at Westminster Abbey)
1666 - Netherlands & Brandenburg sign treaty
1677 - Earl of Shaftesbury arrested/confined in London Tower
1741 - Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine (2nd US Mag) begins publishing
1742 - Earl of Wilmington becomes British premier
1751 - 1st publication of Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard"
1760 - Native American hostages killed in Ft Prince George SC
1771 - Messier presents his original list of 45 M-objects to French Academy
1777 - Messier adds M53 to his catalog (globular cluster in Coma Berenice)
1804 - Lt Stephen Decatur raids Tripoli Harbor & burns Navy frigate "Philadelphia" after pirates seized
           it
1824 - Athenaeum founded
1832 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches St-Pauls (1°N, 29°W)
1838 - Kentucky passes law permitting women to attend school under conditions
1838 - Weenen Massacre: Hundreds of Voortrekkers along the Blaukraans River, Natal are killed by
            Zulus.
1840 - American Charles Wilkes discovers Shackleton Ice Shelf, Antarctica
1846 - Battle of Sobraon ends 1st Sikh War in India
1852 - Studebaker Brothers wagon company, precursor of the automobile manufacturer, is
           established.
1854 - Franz Liszts symphony "Orpheus," premieres
1857 - Gallaudet College (Natl Deaf Mute college) forms (Wash DC)
1859 - The French Government passes a law to set the A-note above middle C to a frequency of 435
           Hz, in an attempt to standardize the pitch.
1860 - Dutch Rochussen/Van Bosse government resigns
1862 - Ft Donelson captured by Gen Grant (1,400 confederates surrender)
1864 - Battle of Mobile, AL - operations by Union Army
1866 - Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington becomes the British Secretary of State
           for War.
1868 - Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks forms (NY)
1878 - Silver dollar became US legal tender
1880 - American Society of Mechanical Engineers forms (NYC)
1883 - "Ladies Home Journal" begins publishing
1887 - 1st newspaper convention (Rochester NY)
1887 - Eduard Douwes Dekker writes his last text (Lf8-c5)
1892 - Opera "Werther," premieres in Vienna
1894 - British troops occupy Ilorin, Gold Coast
1899 - Pelham Warner scores 132 on Test Cricket debut (Eng v SA Johannesburg)
1899 - President Félix Faure of France dies in office.
1899 - Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur Iceland's first football club is founded.
1900 - 1st Chinese daily newspaper in US publishes (Chung Sai Yat Po-SF)
1900 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Shamrocks beat Winnipeg Victorias, 3 games to 1
1903 - -59°F (-51°C), Pokegama Dam, Minnesota (state record)
1905 - 1st US Esperanto club organizes in Boston
1909 - 1st subway car with side doors goes into service (NYC)
1909 - Serbia mobilizes against Austria-Hungary
1912 - VSV soccer team forms in Ijmuiden
1913 - President Taft agrees not to intervene in Mexico
1914 - 1st airplane flight (LA to SF)
1915 - Frank Home Run Baker, 28, announces retirement following a contract dispute with Connie
           Mack. He sits out 1915 season
1916 - Russian troops conquer Erzurum Armenia
1917 - 1st synagogue in 425 years opens in Madrid
1918 - Lithuania declares independence from Russia & Germany (National Day)
1923 - Allies accept Latvia's occupation of Memel territory
1923 - Howard Carter finds Pharaoh Tutankhamen
1923 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld Blanchard
1923 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Sherwin Badger
1926 - Suzanne Lenglen defeats Helen Wills in Tennis at Cannes France
1927 - Noel Coward's "Marquise," premieres in London
1927 - US restores diplomatic relations with Turkey
1929 - KID-AM in Idaho Falls ID begins radio transmissions
1931 - Extreme right wing Svinhufvud becomes president of Finland
1932 - 1st patent issued for a tree, to James Markham for a peach tree
1933 - Catholic newspaper Germania warns against nazis/communists
1933 - England regains the Ashes, thanks to bodyline tactics
1934 - Austrian Civil War ends with the defeat of the Social Democrats and the Republican
           Schutzbund.
1934 - Commission of Government is sworn in as form of direct rule for the Dominion of
           Newfoundland.
1936 - 4th Winter Olympic games close at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
1936 - Spanish Frente Popular (People's Front) wins elections
1937 - DuPont Corp patents nylon, developed by employee Wallace H Carothers
1937 - Jean Anouilh's "Le Voyageur Sans Baggage," premieres in Paris
1938 - US Federal Crop Insurance program authorized
1940 - British search plane finds German Altmark off Norway
1942 - German submarines attack Aruba oil refinery
1943 - -32°F (-36°C), Falls Village, Connecticut (state record)
1943 - British premier Winston Churchill gets pneumonia
1943 - Red army conquers Kharkov
1943 - Withdrawing Africa Corps reaches Mareth-line in North-Africa
1943 - Sign on Munich facade: "Out with Hitler! Long live freedom!" done by "White Rose" student
          group, caught on 2/18, beheaded on 2/22
1943 - World War II: The USSR reconquers Kharkov.
1945 - US forces land on Corregidor, complete conquest on March 3
1945 - Venezuela declares war on nazi-Germany
1946 - "Duchess Misbehaves" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 5 perfs
1946 - 1st commercially designed helicopter tested, Bridgeport Ct
1947 - Morton Gould's 3rd Symphony, premieres
1948 - 1st newsreel telecast, "20th Century Fox-Movietone News" shown on NBC
1948 - Miranda, famous moon of Uranus, photographed for 1st time
1950 - Longest-running prime-time game show, "What's My Line" begins on CBS
1950 - Writers fail to elect anyone to Baseball's Hall of Fame
1951 - NYC passes bill prohibiting racism in city-assisted housing
1951 - SF City Hall dome fire
1952 - Hall of Famer Honus Wagner, 77, retires; Pirates retire his #33
1952 - Ian Craig makes NSW cricket debut aged 16 years 249 days (NSW record)
1954 - WNEM TV channel 5 in Bay City, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting
1956 - Britain abolishes death penalty
1957 - The "Toddlers' Truce", a controversial television closedown between 6.00pm and 7.00pm was
           abolished in the United Kingdom.
1958 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open
1959 - Fidel Castro named himself Cuba's premier after overthrowing Batista
1959 - Leonard Spigelgass' "Majority of One," premieres in NYC
1960 - US nuclear submarine USS Triton set off on underwater round-world trip
1961 - 1st all-solid-propellant rocket put in orbit, Wallops Island, Va
1961 - China uses it's 1st nuclear reactor
1961 - US satellite Explorer 9 is launched
1962 - Darius Milhaud's 12th Symphony, premieres
1962 - US Open Tennis: Jimmy Bostwick defeats brother Pete to win
1963 - 1st round-trip swim of Strait of Messina, Italy (Mary Revell of US)
1963 - Beatles top British rock charts with "Please, Please Me"
1963 - C & A Building in Amsterdam burns down
1964 - "Foxy" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 72 performances
1964 - Beatles' 2nd appearance on "Ed Sullivan Show"
1965 - "Baker Street" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 313 performances
1965 - Pegasus 1 launched to detect micro-meteors
1966 - Bob Cowper makes 307 v England at the MCG, 727 mins, 20 fours
1966 - End of Wally Grout's Test Cricket career, 187 dismissals as Aust WK
1966 - France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria
1967 - Red Ruffing selected to Hall of Fame
1968 - Country's 1st 911 phone system went into service in Haleyville, Ala
1968 - Elvis Presley receives gold record for "How Great Thou Art"
1968 - Beatles George Harrison & John Lennon & wives fly to India for transcendental meditation
           study with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
1970 - Joe Frazier TKOs Jimmy Ellis in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
1972 - 1st NBA to score 30,000 points (Wilt Chamberlain in 940 games)
1972 - German mass murderers "Three of Breda" freed
1972 - Test Cricket debut of Lawrence Rowe WI v NZ Kingston, 214 & 100
1972 - Wilt Chamberlain hit 30,000 point mark during a game with Phoenix Suns
1973 - WI v Australia at Kingston, 1st time since 1955 without Sobers
1975 - Washington Capitals 1st NHL shutout, beating KC Scouts 3-0
1977 - USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR
1978 - 1st Computer Bulletin Board System (Ward & Randy's CBBS, Chicago)
1979 - George Harrison releases "Blow Away"
1979 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1980 - Continuous traffic jam extends 176 km north of Lyons, France
1980 - Eric Heiden skates 5k in 7:02.29 (Olympic Record)
1982 - Agatha Barbara elected as 1st female president of Malta
1982 - Assembled STS-3 vehicle moves from Vandenberg AFB to launch pad
1982 - Lee Majors & Farrah Fawcett Majors divorce
1983 - The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia claim the lives of 75 people in
           Australia's worst ever fires.
1984 - Bill Johnson becomes 1st American to win Olympic downhill skiing gold
1984 - NJ Devils 1st OT goal, Jan Ludvig beats Hartford Whalers 6-5
1985 - Largest NBA crowd to date, 43,816, sees Phila at Detroit
1985 - Livingston Bramble defeats Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini to win WBA champ
1985 - NJ Devils score their fastest hat trick in 42 seconds
1985 - The founding of Hezbollah.
1986 - "Uptown... It's Hot!" closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 24 perfs
1986 - French air force bombs Ouadi Doum airport in Chad
1986 - Hein Vergeer becomes world champion skater
1986 - Karlstad skates world record 10 km (14:12.14)
1986 - Mario Soares (Socialist) elected Portugal's 1st civilian pres
1987 - John Demjanjuk, accused of being "Ivan the Terrible" trial begins
1988 - 1st documented combat action by US military advisors in El Salvador
1989 - Egypt, Iraq, Jordan & North Yemen form common market
1989 - Orel Hershiser, Dodger pitcher signs $7.9M-3 year contract
1989 - Roger Clemens, Red Sox pitcher signs $7.5M-3 year contract
1989 - William Hayden becomes governor-general of Australia
1991 - Dutch PPR, Political Party Radicals, disbands
1991 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Tonya Harding
1992 - Former silver Goodyear blimps are now painted yellow & blue
1992 - LA Lakers retire Magic Johnson's #32 uniform
1993 - Sandra V"lker swims world record 50m backstroke (28.33 sec)
1993 - Western Australia's and Australia's first woman Premier, Carmen Lawrence, is voted out of
           office.
1994 - 6.5 earthquake strikes SE Sumatra, kills 200
1994 - Johann Olav Koss skates world record 1500m (1:51.29)
1994 - Premier Alfonso Bustamente ends government in Peru
1996 - Gary Kirsten scores 188* for South Africa v UAE at Rawalpindi
1997 - At age 25, Jeff Gordon is youngest winner in Daytona 500 history
1997 - GTE Suncoast Senior Golf Classic
1997 - Paul Stankowski wins Hawaiian Golf Open
1997 - Terry-Jo Myers wins LPGA Los Angeles Women's Championship
1998 - Tellabs Inc acquires Coherent Communications Systems for $670 million
1999 - O.J. Simpson's 1968 Heisman Trophy is sold for $230,000 to help settle a $33.5 million civil
           judgement against Simpson for the deaths of his ex-wife and her friend
1999 - Across Europe, Kurdish rebels take over embassies and hold hostages after Turkey arrested
           one of their rebel leaders, Abdullah Öcalan.
2003 - Michael Waltrip wins motor racing's Daytona 500 after rain stops the race for a second time at
           lap 109
2004 - The Pittsburgh Penguins lose their 12th consecutive home game, a NHL record
2005 - 2004-05 NHL season is canceled by league commissioner Gary Bettman. This was the first
           time that a North American professional sports league had to cancel a season due to a labor
            dispute
2005 - The Kyoto Protocol comes into force, following its ratification by Russia.
2006 - The last Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) is decommissioned by the United States Army.

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 16, 2013, 09:59:20 AM

This Day in History for 16th February


Famous Weddings

1655 - Dutch Grand Pensionary advisor Johan de Witt marries Wendela Bicker
2011 - Indian tennis ace Mahesh Bhupati (36) weds Bollywood actress and former Miss Universe (2000)
           Lara Dutta (32) at Bandra, Mumbai

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 16, 2013, 10:00:01 AM

This Day in History for 16th February


Famous Divorces

1982 - Lee Majors & Farrah Fawcett Majors divorce
1989 - Jane Fonda & Tom Hayden separate after 16 years of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 16, 2013, 11:19:17 AM

This Day in History for 16th February


Famous Birthdays

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Actress Vera-Ellen (1921)                          Supreme Leader of North                      Tennis Great John McEnroe (1959)
                                                                Korea Kim Jong-il (1942)


1032 - Emperor Yingzong of China (d. 1067)
1075 - Ordericus Vitalis, French monk/historian/poet
1222 - Nichiren, Japan, Buddhist priest/saint
1497 - Philipp Melanchthon, Germ, Protestant reformer (Augsburgse Confessie)
1519 - Gaspard de Coligny, Huguenot leader/French admiral
1543 - Kano Eitoku, Japanese painter (d. 1590)
1620 - Frederick William, Great Elector, founder of Brandenburg-Prussia
1643 - John Sharp, English Archbishop of York (d. 1714)
1669 - Arnold Boonen, Dutch portrait painter
1684 - Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský, Nymburk, Bohemia, Czech monk/composer
1698 - Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician (heliometer)
1709 - Charles Avison, composer
1727 - Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, Austrian scientist (d. 1817)
1740 - Giambattista Bodoni, Saluzzo Italy, printer/typeface designer (Bodoni)
1746 - Johann Heinse, German Sturm und Drang novelist/art critic
1761 - Charles Pichegru, French general (d. 1804)
1774 - Pierre Rode, composer
1786 - Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (d. 1859)
1787 - Andreas Schelfhout, Dutch painter/etcher/lithographer
1788 - Juan van Halen, Dutch/Spanish officer/adventurer
1790 - Chretien Urhan, composer
1802 - Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, American philosopher (d. 1866)
1804 - Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold, German physiologist (d. 1885)
1807 - Lysander Cutler, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1866
1812 - Henry Wilson, (R) 18th VP (1873-75)
1813 - Joseph Reid Anderson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) died in 1892
1813 - Semyon Stepanovich Gulak-Artemovsky, composer
1821 - Heinrich Barth, Hamburg Germany, geographer/explorer (Central Africa)
1822 - Francis Galton, Birmingham England, anthropologist & geneticist
1822 - James Patton Anderson, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1872
1823 - John Daniel Imboden, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1895
1824 - Peter Kozler, Slovenian cartographer and geographer (d. 1879)
1826 - Franz von Holstein, composer
1826 - Joseph V von Scheffel, German writer (Gaudeamus)
1831 - Nikolai Leskow, writer
1832 - Camille Armand Jules Marie de Polignac, Mjr General (Confederate Army)
1834 - Ernst Heinrich Haeckel, Potsdam Germ, biologist (Causes of Evolution)
1836 - Benjamin Edward Woolf, Dutch composer
1838 - Arnoldus Pannevis, South African ship's doctor/linguist
1838 - Henry Adams, Boston Mass, historian, writer (Education of Henry Adams)
1847 - Ludwig Philipp Scharwenka, German composer (Album polonaise)
1848 - Hugo de Vries, Dutch botanist (How species emerge)
1850 - Octave Mirbeau, France, writer (Journal of a Lady's Maid)
1852 - Charles Taze Russell, religion founder (Jehovah's Witnesses)
1852 - William Scarborough, Macon Ga, linguist/author (Birds of Aristophanes)
1854 - Oscar Fetras, composer
1856 - Willem Kes, Dutch violinist/composer/conductor (Parkorkest Amsterdam)
1856 - Rudolph Karstadt, German entrepreneur (d. 1944)
1858 - Laurence "Lon" Myers, US, track star (top US miler)
1866 - Johann Strauss, Austria, composer (Waltz King)
1866 - Vyacheslav I Ivanov, Russian philosopher/classical/poet [NS=Feb 28]
1866 - William "Sliding Billy" Hamilton, NJ, hall of fame baseball player
1868 - Wilhelm Schmidt, German anthropologist/linguist (Anthropos)
1874 - Marie Gutheil-Schoder, German soprano (d. 1935)
1876 - George Macauley Trevelyan, England, historian (Giuseppi Garibaldi)
1878 - Selim Palmgren, Finnish pianist/composer/conductor (Peter Schlemihl)
1880 - Frank Burke, American baseball player (d. 1946)
1881 - Maurits H E Uyldert, Dutch poet/writer (Youth of a Poet)
1883 - Elizabeth Craig, British writer (d. 1980)
1884 - Robert Flaherty, Mich, father of documentary film (Nanook of North)
1886 - Andrew Ducat, cricketer (Test for Eng 1921 (3 & 2) Soccer intl)
1886 - Van Wyck Brooks, NJ, literary historian/writer (Ordeal of Mark Twain)
1887 - Kathleen Clifford, American actress (d. 1962)
1890 - Semyon Semyonovich Bogatiryov, composer
1891 - Hans F. K. Günther, German eugenicist (d. 1967)
1893 - Ivor Armstrong Richards, England, literary critic [OS]
1896 - Alexander Brailowsky, Russia, pianist (Chopin)
1898 - Katharine Cornell, actress (Barretts of Wimpole St)
1900 - Albert Maurice Hackett, playwright/screenwriter
1901 - Chester Morris, NYC, actor (Diagnosis: Unknown)
1901 - Wayne King, Savannah Ill, saxophonist/bandleader (Waltz King)
1901 - Vincent Coleman, American actor (d. 1971)
1903 - Edgar Bergen, Chicago, ventriloquist (Charlie McCarthy)
1903 - George-Henri Lévesque, Quebec priest and sociologist (d. 2000)
1904 - Ellis Achong, cricketer (West Indian SLA, 8 wickets in 6 Tests)
1904 - George F Kennan, Milwaukee Wisc, US ambassador (to Moscow)
1905 - Jose Munoz Molleda, composer
1905 - Lord Franks, British ambassador (to US)
1906 - Jeffrey Lynn, actor (Tony Rome, Butterfield 8, Up Front)
1906 - Vera Menchik, Moscow, 1st official women's world chess champ (1927)
1907 - Fernando Previtali, composer
1907 - Henri van Albada, Belgian sculptor (Charles V)
1909 - Hugh Beaumont, Lawrence Ks, actor (Ward Cleaver-Leave it to Beaver)
1909 - Jeffrey Lynn, Auburn Mass, actor (My Son Jeep, Roaring Twenties)
1909 - Richard McDonald, American fast food pioneer (d. 1998)
1910 - Michael Milne-Watson, CEO (BUPA)
1910 - Miguel Bernal Jiminez, composer
1911 - Hal Porter, Australia, writer (Tilted Cross, Paper Chase)
1912 - Arthur Crook, British editor (Times Literary Supplement)
1912 - Bob Tadema Sporry, Dutch (female) author
1912 - Del Sharbutt, Cleburne Tx, TV announcer (Your Hit Parade)
1912 - Machito "Frank Grillo", Florida, bandleader (created salsa music)
1912 - Maitland Mackie, Lord Lt (Aberdeenshire)
1914 - J Tobin, British anaesthetist
1914 - Jimmy Wakely, Mineola Ark, country vocalist (5 Star Jubilee)
1915 - Michael Relph, British film producer and director (d. 2004)
1916 - William Ballard Doggett, jazz musician
1918 - Patty Andrews, American singer
1920 - Hubert van Herreweghen, Flemish writer/journalist
1920 - Lee Russell, Cleveland Oh, vocalist (Vincent Lopez)
1920 - Patty Andrews, Minneapolis MN, vocalist (Andrews Sisters)
1920 - Anna Mae Hays, American army general
1921 - Jean Behra, auto racer
1921 - Vera-Ellen [Westmeier Rohe], Norwood, Ohio, American actress/dancer (Wonder Man)
1921 - Araucaria, British crossword compiler
1922 - Geraint Evans, British opera vocalist (Knaben Wunderhorn)
1922 - Paul van 't Veer, Dutch journalist/writer (Het Vrije Volk)
1924 - James Swaffield, director-general (Swaffield & Clerk to the GLC)
1924 - Peter Webster, British High Court Judge
1925 - David Emms, director (London Goodenough Trust for Overseas Graduates)
1925 - John Schlesinger, London England, director (Midnight Cowboy, Darling)
1925 - PER Bailey, director (Gatwick & Stansted Airports)
1925 - Carlos Paredes, Portuguese guitar master (d. 2004)
1926 - Jack Levy, mechanical engineer
1926 - John Schlesinger, film director, (Midnight Cowboy)
1927 - June Brown, British actress
1929 - Peter NF Porter, Australian/British author/poet (Chair of Babel)
1929 - Gerhard Hanappi, Austrian footballer (d. 1980)
1930 - F G R Cuming, painter
1930 - Peggy King, Greensburg Pa, vocalist/actress (George Gobel Show)
1930 - Ricou Browning, Florida, director/actor (Thunderball)
1931 - A Kolleritsch, writer
1931 - Gamini Goonesena, cricket leg-spinner (all-rounder for Ceylon, Notts)
1931 - George E Sangmeister, (Rep-D-Illinois)
1931 - Ken Takakura, [Goichi Oda], Kita Japan, actor (Story of Antarctic)
1932 - A Appelfeld, writer
1932 - Gretchen Wyler, Bartlesville Oklahoma, actress (Silk Stockings)
1932 - Nand Baert, Belgian radio/TV-host
1932 - Otis Blackwell, composer/singer
1932 - Harry Goz, American actor (d. 2003)
1932 - Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, President of Sierra Leone
1934 - Austin "Ted" Taylor, US gospel/R&B-singer (Be Ever Wonderful)
1934 - Marlene Bauer Hagge, Eureka SD, LPGA golfer (1950 Woman Athlete)
1935 - Brian Bedford, England, actor (Anthony-Coronet Blue)
1935 - Robin Clark, chemist (FRS)
1935 - Sonny Bono, Detroit, vocalist (Sonny & Cher)/(Rep-R-Ca, 1995-98)
1935 - Kenneth Price, Los Angeles, California, ceramic artist and print maker (Hot Bottoms, Tamed),
           (d. 2012)
1936 - Jill Kinmont, American skier
1937 - Paul Bailey, novelist
1937 - Valentin Vasilyevich Bondarenko, cosmonaut
1938 - Barry Primus, NYC, actor (Sgt McKenna-Cagney & Lacey, Boxcar Bertha)
1938 - John Corigliano, NYC, composer (Fern Hill, Ghosts of Versailles)
1939 - David Griffiths, portrait painter
1939 - Harold Kalin, singer
1940 - Karoli Ruth Needles, painter
1941 - Vitali Kuznetsov, USSR, judo (Olympic-silver-1972)
1942 - Gabriel Brncic, composer
1942 - Kim Chong-Il, [Yura], president of North-Korea (1994- )
1942 - Kim Jong-il, Supreme Leader of North Korea (1994-2011) [disputed birthdate, 1941]
1943 - Anthony Dowell, London, ballet dancer (Royal Ballet)
1943 - J D Moore, headmaster (St Dunstan's College)
1943 - James Beaton, British GC
1944 - Richard Ford, US author (Sportswriter)
1944 - António Mascarenhas Monteiro, 2nd President of Cape Verde
1945 - Frank Welker, American voice actor
1946 - Aleksandr Shaparenko, USSR, 1K kayak (Olympic-gold-1972)
1946 - Ian Lavender, British actor (Stupid Boy in Dad's Army)
1946 - J R Farndon, British consultant surgeon
1947 - Franz West, Vienna, Austria, artist (Flause), (d. 2012)
1948 - Eckhart Tolle, Author and spiritual teacher
1949 - Dorus Vrede, Surinam poet (Otobanda; the Other Bank)
1950 - Peter Hain, British MP
1950 - William Katt, LA California, actor (Greatest American Hero, 1st Love)
1950 - Kazuki Tomokawa, Japanese acid-folk singer
1950 - Roman Tam, Hong Kong famous singer (d. 2002)
1952 - Barry Foote, Major League Baseball player
1953 - Andre St Lauren, NHLer
1953 - George Martin, NFLer (NY Giants)
1953 - Mike Ford, NYC, Canadian Tour golfer (1976 Port Jefferson Open)
1953 - Roberta Williams, computer game designer
1954 - Iain [Menzies] Banks, UK, sci-fi author (Wasp Factory)
1954 - Michael Holding, cricket fast bowler (Whispering Death-Awesome for WI)
1954 - Margaux Hemingway, Portland Or, actress (Lipstick, They Call Me Bruce)
1955 - George Martin, NFL defensive back (NY Giants)
1955 - Guy Gallo, New Orleans LA, writer (Under the Volcano)
1955 - Jeff Clayton, US jazz saxophonist/composer (Groove Shop)
1955 - Hunt Block, American actor
1956 - James Ingram, vocalist (On the Wings of Love)
1957 - LeVar Burton, Landstuhl Germany, (Roots, Star Trek Next Generation)
1958 - Herb Williams, NBA center (Toronto Raptors, NY Knicks)
1958 - Ice-T [Tracy Marrow], Newark, New Jersey, American rapper and actor (New Jack City, Tank
           Girl, Crazy Six)
1958 - John Paul Morse, Marshall MI, PGA golfer (1995 United Airlines)
1958 - Lisa Loring, actress (As the World Turns, Wednesday-Addams Family)
1958 - Michael W. Burns, American politician
1959 - John McEnroe, American tennis great (US Open 1979-81, 84 Wimb 1981, 83, 84)
1959 - Kelly Tripuka, Glenn Ridge NJ, NBA forward (Det Pistons, Utah Jazz)
1960 - Cherie Chung, Hong Kong actress
1961 - Andy Taylor, Engld, rock guitarist (Duran Duran-Hungry Like the Wolf)
1962 - Alexa Kenin, NYC, actress (Mousie-Coed Fever)
1962 - Tony Kiley, rocker (Blow Monkeys-Wicked Ways)
1962 - John Balance, English musician (Coil, Psychic TV) (d. 2004)
1963 - Dano Halsall, Swiss swimmer
1964 - Mark Price, NBA guard (Cleveland Caveliers)
1964 - Bebeto, Brazilian footballer
1964 - Christopher Eccleston, English actor
1965 - Dave Lombardo, Cuban drummer (Slayer)
1966 - Eric Uptagrafft, Spokane Wash, prone rifle (Olympics-1996)
1967 - Robert Massey, NFL cornerback (Arizona Cardinals, Detroit Lions)
1967 - John Valentin, Mineola NY, infielder (Boston Red Sox)
1967 - Keith Gretzky, former hockey player; brother of Wayne Gretzky
1968 - Cecil Gray, NFL tackle (Arizona Cardinals)
1968 - Erik Regtop, Dutch soccer player (SC Heerenveen)
1968 - Warren Ellis, British comic book writer
1969 - Claude Lambert, Montreal Quebec, boxer (Olympics-96)
1969 - Fermin Cacho, Barcelona Spain, 1500m (Olympics-2 gold-92, 96)
1969 - Tim Costo, US baseball infielder (Cincinnati Reds)
1969 - David Heath, American professional wrestler better known as Gangrel
1970 - Saskia Linssen, Venlo Holland, playmate (Jun, 1991)
1970 - Serdar Ortac, Turkish popstar
1970 - D.J. Wallis, American fitness competitor
1970 - Angelo Peruzzi, Italian footballer
1971 - Anthony Abrams, NFL defensive tackle (KC Chiefs)
1971 - Chi Kredell, Long Beach Ca, water polo driver (Olympics-96)
1971 - Larry Jones, NFL running back (Washington Redskins)
1971 - Marco Sas, Dutch soccer player (NAC)
1971 - Mike Hubbard, Lynchburg VA, catcher (Chicago Cubs)
1971 - Shivanthini Dharmasiri, Miss Universe-Sri Lanka (1996)
1971 - Van Tuinei, defensive end (San Diego Chargers)
1972 - Jerome Bettis, running back (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1973 - Cathy Freeman, Mackay Aust, 100m/200m/400m (Olympics-silver-92, 96)
1973 - James Young, Australian water polo player (Olympics-96)
1973 - Nikos Kostakis, Greek footballer
1973 - Christian Bassedas, Argentine former footballer
1974 - Jevon Langford, defensive end (Cincinnati Bengals)
1974 - Kathy McCormack, ice hockey forward (Canada, Oly-Silver-98)
1974 - Kimberly Dawn Whipany, Oklahoma, rocker (PC Quest-Can You See)
1974 - Fanis Katergiannakis, Greek footballer
1975 - Casey Barrett, Montreal Quebec, 200m Butterfly (Olympics-96)
1975 - Marty Murray, Deloraine, NHL center (Calgary Flames)
1975 - Nanase Aikawa, Japanese singer
1975 - Vanina Ickx, Belgian racing driver
1975 - Don Jeffcoat, American actor
1976 - Eric Byrnes, American baseball player
1976 - Kyo, Japanese singer (Dir en grey)
1976 - Joe Odagiri, Japanese actor
1977 - Alexei Morozov, NHL forward (Team Russia Oly-Silver-1998, Pittsburgh)
1977 - Trina Jackson, 4X200m freestyle swimmer (Olympics-gold-96)
1977 - Ian Clarke, Irish computer programmer
1977 - Ahman Green, American football player
1978 - Caroline Hunt, Chic Ill, rhythmic gymnast (US team-96)
1978 - Tia Hellebaut, Belgian athlete
1978 - John Tartaglia, Broadway actor and Muppeteer
1978 - Wasim Jaffer, Indian Cricketer
1979 - Emma Louise DeSilets, Miss Washington Teen USA (1997)
1979 - Valentino Rossi, Italian motorcycle racer
1979 - Eric Mun, Korean rapper (Shinhwa)
1980 - Agim Kaba, American actor and film producer
1980 - Ashley Lelie, American football player
1981 - Jay Howard, British racing driver
1981 - Jerry Owens, American baseball player
1981 - Qyntel Woods, American basketball player
1982 - Wasalu Muhammad Jaco, American rapper
1985 - Zoi Dimoschaki, Greek swimmer
1987 - Theresa Goh, Singaporean Paralympic swimmer
1988 - Denílson Pereira Neves, Brazilian footballer
1998 - Mr Jefferson, Virginia, 1st cloned calf
2335 - Geordi La Forge, character on Star Trek Next Generation

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 16, 2013, 11:20:53 AM

This Day in History for 16th February


Famous Deaths

309 - Pamphilus van Caesarea, Palestinian scholar/martyr, beheaded
923 - Abu Dja'far Mohammed Djarir al-Tabari, islamic historian, dies at 83
1247 - Heinrich Raspe, Landgrave of Thuringia (b. 1204)
1279 - Afonso III, King of Portugal (1248-79), dies
1391 - Johannes V Palaeologus, Emperor of Byzantium (1341-91), dies
1531 - Johannes Stöffler, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1452)
1538 - Everhard/Erardus van de Mark, prince-bishop of Liege, dies at 65
1560 - Jean du Bellay, French Catholic cardinal and diplomat
1653 - Johannes Schultz, composer, dies at 70
1710 - Esprit Fléchier, French writer and Bishop of Nîmes (b. 1632)
1721 - James Craggs the Younger, English politician (b. 1686)
1754 - Richard Mead, physician, dies
1779 - William Boyce, English organist/composer (Cathedral Music), dies
1791 - Richard earl d'Alton, Austria general of S Neth, commits suicide at 58
1799 - Charles Theoby, ruler (Palts & Bayern), dies at 74
1803 - Jan V clav Stich, Bohemian composer, dies at 56
1820 - Georg Carl von Döbeln, Swedish Lieutenant General and war hero (b. 1758).
1823 - Johann Gottfried Schict, composer, dies at 69
1825 - George Gerson, composer, dies at 34
1829 - Francois-Joseph Gossec, Belg/Fr composer (Messe of Morts), dies at 95
1834 - Lionel Lukin, life boat pioneer, dies
1844 - Joseph Crosfield, English soap and alkali manufacturer (b. 1792)
1851 - Anne Nagell van Ampsen, Dutch politician, dies at 95
1857 - Auguste-Gaspard-Louis Desnoyers, French engraver, dies at 77
1857 - Elisha Kent Kane, Arctic explorer (Kane Basin), dies at 37
1858 - Georg F Creuzer, German philological/historian, dies at 86
1864 - Vaclav Jindrich Veit, composer, dies at 58
1892 - Henry Walter Bates, naturalist/explorer (South America), dies
1898 - Thomas Bracken, New Zealand poet (b. 1843)
1899 - Francois Félix Faure, president of France (1895-99), dies at 57
1900 - George Labram, US mine engineer in South Africa, dies in battle
1907 - Giosuè Carducci, Italian writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1835)
1910 - Albert Heinrich Zabel, composer, dies at 75
1912 - Edgar Evans, British explorer (Antarctica), dies
1912 - St. Nikolai of Japan, Eastern Orthodox priest (b. 1836)
1915 - Emil Waldteufel, [Charles Levy], French composer (Estudiantina), dies
1916 - Jeltje de Bosch Kemper, Dutch feminist, dies at 79
1916 - [Gerard] Jan Ligthart, Dutch educator (Ot & Sien), dies at 57
1917 - Octave Mirbeau, French writer (b. 1848)
1919 - Vera Kholodnaya, Russian film star (b. 1893)
1928 - Eddie Foy, American singer and dancer (b. 1856)
1932 - Ferdinand Buisson, French pacifist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1841)
1933 - Archie Jackson, cricketer (of TB, Aus bat too briefly Avg 47.4), dies
1934 - Eduard Bagritsky, [Dzjubin], Russ poet/journalist, dies at 38
1936 - Tommy Ward, South African cricket wicket keeper (23 Tests), electrocuted
1938 - Otto zur Linde, German author (Lieder of the Leids), dies at 64
1939 - Jura Soyfer, writer, dies at 26
1944 - Edmund von Borck, composer, dies at 37
1945 - Billy Frank, cricketer (Test South Africa v Eng 1896, 5 & 2, 1-52), dies
1945 - Rudolf Vornlund, Swedish playwright (Upproret), dies at 45
1950 - David Denton, cricketer (England batsman in 11 Tests 1905-10), dies
1951 - Henri Velge, 1st chairman (Belgian Council of State), dies at 65
1952 - Knut [Pedersen] Hamsun, Norwegian writer (Wanders, Nobel 1920), dies
1957 - Leslie Hore-Belisha, [Lord Halifax], Brit min of Transport, dies at 63
1963 - Laszlo Lajtha, composer, dies at 70
1966 - Hendrik W Tilanus, artillery officer/leader (CHU 1939-63), dies at 81
1967 - Smiley Burnette, cowboy (Charlie-Petticoat Junction), dies at 55
1968 - Healey Willan, composer, dies at 87
1973 - Pieter Van der Bijl, cricketer (outstanding S Af bat in 1938-39), dies
1974 - John Garand, Canadian rifle engineer and manufacturer (b. 1888)
1975 - Morgan Taylor, American athlete (b. 1903)
1975 - Norman Treigle, American bass-baritone (b. 1927)
1978 - E. Roland Harriman, American financier (b. 1895)
1979 - Louise Allbritton, actress (Celia-Stage Door), dies at 58
1979 - Nematullah Nassiri, Iran general/head of Savak, executed
1979 - William Gargan, actor (New Adventures of Martin Kane), dies at 73
1980 - Erich Hückel, German physicist (b. 1895)
1981 - Howard Hanson, composer, dies at 84
1984 - Ken Williams, TV announcer (Video Village), dies at 69
1985 - Larry Ward, actor (Frank Ragan-Dakotas), dies at 69
1986 - Howard Da Silva, Cleve Oh, actor (Ben Franklin-1776), dies at 76
1987 - Dmitri Borisovich Kabalevsky, composer, dies at 82
1988 - Jean Carignan, French Canadian fiddler (b. 1916)
1990 - Keith Haring, artist/cartoonist (brilliant baby), dies of AIDs at 31
1991 - Enrique B Varela, commandant Nicaragua contra's, dies
1992 - Abbas Musawi, leader of Hezbollah, assassinated
1992 - Angela Carter, British novelist (Magic Toyshop), dies of cancer at 51
1992 - George Mann MacBeth, Scottish journalist/poet (A War Quartet), dies
1992 - Janio Quadros, president of Brazil (1961), dies
1992 - Winand J Borgerhoff Mulder, court judge Amster (squaters), dies at 78
1993 - Donald Phelps, dies of AIDS at 61
1993 - Richard Salant, news president (CBS-60 Minutes), dies at 78
1995 - John Everett Allen, US businessman, dies at 91
1995 - Martin Soames, traveller, dies at 91
1996 - Charles McCorquodale, art historian, dies at 47
1996 - Edmund G "Pat" Brown, politician, dies at 90
1996 - Kenneth Robinson, politician/businessman, dies at 84
1996 - MacLean Stevenson, actor (M*A*S*H), dies of heart attack at 66
1996 - Roger Bowen, actor (M*A*S*H, Main Event, What about Bob), dies at 62
1996 - Susan Bosence, textile designer, dies at 82
1996 - Walter Brown "Brownie" McGhee, American blues singer/guitarist, dies at 80
1997 - Chien-Shiung Wu, Chinese-American physicist (b. 1912)
1999 - Michael Larson, Press Your Luck Big-winning contestant (b. 1949)
2000 - Marceline Day, American actress (b. 1908)
2000 - Karsten Solheim, Norwegian-born engineer and inventor (b. 1911)
2000 - Lila Kedrova, Russian-born actress (b. 1918)
2001 - Howard W. Koch, American film director (b. 1916)
2001 - William Masters, American gynecologist and sexologist (b. 1915)
2001 - Bob Buhl, baseball player (b. 1928)
2002 - Walter Winterbottom, England football manager (b. 1913)
2003 - Eleanor "Sis" Daley, wife of Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley (b. 1907)
2004 - Doris Troy, American singer (b. 1937)
2005 - Nicole DeHuff, American actress (pneumonia) (b. 1975)
2005 - Queen Narriman, second and last wife of King Farouk and mother of their only child King Fuad
           II
2006 - Johnny Grunge, American professional wrestler (b. 1966)
2006 - Ernie Stautner, German-born American football player (b. 1925)
2009 - Stephen Cardinal Kim Sou-hwan, Korean Cardinal, Protopriest of the Holy Roman Church (b.
           1921)
2010 - Wan Chi Keung, Hong Kong soccer player and actor. (b. 1956)
2011 - Justinas Marcinkevičius, Lithuanian poet and playwright (b. 1930)
2011 - Len Lesser, American actor (b. 1922)
2012 - Anthony Shadid, New York Times foreign correspondent and two time Pulitzer winner, dies
           from asthma at 43
2012 - Gary Carter, American Hall of Fame baseball catcher dies from brain tumor at 57
2012 - Baddeley Devesi, first Governor-General of the Solomon Islands, dies at 70
2012 - Harry McPherson, presidential counsel and lobbyist, dies from cancer at 82

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 17, 2013, 10:13:52 AM

This Day in History for 17th February


Historical Events

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Naturalist Charles Darwin                       Composer Giuseppe Verdi              Artist/Cubist Co-founder Pablo Picasso

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Singer-Songwriter Bob Dylan                      Rapper Ja Rule


1370 - Battle at Rudau: Germany beats Lithuania
1500 - Battle of Hemmingstedt.
1568 - Holy Roman Emperor agrees to pay tribute to the Sultan for peace
1598 - Boris Godunov chosen tsar of Russia
1600 - Philosopher Giordano Bruno is burned alive at Campo de' Fiori in Rome, charged of heresy.
1621 - Miles Standish appointed 1st commander of Plymouth colony
1634 - William Prynne tried in Star Chamber for publishing "Histrio-masti
1670 - France & Bavaria sign military assistance treaty
1676 - Kings Charles II & Louis XIV sign secret treaty
1691 - Thomas Neale granted British patent for American postal service
1714 - Parliament of Paris accepts Pope Clemens XI's "Unigenitus" degree
1772 - 1st partition of Poland-Russia & Prussia, joined later by Austria
1776 - 1st volume of Gibbon's "Decline & Fall of Roman Empire" published
1791 - Messier catalogs M83 (spiral galaxy in Hydra)
1795 - Thomas Seddal harvests 8.3-kg potato from his garden Chester, England
1801 - House breaks electoral college tie, chooses Jefferson pres over Burr
1814 - Battle of Mormans.
1817 - 1st US city lit by gas (Baltimore)
1818 - Baron Karl von Drais de Sauerbrun patents "draisine" (early bicycle)
1836 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin leaves Tasmania
1848 - Toscane gets liberal Constitution
1854 - British recognize independence of Orange Free State (South Africa)
1859 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Un Ballo in maschera" premieres in Napoli
1864 - Confederate sub "HL Hunley" sinks Union ship "Housatonic"
1865 - -18] Battle of Charleston SC
1865 - Columbia SC burns down during Civil War
1867 - 1st ship passes through Suez Canal
1867 - Gyula Andressy becomes premier of Hungary
1870 - Esther Morris appointed 1st female judge
1870 - Mississippi becomes 9th state readmitted to US after Civil War
1876 - Sardines 1st canned (Julius Wolff-Eastport, Maine)
1878 - 1st telephone exchange in SF opens with 18 phones
1880 - Tsar Alexander II of Russia survives an assassination attempt
1882 - 1st Test Cricket match played at Sydney Cricket Ground
1883 - A Ashwell patents free-toilet in London
1885 - Bismarck gives Carl Peters' firm management of East-Africa
1896 - London Country Councils' Muzzling Order becomes effective
1897 - National Organization of Mothers forms (Parent Teacher Association)
1904 - Giacomo Puccini's opera "Madama Butterfly," premieres in Milan
1905 - Frances Willard becomes 1st women honored in National Statuary Hall
1911 - 1st hydroplane flight to & from a ship (Glenn Curtiss, San Diego)
1913 - 1st minimum wage law in US takes effect (Oregon)
1913 - NY Armory Show introduces Picasso, Matisse, Duchamp to US public
1915 - Edward Stone, 1st US combatant to die in WW I, is mortally wounded
1916 - Romberg/Hanley/Atteridge/Smith' musical premieres in NYC
1921 - Arthur Honegger's "Pastorale D'ete," premieres
1923 - Ottawa Senator Cy Denneny becomes NHL's all time scorer (143 goals)
1924 - Johnny Weissmuller sets 100-yard freestyle record (52.4 seconds)
1926 - Avalanche buries 75 in Sap Gulch Bingham Utah, 40 die
1926 - Tennis star Suzanne Lenglen beats Helen Wills in their only match
1930 - French government of Tardieu, falls
1931 - 1st telecast of a sporting event in Japan (baseball)
1931 - Hockey's Hershey Bears (now with AHL) 1st game
1932 - Irving Berlin's musical "Face the Music," premieres in NYC
1933 - 1st issue of "Newsweek" magazine published
1933 - Marinus van der Lubbe arrives in Glindow, at Potsdam
1933 - US Senate accept Blaine Act: ending prohibition
1934 - 1st high school auto driving course offered (State College, Penn)
1936 - "Phantom" cartoon strip by Lee Falk debuts
1936 - -58°F (-50°C), McIntosh, South Dakota (state record)
1936 - SN Behrmann's "End of Summer," premieres in NYC
1936 - The world's first superhero, The Phantom, makes his first appearance in comics.
1938 - 1st public experimental demonstration of Baird color TV (London)
1939 - Katwijk soccer team forms
1940 - Bradman scores 135 in a non-Shield match for SA v West Australia
1940 - British destroyers board German Altmark off Norway
1941 - Joe Louis KOs Gus Dorazio in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
1943 - -19] Hitler visits fieldmarshal von Mansteins hq in Zaporozje
1943 - Dutch churches protest at Seyss-Inquart against persecution of Jews
1943 - Gen-major Bradley flies to Wash DC
1943 - NY Yankee Joe DiMaggio, enlists into the US army
1944 - Battle of Eniwetok Atoll begins; US victory on Feb 22
1944 - US begins night bombing of Truk
1946 - Humanistic Covenant forms in Amsterdam
1947 - Dutch RC bishops publish manifest against "godless communism"
1947 - Voice of America begins broadcasting to USSR
1949 - Chaim Weitzman elected 1st president of Israel
1949 - Ice Pairs Championship at Paris won by Andrea Kekesy/Ede Kiraly of HUN
1949 - Ladies Figure Skating Champions in Paris won by Alena Vrzanova of CZE
1949 - Men's Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by Richard Button USA
1949 - Richard Button retains world figure skating championship in Paris
1950 - 31 die in a train crash in Rockville Center NY
1953 - Baseball star/pilot Ted Williams uninjured as plane shot down in Korea
1953 - DSB soccer team forms in Eindhoven
1955 - Ice Dance Championship at Vienna Austria won by J Westwood/Demmy GRB
1955 - Ice Pairs Championship at Vienna won by Frances Dafoe & Bowden of CAN
1955 - KTVF TV channel 11 in Fairbanks, AK (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 - Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Vienna won by Tenley Albright US
1955 - Mike Souchak sets PGA 72-hole record of 257
1956 - Ice Dance Championship at Garmisch won by Pamela Weight/P Thomas GRB
1956 - Ice Pairs Championship at Garmisch won by Schwarz & Oppelt of AUT
1956 - Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Garmisch won by Carol Heiss USA
1956 - Men's Figure Skating Championship in Garmisch won by H A Jenkins USA
1957 - Fire in Warreton Mo, kills 72
1957 - Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open
1957 - Suez Canal reopens
1957 - A fire at a home for the elderly in Warrenton, Missouri kills 72 people.
1958 - Comic strip "BC" 1st appears
1958 - WETV (now WPBA) TV channel 30 in Atlanta, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1959 - 1st weather satellite launched, Vanguard 2, 9.8 kg
1962 - Beach Boys introduced a new musical style with their hit "Surfin"
1962 - Storm in Hamburg, kills 265
1962 - Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Phila Warriors scores 67 points vs St Louis
1963 - Toru Terasawa runs world record marathon (2:15:15.8
1964 - 101st member elected to baseball's hall of fame (Luke Appling)
1964 - US House of Reps accept Law on the civil rights
1964 - US Supreme court rules - 1 man 1 vote (Westberry v Sanders)
1964 - WMEM TV channel 10 in Presque Isle, ME (PBS) begins broadcasting
1965 - US Ranger 8 launched, will transmit 7,137 lunar pictures
1965 - US-Japan baseball relations suspended over Masanori Murakami dispute
1966 - French satellite Diapason D-1A launch into Earth orbit
1967 - Beatles release "Penny Lane" & "Strawberry Fields"
1967 - Kosmos 140 (Soyuz Test) launches into Earth orbit
1968 - Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, Springfield Mass, opens
1969 - Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash record an album (never released)
1969 - Golda Meir sworn in as Israel's 1st female prime minister
1970 - Jeffrey McDonald slices up his wife & daughter
1970 - Joni Mitchell's final concert (Royal Albert Hall)
1970 - Robert Marasco's "Child's Play," premieres in NYC
1971 - England regains cricket Ashes with a 2-0 series win
1972 - British Parliament votes to join European Common Market
1972 - President Nixon leaves Washington DC for China
1972 - Sales of the Volkswagen Beetle model exceed those of Ford Model-T.
1973 - Rodney Redmond scores 107 on debut v Pakistan, his only Test Cricket
1974 - 49 die in stampede for seats at soccer match, Cairo, Egypt
1974 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Naples Lely Golf Classic
1974 - Robert K. Preston, a disgruntled U.S. Army private, buzzes the White House with a stolen helicopter.
1976 - "Rockabye Hamlet" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 7 performances
1976 - Macau adopts constitution (Organic Law of Macau)
1976 - NZ scores their 1st innings win in Test Cricket, v India
1976 - Richard Hadlee takes 7-23 v India, his 1st match-winning spell
1979 - China invades Vietnam
1979 - Eric Heiden equals skating world record 1000m (1:14.99)
1979 - The Sino-Vietnamese War begins.
1980 - Buddy Baker wins Daytona 500 (177.6 MPH/285.8 kph)
1980 - Dot Germain wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic
1981 - Chrysler Corp reports largest corporate losses in US history
1982 - Commencement of Sri Lanka's 1st Test Cricket match, v England
1983 - Bob Bourne fails on 8th Islander penalty shot
1983 - Netherlands adopts constitution
1983 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1985 - 1st class postage rises from 20 cents to 22 cents
1985 - 1st day/night game at the MCG, Australia v England
1985 - 3rd person to receive an artificial heart (Murray Haydon)
1985 - Hein Vergeer becomes world champion skater
1985 - Laffit Pincay Jr is third to ride 6,000th winners at Santa Anita
1986 - 1st Francophone Summit convenes at Versailles
1986 - Howard Stern radio show returns to NYC morning radio (WXRK 92.3 FM)
1986 - Johnson & Johnson announces it no longer sell capsule drugs
1986 - Libyan bombers attack N'djamena Airport in Chad
1987 - Don Mattingly wins highest salary arbitration ($1,975,000 per year)
1987 - Michelle Renee Royer, 21, (Texas), crowned 36th Miss USA
1988 - Lebanese terrorists kidnap UN truce observer Lt Col William Higgins
1988 - US Lt Col Wm Higgins kidnapped by Lebanese terrorists & later killed
1989 - 6-week study of Arctic atmosphere shows no ozone "hole"
1989 - Former baseball player/manager Leo Durocher injured in a car crash
1989 - Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia & Libya form common market
1989 - Orel Hershiser, Dodger pitcher signs record $7.9M-3 year contract
1989 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1991 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldredge
1993 - Haitian ferry boat capsize in storm, 800-2,000 die
1993 - Mark Foster swims world record 50m free style (21.60 sec)
1995 - 11th Soap Opera Digest Awards
1995 - Colin Fergusson found guilty of killing 6 people on the LIRR in NY
1995 - Tiger mgr Sparky Anderson takes unpaid leave due to baseball strike
1995 - Federal judge allows lawsuit claiming US tobacco makers knew nicotine was addictive &
           manipulated its levels to keep customers hooked
1996 - 1st full ODI for the Netherlands, v NZ, cricket World Cup Nolan Clarke makes ODI debut for
           Netherlands at age 47
1997 - Carl Sagan Public Memorial at Pasadena Calif
1997 - Weekly Standard shows evidence Larry Flint sex abused his daughter
1998 - Diane Zamora, 20, Naval Academy cadet convicted of capital murder
1998 - Larry Wayne Harris & Bill Levitt arrested for possession of anthrax
1998 - USA Women's Ice Hockey Team beats Canada and wins the first Olympic Gold medal
2002 - Westlife go to No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'World Of Our Own.' The Irish boy band's
           10th UK No.1 single.
2002 - 'Always On Time' by R&B artist Ja Rule featuring Ashanti starts a two-week run at No.1 on
            the US singles chart.
2003 - The London Congestion Charge scheme begins.
2006 - A massive mudslide occurs in Southern Leyte, Philippines; the official death toll is set at
           1,126.
2008 - Kosovo declares independence from Serbia.
2012 - The President of Germany, Christian Wulff, resigns over a corruption scandal
2012 - Approximately 70 ancient Olympic artifacts are stolen from the Archaeological Museum of
          Greece

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 17, 2013, 10:15:51 AM

This Day in History for 17th February


Famous Weddings

1841 - Dutch ex-king Willem I marries Henriette d'Oultremont de Wégimont
1906 - 26th US President Theodore Roosevelt's daughter Alice marries in the White House
1989 - Whitesnake's rocker David Coverdale weds actress Tawny Kitaen
2002 - Actress Joan Collins (68) weds theater company manager Percy Gibson at Claridge's Hotel in
           London
2007 - Japanese actress Noria Fujiwara weds comedian Tomonori at Jinnai Ikuta Shrine in Kobe,
           Japan
2007 - "Home and Away" actress Ada Nicodemou (29) weds Chrys Xipolitas at St. Andrew's Greek
           church in Redfern, Australia
2007 - Australian TV presenter Natalie Gruzlewski (30) weds pro surfer Luke Egan at St. Augustine's
           Catholic Church

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 17, 2013, 10:22:40 AM

This Day in History for 17th February


Famous Birthdays

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Basketball Superstar                            Singer Billie Joe Armstrong (1972)        Actress & Heiress Paris Hilton (1981)
Michael Jordan (1963)


1444 - Rudolf Agricola, [Roelof Huysman], Dutch humanist/organist
1490 - Charles de Bourbon, officer/governor (Lombardy)
1519 - Francis, Duke of Guise, French soldier and politician (d. 1563)
1581 - Fausto Poli, Italian Catholic priest (d. 1653)
1583 - J Henry Alting, Dutch theologist
1646 - Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert, French economist (d. 1714)
1653 - Arcangelo Corelli, Fusignano Italy, violinist/comp (Concerto Grossi)
1667 - Georg Bronner, composer
1675 - Johann Melchior Conradi, composer
1696 - Baron Ernst Gottlieb, composer
1697 - Louis-Maurice de La Pierre, composer
1699 - Hans Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff, German architect (Sanssouci)
1718 - Matthew Tilghman, American Continental Congressman (d. 1790)
1723 - Tobias Mayer, "method of lunars" for longitude determination
1740 - Horace B de Saussure, Swiss physicist/geologist
1747 - Narciso Casanovas, composer
1752 - Friedrich M Klinger, German playwright (Wirrwarr)
1754 - Jan Jachym Kopriva, composer
1754 - Nicolas Baudin, French explorer (d. 1803)
1758 - John Pinkerton, Scottish historian
1774 - Raphaelle Peale, US, painter (After the Rain-1823)
1781 - René-Theophile-Hyacinthe Lannec, France, inventor (stethoscope)
1796 - Giovanni Pacini, composer
1796 - Philipp Franz von Siebold, German physician (d. 1866)
1804 - Samuel Read Anderson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1883
1816 - Friedrich Wilhelm Markull, composer
1816 - Haller Nutt, Southern Plantation owner (d. 1864)
1820 - Henri Vieuxtemps, Verviers Belgium, composer/teacher (Brussels Cons)
1820 - Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau, Catholic cardinal (d. 1898)
1821 - Lola Montez, Irish dancer (d. 1861)
1824 - William Farrar "Baldy" Smith, Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1903
1831 - Francisco Salvador Daniel, composer
1836 - Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Spanish poet (d. 1870)
1837 - Francis Jay Herron, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1902
1837 - Sam[uel] van Houten, Dutch (lib) minister (child labor laws)
1844 - A Montgomery Ward, found mail-order business (Montgomery Ward)
1848 - Louisa Lawson, Australian suffragist and writer (d. 1920)
1849 - Selwyn Image, Bodiam Sussex, painter
1850 - Anton Urspruch, composer
1850 - Ludwig Bonvin, composer
1854 - Friedrich A Krupp, German arms manufacturer
1855 - Otto Liman von Sanders, German general in Turkey (WW I)
1857 - Samuel Sidney McClure, Irish-American newspaper editor/publisher
1858 - Ernest Ford, composer
1861 - Princess Helena, Duchess of Albany (d. 1922)
1862 - Edward German (Jones), Whitchurch Shropshire, British composer
1862 - Mori Ōgai, Japanese novelist and poet (d. 1922)
1863 - Fyodor Sologub, Russian symbolist novelist and poet (d. 1927)
1864 - Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson, NSW Australia, poet (Waltzing Matilda)
1864 - Jozef Murgaš, Slovak inventor (d. 1929)
1867 - William Cadbury, England, chocolate manufacturer (Cadbury)
1870 - Louis de Raet, Belgian economist/founder (Flemish People's Party)
1874 - Thomas J Watson, US, representative/founder (IBM)
1877 - Henri Vandeputte, Belgian author/poet (L'homme Jeune)
1877 - Isabelle Eberhardt, Swiss explorer and writer (d. 1904)
1877 - André Maginot, French politician (d. 1932)
1879 - Dorothy Canfield Fisher, US, novelist (Book-of-Month-Club)
1880 - Alvaro Obregon, general/president Mexico (1920-24)
1882 - Kurt Schindler, composer
1882 - Noah Beery, Smithville AR, actor (Story of Esther, Mark of Zorro)
1884 - Arthur Vanderpoorten, Flemish minister of Internal affairs (1940)
1885 - Steve Evans, American baseball player (d. 1943)
1887 - Leevi Antti Madetoja, composer
1888 - Henrietta P "Hetty" Beck, actress (Bouwmeester Award)
1888 - Otto Stern, German/US physicist (Stern-Gerlach-experiment, Nobel 1943)
1888 - Ronald Aburthnott Knox, English priest/writer (Viaduct Murder)
1889 - H[aroldson] L Hunt, Texas oil multi-millionaire
1891 - Georg Britting, writer
1892 - Theodor Plievier, German writer (Des Kaisers Kulis, Stalingrad)
1893 - Wally Pipp, American baseball player (d. 1965)
1895 - Anita Stewart, NY, actress (South of Hell Mountain)
1895 - Edna Park Edwards, PA
1897 - Johan[nes A] Kaart, Dutch actor/stage manager (My Fair Lady)
1898 - Tom Lowry, cricketer (NZ batsman in seven Tests & their 1st Test capt)
1902 - Marian Anderson, Phila, operatic contralto (banned by D.A.R.)
1903 - Johannes Linthorst Homan, director of the queen in Groningen
1904 - Albert Kuyle, [Louis Kuitenbrouwer], Dutch writer (Jesus' Robe)
1904 - Hans Morgenthau, German political philosopher (d. 1980)
1906 - Galo Plaza Lasso, pres of Ecuador (1948-52), head of OAS (1968-75)
1906 - Ramon Tapales, composer
1907 - Alec Wilder, Rochester NY, composer (1973 ASCAP award)
1907 - Charles B Timmer, Dutch translator/writer (Russia Black on White)
1908 - Staats Cotsworth, Oak Park IL, actor (Peyton Place)
1908 - Walter L "Red" Barber, Miss, sports announcer (Bkln Dodgers, NY Yanks)
1909 - Joseph "Poeske" Scherens, Belgian cyclist (champ sprinter 1932-37)[NS]
1909 - Marjorie Lawrence, Australia, soprano (Venus-Tannhäuser)
1910 - Ai Qing, poet
1910 - Marc Lawrence, NYC, actor (Man With Golden Gun)
1911 - Arthur Hunnicutt, Gravelly AR, actor (Big Sky, Apache Uprising)
1912 - Andre Norton, American author (d. 2005)
1913 - Josephine F "Fietje" van Anrooy, Dutch actress/director
1913 - Oskar Danon, composer
1913 - Rene Leibowitz, composer
1914 - Albert Westerlinck, [Jose J M Aerts], Flemish literary
1914 - Arthur Kennedy, Worcester Mass, actor (Fantastic Voyage, Peyton Place)
1914 - Per-Jakez Helias, writer/teacher
1914 - [Bert de] Wayne Morris, LA California, WW II-pilot/actor (Paths of Glory)
1915 - Homer Keller, composer
1916 - Don Tallon, cricketer (perhaps Australia's greatest wicket-keeper)
1916 - Raf Vallone, Tropea Italy, actor (El Cid, 2 Women, Greek Tycoon)
1916 - Alexander Obolensky, Russian prince and famed Rugby Union footballer who played for England.(d. 1940)
1917 - Abdur Rahman Badawi, Egyptian philosopher (d. 2002)
1917 - Guillermo González Camarena, Mexican inventor (d. 1965)
1918 - Charles A Hayes, (Rep-D-IL, 1983- )
1918 - Olive Gibbs, peace campaigner
1919 - Jock Mahoney, Chicago, actor (Dallas, Yancy Derringer, Day of Fury)
1919 - Joseph R Hunt, tennis champ (US Open-1943)
1919 - Kathleen Freeman, Chicago Ill, actress (Beverly Hillbillies)
1920 - Colin Franklin, doctor
1920 - Paul Fetler, composer
1920 - Trevor Oswald Ling, religious studies professor
1922 - Tommy Edwards, rock vocalist (It's All in the Game)
1922 - Enrico Banducci, American nightclub owner (d. 2007)
1922 - Marshall Teague, American race car driver (d. 1959)
1923 - Alden Winship Clausen, Hamilton Ill, banker (Pres of World Bank)
1924 - Margaret Truman, Mo, pres daughter/writer (Murder at FBI)/pianist
1924 - Gevork Vartanian, Iran, Soviet intelligence agent (Operation Long Jump), (d. 2012)
1925 - Fritz Behrendt, German/Dutch cartoon character (The Slogan)
1925 - Hal Holbrook, Cleveland, actor (All the President's Men, Mark Twain)
1925 - Ron Goodwin, English composer and conductor (d. 2003)
1926 - Friedrich Cerha, composer
1926 - Lee Hoiby, Madison Wisconsin, composer (1957 Arts & Letters)
1928 - Marta Romero, Puerto Rican actress & singer
1929 - Chaim Potok, NYC, novelist (Promise)
1929 - Paul Meger, Canadian ice hockey player
1930 - Usko Merilainen, composer
1930 - Ruth Rendell, English writer
1932 - Buck Trent, Spartanburg SC, banjoist/singer (Hee Haw)
1933 - Bobby Lewis, rocker (Tossin' & Turnin')
1933 - Craig Thomas, (Rep-R-Wyoming)
1934 - Alan Bates, Allestree Engld, actor (Zorba the Greek, Unmarried Woman)
1934 - Barry Humphries, Australia TV host (Dame Edna Everage)
1934 - Buddy Ryan, NFL coach (Philadelphia Eagles, Phoenix Cardinals)
1935 - Johnny Bush, country singer
1935 - Christina Pickles, UK-born American actress
1936 - Barry Jarman, cricketer (Australian wicket-keeper in 60's)
1936 - Jim Brown, Ga, NFL full back (Cleveland Browns)/actor (Dirty Dozen)
1936 - Peter Walker, cricket all-rounder (Glamorgan did little for Eng 1960)
1937 - Mickey McGill, US vocalist (Dells-Love is Blue)
1938 - Mary Frances Berry, educator/head (US Commission on Civil Rights)
1939 - Mary Ann Mobley, Biloxi Ms, Miss America-1959/actr (Diff'rent Strokes)
1939 - John Leyton, British singer
1940 - Dennis Gamsy, cricketer (South African bat in 2 Tests v Australia 1970)
1941 - Gene Pitney, Hartford Ct, vocalist/songwriter (Town Without Pity)
1941 - Heidi Biebi, German Fed Rep, downhill skier (Olympic-gold-1960)
1942 - Huey Newton, Black Panther leader
1944 - Bernie Grant, British politician (Labour)
1944 - Karl Jenkins, Welsh composer
1945 - Brenda Fricker, Dublin Ireland, actress (My Left Foot)
1945 - Patricia Morrow, actress (Rita-Peyton Place)
1945 - Willie J L Swildens-Rozendal, Dutch MP (PvdA)
1946 - Andre Dussollier, Annecy France, actor (3 Men & a Cradle)
1946 - Valdemar Bandolowski, Denmark, yachting (Olympic-gold-1976, 80)
1946 - Zina Bethune, NYC, actress (Nurses, Who's That Knocking at My Door), (d. 2012)
1947 - Ben Cramer, Dutch vocalist (Clown)
1947 - Dallas Adams, British actor/painter/writer (Terror From Within)
1947 - Dodie Stevens, actress (Mary Hartman!)
1948 - José José, Mexican singer and actor
1949 - Fred Frith, English guitarist/violinist/bassist (Skeleton Crew)
1950 - Rick Medlocke, rock guitarist/vocalist (Blackfoot)
1952 - Guillermo Vilas, tennis player (1977 US Open)
1952 - Insook Bhushan, Seoul Korea, US US table tennis player (Olympic-92)
1952 - Karin Janz, East German gymnast
1953 - Janice Dickinson, Bkln NY, model (Vogue)
1954 - Rene Russo, actress (Ransom)
1955 - Mo Yan, Chinese novelist
1956 - Richard Karn, American actor
1957 - Loreena McKennitt, Canadian musician
1958 - Heidi Hagman, actress (Linda-Archie Bunker's Place)
1958 - Karen Lende O'Connor, Concord Ma, equestrian 3-day (Oly-silver-96)
1959 - Ambrose "Rowdy" Gaines, US, 100m swimmer (Olympic-gold-1984)
1959 - Daniel Ray "Danny" Ainge, basketball & football star
1959 - Richard Karn, Seattle WA, actor (Al-Home Improvement)
1959 - Rowdy Gaines, US swimmer (Olympics-3 gold-1984)
1959 - Aryeh Deri, Israeli rabbi and politician
1961 - Deb[ra] Richardson, Minneapolis MN, beach volleyballer (Olympics-96)
1961 - Guy McIntyre, NFL guard (Philadelphia Eagles)
1962 - David McComb, Australia, vocalist/songwriter (Triffids)
1962 - Hennie Meijer, soccer player (Cambuur L, FC Heerenveen)
1962 - Lou Diamond Phillips, Philippines, actor (La Bamba, Stand & Deliver)
1962 - Tony Blain, cricketer (NZ Test wicket-keeper)
1962 - Samuel Bayer, American music video director
1963 - Dan Reed, rocker/actor (HOTS, Lake Consequence)
1963 - Michael Jordan, NBA guard/forward (Chicago Bulls) and sports superstar
1963 - Larry the Cable Guy, American comedian
1964 - Mike Campbell, Seattle WA, pitcher (Chicago Cubs)
1964 - Buster Olney, American sports columnist
1965 - Clayton Prince, Phila, actor (Hairspray, Reuben-Another World)
1965 - Jim Bowie, Japanese/US baseball infielder (Oakland Athletics)
1965 - Michael Bay, American film director
1966 - Luc Robitaille, Montreal, NHL left wing (NY Rangers, Pitts Penguins)
1966 - Melissa Brooke-Belland, rocker (Voice of the Beehive-Let it Bee)
1966 - Ioannis Kalitzakis, Greek footballer
1966 - Quorthon, Swedish musician (Bathory) (d. 2004)
1966 - Michael Lepond, American musician
1967 - Gary Shuchuk, Edmonton, NHL center (LA Kings)
1967 - Michelle Forbes, Austin TX, actress (Ensign Ro-Star Trek Next Gen)
1967 - Chanté Moore, American singer
1968 - Bryan Cox, NFL linebacker (Miami Dolphins, Chicago Bears)
1968 - Celita Schutz, Riverdale NJ, half-middleweight judoka (Olympics-96)
1968 - Patrick Uterwijk, pop guitarist (Pestilence, Consuming Impulse)
1968 - Bryan Cox, National Football League player
1969 - David Klingler, NFL quarterback (Oakland Raiders, Cin Bengals)
1969 - Joel Steed, NFL nose tackle (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1969 - Levon Kirkland, NFL linebacker (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1969 - Traci Adell, New Orleans La, playmate (July, 1994)
1969 - Tuesday Knight, American actress
1970 - Tommy Moe, Anchorage Alaska, nordic skiier (Olympic-gold/silver-1994)
1970 - Tim Mahoney, American musician (311)
1970 - Dominic Purcell, English-born actor
1971 - Martyn Bennett, Canadian composer (d. 2005)
1971 - Jeremy Edwards, British actor
1971 - Denise Richards, American actress
1972 - Billie Joe Armstrong, singer/musician (Green Day)
1972 - Lloy Ball, Ft Wayne Ind, volleyball setter (Olympics-96)
1972 - Richard MacQuire, Melbourne VIC Australia, canoeist (Olympics-96)
1972 - Stephen Robinson, Arlington Va, rower (Olympics-1996)
1972 - Tony Lawson, NSA Australia, diver (Olympics-96)
1972 - Vladimir Vujtek, NHL forward (Team Czech Oly-Gold-1998, Tampa Bay)
1972 - William Floyd, full back (San Francisco 49ers)
1972 - Taylor Hawkins, American musician (Foo Fighters)
1972 - Valeria Mazza, Argentinian model
1972 - Yuki Isoya, Japanese singer (formerly Judy and Mary)
1973 - Chris Robinson, NBA guard (Vancouver Grizzlies)
1973 - Drew Barry, NBA guard (Atlanta Hawks)
1973 - Frank Sanders, NFL wide receiver (Arizona Cardinals)
1973 - Raymond Jackson, NFL defensive back (Buffalo Bills)
1973 - SaRenna Lee, American pornographic actress
1974 - Jerry O'Connell, NYC, actor (Scream 2, Andrew-My Secret Identity)
1974 - Valeria Mazza, Rosario Argentina, model (Cosmo-July 1995)
1974 - Kaoru, Japanese musician
1974 - Bryan White, American singer
1975 - Sung-Hee Park, Pusan Korea, tennis star (1993 Futures-Seoul)
1975 - Todd Harvey, Hamilton, NHL center (Dallas Stars)
1975 - Vaclav Prospal, NHL forward (Team Czech Oly-Gold-1998, Philadelphia)
1975 - Wish Bone, American rapper
1975 - Harisu, South Korean singer, model and actress
1976 - Kelly Carlson, American actress
1976 - Scott Williamson, American baseball player
1978 - Jacob Wetterling, American kidnapping victim
1979 - Dee, Puerto Rican pornographic actress
1979 - Josh Willingham, American baseball player
1980 - Shanyn MacEachern, Brampton Ontario, gymnist (Olympics-96)
1980 - Klemi Saban, Israeli footballer
1980 - Al Harrington, American basketball player
1980 - Jason Ritter, American actor
1981 - Donielle Thompson, Wheatridge CO, gymnast (World-bronze-95, Oly-96)
1981 - Lisa Skinner, Queensland Australia, gymnast (Olympics-96)
1981 - Paris Hilton, American actress and heiress
1982 - Joseph Gordon-Levitt, actor (Tommy Solomon-Third Rock From the Sun)
1982 - Adriano, Brazilian footballer
1982 - Lupe Fiasco, American rapper
1982 - Brian Bruney, American baseball player
1983 - Gérald Cid, French footballer
1983 - Marios Kaperonis, Greek boxer
1984 - Jimmy Jacobs, American professional wrestler
1984 - Kenta Kamakari, Japanese actor and seiyuu
1984 - AB de Villiers, South African cricketer
1985 - Anne Curtis, Filipino actress and commercial model
1986 - Joey O'Brien, Irish footballer
1986 - Sandra Nilsson, Swedish model
1988 - Natascha Kampusch, Austrian kidnapping victim
1991 - Bonnie Wright, British actress
1992 - Meaghan Jette Martin, American child actress and singer
1996 - Sasha Pieterse, South African child actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 17, 2013, 10:24:43 AM

This Day in History for 17th February


Famous Deaths

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Apache Leader Geronimo (1909)


364 - Jovian (Flavius Jovianus), Christian emperor of Rome (363-64), dies at about 32
440 - St. Mesrop Mashtots, Armenian theologian and linguist
956 - Hugo the Great, earl of Paris/duke of Francia, dies at about 55
1339 - Otto, Duke of Austria (b. 1301)
1371 - Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria
1596 - Friedrich Sylburg, German classical scholar (b. 1536)
1600 - Giordano Bruno, advocate of Copernican theory, burned at stake
1609 - Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1549)
1612 - Ernst of Bayern, prince/bishop of Luik/archbish Cologne, dies at 57
1612 - Jodocus Hondius, Flemish cartoonist/mathematician, dies at 48
1624 - Juan de Mariana, Spanish historian (b. 1536)
1652 - Gregorio Allegri, Italian singer/composer (Miserere), dies at about 67
1654 - Michael Lohr, composer, dies at 62
1659 - Abel Servien, French diplomat (b. 1593)
1673 - Molière, [Jean Baptiste Poquelin], French playwright (The Misanthrope), dies. (b. 1622)
1680 - Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles, English statesman and writer (b. 1599)
1688 - Rev James Renwick, hanged in Scotland for being a Presbyterian
1715 - Antoine Galland, French interpreter, dies at 68
1732 - Louis Marchand, composer, dies at 63
1768 - Arthur Onslow, English politician (b. 1691)
1780 - Andreas Felix von Oefele, German historian and librarian (b. 1706)
1796 - James Macpherson, poet, dies
1815 - Franz Gotz, composer, dies at 59
1827 - Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Swiss educator, dies at 81
1841 - Ferdinando Carulli, composer, dies at 70
1847 - William Collins, landscape painter, dies
1852 - Micha Joseph Levenson, Hebrew poet, dies
1854 - Hugues F R de Lamennais, French priest/writer, dies at 71
1854 - John Martin, English painter (b. 1789)
1856 - Heinrich Heine, German poet, dies at 58 in Paris
1856 - John Braham, singer/composer, dies at 81
1874 - [Lambert] Adolphe J Quetelet, Belgium astronomer/sociologist, dies at 77
1875 - Luis NF Varela, Brazilian romantic poet, dies at 33
1878 - Jose Amador de los Rios, Spanish historian/poet, dies at 59
1883 - Napoleon Coste, composer, dies at 76
1883 - Vasudeo Balwant Phadke, Indian revolutionary (b. 1845)
1890 - Christopher Sholes, American inventor (b. 1819)
1901 - Ethelbert Woodbridge Nevin, composer, dies at 38
1903 - Joseph Parry, composer, dies at 61
1905 - Serge Alexandrovich, gov-gen Moscow, murdered
1907 - Henry Olcott, co-founder (Theosophical Society-Madras), dies
1907 - Henry Steel Olcott, US co-founder (Theosophist Society), dies at 74
1909 - Geronimo [one who yawns], Apache chief, dies at 79
1912 - Aloys von Aerenthal, foreign minister (Austria-Hungary), dies at 57
1912 - Lawrence Oates, British explorer (Antarctica), dies
1917 - Edmund Bishop, English secretary of Thomas Carlyle, dies at 70
1918 - Wilfrid Laurier, Canadian PM (1896-1911), dies
1924 - Oskar Merikanto, composer, dies at 55
1929 - John Read, cricketer (batted in 17 Tests for Eng for 463 runs), dies
1932 - Frans Gailliard, Belgian painter/graphic artist (Egina), dies at 70
1933 - Henri[cus A] Viotta, Dutch composer (Handbook of Music), dies at 84
1934 - Albert I LCMM von Saksen-Coburg, king of Belgium (1909-34), dies at 58
1934 - Siegbert Tarrasch, German chess player (b. 1862)
1936 - Erich Schaeder, German theologist (Theozentrische), dies at 74
1939 - Willy Hess, German violinist (b. 1859)
1943 - Armand J. Piron, American jazz violinist and composer (b. 1888)
1943 - Konstantin Bogaevsky, Russian painter (b. 1872)
1944 - Fausto Agnelli, Swiss painter, dies at 64
1951 - Nikoghayos Fadeyi Tigranyan, composer, dies at 94
1954 - Evert Gorter, children artist (Kindergeneeskunde), dies at 72
1955 - Otto J Gombosi, Hungarian/US musicologist, dies at 52
1958 - Hugh McCrae, Australian writer (b. 1876)
1959 - Kathryn Adams, actress (Meet the Chump, 5th Avenue Girl), dies
1959 - Tim Mara, co-founder of NFL's NY Giants, dies
1961 - Nita Naldi, actress (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde), dies of heart attack at 63
1962 - Bruno Walter, symphony conductor (NY Philharmonic), dies at 85
1962 - Joseph Kearns, actor (George-Dennis the Menace), dies at 55
1966 - Frank Pettingell, actor (Becket, Up the Creek), dies at 75
1966 - Gail Kane, actress (White Sister, Arizona), dies at 81
1966 - Hans Hofmann, German/US painter (Search for the Real), dies at 85
1968 - Donald Wolfit, actor (Lawrence of Arabia), dies of heart ailment at 65
1970 - Agnon, [SJ Czaczkes], Hebrew writer (Nobel 1966), dies at 81
1970 - Alfred Newman, US composer, dies at 69
1970 - Schmuel J Agnon, novelist (Nobel 1966), dies
1971 - Teddy Hart, actor (3 Men on a Horse), dies at 73
1972 - Gavril Nikolayevich Popov, composer, dies at 67
1976 - Jean Servais, Belgian actor (Every Man is My Enemy), dies at 65
1976 - Johan[nes A] Card, actor/stage manager (My Fair Lady), dies at 78
1977 - Quincy Howe, newscaster (CBS Weekend News), dies at 76
1977 - Janani Luwum, Ugandan Archbishop (b. 1922)
1979 - William Gargan, actor (Rain, Bells of St Mary), dies at 73
1980 - Graham Sutherland, painter, dies
1980 - Jerry Fielding, composer (Bewitched, Hogan's Heroes), dies at 57
1982 - Lee Strasberg, acting coach/actor (And Justice for All), dies at 81
1982 - Nestor Chylak, American baseball umpire (b. 1922)
1982 - Thelonious Monk, American jazz pianist and composer, dies at 64
1984 - Lucille Benson, actress (Lilly-Bosom Buddies), dies at 69
1985 - Wanda Perry, actress (Roberta, Death of a Salesman), dies at 67
1986 - Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian philosopher (Kingdom Happiness), dies at 90
1986 - Paul Stewart, actor (Opening Night, In Cold Blood, Window), dies
1987 - Hal K Dawson, actor (Another Language, Wells Fargo), dies
1987 - Verree Teasdale, actress (Skyscraper Souls), dies
1989 - Lefty Gomez, pitching great (NY Yankees), dies at 80
1990 - Erik Rhodes, actor (Top Hat), dies of pneumonia at 84
1990 - Frans Kellendonk, Dutch writer (Good for Nothing), dies at 39
1990 - Keith Haring, US graffiti-artist, dies at 31
1990 - Marc Clement, actor (Career Opportunities, Sluggers Wife), dies
1990 - Hap Day, Canadian ice hockey player and manager (b. 1901)
1991 - Enrique Bermudez, commandant (Contra), dies
1993 - Alfredo de Leon, leader (Philippines Red Scorpio Gang), killed
1993 - George E Wilburn, film editor, dies of emphysema at 77
1993 - Leslie Townsend, cricket all-rounder (Engld in 4 Tests 1930-34), dies
1994 - Randy Shilts, US journalist (& the band played on), dies of AIDs at 41
1995 - Jan Bart Klaster, music editor (The Slogan), dies at 50
1995 - Thelma Hulbert, painter, dies at 81
1995 - Timothy Hugh Brown, theatre critic, dies at 52
1995 - Uta Graf, singer/teacher, dies at 80
1996 - Bentley Bridgewater, british Museum secretary, dies at 84
1996 - Henry Guinness, missionary, dies at 87
1996 - Jean Writer-Pierre Herve Bazin, dies at 84
1996 - Michael Raptis, writer/recolutionary, dies at 84
1996 - [Elsie] Evelyn Laye, actress/singer (Sun Child), dies at 95
1997 - Zein Isa, Palestinian militant imprisoned in the United States for the honor killing of his daughter
1998 - Ernst Juenger, German writer, dies at 102
1998 - Bob Merrill, American composer and lyricist (b. 1921)
2001 - Khalid Abdul Muhammed, American Nation of Islam spokesman (b. 1948)
2001 - Bob Geary, Canadian football player and manager (b. 1933)
2004 - José López Portillo, President of Mexico (b. 1920)
2005 - Dan O'Herlihy, Irish actor (b. 1919)
2005 - Omar Sivori, Argentine footballer (b. 1935)
2006 - Ray Barretto, Puerto Rican musician (b. 1929)
2006 - Bill Cowsill, American singer (The Cowsills) (b. 1948)
2007 - Jurga Ivanauskaitė, Lithuanian writer (b. 1961)
2007 - Mike Awesome, American professional wrestler (b. 1965)
2007 - Dermot O'Reilly, Irish-born Canadian musician, producer and songwriter (b. 1943)
2007 - Maurice Papon, French Nazi collaborator (b. 1910)
2008 - Brian Harris, English footballer (b. 1935)
2009 - Gazanfer Özcan, Turkish actor (b. 1931)
2009 - Conchita Cintrón, Chilean bullfighter (b. 1922)
2012 - Ulric Neisser, American psychologist, dies at 83

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 18, 2013, 11:03:21 AM

This Day in History for 18th February


Historical Events

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13th US President                                   British war time Prime Minister 
Millard Fillmore                                             Winston Churchill


3102 BC - Epoch (origin) of the Kali Yuga.
1129 - Jerusalem taken by Emperor Frederik II
1268 - The Livonian Brothers of the Sword are defeated by Dovmont of Pskov in the Battle of
           Rakovor.
1332 - Amda Seyon I, Emperor of Ethiopia begins his campaigns in the southern Muslim provinces.
1478 - George, Duke of Clarence, convicted of treason against his older brother Edward IV of
           England, is privately executed in the Tower of London.
1503 - Henry Tudor created Prince of Wales (later Henry VIII)
1536 - France & Turkey sign milt/trade agreement against King Karel
1563 - Huguenot Jean Poltrot de Mere shoots gen Francois De Guise
1574 - Zeeland falls to Dutch rebels
1634 - Ferdinand II orders commander Albrecht von Wallenstein, execution
1678 - John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" is published
1685 - Fort St. Louis is established by a Frenchman at Matagorda Bay thus forming the basis for
          France's claim to Texas.
1688 - Quakers conduct 1st formal protest of slavery in Germantown, Pa
1713 - French invade under Jacques Cassard on Curacao
1735 - 1st opera performed in America, "Flora," in Charleston, SC
1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlies troops occupy Inverness Scotland
1787 - Austrian emperor Jozef II bans children under 8 from labor
1797 - Trinidad is surrendered to a British fleet under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby.
1804 - 1st US land-grant college, Ohio University, Athens Ohio, chartered
1814 - The Battle of Montereau occurs.
1828 - More than 100 vessels destroyed in a storm, Gibraltar
1834 - 1st US labor newspaper, "The Man," published, NYC
1839 - Detroit Boat Club forms (& still exists)
1841 - 1st continuous filibuster in US Senate began, lasting until March 11
1849 - 1st regular steamboat service to California starts (or 02/28)
1850 - California Legislature creates 9 Bay Area counties
1856 - American (Know-Nothing) Party abolishes secrecy
1856 - The American Party (Know-Nothings) convene in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to nominate their
           first Presidential candidate, former President Millard Fillmore.
1857 - Insurrection of Chinese in Sarawak, Borneo
1861 - Confederate President Jefferson Davis inaugurated at Montgomery Ala
1861 - King Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia becomes 1st king of Italy
1865 - Battle of Ft Moultrie, SC occupied by Federals
1865 - Evacuation of Charleston, SC
1865 - Union troops force Confederates to abandon Ft Anderson, NC
1876 - Direct telegraph link established between Britain & NZ
1878 - John Tunstall is murdered by outlaw Jessie Evans, sparking the Lincoln County War in Lincoln
           County, New Mexico.
1879 - Arabs capture Egyptian premier Nabar Pasha
1884 - General Charles Gordon arrives in Khartoum
1884 - Police seize all copies of Tolstoy's "What I Believe In"
1885 - Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," published
1891 - Capt Archinard's army fights with Nyamina of Niger in West-Sudan
1896 - Cave of Winds at Niagara Falls goes almost dry for 1st time in 50 yrs
1899 - 80°F in SF
1899 - SF named as a port of dispatch for Army transports
1899 - Stanley Cup: Mont Shamrocks sweep Queens U (Kingston Ont) in 2 games
1900 - Ajax soccer team forms in Amsterdam
1900 - Battle at Paardeberg, 1,270 British killed/injured
1900 - British troops occupy Monte Christo Natal
1901 - H Cecil Booth patented a dust removing suction cleaner
1901 - Winston Churchill makes his maiden speech in the British House of Commons.
1902 - Opera "Hunchback of Notre Dame," premieres in Monte Carlo
1903 - Kuyper government launches anti strike laws
1905 - Frank Wedekind's "Hidada, oder Sein und Haben," premieres in Munich
1906 - Vincent d'Indy's "Jour D'été à La Montagne," premieres in Paris
1908 - 1st US postage stamps in rolls issued
1909 - Boston Red Sox trade Cy Young, at 41, to Cleveland Naps
1911 - The first official flight with air mail takes place in Allahabad, British India, when Henri Pequet, a
           23-year-old pilot, delivers 6,500 letters to Naini, about 10 km away.
1913 - French painting "Nude Descending a Staircase" displayed in NYC
1915 - Germany begins a blockade of England
1919 - Cy Denneny of NHL Ottawa Senators scores record 52nd goals
1921 - British troops occupy Dublin
1922 - Kenesaw Mountain Landis resigns his judgeship to work for baseball
1922 - WOC-AM in Davenport IA begins radio transmissions
1923 - Belgium: Borinage-mine workers strike for higher wages
1924 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld Blanchard
1924 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Sherwin Badger
1924 - US, min of marine Edwin Denby ends term due to Teapot Dome-scandal
1927 - 1st US radio broadcast of "Cities Service Concerts"
1927 - US & Canada begin diplomatic relations
1929 - The first Academy Awards are announced.
1930 - Cow flown & milked, milk sealed in paper containers & parachuted
1930 - Luigi Pirandello's "Come Tu Mi Vuoi," premieres in Milan
1930 - Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart's "Simple Simon," premieres in NYC
1930 - US astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto
1932 - Japan declares Manchuria Independent
1932 - Sonja Henie wins her 6th straight World Women's figure skating title
1936 - NHL record 32 points scored, NY Americans (28) & Mont Maroons (24)
1939 - Golden Gate International Exposition opens on Treasure Island
1942 - Japanese troop land on Bali
1943 - 1st edition of Dutch resistance newspaper "Trouw"
1943 - Munich resistance group "White Rose" captured by Nazis
1943 - William D Cox buys Philadelphia Phillies
1944 - Maastricht resistance fighter JAJ Janssen arrested
1944 - Youngest baseball player, Cin Reds sign 15 year old Joe Nuxhall
1947 - 24 die in a train crash in Gallitzin Pa
1947 - Gian Carlo Menotti's opera "Telephone," premieres in NYC
1950 - "Dance Me a Song" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 35 performances
1951 - 3 City College of NY basketball players admit to accepting bribes
1951 - Nep l becomes a constitutional monarchy
1951 - Netherlands Radio School forms
1952 - 4th Emmy Awards: Red Skelton, Sid Caesar & Imogene Coca wins
1953 - "Bwana Devil," the 1st 3-D movie, opened in New York
1953 - "Maggie" opens at National Theater NYC for 5 performances
1953 - KOLN TV channel 10 in Lincoln, NB (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 - Premiere of 1st 3-D feature film-"Bwana Devil" (NYC)
1954 - The first Church of Scientology is established in Los Angeles, California.
1955 - Baghdad Pact signed, making Turkey & Iraq a defense alliance
1957 - Dedan Kimathi, a Kenyan rebel leader is executed by the British colonial government.
1960 - 8th Winter Olympic games open in Squaw Valley, Colo
1960 - Walter O'Malley, LA Dodger owner, purchases Chavez Ravine for $494,000
1961 - Henk van der Grift becomes world champion skater
1962 - France & Algerian Moslems negotiate truce to end 7 year war
1962 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open
1964 - Muriel Resnik's "Any Wednesday," premieres in NYC
1964 - Papandreou government takes power in Greece
1965 - "Fade Out-Fade In" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 72 perfs
1965 - 27 copper miners die in avalanche, Granduc Mountain, BC
1965 - Frank Gifford announces his retirement from football for broadcasting
1965 - Gambia gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1965 - The Gambia becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
1967 - Bob Seagren sets pole vault record at 17'3"
1967 - Softball pitcher Eddie Feigner strikes out 6 straight major leaguers
1968 - 10,000 demonstrators against US in Vietnam War in West-Berlin
1968 - 10th Winter Olympic games close at Grenoble, France
1968 - British adopts year-round daylight savings time
1968 - David Gilmour joins rock group Pink Floyd
1969 - Doug Walters scores 2nd innings century after 242 in 1st
1969 - PLO-attack El-Al plane in Zurich Switzerland
1970 - Chicago 7 defendants found innocent of inciting to riot
1970 - US president Nixon launches "Nixon-doctrine"
1972 - California Supreme Court abolishes death penalty
1972 - Giulio Andreotti sworn in as premier of Italy
1972 - John & Yoko end a week of co-hosting Mike Douglas Show
1973 - 54-kg octopus measuring 7m across captured in Hood Canal, Wash
1973 - Belgian Emiel Puttemans runs 3000m indoor record 7:39.2
1973 - Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Pompano Beach Golf Classic
1974 - NASA launches Italian satellite San Marcos C-2 (235/843 km)
1974 - US ambassador to India Daniel Moynihan present $2,046,700,000 check
1975 - 2nd American Music Award:
1975 - Italy broadens abortion law
1977 - George Harrison releases "True Love"
1977 - Space Shuttle above a Boeing 747 goes on it's maiden flight
1977 - Test Cricket debuts of Colin Croft & Joel Garner v Pakistan Bridgetown
1978 - 1st Iron Man Triathlon (swim, bike ride, marathon) held, Kona, Hawaii
1979 - -52°F (-47°C), Old Forge, New York (state record)
1979 - Amy Alcott wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic
1979 - Miniseries "Roots: Next Generations" premieres on ABC TV
1979 - NASA launches space vehicle S-202
1979 - Pres Zia ur-Rahmans National Party wins elections in Bangladesh
1979 - Snow falls in Sahara Desert
1980 - Billy Wyman said he will leave Rolling Stones in 1983 (Sure!)
1980 - Pierre Elliott Trudeau's Liberal Party wins Canada's elections
1983 - NBA Indiana Pacers begin a 28 game road losing streak
1984 - Revised concordat between Italy & Vatican signed
1986 - San Antonio's Alvin Robertson scores NBA 2nd quadruple double-20 pts, 11 rebounds, 10
           assists & 10 steals against Phoenix
1988 - Anthony M Kennedy, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice
1989 - Sherri Turner wins LPGA Orix Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open/Itoki Pro-Am
1990 - Jane Crafter wins LPGA Phar-Mor at Inverrary Golf Tournament
1991 - Edmonton Oiler goalie Grant Fuhr returns to NHL after season-long suspension for substance
           abuse & shuts out NJ Devils 4-0
1993 - Howard Stern's radio show begins transmitting to Rochester NY
1994 - Dan Jansen skates world record 1000m (1:12.43)
1994 - Shreveport Pirates join CFL as 4th US team
1995 - Angela Kennedy swims world record 100m butterfly
1995 - Barb Thomas Whitehead wins Cup o' Noodles Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open
1995 - Pamela Anderson (Baywatch) & Tommy Lee (Motley Crue) wed
1995 - Warnecke swims world record 50m freestyle
1996 - 1st full ODI for Kenya, Cricket World Cup v India
1996 - Daytona 500 race
1996 - Tendulkar scores 127* in India's Cricket World Cup win over Kenya
1998 - NY Rangers fire head coach Colin Campbell
1998 - Two white separatists are arrested in Nevada and accused of plotting a biological attack on
           New York City subways.
2000 - Stjepan Mesić becomes the second president of Croatia.
2001 - FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested for spying for the Soviet Union. He was ultimately
           convicted and sentenced to life in prison.
2003 - Comet C/2002 V1 (NEAT) makes perihelion, seen by SOHO.
2003 - Nearly 200 people die in the Daegu subway fire in South Korea.
2004 - Up to 295 people, including nearly 200 rescue workers, die near Neyshabur in Iran when a
           run-away freight train carrying sulfur, petrol and fertiliser catches fire and explodes.
2012 - Kateri Tekakwitha canonized as the first native American saint

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 18, 2013, 11:42:25 AM

This Day in History for 18th February


Famous Weddings

1943 - Augusto Pinochet Ugarte (Chilean gen/dictator) marries Lucia Hiriart
1989 - Steve Garvey marries Candace Thomas while at same time being accused of fathering children
           by 2 other women
1994 - Actor Joe Pantoliano (41) weds model Nancy Sheppard (31)
2001 - Comedian Kathy Griffin (37) weds computer administrator Matthew Moline (32) at the 360
          Degree Restaurant in Hollywood
2012 - Activist and contributor for ABC News Elizabeth Smart (24) weds Matthew Gilmour (22) in
          Hawaii

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 18, 2013, 12:03:48 PM

This Day in History for 18th February


Famous Birthdays

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Physicist and Inventor                         Artist & Musician Yoko Ono (1933)              Rapper Dr Dre (1965)
Alessandro Volta (1745)


1374 - Saint Jadwiga of Poland, queen of Poland (d. 1399)
1404 - Leon B Alberti, Italian humanist/architect (Della Pittura)
1486 - Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Bengali saint, bhakti yoga developer
1516 - Mary I Tudor, [Bloody Mary], Greenwich, queen of England (1553-58)
1530 - Uesugi Kenshin, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1578)
1543 - Charles III, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1608)
1559 - Isaac Casaubon, naturalized English classical scholar, theologian
1602 - Per Brahe (the younger), Swedish soldier (d. 1680)
1609 - Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, English PM (1660-67)
1632 - Giovanni Battista Vitali, composer
1635 - Johan Göransson Gyllenstierna, Swedish statesman (d. 1680)
1642 - Marie Champmeslé, French actress (d. 1698)
1658 - Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre, French writer (d. 1743)
1677 - Jacques Cassini, French astronomer (rings of Saturn)
1716 - Gaspard Fritz, composer
1745 - Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Gerolamo Umberto Volta, Como, Italy,
           physicist and inventor (battery)
1751 - Karl Haack, composer
1770 - Johann Christian Heinrich Rinck, composer
1771 - Friedrich Christian Ruppe, composer
1775 - Thomas Girtin, London, artist/watercolorist
1776 - John Parry, composer
1781 - Henry Martyn, Truro, missionary
1790 - Marshall Hall, Basford Nottinghamshire, physician
1795 - George Peabody, South Danvers Mass, merchant/philanthropist
1805 - Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough, Rear Admiral (Union Navy)
1814 - Samuel Fenton Cary, U. S. Congressman (d. 1900)
1815 - Henri Leys, Flemish painter
1817 - Lewis Addison Armistead, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1863
1817 - Walter Page Lane, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1892
1819 - Joseph Philbrick Webster, composer
1829 - Jean Jacques Alfred Mouton, Brig Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1864
1833 - James Deshler, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1863
1836 - Swami Ramakrishna [Gadadhar Chatterji], Hooghly Bengal, Indian mystic/hindu leader
           (preached unity of religions).
1838 - Ernst Mach, Chirlitz-Turas Austria, physicist/philosopher/psychologist
1841 - Samuel Prowse Warren, composer
1844 - Willem Maris, Dutch painter (Hague School)
1846 - Wilson Barrett, English playwright (d. 1904)
1848 - Louis Comfort Tiffany, glassmaker (stained glass windows)
1849 - Alexander L Kielland, Norwegian writer/politician (Garman og Worse)
1850 - George Henschel, composer
1853 - August Belmont Jr, breeder (Man 'O War)/founder (NY Jockey Club)
1857 - Max Klinger, German graphic artist/painter/sculptor
1858 - Louise M A, princess of Belgium
1859 - Sholem Aleichem, [Solomon Rabinowitz], author (Fiddler on the Roof)
1860 - Anders Zorn, Swedish painter/etcher/sculptor (Gustavus Vasa)
1870 - William Laurel Harris, American mural painter, writer (d. 1924)
1871 - Harry Brearley, English inventor (d. 1948)
1875 - Walter Andrae, German archaeologist (Babylon, Assur)
1877 - Betsy Ranucci-Beckmann, [Theodora], Dutch author/actress (Dead Water)
1880 - Eric De Lamarter, composer
1883 - Tom Walls, Kingsthorpe England, actor/producer (Undercover)
1883 - Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek author (d. 1957)
1884 - Burt Mustin, Pitts Pa, actor (All in the Family, Andy Griffith Show)
1884 - Andrew Watson Myles, Canadian politician (d. 1970)
1887 - Nikos Kasandsakis, writer
1889 - Sybold van Ravesteyn, architect (Blijdorp, CS Rotterdam, Utrecht)
1890 - Adolphe Menjou, Pittsburgh, actor (Front Page, Star is Born)
1890 - Edward Arnold, NYC, actor (Mr Smith Goes to Washington)
1890 - Lauri SA Haarla, Finnish (stage)writer (Juudas, Sukeltaja)
1891 - Chester Clute, NJ, actor (Niagra Falls)
1892 - Wendell Wilkie, American Presidential candidate (R-1940)/author (One World). Died 1944
1895 - George "The Gipper" Gipp, football star (Notre Dame)
1895 - Semjon Timoshenko, Russ marshal/inspector-general (WW II)
1896 - Andre Breton, French writer (d. 1966)
1897 - Charles Kuentz, WW1 veteran, changed nationality 4 times (d.2005)
1898 - Enzo Ferrari, racing car manufacturer, Modena
1898 - K'Tut Tantri, broadcaster/hotelier
1898 - Luis Muñoz Marín, Puerto Rican poet (d. 1980)
1899 - Arthur Bryant, English historian (King Charles II)
1901 - Reginald Sheffield, London England, actor (Second Chance)
1902 - Walter Herbert, German-born conductor and impresario (d. 1975)
1903 - Nikolaj V Podgorny, pres USSR (1965-77)
1906 - Hans Asperger, Austrian pediatrician (d. 1980)
1907 - Billy Dewolfe, Wollaston Mass, actor (Good Morning World)
1907 - Harm van Riel, Dutch politician (Dutch Liberal Party)
1909 - Matti Jarvinen, Finland, javelin thrower (Olympic-gold-1932)
1909 - Wallace Stegner, novelist/critic (Pulitzer-1971-Angle of Repose)
1913 - Artur Axmann, nazi youth leader
1913 - Dane Clark, Bkln, actor (Wire Service, Bold Venture, Perry Mason)
1914 - Edward George Edwards, chemist
1914 - Pee Wee King, Milwaukee Wisc, country vocalist (Pee Wee King Song)
1915 - Marcel Landowsky, composer
1915 - Phyllis Calvert, British actress (d. 2002)
1916 - Betty Phyllis Gathergood, curator
1916 - Jean Drapeau, mayor of Montreal (1954- )
1917 - Phyllis Calvert, London, actress (Man in Grey)
1918 - Jane Loevinger, American psychologist (d. 2008).
1920 - Bill Cullen, Pitts, TV game show host (over 20 different games)
1920 - Jack Palance, [Walter Palanuik], Lattimer Pa, actor (City Slickers)
1920 - Eric Gairy, Grenadan politician (d. 1997)
1921 - Barbara Hale, actress (Della Street-Perry Mason)
1922 - Eric Gairy, premier (Grenada)
1922 - Helen Gurley Brown, Portland Maine, US author/publisher and editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan, (d. 2012)
1922 - Juhan Smuul, Estonian author (d. 1971)
1923 - Allan Melvin, KC Mo, actor (Brady Bunch, Barney-All in Family)
1924 - Humberto Fernández Morán, Venezuelan scientist (d. 1999)
1924 - Louis Laberge, Quebec labour union leader (d. 2002)
1925 - George Kennedy, NYC, actor (Cool Hand Luke, Airport, Blue Knight)
1925 - Marcel Barbeau, Quebec artist
1926 - Harry "Little" Caesar, blues singer/actor (City Heat, Homer & Eddie)
1926 - Len Ford, NFL end (Cleveland Browns, Green Bay Packers)
1927 - Fazal Mahmood, cricketer (Pakistani medium-pace workhorse 1952-62)
1927 - John W Warner, (Sen-R-VA, 1979- ), married Liz Taylor
1927 - Tabe Bas, actor/opera vocalist (Leiser Wolf in Anatevka)
1927 - Luis Arroyo, Puerto Rican baseball player
1928 - Jim McElreath, auto racer (1970 Ontario 500)
1928 - Tom Johnson, Canadian ice hockey player
1929 - Leonard Cyril Deighton, English author (Ipcress File, Fighter)
1929 - André Mathieu, Quebec composer (d. 1968)
1930 - Theodore C Freeman, Haverford Penn, capt USAF/astronaut
1930 - Gahan Wilson, American cartoonist
1931 - Dieter Schonbach, composer
1931 - Johnny Hart, cartoonist
1931 - Maxwell Thurman, US General
1931 - Swraj Paul, Indian/British industrial/multi-millionaire (Caparo)
1931 - Toni Morrison, Ohio, novelist (Tar Baby, Beloved, Song of Solomon)
1931 - Bob St. Clair, American football player
1932 - Milos Forman, Czech/US director (Cuckoos Nest, Amadeus)
1933 - Bobby Robson, British soccer coach (PSV)
1933 - Elisabeth S "Elly" Belder-Ameling, Dutch soprano
1933 - Mary Ure, Glasgow, Scottish actress (Reflection of Fear, Windom's Way) (d. 1975)
1933 - Yoko Ono Lennon, [Mrs John Lennon], Tokyo Japan, singer
1934 - Aldo Ceccato, Milan Italy, conductor (Detroit Symph Orch 1973-77)
1935 - Michel Aoun, Lebanese prime minister
1936 - Marin Sorescu, poet/dramatist
1936 - Ronald William Eastman, cinematogrpaher
1936 - Jean Auel, American writer
1937 - Jeff Farrell, US swimmer (Olympics-2 gold-1960)
1938 - Barry Knight, cricketer (England all-rounder mid-60s)
1938 - Elke Erb, writer
1938 - Manny Mota, baseball outfielder (LA Dodgers)
1938 - István Szabó, Hungarian film director
1939 - Claude Ake, political scientist
1939 - Marlos Nobre, composer
1939 - Petronella CM "Carletta" Banning, actress (Potasch & Perlemoer)
1939 - Dal Maxvill, American baseball player
1939 - Marek Janowski, Polish-born conductor
1941 - David Blue, [Cohen], Providence RI, rocker (Cupid's Arrow)
1941 - Herb Santiago, vocalist (Frankie Lymon & Teenagers-Why Do Fools Fall)
1941 - Irma Thomas, [Lee], US vocalist (It's Raining)
1943 - Graeme Garden, Scottish writer
1945 - Judy Rankin, St Louis Mo, LPGA golfer (Vare Trophy 1976-77)
1945 - Michael Nader, St Louis Mo, actor (Peter-Gidget, Dex Dexter-Dynasty)
1946 - Michael Buerk, British newsreader
1946 - Jean-Claude Dreyfus, French actor
1947 - Carlos A Lopes, Portugal, marathon runner (Olympic-gold-1984)
1947 - Dennis De Young, Chicago Il, vocalist (Styx-Its Raining Again)
1947 - Eliot L Engel, (Rep-D-NY)
1947 - Princess Maria Christina, [Marijke], of Netherlands
1948 - Bruce Francis, cricketer (Australian opener in 3 Tests 1972)
1948 - Carolyn B Maloney, (Rep-D-NY)
1948 - Sinead Cusack, Ireland, actress (Waterland, Revenge)
1948 - Ketih Knudsen, Ames IA, rocker (Doobie Brothers)
1949 - Gary Ridgway, American serial killer
1950 - Cybill Shepherd, Memphis Tn, actress (Moonlighting, Last Picture Show)
1950 - John Hughes, director (Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller)
1950 - Michel Gauthier, Quebec politician
1951 - Isabel Preysler, Philippines-born Spanish socialite
1952 - Juice Newton, [Judy Cohen], Virginia, vocalist (Angel of the Morning)
1952 - Veronica "Randy" Crawford, US vocalist (One Day I'll Fly Away)
1953 - Derek Pellicci, rock drummer (Little River Band-Help Is On It's Way)
1953 - Nico Arzbach, rock guitarist/singer (Stampei, Dike)
1953 - Robin Bachman, Winnipeg, guitarist (BTO-You Aint Seen Nothing Yet)
1954 - John Travolta, Englewood NJ, actor (Welcome Back Kotter, Pulp Fiction)
1955 - Miles Tredinnick, English playwright
1955 - Raymond Rougeau, Canadian professional wrestler
1956 - Ted Gärdestad, Swedish singer (d. 1997)
1957 - Marita Koch, German DR, 400m sprinter (Oly-gold-1980)
1957 - Vanna White, [Rosich], N Myrtle Beach SC, TV host (Wheel of Fortune)
1958 - Peter Koech, Kiliburani Kenya, 3K steeplechaser (Olympic-silver-1988)
1958 - Gar Samuelson, American drummer (d. 1999)
1960 - Andy Moog, NHL goalie (Oilers, Bruins, Olympics-Canada-1988)
1960 - Greta Scacchi, Milan Italy, actress (Coca-Cola Kid, White Mischief)
1960 - Roger Wijesuriya, cricketer (bowling avg 294 in 4 Tests for Sri Lanka)
1960 - Carol McGiffin, British TV and radio presenter
1961 - Alycia Moulton, Sacramento CA, tennis star
1962 - Gary Reasons, NFL linebacker (NY Giants)
1962 - Julie Strain, Concord California, actress (Witchcraft IV)
1962 - Simon Fletcher, NFL linebacker (Denver Broncos)
1963 - John Gesek, NFL center (Washington Redskins)
1963 - Rob Andrew, English rugby player
1963 - Henry Winter, English football journalist
1964 - Kevin Tapani, Des Moines IA, pitcher (Chic White Sox, Minnesota Twins)
1964 - Lisa Elaine Comshaw, Akron Ohio, actress (Scanner Cop, Lukas' Child)
1964 - Matt Dillon, New Rochelle NY, actor (Flamingo Kid, Tex, Kansas)
1964 - Paul Hanley, British musician (The Fall, Tom Hingley and the Lovers)
1965 - Dr. Dre, [Andre Romelle Young], Compton, California, American rapper and record producer
1965 - Peter Martini, journalist
1966 - Kris King, Bracebridge, NHL left wing (Winnipeg Jets)
1966 - Phillip De Freitas, cricket pace bowler (in Dominica England 1986-95)
1966 - Guy Ferland, American television director
1967 - Colin Jackson, Cardiff Wales, 100m hurdler (Olympic-silver-1988)
1967 - Matt Turner, US baseball pitcher (Florida Marlins)
1967 - Roberto Baggio
1967 - Tracey Edmonds, American film and television producer
1967 - Harry Van Barneveld, Belgian judoka
1968 - Molly Ringwald, Roseville California, actress (16 Candles, Pretty in Pink)
1969 - Alexander Mogilny, Khavarovsk, 1st soviet to defect to NHL (Sabres)
1969 - Igor Larionov, Voskresensk Russia, NHL forward (Team Russia, Detroit)
1970 - Tyler Green, US baseball pitcher (Philadelphia Phillies)
1970 - Raine Maida, Canadian musician (Our Lady Peace)
1970 - Susan Egan, American actress
1971 - George Teague, NFL safety (Miami Dolphins, Green Bay Packers)
1971 - Reggie Holt, WLAF safety (London Monarchs)
1971 - Constantin Popa, Romanian-Israeli basketball player
1972 - Lubomir Rybovic, Kosice CZE, hockey forward (Team Slovakia)
1972 - Marc Lillibridge, WLAF linebacker (Amsterdam Admirals)
1972 - Shani Lynn Nielsen, New Albany IN, Miss America (Indiana-Top 10-1997)
1973 - Claude Makélélé, French footballer
1974 - Yevgeny Kafelnikov, Russia, tennis star
1974 - Jamey Carroll, American baseball player
1974 - Ruby Dhalla, Canadian politician
1975 - Scott Tucker, Birmingham Ala, 400m/800m freestyle relay (Olympics-96)
1975 - Gary Neville, English footballer
1976 - Chanda Rubin, Lafayette LA, tennis star (1996 Australian Open doubles)
1976 - Jason Podollan, Vernon, NHL center (Florida Panthers)
1976 - Volker Schenk, WLAF RB (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1976 - Leilani Munter, American race car driver
1977 - Kátia, Brazilian footballer
1977 - Sean Watkins, American guitarist and songwriter
1977 - Chrissie Wellington, British triathlete
1978 - Josip Šimunić, Croatian footballer
1979 - Julia Greville, Perth Australia, swimmer (Olympics-96)
1980 - Alison Rachel Fitch, Hamilton NZ, swimmer (Olympics-96)
1980 - Regina Spektor, Russian-born singer and songwriter
1980 - Nikolai Antropov, Kazakh ice hockey player
1981 - Andrei Kirilenko, Russian basketball player
1981 - Ivan Sproule, Irish footballer
1981 - Kim Jae Won, South Korean actor
1981 - Alex Rios, American baseball player
1983 - Jermaine Jenas, English footballer
1983 - Juelz Santana, American rapper
1983 - Jason Maxiell, American basketball player
1984 - Buddy Nielsen, American singer (Senses Fail)
1985 - Anton Ferdinand, English footballer
1985 - Lee Boyd Malvo, American serial killer
1986 - Marc Torrejón, Spanish footballer
1988 - Maiara Walsh, American actress
1988 - Shane Lyons, actor and private chef

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 18, 2013, 01:22:01 PM

This Day in History for 18th February


Famous Deaths

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Queen of Scotland
Mary Stuart (1587)

806 - Tarasius, Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 730)
814 - Angilbert, Frankish monk and confidant of Charlemagne
901 - Thabit ibn Qurra, Arab astronomer and mathematician (b. 826)
999 - Gregory V, [Bruno] 1st German Pope, dies
1139 - Prince Yaropolk II of Kiev (b. 1082)
1217 - Alexander Neckum de Sancto Albano, Engl encyclopedist, dies at 59
1294 - Kublai Khan, Mongol Emperor (b. 1215)
1379 - Albert II of Mecklenburg (b. 1318)
1397 - Enguerrand VII, French master of Coucy/count of Soissons, dies at 56
1405 - Tamerlane, Mongol Emperor (b. 1336)
1455 - Fra Angelico, Italian monk/painter, dies
1478 - Duke of Clarence, privately executed and reputedly drowned in a butt of Malmsey wine
1535 - Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, German royal astrologer, physician and theologian
           dies at 48
1546 - Martin Luther, biblical scholar/religious reformer, dies at 62
1564 - Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian sculptor/painter (David), dies at 88
1583 - Antonio Francesco Grazzini, Italian writer (b. 1503)
1587 - Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots (1560-87), beheaded at 44 [OS=Feb 8]
1654 - Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac, French writer (b. 1594)
1660 - Judith Jansdochter Leyster, Dutch painter, buried
1683 - Nicolaes Pietersz Berchem, Dutch landscape painter/etcher, dies at 62
1712 - Duke of Bourgondie, French king Louis XIV's grandson and heir, dies. B. 1682
1718 - Pierre Antoine Motteux, French-born English dramatist (b. 1663)
1743 - Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, last of the Medicis (b. 1667)
1745 - Nicola Fago, composer, dies at 67
1748 - Otto Ferdinand von Abensberg und Traun, Austrian field marshal (b. 1677)
1772 - Johann Hartwig Ernst, Count von Bernstorff, Danish statesman (b. 1712)
1778 - Joseph Marie Terray, French statesman (b. 1715)
1780 - Kristijonas Donelaitis, Lithuanian poet (b. 1714)
1788 - John Whitehurst, English clockmaker and scientist (b. 1713)
1790 - Wilhelm Gottfried Enderle, composer, dies at 67
1799 - Maurus Haberhauer, composer, dies at 52
1803 - J W L Gleim, writer, dies
1807 - August G Meissner, German estheticus/literary, dies at 53
1807 - S von Laroche, writer, dies at 75
1817 - Giacomo Quarenghi, master builder (Hermitage Theater), dies at 72
1829 - Jan Krtitel Kuchar, composer, dies at 77
1830 - Charles G G, Earl of Merode, mayor (Brussels), dies at 67
1833 - Georg Johann Schinn, composer, dies at 64
1833 - Ignac Ruzitska, composer, dies at 55
1842 - Thomas Hazlehurst, English soap and alkali manufacturer (b. 1779)
1846 - Giovanni Liverati, composer, dies at 73
1851 - Carl Gustav Jakob Jacobi, German mathematician (b. 1804)
1861 - Louis C Luzac, Dutch minister of Internal affairs, dies at 74
1878 - Peter D Regout, industrialist (Sphinx, Maastricht), dies at 76
1885 - Charlotte Helen Sainton-Dolby, composer, dies at 61
1890 - Guyla Andr ssy Sr, earl/premier of Hungary (1867-71), dies at 66
1893 - Serranus Clinton Hastings, American politician (b. 1814)
1895 - Albrecht FR, arch duke of Austrian (Battle at Custozza), dies at 77
1895 - Karl Abs, German professional wrestler (b. 1851)
1898 - Frances Willard, founder (Woman's Christian Temperance), dies at 58
1899 - M Sophus Lie, Norwegian mathematician, dies at 56
1900 - Clinton L. Merriam, American politician (b. 1824)
1902 - Charles Lewis Tiffany, American founder of Tiffany & Co. (b. 1812)
1905 - Jules de Geyter, Belgian poet (International), dies at 75
1906 - Willem Doorenbos, literary/critic, dies at 85
1906 - John Batterson Stetson, American manufacturer (b. 1830)
1911 - Bill Murdoch, cricketer, dies while watching Aust v South Africa Test
1917 - Charles E Barber, US chief engraver (1879-1917), dies
1925 - James Lane Allen, US writer (Choir Invisible), dies at 75
1931 - Milan Šufflay, Croatian politician (b. 1879)
1932 - Frederik Augustus III, King of Saxon (1904-18), dies at 66
1933 - James Corbett, (Gentleman Jim), heavyweight box champ (1892-97), dies
1938 - Alida JM Tartaud-Little, actress (Rotterdam Stage), dies at 64
1938 - Edward Anseele, Belgian minister of Rail, dies at 81
1938 - David King Udall, American politician (b. 1851)
1939 - Ludwig Bonvin, composer, dies at 89
1942 - Albert Payson Terhune, American author (b. 1872)
1943 - Henri Polak, Dutch union leader/politician (soc-dem), dies at 74
1949 - Niceto A Zamora y Torres, premier of Spain (1931-36), dies at 71
1950 - Voranc Prezikov, [Lovro Kuhar], Slavic author (Jamnica), dies at 56
1951 - Piet A W Hopmans, bishop of Breda (Crusade), dies at 85
1955 - Sadako Sasaki, School student(b. 1944)
1956 - Gustave Charpentier, French opera composer (Louise), dies at 95
1957 - Henry N Russell, co-author (temperature-luminosity graph), dies
1957 - Dedan Kimathi, Kenyan rebel leader (b. 1920)
1959 - Alfred Alessandrescu, composer, dies at 65
1959 - Eric Zeisl, composer, dies at 53
1959 - Jaroslav Kvapil, composer, dies at 66
1963 - Monte Blue, silent film actor (Apache), dies of heart attack at 73
1963 - Todd "Hugh" Gaitskell, leader British Labour Party, dies at 56
1964 - Joseph-Armand Bombardier, Quebec inventor and industrialist (b. 1907)
1966 - Anne Anema, Dutch lawyer/journalist/politician (ARP), dies at 94
1966 - Casimir von Paszthory, composer, dies at 79
1966 - Grigori Grigoyevich Nelyubov, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 31
1966 - Robert Rossen, American screenwriter, producer, and director (b. 1908)
1967 - Manuel Palau Boix, composer, dies at 74
1967 - Robert J Oppenheimer, creator of atomic bomb, dies at 62
1967 - Dragiša Cvetković, Kingdom of Yugoslavia prime minister (b. 1893)
1968 - Sigurd Erixon, etnologist (Atlas "ver Svensk Folkkultur), dies at 79
1969 - Dragisa Cvetkovic, Serbian premier of (Yugoslavia 1939-4.), dies at 76
1970 - Desiderius A Stracke, Flemish jesuit/literature historian, dies at 94
1973 - Franc Costello, US gangster, dies at 82
1975 - Chivu Stoica, [Stoica Chivu), premier of Romania (1955-61), dies at 66
1975 - Luigi Dallapiccola, composer, dies
1975 - Raymond Moley, US advisor to pres Roosevelt "Brain Trust", dies at 88
1975 - Syed Nazir Ali, cricketer (2 Tests for India, 4 wickets), dies
1976 - Anton Betzner, writer, dies at 81
1976 - Eddie Dowling, composer (Anywhere USA), dies at 81
1976 - Joseph Henabery, actor/director (Cobra), dies at 88
1977 - Andy Devine, [Jeremiah Schwartz], actor (Andy's Gang), dies at 71
1977 - Maria Realino, teacher (Botany of Curacao), dies at 87
1977 - Ralph Graves, actor (Extra Girl), dies at 77
1978 - Charlotte Greenwood, actress (Oklahoma, Moon over Miami), dies at 84
1978 - Derrick De Marney, actor (Inheritance, Projected Man), dies at 71
1978 - Maggie McNamara, actress (3 Coins in a Fountain, Cardinal), dies at 49
1980 - Gale Robbins, actress (Fuller Brush Girl, Mr Hex), dies at 58
1981 - John Knudsen Northrop, American aircraft manufacturer (b. 1895)
1982 - Edith Ngaio Marsh, NZ detective writer/producer, dies at 82
1982 - Tina Carver, actress (Inside Detroit, Uranium Boom), dies at 58
1985 - Willy Alberti, [Carel Verbruggen], Dutch singer, dies at 58
1990 - Hulk, fictional character in "Death of Incredible Hulk" on NBC, dies
1993 - Edward S "Ted" Haworth, US set designer (Sayonara, Marty), dies at 76
1993 - Jacqueline Hill, dies of cancer at 63
1993 - Leslie Norman, English director/producer (Dunkirk), dies at 82
1993 - Michael David Morrison, actor (Caleb-As the World Turns), dies at 33
1993 - Kerry Von Erich, American professional wrestler (b. 1960)
1994 - Peter Caddy, founder of the Findhorn Community, dies at 76
1995 - Calder Willingham, US scriptwriter (End as a Man), dies at 72
1995 - Denny Cordel, rock music producer-Laverack, dies at 51
1995 - Eddie Williams, blues/Jazz Bassist, dies at 82
1995 - John Rhea "Yank" Lawson, trumpeter, dies at 83
1995 - Yank Lawson, US jazz trumpeteer (Stormy weather), dies at 84
1995 - Bob Stinson, American guitarist (b.1959)
1996 - Brian Daley, writer, dies at 48
1996 - Jack Thieuloy, writer, dies at 64
1996 - Nicholas Beriozoff, ballet master, dies at 89
1996 - Richard Leslie Hill, historian, dies at 94
1997 - Emily Hahn, writer, dies at 91
1997 - Enrique Peralta Azurdia, milt pres of Guatemala in (1963-66), dies
1997 - Eric William Fenby, musician, dies at 90
1998 - Harry Caray, sportscaster (Chicago Cubs), dies at 77
1998 - Mya Than Tint, Myanmarese author, dies of brain hemorrhage at 69
1998 - Robert Merrill, songwriter (Funny Girl), commits suicide at 76
1998 - Robbie James, Welsh footballer (b. 1957)
1999 - Noam Pitlik, American actor and director (b. 1932)
2000 - Willy Maltaite, Belgian comics creator (b. 1927
2001 - Balthus, Polish-born painter (b. 1908)
2001 - Dale Earnhardt, American race car driver (b. 1951)
2001 - Eddie Mathews, American baseball player (b. 1931)
2003 - Isser Harel, Israeli Mossad leader (b. 1912)
2004 - Jean Rouch, French filmmaker and ethnologist (b. 1917)
2006 - Richard Bright, American actor (b. 1937)
2008 - Sir Richard Knowles, British politician (b. 1917)
2008 - Mihaela Mitrache, Romanian actress, (b. 1955)
2008 - Mickey Renaud, Canadian professional ice hockey player (b. 1988)
2009 - Al-Tayyib Salih, Sudanese novelist and columnist (b. 1929)
2010 - John Babcock, Last known Canadian veteran of World War I (b. 1900)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 19, 2013, 11:50:29 PM

This Day in History for 19th February


Historical Events

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Composer George Friedrich Handel          Inventor Thomas Edison                          Author and Nobel Laureate
                                                                                                                                        William Faulkner

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Poet Ezra Pound                                      US President John F. Kennedy         Pop Singer & Beatle Paul McCartney


197 - Lucius Septimius Severus' army beats Clodius Albinus at Lyon
356 - Emperor Constantius II shuts all heathen temples
607 - Boniface III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
842 - Medieval Iconoclastic Controversy ends as a council in Constantinople formally reinstated the 
          veneration of icons in the churches
1512 - French troops under Gaston de Foix occupy Brescia
1537 - Weavers of Leiden Neth strike
1539 - Jews of Tyrnau Hungary (then Trnava Czech), expelled
1574 - Spanish troops plunder Krommenie, Wormerveer & Jisp Neth
1582 - Francis of Valois becomes duke of Brabant
1594 - Having already inherited the throne of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth through his
           mother Catherine Jagellonica of Poland, Sigismund III of the House of Vasa is crowned King of 
           Sweden, succeeding his father John III of Sweden.
1600 - The Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina explodes in the most violent eruption in the
           recorded history of South America.
1619 - Trial against Johan van Oldenbarnevelt begins in The Hague
1634 - Battle at Smolensk: Polish king Wladyslaw IV beats Russians [NS=Mar 1]
1674 - Netherlands & England sign Peace of Westminster (NYC becomes English)
1700 - Last day of Julian calendar in Denmark
1736 - Georg F Handel's "Alexander's Feast," premieres
1771 - Messier adds M46-M49 to his catalog (galactic clusters in Puppis & Hydra & galaxy in Virgo)
1797 - 1/3 of papal domain ceded to France
1803 - Congress accepts Ohio's constitution, statehood not ratified till 1953
1807 - British squadron under Adm Duckworth forces passage of Dardanelle
1807 - VP Aaron Burr arrested in Alabama for treason; later found innocent
1819 - British explorer William Smith discovers the South Shetland Islands, and claims them in the
           name of King George III.
1825 - Franz Grillparzer's "Konig Ottokars Gluck," premieres in Vienna
1831 - 1st practical US coal-burning locomotive makes 1st trial run, Penn
1846 - Texas state government formally installed in Austin
1852 - The Phi Kappa Psi fraternity is founded at Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania.
1856 - Tin-type camera patented by Hamilton Smith, Gambier, Ohio
1859 - Dan Sickles is acquitted of murder on grounds of temporary insanity 1st time this defense is
           successfully used
1861 - Russian Tsar Alexander II abolishes serfdom [NS=Mar 3]
1864 - Knights of Pythias form 1st lodge in Wash DC (12 members)
1869 - US Assay Office in Boise, Idaho authorized
1878 - Thomas Alva Edison patents gramophone (phonograph)
1881 - Kansas becomes 1st state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages
1884 - Tornadoes in Miss, Ala, NC, SC, Tenn, Ky & In kill 800 people
1900 - British troops occupy Hlangwane Natal
1906 - WK Kellogg & Ch Bolin find Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Co
1910 - English premiere of Richard Strauss' "Elektra"
1913 - 1st prize inserted into a Cracker Jack box
1913 - Mexican General V Huerta takes power with US support
1914 - Riccardo Zandonai's opera "Francesco da Rimini," premieres in Turin
1915 - British fleet fire on Dardanellen coast
1919 - Pan-African Congress, organized by W E B Du Bois (Paris)
1920 - Netherlands joins League of Nations
1922 - Ed Wynn becomes 1st talent to sign as a radio entertainer
1923 - Jean Sibelius' 6th Symphony, premieres
1923 - Philip Barry's "You & I," premieres in NYC
1927 - General strike against British occupiers in Shanghai
1928 - 2nd Winter Olympic games close at St Moritz, Switzerland
1928 - Canadian hockey team wins 3rd consecutive gold medal
1929 - Medical diathermy machine 1st used, Schenectady, NY
1932 - William Faulkner completes his novel "Light in August"
1933 - Prussian minister Goering bans all Catholic newspapers
1934 - US contract air mail service canceled, replaced by US army for 6 mos
1935 - Clifford Odets' "Awake & Sing," premieres in NYC
1936 - Manuel Azaña becomes Spanish premier
1938 - Soviet arctic ice research station North Pole 1 evacuated, Denmark
1941 - Nazi police attacks & driven away from Koco Amsterdam (by young Jews)
1941 - Nazi raid Amsterdam & round up 429 young Jews for deportation
1942 - About 150 Japanese warplanes attacked the Australian city of Darwin
1942 - Bill Longson beats Managoff & Sandor Szabo, to become wrestling champ
1942 - Dutch actors protest obligatory membership of Culture Chamber
1942 - FDR orders detention & internment of all west-coast Japanese-Americans
1942 - Japanese troop land on Timor
1942 - Tommy Dorsey & his orchestra recorded "I'll Take Tallulah"
1942 - NY Yankees annouce 5,000 uniformed soldiers admitted free at each of their upcoming home   
           games
1943 - German tanks under brig gen Buelowius attack Kasserine Pass Tunesia
1944 - 823 British bombers attack Berlin
1944 - U-264 sinks off Ireland
1945 - 30,000 US Marines land on Iwo Jima
1945 - 900 Japanese soldiers reportedly killed by crocodiles in 2 days
1945 - Brotherhood Day-1st celebrated
1945 - US 5th Fleet launches invasion of Iwo Jima against the Japanese
1946 - Giants outfielder Danny Gardella is 1st major leaguer to announce he is jumping to the
           "outlaw" Mexican League
1947 - CBS radio premiere of Villa-Lobos' "Bachianas Brasilieras No 3"
1949 - "Inside USA" closes at Century Theater NYC after 339 performances
1949 - 1st Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Ezra Pound
1949 - Mass arrests of communists in India
1952 - French offensive at Hanoi
1953 - Georgia approves US 1st literature censorship board
1953 - Ted Williams safely crash-lands his damaged Panther jet
1953 - William Inge's "Picnic," premieres in NYC
1954 - WAST (now WNYT) TV channel 13 in Albany-Troy, NY (NBC) 1st broadcast
1955 - South East Asia Collective Defense Treaty goes into effect
1956 - Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open
1958 - Carl Perkins leaves Sun Records for Columbia Records
1959 - Britain, Turkey & Greece sign agreement granting Cyprus independence
1959 - Gabon adopts its constitution
1959 - USAF rocket-powered rail sled attains Mach 4.1 (4970 kph), NM
1960 - Bil Keane's "Family Circus" cartoon strip debuts
1960 - Protest strike in Poznan Poland
1961 - Albania disavows Chinese "Revisionism"
1961 - Henk van der Grift (Neth) becomes world champ all-round skater
1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 - Robert Frost wins Bollingen Prize
1963 - USSR informs JFK it's withdrawing several thousand troops from Cuba
1964 - UK flies ½ ton of The Beatles wigs to the US
1965 - NFL adds 6th official
1967 - Stien Kaiser becomes world champion lady's skater
1968 - 1st US Teachers strike (Florida)
1969 - 1st Test flight of Boeing 747 jumbo jet
1970 - AL Cy Young winner Denny McLain suspended for bookmaking
1970 - USSR launches Sputnik 52 & Molniya 1-13 communications satellite
1971 - Paul McCartney releases "Another Day" in UK
1971 - Walt Wesley becomes 1st Cleve Cavalier to score 50 pts in a game
1972 - Glenn Turner carries his bat for 223* v WI at Kingston
1972 - The Asama-Sanso hostage standoff begins in Japan.
1974 - 1st American Music Award:
1976 - Frente Polisario forms Democratic Republic of Sahara
1977 - 19th Grammy Awards: This Masquerade, Starland Vocal Band
1977 - A's sell pitcher Paul Lindblad to the Rangers for $400,000
1977 - Doug Walters scores 250 v NZ, 217 stand for 7th wicket w/Gilmour
1977 - Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" album released
1977 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1977 - Shuttle Enterprise makes 1st Test flight atop a 747 jetliner
1978 - "On the 20th Century" opens at St James Theater NYC for 460 perfs
1978 - Brigitte Kraus runs world record 1000 m indoor (2:34.8)
1978 - Coleman, Comden & Green's musical premieres in NYC
1980 - Botham a century & 13 wickets in Jubilee Test Cricket at Bombay
1980 - Eric Heiden skates Olympic record 1000m in 1:15.18
1981 - George Harrison is ordered to pay ABKCO Music $587,000 for "subconscious plagiarism" "My
           Sweet Lord" with "He's So Fine"
1982 - Hanneke Jagersma installed as Neth's 1st Communist mayor
1982 - Sharie Langford, California, sets women's bowling series record of 853
1982 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1983 - Fernando Valenzuela wins his salary arbitration of $1 million
1983 - Vladimir Salnikov (USSR) sets 400 m free style swimming record
1984 - "Doonesbury" closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 104 performances
1984 - 14th winter Olympic games close at Sarajevo, Yugoslavia
1984 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1984 - 1st brother combo to win Gold & Silver in same event at Olympics (Phil & Steve Mahre-Slalom)
1985 - 150 killed when a Spanish jetliner crashed approaching Bilbao, Spain
1985 - ADM of Amsterdam declares bankruptcy
1985 - Canned & bottled Cherry Coke introduced by Coca-Cola
1985 - Mickey Mouse welcomed in China
1985 - William Schroeder is 1st artificial heart patient to leave hospital He spent 15 minutes outside
           Humana Hospital in Louisville, Ky
1986 - Jordanian King Hussein severs ties with PLO
1986 - US Senate ratifies UN's anti-genocide convention 37 years later
1986 - USSR launches Mir space station into Earth orbit
1987 - "Stardust" opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 102 performances
1987 - Anti-smoking ad airs for 1st time on TV, featuring Yul Brynner
1987 - Less than a month after re-signing, A's pitcher Vida Blue retires
1987 - Minn sheriff office arrest FBI most wanted, Thomas G Harrelson
1987 - Reagan lifts trade boycott against Poland
1988 - Helga Arendt, Silke-Beate Knoll, Mechthild Kluth, Gisela Kinzel walk indoor female world record
           4x200m (1:32.55)
1989 - "Legs Diamond" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 64 perfs
1989 - Edgar Bowers wins Bollingen Prize
1990 - Police kill 8 demonstrators for multi party system in Nepal
1990 - Soyuz TM-9 lands
1992 - "Crazy For You" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 1622 performances
1992 - Ken Ludwig's musical "Crazy for You," premieres in NYC
1992 - Peter Collins discovers nova Cygni 1992
1992 - Porn producer Jim Mitchell found guilty of killing his brother Artie
1993 - Kenya Moore, 22, (Michigan), crowned 42nd Miss USA
1994 - Marta Figueras-Dotti wins Cup o' Noodles Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open
1995 - 1st broadcast of "Woman of Independent Means" on NBC-TV
1995 - Irina Privalova runs indoor woman's European record 200m (22.10 sec)
1995 - Kenneth Koch wins Bollingen Prize
1995 - Linford Christie runs world record 200m indoor (20.25 sec)
1995 - Linford Christie runs European record 60m indoor (6.47 sec)
1995 - Michael Tippett's "Rose Lake," premieres
1996 - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in York PA on WQXA 105.7 FM
1997 - FCC makes available 311 for non-emergency calls & 711 for hearing or speech-impaired
          emergency calls
1998 - Soyuz TM-26 lands
1998 - US hockey team destroys their rooms at Olympic village in Japan
2001 - An Oklahoma City bombing museum is dedicated at the Oklahoma City National Memorial.
2002 - NASA's Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface of Mars using its thermal
           emission imaging system.
2004 - Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal is awarded an honorary knighthood in recognition of a "lifetime
           of service to humanity."
2007 - Three Salvadoran deputies to the Central American Parliament and their driver are murdered
           in Guatemala.
2008 - Toshiba announces its formal recall of its HD DVD video formatting, ending the format war
           between it and Sony's Blu-Ray Disc
2012 - 44 people killed in prison brawl in Apocada, Mexico, between two rival drug cartels

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 19, 2013, 11:53:14 PM

This Day in History for 19th February


Famous Weddings

1934 - Bob & Dolores Hope marry
1995 - "Baywatch" actress Pamela Anderson (27) weds rocker Tommy Lee (32) in Cancun, Mexico
2008 - "The Lord of The Rings" actor Sean Bean (49) weds actress Georgina Sutcliffe (29) at
            Marylebone Registry Office in central London

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 20, 2013, 12:01:56 AM

This Day in History for 19th February


Famous Birthdays

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Mathematician and Astronomer              Actor Lee Marvin (1924)                      Musician & Songwriter Seal (1963)
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473)


3 - Sadiq Hidajat, Persian writer (Blind Person Owl)
1473 - Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish mathematician and astronomer (d. 1543)
1526 - Charles de L'Ecluse, Flemish botanist (d. 1609)
1552 - Melchior Klesl, Austrian cardinal and statesman (d. 1630)
1588 - Pieter de Carpentier, Flemish gov-gen of Dutch East-Indies
1611 - Andries de Graeff, mayor of Amsterdam (1657..71)
1616 - Jacques de Saint-Luc, composer
1630 - Shivaji, founder of the Maratha Empire (d. 1680)
1660 - Friedrich Hoffmann, German physician and chemist (d. 1742)
1671 - Charles-Hubert Gervais, composer
1683 - Philip V, France, King of Spain (1700-24, 24-46)
1687 - Johann Adam Birkenstock, composer
1717 - David Garrick, actor/producer/writer (Aboan-Oroonoko)
1722 - Tiphaigne de la Roche, French writer (d. 1774)
1743 - [Ridolfo] Luigi Boccherini, Italian composer, cellist (Minuet)
1751 - Cornelis de Gijselaar, Dutch politician/patriot
1754 - Vincenzo Monti, Italian poet/translator (Al Signor di Montgolfier)
1755 - Pieter G van Overstraten, governor-general of Neth-Indies
1762 - Friedrich Franz Hurka, composer
1763 - Adalbert Gyrowetz, composer
1780 - Friedrich H von der Hagen, German germanist (Nibelungenlied)
1780 - Richard McCarty, American politician (d. 1844)
1802 - Wilhelm Matthias Naeff, Swiss Federal Councillor (d. 1881)
1804 - Carl Freiherr von Rokitansky, German physician (d. 1878)
1804 - David Wark, Canadian politician (d. 1905)
1812 - Lauro Rossi, composer
1817 - Willem III, last male King of Netherlands (1849-90)
1819 - Mark Prager Lindo, English/Dutch author/novelist/writer
1821 - Francis Preston Blair Jr, Lexington Ky, (Rep-Missouri)
1824 - Constantine D Uschinsky, Russian educator [NS=Mar 2]
1827 - Charles Robert Woods, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1855
1828 - Johannes von Miquel, German politician
1841 - Felipe Pedrell, composer
1843 - Adelina Patti, Madrid Spain, opera soprano (Lucio)
1859 - Svante August Arhenius, Swedish physicist/chemist (Nobel 1903)
1863 - Emanuel Moor, composer
1864 - Aritius S Talma, Dutch minister of Agriculture (Work Law of 1911)
1865 - Adrian van Oordt, Dutch writer (neo-romantic)
1865 - Sven Hedin, Sweden, scientist/explorer (Tibet)
1877 - Else Berg, German/Dutch painter
1877 - Louis Francois-Marie Aubert, French composer (Habanera)
1877 - Gabriele Münter, German painter (d. 1962)
1880 - Arthur Shepherd, composer
1881 - Armin Knab, German composer (Eichendorff-cycle)
1881 - Evert Gorter, founder of Dutch medical child care
1881 - Paul Zech, writer
1886 - George Luther Foote, composer
1888 - Aurora Quezon, First Lady of the Philippines (d. 1949)
1889 - Jose Eustasio Rivera, Colombia, poet/novelist (Vortex)
1891 - J C "Farmer" White, cricketer (Somerset slow lefty 1909-37)
1893 - Cedric Hardwicke, Stourbridge England, actor (Peter Pan, Richard III)
1893 - Pietro Pancrazi, Italian critic (Scrittori d'Oggi)
1894 - Herb Pennock, hall of fame pitcher (Yankees, 243 career wins)
1895 - Louis Calhern, NYC, actor (Julius Caesar, Blackboard Jungle)
1896 - André Breton, French poet (d. 1966)
1897 - Alma Rubens, American actress (d. 1931)
1898 - Lauwrens Voorthuyzen, [Lou de Palingboer], Dutch sect leader
1899 - Yury Olesha, Russian novelist (d. 1960)
1900 - Giorgos Seferis, writer
1901 - Cor[nelis RJ] Kieboom, Dutch resistance fighter/chairman (Feyenoord)
1902 - Hugo Haas, Brno Czechoslovakia, actor/director (2 Smart People)
1902 - John Bubbles, Louisville Ky, rhythm tap dancer (No Maps on My Taps)
1902 - Nydia Westman, NYC, actress (Going My Way, Young Mr Bobbins)
1902 - Kay Boyle, American writer (d. 1992)
1903 - Kay Boyle, St Paul Minn, novelist (Plagued by Nightingales)
1904 - Havank, [HF vqan der Kallen], Dutch thriller writer (St Eustache)
1906 - Grace Mary Williams, composer
1906 - Hendrik W C Spruit, Dutch conductor
1909 - Charlie Walker, South Aust cricket wicket-keeper (toured but no Tests)
1911 - Merle Oberon, Calcutta India, actress (Assignment Foreign Legion)
1911 - Nikola Hercigonja, composer
1912 - Adolf Rudnicki, Polish writer (Niekochana)
1912 - Peter Francis de Sautoy, publisher
1912 - Stan Kenton, [Newcomb], Wichita Ks, jazz musician (Music 55)
1912 - Saul Chaplin, American composer (d. 1997)
1913 - Alvin Derold Etler, composer
1914 - Jacques Dufilho, French comedian (d. 2005)
1915 - John Freeman, British politician (Labour)/ambassador/TV host
1916 - Eddie Arcaro, jockey (1958 Racing Hall of Fame, 2 triple crowns)
1917 - Carson McCullers, US, novelist (Heart Is a Lonely Hunter)
1920 - Frances K Bairstow, educator/labor relations consultant
1920 - George Rose, Bicester England, actor (Beacon Hill, Holocaust)
1920 - C. Z. Guest, American socialite (d. 2003)
1920 - Jaan Kross, Estonian writer (d. 2007)
1921 - Andries Treurnicht, [Dr No], founder (S Afr Conservative Party)
1921 - Claude Rene Georges Pascal, composer
1922 - Beant Singh, politiician
1922 - Josef Matej, composer
1923 - Donald Lybbert, composer
1924 - Bruce Norris, NHL owner (Detroit Red Wings)
1924 - Lee Marvin, NYC, actor (Paint Your Wagon, Cat Ballou)
1924 - David Bronstein, Ukrainian chess player (d. 2006)
1925 - Jindrich Feld, composer
1925 - Leslie Laing, Linstead Jamaica, 4X400m relayer (Olympic-gold-1952)
1926 - Gyorgy Kurtag, composer
1927 - Rene Firino-Martell, cognac manufacturer
1929 - Jacques Deray, French film director (d. 2003)
1930 - John Frankenheimer, NYC, director (Birdman of Alcatraz)
1932 - Jean-Pierre Ponnele, Paris France, opera director (Carmina Burana)
1932 - Joseph P Kerwin, Oak Park Ill, Capt Med Corps USN/astro (Skylab 2)
1934 - David Hugh Jones, Poole Dorset England, director (Betrayal)
1934 - Julian Belfrage, theatre Agent
1934 - Carole Eastman, American screenwriter (d. 2004)
1936 - Bob Engemann, singer
1936 - Ione Mylonas Shear, archeologist
1937 - Norman O'Neill, cricketer (great Aussie bat of 60's Brilliant field)
1938 - Penny Zavichas, LPGA golfer
1939 - Gwen Taylor, British actress (Life of Brian, Sob Sisters, Screaming)
1940 - Smokey Robinson, American R&B and soul singer-songwriter (The Miracles-Tears of a Clown)
1940 - Bobby Rogers, US vocalist (Miracles-You Really Got a Hold on Me)
1940 - Carlin Glynn, US actress (Continental Divide)
1940 - William "Smokey" Robinson, Det, vocalist (& Miracles-Being With You)
1940 - Saparmurat Niyazov, President of Turkmenistan (d. 2006)
1941 - Carlos Roque Alsina, composer
1941 - Stephen Dobyns, US author/poet (Cold Dog Soup)
1942 - Kenneth R Kramer, (Rep-R-CO, 1979- )
1943 - "Mama" Cass Elliot, actress (Mamas & Papas-Monday Monday)
1943 - Lou Christie [Lugee Sacco], Glenwillard, Pennsylvania, American singer-songwriter (Lightning
           Striking Again)
1943 - Homer Hickam, American author and retired NASA engineer
1943 - Tim Hunt, British biochemist, Nobel laureate
1944 - Jan Bart Klaster, mythologist (Slogan)
1945 - Jon Whiteley, actor (Moonfleet)
1945 - Michael Nader, actor (Dynasty, All My Children)
1945 - Thomas Brasch, writer
1946 - Paul Dean, rock guitarist/vocalist (Loverboy)
1946 - Pierre van der Linden, Dutch drummer (Brainbox)
1946 - Peter Hudson, Australian rules footballer
1947 - Peter Bird, ocean rower
1947 - Tim Shadbolt, mayor of Invercargill, New Zealand
1948 - Byron K Lichtenburg, Stroudsburg Pa, astronaut (STS 9, STS 45)
1948 - Mark Andes, Philadelphia Pa, rock bassist (Spirit, Heart, Fireball)
1948 - Tony Iommi, rock guitarist (Black Sabbath-Paranoid, Iron Man)
1948 - Pim Fortuyn, Dutch politician (d. 2002)
1948 - Big John Studd, American professional wrestler (d. 1995)
1949 - Eddie Hardin, keyboardist/singer
1949 - Edward Hardin, NYC, rock guitarist (Spencer Davis Group)
1949 - Ewa Aulin, Stockholm, actress (Candy)
1949 - Dan Bunten, American software developer (d. 1998)
1949 - William Messner-Loebs, American comics writer
1950 - Andy Powell, rocker (Wishbone Ash)
1951 - Stephen Nichols, Cincinnati OH, actor (Witchboard, Days of our Lives)
1951 - Shaykh-ul-Islam Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri (Db), Pakistani Islamic Sufi Scholar
1952 - Rudolfo Neri-Vida, Mexico, PHD/astronaut (STS 23)
1952 - Amy Tan, American novelist
1953 - Bill Kirchenbauer, actor/comedian (Coach-Just the 10 of Us)
1953 - Cristina Elisabet Fernández - Argentinian politician
1954 - Frances Bucholz, rocker (Scorpions-Wind of Change)
1954 - Jamie West-Oram, rock guitarist (Fixx)
1954 - Socrates, Brazilian footballer
1955 - Jeff Daniels, GA, actor (Something Wild, Dumb & Dumber, Speed)
1956 - Dave Wakeling, rock singer/guitarist
1956 - George David Low, Cleveland Ohio, astronaut (STS 32, STS 43)
1956 - Peter Holsapple, rocker (Continental Drifters)
1956 - Steve Randell, Tasmanian cricket Test umpire (international panel)
1956 - Roderick MacKinnon, American biologist, Nobel laureate
1957 - Dave "Smoke" Stewart, Oakland California, pitcher (Oakland Athletic)
1957 - Falco, [John Hoelcel], rock vocalist (Rock Me Amadeus)
1957 - Johann Hoelzel Falco, musician
1957 - Paul Dean, guitarist
1957 - Ray Winstone, British actor
1958 - Helen Fielding, English writer
1960 - Keith Musa[kawukhathi] Zondi, South African head of Inkatha Youth Brigade
1960 - Prince Andrew, Albert Christian Edward, of Britain/Duke of York
1960 - Vicki Lynn Lasseter Iola Kansas, playmate (Feb, 1981)
1961 - Justin Fashanu, English footballer (d. 1998)
1961 - Andy Wallace, English race car driver
1962 - Alvaro Espinoza, Venezuela, baseball shortstop (NY Yanks, NY Mets)
1962 - Hana Mandlikova, Prague Czechoslovakia, tennis player (1985 US Open)
1962 - John Laroche, American orchid poacher
1963 - Jessica Tuck, NYC, actress (Megan-1 Life to Live)
1963 - Seal, English vocalist/songwriter (Killer, Crazy, Kiss by a Rose)
1963 - Laurell K. Hamilton, American writer
1964 - Doug Aldrich, rocker
1964 - Dmitri Lipskerov, Russian writer
1964 - Sonu Walia, Indian actress
1965 - Andrew Jameson, British(?) swimmer
1965 - John Commins, cricketer (South African Test batsman v NZ 1994-95)
1966 - Justine Bateman, Rye NY, actress (Mallory-Family Ties, Satisfaction)
1966 - Matthew Ryan, Port Jefferson NY, team handball circle (Olympics-1996)
1966 - Paul Haarhuis, Eindhoven Neth, tennis star (1994 US/Austral doubles)
1966 - Peter Douris, Toronto, NHL right wing (Anaheim Mighty Ducks)
1966 - Prince Markie D, [Mark Morale], rocker (Fat Boys-Jail House Rock)
1966 - William White, NFL safety (KC Chiefs, Atlanta Falcons)
1966 - Enzo Scifo, Belgian footballer
1967 - Benicio Del Toro, Puerto Rico, actor (Licence to Kill, Usual Suspects)
1967 - Roel Liefden, soccer player (Dordrecht '90, FC Groningen)
1968 - Frank Watkins, US heavy metalist bass (Obituary, Cause of Death)
1968 - Rob Dimaio, Calgary, NHL right wing (Phila Flyers)
1969 - Burton C. Bell, American vocalist
1970 - Garland Hawkins, NFL defensive end (Chic Bears)
1970 - Ruwan Kalpage, cricket off-spinner (Sri Lankan)
1971 - Becca Lee, Tennessee, Miss USA (Tenn-3rd-1996)
1971 - Becky Dyroen-Lancer, San Jose California, synchro swimmer (Oly-gold-96)
1971 - Glyn Milburn, NFL running back/kick returner (Den Broncos, Det Lions)
1971 - Richard Green, Australasia golfer
1971 - Wally Williams, NFL center/guard (Cleveland Browns, Baltimore Ravens)
1971 - William Henderson, NFL running back (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1971 - Gil Shaham, Israeli/American violinist
1972 - Andrey Pchelyakov, hockey forward (Team Kazakhstan Oly-1998)
1972 - Francine, American professional wrestler
1973 - Masafumi Kawaguchi, WLAF linebacker (Amsterdam Admirals)
1973 - Terrence Rencher, NBA guard (Phoenix Suns)
1973 - Tommy Bennett, safety (Arizona Cardinals)
1974 - Yevgeny Kafelnikov, Sochi Russia, tennis star (1995 doubles-Hamburg)
1974 - Danny Doring, American professional wrestler
1975 - Paul Frey, Boston MA, dance skater (& Ponte-1995 Eastern Jr champ)
1975 - Raymond Graanoogst, Suriname/Dutch soccer player (FC Utrecht)
1975 - Mikko Kavén, Finnish footballer
1975 - Daewon Song, Korean professional skateboarder
1977 - Gianluca Zambrotta, Italian footballer
1977 - Ola Salo, Swedish singer (The Ark)
1978 - Michalis Konstantinou, Greek-Cypriot footballer
1978 - Immortal Technique, American rapper
1979 - Mariska, Finnish rapper
1979 - Clinton Morrison, Irish footballer
1979 - Mariana Ochoa, Mexican singer and actress
1979 - Steve Cherundolo, American soccer player
1980 - Neleh Dennis, American Survivor contestant
1980 - Mike Miller, American basketball player
1981 - Ronnie Arniell, Canadian professional wrestler
1981 - Beth Ditto, American singer (The Gossip)
1981 - Gil Reyes, American boxer
1981 - Nicky Shorey, English footballer
1981 - Vitas, Russian singer
1981 - Daniel Letterle, American Actor and Singer
1983 - Assunta De Rossi, Filipino actress
1983 - Mika Nakashima, Japanese singer/actress
1984 - Chris Richardson, American Idol finalist
1985 - Haylie Duff, American singer/actress
1985 - Arielle Kebbel, American actress
1986 - Kyle Chipchura, Canadian ice hockey player
1986 - Henri Karjalainen, Finnish racing driver
1986 - Marta, Brazilian footballer
1986 - Reon Kadena, Japanese model/actress
1986 - Maria Mena, Norwegian singer
1989 - L A Baby orangutan, at Woodland Park Zoo, Seattle
1993 - Victoria Justice, American Actress (The Suite Life Of Zack And Cody, Lola Martinez in
           Nickelodeon show Zoey 101)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 20, 2013, 12:03:29 AM

This Day in History for 19th February


Famous Deaths

197 - D Clodius Septimus Albinus, Roman bequest in England, dies in battle
440 - Mesrop Mashtots, Armenian monk, theologian and linguist (b. 361/362)
1133 - Irene Ducaena, wife of Alexius I Comnenus (b. 1066)
1260 - Boniface, of Lausanne, Belgian bishop/saint, dies
1401 - William Sawtree, 1st English religious martyr, burned in London
1414 - Thomas Arundel, archbishop of Canterbury/chancellor of England, dies
1545 - Pierre Brully, [Peter Brulius], calvinist minister, burned to death
1553 - Erasmus Reinhold, German mathematician, dies at 41
1568 - Miles Coverdale, translator (1st complete English Bible), dies at 80
1589 - Saint Philothei, Orthodox martyr and Patron of Athens (b. 1522)
1602 - Philippe Emmanuel, Duke of Mercoeur, French soldier (b. 1558)
1605 - Orazio Tiberio Vecchi, composer, dies at 54
1620 - Roemer P Visscher, poet, buried in Amsterdam
1622 - Sir Henry Savile, English educator (b. 1549)
1653 - Luigi Rossi, composer, dies
1663 - Adam Adami, German bishop and diplomat (b. 1603)
1670 - King Frederick III of Denmark (b. 1609)
1672 - Charles Chauncy, English-born president of Harvard College (b. 1592)
1709 - Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, Japanese shogun (b. 1646)
1716 - Dorthe Engelbrechtsdatter, Norwegian poet (b. 1634)
1785 - Johann Christoph Richter, composer, dies at 84
1789 - Nicholas Van Dyke, American lawyer and President of Delaware (b. 1738)
1790 - Jean-Baptiste Krumphultz, composer, dies at 47
1799 - Jean-Charles de Borda, French mathematician, physicist, political scientist, and sailor (b.
           1733)
1806 - Elizabeth Carter, English writer (b. 1717)
1815 - Leonhard von Call, composer, dies at 47
1822 - Jeronymo Francisco de Lima, composer, dies at 78
1837 - Georg Büchner, German playwright (b. 1813)
1858 - Alois Basil Nikolaus Tomasini, composer, dies at 78
1864 - William Edwin Baldwin, US Confederate brig-general, dies
1873 - Vasil Levski, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1837)
1875 - Jean B Vuillaume, French violin maker (octobas), dies at 76
1878 - Charles F Daubigny, French restaurateur/painter, dies at 61
1887 - Eduard Douwes Dekker (pen name Multatuli), Dutch writer (Max Havelaar), dies at 66
1892 - Monty Bowden, cricket Capt (England v South Africa 1889), dies at 26
1894 - Ernesto Camillo Sivori, composer, dies at 78
1897 - Karl T Weierstrass, German mathematician, dies at 81
1915 - Gopal Krishna Gokhale, India's social reformer/politician, dies
1916 - Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist/philosopher/psychologist, dies at 78
1923 - Jeronimo Gimenez y Bellido, composer, dies at 68
1927 - Georg Brandes, [Cohen], Danish literary-historian/critic, dies at 85
1927 - Robert Fuchs, composer, dies at 80
1933 - Arnold Ludwig Mendelssohn, composer, dies at 77
1936 - Charles Harding Firth, British historian (b. 1857)
1941 - Alexander Josiah Webbe, English cricket keeper (v Aus 1879), dies
1941 - Hamilton Hamilton Harty, composer/conductor, dies at 61
1942 - Frank Abbandando, American gangster (executed) (b. 1910)
1944 - Siegfried Garibaldi Kallenberg, composer, dies at 76
1945 - Wim Speelman, Dutch resistance fighter, executed at 26
1949 - Auguste Jean Maria Charles Serieyx, composer, dies at 83
1950 - Edyth Walker, US singer, dies at 82
1951 - Andre[-Paul-Guillaume] Gide, French writer (Nobel 1947), dies at 82
1952 - Knut Hamsun, writer, dies at 92
1952 - Lawrence Grant, actor (Bulldog Drummond), dies at 82
1957 - Maurice Garin, French cyclist (b. 1871)
1962 - Albert Israel Elkus, composer, dies at 77
1962 - Georgios Papanikolaou, Greek doctor, inventor of the Pap smear (b. 1883)
1965 - Forrest Taylor, actor (This is Life, Man Without a Gun), dies at 81
1965 - Gheorge Gheorghiu Dej, Romanian president, dies at 63
1967 - Wilmer King, 1st casuality on Tappan Zee Bridge NY, dies
1968 - Ralph Dunn, actor (Mr Rudge-Norby), dies at 65
1968 - Georg Hackenschmidt, Estonian professional wrestler (b. 1878)
1969 - Madge Blake, American actress (b. 1899)
1970 - Ralph Edward Flanders, (Sen-VT), dies at 89
1972 - John Grierson, Scottish documentary filmmaker (b. 1898)
1972 - Tedd Pierce, American animator (b. 1906)
1975 - Luigi Dallapiccola, Italian 12-tone composer, dies at 71
1977 - Mike González, Cuban baseball player (b. 1890)
1977 - Anthony Crosland, British politician (b. 1918)
1980 - Bon Scott, Aust rock vocalist (AC/DC-Whole Lotta Rosie), dies at 33
1981 - Frank Merrik, composer, dies at 94
1983 - Alice White, actress (Employees' Entrance), dies at 78 of a stroke
1984 - Ina Ray Hutton, orchestra leader (Ina Ray Hutton Show), dies at 66
1985 - Elizabeth Julesberg, author (Dick & Jane), dies
1985 - George Holmes, actor (Man in the Trunk), dies at 66
1986 - Adolfo Celi, actor (Thunderball), dies at 63
1986 - James O Eastland, (Sen-D-Miss), dies at 81
1986 - Paul Stewart, actor (Top Secret USA, Deadline), dies at 77
1988 - André Frédéric Cournand, French-born physician, Nobel laureate (b. 1895)
1989 - Jaap van de Merwe, Dutch journalist/cabareter (Hadjememaar), dies
1989 - Merwe, journalist/cabaret performer (Hadjememaar), dies
1990 - Michael Powell, Engl director (Life & Death of Col Blimp), dies at 84
1991 - Peggy Mondo, actress (Who's Minding the Store), dies at 50
1992 - Chet Leaming, dies after brief illness at 66
1993 - Gerhard Gesell, judge (Pentagon Papers), dies of liver cancer at 82
1993 - Michael Morrison, actor (Caleb-As the World Turns), dies at 33
1994 - Derek Jarman, actor/director (Tempest), dies of AIDS at 52
1994 - Georges Watin, Algerian/French officer (OAS), dies at 71
1994 - Renske Vellinga, Dutch speed-skater, dies in auto-accident at 19
1995 - Calder Willingham, novelist/Scriptwriter, dies at 72
1995 - Ian Ball, photographer, dies at 80
1995 - Shlomo Averbach, Israeli ultra-orthodox rabbi, dies at 84
1996 - Brenda Bruce, actress (December Bride, Nightmare), dies at 77
1996 - Charles O Finley, baseball owner (Oakland A's), dies at 76
1996 - Grant Sawyer, US politician, dies at 76
1996 - Madhaviah Krishnan, naturalist, dies at 83
1997 - Deng Xiaoping, head (Chinese Communist Party), dies at 92
1997 - Leo Rosten, writer/humourist (Joys of Yiddish), dies at 88
1997 - Stanley Pearson, footballer, dies at 76
1998 - Grandpa Jones, country comic/banjo wizard (Hee Haw), dies at 84
1999 - Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr, Iraqi Shiite leader (assassinated)
2000 - Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian artist (b. 1928)
2001 - Priscilla Davis, American socialite (b. 1942)
2001 - Stanley Kramer, American director (b. 1913)
2001 - Charles Trenet, French singer (b. 1913)
2003 - Johnny PayCheck, American country singer/songwriter (b. 1938)
2007 - Janet Blair, American actress (b. 1921)
2007 - Celia Franca, founder of National Ballet of Canada (b. 1921)
2008 - Lydia Shum, Hong Kong comedian and actress (b. 1945)
2008 - Yegor Letov, Russian song writer and singer (b. 1964)
2009 - Kelly Groucutt, Bass guitarist and singer for the band Electric Light Orchestra (b.1945)
2009 - Miika Tenkula, Finnish guitarist for the band Sentenced (b.1974)
2010 - Laura Spurr, Tribal Chairperson, Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi (b. 1945)
2011 - Ollie Matson, American Football Running Back (b. 1930)
2012 - John Hogan, American research chemist, dies at 92
2012 - Steve Kordek, American pinball machine designer, dies at 100

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 20, 2013, 11:12:41 AM

This Day in History for 20th February


Historical Events

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Composer George Friedrich Handel           Naturalist Charles Darwin                      Rock Guitarist Jimi Hendrix

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British Prime Minister                            Heavyweight Boxing Champion
Margaret Thatcher                                                 Mike Tyson

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Singer Mariah Carey                                 264th Pope John Paul II

1472 - Orkney and Shetland are left by Norway to Scotland, due to a dowry payment.
1525 - Swiss & German mercenaries desert Francois I's army
1547 - King Edward VI of England was enthroned following death of Henry VIII
1613 - Gerard Reynst appointed Dutch gov-gen of East-Indies
1653 - Defeat of Dutch fleet under Adm Van Tromp by Adm Blake off Portsmouth
1673 - 1st recorded wine auction held (London)
1710 - Johan Willem Friso becomes viceroy of Groningen Neth
1724 - George F Handel's opera "Giulio Cesare in Egitto," premieres in London
1725 - 10 sleeping Indians scalped by whites in NH for £100 a scalp bounty
1732 - Estates of Holland ratifies Treaty of Vienna
1737 - French minister of Finance, Chauvelin, resigns
1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlies troops occupy Fort Augustus, Scotland
1746 - Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Castle of Inverness
1768 - 1st American chartered fire insurance company opens (Penn)
1792 - US postal service created, postage 6 cents - 12 cents depending on distance
1798 - Louis Alexandre Berthier removes Pope Pius VI from power.
1809 - Supreme Court rules federal government power greater than any state
1810 - Andreas Hofer, Tyrolean patriot and leader of rebellion against Napoleon's forces, executed.
1811 - Austria declares bankruptcy
1816 - Rossini's opera "Barber of Seville" premieres in Rome
1823 - English Capt James Weddell reaches 74°15' S, 1520 km from S pole
1831 - Polish revolutionaries defeat Russians in battle of Growchow
1832 - Charles Darwin visits Fernando Noronha in Atlantic Ocean
1835 - Concepcion, Chile destroyed by earthquake; 5,000 die
1839 - Congress prohibits dueling in District of Columbia
1846 - British occupy Sikh citadel of Lahore
1856 - John Rutledge, Liverpool-NY steamer, hits iceberg; many die
1861 - Dept of Navy of Confederacy forms
1861 - Steeple of Chichester Cathedral blown down during a storm
1864 - Civil War battle of Olustee, Florida
1865 - M I T forms 1st US collegiate architectural school
1869 - Tenn Gov W C Brownlow declares martial law in Ku Klux Klan crisis
1872 - Hydraulic electric elevator patented by Cyrus Baldwin
1872 - Luther Crowell patents a machine that manufactures paper bags
1872 - Metropolitan Museum of Art opens (NYC)
1872 - Silas Noble & JP Cooley patents toothpick manufacturing machine
1873 - University of California gets its 1st Med School (UC/SF)
1877 - 1st cantilever bridge in US completed, Harrodsburg, Kentucky
1877 - International Association (minor baseball league) organizes
1887 - 1st minor league baseball association organizes (Pittsburgh)
1887 - Germany, Austria-Hungary & France end Triple Alliance
1890 - Amsterdam Theater destroyed by fire
1895 - Congress authorizes a US mint at Denver, Colorodo
1899 - Ill Tel & Tel granted franchise for Chicago freight tunnel system
1901 - 1st territorial legislature of Hawaii convenes
1902 - Heavy surf breaks over Seal Rocks & damages Sutro Baths, SF
1903 - Nick Young remains as NL president as AG Spalding ends challenge
1909 - Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.
1912 - Argentina beat the MCC in their inaugural cricket 1st-class fixture
1913 - King O'Malley drives in the first survey peg to mark commencement of work on the
           construction of Canberra.
1915 - Panama-Pacific International Exposition opens in SF
1917 - Ammunitions ship explodes in Archangelsk harbor, about 1,500 die
1917 - Kern, Bolton & Wodehouse's musical "Oh, Boy!," premieres in NYC
1919 - French premier Clemenceau injured during assassination attempt
1921 - Riza Khan Pahlevi seizes control of Iran
1922 - Marc Connelly & George Kaufman's "To the Ladies," premieres in NYC
1922 - Vilinus, Lithuania, agrees to separate from Poland
1922 - WOR-AM in New York City begins radio transmissions
1923 - Christy Mathewson becomes pres of Boston Braves
1927 - Golfers in SC arrested for violating Sabbath
1929 - American Samoa organizes as territory of US
1929 - Red Sox announce they will play Sunday games at Braves Field
1930 - Capelle soccer team forms
1931 - Congress allows California to build Oakland-Bay Bridge
1932 - Japanese troops occupy Tunhua China
1933 - Curom, Curacaose Broadcast System starts: Princess Juliana's speech
1933 - House of Reps completes congressional action to repeal Prohibition
1933 - Sidney Howard's "Alien Corn," premieres in NYC
1934 - Virgil Thomson's opera "4 Saints in 3 Acts" opens in NYC
1935 - Karoline Mikkelson is 1st woman on Antarctica
1937 - 1st automobile/airplane combination tested, Santa Monica, Ca
1938 - UK Foreign Sec Eden resigns, says PM Chamberlain appeased Germany
1940 - Larry Clinton & his Orchestra record "Limehouse Blues"
1941 - 1st transport of Jews to concentration camps leave Plotsk Poland
1941 - Nazis order Polish Jews barred from using public transportation
1941 - Romania breaks relations with Netherlands
1942 - Lt E H O'Hare single-handedly shoots down 5 Japanese heavy bombers
1942 - Lieutenant Edward O'Hare becomes America's first World War II flying ace.
1943 - Allied troops occupy Kasserine pass in Tunisia
1943 - New volcano Paracutin erupts in farmer's corn patch (Mexico)
1943 - Phil Wrigley & B Rickey charter All-American Girls Softball League
1943 - American movie studio executives agree to allow the Office of War Information to censor
           movies.
1944 - Batman & Robin comic strip premieres in newspapers
1944 - US takes Eniwetok Island
1944 - World War II: The "Big Week" began with American bomber raids on German aircraft
           manufacturing centers.
1947 - Chemical mixing error causes explosion that destroys 42 blocks in LA
1947 - Lord Mountbatten appointed as last viceroy of India
1947 - State of Prussia ceases to exist.
1948 - Czechoslovakia's non-communist minister resigns
1949 - 1st International Pancake Race held (Liberal Ks)
1950 - Dylan Thomas arrives in NYC for his 1st US poetry reading tour
1950 - WOL-AM in Washington DC swaps calls with WWDC
1952 - "African Queen" opens at Capitol Theater in NYC
1952 - 1st black umpire in organized baseball certified (Emmett Ashford)
1953 - August A Busch buys the Cards for $3.75 million
1953 - US Court of Appeals rules that Organized Baseball is a sport & not a business, affirming the
           25-year-old Supreme Court ruling
1954 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Serbin Golf Open
1954 - General Zahedi wins election in Persia
1955 - Fay Crocker wins LPGA Serbin Golf Open
1956 - WOSU TV channel 34 in Columbus, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
1957 - Hughie Tayfield takes 9-113 v England, 13 wkts for match
1958 - Jockey Eddie Arcaro rides his 4,000th winner
1958 - LA Coliseum Comm approves 2-yr pact allows Dodgers to use facility
1959 - The Avro Arrow program to design and manufacture supersonic jet fighters in Canada is
           cancelled by the Diefenbaker government amid much political debate.
1960 - Jimi Hendrix, rock and roll guitarist, plays his first gig.
1962 - John Glenn is 1st American to orbit Earth (Friendship 7)
1963 - End of the Test Cricket careers of Neil Harvey & Alan Davidson
1963 - Willie Mays (SF Giants) signs a record $100,000 per year contract
1965 - Beatles record "That Means a Lot"
1965 - Ranger 8 makes hard landing on the Moon, returns photos, other data
1965 - Turkish government of Uerguplu forms
1966 - Author Valery Tarsis banished in USSR
1968 - State troopers used tear gas to stop demonstration at Alcorn A & M
1971 - Bruin Phil Esposito is NHL's quickest to score 50 goals in a season
1971 - General Idi Amin Dada appointed president of Uganda
1971 - Maj General Idi Amin Dada appoints himself president of Uganda
1971 - Natl Emergency Center erroneously orders US radio & TV stations to go off the air. Mistake
           wasn't resolved for 30 minutes
1972 - 1st time Cleveland Cavaliers beat NY Knicks (111-109)
1972 - Ard Schenk becomes world champ skater
1972 - Sicco Mansholt becomes chairman of European Committee
1973 - 10th time Islanders shut-out-4-0 vs Penguins
1974 - Cher files for separation from husband Sonny Bono
1974 - Gordie Howe comes out of retirement for $1M from Houston Aeros, WHA
1975 - Leonard Baichan scores 105* on Test Cricket debut, v Pakistan Lahore
1975 - Margaret Thatcher elected leader of British Conserv Party
1975 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1976 - Muhammad Ali KOs Jan Pierre Coopman in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
1976 - The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization disbands.
1977 - "My Fair Lady" closes at St James Theater NYC after 384 performances
1977 - Judy Rankin wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic
1978 - 4th People's Choice Awards: Star Wars, Carol Burnett & Bob Hope
1978 - Bob Backland beats Billy Graham in NY, to become WWF wrestling champ
1978 - Egypt announces it is pulling its diplomats out of Cyprus
1978 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic
1979 - "Comin' Uptown" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 45 performances
1981 - Flight readiness firing of Columbia's main engines; 20 seconds
1981 - James Sanford equals 50m indoor world record (5.61 sec)
1982 - NY Islanders wins then NHL record 15th straight game
1983 - Japan launches Tenma satellite to study x-rays (450/570 km)
1983 - Roland Liboton becomes world champ cross-country cycling
1985 - After defending his WBC flyweight championship, Sot Chitalada's check for $104,000 is stolen
           by a ringside pickpocket
1986 - LA Dodger Orel Hershiser is 1st to win a $1M salary by arbitration
1986 - Mike Tyson sexually harasses a woman in Albany NY
1987 - Bomb blamed on Unabomber explodes by computer store in Salt Lake City
1987 - David Hartman quits ABC's "Good Morning America," after 11 years
1988 - 500 die in heavy rains in Rio de Janeiro Brazil
1988 - Andre Hoffmann skates world record 1500m (1:52.06)
1988 - Brian Boitano wins Olympic gold medal in figure skating
1988 - Cornelia Oschkenat hurdles indoor world record 50m (6.58 sec)
1988 - Kelly Hrudy's 5th Islander shut-out win-Hartford 3-0
1988 - Peter Kalikow purchases NY Post from Rupert Murdoch for $37.6 million
1988 - Rob Druppers runs world record indoor 1000m (2:16.2)
1988 - Stefka Kostadinova high jumps indoor world record (2.06 m)
1989 - Members of 1949 Oklahoma football team cancelled an April reunion because of deplorable
           conduct of Oklahoma players
1989 - An IRA bomb destroys a section of a British Army barracks in Ternhill, England
1991 - "Taking Steps" opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 78 performances
1991 - 33rd Grammy Awards: Another Day in Paradise, Mariah Carey
1991 - A gigantic statue of Albania's long-time dictator, Enver Hoxha, is brought down in the
           Albanian capital, Tirana, by mobs of angry protesters.
1992 - "Private Lives" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 37 performances
1992 - Orthodox patriarch Shenouda III visits Netherlands
1992 - Ross Perot says he'll run for President on Larry King Show
1993 - Florida Marlins open their 1st spring training camp
1993 - Lisa Walters wins LPGA Itoki Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open
1993 - NY Islanders retire Billy Smith's number 31
1994 - 3 Afghans take 70 Pakistani children hostage
1994 - Johann Olav Koss skates world record 10 km (13:30.55)
1994 - Pope John Paul II demands juristic discrimination of homosexuals
1997 - "Stanley" opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC
1997 - SF Giants Barry Bonds signs record $22.9M 2 year contract
1998 - Tara Lipinski wins Olympic figure skating gold medal
1998 - UN Sec-Gen Kofi Annan lands in Baghdad, for peace negotiations
1998 - US movie box office hits quickest $1 billion for year (51 days)
2002 - In Reqa Al-Gharbiya, Egypt, a fire on a train injures over 65 and kills at least 370.
2003 - During a Great White concert in West Warwick, Rhode Island, a pyrotechnics display sets the
           club ablaze, killing 100 and injuring over 300 others.
2005 - Spain becomes the first country to vote in a referendum on ratification of the proposed
           Constitution of the European Union, passing it by a substantial margin, but on a low turnout.
2010 - In Madeira Island, Portugal, heavy rain causes floods and mudslides, leaving at least 32
           deaths in the worst disaster on the history of the archipelago.
2012 - Scientists successfully regenerate Silene stenophylla from a 31,800 year old piece of fruit,
           greatly surpassing the previous record of 2,000 years
2012 - South Korea angers North Korea as it proceeds with live fire drills in disputed Korean sea
           borders

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 20, 2013, 11:14:19 AM

This Day in History for 20th February


Famous Weddings

1968 - Comedian John Cleese (Monty Python) marries actress Connie Booth
1980 - Actress Susan Dey (LA Law) weds producer Bernard Sofronski
1998 - The warrior monk "Kung Fu" actor David Carradine (61) weds actress Marina Benjamin (45)
           on the Laramie Street on the back lot of Warner Bros. Studio
2005 - "Iron Chef America" host Bobby Flay (40) weds former "Law and Order: SVU" actress
           Stephanie March (30) at St. Peter's Episcopal Church in New York City
2009 - "Dog The Bounty Hunter" actress Lyssa Chapman (21) weds Brahman Galanti (35) at 
           Lanikuhonua at Ko Olina in Oahu, Hawaii

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 20, 2013, 11:15:44 AM

This Day in History for 20th February


Famous Divorces

2007 - Baywatch actress Carmen Electra (34) divorces rocker Dave Navarro (39) due to irreconcilable
           differences after less than three years of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 20, 2013, 11:22:42 AM

This Day in History for 20th February


Famous Birthdays 

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British Prime Minister                               Rocker Kurt Cobain (1967)                         Singer Rihanna (1988)
Gordon Brown (1951)

1494 - Johan Friis, chancellor (Denmark, helped formed Lutheranism)
1507 - Gentile Bellini, Italian artist (Sultan Mohammed II)
1523 - Jan Blahoslav, Czech humanist/bishop (Bohemian brothers)
1632 - Thomas Osborne, Duke of Leeds, English PM (1690-94)/founder (Tories)
1633 - Jan de Baen, portrait painter/etcher
1656 - Johannes Schenck, German/Neth composer, baptised
1734 - Franz Ignaz Beck, composer
1745 - Johann Peter Salomon, composer
1745 - Henry James Pye, English poet (d. 1813)
1751 - Johann Heinrich Voß, German poet (d. 1826)
1752 - Charles Broche, composer
1753 - Louis Alexandre Berthier, French marshal (d. 1815)
1757 - John 'Mad Jack' Fuller, English philanthropist (d. 1834)
1763 - Adalbert Gyrowetz, composer
1770 - Ferdinando Carulli, composer
1779 - Augustus Callcott, landscape painter, Kensington
1784 - Adam Black, Edinburgh Scotland, politician/publisher
1791 - Carl Czerny, Vienna Austria, pianist/composer (Schule der Virtuosen)
1794 - William Carleton, Irish novelist (d. 1869)
1796 - Eduard W van Dam van Isselt, Dutch military/liberal politician
1802 - Charles-Auguste de Beriot, Belgian violinist/composer
1803 - Friedrich Theodor Frohlich, composer
1805 - Angelina Grimke, reformer/abolitionist/politician/lawyer
1808 - Daumier, Marseilles France, artist
1809 - Albertus J Duymaer van Twist, gov-gen of Neth-Indies
1809 - Henry Walton Wessells, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1889
1816 - Josef Michal Ksawery Jan Poniatowski, composer
1819 - Alfred Escher, Swiss politician, railroad entrepreneur (d. 1882)
1820 - Mahlon Dickerson Manson, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1895
1827 - Edward Stuyvesant Bragg, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1912
1835 - Allessandro d'Ancona, Italian philologist
1838 - James Barbour Terrill, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
1839 - Benjamin Waugh, American minister; founder of the NSPCC (d. 1908)
1844 - Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann, Austria, physicist (statistical mechanics)
1844 - Joshua Slocum, Canadian seaman and adventurer (d. 1909)
1848 - Edward Henry Harriman, American railroad executive (d. 1909)
1850 - Nérée Beauchemin, Canadian physician and poet (d. 1931)
1852 - Nikolai Garin [Michailovski], Russian author (Tjoma Kartashov)
1854 - Louis F M van Westerhoven, actor/singer/opera director (Youth)
1861 - Nicolaas van Meeteren, Curacao, folklorist
1866 - Carl Westman, Swedish architect and designer (d. 1936)
1867 - Louise, Princess Royal and Duchess of Fife (d. 1931)
1870 - Pieter Cornelis Boutens, Holland, mystic poet/scholar (Verzen)
1874 - Mary Garden, Aberdeen Scotland, opera star
1876 - Fyodor Akimenko, composer
1880 - Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen, French aristocrat and novelist (d. 1923)
1881 - Pedro Munoz Seca, Spanish playwright (Vengeanza de Don Mendo)
1883 - Shiga Naoya, Japan, novelist (Road Through Dark Night)
1886 - Bela Kun, Czehul Romania, head of Hungarian Soviet Republic (1919)
1887 - David McKinley Williams, composer
1887 - Hesketh Pearson, England, biographer/playwright (Writ for Libel)
1888 - Georges Bernanos, France, novelist (Diary of a Country Priest)
1888 - Marie Rambert, Warsaw, English ballet producer/director/teacher
1889 - Levko Mykolayevich Revutsky, composer
1893 - Russel Crouse, journalist/novelist/playwright (Life with Father)
1893 - Elizabeth Holloway Marston, American psychologist (d. 1993)
1895 - Freida Geiken, autobiographer (National Historic Taping)
1896 - Henri de Lubac sj, French theologist/anti-fascist
1897 - Ivan Albright, Illinois, painter (Door, Window)
1899 - Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, LI NY, founder (Pan Am Airways)
1899 - Leon Woizikowski, Polish dancer/ballet master (Ballets Russes)
1900 - Antonio Veretti, composer
1900 - Graham Spry, St Thomas Ontario, Canadian radio pioneer
1900 - Jean Negulesco
1901 - Ali Muhammad Naguib, Khartoum, president of Egypt (1952-54)
1901 - Cecil H King, Irish/British daily newspaper publisher (Daily Mirror)
1901 - Henry Eyring, Mexican/US chemist
1901 - Louis I Kahn, Estonia, architect (Bryn Mawr dormitory) [or Dec 20]
1901 - René Jules Dubos, France, US microbiologist/author (Health & Disease)
1902 - Ansel Adams, photographer (1966 ASMP Award)
1903 - Ella Maillart, explorer
1903 - Karel Janacek, composer
1903 - Pierre Charles, Belgian heavyweight boxer
1904 - Aleksei N Kosygin, Soviet premier (1964-80)
1904 - Armin Loos, composer
1904 - Bramwell Fletcher, Yorkshire England, actor (White Cargo, Mummy)
1905 - Jascha Golowanjuk, Swedish writer (Acrobat)
1907 - Malcolm Atterbury, Phila, actor (Jonas-Thicker than Water, Apples Way)
1907 - Nadine Conner, California, soprano (Carmen, Pamina-Magic Flute)
1907 - Owain Jenkins, company director
1908 - Grigori Yakovlevich Bakhchivangi, test pilot (BI-1)
1908 - Rosalind Laura Burke, aviatrix
1910 - Julian Trevelyan, English Surrealist painter/collage maker
1910 - Millicent Fenwick, (Rep-R-NJ 1975-82)
1911 - Margot Grahame
1911 - Robert Guyn McBride, Tucson Arizona, composer (Mexican Rhapsody)
1912 - Pierre Boulle, French author (d. 1994)
1913 - Jozef Kresanek, composer
1913 - Mary Durack, poet
1913 - Rex Tucker, TV writer/director
1914 - John Daly, South Africa, newscaster/TV game show host (What's My Line)
1914 - Marion Kettlewell, British director (WRNS)
1914 - Willem J H Baart, Dutch vicar (Cuentanan di Nanzi)
1915 - Philip Friend, Horsham England, actor (Vulture, Fur Collar)
1916 - Jackie Gleason, Bkln NY, comedian (Ralph Kramden-Honeymooners)
1916 - Julius Juzeliunas, composer
1916 - Paul Tripp, NYC, TV host (Mr I Magination)
1917 - Frederick Page, CEO (British Aerospace Aircraft Group)
1918 - Leonore Annenberg American Billionaire
1920 - Armin Schibler, Dutch Swiss composer (Devil in the Winter Palace)
1920 - Liesbeth Tonckens, [Wilhelmina], actress/lecturer (Free People)
1920 - Evgeny Dragunov, Russian weapons designer (d. 1991)
1921 - Amanda Blake, [Beverly], Buffalo NY, actress (Kitty Russell-Gunsmoke)
1921 - Joseph Albert Walker, Wash DC, test pilot (X-15)
1921 - Nurv Shiner, singer
1921 - Ruth Gipps, British(?) conductor/composer
1923 - Forbes Burnham, premier Guyana (1964-85)
1924 - Gloria Vanderbilt, don't my jeans look great (poor little rich girl)
1924 - Sidney Poitier, actor (Porgy & Bess, A Raisin in the Sun) or 1927
1925 - Alex La Guma, Cape Town South Africa, novelist (A Walk in the Night)
1925 - Pramudya Ananta Tur, Javanese author (Anak semua bangsa)
1925 - Robert Altman, Kansas City MO, director (Nashville, M*A*S*H)
1925 - Heinz Kluncker, German trade union leader
1926 - Cameron Rusby, British Vice-Admiral
1926 - Edgar Meuli, cricketer (opened NZ batting in Test v South Africa 1953)
1926 - Kenneth H Olsen, US, engineer/founder (Digital Equipment Corp)
1926 - Robert Eugene Richards, Ill, pole vaulter (Olympic-gold-48, 52, 56)
1926 - Richard Matheson, American author
1927 - Roy Cohn, lawyer, "grand inquisitor" (for Sen Joseph McCarthy)
1927 - Sidney Poitier, American actor
1928 - Donald Longmore, British cardiac surgeon
1928 - Elroy Face, baseball pitcher (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1929 - Toshiro Mayuzumi, Yokohama Japan, composer (Sphenogramme)
1929 - Amanda Blake, American actress (d. 1989)
1930 - Bill Walker, British MP
1930 - Patricia Smith, New Haven Ct, actress (Bob Newhart Show)
1930 - Willie Cunningham, Northern Irish footballer
1932 - Adrian Cristobal, Filipino writer (d. 2007)
1933 - Hannes Postma, Dutch graphic artist
1934 - Bobby Unser, auto racer (1968, 75, 81 Indianapolis 500)
1934 - Lady Wharton
1936 - Larry Hovis, Wapito Wash, comedian (Gomer Pyle, Hogan's Heroes)
1936 - Marj Dusay, [Mahoney], Russell Ks, actress (Kate-Bret Maverick)
1936 - Roy Beggs, British MP
1937 - David Ackles, Illinois, vocalist/songwriter (American Gothic)
1937 - Nancy Wilson, Chillicothe Ohio, jazz vocalist (Feel Like Making Love)
1937 - Robert Huber, Munich Germany, biochemist (Nobel 1988)
1937 - Roger Penske, auto racer
1938 - Jack Bicknell, WLAF head coach (Barcelona Dragons)
1938 - Mona Mitchell, Lady-in-Waiting to Princess Alexandra
1939 - Barbara Ellis, Olympia Wa, rocker (Fleetwoods)
1939 - Roy George Elroy Josephs, jazz dance teacher
1939 - Frank Arundel, English footballer
1940 - Barbara Laine Ellis, singer
1940 - Christoph Eschenbach, Breslau, Germany, pianist/conductor
1940 - Jimmy Greaves, British broadcaster/soccer player
1940 - RA Weiss, director (Institute of Cancer Research)
1940 - V Payne, British headmistress (Malvern Girls' College)
1941 - Buffy Sainte-Marie, Maine, folksinger (Now That the Buffalo Are Gone)
1942 - Charlie Gillett, Lancashire, rock broadcaster (Sound of the City)
1942 - Claude Miller, director (Garde a Vue, Little Thief, Wild Child), (d. 2012)
1942 - David O'Dowd, Chief Constable (Northamptonshire)
1942 - Mitch McConnell, (Sen-R-KY, 1985- )
1942 - Peter Strauss, Croton-on-Hudson NY, actor (Rich Man Poor Man)
1942 - Phil Esposito, NHL center/GM (Bruins, Rangers)
1943 - Aleksandr Pavlovich Alexandrov, Russian, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-9, TM-3)
1943 - Antonio Inoki, [Kanji Rikidozan], wrestler (NJPW/JWA)
1943 - Lord McNally
1943 - Mike Leigh, dramatist/director (High Hopes, Secrets & Lies)
1944 - Lew Soloff, Bkln NY, rocker (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
1944 - Roger Knapman, British MP
1944 - Willem van Hanegem, Dutch soccer champ/coach (Feyenoord)
1944 - Robert de Cotret, French Canadian politician (d. 1999)
1945 - Alan Hull, singer/composer
1945 - Andrew Bergman, director/screenwriter (Soapdish, Honeymoon in Vegas)
1945 - Brion James, American actor (d. 1999)
1945 - Annu Kapoor, Indian actor
1946 - Brenda Blethyn, actress (Secrets & Lies)
1946 - J[erome] Geils, NYC, rock guitarist (J Geils Band-Centerfold)
1946 - Mieke H A Boers-Wijnberg, Dutch MP (CDA)
1946 - Sandy Duncan, Henderson Tx, actress (Hogan Family)
1947 - Andre van Duin, [Kyvon], Dutch entertainer (Bloemkoole)
1947 - Jennifer O'Neill, Rio de Janeiro Brazil, actress (Summer of '42)
1947 - Eggert Magnusson, Icelandic football executive
1947 - Peter Osgood, English footballer (d. 2006)
1947 - Peter Strauss, American actor
1948 - A C Fabian, astronomer
1948 - Barry Wordsworth, conductor
1948 - Billy Zoom, musician
1948 - Gerda Boykin, LPGA golfer
1948 - John Browne, group chief executive, British Petroleum Company
1949 - Eddie Hemmings, cricket off-spinner (immense England)
1949 - Ivana Trump, Gottwaldov Cz, ex-wife of Donald Trump (1st Wives Club)
1950 - John Voldstad, Oslo Norway, actor (Darryl-Newhart)
1950 - Walter Becker, NYC, rock bassist (Steely Dan-Peg)
1950 - Ken Shimura, Japanese performer and actor
1951 - Bonnie Lauer, LPGA golfer
1951 - Edward Albert, LA Ca, actor (Jeff-Falcon Crest, Butterflies are Free)
1951 - Gordon Brown, Giffnock, Renfrewshire, Scotland, British Labour Prime Minister (2007–10)
1951 - Kathy Baillie, Morristown NJ, country vocalist (Baille Boys-Oh Heart)
1951 - Phil Neal, English soccer player
1951 - Randy California, [Wolfe], Cal, guitarist (Spirit-I Got a Line on You)
1952 - Catherine Cummins, Clintwood Va, 1st of 5 siblings born on 2/20
1953 - Carol Cummins, Clintwood Va, 2nd of 5 siblings born on 2/20
1953 - Riccardo Chailly, Milan Italy, conductor (West Berlin Symph Orch)
1953 - Poison Ivy, American musician (The Cramps)
1954 - Anthony Stewart Head, actor (Buffy Vampire Slayer)
1954 - Jon Brant, rock bassist (Cheap Trick)
1954 - Patty Hearst Shaw, SF, famous kidnap hostage (Tanya)
1954 - Vasili Vasilyevich Tsibliyev, Rus col/cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-17, TM-25)
1955 - Kelsey Grammer, Virgin Islands, actor (Fraiser Crane-Cheers/Fraiser)
1956 - Charles Cummins, Clintwood Va, 3rd of 5 siblings born on 2/20
1956 - Charlie Adler, American voice actor
1957 - Glen Hanlon, Canadian ice hockey coach
1958 - Carol Ficatier, Auscene France, playmate (December, 1985)
1958 - James Wilby, Burma, actor (Howards End, Maurice)
1959 - Bill Gullickson, US baseball pitcher (Detroit Tigers)
1959 - Joel Rifkind, NY serial killer
1959 - Scott Evans Brayton, racing car driver
1960 - Kee Marcello, rocker (Europe-Final Countdown)
1960 - Mark Reilly, [Matt Bianco], rocker (Indio-Big Harvest)
1960 - Joel Hodgson, American comedian (Mystery Science Theater 3000)
1960 - Kee Marcello, Swedish guitarist
1961 - Claudia Cummins, Clintwood Va, 4th of 5 siblings born on 2/20
1961 - Imogen Stubbs, Rothbury England, actress (Summer Story)
1961 - Steve Lundquist, US swimmer (Olympics-2 gold-1984)
1962 - Adam Schreiber, NFL center/guard (Atlanta Falcons, NY Giants)
1962 - Joel Ellis, rocker
1962 - Ria Coyne, Scranton Penn, comedienne (Betsy-Batman Forever)
1962 - Kenn Nesbitt, American children's author
1963 - Charles Barkley, Leads Ab, NBA forward (Phoenix, Rockets, Oly-gold-96)
1963 - Ian Brown, English rock vocalist (Stone Roses-Made of Stone)
1963 - William Baldwin, NY, actor (Backdraft, Sliver, Flatliners)
1963 - Marilisa Xenogiannakopoulou, Greek politician
1963 - Jon Lynn Christensen, former Nebraska Congressman
1964 - Christian Ruuttu, Lappeenranta FIN, hockey forward (Team Finland)
1964 - French Stewart, NM, actor (Harry Solomon-Third Rock From the Sun)
1964 - Jeffrey Allan Maggert, Columbia MO, PGA golfer (1993 Walt Disney)
1964 - Terry Ilous, rock vocalist (XYZ, Cannibal Jacket) [or Jun 28]
1964 - Rodney Rowland, American actor
1965 - Federica Moro, Carate Brianza Italy, Miss Italy (1982)
1966 - Britt Hager, NFL linebacker (Denver Broncos, St Louis Rams)
1966 - Cecilia Cummins, Clintwood Va, 5th of 5 siblings born on 2/20
1966 - Cindy Crawford, Dekalb Ill, super model (Sports Illustrated Swimsuit)
1966 - Dennis Allen Mitchell, Cherry Point NC, 100m/200m (Olympics-silver-96)
1966 - Derek Lilliquist, US baseball pitcher (Cleveland Indians, Atl Braves)
1967 - Andrew Shue, actor (Melrose Place)
1967 - Broderick Thomas, NFL linebacker (Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Minn, Cowboys)
1967 - Chris Singleton, NFL linebacker (Miami Dolphins)
1967 - Kurt Cobain, rock vocalist (Nirvana)/husband of Courtney Love
1967 - Kurt Knudsen, US baseball pitcher (Detroit Tigers)
1967 - Lili Taylor, actress (Ransom, Short Cuts)
1967 - Rebekka Lynn Armstrong, Bakersfield Ca, playmate (Sep, 1986)
1967 - Theresa Luke, Vancouver BC, rower (Olympics-96)
1967 - Tom Waddle, NFL player (Chicago Bears/Cincinnati Bengals)
1967 - Katherine Soucie, American voice actress
1968 - Bennie Goods, CFL defensive tackle (Edmonton Eskimos)
1968 - Lorraine Olivia, Geneva Ill, playmate (Nov, 1990)
1968 - Ted Hankey, English darts player
1969 - Tommy Vardell, NFL running back (Cleveland Browns, Detroit Lions)
1969 - [Touchdown] Tommy Vardell, NFL running back (Cleveland Browns)
1969 - Vaginal Davis, American drag queen and performance artist
1969 - Gedo, Japanese professional wrestler
1970 - Bryan Robinson, defensive end (St Louis Rams)
1970 - Cheyenne Brando, Papeete Tahiti, daughter of Marlon
1970 - Jeff Robinson, NFL defensive end (Denver Broncos, St Louis Rams)
1970 - Leo Stefan, Chelyabinsk Russia, hockey forward (Team Germany)
1971 - Jari Litmanen, soccer player (Ajax)
1971 - Shalanda Burt, US murderess
1971 - Shawn McKenzie, American programmer
1972 - Corinna Harney, Bremerhaven Germany, playmate (Aug, 1991)
1972 - K-OS, Canadian musician/rapper
1973 - Vladimir Iiic, WLAF defensive end (Barcelona Dragons, Rhein Fire)
1974 - Katerina Kroupova, Olomouc Czech, tennis star (1994 Futures-Sofia-BUL)
1974 - Ophelie Winter, French actress
1975 - Brendan Witt, Humboldt, NHL defenseman (Washington Capitals)
1975 - Brian Littrell, singer (Backstreet Boys)
1975 - Ismael Kirui, Marakwet Kenya, 5k runner
1975 - Liván Hernández, Cuban baseball player
1976 - Rohan Gavaskar, Left-handed batsman, India ODI 2004 (son of Sunil Gavaskar)
1976 - Ed Graham, English drummer (The Darkness)
1976 - Gail Kim, Canadian professional wrestler
1977 - Sarah Ryan, Adelaide SA Australia, swimmer (Olympics-96)
1977 - Stephon Marbury, NBA guard (Minn Timberwolves)
1977 - Veronica Ledesma, Miss Universe-Argentina (1996)
1977 - Bartosz Kizierowski, Polish swimmer
1977 - T.J. Slaughter, American football player
1977 - Amal Hijazi, Lebanese singer and model
1978 - Andrea Moody, Abbotsford BC, 4X100 swimmer (Olympics-96)
1978 - Lauren Ambrose, American actress
1978 - Jakki Degg, English glamour model/actress
1978 - Jay Hernandez, American actor
1978 - Julia Jentsch, German actress
1980 - Artur Boruc, Polish footballer
1980 - Imanol Harinordoquy, French rugby union footballer
1981 - Tony Hibbert, English footballer
1981 - Chris Thile, American musician
1982 - Jason Hirsh, American baseball player
1983 - Jose Morales, Puerto Rican baseball player
1983 - Justin Verlander, American baseball player
1985 - Ryan Sweeney, American baseball player
1985 - Yulia Volkova, Russian singer (t.A.T.u.)
1988 - Rihanna, Barbadian singer
1989 - Melanie Leishman, Canadian actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 20, 2013, 11:29:21 AM

This Day in History for 20th February


Famous Deaths

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Abolitionist Frederick Douglass (1895)         Chemist and Nobel                        US Admiral Chester Nimitz (1966)
                                                                Laureate Henri Moissan (1907)


702 - K'inich Kan B'alam II, king of the Maya state of Palenque (b. 635)
1054 - Yaroslav I, the Wise, ruler (Kiev), dies
1154 - Saint Wulfric of Haselbury Plucknett
1171 - Conan IV, Duke of Brittany (b. 1138)
1194 - Tancredo of Lecce, King of Sicily, dies
1258 - Al-Musta'sim, last Abbasid Caliph of Baghdad
1408 - Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, English statesman (b. 1342)
1431 - Pope Martin V [Oddo Colonna] dies, (b. 1368)
1524 - Tecún Umán, last leader of the Quiché-Maya
1569 - Mark van Vaernewijck, Flemish nobleman/politician, dies at 50
1579 - Nicholas Bacon, English politician (b. 1509)
1595 - Ernst, archduke of Austria, dies at 41
1618 - Philip William, Prince of Orange (b. 1554)
1626 - John Dowland, composer, dies
1628 - Gregor Aichinger, German composer/organist, dies at about 63
1656 - James Ussher, Irish bible scholar/anglican archbishop, dies at 76
1667 - David ben Samuel Halevi, rabbi/author (Shulchan Aruch), dies
1707 - Aurangzeb, Mogul emperor of India (1658-1707), dies
1731 - Frederich Karl Erbach, composer, dies at 50
1737 - Elizabeth Rowe, poet, dies
1746 - Guillaume Coustou Sr, French sculptor (Mary Leszczynska), dies at 68
1762 - Tobias Mayer, German astronomer (b. 1723)
1771 - Jean Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan, French geophysicist (b. 1678)
1773 - Charles Emanuel I, King of Sardinia/Duke of Savoy (CE III), dies at 71
1778 - Laura Bassi, Italian scholar (b. 1711)
1786 - Johann Wolfgang Kleinknecht, composer, dies at 70
1788 - Gijsbert John van Hardenbroeck, Dutch regent (Utrecht), dies at 68
1790 - Joseph II, Emperor of Holy Roman empire, dies at 48
1803 - Marie Dumesnil, French actress (b. 1713)
1806 - Lachlan McIntosh, Scottish-born American military and political leader (b. 1725)
1809 - Johann Joseph Emmert, composer, dies at 76
1810 - Andreas Hofer, milt leader (fought Napoleon's France), executed at 42
1810 - Johann Friedrich Kranz, composer, dies at 57
1817 - Martin de Ron, composer, dies at 27
1845 - Pavel Ivanovich Dulgorukov, composer, dies at 57
1848 - [Willem] Alexander FCNM, prince of Neth/gen-maj, dies at 29
1851 - Josef Alois Ladurner, composer, dies at 81
1855 - Joseph Hume, social reformer, dies
1860 - Henry Drummond, English banker/religious leader, dies at 69
1871 - Paul Kane, Irish-born painter (b. 1810)
1892 - Hermann Kopp, German chemist (Law of Kopp), dies at 74
1893 - P.G.T. Beauregard, American Confederate general (b. 1818)
1895 - Frederick Douglass, escaped slave, anti-slavery leader, dies at 77
1904 - Gustav Adolf Heinze, composer, dies at 83
1905 - Jeremiah W. Farnham, American merchant captain
1907 - Henri Moissan [Ferdinand-Frederic-], chemist (Nobel 1906), dies at 54
1910 - Boetros Ghali, Egyptian premier, murdered
1911 - Alexander Alexandrovich Kopilov, composer, dies at 56
1911 - Peter Nicolai von Wilm, composer, dies at 76
1916 - Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish politician (Nobel 1908), dies at 71
1920 - Robert E Peary, US pole explorer (North Pole, 6/4/1909), dies at 63
1936 - John Hope, president of Atlanta University, dies at 67
1936 - Max Schreck, German actor (b. 1879)
1937 - "Barlow" Carkeek, Aust cricket wicketkeeper (1912 series), dies
1941 - La Bolduc, French Canadian singer and songwriter (b. 1894)
1942 - Guido Gasperini, composer, dies at 76
1946 - Hugh Allen, musician, dies
1951 - Howard Brockway, composer, dies at 80
1958 - Thurston Hall, actor (Mr Schuyler-Topper), dies at 75
1959 - Ray McDonald, dancer, dies of barbituate overdose at 38
1960 - Leonard Woolley, archaeologist, dies
1961 - Otto E Huiswoud, [Frank Billings], editor (Negro Worker), dies at 67
1961 - Percy Aldridge Grainger, Australian/US composer/pianist, dies at 78
1962 - Halliwell Hobbes, dies at 64
1963 - Ferenc Fricsay, Hungarian conductor (b. 1914)
1963 - Jacob Gade, Danish composer(b. 1879)
1964 - R T Stanyforth, English cricket wicketkeeper (South Africa 1927-28), dies
1965 - Fred Immler, German actor (b. 1880)
1966 - Chester W Nimitz, US admiral (WW II), dies at 80
1968 - Anthony Asquith, British director (Court Martial), dies at 65
1969 - Ernest Ansermet, Swiss conductor/composer, dies at 85
1969 - Jack Ingram, actor (Law of the West), dies of heart attack at 66
1970 - Albert Louis Wolff, composer, dies at 86
1970 - Sophie Treadwell, American playwright and journalist (b. 1885)
1972 - Herbert Menges, composer, dies at 69
1972 - Walter Winchell, writer/actor (Dondi, Love & Hisses), dies at 74
1973 - Brigitte Reimann, writer, dies at 39
1973 - Joseph Szigeti, Hungarian/US violinist, dies at 80
1973 - Maurice Dallimore, actor (Collector), dies at 60
1974 - David Monrad Johansen, composer, dies at 85
1975 - Edgar "Cookie" Fairchild, bandleader (Jerry Colonna Show), dies at 76
1975 - Lillian Fontaine, actress (Suddenly it's Spring), dies at 88
1975 - Robert Strauss, actor (Sgt Gruzewsky-Mona McCluskey), dies at 61
1976 - Kathryn Kuhlman, religious leader/faith healer, dies
1980 - Alice Longworth Roosevelt, youngest daughter of Theodore, dies at 96
1983 - James G Richardson, (Tim Cassidy-Sierra), dies at 37 in ski accident
1983 - Ray Vitte, actor (Doc, Cody-Quest), killed by police at 33
1983 - Fritz Köberle, Austrian-Brazilian physician (b. 1910)
1984 - Fikret Dzhamil Amirov, composer, dies at 61
1985 - Clarence Nash, voice (Donald Duck), dies at 80 of leukemia, in Calif
1986 - Francisco Paolo Mignone, composer, dies at 88
1986 - Jacobus G Rietkerk, Dutch foreign minister (VVD), dies at 58
1987 - Ivan Brkanovic, composer, dies at 80
1992 - Andrew Schenck, conducter, dies of melanoma at 51
1992 - Dick York, actor (Bewitched), dies of emphysema at 63
1992 - Joan Dixon, actress (Hot Lead, Bunco Squad, Gunplay), dies at 66
1992 - Roberto D'Aubuisson, El Salvadorian founder (ARENA), dies
1993 - Ferruccio Lamborghini, Italian auto-designer (Miura), dies
1994 - Derek Jarman, English director (Last of England), dies at 52
1994 - Manuel F "Garincha" dos Santos, soccer player (Brazil), dies at 49
1995 - John Humphreys Whitfield, italianist, dies at 88
1995 - Shlomo Averbach, Rabbi, buried in Jerusalem, 250,000 attend
1996 - Jeffrey Kindersley Quill, Test pilot, dies at 83
1996 - Michael Herford Wooller, TV/film producer, dies at 69
1996 - Toru Takemitsu, composer, dies at 65
1996 - Walter Charles Marshall, scientist, dies at 63
1996 - Solomon Asch, American psychologist (b. 1907)
1997 - Zachary Breaux, American jazz guitarist (b. 1960)
1999 - Sarah Kane, English playwright (b. 1971)
1999 - Gene Siskel, American film critic (b. 1946)
2000 - Anatoly Sobchak, Russian politician (b. 1937)
2001 - Rosemary DeCamp, American actress (b. 1910)
2003 - Maurice Blanchot, French author (b. 1907)
2003 - Orville Freeman, American politician (b. 1918)
2003 - Mushaf Ali Mir, Pakistani Chief of the Air Staff (b. 1947)
2003 - Harry Jacunski, American football player
2003 - Ty Longley, American guitarist (Great White) (b. 1971)
2005 - Sandra Dee, American actress (b. 1944)
2005 - John Raitt, American actor (b. 1917)
2005 - Hunter S. Thompson, American journalist and author (b. 1937)
2005 - Tom Willmore, English geometer (b. 1919)
2005 - Pam Bricker, American jazz singer and Thievery Corporation vocalist (b. 1954)
2006 - Curt Gowdy, American sportscaster (b. 1919)
2006 - Lucjan Wolanowski, Polish journalist, writer and traveller (b. 1920)
2007 - F. Albert Cotton, American chemist (b. 1930)
2007 - Mike Awesome, Pro Wrestler (b. 1965)
2008 - Emily Perry, English Actress (b. 1907)
2008 - Larry Davis (criminal)
2009 - Larry H. Miller, American businessman and owner of the Utah Jazz (b. 1944)
2010 - Alexander Haig, American soldier and politician (b. 1924)
2012 - Renato Dulbecco, Italian-born American virologist and Nobel laureate, dies at 97

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 21, 2013, 06:36:03 AM

This Day in History for 21th February


Historical Events

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French National Heroine Joan of Arc         British Prime Minister                          Abolitionist Frederick Douglass
                                                                   William Gladstone

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37th US President Richard Nixon              Rocker/Beatle John Lennon


362 - Athanasius returns to Alexandria.
1173 - Pope Alexander III canonizes Thomas Becket Absp of Canterbury
1245 - Thomas, the first known Bishop of Finland, is granted resignation after having confessed to
           torture and forgery.
1431 - England begins trial against Joan of Arc
1440 - The Prussian Confederation is formed.
1564 - Philip II routes cardinal Granvelle to Franche-Comte
1574 - Spanish garrison of Middelburg Neth surrenders
1583 - Groningen Neth begins using Gregorian calendar
1598 - Boris Godunov crowned tsar
1613 - Michael Romanov, son of Patriarch of Moscow, elected Russian tsar
1673 - Michiel A de Ruyter appointed lt-admiral-general of Dutch fleet
1675 - Prince Willem III appointed viceroy of Gelderland
1764 - John Wilkes thrown out of Engl House of Commons for "Essay on Women"
1777 - English ambassador Joseph Yorke demands dismissal of Governor John de Graaff for saluting
           US flag
1782 - US congress resolves establishment of a US mint
1792 - Congress passes Pres Succession Act
1795 - Freedom of worship established in France under constitution
1797 - Trinidad, West Indies surrenders to British
1804 - 1st locomotive, Richard Trevithick's, runs for 1st time, in Wales
1828 - 1st American Indian newspaper in US, "Cherokee Phoenix," published
1842 - 1st known sewing machine patented in US, John Greenough, Wash DC
1846 - 1st US woman telegrapher, Sarah G Bagley, Lowell, Mass
1853 - US authorizes minting of $3 gold pieces
1857 - Congress outlaws foreign currency as legal tender in US
1857 - US issues flying eagle cents
1858 - Edwin T Holmes installs 1st electric burglar alarm (Boston, Mass)
1861 - Navaho indians elect Herrero Grande as chief
1862 - Confederate Constitution & presidency are declared permanent
1862 - Texas Rangers win Confederate victory at Battle of Val Verde, NM
1864 - -22] Battle at Okolona, Mississippi
1864 - 1st US Catholic parish church for blacks dedicated, Baltimore
1866 - Lucy B Hobbs (Taylor) becomes 1st US woman to earn a DDS degree
1874 - Benjamin Disraeli replaces William Gladstone as English premier
1874 - Oakland Daily Tribune begins publication
1878 - 1st telephone book issued, 50 subscribers (New Harbor, Connecticut)
1882 - NYC's 24 hour race begins, winner with most mileage in 24 hours
1883 - 2nd French government of Ferry begins
1885 - Washington Monument dedicated (Wash DC)
1887 - 1st US bacteriology laboratory opens (Brooklyn)
1887 - Oregon becomes 1st US state to make Labor Day a holiday
1895 - NC Legislature, adjourns for day to mark death of Frederick Douglass
1902 - Dr Harvey Cushing, 1st US brain surgeon, does his 1st brain operation
1903 - Cornerstone laid for US army war college, Washington, DC
1904 - National Ski Association forms in Ishpeming Mich
1907 - SS Berlin sinks off Hoek van Holland Neth (142 dead)
1909 - John Galsworthy's "Strife," premieres in London
1910 - John Galsworthy's "Justice," premieres in London
1911 - Gustav Mahler conducts his last concerto (Berceuse élégique)
1914 - White Wolf troops attack Zhanjiang China
1915 - 20th Russian Army corps surrenders
1915 - World's Fair in SF opens
1916 - Battle of Verdun in WW I begins (1 million casualties)
1917 - British Mendi sinks off Isle of Wight, 627 die
1917 - Train near Chirurcha Romania catches fire & explodes; 100s die
1918 - Australians chase Turkish troop out of Jericho, Dutch Palestine
1918 - The last Carolina parakeet dies in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo.
1919 - German National Meeting accepts Anschluss: incorporation of Austria
1919 - Revolutionary strike in Barcelona
1920 - Darius Milhaud & Jean Cocteau's ballet, premieres in Paris
1921 - Constituent Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Georgia adopts the country's first
           constitution.
1922 - Airship Rome explodes at Hampton Roads Virginia; 34 die
1922 - Great Britain grants Egypt independence
1922 - WHK-AM in Cleveland OH begins radio transmissions
1923 - Andre Charlot's musical "Rats," premieres in London
1925 - 1st issue of "New Yorker" magazine published
1925 - Mass meeting of SPD's Reichsbanner Black-Red-Gold in Magdeburg
1927 - Franz Lehr's opera "Zarewitsch," premieres
1930 - Marc Connelly's "Green Pastures," premieres in NYC
1931 - Alka Seltzer introduced
1931 - Chicago White Sox & NY Giants play 1st exhibition night game
1932 - Andre Tardieu becomes premier of France
1932 - Camera exposure meter patented, WN Goodwin
1934 - Nicaraguan patriot Augusto Cesar Sandino assassinated by Natl Guard
1937 - Initial flight of the first successful flying car, Waldo Waterman's Arrowbile.
1937 - The League of Nations bans foreign national "volunteers" in the Spanish Civil War.
1939 - Belgian government of Pierlot forms
1941 - Omar Bradley is promoted to the rank of brigadier general
1942 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Jane Vaughn
1942 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Bobby Specht
1943 - Dutch RC bishops protest against persecution of Jews
1943 - German offensive at Western Dorsalgebergte Tunisia
1944 - "War As It Happens" news show premieres on NBC TV (NYC only)
1945 - Archbishop De Jong calls for help with war casualties
1945 - British Army captures Goch
1945 - US 10th Armour division overthrows Orscholz line
1946 - Anti-British demonstrations in Egypt
1947 - 1st broadcast of 1st US TV soap opera "A Woman to Remember"
1947 - 1st instant developing camera demonstrated in NYC, by E H Land
1947 - Whipper Billy Watson beats Bill Longson, to become wrestling champ
1948 - NASCAR is incorporated.
1950 - WOI TV channel 5 in Ames-Des Moines, IA (ABC/PBS) begins broadcasting
1951 - SC House urges "Shoeless Joe" Jackson be reinstated
1952 - Bangladesh Martyrs Day (martyrs of Bengali Language Movement)
1952 - Dick Button performs 1st figure skating triple jump in competition
1953 - "Maggie" closes at National Theater NYC after 5 performances
1953 - F Crick & J Watson discover structure of DNA-molecule
1953 - Longest collegiate basketball game (6 OTs) Niagara beats Siena 88-81
1957 - Dodgers (Fort Worth) & Cubs (LA) "trade" minor league franchises
1958 - "Portotino" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 3 performances
1958 - Egypt-Syria as UAR elect Nasser president (99.9% vote)
1960 - Fay Crocker wins LPGA Lake Worth Golf Open
1961 - Friedrich Durrenmatt's "Die Physiker," premieres in Zurich
1961 - Gabon adopts constitution
1961 - Mercury-Atlas 2 reentry Test reaches 172 km
1962 - Minister De Pous confirms natural gas reserves in Groningen Neth
1963 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1964 - UK flies 24,000 rolls of Beatle wallpaper to US
1966 - Indonesia's president Sukarno fires General Nasution
1968 - 150,000 demonstrate against leftist students in West-Berlin
1968 - Baseball announces a minimum annual salary of $10,000
1969 - 1st launching of heavy N-1 rocket at Baikonur Kazachstan (explodes)
1969 - Ted Williams signs 5-year contract to manage Wash Senators
1970 - Jackson 5 make TV debut on "American Bandstand"
1970 - Pathet Lao conquerors Xieng Khuang & Muong Suy
1971 - Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Sears Women's World Golf Classic
1971 - Series of tornadoes cuts through Miss & La killing 117
1971 - The Convention on Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna.
1972 - Michael Weller's "Moonchildren," premieres in NYC
1972 - Richard Nixon becomes 1st US president to visit China
1973 - Chicago Black Hawks, record 262nd NHL game without being shut-out
1973 - Israeli fighters shoot Libyan aircraft down, killing 108
1974 - Israeli forces leave western Suez
1974 - Silver hits record $5.96½ an ounce in London
1974 - Yugoslavia adopts constitution
1975 - John Lennon releases "Rock 'n' Roll" album
1975 - John Mitchell, HR Haldeman & John D Ehrlichman sentenced to 2½-8 yrs
1976 - "Rockabye Hamlet" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 7 perfs
1976 - Cardinal Willebrands installed as archbishop of Utrecht
1977 - 74 Unification Church couples wed in NYC
1979 - Japan launches Hakucho x-ray satellite & Corsa-B (550/580 km)
1979 - 2 Iowa girls HS basketball teams play 4 scoreless quarters game was won 4-2 in 4th overtime
           period
1980 - Eric Heiden skates Olympic record 1500m in 1:55.44
1980 - Hanni Wenzel is 1st Liechtensteiner to win Olymp gold (giant slalom)
1981 - "Yorkshire Ripper" Peter Sutcliffe, murderer of 13 women, captured
1981 - Charles Rocket clearly says "Sorry" on Saturday Night Live
1981 - Japan launches Hinotori satellite to study solar flares (580/640 k)
1981 - NASA launches Comstar D-4
1982 - "Ain't Misbehavin'" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 1604 perfs
1982 - "Little Me" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 36 performances
1982 - Beth Daniel wins LPGA Bent Tree Ladies Golf Classic
1983 - Donald Davis runs 1 mile backwards in 6 m 7.1 s
1983 - NBA San Diego Clippers begin a 29 game road losing streak
1985 - Evert van Benthem wins 13th Friese 11 city skateing race
1985 - Largest NBA crowd to date 44,970 (Atlanta at Detroit)
1985 - Tim Raines is awarded a $12 million salary for 1985 by arbitrator
1986 - AIDS patient Ryan White returns to classes at Western Middle School
1986 - Tennis star Jimmy Connors fined $20,000 & suspended for 10 weeks
1987 - Cindy Rarick wins LPGA Tsumura Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open
1987 - Syrian army marches into Beirut
1988 - Gustafson skates world record 10km (13:48.20)
1988 - Televangelist Jimmy Swaggert confesses his sins to his congregation
1989 - Pete Rose meets with Commissioner Ueberroth to discuss his gambling
1989 - US bust Chinese ring, capture record 820 lbs heroin ($1B st value)
1989 - US capture record 820 lbs of heroin ($1 B street value)[dup]
1990 - 32nd Grammy Awards: Wind Beneath My Wings, Nick of Time wins
1991 - "Lost in Yonkers" opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC for 780 perfs
1991 - Neil Simon's "Lost in Yonkers," premieres in NYC
1991 - USSR announces Iraq agrees to a proposal to end Persian Gulf War US calls the plan
           unacceptable
1992 - Kristi Yamaguchi of US wins Olympic gold medal in women's fig skating
1993 - 43rd NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 135-132 (OT) at Salt Lake City
1993 - Sergei Bubka pole vaults world record indoor (6.15 m)
1995 - CFL's Sacramento Gold Miners become San Antonio Texans
1995 - RAF-pilot Jo Salter is 1st woman to fly in a tornado
1996 - Soyuz TM-23, launched into orbit
1997 - "Empire Strikes Back, special edition," premieres
1997 - STS 82 (Discovery 22) lands
1998 - Cup Noodles Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open
2004 - The first European political party organization, the European Greens, is established in Rome.
2007 - Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi resigns from office. His resignation is rejected by the
           President of Italy, Giorgio Napolitano.
2012 - Yemen voters go to the polls for a presidential election where the only candidate on the ballot
           paper is vice-president Abd Rabbuh Mansur al-Hadi

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 21, 2013, 06:37:36 AM

This Day in History for 21th February


Famous Weddings

1952 - Liz Taylor's 2nd marriage (Michael Wilding)
1988 - Actor Dudley Moore (53) weds actress Brogan Lane at the Little Chapel of the West in Las
           Vegas

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 21, 2013, 06:44:56 AM

This Day in History for 21th February


Famous Birthdays

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Zimbabwean President                             Actor Alan Rickman (1946)                Actress Jennifer Love Hewitt (1979)
Robert Mugabe (1924)


1417 - Louis IX, Duke of Bayern (University of Ingolstadt)
1484 - Joachim I Nestor, elector (Brandenburg, Constitution)
1556 - Sethus Calvisius, composer
1674 - Johann Augustin Kobelius, composer
1675 - Franz Xaver Josef von Unertl, Bavarian politician (d. 1750)
1684 - Justus van Effen, writer/founder (Holland Spectator)
1690 - Christoph Stoltzenberg, composer
1705 - Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, British naval officer (d. 1781)
1710 - Willem van Haren, Frisian nobleman/poet (Human Life)
1721 - John McKinly, American physician (d. 1796)
1723 - Louis-Pierre Anquetil, French historian (d. 1808)
1728 - Peter III, Kiel Germany, Russian tsar (1762)/husband of Catherine
1730 - Charles L Fournier, Flemish writer/painter
1744 - Eise J Eisinga, Frisia, built planetarium Franeker
1776 - Vincenzo Lavigna, composer
1779 - Friedrich C von Savigny, German lawyer
1783 - Princess Catharina of Württemberg, Queen consort of Westphalia (d. 1835)
1785 - Karl A Varnhagen von Ense, German officer/author (Die Sterner)
1794 - Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, president of Mexico (1833-36)
1795 - Francisco Manuel da Silva, composer
1800 - John Henry Winder, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1865
1801 - Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda, composer
1801 - John Henry Newman, England, cardinal/author (Dream of Gerontius)
1802 - George Douglas Ramsey, Bvt Major general (Union Army), died in 1882
1805 - David Tod, US diplomat/(Gov-R-Ohio, 1861-63)
1814 - Nicolo Gabrielli, composer
1815 - Ernest Meissonier, French painter/sculptor
1817 - Jose Zorrilla y Moral, Vallodolid Spain, poet/dramatist (El rey Loco)
1821 - Charles Scribner, US, music publisher (Scribner Catalog)
1829 - Johnson Hagood, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1898
1831 - Eduard Rappoldi, composer
1836 - Clement-Philibert-Leo Delibes, composer
1836 - Emil Hartmann, composer
1844 - Charles-Marie Widor, Lyons France, composer/prof (Paris Conservatory)
1852 - [James] Burner Matthews, US playwright/critic (NY Times)
1855 - Alice Freeman Palmer, educator (Hall of Fame)
1856 - Hendrik P Berlage, architect (Stock exchange Amsterdam)
1857 - Jules de Trooz, baron/premier of Belgium (1907)
1860 - Karel Matěj Čapek-Chod, Czech journalist (d. 1927)
1860 - Goscombe John, Welsh sculptor (d. 1952)
1861 - Pierre Breville, composer
1865 - John Haden Badley, English school founder (d. 1967)
1867 - Otto Hermann Kahn, Banker, organized Metropolitan Opera Co
1875 - Jeanne Louise Calment, France, world's oldest woman (died at 122)
1876 - Constantin Brancusi, Romanian/French sculptor (Princesse X)
1876 - Pyotr Konchalovsky, Russian painter (d. 1956)
1877 - Jacob D du Toit [Totius], South African poet/theologist
1878 - Fritz Cortolezis, composer
1878 - The Mother, Indian spiritual leader (d. 1973)
1880 - Frank Orth, Phila Pa, actor (Boston Blackie, Brothers)
1880 - Waldemar Bonsels, German writer (d. 1952)
1881 - Savilly Tartakower, Austrian/Polish/French chess player
1883 - J M M "Mick" Commaille, cricketer (dual South African cricket/soccer rep)
1885 - Sacha Guitry, France, actor/playwright (Story of a Cheat)
1887 - Savielly [Xavier] G Tartakower, Austrian/Polish/French chess player
1888 - Florence Bates, TX, actress (Moon & Sixpence, Love Crazy, San Antonio)
1888 - Willem Banning, Dutch theologist/sociologist (Religious Build Up)
1888 - Clemence Dane, British novelist and playwright (d. 1965)
1889 - Felix Aylmer, actor (Anastasia, Hamlet, Iron Duke, Macbeth, St Joan)
1893 - Andres Segovia, Linares Spain, classical guitarist, (d. 1987)
1893 - Vsevolod Pudovkin, Soviet film director/theorist (Mother, Deserter)
1893 - Celia Lovsky, Russian-born actress (d. 1979)
1895 - Carl Peter Henrik Dam Danish biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1976)
1896 - Sylvain Poons, Dutch cabaret performer (Blue Jackets)
1897 - Celia Lovsky, Vienna Aus, actress (Airport, Harlow, T'Pau-Star Trek)
1898 - Vassily Vainonen, Russian ballet dancers/choreographer (Gayaneh)
1900 - Madeleine Renaud, French actress/theater director (Plaisir)
1900 - Sydney Arnold, English comic/actor (Miss Jones & Son)
1902 - Arthur D Nock, English/US historian (St Paul)
1902 - Bob [Hijman] Scholte, Dutch vocalist [or 1909]
1902 - John Smallenbroek, Dutch minister of Internal Affairs [or 1909]
1903 - Eric Fogg, composer
1903 - Madeleine Renaud, Paris France, actress (Helene, Longest Day)
1903 - Raymond Queneau, [M Presle], French author (Un Enfant a Dit)
1903 - Thomas Yawkey, baseball owner (Boston Red Sox)
1903 - Fairfax M. Cone, American advertising executive (d. 1977)
1903 - Anaïs Nin, French writer (d. 1977)
1904 - Armand Preud'homme, Flemish organist/poet
1907 - Wystan Hugh Auden, US, poet (Age of Anxiety-Pulitzer 1948)
1909 - George G F van Renesse, Dutch pianist/music director
1909 - Hans Erni, Switz, painter/sculptor
1909 - Helen O Dickens, [Henderson], US physician/gynaecologist
1910 - Douglas R S Bader, British pilot (WW II)
1910 - Carmine Galante, Italian-born gangster (d. 1979)
1910 - Eddie Waring, British sports commentator (d. 1986)
1912 - Arline Judge, actress (Girls in Chains, Mad Wednesday, Age of Consent)
1912 - Nikita Magaloff, Russian/Swiss pianist (Arkadia 598-Schubert)
1912 - Patrick Murphy, English multi-millionaire
1913 - Glenn M Anderson, (Rep-D-CA, 1969- )
1913 - Roger Laurent, Belgian racing driver (d. 1997)
1914 - Arnold S Denker, NY, US chess champion (1944-46)
1914 - Hermanus P "Piet" Mulder, Dutch journalist (Parool/VARA)
1915 - Ann Sheridan, Denton Texas, actress (Dodge City, Another World)
1915 - Godfrey Brown, England, 4 X 400m runner (Olympic-gold-1936)
1917 - Victor G M Marijnen, Dutch premier (1963-65)
1917 - Lucille Bremer, American actress (d. 1996)
1922 - Murray "the K" Kaufman, NYC DJ (5th Beatle)
1922 - Uros Krek, composer
1923 - Lola Flores, entertainer
1923 - Lucille Bremer, dancer/actress (Ruthless, Ziegfeld Follies)
1923 - Zvi Zeitlin, Dubrovnik Yugoslavia, violinist/prof (Eastman School)
1924 - Robert Mugabe, president (Zimbabwe, 1988- )
1925 - Al Fann, Cleve, actor (Alvin-He's the Mayor)
1925 - Jack Ramsay, NBA coach
1925 - Sam Peckinpah, Fresno CA, film director (Wild Bunch, Straw Dogs)
1926 - Hans Andreus, [Johan W van der Zant], Dutch poet (Animal Language)
1927 - Erma Bombeck, Dayton Ohio, humorist (Grass is Always Greener...)
1927 - Hubert de Givenchy, Beauvais France, fashion designer (Audrey Hepburn)
1927 - Pierre Mercure, composer
1929 - James Beck, English actor (d. 1973)
1930 - Elizabeth Adams, madame
1932 - Harald V, King of Norway (1991- )
1933 - Nina Simone, [Eunice Waymon], Tyron NC, vocalist/pianist (Porgy)
1934 - Rue McClanahan, Healdton Oklahoma, actress (Maude, Golden Girls)
1935 - Mark McManus, actor (Taggart, Nightstick, 2000 Weeks, 12th Night)
1935 - Jean Pelletier, French Canadian political operative
1936 - Barbara Jordan, Houston, Tx, (Rep-D-Tx, 1972-78)
1937 - Gary Lockwood, Van Nuys Cal, actor (2001, Survival Zone, Lieutenant)
1937 - Ron Clarke, Australia, runner (held 19 world records)
1938 - Beryl F Anthony Jr, (Rep-D-CA, 1979- )
1939 - Richard Beymer, Avoca IA, actor (West Side Story, Diary of Anne Frank)
1939 - Ron Nagle, rock producer (Riding with the King)
1940 - John Lewis, (Rep-D-Georgia)
1940 - Peter McEnery, England, actor (Game is Over, Moonspinners)
1940 - Peter Gethin, British racing driver
1941 - Charlie Shelburne, English earl/large landowner
1942 - Margarethe Von Trotta, Berlin Germany, actress/director (Marianne)
1943 - David Geffin, Brooklyn NY, record producer (Geffin, Asylum)
1943 - Duncan Swift, jazz pianist
1943 - Roberto Faenza, director (Cop Killers, Corrupt)
1944 - Herman de Coninck, Flemish writer/poet (Impossible Work)
1944 - Kitty Winn, Wash DC, actress (Beacon Hill)
1945 - Paul Newton, rock bassist
1945 - Sudhir Naik, cricketer (Indian Test batsman in 2 Tests 1974)
1946 - Alan Rickman, actor (Robin Hood Prince of Thieves, Harry Potter)
1946 - Desmond Lewis, WI cricket batsman/keeper (avg 86.33 in 3 Tests)
1946 - Tricia Nixon Cox, Richard Milhaus' daughter (or 0202)
1946 - Tyne Daly, Madison Wisc, actress (Cagney & Lacey, Angel Unchained)
1946 - Anthony Daniels, British actor (Star Wars - C-3PO)
1946 - Bob Ryan, Boston sports columnist
1946 - Vito Rizzuto, Sicilian-born alleged mafia boss
1947 - Olympia J Snowe, (Rep-R-ME, 1979- )
1947 - Victor Sokolov, Russian journalist (d. 2006)
1948 - Larry Ragland, Richmond Va, comedian (Keep on Truckin')
1949 - Jerry Harrison, Milwaukee, rock keyboardist (Talking Heads)
1949 - Ronnie Hellström, Swedish footballer
1951 - John Parker, cricketer (NZ batsman of 70s)
1951 - Michael Cotten, rock synthesizer (Tubes)
1951 - Vince Welnick, rock keyboardist (Tubes)
1952 - Jean-Jacques Brunel, rock bassist (Stranglers-Dreamtime)
1953 - Christine Ebersole, Park Forest Ill, actress (SNL, Valerie, Tootsie)
1953 - William L Petersen, actor (Return to Lonesome Dove)
1954 - Ivo van Damme, Belgium, 800/1500m dash (Olympic-silver-1976)
1955 - Sir Steven Fayburgh, British diplomat
1956 - Woody Brown, Dayton Ohio, actor (Cliff-Facts of Life)
1958 - Alan Trammell, Garden Grove CA, infielder (Detroit Tigers)
1958 - Jack Coleman, Easton Pa, actor (Steven Carrington-Dynasty)
1958 - Jake Steinfeld, exercise expert (Body by Jake)
1958 - Mary-Chapin Carpenter, Princeton NJ, country vocalist (This Shirt)
1959 - José María Cano, Spanish musician
1960 - Steve Wynn, American singer (
1961 - Christopher Atkins, Rye NY, actor (Peter-Dallas, Blue Lagoon)
1961 - Ranking Roger, rock vocalist (English Beat-Drowning)
1961 - Yobes Ondieki, Kenya, 10K runner (world record)
1961 - Martha Hackett, American actress
1961 - Bertha Faye, American wrestler (d. 2001)
1962 - Vanessa Feltz, British television presenter
1962 - Chuck Palahniuk, American writer
1962 - David Foster Wallace, American writer
1963 - Greg Turner, Dunedin NZ, Australasia golfer
1963 - Michael Gostigian, Newtown Sq PA, pentathelete (Oly-16th-88, 92, 96)
1964 - Alana Soares, Redondo Beach Ca, playmate (Mar, 1983)
1964 - Mark E Kelly, Orange NJ, Lt USN/astronaut
1964 - Scott J Kelly, Orange NJ, Lt USN/astronaut
1964 - Willie Pless, CFL linebacker (Edmonton Eskimos)
1964 - Jane Tomlinson, British cancer campaigner (d. 2007)
1964 - Huw Higginson, British actor
1965 - Jayson Meyer, Regina Saskatchewan, hockey defenseman (Team Germany)
1965 - Keith Arthurton, cricketer (Charlestown, Nevis WI lefty bat)
1966 - Bronwen Booth, London, actress (Andy-One Life to Live, Eternal Evil)
1966 - Chris Donnels, US baseball infielder (Houston Astros)
1966 - Edie Boyer, St Paul Minn, discus thrower
1966 - Tommy Hendricks, rocker
1966 - Wendy James, London England, vocalist (Transvision Vamp-Velveteen)
1967 - Bas Roorda, Dutch soccer player (FC Groningen, NEC) [or Feb 13]
1967 - Leroy Russel Burrell, Phila, long jumper (Olympics-96)
1967 - Patrick Lodewijks, Dutch soccer player (PSV, FC Groningen)
1968 - Pellom McDaniels, NFL defensive end (KC Chiefs)
1968 - Terry Allen, NFL running back (Minnesota Vikings, Wash Redskins)
1969 - Dean Noel, CFL full back (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1969 - Petra Kronberger, Austrian alpine skiier (Olympic-gold-1992)
1969 - James Dean Bradfield, Welsh musician
1969 - Tony Meola, American footballer
1969 - Eric Wilson, American musician
1970 - Javier De La Hoya, Mexican/US baseball pitcher (Florida Marlins)
1970 - Marc Woodard, NFL linebacker (Philadelphia Eagles)
1970 - Michael Slater, cricketer (devastating Aust opening bat since 1993)
1970 - Patrick Pilloni, hockey forward (Team Austria 1998)
1970 - Will Moore, NFL wide receiver (NE Patriots, Jacksonville Jaguars)
1971 - Arco Jochemsen, Dutch soccer player (SVDB, Vitesse)
1971 - Jeff Schmidt, US baseball pitcher (California Angels)
1971 - Jey Phillips, WLAF safety (Amsterdam Admirals)
1971 - Jose Solano, actor (Baywatch)
1971 - Terry Mickens, NFL wide reciever (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1971 - Randy Blythe, American musician
1972 - Karl DeWolf, hockey defenseman (Team France 1998)
1972 - Seo Taiji, Korean musician
1973 - Brian Rolston, Flint, NHL left wing (Olympics-1994, NJ Devils)
1973 - Heri Joensen, Faroese musician
1973 - Bowie Tsang, Taiwanese singer and TV host
1974 - Alexei Lojkin, NHL forward (Belarus, Oly-98)
1974 - Rohsaan Griffin, Texas City Texas, 200m runner
1974 - Iván Campo, Spanish footballer
1974 - Roberto Heras, Spanish cyclist
1974 - Wish Bone, American rapper, (Bone Thugs-N-Harmony)
1975 - Scott Miller, Sydney NSW Australia, swimmer (Olympics-silver-96)
1975 - Troy Slaten, actor (Jerry-Parker Lewis Can't Lose)
1976 - Robin Confer, soccer forward (Olympics-96)
1976 - Ryan Smyth, Banff, NHL left wing (Edmonton Oilers)
1977 - Steve Francis, American basketball player
1977 - Chad Hutchinson, baseball and football player
1977 - Kevin Rose, American television host and Internet entrepreneur
1978 - Park Eun-hye, South Korean actress
1978 - Kim Ha Neul, South Korean actress
1978 - Nicole Parker, American actress
1979 - Jennifer Love Hewitt, actress (Sarah Reeves-Party of Five)
1979 - Pascal Chimbonda, French footballer
1979 - Carly "Carlito" Colón, Puerto Rican professional wrestler
1979 - Lonnie Ford, American football player
1980 - Parthiva Sureshwaren, Indian racing driver
1980 - Brad Fast, Canadian ice hockey player
1980 - Jim Vandermeer, Canadian ice hockey player
1980 - Tiziano Ferro, Italian singer
1982 - Bernhard Auinger, Austrian racing driver
1982 - Chantal Claret, American musician
1983 - Braylon Edwards, American football player
1983 - Franklin Gutiérrez, Venezuelan baseball player
1984 - Andrew Ellis, New Zealand rugby union player
1984 - David Odonkor, German footballer
1984 - Karina, Japanese model and actress
1985 - Bob Burton, American speedcuber
1985 - Georgios Samaras, Greek footballer
1986 - Amedeo, Belgium, son of princess Astrid/arch duke Lorenz
1986 - Charlotte Church, Welsh singer
1987 - Ellen Page, Canadian actress
1987 - Burgess Abernethy, Australian Actor
1987 - Ashley Greene, American model and actress
1989 - Corbin Bleu, American actor and singer
1989 - Kristin Herrera, American actress
1989 - Scout Taylor-Compton, American actress
1989 - Josh Walker, English footballer

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 21, 2013, 06:51:27 AM

This Day in History for 21th February


Famous Deaths

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The Warrior Pope                                       African American Activist                   Pathologist and Nobel Laureate
Pope Julius II (1513)                                         Malcolm X (1965)                                  Howard Florey (1968)


556 - Maximianus van Ravenna, bishop (Basilica S Stefano), dies
1437 - King James I of Scotland dies at 42
1471 - John of Rokycan, Czech Catholic archbishop
1513 - Julius II, [Giuliano dellea Rovere], Pope (1503-13), dies at 69
1554 - Hieronymus Bock, German doctor (founder of modern botany), dies
1595 - Robert Southwell, English Jesuit/poet, hanged
1624 - Dirck van Baburen, Dutch painter (Sepulture), dies at about 28
1648 - Christian IV, king of Denmark/Norway, dies
1653 - Adriaen Pauw, master of Heemstede/Dutch Grand Pensionary, dies at 71
1668 - John Thurloe, English Puritan spy (b. 1616)
1677 - [Benedictus] Baruch Spinoza, philosopher, dies at 44
1684 - Pieter van den Abeelen, Dutch medallist/jeweller, dies at about 75
1689 - Isaacus Vossius, Dutch [Isaac Vos], librarian, dies
1711 - Joan van Hoorn, gov-gen of Neth-Indies (1707-09), dies at 57
1715 - Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, Governor of the Province of Maryland (b. 1637)
1730 - Benedict XIII, [Pietro F Orsini], Pope (1724-30), dies at 81
1788 - Johann Georg Palitzsch, German astronomer (b. 1723)
1790 - Johann Friedrich Kloffler, composer, dies at 64
1803 - Edward Despard, last person drawn & quartered in England
1821 - Georg Friedrich von Martens, German diplomat (b. 1756)
1824 - Eugène de Beauharnais, son of Napoleon's wife, Josephine (b. 1781)
1842 - Wojciech Zywny, composer, dies at 85
1846 - Emperor Ninko of Japan (b. 1800)
1862 - Justinus A C Kerner, German family doctor/poet/writer, dies at 75
1864 - Jeffery Forrest, US Confederate brig-general, dies in battle
1872 - Pavel P Gagarin, Russian monarch/politician, dies at 82
1876 - Henry John Gauntlett, composer, dies at 70
1879 - Peter P van Bosse, Dutch liberal minister of Finance, dies at 69
1884 - John Pike Hullah, composer, dies at 71
1894 - Gustave Caillebotte, French shipbuilding designer/painter, dies at 45
1901 - George Francis FitzGerald, Irish mathematician (b. 1851)
1919 - Giovanni Bolzoni, composer, dies at 77
1919 - Habib Ullah Chan, emir of Afghanistam (1901-19), murdered at 46
1919 - Karl von Hohenzollern, Prince of Belgium, dies
1919 - Kurt Eisner, premier Bayern (soc), murdered at 51
1920 - Jacinta Marto, witness of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Fatima (b. 1910)
1924 - Salvatore Auteri Manzocchi, composer, dies at 78
1925 - Alfred Baldwin Sloan, composer, dies at 52
1926 - Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist (Nobel 1913), dies at 72
1938 - Albert Huybrechts, composer, dies at 39
1938 - George Ellery Hale, astronomer, dies
1941 - Frederick Banting, Canadian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
           (b. 1891)
1944 - Ferenc Szisz, Hungarian-born race car driver (b. 1873)
1945 - Eric Liddell, Scottish runner (Olympic-gold 1924), dies at 43
1946 - José Streel, Belgian World War II collaborator (b. 1911)
1948 - Frederick Archibald Lamond, composer, dies at 80
1949 - Ernest Walker, composer, dies at 78
1951 - Anton Roemer, Dutch actor (Gay Death), dies at 63
1956 - Edwin Franko Goldman, composer, dies at 78
1958 - Duncan Edwards, English footballer (b. 1936)
1961 - Blaise Cendrars, [Frederic Sauser-Hall], Switz, poet, dies at 73
1965 - Malcolm X, [Little], black Moslem leader, assassinated in NYC at 39
1966 - Paul Comtois, French Canadian politician (b. 1895)
1967 - Charles Beaumont, American writer (b. 1929)
1968 - Howard Florey, pharmacologist/Pathologist, Nobel Prize Laureate, dies at 69
1969 - Jose de Capriles, Mexican-born US Olympic fencer, dies
1971 - Adolph Weiss, composer, dies at 79
1972 - Bronislava Nijinska, Polish-Russian ballet dancer (b. 1891)
1972 - Eugène Tisserant, French Catholic candinal (b. 1884)
1974 - Tim Horton, Canadian hockey player (b. 1930)
1976 - Florence Ballard, rocker (Supremes), dies at 32
1976 - Frieda Inescort, Scottish actress (Meet Corliss Archer), dies at 74
1978 - Mieczysław Żywczyński, Polish historian and priest (b. 1901)
1979 - Glendon Gibbs, cricketer (Test Cricket WI v Australia 1955), dies
1979 - Ray Whitley, composer, dies
1980 - Chester H Lauck, actor (2 Weeks to Live, Goin' to Town), dies at 78
1982 - Murray the K, American impresario and disc jockey (b. 1922)
1984 - Michail A Sholochov, Russian writer (Ocean Don, Nobel 1965), dies
1985 - Eric Herfst, Dutch cabaret performer (Floris), dies at 47
1985 - Ina Claire, actress/comedienne (3 Bdwy Girls), dies of stroke at 89
1985 - Louis Hayward, actor (Lone Wolf, Survivors), dies of lung cancer at 75
1986 - Shigechiyo Izumi, Japanese sugarcane farmer, once thought to be the world's oldest man
           ever but now disputed (b. 1865)
1986 - Helen Hooven Santmyer, American writer (b. 1895)
1989 - Alex Thépot, French footballer (b. 1906)
1991 - Margot Fonteyn, ballerina (1st lady of British Ballet), dies at 71
1991 - Roger Swaybill, actor/writer (Porky's II, Breaking Point), dies at 47
1992 - Eva A Jessye, US singer/actress (Eva Jessye Choir), dies at 97
1992 - Franc Holden, British astronomer (Binary Stars), dies
1992 - Jane Pickens Langley Hoving, singer, dies at 83
1992 - William S Magginetti, dies at 98
1993 - Ferrucci Lamborghini, car maker (Lamborghini), dies at 76
1994 - Frederick Edward Nicklin, architect, dies at 68
1994 - William Elgin Swinton, child Psychiatrist, dies at 54
1995 - Robert Bolt, Brit playwright (Doctor Zhivago, Bounty), dies at 70
1996 - Horace Leonard Gold, sF writer/editor, dies at 81
1996 - Jean Burroughs, educationalist, dies at 67
1996 - Morton Gould, composer, dies at 82
1996 - Terence Edward Armstrong, polar geographer, dies at 75
1997 - Kenneth Rowntree, painter, dies at 81
1997 - Michael Hollings, catholic priest/crusader, dies at 75
1999 - Wilmer David Mizell, baseball player (b. 1930)
1999 - Gertrude B. Elion, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
           1918)
2000 - Antonio Díaz-Miguel, Spanish basketball coach (b. 1933)
2002 - Harold Furth, Austrian-born physicist (b. 1939)
2002 - John Thaw, English actor (b. 1942)
2003 - Eddie Thomson, Scottish football player and coach (b. 1947)
2004 - Guido Molinari, Canadian artist (b. 1933)
2004 - John Charles, Welsh footballer (b. 1931)
2005 - Ara Berberian, American opera singer (b. 1930)
2005 - Gérard Bessette, Quebec novelist and poet (b. 1920)
2005 - Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Cuban novelist (b. 1929)
2005 - Eugene Scott, American religious broadcaster (b. 1929)
2008 - Sunny Lowry, First British woman to swim the English Channel (b. 1911)
2008 - Ben Chapman, American actor (b. 1928)
2011 - Bernard Nathanson, American abortionist turned pro-life activist (b. 1926)
2012 - Baron Hooson [Hugh Emlyn], British politician and peer, dies at 86
2012 - Colin Ireland, British 'Gay Slayer' serial killer, dies at 57
2012 - Pierre Juneau, Canadian film and broadcast executive, dies at 89
2012 - John Michuki, Kenyan politician, dies from heart attack at 79
2012 - Barney Rosset, American publisher and free speech advocate, dies at 89
2012 - Eiko Ishioka, Japanese Costume designer, dies from pancreatic cancer at 74

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 22, 2013, 09:05:54 AM

This Day in History for 22nd February


Historical Events

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Naturalist Charles Darwin                           Writer/Poet Oscar Wilde                   30th US President Calvin Coolidge

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32nd US President                                Singer & Cultural Icon Elvis Presley        Singer-Songwriter Courtney Love
Franklin Roosevelt


896 - Pope Formosa crowned king Arnulf of Karinthie/French emperor
1071 - Battle of Cassel-Robert I the Frisian defeats Arnulf III/I
1281 - Simon de Brion elected Pope Martinus IV
1288 - Girolamo Masci elected Pope Nicolas IV
1300 - Pope Boniface VIII delegates degree
1349 - Jews are expelled from Zurich Switzerland
1495 - French King Charles VIII enters Naples to claim crown
1561 - William of Orange appointed viceroy of Burgundy/Charolais
1630 - Indians introduce pilgrims to popcorn, at Thanksgiving
1632 - Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published.
1656 - New Amsterdam granted a Jewish burial site
1744 - Battle at Toulon: English-French & Spanish fleet
1746 - French troops conquer Brussels
1746 - Jakobijnse troops vacate Aberdeen
1774 - English House of Lords rules authors do not have perpetual copyright
1775 - 1st US joint stock company (to make cloth) offers shares at 10 cents
1775 - Jews expelled from outskirts of Warsaw Poland
1784 - 1st US ship to trade with China, "Empress of China," sails from NY
1797 - Last Invasion of Britain: 1797 The Last Invasion of Britain by the French, begins near
          Fishguard, Wales.
1819 - Spain renounces claims to Oregon Country, Florida (Adams-Onís Treaty)
1821 - Spain sells (east) Florida to United States for $5 million
1825 - Russia & Britain establish Alaska-Canada boundary
1828 - Russia & Persia sign Peace of Turkmantsjai
1835 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin leave Valdivia Chile
1836 - Dutch garrison evacuates fort Du Bus New Guinea
1847 - Battle of Buena Vista: US troops beat Mexican army
1854 - 1st meeting of Republican Party (Michigan)
1856 - 1st national meeting of Republican Party (Pittsburgh)
1858 - Dion Boucicault's "Jessie Brown," premieres in NYC
1860 - Organized baseball played in SF for 1st time
1860 - Shoe-making workers of Lynn Ms, strike successfully for higher wages
1861 - On a bet Edward Weston leaves Boston to walk to Lincoln's inauguration
1864 - -27] Battle at Dalton Georgia
1864 - 2nd/last day of Battle of Okolona, MS
1864 - Skirmish at Calfkiller Creek (Sparta) Tennessee
1865 - Battle of Wilmington, NC (Fort Anderson) occupied by Federals
1865 - Tennessee adopts a new constitution abolishing slavery
1872 - 1st national convention of Prohibition Party (Columbus Ohio)
1876 - Johns Hopkins University opens
1878 - Greenback Labor Party forms (Toledo Ohio)
1879 - 1st 5 cent & 10 cent store opened by Frank W Woolworth (Utica NY)
1882 - With 120 miles James Saunders wins NYC's 24 hour race & $100 prize
1882 - The Serbian kingdom is refounded.
1887 - Union Labor Party organized in Cincinnati
1888 - John Reid of Scotland demonstrates golf to Americans (Yonkers NY)
1889 - US President Cleveland signs bill to admit Dakotas, Montana & Washington state to the union
1892 - "Lady Windermere's Fan" by Oscar Wilde premieres at St James (London)
1892 - Manitoba Rugby Football Union forms
1898 - Black postmaster lynched, his wife & 3 daughters shot in Lake City SC
1900 - Battle at Wynne's Hill, South-Africa (Boers vs British army)
1900 - Hawaii became a US territory
1903 - Due to drought the US side of Niagara Falls runs short of water
1904 - The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South Orkney Islands to Argentina,
           the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908.
1906 - Black evangelist William J Seymour arrives in LA Calif
1907 - 1st cabs with taxi meters begin operating in London
1907 - Leonid N Andreyev's "Zhizn Cheloveka," premieres in St Petersburg
1909 - Great White Fleet, 1st US fleet to circle the globe, returns to Va
1912 - J Vedrines makes 1st airplane flight over 100 mph-161.29 kph
1913 - Lowell HS, SF opens (on it's 1st campus)
1915 - Germany begins "unrestricted" submarine war
1917 - German Navy torpedoes 7 Dutch ships
1918 - Germany claims Baltic states, Finland & Ukraine from Russia
1920 - 1st artificial rabbit used at a dog race track (Emeryville California)
1922 - Congress authorizes Grant Memorial $1 gold coin
1923 - 1st successful chinchilla farm in US (LA California)
1923 - Transcontinental airmail service begins
1924 - 1st presidential radio address (Calvin Coolidge)
1927 - ARC soccer team forms in Alphen on the Rhine
1927 - Baruch Spinosa's house of mourning opened as a museum
1928 - 1st solo England to Australia flight lands (Bert Hinkler)
1932 - Purple Heart award reinstituted
1933 - Goering forms SA/SS-police, shoots 40-50
1934 - "It Happened One Night," opens at NY's Radio City Music Hall
1935 - Airplanes are no longer permitted to fly over the White House
1936 - Construction on Ypenburg Neth airport begins
1939 - Netherlands recognizes Franco-regime in Spain
1940 - Finnish troops vacate Koivisto island
1940 - German air force sinks 2 German destroyers, killing 578
1941 - Arthur T "Bomber" Harris becomes British Air Marshal
1941 - German assault on El Agheila Libya
1941 - IG Farben decides building Buna-Werke in Auschwitz Concentration Camp
1941 - Nazi SS begin rounding up Jews of Amsterdam
1941 - Paul Creston's 1st Symphony, premieres
1941 - Roy Harris' "Ballad of a Railroad Man," premieres
1942 - World War II: President Franklin Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the
           Philippines as American defenses collapse
1943 - Members of White Rose are executed in Nazi Germany.
1944 - US 8th Air Force bombs Enschede, Arnhem & Nijmegen by mistake/800+ die
1945 - Arab League froms (Cairo)
1945 - British troops take Ramree Island, Burma
1945 - Canadian 3rd Division occupies Moyland
1948 - Arabs bomb attack in Jerusalem, 50 die
1950 - Brockway & Weinstock publish "Men of Music" (rev ed)
1955 - British aircraft carrier Ark Royal sets sail
1956 - 1st British soccer match at Kunstlicht: Portsmouth vs Newcastle United
1956 - Elvis Presley's 1st hit in Billboard's top 10: "Heartbreak Hotel"
1957 - Jockey Ted Atkinson, 3,500th win
1957 - Walter O'Malley says Dodgers may play 10 exhibitions in California in 1958
1958 - "Portotino" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 3 performances
1958 - Australian swimmer Jon Konrads sets 6 world records in 2 days
1958 - Egypt & Syria form United Arab Republic (UAR)
1958 - Indonesian air force bombs Padang, Sumatra/Menado, Celebes
1959 - 1st Daytona 500 auto race-Lee Petty wins (135.521 MPH)
1962 - Wilt Chamberlain sets NBA record with 34 free throw attempts
1963 - Beatles begin their own music publishing company (Northern Songs)
1964 - Beatles arrive back in England after their 1st US visit
1965 - USSR launches Kosmos 57 into earth orbit (Voskhod Test)
1966 - Soviets launch Kosmos 110 with Veterok & Ugolek, 1st 2-dog crew
1967 - Barbara Garson's "MacBird," premieres in NYC
1967 - Sling-shot goal post & 6' wide border around field are standard in NFL
1967 - 25,000 US & S Vietnamese troops launched Operation Junction City, offensive to smash Viet
          Cong stronghold near Cambodian border
1968 - Rock group Genesis release their 1st record "Silent Sun"
1969 - Barbara Jo Rubin becomes 1st female jockey to win at a major US track
1970 - "Charles Aznavour" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 23 perfs
1971 - Lt Gen Hafiz al-Assad becomes President of Syria
1972 - Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani becomes Amir & Prime Minister of Qatar
1972 - President Nixon, meets with Chinese Premier Chou En-Lai in Beijing
1973 - US & China agree to establish liaison offices in Beijing & Wash DC
1974 - Ethiopian police shoot at demonstrators
1976 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic
1978 - 2 tankers with propane gas explode killing 15 at Waverly, Tenn
1979 - Billy Martin named manager of Oakland A's
1979 - Cleveland Metroparks Zoo's Primate & Cat Building is dedicated
1979 - St Lucia gains independence from Britain
1980 - Afghanistan declares martial law
1980 - USA beats USSR in Olympic hockey 4-3 en route to a gold medal
1981 - Amy Alcott wins LPGA Bent Tree Ladies Golf Classic
1982 - NYC Mayor Koch announces he will run for NY governor (unsuccessful)
1983 - Harold Washington wins Chicago's Democratic mayoral primary
1983 - Hindus kill 3000 Moslems in Assam, India
1983 - Vladimir Salnikov (USSR) sets 1500m free style swimming record
1984 - Brothers Anton & Peter Stastny score 8 pts each for NHL Quebec
1986 - Start of the People Power Revolution in the Philippines.
1987 - Bruno Marie-Rose runs world record 200m indoor (20.36 sec)
1988 - Bonnie Blair skates world record 500m (39.10 sec)
1989 - Fins ministry of Public health installs sex vacation to thwart stress
1989 - NY Lotto pays $26.9 million to one winner (#s are 1-5-12-19-44-50)
1989 - UK physicist Stephen Hawking calls Star Wars a "deliberate fraud"
1989 - US authors demonstrate against Iranian death treats against Salman Rushdee, author of
           "Satanic Rituals"
1989 - 31st Grammy Awards: Don't Worry Be Happy, Faith, Tracy Chapman
1989 - 1st Spanish commercial on network TV (Pepsi-Cola-CBS Grammy Award)
1990 - 1st day India v NZ cricket at Auckland NZ 5-78 at lunch, 9-387 stumps
1991 - Bush & US Gulf War allies give Iraq 24 hrs to begin Kuwait withdrawal
1991 - Kelli McCarty, 21, (Kansas), crowned 40th Miss USA
1991 - Test Cricket debut of Sanath Jayasuriya, vs NZ at Hamilton
1992 - "Park Your Car in Harvard Yard" closes at Music Box NYC
1992 - Barry Diller resigns as CEO of Fox
1992 - Lisa Walters wins LPGA Itoki Hawaiian Ladies Open Golf Tournament
1992 - Rockers Kurt Corbin (Nirvana) & Courtney Love (Hole), wed
1993 - Vinod Kambli scores 224 v England at Bombay, 411 balls, 23 fours
1994 - "Les Miserables," opens at Chunichi Theatre, Nagoya
1995 - Algiers police kill at least 99 prison rioters
1995 - Steve Fossett completes 1st air balloon over Pacific Ocean (9600 km)
1996 - "Bus Stop" opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 29 performances
1996 - Actress Halle Berry files for divorce from David Justice
1996 - STS 75 (Columbia 19), launches into orbit
1997 - Annika Sorenstam wins LPGA Cup Noodles Hawaiian Ladies Open
1998 - "King & I," closes at Neil Simon Theater NYC after 781 performances
1998 - 18th Winter Olympic games close at Nagano Japan
2002 - Angolan political and rebel leader Jonas Savimbi is killed in a military ambush.
2006 - At least six men stage Britain's biggest robbery ever, stealing £53m (about $92.5 million or
          78€ million) from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent.
2011 - An earthquake measuring 6.3 in magnitude strikes Christchurch, New Zealand, killing 181
          people
2012 - Train crash in Buenos Aires, Argentina, kills 50 and injures hundreds

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 22, 2013, 09:07:04 AM

This Day in History for 22nd February


Famous Weddings

1991 - Actor Bill Bixby (57) weds Laura Michael (32)
1992 - Ed McMahon, 69, weds Pamela Hurn, 37
1997 - Singer-actress Jennifer Lopez (27) weds Ojani Noa on the grounds of a friend's Miami home
1998 - Singer-songwriter Tori Amos (34) weds British sound engineer Mark Hawley (34) in West
           Wycombe, England

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 22, 2013, 09:08:19 AM

This Day in History for 22nd February


Famous Divorces

1996 - Actress Halle Berry files for divorce from David Justice
2008 - "Baywatch" actress Pamela Anderson (40) divorces Rick Salomon (39) due to irreconcilable
           differences only 2 months after getting married

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 22, 2013, 09:14:43 AM

This Day in History for 22nd February


Famous Birthdays

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First US President                                 Composer Frederic Chopin (1810)              Actress Drew Barrymore (1975)
George Washington (1732)


1040 - Rashi, French rabbi (d. 1105)
1403 - Charles VII, King of France (1422-61), drove out the English from Northern France. Died 1461.
1440 - Ladislaus V Posthumus, King of Hungary/Bohemia
1500 - Cardinal Rodolfo Pio da Carpi, Italian humanist (d. 1564)
1514 - Tahmasp I, shah of Persia (1524-76)/author (Tazkire-i Shah)
1542 - Santino Garsi, composer
1573 - Gemignano Capilupi, composer
1599 - Anthony Van Dyck, Antwerp Belgium, painter
1612 - George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol, English statesman (d. 1677)
1634 - Petrus "Pieter" van Schooten, fortress architect
1684 - William Pulteney, London, statesman (Earl of Bath)
1705 - Peter Arctedius, [Artedi], Swedish biologist
1714 - Louis-Georges de Bréquigny, French historian (d. 1795)
1732 - George Washington, Westmoreland, Virginia, 1st American president (1789-97)
1745 - Joao de Sousa Carvalho, composer
1749 - Johann Nikolaus Forkel, musicologist/1st biographer of Bach
1756 - Georg Friedrich von Martens, German diplomat (d. 1821)
1761 - Erik Eriksson Tulindberg, composer
1761 - Jacob Kimball, composer
1764 - Alexander Campbell, composer
1770 - Jan Matyas Nepomuk August Vitasek, composer
1772 - Joseph Lipavsky, composer
1772 - Karl Jacob Wagner, composer
1773 - Matthijs I van Bree, Flemish (court)painter
1778 - Rembrandt Peale, portrait/historical painter (Court of Death)
1779 - Joachim Nicolas Eggert, composer
1788 - Arthur Schopenhauer, Germany, philosopher (Great Pessimist)
1796 - Adolphe Quetelet, Belgium, mathematician/astronomer/statistician
1796 - Alexis Bachelot, French missionary (d. 1837)
1797 - William I, Berlin, King of Prussia (1861-88)/German Emperor (1871-88)
1798 - Charles Mynn Thruston, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1873
1806 - Józef Kremer, Polish messianistic philosopher (d. 1875)
1810 - Frederic F Chopin, Polish/French pianist/composer [OS]
1810 - Holger Simon Paulli, composer
1814 - Henryk Oskar Kolberg, composer
1817 - Niels Wilhelm Gade, Danish violinist/composer/conductor
1817 - Carl Wilhelm Borchardt, German mathematician (d. 1880)
1819 - Bernardo Calvo Puig, composer
1819 - James Russell Lowell, poet/critic/diplomat/abolitionist
1821 - Giovanni Bottesini, composer
1822 - Adolf Kuszmaul, German physician (stomach pump, Kuszmaul disease)
1824 - Pierre Janssen, French astronomer (d. 1907)
1825 - Jean Baptiste Salpointe, second Archbishop of Santa Fe (d. 1898)
1827 - James Barnet Fry, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1894
1828 - Robert Alexander Cameron, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1894
1833 - Josef Foerster, composer
1834 - Albert Heinrich Zabel, composer
1836 - Eduard Wachmann, composer
1838 - Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen, discoverer of hydrogen in Sun
1839 - Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher (d. 1906)
1840 - F August Bebel, German social-democrat
1842 - Carl Rosa, Hamburg Germany, founder (Rosa opera company)
1842 - Leon Vanderkindere, Belgian historian/mayor (Ukkel)
1843 - Affonso de Escragnolle Taunay, France/Brazil writer (Inocencia)
1844 - Kazamierz Julian Kratzer, composer
1849 - Nikolay Yakovlevich Sonin, Russian mathematician (d. 1915)
1850 - Isaac L Rice, Germany, (namesake of Columbia Univ's Rice stadium)
1852 - Pieter K Pel, internist (Pel-Ebstein fever)
1857 - Heinrich Hertz, physicist, 1st to broadcast & receive radio waves
1857 - Robert Baden-Powell, founder (Boy Scouts, Girl Guides)
1862 - Karen Hulda Garborg[-Bergersen], Norwegian playwright (Mot Solen/Eli)
1864 - Jules Renard, France, writer (Poil de Carotte)
1865 - Otto Modersohn, German painter
1868 - Henri Polak, union leader/politician (soc-dem)
1873 - Muhammad Iqbal, Dutch East Indies lawyer/poet/philosopher
1874 - Bill Klem, American baseball umpire (d. 1951)
1877 - Yme C Schuitmaker, Dutch potato salesman/dramatist
1878 - Walter Ritz, Swiss physicist (d. 1909)
1880 - Frigyes Riesz, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1956)
1881 - Joseph B. Ely, American politician (d. 1956)
1882 - Eric Gill, England, sculptor/engraver/typographer (Perpetua)
1883 - Alfred Wikenhauser, German RC exegetist (John-Apokalyps)
1883 - Jaroslav Kocian, composer
1883 - Marguerite Clark, voice (Snow White)
1884 - Abraham "Abe" Attell, boxing hall of famer
1886 - Hugo Ball, German playwright/co-founder Flametti
1887 - Mary Ellen Chase, educator/author (Windswept, 1959 Sarah Hale Award)
1888 - Owen Brewster, American politician (d. 1961)
1889 - Robin G Collingwood, English philosopher (Roman Britain)
1889 - Olave Baden-Powell, English founder of the Girl Guide (d. 1977)
1891 - "Chico" Marx, NYC, actor/comedian (Marx Brothers, Animal Crackers)
1891 - Jan Wils, Holland, architect/designer (Amsterdam's Olympic Stadium)
1891 - Lucien Cailliet, composer
1891 - Vlas Chubar, Soviet politician (d. 1939)
1892 - David Dubinsky, labor leader (Freedom Award, 1969 Medal of Freedom)
1892 - Edna St Vincent Millay, poet/dramatist/feminist (Harp Weaver-Pulitzer Prize)
1894 - Alexander Spitzmuller-Harmersbach, composer
1895 - Victor RaulHaya de la Torre, founder (Peruvian Aprista Party)
1896 - Edvin Wide, Sweden, 10K runner (Olympic-silver-1924)
1896 - Enid Markey, Dillon Colo, actress (Aunt Violet-Bringing Up Buddy)
1896 - Nacio Herb Brown, US composer
1896 - Paul Van Ostaijen, Flemish poet/writer/critic (Occupied City)
1897 - Karol Świerczewski, Polish general (d. 1947)
1898 - Anton de Kom, Surinam/Dutch worker's union leader/resistance fighter
1899 - Dwight Frye, Salina KS, actor (Black Camel, Dracula, Frankenstein)
1899 - George O'Hara, American actor (d. 1966)
1899 - Dechko Uzunov, Bulgarian painter (d. 1986)
1900 - Evald Aav, composer
1900 - Giorgios Seferis, Greece, poet (Nobel 1963)
1900 - Sean O'Faolain, [John Whelan], Ireland, writer (Murder at Cobbler's Hulk)
1900 - Seán Ó Faoláin, Irish author (d. 1991)
1901 - Charles E Whittaker, Kansas, US Supreme Court justice (1957-62)
1901 - Mildred Davis, PA, actress (Grandma's Boy)
1901 - Stefan Lorant, writer
1902 - Hanns Neupert, German piano builder/author (Das Klavichord)
1903 - Morley Callaghan, Canada, author (Toronto Star, Native Argosy)
1903 - Ain-Ervin Mere, Estonian Nazi (d. 1969)
1903 - Robert Weede, American baritone (d. 1972)
1904 - Peter Hurd, Roswell NM, painter (Portrait of Jose Herrera)
1905 - Luis Sandi, composer
1906 - Edmund von Borck, composer
1906 - Gale Gordon, LA California, actor (Conklin-Our Miss Brooks, Here's Lucy)
1907 - Robert Young, Chic Ill, actor (Father Knows Best, Marcus Welby MD)
1907 - Sheldon Leonard, NYC, actor/director (Danny Thomas Show, Big Eddie)
1908 - John Mills, England, actor (Big Sleep, King Rat, War & Peace)
1908 - Romulo Betancourt, pres of Venezuela (1945-48, 1958-64)
1909 - Roderick Barclay, diplomat
1910 - Al Sears, jazz performer
1910 - Muriel Monkhouse, Red Cross worker
1910 - Nicholas Monsarrat, Liverpool England, novelist
1911 - Bill Baker, American baseball player (d. 2006)
1914 - Renato Dulbecco, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate
1915 - Dan Seymour, Chicago Ill, actor (We the People, Sing It Again)
1915 - Gus Lesnevich, light heavyweight boxing champ (1947 fight of year)
1917 - Harmen van Rossum, civil servant/resistance fighter (WW II)
1917 - Jack Robertson, cricketer (superb Engld batsman only played 11 Tests)
1917 - Jane Bowles, writer
1918 - Charles O Finley, baseball team owner (Oakland A's)
1918 - Don Pardo, Westfield Mass, TV announcer (Jeopardy, Saturday Night Live)
1918 - Robert Wadlow, Alton Ill, tallest known human (2.72 m, 8' 11.1")
1918 - Sid Abel, NHLer (1948-49 Hart Trophy)
1918 - Sid Abel, Canadian hockey player (d. 2000)
1918 - Charlie Finley, American sports entrepreneur (d. 1996)
1919 - Jiri Pauer, composer
1920 - Bettina Vernon-Warren, dancer
1920 - Del Wood, singer
1921 - Giulietta Masina, Italy, actress, (La Strada, Swindle, White Sheik) wife of Federico Fellini
1921 - Jean-Bedel Bokassa, dictator
1921 - Wayne Booth, American literary critic (d. 2005)
1921 - David Greene, British television director (d. 2003)
1922 - Andre Asriel, composer
1922 - Felix Werder, composer
1922 - Jesús Iglesias, Argentine racing driver (d. 2005)
1925 - Edward Gorey, Chicago, author/artist (Curious Sofa)
1925 - Gerard Hoffnung, Berlin Germany, artist/humorist/musician
1925 - Raymond Joseph Cecil, British architect
1926 - Bud Yorkin, producer (All in the Family, 1959, 1960 Emmy)
1926 - Kenneth Williams, English actor (d. 1988)
1927 - David Ahlstrom, composer
1927 - Donald May, Chicago Ill, actor (Adam-Edge of Night, Colt .45)
1928 - Bruce Forsyth, London England, comedian/TV host (Generation Game)
1928 - Paul Dooley, Parkensburg WV, actor (16 Candles, Strange Brew, Wedding)
1929 - Marni Nixon, singer (for Audrey Hepburn, Natalie Wood & Deborah Kerr)
1929 - Ryne Duren, near-sighted pitcher (NY Yankees)
1929 - James Hong, American actor
1929 - Rebecca Schull, American actress
1930 - Allison Hayes, Washington, actress (Attack of the 50 Foot Woman)
1930 - JPS van Neerven, Dutch economist/editor (Limbourg Daily)
1930 - James McGarrell, American painter
1932 - Edward M "Ted" Kennedy, (Sen-D-Mass, 1962- ), (Don't let him drive)
1932 - Ted Kennedy, American politician
1933 - Katharine Lucy Mary Worsley, England, Duchess of Kent
1933 - Bobby Smith, English footballer
1934 - George "Sparky" Anderson, SD, baseball manager (Reds, Tigers)
1934 - Thomas Paul, Chicago Illinois, bass (NYC Opera 1963-70)
1935 - Ineke [R M] Haas-Berger, Dutch MP (PvdA)
1936 - Ernie K-Doe, [Ernest Kador Jr], New Orleans La, rocker
1936 - J. Michael Bishop, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate
1936 - Ernie K-Doe, American singer (d. 2001)
1937 - Dubravko Detoni, composer
1937 - Joanna Russ, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Female Man, Alyx)
1937 - Noel Murphy, British(?) rugby player
1937 - Samuel Whitbread, English brewer/multi-millionaire
1937 - Tommy Aaron, Gainesville GA, PGA golfer (1973 Masters)
1938 - Bobby Hendricks, US soul vocalist (Itchy Twitchy Feeling)
1938 - Ishmael Reed, US, author (Last Days of Louisiana Red)
1938 - Pierre Vallières, French-Canadian politician (d. 1995)
1939 - Steve Barber, pitcher (Balt Orioles, NY Yankees)
1940 - Chet Walker, NBA all-star forward (Chicago Bulls)
1940 - Johnson P Mlambo, South African leader (Pan-African Congress)
1940 - Julian Chagrin, London, mime/actor (Golddiggers)
1940 - Billy Name, American photographer
1941 - Hipólito Mejía, Dominican politician
1942 - Christine Keeler, English model and showgirl
1943 - David E Skaggs, (Rep-D-Colorado)
1943 - Dick Van Arsdale, NBA all-star (NY Knicks, Phoenix Suns)
1943 - Louise Lopez, singer
1943 - Tom Van Arsdale, NBA all-star (Detroit, Cincinnati, KC-Omaha, Phil)
1943 - Horst Köhler, President of Germany
1944 - E J Peaker, Tulsa Oklahoma, actress (That's Life)
1944 - Jonathan Demme, Baldwin NY, actor/director (Caged Heat, Swing Shift)
1944 - Ranjit Fernando, Sri Lankan cricket wicketkeeper (1975 World Cup)
1944 - Tom Okker, tennis star
1944 - Robert Kardashian, American lawyer (d. 2003)
1945 - Oliver, rock vocalist (Good Morning Starshine, Jean)
1945 - Leslie Charleson, American actress
1945 - Oliver, American singer (d. 2000)
1947 - John Bryant, (Rep-D-TX, 1983- )
1948 - Dennis Awtrey, NBA center (Chicago Bulls, Suns)
1948 - John Ashton, American actor
1949 - Leslie Charleson, KC Missouri, actress (Monica-General Hospital)
1949 - Nikki Lauda, Austria, formula 1 auto racer (world champ 1975, 77, 84)
1949 - Olga Morozova, Russian tennis player
1950 - Ellen Greene, Bkln NY, vocalist/actress (Little Shoppe of Horrors)
1950 - Julie Walters, England, actress (Educating Rita, Prick Up Your Ears)
1950 - Julius Erving, ABA/NBA forward (Virg Squirers, NY Nets, Phila 76ers)
1950 - Miou-Miou, Paris France, actress (Dog Day, My Other Husband)
1950 - Sylvette Miou-Miou, Paris France, actress (Bottom Line, Menage)
1950 - Lenny Kuhr, Dutch singer
1951 - Elaine Tanner, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canadian swimmer (1966 Commonwealth Games, 1968 Olympics)
1951 - Harley O Staggers Jr, (Rep-D-WV, 1983- )
1952 - James Philip Bagian, Philadelphia, MDPE/astronaut (STS 29, STS 40)
1952 - Wayne John Levi, Little Falls NY, PGA golfer (1983 Buick Open)
1952 - Bill Frist, American politician
1953 - Graham Lewis, English musician (Wire)
1953 - Nigel Planer, British actor
1955 - Tim Young, athlete
1955 - Tim Young, Canadian ice hockey player
1956 - Amy Alcott, Kansas City MO, LPGA golfer (1983 Nabisco Dinah Shore)
1958 - Kyle MacLachlan, Yakima WA, actor (Blue Velvet, Dune, Hidden)
1959 - Susan Benjamin, actress (Tracy-Accidental Family)
1959 - Jiří Čunek, Czech politician
1961 - Debbie Linden, Glasgow Scotland, actress (Kenny Everett Show)
1961 - Don Van Spall, guitarist (Sleeze Beez)
1961 - Marla O'Hara, Gardena Ca, WPVA volleyballer (Santa Cruz-3rd-1991)
1961 - Mike Morris, NFL center (Minnesota Vikings)
1961 - Akira Takasaki, Japanese guitarist
1962 - Lenda Murray, Detroit Mich, body builder (4X Ms Olympia)
1962 - Lisa Jacquin, equestrian show jumper (Olympics-96)
1962 - Michael Wilton, singer
1962 - Les Wallace, Scottish darts player
1963 - Dave Besteman, Madison Wis, speed skater (Olympics-1994)
1963 - Devon Malcolm, cricketer (in Jamaica England fast bowler 1989-95)
1963 - Vijay Singh, Lautoka Fiji, PGA golfer (1993 Buick Classic)
1964 - Gigi Fernandez, [Beatriz], San Juan PR, US tennis star (Olymp-gold-96)
1964 - Jim Wicek, NYC, actor (Ben-Ryan's Hope)
1965 - Chris Dudley, NBA center (NY Knicks, Portland Trail Blazers)
1965 - Joe Reekie, Victoria, NHL defenseman (Washington Capitals)
1965 - Pat LaFontaine, St Louis Mo, NHL center (NY Islanders, NY Rangers)
1965 - Dean Karr, American director and photographer
1966 - Brent Severyn, Vegreville, NHL defenseman (NY Islanders)
1966 - Resga Riggins, Trussville Alabama, Miss Alabama-America (1991)
1966 - Suave, singer
1966 - Thorsten Kaye, soap actor (Patrick-One Life to Live, Silencers)
1966 - Rachel Dratch, American actress and comedienne
1966 - Brian Greig, Australian politician
1966 - Aiden Shaw, English pornographic actor
1967 - Marianne Ihalainen, ice hockey right wing (Finland, Oly-98)
1967 - Steve Broussard, NFL running back (Seattle Seahawks)
1967 - Alf Poier, Austrian comedian
1968 - Abeyratne Samarasekera, UAE cricket all-rounder (1996 World Cup)
1968 - Jayson Williams, NBA center (NJ Nets)
1968 - Jeri Ryan, actress (7 of 9-Star Trek Voyager)
1968 - Johanne Samarasekera, UAE cricket opening bowler (96 World Cup)
1968 - Reggie Rivers, NFL running back (Denver Broncos)
1968 - Shawn Graham, Canadian politician
1968 - Bradley Nowell, American musician (d. 1996)
1969 - Kahryn Tough, Calgary Alberta, volleyball (Olympics-96)
1969 - Leslie Spalding, Billings MT, golfer (Montana Women's Amat-90, 91)
1969 - Mark Chmura, NFL tight end (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1969 - Shawn Jefferson, NFL wide receiver (San Diego Chargers, NE Patriots)
1969 - Thomas Jane, American actor
1969 - Joaquín Cortés, Spanish dancer
1969 - Hans Klok, Dutch illusionist
1969 - Brian Laudrup, Danish footballer
1969 - Byron Stroud, American bassist
1969 - Clinton Kelly, American television personality
1970 - Adam Keefe, NBA forward (Utah Jazz)
1970 - Dominic Roussel, Hull, NHL goalie (Winnipeg Jets)
1970 - Leo Stefan, hockey forward (Team Germany 1998)
1971 - Barry Smith, 100m/200m runner
1971 - Gilbert Brown, NFL defensive tackle (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1971 - Jason Marshall, Cranbrook, NHL defenseman (Anaheim Mighty Ducks)
1971 - Lea Salonga, Philippines, singer/actress (Miss Siagon)
1971 - Lisa Fernandez, Lakewood California, softball pitcher (Olympics-gold-96)
1971 - Max Lane, NFL tackle (NE Patriots)
1971 - Mohammed Sylla, soccer player (Willem II, FC Martigues)
1971 - Rico Mack, WLAF linebacker (Amsterdam Admirals)
1972 - Christin Didier, Miss USA-Montana (1997)
1972 - Michael Chang, Hoboken NJ, tennis star (1989 French Open)
1973 - James Christensen, NFL guard (Atlanta Falcons)
1973 - Kate Sage, Australian field hockey forward (Olympics-96)
1973 - Kimberly Davies, Melbourne Aust, actress (Baywatch)
1973 - Ntala Skinner, Sun Valley Idaho, biathelete (Olympics-1994)
1973 - Juninho Paulista, Brazilian footballer
1973 - Claus Lundekvam, Norwegian footballer
1973 - Einar Kristian Tveitå, Norwegian athlete
1974 - Aaron Gavey, Sudbury, NHL center (Tampa Bay Lightning)
1974 - Kyoko Nagatsuka, Shizuoka Prefecture Japan, tennis star (1996 Hobart)
1974 - James Blunt, English musician
1974 - Chris Moyles, English DJ
1975 - Charles O'Bannon, NBA guard (Detroit Pistons)
1975 - Drew Barrymore, LA California, actress (ET, Firestarter, Poison Ivy)
1975 - Gregory Maddalone, Schenectady NY, dance skater (& Demkowski)
1976 - Faan Rautenbach, South African rugby player
1977 - Melanie Schnell, Radstadt Austria, tennis star (1994 semi Surabaya)
1977 - Timo Rose, German filmmaker
1977 - Hakan Yakin, Swiss footballer
1979 - David Lopez, Queens NY, actor (and God Created Women, Ghostwriter)
1979 - Brett Emerton, Australian footballer
1979 - Lee Na-young, South Korean actress
1981 - Fredson Camara, Brazilian footballer
1982 - Jenna Haze, American pornographic actress
1982 - Robert Weiner, Jr., American water polo player
1984 - Venetian Princess Internet (You tube) Star (Real Name: Jodie-Amy Rivera)
1985 - Hameur Bouazza, Algerian footballer
1985 - Sean Garballey, American politician
1986 - Rajon Rondo, American basketball player
1986 - Miko Hughes, American actor
1988 - Kevin Borlée, Belgian athlete
1988 - Przemysław Kazimierczak, Polish footballer
1989 - Alia Sabur, American college educator

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 22, 2013, 09:19:16 AM

This Day in History for 22nd February


Famous Deaths

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Social Philosopher                                    Pop Artist Andy Warhol (1987)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1832)


606 - Sabinian, Italian Pope (604-06), dies
965 - Odo, Duke of Burgundy (b. 944)
1071 - Arnulf III, earl of Flanders/Hainault (Arnulf I), dies in battle
1076 - Godfried III, with the Hump, duke of Lower Lorraine, murdered [or Feb 26]
1078 - Johannes van Fecamp, Italian mystic writer, dies
1111 - Roger Borsa, King of Sicily
1213 - Wibert of Gembloers, benediction/writer/abbot of Gembloers, dies
1371 - David II Bruce, King of Scots (1331..71), dies at 46
1478 - Hendrik Herp (Herpius/Harphius), writer (Spieghel volcomenheit), dies
1512 - Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer (America), dies at 60
1627 - Olivier van Noort, Dutch navigator (b. 1558)
1674 - John Wilson, composer, dies at 78
1674 - Jean Chapelain, French writer (b. 1595)
1680 - Catherine Monvoisin, French sorceress (b. c.1640)
1687 - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Paris, composer
1690 - Charles Le Brun, classical painter (Academie de Peinture), dies at 70
1727 - Francesco Gasparini, composer, dies at 58
1731 - Frederik Ruysch, Dutch anatomist, dies at 92
1732 - Francis Atterbury, English bishop and man of letters (b. 1663)
1742 - Charles Rivington, English publisher (b. 1688)
1750 - Pietro Filippo Scarlotti, composer, dies at 71
1770 - Christopher Snider, 11, Boston, becomes 1st martyr of US Revolution
1788 - Franz Joseph Oehlschlagel, composer, dies at 63
1797 - Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen, German officer and adventurer (b.
          1720)
1799 - Heshen, infamous Qing Dynasty Chinese official at court (b. 1750)
1816 - Adam Ferguson, Scottish sociologist/historian, dies at 92
1822 - Johann Ignaz Walter, composer, dies at 66
1824 - John Davy, composer, dies at 60
1829 - Adam A earl von Neipperg, Austrian general, dies at 53
1832 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer, dies at 82
1836 - John Clarke-Whitfeld, composer, dies at 65
1838 - Friedrich Johann Eck, composer, dies at 70
1846 - Carolus Antonius Fodor, composer, dies at 77
1846 - Nikoli A Poveloi, Russian writer/publisher, dies at 49 [OS]
1849 - Alexander Ernst Fesca, composer, dies at 28
1875 - Charles Lyell, British geologist (Elements of Geology), dies at 77
1875 - Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, French painter (b. 1796)
1878 - Franz Hunten, composer, dies at 84
1890 - John Jacob Astor III, American businessman (b. 1822)
1890 - Carl Heinrich Bloch, Danish painter (b. 1834)
1892 - Herman Koeckemann, German Catholic prelate (b. 1828)
1896 - Thomas Hughes, politican/author of Tom Brown's Schooldays, Brighton
1903 - Frederick William Farrar, writer/dean (Canterbury 1895-1903), dies
1903 - Hugo Filipp Jakob Wolf, Austrian composer (Corregidor), dies at 42
1904 - Leslie Stephen, English writer and critic (b. 1832)
1912 - Richard Andree, German geographer (Andree's Handatlas), dies at 76
1913 - Ferdinand Mongin de Saussure, Swiss linguist, dies at 55
1913 - Francisco Indalecio Madero, Mex pres, assassinated in milt coup at 39
1913 - Suarez, Mexican vice pres, assassinated in a miltary coup
1921 - Salim Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1864)
1925 - Georges/Joris Helleputte, Belgian Catholic minister, dies at 72
1925 - Nina David, [Mrs Radcliffe N Salomon], poet/author, dies
1925 - Thomas C Allbutt, English physiologist, dies at 88
1930 - Godfried CE van Daalen, Dutch general/governor of Atjeh, dies at 66
1934 - Willem Kes, violinist/composer/conductor, dies at 78
1936 - Johan M Skjoldborg, Danish writer (Dynaes Digte), dies at 74
1939 - Antonio Machado, Spanish poet (b. 1875)
1943 - Christoph Probst, German resistance fighter (That Weisse Rose), dies
1943 - Hans Scholl, German resistance fighter (White Rose), beheaded at 24
1943 - Sophie Scholl, German resistance fighter (Die Weisse Rose), beheaded
1944 - Kasturba Gandhi, wife of Mohandas Gandhi (b. 1869)
1945 - Osip Brik, Russian writer (b. 1888)
1949 - Russell Porter, actor (Betsy, Hanna's War, British Empire), dies
1957 - Harry Sothern, actor (Dr Huer-Buck Rogers), dies at 72
1958 - Michael Todd, film magnate, killed in an New Mexico air crash
1959 - Helen Parrish, actress (Hour Glass), dies of cancer at 36
1960 - Hubert Cuypers, composer/choir conductor (Missa Populi), dies at 86
1960 - Paul-Émile Borduas, Quebec painter (b. 1905)
1961 - George de las Cuevas Bustillo y Teheran, Chilean marquis, dies at 75
1961 - Nick LaRocca, American jazz musician (b. 1889)
1964 - Edie Martin, actor (Titfield Thunderbolt), dies at 84
1965 - Felix Frankfurter, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (b. 1882)
1966 - Paul de Keyser, Flemish philologist/folklorist, dies at 74
1967 - Fritz Erler, German politician (SDP), dies at 53
1967 - Joe Forte, actor (Horwitz-Life With Luigi), dies at 70
1968 - Omer CFL Tulippe, Belgian geographer, dies at 71
1968 - Peter Arno, American cartoonist (b. 1904)
1971 - Barry Macollum, actor (On the Waterfront), dies at 81
1971 - Matt McHugh, actor (Taxi, Freaks, Barbary Coast), dies at 77
1971 - Rudolf Mauersberger, composer, dies at 82
1972 - Walter Sande, actor (Adventures of Tugboat Annie), dies at 65
1973 - Elizabeth Bowen, Anglo-Irish novelist (Cat Jumps), dies in Lond at 73
1973 - Katina Paxinou, actress (For Whom the Bell Tolls, Zita), dies at 72
1973 - Winthrop Rockefeller, US governor (Arkansas), dies at 60
1973 - Jean-Jacques Bertrand, Quebec politician, Premier of Quebec (b. 1916)
1974 - Samuel Byck, American attempted assassin of Richard Nixon (b. 1930)
1976 - Angela Baddeley, actress (Speckled Band), dies at 71
1976 - Florence Ballard, rocker (Supremes), dies of a heart attack at 32
1976 - Michael Polany, Hungarians/English chemist/sociologist, dies at 84
1977 - Edith Barrett, actress (Molly & Me, Ghost Ship), dies at 64
1977 - Jack O'Connor, cricketer (batted in 4 Tests for England 1929-30), dies
1978 - Ilka Chase, actress (Masquerade Party, Trials of O'Brien), dies at 74
1978 - Phyllis McGinley, US poetess (Pulitzer 1961), dies at 72
1980 - Alfred Andersch, German writer (Red Head), dies at 66
1980 - Oskar Kokoschka, Austria/British painter/graphic artist, dies at 93
1980 - Richard Kallman, actor (Verboten, Hell Canyon Outlaws), dies at 46
1982 - Murray "the K" Kaufman, NYC DJ (5th Beatle), dies at 60
1982 - Josh Malihabadi, Urdu poet of India and Pakistan (b. 1898)
1983 - Christina E "Christine" Auwen, singer/wife of John Kelly, dies at 75
1983 - Romain Maes, Belgian bicyclist (Tour de France 1935), dies at 70
1984 - David, spent most of his life in a plastic bubble, dies at 12
1984 - Jessamyn West, American writer (b. 1902)
1985 - Alexander Scourby, actor (Victory at Sea, Ransom), dies at 71
1985 - Efrem A Zimbalist, Russian/US composer/violinist, dies at 95
1985 - Salvador Espriu, Spanish poet (b. 1913)
1987 - Andy Warhol, pop artist, dies of a heart attack at 58
1987 - David Susskind, TV host (Open End, David Susskind Show), dies at 66
1987 - Glenway Wescott, US writer (Apartment in Athens), dies at 85
1989 - Joan Woodbury, actress (Super Sleuth, Northwest Trail), dies
1990 - Stephen Burns, actor (Casey's Shadow), dies
1992 - Richard Sheldon, dies at 59
1993 - Jean Lecanuet, French UDF-presidential candidate, dies at 72
1993 - Pieter A H Bos, Dutch lawyer/procureur-general (Aruba), dies at 63
1994 - "Papa" John Creach, US jazz musician (Papa Blues), dies at 76
1995 - Ed Flanders, actor (Dr Westphall-St Elsewhere), commits suicide at 60
1995 - Elfi Althoff-Jacobi, Austrian circus director, dies at 80
1995 - Lembarek Boumaarafi, Algerian murderer of Pres Boudiaf, dies
1996 - Helmut Schoen, soccer coach, dies at 80
1996 - Niall MacDermott, lawyer/politician, dies at 79
1997 - Austin Andrew Wright, sculptor, dies at 85
1997 - Frank Launder, director/scriptwriter, dies at 91
1997 - Joseph Aiuppa, American gangster (b. 1907)
1998 - Grandpa [Louis Marshall] Jones, country singer (Hee Haw), dies at 84
1998 - Jose Maria de Areilza, Sp minister of foreign affairs (1975-76), dies
1998 - Sandy Hume, correspondent (Fox News), commits suicide at 28
1998 - Abraham Ribicoff, American politician (b. 1910)
1999 - Menno Oosting, Dutch tennis player (b. 1964)
2000 - Fernando Buesa, Spanish politician (b. 1946)
2002 - Chuck Jones, American cartoonist (b. 1912)
2002 - Jonas Savimbi, Angolan rebel leader (b. 1934)
2002 - Roden Cutler, Australian diplomat and war hero (b. 1916)
2002 - Daniel Pearl, American journalist (b. 1963)
2003 - Daniel Taradash, American screenwriter (b. 1913)
2004 - Andy Seminick, American baseball player (b. 1920)
2004 - Roque Máspoli, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1917)
2005 - Zdzisław Beksiński, Polish artist (b. 1929)
2005 - Simone Simon, French actress (b. 1910)
2005 - Lee Eun Ju, Korean actress (b. 1980)
2006 - Anthony Burger, American musician and singer (b. 1961)
2007 - Dennis Johnson, American basketball player (b. 1954)
2007 - Howard Verne Ramsey, oldest U.S. veteran of WWI (b. 1898)
2007 - Samuel Hinga Norman, Sierra Leonean alleged war criminal (b. 1940)
2007 - George Jellicoe, Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords & Special Boat Service
           veteran (b. 1918)
2011 - Nicholas Courtney, British actor (b. 1929)
2012 - Billy Strange, American singer-songwriter, dies at 81

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 23, 2013, 07:37:10 PM

This Day in History for 23rd February


Historical Events

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Playwright George Bernard Shaw       30th US President Calvin Coolidge     

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First Secretary of the Communist Party of          First Cloned Sheep Dolly
 the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev


303 - Emperor Diocletian orders general persecution of Christians
1455 - Johannes Gutenberg prints 1st book, Bible (estimated date)
1574 - France begins 5th holy war against Huguenots
1660 - Charles XI becomes king of Sweden
1668 - Fire in Wiener Hofburg in Vienna, emperor Leopold I rescued
1672 - Joan Blaeus publishers destroyed by fire in Amsterdam
1689 - Dutch prince William III proclaimed king of England
1778 - Baron von Steuben joins Continental Army at Valley Forge
1792 - Joseph Haydn's 94th Symphony in G, premieres
1792 - Humane Society of Massachusetts incorporated (erected life-saving stations for distressed
           mariners)
1804 - Conspirators against Napoleon, for restoration of Louis XVIII
1813 - 1st US raw cotton-to-cloth mill founded in Waltham, Mass
1820 - Cato Street conspiracy uncovered
1821 - College of Apothecaries organized in Phil; 1st US pharmacy college
1822 - Boston is incorporated as a city
1836 - Alamo besieged by Santa Anna; entire garrison eventually killed
1846 - Polish revolutionaries march on Cracow, but are defeated
1847 - Battle of Buena Vista Mexico; Zachary Taylor defeats Mexicans
1854 - Great-Britain & Orange Free state sign Convention of Bloemfontein
1861 - By popular referendum, Texas becomes 7th state to secede from US
1861 - Dutch Premier Floris A van Hall resigns
1861 - Pres-elect Lincoln arrives secretly in Wash DC to take office
1869 - Louisiana governor signs public accommodations law
1870 - Mississippi is readmitted to US
1874 - Mjr Walter Winfield patents game called "sphairistike" (lawn tennis)
1883 - Alabama becomes 1st US state to enact an antitrust law
1883 - American Anti-Vivisection Society organized (Phila)
1886 - Aluminum manufacturing process developed
1886 - London Times publishes world's 1st classified ad
1886 - Tsjaikovski's symphony "Manfred," premieres
1887 - Congress grants Seal Rocks to SF
1887 - French/Italian Riviera struck by Earthquake; 2,000 die
1892 - 1st college student government forms at Bryn Mawr Penn
1894 - Stanley Cup: Montreal AAA's awarded cup by trustees as Ottawa refuses to travel to Toronto
           to play
1895 - Jaap Eden skates world record 10km (17:56)
1895 - William Heard, AME minister & educator, named minister to Liberia
1896 - Tootsie Roll introduced by Leo Hirshfield
1898 - In France, Emile Zola is imprisoned for writing his "J'accuse" letter accusing government of
          anti-Semitism & wrongly jailing Alfred Dreyfus
1900 - Battle at Hart's Hill, South-Africa (Boers vs British army)
1900 - Steamer "Rio de Janeiro" sinks in SF Bay
1903 - Cuban state of Guantanamo leased to USA
1904 - US acquired control of the Panama Canal Zone for $10 million
1905 - Rotary Club International formed by 4 men in Chicago
1906 - Tommy Burns beats Marvin Hart in 20 for heavyweight boxing title
1909 - Russian tsar Nicolas II dissolves Finnish Diet
1910 - 1st radio contest held (Philadelphia)
1910 - George Bernard Shaw's "Misalliance," premieres in London
1915 - Germany sinks US ships Carib & Evelyn & torpedoes Norwegian ship Regin
1915 - Nevada enforces convenient divorce law
1916 - Congress authorizes McKinley Memorial $1 gold coin
1916 - French artillery kills entire French 72nd division at Samogneux Verdun
1917 - February revolution begins in Russia
1918 - First victory of Red Army over the Kaiser's German troops near Narva and Pskov. Since 1923
           this date become the Day of Red Army in honour of this victory.
1919 - Fascist Party forms in Italy by Benito Mussolini
1921 - 1st US transcontinental air mail flight arrives in NYC from SF
1923 - German Republic day with laws against worker
1923 - Great Britain lowers import duty on German products from 26% to 5%
1927 - Pres Calvin Coolidge creates Federal Radio Commission (FCC)
1934 - Casey Stengel becomes manager of Brooklyn Dodgers
1934 - Coronation of King Leopold III of Belgium
1936 - 1st rocket air mail flight, Greenwood Lake, NY
1938 - Joe Louis KOs Nathan Mann in 3 for heavyweight boxing title
1939 - Lou Thesz beats E Marshall in St Louis, to become wrestling champ
1940 - Russian troops conquer Lasi Island
1940 - Walt Disney's animated movie "Pinocchio," released
1941 - Plutonium was first produced and isolated by Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg.
1942 - Japanese sub fires on oil refinery in Ellwood, Calif
1943 - Gen-Maj Bradley arrives in Dakar & Marrakesh
1943 - German troops pull back through Kasserine-pass Tunisia
1944 - Forced deportation of the Chechen and Ingush people to Central Asia.
1945 - 2nd Dutch government of Gerbrandy forms in London
1945 - Canadian troops occupy Kalkar
1945 - Operation Grenade: Gen Simpsons 9th Army crosses Ruhr
1945 - US Marines raise flag on Iwo Jima, famous photo & statue
1947 - Gen Eisenhower opens drive to raise $170M in aid for European Jews
1954 - 1st mass inoculation with Salk vaccine (Pittsburgh)
1954 - Syrian army drives out president Adib el-Shishakli
1955 - Edgar Faure forms French government
1956 - 20th Congress of CPSU closes in Moscow
1956 - Russian party leader Khrushchev attacks memory of Stalin
1957 - "Mr Wonderful" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 383 performances
1957 - The founding congress of the Senegalese Popular Bloc is opened in Dakar.
1958 - 5-time world driving champion Juan Fangio kidnapped by Cuban rebels
1958 - Arturo Frondizi elected president of Argentina
1958 - Last Municipal arc light, Mission & 25th removed (installed in 1913)
1958 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1959 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Lake Worth Golf Open
1959 - KVIE TV channel 6 in Sacramento-Stockton, CA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1960 - Demolition begins on Brooklyn's Ebbets Field (opened in 1913)
1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1964 - Charlie Finley signs a 4 year lease to keep A's in Kansas City
1965 - Constance Baker Motley elected Manhattan Borough president
1966 - Aldo Moro forms Italian government
1966 - Military coup in Syria ends Bitar government
1966 - Premier Obote grabs power in Uganda
1967 - 25th amendment (presidential succession) declared ratified
1967 - John Herbert's "Fortune & Men's Eyes," premieres in NYC
1967 - Ted Workman replaces Senator Keith Davey as CFL commissioner
1967 - US troops begin largest offensive of Vietnam War
1968 - Wilt Chamberlain becomes 1st NBAer to score 25,000 points
1969 - Nayif Hawatimah forms Dem People's Front for Liberation of Palestine
1969 - WWVU (now WNPB) TV channel 24 in Morgantown, WV (PBS) 1st broadcast
1970 - Guyana becomes a republic (National Day)
1970 - Holy Eucharist given by women for 1st time in Roman Catholic service
1971 - Boston Bruins begin 13 NHL game win streak
1971 - George Harrison is fined & his driving license is suspended for 1 year
1971 - Lt Calley confessed & implicates Captain Medina
1973 - Gold goes up $10 overnight to record $95 an ounce in London
1974 - Patty Hearst, daughter of publisher Randolph Hearst, kidnapped by SLA
1974 - Teri Garr appears on Bob Newhart Show in "Confessions of an Orth"
1975 - Amy Alcott wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic
1975 - In response to the energy crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly two months early in
           the United States.
1976 - Owners announce spring training won't open without a labor contract
1978 - 20th Grammy Awards: Hotel California, Fleetwood Mac, Debbie Boone wins
1979 - "Sarava" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 140 performances
1979 - Frank Peterson Jr named 1st black general in Marine Corps
1979 - George Harrison releases "George Harrison" album
1980 - 13th Winter Olympic games close at Lake Placid, NY
1980 - Eric Heiden wins all 5 speed skating golds at Lake Placid Olympics
1980 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1980 - Oil tanker explosion off Pilos, Greece, causes 37-mil-gallon spill
1981 - People mag features drug ordeal of Mackenzie & Papa John Phillips
1981 - Spanish coup under lt-col Antonio Tejero Molina fails
1982 - Michael Frayn's "Noises Off," premieres in London
1983 - 25th Grammy Awards: Roxanna, Toto IV, Men at Work wins
1983 - USFL NJ Generals sign Heisman winner Herschel Walker (3 years-$5 mil)
1983 - The Spanish Socialist government of Felipe González and Miguel Boyer nationalizes Rumasa, a
           holding of José María Ruiz Mateos.
1983 - The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces its intent to buy out and
           evacuate the dioxin-contaminated community of Times Beach, Missouri.
1985 - Indiana basketball coach Bobby Knight throws a chair during a game
1985 - US Senate confirms Edwin Meese III as attorney general
1986 - Despite losing, Red Sox Wade Boggs gets largest arbitration ($1.35M)
1986 - Mary Beth Zimmerman wins LPGA Standard Register/Samaritan Golf Classic
1986 - Nelli Fiere-Cooman runs world record 60 m indoor (7.00 sec)
1987 - Dick Howser retires from managing KC Royals, due to brain tumor
1987 - Russian Writers Union accepts Boris Pasternak posthumous as member
1987 - Supernova 1987A in LMC 1st seen; 1st naked-eye supernova since 1604
1988 - Chicago gives Cubs right to install lights & play up to 18 night games
1988 - Yvonne van Gennip skates female record 3k (4:11.94)
1990 - Ian Smith 173* NZ v India, 136 balls, world record for no 9 bat
1991 - Greg Haugen scores a split decision over Hector "Macho" Camacho
1991 - Military coup in Thailand, Premier Choonhaven arrested
1991 - NC is 1st NCAA basketball team to win 1,500 games
1991 - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Orix Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open
1991 - US insists Iraq publicly announce it is leaving Kuwait by 12 PM EST
1992 - 16th Winter Olympic games closes in Albertville, France
1992 - Andy Flower scores 115* on ODI debut, Zimbabwe v Sri Lanka
1992 - World Cup scoreline Zimbabwe 4-312, Sri Lanka 7-313
1992 - The Socialist Labour Party is founded in Georgia.
1993 - Gary Coleman wins $1,280,000 lawsuit against parents for high fees
1993 - India complete a 3-0 series drubbing of England
1993 - Sacramento Gold Miners admitted as CFL's 9th franchise (1st US team)
1994 - Indians owner Richard Jacobs announces he will pay $10 million to name baseball field (Jacobs
           Field) at Gateway (becomes official 3/23)
1995 - "Uncle Vanya" opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 29 performances
1995 - Antoine Nduwayo appointed Premier of Burundi
1995 - Dow Jones closes above 4,000 for 1st time (4,003.33)
1996 - Mark Waugh scores 130 in World Cup vs Kenya, 207 w/brother Steve
1996 - Rajindra Dhanraj takes 9-97 for Trinidad against Leeward Islands
1997 - Ali Abu Kamal opens fire in Empire State Building & kills 1
1997 - American Express Senior Golf Invitational
1997 - Jeff Sluman wins Tucson Golf Classic
1997 - NBC TV shows "Schindler's List," completely uncensored, 65M watch
1997 - Tucson Chrysler Golf Classic
1997 - Scientists in Scotland announced they succeeded in cloning an adult mammal, producing a
           lamb named "Dolly"
1998 - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Charleston SC on WAVF 96.1 FM
1998 - Supreme Court lets Megan's Law stand
1998 - Tornadoes in Florida kills at least 31
1998 - Osama bin Laden publishes a fatwa declaring jihad against all Jews and Crusaders.
1999 - Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Öcalan is charged with treason in Ankara, Turkey.
1999 - An avalanche destroys the Austrian village of Galtür, killing 31.
2005 - Slovakia Summit 2005 begins, marking the first occasion when a sitting American President
           visits Slovakia; George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin are in attendance.
2005 - Vote of the controversial French law on colonialism, repealed start of 2006.
2006 - Dubai Ports World agrees to postpone its plans to take over management of six U.S. ports
           after the proposal ignited harsh bipartisan criticism on Capitol Hill.
2007 - Japan launches its fourth spy satellite, stepping up its ability to monitor potential threats such
           as North Korea.
2007 - A train derails on an evening express service near Grayrigg, Cumbria, England, killing one
           person and injuring 22. This results in hundreds of points being checked over the UK after a
           few similar accidents.
2008 - a B-2 Spirit of the USAF crashes at Guam. The crew survived but the aircraft was written off,
           making it the most expensive air crash in human history (the aircraft alone cost $1.2Bn). The
            B-2 had a perfect safety record before the crash; not one B-2 ever crashed.
2010 - Unknown criminals pour more than 2.5 million liters of diesel oil and other hydrocarbons into
             the river Lambro, in Northern Italy, causing an environmental disaster.
2012 - A series of bomb attacks across 12 Iraqi cities kills 60 and injures 200

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 23, 2013, 07:46:38 PM

This Day in History for 23rd February


Famous Weddings

2002 - "Blue" country and pop singer LeAnn Rimes (19) weds backup dancer Dean Sheremet (21) at
            Perkins Chapel in Dallas, Texas

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 23, 2013, 08:17:46 PM

This Day in History for 23rd February


Famous Birthdays

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Composer George                                 Director Victor Fleming (1889)                  Actress Dakota Fanning (1994)
Friedrich Handel (1685)


1417 - Pope Paul II [Pietro Barbo], Venice, Republic of Venice, Pope (1464-71)
1583 - Jean-Baptiste Morin, French scientist (d. 1656)
1614 - Jacob Colijn(s), Dutch coat of arms painter
1615 - Cornelis Galle II, Flemish engraver/illustrator, baptised
1633 - Samuel Pepys, London England, navy expert/composer (Diary, Memoirs)
1646 - Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, Japanese shogun (d. 1709)
1648 - Arabella Churchill, English mistress of James II of England (d. 1730)
1649 - John Blow, composer of 1st English opera (Venus & Adonis) (baptized)
1685 - George Friedrich Handel, Halle Germany, organist/composer (Messiah)
1700 - Wilhelmus Schortinghuis, Dutch theologist (Profound Christianity)
1723 - Richard Price, Welsh philosopher (d. 1791)
1729 - Josiah Hornblower, American statesman (d. 1809)
1730 - Christian Joseph Lidarti, composer
1734 - Mayer Amschel Rothschild, Frankfurt, founder (House of Rothschild)
1743 - Mayer Amschel Rothschild, German-born banker (d. 1812)
1776 - John Walter II, London, chief proprietor (The Times, 1812-47)
1787 - Emma Willard, US, opens school for young ladies (Hall of Fame)
1792 - Istvan Ferenczi, Hungarian sculptor
1811 - George Washington Hewitt, composer
1817 - George Watts, London, painter
1818 - Jeremy F Gilmer, Maj Gen/Chief Engineer Confederate War Dept
1824 - Herman N van der Tuuk, Dutch philologist (Tobasch' Grammar)
1824 - Lewis Cass Hunt, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1886
1831 - Hendrik W Mesdag, Dutch painter (Panorama Mesdag)
1834 - Gustav Hermann Nachtigal, German physician/colonizer/consul in Tunis
1838 - Gilbert Moxley Sorrel, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1901
1840 - Carl Menger, Austrian economist
1842 - Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher (d. 1906)
1848 - Thomas Paine Westendorf, composer
1850 - César Ritz, Swiss hotelier (d. 1918)
1863 - Franz von Stuck, German painter (Der Krieg)
1865 - Barney Dreyfuss, baseball owner (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1868 - William E B Du Bois, Mass, civil rights activist and writer (Souls of Black Folk)
1869 - Nadezhda Konstantinova Krupskaya, Russian revolutionary (Soc-Dem)
1873 - Dmitri Arakishvili, composer
1873 - Liang Qichao, Chinese scholar (d. 1929)
1874 - Konstantin Päts, Estonian PM (1921-23, 1932-33), dictator (1933-40)
1875 - Jozef E Stokvis, journalist/Dutch MP (SDAP)
1876 - Agnes M Royden, writer
1876 - Wadi' Sabra, composer
1878 - Kazimir Malevich, Ukrainian painter and art theorist (d. 1935)
1879 - Agnes Arber, English biologist/philosopher (Mind & the Eye)
1879 - Norman Lindsay, Creswick Victoria, artist/novelist
1880 - Edgar Istel, composer
1881 - Titus [Anno S] Brandsma, Dutch philosopher
1882 - Ladislav Vycpalek, composer
1883 - Karl Jaspers, Oldenburg Germany, existentialist philosopher
1884 - Frank Cellier, Surbiton England, actor (Quiet Wedding, Big Blockade)
1884 - Herman Courtens, Belgian painter
1886 - Albert Edward Sammons, composer
1886 - Ventura Garcia Calderon, Peruvian diplomat/author
1887 - Oskar Frederik Lindberg, composer
1889 - Cyril Delevanti, England, actor (Lucius-Jefferson Davis, Black Eye)
1889 - Frederik M baron of Asbeck, Dutch lawyer (League of Nations)
1889 - Victor Fleming, American director (Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind), (d. 1949)
1889 - Musidora, French actress and director (d. 1957)
1891 - Harold Horder, Australian Rugby League player (d. 1978)
1892 - Kathleen Harrison, actress (Fast Lady, Big Money, West 11)
1895 - Richard Goolden, London England, actor (School for Husbands)
1898 - Reinhard Herbig, German archaeologist
1899 - Erich Kästner, German writer (d. 1974)
1899 - Norman Taurog, American film director (d. 1981)
1900 - Elinor Remick Warren, composer
1901 - Aartje W "Mien" van It Sant-van Bommel, author (Mieke-serial)
1901 - Edgar Ende, German painter (d. 1965)
1903 - Grigori V Aleksandrov, Russian director (Veselye Rebjata)
1904 - Leopold Trepper, Polish/Israeli spy/founded (CP Palestina)
1904 - William L Shirer, historian (Rise & Fall of 3rd Reich)
1905 - Leonidas Zoras, composer
1907 - Anthony Standerwick Heal, businessman
1908 - William McMahon, PM of Australia (Liberal) (1971-72)
1909 - Frank Ward, cricketer (Australian leggie late 30s)
1911 - G Mennen Williams, Detroit, Sup Court Justice/(Gov-D-Mich, 1949-60)
1911 - Walter Ernest Allen, writer/critic
1913 - Charles Leonard, US, pentathelete (Olympic-1936)
1913 - Earl of Lincoln
1914 - Margaret Farrer, CEO (Central Midwives Board)
1914 - Theofiel Middelkamp, Dutch cyclist (d. 2005)
1915 - Heinrich Schirmbeck, German author (Das Spiegellabyrinth)
1915 - Jon Hall, Fresno California, actor (Ramor of the Jungle) (d. 1979)
1915 - Paul Tibbets, US Air Force retired Brigadier General and Pilot of B-29 "Enola Gay" over Hiroshima (d. 2007)
1916 - George Abel, Canada, ice hockey player (Olympic-gold-1972)
1916 - Martindale Sidwell, organist/conductor
1916 - William Walsh, academic
1917 - Kenneth Tobey, actor (Chuck-Whirlybirds) [or Mar 23]
1918 - Dom Aelred Watkin, headmaster (Downside School)
1918 - Richard G. Butler, American fascist (d. 2004)
1919 - Johnny Carey, soccer star
1919 - Derek Ezra [Baron Ezra], British politician and Liberal Democrat Life Peer
1920 - David Wright, poet
1920 - Hall Overton, Bangor Michigan, composer (Enchanted Pear Tree)
1920 - Lord St Levan
1920 - Paul Gérin-Lajoie, French Canadian politician
1923 - Gery Florizoone, Flemish poet
1923 - Dante Lavelli, AAFC/NFL end wide receiver (Cleveland Browns)
1923 - Rafael Addiego Bruno, Uruguayan politician
1924 - Lejaren Hiller, composer
1925 - Ian Smith, cricket leg-spinner (S Afr 1947-58 avg 64.08)
1925 - Louis Stokes, (Rep-D-OH, 1969- )
1926 - Regine Crespin, French vocalist (Sheherazade, Les Nuits D'ete)
1927 - Ivan Hrusovsky, composer
1928 - Duke of Beaufort
1928 - Vasily Grigoryevich Lazarev, Siberia USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 12, 18A)
1929 - Eduard W "Ed" Bauer, [Eddy Evers], Dutch actor (Bluejackets)
1929 - Elston Howard, Yankee catcher (1st black NY Yankee/1963 AL MVP)
1929 - Richard Moryl, composer
1930 - Gerry Davis, writer
1930 - Harry Boldt, German Fed Rep, equestrian dressage (Olympic-gold-1976)
1930 - Imre Gyongyossy, film Maker
1930 - Jef Geeraerts, Flemish writer (Black Venus)
1930 - Johnny Seven, NYC, actor (Ironside, Amy Prentiss)
1931 - Tom Wesselmann, American collage artist and sculptor (Great American Nudes) (d. 2004)
1932 - Majel Barrett, American actress
1933 - Donna J Stone, poet
1933 - Lee Calhoun, Laurel Miss, hurdler (Olympics-gold-56, 60)
1933 - Lee Quencey Calhoun, Laurel MS, 110m hurdler (Olympic-gold-1956, 60)
1934 - Lady Digby
1937 - David Ward, president (Law Society)
1937 - Lord Tugendhat
1937 - Tom Osborne, college football coach
1938 - Diane Varsi, San Mateo California, actress (Peyton Place)
1938 - Sylvia Chase, St Paul Minn, newscaster (ABC Weekend News, 20/20)
1939 - Edmund Boyd Fisher, publisher
1939 - Josef Feistmantl, Austria, lugeist (Olympic-gold-1964)
1939 - Majel Barrett, Columbus Ohio, actress (Christine Chapel-Star Trek)
1940 - Jermyn P Brooks, CEO (Price Waterhouse Europe)
1940 - Peter Fonda, actor (Easy Rider, Lilith, Wild Angels, Trip)
1941 - Frank Gerstenberg, Edinburgh, principal (George Watson's College)
1941 - Robin Bynoe, cricketer (WI opening batsman in 4 Tests 1959-67)
1941 - Ron Hunt, baseball player
1942 - Beau Boulter, (Rep-R-TX, 1985- )
1942 - Colin Sanders, founder (Solid State Logic)
1942 - John Lewis, Head Master (Eton College)
1943 - Bobby Wayne Mitchell, Chatham VA, PGA golfer (1971 Cleveland Open)
1943 - Fred Biletnikoff, NFL wide receiver
1943 - Jada Rowland, NYC, actress (Penny-Hamptons, Amy-Secret Storm)
1944 - James Cousins, British MP
1944 - Johnny Winter, [John Dawson], Leland Miss, guitarist (Silver Train)
1944 - Mike Maxfield, rocker (Billy J Kramer & The Dakotas)
1944 - Bernard Cornwell, English historical novelist
1944 - John Sandford, American novelist
1945 - Frank Murray, police Officer
1946 - Rusty Young, California, rock steel guitarist (Poco-Heat of the Night)
1947 - Anton Mosimann, chef
1947 - Colin Sanders, British computer engineer (Solid State Logic)
1947 - Geoff Cope, cricketer (England off-spinner 1977-78)
1947 - Shakira Caine, Guyana, actress (Man Who be King)/Miss Guyana (1967)
1947 - John McWethy, American journalist (d. 2008)
1947 - Pia Kjærsgaard, Danish politician
1948 - Bill Alexander, theatre director
1948 - Doug Moench, American comic book writer
1949 - Anna-Maria Muller, German DR, Luge (Olympic-gold-1972)
1949 - Larry Demps, US R&B vocalist (Dramatics-Me & Mrs Jones)
1949 - Marc Garneau, Quebec City Canada, PhD/astronaut (STS 13, 77)
1949 - Maureen Hicks, British MP
1949 - Terry "Tex" Comer, bassist/guitarist
1949 - Terry Comer, rocker
1950 - Neil Jordan, Sligo Ireland, novelist (Dream of a Beast, Past)
1950 - Steve Priest, London, rock bassist (Sweet Hayes)
1951 - Ed "Too Tall" Jones, NFL linebacker (Dallas Cowboys)
1951 - Nicholas Kenyon, controller (BBC Radio 3)
1951 - Patricia Richardson, Bethesada Md, actress (Double Trouble, Home Imp)
1952 - Brad Whitford, Mass, rock guitarist (Aerosmith-Jamie Got a Gun)
1953 - Sallie L Baliunas, astrophysicist
1953 - Satoru Nakajima, Japanese racing driver
1954 - Viktor Yushchenko, President of Ukraine
1955 - Howard Jones, rock pianist/vocalist (Things Can Only Get Better)
1958 - David Sylvian, vocal/guitar (Sylvian Sylvian, Japan-Adolescent Sex)
1958 - Lorraine Michaels, Canterbury England, playmate (April, 1981)
1958 - Ria Brieffies, Dutch vocalist (Dolly Dots)
1959 - John Arthur Wilson, Ceres CA, PGA golfer (1994 Anheuser-Busch-4th)
1960 - Cindy Figg-Currier, Mt Pleasant MI, golfer (1994 Brit Open-6th)
1960 - Gloria von Thurm un Taxis, Munich German FR, Princess
1960 - Maria Gloria von Schoenberg-Glauchau, wife of prince Thurn un Taxis
1960 - Naruhito, crown prince of Japan
1960 - Alan Griffin, Australian politician
1962 - Melinda Mays, Augusta Ga, playmate (Feb, 1983)
1962 - Michael Wilton, rock guitarist (Queensrijche-Warning)
1963 - Bobby Bonilla, NYC, outfielder (NY Mets, Balt Orioles, Marlins)
1963 - Debbie Kruck, Danbury CT, Ms Fitness USA (1994)
1963 - Reza Abdoh, theatre director
1963 - Robert Collins, keyboard player
1963 - Radosław Sikorski, Polish politician
1964 - Byron Evans, NFL linebacker (Philadelphia Eagles)
1964 - Dana Katherine Scully, fictional character (X-Files)
1964 - John Norum, rocker
1965 - Helena Sukova, Prague Czech Rep, tennis star (1985 US Open's Double)
1965 - Kristin Davis, actress (Melrose Place)
1965 - Sylvie Guillem, France, ballerina (Royal Ballet)
1965 - Michael Dell, American computer manufacturer
1966 - John Druce, Peterborough, NHL right wing (Phila Flyers, LA Kings)
1966 - Marc Price, actor/comedian (Skippy-Family Ties)
1967 - Gord Murphy, Willowdale, NHL defenseman (Florida Panthers)
1967 - Pam Blundell, fashion designer
1967 - Steven C Stricker, Edgerton WI, PGA golfer (1994 Northern Telecom-2nd)
1967 - Tamsin Greig, English actress
1967 - Chris Vrenna, American musician, producer and sound engineer Nine Inch Nails, Tweaker
1968 - Stephanie Seymour, SD California, actress/model (Sunny Side Up)
1969 - Ed McDaniel, NFL linebacker (Minnesota Vikings)
1969 - Michael Campbell, Hawera NZ, Australasia golfer
1969 - Marc Wauters, Belgian cyclist
1970 - Niecy Nash, American actress
1971 - Carin Hjalmarsson Koch, Kungalv Sweden, golfer (1995 Pinewild-7th)
1971 - Jason Keller, Scarsdale NY, actor (Jason-Out of the Blue)
1971 - Shane Keller, Scarsdale NY, actor (Shane-Out of the Blue)
1971 - Torsten Kienass, Berlin GER, hockey defenseman (Team Germany)
1971 - Jeong Chan, South Korean actor
1971 - Don Maxwell, Canadian cricketer
1971 - Melinda Messenger, English television presenter
1972 - Greg Hill, NFL running back (KC Chiefs)
1972 - Jamie Watson, NBA forward (Utah Jazz)
1972 - Ryan Grigson, NFL guard/tackle (Detroit Lions)
1972 - Steve Papin, WLAF running back (Scotland Claymores)
1972 - Steve Holy, American country singer
1973 - Robert Pipkins, Staten Island NY, luger (Olympics-1994)
1973 - Jack Case, American artist
1973 - Lars-Olof Johansson, Swedish musician (The Cardigans)
1974 - Herschelle Gibbs, cricketer (South African Test batsman 1996)
1974 - Kenyon Cotton, full back (Baltimore Ravens)
1974 - Jaime Villarreal, Mexican musician
1974 - Leko, American DJ
1975 - Bohdan Utihrach, Czech, tennis star
1975 - Chris Garner, NBA guard (Toronto Raptors)
1975 - Michael Tricario, actor (Randy-Wonder Years)
1975 - Pat Barnes, quarterback (KC Chiefs)
1975 - Michael Cornacchia, American actor
1975 - Robert Lopez, American composer
1975 - Natalia Verbeke, Argentine actress
1976 - Dmitriy Dudarev, hockey forward (Team Kazakhstan Oly-1998)
1976 - Jeff O'Neill, Richmond Hill, NHL center (Hartford Whalers)
1976 - Kelly Macdonald, British actress
1976 - Scott Elarton, American baseball player
1977 - Angie Trostel, Oxford Ohio, diver (Olympics-96)
1977 - Dally Randriantefy, Antananarivo Madag, tennis star (1993 Marseille)
1977 - Kristina Šmigun, Estonian cross-country skier
1978 - Karolina Rantamaki, ice hockey left wing (Finland, Oly-98)
1978 - René Pérez, Puerto Rican musician (Calle 13)
1979 - D-Roc, American rapper (Ying Yang Twins)
1980 - Yvonne Tousek, Kitchener Ontario, gymnistic (Olympics-96)
1981 - Gareth Barry, English footballer
1981 - Charles Tillman, American football player
1982 - Adam Hann-Byrd, American actor
1982 - Karan Singh Grover, Indian Television Actor
1983 - Mirco Bergamasco, Italian rugby player
1983 - Mido, Egyptian footballer
1983 - Aziz Ansari, Indian American Comedian
1983 - Emily Blunt, British actress
1986 - Holly Brook, American musician
1986 - Kazuya Kamenashi, Japanese pop star (KAT-TUN)
1986 - Jerod Mayo, American Football player
1989 - Evan Bates, American ice dancer
1994 - Dakota Fanning, American actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 23, 2013, 08:24:36 PM

This Day in History for 23rd February


Famous Deaths

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Romantic Poet John Keats (1821)            Novelist James Herriot (1995)


155 - Polycarp, disciple of Apostle John, arrested & burned at stake
943 - Herbert II, Count of Vermandois, (b. 884)
1011 - Willigis, Archbishop of Mainz
1100 - Emperor Zhezong of China (b. 1076)
1447 - Eugene IV, [Gabriele Condulmer], Italian Pope (1431-47), dies
1447 - Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (b. 1390)
1464 - Zhengtong, Emperor of China (b. 1427)
1468 - John Gutenberg, German inventor (boekdrukkunst), dies
1526 - Diego Colón, Spanish Viceroy of the Indies
1554 - Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk, Lady Jane Grey's father, executed
1572 - Pierre Certon, French composer
1603 - Andrea Cesalpino, Italian philosopher, physician, and botanist (b. 1519)
1607 - Herman Herbertsz, vicar, dies at about 60
1669 - Lieuwe van Aitzema, Frisian historian, dies at 68
1682 - Abraham de Wicquefort, Dutch diplomat/historian, dies at 75
1704 - Georg Muffat, French/German organist/composer, dies at 50
1718 - Francois Fagel, Dutch field marshal/mayor of Nimegen, dies at 63
1766 - Stanislaw Leszcynski, duke of Lutherans/king of Poland, dies
1781 - George Taylor, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (bc. 1716)
1792 - Joshua Reynolds, English portrait painter (Simplicity), dies at 68
1800 - Joseph Warton, English literary critic (b. 1722)
1806 - John Alcock, composer, dies at 90
1807 - Francois Guichard, composer, dies at 61
1821 - John Keats, Romantic poet, dies of tuberculosis at 25 in Rome
1821 - Marie-Anne Collot, French sculptor, dies
1848 - John Quincy Adams, 6th US pres (1825-1829), dies of a stroke at 80
1855 - Carl Friedrich Gauss, mathematician, dies
1859 - Zygmunt Krasiński, Polish Romantic poet (b. 1812)
1867 - George Thomas Smart, composer, dies at 90
1879 - Albrecht Graf von Roon, Prime Minister of Prussia (b. 1803)
1884 - Tambo Tambo, Australian aboriginal/US circus attaction, dies at 23
1897 - Woldemar Bargiel, composer, dies at 68
1900 - William Butterfield, architect of the Gothic revival, dies
1902 - Samuel R Gardiner, British historian (Oliver Cromwell), dies at 72
1903 - Albert Cahen, composer, dies at 57
1903 - Friedrich Grutzmacher, composer, dies at 70
1906 - Johann Hoch, US murderer, executed
1908 - Johannes Friedrich August von Esmarch, German surgeon (b. 1823)
1913 - Jimmy Sinclair, cricketer (3 centuries in 25 Test S Afr career), dies
1915 - Robert Smalls, Reconstruction congressman, dies at 75 in SC
1916 - George Clement Martin, composer, dies at 71
1920 - Alexander Alexandrovich Il'yinsky, composer, dies at 61
1922 - Albert Victor Bäcklund, Swedish physicist (b. 1845)
1927 - Sveinbjorn Sveinbjornsson, composer, dies at 79
1930 - Horst Wessel, German nazi lyricist (Fahne Hoch), dies at 22
1930 - Mabel Normand, actress/director (Extra Girl), dies at 35
1931 - Nellie Melba, [Helen Mitchell], Australian soprano, dies
1934 - Augusto Sandino, Nicaraguan patriot, assassinated by National Guard
1934 - Edward William Elgar, English composer (Coronation Ode), dies at 76
1935 - Jan Duiker, Dutch architect (Hotel Gooiland), dies at 44
1937 - Claude Buckenham, cricketer (21 wkts in 4 Tests for Eng 1909-10), dies
1942 - Stefan Zweig, Austrian writer (Die Welt von Gestern), dies at 60
1944 - Leo Hendrick Baekeland, inventor (Bakelite), dies
1945 - Aleksei Tolstoi, Russian poet/writer (Pjotr Peroyj), dies at 62
1945 - Aubrey Cousins, Canadian sergeant (Victoria Cross), dies in battle
1946 - Tomoyuki Yamashita, Japanese general (hanged) (b. 1885)
1948 - John Robert Gregg, Irish-born publisher and inventor (b. 1866)
1955 - Paul Claudel, French poet/playwright (L'otage), dies at 86
1957 - Marika Ninou, Greek singer (b. 1918)
1960 - Arthur Legat, Belgian racing driver (b. 1898)
1961 - Wilf Ferguson, cricket leg spinner (34 wickets for West Indies), dies
1965 - Stan Laurel, comedian (Laurel & Hardy), dies of heart attack at 74
1968 - Fannie Hurst, US author (Anatomy of Me), dies at 78
1969 - Abd al-Aziz Abd al-Rahman al-Faisal al-Saud, King Saudia, dies at 67
1969 - Joseph Messner, composer, dies at 75
1970 - Hirsch Jacobs, American thoroughbred horse trainer and owner (b. 1904)
1971 - King Lockwood, dies of stroke at 73
1972 - Michael Taube, composer, dies at 81
1973 - Dickinson W. Richards, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or
           Medicine (b. 1895)
1974 - Florence Rice, actress (Girl in 1313, Carnival), dies at 63
1974 - Harry Ruby, American composer and writer (b. 1895)
1976 - Fuzzy Knight, actor (Gun Town, Ragtime Cowboy Joe), dies at 74
1976 - L S Lowry, painter, dies
1976 - LS Lowry, English artist dies (b. 1887)
1979 - W.A.C. Bennett, Canadian politician (b. 1900)
1980 - Robert Vandekerckhove, Belgian politician, dies at 62
1983 - Adrian Boult, conductor, dies
1985 - Alexander Scourby, actor (Jesus, Shaggy Dog, Giant), dies at 71
1987 - Esmond Knight, actor (Black Narcissus, Henry V), dies at 80
1990 - Annelien Kappeyne van de Coppello, Dutch MP (Liberal), dies at 53
1990 - James Gavin, commandant US 82nd Airborn Div (Normandy), dies at 82
1990 - Jose Napoleon Duarte, president of Salvador (1984-89), dies at 62
1992 - Jacquelyn Hyde, actress (Dark, House of Terror), dies at 61
1992 - Markos Vafiades, leader (ELAS, 1943-49), dies
1993 - Edwin Louis Battle, actor (Almost Blue, Chase), dies of stroke at 33
1994 - Stuart Berger, doctor (Immune Power Diet), dies from obesity at 40
1995 - Art Kane, photographer, dies at 69
1995 - David Melvin English Franklin, singer, dies at 52
1995 - James Herriot [Alfred Wight], Scottish author (All Creatures Great & Small), dies at 78
1995 - Norman Hunter, writer, dies at 95
1995 - Peter Guy Wykeham Fighter Pilot-Barnes, dies at 79
1996 - Freddie Stocks, cricket (cent on debut & wkt on 1st ball, Notts), dies
1996 - George Alan Dawson, jazz drummer/teacher, dies at 66
1996 - Joseph Walker Barr, banker/politician, dies at 78
1997 - Oscar Lewenstein, impressario, dies at 80
1997 - Tony Williams, jazz musician, dies at 51
1998 - Philip Abbott, actor (Arthur Ward-FBI), dies at 74
1999 - Carlos Hathcock, USMC Sniper, 93 Confirmed Kills (b. 1942)
2000 - Ofra Haza, Israeli singer (b. 1957)
2000 - Stanley Matthews, English footballer (b. 1915)
2001 - Robert Enrico, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1931)
2003 - Robert K. Merton, American sociologist (b. 1910)
2003 - Howie Epstein, American bass guitarist (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers) (b. 1955)
2004 - Vijay Anand, Indian film director (b. 1934)
2004 - Carl Anderson, American singer (b. 1945)
2004 - Sikander Bakht, Governor of Kerala (b. 1918)
2004 - Don Cornell, American singer (b. 1919)
2004 - Carl Liscombe, Canadian hockey player (b. 1915)
2006 - Benno Besson, Swiss actor and film director (b. 1922)
2006 - Telmo Zarraonaindía, Spanish footballer (b. 1921)
2007 - Donnie Brooks, American singer (b. 1936)
2007 - John Ritchie, British footballer (b. 1941)
2008 - Janez Drnovšek, Slovenian prime minister and president (b. 1950)
2008 - Paul Frère, Belgian race car driver and motorsport journalist (b. 1917)
2008 - Douglas Fraser, Scottish pilot, first to land at Newfoundland Airport on January 11, 1938 (b.
          1916)
2012 - Bruce Surtees, American cinematographer, dies at 74

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 24, 2013, 10:42:37 AM

This Day in History for 24th February


Historical Events

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Composer George Friedrich Handel         The Warrior Pope Pope Julius II        Pacifist and Spiritual Leader Gandhi

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Princess of Wales Diana Spencer            Comedian David Letterman                           Singer Elton John


303 - 1st official Roman edict for persecution of Christians issued
1208 - St Francis of Assisi, 26, received his vocation in Portiuncula Italy
1296 - Pope Boniface VIII degree Clericis Iaicos
1387 - King Charles III of Naples and Hungary is assassinated at Buda.
1389 - Battle at Falköping: Danes defeat King Albert of Sweden
1496 - England's Henry VII ends commercial dispute with Flanders
1510 - Pope Julius II excommunicates the republic of Venice
1525 - Battle of Pavia: Holy Roman Emperor Charles V's troops beat the French
1525 - Francois I captured at Battle of Pavia and 8700 killed
1527 - Ferdinand of Austria crowned as king of Bohemia
1528 - Hungarian anti-king Janos Zapolyai & Sultan Suleiman signs treaty
1530 - 1st imperial coronation by a Pope, Charles V crowned by Clement V
1538 - Treaty of Nagyvarad/Peace of Grosswardein signed between Ferdinand I of Austria and John
           Zápolya of Hungary.
1541 - Santiago, Chile founded by Pedro de Valvidia (or 2/12)
1552 - Privileges of Hanseatic League in England are abrogated
1582 - Pope Gregory XIII announces New Style (Gregorian) calendar
1597 - Flemish painter Frederick of Valckenborch becomes porter of Frankfurt-on-Main
1607 - Claudio Monteverdi's opera "Orfeo," premieres in Mantua
1708 - Prince Johan Willem Friso sworn in as viceroy of Groningen
1711 - Handel's opera "Rinaldo" premieres, London
1739 - Battle of Karnal: The army of Iranian ruler Nadir Shah defeats the forces of the Mughal
           emperor of India, Muhammad Shah.
1779 - George Rogers Clark captures Vincennes (Ind) from British
1786 - Charles Cornwallis appointed governor-general of India
1793 - French troops conquer Breda
1803 - Supreme Court 1st rules a law unconstitutional (Marbury v Madison)
1804 - London's Drury Lane Theatre burns to the ground, leaving owner Richard Brinsley Sheridan
           destitute.
1807 - 17 die & 15 wounded in a crush to witness execution of Holloway, Heggerty & Elizabeth
           Godfrey in England
1821 - Mexico gains independence from Spain
1826 - The signing of the Treaty of Yandaboo marks the end of the First Burmese War.
1835 - Siwinowe Kesibwi (Shawnee Sun) is 1st Indian lang monthly mag
1836 - 3,000 Mexicans attack 182 Texans at Alamo, lasts 13 days
1839 - Steam shovel patented by William Otis, Philadelphia
1848 - King Louis-Philippe abdicates, 2nd French republic declared
1855 - US Court of Claims forms for cases against government
1857 - 1st perforated US postage stamps delivered to government
1857 - LA Vineyard Society organized
1863 - Arizona Territory created
1863 - Forrest's raid on Brentwood, Tennessee
1864 - -Feb 25] Battle of Tunnel Hill, GA (Buzzard's Roost)
1868 - 1st US parade with floats (Mardi Gras-Mobile Alabama)
1868 - House of Reps vote 126 to 47, to impeach President Andrew Johnson
1875 - The SS Gothenburg hits the Great Barrier Reef and sinks off the Australian east coast, killing
           approximately 100, including a number of high profile civil servants and dignitaries.
1876 - Henrik Ibsen's "Peer Gynt," premieres in Oslo
1881 - De Lesseps' Co begins work on Panama Canal
1881 - China and Russia sign the Sino-Russian Ili Treaty.
1888 - Louisville, Ky becomes 1st government in US to adopt Australian ballot
1891 - French troops under capt Archinard occupy Diena West Sudan
1893 - The American University is chartered by an act of the Congress of the United States of
           America.
1894 - Nicaragua captures Tegucigalpa, Honduras (National Day, sort of)
1895 - Cuban war for independence begins
1896 - Victoria all out for 43 vs South Australia, Jones 6-15 Jarvis 4-27
1899 - Western Washington University is established.
1902 - Battle at Yzer Spruit: Boer general De la Rey beats British
1903 - US signs agreement acquiring a naval station at Guantanamo Bay Cuba
1905 - Simplon tunnel in Switzerland completed
1909 - The Hudson Motor Car Company is founded.
1914 - Frank Craven's "Too Many Cooks," premieres in NYC
1917 - German plan to get Mexican help in WW I exposed (Zimmerman telegram)
1917 - Red Sox sell Smokey Joe Wood, his arm dead at 26, to Cleve for $15,000
1917 - Russian revolution breaks out (3/8 NS)
1918 - Estonia declares independence from Russia
1918 - Estonian Declaration of Independence.
1920 - NSDAP begins at Hofbrauhaus Munich
1920 - Peace treaty gives Estonia independence
1921 - 1st transcontinental flight in 24 hrs flying time arrives Florida
1923 - Flying Scotsman goes into service
1923 - Mass arrests in US of mafia
1924 - Greek parliament proclaims republic
1924 - Johnny Weissmuller, swims 100m record (57 2/5 secs)
1924 - Mahatma Gandhi released from jail
1925 - Thermite explosive 1st used to break up ice jam, Waddington, NY
1927 - John Golden Theater (Theatre Masque) opens at 252 W 45th St NYC
1932 - Malcolm Campbell drives record speed (253.96 mph) at Daytona
1933 - Final demonstration of German communist party in Berlin
1933 - League of Nations tells Japanese to pull out of Manchuria
1937 - 1st US group hospital-medical cooperative authorized, Wash, DC
1938 - Du Pont begins commercial production of nylon toothbrush bristles
1939 - Roy Harris' 3rd Symphony, premieres in Boston
1940 - Frances Langford records "When You Wish Upon a Star"
1941 - 43 Geuzen resistance fighter trial opens in the Hague
1941 - Anti nazi meeting at Noordermarkt Amsterdam
1942 - Voice of America begins broadcasting (in German)
1942 - The "Battle of Los Angeles" takes place, lasting until the next day.
1943 - Gen-major Bradley flies to Algiers
1943 - Texas League announces it will quit for the duration of WW II
1944 - Argentina coup by Juan Peron minister of war
1945 - Egypt & Syria declares war on nazi-Germany
1945 - Manila freed from Japanese
1945 - Nazi occupiers begin state of siege
1945 - Egyptian Premier Ahmed Maher Pasha is killed in Parliament after reading a decree.
1946 - Juan Peron elected President of Argentina
1948 - Communist Party seizes complete control of Czechoslovakia
1949 - Israel & Egypt sign an armistice agreement
1949 - V-2/WAC-Corporal 1st rocket to outer space, White Sands, NM, 400 km
1950 - Labour wins British parliamentary election
1951 - "Bless You All" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 84 perfs
1951 - Ice Pairs Championship at Milan won by Ria Baran & Paul Falk of GER
1951 - Ladies Figure Skating Champion in Milan won by Jeanette Altwegg of GRB
1951 - Men's Figure Skating Championship in Milan won by Richard Button USA
1952 - Betty MacKinnon & Sam Snead wins LPGA Orlando Mixed Golf Tournament
1955 - "Silk Stockings" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 461 performances
1955 - Pact of Baghdad between Iraq & Turkey signed
1960 - Italian government of Segni falls
1960 - US beats Germany in Olympic hockey finals round, 9-1
1961 - Explorer (10) fails to reach Earth orbit
1962 - "New Faces of '62" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 28 performances
1962 - "Sail Away" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 167 performances
1962 - General mobilization in Indonesia over New-Guinea
1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1965 - Beatles begin filming "Help" in Bahamas
1965 - East German president Ulbricht visits Egypt
1966 - Coup ousts Pres Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana
1966 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1968 - "Darling of the Day" closes at George Abbott NYC after 31 perfs
1968 - 1st pulsar discovered (CP 1919 by Jocelyn Burnell at Cambridge)
1968 - Discovery of 1st pulsar announced
1968 - Gary Unger begins NHL consecutive game record of 914 games
1968 - Jocelyn Bell discovers 1st pulsar
1968 - US troops reconquer Hue Vietnam
1969 - Mariner 6 launched for Mars flyby
1970 - 29 Swiss Army officers die in avalanche (Reckingen, Switzerland)
1970 - Heintje Simons (14) wins 7 gold records
1970 - KVDO TV channel 3 in Salem, OR (IND) begins broadcasting
1971 - Algeria nationalizes French oil companies
1974 - Atje Keulen-Deelstra becomes world champ all-round skater
1974 - Pakistan officially recognizes Bangladesh
1976 - Cuba adopts its constitution
1976 - Jules Feiffer's "Knock Knock," premieres in NYC
1976 - Leonid Brezhnev opens 25th congress of CPSU
1977 - Pres Carter announces US foreign aid will consider human rights
1978 - Kevin Porter, NJ, sets NBA record with 29 assists in a game
1979 - Highest price ever paid for a pig, $42,500, Stamford, Texas
1979 - War between North & South Yemen begins
1980 - "Canterbury Tales" closes at Rialto Theater NYC after 16 performances
1980 - Joanne Carner Ladies wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic
1980 - Rangers score 5 power-play goals against Islanders
1980 - USA Olympic hockey team defeated Finland, 4-2, to win the gold medal
1981 - Boston Celtics begin 18 NBA game win streak
1981 - Britain's Prince Charles announces engagement to Lady Diana Spencer
1981 - Jean Harris is convicted of murdering Scarsdale diet doctor Tarnower
1981 - An earthquake registering 6.7 on the Richter scale hits Athens, killing 16 people and
           destroying buildings in several towns west of the city.
1982 - 24th Grammy Awards: Betty Davis Eyes, Double Fantasy wins
1982 - Wayne Gretzky scores NHL-record 78th goal of season en route to 92
1983 - Dow Jones closes above 1100 mark for 1st time
1983 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1983 - A special commission of the U.S. Congress releases a report that condemns the practice of
           Japanese internment during World War II.
1984 - Iraq resumes air attack on Iran
1985 - Amy Alcott wins LPGA Circle K Golf Open Tucson
1985 - Birendra, Bir Bikram Shah Dev crowned King of Nepal
1985 - Jim Kelly (Houston USFL) passes for pro football record 574 yds
1985 - Yul Brynner reprised his role in "The King & I"
1986 - Texas Air buys Eastern Airlines for $676 million
1986 - Voyager 2, 1st Uranus flyby
1987 - 29th Grammy Awards: Higher Love, Graceland, Bruce Hornsby wins
1987 - LA Laker Kareem Abdul-Jabbar scores his 36,000th NBA point
1987 - Radio personality Larry King suffers a heart attack
1988 - Matti Nykanen becomes winter olympics 1st triple gold medalist
1988 - South African apartheid regime bans the UDF
1988 - Supreme Ct votes 8-0 Jerry Falwell cannot collect for Hustler parody
1989 - 150-million-year-old fossil egg (oldest dinosaur embryo) found
1989 - Harold E Ballard sells CFL Hamilton Tiger-Cats to David Braley
1989 - Margaret Ray found in David Letterman's home, claims to be his wife
1989 - US Boeing 747 loses parts of roof over Pacific, 9 die
1989 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1989 - Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini offers $1M-$3M bounty on Salman Rushdie's death due to
           his novel, "Satanic Verses"
1990 - Beth Daniel wins LPGA Orix Hawaiia Ladies Golf Open
1991 - "Those Were The Days" closes at Edison Theater NYC after 126 perfs
1991 - End of World League of American Football's (WLAF) 1st draft
1991 - US & allies begin a ground war assault on Iraqi troops
1993 - 35th Grammy Awards: Tears in Heaven, Eric Clapton wins
1994 - Scoreboard is unveiled at new Cleve Indians' park (Jacobs Field)
1995 - Dow-Jones hits record 4011.74
1995 - The Corona reconnaissance satellite program, in existence from 1959 to 1972, is declassified.
1996 - Cuba downs 2 US planes
1996 - Meg Mallon wins LPGA Cup o' Noodles Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open
1996 - The last occurrence of February 24 as a leap day in the European Union and for the Roman
           Catholic Church.
1997 - Deng Xiaoping, leader of China, cremated (died Feb 19th)
1997 - South Africa announces it is constructing largest modern day blimp
1998 - Elton John knighted
1998 - NHL resumes season since Feb 8th to accomodate the Olympics
1999 - The State of Arizona executes Karl LaGrand, a German national involved in an armed robbery,
            in spite of Germany's legal action to attempt to save him.
1999 - A China Southern Airlines Tupolev TU-154 airliner crashes on approach to Wenzhou airport in
           eastern the People's Republic of China, killing 61.
2002 - XIX Winter Olympics closes in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
2002 - Canada defeats the United States 5-2 to win the men's ice hockey Olympic Gold Medal
2006 - Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo declares Proclamation 1017 placing the country in
           a state of emergency in attempt to subdue a possible military coup.
2008 - Fidel Castro retires as the President of Cuba after nearly fifty years.
2010 - Sachin Tendulkar scored the the first double century in One Day International cricket.
2011 - Final Launch of Space Shuttle Discovery (OV-103).

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 24, 2013, 10:44:29 AM

This Day in History for 24th February


Famous Weddings

1613 - English princess Elizabeth marries earl Frederik of Palts
1662 - English Poet and author of "Paradise Lost" John Milton marries 3rd wife Elizabeth Mynshull, 31
           years his junior.
2007 - Former world champion track and field athlete Marion Jones (31) weds Olympic bronze
           medalist Obadele Thompson (30) at the Union Hill African Methodist Episcopal Church in
           Wilson's Mills, North Carolina

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 24, 2013, 10:53:03 AM

This Day in History for 24th February


Famous Birthdays

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US Admiral Chester Nimitz (1885)                Singer and Guitarist                     Apple Co-founder Steve Jobs (1955)
                                                                 George Thorogood (1950)


1103 - Emperor Toba of Japan (d. 1156)
1304 - Muhammad ibn Battutah, Arab travel writer (Travels in Asia & Africa)
1463 - Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italy, scholar/platonist
1500 - Carlos V, King of Spain (1516-56)/Holy Roman Emperor
1501 - Sixt(us) Birck [Xystus Betulius], German writer (Suzanna)
1536 - Clement VIII, [Ippolito Aldofireini], Fano Italy, Pope (1592-1605)
1545 - Don John of Austria, Spanish military leader (d. 1578)
1547 - Jan of Austria, Spanish military man/land guardian of the Netherland
1557 - Matthias, Vienna, Holy Roman emperor (1612-19)
1595 - Matthias C Sarbiewski, [Sarbievius], Polish jesuit/poet
1597 - Vincent Voiture, French poet (d. 1648)
1619 - Charles Le Brun, French artist (d. 1690)
1622 - Johannes Clauberg, German theologian and philosopher (d. 1665)
1679 - Domenico Natale Sarro, Italian opera composer
1684 - Catherine I, Empress of Russia 1725-27, Dorpat, Estonia
1684 - Matthias Braun, Czech sculptor (d. 1738)
1693 - James Quin, English actor (d. 1766)
1697 - Bernard S Albinus, [Weiss], German surgeon/anatomist
1704 - Hubert Renotte, composer
1709 - Jacques de Vaucanson, French inventor (d. 1782)
1717 - Bernhard Hupfeld, composer
1723 - John Burgoyne, British general (d. 1792)
1766 - Samuel Wesley, Bristol England, composer/organist (Exultate Deo)
1771 - Johann Baptist Cramer, German/British pianist/composer/publisher
1774 - Prince Adolphus, 1st Duke of Cambridge (d. 1850)
1786 - Wilhelm Karl Grimm, Hanau Germany, story teller (Grimm's Fairy Tales)
1786 - Martin W. Bates. U.S. Senator from Delaware (d. 1869)
1797 - Samuel Lover, composer
1809 - Edwin H K Freiherr von Manteuffel, governor/viceroy (Elzas-Lutherian)
1811 - Daniel A Payne, Bishop/reformer/educator of AME Church
1811 - Edward Dickinson Baker, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1861
1824 - John Crawford Vaughn, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1875
1827 - Charles Davis Jameson, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
1831 - Georg Leo earl von Caprivi, German chancellor/premier of Prussia
1833 - Eduard earl von Taaffe, Austrian premier (1868..93)
1836 - Winslow Homer, US, painter (Gulfstream)
1838 - Thomas Benton Smith, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1923
1842 - Arrigio Enrico Boito, composer
1846 - Luigi Denza, composer
1848 - C Grant B Allen, Canadian writer (Woman Who Did)
1848 - Johanna C P Barbiers, actress (Voddenraper of Paris)
1848 - Andrew Inglis Clark, Tasmanian politician (d. 1907)
1852 - George A Moore, Ireland, painter/novelist (Esther Waters)
1854 - Franz Courtens, Flemish painter (Golden Rain)
1858 - Arnold Dolmetsch, Le Mans, musician
1860 - Daniel Berkeley Updike, printer/publisher/writer (Printing Types)
1866 - Arthur Pearson, Wookey Somerset England, newspaper proprietor
1866 - Pyotr Nikolaevich Lebedev, Russian physicist (d. 1912)
1866 - Hubert Van Innis, Belgian archer (d. 1961)
1872 - John Jarvis, England, swimmer (won 108 titles)
1874 - Honus Wagner, HOF shortstop (Pittsburgh Pirates, 1900-17)
1876 - Jean Poveigh, composer
1876 - Victor Moore, Hammonton NJ, comedian (Ziegfeld Follies, 7 Year Itch)
1877 - Rudolf Ganz, composer
1877 - Ettie Rout, New Zealand activist (d. 1936)
1879 - Herman Teirlinck, Belgian writer (Sun)
1885 - Bert Lytell, NYC, actor (Henry-One Man's Family)
1885 - Chester Nimitz, US admiral (commanded Pacific fleet in WW II)
1885 - Joseph Sprinzak, Speaker of Israeli Knesset (1949-59)
1885 - Juliusz Kaden-Bandrowski, Polish novelist/satirist (Black Wings)
1885 - Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Polish writer and painter (d. 1939)
1887 - Mary Ellen Chase, US linguistic/author (White Gate)
1890 - Antonio Massana, composer
1890 - Marjorie Main, [Tomlinson], Action Ind, actress (Another Thin Man)
1898 - Kurt Tank, German WW II aircraft designer
1899 - Jacob Presser, Dutch historian/writer (Down-fall)
1905 - E Boyland, biochemist
1905 - Guillaume Landre, composer
1906 - Alexis Curvers, Belgian author (Tempo di Roma, Bourg-le-Rond)
1909 - August William Derleth, Sauk City Wisc, writer (Judge Peck Mysteries)
1909 - Jean Yves Morvan Marin, broadcaster
1909 - Max Black, Dutch/British/US philosopher (analytical philosophy)
1909 - Michael Francis Morris Lindsay, orientalist
1910 - Lord Hazlerigg
1911 - Konrad Lechner, composer
1912 - Julius Kowalski, composer
1913 - Richard Murphey Goodwin, economist
1914 - David Langdon, cartoonist/illustrator
1914 - Zachary Scott, Austin Tx, actor (Spotlight Playhouse, Mildred Pierce)
1914 - Ralph Erskine, British architect (Byker Wall) (d. 2005)
1915 - Charles Henry "Harry" Urwin, trade unionist
1916 - Gene Mitchell, museum director
1917 - William Fairbank, Minneapolis, physicist (superconductivity)
1919 - Alan Hugh Iliffe, psychologist
1919 - Earl Kitchener of Khartoum
1920 - Frank Rogers, CEO (NPA Telegraph)
1921 - Abe Vigoda, NYC, actor (Barney Miller, Fish)
1921 - Douglass Watson, Jackson GA, actor (Satan Murders, Another World)
1921 - Ingvar Lidholm, composer
1921 - Ludvig Aschkenazy, writer
1921 - Gaston Reiff, Belgian athlete (b. 1992)
1922 - Kanwar Rai Singh, cricketer (batted at MCG in Test for India 1948)
1922 - Richard Hamilton, painter
1922 - Steven Hill, Seattle WA, actor (Goddess, Raw Deal, Yentl, Law & Order)
1923 - David Soyer, American cellist
1924 - Lionel Dakers, director (Royal School of Church Music)
1924 - William Pillar, British admiral
1926 - Reginald Freeson, British MP
1926 - Jean Alexander, English actress
1927 - David Mourao-Ferreira, poet/politician
1927 - Emmanuelle Riva, French actress
1928 - Al Lettieri, NYC, actor (Deadly Kiss, Pulp, Mr Majestyk, Getaway)
1928 - Michael Harrington, St Louis, socialist/author (Fragments of Century)
1928 - Barbara Lawrence, American actress
1929 - David Houston, Major-General/Lord Lieutenant of Sutherland
1929 - Richard B Shull, Evanston Ill, actor (Diana, Holmes & Yoyo)
1930 - Barbara Lawrence, Carnegie OK, actress (Joe Dakota)
1931 - Brian Close, cricketer (played for England between 1949 & 1976)
1931 - Inge Bernstein, British judge
1931 - Lev Vasilyevich Vorobyov, Russia, cosmonaut
1931 - Maezumi Hakuyu Taizan Koun, teacher Rinzai/Soto lines of Zen Buddhism
1931 - Marta Marzotto, Italy, countess
1931 - Dominic Chianese, American actor
1932 - Andrew Jacobs Jr, (Rep-D-IN, 1965-73, 75- )
1932 - Everard Goodman, English real estate developer (TOPS Estates)
1932 - John Vernon, Canada, actor (Animal House, Chained Heat, Dirty Harry)
1932 - Michel Legrand, composer (Summer of '42, Windmills of Your Mind)
1933 - Judah Folkman, American cancer researcher
1934 - Bettino Craxi, Italy's 1st socialist premier (1983-87)
1934 - Flemming Nielsen, Denmark, soccer player (Olympic-silver-1960)
1934 - Frank Chapot, US, equestrian (Olympic-silver-1960, 1972)
1934 - Linda Cristal, Buenos Aires Arg, actress (Victoria-High Chapparal)
1934 - Renata Scotto, Savona Italy, soprano (Violetta-La Traviata)
1934 - Shuko Mizuno, composer
1934 - Bingu wa Mutharika, Thyolo, Nyasaland (Malawi), Malawi President (2004-2012), (d. 2012)
1935 - Renata Scotto, singer
1936 - Renata Scotto, Savona Italy, operatic soprano
1937 - Jerry Wiggin, British MP
1938 - James Farentino, Brooklyn, New York, actor (The Final Countdown), (d. 2012)
1938 - Kathleen Richardson, president (Methodist Conference)
1938 - Phil Knight, American sportswear manufacturer
1939 - George Bain, principal (London Business School)
1940 - Denis Law, British(?) soccer player
1940 - Jimmy Ellis, WBA heavyweight boxing champ (1968-70)
1940 - Theo Bosch, Dutch humanist/architect (Nieuwmarkt, Amsterdam)
1940 - Pete Duel, American actor (d. 1971)
1940 - Denis Law, Scottish footballer
1941 - Joanie Sommers, American singer and actress
1942 - David K Williamson, Australian screenplay/playwright (Removalists)
1942 - Joe Lieberman, (Sen-D Connecticut)
1942 - Paul Jones, England, rocker (Manfried Mann-Mighty Quinn)
1942 - Stuart Henry, British disc jockey
1942 - Colin Bond, Australian racing driver
1943 - Hristo Prodanov, Bulgarian mountaineer
1943 - Terry Semel, American business executive
1943 - Pablo Milanés, Cuban musician
1944 - Barry Bostwick, San Mateo Ca, actor (Rocky Horror Show, Megaforce)
1944 - Nicky Hopkins, rock pianist (Stones-Ruby Tuesday, Quicksilver)
1944 - Sheila Larkin, Bkln NY, actress (Deborah-Storefront Lawyer)
1946 - Anthony Mayer, chief executive (Housing Corporation)
1946 - Michael Radford, director (1984, White Mischief)
1946 - Grigory Margulis, Russian mathematician
1946 - John Stapleton, English television presenter
1947 - Edward James Olmos, Cal, actor (Miami Vice, Stand & Deliver, Triumph)
1947 - Lonnie Turner, bassist/vocalist (Steve Miller Band-Abracadabra)
1947 - Rupert Holmes, English musician
1948 - Dennis "Minder" Waterman, London England, actor (Fair Exchange)
1948 - Lord Melchett
1948 - Lorri Menconi, playmate (Feb, 1969)
1948 - J. Jayalalithaa, Indian politician
1948 - Walter Smith, Scottish football manager
1948 - Tim Staffell, English singer
1949 - John Lever, cricketer (England lefty quick in 21 Tests 1976-81)
1950 - Cathy Mant, LPGA golfer
1950 - G J M Gazdar, computational linguist
1950 - George Thorogood, Wilmington, Delaware, American singer and guitarist (The Delaware
           Destroyers-Bad to the Bone)
1951 - Derek Randall, cricketer (England batsman & animated cover fieldsman)
1951 - Helen Shaver, Ontario Canada, actress (WIOU, Praise of Older Women)
1951 - Debra Jo Rupp, American actress
1952 - Simon Weinstock, businessman/racehorse owner
1952 - Tom Burleson, USA, basketball (Oly-silv-1972) tallest Olympian-7'4"
1954 - Marquess of Normanby
1955 - Alain Prost, Formula One racing driver (Championships: 85, 86, 89, 93)
1955 - Bob Abrams, Ohio, rocker (Buckinghams)
1955 - Steve Jobs, San Francisco, California, American computer entrepreneur and co-founder of
          Apple (d. 2011)
1956 - Eddie Murray, LA California, 1st baseman (Orioles, Dodgers, Cleve Indians)
1956 - Paula Zahn, Napperville Ill, news anchor (ABC, CBS This Morning)
1956 - Judith Butler, American philosopher
1957 - Lan Burden, rocker
1957 - Phil McConkey, NFL wide receiver (NY Giants)
1958 - Sammy Kershaw, Kaplan LA, country vocalist (Cadillac Style)
1958 - Susan Scannell, Lexington Mass, actress (Nicole-Dynasty)
1958 - Plastic Bertrand, Belgian singer
1959 - Beth Broderick, Falmouth KY, actress (Aunt Zelda-Sabrina)
1959 - Michael Roy Whitney, cricket (great NSW & Aussie lefty quick 1981-92)
1961 - Janice Gibson, Tulsa OK, LPGA golfer (1994 Youngstown-Warren-15th)
1961 - Persijn "Dakota" Joling, Dutch rock guitarist/singer (Pilgrims-Red)
1961 - Ruud Really, soccer player (Feyenoord)
1962 - Michelle Shocked, singer/musician
1962 - Outi Mäenpää, Finnish actress
1963 - Fuad Reveiz, NFL kicker (Minnesota Vikings)
1963 - Matias Carrillo, Mexican/US baseball outfielder (Florida Marlins)
1964 - Andy Crane, British children's television presenter
1964 - Todd Field, American actor and film director
1964 - Bill Bailey, British comedian
1964 - Russell Ingall, Australian racing driver
1965 - Paul Gruber, NFL tackle (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1965 - Lloyd McGrath, former English footballer
1965 - Jane Swift, former acting Governor of Massachusetts
1966 - Billy Zane, actor (Orlando, Memphis Belle, Millions, Titanic)
1966 - Rene Arocha, Cubans/US baseball pitcher (St Louis Cardinals)
1968 - John Velddman, soccer player (Sparta)
1968 - Vaughn Booker, NFL defensive end (KC Chiefs)
1968 - Mitch Hedberg, American comedian (d. 2005)
1970 - Jeff Garcia, CFL quarterback (Calgary Stampeders)
1970 - Jonathan Ward, Balt Md, actor (Doug-Charles in Charge, Beans Baxter)
1970 - Wilson Alvarez, Maracaibo Venezuela, pitcher (Chic White Sox)
1970 - Kienast quintuplets, American quintuplets
1971 - Aki Rahunen, Finland, tennis star
1971 - Brian Savage, Sudbury, NHL left wing (Montreal Canadiens)
1971 - Pedro de la Rosa, Spanish Formula One driver
1972 - Larry Amar, Camarillo California, field hockey midfielder/captain (Oly-96)
1972 - Manon Rheaume, Lac Beauport Quebec, 1st female NHLer (Tampa Bay)
1972 - Patricia Regan Leines, Medford Or, Miss America (Oregon-3rd-1997)
1972 - Ron Davis, NFL cornerback (Atlanta Falcons, GB Packers-Superbowl 31)
1973 - Alexei Kovalev, Moscow Russia, NHL right wing (NY Rangers)
1973 - Harold Morrow, full back (Minnesota Vikings)
1973 - James Michael Kennedy, Boston, rocker (4 Fun-Unbelievable Fun Boys)
1973 - Kavis Reed, CFL defensive back (Edmonton Eskimos)
1973 - Chris Fehn, American percussionist (Slipknot)
1973 - Jordan Jovtchev, Bulgarian gymnast
1974 - Jeremy Laster, Fullerton California, water polo driver (Olympics-96)
1974 - Simeon Rice, defensive end (Arizona Cardinals)
1974 - Chad Hugo, American musician and producer (The Neptunes)
1974 - Mike Lowell, Puerto Rican baseball player
1974 - Bonnie Somerville, American actress and singer
1975 - Ashley MacIsaac, Canadian fiddler
1975 - Maurizio Giuliano, writer and traveller
1976 - Matt Skiba, American musician (Alkaline Trio,Heavens)
1976 - Eric Griffin, American rock guitarist
1976 - Bradley McGee, Australian cyclist
1976 - Crista Flanagan, American television comedian
1976 - Zach Johnson, professional golfer
1976 - Marco Campos, Brazilian racing driver (d. 1995)
1977 - Alexis Jose Grullon, NYC, vocalist (Menudo-Cannonball)
1977 - Floyd Mayweather, Grand Rapids Mich, featherweight boxer (Oly-br-96)
1977 - Jason Akermanis, Australian rules footballer
1977 - Bronson Arroyo, American baseball player
1978 - Louise Woodward, ELton England, nanny who killed Matthew Eappen
1978 - Shinya, Japanese musician (Dir en grey)
1978 - John Nolan, American musician (Straylight Run)
1979 - Jesse Billauer, American quadriplegic surfer
1980 - Anton Gustafsson, Swedish rock music fan (d. 2003)
1980 - Shinsuke Nakamura, Japanese professional wrestler
1980 - Roman Sloudnov, Russian swimmer
1981 - Lleyton Hewitt, Australian tennis player
1981 - Mohammad Sami, Pakistani cricketer
1982 - Emanuel Villa, Argentine footballer
1982 - Klára Zakopalová, Czech tennis player
1982 - Nick Blackburn, American baseball player
1984 - Clivio Piccione, Monegasque racing driver
1984 - Sterling James Keenan, American professional wrestler
1986 - Wojtek Wolski, Polish Ice hockey player
1987 - Daniel Reilly, British entrepreneur
1987 - Mayuko Iwasa, Japanese entertainer and model
1987 - Chieko Kawabe, Japanese singer, model and actress
1989 - Kosta Koufos, American-Greek basketball player

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 24, 2013, 10:56:42 AM

This Day in History for 24th February


Famous Deaths

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Commercial Steamboat Inventor             Publisher Malcolm Forbes (1990)
Robert Fulton (1815)


616 - King Ethelbert of Kent
1525 - Guillaume Gouffier, seigneur de Bonnivet, French soldier
1563 - Francois Guise, French general/duke, assassinated at 44
1588 - Johann Weyer, Dutch physician and occultist
1642 - Marco da Gagliano, Italian opera composer, dies at about 66
1666 - Nicholas Lanier, composer, dies at 77
1674 - Matthias Weckmann, German composer (b. 1616)
1685 - Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Carlisle, English politician and military leader (b. 1629)
1686 - Ferdinando Tacca, Italian painter/son of Pietro Tacca, dies at 66
1692 - Antimo Liberati, composer, dies at 74
1704 - Marc-Antoine Charpentier, French composer (church music), dies
1714 - Edmund Andros, English governor in North America (b. 1637)
1721 - John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, English statesman and poet (b. 1648)
1732 - Colonel Francis Charteris, known as "The Rape-Master General". (b. 1675)
1735 - Georg Friedrich Kauffman, composer, dies at 56
1777 - King Joseph I of Portugal (b. 1714)
1779 - Paul Daniel Longolius, German encylopedist (b. 1704)
1781 - Edward Capell, English critic (b. 1713)
1784 - Anton Laube, composer, dies at 65
1785 - Carlo Bonaparte, Corsican attorney, dies at 39
1799 - Broerius Brorius, theologist (Pensive Christian), dies at about 41
1799 - Georg C Lichtenberg, German physicist/writer, dies at 56
1806 - John Nieuwenhuijzen, theologist (Society for General Use), dies at 81
1810 - Henry Cavendish, physicist/chemist, dies
1812 - Hugo Kollataj, Polish teacher/minister, dies at 61
1812 - Etienne-Louis Malus, French physicist and mathematician (b. 1775)
1815 - Robert Fulton, steamboat pioneer, dies at 49
1825 - Thomas Bowdler, self-appointed Shakespearean censor, dies
1829 - Auguste Chouteau, St Louis co-founder, dies
1862 - Bernard S Ingemann, Danish author (Holger Danske), dies at 72
1874 - Anselmo Clave, composer, dies at 49
1876 - Jan Pieter Heije, Dutch physician/writer/poet, dies at 67
1876 - Joseph Jenkins Roberts, first President of Liberia (b. 1809)
1895 - Ignaz Lachner, composer, dies at 87
1907 - Otto Goldschmidt, composer, dies at 77
1908 - Anatol' Vakhnyanyn, composer, dies at 66
1914 - Joshua Chamberlain, Civil War hero for the Union on Little Round Top at the Battle of Gettysburg
1919 - Josephine McGill, composer, dies at 41
1922 - Dmitri B Shostakovitch, father of Russian composer Dmitri D S, dies
1924 - Edmond Picard, Fren/Belgium writer (Ambidextre journalist), dies at 87
1925 - Hjalmar Branting, Prime Minister of Sweden, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1860)
1926 - Eddie Plank, pitcher (won 327 games in 17 years), dies at 51
1929 - Andre-Charles-Prosper Messager, composer, dies at 75
1930 - Jacobus van Looy, Dutch writer/painter (Night Cactus), dies at 74
1933 - Spottiswoode Aitken, actor (Eagle, Home Sweet Home), dies at 64
1941 - Oskar Loerke, German director (Longest Day-1926), dies at 56
1944 - Leo H A Baekeland, Belgian/US chemist (bakeliet), dies at 80
1945 - Ahmed Maher Pasha, Egypt's PM, assassinated in parliament
1953 - Karl R G von Rundstedt, Germ gen-field marshal (Ardennes), dies at 77
1958 - Fernand Baldensperger [Fernand Baldenne], French poet, dies at 86
1960 - Jean Binet, composer, dies at 66
1964 - Alexander Archipenko, Ukr sculptor/water colors painter, dies at 76
1964 - Frank Conroy, actor (Midnight Mary, Threat), dies at 73
1967 - Franz Waxman, German composer (Day at the races), dies at 60
1969 - Kenneth Green, actor (Penrod), dies of heart attack at 61
1970 - Conrad Nagel, actor (Celebrity Time), dies at 73
1973 - Art Smith, actor (Quicksand), dies of heart attack at 73
1975 - Nikolai A Bulganin, marshal/premier of USSR (1955-58), dies at 79
1976 - Charles Wilfred Orr, composer, dies at 82
1976 - H Allen Smith, TV host (Armchair Detective), dies at 69
1976 - Julian Rivero, actor (Via Pony Express), dies at 85
1982 - Virginia Bruce, actress (Born to Dance, Great Ziegfield), dies at 71
1983 - Herbert Norman Howells, composer, dies at 90
1984 - Uwe Johnson, writer, dies at 59
1984 - Helmut Schelsky, German sociologist (b. 1912)
1986 - Tommy Douglas, Canadian politician (b. 1904)
1987 - Jim Connors, Legendary Radio personality (b. 1940)
1988 - Irwan Chanin, US theater builder, dies at 96
1989 - Sparky Adams, American baseball player (b. 1894)
1990 - Johnnie Ray, singer (Cry), dies of liver failure at 61
1990 - Malcolm Forbes, CEO (Forbes Publishing), dies of a heart attack at 70
1990 - Sandro Pertini, president of Italy (1978, 85), dies at 93
1990 - Tony Conigliaro, baseball player (Red Sox), dies of pneumonia at 45
1991 - George Gobel, Chicago, comedian (George Gobel Show), dies at 71
1991 - Jean Rogers, actress (Flash Gordon, Hot Cargo), dies at 74
1991 - Marcella Markham, dies of breast cancer at 68
1991 - Webb Pierce, US country singer (Bye Bye Love), dies of cancer at 64
1992 - Kay Loring, dies after long illness
1993 - Bobby Moore, English soccer team capt (World champs 1966), dies
1993 - Danny Gallivan, Canadian radio and television sportscaster (b. 1917)
1994 - Dinah Shore, singer (Chevrolet), dies of cancer at 76
1994 - Donald Phillips, pianist/composer, dies at 80
1994 - Jean Sablon, crooner, dies at 87
1994 - Knut Anders Haukfield, SOE Operative, dies at 83
1994 - Lores Bonney, aviator, dies at 96
1995 - Richard Nicholson, musician, dies at 89
1996 - Anna Larina, revolutionary, dies at 82
1996 - Gene Mitchell, museum director, dies on 70th birthday
1996 - James Runcieman Sutherland, academic, dies at 95
1996 - Laurence Richard Deniz, jazz guitarist, dies at 71
1997 - Isabelle Harriet Lucas, actress/singer (Outland, Comics), dies at 69
1998 - Henny Youngman, comedian (Take my wife please), dies at 92
1998 - Antonio Prohias, Cuban-born cartoonist (b. 1921)
1999 - Andre Dubus, American writer (b. 1936)
1999 - Frank Leslie Walcott, Barbadian labour leader (b. 1916)
2001 - Claude E. Shannon, American information theorist (b. 1916)
2002 - Arthur Lyman, American jazz vibraphone and marimba player (b. 1932)
2002 - Leo Ornstein, Russian-born composer and pianist (b. 1912)
2003 - John Edward Christopher Hill, English historian (b. 1912)
2003 - Bernard Loiseau, French chef (b. 1951)
2004 - John Randolph, American actor (b. 1915)
2006 - Octavia Butler, American author and MacArthur Foundation Fellow (b. 1947)
2006 - Don Knotts, American actor (b. 1924)
2006 - John Martin, Canadian broadcaster (b. 1947)
2006 - Denis Twitchett, Cambridge scholar, and Chinese historian (b. 1925)
2006 - Dennis Weaver, American actor (b. 1924)
2007 - Bruce Bennett, American actor (b. 1906)
2007 - Leroy Jenkins, American composer and violinist (b. 1932)
2007 - Lamar Lundy, American football player (b. 1935)
2007 - Damien Nash, American football player (b. 1982)
2008 - Larry Norman, American musician, singer, songwriter and producer (b. 1947)
2011 - Anant Pai, Indian educationalist and creator of comics (b. 1929)
2012 - Jan Berenstain, American author dies from a stroke at 88
2012 - Istvan Anhalt, Hungarian-Canadian composer, dies at 92
2012 - Kenneth Price, American ceramic artist and print maker, dies from cancer at 77
2012 - Benedict Freedman,American novelist and mathematician, dies at 92

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 25, 2013, 11:11:05 AM

This Day in History for 25th February


Historical Events

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Author Victor Hugo                                US President Abraham Lincoln              Playwright George Bernard Shaw

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Spanish Dictator Francisco Franco           Actor & Director Mel Brooks                   Singer Buddy Holly

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Pop Singer & Beatle                                   The Pianoman Billy Joel
 Paul McCartney

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Basketball Superstar                                Heavyweight Boxing Champion
 Michael Jordan                                                Mike Tyson


138 - The Emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius, effectively making him his successor.
1095 - Council of Rockingham: bishop Anselmus vs King William II Rufus
1358 - Dalmatie flees Venice
1497 - Italians troops reconquer Taranto on France
1502 - Austrian emperor Maximilian I reformats government machine
1540 - Francisco V squez de Coronado searches for 7 cities of Cibola Mexico
1570 - Pius V excommunicates Elizabeth, absolves her subjects from allegiance
1605 - Portuguese garrison on Ambon surrenders to Admiral Van der Haghen
1623 - Duke Maximilian I of Bavaria becomes monarch of Palts
1634 - Irish captain Walter Devereaux kills duke Wallenstein
1643 - Dutch US colonists kill Algonquin-indians
1667 - Abraham Crijnssens fleet reach Fort Willoughby on Suriname River
1746 - Cumberlands troops occupy Aberdeen
1751 - 1st performing monkey exhibited in America, NYC (admission 1 cent)
1791 - 1st Bank of US chartered
1793 - 1st cabinet meeting (At George Washington's home)
1797 - Colonel William Tate and his force of 1000-1500 soldiers surrender after the Last Invasion of
           Britain
1799 - 1st federal forestry legislation authorizes purchase of timber land
1799 - Congress passes 1st federal quarantine legislation
1803 - 1,800 sovereign German states unite into 60 states
1804 - Jefferson nominated for president at Democratic-Republican caucus
1830 - Victor Hugo's "Hernani" premieres in Paris
1836 - Samuel Colt patents 1st revolving barrel multishot firearm
1836 - US Showman Phineas Taylor Barnum exhibits African American slave Joice Heth.
1837 - 1st US electric printing press patented by Thomas Davenport
1838 - London pedestrian walks 20 miles backward then forward in 8 hours
1839 - Seminoles & black allies shipped from Tampa Bay Florida, to West
1847 - State University of Iowa is approved
1859 - 1st use of "insanity plea" to prove innocence
1862 - Congress forms US Bureau of Engraving & Printing
1862 - Paper currency (greenbacks) introduced in US by Pres Abraham Lincoln
1863 - Congress creates national banking system, comptroller of currency
1870 - Hiram Revels, is sworn in as 1st black member of Congress (Sen-R-MS)
1875 - Kiowa Indians under Lone Wolf (Guipago) surrender at Ft Sill
1879 - Congress passed 1st Timberland Protection Act
1885 - US Congress condemns barbed wire around government grounds
1892 - James Barrie's "Walker London," premieres in London
1896 - Italian government decides to attack governor Baratieri of Eritrea
1901 - George Cohan's musical "Governor's Son," premieres in NYC
1901 - US Steel Corp organized under J P Morgan
1904 - J M Synge's "Riders to the Sea" opens at Irish Natl Theater Society
1904 - Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Toronto Marlboroughs in 2 games
1905 - Neth Workers van Vakverenigingen, (NVV) political party forms
1907 - George Bernard Shaw's "Philanderer," premieres in London
1907 - US proclaims protectorate over Dominican Republic
1908 - 1st tunnel under Hudson River (railway tunnel) opens
1910 - Dali Lama flees Tibet from Chinese troop to British-Indies
1911 - Victor Herbert's opera "Natoma," premieres in Philadelphia
1912 - Marie-Adélaïde, the eldest of six daughters of Guillaume IV, becomes the first reigning Grand
           Duchess of Luxembourg.
1913 - 16th Amendment ratified, authorizing income tax
1916 - German troops conquer Fort Douaumont near Verdun
1919 - League of Nations set up by Paris Treaty
1919 - Oregon is 1st state to tax gasoline (1 cent per gallon)
1921 - Georgian SSR proclaimed
1921 - Tbilisi, capital of the Democratic Republic of Georgia, occupied by Bolshevist Russia.
1923 - Bread in Berlin rises to 2,000 mark
1924 - Marie Boyd scores 156 points in Maryland HS basketball game (163-3)
1925 - Glacier Bay National Monument established in Alaska
1925 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Beatrix Loughran
1925 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Nathaniel Niles
1925 - The diplomatic relations between Japan and the Soviet Union were established.
1926 - Francisco Franco becomes General of Spain
1926 - Kwo-Min-Tang (Guomindang) declares war on government/warlords
1927 - Gdanks & Polish accord concerning traffic through Polish corridor
1930 - Check photographing device patented
1930 - George Headley completes twin tons in Test Cricket v Engld (114 & 112)
1932 - Immigrant Adolf Hitler gets German citizenship
1933 - 1st genuine aircraft carrier christened, USS Ranger
1933 - Major NFL rule changes (hash mark 10 yds in, posts on goal line)
1933 - Thomas Yawkey purchases Boston Red Sox
1938 - British Lord Halifax becomes Foreign Minister
1939 - 1st Anderson bomb shelter in Britain erected in an Islington garden
1940 - 1st televised (W2XBS, NYC) hockey game (Rangers vs Canadians)
1941 - Boston Bruins set NHL record of 23-game unbeaten streak (15-0-8)
1941 - February strike against persecution of Jews, in Amsterdam
1943 - Vietminh forms Indo Chinese Democratic Front
1944 - US 1st Army completes invasion plan
1945 - US aircraft carriers attack Tokyo
1945 - World War II: Turkey declares war on Germany.
1948 - Communists seize Czechoslovakia/C Gottwald becomes premier
1949 - WAC Corporal rocket achieves height of 400k (record)
1950 - "Your Show of Shows" with Sid Caesar & Imogene Coca premieres on NBC Writers include Mel
           Brooks, Neil Simon & Woody Allen
1951 - "Michael Todd's Peep Show" closes at Winter Garden NYC after 278 perf
1951 - 1st Pan American Games opens (Buenos Aires Argentina)
1951 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins Orlando Florida 2 Ball Golf Tournament
1952 - 6th Winter Olympic games close at Oslo, Norway
1953 - "Wonderful Town" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 559 perfs
1954 - Abdul Nasser appointed Egyptian premier
1956 - Khrushchev denounces Stalin at 20th Soviet Party Conference
1957 - Buddy Holly & Crickets record "That'll Be the Day"
1957 - Supreme Court decides 6-3, baseball is only antitrust exempt pro sport
1960 - John Cage's "Music for Amplified Toy Pianos," premieres
1960 - Lillian Hellman's "Toys in the Attic," premieres in NYC
1961 - Niagara ends St Bonaventura's 99-game home basketball win streak
1961 - Paul Bikle in glider climbs from 1208 m at release to record 14,10
1962 - India Congress Party wins elections
1962 - Mike O'Hara completes record 97th marathon
1962 - Robert Kennedy visits Netherlands
1963 - Beatles release their 1st single in US "Please Please Me"
1964 - Austrian chancellor Alfons Gorbach resigns
1964 - Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) TKOs Sonny Liston in 7 for heavyweight boxing title
1966 - Syrian military coup under Hafiz al-Assad
1968 - 430 Unification Church couples wed in Korea
1968 - Makarios re-elected president of Cyprus
1969 - Beatles begin recording Abbey Road album
1969 - Mariner 6 launched for fly-by of Mars
1969 - Pension plan for baseball is agreed to
1969 - Germany gives $5 million to an Arab terrorist as ransom for the passengers and crew of a
            hijacked jumbo jet.
1971 - "Oh! Calcutta!" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 1,316 performances
1971 - P Zindel's "And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little," premieres in NYC
1972 - Lopsided trade, Cards trade Steve Carlton to Phillies for Rick Wise
1972 - Paul McCartney releases "Give Ireland back to the Irish" single
1973 - "Little Night Music" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 601 performances
1973 - Juan Corona sentenced to 25 life sentences for 25 murders
1973 - Steven Sondheim's musical "Little Night Music," premieres in NYC
1974 - Veronica & Colin Scargill (England) begin tandem bicycle ride a record 18,020 miles around the
           world, completed on August 27, 1975
1975 - Ewen Chatfield flattened by Peter Lever & seriously injured
1977 - New Orleans' Pete Maravich sets NBA record for a guard with 68 pts
1977 - Oil tanker explosion west of Honolulu spills 31 million gallons
1977 - Soyuz 24 returns to Earth
1978 - Botham scores 1st Test Cricket century, 103 v NZ Christchurch
1979 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic
1979 - Soyuz 32 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station is launched
1980 - Coup ousts PM Henck Arron of Suriname
1981 - 23rd Grammy Awards: Sailing, Christopher Cross, Billy Joel wins
1981 - Calgary Flames scored 11 goals against the Islanders
1981 - Exec Board of Players' Association votes unanimously to strike on May 29
1981 - L Calvo Sotelo elected premier of Spain
1981 - NHL most penalized game; Bruins vs Northstars, 84 penalties (392 mins)
1981 - NY Islanders give up their most goals (11) vs Calgary Flames
1981 - Rita Jenrette (wife of Abscam congressman) appears on Donahue
1981 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1981 - Exec Board of Baseball Players' Association votes unanimously to strike on May 29 if the issue
          of free-agent compensation remains unresolved
1982 - Final episode of "The Lawrence Welk Show" airs
1982 - Record speed for a snowmobile (239 kph)
1984 - Oil fire in Cubatao Brazil kills 500
1986 - 28th Grammy Awards: We Are the World, Sade, Phil Collins wins
1986 - Corazon Aquino becomes president of Philippines, Marcos flees
1986 - Iran conquerors Iraq peninsula Fao
1986 - Thousands of Egyptian military police riot, destroy 2 luxury hotel
1987 - LaMarr Hoyt is banned from baseball for 1987, due to drug abuse
1987 - Michael Jordan, scores Chicago Bull record 58 points in a game
1987 - US Supreme Court upholds (5-4) affirmative action
1988 - Bruce Springsteen "Tunnel of Love Tour," begins in Worcester Mass
1988 - South Korea adopts constitution
1989 - 1st independent blue-collar labor union in Communist Hungary forms
1989 - Dallas Cowboys fire coach Tom Landry after a 29-year career
1989 - Dallas Cowboys' new owner fires 29-year coach Tom Landry
1989 - Javed Miandad scores 271 v NZ at Eden Park
1989 - Lowest baramotric pressure in Netherlands (956.7 mbar at De Bilt)
1989 - Mike Tyson TKOs Frank Bruno in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
1990 - Australia beat Pakistan 2-0 to win the Cricket World Series Cup
1990 - Nicaraguans votes out Sandinistas
1990 - On a BBC taped interview, rock star Stevie Nicks breaks down, saying that she will never have
           children & no man can stand her for long
1991 - Andrew Jones scores twin Test Cricket tons v Sri Lanka (122 & 100*)
1991 - Bruce McNall, Wayne Gretzky & John Candy buy CFL's Toronto Argonauts
1991 - US, barracks in Dhahran Saudi Arabia, hit by scud missile, kills 28
1992 - 34th Grammy Awards: Unforgetable, Marc Cohn wins
1992 - Khojaly massacre: about 613 civilians killed by Armenian armed forces during the conflict in
           Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan
1993 - "Fool Moon" opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC for 207 performances
1993 - Florida Marlins introduce their mascot "Billy"
1993 - Pakistan all out 43 v West Indies, world one-day int record low
1994 - Israeli extremist Baruch Goldstein massacres 30 Palestinians in Hebron
1994 - Peruvian Yak-40 crashes into mountain near Tingo Maria, kills 31
1994 - Phil Rizzuto elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1995 - Bomb attack on train in Assam India (27 soldiers killed)
1995 - British super middleweight Nigel Benn puts opponent Gerard McClellan in hospital
1995 - Moslem fundamentalists shoot 20 shite mosque goers dead
1995 - PBA National Championship Won by Scott Alexander
1996 - "Father" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 52 performances
1996 - Rajindra Dhanraj takes 16-167 in match Trinidad v Leeward Is
1998 - Pamela Lee has husband Tommy Lee arrested on battery charges
1998 - Switzerland's 1st legal brothel opens in Zurich
2009 - BDR massacre in Pilkhana, Dhaka, Bangladesh. 74 People are being killed, including more than
           50 Army officials, by Bangladeshi Boarder Guards inside its headquarter.
2011 - In the Irish general election, the Fianna Fáil-led government suffered the worst defeat of a
           sitting government since the formation of the Irish state in 1921.
2012 - Syrian Army kills 100 civilians in artillery shelling of Homs and Hama
2012 - Al Qaeda suicide bombing kills at least 26 people in Mukalla, Yemen
2012 - World Health Organization removes India from the list of polio endemic countries
2012 - Louisiana Red, American blues musician, dies from stroke at 79

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 25, 2013, 11:12:33 AM

This Day in History for 25th February


Famous Weddings

1828 - 6th US President John Quincy Adam's son John marries in the White House
2011 - Actor and comedian Kelsey Grammer (57) weds Kayte Walsh (29) at the Longacre Theater in
           Manhattan, New York

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 25, 2013, 11:27:14 AM

This Day in History for 25th February


Famous Birthdays

(http://i.historyorb.com/pierre-auguste-renoir.jpg)                  (http://i.historyorb.com/anthony-burgess.jpg)                  (http://i.historyorb.com/sally-jessy-raphael.jpg)         
Painter & Sculptor                                Novelist Anthony Burgess (1917)                  TV Talk Show Host
Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841)                                                                                    Sally Jessy Raphael (1943)


1398 - Xuande, Emperor of China (d. 1435)
1591 - Friedrich von Spee, German writer (d. 1635)
1635 - Walraad, the Elder, Dutch fieldmarshall/earl of Nassau-Usingen
1643 - Ahmed II, 21st sultan of Turkey (1691-95)
1663 - Pierre Antoine Motteux, French-born English dramatist (d. 1718)
1680 - Philipp Hyacinth Lobkowitz, composer
1682 - Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Italian anatomist (d. 1771)
1692 - Karl Ludwig, Freiherr von Pöllnitz, German adventurer and writer (d. 1775)
1707 - Carlo Goldoni, Italy, lawyer/playwright (Belisario, Love of 3 Oranges)
1714 - Sir Hyde Parker, 5th Baronet, British admiral (d. 1782)
1714 - René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou, Chancellor of France (d. 1792)
1725 - Armand-Louis Couperin, Paris France, organist/composer (Notre Dame)
1725 - Karl Wilhelm Ramler, German poet (Geistliche Kantaten)
1727 - Armand-Louis Couperin, composer
1731 - Simon Stijl, Frisian physician/writer
1732 - Robert Hudson, composer
1735 - Ernst William Wolf, composer
1752 - John Graves Simcoe, first Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada (d. 1806)
1778 - Jose Francisco de San Martin, liberated Argentina, Chile and Peru
1788 - Mateo Ferrer, composer
1794 - Gerrit Schimmelpenninck, Dutch earl of Nijenhuis/Peckedam
1807 - George Alfred Trenholm, Secy Treas (Confederacy), died in 1876
1808 - James Bowen, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1886
1809 - George Washington Cullom, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1892
1811 - Carl Schuberth, composer
1814 - Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian national poet/painter (3/9 NS) [OS]
1815 - Robert Hall Chilton, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1879
1832 - Theodorus J I Arnold, bibliographer (Bibliotheca Belgian)
1833 - Clement Anselm Evans, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1911
1833 - Julie Verstraete-Lacquet, Flemish actress
1840 - Alexis Hollander, composer
1840 - Otto Liebmann, German philosopher (Climax of Theories)
1841 - Pierre Auguste Renoir, Limoges France, Impressionist painter/sculptor
1842 - Karl May, German writer (Old Shatterhand/Winnetou)
1847 - John Watson, Canada, philosopher (Objective Idealism)
1855 - George Bonnor, cricketer (big-hitting Aussie batter 1880-1888)
1855 - Cesário Verde, Portuguese poet (d. 1886)
1856 - Charles Lang Freer, art collector; endowed Freer Gallery [or 1876]
1860 - Menso Kamerlingh Onnes, painter/water colors painter
1860 - William James Ashley, English economic-historian
1866 - Benedetto Croce, Italy, humanist/historian/editor/philosopher
1868 - Anthony J Block, Dutch lawyer (strafproces)
1871 - Oliver Samuel Campbell, tennis champ (US Open-1890)
1873 - Enrico Caruso, Naples Italy, operatic tenor (Faust)
1876 - Charles Freer, art collector; endowed Freer Gallery [or 1856]
1877 - Erich von Hornbostel, Austrian musicologist (d. 1935)
1879 - Otakar Ostrcil, composer
1881 - William Foster, Mass, Communist Pres candidate (1924,28,32)
1882 - Jozef Goossenaerts, Flemish philologist (Language boundary)
1883 - Princess Alice of Albany, Countess of Athlone (d. 1981)
1885 - Sylvia Brett, Lady Brooke, Ranee of Sarawak (d. 1971)
1887 - Leonard Carey, England, actor (Laughter)
1888 - John Foster Dulles, US Secretary of State (1953-59)
1889 - Homer S. Ferguson, United States Senator (d. 1982)
1890 - Myra Hess, London England, concert pianist
1894 - Ernst Friedrich, Breslau Germany, pacifist (War Against War!)
1894 - Howard Wendell, Poland, actor (4 Skulls of Jonathan Drake)
1894 - Meher Baba, Indian spiritual leader (d. 1969)
1895 - DeBenneville "Bert" Bell, PA, NFL owner/commissioner/HOF (Eagles)
1895 - Henri Martelli, composer
1896 - John J McClellan, (Sen-D-Ark)
1898 - William Thomas Astbury, English physicist/chemist (textiles)
1899 - Leo J Weisgerber, German linguist
1900 - Jed Harris, producer/director (Billy Rose Show, Operation Mad Ball)
1901 - Federico Ghisi, composer
1901 - [Herbert] Zeppo Marx, NYC, comedian/actor (Marx Brothers)
1902 - Max Kommerell, German literary/author (Die Gefangenen)
1902 - Oscar Cullmann, Swiss theologist (Das Petrusproblem)
1903 - King Clancy, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1986)
1904 - Adelle Davis, author (Lets Stay Healthy)/nutritionist (died of cancer)
1906 - Boris Papandopulo, composer
1906 - Domingo Ortega, Spanish bullfighter
1906 - Howard Zahniser, Father of Wilderness Act
1906 - Warren Hymer, NYC, actor (Girl From Havana, Meet the Mob)
1907 - Mary Coyle Chase, playwright (Harvey-Pulitzer Prize)
1907 - Shimen Rushkin, Poland, actor (Beau Brummel, Having a Wonderful Time)
1908 - Frank G Slaughter, author (Sangaree)
1909 - Edgar Pangborn, US, sci-fi author (Judgment of Eve, Davy)
1909 - John Evan "Jasper" Weston Mather, writer
1910 - Millicent Fenwick, NYC, (Rep-R-NJ 1975-82) (Doonesbury)
1912 - Richard Wattis, England, actor (Hobson's Choice, Prince & Showgirl)
1912 - Brenda Joyce, American actress
1913 - Gert Froebe, Saxony Germany, actor (Goldfinger)
1913 - Jim Backus, Cleve, actor (Mr Magoo, Thurston Howell III-Gilligan Is)
1914 - John Arlott, cricketer (the doyen of cricket commentators & writers)
1916 - Ian Wallace, British CEO
1916 - Ralph Baldwin, harness driver (set 11 major world records)
1916 - Reinhard Bendix, German sociologist (d. 1991)
1917 - Alex Gordon, architect
1917 - Anthony Burgess, essayist/novelist (Clockwork Orange)
1917 - Asta E R Elstak, Suriname/Dutch social worker
1918 - Henry Norwood Ewell, Harrisburg Pa, 4x100m runner (Olympic-gold-1948)
1918 - Robert Lorimer "Bobby" Riggs, US tennis star (US Open 1939, 41)
1918 - Barney Ewell, American athlete (d. 1996)
1918 - Rena Kyriakou, Greek pianist (d. 1994)
1919 - F de Jong Edz, Dutch historian
1919 - Monty Irvin, baseball hall of famer (NY Giants)
1919 - Karl H. Pribram, Austrian neuroscientist
1920 - Antony Duff, diplomat
1920 - Hayes Gordon, Boston MA, actor (Sky Pirates, Dark Room)
1920 - Gérard Bessette, Canadian author (d. 2005)
1922 - Matti Rautio, composer
1923 - Roger Parker, Lord Justice of Appeal
1924 - Peg Ridge, peace campaigner
1925 - Bert Remsen, Glen Cove NY, actor (Mario-It's a Living)
1926 - Harvey McGregor, QC/warden (New College-Oxford)
1927 - Dick Jones, Snyder Tx, actor (Buffalo Bill Jr)
1927 - Jacques Monod, composer
1927 - Jane Nigh, Hollywood California, actress (Lorelei-Big Town)
1927 - Ralph Stanley, country singer
1928 - Keith Williamson, British RAF marshal
1928 - Larry Gelbart, writer/producer/actor (Oh God!, M*A*S*H)
1928 - Richard Stern, US writer
1929 - Christopher George, Royal Oak Minn, actor (Rat Patrol, Immortal)
1929 - Peter Bingham Hinchcliff, Brit church historian (1 Sided Reciprocity)
1929 - Peter Hinchcliff, historian
1929 - Tommy Newsom, Va, musician/bandleader/saxophonist (Tonight Show)
1930 - Erica Pedretti, writer
1931 - Edward Kellett-Bowman, British MEP
1931 - J R Stephenson, Lt-col/secretary (MCC)
1932 - Faron Young, country singer/actor (Hidden Guns, Daniel Boone)
1932 - Laurence New, Major-General
1932 - Martin William Karlins, composer
1932 - Tony Brooks, English race car driver
1934 - Lord Crickhowell
1934 - Michael Wheeler-Booth, Clerk of the Parliaments
1934 - Robert Neame, brewer
1934 - Bernard Bresslaw, English actor (d. 1993)
1936 - Jonnie Nicely, playmate (Aug, 1956)
1936 - Norman Orville Scribner, composer
1937 - Basia Johnson, maid (inherited Johnson & Johnson fortune)
1937 - Bob Schieffer, Austin Tx, newscaster (CBS Weekend News)
1937 - Tom Courtenay, England, actor (Dresser, Dr Zhivago, To Catch a Spy)
1938 - Diane Baker, Hollywood California, actress (Diary of Anne Frank, Marnie)
1938 - Farokh Engineer, Indian cricket wicket-keeper (1961-75)
1938 - Herb Elliott, Australia, 1500m runner (Olympic-gold-1960)
1938 - Viktor Kosichkin, Rybnoye, Russia, Speed Skater (Olympic Gold 1960), (d. 2012)
1939 - A C F Verity, master (Dulwich College)
1939 - Marisa Mell, Graz Austria, actress (Masquerade, Casanova '70)
1940 - Billy Packer, Wellsville NY, basketball sportscaster (CBS)
1940 - George Paul, CEO (Norwich Union Insurance Group)
1940 - Hector MacKenzie, trade unionist
1940 - Jud Taylor, actor (Dr Gerson-Dr Kildare)
1940 - Ron Santo, shortstop (Cubs, 1st baseball player to veto his trade)
1941 - David Puttnam, London, film producer/CEO (Columbia Pictures)
1941 - Ramon Pagayon Santos, composer
1941 - Stewart Sutherland, Principal/Vice-Chancellor (Edinburgh University)
1941 - Susan Browning, Baldwin NY, actress (Pat-Mary Hartman)
1942 - Karen Grassle, American actress
1943 - George Harrison, rocker (Beatle/Travelling Willberries-My Sweet Lord)
1943 - Maryann Amacher, composer
1943 - Sally Jessy Raphael, Easton, Pennsylvania, American TV talk show host (Sally)
1943 - Wilson da Silva Piazza, Brazilian footballer
1944 - Karen Grassle, Berkeley Ca, actress (Caroline-Little House on Prairie)
1944 - Kristina Holland, Fayetteville NC, (Tina-Courtship of Eddie's Father)
1945 - Elkie Brooks, Manchester England, rocker (Pearl's a Singer)
1945 - Shivadhar Srinivasa Naipaul, Trinidad, novelist, essayist (Fireflies)
1946 - F Xaver Kroetz, writer
1946 - Jean Todt, French executive director of Scuderia Ferrari
1947 - Eddie Thomson, Australian soccer coach (Olyroos, Olympics-96)
1947 - Lee Edward Evans, Madera California, 400m runner (Olympic-2 gold-1968)
1947 - Lewis Moonie, British MP
1947 - Lee Evans, American athlete
1948 - G B Warren, British biochemist
1948 - Danny Denzongpa, Indian actor
1948 - Aldo Busi, Italian writer
1949 - Lord Sempill
1949 - Ric Flair, American professional wrestler
1950 - Anthony Lloyd, British MP
1950 - Emitt Rhodes, musician (Merry-go-Round)
1950 - Neil Jordan, director (Crying Game)
1950 - Rick Flair, [Richard Fliehr], wrestling champ (NWA/WWF/WCW/AWA)
1950 - Néstor Kirchner, President of Argentina
1950 - Francisco Fernández Ochoa, Spanish alpine skier (d. 2006)
1951 - Don Quarrie, Jamaican runner
1951 - James Brown, American sportscaster
1951 - César Cedeño, Dominican baseball player
1952 - James A Barcia, (Rep-D-Michigan)
1952 - Jerry Chamberlain, American musician
1952 - Joey Dunlop, Irish motorcycle racer (d. 2000)
1952 - Inger Segelström, Swedish politician
1953 - Garrett Glaser, entertainment correspondent (Entertainment Tonight)
1953 - José María Aznar, former Prime Minister of Spain
1953 - Kim Yeong-cheol, South Korean actor
1954 - Steve Rixon, Australian cricket wicket-keeper (1977-85)
1954 - John Doe, American musician
1955 - Leann Hunley, actress (Dane Carrington-Dynasty, Dawson's Creek)
1956 - Davie Cooper, soccer star
1957 - Jane Ackroyd, British sculptor
1957 - Stuart "Woody" Wood, Scot, guitarist (Bay City Rollers-Saturday Night)
1958 - Kurt Rambis, NBA forward (Lakers, Hornets)/Clark Kent look-a-like
1959 - Mike Peters, rocker (Alarm-In the Summertime)
1959 - Carl Marotte, Canadian actor
1960 - Glen Bishop, cricketer (S Aussie bat, 2 ODI's for Australia 1987)
1961 - Davey Allison, American race car driver (d. 1993)
1961 - Todd Blackledge, American football player
1962 - Birgit Fischer, German DR, 500m kayaker (Olympic-gold-1980)
1962 - Cammy Ciarelli, Iowa City, WPVA volleyballer (Best of Beach-2nd-1995)
1962 - Foster Emerson Sylvers, rocker
1963 - Alison Roberts, fashion designer
1963 - Paul O'Neill, Columbus OH, right fielder (Cin Reds, NY Yankees)
1963 - Tom McHale, NFL tackle (Miami Dolphins)
1964 - Don Majkowski, NFL quarterback (Detroit Lions)
1964 - Steve Nevius, film editor (Eden, Fall Time, Damascus)
1964 - Lee Evans, English comedian
1965 - Carrot Top, [Scott Thompson], Fla, comedian (Amer Comedy Award-1994)
1965 - Veronica Webb, supermodel/actress (Jungle Fever, Malcolm X)
1965 - Brian Baker, American guitarist
1966 - Don Anurasiri, cricketer (Sri Lankan slow left-armer)
1966 - Samantha Phillips, Ft Meade MD, Penthouse Pet
1966 - Stacey Cortez, actress (Sheila Cantillan-General Hospital)
1966 - Tea Leoni, NYC, actress (Flying Blind, Naked Truth)
1966 - Alexis Denisof, American actor
1966 - Samson Kitur, Kenyan athlete (d. 2003)
1966 - Nancy O'Dell, American reporter and television personality
1967 - Jenny Byrne, Perth Australia, tennis star (1984 Futures-Wyong-AUS)
1967 - Nick Leeson, British banker (Baring bank)
1967 - Rich Rowland, US baseball catcher (Detroit Tigers)
1968 - David Hulse, US baseball outfielder (Texas Rangers)
1968 - Evridiki, Greek Cypriot singer
1969 - Donald Hodge, NBA center (Charlotte Hornets)
1969 - Kerry Dienelt, Australian softball catcher/1st baseman (Oly-bronze-96)
1969 - Michelle Gibson, equestrian dressage (Olympics-bronze-96)
1970 - Alfred Jordan, CFL cornerback (Calgary Stampeders)
1970 - Brian O'Neal, NFL full back (SF 49ers)
1970 - Corey Mayfield, NFL defensive tackle (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1970 - Dave Brown, NFL quarterback (NY Giants)
1970 - Joe Bowden, NFL linebacker (Houston/Tennessee Oilers)
1970 - Troy Mallette, Sudbury, NHL left wing (Ottawa Senators)
1971 - Andrew Hermann, US 50K walker (Olympics-96)
1971 - Byron Dafoe, Sussex England, NHL goalie (LA Kings)
1971 - David Fox, US, 50m freestyle (Olympics-6th-96)
1971 - Helen Dobson, Skegness England, golfer (1993 State Farm Rail Classic)
1971 - Jennifer LaVoie, Nashua NH, playmate (Aug, 1993)
1971 - Nova Peris, Darwin Australia, field hockey left halfback (Olympics-96)
1971 - Sean Astin, LA California, actor (Goonies, Toy Soldiers)
1971 - Dave Harris, American disc jockey
1972 - Chris Harrison, guard (Detroit Lions)
1972 - Erwin van de Looi, soccer player (Vitesse)
1972 - Sean Harris, NFL linebacker (Chic Bears)
1973 - Daryl Gardener, defensive end (Miami Dolphins)
1973 - Kirrily Sharpe, Bankstown Aust, tennis star (1995 Futures-Saga-JPN)
1973 - Justin Jeffre, American singer (98 Degrees)
1973 - Anson Mount, American actor
1973 - Julio José Iglesias, Spanish singer
1973 - Normann Stadler, German triathlete
1974 - Detron Smith, NFL running back (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1974 - Tamarick Vanover, NFL wide receiver (KC Chiefs)
1975 - Hercules Kyvelos, Montreal Quebec, boxer (Olympics-96)
1975 - Chelsea Handler, American comedian and actress
1976 - Chris Pitman, rocker (Zaum, Tool)
1976 - Samaki Walker, NBA forward (Dallas Mavericks)
1976 - Rashida Jones, American actress, writer, model, and musician
1977 - Sarah Jezebel Deva, English singer
1977 - Josh Wolff, American footballer
1979 - Jennifer Ferrin, American actress
1979 - David Hoflin, Swedish-born Australian Actor
1980 - Antonio Burks, American basketball player
1980 - Christy Knowings, American actress
1981 - Park Ji-Sung, South Korean footballer
1981 - Misty Giles, American beauty queen and Survivor contestant
1981 - Jamie Lynn, American model
1981 - Shahid Kapoor, Indian actor
1982 - Chris Baird, Irish footballer
1982 - Anton Volchenkov, Russian ice hockey player
1982 - Bert McCracken, American singer (The Used)
1982 - Maria Kanellis, American model and professional wrestler
1982 - Tara Wilson, Canadian actress
1983 - Eduardo da Silva, Brazilian-born Croatian footballer
1984 - Logan Leistikow, American director and actor
1984 - Lovefoxxx, Brazilian singer (CSS)
1985 - Benji Marshall, New Zealand rugby player
1985 - Joakim Noah, American basketball player
1986 - James and Oliver Phelps, English actors
1986 - Justin Berfield, American actor
1986 - Danny Saucedo, Swedish singer
1987 - Eva Avila, Canadian singer
1989 - Tony Oller, American actor
1992 - Libby [Elizabeth] Callahan, Columbia SC, sport pistol (Olympics-96)
1998 - Brendon Baerg, American actor

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 25, 2013, 11:27:40 AM

This Day in History for 25th February


Famous Deaths

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Architect Christopher Wren (1723)           Playwright Tennessee Williams (1983)


779 - Walburgis, Anglo-Saxon abbess/saint (Walpurgis Night), dies
1246 - Dafydd ap Llywelyn, King of Gwynedd
1247 - Hendrik IV, duke of Limburg/earl of Bergen (1226-47), dies
1495 - Djem Sultan, son of Turkish sultan Mehmed II, dies at 35
1522 - William Lilye, English classical scholar
1536 - Berthold Haller, German-born reformer (b. 1492)
1553 - Hirate Masahide, Japanese diplomat and tutor of Oda Nobunaga (suicide) (b. 1492)
1558 - Eleanor of Austria, Queen of Portugal and France (b. 1498)
1601 - Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, executed for treason against Elizabeth
1602 - Everard van Reyd, Dutch historian, dies at about 51
1634 - Albrecht WE baron von Wallenstein, German duke, murdered at 50
1634 - Van Friedland/Mecklenburg, general-admiral, dies at 50
1643 - Marco da Gagliano, Italian opera composer, dies at 60
1655 - Daniel Heinsius, Flemish scholar (b. 1580)
1682 - Alessandro Stradella, Italian violist/composer, murdered at 37
1713 - Frederik I, King of Prussia (1701-13), dies at 55
1715 - Pu Songling, Chinese writer (b. 1640)
1719 - Giovanni Maria Casini, composer, dies at 66
1723 - Christopher Wren, England, astronomer/architect, dies at 90
1756 - Eliza Haywood, English actress and writer (b. 1693)
1798 - Louis-Jules Mancini-Mazarini, Duc de Nivernais, French diplomat and writer (b. 1716)
1805 - Thomas Pownall, British colonial statesman (b. 1722)
1826 - Piotr A von der Pahlen, military governor of St Petersburg, dies at 60
1850 - Daoguang, Emperor of China (b. 1782)
1851 - Ferdinand Simon Gassner, composer, dies at 53
1852 - Thomas Moore, writer (Utopia), dies
1860 - Chauncey Allen Goodrich, American clergyman, educator, and lexicographer (b. 1790)
1865 - Otto Ludwig, German writer (Zwischen Himmel und Erde), dies at 47
1894 - James Morrison Steele Mackaye, US actor/author/director, dies at 51
1899 - Paul Julius von Reuter, founder of the news agency (Reuters), dies
1901 - Jose Rogel, composer, dies at 71
1902 - Carl Ignaz Franz Umlauf, composer, dies at 77
1906 - Anton Stepanovich Arensky, Russian composer/conductor c t, dies at 44
1912 - Guillaume IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (b. 1852)
1914 - John Tenniel, British illustrator (Alice in Wonderland), dies at 93
1915 - George Mimot, physician (Nobel-1934), dies
1919 - Josef Christiaens, Belgian racing driver (b. 1879)
1920 - Aloys, Liechtenstein nobleman/politician, dies at 73
1922 - Henri-Desire Landru, French sex murderer, guillotined at 52
1925 - Pedro Miguel Marques y Garcia, composer, dies at 81
1934 - Daniel Protheroe, composer, dies at 67
1934 - John J McGraw, manager (NY Giants), dies at 60
1942 - Leo Ascher, composer, dies at 61
1945 - Mário de Andrade, Brazilian writer and photographer (b. 1893)
1947 - Friedrich Paschen, German physicist, dies at 82
1950 - George Minot, American physician, Nobel laureate (b. 1885)
1953 - Jesus Garcia Leoz, composer, dies at 49
1955 - Marij Kogoj, composer, dies at 59
1957 - Kurt von Wolfurt, composer, dies at 76
1957 - Mark Aldanov, [Mark A Landau], Russian/French chemist, dies at 70
1960 - Everhardus J van Romondt, Dutch Antillean minister, dies at 51
1962 - Wilhelm Pessler, German sociologist, dies at 81
1964 - Alexander Archipenko, sculptor, dies
1964 - Grace Metalious, American writer (b. 1924)
1966 - James D. Norris, American sports businessman (b. 1906)
1967 - John Griggs, actor (Joey Bishop Show), dies at 57
1968 - Camille Huysmans, Belgian premier (1946-47), dies at 96
1969 - Jan Zajic, Czech student, self incinerates
1970 - Mark Rothko, abstract expressionist (Green on Blue), dies at 66
1971 - Theodor Svedberg, Swedish chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1884)
1975 - Elijah Muhammad, leader of Nation of Islam, dies in Chicago at 78
1978 - Daniel "Chappie" James Jr, retired Air Force general, dies at 58
1982 - J K Irani, cricket wicketkeeper (2 Tests for India 1947-48), dies
1983 - John Cowles Sr, US publisher, dies at 84
1983 - Tennessee Williams, US playwright and writer (Streetcar Named Desire), dies at 71
1987 - James Coco, actor (Joe-Dumplings), dies at 58
1988 - Amapola Del Vando, actress (Cowboy), dies at 78
1990 - Deborra Hampton, actress (Crossroads, 2 of a Kind), dies at 30
1992 - Guy Deghy, actor (Matter of Who, 1 Eyed Soldiers), dies at 79
1992 - John E Allen Jr, actor (1 2 3), dies
1992 - Ollie O'Toole, dies after long illness at 79
1993 - Eddie Constantine, actor (Alphaville, License to Kill), dies at 75
1993 - Jan D Boeke, Dutch organist/conductor, dies
1993 - Jean G H "Sjeng" Tans, Dutch PM (social dem, 1965-69), dies
1993 - Toy Caldwell, country musician (Marshall Tucker Band), dies at 45
1993 - Mary Walter, Filipino actress (b. 1912)
1994 - Baruch Goldstein, physician/murderer (53 in mosque), lynched at 42
1994 - Hugh Tayfield, cricketer (170 wickets for S Afr in 37 Tests), dies
1994 - Jersey Joe Walcott, boxer, dies at 80
1994 - Wladyslaw Sila Lawyer Adviser to Solidarity-Nowicki, dies at 80
1994 - Yann Piat, French MP (FN/PR), murdered at 44
1995 - Jack Clayton, British director (Great Gatsby), dies at 73
1995 - Oh Jin Woo, Korean minister of defense, dies
1995 - Terence Weil, cellist/teacher, dies at 73
1996 - Haing S Ngor, doctor/actor (Killing Fields), dies at 45
1996 - Marion Farouk Political scientist-Sluglett, dies at 59
1996 - Vehbi Koc, indistrialist/philanthropist, dies at 94
1997 - Andrei Donatovich Sinyavsky, writer/critic, dies at 71
1997 - Tony Williams, jazz drummer (Miles Davis), dies at 51
1998 - Luigi Veronesi, Italian abstract artist (Campo Grafico), dies at 90
1998 - Umberto Mastroianni, Italian sculptor, dies at 87
1998 - Celestine Tate Harrington, a quadriplegic street musician and writer.
1999 - Glenn T. Seaborg, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1912)
2001 - Sir Donald Bradman, Australian cricketer (b. 1908)
2003 - Tom O'Higgins, Irish Chief Justice (b. 1916)
2003 - Alberto Sordi, Italian actor (b. 1920)
2004 - Donald Hings, Canadian inventor (b. 1907)
2005 - Peter Benenson, English founder of Amnesty International (b. 1921)
2006 - Darren McGavin, American actor (b. 1922)
2006 - Charlie Wayman, English footballer (b. 1922)
2007 - William R. Anderson, CO USS Nautilus submarine, US Congressman (b. 1921)
2007 - Mark Spoelstra, American singer/songwriter (b. 1940)
2008 - Ashley Cooper, Australian race car driver (b. 1980)
2008 - Hans Raj Khanna, Judge of the Supreme Court of India (b. 1912)
2008 - Static Major, American singer (b. 1974)
2009 - Ivan Cameron, son of David Cameron UK politician
2010 - İhsan Doğramacı, Turkish academic and the founder of YÖK (d. 1915)
2012 - Lynn Compton, American jurist and commissioned officer, dies from heart attack at 90
2012 - Red Holloway [James], American jazz tenor saxophonist, dies from stroke and kidney failure
           at 84

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 26, 2013, 01:48:56 PM

This Day in History for 26th February


Historical Events

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Comedian Charlie Chaplin                       30th US President Calvin Coolidge              Baseball Great Babe Ruth

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British war time Prime Minister                      First Secretary of the                        King of Pop Michael Jackson
Winston Churchill                                 Communist Party of the Soviet Union
                                                                         Nikita Khrushchev

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Basketball Superstar Michael Jordan          Talk show host Oprah Winfrey


747 BC - Epoch (origin) of Ptolemy's Nabonassar Era.
364 - Valentinian I is proclaimed Roman Emperor.
1266 - Battle of Benevento fought in Southern Italy between Manfred of Sicily and army of Charles of
           Anjou
1534 - Pope Paul II affirms George van Egmond as bishop of Utrecht
1590 - Mauritius of Nassaus sails to Breda
1616 - Spanish Inquisition delivers injunction to Galileo
1732 - 1st mass celebrated in 1st American Catholic church, St Joseph's, Philadelphia
1773 - Construction authorized for Walnut St jail (Phila) (1st solitary)
1794 - Christiansborg Castle, Copenhagen burns down.
1797 - Bank of England issues 1st £1-note
1804 - Vice-admiral William Bligh ends siege of Fort Amsterdam, Willemstad
1815 - Napoleon & 1,200 leave Elba to start 100-day re-conquest of France
1832 - Polish constitution abolished/replaced by Czar Nicholas I
1834 - 1st US interstate crime compact (NY-NJ) ratified
1839 - Jem Mason on Lottery wins 1st Grand National Steeplechase (Britain)
1848 - 2nd French Republic proclaimed
1848 - Marx & Engels publish "Communist Manifesto"
1852 - British frigate Birkenhead sinks off South Africa-458 die
1859 - Paul Morphy's chess match vs Augustus Mongredien begins; Morphy wins
1862 - Battle of Woodburn, KY
1863 - Lincoln signs National Currency Act
1866 - New York Legislature forms NYC Metropolitan Board of Health
1869 - 15th Amendment guaranteeing right to vote sent to states
1869 - Franz Schubert's "4th Tragic," premieres
1870 - 1st NYC subway line opens (pneumatic powered)
1881 - -27] Natal: British troops under gen-major Colley occupy Majuba Hill
1881 - SS Ceylon begins 1st round-the-world cruise from Liverpool
1884 - British & Portuguese treaty signed in Congo by Leopold II
1885 - Congress of Berlin, gives Congo to Belgium & Nigeria to England
1887 - George Lohmann took 1st 8-wkt haul in Test Crickets, 8-35 at SCG
1891 - 1st buffalo purchased for Golden Gate Park
1891 - Henrik Ibsens "Hedda Gabler," premieres in Oslo
1893 - 2 Clydesdale horses set record by pulling 48 tons on a sledge, Mich
1893 - Einar Halvorsen skates world record 500m (48 sec)
1895 - Michael Owens of Toledo, Ohio patents a glass-blowing machine
1907 - Royal Oil & Shell merge to form British Petroleum (BP)
1907 - US Congress raised their own salaries to $7500
1912 - Coal miners strike in England (settle on 03/01)
1914 - New York Museum of Science & Industry incorporated
1914 - HMHS Britannic, sister to the Titanic, is launched at Harland & Wolff, Belfast.
1915 - Malancourt, Argonnen (1st (German) flame-thrower
1916 - Germans sink French transport ship Provence II, killing 930
1916 - Mutual signs Charlie Chaplin to a film contract
1916 - Russian troops conquer Kermansjah Persia
1917 - 1st Annual fair at Utrecht Harbor (Netherlands)
1918 - Stands at Hong Kong Jockey Club collapse & burn, killing 604
1919 - Acadia National Park forms (as Lafayette N P), Maine
1919 - Congress forms Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona
1923 - Italian nationalist & fascists merge (blue-shirts & black-shirts)
1924 - Trial against Hitler in Munich begins
1925 - Jihad-Saint war against Turkish government
1926 - Dark Street in the Bronx renamed Lustre Street
1929 - Pres Calvin Coolidge establishes Grand Teton National Park
1930 - "Green Pastures" opens at Mansfield Theater
1930 - 1st red & green traffic lights installed (Manhattan NYC)
1930 - West Indies make 1st Test Cricket win, by 289 runs over England
1933 - Golden Gate Bridge ground-breaking ceremony held at Crissy Field
1933 - Marinus van der Lubbe kept overnight in a police cell
1935 - Germany begin Luftwaffe operation, under Reichsmarshall H Goering
1935 - NY Yankees release Babe Ruth, he signs with Boston Braves
1935 - RADAR-Radio Detection & Ranging 1st demonstrated (Robert Watson-Watt)
1935 - The Luftwaffe is re-formed.
1936 - Hitler introduces Ferdinand Porsche's "Volkswagen"
1936 - Military coup in Japan
1937 - C Isherwood/WH Auden's "Ascent of F6," premieres in London
1938 - 1st passenger ship equipped with radar
1938 - Rie Van Veen swims world record 200m free style (2:24.6)
1938 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Joan Tozzer
1938 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Robin Lee
1940 - US Air Defense Command forms at Mitchel Field, LI, NY
1941 - 2 fighters unable to continued slugfest, referee declares double KO
1941 - Cowboys' Amateur Association of America organized (California)
1941 - Utrecht & Zaandam strike against raid on Jews
1941 - Vichy-France makes religious education in school mandatory
1942 - German battle cruiser Gneisenau deactivated by bomb
1942 - Radio Orange calls for March 1 day of prayer in Dutch Indies
1942 - WW II Navy flier Don Mason sends message "Sighted sub sank same"
1942 - Werner Heisenberger informs nazis about uranium project "Wunderwaffen"
1943 - German assault moves to Beja North Tunisia
1944 - 1st female US navy captain, Sue Dauser of nurse corps, appointed
1945 - Very heavy bombing on Berlin by 8th US Air Force
1946 - 2 killed & 10 wounded in race riot in Columbia Tenn
1949 - USAF plane began 1st nonstop around-the-world flight
1950 - Leonard Bernstein's "Age of Anxiety," premieres in NYC
1951 - Bread rationing in Czechoslovakia
1952 - Neth-Indonesian Unity conference
1952 - PM Winston Churchill announces Britain has its own atomic bomb
1953 - Allen W Dulles, promoted from deputy to 5th director of CIA
1954 - 1st typesetting machine (photo engraving) used, Quincy Mass
1954 - Michigan rep Ruth Thompson (R) introduces legislation to ban mailing "obscene, lewd,
           lascivious or filthy" phonograph (rock & roll) records
1955 - "Peter Pan" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 149 performances
1955 - 1st aviator to bail out at supersonic speed-GF Smith
1956 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Open
1956 - Writers Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes meet at a party in Cambridge
1960 - Soviet premier Khrushchev voices support for Indonesia
1960 - USA's David Jenkins wins Olympic Gold for men's figure skating
1960 - Verne Gagne beats Doctor X in Omaha, to become NWA wrestling champ
1962 - Arthur Kopit's "Oh, Dad, Poor Dad . . .," premieres in NYC
1962 - US Supreme court disallows race separation on public transportation
1962 - Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Phila Warriors scores 67 points vs NY
1965 - Dutch government of Marijnen falls
1965 - West Germany ceases military aid to Tanzania
1966 - KBIM TV channel 10 in Roswell, NM (CBS) begins broadcasting
1967 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1967 - Verne Gagne beats Mad Dog Vachon in St Paul, to become NWA champ
1968 - Clandestine Radio Voice of Iraqi People (Communist) final transmission
1970 - "Georgy" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 4 performances
1970 - Beatles release "Beatles Again" aka "Hey Jude" album
1971 - Secretary-General U Thant signs United Nations proclamation of the vernal equinox as Earth
           Day.
1972 - Dam break in WV kills 107
1972 - Slag heap dam collapses above Buffalo Creek WV, kills 125
1973 - Triple Crown horse Secretariat bought for a record $5.7m
1974 - Gold hits record $188 an ounce in Paris
1975 - "Night... Made America Famous" opens at Barrymore NYC for 75 perfs
1975 - 1st televised kidney transplant (Today Show)
1976 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1977 - 1st flight of Space Shuttle (atop a Boeing 747)
1978 - Ira Levin's "Deathtrap," premieres in NYC
1978 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic
1979 - Last total eclipse of Sun in 20th century for continental US
1980 - Egypt & Israel exchange ambassadors for 1st time
1980 - Milt coup under Desi Bouterse in Suriname
1980 - R Hadlee scores Test Cricket century v Roberts, Garner, Holding, Croft
1981 - 3 Anglican missionaries detained in Iran since Aug 1980 are released
1981 - 84 penalties (406 mins) assessed for a brawl between NHL Minn & Bost
1981 - French Train Grande Vitesse averages 380 kph on trial run
1982 - Test Cricket debut of Martin Crowe, v Australia Wellington, run out 9
1983 - Michael Jackson's "Thriller" album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 37 weeks
1983 - Shortwave pirate Radio USA (Wellsville, NY) begins transmission
1984 - Last US marines in multinatl peacekeeping force in Lebanon left Beirut
1984 - Rev Jesse Jackson acknowledges that he called NYC, "Hymietown"
1984 - Robert Penn Warren, Pulitzer Prize winner, named 1st US poet laureate
1985 - 27th Grammy Awards: Whats Love Got to Do With It, Cyndi Lauper wins
1986 - Evert van Benthem wins 14th Frisian 11-Cities skating race (6:55:16)
1986 - People Power Revolution in the Philippines.
1987 - 1st release of Beatles compact discs
1987 - NASA launches GEOS-H
1987 - NBA's Michael Jordan's 58 points is a Chicago Bull record
1987 - Tower Commission probes Iran-Contra affair
1987 - USSR resumes nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1987 - Wash blocks 20 Indiana shots tying NBA regulation game record
1988 - Christa Rotherburger (GDR) skates ladies world record 1000m (1:17.65)
1989 - "Jerome Robbins' Broadway" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 634 perfs
1989 - Betsy King wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open/Helene Curtis Pro-Am
1989 - Lowest barometric pressure in Netherlands (95.5 hPa)
1989 - NY Yankees announce that Tom Seaver is their new TV sportscaster
1989 - California court throws out most of Margo Adams's $12 million breach-of- contract suit
           against Red Sox third baseman Wade Boggs
1990 - USSR agrees to withdraw all 73,500 troops from Czech by July, 1991
1990 - The Sandinistas are defeated in Nicaraguan elections.
1991 - Asanka Gurusinha scores twin Test Cricket tons v NZ (119 & 102)
1991 - Bill Veeck & Tony Lazzeri elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1991 - Kuwaiti resistance leaders declare they have control of their capital
1991 - NY-NJ Knights (WLAF) players 1st come together
1992 - "Search & Destroy" opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 46 perfs
1992 - Irish Supreme Court rules 14 year old rape victim may get an abortion
1993 - 2nd tallest building in world, NYC World Trade Center bombed, 7 die
1993 - 9th Soap Opera Digest Awards
1993 - Allan Border beats Gavaskar's record for most Test Cricket runs 10,123
1994 - St Louis Blues beat Ottawa Senators 11-1
1995 - London finance house of Barings collapse after losses in Singapore by trader Nick Leeson
1997 - 39th Grammy Awards: Change the World Babyface, Beck & LeAnn Rimes wins
1998 - Oprah Winfrey beats Texas cattlemen in beef trial
1998 - Steven M Gluckstern completes sale of NY Islanders
1998 - Total solar eclipse in Venezuela-Pacific Ocean (4m09)
2001 - The Taliban destroy two giant Buddha statues in Bamyan, Afghanistan.
2004 - Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski is killed in a plane crash near Mostar, Bosnia and
           Herzegovina.
2004 - The United States lifts a ban on travel to Libya, ending travel restrictions to the nation that
           had lasted for 23 years.
2005 - Hosni Mubarak the president of Egypt orders the constitution changed to allow multi-
           candidate presidential elections before September 2005 by asking Egyptian parliament to
           amend Article 76 of the constitution.
2012 - The film The Artist wins five Academy Awards and becomes the first silent film to win since
           1927
2012 - Bus plunges off a cliff in Shanxi, China causing 15 deaths
2012 - Train derailment kills 3 and injures 45 in Burlington, Ontario

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 26, 2013, 01:52:37 PM

This Day in History for 26th February


Famous Weddings

1984 - Pak Awang (84) marries 80th spouse
1994 - Actor Dolph Lundgren (34) weds Anette Qviberg in Stockholm
2009 - Supermodel Gisele Bundchen (32) weds NFL New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady
           (35) at St. Monica Catholic Church in Santa Monica
2011 - Musician Cisco Adler (32) weds model Barbara Stoyanoff (30) at Wayfarers Chapel in Palos
           Verdes

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 26, 2013, 02:50:05 PM

This Day in History for 26th February


Famous Birthdays

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Author Victor Hugo (1802)                           Clothing Designer                         Country Singer Johnny Cash (1932)
                                                                    Levi Strauss (1829)


1361 - Wenceslas of Bohemia, Holy Roman Catholic German emperor (1378-1400)
1587 - Stefano Landi, Italian composer (d. 1639)
1588 - Nicolaus Erich, composer
1671 - Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician and philosopher (d. 1713)
1672 - Antoine Augustine Calmet, French theologian (d. 1757)
1675 - Johann Philipp Treiber, composer
1677 - Nicola Fago, composer
1714 - James Hervey, English clergyman and writer (d. 1758)
1717 - John Randall, composer
1720 - Gian Francesco Albani, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1803)
1746 - Archduchess Marie Amalie of Austria, duchess of Piacenza (d. 1806)
1770 - Antoine Reicha, composer
1772 - Caspar Furstenau, composer
1799 - Émile Clapeyron, French engineer and physicist (d. 1864)
1802 - Victor Hugo, France, author (Hunchback of Notre Dame, Les Miserables)
1808 - Honoré Daumier, French painter, illustrator, and sculptor (d. 1879)
1808 - Nathan Kelley, American architect, active mainly in Ohio, (d.1871)
1814 - Charles Joseph Sainte-Claire Deville, French geologist (d. 1876)
1824 - Carlos Calvo, Argentine diplomat/people rights scholar (Calvo Clause)
1825 - Hans Balatka, composer
1829 - Levi Strauss, German-born clothing designer (d. 1902)
1831 - Filippo Marchetti, composer
1832 - John George Nicolay, US, author (Abe Lincoln's biographer)
1834 - Aleksander Zarzycki, composer
1835 - Richard Andree, German geography/etnologist (Andree's Handatlas)
1837 - Charles Woeste, Belgian count/min of Justice
1838 - Wendelin Weissheimer, composer
1841 - Evelyn Baring earl Cromer, English consul-general (Egypt)
1842 - Camille Flammarion, Mars researcher & popularizer of astronomy
1845 - Aleksander Rozycki, composer
1845 - Alexander III, St Petersburg, Russian tsar (1881-94) (3/10 NS)
1846 - William F "Buffalo Bill" Cody, Davenport Iowa, killed 4000 buffaloes
1852 - John Harvey Kellogg, surgeon, inspired flaked cereal industry
1857 - Emile Coué, French pharmacist (recovery by auto suggestion)
1858 - Vladimir Serbsky, Russian psychiatrist (d. 1917)
1861 - Ferdinand I, Vienna, 1st tsar of modern Bulgaria (1908-18)
1866 - Herbert Henry Dow, pioneer in US chemical industry (Dow Chemical)
1867 - Siegfried Passarge, German geographer (Cameroon/So Afr/America)
1868 - Leonard Borwick, British(?) pianist
1869 - Nadezjda K Krupskaja, Russian revolutionary/wife of Lenin
1873 - Ewoud van Everdingen, Dutch meteorologist
1874 - Carl Vogler, composer
1875 - Emma Dunn, actress (Dr Monica, Dr Kildare's Strange Case, Hideaway)
1875 - Richard Wetz, composer
1876 - Agustin P Justo y Rolon, pres Argentina (1931-38)
1876 - Pauline Musters, smallest man (1'11.2" (58.9 cm))
1877 - Carel S Adama van Scheltema, Dutch poet/writer (socialism)
1877 - Russell Alexander, composer
1879 - Frank Bridge, English violinist/composer/conductor/tutor of B Britten
1882 - Walter Lucht, German artillery general (WW I/WW II)
1882 - Husband E. Kimmel, American admiral (d. 1968)
1883 - Erich R Jaensch, German psychologist (eidetism)
1884 - Christina A A [Dina] Koudijs-van Appeldoorn, pianist/composer
1884 - Dina Appeldoorn, composer
1884 - Hildo Krop, Dutch modernistic sculptor
1885 - Lili Green, [Alice Sally Mary], Neth/Eng dancer
1885 - Aleksandras Stulginskis, President of Lithuania (d. 1969)
1887 - Benegal Narsing Rau, India, pres of UN Security Council (1950)
1887 - Grover Cleveland Alexander, HOF baseball pitcher (Phillies, Cubs)
1887 - William Frawley, American actor (d. 1966)
1887 - Stefan Grabinski, Polish writer (d. 1936)
1891 - Alan Bridge, PA, actor (North of Arizona, Badmen of the Hills)
1893 - Ivor A "I A" Richards, English poet/critic (Meaning of Meaning) [NS]
1893 - William Frawley, Iowa, actor (Fred Mertz-I Love Lucy, Bub-My 3 Sons)
1896 - Andrei A Zjdanov, Russian politician (against kosmopolitism)
1896 - Eduard Flipse, Dutch conductor/composer
1898 - Julien de Valckenaere, Flemish writer
1899 - Max Petitpierre, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1994)
1900 - Jean Negulesco, Craiova Romania, director (Johnny Belinda, Jessica)
1902 - Rudolf Moralt, German conductor (Vienna Philharmonic)
1902 - Vercors, [Jean Bruller], French writer (Le Silence de la Mer)
1903 - Giulio Natta, Italian chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1979)
1906 - Madeleine Carroll, England, actress (39 Steps, Secret Agent)
1906 - Nikos Ghika, artist
1907 - Dub Taylor, American actor (d. 1994)
1908 - Tex Avery, American cartoonist (d. 1980)
1908 - Leela Majumdar, Bengali writer (d. 2007)
1908 - Jean-Pierre Wimille, French race car driver (d. 1949)
1909 - Phyllis Fanny Primrose-Pechey Cradock, TV Chef
1909 - King Talal of Jordan (d. 1972)
1911 - Josef Smrkovsky, Czechoslovakia MP chairman
1911 - Tarō Okamoto, Japanese avant-garde artist (d. 1996)
1913 - George G Barker, English poet (Calamiterror, Anno Domini)
1913 - Hermann Lenz, writer
1914 - Robert Alda, NYC, actor (Dan Lewis-Supertrain, By Popular Demand)
1914 - Witold Rowicki, composer
1915 - Elisabeth Eybers, South Afr/Dutch poetess (That Woman & Other Verses)
1915 - Pran Nath Chhuttani, physician/teacher
1916 - Mordecai Seter, composer
1916 - Ross Gregory, cricketer (Australian batsman 1936-37, died in WW II)
1917 - Robert Taft Jr, (Sen-R-Oh)
1918 - Edwin Charles "Preacher" Roe, baseball pitcher (Bkln Dodgers)
1918 - Otis R Bowen, US Sec of Health & Human Services (1985-89)
1918 - Theodore [Hamilton] Sturgeon, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, It, Caviar)
1919 - Beppie Nooij, actress/director (Bluejackets-Rooie Sien)
1919 - Luc-Andre Marcel, composer
1919 - Mason Adams, NYC, actor (Charlie Hume-Lou Grant, Deadliest Season)
1920 - A W [Rie] Kuiper-Mastenbroek, Neth, swimmer (Olympics-3 gold-1936)
1920 - Antony Kearey, TV producer
1920 - Tony Randall, [Leonard Rosenberg], Tulsa Ok, actor (Felix-Odd Couple)
1920 - Danny Gardella, American baseball player (d. 2005)
1920 - Lucjan Wolanowski, Polish journalist, writer and traveller (d. 2006)
1921 - Betty Hutton, Battle Creek Mich, actress (Greatest Show on Earth)
1922 - Bill Johnston, cricket pace bowler (mighty Australian lefty post-war)
1922 - Margaret Leighton, Birmingham England, actress (Astonished Heart)
1924 - Mark Bucci, NYC, composer (1959 Arts & Letters Award)
1924 - Noboru Takeshita, Japanese PM (1987-89)
1925 - Everton Weekes, West Indian cricket player
1925 - Frank Henry Copplestone, TV executive
1925 - James Moody, US, jazz saxophonist/orchestra leader
1926 - Arsene Souffriau, composer
1926 - Cynthia Stone, Peoria Ill, actress (That Wonderful Guy, Ad Libbers)
1926 - Konstantin P Feoktistov, Voronezh, cosmonaut (Voskhod 1)
1927 - Donald Gramm, Milwaukee Wisconsin, bass-baritone
1927 - Tom Kennedy, Louisville KY, quiz host (You Don't Say, Name That Tune)
1928 - Aldonis Kalnins, composer
1928 - Anatoli Vassilyevich Filipchenko, Russia, cosmonaut (Soyuz 7, 16)
1928 - Antione "Fats" Domino, NO LA, rhythm & blues pianist (Blueberry Hill)
1928 - Everton Weekes, cricketer (one of the 3 W's)
1928 - Monique Leyrac, French Canadian singer and actress
1930 - Lazar Berman, Leningrad Russia, pianist (Budapest 3rd place-1956)
1931 - Francisco Kroepfl, composer
1931 - Robert D Novak, Joliet Ill, news reporter (CNN-Evans & Novak)
1931 - Ally MacLeod, Scottish footballer and manager (d. 2004)
1932 - Johnny Cash, Kingsland Ark, country singer (I Hear the Train Coming)
1933 - Godfrey Cambridge, NYC, actor (Cotton comes to Harlem)
1933 - James Goldsmith, Paris France, corporate raider (Referendum Party)
1934 - Ron Gaunt, cricketer (Australian fast bowler late 50s early 60s)
1934 - Robert Novak, American political columnist
1936 - Eduard Ivanovich Buinovski, cosmonaut
1936 - Manmohan Desai, filmmaker
1937 - Hagood Hardy, Canadian musician and composer (d. 1997)
1938 - Jack Knight, Somerville Miss, actor (Mr Shamley-James at 15)
1938 - Evagoras Pallikarides, Cypriot freedom fighter (d. 1957)
1939 - Josephine Tewson, English actress
1941 - Keith Thomson, cricketer (batted in 2 Tests NZ v India 1968)
1941 - Tony Ray-Jones, British photographer (d. 1972)
1942 - Adriaan van Dis, author/TV-host (Nathan Sid, In Africa)
1942 - Joop van den Ende, director (Alsmeer Studio)
1943 - Bill Duke, actor (Bird on a Wire, Predator)
1943 - Bob "Bear" Hite, California, vocalist (Canned Heat-Going Up the Country)
1943 - Bob van Reeth, Flemish architect
1943 - Paul Cotton, LA California, rocker (Poco)
1943 - Dante Ferretti, Italian art director and costume designer
1944 - Marilyn Michaels, comedienne (ABC Comedy Hour)
1945 - Mitch Ryder, rocker (& Detroit Wheels-Devil With the Blue Dress)
1945 - Peter Brock, Australian motorsports champion (d. 2006)
1945 - Giannis Ioannidis, Greek basketball coach and politician
1946 - Bobby "Bingo" Smith, NBA star (Cleveland Cavaliers)
1946 - Phyllis Eisenstein, US, sci-fi author (Sorcerer's Son, Born to Exile)
1946 - Ahmed H. Zewail, Egyptian chemist, Nobel laureate
1947 - Sandie Shaw [Sandra Goodrich], Dagenham, Essex, English rocker (Girl Don't Come)
1948 - Priscilla Lopez, Bronx NY, actress (In the Beginning, Kay O'Brien)
1949 - Emma Kirkby, British(?) soprano
1949 - Elizabeth George, American novelist
1950 - Jonathan Cain, Chicago, rock guitarist/keyboardist (Journey, Babys)
1953 - Bree Walker, news anchor (WNBC TV, KNBC TV)
1953 - Michael Bolton, Ct, rock vocalist (That's What Love Is All About)
1954 - John Bolger, actor (Capt Gabe McNamara-Another World)
1954 - Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Prime Minister of Turkey
1955 - Rupert Keegan, Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, England, Formula One racing car driver
1956 - Keisuke Kuwata, Japanese singer
1957 - Connie Carpenter-Phinney, Madison Wisc, 79k cyclist (Oly-gold-1984)
1957 - Keena Rothhammer, US, 800 m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-gold-1972)
1957 - David Muldrow Beasley, American politician
1958 - Jeff Fithian, actor (Trevor Nash-Please Don't Eat the Daisies)
1958 - Joe Fithian, actor (Tracey Nash-Please Don't Eat the Daisies)
1958 - Susan J Helms, Charlotte NC, Mjr USAF/Astronaut (STS 54, 64, 78)
1958 - Karen Berger, American comic book editor
1958 - Michel Houellebecq, French novelist
1958 - Greg Germann, American actor
1959 - Rolando Blackman, American basketball player
1960 - Jaz Coleman, British musician
1961 - Sophie Winter, actress (She's a Good Fighter)
1962 - Sheila Cornell, Encino Fla, softball infielder (Olympics-gold-96)
1964 - Mark Dacascos, American actor and martial artist
1965 - Alison Armitage, London England, actress (Acapulco HEAT)
1965 - Brittany York, London England, playmate (Oct, 1990)
1965 - Donald Narcisse, CFL receiver (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1965 - Matt Jackson, Birmingham Mich, Canadian Tour golfer (1994 Payless)
1966 - Jennifer Grant, actress (Celeste-Beverly Hills 90210)
1966 - Wesley Walls, NFL tight end (Carolina Panthers, SF 49ers, NO Saints)
1966 - Najwa Karam, Lebanese singer
1967 - David Howard, Sarasota FL, infielder (KC Royals)
1967 - Roman Fortin, NFL center (Atlanta Falcons)
1967 - Scott Service, US baseball pitcher (Cincinnati Reds)
1967 - Currie Graham, Canadian actor
1968 - Brendan Rogers, CFL linebacker (Toronto Argonauts)
1968 - Chris Green, NFL safety (Buffalo Bills)
1968 - J T Snow, Long Beach CA, infielder (NY Yankees, California Angels)
1968 - Leif Rohlin, Vasteras Swe, NHL defenseman (Vancouver Canucks)
1968 - René Groen, soccer player (SC Heerenveen)
1968 - Tim Commerford, American bass player (Rage Against the Machine)
1969 - Brandon Wilson, US baseball infielder (Chicago White Sox)
1969 - Hitoshi Sakimoto, Japanese composer
1970 - Ben Maruquin, Ventura California, field hockey sweeper (Olympics-96)
1970 - Katie O'Neill, LA California, actress (Together We Stand)
1970 - Meeno Peluce, Amsterdam Netherlands, actor (Bad News Bears)
1970 - Radka Zrubakova, Czech, tennis star
1970 - Sasha Danilovic, NBA guard (Miami Heat)
1971 - Erykah Badu, singer
1971 - Rick Lyle, defensive end/defensive tackle (NY Jets)
1971 - Max Martin, Swedish composer and producer
1971 - Hélène Ségara, French singer
1972 - Clint McDaniel, NBA guard (Sacramento Kings)
1972 - Scott Turner, NFL cornerback/safety (Washington Redskins)
1973 - Jenny Thompson, Danvers Mass, 400m freestyle (Olympics-gold-92, 96)
1973 - Marshall Faulk, NFL running back (Indianapolis Colts)
1973 - Ole Gunnar Solskjær, Norwegian retired footballer
1974 - Ron Fox, soccer player (Willem II)
1974 - Sébastien Loeb, French rally driver
1975 - Cindy Werley, Allentown PA, field hockey forward/midfielder (Oly-96)
1975 - Mike Wilson, Brampton, NHL defenseman (Buffalo Sabres)
1976 - Froso Spyrou, Miss Universe-Cyprus (1996)
1976 - Nikolaos Siranidis, Greek diver
1976 - Chad Urmston, American musician
1977 - Tim Thomas, NBA forward (Phila 76ers)
1977 - Greg Rikaart, American actor
1977 - Josh Towers, Major League Baseball player
1977 - Shane Williams, Welsh International Rugby Player
1978 - Abdoulaye Diagne-Faye, Senegalese footballer
1978 - Marc Hynes, British racing driver
1978 - John Tartaglia, Broadway performer and "Muppeteer"
1979 - Mariano Bainotti, Argentine racing driver
1979 - Pedro Mendes, Portuguese footballer
1979 - Corinne Bailey Rae, English singer
1979 - Shalim Ortiz, Puerto Rican singer/actor
1980 - Alex Fong, Hong Kong singer
1980 - Gary Majewski, Major League Baseball player
1981 - Kertus Davis, American NASCAR driver
1981 - Johnathan Wendel, American professional video gamer
1982 - Song Hye Kyo, South Korean model and actress
1983 - Kara Monaco, American model
1984 - Emmanuel Adebayor, Togolese footballer
1984 - Natalia Lafourcade, Mexican singer
1985 - Alexandria Hilfiger, American actress, daughter of Tommy Hilfiger
1986 - Makelele, Brazilian footballer
1986 - Crystal Kay, Japanese singer
1986 - Teresa Palmer, Australian model and actress
1987 - Juliet Simms, Guitarist and vocals for the band Automatic Loveletter
1993 - Taylor Dooley, American actress
1994 - Creason Carbo Moss, daughter of US actor Ronn Moss

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 26, 2013, 02:53:07 PM

This Day in History for 26th February


Famous Deaths

1076 - Godfried III, with the Hump, duke of Neth-Lutherian, murdered
1154 - Rogier II Guiscard, King of Sicily (1101-54), dies at 60
1200 - Symeon, former Serbian ruler and saint
1266 - Manfred, bastard son of Emperor Frederik II/king of Sicily, dies at the Battle of Benevento
1324 - Dino Compagni, Italian silk seller/poet/chronicler, dies
1360 - Roger Mortimer, 2nd Earl of March, English military leader (b. 1328)
1538 - Worp van Thabor, Frisian abbott of Thabor (Chronicon Frisiae), dies
1552 - Heinrich Faber, German composer
1561 - Jorge de Montemayor, Spanish writer
1577 - Erik XIV Wasa, King of Sweden (1560-69), dies at 43
1608 - John Still, English bishop
1630 - William Brade, composer, dies
1686 - Godefroi L Comte d'Estrades, French diplomat/marshal, dies at about 78
1723 - Thomas d'Urfey, English writer (b. 1653)
1726 - Maximilian II M Emanuel, elect of Bavaria/governor of Netherlands, dies
1766 - August Bernhard Valentin Herbing, composer, dies at 30
1770 - Francois Hanot, composer, dies at 72
1770 - Giuseppe Tartini, Italian composer/violinist, dies at 77
1802 - Esek Hopkins, American Revolutionary War admiral (b. 1718)
1810 - Johann Ernst Rembt, composer, dies at 60
1813 - Robert R Livingston, US diplomat (Decl of Independence), dies at 66
1815 - Prince Josias of Coburg, Austrian general (b. 1737)
1821 - Joseph de Maistre, Savoyard diplomat and writer (b. 1753)
1823 - John P Kemble, English actor/director (Covent Garden), dies at 66
1827 - David Moritz Michael, composer, dies at 75
1857 - Ole Andreas Lindeman, composer, dies at 88
1859 - Ferdinand Lukas Schubert, composer, dies at 64
1864 - Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, French Canadian politician (b. 1807)
1870 - Wyatt Outlaw, black leader of Union League in NC, lynched
1871 - Charles Niellon, Belgian brigade general, dies at 76
1883 - Alexandros Koumoundouros, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1817)
1889 - Karl Davydov, Russian cellist (b. 1838)
1901 - Chi-hsui, during Boxer Rebellion in China, beheaded
1901 - Hsu Cheng-yu, during Boxer Rebellion in China, beheaded
1903 - Richard J Gatling, US inventor (Gatling Gun), dies at 84
1906 - Manuel Fernandez Caballero, composer, dies at 70
1913 - Felix Draeseke, composer, dies at 77
1920 - Ludwig Rubiner, writer, dies at 38
1921 - Carl Menger, Austrian economist, dies at 81
1926 - Frederik Pijper, Dut vicar/church historian (Monasteries), dies at 67
1926 - Peter Erasmus Lange-Muller, composer, dies at 75
1930 - Raffaele Merry del Val, Spanish Cardinal, dies at 64
1931 - Otto Wallach, German chemist (Nobel 1910), dies at 83
1933 - Antonio Nicolau, Spanish composer/conductor, dies at 74
1933 - Princess Thyra, daughter of Christian IX of Denmark (b. 1853)
1941 - Jan Keizer, Zaanse February striker, shot to death
1943 - Theodor Eicke, Nazi official (b. 1892)
1947 - Ben Webster, actor (Old Curiosity Shop), dies at 82
1947 - Heinrich Häberlin, Swiss politician, member of the Federal Council (b. 1868)
1950 - Harry Lauder (Maclennan), Scottish comic/singer, dies at about 75
1953 - Elisabeth "Ilse" Kuyper, Dutch/US (opera)composer, dies
1954 - William R Inge, English theologist/philosopher, dies at 93
1956 - Herman Courtens, Belgian baron/painter, dies at 72
1959 - Lou Costello, actor (Abbott & Costello), dies at 52
1960 - Aleksandar Belic, Swedish linguist, dies at 83
1961 - Karl Albiker, German sculptor (Problem of the Plastic), dies at 83
1961 - Mohammed V, ibn Yusuf, sultan/King of Morocco, dies at 51
1962 - Carl Emil Theodor Ehrenberg, composer, dies at 83
1963 - Artturi A Leinonen, Fin journalist/politician (Prophet), dies at 74
1965 - Jimmie Lee Jackson, civil rights activist, dies of injuries
1966 - Minerva Urecal, actress (Peter Gunn, Adv of Tugboat Annie), dies at 71
1966 - Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Indian freedom fighter and writer (b. 1883)
1967 - Harry McNaughton, comedian (It Pays to be Ignorant), dies at 70
1968 - Eric Feldary, actor (16 Fathoms Deep), dies of burns at 55
1969 - Karl Jaspers, German psychiatrist/philosopher, dies at 86
1969 - Levi Eshkol, [Sjkolnik], premier (Israel), dies at 73
1970 - Ethel Leginska, composer, dies at 83
1971 - Edward van der Merwe, cricket keeper (S Afr in 2 Tests in 30's), dies
1971 - Fernandel, [Contandin], French actor (Death of Champion), dies at 67
1971 - Joseph Berg, composer, dies at 43
1971 - Joseph Desire Fernandel, comedian, dies of cancer at 67
1971 - Tullio Carminati, actor (Roman Holiday, Moulin Rouge), dies at 76
1972 - Tom Manders, Dutch cabaret artist (Dorus), dies at 50
1973 - Mary Finney, actress (Honestly Celeste), dies at 68
1977 - Bukka White, rocker, dies at 43
1977 - Maxime Jacob, composer, dies at 71
1981 - FC Terborgh, [Reijnier Flaes], lawyer/writer (Turkish War), dies at 79
1981 - Howard Hanson, US composer/conductor (Nordic), dies at 84
1981 - Munabi, assistant to Uganda president Obote, murdered
1981 - Robert Aickman, English writer and conservationist (b. 1914)
1982 - Gabor Szabo, Hungarian jazz pianist (Perfect Circle), dies at 45
1989 - Roy Eldridge, American musician (b. 1911)
1990 - Cornell Gunther, US musician (Coasters, Poison Ivy), dies at 53
1990 - Leslie Ames, cricketer (47 Tests, 2434 runs 8 centuries), dies
1990 - Maurine Stuart, Zen teacher (head of Cambridge Buddhist Association), dies
1990 - Scott Jarvis, musician (Great Expectationa), dies
1991 - Slim Gaillard [Bulee], American Jazz singer/songwriter, dies at 75
1992 - Gerrit Schulte, "Crazy Cyclist", Dutch 6-days bicyclist, dies at 76
1992 - Jean R Yawkey, owner (Boston Red Sox), dies of a stroke at 83
1992 - S I Hayakawa, (Sen-R-California), dies of a stroke at 85
1993 - Constance Ford, US actress (Another World, Burden Hunt), dies at 64
1993 - Fletcher Knebel, author (7 Days in May), commits suicide at 81
1993 - Mark Kolthoff, Dutch painter/photographer, dies at 92
1994 - Avery Fisher, US audio manufacturer (1st hi-fi), dies at 87
1994 - Leopold "Hans" Kohr, Austrian social philosopher, dies at 84
1994 - William "Bill" M Hicks, comedian, dies at 32
1996 - Audrey Angers, charity pioneer
1996 - Daniel John Chapman Cunningham, physiologist, dies at 76
1997 - David Doyle, actor (Charlie's Angels), dies at 67
1997 - Giuseppe 'Nuccio' Bertone, car Designer, dies at 82
1998 - J T Walsh, actor (Good Morning Vietnam), dies at 54
2000 - George L. Street III American Navy Submariner and Medal of Honor recipient.(b. 1913)
2001 - Arturo Uslar Pietri, Venezuelan writer (b. 1906)
2002 - Lawrence Tierney, American actor (b. 1919)
2003 - Christian Goethals, Belgian racing driver (b. 1928)
2004 - Shankarrao Chavan, Indian politician (b. 1920)
2004 - Adolf Ehrnrooth, Finnish general (b. 1905)
2004 - Boris Trajkovski, President of the Republic of Macedonia (b. 1956)
2005 - Jef Raskin, American computer scientist (b. 1943)
2008 - Buddy Miles, American drummer (Band of Gypsies; b. 1947)
2008 - Dick Fletcher, Meteorologist (b.1942)
2008 - Glory Mukwati, Zimbabwean politician
2009 - Wendy Richard, English actress (b. 1943)
2009 - Norm Van Lier, Basketball player and broadcaster (b. 1947)
2009 - Johnny Kerr, Basketball player and Chicago Bulls broadcaster (b. 1932)
2010 - Nujabes, Japanese Hip Hop producer and inspiration to many around the world.
2011 - Arnošt Lustig, Czech writer (b. 1926)
2011 - James A. McClure, American politician (b. 1924)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 27, 2013, 06:48:53 PM

This Day in History for 27th February


Historical Events

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US President Abraham Lincoln              31st US President Herbert Hoover          Spanish Dictator Francisco Franco

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Singer & Cultural Icon Elvis Presley        37th US President Richard Nixon        Pop Singer & Beatle Paul McCartney

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Olympic Sprinter and Long jumper         Golfer Tiger Woods
         Carl Lewis


837 - 15th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
1526 - Saxony & Hesse form League of Gotha (league of Protestant princes)
1531 - Evangelical German monarchy/towns form Schmalkaldische Union
1557 - 1st Russian Embassy arrives in London
1563 - William Byrd is appointed organist at Lincoln Cathedral
1594 - Henri IV crowned king of France
1626 - Yuan Chonghuan is appointed Governor of Liaodong, after he led the Chinese into a great
           victory against the Manchurians under Nurhaci.
1665 - Battle at Elmina, Gold Coast: Vice-adm De Ruyter beats English
1667 - Abraham Crijnssen conquerors Fort Willoughby (Zeelandia), Suriname
1670 - Jews expelled from Austria by order of Leopold I
1678 - Earl of Shaftesbury freed out of London Tower
1696 - English/Welsh nobles lay down Oath of Association
1700 - Pacific Island of New Britain discovered
1713 - French troops bomb Willemstad Curacao
1801 - Washington DC placed under Congressional jurisdiction
1803 - Great fire in Bombay, India
1813 - 1st federal vaccination legislation enacted
1813 - Congress authorizes use of steamboats to transport mail
1814 - Ludwig von Beethovens 8th Symphony in F, premieres
1816 - Dutch regain Suriname
1827 - 1st Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans
1844 - Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti (National Day)
1854 - Composer Robert Schumann saved from suicide attempt in Rhine
1860 - Abraham Lincoln makes a speech at Cooper Union in the city of New York that is largely
           responsible for his election to the Presidency.
1861 - Russians shoot at Poles protesting Russian rule of Poland in Castle Square, Warsaw
1861 - US Congress authorizes 1st stamped newspaper wrappers for mailing
1864 - 6th & last day of battle at Dalton, Georgia (about 600 casualties)
1864 - Near Andersonville GA, rebels open a new POW camp "Camp Sumpter"
1865 - Civil War skirmish near Sturgeon, Missouri
1869 - John Menard is 1st black to make a speech in Congress
1871 - Meeting of Alabama claims commission
1872 - Charlotte Ray, 1st Black woman lawyer, graduated Howard University
1873 - Dutch socialist Samuel van Wooden demands law against child labor
1874 - Baseball 1st played in England, at Lord's Cricket Grounds
1877 - US Electoral College declares R Hayes winner presidential election
1879 - Constantine Fahlberg discovers saccharin (artificial sweetener)
1881 - Battle at Amajuba, S Afr: Boers vs Brit army under Gen Colley
1883 - Oscar Hammerstein patents 1st cigar-rolling machine
1890 - D Needham & P Kerrigan box 100 rounds (6 h 39 m), SF; match is draw
1900 - Battle at Pietershoogte
1900 - Boer General Cronjé surrenders to English in Pardenberg, South-Africa
1900 - British Labour Party forms
1901 - NL Rules Committee decrees that all fouls are to count as strikes except after two strikes
1906 - France & Britain agree to joint control of New Hebrides
1908 - Sacrifice fly adopted (repealed in 1931, reinstated 1954)
1908 - Star #46 was added to US flag for Oklahoma
1912 - Lord Kitchener opens Khartoum-El Obeid (Nyala) railway
1919 - 1st public performance of Holst's "Planets"
1919 - American Association for Hard of Hearing forms (NYC)
1921 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld Blanchard
1921 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Sherwin Badger
1921 - The International Working Union of Socialist Parties is founded in Vienna.
1922 - Commerce Sec Herbert Hoover convenes 1st National Radio Conference
1922 - G B Shaw's "Back to Methusaleh I/II," premieres in NYC
1922 - Supreme Court unanimously upheld 19th amend woman's right to vote
1924 - Belgium's Theunis government falls
1925 - Hitler's resurrects NSDAP political party in Munich
1925 - Test Cricket debut of Clarrie Grimmett, who took 5-45 & 6-37 v England
1927 - For 2nd Sunday in a row golfers in SC arrested for violating Sabbath
1929 - Turkey signs Litvinov-pact
1930 - Bouvet Island declared a Norwegian dependency
1932 - Explosion in coal mine Boissevain, Virginia, USA (38 dead)
1933 - German parliament building, Reichstag, destroyed by fire
1933 - Jean Genet's "Intermezzo," premieres in Paris
1933 - Nazis set fire to German parliament, blame it on Communists
1936 - Willy den Ouden swims world record 100 m free style (1:04.6)
1937 - Bradman scores 169 in 5th Test Cricket v England in 223 minutes
1938 - Britain & France recognize Franco government in Spain
1939 - Belgian government of Pierlot falls
1939 - English Spook house Borley Rectory destroyed in a fire
1939 - France recognizes Franco's regime in Spain
1939 - Supreme Court outlaws sit-down strikes
1940 - Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14
1942 - 1st transport of French Jews to nazi-Germany
1942 - Battle of Java Sea began 13 US warships sunk-2 Japanese
1942 - J S Hey discovers radio emissions from Sun
1943 - The Smith Mine #3 in Bearcreek, Montana, explodes, killing 74 men.
1943 - The Rosenstrasse protest starts in Berlin
1945 - Battle of US 94 Infantry
1945 - Lebanon declares Independence.
1946 - 4th "Road" film, "Road to Utopia" premieres (NYC)
1947 - Paul-Emile Victor French polar expeditions organized
1949 - Chaim Weizmann becomes 1st Israeli president
1950 - General Chiang Kai-shek elected president of Nationalist China
1951 - 22nd amendment ratified, limiting president to 2 terms
1955 - Betty Jameson wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Open
1956 - Elvis Presley's releases "Heartbreak Hotel"
1956 - Female suffrage in Egypt
1957 - Mao's speech "On Correct Handling of Contradictions Among People"
1957 - Premiere of only prime-time network TV show beginning with an "X": "Xavier Cugat Show" on
           NBC (until X-Files)
1958 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1959 - Chicago Cards trade running back Ollie Matson to LA Rams for 9 players
1959 - Boston Celtic Bob Cousy sets NBA record with 28 assists Boston Celtics score 173 points
           against Minneapolis Lakers
1960 - Oil pipe line from Rotterdam to Ruhrgebied opens
1960 - US Olympic Ice Hockey Team beats USSR 3-2 en route to gold medal
1961 - The first congress of the Spanish Trade Union Organisation is inaugurated.
1962 - South-Vietnam pres Ngo Dinh Diem's palace bombed, 1st US killed
1963 - Mickey Mantle of NY Yankees sign a baseball contract worth $100,000
1964 - "What Makes Sammy Run?" opens at 84th St Theater NYC for 540 perfs
1964 - The government of Italy asks for help to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over.
1965 - "High Spirits" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 375 performances
1965 - Dutch Marijnen government resigns
1965 - France performs Underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria
1966 - Ice Dance Championship at Davos won by Diane Towler/Bernard Ford GRB
1966 - Ice Pairs Championship at Davos won by Belousova & Protopopov of URS
1966 - Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Davos won by Peggy Fleming of US
1966 - Men's Figure Skating Championship in Davos won by Emmerich Danzer AUT
1967 - Antigua & St Christopher-Nevis become associated states of UK
1967 - Dominica gains independence from England
1967 - Rio de la Plata Treaty
1969 - Gen Hafez al-Assad becomes head of Syria via milt coup
1969 - President Nixon visits West-Berlin
1970 - NY Times (falsely) reports US army has ended domestic surveillance
1971 - Doctors in the first Dutch abortion clinic (the Mildredhuis in Arnhem) start to perform aborti
           provocati.
1972 - Pres Nixon & Chinese Premier Chou En-lai issued Shanghai Communique
1973 - American Indian Movement occupy Wounded Knee in South Dakota
1973 - Dick Allen signs a record $675,000 3-yr contract with White Sox
1973 - Members of American Indian Movement begin occupation of Wounded Knee
1973 - Pope Paul VI publishes constitution motu proprio Quo aptius
1973 - White Sox slugger Dick Allen signs 3-year $750,000 contract
1974 - "People" magazine begins sales
1974 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1975 - CDU-politician Peter Lorentz kidnapped in West Berlin
1975 - House of Reps pass $21.3 billion anti-recession tax-cut bill
1976 - Final meeting between Mao tse Tung & Richard Nixon
1977 - Judy Rankin wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic
1977 - Keith Richards gets suspended sentence for heroin possession, Canada
1978 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1980 - 22nd Grammy Awards: What a Fool Believe, Streisand-Diamond duet
1980 - Israel & Egypt exchange ambassadors
1980 - Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF wins elections in Zimbabwe
1980 - Terrorists occupies Dominican embassy in Bogota
1981 - Greatest passenger load on a commercial airliner-610 on Boeing 747
1981 - Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder record "Ebony & Ivory"
1982 - Dan Issel (NBA-Nuggets), hits on 63rd consecutive free throw
1982 - Earl Anthony becomes 1st pro bowler to win more than $1 million
1982 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1982 - Wayne Williams found guilty of murdering 2 of 28 blacks in Atlanta
1983 - Eamonn Coghlan set indoor mile record of 3:49.78
1983 - Jan Stephenson wins Tucson Conquistadores LPGA Golf Tournament
1984 - Carl Lewis jumps world record indoor (8,675 m)
1984 - WRC-AM in Washington DC changes call letters to WWRC
1984 - Worker's union leader Billy Nair freed in South Africa
1985 - Farmers converge in Washington to demand economic relief
1985 - Mauritania's new constitutional charter published
1985 - US dollar is worth Ÿ3.9355 (Netherlands)
1986 - The United States Senate allows its debates to be televised on a trial basis.
1987 - "Washington Week In Review," 20th anniversary on PBS
1987 - Donald Regan resigned as White House chief of staff
1987 - Mike Conley triple jumps world indoor record (17.76m)
1987 - NCAA cancels SMU's entire 1987 football schedule for gross violations of NCAA rules
           regarding athletic corruption
1988 - Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Orient Leasing Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open
1988 - Bonnie Blair (US) wins Olympic 500m speed skating in record 39.1
1988 - Gulfstream G-IV goes around the world 36:08:34
1988 - Katarina Witt (GDR) wins 2nd consecutive Olympic figure skating
1989 - German war criminals Aus der Funten/Fischer, freed in Holland
1989 - Venezuela is rocked by the riots of Caracazo.
1990 - Exxon Corp & Exxon Shipping are indicted on 5 criminal counts (Valdez)
1990 - No one elected to Hall of Fame for 2nd time in 3 years
1991 - Ben Elton's "Silly Cow," premieres in London
1991 - Gulf War ends after Iraqi troops retreated & Kuwait is re-taken by the US
1991 - Noureddine Morcelli set 1500m mark at 3:34:16
1991 - Singer James Brown is released from prison
1991 - US led allied 6 week war with Iraq ends
1992 - Larry Smith, named 9th Commissioner of the CFL
1992 - Tiger Woods, 16, becomes youngest PGA golfer in 35 years
1993 - PBA National Championship Won by Ron Palombi Jr
1994 - 17th Winter Olympic games closes in Lillehammer, Norway
1994 - Maronite church near Beirut bombed, 10 killed
1995 - Car bomb explodes in Zakho, North-Iraq (54-80 killed)
1996 - Mark Waugh scores 126 in World Cup against India
1997 - "Last Night of Ballyhoo" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC
1997 - Singer Sade (Helen Folasade), arrest in Jamaica for disobeying a cop
1998 - Apple discontinues developing Newton computer
1998 - FBI arrests 10 most wanted suspected serial killer Tony Ray Amati
1998 - NE Patriot David Meggett arrested in Toronto on sex assault charges
1998 - Britain's House of Lords agree's to end 1,000 years of male preference by giving a monarch's first-born daughter the same claim to the throne as any first born son
1999 - Olusegun Obasanjo becomes Nigeria's first elected president since mid-1983.
1999 - Korea International School is founded by Soon-Il Chung. It is currently directed by Ann
           Clapper.
2002 - Godhra train burning, a Muslim mob kills 59 Hindu pilgrims returning from Ayodhya;
2002 - Ryanair Flight 296 catches fire in London Stansted Airport. Subsequent investigations criticize Ryanair's handling of the evacuation.
2003 - Fred Rogers, host of TV's "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood" dies at age 74
2003 - Former Bosnian Serb leader Biljana Plavsic is sentenced by the U.N. tribunal in The Hague,
           Netherlands, to 11 years in prison
2003 - Rowan Williams is enthroned as the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury in the Anglican church.
2004 - Former BPMC general secretary Ordrick Samuel launches a new party in Barbuda, Barbudans
           for a Better Barbuda.
2004 - A bombing of a Superferry by Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines worst terrorist attack kills 116.
2007 - The general strike against Lansana Conté in Guinea ends.
2007 - The Chinese Correction: the Shanghai Stock Exchange falls 9%, the largest drop in 10 years.
2010 - Central Chile is hit with an 8.8 magnitude earthquake.
2012 - Wikileaks begins disclosing 5 million emails from private intelligence company Stratfor

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 27, 2013, 06:50:49 PM

This Day in History for 27th February


Famous Weddings

2004 - Singer-actress Solange Knowles (18) weds Texas Southern University football player Daniel
           Smith at Old Bahama Bay Resort in Grand Bahama Island
2010 - "Supernatural" actress Genevieve Cortese (29) weds co-star actor Jared Padaelcki (27) in Sun
            Valley, Idaho

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 27, 2013, 06:59:33 PM

This Day in History for 27th February


Famous Birthdays

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Author John Steinbeck (1902)                Actress Elizabeth Taylor (1932)                   Singer Josh Groban (1981)


272 - Constantine I, Roman emperor (306-337), adopted Christianity (d. 337)
1539 - Franciscus Raphelengius, Dutch book publisher
1622 - Rembrandt Carel Fabritius, Dutch painter
1649 - Johann Philipp Krieger, composer
1691 - Edward Cave, English editor and publisher (d. 1754)
1702 - Johann Valentin Gorner, composer
1711 - Constantine Mavrocordatos, Prince of Wallachia and Prince of Moldavia (d. 1769)
1745 - Silverius Muller, composer
1746 - Gian Francesco Fortunati, composer
1759 - Johann Carl Friedrich Rellstab, composer
1779 - Thomas Hazlehurst, English soap and alkali manufacturer (d. 1842)
1784 - Elias Annes Borger, Dutch theologist/poet (To the Rhine)
1784 - Job Plimpton, composer
1792 - Don Joaquin B F Espartero, Spanish adventurer/fieldmarshal
1802 - William George Frederick Cavendish Bentinck, Lord George Bentinck
1807 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Portland Maine, poet (Hiawatha)
1811 - [Catherine] Mildred Lee, daughter of US general Robert E Lee
1822 - Eugene Gautier, composer
1823 - Ferdinand Van Derveer, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1892
1823 - William Buel Franklin, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1903
1827 - Richard W Johnson, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1897
1831 - Hiram Bond Everest, American cofounder of The Vacuum Oil Company (d. 1913)
1832 - Alfred Pollard Edward, Civil War journalist, died in 1872
1835 - Charles Cartuyvels, Belgian pulprit orator
1835 - Richard Garnett, English author (Ananda the Miracle Worker)
1841 - [Eleanor] Agnes Lee, daughter of US general Robert E Lee
1846 - Joaquin Valverde, composer
1847 - Ellen Alice Terry, Coventry Engl, actress/director (Imperial Theatre)
1848 - Charles Hubert H Parry, England, musicologist/composer (Jerusalem)
1850 - Henry Edwards Huntington, US, railroad exec
1861 - Rudolph Steiner, Kraljevic Aust, founder (doctrine of anthroposophy)
1862 - Anastasios Metaxas, Greek architect and shooter (d. 1937)
1867 - Irving Fisher, US economist (compensating dollar)
1867 - Wilhelm Peterson-Berger, composer
1869 - Alice Hamilton, physician/writer (workmen's compensation laws)
1870 - Louis Coerne, composer
1877 - Walter Briggs, Sr., American entrepreneur and sports team owner (d. 1952)
1878 - Alvan T. Fuller, 50th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1958)
1879 - Jose Sancho Marraco, composer
1881 - Luitzen [Bertus] Brouwers, Dutch mathematician
1881 - Sveinn Bjornsson, 1st president of Iceland (1944-52)/poet (Figur ild)
1886 - Hugo L Black, Ala, (Sen-D-Ala)/78th Supreme Court justice (1937-71)
1887 - James D Innes, English painter
1888 - Lotte Lehmann, Perleberg Germany, soprano (Fidello)
1888 - Roberto Assagioli, Italian psychiatrist (d. 1974)
1888 - Earl Caddock, American professional wrestler (d. 1950)
1890 - Freddie Keppard, American jazz musician (d. 1933)
1891 - David Sarnoff, US, radio/TV pioneer/CEO (RCA)
1891 - Georges E Migot, French composer
1891 - Anne Samson, oldest-ever nun documented (d. 2004)
1892 - William Demarest, St Paul Minn, actor (Uncle Charlie-My 3 Sons)
1893 - Joseph Messner, composer
1893 - Ralph Linton, US cultural anthropologist (Tree of Culture)
1894 - Robert-Lucien Siohan, composer
1895 - Edward Brophy, actor (Champ, Dumbo, Great Guy, Cameraman, Doughboys)
1897 - Bernard F Lyot, French astronomer (Lyot filter)
1897 - G Paul H Schuitema, graphic designer/photographer (System-O-Color)
1897 - Marian Anderson, American contralto (d. 1993)
1898 - Allison Danzig, sports writer (Tennis Pictorial History)
1898 - Rutkowski Bronislaw, composer
1899 - Charles H Best, Maine, physiologist/co-discoverer (Insulin)
1899 - Ian Keith, Boston MA, actor (Rochefort-3 Musketeers)
1899 - Sulo Nikolai Salonen, composer
1899 - Charles Best, Canadian medical scientist (d. 1978)
1901 - Marino Marini, Italian sculptor/painter
1902 - Ethelda Bleibtrey, 100m/300m US swimmer (Olympics-3 gold-1920)
1902 - Gene Sarazen, Harrison NY, PGA golfer (Masters 1935, US Open 1922, 32)
1902 - John Steinbeck, Salinas California, author (Grapes of Wrath-Nobel 1962)
1903 - Reginald Gardiner, Wimbledon England, actor (Great Dictator)
1903 - Grethe Weiser, German actress (d. 1970)
1904 - James Thomas Farrell, US, author (Studs Lonigan trilogy)
1904 - Renaat Verheijen, Flemish actor/director (Innocent Heart)
1904 - Yulii Borisovich Khariton, Russian physicist (d. 1996)
1904 - André Leducq, French cyclist (d. 1980)
1904 - Chick Fullis, American baseball player (d. 1946)
1905 - Charles de Keukeleire, Belgian director (Evil Eye)
1905 - Franchot Tone, Niagara Falls NY, actor (Dr Freeland-Ben Casey)
1906 - Alexander Matheson, NZ cricket pace bowler (2 Tests 1930-31)
1906 - H Algernon F "Algy" Rumbold, English diplomat (South Africa/Tibet)
1907 - Gerhard Alexander, [Veldheer], Dutch actor (Prince Willem of Orange)
1907 - Mildred Bailey, American singer (d. 1951)
1909 - Elisabeth Welch, singer (Song of Freedom, Over the Moon)
1910 - Joan Bennett, Palasades NJ, actress (Little Women, Disraeli)
1910 - Peter De Vries, Chicago, author (Reuben Reuben, Prick of Noon)
1910 - Ted Horn, American race car driver (d. 1948)
1910 - Clarence "Kelly" Johnson, American aircraft engineer (Lockheed Skunk Works; d. 1990)
1912 - Kusumagraj, Indian writer (d. 1999)
1913 - Frank Allaun, British MP (L)
1913 - Irwin Shaw, US, novelist (Rich Man Poor Man)
1913 - Kazimierz Sabbat, Polish president (d. 1989)
1915 - Arthur Gilson, Belgian attorney/minister of Defense (1958-..)
1917 - John Connally, (Gov-D/R-Texas), shot in Kennedy motorcade
1919 - Lawrence Durrell, writer
1919 - Roman Haubenstock-Ramati, composer
1920 - David Vere Bendall, former diplomat
1920 - Jose Melis, Havana Cuba, orchestra leader (Jack Paar Program)
1920 - Reg Simpson, cricketer (prolific England opener 1948-55)
1921 - Andras Szollosy, composer
1921 - Michael Fox, US, actor (Quincy, Dallas, Bold & the Beautiful)
1922 - Mervyn Jones, author (Nobody's Fault, 5 Hungarian Writers)
1922 - Hans Rookmaaker, Dutch professor and art historian (d. 1977)
1923 - Dexter Gordon, US, tenor saxophonist/actor (Connection)
1923 - Viktor Kalabis, composer
1924 - M M Shearer, former Lord Lieutenant of Shetland
1924 - Norman Marshall, cricketer (brother of Roy, one Test for WI 1955)
1925 - Hugh Leggatt, art dealer
1925 - Michael Kaye, director (City of London Festival)
1925 - Richard AFM Auwerda, Dutch journalist/writer
1925 - Samuel Dash, American Congressional counsel (d. 2004)
1926 - Peter Emery, British MP
1926 - David H. Hubel, Canadian neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate
1927 - Guy Mitchell, [Albert George Cernik], Detroit, Michigan, American singer and actor (Red
           Garters, 3 Redheads from Seattle) (d. 1999)
1927 - Lord Belhaven & Stenton
1927 - Michael Butler, Pro-Provost/chairman (Royal College of Art)
1927 - Lynn Cartwright, American actress (d. 2004)
1928 - Ariel Sharon, former Prime Minister of Israel
1929 - Djalma Santos, Brazilian footballer
1929 - Jack Gibson, Australian rugby league footballer and coach (d. 2008)
1930 - Joanne Woodward, Thomasville Ga, actress (3 Faces of Eve, Rachel)
1930 - Lieux Dressler, actress (Alice Grant-General Hospital)
1930 - Paul von Ragué Schleyer, American chemist
1930 - Peter Stone, American writer (d. 2003)
1931 - Andrew Sloan, Chief Constable (Strathcourt)
1932 - Dolf Zwerver, Dutch painter
1932 - Elizabeth Taylor, London, English-American actress (Father of the Bride, Butterfield 8,
           Cleopatra) (d. 2011)
1932 - Lord Young of Graffham, CEO (Cables & Wireless)
1933 - 6th marquess of Bute, Scottish large landowner/bibliophile
1933 - Edward Lucie-Smith, poetry critic
1933 - Geoffrey Maitland Smith, CEO (Sears)
1933 - Malcolm Wallop, (Sen-R-WY, 1977- )
1933 - Raymond Berry, Texas, NFL hall of famer (Baltimore Colts)
1934 - Ralph Nader, Winsted Conn, consumer advocate (Unsafe at Any Speed)
1934 - Van Williams, Fort Worth Tx, actor (Green Hornet, Tycoon)
1934 - [Navarre] Scott Momaday, US author (House Made of Dawn, Pulitzer 1969)
1934 - Vincent Fourcade, French interior designer (d. 1992)
1934 - Van Williams, American actor
1935 - Alberto Remedios, opera/concert singer
1935 - Mirella Freni, Modena Italy, lyric soprano (Madame Butterfly)
1936 - Chuck Glaser, Spalding Neb, singer (Glaser Bros-Getting to Me Again)
1936 - Roger M Mahoney, Hollywood Ca, archbishop of Los Angeles (1985- )
1936 - Virginia Maskell, actress (Suspect, Doctor in Love, Man Upstairs)
1936 - Ron Barassi, Australian rules footballer
1937 - Barbara Babcock, Pasadena CA, actr (Dr Quinn, Dallas, Hill St Blues)
1937 - Donald MacKay, CEO (Scottish Enterprise)
1937 - L Jay Silvester, US, discus thrower (Olympic-silver-1972)
1937 - Viscount Head
1938 - Pascale Petit, PAris, actor (Code Name: Jaguar, End of Desire)
1939 - Antoinette Sibley, ballerina (Turning Point)
1939 - Kenzo Takada, Japanese director (Dream After Dream)
1939 - Lester King, cricketer (WI fast bowler, 2 Tests 1962-68, 9 wkts)
1939 - Peter Revson, auto racer (1971 Indianapolis pole winner)
1940 - Barbara Kelly, CEO (Scottish Consumer Council)
1940 - Howard Hesseman, Salem Or, actor (Dr Johnny Fever-WKRP, Head of Class)
1940 - Bill Hunter, Australian actor
1941 - Ian McGarry, general secretary (British Actors' Equity Association)
1941 - Paddy Ashton, New Delhi India, British MP (Soc/Lib Democrat)
1941 - Sandy Wilson
1942 - Charlayne Hunter-Gault, Due West SC, news reporter (McNeil-Lehrer)
1942 - Robert H. Grubbs, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1942 - Michel Forget, French Canadian actor
1943 - Mary Frann, St Louis Mo, actress (Joanna-Newhart, Days of Our Live)
1943 - Morten Lauridsen, American composer
1943 - Klaus Köste, Frankfurt, Germany, gymnast (Olympic Gold 1972- vault), (d. 2012)
1944 - Alan Fudge, Wichita Ks, actor (Man From Atlantis, Paper Dolls)
1944 - Graeme Pollock, cricketer (South African batting prodigy)
1944 - Roger Scruton, philosopher
1945 - Daniel Olbrychski, Poland, actor (La Truite)
1947 - Ashley Woodcock, cricketer (one Test Aust v NZ 1974, only knock 27)
1947 - Gidon Kremer, Riga Latvia, violinist (Tchaikovsky Prize 1970)
1947 - Marian G Klaren, Dutch mime/actress (Red Cabbage)
1948 - Eddie Gray, rock guitarist (Tommy James & Shondells-Crystal Blue)
1948 - Stephen Curtis, CEO (DVLA)
1950 - Franco Moschino, fashion Designer
1950 - Julia Neuberger, British Rabbi
1951 - Lee Atwater, Republican National Committee Chairman (1989-91)
1951 - Steve Harley, rocker (Come Up & See Me)
1952 - Dwight Elmo Jones, Houston Tx, basketball player (Olymp-silver-1972)
1952 - Henk Westbroek, Dutch singer (Good Cause)
1952 - Kevin Raleigh, rock vocalist/keyboardist (Michael Stanley Band)
1952 - Stathis Psaltis, Greek actor
1954 - Neal Schon, rock guitarist (Journey-Open Arms, Bad English)
1955 - Garry Christian, rocker
1955 - Sally Spencer, actress (M J McKinnon-Another World)
1955 - Peter Christopherson, English musician and video director
1957 - Timothy Spall, actor (1871, Life is Sweet, Crusoe, Remembrance)
1957 - Adrian Smith, heavy metal guitarist (Iron Maiden-Aces High)
1957 - Viktor Markin, Russian athlete
1957 - Danny Antonucci, Canadian animator
1958 - Naas Botha, South African rugby union footballer
1958 - Nancy Spungen, American murder victim of Sid Vicious (d. 1978)
1959 - Johnny Van Zant, American singer (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
1960 - Andres Gomez, Ecuador, tennis pro (Madrid Grand Prix-1990)
1960 - Bolik Dahan, Suriname singer/radio host (Radio KBC)
1960 - John van Grinsven, soccer player (MVV)
1960 - Paul Humphreys, rock synthesizer (OMD-Crush, Pacific Age)
1960 - Stoney Jackson, Richmond Va, actor (White Shadow, Insiders)
1961 - Grant Shaud, actor (Miles Silverburg-Murphy Brown)
1961 - James Worthy, NBA forward (LA Lakers, 1988 Playoff MVP)
1962 - Adam Baldwin, actor (Full Metal Jacket, My Bodyguard)
1962 - Grant Show, Detroit Mich, actor (Jack Hanson-Melrose Place)
1962 - Kory Tarpenning, Portland Oregon, pole vaulter
1962 - Veronica Ribot-Canales, Buenos Aires Argentina, US diver (Olympics-96)
1963 - Francesco Cancellotti, Italy, tennis star
1963 - Pär Nuder, Swedish politician
1964 - April Heinrichs, Littleton Colo, US women's soccer coach (Olympic-96)
1964 - Ewen Vernal, British pop bassist (Deacon Blue-Your Town)
1964 - Richard de Vries, soccer player (De Graafschap)
1965 - Sandra Cecchini, Bologna Italy, tennis star (1995 Warsaw doubles)
1965 - Noah Emmerich, American actor
1965 - Frank Peter Zimmermann, German violinist
1966 - Chris Howard, US baseball catcher (Seattle Mariners)
1966 - Gregg Rainwater, actor (Buck Cross-Young Riders)
1966 - Pete Smith, US baseball player (Atlanta Braves, NY Mets)
1966 - Donal Logue, Canadian actor
1967 - Dallas Eakins, Dade City, NHL defenseman (Winnipeg Jets)
1967 - Frantisek Kaberle, Brno CZE, hockey forward (Team Czech Rep)
1967 - Robert Kron, Brno Cze, NHL right wing (Hartford Whalers)
1968 - Loy Vaught, NBA forward (LA Clippers)
1968 - Mike Sullivan, Marshfield, NHL center (Calgary Flames)
1968 - Ron Cox, NFL linebacker (Chic Bears)
1969 - Greg Stevenson, Sherbrooke Quebec, rower (Olympics-11-92, 96)
1969 - Robert Massey, NFL cornerback (NY Giants)
1969 - Robert Molenaar, Dutch soccer player (FC Volendam)
1969 - Victoria Fair, Jackson Michigan, Miss Michigan-America (1991)
1969 - Willie Banks, US baseball pitcher (Chicago Cubs)
1969 - Brad Vander Ark, American musician
1970 - David White, NFL linebacker (Buffalo Bills)
1970 - Michael A. Burstein, American writer
1970 - Kent Desormeaux, American jockey
1970 - Matthias Lechner, German art director
1970 - Patricia Petibon, French opera singer
1971 - Ivan Robinson, Phila Pa, US boxer (Olympic-92)
1971 - Jaroslav Modry, Ceske-budejovice C, NHL defenseman (Ottawa Senators)
1971 - Rich Tylski, guard/center (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1971 - Derren Brown, British psychological illusionist
1971 - Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas, American singer (TLC)
1973 - "Pooh" Clark, rocker (High-5)
1973 - Terence Davis, WLAF wide receiver (London Monarchs)
1973 - Mark Taylor, Welsh rugby union footballer
1974 - Chris Dishman, guard (Arizona Cardinals)
1974 - Jim Maher, cricketer (Queensland lefty batsman victorious 1995 side)
1975 - Christina Nigra, actress (Out of This World)
1975 - Dana Marie Lane, Cheyenne Wyoming, Miss America-Wyoming (1996)
1975 - Duce Staley, running back (Philadelphia Eagles)
1975 - Marcus Robinson, wide receiver (Chicago Bears)
1975 - Prodromos Korkizoglou, Greek decathlete
1975 - Shelby Walker, American mixed martial artist (d. 2006)
1976 - Tony Gonzalez, tight end (KC Chiefs)
1977 - Lance Hoyt, American professional wrestler
1977 - Ji Sung, South Korean actor
1977 - James Wan, Australian film director
1978 - James Beattie, English footballer
1980 - Chelsea Clinton, daughter of President Clinton (1993-2001)
1980 - Bobby Valentino, American singer
1981 - Josh Groban, American singer
1981 - Elodie Ouédraogo, Belgian athlete
1983 - Hayley Angel Wardle, English actress
1983 - Kate Mara, American actress
1983 - Devin Harris, American basketball player
1984 - Antti Tuisku, Finnish singer
1984 - Lotta Schelin, Swedish female footballer
1984 - David Noel, American basketball player
1985 - Juliana Imai, Brazilian model
1985 - Diniyar Bilyaletdinov, Russian Footballer
1989 - Kelly Breeding, American singer from B5
1991 - Azeem Rafiq, Yorkshire CCC & English U15 captain
1994 - Hou Yifan, Chinese chess player

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 27, 2013, 07:01:18 PM

This Day in History for 27th February


Famous Deaths

1167 - Robert of Melun, English philosopher/bishop of Hereford, dies
1656 - Johan van Heemskerk, Dutch lawyer/writer/interpreter, dies
1659 - Henry Dunster, first President of Harvard College (b. 1609)
1699 - Charles Paulet, 1st Duke of Bolton, English politician (b. c. 1625)
1706 - John Evelyn, diarist, dies
1720 - Samuel Parris, English-born Puritan minister (b. 1653)
1731 - Angelo Predieri, composer, dies at 76
1733 - Johann Adam Birkenstock, composer, dies at 46
1735 - John Arbuthnot, physician/mathematician, dies
1779 - Jan Nepveu, Dutch gov-gen of Suriname (1769-79), dies at 59
1797 - Benvenuto Robbio San Rafaele, composer, dies at 61
1805 - Stefan Paluselli, composer, dies at 57
1844 - Nicholas Biddle, US lawyer/diplomat/statesman/financier, dies at 85
1852 - Joseph Drechsler, composer, dies at 69
1862 - Gabriele dell' Addolorata, patron of Ital Catholic youth, dies at 23
1881 - George Colley, British governor of Natal/general, dies in battle at 46
1887 - Alexander Porfir'yevich Borodin, Russian composer, dies at 53
1892 - Louis Vuitton, French luggage maker (b. 1821)
1913 - Adam Sedgwick, English zoologist (Peripatus), dies at 58
1920 - Alexandru D Xenopol, Romanian historian, dies at 72
1921 - Schofield Haigh, cricketer (Eng all-rounder 11 Tests 1898-1912), dies
1923 - Charles Francis Abdy Williams, composer, dies at 67
1929 - Manuel Manrique de Lara y Berry, composer, dies at 65
1932 - William Southam, Canadian newspaper publisher (b. 1843)
1936 - Ivan P Pavlov, Russian physiologist (reflexes, Nobel 1904), dies at 86
1936 - Joshua W. Alexander, U.S. Secretary of Commerce under Woodrow Wilson (b. 1852)
1939 - Nadezjda K Krupskaya, Russian revolutionary/wife of Lenin, dies at 70
1940 - Peter Behrens, German architect, dies
1941 - William D. Byron, U.S. Congressman (b. 1895)
1942 - Karel WFM Doorman, Dutch rear-admiral (Java Sea), KIA at 52
1943 - Kostis Palamas, Greek poet, twice nominated for the Nobel prize (b. 1859)
1945 - HJ Lochtman, Dutch chaplain/resistance fighter, dies in Bergen-Belsen
1947 - Mackinnon of Mackinnon, cricketer (Tests Eng v Aust 1879), dies at 89
1950 - Ivan Goll, writer, dies at 58
1952 - Theodorus Pangalos, Greek general/dictator 1926, dies at 74
1955 - Tom Howard, comedian (It Pays to be Ignorant), dies at 66
1956 - Frank Dailey, orchestra leader (Music at Meadowbrook), dies at 54
1956 - Gunther Ramin, German organist/composer/choir conductor, dies at 57
1958 - Harry Cohn, CEO (Columbia Pictures), dies of a heart attack
1960 - Adriano Olivetti, Italian engineer/manufacturer, dies at 58
1961 - Platt Adams, high jumper (Olympic-gold-1912), dies
1962 - Willie Best, actor (Charlie-My Little Margie), dies at 45
1964 - Orry-Kelly, Australian costume designer (b. 1897)
1966 - Minerva Urecal, actress (Apache Rose, Ghost Crazy), dies at 81
1968 - Johannes Tralow, writer, dies at 85
1968 - Ludvik Podest, composer, dies at 46
1968 - Frankie Lymon, American rock and roll/rhythm and blues singer (The Teenagers), dies at 25 of
           a heroin overdose
1969 - John Boles, actor (Stella Dallas, Curly Top), dies at 73
1969 - Marius Barbeau, French Canadian folklorist (b. 1883)
1970 - Robert Bruce Lockhart, diplomat/writer, dies
1970 - Marie Dionne, one of the French Canadian Dionne quintuplets (b. 1934)
1972 - Pat Brady, American actor and singer (b. 1914)
1973 - Lucijan Marija Skerjanc, Yugoslav composer/conductor, dies at 72
1974 - Pat Brady, Toledo Ohio, actor (Roy Rodgers Show), dies at 59
1975 - Neville Cardus, writer/cricketer, dies
1977 - Allison Hayes, actress (Attack of 50 Foot Woman), dies at 47
1977 - John Dickson Carr, American author (b. 1905)
1978 - Vadim Nikolayevich Salmanov, composer, dies at 65
1980 - George Tobias, actor (Abner Kravitz-Bewitched), dies at 78
1981 - Jacob H. Gilbert, American politician (b. 1920)
1982 - Malika A Sabirova, Russian dancer, dies at 39
1985 - David Huffman, actor (FIST, Jane Doe, Firefox, Onion Field), dies
1985 - Henry Cabot Lodge, (Sen-R)/diplomat, dies at 82
1985 - Pat J O'Malley, actor (My Favorite Martian, Maude), dies at 83
1986 - Jacques Plante, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1929)
1987 - Joan Greenwood, English actress (Gentle Sex, Bad Sister), dies at 65
1989 - Conrad Lorenz, Austria zoologist (Nobel 1973), dies
1989 - Joe Silver, actor (Rage, Rapid, Deathtrap, Shivers), dies at 66
1989 - Konrad Lorenz, Austria zoologist (Nobel 1973), dies at 85
1989 - Paul Oswald Ahnert, German astronomer (b. 1897)
1990 - Nahum Norbert Glatzer, Jewish-American scholar (b. 1903)
1991 - H J of Royen, manager Dutch (Concertgebouw Orch), dies at 52
1991 - Robert-Jan Akkerman, Dutch diplomat (to Tunis), murdered
1992 - Marinus Ruppert, Dutch trade union leader (CNV), dies at 80
1992 - S I Hayakawa, (Sen-California, 1977-83), dies at 85
1993 - Jose Duval, actor (Juan Valdez), dies at 72
1993 - Lillian Gish, US actress (Birth of a Nation), dies at 96
1994 - Harold Acton, English/Italian historian/art collector, dies at 84
1994 - Karl I Pelgrom, Dutch sculptor, dies at 66
1994 - Laurence "Bill" Craigie, jet pioneer, dies at 92
1994 - Leopold "Hans" Kohr, Austria social philosopher/economist, dies at 84
1995 - Bernard Cornfield, financier, dies at 67
1995 - Philip Sherrington, opus Dei Priest, dies at 51
1996 - Francois Chaumette, actor (They Never Slept, Christine), dies at 72
1996 - George Ian Murray, 10th Duke of Atholl, dies at 64
1996 - Pat Smythe, show jumper, dies at 67
1996 - Sylvia Williams, museum director/curator, dies at 60
1998 - J. T. Walsh, American actor (b. 1943)
2002 - Spike Milligan, Irish comedian (b. 1918)
2003 - John Lanchbery, English composer (b. 1923)
2003 - Fred Rogers, American children's television actor (b. 1928)
2004 - Paul Sweezy, American economist and editor (b. 1910)
2004 - Yoshihiko Amino, Japanese historians (b. 1928)
2006 - Otis Chandler, American newspaper publisher (b. 1927)
2006 - Robert Lee Scott, Jr., U.S. General, Flying Tiger, and author (b. 1908)
2006 - Linda Smith, British comedian (b. 1958)
2007 - Bobby Rosengarden, American jazz drummer (b. 1924)
2007 - Bernd von Freytag-Loringhoven, German soldier (b. 1914)
2008 - Myron Cope, American sports broadcaster (b. 1929)
2008 - William F. Buckley, Jr., American conservative author and commentator (b. 1925)
2008 - Boyd Coddington, American automobile designer (b. 1944)
2011 - Frank Buckles, last surviving American World War I veteran (b. 1901)
2011 - Duke Snider, American professional baseball player (b. 1926)
2012 - Tina Strobos, Dutch physician and resistor to Nazi occupation, dies from cancer at 91

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 28, 2013, 07:14:52 PM

This Day in History for 28th February


Historical Events

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Composer George Friedrich Handel    Co-founder of the Methodist Movement    First Secretary of the Communist
                                                                           John Wesley                                     Party of the Soviet
                                                                                                                              Union Nikita Khrushchev

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US President John F. Kennedy                     Golfer Jack Nicklaus                         37th US President Richard Nixon

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King of Pop Michael Jackson                    Comedian Jerry Seinfeld


202 BC - Coronation ceremony of Liu Bang as Emperor Gaozu of Han takes place, initiating four
         centuries of the Han Dynasty's rule over China
364 - Valentinian I becomes Roman Emperor.
870 - 8th Ecumenical council ends in Constantinople
1066 - Westminster Abbey opens
1570 - Anti-Portugese uprising on Ternate, Moluccas
1638 - Scottish Presbyterians sign National Convent, Greyfriars, Edinburgh
1646 - Roger Scott was tried in Mass for sleeping in church
1653 - -Mar 3] 3 Day Sea battle English beats Dutch
1667 - English colony Suriname in Dutch hands
1692 - Salem witch hunt begins
1700 - Today is followed by March 1 in Sweden, thus creating the Swedish calendar.
1704 - Elias Neau, a Frenchman, opens a school for blacks in NYC
1704 - Indians attack Deerfield, Mass, kill 40, kidnap 100
1708 - Slave revolt, Newton, Long Island NY, 11 die
1710 - In the Battle of Helsingborg, 14,000 Danish invaders under Jørgen Rantzau are decisively
           defeated by an equally sized Swedish force under Magnus Stenbock.
1728 - Georg F Handel's opera "Siroe, re di Persia," premieres in London
1730 - Tsarina Anna Ivanovna leads autocracy
1749 - 1st edition of Henry Fieldings' "Tom Jones" published
1759 - Pope Clement XIII allows Bible to be translated into various languages
1778 - Rhode Island General Assembly authorizes enlistment of slaves
1784 - John Wesley charters Methodist Church
1787 - The charter establishing the institution now known as the University of Pittsburgh is granted.
1794 - US Senate voids Pennsylvania's election of Abraham Gallatin
1810 - 1st US fire insurance joint-stock company organized, Philadelphia
1819 - 1st public performance of a Schubert song, "Schäfers Klageleid"
1826 - M Biela, an Austrian officer, discovers Biela's Comet
1827 - 1st commercial railroad in US, Baltimore & Ohio (B&O) chartered
1828 - Franz Grillparzer's "Ein Treuer Diener," premieres in Vienna
1835 - Dr Elias L"nnrot publishes Finnish poem "Kalevala"
1838 - Robert Nelson, leader of the Patriotes, proclaims the independence of Lower Canada (today
           Québec)
1844 - 12-inch gun aboard USS Princeton explodes
1847 - US defeats Mexico in battle of Sacramento
1849 - 1st boat load of gold rush prospectors arrives in SF from east coast
1850 - The University of Utah opens in Salt Lake City, Utah.
1854 - Republican Party formally organized at Ripon, Wisc
1859 - Arkansas legislature requires free blacks to choose exile or slavery
1861 - Territories of Nevada & Colorado created
1862 - Opera "La Reine de Saba," premieres in Paris
1863 - Confederate raider "Nashville" sinks near Fort McAllister Georgia
1864 - -Mar 3rd] Skirmish at Albemarle County Virginia (Burton's Ford)
1864 - -Mar 4th) Raid at Kilpatrick's Richmond
1870 - The Bulgarian Exarchate is established by decree of Sultan Abd-ul-Aziz of the Ottoman
           Empire.
1871 - 2nd Enforcement Act gives federal control of congressional elections
1878 - US congress authorizes large-size silver certificate
1879 - "Exodus of 1879" southern blacks flee political/economic exploitation
1882 - 1st US college cooperative store opens, at Harvard U
1883 - 1st US vaudeville theater opens (Boston)
1888 - Ferry in San Pablo Bay explodes
1888 - Vincent d'Indy's Wallenstein-trilogy, premieres
1891 - Oscar Grundén skates world record 500m (50.8 sec)
1893 - Edward Acheson, Penn, patents an abrasive he names "carborundum"
1896 - France dismisses Queen Ranavalona of Madagascar
1900 - General Buller's troops relieve Ladysmith Natal
1902 - Jules Massenets opera premieres in Monte Carlo
1903 - Barney Dreyfuss & James Potter buys Philadelphia Phillies for $170,000
1904 - Vincent d'Indy's 2nd Symphony in B, premieres
1906 - Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Queen's U (Kingston Ont) in 2 games
1908 - Failed assassination attempt on Shah Mohammed Ali in Teheran
1912 - Victor Trumper's last Test Cricket innings c Woolley b Barnes 50
1913 - 6.8-m, 4000-kg elephant seal killed, South Georgia (S Atlantic)
1914 - Construction begins on Tower of Jewels for the Exposition (SF)
1917 - AP reports Mexico & Japan will allie with Germany if US enters WW I
1917 - Russian Duma sets up Provisional Committee; workers set up Soviets
1920 - Maurice Ravel's "Le tombeau de Couperin," premieres
1922 - Egypt regains independence from Britain, but British troops remain
1922 - KHQ-AM in Spokane WA begins radio transmissions
1923 - Swedish king Gustaaf V begins state visit to Netherlands
1924 - US begins intervention in Honduras
1925 - "Tea For Two" by Marion Harris hit #1
1925 - Congress authorizes a special handling stamp
1925 - Longest win streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (9 games)
1925 - Theater Museum of Amsterdam forms
1929 - Chic Black Hawks lose record NHL 15th straight game at home
1931 - Canadian Rugby Union adopts the forward pass
1931 - Oswald Mosley founds his New Party
1933 - 1st female in cabinet: Francis Perkins appointed Secretary of Labor
1933 - German Pres Von Hindenburg abolishes free expression of opinion
1933 - Hitler disallows German communist party (KPD)
1935 - Amsterdam Hotel of the Red Lion gets sidewalk permit
1935 - Wallace Carothers manufactures 1st nylon polymer
1939 - Great-Britain recognizes Franco-regime in Spain
1939 - The first issue of Serbian weekly magazine Politikin zabavnik is published.
1939 - The erroneous word "Dord" is discovered in the Webster's New International Dictionary,
           Second Edition, prompting an investigation.
1940 - 1st televised basketball game (U of Pitts beats Fordham U, 50-37)
1940 - Richard Wright's "Native Son" published
1940 - US population at 131,669,275 (12,865,518 blacks (9.8%))
1941 - 39 U Boats (197,000 ton) sunk this month
1941 - British-Italian dogfight above Albania
1942 - 1st weapon drop on Netherlands
1942 - Japanese land in Java, last Allied bastion in Dutch East Indies
1942 - Race riot, Sojourner Truth Homes, Detroit
1943 - "Porgy & Bess" opens on Broadway with Anne Brown & Todd Duncan
1943 - 63 U Boats (359,300 ton) sinks this month
1947 - Anti Kuomintang demonstration on Taiwan
1947 - 228 Incident: In Taiwan, civil disorder is put down with the loss of 30,000 civilian lives.
1950 - "Alive & Kicking" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 46 perfs
1951 - French government of Pleven dissolves
1951 - Senate committee reports of at least 2 major US crime syndicates
1953 - Stalin meets with Beria, Bulganin, Khrushchev & Malenkov
1954 - Patty Berg/Pete Cooper wins LPGA Orlando Mixed Golf Tournament
1954 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island
1956 - 13 die in a train crash in Swampscott Mass
1956 - Forrester issued a patent for computer core memory
1957 - Jockey Johnny Longden's 5,000th career victory
1958 - West Indies 1-504 in reply to Pakistan 328, day 3 of 3rd Test Cricket
1959 - "Goldilocks" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 161 perfs
1959 - Ice Dance Championship at Colo Springs USA won by Denny & Jones of GRB
1959 - Ice Pairs Championship at Colorado Springs won by Wagner & Paul of CAN
1959 - Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Colo Spr won by Carol Heiss USA
1959 - Launch of Discoverer 1 (WTR)-1st polar orbit
1959 - Men's Figure Skating Championship in Colo Spr won by David Jenkins USA
1959 - NFL trade, Chicago Cards trade Ollie Matson to LA Rams for 9 players
1960 - 8th winter Olympic games close at Squaw Valley, Colo
1960 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open
1960 - US wins Olympic hockey gold medal by defeating Canada
1961 - JFK names Henry Kissinger special advisor
1962 - WMGM-AM in New York City changes call letters to WHN
1966 - Cavern Club (Beatles hangout) in Liverpool closes
1966 - Sandy Koufax & Don Drysdale begin a joint holdout against Dodgers
1967 - Wilt Chamberlain sinks NBA record 35th consecutive field goal
1968 - Pirate Radio Hauraki, off NZ, returns to the air
1969 - Ice Dance Championship at Colorado Spr won by Towler & Ford of GBR
1969 - Ice Pairs Championship at Colorado Spr won by Rodnina & Ulanov of URS
1969 - Ladies Figure Skating Champion in Colo Spr won by Gabriele Seyfert GDR
1969 - Men's Figure Skating Championship in Colo Springs won by Tim Wood USA
1970 - "Georgy" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 4 performances
1970 - Bicycles permitted to cross Golden Gate Bridge
1970 - Caroline Walker runs world female record marathon (3:02:53)
1970 - KIIN (now KUN) TV channel 12 in Iowa City, IA (PBS) 1st broadcast
1970 - WUTR TV channel 20 in Utica-Rome, NY (ABC) begins broadcasting
1971 - WDRB TV channel 41 in Louisville, KY (IND) begins broadcasting
1971 - 53rd PGA Championship: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 281 at PGA Natl FL Jack Nicklaus wins his 2nd
           golf grand slam
1972 - George Harrison is involved in a minor car accident
1972 - Pres Richard Nixon ends historic week-long visit to China
1972 - The Asama-Sanso incident ends in Japan.
1973 - Suriname government of Sedney arrests 13 union leaders
1974 - Ethiopian government of Makonnen forms
1974 - Labour Party wins British parliamentary election
1974 - Taiwan police shoots into crowd
1974 - US & Egypt re-form diplomatic relations after 7 years
1975 - 41 killed in London Underground, as train speeds past final stop
1975 - EG signs accord of Lome with 46 developing countries
1975 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1975 - A major tube train crash at Moorgate station, London kills 43 people.
1976 - 18th Grammy Awards: Love Will Keep Us Together, Natalie Cole wins
1976 - Ceuta & Melilla (Spanish Morocco) are last European African possession
1976 - Spain withdraws from Western Sahara
1977 - 1st killer whale born in captivity (Marineland, LA California)
1977 - Harbor strike in Rotterdam/Amsterdam ends
1979 - Ernest Thompson's "On Golden Pond," premieres in NYC
1980 - "The Well-Tuned Piano" by La Monte Young premieres (takes 4 h 12 m)
1980 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1981 - Calvin Murphy (Hou), sets NBA record with 78 consecutive free throws
1981 - China PR throws out Neth ambassador due to submarine sale to Taiwan
1982 - AT & T looses record $7 BILLION for fiscal year ending on this day
1982 - Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Arizona Copper Golf Classic
1982 - FALN (PR Nationalist Group) bombs Wall Street
1983 - Last broadcast of "M*A*S*H" on CBS-TV
1983 - Final TV episode of "M*A*S*H" airs (CBS); record 125 million watch
1984 - 26th Grammy Awards: Beat It, Michael Jackson wins 8
1986 - European Economic Community sign "Special Act" for Europe free trade
1986 - Peter Uberroth suspended 7 baseball players for 1 year, after they admitted in Curtis Strong's
           trial in September, they used drugs
1988 - 15th Winter Olympic games close at Calgary, Canada
1988 - Anti-Armenian pogrom in Azerbaijan, 30 killed
1988 - Pat Verbeek becomes 1st NJ Devil to score 4 goals in an NHL game
1988 - Yvonne van Gennip skates world record 5 km ladies (7:14.13)
1989 - Gretchen Polhemus, 23, (Texas), crowned 38th Miss USA
1989 - Memo by Brian Gumbel criticizing Today Show co-workers becomes public
1989 - Red Schoendienst & Al Barlick elected to baseball's Hall of Fame
1990 - Dutch police seize 3,000 kg of cocaine
1990 - US 65th manned space mission STS 36 (Atlantis 6) launches into orbit
1991 - "Les Miserables" opens at Theatre Carre, Amsterdam
1991 - "Speed of Darkness" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 36 performances
1991 - Don Mattingly named 10th NY Yankee Captain
1991 - Noureddine Morceli runs world record 1500m indoor (3:34:16)
1991 - US & allied forces grant Iraq a cease fire
1993 - "Anna Christie" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 54 performances
1993 - 7th American Comedy Award: Seinfeld wins
1993 - Gun battle erupts at Waco Texas between FBI & Branch Davidians
1993 - Iolanda Chen triple jumps world indoor record hop step (14.46m)
1994 - 100 agents raid Branch Davidian compound at Waco Texas
1994 - Brady Law, imposing a wait-period to buy a hand-gun, went into effect
1995 - Denver International Airport opens
1996 - 38th Grammy Awards: Jagged Little Pill, Alanis Morisette wins
1997 - Earthquake in Pakistan, kills 45
1997 - FBI agent Earl Pitts pleads guilty to selling secrets to Russia
1997 - Smokers must prove they are over 18 to purchase cigarettes in US
1997 - The North Hollywood shootout takes place.
1998 - "View From the Bridge," closes at Criterion Theater NYC
1998 - Vancouver Canucks Mark Messier is 4th NHLer to get 1,600 points
1998 - First flight of RQ-4 Global Hawk, the first unmanned aerial vehicle certified to file its own flight
           plans and fly regularly in U.S. civilian airspace.
1998 - Kosovo War: Serbian police begin the offensive against the Kosovo Liberation Army in
           Kosovo.
2001 - The Nisqually Earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter Scale hits the Nisqually Valley and the
           Seattle, Tacoma, and Olympia area of the U.S. state of Washington.
2001 - Six passengers and four railway staff are killed and a further 82 people suffer serious injuries
           in the Selby rail crash.
2004 - Over 1 million Taiwanese participating in the 228 Hand-in-Hand Rally form a 500-kilometre
          (300-mile) long human chain to commemorate the 228 Incident in 1947
2005 - Lebanon's pro-Syrian prime minister, Omar Karami, resigns amid large anti-Syria street
           demonstrations in Beirut.
2005 - A suicide bombing at a police recruiting centre in Al Hillah, Iraq kills 127.
2007 - Jupiter flyby of the New Horizons Pluto-observer spacecraft.
2008 - Former Prime Minister of Thailand Thaksin Shinawatra is arrested on corruption charges upon
           returning to Thailand after months of exile.
2012 - Occupy London protesters evicted from St Paul's Cathedral
2012 - Discovery of the largest prehistoric penguin, Kairuku grebneffi, at nearly 5ft tall

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Post by: MysteRy on February 28, 2013, 07:18:51 PM

This Day in History for 28th February


Famous Weddings

1922 - English princess Mary marries Viscount Lascelles at Westminister Abbey
1993 - Tony Curtis weds Lisa Deutsch as his 4th wife

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 28, 2013, 07:20:01 PM

This Day in History for 28th February


Famous Divorces

1998 - "Baywatch" actress Pamela Anderson (31) divorces Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee (35) after       
            3 years of marriage

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Post by: MysteRy on February 28, 2013, 07:29:36 PM

This Day in History for 28th February


Famous Birthdays

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Chemist & Peace Activist                                 Racing Car Driver                          Economist Paul Krugman (1953)
 Linus Pauling (1901)                                   Mario Andretti (1940)


1155 - Henry the Young King, son of Henry II of England (d. 1183)
1261 - Margaret of Scotland, queen of Norway (d. 1283)
1409 - Elisabeth II of Bohemia (d. 1442)
1533 - Michel de Montaigne, France, essayist/philosopher
1552 - Jost/Jobst Bürgi, Swiss clockmaker and mathematician (d. 1632)
1573 - Elias Hill, German architect/city builder (Augsburg)
1612 - John Pearson, English theologian (d. 1686)
1616 - Kaspar Forster, composer
1632 - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Florence Italy, composer
1663 - Thomas Newcomen, English co-inventor (steam engine)
1670 - Benjamin Wadsworth, American President of Harvard University (d. 1737)
1675 - Guillaume Delisle, French cartographer (d. 1726)
1683 - René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French scientist (d. 1757)
1690 - Aleksei P Romanov, Russia, son of Peter the Great
1704 - Louis Godin, French astronomer (d. 1760)
1712 - Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, French military commander (d. 1759)
1724 - George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend, British field marshal (d. 1807)
1747 - Justin Morgan, composer
1750 - Ignacy Potocki, Polish foreign minister
1764 - Robert Haldane, Scottish theologist/philanthropist
1771 - French Jozef Kinsoen, Flemish portrait painter
1786 - D Francois J Arago, French astronomer/physicist/politician
1792 - Karl Earnest Ritter von Baer, Estonian/German embryologist
1797 - Mary Lyon, US, educator (Mt Holyoke) (Hall of Fame)
1797 - W Frederik K, prince of Netherlands/general/admiral (10 day campaign)
1810 - Reinier C Bakhuizen van de Brink, Dutch historian
1817 - James Craig, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1888
1820 - John Tenniel, England, cartoonist/illustrator (Alice in Wonderland)
1822 - Matthew Duncan Ector, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1879
1823 - Ernest Renan, French philosopher/historian/scholar of religion
1824 - Charles Blondin, France, acrobat/aerialist
1824 - John Creed Moore, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1910
1825 - Quincy Adams Gillmore, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1888
1833 - Alfred von Schlieffen, Count/Prussian general-fieldmarshal
1838 - Maurice Lévy, French engineer (d. 1910)
1840 - Henri Duveyrier, French explorer (d. 1892)
1841 - Adrien Albert Marie de Mun, French politician (d. 1914)
1850 - Hermann Schell, German theologist/philosopher (Gott und Geist)
1851 - Samuel W. McCall, 47th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1923)
1854 - Juliusz Zarebski, composer
1857 - Gustave Adolph Kerker, composer
1858 - Jacob P Vis, Dutch industrialist (founder NV Royal Salt Industries)
1865 - Arthur Symons, Welsh poet/critic/co-founder (Savoy)
1865 - Wilfred Grenfell, England, medical missionary
1866 - Vyacheslav I Ivanov, Russian philosopher/classical/poet [OS=2/16]
1874 - Soledad Jiminez, Santander Spain, actor (Phantom ofthe Range)
1875 - Viliam Figus, composer
1876 - John Alden Carpenter, Chicago Illinois, composer (Sea Drift)
1877 - Sergei Bortkiewicz, composer
1878 - Pierre Fatou, French mathematician (d. 1929)
1878 - Artur Kapp, Estonian composer (d. 1952)
1882 - Geraldine Farrar, US soprano/actress (Story of American Singer)
1882 - Jose Vasconcelos, Oaxaca Mexico, politician/essayist/philosopher
1882 - Richard Heinrich Stein, composer
1886 - Jose Gutierrez Solana, Spanish painter/author (Madrid Escenas)
1886 - Max Vasmer, German slavic (La Tertulia de Pombo)
1887 - William Zorach, Lithuania, US sculptor (Spirit of the Dance)
1889 - Victor Sutherland, Paducah KY, actor (Captive City)
1890 - Vaslav Nijinsky, Kiev Ukraine, ballet dancer (3/12 NS)
1893 - Ben Hecht, NYC, novelist/playwright/screenwriter (Front Page)
1895 - Guiomar Novaes, Brazil, pianist (Brazilian Order of Merit)
1895 - Marcel Pagnol, French playwright/director (Marchands de Gloire)
1896 - Philip Showalter Hench, Pittsburgh, physician (cortisone-Nobel)
1898 - Molly Picon, Yiddish actress (Milk & Honey)
1899 - Frederick Denison Maurice Hocking, pathologist
1900 - Laura Z Hobson, writer
1900 - Wolfram Hirth, German pilot (d. 1959)
1901 - Linus Pauling, Portland, Oregon, American chemist/peace activist (Nobel 1954, 1962)
1901 - Rudolf W Nilsen, Norwegian poet (Hverdagen)
1903 - Vincente Minnelli, American film director (d. 1986)
1905 - Glyn Jones, writer
1906 - Bugsy Siegel, gangster created casinos in Las Vegas
1907 - Milton Caniff, Hillsboro Ohio, Dutch cartoonist (Terry & Pirates)
1908 - Billie Bird, American actress (d. 2002)
1908 - Alexander Golitzen, American art director (d. 2005)
1909 - Olan Soule, La Harpe Ill, actor (My 3 Sons, Arnie)
1909 - Stephen Harold Spender, Engld, poet/critic (Vienna, Edge of Darkness)
1910 - Roman Maciejewski, composer
1910 - Vincente Minnelli, Chicago IL, director (American in Paris, Gigi)
1911 - Amir Hamzah, Indonesian poet (Njanji Sunji)
1912 - Helmut Coing, German lawyer/director (Max-Planck-institute)
1912 - Clara Petacci, Italian mistress of Benito Mussolini (d. 1945)
1914 - Jim Boles, Lubbock Tx, actor (Joe-One Man's Family)
1915 - Peter Medawar, England, zoologist, immunologist (Nobel 1953)
1915 - Zero "Samuel" Mostel, Brooklyn, actor (Fiddler on the Roof)
1917 - Hans Deutgen, Sweden, world champion archer
1917 - John B Connally, (Gov/Sen-D/R-Tx), took a bullet with JFK
1918 - Alfred Burke, London England, actor (Backfire)
1920 - Edward Kassner, music publisher
1920 - Jim Olin, (Rep-D-VA, 1983- )
1920 - Marjorie M Sweeting, English geomorphologist
1921 - John Bouber, [Blom], actor/author (Fool of Heideloo)
1921 - Vladimir Sommer, composer
1921 - Pierre Clostermann, French World War II pilot (d. 2006)
1923 - Charles Durning, Highland Falls NY, actor (Fury, Sting, Tootsie), (d. 2012)
1924 - Robert A Roe, (Rep-D-NJ, 1969- )
1925 - Harry H Corbett, Rangoon Burma, actor (Steptoe & Son, Jabberwacky)
1926 - Seymour Shifrin, composer
1926 - Stanley Glasser, composer
1926 - Svetlana Alliluyeva, daughter of Josef Stalin/author (My Life)
1927 - Bernard Frank, oriental scholar/writer
1927 - John Swire, British aircraft magnate (Cathay Pacific)
1928 - Bettye Ackerman, Cottageville SC, actress (Maggie Graham-Ben Casey)
1928 - Tom Aldredge, Dayton OH, actor (What About Bob, Nurse, Mind Snatchers)
1929 - Frank O Gehry, architect (Galleria-Oklahoma City)
1929 - Hayden Fry, American football coach
1929 - John Montague, Irish poet
1929 - Joseph Rouleau, French Canadian bass opera singer
1930 - Frank Malzone, baseball player
1930 - Leon Cooper, US physicist (Nobel 1972)
1930 - Bruce Dawe, Australian poet
1931 - Gavin MacLeod, Mt Kisco NY, actor (Murray-Mary Tyler Moore, Love Boat)
1931 - Gustav Thoni, Italy, skiier (World Cup-1971, 72, 73, 75)
1931 - Jack Thieuloy, writer
1931 - Iajuddin Ahmed, Bikrampur, British Raj, President (Bangladesh, 2002-2009), (d. 2012)
1932 - Brian Moore, British commentator (Big Match)
1932 - Don Francks, Vancouver, actor (Terminal Choice, Finian's Rainbow)
1933 - Robert Grondelaers, Belgian cyclist (d.1989)
1933 - Miro Steržaj, Slovenian 9-pin bowler
1933 - Rein Taagepera, Estonian politician
1934 - Willie Bobo, NYC, jazz drummer (Cos)
1935 - Clive Halse, cricketer (S Afr fast bowler on 1963-64 Aust/NZ tour)
1938 - Martin Olav Sabo, (Rep-D-MN, 1979- )
1939 - Charles Brown, Cin Oh, featherweight boxer (Olympic-bronze-1964)
1939 - John Fahey, singer (Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death)
1939 - Tommy Tune, Wichita Falls Tx, dancer/choreographer (Boyfriend)
1940 - Joe South, Atlanta, Georgia, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Games People Play),
           (d. 2012)
1940 - Mario Andretti, Italian American race-car driver (1969 Indianapolis 500, 1978 Formula One
           World Champion)
1941 - Alice May Brock, author
1941 - Marty Sanders, rock vocalist
1942 - Frank Bonner, Little Rock AR, actor (WKRP, Hoax, You Can't Hurry Love)
1942 - Brian Jones, [Lewis Brian Hopkins Jones], English rock guitarist (Rolling Stones)
1942 - Dino Zoff, Italian footballer
1943 - Barbara Acklin, [Allen], Chicago, R&B singer (Love Makes a Woman)
1943 - Donny Iris, singer
1943 - Hans F Dijkstal, Dutch minister of the Interior (VVD, 1994-)
1943 - Charles Bernstein, American composer
1944 - Colin Nutley, director/writer (Such is Life, Black Jack)
1944 - Kelly Bishop, CO, actress (Unmarried Woman, Advice to Lovelorn)
1944 - Sepp Maier, German footballer
1945 - Charles "Bubba" Smith, Tx, NFLer (Balt Colts)/actor (Police Academy)
1945 - Mimsy Farmer, Chicago Ill, actress (Devil's Angel, Road to Salina)
1945 - Ronnie Rosman, rocker (Tommy James Shondells-Crystal Blue Persuasion)
1946 - Graham Vivian, cricketer (son of Giff, 5 Tests for NZ 1965-72)
1946 - Robin Cook, British politician (d. 2005)
1947 - Stephanie Beacham, England, (Devil's Widow, Schizo, Dallas, Colbys)
1948 - Bernadette Peters, [Lazzara], Queens NY, actress (Jerk)
1948 - Mercedes Ruehl, Queens NY, actress (Lost in Yonkers, Crazy People)
1948 - Willie Donnell Smith
1948 - Mike Figgis, English director
1950 - Ilene Graff, Bkln NY, actress (Marsha-Mr Belvedere)
1950 - Stephen Chatman, composer
1951 - Gustavo Thoeni, Italy, giant slalom (Olympic-gold-1972)
1951 - Karsan Ghavri, cricketer (Indian lefty medium pacer early 80s)
1951 - Bill Cratty, American modern dancer and choreographer (d. 1998)
1952 - Cristina Raines, [Tina Herazo], Manila Phil, actress (Sentinel)
1952 - Eddie Manion, saxophonist
1952 - Jennie Lynn, San Diego California, actress (Love & Marriage)
1952 - Melissa Babish, SC, swimmer (Olympic)
1952 - William Finn, American composer
1953 - Ricky "Dragon" Steamboat, [Richard Blood], wrestler (NWA/WWF/WCW/AWA)
1953 - Ingo Hoffmann, Brazilian racing driver
1953 - Paul Krugman, American economist and New York Times columnist (Nobel Prize in Economics
           2008)
1954 - Brian Billick, American football coach
1955 - Adrian Dantley, Wash DC, NBA forward (Olympic-gold-1976, Utah Jazz)
1955 - Gilbert Gottfried, comedian (Beverly Hills Cop)
1955 - Randy Jackson, New Orleans, guitarist (Zebra-Tell Me What You Want)
1956 - Jimmy Nicholl, Canadian-born Northern Irish footballer
1956 - Mike Tenay, American wrestling commentator
1957 - Cindy Wilson, Athens Georgia, rock vocalist (B-52's-Love Shack)
1957 - Ian Smith, cricket wicket-keeper (NZ of the 80's)
1957 - Ian Stanley, keyboardist
1957 - Jeff Woodland, Papua New Guinea, Nike golfer (1991 Dakota Dunes Open)
1957 - John Turturro, Bkln, actor (Brain Donor, Color of Money, Jungle Fever)
1957 - Phil Gould, rock percussionist (Level 42-Hot Water)
1957 - Paul Delph, American musician and producer (d. 1996)
1957 - Ainsley Harriott, British celebrity chef
1958 - Christine Lathan-Brehmer, German DR, 400m runner (Oly-gold-76)
1958 - Mark Pavelich, NHLer (NY Rangers)
1958 - Jeanne Mas, French singer and actress
1959 - Sydney P Mufamadi, South African leader (SACP)
1960 - Dorothy Stratten, Vancouver BC, playmate (August, 1979) (Galixina)
1961 - Barry McGuigan, British(?) boxer
1961 - Wayne Smith, Albany WA, Australasia golfer
1961 - Eric Bachelart, Belgian racing driver
1962 - Angela Bailey, England, Canadian 4X100m relayer (Olympic-silver-1984)
1962 - Chunli Li, Auckland NZ, table tennis player (Olympics-96)
1962 - Rae Dawn Chong, Edmonton Alberta, actress (Quest for Fire)
1962 - Steve Tsujiura, hockey forward (Team Japan 1998)
1963 - Claudio Chiappucci, Italian cyclist
1964 - Djamolidine Abdoujaparov, Uzbekistan cyclist
1965 - Duane Ferrell, NBA forward (SF Warriors, Indiana Pacers)
1965 - Mikko Makela, Tampere Finland, NHL right wing (NY Islanders)
1966 - Erik van Kessel, Dutch soccer player (FC Utrecht)
1966 - Jan Varholik, Kosice CZE, hockey defenseman (Team Slovakia)
1966 - Tim Goad, NFL defensive tackle (Cleveland Browns)
1966 - Vincent Askew, NBA guard/forward (Seattle Supersonics, Trailblazers)
1966 - Paulo Futre, Portuguese footballer
1967 - Antone Davis, NFL tackle (Atlanta Falcons, Philadelphia Eagles)
1967 - Jeff[rey] Pfaendtner, Detroit, rower (Olympics-bronze-1996)
1967 - Marcus Lillington, rock guitarist (Breathe-All I Need)
1967 - Colin Cooper, English footballer
1968 - J T Snow, US baseball 1st baseman (NY Yankees, California Angels)
1968 - Mike Milchin, Knoxville TN, pitcher (Minnesota Twins)
1969 - Elisa Fiorillo, singer (Forgive Me For Dreaming)
1969 - Robert Sean Leonard, NJ, actor (Dead Poets Society, Mr & Mrs Bridge)
1969 - Shawn McEachern, Waltham MA, NHL forward (Boston Bruins, Senators)
1969 - Butch Leitzinger, American race car driver
1969 - Tor Øivind Ødegaard, Norwegian track runner
1969 - Patrick Monahan, American singer (Train)
1970 - Jan Varholik, hockey defenseman (Team Slovakia 1998)
1970 - Mika Stromberg, Helsinki FIN, hockey defenseman (Team Finland)
1970 - Noureddine Morceli, Algeria, 1500m runner (Olympics-gold-96)
1970 - Daniel Handler, American writer, better known as Lemony Snicket
1971 - John Buchanan, actor (Sidekicks, Black Stallion, Family Man)
1971 - Tristan Louis, American writer
1971 - Junya Nakano, Japanese composer
1971 - Peter Stebbings, Canadian actor
1972 - Melisa Moses, Jacksonville FL, diver (Olympics-4th-96)
1972 - Scott Gragg, NFL tackle (NY Giants)
1972 - Rory Cochrane, American actor
1973 - Demetrice Martin, WLAF cornerback (Scotland Claymores)
1973 - Denard Walker, cornerback (Tennessee Oilers)
1973 - Eric Lindros, London Ontario, NHL center (Phila Flyers)
1973 - Gary Walker, NFL defensive tackle/defensive end (Houston Oilers)
1973 - Henry Bailey, NFL wide receiver/kick returner (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1973 - Nicolas Minassian, French racing driver
1974 - Katie Allen, Australian field hockey full back/half back (Olympics-96)
1974 - Kevin Abrams, cornerback (Detroit Lions)
1974 - Michael Manasseri, actor (License to Drive)
1974 - Michael Swift, WLAF CB (Rhein Fire)
1974 - Lee Carsley, Irish footballer
1975 - Azhar Mahmood, cricket pace bowler (Pakistani ODI 1996)
1975 - Mike Rucker, American football player
1976 - Angie Kennedy, Nambour QLD Australia, swimmer (Olympics-96)
1976 - Ali Larter, American actress and model
1976 - Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge, Canadian actor
1977 - Aki-Petteri Berg, NHL defenseman (Team Finland Oly-Bronze-1998, Kings)
1977 - Debbie Koegel, Norristown Pa, dance skater (& Oleg Fediukov)
1977 - Jason Aldean, American country singer
1978 - Marissa Perez, Miss Connecticut Teen USA (1996)
1978 - Jeanne Cherhal, French Singer-songwriter
1978 - Benjamin Raich, Austrian Olympic skier
1978 - Jamaal Tinsley, American basketball player
1978 - Mariano Zabaleta, Argentine tennis player
1979 - Virginia Ledgerwood, Chester Va, rhythmic gymnast (Olympics-96)
1979 - Sébastien Bourdais, French racing driver
1979 - Primož Peterka, Slovenian ski jumper
1979 - Michael Bisping, English mixed martial artist
1979 - Ivo Karlović, Croatian tennis player
1980 - Pascal Bosschaart, Dutch footballer
1980 - Piotr Giza, Polish footballer
1980 - Lucian Bute, Romanian-born Quebec boxer
1980 - Tayshaun Prince, American basketball player
1981 - Brian Bannister, American baseball player
1981 - Florent Serra, French tennis player
1982 - Natalia Vodianova, Russian supermodel
1984 - Ben Fagan, American musician and reality show contestant
1984 - Karolína Kurková, Czech supermodel
1985 - Fefe Dobson, Canadian singer
1985 - Jelena Janković, Serbian tennis player
1987 - Kerrea Gilbert, English footballer
1988 - Markéta Irglová, Czech songwriter and actress
1989 - Zhang Liyin, Chinese R&B singer
1991 - Sarah Bolger, Irish actress
2007 - Princess Lalla Khadija of Morocco

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on February 28, 2013, 07:33:06 PM

This Day in History for 28th February


Famous Deaths

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Versatile Athlete Jim Thorpe (1953)


642 - Oswald, English missionary/saint, dies in battle
1261 - Hendrik, duke of Brabant (1248-61), dies
1326 - Duke Leopold I of Austria (b. 1290)
1453 - Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine (b. 1400)
1485 - Niclas, Graf von Abensberg, German soldier (b. 1441)
1510 - Juan de la Cosa, Spanish cartographer and explorer
1525 - Cuauhtémoc, Aztec ruler
1572 - Aegidius Tschudi, Swiss historian (b. 1505)
1573 - Jan "Hans" Liefrinck, Flemish engraver/publisher, dies at about 54
1609 - Paul Sartorius, composer, dies at 39
1618 - Filips Willem, Prince of Orange, dies at 63
1621 - Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1590)
1626 - Cyril Tourneur, English poet/dramatist, dies at about 51
1638 - Claude G Bachet de Meziriac, French mathematician/poet, dies at 56
1638 - Henri duc de Rohan, French soldier/Huguenot leader, dies
1665 - Lodewijk van Nassau, Dutch governor (Bois-le-Duc), dies
1737 - Hercule Brehy, composer, dies at 63
1742 - Willem J 's-Gravesande, Dutch physicist, dies at 53
1746 - Hermann von der Hardt, German historian (b. 1660)
1781 - Richard Stockton, US attorney (signed Decl of Ind), dies at 50
1784 - Phillis Wheatly, poetess, dies
1786 - John Gwynn, English architect and engineer (b. 1713)
1788 - Thomas Cushing, American Continental Congressman (b. 1725)
1796 - Friedrich Wilhelm Rust, composer, dies at 56
1818 - Adriaan Loosjes Pzn, Dut publisher/writer (Moral Stories), dies at 56
1844 - Abel P Upshur, Secretary of State, dies in explosion on USS Princeton
1844 - Thommas W Gilmer, Navy Secretary, dies in explosion on USS Princeton
1857 - André Dumont, Belgian geologist (b. 1809)
1876 - Charles Edward Horsley, composer, dies at 53
1903 - Girolamo/Jeromin de Rada, Albanian poet, dies at 88
1905 - Joseph C Juglar, French physician/economist, dies at 85
1912 - Bill Storer, English cricket wicketkeeper (6 Tests 1897-99), dies
1913 - Elephant seal, 6.8-m, 4000-kg, killed in S Georgia (South Atlantic)
1916 - Henry James, US/British writer (Bostonians), dies in London at 72
1922 - Vicente Lleo, composer, dies at 51
1925 - Friedrich Ebert, soc-dem president Germany, dies
1929 - Clemens Freiherr von Pirquet, Austrian artist (React of P), dies at 54
1929 - John Ebenezer West, composer, dies at 65
1931 - Ban Johnson, created (baseball's AL), dies after a long illness
1932 - Guillaume Bigourdan, French astronomer (b. 1851)
1935 - Alexander W F Idenburg, gov-gen of Neth Indies (1909-16), dies at 73
1935 - Chiquinha Gonzaga, Brazilian composer (b. 1847).
1936 - Pedro Munoz Seca, La Caraba/La oca, dies at 55
1936 - Charles Nicolle, French bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
           1866)
1940 - Johan C Braakensiek, Dutch political cartoonist, dies at 81
1941 - King Alfonso XIII of Spain (b. 1886)
1949 - Stanley Robert Marchant, composer, dies at 65
1953 - Jim Thorpe, versatile American athlete (Olympics-gold-1912), dies at 64
1956 - Emile Buisson, French murderer executed (b. 1902)
1959 - Maxwell Anderson, US dramatist (Key Largo, Bath Seed), dies at 70
1960 - F S Flint, British translator/poet (imagist movement), dies at 74
1960 - Jonathan Hale, actor (Blondie), shoots himself at 68
1961 - Joris Vriamont, Flemish writer/music publisher, dies at 64
1962 - Harold Ogden "Chic" Johnson, comedian (Olsen & Johnson), dies at 70
1963 - Theodore Newton, actor (Voltaire, Ace of Aces), dies at 58
1963 - Rajendra Prasad, First President of India (b. 1884)
1964 - Dirk HW Filarski, painter/lithographer (Bergen School), dies at 78
1965 - Adolf Scharf, president of Austria (1957-65), dies at 74
1966 - Charles A Bassett II, astronaut, dies at 34, in a crash of T-38 jet
1966 - Elliot McKay See Jr, astronaut, dies at 38 in T-38 jet crash
1967 - Henry Luce, American publisher (b. 1898)
1968 - Doretta Morrow, actress (Because You're Mine), dies at 41
1968 - Juanita Hall, actress (Capt Billy), dies at 66
1972 - Victor Barna, table tennis champ, dies
1973 - Cecil Kellaway, actor (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner), dies at 78
1973 - Hope Landin, actress (I Remember Mama, Sugarfoot), dies at 79
1974 - Mees Toxopeus, Dutch rescue-vessel captain, dies at 89
1975 - Istvan Kardos, composer, dies at 83
1977 - Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, comedian (Jack Benny Show), dies at 71
1978 - Eric Frank Russell, sci-fi author (Hugo, Deep Space), dies at 73
1978 - Philip Ahn, LA California, actor (Master Kan-Kung Fu), dies at 66
1978 - Philip Ahn, American actor (b. 1905)
1979 - Jane Hylton, English actress (Adv of Sir Lancelot), dies at 52
1979 - Mr Ed, talking horse, dies
1979 - Paul Alverdes, German writer (b. 1897)
1980 - Ian Alexander Ross Peebles, cricketer (45 wkts for England), dies
1984 - Leslie Walcott, cricketer (Test for WI v England 1930), dies
1985 - Charita Bauer, actress (Mary-Aldrich Family), dies at 62 in NYC
1985 - David Byron, English singer (Uriah Heep) (b. 1947)
1985 - Ray Ellington, English singer (b. 1916)
1986 - Sven Olof Palme, Swedish PM (1969-76, 82-86), assassinated at 59
1986 - Laura Z. Hobson, American novelist (b. 1900)
1987 - Anny Ondra, actress (Blackmail), dies at 83
1987 - Nora Kaye, US ballet dancer, dies at 67
1988 - Mikha`il Na'imah, Lebanese playwright, dies at 99
1989 - Hermann Burger, writer, dies at 46
1990 - Colin Milburn, cricketer (9 Tests for England, 654 runs), dies
1990 - Fabia Drake, actress (Nice Girl Like Me), dies at 86
1990 - Tuppy Owen-Smith, South African cricketer (batsman v England 1929), dies
1991 - Guillermo Ungo, member of El Salvador junta (1979-80), dies
1991 - Wassily Hoeffding, American statistician (b. 1914)
1992 - Angelique Pettyjohn, actress (Body Talk, Star Trek), dies at 49
1992 - Emilla Sherman, choreographer/rockette, dies
1992 - La Lupe, Cuban singer, dies of a heart attack in the Bronx at 53
1993 - Fer A Olthoff, Dutch WW II resistance fighter (Het Parool), dies
1993 - Franco Brusati, Italian dir/writer (Bread & Chocolate), dies at 70
1993 - Ishiro Honda, Japanese director/producer (Godzilla), dies at 81
1993 - Joyce Carey, [Lawrence], English actress (Number 27), dies at 94
1993 - Ruby Keeler, Canadian actress, singer, and dancer (42nd Street, Dames), dies of cancer at 82
1994 - Aisin Giorro Pu Chieh, brother of Last Emperor of China, dies at 86
1994 - Buster Holmes, chef/restaurateur, dies at 88
1994 - Elbert "Skippy" Williams, tenor Sax player, dies at 77
1994 - George Osborne Sayles, historian, dies at 92
1994 - Leopoldina Poldi Feichtegger Gerhard, dies at 90
1994 - Pu Yi, brother of last Chinese emperor, Pu Yi, dies at 87
1995 - Herman "Ace" Wallace, blues guitarist/singer, dies at 69
1995 - Keith Rigg, cricketer (8 Tests for Australia 1931-37), dies
1995 - Max Rudolf, conductor, dies at 92
1996 - Daniel Chipenda, Angolan politician and field commander, dies at 64
1998 - Dermot Morgan, Irish actor and comedian (b. 1952)
1998 - Arkady Shevchenko, Soviet diplomat (b. 1930)
1999 - Christine Glanville, British Puppeteer (. 1924)
2002 - Mary Stuart, American actress (b. 1926)
2002 - Helmut Zacharias, German violinist (b. 1920)
2003 - Chris Brasher, English athlete (b. 1928)
2003 - Fidel Sánchez Hernández, President of El Salvador (b. 1917)
2003 - Roger Michael Needham, British cryptographer (b. 1935)
2003 - Rudolf Kingslake, Lens designer, and Engineer (b. 1903)
2004 - Daniel J. Boorstin, American historian, writer, and Librarian of Congress (b. 1914)
2004 - Carmen Laforet, famed Spanish novelist
2004 - Andres Nuiamäe, Estonian soldier (b. 1982)
2006 - Owen Chamberlain, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1920)
2007 - Baron Charles Forte, Italian-born hotelier (b. 1908)
2007 - Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. American historian and political commentator (b.1917)
2007 - Billy Thorpe, Australian musician (Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs) (b. 1946)
2008 - Mike Smith, English musician (The Dave Clark Five) (b. 1943)
2009 - Paul Harvey, American radio broadcaster (b. 1918)
2011 - Annie Girardot, French actress (b. 1931)
2011 - Peter Gomes, Harvard University Chaplain (b. 1942)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 01, 2013, 10:25:41 AM

This Day in History for 1st March


Historical Events

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Physicist/Nobel Laureate                         Country Singer Johnny Cash                     Comedian Charlie Chaplin
Henri Becquerel

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Singer & Actress Liza Minnelli                    NHL all-time top scorer
                                                                          Wayne Gretzky


752 BC - Romulus, first king of Rome, celebrates the first Roman triumph after his victory over the
           Caeninenses, following the Rape of the Sabine Women.
86 BC - Lucius Cornelius Sulla, at the head of a Roman Republic army, enters Athens, removing the
            tyrant Aristion who was supported by troops of Mithridates VI of Pontus.
286 - Roman Emperor Diocletian raises Maximian to the rank of Caesar.
293 - Roman emperor Maximianus introduces tetrarchy
317 - Crispus and Constantine II, sons of Roman Emperor Constantine I, and Licinius Iunior, son of
         Emperor Licinius, are made Caesares
492 - St Felix III ends his reign as Catholic Pope
492 - St Gelasius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
705 - John VII begins his reign as Catholic Pope
743 - Slave export by Christians to heathen areas prohibited
918 - Balderik becomes bishop of Utrecht
1260 - Hulagu Khan, grandson of Genghis, conquerors Damascus
1382 - French Maillotin uprises against taxes
1420 - Pope Martinus I calls for crusade against the hussieten
1457 - The Unitas Fratrum is established in the village of Kunvald, on the Bohemian-Moravian
           borderland. It is to date the second oldest Protestant denomination.
1562 - Blood bath at Vassy: Gen de Guise allows 1200 huguenots murder
1565 - Portuguese soldier Estácio de Sá founds the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1587 - English parliament leader Peter Wentworth confined in London Tower
1591 - Pope Gregory XIV threatens to excommunicate French king Henri IV
1593 - The Uppsala Synod is summoned to confirm the exact forms of the Lutheran Church of
           Sweden.
1628 - Writs are issued in February by Charles I of England mandating that every county in England
          (not just seaport towns) pay ship tax by this date.
1633 - Samuel de Champlain reclaims his role as commander of New France on behalf of Cardinal
           Richelieu.
1634 - Battle at Smolensk: Polish King Wladyslaw IV beats Russians
1642 - Georgeana (York) Maine became the 1st incorporated American city
1692 - Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, & Tituba arrest for witchcraft (Salem, MA)
1711 - "The Spectator" begins publishing (London)
1780 - Pennsylvania becomes 1st US state to abolish slavery (for new-borns only)
1781 - Continental Congress adopts Articles of Confederation
1784 - E Kidner opens 1st cooking school, in Great Britain
1785 - Philadelphia Society for the Promotion of Agriculture organized
1790 - 1st US census authorized
1792 - US Presidential Succession Act passed
1796 - 1st National Meeting in the Hague
1803 - Ohio becomes 17th state
1809 - Embargo Act of 1807 repealed & Non-Intercourse Act signed
1811 - Egyptian king Muhammad Ali Pasha oversees ceremonial murder of 500
1811 - French Civil Code of Criminal law accepted by Netherlands Mamelukes in Cairo's Citadel
1815 - Sunday observance in Netherlands regulated by law
1840 - Adolphe Thiers becomes prime minister of France.
1845 - President Tyler signs a resolution annexing the Republic of Texas
1847 - Michigan becomes 1st English-speaking jurisdiction to abolish the death penalty (except for
           treason against the state)
1852 - Archibald William Montgomerie, 13th Earl of Eglinton appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
1854 - SS City of Glasgow leaves Liverpool harbor & is never seen again
1854 - German psychologist Friedrich Eduard Beneke disappears; two years later his remains are
           found in a canal near Charlottenburg.
1859 - Present seal of SF adopted (its 2nd)
1864 - Louis Ducos du Hauron patents movie machine (never built)
1864 - Rebecca Lee (US) becomes 1st black woman to receive a medical degree
1866 - Paraguayan canoes sink 2 Brazilian ironclads on Rio Parana
1867 - Howard University, Washington DC, chartered
1867 - Most of Nebraska becomes 37th US state (expanded later)
1869 - Postage stamps showing scenes are issued for 1st time
1871 - J Milton Turner named minister to Liberia
1872 - Yellowstone becomes world's 1st national park
1873 - E. Remington and Sons in Ilion, New York begins production of the first practical typewriter.
1875 - Congress passes Civil Rights Act; invalidated by Supreme Ct, 1883
1876 - Guernsey Cattle Club forms (Farmington Conn)
1878 - First winter ascent of Aneto
1879 - Library of Hawaii founded
1886 - The Anglo-Chinese School, Singapore is founded by Bishop William Oldham.
1890 - 1st US edition of Sherlock Holmes (Study in Scarlet) published
1893 - Diplomatic Appropriation Act, authorizes the US rank of ambassador
1896 - Battle of Adwa: 80,000 Ethiopians destroy 20,000 Italians in Ethopia
1896 - Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity.
1904 - England regains cricket Ashes taking a 3-1 series lead v Australia
1909 - 1st US university school of nursing established, Univ of Minn
1910 - 3 passenger trains buried at Steven's Pass in Cascade Range. 118 die. Worst snow slide in
           US history
1912 - Capt Albert Berry performs 1st parachute jump from an airplane
1912 - Isabella Goodwin, 1st US woman detective, appointed, NYC
1913 - 1st state law requiring bonding of officers & state employees, ND
1913 - Federal income tax takes effect (16th amendment)
1914 - Dutch Minister of war H Colijn named director of British Petroleum
1914 - The Republic of China joins the Universal Postal Union.
1916 - Germany begins attacking ships in the Atlantic
1917 - 1st federal land bank chartered
1917 - U.S. government releases the plaintext of the Zimmermann Telegram to the public.
1919 - Demonstrations for Korean independence from Japan begin
1919 - March 1st Movement begins in Korea.
1920 - Austria becomes a kingdom again, under Adm Horthy
1920 - Buriat ASSR, in RSFSR, constituted
1921 - Australia Cricket team complete 5-0 drubbing of England
1921 - Rwanda ceded to England
1921 - Sailors revolt in Kronstadt Russia
1923 - Allies occupy Ruhrgebied: killing railroad striker
1924 - Germany's prohibition of Communist Party KPD lifted
1927 - Bank of Italy becomes a Natl Bank
1928 - Paul Whiteman & orchestra record "Ol' Man River" for Victor Records
1932 - Charles Lindbergh Jr (20 months), kidnapped in NJ; found dead May 12
1933 - Bank holidays declared in 6 states, to prevent run on banks
1934 - Henry Pu Yi crowned emperor Kang Teh of Manchuria
1934 - Primo Carnera beats Tommy Loughran in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1936 - The Hoover Dam is completed.
1936 - A strike occurs aboard the S.S. California, leading to the demise of the International Seamen's
          Union and the creation of the National Maritime Union.
1937 - 1st permanent automobile license plates issued (Ct)
1937 - Gov Wouters innaugrates the radio station on the Dutch Antilles
1937 - US Steel raises workers' wages to $5 a day
1939 - Japanese Imperial Army ammunition dump exploded at Hirakata, Osaka, Japan, killing 94.
1940 - 12th Academy Awards - "Gone with the Wind," R Donat & V Leigh win
1940 - Richard Wright's novel "Native Son" is published
1941 - "Captain America" appears in a comic book
1941 - 1st US commercial FM radio station goes on the air, Nashville, Tenn
1941 - Elmer Layden becomes 1st NFL commissioner
1941 - German troops invade Bulgaria
1941 - Himmler inspects Auschwitz concentration camp
1942 - 3 day Battle of Java Sea ends, US suffers a major naval defeat
1942 - Baseball decides that players in milt can't play when on furlough
1942 - J Milton Cage Jr's "Imaginary Landscape No 3," premieres in Chicago
1942 - Japanese troops occupy Kalidjati airport in Java
1942 - Suriname camp for NSB people opens to save Jews
1942 - Tito establishes 2nd Proletarit Brigade in Bosnia
1943 - Jewish old age home for disabled in Amsterdam raided
1944 - Massive strikes in Northern Italian towns
1944 - U-358 sinks in Atlantic
1945 - British 43rd Division under Gen Essame occupies Xanten
1945 - Chinese 30th division occupies Hsenwi
1945 - FDR announces success of Yalta Conference
1945 - Fieldmarshal Kesselring succeeds von Rundstedt as commander
1945 - US infantry regiment captures Mönchengladbach
1946 - British government takes control of Bank of England, after 252 years
1946 - Panama accepts its new constitution
1946 - The Bank of England is nationalised.
1947 - International Monetary Fund begins operation
1949 - Joe Louis retires as heavyweight boxing champ
1949 - The Browns, owners of Sportsman's Park, move to evict the Cardinals
1949 - Indonesia seizes Yogyakarta from the Dutch.
1950 - Chiang Kai-shek resumed the presidency of National China on Formosa
1950 - Klaus Fuchs sentenced to 14 years for atomic espionage (London)
1950 - USSR issues golden rubles
1952 - Egyptian government-Ali Maher Pasja resigns
1952 - Helgoland, in North Sea, returned to West Germany by Britain
1953 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Open
1953 - KAUZ TV channel 6 in Wichita Falls, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 - KTNT (now KSTW) TV channel 11 in Tacoma-Seattle, WA (IND) begins
1953 - WJZ-AM in NYC becomes WABC; WJZ-TV in Baltimore final transmission
1953 - WTAJ TV channel 10 in Altoona, PA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 - Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses. He dies four days later.
1954 - 4 Puerto Ricans open fire in US house of reps injuring 5 reps
1954 - In spring training, Ted Williams breaks his collarbone
1954 - Rebellion during visit of pres Naguib in Khartoum Sudan, 30 die
1954 - US explodes 15 megaton hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll
1954 - Ted Williams fractures collarbone in 1st game of spring training after flying 39 combat
           missions without injury in Korean War
1955 - Israeli assault on Gaza, kills 48
1955 - KFAR (now KATN) TV channel 2 in Fairbanks, AK (ABC/NBC) 1st broadcast
1955 - Pakistan v India 5 Test Cricket series ends in a 0-0 draw
1956 - The International Air Transport Association finalizes a draft of the Radiotelephony spelling
          alphabet for the International Civil Aviation Organization.
1957 - "Ziegfeld Follies of 1957" opens at Winter Garden NYC for 123 perfs
1957 - KTWO TV channel 2 in Casper, WY (NBC/ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting
1957 - Kokomo the Chimp becomes Today Show animal editor
1958 - Gary Sobers 365* v Pak, 614 min, 38 fours, best Cricket before Lara
1958 - Sobers completes 446 stand for 2nd wicket with Conrad Hunte, 260
1958 - West Indies cricket declare at stumps score of 3-790 decl v Pakistan
1958 - Samuel Alphonsus Stritch, is appointed Pro-Prefect of the Propagation of Faith and thus
           becomes the first American member of the Roman Curia.
1959 - Archbishop Makarios returns to Cyprus after 3 years
1959 - Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Golden Triangle Festival Golf Tournament
1961 - Cellist Jacqueline du Prés debut in Wigmore Hall
1961 - President Kennedy establishes the Peace Corp
1962 - American Airlines 707 plunges nose 1st into Jamaica Bay NY killing 95
1962 - K-Mart opens
1962 - US/British nuclear test experiment in Nevada
1963 - 200,000 French mine workers strike
1965 - Australia suspends champ swimmer Dawn Fraser for 10-yrs for misconduct
1965 - Gas explosion kills 28 in apartment complex (La Salle, Quebec)
1965 - WPSX TV channel 3 in Clearfield, PA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1966 - Ba'ath-party takes power in Syria
1966 - Venera 3 becomes 1st man-made object to impact on a planet (Venus)
1967 - Dominica & St Lucia gain independence from Britain
1967 - House of Reps expels Rep Adam Clayton Powell Jr (307 to 116)
1967 - Queen Elizabeth Hall (South Bank Center) opens in London
1967 - WMET (now WHSW) TV channel 24 in Baltimore, MD (IND) 1st broadcast
1968 - NBC's unprecedented on-air announcement, Star Trek will return
1968 - Pirate Radio Atlantis South (England) begins test transmitting
1968 - Political Party Radikalen (PPR) established in Netherlands
1968 - Singers Johnny Cash (36) & June Carter (38) wed
1968 - Vatican City's Apostolic Constitution of 1967 goes into effect
1969 - "Red, White, & Maddox" closes at Cort Theater NYC after 41 perfs
1969 - After 88 weeks Sgt Pepper drops off the charts
1969 - Jim Morrison arrested for exposing himself at Dinner Key Auditorium
1969 - NY Yankees' Mickey Mantle retires
1969 - Pirate Radio 259 begins operation off the French coast
1970 - Atje Keulen-Deelstra becomes world champion all-round ladies skater
1970 - Charles Manson's album "Lie" is released
1970 - End of US coml whale hunting
1970 - Kreisky's soc-democrats win Austrian parliamentary election
1970 - White government of Rhodesia declares independence from Britain
1971 - Bomb attack on the Capitol in Wash DC
1971 - Clandestine Radio Deutsche Reich (Germany) begins transmitting on FM
1972 - Club of Rome publishes report "Boundaries on the Growth"
1972 - David Rabe's "Sticks & Bones," premieres in NYC
1972 - KHMA TV channel 11 in Houma, LA (IND) begins broadcasting
1972 - Wilt Chamberlain is 1st NBA player to score 30,000 points
1973 - Robert Joffrey Dance Company opens
1973 - Robyn Smith becomes 1st female jockey to win a major race
1974 - George Harrison announces his concert tour of US in November
1974 - Ian & Greg Chappell make 264 partnership v NZ cricket at Wellington
1974 - Watergate grand jury indicts 7 presidential aides
1975 - 17th Grammy Awards: I Honestly Love You, Marvin Hamlisch win
1975 - Eagles' "Best of My Love" reaches #1
1975 - Colour television transmissions begin in Australia.
1977 - Bank of America adopts the name VISA for their credit cards
1977 - US extends territorial waters to 200 miles
1978 - "Timbuktu!" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 243 performances
1978 - Charlie Chaplin's coffin was stolen from a Swiss cemetery
1979 - "Sweeney Todd" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 557 performances
1980 - CTUC, Commonwealth Trade Union Council, established
1980 - Hilbert van der Duim becomes world champion all-round skater
1980 - Patti Smith & MC5 guitarist Fred Sonic Smith wed in Detroit
1980 - Snow falls in Florida
1981 - "Sophisticated Ladies" opens at Lunt-Fontanne NYC for 767 perfs
1981 - Bobby Sands, IRA member, begins 65-day hunger strike (he dies)
1981 - Irish Rep Army Bobby Sand begins hunger strike in Maze Prison
1981 - Sally Little wins LPGA Olympia Gold Golf Classic
1982 - 5 dies as ski lift malfunctions a Luz-Ardiden in Pyrenees
1982 - 5th Emmy Sports Award presentation
1982 - NY Times raises it's price from 25 cents to 30 cents
1982 - Russian spacecraft Venera 14 lands on Venus, sends back data
1983 - Tamara McKinney becomes 1st US woman skier to win the World Cup
1983 - Tornado tears through LA, injuring 33 people
1984 - Landsat 5 & ham satellite Oscar 11 launched into polar orbit
1984 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR #3931 Batten, #4529
          Webern, #4530 Smoluchowski, #4818 Elgar, #5502 Brashear & #5943 Lovi
1985 - Liza Minnelli enters Betty Ford Drug Center
1985 - Milwaukee businessman Herb Kohl purchases the Milwaukee Bucks
1985 - Pentagon accepts theory that atomic war would cause a nuclear winter
1987 - Jane Geddes wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
1988 - Courtney Gibbs Eplin, 21, (Texas), crowned 37th Miss USA
1988 - Iraq says it launched 16 missiles into Tehran
1988 - Pontiac announces the end of the Fiero automobile
1988 - Wayne Gretzky passes Gordie Howe with his record 1,050th NHL assist
1989 - Ben Johnson's coach testifies Johnson began using steroids in 1981
1989 - Comet du Toit at perihelion
1989 - Julianne Philips & Bruce Springsteen divorce
1989 - The United States becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1990 - Benin nullifies its constitution
1990 - Luis Alberto Lacelle sworn in as president of Uruguay
1990 - Steve Jackson Games is raided by the United States Secret Service, prompting the later
          formation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
1991 - US Embassy in Kuwait officially reopens
1992 - "Little Hotel on the Side" closes at Belasco NYC after 41 perfs
1992 - "Visit" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 45 performances
1992 - Jenny Thompson swims 100m freestyle world record (1:01.40)
1992 - Nelson Diebel swims 100m freestyle US record (54.48 secs)
1993 - Authorities in Waco, Texas negotiate with Branch Davidians
1993 - George Steinbenner is reinstated as owner of NY Yankees
1993 - New expansion NHL team, owned by Disney, is named the Mighty Ducks
1994 - 36th Grammy Awards: I Will Always Love You, Toni Braxton wins
1994 - Martti Ahtisaari inaugurated as president of Finland
1994 - Senate rejectes a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution
1995 - 37th Grammy Awards: All I Want to Do, Streets of Phila, Sheryl Crow
1995 - Belgium ends military conscript
1995 - Jozef Oleksy succeeds Waldemar Pawlak on as premier of Poland
1995 - Julio Maria Sanguinetti sworn in as president of Uruguay
1995 - Part of Houston begins using new area code 281
1995 - Ukraine premier Vitaly Massol, resigns
1996 - Lenny Wilkens, winningest coach in NBA, coaches his 1,000th victory
1996 - New toll-free 888 area code introduced
1996 - Plans approved allowing traffic cameras High Harrington & Shap England
1997 - "Mandy Patinkin in Concert," opens at Lyceum Theater NYC
1997 - 5th annual ESPY Awards shown on TV
1998 - "Art," opens at Royale Theater NYC
1998 - Australian Ladies Masters Golf
2000 - The Constitution of Finland is rewritten.
2000 - Hans Blix assumes the position of Executive Chairman of UNMOVIC.
2002 - The peseta is discontinued as official currency of Spain and is replaced with the euro (€).
2002 - U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins in eastern Afghanistan.
2002 - The Envisat environmental satellite successfully reaches an orbit 800 kilometers (500 miles)
           above the Earth on its 11th launch, carrying the heaviest payload to date at 8500 kilograms
           (9.5 tons).
2003 - Management of the United States Customs Service and the United States Secret Service
          move to the United States Department of Homeland Security.
2004 - Terry Nichols is convicted of state murder charges and being an accomplice to Oklahoma City
          bomber Timothy McVeigh.
2004 - Mohammed Bahr al-Uloum becomes President of Iraq.
2006 - Tarja Halonen is inaugurated as President of Finland for the second and last time.
2006 - English-language Wikipedia reaches its one millionth article, Jordanhill railway station.
2007 - Tornadoes swarm across the southern United States, killing at least 20; eight of the deaths
            were at a high school in Enterprise, Alabama.
2007 - "Squatters" are evicted from Ungdomshuset in Copenhagen, Denmark, provoking the March
           2007 Denmark Riots.
2012 - Euro zone unemployment reaches historical high of 10.7%

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 01, 2013, 10:27:53 AM

This Day in History for 1st March


Famous Weddings

1434 - Jacqueline, Countess of Haintaut formally marries Frank van Borssele 2 years after first
           secretly marrying him
1968 - Singer-songwriter and actress June Carter (38) weds singer-songwriter Johnny Cash (36) at
           a church in Franklin, Kentucky
1987 - "The Last Picture Show" actress Cybill Shepherd (37) weds Dr. Bruce Oppenheim (38) in San
            Fernando Valley
2003 - "The Silence of the Lambs" actor Anthony Hopkins (65) weds actress-producer Stella
            Arroyave (47) in Malibu, California

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Post by: MysteRy on March 01, 2013, 10:29:13 AM

This Day in History for 1st March


Famous Divorces

1989 - Julianne Philips & Bruce Springsteen divorce
1989 - "Baywatch" actor David Hasselhoff (37) divorces actress Catherine Hickland (33) after nearly 5
            years of marriage
2002 - "12 Angry Men" actor Edward James Olmos (55) divorces "Sopranos" actress Lorraine Bracco
           (47) after 8 years of marriage
2005 - Former Full House actor John Stamos (41) divorces X-Men actress Rebecca Romijn-Stamos
           (31) after 5 years of marriage

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Post by: MysteRy on March 01, 2013, 10:39:21 AM

This Day in History for 1st March


Famous Birthdays

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Composer Frederic Chopin (1810)           Nobel Prize Winning Chemist
                                                               Archer John Porter Martin (1910)

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Actor Jensen Ackles (1978)                     Pop Singer Justin Bieber (1994)


40 - Martial, Latin poet (d. 102)
772   - Po Tjiu-i, Chinese poet/governor of Hang-tsjow
1432 - Isabel of Coimbra, queen of Portugal (d. 1455)
1445 - Sandro Botticelli, Florentine Renaissance painter (Birth of Venus), probable date of birth
1456 - Wladyslaw Jagiello, king of Bohemia/Hungary (1471/90-1516)
1494 - Il Bacchiacca, [Franceso Ubertini], Italian painter
1528 - Albrecht V von Wittelsbach, [the Generous], duke of Bavaria
1547 - Rudolph Goclenius, German philosopher (d. 1628)
1597 - Jean-Charles de la Faille, Belgian mathematician (d. 1652)
1607 - Giovanni Francesco Milanta, composer
1610 - Johann B Schup, [Schuppius], German poet/historian
1610 - John Pell, English mathematician (d. 1685)
1630 - Ferdinand van Apshoven de Jongere, Flemish painter, baptized
1657 - Samuel Werenfels, Swiss theologian (d. 1740)
1683 - Caroline of Ansbach, wife of George II of Great Britain (d. 1737)
1690 - Conrad Johann Conrad Beissel, composer
1703 - Dieudonne Raick, composer
1709 - Josef Antonin Gurecky, composer
1711 - Peregrinus Pogl, composer
1732 - William Cushing, 2nd Chief Justice of the United States. (d. 1810)
1734 - Pieter Valck[ x ], South Netherland sculptor
1760 - François Nicolas Leonard Buzot, French revolutionary (d. 1794)
1771 - Armand-Emmanuel Trial, composer
1779 - Jacob Gottfried Weber, composer
1780 - Leonard PJ du Bus de Gisignies, gov-general of Neth Indies (1826-30)
1788 - Gheorghe Asachi, Romania, writer/humanist/politician
1799 - Alexey Nikolayevich Verstovsky, composer
1807 - Wilford Woodruff, fourth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d.
           1898)
1810 - Frederic Chopin, Poland, composer/pianist (Concert in F Minor) [NS]
1811 - Robert Christie Buchanan, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1878
1812 - Augustus Pugin, English-born architect (d. 1852)
1817 - Giovanni Duprè, Italian sculptor (d. 1882)
1820 - George Davis, Atty Gen (Confederacy), died in 1896
1820 - Richard Redhead, composer
1821 - Joseph Hubert Reinkens, German Catholic bishop (d. 1896)
1822 - Albin Francisco Schoepf, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1886
1822 - Charles Champion Gilbert, Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
1826 - John Thomas, composer
1828 - James Fleming Fagan, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1893
1828 - Vittorio Bersezio, [Carlo Nugelli], Italian playwright
1831 - Hiram Bronson Granbury, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
1832 - Friedrich Grutzmacher, composer
1835 - Matthias J Scheeben, German theologist (Natur und Gnade)
1837 - Ion Creanga, Romanian fairy tale author (Amintiti the Copilarie)
1837 - William Dean Howells, US, novelist/critic/editor (Atlantic)
1838 - Gabriele dell' Addolorata, [Francesco Possenti], Italian priest
1841 - Blanche Kelso Bruce, Virginia, (Sen-Miss, 1875-1881)
1841 - Romualdo Marenco, composer
1842 - Nicholaos Gysis, Greek painter (d. 1901)
1848 - Augustus Saint-Gaudens, US, sculptor/designer (1907 $20 gold piece)
1852 - Theophile Delcasse, French statesman
1856 - Florimond Fonteyne, Flemish priest/politician (Volkseeuw)
1858 - Georg Simmel, German philosopher/sociologist
1860 - Suzanna Salter, 1st US female mayor/temperance leader
1863 - Alexander Golovin, Russian painter (d. 1930)
1865 - Gerard Vissering, Dutch banker/president (Bank of Java)
1865 - Abe Iso, Japanese politician (d. 1949)
1871 - Ben Harney, American composer and ragtime pianist (d. 1938)
1874 - Jean de Merode, [Marie-Louise B Courtenay], Princess of Neth
1876 - Henri de Baillet-Latour, Belgian IOC president (d. 1942)
1878 - Gabriel Edouard Xavier Dupont, composer
1880 - Julian Myrick, promoter of junior tennis
1880 - Lytton Strachey, biographer/critic (Benson Medal 1923)
1882 - Ida Moore, Altoona Ks, actress (Mr Music, Ma & Pa Kettle at Waikiki)
1883 - Thomas Shelvin, college footballer great (Yale)
1885 - Lionel Atwill, English/US actor (Mystery of the Wax Museum)
1886 - Oskar Kokoschka, Russia/Austrian/British, painter (Erasmus Prize 1960)
1888 - Ewart Astill, English cricketer (d. 1948)
1889 - Watsuji Tetsuro, Japanese philosopher (d. 1960)
1890 - Jan Duiker, Dutch architect (Zonnestral)
1892 - Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Japan, writer (Rashomon in Kappa)
1893 - Theo Frenkel, actor (Footlights, Hague's Comedy)
1893 - Mercedes de Acosta, American socialite (d. 1968)
1895 - G B "Duke" Keats, hockey hall of fame (elected 1958)
1896 - Dimitri Mitropoulos, Athens Greece, conductor/composer
1896 - Moriz Seeler, German writer and producer (d. 1942)
1899 - Erich von dem Bach, Nazi official (d. 1972)
1900 - Edna Swithenbank Manley, Jamaican sculptor, wife of PM
1900 - Yorgos Seferis, [Seferi dis], Greek diplomat/poet (Strofi)
1900 - Donald Keith Falkner, singer
1903 - Leon Bismarck "Bix" Beiderbecke, Iowa, jazz cornetist (In a Mist)
1904 - Glenn Miller, bandleader (Glenn Miller Orchestra-In the Mood)
1904 - Paul Hartman, SF California, actor (Bert-Petticoat Junction)
1905 - Pol le Roy, Flemish author/novelist/writer (Stroom)
1905 - Doris Hare, Welsh actress (d. 2000)
1907 - Lois Moran, Pitts, actress (Mom-Waterfront)
1909 - Richard de Guide, composer
1909 - Robert Selby Taylor, bishop
1909 - Terence De Marney, England, actor (Case Thomas-Johnny Ringo)
1910 - David Niven, London UK, actor (Casino Royale, The Pink Panther)
1910 - Archer John Porter Martin, English chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2002)
1911 - Harry Golombek, chess grandmaster
1912 - Gerald Emmett Cardinal Carter, archbishop of Toronto (d. 2003)
1913 - Helmut Erich Robert Gernsheim, photogrpaher/collector
1914 - Archibald J Gumede, S Afr ANC member/chairman (UDF)
1914 - Ralph Waldo Ellison, US writer (Invisible Man, Shadow & Cast)
1914 - Harry Caray, American sportscaster (d. 1998)
1917 - Dinah Shore, Winchester Tenn, singer (See the USA in a Chevrolet)
1917 - Robert Lowell, poet/pacifist (Lord Weary's Castle, Near the Ocean)
1918 - Roger Delgado, London, actor (Agent 8 3/4, Hot Enought for June)
1918 - Gladys Noon Spellman, American politician (d. 1988)
1920 - Alfred Grant Goodman, composer
1920 - Harry Caray, baseball announcer (Chicago Cubs)
1920 - Howard Nemerov, US, 3rd US poet laureate/novelist (Blue Swallows)
1920 - Max Bentley, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1984)
1921 - Jack Clayton, film director
1921 - Richard Wilbur, 2nd US Poet Laureate (Ceremony, Walking to Sleep)
1921 - Terrence "Cardinal" Cooke, (NY)
1922 - William M Gaines, publisher (MAD Magazine)
1922 - Yitzak Rabin, premier (Israel, 1992-95, Nobel 1994)
1923 - Bonita Granville, actress/producer (Perry Mason)
1923 - Duncan White, Ceylon, 400m hurdler (Olympic-silver-1948)
1923 - Kuczka Péter, Hungarian writer and editor (d. 1999)
1924 - Donald "Deke" Kent Slayton, Sparta Wisc, Major USAF/astro (Apollo 18)
1925 - Al Rosen, Spartanburg SC, 3rd baseman (AL MVP 1953)/NY Yankee pres
1926 - Cesare Danova, Rome Italy, actor (Garrison's Gorillas)
1926 - Pete Rozelle, NFL commissioner (1960-89)
1926 - Robert Clary, Paris France, actor (LeBeau-Hogan's Heroes)
1927 - Harry Belafonte, Harlem NYC, calypso singer (Buck & the Preacher)
1927 - Lusine Amara, opera/concert singer
1927 - Robert Heron Bork, judge, nominated for supreme court, (d. 2012)
1928 - Seymour Papert, South African mathematician
1928 - Jacques Rivette, French film director
1929 - Sonny James, singer (Young Love, Running Bear)
1929 - Georgi Markov, Bulgarian dissident (d. 1978)
1930 - C D Gopinath, cricketer (batted in 8 Tests for India in the 1950's)
1930 - Pierre Max Dubois, composer
1930 - Raymond St Jacques, actor/director (Cotton Comes to Harlem, Mr Moses)
1930 - Gastone Nencini, Italian cyclist (d. 1980)
1932 - Jacques Leduc, composer
1933 - Istvan Lang, composer
1933 - Joan Hackett, NY, actress (Will Penny, One Stone Pony)
1933 - Myrlie Evers, politician/commissioner (LA Board of Public works)
1934 - Jim "Ed" Brown, Sparkman Ark, country singer (Nashville on the Road)
1934 - Riet [M J J] Roosen-van Pelt, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (CDA)
1935 - Judith Rossner, author (Looking for Mr Goodbar)
1935 - Robert Conrad, [Conrad R Falk], Chicago, actor (Wild Wild West)
1936 - Camille E Baly, St Maartens poet (Sonny)
1936 - Jean-Edern Hallier, writer
1936 - Marion Farouk-Sluglett, political scientist
1936 - Monique Bégin, French-Canadian politician
1937 - Jed Allan, Bronx NY, actor (Days of our Lives, CC-Santa Barbara)
1938 - Michael J[oseph] Kurland, US, sci-fi author (Infernal Device)
1939 - Leo Brouwer, composer
1939 - Warren Davis, rocker (Monotones)
1940 - David Broome, Show Jumper (world champ-1970)
1940 - Ralph Towner, rocker (Oregon)
1940 - Robert Grossman, American illustrator
1941 - Michael L Lampton, Williamsport Pa, astronaut
1942 - Jerry Fischer, rocker (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
1942 - Peter Guber, producer (Flashdance)
1942 - Richard Bowman Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
1943 - Benjamin W Jipcho, Mt Elgon Kenya, 3K steeplechase (Oly-silver-1972)
1943 - Franz Hohler, writer
1943 - Mauro Checcoli, Italy, 3 day equestrian (Olympic-gold-1964)
1943 - Piet Veerman, Dutch rock vocalist/guitarist (Cats-Sailin' Home)
1943 - Wolfgang Scheidel, German DR, luge (Olympic-gold-1972)
1943 - Gil Amelio, American venture capitalist
1943 - Akinori Nakayama, Japanese gymnast
1943 - Richard H. Price, American physicist
1943 - Rashid Sunyaev, Russian physicist
1943 - José Ángel Iribar, Spanish footballer
1944 - Dirk Benedict, Helena Mont, actor (A-Team, Battlestar Galactica)
1944 - John B Breaux, (Rep-D-LA, 1972-88)
1944 - John Napier, London, set designer (Royal Shakesphere Company)
1944 - Mike D'Abo, rock vocalist (Manfred Mann-Mighty Quinn)
1944 - Roger Daltrey, English rocker/actor/producer (The Who-Tommy)
1946 - Lana Wood, [Svetlana Gurdin], Santa Rosa California, (Diamonds are Forever)
1946 - Tony Ashton, Blackburn England, rocker (Ashton, Gardner & Dyke)
1946 - Gerry Boulet, French-Canadian singer (d. 1990)
1947 - Alan Thicke, Ontario, actor/host (Thicke of the Night, Growing Pains)
1948 - Burning Spear, [Winston Rodney], Jamaican reggae singer
1948 - Norman Connors, singer (You Are My Starship)
1949 - Sido Martens, Dutch guitarist/singer/mandolin player (Fungus)
1950 - Shahid Israr, Pakistani cricket wicket-keeper (in one Test v NZ 1976)
1951 - Barbara DeAngelis, talk show hostess (Barbara DeAngelis Show)
1952 - Alice Ritzman, Kalispell MT, LPGA golfer (1995 Rochester Intl-5th)
1952 - David Allen Barr, Kelowna BC, PGA golfer (Atlanta Golf Classic)
1952 - Steven Barnes, American writer
1952 - Leigh Matthews, Australian rules footballer
1952 - Martin O'Neill, Northern Irish footballer and manager
1953 - Bandula Warnapura, cricketer (1st Sri Lanka Test captain)
1953 - Ron Howard, Oklahoma, actor/director (American Graffiti, Happy Days)
1954 - Catherine Bach, Warren Oh, actress (Daisey Duke-Dukes of Hazzard)
1954 - Janis Gill, Torrance Cal, singer (Sweethearts of Rodeo-Midnight Girl)
1955 - Jimmy Fortune, Newport News Va, singer (Statler Bros-Class of '57)
1956 - Balwinder Singh Sandhu, cricketer (Sikh pace bowler 1983 World Cup)
1956 - Mark Todd, UK, NZ equestrian 3 day event (Olympics-96)
1956 - Timothy Daly, Sufferin NY, actor (Joe-Wings, Diner, Made in Heaven)
1957 - Jon Carroll, Wash DC, vocalist (Starland Vocal Band-Afternoon Delight)
1958 - Nik Kershaw, singer/songwriter (Wouldn't it be Good)
1958 - Wayne B Phillips, cricket wicket-keeper (Australia)
1958 - Bertrand Piccard, Swiss balloonist and psychiatrist
1958 - Chosei Komatsu, Japanese conductor
1960 - Alicia Dibos, Lima Peru, LPGA golfer (1994 US Women's Open-4th)
1961 - Davis Daniel, Arlington Heights Ill, country singer
1961 - Mike Rozier, NFL halfback (Heisman Trophy-1983, Houston, Atlanta)
1962 - Bill Leen, rocker (Gin Blossoms)
1962 - Mark Gardner, LA California, pitcher (SF Giants)
1963 - Arnold Oosterveer, soccer player (SC Heerenveen)
1963 - Barb[ara] Marois, Auburn Mass, field hockey defender (Olympics-96)
1963 - Magnus Svensson, Leksand Swe, NHL defenseman (Florida Panthers)
1963 - Maurice Benard, actor (Sonny Corinthos-General Hospital)
1963 - Robert James Affuso, Newburgh NY, rock drummer (Skid Row-Psycho Love)
1963 - Ron Francis, Sault Ste Marie, NHL center (Pitts Penguins, Team Canada)
1963 - Tony Castillo, Lara Venezuela, pitcher (Toronto Blue Jays)
1963 - Thomas Anders, German singer (Modern Talking)
1963 - Dan Michaels, American musician and record producer
1964 - Jennifer McCarters, Sevierville Tn, singer (McCarters-The Gift)
1964 - Paul Le Guen, French football manager
1964 - Clinton Gregory, Martinsville, Virginia, American country and bluegrass singer-songwriter
          (Play, Ruby, Play)
1965 - Les Miller, defensive end (Carolina Panthers)
1965 - Stewart Elliott, Canadian jockey
1965 - Booker Huffman, American professional wrestler
1966 - John David Cullum, actor (1776, Sweet Country, Day After)
1966 - Luis Sojo, Barquisimeto Venezuela, infielder (Seattle Mariners)
1966 - Steve Reed, LA California, pitcher (Colorado Rockies)
1967 - Aron Winter, Surnamese/Dutch soccer star (Ajax, Lazio)
1967 - Yelena Afanasyeva, Russian athlete
1967 - George Eads, American actor
1968 - Salil Ankola, cricketer (Indian pace bowler one Test 1989)
1968 - Sanjeeva Weerasinghe, cricketer (Test for Sri Lanka v India at 17)
1969 - Azam Khan, cricketer (Pakistan ODI batsman 1996)
1969 - Doug Creek, Winchester VA, pitcher (SF Giants)
1969 - Vincenzo Esposito, NBA guard (Toronto Raptors)
1969 - Javier Bardem, Spanish actor
1969 - Dafydd Ieuan, Welsh drummer (Super Furry Animals)
1970 - Lisa Eagen, Harlan Iowa, team handball wing/back court (Olympics-1996)
1970 - Ray Crittenden, wide receiver (San Diego Chargers)
1970 - Stuart Thompson, Australian baseball infielder (Olympics-1996)
1971 - Allen Johnson, Wash DC, long jumper/110m hurdler (Olympics-gold-96)
1971 - Andre Karnebeek, soccer player (FC Twente)
1971 - Austin Robbins, NFL defensive tackle (Oakland Raiders, NO Saints)
1971 - Shepherd Clark, Atlanta Ga, figure skater (1994, 97 Eastern Sr champ)
1971 - Tim Prinsen, CFL offensive linebacker (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1971 - Tyler Hamilton, Marblehead Mass, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1971 - Zahoor Elahi, cricketer (Pakistan opening batsman v NZ 1996)
1972 - Omar Daal, Maracaibo Venezuela, pitcher (Montreal Expos)
1972 - Profail Grier, CFL running back (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1973 - Chris Webber, NBA forward (Washington Bullets/Wizards)
1973 - Igor Murin, Trencin CZE, hockey goaltender (Team Slovakia 1998)
1973 - Jack Davenport, English actor
1973 - Carlo Resoort, Dutch DJ
1974 - Mark-Paul Gosselaar, actor (Zack-Saved by the Bell)
1974 - Stephen Davis, running back (Washington Redskins)
1975 - Maria Jose Suarez, Miss Universe-Spain (1996)
1976 - Maringo Vlijter, soccer player (Go Ahead Eagles)
1976 - Peter F. Bell, Australian rules footballer
1976 - Dave Malkoff, American TV News Reporter
1977 - Rod White, Sharon Pa, archer (Olympics-gold-1996)
1977 - Rens Blom, Dutch athlete
1977 - Esther Cañadas, Spanish actress and supermodel
1978 - Jensen Ackles, American actor (Days of our Lives)
1978 - Donovan Patton, Guamanian television star
1978 - Alicia Leigh Willis, American actress
1980 - Rose VBL Windsor, daughter of English prince Richard
1980 - Shahid Afridi, cricketer (ton in 37 balls in 1st ODI innings)
1980 - Djimi Traoré, Malian footballer
1980 - Abdur Rehman, Pakistani cricketer
1981 - Ana Hickmann, Brazilian supermodel
1981 - Adam LaVorgna, American actor
1981 - Will Power, Australian racing driver
1981 - Brad Winchester, American ice hockey player
1983 - Daniel Carvalho, Brazilian footballer
1983 - Elan Sara DeFan, Mexican singer-songwriter
1983 - Chris Hackett, English footballer
1983 - Blake Hawksworth, Canadian baseball player
1984 - Naima Mora, American model
1984 - Alexander Steen, Canadian-born Swedish ice hockey player
1985 - Andreas Ottl, German footballer
1985 - Jeremy Jacob "J" Leman, Champaign Illinois, American Football Player
1986 - Jonathan Spector, American soccer player
1987 - Sammie Bush, Boyton Beach Florida, American R&B singer ("I Like It")
1988 - Katija Pevec, American actress
1989 - Sonya Kitchell, American singer
1989 - Carlos Vela, Mexican footballer
1990 - Nikolas Tsattalios, Australian soccer player
1990 - Harry Eden, English actor
1994 - Justin Bieber, London Ontario, Canadian pop singer (Baby, One Time)

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Post by: MysteRy on March 01, 2013, 10:42:03 AM

This Day in History for 1st March


Famous Deaths

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Actor Jackie Coogan (1984)


589 - Saint David, Patron Saint of Wales (b. 500)
965 - Leo VIII, Italian (anti-)Pope (963-65), dies
986 - King Lothair of France (b. 941)
1131 - Stephen II, King of Hungary (1116-31), dies
1233 - Count Thomas I of Savoy (b. 1178)
1244 - Gruffydd ap Llywelyn Fawr, son of Llywelyn the Great (b. 1200)
1383 - Amadeus VI, (Green Earl), earl of Savoy, dies at 49
1510 - Francisco de Almeida, Portuguese soldier, explorer and 1st Viceroy of India dies at Table Bay, Africa at about 59
1535 - Bernardo Accolti, [Unico Aretino], Italian writer (Virginia), dies
1546 - George Wishart, Scottish religious reformer (martyred) (b 1513)
1619 - Thomas Campion, English physician/composer/poet (Poemata), dies at 53
1633 - George Herbert, English poet, dies at 39
1643 - Girolamo Frescobaldi, Italian composer/organist, dies at 59
1661 - Richard Zouch, English jurist (b. 1590)
1693 - Benedict Schultheiss, composer, dies at 39
1697 - Francesco Redi, Italian physician (b. 1626)
1706 - Heino Heinrich Graf von Flemming, German field marshal and Governor of Berlin (b. 1632)
1734 - Roger North, English biographer (b. 1653)
1757 - Edward Moore, English writer (b. 1712)
1768 - Hermann Samuel Reimarus, German philosopher and writer (b. 1694)
1771 - Isfrid Kayser, composer, dies at 58
1773 - Jan Wagenaar, Dutch historian, dies at 63
1773 - Luigi Vanvitelli, [Louis van Wittel], Italian architect, dies at 72
1777 - Georg Christoph Wagenzeil, Austria (court) composer/pianist, dies at 62
1788 - Orazio Mei, composer, dies at 56
1792 - Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1747)
1797 - Juan Manuel Olivares, composer, dies at 36
1804 - Wolfgang Nicolaus Haueisen, composer, dies at 63
1817 - Luigi Gatti, composer, dies at 77
1826 - J J Friedrich Weinbrenner, German architect/archaeologist, dies at 59
1841 - Claude Victor-Perrin, duc de Belluno, French marshal (b. 1764)
1859 - Josef Theodor Krov, composer, dies at 61
1862 - Peter Barlow, English mathematician (b. 1776)
1865 - Anna Paulowna Romanova, great monarch of Russia, dies at 70
1869 - Alphonse MLP de Lamartine, Fr poet (History of Girondins), dies at 78
1870 - Francisco S Lopez, Pres of Paraguay (1862-70), dies at 43
1875 - Tristan Corbière, French poet (b. 1845)
1879 - Joachim Heer, Swiss politician (b. 1825)
1884 - Isaac Todhunter, English mathematician (b. 1820)
1892 - Archibald Scott, Scottish chemist, dies at 60
1896 - Albertone, Italian general (Eritrea), dies in battle
1896 - Arimondi, Italian general (Eritrea), dies in battle
1896 - Vittorio Dabormida, Italian general (Eritrea), dies in battle
1898 - George Bruce Malleson, English officer in India, author (b. 1825)
1899 - Gyorgy earl Apponyi, Hungarian MP, dies at 90
1906 - José María de Pereda, Spanish novelist (b. 1833)
1911 - Jacobus H van 't Hoff, Dutch chemist/physicist (Nobel 1901), dies at 58
1912 - George Grossmith, English actor and comic writer (b. 1847)
1914 - Tor Bernhard Vilhelm Aulin, composer, dies at 47
1914 - Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto (b. 1845)
1918 - Johan Gustaf Emil Sjogren, composer, dies at 64
1920 - Joseph Trumpeldor, killed defending Tel-Mai against arab attack
1920 - John H. Bankhead, U.S. Senator (b. 1842)
1921 - Nicholas Petrovic Njegos, King of Montenegro (1910-18), dies at 79
1922 - Rafael Moreno Aranzadi, Spanish footballer (b. 1892)
1924 - Louise MA, princess of Belgium, dies at 66
1926 - Camilo d'Almeida Pessanha, Portuguese poet (China), dies at 58
1928 - Albert Herbert Brewer, composer, dies at 62
1928 - Jacob Adolf Hagg, composer, dies at 77
1929 - Royal H. Weller, American politician (b. 1881)
1932 - Dino Campana, Italian poet (Canti Orfici), dies at 46
1932 - Frank Teschemacher, American jazz clarinetist (b. 1906)
1933 - Uładzimir Zylka, Belarusian poet (b. 1900)
1938 - G D'Annunzio, writer, dies at 74
1938 - Gabrielle d'Annunzio, Italian poet/fascist (Il fuoco), dies at 74
1940 - Josef Swickard, actor (Lost City, Tale of 2 Cities), dies at 73
1940 - Anton Hansen Tammsaare, Estonian author (b. 1878)
1942 - George S. Rentz, Navy Chaplain (b. 1882)
1944 - ... Formans, director Milos Formans mother, dies in Auschwitz
1947 - J Boogaard, nazi collaborator, executed
1952 - Mariano Azuela, Mexican novelist (b. 1873)
1953 - Anton GO Ridder Van Rappard, painter/lithographer/etcher, dies
1958 - Giacomo Balla, Italian painter, dies at 86
1962 - Roscoe Ates, actor (Dep Roscoe-Marshal of Gunsight Pass), dies at 70
1963 - Irish Meusel, American baseball player (b. 1893)
1963 - Jorge Daponte, Argentine racing driver (b. 1923)
1964 - Sergius Kagen, composer, dies at 54
1965 - Boleslav Vomacka, composer, dies at 77
1966 - Fritz Houtermans, German physicist (b. 1903)
1968 - G v d Vring, writer, dies
1968 - Georg von der Vring, German painter (Camp Lafayette), dies at 78
1970 - Ed[uard] Hoornik, Dutch writer/poet (Na jaren), dies at 59
1970 - Lucille Hegamin, American singer and entertainer (b. 1894)
1972 - Victor Babin, composer, dies at 63
1974 - Jos de Haes, Flemish philological/poet (Azuren Holte), dies at 53
1974 - Bobby Timmons, American jazz pianist (b. 1935)
1976 - Jean Martinon, French conductor/composer, dies at 66
1979 - Dolores Costello, actress (Noah's Ark, Expensive Women), dies at 73
1979 - Molla Mustafa Barzani, Iranian Kurd leader (KDP), dies at 75
1980 - John Jacob Niles, composer, dies at 87
1980 - Dixie Dean, English footballer (b. 1907)
1980 - Wilhelmina, high-fashion model and owner of model agency (b. 1940)
1984 - Jackie Coogan, actor (Uncle Fester-Addams Family), dies at 69
1985 - Eugene List, US concert pianist, dies at 66
1988 - Jean Le Poulain, actor (Divine), dies at 63
1988 - Joe Besser, comedian (3's Stooges, Abbott & Costello), dies at 80
1989 - Henk van Stipriaan, Dutch radio host, dies at 64
1989 - Josephine van Gasteren, Dutch actress/dir (Bluejackets), dies at 72
1990 - Claude Spaak, Belgian dramatist, dies
1991 - Edwin H Land, inventor (Polaroid Camera), dies at 81
1991 - Katharine Blake, actress (To Have & To Hold), dies at 62
1991 - Scott Huston, composer, dies at 74
1993 - Luis Kutner, US co-founder (Amnesty International), dies at 84
1993 - Terry Frost, actor (Waterfront, Dead Man's Trail), dies at 86
1994 - Eliseo Diego, Cuban poet, dies at 74
1994 - Jacob "Jimmy" Herman Huizinga, journalist/writer, dies at 75
1994 - Manmohan Desai, filmmaker, dies at 57
1994 - Timothy Andrew James Souster, composer Musician, dies at 51
1994 - Walter Kent, US composer (I'll Be Home for Christmas), dies at 82
1995 - Edmund Boyd Fisher, publisher, dies at 56
1995 - Vladislav Listyev, Russian TV-journalist, murdered at 38
1996 - Margaret McKay, politician, dies at 85
2000 - Dennis Danell, American guitarist (Social Distortion) (b. 1961)
2005 - Peter Malkin Israeli secret agent (b. 1927)
2006 - Harry Browne, American politician and author (b. 1933)
2006 - Johnny Jackson, American musician (b. 1951)
2006 - Peter Osgood, English footballer (b. 1947)
2010 - Kristian Digby, British television presenter and director (b. 1977)
2012 - Andrew Breitbart, American conservative blogger and publisher, dies at 43

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Post by: MysteRy on March 02, 2013, 11:23:39 AM

This Day in History for 2nd March


Historical Events

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King of England King Charles                        Outlaw Jesse James                          Baseball Great Babe Ruth

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US President John F. Kennedy                       Actress/Singer Bette Midler                          Pop Star Madonna

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Baseball Player Darryl Strawberry


871 - Battle at Marton: Ethelred van Wessex beats Danish invasion army
986 - Louis V becomes King of the Franks.
1121 - Dirk VI becomes count of Holland
1127 - Assassination of Charles the Good, Count of Flanders.
1458 - Hussite George van Podiebrad chosen king of Bohemia
1498 - Vasco da Gama's fleet visits Mozambique Island
1629 - English king Charles I leaces house of commons
1675 - Prince William III installed as governor of Overijssel
1717 - The Loves of Mars and Venus becomes the first ballet performed in England.
1776 - Americans begin shelling British troops in Boston
1789 - Pennsylvania ends prohibition of theatrical performances
1791 - Long-distance communication speeds up with the unveiling of a semaphore machine in Paris.
1799 - Congress standardizes US weights & measures
1807 - Congress bans slave trade effective January 1, 1808
1808 - The inaugural meeting of the Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned
           society, was held in Edinburgh.
1815 - Signing of Kandyan treaty by British invaders and Sri Lankan King.
1817 - 1st Evangelical church building dedicated, New Berlin, Penn
1819 - Territory of Arkansas organized
1819 - US passed its 1st immigration law
1824 - Interstate commerce comes under federal control
1825 - 1st grand opera in US sung in English, NYC
1829 - New England Asylum for the Blind, 1st in US, incorporated, Boston
1831 - John Frazee becomes 1st US sculptor to receive a federal commission
1836 - Republic of Texas declares independence from Mexico
1842 - The Grand National steeplechase at Aintree near Liverpool England is won by Gaylad, ridden
           by Tom Olliver.
1853 - Territory of Washington organized after separating from Oregon Ter
1855 - Aleksandr Romanov becomes tsar of Russia
1858 - Frederick Cook, New Orleans, patents a cotton-bale metallic tie
1861 - Government Printing Office purchases 1st printing plant, Washington
1861 - US creates Dakota & Nevada Territories out of the Nebraska & Utah ter
1863 - Congress authorizes track width of 4'8½" for Union Pacific RR
1865 - British newspaper "Morning Chronicle" begins publishing
1865 - Freedman's Bureau founded for Black Education, 1865
1865 - Gen Early's army is defeated at Waynesborough
1865 - Second Taranaki War: The Volkner Incident in New Zealand.
1866 - 1st US company to make sewing needles by machine incorporated, Conn
1867 - 1st Reconstruction act passed by US Congress
1867 - US Congress abolishes peonage in New Mexico
1867 - US Congress created the Department of Education
1867 - Jesse James gang robs bank in Savannah Missouri, 1 dead
1867 - US Congress creates the Department of Education
1868 - University of Illinois opens
1874 - Baseball batter's box is officially adopted
1877 - Rutherford B Hayes (R) declared president despite Samuel J Tilden (D) winning the popular
           vote, but is 1 electoral vote shy of victory
1887 - American Trotting Association organized in Detroit
1888 - The Convention of Constantinople is signed, guaranteeing free maritime passage through the
           Suez Canal during war and peace.
1889 - Kansas passes 1st US antitrust
1890 - Oscar Fredriksen skates world record 5 km (9:19)
1893 - 1st federal railroad legislation passed; required safety features
1896 - George Lohmann takes 9-28 v South Africa at Johannesburg
1898 - Australia complete a 4-1 series annihilation of England
1899 - Pres McKinley signs bill creating Mt Rainier Natl Park (5th in US)
1901 - Hawaii's 1st telegraph company opens
1901 - The United States Congress passes the Platt amendment, limiting the autonomy of Cuba as a
           condition for the withdrawal of American troops.
1902 - Jimmy Collins, leaves Boston Beaneaters (NL) club to manage AL's new Boston Somersets
1903 - Martha Washington Hotel, catering to women only, opens in NYC
1904 - "Official Playing Rules of Professional Base Ball Clubs" adopted
1904 - Gabriele d'Annunzio's "La figlia di Iorio," premieres in Milan
1907 - General Louis Botha named premier of Transvaal
1907 - Georges Feydeaus' "La Puce à l'Oreille," premieres in Paris
1909 - Gr Brit, France, Germ & It asks Serbia to set no territorial demands
1910 - 2 trains crash in snow storm in Wellington Washington, 118 die
1915 - British vice adm Carden begins bombing of Dardanelles forts
1915 - Vladmir Jabotinsky forms a Jewish military force to fight in Palestine
1917 - Jones Act: Puerto Rico territory created, US citizenship granted
1918 - NY Yankees purchase 1st baseman George Burns from Detroit Tigers & immediately trades
           him to Phila A's
1919 - 1st congress of Communist International opens at the Kremlin
1920 - Karel Capék's "Loupeznik," premieres in Prague
1922 - WBAP-AM, Fort Worth Texas, begins broadcasting
1922 - WLW-AM in Cincinnati OH begins radio transmissions
1923 - Time magazine debuts
1925 - Dutch Socialists demand drastic disarmament
1925 - Japan's House of Representatives recognizes male suffrage
1925 - Nationwide road numbering system & US shield marker adopted
1925 - SDAP-Second-Faction of parliament demands drastic disarmament
1927 - Babe Ruth becomes highest paid baseball player ($70,000 per year)
1929 - Chicago Black Hawks shut-out for NHL record 8th straight game
1929 - Congress creates Court of Customs & Patent Appeals
1930 - 1st US indoor glider flight, St Louis Terminal Building
1933 - "King Kong," premieres at Radio City Music Hall & RKO Roxy NYC
1933 - Most powerful earthquake in 180 years hit Japan
1934 - Union Pacific tests light-weight high-speed passenger train, Omaha
1936 - Bradman scores 369 in 253 mins, SA v Tasmania, 46 fours 4 sixes
1937 - Mexico nationalizes oil
1938 - Landslides & floods cause over 200 deaths (LA California)
1938 - Trials of Soviet leaders begins in the Soviet Union
1939 - Eugenio Pacelli chosen as Pope Pius XII
1939 - Mass Legislature votea to ratify the Bill of Rights - 147 years late
1940 - 1st intercollegiate track meet telecast, Madison Square Garden, NYC
1940 - Soviet armies conquer Tuppura Island Finland
1941 - World War II: First German military units enter Bulgaria after it joined the Axis Pact.
1942 - 14th Academy Awards - "How Green was My Valley," Cooper & Fontaine win
1942 - Admiral Helfrich departs Java for Ceylon
1943 - 1st transport from Westerbork Neth to Sobibor concentration camp
1943 - Sea battle in Bismarck Sea finishes, US & Australia win
1944 - 16th Academy Awards - "Casablanca," Jennifer Jones & Paul Lukas win
1944 - Fumes from locomotive stalled in a tunnel suffocates 521 in Italy
1945 - 8th Air Force bombs Dresden
1945 - King Michael of Romania gives in to Communist government
1946 - Dutch troops land on East Bali
1946 - Ho Chi Minh elected president of North Vietnam
1946 - Kingman Douglass, becomes deputy director of CIA
1949 - 1st automatic street light (New Milford, Ct)
1949 - Lucky Lady II (USAF B-50 Superfortress), completes 1st nonstop round- the-world flight at
          Fort Worth, Tx, covering 23,452-mis in 94 hrs
1951 - 1st NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 111-94 at Boston
1952 - Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Open
1953 - The Academy Awards are first broadcast on television by NBC.
1955 - King Norodom Sihanukh of Cambodia succeeded by his father
1955 - William Inge's "Bus Stop," premieres in NYC
1956 - Morocco tears up the Treaty of Fez, declares independence from France
1958 - 1st surface crossing of Antarctic continent is completed in 99 days
1958 - Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open
1958 - Yemen announces it would join the United Arab Republic
1961 - "13 Daughters" opens at 54th St Theater NYC for 28 performances
1962 - JFK announces US will resume above ground nuclear testing
1962 - Wilt Chamberlain scores incredible 100 points in an NBA game
1962 - In Burma, the army led by General Ne Win seizes power in a coup.
1964 - Beatles begin filming "Hard Days Night," Harrison meets Patti Boyd
1965 - "Sound Of Music" opens
1965 - Montcalm Community College in Sidney Mich, founded
1966 - 215,000 US soldiers in Vietnam
1967 - 9th Grammy Awards: Strangers in Night, Michele wins
1967 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1968 - Ice Dance Championship at Geneva won by Towler & Ford (GRB)
1968 - Ice Pairs Championship at Geneva won by Belousova & Protopopov (USSR)
1968 - Men's Figure Skating Champions in Geneva won by Emmerich Danzer (AUT)
1968 - USAF displays Lockheed C-5A Galaxy, biggest plane in the world
1968 - USSR launches space probe Zond 4; fails to leave Earth orbit
1968 - Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Geneva won by Peggy Fleming (US)
1969 - 1st test flight of the supersonic Concorde
1969 - Chinese-Russian borders fight (approx 70 die)
1969 - Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 14th Symphony
1969 - Phil Esposito becomes 1st NHL Player to score 100 points in a season
1970 - American Airlines' 1st flight of a Boeing 747
1970 - Rhodesia becomes independent republic
1970 - Supreme Court ruled draft evaders can not be penalized after 5 years
1972 - Jean-Bédell Bokassa appoints himself pres for life of Cent African Rep
1972 - Pioneer 10 launched for Jupiter flyby
1973 - "Black September" terrorists occupy Saudi Embassy in Khartoum
1974 - 16th Grammy Awards: Killing Me Softly, Bette Midler wins
1974 - 1st class postage raised to 10 cents from 8 cents
1974 - Grand jury concludes Pres Nixon is involved in Watergate cover-up
1974 - Greg Chappell makes 247* v NZ, 410 minutes, 29 fours 1 six
1976 - "Bubbling Brown Sugar" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 766 performances
1976 - Bob Lurie becomes CEO of SF Giants
1976 - Holgate, Kemp & Lopez' musical premieres in NYC
1976 - Walt Disney World logged its 50 millionth guest
1977 - 1st time Jay Leno appears on Tonight Show
1977 - Bette Davis is 1st woman to receive Life Achievement Award
1977 - Future Tonight Show host Jay Leno debuts with host Johnny Carson
1977 - Libya amends constitution
1978 - 1st broadcast of "Dallas" on CBS TV
1978 - Soyuz 28 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Czechoslovakian) to Salyut 6
1980 - 3rd Islander scoreless tie-Penguins in Pitts
1980 - Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Sun City Golf Classic
1980 - Mike Bratz (Phoenix) ends NBA free throw streak of 57 games
1981 - Aircraft hijacked by 3 Pakistani terrorists
1981 - Howard Stern begins broadcasting on WWDC in Wash DC
1982 - 60th hat trick in Islander history-Bryan Trottier
1982 - Terror group "The Illuminated Path" frees 260 prisoners in Peru
1983 - Compact Disc recordings developed by Phillips & Sony introduced
1983 - Final episode of M*A*S*H; 125,000,000 viewers
1983 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1984 - Iran offensive against Iraq fails
1984 - John Long (Detroit) begins NBA free throw streak of 51 games
1985 - US approves screening test for AIDS
1986 - 1st million-dollar purse for a handicap race won at Santa Anita
1986 - Mary Beth Zimmerman wins Uniden LPGA Golf Invitational
1986 - Protesters try to stop Land Rover motor company being sold to US
1988 - 30th Grammy Awards: Graceland, Joshua Tree, Jody Watley
1988 - Dutch Liberal Party merged with SDP
1989 - 12 European nations agree to ban chlorofluorocarbon production by 2000
1989 - Exxon Houston runs aground in Hawaii, spills 117,000 gallons of oil
1989 - Madonna's "Like a Prayer" premieres on worldwide Pepsi commercial
1989 - NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers win 22nd straight home game
1989 - NY Met Darryl Strawberry swings at teammate Keith Hernandez
1990 - Greyhound Bus goes on strike
1990 - Mark Tewsksbury swims world record 50m backstroke (25.06 sec)
1991 - "Aspects of Love" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 377 perfs
1991 - "La Bete" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 24 performances
1991 - Deb Richard wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
1991 - Del Ballard Jr throws most famous gutter ball in PBA Tour history
1991 - NC State Chris Corchiani becomes 1st NCAAer to get 1,000 assists
1991 - UN votes in favor of US resolutions for cease fire with Iraq
1991 - Battle at Rumaila Oil Field brings end to the 1991 Gulf War.
1992 - Anita Hall swims female world record 200m freestyle (2:25.35)
1992 - Moldova joins the United Nations.
1993 - Claudette Colbert, suffers a stroke at 89
1993 - Salman Rushdie divorces Marianne Wiggins
1994 - Miami begins a latin walk of fame, 1st star for Gloria Estefan
1994 - William Natcher, (Rep-D-Ky), casts his 18,401 & last consecutive vote
1994 - Branch Davidian cult leader David Koresh promises to surrender if taped statement is
           broadcasted, it is, but he doesn't
1995 - "Smokey Joe's Cafe," opens at Virginia Theater NYC
1995 - British trader Nick Leeson arrested for collapse of Barings Bank PLC
1995 - Ferry boat sinks off Sumbe Angola, 42+ killed
1995 - Space shuttle STS-67 (Endeavour 8 ), launches
1996 - Copeland swimming pool re-opened by Gladiator
1996 - Tendulkar scores 137 for Ind v SL in Cricket World Cup, but still lose
1997 - Gail Graham wins LPGA Alpine Australian Ladies Masters
1997 - Nick Faldo wins Nissan Golf Open
1997 - Saudi Arab billionaire Prince al-Waleed bin Talal aquires 5% of Apple
1997 - Soyuz TM-24 returns to Earth (Russia)
1998 - Data sent from the Galileo spacecraft indicates that Jupiter's moon Europa has a liquid ocean
           under a thick crust of ice.
2000 - Former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet heads home after being told the UK would
           not extradite him on torture charges
2002 - U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins, (ending on March 19 after killing
           500 Taliban and al Qaeda fighters, with 11 Western troop fatalities).
2003 - The first International Symposium on Taiwan Sign Language Linguistics is held at Chung
           Cheng University.
2004 - Voters in the U.S. state of Georgia vote on a referendum concerning its Confederacy-derived
           flag.
2004 - War in Iraq: Al Qaeda carries out the Ashoura Massacre in Iraq, killing 170 and wounding over
           500.
2008 - Riots in Yerevan, Armenia concerning the Armenian presidential election, 2008 come to a fatal
           end, with police forces clashing with civilians in their peaceful protest, resulting in 8 deaths.
2012 - Tornadoes kill at least 27 people in the American states of Indiana and Kentucky
2012 - The Red Cross is denied access to provide relief to the Baba Amr district in Homs by the
           Syrian army
2012 - New fiscal compact to prevent excessive debt is signed by 25 out of 27 European Union
           members

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Post by: MysteRy on March 02, 2013, 11:33:08 AM

This Day in History for 2nd March


Famous Divorces

1993 - Salman Rushdie divorces Marianne Wiggins

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Post by: MysteRy on March 02, 2013, 11:44:27 AM

This Day in History for 2nd March


Famous Birthdays

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Children's Author Dr Seuss (1904)             General Secretary of the                           Lead Vocalist of Coldplay                                                                                                                                   Communist Party of the Soviet                      Chris Martin (1977)
                                                            Union Mikhail Gorbachev (1931)                       


1316 - Robert II, the Steward, King of Scots (1371-90)
1409 - John II, French duke of Alencon/co-fighter of Jeanne d'arc
1459 - Adrian VI, [Adriaan F Boeyens], Netherlands, Pope (1522-23)
1481 - Franz von Sickingen, German knight
1545 - Thomas Bodley, England, diplomat/scholar
1555 - Ludovico Spontoni, composer
1578 - George Sandys, English colonist and poet (d. 1644)
1705 - William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, Scottish judge and politician (d. 1793)
1755 - Antoine-Frederic Gresnick, composer
1759 - Johann Christian Friedrich Haeffner, composer
1760 - Camille Desmoulins, France, journalist/pamphleteer/revolution leader
1769 - DeWitt Clinton, (Gov/Sen-NY)
1770 - Louis Gabriel Suchet, French Marshal (d. 1826)
1779 - Joel Roberts Poinsett, American statesman and botanist (d. 1851)
1793 - Sam[uel] Houston, 1st president of Texas (1836-38, 1841-44)
1800 - Evgeny Baratynsky, Russian poet (d. 1844)
1810 - Leo XIII, [Vincenzo G Pecci], 256th pope (1878-1903)
1813 - George Alexander Macfarren, composer
1815 - Antonio Buzzolla, composer
1816 - Alexander H. Bullock, 26th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1882)
1817 - Janos Arany, Hungary, epic poet (Toldi, Death of King Buda)
1820 - Multatuli, writer
1824 - Bedrich Friedrich Smetana, Bohemian composer (Bartered Bride, Moldau)
1824 - Constantine D Uschinsky, Russian theorist [NS]
1824 - Henry Beebee Carrington, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1912
1828 - Jefferson Columbus Davis, Bvt Mjr General (Union Army), died in 1879
1829 - Carl Schurz, Major General (Union volunteers)journalist
1836 - Henry Billings Brown, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1913)
1838 - David Duffle Wood, composer
1842 - Carl Jacobsen, Danish brewer (d. 1914)
1843 - Princess Maria Clotilde of Savoy (d. 1911)
1844 - Hermanus J A M Schaepman, clergyman/Dutch politician
1849 - Robert Means Thompson, U.S. Naval Officer (d. 1930)
1860 - Susanna M. Salter, American politician (d. 1961)
1862 - John Jay Chapman, US advocate/poet/writer (Learning & Other Essays)
1862 - Boris Borisovich Galitzine, Russian physicist (d. 1916)
1875 - Hans Lietzman, German theologist/church historian
1876 - Pius XII, [Euhenio MGG Pacelli], 260th Pope (1939-58)
1878 - Wander J de Haas, Dutch physicist/son-in-law of Lorentz
1878 - William Kissam Vanderbilt II, member of the Vanderbilt family (d. 1944)
1882 - Wallis Clark, Essex England, actress (Postal Inspector)
1884 - Leon Jongen, composer
1886 - Willis O'Brien, American animator (d. 1962)
1893 - Maxime Dumoulin, composer
1894 - Renaat Veremans, Flemish composer/conductor
1895 - Felix Bressart, Germany, actor (Ninotchka, Escape, Crossroads)
1899 - Pattie Maie Menzies, Australian dame
1900 - Kurt J Weill, Dessau Germany, composer/Brecht collaborator (Mahogany)
1901 - Willem Bruynzeel, Dutch timber-merchant
1902 - Edward Uhler Condon, atomic scientist (Manhattan Project)
1902 - Moe Berg, American baseball player and spy (d. 1972)
1904 - Dr Seuss, [Theodor Geisel], children's author (Horton Hears a Who!)
1905 - Marc Blitzstein, Phila Pa, composer (Cradle Will Rock)
1908 - Jan Brasser, Dutch resistance fighter (Witte Ko)/communist
1908 - Fyodor Matveyevich Okhlopkov, Yakut-born Soviet sniper (d. 1968)
1908 - Walter Bruch, German engineer (d. 1990)
1909 - Hanoch Jacoby, composer
1909 - Jan Fabricius, Dutch playwright
1909 - Mel Ott, American baseball player, 1st NLer to hit 500 home runs, hall of famer (NY Giants) (d. 1958)
1910 - Hope Clara Chenhalls, food inspector
1911 - William Hansen, WA, actor (Homebodies)
1912 - Arthur Beaumont C Langton, cricketer (S Afr pace bowler of 1930's)
1913 - Godfried [Jan Arnold] Bomans, Dutch humorist/writer (Pieter Bas)
1913 - Marjorie Weaver, Crossville Tennessee, actress (Young Mr Lincoln)
1913 - Mort Cooper, baseball player (NL MVP 1942)
1913 - Celedonio Romero, Spanish guitarist (d. 1996)
1915 - Lona Andre, actress (Case of Baby Sitter)
1916 - Anne Vondeling, Dutch politician (PvdA)
1916 - Bernard George Stevens, composer
1917 - Desi Arnaz, Santiago Cuba, actor (I Love Lucy)
1917 - Jim Konstanty, baseball player (NL MVP 1950)
1917 - John Gardner, composer
1917 - David Goodis, American writer (d. 1967)
1918 - Peter O'Sullevan, Ireland, horse racing commentator
1919 - Eddie Lawrence, comedian
1919 - Jennifer Jones, [Phyllis Isley], Oklahoma, actress (Farewell to Arms)
1919 - Tamara Toumanova, dancer
1920 - Enrique Franco, composer
1921 - Robert Wilfred Levick Simpson, composer
1922 - Eric Feldbush, composer
1922 - Mario Zafred, composer
1923 - "Doc" Watson, bluegrass musician, (d. 2012)
1923 - Don Taylor, cricketer (NZ 3 Tests, Auck stands w/Sutcliffe in Wisden)
1923 - Robert H Michel, (Rep-R-IL, 1957- )
1923 - Orrin Keepnews, American writer and critic
1924 - Albert TLCA Vogel, Dutch elocutionist
1926 - Murray Rothbard, American economist (d. 1995)
1927 - Siegfried Kohler, composer
1927 - Witold Szalonec, composer
1927 - Roger Walkowiak, French cyclist
1928 - Philip K Dick, writer
1928 - Father John Romanides, Greek priest and professor (d. 2001)
1929 - Donald Gosling, English parkeerplaatsenmagnaat/multi-millionaire
1930 - Jan van Noor, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (CDA)
1930 - John Cullum, Knoxville, actor (Hamlet, Hawaii, Northern Exposure)
1930 - Emma Penella, Spanish actress (d. 2007)
1931 - Duane E Graveline, Newport Vt, astronaut
1931 - Mikhail Gorbachev, Privolnoye USSR, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1985-91)
1931 - Tom Wolfe, Richmond Va, journalist/author (Right Stuff)
1934 - Bernard Rands, Sheffield England, composer (Wildtrack)
1934 - Howard "Hopalong" Cassady, NFLer
1935 - Al Waxman, Toronto Canada, actor (Cagney & Lacey, Meatballs 3, Spasms)
1936 - Henny Boskamp, [Hoelscher], actor (Troeleke)
1937 - Abdelaziz Bouteflika, President of Algeria
1938 - Alan Lewis, English textile factory/multi-millionaire
1938 - Donald Schwall, baseball player (1961 AL rookie of year)
1938 - Simon Estes, Centerville Iowa, bass/baritone (Wonton, Don Carlos)
1938 - Ricardo Lagos, former President of Chile
1939 - Barbara Luna, NYC, actress (5 Weeks in a Balloon, Gentle Savage)
1939 - Gerard van Tongeren, Dutch singer (Buffoons)
1940 - Frederik van Zyl Slabbert, chairman (S Afr Prog Fed Party, 1979-86)
1940 - Tony Croatto, Italian-born composer (d. 2005)
1941 - David Satcher, 16th United States Surgeon General
1942 - John Irving, NH, short-story writer (World According to Garp)
1942 - Lou Reed, New York City, American rock vocalist and guitarist (Velvet Underground)
1942 - Luc Plamondon, French Canadian lyricist
1942 - Kwang Jo Choi, the founder of Choi Kwang- do and is one of the twelve original Masters of Taekwon-Do.
1943 - Tony Meehan [Daniel Meehan], London, English rocker (Drifters, Vipers)
1943 - Gordon Black, English industrialist
1943 - Rosa DeLauro, (Rep-D-Connecticut)
1943 - Stephen Dickman, composer
1943 - Zygfryd Blaut, Polish footballer (d. 2005)
1943 - Peter Straub, American author
1944 - Katherine Crawford, actress (Captains & Kings, Gemini Man)
1944 - Leif Segerstam, composer
1944 - Pam Barnett, LPGA golfer
1944 - Uschi Glas, German actress
1945 - Gordon Thompson, Ottawa Canada, actor (Adam Carrington-Dynasty)
1945 - Joy Garrett, actress (Jo-Days of Our Lives)
1946 - Brian J Donnelly, (Rep-D-MA, 1979- )
1947 - Harry Redknapp, English football manager
1948 - Larry Carlton, rock composer (Against All Odds, Who's the Boss)
1948 - Rory Gallagher, Donegal, Irish rock guitarist and songwriter (See Here)
1948 - Jeff Kennett, Australian politician
1949 - Gates McFadden, actress (Beverly Crusher-Star Trek Next Generation)
1949 - Alain Chamfort, French singer
1950 - Karen Carpenter, New Haven Ct, vocalist/drummer (We Only Just Begun)
1950 - Matthew Laurance, actor (Duet)
1950 - Mitchel Laurance, actor (LA Law, Not Necessarily the News)
1950 - Jeffrey Chodorow, American restaurateur and financier
1951 - Cassie Yates, Macon Ga, actress (Osterman Weekend, Dynasty)
1952 - Laraine Newman, LA California, comedienne/actress (Saturday Night Live)
1952 - Mark Evanier, American writer
1953 - William Simmons, sax/keyboardist (Midnight Star-No Parking)
1954 - Stone Phumelele Sizani, South African treasurer (UDF)
1955 - Dale Bosworth, TV host (America's Most Wanted)
1955 - Dale Bozzio, Boston, vocalist (Missing Persons-Destination Unknown)
1955 - Jay Osmond, Ogden Utah, singer (Osmond Brothers, Donnie & Marie)
1955 - Shoko Asahara, [Chizuo Matsumoto], Japanese sect leader
1955 - Steve Small, cricketer (stalwart NSW opening batsman)
1955 - Ken Salazar, American politician
1956 - John Cowsill, Newport RI, rock drummer (Cowsills-We Can Fly)
1956 - Mark Evans, Melbourne Australia, rock bassist (AC/DC)
1958 - Ian Woosnam, Welsh golfer
1958 - Kevin Curren, South Africa, tennis star
1958 - Peter Arnold, American architect
1959 - Andrew Farriss, Australia, rock keyboardist (Inxs-Kiss the Dirt)
1959 - Larry Stewart, Paducah KY, country singer (Restless Heart-Wheels)
1959 - Laura Hurlbut, LPGA golfer
1960 - Hector Calma, Filipino basketball player
1961 - Simone Young, Australian conductor
1962 - Al Del Greco, NFL kicker (Houston/Tennessee Oilers)
1962 - Jon Bon Jovi, Sayreville NJ, rocker (Bon Jovi-Give Love a Bad Name)
1962 - Philip Jonas, Johannesburg SA, Canadian Tour golfer (1993 Payless-2nd)
1962 - Terry Steinbach, New Ulm MN, catcher (Oakland A's)
1962 - Morioka Hiroyuki, Japanese writer
1962 - Michael Salinger, American poet
1962 - Raimo Summanen, Finnish ice hockey player and coach
1963 - Suzette Charles, NJ, replaced Vanessa Williams as Miss America (1983)
1963 - Tuff Hedeman, American bull rider
1963 - Tanyu Kiryakov, Bulgarian pistol shooter
1965 - Ron Gant, Victoria Texas, American baseball outfielder (St Louis Cardinals)
1965 - Lembit Öpik, British politician
1966 - Judith Wiesner, Hallein Austria, tennis star (1994 Schenectady)
1966 - Stevie Rachelle, rock vocalist (Tuff-What Comes Around Goes Around)
1967 - Allan Boyko, CFL slot back (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1967 - Bruce Boyko, CFL fullback (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1967 - Leo Gomez, Canovanas Puerto Rico, infielder (Chicago Cubs)
1968 - Penny "Stamper" Davis, Carlisle England, Canadian 470 yachter (Oly-96)
1968 - Daniel Craig, English actor
1970 - Kevin Miniefield, NFL defensive back (Chic Bears)
1970 - Steve Holman, Indianapolis Indiana, miler
1971 - Amber Smith, Tampa Fl, actress (Faithful, Funeral, Mirror Has 2 Faces)
1971 - Donna Perry, Glendale CA, playmate (Nov, 1994)
1971 - James Hammerstrand, LaMesa California, volleyball middle blocker (Oly-96)
1971 - Ray Hall, NFL defensive tackle (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1971 - Ruffin Hamilton, NFL linebacker (Atlanta Falcons)
1971 - Dave Gorman, English documentary comedian
1971 - Elizabeth Lackey, American actress
1972 - Richard Ruccolo, American actor
1973 - John Elmore, guard (Baltimore Ravens)
1973 - Paul Popowich, actor (Tommy Tricker & Stamp Traveler)
1973 - Trevor Sinclair, English footballer
1973 - Dejan Bodiroga, Serbian basketball player
1974 - Martine Dessureault, Montreal Quebec, 50m swimmer (Olympics-96)
1974 - Monika Niederstätter, Italian athlete
1975 - Arleen McDonald, Miss USA-Mississippi (1997)
1976 - Lars Bruggemann, hockey defenseman (Team Germany 1998)
1976 - Glenn Rubenstein, American writer and journalist
1977 - Chris Martin, English musician (Coldplay)
1977 - Heather McComb, American actress
1977 - Andrew Strauss, English cricket player
1977 - Jay Gibbons, American baseball player
1978 - Giannis Skopelitis, Greek footballer
1979 - Damien Duff, Irish footballer
1979 - Amanda Ireton, Cast member of MTV's A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila
1980 - Édson Nobre, Angolan footballer
1980 - Lance Cade, American professional wrestler
1981 - Bryce Dallas Howard, American actress
1982 - Henrik Lundqvist, Swedish ice hockey player
1982 - Ben Roethlisberger, American football player
1982 - Corey Webster, American football player
1982 - Kevin Kurányi, German footballer
1983 - Glen Perkins, American baseball player
1984 - Elizabeth Jagger, English model and actress
1985 - Robert Iler, American actor
1985 - Reggie Bush, American football player
1985 - Luke Pritchard, British singer (The Kooks)
1988 - Keith Jack, British singer and actor
1988 - Matthew Mitcham, Australian diver
1988 - Nadine Samonte, Filipino actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 02, 2013, 11:51:07 AM

This Day in History for 2nd March


Famous Deaths

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Co-founder of the                                    Writer D. H. Lawrence (1930)               Archaeologist and Discoverer of 
Methodist Movement                                                                                       Tutankhamun Howard Carter (1939)
John Wesley (1791) 


855 - Lothair, King of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor (b. 795)
986 - Lotharius, King of France (954-86), dies at 44
1122 - Floris II, the fat one, count of Holland, dies
1127 - Charles, the Good, Count of Flanders, murdered
1316 - Marjorie Bruce, daughter of Robert I of Scotland (b. 1296)
1333 - Wladyslaw IV, the Short One/Great, duke/king of Poland, dies
1383 - Amadeus VI, count of Savoy, dies
1572 - Mem de Sá, Portuguese Governor-General of Brazil
1589 - Alessandro Cardinal Farnese, Italian cardinal (b. 1520)
1619 - Anne of Denmark, daughter of Danish king Frederik II, dies at 44
1729 - Francesco Bianchini, Italian philosopher and scientist (b. 1662)
1755 - Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French writer (b. 1675)
1758 - Johann Baptist Zimmermann, German stucco worker, buried at 78
1772 - Robert J Pothier, French lawyer, dies at 73
1787 - Jean SOME Allamand, French theologist/natural philosopher, dies at 73
1791 - John Wesley, English co-founder of Methodism dies at 87 (b. 1703)
1793 - Carl Gustaf Pilo, Swedish-born artist
1797 - Horace [Horatio] Walpole, British horror writer, dies at 79
1800 - Christian Friedrich Schale, composer, dies at 86
1822 - Christian Friedrich Hermann Uber, composer, dies at 40
1829 - Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez, conspirator and supporter of the Mexican War of Independence (b. 1768)
1830 - Samuel Thomas von Sömmering, German physician (b. 1755)
1835 - Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1768)
1840 - Heinrich Olbers, German astronomer (comets & asteroids), dies at 81
1855 - Nicholas I Pavlovitch, tsar of Russia (1825-55), dies at 58
1862 - Frederick West Lander, US Union brig-general/poet, dies at 40
1865 - Carl Sylvius Völkner, German missionary to New Zealand (b. 1819)
1867 - French A Durlet, Belgian sculptor/architect, dies at 50
1868 - Carl Eberwein, composer, dies at 81
1880 - Sir John MacNeill, Irish civil engineer (b. 1790)
1882 - Louis Kufferath, composer, dies at 70
1887 - August W Eichler, German botanist, dies at 47
1887 - Wilhelm Troszel, composer, dies at 63
1895 - Berthe MP Morisot, French painter/aquarelliste, dies at 54
1895 - Ismail Pasha, kedive of Egypt (1863-79), dies at 64
1916 - Elisabeth OL, [Carmen Sylva], Queen of Romania, dies at 72
1919 - Melchora Aquino, Filipino revolutionary hero (b. 1812)
1921 - Champ Clark, American politician (b. 1850)
1930 - David Herbert Lawrence (DH), poet/writer (Lady Chatterley's Lover), dies at 44
1937 - Gustav Wohlgemuth, composer, dies at 73
1938 - Ben Harney, American composer and pianist (b. 1871)
1939 - Howard Carter, Brit archaeologist/Egyptologist (King Tut), dies at 65
1943 - Alexandre Yersin, Swiss bacteriologist (bacteria plague), dies at 79
1945 - Emily Carr, Canadian artist (b. 1871)
1946 - Fidél Pálffy, Hungarian National socialist (b. 1895)
1946 - George E. Stewart, American Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1872)
1950 - M Joseph V d'Arbaud, French poet/author (Li cant palustre), dies at 76
1953 - Jim Lightbody, American runner (b. 1882)
1956 - Fred Merkle, American baseball figure (b. 1888)
1957 - Harry E Soref, inventor (padlock), dies at 70
1959 - Eric Blore, actor (Abie's Irish Rose, Love Happy), dies at 70
1960 - Stanisław Taczak, Polish general, commander-in-chief of the Greater Poland Uprising (b. 1874)
1962 - Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin, Belgian mathematician (b. 1866)
1967 - Gordon Harker, actor (Inspector Hornleigh), dies at 81
1967 - José Martínez Ruiz, Spanish poet and writer (b. 1873)
1970 - Marc-Aurèle Fortin, Quebec painter (b. 1888)
1971 - Charles W Engelhard, US silver multi-millionaire, dies at 54
1972 - Bill Lawrence, news anchor (ABC), dies at 56
1973 - Cleo Noel, US ambassador to Sudan, assassinated
1974 - Barbara Ruick, actress/singer (Jerry Colonna Show), dies at 41
1974 - Salvador Puig Antich, Spanish anarchist (b. 1948)
1975 - Jean Kurt Forest, composer, dies at 65
1975 - Josiah Mwangi Kariuki, Kenyan politician (b.1929)
1979 - Edith Craig, actress (Harmony Lane, Smashing Rackets), dies at 71
1979 - Mollah Mustafa Barzani, Kurdish leader, dies at 75
1979 - Richard Sykes, British ambassador, assassinated in Holland
1979 - Christy Ring Irish hurler (b. 1920)
1981 - Janear Hines, actress (Roberta-Julia), dies at 30
1982 - Philip K[indred] Dick, author (Hugo-1963, Dr Futurity), dies at 53
1984 - Louis Basile, actor (Louie-The Super), dies at 48
1985 - John B Kelly Jr, chairman US Olympic Committee, dies at 57
1985 - Michael Redgrave, actor (Goodbye Mr Chips), dies at 77 of Parkinson's
1986 - Marcel Liebman, Belgian historian, dies at 56
1986 - Zafer Masri, mayor of Nablus, murdered
1987 - Randolph Scott, actor (Fort Worth, Gung Ho, Jesse James), dies at 89
1991 - Clark Mollenhoff, US journalist (Pulitzer Prize), dies
1991 - Freek Zoetmulder, publisher (Austrian Encyclopedia)/neo-nazi, dies
1991 - James "Cool Papa" Bell, Negro baseball league great, dies at 87
1991 - Serge Gainsbourg, composer/actor (Fury of Hercules), dies at 62
1993 - Floortje Peneder, Dutch poet (Diary), dies at 15
1993 - Paul D Zimmerman, US screenwriter (King of Comedy), dies at 54
1994 - Donald McKenzie MacKinnon, philosopher, dies at 80
1994 - Tengiz Abuladze, filmmaker, dies at 70
1995 - Hugo Cole, musician/critic, dies at 77
1995 - Vladislav Listyev, TV journalist, dies at 48
1996 - Jacobo Majluta, president of Dominican Rep (1982), dies at 61
1999 - Dusty Springfield, English singer (b. 1939)
1999 - David Ackles, American singer and songwriter (b. 1937)
2001 - John Diamond, British journalist (b. 1953)
2003 - Hank Ballard, American musician (b. 1927)
2003 - Malcolm Williamson, Australian composer (b. 1931)
2004 - Mercedes McCambridge, American actress (b. 1916)
2004 - Marge Schott, American baseball team owner (b. 1928)
2004 - Cormac McAnallen, Northern Irish Gaelic footballer (b. 1980)
2005 - Rick Mahler, American baseball player (b. 1953)
2005 - Martin Denny, American musician (b. 1911)
2006 - Milton Katims, American violist and conductor (b. 1909)
2006 - Jack Wild, British actor (b. 1952)
2007 - Ivan Safronov, Russian journalist (b. 1956)
2007 - Clem Labine, American baseball player (b. 1926)
2007 - Thomas S. Kleppe, U.S. politician (b. 1919)
2007 - Henri Troyat, French writer, dean of the Académie française (b. 1911)
2008 - Jeff Healey, Canadian musician (b. 1966)
2009 - João Bernardo "Nino" Vieira, President of Guinea-Bissau (b. 1939)
2009 - Chris Finnegan, British Olympic Boxing Gold Medallist (b. 1944)
2010 - Winston Spencer-Churchill, British politician (b. 1940)
2012 - Van Barfoot, American army colonel and Medal of Honour recipient, dies at 92
2012 - Lawrence Anthony, South African conservationist and author, dies from heart attack at 61
2012 - James Wilson, American criminologist, dies at 80

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 03, 2013, 11:16:47 AM

This Day in History for 3rd March


Historical Events

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US President & General                          US President Abraham Lincoln                  Composer Georges Bizet
Andrew Jackson

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Author Helen Keller                          Pacifist and Spiritual Leader Gandhi        Singer & Cultural Icon Elvis Presley

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Boxing Champ George Foreman                         Actor Bruce Willis                     Baseball Player Darryl Strawberry


78 - Origin of Saka Era (India)
468 - St Simplicius elected to succeed Catholic Pope Hilarius
493 - Ostrogoten King Theodorik the Great beats Odoaker
1284 - Statute of Rhuddlan incorporated the Principality of Wales into England
1409 - Austrian civil war ends
1431 - Bishop Gabriele Condulmer elected as Pope Eugene IV
1575 - Indian Mughal Emperor Akbar defeats Bengali army at the Battle of Tukaroi.
1585 - The Olympic Theatre, designed by Andrea Palladio, is inaugurated in Vicenza.
1627 - Piet Heyn conquerors 22 ships in Bay of Salvador Brazil
1634 - 1st tavern in Boston opens (Samuel Cole)
1638 - Duke Bernard van Saksen-Weimar occupies Rheinfelden
1746 - Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Castle of Inverness
1776 - US commodore Esek Hopkins occupies Nassau Bahamas
1791 - 1st internal revenue act (taxing distilled spirits & carriages)
1791 - Congress establishes US Mint
1794 - 1st performance of Joseph Haydn's 101st Symphony in D
1794 - Richard Allen founded AME Church
1801 - 1st US Jewish governor, David Emanuel, takes office in Georgia
1803 - 1st impeachment trial of a federal judge, John Pickering, begins
1803 - Colégio Militar is founded in Portugal by Colonel Teixeira Rebello.
1805 - Louisiana-Missouri Territory forms
1812 - US passes 1st foreign aid bill (aids Venezuela earthquake vicitims)
1813 - Office of surgeon general of the US army forms
1815 - US declares war on Algiers for taking US prisoners & demanding tribute
1817 - Mississippi Territory is divided into Alabama Territory & Mississippi
1820 - Missouri Compromise passes, allowing slavery in Missouri
1835 - Congress authorizes a US mint at New Orleans Louisiana
1837 - Congress increases Supreme Court membership from 7 to 9
1837 - US president Andrew Jackson & Congress recognizes Republic of Texas
1838 - Rebellion at Pelee Island, Ontario Canada
1842 - 1st US child labor law regulating working hours passed (Mass)
1842 - 1st performance of Felix Mendelssohn's 3rd "Scottish" Symphony
1843 - Congress appropriates $30,000 "to test the practicability of establishing a system of electro-
           magnetic telegraphs" by the US
1845 - 1st time, US Senate overrides presidential (Tyler) veto
1845 - Congress authorizes ocean mail contracts for foreign mail delivery
1845 - Florida becomes 27th state
1847 - Post Office Department authorized to issue postage stamps
1849 - Gold Coinage Act authorizes $20 Double Eagle gold coin
1849 - Home Dept (Interior Dept), forms
1849 - Territory of Minnesota organizes
1849 - US Department of the Interior established by Congress
1851 - Congress authorizes smallest US silver coin (3 cent piece)
1853 - Transcontinental railroad survey is authorized by Congress
1853 - US Assay Office in NYC authorized
1855 - Congress approves $30,000 to test camels for military use
1855 - Congress authorizes registered mail
1857 - Second Opium War: France and the United Kingdom declare war on China.
1861 - Alexander II of Russia signs the Emancipation Manifesto, freeing serfs [OS=Feb 19].
1862 - Union forces under General Pope lay siege to New Madrid, Missouri (US Civil War)
1863 - 1st US wartime military conscription bill enacted
1863 - Abraham Lincoln approves charter for National Academy of Sciences
1863 - Congress authorizes a US mint at Carson City, Nevada
1863 - Federal ironclad ships bomb Fort McAllister Georgia
1863 - Free city delivery replaces zone postage; 449 letter carriers hired
1863 - Gold certificates (currency) authorized by Congress
1863 - Idaho Territory forms
1865 - Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, & Abandoned Lands established by Abraham Lincoln to help
           destitute free blacks
1865 - Opening of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, the founding member of the HSBC Group.
1869 - University of South Carolina opens to all races
1871 - Congress changes Indian tribes status from independent to dependent
1871 - Congress establishes the civil service system
1873 - Congress authorizes federal departmental postage stamps
1873 - US Congress & government raise own salary, retroactively
1873 - Censorship: The U.S. Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any
           "obscene, lewd, or lascivious" books through the mail.
1875 - 1st recorded hockey game (Montreal)
1875 - Congress authorizes 20 cent coin, lasts only 3 years
1875 - Georges Bizet's opera "Carmen" premieres (Paris)
1877 - Rutherford B Hayes is sworn in as the 19th president
1878 - Bulgaria liberated from Turkey (Peace of San Stefano)
1879 - 1st female lawyer heard by Supreme Court (Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood)
1879 - US Geological Survey director authorized in Dept of the Interior
1882 - NY Steam Corp begins distributing steam to Manhattan buildings
1883 - Congress authorizes the 1st steel vessels in US navy
1885 - 1st US state (California) establishes a permanent forest commission
1885 - American Telephone & Telegraph (AT&T) incorporates
1885 - Congress passes Indian Appropriations Act (Indians wards of fed government)
1885 - US Post Office offers special delivery for 1st-class mail
1887 - American Protective Association forms (anti-Catholic) in Clinton Iowa
1887 - Anne Sullivan begins teaching 6 year old blind-deaf Helen Keller
1891 - Congress creates US Courts of Appeal
1891 - Congress creates Office of Superintendent of Immigration (Treasury Dept)
1891 - The Penalty Spot Kick rule in Association Football is conceived, but does not come into effect
           until the next season.
1892 - 1st cattle tuberculosis test in US made, Villa Nova, Penn
1893 - Columbian Isabella silver quarter authorized
1893 - Congress authorizes 1st federal road agency, in Dept of Agriculture
1894 - 1st Greek-language publication in US begins, "NY Atlantis"
1894 - 4th & last British government of Gladstone resigns
1899 - Congress authorizes Lafayette silver dollar
1899 - George Dewey becomes 1st in US with rank of Admiral of the Navy
1900 - US Steel Corporation organizes
1901 - Congress creates National Bureau of Standards, in Dept of Commerce
1903 - North Carolina becomes 1st state requiring registration of nurses
1904 - Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany becomes the first person to make a sound recording of a
           political document, using Thomas Edison's cylinder.
1905 - US Forest Service forms
1906 - Vuia I aircraft built by Romanian Traja Vuia tested in France
1909 - Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators beat Montreal Wanderers, 8-3
1910 - Rockefeller Foundation: J.D. Rockefeller Jr. announces his retirement from managing his 
           businesses so that he could devote full time to being a philanthropist.
1911 - 1st US federal cemetery with Union & Rebel graves opens, Missouri
1913 - Ida B Wells-Barnett demonstrates for female suffrage in Washington DC
1915 - Natl Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NASA forerunner) created
1915 - NACA, the predecessor of NASA founded.
1917 - Congress passes 1st excess profits tax on corporations
1917 - Great monarch Michael resigns after 1 day as czar
1918 - Richard Goering's "Seeschlacht," premieres in Berlin
1918 - Treaty of Brest-Litovsk: Germany, Austria & Russia sign
1919 - 1st international air mail service from US, Seattle-Victoria, BC
1919 - Communist Party in Germany announces a general strike
1920 - Montreal Canadiens scores NHL record 16 goals beating Quebec Bulldogs
1921 - Toronto's Dr Banting & Dr Best announce discovery of insulin
1922 - Italian fascists occupy Fiume & Rijeka
1922 - WWJ-AM in Detroit MI begins radio transmissions
1923 - Time magazine publishes 1st issue [or March 23]
1923 - US Senate rejects membership in Intl Court of Justice, The Hague
1924 - German & Turkish friendship/trade treaty signed
1924 - Sean O'Casey's "Juno & the Paycock," premieres in Dublin
1926 - International Greyhound Racing Association formed (Miami, Fla)
1931 - "Star Spangled Banner" officially becomes US national anthem
1931 - Cab Calloway records "Minnie Moocher" (Jazz's 1st million seller)
1933 - German presidential candidate Earnest Thalmann (KPD) arrested
1933 - Mount Rushmore dedicated
1933 - NYC premiere of "King Kong"
1934 - John Dillinger breaks out of jail using a wooden pistol
1935 - Dutch Revolutionary Socialist Worker's party (RSAP), forms
1936 - Grimmett ends his Test career with 13 wkts in 5th Test v South Africa
1937 - Australia snatch series against England 3-2 after being 2-0 down
1938 - American Bowling Congress' largest tournament (24,765 competitors)
1939 - In Mumbai, Mohandas Gandhi begins to fast in protest of the autocratic rule in India.
1940 - Artie Shaw records "Frenesi" on RCA Victor label
1941 - Neth NSB-leader Mussert visits Goering in Berlin
1942 - 1st combat flight for Canada's British-built Avro Lancaster military plane
1943 - Bomb fleeing crowd falls into London shelter; 173 die
1943 - F Ryerson & Cohn Claues' "Harriet," premieres in NYC
1943 - US defeats Japan & wins Battle of Bismark Sea
1944 - 1st performance of corporal Samuel Barber's 2nd Symphony
1945 - Churchill visits Montgomery's headquarter
1945 - RAF bombing error hits The Hague killing 511
1945 - Roermond/Venlo Neth, freed
1945 - US & Philippine forces recaptures Corregidor
1945 - US 7th Army occupies last part of Westwall
1946 - US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Gretchen Merrill
1946 - US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button
1950 - 3 months as National-American Football League takes back NFL name
1951 - Bill Mikvy (Temple) scores NCAA basketball record 73 pts
1952 - Puerto Rico approves their 1st self written constitution
1953 - Canadian Comet crashes at Karachi, 11 killed
1953 - Boston Braves, who own Milwaukee minor league franchise, block St Louis Browns attempt to
            shift their franchise to Milwaukee
1955 - Elvis Presley made his 1st TV appearance
1956 - Cockie Gastelaars swims world record 100 m freestyle (1:04.2)
1956 - Indonesian government of Harahap resigns
1956 - Morocco gains independence from France (Anniversary of throne)
1956 - Manhattan Borough President Hulan Jack makes plans for a new 110,000-seat stadium to
           entice Giants to stay in NY
1957 - Corry Brokken wins Eurovision Song festival with "Just as then"
1957 - Ice Dance Championship at Colorado Spr won by Markham & Jones (GRB)
1957 - Ice Pairs Championship at Colorado Springs won by Wagner & Paul (CAN)
1957 - Men's Figure Skating Champ in Colo Springs won by David Jenkins (USA)
1957 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open
1957 - Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Colo Spr won by Carol Heiss (US)
1958 - KTVU TV channel 2 in Oakland-San Francisco, CA (IND) 1st broadcast
1958 - Nuri ash Said becomes premier of Iraq
1959 - 1st US probe to enter solar orbit, Pioneer 4, launched
1959 - Brit government arrests Hastings Banda of Nyasaland, ends emergency crisis
1959 - SF Giant's rename their stadium Candlestick Park
1960 - 9th largest snowfall in NYC history (14.5")
1961 - King Hassan II's ascends to throne of Morocco
1962 - British Antarctic Territory forms
1963 - Senegal adopts constitution
1965 - Temptations' "My Girl" reaches #1
1965 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1965 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1966 - Buffalo Springfield form (Steven Stills, Neil Young, et al)
1966 - James Goldman's "Lion in Winter," premieres in NYC
1966 - Kwame Nkrumah flees Ghana to Guinee
1966 - Rock group Buffalo Springfield forms
1966 - Twister hits Jackson Miss; 3 minutes after 1st sighting, 57 die
1966 - WRFT (now WVFT) TV channel 27 in Roanoke, VA (IND) begins broadcasting
1967 - Grenada gains partial independence from Britain
1967 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967 - White Sox given permission to use semi-DH in training camp with home club permission (use
           of pinch hitter twice in same game)
1968 - "Here's Where I Belong" opens/closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC
1968 - Greece, Portugal & Spain's embassies bombed in the Hague
1968 - Jean Beliveau (Mont) becomes 2nd NHLer to score 1,000 pts
1969 - Apollo 9 launched for 151 Earth orbits (10 days)
1971 - South African Broadcasting Corp lifts its ban on the Beatles
1971 - Winnie Mandela sentenced to 1 year in jail in South Africa
1972 - Sculpted figures of Jefferson Davis, Robert E Lee, & Stonewall Jackson are completed at
           Stone Mountain Georgia
1973 - "Shelter" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 31 performances
1973 - White Sox Dick Allen signs 3 year contract for record $750,000
1974 - "Sextet" opens at Bijou Theater NYC for 9 performances
1974 - Despite Billy Harris' hat trick Islanders lose 3-4
1974 - George Foreman KOs Ken Norton
1974 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic
1974 - World's worst air disaster, Turkish DC-10 crashes in Paris (346 die)
1975 - "Goodtime Charley" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 104 performances
1975 - Linda McCartney is charged in US with possession of marijuana
1976 - Mozambique closes border with Rhodesia
1976 - 5 workers are killed by the police in a demonstration in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain.
1977 - Ice Pairs Champs at Tokyo won by Irina Rodnina/Alexandr Zaitsev (URS)
1977 - Islanders allow Red Wings only 11 shots on goal
1977 - Libyan Socialist Arabs People's Republic forms
1977 - Men's Figure Skating Champions in Tokyo won by Vladimir Kovalev (USSR)
1977 - Worlds Ladies Fig Skating Champ in Tokyo won by Linda Fratianne (USA)
1978 - 1st day of Test cricket for Desmond Haynes (WI v Australia)
1978 - Charles Chaplin's remains are stolen in Switzerland
1980 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1980 - The USS Nautilus is stricken.
1981 - Isle's Mike Bossy 9th & final hat trick of season-4 goals
1981 - NY Islanders & Edmonton Oilers play to an 8-8 tie
1982 - Senate begins debate on expulsion of Sen Harrison Williams (D-NJ)
1984 - NY Islanders score their most goals (11) vs Tor Maple Leafs (6)
1984 - Peter Ueberroth elected baseball commissioner (Effective Oct 1)
1985 - "Moonlighting" with Cybill Shepard & Bruce Willis, premieres
1985 - "My One & Only" closes at St James Theater NYC after 767 performances
1985 - Betsy King wins LPGA Samaritan Turquoise Golf Classic
1985 - Bill Shoemaker is 1st jockey to surpass $100 million
1985 - National Union of Mine Workers in England end a 51 week strike
1985 - Willie Shoemaker becomes 1st jockey to win $100 million
1987 - Ray Dandridge, 3rd baseman in Negro Leagues, eleected to Hall of Fame
1989 - Machinists strike Eastern Airlines; pilots honor picket lines
1989 - Robert McFarlane gets $20,000 fine, 2 yrs probation for Iran-Contra
1990 - Carole Gist, 20, (Michigan 1st black), crowned 39th Miss USA
1991 - "Big Love" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 41 performances
1991 - 25 die as United Boeing 737 crashes in Colorado Springs
1991 - Boon completes 10th Test Cricket century, 109* v WI at Kingston
1991 - Iraqi generals & Gen Schwarzkopf meet to discuss cease fire
1991 - LA Police severly beat Rodney King, captured on amateur video
1991 - Latvia & Estonia vote to become independent of the USSR
1991 - Merlene Ottey runs world record 200m indoor (22.24 sec)
1991 - Miguel Trovoada installed as president of Sao Tomé e Principal
1991 - Switzerland votes on lowering voting age from 20 to 18
1991 - United Airlines crashes near Colorado Springs, kills 25
1992 - Gas explodes in coal mine at Zonguldak Turkey, 100s die
1992 - Mike Bossy's #22 is 2nd # retired by NY Islanders
1992 - Pres Bush apologizes for raising taxes after pledging not to
1992 - Charges are filed in Florida against NY Mets Darryl Boston, Vince Coleman & Dwight Gooden
           of rape (dropped in April)
1992 - The nation of Bosnia was established.
1993 - Howard Stern radio show premieres in Boston (WBCN 104.1 FM-evenings)
1994 - "Damn Yankees" opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 510 performances
1994 - "Philoktetes Variations," with Ron Vawter, premieres in Brussels
1994 - IRS investigates Darryl Strawberry
1995 - Camilla Parker Bowles & her husband Andrew divorce
1996 - 26th Easter Seal Telethon
1996 - Auckland beat Wellington by 9 wickets to win Shell Trophy Final
1997 - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Fayetteville NC on WRCQ 103.5 FM
1997 - The tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere, Sky Tower in downtown
           Auckland, New Zealand, opens after two-and-a-half years of construction.
1998 - Bill Gates testifies at Senate Judiciary Committee
2002 - Citizens of Switzerland narrowly vote in favor of their country becoming a member of the
            United Nations.
2004 - Belgian brewer Interbrew and Brazilian rival AmBev agreed to merge in a $11.2 billion deal that
           formed InBev, the world's largest brewer.
2005 - Mayerthorpe Incident: James Roszko murders four Royal Canadian Mounted Police constables
           during a drug bust at his property in Rochfort Bridge, Alberta, then commits suicide. It is the
           deadliest peace-time incident for the RCMP since 1885 and the North-West Rebellion.
2005 - Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly an airplane around the world solo without any
           stops without refueling - a journey of 40,234 km/25,000 mi completed in 67 hours and 2   
            minutes.
2009 - The Sri Lankan cricket team is attacked by terrorists while on their way to the Gaddafi
           Stadium, Lahore for a Test match against Pakistan.
2009 - The building of the Historisches Archiv der Stadt Köln (Historical Archives) in Cologne,
           Germany, collapses.
2012 - Lorry crash in east Guinea kills 50 and injures 27
2012 - Two trains crash in Szczekociny, Poland, with 16 people dead and up to 50 injured

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 03, 2013, 11:20:57 AM

This Day in History for 3rd March


Famous Weddings

2004 - University of Miami star defensive tackle & probable NFL draft pick Vince Wilfork (22) weds
           Bianca Farinas at Little White Chapel in Las Vegas
2006 - "Gata Salvaje" telenovela actress Carolina Tejera (29) weds Costa Rican businessman Don
            Stockwell at the Hotel Marriott in San Jose, Costa Rica
2007 - Model and actress Elizabeth Hurley (41) weds Indian textile heir Arun Nayar (42) at Sudeley
           Castle in Gloucestershire, England
2007 - Countess of Frederiksborg Alexandra Christina (42) weds Martin Jorgensen at Oster Egende
           Church in Fakse City

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 03, 2013, 11:23:02 AM

This Day in History for 3rd March


Famous Divorces

1995 - Camilla Parker Bowles & her husband Andrew divorce

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 03, 2013, 11:57:05 AM

This Day in History for 3rd March


Famous Birthdays

(http://i.historyorb.com/alexander-graham-bell.jpg)                  (http://i.historyorb.com/ronan-keating.jpg)                  (http://i.historyorb.com/jessica-biel.jpg)         
Inventor Alexander                                  Singer Ronan Keating (1977)                  Actress Jessica Biel (1982)
Graham Bell (1847) 


1455 - King John II of Portugal (d. 1495)
1500 - Reginald Pole, English Cardinal/"heretic"
1520 - Matthias Flacius, Croatian Protestant reformer (d. 1575)
1583 - Edward Herbert of Cherbury, English military/philosopher
1589 - Gisbertus Voetius, [Gijsbert Voet], Dutch reformed theologist
1606 - Edmund Waller, England, poet (Penshust)
1652 - Thomas Otway, England, playwright/poet (Venice Preserved)
1678 - Madeleine de Verchères, French Canadian heroine (d. 1747)
1705 - Michael Schevenstuhl, composer
1747 - Kasamir Pulaski, US general (Revolutionary War)
1756 - William Godwin, philosopher/political writer (Caleb Williams)
1778 - Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen of Hanover (d. 1841)
1793 - Ch Sealsfield, writer
1793 - William Charles Macready, English actor (d. 1873)
1800 - Heinrich Georg Bronn, German geologist (d. 1862)
1805 - Jonas Furrer, first President of the Swiss Confederation (d. 1861)
1809 - Sophia Hawthorne, writer
1811 - Vissarion Belinsky, Sveaborg Finland, Russian author (Literary Review)
1814 - Charles Kensington Salaman, composer
1820 - Eduard Douwes Dekker, [Multatuli], Dutch writer (Max Havelaar)
1823 - Guyla Andressy Sr, premier of Hungary (1867-71)
1831 - George M Pullman, inventor (railway sleeping car)
1838 - George William Hill, US astronomer (calculated Moon's orbit)
1839 - Jamsetji Tata, Indian industrialist (d. 1904)
1841 - John Murray, Canada oceanographer (Depths of the Ocean)
1845 - Georg Cantor, German mathematician (discover transfinite numbers)
1846 - Desiderio FA Pietri, Italian baker/marathon runner Dorando's father
1847 - Alexander Graham Bell, Scotland, inventor (telephone)
1848 - Adelaide Neilson, English Actress (d. 1880)
1849 - Jacques Oppenheim, Dutch lawyer
1851 - Alexandros Papadiamantis, Greek author (d. 1911)
1857 - Alfred Bruneau, composer
1860 - John Montgomery Ward, American baseball player (d. 1925)
1863 - Arthur Machen, Welsh-born author (d. 1947)
1865 - Alexander Gustav Adolfovich Winkler, composer
1866 - Fred A. Busse, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1914)
1867 - Gustav Strube, composer
1868 - Alain, [Emile-Auguste Chartier], French philosopher/writer
1869 - Henry J Wood, English conductor (Gentle Art of Singing, Proms)
1871 - Maurice Garin, French cyclist (d. 1957)
1872 - Wee Willie Keeler, outfielder (Baltimore Orioles); hit .432 in 1897
1873 - William Green, president of American Federation of Labor (1924-52)
1877 - Garrett Morgan, African-American inventor
1880 - Anne C Veth, Dutch cartoonist/art critic
1880 - Florence Auer, American actress (d. 1962)
1882 - Floris H L Prims, Flemish priest/historian/archivist of Antwerp
1883 - Cyril Burt, educational psychologist (d. 1971)
1886 - James Friskin, composer
1886 - Reginald Owen Morris, composer
1886 - Tore Ørjasæter, Norwegian poet (d. 1968)
1889 - Fritz Behrend, composer
1890 - Norman Bethune, Canada, Doctor in Spain & China
1891 - Federico Moreno Torroba, composer
1891 - Jan Donner, Dutch minister of Justice/president High Council
1892 - Edmund Lowe, actor (Black Sheep, Good Sam, Dillinger, Hot Pepper)
1892 - Rui Coelho, composer
1893 - Beatrice Wood, potter/artist/author
1893 - Bill Nestell, CA, actor (Dangerous Venture, Buckskin Frontier)
1895 - Alexander Nicolaas Voormolen, Dutch composer (d. 1980)
1895 - Juanita Hansen, Iowa, actress (Fast Company, Broadway Love)
1895 - Matthew B Ridgway, US gen (WW II/China/Nicaragua/Korea/NATO)
1895 - Ragnar Frisch, Oslo, Norwegian economist (1st winner of the Nobel prize in economics-1969)
1895 - Robert Gordon, Ks, actor (Loveless)
1897 - Jose Moreno Gans, composer
1899 - Alfred M Gruenther, US, commanding general (NATO, 1953-56)
1899 - Juri Olescha, writer
1900 - Edna Best, Hove England, actress (Key, Calendar, Escape, Intermezzo)
1902 - Ruby Dandridge, Memphis Tenn, actress (Father of the Bride)
1903 - Gilbert Adrian, [Greenberg], Naugatuck CT, costume designer
1903 - Rabbe A Enckell, Fins author/poet (Lutad about Brunnen)
1906 - Artur Lundkvist, Swedish writer/Swedish Academy (Agadir)
1906 - Donald Novis, Hastings England, actor (Monte Carlo)
1906 - Krishnarao Shiva Shelvankar, journalist/diplomat
1907 - Aar van de Werfhorst, [Pieter G Jansen], Dutch writer
1907 - Canada Lee, NYC, actor (Lost Boundaries)
1907 - Joy Finzi, [Joyce A Black], British painter
1908 - Riccardo Nielsen, composer
1909 - Jay Morris Arena, inventor/pediatrician
1909 - Kenton Kilmer, poet/translator
1910 - Kittens Reichert, American silent screen child actor (d. 1990)
1911 - Francesco Siciliani, opera composer
1911 - Jean Harlow, [Harlean Carpentier], KS, 30s' sex goddess (Dinner at 8 )
1911 - Hugues Lapointe, Canadian politician and Lieutenant governor of Quebec (d. 1982)
1912 - Joe Stydahar, NFL tackle (Chicago Bears)
1913 - Margaret AR Bonds, US pianist/composer/arranger
1913 - Roger Caillois, French writer (Les Jeux et les Hommes)
1914 - Martin Ritt, actor/director (Slugger's Wife, End of the Game)
1915 - George Brian Snape, businessman/rugby league entrepreneur
1917 - Bert van Aerschot, Flemish writer (Elevator, Women)
1917 - Sameera Moussa, Egyptian nuclear scientist (d. 1952)
1918 - Arnold Newman, photographer (Faces USA)
1918 - Arthur Kornberg, US biochemist (Nobel 1959)
1918 - Frank Wigglesworth, composer
1918 - Fritz Thiedemann, German equestrian (d. 2000)
1920 - James Doohan, Vancouver BC, actor (Montgomery Scott-Star Trek)
1920 - Julius Boros, golfer (PGA Champ 1968, US Open 1952, 63)
1921 - Diana Barrymore, NYC, actress (Nightmare, Lady Courageous, Fired Wife)
1921 - Junior Parker, Arkansas, blues vocalist/songwriter (Mystery Train)
1922 - Kazimierz Serocki, composer
1922 - Nándor Hidegkuti, Hungarian footballer (d. 2002)
1923 - Barney Martin, American actor (d. 2005)
1924 - Ali Faik Zaghloul, Egyptian radio presenter
1924 - Lilian Velez, Filipno actress (d. 1948)
1925 - Enzo Stuarti, Italy, singer (Yesterday)
1925 - Richard Vernon, England, actor (Servant, Gandhi, Hard Days Night)
1926 - James Ingram Merrill, US poet/author (Scripts for the Pageant)
1926 - Lys Assia, Swiss singer
1926 - Joseph Anthony Ferrario, American Catholic prelate (d. 2003)
1927 - Charles O Whitley, (Rep-D-NC, 1977- )
1927 - Frank Singleton, librarian
1927 - John McLaughlin, commentator (McLaughlin Report)
1927 - [Herman] Junior Parker, rocker (Driving Wheel, In the Dark)
1927 - Pierre Aubert, member of the Swiss Federal Council
1928 - Dave Dudley, singer (Six Days on the Road)
1928 - Don Gibson, singer/writer (I can't Stop Loving You, Oh Lonesome Me)
1928 - Gudrun Pausewang, Eastern Bohemia, German writer
1929 - Nicos Mamangakis, composer
1930 - Heiner Geißler, German politician
1930 - Ion Iliescu, President of Romania
1931 - Henk Knol, Dutch 2nd chamber member (PvdA)
1931 - Piet [van] Bambergen, Dutch cabaretier (Mounties, Sherlock Jones)
1932 - Mara Corday, Santa Monica CA, playmate (Oct, 1958)
1933 - Lee Radziwell Ross, NYC, princess (Jackie O's sister)
1933 - Marco Antonio Munoz, Mexico, spanish singer (Murmullos)
1933 - Alfredo Landa, Spanish actor
1934 - Gia Scala, Italy, actress (Angry Hills, Don't Go Near the Water)
1935 - Zhelyu Zhelev, Veselinovo, Shumen Province, Bulgarian President (1990-97)
1936 - Jim Clark, Formula 1 racer (1963 champ)
1937 - Bobby Driscoll, American actor (d. 1968)
1938 - Douglas Leedy, composer
1938 - Lew De Witt, singer (Statler Brothers-Flowers on the Wall)
1938 - Willie Chambers, guitarist/vocalist (Chambers Brothers)
1939 - Hans Pieter Verhagen, poet (Hoepla/Holland's Hole)
1939 - M L Jaisimha, cricketer (Indian batsman of the sixties)
1940 - Germán Castro Caycedo, Colombian writer and journalist
1940 - Owen Spencer-Thomas, English broadcaster, journalist and Anglican clergyman
1942 - Mike Pender, Liverpool, vocalist/guitarist (Searchers-Needles & Pins)
1942 - Vladimir Vasilyevich Kovolyonok, USR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 25, 29/31, T-4)
1943 - Roger Swaybill, actor/writer (Porky's II, Breaking Point)
1944 - Janice Garfat, rocker (Dr Hook)
1945 - Farooq Hamid, cricketer (1-107 in Test, Pakistan v Australia 1964)
1945 - Hattie Winston, Greenville Miss, actress (Nurse, Electric Company)
1946 - James C Adamson, Warsaw NY, Lt Col USA/astronaut (STS 28, STS 43)
1947 - Dave Mount, rocker
1947 - Otto Stuppacher, Austrian racing driver (d. 2001)
1947 - Clifton Snider, American poet and writer
1948 - Byron MacGregor, newscaster
1948 - Reed Hundt, FCC chairman
1949 - Bonnie J Dunbar, Sunnyside Wash, PhD/astro (STS 61-A, 32, 50, 71, 89)
1949 - James S Voss, Cordova Alabama, Major USA/astronaut (STS 44, 53, 69)
1949 - Jüri Allik, Estonian psychologist
1949 - Jesse Jefferson, American baseball player
1950 - Ed Marinaro, actor (Hill Street Blues)
1950 - Re Styles, rock vocalist (Tubes)
1950 - Tim Kazurinsky, Johnstown Pa, comedian (SNL, Police Academy 2, 3, 4)
1951 - Sergei Aleksandrovich Yemelyanov, Russian cosmonaut
1951 - Lindsay Cooper, English musician and composer (Henry Cow, News from Babel)
1952 - Robyn Hitchcock, rocker (Moss Elixir)
1952 - Dermot Morgan, Irish actor and comedian (d. 1998)
1953 - Aleksandr Viktorovich Borodin, Russia, cosmonaut
1953 - Dave Amato, rocker (REO Speedwagon-Can't Fight this Feeling)
1953 - Zico, Brazilian footballer
1954 - Keith Carlton Fergus, Temple TX, PGA golfer (1995 Honda Classic-8th)
1954 - Chris Hughes, London, English record producer and rock drummer (Adam & The Ants)
1956 - Jim Barton, Lincoln Neb, soling yachter (Olympics-bronze-1996)
1956 - John F Reid, cricketer (New Zealand batsman of 70's/80's)
1956 - Zbigniew Boniek, Polish footballer
1958 - Bob Bradley, Montclair NJ, soccer coach (Olympics-gold-96)
1958 - Miranda Richardson, Southport England, actress (Damage, Crying Game)
1958 - Marc Silvestri, American comic book artist and publisher (Top Cow Productions)
1959 - Romeo Zondervan, Dutch soccer player (NAC)
1960 - Neal Heaton, American baseball player
1960 - Colin Wells, English cricketer
1961 - Mary Page Keller, actress (Duet, Scared Stiff, Baby Talk)
1961 - Perry McCarthy, English racing driver
1961 - Knut Nærum, Norwegian comedian
1962 - Herschel Walker, WFL/NFL running back (NJ Generals, Dallas Cowboys)
1962 - Jackie Joyner-Kersee, E St Louis IL, heptathele (Olympic-gold-88, 92)
1962 - Glen E. Friedman, American photographer and artist
1963 - Elizabeth Chavez, Santa Monica Ca, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-13th-91)
1963 - Jacqueline Sheen, Dallas Texas, playmate (July, 1990)
1963 - Kelly Miller, Detroit, NHL left wing (Washington Capitals)
1963 - Sophia Aliberti, Greek actress and TV presenter
1964 - Arturo Huerta, Mexico, Canadian walker (Olympics-96)
1964 - Atif Rauf, cricketer (Pakistani Test batsman v New Zealand 1994)
1964 - Laura Martinez-Herring, Sinaloa Mexico, Miss USA (1985)/(Gen Hospital)
1964 - Lisa Ann Poggi, Grand Rapids Mich, actress (Jolie-Loving)
1964 - Raúl Alcalá, Mexican cyclist
1964 - Duncan Phillips, Australian drummer (Newsboys)
1965 - A J Sager, Columbus Ohio, pitcher (Detroit Tigers)
1966 - Claus Boekweg, Dutch soccer player (FC Groningen, FC Zwolle)
1966 - Dmitri Volkov, Russian swimmer (world record)
1966 - Ellen Minzner, Lawrence Mass, rower (Olympics-96)
1966 - Gary Parker, WLAF kicker (Scotland Claymores)
1966 - Hope Marie Carlton, Riverhead NY, playmate (July, 1985)
1966 - Noelle Daghe, Decatur IL, LPGA golfer (1994 PING-Cellular One-21st)
1966 - Tone-Loc, [Anthony Terrell Smith], LA California, rocker (Let's Do It)
1966 - Wendy Fletcher, Boston Mass, WPVA volleyballer (National-5th-1993)
1966 - Fernando Colunga, Mexican actor
1966 - Timo Tolkki, Finnish musician (Stratovarius)
1967 - Alexander Volkov, Russia, tennis star
1967 - Calvin Williams, NFL wide receiver (Philadelphia Eagles)
1967 - Elizabeth Cheshire, Burbank California, actress (Jill-Sunshine)
1968 - Brian Leetch, Corpus Christi TX, NHL defenseman (Team USA, NY Rangers)
1968 - Diann Roffe-Steinrotter, Warsaw NY, alpine skier (Oly-gold/silver-92)
1968 - Scott Radinsky, Simi Valley CA, pitcher (LA Dodgers)
1969 - Ronald Humphrey, NFL running back (Indianapolis Colts)
1969 - Simon Whitlock, Australian Darts Player
1970 - Donovan Bergstrom, US 3K steeplechase runner
1970 - Inzamam-ul-Haq, cricketer (dashing Pakistani batsman)
1970 - Kristine Radford, Sydney Australia, tennis star (1996 ITF/Lyneham)
1970 - Rick Mirer, NFL QB (Seattle Seahawks)
1970 - Scott Keswick, Nevada, gymnast (Coca-Cola-1st-94, Olympics-96)
1970 - Shawn Marie Brogan, Miss USA-Iowa (1997)
1971 - Terryl Ulmer, CFL defensive back (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1971 - Tyler Florence, chef, Food Network personality, & cookbook author
1972 - Christian Oliver, actor (Baby Sitters Club, Brian-Saved by the Bell)
1972 - Martin Prochazka, Slany CZ, NHL forward (Toronto, Czech Oly-Gold-98)
1972 - Darren Anderton, English footballer
1973 - Cory Raymer, NFL center (Washington Redskins)
1973 - James Dexter, tackle (Arizona Cardinals)
1973 - Jim Mills, tackle (San Diego Chargers)
1973 - Tisha Venturini, Modesto California, soccer midfielder (Olympics-96)
1973 - Victoria Nika Zdrok, Kiev Ukraine, playmate (Oct, 1994)
1973 - Winslow Oliver, running back (Carolina Panthers)
1973 - Romāns Vainšteins, Latvian cyclist
1973 - Matthew Marsden, English actor and singer
1974 - Jared Rushton, actor (Big, Honey I Shrank the Kids)
1974 - David Faustino, Los Angeles CA, actor (I Had 3 Wives, Bud-Married With Children)
1974 - Paula Malai Ali, Malaysian-Bruneian TV Presenter and Actress
1975 - Albert Fields, Gary Indiana, rocker (Party-Rodeo, That's Why)
1975 - Danica McKellar, actress (Winnie Cooper-Wonder Years) [or Jan 3]
1976 - Fraser Gehrig, Australian rules footballer
1977 - Bas Zuiderent, cricketer (Holland all-rounder 1996 World Cup)
1977 - Ronan Keating, Bayside Dublin Ireland, Irish singer (Boyzone)
1978 - Carol Aquino, Miss Guatemala Universe (1997)
1978 - Douglas Osmond, Provo Utah, vocalist (Osmond Boys)
1978 - Matt Diaz, American baseball player
1978 - Seomoon Tak, Korean singer
1979 - Patrick Renna, American actor
1979 - Alex Zane, English comedian
1980 - Mason Unck, American football player
1981 - Dusty Dvoracek, American football player
1981 - Kim Yoo-Jin (Eugene), South Korean singer and actress
1981 - Emmanuel Pappoe, Ghanaian footballer
1981 - Sung Yu Ri, South Korean singer and actress
1982 - Colton Orr, Canadian ice hockey player
1982 - Jessica Biel, Ely Minnesota, American actress (Mary Camden in 7th Heaven)
1984 - Alexander Semin, Russian ice hockey player
1985 - Sam Morrow, Northern Irish footballer
1986 - Stacie Orrico, American singer
1989 - Erica Morningstar, Canadian Swimmer, and record holder.

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 03, 2013, 01:43:11 PM

This Day in History for 3rd March


Famous Deaths

561 - Pelagius I, Italian Pope (547-51, 556-61), dies
1191 - Saladin [Salah ad-Din]) Yusuf, sultan of Egypt/Syria, dies at 52
1239 - Vladimir III Rurikovich, Grand Prince of Kiev (b. 1187)
1459 - Ausias March, Catalan poet, dies
1554 - Johann Friedrich, the Generous, Elector of Saxony (1532-47) and Head of the Protestant
          Confederation of Germany (the Schmalkaldic League), dies at 50
1580 - Jacob Hillebrand, Dutch mayor of Groningen, dies
1635 - Philips de l'Espinoy, historian/mayor of Ghent, dies
1703 - Robert Hooke, scientific genius, dies in London
1707 - Aurangzeb, Emperor of India (1658-1707), dies at 88
1717 - Pierre Allix, French/British theologist/vicar, dies at about 75
1744 - Jean Barbeyrac, French jurist
1765 - William Stukeley, English archaeologist (b. 1687)
1766 - Gregor Joseph Werner, composer, dies at 73
1768 - Nicola Antonio Porpora, composer, dies at 81
1792 - Robert Adam, Scottish architect (Syon House, Middlesex), dies at 63
1800 - Johann Baptist Christoph Toeschi, composer, dies at 64
1822 - Franz Adam Veichtner, composer, dies at 81
1824 - Giovanni Battista Viotti, Italian violist/composer, dies at 70
1848 - Heinrich Olivier, German painter, dies
1850 - Oliver Cowdery, American religious leader (b. 1806)
1858 - Jozsef Bajza, Hungarian author/poet/critic, dies at 54
1864 - Ulric Dahlgren, Union colonel, dies in battle at 21
1889 - Edward Sydney Smith, composer, dies at 49
1894 - Ned Williamson, American baseball player (b. 1857)
1899 - William P. Sprague, American politician from Ohio (b. 1827)
1902 - Isaac D France van de Putte, Dutch premier (1866), dies at 79
1920 - Theodor Philipsen, Danish painter (b. 1840)
1921 - Petrus Cuypers, architect (Amsterdam museum), dies at 93
1926 - Cyril Metodej Hrazdira, composer, dies at 58
1927 - Mikhail Artsybashev, Russian writer (b. 1878)
1927 - J.G. Parry-Thomas, Welsh motor-racing driver (b. 1884)
1928 - Jan [Jean] T Toorop, Dutch graphic artist (3 Brides), dies at 69
1932 - Eugene Francis Charles D'albert, composer, dies at 67
1934 - Norman Houstoun O'Neill, composer, dies at 58
1935 - Neville Knox, cricketer (bowled in 2 Tests for England 1907), dies
1938 - Arthur Koestler, writer, dies at 32
1941 - Constant W L Scheurleer, archaeologist/banker/art expert, dies at 59
1941 - Ernst Cahn, owner of Amsterdam Koco ice cream parlor, executed
1942 - Amedeo, Duke of Aosta, viceroy (Ethiopia), dies at 43
1943 - George Thomson, cricketer (all-rounder-6 Tests for Eng 1909-10), dies
1945 - Arthur Vanderpoorten, Flemish Internal minister (1940), dies at 61
1945 - Koos Speenhoff, Dutch singer, killed in bombing raid at 75
1948 - Antonin Artaud, writer, dies at 51
1953 - James J. Jeffries, American heavyweight boxer (b. 1875)
1956 - Willem H Keesom, Dutch physicist (Helium I/II), dies at 79
1959 - Lou Costello, comedian (Abbott & Costello), dies at 52
1960 - Sammy White, actor (711 Ocean Drive, Sound Off), dies at 65
1961 - Paul Wittgenstein, Austrian-born pianist (b. 1887)
1965 - Carlo Gatti, composer, dies at 88
1966 - Alice Pearce, comedienne (Gladys Kravitz-Bewitched), dies at 52
1966 - William Frawley, actor (Fred Mertz-I Love Lucy), dies at 89
1967 - Georges Lonque, composer, dies at 66
1974 - Barbara Ruick, actress (Carousel, Fearless Fagan), dies at 43
1974 - Frank Wilcox, actor (John-Beverly Hillbillies), dies at 66
1976 - Alfred Sendrey, composer, dies at 92
1977 - Percy Marmont, actor (Secret Agent, Lisbon), dies at 93
1982 - Georges Perec, French writer, dies at 45
1983 - Arthur Koestler, Hung/Brit writer (Dialogue With Death), dies at 77
1983 - Hergé, Belgian comics creator (b. 1907)
1985 - Sarah Blanding, 1st US fem college head (Vassar 1946-64), dies at 86
1987 - Danny Kaye, comedian (Danny Kaye Show), dies at 74
1988 - Lois Wilson, actress (Crash, Deluge, Bright Eyes), dies
1988 - Sewall Wright, US geneticist (evolution model), dies at 98
1990 - Frans Goedhart, Dutch journalist/founder (Parool), dies at 86
1990 - Gérard Blitz, Belgian waterpoloist and entrepreneur (b. 1912)
1991 - Arthur Murray, dance instructor, dies at 95 of pneumonia
1991 - Clara Eggink, [Ebbele], Dutch poet (Life with J C Bloem), dies at 84
1992 - Robert Beatty, actor (Odd Man Out), dies at 82
1992 - Sandy Dennis, actress (Up the Down Staircase), dies of cancer at 54
1992 - Ted Liss, actor (Child's Play), dies of heart attack at 72
1993 - Albert Sabin, physician (oral polio vaccine), dies at 86
1993 - Carlos Montoya, flamenco guitarist, dies at 89
1993 - Cyril Collard, French composer/dir/actor (A Nos Amours), dies at 35
1993 - Carlos Marcello, Tunisian-born gangster (b. 1910)
1994 - Anita Morris, actress (Nine), dies of cancer at 50
1994 - Bob Crisp, cricketer (9 Tests for South Africa, 20 wickets at 37 35), dies
1994 - Karel Kryl, folk singer, dies at 49
1995 - Gilbert Gadoffre, French scholar, dies at 84
1995 - Howard Hunter, US leader of Mormon Church (1994-95), dies at 87
1995 - Howard Yanks, founder of the Philadelphia folk festival, dies at 65
1995 - Pierre Tisseyre, publisher (Circle du livre de France), dies at 85
1995 - Shiv Verma, soldier, dies at 85
1996 - David Bowman, trade unionist, dies at 82
1996 - John Joseph Krol, cardinal, dies at 95
1996 - Leo Malet, writer, dies at 86
1996 - Ludwig Freiherr von Hammerstein-Equord, journalist, dies at 76
1996 - Lyle Talbot, [Henderson], actor (Plan 9 From Outer Space), dies at 76
1996 - Marguerite Duras, writer, dies at 81
1996 - Meyer Schapiro, art historian, dies at 91
1997 - Stanislav Shatalin, Russian economist (500 Days), dies
1998 - Fred Friendly, American broadcast executive (b. 1915)
1999 - Gerhard Herzberg, German-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
2000 - Toni Ortelli, Italian composer and alpinist (b. 1904)
2001 - Louis Edmonds, American actor (b. 1923)
2002 - Harlan Howard, American musician (b. 1927)
2003 - Horst Buchholz, German actor (b. 1933)
2003 - Luis Marden, American photojournalist (b. 1913)
2003 - Goffredo Petrassi, Italian composer (b. 1904)
2003 - Peter Smithson, English architect (b. 1923)
2004 - Cecily Adams, American actress and casting director (b. 1958)
2005 - Max M. Fisher, American philanthropist (b. 1928)
2006 - Ivor Cutler, Scottish poet (b. 1923)
2006 - William Herskovic, Holocaust hero and philanthropist (b. 1914)
2007 - Osvaldo Cavandoli, Italian catoonist, creater of La Linea.
2010 - Keith Alexander, British football manager (b. 1956)
2010 - Michael Foot, British politician (b. 1913)
2011 - May Cutler, Canadian politician and publisher (b. 1923)
2012 - Dave Charnley, British lightweight boxer, dies at 72
2012 - Ralph McQuarrie, American conceptual designer, dies at 82
2012 - Ronnie Montrose, American guitarist, dies from prostate cancer at 64
2012 - Alex Webster, American football coach, dies at 80
2012 - Leonardo Cimino, American actor, dies from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at 94

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 04, 2013, 11:25:13 AM

This Day in History for 4th March


Historical Events

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English Philosopher and                         US President Thomas Jefferson               US President & General
Founder of Pennsylvania                                                                                        Andrew Jackson
William Penn

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US President Ulysses S. Grant            25th US President William McKinley             US President Woodrow Wilson

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31st US President Herbert Hoover           Queen Elizabeth II                                 Comedienne/Actress Lucille Ball

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Rocker/Beatle John Lennon              Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe       Boxing Champ George Foreman


51 - Nero, later to become Roman Emperor, is given the title princeps iuventutis (head of the youth).
303 - Martyrdom of Saint Adrian of Nicomedia.
852 - Croatian Duke Trpimir I issued a statute, a document with the first known written mention of
         the Croats name in Croatian sources.
932 - Translation of the relics of martyr Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia, Prince of the Czechs.
1152 - Frederik I Barbarossa elected Roman-German king
1215 - King John of England makes an oath to the Pope as a crusader to gain the support of
           Innocent III.
1238 - The Battle of the Sit River was fought in the northern part of the present-day Yaroslavl
           Oblast of Russia between the Mongol Hordes of Batu Khan and the Russians under Yuri II of
           Vladimir-Suzdal during the Mongol invasion of Russia.
1351 - Ramathibodi becomes King of Siam.
1386 - Władysław II Jagiełło (Jogaila) was crowned King of Poland.
1461 - Battle at Towton: Duke Edward of York beats English queen Margaretha Edward IV
           recognized as king of England
1492 - King James IV of Scotland concludes an alliance with France against England.
1570 - King Philip II bans foreign Dutch students
1590 - Mauritius of Nassau's ship reaches Breda
1611 - George Abbot appointed archbishop of Canterbury
1621 - Jacarta, Java renamed Batavia
1665 - English king Charles II declares war on Netherlands
1675 - John Flamsteed appointed 1st Astronomer Royal of England
1681 - King Charles II grants William Penn royal charter for Penn
1699 - Jews are expelled from Lubeck Germany
1741 - English fleet under admiral Ogle reaches Cartagena
1774 - 1st sighting of Orion nebula (William Herschel)
1776 - The American War of Independence: The Americans capture "Dorchester Heights" dominating
           the port of Boston, Massachusetts.
1789 - 1st Congress declares constitution in effect (9 senators, 13 reps)
1790 - France is divided into 83 départements, which cut across the former provinces in an attempt
           to dislodge regional loyalties based on noble ownership of land.
1791 - 1st Jewish member of US Congress, Israel Jacobs (PA), takes office
1791 - Pres Washington calls the US Senate into its 1st special session
1791 - Vermont admitted as 14th state (1st addition to the 13 colonies)
1792 - Oranges introduced to Hawaii
1793 - French troops conquer Geertruidenberg Neth
1793 - Washington's 2nd inauguration, shortest speech (133 words)
1797 - John Adams inaugurated as 2nd president of US
1798 - Catholic women force to do penance for kindling sabbath fire for Jews
1801 - 1st president inaugurated in Washington DC (Thomas Jefferson)
1804 - The Battle of Vinegar Hill, colony of New South Wales (Australia), when Irish convicts (some
           of whom had been involved in Ireland's Battle of Vinegar Hill in 1798) led the colony's only
           significant convict uprising.
1809 - Madison becomes 1st president inaugurated in American-made clothes
1824 - The "National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck" was founded in the
           United Kingdom, later to be renamed The Royal National Lifeboat Institution in 1858.
1825 - John Quincy Adams inaugrated as 6th president
1826 - 1st US RR chartered, Granite Railway in Quincy, Mass
1829 - Andrew Jackson inaugurated as 7th president
1829 - Unruly crowd mobs White House during Pres Jackson inaugural ball
1830 - V Bellini's opera "I Capuleti e i Montecchi," premieres in Venice
1835 - HMS Beagle moves into Bay of Concepcion
1837 - Martin Van Buren inaugrated as 8th president
1837 - Weekly Advocate changes its name to the Colored American
1837 - Chicago becomes incorporated as a city.
1841 - Dion Boucicault's "London Assurance," premieres in London
1841 - Longest inauguration speech (8,443 words), William Henry Harrison
1845 - James K Polk inaugrated at 11th president
1848 - Sardinia-Piemonte gets new Constitution
1848 - Carlo Alberto di Savoia signs the Statuto Albertino that will later represent the first
           constitution of the Regno d'Italia
1849 - US had no president, Polks term ends on a Sunday, Taylor couldn't be sworn-in, Sen David
           Atchison (pres pro tem) term ended Mar 3rd
1853 - Pope Pius IX recovers Catholic hierarchy in Netherlands
1853 - William Rufus de Vane King (D) sworn in as 13th US VP
1861 - Confederate States adopt "Stars & Bars" flag
1861 - Lincoln's inaugurated as 16th pres; 1st time US has 5 former pres
1861 - Pres Lincoln opens government Printing Office
1863 - Battle of Thompson's Station, TN
1863 - Territory of Idaho established
1865 - Confederate congress approves final design of "official flag"
1865 - President Lincoln inaugurated for his 2nd term as president
1869 - Ulysses Grant inaugurated as 18th president
1876 - US Congress decides to impeach Minister of War Belknap
1877 - Tsjaikovski's incomplete ballet "Zwanenmeer," premieres in Moscow
1880 - NY Daily Graphic publishes 1st half-tone engraving, by S H Horgan
1881 - California becomes 1st state to pass plant quarantine legislation
1881 - Holmes & Watson begin "A Study in Scarlet," 1st case together
1881 - James A Garfield inaugurated as 20th president
1881 - South African president Kruger accepts ceasefire
1882 - Britain's first electric trams run in East London.
1883 - John Gordon Cashmans begins "Vicksburg Evening Post" in Mississippi
1885 - Gilbert & Sullivan's opera "Mikado," premieres in London
1885 - Grover Cleveland inaugrated as 1st Democratic pres since Civil War
1889 - Benjamin Harrison inaugurated as 23rd president
1890 - The longest bridge in the Great Britain, the Forth Bridge (railway) (1,710 ft) in Scotland is
           opened by the Prince of Wales, who later became King Edward VII.
1893 - Francis Dhanis' army attacksthe Lualaba, occupies Nyangwe
1893 - Grover Cleveland (D) inaugrated as 24th US president (2nd term)
1894 - Great fire in Shanghai; over 1,000 buildings destroyed
1895 - Gustav Mahler's 2nd Symphony, premieres in Berlin
1897 - William McKinley inaugurated as 25th president of US
1899 - Cyclone Mahina sweeps in north of Cooktown, Queensland, with a 12 m wave that reaches up
           to 5 km inland - over 300 dead.
1901 - 1st advanced copy of inaugural speech (Jefferson-Natl Intelligencer)
1901 - President William McKinley inaugurated for 2nd term as president
1901 - Term of George H White, last of post-Reconstruction congressmen, ends
1902 - American Automobile Association (AAA) founded in Chicago
1905 - Gerhart Hauptmann's "Elga," premieres in Berlin
1908 - Collingwood Ohio, US primary school catches fire (180 killed)
1909 - President Taft inaugrated at 27th president during 10" snowstorm
1909 - US prohibits interstate transportation of game birds
1911 - Victor Berger (Wisc) becomes 1st socialist congressman in US
1913 - 1st US law regulating the shooting of migratory birds passed
1913 - Dept of Commerce & Labor split into separate departments
1913 - Gabriel Faure's opera "Penelope," premieres in Monte Carlo
1913 - NY Yankees are 1st to train outside US (Bermuda)
1913 - Woodrow Wilson inaugurated as 28th president
1917 - Jeannette Rankin (Rep-R-Mont) becomes 1st female member of Congress
1918 - Terek Autonomous Republic established in RSFSR (until 1921)
1920 - Last day of Julian civil calendar in Greece
1921 - Hot Springs National Park created in Arkansas
1923 - Lenin's last article in Pravda (about Red bureaucracy)
1924 - "Happy Birthday To You" published by Claydon Sunny
1925 - Pres Coolidge's inauguration broadcast live on 21 radio stations
1925 - Swain's Island (near American Samoa) annexed by US
1926 - De Geer government in Netherlands takes office
1928 - "Bunion Run" race from LA to NYC begins; It is won by Andy Payne
1929 - Charles Curtis (R-Kansas) becomes 1st native American VP
1929 - Herbert Hoover inaugurated as 31st president
1930 - Coolidge Dam in Arizona dedicated
1930 - Emma Fahning bowls 1st sanctioned 300 game by a woman
1930 - Terrible floods ransack Languedoc and the surrounds in south-west France, resulting in
           twelve departments being submerged by water and causing the death of over 700 people.
1931 - Bradman bowled by Herman Griffith for a duck as W I win the Test
1931 - West Indies beat Australia for the 1st time, by 30 runs at SCG
1933 - Chancellor Dollfuss disdolves Austrian parliament
1933 - Frances Perkins becomes sec of labor, 1st US woman cabinet member
1933 - Henderson, DeSylva & Brown's "Strike Me Pink" premieres in NYC
1933 - Noordwijk soccer team forms
1933 - FDR inaugrated as 32nd pres, pledges to pull US out of Depression & says "We have nothing
           to fear but fear itself"
1933 - Bertha Wilson is appointed as first woman to sit on the Supreme Court of Canada.
1934 - Easter Cross on Mt Davidson (SF) dedicated
1936 - 1st flight of airship Hindenburg, Germany
1941 - 18 Geuzen resistance fighters sentenced to death in The Hague
1941 - NHL Chicago goalie Samuel LoPresti stops record 80 of 83 Boston shots
1941 - Serbian Prince Paul visits Hitler
1941 - The United Kingdom launches Operation Claymore on the Lofoten Islands, during World War
           II.
1943 - Transport nr 50 departs with French Jews to Maidanek/Sobibor
1944 - 1st US bombing of Berlin
1944 - Anti-Germany strikes in North Italy
1945 - Finland declares war on nazi-Germany
1945 - In the United Kingdom, Princess Elizabeth, later to become Queen Elizabeth II, joins the
           British Army as a driver.
1947 - WWJ (now WDIV) TV channel 4 in Detroit, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting
1949 - Andrei Vishinsky succeeds Molotov as Soviet Foreign minister
1949 - Piet Van de Pol (Neth) becomes world champion billiard player
1949 - Security Council of UN recommends membership for Israel
1954 - JE Wilkins, appointed 1st Black US sub-cabinet member
1954 - Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, announces the first successful kidney
           transplant.
1955 - 1st radio facsimile transmission sent across the continent
1957 - The S&P 500 stock market index is introduced, replacing the S&P 90.
1959 - US Pioneer IV misses Moon & becomes 2nd (US 1st) artificial planet
1960 - French freighter "La Coubre" explodes in Havana Cuba, killing 100
1960 - Lucille Ball files divorce from Desi Arnaz
1961 - Paul-Henri Spaak resigns as sec-gen of NATO
1962 - AEC announces 1st atomic power plant in Antarctica in operation
1964 - Jimmy Hoffa convicted of jury tampering
1965 - David Attenbrough became the new controller of BBC2
1966 - Canadian Pacific airliner explodes on landing at Tokyo, 64 die
1966 - John Lennon, says "We (Beatles) are more popular than Jesus"
1966 - North Sea Gas was 1st pumped ashore by BP
1967 - Ice Dance Championship at Vienna won by Towler & Ford (GRB)
1967 - Ice Pairs Championship at Vienna won by Belousova & Protopopov (USSR)
1967 - Men's Fig Skating Championship in Vienna won by Emmerich Danzer (AUT)
1967 - Worlds Ladies Fig Skating Champion in Vienna won by Peggy Fleming (US)
1968 - Joe Frazier TKOs Buster Mathis in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
1968 - Martin Luther King Jr announces plans for Poor People's Campaign
1968 - Orbiting Geophysical Observatory 5 launched
1970 - French submarine "Eurydice" explodes
1970 - Jacksonville is 1st college basketball team to avg 100+ pts per game
1970 - NY Rangers set then NHL record of 126 games without being shut-out
1971 - "City Command" kidnaps 4 US military men at Ankara, Turkey
1972 - Erhard Keller (Germany) skates world record 1000m (1:18.5)
1972 - Last train run between Penrith to Keswick UK
1972 - Libya & USSR signs cooperation treaty
1973 - 15th Grammy Awards: 1st Time Ever I Saw Your Face, America
1974 - David Hares' "Knuckle," premieres in London
1974 - Harold Wilson replaces resigning Ed Heath as British premier
1976 - John Pezzin bowls 33 consecutive strikes at Toledo, Ohio
1976 - SF Giants are bought for $8 million by Bob Lurie & Bud Herseth
1977 - 1st CRAY 1 supercomputer shipped, to Los Alamos Laboratories, NM
1977 - Colin Croft takes 8-29 against Pakistan at Port-of-Spain
1977 - Earthquake in Romania, kills 1,541
1978 - Chicago Daily News, founded in 1875, publishes last issue
1979 - "Grand Tour" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 61 performances
1979 - 200th episode of "All in the Family"
1979 - Sally Little wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic
1979 - US Voyager I photo reveals Jupiter's rings
1980 - 40th hat trick in Islander history-Mike Bossy
1980 - Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF wins parliamentary election in Zimbabwe
1982 - 2nd double hat trick in Islander history-Bossy & D Potvin
1982 - NASA launches Intelsat V satellite, no. 504
1984 - Nancy Lopez wins Uniden LPGA Golf Invitational
1984 - Pee Wee Reese & Rick Ferrell elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame
1985 - STS 51-E vehicle rolls back to Vandenberg AFB; mission cancelled
1985 - Virtual ban on leaded gas ordered by EPA
1985 - War veterans returned to the "Bridge over the River Kwai"
1986 - Border completes twin Test tons (140 & 114*) v NZ
1989 - Eastern Airlines machinists strike
1989 - Javier Sotomayor high jumps indoor world record (2.43m)
1990 - 20th Easter Seal Telethon
1990 - Beth Daniel wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
1990 - US 65th manned space mission STS 36 (Atlantis 6) returns from space
1991 - Bank of Credit & Commerce Intl divests itself of 1st American Bank
1991 - Iraq releases 6 US, 3 British & 1 Italian POW
1993 - "Goodbye Girl" opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 188 performances
1993 - Katharine Hepburn enters the hospital suffering from exhaustion
1994 - 4 Arab terrorist founded guilty of bombing the World Trade Center
1994 - Space shuttle STS-62 (Columbia 16), launches into orbit
1995 - 1st NYC Mayor Trophy's High school track meet in 19 years
1995 - Blind teenage boy receives a 'Bionic Eye' at a Washington Hospital
1995 - George Foreman loses WBA boxing title, refusing to fight Tony Tucker
1995 - Michael Johnson runs world record 400m indoor (44.63 sec)
1995 - Replacement NY Yankees beat NY Mets 2-1
1997 - Brazil Senate allows women to wear slacks
1997 - Comet Hale-Bopp directly above the Sun (1.04 AU)
1997 - President Clinton bans federally funded human cloning research
1997 - Zeya Start-1 launched (Russia)
1998 - Gay rights: Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services: The Supreme Court of the United States
           rules that federal laws banning on-the-job sexual harassment also apply when both parties
           are the same sex.
2001 - 4 March 2001 BBC bombing: a massive car bomb explodes in front of the BBC Television
           Centre in London, seriously injuring 11 people. The attack was attributed to the Real IRA.
2001 - Hintze Ribeiro disaster, a bridge collapses in northern Portugal, killing up to 70 people.
2002 - Canada bans human embryo cloning but permits government-funded scientists to use
           embryos left over from fertility treatment or abortions.
2002 - Multinational Force in Afghanistan: Seven American Special Operations Forces soldiers are
           killed as they attempt to infiltrate the Shahi Kot Valley on a low-flying helicopter
           reconnaissance mission.
2005 - The car of released Italian hostage Giuliana Sgrena is fired on by US soldiers in Iraq, causing
           the death of an Italian Secret Service Agent and injuring two passengers.
2005 - United Nations warns that about 90 million Africans could be infected by the HIV virus in the
           future without further action against the spread of the disease.
2006 - Final contact attempt with Pioneer 10 by the Deep Space Network. No response was received.
2007 - Estonian parliamentary election, 2007: Approximately 30,000 voters take advantage of
           electronic voting in Estonia, the world's first nationwide voting where part of the votecasting
            is allowed in the form of remote electronic voting via the Internet.
2009 - The International Criminal Court (ICC) issues an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar
           Hassan al-Bashir for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur. Al-Bashir is the first
           sitting head of state to be indicted by the ICC since its establishment in 2002.
2012 - Munitions dump explosions kill at least 250 people in the Republic of Congo
2012 - Vladimir Putin wins Russian presidential election amid allegations of voter fraud
2012 - Over 10,000 illegal Peruvian gold miners clash with police to gain control of Puerto Maldonado

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 04, 2013, 11:27:44 AM

This Day in History for 4th March


Famous Weddings

1540 - Protestant Count Philip of Hessen marries 2nd wife
1989 - Actress Phoebe Cates marries actor Kevin Kline
2000 - "American Beauty" actress Mena Suvari (21) weds cinematographer Robert Brinkmann (38)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 04, 2013, 11:28:29 AM

This Day in History for 4th March


Famous Divorces

1960 - Lucille Ball files divorce from Desi Arnaz

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 04, 2013, 11:37:01 AM

This Day in History for 4th March


Famous Birthdays

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Violin Virtuoso & Composer                         Co-founder of Amway                        Heavy Metal Musician
 Antonio Vivaldi (1678)                                 Richard DeVos (1926)                         Jason Newstedt (1963)


1188 - Blanche of Castile, wife of Louis VIII of France (d. 1252)
1394 - Henry the Navigator, Prince/sponsors Portuguese voyages of discovery
1492 - Francesco de Layolle, composer
1610 - William Dobson, English portraitist and painter (d. 1646)
1651 - John Baron Somers, (Whig), William III's chief minister (1696-1700)
1665 - Philip Christoph von Königsmarck, Swedish soldier (d. 1694)
1678 - Antonio Vivaldi, Venice, Baroque violin virtuoso/composer (4 Seasons)
1702 - Jack Sheppard, English burglar and escapee (d. 1724)
1706 - Lauritz de Thurah, Danish architect and architectural writer (d. 1759)
1715 - James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave, British statesman (d. 1763)
1719 - Aert Schouman, Dutch bird/portrait painter
1719 - George Pigot, Baron Pigot, British governor of Madras (d. 1777)
1742 - Johann Heinrich Egli, composer
1745 - Charles Dibdin, English composer (d.1814)
1747 - Casimir Pulaski, Count/American Revolutionary War general
1754 - Benjamin Waterhouse, physician (smallpox vaccine pioneer)
1754 - Dieudonne-Pascal Pieltain, composer
1756 - Sir Henry Raeburn, Scottish painter (d. 1823)
1757 - Ignaz Malzat, composer
1765 - Charles Dibdin, England, composer/author (Sea Songs)/actor (baptized)
1766 - Emanuel ADMJ, French historian (Napoleon)
1773 - Pierre-Louis Hus-Desforges, composer
1781 - Rebecca Gratz, American educator and philanthropist (d. 1869)
1782 - Johann Wyss, Swiss folklorist/writer (Swiss Family Robinson)
1789 - Pavel P Gagarin, Russ monarch
1793 - Karl Lachmann, German philologist (d. 1851)
1798 - John Joseph Abercrombie, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1877
1813 - Wijnand J J Nuijen, romantic/water colors painter (Wrecked)
1817 - Edwards Pierrepont, American statesman, jurist and lawyer; 34th United States Attorney General (d. 1892)
1819 - Charles Oberthur, composer
1820 - Francesco Bentivegna, Italian revolutionary (d. 1856)
1822 - Jules Antoine Lissajous, French mathematician (d. 1880)
1826 - John Buford, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
1826 - Theodore Judah, American railroad engineer (d. 1863)
1828 - Elisha Franklin "Bull" Paxton, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1834 - Peter Nicolai von Wilm, composer
1835 - Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italy, astronomer (discovered canals of Mars)
1835 - John Hughlings Jackson, English neurologist (d. 1911)
1838 - Paul Lacome, composer
1841 - Kristian Mandrup Elster, Norwegian author (And fremmed Fugl)
1844 - Josip Jurcic, Slovenian writer (10th Brother)
1847 - Karl Bayer, Austrian chemist (d. 1904)
1854 - Sir Napier Shaw, British meteorologist (d. 1945)
1856 - Toru Dutt, English and French poet and author (d. 1877)
1856 - Alfred William Rich, English painter (d. 1921)
1862 - Robert Emden, Swiss geo/astro physics (Emden-polytroop)
1863 - Reginald Innes Pocock, British zoologist (d. 1947)
1863 - John Henry Wigmore, American jurist and expert in the law of evidence (d. 1943)
1864 - David W. Taylor, U.S. Navy architect (d. 1940)
1870 - Thomas Sturge Moore, English poet (d. 1944)
1871 - Boris Galerkin, Russian mathematician (d. 1945)
1873 - Guy Wetmore Carryl, American humorist and poet (d. 1904)
1873 - John H. Trumbull, 54th Governor of the U.S. state of Connecticut (d. 1961)
1875 - Alberto Vaccari, Italian jesuit/old testament scholar/interpreter
1875 - Enrique Larreta, [E R Maza], Argentine diplomat (Gloria de Don Ramiro)
1875 - Suze Groeneweg, 1st Dutch female parliament member (SDAP, 1918-37)
1876 - Léon-Paul Fargue, French poet (d. 1947)
1876 - Theodore Hardeen, Magician and stunt performer, founder of the Magician's Guild (d. 1945)
1877 - Alexander Fyodorovich Gedike, composer
1877 - Daniel G van Beuningen, Dutch art collector
1877 - Fritz Graebner, German ethnologist (d. 1934)
1878 - Egbert Van Alstyne, American songwriter and pianist (d. 1951)
1878 - Peter D. Ouspensky, Russian philosopher (d. 1947)
1879 - Bernhard Kellermann, writer
1880 - Channing Pollock, American playwright and critic (d. 1946)
1881 - Todor Aleksandrov, 19th century Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1924)
1881 - Maude Fealy, American actor (d. 1971)
1881 - Thomas Sigismund Stribling, American writer (d. 1965)
1881 - Richard C. Tolman, American mathematical physicist (d. 1948)
1882 - Nicolae Titulescu, Romanian diplomat, government minister, and former President of the League of Nations (d. 1941)
1883 - Sam Langford, Canadian boxer (d. 1956)
1884 - Red Murray, American professional baseball player (d. 1958)
1885 - Willem H Winkel, Dutch physician/founder (Red Cross of Curacao)
1886 - Paul Bazelaire, French cellist (d. 1958)
1887 - Violet MacMillan, American Broadway theatre actress (d. 1953)
1888 - Knute Rockne, Norwegian/US football player/coach (Notre Dame)
1888 - Rafaela Ottiano, Italian-born American actress (d. 1942
1888 - Jeff Pfeffer, American professional baseball pitcher (d. 1972)
1889 - Pearl White, [Victoria], US actress/stunt woman (Perils of Pauline)
1889 - Oscar Chisini, Italian mathematician (d. 1967)
1889 - Oren E. Long, 10th Territorial Governor of Hawai'i (d. 1965)
1891 - Dazzy Vance, hall of fame pitcher (led NL in strike-outs 7-yrs)
1891 - Lois Wilson, founder of Al-Anon (d. 1988)
1895 - Milt Gross, American comic book illustrator (d. 1953)
1897 - Francis "Lefty" O'Doul, baseball player/organized Japanese baseball
1898 - Georges Dumézil, French philologist (d. 1940)
1899 - Emilio Prados, Spanish poet and editor (d. 1962)
1900 - Roberto Soundy, El Salvador, trap shooter (Olympic-1968)
1900 - Herbert Biberman, American screenwriter (d. 1971)
1901 - Charles H Goren, bridge master (26 US Titles)
1901 - Jean Joseph Rabearivelo, Malagasy/French poet (d. 1937)
1903 - Harold Berens, comedian
1903 - William C. Boyd, American immunochemist (d. 1983)
1903 - John Scarne, American magician (d. 1985)
1904 - George Gamow, nuclear physicist/cosmologist/writer (1, 2, 3...
1904 - Joseph Schmidt Austrian-Hungarian tenor and actor (d. 1942)
1904 - Chief Tahachee, American-born Old Settler Cherokee Indian stage and film actor (d. 1978)
1906 - Meindert DeJong American author (d. 1991)
1906 - Georges Ronsse, Belgian national cyclo-cross and world champion road bicycle racer (d. 1969)
1906 - Charles Rudolph Walgreen, Jr., American businessman (d. 2007)
1907 - Edgar Barrier, NY, actor (Cobra Woman, Macbeth, Rocky, Cornered)
1907 - Eleanor "Sis" Daley, wife of Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley (d. 2003)
1908 - Boris N Poveloi, [Kampov], Russian journalist/writer [NS=Mar 17]
1909 - Harry B Helmsley, NYC, billionaire builder (Empire State Building)
1910 - Tancredo Neves, president of Civil rights activist
1912 - Afro, [Basaldella], Italian painter
1912 - John Garfield, NYC, actor (Air Force, Destination: Tokyo, Juarez)
1912 - Carl Marzani, American documentarian (d. 1994)
1913 - Taos Amrouche, Algerian writer and singer (d. 1976)
1913 - Willie Johnson (guitarist), American guitarist (d. 1995)
1914 - Gino Colaussi (Luigi Colaussi), Italian footballer (d. 1991)
1914 - Ward Kimball, American cartoonist (d. 2002)
1914 - Robert R. Wilson, American physicist, sculptor and architect (d. 2000)
1915 - Carlos Surinach, Barcelona Spain, composer (Monte Carlo) [OS]
1915 - Eunice Catunda, composer
1915 - Petrus de Jong, Dutch premier (KVP, 1967-71)
1916 - Giorgio Bassani, Italian writer (Botteghe Oscure)
1916 - Hans Eysenck, psychologist
1917 - Clyde McCullough, American baseball player (d. 1982)
1918 - Margaret Osborne DuPont, Joseph Oregon, tennis pro (US Open 1948-50), (d. 2012)
1919 - Buck Baker, American racecar driver (d. 2002)
1920 - Marcella Grady Jennings, rancher
1920 - Jean Lecanuet, French politician (d. 1993)
1920 - Alan MacNaughtan, Scottish actor (d. 2002)
1921 - Halim El-Dabh, composer
1921 - Joan Greenwood, London, actress/director (Amorous Mr Prawn)
1921 - Dinny Pails, Australian tennis player
1922 - Richard E. Cunha, American cinematographer and film director (d. 2005)
1922 - Martha O'Driscoll, American film actress (d. 1998)
1922 - Dina Pathak (Deena Pathak), Veteran Gujarati theatre and film actress (d. 2002)
1923 - Patrick Moore, England, astronomer/writer (A-Z of Astronomy), (d. 2012)
1923 - Piero J d'Inzeo, France, equestrian show jumper (Olymp-gold-1952, 64)
1925 - Paul Mauriat, French musician (d. 2006)
1926 - Richard DeVos, American billionaire, co-founder of Amway
1926 - James J. Eagan, Former Mayor of Florissant, Missouri (d. 2000)
1926 - Pascual Pérez (boxing), Argentine flyweight boxer (d. 1977)
1926 - Don Rendell, English jazz musician and arranger
1926 - Fran Warren, American singer
1927 - Robert Di Domenica, composer
1927 - Thayer David, MA, actor (Eiger Sanction, Rocky, Nero Wolfe, Savages)
1927 - Philip Batt, 29th Governor of the U.S. state of Idaho
1927 - Robert Orben, American magician
1927 - Dick Savitt, American tennis player
1928 - Alan Sillitoe, Brit, writer (Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner)
1928 - Samuel Adler, composer
1929 - Bernard Haitink, Amsterdam Neth, conductor (London Phil Orch 1969-78)
1929 - Josep Mestres-Quadreny, composer
1931 - Gennady Rozhdestvensky, composer
1931 - Han Jansen, Dutch painter
1931 - Wally Bruner, American journalist and television host (d. 1997)
1931 - Bob Johnson, American ice hockey coach (d. 1991)
1931 - Alice Rivlin, American economist
1932 - Guido Baggiani, composer
1932 - Hessel Rienks, economist/Dutch 2nd chamber member (PvdA)
1932 - Miriam Makeba, Johannesburg South Africa, singer (Grammy 1965)
1932 - Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, American car designer (d. 2001)
1932 - Frank Wells, American entertainment businessman (d. 1994)
1933 - Ann Burton, [Anna Rafalowicz], singer
1933 - John W Mills, British sculptor
1934 - Barbara McNair, Racine Wisc, singer/actress (Barbara McNair Show)
1934 - Jane van Lawick-Goodall, ethologist/chimp expert (1974 Walker Prize)
1934 - John Duffey, bluegrass musician
1934 - Mario Davidovsky, Buenos Aires Argentinia, composer (Synchronisms)
1934 - Anne Haney, American actress (d. 2001)
1934 - Janez Strnad, Slovenian physicist
1934 - Gleb Yakunin, Russian priest and dissident
1935 - Nancy Whiskey, Scottish folk singer (d. 2003)
1936 - Aribert Reimann, composer
1936 - David Thompson, British food magnate/multi-millionaire
1936 - Eric Allandale, rocker (Foundations)
1936 - Jim Clark, race car driver (Indianapolis 500)
1937 - Graeme Dowling, cricketer (New Zealand, 239 v India 1968)
1937 - Ron Carter, jazz bassist (Ron Carter Meets Bach)
1937 - Yuri Aleksandrovich Senkevich, Russian cosmonaut
1937 - [Bernard Barney Jean] Wilen, musician
1937 - Leslie Gelb, American foreign policy advisor
1938 - Angus MacLise, American percussionist (d. 1979)
1938 - Don Perkins, American football player
1938 - Adam Daniel Rotfeld, Polish diplomat and researcher
1939 - James Aubrey Turner, scientist
1939 - Paula Prentiss, [Ragusa] San Ant Tx, actress (Parallax View, He & She)
1939 - Carlos Vereza, Brazilian actor
1940 - Kas Garas, Kaunas Lithuania, actor (Hamlyn-Strange Report)
1940 - Volodymyr Morozov, Ukrainian flatwater canoer
1941 - John Aprea, Englewood NJ, actor (Lucas-Another World, Godfather 2)
1941 - John Hancock, Hazen AR, actor (Black Marble, Traxx, Houston Knights)
1942 - Charles C. Krulak, 31st Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps
1943 - Zoltan Jeney, composer
1944 - Bobby Womack, Cleve, R&B singer/guitarist (Woman's Got to Have It)
1945 - Dieter Meier, Swiss singer/children book writer (Yello)
1945 - Jaime Tirelli, NYC, actor (Orlando Lopez-Ball Four)
1945 - Tara Browne, British socialite (d. 1966)
1945 - Frank Novak, American actor
1945 - Tommy Svensson, Swedish football manager
1946 - Haile Gerima, director (Ashes & Embers)
1946 - Harvey Goldsmith, impresario
1946 - Michael Ashcroft, English entrepreneur/multi-millionaire (Hawley-ADT)
1946 - Ralph Kirshbaum, Denton TX, cellist (RNCM Manchester Intl Festival)
1946 - Robert Raymond, rocker
1947 - David Franzoni, American screenwriter
1947 - Jan Garbarek, Norwegian musician
1947 - Gunnar Hansen, Icelandic actor
1947 - Gwen Welles, American actress (d. 1993)
1948 - Chris Squire, London, rock bassist (Yes-Fish Out of Water)
1948 - Shakin' Stevens, [Mike Barrett], Wales, rocker (You Drive Me Crazy)
1948 - Lindy Chamberlain, Australian author
1948 - James Ellroy, American writer
1948 - Tom Grieve, American baseball player
1948 - Leron Lee, American baseball player
1948 - Jean O'Leary, American gay and lesbian rights activist and politician (d. 2005)
1949 - Carroll Baker, Canadian country singer and songwriter
1950 - Emilio Estefan, Cuba, rocker (Miami Sound Machine-1 2 3)
1950 - Judy Dickinson, Akron OH, LPGA golfer (1985 Boston Five Classic)
1950 - Kenny Dalglish, soccer manager
1950 - Rafael Canizares Poey, Alacs Mtnzs Cuba, basketballer (Oly-bronze-72)
1950 - Ofelia Medina, Mexican actress and screenwriter
1950 - Rick Perry, Governor of Texas
1951 - Chris Rea, English rock guitarist (Fool If You Think It Is Over)
1951 - Gwen Welles, NYC, actress (Desert Hearts, Sticky Fingers)
1951 - Kenny Dalglish, British soccer star (100+ goals)
1951 - Edelgard Bulmahn, German politician
1951 - Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, American novelist (d. 1982)
1951 - Linda Yamamoto, Japanese singer
1952 - Ronn Moss, LA California, actor (Ridge-Bold & Beautiful, Santa Barbara)
1952 - Umberto Tozzi, Italian singer
1953 - Christopher H Smith, (Rep-R-NJ, 1981- )
1953 - Kay Lenz, LA California, actress (Moving Violations, Rich Man Poor Man)
1953 - Emilio Estefan, Cuban percussionist
1953 - Scott Hicks, Ugandan-born film director
1953 - Paweł Janas, Polish football manager and former footballer
1954 - Catherine O'Hara, Toronto Ont, comedienne (Beetlejuice, SCTV)
1954 - Peter Erling Jacobsen, Portland OR, PGA golfer (1990 Bob Hope)
1954 - Mark Chorvinsky, American author and editor (d. 2005)
1954 - François Fillon, French politician, Prime Minister of France
1954 - Willie Thorne, English snooker player
1955 - Benny Alexander, sec-gen (S Afr Pan-Africanist Movement)
1955 - Dominique Pinon, French actor
1956 - Kermit Driscoll, American jazz bassist
1957 - Jim Dwyer, American journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner
1957 - Rick Mast, American NASCAR driver
1958 - Patricia Heaton, Cleve OH, actress (Debra-Everybody Loves Raymond)
1958 - Lennie Lee, British artist
1959 - Kelly Lynch, Golden Walley Minn, actress (Warm Summer Rain, Cocktail)
1959 - Rick Ardon, Australian news presenter
1960 - Reggie McElroy, NFL tackle (Denver Broncos)
1960 - Russell Todd, Troy NY, actor (Dr Jamie Frame-Another World)
1960 - John Mugabi, Ugandan boxer
1960 - Christina Sussiek, former German athlete
1960 - Mykelti Williamson, American actor
1961 - David "Tinker" Juarez, LA California, cyclist (Olympics-19th-96)
1961 - Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini, boxer (killed a boxer in the ring)
1961 - Roger Wessels, Port Elizabeth South Africa, golfer (1994 Canadian Masters)
1961 - Steven Weber, Queens NY, actor (Brian Hackett-Wings)
1961 - Sabine Everts, former German track athlete
1962 - Brant Ian Woodward, Hurstville NZ, trap shooter (Olympics-96)
1962 - Greg Kragen, NFL nose tackle (GB Packers, Carolina Panthers)
1962 - Simon Bisley, British comic book artist
1962 - Lolo Ferrari, French actress (d. 2000)
1962 - David Sparrow, English actor
1963 - Anne Minter, Australia, tennis star
1963 - Jason Newstedt, US heavy-metal bassist (Metallica-Kill 'em All)
1963 - MDV, [Michiel de Vos], Dutch pop bassist (Burma Shave-Stash)
1963 - Barbara Bubula, Polish politician
1963 - Janey Lee Grace, English singer, author, television presenter and radio disc jockey
1963 - Daniel Roebuck, American actor
1964 - Emilia Eberle, Romania, gymnist (Oly-silver-80)
1964 - Linda French, Oak Park Ill, badminton player (Olympics-96)
1964 - Tom Lampkin, Cincinnati OH, catcher (SF Giants)
1965 - Alexandra Harbold, NYC, sprint kayak (Olympics-96)
1965 - Dana Brown, Memphis Tenn, Miss Tenn-America (1991-3rd)
1965 - Stacy Edwards, Glasgow, Montana, actress (Santa Barbara)
1965 - Paul W. S. Anderson, English filmmaker
1965 - Andrew Collins, English journalist, scriptwriter and broadcaster
1965 - Khaled Hosseini, Afghan author and physician
1965 - WestBam (Maximillian Lenz), German rave techno DJ
1965 - Jonathan Shearer, Scottish castaway
1966 - Kevin Johnson, NBA guard (Phoenix Suns)
1966 - Mike Small, Aurora Illinois, Canadian Tour golfer (1993 Emerald Coast)
1966 - Patrick Hannan, English pop drummer (Sundays-Can't Be Sure)
1966 - Steve Bastoni, Italian Australian actor
1966 - Dav Pilkey, American author
1966 - Grand Puba, American rapper
1966 - Wash West [Wash Westmoreland], Leeds, English independent film director director
1967 - Daryll Cullinan, South African cricketer (batsman Warne's bunny)
1967 - Juli Furtado, NYC, mountain cyclist (world champ-1991, 92)
1967 - Andrew Osmond, English writer
1967 - Kubilay Türkyılmaz, former Turkish-Swiss footballer
1968 - Brian Hunter, Torrance CA, infielder (Seat Mariners, Houston Astros)
1968 - Dinky van Rensburg, South Africa, tennis star
1968 - Dionna Harris, Wilmington Del, softball outfielder (Olympics-gold-96)
1968 - Evan Dando, rocker (Lemonheads)
1968 - Patsy Kensit, London, actress (Lethal Weapon 2, Hanover St)
1968 - Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Greek politician
1968 - Giovanni Carrara, Venezuelan baseball player
1969 - Chaz Bono [Chastity Sun Bono], LA California, actress (Sonny & Cher Show)
1969 - Jeff Tinsley, Shelbyville KY, outfielder (Boston Red Sox)
1969 - Karrie Poppinga, Manhattan Beach Ca, volleyballer (Pismo Beach-4-95)
1969 - Kenneth Benson, CFL linebacker (Toronto Argonauts)
1969 - Pierluigi Casiraghi, Italian football manager
1969 - Frank Nicotero, American comedian
1969 - Patrick Roach, Canadian actor
1969 - Jason Townsend, American artist and record producer
1970 - Dave Stevens, Fullerton CA, pitcher (Minnesota Twins)
1970 - Marja Helena Paluila, ice hockey defenseman (Finland, Oly-98)
1970 - Matt Gay, WLAF safety (Rhein Fire)
1970 - Tina Paternostro, Williamsport PA, golfer (1995 JAL Big Apple-57th)
1971 - Edwin van Holten, soccer player (FC Volendam)
1971 - Jovan Stanković, Serbian footballer
1971 - Shavar Ross, American actor-turned film director, writer, film producer and editor
1971 - Nick Stabile, American actor
1972 - Chris Borg, Lexington SC, canoe (alt-Olympics-96)
1972 - Jennie Garth, actress (Beverly Hills 90210)
1972 - Martin St Pierre, Ripon Quebec, 20k walker (Olympics-96)
1972 - Robert Smith, NFL running back (Minnesota Vikings)
1972 - Sherida Pawiroredjo, Suriname Miss Indra Maju (1993)
1972 - Pae Gil-Su, North Korean gymnast
1972 - Ivy Queen, American composer and singer
1972 - Robert Smith, American footballer
1972 - Jos Verstappen, Dutch Formula One driver
1973 - Phillip Daniels, NFL defensive end (Seattle Seahawks)
1973 - Len Wiseman, American director
1974 - Jarrett Deuling, Vernon, NHL left wing (NY Islanders)
1974 - Karol Kucera, Bratislava Slovakia, tennis star (1995-Rosmalen)
1974 - Sherry Wigginton, Austin Texas, diver (Olympics-96)
1974 - Ariel Ortega, Argentine footballer
1974 - ICS Vortex (Simen Hestnæs), Norwegian vocalist (Arcturus)
1974 - Tommy Phelps, American baseball player
1975 - Kirsten Bolm, German hurdler
1975 - Patrick Femerling, German-born professional basketball player
1975 - Kim Jung-Eun, South Korean actress
1975 - Myrna Veenstra, Dutch field hockey player
1975 - Antti Aalto, Finnish ice hockey player
1975 - Hawksley Workman, Canadian rock singer-songwriter
1976 - Hiram Bocachica, Puerto Rican baseball player
1976 - Sean Covel, American film producer
1976 - Scott Sturgeon (Stza Crack), American musician (Choking Victim and Leftover Crack)
1976 - Thierry Renaer, Belgian field hockey player
1976 - Vic Wunderle, American archer
1977 - Anna Baitchik, Miss Russia Universe (1997)
1977 - Ana Gabriela Guevara, Mexican athlete
1977 - Juha Helppi, Finnish professional poker player
1977 - Daniel Klewer, German footballer
1977 - Jason Marsalis, American musician
1978 - Denis Dallan, Italian rugby union footballer
1978 - Nate Ackerman, British-American logician and wrestler
1978 - Pierre Dagenais, Canadian ice hockey player
1978 - Rachel Roberts, Canadian model and actress
1979 - Ben Fouhy, New Zealand flatwater canoeist
1979 - Geoff Huegill, Australian swimmer
1979 - Jon Fratelli, Scottish singer (The Fratellis)
1980 - Omar Bravo, Mexican footballer
1980 - Jung Da Bin, South Korean actress (d. 2007)
1980 - Jack Hannahan, American baseball player
1980 - Arash Markazi, American sportswriter
1981 - Carol Banawa, Filipino singer and celebrity
1981 - Donny Tourette, English punk rock singer (Towers of London)
1982 - Mariano Altuna, Argentine racing driver
1982 - Landon Donovan, American soccer player
1983 - Max Vergara Poeti, Colombian writer
1983 - Ryan Lonie, Australian football player.
1984 - Ai Iwamura, Japanese actress
1984 - Zak Whitbread, American-born English footballer
1985 - Chinedum Ndukwe, American football player
1986 - Margo Harshman, American actress
1986 - Tom De Mul, Belgian footballer
1986 - Bohdan Shust, Ukrainian footballer
1987 - Cameron Wood, Australian rules footballer
1990 - Andrea Bowen, American actress
1991 - Diandra Newlin, American actress, singer, and fashion model
1992 - Jazmin Grace Grimaldi, daughter of Albert II, Prince of Monaco
1993 - Bobbi Kristina Brown, daughter of Whitney Houston & Bobby Brown
1993 - Jenna Boyd, American actress
1993 - Alice Jones, British actress
1993 - Abigail Mavity, American actress
1993 - Yves Michel-Beneche, American actor

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 04, 2013, 11:38:58 AM

This Day in History for 4th March


Famous Deaths

251 - Pope Lucius I
480 - Saint Landry, bishop of Sées
1172 - Stephan III, King of Hungary (1162-72), dies; (b. 1147)
1193 - Saladin, Kurdish sultan (b. 1137)
1238 - Joan of England, Queen Consort of Scotland, wife of Alexander II (b. 1210)
1238 - Yuri II, Grand Prince of Vladimir (b. 1189)
1303 - Daniel of Moscow, Russian Saint, Grand Prince of Muscovy (b. 1261)
1484 - Saint Casimir, Crown Prince of Poland dies at 25
1496 - Sigismund of Austria (b. 1427)
1583 - Bernard Gilpin, English clergyman, "Apostle of the North" (b. 1517)
1595 - Robert Southwell, English poet, hanged for becoming a Catholic priest
1604 - Fausto Paolo Sozzini, Italian theologian (b. 1539)
1615 - Hans von Aachen, German painter, dies
1617 - Arcangelo Crivelli, composer, dies at 70
1710 - Louis III, Prince of Condé (b. 1668)
1733 - Claude de Forbin, French naval commander (b. 1656)
1744 - John Anstis, Garter King of Arms (b. 1669)
1762 - Johannes Zick, German fresco painter (b. 1702)
1793 - Isaac Ouwater, Amsterdam painter/cartoonist, dies at 44
1794 - Henri D count de Larochejacquelin, Fr Royalist Army leader, dies at 21
1795 - John Collins, American politician (b. 1717)
1804 - Karl Leopold Rollig, composer, dies
1805 - Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter, dies at 79
1807 - Abraham Baldwin, American politician (b. 1754)
1831 - Georg Michael Telemann, composer, dies at 82
1832 - Jean-François Champollion, French scholar (b. 1790)
1839 - Ignace Antoine Ladurner, pianist/composer, dies at 72
1851 - Michael Henkel, composer, dies at 70
1851 - James Richardson, British explorer (b. 1809)
1852 - Nikolai Gogol, Russian writer and playwright, dies at 43
1853 - Christian Leopold von Buch, German geologist (b. 1774)
1858 - Matthew Perry, U.S. naval officer (b. 1794)
1864 - Thomas Starr King, Unitarian clergyman (Christianity & Humanity), dies
1866 - Alexander Campbell, Irish/US founder Disciples of Christ, dies at 77
1868 - Jesse Chisholm, American pioneer of the Chisholm Trail (b. 1805)
1872 - Johannes Carsten Hauch, Danish poet (b. 1790)
1876 - Alfred Holmes, composer, dies at 38
1877 - Hendrik E van Rijgersma, Dutch governor (St Maarten), dies at 42
1883 - Alexander H Stephens, VP Confederate States, dies at 71
1888 - Amos Bronson Alcott, US theory/poet (Table Talk), dies at 88
1903 - Joseph H Shorthouse, English writer (John Inglesant), dies at 68
1906 - John McAllister Schofield, former U.S. Secretary of War and Commanding General of the U.S.
           Army (b. 1831)
1910 - Knut Ångström, Swedish physicist (b. 1857)
1915 - William Willett, inventor of Daylight Saving Time (b. 1856)
1916 - Franz Marc, German painter/co-founder (Blaue Reiter), killed at 36
1918 - Eugene D'Harcourt, composer, dies at 58
1922 - Bert Williams, famous black, dies at 46, in NYC
1925 - Moritz Moszkowski, Polish/German composer, dies at 70
1925 - James Ward, English psychologist and philosopher (b. 1843)
1925 - John Montgomery Ward, American baseball player (b. 1860)
1927 - Ira Remsen American chemist (b. 1846)
1933 - Willie Walker, US jazz singer/guitarist (Dupree Blues), dies at 36
1936 - Ruben Mattias Liljefors, composer, dies at 64
1938 - George Foster Peabody, American politician (b. 1852)
1938 - Jack Taylor, American baseball player (b. 1874)
1940 - Hamlin Garland, American novelist (b. 1860)
1941 - Edoardo Mascheroni, composer, dies at 81
1942 - Yuliya Lazarevna Veysberg, composer, dies at 62
1943 - Nikolaos "Sokrates" Politis, Greek foreign minister, dies at 71
1943 - Pieter C Boutens, Dutch poet (Beatrijs), dies at 73
1944 - Louis Capone, New York organized crime figure (b. 1896) (executed)
1944 - Emanuel Weiss, American hitman (b. 1906) (executed)
1944 - Fannie Barrier Williams, American educator and political activist (b. 1855)
1945 - Lucille La Verne, American actress (b. 1872)
1945 - Mark Sandrich, American film director, writer and producer (b. 1900)
1946 - Bror von Blixen-Finecke, Danish big-game hunter (b. 1886)
1948 - Antonin Artaud, French poet/actor (Napoleon), dies at 51
1950 - Adam Rainer, the only man in recorded human history ever to have been both a dwarf and a
          giant (b. 1899)
1952 - Charles Scott Sherrington, English scientist, Nobel laureate (b. 1857)
1953 - Sergei S Prokoviev, Russian composer (Peter & the wolf), dies at 61
1954 - Georg Gohler, composer, dies at 79
1954 - Noel Gay, [Richard Moxon Armitage], composer, dies at 55
1958 - Albert Kuyle, [Lou Kuitenbrouwer], writer (Jesus' Carpet), dies at 54
1959 - Maxey Long, American athlete (b. 1878)
1960 - Leonard Warren, US baritone, dies on stage at 48
1960 - Herbert O'Conor, 51st Governor of the US State of Maryland (b. 1896)
1962 - Cairine R Wilson, 1st Canadian female senator (appointed), dies at 77
1962 - George Mogridge, Major League Baseball pitcher (b. 1889)
1963 - William Carlos Williams, US physician/poet, dies at 79
1966 - Janis Medins, composer, dies at 75
1967 - Vladan Desnica, Croatian and Serbian writer (b. 1905)
1967 - Michel Plancherel, Swiss mathematician (b. 1885)
1968 - Alexandre Cellier, composer, dies at 84
1969 - Nicholas Schenck, Russian-born film empresario (b. 1881)
1973 - Samuel Tolansky, British scientist and expert on spectroscopy (b. 1907)
1974 - Adolph Gottlieb, US painter, dies at 71
1976 - Walter H. Schottky, German physicist (b. 1886)
1977 - Andrés Caicedo, Colombian writer (b. 1951)
1977 - Toma Caragiu, Romanian actor (b. 1925)
1977 - Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, German politician and former Chancellor of Germany (b. 1887)
1978 - Wesley Bolin, former Governor of the U.S. State of Arizona (b. 1909)
1979 - Willi Unsoeld, American mountain climber (b. 1926)
1981 - Torin Thatcher, actor (Houdini, Isranbul, Lady Godiva), dies
1981 - Yip Harburg, American lyricist (b. 1896)
1984 - Shalva Mikhaylovich Mshvelidze, composer, dies at 79
1984 - Ernest Buckler, Canadian novelist (b. 1908)
1984 - Jewel Carmen, American actress (b. 1897)
1984 - Geoffrey Lumsden, British actor (b. 1914)
1986 - Henri Knap, Dutch journalist/writer, dies at 75
1986 - Richard Manuel, rock vocalist/pianist (Band), commits suicide at 42
1986 - Howard Greenfield, American songwriter (b. 1936)
1989 - Tiny Grimes, American jazz and R&B guitarist (b. 1916)
1990 - Hank Gathers, American basketball player (b. 1967)
1991 - Vance Colvig, actor (UHF, Barfly, My Chauffeur), dies at 72
1992 - Arthur Babbitt, animator (Mr Magoo, Goofy), die at 84 of heart failure
1992 - C Meijer, Dutch editor in chief (Typhoon), dies
1992 - Christian K Nelson, inventor (Eskimo Pie), dies at 98
1992 - Mary Osborne, jazz guitarist, dies at 70 of liver cancer
1992 - Nestor Almendros, Spanish/US cameraman (Kramer vs Kramer), dies at 61
1993 - Art Hodes, Russ/US jazz/blues pianist/editor (Jazz Record), dies
1993 - Richard Sale, writer/director (Oscar, Torpedo Run), dies at 80
1994 - Guus Verstraete Sr, Dutch actor/dir (2 Drops of Water), dies at 79
1994 - John Candy, actor (SCTV, Uncle Buck), dies from a heart attack at 43
1995 - Eden Ahbez, songwriter, dies at 86
1996 - Barbara Lewis, British obituarist, dies at 55
1996 - Minnie Pearl, country comedienne (Grand Ole Opry), dies at 84
1997 - Robert H. Dicke, American physicist (b. 1916)
1997 - Carey Loftin, American actor/stuntman (b. 1914)
1999 - Harry Blackmun, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (b. 1908)
1999 - Del Close, American actor (b. 1934)
1999 - Karel van het Reve, Dutch writer (b. 1921)
2001 - Glenn Hughes, American singer (The Village People) (b. 1950)
2001 - Fred Lasswell, American cartoonist (b. 1916)
2001 - Jim Rhodes, Governor of Ohio (b. 1909)
2001 - Harold Stassen, American politician (b. 1907)
2002 - Claire Davenport, English actress (b. 1933)
2002 - Eric Flynn, British actor/singer (b. 1939)
2002 - Elyne Mitchell, Australian author (b. 1913)
2002 - Velibor Vasović, Yugoslavian footballer (b. 1939)
2003 - Jaba Ioseliani, Georgian bank robber (b. 1926)
2003 - Sébastien Japrisot, French author, screenwriter and film director (b. 1931)
2004 - John McGeoch, Scottish musician (b. 1955)
2004 - Claude Nougaro, French singer (b. 1929)
2004 - George Pake, American physicist (b. 1924)
2004 - Stephen Sprouse, American fashion designer (b. 1953)
2005 - Nicola Calipari, Italian secret service agent (b. 1953)
2005 - Robert Consoli, American actor and musician (b. 1964)
2005 - Una Hale, Australian soprano (b. 1922)
2005 - Yuriy Kravchenko, Ukrainian statesman (b. 1951)
2005 - Carlos Sherman, Uruguayan-born writer (b. 1934)
2006 - John Reynolds Gardiner, American engineer (b. 1944)
2006 - Dave Rose, American artist (b. 1910)
2006 - Edgar Valter, Estonian illustrator/cartoonist (b. 1929)
2006 - Roman Ogaza, Polish footballer (b. 1952)
2007 - Natalie Bodanya (Natalie Bodanskaya), American soprano (b. 1908)
2007 - Thomas Eagleton, American politician (b. 1929)
2007 - Bob Hattoy, American activist (b. 1950)
2007 - Richard Joseph, British games soundtrack composer (b. 1954)
2007 - Sunil Kumar Mahato, Indian parliamentarian (b. 1966)
2007 - Tadeusz Nalepa, Polish composer, guitar player, vocalist and lyricist (b. 1934)
2007 - Ian Wooldridge, British sports journalist (b. 1932)
2007 - Jorge Kolle Cueto, Bolivian politician
2008 - Gary Gygax, Fantasy author and role-playing games creator. (b. 1938)
2008 - Elena Nathanael, Greek film actress (b. 1941)
2008 - Leonard Rosenman, American film, television and concert composer (b. 1924)
2008 - Semka Sokolovic-Bertok, Yugoslavian-born Croatian actress (b. 1935)
2008 - George Walter, former Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda (b. 1928)
2009 - Joseph Bloch, American concert pianist and professor of piano literature (b. 1917)
2009 - John Cephas, American Piedmont blues guitarist (b. 1930)
2009 - Yvon Cormier, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1938)
2009 - Patricia De Martelaere, Flemish writer (b. 1957)
2009 - Horton Foote, American Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and Academy Award-winning
           screenwriter (b. 1916)
2009 - George McAfee, former American football player (b. 1918)
2009 - Harry Parkes, English footballer (b. 1920)
2009 - Salvatore Samperi, Italian film director (b 1944)
2009 - Triztán Vindtorn, Norwegian poet and performance artist (b. 1942)
2010 - Raimund Abraham, Austrian architect (b. 1933)
2010 - Johnny Alf, Brazilian singer and composer (b. 1929)
2010 - Vladislav Ardzinba, Abkhazian politician (b. 1945)
2010 - Etta Cameron, Danish singer and actor (b. 1939)
2010 - Samuel J. Eldersveld, U.S. academic, political scientist, and Democratic politician (b. 1917)
2010 - Joaquim Fiúza, Portuguese sailor (b. 1908)
2010 - Tetsuo Kondo, Japanese politician (b. 1929)
2010 - Hilario Chávez Joya, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1928)
2010 - Nan Martin, American actress (b. 1927)
2010 - Roger Newman, British-born American actor and television writer (b. 1940)
2010 - Angelo Poffo, American professional wrestler (b. 1925)
2010 - Tony Richards, British footballer (b. 1934)
2010 - Joanne Simpson, American meteorologist (b. 1923)
2010 - Lolly Vegas, American singer (b. 1939)
2010 - Fred Wedlock, British folk musician (b. 1942)
2011 - Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, Indian politician and former Nepali Prime Minister (b. 1924)
2011 - Frank Chirkinian, American producer (b.c. 1926)
2011 - Vivienne Harris, British businesswoman and newspaper publisher (b.c. 1921)
2011 - Charles Jarrott, British film and television director (b. 1927)
2011 - Ed Manning, American basketball player and coach (b. 1943)
2011 - Johnny Preston, American pop singer (b. 1939)
2011 - Mikhail Simonov, Russian aircraft designer (b. 1920)
2011 - Arjun Singh, Indian politician (b. 1930)
2011 - Alenush Terian, Iranian astronomer and physicist (b. 1920)
2011 - Simon van der Meer, Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate (b. 1925)
2012 - Don Mincher, American Major League Baseball first baseman, dies at 73
2012 - Runako Morton, West Indian cricketer, dies in a traffic collision at 33

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 05, 2013, 10:25:43 AM

This Day in History for 5th March


Historical Events

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Inventor/Industrialist Samuel Colt            Entrepreneur and Engineer               Pacifist and Spiritual Leader Gandhi
                                                                    George Westinghouse                               

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US General George S Patton                 Singer & Cultural Icon Elvis Presley              NBA Legend Larry Bird

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Singer Mariah Carey


363 - Roman Emperor Julian moves from Antioch with an army of 90,000 to attack the Sassanid
          Empire, in a campaign which would bring about his own death.
1046 - Naser Khosrow begins the seven-year Middle Eastern journey which he will later describe in
           his book Safarnama.
1179 - 3rd Lateran Council (11th ecumenical council) opens in Rome
1461 - Henry VI was deposed by Duke of York during War of the Roses
1496 - English king Henry VII hires John Cabot (Giovanni Caboto) to explore
1528 - Utrecht governor Maarten van Rossum plunders The Hague
1558 - Smoking tobacco introduced in Europe by Francisco Fernandes
1579 - Betuwe joins Union of Utrecht
1616 - Copernicus' "de Revolutionibus" placed on Catholic Forbidden index
1623 - 1st American temperance law enacted, Virginia
1651 - South Sea dike in Amsterdam breaks after storm
1684 - Emperor Leopold I, Poland & Venice sign Heilig Covenant of Linz
1743 - 1st US religious journal, The Christian History, published, Boston
1746 - Jakobijnse troops leave Aberdeen
1750 - 1st American Shakespearean production-"altered" Richard III, NYC
1766 - Don Antonio de Ulloa takes possession of Louisiana Terr from French
1770 - Boston Massacre, British troops kill 5 in crowd. Crispus Attackus becomes 1st black to die for
           American freedom
1783 - King Stanislaus Augustus Poniatowski grants rights to Jews of Kovno
1784 - Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney is named President of the Board of Trade.
1793 - French troops are defeated by Austrian forces and Liège is recaptured.
1795 - Amsterdam celebrates Revolution on the Dam; Square of Revolution
1795 - Treaty of Basel-Prussia ends war with France
1807 - 1st performance of Ludwig von Beethoven's 4th Symphony in B
1820 - Dutch city of Leeuwarden forbids Jews to go to synagogues on Sundays
1821 - Monroe is 1st pres inaugurated on March 5th, because 4th was Sun
1824 - First Burmese War: The British officially declare war on Burma.
1836 - Mexico attacks Alamo
1836 - Samuel Colt manufactures 1st pistol, 34-caliber "Texas" model
1842 - Over 500 Mexican troops led by Rafael Vasquez invade Texas, briefly occupy San Antonio and
           then head back to the Rio Grande.
1845 - Congress appropriates $30,000 to ship camels to western US
1848 - Louis Antoine Garnier-Pages is named French minister of Finance.
1849 - Zachary Taylor sworn in as 12th president
1850 - The Britannia Bridge across the Menai Strait between the Isle of Anglesey and the mainland of
           Wales is opened.
1856 - Covent Garden Opera House destroyed in a fire
1856 - Georgia becomes 1st state to regulate railroads
1860 - Parma, Tuscany, Modena and Romagna vote in referendums to join the Kingdom of Sardinia.
1862 - Union troops under brig-gen Wright occupy Fernandina Florida
1864 - 1st track meet between Oxford & Cambridge
1868 - Arrigo Boito's opera "Mefistofele," premieres in Milan
1868 - Stapler patented in England by C H Gould
1868 - US Senate organizes to decide charges against Pres Andrew Johnson
1872 - George Westinghouse Jr patents triple air brake for trains
1877 - Rutherford B Hayes inaugurated as 19th US president
1894 - Seattle authorizes 1st municipal employment office in US
1894 - Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery becomes First Lord of the Treasury.
1896 - Italian premier Crispi resigns
1896 - Italians governor of Eritrea, Gen Baldissera, reaches Massawa
1897 - American Negro Academy forms
1899 - 1st performance of Edward MacDowell's 2nd Concerto in D
1900 - American Hall of Fame found
1903 - Definitive treaty for construction of Baghdad railway drawn
1904 - Nikola Tesla, in Electrical World and Engineer, describes the process of the ball lightning
           formation.
1907 - 1st radio broadcast of a musical composition aired
1907 - The second Duma opens in St. Petersburg, Russia and 40,000 demonstrators have to be
           dispersed by Russian troops.
1908 - 1st ascent of Mt Erebus, Antarctica
1910 - Ramon Inclan's "La Farsa Infantil de la Cabeza del Dragon," premieres
1910 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Wanderers beat Ottawa Senators, 3-1
1912 - Spanish steamer "Principe de Asturias" sinks NE of Spain, 500 die
1912 - Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, using them for reconnaissance
           behind Turkish lines.
1915 - World War I: The LZ 33, a zeppelin, is damaged by enemy fire and stranded south of Ostend.
1917 - 1st jazz recording for Victor Records released
1919 - Louis Hirsch & Harold Atteridge's musical premieres in NYC
1922 - "Nosferatu" premieres in Berlin
1923 - 1st old age pension plans in US established by Montana & Nevada
1923 - Montana & Nevada become 1st states to enact old age pension laws
1924 - Computing-Tabulating-Recording Corp becomes IBM
1924 - Frank Carauna, becomes 1st to bowl 2 successive perfect 300 games
1924 - King Hussein of Hedzjaz appoints himself kalief
1927 - 1,000 US marines land in China to protect American property
1928 - Karl Zuckmayer's "Der Hauptmann von Köpenick," premieres in Berlin
1931 - Gandhi & British viceroy Lord Irwin sign pact
1933 - FDR proclaims 10-day bank holiday
1933 - Germany's Nazi Party wins majority in parliament (43.9%-17.2M votes)
1934 - Mother-in-law's day 1st celebrated (Amarillo, Tx)
1935 - 1st premature baby health law in US (Chicago)
1936 - Spitfire makes it's 1st flight (Eastleigh Aerodrome in Southampton)
1942 - Bosnia Tito establishes 3rd Proletarit Brigade in Bosnia
1942 - Dmitri Shostakovitch' 7th Symphony, premieres in Siberia
1942 - Japanese troop march into Batavia
1943 - Anti fascist strikes in Italy
1943 - RAF bombs Essen Germany
1944 - 1st performance of Walter Piston's 2nd Symphony
1945 - Allies bombs The Hague, Netherlands
1945 - Generals Eisenhower, Patton & Patch meet in Luneville
1945 - US 7th Army Corps captures Cologne
1945 - US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Gretchen Merrill
1945 - World War II: The "Battle of the Ruhr" begins.
1946 - Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech (Fulton Missouri)
1946 - Hungarian Communists and Social Democrats co-found the Left Bloc.
1948 - US rocket flies record 4800 KPH to 126k height
1949 - Bradman plays his last innings in 1st-class cricket, gets 30
1949 - The Jharkhand Party is founded in India.
1952 - Terence Rattigan's "Deep Blue Sea," premieres in London
1954 - "Girl in Pink Tights" opens at Mark Hellinger NYC for 115 perfs
1955 - Elvis Presley's 1st TV appearance on "Louisiana Hayride" show
1955 - WBBJ TV channel 7 in Jackson, TN (ABC) begins broadcasting
1956 - "King Kong," 1st televised
1956 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open
1957 - Eamon de Valera's Fianna Fail-party wins election in Ireland
1957 - Sgt Bilko satirizes Elvis Presley (Elvis Pelvin)
1958 - Explorer 2 fails to reach Earth orbit
1958 - KDUH TV channel 4 in Scottsbluff-Hay Spring, NB (ABC) 1st broadcast
1959 - Iran & US sign economic & military treaty
1960 - Elvis Presley ends 2-year hitch in US Army
1960 - Ice Dance Championship at Vancouver won by Denny & Jones (GRB)
1960 - Ice Pairs Championship at Vancouver won by Wagner & Paul (CAN)
1960 - Men's Fig Skating Championship in Vancouver won by Alain Giletti (FRA)
1960 - Worlds Ladies Fig Skating Champions in Vanc won by Carol E Heiss (USA)
1960 - The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis originates when Alister Hardy publicly announces his idea that
           ape-human divergence may have been due to a coastal phase.
1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 - Beatles record "From Me to You" & "Thank You Girl"
1964 - Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen Jr, announces a baseball team is moving there
1964 - Emergency crisis proclaimed in Ceylon due to social unrest
1965 - 1st performance of Walter Piston's 8th Symphony
1965 - Ernie Terrel beats Eddie Machen in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1965 - March Intifada: A Leftist uprising erupts in Bahrain against British colonial presence.
1966 - 75 MPH air currents causes BOAC 707 crash into Mount Fuji, 124 die
1966 - Bob Seagren pole vaults 5.19m indoor world record
1966 - Player reps elect Marvin Miller, as exec dir of Players' Association
1966 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967 - WEDN TV channel 53 in Norwich, CT (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 - US launches Solar Explorer 2 to study the Sun
1969 - Gold reaches then record high ($47 per ounce) in Paris
1969 - Gustav Heinemann elected president of West-Germany
1969 - Joe Orton's "What the Butler Saw," premieres in London
1970 - Edison Theater opens at 240 W 47th St NYC
1970 - Nuclear non-proliferation treaty goes into effect
1970 - SDS Weathermen terrorist group bomb 18 West 11th St in NYC
1970 - Dubnium atoms are first detected conclusively.
1972 - Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis leaves communist party
1973 - Yankee pitchers Peterson & Kekich announce they swapped wives
1974 - "Candide" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 740 performances
1974 - Ralph Stewart failed in 2nd Islander penalty shot
1976 - British pound falls below $2 for 1st time
1978 - "Hello, Dolly!" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 152 perfs
1978 - Landsat 3 launched from Vandenberg AFB, Calif
1979 - Voyager I's closest approach to Jupiter (172,000 miles)
1980 - Earth satellites record gamma rays from remnants of supernova N-49
1981 - "Bring Back Birdie" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 4 perfs
1981 - Ice Dance Championship at Hartford won by Jayne Torvill & C Dean (GRB)
1981 - Ice Pairs Champ at Hartford won by Irina Vorobieva & I Lisovski (URS)
1981 - Men's Figure Skating Champions in Hartford won by Scott Hamilton (USA)
1981 - US government grants Atlanta $1 million to search for black boy murderer
1982 - Gaylord Perry (with 297 wins) signs with Seattle Mariners
1982 - Russian spacecraft Venera 14 lands on Venus sends back data
1983 - Bob Hawke (Labour) defeats Australian PM Malcolm Fraser (Cons)
1983 - NSW beat Western Australia by 54 runs to win Sheffield Shield
1984 - Supreme Court (5-4): city may use public money for Nativity scene
1984 - US accuse Iraq of using poison gas
1985 - NY Islander Mike Bossy is 1st to score 50 goals in 8 straight seasons
1985 - Mexican authorities find the body of US drug agent Enrique "Kike" Camarena Salaazar
1986 - "Today" tabloid launched (Britain's 1st national color newspaper)
1988 - Constitution of Turks and Caicos Islands is restored and revised.
1989 - 19th Easter Seal Telethon raises $37,002,000
1989 - Blains McCallister wins Honda Golf Classic shooting 266
1989 - Elly Verhulst runs world record 3000 m indoor (8:33.82)
1991 - Iraq repealed its annexation of Kuwait
1991 - Reggie Miller (Indiana) begins NBA free throw streak of 52 games
1992 - Ethic committee votes to reveal congressmen who bounced checks
1993 - Boston Celtic Larry Bird undergoes backfusion surgery
1993 - Fokker 100 crashes at Skopje Macedonia, 81 die
1993 - Former Wash DC Mayor Marion Barry divorces his wife Effi
1993 - Marlins beat Astros 12-8 in their 1st spring training game
1994 - Dottie Mochrie wins Chrysler-Plymouth Tournament of Golf Championship
1994 - Largest milkshake (1,955 gallons of chocolate-Nelspruit South Africa)
1994 - PBA National Championship won by David Traber
1994 - Singer Grace Slick arrested for pointing a gun at a cop
1995 - 21st People's Choice Awards: Tim Allen wins
1995 - Estonia Centrumlinkse Coalition party wins parliamentary election
1995 - Graves of czar Nicholas & family found in St Petersburg
1995 - Marc Velzeboer skates world record 3 km short track (5:00.26)
1996 - Earl Weaver & Jim Bunning, elected to Hall of Fame
1997 - Tommy Lasorda, Nellie Fox & Willie Wells for Hall of Fame
1998 - Mariah Carey divorces Tommy Mottola
1999 - Paul Okalik is elected first Premier of Nunavut.
2001 - In Mecca, 35 Muslim pilgrims are crushed to death during the annual Hajj pilgrimage.
2003 - In Haifa, 17 Israeli civilians are killed by a Hamas suicide bomb in the Haifa bus 37 massacre.
2005 - The Burkinabé Party for Democracy and Socialism holds its first National Convention.
2012 - 27 members of Iraq's security force are killed by gunmen disguised as police in Haditha
2012 - Tropical Storm Irina kills 65 in Madagascar

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Post by: MysteRy on March 05, 2013, 10:28:32 AM

This Day in History for 5th March


Famous Weddings

1760 - Princess Carolina marries Gen Charles Christian van Nassau-Weilburg
1948 - Actor Eli Wallach marries actress Anne Jackson

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 05, 2013, 10:29:14 AM

This Day in History for 5th March


Famous Divorces

1993 - Former Wash DC Mayor Marion Barry divorces his wife Effi
1998 - Mariah Carey divorces Tommy Mottola

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 05, 2013, 10:34:49 AM

This Day in History for 5th March


Famous Birthdays

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Premier of the People's                            Actress Eva Mendes (1974)
Republic of China
Zhou Enlai (1898)


1133 - King Henry II of England (d. 1189)
1324 - David II Bruce, King of Scots (1331..71)
1326 - Louis I, [the Great], King of Hungary (1342-82), Poland (1370-82)
1512 - Gerardus Mercator, Rupelmonde (Belgium), geographer/mapmaker
1563 - John Coke, English politician (d. 1644)
1574 - William Oughtred, England, mathematician/inventor (slide rule)
1585 - Johann Georg I, elector of Saxon (1611-56) (Peace of Prague)
1637 - John van der Heyden, Dutch painter/inventor (fire extinguisher)
1658 - Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, french colonial governor of America
1668 - Francesco Gasparini, composer
1693 - Johann Jakob Wettstein, Swiss theologian (d. 1754)
1696 - Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Venetian Rococo painter (Isaac's Sacrifice)
1703 - Vasily Kirillovich Trediakovsky, Russian poet (d. 1768)
1723 - Princess Mary of Great Britain (d. 1773)
1733 - Vincenzo Galeotti, [Tomazelli], Italian dancer/choreographer
1739 - Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge, doctor, Massachusetts militia officer, member of the
           Massachusetts legislature (d. 1819)
1746 - Jacob Wallenberg, Swedish writer/naval chaplain
1748 - William Shield, composer
1748 - Jonas C. Dryander, Swedish botanist (d. 1810)
1750 - Jean B G d'Ansse de Villoison, French classical (Apollonii Lexicon)
1751 - Jan Krtitel Kuchar, composer
1756 - Thomas Linley, composer
1774 - Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse, composer
1794 - Jacques Babinet, French physicist/mathematician/astronomer
1794 - Robert Cooper Grier, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1870)
1805 - Theodore Labarre, composer
1814 - Wilhelm von Giesebrecht, German historian (d. 1889)
1815 - John Wentworth, American politician (d. 1888)
1817 - Austen H Layard, British archaeologist/diplomat
1824 - Elisha Harris, US, physician/found American Public Health Assoc
1824 - James Merritt Ives, lithographer (Currier & Ives)
1825 - John Dunovant, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
1825 - Joseph Albert, German photographer (albertotype)
1828 - Johann Gungl, composer
1836 - Charles Goodnight, American cattle rancher (d. 1929)
1840 - Constance Fenimore Woolson, NH, writer (Jupiter Lights)
1843 - William F Sudds, composer
1845 - Alfonse Hasselmans, composer
1850 - Daniel Brink Towner, composer
1852 - Isabella Gregory, Ireland, writer/playwright (Golden Apple)
1853 - Arthur W Foote, Salem Mass, organist/composer (Suite for Strings in E)
1853 - Howard Pyle, illustrator/painter/author (King Stork)
1862 - Siegbert Tarrasch, German chess player (d. 1934)
1867 - Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, Premier of Quebec (d. 1952)
1868 - Prosper Poullet, Belgian viscount/jurist/minister
1869 - Michael von Faulhaber, cardinal/archbishop of Munich
1870 - Franc[lin] Norris, US, writer (McTeague, Octopus)
1871 - Maria do Carmo Geronimo, Brazilian lives to be at least 126
1871 - Rosa Luxemburg, Socialist revolutionary (d. 1919)
1873 - Olav Bjaaland, Norwegian explorer and cross-country skier (d. 1961)
1874 - Arthur van Schendel, Dutch writer (The World a Dancing Party)
1874 - Henry Travers, England, actor (Bells of St Mary, High Sierra)
1877 - Malcolm D Whitman, tennis champ (US Open-1898)
1879 - Walter Long, actor (Moby Dick, Sheik, Sea Devils, Dragnet Patrol)
1879 - Sir William Beveridge, British economist (d. 1963)
1883 - Marius Barbeau, French Canadian ethnographer and folklorist (b. 1969)
1886 - Paul Radmilovic, England, swimmer (Olympic-3 gold-1908)
1886 - Dong Biwu, High-ranking member of the Communist Party of China (d. 1975)
1887 - Heitor Villa-Lobos, Rio de Janeiro Brazil, composer (Salon Waltz)
1888 - Friedrich Schnack, German journalist/writer (Rosewood)
1889 - Frits Slomp, [Frits de Rover], Dutch vicar/resistance fighter
1891 - Harold Ogden "Chic" Johnson, Chicago Ill, comedian (Olsen & Johnson)
1893 - Emmett J Culligan, founder of water treatment organization
1894 - Henry Daniell, London, actor (Camille, Phila Story, Body Snatchers)
1895 - Fritz Usinger, German writer (Eternal Struggle)
1897 - Mei-ling Soong, Madame Chiang Kai-shek
1897 - Set Persson, Swedish communist politician (d. 1960)
1898 - Zhou Enlai, Premier of the People's Republic of China (d. 1976)
1899 - Patrick Hadley, composer
1900 - Ludwig Donath, actor (Jolson Story, Jolson Sings Again)
1901 - Julian Przybos, Polish poet (Sruby)
1903 - Lowell Peters, Cleveland Tn, vocalist (Southernaires)
1904 - Karl Rahner, German theologian (d. 1984)
1905 - Gilroy Roberts, US chief engraver (1948-64)
1908 - Rex Harrison, England, actor (My Fair Lady, Dr Doolittle)
1908 - Sophie Stewart, Scotland, actress (As You Like It, Under the Red Robe)
1908 - Irving Fiske, American writer, playwright, (d. 1990)
1908 - Sir Rex Harrison, English actor (d. 1990)
1909 - Sutan Sjahrir, premier of Indonesia (1945-47)
1910 - Joan Sterndale Bennett, NJ, actress (Elizabeth-Dark Shadows)
1911 - Joseph Tomelty, actor/playwright (Bedevilled, Moby Dick, Melba)
1913 - Yulian Grigor'yevich Kreyn, composer
1914 - Philip Farkas, American horn player and teacher (d. 1992)
1915 - Laurent Schwartz, French mathematician (d. 2002)
1916 - Horace Ian Parrott, composer
1917 - Joseph Stone, lawyer
1917 - Virginia Christine, Stanton Iowa, actress (Tales of Wells Fargo)
1918 - Halsey S Colchester, British SAS/spy (MI6)/priest
1918 - Ranga Sohoni, Indian cricketer (pace bowler of late 40's avg 101)
1918 - Red Storey, Canadian football player and ice hockey referee (d. 2006)
1918 - James Tobin, American economist, Nobel laureate (d. 2002)
1920 - Delbert L Latta, (Rep-R-OH, 1959- )
1920 - Leontine Tg Kelly, 1st black female bishop (Methodist)
1920 - Virginia Christine, actress (Mrs Olson)
1920 - José Aboulker, Jewish Communist
1921 - Berkley Bedell, (Rep-D-IA, 1975- )
1921 - Elmer Valo, American baseball player (d. 1998)
1922 - Ebrahim Maka, Indian cricket wicketkeeper (2 Tests 1952)
1922 - James Noble, Dallas Tx, actor (Gov Gatling-Benson)
1922 - Pier Paolo Pasolini, Bologna Italy, director (Teorema, Pigsty)
1927 - Jack Cassidy, Richmond Hill VA, actor (Oscar/Jetman-He & She)
1929 - Joan Shawlee, Forest Hills NY, actress (Prehistoric Women)
1929 - Erik Carlsson, Swedish rally driver
1930 - Lorin Maazel, Neuilly France, conductor (NBC Symphony Orch 1941)
1930 - Del Crandall, American baseball player
1931 - Anthony Headges, composer
1931 - Barry Tuckwell, Melbourne Aust, hornist (London Symph Orch 1955-68)
1931 - Fred Othon Aristidès, French comics artist
1932 - Walter Charles Marshall, scientist
1933 - Norbert Linke, composer
1934 - James B Sikking, CA, actor (Hill St Blues, Star Trek 3, Doogie Howser)
1934 - Daniel Kahneman, Israeli economist, Nobel laureate
1935 - Malcolm J Anderson, tennis champ (US Open-1957)
1935 - Philip K Chapman, Melbourne Australia, astronaut (Apollo 14 support)
1936 - Dale Douglass, Wewoka OK, PGA golfer (1970 Phoenix Open)
1936 - Dean Stockwell, California, actor (Werewolf of Washington, Blue Velvet)
1936 - Canaan Banana, first President of Zimbabwe (d. 2003)
1937 - Stephen Fitz-Simon, entrepreneur
1937 - Olusẹgun Ọbasanjọ, President of Nigeria
1938 - Fred "Hammer" Williamson, Gary Indiana, NFLer (Chiefs)/actor (Julia)
1938 - Paul Evans, singer/pedal guitarist (Damascus Road)
1939 - Charles Fuller, US writer (Zooman, Soldier Story)
1939 - Samantha Eggar, London, actress (Collector, Dr Doolittle) [or May 3]
1939 - Terry Curry, English multi-millionaire
1939 - Peter Woodcock, Canadian serial killer
1940 - Mary Rose Oakar, (Rep)
1940 - Malcolm Hebden, English actor
1942 - Michael D[iamond] Resnick, sci-fi author (Sideshow, Eros Ascending)
1942 - Felipe González, Prime Minister of Spain
1943 - Billy Backus, American boxer
1944 - Paul Sands, LA Ca, comedian/actor (SCTV, Story Theater, St Elsewhere)
1944 - Lucio Battisti, Italian singer (d. 1998)
1944 - Roy Gutman, American journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner
1945 - Randy Matson, US, shot putter (Olympic-gold-1968)
1946 - Michael Warren, Indiana, actor (Bobby Hill-Hill Street Blues)
1946 - Murray Head, singer
1946 - Rocky Bleier, Wisc, NFL running back (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1947 - Eddie Hodges, Miss, actor/singer (High Hopes, Adv of Huckleberry Finn)
1947 - Clodagh Rodgers, Irish singer
1947 - Kent Tekulve, American baseball player
1948 - Eddy Grant, Guyana, reggae performer (Electric Avenue)
1948 - Jacques Kloes, singer (Dizzy Man's Band)
1948 - Richard Hickox, English musical conductor
1948 - Elaine Paige, English singer and actress
1948 - Paquirri, Spanish bullfighter (d. 1984)
1949 - Franz Josef Jung, Commander-in-chief of the German Bundeswehr
1950 - Eugene Fodor, Turkey Creek CO, violinist (1974 Tchaikovsky Award)
1950 - Harvey Jacob Alperin, Minneapolis MN, actor (Cocktail)
1951 - Rodney Hogg, cricketer (prolific Australian wicket-taker 1978-84)
1951 - Giorgos Ninios, Greek actor
1952 - Alan Clark, keyboardist (Dire Straits-Sultans of Swing)
1953 - Russel D Feingold, (Sen-D Wisconsin)
1953 - Valery Grigoriyevich Korzun, Russian colonel/cosmonaut (TM-24)
1954 - Marsha Warfield, comedian/actress (Roz-Night Court)
1955 - Marcia McCabe, actress (Alice-One Life to Live)
1955 - Penn Jillette, Mass, magician (Penn & Teller-Penn & Teller are Dead)
1956 - Mark Handley, writer (Nell)
1956 - Adriana Barraza, Mexican actress
1956 - Teena Marie, American singer
1957 - Mark E Smith, English rock vocalist (Fall-Fall in a Hole)
1957 - Tim Holden, (Rep-D-Pennsylvania)
1958 - Andy Gibb, Manchester England, singer/TV host (Solid Gold)
1958 - Bill Timoney, TV commercial actor (Addicted to Love)
1959 - Vazgen Sargsyan, Armenian politician (d. 1999)
1959 - David Fury, American television writer and producer
1960 - David Tibet, English musician (Current 93)
1961 - Dan Stuart, US singer/songwriter (Green on Red)
1961 - Zeke Mowatt, NFL tight end (NY Giants)
1962 - Elise Burgin, Baltimore MD, tennis star
1962 - Robert L Curbeam Jr, Baltimore Md, astronaut (STS 85, sk: 99)
1962 - Jonathan Penner, American reality show contestant
1962 - Charlie and Craig Reid, Scottish musicians (The Proclaimers)
1963 - Eddo Brandes, cricketer (Zimbabwe Test pace bowler)
1964 - Reggie Williams, NBA forward/guard (Denver Nuggets)
1966 - Greg Clark, CFL linebacker (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1966 - Michael Irvin, NFL wide receiver (Dallas Cowboys)
1966 - Tracy Kerdyk, Coral Gables FL, LPGA golfer (1995 JAL Big Apple)
1966 - Bob Halkidis, Canadian hockey player
1966 - Aasif Mandvi, Indian-born American actor and comedian
1967 - Nicole Boegman, Australian long jumper (Olympics-88, 92, 96)
1968 - Marq Mellor, Long Island NY, field hockey forward (Olympics-96)
1968 - Roman Phifer, linebacker (St Louis Rams)
1968 - Shjon Podein, Rochester, NHL left wing (Phila Flyers)
1969 - Moussa Saïb, former Algerian footballer
1969 - Paul Blackthorne, British actor
1969 - MC Solaar, French rapper
1970 - John Frusciante, American musician (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
1970 - Lisa Robin Kelly, American actress
1971 - Amy Peistrup-Matthews, Arlington Hgts Ill, WPVA (Old Orchard-17-1995)
1971 - Brian Hunter, Portland OR, outfielder (Houston Astros)
1971 - Chad Fonville, Jacksonville NC, infielder (LA Dodgers)
1971 - James Roberson, WLAF defensive end (Rhein Fire)
1971 - Jose Mercedes, El Seybo Dom Rep, pitcher (Milwaukee Brewers)
1971 - Evil Jared Hasselhoff, American musician (Bloodhound Gang)
1971 - Yuri Lowenthal, American actor/author/painter
1971 - Filip Meirhaeghe, Belgian mountainbiker
1972 - Brandon Hamilton, CFL cornerback (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1972 - Brian Grant, NBA forward (Portland Trailblazers, Sacramento Kings)
1972 - Hernan Gumy, Buenos Aires Argentina, tennis star
1972 - Mikael Tillstrom, Sweden, tennis star
1972 - Tom Hipsz, CFL defensive tackle (Montreal Alouettes)
1972 - Luca Turilli, Italian musician (Rhapsody)
1973 - Nicole Pratt, Mackay Australia, tennis star (1995 Futures Australia)
1973 - Paul Lieftink, Dutch soccer player (NAC, Spakenburg)
1973 - Yannis Anastasiou, Greek footballer
1973 - Ryan Franklin, American baseball player
1974 - Brad Schumacher, US, 400m/800m freesytyle (Olympics-gold-96)
1974 - Hans Bond, Dutch soccer player (FC Volendam)
1974 - Kevin Connolly, actor (Beverly Hillbillies, Rocky V, Angus)
1974 - Jens Jeremies, German footballer
1974 - Matt Lucas, English comedian
1974 - Eva Mendes, American actress
1975 - Chris Silverwood, cricketer (England Test pace bowler v Zimbabwe 1996)
1975 - Niki Taylor, model (Elle, Marie Claire)
1975 - Jolene Blalock, American actress
1975 - Luciano Burti, Brazilian racing driver
1976 - Adriana Serra-Zanetti, Modena Italy, tennis star (1995 Moscow semi)
1976 - Paul Konerko, American baseball player
1976 - Katerina Matziou, Greek actress
1976 - Tim Sylvia, American mixed martial artist
1977 - Bryan Berard, NHL defenseman (Team USA Oly-1998, NY Islanders)
1977 - Natalie Bevins, Miss USA-West Virginia (1997)
1977 - Mike MacDougal, American baseball player
1977 - Wally Szczerbiak, American basketball player
1978 - Kimberly McCullough, California, actress (Robin-General Hospital)
1978 - Mike Hessman, American baseball player
1978 - Papoose, American rapper
1979 - Tang Gonghong, Chinese weightlifter
1981 - Andreas Wiig, Norwegian snowboarder
1981 - Paul Martin, American ice hockey player
1981 - Shugo Oshinari, Japanese actor
1982 - Daniel Carter, New Zealand Rugby player
1982 - Giorgia Palmas, Italian television personality and model
1985 - Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Japanese actor
1985 - Whitney Port, Cast member of The Hills TV series
1986 - Matty Fryatt, English footballer
1987 - Anna Chakvetadze, Russian tennis player
1988 - Trevor Carson, Northern Irish footballer
1988 - Bjarni Viðarsson, Icelandic footballer
1989 - Jake Lloyd, American actor

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 05, 2013, 10:37:52 AM

This Day in History for 5th March


Famous Deaths

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Physicist and Inventor                      Soviet Union Premier Joseph Stalin (1953)
Alessandro Volta (1827) 


254 - St Lucius I, Pope (253-54), dies
1291 - Sa'ad al'Da'ulah, Jewish grand vizier of Persia, assassinated
1534 - Antonio da Correggio, Italian painter (b. 1489)
1539 - Nuno da Cunha, Portuguese governor in India (b. 1487)
1561 - Carlo Caraffa, Italian cardinal, dies at 41
1574 - Philip of Saint-Aldegonde, Flem viceroy Holland/Zealand/Utrecht, dies
1576 - Don Luis de Requesens y Zuniga, viceroy of Neth (1573-76), dies at 70
1605 - Clement VIII, [Ippolito Aldofireini], Pope (1592-1605), dies at 69
1611 - Shimazu Yoshihisa, Japanese warlord and samurai (b. 1533)
1622 - Ranuccio I Farnese, Duke of Parma (b. 1569)
1625 - James I (VI), king of England (1603-25)/poet/author, dies at 58
1644 - Louise Juliana, countess of Nassau, dies at 73
1695 - Henry Wharton, English writer (b. 1664)
1726 - Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull, English politician
1732 - Joseph-Francois Salomon, composer, dies at 82
1770 - Crispus Attuks, slave, is 1st of 5 killed during Boston Massacre
1776 - Yeongjo of Joseon, ruler of Korea (b. 1694)
1778 - Thomas A Arne, English composer (Alfred, Rule Britannia), dies at 67
1795 - Josef Reicha, composer, dies at 42
1815 - Franz Mesmer, Austrian developer of hypnotism (b. 1734)
1827 - Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist (made 1st battery), dies at 82
1827 - Pierre-Simon Laplace, French mathematician (b. 1749)
1829 - John Adams, last surviving HMS Bounty mutineer (b. 1766)
1849 - David Scott, Scottish painter (b. 1806)
1853 - Georg A Kestner, German art collector/diplomat, dies at 75
1873 - Marie-Alexis Castillon de Saint-Victor, composer, dies at 34
1876 - Marie d'Agoult, [pen name Daniel Stern], French author and mother of composer Franz Liszt's
           children, dies at 70
1893 - Hippolyte Taine, French philosopher/historian, dies at 64
1893 - Richard Samuel Hughes, composer, dies at 37
1895 - Nikolai Leskow, writer, dies at 64
1895 - Henry Rawlinson, British soldier and scholar (b. 1810)
1903 - George Francis Robert Henderson, British soldier (b. 1854)
1904 - Alfred von Waldersee, Prussian field marshal/chief-staff, dies at 71
1907 - Friedrich Blass, German classical scholar (b. 1843)
1919 - Jozef Surzynski, composer, dies at 67
1926 - Clément Ader, French aviation pioneer (b. 1841)
1927 - Franz Mertens, German mathematician (b. 1840)
1929 - David Dunbar Buick, Scottish-born American automobile pioneer (b. 1854)
1931 - Fr. Arthur Tooth SSC, Anglican Clergyman prosecuted and imprisoned for ritualist activities
          (b. 1839)
1932 - Takuma Dan, Japanese baron/financier/industrial, murdered
1940 - Cai Yuanpei, Chinese educator (b. 1868)
1941 - Ludwig Quidde, German historian/politician (Nobel 1927), dies at 82
1944 - Max Jacob, French writer, dies in nazi concentration camp at 67
1945 - Lena Baker, American murderer (b. 1901)
1947 - Alfredo Casella, Italian composer/conductor (La Giara), dies at 63
1948 - Charles Prince, cricketer (5 & 1 in only Test for South Africa), dies
1952 - Vladimir Vladimirovich Scherbachov, composer, dies at 63
1953 - Joseph Stalin, Premier of the Soviet Union (1941-53), dies at 73
1953 - Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev, Ukrainian composer, dies at 61
1953 - Herman J. Mankiewicz, American screenwriter (b. 1897)
1954 - Julian Lowell Coolidge, mathematician (Study-Segre school), dies at 80
1955 - Antanas Merkys, President of Lithuania (b. 1888)
1956 - Erich Itor Kahn, composer, dies at 50
1962 - Anne C Veth, Dutch cartoonist/art critic, dies at 82
1962 - Otakar Jeremias, composer, dies at 69
1963 - Cyril Smith, actor (Adv of Sir Lancelot), dies at 70
1963 - Hawkshaw Hawkins, country singer (Ozark Jubilee), dies at 41
1963 - Patsy Cline, country singer (Crazy), dies in a plane crash at 30
1963 - Cowboy Copas, American singer (b. 1913)
1965 - Chen Cheng, Chinese politician (b. 1897)
1965 - Pepper Martin, American baseball player (b. 1904)
1966 - Anna Achmatova, Ukrainian poet, dies at 76
1966 - Enrique E Ecker, Curacaos/US bacteriologist, dies at 79
1967 - Mischa Auer, actor (My Man Godfrey), dies at 61 of a heart attack
1967 - Mohammed H Mossadeq, premier of Persia (1951-53), dies
1967 - Georges Vanier, Governor General of Canada (b. 1888)
1971 - Winnie Lightner, actress (Gold Dust Gertie, Sit Tight), dies at 71
1972 - Nils Bjorkander, composer, dies at 78
1973 - Rupert Crosse, actor (Too Late Blues), dies of cancer at 45
1973 - Michael Jeffery, British music manager (b. 1933)
1974 - Billy DeWolfe, actor (Good Morning World), dies at 67
1974 - Solomon I "Sol" Hurok, US impresario, dies at 85
1974 - Billy De Wolfe, American actor (b. 1907)
1977 - Lockrem Johnson, composer, dies at 52
1977 - Moses Pergament, composer, dies at 83
1977 - Tom Pryce, Welsh Formula One driver (b. 1949)
1977 - Jansen Van Vuuren, Dutch volunteer safety marshall at the 1977 South African Grand Prix
1979 - Vicente Ascone, composer, dies at 81
1980 - Jay Silverheels, Canadian actor (Tonto-Lone Ranger), dies at 60
1980 - Winifred Wagner-William, German World Festival organizer, dies at 82
1981 - Brenda De Banzie, actress (39 Steps, Hobson's Choice), dies at 64
1981 - Paul Horbiger, actor (3rd Man), dies at 86
1982 - John Belushi, comedian (Sat Night Live), dies of drug overdose at 33
1984 - Harry Salter, orchestra leader (Stop the Music), dies at 85
1984 - Michael Sklar, California, comedian (Laugh-in, Sha Na Na), dies at 39
1984 - Tito Gobbi, Italian baritone (Scarpia in Tosca), dies at 68
1984 - William Powell, actor (My Man Godfrey), dies at 91
1986 - Teddy Hoad, cricketer (West Indian captain 1930), dies
1988 - Alberto Olmedo, Argentine comedian (b. 1933)
1990 - Gary Merrill, actor (Time Tunnel, Huckleberry Finn), dies at 75
1990 - Gloria Carter Spann, Pres Carter's sister, dies at 63 of cancer
1991 - August de Schryver, Belgian politician/founder (CVP), dies at 92
1991 - Trijntje Jansma-Boskma, oldest person in Netherland, dies at 109
1992 - Andrew Samuel, child actor (Our Gang), dies at 82
1992 - Yevgeny Yevstigneev, Russian actor (Welcome Kosta), dies at 65
1993 - Diana Ochoa, dies after long illness at 80
1993 - Peter Bierdrager, Dutch Fokker's-test pilot, dies in air crash
1994 - Abdullah Al-Sallal, pres of Yemen (1962-67), dies
1994 - Joe Daley, jazz tenor/clarinet/flute player, dies at 75
1994 - Paul Vincze, medallist, dies at 86
1995 - Ed Flanders, actor (Dr Westphal-St Elsewhere), dies
1995 - Marguerite Kelsey, Engl painter/sculptor model (Haunting), dies at 86
1995 - Peter John Norton, naval diplomat/artist, dies at 82
1995 - Vivian Stanshall, British musician (Magical Mystery Tour), dies at 51
1995 - Gregg Hansford, Australian motorcycle and touring car racer (b. 1952)
1996 - Joshua Compston, art impressario, dies at 26
1996 - Khundaqar Mushtaq Amhed, president of Bangladesh (1975), dies
1996 - Nicolas Cotoner y Cotoner, spanish courtier, dies at 90
1996 - Whit Bissell, actor (Time Tunnel), dies at 86
1997 - Samm Sinclair Baker, American diet author (b. 1909)
1999 - Richard Kiley, American actor (b. 1922)
2000 - Lolo Ferrari, French pornographic actress (b. 1962)
2004 - Walt Gorney, American actor (b. 1912)
2006 - Richard Kuklinski, American Mafia hit man (b. 1935)
2008 - Joseph Weizenbaum, German-American professor of computer science (b.1923)
2012 - William Heirens, American serial killer, dies at 83

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 06, 2013, 01:30:11 PM

This Day in History for 6th March


Historical Events

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The Sun King Louis XIV                            Composer Giuseppe Verdi                     Author and Nobel
                                                                                                                              Laureate Gerhart Hauptmann

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Baseball Great Babe Ruth                            Golfer Jack Nicklaus                          Magazine Publisher Larry Flynt

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Heavyweight Boxing Champion              Artist/Cubist Co-founder
 Mike Tyson                                            Pablo Picasso


1079 - Omar ibn Ibrahim al-Chajjam completes Jalali-calendar
1205 - Aken, [Philips van Zwaben], crowned Roman-Catholic German King
1323 - Treaty of Paris
1447 - Tommaso Parentucelli succeeds Pope Eugene IV as Nicolas V
1454 - Thirteen Years' War: Delegates of the Prussian Confederation pledge allegiance to Casimir IV
           of Poland, and the Polish king agrees to help in their struggle for independence from the
           Teutonic Knights.
1460 - Treaty of Alcacovas-Portugal gives Castile Canary Is for W Africa
1479 - Treaty of Alcaçovas - Portugal gives the Canary Islands to Castile in exchange for claims in
           West Africa.
1521 - Magellan discovers Guam
1579 - Veluwe joins Union of Utrecht
1590 - Earl Mauritius conquerors Breda "turfschip of Breda"
1628 - Emperor Ferdinand II delegates Restitutie-edict
1646 - Joseph Jenkes, MA, receives 1st colonial machine patent
1664 - King Louis XIV & Emperor of Brandenburg signs covenant
1665 - Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society starts publishing
1714 - Peace of Rastatt - French emperor Charles VI of Habsburg
1728 - Spain & England sign (1st) Convention of Pardo
1775 - 1st Negro Mason in US initiated, Boston
1788 - The First Fleet arrives at Norfolk Island in order to found a convict settlement.
1799 - Napolean captures Jaffa Palestine
1808 - 1st college orchestra in US founded, at Harvard
1810 - Illinois passes 1st state vaccination legislation in US
1816 - Jews are expelled from Free city of Lubeck Germany
1831 - Edgar Allen Poe removed from West Point milt academy
1831 - Vincenzo Bellini's opera "La Sonnambula," premieres in Milan
1834 - Toronto incorporated with William Lyon Mackenzie as its 1st mayor
1836 - 3,000 Mexicans beat 182 Texans at the Alamo, after 13 day fight
1836 - HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin reach King George's Sound, Australia
1838 - Franz Grillparzer's "Weh dem, der Lugt," premieres in Vienna
1851 - Dion Boucicault's "Love in a Maze," premieres in London
1853 - Giuseppe Verdi's Opera "La Traviata," premieres in Venice
1855 - Gustave Flaubert writes goodbye to Louise Colet
1857 - Dred Scott Decision: Supreme Court rules slaves cannot be citizens
1861 - Provisionary Confederate Congress establishes Confederate Army
1862 - Battle of Pea Ridge, AR (Elkhorn Tavern)
1865 - Battle of Natural Bridge, Florida
1865 - President Lincolns 2nd Inaugural Ball
1869 - Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
1882 - Monarch Milan Obrenovic of Serbia crowns himself king
1886 - 1st US alternating current power plant starts, Great Barrington, MA
1886 - 1st US nurses' magazine, The Nightingale, 1st appears, NYC
1895 - England beat Australia to win one of the best cricket series ever, 3-2
1895 - J T Brown hits the fastest 50 in Test Crickets (28 mins) Eng v Aust
1896 - 1st auto in Detroit, Charles B King rides his "Horseless Carriage"
1899 - "Asprin" patented by Felix Hoffmann at German company Bayer
1901 - In Bremen an assassin attempts to kill Wilhelm II of Germany.
1902 - Census Bureau forms
1906 - Cubs sign 3rd baseman Harry Steinfeldt to complete Tinker-Evers-Chance
1906 - Heavy storm bursts dike flooding Vlissingen, Netherlands
1906 - Nora Blatch is 1st woman elected to American Soc of Civil Engineers
1909 - Gerhart Hauptmann's "Griselda," premieres in Vienna
1915 - Greek King Constantine I fires premier Venizelos
1918 - US naval boat "Cyclops" disappears in Bermuda Triangle
1919 - NHL Championship: Montreal Canadiens beat Ottawa Senators, 3 games to 1 with 1 tie
1921 - Police in Sunbury Penn issue an edict requiring Women to wear skirts at least 4 inches below
           the knee
1922 - Babe Ruth signs 3 years at $52,000 a year NY Yankee contract
1922 - GB Shaw's "Back to Methusaleh III/IV," premieres in NYC
1923 - Cards announce their players will wear numbers on their uniforms
1924 - British Labour government cuts military budget
1925 - Belgium annexes Eupen, Malmö dy & Sankt Vith
1926 - China asks for a seat in the Security council
1929 - Turkey & Bulgaria sign friendship treaty
1930 - Bkln's Clarence Birdseye develops a method for quick freezing food
1933 - FDR declares a nationwide bank holiday
1933 - Maxwell Anderson's "Both your Houses," premieres in NYC
1933 - Poland occupies free city Danzig (Gdansk)
1934 - Sidney Howard & Paul de Kruif's "Yellowjacket," premieres in NYC
1935 - Frank Bartell (Czech), cycles record 80.584 mph in LA
1936 - Belgium ends Locarno-pact
1940 - 1st US telecast from an airplane, NYC
1943 - Battle at Medenine, North-Africa: Rommels assault attack
1943 - Sukarno asks for cooperation with Japanese occupiers
1944 - USAF begins daylight bombing of Berlin
1945 - 117 SD-prisoners executed at Savage Farm
1945 - Assassination attempt on Hihere, SS Police fuhrer Rauter
1945 - Chinese 38th division occupies Lashio
1945 - Erich Honnecker & Erich Hanke flee nazis
1945 - Federico Garcia Lorca's "La Casa," premieres in Buenos Aires
1946 - France recognizes Vietnam statehood within Indo-Chinese federation
1947 - XB-45, 1st US 4-engine jet bomber, makes 1st test flight, Muroc, CA
1950 - Silly Putty invented
1951 - Belgium extends conscription to 24 months
1953 - Malenkov becomes chairman of the USSR
1955 - Dutch premiere of Samuel Becketts' "Waiting for Godot"
1955 - Jackie Pung wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open
1957 - Ghana (formerly Gold Coast) declares independence from UK
1959 - 11st Emmy Awards: Playhouse 90, Jack Benny Show, Raymond Burr
1959 - Farthest radio signal heard (Pioneer IV, 400,000 miles)
1960 - President Sukarno disbands Indonesia's parliament
1961 - 1st London minicabs introduced
1961 - Dutch Queen Juliana celebrates 12½ year government jubilee
1961 - Dutch guilder revalued 4.74%
1962 - St Louis vote to build a new downtown stadium for the Cardinals
1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1962 - US promise Thailand assistance against communist aggression
1964 - Constantine succeeds Paul I as king of Greece
1964 - Elijah Muhammad renames Cassius Clay, Muhammad Ali
1964 - Liz Taylor's 4th divorce (Eddie Fisher)
1964 - Tom O'Hara runs world record mile (3:56.4)
1965 - "How to Succeed in Business" closes at 46th St NYC after 1415 perfs
1965 - 1st nonstop helicopter crossing of North America, JR Willford
1965 - Bruce Taylor hits 105 for NZ v India in 1st Test Cricket innings
1966 - Barry Sadlers' "Ballad of the Green Berets" becomes #1 (13 weeks)
1967 - 2nd Academy of Country Music Awards
1967 - Jimmy Hoffa enters Lewisburg Federal Prison
1967 - Muhammad Ali is order by selective service to be inducted
1967 - Stalin's daughter Svetlana Allilujeva asks for political asylum in US
1967 - WACS TV channel 25 in Dawson, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1970 - Beatles release "Let it Be" in UK
1971 - Test Cricket debut of Sunil Gavaskar, v West Indies at Port-of-Spain
1972 - Jack Nicklaus, passes Arnold Palmer as golf's all-time money winner
1972 - Keswick to Penrith railway officially closes
1973 - In an exhibition game with the Pirates, Twins Larry Hisle becomes the 1st designated hitter
          (he hits 2 HRs & knocks in 7 RBIs)
1974 - "Over Here" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 341 performances
1974 - An Italian loses a record $1,920,000 at roulette in Monte Carlo
1974 - Ian & Greg Chappell score cricket
1975 - Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraq announce a settlement of their border dispute.
1976 - Ice Dance Championship at Gothenburg won by Pakhomova & Gorshkov (URS)
1976 - Ice Pairs Championship at Gothenburg won by Rodnina & Zaitsev (URS)
1976 - Men's Fig Skating Championship in Gothenburg won by John Curry (GRB)
1976 - Worlds Ladies Fig Skating Champ in Gothenburg won by Dorothy Hamill
1978 - Hustler publisher Larry Flynt shot & crippled by a sniper in Ga
1980 - Emmy 7th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 1st time
1980 - Princess Theater (Latin Quarter, Cotton Club) opens at 200 W 48th NYC
1980 - French Academy, founded in 1635, elects it 1st woman novelist (Marguerita Youcenar)
1981 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1981 - Soyuz 39 returns to Earth
1981 - Walter Cronkite signs-off as anchorman of "CBS Evening News"
1981 - Worlds Ladies Fig Skating Champ in Hartford won by Denise Biellmann
1982 - NBA highest scoring game: San Antonio beat Milwaukee 171-166 (3 OT)
1982 - Susan Birmingham makes loudest recorded human shout (120 dB)
1983 - "On Your Toes" opens at Virginia Theater NYC for 505 performances
1983 - Anne-Marie Palli wins LPGA Samaritan Turquoise Golf Classic
1983 - Helmut Kohl's CDU/CSU wins West German parliament elections
1983 - New Bedford, Mass woman charges she was gang-raped atop a pool table
1983 - US Football League begins its 1st season
1984 - Twelve-month-long strike in British coal industry begins.
1985 - Enos Slaughter & Arky Vaughan are elected to baseball Hall of Fame
1985 - Mike Tyson KOs Hector Mercedes in 1 round in his 1st pro fight
1985 - Yul Brynner appears in his 4,500th performance of "King & I"
1985 - Atlantis (OV-104) rollout at Palmdale
1986 - Ken Ludwig's "Lend me a Tenor," premieres in London
1986 - USSR's Vega 1 flies by Halley's Comet at 8,889 km
1987 - 6.8 earthquake hits Ecuador, kills 100
1987 - Belgium ferry boat "Herald of Free Enterprise" capsizes/sinks; 192 die
1988 - 18th Easter Seal Telethon raises $35,200,000
1988 - 3 IRA suspects were shot dead in Gibraltar by SAS officers
1988 - Betsy King wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open/Helene Curtis Pro-Am
1988 - Julie Krone becomes winningest female jockey (1205 victories)
1988 - Orville Moodey shoots 63 at Seniors golf tournament
1989 - Yanks beat Mets 6-4 in exhibition game (1st meeting since 1985)
1990 - SR-71 sets a transcontinental record, flying 2,404 miles in 1:08:17
1991 - Following Iraq's capitulation in the Persian Gulf conflict, Pres Bush told Congress that
           "aggression is defeated. The war is over"
1992 - Yankee pitcher Pascual Perez suspended for 1 year due to cocaine
1992 - The Michelangelo computer virus begins to affect computers.
1992 - Founding of the Council of the Baltic Sea States.
1994 - Colin Jackson runs world record 60m hurdles indoor (7.30 sec)
1994 - United Arab Emirates beat Kenya by 2 wickets to win ICC Trophy
1994 - Referendum in Moldova results in the electorate voting against possible reunification with
           Romania.
1995 - 9th American Comedy Award: Rodney Dangerfield
1995 - American Express Travel begins charging for domestic air tickets
1995 - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Phoenix AZ on KEDJ 106.3/100.3 FM
1995 - US 4.5 cents equals 156.30 Dutch guilder (record)
1996 - 10th American Comedy Award
1996 - 2nd Blockbuster Entertainment Awards
1996 - Aravinda De Silva smashes 145 v Kenya in cricket World Cup at Kandy Sri Lanka score 5-398
           in 50 overs in World Cup v Kenya
1997 - Picasso's painting Tête de Femme is stolen from a London gallery, and is recovered a week
           later.
1998 - 1st time the British flag is flown over Buckingham Palace
1998 - Matt Beck, an angry lottery accountant kills 4 at Conn state lottery
2006 - South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds signs a bill into legislation that would ban most
           abortions in the state.
2007 - Former White House aide I. Lewis Libby, Jr. is found guilty on four of five counts of perjury
           and obstruction of justice trial.
2012 - 9,000 residents are evacuated from Wagga Wagga, Australia, as the Murrimbidgee River
           threatens to overflow
2012 - Francisco Xavier do Amaral, East Timorese President, dies at 75

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 06, 2013, 01:31:26 PM

This Day in History for 6th March


Famous Divorces

1964 - Liz Taylor's 4th divorce (Eddie Fisher)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 06, 2013, 01:38:59 PM

This Day in History for 6th March


Famous Birthdays

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Painter Michelangelo (1475)                  US Fed Chairman & Economist
                                                                 Alan Greenspan (1926)

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Colombian Writer and winner         Basketball Player Shaquille O'Neal (1972)
of the Nobel Prize in Literature
Gabriel García Márquez (1927)                 


1340 - John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster (d. 1399)
1405 - King John II of Castile (d. 1454)
1459 - Jacob Fugger, German banker/merchant
1475 - Michelangelo, Italian painter (David) (d. 1564)
1483 - Francesco Guicciardini, Ital attorney/president of Romagna
1492 - Jean Luis Vives, Spanish theory/humanist/reformer
1495 - Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet (Opere Toscane, La Coltivazione)
1615 - Jan Zoet, actor/playwright/poet (Parnasssus aan 't Y)
1616 - Malachias Siebenhaar, composer
1619 - Cyrano de Bergerac, famous nose, playwright (Voyage to the Moon)
1663 - Francis Atterbury, British man of letters (d. 1732)
1698 - John Alberti, Dutch theologist/philologist
1706 - George Pocock, British admiral (d. 1792)
1710 - Giuseppi Antonio Paganelli, composer
1716 - Pehr Kalm, Swedish explorer and naturalist (d. 1779)
1740 - Giovanni Meli, Siclian poet (Buccolica)
1761 - Antoine-Francois Andreossy, French General and diplomat (d. 1828)
1763 - Jean Xavier Lefevre, composer
1765 - Jan Kops, Dutch agronomist/vicar
1779 - Philipp Roth, composer
1785 - Karol Kazimierz Kurpinski, composer
1787 - Joseph von Fraunhofer, Germany, physicist (studied Sun's spectrum)
1791 - Anna Claypoole Peale, painted miniatures
1793 - Bernhard Joseph Klein, composer
1806 - Elizabeth Barrett-Browning, Coxhoe Hall England, poet (Sonnets from the Portuguese)
1812 - Aaron Lufkin Dennison, father of American watchmaking
1817 - Princess Clémentine of Orléans (d. 1907)
1818 - William Claflin, 27th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1905)
1820 - Horatio Gouverneur Wright, Major General (Union volunteers)
1831 - Friedrich C K von Bodelschwingh, German theologist (Home Mission)
1831 - Philip Henry Sheridan, Albany NY, Major General (Union Army)
1834 - George du Maurier British illustrator and writer (d. 1896)
1835 - Charles Ewing, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1883
1835 - Ludwik Grossman, composer
1843 - Artur Napoleao dos Santos, composer
1844 - Nicolai Rimski-Korsakov, composer (Flight of the Bumble Bee) (NS 3/18)
1852 - Joseph Bayer, composer
1870 - Oscar Straus, Vienna Austria, composer (Ein Walzertraum)
1882 - Guy Kibbee, El Paso TX, actor (Big Shot)
1882 - F. Burrall Hoffman, American architect (d. 1980)
1885 - Ringgold "Ring" Lardner, US sports writer (You Know Me Al)
1887 - Henri Gagnon, composer
1890 - Fernand Ansseau, Belgian operator/theory (Orfeo)
1891 - Victor Kilian, Jersey City NJ, actor (Gentleman's Agreement)
1893 - Kathleen Smoothy, housewife (last link to Siege of SIdney Street)
1893 - [Walter] Furry Lewis, father of the blues
1898 - Hal Hooker, cricketer (NSW pace bowler of 20's & 30's)
1898 - Jay C Flippen, Little Rock AR, actor (Jet Pilot, Killing, Thunder Bay)
1898 - Jimmy Conzelman, NFL QB/coach/team owner (Chicago)
1898 - Jo[hanne M Bos-]Vincent, Dutch soprano (Mattheus Passion)
1900 - John Henry Pyle Pafford, librarian (University of London)
1900 - Ludwig Donath, Vienna Austria, actor (Torn Curtain, Sirocco)
1900 - Robert "Lefty" Grove, baseball pitcher (300 game winner)
1901 - Mark Donskoy, Odessa Russia, director (Heart of a Mother)
1903 - Elizabeth Pinkston Becker, US, platform diver (Olympic-gold-1928)
1903 - Empress Kōjun of Japan (d. 2000)
1904 - Hugh Williams, actor/writer (Charley's Aunt, Bank Holiday)
1904 - Johannes C "Chris" Baay, Dutch actor (Klatergoud, Surprise Raid)
1904 - Joseph Schmidt, Austrian tenor (d. 1942)
1904 - José Antonio Aguirre, Basque politician (d. 1960)
1906 - Bob Wills, TX, actor (Lone Prairie, Tornado in the Saddle)
1906 - Lou Costello, Paterson NJ, comedian/actor (Abbott & Costello)
1909 - Dave Clark, music promoter/songwriter
1909 - Obafemi Awolowo, Nigeria, pres of Nigeria (1979-83)
1911 - Charles Frank, physicist
1911 - Roland Jacobi Leich, composer
1912 - Madge Adam, astronomer
1913 - David Bowman, trade unionist
1913 - Ella Logan, Glasgow Scotland, actress (52nd Street, Goldwyn Follies)
1913 - Stewart Granger, actor (Saraband for Dead Lovers)
1914 - Kirill P Kondrashin, Moscow Russia, conductor (Hollywood Bowl 1981)
1915 - Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin, 52nd Da'i al Mutlaq of the Dawoodi Bohras
1916 - Rochelle Hudson, Oklahoma City OK, actress (That's My Boy)
1917 - J A Mommersteeg, Dutch asst sect of Defense (KVP)
1917 - Roy Scott, cricketer (one Test NZ v England 1947, 18, 1-74)
1917 - Will Eisner, American illustrator and cartoonist (d. 2005)
1917 - Frankie Howerd, English comedian (d. 1992)
1919 - Maurice Grosse, British paranormal investigator (d. 2006)
1920 - Lewis Gilbert, London England, director/actor (You Only Live Twice)
1920 - Roger Price, Charleston WV, actor/writer (Who's There, Droodles)
1921 - Julius Rudel, Vienna Austria, conductor (NYC Opera 1957)
1921 - Oliver Wright, British Ambassador (To US)
1921 - Ross Hunter, Cleve OH, producer (Airport, Madame X, Pillow Talk)
1922 - Ruben Ayala, Chino, California, politician (California State Senator 1974-1998) (d. 2012)
1923 - Ed McMahon, Detroit Mich, TV host (Johnny Carson Show, Star Search)
1923 - Erhard Karkoschka, composer
1923 - Raymond "Bill" Hoffenberg, college president (Wolfson at Oxford)
1923 - Ed McMahon, American television personality
1924 - Sarah Caldwell, Maryville Mo, conductor/opera director (Flagstaff)
1924 - William H Webster, US, judge/head FBI/CIA
1925 - Wes Montgomery, American musician (d. 1968)
1926 - Alan Greenspan, economist/presidential advisor (FRB)
1926 - Andrzej Wajda, Suwalki Poland, director (Ashes & Diamonds, Lotna)
1926 - Ann Curtis, 400m/800m US swimmer (Olympics-2 gold-1948), (d. 2012)
1926 - Elwood H [Bud] Hillis, (Rep-R-IN, 1971- )
1926 - Jon Nordal, composer
1926 - Miroslav Klega, composer
1927 - Gabriel García Márquez, Aracataca, Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and
           journalist (1982 Nobel Prize in Literature)
1927 - John Fairchild, Newark NJ, CEO (Fairchild publishing)
1927 - Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr, Shawnee Oklahoma, USAF/astronaut (Mer 9, Gem 5)
1927 - Norman Treigle, New Orleans Louisiana, bass-baritone
1927 - William J Bell, Chicago Ill, soap opera creator (Young & Restless)
1928 - Ronald Stevenson, composer
1929 - David Sheppard, bishop (Liverpool)/cricketer (England batsman)
1929 - Hal Miller, British MP
1929 - Ho Dam, North Korean secretary of State (1970-83)
1929 - Thomas S Foley, (Rep-D-WA, 1965-94)/majority whip/speaker of house
1931 - Carmen Delavallade, US dancer/singer/actress (Aida)
1931 - David Haddon Whitaker, British publisher (Whitaker's Almanack)
1931 - John Smith, LA California, actor (Cimarron City, Laramie, 7 Angry Men)
1931 - Hal Needham, American stuntman
1933 - Dorothy "Dolly" Ann Collins, folk musician/composer
1933 - Heiko Wierenga, Dutch soc-dem mayor of Enschede (1977-94)
1933 - Kim Elgie, cricketer (South African bat v NZ 1961-62, Scotland RU intl)
1933 - William Davis, author/broadcaster (Battle at Bull Run)
1933 - Ted Abernathy, American baseball player (d. 2004)
1934 - John Noakes, British TV presenter
1935 - Ronnie Delaney, Ireland, 1500m runner (Olympic-gold-1956)
1935 - Ron Delany, Irish athlete
1935 - Derek Kevan, Ripon, England, footballer (14 caps), (d. 2013)
1936 - A "Bram" Stemerdink, Dutch minister of Defense (PvdA)
1936 - Jean Boht, actress (Arthur's Hallowed Ground)
1936 - Marion S Barry, (Mayor-D-Wash DC, 1979-90, 95- ), drug indictment
1937 - Doug Dillard, actor (Clem-Popeye)
1937 - Ivan Boesky, Detroit, stockbroker inside trading
1937 - Paul Mefano, composer
1937 - Valentina V Tereshkova-Nikolayev, 1st woman in space (Vostok 6)
1938 - Lovelace Watkins, singer
1939 - Christopher Bond, (Sen-R Missouri)
1939 - David Spielberg, Weslaco Tx, actor (Jessica Novak, The Practice)
1939 - Jerry Naylor, Stephenville Tx, rock vocalist (Crickets)
1939 - Infanta Margarita of Spain, duchess of Soria
1939 - Cookie Rojas, baseball player
1940 - Joanna Miles, Nice France, actress (Cross Creek, Delta County USA)
1940 - Willie Stargell, outfielder/1st baseman (Pirates, 1971 NL HR leader)
1941 - Ann Winterton, British MP
1941 - Ben Murphy, Jonesboro Ark, actor (Name of the Game, Winds of War)
1941 - Karyn Kupcinet, actress (Carol-Gertrude Berg Show)
1942 - Ben Murphy, American actor
1944 - David Gilmore, Cambridge England, guitarist (Pink Floyd)
1944 - Kiri Te Kanawa, Gisborne NZ, operatic soprano (Don Giovanni)
1944 - Mary Wilson, Detroit Mich, vocalist (Supremes-Where Did Our Love Go)
1945 - Anna Maria Horsford, NYC, actress (Thelma Frye-Amen)
1945 - Hugh Grundy, Winchester England, drummer (Zombies-She's Not There)
1946 - David Jon Gilmour, rock guitarist (Pink Floyd-Brick in the Wall)
1946 - Martin Kove, Bkln NY, actor (Victor-Cagney & Lacey)
1946 - Patrick Pierre Roger Baudry, Cameroon, astronaut (STS 18)
1946 - Tony Klatka, rocker (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
1947 - Dick Fosbury, Portland Oregon, high jumper (Olympics-gold-1968)
1947 - Judy Loe, Urmston Manchester UK, actress (Singles, Meaning of Life)
1947 - Kiki Dee, Yorkshire England, singer (Don't Go Breaking My Heart)
1947 - Teru Miyamoto, Japanese author
1947 - Rob Reiner, Bronx NY, actor/director (All in the Family, Stand By Me)
1948 - James FCS "Jim" Woude, cartoonist
1949 - Donald York, rocker (Sha Na Na)
1949 - Martin Buchan, Scottish soccer player
1951 - Gerrie Knetemann, Dutch cyclist (d. 2004)
1952 - Lyn Perrin, executive administrator (WIC)
1953 - Jackie Zeman, Englewood NJ, actress (Bobbie-General Hospital)
1953 - Jan Kjærstad, Norwegian author
1956 - Peter Roebuck, cricketer (Somerset opening batsman & SMH writer)
1958 - Mike Gatting, English cricketer
1958 - Eddie Deezen, American actor
1959 - Tom Arnold, Iowa, [Mr Roseanne Barr Arnold], actor (Tom, True Lies)
1959 - Saul Anuzis, American politician
1960 - [Eris] Sleepy Floyd, NBA guard
1962 - Alison Nicholas, Gibraltar, LPGA golfer (1995 LPGA Corning Classic)
1962 - Valerie French, American animatronics art director
1963 - Suzanne Crough, rocker (Partridge Family)
1963 - D.L. Hughley, American comedian and actor
1964 - Cher Butler, Garland Tx, playmate (August, 1985)
1964 - Reniet Vrieze, rock singer/guitarist (Pilgrims-White Men)
1964 - Madonna Wayne Gacy, American musician
1965 - Tammy Liley, Long Beach Ca, volleyball mid blocker/capt (Oly-b-92, 96)
1966 - Cliff Meidl, Redondon Beach California, sprint kayak (alt-Olympics-96)
1966 - Michelle Edwards, WNBA guard (Cleveland Rockers)
1966 - Alan Davies, British comedian and actor
1967 - Julio Bocca, Argentinean Ballet Dancer
1968 - Carla McGhee, Peoria Ill, US basketball forward (Olympics-gold-96)
1968 - Connie Britton, Boston MA, actress (Nikki-Spin City)
1968 - Jon Baker, WLAF defensive end (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1968 - Moira Kelly, actress (Cutting Edge)
1968 - Russell Butler, Dandenong Victoria Australia, diver (Oly-28th-88, 96)
1968 - Michael Romeo, American musician (Symphony X)
1969 - Andrea Elson, NYC, actress (Lynn-Alf, Alice-Whiz Kids)
1969 - Deems May, NFL tight end (San Diego Chargers)
1969 - Greg Scott, British TV personality
1970 - Amy Pietz, Milwaukee Wisc, actress (Annie-Caroline In the City)
1970 - Robbie Tobeck, NFL guard/center (Atlanta Falcons)
1970 - Scott Stahoviak, Waukegan IL, infielder (Minnesota Twins)
1971 - Darrick Martin, NBA guard (LA Clippers, Minnesota Timberwolves)
1971 - Roger Salkeld, Burbank CA, pitcher (Cin Reds)
1971 - Sean Morley, American professional wrestler
1972 - Jamal Anderson, fullback (Atlanta Falcons)
1972 - Paul Frlan, CFL linebacker (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1972 - Shaquille O'Neal, Newark NJ, NBA center (Magic, Lakers, Oly-gold-96)
1972 - Susan Alexander, Silver Spring Maryland, Miss America-Maryland (1997)
1973 - Brian Olson, Tallahassee Fla, middleweight (189 lbs) judoka (Oly-96)
1973 - Greg Ostertag, NBA center (Utah Jazz)
1973 - Michael Finley, NBA guard/forward (Phoenix Suns/Dallas Mavericks)
1973 - Terry Adams, Mobile AL, pitcher (Chicago Cubs)
1974 - Sebastian Siegel, British-American actor
1975 - Aracely Arambula, Mexican actress and singer
1976 - Ken Anderson, American professional wrestler
1977 - Giorgos Karagounis, Greek soccer player
1977 - Marcus Thames, American baseball player
1978 - Sage Rosenfels, American Football Player
1978 - Lara Cox, Australian Actress
1979 - David Flair, American professional wrestler
1979 - Erik Bedard, Canadian baseball player
1979 - Ryan Nyquist, American BMX rider
1981 - Ellen Muth, American actress
1983 - Andranik Teymourian, Iranian soccer player
1984 - Becky, Japanese-British entertainer
1985 - Albert Reed, American model
1986 - Eli Marienthal, American actor
1987 - Hannah Taylor-Gordon, English actress
1992 - Momoko Tsugunaga, Japanese singer
1996 - Savanah Stehlin, American actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 06, 2013, 01:42:07 PM

This Day in History for 6th March


Famous Deaths

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Frontiersman/Soldier                          March King John Philip Sousa (1932)
Davy Crockett (1836)


766 - Chrodegang, church reformer/bishop of Mainz, dies at about 50
1252 - Saint Rose of Viterbo, Italian saint (b. 1235)
1490 - Ivan the Young, Ruler of Tver (b. 1458)
1531 - Pedrarias Dávila, Spanish conquistador
1583 - Zacharias Ursinus, German theologist (Heidelberger), dies at 48
1615 - Pieter Both, Dutch admiral/1st gov-gen (East Indies, 1609-14), drowns
1616 - Francis Beaumont, Elizabethan playwright, dies (birth date unknown)
1627 - Krzysztof Zbaraski, Polish statesman (b. 1580)
1674 - Johann Paul Schor, German barok painter, dies at 58
1720 - Pieter van Flowers, Flemish painter, buried at 63
1753 - Gerhardus Havingha, composer, dies at 56
1754 - Henry Pelham, English premier (1745, 46-54), Gin Act, dies at about 57
1758 - Henry Vane, 1st Earl of Darlington, English politician (b. 1705)
1764 - Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1690)
1796 - Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer (b. 1713)
1836 - Davy Crockett, US pioneer (Alamo), killed in battle at 49
1836 - James Butler Bonham, American lawyer from South Carolina and soldier (b. 1807)
1836 - Jim Bowie, American pioneer and soldier (b. 1796)
1842 - Constanze Mozart, wife of W.A. Mozart (b. 1763)
1846 - Nikoli A Poveloi, Russian writer/publisher, dies at 49 [NS]
1851 - Alexander Aliabiev, composer, dies at 63
1854 - Caspar GC Reinwardt, German/Dutch biologist, dies at 80
1854 - Charles William Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, British soldier and politician (b. 1778)
1860 - Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer, German cellist and composer (b. 1783)
1866 - William Whewell, English scientist, philosopher, and historian of science (b. 1794)
1867 - Wiktor Kazynski, composer, dies at 54
1881 - Horatia Nelson, the illegitimate daughter of Emma Hamilton and Horatio Nelson (b. 1801)
1888 - Louisa May Alcott, US author (Old-fashioned Girl), dies at 55
1895 - Camilla Collett, Norwegian writer and feminist (b. 1813)
1899 - Victoria Kaiulani, Hawaiian princess (b. 1875)
1900 - Gottlieb Daimler, designed 1st motorcycle, dies at 65
1905 - John Henninger Reagan, American Confederate politician (b. 1818)
1917 - Jules HPFX Vandenpeereboom, premier of Belgium (1899), dies at 73
1924 - Meyer E van Beem, actor (Moittige Janus), dies at 85
1930 - William Milton, cricketer (S Afr Test capt in 3 Tests 1889-92), dies
1932 - John Philip Sousa, US composer (Stars & Stripes Forever), dies at 77
1933 - Anton J Cermak, US mayor of Chicago, murdered
1935 - Fridolf Rhudin Swedish actor and comedian (b. 1895)
1936 - Josef Stransky, composer, dies at 63
1936 - Rubin Goldmark, composer, dies at 63
1937 - Frank Vosper, actor/writer (Jew Suss), dies at 37
1939 - [Carl L] Ferdinand von Lindemann, German mathematician, dies at 86
1941 - Gutzon Borglum, sculptor (Mt Rushmore), dies at 73
1941 - John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum, sculptor (Mount Rushmore), dies at 73
1941 - Leen Schijvenschuurder, Dutch February strike leader, executed
1945 - Jan Thijssen, Dutch resistance fighter, executed at Savage Farm
1945 - Rudolph Karel, composer, dies at 64
1947 - Ludwig Weber, composer, dies at 55
1948 - Ross Lockridge, Jr., American novelist (b. 1914)
1950 - Lew Lehr, comedian (Stop Me if I heard this One), dies at 54
1950 - Albert Lebrun, President of France (b. 1871)
1951 - Ivor Novello, actor/writer (Lodger, Phantom Fiend), dies at 58
1951 - Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Ukrainian politician and statesman (b. 1880)
1954 - Jan Kalf, Dutch literature/art historian, dies at 80
1954 - Louis Zimmermann, violinist, dies at 80
1959 - Fred Stone, actor (Hideaway, Westerner), dies at 85
1961 - George Formby, British singer/comedian, dies at 56
1961 - Kjeld Abell, Danish playwright/director of Tivoli, dies at 59
1962 - Rezso Kokai, composer, dies at 56
1963 - Kornelis ter Laan, 1st Dutch socialist mayor (Zaandam), dies at 91
1964 - King Paul I, of Greece (1947-64), dies at 62
1965 - Margaret Dumont [Daisy Baker], actress (Animal Crackers), dies at 75
1965 - Ruvim Pergament, composer, dies at 58
1966 - Richard Hageman, composer, dies at 83
1967 - Nelson Eddy, US baritone/actor (Phantom of the Opera), dies at 65
1967 - Oscar Shaw, actor (Rhythm on the River, Marianne), dies at 76
1967 - Zoltán Kodály, Hungarian composer (b. 1882)
1968 - Isa Krejci, composer, dies at 63
1968 - Joseph Martin Jr, Speaker of the House, dies at 83
1969 - Nadya Rusheva, Russian painter (b. 1952)
1970 - William Hopper, actor (Paul Drake-Perry Mason), dies at 55
1971 - Raymond Herreman, Flemish writer (Don't Forget to Live), dies at 74
1973 - Paul Klecki/Kletzki, Polish violinist/composer/conductor, dies at 72
1973 - Pearl S[ydenstricker] Buck, author (Good Earth-Nobel 1938), dies at 80
1973 - Vera Fjodorova Panova, Russian author (Sputniki), dies at 67
1976 - "Slapsie" Maxie Rosenbloom, leight heavy weight boxing champ (1930-34), dies at 71
1979 - Charles Wagenheim, actor (Halligan-Gunsmoke), dies at 83
1981 - George Geary, cricketer (14 Tests for England, 46 wickets), dies
1981 - Klaus Grabowski, child molester, shot by parent
1982 - Ayn Rand, author-philosopher (Atlas Shrugged), dies in NY at 77
1982 - Jan Lemaire, Dutch actor/writer (Beautiful Juultje), dies at 97
1983 - Thelma Pelish, actress (Pajama Game), dies at 55
1984 - Henry Wilcoxon, actor (Cleopatra, Dragnet, Jericho), dies at 78
1984 - Ian Cromb, cricketer (5 Tests for NZ, 123 runs, 8 wkts), dies
1984 - Martin Niemöller, German submarine capt/anti-nazi minister, dies at 92
1984 - Pierre Cochereau, composer, dies at 59
1985 - Eric Sloane, US artist, dies at 80
1986 - Adolph Caesar, actor (Club Paradise, Soldier's Story), dies
1986 - Georgia O'Keefe, US painter (Flowers), dies at 98
1986 - Georgia O'Keeffe, American artist (b. 1887)
1988 - Konstantin Iliev, composer, dies at 63
1989 - Harry Andrews, actor (Equus, Helen of Troy, Hill), dies at 77
1992 - Elvia Allman, actress (Night at Earl Carroll's), dies of pneumonia
1992 - Emmy Huf, Dutch cabaret performer/writer (I Want Warm Meat), dies
1992 - Maria Vieira da Silva, Portuguese painter (Mirror Palace), dies at 83
1993 - Cyril Collard, French director (Lesson nuits fauves), dies at 35
1993 - Douglas Marland, soap writer (As the World Turns), dies at 58
1993 - Nicholas Ridley, English Minister of Finance, dies at 64
1994 - Leighton Noble, singer/Bandleader, dies at 81
1994 - Max Schubert, winemaker, dies at 89
1994 - Melina Mercouri, Greek actress (Never on a Sunday), dies at about 68
1994 - Moses Rascoe, blues singer, dies at 77
1994 - Tengis Abuladze, Georgia SSR MP (Penalty), dies at 71
1995 - David Beinhoff, mayor, dies at 24
1995 - Delroy George Wilson, singer, dies at 46
1995 - Emile van Moerkerken, photographer (Ice Princess), dies at 78
1995 - Helene Weijel, author (In Two Worlds), dies at 44
1996 - Douglas Patrick Thomas Jay, politician, dies at 88
1996 - Herbert "Herb" Hall, clarinetist/saxophonist, dies at 88
1996 - Simon Cadell, actor (Enemy at the Door), dies at 45
1997 - Anthony Hopkins, clinical Neurologist, dies at 59
1997 - Cheddi B Jagan, dentist/founder PPP/Guyanese Premier (1953, 1957-64) dies
1997 - Michael Manley, Jamaican PM (PNP, 1972-80, 89-92), dies
1998 - Adem Jasari, Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) leader, killed
1998 - Frank Barrett, American baseball player (b. 1913)
1999 - Isa ibn Salman Al Khalifah, emir of Bahrain (b. 1933)
1999 - Dennis Viollet, former soccer player (b. 1933)
2000 - John Colicos, Canadian actor (b. 1928)
2001 - Kim Walker, American actress (b. 1968)
2002 - Bryan Fogarty, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1969)
2003 - John Sanford, American author (b. 1904)
2004 - Frances Dee, American actress (b. 1909)
2004 - Ray Fernandez, American professional wrestler (b. 1957)
2005 - Tommy Vance, British radio disc jockey (b. 1943)
2005 - Danny Gardella, American baseball player (b. 1920)
2005 - Teresa Wright, American actress (b. 1918)
2005 - Hans Bethe, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
2006 - Anne Braden, American civil rights activist (b. 1924)
2006 - King Floyd, American musician (b. 1945)
2006 - Kirby Puckett, American baseball player (b. 1960)
2006 - Dana Reeve, American actress, wife of Christopher Reeve (b. 1961)
2007 - Jean Baudrillard, French cultural theorist, philosopher, political commentator and
           photographer (b. 1929)
2007 - Allen Coage (aka "Bad News Brown", "Bad News Allen"), American professional wrestler and
           judoka (b. 1943)
2007 - Ernest Gallo, American winemaker (b. 1909)
2008 - Peter Poreku Cardinal Dery Cardinal Archbishop Emeritus of Tamale, Ghana
2009 - Francis Magalona, Filipino media artist and photographer. (b. 1964)
2009 - Susan Tsvangirai, wife of Morgan Tsvangirai (b. 1959)
2010 - Mark Linkous, member of Sparklehorse (b. 1962)
2010 - Endurance Idahor, Nigerian footballer (b. 1984)
2012 - Donald Payne, American Congressman, dies from colon cancer at 77
2012 - Robert Sherman, American songwriter, dies at 86

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 07, 2013, 05:10:17 PM

This Day in History for 7th March


Historical Events

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Captain/Explorer James Cook                Inventor Alexander Graham Bell         Russian Revolutionary Leon Trotsky       

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US General George S Patton                         Actress Mary Martin                              NHL all-time top scorer
                                                                                                                                      Wayne Gretzky 

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Radio shock jock Howard Stern                      Anti-apartheid activist/
                                                          South African President Nelson Mandela


161 - Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius dies and is succeeded by co-Emperors Marcus Aurelius and
         Lucius Verus, an unprecedented political arrangement in the Roman Empire.
321 - Roman Emperor Constantine I decrees that the dies Solis Invicti (sun-day) is the day of rest in
          the Empire.
1138 - Conrad II von Hohenstaufen re-elected German king
1277 - Condemnation of 219 philosophical and theological theses by Stephen Tempier, Bishop of
           Paris.
1530 - King Henry VIII's divorce request is denied by the Pope Henry then declares that he, not the
           Pope, is supreme head of England's church
1560 - Christian fleet under Gian Andrea lands at Djerba, N Africa
1573 - Turkey & Venice signs peace treaty
1621 - John Pieterszoon Coen's troops land on Lontor, East Indies
1633 - Prince Frederik Henry appoints himself viceroy of Limburg
1644 - Massachusetts establishes 1st 2-chamber legislature in colonies
1696 - English king Willem III departs Netherlands
1774 - British close port of Boston to all commerce
1778 - Capt James Cook 1st sights Oregon coast, at Yaquina Bay
1798 - The French army enters Rome: the birth of the Roman Republic.
1799 - The Royal Institution of Great Britain founded; dedicated to scientific research and education.
1801 - Massachusetts enacts 1st state voter registration law
1808 - Portugal's regent Dom Juan IV arrives in Rio De Janeiro
1814 - Napoleon I of France wins the Battle of Craonne.
1824 - Meyerbeers opera "Il Crociati in Egitto," premieres in Venice
1827 - Shrigley Abduction: Ellen Turner, a wealthy heiress in Cheshire, England is abducted by
           Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a future politician in colonial New Zealand.
1835 - HMS Beagle returns from Concepcion to Valparaiso
1843 - 1st Catholic governor in US, Edward Kavanagh of Maine, takes office
1847 - US General Scott occupies Vera Cruz Mexico
1848 - In Hawaii, Great Mahele (division of lands) signed
1850 - Daniel Webster endorses Compromise of 1850
1851 - Poll tax levied on Russo-Polish Jews entering Austrian Galicia ends
1852 - Dutch telegraph traffic regulated by law
1854 - Charles Miller patents 1st US sewing machine to stitch buttonholes
1857 - Baseball decides 9 innings constitutes an official game, not 9 runs
1862 - Battle of Elkhorn Tavern, Day 2, Gens McCulloch & McIntosh killed
1865 - -10] Battles round Kinston NC
1870 - Cin Red Stockings, 1st pro BB team, begin 8-mo tour of Midwest & East
1872 - -8°F in Boston, MA
1876 - Alexander Graham Bell patents telephone
1876 - Battle at Gura: Ethiopian emperor Yohannes beats Egyptians
1887 - North Carolina State University is founded by the North Carolina General Assembly.
1896 - Gilbert & Sullivan's last operette "Grand Duke," premieres in London
1900 - Battle at Poplar Grove South Africa, Pres Kruger flees
1900 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Shamrocks sweep Halifax Crescents in 2 games
1902 - Boers beat British troop in Tweebosch Transvaal
1906 - Finnish Senate accepts universal suffrage, except for poor
1908 - Cincinnati Mayor Mark Breith stood before city council & announces that, "women are not
           physically fit to operate automobiles"
1911 - US sent 20,000 troops to Mexican border
1911 - Willis Farnsworth, Petaluma, CA, patents coin-operated locker
1912 - Roald Amundsen announces discovery of the South Pole
1914 - Prince Wilhelm von Wied becomes King of Albania
1917 - 1st jazz record "Dixie Jazz Band One Step," recorded by Nick LaRocca Original Dixieland Jazz
           Band, released by RCA Victor in Camden NJ
1918 - H Carroll & J McCarthy's musical "Oh, Look!," premieres in NYC
1918 - Pres Wilson authorizes US Army's Distinguished Service Medal
1918 - World War I: Finland forms an alliance with Germany.
1921 - Red Army under Trotsky attack sailors of Kronstadt
1922 - US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld Blanchard
1922 - US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Sherwin Badger
1925 - American Negro Congress organizes
1926 - 1st transatlantic telephone call (London-NY)
1927 - Earthquake measuring 8 on Richter scale strikes Tango, Japan
1930 - Georgetown High of Chicago defeats Homer 1-0 in basketball
1932 - Riots at Ford-factory Dearborn Michigan, kills 4
1933 - Game of "Monopoly" invented
1935 - Saar incorporated into Germany
1936 - Hitler breaks Treaty of Versailles, sends troops to Rhineland
1937 - Bucharin, Jagoda & Rykov pushed out of CPSU in USSR
1939 - Glamour magazine begins publishing
1939 - Guy Lombardo & Royal Canadians 1st record "Auld Lang Syne"
1940 - Mont Canadiens lose record tying NHL 15th straight game at home
1940 - Ray Steele beats B Nagurski in St Louis, to become wrestling champ
1941 - 3rd largest snowfall in NYC history (18.1")
1941 - 50,000 British soldiers lands in Greece
1941 - British troops invade Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
1942 - 15 Mk-VB Spitfires reach Malta
1942 - 1st cadets graduated from flying school at Tuskegee
1943 - Gen-major Patton arrives in Djebel Kouif Tunisia
1944 - Japans begins offensive in Burma
1945 - Cologne taken by allied armies
1945 - US 9th Armoured Division attacks Remagen Germany, crosses Rhine
1945 - Yugoslavia government of Tito forms
1946 - "Three to Make Ready" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 323 perfs
1946 - Max Frisch' "Santa Cruz," premieres in Zurich
1947 - The Kuomintang and Communist Party of China resume full-fledged Civil War.
1948 - The Dodecanese islands officially become part of Greece again, ending the Italian rule.
1950 - Ice Pairs Championship at London won by K Kennedy & P Kennedy (USA)
1950 - Ladies Figure Skating Championship in London won by Alena Vrzanova CZE
1950 - Men Figure Skating Championship in London won by Richard Button (USA)
1951 - Ezzard Charles beats Jersey Joe Walcott in 15 for hw boxing title
1951 - Lillian Hellman's "Autumn Garden," premieres in NYC
1953 - Jackie McGlew scores 255* v NZ at Wellington
1954 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Open
1954 - Russia wins title in their 1st international ice hockey competition
1955 - 7th Emmy Awards: Make Room for Daddy, Danny Thomas & Loretta Young
1955 - Baseball Commish Ford Frick says he favors legalization of spitter
1955 - Mary Martin as "Peter Pan" televised
1958 - Chicago Cardinals announce they will play their 1958 opener in Buffalo
1959 - "Bells Are Ringing" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 925 perfs
1959 - 1st aviator to fly a million miles (1.61 M km) in a jet (MC Garlow)
1959 - West Indies all out 76 v Pakistan at Dacca, Fazal Mahmood 6-34
1960 - Dutch Builders strike for CLA
1962 - Beatles made their broadcasting debut on BBC radio
1962 - Launch of OSO 1, 1st astronomy satellite (solar flare data)
1965 - Alabama state troopers & 600 black protestors clash in Selma
1965 - Bruce Taylor takes 5-86 in debut innings for NZ after ton
1965 - Christian-democrats win parliament in Chile
1966 - "Wait A Minim!" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 457 performances
1966 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967 - Clark Gesner's musical "You're a Good Man, premieres in NYC
1967 - Teamster pres Jimmy Hoffa begins 8-year jail sentence for defrauding the union & jury
           tampering (commuted Dec 23, 1971)
1968 - The BBC broadcasts the news for the first time in color on television.
1969 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1970 - Ice Dance Championship at Ljubljana won by Pakhomova & Gorshkov (URS)
1970 - Ice Pairs Championship at Ljubljana won by Rodnina & Ulanov (URS)
1970 - Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Ljubljana won by Gabriele Seyfert (GDR)
1970 - Men's Figure Skating Championship in Ljubljana won by Tim Wood (USA)
1970 - WXOW TV channel 19 in La Crosse, WI (ABC) begins broadcasting
1971 - Egypt refuses to renew the Suez cease fire
1973 - Comet (Lubos) Kohoutek discovered at Hamburg Observatory
1973 - Sheik Mujib ur-Rahman's Awami League wins election in Bangladesh
1974 - "Monitor" (US Civil War Ship) restored at Cape Hatteras NC
1974 - 1st general striking in Ethiopia
1975 - Senate revises filibuster rule, allows 60 senators to limit debate
1975 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1976 - Morocco & Mauretania break diplomatic relations with Algeria
1977 - Ali Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party wins elections
1977 - Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin meets Pres Carter
1978 - Belgian baron Charles Bracht kidnapped
1978 - Canuck's Ron Sedlbauer fails on 5th penalty shot against Islanders
1978 - Dutch 2nd Chamber votes against neutron bomb
1979 - Baseball exhibition season opens with semipro & amateur umpires
1979 - Warren Giles & Hack Wilson selected to baseball Hall of Fame
1981 - "Bring Back Birdie" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 4 perfs
1981 - 1st homicide at Disneyland, 18 year old is stabbed to death
1982 - Beth Daniel wins LPGA American Express Sun City Golf Classic
1982 - Jarmilla Kratochvilova run world record 400 m indoor (49.59 sec)
1982 - NCAA Tournament Selection televised live for 1st time
1983 - TNN (The Nashville Network) begins on Cable TV
1984 - The United States attacks San Juan del Sur in Nicaragua.
1985 - IBM-PC DOS Version 3.1 (update) released
1986 - South-Africa emergency crisis in Brabant & Limburg ends
1986 - Wayne Gretzky breaks own NHL season record with 136th assist
1987 - Gavaskar becomes 1st cricket batsman to score 10,000 Test runs
1987 - Mike Tyson beats Bonecrusher Smith in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1988 - Howard Stern's 1st pay-per-view "Underpants & Negligee Party"
1988 - Jim Abbott, 1-handed pitcher, wins 58th James E Sullivan Award
1988 - Colombia becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1989 - Iran drops diplomatic relations with Britain over Rushdie's book
1989 - Partial eclipse of the Sun (Hawaii, NW North America, Greenland)
1990 - 3 passengers killed & 162 injured as subway train derails (Phila)
1990 - H Wayne Huizenga buys ½ of Joe Robbie Stadium and 15% of Dolphins for $30m
1991 - Iraq continues to explode oil fields in Kuwait
1992 - Nicole Stevenson swims world record 200m backstroke (2:06.78)
1993 - 23rd Easter Seal Telethon raises
1993 - Diff'rent Stroke actor Todd Bridges arrested for stabbing a tenant
1994 - 8th American Comedy Award: Carrot Top wins
1994 - Charles Taylor resigns as pres of Liberia
1994 - David Platt appointed captain of English football team
1994 - US Navy issues 1st permanent order assigning women on combat ship
1994 - ANC chief Nelson Mandela rejects demand by white right-wingers for separate homeland in
           South Africa
1994 - The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc.that
           parodies of an original work are generally covered by the doctrine of fair use.
1995 - Dollar worth 1.5330 Dutch guilder (record)
1995 - NY becomes 38th state to have the death penalty
1996 - 1st surface photos of Pluto (photographed by Hubble Space Telescope)
1996 - British Steel in Workington wins Lithuanian multi-million pound order
1996 - Magic Johnson is 2nd NBA player to reach 10,000 career assists
1996 - The first democratically elected Palestinian parliament is formed.
1997 - 11th Soul Train Music Awards
1997 - Athens, Buenos Aires, Cape Town, Rome & Stockholm are finalists for 2004 Olympics site
1997 - 5 sue Japanese PM Ryutaro Hashimoto, because his smoking has violated the country's
          constitution guaranteeing a wholesome life
2004 - New Democracy wins the national elections in Greece.
2005 - Mass protest outside the National Assembly of Kuwait building for women's voting rights in
           Kuwait.
2007 - British House of Commons votes to make the upper chamber, the House of Lords, 100%
           elected.

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 07, 2013, 06:42:47 PM

This Day in History for 7th March


Famous Weddings

2007 - Former vocalist of "Babado Novo" Claudia Leitte (26) weds Marcio Pedreira at Hotel Convento do
           Carmo in Salvador, Brazil

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 07, 2013, 07:10:25 PM

This Day in History for 7th March


Famous Birthdays

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Horticulturist Luther Burbank (1849)    Abstract Painter Piet Mondrian (1872)          Actress Rachel Weisz (1970)


189 - Publius Septimius Geta, Roman Emperor (d. 211)
1481 - Baldassare Peruzzi, Italian architect and painter (d. 1537)
1543 - Johan Casimir, count of Rhine (occupied Gent)
1556 - Guillaume du Vair, French writer (d. 1621)
1574 - John Wilbye, composer
1602 - Kano Tanju, Japanese painter (palaces, portraits)
1621 - Georg Neumark, composer
1659 - Henry Purcell, English organist/composer (Dido & Aeneas)
1663 - Tomaso Antonio Vitali, composer
1671 - Robert Roy MacGregor, Scottish folk hero (d. 1734)
1678 - Filippo Juvara, Italian architect (d. 1736)
1682 - Johan W van Ripperda, Dutch diplomat/baron/duke
1687 - Jean Lebeuf, French historian (d. 1760)
1693 - Clement XIII, [Carlo Rezzonico], Pope (1758-69)
1707 - Stephen Hopkins, (Gov-RI) signed Decl of Ind
1715 - Ephraim Williams, American philanthropist (d. 1755)
1715 - Ewald Christian von Kleist, German poet (d. 1759)
1730 - Baron de Breteuil, French statesman (d. 1807)
1731 - Jean-Louis Laruette, composer
1762 - Sebastiaan C Nederburgh, director-general (East Indies Company)
1765 - Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor of photography (d. 1833)
1769 - Josef Alois Ladurner, composer
1773 - Tommaso Marchesi, composer
1785 - Alessandro Manzoni, Italy, poet/novelist (Betrothed)
1788 - Antoine César Becquerel, French physicist (d. 1878)
1792 - John Herschel, Slough England, William Herschel's son, astronomer
1797 - Karl Schwencke, composer
1799 - Frantisek L Celakovsky, Czech poet (national anthem, folk song)
1807 - Franz Grave von Pocci, German poet/composer (Der Alchemist)
1811 - Christian Heinrich Hohmann, composer
1813 - Judocus Smits, Dutch Catholic newspaper pioneer/founder (The Time)
1820 - Gustav Heinrich Graben-Hoffman, composer
1822 - Victor Masse, composer
1827 - Henry DeLamar Clayton, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1889
1831 - John Bratton, [Old Reliable], US physician/Confederate Brig Gen
1832 - Orlando Metcalfe Poe, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1895
1837 - Henry Draper, Virginia, astro-spectro-photographer (Moon, Jupiter)
1841 - Olegario Victor Andrade, Argentina, poet (El nido de condores)
1841 - William Rockhill Nelson, founder of The Kansas City Star and patron of Nelson-Atkins Museum
           of Art (d. 1915)
1842 - Anne CAI van Diest, Belgian physician/feminist
1844 - Anthony Comstock, New Canaan Ct, anti-vice crusader/philatelist
1849 - Luther Burbank, Lancaster, Mass, horticulturist
1850 - Tomés G Masaryk, Czechoslovakia, Father/Pres of Czech (1918-35)
1850 - Champ Clark, American politician (d. 1921)
1856 - Matilde Serao, [Tuffolina], Italian writer (Land of Cockayne)
1857 - Julius Wagner von Jauregg, Austria, psychiatrist (Nobel 1927)
1858 - Nikolai Artzibushev, composer
1866 - Paul Ernst, writer
1869 - Ernst J Cohen, Dutch chemist
1872 - Piet Mondrian, Amersfoort, Netherlands, Dutch abstract painter (Broadway Boogie Woogie)
1872 - Vasily Andreyevich Zolotaryov, composer
1873 - Madame Sul-Te-Wan, American actress (d. 1959)
1875 - Maurice Ravel, French composer (d. 1937)
1878 - Boris Kustodiev, Russian painter (d. 1927)
1883 - Carl Deis, composer
1886 - Raymond Largay, Wisc, actor (April in Paris, Variety Girl)
1887 - Heino Eller, composer
1888 - Alidius WLT van Starkenborch Stachouwer, gov of Neth Indies (1936-45)
1891 - Marcel Barger, [Meyer Streliskie], cabaret performer (I keep Susy)
1893 - Milton Avery, American artist (d. 1965)
1895 - Juan Jose Castro, composer
1896 - Erwin Bodky, composer
1898 - Jan Bata, Czech shoe manufacturer
1900 - Giuseppe Capogrossi, Italian painter
1900 - [Albert] Carel Willink, Dutch painter (magic realism)
1902 - Heinz Ruehmann, German actor/director (Der Hauptmann von Köpenick)
1904 - Ivar Ballangrud, Norway, Olympic speed skater (4 gold, 2 silver)
1904 - Reinhard Heydrich, German governor (Bohemen/Moravia (Lidice))
1904 - Virginia Downing, actress (Gig, Butterfield 8 )
1904 - Willy Forst, Austria actor/director (Vienna Blood)
1905 - Vera Fjodorova Panova, Russian author (Sputniki)
1906 - Alejandro Garcia Caturla, composer
1906 - Hans Lachman, composer
1907 - Juan Francisco Giacobbe, composer
1908 - Anna Magnani, Alexandria Egypt, actress (Rose Tattoo, Miracle)
1908 - Joop [Joseph] van Santen, Dutch 1st chamber member (CPN)
1908 - Tomas de Manzarraga, composer
1909 - Greta Schoon, writer
1909 - Leo Malet, writer
1911 - Stefan Kisielewski, composer
1914 - Morton DaCosta, Phila, director (Island of Love, Music Man)
1915 - Jacques Chaban-Delmas, French politician
1917 - Davis Roberts, Mobile Ala, actor (Mr Johnson-Boone)
1917 - Janet Collins, ballerina
1917 - Robert Erickson, composer
1918 - June Wayne, artist/lithographer/teacher
1919 - Jocelyn Olaf Hambro, financier
1919 - Mochtar Lubis, Indonesian writer (Twilight in Djakarta)
1920 - Willie Watson, cricketer (England batsman & soccer international)
1922 - Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya, Russian mathematician (d. 2004)
1924 - Eduardo Paolozzi, British sculptor (Hydra)
1924 - Kobo Abe, Tokyo Japan, playwright (Woman, the Dunes)
1925 - Rene Gagnon, US Marine shown in photograph of the Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima (d. 1979)
1927 - James Broderick, American actor (d. 1982)
1927 - Jean-Paul Desbiens, Quebec writer and teacher (d. 2006)
1927 - Henri Landwirth, Belgian-American hotel owner and philanthropist
1930 - James Broderick, Charleston NH, actor (Brenner-Brenner, Doug-Family)
1930 - Lord Snowdon, [Anthony Armstrong-Jones], London, photographer
1931 - C W Stubblefield, music promoter
1931 - Cornelis T "Cor" van de Molen, director Social Businesses of Press
1931 - Donald Barthelme, US, writer (Snow White)
1933 - Jackie Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer (d. 1998)
1934 - Nari Contractor, cricketer (Indian batsman & captain)
1934 - Willard Scott, weather forecaster (Today Show)
1934 - Giorgos Katsaros, Greek musician and composer
1936 - Georges Perec, French writer (Seire Noire, Retour a la bien-aimee)
1937 - Anne Kristen, actress (Truth or Dare, Rachel-Dr Finlay, Sunset Song)
1937 - Don Bonker, (Rep-D-WA, 1975- )
1938 - Homero Blancas, Houston TX, PGA golfer (1972 Phoenix Open)
1938 - Janet Guthrie, race car driver (1st woman to race in Indie 500)
1938 - David Baltimore, American biologist, Nobel laureate
1939 - Marion Marlowe, St Louis Mo, singer (Arthur Godfrey & Friends)
1939 - Panajot Pano, Albania's most outstanding football player of the past 50 years born in Durres
1940 - Daniel J Travanti, Kenosha Wisc, actor (Frank Furillo-Hill St Blues)
1940 - Harald Gerlach, writer
1940 - Rudi [Rudolf] Dutschke, German student leader (Glasnost Berlin)
1940 - Viktor Petrovich Savinykh, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-4, T-13, TM-5)
1942 - Al[bert] Tanara, WLAF defensive coach (Amsterdam Admirals)
1942 - Michael Eisner, Mt Kisko NY, CEO (Walt Disney)
1942 - Paul Preuss, US, sci-fi author (Medusa Encounter, Starfire)
1942 - Tammy Faye Bakker, gospel singer/wife of Jim Baker (PTL)
1942 - Tommy F Robinson, (Rep-D-AR, 1985- )
1942 - U N Kulkarni, cricketer (Indian pace bowler in four Tests 1967-68)
1942 - Charles R. Boutin, American politician
1943 - Carole Peel, Australian softball asst coach (Olympics-bronze-96)
1943 - Chris White, rock bassist (Zombies-Never Even Thought)
1943 - Leon Frank Sylvers, rocker
1944 - Elton Gallegly, (Rep-R-California)
1944 - Jorgen Theobaldy, writer
1944 - Townes Van Zandt, Texas, singer/songwriter (Kathleen, Loretta), (d. 1997)
1944 - Stanley Schmidt, American editor
1945 - Arthur Lee, rocker (Vindicator)
1945 - John Heard, actor (Cat People, Cutter's Way, CHUD)
1946 - Matthew Fisher, London, rock keyboardist (Procol Harum)
1946 - Peter Wolf, rock singer (J Giels Band-Centerfold, Freeze Frame)
1947 - Donna Loren, Boston Mass, singer/actress (Beach Blanket Bingo)
1947 - Lewis J Stadlen, Bkln NY, actor (John-Benson, Savages, Windy City)
1947 - Richard Lawson, actor (Eddie-O'Neills)
1947 - Robert O'Neill Crossman, politician
1947 - Walter Röhrl, German race and rally car driver
1947 - Helen Eadie, Scottish politician
1949 - Ghulam Nabi Azad, Indian politician
1950 - Franco Harris, NFL fullback (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1950 - Mark Pinter, Decorah Iowa, actor (Behind the Screen, Another World)
1950 - Iris Chacon, Puerto Rican singer and dancer
1951 - Francis Rocco Prestia, American musician (Tower of Power)
1952 - Ernie Isley, US vocalist/guitarist (It's Your Thing, Heat is On)
1952 - Lynn Swann, NFL receiver (Pittsburgh Steelers)/sportscaster
1952 - Vivian Richards, West Indian master blaster
1953 - Jules Shear, rock musician
1953 - Kathleen Sullivan, Pasadena Ca, newscaster (E!)
1954 - Matt Frenette, rock drummer (Loverboy)
1955 - Tommy Kramer, American football player
1955 - Anupam Kher, Bollywood Actor
1956 - Bryan Cranston, American actor
1957 - Robert Harris, English TV reporter and journalist
1958 - Rik Mayall, comedian (Drop Dead Fred, Bottom, Little Noises)
1958 - Alan Hale, American astronomer
1959 - Thomas Edward Lehman, Austin MN, PGA golfer (1994 Memorial Tournament)
1959 - Donna Murphy, American actress
1960 - Ivan Lendl, Czechoslovakia, tennis champion (US Open 1985-87)
1960 - Joe Carter, Oklahoma City OK, outfielder (Toronto Blue Jays)
1960 - Joe Carter, American baseball player
1961 - Mary Beth Evans, Pasadena California, actress (Katherine-General Hospital)
1962 - Taylor Dayne, [Leslie Wunderman], NY, vocalist (I'll Always Love You)
1962 - Peter Manley, English Darts Player
1963 - Mike Eagles, Sussex, NHL center (Washington Capitals)
1963 - Mohammad Ishaq, cricketer (UAE batsman 1996 World Cup)
1963 - Bill Brochtrup, American actor
1963 - Denyce Graves, American singer
1964 - Amy Baltus, Bloomington IND, WPVA volleyballer (Nationals-13th-1992)
1964 - Jeff Criswell, NFL tackle (KC Chiefs)
1964 - Bret Easton Ellis, American writer
1964 - Wanda Sykes, American actress and comedienne
1965 - Cameron Daddo, Melbourne Australia, actor (Brian Petersen-Models Inc)
1965 - Jesper Bo Parnevik, Stockholm Sweden, PGA golfer (1995 Nestle-5th)
1965 - Steve Beuerlein, NFL quarterback (Jacksonville Jaguars, Car Panthers)
1965 - [Willie] Flipper Anderson, NFL wide receiver (Indianapolis Colts)
1965 - Jack Armstrong, American baseball player
1966 - Jeff Feagles, NFL punter (Arizona Cardinals)
1966 - Mel Rojas, Haina Dom Rep, pitcher (Montreal Expos)
1966 - Terry Carkner, Smiths Falls, NHL defenseman (Florida Panthers)
1966 - Joy Tanner, American actress
1967 - Zheng Haixia, WNBA center (LA Sparks)
1967 - Ai Yazawa, Japanese mangaka
1968 - Jeff Kent, Bellflower CA, infielder (NY Mets)
1968 - Ricky Proehl, NFL wide receiver (Seattle Seahawks, Chicago Bears)
1969 - Anne Marie Lauck, Rochester NY, marathoner (Olympics-10th-96)
1969 - Anthony Davis, NFL linebacker (KC Chiefs)
1969 - Brian Jamieson, Livingston NJ, rower (Olympics-silver-1996)
1969 - Geoff Smith, Edmonton, NHL defenseman (Florida Panthers)
1969 - Matt Blundin, NFL quarterback (KC Chiefs, Detroit Lions)
1969 - Sam Gash, NFL running back (New England Patriots)
1969 - Warrel Dane, American singer (Nevermore)
1969 - Shin Ae Ra, Korean actress and radio DJ
1970 - Jacquelyn Doucette, Miss Massachusetts USA (1996)
1970 - James Calvin Spivey, Schiller Park Ill, miler
1970 - Kathy Gedney, Indianapolis Ind, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-25th-1994)
1970 - Rachel Weisz, London, English actress (The Mummy, The Constant Gardener) and fashion
           model
1971 - Alison Herst, Toronto Ontario, kayaker (Olympics-5-92, 96)
1971 - Peter Sarsgaard, American actor
1971 - Matthew Vaughn, British producer and director
1972 - Andrew Finch, rower (Olympics-1996)
1972 - Marina Hatzakis, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1972 - Jang Dong-gun, South Korean actor and musician
1972 - Maxim Roy, Quebec actress
1973 - Ray Parlour, English footballer
1973 - Sébastien Izambard, operatic pop singer (Il Divo)
1974 - Joost Volmer, soccer player (FC Twente)
1974 - Facundo Sava, Argentine footballer
1974 - Larry Bagby, American actor and musician
1974 - Jenna Fischer, American actress
1975 - Andrey Savenkov, hockey defenseman (Team Kazakhstan Oly-1998)
1975 - William Hampton, CFL defensive back (Calgary Stampeders)
1976 - Chelsea Charms, American adult actress
1977 - Ludmila Richterova, Kosice Slovakia, tennis star (1995 Bournemouth)
1977 - Gianluca Grava, Italian footballer
1977 - Mitja Zastrow, German-born swimmer
1980 - Laura Prepon, American actress
1982 - Erika Yamakawa, Japanese talent
1982 - Kate Michael, American beauty queen
1983 - Manucho, Angolan footballer
1983 - Taylor Tankersley, American baseball player
1984 - Mathieu Flamini, French footballer
1984 - Dani Woodward, American pornographic star
1984 - Brandon T. Jackson, American actor
1985 - Thomas Erak, American guitarist
1986 - Ben Griffin, Australian soccer player
1989 - Gerald Anderson, Filipino actor and model
1990 - Abigail and Brittany Hensel, American conjoined twins
1992 - Bel Powley , English Actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 07, 2013, 07:19:20 PM

This Day in History for 7th March


Famous Deaths

322 BC - Aristotle, Greek philosopher (b. 384 BC)
161 - Antoninus Pius, [Titus Aurelius], emperor of Rome (138-61), dies at 74
203 - Perpetua and Felicitas, Christian martyrs (perhaps after 209)
308 - Saint Eubulus, Christian martyr
851 - Nominoe, Duke of Brittany
1111 - Bohemund I of Tarente, French ruler of Antioch, dies
1226 - William de Longespee, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, English military leader
1274 - Thomas Aquinas, Italian thelogian/saint, dies at 48
1305 - Gwijde van Dampierre, count of Flanders/count of Namur, dies at 78
1578 - Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox (b. 1515)
1625 - Johann Bayer, German astronomer (b. 1572)
1719 - Steven J Vennekool, Amsterdam's master builder, buried
1724 - Innocent XIII, [Michelangiolo dei Conti], Pope (1721-24), dies at 68
1737 - Guido Starhemberg, Austrian earl/fieldmarshal, dies at 79
1750 - Cornelis Troost, Dutch painter (Beslikte Zwaentje), dies at 52
1761 - Antonio Palella, composer, dies at 68
1767 - Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, French colonizer (b. 1680)
1778 - Charles De Geer, Swedish industrialist (b. 1720)
1786 - Frantisek Benda, composer, dies at 76
1802 - Johann Georg Witthauer, composer, dies at 50
1804 - John Wedgwood, founder (Royal Horticulture Society), dies
1809 - Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, Austrian composer, dies at 73
1810 - Albertus H Wiese, gov-gen of Neth Indies, dies at about 48
1810 - Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, British admiral (b. 1750)
1833 - Rahel Varnhagen von Ense-Levin, German author, dies at 61
1842 - Christian Theodor Weinlig, composer, dies at 61
1862 - Ben McCulloch, US Confederate brig-general (KIA), dies at 50
1862 - John Baillie McIntosh, US general-major (Union Army), dies at 32
1862 - William Slack, US Confederate brig-general, dies in battle
1904 - Ferdinand André Fouqué, French geologist (b. 1828)
1907 - Victor Alphonse Duvernoy, composer, dies at 64
1911 - Antonio Fogazzarro, Italian writer/poet (Il Santo, Leila), dies at 68
1913 - Emily Pauline Johnson, Native Canadian poet
1924 - Pat Moran, manager (Cin Reds), dies of Bright's Disease
1926 - Jindrich Z Albestu Kaan, composer, dies at 73
1928 - Robert Abbe, American surgeon (b. 1851)
1931 - Akseli V Gallen-Kallela, Finnish painter/illustrator, dies at 65
1931 - Theo van Doesburg, [Christian Kupper], painter/architect, dies at 47
1932 - Aristide Briand, 11 x premier of France (Nobel 1926), dies at 69
1938 - Andreas Michalakopoulos, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1876)
1939 - Amadeo Roldan, composer, dies at 38
1939 - John Jules Barrish, Irish writer (b. 1885)
1941 - Arnold Schering, German musicologist, dies at 63
1941 - Gunther Prien, German commandant (U-47), dies in battle
1945 - Adolf Bartels, German writer/racist, dies at 82
1949 - Francis Dodd, English artist (b. 1874)
1951 - Ali Razmara, Shah of Iran (1950-51), assassinated
1951 - Ivor Novello, British writer (Keep the Home Fires Burning), dies at 58
1951 - Shah Ali Razmara, of Iran, assassinated
1952 - Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru (b. 1893)
1954 - Otto Diels, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)
1955 - Tom Dugan, actor (Pick a Star), dies at 66
1957 - Wyndham Lewis, British author (b. 1882)
1959 - Arthur C Pigou, English economist (Economics of Welfare), dies
1959 - Hinsdale Smith, developer of roll-down auto windows, dies at 88
1961 - Englebert van Anderlecht, Belgian painter, dies at 42
1961 - Max Hymans, WW II resistance fighter/Head of Air France, dies at 60
1964 - Franz Alexander, Hungarian/US psycho analyst, dies at 73
1967 - Alice B. Toklas, American companion to Gertrude Stein (b. 1877)
1968 - Yuri Aleksayevich Gagarin, USSR cosmonaut (Vostok I), dies at 31
1973 - Andre de Meulemeester, Belgium WW I pilot [Eagle of Flanders], dies at 78
1974 - Alberto Rabagliati, Italian singer and actor (b. 1906)
1975 - Ben Blue, actor (Accidental Family, Frank Sinatra Show), dies at 73
1975 - Francine Larrimore, actress (John Meade's Woman), dies at 76
1975 - Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher (b. 1895)
1975 - Ben Blue, Canadian actor (b. 1901)
1976 - Erwin Kroll, composer, dies at 90
1976 - Wright Patman, American politician (b. 1893)
1978 - Steve Bilko, American baseball player (b. 1928)
1979 - Guiomar Novaes, pianist (Brazilian Order of Merit), dies at 84
1979 - Klaus Egge, Norwegian composer (Fanitullen), dies at 72
1981 - John Gnagy, artist (Learn to Draw), dies at 73
1981 - Kirill Petrovich Kondrashin, Russian conductor/composer, dies at 67
1982 - Charles Borromeo Mills, composer, dies at 68
1983 - Igor Markevich, composer, dies at 70
1983 - Robert Bray, actor (Corey-Lassie, Simon-Stagecoach West), dies at 65
1984 - Paul Rotha, English director (b. 1907)
1985 - George Schick, Czech conductor (Chicago Symphony), dies at 76
1985 - Robert W Woodruff, CEO (Coca-Cola), dies at 95
1985 - Victor W Farris, inventor of paper milk carton, etc, dies
1986 - Jacob K Javits, (Sen-R-NY), dies in Palm Beach, Fla at 81
1988 - Divine, [Harris Milstead], female impersonator (Pink Flamingos), dies
1988 - Robert Livingston, actor (Lone Ranger), dies at 83 of emphysema
1990 - Max Neuhaus, composer, dies at 50
1993 - Arnold Franchetti, Ital/US composer, dies
1993 - Earl Wrightson, singer/actor (Pinafore), dies of heart failure at 77
1993 - Tony Harris, cricketer (8 Tests for S Afr 1947-49, 100 runs), dies
1995 - Don Cook, British foreign correspondent, dies at 74
1995 - Jaap van den Hurk, TV-director (NCRV), dies
1995 - Jacques Lefebvre, Belgian air force gen, commits suicide at 64
1995 - John Arthur Neill Lambert, composer teacher organist, dies at 69
1995 - Paul-Emile Victor, French pole explorer, dies at 87
1995 - Thijmen Kuijt, resistance fighter/co-found paper (Typhoon), dies at 82
1996 - Aled Eames, mAritime historian, dies at 74
1997 - E. H. Bronner, German-American soap magnate (b. 1908)
1999 - Sidney Gottlieb, American CIA official (b. 1918)
1999 - Stanley Kubrick, American film director (b. 1928)
2000 - Charles Gray, British actor (b. 1928)
2000 - Pee Wee King, American country music songwriter and musician (b. 1914)
2001 - Frankie Carle, American pianist and bandleader (b. 1903)
2004 - Paul Winfield, American actor (b. 1941)
2005 - John Box, British film production designer and art director (b. 1920)
2005 - Debra Hill, American screenwriter and film producer (b. 1950)
2006 - Ali Farka Touré, Malian musician (b. 1939)
2006 - Gordon Parks, photographer (b. 1912)
2006 - John Junkin, British performer (b. 1930)
2009 - Jang Ja-yeon, South Korean actress (b. 1982)
2010 - Mary Josephine Ray, Canadian supercentenarian (b. 1895)
2012 - Jimmy Ellis, American soul singer, dies from complications from Alzheimer's disease at 74

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 08, 2013, 01:49:03 PM

This Day in History for 8th March


Historical Events

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Pacifist and Spiritual Leader Gandhi          Astronomer Edwin Hubble                        Author and Nobel
                                                                                                                                Laureate William Faulkner

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African American Activist Malcolm X       Heavyweight Boxing Champ                       Author Douglas Adams
                                                                            Muhammad Ali 

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Tennis Player                                              Actress Julia Roberts 
Martina Navratilova


1586 - Johan van Oldenbarnevelt becomes Dutch chief legal advisor
1658 - Peace of Roskilde between Sweden & Denmark
1702 - England Queen Anne ascends throne upon death of King William III
1706 - Vienna's Wiener Stadtbank established
1711 - Antoin de Guiscard tries English premier Haley for murder
1722 - Afghan monarch Mir Mahmud occupies Persia
1746 - Cumberland's troops occupy Aberdeen
1754 - Marquis of Ensenada becomes premier of Spain
1766 - Willem V (18) becomes governor of United Provinces
1777 - Regiments from Ansbach and Bayreuth, sent to support Great Britain in the American
           Revolutionary War, mutiny in the town of Ochsenfurt.
1782 - Gnadenhutten Massacre - Ohio militia kills 90 indians
1801 - British drive French forces from Abukir, Egypt
1813 - 1st concerto of Royal Philharmonic
1817 - The New York Stock Exchange is founded.
1838 - US mint in New Orleans begins operation (producing dimes)
1844 - King Oscar I ascends to the throne of Sweden-Norway.
1854 - US Commodore Matthew C Perry's 2nd trip to Japan
1855 - 1st train crosses 1st US railway suspension bridge, Niagara Falls
1861 - St Augustine Florida surrenders to Union armies
1862 - Battle of Elkhorn Tavern ends with Confederate withdrawal
1862 - Confederate ironclad "Merrimack" launched
1862 - Naval Engagement at Hampton Roads, VA CSS Virginia, Jamestown & Yorktown vs USS
           Cumberland, Congress & Monitor
1865 - Battle of Kingston, NC (Wilcox's ridge, Wise's Forks)
1884 - 1st performance of Edward MacDowell's 2nd Piano suite
1884 - Susan B. Anthony addresses the U.S. House Judiciary Committee arguing for an amendment
           to the U.S. Constitution granting women the right to vote. Anthony's argument came 16
           years after legislators had first introduced a federal women's suffrage amendment.
1887 - Everett Horton, CT, patents fishing rod of telescoping steel tubes
1894 - The state of New York enacts the nation's first dog-licensing law.
1896 - Volunteers of America forms (NYC)
1898 - Richard Straus' "Don Quixote," premieres in Keulen
1900 - NL decides to go with 8 teams They exclude Baltimore, Cleveland, Louisville & Washington (in 
          1953 Boston Braves move to Milwaukee)
1902 - 1st performance of Jean Sibelius' 2nd Symphony
1904 - Hugh Trumble takes a hat-trick in his final Test Cricket match
1906 - Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Smiths Falls (Ont) in 2 games
1908 - Dutch utopist Frederick of Eden speaks in Carnegie Hall, NY
1910 - Baroness Raymonde de Laroche of Paris is 1st licensed female pilot
1911 - 1st International Woman's Day
1911 - International Women's Day is launched in Copenhagen, Denmark, by Clara Zetkin, leader of
           the Women's Office for the Social Democratic Party in Germany.
1913 - Federal League organizes with 6 teams
1913 - Internal Revenue Service begins to levy & collect income taxes
1915 - 1st US navy minelayer, Baltimore, commissioned
1916 - US invades Cuba for 3rd time, this to end corrupt Menocal regime
1917 - Russian revolution breaks out [OS=Feb 24] (in Petrograd)
1918 - The first case of Spanish flu occurs, the start of a devastating worldwide pandemic.
1920 - Denmark & Cuba join the League of Nations
1921 - Spanish Premier Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated while exiting the parliament building in
           Madrid.
1924 - Coal mine explosion kills 171 at Castle Gate Utah
1927 - Pan American Airlines incorporates
1929 - US worker union commission reports of slavery in Liberia
1930 - Mahatma Gandhi starts civil disobedience in India
1930 - Babe Ruth signs 2-year contract for $160,000 with NY Yankee GM Ed Barrow, wrongly
           predicts "No one will ever be paid more than Ruth"
1934 - Edwin Hubble photo shows as many galaxies as Milky Way has stars
1936 - The first stock car race is held in Daytona Beach, Florida.
1939 - Lenore Coffee & William Joyce Cowan's "Family Portrait," premieres
1941 - 1st baseball player drafted into WW II (Hugh Mulcahy, Phillies)
1942 - Japanese forces captures Rangoon Burma
1942 - KNIL, Dutch colonial army on Java, surrenders to Japanese armies
1943 - 335 allied bombers attack Neurenberg
1943 - Limited gambling legalized in Mexico
1943 - US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Gretchen Merrill
1943 - US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Arthur Vaughn
1944 - US resumes bombing Berlin
1945 - "Kiss Me Kate" opens in Britain
1945 - 53 Amsterdammers executed by nazi occupiers
1945 - International Women's Day is 1st observed
1945 - Phyllis M Daley is 1st black nurse sworn-in as US Navy ensign
1946 - 1st helicopter licensed for coml use (NYC)
1948 - Supreme Court rules relg instructions in pub schools unconstitutional
1949 - WAGA TV channel 5 in Atlanta, GA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1949 - WBAP-FM, Fort Worth Texas, begins broadcasting
1950 - 1st woman medical officer assigned to naval vessel (BR Walters)
1950 - Marshall Voroshilov of USSR announces they developed atomic bomb
1951 - Intl Table Tennis Federation bans Egypt (for refusing to play Israel)
1952 - Antoine Pinay forms French government
1953 - "Two's Company" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 90 performances
1953 - Census indicates 239,000 farmers gave up farming in last 2 years
1953 - KSWO TV channel 7 in Lawton, OK (ABC) begins broadcasting
1953 - Patty Berg wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open
1953 - WFMJ TV channel 21 in Youngstown, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 - Herb McKinley sets quarter mile record of 0:46.8 in Melbourne, Australia
1957 - 1st performance of David Diamond's 6th Symphony in Boston
1957 - Israeli troops leave Egypt; Suez Canal re-opened for minor ships
1957 - USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
1958 - Silky Sullivan comes from 40 lengths back to win by 3 at Santa Anita
1958 - William Faulkner says US school degenerated to become babysitters
1959 - Groucho, Chico & Harpo's final TV appearance together
1959 - KUAT TV channel 6 in Tucson, AZ (PBS) begins broadcasting
1959 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open
1959 - Pro-Egyptian coup fails in Mosul Iraq
1960 - "Greenwillow" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 95 performances
1961 - Jean Kerr's "Mary, Mary," premieres in NYC
1961 - US nuclear submarine Patrick Henry arrives at Scottish naval base of Holy Loch from SC in a
           record underseas journey of 66 days 22 hrs
1962 - Beatles, with Pete Best, TV debut (perform "Dream Baby" on BBC)
1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 - Syrian Arab Rep Revolution Day - Military coup in Syria
1964 - Malcolm X leaves Black Muslim Movement
1965 - 1st US combat forces arrive in Vietnam (3,500 Marines)
1966 - "Golden Boy" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 569 performances
1966 - An IRA bomb destroyed Nelson's Column in Dublin
1966 - Casey Stengel elected to Hall of Fame
1967 - New Orleans Saints begin selling season tickets (20,000 sold 1st day)
1968 - 6 year old Tommy Moore scores hole-in-one in golf (Hagerstown, Md)
1968 - Fillmore East opens
1968 - Students demonstrate in Warsaw
1970 - WTCI TV channel 45 in Chattanooga, TN (PBS) begins broadcasting
1971 - Joe Frazier beats Muhammad Ali in 15, retains heavyweight boxing title
1971 - Milwaukee Bucks win their 20th straight NBA game (team record)
1971 - Radio Hanoi broadcasts Jimi Hendrix's "Star Spangled Banner"
1971 - Joe Frazier beats Muhammad Ali at Madison Sq Garden
1972 - 1st airship flown over Britain in 20 years (Europa)
1972 - 1st flight of the Goodyear blimp
1973 - Eisenhower Tunnel, world's highest/US longest, opens
1973 - Paul & Linda McCartney are fined £100 for growing cannabis
1973 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1974 - Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France
1975 - Royal Canadian Mint announces branch opening in Winnipeg Manitoba
1976 - 1,774 kg (largest observed) stony meteorite falls in Jilin, China
1977 - Henry L Marsh III elected mayor of Richmond
1977 - Princess Anne announces she's expecting her 1st child (Peter)
1978 - The first-ever radio episode of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, is
           transmitted on BBC Radio 4.
1979 - 1st extraterrestrial volcano discovered (Jupiter's satellite Io)
1979 - 5th People's Choice Awards
1979 - China withdraws invasion troops from Vietnam
1979 - Shuttle Columbia (OV-102) transported 38 miles overland from Palmdale
1980 - Greg Chappell 235 & Yallop 172, for 217 stand at Faisalabad
1980 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1980 - The first festival of rock music kicks off in the Soviet Union.
1981 - "Shakespeare's Cabaret" closes at Bijou Theater NYC after 54 perfs
1981 - Dennis Lillee ct by Qld 12th man Dennis Lillie in Shield game
1981 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Arizona Copper Golf Classic
1983 - House Foreign Affairs Com endorses nuclear weapons freeze with USSR
1983 - IBM releases PC DOS version 2.0
1983 - Pres Reagan calls the USSR an "Evil Empire"
1985 - Ice Dance Championship at Tokyo won by Bestemianova & Bukin (URS)
1986 - 4 French TV crew members are abducted in west Beirut Lebanon
1986 - Japanese probe Suisei passes Halley's Comet at 109,800 km
1986 - Martina Navratilova is 1st tennis player to earn $10 million
1987 - 17th Easter Seal Telethon raises $35,184,425
1987 - David Hookes (306*) Wayne Phillips make 462 stand for S Aust
1987 - FBI apprehends most wanted Claude L Dallas, Jr in Calif
1987 - Jane Geddes wins LPGA GNA/Glendale Federal Golf Classic
1987 - Nelli Cooman becomes world champion 60m indoor
1987 - "A Team," last aired on NBC-TV after 4 years
1989 - "Heidi Chronicles" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 621 performances
1989 - Roger Kingdom runs indoor world record 60m hurdles (7.37 secs)
1990 - NYC's Zodiac killer shoots 1st victim, Mario Orosco
1991 - 17th People's Choice Awards: Julia Roberts, Bill Cosby, Pretty Woman
1991 - Harry Hamlin & Nicollette Sheridan wed
1991 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1991 - Planeloads of US troops arrive home from the Persian Gulf, Iraq hands over 40 foreign
          journalists & 2 American soldiers it captured
1992 - 22nd Easter Seal Telethon
1992 - Judy Dickinson wins LPGA Inamori Golf Classic
1993 - Katharine Hepburn released from the hospital after exhaustion
1993 - Nigerian singer Fela Kuti arrested again on suspicion of murder
1994 - 20th People's Choice Awards
1994 - B737 collides with Ilyushin-86 in New Dehli, at least 8 killed
1994 - Defense Department announces smoking ban in workplaces
1994 - Train accident at Pinetown, Natal kills 47
1995 - -26°F (-32.2°C) in Bismarck, North Dakota
1995 - -44°F (-42.2°C) in Chosedacharad, Komi-district, on 67°N
1995 - Costis Stephanopoulos becomes president of Greece
1995 - Dutch Liberal Party wins Provincial-National elections
1999 - The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the murder convictions of Timothy McVeigh
           for the Oklahoma City bombing.
2004 - A new constitution is signed by Iraq's Governing Council.
2012 - Greece secures debt-restructuring deal with private lenders
2012 - Toyota recalls 700,000 vehicles over safety concerns

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 08, 2013, 01:50:48 PM

This Day in History for 8th March


Famous Weddings

1418 - Jacqueline, Countess of Haintaut marries her cousin John IV Duke of Brabant in The Hague
1820 - 5th US President James Monroe's daughter Maria 1st child of a President to marry in the
           White House
1952 - Ronald Reagan marries Nancy Davis
1969 - Marriage of 12 year old Marcella Rosciglione in Palermo
2012 - Former "Raising Sextuplets" star Jenny Masche weds longtime beau Levi McClendon in San
          Diego

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 08, 2013, 01:58:23 PM

This Day in History for 8th March


Famous Birthdays

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Surgeon Karl Ferdinand                           Actress Claire Trevor (1909)                  Actor James Van Der Beek (1977)
von Graefe (1787)


1075 - Abu 'l-Kasim Mahmud ibn Omar al-Zamachshari, Arab theologist
1286 - John III, Duke of Brittany (d. 1341)
1293 - Beatrice of Castile, queen of Portugal (d. 1359)
1495 - John of God, Portuguese-born friar and saint (d. 1550). Founder of the Hospitaller Order of
           St. John of God.
1514 - Amago Haruhisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1562)
1560 - Don Carlo Gesualdo, Italian composer (d. 1613)
1607 - Johann Rist, composer
1659 - Isaac de Beausobre, French Protestant pastor (d. 1738)
1700 - Anne Bonny Irish-American pirate (d. 1782)
1712 - John Fothergill, English physician (d. 1780)
1714 - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, German composer, son of JS Bach
1726 - Richard Howe, British admiral (d. 1799)
1743 - Bendix Friedrich Zinck, composer
1746 - André Michaux, French botanist (d. 1802)
1748 - William V of Orange, Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic
1778 - Friedrich August Kanne, composer
1783 - Gottfied Wilhelm Fink, composer
1783 - Hannah Hoes Van Buren, NY, wife of pres Martin (1837-41) (died 1819)
1787 - Karl Ferdinand von Graefe, German surgeon who helped create modern plastic surgery
1799 - Simon Cameron, Secy War (Union), died in 1889
1814 - Ede Szigligeti, Hungarian dramatist (d. 1878)
1822 - Ignacy Lukasiewicz, Polish inventor (d. 1882)
1825 - George William Martin, composer
1827 - Wilhelm Bleek, German linguist (d. 1875)
1830 - João de Deus, Portuguese poet (d. 1896)
1836 - Matthew Calbraith Butler, Major General (Confederate Army)
1839 - James Mason Crafts, US chemist (Friedel-Crafts-synthesis)
1840 - Franco Faccio, Italian composer/conductor
1841 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Mass, 59th Supreme Court justice (1902-32)
1843 - Per Jonas Fredrik Vilhelm Svedbom, composer
1847 - Karl von Bach, German engineer (Maschinenelemente)
1853 - Edward Hubertus Joannes Keurvels, Flemish composer (Parisina)
1854 - Tom Felix Horan, cricketer (Ireland Pioneering Aust all-rounder)
1856 - Bramwell Booth, the 2nd General of The Salvation Army (d. 1929)
1856 - Tom Roberts, Australian artist (d. 1931)
1859 - Kenneth Grahame, Scottish author (Wind in the Willows)
1859 - Otto Taubmann, composer
1862 - Joseph Lee, helped develop playgrounds
1865 - Frederick William Goudy, US, printer/type designer
1872 - Paul Juon, Russian/Swiss violinist/composer
1872 - Anna Held, Polish-born actress and singer (d. 1918)
1876 - Franco Alfano, Italian opera composer (Il dottore Antonio)
1879 - M Lichnowsky, writer
1879 - Otto Hahn, German physicist/chemist (Nobel 44, radiothorium/actinium)
1883 - Manuel Gomez Carillo, composer
1886 - Anton Portielje, Dutch radio host/zoo director (Artis)
1886 - Edward Kendall, chemist, isolated cortisone (Nobel 1950)
1888 - Stuart Chase, NH, writer/economist (Tragedy of Waste)
1889 - Oscar Ewing, US government official (Everybody's Business)
1890 - Oswald von Nell-Breuning, German theologist/philosopher
1891 - Sam Jaffe, NYC, actor (Gunga Din, Dr Zorba-Ben Casey)
1892 - Mátyás Rákosi, Hungarian party leader/premier (1952-53)
1896 - Charlotte Whitton, Canadian politician (d. 1975)
1898 - Louise Beavers, Cin Ohio, actress (Beulah-Beulah, Made for each other)
1899 - Eric Linklater, Scotland, novelist/poet (Blue Swallows)
1899 - Elmer Keith, Firearms enthusiast and Author (d. 1984)
1902 - Jennings Randolph, (Sen)
1902 - Louise Beavers, American actress (d. 1962)
1907 - Charles Boost, movie critic
1907 - Constantine Karamanlis, Greek politician, President of Greece (d. 1998)
1909 - Anthony Donato, composer
1909 - Claire Trevor, [Wemlinger], NYC, actress (Marjorie Morningstar)
1909 - Hugh Murphy, English multi-millionaire
1910 - Bernard Benjamin, statistician, actuary and demographer (d. 2002)
1911 - Alan Hovhaness, Somerville Mass, composer (Lousadzak, Ukiyo)
1911 - Elsie Agnes Giorgi, physician/humanitarian
1912 - Preston Smith, Governor of Texas (d. 2003)
1914 - Jacob B Bakema, urban developer (St Louis Missouri)
1914 - Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich, Russian physicist (d. 1987)
1915 - Vivien John, artist
1915 - Tapio Rautavaara, Finnish athlete, actor, and singer (d. 1979)
1916 - R W Schnell, writer
1916 - John Seybold, American economist and computer typesetting pioneer (d. 2004)
1917 - A Marja, [ATE Mooy], Dutch literary (Shreds on the River)
1918 - Alan Hale [MacKahan] Jr, LA California, actor (Skipper-Gilligan's Island)
1919 - Ivor Keys, musician/teacher
1920 - Eileen Herlie, Glasgow Scot, actress (Myrtle Fargate-All My Children)
1920 - Eva Dahlbeck, Saltsjo-Duvnas Sweden, actress (Dreams, Lesson in Love)
1920 - James Daniel "Danny" Turner, saxophonist
1921 - Cyd Charisse, [Tula Finklea], Amarillo Tx, dancer/actress (Singing in the Rain)
1921 - Egbert George "Pete" Pitterson, trumpeter
1921 - Alan Hale, Jr., American actor (d. 1990)
1922 - Carl Furillo, Brooklyn Dodger (NL Batting Champ 1953)
1922 - H Kipphardt, writer
1922 - Shigeru Mizuki, Japanese soldier and Mangaka
1922 - Ralph Baer, Creator of the first video game console
1923 - Juan M G "Wancho" Evertsz, premier of Dutch Antilles (NVP, 1973-77)
1923 - Sembene Ousmane, Senegalese author/novelist/director (Doctor Noir)
1924 - Sean McClory, Dublin Ireland, actor (Jack-Californians, My Chauffeur)
1924 - Victor "Toby" Neuberg, teacher/writer
1925 - Darwin Horacio Vargas-Wallis, composer
1925 - Francisco Rabal, Aguilas Spain, actor (Holy Innocents, Camorra)
1925 - Petrus Steenkamp, Dutch politician (KVP/CDA)
1927 - Jaromir Podesva, composer
1927 - Joseph Berg, composer
1928 - Frank Michael Beyer, composer
1928 - Judy Johnson, Norfolk Va, singer (Your Show of Shows)
1930 - Bob Grim, American baseball player (d. 1996)
1931 - John McPhee, author (Back to ----)
1931 - Neil Adcock, cricketer (South African pace bowler, 104 wkts 1953-62), (d. 2013)
1931 - Neil Postman, American cultural critic (d. 2003)
1933 - Johnny Dollar, singer
1934 - Christian Wolff, composer
1934 - Ron Taylor, Sydney Australia, cinematographer (Those Amazing Animals), (d. 2012)
1934 - Marv Breeding, American baseball player (d.2006)
1936 - Gabor Szabo, Hungarian jazz pianist (Perfect Circle)
1936 - Sue Ane Langdon, Paterson NJ, actress (Bachelor Father, Arnie)
1937 - Juvenal Hayarimana, president of Rwanda (1973-94)
1937 - Pamela McEvoy-Johnston, psychotherapist-board member (WIC)
1937 - Raynoma Gordy, [Mayberry], US orchestra leader (Rayber Voices)
1937 - Richard Farina, American writer and folk rocker (Reflections in a Crystal Wind)
1938 - Lew DeWitt, Va, country singer (Statler Brothers-Flowers on the Wall)
1939 - George William Reed, astronomy writer/cartoonist (Dark Sky Legacy)
1939 - Jim Bouton, Newark NJ, pitcher (NY Yankees)/author (Ball Four)
1939 - Lydia Skoblikova, USSR, speed skater (Olympics-6 gold-1960, 64)
1939 - Mike Lowry, (Rep-D-WA, 1979- )
1939 - Robert Tear, Barry Wales, tenor (Welsh Natl Opera 1970)
1939 - Yannis Vlachopoulos, composer
1940 - Leslie Isben Rogge, one of FBI's most wanted
1940 - Susan Clark, Sarnia Ontario, actress (Night Moves, Webster)
1940 - Theo Laseroms, [The Tank], Dutch soccer player (Feyenoord)
1941 - Ivana Loudova, composer
1941 - Yvar Emilian Mikhashoff, composer
1941 - Andrei Mironov, Soviet actor (d. 1987)
1942 - Ann Packer-Brightwell, England, 400m/800m runner (Oly-gold-1964)
1942 - Ralph Ellis, England, rhythm (Swinging Blue Jeans-You're No Good)
1942 - [Dick] Richie Allen, baseball player (AL MVP 1972)
1942 - Ann Packer, British athlete
1943 - Lynn Redgrave, London, actress (Georgie Girl)/Weight-Watcher
1944 - Carole Bayer Sager, NY, aka Mrs Burt Bachrach, singer (Arthur)
1944 - Buzz Hargrove, Canadian labour leader
1944 - Sergey Nikitin, Russian composer
1944 - Palito Ortega, Argentine singer and actor
1945 - Graeme Watson, cricketer (Australian opening batsman 5 Tests 1966-72)
1945 - Jim Chapman, (Rep-D-TX, 1985- )
1945 - Micky Dolenz, LA California, actor (Circus Boy)/singer (Monkees)
1945 - Bruce Broughton, American composer
1945 - Jim Chapman, American politician
1945 - Anselm Kiefer, German painter
1946 - Mohammad Nazir, Pakistani cricket off-spinner (14 Tests 1969-83)
1946 - Randy Meisner, rock bassist/vocalist (Poco, Eagles-Take it Easy)
1947 - Mike Allsup, Modesto Ca, rock guitarist (Three Dog Night)
1947 - Carole Bayer Sager, American composer
1947 - Florentino Pérez, Spanish football executive
1948 - Little Peggy March, [Margaret Battavio], vocalist (I Will Follow Him)
1949 - Charles Lismont, Belgian marathon runner (Olympic-silver-1972)
1951 - Philippe Henri Edmonds, cricketer (in Zambia England slow left-arm)
1952 - Vladimir Vladimirovich Vasyutin, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-14)
1952 - George Felix Allen, American politician
1953 - Jim Rice, Boston Red Sox outfielder (AL MVP 1978)
1953 - Kathleen Ann Shower, Brookville Oh, Playmate of the Year (May, 1985)
1953 - Bob Brozman, American musician
1953 - Jim Rice, American baseball player
1953 - Don Werner, American baseball player
1954 - Cheryl Baker, rock vocalist (Bucks Fizz-My Camera Never Lies)
1954 - David Wilkie, 200m backstroke swimmer (Olympic-gold-1976), is born in Colombo, Sri Lanka
           to Scottish parents
1954 - Karl Schnabl, 90m ski jumper (Olympic-gold-1976)
1955 - Don Ashby, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1981)
1956 - John Kapelos, Canadian actor
1956 - Laurie Cunningham, English former footballer (d. 1989)
1957 - Cynthia Rothrock, Wilmington Del, actress (Lady Dragon, Honor & Glory)
1957 - Ruth Wysocki, Alhambra California, 800m/1500m runner
1957 - Billy Childs, composer/pianist
1957 - Bob Stoddard, American baseball player
1958 - Andreas Maurer, West Germany, tennis star
1958 - Gary Numan, [Gary Webb], Hammersmith England, vocalist (Replicas)
1958 - Nick Capra, American baseball player
1959 - Aidan Quinn, actor (Avalon, Desperately Seeking Susan, Mission)
1960 - Buck Williams, NBA forward (Portland Trail Blazers, NY Knicks)
1960 - Max Metzker, Australian swimmer
1961 - Larry Murphy, Scarborough, NHL defenseman (Toronto Maple Leafs)
1961 - Camryn Manheim, American actress
1962 - Shaun Gayle, NFL strong safety (San Diego Chargers)
1962 - William Fuller, NFL defensive end (Philadelphia Eagles, San Diego Chargers)
1963 - Gursharan Singh, cricketer (Indian batsman played one Test 1989-90)
1963 - Kathy Ireland, model/actress (Alien From LA, Side Out)
1963 - Mike Lalor, Buffalo, NHL defenseman (Dallas Stars)
1963 - Lorelei, American fetish model and photographer
1964 - Cheryl "Salt" James, singer (Salt-N-Pepa)
1964 - Peter Ged Gill, drummer (Frankie Goes to Hollywood-2 Tribes) [or 1/8]
1964 - Lance McCullers, American baseball player
1965 - Kenny Smith, NBA guard (Houston Rockets)
1965 - Fátima Lopes, Portuguese fashion designer
1966 - Elliot Boult, Blenheim NZ, Australasia golfer
1966 - Holly Ann Salo, Keani Alaska, Miss Alaska-America (1991)
1966 - Laura McCabe, cross country skier (Olympics-1994)
1967 - Brent Fedyk, Yorkton, NHL left wing (Dallas Stars)
1967 - Dale Joseph, CFL defensive back (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1967 - Joel Johnston, American baseball player
1968 - Clare Wood, Zululand South Africa, tennis star (1986 Futures-Lisbon)
1968 - Rob Zettler, Sept-iles, NHL defenseman (Toronto Maple Leafs)
1968 - Michael Bartels, German race car driver
1968 - Ellen Forney, American cartoonist
1968 - Shawn Mullins, American musician
1968 - Jim Dougherty, American baseball player
1969 - Andrea Parker, actress (Miss Parker-The Pretender)
1970 - Harry Decheiver, soccer player (RKC)
1970 - Jason Elam, NFL kicker (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1970 - Rhett Harty, Pasedena CA, US soccer player (Olympic-92)
1970 - Vadim Bekboulatov, NHL forward (Belarus, Oly-98)
1971 - Bob Boughner, Windsor, NHL defenseman (Buffalo Sabres)
1971 - Marc Tobert, CFL slot back (Edmonton Eskimos)
1971 - Kit Symons, Welsh footballer
1972 - Craig Johnson, St Paul Mn, NHL left wing (LA Kings/Oly-1994)
1972 - Pat Riley, NFL defensive end (Chic Bears, Seattle Seahawks)
1972 - Takuro Abe, WLAF linebacker (Amsterdam Admirals)
1972 - Georgios Georgiadis, Greek footballer
1972 - Angie Hart, Australian pop singer
1973 - Kendell Watkins, NFL tight end (Dallas Cowboys)
1973 - Nanette Pearson, Pleasant Grove Utah, Miss America-Utah (1997)
1973 - Anneke van Giersbergen, Dutch singer (The Gathering)
1973 - Boris Kodjoe, Austrian model
1973 - Kurt Mollekens, Belgian racing car driver
1973 - Justin Thompson, American baseball player
1974 - Steve Sarkisian, CFL quarterback (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1974 - Toran James, linebacker (San Diego Chargers)
1974 - Mike Moriarty, American baseball player
1975 - Brett Conway, NFL kicker (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1975 - Kenny Wheaton, cornerback (Dallas Cowboys)
1975 - Fardeen Khan, Indian actor
1975 - Peggy Zina, Greek singer
1976 - Freddie Prinze Jr, actor (I Know What You Did Last Summer)
1976 - Juan Encarnacion, American baseball player
1976 - Hines Ward, American football player
1977 - James Van Der Beek, actor (Dawson's Creek)
1977 - Petr Devyatkin, hockey forward (Team Kazakhstan Oly-1998)
1977 - Johann Vogel, Swiss footballer
1978 - Nick Zano, American actor
1979 - Tom Chaplin, English singer (Keane)
1979 - Andy Ross, American guitarist (OK Go)
1980 - Stephen Milne, Australian rules footballer
1981 - Michael Beauchamp, Australian footballer
1982 - Nicolas Armindo, race car driver
1982 - Leonidas Kabantais, Greek footballer
1982 - Nicoleta Onel, Romanian gymnast
1982 - Kat Von D, Mexican-American tattoo artist
1982 - Craig Stansberry, American baseball player
1983 - Mark Worrell, American baseball player.
1984 - Dave Moffatt, Canadian musician
1985 - Ewa Sonnet, Polish model and pop singer
1988 - Armanti Edwards, American college football player
1990 - Ben Tozer, English footballer
1991 - Devon Werkheiser, American actor
1992 - Charlie Ray, American actress
1996 - Lorna Fitzgerald, English actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 08, 2013, 02:03:13 PM

This Day in History for 8th March


Famous Deaths

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13th US President                                      Physicist/Nobel Laureate                 Yankee Clipper Joe DiMaggio (1999)
Millard Fillmore (1874)                          Johannes van der Waals (1923)


883 - Albumasar, [Ahmad Aboe M Gafar al-Balkhi], Arabic astronomer, dies
1126 - Urraca of Castile (b. 1082)
1144 - Celestine II, [Guido], Italian Pope (1143-44), dies in battle
1202 - Sverre of Norway
1223 - Wincenty Kadłubek, Polish chronicler (b. 1161)
1403 - Bajezid I Jildirim, 4th sultan of Turkey (1389-1403), dies at 42
1466 - Francesco Sforza, Italian condottiere/duke of Milan, dies at 64
1550 - Juan de Dios, Port/Sp saint (Brothers of Mercy), dies at 55
1638 - Jacob C van Neck, admiral/mayor of Amsterdam, dies at about 73
1640 - Guillaume van Messaus, composer, dies at 50
1641 - Xu Xiake, Chinese adventurer (b. 1587)
1661 - Jules Mazarin, Italian cardinal/premier of France, dies at 58
1674 - Charles Sorel, sieur de Souvigny, French writer (b. 1597)
1702 - John de Baen, portrait painter/etcher, buried at 69
1702 - William III, Dutch King of England (1689-1702), dies at 51 [NS-Mar 19] (b. 1650)
1709 - William Cowper/Cooper, English anatomist, dies at about 62
1716 - Harald Vallerius, composer, dies at 69
1720 - Georg Bronner, composer, dies at 53
1724 - Enrico Giovanni Zuccalli, Swiss architect, dies at about 81
1728 - Gian M Crescimbeni, Italian literary/critic (Arcadia), dies at 64
1731 - Ferdinand Brokoff, Czech sculptor (b. 1688)
1734 - Carolomannus Pachschmidt, composer, dies at 33
1754 - Don Jose de Carvajal bon Lancaster, Sp min of Foreign affairs, dies
1757 - Thomas Blackwell, Scottish classical scholar (b. 1701)
1771 - Louis August le Clerc, French-born sculptor (b. 1688)
1819 - Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge, doctor, Massachusetts militia officer, member of the
           Massachusetts legislature (b. 1739)
1828 - Johann Anton Sulzer, composer, dies at 75
1844 - Charles XIV John of Sweden (b. 1763)
1855 - William Poole, Infamous member of New York City's Bowery Boys gang (b. 1821)
1862 - Adrien de La Fage, composer, dies at 56
1862 - Nat Gordon, last pirate, hanged in NYC for stealing 1,000 slaves
1869 - Louis Hector Berlioz, French composer (Symphony Fantastic), dies at 65
1874 - Millard Fillmore, 13th president (1850-53), dies of at 74
1887 - Pavel Annenkov, Russian literature historian/critic, dies at 73
1887 - Henry Ward Beecher, American clergyman (b. 1813)
1887 - James Buchanan Eads, American engineer (b. 1820)
1889 - Jens/John Ericsson, Swed/US, engineer (fire extinguisher), dies at 85
1901 - Karl Freiherr von Stumm-Halberg, German politician, dies at 64
1901 - Peter Benoit, Flemish composer/conductor (High Mass), dies at 66
1917 - Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Dutch count/air pioneer, dies at 78
1919 - Auguste Tolbecque, composer, dies at 88
1920 - Rafael Obligado, Argentine writer (Santos Vega), dies at 69
1923 - Johannes van der Waals, Dutch physicist (Nobel 1910), dies at 85
1923 - Krišjānis Barons, Latvian writer (b. 1835)
1930 - William Howard Taft, 27th US pres (1909-13)/Chief Justice, dies at 72
1930 - Edward Terry Sanford, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (b. 1865)
1931 - Clara Kathleen Rogers, composer, dies at 87
1932 - Jan de Louter, Dutch lawyer/tutor of Queen Wilhelmina, dies at 84
1937 - Albert Verwey, Dutch poet/literature historian (Motion), dies at 71
1937 - Howie Morenz, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1902)
1941 - Jose Serrano Simeon, composer, dies at 67
1941 - Sherwood Anderson, US writer/publisher (Winesburg Ohio), dies at 64
1942 - Jose R Capablanca, Cuban chess player (world champ 1927), dies at 53
1945 - H J Jamin, Dutch resistance fighter, dies in Buchenwald
1945 - Jan Beekes, resistance fighter, executed at 26
1950 - Jaroslav Kocian, composer, dies at 67
1951 - Honeymoon Killers, dies in electric chair
1951 - John Winter Thompson, composer, dies at 83
1954 - Percy Twentyman-Jones, cricketer (pair in only Test for S Afr), dies
1955 - Clementine, Princess of Belg, wife of V Napoleon Bonaparte, dies at 82
1957 - Othmar Schoeck, composer, dies at 70
1958 - Josephina OFF "Frieda" Herberich, actress (Salontiroler), dies at 85
1959 - Abdel Wahab Shawwaf, Iraqi colonel/putschist, murdered
1961 - Thomas Beecham, English conductor (Last Night of the Prom), dies at 81
1963 - John Hartley, cricketer (bowl avg 115 in 2 Tests for Eng 1906), dies
1965 - Esther Howard, actress (Detour), dies of heart attack at 72
1967 - John F Bothwell, actor (Freckles-Our Gang), dies at 46
1971 - Harold Lloyd, US comic/actor (Why Worry), dies of cancer at 77
1972 - Erich von dem Bach, Nazi official (b. 1899)
1973 - Gordon Leggat, cricketer (9 Tests for NZ, 351 runs at 21 93), dies
1973 - Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, rocker (Grateful Dead, Grass Roots), dies at 27
1974 - Christian van Geel, Dutch poet/sculptor (Spinroc), dies at 56
1974 - Willem "Wim" Sonneveld, Dutch actor (Silk Stockings), dies at 56
1975 - George Stevens, US director (Swing Time, Gunga Din), dies at 70
1976 - Alfons Rebane, Estonian military commander (b. 1908)
1977 - Henry Hull, actor (Werewolf of London, Boys Town), dies at 86
1983 - William T Walton, English composer (Belhazzar's feast), dies at 80
1985 - Edward Andrews, actor (Broadside), dies at 70 of a heart attack
1985 - Thomas Creighton, US heart patient (3 implants in 46 hrs), dies at 33
1986 - Hubert Fichte, writer, dies at 50
1988 - Werner Hartmann, German physicist (b. 1912)
1988 - Henryk Szeryng, Polish-born violinist (b. 1918)
1992 - Red Callender, US jazz bassist (Unfinished dream), dies at 76
1993 - Billy Eckstine, jazz singer (Fools Rush In), dies at 78 of stroke
1993 - Johan Bodegraven, radio host (Purses Open, Dikes Closed), dies at 78
1993 - Joop Scheltens, TV host/director (Explore Your Place), dies at 69
1993 - Wells Root, US screenwriter (Prisoner of Zenda), dies at 92
1994 - John Ewart, Sydney Australia, dies of cancer at 55
1994 - Joop C Swart, publisher/founder (World Press Photo), dies at 69
1994 - Knut Haukelid, Norway/US resistance fighter (Rjukan 1943), dies at 82
1995 - Ota Adler, Czech/British fur trader (Jewish Aid Fund), dies at 83
1995 - Paul George Vincent O'Shaughnessy Horgan, novelist, dies at 91
1995 - Ingo Schwichtenberg, German drummer (b. 1965)
1996 - Alison McCartney, pathologist/Breast Cancer campaigner, dies at 45
1996 - Jack Malcolm Thorpe Fleming Churchill, commando, dies at 89
1996 - Paul Lewis Harrhy, actor/opera singer (Intelligence Park), dies at 38
1997 - Alexander Salkind, producer (Superman), dies at 75
1998 - Ray Nitschke, American football player (b. 1936)
1999 - Peggy Cass, American actress and comedian (b. 1924)
1999 - Joe DiMaggio, American baseball player (b. 1914)
1999 - Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentinean writer (b.1914)
2001 - Edward Winter, American actor (b. 1937)
2003 - Adam Faith, English singer and actor (b. 1940)
2003 - Karen Morley, American actress (b. 1909)
2004 - Robert Pastorelli, American actor (b. 1954)
2005 - Aslan Maskhadov, Chechen leader (b. 1951)
2005 - César Lattes, Brazilian physicist (b. 1924)
2006 - Brian Barratt-Boyes, New Zealand heart surgeon (b. 1924)
2007 - John Inman, English actor (b. 1935)
2007 - Viky Vanita, Greek actress (b. 1948)
2007 - John Vukovich, American baseball player and coach.. (b. 1947)
2008 - Carol Barnes, former ITV news presenter (b. 1944)
2009 - Ali Bongo, President of the Magic Circle (b.1929)
2009 - Zbigniew Religa, Minister of Health of the Republic of Poland (b. 1938)
2011 - Mike Starr (musician), American Musician (b. 1966)
2012 - Leslie Cochran, American peace activist and police critic, dies from head trauma at 60

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 09, 2013, 03:52:38 PM

This Day in History for 9th March


Historical Events

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Mathematician and Astronomer               Composer Giuseppe Verdi
Nicolaus Copernicus

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US President Ulysses S. Grant                    Baseball Great Babe Ruth


141 BC - Liu Che, posthumously known as Emperor Wu of Han, assumes the throne over the Han
         Dynasty of China.
590 - Bahram Chobin is crowned as king Barham VI of Persia.
1230 - Bulgarian tsar Ivan Asen II defeats Theodore of Epirus near the village of Klokotnitsa.
1276 - Augsburg becomes an Imperial Free City.
1452 - Pope Nicolaas I crowns Frederik III RC-German emperor
1496 - Jews are expelled from Carintha Austria
1497 - Nicolaus Copernicus 1st recorded astronomical observation
1500 - Pedro Cabral departs with 13 ships to India
1522 - -16] Marten Luther preaches his Invocavit
1551 - Emperor Karel appoints son Philip as heir to the throne
1562 - Kissing in public banned in Naples (punishable by death)
1566 - David Rizzio, the private secretary to Mary I of Scotland, is murdered in the Palace of
           Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, Scotland.
1617 - Sweden & Russia sign Peace of Stolbowa
1640 - Pierre Corneilles "Horace," premieres in Paris
1642 - English Queen Henriette Mary arrives in Hellevoetsluis Neth
1697 - Czar Peter the Great begins tour of West-Europe
1701 - France, Cologne & Bavaria sign alliance
1721 - English Chancellor Exchequer John Aislabie confined in London Tower
1741 - English fleet under admiral Ogle begins assault on Cartagena
1745 - Bells for 1st American carillon shipped from England to Boston
1765 - After a public campaign by the writer Voltaire, judges in Paris posthumously exonerate Jean
           Calas of murdering his son. Calas had been tortured and executed in 1762 on the charge,
           though his son had actually committed suicide.
1776 - Publication of the economics book The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith.
1798 - Dr George Balfour becomes 1st naval surgeon in the US navy
1820 - -11) Philippines chases out foreigners; about 125 die
1822 - Charles Graham of NY patents artificial teeth
1834 - French Foreign Legion is founded.
1839 - Prussian government limits work week for children to 51 hours
1841 - US Supreme Court rules Negroes are free (Amistad Incident)
1842 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Nabucco," premieres in Milan
1844 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Hernani," premieres in Venice
1849 - Carl Nikolais opera "Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor," premieres
1856 - Sigma Alpha Epsilon is founded in the Johnston Mansion House on the University of Alabama
1858 - Albert Potts of Philadelphia patents the street mailbox
1860 - 1st Japanese ambassador arrives in SF en route to Washington
1861 - Confederate currency authorized-$50, $100, $500, $1,000
1862 - "Monitor" (Union) & "Merrimack" (Rebel) battle in Hampton Roads
1864 - Ulysses S. Grant is appointed commander of Union Army
1868 - The opera "Hamlet" premieres in Paris
1882 - False teeth patented
1889 - Battle at Gallabat (Metema): Mahdi's beat Abyssinian emperor John IV
1889 - Kansas passes 1st general antitrust law in US
1893 - Congo cannibals killed 1000s of Arabs
1895 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Victorias awarded cup, as Queens University (Kingston Ont) loses to
           Montreal AAA, 5-1
1897 - Premiere of (parts of) Gustav Mahler's 3rd Symphony (Berlin)
1897 - Cleveland Spiders sign Louis Sockalexis, full-blooded Penobscot
1897 - Indian, fans start calling the team Indians (in 1915 becomes official)
1904 - Brandon's Lester Patrick becomes 1st hockey defenseman to score a goal
1907 - 1st involuntary sterilization law enacted, Indiana
1907 - Lady Gregory's "Rising of the Moon," premieres in Dublin
1908 - Inter Milan is founded.
1914 - Henry Colijn appointed as director of Bataafsche Petroleum Co
1914 - US Sen Albert Fall (Teapot Dome) demands "Cubanisation of Mexico"
1916 - General Fransisco "Poncho" Villa invades US (18 killed)
1916 - Germany declares war against Portugal
1918 - Russian Bolshevik Party becomes the Communist Party
1918 - Ukrainian mobs massacre Jews of Seredino Buda
1918 - Wageningen Agricultural College Neth opens
1922 - Eugene O'Neill's "Hairy Ape," premieres in NYC
1922 - KJR-AM in Seattle Washington begins radio transmissions
1923 - Amsterdam taxi strike ended
1923 - Elmer Rice's "Adding Machine," premieres in NYC
1923 - NHL Championship: Mont Canadiens outscore Ottawa Senators, 3-2, in 2
1924 - South Slavia aproves Italy's annexation of Fiume (Rijeka)
1925 - Pink's War, the first RAF operation conducted independently of the Army or Navy, begins.
1926 - Bertha Landes elected 1st woman mayor of Seattle
1929 - Marcel Pagnol's "Marius," premieres in Paris
1932 - Eamon De Valera becomes president of Ireland
1932 - Former Chinese emperor Henry Pu-Yi installed as head of Manchuria
1933 - Bulgarian communists Dimitrov, Popov & Vassili arrested in Berlin
1933 - Congress is called into special session by FDR, & began its "100 days"
1935 - Adolf Hitler announces the creation of a new air force.
1936 - Babe Ruth turns down Reds to make a comeback as a player
1942 - Construction of the Alaska Highway began
1943 - Delft opposition group-Pahud de Mortanges overthrown
1943 - Greek Jews of Salonika are transported to Nazi extermination camps
1945 - 334 US B-29 Superfortresses attack Tokyo with 120,000 fire bomb
1945 - Japanese proclaim "independence" of Indo-China
1946 - Dutch troops land at Batavia/Semarang
1946 - Ted Williams is offered $500,000 to play in Mexican League, he refuses
1947 - US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Gretchen Merrill
1947 - US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button
1948 - Provisionary Indonesian government installed in Batavia
1949 - Brigadier Gen Edwin K Wright, USA, ends term as deputy director of CIA
1949 - England beat South Africa by scoring 174 runs in 94 minutes
1950 - Willie Sutton robs Manufacturers Bank of $64,000 in NYC
1952 - Heinz Neuhaus wins Europe Heavyweight Boxing title
1953 - Josef Stalin buried in Moscow
1954 - 1st local color TV coml WNBT-TV (WNBC-TV) NYC (Castro Decorators)
1954 - Edward R Murrow criticizes Sen Joseph McCarthy (See it Now)
1954 - WMUR TV channel 9 in Manchester, NH (ABC) begins broadcasting
1956 - Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus arrested & exiled to Seychelles
1956 - Weather forecasting phone line set up in London England
1957 - 8.1 earthquake shakes Andreanof Islands, Alaska
1958 - George Yardley (Pistons) is 1st NBAer to score 2,000 points in season
1959 - "Juno" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 16 performances
1959 - 1st known radar contact is made with Venus
1959 - Barbie, the popular girls' doll, debuted, over 800 million sold
1961 - 1st animal returned from space, dog named Blackie aboard Sputnik 9
1961 - Mine cave-in in Japan, kills 72
1961 - Sputnik 9 carries Chernushka (dog) into orbit
1961 - Supremes release "I Want A Guy" & "Never Again"
1962 - Egyptian Pres Nasser declares Gaza belongs to Palestinians
1962 - US advisors in South-Vietnam join the fight
1963 - Beatles began 1st British tour, supporting Tommy Roe & Chris Montez
1964 - 1st Ford Mustang produced
1964 - Creighton's Paul Silas grabs Midwest record 27 rebounds against Okla
1964 - Supreme Court issues NY Times vs Sullivan decision, public officials must prove malice to claim
           libel & recover damages
1966 - Andrew Brimmer becomes 1st black governor of Federal Reserve Board
1967 - Svetlana Allilueva, Stalin's daughter, defected to the West
1968 - 10th Grammy Awards: Up Up & Away, Sgt Pepper's wins 4
1971 - J M Noreiga takes 9-95 WI v India at Port-of-Spain
1972 - Players on White Sox vote 31-0 in favor of a strike, if necessary
1974 - Last Japanese soldier, a guerrilla operating in Philippines, surrenders, 29 years after World
           War II ended
1975 - "Lieutenant" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 9 performances
1975 - Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.
1976 - 1st female cadets accepted to West Point Military Academy
1976 - Islander Glenn Resch's 10th shut-out opponent-Blues 4-0
1977 - Hanafi Moslems invade 3 buildings in Wash DC, siege ended Mar 11th
1977 - Adm Stansfield Turner, USN (Ret), becomes 12th director of CIA replacing acting director
          Knoche
1978 - Ice Dance Championship at Ottawa Canada won by Linichuk & Karponosov
1978 - Ice Pairs Championship at Ottawa won by Rodnina & Zaitsev (URS)
1978 - Ladies Figure Skating Champions in Ottawa won by Anett Potzsch (GDR)
1978 - Men's Figure Skating Champions in Ottawa won by Charles Tickner (USA)
1979 - Bowie Kuhn orders baseball to give equal access to female reporters
1979 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1980 - Flemish/Walloon battles in Belgium, 40 injured
1980 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Sunstar '80 Golf Tournament
1981 - Dan Rather becomes primary anchorman of CBS-TV News
1983 - Caryl Churchill's "Fen," premieres in London
1983 - Zimbabwe opposition leader Joshua Nkomo flees to Botswana
1984 - Emile Gumbs' Anguilla National Alliance wins elections
1984 - John Lennon releases "Borrowed Time"
1984 - Phila 76'ers block 20 Seattle shots tying NBA regulation game record
1984 - Tim Witherspoon beats Greg Page in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1984 - The Competitive Enterprise Institute in founded in Washington, D.C.
1985 - Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Tokyo won by Katarina Witt (GDR)
1985 - Laura Johnson (Falcon Crest) & Harry Hamlin (LA Law) wed
1986 - 16th Easter Seal Telethon raises $30,100,000
1986 - Juli Inkster wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
1986 - NASA announces searchers found remains of Challenger astronauts
1986 - Soviet probe Vega 2 flies by Halley's Comet at 8,030 km
1987 - Chrysler Corp offered to buy American Motors Corp for $1 billion
1988 - President Reagan presides at unveiling of Knute Rockne stamp
1989 - Eastern Airlines files for bankruptcy
1989 - Roger Kingdom runs world record 60m hurdles indoor (7.36 sec)
1989 - Senate rejects Bush's nomination of John Tower as Defense Secretary
1989 - Soviet Union officially submits to jurisdiction of the World Court
1989 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1990 - Dr Antonia Novello sworn-in as 1st hispanic/female US surgeon general
1991 - "Les Miserables," opens at Lyric Theatre, Brisbane
1991 - 5th American Comedy Award: Dennis Wolfberg
1991 - Joe Dumaars (Detroit) begins NBA free throw streak of 62 games
1991 - US 70th manned space mission STS 39 (Discovery 12) launches into orbit
1993 - 19th People's Choice Awards
1993 - 7th Soul Train Music Awards
1993 - Pittsburgh Penguins begin NHL record 17 game winning streak
1993 - Rodney King in court says he thinks he heard cops yell racial slurs
1994 - IRA launch 1st of 3 mortar attacks on London's Heathrow Airport
1995 - Baseball awards a franchise to Tampa Bay Devil Rays
1995 - Mexican peso worth 7.55 pesos to a dollar (record)
1995 - President Konstantine Karamanlis (88) of Greece, resigns
1996 - Javed Miandad's last international in Pak's WC QF loss to India
1996 - Jayasuriya hammers 82 off 44 balls (13x4 3x6) v England in WC QF
1996 - STS 75 (Columbia 19), lands
1997 - Senior Golf Slam
1997 - Steve Elkington wins Doral-Ryder Golf Open
2006 - Liquid water is discovered on Enceladus, the sixth largest moon of Saturn.
2007 - The US Justice Department releases an internal audit that found that the Federal Bureau of
           Investigation had acted illegally in its use of the USA Patriot Act to secretly obtain personal
           information about US citizens.
2011 - Space Shuttle Discovery makes its final landing after 39 flights.
2012 - Senior members of hacking group Lulz Sec are arrested, including one member of the FBI, in
           the United States, United Kingdom and Ireland

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 09, 2013, 04:10:25 PM

This Day in History for 9th March


Famous Weddings

1796 - French Leader Napoléon Bonaparte (26) marries 1st wife Joséphine de Beauharnais (32),
           changing her name from Rose
1902 - Composer Gustav Mahler marries Alma Schindler in Vienna
2007 - Actor-director Prem (28) weds actress Rakshita (23) at Raja Rajeshwarinagar in Bangalore
2007 - Model and actress Erika Heynatz (30) weds finance broker Andrew Kingston at Whale Beach
           retreat
2012 - Rock 'n' roll legend Jerry Lee Lewis (76) weds his cousin's ex Judith Brown (62) in Natchez,
           Mississippi

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 09, 2013, 04:18:25 PM

This Day in History for 9th March


Famous Birthdays

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Jazz Composer                                    Cosmonaut & First Man in Space                     Chess Champion
Ornette Coleman (1930)                          Yuri Gagarin  (1934)                                   Bobby Fischer (1943)


1213 - Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy, French crusader (d. 1271)
1285 - Emperor Go-Nijō of Japan (d. 1318)
1454 - Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer (America)
1564 - David Fabricius, Essens Germany, astronomer (discoved variable star)
1568 - Aloysius "Luigi" van Gonzaga, Italian prince/jesuit/saint
1629 - Tsar Alexis I of Russia (d. 1676)
1697 - Friederike C Neuber, German actress/author (Allerkostbarste Schatz)
1720 - Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke, English politician (d. 1790)
1735 - August Bernhard Valentin Herbing, composer
1737 - Josef Myslivecek, composer
1749 - Honore Mirabeau, French writer and politician (d. 1791)
1753 - Jean-Baptiste Kleber, French general (d. 1800)
1758 - Franz Joseph Gall, German/French physician (frenology)
1763 - William Cobbett, English journalist and author (d. 1835)
1777 - Alexander Orlowski, Polish painter/cartoonist/graphic artist
1791 - George Hayward, US, surgeon, 1st to use ether
1806 - Edwin Forrest, American actor and philanthropist (d. 1872)
1810 - Jean-Georges Kastner, composer
1812 - Jakob Eduard Schmolzer, composer
1814 - Taras Shevchenko, Ukraine, national poet/painter/prof of Kiev [NS]
1815 - David Davis, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1886)
1820 - Samuel Blatchford, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1893)
1824 - Leland Stanford, (Gov/Sen)/found Stanford U
1825 - Alexander F. Mozhaiski, Russian aviation pioneer (d. 1890)
1826 - Jean Joseph Bott, German violinist/composer
1833 - Frederick A. Schroeder, tobacco industrialist and mayor of Brooklyn (d. 1899)
1839 - Felix Huston Robertson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1928
1839 - Phoebe Knapp, American hymn writer (d. 1908)
1848 - Martin Pierre Joseph Marsick, composer
1850 - Alexandre Luigini, composer
1856 - Eddie Foy, American singer and dancer (d. 1928)
1865 - Margaret Murray Washington, wife of Booker T/head (NACW 1896..1918)
1874 - Johann Richard Ohlsson, composer
1875 - Martin Fallas Shaw, composer
1877 - Emil Abderhalden, Swiss physiologist/bio-chemist
1881 - Enver Pasja, Turkish general/politician
1881 - Ernest Bevin, British minister of Labour/Foreign affairs
1883 - Umberto Saba, writer
1887 - Phil Mead, cricketer (strong batsman for England pre- & post-WWI)
1887 - Fritz Lenz, German geneticist (d. 1976)
1890 - Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, Soviet foreign minister (UN)
1892 - David Garnett, England, novelist/editor (Lady into Fox)
1892 - Frank Puglia, Sicily Italy, actor (Black Orchid, Jungle Book)
1892 - Joseph Weinheber, Austria poet/writer (Adel und Untergang)
1892 - Vita Sackville-West, England, novelist,poet (The Land) and gardener
1893 - Edgar Scauflaire, Belgian muralist/decorator
1893 - Hans Munch, composer
1894 - Frank Arnau, German writer (d. 1976)
1900 - Aimone duke of Spoleta/Aosta, Italian king of Croatia (1941-43)
1900 - Howard Aiken, American computing pioneer (d. 1973)
1902 - Edward Durell Stone, US, architect (US Embassy, New Delhi)
1902 - Will Geer, Frankfort Indiana, American actor (Grandpa Walton-The Waltons)
1904 - Paul Klipsch, American engineer, noted for his loudspeaker designs. (d. 2002)
1905 - Félix L V L J Labisse, French painter (libidoscaphes)
1905 - Grigori Kozintsev, Kiev Ukraine, director (Hamlet, King Lear)
1905 - Peter C Quennell, English biographer/critic (Byron in Italy)
1905 - Rex Warner, English poet/writer (Wild Goose Chase)
1907 - Henry Leland Clarke, composer
1908 - Luiz Cosme, composer
1909 - Derk Bodde, American sinologist (d. 2003)
1910 - Ed[uard] Hoornik, Dutch writer/poet (Survivor)
1910 - Samuel Barber, West Chester Pa, composer (Pulitz, School for Scandal)
1911 - Ramon Campbell Batista, composer
1912 - Alan David Melville, polymath
1913 - Ger[ar]da Brautigam, journalist/Dutch 2nd Chamber (PvdA)
1914 - Fred Clark, Lincoln California, actor (Burns & Allen, Auntie Mame, Hazard)
1915 - Pete Gray, one-armed outfielder (St Louis Browns)
1917 - Dante B Fascell, (Rep-D-FL, 1955- )
1918 - Marguerite Chapman, Chatham NY, actress (Spy Smasher, Flight to Mars)
1918 - Mickey Spillane, [Frank], Brooklyn NY, mystery writer (I the Jury)
1920 - Carl Betz, Pitts, actor (Alex Stone-Donna Reed Show)
1921 - Dimitris Horn, Greek actor (d. 1998)
1922 - Herbert P Douglas Jr, Pitts, long jumper (Olympic-bronze-1948)
1923 - James Buckley, (Sen-R-NY)
1924 - Konstantin Iliev, composer
1926 - Celso Garrido Lecca, composer
1926 - Gerrit A Kooy, Dutch sociologist (Apartheid & work in South Africa)
1927 - Hans Ludwig Schilling, composer
1927 - Jack Jensen, baseball player (AL MVP 1958)
1927 - John Beckwith, composer
1928 - Gerald Bull, Canadian long range artillery designer (d. 1990)
1929 - Hugh Desmond Hoyte, president (Guyana, 1985-92)
1929 - Marie Cardinal, writer
1930 - Harrie J B Aarts, Dutch 2nd chamber member (CDA)
1930 - Thomas Schippers, Kalamazoo Mich, conductor (Amahl & Night Visitors)
1930 - Taina Elg, Helsinki Finland, actress (Hercules in NY, Les Girls)
1930 - Ornette Coleman, Fort Worth, Texas, American jazz composer (Downbeat Musician of Year 1966)
1931 - Thore Skogman, Swedish entertainer (d. 2007)
1932 - Heere Heeresma, Dutch writer (Han de Wit goes in development aid)
1932 - Keely Smith, Norfolk Virginia, American singer (Mrs Louie Prima)
1932 - Walter Mercado, Puerto Rican astrologist and actor
1933 - Lloyd Price, Kenner La, singer (Just Because)
1933 - William Francis McBeth, composer
1933 - Mel Lastman, Canadian politician
1933 - William McBeth, Ropesville, Texas, composer, (d. 2012)
1934 - Joyce Van Patten, Queens NY, actress (Good Guys, Don Rickles Show)
1934 - Yuri Gagarin, Russia, cosmonaut, 1st man into space (aboard Vostok 1)
1935 - Sister Bernard Ncube, South African nun
1935 - Andrew Viterbi, American telecommunications scientist and businessman
1936 - Marty Ingels, Bkln NY, comedian (I'm Dickens He's Fenster)
1936 - Mickey Gilley, Ferriday La, country singer (Urban Cowboy)
1936 - [Aino] Elina Salo, Sipoo Finland, actress (Hamlet Goes Business)
1937 - Grahame Chevalier, cricketer (one Test for S Afr 1970, 0 & 0*, 5-100)
1937 - Bernard Landry, Premier of Quebec from 2001-2003
1937 - Brian Redman, English racing driver
1938 - Charles Siebert, Kenosha Wisc, actor (One Day at A Time, Trapper John)
1938 - Lill-Babs, Swedish singer
1940 - Raul Julia, PR, actor (Addams Family, Kiss of the Spider Woman)
1941 - Ger van Each, sculptor
1941 - Jim Colbert, Elizabeth NJ, PGA golfer (1969 Monsanto Open)
1941 - Ernesto Miranda, American litigant (d. 1976)
1942 - Bert Campaneris, shortstop (Oakland A's)
1942 - John Cale, Garnant, Welsh musician, composer and singer-songwriter (Velvet Underground)
1942 - Mark Lindsay, Eugene Or, rock vocalist/sax (Paul Revers & Raiders)
1943 - Trish Van Devere, [Patricia Dressel], Tenafly New Jersey, actress (Changeling)
1943 - Bobby Fischer, US, world chess champion (1972-75)
1943 - Charles Gibson, American television journalist
1944 - Geoff Arnold, cricketer (England medium-pacer in 34 Tests 1967-75)
1944 - Lee Irvine, cricketer (South African batsman, only Tests in 1970)
1944 - Trevor Burton, rocker (Move)
1945 - Laura Lee, [Rundless], singer (Dirty Man, Women's Love Rights)
1945 - Robin Trower, London, guitarist (Procol Harum-Whiter Shade of Pale)
1945 - Dennis Rader, American serial killer
1946 - Gherman Semyonovich Arzamazov, Russian cosmonaut (backup TM-6)
1946 - Jim Cregan, British rock musician
1947 - Keri Hulme, New Zealandic writer
1948 - Jamie Lyn Bauer, Phoenix Az, actr (Young & Restless, Centerfold Girls)
1948 - Jeffrey Osborne, Providence RI, rock vocalist (On the Wings of Love)
1948 - Jimmy Fadden, Long Beach California, singer (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
1948 - Emma Bonino, Italian politician
1949 - Kalevi Aho, composer
1949 - Tapani Kansa, Finnish singer
1950 - Danny Sullivan, Indy-car racer (over 10 wins)
1951 - Michael Kinsley, American journalist and editor
1951 - Helen Zille, South African politician
1952 - Iuliana Semenova, USSR, basketball (Olympic-gold-1976)
1952 - William Kirby Cullen, Santa Ana California, actor (How the West Was Won)
1953 - Henriette J Toll, actress (Soldier of Orange)
1954 - Charmain Elaine Sylvers, rocker
1954 - Keven Wade, Chappaqua NY, screen writer (Working Girls)
1954 - Bobby Sands, IRA member (d. 1981)
1955 - Fernando Bujones, Miami Fla, ballet dancer
1955 - Ornella Muti, Rome Italy, actress (Flash Gordon, Most Beautiful Wife)
1955 - Teo Fabi, formula-1 Indy-car racer (rookie of year-1983)
1956 - Shashi Tharoor, Indian author & United Nations Under-Secretary General
1956 - Mark Dantonio, Michigan State University American football coach
1956 - David Willetts, UK Shadow Secretary for Education (Conservative)
1957 - Faith Daniels, news anchor (CBS-TV)
1957 - Jeff Senior, Melbourne VIC, Australasia golfer
1957 - Jon Engen, Oslo Norway, US biathelete (Olympics-1994)
1957 - Mark Mancina, American composer
1957 - Mona Sahlin, Swedish politician
1958 - Martin Fry, English pop singer and rock vocalist (ABC-All of My Heart)
1958 - Jack Kenny, American television writer and producer
1959 - Barbie, doll (Mattel)
1959 - Kato [Brian] Kaelin, actor (Beach Fever)/OJ roommate/witness
1959 - Lonny Price, NYC, actor (Muppets Take Manhattan)
1960 - Linda Fiorentino, Phila, actress (Jade, Last Seduction, Moderns)
1960 - Mike Leach, Minneapolis Minn, tennis star
1961 - Robert Rechsteiner, US professional wrestler (Rick Steiner)
1961 - Camryn Manheim, American actress
1962 - Brian Green, Columbus Indiana, actor (Sam Fowler-Another World)
1962 - Jan Furtok, Polish footballer
1963 - Kent Ferguson, Cedar Rapids Iowa, diver (Olympics-92, 96)
1963 - Terry Mulholland, Uniontown PA, pitcher (Philadelphia Phillies)
1963 - David Pogue, Technology columnist and musician
1964 - Phil Housley, St Paul MN, NHL defenseman (NJ Devils, Team USA Oly-98)
1964 - Juliette Binoche, Paris France, actress (Unbearable Lightness)
1964 - Herbert Fandel, German football referee
1965 - Benito Santiago, Ponce Puerto Rico, catcher (Philadelphia Phillies)
1965 - Brian Bosworth, NFL quarterback (Seattle)
1966 - Louis Oliver, NFL safety (Miami Dolphins)
1966 - Brendan Canty, American musician (Fugazi)
1966 - Tony Lockett, Australian Rules Footballer
1966 - Michael Patrick MacDonald, American memorist
1967 - Curt Schreiner, Albany NY, biathelete (Olympics-1994)
1967 - Eric Flaim, Pembroke Mass, short track skater (Olympics-1994)
1967 - Michael Kiselak, CFL corner (Toronto Argonauts)
1968 - Youri Djorkaeff, French footballer
1968 - Johnny Kelly, American drummer (Type O Negative)
1969 - Bryce Burnett, NFL/WLAF tight end (Broncos, Barcelona Dragons)
1969 - George Nimako, CFL safety (Toronto Argonauts)
1969 - Mahmoud Abdul Rauf, NBA guard (Sacramento Kings, Denver Nuggets)
1970 - Melissa Rathburn-Nealy, US soldier (Iraqi POW)
1971 - Bev Oden, Millington Tenn, volleyball middle blocker (Olympics-96)
1971 - Emmanuel Lewis, Bkln NY, actor (Webster)
1971 - Jiro Nihei, hockey goaltender (Team Japan 1998)
1971 - Lou Benfatti, NFL defensive tackle (NY Jets)
1971 - Sean Holcomb, NFL linebacker (NE Patriots)
1971 - Diego Torres, Argentine singer
1972 - Marcia M Griffith, Washington DC, Miss America-Maryland (1996)
1972 - Sara Nicole Williams, Miss USA-Washington (1997)
1972 - Spencer Howson, Australian radio broadcaster
1972 - Kerr Smith, American actor
1973 - David Prinosil, Olmutz Czech, tennis star (1995 ATP Newport)
1973 - Josh LaRocca, WLAF QB (Rhein Fire)
1973 - Troy Bailey, WLAF DE (Scotland Claymores)
1974 - Mark Harrity, cricketer (promising South Aust left-arm fast bowler)
1975 - Adonal Foyle, NBA center (SF Warriors)
1975 - Roy Makaay, Dutch soccer player (Vitesse)
1975 - Juan Sebastián Verón, Argentine footballer
1976 - Thor Halvorssen, human rights activist
1976 - Ben Mulroney, Canadian television host
1977 - Radek Dvorak, Tabor Cze, NHL left wing (Florida Panthers)
1977 - Yamila Diaz, Argentine supermodel
1978 - Lucas Neill, Australian footballer
1979 - Chingy, American rapper
1979 - Melina Perez, WWE Diva
1981 - Antonio Bryant, American football player
1981 - Anders Nøhr, Danish footballer
1981 - Clay Rapada, American baseball player
1982 - Paul Ballard, English television presenter
1983 - Clint Dempsey, American footballer
1983 - Maite Perroni, singer in the Latin pop group RBD
1983 - Wayne Simien, American basketball player
1984 - Julia Mancuso, American Olympic gold medalist
1985 - Parthiv Patel, Indian Cricket Player
1986 - Brittany Snow, American actress
1987 - Bow Wow, American rapper and actor
1989 - Christina Broccolini, Canadian TV presenter
1996 - Darsheel Safary, Youngest Indian actor to win filmfare award for best performance

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 09, 2013, 04:28:37 PM

This Day in History for 9th March


Famous Deaths

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Physicist/Chemist                                       Israeli Prime Minister
Hans Oersted (1851)                                Menachem Begin (1992)


1202 - King Sverre of Norway
1422 - Jan Zelivsky, Hussite priest (b. 1380)
1440 - St Frances of Rome, Italian nun (b. 1384)
1566 - David Rizzio, Italian secretary of Mary Queen of Scots, murdered by Protestant nobles
1620 - Aegidius Albertinus, German writer (Lucifer's Kingdom), dies at 59
1649 - James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, Scottish statesman (b. 1606)
1649 - Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland, English soldier (executed) (b. 1590)
1661 - Jules "Cardinal" Mazarin, chief minister of France, dies at 58
1688 - Claude Mellan, French engraver/cartoonist/painter, dies at 89
1706 - Johann Pachelbel, German organist/composer, dies at 52
1709 - Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu, English diplomat
1747 - Jacob Campo Weyerman, S Neth adventurer/painter/writer, dies at 69
1800 - Dominique Della-Maria, composer, dies at 30
1808 - Joseph Bonomi the Elder, architect (b. 1739)
1819 - Janos Fusz, composer, dies at 41
1824 - Jacobus J Cramer, priest of Holland/Zealand/Friesland, dies at 79
1827 - Franz Xaver Gerl, composer, dies at 62
1831 - Friedrich M Klinger, German (stage)author (Plimplamplasko), dies at 79
1851 - Hans Christian Oersted, Danish physicist, dies at 73
1870 - Theodore Labarre, composer, dies at 65
1877 - Mark Prager Lindo, English/Dutch author (Neth Spectator), dies at 58
1888 - William I, German Emperor (b. 1797)
1895 - Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Austrian writer (Masochism), dies at 59
1897 - Sondre Norheim, Norwegian skier (b. 1825)
1913 - Eberhard Nestle, German biblical scholar, dies at 61
1916 - Ken Hutchings, cricketer (exciting England batsman, WW I), dies
1918 - [Benjamin] Franc[lin] Wedekind, German writer/press sec, dies at 53
1931 - Ida B Wells-Barnett, famous black, dies in Chicago at 78
1937 - Paul Elmer More, American critic and essayist (b. 1864)
1938 - Sydney Baynes, composer, dies at 59
1941 - Carlos Pedrell, composer, dies at 62
1943 - Oskar Hêks, Czech marathon runner/antifascist, dies in Auschwitz
1947 - Stanley Jackson, cricketer (20 Tests for England 1893-1905), dies
1954 - Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs, German astronomer (b. 1912)
1954 - V. Walfrid Ekman, Swedish oceanographer (b. 1874)
1955 - Matthew A Henson, met Peary on 6/4/1909 at North Pole, dies at 88
1960 - Jack Beattie, Northern Irish politician (b. 1886)
1962 - Howard Engstrom, Boston, a designer of Univac computer, dies at 59
1964 - Johanna W "Mina" Bakker, Dutch actress (Boefje), dies at 87
1964 - Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, Prussian general/politician, dies at 93
1965 - Anthon van der Horst, Dutch organist/composer, dies at 65
1965 - Kazys Boruta, writer, dies
1966 - Pablo Birger, Argentine racing driver (b. 1924)
1969 - Riad, chief of staff (Egyptian army), dies
1969 - Richard Crane, actor (Surfside 6), dies at 50
1971 - Jean-Pierre Guezek, composer, dies at 36
1974 - Earl W Sutherland Jr, US pharmacologist (Nobel 1971), dies at 58
1975 - Joseph Dunninger, NYC, mentalist (Amazing Dunninger), dies at 82
1975 - Shirley Ross, actress (Night Vision, Mindkiller), dies at 62
1975 - Gleb W. Derujinsky, Russian-American sculptor (b. 1888)
1979 - Barbara Mullen, actress (Talk of a Million), dies at 64
1980 - Olga Chekova, actress (Moulin Rouge, Pawns of Possession), dies at 82
1982 - Alan Badel, actor (Shogun), dies of a heart attack at 58
1982 - Rex Marshall, TV announcer (Circuit Rider, Herman Hickman Show), dies
1982 - Richard A Butler, England, min of Finance, dies at 79
1983 - Faye Emerson, actress (I've Got a Secret), dies of cancer at 65
1986 - Ned Calmer, TV host (In the First Person), dies at 78
1988 - Kurt Georg Kiesinger, West German chancellor (1966-69), dies at 83
1989 - Robert Mapplethorpe, US photographer, dies at 42
1991 - Jim Hardin, former Baltimore Orioles, New York Yankees and Atlanta Braves pitcher (b. 1943)
1992 - Felipe Turich, actor (Lawless), dies
1992 - Jack McEdward, asst dir (Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell), dies at 94
1992 - James Brooks, US mural painter (Flight, La Guardia NY), dies at 85
1992 - Menachem Begin, PM Israel (1977-80, 81-83, Nobel 1979), dies at 85
1993 - Ad van Gessel, Dutch actor (Everything For Our Soldiers), dies
1993 - Bob Crosby, swing-era bandleader (Bobcats), dies of cancer at 79
1994 - Charles Bukowski, author/poet, dies of leukemia at 73
1994 - Fernando Rey, Spanish actor (French Connection), dies of cancer at 76
1994 - John Harrison, South African correspondent (BBC), dies at 48
1994 - Lawrence E Spivak, journalist (Meet the Press), dies at 93
1994 - Louis Freeman, band leader, dies at 100
1994 - Maurice "Moe" Purtill, jazz drummer, dies at 77
1994 - Eddie Creatchman, Canadian wrestler manager (b. 1928)
1995 - Ian Ballantine, publisher, dies of heart attack at 79
1995 - Ruud van den Hende, Dutch sports reporter, dies at 63
1996 - Alan Hugh Iliffe, psychologist, dies at 77
1996 - Elman Ali Ahmed, peace campaigner, dies at 42
1996 - Peter Mansfield, writer, dies at 67
1996 - George Burns, American actor and singer (b. 1896)
1997 - Notorius B I G, [Biggie Small, Chris Walkin], rapper, shot dead at 24
1997 - Terry Nation, writer (Dr Who, Blake 7) at 66
1997 - The Notorious B.I.G. [Christopher Wallace], American rapper (b. 1972)
1999 - Harry Somers, Canadian composer (b. 1925)
2000 - Ivo Robić, Croatian singer and songwriter (b. 1923)
2003 - Stan Brakhage, American filmmaker (b. 1933)
2003 - Bernard Dowiyogo, President of Nauru (b. 1946)
2004 - Albert Mol, Dutch actor (b. 1917)
2004 - Dr. Gerald Deskin, Ph.D., clinical child psychologist (b. 1929)
2004 - Rust Epique, former Crazy Town guitarist (b. 1968)
2005 - Chris LeDoux, American country singer (b. 1948)
2005 - Kurt Lotz, German business executive, second postwar CEO of Volkswagen (b. 1912)
2005 - Jeanette Schmid, Austrian professional whistler; aka Baroness Lips von Lipstrill (b. 1924)
2005 - István Nyers, Hungarian footballer (b. 1924)
2006 - John Profumo, British cabinet minister (b. 1915)
2006 - Geir Ivarsøy, Norwegian programmer, co-founder of Opera Software ASA (b. 1957)
2007 - Brad Delp, American singer (Boston) (b. 1951)
2007 - Glen Harmon, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1921)
2007 - Jeanne Hopkins Lucas, North Carolina politician (b. unknown)
2010 - Doris Haddock, American political activist (b. 1910)
2011 - David Broder, American journalist (b. 1929)
2012 - Peter Bergman, American Comedian, dies from leukemia at 72
2012 - Selma Rubin, American environmental activist, dies at 96
2012 - Lord Wedderton of Charlton, British academic and politician, dies at 84

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 10, 2013, 01:32:57 PM

This Day in History for 10th March


Historical Events

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US President Abraham Lincoln               Inventor Alexander Graham Bell                 Inventor Thomas Edison

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US General George S Patton                  Playwright Tennessee Williams             Singer & Actress Barbra Streisand

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Actor Tom Hanks


241 BC - First Punic War: Battle of the Aegates Islands - The Romans sink the Carthaginian fleet
         bringing the First Punic War to an end.
418 - Jews are excluded from public office in the Roman Empire
1535 - Bishop Tomés de Berlanga discovers Galapagos Islands
1578 - Queen Elizabeth I gives Johan Casimir £20,000 to aid Dutch rebellion
1624 - England declares war on Spain
1629 - King Charles I dissolved Parliament; he called it back 11 years later
1661 - French King Louis XIV ends office of premier
1681 - English Quaker William Penn receives charter from Charles II, making him sole proprietor of
           colonial American territory Pennsylvania
1734 - Spanish army under Don Carlos (III) draws into Naples
1735 - An agreement between Nadir Shah and Paul I of Russia is signed near Ganja and Russian
           troops are withdrawn from Baku.
1762 - French Huguenot Jean Calas, who was wrongly convicted of killing his son, dies after being
           tortured by authorities; the event inspired Voltaire to begin a campaign for religious tolerance
           and legal reform
1789 - Franklin College founded
1791 - John Stone, Concord, Mass, patents a pile driver
1791 - Pope condemns France's Civil Constitution of the clergy
1801 - First census in Great Britain
1830 - The KNIL also known as the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army is created.
1831 - The French Foreign Legion is established by King Louis-Philippe to support his war in Algeria.
1847 - 1st money minted in Hawaii
1849 - Abraham Lincoln applies for a patent; only US president to do so
1861 - El Hadj Umar Tall seizes the city of Segou, destroying the Bambara Empire of Mali.
1862 - Great Britain & France recognizes independence of Zanzibar
1862 - US issues 1st paper money ($5, $10, $20, $50, $100, $500 & $1000)
1864 - Grant is named commander of the Union armies
1864 - Red River campaign LA
1865 - Battle of Monroe's Crossroads, NC
1874 - Purdue University (Indiana) admits it's 1st student
1876 - 1st telephone call made (Alexander Graham Bell to Thomas Watson)
1880 - General Wolseley opens new legislative council in Pretoria
1880 - Salvation Army of England sets up US welfare & religious activity
1888 - 1st performance of Caesar Franck's "Psyche"
1888 - HW Boxing champ John L Sullivan draws Charlie Mitchell in 30 rounds
1891 - Almon Strowger, an undertaker in Topeka, Kansas, patents the strowger switch, a device
           which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching.
1893 - Ivory Coast becomes a French colony
1893 - New Mexico State University cancels it's 1st graduation ceremony, its only graduate Sam
           Steele was robbed & killed the night before
1896 - Bronx acquires O'Brien Square
1896 - Charilaos Vasilakos of Greece wins 1st modern marathon in 3:18 [OS]
1896 - After Bob Fitzsimmons KOs much larger Jim Corbett to win world HW championship he says,
           "The bigger they are, the harder they fall"
1900 - Battle at Driefontein, South-Africa (Boers vs British army)
1902 - Earthquake destroys Turkish city of Tochangri
1902 - A United States court of appeals rules that Thomas Edison did not invent the movie camera.
1903 - Harry Gammeter, Cleveland, patents multigraph duplicating machine
1903 - Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Montreal AAA in 2 games
1905 - Japanese Army captures Mukden (Shenyang)
1905 - Eleftherios Venizelos asks the independence of Crete and its union with Greece again, starting
           the Cretan Revolution in Theriso.
1906 - 1st performance of Maurice Ravel's "Sonatine"
1906 - Coal dust explosion kills 1,060 at Courrieres France
1906 - London Underground opens Bakeroo line (Baker Street to Waterloo Line)
1909 - Jack Johnson fights Victor McLaglen to no decision in 6 for box title
1910 - China ends slavery
1910 - Pittsburgh Courier, begins publishing
1913 - Stanley Cup: Quebec Bulldogs sweep Sydney (NS) Millionaires in 2 games
1913 - William Knox, becomes 1st in American Bowling Congress to bowl 300
1914 - Suffragettes in London damages painter Rokeby's Venus of Velasquez
1915 - British expedition Army in Belgium captures Neuve Chapelle
1917 - Batangas was formally founded as one of the Philippines's earliest encomiendas.
1920 - NHL's Quebec Bulldog Jim Malone scores 6 goals vs Ottawa Senators
1922 - KLZ-AM in Denver CO begins radio transmissions
1922 - State of siege proclaimed during mine strike Johannesburg South Africa
1925 - Walter Mittelholzer is 1st to flies over Demawend mountain, Iran
1926 - Run on Belgian banks
1927 - Albania mobilize by threat of Serbian, Croatian & Slovenes
1927 - Bavaria lifts ban on Hitler's speeches
1931 - British Labour party removes fascist sir Oswald Mosley
1933 - Major earthquake in Long Beach, Calif
1933 - Nevada becomes 1st US state to regulate narcotics
1934 - Longest undefeated streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (18 games)
1934 - US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Suzanne Davis
1934 - US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Roger Turner
1939 - 17 villages damaged by hailstones in Hyderabad India
1940 - 1st US opera telecast, W2XBS, NYC, I Pagliacci
1941 - Lee MacPhail, Dodger GM predicts all players will wear batting helmets
1944 - U-575 sinks HMS Asphodel
1945 - Germany blows-up Wessel Bridge on Rhine
1945 - Japan declares Vietnam Independence
1945 - Patton's 3rd Army makes contact with Hodge's 1st Army
1945 - Tokyo in fire after night time B-29 bombing
1945 - US troops lands on Mindanao
1945 - The Army Air Force firebombs Tokyo, and the resulting firestorm kills more than 100,000
           people, mostly civilians.
1946 - Train derailment kills 185 near Aracaju Brazil
1948 - 1st civilian to exceed speed of sound-Herb H Hoover, Edwards AFB Ca
1949 - Detroit Tiger pitcher Art Houtteman is critically injured in an auto accident but recovers to win
           15 games in 1949
1951 - "Where's Charley?" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 56 perfs
1951 - FBI director J Edgar Hoover declines post of baseball commissioner
1952 - Military coup by general Fulgencio Batista in Cuba
1956 - General strike in Cyprus protesting exile of archbishop Makarios
1956 - Peter Twiss sets new world air record 1,132 mph (1,823 kph)
1957 - Thousands of soccer fans riot in Italy
1959 - Dorothy Comiskey Rigney, sells 54% of White Sox to Bill Veeck
1959 - Tennessee Williams' "Sweet Bird of Youth," premieres in NYC
1959 - Uprising against Chinese occupation force in Lhasa Tibet
1960 - USSR agrees to stop nuclear testing
1962 - Due to it's no black policy, Phillies leave Jack Tar Harrison Hotel & move to Rocky Point Motel,
           20 miles outside Clearwater, Florida
1963 - Pete Rose debuts with hits in his 2 1st at bats in spring training
1963 - Wilt Chamberlain of NBA SF Warriors scores 70 points vs Syracuse
1964 - US reconnaissance plane shot down over East Germany
1965 - Dutch Princess Margriet & Pieter van Vollenhoven, get engaged
1966 - 5 time Horse of the Year, Kelso, retires
1966 - North Vietnamese capture US Green Beret Camp at Ashau Valley
1969 - James Earl Ray pleads guilty in murder of Martin Luther King Jr
1970 - Barbra Streisand records "The Singer" & "I Can Do It"
1970 - South Africa complete 4-0 series drubbing of Australia
1971 - Senate approves amendment lowering voting age to 18
1972 - 1st black US political convention opens (Gary Indiana)
1972 - Gen Lon Nol becomes pres & prince Sirik Matak premier of Cambodia
1972 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1973 - BPAA US Open by Mike McGrath
1973 - Morocco adopts constitution
1974 - "Sextet" closes at Bijou Theater NYC after 9 performances
1974 - Carol Mann wins LPGA S&H Green Stamp Golf Classic
1974 - Christian Democrats win Belgium parliamentary election
1974 - Lawrence Rowe completes 302 v Eng Bridgetown, 36 fours 1 six
1975 - "Rocky Horror Show" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 45 performances
1975 - Dog spectacles patented in England
1975 - Sanyo Shinkansen open between Osaka and Fukuoka.
1977 - Rings of Uranus discovered during occulation of SAO
1978 - Soyuz 28 returns to Earth
1980 - Willard Scott becomes the weather forcaster on the Today Show
1982 - Pres Reagan proclaims economic sanctions against Libya
1982 - Salim Malik scores 100 in 2nd inning of Test Cricket debut (v SL)
1982 - Sygyzy: all 9 planets aligned on same side of Sun
1982 - Travis Jackson & Happy Chandler elected to Hall of Fame
1982 - The United States places an embargo on Libyan petroleum imports because of their support
           of terrorist groups.
1983 - Walter Alston, Dodgers manager, elected to Hall of Fame
1984 - Heavyweight Tim Witherspoon KOs Greg Page
1985 - Bonnie Lauer wins Uniden LPGA Golf Invitational
1985 - Dallas Maverick coach Dick Motta is 4th NBA coach to win 700 games
1985 - French socialists lose election (National Front 9%)
1985 - Ice Pairs Championship at Tokyo won by Elena Valova & O Vasiliev (URS)
1985 - India beat Pakistan to win "World Championship of Cricket"
1985 - Mens Figure Skating Championship in Tokyo won by Alexandr Fadeev (URS)
1986 - Ernie Lombardi, NL MVP in 1938, & Bobby Doerr, elected to Hall of Fame
1987 - Vatican formal opposition to test-tube fertilization & embryo transfer
1988 - Avalanche at Swiss Ski resort "Klosters" nearly kills Prince Charles
1988 - NY Islanders celebrate Mike Bossy night
1990 - 4th American Comedy Award: When Harry Met Sally
1990 - Ice Dance Championship at Halifax won by Klimova & Ponomarenko (URS)
1990 - Ice Pairs Championship at Halifax won by Gordeeva & Grinkov (URS)
1990 - Ladies Figure Skating Champions in Halifax won by Jill Trenary (USA)
1990 - Lt Gen Avril resigns as pres of Haiti
1990 - Mens Figure Skating Championship in Halifax won by Kurt Browning (CAN)
1990 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1991 - Eddie Sutton is 1st NCAA coach to lead 4 schools into playoffs
1991 - Laura Davies wins LPGA Inamori Golf Classic
1991 - Marc Girardelli of Luxembourg clinches his 4th slalom World Cup
1991 - Merlene Ottey runs world record 200 m indoor (22.24 sec)
1991 - Rico Lieder/Jens Carlowitz/Karsten Just/Thomas Schonlebe walk 4x400m indoor world record
           (3:03.05)
1992 - 6th Soul Train Music Awards: Natalie Cole & Color Me Badd win
1992 - Sandra Seuser/Katrin Schreiter/Annet Hesselbarth/Grit Breuer walk female indoor world
           record 4x400m (3:27.22)
1994 - 1 million Greeks attend Melina Mercouri's funeral
1995 - Car bomb explodes in Karachi at shite mosque, 17+ killed
1995 - Chiel Meijering's "St Louis Blues," premieres in Arnhem
1995 - Dow-Jones hits record 4035.64
1996 - 22nd People's Choice Awards: Apollo 13, Tom Hanks wins
1996 - NYC Mayor Guiliani visits Israel
2000 - The NASDAQ Composite stock market index peaks at 5132.52, signaling the beginning of the
           end of the dot-com boom.
2006 - The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars.
2006 - Mass unrest by the PCC started in São Paulo (the biggest city in Brazil) which would
           eventually kill more than 152 people.
2012 - At least 130 rockets are fired into Israel from Gaza

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 10, 2013, 01:35:19 PM

This Day in History for 10th March


Famous Weddings

1526 - Holy Roman Emperor Charles V marries Princess Isabella of Portugal, his 1st cousin, in Seville
1863 - Prince of Wales, Albert Edward (21) weds Princess Alexandra of Denmark (18) at Windsor
          Castle in St. George's chapel
1966 - Dutch Crown Princess Beatrix (Queen Beatrix) marries German aristocrat Claus von Amsberg
           in Amsterdam
2000 - Country singer Vince Gill (42) weds christian/pop singer Amy Grant (39) in Nashville,
           Tennessee
2007 - Brazilian singer-actress Tania Mara (24) weds director Jayme Monjardim (50) at Chapel of Sao
           Jose das Botas on the grounds of Hotel Fazenda Florenca in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2007 - Noteable singer and stage performer Matt Hetherington (36) weds Australian television
           presenter Melissa Kotsos at the Morning Star Estate on Mt. Eliza
2012 - "Curly Sue" actress Alisan Porter (30) weds former "Days of Our Lives" actor Brian Autenrieth
           (33) at Diablo Dormido in the Santa Monica

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 10, 2013, 01:36:10 PM

This Day in History for 10th March


Famous Divorces

1927 - American author and journalist "The Old man and the Sea" Enerest Hemingway divorces 1st wife
           Elizabeth Hadley Richardson

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 10, 2013, 01:42:48 PM

This Day in History for 10th March


Famous Birthdays

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Actor Chuck Norris (1940)                         Islamic Militant & Terrorist              Earl of Wessex Prince Edward (1964)
                                                                  Osama bin Laden (1957)


1415 - Vasili II of Russia (d. 1462)
1452 - Ferdinand II, the Catholic, King of Aragon/Sicily (expelled Jews)
1503 - Ferdinand I, German emperor (1558-64)
1538 - Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk; executed by Queen Elizabeth (1572)
1628 - Constantine Huygens Jr, Dutch poet/painter/cartoonist
1628 - Marcello Malpighi, Italian physician (d. 1694)
1656 - Adolf H van Rechteren, Dutch diplomat/politician
1698 - Gaetano Maria Schiassi, composer
1709 - Georg Steller, German naturalist (d. 1746)
1713 - Christian Friedrich Schale, composer
1713 - Raphael Weiss, composer
1745 - John Gunby, Maryland Soldier in the American Revolutionary War (d. 1807)
1748 - John Playfair, Scotland, clergyman/geologist/mathematician
1749 - Lorenzo da Ponte, Italian librettist (d. 1838)
1755 - Philipp Christoph Kayser, composer
1769 - Joseph Williamson, English philanthropist and tunnel builder (d. 1840)
1771 - Georg F Creuzer, German philological/historian (Idea und Probe)
1772 - Friedrich von Schlegel, Germany, romantic writer/critic (Lucinde)
1776 - Luise, queen of Prussia/wife of Frederik Willem III
1780 - Juan Jose Landaeta, composer
1787 - William Etty, English painter (nudes)
1788 - Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, German poet (Das Marmorbild)
1809 - William David Porter, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1864
1810 - John McCloskey, US, pres of St John's College (Fordham U)
1810 - Samuel Ferguson, Irish poet (d. 1886)
1812 - Victor Tesch, Belgian lawyer/min of Justice
1818 - George Wythe Randolph, Secy War (Confederacy), died in 1867
1822 - Willem Roelofs, Dutch painter/lithographer
1824 - Thomas James Churchill, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1905
1832 - William Henry Penrose, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1903
1839 - Dudley Buck, Hartford, Ct, organist/church composer
1842 - Ina Donna Coolbrith, US, poet laureate of Calif
1844 - Pablo Martin M de Sarasate y Navascuez, composer (Spanish Dancing)
1845 - Alexander III A Romanov, Russian tsar (1881-94)
1846 - Edward Baker Lincoln, son of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln
1847 - Kate Sheppard, New Zealand suffragist (d. 1934)
1850 - Mary Mills Patrick, US, 1st pres of Istanbul Woman's College
1850 - Spencer Gore, British tennis player and cricketer (d. 1906)
1865 - Pim [Willem JH] Mulier, Dutch journalist/writer/sport-organizer
1867 - Lillian D Wald, US, sociologist/organizer (Visiting Nurses)
1870 - Alfred Kastner, composer
1872 - Felix Borowski, composer
1873 - Jakob Wassermann, Germany, novelist (My Life as German & Jew)
1875 - Alexander Borisovich Goldenweiser, composer
1877 - David M Chumaceiro, Curacao, poet
1878 - Karel van de Woestijne, Flemish writer/poet (God at Sea)
1880 - Michael Jacobs, NYC, boxing promoter
1881 - Thomas Quinlan (impresario) (d. 1951)
1884 - Stuart Holmes, Chicago IL, actor (Prisoner of Zenda)
1887 - Toshitsugu Takamatsu, Grandmaster of Ninjutsu (d. 1972)
1888 - Barry Fitzgerald, Dublin Ireland, actor (Acad Award-Going My Way)
1888 - Krsto Odak, composer
1891 - Jacob van Gelderen, economist/sociologist/Dutch 2nd Chamber (SDAP)
1892 - Arthur Oscar Honnegger, Le Havre France, composer (King David)
1892 - Eva Turner, British soprano
1892 - Arthur Honegger, French-born Swiss composer (d. 1955)
1892 - Gregory La Cava, American director (d. 1952)
1896 - Harry Krimer, actor (Napoleon)
1896 - Nancy Cunard, writer
1898 - Cy Kendall, St Louis Mo, actor (Mysteries of Chinatown)
1899 - Finn Hoffding, composer
1899 - Robert Meier, German WW1 veteran, formerly Germany's oldest man. (d. 2007)
1900 - Sherman Billingsley, Enid Ok, talk show host (Stork Club)
1903 - Bix Biederbecke, rocker
1905 - Rene Bernier, composer
1905 - Richard Haydn, English actor (d. 1985)
1907 - Robert de Roos, composer
1908 - Carl Albert, US speaker of house (1971-77)
1908 - Kristjan Palusalu, Estonia, heavyweight wrestler (Olympic-gold-1936)
1909 - Gerard Croiset, Dutch paragnost
1911 - Warner Anderson, Bkln, actor (Doctor, Lineup, Matthew-Peyton Place)
1914 - Chandler Harper, golfer (1950 PGA champ)
1915 - Harry Bertoia, Italian artist (d. 1978)
1915 - Sir Charles Groves, English conductor(d. 1992)
1916 - Manuel A "Manny" Greenhill, record producer
1917 - Frank Perconte, American sergeant from Easy Company during WWII.
1918 - Heywood Hale Broun, journalist
1918 - Günther Rall, German ace fighter pilot
1919 - Marion Hutton, American singer (d. 1987)
1920 - Jethro Burnsburns, country singer (Homer & Jethro)
1920 - Alfred Peet, Dutch-American entrepreneur and the founder of Peet's Coffee & Tea (d. 2007)
1920 - Boris Vian, French writer and musician (d. 1959)
1921 - Cec Linder, Galica Poland, actor (Goldfinger)
1921 - Paul Coates, NYC, columnist (Tonight! America After Dark)
1922 - Adam Kennedy, Lafayette Ind, actor (Dion-Californian)
1922 - Pamela Mason, London, actress (Navy vs Night Monsters)
1923 - Ara Parseghian, football coach (Northwestern, Notre Dame)
1923 - Kenneth "Jethro" Burns, country singer (Homer & Jethro)
1925 - Ed van der Elsken, movie photographer (Een liefdesgeschiedenis)
1925 - M J J A [Sef] Imkamp, Dutch politician (D66)
1925 - Manolis Anagnostakis, Greek poet (d. 2005)
1926 - Marques Haynes, NBA hall of famer (Harlem Globetrotters)
1927 - Claude Laydu, actress (Diary of a Country Priest)
1927 - Donn Trenner, New Haven Ct, orchestra leader (ABC's Nightlife)
1927 - Paul Wunderlich, German lithographer/painter/sculptor
1928 - Arthur Milton, cricketer (England opening batsman late 50's)
1928 - James Earl Ray, assassin (Martin Luther King Jr)
1928 - Sara Montiel, Spanish actress and singer
1930 - Raymond Rasberry, pianist/singer
1930 - Sandor Iharos, athlete
1931 - Georges Dor, Quebec author, playwright, singer and songwriter (d. 2001)
1932 - Anatoliy Roschin, USSR, super heavyweight wrestler (Olympic-gold-1972)
1933 - Bernadetta Matuszczak, composer
1934 - Judith Jamison, artistic director (Alvin Ailey Dance Theater)
1935 - Gary Owens, announcer (Laugh-in)
1935 - Graham Farmer, Australian rules footballer
1935 - Ivan Calin, Ribneta, Moldova, President and Prime Minister 1980-1990 (d. 2012)
1936 - Juda Bar-Norwegian, Israeli/Dutch mime/actor (King)
1936 - Sepp Blatter, Swiss ice hockey and football official
1936 - Alfredo Zitarrosa, Uruguayan Vocals and journalist (d. 1989)
1937 - Oscar Abrams, community organizer
1937 - Joe Viterelli, American actor (d. 2004)
1938 - Ijaz Butt, cricketer (Pakistani opening batsman in 8 Tests 1958-60)
1938 - Marina Vlady, Clichy France, actress (Conjugal Bed, The Hunt)
1938 - Ron Mix, NFL tackle (San Diego Chargers, Oakland Raiders)
1939 - Irina Press, USSR, 80m hurdles/Pentathelete (Olympic-gold-1960, 64)
1940 - Chuck Norris, [Carlos Ray], OK, martial arts actor (Missing in Action)
1940 - David Rabe, Dubuque Iowa, playwright (Streamers)
1940 - Dean Torrence, LA Cal, surf music singer (Jan & Dean-Little Old Lady)
1940 - Francis Schwartz, composer
1940 - Wayne Dyer, psychologist (Universe Within You)
1941 - Daniel Kirkland Lentz, composer
1941 - Piotr Warzecha, composer
1941 - Sandra Palmer, Fort Worth TX, LPGA golfer (1986 Mayflower Classic)
1943 - Alfred Whitford Lerdahl, composer
1943 - Angelique Pettyjohn, LA California, actress (Body Talk, Star Trek)
1943 - Stephen Montague, composer
1945 - Katharine Houghton, Hartford, actress (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner)
1945 - Birgitta Sellén, Swedish politician
1945 - Elizabeth Brumfiel, [Elizabeth Stern], American feminist archaeologist, former president of the
           American Anthropological Association
1946 - Gaylord Birch, drummer (Reconstruction, Honey Dripper)
1946 - Hiroshi Fushida, Japanese racing driver
1946 - Mike Hollands, Australian animator
1947 - Avril "Kim" Campbell, Canada's 1st female premier (1993- )
1947 - Laurie Langenbach, Dutch author
1947 - Tom Scholz, rock guitarist/keyboardist (Boston-More Than a Feeling)
1947 - Paul Condon, Baron Condon, former Commissioner of The Metropolitan Police
1947 - Bob Greene, American journalist
1948 - Austin Carr, NBA star (Cleveland Cavaliers)
1948 - Eddie Grundy, rocker
1950 - Ted McKenna, rocker (Alex Harvey Band)
1952 - Oupa J Gqozo, South African warden/army commandant (Ciskei)
1952 - Morgan Tsvangirai, Zimbabwe politician
1953 - Caroline H "Carolien" van de Berg, actress (Havinck)
1953 - Paul Haggis, Canadian film director
1955 - Bunny DeBarge, Grand Rapids Mich, rocker (Debarge)
1955 - Juliusz Machulski, Poland, director/writer/actor (Do It Yourself)
1955 - Mark David Chapman, assassin (John Lennon)
1955 - Youssra, Egyptian actress and singer
1955 - Toshio Suzuki, Japanese racing driver
1956 - Janet Anderson, West Sunbury PA, LPGA golfer (1982 US Women's Open)
1956 - Mitchell Lichtenstein, American actor; son of Roy Lichtenstein
1957 - Adolfo Horta, Camaguey Cuba, HW boxer (Olympic-silver-1980)
1957 - Shannon Lee Tweed, St Johns NF, playmate (Nov 1981)/actr (Meatballs 3)
1957 - Osama bin Laden, Islamic militant
1957 - Matt Knudsen, American actor
1958 - Sharon Stone, Meadville Pennsylvania, American actress (Basic Instinct, Sliver, Casino)
1960 - Linda Jezek, California, backstroke swimmer (Pan Am Gold-1979)
1960 - Anne MacKenzie, journalist and broadcaster
1961 - Jesse Sapolu, NFL guard (SF 49ers)
1961 - Laurel B Clark, Ames Iowa, Lt cmdr USN/astronaut
1961 - Mitch Gaylord, CA, gymnist (Olympics 1984)/actor (American Anthem)
1961 - Bobby Petrino, American football coach
1961 - Pam Oliver, American sportscaster
1962 - Andre Waters, NFL safety (Arizona Cardinals)
1962 - Gary Clark, rocker (Danny Wilson-Mary's Prayer)
1962 - Seiko Matsuda, Japanese pop singer
1963 - Jasmine Guy, Boston Mass, actress (Whitley-Different World)
1963 - John Cangelosi, Brooklyn NY, outfielder (Houston Astros)
1963 - Jeff Ament, American musician (Pearl Jam)
1963 - Rick Rubin, American record producer
1964 - Cynthia Brimhall, Ogden Utah, playmate (Oct, 1985)
1964 - Edward Anthony Richard Louis, Prince of Britain/Elizabeth II son
1964 - Greg Campbell, cricketer (Aussie pace-bowler 1989-90)
1964 - Neneh Cherry, Stockholm Sweden, Swedish pop singer (Money Love)
1964 - David Faber, American television reporter
1965 - Paul Masotti, CFL receiver (Toronto Argonauts)
1965 - Rod Woodson, NFL cornerback/kick returner (Pittsburgh Steelers, SF 49ers)
1965 - Rod Woodson, American football player
1966 - Edie Brickell, Mrs Paul Simon/rocker (& New Bohemians)
1966 - Michael Timlin, Midland TX, pitcher (Toronto Blue Jays)
1966 - Stephen Mailer, NYC, actor (Red Meat, League of Their Own, War & Love)
1966 - Gráinne Mulvey, Irish composer
1967 - Omer Tarin [Omer Salim Khan], Peshawar, Pakistan, poet, scholar and activist
1968 - Felice Arena, Australian children's author
1968 - Shoichi Funaki, Japanese professional wrestler
1968 - Thio Li-ann, Singaporean law academic and Nominated Member of Parliament
1969 - Jay Hillmann, WLAF running back (Rhein Fire)
1969 - Ricky Seagall, rocker (Partridge Family)
1969 - Stephen Leaney, Australia, Canadian Tour golfer (1993 Infinit TPC-7th)
1969 - Paget Brewster, American actress
1970 - Antonio Edwards, NFL defensive end (Seattle Seahawks)
1970 - Matt Barlow, American singer (Iced Earth)
1971 - Frank Habermann, WLAF defensive linebacker (Rhein Fire)
1971 - Morris Unutoa, corner (Philadelphia Eagles)
1971 - Shad Williams, Fresno CA, pitcher (California Angels)
1971 - Steve Arnold, British racing driver
1972 - Jack Kellogg, WLAF CB (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1972 - Takashi Fujii, Japanese television performer
1972 - Matt Kenseth, American race car driver
1973 - Eva Herzigova, Litvinov Czech, model (Guess Jeans, Wonderbra)
1973 - Mauricio Taricco, Argentine footballer
1973 - Chris Sutton, English footballer
1973 - John LeCompt, American guitarist
1974 - Hugo Ferreira, American rock musician
1975 - Stefan Bergkvist, Leksand Swe, NHL defenseman (Pitts Penguins)
1975 - Lyne Bessette, Quebec professional bicycle racer
1976 - Barbara Schett, Innsbruck Austria, tennis star
1976 - Kisaki, Japanese musician
1976 - Haifa Wehbe, Lebanese actress, model and singer
1977 - Shannon Miller, Rolla MO, gymnast (Oly2 gold-2 silver/3 bronze-92, 96)
1977 - Peter Enckelman, Finnish footballer
1977 - Colin Murray, British radio DJ
1977 - Bree Turner, American dancer and actress
1977 - Matt Rubano, American musician (Taking Back Sunday)
1977 - Robin Thicke, American singer
1978 - Ben Burnley, American musician (Breaking Benjamin)
1981 - Samuel Eto'o, Cameroonian footballer
1981 - Efthimios Kouloucheris, Greek footballer
1981 - Steven Reid, English-born footballer
1982 - Timo Glock, German racing car driver
1982 - Katharine Isabelle, Canadian actress
1983 - Carrie Underwood, American country singer
1983 - Che'Nelle, Malaysian Australian Singer
1983 - Reena Virk, Canadian murder victim (d. 1997)
1983 - Rafe Spall, English Actor
1984 - Ben May, English footballer
1984 - Olivia Wilde, American actress
1985 - Lassana Diarra, French footballer
1985 - Casey Dienel, American singer-songwriter
1985 - Kim Leclerc, Canadian politician
1986 - JC de Vera, Filipino Actor
1988 - Ivan Rakitić, Croatian Footballer
1992 - Emily Osment, American actress and singer

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 10, 2013, 01:44:11 PM

This Day in History for 10th March


Famous Deaths

37 - Tiberius Claudius Nero, Roman emperor (14-37), dies at 78
483 - Simplicius, Italian Pope (468-83), dies
1291 - Arghun, Persian ruler
1391 - Tvrtko I first king of Bosnia (b. 1338)
1510 - Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg, Swiss-born preacher (b. 1445)
1513 - John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford, English commander (b. 1443)
1546 - Thomas Elyot, English diplomat (Boke named the Governor), dies at 46
1584 - Thomas Norton, English politician and writer (b. 1532)
1585 - Rembert Dodoens, [Rembertus Dodonaeus], physician/botanist, dies at 67
1588 - Theodor Zwinger, Swiss scholar (b. 1533)
1592 - Michiel Coxcie, Flemish (court)painter/carpet designer, dies
1597 - Petrus Forestus, Dutch physician (Willem of Orange), dies
1669 - John Denham, English poet (b. 1615)
1670 - Johann Rudolf Glauber, German chemist (b. 1604)
1700 - Diogo Diaz Melgaz, composer, dies at 61
1701 - Johann Schelle, composer, dies at 52
1716 - Wenzel Ludwig von Radolt, composer, dies at 48
1735 - Dirk T van Cloon, Dutch lawyer/gov-gen of E Indies, dies at about 46
1776 - Élie Catherine Fréron, French critic (b. 1719)
1776 - Niclas Sahlgren, Swedish merchant and philanthropist (b. 1701)
1792 - John Stuart, 3rd earl of Bute/English premier (1760-63), dies at 78
1819 - Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, writer, dies
1826 - Johan VI M L J, King of Portugal (1816-26), dies at 56
1832 - Muzio Clementi, Italian composer, dies at 79
1861 - Josepf Francois Snel, composer, dies at 67
1861 - Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian poet (b. 1814)
1864 - Maximilian II Jozef, King of Bayern (1848-64), dies at 52
1865 - William Henry "Little Billy" Chase Whiting, Confed gen-maj, dies at 48
1866 - Antonio Francesco Gaetano S Pacini, composer, dies at 87
1870 - Isaak-Ignaz Moscheles, composer, dies at 75
1872 - Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian revolutionary (Giovane Italy), dies at 66
1875 - Louis Joseph Daussoigne-Mehul, composer, dies at 84
1888 - Ciro Pinsuti, Italian pianist/composer, dies at 57
1892 - Otto van Raised, gov-gen of Neth Indies (1884-88), dies at 69
1895 - Charles Frederick Worth, English-born couturier (b. 1826)
1897 - Teodulo Mabellini, composer, dies at 79
1900 - Johann Peter Emilius Hartmann, composer, dies at 94
1901 - Vasily Georgiyevich Wrangell, composer, dies at 38
1906 - Eugen Richter, German MP (Liberal), dies at 67
1910 - Carl Heinrich Carsten Reinecke, composer, dies at 85
1910 - Karl Lueger, Austrian anti-semite/mayor of Vienna, dies at 65
1913 - Harriet Tubman, abolitionist, conductor on Underground RR, dies in NY
1922 - Arthur Hervey, composer, dies at 67
1922 - Horace Wadham Nicholl, composer, dies at 73
1935 - Barend Barendse, actor/director (Broken Lives), dies at 82
1937 - Yevgeny Zamyatin, Russian writer (b. 1884)
1940 - Louis de Vries, Dutch actor (Merchant of Venice), dies at 68
1940 - Mikhaïl Boulgakov, Russian writer (b. 1891)
1942 - William Henry Bragg, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
1943 - Tully Marshall, actor (Let's Go, Red Dust), dies at 78
1944 - David Vogel, Ukrainian author, dies in Auschwitz at 52
1948 - Jan Masaryk, Czech Foreign minister, commits suicide or is murdered
1948 - Zelda Fitzgerald, American artist, wife of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald (b. 1900)
1949 - James Rector, American athlete (b. 1884)
1950 - Marguerite De La Motte, American actress (b. 1902)
1951 - Kijūrō Shidehara, Prime minister of Japan (b. 1872)
1953 - Charles Gordon Curtis, inventor of (Curtis-steam turbine), dies at 92
1966 - Frederik "Frits" Zernike, Dutch physicist (Nobel 1953), dies at 77
1966 - Mari Sandoz, US author (Cheyenne Autumn), dies at 64
1967 - Yiorgos Batis, Greek composer and musician (b. 1885)
1968 - Helen Walker, actress (Brewster's Million), dies of cancer at 47
1970 - Vasilis Avlonitis, Greek actor (b. 1904)
1971 - Mabel Wheeler Daniels, composer, dies at 92
1973 - Richard Sharples, governor of Bermuda, assassinated
1973 - Eugene 'Bull' Connor, American segregationist (b. 1897)
1974 - June Harrison, actress (Land of the Lawless), dies at 48
1974 - Quinto Maganini, composer, dies at 76
1975 - Leopold Samuel, composer, dies at 91
1977 - E Power Biggs, English organist/composer (CBS), dies at 70
1977 - Pieter Jan Bouman, Dutch sociologist/historian, dies at 74
1977 - Willem Schermerhorn, Dutch premier (1945-46), dies at 82
1980 - Herman Tarnower, doctor (Scarsdale Diet), killed by Jean Harris
1984 - June Marlowe, actress (Pardon US), dies at 81
1985 - Konstantin Chernenko, party leader/pres of USSR (1984-85), dies at 73
1986 - Ray Milland, actor (Lost Weekend-Acad Award 1945), dies at 81
1988 - Andy Gibb, singer, dies of heart infection at 30
1988 - Glenn Cunningham, US world record miler, dies at 78
1988 - William Brocklesby Wordsworth, composer, dies at 79
1990 - Michael Stewart, UK Sect of State (1965-66, 68-70), dies
1992 - Roy Holmer Wallack, dies of pneumonia at 64
1992 - Giorgos Zampetas, Greek composer and musician (b. 1925)
1993 - C Northcote Parkinson, English historian/sociologist (Law of P), dies
1993 - David Gunn, abortion doctor, killed by Michael Griffin at 47
1994 - Cecil Rolph Hewitt, journalist/policeman, dies at 92
1994 - Charles Bukowski, German/US writer (Barfly, Hollywood), dies at 73
1994 - Robert Shea, author, dies of cancer
1995 - Alexander Hyatt-King, Mozart scholar, dies at 84
1995 - Carel Birnie, ballet producer, dies at 69
1995 - Hendrik W van Leeuwen, Dutch musician, dies at 79
1995 - Richard Baerlein, racing writer, dies at 84
1996 - Lucius E Burch Jr, US civil rights leader, dies at 84
1996 - Ross Hunter, US producer (Airport, Madame X, Pillow Talk), dies at 75
1997 - La Vern Baker, American singer (b. 1929)
1998 - Lloyd Bridges, American actor (b. 1913)
1999 - Oswaldo Guayasamin, Ecuadorian paintor and sculptor (b. 1919)
2001 - Massimo Morsello, Italian musician and far right activist (b. 1958)
2003 - Barry Sheene, British motorcycle racer (b. 1950)
2004 - Dave Blood, real name David Schulthise; American musician, bassist for The Dead Milkmen (b.
          1956)
2005 - Dave Allen, Irish comedian (b. 1936)
2005 - Danny Joe Brown, American singer (Molly Hatchet) (b. 1951)
2006 - Anna Moffo, American soprano (b. 1932)
2007 - Richard Jeni, American comedian (b. 1957)
2007 - Ernie Ladd, American football player and professional wrestler (b. 1938)
2008 - Richard Fran Biegenwald, an American serial killer (b. 1940)
2010 - Corey Haim, Canadian actor (b. 1971)
2012 - Jean Giraud, French comic artist, dies at 73
2012 - Julio Gonzalez, Mexican light heavyweight boxer, dies from a hit and run at 35
2012 - Mykola Plaviuk, Ukrainian president, dies at 86
2012 - Frank Rowland, American Nobel laureate in chemistry, dies from Parkinson's disease at 84
2012 - Richard White, New Zealand rugby union player, dies at 86

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 11, 2013, 02:35:34 PM

This Day in History for 11th March


Historical Events

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Pope Leo X                                                Composer Giuseppe Verdi                         Israeli Prime Minister
                                                                                                                                      Menachem Begin

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General Secretary of the Communist             Tennis Player Steffi Graf
Party  of the Soviet Union
Mikhail Gorbachev 


1425 BC - Thutmose III, Pharaoh of Egypt, dies (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th
         Dynasty).
417 - Zosimus becomes bishop of Rome
537 - Goths lay siege to Rome
843 - Icon worship officially re-instated in Aya Sofia Constantinople
928 - Trpimir II succeeds to the Croatian throne.
1387 - The Battle of Castagnaro begins.
1502 - Tebriz] shah Ismail I of Persia crowned
1513 - Giovanni de' Medici chosen Pope Leo X
1563 - League of High Nobles routes 2nd protest against King Philip II
1567 - Geuzen army leaves Walcheren to return to Oosterweel
1597 - Land guardian Albrecht occupies Amiens on France
1649 - The Frondeurs (French rebels) and the French government sign the Peace of Rueil.
1665 - NY approves new code guaranteeing Protestants religious rights
1669 - Volcano Etna in Italy erupts killing 15,000
1702 - 1st English daily newspaper "Daily Courant," publishes
1708 - Queen Anne withholds Royal Assent from the Scottish Militia Bill, the last time a British
           monarch vetoes legislation.
1779 - US army Corps of Engineers established (1st time)
1789 - Benjamin Banneker with L'Enfant begin to lay out Washington DC
1791 - Samuel Mulliken, Phila, is 1st to obtain more than 1 US patent
1795 - Battle at Kurdla India: Mahratten beat Mogols
1812 - Citizenship granted to Prussian Jews
1823 - 1st normal school in US opens, Concord Academy, Concord, Vt
1824 - US War Dept creates the Bureau of Indian Affair
1835 - HMS Beagle anchors off Valparaiso, Chile
1845 - The Flagstaff War: In New Zealand, Chiefs Hone Heke and Kawiti lead 700 Māoris to chop 
           down the British flagpole and drive settlers out of the British colonial settlement of 
           Kororareka because of breaches of the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi.
1848 - Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine and Robert Baldwin become the first Prime Ministers of the
           Province of Canada to be democratically elected under a system of responsible government.
1850 - Woman's Medical College of Penn (1st female medical school)
1851 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Rigoletto," premieres in Venice
1861 - Confederate convention in Montgomery, adopts constitution
1862 - Lincoln removes McClellen as general-in-chief & makes him head of
1862 - 12] Gen Stonewall Jackson evacuates Winchester Virginia Army of the Potomac. Gen Henry
           Halleck is named general-in-chief
1864 - Skirmish at Calfkiller Creek (Sparta), Tennessee
1864 - The Great Sheffield Flood: The largest man-made disaster ever to befall England kills over 250
           people in Sheffield.
1865 - Gen Sherman's Union forces occupies Fayetteville, NC
1867 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Don Carlos," premieres in Paris
1867 - Great Mauna Loa eruption (Hawaiian volcano)
1872 - Construction of the Seven Sisters Colliery, South Wales, begins; located on one of the richest
           coal sources in Britain.
1872 - The Meiji Japanese government officially annexes the Ryukyu Kingdom into what would
           become the Okinawa prefecture.
1882 - Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association organized in Princeton NJ
1888 - Great blizzard of '88 strikes NE US
1892 - 1st public basketball game (Springfield, Mass)
1895 - Spanish cruiser Reina Regenta sinks at Gibraltar, 400 killed
1897 - A meteorite enters the earth's atmosphere and explodes over New Martinsville, West Virginia.
          The debris causes damage but no human injuries are reported.
1901 - Cincinnati Enquirer reports Balt mgr John McGraw signed Cherokee Indian Tokohoma, who is
           really black 2nd baseman Charlie Grant
1904 - Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Brandon Wheat Kings in 2 games
1905 - Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 beat Rat Portage Thisles, 2 games to 1
1910 - Jack Hobbs 1st Test ton (187 v SAfr), his only Test hit wicket
1912 - 1st Stanley Cup game to be played in 3 20-min periods, formerly played in 30-min halfs,
           Quebec beats Moncton 9-3 on way to sweep
1912 - Eleftherios Venizelos, leader of the Liberal Party, wins the Greek elections again.
1917 - British troops occupy Baghdad
1917 - 1st NHL championship game ever played, Toronto Arenas beats Montreal Canadiens 7-3 in
           1st of 2 game set (second game on March 13)
1917 - World War I: Baghdad falls to the Anglo-Indian forces commanded by General Stanley Maude.
1918 - Moscow becomes capital of revolutionary Russia
1918 - Save the Redwoods League founded
1918 - First confirmed cases of the Spanish Flu are observed at Fort Riley, Kansas.
1919 - General strike in Germany, crushed
1922 - Western Hockey Championship: Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA) sweep Regina Capitals, in 2
           games
1924 - 3rd term of Belgium Theunis government begins
1924 - Eden Phillpotts' "Farmer's Wife," premieres in London
1924 - NHL Championship: Montreal Canadiens sweeps Ottawa Senators in 2 games
1926 - Eamon da Valera ends leadership of Sinn Fein
1927 - 1st armored commercial car hold-up in US, Pittsburgh
1927 - 1st golden gloves tournament
1927 - Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens famous Roxy Theater (NYC)
1928 - Netherlands & Belgium tie 1-1 (soccer match in Amsterdam)
1930 - Pres & Chief Justice William Taft buried in Arlington
1931 - Ready for Labour and Defence of the USSR, abbreviated as GTO, is introduced in the Soviet
           Union.
1934 - Netherlands beats Belgium 9-3, in soccer
1935 - Bank of Canada opens
1935 - Hermann Goering officially creates German Air Force, the Luftwaffe
1936 - British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin pardons five convicted Irish militants who promise to
           join growing conflict with Germany.
1938 - Artur Seyss-Inquart replaces Kurt von Schuschnigg as Chancellor of Austria; German troops
          also entered the country
1941 - Bronko Nagurski beats Ray Steele in Minn, to become wrestling champ
1941 - FDR signs Lend-Lease Bill (lend money to Britain)
1942 - 1st deportation train leaves Paris for Auschewitz Concentration Camp
1942 - Gen MacArthur leaves Corregidor (Bataan) for Australia
1942 - Japanese troop land on North-Sumatra
1943 - Nazi Militia forms in Netherlands
1944 - Dutch resistance fighter Joop Westerweel arrested
1945 - 1,000 allied bombers harass Essen, 4,662 ton bombs
1945 - Flemish nazi collaborator Maria Huygens sentenced to death
1948 - 1st black in the US Tennis Open (Reginald Weir)
1948 - Jewish Agency of Jerusalem bombed
1948 - Reginald Weit became the 1st black to play in the US Tennis Open
1948 - WBAL TV channel 11 in Baltimore, MD (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 - 1st woman army doctor commissioned (FM Adams)
1953 - American B-47 accidentally drops a nuclear bomb on South Carolina, the bomb doesn't go off
          due to 6 safety catches
1954 - US Army charges Senator Joseph McCarthy used undue pressure tactics
1956 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1958 - Charles Van Doren finally loses on TV game show "21"
1958 - Starting this season, AL batters are required to wear batting helmets
1959 - "Raisin in the Sun," 1st Broadway play by a black woman, opens
1959 - Teddy Scholten wins Eurovision Song festival with "A Little Bit"
1960 - Pioneer 5 launched into solar orbit between Earth & Venus
1961 - Then NHL record 40 penalties, Black Hawks & Maple Leafs (20 each)
1963 - Somalia drops diplomatic relations with Great Britain
1965 - Indonesia President Sukarno accepts qualifications of Suharto
1966 - Military coup led by Indonesian Gen Suharto breaks out
1966 - A fire at two ski resorts in Numata, Japan kills 31 people.
1967 - Pink Floyd releases their 1st single (Arnold Layne)
1968 - Anti-Zionist Clandestine Radio Voice of El Assifa starts transmitting
1968 - Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 12nd string quartet
1968 - Otis Redding posthumously receives gold record for " Dock of the Bay"
1970 - 12th Grammy Awards: Aquarius, Crosby Stills & Nash, Peggy Lee win
1970 - Iraq Ba'th Party recognizes Kurd nation
1972 - "Inner City" closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 97 performances
1973 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA S&H Green Stamp Golf Classic
1974 - Mount Etna in Sicily erupted
1974 - Rhino Store gives people 5 cents to take home Danny Bonaduce's Album
1975 - Portugal military coup under general Spinola fails
1975 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1977 - Moslems hold 130 hostages in Wash DC
1978 - Terrorists attack mail truck at Tel Aviv, 45 killed
1978 - USF-led Bill Cartwright scores 23 points as the Dons oust NC
1979 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sunstar Golf Classic
1979 - Randy Hold receives 67 min in penalties in a 60 min NHL hockey game
1980 - Rod Marsh bowls 10 overs for 51 runs in dull Aust v Pak cricket draw
1981 - Chile constitution takes effect, Augusto Pinochet 2nd term begins
1981 - Johnny Mize & Rube Foster elected to baseball Hall of Fame
1982 - Failed military coup under Rambocus/Hawker in Suriname
1982 - Harrison Williams (Sen-D-NJ) resigned rather than face expulsion
1982 - Menachem Begin & Anwar Sadat sign peace treaty in Wash DC
1983 - Ice Dance Championship at Helsinki Finland won by Torvill & Dean (GRB)
1983 - Ice Pairs Championship at Helsinki won by Valova & Vasiliev (URS)
1983 - Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Helsinki won by Rosalynn Sumners (USA)
1983 - Men's Fig Skating Championship in Helsinki won by Scott Hamilton (USA)
1984 - Chris Johnson wins LPGA Samaritan Turquoise Golf Classic
1985 - Mikhail Gorbachev replaces Konstantin Chernenko as Soviet leader
1986 - 1 million days since traditional foundation of Rome, 4/21/753 BC
1986 - 12th People's Choice Awards
1986 - 187.27 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
1986 - Islander Mike Bossy, 1st NHLer to score 50 goals in 9 straight seasons
1986 - Japanese probe Sakigake flies by Halley's Comet at 6.8 million km
1986 - NFL adopts instant replay rule
1987 - Wayne Gretzky scores 1,500th NHL point
1988 - Utrecht conservatory destroyed by fire
1988 - British pound note ceases to be legal tender, replaced by one pound coin
1990 - 16th People's Choice Awards
1990 - Lithuania declares it's Independence
1990 - Maggie Will wins Desert Inn LPGA Golf International
1991 - Janet Jackson signs $40M 3 album deal with Virgin records
1991 - John Smith, amateur wrestler, wins James E Sullivan Award
1991 - Monica Seles ends Steffi Graf's streak of 186 weeks ranked as #1
1993 - Men's Figure Skating Championship in Prague won by Kurt Browning CAN
1994 - Eduardo Frei succeeds Patricio Aylwin as president of Chile
1995 - -36.8°F (-38.2°C) in Chosedachar, Komi-district, on 67°N
1995 - Pres Nazarbajev disbands Kazachstan parliament
1995 - Sinn Fein party leader, Gerry Adams, arrives in US
1995 - Yolanda Chen hop-skip-jumps world indoor record 15.03m
1996 - Chris Harris scores 130 in losing NZ side v Australia, World Cup
1996 - Mark Waugh scores 110 v NZ for his third century of the World Cup
1996 - The EU Database Directive is passed.
1996 - John Winston Howard becomes the 25th Prime Minister of Australia. His term in office is the
           second longest in Australian history, ending on December 3, 2007.
1997 - 3rd Blockbuster Entertainment Awards
1997 - Ashes of Star Trek creator, Gene Roddenberry are launched into space
1997 - Beatle McCartney knighted Sir Paul by Queen
1997 - SF Giant J T Snow suffers a fractured eye socket when hit by a pitch
1999 - Infosys becomes the first Indian company listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange.
2003 - The International Criminal Court holds its inaugural session in The Hague.
2004 - Terrorists explode simultaneous bombs on Madrid's rail network ripping through a commuter
           train and rocking three stations, killing 190
2006 - Michelle Bachelet is inaugurated as first female president of Chile.
2009 - Winnenden school shooting - 17 people are killed at a school in Germany.
2010 - Sebastián Piñera become chilean president.
2011 - An earthquake measuring 9.0 in magnitude strikes 130 km (80 miles) east of Sendai, Japan,
           triggering a tsunami killing thousands of people. This event also triggered the second largest
           nuclear accident in history, and one of only two events to be classified as a Level 7 on the
           International Nuclear Event Scale.
2012 - US soldier kills 16 civilians in Afghanistan

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 11, 2013, 02:37:29 PM

This Day in History for 11th March


Famous Weddings

1302 - Romeo & Juliet's wedding day, according to Shakespeare
1598 - Countess Charlotte of Nassau marries duke Claude de la Tremoille
2009 - Actress and singer Mandy Moore (28) weds alt-country/rock singer-songwriter Ryan Adams
          (37) Savannah, Georgia

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 11, 2013, 02:43:19 PM

This Day in History for 11th March


Famous Birthdays

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Media Mogul                                            Author Douglas Adams (1952)               Actress Thora Birch (1982)
Rupert Murdoch (1931)


1544 - Torquato Tasso, Italy, Renaissance poet (Aminta, Apologia)
1549 - Henric/Hendrik Spieghel, Dutch Renaissance writer and poet (Hertspiegel)
1596 - Isaac Elsevier, book publisher
1654 - Heinrich Georg Neuss, composer
1683 - Giovanni Veneziano, composer
1725 - Henry Benedict Stuart, pretender to the throne of Great Britain (d. 1807)
1731 - Robert Treat Paine, judge, signer (Declaration of Independence)
1738 - Benjamin Tupper, Continental Army officer, and pioneer to the Ohio Country (d. 1792)
1781 - Anthony Philip Heinrich, composer
1785 - John McLean, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1861)
1787 - Ivan Nabokov, Russian general (d. 1852)
1793 - Jan F Willems, Flemish writer/philologist
1811 - Marsena Rudolph Patrick, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1811 - Urbain Jean Joseph le Verrier, co-discoverer (Neptune)
1812 - James Speed, Atty Gen (Union), died in 1887
1812 - William Vincent Wallace, composer
1818 - John Wilkins Whitfield, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1879
1819 - Henry Tate, English sugar producer (Tate Gallery)
1819 - Marius Petipa, French ballet dancer/choreographer (Don Quiotte)
1822 - Allison Nelson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1862
1827 - Septimus Winner, composer
1832 - Franz Melde, German phyicist (Melde test)
1832 - William Ruffin Cox, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1919
1840 - Edmund Kirby Jr, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
1846 - Antonio C G Crespo, Brazilian/Portuguese poet
1860 - Thomas Hastings, NYC, architect (NY Public Library)
1863 - Andrew Stoddart, cricketer (My Dear Victorious Stod)
1863 - Wobbe de Vries, Dutch linguist
1870 - Louis Bachelier, French mathematician (d. 1946)
1872 - Abraham van Stolk Jzn, lumber merchant/art collector
1873 - David Horsley, English-born film executive (d. 1933)
1876 - Carl Ruggles, Marion Mass, composer (Evocations)
1876 - David Wijnkoop, Dutch revolutionary socialist
1879 - Justus Hermann Wetzel, composer
1879 - Niels Bjerrum, Danish chemist (ph tests)
1880 - Harry H. Laughlin, American eugenecist (d. 1943)
1884 - Jan Lemaire, Dutch writer/actor (Beautiful Juliet)
1884 - Lewi Pethrus, Swedish politician (d. 1974)
1885 - Malcolm Campbell, 1st auto racer to travel 5 miles/min (8 km/min)
1887 - Raoul Walsh, American film director (Thief of Baghdad, Battle Cry), (d. 1980)
1890 - Vannevar Bush, developed 1st electronic analogue computer
1892 - Wladyslaw Anders, Polish general (WW I, WW II)
1897 - Henry Dixon Cowell, Menlo Park California, composer (New Musical Resources)
1898 - Dorothy Gish, Massillon OH, film actress (Orphans of the Storm)
1899 - Frederick IX, [Christian FFMKWG], King of Denmark (1947-72)
1902 - Josef Martin Bauer, writer
1903 - Dorothy Schiff, publisher (NY Post)
1903 - George Dickinson, cricketer (bowled for NZ in their 1st 3 Tests)
1903 - Lawrence Welk, Strasburg ND, orchestra leader (Lawrence Welk Show)
1903 - Ronald Syme, New Zealand classicist and historian (d. 1989)
1904 - Cornelis Jan Bakker, Dutch/US nuclear physicist
1904 - Maurits Wertheim, Dutch writer (Isaac De Fuentes)
1906 - Aasan Ferit Alnar, composer
1907 - Eleni Gatzoyiannis, heroine (saved her kids)
1907 - Helmuth J von Moltke, German politician (July 20th plot)
1907 - Jessie Matthews, London England, actress (Gangway, First a Girl)
1907 - Margaret Herbison, British minister (Lab)
1909 - Ljubica Maric, composer
1910 - Robert H G Havemann, German chemist
1911 - Alan Gifford, Boston MA, actor (Time Lock, Up Periscope)
1911 - Fitzroy Maclean, British diplomat soldier politician/historian
1912 - Robert Clifford Latham, pepys Scholar
1912 - Xavier Montsalvatge, Spanish composer (El gato con botas)
1913 - John Jacob Weinzweig, Toronto Canada, composer (Enchanted Hill)
1913 - Thomas Gray, professor/anaesthetist
1915 - Karl Krolow, writer
1915 - Vijay Hazare, cricketer (prolific Indian batsman 1946-54)
1915 - J. C. R. Licklider, American computer scientist and Internet pioneer (d. 1990)
1916 - [James] Harold Wilson, (L) British PM (1964-70, 1974-76)
1916 - Ezra Jack Keats, children's literature author (d. 1983)
1917 - Robert L Carter, Caryville, Florida, American civil rights activist and judge (Brown v. Board of
           Education, NAACP v. Alabama) (d. 2012)
1919 - Mercer Ellington, son of Duke Ellington/bandleader
1920 - D J Enright, England, poet/novelist (Some Men are Brothers)
1920 - Henry Marking, CEO (British Airways)
1920 - Kenneth Dover, chancellor (St Andrews University)
1921 - Astor Piazzolla, Argentina composer (Tango Nuevo)
1921 - F[rancis] M[arion] Busby Jr, US, sci-fi author (Star Rebel)
1921 - Frank Harary, American mathematician (d. 2005)
1922 - Abdul Razak bin Hussain, premier of Malaysia (1970-77)
1922 - Thom Kelling, Dutch singer/guitarist (Programa de Manha)
1922 - Vinnette Carroll, NYC, actress (Alice's Restaurant, Reivers)
1922 - José Luis López Vázquez, Spanish actor
1923 - A Louise Brough Clapp, Oklahoma, tennis player (4 time Wimbledon champ)
1923 - A X Gwerder, writer
1923 - Ad[rianus C] de Besten, Dutch literary (River Basin)
1923 - Morschi Mirando, [Thomas Weiss], German/Dutch gypsy artist
1923 - Terry Alexander, London, actor (Tony-Behind the Scenes)
1925 - James Miskin, QC/recorder of London
1926 - Adrienne Keith Cohen, travel editor
1926 - Ilhan Mimaroglu, composer
1926 - Patricia Tindaole, England, architect
1926 - Ralph Abernathy, civil rights leader (Southern Christian Leadership)
1927 - Alan Betts, emeritus professor (Royal Veterinary College)
1927 - Raymond Jackson, [Jaki], British cartoonist
1927 - Robert Mosbacher, US politician(?)
1927 - Ron Todd, British trade unionist
1928 - Albert Salmi, Bkln NY, actor (Daniel Boone, 79 Park Avenue)
1928 - Peter Roger Hunt, London England, director (Dr No)
1929 - Erskine Childers, unofficial/civil servant
1929 - Francisco Bernardo Pulgar Vidal, composer
1929 - Jackie McGlew, cricketer (dour South African opening bat of the 50')
1929 - Timothy Carey, American actor (d. 1994)
1930 - David Gentleman, designer/painter
1931 - Peter Walters, CEO (Midland Bank)
1931 - Rupert Murdoch, Australia, publisher (NY Post)/CEO (FOX-TV)
1932 - Nigel Lawson, British government official (The Power Game)
1932 - Valerie French, London England, actress (Jubal)
1932 - Leroy Jenkins, American composer and violinist (d. 2007)
1933 - Terry J Hatter Jr, US judge in California
1934 - George Stamatoyannopoulos, Greece, medical genetics researcher
1934 - Joep Straesser, composer (Blossom songs, Ramasasiri)
1934 - Keith Speed, British MP
1934 - Sam Donaldson, El Paso Tx, ABC White House correspondent (Prime Time)
1934 - Sydney Burke, cricketer (S Afr quick, 11 wkts on Test debut v NZ 1961)
1934 - Sam Donaldson, American reporter
1935 - Sandra Milo, Italian actress
1936 - Antonin Scalia, Trenton NJ, 105th Supreme Court Justice (1986- )
1937 - John Ward, NZ cricket wicket-keeper (8 Tests 1964-68)
1937 - Carlos Larrañaga, Spanish actor
1938 - Malcolm Keith Speed, British high court judge
1939 - Lorraine Hunt, former Lieutenant Governor of Nevada
1939 - Flaco Jiménez, American musician
1940 - Alberto Cortez, Argentinian singer
1942 - Peter Eyre, actor (Hedda)
1942 - Charles Swan, American actor
1944 - Ric Rothwell, drummer (Mindbenders-Games of Love)
1945 - Harvey Mandel, rock guitarist (Drei Amerikanische LP's)
1945 - Mark Stein, vocalist/organist (Vanilla Fudge-You Keep Me Hanging On)
1945 - Timothy Mason, consultant (British Arts Council)
1945 - Tricia O'Neal, Shreveport Louisiana, actress (Piranha Part II)
1945 - Dock Ellis, American baseball player
1946 - Brigitte Fossey, Tourcoing France, actress (Man Who Died Twice)
1947 - Dominique Sanda, [Varaigne], Paris France, actress (1900, First Love)
1947 - Geoffrey Hunt, Australia, world-champion squash player
1947 - Mark Stein, singer/organist/keyboardist (Vanilla Fudge)
1948 - George Kooymans, Dutch guitarist/singer (Golden Earring)
1948 - Roy Barnes, 80th Governor of Georgia
1948 - César Gerónimo, Dominican baseball player
1949 - Richard de Bois, Dutch drummer/producer
1950 - Bobby McFerrin, singer (Don't Worry Be Happy-Grammy 1989)
1950 - Jerry Zucker, Milwaukee WI, director (Airplane, Naked Gun)
1952 - Douglas Adams, England, author (Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
1952 - Susan Richardson, Coatesville Pa, actress (Susan-8 is Enough)
1953 - Bernie LaBarge, Canadian musician
1954 - Gale Norton, 48th United States Secretary of the Interior
1955 - [Kater]Nina Hagen, East Berlin German DR, actress (Blue Angel)
1956 - Curtis L Brown Jr, NC, astronaut (STS 47, STS 66, 77, 85, sk:95)
1956 - D. J. MacHale, American author and television writer
1956 - Rob Paulsen, American voice actor
1957 - Lady Chablis, American entertainer
1957 - Cheryl Lynn, American singer
1957 - Elena Donaldson-Akhmilovskaya, Leningrad, Soviet Union, Chess Grandmaster, (d. 2012)
1958 - Anissa Jones, American actress (d. 1976)
1958 - Jim Pinkerton, American pundit
1958 - Flemming Rose, Danish journalist
1958 - Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer, interim President of Iraq
1960 - Christophe Gans, French film director
1961 - Bruce Watson, Ontario Canada, rock guitarist (Big Country-Wonderland)
1961 - Mike Percy, rocker (Dead or Alive-Spin Me Round)
1961 - Elias Koteas, Canadian actor
1962 - Peter Berg, actor (Chicago Hope)
1962 - Jeffrey Nordling, American actor
1963 - Alex Kingston, English actress
1964 - Raimo Helminen, Tampere FIN, hockey forward (Team Finland, Oly-Br-98)
1964 - Peter Berg, American film actor, director and producer
1964 - Shane Richie, British actor
1965 - Eric Jelen, West Germany, tennis star
1965 - Jesse Jackson, Jr., American politician
1965 - Wallace Langham, American actor
1965 - Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, British television presenter
1966 - Pavel Petrovich Mukhortov, Russian cosmonaut
1966 - Ralph Tamm, NFL guard/center (Denver Broncos, KC Chiefs)
1966 - Steve Reed, LA California, pitcher (Colorado Rockies)
1967 - Andrew Zesers, cricketer (played for Australia in 1987 World Cup)
1967 - Bill Houlder, Thunder Bay, NHL defenseman (Tampa Bay Lightning)
1967 - John Barrowman, Glasgow, Scottish born actor (Peter Fairchild-Central Park West)
1967 - Brad Carson, American politician
1969 - Dan Lacroix, Montreal, NHL left wing (NY Rangers)
1969 - John Fina, NFL offensive tackle (Buffalo Bills)
1969 - Terrence Howard, American actor
1969 - Soraya, Colombian-American singer (d. 2006)
1970 - Brett Liddle, Boksburg South Africa, Canadian Tour golfer (1993 Newcastle)
1970 - Evgeniy Koreshkov, hockey forward (Team Kazakhstan Oly-1998)
1970 - Delia Gallagher, American journalist
1971 - Bob Kronenberg, WLAF corner (Rhein Fire)
1971 - Jiri Vykoukai, Olomouc CZ, hockey player (Team Czech Rep, Oly-gold-98)
1971 - Marta Lovera Parquet, Miss Universe-Paraguay (1996)
1971 - Martin Rucinsky, Most Cze, NHL left wing (Canadiens, Oly-Gold-1998)
1971 - Johnny Knoxville, American television personality
1972 - Carl Greenwood, NFL cornerback (NY Jets)
1972 - Chris Shelling, WLAF cornerback (Rhein Fire)
1972 - Jamal Duff, NFL defensive end (NY Giants, Wash Redskins)
1973 - Kennedy Otieno, Kenya cricket wicket-keeper (85 v Aust 1996 World Cup)
1973 - Mike Mihelic, CFL offensive tackle (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1973 - Sammie Brennan, CFL defensive back (BC Lions)
1973 - Tony Veland, NFL defensive back (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1973 - Martin Hiden, Austrian footballer
1974 - Billy Granville, linebacker (Cincinnati Bengals)
1974 - David Cameron, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1974 - Kevin Donovan, Des Plaines Ill, figure skater (1997 Great Lakes-2nd)
1974 - Jon Dalton, the infamous "Jonny Fairplay" from the 7th and 16th season of Survivor
1975 - Cedric Henderson, NBA forward (Cleveland Cavaliers)
1975 - Shawn Springs, cornerback (Seattle Seahawks)
1975 - Eric the Midget, American radio personality
1976 - Thomas Gravesen, Danish footballer
1977 - Andre Nickatina, American rapper
1977 - Becky Hammon , WNBA player
1978 - Didier Drogba, Ivorian footballer
1978 - Albert Luque, Spanish footballer
1978 - Christopher Rice, American author
1979 - Fred Jones, American basketball player
1979 - Benji Madden, American guitarist (Good Charlotte)
1979 - Joel Madden, American singer (Good Charlotte)
1979 - Elton Brand, American basketball player
1980 - Paul Scharner, Austrian footballer
1980 - Dan Uggla, American baseball player
1981 - David Anders, American actor
1981 - Heidi Cortez, American erotic broadcaster
1981 - Lee Evans, American football player
1981 - Russell Lissack, English musician (Bloc Party)
1981 - LeToya Luckett, American singer (ex-Destiny's Child)
1981 - Paul Wall, American rapper
1982 - Hasan Raza, cricketer (Test cricketer at the age of 14)
1982 - Brian Anderson, Major League Baseball player
1982 - Thora Birch, Los Angeles, California, American actress (American Beauty, Ghost World)
1982 - Lindsey McKeon, American actress
1984 - Anna Tsuchiya, Japanese model, actress and singer
1984 - Tom James, British rower
1984 - Marc-André Grondin, Canadian actor
1985 - Derek Schouman, American football player
1985 - Nikolai Topor-Stanley, Australian soccer player
1987 - Marc-Andre Gragnani, Canadian ice hockey player
1987 - Tomethy Furse, British bassist (The Horrors)
1989 - Anton Yelchin, Russian-born actor

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 11, 2013, 02:49:00 PM

This Day in History for 11th March


Famous Deaths

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Penicillin Discoverer                                        Detective Writer
Alexander Fleming (1955)                           Erle Stanley Gardner (1970)


222 - Julia Soaemias, mother of Elagabalus (b. 180). Ruler during her son's minority, murdered by
         the Praetorian Guard
222 - Elagabalus, Roman Emperor (218-22) murdered by the Praetorian Guard aged 18
638 - Sophronius of Jerusalem, saint/patriarch of Jerusalem, dies
859 - Eulogius of Cordoba, Spanish Bishop and Christian Martyr
1198 - Marie de Champagne, daughter of Louis VII of France (b. 1145)
1486 - Albrecht III Achilles, elector of Brandenburg, dies at 71
1514 - Donato Bramante, Italian architect (b. 1444)
1575 - Matthias Flacius, Croatian Protestant reformer (b. 1520)
1602 - Emilio de' Cavalieri, Italian composer
1607 - Giovanni Maria Nanino, Italian composer
1715 - Jan-Erasmus Quellinus, Flemish painter, dies at 80
1722 - John Toland, Irish philosopher (b. 1670)
1759 - John Forbes, British general (b. 1710)
1772 - George Reuter, composer, dies at 63
1786 - Jacobus Bellamy, [Zelandus], Dutch/Swiss poet, dies at 28
1786 - Charles Humphreys, American delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1714)
1787 - Maximilian JLP Gardel, French ballet dancer/choreographer, dies at 45
1807 - Anton Eberl, composer, dies at 41
1820 - Benjamin West, British painter (Death of General Wolfe), dies at 81
1826 - Gervais-Francois Couperin, composer, dies at 66
1833 - Fridolin Weber, composer, dies at 71
1851 - George McDuffie, Governor of South Carolina (b. 1790)
1854 - Willard Richards, American religious leader (b. 1804)
1856 - James Beatty, Irish railway engineer (b. 1820)
1857 - Manuel Jose Quintana, Spanish author/poet (A la paz), dies at 84
1863 - Sir James Outram, 1st Baronet, English general (b. 1803)
1869 - Vladimir Odoevsky, Russian philosopher (b. 1803)
1870 - King Moshoeshoe I of Lesotho
1874 - Charles Sumner, a white civil rights leader, dies at 63
1894 - John Selby, cricketer (6 Tests for England 1877-82), dies
1897 - Berthold Tours, composer, dies at 58
1897 - Henry Drummond, Scottish geologist/evangelist, dies at 45
1898 - William Rosecrans, American Civil War Union general (b. 1819)
1900 - Edmund Peate, cricketer (9 Tests for England 1881-86), dies
1907 - Nikola Petkow, premier (Bulgaria), murdered
1907 - Jean Casimir-Perier, French politician (b. 1847)
1908 - Peter Milne, composer, dies at 83
1908 - Revd Benjamin Waugh, American activist (b. 1839)
1915 - Thomas Alexander Browne, Australian writer (b. 1826)
1919 - Harald Fryklof, composer, dies at 36
1920 - Julio Garavito Armero, Colombian astronomer (b. 1865)
1921 - Sherburne W Burnham, US astronomer (binary stars), dies at 83
1925 - Andreas Hallen, composer, dies at 78
1926 - John Henry Anderson, cricketer (score 32 & 11 in Test for S Afr), dies
1931 - F.W. Murnau, German film director (b. 1888)
1937 - Paul Scheinpflug, composer, dies at 61
1937 - Joseph S. Cullinan, American oil industrialist (b. 1860)
1941 - Walford Davies, British organist/composer, dies at 71
1944 - Hendrik W van Loon, Neth/US radio commentator/writer, dies at 62
1947 - Victor Hely-Hutchinson, composer, dies at 45
1949 - Juan Lamonte de Grignon, composer, dies at 76
1950 - Florence Arliss, actress (Disraeli), dies at 78
1951 - Philippe of Isacker, Belgian minister, dies at 66
1952 - Pierre Renoir, French stage and film actor and director (b. 1885)
1955 - Alexander Fleming, English bacteriologist (penicillin), dies at 73
1955 - Oscar Mayer, Bavarian-born American meat packer (b. 1859)
1956 - Sergey Nikiforovich Vasilenko, Russian opera composer, dies at 83
1957 - Richard E Byrd, US, explorer (Antarctica), dies at 68
1958 - Ole Kirk Christiansen, Danish inventor of Legos (b. 1891)
1959 - Haydn Wood, composer, dies at 76
1960 - Roy Chapman Andrews, US biologist/explorer, dies at 76
1962 - Will Vesper, German author (Tristan und Isolde), dies at 79
1963 - Mahomed Nissar, cricketer (6 Tests for India 1932-36, 25 wkts), dies
1965 - James Reeb, US vicar/civil rights activist, murdered
1967 - Geraldine Farrar, soprano/actress (Such Sweet Compulsion), dies at 85
1969 - John Wyndham, [Parkes Lucas B Harris], author (Chrysalids), dies at 65
1970 - Erle Stanley Gardner, US writer (Perry Mason), dies at 80
1971 - Philo T Farnsworth, US TV pioneer, dies at 64
1971 - Roy Glenn, dies in Los Angeles at 56
1971 - Whitney M Young Jr, leader (National Urban League 1961-71), dies at 49
1972 - Fredric [William] Brown, sci-fi author (Martians Go Home), dies at 65
1975 - Philip Bezanson, composer, dies at 59
1975 - Sammy Spear, orchestra leader (Dom Deluise Show), dies at 65
1975 - Walter Kinsella, actor (Happy-Martin Kane Private Eye), dies at 74
1977 - Alberto Rodriguez Larreta, Argentine racing driver (b. 1934)
1977 - Ulysses S. Grant IV, American geologist (b. 1893)
1978 - Claude François, French singer (b. 1939)
1979 - Victor Kilian, actor (Gentleman's Agreement), dies at 88
1982 - Edmund Cooper, British sci-fi writer (Tomorrow Came), dies at 55
1982 - Horace Gregory, American poet (b. 1898)
1984 - Nakagawa Soen, Zen teacher/poet, dies in Rytutakuji monastery at 76
1984 - Kostas Roukounas, Greek rembetiko singer and song writer (b. 1903)
1986 - Sonny Terry, American blues musician (b. 1911)
1987 - [Wayne] Woody Hayes, football coach (Ohio State), dies at 74
1988 - Pham Hung, premier of Vietnam, dies at about 74
1989 - Johan Fleerackers, Flemish linguist, dies at 57
1989 - James Kee, American politician (b. 1917)
1989 - John J. McCloy, United States Secretary of War (b. 1895)
1990 - Dean Horrix, English footballer (b. 1961)
1992 - David Carroll, actor (Grand Hotel), dies of pulmonary embolism at 41
1992 - Manuel De Dios Unanue, US anti-drug journalist, murdered at 48
1992 - Richard Brooks, director (Blackboard Jungle, Key Largo), dies at 79
1993 - Dino Bravo, wrestler (WWF), shot to death at 44
1993 - Edgar Nelson Barclift, dancer, dies after lengthy illness at 76
1993 - Manuel da Fonseca, Portuguese writer (Cerro Maior), dies at 81
1994 - Jacques Doucet, French painter (Mostar Sarajevo), dies at 69
1995 - Carel Birnie, found Utrecht Opera/Dutch Dance Theater, dies at 69
1995 - Ernest Kabushemeye, Burundese minister of Mijnbouw, murdered
1995 - Frank Fidler, artist, dies at 84
1996 - Barry Appleby, cartoonist, dies at 86
1996 - Charles William Oatley, electrical engineer, dies at 92
1996 - Clifton Eugene Bancroft Robinson, public servant, dies at 70
1996 - John Henry Pyle Pafford, librarian, dies at 96
1996 - Vince Edwards, actor (Ben Casey), dies of cancer at 67
1999 - Camille Laurin, Quebec psychiatrist and politician (b. 1922)
2002 - James Tobin, American economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1918)
2003 - Brian Cleeve, Irish author (b. 1921)
2003 - Ivar Hansen, speaker of the Danish Folketing (b. 1938)
2006 - Bernie "Boom Boom" Geoffrion, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1931)
2006 - Slobodan Milošević, President of Serbia and of Yugoslavia (b. 1941)
2007 - Betty Hutton, American actress and singer (b. 1921)
2009 - Charles Lewis, Jr., American businessman, promoter and entertainer
2010 - Hans van Mierlo, Dutch politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister (b.
          1931)
2010 - Leena Peltonen-Palotie, Finnish human geneticist (b. 1952)
2010 - Merlin Olsen, American football player / Actor (b. 1940)
2012 - Sid Couchey, American comic book artist, dies at 92

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 12, 2013, 01:30:06 PM

This Day in History for 12th March


Historical Events

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Composer Giuseppe Verdi                    Playwright George Bernard Shaw         Pacifist and Spiritual Leader Gandhi

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33rd US President Harry Truman       African American Activist Malcolm X            NBA Legend Larry Bird


538 - Witiges, king of the Ostrogoths ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving the
         city in the hands of the victorious Roman general, Belisarius.
1000 - Odo of Lagery elected as Pope Urban II, replacing Victor III
1054 - Pope Leo IX escapes captivity & returns to Rome
1144 - Gherardo Caccianemici elected Pope Lucius II, succeeding Callistus II
1350 - Orvieto city says it will behead & burn Jewish-Christian couples
1365 - University of Vienna founded
1496 - Jews are expelled from Syria
1572 - Luis Vaz de Camoes publishes "Os Lusíados" in Portugal
1594 - Company of Distant established for business on East-Indies
1597 - England routes troops to Amiens
1609 - Bermuda becomes an English colony
1619 - Dutch settlement on Java changes name to Batavia
1622 - Ignatius of Loyola declared a saint
1642 - Abel Tasman is 1st European in New Zealand
1664 - 1st naturalization act in American colonies
1664 - New Jersey becomes a British colony
1689 - Former English King James II lands in Ireland
1737 - Galileo's body moved to Church of Santa Croce in Florence, Italy
1755 - 1st steam engine in America installed, to pump water from a mine
1773 - Jeanne Baptiste Pointe de Sable found settlement now known as Chicago
1794 - Royal Theatre in London's Dury Lane opens
1799 - Austria declares war on France
1832 - The ballet La Sylphide first premieres at the Opéra de Paris.
1848 - 2nd republic established in France
1849 - 1st gold seekers arrive in Nicaragua en route to Calif
1850 - 1st US $20 gold piece issued
1857 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Simon Boccanegra," premieres in Venice
1860 - Congress accepts Pre-emption Bill: free land in West for colonists
1865 - Affair near Lone Jack, Missouri
1867 - Last French troops leave Mexico
1868 - Great Britain annexes Basutoland in Africa (later renamed the Kingdom of Lesotho)
1868 - Congress abolishes manufacturer's tax
1868 - Henry O'Farrell attempts to assassinate Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh.
1877 - Great Britain annexes Walvis Bay at Cape colony, Southern Africa.
1881 - Andrew Watson makes his Scotland debut as the world's first black international football
           player and captain.
1884 - Mississippi establishes 1st US state college for women
1888 - 2nd day of the Great blizzard of '88 in NE US (400 die)
1889 - Battle at Metema (Gallabad): Ethiopian Emperor Yohannes IV, defeated
1889 - Start of South Africa's 1st Test, v England, Port Elizabeth
1894 - Pittsburgh issues free season tickets for ladies on Tuesday & Friday
1894 - In Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA, Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time.
1896 - 1st movie in Netherlands (Kalverstr 220)
1897 - Vincent d'Indy's opera "Fervaal," premieres in Brussel
1900 - President Steyn of Orange Free state flees from Bloemfontein
1901 - Ground is broken for Boston's 1st AL ballpark (Huntington Ave Grounds)
1903 - NY Highlanders (Yankees) approved as members of AL
1904 - 1st main line electric train in UK (Liverpool to Southport)
1904 - Andrew Carnegie establishes Carnegie Hero Fund
1906 - Heavy storm ravages Dutch west coast
1908 - Stanley Cup: Mont Wanderers sweep Win Maple Leafs in 2 games
1908 - The Pan-Macedonian group is formed in Athens to support the Greek Struggle for Macedonia.
1910 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Wanderers beat Berlin (Kitchener), 7-3
1912 - Girl Guides (Girl Scouts) forms in Savannah, by Juliette Gordon Low
1912 - Helen Hayes Theater opens at 238 W 44th St NYC
1912 - Establishment of the first football club in Bulgaria - Botev Plovdiv
1913 - Foundation stone of the Australian capital in Canberra laid
1916 - French airship sinks British submarine D3
1917 - Russian Dumas sets up Provisional Committee; workers set up Soviets
1917 - Stalin, Kamenev & Muranov arrives in St Petersburg
1919 - Austrian National Meeting affirms Anschluss (incorporate into Germany)
1919 - George Bernard Shaw's "Augustus Does His Bit," premieres in NYC
1925 - British government of Baldwin refuses to ratify Geneva agreement
1926 - Denmark begins unilateral disarmament
1926 - Pope Pius XI names J E van Roey archbishop of Malines Belgium
1928 - In California, the St. Francis Dam fails, killing over 600 people.
1930 - Mohandas Gandhi begins 200m (300km) march protesting British salt tax
1930 - Stella Walsh sets record for the 220-yard dash (0:26.1)
1933 - FDR conducts his 1st "fireside chat"
1934 - Acting Pres Constantine Päts commits coup in Tallinn Estonia
1934 - Josip Broz (Tito) freed from jail
1934 - Paul Hindemith's "Mathis der Maler," premieres in Berlin
1935 - England establishes 30 MPH speed limit for towns & villages
1938 - Nazi Germany invades Austria (Anschluss)
1939 - Pope Pius XII crowned in Vatican ceremonies
1940 - Finland surrenders to Russia during WW II, gives Karelische Isthmus
1941 - German occupiers confiscate AVRO studios in Netherlands
1942 - British troops vacate the Andamanen in Gulf of Bengal
1943 - Soviet troops liberate Wjasma
1945 - 30 Amsterdammers executed by nazi occupiers
1945 - British Empire celebrates it's 1st British Empire Day
1945 - Italy's Communist Party (CPI) calls for armed uprising in Italy
1945 - NY is 1st to prohibit discrimination by race & creed in employment
1945 - USSR returns Transylvania to Romania
1946 - Part of Petsamo province ceded by Soviet Union to Finland
1947 - "Chocolate Soldier" opens at Century Theater NYC for 69 performances
1947 - Belgian government of Huysmans resigns
1947 - Pres Harry Truman introduces Truman-doctrine to fight communism
1948 - -5°F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in March
1950 - Belgium votes (58%) for return of King Leopold III
1950 - Pope Pius XII encyclical "On combating atheistic propaganda"
1951 - Baseball Commish Happy Chandler loses fight (9-7) to stay in office
1951 - Communist troops driven out of Seoul
1954 - 1st performance of Arnold Schoenberg's "Moses und Aaron"
1956 - Dow Jones closes above 500 for 1st time (500.24)
1957 - German DR accepts 22 Russian divisions
1958 - British Empire Day is renamed "Commonwealth Day"
1959 - Dutch Liberal Party wins 2nd parliamentary elections
1959 - US House joins Senate approving Hawaii statehood
1961 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Miami Golf Open
1962 - Dutch Premier De Quay announces secret talks with Indonesia
1963 - Beatles perform as a trio, John Lennon is ill with a cold
1964 - 6th Grammy Awards: Days of Wine & Roses, Striesand wins 2
1964 - Jimmy Hoffa sentenced to 8 years
1964 - Malcolm X resigns from Nation of Islam
1964 - SN Behrmann's "But for Whom Charlie," premieres in NYC
1964 - WKAB TV channel 32 in Montgomery, AL (ABC) begins broadcasting
1966 - Bobby Hull's 51st goal of season, sets record
1966 - Jockey Johnny Longden retires after 40 years (6,032 wins)
1966 - Love's 1st album released "Love"
1966 - Pioneer Plaza dedicated
1966 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967 - Austria's Reinhold Bachler ski jumps 505 feet
1967 - Indonesian congress deprives president Sukarno of authority
1968 - Mauritius gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1968 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1969 - 11th Grammy Awards: Mrs Robinson, By the Time I Get to Phoenix wins
1969 - 120 joints found at George & Patti Harrison's home
1970 - US lowers voting age from 21 to 18
1971 - Syrian premier Hafez Assad elected president
1971 - Turkish Government of Demirel forced to resign by Army
1972 - Judy Rankin wins LPGA Lady Eve Golf Open
1972 - NHL great Gordie Howe retires after 26 seasons
1974 - Bundy victim Donna Manson disappears, Evergreen SC, Olympia, Wash
1975 - Vietcong conquer Ban me Thuot South Vietnam
1976 - South African troops leave Angola
1977 - Chile president Pinochet bans Christian-Democratic Party
1977 - Egypt's Anwar Sadat pledges to regain Arab territory from Israel
1977 - Sadat pledges to regain Arab territory from Israel
1978 - Eric Heiden skates world record 1000m (1:14.99)
1978 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sunstar Golf Classic
1980 - Jury finds John Wayne Gacy guilty of murdering 33 in Chicago
1980 - NY Islanders 3rd scoreless tie, vs Pittsburgh Penguin
1981 - Soyuz T-4 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
1981 - Stephen Sondheim's musical "Marry Me a Little," premieres in NYC
1981 - Walter R T Witschey installs world's largest sundial, Richmond, VA
1982 - 1st-class debut of Courtney Walsh, Jamaica v Leeward Islands
1982 - PLO chief Yassar Arafat appears on "Nightline"
1983 - Don Ritchie runs world record 50 mile (4:51:49)
1984 - Coal Miners' strike ended
1984 - National Union of Mine Workers in England begin a 51 week strike
1984 - British ice dancing team, Torvill & Dean, become 1st skaters to receive 9 perfect 6.0s in world
           championships
1985 - Larry Bird scores Boston Celtic record 60 points
1986 - 210.25 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
1986 - Susan Butcher wins 1,158 mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
1987 - "Les Miserables" opens at Broadway/Imperial NYC for 4000+ perfs
1987 - David Robinson scores 50 points in a NCAA basketball game
1987 - Federal judge dismisses lawsuits sought by Oliver North
1987 - Ice Pairs Championship at Cincinnati won by E Gordeeva & Grinkov (URS)
1987 - Men's Fig Skating Championship in Cincinnati won by Brian Orser (CAN)
1987 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1989 - 15th People's Choice Awards
1989 - 2 cyanide-contaminated Chilean grapes found (Philadelphia)
1989 - Madagascar AREMA party wins parliamentary election
1990 - LA Raiders announce they were returning to Oakland
1991 - 5th Soul Train Music Awards
1992 - Mauritius becomes a republic while remaining a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
1993 - 317 killed by bomb attacks in Bombay
1993 - Cleveland radio station WMMS-FM/101.7 is bought by Disney
1993 - Entertainment Tonight's 3,000th show
1993 - Inkhata leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi begins 2½ week speech
1994 - Church of England ordains 1st 33 women priests
1995 - Congress party loses India national election
1995 - Dottie Mochrie wins LPGA PING/Welch's Golf Championship
1995 - Ice Dance Championship at Birmingham UK won by Gritshuk & Platov (RUS)
1995 - Ice Pairs Champ at Birmingham won by Radka Kovarikova & Rene Novotny
1995 - Lara scores 139 in ODI v Australia at Port-of-Spain
1995 - Letitia Vriesde runs South American indoor record 800m (2:00.35)
1995 - Men's Figure Skating Champions in Birmingham won by Elvis Stojko (CAN)
1995 - Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Birmingham won by Chen Lu (CHN)
1996 - Leeward Islands beat Trinidad by 73 runs to win Red Stripe Trophy
1998 - "Sound of Music," opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC
1999 - Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO.
2003 - Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia, is assassinated in Belgrade.
2003 - Elizabeth Smart, was found after having been missing for 9 months.
2004 - Roh Moo-hyun, President of South Korea is impeached by its national assembly for the first
           time in the nation's history.
2005 - Tung Chee Hwa, the first Chief Executive of Hong Kong, steps down from his post after his
           resignation is approved by the Chinese central government.
2011 - A reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant melts and explodes and releases
           radioactivity into the atmosphere a day after Japan's earthquake.
2012 - 100 people are killed in ethnic clashes and cattle raids in South Sudan
2012 - 45 people, including children, are massacred by the Syrian Army in Homs
2012 - China records its highest trade deficit in over a decade

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Post by: MysteRy on March 12, 2013, 01:31:04 PM

This Day in History for 12th March


Famous Weddings

1969 - Paul McCartney marries Linda Louise Eastman in London

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Post by: MysteRy on March 12, 2013, 01:38:36 PM

This Day in History for 12th March


Famous Birthdays

(http://i.historyorb.com/jack-kerouac.jpg)                  (http://i.historyorb.com/liza-minnelli.jpg)                 (http://i.historyorb.com/darryl-strawberry.jpg)
Writer Jack Kerouac (1922)                 Singer & Actress Liza Minnelli (1946)          Baseball Player
                                                                                                                             Darryl Strawberry (1962)


1270 - Charles of Valois, son of Philip III of France (d. 1325)
1336 - Eduard, Duke of Gelre (1361-71) husband of Catharina of Bayern
1479 - Giuliano de' Medici, monarch of Florence
1515 - Caspar Othmayr, composer
1607 - Paul Gerhardt, German hymnist (d. 1676)
1613 - André Le Nôtre, French landscape architect (d. 1700)
1620 - Johann Heinrich Hottinger, Swiss philologist and theologian (d. 1667)
1626 - John Aubrey, English antiquary and writer (d. 1697)
1637 - Anne Hyde, wife of James II of England (d. 1671)
1647 - Victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie, French general (d. 1727)
1672 - Richard Steele, Irish writer and politician (d. 1729)
1685 - George Berkeley, Ireland, philosopher/bishop of Cloyne
1710 - Thomas Augustine Arne, English composer (Alfred, Rule Britannia)
1718 - Joseph Damer, English politician (d. 1798)
1755 - Georges Couthon, French politician
1758 - Leopold earl of Limburg Stirum, Dutch general/politician [or March 22]
1768 - Carolus Antonius Fodor, composer
1781 - Frederica of Baden, Queen of Sweden (d. 1826)
1788 - Pierre J David, [David d'Angers], French sculptor
1793 - Augustin-Philippe Peellaert, composer
1800 - Louis-Prosper Gachard, Belgian historian
1806 - Jane Means Appleton Pierce, 1st lady (1853-57)
1808 - Gerrit van der Linde Jz, "Schoolmaster", Dutch poet
1816 - David Stuart, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1868
1818 - John Lorimar Worden, Capt (Union Navy), died in 1897
1821 - John Abbott, Quebec Canada, (C) 3rd Canadian PM (1891-92)
1821 - Luitpold von Bayern, Prince-regent of Bayern
1823 - William Flank Perry, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1901
1824 - Gustav R Kirchoff, Prussia, physicist (spectral analysis)
1826 - Robert Lowry, composer
1827 - John Robert Jones, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1901
1827 - William Richard Terry, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1897
1830 - William Felix Brantley, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1870
1831 - Clement Studebaker, automobile pioneer (Studebaker)
1832 - Charles Boycott, Ireland, estate manager/caused boycotts
1835 - Simon Newcomb, US, scientist/mathematician/astronomer
1837 - Felix Alexandre Guilmant, composer
1838 - William Perkin, inventor (1st artificial dye)
1848 - Cyrill Kistler, composer
1855 - John White, composer
1859 - Josef Cyril Sychra, composer
1859 - Abraham H. Cannon, Mormon apostle (d. 1896)
1860 - Salvatore Di Giacomo, composer
1862 - Jane Delano, US, nurse/teacher/founder (Red Cross)
1863 - Adolf A Wolfschoon, Curacao, poet
1863 - Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italy, writer/military hero (Intruder)
1863 - Vladimir Vernadsky, Russian mineralogist (d. 1945)
1864 - W. H. R. Rivers, British psychiatrist (d. 1922)
1874 - Edmund Eysler, Austrian composer
1875 - Julio Garreta, composer
1877 - Wilhelm Frick, German protector of Bohemia/Moravia
1878 - Gemma Galgani, Italian saint
1878 - Joseph Gustav Mraczek, composer
1880 - House Peters, England, silent film actor (Kansas Territory)
1880 - Nikolaos Georgantas, Greek discus thrower (d. 1958)
1880 - Henry Drysdale Dakin, British-American biochemist, known for the Dakin-West reaction (d.
          1952)
1881 - Daniel Webster Hoan, Wisc (Mayor-Socialist-Milwaukee)
1881 - Gunnar Nordström, Finnish physicist (d. 1923)
1883 - Judge Jackson, composer
1883 - Zoltán Meskó, Hungarian Nazi (d. 1959)
1885 - Raphael HLAJM Verwilghen, Flemish architect/urban developer
1888 - Hall Johnson, composer
1889 - Philip Guedalla, historian
1889 - Þórbergur Þórðarson, Icelandic author (d. 1974)
1890 - A Evert Taube, Swedish writer/troubadour
1890 - Vaslav Nijinsky, Ukrainian/US ballet dancer (Petroesjka) [OS=Feb 28]
1890 - William Dudley Pelley, American leader of the Silver Legion (d. 1965)
1891 - Michael Polany, Hungarian/English chemist/economist/sociologist
1891 - George W. Mason, American industrialist (d. 1954)
1895 - William C. Lee, U.S. Army general (d. 1948)
1896 - Jesse "Lone Cat" Fuller, San Francisco Blues Great
1898 - Fredrik J "Frits" Bakker Jr, Dutch actor (Sold Grandpa)
1900 - David Croll, QC senator
1900 - Zoltan Vasarhelyi, composer
1904 - Ken James, cricket wicketkeeper (NZ's 1st Test, later Northants)
1907 - (Margaret Peggy McCrorie) Herbison, politician
1907 - Arthur Hewlett, British actor (d. 1997)
1907 - Dorrit Hoffleit, American astronomer (d. 2007)
1908 - David Saul Marshall, diplomat lawyer/politician
1908 - Inez Courtney, NYC, actress (13th Man, Crime Ring, Raven)
1908 - Rita Angus, New Zealand painter (d. 1970)
1910 - Roger L Stevens, producer (Giant)
1910 - Tony "Two-Ton" Galento, Orange NJ, boxer/actor (On the Waterfront)
1910 - Wilhelmus L Reijers, sculptor
1910 - Masayoshi Ohira, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1980)
1911 - Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, president of Mexico
1912 - James McKay, lord provost of Edinburgh
1912 - Kylie Tennant, novelist (Battlers, Lost Haven)
1912 - Paul Weston, Springfield Mass, orchestra leader (Jim Nabors Hour)
1912 - Irving Layton, Canadian poet (d. 2006)
1913 - Harold Butler, cricketer (England pace bowler late 40's)
1914 - Jan Kapr, composer
1915 - Alberto Burri, Italian physician/sculptor/abstract painter
1917 - Googie Withers, Karachi India, actress (1 of Our Aircraft is Missing)
1917 - Tom Normanton, British MP
1918 - James Bracken, race horse trainer
1918 - Elaine de Kooning, American artist (d. 1989)
1921 - Giovanni Agnelli, CEO (Fiat Automakers)
1921 - Gordon MacRae, East Orange NJ, singer/actor (Oklahoma, Carousel)
1921 - Max de Metz, Dutch publisher/translator
1921 - Ralph Shapey, Phila, composer (Fantasy, Rituals)
1921 - Ülo Jõgi, Estonian freedom fighter (d. 2007)
1922 - Helen Parrish, Columbus Ga, actress (Hour Glass, Show Business)
1922 - Jack Kerouac, Beat writer (On the Road, Mexico Blues)
1922 - Lane Kirkland, union president (AFL-CIO)
1922 - Thomas Hugh Eastwood, composer
1923 - Hjalmar Andersen, Norway, 1500, 5K, 10K speed skater (Oly-gold-1952)
1923 - Norbert Brainin, violinist
1923 - Walter M Schirra Jr, Hackensack NJ, Capt USN/ast (Mer 8, Gem 6, Ap 7)
1923 - Mae Young, American professional wrestler
1925 - Georges Delerue, composer
1925 - Harry [Maxwell] Harrison, UK, sci-fi author (Deathworld Trilogy), (d. 2012)
1925 - Leo Esaki, [Esaki Reona], Japan, physicist (Tunnel effect-Nobel 1973)
1925 - Louison Bobet, French cyclist (Tour de France 1953-55)
1925 - William G Whitehurst, (Rep-R-Va)
1926 - David Oliver Williams, trade unionist (COHSE)
1926 - George R Ariyoshi, (Gov-D-Hawaii)
1926 - Gudrun Ure, British actress (Lady MacBeth, BBC Sorcerer)
1926 - Hildy Park, Wash DC, actress (To Tell the Truth)
1926 - John C[lellon] Holmes, US writer (Horn)
1926 - Rolv Berger Yttrehus, composer
1926 - Ronald Alley, art gallery manager (Tate Gallery)
1926 - Freddie Williams, Port Talbot, Wales, motorcycle speedway rider (world champion, 1950,
          1952), (d. 2013)
1927 - Mstislav Rostropovich, Baku Russia, cellist (Cello Concerto) [3/22 NS]
1927 - Raul Alfonsin, president (Argentina)
1928 - Edward Albee, Washington, DC, playwright (Virgina Woolfe, Zoo Story)
1928 - Phil Jones, principal (Trinity College of Music)
1928 - Roland Moyle, British deputy chairman (Police Complaints Authority)
1928 - Thérèse Lavoie-Roux, Quebec politician and senator
1928 - Aldemaro Romero, Venezuelan musician (d. 2007)
1929 - Bernard Costello, US, double sculls (Olympic-silver-1956)
1929 - Lupe Anguiano, Mexican-American civil rights activist
1929 - U Win Tin, jailed Burmese journalist
1930 - Antony Acland, provost of Eton/British ambassador (to US)
1930 - Robin Cavendish, disabled campaigner
1930 - Scoey Mitchill, Newburgh NY, comedian (Barefoot in the Park, Rhoda)
1930 - Stanko Horvat, composer
1931 - Geoffrey de Bellaigue, director (Royal Collection)
1931 - William "Buckwheat" Thomas, actor (Little Rascals)
1931 - Herbert Kelleher, Southwest Airlines co-founder
1932 - Andrew Young, US ambassador to UN (1977-79)/(Mayor-D-Atlanta)
1932 - Barbara Feldon, American actress and model
1934 - Rudolph Agner, CEO (Consolidated Gold Fields)
1935 - Helga Pilarczyk, German soprano (Salome, Lulu)
1935 - John Gross, author (Age of Kipling, Dickens & 20th Century)
1935 - John Doherty, English footballer (d. 2007)
1936 - Anthony Loehnis, vice chairman (S G Warburg & Co)
1936 - Keith Slater, cricketer (one Test for Australia 1958-59 series)
1936 - Lloyd Dobbins, Newport News Va, newscaster (NBC News Overnight)
1936 - Patrick Procktor, painter
1937 - Elizabeth Vaughan, opera soprano (Victor-Victoria)
1938 - Dimitri Terzakis, composer
1938 - Johnny Rutherford, auto racer (26 championship races)
1938 - Karl Soderlund, Duluth Minn, Mr Sally Jesse Raphael
1938 - Millie Perkins, actress (Diary of Anne Frank, Table for 5, Shooting)
1938 - Norman Hogg, British MP
1938 - Tona Scherchen-Hsiao, composer
1938 - Vijay Mehra, cricketer (Indian Test batsman from age 17)
1939 - Barbara Feldon, Pitts Pa, actress (Agent 99-Get Smart)
1939 - David Mlinaric, British interior director
1940 - Al Jarreau, Milwaukee WI, jazz singer (Moonlighting)
1940 - Albert Johanneson, soccer star
1940 - M.A. Numminen, Finnish singer and writer
1942 - Bert Campaneris, baseball player (Oakland A's)
1942 - Brian O'Hara, rocker
1942 - Salvatore "the Bull" Gravano, mobster (testified against Gotti)
1942 - Ratko Mladić, Republika Srpska leader
1942 - Jimmy Wynn, American baseball player, 1963-1977
1945 - Hans van Emden, Dutch guitarist (Les Baroques)
1945 - Sammy "The Bull" Gravano, American gangster
1946 - Liza Minnelli, Hollywood CA, singer/actress (Sterile Cuckoo, Cabaret)
1946 - Frank Welker, American voice actor
1946 - Peter Whalley, British television writer and author
1947 - Jill O'Hara, Warren Penn, Broadway actress (Promises! Promises!)
1947 - Mitt Romney, 70th Governor of Massachusetts
1947 - Kalervo Palsa, Finnish artist (d. 1987)
1948 - Dana Walden, rock keyboardist (Champaign)
1948 - James Taylor, Boston MA, vocalist/guitarist (Up on the Roof)
1948 - Kent Conrad, (Sen-D North Dakota)
1948 - Les Holroyd, Oldham England, rocker (Barclay James Harvest)
1948 - Virginia Bottomley, British minister of health and heritage
1949 - Bill Payne, Waco TX, rock keyboardist (Little Feat-Time Loves a Hero)
1949 - David Mellor, secretary of the British treasury/MP
1949 - Mary Alice Williams, news reporter (NBC-TV)
1949 - Mike Gibbons, Swansea Wales, rock drummer (Badfinger)
1949 - Sara Lane, NYC, actress (Elizabeth Grainger-The Virginian)
1949 - Natalia Kuchinskaya, Soviet gymnast
1949 - Moctesuma Esparza, Mexican-American producer and filmmaker
1950 - Jon Provost, actor (Timmy-Lassie)
1950 - Willie Duggan, rugby football player
1950 - Javier Clemente, Spanish football manager
1950 - Wheeler Winston Dixon, American filmmaker, critic and author
1951 - Caren Kaye, NYC, actress (My Tutor, Bambi-Blansky's Beauties)
1951 - Jack Green, rocker
1952 - Eliézer Niyitegeka, Rwandan journalist, politician and genocidaire
1952 - Naomi Shihab Nye, American poet, songwriter, and novelist
1953 - Labamba, [Richard Rosenberg], rocker (Asbury Jukes)
1953 - Carl Hiaasen, American journalist and author
1953 - Ron Jeremy, American pornographic actor
1953 - Madhav Kumar Nepal, Nepalese politician
1956 - Dale Murphy, Portland Ore, slugger (Atlanta Braves, 2 time NL MVP)
1957 - Jerry Levine, New Brunswick NJ, actor (Born on 4th of July)
1957 - Marlon D Jackson, Gary IN, singer (Jackson 5-Maybe Tomorrow)
1957 - Steve Harris, London, hard rock bassist (Iron Maiden-Gypsy's Kiss)
1958 - Debra Jensen, Orange County Cal, playmate (January, 1978)
1960 - Courtney B Vance, Detroit MI, actor (Hamburger Hill)
1960 - Eldine Baptiste, cricketer (WI all-rounder early 80's)
1960 - Kipp Lennon, American singer
1960 - Minoru Niihara, Japanese singer
1960 - Maki Nomiya, Japanese singer (Pizzicato Five)
1961 - Joseph Facal, Quebec politician
1962 - Darryl Strawberry, LA California, baseball right fielder (Mets, Dodgers, Yankees)
1962 - Gunde Svan, Swedish long jumper (Olympics-gold-1984, 88)
1963 - Candy Costie, Seattle Wash, synchronized swimmer (Olympic-gold-1984)
1963 - Joaquim Carvalho Cruz, Brazil, 800m runner (Olympic-gold-1984)
1963 - John Andretti, race car driver
1963 - Julia Campbell, Huntsville Ala, actress (Opportunity Knocks)
1963 - Paul Way, British golfer
1963 - Ian Holloway, English football manager
1964 - Tony Terry, rock producer (Tony Terry)
1965 - Fran Harris, WNBA guard (Houston Comets)
1965 - Molly Van Nostrand, West lslip NY, tennis star
1965 - Randy Dixon, NFL guard (Indianapolis Colts)
1965 - Steve Finley, Union City TN, outfielder (San Diego Padres)
1965 - Shawn Gilbert, American baseball player
1965 - Steve Levy, American sports journalist
1965 - Liza Umarova, Chechen torch singer
1966 - Alecia Stephenson, North Vancouver BC, softball ss (Olympics-96)
1966 - Erich Fischer, Dinuba CA, US Olympic water polo foward (Olympic-92)
1966 - Grant Long, NBA forward (Detroit Pistons, Atlanta Hawks)
1966 - John Thompson III, NCAA Basketball Head Coach
1967 - Irvin Smith, CFL cornerback (Montreal Alouettes)
1967 - Rowelle Blenman, WLAF cornerback/safety (London Monarchs)
1967 - Julio Dely Valdes, Panamanian footballer
1968 - Merton Hanks, NFL safety (SF 49ers)
1968 - Aaron Eckhart, American actor
1969 - Graham Coxon, singer (Blur)
1969 - J P Izquierdo, CFL slot back (Calgary Stampeders)
1969 - Karen Snelgrove, London Ontario, softball pitcher (Olympics-96)
1969 - Muhammad Oliver, NFL cornerback/safety (Washington Redskins)
1969 - Jake Tapper, American journalist
1970 - Michael Bankston, NFL defensive end (Arizona Cardinals)
1970 - Rex Walters, NBA guard (Phila 76ers, Miami Heat)
1970 - Rod Smith, NFL cornerback (Carolina Panthers, Green Bay Packers)
1970 - Dave Eggers, American writer, editor, and publisher
1970 - Roy Khan, Norwegian singer (Kamelot)
1970 - John Nemechek, American NASCAR driver (d. 1997)
1971 - Greg Hansell, Bellflower CA, pitcher (Minnesota Twins)
1971 - Isaiah Rider, NBA guard/forward (Minn Timberwolves, Port Trailblazers)
1971 - Raul Mondesi, San Cristobal Dom Rep, outfielder (LA Dodgers)
1971 - Tony Eveready (Duane Moore), American adult film actor
1972 - Alisa Castillo, Miss Nevada USA (1996)
1972 - Hector Luis Bustamante, Colombian actor
1972 - James Maritato, American professional wrestler
1973 - Antonio Banks, cornerback (Minnesota Vikings)
1973 - Gabriel Mendez, Australian soccer midfielder (Olyroos, Olympics-96)
1973 - Keif Bryant, NFL defensive end (Seattle Seahawks)
1973 - Louis Laros, Dutch soccer player (Willem II, Vitesse)
1974 - Chris Carr, NBA guard (Phoenix Suns, Minn Timberwolves)
1975 - Herman Li, Cantonese guitarist
1975 - Kelle Bryan, English singer
1975 - Annabel Port, English radio presenter
1976 - Simon Young, English music journalist
1976 - Zhao Wei, Chinese actress
1977 - Ramiro Corrales, American footballer
1978 - Cristina Teuscher, New Rochelle NY, 4X200m freestyle (Olymp-gold-96)
1978 - Tara Mounsey, ice hockey defenseman (USA, Oly-98)
1978 - Casey Mears, American auto racer
1978 - Claudio Sanchez, American musician (Coheed and Cambria)
1978 - Arina Tanemura, Japanese mangaka
1978 - Masuimi Max, American model
1979 - Edwin Villafuerte, Ecuadorian footballer
1979 - Pete Doherty, English musician
1979 - Nidia Guenard, American professional wrestler
1980 - Douglas Murray, Swedish ice-hockey player
1982 - Tobias Schweinsteiger, German footballer
1982 - Zach Miner, American baseball player
1984 - Shreya Ghoshal, Indian singer
1984 - Jaimie Alexander, American Actress
1985 - Bradley Wright-Phillips, English footballer
1985 - Tosh Townend, American skateboarder
1986 - Danny Jones, English singer (McFly)
1987 - Chris Seitz, American footballer

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Post by: MysteRy on March 12, 2013, 01:44:26 PM

This Day in History for 12th March


Famous Deaths

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Entrepreneur and Engineer            Jewish Victim & Diarist of the Holocaust        Jazz Saxophonist and Composer
George Westinghouse (1914)                         Anne Frank (1945)                           Charlie "Bird" Parker (1955)


417 - Innocent I, Italian Pope (401-417), dies
604 - Gregory I the Great, Pope (590-604), dies at 64
1209 - Djamal al-din Abu Mohammed Iljas Nizami, Persian poet, dies
1289 - King Demetre II of Georgia (b. 1259)
1374 - Emperor Go-Kogon of Japan (b. 1336)
1447 - Shah Rukh, ruler of Persia and Transoxonia (b. 1377)
1471 - Dionysius the Carthusian/van Rijkel, Dutch scholastic theologist, dies
1496 - Johannes de Lapide, [Johan Heynlin], German philosopher, dies
1507 - Cesare Borgia, cardinal/soldier/politician, killed in battle at 31
1563 - John Bull, composer of British natl anthem (God Save The King), dies
1570 - Jacob van den Eynden, Grand Pensionary of Holland, dies
1608 - Koriki Kiyonaga, Japanese warlord (b. 1530)
1628 - John Bull, English organist/composer, dies
1648 - Tirso de Molina, Spanish author, dies at about 63
1681 - French van Mieris, the Elder, Dutch genre painter, dies at 45
1699 - Peder Griffenfeld, Danish statesman (b. 1635)
1734 - Antonius Schultingh, [Schultingius], Dutch lawyer, dies at 74
1753 - George Berkeley, philosopher/bishop (Cloyne), dies on 68th birthday
1790 - Andreas Hadik, Austro-Hungarian general (b. 1710)
1824 - Heinrich Carl Ebell, composer, dies at 48
1831 - Johann Franz Volkert, composer, dies at 64
1832 - Daniel Friedrich Kuhlau, German/Danish opera composer, dies at 45
1834 - Karl W Feuerbach, mathematician (circle of Feuerbach), dies at 33
1840 - Friedrich Westenholz, composer, dies at 61
1852 - Juan Bros y Bertomel, composer, dies at 75
1872 - Zeng Guofan, Chinese politician and general (b. 1811)
1877 - Crystobal Oudrid y Segura, composer, dies at 52
1883 - Murrumgunarriman, [Twopenny], cricketer (Aboriginal team 1868), dies
1888 - Henry Bergh, founder (ASPCA), dies at 76
1889 - Yohannes IV, [Kasa], Emperor of Ethiopia (1872-89), dies in battle
1894 - Illarion Pryanishnikov, Russian painter (b. 1840)
1898 - Zacharias Topelius, Finnish-Swedish writer (b. 1818)
1902 - John Peter Altgeld, German/US governor of Illinois, dies at 54
1905 - Rudolf von Alt, Austrian painter, dies at 92
1908 - Edmondo de Amicis, Italian writer (L'idioma Gentile), dies at 61
1909 - Johanna "Lena" Bakker, Dutch actress/wife of Bruno Gerlach, dies at 34
1909 - Joe Petrosino, NYPD lieutenant (b. 1860)
1913 - Joseph Bayer, composer, dies at 61
1914 - George Westinghouse, US engineer (Westinghouse Electric), dies at 67
1916 - M v Ebner-Eschenbach, writer, dies at 39
1924 - Hilaire Comte de Chardonnet, inventor (rayon), dies
1925 - Sun Yat-Sen, Chinese revolutionary president, dies at 58
1929 - Asa Griggs Candler, American businessman (b. 1851)
1930 - Alois Jirásek, Czech writer (b. 1851)
1930 - William George Barker, Canadian fighter ace (b. 1894)
1932 - Ivar Kreuger, "Swedish Match King" industrialist, commits suicide
1937 - Charles-Marie-Jean-Albert Widor, French organist/composer, dies at 93
1937 - Jeno Hubay, composer, dies at 78
1941 - Charles Sanford Skilton, composer, dies at 72
1942 - Enrique Morera, composer, dies at 76
1942 - Robert Bosch, German industrialist (b. 1861)
1943 - Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (b. 1869)
1944 - Artur Gavazzi, Croatian geographer (b. 1861)
1945 - Anne Frank, diarist (Diary of Anne Frank), killed in Belsen Camp
1946 - Philip Merivale, dies at 59
1947 - "Winston Churchill the American", American novelist (b. 1871)
1949 - Maria "Beppie" Bakker, Dutch actress/wife of Piet Vink Sr, dies at 95
1950 - L Heinrich Mann, German/US writer (Between the Races), dies at 78
1955 - Charlie "Bird" Parker, US jazz saxophonist, dies at 34 in NYC
1955 - Theodor Plievier, writer, dies
1957 - Harry Dean, cricketer (England left-arm bowler in 3 Tests, 1912), dies
1957 - Josephine Hull, actress (Harvey), dies at 71
1958 - Ingeborg, Princess of Sweden, dies at 79
1961 - Belinda Lee, actress (Joseph & his Brethren), dies in car crash at 25
1966 - Estelita Rodriguez, actor (Golden Stallion, Susanna Pass), dies at 37
1973 - Esther Williamson Ballou, composer, dies at 57
1973 - Frankie "Fordham Flash" Frisch, baseball player, dies at 74
1973 - Manuel Rojas Sepulveda, Chilean writer (Hijo de Ladron), dies at 77
1974 - Billy Fox, Protestant Dublin MP, assassinated
1974 - George D. Sax, Drive-in bank and instant loan innovator. Owner of the Saxony Hotel. (b.
           1904)
1978 - John Cazale, actor (Dog Day Afternoon, Deer Hunter), dies at 41
1978 - Tolchard Evans, composer/conductor, dies
1980 - Arthur Charles Dobson, British racing driver (b. 1914)
1982 - Elisabeth Zernike, Dutch writer (Course of Events), dies at 90
1983 - Jevsei G Liberman, Ukraine economist (Plan, profit, bonus), dies at 85
1984 - Arnold Riley, playwright/actor, dies at 88
1985 - Eugene Ormandy [Blau], Hungarian/US conductor, dies at 85
1988 - Billie Rhodes, dies
1988 - William Camp, dies at 74
1989 - Maurice Evans, actor (Bewitched, MacBeth), dies at 87
1990 - Wallace Breem, British author (b. 1926)
1991 - Etienne Decroux, French mime (Voyage, Surprise), dies at 92
1991 - Ragnar Granit, Finnish neuroscientist, Nobel laureate (b. 1900)
1992 - Barbara Morrison, actress (Proj Moonbase), dies of heart failure at 84
1992 - Hans G Kresse, Dutch cartoonist (Eric the Viking), dies at 70
1992 - Ida Oosterbaan, Dutch founder (Women Action Committee), dies
1992 - Karel Poons, father of Paul Deen, dies
1992 - Philippe Soupault, writer, dies
1992 - Salvo Lima, mayor (Palermo)/MP (chr-dem), murdered
1993 - Andreas J A I Bruggeman, Dutch mayor (Leiderdorp), dies at 62
1993 - June Valli, singer (Crying in the Chapel), dies of cancer at 62
1993 - Michael Kanin, screenwriter (Woman of the Year), dies at 83
1993 - Wang Zhen, marxist/vice-premier of China (1988), dies
1994 - Sandra Paretti, German/Swiss author (Drums of Winter), dies at 59
1995 - Juanin Clay, American actress (b. 1949)
1996 - Charles Bruce Perry, professor of medicine, dies at 92
1996 - Gyula Kallai, PM of Hungry (1965-67), dies at 85
1996 - John Anthony Bowden Cuddon, writer/teacher, dies at 67
1998 - Judge Dread, English musician (b. 1945)
1998 - Beatrice Wood, American artist and ceramist (b. 1893)
1998 - Jozef Kroner, Slovak actor (b. 1924)
1999 - Yehudi Menuhin, American-born violinist (b. 1916)
2001 - Morton Downey, Jr., American television talk show host (b. 1933)
2001 - Robert Ludlum, American author (b. 1927)
2002 - Spyros Kyprianou, Cypriot politician (b. 1932)
2002 - Jean-Paul Riopelle, Quebec painter and sculptor (b. 1923)
2003 - Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia (b. 1952)
2003 - Howard Fast, American author (b. 1914)
2003 - Andrei Kivilev, Kazakh cyclist (b. 1973)
2003 - Lynne Thigpen, American actress (b. 1948)
2005 - Bill Cameron, Canadian journalist (b. 1943)
2005 - Stavros Koujioumtzis, Greek songwriter (b. 1932)
2006 - Victor Sokolov, Russian dissident journalist and priest (b. 1947)
2008 - Lazare Ponticelli, the last "poilu", French foot soldier of World War One, dies at 110 (b. 1897)
2008 - Jorge Guinzburg, Argentine journalist, producer, humorist, and TV, theater and radio host (b.
           1949)
2010 - Miguel Delibes, Spanish novelist (b. 1920)
2012 - Mike Hossack, American rock drummer, dies from cancer at 65

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 13, 2013, 05:08:29 PM

This Day in History for 13th March


Historical Events

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Naturalist Charles Darwin                    Playwright George Bernard Shaw               US President John F. Kennedy

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264th Pope John Paul II                           Actor/Comedian Bill Cosby          US Tennis Player Martina Navratilova


483 - St Felix III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
607 - 12th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
1138 - German king Koenraad II von Hohenstaufen crowned
1519 - Cortez lands in Mexico
1560 - Spanish fleet occupies Djerba, at Tripoli
1564 - Cardinal Granvelle flees Brussels
1567 - Battle at Oosterweel: Spanish troops destroy Geuzenleger
1569 - Battle of Jarnac, Count of Anjou defeats Huguenots
1591 - Battle at Tondibi: Moroccans army under Judar beats sultan Askia Ishaq II of Songhai
1634 - Academie Francaise opens
1639 - Cambridge College renamed Harvard for clergyman John Harvard
1656 - Jews are denied the right to build a synagogue in New Amsterdam
1677 - Massachusetts gains title to Maine for $6,000
1735 - 1st US Moravian bishop, David Nitschmann, consecrated in Germany
1759 - 27th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
1772 - Gotthold Lessing's "Emilia Calotti," premieres in Brunswick
1781 - Sir William Herschel sees "comet" (really discovered Uranus)
1790 - John Martin, 1st American-born actor, performs in Philadelphia
1797 - Cherubini's opera "Medée," premieres in Paris
1835 - Charles Darwin departs Valparaiso for Andes crossing
1846 - Friedrich Hebbel's "Maria Magdalena," premieres in Königsberg
1852 - Uncle Sam cartoon figure made its debut in the NY Lantern weekly
1865 - Jefferson Davis signs bill authorizing use of slaves as soldiers
1865 - US Confederate Congress calls on black slaves for field service
1868 - Senate begins US President Andrew Johnson's impeachment trial
1869 - Arkansas legislature passes anti-Klan law
1878 - Oxford defeats Cambridge in their 1st golf match
1884 - Siege of Khartoum Sudan begins
1884 - US adopts Standard Time
1887 - Chester Greenwood of Maine patents earmuffs
1888 - Great Blizzard of 1888 rages
1894 - J L Johnstone of England invents horse racing starting gate
1895 - Spanish cruiser Reina Regente sinks off Gibraltar, 402 die
1897 - San Diego State University is founded.
1900 - British troops occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State
1900 - In France the length of the workday for women and children is limited to 11 hours by law.
1904 - Bronze statue of Christ on Argentine-Chilian border dedicated
1911 - Ivan Caryll's musical "Pink Lady," premieres in NYC
1911 - Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators beat Galt (Ont), 7-4
1912 - Stanley Cup: Quebec Bulldogs sweep Moncton (NB) in 2 games
1913 - Kansas legislature approved censorship of motion pictures
1915 - Dodgers manager Wilbert Robinson tries to catch a baseball dropped from an airplane, but
           the pilot substituted a grapefruit
1918 - American Red Magen David (Jewish Red Cross) forms
1918 - 1st NHL championship: Mont Canadiens beat Toronto Arenas, outscoring them 10-7 in a 2
            game set
1920 - Wolfgang Kapp's coup attempt in Berlin fails
1921 - Mongolia (formerly Outer Mongolia) declares independence from China
1922 - George Bernard Shaws "Back to Methusaleh V," premieres in NYC
1922 - WRR-AM in Dallas TX begins radio transmissions
1922 - NHL Championship: Ottawa Senators outscore Toronto St Pats, 5 to 4, in 2 games
1923 - Lee de Forest demonstrates his sound-on-film moving pictures (NYC)
1924 - German Republic day
1925 - NHL Championship: Montreal Canadiens sweep Toronto Arenas in 2 games
1925 - Tennessee makes it unlawful to teach evolution
1928 - Rudolph Friml's musical "Three Musketeers," premieres in NYC
1929 - Bradman scores 123 Aust v England at MCG, his 2nd Test Cricket ton
1930 - Clyde Tombaugh announces discovery of Pluto at Lowell Observatory
1933 - Banks reopen
1933 - Josef Goebbels becomes German minister of Information & Propaganda
1935 - Driving tests introduced in Great Britain
1938 - Anschluá-Austria annexed by Nazi Germany
1938 - World News Roundup is broadcast for the first time on CBS Radio in the United States.
1940 - Finland-Russian cease fire signed, Finland gives up Karelische
1940 - The Russo-Finnish Winter War ends.
1941 - A Bougne forms AGRA (Amis du Grand Reich Allemand)
1942 - Julia Flikke, Nurse Corps, becomes 1st woman colonel in US army
1943 - Baseball approves official ball (with cork & balata)
1943 - Failed assassin attempt on Hitler during Smolensk-Rastenburg flight
1943 - Frank Dixon wins Knights of Columbus mile (4:09.6)
1944 - USSR recognizes Italian Badoglio government
1945 - Queen Wilhelmina returns to Netherlands
1945 - Sicherheitsdienst arrest Dutch resistance fighter Henry Werkman
1947 - "Brigadoon" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 581 performances
1947 - 19th Academy Awards - "Best Years of Lives," De Havilland, March win
1948 - 10th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Baylor 58-42
1949 - US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Yvonne C Sherman
1949 - US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button
1950 - General Motors reports net earnings of $656,434,232 (record)
1951 - 2nd Dutch government of Drees forms
1951 - Israel demands DM 6.2 billion compensation from Germany
1954 - Braves' Bobby Thomson breaks his ankle, he is replaced by Hank Aaron
1954 - Viet Minh General Giap opens assault on That Bien Phu
1955 - Bir BSD Mahendra succeeds Tribhubana as king of Nepal
1955 - Patty Berg wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1956 - NZ bowl out WI for 77 at Eden Park to score their 1st Test Cricket win
1957 - Bloody battles after anti-Batista demonstration in Havana Cuba
1958 - Government troops land in Sumatra Indonesia
1960 - Fay Crocker wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1960 - NFL's Chicago Cardinals moves to St Louis
1960 - White Sox unveil new road uniforms with players' names above number
1961 - Elizabeth Gurley Finn (70) becomes pres of US Communist Party
1961 - Floyd Patterson KOs Ingemar Johansson in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
1961 - JFK sets up the Alliance for Progress
1961 - Landslide in USSR, kills 145
1961 - Old type, black & white notes cease to be legal tender
1962 - Yugoslavia grants 1,000 prisoners amnesty
1963 - 2 Russian reconnaissance flights over Alaska
1963 - Hindemith & Wilder's opera "Long Christmas Dinner," premieres in NYC
1963 - Indonesia & Netherlands recover diplomatic relations
1964 - Turkey threatens Cyprus with armed attack
1965 - Beatles' "Eight Days a Week," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks
1965 - Jeff Beck replaces Eric Clapton of the Yardbirds
1966 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lagunita Golf Invitational
1967 - Congo sentences ex-premier Moise Tsjombe to death
1967 - Robert Anderson's "You Know I Can't Hear You ...," premieres in NYC
1968 - Beatles release "Lady Madonna" in the UK
1969 - Apollo 9 returns to Earth
1970 - 100 year Beehive anniversary ends in brawl in Amsterdam
1970 - Digital Equipment Corp introduces PDP-11 minicomputer
1970 - SF city employees begin 4-day strike
1971 - Live at Fillmore East recorded
1973 - Syria adopts constitution
1973 - "Irene" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 605 performances
1973 - Minskoff Theater opens at 200 W 45th St NYC
1974 - Glenn Turner scores twin tons for NZ's 1st win against Aust
1975 - Bernard Slade's "Same Time, Next Year," premieres in NYC
1977 - Dennis Lillee takes 6-26, England all out 95 in Centenary Test
1978 - Moluccans "suicide commandos" occupies Province house
1979 - European Monetary System is established, ECU created
1979 - Gairy dictatorship in Grenada overthrown by New Jewel Movement
1979 - Isle's Mike Bossy's 5th career hat trick
1980 - Eric Heiden skates world record 1000m (1:13.60)
1980 - Ford Motor Co found innocent in death of 3 women in a fiery Pinto
1980 - Men's Figure Skating Championship in Dortmund won by Jan Hoffmann GDR
1981 - Attempt on Pope John Paul II by Mehemet Ali Agca
1981 - NCAA St Joseph's upsets top seed DePaul
1982 - Ice Dance Championship at Copenhagen won by Torvill & Dean (GRB)
1982 - Ice Pairs Championship at Copenhagen won by Baess & Thierbach (GDR)
1982 - Men's Fig Skating Champions in Copenhagen won by Scott Hamilton (USA)
1982 - Worlds Ladies Fig Skate Champs in Copenhagen won by Elaine Zayak (USA)
1982 - Elaine Zayak, lands 6 triple jumps to win world skating championship
1983 - "Woman of the Year" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 770 perfs
1983 - 1st USFL overtime game-Birmingham Stallions beat Oakld Invaders 20-14
1984 - Last day of 1st-class cricket for G Chappell, R Marsh, B Laird
1984 - WA beat Queensland by four wickets to win the Sheffield Shield
1985 - Funeral services held for Konstantin Chernenko (Moscow)
1985 - Michael Secrest (US) begins 24-hr ride of 516 miles, 427 yards
1986 - Soyuz T-15 carries 2 cosmonauts to Soviet space station Mir
1986 - Microsoft has its Initial public offering.
1987 - Ice Dance Championship at Cincinnati won by Bestemianova & Bukin (URS)
1987 - John Gotti is acquitted of racketeering
1987 - Washington Caps score 5 goals against Toronto in 3 mins & 3 secs
1988 - 14th People's Choice Awards: Fatal Attraction, Bill Cosby. win
1989 - 27th shuttle, Discovery 8, launched, 1st woman to do the countdown
1989 - FDA orders recall of all Chilean fruit in US
1989 - US space shuttle STS-29 launched
1990 - Nicholoas Braithwaite elected premier of Grenada
1991 - Exxon pays $1-billion dollars in fines & cleanup of Valdez oil spill
1992 - FCC rules companies can own 30 AM & 30 FM stations (formerly 12)
1992 - Martina Navratilova & Judy Nelson settle their galamony suit
1992 - An earthquake registering 6.8 on the Richter scale kills over 500 in Erzincan, eastern Turkey.
1993 - Blizzard of '93 hits north-east US
1994 - 33.3% of Austria votes for ultra-right Freedom Party
1994 - Donna Andrews wins LPGA Ping Welch's Golf Championship
1994 - Oil tank/airship crash at Bosporus (huge fire/15+ killed)
1994 - President Mangope of Bophuthaswana deposed
1995 - 9th Soul Train Music Awards: Boyz II Men, Anita Baker win
1995 - Anti fascist Kazachstan anti-parliament forms
1995 - Hungarian Forint devalued 9%
1995 - Istanbul police shoot dead 16 Alawitische demonstrators
1996 - Sri Lanka beat India in World Cup semi as riots stop play
1996 - Thomas Hamilton kills 16 kindergardeners, their teacher & himself
1996 - Dunblane massacre: in Dunblane, Scotland, 16 children and 1 teacher are shot dead by a
           spree killer who then commits suicide.
1997 - India's Missionaries of Charity chooses Sister Nirmala to succeed Mother Teresa as its leader.
1997 - The Phoenix lights were seen over Phoenix, Arizona by hundreds of people, and by millions on
           television. They are now a hotly debated controversy.
2003 - Human evolution: The journal Nature reports that 350,000-year-old footprints of an upright-
            walking human have been found in Italy.
2005 - Terry Ratzmann shoots and kills six members of the Living Church of God and the minister at
           Sheraton Inn in Brookfield, Wisconsin before killing himself.
2008 - Gold prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange hit $1,000.00 an ounce for the first time.
2012 - 19 people are shot dead in a bus attack in Ethiopia
2012 - Encyclopedia Britannica announces that it will no longer public printed versions of its
           encyclopedia
2012 - 110 people are killed and 63 are missing after a ferry collides with an oil tanker near Dhaka,
            Bangladesh
2012 - 28 people, including 22 children, are killed in a motorway bus crash near Sierre, Switzerland

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 13, 2013, 06:47:47 PM

This Day in History for 13th March


Famous Weddings

1961 - Pablo Picasso (79) marries his model Jacqueline Rocque (37)
1994 - Cuba Godding Jr (26) weds Sara Kapfer (26)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 13, 2013, 06:56:22 PM

This Day in History for 13th March


Famous Birthdays

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Astronomer Percival Lowell (1855)         CIA Director William Casey (1913)               Actor Emile Hirsch (1985)


1372 - Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans, brother of Charles VI of France (d. 1407)
1548 - Sasbout Vosmeer, Dutch Catholic theologist/apostole
1599 - Johannes Berchmans, Dutch Jesuit/saint
1615 - Innocent XII, [Antonio Pignatelli], Pope (1691-1700)
1683 - John Theophilus Desaguliers, French-British philosopher (d. 1744)
1696 - Louis F A D Duke de Richelieu, French marshal
1700 - James Kent, composer
1700 - Michel Blavet, composer
1712 - Isfrid Kayser, composer
1719 - John Griffin Whitwell, 4th Baron Howard de Walden, British field marshal (d. 1797)
1720 - Charles Bonnet, Swiss naturalist and writer (d. 1793)
1733 - Joseph Priestly, England, clergyman/scientist (discovered oxygen)
1741 - Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor (1764-90) (d. 1790)
1744 - David Allan, Scottish painter
1746 - Maurus Haberhauer, composer
1752 - Josef Reicha, composer
1763 - Guillaume Marie Anne Brune, French marshal (d. 1815)
1764 - Charles Earl Grey, (Whig), British PM (1830-34)
1767 - Heinrich Domnich, composer
1768 - Charles Louis WJ van Keverberg, Dutch civil servant
1770 - Daniel Lambert, England, giant (weighed 739 lbs (334 kg) at death)
1779 - Oliver Shaw, composer
1781 - Karl F Schinkel, German architect/painter/writer (Schloss Tegel)
1798 - Abigail Powers Fillmore, 1st lady (1850-53)
1815 - James Curtis Hepburn, American missionary and linguist (d. 1911)
1818 - Albion Parris Howe, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1897
1820 - Louis Herbert, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1901
1822 - Moritz Grave von Strachwitz, German poet
1832 - Alberto Randegger, composer
1850 - Emilio Serrano y Ruiz, composer
1855 - Percival "Percy" Lowell, US astronomer (predicted discovery of Pluto)
1858 - Maximilien Luce, French painter
1859 - Ivo Bligh, cricketer (Lord Darnley England capt v Australia 1882-83)
1860 - Hugo Wolf, Austrian composer (d. 1903)
1862 - Vasily Mikhaylovich Metallov, composer
1864 - Alexej von Jawlensky, Russian painter (d. 1941)
1870 - Albert Meyer, member of the Swiss Federal Council in the 1930s (d. 1953)
1872 - Oswald Garrison Villard, American journalist
1875 - Maria E G "Lizzy" Ansingh, Dutch painter (Caught Sultane)
1881 - Balthazar H Verhagen, Neth/South African dramatist/writer
1883 - Enrico Toselli, composer
1884 - Emanuel Stickelberger, Swiss writer (Bluthochzeit)
1884 - Hugh S Walpole, NZ, novelist/playwright (Jeremy, Maradick at 40)
1884 - Oskar Loerke, German writer (Longest Day-1926)
1886 - Henri D Gagnebin, Swiss organist
1886 - John "Home Run" Baker, hall of famer (hit 2 HR in 1911 world series)
1887 - Carlos Isamitt, composer
1890 - Michael Taube, composer
1890 - Fritz Busch, German conductor (d. 1951)
1892 - Alec Rowley, composer
1892 - Janet Flanner, journalist (New Yorker)
1896 - Dorothy Aldis, writer
1897 - Marcel Thiry, Belgian poet (Statue of Fatigue)
1897 - William Herald, Australia, swimmer (Olympic-1920)
1898 - Josie Sedgwick, TX, actress (Son of Oklahoma)
1899 - Pancho Vladigerov, composer
1899 - Jan Lechoń, Polish poet (d. 1956)
1900 - Béla Guttman, Hungarian footballer (d. 1981)
1901 - Paul Fix, Dobbs Ferry NY, actor (Rifleman)
1904 - Henry Iliffe Cozens, pilot
1907 - Mircea Eliade, religious historian (Le Yoga) [O.S. 02-28]
1907 - Albert Hughes Williams, teacher/historian
1907 - Dona Maria Pia de Braganca, pretender to the Portuguese throne
1907 - Frank Wilcox, DeSoto Mo, actor (John-Beverly Hillbillies)
1907 - Oscar Brink, latinist
1908 - Helen Sinclair Glatz, musician
1908 - Paul Stewart, NYC, actor (Top Secret USA, Deadline)
1908 - Walter Annenberg, Milwaukee, publisher (Triangle-TV Guide)/Amb to GB
1909 - Gilbert Inglefield, Mayor of London (1967-68)
1910 - Sammy Kaye, Rocky River Ohio, orchestra leader (Sammy Kaye Show)
1910 - Karl Gustav Ahlefeldt, Danish actor (d. 1985)
1911 - Jose Ardevol, composer
1911 - L[aFayette] Ron Hubbard, sci-fi writer/scientologist (Dianetics)
1912 - Ernst Hess, composer
1912 - Igor Youskevitch, dancer
1912 - James Friell, political cartoonist
1913 - Sammy Kaye, saxophonist (Swing & Sway with Sammy Kaye)
1913 - William J Casey, headed CIA during Iran-contra scandal (1981-87)
1913 - Lambros Konstantaras, Greek actor (d. 1985)
1913 - Sergey Mikhalkov, Russian writer
1914 - Carl-Olof Anderberg, composer
1914 - Tessie O'Shea, entertainer
1914 - Edward O'Hare, American pilot (d. 1943)
1914 - W.O. Mitchell, Canadian writer (d. 1998)
1916 - Corinne Boggs, political administrator
1916 - Lindy Boggs, (Rep-D-LA, 1973- )
1917 - Ina Ray Hutton, Chicago Ill, orchestra leader (Ina Ray Hutton Show)
1917 - Maria Vlamynck, Flemish author
1917 - Tessie O'Shea, England, actress (Entertainers)
1918 - Faye Glenn Abdellan, US government official (health services)
1918 - George McAfee, NFL halfback (Chicago Bears)
1920 - Frans van der Elst, Flemish attorney/MP (Volksunie)
1921 - Allan Jaffee, comic strip cartoonist/illustrator (MAD Magazine)
1921 - Cyril Poole, cricketer (England batsman against India 1951-52)
1922 - Brun Smith, cricketer (NZ right-handed batsman of late 1940's)
1922 - Jim Rodger, sports writer
1923 - William F. Bolger, 65th Postmaster General of the United States (d. 1989)
1925 - Anthony Milner, composer
1925 - Bertha Tickey, Dinuba California, softball pitcher (Hall of Fame 1973)
1925 - Roy Haynes, US jazz drummer (Trio Music with Chick Corea)
1926 - Frederick Hemming McClintock, criminologist
1926 - RaulAlfonsín, Argentine pres (1983-89) (or 3/12/1927)
1927 - Charles Sickman Corsen, Dutch Antillean poet
1927 - Robert Denning, American interior designer (d. 2005)
1929 - J D Slater, writer
1929 - Peter Breck, Rochester NY, actor (Black Saddle, Big Valley, Benji), (d. 2012)
1929 - Walter Medio, race horse trainer
1929 - Will Eisma, composer
1930 - Doug Harvey, hockey star (3 time James Norris winner)
1930 - Jan Howard, American singer
1931 - Marc Dessauvage, Flemish architect
1931 - Rosalind Elias, Lowell Mass, mezzo-soprano (Grimgerde-Die Walkuere)
1931 - Wolfgang Kohlhaase, Berlin, actor/director/writer (Solo Sunday)
1933 - Frank H Murkowski, (Sen-R-AK, 1981- )
1933 - Mike Stoller, composer (Lieber & Stoller-Hound Dog, Charlie Brown)
1934 - Barry Hughart, American author
1935 - Don Nute, Connellsville Penn (Denver University), actor
1935 - Joseph Mascolo, American actor
1935 - Leslie Parrish, American actress
1935 - Michael Walzer, American philosopher
1936 - Clarence Nash, animation voice (Donald Duck)
1937 - Fofo I F Sunia, (Rep-D-Amer Samoa, 1981- )
1938 - Hans-Joachim Hespos, composer
1938 - Jean-Claude Risset, composer
1938 - Joseph Bellino, footballer (1960 Heisman Trophy)
1938 - Patricia W Amicone, educator/midwife
1938 - Erma Franklin, American singer (d. 2002)
1939 - Neil Sedaka, Bkln NY, singer/songwriter (Breaking Up is Hard to Do)
1941 - Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian prominent poet and writer of prose.(d. 2008)
1942 - Dave Cutler, American software engineer
1943 - Andre Techine, director/writer (Scene of the Crime, Rendez-Vous)
1945 - Anatoly Timofeevich Fomenko, Russian mathematician
1946 - Yonatan Netanyahu, Israeli soldier (d. 1976)
1947 - Lesley Collier, British ballet dancer
1947 - Tomas Hinojosa, jockey
1947 - Beat Richner, Swiss physician and cellist
1948 - Robert S. Woods, American actor
1949 - Hiroshi Kazato, Japanese racing driver (d. 1974)
1949 - Julia Migenes, American soprano
1950 - Bernard Julien, cricketer (WI left-arm pace all-rounder mid-70's)
1950 - Joe Bugner, Hungarian/British/Australian boxer (European Champ 1971)
1950 - Robert S Woods, California, actor (Bo-One Life to Live, Waltons)
1950 - Steve Hill, country vocalist (A Winning Hand)
1950 - William H Macy, Miami FL, actor (Homicide, Water Engine)
1950 - Charles Krauthammer, American political commentator
1951 - Fred Berry, St Louis Mo, actor (Rerun-What's Happening)
1952 - Wolfgang Hihm, composer
1953 - Andy Bean, Lafayette Ga, PGA golfer (Western 1978, Kemper 1978)
1953 - Deborah Raffin, LA California, actress (Ransom, Demon, 40 Carats)
1954 - Robin Duke, Toronto Canada, comedienne (SNL, SCTV, Club Paradise)
1955 - Glenne Headly, New London CT, actress (Dick Tracy, Making Mr Right)
1955 - Olga Rukavishnikova, USSR, pentathlete (Olympic-silver-1980)
1955 - Patricia J Engfer, general manager (Hyatt Regency-Orlando)
1955 - Bruno Conti, Italian footballer
1956 - Dana Delany, NYC, actress (Colleen McMurphy-China Beach, Exit to Eden)
1957 - Steve Lake, American baseball player
1957 - John Hoeven, American politician, governor of North Dakota
1958 - Debi Nicolle Johnson, Torrance California, playmate (October, 1984)
1958 - Rick A Lazio, (Rep-R-NY)
1959 - Dirk Wellham, cricketer (century on NSW debut & Australian debut )
1959 - Ronnie Rogers, guitarist (T'Pau-Heart & Soul)
1959 - Kathy Hilton, socialite-Hilton Hotels, mother of Nikki Hilton and Paris Hilton
1960 - Adam Clayton, Oxfordshire, rock bassist (U2-I Will Follow)
1960 - Yuri Andrukhovych, Ukrainian writer, poet and political essayist
1960 - Joe Ranft, American animator (d. 2005)
1961 - Cor Lems, soccer player (ADO The Hague/Dordrecht '90)
1962 - Liane Tooth, Sydney NSW Australia, field hockey forward (Olympics-96)
1963 - Mariano Duncan, S P de Macoris Dom Rep, infielder (NY Yankees)
1963 - Vance Johnson, NFL wide receiver (Denver Broncos)
1964 - Will Clark, New Orleans LA, infielder (Texas Rangers)
1964 - Will Clark, American baseball player
1966 - Akira Nogami, wrestler (NJPW)
1966 - Tine Scheuer-Larsen, Denmark, tennis star
1967 - Colleen Rosensteel, S Greensburg PA, heavyweight judoka (Olympics-96)
1967 - Satu Huotari, ice hockey defenseman (Finland, Oly-98)
1967 - Andrés Escobar, Colombian footballer (d. 1994)
1968 - Christopher Collett, NYC, actor (Manhattan Project)
1968 - Akira Nogami, Japanese professional wrestler
1969 - Chris Zorich, NFL defensive tackle (Chic Bears)
1969 - Kevin Kaminski, Churchbridge, NHL center (Washington Capitals)
1970 - Tim Story, American film director
1971 - Curtis Conway, NFL wide receiver/kick returner (Chic Bears)
1971 - Li Chen, Changsha China, tennis star (1995 Futures-Austin TX)
1971 - Paul Henderson, Australian 100m/200m (Olympics-96)
1971 - Ralf Kleinmann, WLAF kicker/punter (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1971 - Robert Samuels, cricketer (West Indies Test opening batsman v NZ 1996)
1971 - Ryan Hayden, Indianapolis Indiana, 400m hurdler
1971 - Tony Vinson, NFL running back (Atl Falcons, Lon Monarchs, Balt Ravens)
1971 - Tracy Wells, actress (Heather-Mr Belvedere)
1971 - Annabeth Gish, American actress
1971 - Robert Lanham, American author and satirist
1972 - Avrom Smith, WLAF RB (London Monarchs)
1972 - Brian Saxton, NFL tight end (NY Giants)
1972 - Rickey Brady, NFL tight end (NO Saints)
1972 - Ryan McCoy, WLAF LB (London Monarchs)
1972 - Shea Olliff, Augusta Georgia, Miss America-Georgia (1997)
1972 - Trent Dilfer, NFL quarterback (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1973 - Ann Coale, Miss USA-Maryland (1997)
1973 - Bobby Jackson, NBA guard (Denver Nuggets)
1973 - Dan Wilkinson, NFL defensive tackle (Cin Bengals)
1973 - Edgar Davids, Dutch soccer player (Ajax, AC Milan)
1973 - Trezelle Jenkins, NFL tackle (KC Chiefs)
1973 - David Draiman, American musician and songwriter (Disturbed)
1974 - Corinna Broiz, Garberville Colo, lightweight judoka (Olympics-96)
1974 - Thomas Enqvist, Stockholm Sweden, tennis star (1991 Wimbledon jr boys)
1974 - Vampeta, Brazilian footballer
1975 - Landon Wilson, St Louis, NHL right wing (Colorado Avalanche)
1976 - James Dewees, musician
1976 - Danny Masterson, American actor
1977 - Ed Sloan, American musician (Crossfade)
1977 - Momo Sylla, Guinean footballer
1978 - Tom Danielson, American cyclist
1978 - Karina Smirnoff, Ukrainian dancer
1978 - Kenny Watson, American football player
1979 - Johan Santana, Venezuelan baseball player
1979 - Spanky G, American musician (Bloodhound Gang)
1979 - Cedric Van Branteghem, Belgian athlete
1980 - Caron Butler, American basketballer
1980 - Lee Jung-hyun, South Korean pop singer and actress
1980 - Molly Stanton, American actress
1981 - Stephen Maguire, Scottish snooker player
1982 - Jeremy Curl, British explorer
1982 - Nicole Ohlde, WNBA basketball player
1983 - Kaitlin Sandeno, American swimmer
1984 - Rachael Bella, actress
1984 - Pieter Custers, Dutch athlete
1984 - Steve Darcis, Belgian tennis player
1984 - Noel Fisher, Canadian actor
1984 - Yuuka Nanri, Japanese seiyū
1984 - Marc Zwiebler, German badminton player
1985 - Emile Hirsch, Topanga, California, American actor (Into the Wild, Speed Racer)
1985 - Alcides, Brazilian football player
1985 - Austin Scott, American football player
1986 - Chiaki Kyan, Japanese gravure idol
1987 - Marco Andretti, American racecar driver (grandson of Mario Andretti)
1990 - Alec Medlock, American actor
1999 - Wiktoria Gąsiewska, Polish actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 13, 2013, 07:00:41 PM

This Day in History for 13th March


Famous Deaths

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Astronomer Percival Lowell (1855)


1202 - Mieszko III, the Elder, grand duke of Poland (1173-77, 1200-02), dies
1271 - Henry of Almain, English crusader (b. 1235)
1395 - John Barbour, Scottish poet
1516 - Vladislav II Jagiello, king of Bohemia (1490-1516), dies at 60
1558 - Jean Fernel, French physician/physiologist, dies
1569 - Louis Condé, French prince/co-leader of Hugenots, dies in Battle of Jarnac
1573 - Michel de l'Hôpital, French statesman
1604 - Arnaud d'Ossat, French diplomat and writer (b. 1537)
1619 - Richard Burbage, English actor (Shakespeare), dies
1711 - Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, French poet and critic (b. 1636)
1716 - Georg Gabriel Schutz, composer, dies at 46
1756 - Johann Melchior Conradi, composer, dies at 81
1773 - Philibert Commerçon, French naturalist and explorer (b. 1727)
1778 - Charles le Beau, French historian (b. 1701)
1803 - William Emes, English landscape architect (b. 1729 or 1730)
1808 - King Christian VII of Denmark (b. 1749)
1817 - Matej Sojka, composer, dies at 77
1837 - Nikita P Panin, Russian diplomat/min of Foreign affairs, dies at 66
1839 - Robert Gallenberg, composer, dies at 55
1842 - Henry Shrapnel, British soldier and inventor (b. 1761)
1879 - Adolf Anderssen, German world champ chess (1851..66), dies at 60
1881 - Alexander II, Tsar of Russia, assassinated at 62
1884 - Leland Stanford, Jr., son of American railroad magnate, Stanford University named for him (b.
           1868)
1890 - Henry Wylde, composer, dies at 67
1901 - Benjamin Harrison, 23rd pres (1889-1893), dies in Indianapolis at 67
1901 - Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States, dies at 67
1903 - Nicolas Beets [Hildebrand], Dutch writer (Camera Obscura), dies at 88
1906 - Susan Brownell Anthony, American suffragist, dies at 85
1911 - Jacob M van Bemmelen, Dutch physicist/chemist, dies at 80
1911 - John J. Toffey, American Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient (b. 1844)
1915 - Sergei J Witte, Dutch count/premier of Russia, dies at 65
1918 - Karel Stecker, composer, dies at 57
1918 - William Courtleigh, actor (Susie Snowflake), dies at 26
1925 - Lucille Ricksen, American actress (b. 1909)
1930 - Mary E W Freeman, US writer (Pembroke), dies at 77
1934 - Fritz Cortolezis, composer, dies at 56
1938 - Clarence S Darrow, Scopes Monkey Trial attorney, dies in Chicago at 80
1938 - Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, Russian politician and intellectual (b. 1888)
1941 - A Coenradi, Dutch resistance fighter, executed
1941 - Bernard Ijzerdraat, Dutch resistance fighter, executed
1941 - E Hellendoorn, Dutch resistance fighter, executed
1941 - Isaak E Babel, Russian writer (Zakat, Marija), executed at 46
1941 - J Eyl, Dutch resistance fighter, executed
1941 - Elizabeth Madox Roberts, American poet and novelist (b. 1881)
1943 - Stephen Vincent Benét, American author (b. 1898)
1945 - Herbert Bedford, composer, dies at 78
1946 - Abraham Bredius, Dutch art historian (Rembrandt), dies at 90
1946 - Thomas Frederick Dunhill, composer, dies at 69
1946 - Werner von Blomberg, German minister of Reichswehr, dies at 67
1949 - Henri Giraud, French general (b. 1879)
1951 - Alfred Hugenberg, German RC pres-dir of Krupp/media magnate, dies
1951 - James I Wedgwood, British theosophist/Catholic bishop, dies at 67
1955 - Maharajadhiraja Tribhuvana Bir Bikram Yung Bahadur Shum Shere, dies
1955 - Yung Deva, king of Nepal (191.-55), dies at about 48
1957 - Lena Ashwell, Engl actress/theatrical manager (Kingsway), dies at 84
1963 - Austin Dobson, British racing driver (b. 1912)
1964 - Kitty Genovese, stabbed to death in Queens; 40 neighbors looked on
1965 - George Calinescu, Romanian author (Lauda Lucrorilor), dies at 65
1965 - Corrado Gini, Italian statistician (b. 1884)
1965 - Fan S. Noli, Albanian bishop, poet, and politician (b. 1882)
1965 - Vittorio Jano, Italian engineer (b. 1891)
1967 - Frank Worrell, West indian cricketer, dies
1969 - Felix Locher, actor (Frankenstein's Daughter), dies at 86
1970 - Rick Besoyan, composer, dies at 45
1971 - Piero Coppola, composer, dies at 82
1971 - Rockwell Kens, US artist/painter/illustrator, dies at 88
1972 - Tony Ray-Jones, British photographer (b. 1941)
1973 - Stacy Harris, actor (NOPD, Doorway to Danger), dies at 54
1974 - Howard St John, actor (Investigator, Dr Lewis-Hank), dies at 68
1974 - Janos Prohaska, actor (Andy Williams Show), dies at 52
1975 - Ali Sastroamidjojo, Indonesian attorney/minister/premier, dies at 71
1975 - Ivo Andric, Yugoslavian author (Nemiri-Nobel 1961), dies at 82
1975 - Jean Del Val, actor (Sainted Devil, Flying Deuces), dies at 83
1975 - Ruth Schaumann, German author/painter/sculptor, dies at 75
1976 - Willy Alfredo, [Willem Jue], Dutch comedian/poet, dies at 77
1977 - Fanie Lou Hamer, freedom fighter, dies
1977 - Jan Patocka, Czech philosopher, dies in prison
1978 - David McKinley Williams, composer, dies at 91
1978 - Ghulam Mustafa Guard, cricketer (3 wkts in 2 Tests for India), dies
1980 - Tauno Kullerve Pylkkanen, composer, dies at 61
1982 - Albert Weisser, composer, dies at 64
1982 - Wilfred Hawker, Suriname sgt-major, executed
1983 - Louison Bobet, French cyclist (Tour de France 1953-55), dies at 58
1983 - Paul R Citroen, Dutch sculptor, dies at 86
1984 - Dick Whitington, journalist/cricketer (South Aust & AIF bat), dies
1986 - Alvaro Fayad Delgado, Colombian guerilla leader (M-19), dies
1987 - Bernhard Grzimek, West German zoologist, dies at 77
1987 - Finn Videro, composer, dies at 80
1987 - Gerald Moore, England, pianist (Am I Too Loud), dies at 87
1988 - Olive Carey, actress (Affairs With a Stranger), dies at 92
1990 - Bruno Bettelhelm, Austrian/US psychoanalyst, commits suicide at 86
1990 - Bruno Bettelheim, American psychiatrist (b. 1903)
1990 - Karl Münchinger, German conductor (b. 1915)
1991 - Cor Witschge, [Pipo the Clown], Dutch actor (Alicia), dies at 65
1991 - Jimmy McPartland, US, jazz cornetist, dies
1992 - Clarence Wright, singer, dies at 84
1992 - Hans Redeker, Dutch art critic (Algemeen Handelsblad), dies
1993 - Ralph Smith Fults, US gangster (Bonnie & Clyde gang), dies at 82
1994 - Danny Barker, US banjo player/guitarist (Bourbon St Black), dies at 85
1994 - Edward James "Murt" O'Donoghue, snooker player
1994 - Sandra Paretti, romantic novelist, dies at 59
1995 - Abdul Ali Mazari, Afghan shite leader, shot to death
1995 - John Silverlight, journalist, dies at 75
1995 - Leo Kaplan, lawyer (ASCAP), dies at 89
1995 - Leon Day, pitcher (Negro Leagues), dies of heart failure at 78
1995 - Lorraine Macleod, dancer (Girls Just Want to Have Fun), dies at 65
1995 - P C J van Lierde, Dutch vicar-gen of Vatican (1951-91), dies at 87
1996 - Brian Hulls, television news cameraman, dies at 48
1996 - Krzysztof Kieslowski, film director, dies of heart attack at 54
1996 - Lucio Fulci, filem director, dies at 68
1996 - Lucy Faithfull, children's campaigner, dies at 85
1998 - Bill Reid, Canadian artist (b. 1920)
1998 - Hans von Ohain, German engineer (b. 1911)
1999 - Lee Falk, American cartoonist (b. 1911)
1999 - Garson Kanin, American writer and director (b. 1912)
1999 - Bidu Sayão, Brazilian born soprano (b. 1902)
2001 - Encarnacion Alzona, Filipino historian (b. 1895)
2002 - Hans-Georg Gadamer, German philosopher (b. 1900)
2004 - Franz König, Austrian Catholic Archbishop of Vienna (b. 1905)
2006 - Maureen Stapleton, American actress (b. 1925)
2006 - Robert C. Baker, Inventor of the chicken nugget (b. 1921)
2006 - Peter Tomarken, American game show host (Press Your Luck) (b. 1942)
2006 - Jimmy Johnstone, Scottish footballer (b. 1944)
2007 - Arnold Skaaland, American professional wrestler (b. 1925)
2009 - Andrew Martin, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1975)
2009 - Betsy Blair, American actress of film and stage, (b. 1923)
2009 - James Purdy, American author, dies at 94
2010 - He Pingping, the world's shortest man who was able to walk. (b. 1988)
2011 - Owsley Stanley, Sound Engineer for The Grateful Dead and renowned LSD manufacturer (b.
           1935)
2012 - Jock Hobbs [Michael], New Zealand Rugby Union chairman and All Black, dies from leukemia at
           52

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 14, 2013, 02:46:40 PM

This Day in History for 14th March


Historical Events

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Naturalist Charles Darwin                    Inventor Ferdinand von Zeppelin          Oil Industrialist John D Rockefeller

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First Secretary of the Communist           US President John F. Kennedy            Singer & Actress Barbra Streisand
Party of the Soviet Union
Nikita Khrushchev

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Actor/Comedian Bill Cosby                        Singer Janet Jackson


1489 - The Queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro, sells her kingdom to Venice.
1558 - Ferdinand I appointed Holy Roman emperor
1559 - Storm floods ravage Gorinchem, Dordrecht & Woudrichem, Neth
1590 - Battle at Ivry: French King Henri IV beats Catholic League
1629 - England granted a royal charter to Massachusetts Bay Colony
1644 - England grants patent for Providence Plantations (now Rhode Island)
1647 - Thirty Years' War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm.
1653 - Johan van Galen beats English fleet at Livorno
1689 - Scotland dismisses Willem III & Mary Stuart as king & queen
1743 - 1st American town meeting (Boston's Faneuil Hall)
1757 - On-board the HMS Monarch, English Admiral John Byng is executed by firing squad for
           neglecting his duty.
1794 - Eli Whitney patents cotton gin
1800 - Luigi Chiaramonti crowned Pope Pius VII
1812 - Congress authorizes war bonds to finance War of 1812
1821 - African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church founded (NY)
1826 - General Congress of South American States assembles at Panama
1836 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin leaves Australia
1840 - Jose Zorilla's "El Zapatero y el Rey," premieres in Madrid
1843 - Boston conducts its 1st town meeting (Faneuil Hall)
1845 - -5.3°F (-20.7°C) in Groningen
1862 - Battle of New Bern NC: General Burnside conquers New Bern
1864 - Rossini's "Petite Messe Solennelle," premieres in Paris
1864 - Union troops occupy Fort de Russy, Louisiana
1869 - Defeat of Titokowaru.
1870 - California legislature approves act making Golden Gate Park possible
1875 - Smetana's "Vysehrad," premieres
1885 - Gilbert & Sullivan's comic opera "Mikado," premieres in London
1888 - 2nd largest snowfall in NYC history (21")
1889 - August Strindberg's "Froken Julie," premieres in Copenhagen
1889 - German Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his "Navigable Balloon"
1896 - Sutro Baths (SF) opens by Cliff House (closed Sept 1, 1952)
1899 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Shamrocks beat Winnipeg Victorias, 6-2
1900 - Hugo de Vries rediscovers Mendel's laws of genetics
1900 - US currency goes on gold standard
1901 - 1st performance of Anton Bruckner's 6th Symphony in A
1903 - 1st national bird reservation established in Sebastian, FL
1903 - Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Rat Portage Thisles in 2 games
1903 - WB Yeats & Lady Gregory's "Hour-glass," premieres in Dublin
1906 - Calgary City Rugby Foot-ball Club forms
1908 - Stanley Cup: Mont Wanderers beat Toronto Trolley Leaguers, 6-4
1909 - Amsterdam Social-Democratic Party (SDP) forms
1910 - Lakeview Gusher, the largest U.S. oil well gusher near Bakersfield, California, vented to
           atmosphere.
1912 - King Vittorio Emanuel III of Rome injured during assassination attempt
1913 - John D Rockefeller gives $100 million to Rockefeller Foundation
1914 - Serbia & Turkey sign peace treaty
1915 - German cruiser Dresden blows itself up near coast of Chile
1916 - Battle of Verdun - German attack on Mort-Homme ridge, West of Verdun
1918 - 1st concrete ship to cross the Atlantic (Faith) is launched, SF
1922 - KGU-AM in Honolulu HI begins radio transmissions
1922 - KSD-AM in Saint Louis MO begins radio transmissions
1922 - WGR-AM in Buffalo NY begins radio transmissions
1923 - Allies accepts Vilnus taking East-Galicia in Poland
1923 - German Supreme Court prohibits NSDAP
1923 - Pres Warren G Harding becomes 1st pres to pay taxes
1926 - A train in Costa Rica falls into the Río Virilla, killing 248 and injuring 93.
1931 - 1st theater built for rear movie projection (NYC)
1933 - Civilian Conservation Corp, begins tree conservation
1933 - Winston Churchill wants to boost air defense
1935 - 36-Folsom becomes 1st line to use 1-man streetcars
1936 - Federal Register, 1st magazine of the US government, publishes 1st issue
1937 - Battle of the Century: Fred Allen & Jack Benny meet on radio
1937 - Pope Pius XI publishes anti-nazi-encyclical Mit brennender Sorge
1939 - England draw with South Africa at Durban on the 10th day
1939 - Nazi Germany dissolves Republic of Czechoslovakia
1940 - 27 killed, 15 injured when truck full of migrant workers collides with a train outside McAllen,
           Texas
1941 - Nazi occupiers of Holland forbid Jewish owned companies
1941 - Xavier Cugat & orchestra record "Babalu"
1943 - World War II - The Kraków Ghetto is 'liquidated'.
1945 - RAF bomb cuts railway link Hannover-Hamm
1946 - Belgian government of Spaak, forms
1948 - Freedom Train arrives in SF
1950 - FBI's "10 Most Wanted Fugitives" program begins
1951 - During Korean War, US/UN forces recapture Seoul
1951 - Earthquake at Euskirchen, Germany
1953 - KOLR TV channel 10 in Springfield, MO (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 - Nikita Khrushchev succeeds Malenkov as secretary Comm Party
1954 - Braves Henry Aaron homers in his 1st exhibition game
1954 - KDAL (now KDLH) TV channel 3 in Duluth-Superior, MN (CBS) begins
1954 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1954 - NBA Baltimore Bullets end a 32 game road losing streak
1955 - Prince Mahemdra becomes king of Nepal
1956 - Satchel Paige signs with the Birmingham Black Barons (Negro League)
1957 - Indonesian government of Sastroamidjojo resigns
1958 - RIAA certifies 1st gold record (Perry Como's Catch A Falling Star)
1958 - Recording Industry Association of American created
1958 - South Africa government disallows ANC
1958 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1958 - USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
1960 - 14 die in a train crash in Bakersfield Calif
1960 - Wilt Chamberlain (Phila) sets NBA playoff record of 53 points
1961 - George Weiss becomes pres of NY Mets
1962 - Disarmament conference opens in Geneva without France
1962 - Gordie Howe (Det Red Wings) is 2nd NHLer to score 500 goals
1963 - SF Guy Rogers ties NBA record with 28 assists
1964 - "Girl Who Came to Supper" closes at Broadway NYC after 112 perfs
1964 - Dallas jury sentences Jack Ruby to death in Lee Harvey Oswald murder
1965 - Israeli cabinet approves diplomatic relations with West Germany
1967 - 1st NFL-AFL common draft, Balt Colts pick Bubba Smith
1967 - JFK's body moved from temporary grave to a permanent memorial
1968 - POM performs atmospheric nuclear test at Maralinga Australia
1968 - CBS TV suspends Radio Free Europe free advertising because RFE doesn't make it clear it is
           sponsored by the CIA
1969 - Barbara Jo Rubin becomes 1st woman jockey to win at Aqueduct
1969 - Seymour Nurse scores 258 in his last Test Cricket innings, WI v NZ
1971 - Barbra Streisand appears on "The Burt Bacharach Special" on CBS TV
1971 - Rolling Stones left England for France to escape taxes
1971 - South Vietnamese troops flee Laos
1971 - The Rolling Stones leave England for France to escape taxes
1972 - NBA's Cincinnati Royals announce they are moving to KC
1973 - Liam Cosgrave appointed president of Ireland
1976 - Jockey Bill Shoemaker wins his 7,000th race
1976 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1978 - Marines terminate Molukse action in Province house (1 dead)
1978 - NFL permanently adds 7th official (side judge)
1979 - In China, a Hawker Siddeley Trident crashes into a
           factory near Beijing, killing at least 200.
1980 - 3rd Emmy Sports Award presentation
1980 - Ice Dance Championship at Dortmund West Germany won by Regoczy & Sallay
1980 - Ice Pairs Championship at Dortmund won by Cherkasova & Shakhrai (USSR)
1980 - Polish airliner crash kills all 87 aboard (22 are US amateur boxers)
1980 - Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Dortmund won by Anett Potzsch
1982 - Sally Little wins LPGA Olympia Gold Golf Classic
1982 - Sidath Wettimuny scores Sri Lanka's 1st Test Cricket century
1983 - OPEC cut oil prices for 1st time in 23 years
1984 - Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 41-C mission
1984 - Gerry Adams, head of Sinn Féin, is seriously wounded in an assassination attempt in central
           Belfast.
1985 - 11th People's Choice Awards: Bill Cosby wins 4 awards
1985 - Michael Secrest (US) completes 24-hr ride of 516 miles, 427 yards
1986 - European Space Agency's Giotto flies by Halley's Comet (605 km)
1987 - Providence, with Billy Donovan's 25 points, beats Austin Peay 90-87
1987 - Skier Piotr Fijas jumps record 194m
1987 - Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Cincinnati won by Katarina Witt
1987 - NY Met Darryl Strawberry charges Red Sox pitcher Al Nipper during spring training exhibition
           game, causes bench clearing brawl
1990 - 4th Soul Train Music Awards: Soul II Soul, Janet Jackson
1990 - Mikhail S Gorbachev becomes president of the Soviet Congress
1991 - Emir of Kuwait returns to Kuwait City, after the Iraqis leave
1991 - Ice Dance Championship at Munich won by Isabel & Phil Duchesnay (FRA)
1991 - Ice Pairs Championship at Munich won by N Mishkutenok & A Dmitriev
1991 - Men's Figure Skating Championship in Munich won by Kurt Browning (CAN)
1991 - British Court of Appeal frees "Birmingham 6" who had been unjustly sentenced in August 
          1975 to life imprisonment
1992 - Farm Aid V
1992 - NY Met Daryl Boston, Vince Coleman & Dwight Gooden accused of rape
1992 - Soviet newspaper "Pravda" suspends publication
1993 - "Conversations with My Father" closes at Royale NYC after 462 perfs
1993 - "Face Value" closes at Cort Theater NYC after * performances
1993 - "Saint Joan" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 49 performances
1993 - 3,000th performance of "Nunsense"
1993 - Johan Koss skates world record 5km (6:36.57)
1993 - Meg Mallon wins LPGA Ping/Welch's Golf Championship
1993 - Ricky Ponting hits twin tons for Tasmania aged 18 years 84 days
1993 - Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Prague won by Oksana Baiul (UKR)
1994 - Mexican banker/billionaire Alfredo Harp Helu kidnapped
1994 - Soyuz TM-21 launches with V Dezyurov, G Strekalov & N Thagard
1994 - Timeline of Linux development: Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released.
1995 - 1st time 13 people in space
1996 - Australia beat West Indies by 5 runs in amazing cricket World Cup semi
1996 - Crufts show at NEC Birmingham, (1995 winner, Joshua, an Irish setter)
1997 - 68 year old Gordie Howe signs AHL contract with Syracuse Crunch
1997 - Iranian military plane crashes, killing 80
1997 - Olympic gold medalist Michael Johnson wins 67th James E Sullivan Award
1997 - Pres Clinton trips & tears up his knee requiring surgery
1997 - The Chinese city of Chongqing (formerly Chunking) is upgraded to a centrally administered
           municipality.
1998 - An earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale hits southeastern Iran.
2003 - Start of weekend of protests against war in Iraq that are attended by millions
2005 - Cedar Revolution, where over one and a million Lebanese went into the streets of Beirut to
           demonstrate against the Syrian military presence in Lebanon, and against the government,
           following the assassination of Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 14, 2013, 02:49:47 PM

This Day in History for 14th March


Famous Weddings

1850 - French writer and playwright Honoré de Balzac marries Ewelina Hańska in Berdyczów, Ukraine
1946 - American author and journalist "The Old Man and the Sea" Ernest Hemingway marries Mary
          Welsh
2006 - OVW Heavyweight wrestling champion Matt Cappotelli (26) weds Lindsay Seeders at Makena
          Cove Beach in Maui
2006 - Argentinean actress Andrea Frigerio (44) weds Lucas Boccino in an intimate civil ceremony
2006 - Comedian actor Jack Black (36) weds musician and animator Tanya Haden (34) in Big Sur,
          California

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 14, 2013, 02:57:19 PM

This Day in History for 14th March


Famous Birthdays

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Theoretical Physicist                                 Actor Michael Caine (1933)                    Composer & Singer
Albert Einstein (1879)                                                                                            Quincy Jones Jr (1933)


1623 - Adam-Nicolas Gascon, composer
1638 - Johann Georg Gichtel, German mystic (d. 1710)
1681 - Georg Philipp Telemann, Magdeburg Germany, late baroque composer
1692 - Peter Musschenbroek, Dutch physician/physicist (Leyden jar)
1726 - Josef Antonin Stepan, composer
1727 - Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, composer
1755 - Pierre-Louis Couperin, composer
1782 - Thomas Hart Benton, (rep), "Old Bullion"
1790 - Ludwig Emil Grimm, German painter and engraver (d. 1863)
1795 - Rubert Lucas Pearsall, composer
1800 - James Bogardus, US inventor/builder (made cast-iron buildings)
1804 - Johann Strauss, the Elder, Viennese violinist and composer (Radetzky March) (d. 1849)
1807 - Josephine of Leuchtenberg, queen of Sweden and Norway (d. 1876)
1808 - Catharinus Putnam Buckingham, Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
1815 - Josephine Lang, composer
1816 - Montgomery Dent Corse, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1895
1820 - Victor Emmanuel II, King of Sardinia (1849-61)/Italy (1861-78)
1821 - Jens Worsaae, Denmark, archaeologist
1822 - Teresa of the Two Sicilies, Empress of Brazil (d. 1889)
1823 - Roswell Sabine Ripley, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1887
1823 - Théodore de Banville, French writer (d. 1891)
1826 - William Fisk Sherwin, composer
1829 - Charles Charlesworth, England, (dies at 7 of old age)
1831 - Leon Leopold Lewandoski, composer
1833 - John Sappington Marmaduke, Major General (Confederate Army)
1833 - Lucy Hobbs Taylor, 1st US woman dentist (1866)
1835 - Giovanni V Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (Mars) [or March 4]
1835 - Manuel Fernandez Caballero, composer
1837 - Charles Ammi Cutter, US librarian (Expansive classification)
1844 - King Umberto I, of Italy (1878-1900)
1847 - Antonio de Castro Alves, Brazilian poet (Espumas Flutuantes)
1853 - Ferdinand Hodler, Swiss painter (d. 1918)
1854 - Paul Ehrlich, Germany, bacteriologist (Nobel-1908)
1854 - Thomas Riley Marshall, (D) 28th VP (1913-21)
1854 - Alexandru Macedonski, Romanian writer (d. 1920)
1854 - John Lane, British publisher (d. 1925)
1862 - Vilhelm FK Bjerknes, Norwegian/US physicist/meteorology
1864 - [John] Casey Jones, RR engineer (Ballad of Casey Jones)
1866 - Alexey Troitsky, Russian chess problemist (d. 1942)
1869 - Algernon Blackwood, British writer (d. 1951)
1873 - Johannes Aengenent, sociologist/bishop of Haarlem (1928-35)
1874 - Anton F Philips, president-director of Philips
1874 - Mary Carr, Phila, actress (Forbidden Trail, Pack Up Your Troubles)
1875 - Isadore Gilbert Mudge, US, librarian/author (Thackeray Dictionary)
1875 - Norman Houstoun O'Neill, composer
1878 - Carel T Scharten, Dutch poet/writer (Forces of the Future)
1879 - Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate (theory of relativity)
1880 - Oscar (Bachigaloupi) Tourniaire, actor/director (Pink Kate)
1882 - Waclaw Sierpinski, Polish mathematician (d. 1969)
1883 - Juan Manen, composer
1884 - Albert Egges van Giffen, Dutch archaeologist
1884 - Winter Haynes Watts, composer
1885 - Raoul Lufbery, American World War I pilot (d. 1918)
1886 - Firmin Lambot, Belgian cyclist (d. 1964)
1887 - George Creten, Belgian sculptor/painter
1887 - Lawrence Collingwood, composer
1887 - Sylvia Beach, American publisher (d. 1962)
1888 - Marc-Aurèle Fortin, Quebec painter (d. 1970)
1891 - John P Strijbos, Dutch writer (Wandering through South-Africa)
1892 - Olive Netta Parsons, co-founder (Collet's Bookshop)
1894 - Josef Schelb, composer
1894 - Osa Johnson, American explorer (d. 1953)
1895 - Frans Ganshof, Belgian historian
1898 - Arnold Chikobava, Georgian linguist (d. 1985)
1899 - K.C. Irving, Canadian industrialist (d. 1992)
1903 - Molla Mustafa Barzani, Iran, Kurd leader (KDP)
1903 - Adolph Gottlieb American painter (d. 1974)
1904 - Doris Eaton Travis, American actress, Ziegfeld girl
1905 - Raymond Aron, French sociologist/political scientist
1906 - Ulvi Cemal Erkin, composer
1908 - Maurice (Jean Jacques) Merleau-Ponty, French philosopher
1908 - Nikolay Petrovich Rakov, composer
1908 - Ed Heinemann, American aircraft designer (Douglas Aircraft; d. 1991)
1909 - Andre Pieyre de Mandiargues, French writer (Margin)
1911 - Pete Piute, [Morris Kaufman], NYC, comedian (Village Barn)
1912 - Les Brown, Reinerton Pa, orchestra leader (& his band of renown)
1912 - Les Brown, American bandleader (d. 2001)
1913 - Witold Rudzinski, composer
1914 - Henry Ralph Carr, soldier
1914 - Jiri Reinberger, composer
1914 - Lee Elhardt Hays, American folksinger (d. 1981)
1914 - Bill Owen, British actor (d. 1999)
1914 - Lee Petty, American race car driver (d. 2000)
1915 - Alexander Brott, composer
1915 - Carlos Surinach, Barcelona Spain, composer (Monte Carlo) [NS]
1915 - Kenneth Rowntree, painter
1916 - Horton Foote, American author, playwright and screenwriter
1917 - Macha Louis Rosenthal, critic/poet
1918 - Dennis Patrick, Phila, actor (Dear Dead Delilah, Dallas, Rituals)
1919 - Luther Henderson Jr, KC Mo, orchestra leader (Polly Bergen Show)
1919 - Max Shulman, novelist (Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Tender Trap)
1920 - Dorothy Tyler-Odam, Great Britain, high jumper (Oly-silver-36, 48)
1920 - Hank Ketcham, cartoonist (Dennis the Menace)
1921 - Lis Hartel, Denmark, equestrian dressage (Olympic-silver-1952, 56)
1921 - S. Truett Cathy, founder of Chick-fil-A
1922 - Colin Fletcher, author (Walking Through Time)
1922 - Les Baxter, US, singer/orchestra leader/composer (Born Again)
1923 - Diane Arbus, photographer/innovator
1925 - John Barrington Wain, England, novelist/poet (Hurry on Down)
1925 - Francis A. Marzen, American Catholic prelate (d. 2004)
1926 - Francois d'Assise Morel, composer
1927 - Bill Rexford, auto racer
1927 - Joop F Wolff, Dutch editor (Truth)/Dutch politician (CPN)
1928 - Frank Borman, Gary Ind, astronaut (Gem 7, Ap 8 )/CEO (Eastern Airline)
1929 - Thomas Bell Jr, race horse trainer
1930 - Dieter Schnebel, German vicar/composer
1930 - Ray Flockton, cricketer (prolific NSW batsman of 50's)
1931 - Bob Goalby, golfer (British Open-1968, Canadian Open-1968, NZ-1970)
1931 - Phil Phillips [Baptiste], rock vocalist (Sea Of Love)
1932 - Naina Yeltsina, Russia's first First Lady
1933 - Michael Caine, [Maurice J Micklewhite], London, actor (Alfie)
1933 - Quincy Jones Jr, Chicago Ill, composer/singer (We Are The World)
1933 - René Felber, former member of the Swiss Federal Council
1934 - Eugene A Cernan, Chicago, Capt USN/astronaut (Gemini 9, Apollo 10 17)
1934 - Shirley Scott, swing/blues organist (with Stanley Turrentine)
1934 - Paul Rader, the 15th General of The Salvation Army
1935 - Jo van den Booren, composer
1936 - Bob Charles, Carterton NZ, PGA golfer (1963 Houston Open)
1936 - Bob Charles, New Zealand golfer
1937 - Peter van der Merwe, cricketer (South African captain of mid-1960's)
1938 - Johnny Gleeson, cricketer (mystery spinner for Australia 1966-72)
1939 - Bertrand Blier, Paris France, novelist/director (Going Places)
1939 - William Benjamin Lenoir, Miami Florida, astronaut (STS 5)
1939 - Raymond J. Barry, American actor
1939 - Stavros Xarhakos, Greek composer
1940 - Eleanor Fount, English actress (Women in Love, Bedazzled)
1940 - Rita Tushingham, Liverpool England, actress (Green Eyes, Dr Zhivago)
1941 - Wolfgang Petersen, Emden Germany, actor (Shattered, Enemy Mine)
1942 - Jerry Jeff Walker, Oneonta NY, country singer (Mr Bojangles)
1942 - John Whittaker, English real estate developer (Peel Holdings)
1942 - Rita Tushingham, British actress
1943 - Jim Pons, Santa Monica CA, bassist (Turtles, Mothers of Invention)
1944 - Clyde Lee, NBAer
1944 - Peter Paul Zahl, writer
1945 - Herman[us J] van Veen, Neth, cabaretier/singer/composer/writer
1945 - Michael Martin Murphey, Dallas Tx, country singer (Wildfire)
1945 - Walt Parazaider, Chicago Ill, rock saxophonist (Chicago)
1946 - Jasper Carrott, English comedian (Jane & the Lost City, Detectives)
1946 - Steve Kanaly, Burbank California, actor (Fleshburn, Ray Krebbs-Dallas)
1946 - Wes Unseld, NBA all-star (Baltimore Bullets, MVP 1969)
1947 - Billy Crystal, Long Beach NY, comedian (Soap, Saturday Night Live, City Slickers)
1947 - Jan [AJ] te Veldhuis, Dutch MP (VVD)
1947 - Janis Schmitt, St Louis Mo, playmate (February, 1978)
1947 - Jimmy O'Rourke, rocker
1947 - William Jefferson, (Rep-D-Louisiana)
1947 - Pam Ayres, British poet
1948 - Tom Coburn, American politician, junior senator from Oklahoma
1949 - Michael Stedman, British World War I Historian and Author
1950 - Michael Ford, son of pres Gerald & Betty Ford
1951 - Rick Dees, radio disc jock (KIIS LA)
1951 - Jerry Greenfield, American co-founder of Ben & Jerry's ice cream
1952 - J Fred Muggs, chimp (Today show)
1953 - Tim McKee, US, 400m medley swimmer (Olympic-silver-1972)
1954 - Adrian Zmed, Chicago Ill, actor (TJ Hooker, Dance Fever)
1954 - David La Croix, race horse trainer
1954 - Jann Browne, country singer (Mexican Wind)
1955 - Boon Gould, rock guitarist (Level 42-Hot Water)
1956 - Natalya Dmitriyevna Kuleshova, Russia, cosmonaut
1956 - Tessa Sanderson, Kingston Jamaica, Brit javelin thrower (Oly-gold-84)
1956 - Colin Ayre, British football player
1957 - Andrew Robinson, British author
1957 - Tad Williams, American author
1958 - Albert Alexandre Louis Pierre, Prince of Monaco/bobsledder (Oly-1988)
1959 - Patrick Dupond, Paris, dancer (La Bayadere)
1959 - Tamara Tunie, American actress
1960 - George Horvath, Sweden, pentathlete (Olympic-1980)
1960 - Helen Hopkins, Donneybrook Australia, golfer (Australian Intl 1983)
1961 - Gary Dell'Abate, producer (Howard Stern Show)
1961 - Grigoriy Kornev, Russian speed walker (world record 5 km)
1961 - Russell Todd, actor (Jamie Frame-Another World)
1961 - Greg Anderson, American NHRA driver
1961 - Penny Johnson Jerald, American actress
1962 - Kirby Puckett, centerfielder (Minnesota Twins)
1963 - Bruce Reid, cricketer (brilliant left-arm Aust pace bowler 1985-92)
1963 - Pedro Duque, Madrid Spain, engineer/astronaut (STS 78 alt, sk:95)
1964 - Donald Evans, NFL defensive end/tackle (NY Jets)
1964 - Richard Migliore, jockey
1965 - John Stephenson, cricketer (Engld opening bat in one Test v Aust 1989)
1965 - Kevin Brown, Mcintyre GA, pitcher (Florida Marlins)
1965 - Catherine Dent, American actress
1965 - Aamir Khan, Indian actor
1965 - Kiana Tom, American fitness guru and model
1965 - Kevin Williamson, American screenwriter
1966 - Darcy Wakaluk, Pincher Creek, NHL goalie (Dallas Stars)
1966 - Tertius Bosch, cricketer (South African pace bowler 1992)
1966 - Elise Neal, American actress
1967 - Edward M Fincke, Pitts PA, Capt USAF/astronaut
1967 - Melissa Brennan Reeves, Eatontown NJ, actress (Jen-Days of our Lives)
1967 - Vijay Yadav, cricketer (Indian wicket-keeper between More & Mongia)
1968 - Megan Follows, actress (Chase, Anne of Green Gables)
1969 - Greg Biekert, NFL linebacker (Oakland Raiders)
1969 - Larry Johnson, NBA forward (Charlotte Hornets, NY Knicks)
1969 - Laura Leighton, actress (Sydney-Melrose Place, Other Woman)
1969 - Ty[rel] Bennion, Seattle Wash, rower (Olympics-1996)
1970 - Meredith Salenger, actress (Dream a Little Dream, The Kiss)
1970 - Thomas McLemore, NFL tight end (Indianapolis Colts)
1970 - Ebru Kavaklıoğlu, Russian athlete
1971 - Ernie Brown, CFL defensive tackle (Calgary Stampeders)
1972 - Antowain Smith, running back (Buffalo Bills)
1972 - Aris Brimanis, Cleveland, NHL defenseman (Phila Flyers)
1972 - Clover Maitland, Australian field hockey goal keeper (Olympics-96)
1972 - Tom Barndt, NFL/WLAF guard (KC Chiefs, Scottish Claymores)
1973 - Chris Sullivan, defensive end (New England Patriots)
1974 - Justine Joyce, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1975 - Stephen Harper, British/English footballer
1975 - Wendy Rice, American actress
1975 - Rico Yan, Filipino actor (d. 2002)
1976 - Sarah Elizabeth Ulmer, Auckland NZ, 3k ind pursuit cyclist (Oly-96)
1977 - Aki Hoshino, Japanese model
1978 - Carlo Giuliani, Italian anarchist (d. 2001)
1978 - Pieter van den Hoogenband, Dutch swimmer
1979 - Chris Klein, American actor
1979 - Nicolas Anelka, French footballer
1979 - Love, Angolan footballer
1979 - Sead Ramović, German-born Bosnian footballer
1980 - Matteo Grassotto, Italian racing driver
1980 - Ben Herring, New Zealand rugby union footballer
1980 - Aaron Brown, British/English footballer
1980 - Mercedes McNab, Canadian-born actress
1981 - Bobby Jenks, American baseball player
1981 - Mei-Ting Sun, Chinese-born pianist
1982 - Kate Maberly, actress (Secret Garden)
1982 - Carlos Marinelli, Argentine footballer
1982 - François Sterchele, Belgian footballer (d. 2008)
1983 - Jordan Taylor Hanson, Tulsa OK, singer (Hansons-MMMMbop)
1983 - Bakhtiyar Artayev, Kazakh boxer
1984 - Liesel Matthews, American former child actress
1985 - Idaira, Spanish singer
1986 - Elton Chigumbura, Zimbabwean cricketer
1986 - Jamie Bell, British actor
1986 - Andy Taylor, British/English footballer
1989 - Oliver Bernsen, son of Corbin Bernsen & Amanda Pays

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 14, 2013, 03:00:06 PM

This Day in History for 14th March


Famous Deaths

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Communist Philosopher Karl Marx (1883)


840 - Eginhard, French nobleman/biographer (Vita Karoli Magni), dies at 69
968 - Matilda of Ringelheim, German Queen (c. 895)
1272 - Re Enzo, Italian poet/son of Emp Frederik II von Hohenstaufen, dies
1298 - Petrus Johannis Olivi, South France theologist, dies
1457 - Jingtai Emperor of China (b. 1428)
1490 - Charles I, Duke of Savoy, dies at 21
1559 - Jacques d'Auchy, Walloon baptist merchant, executed
1573 - Claude II, of Lotharingen, duke of Aumale/murdered adm Coligny, dies
1590 - Philip van Egmont, general/prince of Gavere, dies in battle at Ivry at 30
1612 - Philip Galle, Flemish engraver, dies at about 74
1647 - Frederik Hendrik, count of Nassau/prince of Orange, dies at 63
1648 - Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, English general (b. 1584)
1680 - René Le Bossu, French critic (b. 1631)
1682 - Jacob I van Ruysdael, physician/landscape painter, dies at about 53
1696 - Jean Domat, French jurist (b. 1625)
1698 - Claes Rålamb, Swedish statesman (b. 1622)
1748 - George Wade, British military leader (b. 1673)
1757 - John Byng, English Admiral executed by firing squad at 52 for for neglecting his duty in
           defence of Minorca
1760 - Anton Filtz, composer, dies at 26
1768 - Vigilio Blasio Faitello, composer, dies at 58
1791 - Johann Salomo Semler, German historian and Bible commentator (b. 1725)
1801 - Christian Friedrich Penzel, composer, dies at 63
1803 - Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German poet, dies at 78
1805 - Stanisław Szczęsny Potocki, Russian general (b. 1753)
1811 - August Henry Fitzroy, English premier (1768-70), dies at 75
1823 - Charles François Dumouriez, French general (b. 1739)
1861 - Abraham Louis Niedermeyer, composer, dies at 58
1883 - Karl Marx, German philosopher (Communist Manifesto), dies at 64
1884 - Quintino Sella, Italian statesman (b. 1827)
1899 - Emile Erckmann, French writer (Waterloo), dies at 76
1903 - Johannes H Weissenbruch, Dutch landscape painter, dies at 88
1925 - Walter Camp, father of American football, dies at 65
1932 - George Eastman, US industrialist (Kodak-camera), suicide at 77
1933 - Balto, husky dog who brought back the antitoxin in 1925
1944 - Pavel Grigor'yevich, composer, dies at 66
1949 - John Callan O'Laughlin, American political and military figure and journalist (b. 1873)
1953 - Klement Gottwald, premier/president of Czechoslovakia, dies at 56
1954 - Ludomir Michal Rogowski, composer, dies at 72
1957 - Evagoras Pallikarides, Cypriot freedom fighter (b. 1938)
1958 - Eugeen Van de Velde, Flemish musicologist/critic/composer, dies at 64
1961 - Akiba Rubinstein, Polish chess player (opening theorist), dies at 78
1968 - Erwin Panofsky, German/US art historian/iconologist, dies
1969 - Ben Shahn, US painter, dies at 70
1973 - Murat B "Chic" Young, US comic strip artist (Blondie), dies at 72
1973 - Rafael Godoy, Colombian composer (b. 1907)
1975 - Susan Hayward, actress (Young & Willing), dies at 56
1976 - Alberta Franklin, silent screen actress, dies at 79
1976 - Busby Berkeley, US choreographer/dir (Strike Up the Band), dies at 80
1976 - Martha Saalfeldt, writer, dies
1977 - Fannie Lou Hamer, American civil rights activist (b. 1917)
1980 - Mohammad Hatta, Indonesian politician (b. 1902)
1981 - Ken Barrington, cricketer (82 Tests for England, 6806 runs), dies
1982 - Kirill Vladimirovich Molchanov, composer, dies at 59
1983 - Maurice Ronet, actor (Circle of Love, Frantic, Sphinx), dies at 55
1984 - Aurelio Peccei, Italian businessman/CEO (Club Rome), dies at 75
1986 - Benno Ammann, composer, dies at 81
1986 - Edith Atwater, actress (Phyllis-Love on a Rooftop), dies at 74
1986 - Jozef Kresanek, composer, dies at 73
1986 - Marlin Perkins, TV host (Wild Kingdom) at 80
1989 - Edward Abbey (environmental author), dies after surgery at 62
1989 - Zita, Empress of Austria/Queen of Hungary, dies at 96
1991 - Howard Ashman, song writer (Under the Sea), dies of AIDs at 40
1991 - Jef Houthuys, Belgian union leader (ACV, 1968-87), dies at 68
1991 - Jerome "Doc" Pomus, lyricist (Save Last Dance for Me), dies at 65
1991 - Robert Maroff, dies at 57
1991 - Margery Sharp, children's author (b. 1905)
1992 - C V Wood Jr, theme park developer (Disneyland), dies of cancer at 71
1992 - Jean Poiret, French actor/writer (La Cage aux Folles), dies at 65
1992 - Ralph James, actor (Orson-Mork & Mindy), dies at 67
1992 - Steven Brian Pennell, 1st execution in Delaware in 45 years at 34
1994 - Abdelkader Alloula, Algerian playwright, murdered
1994 - Sally Mary Caroline Belfrage, writer, dies at 57
1995 - Gerard Thomas Victory, composer, dies at 73
1995 - Johan W "Jo" van Marle, CEO (KNVB, 1980-93), dies at 70
1995 - William A Fowler, US nuclear/astro physicist (Nobel 1983), dies at 83
1996 - Dewi Lorwerth Ellis Bebb, rugby international/journalist, dies at 57
1996 - Nico Kiasashvii, professor of English Literature, dies at 69
1996 - Vic Marshall, chemist, dies at 74
1997 - Fred Zinnemann (director), dies of heart attack at 89
1997 - John Curtis Jr, pres/CEO (Luby's Cafe), commits suicide at 58
1999 - Kirk Alyn, American actor (b. 1910)
2002 - Cherry Wilder, New Zealand-born author (b. 1930)
2003 - Jack Goldstein, Canadian-born artist (b. 1945)
2003 - Jean-Luc Lagardère, French publisher (b. 1928)
2006 - Ann Calvello, Roller Derby Queen (b. 1929)
2006 - Lennart Meri, former president of Estonia (b. 1929)
2007 - Lucie Aubrac, French history teacher and member of the French Resistance (b. 1912)
2007 - Gareth Hunt, English actor (b. 1943)
2008 - Chiara Lubich, Italian Catholic activist and leader and foundress of the Focolare (b. 1920)
2008 - Anthony Minghella, English Oscar winning film director (b. 1954)
2009 - Alain Bashung, French singer, songwriter, comedian and actor. (b. 1947)
2009 - Altovise Davis, American entertainer, best known as Sammy Davis, Jr.'s third wife. (b. 1943)
2010 - Peter Graves [Aurness], American actor (b. 1926)
2012 - Censu Tabone, President of Malta, dies at 98
2012 - Pierre Schoendoerffer, French Academy Award winning director and screen writer, dies from
           surgical complications at 83

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 15, 2013, 03:02:50 PM

This Day in History for 15th March


Historical Events

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First US President                                    Roman Military and Political                 US President Woodrow Wilson
George Washington                                  Leader Julius Caesar

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Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini                Actress Ingrid Bergman                      NBA Player Oscar Robertson

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Singer Tom Jones                                    Rock Guitarist Jimi Hendrix                    Model & Actress Brooke Shields

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Actor/Comedian Bill Cosby                          Singer Whitney Houston


44 BC - Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus,
            Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus and several other Roman senators on the
          Ides of March.
221 - Liu Bei, a Chinese warlord and member of the Han royal house, declares himself emperor of
         Shu-Han and claims his legitimate succession to the Han Dynasty.
351 - Constantius II elevates his cousin Gallus to Caesar, and puts him in charge of the Eastern part
         of the Roman Empire.
493 - Theodorik the Great beats Odoaker of Italy
933 - Battle at Riade: German King Henry I beats Magyaren
1311 - Battle of Halmyros: The Catalan Company defeats Walter V of Brienne to take control of the
           Duchy of Athens, a Crusader state in Greece.
1360 - France invasion army lands on English south coast, conquers Winchel
1382 - Conservative "Popolo Grasso" regain power in Florence Italy
1391 - Jew hating Monk in Seville Spain stirs up people to attack Jews
1493 - Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after 1st new world voyage
1545 - First meeting of the Council of Trent.
1560 - Failed assault on royal palace in Amboise France
1562 - General Francois de Guise enters Paris
1580 - Spanish king Philip II puts 25,000 gold coins on head of prince Willem of Orange
1672 - King Charles II enacts Declaration of Indulgence
1729 - Sister St Stanislas Hachard, 1st US nun, takes her vows, N Orleans
1744 - French King Louis XV declares war on England
1778 - Nootka Sound, Vancouver Is discovered by Capt Cook
1781 - Battle of Guilford Court House, SC (British suffer heavy losses)
1783 - In an emotional speech in Newburgh, New York, George Washington asks his officers not to
           support the Newburgh Conspiracy. The plea is successful and the threatened coup d'etat
           never takes place.
1812 - 1st Russian settlement in California, Russian River
1820 - Maine admitted as 23rd state
1827 - Freedom's Journal, 1st Black newspaper, publishes
1827 - University of Toronto is chartered
1848 - A revolution breaks out in Hungary. The Habsburg rulers are compelled to meet the demands
           of the Reform party.
1855 - Louisiana establishes 1st health board to regulate quarantine
1862 - Gen John Hunt Morgan begins 4 days of raids near Gallatin, TN
1864 - Red River Campaign-Union forces reach Alexandria, LA
1867 - Michigan becomes 1st state to tax property to support a university
1869 - Cincinnati Red Stockings become the 1st pro baseball team
1869 - Cincinnati Red Stockings beat Antioch 41-7
1875 - 1st US cardinal (John McCloskey) invested
1877 - Commencement of 1st Test Cricket, Australia v England at MCG
1885 - 1st performance of Caesar Franck's "Lesson Djinns"
1887 - 1st salaried fish & game warden (William Alden Smith in Michigan)
1889 - 6 US & German warships perish in harbor of Apia Samoa, 200 die
1892 - 1st escalator patented by inventor Jesse W Reno (NYC)
1892 - NY State unveils automatic ballot booth (voting machine)
1897 - 1st indoor fly casting tournament opens, at Madison Square Garden
1901 - Horse racing is banned in San Francisco, last race Mar 16th
1903 - Frederick Lugard occupies Sokoto West Africa
1906 - Brits Rolls, Royce & Johnson form Rolls Royce Ltd
1907 - Finland is 1st European country to give women the right to vote
1908 - 1st performance of Maurice Ravel's "Rapsodie Espagnole"
1912 - Pitcher Cy Young retires from baseball with 511 wins
1913 - 1st presidential press conference (Woodrow Wilson)
1913 - Cleveland establishes 1st small claims court
1915 - Neth merchant ship Tubantia torpedoed & sinks in North Sea
1916 - Gen Pershing, 15,000 troops chasing Villa into Mexico, stays 10-mos
1916 - University of Gent goes under Dutch control
1917 - Nicholas II, the last Russian Tsar abdicates
1919 - American Legion forms (Paris)
1922 - 1st southern radio station begins (WSB, Atlanta Georgia)
1923 - Lenin is hit with his 3rd stroke
1926 - Belgium's "black monday," franc falls
1928 - Benito Mussolini modifies Italy electoral system (abolishes right to choose)
1930 - 1st seaplane glider flown, Port Washington, NY
1930 - 1st streamlined submarine of US navy, USS Nautilus, launched
1933 - NAACP begins coordinated attack on segregation & discrimination
1934 - US Information Service opens
1935 - George Headley completes 270 in cricket v England at Kingston
1937 - 1st blood bank forms (Chicago IL)
1937 - 1st state contraceptive clinic opens (Raleigh NC)
1939 - Hitler occupies Bohemia & Moravia (Czechoslovakia); Slovakia independ
1940 - Goering says 100-200 church bells enough for Germany, smelt the rest
1941 - Blizzard in ND kills 151
1943 - Allied reconnaissance flight over Java
1943 - Red Army evacuates Kharkov
1944 - Italian town of Cassino destroyed by Allied bombing
1945 - 17th Academy Awards - "Going my Way," Bing Cosby & Ingrid Bergman win
1945 - Bert Shepard (1 legged WW II vet) tries out as a pitcher for Senators
1945 - Billboard publishes its 1st album chart (King Cole Trio is #1)
1945 - Catholic University of Nijmegen reopens
1945 - Dodgers open spring training at Bear Mountain NY
1946 - British premier Attlee agrees with India's right to independence
1947 - John Lee appointed 1st black commissioned officer in US Navy
1948 - Bradman scores 115 for the Australian cricket team v Western Australia
1948 - Sir Laurence Olivier on the cover of LIFE magazine
1948 - WCAU TV channel 10 in Philadelphia, PA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1949 - WICU TV channel 12 in Erie, PA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1949 - WLWD (now WDTN) TV channel 2 in Dayton, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting
1950 - "Consul" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 269 performances
1950 - Gian Carlo Menotti's opera "Consul," premieres in NYC
1950 - NYC hires Dr Wallace E Howell as its official "rainmaker"
1951 - Persia nationalizes Anglo-Iranian Oil Company
1952 - "2 in the Aisle" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 276 perfs
1952 - Greatest 24-hr rainfall begins: 187 cm at La Reunion, Indian Ocean
1953 - Patty Berg wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1953 - West Germany loses in soccer to Netherlands, 2-1
1954 - "CBS Morning Show" premieres with Walter Cronkite & Jack Paar
1954 - WSJV TV channel 28 in Elkhart-South Bend, IN (ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 - Dutch 2nd Chamber requires TV licenses
1955 - US Air Force unveils self-guided missile
1955 - WLEX TV channel 18 in Lexington, KY (NBC) begins broadcasting
1956 - "My Fair Lady" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 2,715 perfs
1956 - Whipper Billy Watson beats Lou Thesz in Toronto, to become NWA champ
1957 - 3rd nation to explode a nuclear bomb (Britain)
1958 - "Body Beautiful" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 60 performances
1958 - KULR TV channel 8 in Billings, MT (NBC/ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting
1958 - Oscar Robertson of Cin scores a NCAA midwest region-record 56 pts
1958 - Royals basketball star Maurice Stokes collapsed during a playoff game with encephalitis; He
           goes into a coma & is permanently disabled
1958 - USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
1959 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1959 - Richard Rogers' "No Strings" opens on Broadway
1959 - Robert Foster sets record by staying underwater 13 m 42.5 s
1959 - WILX TV channel 10 in Lansing, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting
1960 - Key Largo Coral Reef Preserve established (1st underwater park)
1960 - National Observatory at Kitt Peak, Arizona dedicated
1961 - South Africa withdrews from British Commonwealth
1962 - "No Strings" opens at 84th St Theater NYC for 580 performances
1962 - 5 research groups announce simultaneously discovery of anti-matter
1962 - Donald Jackson of Canada, is 1st to land a triple lutz ice skate jump
1962 - KATU TV channel 2 in Portland, OR (ABC) begins broadcasting
1962 - Richard Rodger's musical "No Strings," premieres in NYC
1962 - Wilt Chamberlain is 1st to score 4,000 pts in an NBA season
1963 - WFAN TV channel 14 in Washington, DC (IND) begins broadcasting
1964 - LBJ asks for a War on Poverty
1964 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1965 - LBJ asks congress to ensure everybody's right to vote
1965 - T.G.I. Friday's 1st restaurant opens in NYC
1965 - WMFE TV channel 24 in Orlando, FL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1966 - 8th Grammy Awards: Taste of Honey, Tom Jones, Sintra & Striesand
1966 - Racial riots erupt in the Watts section of Los Angeles
1967 - AFCENT-headquarter moves to Brunssum
1967 - Marshal Arturo da Costa e Silva sworn in as pres of Brazil
1967 - WSJK TV channel 2 in Sneedville/Knoxville, TN (PBS) 1st broadcast
1968 - Bob Beamon sets indoor long jump record (27'2-3/4")
1968 - British minister of Foreign affairs George Brown resigns
1968 - LIFE mag calls Jimi Hendrix "most spectacular guitarist in the world"
1968 - US Mint stops buying & selling gold
1968 - Uprising in South Yemen
1968 - Diocese of Rome announces that it "deplored the concept," but wouldn't prohibit rock & roll
           masses at Church of San Lessio Falconieri
1969 - US Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas resigns
1969 - Violent Chinese-Russian border dispute leaves 100s dead
1970 - "Purlie" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 689 performances
1970 - Expo '70 opens in Osaka, Japan
1970 - Gary Geld & Peter Udell's "Purlie," premieres in NYC
1971 - Chatrooms make their debut on the Internet
1972 - Assassination attempt on governor George Wallace of Alabama
1972 - Danish airliner hit mountain in Sheikdom of Oman killing 112
1972 - NASA selects 3 part configuration for Space Shuttle
1974 - Brazilian president Garastazu Médici resigns
1975 - Bundy victim Julie Cunningham disappears from Vail, Colo
1975 - Jevgeni Kulikov skates world record 500m (37.99 sec)
1976 - Failed coup in Niger
1977 - "Eight is Enough" premiers on ABC-TV
1977 - US House of Reps begin 90 day test of televising its sessions
1977 - First official test cricket match is played between Australia and England at Melbourne
1978 - -21] operation Litani: Israeli offensive in South Lebanon
1978 - A's trade Vida Blue to Giants for 7 players & $390,000
1978 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1979 - Apparat releases Newdos + 2.1 for Radio Shack's TRS-80
1979 - Isle's Bryan Trottier's 5th career hat trick
1979 - Sarfraz takes 9-86 at MCG as Australia lose 7-5 to lose the Test
1981 - "Broadway Follies" opens/closes at Nederlander Theater NYC
1981 - Patty Hayes wins LPGA Sun City Golf Classic
1981 - Suriname failed coup under sgt-mjr Wilfred Hawker
1982 - Actress Theresa Saladana, stabbed repeatedly by obsessed fan
1982 - KGB-AM in San Diego CA changes call letters to KCNN (now KPOP)
1982 - Nicaragua suspends their citizens rights for 30 days
1983 - Karnataka beat Bombay on 1st innings to win cricket Ranji Trophy
1984 - 10th People's Choice Awards: Brooke Shields
1984 - Tanzania adopts constitution
1985 - Larry Holmes TKOs David Bey in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
1985 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1985 - The first Internet domain name is registered (symbolics.com).
1986 - Funeral services held for Swedish PM Olaf Palme
1987 - "Starlight Express" opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 761 performances
1987 - "Sweet Charity" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 368 performances
1987 - 13th People's Choice Awards: Bill Cosby
1987 - Last day in Test cricket for Larry Gomes & Joel Garner
1987 - NZ beat WI by 5 wickets in Jeremy Coney's last Test Cricket
1987 - US Davis Cup team loses to Paraguay
1988 - Eugene Marino of Atlanta, appointed 1st African American archbishop
1988 - NASA reports accelerated breakdown of ozone layer by CFK
1988 - NFL's St Louis Cardinals officially move to Phoenix
1989 - "Les Miserables," opens at Royal Alexandra Theatre Toronto
1989 - Dept of Veterans Affairs officially established as a Cabinet position
1989 - NY Rangers retire goalie Eddie Giacomin's #1 uniform
1990 - Fernando Collor de Mello sworn in as pres of Brazil
1991 - 4 LA police are charged with beating Rodney King
1991 - Sergei Bubka pole vaults world record 6.14m (20 feet 1 3/4)
1991 - Territories of Amapa & Roraima become states in Brazil
1992 - Brandie Burton wins LPGA Ping/Welch's Golf Championship
1992 - UN officially embarks on its largest peacekeeping operation
1993 - Vinod Kambli scores 227 v Zimbabwe, his 2nd consecutive Test 200
1994 - 8th Soul Train Music Awards: Toni Braxton, Whitney Houston win
1994 - Experts from AL certify Indian's Jacobs Field is properly lit
1997 - Pitts Penguins' Joe Mullen, is 1st American to score 500 NHL goals
1998 - "Cabaret," opens at Club Expo Theater NYC
1998 - Welch's/Circle K Golf Championship
1999 - Pluto again becomes outermost planet
2003 - Hu Jintao takes over presidency for the People's Republic of China.
2004 - Announcement of the discovery of 90377 Sedna, the farthest natural object in the Solar
          system so far observed.

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 15, 2013, 03:46:14 PM

This Day in History for 15th March


Famous Weddings

1964 - Liz Taylor's 5th marriage (Richard Burton)
2010 - Stand-up comedian and writer Sacha Baron Cohen (40) weds actress Isla Fisher (36) in Paris,
           France
2010 - Stand-up comedian and writer Sacha Baron Cohen (40) weds actress Isla Fisher (36) in Paris,     
           France

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 15, 2013, 04:22:22 PM

This Day in History for 15th March


Famous Birthdays

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US President & General                    Blues Singer Lightnin' Hopkins (1912)            Actress Eva Longoria (1975)
Andrew Jackson (1767)


76 - Hadrian, Roman Emperor (builder of Hadrian's Wall)
938 - Romanos II, Byzantine emperor (d. 963)
1275 - Margaret Plantagenet, English princess (d. 1318)
1455 - Pietro Accolti, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1532)
1493 - Anne Pierre Adrien duke of Montmorency, marshal of France
1591 - Alexandre de Rhodes, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1660)
1638 - Shunzhi Emperor of China
1666 - George Bähr, German architect (Frauenkirche, Dresden). Died 1738
1678 - Dominique Marie Valet, French RC/old-catholic bishop
1713 - Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, astronomer who mapped the So Hemisphere
1733 - Johann Zoffany, German painter, baptized
1750 - Caroline Herschel, astronomer/discoverer
1754 - Silvestro Palma, composer
1767 - Andrew Jackson, Carolinas, General/(D) 7th pres (1829-37)
1779 - William Lamb, (Whig) Viscount Melbourne, British PM (1834, 1835-41)
1779 - Lord Melbourne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, (d. 1848)
1790 - Nicola Vaccai, composer
1790 - Ludwig Immanuel Magnus, German mathematician (d. 1861)
1791 - Charles Knight, English publisher (d. 1873)
1801 - Coenraad J van Houten, Dutch cocoa manufacturer
1808 - Gaetano Gaspari, composer
1809 - Joseph Jenkins Roberts, 1st pres of Liberia
1809 - Karl Josef von Hefele, German theologian (d. 1893)
1810 - Aernout Drost, Dutch literary (Hermingard van de Eikenterpen)
1811 - Robert Allen, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1886
1813 - John Snow, English epidemiologist (d. 1858)
1818 - Mariano Álvarez, Filipino general (d. 1924)
1821 - William Milligan, Scottish theologian (d. 1892)
1821 - Eduard Heine, German mathematician (d. 1881)
1821 - Johann Josef Loschmidt, Austrian scientist (d. 1895)
1824 - Branko Radicevic, Serbian poet (1st Serbian Uprising)
1824 - Jules Chevalier, French priest (d. 1907)
1830 - Paul von Heyse, Germany, writer (Nobel 1910)
1830 - Élisée Reclus, French geographer (d. 1905)
1831 - Edward Aylesworth Perry, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1831 - Daniel Comboni, Italian missionary (d. 1881)
1835 - Eduard Strauss, Austria, composer (318 Dance)
1835 - John Henrie Kagi, American abolitionist (d. 1859)
1836 - Henrique Alves de Mesquita, composer
1838 - Alice Cunningham Fletcher, ethnologist (Stranger in Her Native Land)
1838 - Karl Davydov, Russian cellist (d. 1889)
1844 - Bransby Cooper, cricketer (in Dhaka Batsman in Australia's 1st Test)
1851 - Jozef Surzynski, composer
1852 - Augusta Gregory, Ireland, playwright/poet/Yates mistress
1854 - Emil Adolf von Behring, German physician; Nobel laureate (d. 1917)
1858 - Liberty Hyde Bailey, US botanist (Plantbreeding)
1864 - Johan Halvorsen, composer
1864 - Leslie Stuart, composer
1866 - Matthew Charlton, Australian politician (d. 1948)
1866 - Johan Vaaler, Norwegian inventor (d. 1910)
1867 - Lionel Pigot Johnson, England, poet/critic (Ireland & Other Poems)
1867 - Will Rossiter, composer
1868 - Grace Chisholm Young, English mathematician (d. 1944)
1869 - Stanisław Wojciechowski, President of Poland (d. 1953)
1871 - Betsy van den Arend, Dutch [Betje], actress (Miss Hobbs)
1873 - David Vaughan Thomas, composer
1873 - Lee Shubert, producer (theatres in NY & LA named after him)
1874 - Harold L Ickes, social activist, New Deal politician
1874 - Eugène Fiset, Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (d. 1951)
1878 - Hanson Carter, cricketer (Yorkshire Aussie WK of early 20th century)
1879 - Gerrit J Heering, Dutch theologist (Fall of Christianity)
1882 - Jim Lightbody, American runner (d. 1953)
1884 - Rudolf Piskacek, composer
1887 - Marjorie Merriweather Post, American socialite and businesswoman (d. 1973)
1892 - James Basevi Ord, US army officer (d. 1938)
1894 - Slava Vorlova, composer
1897 - Jackson Scholz, American runner (d. 1986)
1899 - George Brent, American film actor (d. 1979)
1900 - Gilberto Freye, Brazilian sociologist/writer
1901 - Colin McPhee, Montreal Canada, composer (H2O, Mechanical Princibles)
1901 - J Pat O'Malley, England, actor (Touch of Grace, Gunn, Star!)
1901 - Theo Uden Marsman, Dutch orchestra leader
1902 - Kitty Masters, actress
1904 - George Brent, Dublin Ireland, actor (42nd St, Jezebel)
1905 - Berthold Schenck von Stauffenberg, attempted to assassinate Hitler
1905 - Joe E Ross, comedian (Gunther Toody-Car 54, Ritzik-Phil Silvers Show)
1907 - Jimmy McPartland, jazz trumpeteer/actor (Magic Horn)
1907 - Paul Maxey, Wheaton Ill, actor (Matt-Lassie, Mayor-People's Choice)
1907 - Zarah Leander, Swedish actress and singer (d. 1981)
1910 - An Rutgers van der Loeff-Basenau, children book writer (Skating Race)
1912 - Duncan Stuart Wilson-MacDonald, fighter pilot
1912 - Lightnin' [Sam] Hopkins, Texas, blues stylist (Ball of Twine)
1912 - Louis Paul Boon, Flemish writer (Kapellekensbaan)
1913 - Lex Goudsmit, Dutch actor (Fiddler on the Roof)
1913 - MacDonald Carey, Sioux City Iowa, actor (One Life to Live, Dream Girl)
1913 - Jack Fairman, British racing driver (d. 2002)
1914 - Aniello Dellacroce, American gangster (d. 1985)
1915 - David Schoenbrun, CBS broadcast bureau head (Wash, Paris)
1915 - Richard Ward, Glenside Pa, actor (Beacon Hill)
1915 - Joe E. Ross, American actor and comedian (d. 1982)
1916 - Geert Lubberhuizen, publisher (Busy Bee)
1916 - Harry James, Albany Ga, trumpeter (married to Betty Grable)
1916 - Fadil Hoxha, Yugoslav politician (d. 2001)
1918 - Janet Leach, potter
1918 - Richard Ellmann, US, literary scholar/writer (Oscar Wilde)
1918 - Punch Imlach, Canadian hockey coach and general manager (d. 1987)
1919 - John Gregson, Liverpool England, actor (Gideon CID, Shirley's World)
1919 - Lawrence Tierney, Brooklyn, actor (Abduction, Dillinger)
1920 - Ranganandhan Francis, India, field hockey (Olympic-gold-1948, 52, 56)
1920 - Lawrence Sanders, American novelist (d. 1998)
1920 - E. Donnall Thomas, American physician, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1921 - Stafford Smythe, Canadian hockey executive (d. 1971)
1921 - Madelyn Pugh, American television writer
1922 - Louis Boon, writer
1923 - George Vogel, race horse trainer
1923 - Laurence A Tisch, NYC, CEO (Loews Corp)
1924 - Juij Bondarew, writer
1924 - Lockrem Johnson, composer
1924 - Walter Gotell, German actor (d. 1997)
1925 - Bert Bolin, Swedish meteorologist
1926 - Benjamin Burwell Johnson, composer
1926 - Norm Van Brocklin, NFL QB/coach (LA Rams), hall of famer
1926 - Tim Valentine, (Rep-D-NC, 1983- )
1926 - Ben Johnston, American composer
1927 - Carl Smith, Maynardville Tn, country singer (Grand Ole Opry)
1927 - Philip Vincent Belloc Jebb, architect
1927 - Stanisław Kania, Polish politician
1928 - Nicolas Flagello, composer
1929 - Tiezo Matsumura, composer
1930 - Zhores Ivanovich Alferov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1932 - Alan Lavern Bean, Wheeler Texas, Capt USN/astronaut (Ap 12, Skylab 3)
1932 - David Alliance, Iran/British textile factory/multi-millionaire
1933 - Cecil Perceval Taylor, composer/jazz pianist (U of Wisconsin)
1933 - Ronald Roseman, composer
1934 - Daniel George "Danny" Apolinar, composer/songwriter
1934 - Wolfgang Hufschmidt, composer
1934 - Kanshi Ram, Indian dalit leader
1935 - Jimmy Lee Swaggart, evangelist
1935 - Judd Hirsch, Bronx, actor (Alex-Taxi, Dear John, Ordinary People)
1936 - Donald K Sundquist, (Rep-R-Tennessee, 1983- )
1936 - David Andrews, Irish politician
1938 - Dick Higgins, composer
1939 - Robert Nye, writer (Facts of Life & other fiction, 3 Views of Man)
1939 - Jack Whyte, Scottish-Canadian author
1940 - Phil Lesh, [Chapman], California, rock bassist (Grass Roots, Grateful Dead)
1940 - Frank Dobson, British politician
1940 - Margo Coleman, American advice columnist
1941 - Dick Top, Dutch actor/director (Witch of Haarlem)
1941 - Mike Love, California, rock saxophonist/vocalist (Beachboys-In My Room)
1942 - Hughie Flint, London England, rock drummer (Bonzo Dog Band)
1943 - Brenda Scott, Cincinnati Oh, actress (Midge-Road West)
1943 - David Cronenberg, Toronto Ontario, director (Shivers, Fly, Brood)
1944 - Chi Cheng, Taiwan, sprinter/80m hurdler (Oly-Bronze-68)
1944 - David Costell, Pitts, rocker (Gary Lewis & the Playboys-Diamond Ring)
1944 - Davld Costell, rocker
1944 - Jacques Doillon director/writer (La Fille de Quinze Ans)
1944 - Ralph MacDonald, rock percussionist (Graceland)
1944 - Sly Stone, Dallas, rocker (Sly & the Family Stone-Everyday People)
1945 - Jorgen Sundelin, Sweden, yachtsmen (Olympic-gold-1968)
1945 - Mark J Green, Bkln NY, lawyer/author (Closed Enterprise System)
1945 - Tracy Smith, runner
1945 - A. K. Faezul Huq, Bengali lawyer and politician (d. 2007)
1946 - Bobby Bond, baseball player (Giants, Yankees, etc)
1946 - David Wall, English ballet dancers/director (Royal Academy of Dancing)
1946 - Howard Scott, San Pedro Cal, rock guitarist/vocalist (War, Cisco Kid)
1946 - Masaharu Satō, Japanese seiyū
1947 - David Colley, cricketer (NSW quickie, 3 Tests for Australia 1972)
1947 - Larisa Grigoriyevna Pozharskaya, Russian cosmonaut
1947 - Ry[land] Cooder, LA, blues guitarist (Crossroads)
1947 - Stomu Yamash'ta, composer
1947 - Tomas Pettersson, Sweden, cyclist (Olympic-silver-1968)
1947 - Juraj Kukura, Slovak actor
1948 - Sérgio Vieira de Mello, Brazilian diplomat (d. 2003)
1948 - Kate Bornstein, American author
1949 - John Duttine, actor (Day of the Triffids)
1950 - Jørgen Olsen, Danish singer
1952 - Howard Koh, American state government official
1953 - Colin Croft, cricketer (West Indian fast bowler 1977-82)
1953 - Judi Spiers, TV presenter
1953 - Richard Bruton, Irish politician
1954 - Craig Wasson, Oregon, actor (Body Double, 4 Friends, Men's Club)
1955 - Dee Snider, Massapequa NY, (Twisted Sister-We're Not Gonna Take It)
1955 - Marcia McCabe, Bryn Mawr Pa, actress (Alicia Grande-1 Live to Live)
1955 - Mohsin Khan, cricketer (Pakistani opening batsman late 70s early 80s)
1956 - Clay Matthews, NFL linebacker (Atlanta Falcons)
1957 - Park Overall, Tenn, actress (Laverne-Empty Nest, Mississippi Burning)
1957 - Park Overall, American actress
1957 - David Silverman, American animator
1957 - Víctor Muñoz, Spanish football manager
1958 - Laura Carrington, actress (Louisa-Alphabet City)
1959 - Eliot Teltscher, California, tennis player (US Davis Cup team)
1959 - Harold Baines, Easton MD, outfielder (Chic White Sox, Texas Rangers)
1959 - Renny Harlin, Finnish film director
1959 - Lisa Holton, American writer
1959 - Fabio Lanzoni, Italian model
1960 - Donna Smith, Portland Oregon, playmate (March, 1985)
1960 - Chris Sanders, American animator and director
1960 - Marco Pennette, American television producer
1961 - Craig Ludwig, Rhinelander, NHL defenseman (Dallas Stars)
1961 - Fabio [Lanzoni], Italy, romance novels model (Fabio After Dark)
1961 - John Melendez, jockey
1961 - Terry Cummings, NBA forward (Milwaukee Bucks, Phila 76ers)
1962 - Igor Aleinikov, film Maker
1962 - Jimmy Baio, Bkln, actor (Billy Tate-Soap, Brass, Playing for Keeps)
1962 - Steve Coy, rocker (Dead or Alive-Spin Me Round)
1962 - Terrence Trent D'Arby, NYC, rock vocalist (Wishing Well)
1963 - Bret Michaels, Harrisburg Pa, guitarist (Poison-Talk Dirty to Me)
1963 - Don Simington, jockey
1964 - Alison Johnson, Tustin CA, WPVA volleyball player (US Open-4th-1993)
1964 - Rockwell, [Kennedy Gordy], Det MI, rock vocalist (Someone Watching Me)
1964 - Ron Hall, NFL tight end (Detroit Lions)
1964 - Davide Pinato, Italian footballer
1965 - Marianne Morris, Middletown OH, LPGA golfer (1995 McDonald's LPGA-3rd)
1966 - Chris Bruno, actor (Michael-All My Children, Dennis-Another World)
1966 - Karen Weiss, St Paul MN, LPGA golfer (1995 Chick-fil-A Charity-7th)
1967 - Kirk Scrafford, NFL tackle (SF 49ers)
1967 - Naoko Takeuchi, Japanese artist
1968 - John Tardy, US heavy metalist (Obituary, Slowly We Rot)
1968 - Rob Anderson, Kamloops BC, Canadian Tour golfer (BC Amateur-1990, 92)
1968 - Sabrina [Salerno], Genoa Italy, Miss Italy (1984)/singer (Boys)
1968 - Kahimi Karie, Japanese singer
1968 - Mark McGrath, American musician (Sugar Ray)
1968 - Jon Schaffer, American guitarist (Iced Earth)
1968 - Terje Riis-Johansen, Norwegian politician
1969 - Louis Riddick, NFL safety (Cleveland Browns, Atlanta Falcons)
1969 - Rona Ambrose, Canadian politician
1969 - Timo Kotipelto, Finnish musician
1969 - Kim Raver, American actress
1969 - Gianluca Festa, Italian footballer
1969 - Yutaka Take, Japanese jockey
1970 - Chris Dalman, NFL guard/center (SF 49ers)
1970 - Diego Nargiso, Naples Italy, tennis pro
1970 - Eric Castle, NFL free safety (San Diego Chargers)
1970 - Paul Kruse, Merritt, NHL left wing (Calgary Flames)
1971 - Patrick Reidy, Melbourne VIC Australia, basketball forward (Oly-96)
1971 - Reyna Royo, Miss Universe-Panama (1996)
1971 - Robbie Pratt, jockey
1971 - Penny Lancaster, English model
1972 - Casey Cristin Mizell, Miss USA-South Carolina (1997)
1972 - David Rhodes, WLAF wide receiver (Rhein Fire)
1972 - Filip Dewulf, Belgium, tennis star
1972 - Oliver Gibson, NFL defensive tackle (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1972 - Steve Danielson, Honolulu, field hockey defender (Olympics-96)
1972 - Mark Hoppus, American musician (+44 and blink-182)
1973 - Franca Fehlauer, Hamburg Germany, golfer (Belgian Intl Jr champ 1991)
1974 - Imad Baba, Humble Tx, soccer midfielder (Olympics-gold-96)
1974 - Robert Fick, American baseball player
1974 - John "Beatz" Holohan, American musician
1975 - Cornell Brown, linebacker (Baltimore Ravens)
1975 - Eva Longoria, Corpus Christi, Texas, American actress (Gabrielle Solis-Desperate Housewives)
1975 - Will.i.am, American musician
1975 - Veselin Topalov, Bulgarian chess player
1976 - Laurent Gras, hockey forward (Team France 1998)
1976 - Jennifer 8. Lee, American journalist
1976 - Katherine Brooks, American television director
1976 - Cara Pifko, Canadian actress
1976 - Jose Sanchez Zolliker, Mexican writer
1977 - Joe Hahn, American musician
1977 - Brian Tee, American actor
1978 - Takeru Kobayashi, Japanese competitive eater
1978 - Sid Wilson, American musician (Slipknot)
1979 - Kevin Youkilis, American baseball player
1980 - Deidra Graham, Salt Lake City Utah, gymnast (alt-Olympics-96)
1980 - Freddie Bynum, American baseball player
1981 - Mikael Forssell, Finnish footballer
1981 - Young Buck, American rapper
1982 - Rafael Pérez, Dominican baseball player
1982 - Emily Tyndall, American actress
1982 - Jordan Hastings, Canadian drummer (Alexisonfire)
1983 - Daryl Murphy, Irish footballer
1983 - Sean Biggerstaff, Scottish actor
1984 - Kostas Vassiliadis, Greek basketball player
1985 - Antti Autti, Finnish snowboarder
1985 - James MacLurcan, Australian actor
1985 - F.V.A. Morriello, Canadian author
1985 - Eva Amurri, American actress
1985 - Tom Chilton, British racing driver
1986 - Tyler Noyes, actor (CJ-One Life to Live)
1987 - Taiwan Brown, video jockey
1988 - Ever Guzman, Mexican footballer
1989 - Caitlin Wachs, actress (Chloe Waters-Profiler)
1991 - Kie Kitano, Japanese actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 15, 2013, 04:27:21 PM

This Day in History for 15th March


Famous Deaths

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Roman Military and Political Leader     Swimmer Florence Chadwick (1995)
Julius Caesar (44 BC)


44 BC - Julius Caesar, Roman military and political figure, is stabbed to death at 55
220 - Cao Cao, King of Wei (b. 155)
493 - Odiaker (Odoacer), German army leader/King of Italy (476-93), murdered
752 - Zachary, Greek/Italian Pope (741-52), dies [or Mar 22]
963 - Romanus II, Byzantine emperor (959-63), dies at 25
1034 - Mieszko II, King of Poland (1025-34), dies
1145 - Pope Lucius II
1311 - Walter V of Brienne, Duke of Athens at the Battle of Halmyros
1575 - Annibale Padovano, Italian composer (b. 1527)
1670 - John Davenport, Connecticut pioneer (b. 1597)
1673 - Salvatore Rosa, Italian painter (Baroque)/poet/music/actor, dies at 57
1701 - Jean Renaud de Segrais, French writer (b. 1624)
1711 - Eusebio Kino, Italian Catholic missionary (b. 1645)
1723 - Johann C Gunther, writer, dies at 27
1731 - Adolf H van Rechteren, Dutch diplomat/politician, dies at 75
1820 - Clemens Maria Hofbauer, patron saint of Vienna (b. 1751
1842 - Maria Luigi C Z S Cherubini, Italian composer (Dies Irae), dies at 81
1849 - Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti, Italian cardinal and linguist (b. 1774)
1880 - Jan K J de Jonge, Dutch historian, dies at 51
1881 - Emory Upton, US Union gen-maj (Selma), commits suicide at 42
1883 - Karol Studzinski, composer, dies at 55
1891 - Théodore de Banville, French writer (b. 1823)
1891 - Joseph Bazalgette, English civil engineer (b. 1819)
1898 - Henry Bessemer, English metallurgist (b. 1813)
1905 - Arnold Kerdijk, Dutch liberal/founder (Social Weekly), dies at 60
1905 - B Amalie Skram-Alver, Norwegian author (Paa St Jorgen), dies at 58
1906 - Alfred Gilpin Jones, lt-gov of Nova Scotia (1900-06), dies at 81
1918 - Jose Silvestre de los Dolores White Lafitte, composer, dies at 82
1918 - Juliette Marie Olga Lili Boulanger, composer, dies at 24
1918 - Lili Boulanger, composer, dies at 24
1929 - Pine-Top Smith, jazz pianist (Boogie Woogie Piano), dies at 24
1930 - Antonio Beltramelli, writer, dies at 51
1937 - H. P. Lovecraft, American writer (b. 1890)
1938 - Edmund Tylecote, cricketer (England keeper in 6 Tests 1882-86), dies
1940 - Alfred Marr, cricketer (Test for Australia 1885, scored 0 & 5), dies
1941 - Alexej von Jawlensky, Russian painter (b. 1864)
1942 - Alexander van Zemlinsky, Aust/US composer (African Dance), dies at 70
1944 - Otto von Below, German commandant (WW I), dies at 86
1945 - Herman B Wiardi Beckman, Dutch MP (SDAP), dies at 41
1951 - John S. Paraskevopoulos, Greek-born astronomer (b. 1889)
1954 - Arthur Fickenscher, composer, dies at 82
1957 - Ernst Nobs, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1886)
1959 - Lester Young, American musician (b. 1909)
1962 - Sam Wren, actor (Wren's Nest), dies at 64
1964 - Paul Cavanagh, actor (Black Arrow, Woman in Green), dies at 75
1966 - Abe Saperstein, founder (Harlem Globetrotters), dies at 63
1966 - Heinrich Lemacher, composer, dies at 74
1969 - Miles Malleson, actor/writer (Postman's Knock), dies at 80
1970 - Josef Martin Bauer, writer, dies at 68
1970 - Tarjei Vesaas, Nowegian author/novelist/writer (Isslottet), dies at 72
1971 - Jean-Pierre Monseré, Belgian cyclist (b. 1948)
1972 - Aleksandr Ivanovich Laktionov, Russian painter (b. 1910)
1973 - Carl Benton Reid, actor (Burke's Law), dies at 82
1975 - Antonino Rocca, professional wrestler/sportscaster, dies at 49
1975 - Aristotle S Onassis, Greek shipping magnate, dies at 69
1977 - Kamal Joemblat, Lebanese politician, murdered
1977 - Antonino Rocca, Argentine professional wrestler
1977 - Hubert Aquin, Quebec novelist, political activist and editor (b. 1929)
1981 - René Clair, French film director (b. 1898)
1983 - Jose Luis Sert, Spanish-US architect/urban developer, dies at 80
1983 - Rebecca West, English writer (b. 1892)
1984 - Tommy Cooper, comedian, collapses & dies on stage
1985 - Radha Krishna Choudhary, Indian historian and writer (b. 1921)
1987 - Sterling W Cole, (Rep-R-NY), dies at 82
1988 - Dmitri F Polyakov, Russian secret-general/top spy for US, executed
1989 - Muhammad Jameel Didi, Maldivian poet (b. 1915)
1990 - Tom Harmon, NFL tail back (Heisman Trophy), dies at 70
1990 - Farzad Bazoft, Iranian-born journalist (hanged) (b. 1958)
1990 - Tom Harmon, American football player and broadcaster (b. 1919)
1991 - Budd [Lawrence] Freeman, US jazz saxophonist (Eel), dies at 84
1991 - Eileen Sedgwick, silent film actress (Hot Heels), dies at 93
1992 - Helen Deutsch, screenwriter, dies of natural causes
1992 - Jack Washburn, actor (Black Orchid), dies after long illness at 64
1992 - Vanessa Lee, actress (Split), dies at 71
1993 - Anthony Bowles, music writer (Jesus Christ Superstar), dies at 61
1993 - Dennis Gregory, actor (Village of the Damn), dies of pneumonia at 40
1993 - Ricardo M Arias Espinosa, president of Panama (1955-56), dies
1994 - Mae Zetterling, Swedish actress (Night Games), dies at 68
1995 - Florence Chadwick, American swimmer, dies at 86
1995 - Carlos Menem Jr, son of Argentine pres, dies at 26
1996 - Helen Chadwick, artist, dies at 42
1996 - Olga Rudge, violinist, dies at 100
1996 - Roswell Leavitt Gilpatric, lawyer/diplomat, dies at 89
1997 - Gail Davis, ( Annie Oakley), dies at 72
1997 - Victor Vasarely, Hungarian painter (b. 1906)
1998 - Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician and writer (b. 1903)
2001 - Ann Sothern, American actress (b. 1909)
2003 - Dame Thora Hird, British actress (b. 1911)
2003 - Paul Stojanovich, Reality TV pioneer (b. 1956)
2004 - Sir William Pickering, New Zealand-born space scientist (b. 1910)
2004 - John Pople, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1925)
2005 - Bob Bellear, Australian judge (b. 1944)
2005 - Shoji Nishio, Japanese martial artist (b. 1927)
2006 - George Rallis, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1918)
2006 - Red Storey, Canadian football player and hockey referee (b. 1918)
2007 - Charles Harrelson, American hitman and father of Woody Harrelson (b. 1938)
2007 - Bowie Kuhn, American commissioner of baseball (b. 1926)
2007 - Stuart Rosenberg, American film and television director (b. 1927)
2008 - Vytautas Kernagis, Lithuanian singer, TV shows announcer (b. 1951)
2008 - Mikey Dread,Jamaican singer (b. 1954)
2009 - Ron Silver, American actor (b. 1946)
2011 - Nate Dogg, American rapper, Nathaniel Dwayne Hale. (b. 1969)
2011 - Smiley Culture, British reggae singer, David Victor Emmanuel. (b. 1962)
2012 - Dave Philley, American Major League Baseball switch-hitter, dies at 91

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 16, 2013, 02:53:05 PM

This Day in History for 16th March


Historical Events

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The Sun King Louis XIV                   US Attorney General Robert Francis Kennedy

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Pop Singer & Beatle                               Heavyweight Boxing Champion
Paul McCartney                                       Mike Tyson


597 BC - Babylonians capture Jerusalem, replace Jehoiachin with Zedekiah as king.
1079 - Iran adopts solar Hijrah calendar
1190 - York Progrom: Jews living in York, England, besieged in Clifford's Tower and massacred or
           commit sucide rather than submit to baptism
1249 - The Servite Order is officially approved by Cardinal Raniero Capocci, papal legate in Tuscany.
1322 - The Battle of Boroughbridge takes place in the First War of Scottish Independence.
1345 - Holy spirit glides above fire: "the miracle of Amsterdam" (legend)
1517 - Pope Leo X signs 5th Council of Lateranen
1521 - Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reaches Philippines
1527 - Battle at Khanua: Mogol Emperor Babur beats Rajputen
1621 - Native American chief visits colony of Plymouth Mass
1641 - General court declares RI a democracy & adopts new constitution
1660 - English Long Parliament disbands
1689 - The 23rd Regiment of Foot or Royal Welch Fusiliers is founded.
1690 - French king Louis XIV sends troops to Ireland
1730 - Willem Charles Henry Friso installed as viceroy of Drenthe
1731 - Treaty of Vienna: Emperor Charles VI of England & Netherlands
1792 - King Gustav III of Sweden is shot Count Anckarström at a masked ball at the Opera; he dies
           on March 29.
1802 - Law signed to establish US Milt Academy (West Point, NY)
1802 - US army Corps of Engineers established (2nd time)
1815 - Willem I proclaimed king of the Netherlands, including Belgium
1818 - Second Battle of Cancha Rayada - Spanish forces defeat Chileans under José de San Martín.
1827 - 1st US black newspaper, "Freedom's Journal" (NYC), begins publishing
1829 - Ohio authorizes high school night classes
1830 - London's re-organised police force (Scotland Yard)
1830 - New York Stock Exchange slowest day ever (31 shares traded)
1833 - Susan Hayhurst becomes 1st US woman grad of a pharmacy college
1834 - HMS Beagle anchors at Berkeley Sound, Falkland Islands
1836 - Texas approves a constitution
1850 - Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter" published
1861 - Arizona Territory votes to leave the Union
1861 - Confederate government appoints commissioners to Britain
1861 - Edward Clark became Governor of Texas, replacing Sam Houston, who was evicted from the
           office for refusing to take an oath of loyalty to the Confederacy.
1862 - Battle at Pound Gap Kentucky: Confederates separate battles
1865 - Battle of Averasboro NC (1,500 casualities)
1867 - First publication of an article by Joseph Lister outlining the discovery of antiseptic surgery, in
           The Lancet.
1869 - Hiram R Revels makes 1st official speech by an African American in the Senate
1871 - 1st fertilizer law enacted
1872 - 1st FA Cup Final: Wanderers-Royal Engineers 1-0 in Bolton
1876 - Nelly Saunders & Rose Harland fight 1st female boxing match (NY)
1877 - Charles Bannerman completes 1st Test cricket century, 165 v Eng
1881 - Barnum & Bailey Circus debuts
1882 - US Senate ratifies treaty establishing the Red Cross
1894 - Jules Massenet's opera "Thaïs," premieres in Paris
1896 - Premiere of Mahler's "Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen"
1897 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of The Devil's Foot" (BG)
1900 - AL meets in Chicago, Ban Johnson announces that an AL team will be in
1900 - Sir Arthur Evans finds old city of Knossus
1900 - Chicago, KC, Minn, Milwaukee, Indianapolis, Detroit, Cleve & Buffalo
1907 - 1st 1st-class cricket game between NSW & Western Australia
1910 - Barney Oldfield uses a Benz to break the existing records at Daytona Beach Road Course
           (131.25mph)
1911 - Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators beat Port Arthur (Ont) 13-4
1912 - Mrs William Howard Taft plants 1st cherry tree in Wash DC
1915 - Brit battle cruisers Inflexible & Irresistible hit mines in Dardanelle
1915 - Federal Trade Commission organizes
1916 - James Barries' "Kiss for Cinderella," premieres in London
1916 - US & Canada sign migratory bird treaty
1918 - Geoffrey O'Hara's "K-K-K-Katy" song published
1919 - Frank Wedekind's "Elius Erweckung," premieres in Hamburg
1920 - 1 Acre Park also known as Baby Park in the Bronx renamed Melrose Park
1922 - Sultan Fuad I crowned king of Egypt, England recognizes Egypt
1922 - WKY-AM in Oklahoma City OK begins radio transmissions
1923 - Hugo von Hofmannsthal's "Der Unbestechliche," premieres in Vienna
1924 - The free port of Fiume is formally annexed by Mussolini's fascist regime.
1926 - Robert Goddard launches 1st liquid fuel rocket, goes 184' (56 meters)
1929 - WHP-AM in Harrisburg PA begins radio transmissions
1930 - USS Constitution (Old Ironsides) floated out to become a natl shrine
1931 - Genootschap Onze Taal (Our Language) organizes (Neth)
1933 - Hitler names Hjalmar Shaft, president of Bank of Germany
1934 - Congress passes Migratory Bird Conservation Act
1935 - Hitler orders German rearmament, violating Versailles Treaty
1937 - All but one senior fouls out of a scrimmage game between seniors & sophomores, but he
           holds on to win the game 35-32
1938 - Noel Coward's musical "Operette," premieres in London
1938 - Temple defeats Colorado to win 1st NIT
1939 - Germany occupies Czechoslovakia
1939 - Hungary annexes republic of Karpato-Ukraine
1939 - NHL record 10 goals in 1 period-NY Rangers (7), NY Americans (3) & a record 26 points in the
           3rd period
1940 - German air raid on British fleet base Scapa Flow
1941 - Blizzard hits North Dakota & Minnesota killing 60
1941 - Dmitri Shostakovitch receives the Stalin Prize
1941 - National Gallery of Art opens in Wash DC
1943 - Elin K (No) & Zaanland (Neth) torpedoed & sinks
1944 - Vichy Internal minister Pucheu sentenced to death
1945 - Allies secure Iwo Jima
1945 - Würzburg, Germany is 90% destroyed, with 5,000 dead, in only 20 minutes by British
           bombers.
1946 - "Would-Be Gentleman" closes at Booth Theater NYC after 77 performances
1947 - Convair Liner, 1st US twin-engine pressurized airplane, tested
1949 - KFMB TV channel 8 in San Diego, CA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1950 - 1st annual National Book Awards
1952 - 1870 mm rain in Cilaos, Reunion (world record)
1952 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1953 - AL rejects Bill Veeck's request to move St Louis Browns to Baltimore
1955 - Josephine Kroesen appointed as 1st Dutch female judge
1955 - President Eisenhower upheld the use of atomic weapons in case of war
1956 - US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Tenley Albright
1956 - US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Hayes A Jenkins
1957 - 9th Emmy Awards: Phil Silvers Show, Robert Young & Loretta Young
1957 - Patty Berg wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1957 - Toronto Maple Leafs tie NHL record 37 points beating NY Rangers 14-1
1958 - Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1959 - Iraq & USSR sign economic/technical treaty
1962 - 1st launching of Titan 2-rocket
1962 - US Super-Constellation disappears above Pacific Ocean, kills 167
1964 - KCOY TV channel 12 in Santa Maria, CA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1964 - Paul Hornung & Alex Karras reinstated in NFL after 1 year suspension
1966 - Gemini 8 launched with Armstrong & Scott, aborted after 6.5 orbits
1966 - Man From Uncle star David McCallum receives huge welcome in London
1967 - Pirate Radio Station 333 (Radio Britain) ship breaks down
1968 - My Lai massacre occurs (Vietnam War); 450 die
1968 - Robert Kennedy announces presidential campaign
1968 - General Motors produces its 100 millionth automobile, the Oldsmobile Toronado.
1969 - "1776" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 1217 performances
1969 - Boston Bruins scores a NHL record 8 goals in 1 period
1969 - Peter Stone & Sherman Edward's "1776," premieres in NYC
1969 - Viasa DC-9 crashes at Maracaibo's Grano de Oro airport, killing 155
1970 - New English Bible published
1970 - WNIN TV channel 9 in Evansville, IN (PBS) begins broadcasting
1971 - 13th Grammy Awards: Bridge over Troubled Water, Carpenters win
1971 - KDCD TV channel 18 in Midland, TX (IND) suspends broadcasting
1971 - Government of Trygve Bratteli in Norway.
1972 - John & Yoko are served with deportation papers
1974 - 1st performance at new Grand Ole Opry House at Opryland in Nashville
1975 - "Lieutenant" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 9 performances
1975 - US Mariner 10 makes 3rd & final fly-by of Mercury
1976 - British premier Harold Wilson resigns
1977 - US president Carter pleads for Palestinian homeland
1978 - Amoco Cadiz spills 223,000 tons of crude oil off French coast
1978 - Red Brigade kidnaps former premier Aldo Moro in Italy, 5 killed
1978 - Soyuz 26 returns to Earth
1978 - US Senate accepts Panama Canal treaty
1978 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1979 - CBS-TV airs "Wings Over the World" with Paul McCartney
1979 - Edmer Asama
1980 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Honda Civic Golf Classic
1983 - Smallest crowd at Cleveland Coliseum (Cavs vs Nets-1,814)
1984 - Gunmen kidnap William Buckley, CIA station chief in Beirut
1984 - South-Africa & Mozambique sign non attack treaty
1985 - Associated Press correspondent Terry Anderson taken hostage in Beirut
1985 - Denny McLain, pitcher; convicted of racketeering, sentenced to 25 yrs
1986 - Chris Johnson wins LPGA GNA/Glendale Federal Golf Classic
1988 - Federal grand jury indicts North & Poindexter in Iran-Contra affair
1988 - North-Ireland Protestant fires on Catholic funeral, 3 killed
1988 - US sends 3000 soldiers to Nicaragua's neighbor Honduras
1991 - 7 of Reba McEntire band members are killed in a plane crash
1991 - Members of Irish Gay & Lesbian Organization march in NYC parade
1991 - NJ Net coach Bill Fitch is 4th coach to win 800 NBA games
1991 - NY Lotto pays $33.3 million to one winner (#s are 18-21-32-33-35-38)
1991 - Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Munich won by Kristi Yamaguchi
1992 - Matt Keough, in the dugout, is hit flush in the head by a batted ball
1994 - Moravcik forms Slovakia government
1994 - Tonya Harding pleads guilty to felony attack on Nancy Kerrigan
1995 - Dow-Jones hits record 4069.15
1995 - Manhattan upsets 4th seeded Oklahoma 77-67
1995 - Mississippi House of Representatives formally abolishes slavery & ratifies 13th Amendment
1995 - World best 7th wkt stand 461 by Bhupinder Singh Jr & P Dharmani
1996 - Mike Tyson TKOs Frank Bruno in 3rd round to gain Heavyweight title
1997 - Donna Andrews wins LPGA Welch's/Circle K Championship
1997 - NJ Devils' Dave Andreychuk is 26th NHL to score 500 goals
1997 - Stuart Appleby wins Honda Golf Classic
1997 - Toshiba Senior Golf Classic
1997 - Sandline affair: On Bougainville Island, soldiers of commander Jerry Singirok arrest Tim Spicer
           and his mercenaries of the Sandline International.
1998 - Pope John Paul II asks God for forgiveness for the inactivity and silence of some Roman
           Catholics during the Holocaust.
2003 - The largest coordinated worldwide vigil takes place, as part of the global protests against Iraq
           war.
2005 - Israel officially hands over Jericho to Palestinian control.
2006 - The United Nations General Assembly votes overwhelmingly to establish the UN Human Rights
           Council.
2012 - Turkish NATO helicopter crashes into a house killing ten people in the outskirts of Kabul,
           Afghanistan
2012 - Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar becomes first cricketer to score 100 international centuries

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 16, 2013, 02:54:56 PM

This Day in History for 16th March


Famous Weddings

1822 - Opera Composer (The Barber of Seville) Gioacchino Rossini marries 1st wife Opera Singer
           Isabella Colbran in Bologna
1939 - Marriage of Princess Fawzia of Egypt to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran.
2002 - Oscar-winning entertainer Liza Minnelli (56) weds producer David Gest (48) at the Marble
          Collegiate Church in New York City
2006 - Actress Divya Palat weds former MTV India VJ Aditya Hitkari at a temple in Matunga, India
2006 - Academy Award-winning actor Richard Dreyfuss (58) weds Svetlana Erokhin in Harrisonburg,
           Virginia

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 16, 2013, 03:00:37 PM

This Day in History for 16th March


Famous Birthdays

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Comedian Jerry Lewis (1926)              Rapper & TV star Flavor Flav (1959)            Actor Kevin Smith (1963)


1338 - Thomas de Beauchamp, 12th Earl of Warwick (d. 1401)
1445 - Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg, Swiss-born preacher (d. 1510)
1473 - Henry IV the Pious, Duke of Saxony (d. 1541)
1581 - Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, Dutch historian and writer (d. 1647)
1585 - Gerbrant A Bredero, Holland, poet/playwright (Klucht van de Koe)
1609 - Michael Franck, composer
1631 - René Le Bossu, French critic (d. 1680)
1634 - Contessa Marie Madeleine La Fayette, novelist
1651 - Zaccaria Tevo, composer
1654 - Andreas Acoluthus, German orientalist (d. 1704)
1663 - Nicholas Siret, composer
1687 - Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, queen consort in Prussia (d. 1757)
1729 - Georg W "Franz" Panzer, German vicar/librarian (Annales typographic)
1739 - George Clymer, US merchant (signed Decl of Ind, Constitution)
1745 - Johann Wilhelm Cornelius von Konigslow, composer
1750 - Caroline Lucretia Herchel, Hanover, Germany, 1st mod woman astronomer
1751 - James Madison, Port Conway Va, (D-R), 4th US president (1809-17)
1757 - Bengt Lidner, Swedish poet (Medea, Yttersa Domen)
1773 - Juan Ramón Balcarce, Argentine military leader and politician (d. 1836)
1774 - Matthew Flinders, English navigator/cartographer (coast Australia)
1776 - Johan G Verstolk van Soelen, Dutch minister of Foreign Affairs
1787 - Georg Simon Ohm, physicist (discovered Ohm's Law)
1789 - Georg Simon Ohm, German physicist (d. 1854)
1794 - Ami Boué, Austrian geologist (d. 1881)
1800 - Emperor Ninko of Japan (d. 1846)
1802 - George Archibald McCall, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1868
1805 - Peter Ernst von Lasaulx, German philosopher and writer (d. 1861)
1806 - Norbert Rillieux, inventor (sugar refiner)
1812 - Henry Dwight Terry, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1869
1814 - Jules Eugene Abraham Alary, composer
1821 - Ernest Feydeau, French author (Georges Feydeau)
1822 - John Pope, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1892
1822 - Rosa Bonheur, French landscape painter (Buffalo Bill)
1823 - William Henry Monk, composer
1832 - Charles Camp Doolittle, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteer)
1834 - James Hector, Scottish geologist (d. 1907)
1836 - Andrew S Hallidie, inventor (cable car)
1839 - René F Armand Sully-Prudhomme, France, poet, 1st Nobel winner (1901)
1840 - Shibusawa Eiichi, Japanese industrialist (d. 1931)
1846 - Gösta Mittag-Leffler, Swedish mathematician (d. 1927)
1849 - James E Smith, became father at 100 with woman 64 years younger
1851 - Martinus Beijerinck, Dutch microbiologist and botanist (d. 1931)
1856 - E Louis YY Napoleon Bonaparte, French/English prince
1857 - Charles Harding Firth, British historian (d. 1936)
1859 - Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Russian physicist (d. 1906)
1865 - Patsy Donovan, Irish-American baseball player (d. 1953)
1869 - F. A. Forbes, Scottish author (d. 1936)
1873 - Hippoliet Daeye, Flemish painter (Sereniteit)
1876 - Charles Halton, Wash DC, actor (Dr Cyclops, Tugboat Annie Sails Again)
1878 - Clemens A Graaf von Galen, cardinal/bishop of Munster/anti-nazi
1878 - Henry B Walthall, Shelby City AL, actor (Birth of a Nation, Klondike)
1878 - Reza Sjah Pahlawi, [Reza Chan], Shah of Iran
1883 - Ethel Anderson, Australian poet (d. 1958)
1884 - Harrison Ford, Kansas City, Missouri, silent screen actor (Rubber Tires, Vanity Fair, Love In
           High Gear)
1885 - Giacomo Benvenuti, composer
1885 - Sydney Chaplin, South Africa, actor (Limelight)
1889 - Reggie Walker, South African athlete (d. 1951)
1890 - Solomon Mikhoels, Soviet actor and chairman of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (d. 1948)
1892 - Caesar Vallejo, Peruvian/French poet (Los Heraldos Negros)
1892 - James Petrillo, leader of the U.S. musicians union (d. 1984)
1893 - Isobel Elsom, actress (My Fair Lady, Love From a Stranger)
1896 - Conrad Nagel, Keokuk Iowa, actor (Celebrity Time)
1901 - Edward Pawley, American actor (d. 1988)
1902 - Lucie Rie, potter
1903 - Mike Mansfield, (Sen-D-Mont) majority whip
1903 - Morgan Conway, actor (Dick Tracy)
1903 - Nikolai Lopatnikoff, Revel Estonia, composer (Variaioni Concertanto)
1904 - Clive Morton, London England, actor (Goodbye Mr Chips, Moonraker)
1905 - Elisabeth Flickenschildt, German actress (d. 1977)
1906 - Francisco Ayala, writer
1906 - Henny Youngman, London England, comedian (Take my wife please)
1908 - Robert Rossen director/writer (Hustler, All the King's Men, Mambo)
1910 - Aladar Gerevich, Hungary, sabres (Olympic-gold-1948)
1910 - Andrew Miller-Jones, British TV pioneer
1910 - Iftikhar Ali Khan, cricketer (Nawab of Pataudi, England & India)
1910 - Martijn Lijnema, boer/resistance fighter (WW II)
1910 - Norman Wooland, Dusseldorf Germany, actor (Hamlet)
1911 - Dr. Josef Mengele, German, accused Nazi war criminal (d. 1979)
1911 - Pierre Harmel, Belgian politician
1912 - Patricia Nixon, [Thelma Catherine], Ely Nevada, 1st lady (1968-74)
1916 - Lloyd McBride, union president (United Steelworkers)
1916 - Mercedes McCambridge, American actress (d. 2004)
1917 - Samael Aun Weor, Colombian writer (d. 1977)
1918 - Aldo E van Eyck, Dutch architect (City Hall)
1918 - Howard Boatwright, composer
1919 - Erno Kiraly, composer
1920 - John Addison, Surrey England, composer (Tom Jones-Acad Award)
1920 - Leo McKern, Sydney Aust, actor (Blue Lagoon, Help, Mouse that Roared)
1920 - Percy Mansell, cricketer (leg-spin all-rounder in 13 Tests for S Afr)
1920 - Traudl Junge, Hitler's secretary (d. 2002)
1920 - Dorothea Binz, Nazi war criminal (d. 1947)
1920 - Sid Fleischman, American author
1922 - Geoffrey Freeman Allen, railway writer
1922 - Harding Lemay, North Bangor NY, headwriter (Another World)
1923 - George Bean, cricketer (92 runs in 3 Tests for Eng v Aust)
1925 - Cornell Borchers, Germany, actress (Big Lift, Floodtide, Istanbul)
1925 - Luis E. Miramontes, Mexican chemist, co-inventor of the combined oral contraceptive pill (d.
          2004)
1926 - Jerry Lewis, [Levitch], comedian/fund raiser (MDA), loved in France
1926 - Charles Goodell, American politician (d. 1987)
1927 - Daniel Patrick Moynihan, US ambassador to UN/(Sen-D-NY, 1977- )
1927 - Karlheinz Boehm, Germany, actor (Face of Fear, Peeping Tom, Unnatural)
1927 - Olga San Juan, NYC, actress (Variety Girl, 1 Touch of Venus)
1927 - Vladimir M Komarov, Moscow Russia, cosmonaut (Voshkod I Soyuz 1)
1928 - Christa Ludwig, Berlin Germany, soprano (Vienna State Opera)
1928 - Ramon Barce, composer
1929 - Edwin London, composer
1929 - Nadja Tiller, Austrian actress
1930 - Minoru Miky, composer
1931 - Betty Johnson, Guilford County NC, singer (Jack Paar Show, I Dreamed)
1931 - Don Richard Carpenter, novelist
1932 - Ronnie Walter Cunningham, Creston Iowa, Col USMC/astronaut (Apollo 7)
1933 - Ruth Bader Ginsberg, justice (US Supreme Court)
1933 - Sandy Weill, American financier and philanthropist
1934 - Ray Hnatyshyn, Governor-General of Canada (d. 2002)
1935 - Teresa Berganza, Spanish soprano
1936 - Thelma Hopkins, England, high jumper (Oly-silver-1956)
1937 - Constanca Capdeville, composer
1937 - David Del Tredici, Cloverdale California, composer (1980 Pulitzer)
1937 - Amos Tversky, Israeli psychologist (d. 1996)
1939 - Carlos Bilardo, Argetinian football coach
1940 - Bernardo Bertolucci, Parma Italy, director (Last Tango in Paris)
1940 - Chuck Woolery, Ky, TV game show host (Love Connection)
1940 - Jan P Pronk, Dutch politician (PvdA)
1940 - Jan Schaefer, Dutch asst secretary of state (PvdA)
1940 - Keith Rowe, English guitarist (AMM) and painter
1941 - Robert Guéï, ruler of Côte d'Ivoire (d. 2002)
1942 - James Soong, Taiwanese politician
1942 - Roger Crozier, Canadian ice hockey goaltender (d. 1996)
1943 - Ursula Goodenough, Evolutionary Scholar, Cell Biologist
1943 - Kim Mu-saeng, South Korean actor (d. 2005)
1946 - Erik Estrada, NYC, actor (CHiPs, Cross & Switchblade, Lightblast)
1946 - Hubert Soudant, Dutch conductor
1947 - Ramzan Paskayev, Chechen accordionist
1948 - Margaret [Edith] Weis, US, sci-fi author (Dragons of Spring Dawning)
1948 - Michael Bruce, rocker/actor (Rudy-Rainbow Drive)
1949 - Bertha Knox Gilkey, welfare & tenament rights for urban women
1949 - Elliott Murphy, US singer/songwriter
1949 - Victor Garber, Montreal Quebec, actor (Days & Nights of Molly Dodd)
1949 - Erik Estrada, Puerto Rican actor
1951 - Kate Nelligan, London Ontario, actress (Bethune, Eye of the Needle)
1951 - Ray Benson, Phila Pa, country singer (House of Blue Lights)
1951 - Ritchie Teeter, rocker
1952 - Philippe Kahn, French-American entrepreneur
1953 - Isabelle Huppert, French actress
1953 - Richard Stallman, American free software activist
1954 - Dav Whatmore, cricketer (Colombo Aust bat 1979, Sri Lanka coach 1995-)
1954 - Hollis Stacy, Savannah Ga, LPGA golfer (US Open 1977, 78)
1954 - Jimmy Nail, singer/actor (Evita, Spender, Howling II)
1954 - Nancy Wilson, SF, rock guitarist (Heart-Never, What about Love)
1954 - Colin Ireland, Kent, England, serial killer ('Gay Slayer'/ Coleherne killer), (d. 2012)
1955 - Isabelle Huppert, Paris France, actress (Cactus, Heaven's Gate)
1955 - Jiro Watanabe, Japanese boxer
1955 - Bruno Barreto, Brazilian film director
1956 - Ozzie Newsome, NFL tight end (Cleveland Browns)
1957 - Pearl Moore, WBL guard (NY Stars)
1958 - Jorge Ramos, Mexican TV anchor
1958 - Kate Worley, American comic book writer (d. 2004)
1959 - Michael J Bloomfield, Flint Mich, Major USAF/astronaut (STS 86)
1959 - Stan Thorn, Kenosha Wisc, singer (Shenandoah-Sunday in the South)
1959 - Flavor Flav, American rapper, and reality tv star
1959 - Jens Stoltenberg, Prime Minister of Norway
1960 - Duane Sutter, Canadian ice hockey player
1961 - Mel Gray, NFL wide receiver/kick returner (Houston/Tennessee Oilers)
1962 - Marcel Brands, soccer player (RKC)
1963 - Phung Vuong, Saigon Vietnam, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
1963 - Jimmy Degrasso, American musician, drummer
1963 - Kevin Smith, New Zealand actor (d. 2002)
1964 - Patty Griffin, American singer and songwriter
1964 - Gore Verbinski, American movie director
1964 - Pascal Richard, Swiss cyclist
1965 - Cindy Brown, US, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1988)
1965 - Belén Rueda, Spanish actress
1966 - Brad Bergen, PA Sask, hockey defenseman (Team Germany 1998)
1966 - Catarina Pollini, WNBA forward (Houston Comets)
1966 - David Nascimento, soccer player (Roda JC/FC Utrecht)
1966 - Rodney Peete, NFL quarterback (Philadelphia Eagles)
1967 - Dan Owens, NFL defensive tackle (Atlanta Falcons, Detroit Lions)
1967 - John Mangum, NFL safety (Chic Bears)
1968 - Jason van Blerk, soccer player (Go Ahead Eagles)
1968 - Ananya Khare, Indian actress and teacher
1969 - Ottis Gibson, cricketer (Barbados fast bowler, WI 1995)
1969 - Pat Harlow, NFL tackle (NE Patriots, Oakland Raiders)
1969 - Steve Israel, NFL cornerback (SF 49ers, New England Patriots)
1970 - Kelli James, Medford NJ, field hockey forward (Olympics-96)
1971 - Brett Carolan, NFL tight end (SF 49ers)
1971 - Eric Ravotti, NFL linebacker (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1971 - Alan Tudyk, American actor
1973 - Bert Zuurman, soccer player (SC Heerenveen)
1973 - Brant Bjork, American musician (Kyuss)
1974 - Heath Streak, cricketer (Zimbabwean pace bowler 1993-)
1974 - Lamont Burns, guard (NY Jets)
1974 - Georgios Anatolakis, Greek footballer
1974 - Fotini Vavatsi, Greek archer
1975 - Sienna Guillory, English actress
1976 - Michelle Rae Collie, Miss Universe-Bahamas (1996)
1976 - Abraham Núñez, Dominican baseball player
1976 - Paul Schneider, American actor
1976 - Nick Spano, American actor
1977 - Donal Óg Cusack, Irish hurler
1978 - Brooke Burns, American actress
1979 - Leena Peisa, Finnish musician (Lordi)
1979 - Edison Méndez, Ecuadorian footballer
1979 - Rashad Moore, National Football League player
1980 - Felipe Reyes, Spanish basketball player
1980 - Todd Heap, American football player
1981 - Curtis Granderson, American baseball player
1981 - Yoav Ziv, Israeli footballer
1981 - Andrew Bree, Irish swimmer
1983 - Brandon League, American baseball player
1984 - Levi Brown, American football player
1985 - Nicole Trunfio, Australian supermodel
1986 - Ken Doane, American professional wrestler
1986 - T. J. Jordan, American basketball player
1987 - Tiiu Kuik, Estonian model
1989 - Peaches Geldof, English Dosser
1989 - Theo Walcott, English footballer
1989 - Blake Griffin, American basketball player
1991 - Wolfgang Van Halen, son of Eddie Van Halan & Valerie Bertinelli
1994 - Sierra McClain, American actress and singer

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 16, 2013, 03:03:03 PM

This Day in History for 16th March


Famous Deaths

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Author/Nobel
Laureate Selma Lagerlof (1940)


455 - Valentinian III, Roman Emperor (b. 419)
1021 - Heribert of Cologne, Archbishop of Cologne and Chancellor of Emperor Otto III
1037 - Robert I, Archbishop of Rouen
1072 - Adalbert, archbishop of Bremen-Hamburg, dies
1322 - Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford, English soldier (b. 1276) dies in battle at
           Boroughbridge
1410 - John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset (b. 1373)
1485 - Anne Neville, queen of Richard III of England (b. 1456)
1536 - Ibrahim Pasha, grand-visier of Osmaanse Rich, murdered at about 45
1559 - Anthony St. Leger, Lord Deputy of Ireland (b. 1496)
1620 - St. John Sarkander, Moravian priest, died of injuries caused by torturing
1629 - Emilia of Nassau, daughter of Willem of Orange, dies at 59
1649 - St. Jean de Brébeuf, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1593)
1679 - John Leverett, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. 1616)
1721 - James Craggs the Elder, English politician (b. 1657)
1736 - Giovanni B Pergolesi, Italian composer (Stabat Mater), dies at 26
1737 - Benjamin Wadsworth, President of Harvard University (b. 1670)
1738 - George Bähr, German architect (Frauenkirche, Dresden), dies at 72
1747 - Christian Augustus of Anhalt-Zerbst, father of Catherine II of Russia (b. 1690)
1804 - Francisco marquis Albergati Capacelli, Italian playwright, dies at 75
1806 - Giuseppe Colla, composer, dies at 74
1819 - Nicolas Sejan, composer, dies at 73
1838 - Nathaniel Bowditch, astronomer/navigation expert, dies at 64
1841 - Félix Savart, French surgeon/physicist, dies at 49
1843 - Anton R Falck, Dutch minister of Education/Colonies, dies at 65
1867 - Benjamin Hanby, composer, dies at 33
1878 - William Banting, English undertaker, dies
1887 - Emanuel Kania, composer, dies at 59
1888 - Hippolyte Carnot, French statesman (b. 1801)
1890 - Zorka of Montenegro, Princess of Serbia (b. 1864)
1892 - Samuel F. Miller, American politician (b. 1827)
1898 - Aubrey (Vincent) Beardsley, English illustrator (Salome), dies at 23
1899 - Joseph Medill, mayor of Chicago (b. 1823)
1903 - Roy Bean, American jurist
1909 - George Thorndike Angell, lawyer (ASPCA), dies at 85
1914 - Gaston Calmette, editor (Le Figaro), killed by Mme Caillaux at 55
1914 - John Murray, piloted HMS Challenger to Christmas Island, dies
1914 - Charles Albert Gobat, Swiss politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1843)
1919 - Sigurd von Koch, composer, dies at 39
1926 - Sergeant Stubby, decorated World War I dog
1930 - Miguel Primo de Riveray Orbaneja, Sp dictator (1923-30), dies at 60
1933 - Alfred Her, Hungarian mathematician, dies at 47
1935 - John J R Macleod, Scot/Canadian physiologist (Nobel 1923), dies at 58
1935 - Aron Nimzowitsch, Latvian-born chess player (b. 1886)
1936 - Marguerite Durand, French journalist and feminist (b. 1864)
1937 - J Austen Chamberlain, English Min of For affairs (Nobel), dies at 73
1938 - Egon Friedell, writer, dies
1940 - Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish writer and Nobel Prize laureate, dies at 81
1941 - John Murray, Canada oceanographer (Challenger), dies at 73
1942 - Alexander van Zemlinsky, Austrian composer (African Dance), dies at 69
1945 - Pierre Drieu la Rochelle, French writer/poet, commits suicide at 52
1945 - Börries von Münchhausen, German poet (b. 1874)
1946 - Marius HLW "Max" Blokzijl, Dutch Nazi propagandist, executed at 61
1955 - Mayhew Lake, composer, dies at 75
1955 - Nicolas de Staël, French-Russian painter (b. 1914)
1956 - Joseph John Richards, composer, dies at 77
1957 - Mosa Pijade, Yugoslavian MP (communist), dies at 67
1957 - Constantin Brancusi, Romanian sculptor (b. 1876)
1958 - Leon J Cadore, pitched the 26 inning game, dies at 65
1959 - John Sailling, last documented Civil War vet, dies at 111
1961 - Chen Geng, Chinese military leader (b. 1903)
1962 - John Owen Jones, composer, dies at 85
1964 - Nicholas Joy, actor (Boss Lady), dies at 80
1967 - James Friskin, composer, dies at 80
1968 - June Collyer, actress (June-Stu Erwin Show), dies at 60
1968 - Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, composer, dies at 72
1970 - Arthur Adamov, Russian/French playwright, dies at 61
1970 - Tammi Terrell, soul singer (You're All I Need), dies of brain tumor at 24
1971 - Bebe Daniels, actress (Silver Dollar, My Past), dies at 70
1971 - Chuck Fleetwood-Smith, cricketer (Vict & Aust), dies
1971 - Thomas E Dewey, US president candidate (R 1944, 48), dies at 68
1972 - Harold "Pie" Traynor, hall of fame 3rd baseman (Pirates), dies at 72
1973 - Carl Benton Reid, actor (Trap, Underwater City), dies at 79
1973 - M Revis, [Willem Fisherman), author (People that Mutiny), dies at 68
1975 - T-Bone Walker, blues guitarist (Funky Town, Well Done), dies at 64
1975 - Richard W. DeKorte, American politician (b. 1936)
1978 - Aldo Moro, 5 times PM of Italy, assassinated by terrorists
1979 - Jean Monnet, French economist/CEO (ECSC), dies at 90
1980 - Tamara de Lempicka, Polish-born painter (b. 1898)
1983 - Arthur Godfrey, TV host (Arthur Godrey Show), dies at 79
1983 - Fred Rose, Canadian politician (b. 1907)
1984 - John Hoagland, American photographer (b. 1947)
1985 - Roger Huntington Sessions, US composer (Black Masks), dies at 88
1985 - Eddie Shore, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1902)
1987 - Scott McKay, actor (Guest in House, 30 Seconds over Tokyo), dies at 71
1988 - Dorothy Adams Foulger, actress (Laura, Devil Commands), dies at 88
1990 - Ernst Bacon, composer, dies at 91
1991 - 7 members of Reba McIntire's band, killed in a plane crash
1991 - Jan H van Roijen, Dutch diplomat/Foreign Minister, dies at 85
1991 - Wim van den Brink, Dutch actor (Turkish Fruit, Red Sien), dies
1992 - Renzhong Weangn, China politician (1934-45), dies
1992 - Yves Rocard, French physicist (b. 1903)
1993 - Chishu Ryu, Japanese actor (Autumn Afternoon), dies of cancer at 86
1993 - Djilalli Lyabes, Algerian minister of Higher Education, murdered
1993 - Don Randolph, actor (Harem Girl), dies of pneumonia at 87
1993 - Giovanni Testori, Italian writer (Arialda), dies at 69
1993 - Mohammed Hussein Nagdi, Iran diplomat/resistance fighter, murdered
1995 - Albert Maurice Hackett, playwright/screenwriter, dies at 95
1995 - Clan Fraser of Lovat, soldier/Landowner, dies at 83
1995 - Lord Lovat, [Shimi], Scottish landowner, dies at 83
1995 - Sydney Simone, band leader, dies at 80
1996 - Joseph Lee Pope, singer, dies at 62
1996 - Olive Netta Parsons, co-founder (Collet's bookshop), dies at 104
1996 - Peter Clemoes, Anglo-Saxon scholar, dies at 76
1996 - Charlie Barnett, American actor (b. 1954)
1998 - Derek Harold Richard Barton, British chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1918)
1999 - Gratien Gélinas, Quebec playwright and director (b. 1909)
2000 - Thomas Ferebee, Hiroshima bombardier (b. 1918)
2001 - Norma MacMillan, Canadian actress (b. 1921)
2001 - Bob Wollek, French race car driver (b. 1943)
2003 - Rachel Corrie, American political activist (b. 1979)
2003 - Ronald Ferguson, father of Sarah, Duchess of York (b. 1931)
2004 - Vilém Tauský, Czech conductor and composer (b. 1910)
2005 - Todd Bell, American football player (b. 1958)
2005 - Ralph Erskine, British architect (Byker Wall) (b. 1914)
2005 - Anthony George, American TV actor (b. 1921)
2005 - Allan Hendrickse, South African politician (b. 1927)
2005 - Dick Radatz, American baseball player (b. 1937)
2006 - David Feintuch, American sci-fi author (b. 1944)
2007 - Manjural Islam, Bangladeshi cricketer (b. 1984)
2008 - Bill Brown, Australian cricketer (b. 1912)
2008 - Ola Brunkert, Swedish session drummer for ABBA (b. 1946)
2008 - Gary Hart, American professional wrestling manager and wrestler (b. 1942)
2008 - G. David Low, American astronaut (b. 1956)
2008 - John Hewer, Actor famous for portraying Captain Birdseye in British commercials. (b. 1922)
2011 - Richard Wirthlin, American political strategist for Ronald Reagan. (b. 1931)
2012 - Estanislao Basora, Spanish footballer, dies at 85

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 17, 2013, 02:43:28 PM

This Day in History for 17th March


Historical Events

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Roman Military and Political Leader              26th US President                    Marxist Revolutionary Vladimir Lenin
Julius Caesar                                               Theodore Roosevelt

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Soviet Union Premier Joseph Stalin             Queen Elizabeth II


45 BC - In his last victory, Julius Caesar defeats the Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus and Pompey
         the Younger in the Battle of Munda.
180 - Marcus Aurelius dies. Commodus is now the only emperor of the Roman Empire.
432 - St Patrick, a bishop, is carried off to Ireland as a slave
455 - Roman senator Petronius Maximus becomes Emperor
1190 - Crusades complete massacre of Jews of York England
1337 - Edward, the Black Prince is made Duke of Cornwall, the first Duchy made in England.
1521 - Portugese explorer Ferdinand Magellan discovers the Philippines
1526 - French king Francois I freed from Spain
1537 - French troops invade Flanders
1580 - Prince Willem of Orange welcomed in Amsterdam
1658 - Pro-Charles II plot in England discovered
1672 - England declares war on Netherlands
1722 - Willem KH Friso appointed mayor of Drente
1753 - 1st official St Patrick's Day
1755 - Transylvania Land Co buys Kentucky for $50,000 from a Cherokee chief
1756 - St Patrick's Day 1st celebrated in NYC at Crown & Thistle Tavern
1757 - Prince Mas Saïd of Mataram surrenders to Mangkubumi in Java
1762 - 1st St Patrick's Day parade in NYC
1766 - Britain repeals the Stamp Act
1776 - British forces evacuate Boston to Nova Scotia during Revolutionary War
1800 - English warship Queen Charlotte catches fire; 700 die
1804 - Friedrich Schiller's play "Wilhelm Tell" premieres
1824 - England & Netherlands sign a trade agreement
1833 - Phoenix Society forms (NY)
1836 - Texas abolishes slavery
1842 - Indians land in Ohio, a 12 square mile area in Upper Sandusky
1845 - Bristol man, Henry Jones, patents self-raising flour
1845 - Rubber band patented by Stephen Perry of London
1847 - "Macbeth" opera premieres in Florence
1854 - 1st park land purchased by a US city, Worcester, Mass
1860 - Japanese embassy arrives aboard Candinmarruh [sic]
1861 - Italy declares independence; Kingdom of Italy proclaimed
1863 - Battle of Kelly's Ford, VA (211 casualities)
1868 - Postage stamp canceling machine patent issued
1870 - Mass legislature authorizes incorporation of Wellesley Female Seminary
1871 - National Association of Professional Base-Ball players organized
1876 - 1st record high jump over 6' (Marshall Jones Brooks)
1876 - Gen Crook destroy Cheyennes & Oglala-Sioux indian camps
1877 - Bill Midwinter completes Test Crickets' 1st 5-wkt haul, 5-78 v Eng
1884 - John Joseph Montgomery makes 1st glider flight, Otay, Calif
1886 - Carrollton Massacre, (Mississippi) 20 African Americans killed
1891 - British Steamer "Utopia" sinks off Gibraltar killing 574
1894 - US & China sign treaty preventing Chinese laborers from entering US
1897 - Bob Fitzsimmons KOs James J Corbett in 14 for heavyweight boxing title
1898 - 1st practical submarine 1st submerges, NYC (for 1 hour 40 minutes)
1899 - Windsor luxury hotel in NYC catches fire, 92 die
1900 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Shamrocks sweep Halifax Crescents in 2
1901 - Free thinking-Democratic Union forms in Netherlands
1901 - A showing of seventy-one Vincent van Gogh paintings in Paris, 11 years after his death,
          creates a sensation.
1902 - Stanley Cup: Montreal AAA beat Winnipeg Victorias, 2 games to 1
1906 - Pres Theodore Roosevelt uses term "muckrake"
1906 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Wanderers beat Ottawa Silver 7, although both winning a game,
           Montreal outscores Ottawa 12-10
1906 - The Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity is founded at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
1908 - Quickest world heavyweight title fight (Burns KOs Roche in 88 seconds)
1908 - Tommy Burns KOs Jem Roche in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
1910 - DHC soccer team forms in Delft Neth
1912 - Camp Fire Girls organization announced by Mrs Luther Halsey Gulick
1913 - The Uruguayan Air Force is founded.
1917 - 1st exclusively women's bowling tournament begins in St Louis
1917 - Tsar Nicolas II of Russia abdicates the throne [NS]
1917 - Delta Phi Epsilon is founded at New York University Law School.
1918 - US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Rosemary Beresford
1918 - US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Nathaniel Niles
1919 - Dutch steel workers strike for 8 hr day & minimum wages
1921 - Dr Marie Stopes opens Britain's 1st birth control clinic (London)
1921 - Lenin proclaims New Economic Politics
1921 - Sailors revolt in Kronstadt (thousands die)
1921 - The Second Republic of Poland adopts the March Constitution.
1924 - Eugene O'Neill's "Welded," premieres in NYC
1924 - Netherlands & USSR begin talks over USSR recognition
1924 - Sweden & USSR exchange diplomats
1926 - Dutch Calvinists oust Rev J G Geelkerken over Genesis 3
1926 - Richard Rodgers & L Hart's musical "Girl Friend," premieres in NYC
1926 - Spain & Brazil prevent Germany joining League of Nations
1927 - US government doesn't sign league of Nations disarmament treaty
1929 - General Motors acquires German auto manufacturer Adam Opel
1929 - Spanish dictator Primo de Rivera closes university of Madrid
1931 - Stalin throws Krupskaya Lenin out of Central Committee
1932 - German police raid Hitler's nazi-headquarter
1934 - Dollfuss, Mussolini & Gombos sign Donau Pact (protocols of Rome)
1935 - KSO-AM in Des Moines Iowa call sign is given to KWCR
1939 - Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945): The Battle of Nanchang between the Kuomintang and the
           Japanese breaks out.
1942 - Belzec Concentration Camp opens-30,000 Lublin Polish Jews transported
1942 - Gen Doug MacArthur arrives in Australia to become supreme commander
1943 - Aldemarin (Ned) & Fort Cedar Lake (US) torpedoed & sinks
1943 - F Hugh Herbert's "Kiss & Tell," premieres in NYC
1945 - Allied ships bomb North-Sumatra
1950 - Belgian government of Eyskens resigns
1950 - Element 98 (Californium) announced
1951 - Government of Drees takes power
1951 - Test Cricket debut of Brian Statham, England v NZ Christchurch
1953 - Bill Veeck says he will sell his 80% of St Louis Browns for $2,475M
1953 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1953 - WBAY TV channel 2 in Green Bay, WI (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 - WWLP TV channel 22 in Springfield, MA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1955 - Maurice "Rocket" Richard suspended, sparks 7 hour riot in Montreal
1956 - 8th Emmy Awards: Ed Sullivan Show, Phil Silvers Show & Lucy Ball
1957 - Dutch ban on Sunday driving lifted
1957 - Ramon Magsaysay, president of Philipines dies in a plane crash
1958 - Navy launches Vanguard 1 into orbit (2nd US), measures Earth shape
1959 - Australia & USSR restore diplomatic relations
1959 - Dalai Lama flees Tibet for India
1960 - Eisenhower forms anti-Castro-exile army under the CIA
1960 - WSLA (now WAKA) TV channel 8 in Selma, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting
1961 - NY DA arrests professional gamblers who implicate Seton Hall players
1961 - South Africa leaves British Commonwealth
1963 - Bob Cousy plays his last NBA game
1963 - Elizabeth Ann Seton of NY beatified (canonized in 1975)
1963 - Eruptions of Mount Agung Bali, kills 1,900 Balinese
1965 - Beatles announce their film is named "8 Arms to Hold on to You" (Help)
1966 - South Africa government bans Defense & Aid Fund
1966 - US sub locates missing H-bomb in Mediterranean
1968 - 2-tiered gold price negotiated in Wash DC by US & 6 European nations
1968 - Kathie Whitworth wins LPGA St Petersburg Orange Blossom Golf Open
1969 - Golda Meir becomes Israel's 4th PM
1969 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Open
1970 - Peter O'Malley becomes CEO of LA Dodgers
1970 - US casts their 1st UN Security Council veto (Support England)
1972 - Ringo releases "Back off Bugaloo" in UK
1973 - Queen Elizabeth II opens new London Bridge
1973 - St Patrick Day marchers carry 14 coffins commemorating Bloody Sunday
1974 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Bing Crosby Golf Classic International
1975 - Valeri Muratov skates world record 1000m (1:16.92)
1976 - Malikov skates world record 1000m (1:15.76)
1976 - Rubin "Hurricane" Carter is retried
1976 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1977 - Australia wins cricket Centenary Test by 45 runs, same result as 1877
1978 - Amoco Cadiz tanker spills 1.6 mil gallons of oil off French coast
1978 - Ligeti's opera "Le Grand Macabre," premieres in Stockholm
1978 - Reds don green uniforms for St Patricks Day
1979 - Ice Dance Championship at Vienna won by N Linichuk & G Karponosov USSR
1979 - Ice Pairs Championship at Vienna won by Tai Babilonia & R Gardner USA
1979 - Men's Figure Skating Champ in Vienna won by Vladimir Kovalev (USSR)
1979 - Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Vienna won by Linda Fratianne
1979 - The Penmanshiel Tunnel collapses during engineering works, killing two workers.
1981 - FC Lisse, Dutch soccer team forms
1982 - 4 Dutch TV crew members shot dead in El Salvador
1983 - 70th hat trick in Islander history-Mike Bossy
1983 - 9th People's Choice Awards
1985 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
1985 - Matti Nykanen of Finland set a world ski jump record of 623'
1986 - Haemers gang robs gold transport in Belgium of 35 million BF
1987 - IBM releases PC-DOS version 3.3
1987 - Sunil Gavaskar ends his Test career with an innings of 96 v Pak
1988 - "Les Miserables," opens at Det Norske Teatret, Oslo
1988 - Highest scoring NCAA basketball game; Loyola-Marymont 119, Wyoming 115
1988 - Iran says Iraq uses poison gas
1989 - "Chu Chem" opens at Ritz Theater NYC for 44 performances
1989 - Dorothy Cudahy is 1st female grand marshal of St Patrick Day Parade
1990 - PBA National Championship Won by Jim Pencak
1991 - 9 of 15 Soviet reps officially approve new union treaty
1991 - Irish Lesbians & Gays march in St Patrick Day parade
1991 - John Robin Baitz' "Substance of Fire," premieres in NYC
1991 - NJ raises turnpike tolls 70%
1991 - Penny Hammel wins Desert Inn LPGA Golf International
1992 - "Death & the Maiden" opens at Brooks Atkinson NYC for 159 perfs
1992 - 18th People's Choice Awards: Garth Brooks & Reba McEntire
1992 - 28 killed in truck bombing of Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, Arg
1992 - De Klerk wins a white only referendum
1992 - Islamic Jihad truck bombs Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires killing 29
1992 - Russian manned space craft TM-14, launches into orbit
1993 - 86 killed by bomb attack in Calcutta
1994 - "Little More Magic" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 30 performances
1994 - Iran transport aircraft crashes in Azerbaijan (32 killed)
1994 - It is announced there is no smoking in Cleve Indians new ballpark
1995 - British pound hits 2.4545 to Dutch guilder (record)
1995 - Sinn-Fein leader Gerry Adams visits White House
1995 - USt approves 1st chicken pox vaccine, Varivax by Merck & Co
1996 - "Bus Stop" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 29 performances
1996 - "Getting Away With Murder" opens at Broadhurst NYC for 17 perfs
1996 - Aravinda De Silva gets 107* & 3-42 in cricket World Cup victory
1996 - Liselotte Neumann wins LPGA Ping/Welch's Golf Championship
1996 - Montreal Canadian's 1st game in their new arena
1996 - Sri Lanka beat Australia by 7 wickets to win the World Cup
1997 - CNN begins spanish broadcasts
2000 - The 800+ deaths of members of the Ugandan cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten
           Commandments of God is considered to be a mass murder and suicide orchestrated by
            leaders of the cult.
2003 - British Cabinet Minister Robin Cook, resigns over government plans for the war with Iraq.
2004 - Unrest in Kosovo results in more than 22 killed, 200 wounded, and the destruction of 35
          Serb Orthodox shrines in Kosovo and two mosques in Belgrade and Nis.
2008 - New York State Governor Eliot Spitzer resigns after a scandal involving a high-end prostitute.
           David Paterson becomes acting New York State governor.
2012 - Bolton Wanderer footballer Fabrice Muamba collapses and is rushed to hospital during a live
           football match against Tottenham Hotspur
2012 - Wales defeat France to record their eleventh Grand Slam in the Six Nation's Championship
2012 - John Demjanjuk, convicted Nazi war criminal, dies from natural causes at 91

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 17, 2013, 02:44:35 PM

This Day in History for 17th March


Famous Weddings

1905 - Eleanor Roosevelt (20) marries Franklin D. Roosevelt (23) later 32nd US President in New
           York, & given away by her uncle, 26th President Theodore Roosevelt
1944 - Actor Charlton Heston weds Lydia Clarke
1955 - Erotic writer Anaïs Nin marries actor Rupert Pole at Quartzsite, Arizona, while still married to
           her first husband
2006 - Publicist Lizzie Grubman (35) weds Chris Stern in New York

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 17, 2013, 02:45:45 PM

This Day in History for 17th March


Famous Divorces

2008 - Musician Paul McCartney (65) divorces former model and anti-landmines campaigner Heather Mills
          (40) on the grounds of unreasonable behaviour

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 17, 2013, 02:52:17 PM

This Day in History for 17th March


Famous Birthdays

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Musician Nat King Cole (1919)                  Actor Kurt Russell (1951)                        Musician Billy Corgan (1967)


1231 - Emperor Shijō of Japan (d. 1242)
1473 - James IV, King of Scots (1488-1513)
1578 - Francesco Albana, Ital painter (Mary's Ascension)
1628 - Daniel van Papenbroeck, [Papebrochius], Flemish historian
1664 - Georg Osterreich, composer
1675 - Petrus Laurentius Wockenfuss, composer
1676 - Thomas Boston, Scottish church leader (d. 1732)
1685 - Jean-Marc Nattier, French portrait painter
1725 - Lachlan McIntosh, Scottish-born American military and political leader (d. 1806)
1746 - Jan David Holland, composer
1777 - Roger Brooke Taney, Calvert Md, 5th Chief Justice (Dred Scott dec)
1780 - Thomas Chalmers, 1st moderator (Free Church of Scotland 1843-47)
1781 - Dominique J de Eerens, governor-general of Neth Indies
1781 - Ebenezer Elliott, British Poet. Know as the "Corn Law Rhymer'" (d. 1849)
1787 - George Simon Ohm, physicist (discovered Ohm's Law)
1789 - Edmund Kean, London England, tragic actor (Shylock)
1804 - James Bridger, scout/fur trader/mountain man par excellance
1820 - Patrick Edward Connor, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1820 - Jean Ingelow, English poet (d. 1897)
1825 - Rodolphe Bresdin, French cartoonist/lithographer (Le Bon Samaritain)
1826 - Oskar Peschel, German journalist/geography (Volkerkunder)
1828 - Patrick Ronayne Cleburne, Major General (Confederate Army)
1832 - Moncure Daniel Conway, US, abolitionist (Life of Thomas Paine)
1832 - Walter Quintin Gresham, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1834 - Gottlieb Daimler, Germany, engineer/inventor/designed 1st motorcycle
1839 - Josef Rheinberger, Vaduz Liechtenstein, opera composer (Munich Conser)
1846 - Kate Greenaway, England, artist/book illustrator (Under the Window)
1848 - Horace Wadham Nicholl, composer
1856 - Mikhail Vrubel, Russian painter (d. 1910)
1862 - Silvio Gesell, Belgian economist (d. 1930)
1866 - Pierce Butler, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1939)
1870 - Horace Donisthorpe, British entomologist (d. 1951)
1872 - Billy Quaife, cricketer (England batsman 1899-1902)
1873 - Chard Somerset, 1st woman Cabinet minister (1929-31)
1873 - Margaret Bondfield, Brit Labour leader/1st woman cabinet member
1874 - Kincsem, horse that never lost a race
1874 - Stephen Samuel Wise, US, pres of Zionist Org of America
1876 - Frederic Ayers, composer
1877 - Albert P Hahn, Dutch political cartoonist (People/Nutcracker)
1880 - Guillermo Uribe Holguin, composer
1880 - Sir Patrick Hastings, British barrister (d. 1952)
1880 - Lawrence Oates, English army officer and Antarctic explorer (d. 1912)
1881 - Kristian Elster, Norwegian author (Less bror Harris)
1881 - Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)
1883 - Urmuz, Romanian writer (d. 1923)
1884 - Alcide Nunez, American jazz clarinetist (d. 1934)
1886 - Princess Patricia of Connaught, British princess (d. 1974)
1887 - Ben Sajet, Dutch physician/politician
1888 - Frank Buck, actor (Africa Screams, Tiger Queen, Tiger Fangs)
1888 - Paul Ramadier, French politician (d. 1961)
1890 - Harold Morris, composer
1892 - Sayed Darwish, composer
1892 - Benjamin Drake Van Wissen, Australian Engineer (d. 1984)
1894 - Paul Green, US, novelist/playwright (In Abraham's Bosom)
1895 - Shemp Howard, Bkln, comedian (3 Stooges, Bank Dick) [or 1891]
1897 - Jozef C. Mazur, American stained glass artist and painter (d. 1970)
1900 - Alfred Newman, New Haven, composer (Love is a Many Splendored Thing)
1901 - Eisaku Sato, premier of Japan (Nobel 1974)
1902 - Bobby Jones Jr, Atlanta Georgia, amateur golfer (Grand Slam 1930)
1906 - Brigitte Helm [Gisele Eve von Kuenheim], Berlin, actr (Gloria, Gold)
1906 - Michael O'Shea, Hartford Ct, actor (Denny-It's a Great Life)
1906 - Tamara Geva, dancer
1907 - Jan M J van Houtte, premier Belgium (1952-54)
1907 - Sonny Werblin, former owner of the New York Jets (d. 1991)
1908 - Boris N Poveloi, [Kampov], Russian journalist/writer [OS=Mar 4]
1908 - Radie Britain, composer
1908 - Brigitte Helm, German actress (d. 1996)
1909 - Patrick Reilly, British diplomat
1910 - Bayard Rustin, civil rights leader
1911 - Raffaele d' Alessandro, composer
1914 - Sammy Baugh, Texas, NFL hall of famer QB (Wash Redskins)
1915 - Hans Namuth, German/US photographer (Todos Santos, Guatemala)
1915 - William Roycroft, Austria, equestrian 3 day (Olympic-bronze-1976)
1915 - Henry Bumstead, American art director (d. 2006)
1916 - Ray Ellington, British singer (d. 1985)
1917 - Arthur Basil Cotle, medievalist
1917 - Brian Boydell, composer
1918 - D Arendo, [Arend Honhoff], Dutch pianist/composer (Eleonora)
1918 - Mercedes McCambridge, Joliet Ill, actress (All the King's Men)
1918 - Wilhelmus M J Russell, Dutch attorney/Member of 1st chamber (KVP/CDA)
1919 - Hank Sauer, baseball player (NL MVP 1952)
1919 - Nat "King" Cole, Montgomery Ala, singer (Unforgettable, Mona Lisa)
1920 - John La Montaine, Oak Park Ill, composer (Pulitzer 1959)
1921 - Mick Harvey, cricketer (in Newcastle Brother of Neil Test umpire)
1922 - Megan Bull, British head mistress (Holloway Jail)
1922 - Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Founding Leader of Bangladesh (d. 1975)
1923 - Margaret Bondfield, 1st woman chairman (Trades Union Congress)
1924 - Stephen Dodgson, composer
1925 - G M Hughes, British zoologist
1925 - Jerome Lejeune, physiologist
1925 - Gabriele Ferzetti, Italian film and stage actor
1926 - Siegfried Lenz, German writer (Ein Kriegsende)
1927 - Kenneth S Goldstein, folklorist/enthomusicologist
1927 - Maurice Ingvar Karkoff, composer
1927 - Nancy Sheehan, writer
1927 - Patrick Allen, Malawi, actor (Roman Holiday, Dial "M" for Murder)
1927 - Sulkhan Ivanovich Nasidze, composer
1928 - Edino Krieger, composer
1928 - William John McKeag, Canadian politician (d. 2007)
1930 - James Benson Irwin, Pittsburgh Penn, Col USAF/astronaut (Apollo 15)
1931 - Eunice Gayson, London England, actress (Dr No, From Russia With Love)
1931 - David Peakall, British scientist (d. 2001)
1932 - Dick Curless, singer/songwriter
1932 - Donald N. Langenberg, American physicist
1934 - Erhard Grosskopf, composer
1934 - Q T Macon, blues vocal/guitar
1935 - Adam Wade, Pitts Pa, singer (Tony Orlando & Dawn)
1936 - Ladislaw Kupkovic, composer
1936 - Thomas K Mattingly II, Chic, Capt USN/astro (Apollo 16, STS-4, 51C)
1936 - Ken Mattingly, American astronaut
1936 - Robert Daniel, Richmond, Virginia, republican Congressman for Virginia (1972-1983), (d.
           2012)
1937 - Adam Wade, actor (Kiss Me Goodbye, Crazy Joe)
1937 - Galina Samsova, ballerina
1937 - Frank Calabrese [Frankie Breeze], Chicago, Illinois, mafia hitman, (d. 2012)
1938 - Rudolf Nureyev, Russia, ballet dancer/choreographer (Kirov)
1939 - Shahid Mahmoud, cricketer (opener scored 16 & 9 in only Pak Test)
1939 - Jim Gary, American sculptor (d. 2006)
1940 - Vito Picone, rocker (Elegants)
1940 - Mark White, American politician
1941 - Paul Kantner, SF California, rock singer/guitarist (Jefferson Airplane)
1941 - Clarence Collins, US singer (Imperials-Tears on my pillow)
1941 - Edward Harper, composer
1941 - Wang Jin-pyng, Taiwanese politician
1942 - John Wayne Gacy, Chicago Ill, serial killer (32 boys)
1942 - Sidney K Barthelmy, US politician(?)
1942 - Dimitris Poulikakos, Greek composer, singer and actor
1943 - Don Mitchell, Houston Tx, actor (Mark-Ironside)
1944 - Cito Gaston, MLB manager (Toronto Blue Jays)
1944 - John Sebastian, NYC, singer (Loving Spoonful, Welcome Back Kotter)
1944 - Pat McCauley, N Ireland, rock drummer (Them)
1944 - Patti Boyd, Somerset England, (Mrs George Harrison/Mrs Eric Clapton)
1944 - Pattie Boyd, British photographer and model
1945 - Paco Gonzalez, race horse trainer
1945 - Elis Regina, Brazilian singer (d. 1982)
1945 - Michael Hayden, General USAF, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
1946 - Harold Brown, Long Beach Ca, rock drummer (War-Summer, Galaxy)
1946 - Michael Peter Finnissey, composer
1947 - Ian Gomm, rock guitarist
1947 - James Morrow, American author
1947 - Jan Andersson, Swedish politician
1947 - Yury Chernavsky, Russian-born Composer and Producer
1948 - Fran Byrne, rocker
1948 - Pat Lloyd, rocker
1948 - Robert Braunwart, who added thousands of dates to this database
1948 - William [Ford] Gibson, Canada, sci-fi author (Neuromancer, Count Zero)
1948 - Alex MacDonald, Scottish Footballer and football manager
1949 - Patrick Duffy, Townsend Mont, actor (Bobby-Dallas, Man from Atlantis)
1949 - Pat Rice, Northern Irish footballer and football manager
1951 - Kurt Russell, Springfeild Mass, actor (Thing, Overboard, Mean Seasons)
1951 - Scott Gorham, Irish hard rock guitarist (Thin Lizzy-21 Guns)
1951 - Donald Findlay, Scottish lawyer
1952 - Nikos Xydakis, Greek musician and composer
1953 - Filemon Lagman, Filipino communist revolutionary (d. 2001)
1953 - Chuck Muncie, American former football running back
1954 - Lesley-Anne Down, London, actress (A Little Night Music, Moonraker)
1954 - Rena Jones, rock vocalist
1954 - Wally Stocker, London, rock vocalist/guitarist (Babys-Missing You)
1955 - Bill Beyers, actor (Wally McCandless-Capitol)
1955 - Cynthia McKinney, (Rep-D-Georgia)
1955 - Gary Sinise, actor (Apollo 13, Forrest Gump)
1955 - Paul Overstreet, Van Cleave Miss, country singer (Daddy's Come Around)
1956 - Will Rigby, rock percussionist (Amy Rigby Diary of a Mad Housewife)
1956 - Patrick McDonnell, American cartoonist
1957 - Robin Cousins, England, figure skater (Olympic-gold-1980)
1957 - Mal Donaghy, Northern Irish footballer
1958 - Pat Bolland, Canadian Broadcaster
1959 - Brian Douglas Jones, Auckland NZ, tornado class yachter (Olympics-96)
1959 - Danny Ainge, NBA coach (Phoenix Suns)
1959 - Mike Lindup, British rock keyboardist/singer (Level 42-Hot Water)
1959 - Terry Hall (Specials, Fun Boy 3)
1959 - Paul Black, American rock singer
1959 - Christian Clemenson, American actor
1960 - Lee Ann Michelle, Surrey England, playmate (Feb, 1979)
1960 - Vicki Lewis, Cincinnati, actress (Beth-Newsradio)
1960 - Arye Gross, American actor
1961 - Casey Siemaszko, Chicago IL, actor (Biloxi Blues, 3 O'Clock High)
1961 - Dana Reeve, American actress and activist (d. 2006)
1961 - Andrew Paul, English actor
1962 - Clare Grogan, rocker (Altered Images-Happy Birthday)
1962 - Janet Patricia Gardner, Juneau Alaska, rocker (Vixen-Rev It Up)
1962 - Patrick Thomas Burke, Hollywood FL, PGA golfer (1992 BellSouth-6th)
1962 - Roxy Dora Petrucci, Rochester Minn, rock drummer (Vixen-Rev It Up)
1962 - Ank Bijleveld-Schouten, Dutch politician
1963 - Rebeca Arthur, actress (Mary Anne-Perf Strangers, Opposites Attract)
1963 - Roger Harper, cricketer (Guyana & WI off-spinner Extraordinary field)
1963 - Nick Peros, Canadian composer
1963 - Alex Fong Chung-Sun, Chinese actor
1964 - Alex Shoumidoub, NHL goaltender (Belarus, Oly-98)
1964 - Don Griffin, NFL cornerback (Cleveland Browns)
1964 - Rob Lowe, Charlottesville Va, actor (St Elmo's Fire, Hotel NH, Class)
1964 - Ron Warren Jr, jockey (Bay Meadows)
1964 - Lee Dixon, English footballer
1964 - Jacques Songo'o, Cameroonian footballer
1965 - Andrew Hudson, South African cricket player
1965 - Caitlin Bilodeaux, Boston Mass, US fencer (Olympic-92)
1965 - John Smiley, Phoenixville PA, pitcher (Cin Reds)
1966 - Andrew Hudson, cricketer (South Africa, 163 on debut vs WI 1992)
1966 - Jeremy Sheffield, English actor
1967 - Chris Luongo, Detroit, NHL defenseman (NY Islanders)
1967 - Kim Cathrein, Salinas CA, LPGA golfer (1994 Rochester Intl-24th)
1967 - Melissa Allen, Port OR, WPVA volleyballer (Reebok National-13th-1994)
1967 - Van Conner, rocker (Screaming Trees)
1967 - Billy Corgan, American musician (Smashing Pumpkins)
1967 - Barry Minkow, American religious leader and ex-convict (fraud)
1968 - Judy Mosley McAfee, WNBA forward (Sacramento Monarchs)
1968 - Tyrone Hill, NBA forward (Cleveland Cavaliers)
1969 - Andrew McMarlin, Vienna VA, rower (Olympics-1996)
1969 - Domenic "Filane" Figliomeni, Terrace Bay Ontario, boxer (Olympics-96)
1969 - Gilbert Schaller, Bruck Austria, tennis star
1970 - Shannan Mitchem, Decatur GA, female infielder (Colo Silver Bullets)
1971 - Katrina Colleton, WNBA guard/forward (LA Sparks)
1971 - Tommy Thigpen, WLAF linebacker (Barcelona Dragons)
1971 - Bill Mueller, American baseball player
1972 - Mia Hamm, Selma Alabama, soccer forward (Olympics-96)
1972 - Melissa Auf der Maur, Canadian musician
1972 - Marc Gunn, poet, podcaster, and Celtic musician (Brobdingnagian Bards)
1973 - Amelia Weatherly, actress (Stephanie Brewster-Loving/The City)
1973 - Jerome Woods, safety (KC Chiefs)
1974 - Eric Lane, running back (NY Giants)
1974 - John Hall, kicker (NY Jets)
1974 - Marisa Coughlan, American actress
1974 - Mark Dolan, TV show host
1975 - Justin Hawkins, British singer (The Darkness)
1975 - Andrew "Test" Martin, Canadian professional wrestler
1975 - Natalie Zea, American actress
1976 - Stephen Gately, Dublin Ireland, Irish singer (Boyzone)
1976 - Álvaro Recoba, Uruguayan footballer
1976 - Brittany Daniel, American actress
1976 - Cynthia Daniel, American actress and photographer
1976 - Scott Downs, American baseball player
1977 - Hadeel Abol-Naga, Miss Universe-Egypt (1996)
1977 - Iveta Jankularova, Miss Universe-Slovak Republic (1996)
1978 - Adam Jennings, British actor, producer and film director
1979 - Nicole "Coco" Austin, American glamor model
1979 - Andrew Ference, Canadian ice hockey player
1979 - Samoa Joe, Samoan professional wrestler
1979 - Stormy Daniels, American pornographic actress
1980 - Danny Califf, American soccer player
1981 - Kyle Korver, American Basketball Player
1981 - Servet Çetin, Turkish Football Player
1982 - Steven Pienaar, South African footballer
1986 - Olesya Rulin, American actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 17, 2013, 03:53:17 PM

This Day in History for 17th March


Famous Deaths

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Physicist Christian Doppler (1853)               Physicist/Chemist
                                                               Irene Joliot-Curie (1956)


45 BC - Titus Labienus, Roman leader
180 - Antonius Marcus Aurelius, [Marcus Verus], Emperor of Rome, dies at 58
461 - St Patrick, patron St of Ireland, dies in Saul (according to legend)
659 - Gertrude of Nivelles, Belgian abbess, patron saint of travellers, dies at about 32
1040 - Harold Harefoot (Harold I), King of England (1035-40), dies
1058 - King Lulach I of Scotland
1199 - Jocelin, bishop of Glasgow
1272 - Emperor Go-Saga of Japan (b. 1220)
1425 - Ashikaga Yoshikazu, Japanese shogun (b. 1407)
1516 - Giuliano de' Medici, monarch of Florence, dies at 37
1565 - Alexander Alesius, [Aless/Alane], Scottish theologist/physician, dies at 64
1588 - Petrus Dathenus, Flemish minister/physician (Psalms of David), dies
1605 - Pieter Bast, [Bastius], Dutch engraver/cartographer, dies at about 34
1640 - Philip Massinger, dramatist, dies
1649 - Gerardus Johannis Vossius, [Gerrit Vos], Dutch regent, dies at 71
1649 - Gabriel Lallemant, French Jesuit missionary, one of the Canadian Martyrs (b. 1610)
1653 - Johan van Galen, admiral (battle of Livorno), dies in battle at 48
1680 - Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld, writer, dies
1704 - Menno baron van Coehoorn, fort builder/Coevorden/howitzer, dies at 63
1713 - Juraj Jánošík, famous Slovak outlaw [b. 1688)
1715 - Gilbert Burnet, Scottish Bishop of Salisbury (b. 1643)
1741 - Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French poet (b. 1671)
1764 - George Parker, English astronomer, dies
1782 - Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch-born mathematician (b. 1700)
1796 - Pieter Paulus, lawyer/Dutch CEO (National Convention), dies at 41
1801 - Juan de Sesse y Balaguer, composer, dies at 64
1803 - Candido Jose Ruano, composer, dies at 42
1806 - David Dale, industrialist & philanthropist, dies
1830 - Laurent, Marquis de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, French marshal (b. 1764)
1846 - Friedrich W Bessel, German astronomer (Bessel Functions), dies at 61
1849 - William II King of the Netherlands (1840-49), dies at 56
1853 - Christian Doppler, Austrian physicist, dies at 49
1855 - Ramon Carnicer y Batlle, composer, dies at 65
1857 - Adolph Trube, composer, dies at 42
1861 - Petter Conrad Boman, composer, dies at 56
1862 - Fromental Halevy, [Elie Levy], French opera composer, dies at 62
1863 - John Pelham, US Confederate artillery major, dies in battle at 24
1864 - Alexandre Calamo, Swiss painter/etcher/lithographer, dies at 53
1889 - Joseph A Alberdingk Thijm, [Pauwels Foreestier], poet, dies at 68
1891 - Napoleon JKP Bonaparte, French prince/member Natl Convention, dies at 68
1893 - Jules Ferry, French statesman (b. 1832)
1898 - Blanche Kelso Bruce, (Sen-Miss, 1875-1881), dies at 57, in Washington
1901 - Franz Melde, German physicist (Melde Test), dies at 69
1902 - George William Warren, composer, dies at 73
1906 - Carlos Calvo, Argentina diplomat (Calvo Clause), dies at 82
1910 - Joaquin Valverde, composer, dies at 64
1915 - Walter Crane, English painter/cartoonist/illustrator, dies at 69
1927 - James Scott Skinner, composer, dies at 83
1933 - Ferdinand Von Alten, actor (Champagne), dies at 48
1941 - Isaak E Babel, writer, dies at 46
1941 - Isaak Emmanuilovich Babel, Rus writer (Crvena Konjica), executed at 46
1941 - Joachim Schepke, German commandant (U-100), dies in battle
1941 - Marguerite Nichols, American actress (b. 1895)
1946 - Dai Li, Chinese spymaster (b. 1897)
1949 - Felix Bressart, actor (Escape, Ninotchka, Iceland), dies at 54
1949 - Aleksandra Ekster, Russian painter (b. 1882)
1953 - Conrado del Campo y Zabaleta, composer, dies at 73
1954 - Victor Rousseau, Belgian sculptor, dies at 88
1956 - Fred Allen, comedian (Fred Allen Radio Show), dies at 61
1956 - Irene Joliot-Curie, French physicist, Nobel laureate, dies at 58
1959 - Raffaele d' Alessandro, composer, dies on 48th birthday
1961 - Suzanna Salter, 1st US female mayor/temperance leader, dies at 101
1962 - Frank Orth, actor (Boston Blackie, The Brothers), dies at 82
1963 - William Henry Squire, composer, dies at 91
1965 - Almos Alonzo Stagg, football coach (U of Chic), dies in California at 102
1965 - Quentin Reynolds, newscaster (Its News to Me)/author (FBI), dies at 62
1966 - Walter Lang, composer, dies at 69
1967 - Frank Wisbar, director (Fireside Theater), dies at 67
1967 - Richard Reeves, actor (Murph-Date With an Angel), dies at 54
1970 - Fernand Crommelynck, Belgian playwright (Chaud et Frois), dies at 83
1971 - Ernst Bachmeister, writer, dies
1972 - Manny Martindale, cricketer (10 Tests for WI, 34 wickets), dies
1973 - Geertruida M W "Truus" Bakker, Dutch actress (2 Orphans), dies at 81
1974 - Carroll Nye, actress (Lawless Woman), dies at 72
1974 - Louis I Kahn, Estonia/US architect, dies at about 73
1976 - Luchino Visconti di Modrone, It director (Terra Diaeresis), dies at 69
1978 - George Dickinson, cricketer (8 wickets in 3 Tests for NZ), dies
1979 - Merv Inverarity, cricketer (father of John WA player 1925-40), dies
1980 - Rudolf G Escher, Dutch composer (Vrai Visage de la Paix), dies at 68
1981 - Paul Dean, American baseball player (b. 1913)
1982 - Hans ter Laag, Dutch sound technician, murdered in El Salvador
1982 - Jan Kuiper, Dutch news editor (IKON), murdered in El Salvador
1982 - Joop Willemsen, Dutch cameraman, murdered in El Salvador
1982 - Koos Koster, Dutch newscaster (IKON), murdered in El Salvador
1983 - Haldan Keffer Hartline, American physiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1903)
1985 - Dattu Phadkar, cricketer (Indian all-rounder, 31 Tests 1947-58), dies
1986 - Hal Buckley, actor (John Quincy-OK Crackerby), dies at 49
1987 - Santo Trafficante, Jr., American gangster (b. 1914)
1988 - Reg Sinfield, cricketer (one Test for England v Australia 1938), dies
1988 - Nikolas Asimos, Greek counter-culture composer and singer (b. 1949)
1989 - Merritt Butrick, actor (Shy People, Wired to Kill), dies of AIDS at 29
1990 - Germaine Capucine, French actress and fashion model (Rendez-Vous de Juillet), dies at 59
1990 - Rick Grech, rocker (Blind Faith, Traffic), dies at 44
1992 - Charles Rea, British actor (Ipcress File), dies at 69
1992 - George Lovi, US columnist (Sky & Telescope's "Ramblings"), dies
1992 - Grace Stafford Lantz, cartoon voice (Woody Woodpecker), dies at 87
1992 - Jack Arnold, actor/dir (Sid Caeser Special, Emmy 1967), dies at 75
1993 - Helen Hayes, actress (Airport), dies of congestive heart failure at 92
1993 - Laadi Flici, Algerian MP, murdered
1993 - Skip Young, actor (Smokey & Hotwire Gang), dies at 62
1994 - Arthur C Jacobs, poet, dies at 57
1994 - Harold Myers, film journalist, dies at 81
1994 - Mai Zetterling, actress (Night is My Future), dies of cancer at 68
1994 - Walter Janka, German writer (Troubles with Truth), dies at 79
1995 - Ahmad Khomeini, youngest son of Iran ayatollah Khomeini, dies at 48
1995 - Donald Baverstock, television Producer, dies at 71
1995 - Marcus Jan Adriani, biologist/director (Weevers' Duin), dies at 56
1995 - Rick Aviles, US comic/actor (Ghost), dies of AIDS
1995 - Ronnie Kray, English gangster (The Firm), dies at 61
1995 - Sunnyland Smart, jazz/blues singer/pianist (Delta Blues), dies at 87
1996 - Bela Szigeti, theoretical physicist, dies at 83
1996 - Kenneth Jameson, art educationalist, dies at 83
1996 - Rene Clement, film director, dies at 83
1996 - Thomas Enders, diplomat, dies at 64
1996 - Terry Stafford, American singer (b. 1941)
1997 - Gail Davis, actress (Annie Oakley), dies at 71
1999 - Ernest Gold, Austrian composer (b. 1921)
1999 - Rod Hull, British comedian (b. 1936)
2002 - Rosetta LeNoire, American actress (b. 1911)
2002 - Pat Weaver, American broadcast executive (b. 1908)
2003 - Su Buqing, Chinese mathematician and educator (b. 1902)
2004 - J. J. Jackson, American television personality (b. 1941)
2005 - George F. Kennan, American Cold War strategist and historian (b. 1904)
2005 - Andre Norton, American writer (b. 1912)
2006 - Bob Blue, American singer/songwriter (b. 1948)
2006 - Oleg Cassini, American fashion designer (b. 1913)
2006 - Ray Meyer, American basketball coach (b. 1913)
2006 - Bob Papenbrook, American voice actor (b. 1955)
2007 - John Backus, American computer scientist (b. 1924)
2007 - Jim Cronin, Animal welfare campaigner and founder of Monkey World in Dorset, England. (b.
           1951)
2007 - Roger Bennett, American Southern Gospel performer (b. 1959)
2008 - Roland Arnall, U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands (b. 1939)
2009 - Clodovil Hernandes, Brazilian politician and TV host (b. 1937)
2010 - Alex Chilton, American musician (b. 1950)
2010 - Charlie Gillett, British musicologist and radio presenter (b. 1942)
2011 - Michael Gough, British actor (b. 1916)
2012 - Pope Shenouda III, Egyptian Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, dies from
           prostate cancer at 88
2012 - Chaleo Yoovidhya, Thai co-creator of Red Bull, dies from natural causes at 88

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 18, 2013, 07:29:23 PM

This Day in History for 18th March


Historical Events

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3rd Roman Emperor Caligula                   Naturalist Charles Darwin                     Abolitionist Frederick Douglass 

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Pacifist and Spiritual Leader Gandhi       Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini

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Heavyweight Boxing Champion             Basketball Superstar
Mike Tyson                                                Michael Jordan


37 - The Roman Senate annuls Tiberius' will and proclaims Caligula emperor.
417 - St Zosimus begins his reign as Catholic Pope
731 - St Gregory III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1123 - 1st Latern Council (9th ecumenical council) opens in Rome
1167 - Battle of El-Babein, Egypt: Franks under Amalrik vs Syrians
1190 - Crusaders kill 57 Jews in Bury St Edmonds England
1229 - German emperor Frederick II crowns himself king of Jerusalem
1241 - Kraków is ravaged by Mongols.
1314 - Jacques de Molay, the 23rd and the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, is burned at
           the stake.
1325 - According to legend, Tenochtitlan is founded on this date. The event is depicted on the
           Mexican coat of arms.
1438 - Albrecht II von Habsburg becomes king of Germany
1509 - Emperor Maximilian I names Margaretha land guardians of Netherlands
1532 - English parliament bans payments by English church to Rome
1541 - Hernan de Soto observes 1st recorded flood in America (Mississippi R)
1582 - Prince William of Orange injured in attack at Antwerp
1583 - Dutch States General & Anjou sign treaty
1608 - Susenyos is formally crowned Emperor of Ethiopia.
1673 - Lord Berkley sells his half of New Jersey to the Quakers
1754 - Duke of Newcastle becomes English premier
1773 - Oliver Goldsmith' "She Stoops to Conquer," premieres in London
1781 - Charles Messier rediscovers global cluster M92
1793 - 2nd Battle at Neerwinden: Austria army beats France
1793 - The first republican state in Germany, the Republic of Mainz, is declared by Andreas Joseph
           Hofmann.
1810 - "Converse," 1st US opera, premieres in NY
1813 - David Melville, Newport, RI, patents apparatus for making coal gas
1818 - Congress approves 1st pensions for government service
1834 - 1st railroad tunnel in US completed, in Penn (275 m long)
1834 - Six farm labourers from Tolpuddle, Dorset, England are sentenced to be transported to
           Australia for forming a trade union.
1835 - Charles Darwin departs Santiago Chile on his way to Portillo Pass
1847 - 1st Dutch public telegram
1850 - Henry Wells & William Fargo forms American Express in Buffalo
1858 - Dutch Van der Brugghen government resigns
1859 - Vera Cruz besieged by Miramon (Cons) in Mexican War of Reform
1864 - Dale Dike on Humber River crumbles drowning some 240
1865 - Battle of Wilson's raid to Selma, AL
1865 - Congress of Confederate States of American adjourns for last time
1870 - 1st US National Wildlife Preserve (Lake Meritt in Oakland California)
1871 - Communards revolt in Paris
1874 - Hawaii signs a treaty with the United States granting exclusive trading rights.
1877 - President Hayes appoints Frederick Douglass marshal of Wash DC
1881 - Barnum & Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth opens (Madison Square Garden)
1890 - 1st US state naval militia organized (Massachusetts)
1891 - Britain is linked to the continent by Telephone
1892 - Lord Stanley presents silver challenge cup for hockey (Stanley Cup)
1895 - 200 blacks leave Savannah, Ga for Liberia
1899 - Phoebe, a moon of Saturn is discovered by Pickering
1900 - Ajax (Amsterdam Football Club), forms
1902 - Enrico Caruso becomes 1st well-known performer to make a record
1902 - Schoenberg's "Verklärte Nacht," premieres in Vienna
1904 - 1st performance of Edward Elgar's "In the South (Alassio)"
1909 - Einar Dessau of Denmark makes 1st ham broadcast
1910 - 1st opera by an US composer (Converse) performed at the Met, NYC
1911 - North Dakota enacts a hail insurance law
1913 - King George I of Greece is assassinated in the recently liberated city of Thessaloniki.
1914 - White Wolf gang beats government army in Jingdezhen China
1915 - Failed British attack in Dardanelles
1915 - French battleship Bouvet explodes, 640 killed
1918 - Soccer team SON OF Meerssen forms
1918 - Socialist Youth AJC organizes in Amsterdam
1919 - Order of DeMolay forms in Kansas City
1920 - Greece adopts the Gregorian calendar
1921 - 2nd Peace of Riga, Poland enlarged
1921 - Steamer "Hong Koh" runs aground off Swatow China killing 1,000
1922 - 1st intercollegiate indoor polo championship (Princeton vs Yale)
1922 - Brit magistrates in India sentence Gandhi to 6 years for disobedience
1922 - Mohandas K Gandhi sentenced to 6 years' imprisonment
1922 - WBT-AM in Charlotte NC begins radio transmissions
1922 - The first public celebration of Bat mitzvah, for the daughter of Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, is held
            in New York City.
1925 - ( 8 ) 60-MPH tornadoes speed Mo, In, Il, Ky, & Tn kills 689
1929 - Dmitri Shostakovitch' "The new Babylon," premieres in Leningrad
1930 - Boston Bruins win record 20th NHL home game
1931 - 1st electric shavers go on sale in US (Schick)
1931 - Juan Bautista Aznar becomes premier of Spain
1933 - Radio Clube de Mocambique's, 1st radio transmission
1933 - US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson
1933 - US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Roger Turner
1937 - Gas explosion in school in New London Texas: 294 die
1937 - The human-powered aircraft, Pedaliante, flies 1 kilometre (0.62 miles) outside Milan.
1938 - Mexico takes control of foreign-owned oil properties
1938 - NY 1st requires serological blood tests of pregnant women
1938 - Pres Cardena of Mexico nationalizes US & British oil companies
1940 - Benito Mussolini joins Hitler in Germany's war against France & Britain
1942 - Illegal Free Netherlands announces boycott of theaters
1942 - 2 black players, Jackie Robinson & Nate Moreland, request a tryout with the Chicago White
           Sox, they are allowed to work out
1943 - James Oglethorpe (US) & Terkolei (Neth), torpedoed & sinks
1943 - Red Army evacuates Belgorod
1944 - Nazi Germany occupies Hungary
1944 - 2,500 women trample guards & floorwalkers to purchase 1,500 alarm clocks announced for
           sale in a Chicago Illinois dept store
1945 - 1,250 US bombers attacks Berlin
1945 - Maurice "Rocket" Richard becomes the 1st NHLer to score 50 goals
1945 - US Task Force 58 attacks targets on Kiushu
1948 - France & Great Britain & Benelux sign Treaty of Brussels
1948 - Philips begin experimental TV broadcasting
1948 - Soviet consultants have left Yugoslavia in first sign of Tito-Stalin split.
1949 - NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Org) ratified
1949 - WGAL TV channel 8 in Lancaster, PA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1950 - "Touch & Go" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 176 performances
1950 - CCNY beats Bradley 69-61 for the NIT championship
1951 - Pat O'Sullivan wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1952 - 1st plastic lens for cataract patients fitted (Phila)
1952 - Communist offensive in Korea
1953 - 15th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Indiana beats Kansas 69-68
1953 - Boston Braves move to Milwaukee
1953 - Earthquake strikes West Turkey, 250 die
1953 - KGNC (now KAMR) TV channel 4 in Amarillo, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 - NL approves Boston Braves move to Milwaukee (1st shift since 1903)
1955 - I Hatojama recognized as premier of Japan
1957 - WTWV (now WTVA) TV channel 9 in Tupelo-Columbus, MS (NBC) begins
1958 - Dodgers announces mascot/clown Emmett Kelly will not perform in 1958
1959 - Boston Celtic's Bill Sharman begins record of 56 straight free-throws
1959 - President Dwight D Eisenhower signs Hawaii statehood bill
1961 - Poppin' Fresh Pillsbury Dough Boy introduced
1962 - Algerian War ends after 7½ yrs (250,000 die), Ben Bella flees
1962 - Dmitri Shostakovitch becomes member of Supreme Soviet of USSR
1963 - "Tovarich" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 264 performances
1963 - France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria
1963 - WGSF TV channel 31 in Newark, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
1965 - "Do I Hear a Waltz?" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 220 performances
1965 - Rolling Stones fined £5 each for public urination
1965 - USSR launches Voshkod 2; Alexei Leonov makes 1st spacewalk (20 mins)
1965 - Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the
           first person to walk in space.
1966 - "Pousse Cafe" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 3 performances
1966 - General Suharto forms government in Indonesia
1966 - Scott Paper begins selling paper dresses for $1
1967 - Beatles' "Penny Lane," single goes #1
1967 - Oil tanker Torrey Canyon hits a rock & spills oil
1968 - Congress repeals requirement for a gold reserve
1968 - WVER TV channel 28 in Rutland, VT (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 - WVTA TV channel 41 in Windsor, VT (PBS) begins broadcasting
1969 - "Come Summer" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 7 performances
1970 - -25) US Postal begins strike
1970 - Cambodia military coup under Gen Lon Nol, prince Sihanuk flees
1970 - KAEC TV channel 19 in Lufkin, TX (ABC) suspends broadcasting
1970 - Mail service paralyzed by 1st major postal strike
1970 - NFL selects Wilson as official football & scoreboard as official time
1971 - 200 die in landslide into Lake Yanahuani, Chungar Peru
1972 - AIAW 1st basketball champs, Immaculata beats West Chester State 52-48
1972 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1972 - Cornell NCAA hockey team shut out for 1st time in 225 games (Boston U)
1972 - Memphis' Larry Miller sets ABA record of 67 pts in a game
1973 - "Seesaw" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 296 performances
1973 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic
1974 - Most Arab oil producing nations end embargo against US
1975 - Kurds end fight against Iraqi army
1977 - Clash releases their 1st recording "White Riot"
1977 - US restricts citizens from visiting Cuba, Vietnam, N Korea & Cambodia
1977 - Vietnam hands over MIA to US
1978 - 250,000 attend rock concert California Jam II in Ontario Calif
1978 - Pakistani former premier Ali Bhutto sentenced to death
1979 - "On the 20th Century" closes at St James Theater NYC after 460 perfs
1979 - Battles between Kurds & Iranians break in Sananday Iran
1979 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Honda Civic Golf Classic
1980 - Vostok rocket exploded on launch pad while being refueled, killing 50
1981 - Buffalo Sabres sets NHL record of 9 goals in 1 period (vs Toronto)
1982 - Singer Teddy Pendergrass' spinal cord severed in a car accident
1984 - Chris Johnson wins LPGA Tucson Conquistadores Golf Open
1985 - Capital Cities Communications Inc acquires ABC
1985 - Commissioner Peter Ueberroth reinstates Willie Mays & Mickey Mantle
1986 - Exciting draw in final gives NSW the Sheffield Shield over Qld
1986 - Treasury Dept announces plans to alter paper money
1987 - Gerber survey find most popular names for newborns (Jessica & Matthew)
1987 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1989 - 27th space shuttle mission, STS-29 (Discovery 8 ), returns to Earth
1989 - California Quake amusement ride opens at Universal Studios
1989 - Dino Ciccarelli sets Wash Cap record of 7 pts in a game
1989 - Largest Art robbery in the history (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston ), where 12
          paintings valued at $100 million are stolen
1989 - In Egypt, a 4,400-year-old mummy is found in the Pyramid of Cheops.
1990 - 1st free elections in East Germany, Conservatives beat Communists
1990 - 32-day lockout by baseball owners ends
1990 - A Tampa little leaguer, dies, after being struck by a pitch
1990 - Biggest US art robbery, $100's millions at Gardner Museum, Boston
1990 - Colleen Walker wins Circle K Tucson LPGA Golf Open
1991 - Mike Tyson beats Razor Ruddock in the 7th round
1991 - Phila '76ers retires Wilt Chamberlain's #13 jersey
1991 - Reggie Miller (Indiana) ends NBA free throw streak of 52 games
1992 - "4 Baboons Adoring the Sun" opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 38 perf
1992 - Donna Summer gets a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame
1992 - Leona Helmsley sentence to 4 years for tax evasion
1992 - Zimbabwe beat England by 9 runs in World Cup at Albury
1993 - "Sisters Rosensweig" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 556 perfs
1993 - Amsterdam stock exchange hits record Ÿ12.2 billion
1993 - Sri Lanka beat England in Test match by 5 wickets
1994 - South Africa Goldstone committee reveals existence of secret police
1994 - Space shuttle STS-62 (Columbia 16), lands
1994 - Zsa Zsa Gabor files for bankruptcy
1995 - Michael Jordan announces he is ending his 17 month NBA retirement
1995 - STS 67 (Endeavour 8 ) lands after 16½ days
1996 - 50,000 swimmers raise 15 million for charity during BT's Swimathon '96
1996 - A nightclub fire in Quezon City, Philippines kills 162.
1997 - Russian AN-24 plane crashes in Turkey, 50 die
2003 - FBI agents raid the corporate headquarters of HealthSouth Corporation in Birmingham,
          Alabama on suspicion of massive corporate fraud led by the company's top executives.
2003 - British Sign Language is recognised as an official British language.
2005 - Terri Schiavo's feeding tube is removed at the request of her husband.
2012 - Superleague Greece football match between Olympiacos and Panathinaikos is abandoned after
           fans set fire to Athens' Olympic Stadium
2012 - Joachim Gauck elected President of the Federal republic of Germany by the Federal Assembly

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Post by: MysteRy on March 18, 2013, 07:30:49 PM

This Day in History for 18th March


Famous Weddings

1991 - Apple computer head Steve Jobs weds Laurene Powell
1993 - Eddie Murphy marries Nicole Mitchell in NYC
1995 - Spanish princess Elena (31) weds Jaime de Marichalar y Saenez Tejada (31) at the Seville
           Cathedral in Seville, Spain
2006 - Television star Adita Wahi weds director Ameet Sawant in New Delhi

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Post by: MysteRy on March 18, 2013, 07:32:03 PM

This Day in History for 18th March


Famous Divorces

2012 - "Twilight" actor Peter Facinelli (38) divorces "Beverly Hills 90210" actress Jennie Garth (39) due
            to irreconcilable differences after 11 years of marriage

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Post by: MysteRy on March 18, 2013, 07:52:41 PM

This Day in History for 18th March


Famous Birthdays

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US President Grover Cleveland (1837)         British Prime Minister                          Singer, Rapper, & Actress
Grover Cleveland (1837)                           Neville Chamberlain (1869)                             Queen Latifah (1970)


1380 - Liduina van Schiedam, Dutch "Christ's bride"/saint
1395 - John Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter, English military leader (d. 1447)
1496 - Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VII of England and queen consort of Louis XII of France (d.
           1533)
1548 - Cornelis Ketel, Dutch portrait painter/poet
1556 - Francois-Hercule de Valois, French duke of Anjou/Brabant
1578 - Adam Elsheimer, German painter/cartoonist/etcher, baptized
1590 - Manuel de Faria e Sousa, Portuguese historian and poet (d. 1649)
1602 - Jacques de Billy, French mathematician (d. 1679)
1603 - Simon Bradstreet, Massachusetts Bay colonist (d. 1693)
1609 - Frederick III, King of Denmark & Norway (1648-70); absolutist
1640 - Philippe de la Hire, French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1719)
1644 - Gottfried Wegner, composer
1657 - Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni, Italian composer
1679 - Matthew Decker, English merchant and writer (d. 1759)
1685 - Ralph Ersine, Scottish minister (d. 1752)
1690 - Christian Goldbach, German mathematician (Goldbach position)
1701 - Niclas Sahlgren, Swedish merchant and philanthropist (d. 1776)
1734 - Joseph Schmitt, composer
1756 - Johann Christoph Vogel, composer
1765 - David H Chasse, Dutch baron/general (fought Napoleon at Waterloo)
1780 - Milos Obrenovic, Leader of The Second Serbian Uprising and Prince of Serbia (d. 1860)
1781 - Gustave Vogt, composer
1782 - John Caldwell Calhoun, SC, Andrew Jackson's VP (1825-32)
1813 - Friedrich Hebbel, writer
1828 - William Randal Cremer, English politician and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d.
          1908)
1829 - William Robertson Boggs, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1911
1830 - Numa D Fustel de Coulanges, French historian/sociologist
1837 - Grover Cleveland, [Stephen], NJ, 22nd/24th Pres (1885-89, 93-97)
1838 - Jan B Stobbaerts, Flemish painter
1838 - Randal Cremer, Britain, trade unionist, pacifist (Nobel 1903)
1839 - Francis Fessenden, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1906
1840 - William Cosmo Monkhouse, English poet and critic (d. 1901)
1842 - Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet (d. 1898)
1843 - Jules HPFX Vandenpeereboom, premier of Belgium (1899)
1844 - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Tikhvin Russia, composer (Scheherazade)
1848 - Nathaniel Herreshoff, America Cup yacht designer
1848 - Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, daughter of Queen Victoria (d. 1939)
1858 - Rudolph C K Diesel, German engineer (Diesel motor)
1864 - Karl M Lybeck, Finnish/Swedish language poet (Samlade Arbeten)
1866 - Dumitru Kiriac-Georgescu, composer
1866 - John Loudon, Dutch minister of Foreign Affairs (1913-18)
1867 - Michael G de Boer, historian (Harbor of Amsterdam)
1869 - [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain, British PM (C, 1937-40)
1872 - Frank Hoyt Losey, composer
1872 - Anna Held, Polish actress and singer (d. 1918)
1874 - Nikolai Berdyaev, Russian philosopher (d. 1948)
1877 - Clem Hill, cricketer (all-time great Australian batsman)
1877 - Edgar Cayce, American psychic (d. 1945)
1881 - Oliver Seibert, hall of fame hockey player (elected 1963)
1881 - Paul Le Flem, composer
1882 - Gian Francesco Malipiero, composer
1884 - Bernard Cronin, Australian author and journalist (d. 1968)
1886 - Edward Everett Horton, Bkln NY, actor/narrator (Bulwinkle Show)
1886 - Kurt Koffka, Germany, Gestalt psychologist
1886 - Marianne [Goudeket-]Philips, Dutch author (Between Heaven & Earth)
1888 - Joseph Csaky, Hungarian/French sculptor
1889 - F Rijkens, oldest living person in Netherlands
1890 - Gerardus van der Leeuw, Dutch religion historian/minister of Education
1892 - Robert P Tristram Coffin, poet/reporter (WW II)
1893 - Wilfred Owen, England, anti-war poet (Anthem for Doomed Youth)
1893 - Costante Girardengo, Italian cyclist (d. 1978)
1893 - Jean Goldkette, Greek-born jazz musician (d. 1962)
1897 - Betty Compson, actress (Big City, Docks Of New York)
1898 - Otto Jochum, composer
1898 - Jake Swirbul, American aircraft manufacturer (d. 1960)
1899 - Lavrenti Beria, chief of Soviet secret police under Stalin
1901 - Piotr Perkowski, composer
1901 - William H. Johnson, African-American artist of the Harlem Renaissance (d. 1970)
1904 - Srečko Kosovel, Slovenian poet (d. 1926)
1905 - John Kirkpatrick, NYC, pianist (Concord Sonata)
1905 - Mollie Parnis, NYC, fashion designer (Mollie Roberts Collection)
1905 - Robert Donat, England, actor (Goodbye Mr Chips, Citadel)
1905 - Thomas Townsend Brown, American scientist (d. 1985)
1906 - Roy L Johnson, US admiral (WW II-Pacific Ocean)
1907 - Eleanor L "Betty" Compton, US actress (Here Comes Trouble)
1908 - Louis Gaste, songwriter
1909 - Ernest Gallo, American winemaker (d. 2007)
1910 - Chiang Ching-huo, son of Chinese pres Chiang Kai-shek/pres (1978-88)
1911 - Smiley Burnette, Summum Ill, cowboy (Charlie-Petticoat Junction)
1913 - Margaret Hesse, princess of Hesse/Rhine
1913 - Rene Clement, Bordeaux France, director/writer (Is Paris Burning)
1913 - William Hutchinson Murray, mountaineer/author
1913 - Reinhard Hardegen, German U-Boat commander
1914 - Cesar Guerra Peixe, composer
1914 - James Pack, naval officer museum curator
1915 - Richard Thomas Condon, author
1916 - Louis Toebosch, composer
1918 - Al Benton, American baseball player (d. 1968)
1918 - Bob Broeg, American sports writer (d. 2005)
1918 - Yevgeny Pepelyaev, Bodaybo, Irkutsk, Soviet Union, fighter pilot, (d. 2013)
1919 - Laila Schou Nilsen, Norway, downhill skier (Olympic-gold-1936)
1919 - Len Johnson, cricketer (Australian fast bowler played Test in 1948)
1919 - Christopher Challis, British cinematographer
1920 - Eric Halsall, sheepdog trial commentator
1922 - Egon Bahr, German journalist/politician
1923 - Andy Granatelli, American motorsports entrepreneur
1924 - Madhussudan Rege, cricketer (15 runs in only Test India v WI 1948-49)
1925 - Peter Graves [Aurness], Minneapolis Mn, actor (James Phelps-Mission Impossible)
1926 - Dick Littlefield, American baseball player (d. 1997)
1927 - George Plimpton, NYC, sports writer (Paper Lion)
1927 - John Harold Kander, composer (Cabaret, Funny Lady, Kramer vs Kramer)
1928 - Fidel V Ramos, pres (Phillipines)
1928 - William R Boggs, Georgia, Brig Gen/chief of engineers under Bragg
1928 - Julia Mullock, Princess of Korea
1928 - Miguel Poblet, Spanish cyclist
1929 - Christa Wolf, German novelist (Divided Heaven)
1929 - Ctirad Kohoutek, composer
1929 - John Macurdy, American bass
1930 - Maurice Peress, NYC, conductor (KC Philharmonic 1974-80)
1930 - Pat Halcox, British musician, (d. 2013)
1931 - Howard Coble, (Rep-R-NC, 1985- )
1932 - F[rederik] W[illem] de Klerk, president South Africa (1989-94)
1932 - John Updike, Shillington Pa, poet/novelist (Rabbit Run)
1933 - Unita Blackwell, 1st black mayor in Mississippi
1934 - Pavle Despalj, composer
1934 - Roy Chapman, English footballer and manager (d. 1983)
1935 - Ole Barndorff-Nielsen, Danish mathematician
1936 - Hans Peter Bleuel, writer
1936 - Robert Lee Smith, US singer (Tams, You Lied to Your Daddy)
1936 - Tony Nash, England, bobsled (Olympic-gold-1964)
1937 - Mark Donohue, auto racer (1972 Indianapolis 500)
1937 - Robin Wright, race horse trainer
1937 - Rudi Altig, German cyclist
1938 - Carl Gottlieb, comedian (Ken Berry Wow Show)
1938 - Charley Pride, Sledge Miss, country singer (Sweet Country)
1938 - Shashi Kapoor, Calcutta India, actor (Shalimar, Heat & Dust)
1939 - Travis Pritchett, rocker (Travis & Bob)
1939 - Ron Atkinson, English former footballer and manager
1939 - Giannis Markopoulos, Greek composer
1939 - Kenny Lynch, British entertainer
1940 - Kathy Hutchinson, race horse trainer
1941 - Wilson Pickett, Prattville Alabama, R&B singer (Funky Broadway)
1941 - Wolfgang Bauer, writer
1941 - John W. Derr, American politician
1942 - Albert Van Vlierberghe, Belgian cyclist (d. 1991)
1943 - Kevin Dobson, Jackson Hgts NY, actor (Kojak, Knots Landing, Shannon)
1943 - Toula Grivas, Greek actress
1944 - Dick Smith, Australian Adventurer and Businessman
1944 - Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, Israeli military leader and politician, (d. 2012)
1945 - Aleksey Vakhonin, USSR, bantam weight (Olympic-gold-1964)
1945 - Joy Fielding, Canadian novelist and actress
1945 - Hiroh Kikai, Japanese photographer
1945 - Eric Woolfson, Charing Cross, Glasgow,lyricist/producer ( The Alan Parsons Project), (d.
           2009)
1946 - Michael Reagan, talk show host, Ronald's son
1946 - Martyn Griffiths, British racing driver
1946 - Michel Leclère, French racing driver
1947 - Barry Wilson, Engld, rock drummer (Procol Harum-Whiter Shade of Pale)
1947 - David Lloyd, cricketer (England opener, 214 v India 1974)
1947 - Steven H Schiff, (Rep-R-New Mexico)
1947 - Patrick Chesnais, French actor
1947 - Patrick Barlow, English actor, comedian and playwright
1947 - Roger Kenneth Evans, English politician
1947 - Heather Ryan, American model and former Playmate of the Month
1948 - Eknath Solkar, cricketer (India 1969-77, brilliant short-leg fielder)
1948 - Lockwood Phillips, American radio host
1948 - Brian Lloyd, Welsh footballer
1949 - Alex "Hurricane" Higgins, Irish snooker player (2X world-champ)
1949 - Starr Danias, NYC, ballerina (Turning Point)
1949 - Hannu Siitonen, Finnish athlete
1949 - Åse Kleveland, Norwegian singer and politician
1950 - Brad Dourif, WV, actor (Ragtime, Eyes of Laura Mars, Fatal Beauty)
1950 - James Conlon, NYC, conductor (Cincinnati May Festival-1979)
1950 - John Hartman, Falls Church Va, rock drummer (Doobie Brothers)
1950 - Richard Kretchmer, English artist and historian
1950 - Larry Perkins, Australian racing driver
1951 - Ben Cohen, American co-founder of Ben & Jerry's ice cream
1952 - Mike Webster, American football player (d. 2002)
1953 - Helmer C Koetje, Dutch 2nd chamber member (CDA)
1953 - Jamie West-Oram, rocker (Fixx)
1953 - Margaret L Augustine, Buffalo NY, project manager (Biosphere 2)
1953 - Nicholas Wisdom, cricketer (son of comic Norman, 2 games Sussex 1974)
1954 - James F Reilly II, Mt Home AFB Idaho, PhD/astronaut (STS 89, sk:100)
1955 - Graham Porter, cricketer (1 day intl for Australia 1979)
1955 - Francis G. Slay, Mayor of St. Louis, Mo.
1956 - "The Model" Rick Martel, [Richard Vignault], wrestler (WWF/AWA)
1956 - Ingamar Stenmark, Sweden, slalom (Olympic-2 gold-1980)
1956 - Deborah Jeane Palfrey
1957 - Christer Fuglesang, Stockholm Sweden, physicist/astronaut (Mir backup)
1957 - Melvin Gentry, vocalits/guitarist (Midnight Star-No Parking)
1957 - György Pazdera, Hungarian bassist (Pokolgép)
1958 - Andreas Wenzel, Liechtenstein, skier (Olympic-silver-1980)
1959 - Irene Cara, Bronx NYC, actress/singer (Fame, DC Cab, Certain Fury)
1959 - Luc Besson, French producer, writer, and director
1960 - Claudia Udy, Albuquerque NM, actress (Out of Control, Nightforce)
1960 - Guy Carbonneau, Sept-iles, NHL center (Dallas Stars)
1960 - Patricia Farinelli, LA California, playmate (December, 1981)
1960 - Richard Biggs, Columbus Ohio, actor (Marcus-Days of Our Lives)
1960 - James MacPherson, Scottish actor
1961 - Kevan James, cricketer (all-rounder 4 wkts/4 balls & ton v India 1996)
1961 - Mark Van Thillo, Wilrijk Belgium, co-capt (Biosphere 2)
1961 - Todd Nelson, Dalles Ore, tennis star
1962 - Trevor Franklin, cricketer (opened for NZ mid-80's)
1962 - Thomas Ian Griffith, American actor
1962 - Mike Rowe, American television personality
1962 - Etsushi Toyokawa, Japanese actor
1963 - Vanessa L Williams, Millwood NY, 1st black Miss America (1983)/singer
1963 - Vanessa Williams, Bkln NY, actress (Rhonda Blair-Melrose Place)
1964 - Bonnie Blair, Champaign Ill, speed skater (Oly-5 gold/brz-88, 92, 94)
1964 - Christina Ferguson, Phoenix Az, playmate (Apr, 1983)
1964 - Courtney Pine, British jazz saxophonist
1964 - Rozalla, Zambian singer
1964 - Alex Caffi, Italian racecar driver
1964 - Paul Elliott, English footballer
1965 - Geronimo Berroa, Santo Domingo Dom Rep, outfielder (Oakland A's)
1965 - Jeff Labarr, rocker (Cinderella-Heartbreak Station)
1965 - Yoriko Douguchi, Japanese actress
1965 - Birgit Clarius, German heptathlete
1966 - Jerry Cantrell, US rock guitarist (Alice in Chains-Dirt)
1966 - Daniel S. Nevins, American rabbi
1967 - Andre Rison, NFL wide receiver (Cleveland Browns, KC Chiefs)
1967 - Derrick Graham, NFL tackle (Green Bay Packers, Carolina Panthers, Seattle Seahawks)
1967 - Miki Berenyi, English singer (Lush)
1967 - Ken Edenfield, American basenall player
1968 - Joseph Ouellet, hockey forward (Team France 1998)
1968 - Pat Terrell, NFL strong safety (Carolina Panthers, Green Bay Packers)
1968 - Shinichiro Miki, Japanese seiyu (voice actor)
1968 - Eudes, duc d'Angoulême, French prince
1968 - Paul Marsden, British politician
1969 - Michael Dumas, NFL free safety (San Diego Chargers, Jacksonville Jaguars)
1969 - Shaun Udal, cricketer (Hants off-spinner, England to Aust 1994-95)
1969 - Sheila Taormina, 4X200m freestyle swimmer (Olympics-gold-96)
1969 - Vassily Ivanchuk, Ukrainian chess player
1970 - Michael Rapaport, actor (Zak-Zebrahead)
1970 - Queen Latifah, rap singer/actress (Khadijah James-Living Single)
1970 - Sarah Thorsett, Winona Minn, 1.5k runner
1971 - Mariaan de Swardt, Johannesburg, tennis star (1996 3rd round Aust))
1972 - Dane Cook, American comedian and actor
1972 - Nathan Quarry, American mixed martial arts fighter
1973 - Marlon Kerner, NFL cornerback (Buffalo Bills)
1973 - Rob Johnson, NFL quarterback (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1973 - Max Barry, Australian author
1973 - Luci Christian, American voice actress
1974 - Petra Kamstra, Rotterdam Holland, tennis star (1995 Surabaya doubles)
1974 - Tina Krizan, Maribor Slovenia, tennis star (1995 Surabaya doubles)
1974 - Torrian Gray, safety (Minnesota Vikings)
1975 - Claude N'Goran, Adzope Ivory Coast, tennis pro
1975 - Kimmo Timonen, hockey defenseman (Team Finland Oly-Bronze-1998)
1975 - Tomas Žvirgždauskas, Lithuanian footballer
1975 - Brian Griese, American football player
1975 - Rodleen Getsic, American musician, civil servant
1976 - Jovan Kirovski, American soccer player
1976 - Tomokazu Ohka, Japanese baseball player
1976 - Scott Podsednik, American baseball player
1976 - Michael Spillane, American wrestler, better known as Mike Quackenbush
1976 - Giovanna Antonelli, Brazilian actress
1977 - Danny Murphy, English footballer
1977 - Zdeno Chára, Slovak ice hockey player
1977 - Devin Lima, American singer
1977 - Willy Sagnol, French footballer
1977 - Terrmel Sledge, American baseball player
1977 - Fernando Rodney, Dominican baseball player
1978 - Dionne Bainbridge, Brisbane QLD Aust, NZ 200m swimmer (Olympics-96)
1978 - Jonas Wallerstedt, Swedish footballer
1978 - Khalilah Adams, American actress
1978 - Yoshie Takeshita, Japanese volleyball player
1979 - Dramane Coulibaly, Malian footballer
1979 - Adam Levine, American singer (Maroon 5)
1979 - Brandon Lee, American adult actor
1979 - Danneel Harris, American actress
1979 - Anthony Maher, American soccer player
1980 - Sebastien Frey, French footballer
1980 - Sophia Myles, English actress
1981 - Jang Nara, Korean singer and actress
1981 - Tora Berger, Norwegian biathlete
1981 - Kasib Powell, American basketball player
1982 - Timo Glock German Formula 1 driver
1982 - Pedro Mantorras, Angolan footballer
1982 - Chad Cordero, American baseball player
1983 - Tomasz Stolpa, Polish footballer
1983 - Andy Sonnanstine, American baseball player
1984 - Vonzell Solomon, American Idol Contestant
1985 - Vince Lia, Australian Footballer
1985 - Gennaro Esposito, Italian footballer
1986 - Bia Figueiredo, Brazilian racing driver
1986 - Abdennour Cherif El Ouazzani, Algerian footballer
1986 - Kaloyan Ivanov, Bulgarian basketball player
1987 - Mauro Zárate, Argentinian Footballer
1987 - Gabriel Mercado, Argentinian Footballer
1987 - Cesare Rickler, Italian footballer
1996 - Madeline Carroll, American actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 18, 2013, 08:01:30 PM

This Day in History for 18th March


Famous Deaths

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Russian Tsar                                          Actress Natasha Richardson (2009)
Ivan the Terrible (1584)   


235 - Marcus Aurelius Alexander, Syrian emperor of Rome (222-235), murdered
978 - Edward, the Martyr, King of Anglo-Saxons (975-78)/st, murdered at 15
1227 - Honorius III, [Cencio Savelli], Pope (1216-27), dies
1314 - Jacques de Molay, the last grand master of The KnightsTemplar dies burned at the stake
1493 - John of Lannoy, Flemish governor/viceroy of Neth/Zealand, dies at 82
1582 - Jean Jaurequi, Basque attacker of William of Orange, killed by William's guards
1583 - King Magnus of Livonia (b. 1540)
1584 - Ivan IV [Ivan the Terrible], Russian tsar (1547-84), dies at 53
1675 - Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall, Irish soldier (b. 1606)
1689 - John Dixwell, English judge (b. 1607)
1690 - Charles, duke of Lutherans, dies
1696 - Robert Charnock, English conspirator
1745 - Robert Walpole, 1st English premier (1722-42), dies at 68 [NS=3/29]
1746 - Anna Leopoldovna, regent of Russia (b. 1718)
1768 - Lawrence Sterne, writer (Sentimental Journey France & Italy), dies
1781 - Anne Robert Turgot, French statesman (b. 1727)
1799 - John Randall, composer, dies at 82
1816 - Johann Paul Schulthesius, composer, dies at 67
1817 - Johann Jakob Walder, composer, dies at 67
1823 - Jean-Baptiste Sebastien Breval, composer, dies at 69
1835 - Christian Gunther von Bernstorff, Danish-Prussian statesman and diplomat (b. 1769)
1845 - John Chapman, [Johnny Appleseed], American pioneer agronomist dies in Allen County
           Indiana
1870 - Joaquin y Garbayo Gaztambide, composer, dies at 48
1871 - Augustus De Morgan, Indian-born British mathematician and logician (b. 1806)
1875 - Ferdinand Laub, composer, dies at 43
1876 - F Freiligrath, writer, dies at 65
1886 - Leopold Zunz, German intellect (Synagogue Poetry), dies at 91
1889 - William Henry Monk, composer, dies at 66
1898 - Matilda Joslyn Gage, American suffragist (b. 1826)
1899 - Douglas Strutt Galton, English engineer (rails, trains), dies at 76
1899 - Svetolik Rankovic, Serbian writer (Crushed Ideals), dies at 35
1900 - Antonio Nobre, Portuguese poet (So [Lonely]), dies at 32
1907 - Marcellin Berthelot, French chemist and politician (b. 1827)
1913 - George I, king of Greece (1861-1913), assassinated by Schinas at 67
1917 - William Shalders, South African cricket batsman (12 Tests 1895-1907), dies
1918 - Willem Coenen, composer, dies at 80
1924 - John Frederick Bridge, composer, dies at 79
1928 - Paul van Ostaijen, Flemish writer (Outlawed), dies at 32
1933 - Luigi A duke of the Abruzzi, Italian explorer (Ruwenzori), dies at 60
1936 - Egon Friedell, Austrian journalist (Kleine Portratgalerie), dies at 58
1936 - Eleftherios Venizelos, Former Prime minister of Greece
1938 - Cyril Rootham, composer, dies at 62
1939 - Henry Simpson Lunn, English humanitarian and religious leader (b. 1859)
1944 - Benjamin Delmonte, theater director/actor, dies at 79
1945 - William Grover-Williams, British racing driver
1947 - William C. Durant, American automobile pioneer (b. 1861)
1954 - Walter Mead, cricketer (one Test for England 1899), dies
1956 - Friedrich Panzer, German germanist (Hilde-Gudrun), dies at 85
1956 - Louis Bromfield, writer, dies at 59
1962 - Walter W. Bacon, Governor of Delaware (b. 1880)
1963 - Wanda Hawley, American actress (b. 1895)
1964 - Norbert Wiener, US mathematician (cybernetics), dies at 69
1964 - Sigfrid Edström, Swedish sports official (b. 1870)
1965 - Farouk I, last King of Egypt (1936-52), dies at 45
1967 - Jimmy Blaine, singer (Stop the Music), dies at 42
1968 - Manuel Gomez Carillo, composer, dies at 85
1969 - Barbara Bates, actress (Kathy-It's a Great Life), dies at 43
1971 - George Wood, England cricket wicketkeeper (v South Africa 1924), dies
1973 - Lauritz L H Melchior, Danish baritone/actor (Luxury Liner), dies at 82
1974 - David C Imboden, actor (King of Kings), dies at 87
1975 - Alain Grandbois, Quebec poet (b. 1900)
1976 - James McCartney, father of Paul McCartney, dies at 73
1976 - Robert de Roos, composer, dies at 69
1976 - Giuseppe Genco Russo, Sicilian mafioso (b. 1893)
1977 - Marien Ngouabi, president of Congo-Brazzaville, murdered
1977 - José Carlos Pace, Brazilian racing driver (b. 1944)
1978 - Faith Baldwin, US author (They Who Love), dies at 84
1978 - Peggy Wood, actress (One Life to Live, Mama), dies at 86
1980 - Erich Fromm, German/US psychoanalyst, dies at 79
1980 - Herman Griffith, cricketer (13 Tests for WI, 44 wickets), dies
1982 - Georg G Lampe, Dutch painter/director (Free Academy), dies at 60
1983 - Umberto of Piemonte, King Umberto II of Italy (1946), dies
1983 - Kenneth E. Boulding, English economist (b. 1910)
1984 - Charlie Lau, White Sox coach/renowned hitting instructor, dies at 50
1984 - Paul Frances Webster, lyricist, dies of Parkinson's disease at 76
1985 - Jack Miller, orchestra leader (Kate Smith Evening Hour), dies at 89
1986 - Bernard Malamud, US writer (Fixer, Natural), dies at 71
1987 - Bil Baird, puppeteer (Jack Paar Show), dies at 82
1989 - Piet Kruiver, Dutch soccer player, dies at 51
1989 - William Challee, actor (Desperate, Moonchild), dies
1990 - Robin Harris, actor (House Party, Mo' Better Blues), dies at 36
1991 - Jack McCoy, Radio/TV personality, dies at 72
1991 - Vilma Banky, actress (Eagle, Son of Sheik, Rebel), dies at 93
1992 - Cornelis B Vaandrager, [C Vaan], poet (Giant of Rotterdam), dies at 56
1995 - Charles Drain, singer, dies at 65
1995 - Frederic Ramsey Jr, folklorist/author, dies at 80
1995 - Heinrich Sutermeister, Swiss composer (Raskolnikov), dies at 84
1996 - Alepoude Odysseus Elytis llis, poet, dies at 84
1996 - Jacquetta Hawkes, English archaeologist, dies at 85
1997 - Willem de Kooning (abstract artist), dead Alzheimer's at 92
1999 - Elizabeth Huckaby, American educator (b. 1905)
2000 - Eberhard Bethge, German theologian (b. 1909)
2001 - John Phillips, American musician (The Mamas and the Papas) (b. 1935)
2002 - R.A. Lafferty, American science fiction writer (b. 1914)
2002 - Gösta Winbergh, Swedish tenor (b. 1943)
2003 - Karl Kling, German race car driver (b. 1910)
2003 - Adam Osborne, British computer pioneer (b. 1939)
2004 - Harrison McCain, Canadian businessman (b. 1927)
2006 - Bill Beutel, American journalist (b. 1930)
2006 - Michael Attwell, British actor (b. 1943)
2006 - Dan Gibson, musician (b. 1922)
2007 - Bob Woolmer, South African cricketer and Pakistan national coach (b. 1948)
2008 - Anthony Minghella, Film Director (b. 1954)
2008 - Andrew Britton, Author (b. 1981)
2009 - Natasha Richardson, English actress (b. 1963)
2010 - Fess Parker, American actor (b. 1924)
2012 - George Tupou V, King of Tonga, dies at 63

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 19, 2013, 02:47:22 PM

This Day in History for 19th March


Historical Events

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Playwright Tennessee Williams                    Actor Sean Connery                   Basketball Superstar Michael Jordan


1227 - Count Ugolino of Segna elected Pope Gregory IX
1279 - A Mongolian victory in the Battle of Yamen ends the Song Dynasty in China.
1452 - Frederick III of Hapsburg crowned Roman German Emperor
1524 - Giovanni de Varrazano of France sights land around area of Carolinas
1540 - Court of Holland names Amsterdam sheriff John Hubrechtsz a "heretic"
1563 - Peace of Amboise: Rights for Huguenots
1571 - Spanish troops occupy Manila
1628 - Massachusetts colony founded by Englishmen
1644 - 200 members of Peking imperial family/court commit suicide in loyalty to the Emperor
1682 - Nationally Council accept independence of French church
1687 - Explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle, searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River, is
           murdered by his own men.
1702 - James II's daughter Anne Stuart becomes queen of England
1748 - English Naturalization Act passes granting Jews right to colonize US
1775 - 4 people buried by avalanche for 37 days, 3 survive (Italy)
1775 - Poland & Prussia sign trade agreement
1799 - Joseph Haydn's "Die Schopfung," premieres in Vienna
1803 - Friedrich Schiller's "Die Braut von Messina," premieres in Weimar
1822 - Boston, Mass incorporated as a city
1831 - 1st US bank robbery (City Bank, NY/$245,000)
1859 - Opera "Faust" by Charles Gounod premieres in Paris
1861 - The First Taranaki War ends in New Zealand.
1863 - The SS Georgiana, said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is destroyed on
           her maiden voyage with a cargo of munitions, medicines and merchandise then valued at over
           $1,000,000. The wreck was discovered on the same day and month, exactly 102 years later
           by then teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence.
1864 - Opera "Mireille" premieres in Paris
1865 - Battle of Bentonville-Confederates retreat from Greenville NC
1866 - Immigrant ship Monarch of the Seas sinks in Liverpool; 738 die
1870 - The opera "Guarany," premieres in Milan
1877 - Australia beat England by 45 runs in very 1st Test match
1883 - Jan Matzeliger invents 1st machine to manufacture entire shoes
1885 - Louis Riel returns to Canada, proclaims provisional government, Sask
1892 - 3 brothers Hearne play in same Test Cricket Eng v SA (Cape Town)
1895 - Los Angeles Railway established to provide streetcar service
1897 - Yale defeated Penn, 30-10 in 1st major college basketball game
1906 - Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari's "Quattro Rusteghi," premieres in Munich
1907 - 18.8 cm precipitation at Lewer's Ranch, Nevada (state record)
1914 - Stanley Cup: Tor Blueshirts (NHA) sweep Vict Capitals (PCHA) in 3 game
1915 - Pluto photographed for 1st time (although unknown at the time)
1917 - US Supreme Court upheld 8-hr work day for railroad employees
1918 - Congress authorizes time zones & approves daylight saving time
1918 - S Potter becomes 1st US pilot to shoot down a German seaplane
1920 - US Senate rejects Treaty of Versailles for 2nd time refusing to ratify League of Nations'
           covenant (maintaining isolation policy)
1921 - Italian Fascists shoot from the Parenzana train at a group of children in Strunjan (Slovenia):
           two children are killed, two mangled and three wounded.
1925 - Angelo G Roncalli (Pope John XXIII) becomes a bishop
1927 - Bloody battles between communists & nazis in Berlin
1928 - "Amos & Andy" debuts on radio (NBC Blue Network-WMAQ Chicago)
1930 - Nakagawa Soen accepted as a student of Katsube Keigaku Roshi
1931 - Nevada legalizes gambling
1932 - The Sydney Harbour Bridge is opened.
1937 - Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Divini redemptoris against communism
1938 - Toronto Maple Leafs score 8 goals in 5 minutes
1940 - Failed British air raid on German base at Sylt
1940 - French government of Daladier, falls
1941 - Jimmy Dorsey & orchestra record "Green Eyes" & "Maria Elena"
1942 - FDR orders men between 45 & 64 to register for non military duty
1942 - Thoroughbred Racing Association of US formed in Chicago
1943 - Airship Canadian Star torpedoed & sinks
1943 - Frank Nitti, the Chicago Outfit Boss after Al Capone, commits suicide at the Chicago Central
           Railyard.
1944 - Tippett's oratorium "Child of Our Time," premieres in London
1945 - 800 killed as Kamikaze attacked USS Franklin off Japan
1945 - Adolf Hitler issues Nero Decree to destroy all German factories
1945 - British 36th division conquers Mogok (ruby mine)
1945 - US Task Force 58 attacks ships near Kobe/Kure
1946 - Fr Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique & Reunion become overseas depts
1946 - Nicolai Schwernik succeeds Kalinin as president of USSR
1947 - Belgian government of Spaak, forms
1947 - Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek conquers Jenan
1948 - Lee Savold KOs Gino Buonvino in 54 seconds at Madison Square Garden, NYC
1949 - 1st museum devoted exclusively to atomic energy, Oak Ridge, Tn
1950 - 5th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Babe Didrikson-Zaharias
1950 - City College of NY defeats Bradley to win the NIT
1951 - Herman Wouk's "Caine Mutiny," published
1953 - Tennessee Williams' "Camino Real," premieres in NYC
1953 - 25th Academy Awards - "Greatest Show on Earth," Gary Cooper & Shirley Booth win (1st
           time televised)
1954 - 1st color telecast of a prize fight, Giardello vs Troy in Madison Square Garden, NYC
1954 - 1st rocket-driven sled on rails was tested in Alamogordo, NM
1954 - US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Tenley Albright
1954 - US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Hayes A Jenkins
1954 - Weekes, Worrell & Walcott complete tons in innings v England
1955 - 17th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: SF beats La Salle 77-63
1956 - Biggest NBA margin of victory - Minn Lakers-133, St Louis Hawks-75
1957 - Indians reject Boston's offer of $1 million for Herb Score
1958 - Britain's 1st planetarium opens at Madame Tussaud's in London
1958 - Sobers completes a century in each innings v Pakistan
1959 - "1st Impressions" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 84 performances
1960 - "Redhead" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 455 performances
1960 - 22nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Ohio State beats California 75-55
1962 - "All American" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 80 performances
1962 - Archbishop Suenens of Mechelen-Brussels appointed cardinal
1964 - Sean Connery's 1st day of shooting on "Goldfinger"
1965 - Indonesia nationalizes all foreign oil companies
1965 - Rembrandt's "Titus" sells for then record 7,770,000 gulden
1965 - Stoica becomes president & Ceausescu party leader of Romania
1965 - The wreck of the SS Georgiana, valued at over $50,000,000 and said to have been the most
           powerful Confederate cruiser, was discovered by then teenage diver and pioneer underwater
           archaeologist E. Lee Spence exactly 102 years after its destruction.
1966 - "Pousse Cafe" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 3 performances
1966 - 28th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Texas Western beats Ky 72-65
1966 - Belgium government of Vanden Boeynants begins
1967 - Fr Somaliland (Djibouti) votes to continue association with France
1967 - Marilynn Smith wins LPGA St Petersburg Orange Golf Classic
1968 - Howard University students seize administration building
1969 - British invade Anguilla
1969 - Chicago 8 indicted in aftermath of Chicago Democratic convention
1969 - The 385 metre tall TV-mast at Emley Moor, United Kingdom, collapses due to ice build- up.
1970 - W German chancellor & E German premier meet
1971 - Phila 76ers outscore Cincinnati Royals 90-8 in 1 half
1972 - "To Live Another Summer" closes at Helen Hayes NYC after 173 perfs
1972 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic
1972 - India & Bangladesh sign friendship treaty
1972 - LA Lakers beat Golden State Warriors, 162-99, by then record 63 pts
1973 - Dean tells Nixon, "There is a cancer growing on the Presidency"
1974 - Jefferson Starship begins their 1st tour
1975 - "Dr Jazz" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 5 performances
1975 - Penn is 1st state to allow girls to compete with boys in HS sports
1977 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1977 - Jevgeni Kulikov skates world record 1000m (1:15.33)
1978 - 50,000 demonstrate in Amsterdam against neutron bomb
1978 - Sally Little wins LPGA Kathryn Crosby/Honda Civic Golf Classic
1979 - House of Reps begins live TV broadcasts via C-SPAN
1981 - -21] Emmy 8th Daytime Awards - Susan Lucci loses for 2nd time
1981 - 2 workers killed in space shuttle Columbia accident
1981 - Buffalo Sabres beat Toronto Maple Leafs 14-4
1982 - National Guard jet tanker crashes killing 27
1982 - Falklands War: Argentinian forces land on South Georgia Island, precipitating war with the
           U.K..
1984 - "Kate & Allie," premieres
1984 - John J O'Connor named 8th archbishop of NY
1984 - KSD-AM in St Louis MO changes call letters to KUSA
1984 - Mobil oil tanker spills 200,000 gallons into Columbia River
1984 - Pitcher Denny McLain, indicted on various charges of racketeering
1984 - STS 41-C vehicle moves to launch pad
1985 - "Spin Magazine" begins publishing
1985 - NSW wins cricket Sheffield Shield by beating Queensland by 1 wicket
1985 - Senate votes 55-45, to authorize production of the MX missile
1987 - Bonnie Blair skates ladies world record 500 m (39.43 sec)
1987 - Fred Currey acquires Greyhound Bus Company
1987 - Hassanali inaugurated as president of Trinidad & Tobago
1987 - PTL leader Jim Bakker resigns after sex scandal with Jessica Hahn
1987 - Yvonne van Gennip skates ladies world record 3 km (4:16.85)
1988 - 2 British soldiers lynched in Belfast North Ireland
1988 - Yvonne van Gennip skates un-official world record 10 km (15:25.25)
1989 - Boeing B-22 Osprey VTOL aircraft makes maiden flight
1989 - Ice Dance Championship at Paris won by M Klimova & S Ponomarenko (USR)
1989 - Ice Pairs Championship at Paris won by E Gordeeva & S Grinkov (USSR)
1989 - Lori Garbacz wins Circle K LPGA Golf Open Tucson
1989 - Men's Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by Kurt Browning (CAN)
1989 - Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Paris won by Midori Ito (Japan)
1990 - 1st world ice hockey tournament for women held (Ottawa)
1991 - KC Royals announce they are putting Bo Jackson on waivers
1991 - Sacramento Kings set NBA record of 29 consecutive road loses
1991 - St Louis Blue Brett Hull is 3rd NHLer to score 80 goals in a season
1991 - NFL owners strip Phoenix of 1993 Super Bowl game due to Arizona Not recognizing Martin
           Luther King Day
1992 - "Master Builder" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 45 performances
1992 - British Prince Andrew & Princess Sarah Ferguson announce separation
1993 - Ice Dance Championship at Prague won by M Usova & A Zhulin (RUS)
1993 - Ice Pairs Championship at Prague won by I Brasseur & L Eisler (CAN)
1993 - Supreme Court Justice Byron R White announced plans to retire
1994 - 2500 kilograms of cocaine intercepted in Zeewolde Neth
1994 - Lara scores 167 for WI v England at Georgetown
1994 - Largest omelet (1,383sq ft) made with 160,000 eggs in Yokohama Japan
1994 - NJ Devils club record 41st win of the season
1995 - "Translations" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 25 performances
1995 - "Uncle Vanya" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 29 performances
1995 - 5 die by poison gas in Japanese subway
1995 - Arizona outside of Phoenix begins using new area code 520
1995 - Bonnie Blair skates female world record point total (156.450)
1995 - Finland Social-Democratic Party wins parliamentary election
1995 - Laura Davis wins LPGA Standard Register PING Golf Tournament
1995 - Michael Jordan rejoins Chicago Bulls after 17 months, beats Pacers
1995 - NBA NY Knicks beat NY Nets in 100th meeting (Knicks 53 Nets 47)
1995 - Neil Marshall skates world record 3 km (3:54.08)
1996 - Winnie Mandela divorces Nelson after 38 years of marrage
1997 - Ice Pairs won by Mandy Woetzel & Ingo Steuer (GER)
1997 - Major League Baseball announces 5 year/$50M deal with Pepsi
1997 - Supreme Court hears Internet indecency arguments
1998 - "Ah Wilderness!," opens at Vivian Beaumont theater
2001 - The Bank of Japan issued a monetary policy known as quantitative easing, which stimulated
           the Japanese economy after the burst of the dot-com bubble.
2002 - U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda ends (started on March 2) after killing 500
           Taliban and al Qaeda fighters with 11 allied troop fatalities.
2003 - Invasion of Iraq by American and British led coalition begins without United Nations support
           and in defiance of world opinion
2004 - Äänekoski bus disaster: A semi-trailer truck and a bus crash head-on in Äänekoski, Finland.
          24 people are killed and 13 injured.
2004 - A Swedish DC-3 shot down by a Russian MiG-15 in the 1950s is finally recovered after years
           of work. The remains of the crew are left in place, pending further investigations.
2004 - 3-19 Shooting Incident: Taiwanese president Chen Shui-bian is shot just before the country's
           presidential election on March 20.
2008 - GRB 080319B: A cosmic burst that is the farthest object visible to the naked eye was briefly
           observed on this day.
2012 - Wendy's overtakes Burger King to become the second best selling hamburger chain

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 19, 2013, 02:48:41 PM

This Day in History for 19th March


Famous Weddings

1924 - American poet e.e. (Edward Estlin) Cummings marries first wife Elaine Orr. The marriage lasts
           less than 9 months.
2009 - Talk show host David Letterman (61) weds longtime girlfriend Regina Lasko (48) at a civil
           ceremony in Choteau, Montana

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 19, 2013, 02:49:23 PM

This Day in History for 19th March


Famous Divorces

1976 - Princess Margaret separates from the Earl of Snowdon, after 16 years
1996 - Winnie Mandela divorces Nelson after 38 years of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 19, 2013, 04:08:02 PM

This Day in History for 19th March


Famous Birthdays

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Geographer, Explorer & Translator        OK Corral Sheriff Wyatt Earp (1848)            Actor Bruce Willis (1955)
Richard Francis Burton (1821)


1434 - Ashikaga Yoshikatsu, Japanese shogun (d. 1443)
1488 - Johannes Magnus, last Catholic Archbishop of Sweden (d. 1544)
1503 - Benedetto Varchi, Ital humanist/historian (Storia Fiorentina)
1589 - William Bradford, gov of Plymouth colony for 30 years (baptized)
1593 - Georges de la Tour, French painter
1601 - Alonzo Cano, Spanish painter/sculptor (Cathedral Granada)
1604 - Johan IV, composer/king of Portugal (1640-56)
1610 - Hasegawa Tohaku, Japanese painter
1629 - Aleksei M Romanov, 1st Romanov tsar of Russia
1673 - Pedro Vaz Rego, composer
1684 - Jean Astruc, French physician and scholar (d. 1766)
1715 - Charles-Joseph van Helmont, composer
1721 - Tobias Smollett, Scottish writer, baptized
1728 - Pieter-Jozef Verhaghen, Flemish (court)painter
1734 - Thomas McKean, US attorney (signed Decl of Independence) [or Apr 19]
1739 - Charles-François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance, Third Consul of France (d. 1824)
1740 - Johann Georg Roser, composer
1740 - Joseph F Weigl, German/Austrian(?), violin cellist
1742 - Zacharias H Alewijn, Dutch literary/poet
1742 - Tupac Amaru II, Incan revolutionary (d. 1781)
1745 - Nicolas Sejan, composer
1749 - Princess Louisa Anne of Wales (d. 1768)
1752 - Jose Mauricio, composer
1767 - Leonhard von Call, composer
1777 - Anton R Falck, Dutch minister of Education/diplomat
1778 - Edward Pakenham, British general (d. 1815)
1785 - Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmermann, composer
1809 - Fredrik Pacius, composer
1813 - David Livingstone, Scotland, explorer (found by Stanley in Africa)
1816 - Johannes Josephus Hermanus Verhulst, composer
1817 - Lewis Henry Little, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1862
1819 - David Henry Williams, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1891
1821 - Francis Barretto Spinola, Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
1821 - Richard Burton, explorer/translator (Arabian Nights)
1821 - William Allingham, Irish poet (Laurence Bloomfield in Ireland)
1823 - Cornelis A van Sypesteyn, Dutch governor of Surinam (1873-82)
1823 - Princess Adelgunde of Bavaria d. 1914
1824 - William Allingham, Irish author (d. 1889)
1827 - Alexander Shaler, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1911
1829 - Carl Frederik Tietgen, Danish financier and industrialist (d. 1901)
1837 - Robert Daniel Johnston, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1919
1844 - Minna Canth, Finland, playwright (The Pastor's Family) and social activist
1845 - Willem H de Beaufort, Dutch historian/politician
1847 - Constantin Dimitrescu, composer
1848 - Wyatt Earp, Monmouth Ill, sheriff (OK Corral)
1849 - Alfred von Tirpitz, German World War I Admiral (d. 1930)
1851 - Roque Saenz Pena, pres of Argentina (1910-14)
1851 - William Henry Stark, American business leader (d. 1936)
1860 - William Jennings Bryan, "The Great Commoner" orator/statesman
1861 - Lomer Gouin, Quebec politician (d. 1929)
1864 - Charles Marion Russell, American artist (d. 1926)
1865 - William Morton Wheeler, American entomologist, myrmecologist, pioneer in ethology (d. 1937)
1871 - Joseph McGinnity, Rock Island Ill, baseball pitcher (NY Giants)
1871 - Schofield Haigh, cricketer ("Sunshine of the Yorkshire 11")
1872 - Sergei Diaghilev, Gruzino Novgorod Russia, ballet director
1873 - Max Reger, Brand Bavaria, composer/pianist/prof (Leipzig Univ)
1874 - Arthur Hoyt, Georgetown CO, actor (Gold Dust Gertie, Goldie Get Along)
1879 - Joseph Haas, German (opera)composer (Tobias Wunderlich)
1882 - Gaston Lachaise, US sculptor (Standing Woman)
1883 - Josef Matthais Hauer, composer
1883 - Joseph W Stilwell, US general (China)
1888 - Josef Albers, German/US graphic artist/painter/writer (Bauhaus)
1888 - Léon Scieur, Belgian cyclist (d. 1969)
1889 - Manoel II, last king of Portugal (1908-10)
1891 - Earl Warren, Ca, (Gov-R-Ca)/14th supreme court chief justice (1953-69)
1892 - Robert Denzler, composer
1892 - Siegfried T Bok, neurobiologist/anatomist (Cybernetica)
1892 - James Van Fleet, American general (d. 1992)
1894 - Jackie "Moms" Mabley, Brevard SC, comedienne (Merv Griffin Show)
1897 - Betty Compson, Beaver UT, actress (Millionaire Kid, Mad Youth)
1897 - L O'Flaherty, writer
1900 - Roy Roberts, Tampa Fla, actor (Petticoat Junction, Lucy Show)
1900 - [Jean] Frederic Joliot-Curie, French physicist (Nobel 1935)
1901 - Gerrit Jan van Heuven Goedhart, Dutch Min of Justice (Nobel 1954)
1901 - Jo Mielziner, Paris, set designer (Carousel, Death of a Salesman)
1903 - Benjamin M Telders, president of Dutch Liberal States Party
1903 - James Bullock, colliery manager
1904 - John J Sirica, US federal judge (Watergate hearings)
1904 - Tadeusz Zygfryd Kassern, composer
1905 - Albert Speer, German architect/minister of Armament (NSDAP)
1906 - Adolf Eichmann, Ruhr Germany, Nazi Gestapo officer
1906 - Normand Lockwood, composer
1907 - Cor Treslem, [Cornelis L Melsert], actor/director (Willem van Oranje)
1907 - Elizabeh LeFanu Maconochy, composer
1907 - Kent Smith, NYC, actor (Peyton Place, Invaders)
1907 - Marc Vaubourgoin, composer
1907 - Nakagawa Soen, Formosa, Zen teacher (Rinzai line)
1909 - Louis Hayward, Johannesburg South Africa, actor (Lone Wolf, Survivors)
1909 - Attilio Demaria, Argentinian footballer (d. 1990)
1910 - Sergei Nikolayevich Anokhin, cosmonaut
1910 - Joseph F. Carroll, US Air Force Lt. Gen. and Founding Director, Defense Intelligence Agency
          (d. 1991)
1911 - Kenneth Robinson, politician/businessman
1912 - Adolf Galland, fighter Pilot
1912 - Russ Case, Hamburg Iowa, orchestra leader (Julius La Rosa Show)
1913 - William Chatterton, cricketer (48 in only Test for England 1892)
1914 - J Jay Berwanger, 1st Heisman Trophy winner (1935)
1914 - Patricia Morison, actress (Peyton Place, Dressed to Kill)
1914 - Leonidas Alaoglu, Greek-Canadian mathematician (d. 1981)
1915 - Norman Yardley, English cricket captain (late 40's)
1915 - Robert G. Cole, American Paratrooper of the 101st, 502nd division (d. 1944)
1916 - Irving Wallace, author (People's Almanac, The Man) [or Mar 18]
1916 - Eric Christmas, British actor (d. 2000)
1917 - Dino Lipatti, composer
1917 - Laszlo Szabo, Hungarian chess player (d. 1998)
1919 - Cornelis Berkhouwer, Member of 2nd chamber (Dutch Liberal Party)
1920 - Tige Andrews, American actor (d. 2007)
1920 - Kjell Aukrust, Norwegian author (d. 2002)
1921 - Tommy Cooper, Welsh comedy magician (d. 1984)
1923 - Janine Dacosta, French pianist
1923 - Tige Andrews, Bkln, actor (Capt Adam Greer-Mod Squad)
1923 - Henry Morgentaler, Canadian gynecologist
1924 - Mary Wimbush, British actress (d. 2005)
1925 - Brent Scowcroft, Ogden Utah, Lt Gen (USAF)/National Security Council
1927 - Richie Ashburn, baseball infielder (Philadelphia Phillies)/sportscaster
1928 - Clive Van Ryneveld, cricketer (South African all-rounder 1951-58)
1928 - Patrick McGoohan, Astoria NY, actor (#6-Prisoner, Secret Agent)
1928 - Hans Küng, Swiss theologian
1929 - Herman van San, composer
1929 - Michael Ryan, actor (John Randolph-Another World)
1929 - Robert Muczynski, composer
1930 - Bill Henderson, Chic Ill, jazz singer (Torpedo-Dreams)
1932 - Gay Robert Brewer, Middletwon OH, PGA golfer (1972 Canadian)
1933 - Philip Roth, Newark, novelist (Goodbye Columbus, Portnoy's Complaint)
1933 - Renée Taylor, American actress
1934 - Borge Andersen, Denmark, Danish Chess Champion (1967, 68)
1935 - Burt Metcalfe, Saskatchewan Canada, actor/dir (Father of the Bride)
1935 - Phyllis Newman, Jersey City NJ, actress (Coming of Age, TW3)
1935 - Renee Taylor, NYC, actress (Jack Paar Show, Mary Hartman, Nanny)
1936 - Amancio D'Silva, musician
1936 - Ursula Andress, Berne Switzerland, actress (She, Sensuous Nurse)
1936 - Birthe Wilke, Danish singer
1937 - Clarence "Frogman" Henry, musician (You Always Hurt the One You Love)
1937 - Egon Krenz, President of East Germany
1939 - Abbas Ali Baig, cricketer (Indian bat 112 on debut v England 1959)
1939 - Joe Kapp, NFL QB (Minnesota Vikings, Boston Patriots, Houston Oilers)
1941 - Lord Vestey, British food magnate/billionaire (Union International)
1942 - David Minge, (Rep-D-Minnesota)
1942 - Jeff Neighbour, US bassist (Joy of Cooking)
1942 - Robin Luke, rocker (Susie Darlin')
1942 - Ross Valory, rocker (Journey)
1943 - Mario J. Molina, Mexican chemist, Nobel laureate
1943 - Mario Monti, Italian politician
1943 - Vern Schuppan, Australian racing driver
1944 - Joseph Celli, composer
1944 - Lynda Bird Johnson Robb, LBJ's daughter
1944 - Myung-Wha Chung, Seoul Korea, cellist (Chung Sisters)
1944 - Said Musa, Prime Minister of Belize
1944 - Sirhan Sirhan, Palestinian-born assassin
1945 - Lisa Nicole Baker, Detroit TX, playmate of the year (Nov 1966)
1945 - Stefanos Kiriakidis, Greek actor
1946 - Bigas Luna, director/writer (Anguish)
1946 - Mohammad Ilyas, cricketer (Pakistani batsman in ten Tests 1964-69)
1946 - Paul Atkinson, rock guitarist (Zombies-Never Even Thought)
1946 - Ruth Pointer, singer (Pointer Sisters-I'm So Exicted)
1947 - Earlie Fires, jockey (Hialeah Park)
1947 - Glenn Close, Greenwich Ct, actress (The Big Chill, Fatal Attraction)
1947 - John Beckwith, English real estate developer/multi-millionaire
1947 - Vince Martino, Schenectady NY, WLAF offensive asst (Barcelona Dragons)
1947 - Marinho Peres, Brazilian football player
1948 - Vintcent Van der Bijl, Natal cricket bowler (superb 2m of 70's & 80's)
1949 - Denny Albee, Oklahoma City OK, actor (Dr Janssen-One Life to Live)
1949 - Denny Albee, Oklahoma City OK (Dr Janssen-One Life to Live)
1952 - Derek Longmuir, Edinburgh Scotland, rock drummer (Bay City Rollers)
1952 - Warren Lees, NZ cricket wicket-keeper (late 70's)
1952 - Harvey Weinstein, American film producer
1953 - Billy Sheehan, rocker (Mr Big-Lean Into It)
1953 - Hans Rinn, German DR, 2 man lugist (Olympic-gold-1976, 80)
1953 - Ricky Wilson, Athens Ga, rock guitarist (B-52's-Love Shack)
1954 - Charles Pinnell, horse trainer
1954 - Indu Shahani, Indian educationist and Sheriff of Mumbai
1955 - Bruce Willis, Penna Grove NJ, actor (Moonlighting, Die Hard)
1956 - Alina Castro, Havanna Cuba, daughter of Fidel
1956 - Yegor Gaidar, Russian politician and economist.
1957 - Blake Passey, horse trainer
1959 - Shelley Burch, Tucson Az, actress (One Life to Live, Identity Crisis)
1959 - Terry Hall, rocker (Colourfield-Animal Liberation)
1961 - Jos Lansink, Dutch-Belgian equestrian
1962 - Ivan Calderón, Puerto Rican baseball player (d. 2003)
1962 - Jim Korderas, American professional wrestling referee
1964 - Yoko Kanno, Japanese composer
1964 - Jake Weber, British actor
1966 - Paul Devenport, New Zealand, Canadian Tour golfer (1991 Texas Tour)
1966 - Andy Sinton, English footballer
1966 - James "Big Jim" Wright, American record producer
1967 - Vladimir Konstantinov, Russian ice hockey player
1968 - Liam Jewell, Toronto Ontario, kayaker (Olympics-96)
1968 - Tyrone Hill, NBA forward (Milwaukee Bucks)
1968 - Mots'eoa Senyane, Lesotho diplomat
1969 - Arjan Vermeulen, soccer player (Vitesse)
1969 - Michael Bergin, model (Coca Cola)/actor
1969 - Scott Alexander Brownlee, Hamilton NZ, rowing coxless 4 men (Oly-96)
1969 - Gary Jules, American singer and songwriter
1969 - Connor Trinneer, American actor
1970 - Errol Refos, soccer player (Feyenoord)
1970 - Janne Laukenen, Lahti FIN, NHL defenseman (Finland Oly-B-98, Senators)
1970 - Rick Mirer, NFL quarterback (Seattle Seahawks, Chicago Bears)
1970 - Sean Fleming, CFL kicker (Edmonton Eskimos)
1971 - Cory Fleming, NFL wide receiver (Dallas Cowboys)
1971 - Dalton James, actor (My Father the Hero, Mark-Beverly Hills 90201)
1971 - Kirk Botkin, NFL tight end (NO Saints, Pittsburgh Steelers)
1971 - Louie Debrusk, Cambridge, NHL left wing (Edmonton Oilers)
1971 - Marty Moore, NFL inside linebacker (NE Patriots)
1971 - Taase Faumui, NFL defensive linebacker (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1971 - Whitney Hedgepeth, 100m/200m backstroke (Olympics-2 silver-96)
1971 - Nadja Auermann, German supermodel
1971 - Sébastien Godefroid, Belgian sailor
1972 - Maria Maunder, St John's New Foundland, rower (Olympics-96)
1973 - John Michels, NFL tackle (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1973 - Simmone Jade Mackinnon, Australian actress
1974 - Jennifer Lynn Drayton, Saginaw Michigan, Miss America-Michigan (1997)
1974 - John Coppinger, El Paso TX, pitcher (Baltimore Orioles)
1974 - Vida Guerra, Cuban-American swimsuit model
1975 - Antonio Daniels, NBA guard (Vancouver Grizzlies)
1975 - Vivian Hsu, Taiwanese singer, actress and model
1975 - Brann Dailor, American drummer
1975 - Matthew Richardson, Australian rules footballer
1976 - Rachel Blanchard, Toronto, actress (Cher Horowitz-Clueless)
1976 - Alessandro Nesta, Italian footballer
1976 - Zach Lind - American drummer (Jimmy Eat World)
1977 - Jorma Taccone, American writer and comedian
1979 - Christos Patsatzoglou, Greek footballer
1979 - Hee-Seop Choi, Korean baseball player
1979 - Ivan Ljubičić, Croatian tennis player
1979 - Hedo Türkoğlu, Turkish basketball player
1980 - Mikuni Shimokawa, Japanese singer
1980 - Don Sparrow, Canadian illustrator
1981 - Kim Rae Won, South Korean actor and model
1981 - Kolo Touré, Ivorian footballer
1982 - Che' Vonne Burton, Miss Michigan Teen USA (1997)
1982 - Brad Jones, Australian footballer
1982 - Matt Littler, British actor
1982 - Jonathan Fanene, American football player
1983 - Ana Rezende, Brazilian film director and musician (CSS)
1983 - Matt Sydal, American professional wrestler
1984 - Tanushree Dutta, Indian actress
1985 - Ernesto Viso, Venezuelan racing driver
1987 - Michal Švec, Czech footballer
1992 - Henry & Angus Bernsen, twin sons of Corbin Bernsen & Amanda Pays
1993 - Munro Chambers, Canadian actor
1999 - Tatum McCann, American actress
2007 - Prince Abdullah bin Ali, Prince of Jordan

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 19, 2013, 04:09:45 PM

This Day in History for 19th March


Famous Deaths

1238 - Duke Henry I of Poland (b. 1163)
1263 - Hugo of St-Cher/a S Caro, French cardinal, dies
1279 - Emperor Bing of Song China (b. 1271)
1286 - King Alexander III of Scotland (b. 1241)
1330 - Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, English politician (b. 1301)
1406 - Ibn Khaldun, Arab historian (b. 1332)
1556 - Lieven van der Maude, [Ammonius], South Netherlands poet, dies at 70
1623 - Uesugi Kagekatsu, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1556)
1635 - Pieter Christiaensz Bor, Dutch historian, dies
1637 - Péter Pázmány, Hungarian cardinal and statesman (b. 1570)
1638 - Paul Moreelse, Dutch painter/master builder, dies at about 66
1644 - Chongzhen, last Ming-emperor of China, commits suicide
1649 - Gerhard Johann Vossius, German classical scholar and theologian (b. 1577)
1683 - Thomas Killigrew, English dramatist (b. 1612)
1687 - Rene-Robert Cavelier La Salle, Fren explorer (Louisiana), killed at 43
1702 - Willem III Henry, [Dutch William], king of England/Scot, dies at 51
1711 - Thomas Ken, English bishop and hymn-writer (b. 1637)
1717 - John Campbell, 1st Earl of Breadalbane and Holland, Scottish royalist
1721 - Clement XI, [Giovanni F Albani], Italian Pope (1700-21), dies at 71
1782 - Adrien Trudo Sale, composer, dies at 59
1782 - Louis-Henry Paisible, composer, dies at 33
1796 - Stephen Storace, composer, dies at 33
1796 - Hugh Palliser, British naval officer and administrator (b. 1722)
1797 - Philip Hayes, composer, dies at 58
1811 - Frantisek Adam Mica, composer, dies at 65
1816 - Philip Mazzei, Italian physician (b. 1730)
1845 - George Augustus Kollmann, composer, dies at 56
1850 - Adalbert Gyrowetz, composer, dies at 87
1862 - F Wilhelm von Schadow, German painter (Modern Vasari), dies at 73
1866 - Louis Clapisson, composer, dies at 57
1869 - Guillaume Nerenburger, Belgian general (triangulatie), dies at 64
1871 - Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, Austrian mineralogist (b. 1795)
1876 - Jozef Stefani, composer, dies at 75
1884 - Alfonse Charles Renaud de Vilback, composer, dies at 54
1893 - Karel Komzak, composer, dies at 69
1897 - Antoine T d'Abbadie, French explorer (Ethiopia), dies at 87
1898 - Joao da Cruz, Brazilian poet, dies at 26
1900 - John Bingham, American politician and lawyer (b. 1815)
1900 - Charles-Louis Hanon, French composer (b. 1819)
1905 - Makar Grigori Ekmalyan, composer, dies at 49
1907 - Thomas Bailey Aldrich, US writer (Stillwater Tragedy), dies at 70
1913 - John Thomas, composer, dies at 87
1914 - Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian volcanologist (b. 1850)
1916 - Vasily Surikov, Russian painter (b. 1848)
1918 - Willem H de Beaufort, Dutch historian/liberal politician, dies at 73
1924 - Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish composer/author, dies at 71
1930 - Arthur J Balfour, British theologist/premier (1902-05), dies at 81
1934 - Anthony J Block, lawyer (Dutch strafproces), dies at 66
1936 - John Larkin IV, actor/writer (Charlie Chan in Panama), dies at 63
1937 - Horacio Quiroga, Uruguayan author/poet, commits suicide at 58
1939 - Lloyd L. Gaines, American civil rights activist
1940 - Gustaaf Sap, Belgian minister of Economic Affairs, dies at 54
1942 - Clinton Hart Merriam, American zoologist (b. 1855)
1943 - Vicente Ripolles, composer, dies at 75
1943 - Frank Nitti, American gangster (b. 1883)
1944 - William Hale Thompson, American mayor of Chicago (b. 1869)
1945 - Fritz Fromm, German supreme commander of Reserve army, executed
1946 - Amir Hamzah, Indonesian poet (Buah Rindu), dies at 35
1947 - Willem F J Pijper, Dutch composer/critic, dies at 52
1950 - Edgar Rice Burroughs, sci-fi author (Tarzan of the Apes), dies at 74
1954 - Walter Braunfels, composer, dies at 71
1958 - Vernon Ransford, cricketer (20 Tests for Australia, 1211 runs), dies
1961 - Edric Cundell, composer, dies at 68
1969 - Theodor Schaefer, composer, dies at 65
1971 - Jan Greshoff, Dutch poet/author/journalist (Last Things), dies at 82
1971 - Mary Dorna, Dutch author, dies at 79
1974 - Anne Klien, fashion designer, dies at 51
1974 - Edward Platt, actor (Chief-Get Smart), dies at 58
1974 - Hertha Kuusinen, Finnish communist/daughter of Otto K, dies at 70
1975 - John A DeMott, dies at 63
1976 - George Sklavos, composer, dies at 87
1976 - Paul Kossoff, rock guitarist (Free), dies of heart failure at 25
1976 - Albert Dieudonné, French actor and novelist (b. 1889)
1978 - Gaston Julia, French mathematician (b. 1893)
1979 - Al Hodge, actor (Capt Video), dies at 65
1979 - Richard Beckinsale, actor (Doing Time, Porridge, Lovers), dies at 31
1982 - Randy Rhoads, heavy metal guitarist (Ozzy Osbourne), air crash at 25
1984 - Garry Winogrand, American photographer (b. 1928)
1987 - Arch Oboler, radio writer (Lights Out), dies at 77
1987 - Emile Meyer, actor (Young Jesse James, Lineup), dies
1987 - Louis Broglie, French physicist (Nobel 1929), dies at 94
1987 - Tony Stratton-Smith, journalist/record co CEO (Charisma), dies at 53
1989 - Alan Civil, English French horn player (b. 1929)
1990 - Andrew Wood, American singer (Mother Love Bone) (b. 1966)
1991 - John Russell Thomas, NFL general manager (Detroit Lions), dies
1991 - Ron Pagano, dies after lengthy illness at 37
1991 - Sunday Wilshin, actor (Murder by Rope), dies at 86
1992 - Cesare Danova, actor (Tentacles, Viva Las Vegas), dies at 66
1993 - Barend P Tammeling, journalist (Trouw, Peek on the North), dies at 58
1993 - Jeff Ward, drummer (9 Inch Nails), commits suicide at 30
1994 - Giuseppe Diana, Italian anti-mafia priest, murdered
1994 - Jose Coronel Urtecho, poet, dies at 87
1995 - Fernand Lodewick, literature historian (Literature), dies at 85
1995 - Gerard Tebroke, 5/10 km-dasher, dies at 45
1995 - Kenneth Norman Joseph Loveless, priest folk musician, dies at 83
1996 - Christopher John Magenis Headington, musician, dies at 65
1996 - William Hutchinson Murray, mountaineer/author, dies at 83
1997 - Willem De Kooning, artists (Abstract), dies of Alzheimer at 92
1999 - Jaime Sabines, Mexican poet (b. 1926)
1999 - Tofilau Eti Alesana, former Prime Minister of Samoa (b. 1924)
2001 - Charles K. Johnson, President of the Flat Earth Society (b. 1924)
2003 - Michael Mathias Prechtl, German illustrator (b. 1926)
2003 - Émile Genest, Canadian actor (b. 1921)
2004 - Mitchell Sharp, Canadian politician (b. 1911)
2005 - John De Lorean, American automobile engineer (b. 1925)
2007 - Calvert DeForest, American actor (b. 1921)
2007 - Luther Ingram, American soul singer and songwriter (b. 1937)
2008 - Sir Arthur C. Clarke, English science fiction author and inventor (b. 1917)
2008 - Raghuvaran, Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam actor (b. 1948)
2008 - Hugo Claus, Belgian writer (b. 1929)
2009 - Ion Dolănescu, Romanian singer and politician (b. 1944)
2011 - Kym Bonython, Australian radio broadcaster, jazz musician, speedway promoter (b. 1920)
2012 - William Charette, American navy hospital corpsman and Medal of Honour recipient,dies at 79

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 20, 2013, 04:24:58 PM

This Day in History for 20th March


Historical Events

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Outlaw Jesse James                               Chancellor Otto Von Bismarck              Heavyweight Boxing Champion
                                                                                                                                    Mike Tyson

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King of Pop Michael Jackson                   Prime Minister of Canada
                                                                         Stephen Harper


141 - 6th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
1345 - Saturn/Jupiter/Mars-conjunction: thought "cause of plague epidemic"
1525 - Paris' parliament begins pursuit of Protestants
1569 - Duke van Alva leads "tenth penning" in Ponts the Cé
1598 - French king Henri IV & duke van Mercour sign treaty
1600 - The Linköping Bloodbath takes place on Maundy Thursday in Linköping, Sweden.
1602 - United Dutch East Indian Company (VOC) forms
1616 - Walter Raleigh released from Tower of London to seek gold in Guyana
1627 - France & Spain signs accord for fighting protestantism
1697 - Willem de Vlamingh returns to Batavia after exploring "South Land"
1739 - Nadir Shah occupies Delhi in India and sacks the city, stealing the jewels of the Peacock
           Throne.
1760 - Great Fire of Boston destroys 349 buildings
1800 - French army defeats Turks at Helipolis Turkey, & advance to Cairo
1814 - Prince Willem Frederik becomes monarch of Netherlands
1815 - Napoleon enters Paris after escape from Elba, begins 100-day rule
1816 - US Supreme Court affirms its right to review state court decisions
1833 - US & Siam sign commercial treaty
1852 - Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" published (Boston)
1861 - An earthquake completely destroys Mendoza, Argentina.
1863 - Battle of Pensacola FL -evacuated by Federals
1865 - 2nd day of Battle of Bentonville NC
1865 - Michigan authorizes workers' cooperatives
1868 - Jesse James Gang robs bank in Russelville Kentucky of $14,000
1883 - Unity treaty of Paris signed: protects industrial property
1885 - John Matzeliger of Suriname patents shoe lacing machine
1885 - Yiddish theater opens in NY with Golldfaden operetta
1886 - 1st AC power plant in US begins commercial operation, Mass
1888 - Start of the Sherlock Holmes Adventure, "A Scandal in Bohemia"
1888 - The premiere of the very first Romani language operetta staged in Moscow, Russia.
1890 - General Federation of Womans' Clubs founded
1890 - German emperor Wilhelm II fires republic chancellor Otto Von Bismarck
1896 - Marines land in Nicaragua to protect US citizens
1896 - Uprising in Matabeleland
1897 - 1st US orthodox Jewish Rabbinical seminary (RIETS) incorporates in NY
1897 - 1st known intercollegiate basketball game, Yale beats Penn 32-10
1897 - France signs treaty with emperor Menelik II of Abyssinia
1906 - George B Shaws "Captain Brassbound's Conversion," premieres in London
1911 - National Squash Tennis Association forms (NYC)
1911 - Winter Garden Theater opens at 1634 Broadway NYC
1914 - 1st international figure-skating tournament held in US, New Haven
1916 - Allies attack Zeebrugge Belgium
1920 - 1st flight from London to South Africa lands (took 1½ months)
1920 - US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld
1920 - US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Sherwin Badger
1922 - USS Langley is commissioned, Navy's 1st aircraft Carrier
1922 - WIP-AM in Philadelphia PA begins radio transmissions
1923 - Bavarian minister of Interior refuses to forbid Nazi SA
1923 - Belgian Senate rejects Dutch University in Ghent
1924 - Finnair begins scheduled flight of Helsinki-Tallinn
1924 - Stanley Cup: Mont Canadiens (NHL) sweep Vanc Millionaires (PCHA) in 2
1930 - Clessie Cummins sets diesel engine speed record of 129.39 kph
1931 - Bishop Schreiber warns against national-socialism in Berlin
1932 - Kara-Kalpak Autonomous Region in RSFSR becomes Kara-Kalpak ASSR
1933 - Dachau, 1st concentration camp, completed
1934 - Rudolf Kuhnold demonstrates radar in Kiel Germany
1934 - Test of practical radar apparatus made by Rudolf Kuhnold in Germany
1934 - Female Babe Didrickson pitches hitless inning for Phila A's in exhibition game against Brooklyn
           Dodgers
1935 - "Your Hit Parade" made its debut on radio
1937 - Franco-offensive at Guadalajara Spain
1939 - 7,000 Jews flee German occupied Memel Lithuania
1940 - Paul Reynoud becomes French premier
1941 - Nazi-German/Yugoslav pact drawn
1942 - Convoy PQ13 departs Reykjavik Iceland to Russia
1942 - Gen MacArthur vows, "I shall return"
1942 - Major German assault on Malta
1943 - British offensive against Mareth-line
1943 - German U-384 bombed & sinks
1944 - Bus falls off bridge into Passaic River NJ, killing 16
1944 - Mount Vesuvius, Italy explodes
1945 - US 70th Infantry division/7th Armour division attack Saar
1946 - Belgian government of Spaak, resigns
1947 - 180-metric ton blue whale (record) caught in South Atlantic
1948 - 1st live televised musical Eugene Ormandy on CBS followed in 90
1948 - 20th Academy Awards - "Gentleman's Agreement," L Young, R Colman win minutes by 2nd
           live televised musical Arturo Toscvanni on NBC
1951 - Indonesian army offensive against Darul Islam on Java
1951 - Fujiyoshida, a city located in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, in the center of the Japanese main
           island of Honshū is founded.
1952 - 24th Academy Awards - "American in Paris," H Bogart & Vivian Leigh win
1952 - Final ratification of peace treaty restoring sovereignty to Japan
1952 - US senate ratifies peace treaty with Japan
1953 - Senator Edwin C Johnson offers a bill to give clubs the sole
1954 - "King & I" closes at St James Theater NYC after 1246 performances
1954 - 16th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: La Salle beats Bradley 92-76
1954 - 1st newspaper vending machine used (Columbia Pennsylvania)
1955 - KXTV TV channel 10 in Sacramento, CA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1956 - 156-day strike against Westinghouse ends
1956 - E Ochab succeeds Beirut as 1st secretary of Polish CP
1956 - Mount Bezymianny on Kamchatka Peninsula (USSR) explodes
1956 - Tunisia gains independence from France
1956 - USSR performs nuclear test
1956 - Union workers ended a 156-day strike at Westinghouse Electric Corp
1957 - Britain accepts NATO offer to mediate in Cyprus, but Greece rejects it
1958 - 50" snow across the Mason-Dixon line
1958 - Clandestine Burasi Bizim Radio (communist) begins transmitting
1958 - Greek Clandestine Radio (communist), Voice of Truth 1st transmission
1962 - Sjoukje Dijkstra becomes world champion figure skater
1963 - 1st "Pop Art" exhibition (NYC)
1964 - ESRO established, European Space Research Organization
1965 - 27th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Michigan 91-80
1965 - Venkataraghavan takes 8-72 v NZ at Delhi
1966 - Marilynn Smith wins LPGA St Petersburg Women's Golf Open
1967 - Supremes release "The Happening"
1967 - WOET (now WPTD) TV channel 16 in Dayton, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 - LBJ signs a bill removing gold backing from US paper money
1968 - Military intervene in South-Yemen (leftist ministers resign)
1969 - Abebe Bikila's auto-accident, near Addis Ababa
1969 - US president Nixon proclaims he will end Vietnam war in 1970
1971 - Boston Bruins win 13th straight NHL game
1972 - 19 mountain climbers killed on Japan's Mount Fuji during an avalanche
1972 - S Mansholt succeeds Malfatti as chairman of European Committee
1973 - Roberto Clemente elected to Hall of Fame, 11 weeks after his death
1976 - Jevgeni Kulikov skates world record 1000m (1:15.70)
1976 - Patricia Hearst convicted of armed robbery
1977 - Communists/socialists win French municipal elections
1977 - Parisians elect former PM Jacques Chirac as 1st mayor in a century
1977 - Premier Indira Gandhi loses election in India
1978 - Flyers' Rick MacLeash scores on 6th penalty shot against Islanders
1979 - Columbia flies on Shuttle carrier aircraft to Kennedy Space Center
1980 - The Mi Amigo ship containing England's pirate Radio Caroline sinks
1980 - US appeals to International Court on hostages in Iran
1981 - Argentine ex-president Isabel Peron sentenced to 8 years
1981 - Jean Harris sentenced 15-to-life for slaying of Scarsdale Diet Dr
1982 - 1st-class debut of Richie Richardson, Leeward Is v Barbados
1982 - France performs nuclear test
1982 - Joan Jett & Blackhearts' "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" goes #1 for 7 wks
1982 - Rev A Treurnicht forms Conservative Party of South Africa
1983 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
1984 - Andy Kaufman & Fred Blassie's "My Breakfast With Blassie" premieres
1984 - Senate rejects amendment to permit spoken prayer in public schools
1985 - Libby Riddles is 1st woman to win Iditarod Trail Dog Sled Race
1986 - 228 KPH gust of wind strikes Cairngorm (UK record)
1986 - Jacques Chirac forms French government
1987 - FDA approves sale of AZT (AIDS treatment)
1987 - NASA launches Palapa B2P
1987 - Soap opera "Capitol" final episode
1987 - Soviet filmmakers arrive in Hollywood for an entertainment summit
1987 - Yvonne van Gennip skates ladies world record 5 km (7:20.36)
1988 - David Henry Hwang's "M. Butterfly," premieres in NYC
1988 - Laura Davies wins Circle K LPGA Tucson Golf Open
1988 - Mike Tyson KOs Tony Tubbs in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
1988 - Eritrean War of Independence: Having defeated the Nadew Command, the Eritrean People's
           Liberation Front enters the town of Afabet, victoriously concluding the Battle of Afabet.
1989 - Baseball announces Reds manager Pete Rose is under investigation
1989 - Richard J Kerr replaces Robert M Gates as deputy director of CIA
1990 - LA Lakers retires Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's #33
1990 - Singer Gloria Estefan breaks her collarbone in a bus accident
1991 - Court awards Peggy Lee $3 million in suit against Disney
1991 - Michael Jackson signs $65M 6 album deal with Sony records
1991 - Supreme Court rules unanimously employers can't exclude women from jobs where exposure
           to toxic chemicals could potentially damage fetus
1991 - US forgives $2 billion in loans to Poland
1992 - Janice Pennington is awarded $1.3M for accident on Price is Right set
1992 - Noriega's wife Felicidad arrested for stealing buttons from dresses
1993 - Dan Jansen skates world record 500m (36.02 sec)
1993 - IRA-bomb kills 3 year old in Warrington England
1994 - "Cyrano - The Musical" closes at Neil Simon NYC after 137 perfs
1994 - "Flowering Peach" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 41 performances
1994 - "No Man's Land" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 61 performances
1994 - 14th Golden Raspberry Awards: Indecent Proposal wins
1994 - Brett Hart wins WWF championship at Wrestlemania X
1994 - El Salvador's 1st pres election following 12-year-old civil war
1994 - Laura Davies wins LPGA Standard Register Ping Golf Tournament
1994 - Mashonaland U-24 beat Matabeleland on 1st inn to win Logan Cup
1994 - Wrestlemania X at Madison Square Garden NY, Bret Hart pins Yokozuna
1994 - Zulu-king Goodwill Zwelithini founds realm in South Africa
1995 - Dow-Jones hits 4083.68 (record)
1995 - Poison Gas released in Tokyo subway 12 killed, 4,700 injured
1995 - Beatles song, "Baby It's You," with late John Lennon as lead singer, is released, 1st Fab Four
           single in more than 30 years
1996 - "Love Thy Neighbor," opens at Booth Theater NYC
1996 - Erik & Lyle Menendez found guilty of killing their parents
1996 - UK admits humans can catch CJD (Mad Cow Disease)
1997 - "Play On!," opens at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC for 61 performances
1997 - Liggett admits cigarettes are addictive
1997 - Mens Figure Skating Championship in Lausanne won by Elvis Stojko (CAN)
1999 - Legoland California, the first and only Legoland outside of Europe, opens in Carlsbad,
           California.
2000 - Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, a former Black Panther once known as H. Rap Brown, is captured after
           a gun battle that leaves a Georgia sheriff's deputy dead.
2004 - Stephen Harper wins the leadership of the newly created Conservative Party of Canada,
           becoming the party's first leader.
2005 - A magnitude 6.6 earthquake hits Fukuoka, Japan, its first major quake in over 100 years. One
           person is killed, hundreds are injured and evacuated.
2006 - Cyclone Larry makes landfall in eastern Australia, destroying most of the country's banana
           crop.
2006 - Over 150 Chadian soldiers are killed in eastern Chad by members of the rebel UFDC. The rebel
           movement sought to overthrow Chadian president Idriss Deby.
2012 - 50 people are killed and 240 injured in a wave of terror attacks across 10 cities in Iraq
2012 - Disney movie John Carter records one of the largest losses in cinema history with a $200
           million dollar write down

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 20, 2013, 04:27:51 PM

This Day in History for 20th March


Famous Weddings

1848 - King Louis I of Bayern abdicates to marry dancer Lola Montez
1963 - Sikkim crown prince Paldan Thondup Namgyal marries Hope Cooke
1969 - Beatle John Lennon marries Yoko Ono in Gibraltar
1969 - Beatle John Lennon marries Yoko Ono in Gibraltar
1993 - Morton Downey Jr weds Lori Krebs
1999 - "Smallville" actress Annette O' Toole (46) weds "Laverne and Shirley" actor Michael McKean
           (51) at The Regal Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 20, 2013, 04:30:50 PM

This Day in History for 20th March


Famous Divorces

2009 - "Dawson's Creek" actor Kerr Smith (37) divorces actress Harmoni Everett (34) due to
           irreconcilable differences after 6 years of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 20, 2013, 04:47:21 PM

This Day in History for 20th March


Famous Birthdays

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Actor & Comedian Carl Reiner (1922)         Director Spike Lee (1957)                     Actor David Thewlis (1963)


43 BC - Ovid, Roman poet (d. 17)
1469 - Princess Cecily of York (d. 1507)
1477 - Jerome Emser, German theologian (d. 1527)
1502 - Pierino Belli, Italian soldier and jurist (d. 1575)
1634 - Balthasar Bekker, Frisian theologist (Examiner of Comets)
1644 - Ivan Mazepa, Cossack Hetman of the Hetmanate (d. 1709)
1680 - Baron Emanuele d' Astorga, Italian composer (Stabat mater)
1725 - Abdul Hamid I, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1789)
1728 - Franciscus L Kersteman, Dutch lawyer/astrologist
1735 - Torbern Bergman, Swedish chemist (d. 1784)
1737 - Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke, King of Thailand (d. 1809)
1739 - Eligio Celestino, composer
1741 - Jean Antoine Houdon, French sculptor (d. 1828)
1750 - Martinus van Marum, Dutch chemist/physicist (Homo Diluvii Testus)
1770 - Friedrich Hölderlin, German writer (d. 1843)
1774 - John Braham, composer
1799 - Karl August Nicander, Swedish poet (d. 1839)
1804 - Neal Dow, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1897
1811 - George Caleb Bingham, US, politician/painter (Country Election)
1811 - Napoleon FKJ Bonaparte II, Napoleon's son/King of Rome
1812 - George Bibb Crittenden, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1880
1813 - Matthias Keller, Ulm Germany, hymm writer (O Farther un High)
1820 - Alexander J Cuza, monarch of Moldavia/Wallachia/Romania
1823 - John Echols, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1896
1823 - Ned Buntline, American publisher (d. 1886)
1825 - William Nelson Rector Beall, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1826 - Carel Vosmaer, Dutch art historian/poet/editor
1828 - Henrik Ibsen, Norway, playwright (Peer Gynt, Hedda Gabler)
1829 - Charles Albert White, composer
1830 - Eugene Asa Carr, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1910
1831 - Solomon L. Spink, U.S. Congressman (d. 1881)
1833 - Henry Southwick Perkins, composer
1834 - Charles William Elliot, Boston, Pres of Harvard (1869-1909)
1836 - Ferris Jacobs, Jr., American politician (d. 1886)
1836 - Sir Edward Poynter, British painter (d. 1919)
1840 - Illarion Pryanishnikov, Russian painter (d. 1894)
1846 - Auguste Bender, writer
1853 - George Godfrey, Chelsea Mass, heavyweight boxer (Old Chocolate)
1856 - Frederick Winslow Taylor, father of scientific management
1856 - Sir John Lavery, Irish artist (d. 1941)
1863 - Ernesto Nazareth, composer
1868 - Obe Postma, Frisian poet/geography/historian (Frisian Clay Farm)
1870 - Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, Prussian general/politician (East Africa)
1872 - Bernhard Seklas, composer
1872 - Karin Michaelis, writer
1873 - Sergei V Rachmaninov, Russian/US pianist/composer (Aleko) [NS=Apr 1]
1874 - Börries von Münchhausen, German poet (d. 1945)
1876 - Payne Whitney, American businessman (d. 1927)
1879 - Maud Menten, Canadian biochemist (d. 1960)
1882 - René Coty, Le Harve France, president of France (1953-58)
1883 - Colin Campbell, Falkirk Scot, actress (High Bright Sun, Leather Boys)
1883 - Karl Hasse, composer
1885 - Eugen Herrigel, Germany, philosopher/early pioneer of Zen in Europe
1885 - Hendrik A de Fish, [Henri Pauwels], Flemish philological/sociologist
1888 - S V Vegesack, writer
1890 - Lauritz Melchior, Copenhagen Denmark, baritone tenor (Natl Symphony)
1895 - Fredric Wertham, German-born psychologist (d. 1981)
1896 - Hal Walker, Ottumwa Ia, director (I Married Joan)
1902 - Edgar Buchanan, Humansville Mo, actor (Uncle Joe-Petticoat Junction)
1902 - Kathryn Forbes, short story writer (mama's bank account)
1903 - Vincent Richards, hall of fame tennis pro (elected 1961)
1904 - B[urrhus] F[rederic] Skinner, Pa, Behaviorism pioneer (Skinner box)
1905 - Jean Galia, French rugby footballer (d. 1949)
1906 - Abraham Beame, (Mayor-D-NYC), NYC's 1st Jewish mayor
1906 - Ozzie Nelson, Jersey City NJ, actor (Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet)
1906 - Pavel P Parenago, Russian astronomer
1908 - Frank Stanton, Muskegon Mich, broadcasting executive (CBS)
1908 - Michael Redgrave, Bristol England, actor (Browning Version, Lady Vanishes)
1908 - Philip "Felix" Bekkers, actor (Czardasvorstin)
1911 - Mieke Verstraete, Belgian/Dutch actress (Pleasantly Settled)
1911 - Alfonso García Robles, Mexican diplomat and Nobel laureate (d. 1991)
1913 - Judith Evelyn, Seneca SD, actress (13th Letter, Tingler, Rear Window)
1914 - Wendell Corey, Dracut Mass, actor (11th Hour, Peck's Bad Girl)
1914 - William Baddeley, rector (St Jame's Piccadilly)
1915 - Sviatosiav Richter, Zhitomir Ukraine, pianist (Stalin Prize-1945)
1915 - Rudolf Kirchschläger, President of Austria (d. 2000)
1916 - Pierre Messmer, PM (France)
1917 - Dolf Verspoor, literary/interpreter (M Nijhoff Prize 1958)
1917 - Peter Caddy, founder (Findhorn Community)
1917 - Vera Lynn, singer (Anniversary Waltz)
1918 - Bernd-Alois Zimmermann, German composer (Soldiers)
1918 - Jack Barry, Lindenhurst NY, game show emcee (Joker's Wild)
1918 - Marian McPartland, jazz pianist (Bill Mayer, Jimmy McPartland)
1918 - Donald Featherstone, British writer and wargamer
1920 - Douglas G Chapman, biomathematical statistician
1920 - Werner Klemperer, Cologne Germany, actor (Col Klink-Hogan's Heroes)
1921 - Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow, Senegal, director general (UNESCO)
1921 - Primoz Ramovs, composer
1922 - Arnold Burgen, college president (Academia Europaea)                                       
1922 - Carl Reiner, Bronx, comedian (2000 Year Old Man, Dick Van Dyke Show)
1922 - Doug Barnard Jr, (Rep-D-GA, 1977- )
1922 - Jack Kruschen, Winnipeg Canada, actor (Papa-Webster, Busting Loose)
1922 - Larry Elgart, New Haven Ct, bandleader/alto sax (Elgart Orch)
1922 - Ray Goulding, Lowell Mass, comedian (Bob & Ray)
1923 - Shaukat Siddiqui, Pakistani Author, Journalist and Political Activist (d. 2006)
1924 - Jozef Kroner, Slovak actor (d. 1998)
1924 - Hermann Guggiari, Paraguay, engineer and sculptor (Rejas, NNUU)(d.2012)
1925 - James Pickles, judge
1925 - John D Erlichman, Politician (Nixon aide, Watergate)
1926 - Ted Bessell, Flushing NY, actor (Don-That Girl, Frankie-Gomer Pyle)
1927 - John Pierre Herman Joubert, composer (Chamber Music for brass quintet)
1928 - Anthony Blond, British publisher (The Publishing Game, Book Book)
1928 - Christopher Benstead, race horse trainer
1928 - Fred Rogers, Latrobe PA, children TV host (Mr Rogers' Neighborhood)
1928 - Jerome Cousins Biffle, Denver Co, long jumper (Olympic-gold-1952)
1929 - Germán Robles, Spanish actor
1930 - Michel Magne, composer
1931 - Antonio Tauriello, composer
1931 - David Montgomery, chairman (British Forestry Commission)
1931 - Hal Linden, [Harold Lipshitz], actor (Barney Miller, Blacke's Magic)
1931 - John Rae, British educator (Conscience & Politics)
1932 - Tod Dockstader, composer
1933 - David James Moore, educationalist
1933 - Jacquez Guyonnet, composer
1933 - George Altman, American baseball player
1933 - Alexander Gorodnitsky, Russian geologist and poet
1934 - Eric Hebborn, artist/faker
1934 - Marion Conti, arch bishop (Aberdeen England)
1934 - Willie Brown, American politician
1934 - David Malouf, Australian author
1935 - Ted Bessell, American actor (d. 1996)
1936 - Lee "Scratch" Perry, Jamaican Reggae artist
1936 - Vaughn Meader, American comedian (d. 2004)
1937 - Elizabeth Gille, writer translator/editor
1937 - Helmut Recknagel, Germany, 90m ski jump (Olympic-gold-1960)
1937 - Jerry Reed, Atlanta GA, singer/actor (Bat 21, Smokey & the Bandit)
1937 - Joe Rivers, rocker (Johnnie & Joe)
1937 - Mark Saville, QC, British high court judge
1938 - Frans J van der Heijden, Dutch journal/Dutch MP (CDA)
1938 - Sergei Petrovich Novikov, Russian Mathematician, Fields Medalist
1939 - Brian Mulroney, (P-C) 18th PM of Canada (1984-93)
1939 - Earl of Seafield, [Ginger], English large landowner
1940 - Mickey Preger, horse trainer
1940 - Gianpiero Moretti, Milan, Italy, steering wheel designer (Momo), (d. 2012)
1941 - Carlos Lopez, jockey
1941 - Pat Corrales, American baseball player
1943 - Gerard Malanga, American poet and photographer
1943 - Naima Neidre, Estonian graphic artist
1943 - Paul Junger Witt, American TV producer
1945 - Larry Combest, (Rep-R-TX, 1985- )
1945 - Pat Riley, Schenectady NY, NBA coach (Lakers, Knicks, Heat)
1945 - Tim Yeo, British MP/under-sect (State of Environment)
1945 - Henry Bartholomay, American fighter pilot
1945 - Jay Ingram, Canadian television host and author
1946 - Ranger Doug, [Douglas Green], Ill, singer (Riders in Sky-Cowboy Way)
1947 - Carl Palmer, drummer (Asia-Heat of the Moment, Emerson Lake & Palmer)
1947 - John Eastburn Boswell, medievalist
1948 - Bobby Orr, Parry Sound, Ontario, HOF NHL defenseman (Boston Bruins)
1948 - John de Lancie, actor (Q-Star Trek Next Gen, Days of our Lives)
1948 - Pamela Sargent, US, sci-fi author (Venus of Dreams, Cloned Lives)
1949 - Marcia Ball, American singer and pianist
1950 - William Hurt, Wash DC, actor (Big Chill, Children of a Lesser God)
1951 - Guy Perry, rock guitarist/vocalist (Motels-Only the Lonely)
1951 - Jimmie Vaughan, guitarist (Fabulous Thunderbirds)
1951 - John Wetton, rocker (Asia)
1951 - Madan Lal, cricketer (Indian medium pacer in the 70's)
1951 - Tanya Boyd, Detroit Mich, actress (Celeste-Days of our Life)
1951 - Curt Smith, American author and media host
1952 - Anand Armitraj, India, tennis player (Brother of ViJay)
1952 - Geoff Brabham, Australian racing driver
1954 - Charlie Simmer, Ontario, NHL left winger (LA Kings)
1954 - Jim Seales, Hamilton Ala, singer (Shenandoah-Sunday in the South)
1954 - Liana Kanelli, Greek journalist and politician
1956 - Phillip Oppenhein, British MP
1957 - Spike Lee [Shelton Jackson Lee], Atlanta, Florida, American film director (Mo Better Blues, Jungle Fever, Malcolm X)
1957 - Theresa Russell, [Paup], SD California, actress (Black Widow, Razor's Edge)
1957 - Vanessa Bell Calloway, American actress
1957 - David Foster, Australian woodchopper
1958 - Holly Hunter, Conyers Georgia, American actress (Broadcast News, The Piano)
1958 - Rickey Jackson, NFL defensive end (SF 49ers)
1958 - Phil Anderson, Australian cyclist
1959 - Dale Reid, Ladybank Scotland, LPGA golfer (European Solheim Cup team)
1959 - Richard Drummie, rocker (Go West-Call Me, Don't Look Down)
1959 - Steve McFadden, British actor
1959 - Sting, American professional wrestler
1961 - John Clark Gable, LA California, actor (Bad Jim)
1961 - Kathy Guadagnino, Albany NY, LPGA golfer (1985 US Women's Open)
1961 - Slim Jim Phantom, [Jim Mcdonnell], rock drummer (Stray Cats)
1961 - Jesper Olsen, Danish footballer
1962 - Stephen Sommers, American film director
1963 - Paul Annacone, Southampton NY, tennis star
1963 - Paul Mirkovich, rock keyboardist (Nelson-Love & Affection)
1963 - Ramon Andersson, Middle Swan Australia, canoeist (Olympics-br-92, 96)
1963 - Yelena Romanova, Russian athlete (d. 2007)
1963 - Manabu Suzuki, Japanese racing driver and broadcaster
1963 - David Thewlis, Blackpool, Lancashire, English actor (Remus Lupin-Harry Potter series)
1964 - Ruth Davidon, Balt MD, rower (Olympics-6th-96)
1964 - Natacha Atlas, Belgian singer
1965 - Chris Hoiles, Bowling Green OH, catcher (Baltimore Orioles)
1965 - Danielle Woodward, Melbourne VIC Australia, canoeist (Olympics-96)
1966 - Blas Minor, Merced CA, pitcher (Seattle Mariners)
1966 - Giulio Caravatta, CFL quarterback (BC Lions)
1966 - Alka Yagnik, Indian singer
1967 - Bryan Genesse, actor, (Rocco-Bold & Beautiful, Grady-Street Justice)
1967 - Dana Rinehart Dalton, Orlando Florida, Miss Florida-America (1991)
1967 - Mookie Blaylock, NBA guard (Atlanta Hawks)
1967 - Randy Gullatt, horse trainer
1968 - Eric Viscaal, Dutch soccer star (PSV/AA Gent)
1968 - Jurgen Rumrich, Miesbach GER, hockey forward (Team Germany 1998)
1968 - Sheree Megan Higgins, Matamata NZ, golfer (1991 Bridgestone)
1969 - Caroline Brunet, Quebec City Quebec, kayaker (Olympics-silver-96)
1969 - Konstantine Starikovitch, Podolsk Russia, 238lbs US weightlift (Oly-96)
1969 - Paul Atkinson, jockey
1969 - Sharon Manning, WNBA center/forward (Charlotte Sting)
1969 - Thang Thanh Nguyen, Soc Trang Vietnam, murderer (FBI Most Wanted)
1969 - Mannie Fresh, American producer
1970 - Kristin Klein, Santa Monica California, volleyball outside hitter (Oly-96)
1970 - Ralph Dawkins, NFL running back (NO Saints)
1970 - Ron George, NFL linebacker (Atlanta Falcons)
1970 - Todd Burger, NFL guard (Chic Bears)
1971 - Janis Kelly, Winnipeg Manitoba, volleyball player (Olympics-96)
1971 - Manny Alexander, Dominican Republic, infielder (Baltimore Orioles)
1971 - Touré, American writer
1972 - Ajah Wilson-Ogechukwu, soccer player (Roda JC)
1972 - Alexander Kapranos, Greek-British musician (Franz Ferdinand)
1973 - Jane March, Edgeware England, actress (Lover)
1973 - Nico Boje, cricketer (South African ODI left-arm spinner 1996)
1973 - Norman Tome, Australian soccer striker (Olyroos, Olympics-96)
1973 - Christopher Heinz, American businessman; son of Teresa Heinz
1973 - Jung Woo-sung, South Korean actor
1973 - Cedric Yarbrough, American actor
1974 - P J Bogart, NYC, diver (Olympics-96)
1974 - Paula Garces, Colombian actress
1974 - Andrzej Pilipiuk, Polish writer
1975 - Brian Buetsch, Rockford Ill, figure skater (1997 Great Lakes Sr champ)
1976 - Arno Knapen, Dutch soccer player (Holten, FC Twente)
1976 - Chester Bennington, American musician (Linkin Park)
1979 - Bernard O'Connor, Gaelic Footballer
1979 - Molly Jenson, American musician
1979 - Silvia Abascal, Spanish actress
1979 - Freema Agyeman, British actress
1979 - Bianca Lawson, American actress
1979 - Keven Mealamu, New Zealand rugby player
1980 - Jamal Crawford, American basketball player
1980 - Ock Ju-Hyun, South Korean singer
1982 - Tomasz Kuszczak, Polish footballer
1982 - José Moreira, Portuguese footballer
1982 - Terrence Duffin, Zimbabwean cricketer
1982 - Nick Wheeler, American guitarist (The All-American Rejects)
1984 - Justine Ezarik, American Internet personality
1984 - Markus Niemelä, Finnish racing driver
1984 - Fernando Torres, Spanish footballer
1984 - Winta, Norwegian musician
1984 - Valtteri Filppula, Finnish professional ice-hockey player
1984 - Rami Malek, Egyptian-born actor
1984 - Christy Carlson Romano, American actress
1984 - Marcus Vick, American football player
1986 - Dean Geyer, Australian singer/actor
1987 - Daniel Maa Boumsong, Cameroonian football player
1987 - Patrick Boyle, Scottish footballer
1987 - Pedro Ken, Brazilian footballer
1987 - Sergei Kostitsyn, Belarusian hockey player
1987 - Jô, Brazilian footballer
1987 - Rollo Weeks, English actor
1989 - Tamim Iqbal, Bangladeshi cricketer

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 20, 2013, 04:51:38 PM

This Day in History for 20th March


Famous Deaths

687 - St. Cuthbert, patron saint of Northumbria (b. c. 634).
842 - Alfonso II the Chaste, king of Asturia (791-842), dies
1191 - Clement III, [Paolo Scolari], Pope (1187-91, 3rd crusades), dies
1239 - Hermann von Salza, Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights (c. 1179)
1351 - Mohammed ibn-Tughluq, sultan of Delhi India, dies
1393 - Johannes Nepomucenus, [Jan Nepomucky], Czech saint, killed
1413 - King Henry IV of England (b. 1367)
1415 - Henry IV Bolingbroke, King of England (1399-1413), dies at 45
1501 - Jean Carondelet, lawyer/chancellor of Burgundy (1480-96), dies at 72
1531 - Sicke Freerks/Frericx, [Cutter], Dutch anabaptist, beheaded
1549 - Thomas Seymour of Sudely, English Lord Admiral, beheaded
1568 - Albrecht von Hohenzollern, 1st duke of Prussia, dies at 77
1586 - Richard Maitland, Scottish statesman and historian (b. 1496)
1617 - Franciscus Aguilon, physicist/theologist/mathematician, dies at 50
1619 - Matthias II, Holy Roman Catholic emperor (1611-19), dies
1646 - Matthew Vossius, historian (Annales Holland Zelandiaeque), dies at 35
1673 - Augustyn Kordecki, Polish prior (b. 1603)
1703 - Johann Kunckel/Kunkel, German alchemist/ambassador to Sweden, dies
1730 - Adrienne Lecouvreur, French actress (b. 1692)
1732 - Johann Ernst Hanxleden, German philologist (b. 1681)
1746 - Nicolas de Largillière, French painter (b. 1656)
1751 - Frederick Louis, English prince of Wales/son of George I, dies
1757 - Johann Paul Kunzen, composer, dies at 60
1767 - Firmin Abauzit, French huguenot/scholar, dies at 87
1780 - Sir Benjamin Truman - English brewer (b. 1699/1700)
1793 - William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, Scottish judge and politician (b. 1705)
1804 - Ignaz Malzat, composer, dies at 47
1812 - Jan Ladislav Dussek, Bohemian pianist/composer, dies at 52
1835 - Louis-Leopold Robert, French painter (b. 1794)
1848 - Abraham des Amorie van der Hoeven, Dutch theologist/poet, dies at 27
1855 - Joseph Aspdin, English mason and inventor (b. 1788)
1865 - Keisuke Yamanami, Japanese samurai (b. 1833)
1866 - Rikard Nordraak, composer, dies at 23
1871 - Antonio Buzzolla, composer, dies at 56
1873 - Adolfe Louis Eugene Fetis, composer, dies at 52
1874 - Hans Christian Lumbye, composer, dies at 63
1878 - Julius Robert von Mayer, German physician and physicist (b. 1814)
1887 - Pavel Annenkov, Russian literature historian, dies at 73
1890 - Alexander F. Mozhaiski, aviation pioneer (b. 1825)
1892 - Arthor Goring Thomas, composer, dies at 41
1894 - Lajos Kossuth, Hungarian freedom fighter/president (1849), dies at 91
1897 - Apollon Maykov, Russian poet (b. 1821)
1899 - Martha M Place, of Bkln, becomes 1st woman to be executed in an electric chair.
1899 - Franz Ritter von Hauer, Austrian geologist (b. 1822)
1910 - Félix Tournachon, [Nadar], French writer/photographer, dies at 89
1911 - Jean-Theodore Radoux, composer, dies at 75
1913 - Christian Barnekow, composer, dies at 75
1913 - Song Jiao-ren, leader Chinese Guomindang-Party, dies
1916 - Ota Benga, Congolese pygmy (b. 1884)
1918 - Lewis A. Grant, American Civil War General (b. 1828)
1920 - Venustiano Carranza, president Mexico (1915-20), murdered at 60
1925 - George N Curzon, British Foreign minister (1919-22), dies at 66
1929 - Ferdinand Foch, Marshal of France (WW I), dies at 77
1931 - Hermann Müller, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1876)
1933 - Giuseppe [Joe] Zangara, electrocuted for assassination attempt on FDR
1934 - A Emma W T von Waldeck-Pyrmont, Dutch queen (& regent), dies at 76
1936 - Durant Clifford Parkin, cricketer (Tests for S Afr 1891-92), dies
1940 - Alfred Ploetz, German physician, biologist, and eugenicist (b. 1860)
1941 - D A van den Bosch, anti-nazi clergyman (Amersfoort Camp), dies
1942 - Theodoro Valcarcel, composer, dies at 41
1944 - Felix Woyrsch, composer, dies at 83
1947 - Sigurd Wallén, Swedish actor and filmdirector (b. 1884)
1950 - Walter Eucken, German economist, dies at 59
1951 - Jan Ingenhoven, composer, dies at 74
1951 - Kathleen Lockhart Manning, composer, dies at 60
1953 - Graciliano Ramos, Brazilian author (Vidas Secas), dies at 60
1962 - Andrew E Douglass, Dendrochronologer (Study of Tree Rings), dies
1962 - C Wright Mills, US sociologist (Power Elite), dies at 45
1963 - Karl Otten, writer, dies at 73
1964 - Brendan Behan, Irish writer/poet, dies at 41
1964 - Jean Rogister, composer, dies at 84
1967 - A J F Moody, 1st US Army General to die in Vietnam
1968 - Carl T Dreyer, Danish director (Passion of Jeanne d'Arc), dies
1969 - Henri Longchambon, French politician (b. 1896)
1970 - Manolis Chiotis, Greek bouzouki virtuoso and song writer (b. 1920)
1972 - Aad de Haas, Dutch religious painter/graphic artist, dies at 51
1972 - Jan Engelman, Dutch poet/art critic (At the Front), dies at 71
1972 - Marilyn Maxwell, actress (Grace-Bus Stop), dies at 50
1974 - Chet Huntley, newscaster (NBC Huntley-Brinkley Report), dies at 62
1974 - [Lavinia] Marian Fleming Poe, Black US advocate in Virg, dies at 83
1976 - Michael Goodliffe, actor (Gorgon, 7th Dawn, Way Out), dies at 61
1982 - Hendrik L van Beek, Dutch vice-admiral, dies at 52
1983 - Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov, Russian mathematician (b. 1891)
1987 - Norman Harris, guitarist (O'Jays), dies at 39 of heart failure
1988 - Gil Evans, Canadian/US jazz composer (Out of the Cool), dies at 75
1990 - Jannetje Visser-Roosendaal, Dutch writer, dies at 90
1990 - Jev Jasjin, Russian soccer goalie, dies at 60
1990 - Lev Yashin, Soviet footballer (b. 1929)
1991 - Conor Clapton, Eric Clapton's son, falls out of 53rd floor window at 5
1992 - Avonne Taylor, actress (My Best Girl, Honor Among Lovers), dies at 93
1992 - Frank Westbrook, dancer/choreographer, dies at 82
1992 - Georges Delerue, French composer (Hiroshima, My Love), dies at 67
1993 - Claudia Yeltsin, mother of Russian president Yeltsin, dies at 85
1993 - Jonathan Ball, English youngster, killed by IRA at 3
1994 - Lewis Grizzard, American humorist (b. 1946)
1995 - Merv Harvey, cricketer (scored 12 & 31 in Test Aus v Eng 46-47), dies
1995 - Rachida Hammadi, Algerian TV journalist, murdered at 32
1995 - Sidney Kingsley, US playwright (Pulitzer prize 1934), dies at 88
1996 - Alan Ridout, composer, dies at 61
1996 - Claude Bourdet, human rights activist/journalist, dies at 86
1996 - Victor Zorza, journalist/Russian specialist, dies at 71
1997 - Carlo Fassi, figure skating coach (Fleming, Hamill), dies at 67
1997 - Grace Hefner, mother of Hugh Hefner (Playboy), dies at 101
1997 - Tony Zale, American boxer (b. 1913)
1998 - George Howard, American jazz saxophone musician
2000 - Gene Eugene, Canadian actor and singer (b. 1961)
2001 - Luis Alvarado, Puerto Rican baseball player (b. 1949)
2003 - Sailor Art Thomas, American professional wrestler (b. 1924)
2004 - Queen Juliana of the Netherlands (b. 1909)
2004 - Pierre Sévigny, Canadian military officer and politician (b. 1917)
2005 - Armand Lohikoski, Finnish film director (b. 1912)
2007 - Gilbert E. Patterson, presiding bishop of COGIC (b. 1939)
2007 - Hawa Yakubu, Ghanaian politician (b. 1948)
2007 - Taha Yassin Ramadan, Iraqi politician (b. 1938)
2008 - Eric Ashton, English rugby league footballer (b. 1935)
2008 - Shoban Babu, Indian actor (b. 1937)
2008 - Brian Wilde, English actor (b. 1921)
2008 - Klaus Dinger, German Musician (b. 1946)
2009 - Mel Brown, American/Canadian Blues Guitarist (b. 1939)
2010 - Liz Carpenter, American feminist writer (b. 1920)
2010 - Stewart Udall, American politician, environmentalist (b. 1920)
2010 - Girija Prasad Koirala, Nepalese politician (b. 1925)
2011 - Johnny Pearson, British Composer (b. 1925)
2012 - Jim Stynes, Irish Australian rules footballer, dies from cancer at 45
2012 - Mel Parnell [Melvin], American Major League Baseball pitcher, dies from cancer at 89

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 21, 2013, 02:57:19 PM

This Day in History for 21st March


Historical Events

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Naturalist Charles Darwin                       Chancellor Otto Von Bismarck               US President Thomas Jefferson

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33rd US President Harry Truman           Playwright Tennessee Williams

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264th Pope John Paul II                        Radio shock jock Howard Stern


630 - Byzantine emperor Heraclius restores the True Cross to Jerusalem.
717 - Battle of Vincy between Charles Martel and Ragenfrid.
1188 - Accession to the throne of Japan by emperor Antoku.
1349 - 3,000 Jews killed in Black Death riots in Efurt Germany
1413 - Henry V becomes King of England.
1421 - Battle of Beauge-French beat British
1492 - Alonzo Pietro, pilot, sailed with Columbus
1610 - King James I addresses English House of Commons
1681 - 3rd Exclusion Parliament meets in London
1697 - Czar Peter the Great begins tour through West-Europe
1702 - Queen Anne Stuart addresses English parliament
1788 - Fire destroys 856 buildings in New Orleans Louisiana
1788 - Gustavus Vassa petitions Queen Charlotte, to free enslaved Africans
1790 - Thomas Jefferson reports to Pres Washington in NY as Sec of State
1791 - Capt Hopley Yeaton of NH becomes 1st commissioned officer in USN
1804 - French civil Code of Napoleon adopted
1821 - First revolutionary act in Monastery of Agia Lavra, Kalavryta, Greek War of Independence.
1824 - Fire at Cairo ammunitions dump kills 4,000 horses
1826 - Beethoven's Quartet #13 in B flat major (Op 130) premiered in Vienna
1835 - Charles Darwin & Mariano Gonzales meet at Portillo Pass
1843 - Preacher William Miller of Mass predicts the world will end today
1844 - Origin of Baha'i Era-Baha'i calendar starts here (Baha 1, 1)
1844 - The original date predicted by William Miller for the return of Christ.
1851 - Yosemite Valley discovered in California
1857 - Earthquake hits Tokyo; about 107,000 die
1859 - Scottish National Gallery opens in Edinburgh
1859 - Zoological Society of Philadelphia, 1st in US, incorporated
1860 - US extradition treaty with Sweden
1863 - Naval Engagement at Havana Cuba-USS Henrick Hudson vs BR Wild Pigeon
1864 - Battle at Henderson's Hill (Bayou Rapids) Louisiana
1865 - Battle of Bentonville ends, last Confederate effort to stop Sherman
1866 - Congress authorizes national soldiers' homes
1868 - 1st US professional women's club, Sorosis, forms in NYC
1871 - Journalist Henry M Stanley begins his famous expedition to Africa
1871 - Otto von Bismarck elevated to rank of Fürst (Prince)
1885 - 2nd French government of Ferry resigns
1888 - Arthur Pinero's "Sweet Lavender," premieres in London
1890 - Austrian Jewish communities are defined by law
1899 - British & French accord about West-Africa
1907 - US invades Honduras
1909 - Moran & MacFarland (US) wins Europe's 1st 6 day bicycle race (Berlin)
1913 - -26] Flood in Ohio, kills 400
1914 - US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld
1914 - US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Norman M Scott
1916 - JP Van Limburg Stirum succeeds AWF Idenburg as gov-gen of Neth Indies
1917 - 1st female US Navy Petty Officer is Loretta Walsh
1918 - -28] During WW I Germany launches Somme offensive
1921 - Walter Kerr Theater (Ritz, CBS, NBC, ABC) opens at 223 W 48th St NYC
1922 - KGW-AM in Portland OR begins radio transmissions
1923 - US foreign minister Charles Hughes refuses USSR recognition
1924 - 1st foreign language course broadcast on US radio (WJZ, NYC)
1924 - Mass Investors Trust becomes 1st mutual fund set up in US
1925 - Edinburgh's Murreyfield Stadium officially opens
1925 - Iran adopts Khorshidi solar Hijrah calendar
1927 - Guomindang Army conquerors Shanghai as British marines flee
1931 - KRO-broadcast studio initiated in Hilversum Holland
1931 - US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson
1931 - US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Roger Turner
1933 - Hitler, Guring, Prince Ruprecht, Bruning & top army meet in Berlin
1934 - Fire destroys Hakodate Japan, killing about 1,500
1934 - Babe Didrikson pitches an inning in an A's-Dodgers exhibition game Walks 1, hits the next
           guy, 3rd guy hits into triple-play
1935 - Jean Anouilh's "Y avait un presonnier," premieres in Paris
1935 - Persia officially renamed Iran
1937 - Ponce massacre, police kill 19 at Puerto Rican Nationalist parade
1939 - Nazi-Germany demands Gdansk (Danzig) from Poland
1941 - Joe Louis KOs Abe Simon in 13 for heavyweight boxing title
1942 - Convoy QP9 departs Great Britain to Murmansk
1942 - Heavy German assault on Malta
1943 - Assassination attempt on Hitler fails
1943 - British 8th army opens assault on Mareth line, Tunisia
1943 - Massacre of the town of Kalavryta, Greece by German Nazi troops.
1944 - Gen Eisenhower postpones S France invasion until after Normandy
1945 - 1st Japanese flying bombs (ochas) attack Okinawa
1945 - During WW II Allied bombers begin 4-day raid over Germany
1945 - Dutch Resistance fighter Hannie Schaft arrested by Nazi police
1946 - Kenny Washington signs with Rams, 1st black NFLer since 1933
1946 - UN set up temporary HQ at Hunter (now Lehman) College (Bronx)
1947 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Fulgens radiatur
1947 - Pres Harry Truman signs Executive Order 9835 requiring all federal employees to have
           allegiance to the United States
1947 - Test Cricket debut of Bert Sutcliffe, NZ v England at Christchurch
1948 - "Stop the Music" with Bert Parks premieres on ABC radio
1949 - WTVJ TV channel 4 in Miami, FL (NBC/CBS) begins broadcasting
1951 - 2,900,000 US soldiers in Korea
1951 - Julius & Ethel Rosenberg convicted of espionage
1952 - "3 Wishes for Jamie" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 94 perfs
1952 - -22] Tornadoes in Ark, Tenn, Mo, Miss, Ala & Ky cause 343 deaths
1952 - 31 storms crosses 6 states killing 340 in South-Central US
1952 - Alan Freed presents Moondog Coronation Ball at old Cleveland Arena, 25,000 attend 1st rock
           & roll concert ever
1953 - NBA record 106 fouls & 12 players foul out (Boston-Syracuse)
1954 - KFBB TV channel 5 in Great Falls, MT (ABC/CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting
1955 - Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus desires Cyprus joining Greece
1955 - Brooklyn Bulletin ask Dodger fans not to call their team "Bums"
1956 - 28th Academy Awards - "Marty," Anna Magnani & Ernest Borgnine win
1957 - Tennessee Williams' "Orpheus Descending," premieres in NYC
1958 - 1st presentation of West Point's Sylvanus Thayer Award
1958 - USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
1959 - "Juno" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 16 performances
1959 - 21st NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: California beats W Va 71-70
1960 - Sharpeville Massacre: Police kill 72 in South Africa & outlaws ANC
1961 - Art Modell purchases Cleveland Browns for then record ($3,925,000)
1961 - Beatles' 1st appearance at the Cavern Club
1962 - A bear becomes the 1st creature to be ejected at supersonic speeds
1962 - Bekkers of Bosch makes TV speech in Neth for birth control
1962 - Dutch RC bishop Beckers declares himself in favor of birth control
1962 - Philadelphia retires pitcher Robin Roberts' # 36
1963 - Alcatraz federal penitentiary in SF Bay closed
1963 - David Hendon & Douglas Cross' musical premieres in London
1964 - 26th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Duke 98-83
1964 - Beatles' "She Loves You," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks
1964 - UCLA completes undefeated NCAA basketball season (30-0)
1965 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open
1965 - Martin Luther King Jr begins march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama
1965 - US Ranger 9 launched; takes 5,814 pictures before lunar impact
1966 - Supreme Court reverses Mass ruling that "Fanny Hill" is obscene
1968 - "Royals" chosen as the name of new KC AL franchise
1968 - Hill, Hawkins & Coghill's musical premieres in London
1968 - Israeli forces cross Jordan River to attack PLO bases
1968 - Portuguese socialist Mario Soares banished to Sao Tomé
1969 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1970 - 32nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Jacksonville 80-69
1970 - The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto.
1970 - Vinko Bogataj crashes during a ski-jumping championship in Germany; his image becomes
           that of the "agony of defeat guy" in the opening credits of ABC's Wide World of Sports.
1971 - Gavaskar scores 1st of his 34 Test Cricket tons, 116 at Georgetown
1971 - Jan Ferraris wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic
1971 - Vermont seasonal snowfall totals 132.2"
1971 - WCPB TV channel 28 in Salisbury, MD (PBS) begins broadcasting
1972 - US Supreme Court rules states can't require 1-yr residency to vote
1973 - Frank Mahovlich becomes 5th NHLer to score 500 goals
1974 - Attempt made to kidnap Princess Anne in London's Pall Mall
1975 - Ethiopia ends monarchy after 3000 years
1978 - Padres fire Al Dark (2nd manager ever fired during spring training)
1979 - Egyptian Parliament unanimously approve peace treaty with Israel
1980 - President Jimmy Carter announces US boycott of Moscow Olympics
1980 - On TV show Dallas, J.R. is shot
1982 - "Little Johnny Jones" opens & closes at Alvin Theater NYC
1982 - Jerry Pate celebrates golf win by jumping into the water hazard
1982 - Movie "Annie" premieres
1982 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA J&B Scotch Pro-Am Golf Tournament
1983 - Only known typo on Time Magazine cover (control=contol), all recalled
1984 - Border scores 100* v WI Trinidad after 98* in 1st cricket innings
1984 - NFL owners passed the infamous anti-celebrating rule
1984 - Part of Central Park is named Strawberry Fields honoring John Lennon
1984 - Soviet sub crashes into USS aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk off Japan
1985 - Arthur Ashe is named to Intl Tennis Hall of Fame
1985 - Bloodbath at Langa (Uitenhage) South-Africa, 19 killed
1986 - 199.22 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
1986 - Kania skates ladies world record 500 m (39.52 sec) & 3 km (4:18.02)
1986 - Pittsburgh Associates buy Pittsburgh Pirates for $218 million
1987 - PSV sells soccer player Ruud Gullit to AC Milan (Ÿ17 million)
1988 - 23rd Academy of Country Music Awards: Randy Travis & Hank Williams Jr
1989 - 1st sea test of Trident 2 missile self-destructs, Cape Canaveral
1990 - "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" opens at Eugene O'Neill NYC for 149 perfs
1990 - "Normal Life" starring Moon Unit & Dweezil Zappa premieres on CBS-TV
1990 - "Sydney" starring Valerie Bertinelli premieres on CBS-TV
1990 - Namibia becomes independent of South Africa, Sam Nujoma becomes president
1991 - 27 lost at sea when 2 US Navy anti-submarine planes collide
1991 - Largest wrestling crowd in Japan (64,500) at Tokyo Dome
1991 - Tatsumi Fujinami beats Ric Flair for NWA wrestling championship
1991 - UN Security Council panel decided to lift the food embargo on Iraq
1992 - 2nd WLAF season begins
1992 - Pakistan scores 6-264 to overhaul NZ in exciting World Cup semi
1993 - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Standard Register Ping Golf Tournament
1993 - Pope John Paul II declares Duns Scotus, a saint
1993 - South Africa White Wolves kill 5 year old black girl
1994 - 66th Academy Awards - "Schindler's List," Tom Hanks & Holly Hunter win
1994 - Anne P Sidamon-Eristoff named chairwoman of Museum of Natl History
1994 - Dudley Moore arrested for hitting girlfriend
1994 - Watne Gretzky ties Gordie Howe's NHL record of 801 goals
1995 - NJ officially dedicates the Howard Stern Rest Area along Route 295
1995 - NYC agrees to sell it's 2 owned radio stations (WNYC AM & FM)
1996 - "Night of the Iguana" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 68 perfs
1997 - Ice Dance won by Oksana Grishuk & Evgeny Platov (Rus)
1997 - Wrestlemania XIII
1998 - Good Friday Agreement signed in Northern Ireland.
1999 - Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air
           balloon.
2002 - In Pakistan, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh along with three other suspects are charged with
           murder for their part in the kidnapping and killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
2002 - British schoolgirl Amanda Dowler is abducted in broad daylight on her way home from
           Heathside School in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey.
2004 - In Malaysia, the 11th Federal and State elections are held, returning the ruling coalition
          Barisan Nasional to power with an increased majority.
2006 - Immigrant workers constructing the Burj Dubayy in Dubai, The United Arab Emirates and a
           new terminal of Dubai International Airport join together and riot, causing $1M in damage.
2012 - Greek Parliament votes in favour of an international bailout deal
2012 - Five former Guatemalan paramilitaries are sentenced to 7,710 years in jail for their role in the
           Plan de Sanchez massacre in 1982

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Post by: MysteRy on March 21, 2013, 02:59:08 PM

This Day in History for 21st March


Famous Weddings

1874 - US Grant's daughter Nellie marries in the White House
1891 - A Hatfield marries a McCoy, ends long feud in West Virginia it started with an accusation of
           pig-stealing & lasted 20 years
2009 - Star of Die Hard film Bruce Willis (52) weds model and actress Emma Heming (29) in Turks
           and Caicos Islands
2009 - British songbird who soared to the top of the charts with her hit "Unwritten" Natasha
            Bedingfield (27) weds California businessman Matthew Robinson at Church Estate Vineyard's
            in Malibu, California

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 21, 2013, 04:08:06 PM

This Day in History for 21st March


Famous Birthdays

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Composer                                          Oil Industrialist John D Rockefeller (1906)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685)

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Actor Matthew Broderick (1962)              Comedienne Rosie O'Donnell (1962)


1466 - French van Brederode, leader Hoeksen
1474 - Angela Merici, Italian monastery founder/saint
1521 - Maurice, Duke and later Elector of Saxony (1547-53). Died 1553
1527 - Hermann Finck, composer
1609 - Jan II Kazimierz, cardinal/King of Poland (1648-68)
1624 - Francois Roberday, composer
1642 - Georg Schmezer, composer
1685 - Johann Sebastian Bach, Eisenach Germany, composer (Mattheus-Passion)
1708 - Caspar Ruetz, composer
1713 - Francis Lewis, signer (Decl of Ind)
1716 - Josef Ferdinand Norbert Seger, composer
1763 - Jean Paul, writer
1765 - Henry Fagel, Dutch/English baron/diplomat
1768 - Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Fourier, mathematician/Egyptologist
1779 - Alexis Garaude, composer
1801 - Maria Theresa of Tuscany, Queen of Sardinia (d. 1855)
1806 - Benito Pablo Juarez, Oaxaca Mexico, president of Mexico (1858-72)
1811 - Nathaniel Woodard, English educationalist (d. 1891)
1813 - James Jesse Strang, King of Mormons on Beaver Is, MI (1850-56)
1820 - Frank Mori, composer
1835 - Thomas Hayward, English cricketer (d. 1876)
1836 - Jesus Monasterio, composer
1839 - Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, Karevo, Russian composer (Boris Gudunov, Night on Bald Mt)
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1854 - Alick A C Bannerman, cricketer (bro of Charles, Australia 1878-1893)
1863 - Hugo Kaun, composer
1863 - George Owen Squier, American inventor and Major General in U.S. Signal Corp(d.1934)
1866 - Antonia Caetana de Paiva Pereira Maury, astronomer
1869 - Albert Kahn, architect, originated modern factory design
1869 - Florenz Ziegfeld, producer (Ziegfield Follies)
1876 - John Tewksbury, American athlete (d. 1968)
1878 - Thurlow Weed Lieurance, composer
1880 - Hans Hofmann, German/US painter (Search for the Real)
1880 - Wilhelm Pessler, German sociologist
1880 - Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson, American actor (d. 1971)
1881 - Hermann Sandby, composer
1882 - Gilbert M Anderson, [Max Aronson], Little Rock AR
1883 - Jules van Nuffel, composer
1884 - George D Birkhoff, US mathematician (Aesthetic measure)
1887 - Edwin Scharff, German "entartet" painter/sculptor
1891 - Jonathan Hale, actor (Saint's Double Trouble, Saint Strikes Back)
1893 - Geoffrey Dearmer, poet
1895 - Zlatko Baloković, Croatian violinist (d. 1955)
1900 - Eugenie Leontovitch, Moscow Russia, actor (Homicidal)
1900 - Paul Klecki/Kletzki, Polish violinist/composer/conductor
1901 - Carmelita Geraghty, Rushville IN, actress (My Best Girl, Texas Ranger)
1901 - Richard Leslie Hill, historian
1901 - Karl Arnold, German politician (d. 1958)
1902 - Carl Jaffe, Hamburg Germany, actor (1st Man in Space, Escapement)
1902 - Eddie James "Son" House, folk blues musician (Delta Blues)
1902 - William Downie Forrest, journalist
1904 - Nikolaos Skalkottas, composer
1904 - Forrest Mars Sr., American candymaker (d. 1999)
1905 - Phyllis McGinley, US, poet (Pulitzer 1961, Love Letters)
1906 - John D Rockefeller III, billionaire philanthropist (oil)
1906 - Jim Thompson, American designer and businessman
1908 - Maurice Stans, rocker
1910 - Nick Castle, Bkln, choreographer (Dinah Shore, Judy Garland)
1910 - M S Khan, Bangladeshi intellectual (d. 1978)
1911 - John Paxton, screenwriter (On The Beach, Kotch, Farewell My Lovely)
1912 - Peter Bull, actor/author (Executioner, Tom Jones, Dr Strangelove)
1913 - George Ghita Ionescu, academic
1913 - Max Youngstein, NYC, producer (United Artists)
1913 - George Abecassis, English race car driver (d. 1991)
1914 - Herman Siles Zuazo, politician
1914 - Paul Tortelier, composer
1917 - Frank Hardy, Australian author (d. 1994)
1918 - Joe Carveth, NHL forward (scored 20 or more goals in 3 seasons)
1919 - Geoffrey Pinnington, journalist
1919 - Lois Collier, SC, actress (Mary-Boston Blackie, Slave Girl)
1920 - Bruno Maderna, composer [or Apr 21]
1920 - Georg Ots, Estonian singer (d. 1975)
1920 - Manolis Chiotis, Greek bouzouki virtuoso and song writer (d. 1970)
1921 - Antony Hopkins, composer
1921 - Arthur Grumiaux, Belgian violinist
1921 - Logan Ramsey, Long Beach California, actor (Head, Joy Sticks, Say Yes)
1923 - Mort Lindsey, Newark NJ, orchestra leader (Merv Griffin Show)
1923 - Philip Abbott, Lincoln Neb, actor (Arthur Ward-The FBI)
1923 - Shri Mataji Nirmala Srivastava, Founder of Sahaja Yogav
1924 - Karl Heinz Fussl, composer
1925 - John E Grotberg, (Rep-R-IL, 1985-86)
1925 - Peter Brook, London, director (1776)/TV writer
1925 - Hugo Koblet, Swiss cyclist (d. 1964)
1926 - Andre Delvaux, Heverie Belgium, director/writer (Benvenuta)
1926 - Virginia Weidler, Hollywood CA, actress (Babes on Broadway)
1927 - Hans-Dietrich Genscher, German minister of Foreign affairs (FDP)
1928 - Evelyn Ruth Anderson, composer
1928 - James W Kinnear, Pittsburgh Pa, CEO (Texaco)
1928 - Peter Hacks, German playwright (Tie Windloch)
1929 - James Coco, Bronx NY, actor (Man of La Mancha, Murder by Death)
1929 - Jules Verne Berman, space & science reporter (ABC-TV)
1929 - Maurice Catarcio, wrestler
1931 - Ivan William Hannaford, sociologist
1932 - Joseph Silverstein, Detroit Mich, violinist (Denver Symphony Orch)
1933 - John Hall, English real estate developer/multi-millionaire
1933 - Michael Heseltine, Welsh/British minister of Defense (1986)/MP
1934 - Al Freeman Jr, Tx, actor (One Life to Live, My Sweet Charlie), (d. 2012)
1934 - Lister Carney, Bellaire Oh, 200m runner (Olympic-silver-1960)
1935 - Brian Clough, soccer manager
1935 - Hubert Fichte, writer
1936 - Marek Stachowski, composer
1936 - Ed Broadbent, Canadian politician
1937 - Tom Flores, Fresno California, NFL quarterback/coach (Raiders)
1938 - Grahame Thomas, cricketer (Australian batsman of the mid-60's)
1938 - Wilf Corrigan, English/US electronic manufacturer (LSI Logic)
1939 - Kathleen Widdoes, Wilmington Del, actress (Without a Trace)
1939 - Martha Hudson, Eastman Ga, 4X100m relayer (Olympic-gold-1960)
1940 - Solomon Burke, American singer
1941 - Dirk D Frimout, Belgium, cosmonaut
1941 - Malcolm Francke, cricketer (leg-spinner, Ceylon 1956 to Qld 1984)
1943 - Antal Dunai, Hungary, soccer player (Olympic-gold-1968)
1943 - Vivian Stanshall, songwriter/comic
1943 - Hartmut Haenchen, German conductor
1944 - Charles Edward Greene, Pine Bluff Ark, 4x100m runner (Oly-gold-1968)
1944 - Henrik Colding-Jorgensen, composer
1944 - Jamary Oliveira, composer
1944 - Marie-Christine Barrault, Paris France, actress (Stardust Memories)
1945 - Rosemary Stone, vocalist/pianist (Sly & Family Stone-Everyday People)
1945 - Vernon Guy, US gospel singer (Cool Sounds, Sharpees)
1946 - Ray Dorset, rocker (Cold Blue Excursion)
1946 - Timothy Dalton, North Wales, actor (James Bond-Living Daylights)
1949 - Eddie Money, [Mahoney], Bkln, singer/guitarist (Take Me Home Tonight)
1949 - Alvin Kallicharran, cricketer (wonderful West Indies LHB 1972-81)
1949 - Slavoj Žižek, Slovenian sociologist, philosopher and cultural critic
1950 - Peter Banks, rocker (Yes), (d. 2013)
1950 - Roger Hodgson, rock vocalist (Supertramp-It's Raining Again)
1951 - Helena Antonaccio, playmate (June, 1969)
1951 - Russell Thompkins Jr, US soul singer (Stylistics-Sing Baby Sing)
1952 - Chris O'Connell, rocker
1953 - Carl Wolfson, Wash DC, comedian (Thicke of the Night)
1953 - Shotgun Johnson [Robert], rock drummer (KC & the Sunshine Band-Give it Up)
1954 - Mary Jane Smith, Van Nuys Ca, WPVA volleyballer (National-9th-1993)
1955 - Barbel Wockel-Eckert, German DR, sprinter (Olympic-4 gold-1976, 80)
1955 - Jean Marie Hon, SF California, actress (Jane-Man From Atlantis)
1956 - Ingrid Kristiansen, Norway, marathoner (Olympic-4th-1984, Bost-86, 89)
1957 - Sabrina Le Beauf, New Orleans La, actress (Sondra-Crosby Show)
1958 - Brad Hall, Santa Barbara California, comedian (SNL)
1958 - Gary Oldman, actor (Sid & Nancy, Criminal Law, State of Grace)
1958 - Marlies Gohr, German DR, sprinter (Olympic-gold-1976, 80)
1959 - Sarah Jane Morris, English Singer
1959 - Nobuo Uematsu, Japanese composer
1960 - Ayrton Senna, Brazilian formula-1 racer (1988 champ)
1960 - Dale Baze, jockey
1960 - Guy Chadwick, English singer/songwriter (House of Love)
1960 - Robert Sweet, American drummer
1961 - Kassie Wesley, Ky, actress (Evil Dead 2, Blair-One Life to Live)
1961 - Slim MacDonnell, Jim Phantom rock percussionist (Stray Cats)
1961 - Wei Wang, Beijing China, US table tennis player (Olympics-96)
1961 - Shawn Lane, American guitar virtuoso (d. 2003)
1961 - Lothar Matthäus, German footballer
1962 - Matthew Broderick, NYC, actor (WarGames, Biloxi Blues)
1962 - Rosie O'Donnell, comedienne (League of Their Own, Flintstones, Rosie)
1962 - Mark Waid, American comic book writer
1963 - Ronald Koeman, Dutch soccer star (Ajax, PSV, Barcelona, Feyenoord)
1963 - Sharon June Howe Pederson, Glencoe Mn, rocker (Vixen-Rev It Up)
1963 - Shawon Dunston, Brooklyn NY, infielder (SF Giants)
1964 - Ahmed Radhi, Iraqi international football star
1964 - Jesper Skibby, Danish professional cyclist
1965 - Xavier Bertrand, French politician
1966 - Al Iafrate, Dearborn Mich, NHL defenseman (San Jose Sharks)
1966 - Karen Lunn, Cowra Australia, LPGA golfer (1993 Women's British Open)
1966 - Matthew Maynard, cricketer (big hitting Glamorgan & England player)
1967 - Elaina Oden, Orange CA, volleyball middle blocker (Oly-bronze-92, 96)
1967 - Troy Westwood, CFL kicker (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1967 - Jonas "Joker" Berggren, Swedish musician (Ace of Base)
1967 - Adrian Chiles, British television and radio presenter
1967 - Maxim Reality, British MC (The Prodigy)
1968 - Erwin Vanderbroeck, Dutch soccer player (Roda JC)
1968 - Jeff Lazaro, Waltham Mass, US hockey forward (Olympics-1994)
1968 - Johan Garpenlov, Stockholm Swe, NHL left wing (Florida Panthers)
1968 - Mark Sander, WLAF linebacker (Scottish Claymores)
1968 - Samantha Leah Dorman, Lakeland Fla, playmate (Sept, 1991)
1968 - Scott Williams, NBA forward (Phila 76ers)
1968 - DJ Premier (Preemo), hip hop producer
1969 - Jennifer Lyn Jackson, Cleveland Ohio, playmate (April, 1989)
1969 - Mark Allen, Australia, Australasia golfer
1969 - Ali Daei, Iranian footballer
1971 - Hason Graham, NFL wide receiver (NE Patriots)
1972 - (Olympics-silver-1998)
1972 - Boris Mironov, Moscow, NHL defenseman (Team Russia Oly-S-98, Edmonton)
1972 - Chris Ball, Costa Mesa California, kayak (alt-Olympics-96)
1972 - Frank West, CFL defensive back (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1972 - John Leach, CFL running back (Toronto Argonauts)
1972 - Michele Michael, Miss Maryland USA (1996)
1972 - Large Professor, hip hop artist
1972 - Chris Candido, professional wrestler (d. 2005)
1973 - Chiou Hai Ta, Miss Taiwan ROC Universe (1997)
1973 - Larry Bowie, running back (Washington Redskins)
1973 - Ananda Lewis, American model and television personality
1973 - Stuart Nethercott, English footballer
1973 - Jerry Supiran, American actor
1974 - Laura Allen, American actress
1974 - Jose Clayton, Tunisian footballer
1975 - Vitaly Potapenko, NBA center (Cleveland Cavaliers)
1975 - Mark Williams, Welsh snooker player
1978 - Charmaine Dragun, Australian news anchor (d.2007)
1978 - Kevin Federline, American dancer/hip hop artist
1978 - Cristian Guzmán, Dominican baseball player
1978 - Rani Mukherjee, Indian actress
1980 - Ronaldinho Gaucho, Brazilian international footballer
1980 - Marit Bjørgen, Norwegian cross-country skier
1980 - Deryck Whibley, Canadian guitarist and singer (Sum41)
1982 - Colin Turkington, British racing driver
1982 - Aaron Hill, American baseball player
1985 - Adrian Peterson, American Football player
1988 - Lee Cattermole, English footballer
1990 - Mandy Capristo, German Singer (Monrose)
2004 - Count Claus-Casimir of Orange-Nassau, Jonkheer van Amsberg

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 21, 2013, 04:15:13 PM

This Day in History for 21st March


Famous Deaths

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Gangster Al Capone (1921)


1063 - Blessed Richeza of Lotharingia, venerated in Roman Catholicism, wife of King Mieszko II of Poland
1076 - Robert I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1011)
1181 - Taira Kiyomori, Japanese Feudal general (b. 1118)
1306 - Robert II, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1248)
1487 - Nicholas of Flue, Swiss hermit and saint (b. 1417)
1538 - Hugo, earl of Leisnig, governor of Frisia, dies at about 79
1556 - Thomas Cranmer, archbishop of Canterbury, burned at stake at 66
1617 - Pocahontas, Native American, daughter of Powhatan (b. c. 1595)
1652 - Vredius, [Olivier de Wree], Flem historian/mayor (Brugge), dies at 55
1654 - Johann Neukrantz, composer, dies at 51
1656 - Armagh James Ussher, Archbishop (said world began 4004 BC), dies at 76
1676 - Henri Sauval, French historian (b. 1623)
1729 - John Law, Scottish financier, dies at about 57
1734 - Gunther Jacob Wenceslaus, composer, dies at 48
1734 - Robert Wodrow, Scottish historian (b. 1679)
1751 - Johann Heinrich Zedler, German publisher (b. 1706)
1762 - Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, French astronomer (b. 1713)
1768 - Jan J Mauricius, Dutch governor-gen of Suriname (1742-51), dies at 75
1772 - Jacques-Nicolas Bellin, French cartographer (b. 1703)
1793 - Johann Michael Schmidt, composer, dies at 51
1795 - Giovanni Arduino, Italian geologist (b. 1714)
1801 - Andrea Lucchesi, composer, dies at 59
1804 - Louis-Antoine-Henri de Bourbon-Condé, duc d'Enghien (executed) (b. 1772)
1810 - Philippe-Joseph van den Berghe graaf Limmighe, Brabants ships, dies
1843 - Guadalupe Victoria, first President of Mexico (b. 1786)
1843 - Robert Southey, English poet (b. 1774)
1844 - Leopold F J J J van Sassen Ysselt, Dutch politician, dies at 65
1850 - Miguel Pedrorena, American settler
1857 - Abraham J van der Aa, lexicographer (Biograph dictionary), dies at 64
1863 - Edwin Vose Sumner, US Union-general-major (Fair Oaks), dies at 66
1881 - Samuel Courtauld, American-born textile magnate (b. 1793)
1884 - Ezra Abbot, American bible scholar (b. 1819)
1894 - Jacob Rosenhaim, composer, dies at 80
1915 - Frederick Winslow Taylor, American inventor (b. 1856)
1916 - Victor de Stuers, Dutch art expert, dies at 72
1920 - Federigo Tozzi, Ital writer/journalist (Torre, Tre Croci), dies at 37
1921 - "Big Jim" Colisimo, US gangster, murdered by Al Capone
1934 - Franz Schreker, composer, dies at 55
1934 - Lilyan Tashman, actor (Bulldog Drummond), dies at 34
1936 - Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov, composer (Chopiniana), dies at 70
1938 - Oscar Apfel, actor (Inspiration), dies at 60
1939 - Evald Aav, composer, dies at 39
1941 - Robert Liefmann, German economist (Kartelle und Trusts), dies at 67
1945 - J Woortman, Dutch resistance fighter, dies in Bergen-Belsen at 39
1945 - Artur Nebe, German SS officer {b. 1894)
1952 - Wilhelm Albrecht, German SD-chief, executed
1954 - Harry Lawrence Freeman, composer, dies at 84
1955 - Muriel Aked, dies at 67
1958 - Cyril M Kornbluth, US sci-fi writer (Space Merchants), dies at 34
1969 - Gerhart Fritsch, writer, dies at 44
1970 - Marlen Haushofer, writer, dies at 49
1970 - Manolis Chiotis, Greek songwriter and musician (b. 1920)
1973 - Antoni Szalowski, composer, dies at 65
1974 - Candy Darling, [James Slattery], female impersonator, dies
1975 - Berend Giltay, composer, dies at 64
1975 - Ralph Hawtrey, economist (multiplier), dies at 95
1975 - Joe Medwick, baseball player (b. 1911)
1980 - Gideon Fagan, composer, dies at 75
1980 - Peter Stoner, American mathematician, astronomer and Christian apologist (b. 1888)
1982 - Harry H Corbett, Brits actor (Steptoe & Son, Jabberwacky), dies at 57
1984 - Shauna Grant, American actress (suicide) (b. 1963)
1985 - Michael Redgrave, actor (Goodbye Mr Chips, Mr Arkadin), dies at 77
1985 - Salvador Ley, composer, dies at 78
1986 - August de Boodt, Belgian politician, dies at 90
1987 - Dean Paul Martin, actor (Billy-Misfits of Science), dies at 35
1987 - Robert Preston, actor (Harold Hill-Music Man), dies at 68
1989 - Milton Frome, actor (Family Jewels), dies
1991 - Leo Fender, inventor (Fender guitar), dies
1992 - John Ireland, actor (Rawhide), dies of leukemia at 78
1992 - Natalie Sleeth, American composer (b. 1930)
1994 - Dack Rambo, actor (Jack Ewing-Dallas), dies from AIDs at 52
1994 - Lili Damita, wife of Errol Flynn (Bridge of San Luis Rey), dies at 89
1994 - Macdonald Carey, actor (Days of Our Lives), dies of cancer at 81
1995 - Daan Wildschut, Dutch painter/author, dies at 81
1995 - Etienne Martin, French sculptor, dies at 82
1995 - Norman Schwartz, record Producer, dies at 66
1995 - Robert Urquhart, actor (Dunkirk, Bulldog Breed), dies at 72
1996 - Eric Brand, diplomat, dies at 73
1996 - Frank Murray, police Officer, dies at 51
1997 - W. V. Awdry, English children's writer (b. 1911)
1998 - Galina Ulanova, Russian prima ballerina assoluta (b. 1910)
1999 - Ernie Wise, British comedian (b. 1925)
2001 - Chung Ju-yung, Korean industrialist (b. 1915)
2001 - Norma MacMillan, Canadian voice actress (b. 1921)
2001 - Anthony Steel, English actor (b. 1920)
2002 - Herman Talmadge, American politician (b. 1913)
2003 - Umar Wirahadikusumah, Fourth Vice President of Indonesia (b. 1924)
2004 - Ludmilla Tchérina, French ballet dancer and actress (b. 1924)
2005 - Barney Martin, American actor (b. 1923)
2005 - Bobby Short, American singer (b. 1924)
2007 - Drew Hayes, American writer & graphic artist (b. 1969)
2007 - Sven O. Høiby, the father of Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway (b. 1936)
2007 - Kevin Whitrick, first British man to commit suicide on a live chatroom (b. 1964)
2009 - Walt Poddubny, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1960)
2010 - Wolfgang Wagner, German opera director (b. 1919)
2011 - Loleatta Holloway, American singer (b. 1946)
2011 - Gerd Klier, German footballer (b. 1944)
2011 - Ladislav Novák, Czech footballer (b. 1931)
2011 - Pinetop Perkins, Member of the Blues Hall of Fame (b. 1913)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 22, 2013, 09:21:53 AM

This Day in History for 22nd March


Historical Events

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US President Thomas Jefferson         Pacifist and Spiritual Leader Gandhi        Singer & Actress Barbra Streisand


238 - Gordian I and his son Gordian II are proclaimed Roman emperor.
752 - Stephen II elected Catholic Pope (or 23rd)
1349 - Townspeople of Fulda Germany massacre Jews (blamed for black death)
1457 - Gutenberg Bible became the 1st printed book
1556 - Cardinal Reginald Pole becomes archbishop of Canterbury
1594 - French King Henri IV festival in Paris
1621 - Hugo de Grote escapes in bookcase from Loevenstein castle, Neth
1622 - 1st American Indian (Powhattan) massacre of whites Jamestown Virginia, 347 slain
1630 - 1st colonial legislation prohibiting gambling enacted (Boston)
1638 - Religious dissident Anne Hutchinson expelled from Mass Bay Colony
1680 - Parliament of Breisach accept French sovereignty over Elzas
1692 - Emperor Leopold I names duke Earnest August of Braunschweig, king
1733 - Joseph Priestly invents carbonated water (seltzer)
1765 - Stamp Act passed; 1st direct British tax on colonists
1775 - Edmund Burke presents his 13 articles to the English parliament
1778 - Capt Cook sights Cape Flattery, in Washington state
1784 - The Emerald Buddha is moved with great ceremony to its current place in Wat Phra Kaew,
           Thailand.
1790 - Thomas Jefferson becomes the 1st US Secretary of State
1794 - Congress bans US vessels from supplying slaves to other countries
1809 - Charles XIII succeeds Gustav IV Adolf to the Swedish throne.
1822 - NY Horticultural Society founded
1829 - The three protecting powers (Britain, France and Russia) establish the borders of Greece.
1841 - Cornstarch patented (Orlando Jones)
1861 - 1st US nursing school chartered
1862 - San Marino & Italy conclude treaty of friendship & cooperation
1865 - Raid at Wilson's: Chickaswas AL to Macon GA
1871 - William Holden of NC becomes 1st governor removed by impeachment
1872 - Illinois becomes 1st state to require sexual equality in employment
1873 - Slavery is abolished in Puerto Rico
1874 - Young Men's Hebrew Association organizes in NYC
1882 - Edmunds Act adopted by the US to suppress polygamy, 1300 men later imprisoned under
           the act
1888 - English Football League established
1894 - Stanley Cup: Mont AAA beat Ottawa Generals, 3-1 (1st Cup game ever)
1895 - Auguste & Louis Lumiere show their 1st movie to an invited audience
1896 - Charilaos Vasilakos wins 1st marathon (3:18)
1903 - NY Highlanders (Yankees) tickets 1st go on sale
1903 - Niagera Falls runs out of water because of a drought
1914 - World's 1st airline, St Petersburg Tampa Airboat Line, begins
1922 - British court sentences Mahatma Gandhi to 6 years in prison
1923 - The first radio broadcast of ice hockey is made by Foster Hewitt.
1927 - Federico Garcia Lorca's "El Maleficio," premieres in Madrid
1928 - Noel Coward's musical "This Year of Grace," premieres in London
1929 - 66 horses run in Irish Grand National Sweepstakes
1929 - KIT-AM in Yakima WA begins radio transmissions
1929 - USCG vessel sank Canadian schooner suspected of carrying liquor
1933 - FDR makes wine & beer with up to 3.2% alcohol legal
1934 - 1st Masters golf championship began in Augusta, Ga
1934 - Fire destroys Hakodate Japan (kills 1,500, injures 1,000)
1935 - Blood tests authorized as evidence in court cases (NY)
1939 - Lithuania state, forced to give Memel territory to Germany
1941 - Grand Coulee Dam in Washington goes into operation
1942 - Heavy German assault on Malta
1943 - Dutch work week extended to 54 hour
1943 - Obligatory work for woman ends in Belgium
1943 - SS police chief Rauter threatens to kill half Jewish children
1944 - 600+ 8th Air Force bombers attack Berlin
1945 - Arab League forms with adoption of a charter in Cairo Egypt
1945 - US 3rd Army crosses Rhine at Nierstein
1946 - 1st US rocket to leave the Earth's atmosphere (50 miles up)
1946 - Britain signs treaty granting independence to Jordan
1947 - President Harry Truman signs executive order calling for loyalty
1952 - Dutch DC-6 crashes near Frankfurt, killing 44
1953 - AntonínZápotockýchosen as president of Czechoslovakia
1953 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Betsy Rawls Golf Open
1954 - 1st shopping mall opened in Southfield, Mich
1954 - Closed since 1939, the London bullion market reopens.
1956 - "Mr Wonderful" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 383 performances
1956 - Death penalty against KPM-director Leon Jungschlaeger
1956 - Musical "Mr Wonderful" with Sammy Davis Jr premieres in NYC
1957 - Earthquake gives SF shakes
1957 - Republic of India adopts Saka calendar along with Gregorian
1958 - 20th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Seattle 84-72
1958 - Faisal succeeds Saudi as king of Saudi-Arabia
1958 - Liz Taylor's 3rd divorce (Mike Todd)
1958 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1959 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Nehi Golf Tournament
1960 - 1st patent for lasers, granted to Arthur Schawlow & Charles Townes
1960 - AL Schawlow & C H Townes obtain patent for the laser
1962 - "I Can Get It For You Wholesale" opens at Shubert NYC for 300 perfs
1963 - Beatles release 1st album, "Please Please Me"
1963 - Brit Min of War John Profumo denies having sex with Christine Keeler
1963 - Oregon State's Terry Baker becomes 1st & only Heisman Trophy winner
1964 - Barbra Streisand appears on the cover of NY Times Magazine section
1964 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open Invitational
1965 - D Senanayake wins general elections in Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
1965 - US confirms its troops used chemical warfare against the Vietcong
1967 - Muhammad Ali KOs Zora Folley in 7 for heavyweight boxing title
1968 - Jarmila Novotna resigns presidency of Czechoslovakia
1968 - Lynda Johnson ordered off SF cable car for eating an ice cream cone
1968 - Student riot in Nanterre near Paris
1969 - "Billy" opens & closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC after 1 performance
1969 - "Come Summer" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 7 performances
1969 - 31st NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Purdue 92-72 UCLA wins its 5th
           national championship in 6 years
1970 - "Blood Red Roses" opens & closes at John Golden Theater NYC
1970 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic
1971 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1972 - "Selling of the President" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 5 perfs
1972 - Congress approves Equal Rights Amendment (never ratified)
1972 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar named NBA MVP
1972 - Nick Mileti purchases Cleve Indians for $9 million
1972 - Yankees trade Danny Cater to the Red Sox for Sparky Lyle
1975 - "Dinge-competed" wins Eurovisie Song festival
1975 - "Dr Jazz" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 5 performances
1975 - "Letter for Queen Victoria" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 18 perfs
1975 - Delta State beats Immaculata for the women's AIAW championship
1975 - Teach-In wins Eurovision Song Festival with "Dinge-Dong"
1975 - Walt Disney World Shopping Village opens
1975 - A fire at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant in Decatur, Alabama causes dangerous
           lowering of cooling water levels.
1977 - Dutch Den Uyl government falls
1977 - Indira Gandhi resigns as PM of India
1977 - Uyl government falls
1978 - France performs nuclear test
1978 - Robert Frost Plaza, at California, Drumm & Market, SF, dedicated
1978 - Rutle's "All You Need is Cash" is show on NBC-TV
1978 - Karl Wallenda of the The Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope between two
           hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
1979 - Israeli parliament approves peace treaty with Egypt
1979 - NHL votes to accept 4 WHA teams (Oilers, Jets, Nordiques & Whalers)
1981 - 1st class postage raised to 18 cents from 15 cents
1981 - Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Desert Inn Pro-Am Golf Tournament
1981 - Soyuz 39 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Mongolian) to Salyut 6
1981 - Toshihiko Seko runs world record 25k (1:13:55.8 )/30k (1:29:18.8 )
1982 - 3rd Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 3 launched
1982 - Iran offensive against Iraq
1983 - Chaim Herzog elected Israeli president
1984 - Islander Bryan Trottier ties NHL rec scores 5 seconds into game
1984 - Teachers at the McMartin preschool in Manhattan Beach, California are charged with Satanic
           ritual abuse of the children in the school. The charges are later dropped as completely
           unfounded.
1985 - NASA launches Intelsat VA
1986 - Ehrig skates ladies world record 5 km (7:20.99)
1986 - HBO launches boxing's heavyweight-title-unification-tournament
1986 - Heart's "These Dreams," single goes #1
1986 - Ice Pairs Championship at Geneva won by Gordeeva & Grinkov (URS)
1986 - Kania skates ladies world record 1500m (1:59.30)
1986 - Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Debi Thomas (USA)
1986 - Trevor Berbick beats Pinklon Thomas in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1987 - Betsy King wins LPGA Circle K Tucson Golf Open
1988 - Congress overrides Reagan's veto of sweeping civil rights bill
1988 - WA beat Queensland by 5 wkts to win the Sheffield Shield Final
1989 - Pete Rozelle announces retirement as NFL commissioner after 29 years
1989 - US Supreme Court upholds 1 person 1 vote rule of NYC Board of Estimate
1989 - Clint Malarchuk of the Buffalo Sabres suffers a near-fatal injury when another player
           accidentally slits his throat.
1990 - "Grapes of Wrath" opens at Cort Theater NYC for 188 performances
1990 - "Les Miserables," opens at Shunert Theatre, Boston
1990 - Anchorage jury finds Capt Hazelwood innocent of Valdez oil spill
1990 - The ML umpires announce that they will boycott exhibition games
1991 - Law enforcement officers raid fraternities at U of Va seizing drugs
1991 - NY Daily News begins using motto "Forward with NY"
1991 - Pamela Smart (HS teacher) found guilty in NH of manipulating her student-lover to kill her
           husband
1992 - "Private Lives" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 37 performances
1992 - Danielle Ammaccapane wins Standard Register Ping Golf Championship
1992 - England beat South Africa in rain-ruined cricket World Cup semi final
1992 - Joseph A Molloy elected NY Yankee general partner
1992 - US Air NY to Cleveland crashes on take off at LaGuardia, 27 die
1993 - Intel introduces Pentium-processor (80586) 64 bits-60 MHz-100+ MIPS
1994 - Dutch Ambassador to US christens a new tulip (the Hillary Clinton)
1994 - Mark Foster swims world record 50m butterfly (23.68 sec)
1994 - South African government/ANC take power in Ciskei homeland
1994 - Soyuz TM-21 lands
1995 - Deputy Gov of Bank of England, Rupert Pennant-Rea, resigns following revelations of his
           affair with a freelance journalist
1996 - Cheryl Depew, of Florida, crowned 13th Miss Hawaiian Tropic Intl
1996 - STS 76 (Atlantis 16), launches into orbit
1997 - "Sunset Boulevard," closes at Minskoff NYC after 977 performances
1997 - Comet Hale-Bopp Closest Approach to Earth (1.315 AU)
1997 - Ladies Fig Skating Championship in Lausanne won by Tara Lipinski (USA)
2004 - Ahmed Yassin, co-founder and leader of the Palestinian Sunni Islamist militant group Hamas,
           and bodyguards are killed in the Gaza Strip when hit by Israeli Air Force AH-64 Apache fired
           Hellfire missiles.
2006 - ETA, armed Basque separatist group, declares permanent ceasefire.
2006 - BC Ferries' M/V Queen of the North runs aground on Gil Island British Columbia and sinks;
           101 on board, 2 presumed deaths.
2006 - Three Christian Peacemaker Teams Hostages are freed by British forces in Baghdad after 118
           days captivity and the death of their colleague, American Tom Fox.
2008 - The French Swimmer Alain Bernard sets the world record of 47.50 for the 100 m freestyle
           long course after winning the European LC Championships 2008.
2009 - Mount Redoubt, a volcano in Alaska began erupting after a prolonged period of unrest.
2012 - Largest protest in Quebec's history occurs in Montreal with over 200,000 people marching
           against government tuition hikes and for free access to post-secondary education
2012 - Australia's most wanted man, Malcolm Naden, is captured after seven years on the run in
           Gloucester, New South Wales
2012 - Massive fire devours thousands of hectares of ancient forests and threatens wildlife on Mount
           Kenya

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 22, 2013, 10:50:52 AM

This Day in History for 22nd March


Famous Weddings

1916 - British writer ('Lord of the Rings'), poet and professor J.R.R. (John Ronald Reuel) Tolkien
           marries Edith Mary Bratt at St. Mary Immaculate Roman Catholic Church, Warwick
1992 - Record producer Lou Adler weds Paige Hannah (Daryl's sister)
2009 - "The Wonder Years" actress Danica McKellar (36) weds composer Mike Verta (36) at St.
           James by the Sea Episcopal Church in La Jolla, California

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 22, 2013, 11:01:51 AM

This Day in History for 22nd March


Famous Divorces

1958 - Liz Taylor's 3rd divorce (Mike Todd)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 22, 2013, 11:45:09 AM

This Day in History for 22nd March


Famous Birthdays

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Actor William Shatner (1931)        Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber (1948)        Actress Reese Witherspoon (1976)


841 - Bernard Plantapilosa, Count of Auvergne (d. 885)
1212 - Emperor Go-Horikawa of Japan (d. 1235)
1366 - Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, English politician (d. 1399)
1459 - Maximilian I of Habsburg, German Emperor/archduke of Austria
1503 - Antonio Francesco Grazzini, Italian writer (d. 1583)
1599 - Anthony Van Dyck, Flemish painter (Charles I of England)
1609 - John II Casimir Vasa, cardinal/king of Poland (1648-68)
1663 - August Hermann Francke, German Protestant minister (d. 1727)
1700 - Giuseppe Sellitto, composer
1712 - Edward Moore, English writer (d. 1757)
1720 - Nicolas-Henri Jardin, French architect (d. 1799)
1723 - Charles Carroll, American statesman (d. 1783)
1728 - Anton Raphael Mengs, German writer/neo-classic painter
1728 - Giacomo Insanguine, composer
1752 - Johann Georg Joseph Spangler, composer
1759 - Hedwig Elizabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp, Queen of Sweden and Norway (d. 1818)
1767 - Cornelis T Elout, Dutch minister of Finance
1771 - Heinrich D Zschokke, Swiss author (Das Goldmacherdorf)
1797 - Kaiser Wilhelm I, German emperor (1871-88)
1799 - F W A Argelander, Memel E Prussia, cataloguer of 324,188 stars
1803 - Anthonie Waldrop, Dutch painter/lithographer
1812 - Stephen Pearl Andrews, American abolitionist (d. 1886)
1813 - Gabriel Rene Paul, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1886
1814 - Thomas Crawford, US sculptor (Babes in the Wood)
1817 - Braxton Bragg, Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1876
1818 - John Ainsworth Horrocks, English-born explorer of South Australia (d. 1846)
1819 - William Wirt Adams, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1888
1822 - Ahmed Djevdet Pasha, Turkish minister of Education/Justice
1822 - Isaac D Fransen van de Putte, Dutch premier (1866)
1822 - Seth Williams, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1866
1824 - William Henry Chase Whiting, Major General (Confederate Army)
1834 - Francis Asbury Shoup, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1896
1842 - Carl A N Rosa, German violinist/composer
1842 - Mykola Vytal'yevich Lysenko, composer
1846 - Randolph Caldecott, England, illustrator (Caldecott Medal namesake)
1852 - Theodor Birt, [Beatus Rhenanus], German classical/writer
1857 - Arnold Sauwen, Flemish poet (Along the Meuse)
1857 - Paul Doumer, gov-genl of Indo-China/13th Pres of France (1931-32)
1860 - Alfred Ploetz, German physician (d. 1940)
1865 - Theophile Ysaye, composer
1866 - Jack Boyle, American baseball player (d. 1913)
1867 - Meijer Linnewiel, [Prof Kokadorus], Amsterdam's pitchman
1868 - Hamish MacCunn, composer
1868 - Henry W Methorst, lawyer/director (Dutch Cent Bureau of Statistics)
1868 - Robert A Millikan, US physicist (photoelectric effect; Nobel 1923)
1869 - Emilio Aguinaldo, first President of the Philippines (d. 1964)
1874 - Ellen Glasgow, novelist
1878 - Michel Théato, Luxembourgian athlete (d. 1919)
1880 - Ernie Quigley, Canadian-American sports official (d. 1960)
1885 - Adriano Lualdi, composer
1885 - Jakabs Medins, composer
1885 - Aryeh Levin, Orthodox Jewish rabbi
1887 - Chico Marx, [Leonard Martin], NYC, comedian (Marx Brothers)
1896 - Joseph Schildkraut, Vienna Austria, actor (Joseph Schildkraut Presents, Diary of Anne Frank))
1896 - Giulia D De Albertis, writer
1896 - He Long, Chinese marshal (d. 1969)
1901 - Greta Kempton, American artist (d. 1991)
1902 - Ellin Berlin, [MacKay], Mrs Irving Berlin, writer (Lace Curtain)
1903 - James S Russell, US pilot/admiral (WW II Pacific Ocean)
1903 - Jochen Klepper, writer
1905 - Carlo Alberto Pizzini, composer
1905 - Grigorij M Kosinzev, Russian director
1905 - Phyllis McGinley, poet
1905 - Ruth Page, US choreographer/ballet leader (Diaghilev, Pygmalion)
1907 - James Gavin, US, 82nd Airborne Div General (Sicily/Normandy)
1907 - Paul J Steenbergen, Neth, actor (Ciske Rat)/founder (Hague's Comedy)
1907 - Lúcia Santos, Portuguese nun (d. 2005)
1908 - Albrecht Goes, writer
1908 - Louis D L'Amour, Jamestown ND, author (Hondo, Jubal Sackett)
1908 - Maurice H Stans, Shakope Minn, Secretary of Commerce (1969-72)
1909 - Gabrielle Roy, French-Canadian novelist (Tin Flute)
1909 - Jack Popplewell, composer/playwright
1910 - Nicholas Monsarret, England, writer (Cruel Sea)
1912 - Henri Rousselot, admiral
1912 - Lord Alport
1912 - Wilfrid Brambell, Dublin Ireland, actor (Hard Day's Night)
1912 - Karl Malden, Chicago, actor (Mike-Streets of SF, American Express)
1913 - James Westerfield, Nashville TN, actor (Jungle Heat, Lucky Johnny)
1913 - Tom McCall, Governor of Oregon (d. 1983)
1913 - Lew Wasserman, American film studio executive (d. 2002)
1914 - Cec Burke, cricketer (NZ leg-spinner v Australia 1946, 1 & 3, 2-30)
1914 - Lord Stokes
1914 - Masao Maruyama, social scientist
1915 - Forest Sagendorf, cartoonist
1915 - George Cresswell, cricketer (3 Tests for NZ aged 35)
1915 - Georgiy Zhzhonov, Russian actor and writer (d. 2005)
1916 - George Wyle, NYC, orchestra leader (Jerry Lewis Show, Flip Wilson Show)
1916 - Josephine van Gasteren, Dutch actress/director (Bluejackets)
1917 - C S Pick, publisher
1917 - Virginia Grey, LA, actress (Another Thin Man, Idiot's Delight, Idaho)
1918 - Cheddi B Jagan, dentist/founder PPP/Guyanese Premier (1953, 1957-64)
1918 - Harry Kay, vice-chancellor (Exeter U)
1918 - Tauno Kullerve Pylkkanen, composer
1920 - Fanny Waterman, concert pianist & teacher
1920 - Ross Martin, Grodek Poland, actor (Mr Lucky, Wild Wild West)
1921 - Wilhelmus Norbert Schmelzer, Netherland, foreign minister (KVP)
1921 - Nino Manfredi, Italian actor (d. 2004)
1922 - Mujib ur-Rahman, Pakistan, sheik/premier
1922 - Stewart Stern, screenwriter (Rebel Without A Cause)
1923 - Bryan Clieve Roberts, lawyer/civil servant
1923 - Cor N van Dis Jr, Dutch MP (SGP, 1971-94)
1923 - Marcel Marceau, Strasbourg France, mime (Barbarella, Silent Movie)
1924 - Al Neuharth, newspaper founder (USA Today)
1924 - Bill Wendell, NYC, TV announcer (Late Night With David Letterman)
1924 - Paul Fussell, Pasadena, California, historian (The Great War and Modern Memory), (d. 2012)
1925 - Colin Spedding, CEO (Council of Science & Technology Institutes)
1926 - Julius Marmur, biochemist/geneticist
1926 - Lawrence Jackson, Provost Emeritus (Blackburn)
1927 - George Thoms, cricketer (1 Test Aust against WI 1952, scored 16 & 28)
1927 - Mstislav Rostropovich, composer [3/12 OS]
1927 - Viscount Bolingbroke
1928 - Betty Callaway, figure skating trainer
1928 - Bill Archer, (Rep-R-TX, 1971- )
1928 - DC Ingman, CEO (British Waterways Board
1928 - Dmitri Antonovitch Volkogonov, soldier/historian
1928 - Ed Macauley, NBAer (Boston Celtics)
1928 - Carrie Donovan, American fashion editor (d. 2001)
1928 - E.D. Hirsch. American social commentator
1930 - Derek Bok, college president (Harvard)
1930 - Lynden O Pindling, PM of Bahamas (1967-92)
1930 - Pat Robertson, televangelist (700 club, Pres candidate-R-1989)
1930 - Stephen Sondheim, NYC, lyricist (West Side Story, Company)
1930 - Derek Bok, American lawyer and educator
1931 - Igor Hajek, translator/writer
1931 - Leslie Thomas, author
1931 - William Shatner, Montreal Canada, actor (Star Trek, T J Hooker)
1932 - Richard Thomas, admiral
1933 - Buddy MacKay, (Rep-D-FL, 1983- )
1933 - Chris Duckworth, cricketer (South African batsman v England 1956-57)
1933 - Abolhassan Banisadr, former President of Iran
1933 - May Britt, Swedish actress
1934 - Leslie Turnberg, president (Royal College of Physicians)
1934 - Orrin G Hatch, (Sen-R-UT, 1977- )
1934 - Sheila Cameron, QC, Vicar-General (Province of Canterbury)
1934 - Larry Martyn, English comedy actor (d. 1994)
1935 - M[ichael] Emmet Walsh, Ogdensburg NY, actor (Wildcats, War Party)
1936 - Alan Bleasdale, author/playwright (Are You Lonesome Tonight)
1936 - May Britt, Sweden, actress (Young Lions)/wife of Sammy Davis Jr
1936 - Philip Ely, president (British Law Society)
1936 - Roger Whittaker, Nairobi Kenya, country singer (Durham Town)
1936 - Ron Carey, American labor leader (Teamsters)
1937 - Jon Hassell, composer
1937 - Angelo Badalamenti, American composer
1937 - Armin Hary, German athlete
1938 - Vivian Pulliam, horse trainer
1940 - William Ritchie, vice-chancellor (Lancaster U)
1940 - Haing S. Ngor, Cambodian/American actor (d. 1996)
1940 - Jorge Ben Jor, Brazilian musician
1941 - Bruno Ganz, Zurich Switzerland, actor (Strapless, Wings of Desire)
1941 - Gary Lewis, horse trainer
1941 - Billy Collins, American poet
1942 - Jon Arthur English, composer
1942 - Bernd Herzsprung, German actor
1942 - Dick Pound, Canadian chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency
1943 - George Benson, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, American jazz/blues singer/guitarist (Greatest Love
           of All)
1943 - Joseph Schwantner, composer
1943 - Keith Reif, England, rocker (Yardbirds-For Your Love, Renaissance)
1944 - Jeremy Clyde, rocker
1944 - R P Mardling, headmaster (Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield)
1944 - T S "Tony" McPhee, rocker (Sad Go Round)
1945 - Alan Opie, baritone (Boughton Bethlehem, Britten 5 Canticles)
1945 - Charles "Chuck" Jackson, US singer (Playboy, Independents)
1945 - Jeremy Clyde, England, rocker (Chad & Jeremy-Yesterday's Gone)
1946 - Don Chaney, NBA player (Houston Rockets)/coach (Detroit Pistons)
1946 - Laraine Ashton, fashion models' agent (London)
1946 - Rudy/Rudolf [von Bittner] Rucker, US, sci-fi author (Wetware)
1946 - Serge, [Ruud Schaap], Dutch singer/guitarist (Saskia & Serge)
1947 - Harry Vanda, [Vandenberg], Hague Neth, rock guitarist (Easybeats)
1947 - Patrick Olive, percussionist (Hot Chocolate-You Sexy Thing)
1947 - Priscilla Yates, director (Royal Academy of Dancing)
1948 - Andrew Lloyd Webber, London, composer (Phantom of the Opera, Cats)
1948 - Randy Hobbs, rocker (Johnny Winter Band, McCoys)
1948 - Wolf Blitzer, American television journalist
1949 - Brian Hanrahan, British TV newsman (BBC)
1949 - D Watson, director (Brighton U)
1949 - Fanny Ardant, Monte Carlo, actress (Australia, Confidentially Yours)
1949 - Fran Sheehan, Boston Mass, rock bassist (Boston-More than a Feeling)
1950 - Jocky Wilson, Scottish darts player (world champion 1982, 1989), (d. 2012)
1951 - Howard Reitzes, Southgate Ca, rocker (Iron Butterfly)
1951 - Musa Khiramanovich Manarov, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-4, TM-11)
1952 - Bob Costas, Queens NY, sportscaster/talk show host (Later)
1952 - Jay Dee Daugherty, American drummer
1953 - Thomas H Andrews, (Rep-D-Maine)
1955 - Valdis Zatlers, 7th President of Latvia
1955 - Pete Sessions, American politician
1956 - Lena Olin, Stockholm Sweden, actress (Enemies A Love Story)
1956 - Lyndsay Stephen, Donnybrook WA, Australasia golfer
1956 - Generosa Ammon, widow of Ted Ammon (d. 2003)
1957 - Stephanie Mills, singer/actress (Wiz)
1958 - Joyce Lester, Australian softball catcher (Olympics-bronze-96)
1958 - Pete Wylie, Liverpool, rocker (Sinful)
1958 - Laurie David, American political activist
1959 - Matthew Modine, Loma Linda Cal, actor (Full Metal Jacket)
1959 - Carlton Cuse, Mexican-born American TV writer and executive
1959 - Avraham Fried, Orthodox Jewish Musician
1960 - Laurie Sargent, rock vocalist (Face To Face)
1962 - Diane Pavich, Melbourne Aust, golfer (1993 T50 Alpine Aust Ladies)
1962 - Juan Aguilera, Spain, tennis star
1962 - Tim Elliott, Perth WA, Australasia golfer
1963 - Hannu Virta, Turku FIN, hockey defenseman (Team Finland)
1963 - Rich Monteleone, Tampa FL, pitcher (California Angels)
1963 - Suzanne Sulley, Sheffield S Yorks, rocker (Human Leauge-Human)
1964 - Jeffrey Wagner, Sydney NSW, Australasia golfer
1965 - Emma Wray, English actress
1966 - Brad Edwards, NFL safety (Atlanta Falcons)
1966 - Brian Shaw, NBA guard (Orlando Magic, SF Warriors)
1966 - Sean Berry, Santa Monica CA, infielder (Houston Astros)
1966 - Todd Ewen, Saskatoon, NHL right wing (Anaheim Mighty Ducks)
1966 - Yahya Ayyash, militant
1966 - Artis Pabriks, Latvian politician
1967 - Mario Cipollini, Italian cyclist
1968 - Ramon Martinez, Santo Domingo Dom Rep, pitcher (LA Dodgers)
1968 - Euronymous, Norwegian black metal musician (d. 1993)
1969 - Darrell Russell, defensive tackle (Oakland Raiders)
1969 - Russell Maryland, NFL defensive tackle (Dallas Cowboys, Oak Raiders)
1970 - Jason Rouser, Tucson Arizona, 200m/400m runner
1970 - Travis Richards, Crystal Minn, US hockey defenseman (Olympics-1994)
1970 - Andreas Johnson, Swedish singer
1970 - Leontien van Moorsel, Dutch cyclist
1971 - Richard Castillo, jockey
1971 - Will Yun Lee, American actor
1972 - Elvis Stojko, Richmond Hill Ontario, (Oly-silver-94)
1972 - John Farquhar, tight end (New Orleans Saints)
1972 - Mikhail Sloutsky, WLAF LB (Scotland Claymores)
1972 - Pieter Christiaan, Prince of Netherlands
1972 - Shawn Bradley, NBA center (Dallas Mavericks, NJ Nets, Space Jams)
1973 - Dax Griffin, KS, actor (Tim Truman-Sunset Beach)
1973 - Joe Nedney, kicker (Arizona Cardinals)
1973 - Luther Elliss, NFL defensive end (Detroit Lions)
1973 - Beverley Knight, English singer
1974 - Kim Yun-Jung, Miss Universe-Korea (1996)
1974 - Marcus Camby, NBA forward (Toronto Raptors)
1974 - Tuomas Gronman, NHL defenseman (Team Finland Oly-Bronze-1998, Pitts)
1974 - Philippe Clement, Belgian footballer
1974 - Kidada Jones, American actress
1975 - Chris Bayne, safety (Atlanta Falcons)
1975 - Jiri Novak, Czechostovakia, tennis star
1976 - Kellie Shanygne Williams, Wash DC, actress (Laura-Family Matters)
1976 - Reese Witherspoon, American actress
1977 - Joey Porter, American football player
1978 - Tom Poti, professional hockey player
1979 - Mariah Leanne Bergmann, Miss Kansas Teen USA (1997)
1979 - Aaron North, American musician
1979 - Juan Uribe, Dominican baseball player
1980 - Pamela O'Connor, Scottish ice dancer
1980 - Shannon Bex, American singer (Danity Kane)
1981 - MIMS, American rapper
1985 - Mike Jenkins, American football player
1988 - Tania Raymonde, American actress
1990 - Eugenie, Princess of Britain
1992 - Luke Freeman, English footballer
1993 - Mick Hazen , American actor
2233 - James T Kirk, science fiction captain of USS Enterprise (Star Trek)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 22, 2013, 11:51:03 AM

This Day in History for 22nd March


Famous Deaths

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Animator William Hanna (2001)


337 - Constantine, Emperor of Rome, dies at 47
1322 - Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster, English politician (b. 1278)
1418 - Dietrich of Nieheim, German historian
1421 - Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence, second son of Henry IV of England (killed in
           battle) (b. 1388)
1471 - George van Podiebrad, king of Bohemia (1458-71), dies
1544 - Johannes Magnus, last Catholic Archbishop of Sweden (b. 1488)
1589 - Lodovico Guicciardini, Ital historian, dies at 67
1602 - Agostino Carracci, Italian artist (b. 1557)
1627 - Cornelis van Aerssen, Flemish Clerk of the House, dies at about 81
1639 - Thomas Carew, English poet/diplomat (The Rapture), dies
1661 - Hendrick Uylenburgh, art dealer, buried at about 73
1685 - Emperor Go-Sai of Japan (b. 1638)
1743 - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Ital/Fr composer (Forced Marriage), dies at 77
1758 - Jonathan Edwards, theologian/philosopher (Original Sin), dies at 54
1758 - Richard Leveridge, English bass and composer (b. 1670)
1772 - John Canton, English physicist (b. 1718)
1777 - John Bartram, father of American botany, dies at 77
1796 - Gaspare Gabellone, composer, dies at 68
1798 - Justin Morgan, composer, dies at 51
1820 - Stephen Decatur, killed in a duel with Com James Barron at 41
1824 - Johann Melchior Dreyer, composer, dies at 76
1832 - J W Goethe, writer, dies at 82
1838 - Hendrik Fagel, Dutch/English baron, dies at 73
1840 - Étienne Bobillier, French mathematician (b. 1798)
1845 - Franz Joseph Volkert, composer, dies at 67
1867 - Ferdinando Giorgetti, composer, dies at 70
1871 - Johnny Cuzens, cricketer (Australian aboriginal tourist 1868), dies
1890 - Desire de Haerne, Belgian priest/Congressional leader, dies at 85
1906 - Martin Wegelius, Finnish musicologist/composer, dies at 59
1909 - Gyula Erkel, composer, dies at 66
1913 - Sung Chiao-jen, Chinese Nationalist (b. 1882)
1922 - Louis A Ranvier, French anatomist/historian, dies at 86
1923 - Theophile Delcasse, French statesman, dies at 71
1924 - R G Nivelle, French general (Verdun), dies at 67
1929 - Anton Beer-Walbrun, composer, dies at 64
1931 - Ban Johnson, founder of baseball's American League, dies at 67
1934 - Theophilos Hatzimihail, Greek painter (b. 1870)
1944 - ... Pucheu, French Internal minister to Vichy, executed
1945 - J Postuma, Dutch resistance fighter, dies
1946 - Clemens A von Galen, bishop of Munster/anti fascist, dies at 68
1951 - J Willem Mengelberg, Dutch conductor (Mattheus Passion), dies at 79
1952 - Uncle Dave Macon, American musician (b. 1870)
1953 - James Anderson II, (Jo-Northern Exposure), dies
1955 - Ivan Šubašić, Kingdom of Yugoslavia prime minister and last ban of Croatia (b. 1892)
1956 - George A L Sarton, Belgian/US historian, dies at 71
1958 - Michael Todd, producer (Around the World in 80 Days), dies at 56
1960 - José Antonio Aguirre, Basque politician (b. 1904)
1962 - Aura Abranches, Port actress (Lisboa, O Primo Basilio), dies at 65
1964 - Addison Richards, actor (Col-Pentagon), dies at 76
1969 - Ernst Deutsch, [Dorian], Czech actor (3rd Man, Golem), dies at 78
1971 - Martin Bodmer, writer, dies
1974 - Peter Revson, US race car driver (Indianapolis 500), dies at 35
1975 - Asa Smith Bushnell Jr, Sec of US Olympics (1945-65), dies at 75
1975 - Cass Daley, actress (Red Garters), dies at 59
1975 - Paul Verhoeven, German director dies at 73
1977 - A.K. Gopalan, Indian communist leader (b. 1904)
1978 - Karl Wallenda, falls to death walking high-wire in PR at 73
1979 - Ben Lyon, actor (I Cover the Waterfront, Indiscreet), dies at 78
1981 - James "Jumbo" Elliott, American track coach (b. 1915)
1986 - Charles Starrett, actor (Silver Streak, Jungle Bride), dies
1986 - Mark Dinning, American singer (b. 1933)
1987 - Joan Shawlee, actress (Abbott & Costello Show), dies at 58
1990 - Gerald Bull, Canadian engineer (b. 1928)
1991 - Gloria Holden, actress (Dracula's Daughter, Test Pilot), dies at 73
1991 - Léon Balcer, French Canadian politician (b. 1917)
1991 - Dave Guard, American folk singer (The Kingston Trio) (b. 1934)
1993 - Cec Pepper, cricketer (NSW & Commonwealth XI leggie), dies
1993 - Gret Palucca, German dancer/choreographer (Entartet), dies at 91
1993 - Phia [Sophia R] Berghout, Dutch harpist, dies at 83
1993 - Steve Olin, pitcher (Cleve Indians), drowns at 27
1993 - Tim Crews, pitcher (Cleve Indians), drowns at 31
1994 - Dan Hartman, US singer/songwriter (Love Sensations), dies at 42
1994 - Igor Aleinikov, Russian director (tractors, air crash), dies at 32
1994 - Luther Diamond, radio Personality, dies at 89
1994 - Walter Lantz, US cartoonist (Woody Woodpecker), dies at 93
1995 - Peter Woods, newsreader, dies at 64
1996 - Claude Mauriac, writer, dies at 81
1996 - Robert Franklin Overmyer, astronaut (STS 5, STS 51-B), dies at 59
1996 - Robert Mellors, gay activist, dies at 47
1996 - Ronald George Hayward, political manager, dies at 78
1996 - Don Murray, American musician (The Turtles) (b. 1945)
1999 - David Strickland, American actor (b. 1969)
2001 - William Hanna, American animator and studio founder, dies at 90
2003 - Terry Lloyd, English reporter (b. 1952)
2004 - Ahmed Yassin, Palestinian co-founder of Hamas (b. ca. 1937)
2005 - Kenzo Tange, Japanese architect (b. 1913)
2006 - Pierre Clostermann, French World War II pilot (b. 1921)
2006 - Kurt von Trojan, Australian science fiction author (b. 1937)
2007 - Uppaluri Gopala Krishnamurti, Indian philosopher (b. 1918)
2008 - Cachao López, Cuban mambo musician (b. 1918)
2009 - Leon Walker, Wakefield Wildcats Rugby Player (b. 1988)
2009 - Jade Goody, Reality TV Star and Entrepreneur
2010 - James W. Black, Scottish Nobel Prize-winning doctor and medical research scientist (b. 1924)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 23, 2013, 12:07:11 PM

This Day in History for 23rd March


Historical Events

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Composer George Friedrich Handel          Naturalist Charles Darwin                   Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini

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Dictator of Nazi Germany                        Motorcycle Daredevil Robert                   Artist & Musician Yoko Ono
Adolph Hitler

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US President & Actor                             Radio shock jock Howard Stern                   NHL all-time top scorer
Ronald Reagan                                                                                                            Wayne Gretzky


1026 - Koenraad II crowns himself king of Italy
1066 - 18th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
1153 - Treaty of Konstanz between Frederik I "Barbarossa" & Pope Eugene III
1174 - Jocelin, abbot of Melrose, is elected bishop of Glasgow.
1490 - 1st dated edition of Maimonides "Mishneh Torah" published
1534 - Aragonese legal code formally recognised
1568 - Treaty of Longjumeau: French huguenots go on strike
1579 - Friesland joins Union of Utrecht
1593 - English Congressionalist Henry Barrow accused of slander
1630 - French troops occupy Pinerolo Piedmont
1657 - France & England form alliance against Spain; England gets Dunkirk
1708 - English pretender to the throne James III lands at Firth of Forth
1743 - George Frideric Handel's oratorio "Messiah" premieres in London
1752 - Pope Stephen II elected to succeed Zacharias, died 2 days later
1775 - Patrick Henry proclaims "Give me liberty or give me death"
1794 - Josiah Pierson patents a "cold-header" (rivet) machine
1794 - Lt-general Tadeusz Kosciuszko returns to Poland
1808 - Napoleon's brother Joseph takes the throne of Spain
1821 - Battle and fall of city of Kalamata, Greek War of Independence.
1832 - British Parliament passes reform bill
1835 - Charles Darwin reaches Los Arenales, in the Andes
1836 - Coin Press invented by Franklin Beale
1839 - 1st recorded use of "OK" [oll korrect] (Boston's Morning Post)
1840 - Draper takes 1st successful photo of the Moon (daguerrotype)
1848 - The ship John Wickliffe arrives at Port Chalmers carrying the first Scottish settlers for
           Dunedin, New Zealand. Otago province is founded.
1849 - Battle of Novara (King Charles Albert vs Italian republic)
1857 - Elisha Otis' 1st elevator installed (488 Broadway, NYC)
1858 - Streetcar patented (E A Gardner of Phila)
1861 - London's 1st tramcars, designed by Mr Train of NY, begins operating
1862 - Battle of Kernstown VA-Jackson begins his Valley Campaign
1864 - Encounter at Camden AR
1865 - General Sherman/Cox' troops reach Goldsboro NC
1867 - Congress passes 2nd Reconstruction Act over Pres Johnson's veto
1868 - University of California founded (Oakland California)
1879 - War of the Pacific was fought between Chile and the joints forces of Bolivia and Peru. Chile
           successfully took over Arica and Tarapacá which left Bolivia as a landlocked country.
1880 - Flour rolling mill patented (John Stevens of Wisc)
1881 - Boers & Britain sign peace accord; end 1st Boer war
1881 - Gas lamp sets fire to Nice France opera house; 70 die
1889 - Pres Harrison opens Oklahoma for white colonization
1889 - The free Woolwich Ferry officially opens in east London.
1889 - The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community was established by Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in Qadian
           India.
1896 - Umberto Giordano's opera "Andrea Chénier," premieres in Milan
1896 - The Raines Law is passed by the New York State Legislature, restricting Sunday sale of
           alcohol to hotels.
1901 - Dame Nellie Melba, reveals secret of her now famous toast
1903 - Wright brothers obtain airplane patent
1908 - American diplomat Durham Stevens is attacked by Korean assassins Jeon Myeong-un and
           Jang In-hwan, leading to his death in a hospital two days later.
1910 - 1st race at Los Angeles Motordrome (1st US auto speedway)
1912 - Dixie Cup invented
1915 - Zion Mule Corp forms
1917 - Tornadoes kills 211 over 4 days in Midwest US
1918 - Alick Wickham dives 200' into Australia's Yarra River
1918 - Crépy-en-Laonnoise: German artillery shells Paris, 256 killed
1918 - Lithuania proclaims independence
1918 - Paris bombs "Thick Bertha's Dike" (nickname for the widow Krupp)
1919 - Bashkir ASSR, in RSFSR, constituted
1919 - Benito Mussolini forms Fascist movement in Milan Italy
1919 - Moscow's Politburo/Central Committee forms
1920 - Perserikatan Communist of India (PKI) political party forms
1922 - 1st airplane lands at the US Capitol in Washington, DC
1922 - KMJ-AM in Fresno CA begins radio transmissions
1922 - WEW-AM in Saint Louis MO begins radio transmissions
1923 - Frank Silver & Irving Conn release "Yes, We Have No Bananas"
1925 - Tennessee becomes 1st state to outlaw teaching theory of evolution
1926 - NHL Championship: Mont Canadiens outscore Pitt Pirates, 6-4 in 2 games
1929 - 1st telephone installed in White House
1930 - US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson
1930 - US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Roger Turner
1931 - Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev embrace the gallows during the Indian struggle for
           independence. Their request to be shot by a firing squad is refused.
1933 - Enabling Act: German Reichstag grants Adolph Hitler dictatorial powers
1933 - Kroll Opera in Berlin opens
1934 - US Congress accepts Philippines independence in 1945
1936 - Italy, Austria & Hungary sign Pact of Rome
1937 - LA Railway Co starts using PCC streetcars
1938 - Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis frees 74 St L Cardinals minor leaguers
1940 - 1st radio broadcast of "Truth or Consequences" on CBS
1940 - All-India-Moslem League calls for a Moslem homeland
1940 - The Lahore Resolution (Qarardad-e-Pakistan or the then Qarardad-e-Lahore) is put forward
           at the Annual General Convention of the All India Muslim League.
1942 - 2,500 Jews of Lublin massacred or deported
1942 - Japanese forces occupy Andaman Islands in Indian Ocean
1942 - US move native-born of Japanese ancestry into detention centers
1943 - German counter attack on US lines in Tunisia
1944 - Bomb assassination against Southern Tirol congregation in Rome, 33 die
1944 - Nicholas Alkemade falls 5,500 m without a parachute & lives
1945 - British 7th Black Watch crosses the Rhine
1945 - Largest operation in Pacific war, 1,500 US Navy ships bomb Okinawa
1945 - Premier Churchill visits Montgomery's headquarter in Straelen
1946 - 8th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Oklahoma State beats NC 43-40
1948 - John Cunningham sets world altitude record (54,492' (18,133 m))
1949 - Sidney Kingsley's "Detective Story," premieres in NYC
1950 - "Great to Be Alive" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 52 perfs
1950 - 22rd Academy Awards - "All King's Men," Crawford & De Havilland win
1950 - Sophocles Venizelos forms liberal Greeks government
1950 - UN World Meteorological Org established
1951 - Wages in France increase 11%
1952 - Rangers with less than 14 minutes to go blow a 6-2 lead, losing 7-6 to Chicago Black Hawks.
           Mosienko scores 3 times in 21 seconds
1956 - 18th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: SF beats Iowa 83-71
1956 - Pakistan proclaimed an Islamic republic in Commonwealth (Natl Day)
1956 - Sudan becomes independent
1957 - 19th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: NC beats Kansas 54-53 (3 OTs)
1957 - US army sells last homing pigeons
1960 - Explorer (8 ) fails to reach Earth orbit
1962 - JFK visits SF
1962 - Nawab of Pataudi captains India cricket v WI age 21 years 77 days
1962 - Wake Forest coach "Bones" McKinney becomes 2nd person to play & coach
1962 - William DeWitt buys Cin Reds for $4,625,000
1963 - 25th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Loyola beats Cin 60-58 (OT)
1963 - Rolf Hochhuth's "Der Stellvertreter," premieres in Berlin
1964 - UNCTAD 1 world conference opens in Geneva
1965 - Gemini 3 launched, 1st US 2-man space flight (Grissom & Young)
1965 - Moroccan army shoots on demonstrators, about 100 killed
1966 - 1st official meeting after 400 years of Catholic & Anglican Church
1968 - 30th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats NC 78-55
1968 - Rev Walter Fauntroy, is 1st non-voting congressional delegate from DC
1969 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Port Charlotte Golf Invitational
1969 - Rally for Decency (Miami)
1970 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1971 - Dutch 2nd Chamber accept simplified divorce
1971 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1972 - Evel Knievel breaks 93 bones after successfully clearing 35 cars
1972 - NY Yanks agree to continue playing ball in the Bronx
1973 - After a 5½ year run soap "Love is a Many Splendored Thing" ends
1973 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1973 - Yoko Ono is granted permanent residence in US
1975 - Sue Roberts wins LPGA Bing Crosby International Golf Classic
1976 - International Bill of Rights goes into effect (35 nations ratifying)
1978 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1979 - Larry Holmes TKOs Osvaldo Ocasio in 7 for heavyweight boxing title
1979 - Wings release "Goodnight Tonight"
1980 - Border completes 150 in each inning of Test Cricket v Pakistan
1980 - Donna Caponi Young Pro-Am wins LPGA National Golf Tournament
1980 - France performs nuclear test
1980 - Shah of Iran arrives in Egypt
1981 - Supreme Court upholds law making statutory rape a crime only for men
1981 - Supreme Court rules states could require, with some exceptions, parental notification when
           teen-age girls sought abortions
1982 - Guatemala military coup under gen Rios Montt, pres Romeo Lucas flees
1982 - Isle's Mike Bossy's 20th career hat trick-4 goals
1983 - US president Ronald Reagan introduces "Star Wars"-plan (SDI)
1984 - Andrea Schone skates ladies world record 3 km (4:20.91)
1984 - Ice Dance Championship at Ottawa won by J Torvill & Chris Dean (GRB)
1984 - Ice Pairs Championship at Ottawa won by Underhill & Paul Martini (CAN)
1984 - Ladies Fig Skating Championship in Ottawa won by Katarina Witt (GDR)
1984 - Men's Fig Skating Championship in Ottawa won by Scott Hamilton (USA)
1985 - Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-D mission
1985 - Julian Lennon's 1st concert (San Antonio Texas)
1985 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1986 - 6th Golden Raspberry Awards: Rambo: First Blood Part II wins
1986 - Heavyweight Trevor Berbick KOs Pinklon Thomas
1986 - Penny Pulz wins LPGA Circle K Tucson Golf Open
1987 - Soap "Bold & Beautiful" premieres
1987 - US offers military protection to Kuwaiti ships in the Persian Gulf
1987 - West Germany SPD chairman Willy Brandt resigns
1989 - 2 Utah scientists claim they have produced fusion at room temperature
1989 - Joel Steinberg sentenced to 25 yrs for killing his adopted daughter
1990 - Former Exxon Valdez Captain Joseph Hazelwood ordered to help clean up Prince William
           Sound & pay $50,000 in restitution for 1989 oil spill
1991 - 20 Tornadoes kill 5 in Tennessee
1991 - Sergei Bubka pole vaults world record indoor (6.12m)
1991 - 1st World League of American Football games, London beats Frankfurt 24-11, Sacramento
           beats Raleigh-Dur 9-3 & Mont beats Birmingham 20-5
1992 - Florida Marlins begin selling tickets
1993 - Belgian government of Dehaene, resigns
1993 - NY Knicks & Phoenix Suns get into a major brawl
1994 - Amy Fisher's lover Joey Buttafuoco is released from jail
1994 - Graeme Obree bicycles world record 10 km (11:28)
1994 - Howard Stern formally announces his Libertarian run for NY governor
1994 - Joey Buttafuoco, released from jail after 4 months & 9 days
1994 - Last day of Test cricket for Kapil Dev
1994 - Russian Airbus A-310 crashes in Siberia (74-75 killed)
1994 - Wayne Gretzky sets NHL record with 802 goals scored
1994 - Richard Jacobs buys naming rights to Indians new ball park at Gateway for $13.8 million
           (renamed Jacobs Field)
1995 - "How To Succeed in Business..." opens at R Rodgers NYC for 548 perfs
1995 - Dollar equals 88.41 yen (record)
1996 - Taiwan holds its first direct elections and chooses Lee Teng-hui as President.
1997 - "Mandy Patinkin in Concert," closes at Lyceum Theater NYC
1997 - 17th Golden Raspberry Awards: Striptease wins
1997 - Betsy King wins LPGA Standard Register PING
1997 - Liberty Legends of Senior Golf
1997 - Phil Mickelson wins Bay Hill Golf Invitiational
1997 - Wrestlemania XIII in Chicago, Undertaker beats Psycho Sid for title
1997 - wins Standard Register PING
1999 - Gunmen assassinate Paraguay's Vice President Luis María Argaña.
2001 - The Russian Mir space station is disposed of, breaking up in the atmosphere before falling
           into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji.
2003 - In Nasiriyah, Iraq, 11 soldiers of the 507th Maintenance Company as well as 18 U.S. Marines
           are killed during the first major conflict of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
2004 - Andhra Pradesh Federation of Trade Unions holds its first conference in Hyderabad, India.
2005 - The United States 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 decision, refuses to order the
           reinsertion of Terri Schiavo's feeding tube.
2005 - A major explosion at the Texas City Refinery kills 15 workers.
2006 - The Federal Reserve discontinues publishing M3 money supply.
2007 - Burnley Tunnel catastrophe occurs in Melbourne, Australia.
2007 - Iranian Navy seize Royal Navy personnel in Iraqi waters.
2012 - African Union suspends Mali's membership following a coup

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 23, 2013, 02:43:16 PM

This Day in History for 23rd March


Famous Weddings

1923 - Writer Anaïs Nin (Delta of Venus) marries banker and artist Hugh Parker Guiler in Havana,
          Cuba
1985 - Musician Billy Joel weds supermodel Christie Brinkley
2008 - France's former first lady Cecilia Ciganer-Albeniz (50) weds Moroccan-born public relations
           executive Richard Attias (48) in Manhattan, New York

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 23, 2013, 02:44:34 PM

This Day in History for 23rd March


Famous Divorces

1971 - Dutch 2nd Chamber accept simplified divorce

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 23, 2013, 03:04:56 PM

This Day in History for 23rd March


Famous Birthdays

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Pirate Legend William Kidd (1645)          Rocket Scientist                                      Blogger & TV Personality
                                                              Werner von Braun (1912)                                  Perez Hilton (1978)


1429 - Margaret of Anjou, wife of Henry VI of England (d. 1482)
1599 - Thomas Selle, composer
1638 - Frederik Ruysch, Dutch anatomist
1645 - William Kidd, Pirate Legend From Scotland (d. 1701)
1699 - John Bartram, naturalist/explorer, father of American botany
1723 - Agha Mohammad Khan Ghajar, King of Iran (d. 1771)
1732 - Marie Adélaïde of France, daughter of Louis XV (d. 1800)
1736 - Iman Willem Falck, Dutch governor of Ceylon (1765-83)
1749 - Hugo Franz Karl Alexander von Kerpen, composer
1749 - Pierre-Simon Laplace, mathematician/astronomer/physicist
1750 - Johannes Matthias Sperger, composer
1754 - Baron Jurij Vega, Slovenian mathematician, physicist, and artillery officer (d. 1802)
1761 - John W de Winter, Dutch vice-admiral (Battle at Kamperduin)
1769 - William Smith, geologist (Strata Identified by Organized Fossils)
1769 - Augustin Daniel Belliard, French general (d. 1832)
1795 - Leopold Jansa, composer
1801 - Peterus D Regout, Dutch industrialist (Sphinx, Maastricht)
1808 - Jeronimo de Bosch Kemper, sociologist/historian (Statistic yearbook)
1811 - Camille Marie Stamaty, composer
1811 - Carl Gottfried Wilhelm Taubert, composer
1818 - Don Carlos Buell, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1898
1821 - Aleksej F Pisemski, Russian writer (Clodhopper)
1823 - Schuyler Colfax, (R) 17th VP (1869-73)
1825 - Edward Lloyd Thomas, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) died in 1898
1826 - Leon Minkus, composer
1831 - Eduard Schlagintweit, German writer (d. 1866)
1834 - Julius Reubke, composer
1837 - Joseph Wieniawski, composer
1844 - Eugene Gigout, composer
1847 - Alexandru D Xenopol, Romania, historian
1854 - Alfred Milner, Giessen Germany, British governor (Cape colony)
1857 - Fannie Farmer, actress (namesake of a candy company)
1858 - Ludwig Quidde, German historian/politician (Nobel prize 1927)
1862 - Nathaniel Reed, American outlaw turned evangelist (d.1950)
1863 - Godfried CE van Daalen, Dutch general/governor of Atjeh
1864 - Hjalmar Borgstrom, composer
1868 - Dietrich Eckart, early supporter of Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party and member of Thule Society (d.
          1923)
1876 - Muirhead Bone, Glasgow Scotland, etcher/engraver of architecture
1878 - Franz Schrecker, composer
1878 - Franz Schreker, Austrian composer (d. 1934)
1880 - Heikki Ritavuori, Finnish politician (d. 1922)
1881 - Hermann Staudinger, Germany, chemist/plastics researcher (Nobel '53)
1881 - Roger Martin du Guard, France, novelist (Les Thibault-Nobel 1937)
1882 - C Montague Shaw, Adelaide Australia
1882 - Emmy Noether, German mathematician (d. 1935)
1883 - Faisal I ibn Hussein ibn Ali, 1st king of Iraq/Syria
1884 - Glauco Velasquez, composer
1887 - Anthony van Hoboken, Dutch musicologist (Haydn-catalog)
1887 - Felix F Yussupov, Russian monarch
1887 - Juan Gris, Spain, cubist painter (Still Life Before an Open Window)
1887 - Sidney Hillman, union leader (Sidney Hillman Foundation)
1891 - Catherine Murphy Urner, composer
1893 - Cedric Gibbons, American art director (d. 1960)
1895 - Dane Rudhyar, composer
1895 - Encarnacion Alzona, Filipino historian (d. 2001)
1898 - Georgios Grivas, Greek general/opposition leader on Cyprus
1898 - Hazel Dawn, [LaTout], Utah, actress (Niobe, Under Cover, Feud Girl)
1899 - Dora Gerson, German actress and singer (d. 1943)
1900 - Erich Fromm, Frankfurt Germany, psychologist (Sane Society)
1900 - Jose Antonio Calcano, composer
1901 - Edmund Rubbra, composer [or May 23]
1901 - Jan H de Groot, Dutch resistance fighter/co-founder (Free Netherlands)
1902 - Philip Ober, Fort Payne Ala, actor (Gen Stone-I Dream of Jeannie)
1905 - Paul Grimault, animator
1905 - Ralph Perring, Lord Mayor (London)
1905 - Lale Andersen, German singer and cabaretist (d. 1972)
1905 - Joan Crawford, [Lucille Le Sueur], Texas, actress (Mildred Pierce), (d. 1977)
1906 - George Posford, composer
1907 - Daniel Bovet, Switzerland, pharmacologist (Nobel 1957)
1907 - Douglas Patrick Thomas Jay, politician
1908 - Dominique de Menil, arts patron/human rights advocate
1910 - Akira Kurosawa, Tokyo Japan, director (7 Samurai, Living)
1910 - Lale [Liselotte H] Anderson, German singer/actress (Der Pott)
1911 - Augustus John "Gus" Risman, rugby league player
1911 - Charles Joseph A Russhon, USAF lt col/liaison (James Bond films)
1911 - Denis Wright, diplomat
1911 - Edward Warner, diplomat
1911 - Richard Chapman, golfer (1940 US amateur, 1951 British amateur)
1912 - Alfred Schwarzmann, Germany, gymnist (Olympic-2 golds-1936)
1912 - John Payne, Roanoke Va, actor (Dodsworth, Razor's Edge)
1912 - Werner von Braun, Wirsitz Germany, rocket expert (I Aim at the Stars)
1914 - Robert Gross, composer
1915 - Francis Berry, poet/Shakespearean scholar
1915 - Vasily Zaitsev, Soviet World War II hero (d. 1991)
1917 - H C Allen, American historian
1917 - Johnny Guarnieri, NYC, jazz pianist (Morey Amsterdam Show)
1917 - Kenneth Tobey, actor (The Thing, Strange Invaders) [or Feb 23]
1917 - Patricia Burke, Milan Italy, actress (Forbidden)
1919 - Michael Lyne, British air Vice-marshal
1919 - Carl Graffunder, mid-century modernist architect
1920 - Alexander Grigori Harut'unyan, composer
1920 - Geoffrey Bush, composer
1920 - James Brown, Desdemona Tx, actor (Lt Rip Masters-Rin Tin Tin)
1920 - Jimmy Edwards, comedy actor (Barnes)
1920 - Neal Smith, (Rep-D-IA, 1959- )
1920 - Tetsuharu Kawakami, Japanese baseball player and coach
1921 - Donald Malcome Campbell, Surrey UK, boat racer (1955 speed records)
1921 - Ian Todd, pres (Royal College of Surgeons)
1921 - Wolfgang Altendorfer, writer
1922 - Marty Allen, Pitts, comedian (Allen & Rossi), "Hello Dere"
1922 - Ugo Tognazzi, Cremona Italy, actor/director (La Cage Aux Folles)
1923 - Arnie Weinmeister, AAFC, NFL def tackle (NY Yankees, Giants)
1924 - Peter Godfrey, chartered accountant
1924 - Bette Nesmith Graham, American inventor (d. 1980)
1925 - Cees de Ruyter, European champion billiards player
1925 - David McNee, commissioner (Metropolitan Police)
1925 - David Watkin, English cinematographer (d. 2008)
1926 - Martha Wright, Seattle, singer (Let's Dance, Martha Wright Show)
1927 - Osvaldo Lacerda, composer
1928 - 11th duke of Beaufort, English large landowner/multi-millionaire
1928 - Alfred Morris, British MP
1929 - Albert H Crews, astronaut
1929 - Gerrit den Braber, Dutch composer/producer
1929 - James Ackley Maxwell, actor/director (Traitors, Pyt Potter, Otley)
1929 - Michael Manser, architect
1929 - Roger Bannister, England, 1st to run a 4 minute mile (May 6, 1954)
1931 - Norman F Lent, (Rep-R-NY, 1971- 93 ), (d. 2012)
1931 - Yevdokiya Mekshilo, Gorno-Altaysk, Russia, skier (Oly gld 1964), (d. 2013)
1932 - Don Marshall, Canadian ice hockey player
1933 - Geoffrey Leigh, CEO (Allied London Properties)
1933 - Monique van Vooren, Belgium, actress (Andy Warhol's Frankenstein)
1933 - Norman Bailey, British bass-baritone (Flying Dutchman)
1933 - Philip Zimbardo, American psychologist, known for the Stanford prison experiment
1934 - Bryan Bass, headmaster (City of London School)
1934 - Mark Rydell, NYC, actor (Havana, Punchline, Long Goodbye)
1934 - Ludvig Faddeev, Russian mathematician
1934 - Fernand Gignac, Canadian singer and actor (d. 2006)
1935 - Barry Cryer, comedian/writer (Goodies Rule-OK, All You Need is Cash)
1935 - Desmond Pitcher, CEO (Merseyside Development Corporation)
1937 - Craig Breedlove, LA, auto-racing champion (613 MPH-Spirit of America)
1937 - Heinz Martin Lonquich, composer
1937 - Robert Gallo, American physician
1938 - Christopher Glenn, NYC, news anchor (CBS Nightwatch)
1938 - Kenneth J Gregory, warden (Goldsmiths' College)
1938 - Maynard Jackson, first black mayor of Atlanta (d. 2003)
1939 - Bert Berdis, Pitts, comedian (Tim Conway Show)
1939 - Boris Ivanovich Tischenko, composer
1939 - Pepe Lienhard, Swiss band leader and entertainer
1940 - Brian Hastings, cricketer (NZ batsman in 70's)
1940 - Luis Gasca, rocker
1940 - Tariq Yunus, actor (Bollywood, Ashanti, Deceivers)
1941 - Jim Trelease, American educator and children's literature author
1942 - Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian and political figure (d. 1980)
1943 - Gail Goodrich, NBA star (Lakers, Suns)
1943 - Peter Graves, supt minister (Westminster Central Hall)
1943 - Lee May, former Major League Baseball player
1943 - Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, Finnish writer (d. 2001)
1944 - Michael Nyman, composer (Mesmer, Carrington)
1944 - Salim Altaf, cricketer (Pakistan medium-pacer in 21 Tests 1967-78)
1945 - Franco Battiato, Italian singer, songwriter and filmmaker
1947 - Barbara Rhodes, Poughkeepsie NY, actress (Don't Just Stand There)
1948 - Michael Gleeson, otolaryngologist
1948 - R J Bennett, FBA/geographer
1948 - Wasim Bari, cricket wicket-keeper (Pakistan's most successful)
1948 - David Olney, American musician
1949 - Karen English, (Rep-D-Arizona)
1949 - Ric Ocasek, Balt, rock vocalist (Cars-Double Life, Bye Bye Love)
1949 - Roland Lee, American Watercolor Artist
1950 - Corrine Clery, Paris France, actress (Moonraker, Yor)
1950 - P R Scott, Headmaster (Bancroft's School, Woodford Green)
1950 - Anthony De Longis, American actor
1951 - Dick Mast, Bluffton OH, Nike golfer (1990 Mississippi Gulf Coast)
1951 - Lis Howell, director of programs (GMTV)
1952 - Patricia Richardson, Bethesda MD, actress (Jill-Home Improvement)
1952 - Kim Stanley Robinson, American author
1953 - Chaka Khan, [Stevens], Great Lakes Il, rocker (Rufus-I am Every Woman)
1953 - Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, British MP
1953 - Louie Anderson, Minn, comedian (Ratboy, Wrong Guys)
1953 - Bo Diaz, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 1990)
1954 - Moses Malone, NBA center (Atlanta Hawks, Milw Bucks, Phila '76ers)
1954 - Geno Auriemma, American basketball coach
1955 - Cindy Olavarri, Pleasant Hills California, cyclist (7-Eleven team)
1955 - Petrea Burchard, American actress
1956 - Andrew Mitchell, British MP
1956 - Laura Thorne, chef (named one of 10 best American chefs)
1956 - José Manuel Barroso, Portuguese politician, president of the European Commission
1957 - Amanda Plummer, NYC, actress (Hotel New Hampshire, Dollmaker)
1957 - Sheila Rena Ingram, Wash DC, 4X400m relayer (Olympic-silver-1976)
1957 - Teresa Ganzel, Toledo Ohio, actress (Teachers Only, Duck Factory)
1957 - Robbie James, Welsh footballer (d. 1998)
1958 - Serena Grandi, [Fagioli], Bologna Itay, actress (Miranda)
1958 - Etienne De Wilde, Belgian cyclist
1958 - El Duce, American singer and drummer (The Mentors) (d. 1997)
1959 - Catherine Keener, American actress
1959 - Epic Soundtracks, English musician (Swell Maps, Crime and the City Solution, These Immortal
          Souls) (d. 1997)
1959 - Philippe Volter, Belgian actor (d. 2005)
1960 - Oscar Michael Moore, journalist
1960 - Terry Sweeney, St Albans NY, writer/comedian (SNL)
1960 - Nicol Stephen, Deputy First Minister of Scotland
1961 - Helmi Johannes, Indonesian television newscaster
1962 - Johan Steur, soccer player (FC Volendam)
1963 - Ana Quirot, Cuba, 800m runner (Olympics-bronze/silver-92, 96)
1963 - Kim Williams, Bethesda MD, LPGA golfer (1995 GHP Heartland-26th)
1964 - John Pinette, American comedian
1965 - Dante Jones, NFL linebacker (Denver Broncos)
1965 - Daren Puppa, Kirkland Lake, NHL goalie (Tampa Bay Lightning)
1965 - Richard Grieco, Waterton NY, actor (21 Jump Street, Booker)
1965 - Wayne Presley, Detroit, NHL right wing (Toronto Maple Leafs)
1965 - Gary Whitehead, American poet
1966 - James Saxon, NFL fullback (Philadelphia Eagles)
1966 - Marti Pellow, rocker (Wet, Wet, Wet-Wishing I Was)
1966 - Mike Remlinger, Middletown NY, pitcher (Cin Reds)
1967 - David Ford, Edmonton Alberta, kayaker (Olympics-15-92, 96)
1967 - Sandra Reinhardt, Pitts, actress (Another World, Illegal in Blue)
1968 - Atul Wassan, cricketer (Indian pace bowler 1989-90)
1968 - Curtis Mayfield, CFL receiver (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1968 - David Maeva, CFL linebacker (BC Lions)
1968 - Mark Maddox, linebacker (Buffalo Bills)
1968 - Mike Atherton, cricketer (Lancashire batsman & England captain)
1968 - Mitch Cullin, American novelist
1968 - Fernando Hierro, Spanish footballer
1970 - Carl Pickens, NFL wide receiver (Cin Bengals)
1970 - Turhon O'Bannon, CFL receiver (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1971 - Alexander Selivanov, Moscow Russia, NHL right wing (Tampa Bay Lightning)
1971 - Chris Lipuma, Oak Lawn, NHL defenseman (Tampa Bay Lightning)
1971 - Demetrius DuBose, NFL linebacker (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1971 - Hiroyoshi Yamamoto, wrestler (NJPW)
1971 - Karen McDougal, Gary IN, playmate (Dec, 1997)
1971 - Renette Cruz, Miss Universe-Canada (1996)
1971 - Yasmeen Ghauri, Montrael Canada, model (Valentino Perfume)
1971 - Gail Porter, British television presenter
1972 - Jennifer K Chapman, Miss USA-Massachusetts (1997)
1972 - Jonas Bjorkman, Vaxjo Sweden, tennis star (Davis Cup 1994)
1972 - Ryan Kuwabara, hockey forward (Team Japan 1998)
1972 - Joe Calzaghe, Welsh boxer
1972 - Judith Godrèche, French actress and author
1973 - David Vaughn, NBA forward (Orlando Magic, SF Warriors)
1973 - Igor Nikitin, hockey defenseman (Team Kazakhstan Oly-1998)
1973 - Jason Kidd, NBA guard (Phoenix Suns, Dallas Mavericks)
1973 - Kathy Carboy, Cincinnati, Ohio, diver (Olympics-96)
1973 - Naoko Sawamatsu, Nishinomiya Japan, tennis star (1994 Singapore)
1973 - Ninya Perna, Miss USA-Nevada (1997)
1973 - Rob Lazeo, CFL offensive tackle (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1973 - Jerzy Dudek, Polish footballer
1973 - Wim Eyckmans, Belgian racing driver
1974 - Eric Washington, NBA guard (Denver Nuggets)
1974 - Scott Galyon, linebacker (NY Giants)
1974 - Tony Alberda, Dutch soccer player (SC Heerenveen, Emmen)
1975 - Rita Grande, Napoli Italy, tennis star (3rd round 1996 Aust Open)
1975 - Alydar, American racehorse (d. 1990)
1976 - Keri Russell, actress (Mickey Mouse Club, Lottery, Daddy Girls)
1976 - Nolan Baumgartner, Calgary, NHL defenseman (Washington Capitals)
1976 - Dougie Lampkin, English motorcycle trials rider
1976 - Jeremy Newberry, American football player
1976 - Joel Peralta, Dominican baseball player
1976 - Jayson Blair, American journalist and author
1976 - Ricardo Zonta, Brazilian racing car driver
1977 - Josh Ackerman, actor (Mickey Mouse Club)
1977 - Jean Carlos Gamarra, Peruvian taekwondo practitioner
1978 - Nicholle Tom, Hinsdale IL, actress (Beethoven, Maggie-Nanny, BH 90210)
1978 - Walter Samuel, Argentine footballer
1978 - Perez Hilton, American television personality and blogger
1979 - Mark Buehrle, American baseball player
1979 - Emraan Hashmi, Indian actor
1979 - Misty Hyman, American swimmer
1979 - Donncha O'Callaghan, Irish International rugby player
1979 - Natalya Baranovskaya, Olympic swimmer
1980 - Russell Howard, British Comedian
1981 - Luciana Carro, Canadian actress
1981 - Erin Crocker, American NASCAR driver
1981 - Tony Peña, Jr., Dominican baseball player
1982 - José Raúl Contreras, Chilean footballer
1983 - Jerome Thomas, English footballer
1985 - Maurice Jones-Drew, American football player
1986 - Andrea Dovizioso, Italian motorcycle racer
1986 - Steven Strait, American actor
1990 - Eugenie OF, Princess of York/daughter of prince Andrew/Sarah Ferguson
1995 - Jan Lisiecki, Canadian Pianist
1999 - Prince Beltran of Bulgaria

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 23, 2013, 03:06:58 PM

This Day in History for 23rd March


Famous Birthdays

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Actress Elizabeth Taylor (2011)


1103 - Eudes I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1058)
1169 - Shirkuh, Kurd general/vizier of Cairo/Saladin's uncle, dies
1237 - Jan of Brienne, King of Jerusalem/Emperor of Constantinople, dies
1361 - Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster (b. c.1310)
1369 - Pedro, the Cruel, King/tyrant of Castile & Leon, murdered
1548 - Itagaki Nobukata, retainer of Takeda Shingen
1555 - Julius III, [Giovanni M del Monte], Pope (1550-55), dies at 67
1559 - Emperor Gelawdewos of Ethiopia (killed in battle) (b. 1521/1522)
1596 - Henry Unton, English diplomat
1606 - Justus Lipsius, [Joost Lips], Dutch classic philologist, dies at 58
1618 - James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Abercorn, Scottish politician
1653 - Johan van Galen, Dutch admiral (Dunes Monte Christo), dies at about 48
1658 - Valentin Dretzel, composer, dies at 79
1669 - Philipp Buchner, composer, dies at 54
1680 - Nicolas Fouquet, French statesman (b. 1615)
1742 - Jean-Baptiste Dubos, French writer (b. 1670)
1747 - Claude Alexandre de Bonneval, French soldier (b. 1675)
1748 - Johann Gottfried Walther, German composer/musicologist, dies at 63
1754 - Johann Jakob Wettstein, Swiss theologian (b. 1693)
1756 - Georg Gottfried Wagner, composer, dies at 57
1783 - Gaspard Fritz, composer, dies at 67
1786 - Patience Wright, 1st US woman pro artist, dies (birth date unknown)
1801 - Tsar Paul I of Russia (1796-1801) is struck with a sword, strangled, and trampled to death in
           his bedroom at St. Michael's Castle aged 46
1806 - George Frederic Pinto, composer, dies at 20
1809 - Ferdinand-Philippe-Joseph Staes, composer, dies at 60
1816 - Ignaz Vitzthumb, composer, dies at 95
1818 - Nicolas Isouard, composer, dies at 42
1819 - August v Kotzebue, writer, dies
1821 - Bernhard Anselm Weber, pianist/conductor/composer, dies at 56
1832 - Vaclav Vilem Wurfel, composer, dies at 41
1842 - Stendhal, [Marie-Henri Beyle], French author (Lamiel), dies at 59
1862 - Karl Robert von Nesselrode, German chancellor, dies at 81
1869 - Charles Lucas, composer, dies at 60
1880 - Gustav Adolf Mankell, composer, dies at 67
1881 - Nikolay Rubinstein, composer, dies at 45
1906 - Victor Barton, cricketer (scored 23 in Test Eng v South Africa 1892), dies
1907 - Constantine P Pobedonostsev, Russian reactionary senator, dies at 79
1914 - Teunis Stoel, actor, dies at 62
1914 - Rafqa Pietra Choboq Ar-Rayès (Saint Rebecca) Lebanese saint (b. 1832)
1918 - Cesar Cortinas, composer, dies at 27
1919 - Jean HL Bossard, actor/impresario (2 Orphans), dies at 45
1925 - Aleksei Kuropatkin, Russian general/minister of War, dies at 76
1927 - Paul César Helleu, French artist (b. 1859)
1931 - Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, Sukhdev Indian freedom fighters
1935 - Florence Moore, American actress (b. 1886)
1937 - Helge Rode, Danish poet/essayist, dies at 66
1943 - Andre Lichtenberger, French Sudan writer (Le Petit Roi), dies at 72
1943 - Joseph Moiseyevich Schillinger, composer, dies at 47
1944 - O C Wingate, British general-major (Burma), dies in air crash
1946 - Alexandru Zirra, composer, dies at 62
1947 - Archduchess Luise of Austria, Princess of Tuscany (b. 1870)
1950 - Douglas Carr, England cricket leg-spinner (Test 1909), dies
1952 - Klaas Schilder, Dutch vicar/theologist/antifascist, dies at 61
1953 - Raoul Dufy, painter, Forcalquier, France
1955 - Artur da Silva Bernardes, President of Brazil (b. 1875)
1957 - L Patrick Abercrombie, English architect, dies at 77
1958 - Florian Znaniecki, Polish/US sociologist/philosopher, dies at 76
1960 - Franklin P Adams, columnist (Information Please), dies at 78
1961 - A C Russell, cricketer (10 Tests for England 910 runs), dies
1961 - James Edward Murray, (Sen-D-Montana) (1935-61), dies
1961 - Valentin Vasilyevich Bondarenko, cosmonaut, dies in accident at 24
1962 - Josephus RH van Schaik, lawyer/vice-premier of Neth, dies at 80
1962 - Val Paul, producer (F-Man), dies at 73
1963 - Davey Moore, dies seconds after KOed in feather-weight championship
1964 - Peter Lorre, actor (Casino Royale), dies at 59
1964 - Vassily Vainonen, Russian ballet choreographer (Gayaneh), dies at 66
1965 - Mae Murray, actress (Bachelor Apartment), dies of heart ailment at 75
1966 - Johannes W Elsensohn, Dutch actor/writer (Arie), dies at 82
1967 - Duncan Macrae, actor (Casino Royale, Kidnapped), dies at 61
1968 - Edwin O'Connor, US writer, dies at 49
1969 - Rudolf Pannwitz, German author/philosopher (Urblik), dies at 87
1970 - Del Lord, Canadian director (b. 1894)
1971 - Armin Loos, composer, dies at 67
1971 - Simon Vestdijk, Dutch author/poet (Brass Garden), dies at 72
1973 - Ken Maynard, actor (Phantom Rancher, $50,000 Reward), dies at 77
1978 - Bill Kenny, American singer, dies at 63
1979 - Philip Bourneuf, actor (Big Night, Frankenstein), dies at 71
1979 - Ted Anderson, English footballer (b. 1911)
1980 - Arthur Melvin Okun, American economist (b. 1928)
1982 - Mario Praz, Italian author (Casa della vita), dies at 85
1983 - Barney Clark, 1st artifical heart recipient, dies after 112 days at 62
1985 - Anton Constandse, Dutch anarchist/writer, dies at 85
1985 - Patricia Roberts Harris, (Rep-D), dies at 60
1985 - Singing Nun, commits suicide in Belgium at 52
1985 - Richard Beeching, chairman of British Railways (b. 1913)
1985 - Peter Charanis, Greek-American scholar and professor (b. 1908)
1987 - Dean Paul Martin, musician/tennis pro, killed in plane crash at 29
1991 - Dominic Bellissimo, created buffalo chicken wings, dies at 68
1991 - Fons Jansen, Dutch night club performer, dies at 65
1991 - Mona Maris, actress (Camila, Berlin Correspondent), dies at 88
1991 - Parkash Singh, Indian soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1913)
1992 - Friedrich A von Hayek, British economist (Road to Serfdom), dies at 92
1993 - Hans Werner Richter, German writer/founder (Gruppe 47), dies at 84
1994 - Alvara del Portillo, Spanish Opus Dei bishop, dies at 80
1994 - Giulietta Masina, Italy, wife of Federico Fellini/(La Strada), dies at 74
1994 - Jim Moloney, dies of Parkinson's disease
1994 - Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican pres candidate, assassinated at 44
1995 - Alan Barton, singer (Smokie, Black Lace), dies in a bus crash
1995 - Daniel George "Danny" Apolinar, composer/songwriter, dies at 61
1995 - Davie Cooper, soccer star, dies at 39
1995 - Irving Shulman, author/screenwriter, dies at 81
1995 - Ripley L. Ingram, singer, dies at 65
1995 - Robert Turner, winner of 1st All-American Soap Box Derby, dies at 72
1995 - Russell Reading Braddon, author, dies at 74
1996 - Jay D. Miller, record producer, dies at 73
1996 - Peter Baer, artost/printmaker, dies at 72
1999 - Luis María Argaña, Paraguayan politician (b. ?)
2001 - Rowland Evans, American journalist (b. 1921)
2002 - Eileen Farrell, American soprano (b. 1920)
2002 - Ben Hollioake, English cricketer (b. 1977)
2003 - Fritz Spiegl, Austrian-born journalist (b. 1926)
2004 - Rupert Hamer, Australian politician (b. 1916)
2006 - David B. Bleak, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1932)
2006 - Desmond Doss, American soldier and first conscientious objector Medal of Honor recipient (b.
          1919)
2006 - Cindy Walker, American singer, songwriter and dancer (b. 1918)
2007 - Paul J. Cohen, American mathematician, Fields Medal winner (b. 1934)
2007 - Eric Medlen, American NHRA drag racer (b. 1973)
2009 - Raúl Macías, A famous Mexican boxer (b. 1934)
2011 - Elizabeth Taylor, English-American actress (b. 1932)
2012 - Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, President of Somalia, dies from liver failure at 77

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 24, 2013, 04:40:21 PM

This Day in History for 24th March


Historical Events

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Religious Leader Joseph Smith Jr         Playwright Tennessee Williams            Singer & Cultural Icon Elvis Presley

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Singer Janet Jackson                               Playwright Tennessee Williams               WWF Wrestler Hulk Hogan

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265th Pope Benedict XVI


1379 - End of Gelderse war victory
1545 - German Parliament opens in Worms
1550 - France & England sign Peace of Boulogne
1603 - Scottish king James VI becomes King James I of England
1629 - 1st game law passed in American colonies, by Virginia
1645 - Battle at Jankov Bohemia: Sweden beatS RC emperor Ferdinand III
1664 - Roger Williams is granted a charter to colonize Rhode Island
1721 - Johann Sebastian Bach opens his Brandenburgse Concerts
1731 - Naturalization of Hieronimus de Salis Parliamentary Act is passed.
1765 - Britain enacts Quartering Act, required colonists to provide temporary housing to British
           soldiers
1792 - Benjamin West (US) becomes president of Royal Academy of London
1801 - Aleksandr P Romanov becomes emperor of Russia
1828 - Philadelphia & Columbia Railway (1st state owned) authorized
1832 - Mormon Joseph Smith beaten, tarred & feathered in Ohio
1837 - Canada gives black citizens the right to vote
1848 - State of siege proclaimed in Amsterdam
1855 - Manhattan Kansas founded as New Boston Kansas
1860 - Clipper Andrew Jackson arrives in SF, 89 days out of NY
1868 - Metropolitan Life Insurance Co forms
1877 - University boat race between Oxford & Cambridge ends in a dead heat
1878 - British frigate Eurydice sunk; 300 lost
1880 - Tobacco Growers' Mutual Insurance Company incorporates in CT
1882 - German scientist Robert Koch discovers bacillus cause of TB
1883 - 1st telephone call between NY & Chicago
1887 - Oscar Straus appointed 1st Jewish ambassador from US (to Turkey)
1890 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge" (BG)
1894 - 37 miners killed at Franklin, WA
1898 - 1st automobile sold
1900 - New York City Mayor Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground
           "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.
1906 - "Census of the British Empire" shows England rules 1/5 of the world
1907 - The first issue of the Georgian Bolshevik newspaper Dro is published.
1910 - 83°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in March
1913 - Netherlands soccer team's 1st victory over England
1913 - Palace Theater opens at 1564 Broadway NYC
1920 - 1st US coast guard air station established (Morehead City NC)
1922 - Grand National at Aintree sees only 3 horses out of 32 starters finish
1923 - Greece becomes a republic.
1924 - Greece becomes a republic
1925 - KSL-AM in Salt Lake City UT begins radio transmissions
1926 - The Beehive in the Hague opens 1st escalator in Netherlands
1927 - Cuban chess champ, Jose Capablanca wins 33-day Grand Chess Tournie
1927 - Dutch 1st Chamber condemns Belgian & Neth's Wielingen Treaty
1930 - 1st religious services telecast in US (W2XBS NYC)
1930 - Planet Pluto named
1932 - 1st US radio broadcast from a moving train (Belle Baker WABC from MD)
1933 - Peter I Island incorporated as a Norwegian dependency
1934 - US declares the Philippines to become independent in 1945
1934 - U.S. Congress passes the Tydings-McDuffie Act.
1935 - Major Bowes' Original Amateur Hour goes national on NBC Radio Network
1936 - Red Wings beat Montreal Maroons in 16 mins & 30 seconds of 6th period Stanley Cup game
           lasts 9 periods (176 mins), ends 1-0
1937 - Bus blew a tire, going out of control, killing 18 (Salem Illinois)
1937 - National Gallery of Art established by Congress
1941 - British troops defeat British Somalia
1941 - German troops occupy El Agheila Libya
1941 - Glenn Miller begins work on his 1st movie for 20th Century Fox
1941 - LIU beats Ohio U 56-42 for NIT basketball championship
1941 - Richard Wright & Paul Green's "Native Son," premieres in NYC
1944 - 76 Allied officers escape Stalag Luft 3 (Great Escape)
1944 - 811 British bombers attack Berlin
1944 - In occupied Rome, Nazis execute more than 300 civilians
1945 - Gen Eisenhower, Montgomery & Bradley discuss advance in Germany
1945 - Largest one-day airborne drop, 600 transports & 1300 gliders
1945 - Operation Varsity: British, US & Canadian airborne landings E of Rhine
1945 - US minesweepers reach Kerama Retto, South coast of Okinawa
1947 - Congress proposes 2-term limitation on the presidency
1947 - John D Rockefeller Jr donates NYC East River site to the UN
1949 - 21st Academy Awards - "Hamlet," Laurence Olivier & Jane Wyman win
1949 - Walter & John Huston become 1st father-and-son team to win
1950 - Gracie de Moss wins LPGA Pro-Ladies Golf Championship
1950 - US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Yvonne C Sherman
1950 - US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button
1952 - Great demonstrations against apartheid in South-Africa
1953 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1955 - 1st seagoing oil drill rig placed in service
1955 - British Army patrols withdraw from Belfast after 20 years
1955 - Tennessee Williams, "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" opens for 694 performances
1958 - Elvis Presley joins the army (serial number 53310761)
1959 - Iraq withdraws from the Baghdad Pact
1959 - The Party of the African Federation (PFA) is launched by Léopold Sédar Senghor and Modibo
           Keita.
1960 - US appeals court rules novel, "Lady Chatterly's Lover," not obscene
1961 - NY Senate approves $55M for a baseball stadium at Flushing Meadows
1962 - 24th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Cin beats Ohio State 71-59
1962 - Benny Paret, KOed in a welterweight title, he dies 10 days later
1962 - Mick Jagger & Keith Richards perform as Little Boy Blue & Blue Boys
1964 - Kennedy half-dollar issued
1965 - US Ranger 9 strikes Moon, 10 miles (16 km) NE of crater Alphonsus
1966 - Selective Service announces college deferments based on performance
1967 - U of Mich holds 1st "Teach-in" after bombing of North Vietnam
1968 - Mickey Wright wins Port Malabar Golf Invitational
1970 - Dutch cartoonist Frans Piet ends "Sjors & Sjimmie" strip
1972 - Great Britain imposes direct rule over Northern Ireland
1973 - Harley Race beats Dory Funk Jr in Kansas City, to become NWA champ
1973 - Immaculata beats Queens College, 59-52 to win AIAW Basketball title
1973 - Professional track debut of Kip Keino defeating Jim Ryun in the mile
1973 - SF 49er pres Lou Spadia proposes NFL expand to 30 teams
1974 - 36th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship: NC State beats Marquette 76-64
1975 - Muhammad Ali TKOs Chuck Wepner in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1976 - Argentine Pres Isabel Peron deposed by country's military
1978 - Wings release "With a Little Luck"
1979 - "Ballroom" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 116 performances
1979 - 1st appearance as Australian cricket capt for Kim Hughes
1979 - Columbia flown on carrier aircraft lands at Kennedy Space Center
1979 - 10 rebounds & 10 assists, as the Spartans cruise to a 101-67 by Penn Mich State's Earvin
           "Magic" Johnson registers triple-double 29 pts
1980 - 42nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Louisville beats UCLA 59-54
1980 - ABC's nightly Iran Hostage crisis program renamed "Nightline"
1980 - Capitol Records releases some rare Beatles tracks
1981 - "Nightline with Ted Koppel" premieres on ABC
1981 - Bombay beat Delhi by innings & 46 to win Ranji Cricket Trophy
1981 - Colombia drops diplomatic relations with Cuba
1982 - US sub Jacksonville collides with a Turkish freighter near Virginia
1984 - Andrea Schone skates ladies world record 5 km (7:34.52)
1984 - IOC agrees to 6-team exhibition baseball tournament in Olympics
1984 - Igor Malkov skates world record 10 km (14:21.51)
1985 - 5th Golden Raspberry Awards: Bolero wins
1985 - Golden Raspberry Awards presented to parody Oscar Awards (Bolero wins)
1985 - Jan Stephenson wins LPGA GNA Golf Classic
1985 - Norman Gifford makes cricket ODI debuts at age 44 (v Aust, Sharjah)
1986 - 58th Academy Awards - "Out of Africa," William Hurt & G Page win
1986 - Suriname army capt Etienne Boerenveen arrested for cocaine smuggling
1986 - US & Libya clash in Gulf of Sidra
1986 - NASA publishes "Strategy for Safely Returning the Space Shuttle to Flight Status"
1987 - 1st Soul Train Music Awards: Janet Jackson, Luther Vandross
1987 - WA win the Sheffield Shield by drawing cricket final vs Victoria
1988 - "Gospel at Colonus" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 61 perfs
1988 - Quarterback Dan Fouts retires
1989 - Mary Martin in "Peter Pan," 1st seen on TV since 1973
1989 - Worst US oil spill, Exxon's Valdez spills 11.3 mil gallons off Alaska
1990 - Indian troops leave Sri Lanka
1990 - Tom Hunter swims world record 50m freestyle (21.81 sec)
1991 - "Les Miserables," opens at Auditorium Theatre, Chicago
1991 - 11th Golden Raspberry Awards: Ford Fairlane & Ghosts Can't Do It wins
1991 - Barcelona Dragons beat NY/NJ Knights 19-7 in their 1st WLAF game
1991 - Danielle Ammaccapane wins LPGA Standard Register Ping Golf Tournament
1991 - In liberated Kuwait, banks reopen
1991 - NY Yankees beat NY Mets, 9-3
1991 - Wrestlemania VII in LA, Hulk Hogan pins Sgt Slaughter
1992 - "Jake's Women" opens at Neil Simon Theater NYC for 245 performances
1992 - Space Shuttle STS-45 (Atlantis 11) launches into space
1992 - Sudanese Boeing 707 crashes on mountain Hymettos at Athens: 5-6 die
1992 - 1st Belgium in the space, Dirk Frimout on Atlantis Space Shuttle STS-45 (Atlantis 11)
           launches into space
1993 - Ezer Weizman elected president of Israel
1994 - "Carousel" opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 322 performances
1994 - "Song of Jacob Zulu" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 53 performances
1994 - F-16 collides with C-130 Hercules above AFB in NC, 120 die
1994 - Robert F Kennedy Jr divorces Emily Black
1996 - 16th Golden Raspberry Awards: Showgirls wins
1996 - Eastenders star Michael French is reported to be a homosexual
1996 - Laura Davies wins LPGA Standard Register Ping Golf Tournament
1996 - MTA raises NYC bridge tolls to $3.50 each way
1997 - 69th Academy Awards - "English Patient," T Cruise & Brenda Blythen win
1997 - Australian parliament overturns world's 1st & only euthanasia law
1998 - Jonesboro massacre: Two students, ages 11 and 13, fire upon teachers and students at
           Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas; five people are dead and ten are wounded.
1998 - A tornado sweeps through Dantan in India killing 250 people and injuring 3000 others.
1999 - Kosovo War: NATO commences air bombardment against Yugoslavia, marking the first time
           NATO has attacked a sovereign country.
1999 - Mont Blanc Tunnel Fire: 39 people die when a Belgian transport truck carrying flour and
           margarine caught fire in the Mont Blanc Tunnel.
2003 - The Arab League votes 21-1 in favor of a resolution demanding the immediate and
           unconditional removal of U.S. and British soldiers from Iraq.
2006 - Long-term protests in Belarus are broken by police.
2006 - Pope Benedict XVI adds 15 men to the College of Cardinals, in the first consistory of his
           Pontificate.
2007 - The Australian Labor Party is reinstated after the New South Wales state elections.
2008 - Bhutan officially becomes a democracy, with its first ever general election.
2010 - Lee Kun-hee returns to Samsung Electronics chief executive officer (CEO) position after his
           resignation in April 21, 2008
2012 - African Union deploys 5,000 strong force with the aim of catching or killing warlord Joseph
           Kony

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 24, 2013, 04:44:47 PM

This Day in History for 24th March


Famous Weddings

1896 - Writer "Heart of Darkness" Joseph Conrad (39) marries Englishwoman Jessie George (23)
1952 - Author of 'James Bond' novels, journalist and secret intelligence agent Ian Fleming marries
           Anne Geraldine Charteris
1984 - "Knight Rider" actor David Hasselhoff (32) weds "One Life to Live" actress Catherine Hickland
           (28)
1996 - Former Atlanta mayor and UN ambassador Andrew Young (64) weds Carolyn Watson (49) in
           South Africa

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 24, 2013, 04:46:35 PM

This Day in History for 24th March


Famous Divorces

1994 - Robert F Kennedy Jr divorces Emily Black

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 24, 2013, 06:25:09 PM

This Day in History for 24th March


Famous Birthdays

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Magician & Escape Artist                         Bank Robber Clyde Barrow (1909)          Computer Entrepreneur
Harry Houdini (1874)                                                                                              Alan Sugar (1947)


1188 - Ferrand of Portugal, earl of Flanders/son of Sancho I
1441 - Ernst I, elector of Saxon (1464-86)
1494 - Georgius Agricola, Germany, mineralogist (De Re Metallica)
1607 - Michiel A de Ruyter, Dutch rear admiral (St Vincent, Dune)
1628 - Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1685)
1630 - Jose Saenz d'Aguirre, Spanish cardinal
1657 - Arai Hakuseki, Japanese writer and politician (d. 1725)
1693 - John Harrison, British clockmaker (d. 1776)
1703 - Jose F de Isla, [Francisco de Salazar], Spanish Jesuit/writer
1714 - Carlo Giovanni Testori, composer
1725 - Samuel Ashe, Governor of North Carolina (d. 1813)
1725 - Thomas Cushing, American Continental Congressman and acting Governor of Massachusetts
           (d. 1788)
1732 - Gian Francesco de Majo, composer
1740 - John Antes, composer
1749 - Bernard Jumentier, composer
1755 - Rufus King, framer of US constitution
1762 - Marcos Antonio da Fonseca, Portugal, opera composer (Portogallo)
1782 - Orest Kiprensky, Russian painter (d. 1836)
1796 - John Corry Wilson Daly, Canadian politician (d. 1878)
1797 - Antonio Rosmini-Serbati, philosopher/founder (Institute of Charity)
1802 - Jacob van Lennep, attorney/Dutch MP
1808 - Maria Malibran, Spanish-French singer (d. 1836)
1809 - Joseph Liouville, France, discover of transcendental numbers
1814 - Galen Clark, US, naturalist/discovered Mariposa Grove
1817 - Aime Maillart, composer
1820 - A. E. Becquerel, French physicist (d. 1891)
1820 - Fanny Crosby, American hymnist (d. 1915)
1821 - Elisa Felix, [Rachel], tragedienne
1821 - [George] Hector Tyndale, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1829 - George Francis Train, American businessman (d. 1904)
1829 - Ignacio Zaragoza, Mexican general (d. 1862)
1830 - Robert Hamerling, Austrian poet (d. 1889)
1834 - John Wesley Powell, US, geologist/explorer/ethnologist
1834 - William Morris, England, designer/craftsman/poet/socialist
1835 - Josef Stefan, Austria, physicist (Stefan-Boltzmann law)
1837 - Philips, Count of Flanders Belgium
1848 - Honoré Beaugrand, Quebec journalist and newspaper publisher (La Patrie) (d. 1906)
1850 - Silas Hocking, British novelist and preacher (d. 1935)
1855 - Andrew W Mellon, founder (Mellon Bank)/US Sec of Treasury
1855 - Olive Schreiner, South African writer (Portrait of a South African Woman)
1866 - Jack McAuliffe, US lightweight boxing champ, hall of famer
1874 - Harry Houdini, [Erich Weiss], Budapest, magician/escape artist
1874 - Luigi Einaudi, economist/1st president of Italy (1948-55)
1878 - Top Naeff, [Anthonetta van Rhijn-N-Naeff], Dutch writer
1883 - James I Wedgwood, British theosophist/old-catholic bishop
1884 - Gino Marinuzzi, composer
1884 - Peter Debye, Holland, physical chemist (Nobel 1936)
1885 - Charlie Daniels, US swimmer (Olympics-4 gold-1904, 08)
1886 - Athenagoras I, Greek Patriarch of Constantinople (d. 1972)
1886 - Edward Weston, American photographer (d. 1958)
1887 - Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, San Jose CA, actor (Keystone comedies)
1888 - Jameson Thomas, London England, actor (Farmer's Wife)
1888 - Viktor Kingissepp, Estonian Bolshevik politician (d. 1922)
1889 - Albert Hill, British athlete (d. 1969)
1891 - Annie "Charley" Toorop, Dutch painter (3 Generations)
1891 - John Knittel, writer
1891 - Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov, Soviet physicist (d. 1951)
1893 - George Sisler, American baseball player (d. 1973)
1895 - Arthur Murray, dancer (Arthur Murray's Dance Party)
1895 - Sid Saylor, Chicago Ill, actor (Wally-Waterfront)
1896 - Gianna Manzini, writer
1897 - Charles Eyck, Dutch painter/sculptor
1897 - Wilhelm Reich, Austrian-US psycho analysist (character analysis)
1898 - Dorothy Stratton, organizer (SPARS-women's branch of US Coast Guard)
1898 - George Alpert, railroad executive
1900 - June [Algeria Junius] Clark, musician trumpet
1901 - Ub Iwerks, American cartoonist (d. 1971)
1902 - Thomas E Dewey, Oh, 1st Catholic Pres candidate 1944, 1948 (R)
1903 - Adolph F J Butenandt, German bio-chemist (Nobel 1939)
1903 - John Patrick Sutton Ludlow, actor (Agatha)
1903 - Malcolm Muggeridge, English writer (Observer of Life)
1905 - Andre Christiaens, Flemish writer (Unfindable Country)
1905 - Pura Santillan-Castrence, Filipino writer and diplomat (d. 2007)
1906 - John Cameron Swayze, news correspondent/spokesman (Timex) [OS]
1906 - Klavdiya Shulzhenko, Soviet singer (d. 1984)
1907 - Janet Harmon Bragg, US pilot/columnist (Chicago Defender)
1907 - Lauris Norstad, US gen (NATO commander)/CEO (Owens-Corning Fiberglass)
1907 - Lucia Chase, US ballerina/co-founder (American Ballet Theater)
1907 - Lydia Korneevna Chukovskaya, writer
1907 - Martin Kosleck, Germany, actor (Pursuit to Algiers)
1907 - Paul Sauvé, Quebec politician (d. 1960)
1909 - Clyde Barrow, bank robber (of Bonnie & Clyde fame)
1909 - Thomas E "Tommy" Trinder, English radio comic/actor (Phoenix)
1910 - Jacques Chailley, composer
1910 - Richard Conte, Jersey City NJ, actor (4 Just Men, Tony Rome, Hotel)
1911 - Herman W "Fritz" Liebert, US OSSer/librarian (Yale curator)
1911 - Jane Beverly Drew, architect
1911 - Joseph Barbera, animator (Hanna-Barbera)
1914 - Lilli Palmer, Posen Germany, actress (Boys From Brazil, Sebastian)
1915 - Gorgeous George, American professional wrestler (d. 1963)
1916 - Donald Hamilton, Swedish-American novelist (d. 2006)
1917 - John Kendrew, British molecular biologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1997)
1917 - Constantine Andreou, Greek-Brazilian artist (d. 2007)
1918 - Englebert van Anderlecht, Belgian painter
1919 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti, US, beat poet (Coney Island of the Mind)
1919 - John J Duncan Jr, (Rep-R-TN, 1965- )
1919 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti, author (Coney Island of the Mind)
1919 - Robert Heilbroner, American economist (d. 2005
1920 - Gene Nelson, [Berg], Seattle Wash, actor (Tea For 2, Oklahoma)
1921 - Wilson Harris, Guayanese author
1922 - Dave Appell, singer/musician/songwriter (In the Midnight Hour)
1922 - Dorothy Irene Height, president (national council of negro women)
1922 - Onna White, Canadian choreographer (d. 2005)
1923 - Edna Jo Hunter, expert on military families & prisoners of war
1923 - Murray Hamilton, Washington NC, actor (Rich Man Poor Man)
1924 - Lois Andrews, actress (Ganster, Rustlers, Desert Hawk)
1924 - Lorraine Gourley, LA CA
1924 - Norman Fell, Phila, actor (Mr Roper-3's Company, The End, Graduate)
1925 - Duncan Wood, TV director/producer
1925 - Puig Aubert, French rugby league footballer (d. 1994)
1926 - Dario Fo, Leggiuno Sangiano VA, playwright (Nobel-1997)
1927 - Janos Decsenyi, composer
1927 - Martin Walser, writer
1928 - Byron "Yanks" Janis, McKeesport Pa, pianist (NBC Symphony Orch)
1928 - Vanessa Brown, Vienna Austria, actress (My Favorite Husband)
1929 - Cuan McCarthy, cricketer (36 Test wkts for South Africa, 1 career no-ball)
1930 - Kenneth Nelson, Rocky Mount NC, actor (Henry Aldrich-Aldrich Family)
1930 - Steve McQueen, Slater Mo, actor (Wanted, Dead or Alive, Blob, Bullitt)
1931 - Thelma Kalama, US, 4 X 100m relay swimmer (Olympic-gold-1948)
1932 - William Smith, Columbia Mo, actor (Rich Man Poor Man, Hawaii 5-0)
1932 - Yuri Anatoyevich Ponomaryov, Russia, cosmonaut (Soyuz 18 backup)
1933 - David Harries, composer
1934 - William Smith, American actor
1935 - Peter Bichsel, writer
1936 - Fredrick Kaufmamn, composer
1936 - David Suzuki, Canadian scientist and environmentalist
1937 - Benjamin Luxon, Redruth England, baritone (Owen Wingrave)
1937 - Bill Tillman, basebal player
1937 - Billy Stewart, US R&B singer (I Do Love You)
1937 - Erskine Sandiford, premier (Barbados, 1987-94)
1938 - Larry Wilson, NFL back (Cardinals)
1938 - Holger Czukay, German musician (Can)
1938 - David Irving, British historian
1940 - Bob Mackie, Monterey Parks California, designer (Streisand, Cher)
1940 - Don Jardine, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 2006)
1943 - H Martin Lancaster, (Rep-D-NC)
1943 - Jesus Alou, baseball outfielder (SF Giants)
1943 - Marika Kilius, German FR, ice skating pair (Olympic-silver-1960, 64)
1944 - Denny McLain, baseball pitcher (Detroit Tigers, 31 wins in 1968)
1944 - R. Lee Ermey, American actor
1944 - Vojislav Koštunica, Serbian Prime Minister
1945 - Robert T. Bakker, American paleontologist
1945 - Curtis Hanson, American film director
1946 - Lee Oskar, Denmark, rock harmonicist (War-Why Can't We Be Friends)
1946 - Paul Williams, climber
1946 - Klaus Dinger, German musician (Neu!, Kraftwerk)
1947 - Alan Sugar, English multi-millionaire/computer manufacturer (Amstrad)
1947 - Mike Kellie, rock drummer (Spooky Tooth-It's All About)
1947 - Paul McCandless, rocker (Torches on the Lake)
1947 - Pieter W Coetzer, South African journalist/MP (NP)
1947 - Christine Gregoire, American politician, current governor of Washington
1947 - Meiko Kaji, Japanese singer and actress
1949 - Steve Lang, Montreal Canada, rock bassist (April Wine)
1949 - Nick Lowe, England, rock vocalist (Rockpile-Cruel to be Kind)
1951 - Dougie Thompson, rocker (Supertramp-Bloody Well Right)
1951 - Earl Williams, NBAer
1951 - Kenneth S Reightler Jr, Patuxent R Md, Cmdr USN/astro (STS 48, 60)
1951 - Pat Bradley, Westford MA, LPGA golfer (1981 US Women's Open)
1952 - Nicholas Campbell, Toronto Canada, actor (Nick-Insiders)
1953 - Steve Lubbers, cricketer (capt of Dutch World Cup team 1996)
1954 - Donna Pescow, Brooklyn, actress (Angie, Out of this World, Rainbow)
1954 - Irina Ratushinskaya, Odessa Ukraine, disident poet (Beyond the Limit)
1954 - Robert Carradine, LA California, actor (Slim-The Cowboys, Wavelength)
1955 - Doug Jarvis, Canadian ice hockey player
1956 - Ijaz Faqih, cricketer (Pakistan off-spin all-rounder in 5 Tests 80-88)
1957 - Scott J Horowitz, Phila Pa, PhD/Capt USAF/astronaut (STS 75, 82)
1959 - Renaldo Nehemiah, US, hurdler (110m at 12.93)/NFLer (SF 49ers)
1960 - Kelly LeBrock, NYC, actress (Weird Science, Woman in Red)
1960 - Barry Horowitz, American professional wrestler
1960 - Nena, German pop singer
1961 - Dean Jones, cricketer (dashing Australian batsman & fielder 1984-92)
1961 - James T Gallagher Jr, Johnstown PA, PGA golfer (1990 Greater Milw)
1962 - Penny Hammel, Decatur IL, LPGA golfer (Jamie Farr Toledo-1985, 89)
1962 - Star Jones, attorney/TV hostess (NBC, Inside Edition)
1962 - Angèle Dubeau, Canadian violinist
1963 - Raimond van der Gouw, Dutch soccer goalie (Vitesse, Manchester)
1963 - Sammy Giammatva, Houston Tex, tennis star
1964 - Hans Schwaier, West Germany, tennis star
1965 - Angela Zuckerman, St Louis Mo, speed skater (Olympics-1994)
1965 - Ben Torriero, WLAF running back (Scottish Claymores)
1965 - Jeff Reese, Brantford, NHL goalie (Tampa Bay Lightning)
1965 - Marian Vajda, Czech, tennis star
1965 - Peter Jacobson, American actor
1965 - Gurmit Singh, Singaporean actor
1965 - The Undertaker, American professional wrestler
1966 - Penny Toler, WNBA guard (LA Sparks)
1966 - Tatjana Patitz, Hamburg German FR, model/actress (Rising Sun)
1967 - Kathy Rinaldi-Stunkel, Fla, tennis player (Virginia Slims of Ark 1987)
1967 - Richard Gillam, Atlanta Ga, pairs skater (& Erin Moorad)
1969 - Yoko Zetterlund, SF California, volleyball setter (Olympics-bronze-92, 96)
1969 - Houston, American pornographic actress
1970 - Lara Flynn Boyle, Davenport Iowa, actress (Donna Hayward-Twin Peaks)
1970 - Marques Bragg, NBA forward (Minnesota Timberwolves)
1970 - Mike Vanderjagt, CFL kicker (Toronto Argonauts)
1970 - Shannon Lemora, Baton Rouge Louisiana, 1.5k runner
1970 - Judith Draxler, Austrian swimmer
1971 - Megyn Price, American actress
1972 - Steve Karsay, American baseball player
1973 - Atle Larsen, WLAF kicker (Rhein Fire)
1973 - Chip McCaw, Chicago Ill, volleyball setter (Olympics-96)
1973 - David Moravec, hockey forward (Team Czech Oly-gold-1998)
1973 - Josh Lakatos, Pasadena California, trap shooter (Olympics-silver-1996)
1973 - Philippe Boucher, St Apollinaire Ca, NHL defense (LA Kings, Oly-G-98)
1973 - Jacek Bąk, Polish footballer
1974 - Terry Killens, linebacker (Tennessee Oilers)
1974 - Chad Butler, American drummer (Switchfoot)
1975 - Debbie Keller, Winfield Ill, soccer forward (Olympics-96)
1975 - Julia Bikbova, Kiev Ukraine, dance skater (& John Lee)
1975 - Thomas Johansson, Swedish tennis player
1975 - Krisdayanti, Indonesian singer, actress and diva
1976 - Danielle Garrett, Camp Hill Penn, soccer forward (Olympics-96)
1976 - Aliou Cissé, Senegalese footballer
1976 - Athanasios Kostoulas, Greek footballer
1976 - Aaron Brooks, American football player
1976 - Peyton Manning, American football player
1977 - Olivia Burnette, San Clemente California, actress (Torkelsons)
1977 - Corneille, Canadian-Rwandan singer
1977 - Darren Lockyer, Australian rugby league footballer
1978 - Michael Braun, Australian rules footballer
1979 - Periklis Iakovakis, Greek athlete
1979 - Lake Bell, American actress
1979 - Emraan Hashmi, Indian actor
1979 - Norris Hopper, American baseball player
1979 - Graeme Swann, English cricketer
1980 - Luke Edwards, Nevada City Ca, actor (Newsie)
1980 - Tassos Venetis, Greek footballer
1981 - Ron Hainsey, American ice hockey player
1982 - Corey Hart, American baseball player
1982 - Dustin McGowan, American baseball player
1982 - Nivea, American singer
1983 - T. J. Ford, American basketball player
1984 - Chris Bosh, American basketball player
1985 - Haruka Ayase, Japanese actress and model
1986 - Kohei Hirate, Japanese racing driver
1986 - Anthony McMahon, English footballer
1988 - Ryan Higgins, Zimbabwean cricketer
1990 - Keisha Castle-Hughes, Australian-born New Zealand actress
1992 - Thomas Law, English actor

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 24, 2013, 07:17:53 PM

This Day in History for 24th March


Famous Deaths

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English Monarch
Queen Elizabeth I (1603)


809 - Harun al-Rashid, caliph of the Abbasid empire (786-809), dies at 44
1284 - King Hugh III of Cyprus
1381 - Saint Catharine of Sweden, Swedish saint
1396 - Walter Hilton, English mystic
1400 - Florens Radewijns, Dutch priest/leader Modern Devotion, dies
1455 - Nicholas V, [Tommaso Parentucelli], Italian Pope (1447-55), dies at 57
1455 - Rudolf van Diepholt, bishop/cardinal of Utrecht (1448-55), dies
1471 - Thomas Malory, author (Le Morte d'Arthur), dies at 55
1558 - Anna van Buren, countess of Egmond/Buren/Lingen, dies
1563 - Hosokawa Harumoto, Japanese military leader (b. 1514)
1575 - Yosef Karo, Spanish-born rabbi (b. 1488)
1603 - Elizabeth I Tudor, [Virgin Queen], of England and Ireland (1558-1603), dies at 69
1631 - Philipp Dulichius, composer, dies at 68
1635 - Jacques Callot, French cartoonist/engraver, dies at about 42
1644 - Cecilia Renata, arch duchess of Austria, dies
1654 - Samuel Scheidt, German composer (Concertus sacri), dies at 66
1661 - William Leddra, last Quaker, hanged in Boston
1755 - Theodor Christleib Reinhold, composer, dies at 72
1773 - Philip Dormer Stanhope, English statesman (b. 1694)
1776 - John Harrison, English clockmaker (b. 1693)
1823 - Cornelis van Foreest, Dutch mayor (Alkmaar), dies at 66
1825 - Giovanni Domenico Perotti, composer, dies at 64
1838 - Thomas Attwood, composer, dies at 72
1866 - Maria Amalia, of Bourbon-Sicily, wife of Louis Filips of Austria, dies
1867 - Mary, [Victoria Mary] of Teck, Queen of Great Britain and consort of George V, dies at 85
1869 - Antoine-Henri Jomini, French general (b. 1779)
1877 - Walter Bagehot, English economist/critic/banker, dies at 51
1878 - Albin Masek, composer, dies at 73
1881 - Friedrich Hecker, German revolutionary republic politician, dies at 69
1881 - Joseph Delesse, French geologist (b. 1817)
1882 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, US poet (Song of Hiawatha), dies at 75
1887 - Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter and art critic (b. 1837)
1888 - Vsevolod Garshin, Russian author (b. 1855)
1894 - Robert Prescott Stewart, composer, dies at 68
1899 - Billy Barnes, cricketer (725 runs in 21 Tests for England), dies
1905 - Jules Verne, sci-fi author (Around the World in 80 Days), dies at 77
1909 - John Millington Synge, Irish dramatist/playwright/poet, dies at 37
1911 - Matthew Stanley Robison, president (Cardinals), dies
1915 - Karol Olszewski, Polish scientist (b. 1846)
1916 - Enrique y Campina Granados, Sp opera composer (Goyescas), drowns at 48
1918 - Theophile Ysaye, composer, dies at 53
1921 - Deodat de Severac, composer, dies at 48
1921 - Larry McLean, Canadian baseball player (b. 1881)
1932 - George Robert Canning, cricketer (the 4th Lord Harris), dies
1945 - J S Nicklin, Lt-Col/Canada's 1st parachutist, dies
1945 - Thomas Rennie, Gen-Maj (Dutch command 51st Highland Division), dies
1946 - Alexander A Aljechin, world chess champ (1927-35, 37-46), dies at 53
1946 - Gustaf Heintze, composer, dies at 66
1948 - Sigrid Hjertén, Swedish modernist painter (b. 1885)
1950 - James Rudolph Garfield, American politician (b. 1865)
1953 - Felix M Abel, French dominican/biblical scholar, dies at 74
1953 - Mary, queen of Great-Britain/North-Ireland, dies at 85
1960 - Paul Joostens, Flemish painter, dies at 70
1962 - Jean Goldkette, Greek-born musician (b. 1899)
1964 - Peter Lorre, Hungarian/US actor (Maltese Falcon, Raven), dies at 59
1967 - Marc Lavry, composer, dies at 63
1968 - Howard Petrie, actor (Border River, Bounty Hunter), dies at 61
1968 - Lauwrens Voorthuyzen, Dutch sect leader, dies at 70
1968 - Alice Guy-Blaché, American film director (b. 1873)
1969 - Joseph Kasavubu, president Congo (1960-65), dies at about 55
1974 - Doris Deane, dies at 74
1974 - Yoshida Isoya, Japanese architect (modern sukiya style), dies at 79
1975 - Muriel Hutchinson, actor (Another Thin Man), dies at 60
1975 - Oscar Rasbach, composer, dies at 86
1976 - Bernard L Montgomery, British general, defeated Rommel, dies at 88
1976 - Nelson Case, TV host (Trash or Treasure), dies at 66
1977 - Saburo Moroi, composer, dies at 73
1978 - Brackett Hamilton Leigh, [Douglass], author (Ginger Star), dies at 62
1979 - Yvonne Mitchell, writer, dies at 53
1980 - Oscar Romero, archbishop of San Salvador, murdered during mass
1982 - Ace Goodman, KC Mo, comedian (Easy Aces), dies at 83
1984 - Sam Jaffe, actor (Dr Zorba-Ben Casey), dies of cancer at 93
1986 - Sarah Cunningham, actress (Nurse Andrews-Trapper John MD), dies at 67
1990 - Alice Sapritch, actress (European Vacation), dies
1990 - An Wang, computer manufacturer (Wang), dies at 70 of cancer
1990 - Ray Goulding, comedian (Bob & Ray), dies of kidney failure at 68
1990 - Rene Enriquez, actor (Hill St Blues), dies of pancreatic cancer at 56
1991 - Sir John Kerr, Australian politician (b. 1914)
1993 - Erik Andriesse, Dutch painter (skulls, skeletons), dies at 35
1993 - John Hersey, Pulitzer prize author (Hiroshima), dies at 78
1993 - Peter Roovers, Dutch sculptor/teacher (war monuments), dies at 90
1993 - Taylor Reed, actor (Easy Money), dies of heart attack at 60
1994 - Edith Porada, art historian/archaeologist, dies at 81
1994 - Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican politician, assassinated
1994 - Tommy Benford, jazz drummer, dies at 88
1995 - Anthony Standerwick Heal, businessman, dies at 88
1995 - Joey Long, blues/cajun guitarist, dies at 62
1995 - Trevor Oswald Ling, religious Studies Professor, dies at 75
1996 - Maria Lucia Beltran Alcayaga, singer, dies at 66
1997 - Martin Caidin, American aviation writer (b. 1927)
1999 - Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, German women's activist (b. 1902)
1999 - Birdie Tebbetts, American baseball player and manager (b. 1912)
2001 - Muriel Young, English TV entertainer (b. 1928)
2002 - César Milstein, Argentine scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
           1927)
2003 - Hans Hermann Groër, Austrian Catholic archbishop (b. 1919)
2006 - Lynne Perrie, English actress (b. 1931)
2008 - Chalmers "Spanky" Alford‎, American guitarist (b. 1955)
2008 - Neil Aspinall, British record producer (b. 1941)
2008 - Richard Widmark, American actor (b. 1914)
2008 - Hal Riney, American advertising executive (b. 1932)
2009 - George Kell, American baseball player (b. 1922)
2010 - Jim Marshall, American photographer (b. 1936)
2010 - Robert Culp, American actor (b. 1930)
2010 - Johnny Maestro, American singer (b. 1939)
2012 - Jocky Wilson, Scottish world champion darts player, dies at 62

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 25, 2013, 10:52:06 AM

This Day in History for 25th March


Historical Events

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Philosophe Voltaire                           First US President George Washington          Baseball Great Babe Ruth

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Beat Poet Allen Ginsberg                        Singer & Cultural Icon Elvis Presley         Singer Tom Jones

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NHL all-time top scorer                       Singer & Actress Barbra Streisand             Heavyweight Boxing Champion
Wayne Gretzky                                                                                                                 Mike Tyson


1 - Origin of Dionysian Incarnation of the Word
31 - 1st Easter, according to calendar-maker Dionysius Exiguus
421 - Friday at 12 PM - city of Venice founded
708 - Constantine begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1199 - Richard I is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting France which leads to his death on
           April 6.
1306 - Robert the Bruce crowned King of Scots
1409 - Council of Pisa opens
1571 - Catholic Italian businessman Roberto Ridolfi leaves Enngeland
1581 - Portugese Cortes calls Philip II king of Portugal
1584 - Sir Walter Raleigh renews Humphrey Gilbert's patent to explore North America
1598 - Cornelis de Houtman's fleet departs for East-Indies
1609 - Henry Hudson embarks on an exploration for Dutch East India Co
1634 - Under charter granted to Lord Baltimore and led by his brother Leonard Calvert first settlers
           found Catholic colony of Maryland
1647 - Cape of Good Hope: tour ship Haerlem stranded in Tafel Bay
1655 - Christiaan Huygens discovers Titan, (Saturn's largest satellite)
1668 - 1st horse race in America takes place
1669 - Mount Etna in Sicily erupts, destroying Nicolosi, killing 20,000
1700 - England, France & Netherlands ratify 2nd Extermination treaty
1753 - Voltaire leaves the court of Frederik II of Prussia
1774 - English Parliament passes Boston Port Bill
1776 - Continental Congress authorized a medal for George Washington
1802 - France, Netherlands, Spain & England signs Peace of Amiens
1807 - 1st railway passenger service began in England
1807 - British Parliament abolishes slave trade
1807 - George Canning becomes British minister of Foreign affairs
1811 - Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from the University of Oxford for his publication of the
           pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism.
1813 - 1st US flag flown in battle on the Pacific, frigate Essex
1814 - Netherlands Bank established
1817 - Tsar Alexander I recommends formation of Society of Israeli Christians
1820 - Greece freedom revolt against anti Ottoman attack
1821 - Greece gains independence from Turkey (National Day)
1847 - Pope Pius IX encyclical "On aid for Ireland"
1852 - Friedrich Hebbel's "Agnes Bernauer," premieres in Munich
1856 - A E Burnside patents Burnside carbine
1857 - Frederick Laggenheim takes 1st photo of a solar eclipse
1863 - 1st Army Medal of Honor awarded
1863 - Skirmish at Brentwood Tennessee
1864 - Battle of Paducah, KY (Forrest's raid)
1865 - Battle of Bluff Spring, FL
1865 - Battle of Fort Stedman, VA - in front of Petersburg
1865 - Battle of Mobile, AL (Spanish Fort, Fort Morgan, Fort Blakely)
1865 - SS General Lyon at Cape Hatteras catches fire & sinks, killing 400
1876 - Glasgow 1st soccer match Scotland-Wales (4-0)
1882 - 1st demonstration of pancake making (Dept store in NYC)
1888 - Socialist leader Domela Nieuwenhuis elected to Dutch 2nd chamber
1889 - 1st Test Cricket match played at Newlands, Cape Town v England
1894 - Coxey's Army of the unemployed sets out from Massillon Oh for Wash
1895 - Italian troops invade Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
1896 - Modern Olympics began in Athens, Greece [NS=Apr 6]
1898 - Intercollegiate Trapshooting Association formed in NYC
1900 - US Socialist Party forms in Indianapolis
1901 - 55 die as Rock Island train derailed near Marshalltown Iowa
1902 - Irving W Colburn patents sheet glass drawing machine
1903 - Racing Club de Avellaneda, one of the big five of Argentina, is founded.
1905 - Rebel battle flags captured during war are returned to South
1907 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Wanderers lose to Kenora Thistles but outscore them in 2 game set
           but outscore them 12-8 and win cup
1908 - Clube Atletico Mineiro, Founded in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
1910 - Chalmers Auto Co offers a new car to each leagues' batting champ
1911 - L D Swamikannu publishes "Manual of Indian Chronology" in Bombay
1911 - Triangle Shirtwaist Factory catches fire 145 die, all but 13 girls
1913 - Great Dayton Flood
1913 - Home of vaudeville, Palace Theatre, opens (NYC) starring Ed Wynn
1915 - 1st submarine disaster; a US F-4 sank off Hawaii, killing 21
1915 - German U boat torpedoes Neth merchant ship Medea
1916 - Heavyweight Jess Willard & Franc Moran fight to no decision in NYC
1916 - Jess Willard fights Frank Moran to no decision in 10 for boxing title
1916 - Women are allowed to attend a boxing match
1918 - The Belarusian People's Republic is established.
1920 - Greek Independence Day
1923 - British government grants Trans-Jordan autonomy
1924 - Greek parliament selects admiral Paul Koundouriotis as premier
1924 - Stanley Cup: Mont Canadiens (NHL) sweep Calgary Tigers (WCHL) in 2
1931 - Hal Kemp & his orchestra record Whistles, with Skinnay Ennis
1931 - Scottsboro Boys (accused of raping a white woman) arrested in Alabama
1934 - 1st Golf Masters Championship: Horton Smith wins, shooting a 284
1935 - 1st Belgium government of Van Zealand resigns
1936 - 200" mirror blank leaves for California to be ground
1936 - Detroit Red Wings beat Montreal Maroons in NHL longest game (2h56m30s)
1937 - It's revealed Quaker Oats pays Babe Ruth $25,000 per year for ads
1937 - Italy & Yugoslavia sign no-attack treaty (Pact of Belgrade)
1937 - Lionel Conacher misses on 1st Stanley Cup penalty shot
1937 - Wash Daily News is 1st US newspaper with perfumed advertising page
1938 - 1st US bred horse (Battleship) to win Grand National Steeplechase
1939 - Billboard Magazine introduces hillbilly (country) music chart
1941 - Carolina Paprika Mills in Dillon SC, incorporated
1942 - 700 Jews of Polish Lvov-district reach Belzec Concentration camp
1943 - 97% of all Dutch physicians strike againt nazi registration
1943 - Jimmy Durante & Garry Moore premiere on radio
1944 - Germany troop executes 335 residents of Rome
1944 - RAF Sgt Nickolas Alkemade survives a jump from his Lancaster bomber from 18,000 feet
           without a parachute
1945 - US 1st army breaks out bridgehead near Remagen
1945 - US 4th Armored div arrives at Hanau & Aschaffenburg
1945 - US Northern Tractor Flotilla departs Ulithi to Okinawa
1946 - 1st performance of Igor Stravinsky's "Ebony Concerto"
1947 - 9th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Holy Cross beats Oklahoma 58-47
1947 - Agreement of Linggadjati ratified in Batavia
1947 - Coal mine explosion in Centralia, Ill, claims 111
1947 - Last day of Test cricket for Walter Hammond (v NZ, Christchurch)
1949 - SS police chief Rauter request for a pardon, denied
1951 - 5th Tony Awards: Guys & Dolls & Rose Tattoo win
1951 - E Purcell & EM Ewen detect 21-cm radiation at Harvard physics lab
1954 - 26th Academy Awards - "From Here to Eternity," Holden & A Hepburn win
1954 - Pope Pius XII encyclical "Sacra virginitas" (On consecrated virginity)
1954 - RCA manufactures 1st color TV set (12½" screen at $1,000)
1955 - E Germany granted full sovereignty by occupying power, USSR
1955 - United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" as obscene.
1957 - NBA modifies the free-throw rule
1957 - Treaty of Rome establishes European Economic Community (Common Mkt)
1958 - Sugar Ray Robinson is 1st boxing champ to win 5 times
1958 - West German parliament desires German atomic weapons
1959 - Bill White traded to St Louis for pitchers Sam Jones & Don Choate
1959 - French pres De Gaulle acknowledges Oder-Neisse boundary
1960 - 1st guided missile launched from nuclear powered sub (Halibut)
1960 - DH Lawrence' "Lady Chatterley's Lover" ruled not obscene (NYC)
1960 - Ford Frick voids Indians-Red Sox deal as Sam White retires
1960 - Italian government Tambroni forms
1961 - "13 Daughters" closes at 54th St Theater NYC after 28 performances
1961 - "Gypsy" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 702 performances
1961 - 23rd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Cin beats Ohio State 70-65 (OT)
1961 - Elvis Presley performs live on the USS Arizona
1961 - Explorer 10 launched into elongated Earth orbit (177/181,000 km)
1961 - Sputnik 10 carries a dog into Earth orbit; later recovered
1961 - 3rd place game is one of the wildest contests in NCAA Tournament history as St Joseph's
           defeats Utah 127-120 in 4 overtimes
1962 - "Family Affair" closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC after 65 performances
1962 - French OAS-leader ex-general Jouhaud arrested
1963 - KWHY TV channel 22 in Los Angeles, CA (IND) begins broadcasting
1964 - Britain sets memorial for the late Pres John F Kennedy
1964 - Egypt ends state of siege (1952-64)
1965 - Martin Luther King Jr led 25,000 to state capitol in Montgomery, Al
1965 - West German Bondsdag extends war crimes retribution
1966 - US Supreme court rules "poll tax" unconstitutional
1966 - Beatles pose with mutilated dolls & butchered meat for the cover of the "Yesterday & Today"
           album, It is later pulled
1967 - 29th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Dayton 79-64
1967 - The Turtle's "Happy Together" goes #1
1967 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1967 - Who & Cream make US debut at Murray the K's Easter Show
1968 - KLVX TV channel 10 in Las Vegas, NV (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1969 - Andes Pact signed in Peru
1969 - John & Yoko stage their 1st bed-in for peace (Amsterdam)
1969 - Pakistan Gen Agha Mohammed Jagja Khan succeeds Ayub Chan as pres
1970 - Concorde makes its 1st supersonic flight (700 MPH/1,127 KPH)
1971 - Boston Patriots become New England Patriots
1971 - European council accepts Mansholt plan laying off 5 million farmers
1971 - Tom Jones, "She's a Lady," goes gold
1972 - "Selling of the President" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 5 perfs
1972 - 34th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Florida 81-76
1972 - America's LP "America" goes #1
1972 - Bobby Hull becomes the 2nd NHLer to score 600 goals
1972 - UCLA wins its 6th consecutive national basketball title
1973 - 27th Tony Awards: That Championship Season & Little Night Music win
1973 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Sears Women's Golf Classic
1973 - Majid Khan & Mushtaq Mohammad both out for 99 in Test v Eng
1974 - Barbra Streisand records the album "Butterfly"
1976 - "My Fair Lady" opens at St James Theater NYC for 384 performances
1976 - "Rex" opens at Lunt-Fontaine Theater NYC for 48 performances
1976 - Argentine milt junta bans leftist political parties
1979 - Major riot at Bourda prevents day's play in WSC Supertest
1979 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sahara National Pro-Am Golf Tournament
1982 - Wayne Gretzky becomes 1st NHL to score 200 points in a season
1983 - Christa Rothenburger skates world record 500 m ladies (39.69 sec)
1983 - Pavel Pegov skates world record 1000m (1:12.58)
1984 - Betsy King wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
1985 - 57th Academy Awards - "Amadeus," F Murray Abraham & Sally Field win
1985 - Edwin Meese III becomes US Attorney General
1986 - Men's Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Brian Boitano (USA)
1986 - Supreme Court rules Air Force could ban wearing of yarmulkes
1986 - Kurt Browning (Canada) becomes 1st skater to land a quadruple jump
1987 - Supreme Court rules women/minorities may get jobs if less qualified
1988 - "Les Miserables," opens at Chunichi Theatre, Nagoya Japan
1988 - NASA launches space vehicle S-206
1988 - Robin Givens demands full access to husband Mike Tyson's money
1989 - "Les Miserables," opens at Auditorium Theatre, Chicago
1990 - "Lettice & Lovage" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 284 performances
1990 - 10th Golden Raspberry Awards: Star Trek V wins
1990 - Fire in illegal NYC social club, kills 87
1990 - Pat Bradley wins LPGA Standard Register Turquoise Golf Classic
1991 - 63rd Academy Awards - "Dance with Wolves," Kathy Bates & J Irons win
1991 - Allan Border takes 5-68 v WI at Bourda (!), Georgetown
1992 - British scientists find new largest perfect # (2 756839 -1 * 2 756839)
1992 - Imran Khan scores 72 & takes 1-43 off 6 2 overs in last ODI
1992 - Pakistan defeats England by 22 runs to win World Cup
1992 - Russian manned space craft TM-14, lands
1992 - Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev returns to Earth after a 10-month stay aboard the Mir space
           station.
1993 - "Candida" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 45 performances
1994 - Gunda Niemann skates ladies world record 3 km (4:09.32)
1994 - Yasunori Miyabe skates world record 1000 m (1:12.37)
1995 - Boxer Mike Tyson released from jail after serving 3 years
1996 - 68th Academy Awards - "Braveheart," Nicholas Cage & Susan Sarandon win
1996 - Comet C/1996 B2 (Hyakutake) approaches within 0.1018 AUs of Earth
1996 - Freedom Shoemakers on Maryport's Solway Estate closes
1996 - Ice Dance Championship at Edmonton won by Gritshuk & Platov (RUS)
1996 - Ice Pairs Championship at Edmonton won by Eltsova & Bushkov (RUS)
1996 - Ladies Fig Skating Championship in Edmonton won by Michelle Kwan (USA)
1996 - Men's Fig Skating Championship in Edmonton won by Todd Eldredge (USA)
1996 - US issues newly-redesigned $100 bill
1996 - The European Union's Veterinarian Committee bans the export of British beef and its by-
           products as a result of mad cow disease (BSE).
1997 - "Barrymore," opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 240 performances
1997 - Indians trade Lofton & Embree to Braves for Grissom & Justice
2006 - Capitol Hill massacre: A gunman kills six people before taking his own life at a party in
           Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood.
2006 - Protesters demanding a re-election in Belarus following the rigged Belarusian presidential
           election, 2006 clash with riot police. Opposition leader Aleksander Kozulin is among several
           protesters arrested.
2012 - Peter Cruddas, treasurer of Britain's Conservative Party, resigns after being caught on film
           selling access to British Prime Minister David Cameron

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 25, 2013, 10:54:51 AM

This Day in History for 25th March


Famous Weddings

1734 - William IV, Prince of Orange-Nassau marries princess Anne of Great Britain, eldest daughter of
           King George II at St. James' Palace
2003 - Actress-model Liv Tyler (25) weds rock band vocalist Royston Langdon (30) at a private villa
           in St James, Barbados
2006 - Cowboy Crush singer Darla Perlozzi weds musician Timmy Lee Patterson at Southern Belle
           Wedding Chapel in Murfreesboro, Tennessee
2006 - Olympic gold medal freestyle skier Jonny Moseley (30) weds Malia Rich in Telluride, Colorado

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 25, 2013, 10:58:03 AM

This Day in History for 25th March


Famous Divorces

2005 - American actress Jennifer Aniston (36) files for divorce from actor and film producer Brad Pitt
           (41) due to irreconcilable differences after 4 and a half years of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 25, 2013, 11:04:21 AM

This Day in History for 25th March


Famous Birthdays

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Modeling Agency Head                           Singer Elton John (1947)                    Actress Sarah Jessica Parker (1965)
Eileen Ford (1922)


1133 - Henry II, King of England (1154-89)
1252 - Conradin, Duke of Swabia (d. 1268), son of Conradin IV
1259 - Andronikos II Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (d. 1332)
1297 - Andronicus III Palaeologus, Byzantine emperor (d. 1341)
1297 - Arnost of Pardubice, Archbishop of Prague (d. 1364)
1345 - Blanche of Lancaster, wife of John of Gaunt (d. 1369)
1347 - Catherine of Siena, Italian saint (d. 1380)
1404 - John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, English military leader (d. 1444)
1495 - Leonhard Paminger, composer
1532 - Pietro Pontio, composer
1539 - Christopher Clavius, German mathematician (d. 1612)
1541 - Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1587)
1593 - Jean de Brébeuf, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1649)
1594 - Maria Tesselschade Roemers Visscher, Dutch writer
1643 - Louis Moréri, French encylopedist (d. 1680)
1653 - Joseph Sauveur, French physicist/mathematician
1661 - Paul de Rapin, French historian (d. 1725)
1688 - Johann Gotthilf Ziegler, composer
1699 - Johann Adolf Hasse, composer
1702 - Christian Gottlieb Ziegler, composer
1702 - Pieter Teyler Van der Hulst, Dutch silk merchant (Teyler's Museum)
1713 - Jean-Baptiste Canavas, composer
1723 - Kaat Mussel, [Catharina Mulder], Dutch demonstrater
1745 - Nicolas Etienne Framery, composer
1762 - Francesco Giuseppi Pollini, composer
1767 - Joachim Murat, marshal of France/King of Naples (1808-15)
1769 - Salvatore Vigano, composer
1770 - Carl Friedrich Ebers, composer
1782 - Caroline Bonaparte, Queen of Naples (d. 1839) and sister of Napoleon
1786 - Giovanni B Amia, Italian astronomer/physicist/botanist
1797 - John Winebrenner, US, clergyman, founded Church of God
1800 - Paulin Paris, French historian
1808 - Jose de Espronceda y Delgado, Spanish revolutionary/poet (Cortes)
1818 - Isaac Ingalls Stevens, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
1820 - Xavier F M G, Earl of Merode, Belgian minister to Pope (in Rome)
1823 - William Thompson Martin, Mjr General (Confederate Army), died in 1910
1824 - Clinton L. Merriam, American politician (d. 1900)
1830 - Julius Caesar, cricketer (prominent batsman for Surrey)
1839 - William Bell Wait, US, educated the blind
1840 - Myles Keogh, U.S. Soldier in U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment & Irish Soldier of Fortune (d. 1876)
1863 - Simon Flexner, American pathologist (d. 1946)
1867 - Arturo Toscanini, Parma Italy, temperamental conductor (NBC)
1867 - Gutzon Borglum, sculptor (Mt Rushmore)
1868 - Bill Lockwood, cricketer (England all-rounder in 12 Tests 1893-1902)
1869 - Gustaaf DFL Schamelhout, Flemish physician/writer
1871 - John Gutzon Borglum, sculptor (Mt Rushmore)
1872 - Vito Pardo, Italian sculptor (Columbus monument in Argentina)
1873 - Rudolf Rocker, German/US anarchist
1875 - Spencer Charters, Duncannon PA, actor (3 Faces West)
1877 - Walter Little, Canadian politician (d. 1961)
1878 - Henry graaf de Baillet-Latour, Belgian pres of IOC (1925-42)
1878 - Theodore Samuel Holland, composer
1879 - Otakar Zich, composer
1881 - Béla Bartok, Hungary, composer/pianist (Concerto for Orchestra)
1881 - Louis Dosfel, Flemish lawyer/writer (Assault!)
1881 - Mary Gladys Webb, English writer (d. 1927)
1882 - Haydn Wood, composer
1884 - Georges Imbert, Alsatian chemist (d. 1950)
1885 - Veit Valentin, German/US historian (Deutsche Revolution)
1886 - Athenagoras, Patriarch of Constantinople (d. 1972)
1890 - Marten Baersma, [MH Bottema], Friesan author (De ljochte kimen)
1892 - Andy Clyde, Scotland, actor (George-Real McCoys, Cully-Lassie)
1893 - Edward Hart, (Rep-D-NJ)/1st chairman of Com on Un-American Activities
1894 - Erik William Gustav Leidzen, composer
1895 - Siegfried Handloser, German physician (d. 1954)
1897 - John Laurie, Dumfries Scotland, actor (Jericho, Island of Desire)
1899 - Bella Spewack, Hungary, playwright (Kiss Me Kate)
1899 - Jacques Audiberti, French poet (Race of Men)
1899 - Burt Munro, New Zealand motorcycle racer (d. 1978)
1901 - Ed Begley, Hartford Ct, actor (Mr Koppel-Leave it to Larry)
1902 - Sten Broman, composer
1903 - Frankie Carle, Providence RI, orchestra leader (Golden Touch)
1903 - Nahum Norbert Glatzer, Jewish-American scholar (d. 1990)
1905 - Binnie Barnes, London, actress (Last of the Mohicans, 3 Musketeers)
1906 - Alan J P Taylor, British historian (English history 1914-1915)
1906 - Howard Pyle, (Gov-R-Az, 1951-55)
1906 - Jean Sablon, crooner
1908 - Bridget D'Oyly Carte, British theater & hotel director
1908 - David Lean, Croydon England, director (Dr Zhivago, Ryan's Daughter)
1909 - Dutch (Emil) Leonard, baseball pitcher (Boston Red Sox, 1.01 ERA 1914)
1909 - Jay Blackton, NYC, conductor/arranger (Guys & Dolls)
1910 - Mario Peragallo, Italian composer
1910 - Magda Olivero, Italian soprano
1911 - Willy Anthoons, Flemish sculptor (Mystic verheffing)
1911 - Jack Ruby, killer of Lee Harvey Oswald (d. 1967)
1912 - Jean Vilar, French stage and film actor (d. 1971)
1913 - Sir Reo Stakis, Anglo-Cypriot hotel magnate (d. 2001)
1914 - Marthe Robert, essayist/translator
1914 - Norman E Borlaug, US agriculture scientist (Nobel 1970)
1916 - Nikolay Ivanovich Peyko, composer
1918 - Howard Cosell, Winston-Salem NC, sportscaster (Monday Night Football)
1919 - Jeanne Cagney, actress (Lion is in the Streets, Quicksand)
1920 - Patrick Troughton, actor (Doctor Who)
1920 - Arthur Wint, Jamaican runner (d. 1992)
1921 - Nancy Kelly, Lowell Mass, actress (Double Exposure, Jesse James)
1921 - Simone Signoret, Weisbaden Germany, (Casque d'Or, Room at the Top)
1921 - Alexandra of Greece and Denmark, Queen of Yugoslavia (d. 1993)
1922 - Bruno VeSota, Ill, actor/director (Chopper, Teenage Doll, Wild Rovers)
1922 - Eileen Ford, modeling agency head (Ford Modeling Agency)
1922 - Tobias Schneebaum, New York City, American writer, anthropologist and explorer (d. 2005)
1923 - Lee Hale, Tacoma Wash, choral director (The Entertainers)
1923 - Wim Van Est, [Locomotief/Pletmolen], Dutch cyclist
1923 - Bonnie Guitar, American singer
1924 - Julia A Perry, US composer (Cask of Amontillado)
1924 - Julia Perry, Lexington Kentucky, composer (Selfish Giant)
1924 - Machiko Kyo, Osaka Japan, actor (Gate of Hell, Rashomon, Ugetsu)
1925 - Flannery O'Connor, GA, novelist (A Good Man is Hard to Find)
1926 - Hans Rausing, Swedish/British industrial/billionaire (Tetra Pak)
1926 - Laszlo Papp, Hungary, Olympic Boxer (Gold-1948, 1952, 1956)
1927 - Leslie Claudius, India, field hockey (Olympic-gold-1948, 52, 56)
1928 - Hilton Kramer, Gloucester, Massachusetts, art critic, (d. 2012)
1928 - James A Lovell Jr, Cleveland Ohio, American astronaut (Gemini 7, 12, Apollo 8, 13)
1929 - Harris W Fawell, (Rep-R-IL, 1985- )
1929 - Kenneth Haigh, Yorkshire England, actor (Search for the Nile)
1929 - Wim van Est, Dutch cyclist (d. 2003)
1930 - David Russell Burge, composer
1931 - Paul Motian, American jazz drummer and composer
1932 - Wes Santee, miler
1932 - Woody (Woodson) Held, baseball player
1934 - Gloria Steinem, Toledo Ohio, US feminist/publisher (Ms Magazine)
1934 - Johnny Burnette, Memphis, guitarist (Trains Kept A-Rollin, You're 16)
1935 - Susan Engel, Vienna Austria, actress (Ascendancy)
1935 - Flash Elorde, Filipino boxer
1936 - Lawrence Bernard "Larry" Gales, bassist
1937 - Tom Monaghan, founder of Dominos pizza
1938 - Hoyt Axton, Duncan Oklahoma, actor (Black Stallion, Junkman, Rousters)
1938 - Fritz d'Orey, Brazilian racing driver
1939 - Toni Cade Bambara, director
1940 - Anita Bryant, Barnsdall Oklahoma, homophobe/singer (George Gobel Show)
1941 - Gudmund Hernes, Norwegian politician
1942 - Aretha Franklin, Memphis Tenn, Soul Sister #1/singer (Respect)
1942 - Jacqueline Lichtenberg, US, sci-fi author (Star Trek Lives!, Dreamspy)
1942 - Paul Michael Glaser, Cambridge Mass, actor (Starsky-Starsky & Hutch)
1942 - Richard O'Brien, English actor and writer (Rocky Horror Show)
1942 - Kim Woodburn, English television personality
1943 - Pavel Lednev, USSR, pentathelete (Olympic-gold-1980)
1943 - Ronald Jeffers, composer
1944 - Ross Duncan, cricketer (one Test Australia v England 1971, 0-30)
1944 - Terry L Bruce, (Rep-D-IL, 1985- )
1946 - Bonnie Bedelia, [Culkin], NYC, actress (Die Hard, Heart Like a Wheel)
1946 - Cliff Balsam, English footballer
1946 - Maurice Krafft, French vulcanologist (d. 1991)
1946 - Gerard John Schaefer, American serial killer (d. 1995)
1947 - Claudine Schneider, (Rep-R-RI, 1981- )
1947 - Elton John, [Reginald Kenneth Dwight], England, singer (Rocketman)
1948 - Kelly Garrett, actress/singer (Holdin)
1948 - Michael Stanley, Cleveland OH, rocker (Michael Stanley Band)
1948 - Richard Lundy, horse trainer
1948 - Bonnie Bedelia, American actress
1948 - Lynn Faulds Wood, Scottish television presenter
1949 - Jean Potvin, NHLer
1949 - Neil Jones, musician (Bend Me Shape Me)
1950 - Chuck Greenberg, American musician (Shadowfax) (d. 1995)
1951 - Bob Pelander, rock keyboardist/vocalist (Michael Stanley Band)
1951 - Maisie Williams, Montserrat, rock vocalist (Boney M)
1952 - Ken Boyd, basketball
1952 - Antanas Mockus, Colombian mathematician
1953 - Haroon Rashid, cricketer (Pakistani & WSC batsman late 70's)
1953 - Mary Gross, Chicago Ill, actress/comedian (SNL, Club Paradise, Feds)
1954 - Elli Stai, Greek journalist and TV presenter
1954 - Thom Loverro, American sportswriter
1955 - Daniel Boulud, French chef and restaurateur
1955 - Lee Mazzilli, American baseball player
1956 - Sonia M Lannaman, England, 4X100m relayer (Olympic-bronze-1980)
1956 - Matthew Garber, English actor (d. 1977)
1957 - Jim Uhls, American screenwriter
1958 - James McDaniel, Wash DC, actor (Arthur Fancy-NYPD Blue)
1958 - Maria Caridad Colón, Cuba, javelin thrower, (Olympic-gold-1980)
1958 - Yograj Singh, cricketer (Indian pace bowler early 80's)
1958 - Sisy Chen, Taiwanese politician and television commentator
1958 - Åsa Torstensson, Swedish politician
1959 - Vince Guerra, jockey
1960 - Haywood Nelson, NYC, actor (Haywood-Grady, Dwayne-What's Happening)
1960 - Robert Green, Omaha Neb, tennis star
1960 - Steve Norman, London, rock sax (Spandau Ballet-True)
1960 - Idy Chan Yuk-Lin, Hong Kong actress
1961 - John Stockwell, Galveston TX, actor (Born to Ride, City Limits)
1961 - Mark David Brooks, Fort Worth TX, PGA golfer (1994 Kemper Open)
1961 - Fred Goss, American actor, comedian, and writer
1964 - Alex Solls, jockey
1964 - Eric Woods, California, Canadian Tour golfer (1993 Xerox BC Open)
1964 - Ken Wregget, Brandon, NHL goalie (Pitts Penguins)
1965 - Avery Johnson, NBA guard (San Antonio Spurs)
1965 - Sarah Jessica Parker, Nelsonville Ohio, American actress (Square Pegs, Sex and the City)
1965 - Sean "Hollywood" Hamilton, DJ (Hangin' With Hollywood, Z-100)
1966 - David Hohl, Winnipeg Manitoba, freestyle wrestler (Olympics-9-92, 96)
1966 - Jeff Cross, NFL defensive end (Miami Dolphins)
1966 - Jeff Healey, Canada, blind pop guitarist (See the Light)
1966 - Tom Glavine, Concord MA, pitcher (Atlanta Braves, Cy Young 1991)
1966 - Anton Rogan, Irish footballer
1967 - Debi Thomas, US, figure skater (Olympic-bronze-1988)
1967 - Takayuki Miura, hockey defenseman (Team Japan 1998)
1967 - Matthew Barney, American media artist
1967 - Doug Stanhope, American comedian
1968 - Dixon Edwards, NFL linebacker (Dallas Cowboys, Minnesota Vikings)
1968 - Errol Martin, CFL linebacker (Edmonton Eskimos)
1968 - Peter Blackburn, Australia, badminton player (Olympics-96)
1969 - Dale Davis, NBA forward (Indiana Pacers)
1969 - Dan Wilson, Arlington Height IL, catcher (Seattle Mariners)
1969 - Guy Newman, Australian water polo goalie (Olympics-96)
1969 - Scott Sanders, Hannibal MO, pitcher (San Diego Padres)
1969 - Cathy Dennis, English singer, songwriter, and actress
1970 - Magnus Larsson, Sweden, tennis star
1970 - Shawn Antoski, Brantford, NHL left wing (Phila Flyers)
1971 - Aashish Kapoor, cricketer (Indian off-spin batsman 1994- )
1971 - Andre Bolduc, CFL slot back (Edmonton Eskimos)
1971 - Cammi Granato, ice hockey forward (USA, Oly-98)
1971 - Perry Klein, NFL quarterback (Atlanta Falcons)
1971 - Sheryl Swoopes, Texas, WNBA forward (Houston Comets. Oly-gold-96)
1972 - Demet Edwards, WLAF defensive tackle (Barcelona Dragons)
1972 - Howard Battle, Biloxi MS, infielder (Philadelphia Phillies)
1972 - Lawrence Moten, NBA guard (Vancouver Grizzlies)
1973 - Andrei Nikolishin, Vorkuta Russia, NHL center (Hartford Whalers)
1973 - Bob Sura, NBA guard (Cleveland Cavaliers)
1973 - Ray Zellars, NFL fullback (NO Saints)
1973 - Anthony Barness, English footballer
1973 - Anders Fridén, Swedish singer (In Flames)
1974 - Mike Adams, wide reciever (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1974 - Vyninka Arlow, Australia, diver (Olympics-96)
1974 - Lark Voorhies, American actress
1975 - Miguel Mejia, San Pedro de Macoris, outfielder (St Louis Cardinals)
1975 - Melanie Blatt, British singer (All Saints)
1976 - Monica Croscicka-Wnetrzak, Miss Universe-Poland (1996)
1976 - Francis Bellew, Irish Gaelic footballer
1976 - Cha Tae-hyun, South Korean actor
1976 - Juvenile, American rapper
1976 - Wladimir Klitschko, Ukrainian boxer
1976 - Baek Ji Young, South Korean singer
1979 - Lee Pace, American actor
1979 - Natasha Yi, American supermodel
1980 - Carrie Lam, Hong Kong actress
1980 - Joe King, Guitarist and Co-Founder for the band The Fray
1982 - Sergey Yakovlev, russian musical artist and painter
1982 - Álvaro Saborío, Costa Rican footballer
1982 - Danica Patrick, American race car driver
1982 - Sean Faris, American actor and model
1984 - Katharine McPhee, American singer/actress
1986 - Megan Gibson, American softball player
1987 - Jason Castro, American Idol contestant
1987 - Nobunari Oda, Japanese figure skater
1989 - Chicken Kentucky, 1st partial birth in space (chicken)
1989 - Alyson Michalka, American actress/singer
1989 - Scott Sinclair, English footballer
2184 - Pavel Andreivich Chekov, Leningrad, USSR (Star Trek-character)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 25, 2013, 11:08:13 AM

This Day in History for 25th March


Famous Deaths

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Provencal Poet                                       Composer Claude Debussy (1918)
Frederic Mistral (1914) 


1223 - Afonso II, 3rd King of Portugal (1211-23), dies at 36
1345 - Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster, English politician (b. 1281)
1458 - Inigo Lopez de Mendoza, Spanish marquis of Santillana/poet, dies
1510 - Georges d'amboise, French archbishop of Narbonne/Rouen, dies at 49
1558 - Marcos de Niza, French Franciscan explorer
1561 - Conrad Lycosthenes, French-born German philosopher and encyclopedist (b. 1518)
1603 - Ikoma Chikamasa, Japanese warlord (b. 1526)
1609 - Olaus Martini, Swedish Archbishop of Uppsala (b. 1557)
1620 - Johannes Nucius, German composer
1625 - Giambattista Marini, Italian poet (b. 1569)
1692 - Gerardus L Blasius, Flemish anatomist, dies at about 66
1697 - Hendrik Casimir II, King of Nassau-Dietzstadhouder, dies
1712 - Nehemiah Grew, English naturalist (b. 1641)
1736 - Nicholas Hawksmoor, British architect
1738 - Turlough O'Carolan, Irish harper and composer (b. 1670)
1751 - Frederick of Hessen Kassel, King of Sweden (1720-51), dies at 74
1766 - Johannes Ritschel, composer, dies at 26
1799 - Constantin Reindl, composer, dies at 60
1801 - Anthony Ziesenis, architect/sculptor (Camper), dies at 69
1801 - Novalis, writer, dies at 28
1818 - Caspar Wessel, Danish mathematician (b. 1745)
1823 - Coelestin Jungbauer, composer, dies at 75
1825 - Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck, Dutch patriot/earl, dies at 63
1835 - Friederike Blum, writer, dies
1852 - Alexis Garaude, composer, dies at 73
1860 - James Braid, Scottish surgeon (b. 1795)
1873 - Wilhelm Marstrand, Danish painter (b. 1810)
1880 - Joseph Rummel, composer, dies at 61
1880 - Ludmilla Assing, writer, dies
1908 - Durham Stevens, American diplomat (b. 1851)
1909 - Ruperto Chapi y Lorente, composer, dies at 57
1914 - Frederic Mistral, French poet (Nobel-1904), dies at 83
1917 - Elizabeth Storrs Mead, American educator (b. 1832)
1918 - Claude Debussy, French composer (Iberia/La mer), dies in Paris at 55
1924 - John Reedman, cricketer (Test for Aust 1894, 17 & 4, 1 for 24), dies
1937 - John Drinkwater, English poet/playwright (Bird in Hand), dies at 54
1940 - Ion Nonna Otescu, composer, dies at 51
1948 - Warren Hymer, actor (Show Them No Mercy), dies at 42
1949 - Hanns A Rauter, German SS-commandant in Netherland, executed at 54
1951 - Edward Collins, Hall of Fame infielder (White Sox, A's), dies at 63
1951 - Eddie Collins, American baseball player (b. 1887)
1956 - George Luther Foote, composer, dies at 70
1956 - Robert Newton, actor (Henry V, Odd Man Out), dies at 50
1957 - Fud Livingston, composer, dies at 50
1957 - Max Ophüls, German director and writer (b. 1902)
1958 - Emerson Whithorne, composer, dies at 73
1958 - Tom Brown, American musician (b. 1888)
1959 - Billy Mayerl, composer, dies at 56
1962 - Auguste Piccard, Swiss explorer/balloonist, dies at 78
1963 - David Moore, US feather weight boxer, dies at 29
1965 - Giorgio Federico Ghedini, composer, dies at 72
1965 - Viola Gregg Liuzzo, US civil rights activist, murdered
1966 - Colin Campbell, actor (Leather Boys), dies at 83
1967 - Renato Cellini, Italian conductor (b.c.1913)
1968 - Douglas Evans, actor (South Pacific Trail), dies in Hollywood
1969 - Alan Mowbray, actor (Dante, Colonel Flack), dies at 72
1969 - Max Eastman, American critic/essayist (Love and Revolution), dies at 86
1969 - Norman Gallichan, cricketer (one Test for NZ, 30 & 2, 3-113), dies
1969 - Billy Cotton, British bandleader & entertainer (b. 1889)
1973 - Edward Steichen, pioneer of US photography, dies at 93
1974 - Otto Waldis, actor (Unknown World, Whip Hand), dies at 72
1975 - Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, king of Saudi-Arab (1964-75), shot by nephew at 68
1975 - Juan Gaudino, Argentine racing driver (b. 1893)
1978 - Jack Hulbert, actor (Bulldog Jack), dies at 85
1979 - ... Sykes, British ambassador in The Hague, murdered
1979 - Anton Heiller, composer, dies at 55
1980 - Roland Barthes, French literary critic and writer (b. 1915)
1980 - Milton H. Erickson, American psychiatrist (b. 1901)
1980 - Walter Susskind, Czech conductor (b. 1913)
1980 - James Wright, American poet (b. 1927)
1983 - Martha Sleeper, actress (Spitfire), dies of a heart attack at 72
1983 - Bob Waterfield, American football player (b. 1920)
1987 - Henry R LaBouisse, headed UNICEF (1965-79), dies at 83
1991 - Eileen Joyce, pianist, dies at 78
1991 - Lee Donn, pianist, dies of stroke at 96
1991 - Marcel Lefebvre, French Catholic prelate (b. 1905)
1992 - Nancy Walker, actress (Ida Morgenstern-Rhoda), dies of cancer at 69
1994 - David Miles Bensuan Economist-Butt, , dies at 79
1994 - Michel R Vassallucci, French/Neth publisher (Arena), dies at 32
1995 - James Gardner, designer, dies at 87
1995 - Peter Herbert Penwarden, priest, dies at 73
1995 - Warren E Burger, chief justice of US (1969-86), dies
1995 - James Coleman, American sociologist (b. 1926)
1995 - Krešimir Ćosić, Croatian basketball player (b. 1948)
1996 - John Derrick Mordaunt Snagge, news commentator (BBC), dies at 91
1997 - Roberto Sanchez Vilella, governor of Puerto Rico in (1965-69), dies
1998 - Max Green, Australian lawyer (b. 1952)
1998 - Steve Schiff, United States Congressman (b. 1947)
1999 - Cal Ripken, Sr., American baseball manager (b. 1936)
2000 - Helen Martin, American actress (b. 1909)
2002 - Kenneth Wolstenholme, English football commentator (b. 1920)
2005 - Paul Henning, American TV/film producer and writer (b. 1911)
2006 - Rocío Dúrcal, Spanish singer and actress (b. 1944)
2006 - Richard Fleischer, American film director (b. 1916)
2006 - Buck Owens, American singer and television personality (b. 1929)
2007 - Andranik Margaryan, Armenian politician (b. 1951)
2008 - Rafael Azcona, Spanish screenwriter (b. 1926)
2008 - Ben Carnevale, American basketball coach (b. 1915)
2009 - Johnny Blanchard, American baseball player (b. 1933)
2009 - Gábor Ocskay, Hungarian hockey player (b. 1975)
2009 - Giovanni Parisi, Italian boxer (b. 1967)
2009 - Kosuke Koyama, Japanese theologian (b. 1929)
2010 - Pål Bang-Hansen, Norwegian film critic and television personality (b. 1937)
2012 - Bert Sugar, American sports writer, dies from a cardiac arrest at 74
2012 - Larry Stevenson [Richard], American skateboard innovator, dies from pneumonia and
           Alzheimer's disease at 81

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 26, 2013, 10:35:50 AM

This Day in History for 26th March


Historical Events

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Nobel Laureate Author                            US General George S Patton                  Boxing Champ George Foreman
Ernest Hemingway

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Queen Elizabeth II                                   Russian President Boris Yeltsin             Heavyweight Boxing Champion
                                                                                                                                 Mike Tyson


1027 - John XIX crowns Conrad II the Salier Roman German emperor
1147 - Jewish community in Cologne fast to commemorate anti-Jewish violence
1150 - Tichborne family of Hampshire England started tradition of giving a Gallon of flour to each
           resident to keep deathbed promise
1484 - William Caxton printed his translation of Aesop's Fables.
1526 - King Francois I returns Spanish captivity to France
1534 - Lubeck accept free Dutch ships into East Sea
1552 - Guru Amar Das becomes the Third Sikh Guru.
1636 - University of Utrecht opening ceremony
1668 - England takes control of Bombay India
1692 - King Maximilian installed as land guardian of South Netherlands
1780 - 1st British Sunday newspaper appears (Brit Gazette & Sunday Monitor)
1790 - Congress passes Naturalization Act, requires 2-year residency
1793 - Pro-royalist uprising in Vendée region of France
1799 - Napolean captures Jaffa Palestine
1804 - Congress orders removal of Indians east of Mississippi to Louisiana
1804 - Territory of Orleans organizes in Louisiana Purchase
1808 - Charles IV of Spain abdicates in favor of his son, Ferdinand VII.
1812 - Earthquake destroys 90% of Caracas Venezuela; about 20,000 die
1821 - Franz Grillparzer's "Das Goldene Vliess," premieres in Vienna
1824 - 1st performance of Beethoven's "Missa Solemnis"
1830 - The Book of Mormon is published in Palmyra, New York.
1839 - 1st Henley Royal Regatta
1845 - Joseph Francis, NYC, patents a corrugated sheet-iron lifeboat
1845 - Patent awarded for adhesive medicated plaster, precusor of bandaid
1852 - Decree regarding streets of Paris passed
1856 - NSW's 1st 1st-class game, v Victoria at Melbourne NSW won
1859 - 1st sighting of Vulcan, a planet thought to orbit inside Mercury
1862 - Battle of La Glorieta Pass, NM Terr (Apache Canyon, Pigeon's Ranch)
1863 - Voters in West Virginia approve gradual emancipation of slaves
1871 - Paris Commune founded
1872 - 7.8 earthquake shakes Owens Valley, California
1872 - Thomas J Martin patents fire extinguisher
1878 - Hastings College of Law founded
1878 - Sabi Game Reserve, world's 1st official designated game reserve, opens
1881 - Thessaly is freed and becomes part of Greece again.
1885 - Eastman Film Co manufactures 1st commercial motion picture film
1885 - Louis Riel's forces defeat Canadian forces at Duck Lake, Sask
1886 - 1st cremation in England
1889 - Bernard Tancred carries bat for 26* out of 47! South Africa v England
1889 - Johnny Briggs took 15-26 (7-17 & 8-11) v South Africa at Newlands
1889 - South Africa all out 47, then follow-on all out 43 v England
1895 - King Alfonso plants pine sapling in Madrid, starts Spain's Arbor Day
1900 - 1st edition The (Free) People (Neth, probably Amsterdam)
1903 - American Hotel opens in Amsterdam
1909 - August Strindberg's "Bjalb-jarle-ti," premieres in Stockholm
1910 - US forbid immigration to criminals, anarchists, paupers & the sick
1910 - William H Lewis appointed asst attorney general of US
1913 - Bulgaria captures Adrianople, ending the 1st Balkan War
1913 - Dayton, Ohio almost destroyed when Scioto, Miami, & Muskingum River reach flood stage
           simultaneously
1915 - Stanley Cup: Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA) sweep Ottawa Senators
1916 - Birdman of Alcatraz receives solitary
1917 - Stanley Cup: Seattle Metropolitans (PCHA) beat Montreal Canadiens (NHL), 3 games to 1 -
           Seattle is 1st US team to win Stanley Cup
1923 - Stanley Cup: Ott Senators beat Vanc Millionaires (PCHA), 3 games to 1
1924 - Premiere of Bernard Shaw's "Saint Joan," in London
1926 - ACD de Graeff appointed gov-gen of Dutch East-Indies
1926 - The 1st lip-reading tournament held in America
1927 - Alfred Hugenberg purchases German film company UFA
1927 - Gaumont-British Film Corporation forms
1930 - Congress appropriates $50,000 for Inter-American highway
1931 - Iraq & Trans-Jordan sign peace treaty
1931 - Leo Bentley bowls 3 consecutive perfect games in Lorain, Ohio
1931 - New Delhi replaces Calcutta as capital of British-Indies
1934 - Driving tests introduced in Britain
1935 - "RvJ" Mitchell & Mjr Sorley discuss armament of Spitfire
1936 - 1st parliamentary debate on NZ radio
1936 - 200" telescope lens shipped, Corning Glass Works, NY-Cal Tech
1936 - Mary Joyce ends a 1,000 mile trip by dog in Alaska
1937 - Joe DiMaggio takes Ty Cobb's advice & replace his 40 with 36 oz bat
1937 - Spinach growers of Crystal City, Tx, erect statue of Popeye
1937 - William H Hastie becomes 1st black federal judge (Virgin Islands)
1938 - NBC radio performance of Howard Hanson's 3rd Symphony
1940 - Ernest Hemingway & Benjamin Glazer premiere in NYC
1942 - 1st "Eichmann transport" to Auschwitz & Birkenau Camps
1942 - 1st 700 Jews from Polish Lvov-district reach concentration camp Belzec
1942 - 20 tons of gelignite in a stone quarry at Easton Pa, kills 21
1942 - German offensive in North-Africa under Col-general Rommel
1943 - 1st woman to receive air medal (US army nurse Elsie S Ott)
1943 - Battle of Komandorski Islands, Pacific Ocean
1943 - Elsie S Ott becomes 1st woman awarded US Air Force Medal
1944 - 705 British bombers attack Essen
1945 - British premier Churchill looks over at the Rhine (near Ginsberg)
1945 - De Paul wins NIT basketball championship, George Mikan scores 34
1945 - Generals Eisenhower/Bradley/Patton attack at Remagen the Rhine
1945 - Japanese resistance ends on Iwo Jima
1945 - Kamikaze attack on US battle fleet near Kerama Retto
1945 - US 7th Army crosses Rhine at Worms
1945 - Venray soccer team forms
1949 - 11th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Oklahoma State 46-36
1951 - Patty Berg wins LPGA Sandhills Women's Golf Open
1951 - USAF flag approved
1952 - 14th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kansas beats St Johns 80-63
1952 - F Durrenmatt's "Die Ehe des Herrn Mississippi," premieres in Munich
1953 - Dr Jonas Salk announces vaccine to prevent polio[myelitis]
1953 - Salk Polio vaccine announced
1954 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island
1955 - "Ballad of Davy Crockett," becomes the #1 record in US
1956 - Medic Alert Foundation forms
1956 - Red Buttons debuts on TV in Studio One
1958 - 30th Academy Awards-"Bridge over River Kwai," Woodward & Guinness win
1958 - Army launches 3rd successful US satellite, Explorer III
1958 - US Army launched America's third successful satellite, "Explorer III"
1958 - The African Regroupment Party (PRA) is launched at a meeting in Paris.
1959 - Test debut for Mushtaq Mohammad v WI age 15 yrs 124 days
1960 - Iraq executes 30 after attack on Pres Kassem
1960 - Orioles-Reds series for Havana, is moved to Miami
1960 - USC captures NCAA swimming title
1961 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Golden Circle of Golf Festival
1962 - Supreme Court backs 1-man-1-vote apportionment of seats in state leg
1964 - "Funny Girl" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 1,348 performances
1965 - A truck loses control down Moosic Street, Scranton, Pennsylvania, killing the driver. This
           accident later inspired the 1974 Harry Chapin song, "30,000 Pounds of Bananas."
1967 - 21st Tony Awards: Homecoming & Cabaret win
1967 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Venice Ladies' Golf Open
1967 - Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical Populorum progressio
1969 - Marcus Welby MD, a TV movie is shown on ABC-TV
1969 - Nuclear reactor Dodewaard Neth goes into use
1969 - Soviet weather satellite Meteor 1 launched
1970 - "Minnie's Boys" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 80 performances
1970 - 500th nuclear explosion announced by the US since 1945
1970 - Golden Gate Park Conservatory made city landmark
1970 - Peter Yarrow (Peter, Paul & Mary) plead guilty to "taking immoral liberties" with a 14 year old
           girl
1971 - "Benny Hill Show" tops TV ratings
1971 - "Cannon" with William Conrad premieres on CBS-TV
1971 - Bangladesh (East Pakistan) declares its independence
1972 - "Only Fools Are Sad" closes at Edison Theater NYC after 144 perfs
1972 - Betsy Cullen wins LPGA Sears Women's World Golf Classic
1972 - LA Lakers broke NBA record by winning 69 of 82 games (69-13)
1973 - 35th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Memphis 81-76
1973 - Soap "Young & Restless" premieres
1973 - Susan Shaw, is 1st woman in 171 years in London's Stock exchange
1973 - UCLA wins their 7th straight NCAA basketball title
1974 - George Foreman TKOs Ken Norton in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
1974 - Romanian communist party names party leader Ceausescu president
1975 - "Tommy" premieres in London
1975 - Washington Capitals play record NHL 37th road game without a win & NHL record of 17
           straight loses
1975 - The Biological Weapons Convention enters into force.
1976 - AL approves purchase of Toronto franchise by LaBatt Brewing for $7M
1976 - Wings release "Wings at the Speed of Sound" album
1976 - Queen Elizabeth II sent out the first royal email, from the Royal Signals and Radar
           Establishment.
1977 - Elvis Costello releases his 1st record "Less Than Zero"
1977 - Focus on the Family is founded by Dr. James Dobson
1979 - 41st NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Mich State beats Indiana St 75-64
1979 - Camp David peace treaty between Israel & Egypt
1979 - Michigan State Spartans snaps Indiana State's 33-game win streak
1979 - Padres & Giants announce plans to play exhibition series in Tokyo but Giant players reject it
1980 - Bombay gets its 1st rock concert in 10 years (The Police)
1981 - Police & Albanian demonstrators battle in Kosovo Yugoslavia
1981 - Soyuz T-4 lands
1982 - Ground-breaking in Washington, DC for Vietnam Veterans Memorial
1982 - Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder release "Ebony & Ivory" in the UK
1982 - Soap opera "Capitol" premieres
1983 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1986 - Geffen records signs Guns & Roses
1987 - August Wilson's "Fences," premieres in NYC
1987 - Hyderabad beat Delhi on 1st innings to win Ranji Trophy
1987 - NASA launches Fltsatcom-6, it failed to reach orbit
1987 - Natl Fed of High School adopts college 3 point shot (21 feet)
1988 - Janet B Evans swims 1500m freestyle female world record (15:52.10)
1989 - 1st free elections in USSR; 190 M votes cast; Boris Yeltsin wins
1989 - Allison Finney wins LPGA Standard Register Turquoise Golf Classic
1990 - 62nd Academy Awards - "Driving Miss Daisy," D Day-Lewis, J Tandy win
1991 - Fuel pipe explodes under 58th street & Lexington Ave, NYC
1991 - Marc Camoletti's "Don't Dress for Dinner," premieres in London
1991 - Orlando Thunder beats San Antonio Riders in their 1st WLAF game 35-34
1991 - Victoria beat NSW by 7 wickets to win Sheffield Shield Final
1992 - Mike Tyson sentenced to 10 years in rape of Desiree Washington
1992 - NHL NY Rangers clinch 1st NHL regular season championship in 50 years
1994 - Bonnie Blair skates world record 500 m ladies (38.99 sec)
1994 - Gunda Niemann skates world record 5 km ladies (7:03.26)
1994 - Gunda Niemann skates un-official world record 10 km ladies (14:22.60)
1994 - Yuka Sato of Japan wins world figure skating championship in Tokyo
1995 - "Defending the Caveman," opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 671 perf
1995 - "Moliere Comedies" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 56 perfs
1995 - 15th Golden Raspberry Awards: Color of Night wins
1995 - 24th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Nanci Bowen
1995 - Mashonaland beat Mashonaland U-24 by 165 runs to win Logan Cup
1995 - The Schengen Treaty goes into effect.
1996 - Last day of 1st-class cricket for Allan Border (Qld v Vic)
1996 - The International Monetary Fund approves a $10.2 billion loan for Russia.
1997 - "Annie," opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC
1997 - NHL announce Might Ducks & Vancouver Canucks to open 1998 in Japan
1997 - Thirty-nine bodies found in the Heaven's Gate cult suicides.
1998 - Oued Bouaicha massacre in Algeria; 52 people killed with axes and knives, 32 of them babies
           under the age of 2.
1999 - The "Melissa worm" infects Microsoft word processing and e-mail systems around the world.
1999 - A jury in Michigan finds Dr. Jack Kevorkian guilty of second-degree murder for administering a
           lethal injection to a terminally ill man.
2005 - The Taiwanese government calls on 1 million Taiwanese to demonstrate in Taipei, in
           opposition to the Anti-Secession Law of the People's Republic of China. Around 200,000 to
           300,000 attend the walk.
2006 - In Scotland, the prohibition of smoking in all substantially enclosed public places comes into
           force.
2006 - The military junta ruling Burma officially named Naypyidaw, a new city in Mandalay Division, as
           the new capital. Yangon had formerly been the nation's capital.
2012 - Macky Sall elected as President of Senegal
2012 - Canadian Film maker, James Cameron, becomes the first person to visit Challenger Deep, the
           deepest point on Earth in over 50 years

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 26, 2013, 10:40:20 AM

This Day in History for 26th March


Famous Weddings

1994 - Talk show hostess Ricki Lake weds Rob Sussman
1994 - Half-brother of former President Bill Clinton and rodeo clown Roger Clinton (37) weds Molly
           Martin (25) in Dallas
2011 - Oscar winning actress Reese Witherspoon (36) weds talent agent Jim Toth (34) at Libbey
           Ranch in Ojai, California

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 26, 2013, 10:46:39 AM

This Day in History for 26th March


Famous Birthdays

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Playwright Tennessee Williams (1911)     Actor Leonard Nimoy (1931)                 Actress Keira Knightley (1985)


603 - Pacal II ruler of the Maya polity of Palenque
1479 - Vasili III, great prince of Moscow (1505-33)/son of Ivan III
1516 - Conrad Gessner, Swiss naturalist (d. 1565)
1554 - Charles of Lorraine, Duke of Mayenne, French military leader (d. 1611)
1577 - Elisabeth of Nassau, daughter of Willem I & Charlotte of Bourbon
1659 - William Wollaston, Coton England, philosopher
1671 - Giacomo Cesare Predieri, composer
1684 - Johann Graf, composer
1698 - Václav Prokop Diviš, Czech theologian and natural scientist (d. 1765)
1717 - Manuel Jeronimo Romero de Avila, composer
1749 - William Blount, American Statesman (d. 1800)
1753 - Benjamin Thompson, physicist (Royal Inst of Great Britain, Woburn MA)
1758 - Johann Daniel Ferstenberg, composer
1773 - Nathaniel Bowditch, mathematician/astronomer/author (Marine Sextant)
1783 - Johann Baptist Weigl, composer
1794 - Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, German painter (d. 1872)
1806 - Josef Slavik, composer
1813 - Thomas West Sherman, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1879
1817 - Herman Haupt, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1905
1819 - Francisco Eduardo da Costa, composer
1819 - Louise Otto, Germany, author/feminist
1821 - Earnest Angel, German statistician (Law of Angel)
1827 - Emanuel Kania, composer
1830 - Eliza Laurillard, Dutch vicar/poet/writer
1830 - John Rogers Thomas, composer
1833 - Betsy Perk, [Christina E], Dutch journalist/writer/feminist
1840 - Carli Zoeller, composer
1840 - George Smith, London England, assyriologist (cuneiform (script))
1850 - Edward Bellamy, author (Looking Backward)
1854 - Braulio Dueno Colon, composer
1856 - David Alfred Thomas, Glamorganshire UK, 1st Viscount Rhondda
1859 - A[lfred] E[dward] Housman, England, poet (Shropshire Lad)
1859 - Nikolay Alexandrovich Sokolov, composer
1859 - Adolf Hurwitz, German mathematician (d. 1919)
1862 - George William Louis Marshall-Hall, composer
1868 - Fuad I, king of Egypt (1922-36)
1871 - Prince Jonah Kūhiō Kalaniana'ole of the Kingdom of Hawaii (d. 1922)
1873 - [Louise] Sophie de Vries, actress (On Hope of Blessing)
1874 - Gerald du Maurier, London Engld, actor (Power, Escape, Masks & Faces)
1874 - Oskar Nedbal, composer
1874 - Robert Frost, SF, poet (Mending Wall, Road Not Taken)
1875 - Syngman Rhee, pres of South Korea (1948-60) [or Apr 26]
1876 - Prince William of Wied (d. 1945)
1879 - Othmar Ammann, Swiss bridge engineer (d. 1965)
1880 - Duncan Hines, US, restaurant guide writer (Out of Kentucky Kitchens)
1882 - Hermann Obrecht, Swiss jurist (d. 1940)
1884 - Wilhelm Backhaus, Leipzig Germany, pianist (Rubinstein 1905)
1885 - Julius Harrison, composer
1885 - Robert Blackburn, British aviation pioneer
1886 - Hugh Mulzac, America military officer (d. 1971)
1888 - Elsa Brändström, Swedish nurse (d. 1948)
1889 - Vaclav Kapral, composer
1890 - Jozef Arras, Flemish writer
1893 - Palmiro Togliatti, founder (Communist Party of Italy)
1894 - Will Wright, SF CA, actor (Living Christ Story)
1894 - Viorica Ursuleac, Romanian soprano (d. 1985)
1896 - Richard Flury, composer
1896 - Rudolf Dassler, Founder of PUMA AG (d. 1974)
1898 - Renzo Massarani, composer
1898 - Charles Shadwell, English conductor and bandleader (d. 1979)
1899 - James B Connant, chemist/college president (Yale)
1899 - William Baines, composer
1900 - Isadore Freed, composer
1902 - Leslie Melville, economist
1904 - Emilio Fernandez, El Seco Mexico, director (La Choca, Flor Silvestre)
1904 - Hermann Schroeder, composer
1904 - Joseph Campbell, mythologist (Mythic Image)
1904 - Xenophon Zolotas, Greek economist, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 2004)
1905 - Pablo Garrido, composer
1905 - Viktor Emil Frankl, pyschiatrist (Man's Search for Meaning)
1906 - Rafael Mendez, Mexican trumpetist (d. 1981)
1907 - Leigh Harline, composer
1907 - Louis Saguer, composer
1908 - Betty MacDonald, [Anne E Campbell Bard], US writer (Egg & I)
1908 - Hank Sylvern, Bkln NY, orchestra leader (Jane Froman's USA Canteen)
1908 - Hilda Krahwinkel Sperling, Essen Germany, tennis star (French 1935)
1908 - Kenneth Mellanby, entomologist
1908 - Robert William Paine, architect
1909 - Chips Rafferty, Broken Hill Australia, actor (Desert Rats)
1909 - Chris[tiaan R] Reumer, Dutch opera singer
1911 - Bernard Katz, biophysicist
1911 - Tennessee Williams, Columbus Miss, playwright (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)
1911 - T. Hee, American animator (d. 1988)
1913 - Paul Erdos, mathematician
1914 - Ian McGeoch, Vice-Admiral
1914 - William Westmoreland, Saxon SC, army general (Vietnam era)
1914 - Toru Kumon, Japanese educator (d. 1995)
1916 - Bill Edrich, cricketer (Middlesex & England bat, Compton's mate)
1916 - Christian B Anfinsen, US chemist (cell physiology, Nobel 1972)
1916 - Mort Abrahams, producer (Dr Doolittle, Planet Of Apes)
1916 - Sterling Hayden, NJ, actor (Dr Strangelove, Asphalt Jungle, Cobra)
1916 - Vic Schoen, Bkln NY, orchestra leader (Patti Page Olds Show)
1917 - Jean Graham Hall, circuit court judge (England)
1917 - Rufus Thomas, Miss, singer (Walking the Dog)
1919 - Strother Martin, Kokomo Ind, actor (Cool Hand Luke, Slapshot)
1919 - Roger Leger, Quebec ice hockey player (d. 1965)
1920 - George E Brown Jr, (Rep-D-CA, 1963-71, 73- )
1920 - Sergio Livingstone, Santiago, Chile , football player and journalist (52 caps), (d. 2012)
1921 - George Jefferson, CEO (British Telecom)
1921 - Joe Loco, [Jose Esteves, Jr], musician
1921 - Peter Horsley, CEO (Osprey Aviation)
1922 - William Milliken, actor (Drive-in)
1922 - Oscar Sala, Italian-born physicist
1923 - Bob Elliot, Boston Mass, comedian (Bob & Ray, Get a Life)
1923 - Clifton Williams, Traskwood Arkansas, band master (Sinfonians)
1923 - Elizabeth Jane Howard, British novelist (After Julius)
1923 - Gert Bastian, German politician (d. 1992)
1923 - Bob Elliott, American comedian
1925 - Claudio Spies, composer
1925 - Lord Graham of Edmonton, House of Lords (chief opposition whip)
1925 - Baron Hooson [Hugh Emlyn], British politician and peer (MP for Montgomeryshire 1962-79),
          (d. 2012)
1925 - Maqsood Ahmed, cricketer (Pakistani batsman in 16 Tests 1952-56)
1925 - Pierre Boulez, Montbrison France, composer/conductor (Visage Nuptial)
1927 - Jonathan Tod, Vice-Admiral (England)
1928 - Carole Carr, singer/actress (Down Among the Z Men)
1929 - Maurice Simon, jazz musician
1929 - Edwin Turney, American businessman
1930 - Cristobal Halffter, composer
1930 - Gregory Corso, beat poet (Happy Birthday of Death, Long Live Man)
1930 - Sandra Day O'Connor, Texas, 1st woman Supreme Court Justice (1981- )
1931 - Leonard Nimoy, Boston, actor (Spock-Star Trek, Mission Impossible)
1932 - Dick Nolan, football coach
1934 - Alan Arkin, NYC, actor (Catch 22, In-Laws, Simon, Wait Until Dark)
1934 - G T Pryce, CEO (Dalgety)
1934 - Gino Cappelletti, ORFU, AFL running back (AFL Player of Year 1964)
1935 - Earl of Kinnoull
1935 - Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestine National Authority
1936 - Erich Urbanner, composer
1936 - Fred Paris, rocker (Five Satins)
1937 - Barbara Pearl Jones, Chic Ill, 4X100m relayer (Olympic-gold-1952, 60)
1937 - Lord Chetwode
1937 - Wayne Embry, holder of 7 basketball records (Miami of Ohio)
1938 - Anthony James Leggett, American physicist, Nobel laureate
1939 - Colin Webb, general manager (Press Association)
1939 - Phillip R Allen, Pitts, actor (Harry-Hardy Boys Mystery, Mitch-Alice)
1939 - Stuart Sutherland, Professor Emeritus (Sussex U)
1940 - James Caan, Bronx NY, American actor (Misery, Godfather)
1940 - Bill Ind, Bishop-designate (Truro)
1940 - Braulio Baeza, jockey (National Horse Racing Hall of Famer)
1940 - Nancy Pelosi, (Rep-D-California)
1940 - Rod Lauren, rocker (If I Had a Girl)
1940 - Servaes [J S] Huys, Dutch MP (PvdA)
1941 - Barclay Plager, hockey player/twin brother of hockey's Bob Plager
1941 - Bob Plager, hockey player/twin brother of hockey's Barclay Plager
1941 - Richard Dawkins, British evolutionary biologist
1941 - Yvon Marcoux, Quebec politician
1942 - Erica Jong, [Mann], NYC, author (Fear of Flying)
1943 - Robert Woodward, investigative reporter (Watergate, CIA crimes)
1943 - Bob Woodward, American journalist
1944 - Diana Ross, [Earle], Detroit, (Supremes, Lady Sings Blues, Mahogany)
1945 - Mikhail Voronin, USSR, horse vault gymnist (Olympic-gold-1968)
1946 - Johnny Crawford, LA California, actor (Mark-The Rifleman)
1946 - Alain Madelin, French politician
1947 - Carmen Krolis, Suriname/Neth singer
1947 - Dar Robinson, American stuntman (d. 1986)
1948 - Kyung-Wha Chung, Seoul Korea, violinist (Chung Sisters)
1948 - Richard Tandy, rock bassist (ELO)
1948 - Steven Tyler, NYC, rock vocalist (Aerosmith-Janie Got a Gun)
1949 - Baroness Hayman
1949 - Fran Sheehan, rock bassist (Boston-More than a Feeling)
1949 - Vicki Lawrence, Inglewood Ca, actress (Carol Burnette, Mama's Family)
1949 - Patrick Süskind, German writer
1950 - Ernest Thomas, Gary Ind, actor (Roger-What's Happening!!)
1950 - Graham Barlow, cricketer (England batsman in 3 Tests 1976-77)
1950 - Martin Short, Hamilton Ontario, comedian (SNL, SCTV, 3 Amigos)
1950 - Ronnie McDowell, Fountain Head Tn, country singer (King is Gone)
1950 - Teddy Pendergrass, Phila, singer (Turn Off the Lights)
1950 - Tony Papenfuss, Minneapolis Minn, (Daryl-Newhart)
1950 - Alan Silvestri, American film score composer
1951 - Richard B Shull, US actor (Hail to the Chief, Big Bus)
1952 - David Amess, MP
1952 - Didier Pironi, French Formula One driver (d. 1987)
1953 - Michael Bonagura, Newark NJ, country singer (Baille & Boys-Oh Heart)
1953 - Tatyana Providokhina, Russian 1K runner (world record)
1953 - Elaine Chao, U.S. Secretary of Labor
1953 - Lincoln Chafee, American Senator from Rhode Island
1953 - Youssouf Togoïmi, Chadian rebel (d. 2002)
1954 - Curtis Sliwa, founder (Guardian Angels)/radio personality (WABC)
1954 - Piers Gardner, director (Brit Institute of Intl & Comparative Law)
1954 - Kazuhiko Inoue, Japanese seiyu (voice actor)
1955 - Dean Dillon, Lake City TN, country singer (Chair)
1955 - Danny Arndt, Canadian ice hockey player
1956 - Charly McClain, Jackson Tn, country singer (Radio Heart)
1956 - Tatyana Kochergina, USSR, team handball (Olympic-gold-1976, 80)
1957 - Leeza Gibbons, SC, TV host (Entertainment Tonight, Leeza)
1957 - Walter Rohlfing, Dusseldorf, WLAF defensive line coach (Rhein Fire)
1958 - Chris Codiroli, American baseballer
1959 - David Delong, Portland Ore, Canadian Tour golfer (1988 BC Open)
1959 - Chris Hansen, American reporter and correspondent
1960 - Billy Warlock, Hawthorne California, actor (Flip-Happy Days, Baywatch)
1960 - Debbie Hall, LPGA golfer
1960 - Marcus Allen, NFL running back (LA Raiders, KC Chiefs, Heisman 1981)
1960 - Michael Evans, Fontana CA, US water polo player (Olympic-silver-88)
1961 - Leigh Bowery, designer
1961 - William Hague, Secretary of State for Wales
1962 - John Stockton, Spokane Wash, NBA guard (Utah Jazz, Olympics-gold-96)
1962 - Kevin Seitzer, Springfield IL, infielder (Milwaukee Brewers)
1962 - Maarten de Young, soccer player (SC Heerenveen)
1962 - Richard Coles, rocker (Communards-Don't Leave Me This Way)
1962 - Yuri Pavlovich Gidzenko, Russia, lt-colonel/cosmonaut
1963 - Paul de Leeuw, Dutch TV host (Cry of the Lion)
1963 - Rebecca Twigg, Seattle Wash, 79K cyclist (Olympic-silver-1984, 92, 96)
1963 - Natsuhiko Kyogoku, Japanese writer
1963 - Amparo Larrañaga, Spanish actress
1964 - Ab Plugboer, soccer player (FC Utrecht)
1964 - Ulf Samuelsson, Fagersta SWE, NHL defenseman (Team Sweden, NY Rangers)
1964 - Martin Donnelly, Irish racecar driver
1964 - Baz Warne, English Guitarist (The Stranglers)
1966 - Lee Porter, Greensboro NC, Nike golfer (1992 Texarkana Open-5th)
1966 - Mike Remlinger, Middletown NY, pitcher (Cin Reds)
1966 - Wesley Walls, NFL tight end (NO Saints)
1966 - Michael Imperioli, American actor
1967 - Mark Carroll, Australian rugby league footballer
1968 - Edward Kaminski, KC Kansas, javelin thrower
1968 - Ian Hutchings, Zimbabwe, Canadian Tour golfer (1994 Klondike Klassic)
1968 - Jose Vizcaino, San Cristobal Dom Rep, infielder (NY Mets)
1968 - Kari Gronroos, WLAF kicker (Scotland Claymores)
1968 - Mike Trevathan, CFL slot back (BC Lions)
1968 - Shane Reynolds, Bastrop LA, pitcher (Houston Astros)
1968 - Kenny Chesney, American singer
1968 - James Iha, American musician (The Smashing Pumpkins and A Perfect Circle)
1968 - Laurent Brochard, French cyclist
1969 - Beth Howell, Clinton Mississippi, Miss Mississippi-America (1991)
1969 - Luke Richardson, Ottawa, NHL defenseman (Edmonton Oilers)
1969 - Vikram Rathour, cricketer (Indian Test opening batsman 1996-)
1970 - Evan Richards, LA California, actor (Frankie-Mama Malone)
1970 - Paul Bosvelt, soccer player (Go Ahead Eagles/FC Twente)
1970 - Martin McDonagh, Anglo-Irish playwright and film director
1971 - Dave DeGraaf, Lansing Mich, team handball circle (Olympics-1996)
1971 - Jesus Tavarez, Santo Domingo Dom Rep, outfielder (Florida Marlins)
1971 - Rennae Stubbs, Sydney Australia, tennis star
1971 - Tommy Fagan, CFL/NFL defensive end (Atl Falcons, Winn Blue Bombers)
1971 - Behzad Ghorbani, Iranian zoologist and sociobiologist
1972 - Naoko Kijimuta, Yokohama Kanagawa Japan, tennis star (1996 Jakarta)
1972 - Steve Anderson, CFL defensive linebacker (Calgary Stampeders)
1972 - Jon Reep, American comedian and actor
1973 - Marshall Faulk, running back (Indianapolis Colts)
1973 - Heather Goldenhersh, American actress
1973 - Lawrence E. Page, American search engine pioneer
1973 - T.R. Knight, American actor
1973 - Matt Burke, Australian rugby player
1974 - Alfred Shipman, CFL slot back (BC Lions)
1974 - Hakeem Abdul-samad, rocker (Boys)
1974 - Irina Spirlea, Bucharest Romania, tennis star (1996 Amelia Island)
1974 - Mike Peca, Toronto, NHL center (Buffalo Sabres)
1976 - Amy Smart, American actress
1976 - Natalia Livingston, American actress
1976 - Nurgül Yeşilçay, Turkish actress
1976 - Ufuk Talay, Australian soccer player
1977 - Kevin Davies, English footballer
1977 - Sylvain Grenier, Canadian professional wrestler
1978 - Anastasia Kostaki, Greek basketball player
1979 - Heidi Zeigler, actress (Sherry-Just the 10 of Us)
1979 - Hiromi Uehara, Japanese jazz pianist
1979 - Pierre Wome, Cameroonian footballer
1979 - Nacho Novo, Spanish footballer
1980 - Son Ho Young, Korean singer
1981 - Baruch Dego, Israeli football player
1981 - Jay Sean, British Asian R&B singer
1981 - Josh Wilson, American baseball player
1982 - Mikel Arteta, Spanish footballer
1983 - David Bennett, Canadian powerlifter and steamfitter
1983 - Michael Brendli, American professional wrestler
1984 - Gregory Strydom, Zimbabwean crickaeter
1984 - Sara Jean Underwood, American model
1984 - Stéphanie Lapointe, French-Canadian singer
1985 - Keira Knightley, London, English actress (Bend It Like Beckham, Pirates of the Caribbean)
1985 - Prosper Utseya, Zimbabwean cricket captain
1985 - Jonathan Groff, American stage actor
1986 - Jessica McClure, baby trapped in Texas well in 1988
1987 - Yui, Japanese musician
1988 - Jose Vizcaino, San Cristobal Dom Rep, infielder (NY Mets)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 26, 2013, 10:49:12 AM

This Day in History for 26th March


Famous Deaths

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Composer Ludwig van Beethoven (1827)

304 - Saint Emmanuel, Christian martyr killed under Diocletian
752 - Stephen II, Catholic Pope (3/22-26/752), dies
809 - Liudger, missionary/1st bishop of Munster/saint, dies at about 66
1130 - King Sigurd I of Norway (b. ca. 1090)
1212 - Sancho I, King of Portugal (1185-1212), dies at 58
1258 - Floris, the Guardian, count-regent of Holland, dies
1350 - Alfonso XI, King of Castile & Leon, dies
1517 - Heinrich Isaac, Flemish composer
1535 - Georg Tannstetter, Austrian scientist (b. 1482)
1546 - Thomas Elyot, British diplomat, dies
1566 - Antonio de Cabezon, composer, dies
1638 - Palamedes "Stevens" Palamedesz, painter, dies at about 30
1649 - John Winthrop, Puritan & 1st Governor (Mass), dies
1657 - Jacob van Eyck, Dutch blind flautist/carillonneur, dies at 69
1679 - Johannes Schefferus, Alsatian-born humanist (b. 1621)
1697 - Godfrey McCulloch, Scottish politician and murderer (executed) (b. 1640)
1713 - Pal Esterhazy, composer, dies at 77
1726 - John Vanbrugh, Dutch/English playwright (Provoked Wife), dies at 62
1736 - Georg Balthasar Schott, composer, dies at 49
1772 - Charles Pinot Duclos, French writer (b. 1704)
1776 - Samuel Ward, American politician (b. 1725)
1780 - Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (b. 1713)
1793 - John Mudge, English physician (b. 1721)
1797 - James Hutton, geologist, dies
1809 - Gabriele Mario Piozzi, composer, dies at 68
1814 - Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, namesake of the guillotine (b. 1738)
1820 - Jean-Etienne Despreaux, composer, dies at 71
1827 - Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer (Appassionata), dies at 56
1831 - Richard Allen, AME Church Bishop, dies at 71
1837 - Joseph Lincke, composer, dies at 53
1858 - John Addison Thomas, American soldier (b. 1811)
1865 - Thomas Hancock, pioneer of rubber industry (Stoke Newington), dies
1880 - Mariano Soriano Fuertes y Piqueras, composer, dies at 62
1881 - Roman Sanguszko, Polish aristocrat (b. 1800)
1888 - Barghash bin Said, second Sultan of Zanzibar (b. 1837)
1892 - Anton Wallerstein, composer, dies at 78
1892 - Walt Whitman, poet, dies in Camden, NJ at 72
1896 - Nanny v Hof, writer, dies
1900 - Isaac Mayer Wise, rabbi/found American Hebrew Congregations, dies at 80
1902 - Cecil Rhodes, Prime Minister of Cape Colony (1890-96) dies at 48
1905 - Maurice Barrymore, actor; patriarch of the Barrymore family (b. 1849)
1909 - Nikolai Arkas, composer, dies at 56
1910 - Auguste Charlois, French astronomer (b. 1864)
1910 - An Jung-geun, Korean assassin of Ito Hirobumi (executed) (b. 1879)
1918 - Caesar A Cui, Lithuanian fort builder/composer, dies at 83
1920 - William Chester Minor, American surgeon and contributor to the Oxford English Dictionary (b.
           1834)
1923 - Sarah Bernhardt, [Henriette], actress (Queen Elizabeth), dies at 77
1924 - Augusto de Oliviera Machado, composer, dies at 78
1926 - Georges Vezina, NHL Hall of Fame goalie (Canadiens), dies
1926 - Konstantin Fehrenbach, German reichs chancellor (1920-21), dies at 74
1929 - Katharine Lee Bates, American poet (b. 1859)
1932 - Jean Cartan, composer, dies at 25
1933 - Eddie Lang, American musician (b. 1902)
1934 - Grete Gulbransson, writer, dies at 51
1937 - Albert Relf, cricketer (13 Tests for England 1903-14), commits suicide
1940 - Spiridon Louis, Greek runner, winner of the first modern Olympics marathon (b. 1873)
1942 - Jimmy Burke, American baseball player (b. 1874)
1945 - David Lloyd George, British (L) premier (1916-22), dies at 82
1945 - Isaack Stouten, resistance fighter, shot to death at 29
1948 - Helen Ernst, German poster artist/resistance fighter, dies at about 43
1951 - James F. Hinkle, American politician, sixth Governor of New Mexico (d. 1864)
1953 - Albert Spalding, composer, dies at 64
1956 - Thomas Alexandrovich de Hartmann, composer, dies at 70
1957 - Édouard Herriot, French politician (b. 1872)
1958 - Phil Mead, cricketer (55061 1st-class runs 1905-36), dies
1959 - Raymond T Chandler, US detective writer (Long Goodbye), dies at 71
1960 - Ian Keith, actor (Identity Unknown, Queen Christina), dies at 61
1962 - Marjorie Colton, inventor of wax paper, dies at 64
1969 - B[runo] Traven, writer (Sierra Madre), dies at 87
1969 - Gunther Weisenborn, German/Argentine writer (Illegals), dies at 66
1973 - George Sisler, hall of famer 1st baseman (257 hits-1920), dies at 80
1973 - Noel Coward, English playwright (Private Letters), dies at 73
1973 - Safford Cape, US/Belgian conductor/composer/musicologist, dies at 67
1973 - Johnny Drake, American football player (b. 1916)
1973 - Don Messer, Canadian fiddler (b. 1909)
1976 - Richard Arlen, actor (Apache Uprising, Wings), dies at 75
1976 - Josef Albers, German artist (b. 1888)
1976 - Lin Yutang, Chinese writer (b. 1895)
1979 - Jean Stafford, US author (Boston Adventure), dies at 63
1980 - Jon-Jon Poulos, rocker (Buckinghams), dies from drugs at 32
1981 - Cyril Dean Darlington, biologist (hereditary mechanisms), dies at 77
1981 - Tim Wall, cricketer (SA v NSW 1933 is Sheffield Shield record), dies
1982 - Agathe "Henriette" de Beaufort, writer (Dolly of Arnhem), dies at 91
1983 - Anthony F Blunt, British art historian/spy for USSR, dies at 75
1984 - Ahmed Sékou Touré, President of Guinea (b. 1922)
1986 - Bartlett Robinson, actor (Wendy & Me, Mona McCluskey), dies at 73
1987 - Walter Abel, actor (Suspicion), dies at 88
1987 - Eugen Jochum, German conductor (b. 1902)
1990 - International Chrysis, Transvestite actor (Q&A), dies of cancer at 38
1990 - Roy "Halston" Frowick, fashion designer, dies of AIDs at 68
1991 - Frans Dohmen, union leader (Neth Catholic Mine Workers), dies at 81
1992 - Barbara Frum, Canadian journalist (b. 1937)
1993 - Luis Falco, US choreographer (Fame, Angel Heart), dies at 50
1993 - Roy Riegels, University of California football player who ran wrong way, dies at 84
1994 - Constantine Koukouchkine, Russ diplomat. murdered in Algeria at 41
1994 - Jan Bor, Dutch violinist/painter, dies at 83
1995 - Rapper-E (Eazy Eric Wright), dies at 31
1996 - (Elizabeth Cissie) Charlton, football matriarch, dies at 83
1996 - David Packard, electronic engineer/businessman, dies at 83
1996 - Edmund S Muskie, vice pres candidate/(Gov-D-Maine), dies at 81
1996 - Thomas Wakefield, writer, dies at 60
1997 - Marshall Applewhite, American cult leader (b. 1931)
2000 - Alex Comfort, American author (b. 1920)
2002 - Randy Castillo, American drummer (Ozzy Osbourne, Mötley Crüe) (b. 1950)
2003 - Daniel Patrick Moynihan, U.S. Senator (b. 1927)
2004 - Jan Berry, American musician (Jan and Dean) (b. 1941)
2004 - Jan Sterling, American actress (b. 1921)
2005 - James Callaghan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1912)
2005 - Gérard Filion, Quebec businessman and journalist (b. 1909)
2005 - Paul Hester, Australian drummer (Split Enz and Crowded House) (b. 1959)
2005 - Marius Russo, American baseball player (b. 1914)
2006 - Anil Biswas, Indian politician (b. 1944)
2006 - Paul Dana, American race car driver (b. 1975)
2006 - Nikki Sudden, British singer/songwriter (b. 1956)
2008 - Heath Benedict, American Football Player (b. 1983)
2008 - Robert Fagles, American translator and professor (b. 1933)
2008 - Wally Phillips, American radio personality (b. 1925)
2008 - Manuel Marulanda Velez aka Tirofijo, founder and lifelong leader of Colombian rebel group
           FARC-EP (b. 1930)
2011 - Geraldine Ferraro, Congresswoman and VP nominee (b. 1935)
2011 - Roger Abbott, Canadian comedian (Air Farce Live) (b. 1946)
2011 - Diana Wynne Jones, British fantasy writer (b. 1934)
2011 - Paul Baran, internet pioneer who helped create the technical underpinnings of Arpanet, dies at
          84

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 27, 2013, 11:33:33 AM

This Day in History for 27th March


Historical Events

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King of England King Charles I                  US President & General                         Comedian Charlie Chaplin
                                                                   Andrew Jackson

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Comedian Groucho Marx                        Jazz Singer Ella Fitzgerald                        Singer/Actor Frank Sinatra

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First Secretary of the                               Actor Marlon Brando                           Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber
Communist Party of the
Soviet Union
Nikita Khrushchev

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Actor Billy Dee Williams                            Actor Tom Hanks


196 BC - Ptolemy V ascends to the throne of Egypt.
1309 - Pope Clement V excommunicates Venice and all its population.
1329 - Pope John XXII issues his 'In Agro Dominico' condemning some writings of Meister Eckhart as
           heretical.
1513 - Spaniard Juan Ponce de Leon discovers Florida
1599 - Robert Devereux becomes lt-general of Ireland
1613 - The first English child born in Canada at Cuper's Cove, Newfoundland to Nicholas Guy.
1625 - Charles I, King Of England, Scotland & Ireland, ascends English throne
1642 - The sixth Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Joseph takes office.
1668 - English king Charles II gives Bombay to East India Company
1708 - English pretender to the throne James III flees to Dunkerk
1709 - Dike at Hardinxveld breaks (Alblasserwaard flooded)
1713 - Spain losses Menorca & Gibraltar
1721 - France & Spain sign Treaty of Madrid
1758 - Battle at Emmerich: British army floats around France the Rhine
1782 - Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham becomes Prime Minister of the
           United Kingdom.
1790 - The modern shoestring (string and shoe holes) invented in England
1794 - The United States Government establishes a permanent navy and authorizes the building of
           six frigates.
1794 - Denmark and Sweden form a neutrality compact.
1802 - Treaty of Amiens-French Revolutionary War ends
1808 - Joseph Haydns oratorio "Die Schopfung" premieres in Vienna
1814 - Battle at Horseshoe Bend: General Andrew Jackson defeats the Red Sticks, part of the Creek
           Indian tribe near Dadeville, Alabama
1836 - 1st Mormon temple dedicated (Kirtland Ohio)
1841 - 1st US steam fire engine tested, NYC
1848 - John Parker Paynard originates medicated adhesive plaster
1849 - Joseph Couch patents steam-powered percussion rock drill
1855 - Abraham Gesner patents kerosene
1860 - M L Byrn patents "covered gimlet screw with a 'T' handle" (corkscrew)
1863 - President Davis calls for this to be a day of fasting & prayer
1865 - Siege of Spanish Fort, AL-captured by Federals
1866 - Andrew Rankin patents the urinal
1866 - Pres Johnson vetoes civil rights bill; it later becomes 14th amend
1868 - The Lake Ontario Shore Railroad Company is organized in Oswego, New York.
1871 - 1st international rugby game-Scotland 1, England 0
1879 - Longest championship fight (136 rounds)
1881 - Rioting takes place in Basingstoke in protest against the daily vociferous promotion of rigid
           Temperance by the Salvation Army.
1884 - 1st long-distance telephone call, Boston-NY
1890 - A tornado strikes Louisville, Kentucky, killing 76 and injuring 200.
1906 - Founding of the Alpine Club of Canada in Winnipeg, Manitoba
1910 - Fire during a barn-dance in Ököritófülpös, Hungary, killed 312
1912 - 1st Japanese cherry blossom trees planted in Wash DC
1914 - 1st successful blood transfusion (in Brussels)
1918 - Moldova and Bessarabia join Romania.
1920 - Hermann Muller becomes German chancellor (SPD)
1924 - Canada recognizes USSR
1924 - New French government of Poincaré begins
1928 - KGB-AM in San Diego CA begins radio transmissions
1928 - US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson
1928 - US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Roger Turner
1929 - US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson
1929 - US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Roger Turner
1930 - 1st US radio broadcast from a ship at sea
1931 - Charlie Chaplin receives France's distinguished Legion of Honor
1931 - John McGraw says night baseball will not catch on
1932 - De Bataven soccer team forms in Gendt
1933 - Farm Credit Administration (US) authorized
1933 - Japan leaves League of Nations
1933 - Polythene discovered by Reginald Gibson & Eric William Fawcett
1936 - WOS-AM in Jefferson City Missouri goes off the air
1937 - Feyenoord-stadium official opens in Rotterdam
1938 - The Battle of Taierzhuang takes place.
1939 - 1st NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: U of Oregon beats OH State 46-33
1940 - Himmler orders building of Auschwitz concentration camp, at Katowice
1941 - Britain leases defense bases in Trinidad to US for 99 years
1941 - Hitler signs Directive 27 (assault on Yugoslavia)
1941 - Yugoslavian coup gets rid of pro-German Prince Paul
1942 - -28] Allies raid German submarine base in St Nazaire
1942 - Japan forces Java to use "Tokyo time" 1½ hour forward
1942 - Joe Louis KOs Abe Simon in 6 to retain heavyweight boxing title (NYC)
1943 - Assassination attempt on Van de Peat at Amsterdams census bureau
1943 - Blue Ribbon Town (with Groucho Marx) 1st heard on CBS Radio
1943 - US begins assault on Fondouk-pass, Tunisia
1944 - 1,000 Jews leave Drancy France for Auschwitz Concentration Camp
1944 - 2,000 Jews are murdered in Kaunas Lithuania
1944 - 40 Jewish policemen in Riga Latvia ghetto are shot by the gestapo
1944 - Children's Aktion-Nazis collect all the Jewish children of Lovno
1945 - 7th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Oklahoma State beats NYU 49-44
1945 - British premier Churchill sails to eastern banks of Rhine
1945 - DePaul beats Bowling Green for NIT title
1945 - Ella Fitzgerald & Delta Rhythm Boys record "It's Only a Paper Moon"
1945 - Gen Eisenhower declares German defenses on Western Front broken
1945 - Iwo Jima occupied, after 22,000 Japanese & 6,000 US killed
1945 - US 20th Army corps captures Wiesbaden
1945 - World War II: Operation Starvation, the aerial mining of Japan's ports and waterways begins.
1948 - The Second Congress of the Workers Party of North Korea is convened.
1950 - Jazz pianist, Erroll Garner's solo concert (Cleve OH)
1950 - Netherlands recognizes People's Republic of China
1950 - WHAS TV channel 11 in Louisville, KY (CBS) begins broadcasting
1951 - 13th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Kansas 68-58
1951 - Frank Sinatra recorded "I'm a Fool to Want You"
1952 - Failed assassination attempt of German Chancellor Adenauer
1952 - Sun Records of Memphis begins releasing records
1953 - 21 die in a train crash in Conneaut Ohio
1955 - 9th Tony Awards: Desperate Hours & Pajama Game win
1955 - Steve McQueen makes his network TV debut (Goodyear Playhouse)
1955 - WPRI TV channel 12 in Providence, RI (ABC) begins broadcasting
1956 - French commandos land in Algeria
1956 - US seizes US communist newspaper "Daily Worker"
1957 - 29th Academy Awards - "Around World in 80 Days," Bergman, Brynner win
1958 - CBS Labs announce new stereophonic records
1958 - Havana Hilton opens
1958 - Nikita Khrushchev becomes Soviet premier & 1st sect of Communist Party
1960 - Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Royal Crown Golf Open
1961 - Black demonstrators in Charleston staged ride-ins on street cars
1961 - Belgium government of Eyskens resigns
1961 - Failed assassination attempt on King Saif al-Islam Achmad of Yemen
1962 - Ann Jellicoe's "Knack," premieres in London
1962 - Archbishop Rummel ends race segregation in New Orlean Catholic school
1962 - Jacques Plante ties record winning 6th NHL Vezina trophy
1963 - Beeching axe: Dr. Richard Beeching issues a report calling for huge cuts to the United
           Kingdom's rail network.
1964 - 1st true Pirate Radio station, Radio Caroline (England)
1964 - Earthquake strikes Alaska, 8.4 on Richter scale, 118 die
1964 - Great Train Robbers sentenced to a total of 307 years behind bars
1964 - UN troops arrive on Cyprus
1966 - Anit Vietnam war demonstrations in US, Europe & Australia
1966 - Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Louise Suggs Delray Beach Golf Invitational
1968 - Japanese Trade & Cultural Center (Japan Center) dedicated in SF
1968 - Suharto succeeds Sukarno as president of Indonesia
1969 - Black Academy of Arts & Letters forms in Boston
1969 - Launch of Mariner 7, flies 2,190-mi above southern Mars
1970 - Ringo releases his 1st solo album "Sentimental Journey"
1970 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1971 - 33rd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Villanova 68-62 UCLA wins their 5th
           consecutive NCAA basketball title
1972 - Adolph Rupp retires after 42 years of coaching U of Kentucky
1972 - Venera 8 launched to Venus
1973 - Dennis Amiss out for 99 v Pakistan, 3rd 99 in Test Cricket
1973 - Jerry Garcia (Grateful Dead) stopped for speeding & LSD possession
1973 - 45th Academy Awards - "Godfather," Marlon Brando & Liza Minnelli win Marlon Brando turns
          down Oscar for best actor in support of Indians
1976 - Delta States beat Immaculata, 69-64, for AIWA basketball title
1976 - Washington DC underground Metro opens
1977 - 583 die in aviation's worst disaster KLM-Pan Am 747 crash on Tenerife
1977 - Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Kathryn Crosby/Honda Civic Golf Classic
1978 - 40th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Duke 94-88
1978 - Bob Fosse's "Dancin'" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 1,774 perfs
1978 - Rutles "All You Need is Cash" is shown on British TV
1979 - Supreme Court rules, 8-1, cops can't randomly stop cars
1980 - "Happy New Year" opens at Morosco Theater NYC for 17 performances
1980 - "Reggae" opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 21 performances
1980 - Elevator in Vaal Reef S Afr gold mine crash 1900m down (23 die)
1980 - Mount St Helens becomes active after 123 years
1980 - The Norwegian oil platform Alexander Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its
           crew of 212.
1981 - John Lennon releases "Watching the Wheels" in UK
1982 - "Best Little Whorehouse..." closes at 46th St NYC after 1577 perfs
1982 - Imran takes 14-116 for cricket match v Sri Lanka at Lahore
1982 - Randy Holt sets Wash Cap record of 34 penalty minutes
1983 - 13th Easter Seal Telethon
1983 - Larry Holmes beats Lucien Rodriguez in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1983 - Neil Simon's "Brighton Beach Memoirs," premieres in NYC
1984 - Andrew Lloyd Webber/Richard Stilgoe's "Starlight Express," premieres
1985 - Billy Dee Williams receives a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
1986 - Disney-MGM Studio Tour ground breaking
1987 - President Habre's troops reconquer Faya Largeau Chad
1988 - Ice Dance Championship at Budapest won by Bestemianova & Bukin (URS)
1988 - Ice Pairs Championship at Budapest won by E Valova & O Vasiliev (URS)
1988 - Ladies Fig Skating Championship in Budapest won by Katarina Witt (GDR)
1988 - Men's Figure Skating Champions in Budapest won by Brian Boitano (USA)
1988 - Ok-Hee Ku wins Standard Register Turquoise Classic Golf Tournament
1988 - Wrestlemania IV at Trump Plaza, "Macho Man" Savage pins Ted Dibiase
1989 - 1st half-black soap opera, "Generations," premieres on NBC-TV
1989 - Delhi beat Bengal by innings & 210 to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy
1990 - Bus accidentally touches high voltage wire in Karagpur India; 21 die
1990 - NSW beat Queensland by 345 runs to win Sheffield Shield Final
1990 - The United States begins broadcasting TV Martí to Cuba in an effort to bridge the information
           blackout imposed by the Castro regime.
1991 - NCAA bans U of Minn football team from postseason play in 1992
1991 - New Kid Donnie Wahlberg, arrested on arson charges in Kentucky
1991 - Scotty Bowman & Neil Armstrong elected to NHL Hall of Fame
1992 - Bruce Springsteen releases "Human Touch" & "Lucky Town"
1993 - Jiang Zemin is appointed President of the People's Republic of China.
1994 - 23rd Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Donna Andrews
1994 - Church in Piedmont Alabama collapses in tornado, 19 killed
1994 - Ice Dance Championship at Chiba Japan won by Gritschuk & Platov (RUS)
1994 - Ice Pairs Championship at Chiba won by Shishkova/Vadim Naumov (RUS)
1994 - Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Chiba won by Yuka Sato (JPN)
1994 - Men's Figure Skating Championship in Chiba won by Elvis Stojko (CAN)
1994 - The Eurofighter takes its first flight in Manching, Germany.
1995 - 67th Academy Awards - "Forest Gump," Jessica Lange & Tom Hanks win
1996 - "State Fair," opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 118 performances
1997 - "Young Man From Atlanta," opens at Longacre NYC for 85 performances
1997 - 39 cult memebers in California commit mass suicide (Hale-Bopp)
1997 - Martin Luther King's son meets with James Earl Ray
2000 - Phillips explosion of 2000 kills 1 and injures 71 in Pasadena, Texas.
2002 - Passover Massacre: A suicide bomber kills 29 people in Netanya, Israel.
2004 - HMS Scylla, a decommissioned Leander frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the
           first of its kind in Europe.
2006 - The United Nations Commission on Human Rights holds its final meeting.
2009 - Situ Gintung, an artificial lake in Indonesia, fails killing at least 99 people.
2134 - 32nd recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 27, 2013, 11:35:36 AM

This Day in History for 27th March


Famous Weddings

1958 - Latin American and magic realism leading novelist and short story writer "One Hundred years of
           Solitude" Gabriel Garc

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 27, 2013, 11:43:03 AM

This Day in History for 27th March


Famous Birthdays

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Actress Gloria Swanson (1899)                 Film Director & Screenwriter                    Singer Mariah Carey (1971)
                                                                    Quentin Tarantino (1963)


972 - King Robert II of France (d. 1031)
1416 - Antonio Squarcialupi, composer
1554 - Everhardus van Bronchorst, Dutch lawyer
1627 - Stephen Fox, English politician (d. 1716)
1665 - Benjamin Neukirch, German poet (Herrn von Hofmannswaldau)
1676 - Francis II Rákóczi, leader of the Hungarian uprising against the Habsburg (d. 1735)
1696 - Antoine Court, French Huguenot minister (d. 1760)
1702 - Johann Ernst Eberlin, composer
1710 - Joseph Marie Clement dall' Abaco, composer
1712 - Claude Bourgelat, French veterinary surgeon (d. 1779)
1714 - Francesco Antonio Zaccaria, Italian theologian and historian (d. 1795)
1730 - Thomas Tyrwhitt, English classical scholar (d. 1786)
1746 - Augustin Ullinger, composer
1746 - Carlo Bonaparte, Corsican attorney/father of emperor Napoleon
1746 - Michael Bruce, Scottish poet (d. 1767)
1757 - Richard John Samuel Stevens, composer
1760 - Ishmail Spicer, composer
1760 - MJ Auguste Vestrius, French ballet dancers
1765 - Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher/theologist
1772 - Giovanni Liverati, composer
1780 - August L Crelle, German inventor/mathematician (1st Prussian Railway)
1785 - Louis XVII Charles, king of France (1793-95)
1797 - Alfred V Comte de Vigny, French musketeer/writer (Moise, Chatterton)
1809 - Georges Eugene Haussmann, Paris France, architect
1810 - A Glabbrenner, writer
1810 - William Hepworth Thompson, English classical scholar (d. 1886)
1813 - Nathaniel Currier, lithographer (Currier & Ives)
1816 - George Elvey, composer
1817 - Karl Wilhelm von Nägeli, Swiss biologist (d. 1891)
1818 - Jakob Axel Josephson, composer
1823 - Samuel Kosciusko Zook, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers)
1844 - Alophus Washington Greely, US, Arctic explorer
1845 - Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen, Germany, discovered X-rays (Nobel 1901)
1847 - Otto Wallach, Germany, chemist (Nobel 1910)
1851 - Ruperto Chapi y Lorente, composer
1851 - Vincent d'Indy, French composer and teacher (d. 1931)
1857 - Karl Pearson, London England, mathematician
1858 - Peter Christian Lutkin, composer
1859 - George Giffen, cricketer (one of Australia's greatest all-rounders)
1860 - Frank Frost Abbott, American classical scholar (d. 1924)
1863 - Henry Royce, automobile founder (Rolls-Royce)
1867 - Edyth Walker, US singer
1868 - Patty Smith Hill, author/songwriter (Happy Birthday To You)
1869 - James McNeill, Irish politician (d. 1938)
1871 - Heinrich Mann, Germany, novelist/essayist (Blue Angel); bros of Thomas
1871 - Petrus J M Aalberse, Dutch minister of Labor (1918-25)
1879 - Edward Steichen, pioneered American photography
1879 - Miller Huggins, American baseball player and manager (d. 1929)
1883 - Jan Kunc, composer
1883 - Marie Under, Estonian author and poet (d. 1980)
1886 - Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe, German/US architect (Bauhaus)
1886 - Sergey Kirov, Russian bolshevik leader (d. 1934)
1889 - Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoglu, Turkish writer/diplomat
1892 - Ferde (Ferdinand Rudolf von) Grofe, NY, composer
1892 - Thorne Smith, author (Topper, Rain in the Doorway, Stray Lamb)
1893 - Dragoljub "Draza" Mihailovic, Yugoslavian general/nazi collaborator
1893 - Karl Mannheim, Hung/German/British sociologist (Ideology & Utopia)
1894 - William Harrigan, NYC
1897 - Douglas Hartree, English mathematician and physicist
1897 - Carlo Mierendorff, German politician/anti-fascist
1899 - Gloria Swanson, Chicago Illinois, American actress (Sunset Boulevard, Queen Kelly)
1901 - Albert Henneberg, composer
1901 - Erich Ollenhauer, German politician (SPD)
1901 - Sato Eisaku, (Lib) Japanese PM (1964-72) (Nobel 1974)
1901 - Wilhelm Conrad von Roentgen, physicist (Nobel)
1901 - Carl Barks, American illustrator (d. 2000)
1902 - Mary Armour, artist
1902 - Charles Lang, American cinematographer (d. 1998)
1903 - Walt Kiesling, NFL guard/coach (HOF)
1905 - Elsie MacGill, Canadian aeronautical engineer (d. 1980)
1906 - Pee Wee Russell, American musician (d. 1969)
1907 - Mary Treen, St Louis Mo, actress (Emily-Willy)
1908 - Jacques [Izaak] den Haan, Dutch writer (Dangerous Book)
1909 - Ben[jamin F] Webster, US tenor saxophonist
1909 - Golo Mann, [Gottfried], German/US historian (Antisemitism)
1910 - Rudi Ball, Germany, Jewish ice hockey star (Olympic-bronze-1932)
1912 - James Callaghan, (L) British PM (1976-79)
1912 - Reuel Lahmer, composer
1912 - Robert Watson Hughes, composer
1913 - Godfrey Turner, composer
1913 - Theodor Dannecker, SS officer (d. 1945)
1914 - Budd Schulberg, NYC, novelist (On the Waterfront)
1914 - Richard Denning, Poughkeepsie NY, actor (Steve-Karen, Hawaii Five-0)
1914 - Snooky Lanson, Memphis Tn, singer (Your Hit Parade, 5 Star Jubilee)
1915 - Richard Sharp, civil servant
1915 - Selma Rubin, Toledo, Ohio, environmental activist (Earth Day co-founder), (d. 2012)
1917 - Cyrus R Vance, US Secretary of State (1977-80)
1917 - Harry West, Unionist party leader (Unionist)
1919 - Julian Amery, conservative minister
1919 - Simon van Collem, Dutch journalist/TV host (Amsterdamned)
1920 - Richard Hayman, bandleader/conductor/pianist (Theme of 3 Penny Opera)
1920 - Robin Jacques, illustrator (d. 1995)
1921 - Tom Bevill, (Rep-D-AL, 1967- )
1921 - Harold Nicholas, American dancer (d. 2000)
1922 - Margaret Stacey, sociologist
1922 - Stefan Wul, French author (d. 2003)
1923 - Louis Simpson, Jamaican/US poet (Good News of Death), (d. 2012)
1923 - Shusaku Endo, writer
1923 - Victor Hochhauser, British impresario (Israeli Philharmonic Orch)
1924 - Harold Nicholas, US actor (Tap, 5 Heartbeats, Stormy Weather)
1924 - Sarah L Vaughan, Newark NJ, jazz scat singer (Broken Hearted Melody)
1925 - Lord Plumb, MEP
1925 - R P Cohan, choreographer
1925 - Robert Cohan, artistic director (Contemporary Dance Trust)
1926 - Louis Blom-Cooper QC/press arbiter
1927 - Anthony Lewis, columnist (NY Times)/author (Gideon's Trumpet)
1927 - Lord Fanshawe of Richmond, MP
1927 - Mstislav Leopold Rostropovich, Baku USSR, cellist/conductor
1928 - Douglas Applegate, (Rep-D-OH, 1977- )
1930 - Bob den Uyl, Dutch journalist/writer (Bird Watching)
1930 - David Janssen, [Meyer], Naponee Nebraska, actor (Fugitive, Harry O)
1930 - Richard Hayman, Cambridge Mass, orchestra leader (Vaughn Monroe Show)
1931 - Burt Collins, trumpeter
1931 - R P Bauman, CEO (British Aerospace)
1931 - Yoriaki Matsudaira, composer
1932 - Wes Covington, baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies)
1933 - DRG Andrews, CEO (Land Rover-Leyland)
1933 - Frank Taylor, Chief Constable (Durham)
1933 - J Geoffrey Parker, high master (Manchestrer Grammar School)
1934 - Arthur Mitchell, choreographer (Dance Theater of Harlem)
1934 - David Hancock, secretary (British Dept of Education & Science)
1934 - Istvan Csurka, Budapest, Hungary, politician and writer, (d. 2012)
1935 - Earl of Suffolk & Berkshire
1935 - Julian Glover, London England, actor (QED, Heat & Dust, Mandela)
1935 - Abelardo Castillo, Argentine writer
1935 - Fr. Stanley Rother, Roman Catholic Priest, Martyr and Missionary to Guatemala (d. 1981)
1936 - Jerry Lacy, Sioux City Iowa, actor (Play it Again Sam)
1936 - Malcolm Goldstein, composer
1937 - Johnny "Clyde" Copeland, US blues guitarist/singer (Lion's Den)
1937 - Thomas Aquinas Daly, American painter
1938 - A J Bellingham, president (Royal College of Pathologists)
1938 - Jock Slater, admiral
1938 - P Daubeny, CEO (Electricity Association)
1939 - Cale Yarborough, auto racer (Daytona 500-1968, 77, 83, 84)
1939 - Jay C Kim, (Rep-R-California)
1939 - Judy Carne, comedienne (Laugh-In, Love on a Rooftop)
1939 - Lord Lyell
1939 - Ruth Ashton, general secretary (Royal College of Midwives)
1940 - Austin Pendleton, Warren OH, actor (Short Circuit, Simon, Hello Again)
1940 - June Wilkinson, Eastbourne England, actress (Absolutely Glamarous)
1940 - Janis Martin, American singer (d. 2007)
1941 - Charles Pashayan Jr, (Rep-R-CA, 1979- )
1941 - Liese Prokop, Austria, pentathlete (Olympic-silver-1968)
1941 - Ivan Gašparovič, President of Slovakia
1942 - Michael York, England, actor (Cabaret, Logan's Run, 3 Musketeers)
1942 - Raymond J McGrath, (Rep-R-NY, 1981- )
1942 - John E. Sulston, British chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1942 - Michael Jackson, English writer (d. 2007)
1943 - M Robert Carr, (Rep-D-Michigan, 1975-81, 83- )
1943 - Phil Frank, American cartoonist (d. 2007)
1944 - Khosrow Shakibai, Iranian actor (d. 2008)
1945 - Briton Selby, NHLer
1946 - Bill Sudakis, baseball player
1946 - Carl Weintraub, actor (Harry-Executive Suite)
1946 - Jerry Lacy, actor (Rev Trask-Dark Shadows)
1946 - Olaf Malolepski, German musician (Die Flippers)
1947 - Daphne Todd, president (Royal Society of Portrait Painters)
1947 - Dough Wilkerson, football
1947 - Tom Sullivan, Boston MA, blind actor (If You Could See What I Hear)
1947 - Walt Mossberg, the highest-paid journalist at the Wall Street Journal
1949 - Patrick Deuchar, CEO (Albert Hall)
1950 - Maria Ewing, opera singer
1950 - Tony Banks, rock keyboardist (Genesis-Against All Odds)
1950 - Vic Harris, baseball
1950 - Petros Efthimiou, Greek politician
1951 - Bobby Lalonde, NHLer (Boston Bruins)
1951 - Tony Banks, rocker
1952 - Chick Vennera, Herkimer NY, actor (High Risk, Milagro Beanfield War)
1952 - Maria Schneider, Paris, actress (Last Tango in Paris, Crime of Honor)
1952 - Rocky Maffit, rocker (Champaign)
1953 - Pamela Roylance, Seattle Wash, actress (Sarah-Little House on Prairie)
1955 - Kim Brassey, racehorse trainer
1955 - Patrick McCabe, novelist
1956 - Brian Kelly, CFL wide receiver (Edmonton Eskimos)
1956 - Thomas Wassberg, Sweden, 15K/50K cross country skier (Oly-gold-1980)
1957 - Billy MacKenzie, rock vocalist (The Associates-Affectionate Punch)
1957 - Duncan Goodhew, England, 100m breast stroke swimmer (Oly-Gold-1980)
1957 - Nicholas Hawkins, MP
1957 - Nick Hawkins, British politician
1958 - Bart Connor, gymnast/sportscaster (Olympic-gold-1984)
1958 - Susan Molinari, (Rep-R-NY)
1960 - Clare Lucy Madeleine Evans, historian
1960 - Jennifer Grey, actress (Dirty Dancing); Joel Grey's daughter
1960 - Steve Jarvin, Australian soling yachter (Olympics-96)
1960 - Hans Pflügler, German footballer
1961 - Clark Datchler, vocalist (Johnny Hates Jazz-Don't Say it's Love)
1961 - Ellery Hanley, rugby league player
1961 - Tak Matsumoto, Japanese guitarist (B'z)
1961 - Tony Rominger, Swiss cyclist
1963 - Dave Koz, saxophonist
1963 - Ed Pinckney, NBA forward (Phila 76ers)
1899 - Gloria Swanson, Chicago Illinois, American actress (Sunset Boulevard, Queen Kelly)
1901 - Albert Henneberg, composer
1901 - Erich Ollenhauer, German politician (SPD)
1901 - Sato Eisaku, (Lib) Japanese PM (1964-72) (Nobel 1974)
1901 - Wilhelm Conrad von Roentgen, physicist (Nobel)
1901 - Carl Barks, American illustrator (d. 2000)
1902 - Mary Armour, artist
1902 - Charles Lang, American cinematographer (d. 1998)
1903 - Walt Kiesling, NFL guard/coach (HOF)
1905 - Elsie MacGill, Canadian aeronautical engineer (d. 1980)
1906 - Pee Wee Russell, American musician (d. 1969)
1907 - Mary Treen, St Louis Mo, actress (Emily-Willy)
1908 - Jacques [Izaak] den Haan, Dutch writer (Dangerous Book)
1909 - Ben[jamin F] Webster, US tenor saxophonist
1909 - Golo Mann, [Gottfried], German/US historian (Antisemitism)
1910 - Rudi Ball, Germany, Jewish ice hockey star (Olympic-bronze-1932)
1912 - James Callaghan, (L) British PM (1976-79)
1912 - Reuel Lahmer, composer
1912 - Robert Watson Hughes, composer
1913 - Godfrey Turner, composer
1913 - Theodor Dannecker, SS officer (d. 1945)
1914 - Budd Schulberg, NYC, novelist (On the Waterfront)
1914 - Richard Denning, Poughkeepsie NY, actor (Steve-Karen, Hawaii Five-0)
1914 - Snooky Lanson, Memphis Tn, singer (Your Hit Parade, 5 Star Jubilee)
1915 - Richard Sharp, civil servant
1915 - Selma Rubin, Toledo, Ohio, environmental activist (Earth Day co-founder), (d. 2012)
1917 - Cyrus R Vance, US Secretary of State (1977-80)
1917 - Harry West, Unionist party leader (Unionist)
1919 - Julian Amery, conservative minister
1919 - Simon van Collem, Dutch journalist/TV host (Amsterdamned)
1920 - Richard Hayman, bandleader/conductor/pianist (Theme of 3 Penny Opera)
1920 - Robin Jacques, illustrator (d. 1995)
1921 - Tom Bevill, (Rep-D-AL, 1967- )
1921 - Harold Nicholas, American dancer (d. 2000)
1922 - Margaret Stacey, sociologist
1922 - Stefan Wul, French author (d. 2003)
1923 - Louis Simpson, Jamaican/US poet (Good News of Death), (d. 2012)
1923 - Shusaku Endo, writer
1923 - Victor Hochhauser, British impresario (Israeli Philharmonic Orch)
1924 - Harold Nicholas, US actor (Tap, 5 Heartbeats, Stormy Weather)
1924 - Sarah L Vaughan, Newark NJ, jazz scat singer (Broken Hearted Melody)
1925 - Lord Plumb, MEP
1925 - R P Cohan, choreographer
1925 - Robert Cohan, artistic director (Contemporary Dance Trust)
1926 - Louis Blom-Cooper QC/press arbiter
1927 - Anthony Lewis, columnist (NY Times)/author (Gideon's Trumpet)
1927 - Lord Fanshawe of Richmond, MP
1927 - Mstislav Leopold Rostropovich, Baku USSR, cellist/conductor
1928 - Douglas Applegate, (Rep-D-OH, 1977- )
1930 - Bob den Uyl, Dutch journalist/writer (Bird Watching)
1930 - David Janssen, [Meyer], Naponee Nebraska, actor (Fugitive, Harry O)
1930 - Richard Hayman, Cambridge Mass, orchestra leader (Vaughn Monroe Show)
1931 - Burt Collins, trumpeter
1931 - R P Bauman, CEO (British Aerospace)
1931 - Yoriaki Matsudaira, composer
1932 - Wes Covington, baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies)
1933 - DRG Andrews, CEO (Land Rover-Leyland)
1933 - Frank Taylor, Chief Constable (Durham)
1933 - J Geoffrey Parker, high master (Manchestrer Grammar School)
1934 - Arthur Mitchell, choreographer (Dance Theater of Harlem)
1934 - David Hancock, secretary (British Dept of Education & Science)
1934 - Istvan Csurka, Budapest, Hungary, politician and writer, (d. 2012)
1935 - Earl of Suffolk & Berkshire
1935 - Julian Glover, London England, actor (QED, Heat & Dust, Mandela)
1935 - Abelardo Castillo, Argentine writer
1935 - Fr. Stanley Rother, Roman Catholic Priest, Martyr and Missionary to Guatemala (d. 1981)
1936 - Jerry Lacy, Sioux City Iowa, actor (Play it Again Sam)
1936 - Malcolm Goldstein, composer
1937 - Johnny "Clyde" Copeland, US blues guitarist/singer (Lion's Den)
1937 - Thomas Aquinas Daly, American painter
1938 - A J Bellingham, president (Royal College of Pathologists)
1938 - Jock Slater, admiral
1938 - P Daubeny, CEO (Electricity Association)
1939 - Cale Yarborough, auto racer (Daytona 500-1968, 77, 83, 84)
1939 - Jay C Kim, (Rep-R-California)
1939 - Judy Carne, comedienne (Laugh-In, Love on a Rooftop)
1939 - Lord Lyell
1939 - Ruth Ashton, general secretary (Royal College of Midwives)
1940 - Austin Pendleton, Warren OH, actor (Short Circuit, Simon, Hello Again)
1940 - June Wilkinson, Eastbourne England, actress (Absolutely Glamarous)
1940 - Janis Martin, American singer (d. 2007)
1941 - Charles Pashayan Jr, (Rep-R-CA, 1979- )
1941 - Liese Prokop, Austria, pentathlete (Olympic-silver-1968)
1941 - Ivan Gašparovič, President of Slovakia
1942 - Michael York, England, actor (Cabaret, Logan's Run, 3 Musketeers)
1942 - Raymond J McGrath, (Rep-R-NY, 1981- )
1942 - John E. Sulston, British chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1942 - Michael Jackson, English writer (d. 2007)
1943 - M Robert Carr, (Rep-D-Michigan, 1975-81, 83- )
1943 - Phil Frank, American cartoonist (d. 2007)
1944 - Khosrow Shakibai, Iranian actor (d. 2008)
1945 - Briton Selby, NHLer
1946 - Bill Sudakis, baseball player
1946 - Carl Weintraub, actor (Harry-Executive Suite)
1946 - Jerry Lacy, actor (Rev Trask-Dark Shadows)
1946 - Olaf Malolepski, German musician (Die Flippers)
1947 - Daphne Todd, president (Royal Society of Portrait Painters)
1947 - Dough Wilkerson, football
1947 - Tom Sullivan, Boston MA, blind actor (If You Could See What I Hear)
1947 - Walt Mossberg, the highest-paid journalist at the Wall Street Journal
1949 - Patrick Deuchar, CEO (Albert Hall)
1950 - Maria Ewing, opera singer
1950 - Tony Banks, rock keyboardist (Genesis-Against All Odds)
1950 - Vic Harris, baseball
1950 - Petros Efthimiou, Greek politician
1951 - Bobby Lalonde, NHLer (Boston Bruins)
1951 - Tony Banks, rocker
1952 - Chick Vennera, Herkimer NY, actor (High Risk, Milagro Beanfield War)
1952 - Maria Schneider, Paris, actress (Last Tango in Paris, Crime of Honor)
1952 - Rocky Maffit, rocker (Champaign)
1953 - Pamela Roylance, Seattle Wash, actress (Sarah-Little House on Prairie)
1955 - Kim Brassey, racehorse trainer
1955 - Patrick McCabe, novelist
1956 - Brian Kelly, CFL wide receiver (Edmonton Eskimos)
1956 - Thomas Wassberg, Sweden, 15K/50K cross country skier (Oly-gold-1980)
1957 - Billy MacKenzie, rock vocalist (The Associates-Affectionate Punch)
1957 - Duncan Goodhew, England, 100m breast stroke swimmer (Oly-Gold-1980)
1957 - Nicholas Hawkins, MP
1957 - Nick Hawkins, British politician
1958 - Bart Connor, gymnast/sportscaster (Olympic-gold-1984)
1958 - Susan Molinari, (Rep-R-NY)
1960 - Clare Lucy Madeleine Evans, historian
1960 - Jennifer Grey, actress (Dirty Dancing); Joel Grey's daughter
1960 - Steve Jarvin, Australian soling yachter (Olympics-96)
1960 - Hans Pflügler, German footballer
1961 - Clark Datchler, vocalist (Johnny Hates Jazz-Don't Say it's Love)
1961 - Ellery Hanley, rugby league player
1961 - Tak Matsumoto, Japanese guitarist (B'z)
1961 - Tony Rominger, Swiss cyclist
1963 - Dave Koz, saxophonist
1963 - Ed Pinckney, NBA forward (Phila 76ers)
1967 - Paul Adams, American celebrity
1968 - Irina Belova, Russian pentathelete (world record 1992)
1969 - Tom Beer, NFL running back (Detroit Lions)
1969 - Kevin Corrigan, American actor
1969 - Pauley Perrette, American actress, photographer, poet, writer
1970 - Anthony Prior, NFL cornerback/safety (NY Jets, Minnesota Vikings)
1970 - Corey Page, actor (Richard Wilkins-Loving/City)
1970 - Ed Philion, NFL nose tackle (Buffalo Bills)
1970 - Brendan Hill, British drummer (Blues Traveler)
1970 - Princess Leila of Iran (d. 2001)
1970 - Elizabeth Mitchell, American actress
1971 - Mariah Carey, NYC, singer (Love Takes Time, Hero)
1971 - Nathan Fillion, Canadian actor
1972 - Kirby Dar Dar, wide reciever (Miami Dolphins)
1972 - Charlie Haas, professional wrestler
1972 - Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, Dutch footballer
1973 - Serge Tremblay, La Malbaie Quebec, weightlifter (Olympics-96)
1974 - Rosanna Gimenez, Miss Paraguay Universe (1997)
1974 - Russ Haas, wrestler (d. 2001)
1974 - Gaizka Mendieta, Spanish footballer
1975 - B J Gallis, CFL linebacker (BC Lions)
1975 - Gregory DuBois, hockey defenseman (Team France 1998)
1975 - Stacy Ferguson, American pop singer (The Black Eyed Peas)
1975 - Tom Goegebuer, Belgian weightlifter
1975 - Chakrit Yamnam, Thai film and television actor
1976 - Danny Fortson, NBA forward (Denver Nuggets)
1976 - Roberta Alma Anastase, Miss Universe-Romania (1996)
1976 - Djamel Belmadi, Algerian footballer
1977 - Tom van der Leegte, Dutch soccer player (PSV)
1977 - Vitor Meira, Brazilian racing driver
1979 - Michael Cuddyer, Minnesota Twins baseball player
1981 - Lin Jun Jie, Chinese Singer
1981 - Terry McFlynn, Northern Irish footballer
1981 - Carey Davis, National Football League fullback
1982 - Kurara Chibana, Japanese beauty queen, first runner-up Miss Universe 2006
1984 - Emily Ann Lloyd, actress (Sarah Kramer-Something So Right)
1984 - J P Steur, actor (Grace Under Fire)
1985 - Dario Baldauf, Austrian footballer
1985 - Stijn De Smet, Belgian footballer
1985 - Caroline Winberg, Swedish supermodel
1986 - Melissa Stern, [Baby M]/[Sara Whitehead], surrogate baby
1986 - Valerie "So Cal Val" Wyndham, American professional wrestling valet
1986 - Ramani, Indian Girl
1987 - Chad Denny, Canadian ice hockey player
1988 - Kerri Ann Darling, actress (Alli Fowler-Another World)
1988 - Brenda Song, American actress
1990 - Scott Selwood, Australian rules footballer
1995 - Taylor Atelian, American actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 27, 2013, 11:48:00 AM

This Day in History for 27th March


Famous Deaths 

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King of Great Britain                              Cosmonaut & First Man in Space              Actor Dudley Moore (2002)
James I Stuart (1625)                                        Yuri Gagarin (1968)


710 - Rupert of Salzburg
922 - Al-Hallaj al-Mughith-al-Hsayn Mansur, Persian mystic, beheaded at 64
965 - Arnulf I, the Elder/the Great, count of Flanders (918-65), dies
973 - Herman, Duke of Saxony
1378 - Gregory XI, [Pierre R the Beaufort], last French Pope (1370-78), dies
1462 - Vasili II of Russia, Grand Prince of Moscow (b. 1415)
1472 - Janus Pannonius, Hungarian poet/translator, dies at 37
1482 - Mary of Burgundy, daughter of Charles the Bold and his successor, dies falling off her horse
           (b. 1457)
1555 - William Hunter, Protestant martyr
1572 - Girolamo Maggi, Italian Renaissance man (b. abt. 1523)
1625 - James I Stuart, king of Scotland (1567)/England (1603-25), dies at 58
1635 - Robert Naunton, English politician (b. 1563)
1668 - Clemens Thieme, composer, dies at 36
1679 - Abraham Mignon, Dutch still life painter, dies at 38
1697 - Simon Bradstreet, English colonial magistrate (b. 1603)
1701 - Anne Hilarion de Cotentin, count of Tourville/Fr admiral, dies at 58
1714 - Anton Ulrich, German duke of Brunswick/poet, dies at 80
1757 - Johann Wenzel Anton Stamitz, composer, dies at 39
1761 - Johann Ludwig Steiner, composer, dies at 72
1769 - Josef Antonin Gurecky, composer, dies at 60
1770 - Giovanni B Tiepolo, Italian painter (Banquet of Cleopatra), dies at 73
1809 - Joseph M Vien, French (court)painter/etcher, dies at 92
1826 - Jakob Haibel, composer, dies at 63
1827 - François Alexandre Frédéric, French social reformer (b. 1747)
1836 - James Fannin, Texas revolutionary (b. 1804)
1843 - Karl Salomo Zachariae von Lingenthal, German jurist (b. 1769)
1849 - Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford (b. 1776)
1850 - Wilhelm Bear, German banker/astronomer (Moon Map), dies at 53
1864 - Jean-Jacques Ampère, French scholar (b. 1800)
1865 - Petrus Hoffman Peerlkamp, Dutch scholar (b. 1786)
1873 - Amedée Simon Dominique Thierry, French journalist and historian (b. 1797)
1875 - Edgar Quinet, French historian (b. 1803)
1878 - Dobri Voynikov, composer, dies at 44
1878 - George Gilbert Scott, architect, dies
1889 - Moritz Furstenau, composer, dies at 64
1889 - John Bright, English statesman (b. 1811)
1894 - Verney L Cameron, English explorer (Tanganyika), dies at 49
1897 - Andreas Anagnostakis, Greek physician (b. 1826)
1898 - Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, Indian Muslim intellectual and one of the founding fathers of Pakistan
           dies at 80
1900 - Pieter J Joubert [Smart Piet], South African general, dies at 69
1910 - Alexander E Agassiz, US businessman/biologist/geologist, dies at 74
1910 - David Duffle Wood, composer, dies at 72
1920 - Johan G Danser, Dutch poet (Meetings), dies at 26
1922 - Nikolay Alexandrovich Sokolov, composer, dies at 63
1923 - Sir James Dewar, Scottish chemist (b. 1842)
1924 - Walter Parratt, composer, dies at 83
1925 - Carl G Neumann, German mathematician/physicist, dies at 92
1927 - Joe Start, American baseball player (b. 1842)
1928 - Leslie Stuart, composer, dies at 64
1929 - Samuil Shatunovsky, Ukrainian mathematician, dies at 70
1931 - Arnold Bennett, novelist, dies
1933 - Lionel Palairet, cricketer (49 runs in 2 Tests for England 1902), dies
1934 - Francis William Reitz, 5th State President of the Orange Free State (b. 1844)
1938 - Louis William Stern, German/US philosopher/psychologist, dies at 66
1939 - Constance Lindsay Skinner, author (Rivers of America), dies at 57
1940 - Michael Joseph Savage, Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1872)
1943 - Grigori Yakovlevich Bakhchivangi, test pilot (BI-1), killed in crash
1945 - Jorgen Nielsen, Danish writer (romance), dies at 42
1947 - Charles Smith, cricketer (batted for S Afr in 1902-03), dies
1948 - Karel Candael, Flemish composer, dies at 64
1953 - Narciso Garay, composer, dies at 76
1956 - Frans Beelaerts van Blokland, minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 84
1959 - Grant Withers, actor (Oklahoma Annie), suicide with sleeping pills at 54
1960 - Ian Whyte, composer, dies at 58
1961 - Jack Kane, orchestra leader (Steve & Eydie, Andy Williams Show), dies at 37
1966 - Mien Labberton, Dutch poet, dies at 82
1967 - Gerardus H de Vet, the Bold, bishop of Breda (1962-67), dies at 49
1967 - Jim Thompson, American designer (disappeared) (b. 1906)
1968 - Yuri Gagarin, 1st man to orbit Earth, & Seryogin, in plane crash at 34
1972 - Maurits C Escher, Dutch lithograph carver (Praedestinatie), dies at 73
1972 - Sharkey Bonano, American musician (b. 1904)
1973 - Boyan Georgiev Ikonomov, composer, dies at 72
1975 - Arthur Bliss, English composer/conductor (Checkmate), dies at 83
1975 - Gertrude Niesen, actress (Start Cheering), dies at 63
1977 - Diana Hyland, actress (Peyton Place, 8 is Enough), dies at 41
1977 - Eve Meyer, X actress (Immoral Mr Teas), dies in a plane crash at 46
1977 - Lodewijk de Vocht, composer, dies at 89
1977 - A. P. Hamann, American politician
1978 - Wilfred Pickles, actor (Billy Liar, Gay Dog), dies at 73
1979 - Ronald Adam, actor (Phantom Shot), dies at 82
1981 - Mao Dun, Chinese writer (b. 1895)
1983 - James Hayter, actor (Pickwick Papers, Trio, Great Game), dies at 75
1983 - Janis Ivanovs, composer, dies at 76
1986 - Cass Canfield, US publisher, dies at 88
1987 - Lloyd Goodrich, American Arts Museum director, dies at 90
1988 - Jan van den Weghe, Flemish writer, dies at about 67
1989 - May Allison, actress (Youth for Salem Men of Steel), dies
1991 - Aldo Ray, western actor (Battle Cry), dies at 64 of cancer
1991 - Elinor Remick Warren, composer, dies at 91
1991 - Leueen McGrath, actress (Edward My Son, Saint's Vacation), dies at 77
1991 - Ralph Bates, British actor (Persecution, Graveyard), dies at 50
1992 - Anita Colby, US model/actress/author (Pepsi Coke), dies at 77
1992 - Easley Blackwood, expert bridge player, dies at 89
1992 - Gerry Duggan, dies at 82
1992 - James E Webb, head of NASA (1961-68), dies at 84
1992 - Martin Engelman, Dutch cartoonist/painter/graphic artist, dies
1993 - Carlos Gimenez, director (Theater Festival of Caracas), dies at 47
1993 - Clifford Jordan, tenor saxophonist, dies of cancer at 61
1993 - Kate Reid, British actress (Lil-Dallas), dies of cancer at 62
1993 - Katherine Hynes De Groot, dies of stroke at 88
1993 - Wilhelmus M J Russell, Dutch MP (KVP, CDA), dies at 74
1994 - Dennis Hartas, flier, dies at 69
1995 - Albert Drach, writer, dies
1995 - Bernard Cornfeld, Romanian/US financier (Fund of Funds), dies at 67
1995 - Chet Gierlach, music publisher/composer, dies at 75
1995 - Rene Allio, film Director, dies at 70
1998 - Ferry Porsche, Austrian automobile manufacturer (b. 1909)
1998 - David McClelland, American psychologist (b. 1917)
2000 - Ian Dury, English musician (b. 1942)
2002 - Milton Berle, American actor and comedian (b. 1908)
2002 - Dudley Moore, British actor (b. 1935)
2002 - Billy Wilder, American director (b. 1906)
2003 - Daniel Ceccaldi, French actor (b. 1927)
2003 - Ricardo Munguia, Salvadoran aid worker
2003 - Paul Zindel, American writer (b. 1936)
2004 - Adán Sánchez, Mexican-American singer (b. 1984)
2005 - Wilfred Bigelow, Canadian heart surgeon (b. 1913)
2005 - Bob Casey, American baseball announcer (b. 1925)
2005 - Grant Johannesen, American concert pianist (b. 1921)
2006 - Dan Curtis, American television producer and director (b. 1928)
2006 - Ian Hamilton Finlay, Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener (b. 1925)
2006 - Stanisław Lem, Polish writer (b. 1921)
2006 - Ruari McLean, British typographer (b. 1917)
2006 - Lyn Nofziger, American journalist and political advisor to Ronald Reagan (b. 1924)
2007 - Paul Lauterbur, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1929)
2008 - Jean-Marie Balestre, French president of motor sport's FIA (b. 1921)
2008 - George Pruteanu, Romanian literary critic and politician (b. 1947)
2009 - Jack Dreyfus, American businessman (b. 1913)
2010 - Vasily Smyslov, Russian grandmaster (b. 1921)
2012 - Hilton Kramer, American art critic, dies from heart failure at 84
2012 - Adrienne Rich, American feminist poet/essayist, dies from complications of rheumatoid
           arthritis at 82
2012 - Warren Stevens, American actor, dies from lung disease at 92

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 28, 2013, 09:41:57 AM

This Day in History for 28th March


Historical Events

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3rd Roman Emperor Caligula               Spanish Dictator Francisco Franco             Actress Faye Dunaway

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Basketball Superstar                                Actress Julia Roberts
Michael Jordan   


37 - Roman Emperor Caligula accepts the titles of the Principate, entitled to him by the Senate.
193 - Roman Emperor Pertinax is assassinated by Praetorian Guards, who then sell the throne in an
         auction to Didius Julianus.
364 - Roman Emperor Valentinian I appoints his brother Flavius Valens co-emperor.
845 - Paris is sacked by Viking raiders, probably under Ragnar Lodbrok, who collects a huge ransom
         in exchange for leaving.
1535 - Bloemkamp Abbey (Oldeklooster) attacked & destroyed
1556 - Karel V's son Philip II crowned king of Spain
1556 - Origin of Fasli Era (India)
1738 - English parliament declares war on Spain (War of Jenkin's Ear)
1774 - Britain passes Coercive Act against Massachusetts
1776 - Juan Bautista de Anza finds the site for the Presidio of San Francisco.
1794 - Louvre opens to the public (although officially opened since August)
1794 - Allies under the prince of Coburg defeat French forces at Le Cateau.
1795 - Partitions of Poland: The Duchy of Courland, a northern fief of the Polish-Lithuanian
           Commonwealth, ceases to exist and becomes part of Imperial Russia.
1796 - Bethel African Methodist Church of Phila is 1st US-African church
1797 - Nathaniel Briggs of NH patents a washing machine
1799 - NY State abolished slavery
1802 - Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers discovers 2 Pallas, the second asteroid known to man.
1804 - Ohio passed law restricting movement of Blacks, 1804
1809 - Peninsular War: France defeats Spain in the Battle of Medelin.
1834 - Senate censure Pres Jackson for taking fed deposits from Bank of US
1844 - Jose Zorilla's "Don Juan Tenorio," premieres in Madrid
1845 - Mexico drops diplomatic relations with US
1854 - During the Crimean War, Britain & France declare war on Russia
1859 - 1st performance of John Brahms' 1st Serenade for orchestra
1860 - First Taranaki War: The Battle of Waireka begins.
1862 - Skirmish at Bealeton Station, Virginia
1866 - 1st ambulance goes into service
1871 - SF Art Association holds open reception at 430 Pine
1881 - Greatest Show On Earth was formed by PT Barnum & James A Bailey
1885 - US Salvation Army officially organized
1891 - 1st world weightlifting championship held
1896 - The opera "Andrea Chenier" is produced (Milan)
1902 - 27.9 cm precipitation at McMinnville, Tennessee (state record)
1905 - Paramaribo-Dam railway opens in Suriname, never used
1910 - 1st seaplane, takes off from water at Martinques France (Henri Fabre)
1913 - Guatemala becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1917 - Jews are expelled from Tel Aviv & Jaffa by Turkish authorities
1917 - Puccini's "La Rondine," premieres in Monte Carlo
1920 - Thomas Masaryk elected president of Czechoslovakia
1920 - Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1920 affects the Great Lakes region and Deep South
           states.
1922 - 1st microfilm device introduced
1922 - Stanley Cup: Toronto St Pats (NHL) beat Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA), 3 games to 2
1924 - WGN-AM in Chicago IL begins radio transmissions
1927 - Majestic Theater opens at 245 W 44th St NYC
1929 - Democratic constitution goes into effect in Ecuador
1930 - 1st performance of Walter Piston's Suite for orchestra (Boston)
1930 - Constantinople & Angora changes names to Istanbul & Ankara
1933 - German Reichstag confers dictatorial powers on Hitler
1935 - Goddard uses gyroscopes to control a rocket
1939 - Dutch hunter shoots English bombers down
1939 - Philip Barry's "Philadelphia Story," premieres in NYC
1939 - Renaissance Big 5 win 1st pro basketball championship
1939 - Spanish Civil War ends, Madrid falls to Francisco Franco
1940 - Construction begins of the exhibition center to host the Thessaloniki International Trade Fair.
1941 - Sea battle at Cape Matapan: Brit fleet under Cunningham defeats Italy
1942 - -29] 234 RAF bombers attack Lubeck
1942 - 4th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Stanford beats Dartmouth 53-38
1942 - British naval forces raid Nazi occupied French port of St Nazaire
1942 - Raid on lock/dock St Nazaire
1944 - 6th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Utah defeats Dartmouth 42-40
1944 - Astrid Lindgren sprains ankle & begins writing Pippi Longstocking
1944 - NBA rookie of the year in 1966, Rick Barry
1945 - Last German V-1 (buzz bomb) attack on London
1946 - Cold War: The United States State Department releases the Acheson-Lilienthal Report,
          outlining a plan for the international control of nuclear power.
1948 - 2nd Tony Awards: Mister Roberts win
1950 - 12th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: CCNY beats Bradley 71-68 NYC college becomes
           1st to win NCAA & Natl Inv Basketball in same year
1952 - US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Tenley Albright
1952 - US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button
1953 - "New Faces (of 1952)" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 365 perfs
1953 - "Stock exchanges open, dikes closed" raises 5,200,000 gulden
1953 - 7th Tony Awards: Crucible & Wonderful Town win
1953 - KCAU TV channel 9 in Sioux City, IA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1953 - US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Tenley Albright
1953 - US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Hayes A Jenkins
1954 - 8th Tony Awards: Teahouse of the August Moon & Kismet win
1954 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Betsy Rawls Golf Open
1954 - WKAQ TV channel 2 in San Juan, PR (TM) begins broadcasting
1955 - NZ cricket all out for 26 v England at Eden Park
1957 - 1st National Curling Championship held
1959 - 11 days after Tibet uprising, China dissolves Tibet's government & installs Panchen Lama
1960 - Pope John raises the 1st Japanese, 1st African & 1st Filipino cardinal
1960 - Scotch factory explodes burying 20 fire fighters (Glasgow Scotland)
1962 - Devastating 8 for 6 spell by Gibbs gives WI cricket victory over India
1962 - Military coup in Syria, President Nazim al-Kudsi flees
1963 - AFL's NY Titan's become the NY Jets
1964 - 1st pirate radio station near England (Radio Caroline)
1964 - 9.2 earthquake shakes Prince William Sound, Alaska
1965 - Jo Ann Prentice wins LPGA All State Ladies' Golf Invitational
1967 - "Sherry!" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 65 performances
1967 - UN Sect General U Thant makes public proposals for peace in Vietnam
1969 - Pope Paul VI names JGM Willebrands cardinal
1969 - Greek poet and Nobel Prize laureate Giorgos Seferis makes a famous statement on the BBC
           World Service opposing the junta in Greece.
1970 - 1,086 die when 7.4 quake destroys 254 villages (Gediz Turkey)
1971 - 25th Tony Awards: Sleuth & Company win
1972 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1972 - Wilt Chamberlain plays his last pro basketball game
1974 - Rock group Raspberries breakup
1975 - Wash Caps win 1st game on road after 37 straight road loses also
1977 - 39th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Marquette beats NC 67-59
1977 - 49th Academy Awards - "Rocky," Peter Finch & Faye Dunaway win
1977 - Morarji Desai forms government in India
1979 - British government of Callaghan falls
1979 - Lazarus & Vosburgh's "Day in Hollywood & night in Ukraine," premieres
1979 - Major nuclear accident at 3 Mile Island, Middletown, Pa (no deaths)
1981 - Christa Rothenburger skates ladies world record 500 m 40.18 sec)
1981 - France performs nuclear test
1981 - Gabi Schonbrunn skates ladies world record 3 km (4:21.70)
1981 - Viv Richards scores century in the 1st Test at his home Antigua
1981 - Yevgeni Kulikov skates world record 500m (36.91 secs)
1982 - 12th Easter Seal Telethon raises $19,500,000
1982 - 1st NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: LA Tech beats Cheney 76-62
1982 - Amy Alcott wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
1982 - JN Duartes christian-democrats win elections in El Salvador
1985 - International Cometary Explorer measures solar wind ahead of Halley
1985 - Neil Simon's "Biloxi Blues," premieres in NYC
1985 - STS 51-D vehicle moves to launch pad
1986 - Extremist Sikhs kill 13 hindus in Ludhiana India
1986 - John N McMahon, ends term as deputy director of CIA
1987 - Stacking of Discovery's SRBs gets underway
1989 - New Zealand wins America's Cup over Stars & Stripes, in a NY court
1990 - Bengal beat Delhi in rained-out cricket Ranji Trophy final on quotient
1990 - Michael Jordan scores 69 points, 4th time he scores 60 pts in a game
1990 - President Bush awards Jesse Owen the Congressional Gold Medal
1991 - Mike Tyson admits paternity to Kimberly Scarborough's son
1992 - 6th American Comedy Award: Cathy Ladman, Judy Watkins, Billy Crystal
1992 - Ann Transon runs female world record 50k (3:35:31)
1992 - PBA National Championship Won by Eric Forkel
1993 - 13th Golden Raspberry Awards: Shining Through wins
1993 - 22nd Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Helen Alfredsson
1993 - Conservatives win French parliamentary election
1993 - Type II supernova detected in M81 (NGC 3031)
1994 - Armed Zulus demonstrate in Johannesburg, over 53 killed
1994 - Italy's right-wing alliance under Silvio Berlusconi wins election
1994 - BBC Radio Five Live broadcasts for first time in United Kingdom
1995 - Julia Roberts & Lyle Lovette split-up
1995 - Queensland beat S Aust to win 1st ever cricket Sheffield Shield
1995 - World's largest bank-Japan's Mitsubishi Bank & Bank of Tokyo merge
1996 - "Seven Guitars," opens at Walter Kerr Theater NYC
1996 - Katie Beam, 17, of Oklahoma, crowned 35th Miss Teenage America
1997 - "City" soap opera's final episode on ABC-TV
1999 - 18th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: at San Jose
2000 - A Murray County, Georgia, school bus is hit by a CSX freight train (3 children die in this
           accident).
2003 - In a "friendly fire" incident, two A-10 Thunderbolt II attack aircraft from the United States
           Idaho Air National Guard's 190th Fighter Squadron attack British tanks participating in the
           2003 invasion of Iraq, killing British soldier Matty Hull.
2005 - The 2005 Sumatran earthquake rocks Indonesia, and at magnitude 8.7 is the second
           strongest earthquake since 1960.
2006 - At least 1 million union members, students and unemployed take to the streets in France in
          protest at the government's proposed First Employment Contract law.

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 28, 2013, 09:43:20 AM

This Day in History for 28th March


Famous Weddings

1837 - German composer Felix Mendelssohn (27) marries Cécile Jeanrenaud (20)
1920 - Actor Douglas Fairbanks marries actress Mary Pickford
2010 - "The Real Housewives of New York City" TV Personality Bethenny Frankel (39) weds Jason
           Hoppy at the Four Seasons Restaurant in New York City

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 28, 2013, 09:44:27 AM

This Day in History for 28th March


Famous Divorces

1849 - Dutch princess Marianne & Prince Albert of Prussia separate

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 28, 2013, 09:51:23 AM

This Day in History for 28th March


Famous Birthdays

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Playwright & Author                                 Actor Vince Vaughn (1970)                   Actress Julia Stiles (1981)
Maxim Gorky (1868)


1468 - Charles I, Duke of Savoy
1472 - Fra Bartolomeo/Fra Bartolommeo , monk, Florentine Renaissance painter (d. 1517)
1483 - Raphael, Urbino Italy, painter (School of Athens)
1515 - Theresa of Avila/Teresa de Jesus, Spanish mystic writer/saint
1522 - Albert the Warlike, Prince of Bayreuth (d. 1557)
1569 - Ranuccio I Farnese, Duke of Parma (d. 1622)
1592 - Jan Amos Komensky, [Comenius] Moravian educational reB03281603 Stephan Otto,
           composer
1599 - Witte Corneliszoon de With, Dutch naval officer (d. 1658)
1613 - Xiaozhuangwen Grand Empress Dowager, Empress of Manchu (d. 1688)
1615 - Pieter de Groot, Dutch regent/diplomat
1621 - Heinrich Schwemmer, composer
1643 - Jose Solana, composer
1652 - Samuel Sewall, American magistrate (d. 1730)
1660 - Arnold Houbraken, Dutch schilder/writer
1660 - Georg Ludwig, German monarch of Hannover/King George I of Gt Britain
1725 - Andrew Kippis, English clergyman and biographer (d. 1795)
1727 - Maximilian III Jozef, Elector of Bayern (1745-77)
1729 - Pieter Fouquet, Dutch art seller (Atlas of Fouquet)
1737 - Francesco Zannetti, composer
1741 - Johann Andre, composer
1750 - Francisco A G de Miranda, Venezuelan freedom fighter
1760 - Thomas Clarkson, English abolitionist (Negro Emancipation)
1766 - Joseph Weigl, Austria composer/conductor (Emmeline)
1770 - Sophie Mereau, writer
1773 - Henri Gratien, Comte Bertrand, French general (d. 1844)
1779 - Angelo Maria Benincori, composer
1793 - Henry Schoolcraft, American geographer and geologist (d. 1864)
1795 - Georg Heinrich Pertz, German historian (d. 1876)
1799 - Karl Adolph von Basedow, German artist (Ziekte van Basedow)
1806 - Ludolf AJW Sloet van de Beele, gov-gen of Neth Indies (1861-66)
1806 - Thomas Hare, English barrister (d. 1891)
1815 - Arsène Houssaye, French novelist (d. 1896)
1817 - Mariano Soriano Fuertes y Piqueras, composer
1818 - Wade Hampton, SC, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1902
1819 - Sir Joseph Bazalgette, English civil engineer (d. 1891)
1836 - Frederick Pabst, American brewer (d. 1904)
1840 - Mehemed Emin Pasja, German explorer/governor (Equatoria)
1842 - William Harvey Carney, American Civil War officier (d. 1908)
1849 - James Darmesteter, French author and antiquarian (d. 1894)
1851 - Bernardino Machado, Portuguese politician (d. 1944)
1853 - Rudolf Kittel, German theologist (Psalms)
1862 - Aristide Briand, France, 11x premier (1909-22) (Nobel 1926)
1866 - Jimmy Ross, Scottish footballer (d. 1902)
1868 - Cuno Amiet, Swiss painter
1868 - Maxim Gorky [Alexei Maximovich Peshkov], Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Empire, Russian
           playwright and author (Mother and The Lower Depths)
1868 - Wojciech Gawronski, composer
1871 - Willem Mengelberg, Utrecht Neth, conductor (NY Philharmonic 1922-30)
1872 - Jose Sanjurjo y Sacanell, Spanish general (Morocco)
1883 - William H Harris, composer
1885 - Marc-Jean-Baptiste Delmas, composer
1886 - Jaroslav Novotny, composer
1887 - Rudolf F W Boskaljon, Curacao, musician/composer
1890 - Paul Whiteman, Denver Co, orchestra leader (Paul Whiteman's TV Teen Club)
1891 - Karel MJF Cruysberghs, Flemish author
1891 - Peter Suhrkamp, German publisher (Suhrkamp Verlag)
1892 - Corneille Heymans, Belgian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
1892 - Tom Maguire, Irish republican (d. 1993)
1893 - Spyros Skouras, Greek-born American movie executive (d. 1971)
1895 - Spencer W Kimball, 12th prophet of Mormon church
1895 - Christian Herter, 59th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1966)
1897 - Sepp Herberger, German football coach (d. 1977)
1899 - Harold B. Lee, American religious leader (d. 1973)
1899 - August Anheuser Busch, Jr., brewing magnate and American baseball executive (d. 1989)
1899 - Buck Shaw, American football coach (d. 1977)
1900 - Achille Longo, composer
1900 - Robert Harris, actor (Big Caper, Laughing Anne)
1902 - Flora Robson, South Shields England, actress (Dominique is Dead)
1902 - Paul Godwin, [Goldfein], Polish/Dutch violinist
1902 - Jaromír Vejvoda, Czech composer (d. 1988)
1903 - Rudolf Serkin, Eger Bohemia, pianist (Marlboro Sch of Music)
1903 - Charles Starrett, American actor (d. 1986)
1904 - Fosco Giachetti, Livorno Italy, actor (Wastrel, We the Living)
1905 - Marlin Perkins, Carthage Mo, TV host (Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom)
1905 - Pandro S Berman, film producer
1906 - Joseph Wright, Canada, oarsman (Olympic-gold-1928)
1906 - Robert (Bob) Allen, actor (Texas Rangers)
1907 - Herbert "Herb" Hall, clarinetist/saxophonist
1907 - "Swifty" Lazar, American talent agent (d. 1993)
1909 - Nelson Algren, US, novelist (Man with the Golden Arm)
1910 - Ingrid, Queen Mother of Denmark
1910 - Frederick Baldwin Adams, Jr., American Librarian (d. 2001)
1910 - Jimmie Dodd, American actor (d. 1964)
1911 - Myfanwy Piper, librettist
1911 - J. L. Austin, British philosopher of language (d. 1960)
1912 - A[rthur] Bertram Chandler, UK, sci-fi author (Empress of Outer Space)
1912 - Marina Raskova, Russian navigator (d. 1943)
1914 - Bohumil Hrabal, writer
1914 - Edmund Sixtus Muskie, (Sen-D-Me)/US Sec of State (1980)
1914 - Frank Lovejoy, Bronx NY, actor (Man Against Crime, Meet McGraw)
1914 - Edward Anhalt, American screenwriter (d. 2000)
1914 - Kenneth Richard Norris, Australian entomologist (d. 2003)
1915 - Jay Livingston, composer (Buttons & Bows, Mona Lisa, Tammy)
1915 - Raymond Emery, cricketer (NZ Test batsman vs West Indies 1952)
1918 - Youly Algaroff, ballet dancer
1919 - Jacob Avshalomov, Tsingtao China, composer (Sinfonietta, The Oregon)
1919 - Tom Brooks, cricketer (NSW fast bowler of the 30's, later Test umpire)
1919 - Vic Raschi, American baseball player (d. 1988)
1920 - Gene Chappie, (Rep-R-CA, 1981-86)
1920 - Lord Butterfield
1921 - Dirk Bogarde (born Derek van den Bogaerde) London England, actor (Death in Venice,
           Servant)
1922 - Neville Bonner, Australian politician (d. 1999)
1922 - Felice Chiusano, Italian singer (d. 1990)
1922 - Joey Maxim, American boxer (d. 2001)
1924 - Freddie Bartholomew, England, actor (Anna Karenina, David Copperfield)
1924 - Gerhart Fritsch, writer
1924 - Peter Baer, artost/printmaker
1925 - Innokenti Smoktunovsky, actor (Bely Prazdnik, Zakoldovannye)
1926 - Francis Burt, composer
1926 - Polly Umrigar, cricketer (Indian batsman & captain)
1926 - Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, 18th Duchess of Alba
1927 - Marianne Fredriksson, Swedish author (d. 2007)
1928 - Jose Luis de Delas, composer
1928 - Zbigniew Brzezinski, Warsaw, national security advisor (Carter)
1928 - Alexander Grothendieck, German mathematician
1929 - Aubrey J Watson Sr, bishop
1929 - Paul England, Australian racing driver
1930 - Amelia Rosselli, poet
1930 - George Bruce, painter
1930 - Robert Ashley, composer
1930 - Elizabeth Bainbridge, English opera singer
1932 - Sven Oskar Lindqvist, Swedish writer (Myten om Wu Tao-tzu)
1933 - Tete Montoliu, Catalonian jazz pianist (d. 1997)
1934 - Siegfried Thiele, composer
1935 - Michael Parkinson, English broadcaster
1936 - Mario Vargas Llosa, Peru, writer (Aunt Julia)/pres candidate
1940 - J Michael Plumb, Islip NY, equestrian (Oly-2 gold/4 silver-1976,84)
1940 - Kevin Loughery, NBA star/coach (Balt, Phila)
1940 - Tony Barber, Australian television personality
1941 - Alf Clausen, Minneapolis Mn, orchestra leader (Mary, Simpsons)
1941 - Charlie McCoy, Oak Hill WV, harmonica player (Hee Haw)
1941 - Jim Turner, American football player
1942 - Neil Kinnock, Wales, leader (Labour Party)
1942 - Neil Kinnock, leader of the British opposition (Labour)
1942 - Samuel Ramey, Colby Kansas, bass (La Scala)
1942 - Daniel Dennett, American philosopher
1942 - Conrad Schumann, East German border guard (d. 1998)
1943 - Conchata Ferrell, Charleston WV, actress (Deadly Hero, Susan-LA Law)
1943 - Mike Newell, director (Bad Blood, Awakening, Amazing Grace & Chuck)
1943 - Richard Eyre, British director (National Theatre)
1944 - Ken Howard, El Centro California, American actor (Ken-White Shadow, Dynasty, 1776)
1944 - Rick Barry, ABA/NBA forward (NY Nets, Golden State Warriors)
1945 - Chuck Portz, Santa Monica Ca, bassist (Turtles-Happy Together)
1945 - Hans Brunhart, leader of Liechtenstein (1978-93)
1945 - Count Björn Hamilton, Swedish politician
1946 - Richard Sussman, rocker
1946 - Alejandro Toledo, President of Peru
1946 - Wubbo Ockels, Dutch physicist and astronaut
1947 - Bruce Gilbert, producer (China Syndrome, 9 to 5, On Golden Pond)
1947 - John Landecker, American disk jockey
1948 - Dianne Wiest, KC MO, actress (Hannah & Her Sisters, Footloose)
1948 - John Evans, (Aka Evan) rock drummer (Jethro Tull)
1948 - Wubbo J Ockels, Almelo Netherlands, astronaut (STS 22)
1948 - Gerry House, American radio personality
1948 - Matthew Corbett, English retired actor
1949 - Milan Williams, US keyboardist (Commodores-Three Times a Lady)
1949 - Ronnie Ray Smith, 4 X 100m relay runner (Olympic-gold-1968)
1949 - Shafiq Ahmed, cricketer (Pakistani batsman during the 70's)
1951 - Karen Kain, Canadian ballerina
1951 - Matti Pellonpää, Finnish actor and musician (d. 1995)
1952 - Tony Brise, racing driver (d. 1975)
1953 - Nydia M Velazquez, (Rep-D-New York, 1993- )
1953 - Melchior Ndadaye, Burundian politician (d. 1993)
1954 - Morris Mason, American convicted rapist and murderer (d. 1985)
1955 - Reba McEntire, McAlester Ok, country singer (Can't Even Get the Blues)
1955 - John Alderdice, Northern Irish politician
1956 - Asoka De Silva, cricket leg-spinner (Sri Lanka in 10 Tests 1985-91)
1956 - Evelin Jahl, German DR, discus thrower (Olympic-2 gold-1976)
1956 - T A Sekar, Indian cricket pace-bowler (2 Tests 1982-83 little impact)
1956 - April Margera, Bam Margera's mother
1957 - Harvey Glance, Pheonix City Ala, 4x100m runner (Olympic-gold-1976)
1958 - Bart Wayne Conner, Morton Grove Ill, gymnist (Olympic-2 gold-1984)
1958 - Curt Hennig, American professional wrestler (d. 2003)
1959 - Petra Delhees, Jauch Switzertand, tennis star
1959 - Todd Curtis, actor (Capitol, Skip-Young & Restless)
1960 - Chris Barrie, British actor
1960 - José Maria Neves, Cape Verdeian politician
1960 - Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, French author and dramatist
1961 - Byron Scott, NBA guard (Vancouver Grizzlies)
1962 - Ged Grimes, [Danny Wilson], rocker (Mary's Prayer)
1962 - Jure Franko, Slovenian skier
1962 - Terry Szopinski, American pro-wrestler
1963 - Bernice King, daughter of Martin Luther King Jr
1963 - Therese Washtock, Vancouver BC, 3 day equestrian (Olympics-96)
1965 - Jeff Beukeboom, Ajax, NHL defenseman (NY Rangers)
1965 - Steve Bull, English footballer
1966 - Jason Garrett, NFL quarterback (Dallas Cowboys)
1966 - Nathalie Herreman, France, tennis star
1966 - Serge Djelloul, hockey defenseman (Team France 1998)
1967 - David Lang, NFL running back (Dallas Cowboys)
1967 - Ed[ward] Grose, Juneau Alaska, rower (Olympics-1996)
1967 - Shawn Boskie, Hawthorne Nevada, pitcher (California Angels)
1968 - Chad Biafore, hockey defenseman (Team Italy 1998)
1968 - Dennis Postlewait, Jacksonville NC, Nike golfer (1994 Wichita Open)
1968 - Max Perlich, actor (JH Brodie-Homicide)
1968 - Nasser Hussain, cricketer (Essex & England batsman)
1968 - Teee Williams, LA California, volleyball outside hitter (Oly-bronze-92, 96)
1968 - Iris Chang, American author (d. 2004)
1968 - Jon Lee, British drummer (d. 2002)
1968 - Tim Lovejoy, British television presenter
1969 - Craig Paquette, Long Beach CA, infielder (KC Royals)
1969 - Earnest Stewart, soccer player (Willem II)
1969 - Elliot Perry, NBA guard (Phoenix Suns, Milwaukee Bucks)
1969 - Salt, rocker (Salt 'n' Pepa-Shake Ya Thang)
1969 - Scottie Graham, NFL running back (Minnesota Vikings, Cincinnati Bengals)
1969 - Brett Ratner, American film director
1969 - Rodney Atkins, American country music singer-songwriter
1970 - James Johnson, NFL/WLAF running back (Tampa Bucs, Frankfurt Galaxy)
1970 - Jason B Gailes, Taunton Mass, rower (Olympics-silver-1996)
1970 - Shawn Price, NFL defensive end (GB Packers, Car Panthers, Buf Bills)
1970 - Vince Vaughn, Minneapolis, Minnesota, American actor (Swingers, Wedding Crashers)
1970 - Michelle Gildernew, Irish republican politician
1971 - Damien Marsh, Georgia, Australian 100m/200m swimmer (Olympics-96)
1971 - Wesley Person, NBA guard (Phoenix Suns, Cleveland Cavaliers)
1972 - Derek West, offensive tackle (Indianapolis Colts)
1972 - Jonathan Edwards, Boston Mass, doubles luger (Olympics-1994)
1972 - Keith Tkachuk, Melrose MA, NHL left wing (Winnipeg Jets, Phoenix, USA)
1972 - Michael Smith, NBA forward (Sacramento Kings)
1972 - Mike Morton, linebacker (Oakland Raiders)
1972 - Shannon Mitchell, NFL tight end (San Diego Chargers)
1972 - Nick Frost, English comedian and actor
1973 - Andrew Whittall, cricketer (cousin of Guy Zimbabwe off-spinner 1996)
1973 - Eddie Fatu, Samoan professional wrestler
1974 - K C Jones, NFL center (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1974 - Mark King, English snooker player
1974 - Scott Mills, British radio disc jockey
1975 - Atta-ur-Rehman, cricketer (Pakistani quickie, debut v Engl1992 age 17)
1975 - Shanna Moakler, former beauty queen
1975 - Iván Helguera, Spanish footballer
1975 - Richard Kelly, American film director
1975 - Derek Hill, American racing driver
1976 - David Keuning, American guitar player (The Killers)
1977 - Angelo Garcia, Brooklyn NY, singer (Menudo-Cannonball)
1977 - Lauren Weisberger, American novelist
1978 - Nafisa Joseph, Miss India Universe (1997)
1979 - Juli Keech, Miss South Dakota Teen USA (1997)
1979 - Park Chae-rim, South Korean actress
1980 - Cara Lewis, Miss Mississippi Teen USA (1997)
1980 - Stiliani Pilatou, Greek long jumper
1980 - Luke Walton, American basketball player
1981 - Julia Stiles, New York City, NY, American actress (Bourne series, Save the Last Dance)
1981 - Gareth David-Lloyd, Welsh Actor
1981 - Edwar Ramirez, American baseball player
1981 - Lindsay Frimodt, American model
1982 - Sonia Agarwal, Indian actress
1983 - Ryan Ashington, English footballer
1984 - Christopher Samba, French-born footballer
1984 - Yordanos Abay, Ethiopian footballer
1984 - Nikki Sanderson, British actress and model
1986 - Lady Gaga [Stefani Germanotta], New York, singer/songwriter (Bad Romance)
1986 - J-Kwon, American rapper
1986 - Barbora Strýcová, Czech tennis player
1988 - Lacey Turner, British soap actress
1989 - Marek Suchý, Czech footballer
1989 - Mira Leung, Canadian figure skater
1989 - Afrikan Boy, a Nigerian rapper
1989 - Lukas Jutkiewicz, English footballer
1991 - Amy Bruckner, American actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 28, 2013, 09:55:27 AM

This Day in History for 28th March


Famous Deaths

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Enlightenment Philosopher                     Author Virginia Woolf (1941)
Marquis de Condorcet (1794)


193 - Publius Helvius Pertinax, Roman Emperor (192-93), assassinated
593 - Guntram, French king in Burgundy, dies at about 67
1072 - Ordulf, Duke of Saxony
1134 - Stefanus Harding, 3rd abbott of Côteaux/saint, dies
1239 - Emperor Go-Toba of Japan (b. 1180)
1285 - Pope Martin IV (Simon de Brion), reigned 1281-85.
1563 - Heinrich Glarean, Swiss music theorist (b. 1488)
1566 - Siegmund Freiherr von Herberstein, Austrian diplomat, dies at 79
1673 - Adam Pijnacker, Dutch landscape painter/etcher, buried at 51
1677 - Wenzel Hollar, Bohemia cartoonist/etcher, dies at about 69
1687 - Constantine Huygens, diplomat/poet/composer (Bluebottles), dies at 90
1701 - Domenico Guidi, Italian sculptor, dies at 75
1712 - Jan van der Heyden, Dutch inventor (street lantern), dies at 75
1758 - Jonathan Edwards, US theologist (Great Awakening), dies at 54
1794 - Marquis de Condorcet, French enlightenment philosopher, is murdered or commits suicide in 
           prison at 50
1799 - Etta L J "baronne" Palm-Aelders, Dutch adventurer/spy, dies at 55
1801 - Ralph Abercromby, English army commander (North Holland), dies at 66
1818 - Giuseppe Antonio Capuzzi, composer, dies at 62
1840 - Simon-Antoine-Jean Lhuillier, Swiss mathematician, dies at 89
1847 - Mariano Rodriguiz de Ledesma, composer, dies at 67
1849 - Stephan L Endlicher, Austrian priest/botany, dies at 44
1850 - Gerard C. Brandon, American politician (b. 1788)
1856 - Pyotr Ivanovich Turchaninov, composer, dies at 76
1860 - Johann Ludwig Bohner, composer, dies at 73
1863 - James Cooper, US attorney/senator/Union-brig-general, dies at 52
1865 - Albert G Bilders, Dutch landscape painter, dies at 26
1866 - Solomon Foot, American politician (b. 1802)
1868 - James Thomas Brudenell, 7th earl of Cardigan, dies at about 70
1870 - George Henry Thomas, American general (b. 1816)
1874 - Peter Andreas Hansen, Danish astronomer (b. 1795)
1877 - Vincenzo Fioravanti, composer, dies at 77
1880 - Achille Peri, composer, dies at 67
1881 - Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, Russian composer (Boris Godunov), dies at 42 [OS=Mar 16]
1885 - Fredrick Vilhelm Ludvig Norman, composer, dies at 53
1887 - Ditler G Monrad, Danish bishop/premier (1863-..), dies at 75
1889 - Matilde "Tillie" Ziegler, killed by husband William Kemmler
1891 - Dick Pilling, cricketer ("Prince of Wicketkeepers", Eng 1881-88), dies
1896 - E Rundle Charles, writer, dies
1907 - Pavel Ivanovich Blaramberg, composer, dies at 65
1908 - John Eliot, English meteorology, dies at 68
1910 - Edouard [Judas] Colonne, French violinist/conductor, dies
1910 - David Josiah Brewer, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1837)
1914 - Hanus Trnecek, composer, dies at 55
1927 - Karl Prohaska, composer, dies at 57
1928 - Giuseppe Ferrata, composer, dies at 63
1929 - Lomer Gouin, Quebec politician (b. 1861)
1939 - Francis Matthew John Baker, Australian politician (b. 1903)
1941 - Virginia Woolf-Stephen [Adeline] , author (To Lighthouse), dies from suicide at 59
1941 - Kavasji Jamshedji Petigara, Indian Police Commissioner (b. 1877)
1942 - Herman A van Karnebeek, Dutch foreign minister (1918-27), dies at 67
1942 - Miguel Hernadez Gilabert, Spanish poet (Viento del Pueblo), dies at 31
1943 - Sergei Vasilievitch Rachmaninov, Russian composer/pianist, dies at 69
1944 - Chayyim Most, Rabbi/Maggid of Kovono, killed by nazis
1944 - Stephen Butler Leacock, writer/economist (Literary Lapses), dies at 75
1946 - Chick Fullis, baseball player (b. 1904)
1947 - Rudolph Hermann Simonsen, composer, dies at 57
1947 - Karol Świerczewski, Polish general (b. 1897)
1949 - Grigoras Dinicu, composer, dies at 59
1950 - Georgine M "May" Basting, actress (Occupier), dies at 67
1953 - James Francis Thorpe, decathelete (Olympic-gold-12), dies at 64
1954 - Francis B Young, Brit physician/writer (In South Africa), dies at 69
1958 - Chuck Klein, Phila Phillie HR hitter, dies at 53
1958 - William Christopher Handy, US conductor/composer (St Louis Blues), dies at 84 in New York
1959 - James Neblett, cricketer (one Test WI v England 1935), dies
1960 - Ian Keith, US actor (Ramses I-10 Commandments), dies at 61
1962 - Hugo Wast, Argentine writer (b. 1883)
1963 - Alec A Templeton, composer/pianist (Alec Templeton Time), dies at 52
1965 - VAA Mary, English princess, dies at 67
1965 - Jack Hoxie, American actor and rodeo performer (b. 1885)
1965 - Clemence Dane, British novelist and playwright (b. 1888)
1969 - Dwight D Eisenhower, 34th pres/gen (WW 2), dies in Washington at 78
1969 - Aryeh Levin, Orthodox Jewish rabbi
1971 - Felix Wolfes, composer, dies at 78
1973 - Hakuun Yasutani, Zen teacher/co-founder (Sanbo Kyodan), dies
1974 - Dorothy Fields, US singer (Way you Look Tonight), dies at 68
1974 - Francoise Rosay, actress (Interlude, Women in Prison), dies at 82
1974 - Arthur Crudup, American blues singer and guitarist, dies of heart attack at 68
1975 - Renzo Massarani, composer, dies at 77
1978 - Dino Ciani, Italian pianist (d. 1941)
1979 - Emmett Kelly, circus clown (Weary Willy), dies at 80
1980 - Dick Haymes, actor (Real Life, Betrayal), dies
1980 - Jesse Owens, (Oly-gold-36), dies at the age of 66
1982 - William Giauque, Canadian chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1895)
1983 - Ank [Anna M] van der Moer, actress (Verkade, Dutch Comedy), dies at 71
1983 - Martinus A Jansen, bishop of Rotterdam (1956-70), dies at 77
1984 - Kenneth Whitty, 1st sec at British Embassy in Athens, shot dead
1984 - Carmen Dragon, American conductor, composer and arranger (b. 1914)
1985 - Marc Chagall, French painter, dies at 97
1985 - Nand Baert, Belgian radio/tv-host, dies at 53
1986 - Victor J Lopez, actor (Chuey-Man From Atlantis), dies at 39
1986 - Virginia Gilmore, actress (Jennie, Western Union), dies
1987 - Maria Augusta Trapp, singer (Trapp Family Singers), dies at 82
1987 - Patrick Troughton, actor (Dr Who-Dr Who), dies at 56
1990 - Helene Fortescu Reynolds, actress (Bermuda Mystery), dies at 65
1991 - Carlos Montalban, actor (Bananas), dies at 85
1992 - Wendell Mayes, writer, dies of cancer at 72
1993 - Scott Cunningham, Occult author (b. 1956)
1994 - Albert Goldman, US biographer (Lives of John Lennon), dies at 66
1994 - Eugene Ionesco, playwright (Rhinoceros, Bald Soprano), dies at 84
1994 - John Logan Gorlay, journalist, dies at 74
1995 - Hugh Edward R O'Connor, actor (In the Heat of the Night), ODs at 32
1995 - Jack Regan, broadcaster, dies at 53
1995 - Vivienne Byerley, publicist, dies at 88
1996 - Barbara McLean, film Editor, dies at 86
1996 - Charles Barnet "Roscoe" Harvey, soldier, dies at 95
1996 - David Band, banker, dies at 53
1996 - Edith Fowke, folklorist, dies at 82
1996 - Hans Blumenberg, philosopher, dies at 75
1996 - James Herbert Lloyd Morrell, bishop, dies at 89
1996 - Ken Dibbs, actor (Suddenly, Party Girl, High Society), dies at 78
1996 - Shin Kanemaru, VP of Japan (1986-87), dies at 81
1996 - Simon Harcourt Nowell-Smith, British bibliophile, dies at 87
1999 - Freaky Tah, American rapper (Lost Boyz) (b. 1971)
2000 - Anthony Powell, British novelist (b. 1905)
2001 - Moe Koffman, Canadian musician (b. 1928)
2003 - Rusty Draper, American country and pop singer (b. 1923)
2004 - Art James, American game show host (b. 1929)
2004 - Peter Ustinov, British actor (b. 1921)
2005 - Dame Moura Lympany, British pianist (b. 1916)
2006 - Caspar Weinberger, United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1917)
2006 - Charles Schepens, American ophthalmologist (b. 1912)
2006 - Kevin Pro Hart, Australian artist (b. 1928)
2006 - Proinsias Ó Maonaigh, Irish musician (b. 1922)
2010 - June Havoc, American actress (b. 1913)
2011 - Wenche Foss, Norwegian actress (b. 1917)
2012 - John Arden, English novelist/playwright, dies at 81
2012 - Alexander Arutiunian, Armenian composer, dies at 91
2012 - Harry Crews, American writer/actor, dies from neuropathy at 76
2012 - Earl Scruggs, American bluegrass musician, dies from natural causes at 88

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 29, 2013, 09:44:39 AM

This Day in History for 29th March


Historical Events

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Antarctic Explorer Robert Scott                    Actress Marilyn Monroe                   Heavyweight Boxing Champ
                                                                                                                               Muhammad Ali

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NHL all-time top scorer                                  Actor Dustin Hoffman
Wayne Gretzky


502 - Bourgundy King Gundobar delegates royal power
1461 - Battle near Towton Field, 33,000 die (War of the Roses)
1549 - The city of Salvador da Bahia, the first capital of Brazil, is founded.
1632 - Treaty of Saint-Germain is signed, returning Quebec to French control after the English had
           seized it in 1629.
1638 - 1st permanent white settlement in Delaware (Swedish Lutherans)
1673 - Eng king Charles II accept Test Act: RC excluded of public functions
1792 - King Gustav III of Sweden dies after being shot in the back at a midnight masquerade ball at
           Stockholm's Royal Opera just 13 days earlier. He is succeeded by Gustav IV Adolf.
1795 - Beethoven (24) debuts as pianist in Vienna
1798 - Republic of Switzerland forms
1799 - New York passes a law aimed at gradually abolishing slavery in the state.
1804 - Thousands of Whites massacred in Haiti
1806 - Construction is authorized of the Great National Pike, better known as the Cumberland Road,
           becoming the first United States federal highway.
1809 - King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden abdicates after a coup d'état. At the Diet of Porvoo, Finland's
           four Estates pledge allegiance to Alexander I of Russia, commencing the secession of the
           Grand Duchy of Finland from Sweden.
1827 - 20,000 attend Ludwig von Beethovens burial in Vienna
1831 - Great Bosnian uprising: Bosniak rebel against Turkey.
1847 - 12,000 US troops capture Vera Cruz, Mexico
1848 - Niagara Falls stops flowing for 30 hours due to an ice jam
1849 - Great Britain formally annexs Punjab after defeat of Sikhs in India
1849 - The United Kingdom annexes the Punjab.
1850 - Ireland's SS Royal Adelaide sinks in storm; 200 die
1852 - Ohio makes it illegal for children under 18 & women to work more than 10 hours a day
1860 - Dion Boucicault's "Colleen Bawn," premieres in NYC
1864 - Great Britain gives the Ionian Islands back to Greece
1864 - Union General Steeles troops reach Arkadelphia Arkansas
1865 - -Apr 9th], Appomattox campaign, VA , 7582 killed
1865 - Battle of Quaker Road, VA
1867 - British North America Act (Canadian constitution) passes
1867 - Congress approves Lincoln Memorial
1871 - Albert Hall opened by Queen Victoria in London
1879 - Tsjaikovski's opera "Jevgeni Onegin," premieres in Moscow
1882 - Knights of Columbus chartered for Catholic men
1886 - Chemist John Pemberton begins to advertise for Coca-Coke
1897 - Japan adopts Gold Standard
1906 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Wanderers sweep Kenora Thisles in 2 games
1912 - Capt Robert Scott, storm-bound in a tent near South Pole, makes last entry in his diary "the
           end cannot be far"
1919 - Stanley Cup: Mont (NHL) & Seat (PCHA) win 2 games each with 1 tie, 1919 Stanley Cup not
           awarded due to flu epidemic
1924 - Bayern & Vatican reach accord
1927 - Henry O D Seagrave races his Sunbeam to a record 203.79 mph at Daytona
1928 - Yeshiva College (now University) chartered (NYC)
1929 - Stanley Cup: Boston Bruins sweep NY Rangers in 2 games
1930 - Heinrich Brüning is appointed German Reichskanzler.
1932 - Jack Benny debuts on radio, on Ed Sullivan's New York interview program
1934 - Bank of Travail in Belgium, socialist worker's movement bankrupt
1935 - French liner Normandie begins its maiden voyage
1936 - 10,000 watch the 200" mirror blank passing through Indianapolis
1936 - Nazi propaganda claims 99% of Germans voted for Nazi candidates
1940 - Joe Louis KOs Johnny Paycheck in 2 to retain heavyweight boxing title
1941 - 1st performance of Benjamin Britten's "Symphony da Requiem"
1941 - 3rd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Wisconsin beats Wash State 39-34
1941 - WPAT radio in NJ begins broadcasting (country music format)
1942 - British cruiser Trinidad torpedoes itself in the Barents Sea
1942 - British destroyer Campbeltown explodes in St-Nazaire: 400 Germans die
1942 - German submarine U-585 sinks
1942 - The Bombing of Lübeck in World War II was the first major success for the RAF Bomber
           Command against Germany and a German city.
1943 - Meat, butter & cheese rationed in US during WW II
1943 - Meat rationed in US (784 gram/week, 2 kilogram for GI's
1945 - World War II: Last day of V-1 flying bomb attacks on England.
1946 - 1st Test Cricket between Australia & NZ
1946 - Test Cricket debuts of Lindwall, Miller & Tallon
1947 - "Beggar's Holiday" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 111 perfs
1948 - Drachtster Boys soccer team forms in Drachten
1948 - Yanks & Red Sox tie at 2-2 in 17, spring training game
1949 - Turkey recognizes Israel
1951 - "King & I" opens at St James Theater NYC for 1246 performances
1951 - 23rd Academy Awards - "All About Eve," Judy Holliday & J Ferrer win
1951 - Julius & Ethel Rosenberg are convicted of spying
1953 - Patty Berg wins LPGA New Orleans Women's Golf Open
1958 - US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Carol Heiss
1958 - US Mens Figure Skating championship won by David Jenkins
1959 - "Some Like it Hot" with Marilyn Monroe & Jack Lemmon premieres
1959 - Wes Hall takes Pakistani cricket hat-trick at Lahore
1960 - Darius Milhaud's 9th Symphony, premieres
1961 - 23rd Amendment ratified, allows Wash DC residents to vote for pres
1961 - After a 4½ year trial Nelson Mandela is acquitted on treason charge
1961 - KCPT TV channel 19 in Kansas City, MO (PBS) begins broadcasting
1962 - Argentine Pres Frondizi flees from the army
1962 - Jack Paar's final appearance on the "Tonight Show"
1963 - Final episode of soap opera "Young Doctor Malone"
1966 - "It's a Bird... It's Superman" opens at Alvin NYC for 129 perfs
1966 - Muhammad Ali beats George Chuvalo in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1967 - WCMU TV channel 14 in Mt. Pleasant, MI (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 - Students seize building at Bowie State College
1969 - Communist New People's Army found in Philippines
1970 - "Look to the Lilies" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 25 perfs
1970 - Manchester City wins 10th Europe Cup II
1971 - 1st Lt William L Calley Jr found guilty in My Lai (Vietnam) massacre
1971 - Chile president Allende nationalizes banks/copper mines
1971 - Conrad Van Emde Boas becomes West Europe's 1st sexology professor
1971 - Development of a serum hepatitis vaccine for children announced
1971 - Royal Albert Hall opens
1971 - WSVN (now WSBN) TV channel 47 in Norton, VA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1973 - Dave Cowens, wins NBA MVP
1973 - US troops leave Vietnam, 9 yrs after Tonkin Resolution
1974 - Mariner 10's, 1st fly-by of Mercury, returns photos
1975 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Karsten-Ping Golf Open
1975 - Only 2nd time Islanders beat Rangers
1976 - 38th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Indiana beats Michigan 86-68
1976 - 8 Ohio National Guardsmen indicted for shooting 4 Kent State students
1979 - Andrew Hilditch given out handled the ball v Pakistan at WACA
1979 - Caryl Churchill's "Cloud Nine," premieres in London
1979 - Delhi beat Karnataka by 399 runs to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy
1979 - Last day of Test cricket for Mushtaq Mohammad
1981 - "Woman of the Year" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 770 performances
1981 - Pat Bradley wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
1981 - Tiina Lehtola ski jumps female record 110m
1981 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1982 - 2nd Golden Raspberry Awards: Mommie Dearest wins
1982 - 44th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: NC beats Georgetown 63-62
1982 - 54th Academy Awards - "Chariots of Fire," Henry Fonda & K Hepburn win
1982 - Delhi 707 beat Karnataka 705 on 1st innings to win Ranji Trophy
1984 - NFL Baltimore Colts move to Indianapolis
1984 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1985 - Christos Sartzetakis elected president of Greece
1985 - Wayne Gretzky breaks own NHL season record with 126th assist
1986 - Beatle records officially go on sale in Russia
1987 - 6th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Tennessee routs Louisiana 67-44
1987 - Pat Bradley wins LPGA Standard Register Turquoise Golf Classic
1987 - Wrestlemania III-93,173 watch Hulk Hogan beat Andre the Giant
1987 - Yitzhak Shamir re-elected chairman of right wing Herut Party
1988 - "Oba Oba" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 46 performances
1988 - US Congress discontinues aid to Nicaraguan contras
1989 - 1st Soviet hockey players are permitted to play for the NHL
1989 - 1st US private commercial rocket makes suborbital test flight (NM)
1989 - 61st Academy Awards - "Rainman," Dustin Hoffman & Jodie Foster win
1989 - 9th Golden Raspberry Awards: Cocktail wins
1989 - I M Pei's pyramidal entrance to the Louvre opens in Paris
1989 - Michael Milken, junk bond king, indicted in NY for racketeering
1992 - "Conversations with My Father" opens at Royale NYC for 462 perfs
1992 - 12th Golden Raspberry Awards: Hudson Hawk wins
1992 - 21st Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Dottie Mochrie
1992 - Herb Gardner's "Conversations With My Father," premieres in NYC
1992 - Ice Dance Championship at Oakland won by Klimova & Ponomarenko (CIS)
1992 - Ice Pairs Championship at Oakland won by Mishuktienok & Dmitriev (CIS)
1992 - Ladies Fig Skating Championship in Oak won by Kristi Yamaguchi (USA)
1992 - Men's Fig Skating Championship in Oakland won by Viktor Petrenko (CIS)
1992 - NCAA Basketball Women's Championship at Kemper Arena, KC
1993 - 65th Academy Awards - "Unforgiven," Al Pacino & Emma Thompson win
1993 - Queensland all out for 75 v NSW in Sheffield Shield Final
1994 - Coach Jimmy Johnson quits Dallas Cowboys
1994 - Last day of Test cricket for Allan Border
1994 - Serbs & Croats signed a cease-fire to end the war in Croatia
1995 - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Chicago IL on WCKG 105.9 FM
1996 - 10th Soul Train Music Awards: Patti Labelle, Boyz II Men
1996 - Cleveland Browns choose new name, Baltimore Ravens
1996 - NY Yankees beats NY Mets 7-3 in an exhibition game
1997 - 1st game at Turner Field Atlanta, Braves beats Yanks 2-0 (exhibition)
1997 - PBA National Championship Won by Rick Steelsmith
1998 - 17th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: at Kemper Arena KC
1998 - 27th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship
1999 - 61st NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: at ThunderDome St Petersburg
1999 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at 10006.78 - above the 10,000 mark for the first
           time ever.
2004 - Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia join NATO as full
           members.
2004 - The Republic of Ireland becomes the first country in the world to ban smoking in all work
           places, including bars and restaurants.
2010 - Two female suicide bombers hit the Moscow Metro system at the peak of the morning rush
           hour, killing 40.

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Post by: MysteRy on March 29, 2013, 09:45:41 AM

This Day in History for 29th March


Famous Weddings

1813 - John Tyler (23) later 10th US President, marries 1st wife Letitia Christian Tyler (22)
1929 - Actress and dancer Ginger Rogers (17) weds her dancing partner Jack Pepper (26)
1997 - Actor Harry Hamlin weds actress Lisa Rinna
2008 - Biggest Loser contestant Amy Hildreth (28) weds Marty Wolff (27) in Charleston, South
           Carolina

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Post by: MysteRy on March 29, 2013, 09:52:39 AM

This Day in History for 29th March


Famous Birthdays

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US President John Tyler (1790)         Super Model Elle MacPherson (1964)       Actress & Singer Lucy Lawless (1968)


1484 - Johann Spangenberg, composer
1519 - Carlo Caraffa, Italian cardinal
1553 - Vitsentzos Kornaros, Greek Renaissance poet (d. 1613 or 1614)
1561 - Santorio Sanctorius, Trieste Italy, physician/burned at stake/heretic
1584 - Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, English general (d. 1648)
1602 - John Lightfoot, English theologist/literary (Horae Hebraicae)
1616 - Johann Erasmus Kindermann, composer
1636 - Esaias Reusner, composer
1668 - Thomas Coram, Founder of the Foundling Hospital (d. 1751)
1713 - John Ponsonby, Irish politician (d. 1789)
1725 - Joseph Franz Xaver Dominik Stalder, composer
1752 - Edward Jones, composer
1769 - Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult, French marshal (d. 1851)
1790 - John Tyler, Va, (D/W) 10th Pres (1841-1845)
1799 - Edward Stanley, Earl Derby (C), British PM (1852, 1858-59, 1866-68)
1813 - John Letcher, Gov (Confederacy), died in 1884
1816 - James Gallant Spears, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1869
1817 - Constantine S Aksakov, Russian historian/poet
1819 - Edwin Drake, drilled 1st productive US oil well
1819 - Isaac Mayer Wise, rabbi/founder (American Hebrew Congregations)
1821 - Joshua Thomas Owen, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1887
1822 - Joseph Quinaux, Belgian painter
1824 - Ludwig Büchner, German philosopher and physician (d. 1899)
1826 - Wilhelm Liebknecht, German MP (social-democratic)
1829 - Ritta & Christina, Siamese twins, in Sardinia
1829 - Robert Emmet Rodes, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
1831 - Amelia Barr, writer
1848 - Aleksei Kuropatkin, Russian general/minister of War
1867 - Cy [Denton True] Young, Gilmore Ohio, baseball pitcher (511 wins, 1890-1911). Died 1955
1869 - Ales Hrdlicka, US, anthropologist/curator (US National Museum)
1869 - Edwin Lutyens, architect, London
1871 - Tom Hayward, cricketer (great England batsman of the Golden Age)
1873 - Tullio Levi-Civita, Italian mathematician (d. 1941)
1875 - Lou Henry Hoover, 1st lady (1929-33)
1875 - Paul Rubens, composer
1876 - Jan Ingenhoven, composer
1876 - Joseph Schmidlin, German church historian/antifascist
1883 - Donald Dexter Van Slyke, US chemist (Micromanometric analysis)
1886 - Gustaf Adolf Tiburtius Bengtsson, composer
1888 - Adrianus M de Jong, Dutch writer (World Tour of Bulletje & Bonestaak)
1888 - James E Casey, founder (United Parcel Service)
1889 - Howard Lindsay, Waterford NY, playwright/actor/dir (State of Union)
1889 - Warner Baxter, Columbus OH, actor (In Old Arizona, Cisco Kid)
1891 - Ivan Goll, writer
1891 - Alfred Neubauer, German racing team manager (Mercedes Benz) (d. 1980)
1892 - Jozsef Mindszenty, [Joseph Prehm], Hungarian cardinal
1895 - Ernst Jünger, German author (d. 1998)
1898 - Cecil Lewis, airman/writer
1900 - John McEwen, eighteenth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1980)
1900 - Bill Aston, British racing driver (d. 1974)
1901 - Frans U Kailas, Finnish poet
1901 - Andrija Maurovic, Croatian illustrator (d. 1981)
1902 - Onslow Stevens, LA California, actor (Mr Fisher-This is the Life)
1902 - William Walton, England, composer (Troilus & Cressida, Wise Virgins)
1902 - Marcel Aymé, French writer (d. 1967)
1905 - Annunzio Mantovani, Venice Italy, orchestra leader (Mantovani)
1905 - Philip Ahn, American actor (d. 1978)
1906 - E Power Biggs, Westcliff-on-Sea England, organist/composer (CBS)
1907 - "Braguinha", Brazilian songwriter (d. 2006)
1908 - Arthur O'Connell, NYC, actor (Mr Peepers, Second Hundred Years)
1908 - Dennis O'Keefe, Fort Madison IA, actor/dir (T-Men, Fighting Seabees)
1909 - Moon Mullican, hillbilly pianist (7 Nights of Rock)
1909 - Yvonne Waegemans, Flemish writer (Gnome Patjoepelke)
1911 - Philip Ahn, LA California, actor (Master Kan-Kung Fu)
1911 - Brigitte Horney, German actress (d. 1988)
1912 - Hanna Reitsch, German test pilot (d. 1979)
1913 - Jack Jones, British trade unionist (CH)
1913 - Niall MacGinnis, Dublin Ireland, actor (Curse of the Demon)
1913 - Phil Foster, Bkln NY, comedian (Frank De Fazio-Laverne & Shirley)
1913 - R. S. Thomas, Welsh poet (d. 2000)
1914 - Chapman Pincher, British journalist/author (about secret service)
1915 - George Chisholm, Scottish jazz trombonist
1916 - Eugene J McCarthy, Watkins Minn, (Sen-D-Minn, pres candidate 1968)
1916 - John Paul, Governor-General (Bahamas)
1917 - Arthur Knight, CEO (Courtaulds)
1917 - Man O'War, racehorse (winner of 20 out of 21 races & $249,465)
1917 - Man o' War, American thoroughbred racehorse (d. 1947)
1918 - John Read, CEO (TSB Group)
1918 - Pearl Bailey, Newport News Va, singer (Hello Dolly)
1918 - Sam Walton, billionaire CEO (Wal-Mart) (d. 1992)
1919 - Eileen Heckart, Columbus Ohio, actress (Doll's House, Trauma Center)
1920 - John Belk, American head of Belk, Inc. (d. 2007)
1921 - Hugh Neill, Lord-Lieutenant (South Yorkshire)
1921 - Sam Loxton, cricketer (flamboyant Australian batsman of late 40's)
1923 - Julia Montgomery Walsh, political consultant/writer
1924 - Jules de Corte, blind Dutch ballad singer
1925 - Emlen Tunnell, NFL safety (Giants, Packers)
1925 - Lord Justice Beldam
1927 - Arthur Ravenel Jr, (Rep-R-South Carolina)
1927 - John McLaughlin, TV commentator (McLaughlin Group)
1927 - John Vane, FRS/pharmacologist
1927 - Donald Ross [Lord Ross], Dundee, Scottish judge
1928 - Vaclav Felix, composer
1928 - Vincent Gigante, American mafioso (d. 2005)
1929 - Ronald Clive Williams, actor/comedian
1929 - Sheila Kitzinger, author, anthropologist & child birth educator
1929 - Utpal Dutt, Indian actor (d. 1993)
1930 - Donny Conn, rocker (Playmates)
1930 - G R Sunderam, cricket pace bowler (2 Tests India v NZ 1955-56)
1930 - Hugh Edward Conway Seymour, marquis of Hertford
1930 - Marquess of Hertford
1931 - Evelyn de Rothschild, English banker/multi-millionaire
1931 - James Weatherhead, moderator (General Assembly of Church of Scotland)
1931 - Lord Tebbit, British CH
1931 - Sylvia Law, British town planner
1932 - William Charette, Ludington, Michigan, United States Navy Hospital Corpsman and Medal of
           Honour recipient, (d. 2012)
1933 - Jacques Brault, French Canadian poet
1934 - Ernstalbrecht Stiebler, composer
1934 - Paul Crouch, American televangelist
1935 - Ruby Murray, Irish pop singer (Softly Softly)
1936 - Richard Rodney Bennett, Broadstairs Kent England, composer, (d. 2012)
1936 - Mogens Camre, Danish politician
1937 - Anne Stoddart, diplomat
1937 - Billy Carter, Plains Georgia, brother of Pres Carter
1937 - Smarck Michel, Saint-Marc, Haiti, Haitian Prime Minister (1994-5), (d. 2012)
1938 - Bert de Vries, Dutch minister of Social Affairs (CDA)
1938 - Margaret Howard, British broadcaster
1939 - Hanumant Singh, cricketer (14 Tests for India-century on debut)
1939 - Nancy Kwan, Hong Kong, actress (Flower Drum Song, Night Creature)
1939 - Roland Arnall, American businessman and diplomat (d. 2008).
1940 - Raymond Davis, US rock vocalist (Funkadelic-Knee Deep)
1941 - Terence Hill, Venice Italy, actor (Super Fuzz, They Call Me Trinity)
1941 - Eden Kane, British singer
1942 - Larry Pressler, (Sen-R-SD, 1979- )
1943 - Eric Idle, England, comedian/actor (Monty Python)
1943 - John Major, British PM (C, 1990-97)
1943 - Vangelis, [Papathanasiou], composer/keyboardist (Chariots of Fire)
1943 - Sir John Major, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1944 - James Diggle, FBA, classicist
1944 - John Suchet, British TV journalist (Independent TV News)
1945 - Julie Goodyear, British actress (Bet Lynch-Coronation Street)
1945 - Walt "Clyde" Frazier, NBA guard (NY Knicks)
1945 - Willem Ruis, Dutch TV host (Willem Ruis Show)
1946 - Bruce Weber, director (Broken Noses)
1946 - Ronald Farrow, radio producer/priest
1946 - Billy Thorpe, Australian singer (d. 2007)
1947 - Aleksandr Stepenovich Viktorenko, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-3, 8, 14, 20)
1947 - Bobby Kimball, [Robert Toteaux], Vinton LA, rocker (Toto-Roseann)
1947 - Peter Hinchcliffe, co-founder (Iceland Frozen Foods)
1948 - Bud Cort, New Rochelle NY, actor/director (Electric Dreams, M*A*S*H)
1949 - Michael Brecker, rocker (Brecker Brothers)
1949 - Uton Dowe, cricketer (WI pace bowler 1972-73 "Dowe shall not bowl")
1949 - Keith Simpson, British politician
1951 - Geoff Howarth, cricketer (NZ captain early 80's)
1952 - Teofilo Stevenson, Cuba, heavyweight boxer (Olympic-gold-1972, 76, 80), (d. 2012)
1954 - Karen Anne Quinlan, NJ, famous comatose patient (right to die case)
1955 - Christopher Lawford, actor (Charlie Brent-All My Children)
1955 - Dianne Kay, Phoenix Az, actress (Nancy-8 is Enough, Reggie, Glitter)
1955 - Earl Campbell, NFL running back (Houston, New Orleans, 1977 Heisman)
1955 - Henry Bellingham, MP
1955 - Brendan Gleeson, Irish actor
1955 - Marina Sirtis, English actress
1956 - Kurt Thomas, US, gymnist (Olympics), actor (Gymkata)
1956 - Lisa J Allen, TV reporter/lawyer
1956 - Sue Fogleman, LPGA golfer
1957 - Christopher Lambert, actor (Highlander, Subway, Greystoke, Why Me)
1958 - Fiona Reynolds, director/Council for Protection of Rural England
1958 - Victor Salva, American film director
1959 - Brad McCrimmon, Dodsland, NHL defenseman (Hartford Whalers)
1959 - Marina Sirtis, London, actress (Troi-Star Trek: The Next Generation)
1959 - Barry Blanchard, Canadian mountaineer
1959 - Perry Farrell, American musician, (Jane's Addiction, Porno For Pyros)
1961 - Ane-Marie Sanches, newscaster (Suriname TV/Radio)
1961 - Mike Kingery, St James MN, outfielder (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1961 - Amy Sedaris, American actress and comedian
1961 - Gary Brabham, Australian racing driver
1962 - Kirk Alan Triplett, Moses Lake WA, PGA golfer (1992 Shell Houston-2nd)
1964 - Elle MacPherson, Sydney, Austrailian super model and actress (Sirens)
1964 - Jill Goodacre Connick, Lubbock Texas, model (Victoria Secrets)
1964 - Michael A. Jackson, Maryland politician
1965 - Emilios T. Harlaftis, Greek astrophysicist (d. 2005)
1965 - William Oefelein, American Astronaut
1965 - Voula Patoulidou, Greek athlete
1966 - Dwayne Harper, NFL cornerback (San Diego Chargers)
1966 - Eric Gunderson, Portland OR, pitcher (Boston Red Sox)
1966 - Robb Thomas, NFL receiver (Seattle Seahawks, Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1967 - Brian Jordan, Baltimore MD, outfielder (St Louis Cardinals)
1967 - Jerry Olsavsky, NFL linebacker (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1967 - John Popper, American musician
1968 - Chris Calloway, NFL wide receiver (NY Giants)
1968 - James Williams, NFL tackle (Chic Bears)
1968 - Sue Foley, Canadian singer and guitarist
1968 - Lucy Lawless, New Zealand actress and singer
1969 - Darren Chandler, WLAF receiver (Amsterdam Admirals)
1969 - James Atkin, rocker (EMF-Unbelievable)
1969 - Jeff Blackshear, guard (Baltimore Ravens)
1969 - Jimmy Spencer, NFL cornerback (NO Saints, Cincinnati Bengals)
1969 - Kai Nurminen, Turku FIN, hockey forward (Team Finland)
1969 - [Jane] Kim[berly] Batten, McRae Georgia, 400m hurdler (Oly-silver-96)
1971 - Lennart van Reen, son of author Ton v R/publisher Corrie Zelen
1971 - Ryan Mark Lambert
1972 - Alex Ochoa, Miami FL, outfielder (NY Mets)
1972 - John Rothell, Titusville Florida, 400m hurdler
1972 - Paul Michael Kent, Australia, NZ breastroker (Olympics-96)
1972 - Trevor Kidd, Dugald, NHL goalie (Calgary Flames)
1972 - Michel Ancel, French game designer
1972 - Rui Costa, Portugal footballer
1972 - Junichi Suwabe, Japanese voice actor
1973 - Brad Bridgewater, US, 200m backstroke (Olympics-gold-96)
1973 - John Oppio, Sparks Nevada, double trap (Olympics-1996)
1973 - Marc Overmars, Dutch soccer player (Ajax)
1973 - Mark Platt, Peterborough Ontario, rower (Olympics-96)
1973 - Sebastiano Siviglia Italian footballer
1974 - Kristoffer Cusick, American actor
1974 - Marc Gené, Spanish racing car driver
1975 - Christopher Yule, hockey forward (Team Japan 1998)
1976 - Jennifer Capriati, Long Is NY, tennis pro (Oly-gold-92)
1976 - Igor Astarloa, Spanish cyclist
1978 - Michael Kaczurak, American singer and actor
1980 - Kim Tae Hee, South Korean actress
1980 - Prince Hamzah bin Al Hussein, of Jordan
1980 - Amy Mathews, Australian actress
1981 - Megan Hilty, American actress
1981 - Jlloyd Samuel, WestIndian-born footballer
1982 - Hideaki Takizawa, Japanese artist
1983 - Luiza Sá, Brazilian musician
1985 - Maxim Lapierre, Canadian ice hockey forward
1985 - Mickey Pimentel, National Football League linebacker
1986 - Sylvan Ebanks-Blake, English footballer
1987 - 7th Golden Raspberry Awards: Howard the Duck wins
2334 - Beverly Crusher, Copernicus Luna, fictional doctor-Star Trek Next Gen
2336 - Deanna Troi, Betazed, fictional counsellor-Star Trek Next Generation

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Post by: MysteRy on March 29, 2013, 09:56:59 AM

This Day in History for 29th March


Famous Deaths

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Post-Impressionist Painter                Antarctic Explorer Robert Scott (1912)           Actor Paul Henreid (1992)
Georges Seurat (1891)


1058 - Stephen IX, [Frederik van Lotharingen], 1st Belgium Pope (1057-58), dies
1368 - Emperor Go-Murakami, Emperor of Japan (b. 1328)
1461 - Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, English politician (b. 1421)
1546 - Cardinal Beaton, English archbishop of St Andrews, murdered
1578 - Arthur Champernowne, English admiral (b. 1524)
1578 - Louis I, Cardinal of Guise, French cardinal (b. 1527)
1625 - Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas, Spanish historian (b. 1549)
1628 - Tobias Matthew, Archbishop of York (b. 1546)
1629 - Jacob de Gheyn II, Dutch artist (b. 1565)
1650 - Cornelis Galle I, Flemish engraver, dies at about 73
1655 - Valerius Andreas, Flemish historian, dies at 66
1683 - Yaoya Oshichi, a young girl burned at the stake for arson in 17th Century Japan (b. 1667)
1697 - Nikolaus Bruhns, composer, dies
1745 - Robert Walpole, 1st British premier (1722-42), dies at 68
1751 - Thomas Coram, English sea captain and philanthropist
1772 - Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish philosopher and mathematician (b. 1688)
1788 - Charles Wesley, hymn writer, dies
1792 - Gustav III, King of Sweden (1771-92), dies of wounds
1794 - Marie-J-A-N C Condorcet, mathematician (Theory of Comets), dies at 50
1800 - Marc René, marquis de Montalembert, French military engineer and writer (b. 1714)
1802 - Frederic Thieme, composer, dies at 51
1803 - Gottfried van Swieten, Dutch composer (b. 1733)
1837 - Maria Fitzherbert, morganatic wife of King George IV, dies
1839 - Bernardus JC Dibbets, Dutch baron/gen-major (Maastricht), dies at 56
1847 - Auguste De Polignac, premier France, dies at 66
1848 - John Jacob Astor, charted American Fur Company, dies at 84
1855 - Henri Druey, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1799)
1866 - Menachem Mendel of Lubavitch, Rabbi/Chassidic leader, dies
1873 - Francesco Zantedeschi, Italian physicist (b. 1797)
1880 - Jakob Axel Josephson, composer, dies at 62
1886 - John Keble, theologian, Bournemouth
1888 - Charles-Henri Valentin Alkan, composer, dies at 74
1891 - Georges Seurat, French painter (Pointillism), dies at 31
1892 - William Bowman, English anatomist, dies at 75
1906 - Slava Raskaj, Croatian painter (b. 1878)
1911 - Felix Alexandre Guilmant, composer, dies at 74
1912 - Robert Falcon Scott, British pole explorer, dies in Antarctica at 43
1917 - Fran Gerbic, composer, dies at 76
1924 - Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish composer/writer, dies at 71
1930 - Anton Bettelheim, writer, dies
1933 - Alexander Schmuller, Russian/Dutch violinist/conductor, dies at 52
1934 - Otto Hermann Kahn, German millionaire and benefactor (b. 1867)
1937 - Karol Szymanowski, Polish/Ukraine composer (Stabat Mater), dies at 54
1940 - Alexander Obolensky, Russian prince and famed Rugby Union footballer who played for
           England.(b. 1916)
1945 - Karl T Sapper, German geographer/geologist (Vulkankunde), dies at 79
1948 - Olev Siinmaa, Estonian architect (b. 1881)
1955 - Everard Verachtert, Flemish linguist (I Can Speak Nicely), dies at 81
1956 - Infante Alfonso of Spain (b. 1941)
1957 - Joyce A L Cary, English writer (Horse's Mouth), dies at 68
1959 - Barthelemy Boganda, Central African Republic's 1st president, dies
1959 - Sara Wennerberg-Reuter, composer, dies at 84
1963 - Pola Gojawiczynska, Polish author (Stolica), dies at 64
1964 - Ted Collins, pianist (Kate Smith Evening Hour), dies at 63
1966 - Harry Daugherty, trombonist (Spike Jones & City Slickers), dies at 50
1970 - Anna Louise Strong, American communist journalist (b. 1885)
1971 - Dhirendranath Datta, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1886)
1972 - J Arthur Rank, 1st Baron Rank, industrialist/film magnate
1974 - Seton I Miller, writer, dies at 71
1978 - Jayasinghrao Mansinghrao Ghorpade, cricketer (8 Tests for India), dies
1979 - Melville Cooper, TV panelist (I Got a Secret), dies at 82
1980 - ... Mantovani, orchestra leader (Mantovani), dies at 74
1981 - Eric Williams, Prime Minister (Trinidad & Tobago), dies at 79
1982 - Carl Orff, German composer (Mouth, Antigonae), dies at 86
1982 - Rudy Bond, actor (Streetcar Named Desire), dies of heart attack at 68
1982 - Walter Hallstein, W German politician (CDU, H-doctrine), dies at 80
1982 - Nathan Twining, USAF general (b. 1897)
1985 - Luther Terry, Surgeon General of the United States (b. 1911)
1985 - Jeanine Deckers, Belgian nun, The Singing Nun (b. 1933)
1986 - Harry Ritz, actor (3 Musketeers, On the Avenue), dies at 79
1988 - Ted Kluszewski, American baseball player (b. 1924)
1989 - Bernard Blier, actor (Les Miserables, Women & War), dies at 73
1990 - Germaine Montenesdro, 2nd victim of NYC's Zodiac killer, shot dead
1991 - Lee Atwater, political strategists (R), dies of brain tumor at 40
1991 - Matt Bennett, actor (Hickey & Boggs), dies of brain tumor at 52
1992 - Earl Spencer, father of Lady Diana, dies at 68
1992 - Paul [G J von] Henreid, Austrian actor (Laszlo-Casablanca), dies at 84
1994 - Bill Travers, actor (Trio, Gorgo, Born Free), dies at 72
1994 - Paul Grimault, animator, dies at 89
1994 - William Natcher, (Rep-D-Ky), dies at 84
1995 - Carl E Jefferson, record company owner, dies at 74
1995 - Eddie Williams Wiggins, alto saxophone/comedian, dies at 78
1995 - James Eric Storrar, fighter Pilot, dies at 74
1995 - John Elliott Terry, film financier, dies at 82
1995 - Baltimora, British singer (b. 1957)
1996 - Maggie Donnelly, bag lady, dies at 46
1996 - Bill Goldsworthy, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1944)
1997 - Eddie Ryder, actor (Slick Jones-General Hospital), dies at 74
1997 - Ellen Clara Pollock, actress (Wicked Lady, Fake), dies at 94
1999 - Joe Williams, American singer (b. 1918)
2001 - Helge Ingstad, Norwegian explorer (b. 1899)
2001 - John Lewis, American jazz pianist (b. 1920)
2002 - Rico Yan, Philippine Young Movie & TV Actor (b. 1975)
2002 - Rachel Levy and Ayat al-Akhras, Israeli and Palestinian children
2003 - Carlo Urbani, Italian physician (SARS) (b. 1956)
2005 - Johnnie Cochran, American lawyer (b. 1937)
2005 - Mitch Hedberg, American comedian (b. 1968)
2005 - Miltos Sahtouris, Greek poet (b. 1919)
2006 - Salvador Elizondo, Mexican writer (b. 1932)
2007 - Calvin Lockhart, Bahamian actor (b. 1934)
2009 - Maurice Jarre, French composer (b.1924)
2009 - Vladimir Fedotov, Soviet football striker and manager (b.1943)
2009 - Andy Hallett, American actor and singer (b.1975)
2011 - Ângelo de Sousa, Portuguese painter and sculptor (b. 1938)
2012 - Bill Jenkins, American Hall of Fame drag racer and engineer, dies at 81

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 30, 2013, 09:20:08 AM

This Day in History for 30th March


Historical Events

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Philosophe Voltaire                             Pacifist and Spiritual Leader Gandhi           Actress Grace Kelly

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Singer & Actress Barbra Streisand           Deaf Actress Marlee Matlin 

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Golfer Jack Nicklaus                                Earl of Wessex Prince Edward


240 BC - 1st recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
804 - Liudger becomes 1st bishop of Munster
988 - Boudouin IV with the Beard becomes earl of Flanders
1282 - The people of Sicily rebel against the Angevin king Charles I, in what becomes known as the
           Sicilian Vespers.
1296 - Edward I sacks Berwick-upon-Tweed, during armed conflict between Scotland and England.
1422 - Ketsugan, Zen teacher, performs exorcisms to free aizoji temple
1456 - Prince Louis of Bourbon elected bishop of Liege
1474 - Duke Sigismund van Tirol ends contacts with Switzerland
1492 - King Ferdinand & Queen Isabella sign decree expelling Jews from Spain
1533 - Thomas Cranmer becomes archbishop of Canterbury
1603 - Battle at Mellifont: English army under Lord Mountjoy beats Irish
1778 - Playwright Voltaire crowned with laurel wreath
1814 - Napoleonic Wars: Sixth Coalition forces march into Paris after defeating Napoleon.
1814 - Murat issues the Rimini Declaration which would later inspire Italian Unification.
1822 - Congress combined East & West Florida into Florida Territory
1842 - Ether used as an anaesthetic for 1st time by Dr Crawford Long (Ga)
1856 - Russia signs Peace of Paris, ending the Crimean War
1858 - Pencil with attached eraser patented (Hyman L Lipman of Phila)
1863 - Danish prince Wilhelm Georg of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg chosen as king
           George of Greece
1864 - Skirmish at Mount Elba, Arkansas
1865 - -4] Battle at 5 Forks Virginia
1866 - Bedrich Smetana's "Verkaufte Braut" (Sold Bride), premieres
1867 - US buys Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000 (2 cents an acre - Seward's Folly)
1870 - 15th Amendment passes, guarantees right to vote regardless of race
1870 - Texas becomes last confederate state readmitted to Union
1870 - Florida territorial government established.
1885 - The Battle for Kushka triggers the Pandjeh Incident which nearly gives rise to war between
           the British Empire and Russian Empire.
1889 - John T Reid opens 1st US golf course (Yonkers, NY)
1893 - Thomas F Bayard becomes 1st US ambassador in Great Britain
1895 - British inventor Birt Acres films Oxford and Cambridge boat race
1900 - Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts Compulsory education law
1909 - Queensboro Bridge opens, linking Manhattan & Queens
1910 - Mississippi Legislature founded The University of Southern Mississippi.
1911 - Lötschberg tunnel in Switzerland (13,735 m) completed
1912 - French protectorate in Morocco established
1916 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens (NHA) beat Portland Rosebuds (PCHA), 3 games to 2
1918 - Stanley Cup: Toronto Arenas (NHL) beat Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA), 3 games to 2
1919 - Belgian Army occupies Dusseldorf
1919 - Gandhi announces resistance against Rowlatt Act
1919 - Paul Claudel's "Tête d'Or," premieres in Paris
1922 - KGY-AM in Olympia WA begins radio transmissions
1922 - WWL-AM in New Orleans LA begins radio transmissions
1923 - Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, formed at Howard U in 1920, incorporates
1925 - Stalin supports rights of non-Serbian Yugoslavians
1925 - Stanley Cup: Vict Cougars (WCHL) beat Canadiens (NHL), 3 games to 1
1930 - Babberich-H soccer team forms
1935 - Newfoundland changes time to 3½ hrs W of Greenwich, repeats 44 sec
1939 - The Heinkel He 100 fighter sets the world airspeed record of 463 mph.
1939 - First flight of the Australian C.A.C. CA-16 Wirraway.
1940 - 2nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Indiana U beats Kansas 60-42
1941 - German counter offensive in North-Africa
1942 - 1st RSHA-transport from France arrives in camp Birkenau
1942 - SS murders 200 inmates of Trawniki labor camp
1943 - 5th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: U of Wyoming beat Georgetown 46-34
1943 - British 1st army recaptures Sejenane
1943 - Rodgers & Hammerstein's "Oklahoma!," premieres in NYC
1944 - 781 British bombers attack Neurenberg
1945 - 289 anti-fascists murdered by nazis in Rombergpark Dortmund
1945 - USSR invades Austria during WW II
1945 - World War II: a defecting German pilot delivers a Messerschmitt Me 262A-1 to Americans.
1946 - "St Louis Woman" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 113 performances
1946 - Australia beats NZ in cricket at 3 30pm on 2nd day
1946 - Last Test Cricket appearance of Bill O'Reilly (5-14 & 3-19)
1949 - Riot breaks out in Austurvöllur square in Reykjavík, when Iceland joined NATO.
1950 - Phototransistor invention announced, Murray Hill, NJ
1952 - 6th Tony Awards: Fourposter & King & I win
1952 - Patty Berg wins LPGA New Orleans Women's Golf Open
1953 - Einstein announces revised unified field theory
1954 - Test Cricket debut of Garry Sobers v England at Kingston
1955 - 27th Academy Awards - "On the Waterfront," Brando & Grace Kelly win
1956 - USSR performs nuclear test
1957 - 1st performance of Walter Piston's 4th Symphony
1959 - WNED TV channel 17 in Buffalo, NY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1961 - NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 169,600' (51,690 m)
1961 - The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs is signed at New York.
1963 - France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria
1964 - Astronaut John Glenn withdraws from Ohio senate race
1965 - Vietnam War: A car bomb explodes in front of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, killing 22 and
           wounding 183 others.
1966 - Barbra Streisand stars on "Color Me Barbra" special on CBS
1967 - Cover picture of Beatles' "Sgt Pepper's" is photographed
1968 - General Ludvik Svoboda elected president of Czechoslovakia
1969 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Port Malabar Golf Invitational
1970 - "Applause" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 900 performances
1970 - Miles Davis Bitches Brew released
1970 - Soap opera "Somerset" premieres
1970 - Strouse, Adams, Comden & Green's musical "Applause," premieres in NYC
1970 - USSR wins its 8th straight world hockey championship
1972 - "Funny Thing Happened..." opens at Lunt-Fontanne NYC for 156 perfs
1972 - North Vietnamese troops enter South Vietnam
1972 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1973 - Ellsworth Bunker resigns as US ambassador to South Vietnam
1975 - Ron Lalonde scores the 1st hat trick by a Washington Capital
1976 - Israel kills 6 Palestinians protesting land confiscation
1978 - "History of the American Film" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 21 perfs
1979 - Airey Neave, a British politician, is killed by a car bomb as he exits the Palace of Westminster. 
           The Irish National Liberation Army claims responsibility.
1980 - Mark Medoff's "Children of a Lesser God," premieres in NYC
1980 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
1981 - 43rd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Indiana beats North Carolina 63-50
1981 - Pres Reagan shot & wounded by John W Hinckley III
1982 - 3rd space shuttle mission-Columbia 3 lands at White Sands, NM
1982 - John Pielmeier's "Agnes of God," premieres in NYC
1983 - Ray Cooney's "Run for your Wives," premieres in London
1983 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1984 - US ends participation in multinational Lebanon peace force
1986 - "Tango Argentino" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 198 perfs
1986 - 5th NCAA Women Basketball Championship: Texas beats Southern Cal 97-81
1987 - 59th Academy Awards - "Platoon," Paul Newman & Marlee Matlin win
1987 - Vincent van Goghs "Sunflowers" sells for record 22.5M pounds ($39.7 million)
1988 - 2nd Soul Train Music Awards
1988 - Tamil Nadu beat Railways by inns & 144 to win Ranji Trophy
1990 - Jack Nicklaus made his debut in the "Seniors" golf tournament
1991 - "Speed of Darkness" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 36 perfs
1991 - 1st exhibition baseball games at Joe Robbie Stadium (Yanks-Orioles)
1991 - Last issue of Dutch Newspaper "Vr˜e Folk" (Free People)
1991 - Northern Michigan wins its 1st NCAA hockey title
1991 - PBA National Championship Won by Mike Miller
1991 - William Kennedy Smith allegedly rapes a woman (found not guilty)
1992 - 64th Academy Awards - "Silence of Lamb," A Hopkins & Jodie Foster win
1992 - CBS TV premieres overnight news program "Up To The Minute"
1992 - Man accidentally backs in A's Jose Canseco's $225,000 Lamborghini
1992 - P J Patterson, resigns as 6th PM of Jamaica
1992 - WNSR-FM (105.1) changes callsign to WMXV-FM (NYC)
1993 - "Redwood Curtain" opens at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC for 40 perfs
1993 - French government of Balladur forms
1993 - Jamaican premier Percival Patterson wins parliamentary election
1993 - Lanford Wilson's "Redwood Curtain," premieres in NYC
1993 - New South Wales beat Qld by eight wkts to win Sheffield Shield
1993 - Punjab beat Maharashtra by 120 runs to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy
1994 - ABC Masters Tournament won by Hobo Boothe
1994 - Bombay beat Bengal by 8 wickets to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy
1994 - England Cricket all out for 46 at Port-of-Spain
1995 - "Arcadia" opens at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC for 204 performances
1996 - Lara hits 146 cricket not out in ODI vs NZ at Port-Of-Spain
1996 - NY Mets beats NY Yankees 5-3 in an exhibition game
1996 - Prince Edward & girl-friend Sophie visited Graystoke Castle
1997 - 16th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Tenn beats Old Dominion 68-59
1997 - 26th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Betsy King
1997 - Southwestern Bell Dominion Senior Golf
1997 - Steve Elkington wins Golf's Players Championship
1997 - Five (channel) Begins broadcasting in the UK
1998 - 60th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: at Alamodome San Antonio
2006 - Marcos Pontes is the first Brazilian astronaut in space.
2006 - UK Terrorism Act 2006 becomes law.
2012 - Spanish Government cuts 27 Billion Euros from its budget in one of its toughest austerity
           driver in history
2012 - Mastercard and Visa announce a massive breach in security with over ten million compromised
           credit card numbers
2012 - American Mega Millions lottery hits a world record lottery amount of 640 million dollars

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 30, 2013, 09:21:12 AM

This Day in History for 30th March


Famous Weddings

2007 - "Little Big Town" singer-guitarist Phillip Sweet (33) weds Rebecca Arthur at Cedarvine Manor in
           Lebanon, Tennessee

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 30, 2013, 09:22:09 AM

This Day in History for 30th March


Famous Divorces

2004 - "Alias" actress Jennifer Garner (30) divorces actor Scott Foley (30) due to irreconcilable
           differences after nearly 4 years of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 30, 2013, 09:29:16 AM

This Day in History for 30th March


Famous Birthdays

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English Politician                                     Singer Celine Dion (1968)                 Singer & Pianist Norah Jones (1979)
John Trenchard (1640)


1135 - Maimonedes, philosopher (d. 1204)
1326 - Ivan II of Russia, Grand Duke of Muscovy (d. 1359)
1432 - Mehmed II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1481)
1640 - John Trenchard, English politician (d. 1695)
1674 - Jethro Tull, agricultural writer (Basildon), baptised
1681 - Pieter Snyers, Flemish painter/engraver
1687 - Johann Balthasar Freisslich, composer
1697 - John-Baptist Xavery, Flemish sculptor
1719 - John Hawkins, England, wrote 1st history of music
1727 - Tommaso MFS Traetta, Ital's opera composer/band leader (Farnace)
1746 - Francisco Jose de Goya, Fuendetodos Spain, painter/etcher (Naked Maja)
1750 - John Stafford Smith, composer
1772 - Johann Wilhelm Wilms, composer
1790 - Joseph Smith, Rear Admiral (Union Navy), died in 1877
1804 - Salomon Sulzer, composer
1805 - Adrien de La Fage, composer
1811 - Angelo Catelani, Italian composer/conductor
1815 - Wincenty Studzinski, composer
1820 - Anna Sewell, British author (d. 1878)
1823 - Joseph Farmer Knipe, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1901
1824 - Innis Newton Palmer, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1825 - Samuel Bell Maxey, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1895
1830 - Auguste Tolbecque, composer
1830 - Julius F A Bahnsen, German philosopher
1835 - Bernhard Scholz, composer
1836 - Karl Freiherr von Stumm-Halberg, German industrialist/politician
1842 - John Fiske, [Edmund Fisk Green], US historian/philosopher
1844 - Paul M Verlaine, France, lyric poet (Sagesse Bonbeur)
1853 - Vincent van Gogh, Groot-Zundert, Netherlands, artist, painter and pioneer of Expressionism
           (The Potato Eaters, Irises)
1857 - Leon Charles Thevenin, French telegraph engineer (d. 1926)
1864 - Franz Oppenheimer, German sociologist/politician
1865 - Heinrich Rubens, German physicist
1872 - Sergey Nikiforovich Vasilenko, composer
1876 - Clifford Whittingham Beers, US, mental hygiene pioneer
1879 - Coen de Koning, Dutch ice skater (d. 1954)
1880 - Sean O'Casey, Ireland, playwright (Playboy of the Western World)
1882 - Melanie Klein, Austrian/British psycho analysis
1883 - Jo Davidson, US, sculptor (Woodrow Wilson, Walt Whitman)
1886 - Stanislaw Lesniewski, Poland, logician/mathematician
1887 - Albert P Termote, Flemish/Dutch sculptor (Charles the Great)
1888 - Anna Q Nilsson, Sweden, actress (Shenandoah, Uncle Tom's Cabin)
1891 - Jan B Cammans, Flemish actor (Brothers Karamazov)
1892 - Erwin Panofsky, German/US art historian
1892 - Fortunato Depero, Italian artist (d. 1960)
1892 - Erhard Milch, German field marshal (d. 1972)
1894 - Sergei Ilyushin, Russian airplane builder (Ilyushin)
1895 - Jean Giono, French writer (World Chant)
1898 - Heinz Risse, writer
1898 - Joyce Carey, English actress (Black Windmill)
1899 - Irving Thalberg, US producer (MGM)
1899 - Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay, well known Bengali writer (d. 1970)
1902 - Brooke Astor, American philanthropist (d. 2007)
1902 - Ted Heath, British musician and band leader (d. 1969)
1903 - Countee Cullen, US poet (Color, Ballad of the Brown Girl)
1903 - Sol C Siegel, US, producer (High Society, Gentlemen prefer blondes)
1903 - Joy Ridderhof, American missionary (d. 1984)
1904 - Akarova, [Marguerite Acarin], Belgian dancer (Les Biches)
1904 - Ripper Collins, baseball player (d. 1970)
1905 - Mikio Oda, Japan, triple jumper (Olympic-gold-1928)
1905 - Albert Pierrepoint, English executioner (d. 1992)
1907 - Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte, German Luftwaffe Officer (d. 1994)
1908 - Camille Schmit, composer
1908 - Kurt Bruggemann, composer
1908 - Leslie O'Brien "Chuck" Fleetwood-Smith, Chinese cricket bowler
1909 - Ernst Gombrich, OM/FBA/director (Warburg Institute)
1910 - Józef Marcinkiewicz, mathematician (d. 1940)
1911 - Dennis Gomm, musician
1912 - Andrew Rodger Waterson, scholar/naturalist
1912 - Jack Cowie, cricketer (successful NZ fast bowler either side of WWII)
1913 - Frankie Laine, Chicago Ill, actor (Frankie Laine Show, Rawhide)
1913 - Gottfried Reinhardt, theatre producer
1913 - Richard Helms, CIA head (1966-73)
1913 - Marc Davis, American animator (d. 2000)
1913 - Censu Tabone, President of Malta, (d. 2012)
1914 - Sonny Boy Williamson, [John Lee], blues musician (Down & Out Blues)
1917 - Els Aarne, composer
1917 - Herbert Anderson, actor (Henry-Dennis The Menace)
1917 - Rudolf Bruci, composer
1918 - John Gray, FRS/marine biologist
1918 - Joseph Allen Jr, Boston MA, actor (Death of a Champion)
1919 - McGeorge Bundy, Boston, national security adviser (JFK)
1919 - Ramsay Ames, actress (G-Men Never Forget, Ali Baba & 40 Thieves)
1920 - Turhan Bey, Vienna Austria, actor (Dragon Seed, Ali Baba & 40 Thieves)
1921 - Countess of Sutherland, English great land owner/multi-millionaire
1921 - Kan Ishii, composer
1921 - Oto Ferenczy, composer
1922 - German Germanovich Galinin, composer
1922 - J F Coates, naval architect
1922 - Peter Jona Korn, composer
1922 - Turhan Bey, Turkish actor
1923 - Herbert Asmodi, writer
1923 - Milton Acorn, Canadian poet (d. 1986)
1924 - Milko Kelemen, composer
1925 - Ivo Malek, composer
1925 - John Wells, MP
1926 - John Heddle Nash, singer
1926 - Lord Rayner
1926 - Ray McAnally, Ireland, actor (My Left Foot, Empire State, Sicilian)
1926 - Werner Torkanowsky, Berlin Germany, conductor (New Orleans Symph)
1927 - Lord Armstrong of Ilminster
1927 - Peter Marshall, Huntington WV, TV game show host (Hollywood Squares)
1927 - Wally Grout, cricketer (great Aussie wicket-keeper)
1928 - Diether de la Motte, composer
1928 - Richard Trant, Brit general
1928 - Tom Sharpe, English historian/author (Riotous Assembly, Want)
1929 - Richard Dysart, Brighton Mass, actor (Leland MacKenzie-LA Law)
1929 - Shirley Stoler, Brooklyn NY, actress (Frankenhooker, 7 Beauties)
1930 - Browne-Wilkinson, lord
1930 - David Staple, joint pres (Council of Churches for Brit & Ireland)
1930 - John Astin, Balt Md, actor (I'm Dickens He's Fenster, Addams Family)
1930 - Rolf Harris, Australian/British cartoonist
1931 - Aleksey Vasilyevich Sorokin, Russian cosmonaut
1931 - Harold Burrage, US singer/pianist (Hi Yo Silver)
1931 - Sandor Szokolay, composer
1932 - A J Zuckerman, Dean (Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine)
1932 - Ted Morgan, Swiss-born writer
1933 - Jean-Claude Brialy, Aumale Algeria, actor (Circle of Love, Cousins)
1934 - Lord Tanlaw
1935 - Alan Jackson, CEO (BTR)
1935 - Gordon Mumma, composer
1935 - John Charles Eaton, composer
1935 - Karl Berger, German musicologist and musician
1936 - Mark Burns, British director (Juggernaut)
1936 - Richard Baker, Santa Fe NM, Zen teacher (Dharma Sangha)
1937 - J S Jennings, CEO (Shell Transport & Trading Co)
1937 - Jay W Macintosh, Gainesville Ga, actress (Sons & Daughters)
1937 - Lord MacLaurin of Knebworth
1937 - Warren Beatty, Richmond Va, actor (Bonnie & Clyde,Shampoo, Dick Tracy)
1938 - Martin Dunne, Lord-Lt (Warwickshire)
1940 - Astrud Gilberto, Brazil, singer (Girl From Ipanema)
1940 - Jerry Lucas, Middletown OH, NBA center (Oly-gold-60, NY Knicks)
1940 - Norman Gifford, cricketer (respected England slow left-armer 1964-73)
1941 - Brendan O'Friel, CEO (Prison Governors Association)
1941 - Robert C Smith, (Rep-R-NH, 1985- )
1941 - Ron Johnston, Vice-Chancellor (Essex U)
1941 - Sven Hamrin, Sweden, road race cycler (Olympic-bronze-1964)
1941 - Bob Smith, former American politician
1942 - George Esson, Chief Constable (Dumfries & Galloway)
1942 - Graeme Edge, England, rock drummer (Moody Blues-Your Wildest Dreams)
1943 - Bob Blewett, cricketer (father of Greg South Aust batsman 1975-79)
1943 - Ken Forssi, American musician (Love) (d. 1998)
1944 - Gerrit Komrij, Dutch poet/essayist (Happy Schizo)
1945 - Eric Clapton, Ripley England, singer/guitarist (Tears in Heaven)
1947 - Ryszard Kotla, Polish travel writer and activist, tour guide, journalist, academic teacher,
           engineer
1948 - Dave Ball, rocker (Procul Harum)
1948 - Jim Dandy Mangrum, vocalist (Black Oak Arkansas-Jim Dandy)
1948 - Justin Deas, Penn, actor (Dream Lover, Montana, Intimate Strangers)
1948 - M A King, FBA, economist
1948 - Nigel Jones, British MP
1949 - Leslie Joan Corn, theatre producer/director/writer
1949 - Sue Cook, British broadcaster
1949 - Naomi Sims, American fashion model and businesswoman
1949 - Liza Frulla, Quebec politician
1950 - Dave McCurdy, (Rep-D-OK, 1981- )
1950 - Eugene Bowen, composer (Wonder's Edge)
1950 - Rupert Greenall, rock keyboardist (Fixx)
1950 - Robbie Coltrane, Scottish actor and comedian
1951 - John Gosden, racehorse trainer
1951 - Yves Séguin, Quebec politician
1952 - Peter Knights, Australian footballer and coach
1953 - Cydney Bernard, American film producer
1955 - Randy Wanwarmer, Denver, vocalist (Just When I Needed You Most)
1956 - Bill Butler, Scottish politician
1957 - Elena V Kondakova, Moscow Russia, cosmonaut (STS 84)
1957 - Paul Reiser, NYC, actor (My 2 Dads, Diner, Aliens, Mad About You)
1957 - Yelena Vladimirovna Kondakova, Russian cosmonaut (Soyuz TM 20, STS 84)
1958 - Joseph Paul Sindelar, Ft Knox KY, PGA golfer (BC Open-1985, 87)
1958 - Maurice LaMarche, Canadian voice actor
1959 - Daniel Seifried, Kitchener Ont, Canadia Tour golfer (1981 Thunder Bay)
1959 - Peter Ellis, convicted child abuser
1959 - Sabine Meyer, German clarinetist
1960 - William D Johnson, US alpine skier
1961 - Doug Wickenheiser, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1999)
1962 - M C Hammer, [Stanley Kirk Burrell], Oakland Ca, rapper (Hammer Time)
1962 - Bil Dwyer, American actor
1963 - Jenny Lidback, Lima Peru, LPGA golfer (1995 du Maurier Ltd Classic)
1963 - Lomas Brown, NFL tackle (Detroit Lions, Arizona Cardinals)
1963 - Eli-Eri Moura, Brazilian composer and conductor
1964 - Corey Millen, Cloquet, NHL center (Calgary Flames)
1964 - Dave Ellett, Cleveland, NHL defenseman (Toronto Maple Leafs)
1964 - Tracy Chapman, US singer/songwriter (Freedom Now, I Got a Fast Car)
1964 - Vlado Bozinovski, Australian former footballer
1964 - Ian Ziering, American actor
1965 - Karel Novacek, Prostejov Czech, tennis star (1994 Hilversum)
1965 - Piers Morgan, editor (Daily Mirror)
1966 - Joey Castillo, American drummer (Queens of the Stone Age)
1966 - Efstratios Grivas, Greek chess grandmaster and author
1967 - Ian Ziering, West Orange NJ, actor (Steve Sanders-Beverly Hills 90210)
1967 - Julie Richardson, Auckland NZ, tennis star (1992 Futures-Canberra)
1967 - Hayashibara Megumi, Japanese voice actress and singer
1968 - Celine Dion, Quebec Canada, singer (I'm Your Woman)
1968 - Donna D'Errico, Dothan AL, playmate (Sep, 1995)
1969 - Marco Foddis, pop drummer (Pestilence)
1969 - Mark Astley, Calgary, NHL defenseman (Buffalo Sabres)
1970 - George Coghill, WLAF safety (Scottish Claymores)
1970 - Mark Consuelos, Zaragosa Spain, actor (Mateo Santos-All My Children)
1970 - Secreteriat, race horse, triple crown (1973)
1970 - Shane Bertsch, Denver CO, Nike golfer (1994 Permina Basin Open-14th)
1970 - Secretariat, American racehorse (d. 1989)
1971 - Mari Holden, Milwaukee Wisc, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1972 - Brenden Stai, NFL guard (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1972 - Matt Joyce, NFL/WLAF guard/tackle (Cardinals, Seahawks, Claymores)
1972 - Peggy Zlotkowski, Miss France-Universe (1989)
1973 - Caroline Ramagos, Miss Mississippi USA (1996)
1973 - Kareem Streete-Thompson, Ithaca NY, 100m/long jumper
1973 - Melinda Penn, Miss British virgin islands Universe (1997)
1973 - Rodney Thomas, running back (Tennessee Oilers)
1973 - [Kirk] Kareem Streete-Thompson, Ithaca NY, long jumper
1973 - Jan Koller, Czech footballer
1973 - Matthew Pritchard, Welsh Stuntman
1974 - Martin Love, cricketer (high scoring Queensland batsman, Aust 1995)
1975 - Bahar Soomekh, American actress
1976 - Chris Canty, cornerback (New England Patriots)
1976 - Toby Gowin, punter (Dallas Cowboys)
1976 - Mark McClelland, Northern Irish musician (Degrassi)
1976 - Obadele Thompson, Barbadian athlete
1978 - Wendy Christina Roberts, Miss South Carolina Teen USA (1996)
1978 - Chris Paterson, Scottish rugby player
1979 - Norah Jones, American singer and pianist
1979 - Simon Webbe, English singer
1980 - Liriel Higa, LA California, rhythmic gymnast (Olympics-96)
1980 - Ricardo Osorio, Mexican footballer
1980 - Yalin, Turkish singer and songwriter
1982 - Jason Dohring, American actor
1983 - Jérémie Aliadière, French footballer
1983 - Zach Gowen, American professional wrestler
1983 - Scott Moffatt, Canadian singer and songwriter
1983 - Davis Romero, Panamanian baseball player
1983 - Hebe Tian, Taiwanese singer (S.H.E)
1984 - Mario Ancic, Croatian tennis player
1984 - Anna Nalick, American singer and songwriter.
1984 - Samantha Stosur, Australian tennis player
1986 - Sergio Ramos, Spanish footballer
1986 - Beni Arashiro, Japanese singer

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 30, 2013, 09:32:13 AM

This Day in History for 30th March


Famous Deaths

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Consort of George VI &
mother of Queen Elizabeth II Queen Elizabeth,
the Queen Mother (2002)


988 - Arnulf II, count of Flanders (965-988), dies
1202 - Joachim Van Fiore, Italian religious founder (Joachimism), dies
1486 - Thomas Bourchier, Archbishop of Canterbury
1526 - Konrad Mutian, German humanist (b. 1471)
1540 - Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg, German statesman and Archbishop of Salzburg (b. 1469)
1547 - Francois I of Valois-Angouleme, King of France (1515-47), dies at 52
1559 - Adam Ries, German mathematician (b. 1492)
1587 - Ralph Sadler, English statesman (b. 1507)
1662 - François le Métel de Boisrobert, French poet (b. 1592)
1707 - Vauban, French architect (b. 1633)
1764 - Pietro Antonio Locatelli, Italian violinist/composer, dies at 68
1783 - William Hunter, Scottish anatomist (b. 1718)
1804 - Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie, Marshal of France (b. 1718)
1840 - George (Beau) Brummell, Dandy, dies
1842 - Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun, French painter (b. 1755)
1864 - Louis Alexander Balthasar Schindelmeisser, composer, dies 52
1871 - W F A A Louisa/Lovisa, queen of Sweden/Norway, dies at 42
1872 - Nicolaos Mantzaros, composer, dies at 76
1873 - Benedict Augustin Morel, psychologist (dementia praecox), dies at 63
1875 - Marie Moke Pleyel, composer, dies at 63
1879 - David van der Kellen, Dutch coin engraver, dies at 74
1879 - Thomas Couture, French painter/author, dies at 63
1884 - Hans Hampel, composer, dies at 61
1886 - Joseph-Alfred Mousseau, French Canadian politician (b. 1838)
1896 - Charilaos Trikoupis, seven times prime-minister of Greece (b. 1832)
1906 - Betsy Perk, [Christina E], journalist/writer/feminist, dies at 73
1912 - Karl May, German writer (Winnetou/Kara Ben Nemsi), dies at 70
1925 - Rudolf Steiner, Austrian philosopher (anthroposophy), dies at 64
1926 - Feliks E Dzerzjinski, Lithuanian organizer (KGB), dies at 48
1935 - Romanos Hovakimi Melik'yan, composer, dies at 51
1936 - Conchita Supervía, Spanish opera singer (b. 1895)
1942 - Alfred Coville, French historian (Lesson premier Valois), dies at 81
1943 - Jan Bytnar, Polish activist (b. 1921)
1943 - Maciej Aleksy Dawidowski, Polish activist (b. 1920)
1945 - Karel Moor, composer, dies at 71
1946 - John S S P V Gort, viscount of Limerick/Hamsterley, dies at 59
1949 - Dattaram Dharmaji Hindlekar, cricketer (4 Tests for India), dies
1949 - Friedrich C R Bergius, chemist (brown coal, Nobel 1931), dies at 64
1950 - Leon Blum, French premier (People's Front Government), dies at 77
1953 - Roderich Mojsisovics-Mojsvar, composer, dies at 75
1959 - Daniil Andreev, Russian writer and mystic (b. 1906)
1959 - Riccardo Zanella, president of Free State of Fiume (b. 1875)
1960 - Fritz Klimsch, German sculptor/painter, dies at 90
1960 - Joseph Haas, German opera composer (Totenmesse), dies at 81
1961 - P J Melotte, discovered Jupiter's 8th satellite Pasiphae, dies
1963 - Alexander Vasil'yevich Gauk, composer, dies at 69
1964 - Willem CN Andriessen, Dutch composer/pianist (Beethoven), dies at 76
1965 - Philip Showalter Hench, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or
           Medicine (b. 1896)
1966 - Erwin Piscator, German director (Plebeians test rebellion), dies at 72
1966 - Maxfield Parrish, US painter, dies at 95
1966 - Newbold Morris, American politician (b. 1902)
1967 - Jean Toomer, American writer (b. 1894)
1968 - Bobby Driscoll, American actor (b. 1937)
1969 - Lucien Bianchi, Belgian auto racer, dies at 34
1970 - Heinrich Brüning, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1885)
1971 - Selmer Jackson, actor (Life & Legend of Wyatt Earp), dies at 82
1972 - Gabriel Heather, US news anchor, dies at 81
1972 - Peter Whitney, actor (Rough Riders), dies at 55
1972 - Gabriel Heatter, American radio commentator (b. 1890)
1974 - Ludovicus J Rogier, Dutch historian (Reborn in Freedom), dies at 79
1975 - Peter Bamm, writer, dies
1976 - Jacqueline Royaards-Sandberg, actress (Hostage Rights), dies at 99
1977 - Levko Mykolayevich Revutsky, composer, dies at 88
1977 - Abdel Halim Hafez, Egyptian singer and actor (b. 1929)
1978 - George Paine, lefty cricket spinner (for England in WI 1935), dies
1978 - Harold Gimblett, cricketer (Batted in 3 Tests for England), suicide
1979 - Airey Neave, British MP (Conservatives), killed by terrorist bomb
1981 - Dewitt Wallace, US founder (Reader's Digest), dies at 91
1981 - Noel Harford, cricketer (8 Tests for NZ 1955-58), dies
1984 - Peter Yarrall, strongest Englishman/weighed 826 lb (374.7 kg), dies
1985 - Harold Peary, actor (Herb-Blondie, Willy), dies of heart attack at 76
1986 - James Cagney, actor (Yankee Doodle Dandy), dies in NY at 86
1986 - John Ciardi, US poet/interpreter (Dante), dies at 69
1988 - Edgar Faure, French politician (b. 1908)
1989 - Dort Clark, actor (In Harm's Way), dies
1991 - Jan Willem Hofstra, Dutch actor/writer (Friends of My Friends), dies
1992 - Art Hannes, announcer, dies of a respiratory ailment at 72
1992 - Luigi De Laurentiis, Italian producer (Toto, Macaroni), dies
1992 - Manolis Andronikos, Greek archeologist, professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
          (b. 1919)
1993 - Jeremy Siegrist, actor (Adv of Darly & Samy), dies hiking at 20
1993 - Richard C Diebenkorn Jr, US painter (Ocean Park Paintings), dies at 70
1994 - Albert Goldman, rock biographer (Elvis, John Lennon), dies at 66
1994 - Sid Weiss, bassist, dies at 79
1995 - Graham Anthony Richard Lock, cricketer, dies at 65
1995 - Paul A Rothchild, record producer, dies at 59
1995 - Rozelle Claxton, pianist/arranger, dies at 82
1995 - Tony Lock, cricketer (174 wickets for England), dies
1996 - Hugh Edward Lance Falkus, filmmaker/naturalist, dies at 78
1996 - Ryoei Saito, businessman, dies at 79
1999 - Gary Morton, American film and television producer (b. 1924)
2002 - Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Queen Mother of the United Kingdom, dies at 101
2003 - Michael Jeter, American actor (b. 1952)
2003 - Valentin Pavlov, Prime Minister of the Soviet Union (b. 1937)
2004 - Alistair Cooke, English-born journalist (b. 1908)
2004 - Hubert Gregg, British broadcaster (b. 1914)
2004 - Michael King, New Zealand historian (b. 1945)
2004 - Timi Yuro, American singer (b. 1940)
2005 - Emil Dimitrov, Bulgarian singer (b. 1940)
2005 - Robert Creeley, American poet (b. 1926)
2005 - Milton Green, American athlete (b. 1913)
2005 - Fred Korematsu, American civil rights activist (b. 1919)
2005 - O. V. Vijayan, Indian author and cartoonist (b. 1930)
2005 - Derrick Plourde, American drummer (b. 1971)
2006 - Red Hickey, American football coach (b. 1917)
2008 - Dith Pran, The Killing Fields Photographer (b. 1942)
2008 - David Leslie, Touring Car Driver (b. 1953)
2008 - Richard Lloyd, Racing Car Driver (b. 1945)
2010 - Jaime Escalante, Bolivian-born American high school teacher at Garfield High School (b. 1930)
2010 - Martin Sandberger, German military officer (b. 1911)
2012 - Viktor Kosichkin, Russian speed skater and Olympic gold medalist, dies at 74

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 31, 2013, 01:42:33 PM

This Day in History for 31st March


Historical Events

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Social Philosopher                                 Playwright Tennessee Williams                Rock Guitarist Jimi Hendrix
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Heavyweight Boxing Champ                 Businessman & T.V. Personality
Muhammad Ali                                                    Donald Trump


1084 - Anti-pope Clemens crowns German emperor Hendrik IV
1146 - Bernard of Clairvaux preaches his famous sermon in a field at Vézelay, urging the necessity of
           a Second Crusade. Louis VII is present, and joins the Crusade.
1492 - Queen Isabella of Castilia & Ferdinand of Aragon expels Jews
1504 - France & Spain signs ceasefire
1521 - Magelhaes takes possession of Homohon, Archipelago of St Lazarus
1547 - Henry II succeeds Francois I as king of France
1644 - Pope Urbanus VIII & duke of Parma signs Peace of Ferrara
1651 - Great earthquake at Cuzco Peru
1657 - English Humble Petition offers Lord Protector Cromwell the crown
1667 - France/England signs anti-Dutch military accord
1683 - Emperor Leopold I/Poland signs covenant against Turkey
1717 - A sermon on "The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ" by Benjamin Hoadly, the Bishop of
           Bangor, provoked the Bangorian Controversy.
1745 - Jews are expelled from Prague
1796 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethes "Egmont," premieres in Weimar
1808 - French created Kingdom of Westphalia orders Jews to adopt family names
1814 - Forces allied against Napoleon capture Paris
1822 - The massacre of the population of the Greek island of Chios by soldiers of the Ottoman
           Empire following a rebellion attempt, depicted by the French artist Eugène Delacroix.
1831 - Mainzer Rijnvaart Convention ends
1831 - Quebec & Montreal incorporated
1841 - 1st performance of Robert Schumann's 1st Symphony in B
1849 - Col John W Geary arrives as 1st postmaster of SF
1850 - US population hits 23,191,876 (Black population: 3,638,808 (15.7%))
1854 - Treaty of Kanagawa: Commodore Perry forces Japan to opens ports to US
1861 - Confederacy takes over mint at New Orleans
1862 - Civil War action at Island #10 on Mississippi River
1863 - Battle of Grand Gulf MS & Dinwiddie Court House VA
1865 - Battle of Boydton, VA (White Oaks Roads, Dinwiddie C H)
1865 - Gen Pickette moves to 5 Forks, abandoning the defense of Peterburg
1866 - The Spanish Navy bombs the harbor of Valparaíso, Chile.
1868 - Chinese Embassy arrives aboard steamship China
1870 - 1st black to vote in US (Thomas P Mundy of Perth Amboy NJ)
1877 - British high director/governor sir Bartle Frere arrives in Capetown
1877 - Test Cricket debut of Fred "Demon" Spofforth, Aust v Eng MCG
1877 - The family with samurai antecedents who responded to the Saigo army in Ōita Nakatsu rebels.
1880 - 1st town completely illuminated by electric lighting (Wabash, IN)
1883 - 1st performance of Caesar Franck's "Le Chasseur Maudit"
1883 - Utrecht begins water pipe system
1885 - Great Britain declares Bechuanaland a protectorate
1889 - 300m Eiffel Tower officially opens (commemorates French Revolution)
1900 - Brig-General Broadwoods troops fall into guerrilla hands
1903 - Richard Pearse flies monoplane several hundred yards (NZ)
1905 - German emperor Wilhelm II visits Tanger
1906 - GB Shaws German version of "Caesar & Cleopatra," premieres in Berlin"
1907 - Romanian Army puts down Moldavian farmers' revolt
1909 - Baseball rules players who jump contracts are suspended for 5 years
1909 - Gustav Mahler conducts NY Philharmonic for his 1st time
1916 - Dutch government ends all milt engagements
1917 - US purchases Danish West Indies for $25M & renames them Virgin Islands
1918 - 1st daylight savings time in US goes into effect
1919 - Strike against Ruhrgebied government of Scheidemann
1920 - British parliament accept Irish "Home Rule"-law
1921 - British coal miners goes on strike
1922 - KFI-AM in Los Angeles CA begins radio transmissions
1922 - Prince Hendrik opens trade fair building in Amsterdam
1923 - 1st dance marathon-NYC-Alma Cummings sets record of 27 hrs
1923 - French soldiers fire on workers at Krupp factory in Essen; 13 die
1923 - Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators (NHL) sweep Edm Eskimos (WCHL) in 2 games
1924 - Croydon Airport: 1st British mig aircraft Imperial established
1924 - London public transport strike ends
1925 - WOWO-AM, Ft Wayne Indiana begins radio transmission (500 watts)
1926 - German Special Court of Justice for state security disbands
1930 - The Motion Pictures Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment
           of sex, crime, religion and violence in film for the next thirty eight years.
1932 - 150 wild swans die in Niagara waterfall
1932 - Ford publicly unveils its V-8 engine
1933 - 1st newspaper published on pine pulp paper, "Soperton News" (Ga)
1933 - Congress authorizes Civilian Conservation Corps
1933 - German Republic gives power to Hitler
1934 - Netherlands Indies BC Ltd begins radio transmission (Indonesia)
1935 - Fusahige Suzuki runs world record marathon (2:27:49)
1939 - Britain & France agree to support Poland if invaded by Germany
1940 - Karelo-Finnish SSR becomes 12th Soviet republic (until 1956)
1941 - Ground broken for Union Square Garage, SF
1943 - US errantly bombs Rotterdam, kills 326
1944 - Hungary orders all Jews to wear yellow stars
1945 - 3rd Algerian division crosses the Rhine
1945 - Sicherheitsdienst murders 10 political prisoners in Zutphen
1945 - Tennessee Williams' "Glass Menagerie," premieres in NYC
1945 - US artillery lands on Keise Shima/begins firing on Okinawa
1946 - Belgian government of Acker, forms
1946 - The first election is held in Greece after World War II.
1948 - Congress passes Marshall Aid Act to rehabilitate war-torn Europe
1949 - Newfoundland becomes Canada's 10th province
1951 - US tanks exceed 38° of latitude in Korea
1953 - Department of Health, Education & Welfare established
1953 - UN Security Council nominates Dag Hammarskjoeld secretary-general
1954 - US Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs Colo, established
1954 - USSR offers to join NATO
1955 - Collie Smith scores 104 on cricket debut WI v Aust, Kingston
1955 - US Assay Office in Seattle, Washington closes Chase National (3rd largest bank) & Bank of
           the Manhattan Company (15th largest bank) merge to form Chase Manhattan
1958 - US Navy forms atomic sub division
1958 - USSR suspends nuclear weapons tests, & urges US & Britain to do same
1959 - Dalai Lama fled China & was granted political asylum in India
1960 - Gore Vidal's "Best Man," premieres in NYC
1961 - Aklilou Habtewold becomes 1st premier of Ethiopia
1963 - LA ends streetcar service after 90 years
1964 - Pres Jango Goulart of Brazil chased out of office by military
1965 - US ordered the 1st combat troops to Vietnam
1965 - Iberia Airlines Convair 440, crashed into the sea on approach to Tangier killing 47 of 51
           occupants.
1966 - 25,000 anti war demonstrators march in NYC
1966 - Labour Party wins British parliamentary election
1966 - USSR launches Luna 10, 1st lunar orbiter
1967 - 1st time Jimi Hendrix burns his guitar (London)
1968 - LBJ announces he will not seek re-election
1968 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Palm Beach County Golf Open
1968 - Pirate Radio Station Pegaus (NZ) begins transmitting
1968 - Seattle's AL club is named Pilots
1969 - George Harrison & Patti Boyd are fined £250 each for illegal drugs
1970 - Federal bankruptcy court allows Seattle Pilots to be sold to Milwaukee
1970 - Explorer 1 re-enters the Earth's atmosphere (after 12 years in orbit).
1971 - South Africa national debt hits 5.45 billion
1971 - William Calley sentenced to life for Mi Lai Massacre
1972 - Official Beatles Fan Club, closes down
1973 - Flyers score 8 goals in 1 period vs Islanders, on 60 shots
1973 - Ken Norton defeats Muhammad Ali in a 12 round split decision
1975 - 37th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Kentucky 92-55
1975 - John Wooden's final game, UCLA, wins 10th NCAA championship in 12 yrs
1976 - Cleveland Cavaliers clinch their 1st ever NBA playoff bearth
1976 - NJ Court rules Karen Anne Quinlan may be disconnected from respirator
1977 - Michael Cristofer's "Shadow Box," premieres in NYC
1978 - Red Rum wins 3rd consecutive Grand National & retires
1978 - USSR launches Kosmos 1000 navigational satellite
1978 - Wings release "London Town" album
1979 - The last British soldier leaves the Maltese Islands. Malta declares its Freedom Day (Jum il-
           Helsien).
1980 - Larry Holmes TKOs Leroy Jones in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
1980 - Mike Weaver KOs John Tate in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1980 - President Jimmy Carter deregulates banking industry
1980 - The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroad operates its final train after being ordered to
            liquidate its assets due to bankruptcy and debt owed to creditors.
1981 - 1st Golden Raspberry Awards: Can't Stop the Music wins
1981 - 53rd Academy Awards - "Ordinary People," R De Niro & Sissy Spacek win
1982 - Arkas tanker at Montz La, spills 1.47 million gallons of oil
1982 - Rock group Doobie Brothers split up
1983 - Earthquake in Colombia kills some 5,000 people
1983 - Marsha Norman's "'night, Mother," premieres in NYC
1984 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1985 - 15th Easter Seal Telethon raises $27,400,000
1985 - 4th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Old Dominion beats Ga 70-65
1985 - El Salvador's Pres Duartes Christian-Democrats win election
1985 - Wrestlemania I at Madison Square Garden NY, Hogan & Mr T beat Piper & Orndorf
1986 - 167 die when Mexicana Airlines Boeing 727 crashes
1986 - 48th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Louisville beats Duke 72-69
1986 - English Hampton Court palace destroyed by fire, 1 dead
1986 - Six metropolitan county councils are abolished in England.
1987 - 49th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Indiana beats Syracuse 74-73
1988 - Last East Limburg coal mine closes in Gent Belgium
1988 - NY Islanders celebrate Denis Potvin night
1988 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Toni Morrison for "Beloved"
1989 - Donald Trump purchases Eastern's Northeast Shuttle
1990 - "Carol & Company" starring Carol Burnette premieres on NBC-TV
1990 - Dionisio Castro cycles world record 20km (57:18.4)
1990 - Riots began in London over the new poll tax laws
1991 - 10th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Tennessee beats Virginia 70-67
1991 - 20th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Amy Alcott
1991 - Albania offers 1st multi-party election in 50 years
1991 - Danny Bonaduce attacks a transvestite prostitute in Phoenix Az
1991 - Georgian SSR votes on whether to remain in the Soviet Union
1991 - Musical "Will Rogers Follies," premieres in NYC
1991 - Soviet Rep of Georgia endorsed independence; Warsaw Pact dissolves
1991 - St Louis Blues Brett Hull scores his 86th goal
1991 - The Establishment of Islamic Constitutional Movement - Hadas in Kuwait.
1992 - Delhi beat Tamil Nadu on 1st innings to win cricket Ranji Trophy
1992 - UN Security Council voted to ban flights & arms sales to Libya
1994 - James Farentino pleads no contest to stalking ex-girl Tina Sinatra
1994 - Walkway from Cleveland's Tower City to Jacobs Field officially opens
1994 - Human evolution: The journal Nature reports the finding in Ethiopia of the first complete
           Australopithecus afarensis skull.
1995 - 1st game at Coors Stadium Colo (replacement Rockies beat Yanks 4-1)
1995 - Bombay beat Punjab on 1st innings to win cricket Ranji Trophy
1995 - Federal judge orders injunction to end baseball strike
1996 - "Getting Away With Murder" closes at Broadhurst NYC after 17 perfs
1996 - "Midsummer Night's Dream" opens at Lunt-Fontanne NYC for 66 perfs
1996 - 15th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Tenn beats Georgia 83-65
1996 - 1st Opening Day in history in March takes place in Seattle
1996 - 25th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Patty Sheehan
1996 - Karnataka defeat Tamil Nadu on 1st innings to win Ranji Trophy
1996 - Radio Canada International's final shortwave broadcast
1996 - Space Shuttle STS 76 (Atlantis 16), lands
1996 - Wrestlemania XII - Shawn Michaels beats Brett Hart for WWF title
1997 - "Daytime to Remember" a series showing old soaps premieres on ABC-TV
1997 - 59th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship: Ariz beats Kentucky 84-79 (OT)
1997 - Pioneer 10, ends its mission
1998 - Tampa Bay Devil Rays 1st game they host Detroit Tigers
2002 - 21st NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: at San Antonio
2004 - In Fallujah, Iraq, 4 American private military contractors working for Blackwater USA, are killed
           and their bodies mutilated after being ambushed.
2007 - In Sydney, Australia, 2.2 million people take part in the first Earth Hour.
2008 - Aloha Airlines, a bankrupt airline, permanently ends passenger service
2012 - Fiji Floods kill 2 people and force thousands to be evacuated

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 31, 2013, 01:44:00 PM

This Day in History for 31st March


Famous Weddings

307 - Roman Emperor Constantine marries Fausta, daughter of the Emperor Maximian, later
           murdering her in 326
1996 - Actor and director Clint Eastwood (65) weds news anchor Dina Ruiz (30) in Las Vegas
2006 - Long jumper gold medalist Bronwyn Thompson (28) weds Jason Chipperfield at Roma Street
           Parkland in Brisbane, Australia
2006 - 2006 Commonwealth Games gold medalist Jana Pittman (23) weds track and field athlete
           Chris Rawlinson (33) at Morning Star Estate on Mornington Peninsula in Australia
2007 - Brazilian television presenter Ana Maria Braga weds businessman Marcelo Frisoni in Morumbi,
           Sao Paulo
2011 - Italian Canadian singer Michael Buble (35) weds actress and model Luisana Lopilato (23) in
           Buenos Aires

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 31, 2013, 01:45:06 PM

This Day in History for 31st March


Famous Divorces

2010 - "Dawson's Creek" actor James Van Der Beek (32) divorces actress Heather Ann McComb (33)
            after almost 7 years of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 31, 2013, 01:51:14 PM

This Day in History for 31st March


Famous Birthdays

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Farm Labor Leader                               Actor Christopher Walken (1943)                Actor Ewan McGregor (1971)
Cesar Chavez (1927)


250 - Constantius Chlorus, Roman Emperor (d. 306)
1360 - Philippa of Lancaster, queen of Portugal (d. 1415)
1425 - Bianca Maria Visconti, Duchess of Milan (d. 1468)
1499 - Pius IV, [Gianangelo de' Medici], Italian lawyer/pope (1559-65)
1504 - Guru Angad Dev, second Sikh guru (d. 1552)
1519 - Henry II, King of France (1547-59)
1536 - Ashikaga Yoshiteru, Japanese shogun (d. 1565)
1576 - Louise Juliana of Nassau, Regent of Bohemia (died 1644)
1596 - René Descartes, France, philosopher (he thought, therefore he was)
1621 - Andrew Marvell, England, poet (To His Coy Mistress)
1651 - Karl II, Elector Palatine (d. 1685)
1675 - Benedict XIV, [Prospero L Lambertini], Italy, Pope (1740-58)
1684 - Francesco Durante, composer
1717 - Florian Wrastill, composer
1718 - Marianne Victoria of Borbón, queen regent of Portugal (d. 1781)
1723 - Frederik V, King of Denmark/Norway (1746-66)
1730 - Étienne Bézout, French mathematician (d. 1783)
1732 - Franz Joseph Haydn, Vienna Austria, prominent composer of the classical period (The
           Creation/Die Schopfung)
1747 - Johann Abraham Peter Schulz, German composer (Moon has Risen)
1777 - Charles Cagniard de la Tour, French physicist (d. 1859)
1778 - Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Dutch zoologist (d. 1858)
1791 - Franciszek Wincenty Mirecki, composer
1794 - Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan, American politician (d. 1852)
1809 - Edward FitzGerald, England, writer (Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam)
1809 - Otto Jonas Lindblad, composer
1809 - Nikolai Gogol, Ukrainian-born Russian novelist, humorist, and dramatist (Dead Souls, The
           Inspector-General)
1811 - Robert Wilhelm Eberhard von Bunsen, Germany, chemist (Bunsen Burner)
1819 - Prince Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1901)
1822 - Rafael Hernando, composer
1831 - Archibald Scott, Scottish chemist
1835 - John La Farge, US painter
1837 - Robert Ross McBurney, 1st paid secretary of the YMCA
1837 - Stephen Dodson Ramseur, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
1838 - Leon Dierx, French poet
1839 - Nikolay Przhevalsky, naturalist, explorer of east central Asia (OS)
1840 - John Herbert Kelly, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
1844 - Andrew Lang, Scotland, author (The Blue Fairy Book)
1847 - Jarolslaw Zielinski, composer
1847 - Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, Russian mathematician (d. 1878)
1848 - John Henry Roberts, composer
1854 - Dugald Clerk, inventor (2-stroke motorcycle engine)
1855 - Alfred E. Hunt, founder of Alcoa (d. 1899)
1868 - Karl Bonhoeffer, German psychiatrist/neurologist
1871 - Arthur Griffith, President of Ireland (d. 1922)
1872 - Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev, Russia, dance master (Imperial Ballet)
1876 - Borisav "Bora" Stanković, Serbian writer (d. 1927)
1878 - Jack Johnson,1st black heavyweight boxing champ (1908-1915)
1884 - Adriaan van Maanen, Dutch-American astronomer (d. 1946)
1885 - Jules Pascin, [Julius Pincas], Bulgarian/US painter/cartoonist
1887 - Jose Maria Usandizaga, composer
1890 - William Lawrence Bragg, English physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1971)
1891 - Erich Walter Sternberg, composer
1891 - Ion Pillat, Romaniams poet/senator (Umbra timpului)
1891 - Victor Varconi, Hungary, actor (Divine Lady, King of Kings, Big City)
1892 - Stanislav Wladyslaw Maczek, Polish/British general-major/commandant
1893 - Clemens Krauss, Vienna Austria, conductor (Berlin State Orch-1937)
1895 - John Jay McCloy, lawyer/banker (Sec of War 1941-45, pres Chase Man)
1895 - Vardis A Fisher, US author (Darkness & Deep)
1900 - Henry WFA, English duke of Gloucester/earl of Ulters
1906 - Lauri Saikkola, composer
1907 - Eddie Quillan, Phila, actor (Julia, Hell Town)
1908 - Red Norvo, American jazz vibraphonist (d. 1999)
1909 - Pieter Jongeling, Dutch MP (GVP)/editor (Neth Daily)
1909 - Robert Brasillach, French author/nazi collaborator
1911 - Elisabeth Grümmer, German soprano (d. 1986)
1912 - Wilhelmus Berkelmans, civil servant/resistance fighter
1914 - Octavio Paz, Mexico, writer/diplomat (Salamandra, Topoemas)
1915 - Eliseo Morales Pajaro, composer
1915 - Henry Morgan, NYC, comedian/TV panelist (I've Got a Secret, Arena)
1915 - Jack Perry, businessman
1915 - Shoichi Yokoi, Japanese military man (d. 1997)
1916 - John Vivyan, Chic Ill, actor (Imitation of Life, Mr Lucky)
1916 - Lucille Bliss, American voice actress, (d. 2012)
1916 - John H. Wood, Jr., American federal judge (d. 1979)
1918 - Ted Post, Dir (Peacemaker, Beneath the Planet of the Apes)
1919 - Frank Akins, American football player (d. 1993)
1920 - Marga [Sara Voeten-] Minco, Dutch writer (Bitter Herb)
1920 - Deborah_Cavendish,_Duchess_of_Devonshire, English Duchess, now Dowager Duchess
1922 - Patrick J G McGee, North Ireland, actor (Clockwork Orange)
1922 - Richard Kiley, Chicago, actor (Man of La Mancha, Endless Love)
1923 - Donald Argee Barksdale, Berkley Cal, basketballer (Olympic-gold-1948)
1923 - Lawrie Miller, NZ cricketer (opening bat in 13 Tests)
1924 - Harry Cubitt, 4th Lord Ashcombe ("Mad Harry"), English landowner
1924 - Leo Buscaglia, LA California, "Dr Hug", psycholigist (Love)
1925 - Jean Coutu, French Canadian actor (d. 1999)
1926 - John Fowles, England, novelist (Collector, French Leiutenent's Woman)
1926 - Sydney Chaplin, son of Charlie/actor (Adding Machine, Psycho Sisters)
1927 - Cesar Chavez, Yuma Az, farm labor leader (United Farm Workers)
1927 - William Daniels, Bkln NY, actor (Dr Mark Craig-St Elsewhere, 1776)
1928 - Gordie Howe, Floral Sask, NHL right wing (Detroit Redwings)
1929 - Lee Patterson, Vancouver BC, actor (Dave-Surfside Six, Another World)
1929 - Liz Claiborne, Brussels Belgium, American fashion designer, entrepreneur and founder of Liz
           Claiborne Inc (d. 2007)
1929 - Bertram Fields, American lawyer
1931 - Miller Barber, Shreveport LA, PGA golfer (1968 Byron Nelson Classic)
1932 - Godfrey Lawrence, cricketer (South African fast bowler, 8-53 v NZ 1961)
1932 - John Jakes, Chicago, writer (Sir Scoundrel, Great Women Reporters)
1932 - Nagisa Oshima, Kyoto Japan, director (Town of Love & Hope), (d. 2013)
1933 - Bob Simmons, Fulham England, stuntman (double for James Bond)
1933 - Shirley Jones, Smithton Pa, actress (Partridge Family, Elmer Gantry)
1933 - Nichita Stănescu, Romanian poet (d. 1983)
1934 - Grigori Grigoyevich Nelyubov, Russia, cosmonaut (Vostok 1 backup)
1934 - John D Loudermilk, rock drummer/vocalist (Language of Love, Norman)
1934 - Wim H Sinnige, Dutch alderman of finance (social democratic)
1935 - Herb Alpert, bandleader/trumpeteer (Tijuana Brass)/CEO (A & M)
1935 - Judith Rossner, US, writer (August)
1935 - Richard Chamberlain, Beverly Hills California, actor (Dr Kildare)
1936 - Marge Piercy, author (Small Changes, Gone for Soldiers)
1936 - Dokumamushi Sandayu, Japanese actor
1937 - Willem Duyn, [Mouth], Dutch singer (Mouth & MacNeal)
1938 - Nathaniel Taylor, St Louis Mo, actor (Rollo-Sanford & Sons)
1938 - Sheila Dikshit, Chief Minister of Delhi
1938 - Arthur B. Rubinstein, American composer
1938 - David Steel, Scottish politician
1939 - Zviad Gamsakhurdia, first President of Georgia (d. 1993)
1940 - Barney Frank, (Rep-D-MA, 1981- )
1940 - Jim Criner, WLAF head coach (Scottish Claymores)
1940 - Patrick J Leahy, (Sen-D-VT, 1975- )
1942 - Michael Savage, American talk radio host and commentator
1942 - Ulla Hoffmann, Swedish politician
1943 - Christopher Walken, Astoria Queens, actor (Deer Hunter, Brainstorm)
1944 - Rod Allen, [B Rodney Bainbridge] rock bassist/vocalist (Fortunes)
1945 - Valerie Curtin, American actress, writer, and producer
1946 - Aftab Gul, cricketer (Pakistani opening batsman in six Tests 1969-71)
1946 - Al Nichol, Winston Salem NC, rock guitarist/vocalist (Turtles)
1946 - Gabe Kaplan, Bkln NY, comedian/actor (Welcome Back Kotter)
1946 - Gonzalo Márquez, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 1984)
1947 - Al Goodman, rock vocalist (Ray, Goodman, Brown)
1947 - Caesar Gaviria Trujillo, president (Colombia, 1990-94)
1947 - Jon-Jon Poulos, Chicago Ill, rocker (Buckinghams)
1948 - Albert Gore Jr, Wash DC, (Sen-D-Tenn, 1985-92)/45th US VP (1993- )
1948 - David Eisenhower, Eisenhower's grandson (married Julie Nixon)
1948 - Mick Ralphs, rocker
1948 - Rhea Perlman, Brooklyn, actress (Zena-Taxi, Carla-Cheers)
1948 - Thijs van Leer, Dutch singer/flutist (Focus, Introspection)
1948 - Gustaaf Van Cauter, Belgian cyclist
1950 - Alison McCartney, pathologist/Breast Cancer campaigner
1950 - Richard Hughes, rocker (Johnny Winter Band)
1951 - Ed Marinaro, NYC, actor (Joe-Hill St Blues, Sonny-Laverne & Shirley)
1952 - Dermot Morgan, Irish actor (d. 1998)
1953 - Greg Martin, Louisville Ky, singer (Ky Headhunters-Davy Crockett)
1953 - Sean Hopper, California, rock keyboardist (Huey Lewis & The News)
1954 - Tony Brock, England, rock drummer (Isn't It Time, Every Time I Think of You)
1955 - Angus Young, Glascow Scotland, rock guitarist (AC/DC-Highway to Hell)
1955 - Robert Vance, New Zealand cricketer
1957 - Marc McClure, San Mateo California, actor (Ross-California Fever)
1957 - Mary Cadorette, East Hartford Ct, actress (Vicky-3's a Crowd)
1957 - Patrick G Forrester, El Paso TX, Lt Col Army/astronaut
1958 - Jay Feenan, Windham NH, rower (Olympics-1996)
1958 - Pat McGlynn, Edinburgh, rock guitarist (Bay City Rollers)
1958 - Tony Cox, American actor
1959 - Ali McMordie, Irish bassist (Stiff Little Fingers)
1960 - Anne Howard, San Diego California, actress (Nicole Love-Another World)
1960 - Mark Tuinei, NFL tackle (Dallas Cowboys)
1961 - Ron Brown, LA California, 4x100m runner (Olympic-gold-1984)
1962 - John Taylor, NFL wide receiver (SF 49ers)
1963 - Paul Mercurio, Australian actor/dancer
1964 - Dave Wyman, NFL linebacker (Denver Broncos)
1964 - David Diaz-Infante, NFL guard (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1964 - Erik Turner, Omaha Nebraska, rock guitarist (Warrant-Cherry Pie)
1964 - Isabelle Ferrari, Italy, (Italy's Miss Teenager)
1964 - Rod Jones, NFL cornerback (Cin Bengals)
1965 - Marlon Vonhagt, cricketer (1 ODI Sri Lanka 1984-85 World Series Cup)
1965 - Patty Fendick, Sacramento California, tennis star (1989 Auckland)
1965 - Tom Barrasso, Boston, NHL goalie (Pitts Penguins)
1965 - William McNamara, Dallas TX, actor (Texasville, Beat, Stealing Home)
1965 - Jean-Christophe Lafaille, French mountaineer (d. 2006)
1966 - Natalie Gosselin, Levis Quebec, 52kg judoka (Olympics-96)
1966 - Thomas Fitzgerald, Bkln NY, team handball left wing (Olympics-1996)
1966 - Roger Black, English athlete
1967 - Glenn Montgomery, NFL defensive tackle (Seattle Seahawks, Oilers)
1967 - Nanci Bowen, Tifton GA, LPGA golfer (1995 Nabisco Dinah Shore)
1968 - J R Reid, NBA forward (NY Knicks, Charlotte Hornets)
1968 - Naoya Ogawa, Japanese professional wrestler
1969 - Kevin Sargent, NFL tackle/guard (Cincinnati Bengals)
1969 - Steve Smith, NBA guard (Atlanta Hawks)
1969 - Samantha Brown, American television host
1969 - Nyamko Sabuni, Swedish politician
1970 - Derek Brown, NFL tight end (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1970 - Oleg Romanov, NHL defenseman (Belarus, Olympics-98)
1970 - Stuart Carruthers, Australian field hockey fullback (Olympics-96)
1971 - Ewan McGregor, Perth Scotland, Scottish actor (Trainspotting)
1971 - Pavel Bure, Moscow Russia, NHL left wing (Vancouver Canucks)
1971 - Pavel Bure, NHL forward (Team Russia Oly-Silver-1998, Vancouver)
1972 - John Godina, Fort Sill Oklahoma, shot putter/discus thrower (Oly-silver-96)
1972 - Kelly O'Leary, Halifax Nova Scotia, kayaker (Olympics-96)
1972 - Alejandro Amenábar, Spanish film director
1972 - Andrew Bowen, American actor
1972 - Hristos Polihroniou, Greek hammer thrower
1973 - Vanessa Mambi, Miss Universe-Curacao (1996)
1973 - Bold Forbes, Puerto Rican/American thoroughbred racehorse (d. 2000)
1974 - Anthony Hicks, NFL linebacker (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1974 - Carol Ann Plante, actress (Sara Henderson-Harry & the Hendersons)
1974 - James Burgess, linebacker (San Diego Chargers)
1974 - Jason Odom, tackle (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1974 - Nina Georgala, Miss Universe-Greece (1996)
1974 - Stefan Olsdal, Swedish bassist (Placebo)
1974 - Benjamin Eicher, Swiss film director
1975 - Adam Green, American film director
1976 - Amanda Moody, Orem Utah, Miss America-Utah (1996)
1976 - Josh Saviano, actor (Paul Pfeiffer-Wonder Years)
1977 - Toshiya, Japanese musician (Dir en grey)
1977 - Garth Tander, Australian racing driver
1978 - Jérôme Rothen, French footballer
1978 - Stephen Clemence, English footballer
1978 - Tony Yayo, American rapper
1979 - Josh Kinney, American baseball player
1979 - Amey Date, Indian playback singer
1980 - Jenny Smith, Western Australia, gymnast (Olympics-96)
1980 - Chien-Ming Wang, Taiwanese baseball player
1980 - Maaya Sakamoto, Japanese voice actor
1981 - Maarten van der Weijden, Dutch swimmer
1982 - Jessica Joseph, Royal Oak Mich, dance skater (& Butler-1997 Natl)
1982 - Tal Ben Haim, Israeli footballer
1982 - Philippe Mexès, French footballer
1982 - Lennon Murphy, American rock singer/songwriter
1983 - Paddy McCarthy, Irish footballer
1983 - Vlasios Maras, Greek gymnast
1984 - James Jones, American football player
1986 - Cveta Majtanović, Serbian singer, winner of Pop Idol.
1987 - "Baby M" born to a surrogate mother, awarded to her dad William Stern
1987 - Humpy Koneru, Indian chess grandmaster
1988 - Hogan Ephraim, English Footballer

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on March 31, 2013, 01:54:54 PM

This Day in History for 31st March


Famous Deaths

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Physicist & Mathematician                      Physicist and Nobel
Isaac Newton (1727)                                 Laureate Hans Fischer (1945)


1074 - Regency Yorimichi Fujiwara of Japan (b. 992)
1340 - Ivan I of Moscow, Prince of Moscow and Grand Prince of Vladimir (b. 1288)
1389 - Everhard Tserclaes, sheriff of Brussels, murdered
1547 - Francis I, King of France (b. 1494)
1567 - Philip, the Generous, count of Hessen, dies at 62
1578 - Juan de Escobedo, sec of Spanish land guardian Don Juan, murdered
1621 - Philip III, King of Spain (1598-1621), dies at 42
1631 - John Donne, Metaphysical poet, dies (birth date unknown)
1656 - Pierre de La Barre, composer, dies at 64
1671 - Anne Hyde, wife of James II of England (b. 1637)
1703 - Johann Christoph Bach, German composer (b. 1642)
1722 - Campegius Vitringa, Dutch theologist/exegete, dies at 62
1723 - Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, British-born American statesman (b. 1661)
1727 - Isaac Newton, English physicist/astronomer, dies in London at 84
1741 - Pieter Burmann/Burman the Elder, Dutch classical scholar dies at 72
1837 - John Constable, English painter/water colors painter, dies at 60
1850 - John Calhoun, dies at 68
1855 - Charlotte Bronte, English author (Jane Eyre), dies at 38
1877 - Antoine A Cournot, French mathematician (rule of C), dies at 75
1880 - Henryk Wieniawski, Polish violist/composer, dies at 44
1881 - Gaetano Gaspari, composer, dies at 73
1884 - Jan T Beelen, Neth/Belgian catholic bible expert, dies at 77
1885 - Franz W Abbot, German composer/choir conductor, dies at 65
1885 - Philipp Fahrbach, composer, dies at 69
1886 - Giovanni Rossi, composer, dies at 57
1892 - Adolf Rzepko, composer, dies at 66
1898 - Edward Noyes Westcott, US attorney/writer (David Harum), dies
1900 - Frank Milligan, cricketer (Mafeking 2 Tests Eng v South Africa 1898-99), dies
1901 - John Stainer, composer, dies at 60
1913 - John Pierpont Morgan, US banker/CEO (US Steel Corp), dies at 75
1914 - Ch Morgenstern, writer, dies at 42
1915 - Wyndham Halswelle, Scottish athlete (b. 1882)
1927 - Borisav "Bora" Stanković, Serbian writer (b. 1875)
1928 - Gustave Ador, president of Austria (1919), dies at 82
1928 - Medardo Rosso, Italian sculptor (portraits), dies at 69
1931 - Knute Rockne, football player/coach, dies in a plane crash at 43
1934 - Franz Ehrle, German jesuit/head of Vatican library, dies at 88
1938 - Willem J T Kloos, Dutch poet/critic (New Guide), dies at 78
1944 - Mineichi Koga, admiral of Japanese fleet, dies
1945 - Hans Fischer, German physicist (Nobel 1930), dies at 63
1945 - Maurice Rose, 1st US general in Nazi Germany, killed in action at 45
1948 - Egon E Kisch, Czech writer/journalist (Raging Reporter), dies at 62
1951 - Ralph Forbes, actor (Riptide, Shock, Shock), dies at 45
1952 - Wallace H. White, Jr., American politician (b. 1877)
1956 - Ralph DePalma, Italian-American race car driver (b. 1884)
1957 - Gene Lockhart, NYC actor (Going My Way), dies at 65
1959 - Peter Suhrkamp, German publisher (Suhrkamp Verlag), dies at 68
1960 - Joseph Haas, German (opera)composer (Totenmesse), dies at 81
1961 - Seerp Anema, Dutch poet/writer (Modern Art & Degenerating), dies at 85
1967 - Don Alvarado, actor (Morning Glory, Big Steal), dies at 62
1967 - Hieronim Feicht, composer, dies at 72
1968 - Grover Lowdermilk, American baseball player (b. 1885)
1970 - Semjon Timoshenko, Russ marshal/inspector-general (WW II), dies at 75
1971 - Liselotte Liselot Beekmeyer, Dutch actress (Child Crying), dies at 31
1972 - Meena Kumari, Indian actress (b. 1932)
1973 - Kurt George Hugo Thomas, composer, dies at 68
1974 - Andrea Checci, actress (2 Women, Assassin, Black Sunday), dies at 57
1976 - Paul Strand, American photographer (b. 1890)
1978 - Astrid Allwyn, actress (Love Affair, Girl for Calgary), dies at 68
1978 - Charles Best, Canadian medical scientist (b. 1899)
1980 - Vladimír Holan, Czech poet (b. 1905)
1981 - Enid Bagnold, British playwright (b. 1889)
1982 - Fritz Eberhard, West German lawyer/resistor, dies at 85
1983 - Stephen Murray, actor (Guilty, Silent Dust, Master Spy), dies at 70
1983 - Christina Stead, Australian writer (b. 1902)
1984 - Ronald Clark O'Bryan, American murderer (b. 1944)
1985 - Jeanine Deckers, Belgian nun (b. 1933)
1986 - Harry Ritz, comedian/actor (Ritz Brothers), dies at 79
1986 - Jerry Paris, director/actor (Jerry-Dick Van Dyke Show), dies at 60
1986 - O'Kelly Isley, US, singer (Isley Brothers), dies of heart attack at 48
1988 - Talib Rasul Hakim, composer, dies at 48
1988 - William McMahon, 20th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1908)
1990 - Lillian "Miss" Miller, audience member (Merv Griffin, Tonight), dies
1991 - John Carter, US jazz clarinetist (Roots & folklore), dies
1993 - Brandon Lee, US actor (Crow)/son of Bruce Lee, accidentally shot at 28
1993 - Jose Maria Lemus, president of El Salvador (1956-60), dies
1993 - Mitchell Parish, American lyricist (b. 1900)
1993 - Chichay, Filipino actress (b. 1918)
1994 - Leon J Ramirez Reine, [Degrelle], Belg/Spanish nazi (Rex), dies at 87
1995 - Carl M Story, fiddler, dies at 78
1995 - Selena, Mexican Grammy winning singer, killed by a fan at 24
1996 - Dante Giacosa, engineer/designer, dies at 91
1996 - Dario Bellezza, poet, dies at 51
1996 - Jeffrey Lee Pierce, musician, dies at 37
1996 - Julius Young, fast food entrepreneur, dies at 73
1997 - Edwin Alberian, TV celebrity (Clarabell), dies at 76
1997 - Laxmishankar Pathak, food retailer, dies at 62
1998 - Bella Abzug, American politician (b. 1920)
1998 - Tim Flock, American race car driver (b. 1924)
1999 - Yuri Knorozov, Russian linguist (b. 1922)
2001 - Clifford Shull, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1915)
2002 - Barry Took, British comedian (b. 1928)
2003 - H.S.M. Coxeter, English-born geometer (b. 1907)
2003 - Tommy Seebach, Danish singer (b. 1949)
2003 - Anne Gwynne, American film actress (b. 1918)
2005 - Stanley J. Korsmeyer, American oncologist (b. 1951)
2005 - Frank Perdue, American poultry farmer (b. 1920)
2005 - Terri Schiavo, American figure in right to die case (b. 1963)
2005 - Justiniano Montano, Filipino politician (b. 1905)
2006 - Jackie McLean, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1931 or 1932)
2006 - Angela Devi, American adult model (b. 1975)
2007 - Paul Watzlawick, Communications & Constructivism Theorist (b. 1921)
2008 - Jules Dassin, American film director (b .1911)
2008 - Bill Keightley, "Mr. Wildcat." University of Kentucky basketball equipment manger 1962-2008
           (b .1926)
2009 - Jarl Alfredius, Swedish news anchor (b. 1943)
2009 - Raúl Alfonsín, Argentinean ex president (b. 1927)
2010 - Shirley Mills, American actress (b. 1926)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 01, 2013, 10:55:52 AM

This Day in History for 1st April


Historical Events

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Satirist Jonathan Swift                       Moby Dick Author Herman Melville               Author Henry Miller

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Singer/Actress Marlene Dietrich            Spanish Dictator Francisco Franco              Rocker/Beatle John Lennon

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Apple Co-founder Steve Jobs                      NHL all-time top scorer                       WWF Wrestler Hulk Hogan
                                                                      Wayne Gretzky


374 - Comet 1P/374 E1 (Halley) approaches within 0.0884 AUs of Earth
527 - Byzantine Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler and successor to the
         throne
705 - Greek pope John VII chosen as successor to John VI
1064 - Body of bishop Eleutherius of Blandain moved to Doornik
1318 - Berwick-upon-Tweed is captured by the Scottish from the English.
1340 - Niels Ebbesen kills Gerhard III of Holstein in his bedroom, ending the 1332-1340 interregnum
           in Denmark.
1504 - English guilds/corp goes under state control
1572 - Watergeuzen capture Brielle from the Spaniards, during the Eighty Years' War, gaining the
           first foothold on land for what would become the Dutch Republic.
1581 - Portugese Cortes subjects himself on Philip II
1663 - Gemert fines unwed motherhood (50 guilder penalty)
1724 - Henry Pelham becomes English minister of War
1724 - Jonathan Swift publishes Drapier's letters
1748 - Ruins of Pompeii found
1776 - Friedrich von Klinger's "Sturm und Drang," premieres in Leipzig
1778 - Oliver Pollock, a New Orleans businessman, creates "$" symbol
1789 - House of Reps 1st full meeting, NYC, F Muhlenberg 1st speaker
1792 - Gronings feminist Etta Palm demands women's right to divorce
1793 - Volcano Unsen on Japan erupts killing about 53,000
1803 - French law rules the use of intention
1826 - Samuel Mory patents internal combustion engine
1836 - Charles Darwin aboard HMS Beagle reaches Cocos Islands
1850 - SF County government established
1853 - Cincinnati became 1st US city to pay fire fighters a regular salary
1854 - Hard Times begins serialisation in Charles Dickens magazine, Household Words.
1857 - Herman Melville publishes The Confidence-Man.
1862 - Shenandoah Valley campaign, Jackson's Battle of Woodstock, VA
1863 - 1st wartime conscription law in US goes into effect
1865 - -9] Battle at Blakely Alabama
1865 - Battle of 5 Forks Virginia, signalling end of Lee's army
1866 - US Congress rejects presidential veto gives all equal rights in US
1867 - Blacks vote in municipal election in Tuscumbia, Alabama
1867 - International Exhibition opens in Paris
1867 - Singapore, Penang & Malakka become British crown colonies
1868 - Hampton Institute opens
1872 - 1st edition of The Standard
1873 - British White Star steamship Atlantic sinks off Nova Scotia, 547 die
1873 - Mehmed Kemals play "Vatan" premeres in Constantinople
1876 - 1st official NL baseball game (Boston-6, Phila-5)
1881 - Anti-Jewish riots in Jerusalem
1881 - Kingdom post office in Netherlands opens
1888 - Soccer team Sparta forms in Rotterdam
1889 - 1st dishwashing machine marketed (Chicago)
1891 - London-Paris telephone connection opens
1891 - Painter Gauguin leaves Marseille for Tahiti
1891 - The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago, Illinois.
1899 - NC Mutual opens doors for business
1900 - 1st edition of Dutch newspaper "The People"
1905 - British East African Protectorate becomes colony of Kenya
1910 - Dumitru Dan (Romania) completes a 62,137 mile (100,000 m) walk
1912 - The Greek athlete Konstantinos Tsiklitiras breaks the world record -in standing long jump
           jumping 3.47 meters.
1914 - UVS Soccer team forms in Lead
1916 - 1st US national women's swiming championships held
1918 - United Kingdom's Royal Flying Corps replaced by Royal Air Force
1918 - Henry Miller's Theater opens at 124 W 43rd St NYC
1920 - Church disforms in Wales
1920 - Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators (NHL) beat Seattle (PCHA), 3 games to 2
1924 - Crown takes over Northern Rhodesia from British South Africa Co
1924 - Hitler sentenced to 5 years labor but Gen Ludendorff acquitted
1924 - Imperial Airways forms in Britain
1924 - The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed.
1925 - 1st transmission of Danish state radio
1925 - Hebrew University, Jerusalem dedicated [see May 9, 1925]
1926 - Halsteren Soccer team forms in Halsteren
1927 - 1st automatic record changer introduced by His Master's Voice
1928 - Chiang Kai-shek's army crosses Yang-tse
1929 - Austrian government of Ignaz Seipel falls
1929 - Doorne's trailer factory in Einsdhoven Netherlands opens
1929 - Louie Marx introduces Yo-Yo
1929 - Luis Buñuel releases "Un Chien Andalou," 24-minute film
1929 - Morehouse College, Spellman College & Atlanta University affiliate
1930 - "Blue Angel," starring unknown Marlene Dietrich, premieres in America
1931 - Earthquake devastate Managua Nicaragua, kills 2,000
1931 - Jackie Mitchell became 1st female in professional baseball
1933 - Hammond scores 336* v NZ at Auckland, 47 fours 10 sixes
1933 - Heinrich Himmler becomes Police Commander of Germany
1933 - Nazi Germany begins persecution of Jews boycotting Jewish businesses
1934 - Bonnie & Clyde kill 2 police officers
1935 - 1st radio tube made of metal announced, Schenectady, NY
1936 - Orissa constituted a province of British India
1937 - Aden becomes British crown colony
1938 - Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, NY
1938 - Joe Louis KOs Harry Thomas in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
1939 - US recognizes Franco government in Spain at end of Spanish civil war Pope Pius XII
           congratulates Generalissimo Franco's victory in Spain
1941 - Lillian Hellman's "Watch on the Rhine," premieres in NYC
1941 - Navy takes over Treasure Island (SF Bay)
1941 - Nazi's forbid Jews access to cafés
1941 - Pro-German Rashid Ali al-Ghailani grabs power in Iraq
1941 - The Blockade Runner Badge for German navy is instituted.
1942 - Allied air raid on harbor city Kupang Timor
1942 - Mexico changes from 3 time zones to 2
1944 - German Abwehr ends England spiel, after 132 killed
1944 - Japanese troops conquer Jessami, East-India
1945 - 1st edition of Indonesia Merdeka publishes
1945 - Canadian troop free Doetinchem, Enschede, Borculo & Eibergen
1945 - Ruhrgebied sealed off by US 1st & 9th army
1945 - Sons of Elburger Soccer team forms in Elburg
1945 - US forces invade Okinawa during WW II
1946 - 400,000 US mine workers strike
1946 - Tsunamis generated by a quake in Aleutian Trench strike Hilo Hawaii
1946 - Van Acker forms Belgian government (without CVP)
1946 - Weight Watchers forms
1946 - Formation of the Malayan Union.
1947 - 1st Jewish immigrants to Israel disembark at Port of Eilat
1948 - H H H Johnson bowls WI to win v England 10-96 match on debut
1948 - Faroe Islands receive autonomy from Denmark.
1952 - Big Bang theory proposed in Physical Review by Alpher, Bethe & Gamow
1952 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1953 - J van Bale appointed governor of New Guinea
1953 - KXMC TV channel 13 in Minot, ND (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting
1953 - Walcott Worrell & Weekes all make centuries in innings v India
1954 - 1st Dutch motorway, Amsterdam-Utrecht, opens
1954 - 1st army helicopter battalion forms, Fort Bragg, NC
1954 - Earthquake/tsunami ravage Aleutians, 200 killed
1954 - US Air Force Academy forms
1954 - WQED TV channel 13 in Pittsburgh, PA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1955 - Armed military action taken against bureaucratic strike in Amsterdam
1955 - EOKA-bomb attacks against British government buildings in Cyprus
1955 - WTVT TV channel 13 in Tampa-St Petersburg, FL (CBS) 1st broadcast
1956 - 10th Tony Awards: Diary of Anne Frank & Damn Yankees win
1956 - KPIC TV channel 4 in Roseburg, OR (CBS) begins broadcasting
1956 - Violent clashes in Algeria, kills at least 380
1957 - Trial begins in Budapest against participants october uprising
1957 - WYES TV channel 12 in New Orleans, LA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1957 - World's biggest glass oven used
1958 - KVIQ TV channel 6 in Eureka, CA (NBC/ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting
1958 - Marshal Boelganin becomes director of Russian Staatsbank
1960 - Census determines the resident population of the United States to be 179,245,000
1960 - 2nd French atom bomb explodes (Sahara)
1960 - France performs nuclear test at Reggane Proving Grounds Algeria
1960 - Mabry Harper catches a 25 lb Walleye in Tennessee
1960 - U Nu elected premier of Burma
1960 - 1st weather satellite launched (TIROS 1)
1963 - NY Mets purchase Duke Snider from the Dodgers for $40,000
1963 - NYC's newspapers resume publishing after a 114 day strike
1963 - Soap operas "General Hospital" & "Doctors" premier on TV
1964 - 10°F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in April
1964 - John Lennon is reunited with his father Freddie after 17 years
1964 - Robert Lowell's "Benito Cereno," premieres in NYC
1965 - South Africa worker's union leader Henry Fazzie sentenced to 10 years
1965 - Syncom 3, 1st geosynchronous communications satellite, passes from civilian to military
           control
1966 - 1st world festival of black art (Dakar Senegal)
1966 - China premier Tsjoe en-Lai starts "Cultural revolution"
1967 - 1st British ombudsman sir Edward Compton begins work
1967 - The United States Department of Transportation begins operation.
1968 - KEMO (now KOFY) TV channel 20 in San Francisco, CA (IND) 1st broadcast
1969 - Royal Canadian Mint formally forms as a Crown Corp
1969 - Seattle Pilots trade minor league outfielder Lou Piniella to Royals
1969 - The Hawker Siddeley Harrier enters service with the RAF.
1970 - Bud Selig becomes CEO of Milwaukee Brewers
1970 - John & Yoko release hoax they are having dual sex change operations
1970 - Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club, headed by Bud Selig, purchases the Seattle Pilots for
           $10,800,000 Although negotiations were conducted over a period of months, it was not until 
           March 13 when a federal bankruptcy referee declared the Pilots bankrupt
1970 - Pres Nixon signs bill limiting cigarette advertisements on 1/1/71
1971 - US/Canada ISIS 2 launched to study ionosphere
1971 - United Kingdom lifts all restrictions on gold ownership
1972 - 30,000 attend Mar Y Sol rock concert, Vega Baja, Puerto Rico
1972 - Major league baseball players stages 1st collective strike
1973 - Betsy Cullen wins LPGA Alamo Ladies Golf Classic
1973 - Japan allows its citizens to own gold
1973 - John & Yoko form a new country with no laws or boundaries, called Nutopia, its national
           anthem is silence
1974 - Ayatollah Khomeini calls for an Islamic Republic in Iran
1974 - Pioneer Hall opens
1974 - Yourdon, Inc forms
1974 - In the United Kingdom, the Metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties come into being.
1975 - Cambodia President Lon Nol flees for Red Khmer
1976 - Stephen Wozniak & Steven Jobs founded Apple Computer
1976 - Conrail takes over operations from six bankrupt railroads in the northeastern U.S..
1976 - Jovian-Plutonian gravitational effect is first reported by the astronomer Patrick Moore.
1977 - Attempt for Moslem state in Chad fails
1977 - NFL decides to experiment with a 7th official in some preseason games
1978 - Philippine College of Commerce, through a presidential decree, becomes the Polytechnic
          University of the Philippines.
1979 - Iran proclaimed an Islamic Republic following fall of Shah
1979 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
1980 - Baseball Players' Association votes to cancel 92 remaining exhibition games
1980 - Failed assassination attempt on Iraqi vice-premier Tariq Aziz
1980 - France performs nuclear test
1980 - Wayne Gretzky breaks Bobby Orr's record with 103rd assist
1980 - New York City's Transit Worker Union 100 begins a strike lasting 11 days.
1981 - CNN airs a videotape that shows that Tamara Rand predicted that Reagan is in danger from
           someone named Jack Humley (a hoax)
1981 - Daylight saving time is introduced in the USSR.
1982 - Anguilla (dependent territory of UK) adopts constitution
1982 - US formally transfers Canal Zone to Panama
1983 - Anti-nuke demonstrators link arms in 14-mile human chain in England
1983 - NY Isle Mike Bossy becomes 1st to score 60 goals in 3 cons seasons
1984 - 14th Easter Seal Telethon raises $24,600,000
1984 - 3rd NCAA Womens Basketball Championship: Southern Cal beats Tenn 72-61
1984 - 8 men record longest distance (13 miles) rowed in 24 hours
1985 - 47th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Villanova beats Georgetown 84-75
1986 - Delhi beat Haryana by innings & 141 to win Ranji Trophy
1986 - US sub Nathaniel Green runs aground in Irish Sea
1986 - World oil prices dip below $10 a barrel
1989 - 1st NY Met-NY Yankee game in NYC since 1983, Yanks win 4-3
1989 - A Bartlett Giamatti replaces Ueberroth as 7th commissioner of baseball
1990 - "Ha!" comedy Channel on cable TV begins transmitting
1990 - 19th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Betsy King
1990 - 2nd Seniors Golf Tradition: Jack Nicklaus wins
1990 - 9th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Stanford beats Auburn 88-81
1990 - CBS fires sportscaster Brent Mussburger
1990 - Guns & Roses' Duff divorces Mandy Brix, lead singer for Lame Flames
1990 - It becomes illegal in Salem Oregon to be within 2' of nude dancers
1990 - Jack Nicklaus wins 1st start on Senior PGA tour
1990 - Wrestlemania VI, 67,678 in Toronto, Ultimate Warrior beats Hulk Hogan
1991 - 53rd NCAA Mens Basketball Championship: Duke Bluedevils beats Kansas 72-65
1991 - Dwight Gooden signs $5.15 million 3 year contract with NY Mets
1991 - Iran releases British hostage Roger Cooper after 5 years
1991 - Supreme Court rules jurors can't be barred from serving due to race
1991 - US minimum wage goes from $3.80 to $4.25 per hour
1991 - Warsaw Pact officially dissolves
1992 - 5th Largest wrestling crowd (64,287-Toronto SkyDome)
1992 - Battleship USS Missouri (on which, Japan surrendered) decommissioned
1992 - Last defendant in St John sex assault case sentenced to 3 yrs prob
1992 - NFL decides to stay with 17 week sched instead of expanded 18 games
1992 - NHL players begin 1st strike in 75-year history
1992 - Rocker Billy Idol fined $2,000 for hitting a woman
1992 - WA beat NSW by 44 runs to win the Sheffield Shield Final
1992 - World's 7 wealthiest nations agree on $24B aid for former USSR
1993 - Alan Bennett's "Madness of George III," premieres in London
1994 - Bob Feller Statue on Indians Plaza, dedicated
1995 - Carlson Wagonlit Travel Agency begins charging $15 service fee
1995 - NY Islanders retire Bobby Nystrom's uniform #23
1996 - 58th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Syracuse 76-67
1996 - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Boston MA on WBCN 104.1 FM (morn)
1996 - The Halifax Regional Municipality in Nova Scotia is created.
1997 - 69 year old Gordie Howe begins playing AHL game with Syracuse Crunch
1997 - Comet Hale-Bopp Perihelion (0.914 AU)
1998 - World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Minn
1999 - Nunavut is established as a Canadian territory carved out of the eastern part of the
           Northwest Territories.
2001 - 20th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: at St Louis
2001 - Same-sex marriage becomes legal in the Netherlands, which is the first country to allow it.
2001 - Former president of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milošević surrenders to police
           special forces, to be tried on charges of war crimes.
2002 - 64th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: at Georgia Dome Atlanta
2002 - The Netherlands legalizes euthanasia, becoming the first nation in the world to do so.
2004 - Google introduces its Gmail product to the public. The launch is met with scepticism on
           account of the launch date.
2006 - The Serious Organised Crime Agency, dubbed the 'British FBI', is created in the United
           Kingdom.
2009 - Croatia and Albania joined NATO
2011 - After protests against the burning of the Quran turned violent, a mob attacked a United
           Nations compound in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan and killed thirteen people, including eight
           foreign workers.
2012 - Plane crash in Western Siberia kills at least 31 people ( UTair Aviation ATR-72)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 01, 2013, 10:58:24 AM

This Day in History for 1st April


Famous Weddings

1959 - American science fiction writer "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" Philip K Dick marries
          3rd wife Anne Williams Rubinstein
1961 - Jim Bakker marries Tammy Faye
1993 - Stephane Powers weds Patrick de la Chenais
2006 - Miss Costa Rica 2001 Piarella Peralta weds Dutch banker Tiemo Wesseling at Iglesia de Orosi
           in the Cartago province of Costa Rica
2006 - Miss Puerto Rico 2003 Joyceline Montero weds architect Hansell Bajuelo at la Iglesia de la
           Misericordia in Guaynabo City

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 01, 2013, 11:03:48 AM

This Day in History for 1st April


Famous Divorces

1990 - Guns & Roses' Duff divorces Mandy Brix, lead singer for Lame Flames

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 01, 2013, 11:18:11 AM

This Day in History for 1st April


Famous Birthdays

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Chancellor                                                Military and Political Leader
Otto Von Bismarck (1815)                         Simon Bolivar (1823)

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Actor & Writer                                    Sci-fi Author Anne McCaffrey (1926)
Toshiro Mifune (1920)


1220 - Emperor Go-Saga of Japan (d. 1272)
1283 - Ludwig IV of Baveria, Roman Catholic Bavarian emperor (1314-47)
1543 - François de Bonne, duc de Lesdiguières, Constable of France (d. 1626)
1578 - William Harvey, England, physician (discovered blood circulation)
1582 - Gaspar de Crayer, Flemish painter
1582 - Thomas Simpson, composer
1610 - Charles de Saint-Évremond, French soldier (d. 1703)
1640 - Georg Mohr, Danish mathematician (d. 1697)
1643 - Christian Demelius, composer
1647 - John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, English poet (d. 1680)
1697 - Antoine François Prévost, French author and novelist (d. 1763)
1721 - Pieter Hellendaal, Dutch violinist/organist/composer (Glees)
1725 - Francois Bainville, composer
1753 - Joseph de Maistre, French diplomat and writer (d. 1821)
1755 - Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, French lawyer (Fisiologia del Gusto)
1765 - Luigi Schiavonetti, Italian engraver (d. 1810)
1772 - Ignaz Franz von Mosel, composer
1776 - Sophie Germain, French mathematician (d. 1831)
1785 - J H Ferdinand Olivier, German painter
1802 - Hubert Reis, composer
1807 - Fredrik Cygnaeus, Finnish poet/literature critic
1809 - Willem Ruys J Dz, Dutch ship owner
1815 - Otto Von Bismarck, Germany, chancellor (1866-90)
1817 - Johannes J van Oosterzee, Dutch theologist
1823 - Simon Bolivar Buckner, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1914
1834 - Isidore Edouard Legouix, composer
1834 - Big Jim Fisk, American entrepreneur (d. 1872)
1843 - Ludwig Enneccerus, German jurist
1847 - Gavriil Musicescu, composer
1847 - Jules-Nicolas Crevaux, French explorer (South America)
1852 - Edward Austin Abbey, US, painter (Quest of the Holy Grail)
1854 - Bill Traylor, American artist (d. 1949)
1856 - Acacio Gabriel Viegas, Indian physician (d. 1933)
1858 - Arnold Aletrino, Dutch physician-criminologist/author (From Life)
1858 - Gaetano Mosca, Italian sociologist (Circulation of Elite)
1864 - Marie Jungius, Dutch fairy tale writer
1865 - Richard Zsigmondy, Germany, chemist (Nobel-1925)
1866 - Ferruccio D M B Busoni, Italy, pianist/composer/conductor (Arlecchino)
1866 - Sophonisba Breckenridge, scholar/teacher/social activist
1868 - Edmond Rostand, France, poet/playwright (Cyrano de Bergerac)
1869 - Peter A Egge, Norwegian writer (De Droom)
1871 - F Melius Christiansen, composer
1872 - Tadeusz Joteyko, composer
1873 - Sergei Rachmaninoff, Novgorod Russia, composer (Prelude in C# Minor)
1875 - Edgar Wallace, England, novelist/playwright/journalist (Terror)
1878 - Carl Sternheim, German playwright (Hyperion/Tabula Rasa)
1880 - Agha Petros, Assyrian general (d. 1932)
1882 - Paul Anspach, Belgian Olympic champion fencer (d. 1991)
1883 - Aleksander V Aleksandrov, Russian composer/conductor
1883 - Lon Chaney, CO, man of 1000 faces, actor (High Noon, Phantom of Opera)
1884 - Laurette Taylor, [Helen LM Cooney], US actress (Broadway)
1885 - Clementine Ogilvy Spencer-Churchill (Hozier), British barones
1886 - Casimir von Paszthory, composer
1886 - Wallace Beery, KC MO, actor (Alias a Gentleman, Dinner at 8 )
1887 - Leonard Bloomfield, US linguist
1893 - Cicely Courtneidge, Sydney Australia, actress (Double Exposure)
1895 - Alberta Hunter, blues singer/composer (Downhearted Blues)
1897 - Willem H van de Pol, Dutch theologist (Christian Dilemma)
1898 - Nita Naldi [Anita Donna Dooley], NYC, actress (Blood & Sand)
1898 - Pola Gojawiczynska, Polish writer (Stolica)
1898 - Roger Bastide, French sociologist
1898 - William James Sidis, American genius (d. 1944)
1899 - Gustavs Celmins, Latvian politician (d. 1968)
1900 - Robert McDowell, Mayor of Maryborough, Queensland (d. 1988)
1901 - Boris Koutzen, composer
1901 - Whittaker Chambers, American writer, editor, and defector (d. 1961)
1902 - L P Jai, cricketer (one Test India v England 1934, scored 19 & 0)
1902 - Maria Polydouri, Greek poet (d. 1930)
1904 - Juan Gil-Albert, poet
1905 - Clara "Mother" Hale, US social worker (Hale House)
1905 - Gaston Eyskens, PM of Belgium (1949, 1958-61, 1968-72)
1905 - Winfried P I Zillig, German opera composer/conductor (Fantasia Irica)
1906 - Ned Glass, Poland, actor (Sol-Julia, Uncle Moe-Bridget Loves Bernie)
1906 - Sigve Lie, Norway, yachtsmans (Olympic-gold-1948, 52)
1907 - Walter Kaufmann, composer
1908 - Abraham H Maslow, US psychologist (humanistic psychology)
1909 - Abner Biberman, Milwaukee Wisc, director/actor (Imhook-Kodiak)
1909 - Eddie Duchin, Mass, society pianist/bandleader (Eddie Duchin Orch)
1911 - Evert H "Bep" Bakhuys, Dutch soccer star/writer
1911 - Ferdinand J Kranenburg, Dutch Secretary of Defense (soc dem)
1911 - Gunther Rennert, Essen Germany, opera director/producer
1914 - Carla van Neste, Belgian violinist
1914 - Lor Tok, Thai comedian and actor (d. 2002)
1915 - Art Lund, Salt Lake City Utah, singer (Ken Murray Show)
1915 - Otto Wilhelm Fischer, Austrian actor (d. 2004)
1917 - Johnny Andrews, Boston, singer/host (Songs at Twilight)
1917 - Leon Janney, Ogden Ut, actor (Hawk)
1919 - Joseph Murray, American surgeon, Nobel laureate, (d. 2012)
1920 - Joan Frances Will, actress
1920 - Toshiro Mifune, Tsing-tao China, writer/actor (Shogun)
1921 - Douglas Allenbrook, composer
1921 - William L Bergsma, Oakland California, composer (Fortunate Island)
1921 - Ken Reardon, Canadian ice hockey player
1922 - William Manchester, Attleboro Mass, historian (Death of a President)
1923 - Bobby Jordan, NY, actor (Bowery Champs, Kid Dynamite, Flying Wild)
1924 - Gunther Becker, composer
1924 - Brendan Byrne, Governor of New Jersey
1924 - Miodrag Petrović, Serbian actor (d. 2003)
1925 - Sala Burton, (Rep-D-CA, 1983- )
1926 - Anne [Inez] McCaffrey, US, sci-fi author (Dragonflight, Dragondrums)
1926 - Lyndon Brook, actor (Invasion, Reach for the Sky)
1926 - Charles Bressler, American tenor
1927 - Amos Milburn, rocker
1928 - Dimitri Frenkel Frank, Dutch writer/director (Hadimassa)
1928 - George Grizzard, NC, actor (Wrong is Right, Bachelor Party, Attica)
1928 - Herbert Klein, newscaster/press secretary
1928 - Jane Powell, Portland Oregon, singer/actress (7 Brides for 7 Brothers)
1929 - Milan Kundera, Czech poet/writer (Joke, Unbearable Lightness of Being)
1929 - Payut Ngaokrachang, Thai animator
1929 - Bo Schembechler, American football coach (d. 2006)
1930 - Grace Lee Whitney, Ann Arbor Mich, actress (Yeoman Rand-Star Trek)
1930 - Joan Franks-Williams, composer
1931 - George Baker, Bulgaria, actor (Goodbye Mr Chips, Curse of the Fly)
1931 - Rolf Hochhuth, German playwright (Deputy)
1931 - Ita Ever, Estonian actress
1931 - Charles Price, Kansas City, Missouri, American Businessman and diplomat, (d. 2012)
1932 - Alexander Colleridge Vanderpuiye Baka Tetteh-Lartey, actor
1932 - Debbie Reynolds, El Paso Texas, actress (Singin' in the Rain)
1932 - Gordon Jump, Dayton Ohio, actor (Arthur Carlson-WKRP, Growing Pains)
1932 - Jiri Smutny, composer
1933 - Dan Flavin, US minimalist sculptor
1934 - Don Hastings, Bkln NY, actor (Capt Video, Bob-As the World Turns)
1934 - Rod Kanehl, American baseball player (d. 2004)
1934 - Vladimir Posner, Russian journalist
1935 - Hans H Boswinkel, actor/director (Surprise Attack, Tutorials in Love)
1935 - John Murray, cricketer (Eng 1961-67, 1st wk called Murray to play Tests)
1935 - Larry McDonald, American politician (d. 1983)
1936 - Jean-Pascal Delamuraz, Swiss politician, president of the Confederation in 1989 and 1996 (d.
           1998)
1938 - John Quade, American actor
1939 - Ali MacGraw, Pound Ridge NY, actress (Love Story, Goodbye Columbus)
1939 - Phil Niekro, knuckleball pitcher (NY Yankees, Atlanta Braves)
1939 - Rudolph Isley, Cincinnati Ohio, rocker (Isley Brothers-Shout)
1940 - Wangari Maathai, Kenyan environmentalist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1941 - Ajit Wadekar, cricketer (stalwart Indian batsman & capt)
1942 - Alan Blakley, rocker (Brian Poole & The Tremeloes)
1942 - Danny Brooks, rocker (Dovells)
1942 - Phil Margo, Bkln, rock vocalist (Tokens-Lion Sleeps Tonight)
1942 - Samuel R[ay] Delany Jr, US, sci-fi author (Towers of Toron, Neveryona)
1944 - Carol White, England, actress (Daddy's Gone a Hunting)
1944 - Rusty Staub, American baseball player
1945 - Heather Young, Bremerton Wash, actress (Betty-Land of Giants)
1946 - John Barbata, drummer (Turtles-Happy Together, Eleanor)
1946 - Ronnie "Plonk" Lane, London, rock bassist (Small Faces-Hey Girl)
1946 - William Frederick Fisher, Dallas Texas, MD/astronaut (STS 51-I)
1946 - Arrigo Sacchi, Italian football coach
1947 - David Eisenhower, grandson of Pres Dwight, married Julie Nixon
1947 - Alain Connes, French mathematician
1947 - M, English singer
1947 - Norm Van Lier, American basketball player
1948 - Jimmy Cliff, Reggae singer
1948 - Simon Crowe, rock drummer (Boomtown Rats-Maxinguaye)
1948 - Y Y Williams, Welsh rugby player
1949 - Gill Scott-Heron, US, writer/poet/singer (Whities on the Moon)
1949 - Gérard Mestrallet, French businessman
1949 - Sammy Nelson, Northern Irish footballer
1950 - Ed[uardus] HTM Nijpels, Dutch minister of Environment (VVD)
1950 - Leonard van Spirit, Dutch/British fruit/food magnate
1950 - Samuel Alito, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
1951 - John Philip Abizaid, U.S. Army General, former CENTCOM commander
1952 - Abdel Basset Ali Al-Megrahi, Tripoli Libya, bomber (Pan Am 103), (d. 2012)
1952 - Annette O'Toole, Houston Texas, actress (Cat People, Superman III)
1952 - Billy Currie, rock keyboardist/violinist (Ultravox-We Came to Dance)
1952 - Rey Robinson, US, 100m sprinter (Olympic-1972)
1952 - Bernard Stiegler, French philosopher
1953 - Aftab Baloch, cricketer (Pakistani in 2 Tests, scored 428 for Sind 74)
1953 - Barry Sonnenfeld, director (When Harry Met Sally, Big, Misery)
1954 - Jeff Porcaro, LA California, drummer/percussionist (Toto-Roxanne, Africa)
1955 - Danny Joe Pohl, Mt Pleasant MI, PGA golfer (1986 Colonial)
1955 - Stan Ridway, rocker (Wall Of Voodoo)
1955 - Gregg Jarrett, American television anchor
1956 - Peter O'Toole, Irish pop bassist (Hothouse Flowers-People)
1957 - David Gower, cricketer (elegant England left-handed batsman 1978-92)
1957 - Donald William Hammond, Frederick MD, PGA golfer (1986 Bob Hope)
1957 - Peter Deutsch, (Rep-D-Florida)
1958 - Anton Innauer, Austria, 70m ski jumper (Olympic-gold-1980)
1958 - D. Boon, American musician d. (1985)
1960 - Michael Praed, British actor
1961 - Jennifer Runyon, actress (Cindy-A Very Brady Christmas)
1961 - Jim Jeffcoat, NFL defensive end (Buffalo Bills)
1961 - Mark White, rock guitarist (ABC-All of My Heart)
1962 - Phillip Schofield, TV personality/designer (Nightfire)
1962 - Rich Amaral, Visalia CA, outfielder (Seattle Mariners)
1962 - Dave Ulliott, English poker player
1964 - John Morris, cricketer (England right-hand batsman v India 1990)
1964 - Kevin Duckworth, NBA center (Milwaukee Bucks)
1964 - Scott Stevens, Kitchener, NHL defenseman (NJ Devils, Team Canada)
1964 - Erik Breukink, Dutch cyclist and manager
1965 - John "Jumbo" Elliot, NFL tackle (NY Giants, NY Jets)
1965 - Mark Jackson, NBA guard (Indiana Pacers)
1965 - Robert Steadman, English composer
1966 - Dave Vankoughnett, CFL corner (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1966 - Odie Harris, NFL safety/defensive back (Houston Oilers)
1966 - Chris Evans, English disc jockey
1967 - Phil Demmel, American musician
1968 - Joel Smeenge, NFL defensive end (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1968 - Andreas Schnaas, German horror film director
1968 - Julia Boutros, Lebanese singer
1969 - Andrew Vlahov, Australian basketball forward (Olympics-1988, 92, 96)
1969 - Arnaud Boetsch, Meulam France, tennis star (1985 European Junior)
1969 - Frank Castillo, El Paso TX, pitcher (Chicago Cubs)
1969 - John Forest, soccer player (Go Ahead Eagles)
1969 - Kevin Dean, Madison, NHL defenseman (NJ Devils)
1969 - Traci Lin-Tavi, NYC, actress (Ryan's Hope, F/X, Fright Night 2)
1970 - Mark Wheeler, NFL defensive tackle (Tampa Bay Bucs, NE Patriots)
1970 - Wes Barnett, St Joseph MO, 238lb (108kg) weightlifter (Oly-6th-92, 96)
1970 - Wyatt Jones, Honolulu Hawaii, kayak (alt-Olympics-96)
1970 - Sung Hi Lee, Korean-born model
1971 - Daniel Vacek, Prague Czech, tennis star
1971 - Ernest Jones, NFL defensive end (Saints, Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1971 - Jessica Collins, [Capogna], actress (Dinah Lee Mayberry-Loving)
1971 - Lachy Hulme, Australian actor and screenwriter
1971 - Shinji Nakano, Japanese race car driver
1972 - Kenny Gales, NFL/WLAF cornerback (Chicago Bears, Barcelona Dragons)
1972 - Mike McCoy, WLAF quarterback (Amsterdam Admirals)
1972 - Allen and Albert Hughes, American film directors
1972 - Jesse Tobias, American musician
1973 - Ferdy Vierklau, soccer player (FC Utrecht)
1973 - Stephen Fleming, cricketer (NZ left-handed Test batsman 1994-)
1973 - Christian Finnegan, American comedian
1973 - Rachel Maddow, American radio personality and political analyst
1973 - Joe Francis, American adult video producer
1974 - Richard Christy, American drummer
1974 - Hugo Benjamín Ibarra, Argentine footballer
1974 - Sandra Völker, German swimmer
1975 - Kristine Quance, 100m breaststroke/200m medley (Olympics-96)
1975 - Magdalena Maleeva, Sofia Bulgaria, tennis star (1995 Chicago Moscow)
1975 - George Bastl, Swiss tennis player
1975 - John Butler, Australian singer and musician
1976 - Clarence Seedorf, Surinam/Dutch soccer player (Ajax, Real Madrid)
1976 - David Oyelowo, English-Nigerian actor
1977 - Haimar Zubeldia, Spanish cyclist
1978 - Jean-Pierre Dumont, Canadian ice hockey player
1978 - Miroslava Vavrinec, Swiss tennis player
1979 - Ivano Balić, Croatian handballer
1980 - Bryan Buffinton, Ridgewood NJ, actor (Bill Lewis Jr-Guiding Light)
1980 - Randy Orton, American professional wrestler
1980 - Bijou Phillips, American actress
1980 - Yūko Takeuchi, Japanese actress
1981 - Antonis Fotsis, Greek basketball player
1981 - Pieter Weening, Dutch cyclist
1981 - Bjoern Einar Romoeren, Norwegian skijumper
1981 - Hannah Spearritt, British singer
1981 - Aimee Chan, Miss Hong Kong 2006
1982 - Sam Huntington, actor (Jungle 2 Jungle)
1982 - Gemma Hunt, British children's television presenter
1982 - Sam Huntington, American actor
1982 - Taran Killam, American comedian and actor
1983 - Ólafur Ingi Skúlason, Icelandic footballer
1983 - Sean Taylor, American football player (d. 2007)
1983 - Matt Lanter, American actor and model
1984 - Gilberto Macena, Brazilian footballer
1984 - Olga Rei, Russian television personality
1985 - Josh Zuckerman, American actor
1986 - Ireen Wüst, Dutch speed skater
1987 - Ding Junhui, Chinese snooker player
1987 - Li Ting, Chinese diver
1988 - Courtney McCool, American gymnast
1988 - Brook Lopez, American basketball player
1988 - Robin Lopez, American basketball player
1989 - Vietoris Krisztián, German racecar driver

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 01, 2013, 11:21:34 AM

This Day in History for 1st April


Famous Deaths

1085 - Emperor Shenzong of China (b. 1048)
1132 - St-Hugues, Bishop of Grenoble (b. 1053)
1204 - Eleanor of Aquitaine, wife of Louis VII & Henry II, dies at 81
1205 - Amalrik II, King of Cyprus/Jerusalem, dies
1528 - Francisco de Peñalosa, Spanish composer
1548 - Sigismund I, the Elder, King of Poland, dies at 81
1580 - Alonso Mudarra, Spanish composer
1611 - Gillis van Valkenborch, Flemish painter, buried at about 72
1621 - Cristofano Allori, Italian painter (b. 1577)
1637 - Niwa Nagashige, Japanese warlord (b. 1571)
1682 - Franz Egon of Fürstenberg, Bavarian Catholic archbishop (b. 1625)
1734 - Louis Lully, composer, dies at 69
1787 - Floyer Sydenham, English classical scholar (b. 1710)
1791 - Richard Butler American soldier (b. 1743)
1799 - Narciso Casanovas, composer, dies at 52
1807 - Louis Francois Chambray, composer, dies at 69
1807 - Vaclav Josef Bartolomej Praupner, composer, dies at 61
1814 - Jozef de Ferraris, French/Austrian general/cartographer, dies at 87
1830 - Carl Borromaus Neuner, composer, dies at 51
1832 - Robert the Hermit, US ex-slave/hermit in Massachusetts, dies
1839 - Benjamin Pierce, American politician (b. 1757)
1865 - Giuditta Pasta, Italian soprano (b. 1797)
1866 - Aime Ambroise Simon Leborne, composer, dies at 98
1866 - Johannes C H de Meijere, Dutch zoologist, dies
1869 - Anthony G O Ridder van Rappard, Min of Reformed Worship, dies at 69
1870 - Patrick Gass, sgt of Lewis & Clark Expedition, dies at 98
1872 - Frederick Maurice, English theologian (b. 1805)
1872 - William Frederick Horry, English convicted murderer (b. 1843)
1878 - Eugene Gautier, composer, dies at 56
1878 - John Corry Wilson Daly, Canadian politician (b. 1796)
1890 - David Wilber, American politician (b. 1820)
1901 - Francois M Raoult, Fren physicist/chemist (Law of Raoult), dies at 70
1910 - Andreas Aschenbach, German painter/engraver, dies at 94
1914 - Rube Waddell, baseballer, dies at 37 of TB
1915 - Johann Joseph Abert, composer, dies at 82
1916 - Gabrielle Petit, Belgian resistance fighter, executed
1917 - Scott Joplin, ragtime composer (Sting), dies at 48
1918 - Karl Fritjof Valentin, composer, dies at 64
1922 - Charles I, emperor (Austria)/King of Hungary (Charles IV), dies
1925 - Francis William Davenport, composer, dies at 77
1930 - Cosima Liszt, wife of Austrian composer Richard Wagner, dies at 92
1930 - Zawditu, 1st reigning female monarch of Ethiopia, dies
1933 - Frederick Lord Chelmsford, viceroy of Brit-Ind (1916-21), dies at 64
1936 - Mikhail Vladimirovich Ivanov-Boretsky, composer, dies at 61
1941 - Hippolyte Delehaye, Flemish historian, dies at 81
1946 - Noah Beery, actor (Beau Geste, Cimarron Kid, Mammy), dies at 62
1947 - George II, king of Greece, dies at 56
1950 - Charles R Drew, surgeon/developer of blood bank concept, dies at 45
1951 - Clement D'Hooghe, composer, dies at 51
1955 - Silvio d'Amico, Italian theater critic (Il Teatro Italian), dies at 68
1957 - Gheorge Tatarescu, premier Romania (1933-37, 39-40), dies
1960 - Piet[er O] Bakker, Dutch journalist/writer (Ciske), dies at 62
1964 - Bozidar Kunc, composer, dies at 60
1965 - Henry D G Crerar, Canadian general (WW I, Normandy), dies at 76
1965 - Helena Rubinstein, Polish-born American cosmetics manufacturer (b. 1870)
1966 - Karl B Adam, German theologist (Jesus Christ), dies at 89
1966 - Flann O'Brien, Irish humorist (b. 1911)
1968 - Lev D Landau, Russian physicist (Nobel 1962), dies at 59
1973 - Arthur Wood, cricket wicket-keeper (England 1938-39), dies
1974 - Alfred Ernest Whitehead, composer, dies at 86
1975 - Eugeen Yoors, Flemish draftsman/glass painter, dies at 95
1976 - Freddie Lennon, father of John Lennon (Beatles), dies at 63
1976 - Max Ernst, German/French surrealist painter/sculptor, dies at 85
1976 - Miroslav Ponc, composer, dies at 73
1976 - S Constantine Timoshenko, Russian marshal, dies at 75
1979 - Marinus Peijnenburg, Dutch politician, dies at 51
1979 - Bruno Coquatrix, French music impresario (b. 1910)
1981 - D[ennis] F[eltham] Jones, sci-fi author (Colossus), dies at 65
1981 - Eua Sunthornsanan, Thai composer and bandleader (b. 1910)
1984 - Marvin Gaye, singer (Sexual Healing), shot to death by his father Marvin Gaye Sr in LA at 44
1985 - Douglass Wallop, American novelist and playwright (b. 1920)
1988 - Jim Jordan, actor (Fibber McGee), dies from a blod clot at 91
1988 - Marius W Holtrop, economist/president (Netherlands Bank), dies at 85
1989 - Henk Gortzak, Dutch MP (CPN/PSP), dies at 57
1991 - Martha Graham, US, choreographer (Appalachian Spring), dies at 96
1991 - Paulo Muwanga, chief of Uganda (1980), dies
1991 - Richard Thorpe, director (MGM), dies at 95
1991 - Jaime Guzmán, Chilean politician (b.1946)
1992 - Juanito, soccer star (Madrid Real 1977-87), dies at 37 in car crash
1993 - Alan Kulwicki, stock car racer, dies in plane crash at 38
1993 - Ihsan Mohamed Salem, [Yunis Awad], Palestinian Al-Fatah leader, killed
1993 - Juan of Borbon y Battemberg, father of king Juan Carlos I, dies
1993 - Wayne Mack, sportscaster/actor (Storyville), dies of cancer at 68
1994 - Leon Degrelle, Belgium general, dies
1994 - Robert Doisneau, French photographer (The Kiss), dies at 81
1994 - Rosalind Laura Burke, aviatrix, dies at 86
1994 - Stuart Sloan, war hero/test pilot, dies at 72
1995 - Cheryl Waltz, author/film producer, dies at 50
1995 - Francisco Moncion, dancer, dies at 73
1995 - Johnny Nicholss, footballer, dies at 63
1995 - Lucie Rie, potter, dies at 93
1995 - Richard Pool, naval Officer, dies at 75
1995 - Sampson DeBrier, actor (Inauguration of Pleasure Dome), dies at 86
1995 - Lucy Rie, American potter (b. 1902)
1995 - H. Adams Carter, American Alpine Club President, 10th Mountain Division trainer (b. 1914)
1996 - Alfredo Nobre Coast, PM of Portugal (1978), dies
1996 - Edwin H "Buddy" Morris, music publisher, dies at 89
1996 - John Alwyne Kitching, zoologist, dies at 87
1996 - John McSheery, dies of heart attack while umpiring a game, at 51
1996 - Mario Viegas, actor (The Jew, Divine Comedy), dies at 47
1996 - Florence Buchsbaum, French theater director (b. 1926)
1996 - John McSherry, American baseball umpire (b. 1944)
1997 - Jolie Gabor, mother of Zsa Zsa & Eva, dies at 97
1997 - Nancy Woodhull, news editor (USA Today), dies of cancer at 52
1998 - Gene Evans, American actor (b. 1922)
1998 - Rozz Williams, American musician (Christian Death) (b. 1963)
1999 - Jesse Stone, American record producer (b. 1901)
2000 - Alexander Mackenzie Stuart, Baron Mackenzie-Stuart, Scottish jurist (b. 1924)
2001 - Olivia Barclay, British astrologer (b. 1919)
2001 - Trinh Cong Son, Vietnamese composer (b. 1939)
2001 - Jo-Jo Moore, American baseball player (b. 1908)
2002 - Simo Hayha, Finnish marksman (b. 1905)
2003 - Leslie Cheung, Hong Kong actor and singer (b. 1956)
2004 - Aaron Bank, American OSS officer and founder of the US Army Special Forces (b. 1902)
2004 - Carrie Snodgress, American actress (b. 1946)
2004 - Nilo Soruco, Bolivian songwriter (b. 1927)
2005 - Alexander Brott, Canadian violinist and composer (b. 1915)
2005 - Harald Juhnke, German entertainer (b. 1929)
2005 - Jack Keller, American songwriter (b. 1936)
2005 - Robert Coldwell Wood, American educator (b. 1923)
2005 - Ioannis Kyrastas, Greek footballer and manager (b. 1952)
2006 - In Tam, Cambodian politician (b. 1916)
2007 - Herb Carneal, American sports broadcaster (b. 1923
2010 - John Forsythe, American actor (b. 1918)
2012 - Giorgio Chinaglia, Italian soccer star, dies from heart attack at 65
2012 - Miguel de la Madrid, Mexican President, dies from complications of pulmonary emphysema at
           77

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 02, 2013, 09:41:55 AM

This Day in History for 2nd April


Historical Events

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Theoretical Physicist Albert Einstein                    Actress Jane Fonda                    Playwright Tennessee Williams

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Israeli Prime Minister                            WWF Wrestler Hulk Hogan


999 - Gerbert of Aurillac elected as 1st French Pope
1416 - Alfonso V succeeds his father as king of Aragon
1453 - Mehmed II begins his siege of Constantinople (İstanbul), which would fall on May 29.
1513 - Florida discovered, claimed for Spain by Ponce de Leon
1550 - Jews are expelled from Genoa Italy
1559 - England/France signs 1st Treaty of Le Cateau-Cambrésis
1559 - Genoa Italy, expels Jews
1590 - States-General appoints earl Mauritius, viceroy of Utrecht
1595 - Cornelis de Houtman's ships depart to Asia through Cape of Good Hope
1645 - Robert Devereux resigns as parliament supreme commander
1745 - Austria & Bavaria sign peace
1755 - Commodore William James captures the pirate fortress of Suvarnadurg on west coast of   
           India.
1792 - US authorizes $10 Eagle, $5 half-Eagle & 2.50 quarter-Eagle gold coins & silver dollar, ½
           dollar, quarter, dime & half-dime
1792 - The Coinage Act is passed establishing the United States Mint.
1800 - 1st performance of Ludwig von Beethoven's 1st Symphony in C
1801 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Copenhagen - The British destroy the Danish fleet.
1804 - Forty merchantmen are wrecked when a convoy led by HMS Apollo runs aground off Portugal.
1819 - 1st successful agricultural journal ("American Farmer") begins
1827 - Joseph Dixon begins manufacturing lead pencils
1845 - H L Fizeau & J Leon Foucault take 1st photo of Sun
1860 - 1st Italian Parliament met at Turin
1863 - Bread revolt in Richmond Virginia
1864 - Skirmish at Crump's Hill (Piney Woods), Louisiana
1864 - Skirmish at Spoonville/Antoine, Arkansas
1865 - Battle of Petersburg, VA (Ft Gregg, Sutherland's Station)
1865 - CSA President Jefferson Davis flees Confederate capital of Richmond, VA
1865 - Battle of Ft Blakely AL & Selma AL
1866 - US President Johnson ends civil war in Ala, Ark, Fla, Ga, Miss, La, NC, SC, Tn & Va
1870 - Victoria Woodhull is 1st woman to be nominated for US pres
1872 - George B Brayton patents gasoline powered engine
1876 - Philadelphia A's & Boston Red Caps play 1st NL game, in Phila
1877 - 1st Easter egg roll held on White House lawn
1878 - 1st issue of Rotterdam's Newspaper
1883 - Battle at Bamako: French assault on Fabous arm forces attack
1884 - London prison for debtors closed
1900 - 1st edition of The Volk published (Amsterdam)
1900 - The Foraker Act passes through Congress, giving Puerto Ricans limited self-rule.
1902 - 1st motion picture theater opens (LA)
1902 - Soccer team MVV '02 forms in Maastricht
1902 - Dmitry Sipyagin, Minister of Interior of the Russian Empire, is assassinated by a terrorist in
           the Marie Palace, St Petersburg.
1902 - "Electric Theatre", the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles,
           California.
1905 - Cairo-Capetown railway opens
1906 - South Africa complete a 4-1 series drubbing of England
1908 - Mills Committee declares baseball was invented by Abner Doubleday
1912 - Sun Yet Sen forms Guomindang-Party in China
1912 - Titanic undergoes sea trials under its own power
1916 - German troops overtake Bois de Caillette
1917 - Jeannette Rankin becomes 1st women member of US House of Reps
1917 - Pres Wilson asks Congress to declare war against Germany
1921 - Prof Albert Einstein lectures in New York City on his new theory of relativity
1926 - Riots between Moslems & Hindus in Calcutta
1930 - 1st NY-Bermuda airplane flight lands in Bermuda
1931 - Teenage girl strikes out Babe Ruth & Lou Gehrig in an exhibition game in Chattanooga,
           Tennessee
1932 - Charles Lindbergh turns over $50,000 as ransom for kidnapped son
1935 - Mary Hirsch, becomes 1st woman licensed as a horse trainer
1935 - Sir Watson-Watt patents RADAR
1939 - 6th Golf Masters Championship: Ralph Guldahl wins, shooting a 279
1941 - German occupier disallows Dutch scouting association
1942 - USS Hornet with Jimmy Doolittles B-25 departs from SF
1944 - CPI-leader Palmiro Togliatti returns to Italy
1944 - Dmitri Shostakovitch' 8th Symphony, premieres in NY
1944 - Soviet Army marches into pro-German Romania
1945 - 1st US units reach east coast of Okinawa
1945 - Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Brazil are established.
1947 - Carlo Terron's "Il diamente del profeta," premieres in Rome
1950 - WTAR (now WTKR) TV channel 3 in Norfolk, VA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 - Raab forms his 1st government in Austria
1954 - Plans to build Disneyland 1st announced [see Jan 26]
1955 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Tenley Albright
1955 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Hayes A Jenkins
1955 - Pancho Gonzales retains tennis title by winning a tournament playing under table tennis rules
1956 - Peter Ustinovs' "Romanoff & Juliet," premieres in Manchester
1956 - Soap operas "As the World Turns" & "Edge of Night" premieres on TV
1958 - Antillean Brewery (Amstel beer) opens
1958 - National Advisory Council on Aeronautics renamed NASA
1958 - Wind speed reaches 450 kph in tornado, Wichita Falls, TX (record)
1960 - Cuba buys oil from USSR
1960 - KPEC TV channel 56 in Lakewood Center-Tacoma, WA (PBS) 1st broadcast
1962 - The first official Panda crossing is opened outside Waterloo station, London.
1963 - Explorer 17 attains Earth orbit (254/914 km)
1963 - USSR launches Luna 4; missed Moon by 8,500 km
1964 - Josef Klaus succeeds Alfons Gorbach as chancellor of Austria
1964 - Military coup in Brazil by Gen Castello Branco, Pres Goulart ousted
1964 - USSR launches Zond 1 to Venus; no data returned
1965 - Hochhuths play "Stellvertreter" banned in Italy
1966 - Soviet Union's Luna 10 becomes 1st spacecraft to orbit Moon
1966 - WJET TV channel 24 in Erie, PA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1967 - Susie Maxwell wins LPGA Louise Suggs Golf Invitational
1968 - Beatles form Python Music Ltd
1968 - Chad creates Union of Central African States
1968 - Senator E Mccarthy wins Democratic primaries in Wisconsin
1969 - Milwaukee Bucks sign (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Lew Alcindor)
1970 - Meghalaya becomes autonomous state within India's Assam state
1970 - Qatar gains independence from Britain
1970 - 2 men begin ascent of south face of Annapurna I, highest final stage in a wall climb in world
1971 - Sci-fi soap opera "Dark Shadows" concludes an almost 5 year run
1972 - 44th Academy Awards - "French Connection," G Hackman & Jane Fonda win
1972 - Prime Minister Begin visits Cairo
1972 - Tennessee Williams' "Small Craft Warnings," premieres in NYC
1973 - CBS radio begins on hour news 24 hours a day
1973 - Ed Kemper stuffs mother's throat in disposal
1973 - ITT pleads guilty to asking CIA to affect Chilean pres election
1973 - Launch of the LexisNexis computerized legal research service.
1974 - 46th Academy Awards - "Stng," Glenda Jackson & Jack Lemmon win
1974 - Arganat Comm publishes report concerning Yom Kippur War
1974 - Tony Greig takes 8-86 v WI Port-of-Spain (later 5-70 in 2nd inn)
1975 - Vietnam War: Thousands of civilian refugees flee from the Quang Ngai Province in front of
           advancing North Vietnamese troops.
1976 - Cambodia Khieu Sampan succeeds prince Sihanouk as premier
1976 - Portuguese constitution assumed
1976 - A's trade prospective free agents Reggie Jackson & Ken Holtzman, to Orioles for Don Baylor,
           Mike Torrez & Paul Mitchell
1977 - Fleetwood Mac's "Rumors," album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 31 weeks
1977 - Mont Canadiens set NHL record of 34 straight home games without a lose
1978 - 7th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Sandra Post
1978 - Basil Williams scores 100 on Test Cricket debut, v Aust Georgetown
1978 - TV show "Dallas" premieres on CBS (as a 5 week mini-series)
1978 - Velcro was 1st put on the market
1979 - Israeli PM Menachem Begin visits Cairo Egypt/meets pres Sadat
1980 - Wayne Gretzky becomes 1st teenager to score 50 goals in a season
1981 - Belgium's 4th government of Martens resigns
1981 - Heavy battle between Christian militia & Syrian army in East Lebanon
1982 - Several thousand Argentine troops seize the Falkland (Malvina) Islands from Great Britain
1982 - In exhibition game A's pitcher Steve McCatty comes to bat using a 15" toy bat (under Billy
           Martins orders), protesting disallowing of DH
1984 - 46th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship: Georgetown beats Houston 84-75
1985 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1986 - 4 US passengers killed by bomb at TWA counter Athens Airport Greece
1986 - George Corley Wallace (Gov-D-Ala) announces retirement plans
1986 - NCAA adopts 3-point basketball rule (19 feet 9 inch distance)
1987 - "Mikado" opens at Virginia Theater NYC for 46 performances
1987 - Doc Gooden undergoes cocaine rehabilitation
1987 - IBM introduces PS/2 & OS/2
1988 - Simply Majestic sets horse racing's 1-1/8 mile record at 1:45
1988 - Test Cricket debut of Curtly Ambrose, WI v Pakistan, Georgetown
1989 - 18th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Juli Inkster
1989 - 8th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Tennessee beats Auburn 76-60
1989 - Wrestlemania V at Trump Plaza, Hulk Hogan beats "Macho Man" Savage
1989 - Yanks beat Mets 4-0, sweeping 1989 mayor's trophy series in 2 games
1990 - 52nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Nevada-LV beats Duke 103-73
1991 - Rotterdam Daily Newspaper begins publishing
1992 - "Hamlet" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 45 performances
1992 - Edith Cresson, France's 1st female premier, resigns
1992 - John Gotti found guilty in death of Paul Castallanos
1992 - Space Shuttle STS-45 (Atlantis 11) lands
1993 - 1st test flight of Fokker 70 (Amsterdam)
1993 - Venezuelan DC-10 crashes at Margarita, killing 10
1994 - 1st exhibition game played at Jacobs Field, Pirates beat Indians, 6-4
1995 - 14th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: U of Ct Huskies beats TN 70-64
1995 - 7th Seniors Golf Tradition: Jack Nicklaus
1995 - Baseball season opener delayed until April 26
1995 - NY Police Dept & NY Transit Police merge into one organization
1995 - North & Western Colorado begins using new area code 970
1995 - Owners accept baseball players proposal, agree to start season 4/26
1995 - Sunday NY Times raises price from $2.00 to $2.50
1995 - Wrestlemania XI in Conn-Lawrence Taylor defeats Bam Bam Bigelow
1996 - Tigers slugger Cecil Fielder steals 1st base in 1,097th career game
1996 - Sri Lanka 9-349 in 50 overs beat Pakistan 315 all out, Singapore Jayasuriya hits ton in 48
           balls, world ODI record at Singapore
1997 - "Doll's House," opens at Belasco Theater NYC
1998 - World Mens Figure Skating Championship in Minn
2000 - 19th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: at Corel State Spectrum
2001 - 63rd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: at Metrodome Minneapolis
2002 - Israeli forces surround the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem into which armed Palestinians
           had retreated. A siege ensues.
2004 - Islamist terrorists involved in the 11 March 2004 Madrid attacks attempt to bomb the Spanish
           high-speed train AVE near Madrid. Their attack is thwarted.
2005 - James Stewart Jr. becomes first African American to win a major motor sports event.
2006 - Over 60 tornadoes break out, hardest hit is Tennessee with 29 people killed.
2012 - Oikos University, Oakland shooting kills seven people and injures 3

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 02, 2013, 09:43:27 AM

This Day in History for 2nd April


Famous Weddings

1836 - English novelist and social critic Charles Dickens (24) marries Catherine Thomson Hogarth
           (20)
1967 - Actress Lynn Redgrave marries John Clark
2004 - Actress Jill Whelan (38) weds Michael Chaykowsky aboard the Caribbean Princess cruise ship
           in Fort Lauderdale, Florida
2006 - NBC "Weekend Today" anchor Campbell Brown (38) weds FOX News contributor Dan Senor
           (34) at the Beaver Creek Chapel in Beaver Creek, Colorado
2011 - Former Alias star Michael Vartan (42) weds Lauren Skaar at Pelican Hill in Newport Beach,
           California
2011 - Grammy Awarded singer Michael Buble (34) weds Argentine actress-model Luisana Lopilato   
          (22) at Villa Maria Paz private mansion near Buenos Aires, Argentina

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 02, 2013, 09:44:33 AM

This Day in History for 2nd April


Famous Divorces

2010 - "Wayne's World" actress Tia Carrere (43) divorces British photojournalist Simon Wakelin due to
           irreconcilable differences after 7 years of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 02, 2013, 09:50:00 AM

This Day in History for 2nd April


Famous Birthdays

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Roman Emperor                             Author Hans Christian Andersen (1805)                Actor Alec Guinness (1914)
Charlemagne (742)


742 - Charlemagne, 1st Holy Roman emperor (800-14)
1348 - Andronikos IV Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1385)
1565 - Cornelis de Houtman, Dutch explorer (d. 1599)
1602 - Maria de Jesus de Agreda, [Maria Coronel], Spanish franciscan
1618 - Francesco M Grimaldi, mathematician/physicist (light defraction)
1628 - Constantin Christian Dedekind, composer
1632 - Georg Caspar Weckler, composer
1653 - Prince George of Denmark, prince consort of Anne of England (d. 1708)
1711 - Jan Punt, Dutch engraver/illustrator/actor (Gideonschool)
1713 - Onno Zwier van Haren, Frisian poet (Fatherland)
1725 - Casanova, writer
1728 - Franz Asplmayr, composer
1733 - Giacomo Tritto, composer
1735 - Christian Gotthilf Tag, composer
1735 - Franz Volrath Buttstett, composer
1740 - Armand-Gaston Camus, French CEO (Council of 500)
1763 - Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari, composer
1781 - Bhagwan Swaminarayan, religious leader (d. 1830)
1788 - Francisco Balagtas, Filipino poet (d. 1862)
1798 - H v Fallersleben, writer
1803 - Franz Paul Lachner, composer
1805 - Hans Christian Andersen, Denmark, author of 150 fairy tales
1806 - Giacomo Antonelli, Italian cardinal/asst sec of state for Pius IX
1812 - Louise-Marie of France, queen of Belgium (d. 1850)
1814 - Henry Lewis "Old Rock" Benning, Brigadier General (Confederate Army
1814 - Erastus Brigham Bigelow, American inventor (d. 1879)
1817 - Teodulo Mabellini, composer
1826 - Philip Dale Roddey, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1897
1827 - William Holman Hunt, Cheapside London, English painter (Light of the World), (d. 1910)
1833 - Thomas Howard Ruger, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1840 - Émile Zola, French novelist and critic (d. 1902)
1862 - Nicholas Murray Butler, US, Columbia U pres/pacifist (Nobel 1931)
1863 - Henry C Van de Velde, Flemish painter/architect (Art Nouveau)
1867 - Eugen Sandow, German bodybuilder and circus performer (d. 1925)
1868 - Eduard Jacobs, singer/pianist (Dutch cabaret)
1875 - Walter Chrysler, Wamego, Kansas, founder of car company Chrysler
1877 - Arnold Schering, German musicologist (Humor, Heldentum, Tragik)
1884 - Sir John Squire, British poet, writer, and historian (d. 1958))
1891 - Max Ernst, Germany, painter/sculptor (founded surrealism)
1894 - Rudolph P Cleveringa, Dutch anti-nazi lawyer
1894 - Walter Mittelholzer, Swiss aviation pioneer (Swiss Air)
1900 - Heinrich Besseler, German musicologist
1900 - Roberto Arlt, Argentine writer (d. 1942)
1901 - Anis Fuleihan, composer
1902 - Danilo Svara, composer
1902 - Jan Tschichold, German typographer (d. 1974)
1903 - Lionel Chevrier, Canadian politician (d. 1987)
1905 - Edmond Jouhaud, general
1905 - Kurt Adler, therapist/writer
1905 - Serge Lifar, Kiev, dancer, choreographer (Paris Opera Ballet)
1907 - Luke Appling, American baseball player (d. 1991)
1908 - Buddy Ebsen, Belleville Il, actor (Beverly Hillbillies, Barnaby Jones)
1909 - Jean Kurt Forest, composer
1910 - Arnie Herber, NFL QB (Green Bay Packers, NY Giants)
1910 - Irene Mayer Selznick, producer (Street Car Named Desire)
1910 - Joeri German, Russian writer
1910 - Paul Triquet, Canadian military officer (d. 1980)
1911 - Charles "Honi" Coles, tap dancer (Tap)
1914 - Alec Guinness, London England, British actor (Bridge on River Kwai)
1915 - Antony Dornhorst, professor of medicine
1915 - Arthur Ballard, artist
1917 - Dabbs Greer, Fairview Mo, actor (Gunsmoke, Little House on Prairie)
1917 - Lou Monte, NJ, singer (Peppino the Italian Mouse)
1919 - Antoon J Hubben, Dutch mayor (Maasbree)/trade union leader
1919 - Ian Hunter, impresario
1920 - Jack Webb, Santa Monica California, actor (Joe Friday-Dragnet)
1922 - Nikolaj G Bassov, Russia, atomic physicist (laser, Nobel 1964)
1923 - Hugh Overton, British diplomat
1923 - Jacob "Jaap" Firet, Dutch theologist (Agogisch Moment)
1923 - Clifford Scott Green, American Federal Judge (d. 2007)
1923 - Gloria Henry, American actress
1924 - Denis Rooke, CEO (British Gas)
1925 - George MacDonald Fraser, poet/author (Flashman at the Charge)
1926 - Elena Verdugo, Hollywood California, actress (Consuelo-Marcus Welby MD)
1926 - Michael Rizzello, sculpter/coin designer
1927 - Billy Pierce, pitcher (Chicago White Sox) seven time all star
1927 - Carmen Basilio, American boxer, (d. 2012)
1927 - Ferenc Puskás, Hungarian footballer (d. 2006)
1928 - Joseph "Cardinal" Bernardin, of Chicago
1928 - Rita Gam, Pittsburgh, actress (Distortions, Hannibal, Sierra Baron)
1928 - Serge Gainsbourg, [Ginsburg], Russian/French singer (Ford Mustang)
1929 - Catherine Gaskin, romantic novelist (Fiona, Coporation Wife)
1929 - Frans H J J Andriessen, Dutch MP (KVP/CDA)
1930 - Girolamo Arriego, composer
1930 - W Hambleden Smith, English newspaper magnate
1931 - Imre Olsvai, composer
1932 - Mahmood Hussain, Pakistani cricket swing bowler (68 wkts in 27 Tests)
1934 - Brian Glover, actor (McGuffin)
1934 - Christopher France, British permanent secretary (Dept of Health)
1934 - Diane Cilento, Rabaul
1934 - Peter Middleton, British permanent secretary (Treasury)
1934 - Paul Joseph Cohen, American mathematician (d. 2007)
1935 - Sharon Acker, Toronto Canada, actress (Della Street-Perry Mason 1973)
1936 - Jack Brabham, Australian race car driver (world champ 1966)
1937 - Paul E Kanjorski, (Rep-D-PA, 1985- )
1938 - John Larsson, 17th General of The Salvation Army
1938 - Whirlaway, American thoroughbred racehorse, 1941 Triple Crown Winner (d. 1953)
1939 - Marvin P Gaye Jr, Wash DC, singer (Sexual Healing)
1939 - Lise Thibault, Lieutenant-governor of Quebec
1940 - Penelope Keith, British actress (Norman Conquests, Priest of Love)
1940 - Peter Haining, writer/editor (Anatomy of Witchcraft)
1941 - Leon Russell, Lawton KS, pianist/singer (Carny)
1942 - Graham Bright, private sec to British PM
1942 - Hiroyuki Sakai, Japanese chef
1942 - Roshan Seth, Indian actor
1943 - Glen Dale, [Richard Garforth], rock vocalist (Fortunes Deal)
1943 - Larry Coryell, Galveston Tx, jazz guitarist (11th House)
1945 - Don Sutton, baseball pitcher (LA Dodgers)
1945 - Linda Hunt, Morristown NJ, actress (Bostonians, Eleni, Silverado)
1945 - Lord Skelmersdale, British minister (C)
1945 - Anne Waldman, American poet
1946 - Kurt Winter, rocker (Guess Who)
1946 - Lynda Carr, educationist
1946 - Richard Collinge, cricketer (NZ rec wicket-taker (116) before Hadlee)
1947 - Camille Paglia, Endicott NY, actress (Female Misbehavior, It's Pat)
1947 - Emmylou Harris, Birmingham Alabama, country singer (Together Again)
1948 - Eleanor Margaret Burbridge, astronomer/educator
1948 - Joan [Carol] D[ennison] Vinge, US, sci-fi author (2 Hugos, Dune)
1948 - Marlene Floyd, LPGA golfer
1948 - Dimitris Mitropanos, Greek singer
1949 - Pamela Reed, Tacoma WA, actress (Grand, Kindergarten Cop, Home Court)
1949 - Paul Gambaccini, British disc jockey
1951 - Ayako Okamoto, Hiroshima Japan, LPGA golfer (1990 Sara Lee)
1951 - Moriteru Ueshiba, Japanese martial artist
1952 - Dan Halldorson, Winnipeg, Canadian Tour golfer (1985 World Cup)
1952 - Joseph Kent Massey, Oklahoma City OK, soling yachter (Oly-bronze-1996)
1952 - Leon Wilkerson, rocker (Lynard Skynard)
1952 - Thierry Le Luron, French humorist (d. 1986)
1953 - David Robinson, drummer (Cars)
1953 - Debralee Scott, Elizabeth NJ, actress (Cathy-Mary Hartman, Angie)
1953 - Jim Allister, Northern Irish politician
1954 - Ron Palillo, Ct, actor (Arnold Horshack-Welcome Back Kotter), (d. 2012)
1954 - Susumu Hirasawa, Japanese electropop musician
1955 - Michael Stone, British terrorist
1956 - Farrukh Zaman, lefty cricket spinner (bowled 10 overs Pak v NZ 1976)
1959 - Adrian Meagher, Australian baseball pitching coach (Olympics-1996)
1959 - Brian Goodell, US, 400m/1500m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-2 gold-1976)
1959 - Carmen Ayala-Troncoso, NYC, 5K runner
1959 - Dean Townson, St Petersburg Fla, singer (Pirates of Miss-Fred Jake)
1959 - Gelindo Bordin, Italian marathon runner (Olympic-gold-1988)
1959 - Ken Macleay, cricketer (at Bedford-on-Avon Aussie ODI medium pacer)
1959 - Victoria Jackson, Miami Florida, comedian (SNL, Casual Sex)
1959 - Badou Zaki, Morrocan footballer and manager
1959 - Juha Kankkunen, Finnish race car driver
1959 - Yves Lavandier, French film director
1960 - Linford Christie, St Andrews Jamaica, 4x100m runner (Oly-gold 1992
1961 - Cindy Mackey, Athens GA, LPGA golfer (1986 MasterCard Intl Pro-Am)
1961 - Gijs Steinmann, Dutch soccer player (Go Ahead Eagles)
1961 - Keren Jane Woodward, Bristol England, rock vocalist (Bananarama-Venus)
1961 - Christopher Meloni, American actor
1962 - Alex Tripolski, Israel, Men's Shooting 50M air pistol (Oly-16th-1996)
1962 - Billy Dean, Quincy Fla, country singer (Billy the Kid)
1962 - Bruce Kozerski, NFL tackle/guard (Cin Bengals)
1962 - Pierre Carles, French documentarist
1962 - Clark Gregg, American actor
1962 - Mark Shulman, American children's author
1963 - Dermot Reeve, cricketer (in Hong Kong England all-rounder 1992)
1963 - Mike Gascoyne, British engineer
1963 - Karl Beattie, English television director and producer
1964 - Pete Incaviglia, Pebble Beach CA, outfielder (Philadelphia Phillies)
1965 - Rodney King, Sacramento California, black motorist beaten by LA cops, (d. 2012)
1966 - Andrei Kovalev, NHL forward (Belarus, Olympics-98)
1966 - Bill Romanowski, NFL linebacker (Eagles, Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1966 - Willie Green, NFL wide reciever (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1966 - Teddy Sheringham, English footballer
1966 - Garnet Silk, Jamaican singer (d. 1994)
1967 - Greg Camp, American musician (Smash Mouth)
1967 - Helen Chamberlain, British television presenter
1969 - Yj Nagata, [Yuji], wrestler (NJPW)
1970 - Jerry Reynolds, NFL guard/tackle (NY Giants)
1970 - Jon Lieber, Council Bluffs IA, pitcher (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1970 - Marcus Christensen, Toronto Ontario, figure skater (1995 Canadian-2nd)
1970 - Tammi Reiss, WNBA guard (Utah Starzz)
1970 - Roselyn Sanchez, Puerto Rican actress
1971 - James Ransom, Toronto Ontario, Epee fencer (Olympics-96)
1971 - Jenny Craig, Miss Georgia USA (1996)
1971 - Todd Woodbridge, Sydney Australia, tennis star ('95 doubles Wimbledon)
1971 - ZEEBRA, Japanese hip hop artist
1972 - Graham Hood, Winnipeg Manitoba, 1.5k runner (Olympics-9-92, 96)
1972 - Chico Slimani, Moroccoan-British singer
1974 - Håkan Hellström, Swedish musician
1975 - Deedee Magno, rocker (Party-Rodeo, That's Why)
1975 - Adam Rodriguez, American actor
1976 - Rory Sabbatini, South African golfer
1977 - Jelena Abbou, Serbian fitness model
1977 - Michael Fassbender, Actor
1977 - Aiden Turner, British actor
1978 - John Gall, American baseball player
1979 - Jesse Carmichael, American musician (Maroon 5)
1980 - Carlos Salcido, Mexican footballer
1980 - Adam Fleming, English news reporter
1980 - Ricky Hendrick, NASCAR driver and owner (d. 2004)
1981 - Michael Clarke, Australian cricketer
1981 - Bethany Joy Lenz-Galeotti, American actress
1982 - Bianca Chatfield, Australian netballer
1982 - Marco Amelia, Italian World Cup-winning footballer
1982 - Jeremy Bloom, American skier and football player
1982 - Jack Evans, American professional wrestler
1982 - Leyla Milani, Canadian actress and model
1983 - Felix Borja, Ecuadorian footballer
1983 - Paul Capdeville, Chilean tennis player
1983 - Yung Joc, American rapper
1984 - Meryl Cassie, New Zealand actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 02, 2013, 09:54:32 AM

This Day in History for 2nd April


Famous Deaths

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Inventor Samuel Morse (1872)                            French President                          Jazz Drummer/Band Leader
                                                                  Georges Pompidou (1974)                                 Buddy Rich (1987)


1118 - Boudouin I, of Bologne/Edessa, 1st crusader/king of Jerusalem, dies
1272 - Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1209)
1335 - Duke Henry of Carinthia (b. circa 1265)
1412 - Ruy Gonzáles de Clavijo, Spanish traveler and writer (b. ?)
1416 - Ferdinand I, the Justified, king of Aragon/Sicily, dies at 52
1502 - Arthur, English crown prince/husband of Catharina of Aragon, dies
1507 - Francis of Paola, Italian founder of the Order of the Minims (b. 1416)
1640 - Matthias C Sarbiewski, [Sarbievius], Polish jesuit/poet, dies at 45
1657 - Ferdinand III, King of Hungarian/Bohemia/German Emperor, dies at 48
1657 - Jean-Jacques Olier - French catholic priest, founder of the Society of Saint-Sulpice (b. 1608)
1705 - Johann Lohner, composer, dies at 59
1720 - Joseph Dudley, colonial Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1647)
1742 - James Douglas, Scottish physician and anatomist (b. 1675)
1747 - Johann J Dillenius, German botanist, dies at 63
1754 - Thomas Carte, English historian (b. 1686)
1758 - Johann Balthasar Konig, composer, dies at 67
1784 - Pierre Leclair, composer, dies at 74
1787 - Thomas Gage, British general (b. 1719)
1791 - Mirabeau, French statesman (b. 1749)
1801 - Thomas Dadford Junior, British canal engineer (b. circa 1761)
1803 - Hieronymus van Alphen, Dutch attorney/poet (church hymns), dies at 56
1817 - Johann Heinrich Jung, German author (b. 1740)
1827 - Ludwig Heinrich Bojanus, German physician and naturalist (b. 1776)
1831 - Charles Felix, blind King of Sardina (1821-31), dies at 74
1845 - Philip Charles Durham, Royal Navy Admiral (b. 1763)
1852 - Theodor Althaus, writer, dies
1865 - Ambrose Powell Hill, Confederate general, killed in action at 39
1865 - Richard Cobden, founder Anti-Corn-Law League, dies at 60
1872 - Samuel Morse developer of electric telegraph, dies at 80
1876 - Paul van Vlissingen, Dutch ship owner, dies at 78
1890 - Marinus FAG Campbell, bibliographer, dies at 70
1892 - Willem J d'Ablaing van Giessenburg, Dut baron/genealogist, dies at 79
1902 - Esther Morris, suffragist and first female American judge (b. 1814)
1910 - Boyd Alexander, English explorer (Niger to the Nile), murdered at 37
1910 - Friedrich von Bodelschwingh, German theologist, dies at 79
1914 - Paul von Heyse, German writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1830)
1922 - Hermann Rorschach, Swiss psychologist (b. 1884)
1928 - Theodore Richards, US chemist (atomic weight, Nobel 1914), dies
1930 - Empress Zauditu of Ethiopia (b. 1876)
1932 - Hugo Kaun, composer, dies at 69
1933 - K S Ranjitsinhji, cricketer (989 Test runs, 1st-class avg 56), dies
1936 - Jean-Baptiste Eugène Estienne, French general (b. 1860)
1937 - Nathan Birnbaum, Austria philosopher (Zionism), dies at about 72
1938 - Alice Berend, writer, dies
1941 - Paul Teleki, premier Hungary, dies
1944 - Mikulas Moyzes, composer, dies at 71
1947 - Joseph Hardstaff, cricket (311 runs in 5 Tests for Eng 1907-08), dies
1951 - Simon Barere, pianist, dies while perfoming at Carnegie Hall
1952 - Bernard F Lyot, Fren astronomer (chronograph, Lyot-filter), dies at 55
1953 - Jean Epstein, French director (Vive la Vie), dies at 56
1956 - Albert MLA de Bassompierre, Belgium ambassador to Tokyo, dies at 82
1956 - Chester Clute, actor (Niagara Falls), dies at 65
1956 - Philippo de Pisis, Italian painter, dies at 59
1958 - Josei Toda, Japanese second president of the Buddhist association Soka Gakkai (b. 1900)
1959 - Benjamin Christensen, Danish actor (Barnet, Mockery), dies at 79
1961 - August Defresne, Dutch director (Anno Christi 969), dies at 67
1961 - Wallingford Riegger, US composer (Bacchangle), dies at 75
1965 - Renzo Bossi, composer, dies at 81
1966 - Cecil Scott Forester, English author (Horatio Hornblower), dies at 66
1969 - Fortunio Bonanova, actor (My Best Gal, Havana Rose), dies at 74
1972 - Gil Hodges, manager (NY Mets), dies of heart attack at 57
1972 - Franz Halder, German general (b. 1884)
1972 - Toshitsugu Takamatsu, Japanese Martial Arts Grandmaster (b. 1887)
1974 - Douglass Dumbrille, actor (Mr Deed Goes to Town), dies at 84
1974 - Georges Pompidou, French president, dies in Paris at 62
1976 - Ray Teal, actor (Sheriff Roy Coffee-Bonanza), dies at 74
1979 - Carroll D Rosenbloom, LA Rams president, dies at 72
1979 - Ivan Barrow, cricketer (11 Tests for West Indies 1930-39), dies
1980 - Dick Howorth, cricketer (Engld slow lefty all-rounder late 40's), dies
1987 - Buddy Rich, drummer/orchestra leader (Away We Go), dies at 69
1990 - Aldo Fabrizi, actor (Postman Goes to War, Open City), dies at 85
1992 - Paula Kelly, singer/actress (Sweet Charity), dies at 72
1992 - Tomisaburo Wakayama, Japanese actor (b. 1929)
1993 - Eugenie Leontovitch, actress (4 Sons, Homicidal), dies at 93
1993 - Klaas Schenk, Dutch speed skater/coach/father of Ard, dies at 86
1994 - Richard Davies, actor (Pvt Buckaroo), dies of heart attack at 79
1995 - Hannes Alfven, physicist (Nobel prize), dies at 86
1995 - Harvey Penick, premier golf instructor/author, dies at 90
1995 - Julius Arthur Hemphill, saxophonist, dies at 57
1997 - Tomoyuki Tanaka, producer (Godzilla), dies of a stroke at 86
1998 - Rob Pilatus, American model and entertainer (Milli Vanilli) (b. 1965)
2000 - Tommaso Buscetta, Sicilian mafioso and pentito (b. 1928)
2001 - Charles Daudelin, Canadian artist (b. 1920)
2001 - Jennifer Syme, American actress (b. 1972)
2003 - Edwin Starr, American singer (b. 1942)
2004 - John Argyris, Greek aeronautical engineer (b. 1913)
2005 - Pope John Paul II, Polish Roman Catholic Pope (b. 1920)
2006 - Nina Schenk von Stauffenberg, German wife of Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg (b. 1913)
2010 - Mike Cuellar, Cuban baseball player (b. 1937)
2010 - Chris Kanyon, American wrestler (b. 1970)
2012 - Elizabeth Catlett, American-born Mexican artist, dies at 96

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 03, 2013, 04:48:30 PM

This Day in History for 3rd April


Historical Events

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Outlaw Jesse James                            Soviet Union Premier Joseph Stalin        33rd US President Harry Truman

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Beat Poet Allen Ginsberg                            Dictator Fidel Castro                          Chess Champion Bobby Fischer

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Actress Diane Keaton                          Radio shock jock Howard Stern


419 - [Etalius] ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1043 - Edward the Confessor crowned king of England
1077 - The first Parliament of Friuli is created.
1312 - 2nd council of Vienna
1376 - Battle of Navarrete (Najera), English beat France
1559 - Spain & France signs 2nd Treaty of Le Cateau-Cambrésis
1582 - French van Valois honored as duke of Gelre/earl of Zutphen
1645 - English parliament accept Self-Denying Ordinance
1657 - English Lord Protector Cromwell refuses crown
1679 - Edmund Halley meets Johannes Hevelius in Danzig
1721 - Robert Walpole becomes England's 1st Lord of the Treasury
1764 - Austrian arch duke Jozef crowned himself Roman Catholic king
1776 - Washington receives honorary Ll.D. degree from Harvard College
1783 - Sweden & US sign a treaty of Amity & Commerce
1790 - Revenue Marine Service (US Coast Guard), created
1834 - The generals in the Greek War of Independence stand trial for treason.
1848 - Thomas Douglas becomes 1st SF public teacher
1856 - Gunpowder in church explodes killing 4,000 in Rhodos
1860 - Pony Express began between St Joseph Mo & Sacramento Calif
1864 - Skirmish at Okolona, Arkansas
1865 - Battle at Namozine Church, Virginia (Appomattox Campaign)
1865 - Union forces occupy Confederate capital of Richmond Va & Petersberg
1868 - An Hawaiian surfs on highest wave ever, he rides a 50' tidal wave
1882 - Wood block alarm invented, when alarm rang, it dropped 20 wood blocks
1882 - American Old West: Outlaw Jesse James is killed by Robert Ford.
1889 - Savings Bank of Order of True Reformers opens in Richmond, Va
1893 - 1st NSW v Queensland F-C game, at Brisbane Exhibition Ground
1908 - Frank Gotch wins world heavyweight wrestling championship in 2 hrs
1910 - Highest mountain in North America, Alaska's Mt McKinley climbed
1911 - Harry James Smith' "Mrs Bumsted-Leigh," premieres in NYC
1913 - British suffragette Emily Pankhurst sentenced to 3 years in jail
1917 - Lenin arrives in Petrograd from Switzerland [NS=April 16]
1917 - Lenin leaves Switzerland for Petrograd
1918 - House of Reps accepts American Creed written by William Tyler
1919 - Austria expels all Habsburgers
1922 - Stalin appointed General Secretary of Communist Party
1923 - 2 "Black Sox" sue White Sox (unsuccessfully) for back salary
1925 - Great Britain goes back to gold standard
1925 - Neth & Belgium sign accord of Westerschelde
1926 - 1st performance of Jean Sibelius' 7th Symphony in C
1926 - 2nd flight of a liquid-fueled rocket by Robert Goddard
1926 - Italy establishes corp of force in order to break powerful unions
1927 - Interstate Commerce Comm transfers Ohio to Eastern time zone
1929 - Persia agrees to Litvinov Pact
1929 - RMS Queen Mary is ordered from John Brown & Company Shipbuilding and Engineering by
           Cunard Line.
1930 - Ras Tafari becomes Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
1930 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens sweep Boston Bruins in 2 games
1933 - 1st airplane flight over Mt Everest
1933 - Then longest North American hockey game requires a 1:44:46 overtime as Maple Leaf Ken
           Doraty scores to beat Canadiens 1-0
1935 - Yasuo Ikenada runs world record marathon (2:26:44)
1936 - Al Carr KOs Lew Massey on 1 punch, :07 of 1st round
1936 - Shortest boxing bout with gloves lasts only 10 seconds
1941 - Churchill warns Stalin of German invasion
1941 - Rasjid al-Gailani forms pro-German regime in Iraq
1941 - Waltons overture "Scapino," premieres in Chicago
1943 - Jan Dieters (leader of illegal CPN) arrested
1944 - British dive bombers attack battle cruiser Tirpitz
1944 - Supreme Court (Smith v Allwright) "white primaries" unconstitutional
1945 - Hengelo freed from nazi control by Canadian army
1945 - Nazi's begin evacuation of camp Buchenwald
1945 - US 1st army conquers Hofgeismar
1946 - Neth-German postal relations resume
1947 - "Barefoot Boy with Cheek" opens at Martin Beck NYC for 108 perfs
1948 - 1st US figure skating championships held
1948 - Harry Harry Truman signs Marshall Plan ($5B aid to 16 European countries)
1948 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Gretchen Merrill
1948 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button
1949 - KQW-AM in San Francisco CA changes call letters to KCBS
1949 - North Atlantic Treaty, pact signed by US, Britain, France & Canada
1949 - WLWS (now WCMH) TV channel 4 in Columbus, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting
1951 - Christopher Fry's "Sleep of Prisoners," premieres in Oxford
1952 - Dutch Queen Juliana speaks to US Congress
1954 - "Me & Juliet" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 358 performances
1954 - Don Perry climbs a 20' rope in under 2.8 seconds (AAU record)
1955 - Balt Orioles pull their 1st triple play (3-6-2 vs KC Athletics)
1955 - Fire in cinema to Sclessin Belgium, kills 39
1955 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Oklahoma City Golf Open
1955 - Night express train in Guadalajara derails, killing 300
1955 - The American Civil Liberties Union announces it will defend Allen Ginsberg's book Howl against
           obscenity charges.
1956 - "Silk Stockings" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 461 performances
1956 - Bulgarian vice premier Traitsjo Kostov rehabilitated
1956 - German war criminals Hinrichsen/Ruhl/Siebens/Viebahn freed
1956 - Hudsonville-Standale Tornado: The western half of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan is struck
           by a deadly F5 tornado.
1957 - Samuel Beckett's "Endgame," premieres in London
1957 - USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
1958 - "Say, Darling" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 332 performances
1958 - Fidel Castro's rebels attacked Havana
1960 - Earthquake at Havre, Belgium
1961 - "Happiest Girl in the World" opens at Martin Beck NYC for 97 perfs
1961 - Connie Mack Stadium in Phila is sold to J Schleifer Properties
1962 - Jockey Eddie Arcaro retires after 31 years (24,092 races)
1962 - Lt General Marshall S Carter, USA, becomes deputy director of CIA
1964 - Beatles hold top 6 spots on Sydney Australia record charts
1964 - US & Panama agree to resume diplomatic relations
1965 - 1st atomic powered spacecraft (snap) launched
1966 - Luna 10 orbits Moon
1966 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Venice Ladies Golf Open
1966 - Tom Seaver, signs with the Mets for a reported $50,000 bonus
1967 - WNYE TV channel 25 in Brooklyn, NY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1967 - 113 East Europeans attending World Amateur hockey championships in Vienna, ask for
           political asylum
1968 - N Vietnam agrees to meet US reps to set up preliminary peace talks
1969 - Vietnam War: U.S. Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announces that the United States will
           start to "Vietnamize" the war effort.
1970 - Miriam Hargrave of England passes her drivers test on 40th try
1973 - The first portable cell phone call is made in New York City, United States.
1974 - 148 tornadoes are reported over an area covering a dozen states
1974 - Gold hits record $197 an ounce in Paris
1974 - Tornadoes in the east, south & midwest killed approximately 315
1974 - The Super Outbreak occurs, the biggest tornado outbreak in recorded history. The death toll
           is 315, with nearly 5,500 injured.
1975 - Bobby Fischer stripped of world chess title for refusing to defend
1975 - James Rupers kills his family to inherit
1976 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1976 - Phila Flyers win record tying 20th straight NHL home game
1977 - 6th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Kathy Whitworth
1977 - Boston Bruin Jean Ratelle scores his 1,000th NHL point
1977 - Egyptian Pres Anwar Sadat 1st meeting with President Jimmy Carter
1977 - Netherlands/Belgium/Luxembourg adopt summer time
1978 - 50th Academy Awards - "Annie Hall," Rich Dreyfuss & Diane Keaton win
1978 - European market & China signs trade agreement
1978 - Larry King moves his radio show from Miami to Washington DC
1979 - Belgium's Martens government forms
1979 - Jane M Byrne (D), elected 1st woman mayor of Chicago Ill
1980 - France performs nuclear test
1980 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1981 - Arnie Boldt of Saskatchewan jumped 6' 8.25," with 1 leg
1981 - Race riots in London's Brixton area
1982 - Buffalo Sabre Gil Perrault scores his 1,000th NHL point
1982 - UN Security Council demanded Argentina withdraw from Falkland Islands
1983 - 12th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Amy Alcott
1983 - 2nd NCAA Womens Basketball Championship: South Cal beats LA Tech 69-67
1984 - Bombay beat Delhi on 1st innings to win Ranji Trophy
1984 - Guinea suspends constitution after coup
1984 - Soyuz T-11 carries 3 cosmonauts (1 Indian-Rakesh Sharma) to Salyut 7
1985 - French government adopts equal electoral system
1985 - Players' Association agrees to expand LCS from 5 to 7 games
1985 - Vic Elliot pocketed 15,780 pool balls in 24 hours in London
1986 - Maureen O'Boyle (future host of Current Affair) is raped
1986 - US national debt hits $2,000,000,000,000
1987 - Bill Elliott sets NASCAR qualify record of 212.809 mph at Talladega
1987 - Cubs trade Dennis Eckersley to A's for 3 minor leaguers
1987 - Duchess of Windsors jewels auctioned for £31,380,197
1987 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1988 - 17th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Amy Alcott
1988 - 7th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Louisiana Tec beat Auburn 56-54
1988 - Mario Lemieux wins NHL scoring title, stopping Gretzky's 7 year streak
1988 - NJ Devils beat Blackhawks, 4-3 in OT to join playoffs for 1st time
1988 - Somalia & Ethiopia sign accord about Ogaden desert
1988 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1989 - "Sunrise" a Gannett newspaper begins publishing for Bronx
1989 - 51st NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Mich beats Seton Hall 80-79 (OT)
1989 - Mets win 11th consecutive home opener 8-4 over St Louis at Shea Stad
1991 - "Penn & Teller - Refrigerator Tour" opens at Eugene O'Neill NYC
1991 - 12th Emmy Sports Award presentation
1991 - Bo Jackson signs 1-year contract with Chicago White Sox
1991 - Thomas Bos skates world record 3 km (3:65.16)
1991 - UN Security Council adopts Gulf War truce resolution
1992 - 1st exhibition game at Camden Field-Orioles beat NY Mets
1994 - 13th NCAA Women Basketball Championship: NC beats Louisiana Tech 60-59
1994 - 1st roster of Silver Bullets (all-female pro baseball team) announced
1994 - 6th Seniors Golf Tradition: Ray Floyd
1995 - 57th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA Bruins beats Arkansas 89-78
1995 - Howard Stern gets in trouble for disparaging remarks about Selena
1996 - South Australia grab exciting draw vs W A to win Sheffield Shield
1996 - St Francis Fighting Saints scores college baseball run record 71-1
1997 - "Dream-Johnny Mercer Musical," opens at Royale NYC for 109 performance
1997 - Thalit massacre begins in Algeria; all but 1 of the 53 inhabitants of Thalit are killed by
           guerrillas.
1998 - World Ice Dance Figure Skating Championship in Minn
2000 - 62nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: at RCA Dome Indianapolis
2004 - Islamic terrorists involved in the 11 March 2004 Madrid attacks are trapped by the police in
           their apartment and kill themselves.
2007 - Conventional-Train World Speed Record: a French TGV train on the LGV Est high speed line
           sets an official new world speed record.
2009 - Australia formally adopts the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
2012 - Spanish unemployment reaches record high, youth unemployment stands at 50%
2012 - Moscow fire kills 17 migrant workers
2012 - US President Barack Obama officially secures Democratic presidential nomination

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 03, 2013, 04:49:48 PM

This Day in History for 3rd April


Famous Weddings

1920 - Novelist and short story writer Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (23) weds novelist Zelda Sayre
           (19) at New York's St. Patrick's Cathedral
2010 - "Love and Theft" country trio Eric Gunderson weds Emily Hagar (24) at sunset on the front
            porch of the historic Hazel Path mansion in Hendersonville, Tennessee
2012 - Paramore guitar player Josh Farro (22) weds Jenna Rice in Tennessee

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 03, 2013, 04:55:59 PM

This Day in History for 3rd April


Famous Birthdays

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Actor Marlon Brando (1924)                        Actor Alec Baldwin (1958)                  Actor Eddie Murphy (1961)


1151 - Igor Svyatoslavich, Ukrainian prince (d. 1202)
1245 - Philips III, the Stout, King of France (1270-85)
1367 - Henry IV, Bolingbroke Lincolnshire, King of England (1399-1413)
1438 - John III van Egmont, [Manke John], viceroy of Holland
1485 - Lieven van der Maude [Ammonius], South Netherland poet
1529 - Michael Neander, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1581)
1569 - Giovanni Battista Massarengo, composer
1593 - George Herbert, English metaphysical poet (5 Mystical Songs)
1603 - William Smith, composer
1617 - Antimo Liberati, composer
1627 - Johann Caspar Kerll, composer
1649 - Joseph-Francois Salomon, composer
1682 - Johann Valentin Rathgeber, German benedictine/composer
1683 - Mark Catesby, English naturalist (d. 1749)
1693 - George Edwards, English naturalist (d. 1773)
1715 - William Watson, English physician and scientist (d. 1787)
1720 - Elia van Vilnius, [Elijahu ben Salomo Zalman], Latvian rabbi
1727 - Philippe-Lambert-Joseph Spruyt, Flemish painter/engraver
1751 - Jean-Baptiste Lamoyne, composer
1757 - Ferenc Verseghy, composer
1764 - John Abernethy, London, surgeon
1769 - Christian Günther von Bernstorff, Danish and Prussian statesman and diplomat (d. 1835)
1770 - Theodoros Kolokotronis, Greek general (d. 1843)
1783 - Washington Irving, US writer (Legend of Sleepy Hollow)
1798 - Charles D Wilkes, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1877
1806 - Ivan Kireevsky, Russian literary critic and philosopher (d. 1856)
1812 - Louisa Maria, Queen of the Belgians (1832-50/wife of Leopold I)
1814 - Lorenzo Snow, 5th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the LDS or
           Mormon Church) (d. 1901)
1821 - T. Pelham Dale, Anglican clergyman prosecuted for Ritualist practices in the 1870s (d. 1892)
1822 - Edward Everett Hale, US, clergyman/author (Man without a Country)
1823 - William Macy "Boss" Tweed, corrupt political boss (NYC)
1825 - Adolf Rzepko, composer
1837 - John Burroughs, writer/nature enthusiast (Burroughs Medal namesake)
1838 - Leon Michel Gambetta, French attorney/premier (1881-82)
1842 - Ulric Dahlgren, Col (Union volunteers), died in 1864
1858 - Matthew Ricketts, 1st Black man elected to Neb State Legislature
1859 - Reginald De Koven, composer
1860 - Frederik W van Eeden, Dutch utopian writer (Walden)
1866 - James B Hertzog, South African general/premier (1914-39)
1871 - Jose Juan Tablada, Mexican poet (El Florilegio)
1874 - Eduardo Sanchez de Fuentes, composer
1881 - Alcide de Gasperi, Italian premier (1945..53)
1881 - Margaret MJ "Daisy" Ashford, English author (Young Sisters)
1882 - Simon Elzinga, Dutch educator
1884 - Jackie Matthews, cricketer (Aust leg-spinner, two hat-tricks 1912)
1885 - Harry St John Philby, [sheik Abdullah], British explorer
1885 - Bud Fisher, American cartoonist (d. 1954)
1888 - Neville Cardus, cricketer (doyen of cricket writers)
1889 - Grigoras Dinicu, composer
1893 - Leslie Howard, [Stainer], London, actor (Gone With the Wind)
1893 - Princess Maud of Fife (d. 1945)
1894 - Dooley Wilson, Tyler Tx, actor (Bill-Beulah, Casablanca)
1895 - Bjarne Brustad, composer
1895 - Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Firenze (Florence) Italy, composer
1896 - Douwe Kalma, Dutch literary/leader (Young Frisian Movement)
1898 - George Jessel, toastmaster general/entertainer (Diary of Young Comic)
1898 - Henry R Luce, Tengchow China, publisher (Time, Fortune, Life)
1899 - Cees Lasseur, Dutch actor/owner (Hague Comedy)
1899 - David Jack, English footballer (d. 1958)
1900 - Camille Chamoun, president of Lebanon
1902 - Henri Garat, Paris France, actor (Congress Dances)
1902 - Siguringi Eirikur Hjorleifsson, composer
1903 - Peter Huchel, writer
1904 - Iron Eyes Cody, Tulsa OK, actor (Black Gold, Ernest Goes to Camp)
1904 - Peter Van Steeden, Amsterdam Neth, orchestra leader (Break the Bank)
1904 - Russel Wright, American industrial designer (d. 1976)
1905 - Robert Frederick Sink, United States Army Officer (d. 1965)
1906 - Kathleen Tillotson, Emeritus Professor of English (Bedford College)
1907 - Isaac Deutscher, Polish/English historian (Stalin/Trotsky biography)
1911 - Harold Watkins Shaw, musicologist
1911 - Michael Woodruff, FRS, surgeon
1911 - W R Lee, language teacher
1912 - Addeke H Boerma, Dutch dir-gen (FAO)
1912 - Bert Bakker, Dutch publisher (Free Netherlands)
1913 - F H Tate, vice-CEO (Tate & Lyle)
1913 - George Barati, composer
1913 - Per Borten, Premier of Norway (d. 2005)
1914 - Katherine Stammers Menzies, England, doubles tennis player (Wimb 1935)
1915 - Paul Touvier, war criminal
1916 - Herb Caen, Sacramento California, columnist (SF Chronicle)
1916 - Robert Jesse Charleston, museum Curator
1917 - Bill Finegan, Newark NJ, (Sauter-Finegan Band, Sat Night Revue)
1917 - Tibor Andrasovan, composer
1918 - Enrique Iturriaga, composer
1918 - Louis Applebaum, composer
1918 - Sixten Ehrling, Malmö Sweden, conductor (Royal Opera of Stockholm)
1919 - Duke of Grafton, KG
1920 - Stan Freeman, Waterbury Conn, pianist (Melody Tour)
1920 - John Demjanjuk, Ukrainian-born American auto worker, alleged Nazi and convicted war
           criminal (under appeal at death), (d. 2012)
1921 - Harry Landers, NYC, actor (Ted Hoffman-Ben Casey)
1921 - Robert Karvelas, American actor (d. 1991)
1921 - Jan Sterling, American actress (d. 2004)
1923 - Jan Sterling, NYC, actress (1st Monday in October, HS Confidential)
1923 - John Smith, English large landowner/financier/MP (C)
1924 - Canon A D Caesar, Sub Dean (HM Chapels Royal)
1924 - Doris Day, Cincinnati Oh, "girl next door" actress (Pillow Talk)
1924 - Marlon Brando, Omaha Neb, actor (Superman, Godfather)
1924 - Murray Dickie, opera singer/director
1925 - Tony Benn, British minister of technology (1968)
1926 - Andrew Keir, actor (Rob Roy, Absolution, Blood Hunt, Catholics)
1926 - Virgil Grissom, Mitchell Ind, Lt Col USAF/astronaut (Merc 4, Gemini 3)
1926 - Alex Grammas, American baseball player
1927 - Wesley Brown, Baltimore, Maryland, 1st African American US Naval Academy graduate, (d.
           2012)
1928 - Don Gibson, American country musician (d. 2003)
1928 - Kevin Hagen, American actor (d. 2005)
1928 - Jennifer Paterson, English chef and TV personality (d. 1999)
1929 - Dennis Farr, director (Courtauld Institute Galleries)
1929 - Miyoshi Umeki, Jap, actr (Mrs Livingston-Courtship of Eddie's Father)
1929 - Lee Leonard, American television personality
1930 - Helmut Kohl, chancellor (Germany, 1982- )
1930 - Lawton Chiles, (sen/gov-D-Florida, 1971-89/91- )
1930 - Max Frankel, journalist (Tables of Id of Organic Compounds)
1930 - Wally Moon, American baseball player
1931 - Johnny Nicholss, soccer star
1932 - Janet Bately, Prof of English Language (King's College London)
1932 - Nourse, British lord justice
1933 - Robert K Dornan, (Rep-R-CA, 1977-83, 85- )
1934 - David Jones, British reverend/headmaster (Bryanston School)
1934 - Jane Goodall, London England, ethologist (studied African chimps)
1934 - Jim Parker, NFL guard, tackle (Baltimore Colts)
1934 - John Lelliott, English contractor/multi-millionaire
1935 - Jeffery Bowman, CEO (Price Waterhouse Europe)
1936 - Scott LaFaro, American musician (d. 1961)
1936 - Jimmy McGriff, American jazz organist
1936 - Reginald Hill, British crime author (Andrew Dalziel and Peter Pascoe novels)
1937 - Sandra Spuzich, LPGA golfer
1937 - Simon Brown, British high court judge
1937 - William Gaunt, Leeds England, actor (Champions)
1938 - Jeff Barry, Bkln NY, rock writer (Tell Laura I Love Her)
1938 - Philippe Wynne, US soul singer (Detroit Spinners, Ghetto Child)
1939 - Malcolm Thornton, MP
1939 - Vitaliy Davidov, USSR, ice hockey player (Olympic-gold-1964, 68, 72)
1939 - François de Roubaix, French film score composer (d. 1975)
1940 - Lino Brocka, San Jose Philippines, director (Macho Dancer, Jaguar)
1940 - R S Burman, CEO (Association of British Chambers of Commerce)
1941 - Eric Braeden, Aust, actor (Victor Newman-Young & Restless, Colossus)
1941 - Jan Berry, LA California, rock vocalist (Jan & Dean-Deadman's Curve)
1941 - Jan Berry, American musician (d. 2004)
1941 - Carl Boenish, American father of BASE jumping (d. 1984)
1941 - Philippé Wynne, American musician (d. 1984)
1942 - Billy Joe Royal, Valdosta Ga, country singer (Down in the Boondocks)
1942 - Marsha Mason, St Louis Mo, actress (Blume in Love, Cinderella Liberty)
1942 - Michael Elliott, US, skier (Olympics-1968)
1942 - Rick Sylvester, parachute ski jumper (world record 3,300')
1942 - Wayne Newton, American singer
1942 - Marek Perepeczko, Polish actor (d. 2005)
1943 - Jonathan Lynn, Bath England, writer/actor (Greedy, Bar Mitzvah Boy)
1943 - Mario Lavista, Mexican composer
1943 - Doreen Tracey, English-born Mouseketeer
1944 - Barry Pritchard, rock guitarist (Fortunes)
1944 - Tony Orlando, NYC, singer (& Dawn-Tie a Yellow Ribbon)
1945 - Catherine Spaak, France, actress (Libertine, Hotel, Circle of Love)
1945 - Richard Manuel, rock pianist/vocalist (Band-Up on Cripple Creek)
1945 - Wim J Deetman, Dutch minister of education/MP (CDA)
1946 - Carlos Salinas de Gortari, president (Mexico, 1988-94)
1946 - Dee Murray, rocker (Elton John Band)
1946 - John Virgo, British snooker player
1948 - Garrick Ohlsson, Bronxville NY, pianist (Intl Busoni winner 1969)
1948 - H C Tomlinson, Headmaster (Hereford Cathedral School)
1948 - Jaap G de Hoop Scheffer, Dutch MP (CDA)
1948 - Mary Gordon-Watson, England, equestrian 3 day event (Oly-gold-1972)
1948 - Arlette Cousture, French-Canadian writer
1949 - Jan Keizer, Dutch singer (BZN-Rhythm of My Heart)
1949 - Lyle Alzado, NFLer (LA Raiders)/actor (Oceans of Fire, Hangfire)
1949 - Richard Thompson, vocalist/guitarist (Shoot Out the Lights)
1950 - Curtis Stone, N Hollywood California, singer (Highway 101-Cry Cry Cry)
1951 - Gwen Welles, US actress (Desert Hearts, Nashville)
1951 - Mel Schacher, MI, bassist (Grand Funk Railroad-Some Kind of Wonderful)
1952 - Mike Moore, American politician and attorney
1953 - Huub van der Lubbe, Dutch rock singer (Stampei-The Dike)
1953 - Craig Taubman, Jewish singer
1954 - Elisabetta Brusa, Italian composer
1955 - Aleksandr Nikolayevich Yablontsev, Russian lt-colonel/cosmonaut
1955 - Mick Mars, guitarst (Motley Crue)
1956 - Miguel Bose, Panama, spanish singer/actor (El Avaro, Queen Margot)
1956 - Boris Miljkovic, Serbian director
1957 - Charles Jones, NBA forward (Houston Rockets)
1958 - Alec Baldwin, Amityville NY, actor (Joshua-Knots Landing, Beetlejuice)
1958 - Jaya Prada, Indian Actress
1959 - David Hyde Pierce, NY, actor (Niles Crane-Fraiser)
1960 - Arjen Anthony Lucassen, Dutch musician
1960 - Marie Denise Pelletier, Quebec singer
1961 - Eddie Murphy, Bkln NY, actor (SNL, 48 Hours, Beverly Hills Cop, Raw)
1962 - John Gruffith, rocker (Red Rockers)
1962 - Mike Ness, rocker (Social Distortion)
1962 - Nancy Filteau, Swift Current Saskatchawan, 72k judoka (Olympics-96)
1963 - Chris Bosio, baseball pitcher (Seattle Mariners)
1963 - Zakir Khan, cricketer (two Tests for Pakistan 1986-89)
1963 - Criss Oliva, American musician (d. 1993)
1963 - Jack Del Rio, American football coach
1963 - Tsuyoshi Sekito, Japanese composer
1964 - Ajay Sharma, cricketer (Indian spin all-rounder played one Test 1988)
1964 - Bjarne Riis, Danish cyclist
1965 - Nazia Hassan, South Asian pop singer (d.2000)
1966 - Bo Orlando, NFL safety (San Diego Chargers, Cincinnati Bengals)
1966 - Shelley Michelle, Hollywood California, actress (Golden Eye)
1966 - Mina Tominaga, Japanese seiyu (voice actress)
1966 - John de Vries, Australian racing driver
1967 - Brent Gilchrist, Moose Jaw, NHL center (Dallas Stars)
1967 - Pervis Ellison, NBA forward/center (Boston Celtics)
1968 - Bernd Karbacher, Germany, tennis star
1968 - Mike Lansing, Rawlins Wyoming, infielder (Montreal Expos)
1968 - Sebastian Philip Clerk Bach, Bahamas, rock (Skid Row-Psycho Love)
1968 - Jamie Hewlett, English illustrator
1969 - David Morland, North Bay Ont, golfer (1992 Trafalgar Rookie of Year)
1969 - Reid Hayston Hamilton, NZ, beach volleyball player (Olympics-96)
1969 - Rodney Hampton, NFL running back (NY Giants)
1970 - Keith Franklin, WLAF linebacker (Amsterdam Admirals)
1970 - Matt Gay, WLAF safety (Rhein Fire)
1971 - Anthony McClanahan, CFL linebacker (Calgary Stampeders)
1971 - Jonathan Star
1971 - Kevin Farkas, WLAF tackle (Amsterdam Admirals)
1971 - Peter Schwab, Boston, Mass, rower (Olympics-1996)
1971 - Picabo Street, skier (Olympic-gold-94)
1971 - Quilvio Veras, Santo Domingo Dom Rep, infielder (Florida Marlins)
1972 - Jennie Garth, Champagn Ill, actr (Kelly Taylor-Beverly Hills 90210)
1972 - Sandrine Testud, Lyon France, tennis star (1993 Strasbourg)
1973 - Greg DeLong, NFL tight end (Minnesota Vikings)
1973 - Jim Campbell, Worchester Mass, US hockey forward (Olympics-1994)
1973 - Kelly Lochbaum, CFL linebacker (BC Lions)
1973 - Jamie Bamber, English actor
1973 - Matthew Ferguson, Canadian actor
1975 - Thomas Hamilton, NBA center (Boston Celtics)
1975 - Mickey Beyer Clausen, Danish entrepreneur and philanthropist
1975 - Aries Spears, American comedian
1975 - Yoshinobu Takahashi, Japanese professional baseball player
1975 - Koji Uehara, Japanese professional baseball pitcher
1976 - Keith Closs, NBA center (LA Clippers)
1976 - Will Mellor, English actor
1976 - Drew Shirley, American musician
1977 - Veronique De Kock, Miss Universe-Belgium (1996)
1978 - Matthew Goode, English actor
1978 - Tommy Haas, German tennis player
1978 - John Smit, South African rugby player
1979 - Esmeralda Gonzales, Miss Wyoming Teen USA (1997)
1981 - Aaron Bertram, American musician
1981 - Matthew Nash, Australian soccer player
1981 - Heath Ramsay, Australian Olympic swimmer
1981 - DeShawn Stevenson, American basketball player
1982 - Iain Fyfe, Australian soccer player
1982 - Kasumi Nakane, Japanese gravure idol
1982 - Jared Allen, American football player
1982 - Fler, German rapper
1982 - Cobie Smulders, Canadian actress
1983 - Errol Barnett, English reporter
1984 - Maxi López, Argentine footballer
1984 - Jonathan Blondel, Belgian footballer
1985 - Leona Lewis, English singer
1986 - Sergio Sánchez, Spanish footballer
1986 - Amanda Bynes, American actress
1987 - Julie Sokolow, American musician
1987 - Sal Zizzo, American soccer player
1987 - Jay Bruce, American baseball player
1988 - Tim Krul, Dutch footballer
1988 - Peter Hartley, English footballer
1989 - Israel Falou, Australian Rugby League player
1993 - Dakoda Dowd, American golfer

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 03, 2013, 04:58:34 PM

This Day in History for 3rd April


Famous Deaths

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Outlaw Jesse James (1882)


33 - Christ, crucified (according to astronomer Humphreys & Waddington)
628 - Chosroes II, emperor of Persia (579..628), murdered by his son
963 - William III, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 915)
1287 - Honorius IV, [Giacomo Savelli], Italian Pope (1285-87), dies
1350 - Eudes IV, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1295)
1512 - Richard Pafraet, Dutch printer, dies
1525 - Giovanni Rucellai, Italian poet (Le Api), dies at 49
1581 - Huibert Duifhuis, Roman Catholic pastor (Rotterdam/Utrecht), dies
1606 - Charles Blount, 1st Earl of Devon, English politician (b. 1563)
1680 - Shivaji, founder of the Maratha Empire, India (b. 1630)
1682 - Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Spanish painter, dies
1691 - Jean Petitot, Swiss enamel painter (b. 1608)
1694 - Ferdinand van Apshoven de Jongere, Flemish painter, buried at 64
1695 - Melchior de Hondecoeter, Dutch still life painter, dies at about 58
1717 - Jacques Ozanam, French mathematician (b. 1640)
1728 - James Anderson, Scottish lawyer (b. 1662)
1769 - Gerhard Tersteegen, German evangelist/poet (in blood), dies at 71
1792 - George Pocock, British admiral (b. 1706)
1797 - Nonnosus Madlseder, composer, dies at 66
1804 - Jędrzej Kitowicz, Polish priest (b. 1727/1728)
1811 - Pieter-Jozef Verhaghen, Flemish (court)painter, dies at 83
1822 - Friedrich Bertuch, writer, dies
1826 - Reginald Heber, bishop & hymn writer, dies
1827 - Ernst Chladni, German physicist (b. 1756)
1838 - Francesco Antommarchi, Napoleon's physician on St Helena, dies at 57
1849 - Juliusz Slowacki, Pol poet (Father of the Plague-Patient), dies at 39
1850 - Vaclav Jan Krtitel Tomasek, organist/pianist/composer, dies at 75
1858 - Sigismund Ritter von Neukomm, Austrian composer, dies at 79
1862 - James Clark Ross, Arctic explorer, dies
1868 - Franz Adolf Berwald, Swedish composer, dies at 71
1876 - Henriette Davidis, writer, dies
1882 - Friedrich Wilhelm Kucken, composer, dies at 71
1882 - Jesse James, outlaw, shot dead at 34, in St Joseph Mo by Robert Ford
1884 - Carel JCH van Nispen tot Sevenaer, Dutch Cath politician, dies at 59
1897 - Johannes Brahms, German composer/conductor (Hung Dances), dies at 63
1901 - Richard D'Oyly Carte, promotor (Gilbert & Sullivan operas), dies
1909 - Benjamin Johnson Lang, composer, dies at 71
1915 - Andrew Stoddart, cricketer (England capt at turn of century), suicide
1919 - Paul Geisler, composer, dies at 62
1920 - Homer Newton Bartlett, composer, dies at 74
1930 - Emma Albani, Canadian soprano (b. 1847)
1936 - Bruno Hauptmann, convicted Lindbergh baby killer, executed
1941 - Pal Teleki-von Szek, PM Hungary (1920-21, 39-41), suicide at 61
1942 - Albert Siklos, composer, dies at 63
1942 - Paul Gilson, composer, dies at 76
1943 - Conrad Veidt, German/US actor (Cabinet of Dr Calgary), dies at 50
1945 - Joseph Weinheber, Austria poet/writer (Vienna Verbatim), dies at 43
1946 - Masaharu Homma, Lt Gen (responsible for Bataan Death March), executed
1949 - Basil Harwood, composer, dies at 89
1950 - Adolf Wiklund, composer, dies at 70
1950 - Carter G Woodson, American historian (black studies), dies at 74
1950 - Kurt Julian Weill, German composer (Dreigroschenoper), dies at 50
1951 - Johannes C Kielstra, Dut economist/gov (Suriname 1933-44), dies at 72
1956 - T Kostov, Bulgarian vice-premier, executed
1958 - Theodor Kramer, writer, dies
1960 - Anton Pannekoek, Dutch astronomer/marxist theorist, dies at 87
1962 - Benny "Kid" Paret, US welterweight boxer, dies after fight, at 24
1962 - Manolis Kalomiris, Greek opera composer, dies at 78
1965 - Ernst Kirchweger, Austrian communist and resistance fighter (born 1897 or 1898)
1966 - Russel Crouse, US stagewriter (Life with Father), dies at 73
1969 - Rex Evans, actor (Frankenstein meets the Wolfman, Zara), dies at 65
1971 - Joseph Valachi, US gangster, dies at 66
1971 - Manfred Bonnington Lee, [Ellery Queen], detective writer, dies at 65
1972 - Ferde Ferdinand Rudolph von Grofe, composer, dies at 80
1972 - Ferde Grofe, US composer (Grand Canyon Suite), dies at 80
1975 - Mary Ure, Scottish actress (Sons & Lovers, Where Eagles Dare), dies at 42
1976 - Maurice Johnstone, composer, dies at 75
1977 - Jack Ryder, cricketer (20 Tests for Aust, 1394 runs), dies
1978 - Ray Noble, English bandleader and composer (b. 1903)
1980 - Luella Gear, actress (Joe & Mabel), dies at 82
1981 - Juan Trippe, Airline entrepreneur and pioneer, Pan Am founder (b. 1899)
1982 - Herman W Filarski, Dutch bridge journalist, dies at 69
1982 - Warren Oates, actor (East of Eden, Stoney Burke), dies at 53
1986 - Peter Pears, English tenor (Death in Venice), dies at 75
1987 - Tom Sestak, American football player (b. 1936)
1988 - Milton A Caniff, US cartoonist (Terry & the Pirates), dies at 81
1989 - Norman Woolard, actor (Guilty, Saul & David, Medeleine), dies at 79
1990 - Katharine Balfour, actress (Love Story), dies of ALS at 69
1990 - Sarah Vaughn, jazz singer, dies of lung cancer at 66
1991 - Graham Greene, Brit writer (3rd Man, Our man in Havana), dies at 86
1992 - Lloyd "Slim" Andrews, actor (Buf Bill in Tomahawk Territory), dies
1992 - Margaret Barker, actress (Fathers & Son), dies of lung cancer at 83
1993 - Alexander Mnouchkine, French movie producer (Professional), dies at 83
1993 - Dieter Plage, German wildlife filmmaker, dies at 57
1993 - Eduardo Cabellero Calderon, Colombian writer/diplomat, dies at 83
1993 - Pinky Lee, kiddie host (Pinky Lee Show), dies of heart attack at 85
1994 - Betty Furness, actress/news consumer reporter (WNBC), dies at 78
1994 - Frank G Wells, US director (Walt Disney), dies at 62
1994 - Jerome Lejeune, French geneticist (Syndrome of Down), dies at 67
1994 - Pat Harper, NYC news anchor (WPIX, WNBC), dies
1995 - David Alexander Reginald Herbert, writer, dies at 86
1995 - Harvey Pennick, golfer/teacher, dies at 89
1996 - Carl Stokes, 1st black mayor of a major US city (Cleve), dies
1996 - Christopher John Seward, aid worker, dies at 45
1996 - Ron Brown, sec of Comerce, dies in an accident
1996 - Ronald Harmon Brown, politician, dies at 54
1996 - Roosevelt "Booba" Barnes, bluesman, dies at 59
1996 - Ron Brown, U.S. Secretary of Commerce (b. 1941)
1997 - Judy Flannery, master triathelete, killed by a car at 56
1998 - Mary Cartwright, English mathematician (b. 1900)
1999 - Lionel Bart, English composer (Oliver!) (b. 1930)
2000 - Terence McKenna, American writer and philosopher (b. 1946)
2002 - Fad Gadget, English singer and musician (b. 1956)
2003 - Michael Kelly, American journalist (b. 1957)
2005 - Tony Croatto, Italian singer (b. 1940)
2005 - Jef Eygel, Belgian basketball player (b. 1933)
2007 - Marion Eames, Welsh novelist (b. 1921)
2007 - Eddie Robinson, American football coach (b. 1919)
2007 - Nina Wang, Asia's richest woman (b. 1937)
2008 - Hrvoje Ćustić, Croatian football player (b. 1983)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 04, 2013, 02:43:56 PM

This Day in History for 4th April


Historical Events 

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Naturalist Charles Darwin                      Playwright George Bernard Shaw             Baseball Legend Connie Mack

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Actor Charlton Heston                             Baseball Player Hank Aaron                    Microsoft Founder Bill Gates

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Singer Gloria Estefan                            Baseball Player Darryl Strawberry


1081 - Alexius I Comnenus occupies Byzantine throne
1460 - University of Basle in Swizerland forms
1541 - Ignatius of Loyola becomes 1st superior-general of Jesuits
1552 - Mauritius van Saksen begins alliance with Karel Anikita Stroganov
1558 - Czar Ivan IV gives parts of North-Russia to fur traders
1581 - Francis Drake awarded a Knighthood by Queen Elizabeth I aboard Golden Hind at Deptford
1588 - Christian IV succeeds Frederik II as king of Denmark
1655 - Battle at Postage Farina, Tunis: English fleet beats Barbarian pirates
1655 - The miraculous statue entitled the Infant of Prague is solemnly crowned by command of
           Cardinal Harrach.
1660 - English king Charles II sends Declaration of Breda (freedom of religion)
1686 - English king James II publishes Declaration of Indulgence
1687 - King James II orders his declaration of indulgence read in church
1716 - Russian & Prussian troops occupy Wismar
1721 - Sir Robert Walpole enters office as the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom under King
           George I.
1737 - Anthony van Heim installed as Dutch pension advisor
1814 - Napoleon abdicates for the first time.
1818 - Congress decided US flag is 13 red & white stripes & 20 stars
1828 - Casparus van Wooden patents chocolate milk powder (Amsterdam)
1832 - Charles Darwin aboard HMS Beagle reaches Rio de Janeiro
1850 - City of Los Angeles incorporated
1859 - Opera "Dinorah" is produced (Paris)
1859 - Bryant's Minstrels debut "Dixie" in New York City in the finale of a blackface minstrel show.
1862 - Battle of Yorktown (US Civil War) begins
1862 - US begins Peninsular Campaign aimed at capturing Richmond during US Civil War
1864 - Skirmish at Elkin's Ford (Little Missouri River), Arkansas
1865 - Lee's army arrives at Amelia Courthouse
1866 - Alexander II of Russia narrowly escapes an assassination attempt in the city of Kiev.
1870 - Golden Gate Park forms by City Order #800
1887 - Susanna Medora Salter elected 1st US woman mayor (Argonia, KS)
1896 - Announcement of Gold in Yukon
1899 - South Africa all out 35 vs England (Trott 4-19, Haigh 6-11)
1900 - Assassination attempt on Prince of Wales, later British King Edward VII when shot by Jean-
           Baptiste Sipido in protest over Boer war
1900 - British garrison of Reddersberg surrenders to Boer general De Wet
1902 - Cecil Rhodes scholarship fund forms with $10 million
1905 - Earthquake in Kangra India, kills 20,000
1911 - Hugh Chalmers, automaker, suggests idea of baseball MVP
1912 - Army fires on striking mine workers at Lena-gold fields Siberia
1912 - Chinese republic proclaimed in Tibet
1913 - The Greek aviator Emmanuel Argyropoulos becomes the first pilot victim of the Hellenic Air
           Force when his plane crashes.
1914 - "Perils of Pauline" shown for 1st time in LA
1916 - US Senate agrees (82-6) to participate in WW I
1918 - Battle of Somme, ends
1918 - Food riot in Amsterdam
1920 - Arabs attack Jews in Jerusalem
1921 - Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators (NHL) beat Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA), 3 games to 2
1922 - WAAB (Baton Rouge La) becomes 1st US radio station with "W" calls
1926 - Greek dictator Theodorus Pangalos elected president
1929 - "New Moon" musical opens in London
1929 - 1st AAU Greco-Roman wrestling championships held
1930 - Andrew Sandham makes Test Cricket 1st triple century
1930 - Les Ames makes the 1st Test Cricket century by a wicketkeeper (149)
1930 - The Communist Party of Panama is founded.
1932 - George Bernard Shaw's "Too True to be Good," premieres in NYC
1932 - Vitamin C 1st isolated, CC King, Univ of Pittsburgh
1933 - US Dirigible Akron crashes off coast of NJ, 73 die
1937 - 4th Golf Masters Championship: Byron Nelson wins, shooting a 283
1938 - 5th Golf Masters Championship: Henry Picard wins, shooting a 285
1939 - Faisal II ascends to throne of Iraq
1940 - R Rodgers/Lorenz Hart's "Higher & Higher," premieres in NYC
1941 - German troops conquer Banghazi
1944 - British troops capture Addis Ababa Ethiopia
1944 - De Gaulle forms new regime in exile, with communists
1944 - Allied Bucharest bombings targeting railroads kills 5,000
1945 - Hungary liberated from Nazi occupation (National Day)
1945 - US forces liberated the Nazi death camp Ohrdruf in Germany
1945 - US tanks/infantry conquer Bielefeld
1947 - Convention on International Civil Aviation goes into effect
1947 - Largest group of sunspots on record
1947 - UN's International Civil Aviation Organization forms
1948 - 84-year-old Connie Mack challenges 78-year-old Clark Griffith to a race from home to 1st
           base; it ends in a tie
1949 - Israel & Jordan sign armistice agreement
1949 - North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) treaty signed (Wash DC)
1949 - WKRC TV channel 12 in Cincinnati, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
1950 - Dirk Stikker becomes chairman of OES
1951 - Dutch Prince Bernhard visits Juan & Eva Peron in Buenos Aires
1953 - KFDA TV channel 10 in Amarillo, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Carrollton Georgia Golf Open
1955 - British government signs military treaty with Iraq
1956 - Enid Bagnold's "Chalk Garden," premieres in London
1957 - Heitor Villa-Lobos' 10th Symphony, premieres in Paris
1958 - 1st march against nuclear weapons (Aldermaston England)
1958 - Eugene Ionesco's "Tueur sans Gages" premieres in Darmstadt
1958 - The CND Peace Symbol displayed in public for the first time in London.
1959 - Fed of Mali, consisting of Senegal & French Sudan (dissolved 1960)
1960 - 32nd Academy Awards - "Ben-Hur," Charlton Heston & Simone Signoret win
1960 - Oscar awarded to Neth director Bert Haanstra
1960 - Project Ozma begins at Green Bank radio astronomy center
1960 - Senegal declares independence from France
1964 - "Anyone Can Whistle" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 9 performances
1964 - Beatles' "Can't Buy Me Love," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 5 weeks
1965 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Baton Rouge Golf Invitational
1965 - The first model of the new Saab Viggen fighter aircraft plane is unveiled.
1966 - Pirate Radio Scotland changes name to Radio Ireland
1966 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967 - Amsterdam Marines chase out "nozems" of Central Station
1967 - Dutch De Young government forms
1967 - Marines chase "Nozems" out of Amsterdam Central Station
1968 - "Education of Hyman Kaplan" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 28 perfs
1968 - Apollo 6 launched atop Saturn V; unmanned
1968 - Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee
1969 - Denton Cooley gets 1st temporary artificial heart
1970 - Firestone World Tournament of Champions won by Don Johnson
1971 - "Follies" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 524 performances
1971 - Marine clay under houses liquefies, 31 die (St-Jean-Vianney Quebec)
1972 - 1st electric power plant fueled by garbage begins operating
1974 - Hank Aaron ties Babe Ruth's home-run record by hitting his 714th
1975 - 130, killed as USAF plane evacuating Vietnamese orphans crashes
1975 - Steve Miller is arrested for burning his girlfriend's clothes
1975 - USAF transport carrying orphans from Saigon crashes killing 155
1975 - Microsoft is founded as a partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen.
1976 - 5th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Judy Rankin
1976 - Seni Pramoj's Democratic Party wins elections in Thailand
1979 - President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan is executed.
1980 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1981 - Henry Cisneros becomes 1st Mexican-American mayor (San Antonio)
1982 - 11th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Sally Little
1983 - 45th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: NC State beats Houston 54-52
1983 - 6th space shuttle mission, Challenger 1 launched
1984 - Michael Frayn's "Benefactors" premieres in London
1984 - Winston Smith in Orwell's "1984" begins his secret diary
1985 - Tulane University cancels its basketball season amidst scandal
1986 - Wayne Gretzky sets NHL record with 213th point of season
1987 - Dow Jones up 69.89 points, ending at record 2,390.34 pts
1988 - 50th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kansas beat Oklahoma 83-79
1988 - Eddie Hill becomes the world's first driver to cover the quarter mile in under 5 seconds
1988 - Largest crowd (55,438) at a season game at Riverfront (Reds Vs Cards)
1988 - Last broadcast of "Crossroads" on British TV
1988 - Mets set Opening Day record with 6 HRs
1989 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's last NBA game in Seattle
1989 - NY Yankee Tommy John ties record of playing 26 seasons, his 287th win puts him 19th
           overall as Yanks beat Twins on opening day 4-2
1990 - "Marshall Chronicles" premieres on ABC-TV
1990 - Gloria Estefan released from hospital after her accident
1990 - Security law violator Ivan Boesky is released from federal custody
1991 - "Lucifer's Child" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 28 performances
1991 - Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania and six others are killed when a helicopter collides with
           their plane over an elementary school in Merion, Pennsylvania.
1992 - Game 1 of Mayor Challenge - NY Yankees beat NY Mets 6-4 at Yank Stad
1992 - Jury deliberations begin in Noriega case
1992 - Sali Berisha becomes president/Alexander Meksi premier of Albania
1993 - 12th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Texas Tech beats OH State 84-82
1993 - 5th Seniors Golf Tradition: Tom Shaw
1993 - Trish Johnson wins Las Vegas LPGA at Canyon Gate Golf Tournament
1993 - Wrestlemania IX at Caesar's Palace Las Vegas, Hulk Hogan pins Yokozuna
1994 - 1st game played at Jacobs Field, Indians beat Mariners 4-3 in 11 inn
1994 - 56th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Ark Razorbacks beats Duke 76-72
1994 - Cubs Karl "Tuffy" Rhodes, hit 3 HRs in 1993 hits 3 HRs on opening
1994 - KLM Saab 340B crashes at Schiphol, 3 killed
1994 - LA Dodger Darryl Strawberry begins substance abuse treatment
1994 - Largest Opening Day crowd at Yankee Stadium, 56,706
1994 - Netscape Communications founded as Mosaic Communications
1994 - Tony Curtis undergoes heart-bypass surgery
1994 - Day vs Mets starter Dwight Gooden
1996 - "Inherit the Wind" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 45 performances
1996 - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Austin TX on KJFK 98.9 FM
1997 - Anaheim Ducks clinch their 1st-ever playoff berth
1997 - Braves officially open Turner Field against Cubs
1997 - DMSP Titan 2 launched
1997 - STS 83 (Columbia 22), launches
1998 - NFL Europe (Formerly WLAF), kicks off season
2002 - The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign a peace treaty ending the Angolan Civil War.
2007 - 15 British Royal Navy personnel held in Iran are released by the Iranian President.
2008 - The raid on the FLDS owned ranch called the YFZ Ranch in Texas, 401 children were taken
           into custody. 133 woman were taken into state custody also, the total number of woman 
           and children is 534.
2012 - German Nobel Laureat, Gunter Grass, publishes controversial poem that claims Israel is
           plotting to wipe out Iran
2012 - Somalia's National Theatre is struck by a suicide bomber killing ten people including the
           presidents of the Somali Olympic Committee and Football Federation
2012 - Boris Todic, President of Serbia, resigns

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 04, 2013, 02:47:03 PM

This Day in History for 4th April


Famous Weddings

1625 - Viceroy Frederik Henry marries Amalia countess von Solms-Braunfels
1992 - John Tesh (Entertainment Tonight) marries actress Connie Selleca
2001 - Actress and model Brooke Shields (35) weds sitcom writer Chris Henchy (37) in Catalina
           Island, California
2004 - Latina singer Joy Enriquez (25) weds Grammy-winner Rodney Jerkins (26) at the Ritz-Carlton
           in Laguna Niguel, California
2008 - Singer-songwriter and actress Beyonce Knowles (30) weds one of the greatest rappers of all-
           time Jay-Z (43) at 13,500-square foot penthouse apartment in New York

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 04, 2013, 02:57:03 PM

This Day in History for 4th April


Famous Birthdays

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Comedian Robert Downey Jr (1965)          Actor Heath Ledger (1979)                  Actress Jamie Lynn Spears (1991)


188 - Caracalla, [Marcus Aureiius Antoniius], Roman emperor (211-17)
1492 - Ambrosius Blarer, German reformer (d. 1564)
1527 - Abraham Ortelius, [Ortels/Hortels], South Neth geographer
1572 - William Strachey, English writer (d. 1621)
1593 - Edward Nicholas, English statesman (d. 1669)
1646 - Antoine Galland, French archaeologist (d. 1715)
1648 - Grinling Gibbons, sculptor/woodcarver
1688 - Joseph-Nicolas Delisle, French astronomer (d. 1768)
1716 - John Evangelist Schreiber, composer
1718 - Benjamin Kennicott, English churchman and Hebrew scholar (d. 1783)
1731 - Francisco Morera, composer
1740 - Wolfgang Nicolaus Haueisen, composer
1752 - Niccolo Antonio Zingarelli, composer (Andromeda)
1755 - Vincenc Masek, composer
1758 - John Hoppner, portrait painter
1762 - Stephen Storace, composer
1772 - Nachman of Breslov, Ukrainian founder of Breslov Hasidut (d. 1810)
1785 - Bettina von Arnim, German writer and composer of the Romantic era (This Book Belongs to
           the King)
1786 - John Franklin, British explorer (Arctic)
1792 - Thaddeus Stevens, US Radical Republican congressional leader (Rep-R)
1802 - Dorothea Dix, American social activist (d. 1887)
1804 - Joseph Fischhof, composer
1809 - Benjamin Pierce, US mathematician/astronomer
1814 - John Blair Smith Todd, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1872
1817 - John Wilson Sprague, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1893
1818 - Thomas Mayne Reid, Irish-American novelist (d. 1883)
1819 - Queen Maria II of Portugal (d. 1853)
1820 - Charles Devens Jr, Major General, Bvt (Union volunteers), died in 1891
1821 - Linus Yale, US, portrait painter/inventor (Yale cylinder lock)
1823 - Karl Wilhelm Siemens, inventor (laid undersea cables)
1823 - Robert Byington Mitchell, Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
1826 - Zénobe Gramme, Belgian engineer (d. 1901)
1828 - Margaret Oliphant, Scotland, novelist/biographer (Beleaguered City)
1831 - Edward Cary Walthall, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1898
1832 - Jose Echegaray y Elizaguirre, playwright/scientist (Teatro Escogido)
1836 - Jerome Hopkins, composer
1842 - Edouard Lucas, French mathematician (d. 1891)
1843 - Hans Richter, composer
1846 - Comte de Lautréamont, French writer (d. 1870)
1853 - Tad Lincoln, son of U.S. president Abraham Lincoln
1858 - Remy de Gourmont, French poet (d. 1915)
1866 - George P Baker, US playwright (47 Workshop)
1870 - George A Smith, Salt Lake City Utah, 8th pres of Mormon church
1872 - Nikolai Amani, composer
1872 - Pauline de Haan-Manifarges, Dutch singer
1875 - Jozef Szulc, composer
1875 - Pierre Monteux, Paris France, conductor (Boston Symph Orch 1919-24)
1875 - Samuel S Hinds, Brooklyn NY
1876 - Maurice de Vlaminck, Paris, Fauvist painter (Village in the Snow)
1879 - Gabriel Groulez, composer
1881 - Charles Funk, Ohio, Encylopediest (Funk & Wagnalls)
1882 - Mary Howe, composer
1884 - Isoroku Yamamoto, admiral/supreme commander of Japanese fleet
1888 - Tris Speaker, baseball great, hit more doubles than Pete Rose
1888 - Zdzisław Żygulski, Sr., Polish literary historian (d. 1975)
1892 - Cyril Smith, Peterhead Scotland, actor (Adv of Sir Lancelot)
1892 - Esther Howard, MT
1895 - Arthur Murray, NYC, dancer (Arthur Murray Dance Party)
1895 - Charlie Hallows, cricket batsman (Lancs played for England 1921-28)
1896 - Robert Sherwood, dramatist (Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Idiot's Delight)
1896 - Tristan Tzara, [Samuel Rosenfeld] French poet (Approximate Man)
1897 - Pierre Fresnay, Paris France, actor (Grand Illusion)
1898 - Agnes Ayres, American actress (d. 1940)
1899 - William Brann, cricketer (South African batsman v England 1922-23)
1901 - Carmel Myers, SF California, actress (Carmel Myers Show)
1902 - Louise L de Vilmorin, French poetess/author (Lutin Sauvage)
1902 - Stanley G. Weinbaum, American science-fiction author (d. 1935)
1905 - Eugene Bozza, composer
1906 - Bea Benaderet, NYC, actress (Kate-Petticoat Junction)
1906 - John Cameron Swayze, Wichita Ks, newscaster (Timex, Hindenberg) [NS]
1907 - Nathan M Pusey, Iowa, educator (Natl Ass for Social Sciences-1963)
1908 - Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, author (Cheaper by the Dozen)
1910 - Agnes Patrick, campaigner
1911 - Max Dupain, Australian photographer (d. 1992)
1913 - Frances Langford, Lakeland Fla, singer (Armed Forces Hour, Star Time)
1913 - Jerome Weidman, US writer (Tenderloin)
1913 - Rosemary Lane, Indianola IA, actress (4 Mothers, Harvest Melody)
1913 - Muddy Waters, [McKinley Morganfield], American blues guitarist (Hoochie Coochie Man)
1913 - Jules Léger, Quebec diplomat and Governor general of Canada (d. 1980)
1914 - Gustave Camus, Belgian painter
1914 - John Beith, British diplomat
1914 - Marguerite Duras, France, novelist/playwright (Sea Wall)
1915 - Jan Drda, Czech writer (Nema Barikada, Mestecko Na Dlani)
1915 - Lars G Ahlin, Swedish writer (Death of Me)
1916 - David White, actor (Larry Tate-Bewitched)
1916 - Herbert Eugene Caen, columnist
1916 - Nikola Ljubicic, Yugoslav general, Serbian communist politician (d. 2005)
1916 - Mickey Owen, American baseball player (d. 2005)
1917 - Joseph Ortiz, French-Algerian extremist (barricade uprising)
1918 - Earl Jellicoe, chancellor (U of Southhampton)
1919 - Antony Tudor, England, choreographer (Metropolitan Opera 1957)
1920 - Eric Rohmer, Nancy France, actor (6 in Paris, Collector, Perceval)
1921 - Willem J "Wim" the Villiers, S Afr minister of Administration
1922 - Elmer Bernstein, NYC, movie music composer (Robot Monster)
1923 - Manon H E Alving, Dutch actress (Short American)
1923 - Nancy Francy, director (Claire's Knee)
1924 - Christopher Prater, screen printer
1924 - Gil Hodges, baseball player/manager (Bkln Dodgers, NY Mets)
1924 - Peter Vaughan, actor (Haunted Honeymoon, Die Die My Darling)
1925 - Elizabeth Wilson, Grand Rapids Mich, actor (Doc, East Side/West Side)
1925 - Erna Spoorenberg, Dutch singer
1925 - Claude Wagner, French-Canadian politician and judge (d. 1979)
1925 - Emmett Williams, American poet (d. 2007)
1926 - Cloris Leachman, Des Moines Iowa, actress (Phyllis, High Anxiety)
1927 - Bob Stump, (Rep-R-AZ, 1977- )
1928 - Bill Ryan, Bkln NY, newscaster (Smithsonian)
1928 - Jimmy Logan, British comedian (Mad Death)
1928 - Maya Angelou, [Marguerite Johnson], St Louis, poet/actress (Nyo-Roots)
1928 - Monty Norman, composer/writer
1929 - William F Clinger Jr, (Rep-R-PA, 1979- )
1930 - David Sexton, soccer manager
1931 - Denis Frank Owen, Natural historian
1931 - Harold L Volkmer, (Rep-D-MO, 1977- )
1931 - Bobby Ray Inman, American admiral and intelligence director
1932 - Andrei Tarkovski, Russian director (Solaris, Stalker)
1932 - Anthony Perkins, NYC, actor (Psycho, Fear Strikes Out, Pretty Poison)
1932 - Bapu Nadkarni, cricketer (economical Indian slow left-armer 1956-68)
1932 - Richard G Lugar, (Sen-R-IN, 1977- )
1932 - Clive Davis, American record producer
1932 - Estelle Harris, American actress
1933 - Fritz Bolkestein, Dutch CEO (Shell)/Minister of Defense (VVD)
1933 - Robin Phillips, English multi-millionaire manufacturer (hand-dryer)
1933 - Seoirse Bodley, composer
1933 - Bill France, Jr., NASCAR pioneer (d. 2007)
1934 - Dorothy Lousie Grenfell Williams, broadcaster
1935 - Easton Dudley Ashton St John McMorris, cricketer (WI batsman of 60's)
1935 - Francois-Bernard Mache, composer
1935 - Lord Ichayra, secretary-general (British Banking Association)
1935 - Trevor Griffiths, playwright (Absolute Beginners)
1936 - Margo J Sylvia, rocker (Tune Weavers)
1937 - Ian St James, novelist (Balfour Conspiracy, Vengeance, Money Stones)
1937 - J Hans van den Doel, economist/Dutch MP (PvdA)
1938 - A Bartlett Giamatti, Boston, pres of Yale/baseball commish (1989)
1938 - Michael Parks, Corona California, actor (Then Came Bronson)
1938 - Peter Attenborough, British headmaster (Charterhouse)
1939 - Hugh Masekela, Wilbank South Africa, trumpeter (I Am Not Afraid)
1939 - JoAnne Carner, Kirkland WA, LPGA golfer (1976 US Women's Open)
1939 - Major Lance, American singer (d. 1994)
1940 - Bijan, Iran, mens apparel designer (Beverly Hills, NYC, London)
1940 - Robby Mueller, cinematographer (Breaking the Waves, Dead Man, Korczak)
1940 - Vladimir Timofeyevich Isakov, Russia, cosmonaut
1940 - Richard Attwood, British racing driver
1940 - Sharon Sheeley, American songwriter
1941 - Bill Tarmey, Ardwick, Manchester, actor (Coronation Street), (d. 2012)
1942 - Kitty Kelley, author (Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra)
1942 - Kris Jensen, rocker
1943 - Ian Robertson, British museum director (National Army Museum)
1944 - David Melville, professor/director (Middlesex Polytechnic)
1944 - Lawrence A Hough, US, rower (Pairs w/o cox-1968 olympic silver)
1944 - Magda Aelvoet, Belgian politician
1944 - Craig T. Nelson, Spokane, Wash, actor (Poltergeist, Hayden Fox-Coach)
1945 - Bryan Andrews, cricketer (NZ medium-pacer, toured Australia 1973-74)
1945 - Caroline McWilliams, Seattle Wash, actress (Sally-Soap, Marcy-Benson)
1945 - Walter Charles, East Strousberg PA, actor (Fletch Lives, Weeds)
1946 - Katsuaki Sato, Japanese martial artist
1947 - Salvatore Sciarrino, composer
1947 - Ray Fosse, American baseball player and broadcaster
1947 - Wiranto, Indonesian general
1948 - Berry Oakley, Chicago Ill, rocker (Allman Brothers-Ramblin' Man)
1948 - Gail Davies, Broken Bow Ok, country singer (Blue Heartache)
1948 - Pick Withers, rocker (Dire Straits)
1948 - Dan Simmons, American writer
1948 - Derek Thompson, Northern Irish actor
1949 - Larry Lingle, rocker
1949 - Shing-Tung Yau, Chinese mathematician
1950 - Christine Lahti, Detroit, actress (Harvey Korman Show, Swing Shift)
1951 - Steve Gatlin, Olney Tx, country singer (Gatlin Bros-Broken Lady)
1951 - Hun Sen, Prime Minister of Cambodia
1952 - Dave Hill, England, rock guitarist (Slade-Coz I Love You)
1952 - Gary Moore, Irish rock guitarist (Skid Row-Oh Pretty Woman)
1952 - Peter Haycock, rock guitarist (All Along the Watchtower)
1952 - Rosemarie Ackermann, German DR, high jumper (Olympic-gold-1976)
1952 - Gregg Hansford, Australian motorcycle and car racer (d. 1995)
1953 - Robert Bertrand, Canadian politician
1954 - Julie Carmen, Mount Vernon NY, actress (Gloria, Last Plane Out)
1955 - Mick Mars, rocker
1956 - Evelyn Hart, prima ballerina (Royal Winnipeg Ballet)
1956 - Lamen Khalifa Fhimah, Suk Giuma Libya, bomber (Pan Am Flight 103)
1956 - Tom Herr, American baseball player
1956 - David E. Kelley, American writer and TV producer
1957 - Graeme Kelling, British pop guitarist (Deacon Blue-Real Gone Kid)
1957 - Paul Downton, cricketer (England wicket-keeper in 80's)
1957 - Ali El Haggar, Egyptian singer and actor
1957 - Aki Kaurismäki, Finnish film director
1957 - Kelso, American racehorse (d. 1983)
1957 - Nobuyoshi Kuwano, Japanese musician (Rats & Star)
1958 - Derek Kallicharran, cricket all-rounder (Guyana, USA 1994 ICC Trophy)
1958 - Hrvoje Horvatic, video artist
1958 - John Wesley Jones, Lawton Ok, 4X100m relayer (Olympic-gold-1976)
1958 - Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, painter
1958 - Cazuza, Brazilian poet, singer and composer (d. 1990)
1960 - Bev Smith, Armstrong BC, basketball forward (Olympics-96)
1960 - Jon Agnew, cricketer (England pace bowler late 80's)
1960 - Jonathan Agnew, British broadcaster/test bowler
1960 - Jane Eaglin, English soprano
1960 - Hugo Weaving, Nigerian-born English-Australian actor
1961 - Matt Cole, Stratford Ont, Canadian Tour golfer (1990 Space Coast)
1962 - Ava Fabian, Brewster NY, playmate (Aug, 1986)/actress (Cafe Nostra)
1962 - Sherrin Smyers, Newcastle Aust, LPGA golfer (1995 Youngstown-11th)
1962 - Tina Tombs, Montreal Quebec, LPGA golfer (1990 Jamie Farr Toledo)
1963 - Anthony Clark, comedian (Boyd Pritchett-Boston Common)
1963 - Dale Hawerchuk, Toronto, NHL center (Phila Flyers)
1963 - David Gavurin, English pop guitarist/composer (Sundays, Blind)
1963 - Jack Del Rio, NFL linebacker (Minnesota Vikings)
1964 - Gregory Thomas Kraft, Detroit MI, PGA golfer (1993 Walt Disney-2nd)
1964 - Paul Parker, soccer player
1964 - Robbie Rist, California, actor (Oliver-Brady Bunch)
1964 - Branco, Brazilian footballer and coach
1965 - Black Francis, [Charles Thompson], US singer/songwriter (Pixies)
1965 - Robert Downey Jr, NYC, comedian (SNL, Less than Zero, Back to School)
1965 - Tony Burse, CFL fullback (Edmonton Eskimos)
1965 - Zwart Francis, [Charles Thompson], US singer/songwriter (Pixies)
1966 - Mike Starr [Michael], Honolulu Hawaii, musician (Alice in Chains bassist), (d. 2011)
1966 - Michal Clingman, Indio California, WPVA volleyballer (Nationals-9th-1994)
1966 - Myriam Schropp, West Germany, tennis star
1966 - Nancy McKeon, Westbury NY, actress (Jo Polniazek-Facts of Life)
1966 - Stanislav Medrik, Nitra CZE, hockey defenseman (Team Slovakia)
1967 - Juliana "Juli" Furtado, NYC, cyclist (Olympics-10th-96)
1968 - Andre Bowden, WLAF LB (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1968 - Jennifer Lynch, American director
1969 - Anthony Tucker, NBA forward (NY Knicks)
1969 - Carlos Reyes, Miami FL, pitcher (Oakland A's)
1969 - Dennis de Nooijer, Dutch soccer player (Sparta)
1969 - Gerard de Nooijer, Dutch soccer player (Sparta)
1970 - Barry van Galen, Dutch soccer player (Roda JC)
1970 - Jason Stoltenberg, Australia, tennis star
1970 - Barry Pepper, Canadian actor
1970 - Michael Schwartz, American turntablist, known as Mix Master Mike, DJ for the Beastie Boys
1971 - Allan Houston, NBA guard (NY Knicks, Detroit Pistons)
1971 - Felipe Lira, Miranda Venezeula, pitcher (Detroit Tigers)
1971 - Jaime Fernandez, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1971 - Yanic Perreault, Sherbrooke, NHL center (LA Kings)
1971 - John Zandig, American professional wrestler
1972 - Chad Eaton, defensive tackle (New England Patriots)
1972 - Jim Werland, Ventura California, canoe (alt-Olympics-96)
1972 - Matt Wagner, Cedar falls IA, pitcher (Seattle Mariners)
1972 - Jill Scott, American soul singer
1972 - Magnus Sveningsson, Swedish musician (The Cardigans)
1973 - Damon Allen, Winston-Salem NC, figure skater (1997 Midwestern champ)
1973 - Peter Hoekstra, Dutch soccer player (PSV, Ajax)
1973 - Ryan Coughlin, CFL offensive linebacker (Montreal Alouettes)
1973 - Tiffany Woosley, WNBA guard (Houston Comets)
1973 - Loris Capirossi, Italian motorcycle racer
1973 - David Blaine, American illusionist
1973 - Chris McCormack, Australian triathlete
1974 - O J Santiago, tight end (Atlanta Falcons)
1974 - Dave Mirra, American athlete
1975 - Kisha Ford, WNBA guard/forward (NY Liberty)
1975 - Delphine Arnault, French businesswoman
1975 - Thobias Fredriksson, Swedish cross-country skier
1975 - Pamela Ribon, American author, actress
1976 - Emerson, Brazilian footballer
1976 - Sébastien Enjolras, French racing driver (d. 1997)
1977 - Adam Dutkiewicz, American guitarist and producer(Killswitch Engage)
1977 - Stephen Mulhern, British magician, CITV Presenter
1977 - Omarr Ali Hasan Smith, American Arena Football League defensive back
1978 - Irene Skliva, Athens Greece, Miss World (1996)
1978 - Jason Ellison, American baseball player
1978 - Lemar, English R'n'B singer
1978 - Alan Mahon, Irish footballer
1978 - Sam Moran, Australian entertainer
1978 - Aska Yang, Taiwanese singer
1979 - Charles Butler, Salt Lake City Utah, dance skater (& Joseph-1997 Natl)
1979 - Rebecca Stoyel, South Australia, gymnast (Olympics-96)
1979 - Andy McKee, American musician
1979 - Heath Ledger, Australian/American Actor. (d.2008)
1979 - Roberto Luongo, Canadian ice hockey goaltender
1980 - Björn Wirdheim, Swedish race car driver
1980 - Johnny Borrell, English singer (Razorlight)
1980 - Trevor Moore, American comedian
1983 - Fabian Geiser, Swiss footballer
1983 - Doug Lynch, Canadian ice hockey player
1983 - Angelle Tymon, American journalist and TV game show host
1983 - Ben Gordon, American professional basketball player
1984 - Arkady Vyatchanin, Russian swimmer
1985 - Rudy Fernández, Spanish basketball player
1986 - Aiden McGeady, Republic of Ireland and Celtic footballer,
1986 - Cameron Barker, Professional ice hockey player
1987 - Cameron Maybin, American baseball player
1987 - Devon Anderson, English actor
1987 - Sarah Gadon, Canadian actress
1988 - Frank Fielding, English footballer
1991 - Jamie Lynn Spears, American actress
1992 - Alexa Nikolas, American actress
1994 - Risako Sugaya, Japanese singer

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 04, 2013, 03:06:56 PM

This Day in History for 4th April


Famous Deaths

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Industrialist Andre Michelin (1941)      Clergyman and civil rights activist            Actress Gloria Swanson (1983)
                                                                Martin Luther King Jr, (1968)


397 - Ambrosius, gov of Liguria/bishop of Milan (374-97)/saint, dies
636 - Saint Isidore of Seville, Church Father and the proposed patron of Internet (b. cira 560)
896 - Formosus, Pope (891-96), dies
1229 - Hugo van Pierrepont, bishop of Liege, dies
1284 - Alfonso X, "El Sabio" King of Castile/Leon (1252-84), dies at 62
1292 - Nicholas IV, [Girolamo Masci], Pope (1288-92), dies
1305 - Jeanne of Navarre, wife of Philip IV of France (b. circa 1217)
1393 - Floris van Wevelinkhoven, bishop of Utrecht, dies
1406 - Robert III, King of Scots (1390-1406), dies
1417 - John van Touraine, 1st husband of Jacoba of Bavaria, dies
1536 - Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (b. 1460)
1585 - Caspar de Robles, Spanish viceroy of Frisia, dies at about 57
1588 - Frederik II, King of Denmark/Norway (1559-88), dies at 53
1604 - Thomas Churchyard, poet/pamphleteer, dies
1609 - Charles de L'Ecluse, Flemish botanist (b. 1526)
1617 - John Napier, Scottish mathematician/inventor (logarithms), dies
1643 - Simon Episcopius, [Bisschop], Dutch theologist, dies at 60
1661 - Alexander Leslie, 1st Earl of Leven, Scottish soldier (b. circa 1580)
1662 - Davis Mell, composer, dies at 57
1662 - Leonhart Kern, German sculptor , dies at about 73
1664 - Adam Willaerts, Dutch seascape painter, dies
1701 - Joseph Haines, entertainer and author
1714 - Karel, duke of Berry/French heir to the throne, dies
1734 - Johann C van Erckel, old Catholic theologist, dies at about 79
1743 - Daniel Neal, English historian (b. 1678)
1761 - Theodore Gardelle, Swiss painter and enameler (b. 1722)
1766 - John Taylor, English classical scholar (b. 1704)
1774 - Oliver Goldsmith, Irish poet (She Stoops to Conquer), dies at 17
1784 - Mary Mead, wife of English journalist John Wilkes, dies
1792 - James Sykes, American politician (b. 1725)
1806 - Friedrich Gottlob Fleischer, composer, dies at 84
1807 - Joseph Jerome Le Francais de Lalande, French astronomer, dies
1817 - André Masséna, Duke of Rivoli, Prince d'Essing and Marshal of France (b. 1758)
1841 - William Henry Harrison, becomes 1st pres to die in office, at 68
1844 - Charles Bulfinch, 1st US pro architect (Mass State House), dies at 80
1846 - Solomon Sibley, American senator from Michigan Territory (b. 1769)
1861 - John McLean, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1785)
1862 - Harmen S Sytstra, Dutch poet/editor (Iduna), dies at 45
1863 - Ludwig Emil Grimm, German painter and engraver (b. 1790)
1864 - Joseph Pitty Couthouy, American naval officer (b. 1808)
1870 - Heinrich Gustav Magnus, German chemist and physicist (b. 1802)
1874 - Charles Ernest Beulé, French archaeologist and politician (b. 1826)
1878 - Richard Brewer, American gunslinger/cowboy (b. 1850)
1879 - Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, German physicist (b. 1803)
1883 - Peter Cooper, American industrialist, inventor and philanthropist (b. 1791)
1884 - Marie Bashkirtseff, Russian artist and diarist (b. 1860)
1889 - Thomas T H Jorissen, historian, dies at 56
1890 - Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau, Quebec politician (b. 1820)
1890 - Edmond Hébert, French geologist (b. 1812)
1893 - Alphonse LPP de Candolle, Swiss botanist, dies at 86
1900 - Edward VII, King, assassinated
1905 - Constantin Meunier, Belgian painter/sculptor, dies at 73
1908 - Josef Sucher, composer, dies at 64
1919 - William Crookes, English chemist/physicist (Crookes-pipe), dies at 86
1923 - L Martov, [Joulij O Tsederbaum], Russ revolutionary, dies at 49
1923 - John Venn, British mathematician (b. 1834)
1929 - Karl Friedrich Benz, automobile engineer (Mercedes), dies at 84
1930 - Vladimir Majakovski, Russian poet, dies
1931 - George Whitefield Chadwick, composer, dies at 76
1932 - Ottokar T Czernin von und zu Chudenitz, Austrian minister, dies at 59
1932 - Wilhelm Ostwald, physical chemist (Nobel 1909), dies
1934 - Braulio Dueno Colon, composer, dies at 80
1937 - Frantisek X Salda, Czech writer/critic, dies at 69
1938 - Cyril Christiani, cricket wicket keep (WI 1935), dies of malaria at 24
1941 - Andre Michelin, French tire manufacturer, dies at 88
1941 - Max Frisch, writer, dies at 29
1943 - Oskar Schlemmer, German painter/sculptor, dies at 54
1943 - Raoul Laparra, composer, dies at 66
1944 - John Peale Bishop, US poet (Undertaker's Garland), dies at 51
1944 - Karel Weis, composer, dies at 82
1947 - William O'Donnell, Irish politician (b. ?)
1951 - Al Christie, Canadian film director and producer (b. 1881)
1951 - George Albert Smith, President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the LDS
           or Mormon Church) (b. 1870)
1953 - Carol II, King of Romania (1930-40), dies at 59
1953 - Rachilde, [Marguerite Vallette-Eymery], French author, dies at 93
1957 - E. Herbert Norman, Canadian diplomat (b. 1909)
1958 - Hendrik Heyman, Belgian minister of Nijverheid/mayor, dies at 78
1958 - Johnny Stompanato, American organized crime figure (b. 1925)
1959 - Stanley Snooke, cricketer (bro of S J, duck in South African Test), dies
1961 - Simion Stoilow, Romanian mathematician (b. 1873)
1962 - James Hanratty, executed at Bedford Prison, England, for the murder of Michael Gregsten (b.
           1936)
1963 - Endzion Barelli, dies 2 days after winning a boxing match at 18
1963 - Jason Robards Sr, actor (Acapulco), dies at 70
1967 - Mischa Elman, Ukraine/US violinist, dies at 76
1967 - Héctor Scarone, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1898)
1967 - Al Lewis, American songwriter (b. 1901)
1968 - Martin Luther King Jr, assassinated at the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis Tennessee at 39
1970 - Byron Foulger, actor (Capt Nice, Petticoat Junction), dies at 70
1972 - Adam Clayton Powell Jr, (Rep-D-NY), dies at 63
1972 - John A H J S Bruins Slot, co-founder/editor in chief (illegal), dies
1972 - Stefan Wolpe, German composer (Zeus & Elidco), dies at 69
1976 - Harry Nyquist, Swedish contributor to information theory (b. 1889)
1977 - Jeno Zador, composer, dies at 82
1978 - Gino Contilli, composer, dies at 70
1979 - Edgar Buchanan, actor (Uncle Joe-Petticoat Junction), dies at 77
1979 - Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Pakistani president, hanged in Pakistan at 51
1980 - Red Sovine, American country music singer (b. 1917)
1981 - Brad Johnson, actor (Annie Oakley), dies at 56
1982 - Tsvetan Tsvetanov, composer, dies at 50
1983 - Gloria Swanson, actress (Airport 1975), dies of a heart ailment at 84
1983 - Jacqueline Logan, silent film leading lady, dies at 78
1984 - John Arnold, cricketer (Eng bat v NZ 1931, scored 34 only Test), dies
1984 - Oleg Antonov, Soviet airplane engineer (b. 1906)
1985 - Kate Roberts, Welsh nationalist and writer (b. 1891)
1986 - Frank Mortelmans, Belgian painter, dies at 87
1987 - C[atherine] L[ucille] Moore, author (Judgment Night), dies at 76
1987 - C.L. Moore, American writer (b. 1911)
1991 - John Heinz, (Sen-R-Pa), dies in a plane crash, dies at 52
1991 - Luc de Rijck, Belgian soccer player (Turnhout), dies
1991 - Max Frisch, Swiss architect/writer (Stiller, Biedermann), dies at 79
1991 - Edmund Adamkiewicz, German footballer (b. 1920)
1991 - Forrest Towns, American hurdler (b. 1914)
1992 - Karl Tunberg, US scriptwriter (Ben Hur), dies
1992 - Samuel Reshevsky, Polish-born chess grandmaster, dies at 80
1992 - Sy Kramer, singer/comedy writer dies of cancer at 59
1992 - Arthur Russell, American cellist (b. 1951)
1993 - Alfred Mosher Butts, US architect/game maker (Scrabble), dies at 93
1993 - Bep [Alberta B] Ogterop, [Rita la Roche], singer, dies
1994 - Olga Lowina, Dutch yodeler (Edelweisskapel), dies at 69
1994 - Virginia "Ginny" Simms, actress/singer (Kay Kyser Band), dies at 77
1995 - Kenny Everett, disc Jockey, dies at 50
1995 - Peter Brinson, dance educationalist, dies at 67
1995 - Priscilla Lane, actress (Saboteur, Bodyguard), dies at 77
1996 - Carl Burton Stokes, politician, dies at 68
1996 - David Keylsey, actor/director, dies at 63
1996 - David Whitton, campaigner, dies at 44
1996 - Frederick Denison Maurice Hocking, pathologist, dies at 97
1996 - Joy Newton, dancer, dies at 82
1996 - Larry Laprise, songwriter, dies at 83
1996 - Seamas NacNeill, piper, dies at 79
1996 - Barney Ewell, American athlete (b. 1918)
1999 - Faith Domergue, American actor (b. 1924)
1999 - Early Wynn, American baseball player (b. 1920)
2001 - Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, American custom car designer (b. 1932)
2002 - Harry L. O'Connor, Czech film stuntman
2003 - Anthony Caruso, American actor (b. 1916)
2003 - Resortes, Mexican comedian (b. 1916)
2004 - Alberic Schotte, Belgian cyclist (b. 1919)
2004 - Casey Sheehan, American soldier, son of Cindy Sheehan (b. 1979)
2005 - Edward Bronfman, Canadian businessman (b. 1924)
2007 - Bob Clark, American film director (b. 1941)
2007 - Terry Hall, English ventriloquist (b. 1927)
2008 - Francis Tucker, South African Rally Driver (b. 1923)
2011 - Scott Columbus, American drummer (Manowar) (b. 1956)
2011 - Juliano Mer-Khamis, Israeli actor, director, filmmaker and political activist (b. 1958)
2012 - Claude Miller, French director and screen writer, dies at 70

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Post by: MysteRy on April 05, 2013, 04:18:02 PM

This Day in History for 5th April


Historical Events

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First US President                                    Author Helen Keller                               Writer/Poet Oscar Wilde
George Washington

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Baseball Great Babe Ruth                             Singer & Cultural Icon                               Singer & Actress
                                                                           Elvis Presley                                      Barbra Streisand

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Playwright Tom Stoppard                          NHL all-time top scorer                         Comedian David Letterman
                                                                        Wayne Gretzky

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WWF Wrestler Hulk Hogan


456 - St. Patrick returns to Ireland as a missionary bishop.
823 - Pope Peschalis I crowns Lotharius I, co-emperor of France
1058 - Bishop John "Minchio," [domkop] elected as Pope Benedictus X
1242 - Alexander Nevsky of Novgorod defeats Teutonic Knights
1566 - 200 Brussel nobles offer Margaretha of Parma a petition
1585 - Clemens Crabbeels becomes bishop of Hertogenbosch
1603 - New English king James I departs Edinburgh for London
1609 - Daimyo (Lord) of the Satsuma Domain in southern Kyūshū, Japan, completes his successful
           invasion of the Ryūkyū Kingdom in Okinawa.
1614 - 2nd parliament of King James I begin session (no enactments)
1621 - Mayflower sails from Plymouth on a return trip to England
1648 - Spanish troops/feudal barons strike down people's uprising in Naples
1722 - Jacob Roggeveen discovers Easter Island
1739 - French emperor Karel VI sign secret treaty
1751 - Adolf Frederik of Holstein-Gottorp crowns himself king of Sweden
1762 - British take Grenada, West Indies, from French
1768 - 1st US Chamber of Commerce forms (NYC)
1792 - George Washington casts 1st presidential veto
1803 - 1st performance of Beethoven's 2nd Symphony in D
1804 - High Possil Meteorite: The first recorded meteorite in Scotland falls in Possil.
1806 - Isaac Quintard patents apple cider
1812 - Brits storm Badajoz fortress, held by French & Spanish
1814 - Netherlands Bank issues it's 1st banknotes
1815 - Eruption of Tambora volcano (Sumbawa Java)
1818 - In the Battle of Maipú, Chile's independence movement - led by Bernardo O'Higgins and José 
           de San Martín - win a decisive victory over Spain, leaving 2,000 Spaniards and 1,000 Chilean 
           patriots dead.
1861 - Federals abandon Ft Quitman, Tx
1862 - Siege of Yorktown VA
1865 - Battle at Amelia Springs/Jetersville Va (Appomattox Campaign)
1874 - Johann Strauss Jr's opera "Die Fledermaus," premieres in Vienna
1874 - Birkenhead Park, the first civic public park, is opened in Birkenhead, England. Designed by 
           Joseph Paxton
1879 - Chile declares war on Bolivia and Peru, starting the War of the Pacific.
1881 - Transvaal regains independence under British suzerainty
1887 - Anne Sullivan teaches "water" to Helen Keller
1889 - Start of Sherlock Holmes' "Adventure of Copper Beeches" (BG)
1893 - Cleveland passes Park Act (forerunner of Metroparks)
1894 - 11 strikers killed in riot at Connellsville, Penn
1894 - Start of Sherlock Holmes' "Adventure of Empty House" (BG)
1895 - Start of Sherlock Holmes' "Adventure of 3 Students" (BG)
1895 - Oscar Wilde loses libel case against Marquess of Queensberry, who accused him of         
           homosexual practices
1896 - 1st modern Olympic Games officially opens in Athens
1897 - The Greco-Turkish War, also called "Thirty Days' War", is declared between Greece and the
           Ottoman Empire.
1900 - Attempted assassination of Edward, British Prince of Wales in Brussels, fails
1902 - Maurice Ravel's "Pavane pour une infante defunte," premieres in Paris
1902 - In Glasgow, Scotland the Ibrox disaster occurs after a section of a grandstand collapses
           killing 25 and injuring 517
1904 - The first international rugby league match is played between England and an Other
           Nationalities team (Welsh & Scottish players) in Central Park, Wigan, England.
1905 - James Barrie's "Alice-sit-by-the-fire," premieres in London
1906 - St Pius X encyclical "On the Mariavites or Mystic Priests of Poland"
1908 - British premier Henry Campbell-Bannerman resigns
1911 - MCC tour match v Jamaica finishes in a tie
1911 - Waldorf W Aster acquires Daily Observer
1915 - French begin Woëvre-offensive
1915 - Jess Willard KOs Jack Johnson in 26 for heavyweight boxing title
1916 - French troops occupy Bois de Caillette
1919 - Eamon de Valera becomes president of Dail Eireann
1919 - Polish Army executes 35 young Jews
1922 - KOB-AM in Albuquerque NM begins radio transmissions
1922 - WDZ-AM in Decatur IL begins radio transmissions
1923 - Firestone Co put their inflatable tires into production
1925 - Belgian Workers Party wins parliamentary election
1925 - Yankees whip Dodgers in exhibition 16-9 but Babe Ruth collapses in NC due to an ulcer
1927 - Johnny Weissmuller set records in 100 & 200 m free style
1929 - Lithuania signs Litvinov-pact
1930 - England out for 849 v WI Kingston, Sandham out for 325
1932 - Dutch textile strike broken by trade unions
1932 - Dominion of Newfoundland: 10,000 rioters seize the Colonial Building leading to the end of
           self-government.
1935 - Croatian Farmers Party wins Yugoslavian election
1936 - Tupelo Mississippi virtually annihilated by a tornado, 216 die
1938 - Anti-Jewish riots break out in Dabrowa Poland
1939 - Membership in Hitler Youth becomes obligatory
1941 - In SF, Castro & Fillmore streetcars replaced by buses
1943 - Allies bomb Mortsel
1943 - Japanese troops conquer Indin
1943 - Poon Lim found after being adrift 133 days
1944 - 140 Lancasters bomb airplane manufacturer in Toulouse
1944 - World War II: 270 inhabitants of the Greek town of Kleisoura are executed by the Germans.
1945 - Almelo Netherlands freed
1945 - Kuniaki Koiso resigns as PM of Japan; replaced by Kantaro Suzuki
1946 - 1st performance of Charles Ives' 3rd Symphony
1948 - WGN TV channel 9 in Chicago, IL (IND) begins broadcasting
1949 - 60 year old St Anthony's Hospital burns, kills 77 (Effingham Ill)
1949 - Fireside Theater debuts on television.
1950 - Prague espionage trial against bishops & priests begins
1951 - Julius & Ethel Rosenberg, atomic spies, sentenced to death
1952 - Henry Wittenberg wins his 8th AAU wrestling title
1953 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
1953 - WEYI TV channel 25 in Saginaw, MI (CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 - Elvis Presley records his debut single, "That's All Right"
1955 - Winston Churchill resigns as British PM, Anthony Eden succeeds him
1956 - In Sri Lanka, the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna win the general elections in a landslide and
           S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike is sworn in as the Prime Minister.
1958 - Ripple Rock, an underwater threat to navigation in the Seymour Narrows in Canada is
           destroyed in one of the largest non-nuclear controlled explosions of the time.
1959 - 23rd Golf Masters Championship: Art Wall Jr wins, shooting a 284
1961 - Barbra Streisand appears on "Jack Paar Show"
1961 - Dutch governor Platteel installs New Guinea Council
1962 - Herb Gardner's "Thousand Clowns," premieres in NYC
1962 - Mgr J Daems appointed bishop of Antwerp
1962 - NASA civilian pilot Neil A Armstrong takes X-15 to 54,600 m
1962 - St Bernard Tunnel finished-Swiss/Italians workers shake hands
1963 - Beatles receive their 1st silver disc (Please Please Me)
1963 - Susuga Malietoa Tanumafili II becomes chief of Western Samoa
1964 - 1st driverless trains run on London Underground
1964 - Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA St Petersburg Women's Golf Open
1965 - 37th Academy Awards - "My Fair Lady," Rex Harrison & J Andrews win
1965 - Lava Lamp Day celebrated
1965 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1966 - WTVX TV channel 34 in Ft Pierce-Vero Beach, FL (IND) 1st broadcast
1967 - '76er Wilt Chamberlain sets NBA record of 41 rebounds
1967 - ATS II launched but fails to reach orbit
1968 - Jack Murphy Stadium in San Diego opens
1968 - US marine base Khe San Vietnam, appalled
1969 - Vietnam War: Massive antiwar demonstrations occur in many U.S. cities.
1970 - WSNS TV channel 44 in Chicago, IL (IND) begins broadcasting
1971 - Fran Phipps is 1st woman to reach North Pole
1971 - Mount Etna erupts in Sicily Italy
1971 - US Lt Wiliam Calley (My Lai Massacre) sentenced to life
1971 - WNJT TV channel 52 in Trenton, NJ (PBS) begins broadcasting
1971 - In Sri Lanka, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna launches insurrection against the United Front
           government of Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike.
1972 - Baseball season is delayed due to a strike
1972 - Mets trade Ken Singleton to Expos for Rusty Staub
1973 - NFL adopts jersey numbering system (ie QBs, 1-19)
1973 - Pioneer 11 launched to Jupiter
1974 - Last day of Test cricket for Garry Sobers & Rohan Kanhai
1974 - Then tallest building, World Trade Center opens in NYC (110 stories)
1975 - "Letter for Queen Victoria" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 18 perfs
1975 - Soyuz 18A launch aborted short of orbit; cosmonauts return safely
1976 - Harold Wilson resigns as James Callaghan becomes PM of England
1976 - Tom Stoppard's "Dirty Linen," premieres in London
1977 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1979 - Balt manager Earl Weaver wins his 1,000th game as a skipper
1979 - Ex-premier Pol Jar flees out of Cambodia
1981 - 10th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Nancy Lopez
1981 - Phila Flyers amass a record 2,621 penalty minutes
1982 - British fleet sails to Falkland Islands
1982 - Cards' Jim Kaat, pitches in record 24th consecutive season
1982 - Lord Carrington, British foreign sect resigns due to Falkland Is war
1983 - France throws out 47 Soviet diplomats
1983 - NY Met Tom Seaver's sets record 14th NL Opening Day assignment
1984 - "Human Comedy" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 13 performances
1984 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar breaks Wilt Chamberlain's all-time career scoring record of 31,419
           points (31,421)
1986 - Record for a throw-and-return boomerang toss is set (121m)
1986 - US soldier & Turkish woman killed in West Berlin disco bombing
1987 - 16th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Betsy King
1987 - Fox TV network premieres showing Married With Children & Tracey Ullman
1987 - Wayne Gretzky wins 7th straight NHL scoring title
1988 - Democratic convention picks Michael Dukakis as their pres candidate
1989 - David Letterman becomes 1st network TV series to use dolby stereo
1989 - Orel Hershiser ends his 59 consecutive scoreless pitched inning streak
1989 - Solidarity grants legal status in Poland
1990 - John Stockton reaches 1000-assist mark for NBA record 3 yrs in a row
1990 - NY Rangers beat NY Islanders 2-1 in 1st game of preliminary
1990 - Paul Newman wins a court victory over Julius Gold, to keep giving all profits from Newman
           foods to charity
1991 - Joe Dumaars (Detroit) ends NBA free throw streak of 62 games
1991 - Kitty Kelly publishes a book knocking Nancy Reagan
1991 - Southeast Airlines Embracer 120 crashes in Georgia, killing 23
1991 - Space Shuttle STS 37 (Atlantis 8 ) launched
1991 - US begins air drops to Kurd refugees in Northern Iraq
1992 - "Search & Destroy" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 46 perfs
1992 - 11th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Stanford beats Western Ky 78-62
1992 - 4th Seniors Golf Tradition: Lee Trevino
1992 - Dana Lofland wins Las Vegas LPGA Golf International
1992 - Game 2 of Mayor Challenge - NY Yankees sweep NY Mets 6-5 at Shea
1992 - Peru's Pres Alberto Fujimori suspend constitution & dissolved Congress
1992 - Thailand General Suchinda Kraprayoon installed as president
1992 - Wrestlemania VIII, 62,167 at Hoosier Dome, Hulk Hogan DQs Sid Justice
1992 - Several hundred-thousand abortion rights demonstrators march in Washington, D.C.
1993 - 55th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: NC beats Michigan 77-71
1993 - 73,293 see Yankees beat Indians 9-1
1993 - Colorado Rockies 1st game - lose to NY Mets 3-0
1993 - Construction begins on Cleveland's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
1993 - Florida Marlins 1st game - beat LA Dodgers 6-3
1993 - Republican Guard kills 64 in Chad
1994 - "Jackie Mason Politically Incorrect" opens at Golden NYC for 347 perfs
1994 - Miami Heat beat NY Knicks ending 15 game NBA winning streak
1996 - John Bobbitt is put under house arrest in Las Vegas for 120 days
1996 - Marlon Brando makes anti-semetic remarks about hollywood on Larry King
1997 - Galileo, 3rd Ganymede Flyby (Orbit 7)
1998 - 10th Seniors Golf Tradition:
1999 - Two Libyans suspected of bringing down Pan Am flight 103 in 1988 are handed over for
           eventual trial in the Netherlands.
2009 - North Korea launches its controversial Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2 rocket. The satellite passed over
           mainland Japan, which prompted an immediate reaction from the United Nations Security 
           Council, as well as participating states of Six-party talks.
2012 - Severe storms in Argentina kill 14 people
2012 - 77 year old pensioner's suicide outside Greece's parliament prompts further protests in
           Athens
2012 - International internet group Anonymous hack several Chinese bureaus in opposition to
           censorship
2063 - Earth's 1st contact with the extra-terrestrial Vulcan species in the Star Trek universe

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 05, 2013, 04:22:19 PM

This Day in History for 5th April


Famous Weddings

1614 - American Indian princess Pocahontas, daughter of chief Powhatan marries English colonist John
           Rolfe
1992 - Comedian Sam Kenison marries live-in girlfriend Maleeka

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 05, 2013, 04:37:42 PM

This Day in History for 5th April


Famous Birthdays

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Education Pioneer Booker                       US General & Secretary of State             Singer Agnetha Fältskog (1950)
Taliaferro Washington (1856)                           Colin Powell (1937)   


1288 - Emperor Go-Fushimi of Japan (d. 1336)
1472 - Bianca Maria Sforza, wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1510)
1523 - Blaise de Vigenère, French cryptographer (d. 1596)
1588 - Thomas Hobbes, England, philosopher (Leviathan)
1595 - John Wilson, composer
1598 - Laurentius Erhard, composer
1604 - Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1675)
1622 - Vincenzo Viviani, Italian mathematician (d. 1703)
1626 - Jan van Kessel, Flemish painter
1643 - Charles V Leopold, Duke of Lorraine/fieldmarshal in Austria
1649 - Elihu Yale, England, philanthropist founded Yale
1692 - Adrienne Lecouvreur, French actress (d. 1730)
1698 - Georg Gottfried Wagner, composer
1725 - Giacomo Casanova, Italian writer/philanderer/adventurer (uncertain)
1727 - Pasquale Ankossi, composer
1732 - Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French artist (d. 1806)
1752 - Sébastien Érard, French musical instruments maker (d. 1831)
1784 - Louis [Ludwig] Spohr, Germany, violin virtuoso/composer (Faust)
1788 - Franz Pforr, German painter/cartoonist (Lukasbund)
1795 - Henry Havelock, British soldier (War in Afghanistan 1838-39)
1799 - Vincenzo Fioravanti, composer
1816 - Samuel Freeman Miller, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1890)
1818 - Lewis Baldwin Parsons, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1820 - Nadar, [Félix Tournachon], French painter/cartoonist/author/ballonist
1822 - James Nagle, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1866
1824 - Sydney Thompson Dobell, poet (Roman)
1825 - David Rumph "Neighbor" Jones, Major General (Confederate Army)
1827 - Joseph Lister, England, physician (founded aseptic surgery)
1828 - Pietro Plantania, composer
1830 - Alexander Muir, Lesmahagow Scotland, poet (Maple Leaf Forever)
1832 - Jules-Francois Camille Ferry, French statesman
1837 - Algernon Charles Swinburne, England, poet (Atalanta in Calydon)
1838 - Alpheus Hyatt, US, invertebrate paleontologist
1839 - Robert Smalls, Beaufort SC, black congressman 1875-87 (Rep-SC)
1839 - Stanislaw Pilinski, composer
1845 - Jules M Cambon, French gov-gen of Algeria/ambassador
1853 - Alfonso Randano, composer
1854 - Vicente Goicoechea Errasti, composer
1856 - Booker Taliaferro Washington, pioneer educator (1st black on US stamp)
1857 - Alexander-Jozef von Battenberg, ruler of Bulgaria (1879-86)
1859 - Wilhelm Harteveld, composer
1862 - Louis Ganne, composer
1868 - J F "Flooi" Du Toit, cricketer (one Test South Africa 1892)
1869 - Albert Roussel, Tourcoing France, composer (Rapsodie Flamende)
1869 - Sergei Chaplygin, Russian physicist and engineer (d. 1942)
1871 - Jeanne Bougeois, [La Mistinguette], artist (French revue)
1871 - Mirko Seljan, Croatian explorer (d. 1913?)
1872 - Samuel Cate Prescott, American food scientist and microbiologist (d. 1962)
1875 - Mistinguett, French vaudeville performer (d. 1956)
1876 - Viktor Patrick Vretblad, composer
1882 - Don Blackie, cricketer (Australian off-spinner in 1928-29 yes, age 46)
1885 - Dimitrie Cuclin, composer
1886 - Jacques Handschin, Swiss musicologist (Der Toncharakter)
1890 - Fie Carelsen, Dutch actress (Malle Gervallen)
1893 - Clas Thunberg, Finland, speed skater (Olympic-gold-1924, 28)
1899 - William Hornby Steer, barrister/judge
1900 - Spencer Tracy, Milwaukee, actor (Father's Little Dividend, Adam's Rib)
1901 - Alexander Alexeieff, Russian/French painter/graphic artist
1901 - Chester Bowles, Mass, ambassador/writer (Conscience of a Liberal)
1901 - Melvyn Douglas, [Hesselberg], Macon Ga, actor (Hud, Ghost Story)
1903 - Thomas Baron Pitfield, composer
1905 - Bill Raisch, one armed actor (Fred Johnson-Fugitive)
1905 - Jef Maes, composer
1906 - Arthur Guy Clutton-Brock, English agronomist
1906 - Lord Buckley, American monologist (d. 1960)
1907 - J Zeldenrust, Dutch pathologist/anatomist
1908 - Bette Davis, Lowell Mass, famous eyes (Of Human Bondage, Jezebel)
1908 - George Schick, Prague Czech, conductor (Chicago Symphony)
1908 - Grady Sutton, Chattanooga Tn, actor (Pruitts of South Hampton)
1908 - Herbert von Karajan, Austria, Nazi/conductor (Berlin Philharmonic)
1908 - Jagjivan Ram, Indian politician (d. 1986)
1909 - Alberto Romero "Cubby" Broccoli, NYC, film producer (James Bond)
1909 - Cubby Alberto Romolo Broccoli, movie producer
1909 - Gerald Bond, cricketer (one Test South Africa v England 1938, 0 & 0-16)
1911 - Goddard Lieberson, Hanley Staffordshire England, recording exec
1911 - Gordon Jones, Alden Iowa, actor (Mike the Cop-Abbott & Costello)
1912 - John Le Mesurier, Bedford England, actor (Jabberwocky, Dad's Army)
1913 - Alan Cheales, dominican priest
1914 - Frederick Angus Armstrong, journalist
1916 - Baroness Delacourt-Smith of Alteryn
1916 - Bernard Baily, comic artist
1916 - Gregory Peck, La Jolla California, actor (To Kill a Mockingbird, MacArthur)
1917 - Richard Yardumian, Philadelphia, composer (Come Creator Spirit)
1917 - Robert [Albert] Bloch, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Psycho)
1919 - Douglas Henley, British auditor-general
1920 - Arthur Hailey, Luton England, novelist (Hotel, Airport)
1920 - Barend Biesheuvel, Dutch premier (1971-73)
1920 - Rafique Zakaria, Indian author (d. 2005)
1921 - Lady Fisher, founder (British Women Caring Trust)
1921 - Les Jackson, cricket bowler (England twice, 1949 & 1961)
1921 - Robert Q Lewis, NYC, TV host (Masquerade Party, Robert Q Lewis Show)
1922 - Gale Storm, Bloomington Tx, actr (My Little Margie, Gale Storm Show)
1922 - Harry Freedman, composer
1922 - Tom Finney, British soccer star
1922 - Tom Finney, English footballer
1923 - Ernest Mandel, Belgian philosopher/economist
1923 - Michael V Gazzo, Hillside NJ, actor (Cookie, Fear City)
1923 - Nguyen Van Thieu, South Vietnam president (1965-75)
1923 - Stanley Orme, Chairman (British Labour Party)
1924 - Mart Kempers, Dutch graphic artist/sculptor
1925 - Oldrich Flosman, composer
1926 - Milton O Thompson, astronaut (Dynasoar, X-15)
1926 - Roger Corman, Detroit, producer/director (Little Shop of Horrors)
1927 - John Gilbert, MP
1928 - David Farquhar Andress, composer
1928 - Michael Bryant, London England, actor (Sakharov, Girly)
1928 - Peter Moore, Principal (London Business School)
1928 - Tony Williams, Elizabeth NJ, singer (Platters-Only You, Harbor Lights)
1928 - Will Gaines, jazz dancer
1929 - Hugo Claus, Flemish writer/director (Cool Lover, Sugar)
1929 - Nigel Hawthorne, actor (Tartuffe, Pope John Paul II)
1929 - Joe Meek, English record producer
1931 - Denis Lawton, director (London University Institute of Educ)
1932 - Billy Bland, American singer and songwriter
1933 - Frank Gorshin, Pittsburgh Pa, comedian/impersonator (Riddler-Batman)
1933 - Larry Felser, American sports columnist
1934 - Stanley Turrentine, jazz saxophonist (Wonderland)
1934 - Tina Maria Stone, runner (1 year distance record of 15,472 miles)
1934 - Roman Herzog, German politician
1935 - Donald Lynden-Bell, British astronomer
1935 - Peter Grant, rock band manager
1936 - John Albert, professor (Master of University College Oxford)
1936 - John White, Berlin, English composer and musical performer
1936 - Michael Livesay, British admiral/pres (RN College Greenwich)
1936 - John Kelly, Irish republican politician (d. 2007)
1937 - Colin Powell, Bronx NY, general/asst to president (Nat Sec Affairs)
1937 - Stuart May, senior partner (Theodore Goddard)
1937 - Allan R. Thieme, American inventor
1938 - Colin Bland, cricketer (South African bat Maybe the best cover field)
1938 - Ronald Anthony White Jr, singer
1939 - Andrew Buxton, CEO (Barclays Bank)
1939 - David Winters, London England, choreographer (Steve Allen Comedy Hour)
1939 - Lonnie White, vocalist (Smokey Robinson & Miracles-Shop Around)
1939 - Crispian St. Peters, British singer
1940 - Aliza Kashi, Israel, actress/singer (Merv Griffin regular)
1941 - Dave Swarbrick, rocker (Fairport Convention)
1941 - Michael Moriarty, Detroit, actor (Bang the Drum Slowly, Q, Stuff)
1941 - Roman Balayan, Nerke Azerbaijan, director (Filer, Biryuk)
1942 - Allan Clarke, rock vocalist (Hollies-Air That I Breathe)
1942 - Arthur Barrett, cricketer (WI leggie early 70's)
1942 - Peter Greenaway, Welsh film director
1943 - Jonathan Lynn, Bath England, actor (Danny-Doctor in the House)
1943 - Max Gail, Detroit, (Barney Miller, Whiz Kids, DC Cab, Normal People)
1943 - Max Gail, American actor
1944 - Ann [Elizabeth] Maxwell, US, sci-fi author (Jaws of Menx)
1944 - Dave Holland, heavy metal rocker (Judas Priest-Breakin' the Law)
1944 - James Buckley, CEO (Baltic Exchange)
1944 - Lord Rockley
1944 - Nicholas Caldwell, rocker (Whispers)
1944 - Peter T King, (Rep-R-New York)
1944 - Willeke van Ammelrooy, Amsterdam, actress (Cidke de Rat, Antonia)
1944 - Pedro Rossello, Puerto Rican politician
1945 - Tommy Smith, English footballer
1946 - Jane Asher, Paul McCartney's girlfriend/actress (Deep End)
1946 - Jennifer Penney, ballerina
1946 - Larry Frederick Wendt, composer
1946 - Robert E McKee, CEO/managing director (Conoco-UK)
1947 - Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, President of the Philippines
1949 - Judith Arlene Resnik, Akron Ohio, ast (STS 41D, 51L-Chal disaster)
1950 - Agnetha Fältskog [Anna Ulvaeus], Swedish singer (ABBA)
1950 - Franklin R Chang-Diaz, Costa Rica, astro (STS 61C, 34,46,60,75, sk:91)
1950 - Mildred Douglas, Surinames/Dutch singer (Mai Tai)
1950 - Miki Manojlović, Serbian actor
1951 - Everett Morton, rocker (English Beat)
1951 - Roosevel Ferguson, Arkansas, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
1951 - Dean Kamen, American inventor
1952 - Mitch Pileggi, American actor
1953 - John Buchanan, cricketer (Qld batsman 78-79, Shield coach 1995)
1954 - Christopher S Nelson, New Orleans LA, actor (Sons & Daughters)
1954 - Michael W Butler, computer programmer (created TODAY program)
1954 - Stan Ridgeway, rocker (Mosquito-Garage Sale)
1955 - Janice Long, British radio host (Crash FM)
1955 - Renate Bruemmer, astronaut/cosmonaut
1955 - Akira Toriyama, Japanese manga artist
1955 - Charlotte de Turckheim, French actress
1956 - Diamond Dallas Page, American professional wrestler
1957 - Vince Gill, Norman Oklahoma, country singer (When I Call Your Name)
1958 - Cammie Lusko, LA California, Guinness' World Strongest Woman
1958 - Johan Kriek, South Africa, tennis player (US Indoor 1982)
1961 - Lisa Zane, American actress
1961 - Jim LeRoy, Airshow Pilot
1962 - Lana Clarkson, American actress (d. 2003)
1964 - Martha Faulconer, Indianapolis IN, golfer (1993 ShopRite LPGA-5th)
1964 - Robert "Bob" Kaehler, Burlingame California, rower (Olympics-5th-1992, 96)
1964 - Christopher "Kid" Reid, American rapper (Kid 'n Play)
1965 - Cris Carpenter, American baseball player
1966 - Brent Hughes, New Westminster Ca, NHL left wing (Buffalo Sabres)
1966 - Larry Norman, Toronto Ontario, canoeist (Olympics-19-92, 96)
1966 - Scott Dill, NFL tackle/guard (Tampa Bay Bucs, Minnesota Vikings)
1967 - Gary Gait, Canadian lacrosse player
1968 - Gianna Amore, Warwick RI, playmate (August, 1989)
1968 - Tasia Valenza, NYC, actress (All My Children)
1968 - Paula Cole, American musician
1970 - Erlan Sagymbayev, hockey forward (Team Kazakhstan Oly-1998)
1970 - Tim Jacobs, NFL running back (Cleveland Browns, Miami Dolphins)
1970 - Thea Gill, Canadian actress
1970 - Miho Hatori, Japanese singer and songwriter (Cibo Matto)
1971 - Bob Kuberski, NFL defensive tackle (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1971 - Finidi George, soccer player (Ajax)
1971 - Stuart Peele, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1972 - Shigemasa Ito, WLAF offensive linebacker (Rhein Fire)
1972 - Krista Allen, American actress
1972 - Tom Coronel, Dutch racing driver
1972 - Paul Okon, Australian former footballer
1973 - Ed Hobbs, WLAF RB (London Monarchs)
1973 - Emile Palmer, WLAF DT (London Monarchs)
1973 - Estefania Knuth, Barcelona Spain, LPGA golfer (1992 French Intl)
1973 - Spencer Folau, NFL/WLAF offensive tackle (Balt Ravens, Rhein Fire)
1973 - Tony Banks, quarterback (St Louis Rams)
1973 - Yutaka Kawaguchi, hockey defenseman (Team Japan 1998)
1973 - Élodie Bouchez, French actress
1973 - Pharrell, American music producer (The Neptunes)
1974 - Mike DuHaney, New Haven Ct, soccer defender (Olympics-gold-96)
1974 - Rick Terry, NFL defensive tackle (NY Jets)
1974 - Sahaj Ticotin, American musician/producer (Ra)
1974 - Uhm Tae Woong, South Korean actor
1975 - Nikki Dryden, Calgary Alberta, 800m swimmer (Olympics-6th-92, 96)
1975 - John Hartson, Welsh footballer
1976 - Ike Hilliard, NFL wide receiver (NY Giants)
1976 - Ryan Drese, SF California, baseball pitcher (Olympics-bronze-96)
1976 - Simone Inzaghi, Italian footballer
1976 - Kim Collins, Nevisian sprinter
1976 - Ross Gload, American baseball player
1976 - Fernando Morientes, Spanish footballer
1977 - JoAnn Sevin, Dubois PA, air pistol (Olympics-1996)
1977 - Sevilay Ozturk, Miss Universe-Turkey (1996)
1978 - Franziska van Almsick, German swimmer
1978 - Stephen Jackson, American basketball player
1979 - Timo Hildebrand, German footballer
1980 - Matt Bonner, American basketball player
1980 - Lee Jae Won, South Korean actor, singer, and rapper
1980 - John McLaughlin, American television reporter
1981 - Jorge de la Rosa, Mexican baseball player
1981 - Michael A. Monsoor, a United States Navy SEAL killed in Iraq and posthumously awarded the
           Medal of Honor.
1982 - Alexandre Prémat, French racing driver
1982 - Thomas Hitzlsperger, German footballer
1982 - Matt Pickens, American soccer player
1984 - Shin Min-a, South Korean model and actress
1990 - Haruma Miura, Japanese Actor
2173 - Harcourt Fenton "Harry" Mudd, New Amsterdam, Arcturus (Star Trek)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 05, 2013, 04:43:16 PM

This Day in History for 5th April


Famous Deaths

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WW2 General                                            Rocker Kurt Cobain (1994)                    Beat Poet Allen Ginsberg (1997)
Douglas MacArthur (1964)


582 - Eutychius, Patriarch of Constantinople (c. 512)
828 - Nicephorus, patriarch of Constantinopel (806-15), dies at about 77
1168 - Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester (b. 1104)
1258 - Julian of Cornillon/Liege, Flemish visionary/saint, dies
1270 - Ramban Nachmanides, Talmudic scholar (Hiddushei Ha-Ramden), dies
1419 - Vincent Ferrer, Spanish missionary and saint (b. 1350)
1531 - Richard Roose, boiled to death for trying to poison an archbishop
1605 - Adam Loftus, English Protestant archbishop in Ireland (c.1513)
1617 - Alonso Lobo, Spanish composer (b. 1555)
1649 - John Winthrop, 1st governor Mass Bay Colony, dies at 61
1673 - Francois Caron, admiral/governor (Formosa), drowns at about 72
1676 - John Winthrop, the Younger, American politician (b. 1606)
1684 - William Brouncker, 2nd viscount/1st pres of Royal Society, dies
1693 - Anne M L of Orleans, duchess (Grande Mademoiselle), dies at 65
1695 - George Savile, 1st marquis of Halifax, dies at 61
1697 - Charles XI, King of Sweden (1660-97), dies at 41
1712 - John Luyken, poet/etcher (species company), dies at 63
1717 - Jean Jouvenet, French painter (b. 1647)
1723 - J Fischer von Erlach, Austrian architect (Hofburg, Vienna), dies at 66
1732 - Johann Christian Schieferdecker, composer, dies at 52
1735 - William Derham, English minister and writer (b. 1657)
1735 - Samuel Wesley, English poet (b. 1662)
1765 - Edward Young, English poet (Love of Fame), dies at 81
1794 - Georges-Jacques Danton, French revolutionary leader, guillotined at 34
1811 - Robert Raikes, founder of Sunday Schools, dies
1820 - Henrik C Cras, lawyer (Laudatio Hugonis Grotii), dies at 81
1871 - Georg Andreas Henkel, composer, dies at 66
1878 - Wilhelm Speyer, composer, dies at 87
1884 - John Wisden, publisher/cricketer (prominent Sussex player), dies
1896 - John Rogers Thomas, composer, dies at 66
1900 - Comte de Villebois-Marevil, French/South African general, dies in battle
1907 - Anton G van Hamel, founder (Roman philosphy in Neth), dies at 65
1908 - Gaetano Coronaro, composer, dies at 55
1918 - Paul Vidal de la Blanche, French geographer, dies at 73
1921 - Alphonsus J M Diepenbrock, Dutch composer (Missa), dies at 58
1922 - Charles F A Woeste, Belgian count/min of Justice, dies at 85
1923 - George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, English financier (b. 1866)
1928 - Jane Ellen Harrison, scholar/archaeologist, dies
1928 - Roy Kilner, cricketer (9 Tests for England 1924-26), dies at 38
1934 - Salvatore Di Giacomo, composer, dies at 74
1935 - Emil Mlynarski, composer, dies at 64
1939 - William Cooper, cricketer (two Tests for Australia 1882-84), dies
1941 - Sir Nigel Gresley, Steam locomotive engineer (b. 1876)
1943 - Aleš Hrdlička, Czech anthropologist (b. 1869)
1944 - Isolde Kurz, German writer/poetess (Meine Mutter), dies at 90
1944 - Willy Derby, [Dieben], singer (Hello Bandoeng), dies
1945 - Huldreich Georg Fruh, composer, dies at 41
1946 - Vincent Millie Youmans, US composer (Tea For Two), dies at 47
1951 - Edward Rigby, dies at 72
1952 - Henri Vandeputte, Belgian writer (L'Autre Vie), dies at 75
1952 - Charles Collett, GWR chief mechanical engineer (b. 1871)
1954 - Claude Delvincourt, composer, dies at 66
1958 - Jozef Brems, Flemish apostole vicar of Denmark, dies at 87
1960 - Alma Kruger, actor (Made For Each Other), dies at 88
1963 - Jacobus JP Old, architect/co-founder (The Style), dies at 73
1963 - Julius Harrison, composer, dies at 78
1964 - Douglas MacArthur, US general (Pacific theater-WW II), dies at 84
1966 - Sven Fleuron, writer, dies at 91
1967 - Hermann Joseph Muller, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (b. 1890)
1968 - Lois Andrews, dies of lung cancer at 44
1969 - Gabriel M-E-R Chevallier, French author (La Peur), dies at 73
1969 - Romulo Gallegos, Venezuela author/president (1947-48), dies at 84
1969 - Ain-Ervin Mere, Estonian Nazi (b. 1903)
1969 - Shelby Storck, American television producer (b. 1917)
1970 - Jacob H "Jaap" Stotijn, oboist/conductor, dies at 78
1970 - Alfred Henry Sturtevant, American geneticist (b. 1891)
1972 - Brian Donlevy, actor (Steve-Dangerous Assignment), dies at 73
1972 - Isabel Jewell, dies at 62
1973 - John Coleman, Australian rules footballer (b. 1928)
1974 - William Hudson, actor (I Led 3 Lives), dies at 49
1974 - A. Y. Jackson, Canadian painter (b. 1882)
1975 - Inez Courtney, dies at 67
1975 - Victor GM Marijnen, Dutch premier (1963-65), dies at 58
1976 - Howard Hughes, reclusive billionaire, dies at 72
1976 - Wilder Penfield, Canadian surgeon (b. 1891)
1977 - John Marriott, dies at 83
1979 - Eugène Gabritschevsky, Russian biologist and artist (b. 1893)
1981 - Bob "Bear" Hite, rocker (Canned Heat), dies of a heart attack at 36
1981 - Cornelis Verolme, Dutch ship builder, dies at 80
1982 - Abe Fortas, Supreme court justice, dies at 71
1983 - Danny Rapp, American musician (Danny & the Juniors) (b. 1941)
1984 - Arthur Travors Harris, marshal of British RAF, dies
1984 - Theo Koomen, Dutch sportscaster, dies in auto-accident at 54
1985 - Tyrell Johnson, cricketer (WI left-arm quickie, one Test 1939), dies
1986 - Colin McCool, cricketer (14 Tests for Australia, 36 wkts), dies
1986 - Manly Wade Wellman, sci-fi author (Devil's Planet), dies at 82
1988 - Alf Kjellin, Swedish actor/director (Juggler), dies
1989 - María Cristina Gómez, Salvadoran Teacher (b. 1938)
1990 - Nico Scheepmaker, Dutch columnist/poet, dies at 59
1991 - John Tower, (Sen-R-Tx), dies in a plane crash at 65
1991 - Manley Lanier "Sonny" Carter Jr, USN/astro (STS 33), dies at 43
1992 - Anthony "Tony" Papa, big band leader, dies at 65
1992 - Sam Walton, Billionaire CEO (Wal-Mart), dies of cancer at 74
1992 - Samuel H Reshevsky, Polish/US chess grandmaster, dies at 80
1994 - Andre Victor Tchelistcheff, winemaker, dies at 92
1994 - Aubrey J Watson Sr, bishop, dies at 65
1994 - Marlon Riggs, US writer/director/producer (Ethnic notions), dies at 37
1994 - Roy Smeck, guitarist/banjoist, dies at 94
1994 - Kurt Cobain, grunge rocker (Nirvana), commits suicide by gun at 27 in Seattle, Washington
1995 - Christian Pineau, French politician, dies
1996 - Peter Nailor, civil servant/historian, dies at 67
1997 - Allen Ginsberg, beat poet, dies at 80
1997 - Alparslan Turkes, Turkish politician (MHP), dies
1998 - Cozy Powell, British musician (b. 1947)
1999 - Paul David, French-Canadian cardiologist (b. 1919)
2000 - Lee Petty, American race car driver (b. 1914)
2001 - Brother Theodore, German comedian (b. 1906)
2002 - Layne Staley, American musician (Alice in Chains) (b. 1967)
2004 - Heiner Zieschang, German mathematician (b. 1936)
2004 - Sławomir Rawicz, Polish soldier (b. 1915)
2005 - Saul Bellow, Canadian born writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1915)
2005 - Dale Messick, American comic strip artist (b. 1906)
2005 - Debralee Scott, American actress (b. 1953)
2005 - John Sichel, British film and television director (b. 1937)
2006 - Gene Pitney, American singer (b. 1941)
2007 - Mark St. John, American musician (Kiss)(b. 1956)
2007 - Darryl Stingley, American football player (b. 1951)
2007 - Maria Gripe, Swedish writer (b. 1923)
2007 - Leela Majumdar, Bengali writer (b. 1908)
2007 - Poornachandra Tejaswi, Kannada writer (b. 1938)
2008 - Charlton Heston, American Actor, dies at 84
2012 - Ferdinand A. Porsche, German car designer, dies at 76

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 06, 2013, 11:31:51 AM

This Day in History for 6th April


Historical Events

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Russian Tsar Peter the Great                 Religious Leader Joseph Smith Jr         Pacifist and Spiritual Leader Gandhi

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Playwright Arthur Miller                    French President Georges Pompidou             Singer Rod Stewart

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Soccer Legend Diego Maradona 


46 BC - Julius Caesar defeats Caecilius Metellus Scipio and Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Younger) in
            the battle of Thapsus.
402 - Battle at Pollentia: Roman army under Stilicho beats Visigoten
610 - Lailat-ul Qadar, night koran descended to Earth
774 - Charles the Great affirms Pippins promise of Quiercy
1106 - Fire in Venice
1320 - The Scots reaffirm their independence by signing the Declaration of Arbroath.
1327 - Italian poet Petrarch 1st sets eyes on his beloved Laura
1362 - Robber bastion Tard-Venus strikes at Brignais France
1385 - John, Master of the Order of Aviz, is made king John I of Portugal.
1516 - A Willaert installed as singer of cardinal Ippolito I d'Este
1634 - Heeren XIX asks "to secure Eylands Curacao"
1652 - Cape Colony, the 1st European settlement in South Africa, established by Dutch East India
           Company under John of Riebeeck
1663 - King Charles II signs Carolina Charter
1664 - France & Saksen sign alliance
1667 - An earthquake devastates Dubrovnik, then an independent city-state.
1672 - France declares war on Netherlands
1712 - Slave revolt in NY
1722 - Peter the Great ends tax on men with beards
1724 - Duke of Newcastle becomes English minister of Foreign Affairs
1727 - Denmark signs Covenant of Hannover
1757 - English king George II fires minister William Pitt Sr
1782 - Rama I succeeds King Taksin of Siam (modern day Thailand), who is overthrown in a coup
           d'état.
1789 - 1st US Congress begins regular sessions, Federal Hall, NYC
1808 - John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company.
1815 - English militia shoots prisoners, 100's killed
1830 - Joseph Smith & 5 others organizes Mormon church in Seneca Co, NY
1841 - Cornerstone laid for 2nd Mormon temple, Nauvoo, Missouri
1848 - Jews of Prussia granted equality
1859 - US recognizes Liberal government in Mexico's War of Reform
1860 - Joseph Smith III, creates the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints by
           reorganizing the previous church organized by his father, Joseph Smith, Jr.
1862 - Battle of Shiloh, Union defeats Confederacy in SW Tennessee
1865 - Battle of Sayler's Creek during US Civil War, 1/4rd of Lee's army cut off
1865 - Skirmish at High Bridge VA (Appomattox) during US Civil war;
1866 - G.A.R. forms
1869 - 1st plastic, Celluloid, patented
1883 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Speckled Band" (BG)
1886 - City of Vancouver BC incorporated
1886 - Declaration of Berlin neutralizes Tonga
1889 - George Eastman places Kodak Camera on sale for 1st time
1890 - French troops under capt Archinard occupy Segu, West-Sudan
1893 - Andy Bowen & Jack Burke box 7 hrs 19 mins to no decision (111 rounds)
1893 - Mormon Temple in Salt Lake City dedicated
1896 - 1st modern Olympic games open in Athens Greece [3/25 OS] American, James Connolly, wins
           1st Olympic gold medal in mod history
1900 - James J Jeffries KOs Jack Finnegan in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
1903 - General railroad strike against "worgwetten" (anti-strike laws)
1903 - The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to
           later seek refuge in Israel and the Western world.
1906 - 1st animated cartoon copyrighted
1909 - 1st credit union forms in US
1909 - North Pole reached by Americans Robert Peary & Matthew Henson
1912 - Electric starter 1st appeared in cars
1916 - German parliament OKs unrestricted submarine warfare
1917 - US declares war on Germany, enters World War I
1919 - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi orders a General Strike.
1920 - French troop attacks Main/Darmstadt/Hanau
1923 - The first Prefects Board in Southeast Asia is formed in Victoria Institution, Malaysia.
1924 - 4 planes leave Seattle on 1st successful around-the-world flight
1924 - Italy fascists receives 65% of vote of parliament
1924 - Völkische Block (nazi's) receives 17.8% of vote in Bayern
1925 - 1st film shown on an airplane (British Air)
1926 - Stanley Cup: Montl Maroons beat Victoria Cougars (WHL), 3 games to 1
1930 - 1st transcontinental glider tow completed
1930 - Hostess Twinkies invented by bakery executive James Dewar
1931 - 1st Scottsboro (Ala) trial begins - 9 blacks accused of rape
1931 - 1st broadcast of "Little Orphan Annie" on NBC-radio
1934 - 418 Lutheran ministers arrested in Germany
1935 - H Levitt sinks 499 basketball free throws, misses & sinks 371 more
1936 - 3rd Golf Masters Championship: Horton Smith wins, shooting a 285
1936 - ANP begins telex service in Amsterdam
1936 - Tornado, kills 203 & injuring 1,800 in Gainesville Georgia
1938 - Teflon invented by Roy J Plunkett
1939 - Great Britain & Poland sign military pact
1939 - US & UK agree on joint control of Canton & Enderbury Is (Pacific)
1941 - 8th Golf Masters Championship: Craig Wood wins, shooting a 280
1941 - Begin oper Bestrafung-Germany bomb attacks Belgrade (17,000 die)
1941 - British general Gambier-Parry caught in North Africa
1941 - German bombardment on Piraeus (munitions ship explodes)
1941 - Italian held Addis Ababa surrenders to British & Ethiopian forces
1943 - British & US army link up in Africa during WW II
1943 - British offensive at Wadi Akarit, South-Tunisia
1943 - Lou Jansen, leader of illegal Dutch political party (CPN) arrested
1944 - Jewish nursery at Izieu-Ain France overrun by Nazis
1945 - Coevorden freed from nazis
1945 - Japanese giant battleship Yamato heads to Okinawa
1945 - Massive kamikaze-attack on US battle fleet near Okinawa
1945 - US marines explore Tsugen Shima near Okinawa
1947 - 11th Golf Masters Championship: Jimmy Demaret wins, shooting a 281
1947 - 1st Tony Awards: Arthur Miller, David Wayne & Patricia Neal win
1947 - The first Tony Awards are presented for theatrical achievements.
1950 - John F Dulles becomes advisor to US Sect of State Acheson
1952 - 16th Golf Masters Championship: Sam Snead wins, shooting a 286
1954 - Mont Canadiens score 3 goals in 56 sec in playoff game against Det
1954 - TV Dinner was 1st put on sale by Swanson & Sons
1954 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island
1955 - "3 for Tonight" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 85 performances
1955 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1955 - Yemen: failed coup by Abdullah Seif el-Islam
1956 - Polish communist Gomulka freed from prison
1957 - NYC ends trolley car service
1957 - USSR performs nuclear test (atmospheric tests)
1957 - Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis buys the Hellenic National Airlines (TAE) and founds
           Olympic Airlines.
1958 - 22nd Golf Masters Championship: Arnold Palmer wins, shooting a 284
1959 - 31st Academy Awards - "Gigi," Susan Hayward & David Niven win
1964 - Egypt & Belgium restore diplomatic relations
1965 - Intelsat 1 ("Early Bird") 1st coml geosynchronous comm satellite
1966 - Mihir Sen swims Palk Strait between Sri Lanka & India
1967 - Premier Georges Pompidou forms new French government
1968 - 94.5% of East German voters approve new socialist constitution
1968 - Firestone World Tournament of Champions won by Dave Davis
1968 - Gunpowder stocks at a sporting-goods store explode, killing 43 (Va)
1968 - HemisFair 1968 opens in San Antonio, Texas
1968 - In Richmond, Indiana's downtown district, a double explosion kills 41 and injures 150.
1972 - Egypt drops diplomatic relations with Jordan
1973 - Harbor strike in Gent/Antwerp, Belgium
1973 - Indies troops invade Sikkim
1973 - Pioneer 11 launched toward Jupiter & Saturn
1973 - Roberto Clemente Day, Pirates retire his #
1973 - US launches Pioneer 11 to Jupiter & Saturn
1973 - Yankee Ron Blomberg becomes 1st designated hitter, he walks
1973 - Launch of Pioneer 11 spacecraft.
1974 - 200,000 attend rock concert "California Jam" in Ontario
1974 - Firestone World Tournament of Champions won by Earl Anthony 11/16
1974 - Yankees 1st home game at Shea Stadium, beat Indians 6-1
1975 - "Night... Made America Famous" closes at Barrymore NYC after 75 perfs
1975 - "Rocky Horror Show" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 45 perfs
1975 - Bundy victim Denise Oliverson disappears from Grand Junction, Colo
1975 - Fastest hat trick by a Wash Cap 3 mins 26 secs (Stan Gilbertson)
1976 - 1st quadrophonic movie track: "Ladies & Gentlemen the Rolling Stones"
1977 - Judge rules Beatles 1962 Hamburg album can be released
1977 - Kingdome opens, Seattle Mariners 1st game, loses to Angels 7-0
1978 - Karnataka beat Uttar Pradesh by inn & 193 to win Ranji Trophy
1979 - Rod Stewart & Alana Collins wed
1980 - 9th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Donna Caponi Young
1980 - Gordie Howe completes a record 26th season
1980 - Post It Notes, introduced
1981 - Yugoslav government sends troops to Kosovo
1982 - Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center from White Sands
1982 - Largest crowd ever to see a baseball game in Minn 52,279
1983 - Caps 2-Isles 5-Patrick Div Semifinals- Isles hold 1-0 lead
1984 - 11th Space Shuttle Mission (41-C)-Challenger 5 is launched
1984 - 1st time 11 people in space
1984 - Members of Cameroon's Republican Guard unsuccessfully attempt to overthrow the
           government headed by Paul Biya.
1985 - Bombay beat Delhi by 90 runs to win the Ranji Trophy final
1985 - Sudan suspends constitution after coup under general Swarreddahab
1985 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1986 - 15th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Pat Bradley
1986 - Soccer ball juggled non-stop for 14:14 hrs
1987 - 22nd Academy of Country Music Awards: Randy Travis & Hank Williams Jr
1987 - Sugar Ray Leonard upsets Marvelous Marvin Hagler
1987 - Al Campanis appears on Niteline saying blacks may not be equiped to be in baseball
           management, sparking a racial controversy
1988 - Black pole explorer M Henson buried next to R Peary in Arlington
1988 - NJ Devils' 1st playoff game; lose to Isles 4-3 (OT) in 1st round
1989 - Orel Hershiser ends his record 59 consecutive scoreless streak
1991 - Former child actor Adam Rich arrested for breaking into a pharmacy
1991 - NY-NJ Knights 1st home game (Giant Stad) lose to Frankfurt 27-17
1991 - Subhana, becomes 1st Australian woman to become a Zen teacher
1991 - Argentine soocer star Diego Maradona suspended for 15 month by Italian League for testing
           positive for cocaine use
1992 - 1st game at Camden Field, Balt-Orioles beat Indians 2-0
1992 - 54th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Duke beats Michigan 71-51
1992 - Britain Radio Authority licenses Virgin & TV-AM radio licenses
1992 - Microsoft announced Windows 3.1, upgrading Windows 3.0
1992 - Oriole Park at Camden Yards opens, beating Cleveland 2-0
1992 - Serbian troops begin siege of Sarajevo
1992 - US Supreme Court rules a Nebraska farmer was entrapped by postal agents into buying mail-
           order child pornography
1992 - Voting begins on choice of Elvis postage stamps
1992 - A general strike is declared by communist groups in Nepal.
1993 - 1st test flight of Ilyushin IL-96M (Moscow)
1993 - Florida Marlins 1st lost ever (4-2 to LA Dodgers)
1994 - 1st scheduled Indians night game at Jacobs Field is rained out
1994 - Chuck Jones found guilty of breaking into Marla Maples home
1994 - Liberal Supreme Court Justice Blackmun (Roe v Wade) resigns
1994 - Palestinian suicide bomber kills 7 Israelis & himself
1994 - Rockwell B-1B Lancers break 11 world speed records
1994 - The Rwandan Genocide begins when the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal
           Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down.
1995 - "Having Our Say" opens at Booth Theater NYC for 308 performances
1996 - Albert Belle shows off his arm by hitting Sports Illustrated photographer Tony Tomsic in the
           hand prior to a game
1997 - "3 Sisters" closes at Criterion Theater NYC
1997 - 9th Seniors Golf Tradition: Gil Morgan wins
1997 - Annika Sorenstam wins LPGA Longs Drugs Challenge
1997 - Brad Faxon wins Freeport-McDermott Golf Classic
1997 - Progress M-34 Launch (Russia)
1997 - Twelve Bridges LPGA Classic
1998 - Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of hitting India.
2004 - Rolandas Paksas becomes the first president of Lithuania to be peacefully removed from the
           post by impeachment.
2005 - Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani becomes the Iraqi president; Shiite Arab Ibrahim al-Jaafari is
           named premier the next day.
2006 - NZSL (New Zealand sign language) is made an official language of New Zealand
2009 - A 6.3 magnitude earthquake strikes near L'Aquila, Italy, killing at least 253.
2012 - US F-18 Hornet crashes into side of apartment building in Virginia with no fatalities

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 06, 2013, 11:34:32 AM

This Day in History for 6th April


Famous Weddings

1868 - Brigham Young marries his 27th & final wife
2012 - "Sex and the City" actor Chris Noth (57) weds actress Tara Wilson (30) in Hawaii

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 06, 2013, 11:38:23 AM

This Day in History for 6th April


Famous Divorces

2012 - Actress and model Heidi Klum (39) divorces British soul and R&B singer-songwriter Seal (49)
          due to irreconcilable differences after almost seven years of marriage
2012 - Actress and model Heidi Klum (39) divorces British soul and R&B singer-songwriter Seal (49)
           due to irreconcilable differences after almost seven years of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 06, 2013, 11:59:14 AM

This Day in History for 6th April


Famous Birthdays

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Actor Billy Dee Williams (1937)               Actor Paul Rudd (1969)                            Actor Zach Braff (1975)


1483 - Raphael Sanzio, Italian painter/master builder (Madonna Sistina)
1613 - Stjepan Gradić, Croatian philosopher and scientist (d. 1683)
1631 - Vincenzo De Grandis, composer
1632 - Maria Leopoldine of Austria, Holy Roman Empire Empress (d. 1649)
1651 - André Dacier, French classical scholar (d. 1722)
1660 - Johann Kuhnau, composer
1664 - Arvid Horn, Swedish statesman (d. 1742)
1671 - Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French playwright/poet (Sacred Odes & Songs)
1672 - Andre Cardinal Destouches, composer
1708 - George Reuter, composer
1752 - Johann Friedrich Kranz, composer
1757 - Alessandro Rolla, composer
1773 - James Mill, Scotland, philosopher/historian (Hist of British India)
1778 - Joseph Funk, composer
1810 - Philip Gosse, intentor of institutional aquarium, writer (Omphalos)
1812 - Aaron Bernstein, writer
1812 - Gavril Yakimovich Lomakin, composer
1812 - Alexander Herzen, Russian writer (d. 1870)
1815 - Friedrich Robert Volkmann, composer
1818 - Francis Henry Brown, composer
1818 - Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, Norwegian poet (d. 1870)
1819 - Johann A H Scheler, Belgian librarian
1823 - Joseph Medill, St John NB Canada, newspaper editor (Chicago Tribune)
1826 - Gustave Moreau, French painter
1828 - Charles William Field, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1892
1830 - James Augustine Healy, Macon Ga, 1st black Roman Catholic bishop
1833 - Johan H C Kern, Dutch linguist (Sanskrit, Old Javan)
1835 - Jose Marraco y Ferrer, composer
1841 - Karl Binding, German jurist (d. 1920)
1844 - Joseph Ludwig, composer
1849 - John William Waterhouse, British painter (d. 1917)
1851 - Guillaume Bigourdan, French astronomer (d. 1932)
1860 - René Lalique, French jewel designer
1866 - Joseph Lincoln Steffens, muckraker/journalist (Shame of the Cities)
1869 - Louis Raemakers, Dutch draftsman/painter
1871 - Alexander, grandson of England's Queen Victoria
1878 - Carl Emil Theodor Ehrenberg, composer
1878 - Erich Mühsam, German author (d. 1934)
1883 - Mien Labberton, Dutch poetress
1884 - Walter Huston, Tor, actor (Maltese Falcon, Treasure of Sierra Madre)
1885 - Carlos Leon Salzedo, composer
1886 - Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VII, The Last Nizam of Hyderabad state (d. 1967)
1888 - Daniel Andersson, Swedish poet/writer (Svarta Ballader)
1889 - Barry Macollum, Northern Ireland
1889 - Gabriela Mistral, writer
1890 - Anton Hermann Fokker, avation pioneer born
1890 - Andre L Danjon, French astronomer
1890 - Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker, Holland, aircraft pioneer (Spider)
1892 - Donald Wills Douglas, US, aircraft pioneer (McConnell Douglas)
1892 - Lowell Thomas, Woodington Ohio, newscaster (High Adventure)
1892 - Mateusz Glinski, composer
1894 - Gertrude Baines, American Supercentarian
1896 - Juan Tomas Perez, composer
1898 - Bobby Gilbert, PA
1900 - Andres Sas, composer
1900 - Leo Robin, US writer (Thanks For the Memory)
1901 - Willem Pelemans, Flemish composer/music reviewer
1901 - Pier Giorgio Frassati, Italian Catholic (d. 1925)
1902 - Gertrude Short, Cincinnati OH, actress (Stella Dallas, Blonde Venus)
1902 - Veniamin Kaverin, Russian writer (d. 1989)
1903 - Harold Edgerton, foremost high-speed photographer
1903 - Mickey Cochrane, baseball hall of fame catcher (.320 avg)
1904 - Kurt G Kiesinger, German chancellor (Wherever They May Be)
1906 - John Betjeman, English Poet Laureate 1972-1984 (Mount Zion)
1908 - Vano Il'ich Muradeli, composer
1909 - Hermann Lang, German race car driver (d. 1987)
1909 - William M. Branham, American evangelist (d. 1965)
1910 - Desmond Dreyer, British admiral
1911 - Phyllis Margaret Duncan Tate, composer
1912 - Endre Szekely, composer
1912 - Wilhelmus H L "Willem" Tollenaar, actor/director (Don Carlos)
1917 - Julian Faber, CEO (Willis Faber)
1917 - Shakey, [Walter Horton], Miss, harmonicist (Everybody's Fishin')
1918 - Joan Bernard, Principal (Trevelyan College, Durham)
1918 - Karen Verne, Berlin Germany, actress (Madame X)
1918 - Alfredo Ovando Candía, Bolivian president (d. 1982)
1920 - Bernard Carter, British painter/etcher
1921 - Andrew Welsh Imbrie, composer
1921 - Franta Belsky, British sculptor
1921 - Lord Moore of Wolvercote
1922 - Barry Levinson, director (Rain Man)
1925 - Arthur D Larsen, tennis champ (US Open-1950)
1925 - John Knox, British supreme court justice
1925 - Marcus Worsley, Lord-Lieutenant of North Yorkshire, (d. 2012)
1926 - Ian Paisley, North Ireland, clergyman/MP
1926 - Gil Kane, Latvian-born cartoonist (d. 2000)
1927 - David Ingram, Vice-Chancellor (University of Kent at Canterbury)
1927 - Gerry Mulligan, British saxophonist/orchestra leader (Jazz on a Summer Day)
1928 - James Dewey Watson, chemist (co-discovered structure of DNA)
1928 - Joi Lansing, Salt Lake City Utah, actress (Bob Cummings Show)
1929 - "Crazy" Joe Gallo, mobster
1929 - Andre Previn, Berlin Germany, conductor (London Symphony)/pianist
1929 - Arthur S Taylor Jr, US drummer/band leader (Taylor's Wailers)
1929 - Edison Vasalievich Denisov, composer
1929 - Li Yuan-chia, artist
1929 - Willis Hall, British writer
1931 - Ivan Dixon, NYC, actor (Car Wash, Hogan's Heroes)
1931 - Joan Carlyle, British soprano
1933 - Dudley Sutton, British actor (Leather Boys, Brimstone & Treacle)
1933 - Roy Goode, British lawyer
1933 - Eduardo Malapit, American Democratic politician (d. 2007)
1934 - Antonius Geesink, Holland, judo (Olympic-gold-1964)
1934 - Reijo Jyrkiainen, composer
1935 - Duke of Montrose
1935 - John Pepper Clark, Nigeria, writer (Horn, Song of a Goat)
1936 - Manfred Schoof, composer
1937 - Billy Dee Williams, Harlem NYC, actor (Chiefs, Empire Strikes Back)
1937 - Merle Haggard, Bakersfield California, country singer (Death Valley Days)
1937 - Tom Veivers, cricketer (Australian off-spinner in the 60's)
1938 - Paul Daniels, British magician
1938 - Roy Thinnes, Chicago Ill, actor (Invaders, Falcon Crest, Gen Hospital)
1939 - André Ouellet, French Canadian politician
1940 - Anne Campbell, MP
1940 - Homero Aridjis, Mexican poet (La Tumba de Filidor)
1940 - Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Mexican actor
1941 - Hans W Geissendorfer, Augsburg Germany, director (Sternsteinhof)
1941 - Gheorghe Zamfir, Romanian musician
1942 - Phil Austin, comedian (Firesign Theater)
1943 - Harry Conroy, trade unionist
1943 - Joaquin Agostinho, Portuguese cyclist
1943 - Roger Cook, investigative journalist/broadcaster
1943 - Susan Tolsky, Houston, actress (Madame's Place, Here Comes the Brides)
1944 - Felicity Palmer, British mezzo-soprano
1944 - John Stax, rocker (Pretty Things-Don't Bring Me Down)
1945 - Rodney Bickerstaffe, trade unionist
1945 - Neal Boortz, American talk radio personality
1946 - Paul Beresford, MP
1947 - Jan Kees Wiebenga, Dutch MP (VVD)
1947 - John Ratzenberger, Bridgeport Ct, actor (Cliff Clavin-Cheers)
1947 - Tony Cooner, Essex, drummer (Hot Chocolate-You Sexy Thing)
1948 - Patrika Darbo, American actress
1949 - Jane Actman, NYC, actress (Barbara-Paul Lynde Show)
1949 - Mary Maples Dunn, college president (Smith College)
1950 - Dennis E Eckart, (Rep-D-OH, 1981- )
1951 - Ralph Cooper, Australia, drummer (Air Supply-All Out of Love)
1951 - Bert Blyleven, Dutch-born baseball player
1952 - Judith McConnell, actress (Sophia Capwell-Santa Barbara)
1952 - Marilu Henner, Chicago, actress (Taxi, Man Who Loved Women, Eve Shade)
1952 - Udo Dirkshneider, heavy metal rocker (Accept-Balls to the Wall, Udo)
1952 - Udo Dirkschneider, German singer
1953 - Janet Lynn, ice skater (Olympics-bronze-1972)
1953 - Christopher Franke, German musician and composer
1954 - Judi Bowker, Shawford England, actress (Clash of the Titans)
1955 - Keith Hunter Jesperson, Canadian-born serial killer
1955 - Michael Rooker, American actor
1956 - Dilip Vengsarkar, cricketer (prolific Indian batsman 1976-92)
1956 - Mudassar Nazar, cricketer (son of Nazar Mohammad Pakistani bat)
1957 - Maurizio Damilano, Italian speed walker (30K World Record)
1957 - Paolo Nespoli, Italian astronaut
1959 - Dianne Brill, Tampa, fashion designer/party girl (Queen of the Night)
1961 - Mike Schuchart, Omaha NE, Nike golfer (1994 NIKE Tour Championship)
1961 - Rory Bremner, impressionist
1962 - Stan Cullimore, bassist (Housemartins-Happy Hour, Over There)
1963 - Lorenzo Lynch, NFL safety (Az Cardinals, Oakland Raiders)
1964 - Bill Brooks, NFL wide receiver (Buffalo Bills)
1964 - Johnny Dee, heavy metal drummer (Britny Fox-Boys in Heat, King Kobra)
1964 - Phil Gayle, English news presenter
1965 - Gerald Diduck, Edmonton, NHL defenseman (Hartford Whalers)
1965 - Rica Reinisch, German DR, 100m/200m backstroke (Olympic-gold-1980)
1965 - Virginia Lee, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1965 - Lieve Slegers, Belgian athlete
1966 - Kymberly Paige, Newport Beach Ca, playmate (May, 1987)
1966 - Young Man Kang, South Korean film director
1967 - Derrick Fenner, NFL running back (Oakland Raiders)
1968 - Chris Anderson, Australian high jumper (Olympics-96)
1968 - Vanessa Lann, American composer
1969 - Andy Harmon, NFL defensive tackle (Philadelphia Eagles)
1969 - Ari Meyers, San Juan PR, actress (Emma McArdle-Kate & Allie)
1969 - Bret Boone, El Cajon CA, infielder (Cin Reds)
1969 - Brian Williams, NBA center/forward (Detroit Pistons, LA Clippers)
1969 - Jack Canfora, American playwright
1969 - Paul Rudd, Passaic, New Jersey, American actor (Clueless, The 40-Year-Old Virgin)
1970 - Olaf Kolzig, Johannesbourg Saf, NHL goalie (Washington Capitals)
1970 - Oliver Miller, NBA forward/center (Toronto Raptors)
1970 - Huang Xiaomin, Chinese swimmer
1971 - Anthony Redmon, guard (Arizona Cardinals)
1971 - Tamara Henry, Miss USA-Arkansas (1997)
1971 - Tom Sorensen, Racine Wisc, volleyball middle blocker (Olympics-96)
1971 - Vivian Y Herding, Albuquerque NM, Miss America-NM (1996)
1971 - Lou Merloni, American baseball player
1972 - Dickey Simpkins, NBA forward (SF Warriors, Chicago Bulls)
1972 - Donald Blair, CFL slot back (Edmonton Eskimos)
1972 - Hurvin McCormack, NFL defensive tackle (Dallas Cowboys)
1972 - Jason Hervey, actor (Wayne Arnold-Wonder Years)
1973 - Donnie Edwards, linebacker (KC Chiefs)
1973 - Randall Godfrey, linebacker (Dallas Cowboys)
1973 - Rie Miyazawa, Japanese actress/singer
1973 - Sun Wen, Chinese footballer
1973 - Gina Yashere, English comedian
1974 - Robert Kovač, Croatian footballer
1975 - Dannon Phillip Pampolina, rapper/drummer (Party)
1975 - Zach Braff, South Orange, New Jersey, American actor (Dr. John Dorian-Scrubs)
1976 - Candace H Cameron Bure, actress (DJ Tanner-Full House)
1976 - Simon Coombes, Melbourne VIC Australia, swimmer (Olympics-96)
1976 - Georg Hólm, Icelandic musician
1977 - Andy Phillips, American Baseball Player
1978 - Tim Hasselbeck, American football player
1978 - Myleene Klass, British singer
1978 - Martin Mendez, Uruguayan-born Bassist (Opeth)
1978 - Blaine Neal, American baseball player
1979 - Ali Burr, Miss North Carolina Teen USA (1997)
1979 - Frederick MGDL Windsor, son of English prince Michael
1980 - Matthew Thomas Carey, actor (Once You Meet a Stranger)
1981 - Robert Earnshaw, Zambian born, Welsh international footballer
1982 - Ilan Hall, Israeli-American chef
1982 - Bret Harrison, American actor
1982 - Michael Guy Chislett, Australian born, American guitarist of The Academy Is...
1983 - Diora Baird, American actress
1983 - Jade Seah, Singaporean model, host and actress
1983 - James Wade, English Darts Player
1984 - Max Bemis, American musician/songwriter
1985 - Garrett Zablocki, American musician
1985 - Clarke MacArthur, Canadian-born ice hockey player
1987 - Levi Porter, English footballer
1988 - Mike Bailey, English actor
1988 - Fabrice Muamba, Anglo-Congolese footballer
2007 - Princess Haalah bint Hashim, Princess of Jordan

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 06, 2013, 12:04:50 PM

This Day in History for 6th April


Famous Deaths

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Country singer Tammy Wynette (1998)


885 - Methodius, Greek apostle of the slaves/archbishop of Sirmium, dies
912 - Nottker "the Stamelaar", benedictine monk/poet, dies at about 71
1147 - Frederick II, Duke of Swabia (b. 1090)
1199 - Richard I, the Lion-hearted, King of England (1189-99), dies at 41
1199 - Pierre Basile, French soldier
1252 - Peter of Verona, [Peter Martyr], Italian inquisitor/st, dies at 45
1348 - Petrarch's Laura, dies of plague
1362 - Jacques de Bourbon, count of Marche, killed in battle
1472 - Pieter Bladelin, Belgium, land owner (Middelburg castle), dies
1489 - Hans Waldmann, Swiss military/mayor (Zurich), beheaded
1490 - Matthias Corvinus, king of Hungary, dies
1520 - Raphael [Sanzio], artist (Sistine Madonna), dies on his 37th birthday
1528 - Albrecht Durer, German painter/graphic artist, dies in Germany at 56
1551 - Joachim Vadianus, Swiss physician/mayor of Sankt Gallen, dies at 66
1571 - John Hamilton, Scottish prelate and politician
1590 - Francis Walsingham, English secretary of state, dies at about 57
1593 - Henry Barrow, English puritian/Congressionalist, hanged
1593 - John Greenwood, English Congressionalist, hanged
1605 - John Stow, British historian, dies
1655 - David Blondel, French Protestant clergyman (b. 1591)
1686 - Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey, English royalist statesman (b. 1614)
1707 - Willem Van de Velde, the Young, Dutch seascape painter, dies a 73
1755 - Richard Rawlinson, English minister and antiquarian (b. 1690)
1779 - Tommaso MFS Traetta, Italian opera composer (Farnace), dies at 52
1782 - Rynoldus Popma van Oevering, composer, dies at 90
1805 - Lorenz Justinian Ott, composer, dies at 56
1817 - Bonaventura Furlanetto, composer, dies at 78
1822 - Franz Xaver Partsch, composer, dies at 62
1825 - Vladimir Borovikovsky, Russian painter (b. 1757)
1829 - Niels H Able, Norwegian mathematician (infinite series), dies at 26
1833 - Adamantios Korais, Greek humanist scholar (b. 1748)
1838 - Jose B de Andrada e Silva, premier of Brazil (1822-23), dies at 74
1854 - William Strickland, US architect, dies
1862 - Adley Hogan Gladden, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 51
1862 - Albert Sidney Johnston, US Confederate general, dies in battle at 59
1865 - John Austin Wharton, US Confederate general-major, dies at 36
1865 - Reuben B Boston, US Confederate cavalery colonel, dies in battle
1883 - Benjamin Wright Raymond, American politician (b. 1801)
1884 - Emanuel Geibel, writer, dies at 68
1906 - Alexander L Kielland, Norwegian writer (Working People), dies at 57
1913 - Jose Marraco y Ferrer, composer, dies on 78th birthday
1919 - Stefan Surzynski, composer, dies at 63
1926 - Giovanni Amendola, antifascist/editor-in-chief (Il Mondo), dies at 43
1931 - Giuseppi Radiciotti, composer, dies at 73
1933 - Elizabeth Bacon Custer, wife of George Armstrong Custer (b. 1842)
1935 - Edward Arlington Robinson, US poet, dies
1939 - Robert Courtneidge, British theater producer, dies
1940 - Andres Isasi, composer, dies at 49
1945 - Benjamin M Telders, president (Dutch Liberal States Party), dies at 42
1947 - Vaclav Kapral, composer, dies at 58
1947 - Herbert Backe, German Nazi politician (b. 1896)
1949 - Stanley Christopherson, cricketer (1884, MCC Pres during WWII), dies
1951 - Halfdan Cleve, composer, dies at 71
1953 - Idris Davies, Welsh poet (b. 1905)
1961 - Jules J B V Bordet, Belgian bacteriologist (Nobel 1919), dies at 90
1962 - J C Heldring, Dutch businessman, dies at 74
1963 - Otto Struve, Russian-born astronomer (b. 1897)
1966 - Julia Faye, actress (10 Commandments. Samson & Delilah), dies at 73
1968 - Bobby Hutton, US Black Panther leader, shot to death
1970 - Sam Sheppard, American accused murderer (b. 1923)
1970 - Maurice Stokes, American basketball player (b. 1933)
1971 - Igor F Strawinsky, Russ composer (Le Sacre du Printemps), dies at 88
1974 - Willem Dudok, Dutch architect (Hilversum Town Hall), dies at 89
1974 - Hudson Fysh, Australian aviator and businessman (b.1895)
1975 - Chiang Kai-Shek, Nationalist Chinese leader, dies at 87
1976 - Ruth P Thomson, writer, dies
1976 - Sidney Franklin, American bullfighter (b. 1903)
1978 - Nicolas Nabokov, composer (Holy Devil), dies at 74
1978 - Reinoud Anders, Dutch actor (Unrest of Grave), dies at 65
1979 - M Marie Widlow, softball pitcher (Hall of Fame 1957), dies at 61
1979 - Milton Ager, US composer, dies at 85
1983 - Ana Maria, Salvador guerilla leader, murdered
1984 - Jimmy Kenndy, British songwriter (South of the Border), dies
1984 - Ral Donner, singer/narrator, dies at 41
1990 - Nancy Hawkes, (1946 best dress woman), dies at 73
1990 - Ronald E Evans, astronaut (Apollo 17), dies of a heart attack at 57
1991 - Bill Ponsford, cricketer (Test avg 48 22, 1st-class avg 65 18), dies
1992 - Isaac Asimov, Sci-Fi author (I Robot), dies from kidney failure at 72
1992 - Molly Picon, Yiddish actress (Milk & Honey), dies of Alzheimers at 94
1993 - Divya Bharati, "Baby Doll" Indian Bollywood actress (Diwana), dies at 19 by mysteriously
           falling from her husband's apartment
1993 - Hedi Amira Nouira, PM of Tunisia (1970-80), dies
1994 - Agatha Uwilingiyimana, Rwanda/1st female PM in Africa, assassinated
1994 - Cyprian Niayamira, president of Burundi (1993-94), assassinated
1994 - Dick Cary, jazz musician, dies at 77
1994 - Patricia Louise Dalton, chair (Sherlock Holmes Society), dies at 75
1994 - Theo Bosch, humanist/architect (Amsterdam), dies at 54
1994 - Cyprien Ntaryamira, Burundian politician (b. 1956)
1995 - Vieno J Sukselainen, PM of Finland (1959-61), dies
1996 - Greer Garson, actress (Goodbye Mr Chips), dies at 92
1997 - Jack Kent Cooke, NFL owner (Wash Redskins), dies at 84
1998 - Tammy Wynette, American country singer, dies at 55
1998 - Wendy O. Williams, American singer (Plasmatics) (b. 1949)
1999 - Red Norvo, American jazz vibraphonist (b. 1908)
2000 - Habib Bourguiba, Tunisian politician (b. 1903)
2001 - Charles Pettigrew, American singer (b. 1963)
2003 - David Bloom, American reporter (b. 1963)
2003 - Babatunde Olatunji, Nigerian drummer (b. 1927)
2003 - Gerald Emmett Cardinal Carter, Canadian religious figure (b. 1912)
2004 - Larisa Bogoraz, Soviet dissident (b. 1929)
2004 - Niki Sullivan, American guitarist (The Crickets) (b. 1937)
2005 - Rainier III, Prince of Monaco (b. 1923)
2006 - Maggie Dixon, American college basketball coach (b. 1977)
2006 - Francis L. Kellogg, U.S. diplomat and prominent socialite (b. 1917)
2007 - Luigi Comencini, Italian film director (b. 1916)
2009 - Shawn Mackay, Brumbies rugby player (b. 1982)
2010 - Wilma Mankiller, Native-American activist, chief of the Cherokee Nation (b. 1945)
2010 - Corin Redgrave, British actor and political activist (b. 1939)
2012 - Fang Lizhi, Chinese astrophysicist/dissident, dies at 76
2012 - Bingu wa Mutharika, President of Malawi, dies from heart attack at 78
2012 - Thomas Kinkade, American artist, dies from acute intoxication at 54

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 07, 2013, 11:34:23 AM

This Day in History for 7th April


Historical Events

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Composer                                        US President & General Andrew Jackson    Pacifist and Spiritual Leader Gandhi
Johann Sebastian Bach

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Education Pioneer Booker                         Golfer Jack Nicklaus                               Actress Maggie Smith
Taliaferro Washington

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WWF Wrestler Hulk Hogan                       Actress Shannen Doherty                   Iraqi President Saddam Hussein


30 - Scholars' estimate Jesus crucified by Roman troops in Jerusalem
451 - Attila's Hun's plunder Metz
529 - First draft of Corpus Juris Civilis (a fundamental work in jurisprudence) is issued by Eastern
          Roman Emperor Justinian I.
1118 - Pope Gelasius II excommunicated Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor
1348 - Prague U, 1st university in central Europe, formed by Charles IV
1456 - Louis van Burbon becomes prince-bishop of Luik
1498 - Crowd storms Savonarola's convent San Marco Florence, Italy
1509 - France declares war on Venice
1521 - Inquisitor-general Adrian Boeyens bans Lutheran books
1521 - Magelhaes' fleet reaches Cebu
1541 - Francis Xavier leaves Lisbon on a mission to the Portuguese East Indies.
1584 - Ieper surrenders to duke Van Parma
1625 - Albrecht von Wallenstein appointed German supreme commander
1645 - Michael Cardozo becomes 1st Jewish lawyer in Brazil
1652 - Dutch establish settlement at Cape Town, South Africa
1655 - Fabio Chigi replaces Pope Innocent X as Alexander VII
1712 - Slave revolt (NYC)
1724 - Johann S Bach's "John Passion" premieres in Leipzig
1776 - Captain John Barry and the USS Lexington captures the Edward.
1788 - 1st settlement in Ohio, at Marietta
1795 - France adopts the metre as the basic measure of length.
1798 - Mississippi Territory organized
1805 - Premiere of Beethoven's "Eroica" (conducted by himself)
1818 - Gen Andrew Jackson conquers St Marks Fla from Seminole indians
1827 - English chemist John Walker invents wooden matches
1831 - Dom Pedro abdicates to son, Dom Pedro II crowned emperor of Brazil
1860 - Grand duke Frederik I liberalizes laws in Bathe
1862 - Grant defeats Confederates at Battle of Shiloh, Tenn, Island #10 falls
1863 - Battle of Charleston SC, failed Federal fleet attack on Fort Sumter
1865 - Battle of Farmville VA
1868 - Thomas D'Arcy McGee, one of the Canadian Fathers of Confederation is assassinated by the
            Irish, in one of the few Canadian political assassinations, and only federal politician.
1888 - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Yellow Face" (BG)
1890 - Completion of the first Lake Biwa Canal.
1891 - Nebraska introduces 8 hour work day
1901 - SDAP demands general voting right/abolishing First Chamber
1902 - Texas Oil Company (Texaco) forms
1906 - Act of Algeciras drawn between Moroccan police & banking business
1906 - Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
1917 - De Falla's ballet "El Sombrero de tres Picos," premieres in Madrid
1917 - James Barries' "Old Lady Shows Her," premieres in London
1919 - 1st parcel of land is purchased for Cleveland Metroparks
1922 - Naval Reserve #3, "Teapot Dome," leased to Harry F Sinclair
1923 - 1st brain tumor operation under local anesthetic performed (Beth Israel Hospital in NYC) by
           Dr K Winfield Ney
1923 - Workers Party of America (NYC) becomes official communist party
1926 - Forest fire burns 900 acres & kills 2 (San Luis Obispo California)
1926 - Mussolini's Irish wife breaks his nose
1927 - Using phone lines TV is sent from Wash DC to NYC
1928 - 44-yr old NY Ranger GM Lester Patrick replaces his injured goaltender in a Stanley Cup game,
           & beats Montreal Maroons 2-1
1931 - Seals Stadium opens in SF
1933 - 1st 2 NAZI anti-Jewish laws, bars Jews from legal & public service
1933 - Prohibition ends, Utah becomes 38th state to ratify 21st Amendment
1933 - University Bridge, Seattle opens for traffic
1934 - In India, Mahatma Gandhi suspended his campaign of civil disobedience
1939 - Italy invades Albania
1940 - 1st black to appear on US stamp (Booker T Washington)
1940 - 7th Golf Masters Championship: Jimmy Demaret wins, shooting a 280
1941 - British generals O'Connor & Neame captured in North Africa
1942 - Heavy German assault on Malta
1943 - Adolf Hitler & Benito Mussolini met for an Axis conference in Salzburg
1943 - British/US troops make contact at Wadi Akarit, South-Tunisia
1943 - Lt colonel Claus von Stauffenberg seriously wounded at allied air raid
1943 - NFL adopts free substitution rule
1944 - General Montgomery speaks to generals about invastion plan
1945 - 1st & last assault of German Rammkommando on US bombers
1945 - US B-17's bombs range at Luneburg
1945 - US planes intercept Japanese fleet heading for Okinawa on a suicide superbattleship Yamato &
           four destroyers were sunk
1946 - 10th Golf Masters Championship: Herman Keiser wins, shooting a 282
1946 - Part of East Prussia incorporated into Russian SFSR
1946 - Syria's independence from France is officially recognised.
1948 - World Health Organization forms by UN
1948 - A Buddhist monastery burns in Shanghai, China, leaving twenty monks dead.
1949 - "South Pacific" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 1928 performances
1951 - 15th Golf Masters Championship: Ben Hogan wins, shooting a 280
1951 - American Bowling Congress begins 1st masters tournament
1951 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
1953 - 1st west-to-east jet transatlantic nonstop flight
1953 - Dag Hammarskjoeld of Sweden elected 2nd UN general-secretary
1954 - German government refuses to recognize DDR
1954 - Pres Eisenhower fears "domino-effect" in Indo-China
1954 - WALB TV channel 10 in Albany, GA (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1956 - 10th NBA Championship: Ph Warriors beat Ft Wayne Pistons, 4 games to 1
1956 - Spain relinquishes her protectorate in Morocco
1957 - 21st Golf Masters Championship: Doug Ford wins, shooting a 283
1957 - Last of NY's electric trolleys completes its final run
1958 - Dodgers erect 42-foot screen in left field at LA Coliseum to cut down on home runs, since it is
           only 250 feet down the line
1959 - Oklahoma ends prohibition, after 51 years
1959 - Radar 1st bounced off Sun, Stanford Calif
1962 - Umrigar slams 172* v WI at Port-of-Spain in 248 minutes
1962 - Yugoslav ex-president Milovan Djilas returns to jail
1963 - 27th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 286
1963 - Yugoslavia proclaimed a Socialistic republic
1963 - Public stock offering of 115,000 shares in Milwaukee Braves withdrawn after only 13,000
           shares are sold to 1,600 new investors
1964 - IBM announces the System/360.
1965 - Bevan Congdon makes a stumping as 12th man NZ v Pakistan
1966 - US recovers lost H-bomb from Mediterranean floor (whoops!)
1967 - Israeli/Syrian border fights
1967 - Tom Donahue, SF dj begins new radio format - Progressive (KMPX-FM)
1968 - Jim Clark, two-time F1 World Champion and winner of the Indianapolis 500, dies in a racing
           accident during a Formula 2 race at Hockenheim, Germany.
1969 - Dodgers' Bill Singer is credited with 1st official save, against Reds
1969 - Supreme Court strikes down laws prohibiting private possession of obscene material
1969 - Ted Williams begins managing Wash Senators, they lose to Yanks 8-4
1969 - The Internet's symbolic birth date: publication of RFC 1.
1970 - "Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-moon Marigolds," premieres in NYC
1970 - 42nd Academy Awards - "Midnight Cowboy," John Wayne & Maggie Smith win
1970 - Milwaukee Brewers (former Seat Pilots) 1st game, lose to Angels 12-0
1971 - Dismissal of Curt Flood's suit against baseball is upheld by
1971 - Pres Nixon orders lt Calley (Mi Lai) free
1971 - WCJB TV channel 20 in Gainesville, FL (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting 3-judge US Circuit
           Court of Appeals
1973 - Cleveland sets day-game & opening-game attendance records of 74,420
1973 - Doug Walters' best Test Cricket bowling, 5-66 v WI Georgetown
1974 - Herb Gardner's "Thieves," premieres in NYC
1976 - Chinese Politburo fires vice-premier Deng Xiaoping
1977 - Consumer Product Safety Comn bans "TRIS" flame-retardant
1977 - Toronto Blues Jays 1st game, they beat Chicago 9-5
1977 - German Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by two Red Army Faction
           members while waiting at a red light.
1978 - Guttenberg bible sold for $2,000,000 in NYC
1978 - Pres Carter defers production of neutron bomb
1978 - US Court of Appeals upholds Commissioner Kuhn's voiding of attempted player sales by A's
           owner Charlie Finley in June 1976
1979 - Henri La Mothe dives 28' into 12 3/8" of water
1979 - Houston Astro Ken Forsch no-hits Atlanta Braves, 6-0
1979 - Islander's Mike Bossy scores 4 goals against Flyers
1980 - Jimmy Carter breaks relations with Iran during hostage crisis
1981 - Belgium Eyskens government forms
1981 - Willem Klein mentally extracts 13th root of a 100-digit # in 29 sec
1982 - Iran minister of Foreign affairs Ghotbzadeh arrested
1982 - Penguins 1-Isles 8-Preliminary-Isles hold 1-0 lead
1983 - Caps 4-Isles 2-Patrick Div Semifinals-series tied 1-1
1983 - Oldest human skeleton, aged 80,000 years, discovered in Egypt
1983 - STS-6 specialist Story Musgrave & Don Peterson 1st STS spacewalk
1983 - WIBC Championship Tournament in Las Vegas, attracts 75,480 women bowlers for 83-day
           event
1984 - Detroit Tiger Jack Morris no-hits Chicago White Sox, 4-0
1985 - 14th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Alice Miller
1985 - 1st live telecast of Easter Parade
1985 - NJ General Hershel Walker runs for USFL record 233 yards
1986 - Wrestlemania II at 3 locations, Hulk Hogan beats King Kong Bundy
1987 - National Museum of Female Physician opens in Wash DC
1987 - Al Campanis, Dodger executive for more than 40 years, resigns, after making racial remarks
          on "Nightline"
1988 - Devils 3-2 over Isles, 1st round tied 1-1
1988 - Gerrit John Heijns murderer, arrested
1988 - Russia announced it would withdraw its troops from Afghanistan
1988 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1989 - Soviet sub sinks in Norwegian Sea, with about a dozen deaths
1989 - NY Supreme Court takes America's Cup away from SD Yacht Club for using a catamaran
           against NZ. Appeals court eventually overrules
1990 - BPAA US Open by Ron Palombi Jr
1990 - Farm Aid IV concert
1990 - John Poindexter (Natl Sec Advisor) found guilty on Iran-Contra scandal
1990 - Michael Milken pleads innocent to security law violations
1990 - NY Rangers beat NY Islanders 5-2, Rangers lead 2-0 in preliminary
1990 - Fire kills 110 on a ferry in Norway, in an unrelated event, 30 die in a ferry flip over in Burma
1991 - "Big Love" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 41 performances
1991 - "Shadowlands" closes at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC after 169 perfs
1991 - 3rd Seniors Golf Tradition: Jack Nicklaus
1991 - Chris Johnson wins LPGA Ping/Welch's Golf Championship
1991 - Compton Gamma Ray Observatory orbits Earth
1991 - George Washington Bridge raises toll from $3.00 to $4.00
1991 - Wrestlemania VII scheduled in LA, actually performed 03/24
1992 - Republika Srpska announces its independence.
1993 - Dante Bichette hits the 1st Colo Rockie HR (Shea Stadium NY)
1994 - "Medea" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 82 performances
1994 - 1st night game at Cleveland's Jacobs Field, Indians 6 Seattle 2
1994 - NY Yankees beat Texas Rangers 18-6
1994 - Shannen Doherty files for divorce from Ashley Hamilton
1994 - Singer Percy Sledge pleads guilty to tax evasion
1994 - Vatican acknowledges Holocaust (Nazis killing Jews) for 1st time
1995 - Baseball exhibition season begins late due to strike
1996 - 8th Seniors Golf Tradition: Jack Nicklaus
1996 - Jayasuriya hits fastest ODI fifty off 17 balls v Pak, Singapore
1996 - Kelly Robbins wins Sacramento 12 Bridges LPGA Golf Classic
1996 - Pakistan beat Sri Lanka to win Singer Cup in Singapore
1997 - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Ft Myers FL on WRXK 96.1 FM
1999 - The World Trade Organisation rules in favor of the United States in its long-running trade
           dispute with the European Union over bananas.
2001 - Mars Odyssey is launched.
2003 - U.S. troops capture Baghdad; Saddam Hussein's regime falls two days later.
2005 - The Head of government of the Federal District, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, faces an
           impeachment process at the Mexican Congress.
2009 - Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to 25 years in prison for ordering
           killings and kidnappings by security forces.
2012 - Joyce Banda becomes President of Malawi
2012 - 130 Pakistani Army soldiers are buried in an avalanche near the Siachen Glacier

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Post by: MysteRy on April 07, 2013, 11:36:58 AM

This Day in History for 7th April


Famous Weddings

2003 - Academy Award "Gladiator" actor Russell Crowe (39) weds singer Danielle Spencer (32) at his
           560-acre cattle farm in Nana Glen, New South Wales, Australia
2007 - "Scrubs" actor John C. McGinley (47) weds yoga instructor Nichole Kessler at their home in
           Malibu

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Post by: MysteRy on April 07, 2013, 11:38:17 AM

This Day in History for 7th April


Famous Divorces

1994 - Shannen Doherty files for divorce from Ashley Hamilton

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 07, 2013, 11:45:39 AM

This Day in History for 7th April


Famous Birthdays

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Musician Ravi Shankar (1920)                     Actor Jackie Chan (1954)                     Actor Russell Crowe (1964)


1506 - Francis Xavier, saint/Jesuit missionary to India, Malaya, & Japan
1534 - Jose de Anchieta, Spanish jesuit/missionary (Brazilian Tupi-Indians)
1613 - Gerard Dou, Dutch painter (Night School) (d. 1675)
1622 - Louise Hollandine, daughter of King Frederik V & Elizabeth Stuart
1629 - Juan Jose, of Austria, Spanish general/governor of Netherlands
1644 - François de Neufville, duc de Villeroi, French soldier (d. 1730)
1648 - Ferdinand van Kessel, Flemish painter
1648 - John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, English statesman and poet (d.
           1721)
1652 - Pope Clement XII (d. 1740)
1694 - Coelestin Praelisauer, composer
1699 - Andreas Benedikt Praelisauer, composer
1718 - Hugh Blair, Scottish preacher and man of letters (d. 1800)
1727 - Henri Hardouin, composer
1727 - Michel Adanson, French botanist (d. 1806)
1745 - Georg Druschetzky, composer
1748 - Georg Wenzel Ritter, composer
1756 - Charles Felix, King of Sardina (1821-31)
1763 - Domenico Dragonetti, composer
1768 - Karl Theodor Toeschi, composer
1770 - William Wordsworth, England, poet laureate (Prelude)
1772 - F M Charles Fourier, French socialist
1775 - Francis C Lowell, founded 1st raw cotton-to-cloth textile mill
1780 - William Ellery Channing, US, Unitarian clergyman
1786 - William Rufus DeVane King, (D) 13th VP (1853)
1801 - Henry Eagle, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1882
1803 - Flora Tristan, writer
1803 - James Curtiss, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1859)
1805 - Francis Wilkinson Pickens, (Gov-SC, Confederacy), died in 1869
1819 - Hubert Leonard, composer
1822 - Gershom Mott, Major General (Union volunteers)
1826 - Johann Hermann Berens, composer
1841 - Alfred Cogniaux, Belgian botanicus
1841 - Joseph H "Jozef" Neuhuys, painter
1847 - J P Jacobsen, writer
1848 - Randall Thomas Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1930)
1851 - Otto Adolf Klauwell, composer
1858 - Adrien H Gerhard, Dutch socialist politician (SDAP)
1859 - Walter Camp, Ct, father of American football (Yale)
1860 - Will Keith Kellogg, American cereal manufacturer (d. 1951)
1869 - David Grandison Fairchild, US, botanist/explorer, brought plants to US
1870 - Gustav Landauer, German socialist
1870 - Joseph Ryeland, Belgian composer/Baron
1872 - William Monroe Trotter, Hyde Park, Massachusetts, newspaper editor and African-American
           rights activist
1873 - John McGraw, American baseball player and manager (d. 1934)
1878 - C M M Hathorn, cricketer (South African Test centurion in 1905-06)
1878 - Jozef C Bittremieux, Flemish theologist (Virgin & Mother of God)
1882 - Bert "Dainty" Ironmonger, cricketer (belated Australian rep 1928-33)
1882 - Kurt von Schleiger, German chancellor (12/2/32-1/28/33)
1883 - Gino Severini, Italian painter (d. 1966)
1884 - Charles Dodd, English new testament authority
1884 - Louis H N Bosch van Rosenthal, Dutch politician/resistance fighter
1886 - Ed Lafitte, American baseball player (d. 1971)
1890 - Marjory Stoneman Douglas, environmentalist (1st Lady of Everglades)
1891 - Ole Kirk Christiansen, Danish inventor (d. 1958)
1893 - Irene Castle, dancer (leader in anti-vivisection movement)
1893 - Allen Dulles, American Central Intelligence Agency director (d. 1969)
1894 - Gerald Brenan, English writer
1895 - Eduardo Toldra, composer
1895 - Lewis B Combs, naval commander/civil engineer
1896 - Benny Leonard, lightweight boxing champ (1917-25)
1897 - Harald Sigurd Johan Saeverud, composer [OS]
1897 - Walter Winchell, Harlem NYC, newscaster/columnist (Untouchables)
1897 - Erich Loewenhardt, German flying ace of World War I (d. 1918)
1899 - Robert Casadesus, French pianist (d. 1972)
1900 - Tebbs Lloyd Johnson, England, 50K walker (Olympic-bronze-1952)
1905 - Queenie Leonard, American actress (d. 2002)
1908 - Le Duan, Vietnamese politician
1908 - Percy Faith, conductor (Summer Place)
1909 - Robert Charroux, French writer (d. 1978)
1912 - John Adrian Hope, politician/businessman
1913 - Charles Vanik, American politician (d. 2007)
1914 - Sydney Thompson, rock climber
1915 - Billie Holiday, [Eleanora Fagan], Balt, singer (Aint Nobodys Business)
1915 - Henry Kuttner, US, sci-fi author (Dark World, As You Were)
1915 - Stanley Adams, American actor (d. 1977)
1916 - Anthony Caruso, American actor (d. 2003)
1917 - R G Armstrong, Birmingham Ala, actor (T.H.E. Cat), (d. 2012)
1918 - C B Bertie Clarke, cricketer (Barbados & West Indian leg-spinner)
1918 - Peanuts Hucko, Syracuse NY, dixieland clarinetist (Lawrence Welk Show)
1918 - Peter Aryans, [PCJ Vander], Dutch radio actor (Shoot Out)
1918 - Ronald Howard, Norwood England, actor (Naked Edge, Africa-Texas Style)
1918 - Bobby Doerr, American baseball player
1919 - Ralph Flanagan, Loraine Ohio, orchestra leader (Let's Dance)
1919 - Edoardo Mangiarotti, Italian fencer (6x Olympic gold, 1936-1960), (d. 2012)
1920 - Ravi Shankar, Varanasi, British India, musician (the Pandit), (d. 2012)
1920 - Terence Edward Armstrong, polar geographer
1922 - Kenneth Howard Peacock, composer
1922 - Mongo Santamaria, Cuban musician (d. 2003)
1924 - Ikuma Dan, composer
1924 - Nick Perito, Denver Colo, orchestra leader (Don Knotts Show, Big Show)
1924 - Johannes Mario Simmel, Austrian writer
1926 - Johannes Rood, Dutch immunologist (Eurotransplant)
1927 - Babatunde Olatunji, Nigerian drummer (d. 2003)
1928 - Alan J Pakula, director (All the President's Men, Klute)
1928 - James Garner, Norman Oklahoma, actor (Rockford Files, Bret Maverick)
1928 - James White, UK, sci-fi author (Star Surgeon, Star Healer)
1929 - Bob Denard, French mercenary (d. 2007)
1930 - Andrew Sachs, actor (Manuel-Fawlty Towers)
1931 - Daniel Ellsberg, whistleblower (Pentagon Papers)/patriot
1931 - Donald Barthelme, Phila Pa, writer (Snow White, Sadness)
1932 - Louis "Mr Bo" Collins, blues SInger
1933 - Wayne Rogers, Birmingham Ala, actor (M*A*S*H, House Calls, Chiefs)
1934 - Ian Richards, Edinburgh Scotland, actor (Montgomery-Ike)
1934 - Swami Shantananda, Hindu Saint, Philosopher, Disciple of Swami Sivananda, Founder of
           Temple of Fine Arts
1934 - Ian Richardson, Scottish actor (d. 2007)
1935 - Bobby Bare, Irontown Oh, country singer (Detroit City)
1935 - Hodding Carter III, press secretary (Jimmy Carter)
1935 - Yvonne Fedderson, co-founder (Childhelp USA)
1936 - Jean-Pierre Changeux, French neuroscientist
1937 - Charley Thomas, rocker (Drifters)
1938 - Freddie Hubbard, Indianapolis, jazz trumpeter (Art Blakey)
1938 - Jerry Brown, ex-California governor
1938 - Yvonne Lime, Glendale California, actress (Father Knows Best, Dobie Gillis)
1938 - [Edmund G] Jerry Brown Jr, (Gov-D-Cal, 1974-..)
1939 - David Frost, Tenterdon England, TV host (That Was the Week That Was)
1939 - Donald L Holmquest, Dallas Texas, astronaut
1939 - Francis Ford Coppola, Detroit, director (Godfather, Apocalypse Now)
1940 - Jan Wilhelm Morthenson, composer
1940 - Patricia Paay, Dutch singer (You are not hip)
1941 - Gorden Kaye, British actor
1942 - Edda Barends, actress (Arthur & Eva)
1942 - Jeetendra, Indian actor
1943 - Dennis Amiss, cricketer (prolific English batsman)
1943 - Mick Abrahams, Luton, rock guitarist (Jethro Tull, Blodwyn Pig)
1943 - Roberta Shore, Monterrey Park, California, actress/singer (Virginian)
1943 - Spencer Dryden, NYC, rock drummer (Jefferson Airplane-Go Ask Alice)
1944 - Gerhard Schröder, Chancellor of Germany
1944 - Bill Stoneman, American baseball player and manager
1945 - Martin Lewis, British newsreader
1945 - Megas, Icelandic singer, songwriter and writer
1945 - Joël Robuchon, French chef
1946 - Barbara Benary, composer
1946 - Colette Besson, French runner (d. 2005)
1947 - Patricia Bennett, US singer (He's So Fine)
1947 - Eliseo Soriano, Philippine evangelist
1947 - Florian Schneider, German musician (Kraftwerk)
1947 - Charles 'skip' Pitts, Washington D.C., soul and blues guitarist (Shaft), (d. 2012)
1948 - Carol Douglas, American singer
1949 - John Oates, NYC, rock guitarist/vocalist (Hall & Oates-Rich Girl)
1951 - Janis Ian, NYC, [Janis Eddy Fink], lesbian/folk rocker (At 17)
1951 - John Dittrich, Union NJ, country singer (Restless Heart-Wheels)
1952 - Bruce Gary, Burbank Ca, rock drummer (Knack-My Sharona)
1952 - Jane Frederick, US pentathlete (Olympics-7th-1976)
1953 - Everard Endt, US, yachting (Olympic-gold-1952)
1954 - Donna White, LPGA golfer
1954 - Jackie Chan, martial art actor (Rumble in the Bronx)
1954 - Tony Dorsett, NFL running back (Dallas Cowboys, Heisman Trophy)
1955 - Andrea Fisher, artist
1956 - Gail Lee Hirata, LPGA golfer
1956 - Annika Billström, Swedish politician
1956 - Christopher Darden, American O.J. Simpson prosecutor
1957 - Kim Kap-su, South Korean actor
1958 - Alexandra Neil, Boston, actress (Rose-Guiding Light)
1958 - Tony Aire, rocker (Adventures-Sea of Love)
1960 - Simon Climie, rock vocalist/keyboardist (Climie Fisher-Love Changes)
1961 - Pascal Olmeta, French footballer
1962 - Andy Hampsten, Columbus Ohio, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1962 - Bonny Warner, Mount Baldy California, lugist
1962 - Hugh Edward Ralph O'Connor, actor (In the Heat of the Night)
1962 - Alain Robert, French rock and urban climber
1963 - Jaime de Marichalar, duke of Lugo, Spanish royalty
1964 - Helen Wadsworth, S Wales, golfer (Curtis Cup 1990)
1964 - Joe Durant, Pensacola FL, Nike golfer (1992 Boise Open-7th)
1964 - Russell Crowe, Wellington, New Zealand, Australian/New Zealand actor (A Beautiful Mind,
           Gladiator)
1965 - Alexander Mronz, Cologne Germany, tennis star
1965 - Kaushik Amalean, cricketer (two Tests for Sri Lanka 1986-88)
1965 - Bill Bellamy, American actor and comedian
1965 - Alison Lapper, British artist
1966 - Teri Ann Linn, Honolulu Hawaii, actress (Kristen-Bold & Beautiful)
1966 - Gary Wilkinson, English snooker player
1967 - Steve Wisniewski, NFL guard (Oakland Raiders)
1967 - Artemis Gounaki, composer, writer and music producer
1968 - Bill Bellamy, actor (Fled, How to be a Player, Joey Breaker)
1968 - Don[ald] Smith, North Tonawanda NY, rower (Olympics-5th-1996)
1968 - Duncan Armstrong, Australian swimmer
1969 - Clark Sheehan, Denver Colo, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1969 - Jeremy Lincoln, NFL cornerback (Chic Bears, Seattle Seahawks)
1969 - Peggy Clasen, St Paul Minn, speed skater (Olympics-1994)
1969 - Ricky Bones, Salinas Puerto Rico, pitcher (Milwaukee Brewers, NY Yanks)
1969 - Ricky Watters, NFL running back (Philadelphia Eagles)
1970 - Alexander Karpovtsev, Moscow Russia, NHL defenseman (NY Rangers)
1970 - Kevin Smith, NFL cornerback (Dallas Cowboys)
1970 - Leif Ove Andsnes, Norwegian pianist
1971 - Cara Kendra Bernosky, Miss USA-Pennsylvania (1997)
1971 - Mark Thompson, Russellville KY, pitcher (Colorado Rockies)
1971 - Stephen Brimacombe, Australian 100m/200m (Olympics-96)
1971 - Victor Kraatz, Berlin Ger, Canadian ice dancer (1995 World Champs-4th)
1971 - Guillaume Depardieu, French actor
1972 - Greg Clark, tight end (San Francisco 49ers)
1972 - Joanne Brown, Australian softball catcher/1st baseman (Olym-bronze-96)
1972 - Lovett Purnell, wide receiver (New England Patriots)
1972 - Malcolm Huckaby, NBA guard (Miami Heat)
1972 - Shana Williams, Bridgeton NJ, long jumper/heptathlete
1973 - Carole Montillet, French skier
1973 - Ève Salvail, Canadian model
1973 - Brett Tomko, American baseball player
1974 - Anita Maxwell, WNBA forward (Cleveland Rockers)
1975 - Beverly Peele, super model (Elle)
1975 - Ronde Barber, cornerback (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1975 - Tiki Barber, running back (NY Giants)
1975 - Ronnie Belliard, American baseball player
1976 - Erich Goldmann, Dingolfing GER, hockey defenseman (Team Germany 1998)
1976 - Kevin Alejandro, American actor
1977 - Silvana Arias, Peruvian actress
1978 - Siobhan Drake-Brockman, Bunbury Aust, tennis star (1994 Port Pirie)
1978 - Vladimir Voltchkov, Belarusian tennis player
1979 - Adrián Beltré, Dominican baseball player
1981 - Suzann Pettersen, Norwegian golfer
1982 - Sonjay Dutt, Indian American professional wrestler
1986 - Brooke Brodack, American internet celebrity
1987 - Alexa Demara, American model and actress
1989 - Franco Di Santo, Argentine Footballer

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Post by: MysteRy on April 07, 2013, 11:48:19 AM

This Day in History for 7th April


Famous Deaths

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Newscaster Mike Wallace (2012)


30 - Jesus Christ, crucified, according to astronomer Schaefer, dies
924 - Berengarius I, Emperor of Italy, murdered
1307 - Joan of Acre, daughter of Edward I of England (b. 1271)
1444 - John Capreolus, French theologist (Libri IV), dies at about 50
1498 - Charles VIII, King of France (1483-98), dies at 27
1524 - Philip of Burgundy, bishop of Utrecht, dies
1614 - El Greco, Greek-born artist working in Spain (b. 1541)
1638 - Shimazu Tadatsune, Japanese ruler of Satsuma (b. 1576)
1651 - Lennart Torstenson, Swedish soldier and engineer (b. 1603)
1658 - Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, Spanish mystic (b. 1595)
1661 - Sir William Brereton, 1st Baronet, English soldier and politician (b. 1604)
1663 - Francis Cooke, Mayflower pilgrim (b. c. 1583)
1668 - William Davenant, English poet (b. 1606)
1719 - Jean-Baptiste de la Salle, French priest/theory/saint, dies at 67
1739 - Dick Turpin, English highwayman (hanged) (b. 1706)
1747 - Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian field marshal (b. 1676)
1766 - Tiberius Hemsterhuis, Dutch classicist, dies at 81
1767 - Franz Sparry, composer, dies at 51
1768 - Michel Mathieu, composer, dies at 78
1778 - Johann Balthasar Kehl, composer, dies at 52
1782 - Taksin, King of Thailand (b. 1734)
1783 - Ignaz Jakob Holzbauer, composer, dies at 71
1789 - Peter Camper, anatomist/animal scholar, dies at 66
1789 - Abd-ul-Hamid I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1725)
1801 - Noël François de Wailly, French lexicographer (b. 1724)
1803 - [Francois D] Toussaint L'Ouverture/Haitian revolutionary, dies
1810 - Pieter L van de Kasteele, Dutch politician/patriot, dies at 61
1811 - Garsevan Chavchavadze, Georgian diplomat and politician (b. 1757)
1823 - Jacques Charles, French chemist (b. 1746)
1833 - Antoni Henryk Radziwill, Lithuanian/Polish composer, dies at 57
1836 - William Godwin, English political writer (b. 1756)
1842 - Henrik A Bjerregaard, Norw writer/poet (Fjeldeventyret), dies at 50
1850 - William Lisle Bowles, English poet (14 Sonnets), dies at 87
1858 - Anton Diabelli, Austria publisher/composer, dies at 76
1862 - Sydney Nelson, composer, dies at 62
1868 - D'Arcy McGee, Canadian journalist and Father of Confederation (b. 1825)
1871 - Alexander, grandson of English queen Victoria, dies at 1 day old
1871 - Wilhelm Freiherr von Tegetthoff, Aus adm (Helgoland/Lissa), dies at 43
1871 - Alexander Lloyd, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1805)
1875 - Georg Herwegh, writer, dies at 57
1877 - Errico Petrella, composer, dies at 63
1880 - Diederich Krug, composer, dies at 58
1881 - Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte, Corsican MP, dies at 65
1884 - Maria van Ackere-Doolaeghe, Flemish poet (Avondlamp), dies at 80
1885 - Carl Theodor Ernst von Siebold, German physiologist (b. 1804)
1891 - Phineas T Barnum, US circus promoter (B & Bailey), dies at 88
1917 - Spyridon Filiskos Samaras, composer, dies at 53
1920 - Karl Binding, German jurist (b. 1841)
1928 - Alexander Bogdanov, Russian physician and philosopher (b. 1873)
1932 - Erv A Kelley, US policeman, shot to death by Pretty Boy Floyd
1933 - Jan Erik/Eric Jan Hanussen, Berlin astrologist/illusionist, murdered
1934 - William Monroe Trotter, African, dies on 62nd birthday in Boston
1939 - Joseph Lyons, tenth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1879)
1943 - Jovan Ducic, Serbian poet (Blue Legends), dies at 72
1943 - Alexandre Millerand, President of France (b. 1859)
1950 - Walter Huston, dies at 66
1955 - Theda Bara, actress (Camille, Cleopatra, 2 Orphans), dies at 62
1958 - Judge Jackson, composer, dies at 75
1958 - Klimenty Arkad'yevich Korchmaryov, composer, dies at 58
1961 - Jesus Guridi, composer, dies at 74
1961 - Marian Jordan, radio comedienne (Fibber McGee & Molly), dies at 62
1961 - Yusef Greiss, composer, dies at 61
1967 - Anne Morrison Chapin, dies in West Hollywood
1968 - Jim Clark, of Scotland, world driving champ, dies at 32 in race car
1970 - Josina Machel, wife of Mozambique's 1st pres Samora Machel, dies
1971 - Charles F Pahud de Mortanges, (Olympic-gold-1928, 32), dies at 74
1972 - "Crazy" Joe Gallo, mobster, killed at his 43rd birthday party
1972 - Abeid Karume, Tanzanian sheik/president, murdered
1972 - Victor Wong, actor (Mission to Moscow, King Kong) dies at 65
1973 - Nick Stuart, bandleader, dies of cancer at 69
1976 - Mary Margaret McBride, TV hostess (Mary Margaret McBride), dies at 76
1977 - Siegfried Buback, German FR procureur-genl, murdered attorney-general
1978 - Ernest Kanitz, composer, dies at 83
1979 - Bruno Apitz, writer, dies at 78
1981 - Kit Lambert, British record producer and manager (The Who) (b. 1935)
1982 - Brenda Benet, actress (Track of Thunder), commits suicide by gun at 36
1982 - Harald Ertl, Austrian racing driver (b. 1948)
1983 - Gavin Gordon, television actor (Romance, Lone Cowboy), dies at 82
1984 - Frank Church, (Sen-D-Ohio, 1957-81), dies at 59
1984 - Samuel C Engel, poet, dies of heart failure at 79
1987 - Maxine Sullivan, [Williams], US actress (Going Places), dies at 75
1988 - Cesar Bresgen, Austrian composer/organist, dies at 74
1989 - Tikhon Toropets, patriarch of Russian Orthodox/saint, dies at 123(?)
1992 - Alix Talton, former Miss Georgia, dies of lung cancer at 72
1992 - Clovis Ruffin, fashion designer (T shirt dress), dies of AIDS at 46
1992 - Rick Emery, dies after long illness at 39
1993 - Max Croiset, Dutch actor/dramatist/director (Zeekant), dies at 80
1993 - Richard Schmiechen, dies of AIDS at 45
1993 - S C (Billy) Griffith, cricketer (England 1948-49, MCC sect), dies
1994 - Agathe Uwilingiyimana, PM of Rwanda, assassinated
1994 - Angelus Gottfried "Golo" Mann, German/US historian, dies at 85
1994 - Arthur Gordon Clough, journalist, dies at 59
1994 - Evert Hartman, Dutch writer (War Without Friends), dies at 56
1994 - Francois de Grossouvre, Pres Mitterrand advisor, suicide at 76
1994 - Lee Brilleaux, British R&B-singer/guitarist (Stupidity), dies at 41
1994 - Albert Guðmundsson, Icelandic footballer and politician (b. 1923)
1995 - Philip Vincent Belloc Jebb, architect, dies at 68
1996 - Ian Spurling, ballet designer, dies at 59
1997 - Luis Aloma, Cuban baseball player (b. 1923)
1997 - Georgi Shonin, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1935)
1998 - Broery Marantika, Indonesian singer
2001 - David Graf, American actor (b. 1950)
2001 - Beatrice Straight, American actress (b. 1914)
2002 - John Agar, American actor (b. 1921)
2003 - Cecile de Brunhoff, French storyteller (b. 1903)
2003 - David Greene, British television director (b. 1921)
2004 - Victor Argo, American actor (b. 1934)
2005 - Grigoris Bithikotsis, Greek singer (b. 1922)
2005 - Bob Kennedy, American baseball player and manager (b. 1920)
2005 - Cliff Allison, British racing driver (b. 1932)
2007 - Johnny Hart, American cartoonist (b. 1931)
2007 - Barry Nelson, American actor (b. 1917)
2009 - Dave Arneson, Co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons (b. 1947)
2012 - Mike Wallace [Myron], American media personality, dies at 93

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 08, 2013, 03:02:39 PM

This Day in History for 8th April


Historical Events

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Classical music prodigy Mozart                  British Prime Minister                           Naturalist Charles Darwin
                                                                   William Gladstone

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32nd US President                                    Baseball Player Hank Aaron                           Actor Clint Eastwood
Franklin Roosevelt

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Baseball Player                                      265th Pope Benedict XVI
Darryl Strawberry 


217 - Roman Emperor Caracalla is assassinated (and succeeded) by his Praetorian Guard prefect,
          Marcus Opellius Macrinus.
1093 - The new Winchester Cathedral is dedicated by Walkelin.
1139 - Roger II of Sicily is excommunicated.
1149 - Pope Eugene III takes refuge in the castle of Ptolemy II of Tusculum.
1195 - Alexius III Angelus drives out brother Isaak II as Byzantine emperor
1271 - In Syria, sultan Baybars conquers the Krak of Chevaliers.
1341 - Francesco Petrarca crowned in Rome
1378 - Bartolomeo Prignano elected as Pope Urban VI
1455 - Alfonso de Borgia elected as Pope Callistus III
1500 - Battle at Novara: King Louis XII beats duke Ludovico Sforza
1513 - Explorer Juan Ponce de Leon claimed Florida for Spain
1730 - 1st Jewish congregation in US forms synagogue, "Shearith Israel, NYC"
1759 - British troops chase French out of Masulipatam India
1766 - 1st fire escape patented, wicker basket on a pulley & chain
1767 - Ayutthaya kingdom falls to Burmese invaders.
1781 - Premiere of Mozart's violin sonata K379
1783 - Catharina II of Russia annexes the Krim
1789 - House of Representives 1st meeting
1801 - Soldiers riot in Bucharest, kill 128 Jews
1802 - French Protestant church becomes state-supported & -controlled
1808 - The Roman Catholic Diocese of Baltimore was promoted to an archdiocese, with the founding
           of the dioceses of New York, Philadelphia, Boston, and Bardstown (now Louisville) by Pope 
           Pius VII.
1820 - The Venus de Milo is discovered on the Aegean island of Melos.
1832 - Charles Darwin begins trip through Rio de Janeiro
1838 - Steamship "Great Western" maiden voyage (Bristol England to NYC)
1848 - 1st battle at Gioto: Sardinia-Piemonte beats Austrians
1848 - Battle at Xaquixaguana, Peru: Pedro de la Gasca beats Gonzalo Pizarro
1861 - US mint at Dahlonega, Georgia seized by confederacy
1862 - John D Lynde patents aerosol dispenser
1864 - Battle of Mansfield, La Federals routed by Gen Richard Taylor
1866 - Italy and Prussia ally against Austria-Hungary.
1869 - American Museum of Natural History opens (NYC)
1876 - Amiliare Ponchielli's opera "La Gioconda," premieres in Milan
1879 - Khedive Ismael of Egypt fires French/British ministers
1879 - Milk was sold in glass bottles for 1st time
1886 - William Ewart Gladstone introduces the first Irish Home Rule Bill into the British House of
           Commons.
1893 - The Critic reports that ice cream soda is our national drink
1898 - Battle of Atbara River, Anglo-Egyptian forces crush 6,000 Sudanese
1904 - Gr Brit & France sign Cordial Entente concerning colonial matter
1904 - British mystic Aleister Crowley transcribes the first chapter of the Book of the Law.
1908 - Lord Asquith succeeds Henry Campbell-Bannerman as British premier
1912 - Steamers collide in Nile, drowning 200
1913 - 17th amendment, requiring direct election of senators, ratified
1913 - Opening of China's 1st parliament takes place in Peking (now Beijing)
1914 - US & Colombia sign a treaty concerning Panama Canal Zone
1916 - Norway approves active & passive female suffrage
1916 - In Corona, California, racecar driver Bob Burman crashes, killing three and badly injuring five
           spectators.
1920 - LONGA soccer team forms in Tilburg
1929 - Indian Independence Movement: At the Delhi Central Assembly, Bhagat Singh and
           Batukeshwar Dutt throw handouts and bombs to court arrest.
1931 - "White Horse Inn" opens in London
1931 - Dmitri Sjostakovitch' ballet "The Arrow," premieres
1933 - Manchester Guardian warns of unknown nazi terror
1935 - 2nd Golf Masters Championship: Gene Sarazen wins, shooting a 282
1935 - Bartoks 5th String quartet premieres in Wash DC
1935 - Works Progress Administration approved by Congress
1939 - ACV soccer team forms in Axes
1939 - King Zog I of Albania, flees
1940 - Germany battle cruisers sink British aircraft carrier Glorious
1941 - Joe Louis TKOs Tony Musto in 9 for heavyweight boxing title
1942 - A Schoenberg & Tudor's ballet "Pillar of Fire," premieres in NYC
1943 - Hakuun Yasutani Roshi, founder of Sanbo Kyodan, receives dharma
1943 - Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya convicted of involvement with Mau Mau
1943 - Stanley Cup: Detroit Red Wings sweep Boston Bruins in 4 games
1943 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, in an attempt to check inflation, freezes wages and prices,
           prohibits workers from changing jobs unless the war effort would be aided thereby, and bars
           rate increases to common carriers and public utilities.
1945 - Nazi occupiers executed, Nazi general Christiansen flees Netherlands
1946 - League of Nations assembles for last time
1947 - Largest recorded sunspot (7,000) observed
1948 - Soen Nakagawa & Nyogen Senzaki (Zen teachers) meet in SF
1950 - "Miss Liberty" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 308 performances
1952 - Pres Harry Truman seizes steel mills to avert a strike
1953 - Dag Hammarskjoeld chosen as secretary-general of UN
1954 - "By the Beautiful Sea" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 270 perfs
1956 - 20th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Burke Jr wins, shooting a 289
1956 - 6 marine recruits drown during exercise at Paradise Is SC
1956 - M Bandaranaike's People's front wins election in Ceylon
1960 - Neth & Germany sign accord concerning war casualties
1961 - "Show Girl" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 100 perfs
1961 - British liner "Dara" explodes in Persian Gulf, kills 236
1962 - Accords of Evian (Algeria) accepted by referendum in France
1963 - 35th Academy Awards - "Lawrence of Arabia," A Bancroft & G Peck win
1963 - Tigers claim young pitcher Denny McLain from the White Sox for $25,000
1964 - Unmanned Gemini 1 launched
1966 - AFL chooses 36 year old Al Davis as commissioner
1966 - Leonid Brezhnev elected secretary-general of communist party
1966 - OAO 1, 1st orbiting astronomical observatory, launched
1968 - 40th Academy Awards postponed to Apr 10th due to death of M L King
1968 - Baseball's Opening Day is postponed because of M L King assassination
1968 - Czechoslovakia Cernik government forms
1968 - New socialist constitution of East Germany takes effect
1968 - WKPI TV channel 22 in Pikeville, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1969 - 1st Baseball game in Canada - Mont Expos beats NY Mets 10-9
1969 - Expansion teams Royals, Expos, Padres & Pilots win their 1st games
1970 - "Cry for Us All" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 8 performances
1970 - Senate rejects Nixon's nomination of Carswell to Supreme Court
1971 - 1st legal off-track betting system begins (OTB-New York)
1972 - Alvin Kallicharran scores 100* in his 1st Test Cricket innings v NZ
1973 - Thirty-two terrorist bombings in Cyprus take place.
1974 - Discovery Island opens
1974 - Hammerin' Hank Aaron hits 715th HR, breaks Babe Ruth's record
1975 - 47th Academy Awards - "Godfather II," Ellen Burstyn & Art Carney win
1975 - Frank Robinson debuts as 1st black baseball mgr (Cleve, beats NY 5-3)
1977 - Israel premier Rabin resigns
1979 - "Carmelina" opens at St James Theater NYC for 17 performances
1979 - 204th & final episode of "All in the Family"
1979 - 8th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Sandra Post
1979 - People's Republic of China joins IOC
1980 - Islander Potvin's 2 shorthanded goals tie NHL record vs Kings & set NHL rec of 2 shorthanded
           playoff goals in 1 period
1981 - Islanders scored 9 goals against Toronto in playoffs
1982 - Penguins 2-Isles 4-Preliminary-Isles hold 2-0 lead
1982 - Tracy Caulkins, 19, wins her 36th US swimming title
1984 - 13th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Juli Inkster
1984 - 4th Golden Raspberry Awards: Lonely Lady wins
1985 - "Leader of the Pack" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 120 perfs
1985 - Amdahl releases UTS/V, 1st mainframe Unix
1985 - India files suit against Union Carbide over Bhopal disaster
1986 - Clint Eastwood elected mayor of Carmel California, Make his day
1989 - 1-handed pitcher Jim Abbott debut but lasts only 4 2/3 inn
1990 - "Aspects of Love" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 377 performances
1990 - "Twin Peaks" with Peggy Lipton premieres on ABC-TV
1990 - 54th Golf Masters Championship: Nick Faldo wins, shooting a 278
1990 - King Birendra of Nepal lifts 30-year ban on political parties
1990 - Kris Monaghan wins LPGA Red Robin Kyocera Inamori Golf Classic
1990 - Norwegian Scandinavian Star catches fire; about 170 die
1990 - New Democracy wins the national election in Greece.
1991 - "I Hate Hamlet" opens at Walter Kerr Theater NYC for 88 performances
1991 - Jockey, Bill Shoemaker, paralyzed in a car accident
1991 - Major league umpires & baseball reach a 4-year agreement
1991 - Michael Landon announces he has inoperable cancer of pancreas
1991 - Oakland A's stadium becomes 1st outdoor arena to ban smoking
1992 - "5 Guys Named Moe" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 445 perfs
1992 - After 151 years Britain's "Punch Magazine" final issue
1993 - Indians' Carlos Baerga is 1st to switch hit HRs in same inn (vs Yanks)
1993 - STS-56 (Discovery) launches into orbit
1994 - Atlanta Brave Kent Mercker no-hits Dodgers, 6-0
1994 - Darryl Strawberry enters Betty Ford clinic
1994 - Japans premier Morihiro Hosokawa resigns
1994 - Smoking banned in Pentagon & all US military bases
1995 - BPAA US Open won by Dave Husted
1995 - Oliver McCall beats Larry Holmes in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1996 - Bruce Seldon TKOs Tony Tucker in 7 to win vacated WBA boxing title
1997 - Microsoft Corp releases Internet Explorer 4.0
1997 - STS 83 (Columbia 22), lands
1999 - Haryana Gana Parishad, a political party in the Indian state of Haryana, merges with the Indian         
           National Congress.
2000 - Nineteen Marines are killed when a V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft crashes near Marana,
           Arizona.
2004 - Darfur conflict: The Humanitarian Ceasefire Agreement is signed by the Sudanese government
           and two rebel groups.
2004 - U.S. National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice testifies before the 9/11 Commission.
2006 - Shedden massacre: The bodies of eight men, all shot to death, are found in a field in Ontario,
           Canada. The murders are soon linked to the Bandidos motorcycle gang.
2008 - The construction of the world's first building to integrate wind turbines completes, in Bahrain.
2012 - Gunter Grass labelled persona non gratta by Israeli internal affairs minister Eli Yishai
2012 - Pope Benedict XVI calls for an end to Syrian blood shed in papal Easter message

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 08, 2013, 03:04:46 PM

This Day in History for 8th April


Famous Weddings

1716 - Duke Karel Leopold of Mecklenburg-Schwerin signs covenant with Russia & marries Czar Peter
           the Great's niece
1989 - Entertainment Tonight's Mary Hart marries producer Burt Sugarman
2006 - "All of Us" TV actress LisaRaye McCoy (38) weds Chief Minister of the Turks and Caicos
           Michael Misick (40) in an $1.5 million beachside wedding in Caribbean
2006 - Former Miss USA and "Eve" actress Ali Landry (32) weds film director Alejandro Gomez
           Monteverde (28) in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
2006 - Two-time Latin Grammy Award-winning Spanish gypsy singer Rosario Flores (42) weds
           "Kingdom of Heaven" first assistant director Pedro Lazaga on a small village Canos de Meca in
           Cadiz, Spain
2006 - Spanish model and actress Ines Sastre (32) weds Alexandro Corrias at Brompton Oratory in
           South Kensington, London
2012 - American actress and television host Ricki Lake (42) weds jewerly designer Christian Evans in
           a secret ceremony at Southern California

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 08, 2013, 03:10:19 PM

This Day in History for 8th April


Famous Birthdays

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US First Lady Betty Ford (1918)                    Bank Robber                                  Actress Robin Wright Penn (1966)
                                                              Robert Alan Litchfield (1948)


1320 - King Peter I of Portugal (d. 1367)
1460 - Ponce de Leon, Spain, searched for fountain of youth, found Florida
1533 - Claudio Merulo, organist/composer
1541 - Michele Mercati, Italian physician (d. 1593)
1582 - Phienas Fletcher, poet
1605 - Louis de Vadder, Flemish painter
1605 - Philip IV, King of Spain & Portugal (1621-65)
1631 - Cornelis de Heem, painter
1641 - Henry Sydney, 1st Earl of Romney, English statesman (d. 1704)
1642 - Gerard Callenbach, Dutch admiral
1655 - Louis Willem I, Margrave (Baden-Baden)
1692 - Giuseppe Tartini, Italy, violinist/composer (Trillo del Diavolo)
1695 - Johann C Gunther, writer
1697 - Pierre Prowo, composer
1708 - Georg Zarth, composer
1726 - Lewis Morris, US farmer (signed Decl of Independence)
1731 - William Williams, US merchant (signed Decl of Independence)
1732 - David Rittenhouse, American astronomer, inventor, and mathematician (d. 1796)
1741 - Jose B da Gama, Portuguese poet (O Uraguai)
1756 - Joseph Gehot, composer
1775 - Adam A earl von Neipperg, Austrian general/Napoleon's wife Marie lover
1776 - Thaddaus Weigl, composer
1783 - John Claudius, London England, horticulturist
1798 - Dionysios Solomos, poet
1816 - Frederick William Burton, painter
1818 - Christaan IX, king of Denmark (1863-1906)
1826 - Pancha Carrasco, Costa Rican war heroine (d. 1890)
1827 - Ramón Emeterio Betances, Puerto Rican politician, medical doctor and diplomat (d. 1898)
1828 - George Baird Hodge, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1831 - Allard Pierson, Dutch theologiost/philosopher/art historian/poet
1832 - Alfred von Waldersee, Prussian fieldmarshal
1842 - Elizabeth Bacon Custer, wife of George Armstrong Custer (d. 1933)
1843 - Asger Hamerik, [Hammerich], composer
1850 - William Henry Welch, US, pathologist (founded John Hopkins)
1859 - Edmund Husserl, Germany, philosopher (founded Phenomenology)
1865 - Charles W. Woodworth, American entomologist (d. 1940)
1869 - Harvey Cushing, US, neurosurgeon (blood pressure studies)
1871 - Clarence Hudson White American photographer (d. 1925)
1874 - Stanisław Taczak, Polish general (d. 1960)
1875 - Albert I LCMM von Saksen-Coburg, king of Belgium (1909-34)
1878 - Rudolf Nelson, composer
1880 - Victor Schertzinger, composer/director (Uptown NY)
1881 - Fernand Lamy, composer
1883 - R. P. Keigwin, English academic (d. 1972)
1885 - Dimitrios Levidis, composer
1886 - Margaret A Barnes, writer
1887 - Walter Connolly, Cincinnati OH, actor (Good Earth, 5th Avenue Girl)
1888 - Dennis Chavez, American politician (d. 1964)
1889 - Adrian Boult, Chester England, conductor/composer (BBC Sym Orch)
1892 - Mary Pickford, [Gladys Smith], actress (Poor Little Rich Girl)
1892 - Richard Neutra, American architect (d. 1970)
1893 - Grace Cunard, Columbus OH, silent screen actress (Resurrection)
1893 - Henri Puvrez, Belgian sculptor (Sereniteit)
1895 - Bert I Gordon, NY
1895 - Sigurdur Thordarson, composer
1896 - Karl Hermann Pillney, composer
1896 - Yip Harburg, American lyricist (d. 1981)
1897 - Herbert Eimert, German composer/musicologist (Glockenspiel)
1898 - Achiel H Acker, Belgian premier (1945-46, 1954-58)
1898 - Cecil [Maurice] Bowra, British classics expert (Greek experience)
1902 - Arthur Wellard, cricketer (big hitting Somerset & England batsman)
1902 - Josef Krips, Vienna Austria, conductor (London Symph 1954-63)
1903 - Ilka Chase, NYC, actress (Masquerade Party, Trials of O'Brien)
1904 - John Antill, composer
1904 - John R Hicks, British economist (Nobel 1972)
1905 - George Baxter, Paris France, actor (Flying Saucer, Lili, Caged)
1905 - Hans Scherfig, Danish marxist/writer (Idealister, Frydenholm)
1905 - Helen B M Fennell Joseph, anti-apartheid writer (Side by Side)
1905 - Pierre Wigny, Belgian minister of Foreign affairs (1958-61) [or 4/18]
1906 - Charles J B Jonckheere, Flemish poet/writer (Mirror of the Sea)
1906 - Raoul Jobin, French Canadian tenor (d. 1974)
1907 - Maurice Stacey, chemist
1908 - Neil Lawson, British high court judge
1909 - George Dixon, trumpet/sax
1909 - Olavi Pesonen, composer
1909 - William James Millar Mackenzie, political scientist
1910 - George Musso, NFL guard (Chicago Bears)
1910 - Wendell Bill, cricketer (NSW bat 1929-36 Century on debut 1930)
1911 - Douglas Hyde, socialist/Christian
1911 - Emil Mihai Cioran, writer/aphorist
1911 - Melvin Calvin, US chemist (photosynthesis, Nobel 1961)
1912 - Sonja Henie, Oslo Norway, ice skater/actress (Olympic-gold-1928,32,36)
1912 - Alois Brunner, Austrian Nazi
1913 - H Ernst, bishop (Breda Neth)
1914 - John Cameron, cricketer (brother of Jimmy WI v-capt 1939 England tour)
1914 - María Félix, Mexican actress (d. 2002)
1918 - Betty Ford, First Lady of the United States
1918 - Glendon Swarthout, American author (d. 1992)
1919 - [Douglas] Ian Smith, premier of Rhodesia (1964-..)
1920 - Carmen McRae (Clark), US jazz singer/pianist (Dream of Life)
1920 - Erik Pausin, Austria, figure skating pairs (Olympics-silver-1936)
1921 - Alfie Bass, London England, actor (Moonraker, Are You Being Served)
1921 - Betty Bloomer Ford, 1st lady (1975-76)/namesake for Betty Ford Clinic
1921 - Jan Novak, composer
1921 - Virginia O'Brien, LA California, actress/singer (Gus, Ziegfeld Follies)
1921 - Franco Corelli, Italian tenor (d. 2003)
1923 - Edward Mulhare, Cork Ireland, actor (Daniel Gregg-Ghost & Mrs Muir)
1923 - Franco Corelli, Anconia Italy, tenor (Don Jose-Carmen)
1923 - George Fisher, American cartoonist (d. 2003)
1924 - Frédéric Back, German-born Canadian short film director and screenwriter
1924 - Sir Anthony Farrar-Hockley, English soldier and historian (d. 2006)
1925 - Shecky Greene, Chicago Ill, comedian/actor (Love Machine, Combat)
1926 - Henry N. Cobb, American architect
1926 - Jürgen Moltmann, German theologian
1928 - Eric Porter, London England, actor (Antony & Cleopatra, 39 Steps)
1928 - John Gavin, LA California, actor (Back Street, Psycho, Murder for Sale)
1928 - Mary Zeldenrust-Noordanus, CEO (NVSH)
1928 - Monty Sunshine, jazz bandleader (Gotta Travel On)
1928 - Leah Rabin, wife of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (d. 2000)
1928 - Fred Ebb, Manhattan NY, American composer, (d. 2004)
1929 - Jacques Brel, Belgium, singer/actor (Pain in the A__)
1929 - Renzo de Felice, historian
1929 - WIlliam K Everson, film historian
1929 - Walter Berry, Austria singer/ex husband of Christa Ludwig
1930 - Dorothy Tutin, London, actress (Importance of Being Ernest, Cromwell)
1930 - John Bartholomew Tucker, Pa, TV host (Candid Camera, Treasure Island)
1930 - John Reardon, NYC, baritone (Falke-Die Fledermaus)
1930 - Julien Van Remoortere, [Piet Mortelman], Flemish writer (Fist)
1930 - Mary Moore, principal (St Hilda's College, Oxford)
1930 - Carlos Hugo of Bourbon-Parma, Duke of Parma
1932 - John Gavin, LA California, actor (Felony, Jennifer, House of Shadows)
1933 - Jaroslav Smolka, composer
1934 - Kisho Kurokawa, Japanese architect (d. 2007)
1935 - Albert G Bustamante, (Rep-D-TX, 1985- )
1935 - Donald Thompsett, cricket umpire
1935 - Elizabeth Barrett-Connor, epidemiologist (Living legacy award-1984)
1936 - Klaus Lowitsch, Berlin, actor (Despair, Marriage of Marla Braun)
1937 - Ronald Anthony "Tony" Clegg, property trader
1937 - Seymour Hersh, award winning investigative reporter (NY Times)
1938 - Barton Keith McLean, composer
1938 - Lory Patrick, Beckley WV, actress (Trina-Tales of Welles Fargo)
1938 - Mohammad Farooq, cricketer (Pakistani pace bowler in 7 Tests 1960-65)
1940 - John Havlicek, Martin's Ferry Ohio, NBA hall-of-famer (Boston Celtics)
1941 - Peggy Lennon, LA California, singer (Lennon Sisters)
1942 - Douglas Trumbull, director (Silent Running, Brainstorm)
1942 - Eduard Visser, Dutch writer (Fyffes are now called Chiquita)
1942 - Roger Chapman, Leicester, rock vocalist (Family-Family Entertainment)
1943 - Carol Lavell, Fairfax Vt, equestrian dressage (Oly-bronze-92, 96)
1943 - J P Kavanaugh, racehorse trainer
1943 - Michael Bennett, aids victim/choreographer (Chorus Line)
1943 - Robby Weaver, actor (Stone)
1943 - Tony Banks, English politician (Lab)
1943 - William Garth Morrison, Chief scout
1944 - Anthony Farrar Hockley, military historian
1944 - Christoph Hein, writer
1944 - Hywel Bennett, South Wales, actor (Family Way, Shelley)
1944 - Santiago Jimenez Jr, US accordionist (El Mero Mero, Viva Seguin)
1944 - Odd Nerdrum, Norwegian painter
1945 - Ian White, MEP
1945 - Derrick Walker, British racing team owner
1946 - Jim "Catfish" Hunter, major-league pitcher (A's, Yankees)
1946 - Stuart Pankin, Phila, comedian (Striptease, Congo, Earl-Dinosaurs)
1946 - Tim Thomerson, American actor
1947 - Cindy Pickett, Norman Oklahoma, actress (Guiding Light, St Elsewhere)
1947 - Hsiao-hsien Hou, dir (Cheerful Wind, City of Sadness, Puppetmaster)
1947 - Steve Howe, London, rock guitarist (Asia, Yes-Roundabout)
1947 - Thomas D Delay, (Rep-R-Texas, 1985- )
1947 - Tom DeLay, American politician
1947 - Robert Kiyosaki, American investor
1948 - Gerald McRaney, Collins Miss, actor (Rick-Simon & Simon, Major Dad)
1948 - Robert Alan Litchfield, Mass, bank robber (FBI most wanted in the 1980s)
1948 - Michael Leshner, Canadian lawyer and gay rights advocate
1949 - Jim Lampley, Hendersonville NC, newscaster (Monday Night Baseball)
1950 - Grzegorz Lato, Polish footballer
1952 - Adam Woods, rock drummer/pianist (Fixx)
1954 - Gary Carter, catcher (Mont Expos, NY Mets)
1954 - John Schneider, Mt Kisco NY, actor (Bo-Dukes of Hazzard)
1954 - G.V. Loganathan, American professor (d. 2007)
1955 - John Campbell, harness racer (3-time winner of Hambletonian)
1955 - Kane Hodder, American actor and stuntman
1955 - Barbara Kingsolver, American novelist
1955 - David Wu, Taiwanese-born American politician
1956 - Christine Boisson, French actress
1956 - Jim Piddock, English actor, writer and producer
1957 - Fred Smerlas, American football player
1959 - Franklyn Stephenson, cricketer (great all-rounder)
1959 - Martin Weston, cricketer
1960 - John Schneider, American actor
1961 - Richard Hatch, American reality television personality
1962 - Izzy Stradlin, [Jeff Isabelle], Lafayette IN, guitarist (Guns & Roses)
1963 - Alec Stewart, cricketer (son of Micky/opening bat Occasional WK)
1963 - Erica Terwillegar, Nelsonville NJ, lugist
1963 - Julian Lennon, John's son/singer (Too Late for Goodbyes)
1963 - Terry Porter, NBA guard (Minnesota Timberwolves)
1963 - Seth Tobias, American financial commentator (d. 2007)
1964 - Biz Markie, rocker (Meteor Man, Townsend Television)
1964 - Valinda Hilleary, Littleton Co, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-9th-1993)
1964 - Lisa Guerrero, American sports broadcaster
1964 - John McGinlay, Scottish footballer
1966 - Robin Wright Penn, Dallas Tx, actress (Santa Barbara, Princess Bride)
1966 - Mazinho, Brazilian footballer
1966 - Bobby Ologun, Nigerian television personality
1967 - Kenneth Charlie Griffith Benjamin, cricketer (WI like his namesake)
1967 - Arwyn Davies, Welsh actor
1968 - Don Davey, NFL defensive tackle (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1968 - Patricia Arquette, NYC, actress (Ed Wood, Nightmare on Elm Street 3)
1968 - Patricia Girard-Léno, French athlete (100 m hurdles)
1969 - Steve Jackson, NFL cornerback (Houston/Tennessee Oilers)
1970 - Derek D Brown, Wash DC, team handball right wing (Olympics-1996)
1970 - Gerald Vaughn, CFL defensive back (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1970 - Harold Bishop, NFL tight end (Cleveland Browns)
1971 - Edward Fryatt, Rochdale England, Nike golfer (1994 NCAA West Regional)
1971 - Marc Peers, Edmonton Alberta, tornado yachter (Olympics-96)
1972 - Damon Watts, NFL center (Indianapolis Colts)
1972 - Isaac Davis, NFL guard (San Diego Chargers)
1972 - Katrina Powell, Canberra Australia, field hockey striker (Olympics-96)
1972 - Paul Gray, American bassist (Slipknot)
1973 - Alex Gonzalez, Miami FL, infielder (Toronto Blue Jays)
1973 - Joel Davis, guard (Cincinnati Bengals)
1973 - Walter Nicholas Henry Tongue, Auckland NZ, 50m/100m swimmer (Oly-96)
1973 - Khaled Badra, Tunisian footballer
1974 - Holger Hott Johansen, Norwegian orienteerist
1974 - Chino XL, American rapper
1974 - Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu, Nigerian American writer
1974 - Chris Kyle, Odessa, Texas, Navy SEAL sniper (160 kills), (d. 2013)
1975 - Anouk, Dutch singer
1976 - Jim Farnum, Honolulu Hawaii, kayak (alt-Olympics-96)
1977 - Mehran Ghassemi, Iranian journalist (d. 2008)
1977 - Mark Spencer, American computer programmer
1978 - Bernt Haas, Swiss footballer
1978 - Ana de la Reguera, Mexican actress
1979 - Jeremy Guthrie, American baseball player
1979 - Alexi Laiho, Finnish guitarist and singer (Children of Bodom, Sinergy, Kylähullut)
1980 - Manuel Ortega, Austrian singer
1980 - Katee Sackhoff, American actress
1981 - Rebecca Wilson, Queensland Australia, gymnast (Olympics-96)
1981 - Brian Burres, American baseball player
1981 - Taylor Kitsch, Canadian actor and model
1983 - Allu Arjun, Indian film actor
1983 - Adrian Bellani, American actor
1984 - Taran Noah Smith, SF California, actor (Mark Taylor-Home Improvement)
1984 - Júlia Liptáková, Slovakian model
1984 - Kirsten Storms, American actress
1986 - Igor Akinfeev, Russian footballer
1986 - Félix Hernández, Venezuelan baseball player
1986 - Erika Sawajiri, Japanese actress, model and singer
1987 - Royston Drenthe, Dutch footballer
1989 - Hitomi Takahashi, Japanese singer
1992 - Shelby Young, American actress
1993 - Trent Sullivan, Australian Actor

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 08, 2013, 03:26:56 PM

This Day in History for 8th April


Famous Deaths

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Ford Motor Company Founder                Artist/Cubist Co-founder                   Actress Robin Wright Penn (1966)
Henry Ford (1947)                                   Pablo Picasso (1973) 


217 - Caracalla, [Marcus Antoniius], Roman emperor (198-217), murdered at 29
956 - Gilbert of Chalon, Duke of Burgundy
1143 - John II Comnenus, Emperor of Byzantium (1118-43), dies in an accident
1364 - John II, the Good, King of France (1350-64), dies at 44
1461 - Georg Purbach, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1423)
1492 - Lorenzo I de' Medici"il Magnifico", ruler of Florence (1469-92), dies
1498 - Charles VIII, King of France (1483-98), beheaded at 27
1537 - Willem Aerts, Flemish architect, dies
1586 - Martin Chemnitz, Lutheran reformer and theologian (b. 1522)
1587 - John Foxe, English writer (b. 1516)
1629 - Willem Teellinck, Dutch theologist/vicar, dies at 50
1697 - Niels Juel, Danish admiral (b. 1629)
1704 - Hiob Ludolf, German orientalist (b. 1624)
1704 - Henry Sydney, 1st Earl of Romney, English statesman (b. 1641)
1725 - John Wise, English clergyman (b. 1652)
1735 - Francis II Rákóczi, leader of the Hungarian uprising against the Habsburg (b. March 27, 1676)
1736 - Pedro Vaz Rego, composer, dies at 63
1759 - Francois de La Croix, composer, dies at 76
1778 - Pieter Teyler van der Hulst, Dutch founder (Teyler Museum), dies at 76
1794 - Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicholas-Caritat, mathematician dies
1844 - Ignaz Franz von Mosel, composer, dies at 72
1848 - Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti, Italian composer, dies at 50
1851 - John Parry, composer, dies at 75
1853 - Jan W Pieneman, historical painter (Battle at Waterloo), dies at 73
1857 - Mangal Pandey, Indian soldier (b. 1827)
1858 - Anton Diabelli, Austrian composer/publisher, dies at 76
1861 - Elisha G Otis, US elevator builder (Otis), dies at 50
1863 - Joseph Netherclift, composer, dies at 70
1865 - John Park, composer, dies at 61
1870 - Charles-Auguste de Beriot, Belgian violinist/composer, dies at 68
1871 - Charles-Louis Hanssens, composer, dies at 68
1889 - Henry Jupp, cricketer (scored 63 on Test debut for Engl in 1877), dies
1890 - Junius Morgan, philanthropist, dies at 76
1894 - Bankim C Chattopadhyaya, writer (Mrinalini, Anandamath), dies at 55
1897 - George Garrett, composer, dies at 62
1897 - Heinrich von Stephan, UK politician, dies
1902 - Sipyagain, Russian min of interior/headed Secret Service, assassinated
1906 - Auguste D, First recorded Alzheimer's victim (b. 1950)
1919 - Loránd Eötvös, Hungarian physicist (b. 1848)
1920 - Charles Tomlinson Griffes, US composer (White Peacock), dies at 35
1921 - Earnest von Possart, German actor/stage manager, dies
1931 - Eric Axel Karlfeldt, poet, dies
1935 - Edwin Cannan, economist, dies
1936 - Robert Bárány, Austrian physician, Nobel laureate (b. 1876)
1937 - Arthur William Foote, US organist/composer, dies at 84
1937 - William Henry Hadow, composer (Studies in Modern Music), dies at 77
1938 - Harold Baumgartner, cricketer (took 2-99 lefty in test for S Af), dies
1942 - Alfred Mombert, writer, dies
1942 - Kostas Skarvelis, Greek songwriter (b. 1880)
1943 - Paul Colin, Belgian journalist/collaborator, executed
1943 - Richard Sears, 1st to win US amateur national tennis match, dies at 81
1947 - Henry Ford, US industrialist (Ford cars), dies at 83
1948 - Josef B Kjellgren, Swedish writer (Guldkedjan), dies at 40
1950 - Albert Ehrenstein, Austria writer (Strum), dies at 63
1950 - Vaslav Fromich Nijinsky, Ukrainian ballet dancer, dies in London
1957 - Frank Chester, cricketer (distinguished 1-armed Engl Test ump), dies
1958 - Ethel Turner, Australian author (b. 1872)
1959 - Gustave Charlier, Belgian literature historian, dies
1963 - Len Tuckett, cricketer (no runs no wkts in 1 Test for S A), dies
1965 - Erik A Blomberg, Swedish art historian/poet/author, dies at 70
1965 - Jack Durston, cricketer (one Test for England, 4-102 & 1-34), dies
1965 - Lars Hanson, Swedish actor (Flesh & Devil), dies after illness at 78
1966 - George Creten, Belgian sculptor/painter, dies at 79
1969 - Arthur Walter Kramer, composer, dies at 78
1969 - Denton Cooley, got 1st fully artificial heart, dies at 48
1970 - Marie V Felix, Prince of Luxemburg, dies
1973 - Pablo (Ruiz y) Picasso, Spanish/French painter (Guernica), dies at 91
1974 - James Charles McGuigan, Catholic archbishop of Toronto (b. 1894)
1976 - Phil Ochs, rock producer (Joe Hill), dies at 35
1977 - Frank Milan, actor (Witness), dies at 71
1978 - Ford C Frick, baseball commissioner, dies at 83
1981 - Norman Taurog, dies
1981 - Omar Bradley, last US 5-star general, (Normandy) dies in NY at 88
1984 - Pyotr Kapitsa, Russian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1894)
1985 - J. Fred Coots, American songwriter (b. 1897)
1986 - Yukiko Okada, Japanese idol singer (b. 1967)
1987 - Francis C Denebrink, US Naval officer (WW I, WW II, Korea) dies at 90
1990 - Doreen Sloane, dies
1990 - Jose De Vega, dies of AIDS at 56
1990 - Ryan White, hemophiliac aids sufferer, dies at 18
1991 - Dead (musician), Swedish metal singer (b. 1969)
1992 - Nelson Olmstead, dies at 78
1992 - Daniel Bovet, Swiss-born pharmacologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1907)
1993 - Arleen Whelan, dies of stroke at 78
1993 - H Earnest, bishop of Breda, dies
1993 - Marian Anderson, US contralto (My Lord, What a Morning), dies at 96
1994 - Frank Wells, president (Disney), dies in helicopter crash
1994 - Irene Eisinger, singer, dies at 91
1994 - Walter Arnold, Germ theologist (World council of Churches), dies at 64
1994 - François Rozet, French Canadian actor (b. 1899)
1995 - Maurice Allom, cricketer (14 Test wickets-NZ debut hat-trick), dies
1996 - Basil Hembry, farmer/campaigner, dies at 80
1996 - Ben Johnson, cowboy actor (Tex, Dillinger), dies of heart attack at 77
1996 - Charles Donald Adams, singer, dies at 67
1996 - Ben Johnson, American actor (b. 1918)
1997 - Laura Nyro, singer, dies of ovarian cancer at 49
2000 - Claire Trevor, American actress (b. 1910)
2002 - María Félix, Mexican actress (b. 1914)
2004 - Enda Colleran, Gaelic footballer (b. 1941)
2005 - Eddie Miksis, American baseball player (b. 1926)
2005 - Onna White, Canadian choreographer (b. 1924)
2006 - Gerard Reve, Dutch writer (b. 1923)
2007 - Carey W. Barber, a member of Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses (b. 1905)
2007 - Sol LeWitt, American artist (b. 1928)
2008 - Timothy Beaumont, Baron Beaumont of Whitley (b. 1928)
2008 - John Button, Australian politician (b. 1933)
2008 - Stanley Kamel, American actor (b. 1943)
2010 - Malcolm McLaren, British music manager and musician (b. 1946)
2010 - Teddy Scholten, Dutch singer (b. 1926)
2010 - Jack Agnew, American World War II veteran (b. 1922)
2012 - Jack Tramiel, Polish-American businessman, dies at 83

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 09, 2013, 03:10:03 PM

This Day in History for 9th April


Historical Events

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Confederate General                                  Baseball Great Babe Ruth                         Actress Mae West
Robert E Lee

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Actress Sophia Loren                           Clergyman and civil rights activist          MacDonalds Entreprenuer Ray Kroc
                                                                     Martin Luther King Jr,

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Actress Jane Fonda                                      NHL all-time top scorer                          Consort of George VI &
                                                                       Wayne Gretzky                                mother of Queen Elizabeth II
                                                                                                                         Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother


193 - Septimius Severus is proclaimed Roman Emperor by the army in Illyricum (in the Balkans).
475 - Byzantine Emperor Basiliscus issues a circular letter (Enkyklikon) to the bishops of his empire,
         supporting the Monophysite christological position.
715 - Constantine ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1241 - Battle of Liegnitz - Mongol armies defeat Poles & Germans
1388 - Battle of Näfels; Glarius Swiss defeat Habsburg (Austrian) army
1413 - Henry V is crowned King of England.
1440 - Christopher of Bavaria is appointed King of Denmark.
1454 - Milan/Venice signs peace of Lodi
1474 - Breisach land guardian Peter von Hagenbach throws out Walloon/Italians
1483 - Edward V (12) succeeds his father Edward IV as king of England (never crowned).
           Disappears, presumed murdered same year.
1538 - Danish king Christian III enters Schmalkaldische Union
1555 - Marcello Cervini elected Pope Marcellus II
1609 - Spain & Netherlands sign 12 Year Resistant Pact
1621 - Spain & Netherlands 12 Year Resistant Pact ends
1667 - 1st public art exhibition (Palais-Royale, Paris)
1682 - Robert La Salle claims lower Mississippi (Louisiana) for France
1691 - French troops occupy Mons
1724 - 1st Easter [NS=April 16]
1783 - Tippu Sahib drives out English from Bednore India
1808 - Mayor Wolters offers French king Louis Napoleon townhall as a palace
1814 - Elias Canneman (L) resigns as minister of Finance
1816 - African Methodist Episcopal Church organizes (Phila)
1829 - Danzig (Gdansk) dike break flood kills 1,200
1831 - Robert Jenkins loses an ear, starts war between Britain & Spain
1833 - 1st tax-supported public library (Peterborough, NH)
1838 - National Gallery re-opens in its new dedicated building in Trafalgar Square London
1864 - Battle of Pleasant Hill LA, 2870 casualities
1865 - General Robert E Lee and 26,765 troops, surrender at Appomattox Court House in Virginia to
           US Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant
1866 - Civil Rights Bill passes over Pres Andrew Johnson's veto
1869 - Hudson Bay Company cedes it's territory to Canada
1870 - American Anti-Slavery Society dissolves
1872 - Samuel R Percy patents dried milk
1894 - 1st performance of Anton Bruckner's 5th Symphony in B in Graz
1906 - 3½th modern Olympic games opens in Athens (4/22 NS)
1909 - The U.S. Congress passes the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act.
1912 - 1st exhibition baseball game at Fenway Park (Red Sox vs Harvard)
1912 - Titanic leaves Queenstown Ireland for NY
1913 - Brooklyn Dodger's Ebbets Field opens, Phillies win 1-0
1914 - "World, the Flesh & the Devil," 1st color film, shown in London
1914 - 1st full color film shown "World, Flesh & Devil" (London)
1914 - Tampico incident - US ship crew arrested in Mexico
1917 - Battle of Arras begins
1917 - Vimy Ridge France stormed by Canadian troops
1918 - Latvia proclaims independence
1923 - Sean O'Casey's "Shadow of a Gunman," premieres in Dublin
1925 - Babe Ruth rushed to hospital
1927 - Italy & US anarchists Sacco & Vanzetti given death sentences
1928 - Eugene O'Neill's "Lazarus Laughed," premieres in Pasadena
1928 - Mae West's NYC debut in a daring new play "Diamond Lil"
1928 - Top-Oss soccer team forms in Oss
1928 - Turkey passes separation of church & state
1931 - Chicago Cy Wentworth beats Mont Canadiens at 13:50 of 6th period
1932 - Stanley Cup: Toronto Maple Leafs sweep NY Rangers in 3 games
1935 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Maroons sweep Toronto Maple Leafs in 3 games
1939 - Marian Anderson sings before 75,000 at Lincoln Memorial
1940 - German cruiser Blucher torpedoed/capsizes in Oslofjord, 1,000 die
1940 - Germany invades Norway & Denmark during WW II (Denmark surrenders)
1941 - PGA establishes Golf Hall of Fame
1942 - Battle of Bataan-US-Filipino forces overwhelmed by Japs at Bataan
1944 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Orientals Ecclesiae
1945 - Battleship Admiral Scheer sunk by RAF bombing in Kiel
1945 - Liberty ship at Bari Italy carrying aerial bombs explodes, kills 360
1945 - NFL requires players to wear long stockings
1945 - World War II: The Battle of Königsberg, in East Prussia, ends.
1946 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins, 4 games to 1
1947 - Atomic Energy Commission confirmed
1947 - Baseball suspends Bkln Dodger Leo Durocher for 1 year
1947 - Tornadoes striking West Texas & Oklahoma kill 169, injuring 1,300
1948 - Massacre at Deir Yassin.
1949 - UN Intl Court of Justice held Albania responsible for incidents in Corfu Channel & awards
           Britain damages
1950 - 14th Golf Masters Championship: Jimmy Demaret wins, shooting a 283
1950 - 4th Tony Awards: Cocktail Party & South Pacific win
1950 - Bob Hope's 1st TV appearance
1952 - Popular uprising in Bolivia
1952 - Hugo Ballivian's government is overthrown by the Bolivian National Revolution, starting a
           period of agrarian reform, universal suffrage and the nationalisation of tin mines
1953 - "TV Guide" publishes 1st issue
1953 - Jomo Kenyatta sentenced to 7 years in Kenya
1953 - Warner Brothers premieres the first 3-D film, entitled House of Wax.
1954 - WECT TV channel 6 in Wilmington, NC (NBC/CBS) begins broadcasting
1955 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1957 - Howard Hanson's "Song of Democracy," premieres in Wash DC
1957 - Suez Canal cleared for all shipping
1959 - Balt Orioles pull their 2nd triple play (3-6-3 vs Wash Senators)
1959 - Bill Sharman hits a NBA record 56 consecutive foul shot
1959 - NASA names 1st 7 astronauts for Project Mercury
1959 - 13th NBA Championship: Bost Celtics sweep Minn Lakers in 4 games Boston Celtics wins 8th
           straight title
1960 - 14th NBA Championship: Bost Celtics beat St Louis Hawks, 4 games to 3
1960 - South African premier Verwoerd wounded in battle
1962 - 26th Golf Masters Championship: Arnold Palmer wins, shooting a 280
1962 - 34th Academy Awards - "West Side Story," Sophia Loren & Max Schell win
1962 - JFK throws out 1st ball at Washington's new DC Stadium
1963 - Winston Churchill becomes 1st honorary US citizen
1965 - Beatles "Ticket to Ride" is released in UK
1965 - India & Pakistan engage in border fight
1965 - 1st game at Astrodome, Houston beats Yankees 2-1 in exhibition as Mickey Mantle hits 1st
           indoor homerun
1966 - Anaheim Stadium for California Angels opens
1967 - "At the Drop of Another Hat" closes at Booth NYC after 105 perfs
1967 - 1st Boeing 737 rolls out
1967 - 31st Golf Masters Championship: Gay Brewer Jr wins, shooting a 280
1967 - Shortwave broadcaster Radio NY Worldwide's transmitter burns down
1967 - The first Boeing 737 (a 100 series) makes its maiden flight.
1968 - German DR adopts constitution
1968 - Martin Luther King Jr, buried in Atlanta
1968 - Minn's Wayne Connelly is 1st to score on a Stanley Cup penalty shot
1968 - Ralph Aberbathy elected to head So Christian Leadership Conference
1969 - 1st flight of Concorde 002 (Filton-Bristol)
1969 - Chic Cub Billy Williams hits 4 consecutive doubles beat Phillies 11-3
1970 - Paul McCartney announces official split of Beatles
1971 - Ringo releases "It Don't Come Easy" in UK
1972 - "Sugar" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 506 performances
1972 - 36th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 286
1972 - Glenn Turner (259) & Terry Jarvis make 387 opening cricket stand v WI
1972 - USSR & Iraq sign friendship treaty
1973 - 37th Golf Masters Championship: Tommy Aaron wins, shooting a 283
1973 - Netherlands recognizes North Vietnam
1973 - Otto Kerner, former governor of Illinois, convicted for his role in an illegal racetrack scheme
1974 - Padres owner Ray Kroc, addresses fans "Ladies & gentlemen, I suffer with you I've never seen
           such stupid baseball playing in my life"
1976 - US & Russia agreed on size of nuclear tests for peaceful use
1977 - Communist party in Spain allowed legally after 40 years
1978 - 42nd Golf Masters Championship: Gary Player wins, shooting a 277
1978 - Brewers sweep Orioles 11-3, 16-3, & 13-5 (each with a grand slam)
1978 - David Thompson scores ties 3rd highest total in the NBA - 73
1978 - Denver's David Thompson scores 73 points & San Antonio's George Gervin scores 63 points
           in separate NBA games (33 in 1 quarter)
1979 - 51st Academy Awards - "Deer Hunter," Jon Voight & Jane Fonda win
1979 - Longest doubles ping-pong match of 101 hrs, begins
1980 - Belgium's Marten's government resigns
1980 - Kings tie NHL rec with 2 shorthanded playoff goals in a pd vs Isles
1980 - Soyuz 35 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6
1981 - LA Dodgers Fernando Valenzuela's 1st start, beats Astros 2-0
1981 - US sub George Washington rams Japanese freighter Nisso Maru
1982 - LA Lakers block 21 Denver shots setting NBA regulation game record
1983 - 6th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 1 returns to Earth
1983 - Caps 2-Isles 6 -Patrick Semis-Denis Potvin fails on penalty shot
1984 - 56th Academy Awards - "Terms of Endearment," R Duvall & S Maclaine win
1985 - White Sox pitcher Tom Seaver starts a record 15th opening day game
1986 - "Dallas" announces it will revive killed Bobby Ewing character
1987 - For 3rd time, Wayne Gretzky, scores 7 goals in a Stanley Cup game Wayne Gretzky passes
           Jean Beliveau as all time playoff scoring champ
1988 - "Les Miserables," opens at Umeda-Koma Theatre, Osaka
1988 - Devils 3-0 over Islanders-Devils lead 2-1 in 1st round
1988 - US imposes economic sanctions on Panama
1989 - 53rd Golf Masters Championship: Nick Faldo wins, shooting a 283
1989 - Mike Tyson strikes a parking attendant when asked to move his car
1989 - Patti Rizzo wins LPGA Red Robin Kyocera Inamori Golf Classic
1989 - Rickey Henderson steals his 800th career base in NY's 4-3 loss to Clev
1989 - Scott Hoch chokes on 18 inch putt & loses Masters golf tournament
1989 - Wash DC march supporting 1973 Roe vs Wade decision (allow abortions)
1990 - "Capital News" starring Lloyd Bridges premieres on ABC-TV
1990 - Don Mattingly signs a $19.7 million 5-year contract with Yankees
1990 - NY Islanders beat NY Rangers 4-3 in double overtime-Rangers lead 2-1
1990 - World's largest bunny hop at Radio City Music Hall (NYC)
1991 - Georgia SSR votes to secede from USSR
1992 - "Redwood Curtain" opens at Neiderlander theater on Broadway
1992 - Florida drops rape charges against NY Mets Gooden, Boston & Coleman
1992 - John Majors, (C) elected PM of England
1992 - Noriega convicted on 8 of 10 drug & racketeering charges
1992 - Record 18 golfers shoot in 60s in Masters round 1 (old record 12)
1992 - US Fed court finds Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega guilty of drugs
1992 - William O Studeman, becomes deputy director of CIA
1993 - Colorado Rockies 1st home game & 1st victory, 11-4 over Mont Expos
1994 - BPAA US Open by Justin Hromek
1994 - STS-59 (Endeavour) launches into orbit
1995 - "Translations" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 25 performances
1995 - 59th Golf Masters Championship: Ben Crenshaw wins, shooting a 274
1997 - Cleve Indians closer Jose Mesa found guilty of rape
1997 - Major League Soccer announces Miami & Chicago expansion
1997 - NFL announces it will give $3M to CFL & possible "World Classic Bowl"
1999 - Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara, President of Niger, is assassinated.
2000 - 64th Golf Masters Championship:
2002 - The funeral of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother at Westminster Abbey.
2003 - Baghdad falls to U.S. forces resulting in widespread looting
2011 - A gunman murdered five people, injured eleven, and committed suicide in a mall in the
           Netherlands.
2012 - The Lion King becomes highest grossing Broadway show after overtaking The Phantom of the
           Opera

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 09, 2013, 03:11:27 PM

This Day in History for 9th April


Famous Weddings

1966 - Sophia Loren marries married Carlo Ponti in Paris
1994 - Singer Wayne Newton (52) weds attorney Kathleen McCrone (30)
2005 - His Royal Highness Charles, Prince of Wales marries Camilla Parker Bowles
2010 - Philadelphia Eagles long snapper Jon Dorenbos (30) weds Julie Lesicki at St. Augstine Catholic
           Church in Philadelphia

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 09, 2013, 03:12:16 PM

This Day in History for 9th April


Famous Divorces

2012 - Salsa artist Marc Anthony (42) divorces pop star and actress Jennifer Lopez (43) due to
           irreconcilable differences after 7 years of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 09, 2013, 04:16:55 PM

This Day in History for 9th April


Famous Birthdays

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Turkic Conqueror                                     Actress Cynthia Nixon (1966)                Actress Kristen Stewart (1990)
Tamerlane (1336)


1336 - Tamerlane (Timur), Central Asian, Turkic conqueror (d. 1405)
1498 - John, Cardinal of Lorraine, French churchman (d. 1550)
1597 - John Davenport, Connecticut pioneer (d. 1670)
1611 - Giacomo Maria Predieri, composer
1627 - Johann Kaspar Kerll, composer
1634 - Albertine Agnes, princess of Orange-Nassau
1648 - Henri de Massue, Marquis de Ruvigny, 1st Viscount Galway, French soldier and diplomat (d. 1720)
1649 - James Scott, duke of Monmouth, bastard son of English king Charles II
1680 - Philippe Néricault Destouches, French dramatist (d. 1754)
1686 - James Craggs the Younger, British politician (d. 1721)
1691 - Johann Matthias Gesner, German classical scholar (d. 1761)
1716 - Johann Georg Zechner, composer
1717 - Georg Matthias Monn, composer
1751 - Emanuel Schikaneder, [Johann Schickeneder], German playwright [or 9/1]
1754 - Antonio Frantisek Becvarovsky, composer
1754 - Pieter Paulus, Dutch lawyer/CEO (National Convention)
1757 - Wojciech Boguslawski, composer
1770 - Thomas Johann Seebeck, German physicist (d. 1831)
1773 - Étienne Aignan, French writer (d. 1824
1785 - Sibrand Acker Stratingh, Dutch physician/chemist (electric car 1835)
1794 - Theobald Boehm, German inventor of the modern flute (d. 1881)
1798 - Giuditta Pasta, [Negri], soprano
1806 - Isambard Kingdom Brunel, designer of 1st transatlantic steamer
1812 - Randolph Barnes Marcy, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1887
1821 - Charles-Pierre Baudelaire, France, symbolist poet (Flowers of Evil)
1826 - Thomas Hewson Neill, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1885
1830 - Eadweard Muybridge, England, pioneered study of motion, photography
1835 - Leopold II, King of Belgians (1865-1909)
1847 - Francesco Paolo Tosti, composer
1847 - Francis William Davenport, composer
1848 - F A MacKinnon, cricketer (later the 35th Mackinnon of Mackinnon)
1848 - Helena Lange, German feminist
1850 - Herman Zumpe, composer
1851 - C E Arthur Wichmann, German/Dutch geologist (Neth Indies)
1854 - Seaborn M Denson, composer
1855 - Gyula Reviczky, Hungarian author/poet
1861 - Charles Holroyd, painter/etcher
1865 - Charles Proteus Steinmetz, Germany, experiment with AC electricity
1865 - Erich Ludendorff, general (Germany)
1867 - Chris Watson, third Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1941)
1871 - Arthur Fickenscher, composer
1872 - Leon Blum, French premier (People's front government)
1874 - Julius Bittner, Austrian composer (Little Violet)
1879 - Gerald Festus Kelly, artist
1882 - Frederick Francis IV, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, (d. 1946)
1883 - Renzo Bossi, composer
1884 - Franco Vittadini, composer
1888 - Florence Smith Price, US composer (Wanamaker Prize 1932)
1888 - Sol Hurok, theatrical impresario
1889 - Efrem Zimbalist, Rostov on Don Russia, composer/violinist
1891 - John Gobau, Flemish/Dutch actor (Electricity, Hostage Rights)
1894 - Ernest Kanitz, composer
1895 - Mance Lipscomb, Texas, blues musician (Texas Sharecropper)
1895 - Michel Simon, [Francois], Geneva Switzerland
1895 - Rudolf Kattnigg, composer
1898 - Earl "Curly" Lambeau, NFL coach (GB Packers)
1898 - Julius Patzak, Austrian tenor singer
1898 - Paul Robeson, Philadelphia, singer (Old Man River)/actor/footballer
1900 - Allen Jenkins, Staten Island, actor (Hey Jeannie, Top Cop, Girl Habit)
1901 - Paul Willis, American actor (d. 1960)
1902 - Frantisek Suchy, composer [or April 21, 1891]
1903 - Gregory Pincus, inventor (birth control pill) [or Nov 9]
1903 - Ward Bond, Denver Colo, actor (Seth-Wagon Trains)
1903 - Willem Pee, Belgian linguist
1904 - Lyle Latell, IA, actor (Not of the Earth, Sky Dragon)
1904 - Sharkey Bonano, American musician (d. 1972)
1905 - J William Fulbright, (Sen-D-Ark)
1906 - Antal Dorati, Budapest Hungary, conductor (Dresden Opera 1928-29
1906 - Todd Naylor "Hugh" Gaitskell, MP (Labour)
1906 - Rafaela Aparicio, Spanish actress (d. 1996)
1908 - Fred Lohse, composer
1908 - Victor Vasarely, Hungarian/French painter/author (Op Art)
1909 - Domenico Enrici, Apostolic Nuncio
1909 - Ivan Ivonovich Dzerzhinsky, composer
1909 - Robert Helpmann, Mt Gambier Australia, actor (Second Time Lucky)
1909 - Robert Murray Halpmann, dancer
1910 - Abraham A Ribicoff, (Sen-D-Ct)
1910 - Sharon Lynn, Weatherford TX, actress (Way Out West, Big Broadcast)
1911 - Albert Remy, Sevres France, actor (Grand Prix, Gigot, Train)
1911 - Lord Deramore, architect
1912 - Lew Kopelew, Russian author (d. 1997)
1914 - Richard Young, CEO (Boosey & Hawkes)
1915 - Daniel Johnson, Sr., Quebec politician (d. 1968)
1917 - Johannes Bobrowski, writer
1917 - Vincent O'Brien, racehorse trainer
1917 - Brad Dexter, American actor (d. 2002)
1918 - Jorn Utzon, Danish architect (Sydney Opera House)
1919 - John Presper Eckert, co-inventor (1st electronic computer-ENIAC)
1920 - Alexander Moulton, English bicycle designer (folding bicycle)
1920 - Art Van Damme, Norway Mich, jazz accordionist (Chicago Jazz)
1920 - David Walker, Professor of Law (Glasgow University)
1920 - F Don Miller, Racine Wisc, Boxing coach (Olympic-1956)
1921 - Frankie Thomas, NYC, actor (Tom Corbett Space Cadet)
1921 - Jean-Marie Balestre, French motorsports official (FIA) (d. 2008)
1922 - Carl Amery, writer
1922 - Gerald Moverley, Roman Catholic bishop (Hallam)
1922 - Michael Palliser, head of British diplomatic service
1923 - Bruno Kiefer, composer
1923 - Dann Cahn, Hollywood, California,film editor (I Love Lucy, Beverly Hillbillies), (d. 2012)
1924 - Harald Heilmann, composer
1925 - Michael Richardson, vice CEO (N M Rotschild)
1925 - Tom Jackson, British union leader (Post Office)
1926 - Graham Hills, principal (Strathclyde University, England)
1926 - Harris Wofford, (Sen-R-Pennsylvania)
1926 - Hugh Hefner, [Marston], Chicagp, magazine publisher (Playboy)
1926 - Lord Fitt, MP (Belfast Ireland)
1926 - Michael Ogden, QC
1928 - Brian Cubbon, British senior civil servant
1928 - Floyd D Spence, (Rep-R-SC, 1971- )
1928 - Tom Lehrer, parody/folk singer (That Was The Week That Was)
1929 - Harvey Lichtenstein, pres (Bkln Academy of Music)
1930 - F. Albert Cotton, American chemist (d. 2007)
1930 - Nathaniel Branden, Canadian psychotherapist
1931 - Bill Gilbert, Wash DC, sports author (They Also Served, Big E)
1931 - Martin Rogers, director (Farmington Institute for Christian Studies)
1931 - Richard Hatfield, Canadian politician (d. 1991)
1932 - Carl Perkins, Jackson Tn, singer/songwriter (Blue Suede Shoes)
1932 - Jim Fowler, Albany Ga, naturalist (Wild Kingdom)
1932 - Paul Krassner, comic strip cartoonist (MAD Magazine)/founder (Yippies)
1932 - Peter Moores, director (Littlewoods)
1932 - Vladimir Aleksandrovich Degtyaryov, cosmonaut
1932 - Jim Fowler, American zoologist
1932 - Armin Jordan, Swiss conductor (d. 2006)
1932 - Cheeta, chimpanzee actor
1933 - Jacques Molicard, translator/navigator
1933 - Jean-Paul Belmondo, Paris France, actor (Casino Royale, Magnifique)
1933 - Richard Rose, Professor of Public Policy (Strathclyde University)
1934 - Bill Birch, New Zealand politician
1935 - Aulis Sallinen, composer
1935 - Avery Schreiber, Chicago Ill, comedian (My Mother the Car)
1936 - Jerzy Maksymiuk, composer
1936 - Michael Somare, British foreign affairs minister (Paupa & New Guinea)
1937 - Barrington J[ohn] Bayley, UK, sci-fi author (Collision Course)
1937 - Valerie Singleton, British broadcaster
1938 - Viktor Chernomyrdin, Russian politician
1939 - Michael Learned, Wash DC, actress (Olivia-Waltons, Nurse)
1940 - Vasily Dmiotriyevich Shcheglov, Russian cosmonaut
1941 - Hannah Gordon, actress (Oh Alfie)
1941 - Kaye Adams, American country singer
1941 - Chu Song-woong, Korean stage actor (d. 1985)
1942 - Brandon De Wilde, Bkln NY, actor (Jamie, Wild in the Sky)
1942 - Earl F Hillard, (Rep-D-Alabama)
1942 - Galina A Kulakova, USSR, nordic skier (Olympic-3 golds-1972)
1943 - Terry Knight, rock vocalist (Gloria, Terry Knight & the Pack)
1945 - Gus Hardin, [Carol Ann Blankenship], Tulsa Oklahoma, country singer
1946 - Alan Knott, great English cricket wicketkeeper (1967-81)
1946 - Les Gray, vocalist (Mud-Cat Crept In)
1946 - Philip Wright, rocker (Paper Lace)
1948 - Jaya Bachchan, Indian actress
1949 - Chico Ryan, rock vocalist (Sha Na Na)
1949 - Steve Gadd, jazz drummer (Triplet Hop, Complex Jazz)
1950 - Ehtesham-ud-din, cricketer (Pakistani pace bowler in 5 Tests 1980-82)
1950 - Kenneth D Cockrell, Austin Texas, Astronaut (STS 56, 69, 80)
1950 - Nathan Cook, Phila Pa, actor (Milton-White Shadow, Billy-Hotel)
1952 - Magnar Am, composer
1953 - Hal Ketchum, Greenwich NY, country singer (Small Town Saturday Night)
1954 - Dennis Quaid, Houston TX, actor (Big Easy, Dreamscape, Right Stuff)
1954 - Iain Duncan Smith, British politician
1955 - Joolz Denby, English poet and novelist
1955 - Kate Heyhoe, American food writer
1956 - Miguel Ángel Russo, Argentine footballer
1957 - Ednita Nazario, Ponce PR, spanish singer
1957 - Severiano Ballesteros, Spain, golfer (British Open 1979, 84, 88)
1957 - Brian Alexander, British broadcaster
1957 - Martin Margiela, Belgian fashion designer
1958 - Tony Sibson, boxer
1959 - Dave Innis, Bartlesville Oklahoma, country singer (Restless Heart-Wheels)
1961 - Kirk McCaskill, Kapuskasing Ont, pitcher (Chic White Sox)
1961 - Mark Kelly, Dublin Ireland, keyboardist (Marillion-Real to Reel)
1962 - Freddie Joe Nunn, NFL defensive end (Indianapolis Colts)
1962 - Jeff Turner, NBA forward (Vancouver Grizzlies)
1963 - Joe Scarborough, American television personality
1964 - Shane Robinson, Adelaide SA, Australasia golfer
1964 - Rob Awalt, American football player
1964 - Soyo Oka, Japanese musician
1965 - Hal Morris, Fort Rucker Alabama, infielder (Cin Reds)
1965 - Helen Alfredsson, Goteborg Sweden, LPGA golfer (1993 Dinah Shore)
1965 - Paolo Cane, Itaty, tennis star
1965 - Paulina Porizkova, Prostejov Czech, model (Playboy-Aug 87)
1965 - Jeff Zucker, American television executive
1965 - Jay Wesley Neill, American convicted murderer (d. 2002)
1965 - Mark Pellegrino, American actor
1966 - Cynthia Nixon, NYC, actress (Addams Family Values, Pelican Brief)
1966 - Oliver Barnett, NFL defensive end (SF 49ers)
1967 - Graeme Lloyd, Australia, pitcher (NY Yankees, Milwaukee Brewers)
1967 - Alex Kahn, American artist
1968 - Janne Ojanen, Tampere FIN, hockey forward (Team Finland)
1969 - Amy Feng, Tianjin China, US table tennis player (Olympics-96)
1969 - Karl Krikken, cricketer (Derbyshire 1989-, wicketkeeper)
1969 - Timothy Young, Phila, rower (Olympics-silver-1996)
1970 - Chuck Bradley, CFL/WLAF tackle (BC Lions, Barcelona Dragons)
1970 - Neal Caloia, Torrance California, free pistol (Olympics-1996)
1970 - Olaf Kolzig, Johannesburg SAF, NHL goalie (Team Germany, Washington)
1970 - Mike Barz, American meteorologist and TV anchor
1971 - Anthony Redmon, NFL guard (Arizona Cardinals)
1971 - Austin Peck, Hawaii, actor (Austin Reed-Days of Our Lives)
1971 - Derwin Gray, NFL center (Indianapolis Colts)
1971 - James Hundon, wide receiver (Cincinnati Bengals)
1971 - Wang Yang, youngest Olympic record breaker at age 17 (Oly-1988)
1971 - Peter Canavan, Gaelic footballer
1971 - Jacques Villeneuve, French-Canadian race car driver
1972 - Brian DeMarco, NFL tackle (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1972 - Craig Jones, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1972 - Jeff Wilkins, kicker (St Louis Rams)
1972 - Jeffrey van As, soccer player (MVV)
1972 - Karen Clark, Calgary Alberta, synchro swimmer (Olympics-silver-96)
1973 - Spenny Rice, Canadian Entertainer
1974 - Ben Bordelon, tackle (San Diego Chargers)
1974 - Kevin Mathis, cornerback (Dallas Cowboys)
1974 - Sharon Pelletier, Madawaska Maine, Miss America-Maine (1996)
1974 - Alexander Pichushkin, Russian serial killer
1975 - Robbie Fowler, English footballer
1975 - David Gordon Green, American filmmaker
1977 - Gerard Way, American musician (My Chemical Romance)
1978 - Jorge Andrade, Portuguese footballer
1978 - Rachel Stevens, English singer (S Club)
1978 - Vesna Pisarović, Croatian singer
1979 - Keshia Knight Pulliam, Newark NJ, actress (Rudy-Crosby)
1979 - Albert Hammond, Jr., American guitarist (The Strokes)
1979 - Keith Nobbs, American actor
1980 - Kristin Lee, Bethesda Md, rhythmic gymnast (US team-96)
1980 - Jerko Leko, Croatian footballer
1980 - Yoanna House, American model
1980 - Clueso, German singer, rapper, songwriter and producer
1981 - Eric Harris, Columbine High School shooter (d. 1999)
1981 - Ireneusz Jeleń, Polish footballer
1981 - Milan Bartovič, Slovak ice hockey player
1981 - Dennis Sarfate, American baseball player
1982 - Carlos Hernández, Costa Rican footballer
1982 - Jay Baruchel, Canadian actor
1984 - Linda Chung, Hong Kong actress and singer
1984 - Adam Loewen, Canadian baseball player
1985 - Yamashita Tomohisa, Japanese singer News
1986 - Brian Larsen, American musician and record producer
1986 - Leighton Meester, American actress
1987 - Jarrod Mullen, Australian rugby league footballer
1987 - Jesse McCartney, American actor and singer
1990 - Marston Glenn Hefner, son of Hugh Hefner & Kimberley Conrad
1990 - Kristen Stewart, Los Angeles, California, American actress (Bella Swan-The Twilight Saga)
1998 - Elle Fanning, American Actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 09, 2013, 04:38:45 PM

This Day in History for 9th April


Famous Deaths

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Princess of Orange
Maria Louise van
Hessen-Kassel (1765) 


93 - Yuan An, Minister over the Masses of the Han dynasty
491 - Zeno, Byzantine Emperor
715 - Constantine I, Greek/Syrian Pope (708-15), dies
1024 - Benedict VIII, [Theophylactus van Tusculum], Pope (1012-24), dies
1137 - William X, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 1099)
1483 - Edward IV, King of England (1461-70, 71-83) (b.1442)
1484 - Edward of Middleham, Prince of Wales (b. 1473), son of Richard III King of England
1492 - Lorenzo de' Medici, Florentine statesman, dies
1553 - Francois Rabelais, French author (Gargantua/Pantagruel), dies at 49
1557 - Michael Agricola, Finnish theologist/church reformer/bishop, dies
1626 - Francis Bacon, English statesman and philosopher, dies from pneumonia at 65
1654 - Matei Basarab, Prince of Wallachia (b. 1588)
1681 - Alfonso Marsh, composer, dies at 54
1693 - Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, French writer (b. 1618)
1747 - Simon Fraser, 12th baron Lovat Jacobite, last man beheaded in England
1754 - Christian von Wolff, German philosopher, dies at 75
1761 - William Law, British minister and theologian (b. 1686)
1765 - Maria Louise van Hessen-Kassel, princess of Orange-Nassau, dies at 77
1793 - Ernestus Weinrauch, composer, dies at 62
1804 - Jacques Necker, fiancier/statesman, dies
1806 - William V of Orange, Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic dies at 58
1807 - John Opie, Engl painter/illustrator: Shakespeare gallery, dies at 45
1821 - Felix Maximo Lopez, composer, dies at 78
1850 - William Prout, physician/chemist, dies
1851 - Antoine-Charles Glachant, composer, dies at 80
1852 - John Howard Payne, actor/playwright (Fair Warning), dies
1862 - George W Johnson, US planter/Confederate (gov-Ky), dies at about 50
1865 - Thomas Alfred Smyth, Irish/US Union general-major, dies at 32
1872 - Erastus Corning, American businessman and politician (b. 1794)
1876 - Charles Goodyear, American politician (b. 1804)
1879 - Ernst Friedrich Richter, composer, dies at 70
1882 - Dante Gabriel Rossetti, English Pre-Raphaelite poet and painter, dies at 53
1886 - Joseph V von Scheffel, German writer (Ekkehard), dies at 60
1889 - Michel Eugène Chevreul, French chemist (b. 1786)
1893 - Disma Fumagalli, composer, dies at 66
1904 - Isabella II, Queen of Spain (1833-68), dies at 73
1909 - Charles Conder, artist, dies
1909 - Helena Modrzejewska, Polish-American actress (b. 1840)
1916 - Vicente Goicoechea Errasti, composer, dies at 62
1917 - Edward Thomas, poet, killed in WW I
1917 - James Hope Moulton, British scholar of Classical Greek (b. 1863)
1923 - Mauritius H Binger, director/producer (Living Ladder), dies
1931 - Paul Antonin Vidal, composer, dies at 67
1933 - Sigfrid Karg-Elert, composer, dies at 55
1936 - Ferdinand Tönnies, German sociologist (b. 1855)
1939 - Emilio Serrano y Ruiz, composer, dies at 89
1940 - Mrs Patrick Campbell, English actress (Outcast Lady, Riptide), dies
1944 - Boleslaw Wallek-Walewski, composer, dies at 59
1944 - Evgeniya Rudneva, Russian World War II heroine (b. 1920)
1945 - Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologist/antifascist, hanged
1945 - Hans Oster, German major-general/spy, "July 20th plot", hanged
1945 - Hans von Dohnanyi, "July 20th plotter", hanged
1945 - Wilhelm Canaris, Admiral/headed Germany Abwehr, hanged
1945 - Georg Elser, failed assassin of Hitler (b. 1903)
1947 - Konrad Friedrich Noetel, composer, dies at 43
1948 - George Carpenter, Australian Salvation Army general (b. 1872)
1948 - Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Colombian politician (b. 1903)
1951 - Sadiq Hidajat, Persian writer (Hadji Aga), dies
1951 - Vilhelm F K Bjerknes, Norwegian/US physicist/meteorology, dies at 89
1954 - Philip Greeley Clapp, composer, dies at 65
1959 - Frank Lloyd Wright, US architect (Guggenheim Museum NY), dies at 89
1961 - Zog I, [Ahmed Zogu], King of Albania (1925-39), dies at 65
1962 - Juan Belmonte, famed bullfighter, dies at 70
1966 - Sutan Sjahrir, premier of Indonesia (1945-47), dies at 57
1970 - Gustaf Tenggren, Swedish illustrator (b. 1896)
1976 - Akio Yashiro, composer, dies at 46
1976 - Phil Ochs, singer (Draft Dodger Rag), commits suicide at 35
1978 - Clough Williams-Ellis, Welsh architect (b.1883)
1979 - Staats Cotsworth, dies at 71
1980 - Kathleen Burke, dies
1982 - Robert H G Havemann, German chemist/dissident, dies
1982 - Wilfred Pelletier, symph conductor (Voice of Firestone), dies at 85
1984 - Basil Henry Blackwell, British publisher, dies
1986 - Jean Mogin, Belgian poet, dies at 64
1988 - Brook Benton, singer (Just a Matter of Time), dies at 56 of meningitis
1988 - Dave Prater, rocker (Sam & Dave), dies in a car crash at 50
1991 - Maurice Binder, title designer (James Bond Movies), dies at 73
1991 - Martin Hannett, record producer (b. 1948)
1992 - Gale McGee, senator (Wyoming, 1959-77), dies at 77
1992 - Ruth Hammond, dies in her sleep at 96
1993 - Wouter Perquin, journalist/Dutch MP (KVP), dies at 74
1994 - Cornelis N "Cor" van Dis Jr, Dutch MP (1971-94), dies at 71
1994 - Keith Watson, British comic strip artist (Dan Dare), dies at 59
1994 - Marcel Ichac, French alpinist/director (Karakoram), dies at 87
1994 - Raouf Khayrat, Egyptian general-major, murdered
1995 - James Bullock, colliery manager, dies at 92
1996 - James William Rouse, US builder (shopping malls), dies at 81
1996 - Maisie Fitter, editor/conservationist, dies at 83
1996 - Richard Thomas Condon, author, dies at 81
1996 - Sandy Becker, NYC Kiddie TV Show host (Sandy Becker Show), dies at 74
1997 - Helene Hanff, author (84 Charing Cross Road), dies at 80
1998 - Tom Cora, American cellist and composer (b. 1953)
1999 - Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara, Niger politician and general (b. 1949)
2001 - Willie Stargell, American baseball player (b. 1940)
2002 - Leopold Vietoris, Austrian mathematician (b. 1891)
2002 - Pat Flaherty, American racecar driver (b. 1926)
2006 - Billy Hitchcock, American baseball player, coach, and official (b. 1916)
2006 - Vilgot Sjöman, Swedish writer and film director (b. 1924)
2007 - Egon Bondy, Czech philosopher and writer (b. 1930)
2009 - Nick Adenhart, MLB pitcher (b. 1986)
2010 - Zoltán Varga, Hungarian Footballer (b. 1945)
2010 - Aladár Kovácsi, Hungarian modern pentathlon olimpic champion (1952, Helsinki) (b. 1932)
2011 - Sidney Lumet, American film director (b. 1924)
2012 - Mark Lenzi, American Olympic Diver, dies from hypertension at 43

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 10, 2013, 09:57:06 AM

This Day in History for 10th April


Historical Events

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Duke of Milan Ludovico Sforza                 Naturalist Charles Darwin                    US President Woodrow Wilson

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Author F Scott Fitzgerald                NHL all-time top scorer Wayne Gretzky


837 - Comet 1P/837 F1 (Halley) approaches within 0.0334 AUs of Earth
847 - St Leo IV begins his reign as Catholic Pope
879 - Louis III becomes King of West Francia.
1407 - the lama Deshin Shekpa visits the Ming Dynasty capital at Nanjing. He is awarded with the title
           Great Treasure Prince of Dharma.
1500 - France captures duke Ludovico Sforza of Milan
1516 - 1st ghetto, Jews are compelled to live in specific area of Venice
1552 - Henri II of France occupies Metz
1589 - Spanish troops conquer Geertruidenberg
1656 - Dutch fleet occupiers Colombo Ceylon
1694 - Duke Victor Amadeus of Savoye attacks Casale
1710 - The first law regulating copyright is issued in Great Britain.
1739 - Dick Turpin executed in England for horse stealing
1741 - War of the Austrian Succession: Prussia defeats Austria in the Battle of Mollwitz.
1790 - Robert Gray is 1st American to circumnavigate the Earth
1790 - US Patent system forms
1815 - Austria declares war on realm of Naples
1816 - 2nd Bank of US chartered
1821 - Patriarch Gregory V of Constantinople is hanged by the Turks from the main gate of the
           Patriarchate and his body is thrown into the Bosphorus.
1825 - 1st hotel in Hawaii opens
1825 - Nicaraguan constituent assembly meets at Leon
1826 - The 10,500 inhabitants of the Greek town Messolonghi start leaving the town after a year's
           siege by Turkish forces. Very few of them survive.
1835 - Charles Darwin returns to Santiago, Chile
1841 - NY "Tribune" begins publishing under editor Horace Greeley
1845 - More than 1,000 buildings damaged by fire in Pittsburgh Pa
1849 - Safety pin patented by Walter Hunt (NYC); sold rights for $400
1856 - The Theta Chi Fraternity is founded at Norwich University.
1858 - The original Big Ben, a 14.5 tonne bell for the Tower of London is cast in Stockton-on-Tees
           by Warner's of Cripplegate. This however cracked during testing and was recasted into the
           13.76 tonne bell by Whitechapel Bell Foundry and is still in use to date.
1863 - Rebel Gen Earl Van Dorn attacks at Franklin, Tenn
1864 - Austrian Archduke Maximilian becomes emperor of Mexico
1865 - At Appomattox, Gen Lee issues Gen Order #9, his last
1866 - American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) forms
1868 - 1st performance of John Brahms' "Ein german Requiem"
1868 - British defeat King of Abyssinia at Magdala
1869 - Congress increases number of Supreme Court judges from 7 to 9
1869 - José Martí founds the Cuban Revolutionary Party.
1871 - William Hammond Hall's maps & surveys of Golden Gate Park accepted
1872 - 1st National black convention meets in New Orleans
1872 - 1st Arbor Day celebrated in Nebraska, later changed to Apr 22
1877 - 1st human cannonball act performed in London
1877 - Federal troops withdrawn from Columbia SC
1878 - California St Cable Car RR Co starts service
1882 - Matson founds his shipping company (San Francisco & Hawaii)
1884 - US Senate accepts Belgian administration of Congo
1887 - President Abraham Lincoln's re-buried with his wife in Springfield Il
1887 - Soccer team Be Quick forms in Hairs Groningen
1896 - Spiridon Louis wins 1st Olympic marathon (2:58:50)
1912 - RMS Titanic sets sail for its 1st & last voyage
1913 - Pres Woodrow Wilson throws out 1st ball, Senators beat Yankees 2-1
1913 - Walter Johnson begins string of 56 consecutive scoreless innings
1916 - 1st professional golf tournament held
1916 - The Professional Golfers Association of America (PGA) is created in New York City.
1917 - Munition factory explosion at Eddystone PA, kills 133 workers
1919 - Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata is ambushed and shot dead by government forces
           in Morelos.
1923 - Hitler demands "hatred & more hatred" in Berlin
1924 - Tubular steel golf club shafts approved for championship play
1925 - Czarina re-christened Stalingrad (now Volgograd)
1925 - Scribners publishes "The Great Gatsby" by F Scott Fitzgerald
1930 - George Headley scores 223 v England at Kingston
1930 - Synthetic rubber 1st produced
1932 - Paul von Hindenburg elected 1st German president (Hitler is 2nd)
1934 - Stanley Cup: Chicago Blackhawks beat Detroit Red Wings, 3 games to 1
1935 - Vaughan Williams' 4th Symphony premieres in London
1936 - 200" mirror blank arrives in Pasadena
1938 - 2nd government of Blum replaced by Daladier government in France
1938 - Austria becomes a state of Germany
1938 - NY makes syphilis test mandatory in order to get a marriage license
1939 - Colijn's Dutch government opens camp Westerbork for German Jews
1939 - Grens mobilization due to Italian invasion in Albania
1940 - Vidkun Quisling forms Norwegian "national government"
1941 - German troops conquer Libyan county Cyrenaica
1942 - Cigarettes & candy rationed in Holland
1943 - 12 Jewish patients of Herren Loo-Lozenoord escape nazis
1943 - General Montgomery occupies Sfax Tunisia
1944 - "Patrolling the Ether" is shown on 3 TV stations simultaneously
1944 - Soviet forces liberate Odessa from Nazis
1945 - Allies liberate 1st Nazi concentration camp, Buchenwald (Czech)
1945 - Canadian troops conquer Deventer
1945 - General Blaskowitz becomes nazi leader of "Fort Holland"
1945 - German troops attack Ijsselbrug
1945 - NFL's Boston Yanks & Brooklyn Tigers merge
1945 - US troops land on Tsugen Shima Okinawa
1945 - US troops liberate Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald, Germany
1945 - William Schuman & Antony Tudors ballet premieres in NYC
1946 - 1st election for Japanese Diet
1947 - Jackie Robinson becomes 1st black in major league baseball (Dodgers)
1947 - King Frederik IX of Denmark crowned
1948 - Jewish Hagana repels an Arab attack on Mishmar HaEmek
1949 - 13th Golf Masters Championship: Sam Snead wins, shooting a 282
1953 - "House of Wax," 1st 3-D movie, released (NYC)
1953 - 7th NBA Championship: Minneapolis Lakers beat NY Knicks, 4 games to 1
1954 - KRGV TV channel 5 in Weslaco, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 - 19th Golf Masters Championship: Cary Middlecoff wins, shooting a 279
1955 - 9th NBA Championship: Syrac Nats beat Ft Wayne Pistons, 4 games to 3
1955 - Dr Jonas Salk successfully tests Polio vaccine
1955 - Ruth Ellis shoots jilting lover David Blakely
1956 - Philips broadcasts 1st Dutch color TV programs
1956 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Detroit Red Wings, 4 games to 1
1957 - John Osborne's "Entertainer," premieres in London
1957 - Jordanian government of Naboelsi resigns
1957 - Suez canal reopens for all traffic
1957 - USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
1958 - Northern strip of Spanish Sahara ceded to Morocco
1960 - 24th Golf Masters Championship: Arnold Palmer wins, shooting a 282
1960 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
1960 - Senate passes landmark Civil Rights Bill
1961 - 25th Golf Masters Championship: Gary Player wins, shooting a 280
1961 - Adolf Eichmann tried as a war criminal in Israel
1961 - Dutch foreign minister Luns talks to JFK about New Guinea
1961 - New Wash Senators loses 1st regular-season game 4-3 to White Sox
1962 - 1st baseball game at LA's Dodger Stadium, they lose 6-3 to Reds
1962 - 1st major league game in Houston, Colt .45s beat Chicago Cubs, 11-2
1962 - NY Yankee Mickey Mantle hits his 375th HR
1963 - Thresher, US atomic-powered submarine, sinks 220 miles east of Boston
1963 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1964 - Demolition begins on Polo Grounds to clear way for housing project
1964 - Iranian motor launch catches fire & sinks killing 113 (Persian Gulf)
1967 - 39th Academy Awards - "Man For All Seasons," E Taylor & P Scofield win
1968 - Ferry Wahine sinks in Wellington harbour, New Zealand on route from Lyttelton (51 killed)
1968 - "George M!" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 435 performances
1968 - 40th Academy Awards - "Heat of the Night," Rod Steiger & K Hepburn win
1968 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1971 - 1st baseball game at Phila's Veterans Stadium, Phils beat Expos 4-1
1971 - US table tennis team arrives in China PR
1972 - 7.0 earthquake kills 1/5 of population of Iranian province of Fars
1972 - US, USSR & 70 other nations agree to ban biological weapons
1972 - 20 days after he was kidnapped in Buenos Aires, Oberdan Sallustro is executed by communist
           guerrillas.
1973 - BEA flight to Basel Switz, crashes on landing, killing 104 of 143
1973 - KC opens its new park, Royals Stadium, with 12-1 rout of Rangers
1973 - Pakistan suspends constitution
1974 - American Boccaccio Association forms
1974 - Magicians Penn & Teller 1st meet
1974 - Yitzhak Rabin replaces resigning Israeli PM Golda Meir
1975 - Rangers score 8 goals against Islanders in playoffs
1976 - Brewers' Don Money's grand slammer disallowed-Yanks win 9-7
1976 - Cleveland Cavaliers win their 1st NBA Central Division title
1977 - 41st Golf Masters Championship: Tom Watson wins, shooting a 276
1977 - Beverly Klass wins LPGA Women's International Golf Satellite
1977 - Cleveland Indians set club record for longest, 9 inn game (3:17)
1978 - Formation of Major Indoor Soccer League announced
1979 - J R Richard throws major league record 6 wild pitches in Astrodome
1979 - Soyuz 33 launched with a Russian & a Bulgarian
1979 - Red River Valley Tornado Outbreak: A tornado lands in Wichita Falls, Texas killing 42 people.
1981 - "Caveman" with Ringo premieres
1981 - Computer glitch keeps Space Shuttle Columbia grounded
1981 - France performs nuclear test
1981 - Imprisoned IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands elected to Brit Parliament
1982 - LA Kings losing 5-0 to Edmonton in 3rd period, win in OT 6-5
1982 - Penguins 2-Isles 1 (OT)-Preliminary- Isles hold 2-1 lead
1983 - Baltimore's Eddie Murray hits his 1,000 career hit
1983 - Caps 3-Isles 6-Patrick Div Semifinals-Isles win series 3-2
1983 - Hennie Kuiper (Neth) wins Paris-Roubaix cycle race
1983 - Jordan king Hussein ceases negotiations with PLO
1983 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA J&B Scotch Pro-Am Golf Tournament
1984 - Damaged Solar Max satellite snared by Challenger shuttle
1984 - John Long (Detroit) ends NBA free throw streak of 51 games
1984 - US Senate condemns CIA mining of Nicaraguan harbors
1985 - At 80 Leo Sites becomes oldest bowler to score a 300 game
1985 - Caps 4-Isles 3 (OT)-Patrick Div Semifinals-Caps hold 1-0 lead
1985 - Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-B mission
1986 - "Big Deal" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 70 performances
1986 - Benazir Bhutto returns to Pakistan
1986 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1988 - 52nd Golf Masters Championship: Sandy Lyle wins, shooting a 281
1988 - 8th Golden Raspberry Awards: Leonard Part 6 wins
1988 - Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA San Diego Inamori Golf Classic
1988 - Herschel Walker performs Fort Worth Ballet
1988 - Islanders beat Devils 5-4 (OT) 1st round tied at 2-2
1989 - 10th Emmy Sports Award presentation
1989 - 24th Academy of Country Music Awards: Hank Williams Jr, Alabama
1989 - Intel corp announces shipment of 80-486 chip
1989 - H J Heinz, Van Camp Seafood & Bumble Bee Seafood say they would not buy tuna caught in
           nets that also trap dolphins
1990 - CUNY/Lehman College, Bronx, opens a branch campus in Hiroshma Japan
1990 - Curtly Ambrose takes 8-45 in cricket vs England at Bridgetown
1991 - Boat rams a tanker in Livorno Italy fog, killing about 138
1991 - LA King Wayne Gretzky scores NHL record 93rd playoff goal
1991 - Last automat (coin operated cafeteria) closes (3rd & 42nd St, NYC)
1991 - Martin Zubero swims world record 200m backstroke (1:52.51)
1991 - A rare tropical storm develops in the Southern Hemisphere near Angola; the first to be
           documented by satellites.
1992 - 25 die in a bus bombing in Sri Lanka
1992 - Floriade (Flower Show) opens at Hague Neth
1992 - NHL strike ends after 10 days
1993 - BPAA US Open by Del Ballard Jr
1993 - Ottawa Senators win 1st road game (Islanders) after 38 straight loses
1993 - Pittsburgh Penguins win their NHL record 17 game winning streak
1994 - "Les Miserables," opens at Hiten Theatre, Osaka
1994 - 58th Golf Masters Championship: Jose M Olazabal wins, shooting a 279
1995 - "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 24 perfs
1995 - NYC bans smoking in all restaurants that seat 35 or more
1998 - The Belfast Agreement is signed.
2006 - Hundreds of thousands protest H.R. 4437 (aka the "Sensenbrenner Bill") in the United
           States.
2010 - Polish Air Force Tu-154M crashes near Smolensk, Russia, killing all 96 people on board
           including President Lech Kaczyński.
2012 - United Nations deadline for Syrian troop withdrawal passes as violence continues
2012 - Apple Inc claims a value of $600 billion making it the largest company by market capitalization
           in the world
2012 - Rick Santorum suspends his candidacy for the Republican Presidential nomination making Mitt
           Romney the overwhelming favourite
2012 - Raymond Aubrac, French Resistance Leader, dies at 97

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 10, 2013, 09:58:27 AM

This Day in History for 10th April


Famous Weddings

1848 - British influential art critic and social commentator John Ruskin marries Effie Gray in Perth,
           Scotland (later annulled).
1959 - Japan's Crown Prince Akihito marries commoner Michiko Shoda

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 10, 2013, 10:03:23 AM

This Day in History for 10th April


Famous Birthdays

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Actor Max Von Sydow (1929)                 Actor Steven Seagal (1951)                    Actor Haley Joel Osment (1989)


401 - Theodosius II, the Younger, Eastern Roman emperor
1512 - James V, King of Scots (1513-42)
1569 - Emilia van Nassau, daughter of Willem of Orange & Anna of Saxon
1583 - Hugo Grotius, Holland, jurist, father of international law
1633 - Werner Fabricius, composer
1651 - Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, German mathematician (d. 1708)
1656 - René Lepage de Ste-Claire, lord-founder of the town of Rimouski, in New France (d. 1718)
1695 - Balthazar Huydecoper, Dutch translator/historian
1704 - Benjamin Heath, English classical scholar (d. 1766)
1713 - John Whitehurst, English clockmaker and scientist (d. 1788)
1737 - Francois Giroust, composer
1755 - Samuel Hahnemann, German physician/originator of homeopathy
1762 - Giovanni Aldini, Italian physicist (d. 1834)
1778 - William Hazlitt, Maidstone Kent England, essayist/critic
1783 - Hortense E de Beauharnais, French queen of Netherlands (1806-10)
1794 - Matthew Calbraith Perry, Commodore, opened Japan
1796 - James Bowie, American pioneer and soldier (d. 1836)
1797 - Claude Ambroise Seurat, Troyes France, (World's skinniest man)
1806 - Leonidas Polk, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1864
1808 - Auguste Franchomme, composer
1823 - Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1827 - Lewis Wallace, Major General (Union volunteers)/author (Ben Hur)
1829 - William Booth, founder (Salvation Army)
1833 - David McMurtrie Gregg, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1833 - James Edward Rains, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1862
1837 - Forceythe Willson, American poet (d. 1867)
1847 - Charles Swinnerton Heap, composer
1847 - Joseph Pulitzer, Hungary, publisher (St Louis Post-Dispatch, NY World)
1854 - Jozef M T Orelio, baritone
1857 - Henry Ernest Dudeney, mathematician/puzzle maker
1864 - Eugene Francis Charles D'Albert, German pianist/composer (Golem)
1864 - Tully Marshall, Nevada City CA
1865 - Jack Miner, Canadian conservationist (d. 1944)
1867 - George William Russell, Irish nationalist (d. 1935)
1868 - George Arliss, London England, actor (Devil, Green Goddess)
1877 - Alfred Kubin, writer
1880 - Frances Perkins, American politician and 1st woman to hold cabinet-level position (Labor), (d.
          1965)
1880 - Montague Summers, English writer (d. 1948)
1880 - Mohammed Nadir Shah, Afghan king (d. 1933)
1882 - Simon F H J Berkelbach Van der Sprenkel, theologist (Fear & Religion)
1886 - Val Paul, Denver, Colorado, American actor and director
1887 - Bernardo A Houssay, Argentine physiologist (Nobel 1947)
1887 - Heinz Tiessen, composer
1891 - Tim McCoy, Saginaw MI
1892 - Egon Freiherr von Eickstedt, German anthropologist (Rassenkunde)
1892 - Victor de Sabata, Trieste Italy, conductor/composer (Il Macigno)
1894 - Ben Nicholson, English painter/sculptor (Circle)
1894 - Shri Ghanshyam Das Birla, Indian industrialist (d. 1983)
1896 - Edith Day, Minneapolis MN
1897 - Ross Youngs, American baseball player (d. 1927)
1900 - Jean Duvieusart, premier (Belgium 1950)
1903 - Clare Boothe Luce, US ambassador (to Vatican)
1903 - Nick Stuart, Romania, bandleader
1905 - Jan H van Roijen, diplomat/Netherland foreign minister
1906 - Fud Livingston, composer
1906 - Kathleen Major, principal (St Hilda's College, England)
1906 - Lili Darvas, Budapest Hungary, actress (Szerelem, Cimmaron)
1907 - Pete Desjardins, US, platform/springboard diver (Olympic-gold-1928)
1908 - Aidan Crawley, CEO (London Weekend TV)
1910 - Abu-Bakr Khairat, composer
1910 - David Gilroy Bevan, politician
1910 - Paul Sweezy, American economist and editor (d. 2004)
1911 - Maurice Schumann, French statesman/writer (La Voix du couvre-feu)
1912 - Clarke Hinkle, NFL fullback (Green Bay Packers)
1912 - Martin Denny, rocker/actor (Forbidden Island)
1912 - Roy Hofheinz, engineer (Houston Astrodome)
1913 - Stefan Heym, German/US author (Crusaders, Family Benda)
1914 - E A V "Foffie" Williams, cricketer (WI all-rounder 1939-48)
1914 - Jack Badcock, cricketer (Tasmania Australian batsman of 30's)
1915 - Harry Morgan, Detroit Mich, actor (December Bride, M*A*S*H, Dragnet)
1915 - Leo Vroman, Dutch/US poet/biologist
1917 - Robert Burns Woodward, organic chemist (Nobel 1965)
1918 - Lee Bergere, American actor (d. 2007)
1921 - Chuck Connors, Bkln NY, actor (Rifleman, Branded, Cowboy in Africa)
1921 - Peter Herbert Penwarden, priest
1921 - Sheb Wooley, Erick Oklahoma, vocalist (Purple People Eater, Hee Haw)
1923 - Floyd M Simmons, actor/decathlete (Olympic-bronze-1948, 52)
1923 - John Watkins, cricketer (South African all-rounder in 15 Tests 49-57)
1924 - Kenneth Noland, American painter
1926 - "Alvin" Junior Samples, Cummings Ga, country singer (Hee Haw)
1926 - Jacques Casterede, composer
1926 - Johnnie Tillmon, civil rights activist (Natl Welfare Rights Association)
1927 - Marshall Warren Nirenberg, American scientist, Nobel laureate
1929 - Dusan Radic, composer
1929 - Max Von Sydow, Lund Sweden, actor (Hawaii, Exorcist, Dune, Dreamscape)
1930 - Lord Morton, of Shauna, senator (College of Justice, Scotland)
1930 - Shuja-ud-Din, cricketer (batted in 19 Tests for Pakistan 1954-62)
1930 - Norma Candal, Puerto Rican actor/comedian (d. 2006)
1930 - Spede Pasanen, Finnish comedian (d. 2001)
1931 - Marcel van Maele, Belgian poet
1932 - Adrian Henri, poet/president (Liverpool Academy of Arts)
1932 - Delphine Seyrig, Beirut Lebanon, actress (Freak Orlando, Reperages)
1932 - Hari Rhodes, Cincinnati Oh, actor (Mike-Daktari, Roots)
1932 - Mae Heriwentha Faggs Starr, NJ, 4x100m runner (Olympic-gold-1952)
1932 - Nathaniel Nelson, rocker (Flamingos)
1932 - Omar Sharif, [Michael Shalhoub], Egypt, actor (Dr Zhivago, Top Secret)
1933 - Philip Corner, composer
1933 - Poncie Ponce, actor (Kazuo Kim-Hawaiian Eye)
1933 - Robert Rhodes James, historian (Gallipoli)
1933 - Rokusuke Ei, Japanese lyricist and author
1934 - David Halberstam, intl correspondent (NY Times/Pulitzer 1964)
1934 - Zsolt Durko, composer
1934 - Vladimir Posner, Russian journalist
1935 - Jorge Mester, Mexico City Mexico, conductor (Louisville Orch 1967-79)
1935 - Patrick Garland, director (Doll House)
1936 - John Madden, NFL coach (Oakland Raiders)/sports commentator (CBS, FOX)
1936 - Michael Naylor, insurance broker
1936 - Robert "Bobby" Smith, US singer (Spinners)
1937 - Stan Mellor, British racehorse trainer/jockey
1937 - Bella Akhmadulina, Russian poet
1938 - Don Meredith, Mount Vernon Texas, NFL QB (Cowboys)/Mon Night Football
1939 - Alan Rothenberg, US Soccer pres (1990- )
1939 - Daniel Oliver, NYC, CEO (Federal Trade Commission)
1940 - Gloria Hunniford, British broadcaster/actress (Old Curiosity Shop)
1941 - Paul Theroux, American travel book writer (Mosquito Coast)
1942 - Ian Callaghan, English footballer
1942 - Nick Auf der Maur, Canadian journalist and politician (d. 1998)
1943 - Andrzej Badeński, Polish athlete
1944 - Danny Woods, US musician (CEO of the Board)
1945 - Vera Misevich, USSR, equestrian dressage (Olympic-gold-1980)
1946 - Armand, [Herman van Loenhout], singer (Blommenkinders)
1947 - Bunny Waller, vocalist/percussionist (Bob Marley & Wailers)
1947 - Karl Russell, rocker
1947 - Bunny Wailer, Jamaican musician
1948 - Thomas Spencer, MEP (Conservative)
1949 - Frank de Leeuw, Dutch rock guitarist (Bob Color)
1950 - Dave Peverett, rocker (Foghat)
1950 - Eddie Hazel, US pop guitarist (Funkadelic-Uncle Jam Wants You)
1950 - Ken Griffey, Sr., American baseball player
1950 - Barry M. Riemer, American author
1951 - Mark Roth, bowler (4-time PBA Player of Year)
1951 - Steven Seagal, Detroit MI, actor (Above the Law, Hard to Kill)
1951 - David Helvarg, American journalist and environmental activist
1953 - David Moorcroft, British athlete
1953 - Terre Roche, rocker (Roches)
1954 - Peter MacNicol, Dallas TX, actor (Chicago Hope, Sophie's Choice)
1955 - Cary Middlecoff, golfer (Masters)
1955 - Lesley Garrett, British soprano
1957 - John M. Ford, American science fiction author and poet (d. 2006)
1957 - Steve Gustafson, American musician
1958 - Ken Griffy, baseball player (Cin Reds, NY Yanks)
1958 - Bob Bell, British engineer
1958 - Yefim Bronfman, Russian-born pianist
1959 - Brian Setzer, Massapequa Park NY, rock guitarist/vocalist (Stray Cats)
1959 - Yvan Loubier, Quebec politician
1960 - Julie Fulton, Evanston Ill, actress (Lime Steel)
1960 - Katrina Leskanich, American musician
1961 - Jeb Adams, Hollywood California, actor (Lt Jeb Pruitt-Baa Baa Black Sheep)
1961 - Olivia Brown, Frankfurt GFR, actress (Det Trudy Joplin-Miami Vice)
1961 - Joe Cole (roadie), American roadie (d. 1991)
1962 - Cathy Turner, Rochester NY, short track skater (Olympics-gold-1994
1962 - Jukka Tammi, hockey goaltender (Team Finland Oly-Bronze-1998)
1962 - Steve Tasker, wide receiver (Buffalo Bills)
1963 - Claire Smith, Ottawa Ontario, equestrian 3 day event (Olympics-96)
1963 - Kirk Lowdermilk, NFL center (Indianapolis Colts)
1963 - Marvin Freeman, Chicago IL, pitcher (Colorado Rockies)
1963 - Mike Devereaux, Casper WY, outfielder (Baltimore Orioles)
1963 - Warren DeMartini, heavy metal rocker (Dokken-Alone Again, Ratt)
1963 - Doris Leuthard, member of the Swiss Federal Council
1964 - Alan "Reni" Wren, English pop drummer (Stone Roses-Fools Gold)
1964 - Felicia Collins, Albany NY, guitarist (David Letterman)
1964 - Manon Bollegraf, den Bosch Neth, tennis star (semi 1996 Aust doubles)
1965 - Karen Booker, WNBA center (Utah Starzz)
1965 - Tim "Herb" Alexander, US funk metal drummer (Primus-Prok soda)
1965 - Tim Alexander, American musician
1966 - Neil Smith, NFL defensive end (KC Chiefs, Den Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1967 - Donald Dufresne, Rimouski, NHL defenseman (Edmonton Oilers)
1967 - Kay Whitmore, Sudbury, NHL goalie (NY Rangers)
1968 - Orlando Jones, American actor and comedian
1969 - Billy Jacoby, Flushing NY, actor (Brad-Silver Spoons, Maggie)
1969 - Dennis Vial, Sault Ste-Marie Ca, NHL defenseman (Ottawa Senators)
1969 - Wayne Lammle, WLAF kicker/punter (Scotland Claymores)
1969 - William Jayne, actor (Mikey Randall-Parker Lewis Can't Lose)
1969 - Ekaterini Koffa, Greek sprinter
1970 - Enrico Ciccone, Montreal, NHL defenseman (Chicago Blackhawks)
1970 - J J McCleskey, NFL safety (NO Saints, Arizona Cardinals)
1970 - Sean Gilbert, defensive tackle (Washington Redskins)
1970 - Wesley Barnett, St Joseph Mo, Oly weightlifter (Pan Am-silver-1987)
1970 - Matt Barlow, American musician
1970 - Kenny Lattimore, American singer
1970 - Mike Mushok, American musician
1970 - Q-Tip, American musician
1971 - Karl Williams, wide receiver (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1971 - Mihai Bagiu, Timisoara Romania, US gymnast (Olympics-96)
1971 - Nana Miyagi, Seattle Wash, tennis star (1995 final Surabaya doubles)
1972 - Maurice Harrell, NFL tight end (San Diego Chargers)
1972 - Richard Wearne, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1972 - Sue Merz, ice hockey defenseman (USA, Oly-98)
1973 - Guillaume Canet, French actor and film director
1973 - Roberto Carlos, Brazilian footballer
1973 - Aidan Moffat, Scottish musician
1973 - Christopher Simmons, American designer
1974 - Sherry Johnson, Owatonna Minnesota, Miss America-Minnesota (1996)
1974 - Petros Passalis, Greek footballer
1974 - Eric Greitens, American former military officer
1975 - Eric Den Besten, Bettendorf Iowa, rower (Olympics-1996)
1975 - Floris, Prince of Netherlands
1975 - Steve Washburn, Ottawa, NHL center (Florida Panthers)
1975 - Chris Carrabba, American singer
1976 - Sara Renner, Canadian cross country skier
1977 - Claudia Delpin, Miss Chile Universe (1997)
1978 - Jessica Davis, Greenbrae California, rhythmic gymnast (Olympics-27th-96)
1979 - Tsuyoshi Domoto, Japanese artist
1979 - Shemekia Copeland, American singer
1979 - Rachel Corrie, American activist (d. 2003)
1979 - Sophie Ellis-Bextor, English singer
1979 - Peter Kopteff, Finnish footballer
1980 - Sean Avery, Canadian ice hockey player
1980 - Charlie Hunnam, British actor
1980 - Kasey Kahne, American race-car driver
1980 - Bryce Soderberg, American musician
1981 - Laura Bell Bundy, American actor
1981 - Liz McClarnon, British singer
1981 - Michael Pitt, American actor
1981 - Alexei Semenov, Russian ice hockey player
1982 - Damián Lanza, Ecuadorian footballer
1982 - Chyler Leigh, American actress
1982 - Andre Ethier, American baseball player
1983 - Ryan Merriman, American actor
1984 - Zoe, Melbourne Australia, 1st frozen-embryo child
1984 - Mandy Moore, American singer/actor
1985 - Carlos Tevez, Argentine footballer
1985 - Dion Phaneuf, Canadian ice hockey player
1986 - Olivia Borlée, Belgian athlete
1986 - Vincent Kompany, Belgian footballer
1986 - Ayesha Takia, Indian actress
1987 - Hayley Westenra, New Zealand soprano
1989 - Haley Joel Osment, LA California, actor (Matt-Jeff Foxworthy Show)
1990 - Lulinha, Brazilian footballer
1990 - Alex Pettyfer, English actor
1991 - Amanda Michalka, American actress/singer
2007 - Princess Ariane of the Netherlands, Dutch Princess

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 10, 2013, 10:04:35 AM

This Day in History for 10th April


Famous Deaths

879 - Louis II the Stammerer, King of the West Franks (877-79)
947 - Hugo van Arles, count of Arles/king of Italy, dies
1008 - Notger, bishop of Luik (972-1008), dies
1362 - Machteld, countess of Holland, dies
1533 - Frederik I, King of Denmark/Norway (1523-33), dies at 61
1545 - Costanzo Festa, Italian composer
1585 - Gregory XIII, [Ugo Buoncampagni], Italian Pope (1572-85), dies at 83
1599 - Gabrielle d'Estrée, mistress of King Henry IV of France (b. 1571)
1601 - Mark Alexander Boyd, Scottish poet (b. 1562)
1619 - Thomas Jones, Archbishop of Dublin (b. c1550)
1640 - Agostino Agazzari, Italian composer, dies at 61
1640 - Charlotte Flandrina van Nassau, daughter of Willem I, dies at 60
1646 - Santino Solari, Swiss architect and sculptor (b. 1576)
1704 - William Egon of Fürstenberg, Bishop of Strassburg (b. 1629)
1706 - Arthur Chichester, 3rd Earl of Donegall, Irish soldier (b. 1666)
1712 - Yusuf Nabi, Turkish poet (Hayriye), dies at about 77
1723 - Claude F Tserclaes, South Neth earl of Tilly, dies at 74
1731 - Maximilian Dietrich Freisslich, composer, dies at 58
1756 - Giacomo Antonio Perti, Italian composer, dies at 94
1760 - Gerard George Clifford, head of East-Indian Company, dies at 75
1760 - Jean Lebeuf, French historian (b. 1687)
1784 - Simon Fokke, book illustrator, dies at 71
1786 - John Byron, British naval officer (b. 1723)
1810 - Konrad Back, composer, dies at 60
1813 - Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Italian-born mathematician and astronomer (b. 1736)
1823 - Karl Leonhard Reinhold, Austrian philosopher (b. 1757)
1825 - Paul-Louis Courier, (Mere), French writer/interpreter, dies at 53
1848 - Godert AGP baron van Capellen, gove-gen of Dutch-Indies, dies at 69
1862 - William Harvey Lamb Wallace, US lawyer/brig-general, dies at 40
1863 - Giovanni B Amia, Italian astronomer/physicist/botanist, dies at 77
1885 - John H Scholten, theologist (Free Want), dies at 73
1909 - Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet, dies at 72
1911 - Mikolajus Konstantinas Ciurlionis, composer, dies at 35
1919 - Emiliano Zapata, Mexican leader, murdered at 39
1920 - Moritz B Cantor, German mathematician, dies at 90
1920 - Tryggve Andersen, Norwegian writer (Mod Kvaeld), dies at 53
1927 - Ivo Bligh, cricketer (8th Earl of Darnley, 4 Tests 1882-83), dies
1929 - Edmond Thieffry, Belgium, WW I pilot, dies at 36
1931 - Khalil Gibran, Lebanese poet and painter (b. 1883)
1932 - Andre Baillon, Belgian/French author (& sabots), dies at 56
1937 - Algernon Ashton, composer, dies at 77
1938 - Nana Annor Adjaye, Pan-Africanist, dies in W Nzima Ghana
1938 - Joe "King" Oliver, American musician (b. 1885)
1939 - Alfredo Panzini, Ital author (Il Bacio de Lesba), dies at 75
1945 - Hendrik N Werkman, resistance/painter (Blue Boat), executed at 63
1945 - Charles Nordhoff, English-born writer (b. 1887)
1954 - Auguste Lumière, French photograph/movie pioneer, dies at 81
1954 - Ludwig Curtius, German archaeologist (Die antike Kunst), dies at 79
1954 - Oscar Mathisen, Norwegian speed skater (b. 1888)
1955 - Oskar Frederik Lindberg, composer, dies at 68
1955 - Teilhard de Chardin, French paleontologist and theologian (b. 1881)
1956 - Bozidar Sirola, composer, dies at 66
1956 - Clarence Beaumont, 1st batter in 1st World Series, dies at 75
1956 - Jozef Szulc, composer, dies at 81
1958 - Chuck Willis, rocker, dies at 30
1960 - Arthur Benjamin, Austral composer/pianist (Devil Take Her), dies at 66
1961 - Irene Warfield, silent screen actress (Satan Sanderson), dies at 65
1962 - Stuart Sutcliffe, bassist (Beatles), dies of brain hemorrhage at 21
1962 - Michael Curtiz, Hungarian-born director (b. 1886)
1965 - Linda Darnell, dies from burns received in a fire at 41
1965 - Lloyd Casner, American race car driver and owner (b. 1928)
1966 - Christian J Modeste, Dutch king of gypsies, dies at 71
1966 - Evelyn Waugh, British writer (Black Mischief), dies at 62
1968 - Gustavs Celmins, Latvian politician (b. 1899)
1969 - Harley J. Earl, American automobile designer (b. 1893)
1970 - Charles Paton, dies at 96
1974 - Patricia Collinge, dies at 81
1974 - Roger Bastide, French sociologist, dies at 76
1975 - Marjorie Main, actress (Ma & Pa Kettle), dies at 85
1975 - Sophia JW "Sophie" Hermse, actress (But a Dream), dies at 86
1975 - Walker Evans, US photographer (Fortune Magazine), dies at 71
1979 - Henriette P "Hetty" Beck, actress (Dodendans), dies at 91
1979 - Nino Rota, Italian composer (Torquemada), dies at 67
1980 - Kay Medford, actress (Dean Martin Show, To Rome With Love), dies at 65
1983 - Issam Sartawi, PLO ambassador to Portugal, murdered
1983 - Ulf S von Euler-Chelpin, Swedish physiologist, dies at 78
1984 - Nate Nelson, R&B-singer (Flamingos-I'll Be Home), dies on 52 birthday
1984 - Ray Middleton, dies at 75
1986 - Joseph P Addabbo, US defence specialist/(Sen-D), dies at 61
1986 - Linda Creed, American songwriter (b. 1948)
1988 - Cliff Gladwin, cricketer (8 Tests for England 1947-49), dies
1989 - Joan Barry, dies at 85
1991 - Kevin Peter Hall, actor (Harry & Hendersons), dies of AIDS at 35
1991 - Natalie Schafer, actress (Gilligan's Island), dies at 90 from cancer
1992 - Ken Ward, dies at 37
1992 - Sam Kinison, loud mouth comedian, dies in a car crash at 38
1993 - Chris Hani, sec-gen South Africian Communist Party, assassinated at 50
1994 - James L Lyons, jazz promoter, dies at 77
1994 - Victor Afanasiev, Rus editor-in-chief of Pravda (1976-89), dies at 71
1994 - Sam B. Hall, American politician (b. 1924)
1995 - Chen Yun, VPM of China (1949-75, 79-80), dies
1995 - Glyn Jones, writer, dies at 90
1995 - Gunter Guillaume, German politican, dies
1995 - Joseph Anthony "Joe" Richards, singer/actor (Colo Ranger), dies at 44
1995 - Morarji Desai, PM of India (1977-79), dies
1996 - Jessica Dubroff, attempting to be youngest pilot, dies in crash at 7
1999 - Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat, German-born biochemist (b. 1910)
1999 - Jean Vander Pyl, American voice actress (b. 1919)
2000 - Peter Jones, English actor (b. 1920)
2000 - Larry Linville, American actor (b. 1939)
2000 - Kirsten Rolffes, Danish actress (b. 1928)
2003 - Little Eva, American singer (b. 1943)
2005 - Norbert Brainin, Austrian violinist (b. 1923)
2005 - Iakovos, Archbishop of America (b. 1911)
2005 - Al Lucas, American football player (b. 1978)
2007 - Dakota Staton, American singer (b. 1930)
2009 - Deborah Digges, American poet (b. 1950)
2010 - Passengers in the 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash, includ
2010 - Dixie Carter, an American actress (b.1939)
2011 - Mikhail Rusyayev, Russian footballer (b. 1964)
2011 - Homer Smith, American football coach (b. 1931)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 11, 2013, 10:32:45 AM

This Day in History for 11th April


Historical Events

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Playwright George Bernard Shaw               Baseball Great Babe Ruth                 33rd US President Harry Truman

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Premier of the People's                             Golfer Jack Nicklaus                       33rd US Playwright Tom Stoppard
Republic of China Zhou Enlai

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US President & Actor                               Actress Meryl Streep                      Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Ronald Reagan


491 - Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine Emperor, with the name of Anastasius I.
672 - Deusdedit III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1079 - Bishop Stanislaus of Krakow is executed by order of Bolesław II of Poland.
1471 - King Edward IV of England conquers London from Henry VI
1512 - Battle at Ravenna: France under Gaston de Foix beat Spanish Army
1551 - English premier John Dudley appointed duke of Northumberland
1564 - England & France sign Peace of Troyes
1564 - Liege prince-bishop Robert van Bergen resigns
1567 - Dutch prince William of Orange flees from Antwerp to Breda
1579 - Venlo joins Union of Utrecht
1580 - Drenthe joins Union of Utrecht
1677 - Battle at Montcassel, French troops beat Prince William III
1689 - William III & Mary II crowned as joint rulers of Britain
1713 - Peace of Utrecht; France cedes Maritime provinces to Britain - English, Prussian, Savoois,
           Portuguese & French peace treaty
1775 - The last execution for witchcraft in Germany takes place.
1801 - Johann von Schiller's "Die Jungfrau von Orleans," premieres in Leipzig
1814 - 1st abdication of France by Napoleon; he is exiled to Elba
1828 - Foundation of Bahia Blanca.
1830 - Robert Schumann attends piano concerto by Paganini
1848 - Hungary becomes constitutional monarchy under king Ferdinand of Aust
1856 - Battle of Rivas; Costa Rica beats Wm Walker's invading Nicaraguans
1862 - Rebels surrender Ft Pulaski, Georgia-Rebels surrender
1863 - Battle of Suffolk, VA (Norfleet House)
1865 - Battle of Mobile, AL - evacuated by Confederates
1865 - Lincoln urges a spirit of generous conciliation during reconstruction
1868 - The Shogunate is abolished in Japan.
1876 - Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks organizes
1876 - Sir Charles Gordon ends religious tolerance in Sudan
1881 - River ferry "Princess Victoria" sinks in Thames River Ont, 180 die
1881 - Spelman College founded
1888 - The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam is inaugurated.
1890 - Ellis Island designated as an immigration station
1891 - 8 year old Jewish tailor's daughter disappears in Greece, rumor spreads that she was a
           Christian girl ritually killed by Jews
1895 - Anaheim completes it's new electric light system
1898 - President McKinley asks for Spanish-American War declaration
1899 - Treaty of Paris ratifies ends war; Spain cedes Puerto Rico to US
1900 - US Navy's 1st submarine made its debut
1902 - Battle at Rooiwal, South-Africa
1906 - Einstein introduces his Theory of Relativity
1907 - NY Giant Roger Bresnahan becomes 1st catcher to wear shin guards
1912 - Cornerstone of Technion in Haifa Palestine laid
1914 - George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion," premieres
1917 - Babe Ruth beats NY Yanks, pitching 3-hit 10-3 win for Red Sox
1919 - The International Labour Organization is founded.
1921 - Iowa imposed 1st state cigarette tax
1921 - KDKA broadcast 1st radio sporting event, a boxing match (Ray-Dundee)
1921 - Turkestan ASSR forms in Russian SFSR
1921 - First sports broadcast on the radio takes place.
1921 - The Emirate of Transjordan is created.
1924 - 1st men's college swimming championships begin
1924 - Socialists win Denmark's parliamentary elections
1924 - WLS-AM in Chicago IL begins radio transmissions
1925 - Abd el-Krims Rifkabylen beats French army in Morocco
1926 - Flemish Economic Covenant (VEV) forms in Ghent
1927 - Chilean gen Carlos Ibáñez names himself president
1929 - KLO-AM in Ogden UT begins radio transmissions
1929 - Loetafoon celluloid film system demonstrated in Amsterdam
1933 - Hermann Goering becomes premier of Prussia
1936 - Rodgers & Hart's musical "On Your Toes," premieres in NYC
1936 - Stanley Cup: Detroit Red Wings beat Toronto Maple Leafs, 3 games to 1
1939 - Hungary leaves League of Nations
1941 - Germany blitzes Conventry, England
1941 - Jewish Weekly newspaper taken control by Nazis
1941 - Nazi occupiers in Neth confiscate Jewish assets
1942 - Distinguished Service Medal for Merchant Marines authorized
1943 - Frank Piasecki, Vertol founder, flies his 1st (single-rotor) craft
1944 - RAF bombs census bureau in The Hague
1945 - Allied troops liberate Basket-Compascuum
1945 - SS burns & shoots 1,100 at Gardelegen
1945 - US captures Tsugen Shima
1945 - US soldiers liberate Nazi concentration camp "Buchenwald"
1945 - US troops conquers Mulheim, Oberhausen, Bochum, Unna, Essen
1947 - Jackie Robinson becomes 1st black in modern major-league baseball
1948 - 12th Golf Masters Championship: Claude Harmon wins, shooting a 279
1950 - Prince Rainier III becomes ruler of Monaco
1950 - US B-29 bomber shot down above Latvia
1951 - Pres Harry Truman fires Gen Douglas McArthur
1952 - The Battle of Nanri island takes place.
1953 - Oveta Culp Hobby becomes 1st at Health, Education, & Welfare
1954 - Marlene Bauer wins LPGA New Orleans Golf Open
1955 - Sobers starts run of 85 Test Cricket appearances for WI uninterrupted
1955 - The Air India Kashmir Princess is bombed and crashes in a failed assassination attempt on
           Zhou Enlai by the Kuomintang.
1956 - French government decides to sends 200,000 reservists to Algeria
1956 - Singer Nat Cole attacked on stage of Birmingham theater by whites
1957 - Pablo Neruda arrested in Buenos Aires
1957 - Ryan X-13 Vertijet becomes 1st jet to take-off & land vertically
1957 - Britain agrees to Singaporean self-rule.
1958 - Brooks Hall in Civic Center dedicated (SF)
1959 - "Jamaica" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 558 performances
1959 - Dodger pitcher Don Drysdale hits his 2nd Opening Day HR
1959 - Dutch prince Bernhard visits Lockheed factory
1961 - Trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem
1961 - Bob Dylan makes his 1st appearance at Folk City, Greenwich Village
1961 - 15th NBA Championship: Bos Celtics beat St Louis Hawks, 4 games to 1
1961 - Adolf Eichmann trial begins in Israel
1961 - Austrian 4th & last government of Raab resigns
1961 - Israel begins Adolf Eichmann WW II crimes trial
1962 - New York Mets make a losing debut
1963 - John XXIII encyclical On peace in truth, justice, charity & liberty
1963 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 - Warren Spahn beats Mets 6-1 for his 328th win (most by a lefty)
1964 - "Anyone Can Whistle" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 9 perfs
1965 - 29th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 271
1965 - 40 tornadoes strike US midwest killing 272 & injuring 5,000
1966 - 30th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 288
1966 - Emmett Ashford becomes 1st black major league umpire
1967 - "Illya Darling" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 320 perfs
1967 - Harlem (NYC) voters defy Congress & reelect Adam Clayton Powell Jr
1967 - Tom Stoppard's "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead," premieres
1968 - Polish Marshal Spychalski succeeds Ochab as president
1968 - Pres Johnson signs 1968 Civil Rights Act
1968 - W Berlin student Rudi Dutschke seriously wounded at demonstration
1968 - WHED TV channel 15 in Hanover, NH (PBS) begins broadcasting
1970 - Apollo 13 launched to Moon; unable to land, returns in 6 days
1970 - Beatles' "Let It Be," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks
1970 - SF beats Cincinnati 2-1, only day Reds aren't in 1st place in 1970
1971 - "Johnny Johnson" opens/closes at Edison Theater NYC for 1 performance
1971 - 35th Golf Masters Championship: Charles Coody wins, shooting a 279
1971 - WBFF TV channel 45 in Baltimore, MD (IND) begins broadcasting
1972 - Benjamin L Hooks, named to FCC
1972 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1974 - WW II war criminal JP Philippa arrested
1975 - Hank Aaron returns as a Milwaukee player (Brewer)
1975 - JP Parise 11 sec OT goal-Isles 1st playoff advance eliminates Rangers
1976 - 40th Golf Masters Championship: Ray Floyd wins, shooting a 271
1976 - The Apple I is created.
1977 - Ireland sets fishing zone at 50 mile
1979 - Ugandan dictator Idi Amin overthrown; Tanzania takes Kampala
1980 - Equal Employment Opportunity Commission regulates sexual harassment
1980 - Paul McCartney releases "Coming Up"
1981 - Larry Holmes beats Trevor Holmes in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1981 - Race riot in London area of Brixton
1981 - Ronald Reagan arrives home from hospital after Hinkley shot him
1982 - 46th Golf Masters Championship: Craig Stadler wins, shooting a 284
1982 - Penguins 5-Isles 2-Preliminary-Series tied at 2-2
1983 - 3rd Golden Raspberry Awards: Inchon! wins
1983 - 47th Golf Masters Championship: Seve Ballesteros wins, shooting a 280
1983 - 55th Academy Awards - "Gandhi," Ben Kingsley & Meryl Streep win
1983 - NASA launches RCA-F
1984 - Challenger astronauts complete 1st in space satellite repair
1984 - Chinese troops invade Vietnam
1984 - Gen Sec Konstantin U Chernenko named pres of Soviet Union
1984 - Soyuz T-11 returns to Earth
1984 - USSR party leader Chernenko elected president
1985 - Caps 2-Isles 1 (OT)-Patrick Div Semifinals- Caps hold 2-0 lead
1986 - A Canadain 1921 50 cent piece auctioned in NYC for $22,000
1986 - Dodge Morgan sailed solo nonstop around world in 150 days
1986 - Halley's Comet makes closest approach to Earth this trip, 63 M km
1986 - KXA-AM in Seattle WA changes call letters to KRPM
1987 - Yankees score 12 runs in 7th inning vs KC Royals
1987 - Zoja Ivanova wins 2nd female World Cup marathon (2:30:39)
1988 - Royal Concert building in Amsterdam reopens
1989 - 1st playoff goal scored by a goalie, Ron Hextall of Phila
1989 - Flyers, scores short-handed into an empty net beating Caps 8-5
1990 - Angels Mark Langston & Mike Witt, no-hit Seattle, 1-0
1990 - NY Lotto pays $35 million to two winner (#s are 6-14-24-32-34-51)
1990 - NY Rangers beat NY Islanders 6-1, Rangers lead 3-1 in preliminary
1990 - Customs officers in Middlesbrough, United Kingdom, say they have seized what they believe
           to be the barrel of a massive gun on a ship bound for Iraq.
1991 - "Miss Saigon," opens at Broadway Theater NYC
1991 - NYC's Museum of Broadcasting becomes "Museum of Radio & Television"
1991 - Space Shuttle STS 37 (Atlantis 8 ) lands
1991 - UN Security Council issues formal cease fire with Iraq declaration
1992 - BPAA US Open by Robert Lawrence
1992 - Euro-Disney opens near Paris
1992 - Indians set team record for long game loss to Red Sox (19 inn - 6½ hr)
1992 - Irish Republican Army bombs London financial district, killing 3
1993 - 57th Golf Masters Championship: Bernhard Langer wins, shooting a 277
1993 - Jeff Rouse swims world record 100m backstroke (51.43 sec)
1993 - Kirsan Ilumzjinov installed as president of Kalmukkie
1993 - 450 prisoners rioted at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, and
           continued to do so for ten days, citing grievances related to prison conditions, as well as the
           forced vaccination of Nation of Islam prisoners (for tuberculosis) against their religious beliefs.
           It was Easter Sunday.
1996 - "King & I," premieres at Neil Simon Theater in NYC for 781 perform
1996 - Detroit Red Wings become 2nd NHL team to win 60 games in a season
2000 - AT&T Park in San Francisco, Minute Maid Park in Houston, and Comerica Park in Detroit open.
2001 - The detained crew of a United States EP-3E aircraft that landed in Hainan, People's Republic of
           China after a collision with an J-8 fighter is released.
2002 - The Ghriba synagogue bombing by Al Qaeda kills 21 in Tunisia.
2002 - An attempted coup d'état in Venezuela against President Hugo Chávez takes place.
2006 - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces that Iran has successfully enriched
           uranium.
2007 - 2007 Algiers bombings: Two bombings in the Algerian capital of Algiers, kills 33 people and
           wounds a further 222 others.
2011 - Minsk Metro bombing
2012 - 8.6 magnitude earth quack and 8.2 aftershock occurs off the coast of Indonesia
2012 - 2011 London riot looter is jailed for 11 years after starting a fire at a furniture retailer
2012 - South Korean legislative elections result in the governing Saenuri Party retaining governance
2012 - Prime Minister of Greece, Lucas Papademos, resigns and calls an election for May 6

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Post by: MysteRy on April 11, 2013, 10:34:04 AM

This Day in History for 11th April


Famous Weddings

1969 - South African president Frederik de Klerk marries Marike Willemse
1981 - Valerie Bertinelli marries Eddie Van Halen
1992 - Country singer Lee Greenwood weds Miss Tennessee 1989 (Kimberly Payne)
2009 - Tennis player champion Roger Federer (27) weds former WTA tennis player Miroslava Vavrinec
           (31) in Basel, Switzerland

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 11, 2013, 10:35:27 AM

This Day in History for 11th April


Famous Divorces

2007 - "Dynasty" actress Heather Locklear (45) divorces rock-star Richie Sambora (47) due to
            irreconcilable differences after 11 years of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 11, 2013, 10:41:39 AM

This Day in History for 11th April


Famous Birthdays

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Bobby Kennedy's Wife                             Musician Oliver Riedel (1971)                Singer Joss Stone (1987)
Ethel Kennedy (1925) 


146 - Septimius Severus (d. 211)
1370 - Frederick I the Warlike, elector of Saxony
1374 - Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March (d. 1398)
1492 - Marguerite of Navarre, wife of Henry II of Navarre (d. 1549)
1586 - Pietro Della Valle, composer
1602 - Johann Neukrantz, composer
1638 - Diogo Diaz Melgaz, composer
1661 - Antoine Coypel, French painter/poet
1681 - Anne Danican Philidor, composer
1682 - Jean-Joseph Mouret, composer
1715 - John Alcock, composer
1721 - David Zeisberger, Moravian missionary (d. 1808)
1722 - Christopher Smart, English poet & journalist (Ceremony of Carols)
1735 - Pierre Nicolas La Houssaye, composer
1755 - James Parkinson, English physician (d. 1824)
1769 - Johann Georg Lickl, composer
1770 - George Canning, (C) British PM (1827)
1772 - Manuel Jose Quintana, Spanish author/poet (El Duque de Viseo)
1775 - Charles-Francois Dumonchau, composer
1779 - Louise Reichardt, composer
1793 - Nicolaas C Kist, Dutch church historian/archivist
1794 - Edward Everett, Dorchester Mass, (Gov-Mass), statesman/orator
1798 - Macedonio Melloni, Italian physicist (d. 1854)
1801 - Claude Tillier, French journalist/writer (My Uncle Benjamin)
1810 - Henry Rawlinson, English scholar (d. 1895)
1815 - Klara Fey, German orchestra leader (Deutscher Arbeiterverein)
1825 - Ferdinand Lassalle, French politician/founder (Allgemeiner)
1837 - Ephraim Elmer Ellsworth, Col (Union Army), died in 1861
1838 - Joseph Leopold Rockel, composer
1840 - John Conrad Nordqvist, composer
1852 - Cap Anson, American baseball player (d. 1922)
1854 - Hugh Massie, cricketer (Australian batsman of the 1880's)
1856 - Arthur Shrewsbury, cricketer (dominant England bat late 19th cent)
1856 - Constantly Lievens, Flemish missionary in India
1859 - Basil Harwood, composer
1862 - Charles Evans Hughs, 11th Chief Justice of Supreme Court (1930-41)
1862 - William W Campbell, US astronomer/director Lick Observatory
1866 - Carla Ford, Henry's wife
1866 - Bernard O'Dowd, Australian poet (d. 1953)
1867 - John P Lotsy, Dutch botanist/geneticist (Genetics)
1867 - Mark Keppel, Superintendent of Schools of Los Angeles County (d. 1928)
1869 - Kasturba Gandhi, Wife of Mohandas Gandhi (d. 1944)
1869 - Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (d. 1943)
1873 - Edward Lawson, Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross (d. 1955)
1876 - Paul Henry, Northern Irish artist (d. 1958)
1879 - Leendert Round, Dutch sculptor (entrance Rotterdam Zoo)
1881 - Harvey Bartlett Gaul, composer
1883 - Leonard Mudie, England, actor (Magnetic Monster, British Intelligence)
1888 - Donald Calthrop, London, actor (Blackmail, Scrooge, Rome Express)
1889 - Nick LaRocca, US jazz coronetist/composer (Tiger Rag) (d. 1961)
1890 - Donna Rachele Mussolini, wife of Benito Mussolini (d. 1979)
1893 - Dean G Acheson, statesman/US Secretary of State (1949-53)
1893 - Johannes T Thijsse, Dutch founder (Waterloopkundig lab Delft)
1896 - Léo-Paul Desrosiers, Quebec novelist (d. 1967)
1897 - Caspar Neher, German set designer/librettist
1898 - Lou Holtz, comedian/actor (Follow the Leader)
1899 - Percy L Julian, chemist (drugs for treatment of arthritis)
1900 - Sandor Marai, Hungarian writer (d. 1989)
1901 - Adriano Olivetti, Italian engineer/manufacturer (typewriter)
1901 - Glenway Wescott, US writer (Apartment in Athens)
1901 - Theodor Rogalski, composer
1902 - Quentin Reynolds, NYC, newscaster (Its News to Me)/author (FBI)
1904 - Arthur Ernest Mourant, haematologist
1904 - Paul McGrath, Chicago IL, actor (Witness, No Time for Love)
1905 - József Attila, Hungarian poet (d. 1937)
1906 - Dale Messick, American cartoonist (d. 2005)
1907 - Paul Douglas, Phila Pa, actor (Adventure Theater, Clash by Night)
1907 - William Henry Swinburne, music teacher
1907 - Ivor Spencer-Thomas, English farmer, entrepreneur and inventor (d. 2001)
1908 - Karel Ancerl, Czech conductor (Prague/Toronto)
1908 - Leo Rosten, writer/humourist
1908 - Masura Ibuka, industrialist
1910 - Anna Magnani, Ital's actress (Awakening, Roma)
1910 - Antonio Sebastiao Ribiero de Spinola, general/president Portugal
1910 - Henry William Collins, artist
1911 - Stella Walsh-Stanislawa-Walasiewicz, Poland, sprinter (Oly-gold-32)
1912 - John Larkin, Oakland California, actor (Saints & Sinners, 12 O'Clock High)
1913 - Oleg Cassini, Paris France, fashion designer (Jackie Kennedy)
1914 - Norman McLaren, Canadian film animator and director (d. 1987)
1915 - (Hanlon) Pat Clarke, cyclist
1916 - Alberto E Ginastera, Buenos Aires Argentina, composer (Panambi)
1916 - Dan Fortmann, NFL guard (Chicago Bears)
1916 - Howard Koch, producer/director (Frankenstein, Airplane II)
1917 - Danny Gallivan, Canadian radio and television sportscaster (d. 1993)
1917 - David Westheimer, American novelist (d. 2005)
1918 - Jean-Claude Servan-Schreiber, journalist
1918 - Richard Wainwright, MP
1918 - William Perrie, British prison governor
1919 - Hugh Carey, (Gov-D-NY)
1919 - Raymond Carr, Warden (St Antony's College Oxford)
1920 - Marlen Haushofer, writer
1921 - Jeff Stollmeyer, cricketer (WI batsman pre/post-war)
1921 - Virginia O'Brien, LA California, actress (Francis in the Navy)
1921 - Viscount Buckmaster
1921 - Jim Hearn, American baseball player (d. 1998)
1922 - Alexander Raichev, composer
1922 - Antoine Blondin, writer
1925 - Ethel Kennedy, wife of Bobby
1925 - Johan van Zonderen, painter
1925 - Oscar De Ville, CEO (Meyer International)
1925 - Rik Kuijpers, Belgian director (Sea gulls die in the harbor)
1925 - Pierre Péladeau, Canadian businessman and newspaper editor (Quebecor) (d. 1997)
1926 - Gervase de Peyer, clarinettist
1926 - Robert Hall Lewis, composer
1926 - Victor Bouchard, Quebec pianist and composer
1927 - Domenico Guaccero, composer
1929 - Lawrence Coughlin, (Rep-R-PA, 1969- )
1930 - Carl Franklin, Richmond California, actor (Fantastic Journey)
1930 - Clive Exton, scriptwriter & playwright
1930 - James Alan Ferman, secretary (British Board of Film Classification)
1930 - Joseph Burnett-Stuart, CEO (Robert Fleming Holdings)
1930 - Kazuo Fukushima, composer
1930 - Nicholas F Brady, US Secretary of Treasury (1988-93)
1930 - W G [Bill] Hefner, (Rep-D-NC, 1975- )
1930 - Anton LaVey, American founder of the Church of Satan (d. 1997)
1931 - Johnny Sheffield, Pasadena California, actor (Boy-Tarzan Finds a Son)
1931 - Koichi Sugiyama, Japanese composer
1932 - F Gregory Neubeck, USAF pilot
1932 - Joel Grey, [Joe Katz], actor (Cabaret, Remo Williams, 7% Solution)
1932 - Max Schubel, composer
1933 - Tony Brown, Charleston WV, newsman (Tony Brown's Journal)
1934 - Dame Anne Poole, chief nursing officer (Dept of Health)
1934 - Mark Strand, American poet/editor/translator (Another Republic)
1934 - Richard A Garland, artist/photographer
1935 - Pierre Kartner, [Father Abraham], Dutch singer (Smurf Song)
1935 - Richard Berry, musician
1935 - Richard Kuklinski, American mafia hitman (d. 2006)
1936 - Janet Allen, Headmistress (Benenden School)
1938 - Michael Deaver, politician/influence peddler (S&L scandal)
1938 - Kurt Moll, German bass
1939 - Louise Lasser, NYC, actress (Mary Hartman! Mary Hartman!)
1941 - David Lyle Boren, (Sen-D-OK, 1979- )
1941 - Frederick "Rick" Hauck, Long Beach Ca, astr (STS-7, STS 51-A, STS-26)
1941 - Ellen Goodman, American political columnist
1942 - Anatoly Nikolayevich Berezovoi, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-5)
1943 - E J Dommering, Dutch lawyer
1943 - Earl of Sandwich
1943 - Elmer R Wilsoe, Island mayor (Curacao)
1944 - John Milius, writer (Red Dawn, 1941, Big Wednesday)
1944 - R J B Knight, deputy director (National Maritime Museum)
1947 - Michael Hindley, British MEP
1947 - Michael Wright, Vice-Chancello, (Aston University)
1947 - Peter Riegert, NYC, actor (Animal House, Crossing Delancey)
1947 - Uli Edel, Neuenburg am Rhein, South Baden, German film director
1947 - Meshach Taylor, American actor
1947 - Lev Bulat, Russian physicist
1948 - Ellen Goodman, syndicated columnist (or 1941)
1948 - Marcello Lippi, Italian football coach
1949 - Bernd Eichinger, German film producer
1949 - Carl Franklin, American actor
1950 - Bill Irwin, Santa Monica, actor (My Blue Heaven, Scenes From a Mall)
1951 - Robbie House, rocker (Snuff)
1951 - Doris McGowen Beck Angleton, American socialite (d. 1997)
1951 - Paul Fox, English guitarist (The Ruts) (d. 2007)
1951 - James Patrick Kelly, American author
1952 - Michael Daly, Toronto, Canadian Tour golfer (1991 BC Winter Tour)
1952 - Peter Windsor, English motor racing journalist and reporter
1953 - Andrew Wiles, British mathematician
1953 - Guy Verhofstadt, Prime Minister of Belgium
1955 - Michele Scarabelli, actress (Jo Santini-Airwolf, Alienation, Dallas)
1955 - Piers J Sellers, Sussex England, PhD/astronaut
1955 - Kevin Brady, American politician
1957 - Everton Mattis, cricketer (WI batsman early 80's)
1957 - John Castellanos, San Diego California, actor (John Silva-Young & Restless)
1958 - Sally Clark, Feilding NZ, equestrian 3 day event (Olympics-silver-96)
1958 - Stuart Adamson, rock vocalist/guitarist (Big Country-Wonderland)
1958 - William Stuart Adamson, Manchester, rock guitarist (Big Country)
1958 - Brynn Hartman, American murderer (d. 1998)
1960 - Jeremy Clarkson, British journalist
1961 - Lucky Vanous, Lincoln Nebraska, model (GQ, Diet Coke)
1961 - Doug Hopkins, American musician
1962 - Andre Wasiman, soccer player (FC Volendam)
1962 - Terry Hoage, NFL wide receiver (Arizona Cardinals)
1962 - Vincent Gallo, American actor
1963 - Eddy Moya, El Paso Tx, actor
1963 - Elizabeth Smylie, Perth Australia, tennis star (1987 Oklahoma City)
1963 - Chris Ferguson, American poker player
1963 - Billy Bowden, New Zealand umpire
1964 - Steve Azar, American singer-songwriter
1964 - Bret Saberhagen, American baseball player
1964 - Johann Sebastian Paetsch, American cellist
1966 - Dave Richards, NFL guard (Atlanta Falcons)
1966 - Kara McGaw, Toronto Ontario, softball rightfielder (Olympics-96)
1966 - Lisa Stansfield, English pop singer (Around the World)
1966 - Mark Higgs, NFL running back (Arizona Cardinals)
1966 - Steve Scarsone, Anaheim CA, infielder (SF Giants)
1966 - Mason Reese, American actor
1966 - Dustin Patrick Runnels, American professional wrestler
1967 - Lachlan Dreher, Australian field hockey goal keeper (Oly-silv-92, 96)
1967 - Mark Seay, NFL wide receiver (San Diego Chargers, Philadelphia Eagles)
1967 - Stefan Johnstown, Norwegian speed walker (world record 20 km)
1967 - Wendel sorryow, Marquette Mich, luger (Olympics-1994)
1968 - Eric Moten, NFL guard/tackle (San Diego Chargers)
1968 - Sergey Lukyanenko, Russian author
1969 - Gavin Briant, cricketer (Zimbabwe Test batsman 1993)
1969 - J Nick Adamson, Freeport Bahamas, US laser yachter (Olymp-21st-1996)
1969 - Janeth Arcain, WNBA forward (Houston Comets)
1969 - Jesse Campbell, NFL safety (NY Giants, Washington Redskins)
1969 - Cerys Matthews, Welsh singer
1969 - Chisato Moritaka, Japanese singer
1970 - Delroy Pearson, rock vocalist (Five Star-Between the Lines)
1970 - Joe Vitiello, Cambridge MA, infielder (KC Royals)
1970 - Sean Bergman, Joliet IL, pitcher (San Diego Padres)
1970 - Trevor Linden, Medicine Hat, NHL right wing (Canucks, NY Islanders)
1970 - Johnny Messner, American actor
1971 - Oliver Riedel, German musician (Rammstein)
1971 - Vicellous Reon Shannon, American actor
1972 - Avo Avetisyan, WLAF defensive linesman (Amsterdam Admirals)
1972 - Dietrich Jells, wide receiver (New England Patriots)
1972 - Kunihiko Sakurai, hockey forward (Team Japan 1998)
1972 - Nicole Levesque, WNBA guard (Charlotte Sting)
1972 - Ted Johnson, linebacker (New England Patriots)
1972 - Balls Mahoney, American professional wrestler
1973 - Blake Brockermeyer, NFL tackle (GB Packers, Carolina Panthers)
1973 - Monica Chala, Miss Universe-Ecuador (1996)
1973 - Reggie Tongue, NFL safety (KC Chiefs)
1973 - Jennifer Esposito, American television actor
1974 - Alex Corretja, Barcelona Spain, tennis star (1990 Orange Bowl boys 16)
1974 - Sascha van Wissen, Dutch soccer player (MVV)
1974 - Ashot Danielyan, Armenian weightlifter
1974 - Anton Glanzelius, Danish actor
1974 - Tricia Helfer, Canadian model and actor
1974 - Zöe Lucker, British television actor
1974 - Trot Nixon, American baseball player
1975 - Terry Cousin, NFL cornerback (Chicago Bears)
1975 - Walid Soliman, Tunisian author
1978 - Victor Sikora, soccer player (Go Ahead Eagles)
1978 - Brett Claywell, American actor
1978 - Josh Hancock, American baseball player (d. 2007)
1978 - Tom Thacker, Canadian musician
1979 - Malcolm Christie, English footballer
1979 - Nazanin Afshin-Jam, Miss World Canada 2003, Singer/Songwriter, Human Rights Activist
1979 - Chris Gaylor, American drummer
1979 - Michel Riesen, Swiss ice hockey player
1979 - Josh Server, American actor
1979 - Sebastien Grainger, Canadian musician
1980 - Keiji Tamada, Japanese footballer
1980 - Mark Teixeira, American baseball player
1981 - Alessandra Ambrosio, Brazilian model
1981 - Alexandre Burrows, Canadian ice hockey player
1982 - Ian Bell, English cricketer
1983 - Nicky Pastorelli, Dutch racing driver
1984 - Kelli Garner, American actress
1985 - Will Minson, Australian rules footballer
1987 - Joss Stone, English singer
1994 - Dakota Blue Richards, English actress
2002 - Alexa Gerasimovich, American actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 11, 2013, 10:44:23 AM

This Day in History for 11th April


Famous Deaths

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Horticulturist Luther Burbank (1926)


678 - Donus, Italian Pope (676-78), dies
1034 - Romanus III Argyrus, Byzantine emperor (1028-34), assasinated by wife
1240 - Llywelyn ab Iorwerth the Great, monarch of Wales (1194-1240), dies
1500 - Michael T Marullus, Greeks poet, drowns
1512 - Gaston de Foix, French pretender to Navarra throne, dies in battle
1554 - Thomas Wyatt the younger, English rebel (b. 1521)
1612 - Edward Wightman, English Baptist preacher (b. 1566)
1626 - Marin Getaldić, Croatian mathematician (b. 1568)
1648 - Matthaus Apelles von Lowenstern, composer, dies at 53
1712 - Richard Simon, French Biblical critic (b. 1638)
1723 - John Robinson, English diplomat (b. 1650)
1729 - Manuel de Egues, composer, dies at 71
1783 - Nikita I Panin, Russian earl/ambassador in Denmark, dies at 64
1798 - Karl Wilhelm Ramler, German poet (b. 1725)
1810 - Jakob Zupan, composer, dies at 75
1812 - Gottlieb Schick, German painter (Opfer Noachs), dies at 35
1838 - Pieter L Uys, South African pioneer (Great Pull), murdered at 40
1839 - John Galt, Scottish writer (Last of the Lairds), dies at 59
1842 - John England, bishop of Charleston Carolina, dies
1853 - Louis Emmanuel Eadin, composer, dies
1854 - Karl Adolph von Basedow, German DR (Ziekte van Basedow), dies at 55
1856 - Juan Santamaría, national hero of Costa Rica (b. 1831)
1861 - Francisco González Bocanegra, Mexican poet (b. 1824)
1873 - Edward Canby, U.S. general (b. 1817)
1875 - Heinrich Schwabe, discoverer (11-year sunspot cycle), dies
1881 - Kristian Mandrup Elster, Norwegian author (Torn Trondal), dies at 40
1887 - Pyotr Petrovich Sokal'sky, composer, dies at 54
1890 - Joseph Merrick, "The Elephant Man" (b. 1862)
1894 - Constantin Lipsius, German architect (b. 1832)
1901 - Ivar Christian Hallstrom, composer, dies at 74
1902 - ... Potgieter, South African Boer general, dies in battle
1903 - Gemma Galgani, Italian saint, dies at 25
1906 - Georgi Apollonovitch Gapon, Rus-orthodox clergyman/tsarist agent, dies
1906 - James A Bailey, circus showman (Barnum & Bailey), dies at 58
1906 - Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher (b. 1839)
1908 - Henry Bird, English Chess player and author (b. 1829)
1916 - Richard Harding Davis, journalist, dies at 52
1918 - Arthur Ochse, cricketer (WW I played for S Afr in 1889 aged 19), dies
1921 - Augusta Victoria, Queen of Prussia/wife of Emperor Wilhelm II, dies
1926 - Luther Burbank, American botanist (b. 1849)
1936 - Mitya Stillman, composer, dies at 44
1939 - SS Van Dine, [William Huntingdon Wright], detective writer, dies at 50
1945 - Kamiel van Baelen, Flemish resistance fighter (in Dachau), dies at 29
1947 - Louise Peete, American murderess (b. 1880)
1952 - Wadi' Sabra, composer, dies at 76
1953 - Kid Nichols, American baseball player (b. 1869)
1958 - Konstantin Yuon, Russian painter (b. 1875)
1961 - Francis de Bourguignon, composer, dies at 70
1967 - Donald Sangster, Jamaican prime-minister (b. 1911)
1969 - Ludvig Irgens Jensen, composer, dies at 74
1970 - Cathy O'Donnell, dies at 66
1970 - John H O'Hara, US journalist (Pal Joey, Rage to Live), dies at 65
1973 - Ted Decorsia, actor (Police Chief Hegedorn-Steve Canyon), dies at 69
1974 - Curt Conway, dies
1975 - Dorothy Patten, dies at 70
1976 - Liam Dunn, dies a 59
1977 - Jacques Prévert, French poet and screenwriter (b. 1900)
1980 - Charlotte Henry, dies
1980 - Florence Lake, dies
1981 - Marie Ney, dies at 85
1983 - Dolores Del Rio, actress (Cheyenne Autumn), dies at 78
1985 - Enver Hoxha, party leader/premier of Albania, dies at 76
1985 - Bunny Ahearne, British ice hockey promoter (b. 1900)
1987 - Erskine Caldwell, novelist (Tobacco Road), dies at 83
1987 - Kent Taylor, actor (Boston Blackie, Rough Riders), dies at 79
1987 - Primo Levi, Italy, chemist/writer (Survival in Auschwitz), dies at 67
1988 - Jeff Donnell, actor (Hoedown, 9 Girls), dies at 66 of a heart attack
1989 - Henk van Galen Last, Dutch journalist, dies at 68
1990 - Barbara Ann Miller, dies
1990 - Harold Ballard, Canadian ice hockey club owner and executive (b. 1903)
1990 - Xenophon Zolotas, Greek economist, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1904)
1991 - Tom Rosqui, dies at 62
1992 - Adele Dixon, singer/actress (Uneasy Virtue), dies of pneumonia at 83
1992 - Eve Merriam, poet (Inner City Mother Goose), dies of cancer at 75
1992 - James Brown, actor (Rip-Adv of Rin Tin Tin), dies at 72
1992 - Alejandro Obregón, Colombian painter (b. 1920)
1993 - Mohammed el-Himi, brigade-general of Egyptian police, murdered
1993 - Rachmon Nabiyev, President of Tadzjikistan (1973..92), dies at 63
1994 - Johan Block, Dutch aviation pioneer (Martinair/Transavia), dies at 64
1996 - Daniel Wolf, journalist, dies at 80
1996 - Edwin Clarke, historian/neurologist, dies at 76
1996 - Jessica Dubroff, hoped to be youngest to fly across US, crashed at 7
1996 - Louis Osman, artist/goldsmith/craftsman, dies at 82
1996 - Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet, advertising magnate, dies at 89
1997 - Michael Dorris, writer, commits suicide at 52
2000 - Diana Darvey, British actress, singer and dancer (b. 1945)
2001 - Sandy Bull, American musician (b. 1941)
2001 - Harry Secombe, Welsh actor and comedian (b. 1921)
2003 - Cecil Howard Green, British geophysicist and businessman (b. 1900)
2005 - André François, French cartoonist (b. 1915)
2005 - Lucien Laurent, French footballer (b. 1907)
2006 - June Pointer, American singer (Pointer Sisters) (b. 1953)
2006 - Proof, American rapper (D12) (b. 1973)
2007 - Roscoe Lee Browne, American actor (b. 1925)
2007 - Kurt Vonnegut, American author (b. 1922)
2007 - Ronald Speirs, American Army officer(CO of Easy Company) (b. 1920)
2007 - Janet McDonald, American novelist (b. 1954)
2008 - Merlin German, United States Marine
2009 - Corín Tellado, Spanish romance novelist (b. 1927)
2011 - La Esterella, Flemish singer (b. 1919)
2012 - Ahmed Ben Bella, First president of Algeria, dies at 93

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 12, 2013, 09:18:53 AM

This Day in History for 12th April


Historical Events

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Confederate General/KKK                            Outlaw Jesse James                          33rd US President Harry Truman
Grand Wizard
Nathan Bedford Forrest                                                                                                                                                                                         

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Musician Ray Charles                            WW2 General Douglas MacArthur                Musician Lenny Kravitz

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42nd US President Bill Clinton


467 - Anthemius is elevated to Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
1065 - Pilgrims under bishop Gunther of Bamberg reach Jerusalem
1111 - Pope Paschalis II crowns Henry V, Roman emperor
1204 - 4th Crusade occupies & plunders Constantinople
1229 - Queen Blanche of Castile & earl Raymond VII van Toulouse sign peace
1545 - French king Francois I orders protestants of Vaudois to be killed
1557 - Cuenca is founded in Ecuador.
1606 - England adopts Union Jack as its flag
1648 - University of Harderwijk Neth solemn opens
1654 - Ordinance of Union between England and Scotland passed by the Council of State
1709 - 1st edition of Tattler magazine in England
1713 - Dutch State-Gen signs peace with France: Neth loses Orange Princedom
1770 - Townsend Acts repealed
1776 - Halifax resolution for independence adopted by North Carolina
1782 - Battle at Les Saintes West-Indies: British fleet beats French
1787 - Philadelphia's Free African Society forms
1811 - 1st US colonists on Pacific coast arrive at Cape Disappointment, WA
1820 - Alexander Ypsilantis is declared leader of Filiki Eteria, a secret organization to overthrow
           Ottoman rule over Greece.
1826 - Weber's opera "Oberon," premieres in London
1844 - Texan envoys sign Treaty of Annexation with the United States
1857 - Gustave Flaubert's "Madame Bovary" published
1858 - 1st US billiards championship (Michael J Phelan wins in Detroit)
1859 - Hibernia Savings & Loan Society of SF incorporates
1861 - Fort Sumter, SC is shelled by Confederacy, starting Civil War
1862 - James Andrews steals Confederate train (General) at Kennesaw, GA
1862 - Union troops occupy Fort Pulaski Georgia
1863 - -14] Gunboat battle at Bayou Teche Louisiana
1864 - Battle of Blair's Landing LA
1864 - Confederate Gen Nathan Bedford Forrest captures Fort Pillow, Tn
1869 - North Carolina legislature passes anti-Klan Law
1872 - Jesse James gang robs bank in Columbia, Kentucky (1 dead/$1,500)
1877 - British annex Transvaal, in South Africa
1877 - Catcher's mask 1st used in a baseball game
1883 - French troops under lt-colonel Borgnis-Desbordes occupy Bamako Senegal
1887 - Henrik Ibsen's "Rosmersholm," premieres in Oslo
1892 - George C Blickensderfer patents portable typewriter
1893 - Battle at Hoornkrans Southwest-Africa: German Schutztruppen chases away Hottentotten
           under Hendrik Witbooi
1894 - British & Belgian secret accord on dividing Central-Africa
1896 - Stamasia Portrisi is 1st woman to win a marathon (5:30 in Athens)
1898 - Army transfers Yerba Buena Island in SF Bay to Navy
1905 - French Dufaux brothers test helicopter
1905 - Hippodrome arena opens (NYC)
1907 - Belgium government of De Stain de Naeyer, resigns
1908 - Fire makes 17,000 homeless in Chelsea Massachusetts
1909 - Philadelphia's Shibe Park (later Connie Mack Stadium) opens
1911 - 1st non-stop London-Paris flight (Pierre Prier in 3h56m)
1917 - Bijou Theater opens at 222 W 45th St NYC (Demolished 1982)
1917 - Domenico Scarlatti & Jeab Cocteaus ballet premieres in Rome
1919 - British Parliament passes a 48-hour work week with minimum wages
1926 - Dutch Catholic Radio Broadcast (KRO) forms
1927 - Gen Chiang Kai-shek begins counter revolution in Shanghai
1928 - Assassination attempt on king Victor Emmanuel II of Italy
1930 - 4th Test Cricket WI v England ends in a draw after nine days
1930 - Wilfred Rhodes ends Test Cricket career aged 52 years 165 days
1931 - Joe McCarthy debuts as NY Yankee manager
1931 - Spanish voters reject the monarchy
1932 - Emmanuel Chabriers & Balanchines ballet premieres in Monte Carlo
1933 - Moffatt Field commissioned
1934 - Highest velocity wind ever recorded on Mt Washington, NH, 231 mph
1934 - The US Auto-Lite Strike begins, culminating in a five-day melee between Ohio National Guard
           troops and 6,000 strikers and picketers.
1935 - "Your Hit Parade," debuts on radio
1935 - Germany prohibits publishing "not-Arian" writers
1935 - Royal Proclamation sets design of Canada's new Jubilee Silver Dollar
1935 - First flight of the Bristol Blenheim.
1937 - Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft at Rugby,
           England.
1938 - 1st US law requiring medical tests for marriage licenses (NY)
1938 - Stanley Cup: Chicago Blackhawks beat Toronto Maple Leafs, 3 games to 1
1938 - US began requiring medical tests for marriage licenses
1940 - Italy annexes Albania
1940 - NFL cuts clipping penalty from 25 yards to 15 yards
1941 - Stanley Cup: Boston Bruins sweep Detroit Red Wings in 4 games
1941 - Vichy-France's head of government Admiral Dalarn consults with Hitler
1942 - 9th Golf Masters Championship: Byron Nelson wins, shooting a 280
1942 - Japan kills about 400 Filipino officers in Bataan
1943 - Allies conquer Soussa, North-Africa
1943 - Dutch Catholic University Nijmegen closed
1944 - Lillian Hellman's "Searching Wind," premieres in NYC
1945 - Canadian troops liberate Nazi concentration camp Westerbork, Neth
1945 - Harry Truman sworn in as 33rd pres
1945 - Richard Strauss completes his "Metamorphosis"
1945 - US liberates Buchenwald concentration camp
1946 - Syria gains independence from France
1951 - Israeli Knesset officially designated April 13 as Holocaust Day
1952 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Houston Weathervane Golf Tournament
1952 - Salaheddine Baccouche forms Tunisian government
1953 - 17th Golf Masters Championship: Ben Hogan wins, shooting a 274
1953 - KFDX TV channel 3 in Wichita Falls, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 - Keizo Yamada runs fastest marathon to date, at Boston
1954 - 18th Golf Masters Championship: Sam Snead wins, shooting a 289
1954 - 8th NBA Championship: Min Lakers beat Syracuse Nationals, 4 games to 3
1954 - Belgian Van Houtte government resigns
1954 - Bill Haley & Comets records "Rock Around Clock"
1954 - Joe Turner releases "Shake, Rattle & Roll"
1955 - 1st game in KC, KC A's beat Detroit Tigers, 6-2
1955 - Salk polio vaccine safe & effective; 4 billion dimes marched
1956 - Bandaranaike government forms in Ceylon
1957 - Jim Spalding set a 2088 pin nine-game bowling record
1957 - USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
1958 - 12th NBA Championship: St Louis Hawks beat Bost Celtics, 4 games to 2
1958 - Flemish Open air museum opens in Bokrijk
1959 - 13th Tony Awards: J B & Redhead win
1959 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
1959 - France Observator reports torture practice by French army in Algeria
1960 - Bert Haanstra wins Oscar for "Glass"
1960 - Bill Veeck & Chicago Comiskey Park debuts "Exploding Scoreboard"
1961 - 3rd Grammy Awards: Theme From a Summer Place, Ray Charles wins 4
1961 - Douglas MacArthur declines offer to become baseball commissioner
1961 - Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin becomes 1st person to orbit Earth (Vostok 1)
1962 - San Mateo County withdraws from BART district (SF Bay area)
1963 - Beatles "From Me to You" is released in UK
1963 - Birmingham police use dogs & cattle prods on peaceful demonstrators
1964 - 28th Golf Masters Championship: Arnold Palmer wins, shooting a 276
1964 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Baton Rouge Ladies' Golf Open Invitational
1965 - 1st NL game at Houston's Astrodome (Phillies beat Astros 2-0)
1966 - 1st B-52 bombing on North Vietnam
1966 - Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium opens; Pirates beat Braves 3-2
1966 - Rocker Jan Berry crashes his corvette into a parked truck
1968 - Nerve gas accident at Skull Valley, Utah.
1969 - Simon & Garfunkel releases "Boxer"
1970 - Yankees dedicate plaques to Mickey Mantle & Joe DiMaggio
1973 - France recognizes North Vietnam
1973 - Sudan adopts constitution
1973 - Swaziland suspends constitution
1975 - Linda Ronstadt releases "When Will I Be Loved"
1976 - India set 403 to win by WI They get them, 6 wkts 7 overs spare
1979 - Soyuz 33 returns to Earth
1980 - BCMA, Black Consciousness Movement of Azania, forms
1980 - Milwaukee beats Boston Red Sox, 18-1 (Cooper & Money hit grand slams)
1980 - Samuel Doe takes control of Liberia in a coup d'etat, ending over 130 years of national
           democratic presidential succession.
1980 - Terry Fox begins his "Marathon of Hope" at St. John's, Newfoundland.
1981 - 45th Golf Masters Championship: Tom Watson wins, shooting a 280
1981 - Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA American Defender/WRAL Golf Classic
1981 - Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation
1981 - Maiden voyage Space Transit System-space shuttle Columbia launched
1982 - 3 CBS employees shot to death in NYC parking lot
1983 - Harold Washington elected Chicago's 1st black mayor
1983 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1985 - 16th Shuttle Mission (51D)-Discovery 4 launched-with Senator Jake Garn
1985 - US Olympic Committee endorses a boycott of Moscow games
1986 - 20,000 mine workers protest closing of Hasselt Belgium mines
1987 - 51st Golf Masters Championship: Larry Mize wins, shooting a 285
1987 - Ahmed Salah wins 2nd World Cup marathon (2:10:55)
1987 - Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Kyocera Inamori Golf Classic
1987 - Texaco files for bankruptcy
1988 - Devils 4-2 over Islanders-Devils lead 3-2 in 1st round
1988 - Frank Robinson replaces Cal Ripkin as manager of Balt Orioles
1988 - Harvard U patents genetically engineered mouse (1st for animal life)
1988 - Sonny Bono elected mayor of Palm Springs Calif
1989 - 3rd Soul Train Music Awards: Anita Baker
1989 - Peter Ueberroth deal to purchase Eastern Airlines falls through
1990 - Greyhound Bus hires new drivers to replace strikers
1990 - James Brown moves to a work-release center after serving 15 months
1990 - 1st meeting of East German democratically elected parliament, acknowledges responsibility for
           Nazi holocaust & asks for forgivenesss
1991 - 2,500th episode of Entertainment Tonight airs
1991 - Nepalese Congress party wins general elections
1991 - US announces closing of 31 major US military bases
1992 - "Streetcar Named Desire" opens at Ethel Barrymore NYC for 137 perfs
1992 - 2nd lowest NBA scoring game - Detroit Piston 72, NY Knicks 61
1992 - 53rd PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Lee Trevino
1992 - 56th Golf Masters Championship: Fred Couples wins, shooting a 275
1992 - Actress Lisa Bonet files for divorce from singer Lenny Kravitz
1992 - Earthquake rocks Germany
1992 - Euro Disney opens in Marne-la-Vallee France
1992 - Lynn Gunther of California threatens to blow herself up in front of UN
1992 - Matt Young no-hits Cleveland, but loses 2-1
1992 - NY Mets lose 1st 3 home games for 1st time since 1962
1992 - Trump Shuttle becomes US Air Shuttle
1994 - Canter & Siegel post the first commercial mass Usenet spam.
1998 - 62nd Golf Masters Championship:
1998 - An earthquake in Slovenia, measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale occurs near the town of Bovec.
1999 - US President Bill Clinton is cited for contempt of court for giving "intentionally false
           statements" in a sexual harassment civil lawsuit.
2002 - Pedro Carmona becomes interim President of Venezuela during the military coup against Hugo
           Chávez.
2002 - Palestinian suicide bomber (female) kills 7 and injures 104 (among them 9 Arabs) at the
           Mahane Yehuda Market in Jerusalem.
2009 - U.S. Navy rescues captain Richard Phillips, killing three pirates and capturing a fourth.
2009 - President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian National Authority makes a courtesy phone call
           to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, restarting the Palestinian-Israeli dialogue
2010 - A train derailed near Merano, Italy, after running into a landslide, causing nine deaths and
           injuring 28 people.
2012 - A ceasefire in the 2011-2012 Syrian uprising comes into effect
2012 - Bodleian, Oxford University and Vatican libraries announce over 1.5 million pages of ancient
           texts will be made available across the internet
2012 - Civilian rule in Mali is returned after Dioncounda Traore is sworn in as interim president

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 12, 2013, 09:20:13 AM

This Day in History for 12th April


Famous Weddings

1385 - Duke of Burgundy, John the Fearless, marries Margaret of Bavaria in political double wedding
           with his sister
1385 - Willem van Oostervant of Bavaria weds Philip the Bold's daughter Marguerite (10)
1583 - William of Orange marries Louise de Coligny
1918 - American Playwright Eugene O'Neill marries 2nd wife novelist Agnes Boulton
1996 - Actor and filmmaker Dennis Hopper (60) weds actress Victoria Duffy (29) at Boston's Old
           South Church
2003 - Prince Laurent of Belgium (39)marries Claire Coombs (29) in Belgium

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 12, 2013, 09:21:09 AM

This Day in History for 12th April


Famous Divorces

1992 - Actress Lisa Bonet files for divorce from singer Lenny Kravitz

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 12, 2013, 09:28:06 AM

This Day in History for 12th April


Famous Birthdays

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Comedian David Letterman (1947)        Actress Shannen Doherty (1971)                Actress Claire Danes (1979)


599 BC - Mahavira, the 24th Tirthankara of Jainism (d. 527 BC)
812 - Muhammad at-Taqi, Muslim Shia Imam (d. 835)
1484 - Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Italian architect (d. 1546)
1500 - Joachim Camerarius, [Liebhard Kammerer], German humanist
1526 - Muretus, French humanist (d. 1585)
1550 - Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, English politician (d. 1604)
1577 - Christian IV of Denmark (d. 1648)
1579 - Francois de Bassompierre, marshal of France
1626 - Paul Hainlein, composer
1692 - Giuseppe Tartini, composer, Istria
1695 - Caspar Burman, historian/mayor (Utrecht Neth)
1705 - William Cookworthy, English chemist (d. 1780)
1713 - Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer (d. 1796)
1716 - Felice de' Giardini, composer
1722 - Pietro Nardini, composer
1724 - Lyman Hall, US physician (signed Declaration of Independence)
1726 - Charles Burney, English music historian (d. 1814)
1727 - Gaspare Gabellone, composer
1748 - Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist (d. 1836)
1760 - Juan Manuel Olivares, composer
1764 - Dirk van den Boetzelaer, regent of Holland
1769 - Giovanni Agostino Perotti, composer
1777 - Henry Clay, [the Great Compromiser], US politician
1788 - Johann Erik Nordblom, composer
1791 - Francis Preston Blair, newspaper editor (Washington Globe)
1792 - John George Lambton, London, statesman (1st Earl of Durham)
1793 - Ferdinand I KLJM, the Good Natured, Emperor of Austria/king of Hungary
1794 - Germinal P Dandelin, Belgian mathematician (geometry)
1796 - George N. Briggs, 19th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1861)
1799 - Henri Druey, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1855)
1801 - Henry de Cock, Dutch reformed vicar/secession leader
1801 - Josef Franz Karl Lanner, Austria, composer/violist
1802 - Francois MP Liberman, French relig leader (Congregation of Heart)
1815 - Henry Hugo Pierson, composer
1823 - Aleksandr Ostrovsky, Russian playwright (Artists & Admirers)
1827 - Edward Mollenhauer, composer
1831 - Constantin Meunier, Belgian painter/sculptor
1831 - George Burgwyn Anderson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1831 - Grenville Mellen Dodge, Major General (Union volunteers)
1838 - John Shaw Billings, US, librarian/army physician
1839 - Victorin de Joncieres, composer
1840 - Edmond Audran, composer
1848 - José Gautier Benítez, Puerto Rican poet (d. 1880)
1851 - Emil Liebling, composer
1852 - [Carl L] Ferdinand von Lindemann, German mathematician
1856 - William M Conway, English historian/explorer (Spitzbergen)
1863 - Raul d'Avila Pompeia, Brazilian writer (Boarding School)
1868 - Akiyama Saneyuki, Japanese naval commander (d. 1918)
1869 - Henri-Desire Landru, French sex murderer
1871 - Ioannis Metaxas, Greek general/dictator (1936-41)
1878 - Richard B Goldschmidt, German/US zoologist
1879 - Frederick G Melcher, US, publisher/editor/founded children's book week
1883 - Imogen Cunningham, photographer (1965 ASMP award)
1883 - Dally Messenger, Australian rugby league footballer (d. 1959)
1884 - Otto Meyerhof, Germany, psychologist/biochemist (Nobel-1922)
1884 - Tenby Davies, Welsh world champion runner (d. 1932)
1887 - Harold Lockwood, American actor (d. 1918)
1888 - Heinrich Neuhaus, Soviet musician (d. 1964)
1892 - Johnny Dodds, early jazz clarinettist
1894 - Francisco H Craveiro Lopes, Portuguese general/president (1951-58)
1898 - Grantley H Adams, president of Barbados
1898 - Lily Pons, American soprano (d. 1976)
1901 - Lowell Stockman, American representative (d. 1962)
1902 - Louis J M Beel, premier of Netherland (1946-48, 58-59)
1903 - Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist/UN advisor (Nobel 1969)
1904 - Harald James Penrose, pilot
1907 - Felix de Weldon, Austrian-born sculptor (d. 2003)
1907 - Hardie Gramatky, American author and animator (d. 1979)
1908 - Carlos Lleras Restrepo, president of Colombia
1908 - John T Hughes, Bishop to Forces
1908 - Virginia Cherrill, actress (Lake Extra, Brat, City Lights, Delicious)
1908 - Robert Lee Scott, Jr., American Air Force pilot (d. 2006)
1910 - Jorgen Rausch, German philosopher/author (End of the Playboys)
1911 - Darrell A Amyx, US archaeologist (Greek Ceramics)
1911 - Geoff Chubb, cricketer (S Afr pace bowler v England 1951-52 aged 40)
1911 - Mahmoud Younis, Suez Canal nationalization Engineer (d. 1976)
1912 - Eric Feldary, Budapest Hungary, actor (16 Fathoms Deep)
1912 - Georges Franju, France, director (Judex, L'homme sans visage)
1912 - Harold Maguire, British air marshal
1912 - Herbert Mills, singer, (Mills Brothers)
1912 - Walt Gorney, American actor (d. 2004)
1913 - Gabor Jodal, composer
1913 - Keiko Fukuda, Tokyo, Japan, martial artist, (d. 2013)
1914 - Armen Alchian, American economist
1915 - Emil [Theodore] Petaja, US, sci-fi author (Star Mill, Tramontane)
1916 - Brian Connell, writer/broadcaster
1916 - Beverly Cleary, American writer
1916 - Benjamin Libet, American scientist (d. 2007)
1917 - M Marie Widlow, St Louis Mo, softball pitcher (Hall of Fame 1957)
1917 - Vinoo Mankad, cricketer (India's greatest all-rounder to his time)
1917 - Helen Forrest, American singer (d. 1999)
1918 - 18th earl of Derby, English landowner/multi-millionaire
1919 - Istvan Anhalt, composer, (d. 2012)
1919 - Lady Ricketts, CEO (Natl Association of Citizens' Advice Bureaux)
1919 - Maurice Girodias, French publisher
1919 - Wilson Charles Geoffery Baldwin, hero
1919 - Billy Vaughn, American musician and bandleader (d. 1991)
1920 - H R Hewitt, CEO (Johnson Matthey)
1920 - Robert Fizdale, Chicago Illinois, pianist (Misia)
1921 - A W Mabbs, archivist
1923 - Ann Miller, [Lucille Ann Collier], Cherino, Tex, dancer (On the Town)
1923 - E C Meade, British chartered accountant
1924 - Julius Moormann, student/resistance fighter (WW II)
1924 - Sergiu Natra, composer
1924 - Peter Safar, Austrian physician (d. 2003)
1925 - Johnny Jordan, England, cameraman (You Only Live Twice) [or Feb 7]
1927 - Jane Withers, Ga, actress (All Together Now, Josephine the plumber)
1927 - Patrick Meehan, petty criminal
1928 - Brooklyn Supreme, Belgium, stallion, heaviest known horse (1450 kg)
1928 - Earl of Limerick
1928 - Uwe Kitzinger, Pres (Templeton College-Oxford)
1928 - Hardy Krüger, German actor
1929 - Elspet Gray, (Lady Rix), actress (4 Weddings & a Funeral, Solo, Tenko), (d. 2013)
1930 - Betty Clooney, Maysville Ky, singer (Jack Paar Show)
1930 - Bryan Magee, writer
1930 - Earl of Limerick
1930 - Lou A de Graaf, Dutch asst secretary of Social Affairs (VDA)
1930 - Uwe Kitzinger, Pres (Templeton College, Oxford)
1930 - Manuel Neri, American artist
1931 - Billy Vaughn, Glasgow Ky, singer (Chapel by the Sea)
1931 - Martin Boykan, composer
1931 - Leonid Derbenyov, Russian poet-songwriter (d. 1995)
1932 - Henri Lazarof, composer
1932 - Jack Gelber, US, playwright (Connection, Apple)
1932 - Dennis Banks, American activist
1932 - Lakshman Kadirgamar, Sri Lankan politician (d. 2005)
1932 - Tiny Tim [ Herbert Khaury], New York, musician, (d. 1996)
1933 - Montserrat Caballé, Spanish soprano
1934 - Heinz Schneiter, Swiss footballer
1935 - Wendy Savage, obstetrician/gynaecologist
1936 - Charles Napier, actor (Night Stalker, Rambo)
1936 - Kennedy A Simmonds, premier (St Kitts & Nevis, 1983-95)
1937 - Igor Petrovich Volk, Russia, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-12)
1937 - Raymond Ceulemans, Belgian world champ billiards player
1939 - Alan Ayckbourn, London, playwright
1939 - Johnny Raper, Australian rugby league footballer
1940 - Herbie Hancock, Chicago, pianist (I Thought it Was You)
1940 - John Hagee, American pastor and televangelist
1941 - Julio B Euson, Aruban singer (I Use the Soap)
1941 - Bobby Moore, English footballer (d. 1993)
1942 - Bill Bryden, theatre director
1942 - Daniel Winslow Schmidt, composer
1942 - Frank Bank, Hollywood California, actor (Lumpy-Leave it to Beaver)
1942 - Carlos Reutemann, Argentine racing driver and politician
1943 - Charles Ludlam, NYC, playwright/actor (Big Easy)
1944 - John Kay, [Joachim F Krauledat], Germany, rock vocalist (Steppenwolf)
1944 - Karel Kryl, folk singer
1944 - John Kay, German-born musician
1945 - Hilary Nicolle, educationist
1945 - Lee Jong-wook, Korean Director-General of the WHO (d. 2006)
1946 - Ed O'Neill, actor (Al Bundy-Married with Children)
1946 - Peter L de Baan, Dutch actor/director/playwright (Leonce & Lena)
1946 - René Krijnen, Dutch keyboardist (Les Baroques)
1947 - Dan Lauria, actor (Jack Arnold-Wonder Years) (1947 approx)
1947 - David Letterman, Indianapolis Ind, comedian (Late Night)
1947 - Tom Clancy, American author
1947 - Antonin Kratochvil photographer
1948 - Raphick Jumadeen, cricketer (WI slow left-armer of the 70's)
1948 - Jeremy Beadle, English television presenter (d. 2008)
1948 - Joschka Fischer, Foreign Minister of Germany
1948 - Sandra "Lois" Reeves, American singer
1949 - Scott Turow, American writer
1950 - David Cassidy, NYC, singer/actor (Keith-Partridge Family)
1950 - Tom Werner, owner (SD Padres)/producer (Roseanne, Cosby Show)
1950 - Kari Palaste, Finnish architect
1950 - Flavio Briatore, Italian businessman and F1 team principal (Renault F1)
1951 - Jackson Spires, rock drummer (Blackfoot)
1952 - Alexis Arguello, Managua Nicaragua, featherweight boxer (1974 champ)
1952 - J D Nicholas, English guitarist (Heatwave, Commodores)
1952 - Ralph Wiley, American sports journalist (d. 2004)
1952 - Reuben Gant, American professional football player
1954 - Marvin Johnson, US, middleweight boxer (Olympic-bronze-1972)
1954 - Pat Travers, rock guitarist (Puttin' it Straight)
1954 - Pat Travers, Canadian musician
1956 - Alexander Briley, vocalist (YMCA-Village People)
1956 - Andy Garcia, Cuba, actor (Stand & Deliver, 8 Million Ways to Die)
1956 - Doris EHP Baaten, Dutch actress (Sesame Street, Fien)
1956 - Herbert Grönemeyer, German singer
1958 - Tony James, rock bassist (Sigue Sigue Sputnik-Love Missile F-111)
1958 - Will Sergeant, rock guitarist (Echo & Bunnymen-Killing Moon)
1958 - Howard Stableford, English actor and host
1959 - Elissa Leeds, NYC, actress (Cissy-Dorothy)
1960 - Ron MacLean, Canadian sportscaster
1961 - D D Verni, heavy metal rocker (Overkill-Hello From the Gutter)
1961 - Julius Kariuki, Kenya, 3K steeplechaser (Olympic-gold-1988)
1961 - Magda Szubanski, Australian actress
1962 - Art Alexakis, American musician
1962 - Takada Nobuhiko, Japanese wrestler
1964 - Mike Macfarlane, Stockton CA, catcher (KC Royals)
1964 - Amy Ray, American musician
1965 - Elaine Zayak, NJ, figure skater (Olympics-6th-1984)
1965 - Tom O'Brien, American actor-producer
1966 - Jeffrey Hunter, WLAF DE (London Monarchs)
1966 - Lorenzo White, NFL running back (Cleveland Browns)
1966 - Theo Blanco, WLAF receiver (Amsterdam Admirals)
1967 - Bobby Abrams, NFL outside linebacker (NE Patriots)
1967 - Donna Andrews, Lynchburg VA, LPGA golfer (1994 Nabisco Dinah Shore)
1967 - Kirk Everist, Houston Texas, water polo driver (Olympics-96)
1967 - Mellow Man Ace, Cuba, spanish rapper/actor (Only the Strong)
1968 - Adam Graves, Toronto, NHL left wing (NY Rangers)
1968 - Alicia Coppola, actress (Lorna Devon-Another World)
1968 - Neal Fort, CFL tackle (Montreal Alouettes)
1969 - Michael Jackson, NFL wide receiver (Cleveland Browns, Baltimore Ravens)
1970 - Patrick Brugnoli, hockey forward (Team Italy 1998)
1970 - Nick Hexum, American musician
1971 - Fernando Meligeni, Argentina, tennis star
1971 - Kent Manderville, Edmonton, NHL left wing (Edmonton Oilers)
1971 - Shannen Doherty, Memphis Tn, actress (Little House, Bev Hills 90210)
1971 - Tyrone Chatman, CFL linebacker (BC Lions)
1972 - Sebnem Ferah, Turkish singer
1972 - Paul Lo Duca, American baseball player
1973 - Antonio Osuna, Sinaloa Mexico, pitcher (LA Dodgers)
1973 - Claudia Jordan, Miss USA-Rhode Island (1997, top 10)
1973 - Pamela Polk, Berlin Wisconsin, Miss America-Wisconsin (1996)
1973 - J. Scott Campbell, American comic book artist
1974 - Kabir Khan, cricketer (Pakistani slow left-armer 1994- )
1974 - Roman Hamrlik, Gottwaldov Cze, NHL defenseman (Lightning, Oly-gold-98)
1974 - Sylvinho, Brazilian footballer
1974 - Belinda Emmett, Australian actor(d. 2006)
1974 - Marley Shelton, American actor
1975 - Marcie Alberts, WNBA guard (Cleveland Rockers)
1975 - Sofie Rahman, Miss Universe-Hong Kong (1996)
1976 - Brad Miller, American basketball player
1977 - Giovanny Espinoza, Ecuadorian footballer
1977 - Glenn Rogers, Scottish Cricket Player
1977 - Sarah Jane Morris, American actor
1977 - Jordana Spiro, American actor
1978 - Eddie Robinson, actor (Neil Atwater-Swan's Crossing)
1978 - Guy Berryman, British musician
1978 - Riley Smith, American actor
1979 - Claire Danes, NYC, actress (Angela-My So Called Life, Romeo & Juliet)
1979 - Mateja Kežman, Serbian footballer
1979 - Elena Grosheva, Olympic gymnast
1979 - Paul Nicholls, English actor
1979 - Jordan De Jong, American baseball player
1980 - Brian McFadden, Irish Singer
1980 - Erik Mongrain, Canadian musician
1981 - Nicolás Burdisso, Argentine footballer
1981 - Jaspreet Singh, businessman
1981 - Brian Vandborg, Danish cyclist
1982 - Deen, Bosnian singer
1985 - Hitomi Yoshizawa, Japanese singer
1985 - Jeisa Chiminazzo, Brazilian supermodel
1985 - Ted Ginn, American football player
1985 - Paul Murphy, Irish footballer
1985 - Olga Seryabkina, Russian singer
1986 - Blerim Džemaili, Swiss footballer
1987 - Brendon Urie, American musician (Panic at the Disco)
1994 - Saoirse Ronan, Irish actress
1994 - Airi Suzuki, Japanese singer

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Post by: MysteRy on April 12, 2013, 09:35:41 AM

This Day in History for 12th April


Famous Deaths

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Bishop and Writer                                Humanitarian Clara Barton (1912)              32nd US President
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (1704)                                                                             Franklin Roosevelt (1945)

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Middle/welterweight
championship boxer
Sugar Ray Robinson (1989)


45 BC - Gnaeus Pompeius, the Younger, Roman general
65 - Seneca the Younger, Roman philosopher, statesman and dramatist
238 - Gordian II, Roman co-Emperor with his father Gordian I, killed in battle at Carthage
238 - Gordian I, Roman Emperor, suicide, after losing battle at Carthage and death of son Gordian I
352 - Julius I, pope (337-52), dies
434 - Archbishop Maximianus of Constantinople
1125 - Vladislaus I of Bohemia
1443 - Henry Chichele, Archbishop of Canterbury
1550 - Claude of Lorraine, duke of Guise, dies at 53
1555 - Joanna of Castile (Joanna the mad), wife of Philip I of Castile dies at 75
1605 - Boris Godunov, Tsar of Russia (1598-1605), dies
1675 - Richard Bennett, British Colonial Governor of Virginia (b. 1609)
1687 - Ambrose Dixon, Virginia Colony pioneer
1690 - Miguel Gomez Camargo, composer, dies at 71
1704 - John Hudde, 21x mayor of Amsterdam, dies at 76
1704 - Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, French bishop and writer, dies at 77
1748 - William Kent, English sculptor/architect (Kensington Palace), dies
1760 - Baron Ernst Gottlieb, composer, dies at 64
1782 - Metastasio, Italian poet and librettist (b. 1698)
1788 - Carl Joseph Toeschi, composer, dies at 56
1788 - Carlo Antonio Campioni, composer, dies at 67
1795 - Rainieri de Calzabigi, Italian librettist and poet, dies at 80
1795 - Johann Kaspar Basselet von La Rosée, Bavarian general (b. 1710)
1797 - Josef Antonin Stepan, composer, dies at 71
1814 - Charles Burney, English music historian (b. 1726)
1817 - Charles Messier, "comet ferret" & catalogs famous "M objects,", dies
1828 - Jean Henri Appelius, Dutch lawyer/minister of Finance, dies at 60
1845 - Henry M baron the Kock, officer/politician, dies at 65
1850 - Adoniram Judson, American Baptist missionary (b. 1788)
1859 - John Emde, German evangelist, dies at about 84
1864 - Thomas Green, US Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 50
1872 - Nikolaos Mantzaros, Greek composer (b. 1795)
1878 - William M "Boss" Tweed, NY politician, dies
1896 - Alexander Ritter, composer, dies at 62
1898 - Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau, Roman catholic archbishop of Quebec (b. 1820)
1902 - Marie Alfred Cornu, French physicist (b. 1842)
1909 - Hermann Kotzchmar, composer, dies at 79
1910 - William G Sumner, US sociologist/politicologist (Folkways), dies at 69
1912 - Clara Barton, organizer (American Red Cross), dies at 90
1914 - Josef Nesvera, composer, dies at 71
1922 - Frantisek Ondricek, composer, dies at 64
1938 - Feodor Chaliapine, Russian author (Man & Mark), dies at 65
1942 - Johannes E Akkeringa, Dutch painter/etcher, dies at 80
1945 - Franklin Roosevelt, 32nd US President (D) (1933-1945), dies at 63
1946 - August Borms, Flemish nazi collaborator, executed at 67
1946 - F Guicciardi, writer, dies
1947 - Christian F L Leipoldt, South African writer (Die Moormansgat), dies
1951 - Harold Vincent Milligan, composer, dies at 62
1954 - Pim [Willem JH] Mulier, Dutch journalist/sports-organizer, dies at 89
1959 - Ernest Willem Mulder, composer, dies at 60
1959 - James Gleason, dies at 76
1961 - Nils-Eric Fougstedt, composer, dies at 50
1961 - Philippine "Pine" Belder, [Mary de Klerk], actress, dies at 93
1962 - Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya, Indian politician and engineer (b. 1861)
1962 - Ron Flockhart, Scottish racing driver (b. 1923)
1965 - Linda Darnell, US actress (Dakota Incident), dies at 43
1966 - Sumokil, president of Republic South Moluccas, executed
1968 - Heinrich Nordhoff, German automobile engineer and Volkswagen director (b. 1899)
1971 - Ed Lafitte, American baseball player (b. 1871)
1971 - Wynton Kelly, American jazz pianist (b. 1931)
1972 - C W Ceram, [Kurt Marek], German/US writer (1st American), dies at 57
1972 - Henri Potiron, composer, dies at 89
1974 - Carl Jaffe, dies at 72
1975 - Josephine Baker, US/French revue artist (Folies-Bergere), dies at 68
1976 - Paul Ford, actor (Phil Silvers Show), dies at 74
1977 - Philip K Wrigley, baseball owner (Chicago Cubs), dies at 82
1980 - Stanley De Silva, cricketer (motor bike Sri Lanka '79 World Cup), dies
1980 - William R Tolbert Jr, Liberian President & 27 others killed in coup
1980 - Clark McConachy, New Zealand billiards and snooker player (b. 1895)
1981 - Hans Chemin-Petit, composer, dies at 78
1981 - Hendrik F Andriessen, Dutch organist/composer (Te Deum), dies at 88
1981 - Joe Louis, [Brown bomber], US heavyweight boxing champion (1937-49), dies at 66
1983 - Carl Morton, American baseball player (b. 1944)
1984 - Ruth Taylor, actress (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes), dies at 76
1986 - Valentin Kataev, Russian writer (b. 1897)
1987 - Ewan Calague, economist/statistician (Social Security) dies at 90
1987 - Mike Von Erich, American wrestler
1988 - Alan Stewart Paton, writer, dies
1989 - Abbie Hoffman, yippie peace activist of the 60's, dies at 52
1989 - Sugar Ray Robinson, heavyweight boxing champ, dies at 67 of Alzheimer
1989 - Gerald Flood, British actor (b. 1927)
1990 - Henry Kendrick, dies
1991 - James Schuyler, US poet (Pulitzer 1980), dies
1992 - Joe Medwick, vocalist, dies at 61
1993 - Isaac Rojas, vp of Argentina (1955-58), dies
1993 - Patience Jarvis, dies of melanoma at 56
1994 - Harry la Fontaine, Danish/US resistance fighter/producer, dies at 81
1994 - Jean Carmet, dies at 72
1994 - Q T Macon, blues vocal/guitar, dies at 60
1995 - Chris Pyne, trombonist, dies at 56
1996 - Marthe Robert, essayist/translator, dies at 82
1996 - Nancy Sheehan, writer, dies at 69
1996 - William Wilkinson, businessman/conservationist, dies at 63
1997 - George Wald, scientist, dies at 90
1999 - Boxcar Willie, American singer (b. 1931)
2001 - Harvey Ball, American inventor (b. 1921)
2003 - Cecil H. Green, American manufacturer (b. 1900)
2006 - Dr. Rajkumar, Kannada language film actor/singer (India)(b. 1929)
2006 - Puggy Pearson, American poker player (b. 1929)
2007 - Kevin Crease, Australian TV anchor (b. 1936)
2008 - Paddy Hillery, 6th President of Ireland, EEC Commissioner and Irish Minister (b. 1923)
2008 - Cecilia Colledge, British ice skater and Olympian (b. 1920)
2008 - Jerry Zucker, Israeli-born American businessman (b. 1949)
2009 - Marilyn Chambers, American pornographic actress (b. 1952)
2010 - Palito, Filipino comedian (b. 1934)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 13, 2013, 02:47:07 PM

This Day in History for 13th April


Historical Events

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Composer                                                 Entrepreneur and Engineer                    Department Store Founder
George Friedrich Handel                              George Westinghouse                             James Cash Penney

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Baseball Player Hank Aaron                         Singer Tom Jones                               264th Pope John Paul II

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Anti-apartheid activist/                            Golfer Tiger Woods
South African President
Nelson Mandela 


837 - Best view of Halley's Comet in 2000 years
989 - Battle at Abydos: Byzantine emperor Basilius II beats Bardas Phocas
1055 - Bishop Gebhard van Eichstattt named Pope Victor II
1111 - Pope Paschalis II crowns Roman catholics-German king Hendrik II
1180 - Republic day of Gelnhausen
1204 - Crusaders occupy Constantinople
1241 - Battle at Theiss: Mongols beat Hungarian King Béla IV
1250 - The Seventh Crusade is defeated in Egypt, Louis IX of France is captured.
1256 - The Grand Union of the Augustinian order formed when Pope Alexander IV issues a papal bull
           Licet ecclesiae catholicae.
1346 - Pope Clemens VI declares German emperor Louis of Bavaria, envoy
1367 - Battle at Nájera Spain: Castile & England beat Aragon & France
1517 - Osmaanse army occupies Cairo
1556 - Portuguese Marranos who revert back to Judaism burned by order of Pope
1598 - Edict of Nantes grants political rights to French Huguenots
1640 - English Short Parliament forms (- May 5)
1668 - John Dryden (36) becomes 1st English poet laureate
1741 - Dutch people protest bad quality of bread
1741 - Royal Military Academy forms at Woolwich
1742 - George Frederic Handel's "Messiah" performed for 1st time (Dublin)
1759 - French beat European Allies in Battle of Bergen
1796 - 1st elephant arrives in US from India
1796 - Battle at Millesimo Italy: Napoleon beats Austrians
1808 - William Henry Lane ("Juda") perfects tap dance
1829 - English Emancipation Act grants freedom of religion to Catholics
1834 - HMS Beagle anchors at river mouth of Rio Santa Cruz, Patagonia
1842 - Lord Rosse successfully casts 72" (183-cm) mirror for a telescope
1849 - Hungarian Republic proclaimed
1860 - 1st Pony Express reaches Sacramento Calif
1861 - After 34 hours of bombardment, Ft Sumter surrenders to Confederates
1863 - Battle of Irish Bend, LA (Ft Bisland)
1863 - Hospital for Ruptured & Crippled in NY is 1st orthopedic hospital
1865 - Battle of Raleigh, NC
1865 - Sherman's march through Georgia begins
1868 - Abyssinian War ends as British and Indian troops capture Magdala and Ethiopian Emperor
           commits suicide
1869 - Steam power brake patented (George Westinghouse)
1870 - Metropolitan Museum of Art forms in NYC
1873 - Colfax Massacre in Grant Parish Louisiana (60 blacks killed)
1882 - Anti-Semitic League forms in Prussia
1883 - US prospecter Alfred Packer convicted of manslaughter though accused of cannibalism
1895 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Solitary Cyclist" (BG)
1902 - J C Penney opens his 1st store in Kemmerer, Wyo
1904 - Battle at Oviumbo Africa: Herero's chase away German army
1904 - Congress authorizes Lewis & Clark Expo $1 gold coin
1906 - Mutiny on Portuguese battleships Dom Carlos & Vasco da Gama
1908 - Groundbreaking on Philadelphia's Shibe Park (home of A's & Phillies)
1911 - Polo Grounds grandstand & left field bleachers go up in flames
1912 - Royal Flying Corps forms (later RAF)
1914 - 1st Federal League Game: Balt Terrapins beat Buffalo 3-2
1918 - Electrical fire kills 38 mental patients at Oklahoma State Hospital
1919 - Amritsar Massacre-British Army fires on nationalist rioters in India
1919 - British forces kill 100s of Indian Nationalists (Amritsar Massacre)
1919 - The Establishment of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea.
1920 - 1st woman US Civil Service Commissioner, Helen Hamilton appointed
1921 - Foundation of the Spanish Communist Workers' Party.
1923 - Army wins 1st college three-weapon fencing championships
1924 - Greek plebiscite for a republic
1925 - Virginia Theater (ANTA, Guild) opens at 245 W 52nd St NYC
1926 - At 41, Walter Johnson pitches his 7th opening day shutout
1926 - Bicyclists without bicycle-tax-stamp rounded up in Amsterdam
1927 - Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators beat Boston Bruins, in 2 games & 2 ties
1928 - 1st trans atlantic flight Europe-US (Fitzmaurice-von Hunefeld-Köhl)
1932 - Kozakken Boys soccer team forms in Werkendam forms
1933 - 1st flight over Mount Everest (Lord Clydesdale)
1933 - Stanley Cup: NY Rangers beat Toronto Maple Leafs, 3 games to 1
1934 - 4.7 million US families report receiving welfare payments
1934 - US Congress passes Johnson Debt Default Act
1936 - Metaxas proclaims himself dictator of Greece
1938 - Clifford Goldsmith' "What a Life," premieres in NYC
1939 - W Saroyan's "My Heart's in the Highlands," premieres in NYC
1939 - In India, the Hindustani Lal Sena (Indian Red Army) is formed and vows to engage in armed
           struggle against the British.
1940 - 2nd battle of Narvik-8 German destroyers, destroyed
1940 - Cornelious Warmerdam became 1st man to pole vault 15 ft
1940 - Stanley Cup: NY Rangers beat Toronto Maple Leafs, 4 games to 2
1941 - Heavy German assault on Tobruk
1941 - Russian-Japan no-attack treaty goes into effect
1941 - Pact of neutrality between the USSR and Japan is signed.
1943 - Catholic University Nijegen closes
1943 - FDR dedicates Jefferson Memorial
1943 - Nazi's discover mass grave of Polish officers near Katyn
1944 - SC rejects black suffrage
1944 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens sweep Chicago Blackhawks in 4 games
1944 - Transport nr 71 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1944 - The diplomatic relations between New Zealand and the Soviet Union are established.
1945 - Canadian army liberates Teuge & Assen Neth from Nazis
1945 - Red Army occupy Wien (Vienna)
1945 - US marines conquer Minna Shima off Okinawa
1946 - Belgian premier Acker proclaims wage & price freeze over
1946 - Eddie Klepp, a white pitcher signed by defending Negro League champ Cleveland Buckeyes, is
           barred from field in Birmingham Alabama
1948 - 75 scientists ambushed on way to Mount Scopus
1949 - 3rd NBA Championship: Minn Lakers beat Wash Capitols, 4 games to 2
1953 - 1st game of Milwaukee Braves, they beat Cin Reds 2-0
1954 - Balt Orioles 1st game, loses to Tigers in Detroit 3-0
1954 - Milwaukee Braves' Hank Aaron's 1st game
1954 - Robert Oppenheimer accused of being a communist
1955 - 20.33" (51.64 cm) of rainfall, Axis, Alabama (state record)
1956 - KETA TV channel 13 in Oklahoma City, OK (PBS) begins broadcasting
1957 - "Shinbone Alley" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 49 performances
1957 - 11th NBA Championship: Bost Celtics beat St Louis Hawks, 4 games to 3
1957 - 11th Tony Awards: Long Days Journey into the Night & My Fair Lady win
1957 - Due to lack of funds, Saturday mail delivery in US is temp halted
1958 - 12th Tony Awards: Sunrise at Campobello & Music Man win
1958 - Van Cliburn is the first American to win the Chaikovsky Compettion in Moscow.
1959 - USAF launches Discoverer II into polar orbit
1959 - Vanguard SLV-5 launched for Earth orbit (failed)
1959 - Vatican edict forbids Roman Catholics for voting for communists
1960 - France becomes 4th nuclear nation exploding an A-Bomb in Sahara
1960 - Transit 1B, 1st navigational satellite, placed in Earth orbit
1961 - "Carnival!" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 719 performances
1961 - UN General Assembly condemns South-Africa's apartheid
1962 - Stan Musial scores his 1,869th run, a new NL record
1962 - US steel industry forced to give up price increases
1963 - Pete Rose triples for his 1st major league base hit
1963 - Pirate's Bob Friend balks 4 times in a game
1964 - 36th Academy Awards - "Tom Jones," Sidney Poitier & Patricia Neal win
1964 - Ian D Smith becomes premier of Rhodesia
1964 - New Zealand Colin Bosher shears a record 565 sheep in 1 work day
1965 - Beatles record "Help"
1965 - 1st US Senate black page, Lawrence W Bradford Jr, 16, appointed by NY Sen Jacob Javits
1966 - Pan Am places $525,000,000 order for 25 Boeing 747s
1969 - 33rd Golf Masters Championship: George Archer wins, shooting a 281
1969 - Closure of the Brisbane tramway network.
1970 - 34th Golf Masters Championship: Billy Casper wins, shooting a 279
1970 - Greek composer Mikis Theordorakis freed
1970 - Apollo 13 announces "Houston, we've got a problem!" as Beech-built oxygen tank explodes
           en route to Moon
1970 - Oakland uses gold-colored bases during the club's home opener Rules Committee
           subsequently bans this innovation
1972 - 1st baseball players' strike ends after 13 days
1975 - 39th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 276
1975 - Chad military coup by General Odingar
1975 - Christian Falange kills 27 Palestinians, begins Lebanese civil war
1975 - Penguins 5-Isles 4-Quarterfinals-Penguins hold 1-0 lead
1976 - $2 bill re-introduced as US currency
1976 - 1st NBA playoff game for Cleve Cavliers, they lose 100-95 to Wash
1976 - Federal Reserve begins issuing $2 bicentennial notes
1978 - Jackson slugs a 3-run HR in the 1st inning, & the field is showered
1978 - NY Yanks defeat White Sox 4-2 in home opener on Reggie Candy Bar Day
1979 - Christian Turks occupy St Jansbasiliek
1979 - Longest doubles ping-pong match ends after 101 hours
1979 - Yusuf Lule becomes premier of Uganda
1980 - "Grease" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 3,388 performances
1980 - "Reggae" closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 21 performances
1980 - 44th Golf Masters Championship: Seve Ballesteros wins, shooting a 275
1980 - Amy Alcott wins LPGA American Defender/WRAL Golf Classic
1980 - Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation
1980 - US boycotts Summer Olympics in Moscow
1981 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Beth Henley for "Crimes of the Heart"
1981 - Wash Post Janet Cooke wins Pulitzer Prize (later admits story a hoax)
1982 - Penguins 3-Isles 4 (OT)-Preliminary-Isles win series (3-2)
1983 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1983 - Undefeated middleweight boxer Tony Ayala gets 35 years on sex assault
1984 - 11th Space Shuttle Mission (41C)-Challenger 5-returns to Earth
1984 - India beat Pak by 58 runs to win 1st Asia Cricket Cup in Sharjah
1984 - Pete Rose becomes 1st NL to get get 4,000 hits in a career
1985 - "TASS" denounced US boycott of Moscow Olympics
1985 - Atlantis ferried to Kennedy Space Center via Ellington AFB, Texas
1985 - Caps 1-Isles 2-Patrick Div Semifinals- Caps hold 2-1 lead
1985 - Katrin Dörre wins 1st female World Cup marathon (2:33:30)
1985 - Ramiz Alia succeeds Enver Hoxha as party leader of Albania
1986 - 50th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 279
1986 - Boston Celtics end season with a 40-1 home win record
1986 - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Kyocera Inamori Golf Classic
1986 - Pope John Paul II met Rome's Chief Rabbi Elio Toaff at Rome synagogue
1986 - Spanish Grand Prix decided by 0.014 of a second
1987 - 1st 3 SD Padres hit HRs off SF starter Roger Mason
1987 - Portugal signs agreement to return Macau to China (in 1999)
1988 - Italy government of De Mita forms
1989 - "Welcome to the Club" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 12 perfs
1990 - 4th largest NBA crowd (45,458) see Orlando play at Minneapolis
1990 - Final episode of Pat Sajak's late night TV show on CBS
1990 - NY Rangers beat NY Islanders 6-5, Rangers win preliminary, 4-1
1991 - BPAA US Open by Pete Weber
1992 - "2 Trains Running" opens at Walter Kerr Theater NYC for 160 perfs
1992 - 5.5 earthquake hits Netherlands
1992 - American Airlines reduce its 1st-class fares 20%-50%
1992 - Crystal Pepsi begins test marketing in Providence, Denver & Dallas
1992 - Great Chicago Flood - Chicago's underground tunnels flood
1992 - Lou Conaseca retires as coach of St John's basketball team
1992 - Nelson Mandela announces he will seek divorce from Winnie
1992 - Longest 2 undefeated baseball teams to meet (NY Yanks 5-0 vs Toronto Blue Jays 6-0);
           Yanks score 3 in top of 9th to win 5-2
1993 - "3 Men on a Horse" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 40 performances
1993 - 14th Emmy Sports Award presentation
1993 - Tom Stoppard's "Arcadia," premieres in London
1994 - President guard at Kigali Rwanda, chops 1,200 church members to death
1994 - Target date for Israeli complete withdrawal, doesn't occur
1994 - United Arab Emirates' 1st official ODI, losing to India
1995 - Yankees beat the Mets 2-0
1996 - En route to NHL record 62 victories Detroit Red Wings win #61
1996 - Ottawa Senators eliminate Stanley Cup Champs NJ Devils from playoff
1997 - "American Daughter" opens at Cort Theater NYC for 88 performances
1997 - 48th time opposing pitchers hit HRS, Carlos Perez (Mon)/Darren Holmes
1997 - 61st Golf Masters Championship: Tiger Woods at 21 (270 18 under par)
1997 - Hartford Whalers last NHL game
1997 - NHL Pitts Penguin Mario Lemieux's last NHL regular game
1997 - Travis Fryman homers off R Hernandez in both games of double header 1st time since 1961
           that 2 doubleheaders are played in the same city Giants vs Mets & Oakland A's vs Yankees in
           NY
2002 - Pedro Carmona, interim president of Venezuela, resigns one day after taking office.
2006 - Powerful tornadoes rip through Iowa City, Iowa.
2012 - North Korean long range rocket testing ends in failure after the rocket broke up after launch

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 13, 2013, 02:48:40 PM

This Day in History for 13th April


Famous Weddings

2002 - "Law & Order" actor Benjamin Bratt (38) weds actress-model Talisa Soto (35) in San Francisco,
           California

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 13, 2013, 02:50:01 PM

This Day in History for 13th April


Famous Divorces

1992 - Nelson Mandela announces he will seek divorce from Winnie

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 13, 2013, 04:08:41 PM

This Day in History for 13th April


Famous Birthdays

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US President                                           Actor Jonathan Brandis (1976)                   
Thomas Jefferson (1743) 


1506 - Peter Faber, French Jesuit theologian (d. 1546)
1519 - Catherine de' Medici, Italian born Queen consort to Henry II of France and later regent to her
           sons
1547 - Elisabeth of Valois, daughter of King Henry II of France and 3rd wife of Philip II of Spain (d.
           1568)
1570 - Guy Fawkes, English Catholic conspirator (d. 1606)
1573 - Christina of Holstein-Gottorp, queen consort of Sweden (d. 1625)
1584 - Albert VI of Bavaria (d. 1666)
1593 - Thomas Wentworth, London, earl of Strafford/Viceroy of Ireland
1618 - Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, French writer (d. 1693)
1626 - Aert Jansz van Nes, Lt-admiral, baptised
1648 - Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon, French mystic (d. 1717)
1713 - Pierre de Jelyotte, composer
1715 - John Hanson, President of the United States in Congress Assembled (d. 1783)
1721 - John Hanson, Maryland, 1st US Pres under Articles of Confederation
1729 - Thomas Percy, English literary/bishop of Dromore
1732 - Frederick North, (C) British PM (1770-82)
1733 - Johann Heinrich Zang, composer
1735 - Isaac Low, delegate to the Continental Congress (d. 1791)
1743 - Thomas Jefferson, Virginia, (D-R) 3rd President of the United States (1801-09) (d. 1826)
1747 - Louis Philip II, Duke of Orléans (d. 1793)
1749 - Frederik Sigismund van Bylandt, Dutch count/vice-admiral
1756 - Louis H J Condé, French prince
1762 - Johanna C Wattier-Ziesenis, Dutch actress (Phaedra, Lady Macbeth)
1762 - Karl Friedrich Horn, composer
1764 - Laurent, Marquis de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, French marshal (d. 1830)
1769 - Thomas Lawrence, English painter (d. 1830)
1771 - Adam FJA van der Duyn, Dutch governor (South Holland)
1771 - Richard Trevithick, Cornwall, inventor (steam locomotive)
1780 - Alexander Mitchell, Irish engineer (d. 1868)
1784 - Cornelis Smit, Dutch ship builder
1784 - Friedrich Graf von Wrangel, Prussian field marshal (d. 1877)
1787 - John Robertson, U.S. politician (d. 1873)
1791 - Félix PBOG earl de Merode, Belgian minister of War/Finance
1799 - Heinrich F L Rellstab, German music theorist
1799 - Joseph Rastrelli, composer
1802 - Leopold Fitzinger, Austrian zoologist (d. 1884)
1808 - Antonio Meucci, Italian inventor (d. 1896)
1816 - William Sterndale Bennett, composer
1817 - Alphonse Wauters, Belgian historian/archivist (Brussels)
1822 - Leroy Augustus Stafford, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
1822 - William Stephen Walker, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1899
1825 - Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Canadian journalist and politician (d. 1868)
1828 - Joseph B Lightfoot, English theologist/bishop of Durham
1830 - Eduard Lassen, composer
1832 - James Wimshurst, British designer/inventor (electricstatic generator)
1832 - Juan Montalvo, Ecuadoran author (d. 1889)
1841 - Louis-Ernest Barrias, French sculptor (d. 1905)
1847 - Cornelis Pijnacker Hordijk, gov-gen (Neth East-Indies)
1849 - Enrique Jose Varona, Cuban sociologist/psychologist
1850 - Arthur Matthew Weld Downing, British astronomer (d. 1917)
1851 - Robert Abbe, American surgeon (d. 1928)
1852 - F.W. Woolworth, American businessman (d. 1919)
1854 - Richard T Ely, US economist (Hard Times)
1860 - James Ensor, Flemish painter/etcher (De lampenjongen)
1865 - Heinrich Reinhardt, composer
1866 - Butch Cassidy, [Robert LeRoy Parker], American desperado (Wild Bunch Passage)
1867 - Sammy Woods, cricket bowler (Aust & Engld Rugby wing-forward)
1868 - John Blackwood McEwen, composer
1872 - A Roda Roda, writer
1873 - Theodore Morse, composer
1873 - John W. Davis, American politician (d. 1955)
1875 - Ray Lyman Wilbur, U.S. university president and politician (d. 1949)
1879 - Edward Bruce, Director art projects (d. 1943)
1880 - Charles Christie, Canadian film studio owner (d. 1955)
1883 - Alexander Alexandrov, composer
1883 - Demjan Bednyi, writer
1885 - Pieter S Gerbrandy, Dutch lawyer/premier in London (1940-45)
1885 - Georg Lukács, Hungarian-born philosopher and literary critic (d. 1971)
1885 - Vean Gregg, American baseball player (d. 1964)
1886 - Ethel Leginska, composer
1887 - Gordon S. Fahrni, Canadian physician and President of the Canadian Medical Association (d.
           1995)
1889 - Herbert Osborne Yardley, American cryptographer (d. 1958)
1890 - Frank Murphy, American public servant (d. 1949)
1891 - Maurice Vincent Buckley, Australian winner of the Victoria Cross (d. 1921)
1891 - Nella Larsen, African-American novelist (d. 1964)
1892 - Arthur Harris, Cheltenham, Marshal of the RAF
1892 - Robert A Watson-Watt, England, physicist (radar)
1894 - Ludvig Irgens Jensen, composer
1895 - Olga Rudge, violinist
1895 - Arthur Fadden, thirteenth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1973)
1897 - Werner Voss, German World War I pilot (d. 1917)
1899 - Alexander Alexandrovich Davidenko, composer
1899 - Alfred Moser Butts, game inventor (Scrabble)
1899 - Alfred Schutz, Austrian/US architect/philosopher
1900 - Pierre Molinier, French painter and photographer (d. 1976)
1901 - René-Jean Pleven, French premier (1950-52)
1901 - Jacques Lacan, French psychoanalyst and semanticist (d. 1981)
1902 - Duke of Marlborough
1902 - Godfrey Kenton, actor (Well's Theater)
1902 - Philippe de Rothschild, Paris, manager (Bordeaux Vineyard)
1903 - Rex Evans, actor (Frankenstein meets the Wolfman, Zara, Matchmaker)
1904 - Georges Yves Marie Congar, dominican Theologian cardinal
1904 - Sir David Robinson, British philanthropist and entrepreneur (d. 1987)
1906 - Budd [Lawrence] Freeman, US jazz saxophonist (Eel)
1906 - Samuel Beckett, French playwright (Waiting for Godot, Nobel 1969)
1906 - Bud Freeman, American musician (d. 1991)
1907 - Harold Stassen, W St Paul Minn, (Gov-R-Minn) perennial pres candidate
1909 - Eudora Welty, Jackson Ms, novelist (Optimist's Daughter-Pulitzer 1973)
1909 - Jan Veldkamp, Dutch geophysicist/director (KNMI)
1909 - Mervyn Hugh Cowie, willife conservationist
1909 - Stanislaw Marcin Ulam, Polish mathematician (d. 1984)
1911 - Nino Sanzogno, composer
1911 - Ico Hitrec, Croatian footballer (d. 1946)
1911 - Jean-Louis Lévesque, Canadian entrepreneur and philanthropist (d. 1994)
1912 - Roy Winsor, Chicago, producer (Search for Tomorrow, Love of Life)
1913 - Bernard Chacksfield, Air Vice-Marshal
1913 - David Donald Albritton, Danville Al, high jumper (Olympic-silver-1936)
1915 - Bert [Albert L F] Peleman, [Dirk Dyckmans], Flemish writer
1915 - R N Coote, Bishop (Colchester)
1915 - Stephan Hermlin, writer
1915 - Stephen Roberts, CEO (British Milk Marketing Board)
1915 - Tom Greenshields, sculptor
1916 - Phyllis Fraser Cerf Wagner, American actress, journalist, and publisher (d. 2006)
1917 - Howard Keel, Ill, actor/singer and president of the Screen Actors Guild (7 Brides for 7
           Brothers, Kiss Me Kate)
1918 - Audrey Barker, writer
1919 - Madalyn Murray O'Hair, American atheist (opppsed prayer in school)
1919 - Roland Gaucher, French journalist
1919 - Phil Tonken, American radio and television announcer (d. 2000)
1920 - Liam Cosgrave, leader (Fine Gael Party)
1920 - Roberto Calvi, Italian banker (d. 1982)
1920 - Claude Cheysson, French politician
1920 - John LaPorta, American musician (d. 2004)
1921 - Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza, industrialist
1921 - Carlo Prosperi, composer
1921 - James Wilson, British Lt-General
1921 - Maxwell Henley Harris, Australian poet/publisher (Gift of Blood)
1922 - John Braine, English novelist (Life at the Top)
1922 - Jean Topart, Paris, actor (Fantastic Planet), (d. 2012)
1922 - Julius Nyerere, Tanzanian politician (d. 1999)
1923 - Don Adams, American actor and comedian (d. 2005)
1924 - Stanley Donen, SC, film director/producer (Bedazzled, Damn Yankees)
1924 - Jack Chick, American evangelist
1925 - Frank Chamberlain, CEO (Test & County Cricket Board)
1925 - Frank Neville Hosband Robinson, physicist
1925 - Hilda Dianda, composer
1926 - 11th duke of Marlborough, English large landowner
1926 - Don Adams, NYC, comedian (Maxwell Smart-Get Smart, Check it Out)
1926 - Godfrey Kenton, actor
1927 - Lord Wedderburn of Charlton, QC, (d. 2012)
1927 - Mari Blanchard, Long Beach California, actress (Kathy-Klondike)
1927 - Maurice Ronet, Nice France, actor (Frantic, Sphinz, Circle of Love)
1927 - Rosa Joyce Plesters Brommelie, conservation scientist
1928 - Alan Clark, English politician (d. 1999)
1929 - Marilynn Smith, Topeka KS, LPGA golfer (1972 Pabst Open)
1930 - Justice Harman
1931 - Beverley Cross, playwright
1931 - Michael Burchill, actor
1931 - Jon Stone, co-creator of Sesame Street (d. 1997)
1932 - Barney Simon, theatre director/writer
1932 - Karl Kroeger, composer
1932 - Orlando Letelier, Chilean politician (d. 1976)
1933 - Ben Nighthorse Campbell, (Sen-D Colorado)
1933 - Shani Wallis, Ireland, singer/actress (Oliver)
1934 - Horace Kay, US singer (Tams-You Lied to Your Daddy)
1934 - Siegfried Matthus, composer
1935 - Kenneth Hayr, air marshal
1935 - Lyle Waggoner, KC Kansas, actor (Carol Burnette Show, Wonder Woman)
1935 - Peter Heap, diplomat
1937 - Edward Fox, London England, actor (M-Never Say Never Again)
1937 - Lanford Wilson, US playwright (Hot L Baltimore)
1937 - Peter M Harris, Official Solicitor (Supreme Court)
1937 - Edward Fox, English actor
1938 - Frederic Rzewski, Westfield Mass, composer (Spacecraft)
1938 - John Weston, diplomat
1939 - Barbara-Rose Collins, (Rep-D-Michigan)
1939 - Paul Sorvino, actor (Chiefs, Dick Tracy)
1939 - Seamus Heaney, poet
1939 - Wijnie Jabaaij, Dutch MP (PvdA)
1940 - Lester Chambers, Ms, vocalist (Chamber Brothers-Time Has Come Today)
1940 - Mike Beuttler, British racing driver (d. 1988)
1940 - Jim McNab, Scottish footballer (d. 2006)
1941 - Michael Stuart Brown, American geneticist, Nobel laureate
1942 - Bill Conti, Providence RI, composer (For Your Eyes Only, Rocky IV)
1942 - Ataol Behramoglu Turkish poet and writer.
1943 - Bill Koch, US skier
1943 - Eve Graham, rocker (New Seekers)
1943 - Billy Kidd, American skier
1944 - Brian Pendleton, rocker (Pretty Things)
1944 - Charles Burnett, director (When it Rains, Glass Shield)
1944 - Jack Casady, Wash DC, rock bassist (Hot Tuna, Jefferson Airplane)
1944 - Michael Saunders, barrister
1944 - Susan Davis, American politician
1945 - Carlos Gimenez, Arg/Venez founder (Theater festival of Caracas)
1945 - Edward J Caruthers Jr, Troy Ala, high jumper (Olympic-silver-1968)
1945 - Lowell George, rock vocalist/guitarist (Little Feat-Time is a Hero)
1945 - Raymond van Geytenbeek, Dutch singer/drummer (Les Baroques)
1945 - Stacy Johnson, US singer (Sharpees-Tired of Being Alone)
1945 - Tony Dow, Hollywood California, actor (Wally-Leave it to Beaver)
1945 - Tony Dow, American actor
1945 - Bob Kalsu, American football player (d. 1970)
1945 - Charles Robinson, American actor
1946 - Al Green, Forest City Arkansas, singer (Lets Stay Together)
1946 - Roy Loney, rocker (Flaming Groovies)
1947 - Thanos Mikroutsikos, Greek composer & former minister
1948 - Amy Robinson, Trenton NJ, writer/actress (Mean Streets)
1948 - Peter Swevel, rocker
1948 - Sue Doughty, British politician
1948 - Nam Hae-il, Chief of Naval Operations of Republic of Korea Navy
1949 - Jean-Jacques Favier, Kehl Germany, astronaut (STS 78)
1949 - Philippe Petit, Nemours France, juggler/aerialist
1949 - Ricardo Zuniño, Argentine racing driver
1950 - Riff West, rock bassist (Molly Hatchet)
1950 - Ron Perlman, Bronx NY, actor (Quest for Fire, Beauty & the Beast)
1950 - Terry Lester, Indianapolis, actor (Young & Restless, As World Turns)
1951 - Beatrix "Trixie" Schuba, Austria, figure skater (Olympic-gold-1972)
1951 - Jack Quinn, (Rep-R-New York)
1951 - Max Weinberg, rock drummer (E Street Band, Conan O'Brien Show)
1951 - Peabo Bryson, Greenville SC, R&B vocalist (I'm So into You)
1951 - Peter Davison, actor (Dr Who, Sink or Swim, Fiddlers Three)
1951 - Joachim Streich, East German footballer
1952 - Jonjo O'Neill, racehorse trainer
1952 - Ron Dittemore, American space administrator
1952 - David Drew, British politician
1952 - Erick Avari, British-Indian actor
1953 - Stephen Byers, MP
1954 - Barbara Roche, MP
1954 - Jimmy Destri, rock keyboardist (Blondie-Heart of Glass, Rapture)
1954 - Niels Olsen, Danish singer
1955 - Kabaka of Buganda
1955 - Louis Johnson, LA California, rock bassist/vocalist (Brothers Johnson)
1955 - Ole von Beust, Mayor of Hamburg
1955 - Lupe Pintor, Mexican boxer
1956 - Michael Nikolay, German DR, gymnist (Olympics)
1956 - Peter 'Possum' Bourne, New Zealand rally driver (d. 2003)
1957 - Gary Kroeger, Cedar Falls Iowa, comedian (SNL, Return of Shaggy Dog)
1957 - Saundra Santiago, Bronx NY, actress (Gina-Miami Vice)
1957 - Wayne Lewis, keyboardist, (Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover)
1957 - Dallas Moir, Scottish cricketer
1957 - Amy Goodman, American activist, host of Democracy Now
1958 - Randy Piper, heavy metal rocker (Wasp-Wildchild)
1959 - Vicki Witt Lansing MI, playmate (Aug, 1978)
1960 - Rudi Völler, German football coach
1960 - Bob Casey, Jr., Democratic U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania
1960 - Olaf Ludwig, German cyclist
1961 - Tammy Stephens, Arlington Tx, singer (Girls Next Door-Don't Be Cruel)
1962 - Dave Miley, former baseball player and manager
1962 - Hillel Slovak, Israeli-born guitarist (d. 1988)
1962 - Jennifer Rubin, American actress
1963 - Gary Kimovich Kasparov, USSR, world chess champion (1985- )
1963 - Jan Willem van Ede, Dutch soccer player (FC Utrecht, PSV)
1963 - Mark Leiter, Joliet IL, pitcher (SF Giants)
1964 - Bill D'Angelo, heavy metal rocker
1964 - Davis Milton Love III, Charlotte NC, PGA golfer (1987 MCI Heritage)
1964 - Doug Strange, Greenville SC, infielder (Seattle Mariners)
1964 - Jose Rijo, pitcher (NY Yankees, Cin Reds)
1964 - Page Hannah, Chicago Ill, actress (Kate Riley-Fame)
1964 - Caroline Rhea, Canadian actress
1965 - Quinn Early, NFL wide receiver (NO Saints, Buffalo Bills)
1965 - Patricio Pouchulu, Argentinean architect
1966 - Ali Boumnijel, Tunisian football player
1966 - Marc Ford, American musician
1967 - Dana Barros, NBA guard (Boston Celtics)
1967 - Olga Tañón, Puerto Rican singer
1968 - Tami Lyn Jameson, Minneapolis, team handball goalie (Olympics-92, 96)
1968 - Ted Washington, NFL nose tackle (Buffalo Bills)
1968 - Toni Lee Jameson, Minneapolis, team handball back court (Olympics-96)
1969 - Harold Pruett, rocker (Outsiders-Time Won't Let Me)
1970 - Eddie Robinson, NFL linebacker (Houston Oilers, Jacksonville Jaguars)
1970 - Monty Brown, NFL linebacker (Buffalo Bills)
1970 - Ramona Reuter, Miss USA-NY (1997)
1970 - Rick Schroder, SI NY, actor (Ricky-Silver Spoons, Champ, Earthling)
1970 - Gerry Creaney, Scottish footballer
1971 - Charles Outlaw, NBA forward (LA Clippers, Orlando Magic)
1971 - Corey Yothers, LA California, actor (Off the Rock)
1971 - Dina Korzun, Russian actress
1971 - Bo Outlaw, American basketball player
1971 - Valensia, Dutch singer
1972 - Dave Wohlabaugh, NFL center/guard (NE Patriots)
1972 - Jeroen Thesseling, pop bassist (Pestilence, Spheres)
1972 - Mariusz Czerkawski, Radomsko Pol, NHL right wing (Edmonton Oilers)
1972 - Mike Kennedy, Vancouver, NHL left wing (Dallas Stars)
1972 - Aaron Lewis, American singer (Staind)
1973 - Aaron Hayden, NFL running back (San Diego Chargers, GB Packers-Superbowl 31)
1973 - Dave Wohlabaugh, corner (New England Patriots)
1974 - Sergei Gonchar, Chelyabinsk Russia, NHL defenseman (Capitals, Oly-S-1998)
1974 - Darren Turner , British Race Driver
1975 - Lou Bega, German-born musician and artist
1975 - Bruce Dyer, English footballer
1976 - Everton Matambanadzo, Zimbabwean cricket pace bowler (v Paki 1996)
1976 - Jonathan Brandis, Danbury Ct, actor (Lucas Wolenczak-seaQuest DSV)
1976 - Valentina Cervi, Italian actress
1976 - Yu Ji-tae, South Korean actor
1978 - Grace Murray Tubbs, Miss Montana Teen USA (1996)
1978 - Carles Puyol, Spanish footballer
1978 - Kyle Howard, American actor
1978 - Chris Sligh, American Idol finalist
1979 - Monica Ivey, Miss Hawaii Teen USA (1996)
1979 - Baron Davis, American basketball player
1979 - Meghann Shaughnessy, American tennis player
1980 - Jana Cova, Czech pornographic actress
1980 - Quentin Richardson, American basketball player
1980 - Colleen Clinkenbeard, American voice actress
1981 - Courtney Peldon, American actress
1981 - Nat Borchers, American soccer player
1982 - Nellie McKay, American singer
1982 - Janice Vidal, Hong Kong singer
1982 - Jill Vidal, Hong Kong singer
1983 - Schalk Burger, South African rugby player
1983 - Hunter Pence, American baseball player
1984 - Hiro Mizushima, Japanese actor
1987 - Brandon Hardesty, American internet entertainer
1988 - Anderson Luís de Abreu Oliveira, Brazilian footballer
1991 - Dylan Francis Penn, LA California, daughter of Sean Penn & Robin Wright
1992 - Jet Travolta, daughter of John Travolta & Kelly Preston
1992 - Emma Degerstedt, American actress
1997 - Sloane Momsen, American actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 13, 2013, 04:11:23 PM

This Day in History for 13th April


Famous Deaths

799 - Paul the Deacon / Paulus Diaconus Warnefred, Italian Benedictine monk and chronicler (born c. 720)
814 - Krum of Bulgaria
1093 - Prince Vsevolod I of Kiev (b. 1030)
1279 - Boleslaw the Pious, Polish duke
1517 - Tuman Bey, last Mamelukken sultan of Egypt, hanged
1612 - Sasaki Kojirō, Japanese samurai
1635 - Fakhr-al-Din II, Druze Prince of Lebanon (b. 1572)
1641 - Richard Montagu, English clergyman (b. 1577)
1695 - Jean de La Fontaine, poet, dies
1722 - Charles Leslie, Irish controversialist, dies
1728 - Johann Christoph Schmidt, composer, dies at 63
1742 - Giovanni Veneziano, composer, dies at 59
1756 - Johann T Gottlieb Goldberg, German klavecinist/composer, dies at 29
1793 - Pierre Gaspard Chaumette, French revolutionary (b. 1763)
1794 - Nicolas Chamfort, French writer (b. 1741)
1806 - Jean-Jacques Bachelier, French painter, dies at about 82
1822 - Gaetano Valeri, composer, dies at 61
1825 - Josef Gelinek, composer, dies at 66
1826 - Franz Danzi, composer, dies at 62
1831 - Ferdinand Kauer, composer, dies at 80
1853 - Leopold Gmelin, German chemist (b. 1788)
1853 - James Iredell, Jr., American politician (b. 1788)
1855 - Henry De la Beche, English geologist (b. 1796)
1864 - Johann Schneider, composer, dies at 74
1868 - Tewodros II / Theodorus II, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1818) commits suicide
1873 - Carlo Coccia, composer, dies at 90
1880 - Robert Fortune, Scottish botanist (b. 1813)
1882 - Bruno Bauer, German theologian (b. 1809)
1886 - Karoly Thern, composer, dies at 68
1890 - Samuel J. Randall, American politician (b. 1828)
1903 - Derk J A Haspels, Dutch actor, dies at 65
1904 - Vasili Vereshtshagin, Russian painter (War & Peace), dies
1909 - Whitley Stokes, British lawyer (b. 1830)
1910 - William Orchardson, British painter, dies
1911 - George Washington Glick, American politician (b. 1827)
1911 - John McLane, American politician (b. 1852)
1912 - Ishikawa Takuboku, Japanese author (b. 1886)
1918 - Lavr Georgevich Kornilov, Russian general (b. 1870)
1928 - Luis Iruarrizaga Aguirre, composer, dies at 36
1932 - Johannes T de Visser, 1st Dutch Min of Education, dies at 75 [or 14th]
1936 - Demertzis, Greek premier, dies
1936 - Milton Brown, American swing bandleader (b. 1903)
1938 - Archibald Belaney, Canadian conservationist (b. 1888)
1941 - Annie Jump Cannon, US astronomer (Henry Draper catalogues), dies at 77
1942 - Henk Sneevliet, leader of Dutch RSAP/Spartacus, executed at 58
1944 - Cecile Chaminade, composer, dies at 86
1944 - Paul Hazard, French literature historian, dies at 65
1945 - Ernst Cassirer, German philosopher (b. 1874)
1946 - William Henry Bell, composer, dies at 72
1949 - C V France, dies at 80
1952 - [Rosalie] Julia Cuypers, Flemish actress (Adelaarsjong), dies at 79
1954 - Angus Lewis Macdonald, Canadian politician (b. 1890)
1959 - Eduard A van Beinum, Dutch musician/conductor, dies at 57
1959 - Rigardus "Rijn" Rijnhout, Giant of Rotterdam (2.375m), dies at 38
1961 - John A. Bennett, American convicted rapist (b. 1935)
1962 - Culbert Olson, American politician (b. 1876)
1966 - Abdul Salam Arif, Iraqi politician (b. 1921)
1966 - Georges Duhamel, French writer (b. 1884)
1967 - Luis Somoza Debayle, president of Nicaragua (1956-63), dies at 44
1971 - Michel Brière, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1949)
1971 - Juhan Smuul, Estonian author (b. 1921)
1973 - Alexandre A M Stols, publisher/typographer (Schoone Book), dies at 73
1974 - Stanley Smith, actor (Honey, King of Jazz, Soup to Nuts), dies at 71
1975 - Larry Parks, actor (Jazz Singer), dies at 60
1975 - N'garta Tombalbaye, president Chad, dies
1978 - Paul McGrath, actor (Witness, No Time for Love), dies at 74
1978 - Jack Chambers, Canadian artist (b. 1931)
1980 - Markus Höttinger, Austrian racing driver (b. 1956)
1981 - Prince Asaka Yasuhiko of Japan (b. 1887)
1983 - Theodore Stephanides, Greek doctor and naturalist (b. 1896)
1984 - Christopher Wilder, FBI's "most wanted man," accidentally kills self
1984 - Ralph Kirkpatrick, American musician (b. 1911)
1984 - Dionyssis Papayannopoulos, Greek actor (b. 1912)
1986 - Stephen Stucker, actor (Trading Places, Airplane), dies
1990 - Luis Trenker, dies at 97
1990 - Ronald Ibbs, dies
1992 - Brian Oulton, dies at 84
1992 - Wallace Stegner, novelist (Pulitzer 1972), dies at 84
1992 - Walter Stuart Surridge, cricketeer (Capt of Surrey), dies at 74
1993 - Barry Karas, dies of leukemia at 49
1993 - Henny Budie, Dutch director/producer (Sterrenslag), dies
1993 - Max Tripels, Dutch attorney/MP, dies at 72
1994 - Donald Benjamin Harden, archaeologist, dies at 92
1994 - Nikolai Afanasyevich Kryuchkov, actor (Telegram), dies at 83
1994 - Nikolai Krjoetsjkov, Russian actor (Ballad of Soldatje), dies at 83
1994 - P J Engels, Dutch MP (KVP), dies at 70
1994 - Rudolf Hrusinsky, Czech actor (Short Cut, Golden Eels), dies at 72
1994 - Taleb Ali al-Suheil, Iran sheik, murdered in Lebanon at 64
1995 - Edward Firth Henderson, arabist, dies at 77
1995 - Lawrence Allan Laurie Scott, script writer, dies at 87
1996 - Denis Sargan, econometrician, dies at 71
1996 - George Mackey Brown, poet, dies at 74
1996 - James "Jimmy the Gent" Burke, criminal, dies at 64
1997 - Ann Craft, researcher/writer, dies at 53
1997 - George Wald, scientist (Nobel Prize, vitamin A in retina), dies at 80
1997 - Dorothy Frooks, American author and military figure (b. 1896)
1997 - Voldemar Väli, Estonian wrestler (b. 1903)
1998 - Patrick de Gayardon, French skydiver and skysurfer (b. 1960)
1999 - Ortvin Sarapu, New Zealand chess player (b. 1924)
1999 - Willi Stoph, German politician (b. 1914)
2000 - Giorgio Bassani, Italian writer (b. 1916)
2001 - Robert Moon, American postal inspector (b. 1917)
2002 - Desmond Titterington, Northern Irish racecar driver (b. 1928)
2003 - Possum Bourne, New Zealand rally car driver (b. 1956
2004 - Lou Berberet, American baseball player (b. 1929)
2004 - Caron Keating, British television presenter (b. 1962)
2005 - Don Blasingame, American baseball player (b. 1932)
2005 - Johnnie Johnson, American blues musician (b. 1924)
2005 - Johnny Loughrey, Irish singer (b. 1945)
2005 - Philippe Volter, Belgian actor (b. 1959)
2006 - Bill Baker, American baseball player (b. 1911)
2007 - Don Selwyn, Māori actor and film director (b. circa 1936)
2008 - John Wheeler, American physicist and educator (b. 1911)
2009 - Harry Kalas, American sportscaster (b. 1936)
2009 - Bruce Snyder, American football coach (b. 1940)
2009 - Mark Fidrych, American baseball player (b. 1954)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 14, 2013, 10:51:14 AM

This Day in History for 14th April


Historical Events

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Lexicographer Noah Webster                US President Abraham Lincoln                 March King John Philip Sousa

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26th US President                                        Author John Steinbeck                French President Georges Pompidou
Theodore Roosevelt

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Novelist Norman Mailer                           The Pianoman Billy Joel


43 BC - Battle of Forum Gallorum: Mark Antony, besieging Julius Caesar's assassin Decimus Junius
            Brutus in Mutina, defeats the forces of the consul Pansa, who is killed.
193 - Lucius Septimus Severus crowned emperor of Rome
754 - Pact of Quierzy: between Pope Stephen II, [III] & Pippin the Korte
966 - Christianisation of Poland
972 - Notger becomes bishop of Liege
979 - Challenge to throne of King Aethelred II of England
1028 - German emperor Conrad II the Sailor crowns his son Henry III, king
1191 - 85-year old Giacinto Bobo becomes Pope Coelestinus III
1341 - Sack of Saluzzo (Italy) by Italian-Angevine troops under Manfred V of Saluzzo.
1434 - The foundation stone of Cathedral St. Peter and St. Paul in Nantes, France is laid.
1471 - Battle of Barnet - King Edward IV vs Earl of Warwick
1536 - English King Henry VIII expropriates minor monasteries
1544 - Battle at Carignano: French troops under Earl d'Enghien beat Swiss
1570 - Polish Calvinists/Lutherians/Hernhutters unify against Jesuits
1574 - Battle of Mookerhei - D'Avila beats Louis of Nassau
1611 - Word "telescope" is 1st used (Prince Federico Cesi)
1629 - England & France sign Peace of Susa
1671 - Cosaks capture Russian boer leader Stenka Razin
1699 - Khalsa: Birth of Khalsa, the brotherhood of the Sikh religion, in Northern India in accordance
           with the Nanakshahi calendar.
1756 - Gov Glen of SC protests against 900 Acadia indians
1775 - 1st abolitionist society in US organizes in Phila
1777 - NY adopts new constitution as an independent state
1792 - France declares war on Austria, starting French Revolutionary Wars
1799 - Napoleon called for establishing Jerusalem for Jews
1809 - Napoleon defeated Austria in the Battle of Abensberg, Bavaria
1814 - Napoleon abdicated & was banished to Elba
1818 - US Medical Corp forms
1828 - 18-gun sloop "Acorn" sinks off Halifax with 115 men aboard
1828 - 1st edition of Noah Webster's dictionary published
1831 - Soldiers marching on a bridge in Manchester, England cause it to collapse.
1836 - Congress forms Territory of Wisconsin
1841 - Edgar Allen Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue," published
1847 - Persia & Osmaanse sign 2nd Treaty of Erzurum
1849 - Hungary declares itself independent of Austria with Louis Kossuth as its leader.
1853 - Harriet Tubman began her Underground Railroad, helping slaves escape
1860 - 1st Pony Express rider arrives in SF from St Joseph, Mo
1861 - Formal Union surrender of Ft Sumter
1861 - Robert E Lee resigns from Union army
1862 - Battle of Ft Pillow TN
1863 - William Bullock patents continuous-roll printing press
1865 - Mobile, Alabama is captured
1865 - US Secret Service created to fight counterfeiting
1865 - U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and his family are attacked in his home by Lewis
           Powell.
1865 - President Abraham Lincoln is shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater
1868 - SC voters approved constitution, 70,758 to 27,228
1871 - Canada sets denominations of currency as dollars, cents, & mills
1872 - Dominion Lands Act passed-Canada's Homestead Act
1872 - San Francisco organizes Bar Association
1881 - The Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight erupts in El Paso, Texas.
1883 - Leo Delibes' opera "Lakmé," premieres in Paris
1887 - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Reigate Squires" (BG)
1890 - Pan American Day-1st conference of American states (Wash DC)
1894 - 1st public showing of Thomas Edison's kinetoscope (moving pictures)
1895 - 1st performance of Gustav Mahler's (incomplete) 2nd Symphony
1896 - John Philip Sousa's "El Capitan," premieres (NYC)
1900 - President Loubet opens International Fairs in Paris
1900 - Veteran's Hospital at Ft Miley forms
1902 - JC Penney opens his 1st store, in Kemmerer, Wyo
1903 - Dr Harry Plotz discovers vaccine against typhoid (NYC)
1904 - George Bernard Shaw's "Candida," premiered in London
1906 - Pres Theodore Roosevelt denounces "muckrakers" in US press
1909 - Anglo-Persian Oil Company forms in London
1910 - President Taft begins tradition of throwing out ball on opening day
1910 - Pan American Union forms
1913 - Belgium begins general strike for voting rights
1914 - Stacy G Carkhuff patents non-skid tire pattern
1915 - A's Herb Pennock is within 1 out of pitching 1st Opening Day no-hitter
1915 - Dutch merchant navy ship Katwijk sunk by Germany torpedo
1915 - The Turks invade Armenia.
1917 - Chic White Sox Ed Cicotte no-hits St Louis Browns, 11-0
1918 - Douglas Campbell is 1st US ace pilot (shooting down 5th German plane)
1920 - Tornadoes killed 219 people in Alabama & Mississippi
1921 - NHL Championship: Ottawa Senators sweep Toronto St Patricks in 2 games
1921 - Prince Henry opens Rotterdam-Amsterdam-Bremen-Hamburg air route
1922 - Republic rebels occupies 4 government courts in Dublin
1923 - Etienne Oehmichen sets helicopter distance record of 358 meters
1925 - 1st regular-season Cubs game to be broadcast on radio (WGN)
1927 - The first Volvo car premieres in Gothenburg, Sweden.
1928 - Maddus Airlines starts 1st regular passenger flights between SF & LA
1928 - Stanley Cup: NY Rangers beat Montreal Maroons, 3 games to 2
1930 - Philip Barry's "Hotel Universe," premieres in NYC
1931 - Spain becomes republic with overthrow of King Alfonso XIII
1931 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Chicago Blackhawks, 3 games to 2
1932 - Bizet, Massine & Mira's "Jeux d'Enfants," premieres in Monte Carlo
1935 - Sandstorm ravages US midwest (Dust Bowl)
1939 - John Steinbeck novel "The Grapes of Wrath" published
1940 - Allied troops land in Norway
1940 - RCA demonstrated its new electron microscope in Philadelphia
1941 - 1st massive German raid in Paris, 3,600 Jews rounded up
1941 - King Peter leaves Yugoslavia
1942 - Destroyer Roper sinks German U-85 of US east coast
1943 - Gen Alexander/Eisenhower/Anderson/Bradley discuss assault on Tunis
1943 - James Gow & A d'Usseau's "Tomorrow the World," premieres in NYC
1944 - 1st Jews transported from Athens arrive at Auschwitz
1944 - Freighter "Fort Stikene" explodes in Bombay India, killing 1,376
1944 - Gen Eisenhower becomes head commander of allied air fleet
1944 - Greek Colonel Venizelos forms government
1945 - American planes bombed Tokyo & damaged the Imperial Palace
1945 - Arnhem/Zwolle freed from nazis
1945 - US 7th Army & allies forces captured Nuremberg & Stuttgart in Germany
1945 - US forces conquered Motobu peninsula on Okinawa
1945 - US marines attack Yae Take on Okinawa
1946 - "Day Before Spring" closes at National Theater NYC after 167 perfs
1946 - Manager Mel Ott of Giants hits 511th & final HR
1948 - A flash of light is observed in crater Plato on Moon
1948 - NYC subway fares jump from 5 cents to 10 cents
1948 - Stanley Cup: Toronto Maple Leafs sweep Detroit Red Wings in 4 games
1948 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
1949 - International Military Tribunal at Neurenberg's last judgment
1950 - 1st edition of British strip "Eagle"
1950 - Doorne's Auto factory opens in Netherlands
1953 - Viet-Minh offensive in Laos
1953 - WHYN (now WGGB) TV channel 40 in Springfield-Holyoke, MA (ABC) begins
1954 - Soviet diplomat Vladimir Petrov asks for politics asylum in Canberra
1955 - Elston Howard becomes the 1st black to wear the Yankee uniform
1955 - Stanley Cup: Detroit Red Wings beat Montreal Canadiens, 4 games to 3
1955 - WBRZ TV channel 2 in Baton Rouge, LA (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
1956 - "Plain & Fancy" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 476 perfs
1956 - Ampex Corp demonstrates 1st commercial videotape recorder
1957 - Leah Neuberger wins her 8th women's singles ping pong championship
1957 - Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Dallas Golf Open
1958 - Sputnik 2 (with dog Laika) burns up in atmosphere
1959 - (Robert) Taft Memorial Bell Tower dedicated in Wash DC
1959 - KDIN TV channel 11 in Des Moines, IA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1960 - "Bye Bye Birdie" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 607 performances
1960 - 1st underwater launching of Polaris missile
1960 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens sweep Toronto Maple Leafs in 4 games
1961 - 1st live television broadcast from Soviet Union
1961 - Cuban-American invasion army departs Nicaragua
1961 - US element 103 (Lawrencium) discovered
1962 - Demonstration for sovereign status of New-Guinea in Amsterdam
1962 - Georges Pompidou becomes president of France
1963 - George Harrison is impressed by unsigned group "Rolling Stones"
1964 - Sandy Koufax throws his 9th complete game without allowing a walk
1965 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967 - Gen Gnassingbe Eyadema becomes president of Togo
1967 - In the Vietnam War, US planes bombed Haiphong for 1st time
1967 - Red Sox rookie Billy Rohome comes within 1 strike of a no hitter at
1967 - Yankee Stadium, Elston Howard singles on a 3-2 pitch
1968 - 1st NBA game at Madison Sq Garden, Knicks beat SD Clippers
1968 - 32nd Golf Masters Championship: Bob Goalby wins, shooting a 277
1968 - Marilynn Smith wins LPGA O'Sullivan Golf Open
1968 - Roberto de Vicenzo loses Masters for signing an incorrect score card
1969 - 1st major league baseball game outside US played (Montreal Canada)
1969 - 41st Academy Awards - "Oliver," C Robertson & K Hepburn/Striesand win
1969 - KEET TV channel 13 in Eureka, CA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1969 - Student Afro-American Society seized at Columbia College
1969 - Tornado strikes Dacca East Pakistan killing 540
1970 - "Boy Friend" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 119 performances
1971 - Fort Point, SF dedicated as a national historic site
1971 - President Nixon ends blockade against People's Republic of China
1971 - Stephen Sondheim's musical "Follies," premieres in NYC
1971 - Supreme Court upheld busing as means of achieving racial desegregation
1972 - "That's Entertainment" opens at Edison Theater NYC for 4 performances
1973 - Acting FBI director L Patrick Gray resigns after admitting he destroyed evidence in the
           Watergate scandal
1974 - 38th Golf Masters Championship: Gary Player wins, shooting a 278
1977 - Supreme Court says people may refuse to display state motto on license
1978 - David Hare's "Plenty," premieres in London
1978 - Korean Air Lines Boeing 707, fired on by Soviets, crashes in Russia
1978 - WRR-AM in Dallas Texas changes call letters to KAAM
1978 - 1978 Tbilisi Demonstrations: Thousands of Georgians demonstrate against Soviet attempts
           to change the constitutional status of the Georgian language.
1979 - Susan Horvath, of Penn, crowned America's Young Woman of the Year
1980 - 1st Cubans of the Mariel boatlift sail to Florida
1980 - 52nd Academy Awards - "Kramer vs Kramer," D Hoffman & Sally Field win
1980 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Norman Mailer (Executioner's Song)
1981 - 1st Space Shuttle-Columbia 1-returns to Earth
1983 - Isles tie own rec with 2 shorthanded playoff goals in a pd vs Ranger
1983 - Pres Reagan signs $165 billion Social Security rescue
1983 - Rangers 1-Isles 4-Patrick Div Finals-Isles hold 1-0 lead
1984 - Farewell concert of "Doe Maar" in Den Bosch Neth
1985 - "Take Me Along!" opens/closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC
1985 - 49th Golf Masters Championship: Bernhard Langer wins, shooting a 282
1985 - Ahmed Salah wins 1st World Cup marathon (2:08:09)
1985 - Alan Garcia wins elections in Peru
1985 - Beth Daniel wins LPGA Kyocera Inamori Golf Classic
1985 - Bob Carpenter is unsuccessful on Wash Caps 1st playoff penalty shot
1985 - Caps 4-Isles 6-Patrick Div Semifinals-Series tied at 2-2
1985 - Jack C Burcham is 5th to receive "Jarvik 7" permanent artificial heart
1986 - 21st Academy of Country Music Awards: G Strait, Alabama, R McEntire
1986 - Desmond Tutu elected Anglican archbishop of Capetown
1986 - Double-decker ferry sinks in stormy weather in Bangladesh killing 200
1986 - US aircraft attacks 5 terrorist locations in Libya
1987 - Turkey asks to join European market
1988 - "Mail" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 36 performances
1988 - Devils 6-5 over Islanders-Devils take 1st round 4-2
1988 - USSR, US, Pakistan & Afghanistan sign Afghanistan treaty
1989 - 1,100,000,000th Chinese born
1989 - In the Iran-Contra trial, Oliver North's case goes to the jury
1991 - "Mule Bone" closes at Ethel Barrymore Theater NYC after 67 perfs
1991 - "Oh, Kay!" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC
1991 - 55th Golf Masters Championship: Ian Woosnam wins, shooting a 277
1991 - Chic Blackhawks becomes 1st NHL regular season champion in 20 years to lose in 1st round
           of the playoffs (To Minn North Stars)
1992 - "Guys & Dolls" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 1143 performances
1992 - "Les Miserables," opens at Palace Theatre, Manchester
1992 - Court throws out Apple's lawsuit against Microsoft
1992 - UAW ends 5 month strike against Caterpillar Inc
1992 - UN imposes embargo against Libya takes effect
1994 - Billy Joel & Christie Brinkley announces plans to divorce
1994 - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis operated on for a bleeding ulcer
1994 - NJ Devils end best regular season, 47-25-12 record for 106 points
1994 - US F-15 accidentally shoots 2 US helicopters down over Iraq, 26 die
1994 - Branch Davidian cult leader David Koresh promises to surrender after completion of his Seven
           Seals manuscript
1995 - India beats Sri Lanka to win the Asia Cricket Cup final in Sharjah
1995 - Rosie Jones wins LPGA Pinewild Women's Golf Championship
1996 - "Apple Doesn't Fall" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 1 performance
1996 - 60th Golf Masters Championship: Nick Faldo wins, shooting a 276
1996 - Detroit Red Wings win NHL record 62 games
1999 - NATO mistakenly bombs a convoy of ethnic Albanian refugees - Yugoslav officials say 75
           people are killed.
1999 - A severe hailstorm strikes Sydney, Australia causing A$1.7 billion in insured damages, the
          most costly natural disaster in Australian history.
2000 - Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich files a lawsuit against P2P sharing phenomenon Napster. This
           law-suit eventually leads the movement against file-sharing programs.
2002 - Tiger Woods becomes the third golfer to win The Masters in two consecutive years
2002 - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returns to office two days after being ousted and arrested
           by the country's military.
2003 - The Human Genome Project is completed with 99% of the human genome sequenced to an
           accuracy of 99.99%.
2003 - U.S. troops in Baghdad capture Abu Abbas, leader of the Palestinian group that killed an
           American on the hijacked cruise liner the Achille Lauro in 1985.
2005 - The U.S. Oregon Supreme Court nullifies marriage licenses issued to gay couples a year earlier
           by Multnomah County.
2007 - At least 200,000 demonstrators in Ankara, Turkey protest against the possible candidacy of
           incumbent Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
2010 - Icelandic Volcano Eyjafjallajökull begins erupting from the top crater in the centre of the
           glacier

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 14, 2013, 10:54:07 AM

This Day in History for 14th April


Famous Weddings

2007 - Supermodel Esther Canadas (30) weds MotoGP rider Sete Gibernau (34) in Spain
2007 - Two and a Half Men actress Melanie Lynskey (29) weds actor Jimmi Simpson (31) in a chapel
           overlooking a vineyard on Lake Hayes, near Queenstown, New Zealand
2007 - "Rocky" film series actor Carl Weathers (59) weds award-winning producer Jennifer Peterson
            on a seaside wedding in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
2012 - "Lady Antebellum" singer Dave Haywood (29) weds executive with Warner Bros. Records Kelli
            Cashiola (30) in Nashville, Tennessee

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 14, 2013, 10:55:40 AM

This Day in History for 14th April


Famous Divorces

1994 - Musician Billy Joel & supermodel Christie Brinkley announce plans to divorce

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 14, 2013, 11:08:07 AM

This Day in History for 14th April


Famous Birthdays

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Guitarist Ritchie Blackmore (1945)          Actor Robert Carlyle (1961)            Actress Sarah Michelle Gellar (1977)


1336 - Emperor Go-Kōgon of Japan (d. 1374)
1572 - Adam Tanner, Austrian mathematician (d. 1632)
1578 - Philip III, King of Spain & Portugal (1598-1621)
1592 - Abraham Elsevier, book publisher/publisher
1629 - Christian Huygens, Holland, astronomer (discovered Saturn's rings)
1668 - Magnus Julius De la Gardie, Swedish General (d. 1741)
1676 - Ernst Chreistian Hesse, composer
1710 - Marie A C de Camargo, Spanish/Italian/Belgian dancer
1714 - Adam Gib, Scottish religious leader (d. 1788)
1718 - Emanuele Barbella, composer
1721 - William August duke of Cumberland, English army leader
1723 - John Wainwright, composer
1738 - William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1783, 1807-09) Dies 1809.
1741 - Emperor Momozono of Japan (d. 1762)
1762 - Giuseppe Valadier, Italian architect/archaeologist
1770 - George Canning, London, British PM (1827)
1782 - Carlo Coccia, composer
1788 - David G. Burnet, interim president of the Republic of Texas (d. 1870)
1797 - Adolphe Thiers, 1st president of 3rd French Republic (1871-77)
1803 - Friedrich von Amerling, Austrian painter
1809 - George W Vreede, Dutch lawyer/politician
1813 - Junius S Morgan, US, merchant/philanthropist (Metro Museum of Art)
1818 - Marie of Saxe-Altenburg, queen of Hanover (d. 1909)
1819 - Charles Halle, pianist/conductor/founder (Halle Orch)
1820 - Harry Thompson Hays, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1876
1827 - Augustus Pitt Rivers, English archaeologist (d. 1900)
1831 - Gerhard Rohlfs, German explorer/ambassador in Abyssinia
1832 - James Hewett Ledlie, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1882
1842 - Sven August Korling, composer
1843 - Gustave Leon Huberti, composer
1852 - Henrique Oswald, composer
1857 - Edgar Stillman Kelley, Sparta Wisconsin, composer (Gulliver)
1861 - Bion Joseph Arnold, electrical engineer/inventor
1862 - Pyotr A Stolypin, premier Russia (1906-11)
1866 - Anne Mansfield Sullivan, US, educated Helen Keller
1868 - Peter Behrens, German architect (d. 1940)
1870 - Syd Gregory, cricketer (Australian batsman in 58 Tests 1890-1912)
1870 - Victor Borisov-Musatov, Russian painter (d. 1905)
1872 - Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Indian-born Islamic scholar and translator (d. 1953)
1873 - Viktor Joseph Keldorfer, composer
1874 - Count Alexander, of Athlone, gov-gen (South-Africa/Canada)
1876 - Murray Bisset, cricketer (South African wicket-keeper 1899 & 1910)
1877 - Daniel Plooy, Dutch new testament scholar
1879 - James Branch Cabell, American novelist/essayist (Restless Heads)
1881 - Anton Wildgans, Austrian writer/director (Burg Theater)
1882 - Moritz Schlick, Austrian philosopher, (d. 1936)
1886 - Edward C Tolman, US psychologist (behaviorism)
1886 - Ernst R Curtius, German literature historian
1889 - Arnold Toynbee, England, historian (Study of History)
1889 - Efim D Bogoljubov, Russian chess player
1889 - James Stephenson, actor (Letter, Espionage Agent, Nancy Drew)
1891 - B. R. Ambedkar, Indian jurist (d.1956)
1892 - Giorgio Cesana, Italy, coxswain, (Olympic-gold-1906)
1892 - Vere G Childe, British archaeologist/prehistorian
1895 - Mary Marquet, St Petersburg Russia, actress (Matter of Resistance)
1895 - Wiktor Labunski, composer
1897 - Barbara baroness Wootton of Abinger, English Lower house leader
1897 - Claire Windsor, American actress (d. 1972)
1898 - Lee Tracy, Atlanta Ga, actor (Martin Kane-Martin Kane Private Eye)
1900 - Salvatore Baccaloni, Rome, actor (Merry Andrew, Rock-a-Bye Baby)
1901 - Alfred West, champion cyclist/record hair splitter (17 splits)
1901 - Martin Kessel, writer
1902 - Menachem A Schneerson, rebee (head of Lubavitcher Jews)
1902 - Sylvio Mantha, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1974)
1904 - John Gielgud, London England, actor (Arthur, Ages of Man)
1904 - Lionel Birkett, cricketer (WI vice-capt on Australian tour 1930-31)
1904 - Reinout W van Bemmelen, Dutch geologist
1904 - Sonia Gaskell, Russian/Neth choreographer
1905 - Frits Philips, Dutch engineer/CEO (Philips)
1905 - Holmesdale Charles "Slinger" Nitschke, cricket batsman (S Aus & Test)
1905 - Elizabeth Huckaby, American educator (d. 1999)
1906 - Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz, King Saudi-Arabia (1964-75)
1906 - Hunter Johnson, composer
1907 - Francois "Doc" Duvalier, dictator of Haiti
1907 - Otto F A H van Nispen, Dutch mayor (Pannerden)/MP (KVP)
1907 - Phyllis Konstam, London England, actress (Murder, Skin Game)
1910 - Werner Wolf Glaser, composer
1912 - Belinda Quirey, dance historian/teacher
1912 - Piet van Egmond, Dutch organist/conductor (Neth Chamber Orch)
1912 - Robert Doisneau, photographer
1913 - Everhard van Royen, Dutch flautist/founder (Alma musica)
1913 - Jean Fournet, French conductor
1913 - John Howard, Cleve Ohio, actor (Dave-My Three Sons)
1916 - Commandur Rajagopalachari Rangachari, cricketer (India 1947-48)
1916 - Denis ApIvor, composer
1916 - Emerson Buckley, composer
1917 - Valerie Hobson, North Ireland, actress (Great Expectations)
1917 - Marvin Miller, American labor activist, (d. 2012)
1918 - Mary Healy, New Orleans, actress (2nd Fiddle, He Married his Wife)
1920 - Eduardo Maturana, composer
1920 - John Paul Stevens, Supreme Court Justice
1921 - Thomas Schelling, American economist, Nobel laureate
1922 - David Alexandrovich Toradze, composer
1922 - Maria Luisa Bemberg, film maker
1923 - William Darling, journalist
1923 - Roberto DeVicenzo, Argentine golf player
1924 - Shorty Rogers, [Milton M Rajonsky], composer
1925 - Abel Muzorewa, bishop/premier (Rhodesia)
1925 - Bill Harris, US guitarist (Clovers-Good Lovin')
1925 - H G Kischenchand, cricketer (5 Tests for India 1947-52)
1925 - Rod Steiger, West Hampton NY, actor (Illustrated Man, Pawnbroker)
1926 - Jan Carl Christian Maegaard, composer
1926 - Frank Daniel, Czech-born writer, director and teacher (d. 1996)
1926 - Liz Renay, American actress (d. 2007)
1927 - Dany Robin, actress (Follow the Boys, Topaz, Jupiter, Julietta)
1927 - Gloria Jean, Buffalo NY, actress (Never Give a sorryer an Even Break)
1929 - William Edgar Thornton, Faison NC, MD/astronaut (STS-8, 51-B, sk:49)
1929 - Gerry Anderson, English television producer, (d. 2012)
1930 - Bradford Dillman, SF California, actor (Piranha, Sudden Impact, Enforcer)
1930 - George W Gekas, (Rep-R-PA, 1983- )
1930 - Jay Robinson, NYC, actor (Born Again, Malibu Bikini Shop)
1931 - Paul Masnick, Canadian ice hockey player
1932 - Bob Grant, English actor (d. 2003)
1933 - Buddy Knox, Happy Tx, rock vocalist (Party Doll, Lovey Dovey)
1933 - Morton Subotnick, LA California, composer (Wild Bull)
1934 - Bruce Pairaudeau, cricketer (WI opening bat in 13 Tests, 115 on debut)
1934 - Fredric Jameson, American philosopher, cultural theorist
1935 - Joan Darling, Boston, actress (Frieda-Owen Marshall)
1935 - Loretta Lynn, Butcher's Hollow Ky, singer (Coal Miner's Daughter)
1935 - Erich von Däniken, Swiss writer
1936 - Robert Herman Nichols, Louisville KY, PGA golfer (1986 Showdown)
1936 - Kenneth Mars, American actor
1936 - Frank Serpico, American policeman
1938 - Gloria Dean Randle Scott, educator/pres (Beaumont College)
1939 - Jennifer Fowler, composer
1940 - Patricia Bruder, Bkln NY, actress (Ellen-As the World Turns)
1941 - Anatoli Pavlocich Fyodorov, cosmonaut
1941 - Julie Christie, Assam India, actress (Dr Zhivago)
1941 - Pete Rose, Cincinnati Reds, Charlie hustle (most hits in majors)
1941 - Ryan O'Neal, actor (Love Story, Paper Moon)
1942 - Valentin Vitaliyevich Lebedev, cosmonaut (Soyuz 13, 35, T-5)
1942 - Björn Rosengren, Swedish politician
1943 - Clarice Elaine Gaylord, director of research grants (EPA)
1943 - Yvonne Vriens-Auerbach, Dutch MP (CDA)
1945 - Derek Leckenby, rocker/actor (Mrs Brown You've Got a Lovely Daughter)
1945 - Ritchie Blackmore, Engld, guitarist (Rainbow-Stone Cold, Deep Purple)
1945 - Steve Martin, Waco TX, writer/actor (Jerk, Housesitter)
1945 - Uwe Beyer, German DR, shot-putter (Olympic-gold-1976)
1945 - Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi, 8th Prime Minister of Samoa
1946 - Patrick Fairley, guitarist (Marmalade-Oh La Di Oh La Do)
1946 - Tom Monteleone, US writer (Dark Star & Illumination)
1947 - Bob Massie, cricketer (Aust swing bowler, 16 wkts on debut v Eng 1972)
1948 - Chester G Atkins, (Rep-D-MA)
1948 - Larry Ferguson, Nassau, keyboardist (Hot Chocolate-You Sexy Thing)
1948 - Ty Grimes, rocker (Capt Beefheart Band Drums
1948 - Anastasios Papaligouras, Greek lawyer and politician
1949 - John Shea, North Conway NH, actor (Honeymoon, New Life, Lois & Clark)
1949 - Michael Shea, Glendale NY, actor (Lucas- New Dick Van Dyke Show)
1949 - DeAnne Julius, American/English economist
1950 - Anna M "Ansje" Beentjes, actress (Blindgangers)
1950 - Randolph Powell, Iowa City Iowa, actor (Alan-Dallas, Logan's Run)
1950 - Francis Collins, American scientist
1951 - Matima Kinuani Mpiosso, musician
1951 - Julian Lloyd Webber, English cellist
1952 - Kenny Aaronson, rocker
1952 - Mickey O'Sullivan, Irish sportsman
1953 - Irina Rudolfovna Pronina, Russian cosmonaut
1953 - David Buss, Evolutionary psychologist
1954 - Bruce Sterling, US, sci-fi author (Involution Ocean, Schismatrix)
1955 - Simone Griffeth, Savannah Georgia, actress (Death Race 2000, Amanda's)
1957 - Lothaire Bluteau, Canadian actor
1957 - Richard Jeni, American comedian (d. 2007)
1957 - Mikhail Pletnev, Russian pianist, conductor and composer
1958 - Michael Patrick Hulbert, Elmira NY, PGA golfer (1989 BC Open)
1958 - John D'Aquino, American actor
1960 - Brian Forster, rocker (Partridge Family Drums)
1960 - Pat Symcox, cricketer (South African off-spinner 1993- )
1961 - John Clarke, actor (Mickey-Days of Our Life)
1961 - Robert Carlyle, Glasgow, Scotland, British actor (Trainspotting, The Full Monty)
1962 - James Carpenter, Canton Conn, fencer-epee (Olympics-96)
1963 - Cynthia Cooper, WNBA guard (Houston Comets/Olympic-gold-1988)
1963 - Meg Mallon, Natick MA, LPGA golfer (1991 US Women's Open)
1964 - Allen James, Sacramento California, 50K walker (Olympics-24th-92, 96)
1964 - Greg Battle, CFL linebacker (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1964 - Jim Grabb, Tucson AZ, tennis star
1965 - Craig McDermott, cricket pace bowler (tireless Austr since 1984)
1965 - Stan Humphries, NFL quarterback (San Diego Chargers)
1965 - Tom Dey, American film director
1966 - David Justice, baseball player (Atlanta Braves)/husband of Halle Barry
1966 - Greg Maddux, San Angelo TX, pitcher (Atlanta Braves)
1966 - Greg Myers, Riverside CA, catcher (Minnesota Twins)
1966 - Ricky Andrews, WLAF linebacker (Rhein Fire)
1966 - André Boisclair, Quebec politician (Parti Québécois)
1967 - Barret Martin, rocker (Screaming Trees)
1967 - Jeff Finley, Edmonton, NHL defenseman (Winnipeg Jets)
1967 - Marla Wynne, Easton Penn, Miss Penn-America (1991) (top 10)
1967 - Steve Chiasson, Barrie, NHL defenseman (Calgary Flames)
1967 - Barrett Martin, American drummer and composer
1967 - Nicola Berti, Italian International footballer
1967 - Alain Côté, French Canadian ice hockey player
1968 - Andrew Trim, Sydney NSW Australia, canoeist (Olympics-96)
1968 - Anthony Michael Hall, Boston Mass, comedian (SNL, Breakfast Club)
1968 - Jesse Levis, Philadephia PA, catcher (Milwaukee Brewers)
1969 - Brad Ausmus, New Haven CT, catcher (Detroit Tigers)
1969 - Brad Pennington, Salem IN, pitcher (California Angels)
1969 - David Archibald, Chilliwack, NHL center (Ottawa Senators)
1969 - Mark Macon, NBA guard (Detroit Pistons)
1969 - Tim Roberts, NFL defensive end (NE Patriots)
1969 - Vebjørn Selbekk, Norwegian journalist
1969 - Martyn LeNoble, Dutch musician
1970 - Brian Stablein, NFL wide receiver (Indianapolis Colts)
1970 - Jan Siemerink, Neth, tennis star
1970 - Steve Avery, Trenton MI, pitcher (Atlanta Braves)
1970 - Shizuka Kudō, Japanese singer
1970 - Emre Altuğ, Turkish singer
1971 - Antonio London, NFL linebacker (Detroit Lions)
1971 - Gregory Zaun, Glendale CA, catcher (Baltimore Orioles)
1971 - Miguel Calero, Colombian footballer, (d. 2012)
1971 - Peter Gibson, American writer
1972 - Jason Mallett, CFL safety (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1972 - Zev Lumelski, WLAF guard (Amsterdam Admirals)
1972 - Paul Devlin, England-born Scottish footballer
1973 - Roberto Ayala, Argentine footballer
1973 - Adrien Brody, American actor
1973 - David Miller, American tenor (Il Divo)
1974 - Mike Allen Lambert, Honolulu HI, volleyball opposite hitter (Oly-96)
1974 - Shawntae Harris, American rapper
1975 - Petra Begerow, Germany, tennis star (1996 quarter Hilton Head)
1975 - Avner Dorman, Israeli composer
1975 - Amy Dumas, American professional wrestler
1975 - Veronika Zemanová, Czech model
1975 - Anderson Silva, Brazilian mixed martial artist
1976 - Baedon Choppy, Australian field hockey forward (Olympics-96)
1976 - Jason Wiemer, Kimberley, NHL left wing (Tampa Bay Lightning)
1976 - Kyle Farnsworth, American baseball player
1976 - Christian Älvestam, Swedish musician (Scar Symmetry)
1977 - Sarah Michelle Gellar, actress (Kendall-All My Children, Buffy)
1978 - Paul O'Brien, Australian actor
1979 - Randal McCloy, Survivor of the Sago Mine Disaster
1979 - Noé Pamarot, French footballer
1979 - Rebecca DiPietro, American model
1980 - Ben Wells, American actor
1980 - Win Butler, American/Canadian musician (Arcade Fire)
1983 - James McFadden, Scottish footballer
1983 - William Yaw Obeng, Arena Football League lineman
1983 - Nikoloz Tskitishvili, American basketball player
1984 - Adán Sánchez, Mexican-American singer (d. 2004)
1986 - Matt Derbyshire, English footballer
1986 - Anne Watanabe, Japanese model
1993 - Vivien Cardone, an American actress
1993 - Graham Phillips (actor), American actor
1996 - Abigail Breslin, American child actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 14, 2013, 11:14:33 AM

This Day in History for 14th April


Famous Deaths

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Composer                                               Musician Pete Farndon (1983)
George Friedrich Handel (1759)


711 - Childebert III, king of French, dies at about 27
911 - Sergius III, Italian Pope (904-11), dies
1099 - Conrad, bishop of Utrecht, stabbed to death
1132 - Mstislav of Kiev (b. 1076)
1240 - Llywelyn ap Iorwerth, Prince of Wales, dies
1279 - Boleslaus of Greater Poland
1322 - Bartholomew de Badlesmere, 1st Lord Badlesmere, English soldier (b. 1275)
1345 - Richard Aungerville, English bishop and writer (b. 1287)
1427 - John IV, duke of Brabant, dies
1433 - Liduina van Schiedam, Dutch mystic (Christ's Bride)/saint, dies at 53
1471 - Richard Neville Warwick, 2nd earl of Salisbury, dies at 42
1552 - Laurentius Andreae, [Lars Andersson], Swedish church reformer, dies
1574 - Christoffel Palts, German general strategist, dies in battle
1574 - Hendrik, count of Nassau-Dillenburg, dies in battle
1574 - Louis, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg, dies in battle at 35
1578 - James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, consort of Mary I of Scotland
1599 - Henry Wallop, English statesman
1655 - Johann Erasmus Kindermann, composer, dies at 39
1662 - William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele, English statesman (b. 1582)
1682 - Avvakum, Russian priest and writer (b. 1621)
1692 - Carlos de Gurrea, Spanish viceroy (Spanish Netherlands), dies
1695 - Jean de la Fontaine, French poet (Fables), dies at 73
1716 - Arthur Herbert, 1st Earl of Torrington, British admiral
1721 - Michel Chamillart, French statesman (b. 1652)
1759 - Georg Friedrich Handel, organist/composer (Watermusic), dies at 74
1764 - Peder [Nielsen] Horrebow, Danish astronomer, dies at 84
1785 - William Whitehead, English writer (b. 1715)
1792 - Maximilian Hell, Slovakian astronomer (b. 1720)
1813 - Joachim Nicolas Eggert, composer, dies at 34
1843 - Joseph Franz Karl Lanner, Austria, composer/violist, dies at 42
1874 - Hermanus J Abbring, Dutch author/engineer on Curacao, dies at 86
1888 - William Fisk Sherwin, composer, dies at 62
1910 - Mikhail Vrubel, Russian painter (b. 1856)
1911 - Addie Joss, American baseball player (b. 1880)
1911 - Henri Elzéar Taschereau, French Canadian jurist and Chief Justice of Canada (b. 1836)
1912 - Henri Brisson, French statesman (b. 1835)
1913 - Karl Hagenbeck, German animal trainer (Von Tieren), dies at 68
1914 - Paul Ehrenreich, German etnologist/mythologist, dies at 58
1914 - Hubert Bland, English co-founder of the Fabian Society (b. 1855)
1915 - James Hutton Brew, Pioneer of West African Journalism, dies
1917 - Lew [Lejzer L] Zamenhof, Polish doc/linguist (Esperanto), dies at 57
1924 - Louis H Sullivan, architect (Wainwright building St Louis), dies at 67
1924 - Roland Napoleon Bonaparte, Fr officer/explorer (Surinam), dies at 65
1925 - Pieter D van Essen, Dutch artillery officer, dies at 54
1930 - W Majakowski, writer, dies at 36
1934 - Gerald du Maurier, British actor-manager (Unmarried, Escape), dies
1934 - Karl Dane, dies at 57
1935 - Amalie Emmy Noether, German mathematician (b. 1882)
1941 - Jack Edmonson, Australian corporal in Tobruk (Victoria Cross), dies
1941 - Guillermo Kahlo, father of Frida Kahlo (b. 1871)
1943 - Asser B Kleerekoper, SDAP-Second-Member of parliament, dies at 62
1943 - Geoffrey Turton Shaw, composer, dies at 63
1948 - Walter P Reuther, Pres (United Auto Workers), shot at his home
1949 - Joseph A Cushman, US paleontologist, dies at 68
1950 - Sri Ramana Maharshi, Indian philosopher (b. 1879)
1953 - Emmanuel K de Bom, Flemish writer (Scheldelucht), dies at 84
1960 - Archibald McIndoe, plastic surgeon, dies
1964 - Bert McGirr, cricketer (2 Tests for NZ, 51 runs), dies
1964 - Earle Hodgins, actor (Guestward Ho!), dies at 64
1964 - Rachel L Carson, US biologist/author (Silent spring), dies at 56
1964 - Tatyana Alexeyevna Afanasyeva, Russian/Dutch mathematician (b. 1876)
1965 - Leonard Mudie, dies of heart ailment at 82
1965 - Perry E Smith, US murderer (In Cold Blood), hanged
1965 - Robert E Hickok, US murderer (In Cold Blood), hanged
1968 - Al Benton, American baseball player (b. 1911)
1971 - Armand Spitz, developer of small educational planetarium, dies
1973 - Magda Janssens, Flemish actress (Nederlands in 7 Lessons), dies at 88
1973 - Minna Gombell, dies in Santa Monica CA
1975 - Fredric March, actor (Inherit the Wind), dies at 77
1976 - Maude Prickett, actress (Rosie-Hazel), dies at 60
1976 - José Revueltas, Mexican writer (b. 1914)
1977 - Riekus Waskowsky, Dutch poet, dies at 44
1980 - Tom Fadden, actor (Duffeild-Broken Arrow, Cimarron City), dies at 84
1983 - Nina Dumbadze, Russian discus thrower (Oly-bronze-1952), dies at 64
1983 - Pete Farndon, rock bassist (Pretenders), dies
1983 - Willem F Bon, Dutch composer, dies at 42
1984 - Dionisis Papagiannopoulos, Greek actor (b. 1912)
1985 - Enver Hoxha, Albanian leader (1944-85), dies
1985 - Reginald Beane, pianist (Starlit Time, Once Upon a Tune), dies at 63
1987 - Karl Holler, composer, dies at 79
1988 - Herbert Reynolds Inch, composer, dies at 83
1988 - Johan Franco, composer, dies at 79
1988 - John Stonehouse, British politician (b. 1925)
1989 - Lance Pierre, cricketer (Test WI v Engl 1948, DNB, 7 overs 0-28), dies
1990 - Martin Kessel, writer, dies on 89th birthday
1990 - Peter Dunn, actor (Invaders from Mars) dies
1990 - Thurston Harris, American singer (b. 1931)
1992 - David Miller, dies of cancer at 82
1992 - Sammy Price, US boogie-woogie pianist, dies
1993 - Jo Boer, Dutch painter/writer/author (Heir, dies at 85
1993 - Sam Ntombani, ANC-secretary in Soweto South-Africa, shot to death
1994 - Selometsi Baholo, vice-premier of Lesotho, murdered
1994 - Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, Pakistani scientist and scholar (b. 1897)
1995 - Brian Coffey, poet, dies at 89
1995 - Burl Ives, folk singer/actor (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), dies at 85
1995 - Donald Keech, entrepreneur, dies at 74
1995 - James Daniel "Danny" Turner, saxophonist, dies at 75
1995 - Michael Scott Montague Fordham, jungian analyst educator, dies at 89
1996 - Benjamin "Zik" Azikiwe Nnamdi, politician, dies at 91
1996 - Gaylord Birch, drummer (Pointer Sisters, Herbie Hancock), dies at 50
1996 - Manuel A "Manny" Greenhill, record producer, dies at 80
1996 - Mervyn Levy, artist/critic, dies at 81
1996 - William K Everson, film historian, dies at 67
1999 - Ellen Corby, American actress (b. 1911)
1999 - Anthony Newley, British actor and singer (b. 1931)
2000 - Frenchy Bordagaray, American baseball player (b. 1910)
2000 - Phil Katz, American computer programmer (b. 1962)
2000 - Wilf Mannion, English footballer (b. 1918)
2001 - Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japanese director (b. 1927)
2001 - Jim Baxter, Scottish footballer (b. 1939)
2004 - Micheline Charest, French Canadian television producer (b. 1953)
2006 - Mahmut Bakalli, Kosovo politician (b. 1936)
2007 - June Callwood, Canadian journalist, author and social activist (b. 1924)
2007 - Don Ho, American musician (b. 1930)
2008 - Tommy Holmes, American baseball player (b. 1918)
2008 - Ollie Johnston, the last living member of Disney's Nine Old Men. (b. 1912)
2008 - Miguel Galvan, Mexican actor/comedian. (b. 1957)
2010 - Peter Steele, American musician. (b. 1968)
2011 - Walter Breuning, American supercentenarian (b. 1896)
2012 - Émile Bouchard, Canadian ice hockey player, dies at 92

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 15, 2013, 09:01:21 AM

This Day in History for 15th April


Historical Events

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Composer                                               Chancellor Otto Von Bismarck                 Baseball Great Babe Ruth
George Friedrich Handel

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MacDonalds Entreprenuer                           Dictator Fidel Castro                     Composer & Singer Quincy Jones Jr
Ray Kroc

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Actor William Shatner


69 - Battle at Bedriacum, North-Italy
1205 - Battle at Adrianople: Bulgaria beats Emp Boudouin of Constantinople
1250 - Pope Innoncent III refuses Jews of Cordova Spain to build a synagogue
1450 - French defeat English at Battle of Formigny in 100 Years' War
1493 - -20/4 Barcelona] Columbus meets with King Ferdinand & Isabella
1581 - Cortes van Thomar accepts Philip II as king of Portugal
1594 - Fleming Pieter Stevens appointed royal painter of Rudolf II (Prague)
1621 - Hugo the Great arrives in France
1632 - Battle of Rain; Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeat Count Tilly of the Holy Roman Empire
           during the Thirty Years' War.
1654 - England & Netherlands signs peace treaty
1689 - French king Louis XIV declares war on Spain
1697 - Charles XII succeeds Charles XI as King of Sweden
1715 - Pocotaligo Massacre triggers the start of the Yamasee War in colonial South Carolina.
1716 - Russian & Prussian troops occupy Wismar
1729 - Johann S Bachs "Mattheus Passion" premieres in Leipzig
1738 - Bottle opener invented
1738 - Premiere in London of Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel.
1755 - Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language published in London.
1776 - Duchess of Kingston found guilty of bigamy
1788 - England, Netherlands & Prussia sign peace treaty
1793 - Bank of England hands out 1st £5 note
1802 - William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy see a "long belt" of daffodils, inspiring the former
           to pen I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.
1817 - 1st American school for the deaf opens (Hartford Conn)
1850 - City of San Francisco incorporated
1851 - Earl G Andressy sentenced to death in Hungary
1853 - Protestant church questions king Willem III RC bishops
1858 - Battle of Azimghur, Mexicans defeat Spanish loyalists
1861 - Federal army (75,000 volunteers) mobilized by US President Lincoln
1864 - General Steeles' Union troops occupies Camden, Arkansas
1865 - Otto von Bismarck elevated to rank of Count of Bismarck-Schönhausen
1870 - Last day US silver coins allow to circulate in Canada
1874 - NY legislature passes compulsory education law
1877 - 1st telephone installed: Boston-Somerville, Mass
1878 - Harley Procter introduces Ivory Soap
1892 - General Electric Company, forms & is incorporated in NY
1895 - Josephine Blatt (US) makes hip-and-harness lift of 3564 lb (record)
1896 - 1st Olympic games close at Athens, Greece
1900 - An early 50 mile race is won by an electric car in over 2 hrs
1900 - International Exposition opens in Paris
1901 - 1st British motorized burial
1902 - Pope Leo XIII encyclical "On Church in US"
1906 - The Armenian organization AGBU is established.
1909 - NY Giant Red Ames 2nd no-hitter, loses in 13 on a 7 hitter to Dodgers
1910 - Taft is 1st pres to throw out a 1st ball at a baseball game
1911 - Jack Lawrence Theater (Playhouse) opens at 137 W 48th St NYC
1911 - Walter Johnson pitches a record tying 4 strike outs in an inning
1912 - Titanic sinks at 2:27 AM off Newfoundland as band plays on
1915 - Manuel de Falla's ballet "El Amor Brujo," premieres in Madrid
1915 - NY Giant Rube Marquard no-hits Bkln, 2-0
1918 - Clemenceau publishes secret French/Austrian documents
1920 - New Canadian small cent coin is released
1921 - Black Friday- Labour Party strike of mine workers fails
1922 - Banting, MacLeod & Best discover insulin
1922 - Poodle Dog Restaurant closes
1923 - 1st sound on film public performance shown at Rialto Theater (NYC)
1923 - Insulin becomes generally available for diabetics
1924 - Flemish-Walloon riots in Louvain Belgium, 1 dead
1924 - WHO-AM in Des Moines Iowa begins radio transmissions
1924 - Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas.
1925 - NHL's NY Americans (formerly Hamilton Tigers) 1st game, lose 3-1
1927 - Babe Ruth hits 1st of 60 HRs of season (off A's Howard Ehmke)
1927 - Switzerland & USSR agree to diplomatic relations
1928 - Alioto's on Fisherman's Wharf (SF) forms
1931 - 1st walk across American backwards begins
1937 - Stanley Cup: Detroit Red Wings beat NY Rangers, 3 games to 2
1939 - Albert Lebrun elected president of France
1940 - British troops land at Narvik, Norway
1941 - 1st helicopter flight of 1 hr duration, Stratford, Ct
1942 - George VI awards George Cross to people of Malta
1943 - Metropolitan Life Insurances issues a $225 million check to Chase
1945 - British Army liberates Nazi concentration camp, Bergen-Belsen
1945 - FDR buried on grounds of Hyde Park home
1945 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Communium interpretes dolorum
1945 - US troops occupy concentration camp Colditz
1947 - Jackie Robinson goes hitless in his major league debut
1947 - Operations begin at Radio Netherlands World radio
1948 - 1st Jewish-Arab military battle, arabs defeated
1948 - Indian territory of Himachal Pradesh created
1948 - KCPX (now KTVX) TV channel 4 in Salt Lake City, UT (ABC) 1st broadcast
1949 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Redemptoris nostri
1951 - Michael Gorsira is 1st person in charge of Curacao
1952 - 1st B-52 prototype test flight
1952 - Franklin National Bank issues 1st bank credit card
1952 - Stanley Cup: Detroit Red Wings sweep Montreal Canadiens in 4 games
1952 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1952 - The maiden flight of the B-52 Stratofortress
1953 - Malans National Party wins South African elections
1953 - WHP TV channel 21 in Harrisburg, PA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 - KARK TV channel 4 in Little Rock, AR (NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 - Orioles 1st game in Baltimore beat White Sox 3-1
1954 - WHO TV channel 13 in Des Moines, IA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 - Yankees dedicate a plaque to Edward Barrow
1955 - Ray Kroc starts McDonald's chain of fast food restaurants (Illinois)
1955 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1956 - Marlene Bauer wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
1957 - Congress gives Post Office $41M; restoring Saturday mail delivery
1957 - KTVI TV channel 2 in Saint Louis, MO (ABC) begins broadcasting
1957 - Saturday mail delivery restored after Congress givs PO $41 million
1958 - 10th Emmy Awards: Gunsmoke, Robert Young & Jane Wyatt
1958 - 1st baseball game in California, SF Giants beat LA Dodgers, 8-0
1959 - Fidel Castro begins US goodwill tour
1959 - US Sect of States John Foster Dulles resigns
1960 - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), organizes at Shaw U
1961 - "Music Man" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 1375 performances
1962 - US national debt above $300,000,000,000
1963 - "Sophie" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 8 performances
1964 - Chesapeake Bay Bridge opens (world's longest)
1964 - Ian Smith becomes premier of Rhodesia
1965 - James Baldwin's "Amen Corner," premieres in NYC
1965 - NFL changes penalty flag from white to bright gold
1966 - KHET TV channel 11 in Honolulu, HI (PBS) begins broadcasting
1966 - Rolling Stones release "Aftermath"
1967 - "Wait A Minim!" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 457 perfs
1968 - Houston Astros beat NY Mets, 1-0, in 24 innings
1969 - North Korea shoots at US airplane above Japanese sea
1970 - "Cry for Us All" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 8 performances
1970 - Libyan leader Gadaffi launches "Green Revolution"
1970 - WMGZ TV channel 16 in Mayaguez, PR ([M]) begins broadcasting
1970 - WPSJ TV channel 14 in Ponce, PR ([P]) begins broadcasting
1971 - "70, Girls, 70" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 35 performances
1971 - 43rd Academy Awards - "Patton," George C Scott & Glenda Jackson win
1972 - Barbra Striesand, James Taylor, Carole King & Quincy Jones perform at a benefit for George
           McGovern for President
1973 - 2nd Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Mickey Wright
1973 - Walt Disney Story opens
1974 - 3rd Boston Women's Marathon won by Miki Gorman of California in 2:47:11
1974 - 78th Boston Marathon won by Neil Cusack of Ireland in 2:13:39
1974 - Military coup in Niger, president Diori Hamani deposed
1975 - 1st appearance of San Diego Chicken
1975 - Gabon amends constitution
1975 - Penguins 3-Isles 1-Quarterfinals-Penguins hold 2-0 lead
1976 - Yankee stadium reopens, Yanks beat Twins after trailing 4-0
1977 - 1st baseball game at Montreal's Olympic Stadium
1978 - 43 die as 2 express trains collide head-on south of Bologna, Italy
1978 - Great Britain performs nuclear test
1979 - 43rd Golf Masters Championship: Fuzzy Zoeller wins, shooting a 280
1979 - A disastrous earthquake (of M 7.1) on Montenegro coast.
1981 - Janet Cooke says her Pulitzer award 8-year-old heroin addict story is a lie, Wash Post
           relinquishes Pulitzer Prize on fabricated story
1982 - Apollo Computer announces DN400, DN420, & landscape display
1983 - Rangers 0-Isles 5-Patrick Div Finals-Isles hold 2-0 lead
1983 - Tokyo Disneyland opens
1984 - "Human Comedy" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 13 performances
1984 - 48th Golf Masters Championship: Ben Crenshaw wins, shooting a 277
1984 - Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA J&B Scotch Pro-Am Golf Tournament
1984 - Extremist Sikhs plunder 40 stations in Punjab India
1984 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1985 - 14th Boston Women's Marathon won by Lisa Larsen Weidenbach in 2:34:06
1985 - 89th Boston Marathon won by Geoff Smith of Great Britain in 2:14:05
1985 - Challenger moves to launch pad for 51-B missing
1986 - US air raids Libya, responding to La Belle disco, Berlin bombing
1986 - Viv Richards century off 56 balls v England in Antigua Test Cricket
1986 - The United States launches Operation El Dorado Canyon against Libya.
1987 - "Barbara Cook: A Concert..." opens at Ambassador NYC for 13 perfs
1987 - Alfred Uhry's "Driving Miss Daisy," premieres in NYC
1988 - Meteorite explode above Indonesia
1988 - Wendy Wasserstein's "Heidi Chronicles," premieres in NYC
1989 - 95 crushed to death at Sheffield Soccer Stadium in England
1989 - Students in Beijing pro-democracy protests
1989 - Sue Marchiano wins 3rd World Cup female marathon (2:30:48)
1989 - Then largest lottery in North America ($69M) drawn in Illinois
1990 - "In Living Color" premieres on FOX-TV
1990 - Greenidge & Haynes make 298 opening stand (v Eng), their best
1991 - "Secret Garden" opens at St James Theater NYC for 706 performances
1991 - 20th Boston Women's Marathon won by Wanda Panfil of Poland in 2:24:18
1991 - 95th Boston Marathon won by Ibrahim Hussein of Kenya in 2:11:06
1991 - East-Europe Bank forms in London
1991 - Europe foreign ministers lift most remaining sanctions against S Afr
1991 - Former child actor Adam Rich charged with burglary
1991 - Magic Johnson sets NBA record for career assistswith 9,898
1991 - Maximum NY State unemployment benefits raised to $280 per week
1991 - Sacramento Kings set NBA record, losing 35th consecutive game on road
1991 - Ton Sijbrands improves world record blind checker games (15 wins)
1992 - Billionaire Leona Helmsly is sent to jail for tax evasion
1992 - Jay Leno's final appearance as permanent guest host of Tonight
1992 - Lincoln Hospital in Bronx loses its accreditation
1992 - NY Islander, Al Arbour, coaches most NHL games (1,438)
1992 - William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy & DeForest Kelley inducted into National Association of
           Broadcasters Hall of Fame
1992 - The National Assembly of Vietnam adopts the 1992 Constitution of the Socialist Republic of
           Vietnam.
1994 - Indians loses 1st game at Jacobs Field, KC wins 2-1
1994 - WMMS-FM's Jeff & Flash, & entire station staff, are fired
1996 - "Apple Doesn't Fall" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 1 performance
1996 - 100th Boston Marathon won by Moses Tanui of Kenya in 2:09:15.9
1996 - 25th Boston Women's Marathon won by Uta Pippig of Germany in 2:27:12.6
1997 - America On Line, begins service in Japan
1997 - Baseball honors Jackie Robinson by retiring #42 for all teams
1997 - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Charlotte NC on WXRC 95.7 FM
1997 - Fire sweeps through a campsite of Muslims making the Hajj pilgrimage; the official death toll is
           343.
2002 - An Air China Boeing 767-200, flight CA129 crashes into a hillside during heavy rain and fog
           near Busan, South Korea, killing 128.
2010 - Volcanic ash from the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland leads to the closure of airspace
           over most of Europe.
2012 - 400 Islamist Militants escape from a Pakistan prison after an insurgent attack
2012 - China loosens monetary policy and allows the Yuan to fluctuate up to 1% against the US
           dollar
2012 - US Secret Service inappropriate conduct scandal begins with at least 11 people implicated

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 15, 2013, 09:04:32 AM

This Day in History for 15th April


Famous Weddings

1595 - Willem I's daughter of Elisabeth of Nassau marries duke Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne of Broth
1909 - Mien Wenneker, Dutch prince Henry's lover, weds Uncle Cornelis Abbo
1925 - Russian writer ("Lolita") Vladimir Nabokov (26) marries fellow Russian writer Vera Evseevna
           Slonim (23) in Berlin
1989 - South African/British Olympic runner Zola Budd marries
2006 - Miss Nigeria 2002 Sylvia Ansa Edem weds businessman Chris Emecheta at the the Recreation
           Park, Victoria Garden City, Lekki Lagos
2006 - "Maria Full of Grace" actress Catalina Sandino Moreno (24) weds lighting technician David
           Michael Ewell in an intimate civil ceremony in Cartagena de Indies, Colombia

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 15, 2013, 09:06:24 AM

This Day in History for 15th April


Famous Divorces

1994 - Robert F Kennedy Jr (21 days after his divorce) weds Mary Richardson
2011 - Grammy-winning pop singer Christina Aguilera (29) divorces music executive Jordan Bratman
          (33) due to irreconcilable differences after 5 years of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 15, 2013, 09:21:39 AM

This Day in History for 15th April


Famous Birthdays

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Painter, Scientist & Visionary               First Secretary of the Communist          Actor & Writer Seth Rogen (1982)
Leonardo da Vinci (1452)                            Party of the Soviet Union
                                                                   Nikita Khrushchev (1894)


1452 - Leonardo da Vinci, Italy, painter/sculptor/scientist/visionary
1469 - Nanak, 1st guru of Sikhs
1489 - Sinan, Ottoman architect (d. 1588)
1552 - Pietro Cataldi, Italian mathematician (d. 1626)
1588 - Claudius Salmasius, [Claude Saumaise], French linguist
1637 - Valentin Molitor, composer
1641 - Robert Sibbald, Scottish physician (d. 1722)
1646 - King Christian V of Denmark (d. 1699)
1646 - Pierre Poiret, French mystic (d. 1719)
1651 - Domenico Gabrielli, composer
1682 - John van Huysum, Dutch painter (flowers/fruit)
1684 - Catherine I, empress of Russia (1725-27)
1688 - Johann Friedrich Fasch, composer
1689 - Ferdinand Zellbell, composer
1707 - Leonhard Euler, Bassle Sweden, mathematician (Euler's Constant)
1710 - William Cullen, Scottish physician (d. 1790)
1741 - Charles Willson Peale, US, port painter/inventor (George Washington)
1757 - George Knowil Jackson, composer
1766 - Friedrich Bouterwek, German philosopher/critic
1772 - Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, French naturalist (d. 1844)
1793 - Friedrich Struve, Germany, founded dynasty of astronomers
1794 - Jean Pierre Flourens, French physiologist (d. 1867)
1800 - James Clark Ross, explorer (British Antarctic)
1809 - Hermann Gunther Grassmann, mathematician
1812 - Pierre-Etienne-Theodore Rousseau, painter
1814 - John Lothrop Motley, US, historian/author (Rise of Dutch Rep)
1820 - Evander McNair, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1902
1821 - Emerson Brown Joseph, (Confederacy), died in 1894
1822 - Napolean Jackson Tecumseh Dana, Major General (Union volunteers)
1827 - Julius Tausch, composer
1829 - Mary Harris Thompson, 1st American woman surgeon
1832 - Wilhelm Busch, German poet (d. 1908)
1837 - Horace Porter, Bvt Brigadier General (Union Army), died in 1921
1841 - Joseph E. Seagram, Canadian distillery founder (d. 1919)
1843 - Carl Eilhardt, composer
1843 - Henry James, American/British author (Turn of the Screw, Bostonians), (d. 1916)
1845 - Dave Gregory, cricketer (Australia's 1st Test captain)
1850 - John Munroe Longyear, US, capitalist/bank president
1858 - Anton G O Ridder Van Rappard, Dutch painter/lithographer/etcher
1858 - Emile Durkheim, French sociologist (Division du travail social)
1861 - Bliss Carman, Canadian poet (d. 1929)
1874 - Johannes Stark, Germany, physicist (Stark effect) (Nobel 1919)
1874 - George Harrison Shull, American plant geneticist (d. 1954)
1875 - Klaziena "Ina" Boudier-Bakker, Dutch playwright/novelist (Poverty)
1875 - James J. Jeffries, American heavyweight boxer (d. 1953)
1878 - Robert Walser, writer
1879 - Melville Henry Cane, American lawyer (d. 1980)
1882 - Giovanni Amendola, Italian antifascist/editor-in-chief (Il Mondo)
1883 - Stanley Bruce, eighth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1967)
1885 - Tadeusz Kutrzeba, Polish general (d. 1947)
1886 - Nikolay Gumilyov, Russian poet (d. 1921)
1888 - Florence Bates, San Antonio Tx, actress (Kismet, I Remember Mama)
1888 - Maximilian Kronberger, German poet (d. 1904)
1889 - Asa Philip Randolph, labor leader (Railroad Porter's Union)
1889 - Thomas Hart Benton, Missouri, painter/muralist (Lonesome Road)
1891 - Alvin Carter, Virginia, vocalist (Carter Family)
1891 - Vaino Raitio, composer
1891 - Wallace Reid, St Louis MO, actor/dir/screenwriter (Every Inch a Man)
1892 - Corrie ten Boom, Dutch author and Holocaust survivor (d. 1983)
1892 - Theo Osterkamp, World War I and World War II German fighter pilot (d. 1975)
1894 - Elizabeth Mae "Bessie" Smith, Empress of Blues (over 200 songs)
1894 - Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev, Kalinovka, Dmitriyevsky Uyezd, Kursk Governorate, First
           Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1953-64)
1895 - Corrado Alvaro, Italian writer (Gente in Aspromonte)
1895 - Harry F V Edward, British Guiana, 100m/200m runner (Oly-bronze-1920)
1895 - Clark McConachy, New Zealand billiards player (d. 1980)
1896 - Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov, Russian chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1986)
1898 - Marian Jordan, actress, radio comedienne (Molly-Fibber McGee & Molly)
1898 - Nini de Boel, Flemish operette singer (White Horse)
1901 - Joe Davis, English snooker/billiards-world champ (1927-46)
1902 - Fernando Pessa, Portuguese journalist (d. 2002)
1903 - Erich Arendt, writer [or Apr 16]
1903 - John Williams, England, actor (Niles-Family Affair, Dial M for Murder)
1904 - Arshile Gorky, Armenian Artist (d. 1948)
1906 - A J "Sandy" Bell, South African cricket fast bowler (16 Tests 1929-35)
1906 - Susan Walker, vice CEO (WRVS)
1907 - Gerald Abrahams, Liverpool, author (Teach Yourself Chess)
1907 - Nicholas Tinbergen, Neth/British biologist/zoologist (Nobel 1973)
1908 - Eden Ahbez, songwriter
1908 - Louise Chaplin, actress
1908 - Lita Grey, American actress (d. 1995)
1910 - Lord Grey of Naunton, chancellor (Ulster University)
1911 - Jacob Fresco, Dutch architect (Antilles Brewery/Autonomy Monument)
1912 - Kim II Sung, pres of North Korea (1945-94)
1912 - Peter Menzies, CEO (British Electricity Council)
1914 - John Gregory, dancer
1915 - Ernest Borneman, sexual researcher psychotherapist writer/musicologist
1915 - Elizabeth Catlett, Washington D.C., sculptor and print maker (Mother and Child), (d. 2012)
1916 - Alfred S. Bloomingdale, American businessman (d. 1982)
1917 - Hans Conried, Balt Md, actor (Bullwinkle Show, Make Room for Daddy)
1917 - Pietro Grossi, composer
1918 - John Baragrey, Haleyville AL, actor (Creeper, Colossus of NY)
1919 - Clive Beadon, airman
1919 - Elizabeth Catelett, sculptor/lithographer
1919 - Meriol Trevor, novelist/biographer (Civil Prisoners)
1920 - Richard von Weizsacker, baron/president (Germany, 1984-94)
1920 - Thomas Szasz, Budapest, Hungary, psychiatrist (The Myth of Mental Illness, The Manufacture
           of Madness), (d. 2012)
1921 - Georgi Timofeyevich Beregovoi, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 3)
1921 - Norman Ewart Thurston, musician
1922 - Harold Washington, 1st black mayor of Chicago (D, 1983-87)
1922 - Michael Ansara, Lowell Mass, actor (Cochise-Broken Arrow, Centennial)
1923 - Douglas Wass, CEO (Equity & Law Life Assurance Company)
1924 - John Grigg, British historian
1924 - Neville Marriner, Lincoln England, conductor (Minn Orch 1978)
1927 - Abha Gandhi, servant to Gandhi
1927 - Robert Mills, American physicist (d. 1999)
1928 - Norma Merrick Sklarek, 1st black woman architect in NY & Calif
1928 - Richard Evans, British diplomat
1929 - Adrian Cadbury, candy manufacturer (Cadbury, Schweppes)
1929 - Jocelyn Barrow, deputy chair person (British Broadcast Standards)
1930 - Elijah Barayi, head of South Africa union centre (COSATU)
1930 - Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, President of Iceland
1931 - Kenneth Bloomfield, BBC governor (Ireland)
1932 - David Bolton, director (British Royal United Service for Defense)
1932 - Nikolai Stepanovich Porvatkin, Russian cosmonaut
1933 - Boris Strugatski, USSR, sci-fi author (Tale of Troika)
1933 - Elizabeth Montgomery, LA California, actress (Samantha/Serena-Bewitched)
1933 - Roy Clark, Meherrin Va, country singer (Hee Haw)
1933 - Roy Clark, American musician
1935 - Gene Cherico, bassist
1936 - Hector Quintanar, composer
1936 - Jack Noreiga, cricketer (9-95 WI v India 1971)
1936 - Maurice Shock, rector (Lincoln College in Oxford)
1936 - Raymond Poulidor, French cyclist
1937 - Earl Russell, historian
1938 - Carles Marsden, professor (neurology)
1938 - Hso Khan Pha, Burmese politician
1938 - Claudia Cardinale, Tunisian-born actress (The Pink Panther)
1939 - Marti Wilder, father of rocker Kim Wilde
1939 - Marty Wilde, British singer
1940 - Edy Hubacher, Switzerland, 4-man bobsled (Olympic-gold-1972)
1940 - Jeffrey Archer, England, (Tory-Commons)/author (Matter of Honor)
1940 - Robert Walker Jr, NYC, actor (Ceremony, Ms Don Juan, Ensign Pulver)
1940 - Woodie Fryman, American baseball player
1940 - Robert Lacroix, French Canadian professor of economics
1941 - Howard L Berman, (Rep-D-CA, 1983- )
1942 - Walter Raphael Hazzard, Wilmington Del, basketball (Olympic-gold-1964)
1942 - Francis X. DiLorenzo, American Catholic prelate
1942 - Kenneth Lay, American businessman (d. 2006)
1943 - Riem de Wolff, Indonesian/Dutch singer/guitarist (Blue Diamonds)
1944 - Dave Edmunds, Wales, singer/guitarist (Rockpile-Baby I Love You)
1944 - Dzhokhar Dudayev, separatist leader and President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria
          (1991), (d. 1996)
1944 - Gerard Schoenaker, Dutch singer (Les Baroques)
1945 - Jos F B van Rey, Dutch MP (VVD)
1946 - Wayne Gilchrest, (Rep-R-Maryland)
1947 - Bojoura, [Raina GB van Melzen], Dutch singer/wife of Hans Cleuver
1947 - DeDe Lind, LA California, playmate (Aug, 1967)
1947 - Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, TV producer (Designing Women, Murphy Brown)
1947 - Michael DeBello, singer (Maniac)
1947 - Mike Chapman, Australian songwriter/producer (Chinn & Chapman)
1947 - Wooly Wolstenholme, keyboardist/vocalist (Barclay James Harvest)
1947 - Cristina Husmark Pehrsson, Swedish politician
1948 - Michael Kamen, American composer (d. 2003)
1949 - Alla Pugacheva, Russian singer
1949 - Craig Zadan, American film producer
1950 - Amy Wright, Chicago Illinois, actress (Inside Moves, Accidental Tourist)
1951 - Hansel, Cuba, spanish personality
1951 - Heloise II, columnist (Heloise's Helpful Hints)
1951 - John L Phillips, Ft Belvoir Va, PhD/astronaut
1951 - Marsha S Ivins, Baltimore Maryland, astronaut (STS 32, 46, 62, 81)
1952 - Sam McMurray, actor (Tracey Ullman)
1952 - Bengt Gingsjö, Swedish swimmer
1952 - Kym Gyngell, Australian comedian
1954 - Emmanuel, Mexico City Mexico, spanish singer
1954 - Seka, American pornographic actress
1955 - Barbara Barrow, LPGA golfer
1955 - Enith Salle Brigitha, Neth, 100m/200m swimmer (Olympic-bronze-1976)
1955 - Dodi Al-Fayed, Egyptian businessman (d. 1997)
1956 - Gregory J Harbaugh, Cleveland Ohio, astronaut (STS 39, 54, 71, 82)
1956 - Michael Cooper, NBA star (LA Lakers)
1957 - Evelyn Ashford, Shreveport LA, 100m runner (Oly-4 gold-1976, 84)
1958 - John Bracewell, NZ cricketer (premiere spinner of 80's)
1958 - Matt Reid, rock keyboardist (Berlin-Takes Your Breathe Away)
1958 - Dolores Gordon-Smith, British Writer
1958 - Noni Ιoannidou, Greek fashion model and actress
1958 - Benjamin Zephaniah, British writer
1959 - Emma Thompson, England, actress (Henry V, Howards End, Oscar-1992)
1959 - Kevin Lowe, Lachute, NHL defenseman (NY Rangers)
1959 - Fruit Chan, Hong Kong film director
1959 - Thomas F. Wilson, American actor
1960 - Marvin Clyde Goodwin, New Orleans La, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
1960 - Philip, Belgian prince/husband of princess Paola
1960 - Pedro Delgado, Spanish cyclist
1961 - Lynne Austin, Plant City Fla, playmate (Jul, 1986)
1961 - Tiina Lillak, Finland, javelin thrower (Olympic-silver-1984)
1962 - Surjit Bindrakhia, Punjabi Bhangra singer
1962 - Nawal El Moutawakel, Morrocan hurdler
1962 - Tom Kane, American voice actor
1963 - Manoj Prabhakar, cricketer (Indian opening batsman & opening bowler)
1963 - Teresa Wentzel DeWitt, Ft Bragg NC, double trap (Olympics-1996)
1963 - Bobby Pepper, American journalist
1964 - Lydie Denier, St Nazaire France, actress (General Hospital)
1964 - Nadeem Abbasi, cricketer (three Tests for Pakistan v India 1989)
1965 - Anthony Miller, NFL wide receiver (Denver Broncos, Dallas Cowboys)
1965 - Kevin Stevens, Brockton, NHL left wing (LA Kings)
1965 - Mark Dennis, NFL tackle (Carolina Panthers, Green Bay Packers)
1965 - Michele Redman, Zanesville OH, LPGA golfer (1995 Star Bank-3rd)
1965 - Soichi Noguchi, Yokohama Japan, astronaut
1965 - Linda Perry, American musician
1966 - Andrei Olhovskiy, Moscow Russia, tennis pro
1966 - Graeme Clark, bassist (Wet Wet Wet-Angel Eyes, Love is All Around)
1966 - Samantha Karen Fox, East End London England, singer (Touch Me)
1967 - Dara Torres, Beverly Hills CA, US Olympic swimmer (Olympic-gold-84)
1967 - Lance Zeno, NFL/WLAF corner (Rams, Scottish Claymores)
1967 - Mark Mortimer, actor (Nick Hudson-Another World)
1967 - Suzy Green, Detroit MI, LPGA golfer (1995 Fieldcrest Cannon-26th)
1967 - Frankie Poullain, British musician (The Darkness)
1967 - Alt, Brazilian comic creator
1968 - Billy Brewer, Fort Worth Texas, pitcher (NY Yankees)
1968 - Stacey Williams, Phila Penn, model (SI Swimsuit 1996)
1969 - Chris Smith, Indianapolis IN, Nike golfer (1993 BC Open-8th)
1969 - Jeromy Burnitz, Westminster CA, outfielder (Cleveland Indians)
1969 - Michael Jones, NFL linebacker (Oakland Raiders, St Louis Rams)
1969 - Phillippi Sparks, NFL cornerback (NY Giants)
1970 - Darrin Smith, NFL linebacker (Dallas Cowboys, Philadelphia Eagles)
1970 - Flex Alexander, American actor
1971 - Craig Whelihan, NFL quarterback (San Diego Chargers)
1971 - Derek Brown, NFL running back (NO Saints)
1971 - Guivi Sissaouri, Tbilisi Georgia, Canada freestyle wrestler (Oly-s-96)
1971 - Jason Sehorn, NFL cornerback/safety (NY Giants)
1971 - Rich McKenzie, NFL linebacker (Cleveland Browns)
1971 - Tim Tindale, NFL running back (Buffalo Bills)
1971 - Katy Hill, British television presenter
1971 - Sarah Jane Hamilton, British pornographic actress
1972 - Melvin Johnson, NFL safety (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1972 - Peter Billingsley, NYC, actor (Real People)
1972 - Ricky Otero, Vega Baja Puerto Rico, outfielder (Philadelphia Phillies)
1972 - Ronald Cherry, NFL tackle (Detroit Lions)
1972 - Vickie Johnson, WNBA guard/forward (NY Liberty)
1972 - Lou Romano, American voice actor
1973 - Jeremy Burkett, NFL/WLAF tight end (NY Giants, Barcelona Dragons)
1974 - Marena Bencomo, Miss Universe-2nd place (Venezuela, 1997)
1974 - Mike Quinn, quarterback (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1974 - Sergei Krivokrasov, Angarsk Russia, NHL right wing (Blackhawks, Oly-S-98)
1974 - Danny Pino, American actor
1974 - Douglas Spain, American actor
1974 - Josh Todd, American musician (Buckcherry)
1975 - Paul Dana, American race car driver (d. 2006)
1976 - Jason Bonsignore, Canadian ice hockey player
1976 - Susan Ward, American actress
1977 - Lisa Bell, Rockford Ill, figure skater (1997 Midwestern Sr champ)
1978 - Austin Aries, American wrestler
1978 - Milton Bradley, American baseball player
1978 - Tim Corcoran, American baseball player
1980 - Victor Núñez, Costa Rican footballer
1980 - Natalie Casey, British actress
1980 - James Foster, English cricketer
1980 - Raúl López, Spanish basketball player
1980 - Willie Mason, Australian Rugby League Player
1980 - Fränk Schleck, Luxembourgish cyclist
1981 - Andrés D'Alessandro, Argentine football player
1981 - Seth Wulsin, American artist
1982 - Mark Mizzark, [Marlis Pugh], Akron Ohio, rapper (Another Bad Creation)
1982 - Albert Riera, Spanish footballer
1982 - Anthony Green, American musician
1982 - Seth Rogen, Canadian actor and writer
1982 - Michael Aubrey, American baseball player
1983 - Ilya Kovalchuk, Russian ice hockey player
1983 - Alice Braga, Brazilian actress
1983 - Dudu Cearense, Brazilian footballer
1983 - Bronson La'Cassie, Australian professional golfer
1984 - Rodney Carney, NBA athlete
1984 - Ben Kasica, Guitarist of rock band Skillet
1984 - Cam Janssen, American ice hockey player
1985 - John Danks, American baseball player
1985 - Aaron Laffey, American baseball player
1986 - Quincy Owusu-Abeyie, Dutch footballer
1990 - Emma Watson, Paris, France, English actress (Hermione Granger-Harry Potter Series)
1992 - Amy Diamond, Swedish singer
1993 - Madeleine Martin, American television actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 15, 2013, 09:32:02 AM

This Day in History for 15th April


Famous Deaths

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US President                                         Poet/Critic Matthew Arnold  (1888)          Writer Jean-Paul Sartre (1980)
Abraham Lincoln (1865)

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Actress Greta Garbo (1990)


1053 - Godwin, Earl of Wessex
1220 - Adolf I, archbishop of Cologne, dies
1415 - Manuel Chrysoloras, Greek humanist and grammarian
1472 - Leon B Alberti, Italian humanist/architect (Philodoxis), dies at 68
1502 - Jan IV Chalon, prince of Orange, dies
1605 - Boris Godunov, tsar of Russia (1598-1605), dies
1607 - Cornelius Kilianus, Flemish translator/poet, dies at about 78
1610 - Johan van Duivenoorde, mister of Warmond, dies at about 62
1621 - John Carver, first governor of Plymouth Colony
1632 - George Calvert, Proprietor of the Avalon (Maryland) Colony (b. 1580)
1641 - Domenico Zampieri, Italian painter (b. 1581)
1652 - Patriarch Joseph, head of the Russian Orthodox Church
1659 - Simon Dach, German poet, dies
1719 - Johann Friedrich Treiber, composer, dies at 76
1719 - Françoise d'Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon, second wife of Louis XIV of France (b. 1635)
1754 - Jacopo Riccati, Italian mathematician (b. 1676)
1756 - Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, composer, dies at 29
1761 - Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll, Scottish politician (b. 1682)
1761 - William Oldys, English antiquarian and bibliographer (b. 1696)
1764 - Madame de Pompadour, mistress of King Louis XV of France (b. 1721) of tuberculosis aged
           42
1765 - Michail v Lomonosov, Russian scholar/poet, dies at 53
1788 - Giuseppi Bonno, composer, dies at 77
1793 - Ignacije Szentmartony, Croatian Jesuit missionary and geographer (b. 1718)
1804 - Charles Pichegru, French general (strangled in prison) (b. 1761)
1811 - Ernest Louis Muller, composer, dies at 70
1824 - Theodorus F van Capellen, vice-admiral (Algiers), dies at 61
1853 - Johann Leopold Fuchs, composer, dies at 67
1854 - Arthur Aikin, English chemist, mineralogist, and writer (b. 1773)
1863 - Jan Nepomuk Kanka, composer, dies at 90
1865 - Abraham Lincoln, 16th American president, dies from gunshot wound at 56
1866 - William Jackson, composer, dies at 51
1888 - Matthew Arnold, English poet, dies at 65
1889 - Father Damien, Belgian missionary (b. 1840)
1891 - Stephen Albert Emery, composer, dies at 49
1898 - Kepa Te Rangihiwinui, Maori military leader
1911 - Georg Knorr, German engineer, dies
1912 - Edward Smith, captain of the RMS Titanic (b. 1850)
1912 - John Jacob Astor IV, billionaire (b. 1864)
1912 - William T. Stead American author and journalist. (b. 1849)
1916 - Alfred Cogniaux, Belgian botanist, dies at 75
1920 - Jacob van Stolk Azn, art collector, dies at 74
1924 - Eduardo Caudella, composer, dies at 82
1925 - John Singer Sargent, US portrait painter, dies at 69
1926 - Frank Iredale, cricketer (14 Tests for Aust, 807 runs at 36 68), dies
1927 - Francesco Gaeta, Italian poet (Di Giacomo), dies at 47
1927 - Gaston Leroux, French writer (b. 1868)
1929 - Antonio Smareglia, composer, dies at 74
1937 - Nikolai Artzibushev, composer, dies at 79
1938 - Caesar Vallejo, Peru/French poet (Trilce, Russia & 1931), dies at 46
1942 - Robert Musil, Austrian writer (Mann ohne Eigenschaften), dies at 61
1943 - Raffaele Casimiro Casimiri, composer, dies at 62
1943 - Aristarkh Lentulov, Russian artist (d. 1882)
1947 - Wolstenholme, rocker, dies
1948 - Radola Gajda, Czech military commander and politician (d. 1892)
1949 - Wallace Beery, US actor (The Champ), dies at 64
1954 - Juan Vicente Lecuna, composer, dies at 54
1956 - Emile Nolde [Hansen], German painter (Grablegung Christi), dies at 88
1957 - Pedro Infante, Mexican actor and singer (b. 1917)
1958 - Estelle Taylor, dies at 64
1962 - Clara Blandick, committed suicide at 80
1962 - Esther Minciotti, dies at 74
1962 - Arsenio Lacson, Filipino politician and sportswriter (b. 1911)
1963 - Edward "Carji" Greeves, Australian rules footballer (b. 1903)
1965 - Syd Chaplin, dies at 80
1966 - Joseph Crehan, dies of stroke at 81
1967 - Antonio de Curtis Toto, comedian, dies of heart attack at 69
1968 - Boris Mykolayovich Lyatoshyns'ky, composer, dies at 73
1969 - Victoria von Battenberg, wife of Spanish king Alfonso, dies at 81
1970 - Ripper Collins, American baseball player (b. 1904)
1971 - Dan Reeves, American football team owner (b. 1912)
1972 - Otto Brenner, German trade union leader, dies at 64
1974 - Giovanni D'Anzi, Italian songwriter (b. 1906)
1975 - Charles Marshall, dies
1975 - John B McKay, US test pilot (X-15), dies
1975 - Richard Conte, actor (Four Just Men, Jean Arthur Show), dies at 65
1976 - Gerald Smith, antisemite/catholic (Natl Christian Crusade), dies at 78
1980 - Jean-Paul Sartre, existentialist philosopher and writer (Nobel 1964), dies in Paris at 74
1980 - Marshall Reed, actor (Fred Asher-Lineup), dies at 62
1980 - Paul Langton, actor (Leslie-Peyton Place), dies at 76
1980 - Raymond Bailey, actor (Mr Drysdale-Beverly Hillbillies), dies at 75
1981 - French Duynstee, Dutch states rights leader, dies at 67
1982 - 5 murderers, of Egyptian pres Sadat, executed
1982 - Arthur Lowe, Brits actor (Capt Mainwaring in Dad's army), dies at 66
1982 - Louis M de Guiringaud, Fren forgn min (1976-78), commits suicide at 70
1983 - Gyula Illyes, Hungarian writer/poet (Az Ismertlen Illyes), dies at 80
1983 - Rodolfo Hoyos, actor (Luis-Viva Valdez), dies at 68
1983 - Corrie ten Boom, Dutch author and Holocaust survivor (b. 1892)
1984 - Tommy Cooper, comedian, dies at 61
1984 - Alexander Trocchi, Scottish writer (b. 1925)
1986 - Jean Genet, French criminal/novelist/dramatist, dies at 75
1986 - Sergei Nikolayevich Anokhin, cosmonaut, dies at 76
1986 - Tim McIntire, actor (Bob Younger-Legend of Jesse James), dies at 42
1988 - Hendrikus G "Han" Hoekstra, Dutch poet (Zandloper), dies at 81
1988 - Kenneth Williams, dies at 61
1988 - Youri Egorov, Soviet classical pianist (b. 1954)
1989 - Charles Vanel, dies at 96
1989 - Hu Yaobang, general sec of Chinese Commnist Party, dies
1989 - Nesuhi Ertegün, American record executive (b. 1917)
1990 - Greta Garbo, actress (Anna Karenina, Camille), dies at 84
1991 - Marjorie Warfield, dies at 88
1991 - Martin Ashe, dies
1993 - George Ives, dies at 111
1993 - H H "Bull" Alexander, cricketer (Test for Aust 1933, avg 154), dies
1993 - Leslie Charteris, British mystery writer (Saint), dies at 85
1993 - William Bakewell, dies of leukemia at 84
1993 - John Tuzo Wilson, Canadian geologist (b. 1908)
1994 - John Curry, English figure skater (Oly-gold-76), dies of AIDS at 44
1995 - Cleo Brown, pianist, dies at 91
1995 - Denis Harding, soldier, dies at 79
1997 - Sam Moskowitz, SF fandom historian, dies at 76
1997 - Zdenek Mlynar, Sec of Czech Communist Central Committee (1968), dies
1998 - Pol Pot, Cambodian dictator (b. 1925)
1999 - Harvey Postlethwaite, British engineer and racing car designer (b. 1944)
2000 - Edward Gorey, American illustrator (b. 1925)
2001 - Joey Ramone, American musician and singer (The Ramones) (b. 1951)
2002 - Damon Knight, American author (b. 1922)
2002 - Byron "Whizzer" White, American football player and U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1917)
2003 - Erin Fleming, Canadian actress (b. 1941)
2003 - Reg Bundy, British performer (b. 1941)
2004 - Ray Condo, Canadian musician (b. 1950)
2005 - John Fred, American singer (b. 1941)
2007 - Brant Parker, American cartoonist (b. 1920)
2008 - Krister Stendahl, Swedish Lutheran theologian and bishop (b. 1921)
2008 - Benoît Lamy, Belgian Movie Director (b. 1945)
2009 - Clement Freud, British writer, broadcaster and former liberal MP (b.1924)
2010 - Jack Herer, American author and cannabis activist (b. 1939)
2011 - Vittorio Arrigoni, Italian peace activist (b. 1975)
2012 - Murray Rose, Australian Olympic gold winning swimmer, dies from leukemia at 73

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 16, 2013, 11:36:42 AM

This Day in History for 16th April


Historical Events

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First US President                                   Composer/Pianist Franz Liszt                 Sharp Shooter Annie Oakley
George Washington

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Baseball Great Babe Ruth                                  Writer Alex Haley                          265th Pope Benedict XVI


1178 BC - A solar eclipse may have marked the return of Odysseus, legendary King of Ithaca, to his
               kingdom after the Trojan War.
73 - Masada, a Jewish fortress, falls to the Romans after several months of siege, ending the Jewish
       Revolt.
556 - Pelagius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1071 - Bari falls to Robert Guiscard, ending Byzantine rule in Italy.
1346 - The Serbian Empire is proclaimed in Skopje at an Easter assembly and Stephen Uroš IV
           Dušan crowned Emperor over much of the Balkans.
1395 - Azzo X d'Este is defeated at the Battle of Portomaggiore by Venetian-Ferrarese troops.
1509 - French army under Louis XII enters Alps
1521 - Martin Luther arrives at Diet of Worms
1582 - Spanish conquistador Hernando de Lerma founds the settlement of Salta, Argentina.
1632 - Albrecht von Wallenstein appointed supreme commander
1705 - Queen Anne of England knights Isaac Newton at Trinity College
1724 - 1st Easter observed (OS=Apr 9)
1746 - Battle at Culloden: Troops of George II of Great Britain defeat Charles Stuart
1777 - Battle of Bennington-New England's Green Mountain Boys rout Brits
1780 - The University of Münster in Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany is founded.
1787 - 1st American comedy, "The Contrast," made its debut in NYC
1789 - George Washington heads for 1st presidential inauguration
1799 - Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Mount Tabor - Napoleon drives Ottoman Turks across the
           River Jordan near Acre.
1818 - Senate ratifies Rush-Bagot amendment (unarmed US-Canada border)
1849 - Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera Le prophète, premieres in Paris
1853 - The first passenger rail opens in India, from Bori Bunder, Bombay to Thane.
1854 - Franz Liszt's "Mazeppa," premieres
1854 - San Salvador destroyed by earthquake
1854 - Steamer "Long Beach" sinks off Long Beach NY, 311 die
1858 - The Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is wound up.
1861 - US president Lincoln outlaws business with confederate states
1862 - Slavery abolished in District of Columbia
1862 - US Confederate Congress approves conscription act for all white males (18-35 years)
1865 - Battle of Columbus & West Point, GA (Ft Tyler)
1866 - Karakozov attempts to assassinate Tsar Alexander II of Russia
1866 - Nitroglycerine at Wells Fargo & Co office explodes
1868 - Louisiana voters approve new constitution
1869 - Ebenezer Bassett, 1st US Negro diplomat, begins service in Haiti
1870 - Vaudeville Theatre Strand opens in London
1871 - German Empire ends all anti-Jewish civil restrictions
1874 - Dr David Livingstones corpse arrives in Southampton
1881 - In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle.
1883 - Paul Kruger chosen president of Transvaal
1888 - Drentse & Friese peat cutters go on strike
1900 - US Post Office issues 1st books of postage stamps
1908 - Natural Bridges National Monument forms (Lake Powell Utah)
1912 - Harriet Quimby becomes 1st woman pilot to cross English Channel
1912 - Pirates turn a rare 5-3-7 doubleplay (left fielder covers 2nd base)
1917 - Lenin returns to Russia to start Bolshevik Revolution
1921 - Liberal Freedom League forms in The Hague
1922 - Annie Oakley sets women's record by breaking 100 clay targets in a row
1922 - German-Russia treaty signed in Italy, Soviet Union recognized
1924 - 1st radio-transmission of wireless: Mattheus Passion
1924 - Child labor laws strengthened in Holland
1925 - During the Communist St Nedelya Church assault in Sofia, 150 are killed and 500 are
            wounded.
1926 - Book of the Month Club sends out its 1st selections "Lolly Willowes" & "Loving Huntsman" by
           Sylvia Townsend Warner
1929 - Cleve Indian Earl Averill, becomes 1st AL to hit a HR on 1st at bat
1929 - NY Yankees become 1st team to wear uniform numbers
1935 - 1st radio broadcast of "Fibber McGee & Molly"
1935 - Babe Ruth's 1st NL game, for Boston Braves, included a HR
1938 - Great-Britain recognizes Italian annexation of Abyssinia
1939 - Stalin requests British, French & Russian anti-nazi pact
1939 - Stanley Cup: Boston Bruins beat Toronto Maple Leafs, 4 games to 1
1940 - 1st televised baseball game, WGN-TV, (White Sox vs Cubs exhibition)
1940 - Cleve Indian Bob Feller hurls an opening day no-hitter vs Chic, 1-0
1940 - Heitor Villa-Lobos' opera "Izaht," premieres in Rio de Janeiro
1941 - Little Theater at Adelphi Strand closes
1942 - Japanese occupying army on Java installs film censorship
1942 - King George VI awards George Cross to Island of Malta
1943 - 40 NZ bombers attack Haarlem Neth (85 killed)
1943 - Dr. Albert Hofmann discovers the psychedelic effects of LSD.
1945 - German troops in Groningen surrender
1945 - Red Army begins Battle of Berlin
1945 - US troops enter Nuremberg, Germany, during WW II
1945 - US troops land on He Shima Okinawa
1946 - 1st US launch of captured V-2 rocket, White Sands, NM; 8 km alt
1946 - NSB mayor of Rotterdam Neth, FE Muller sentence to 100 years in jail
1947 - -17] Explosions & fire on French ship Grandcamp
1947 - Lens to provide zoom effects demonstrated (NYC)
1947 - Massive explosion & fire kills 522 in Texas City, Tx
1948 - Organization for European Economic Cooperation (EEC) forms in Paris
1949 - Stanley Cup: Toronto Maple Leafs sweep Detroit Red Wings in 4 games
1951 - British submarine Affray sank in English Channel, killing 75
1952 - "4 Saints in 3 Acts" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 15 performances
1953 - British royal yacht Britannica taken out of service
1953 - Jackie Pung wins LPGA Palm Springs Golf Open
1953 - Phillie's Connie Ryan gets 6 hits in a game
1953 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins, 4 games to 1
1953 - WAND TV channel 17 in Decatur, IL (ABC) begins broadcasting
1954 - KVAL TV channel 13 in Eugene, OR (CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 - Stanley Cup: Detroit Red Wings beat Montreal Canadiens, 4 games to 3
1956 - 1st solar powered radios go on sale
1957 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins, 4 games to 1
1957 - USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
1958 - French government of Gaillard falls due to Tunisia crisis
1959 - "Party with Comden & Green" opens at John Golden NYC for 44 perfs
1959 - Datu Abdul Rozak inaugurated as premier of Malaysia federation
1959 - NY Yankees unveil their 1st message scoreboard
1959 - Phils' Dave Philley gets a major league record 9th straight pinch hit
1961 - 15th Tony Awards: Becket & Bye Bye Birdie win
1961 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
1961 - Stanley Cup: Chicago Blackhawks beat Detroit Red Wings, 4 games to 2
1962 - Brazil nationalizes US businesses
1962 - Walter Cronkite begins anchoring CBS Evening News
1964 - 9 men sentenced 25-30 years for Britain's 1963 "Great Train Robbery"
1964 - Geraldine Mock of US is 1st woman to fly solo round the world
1965 - Test flight of heavy Saturn S-1C-rocket
1966 - Rhodesian PM Ian Smith breaks diplomatic relations with Britain
1967 - "Walking Happy" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 161 perfs
1967 - Yankees beat Boston 7-6 in 18 innings
1970 - 70 die in a snow crush (France)
1972 - "That's Entertainment" closes at Edison Theater NYC after 4 perfs
1972 - 1st Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Jane Blalock
1972 - 2 giants pandas arrive in US, from China
1972 - Apollo 16 launched; 5th manned lunar landing (Decartes Highlands)
1972 - Chicago Cub Burt Hooton no-hits Phillies, 1-0
1972 - China sends 2 giant pandas to US
1974 - "Words & Music" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 127 performances
1974 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1975 - Cambodian Red Khmer occupy Phnom Penh
1977 - Alex Haley finds his Roots in Juffure, Gambia
1978 - "History of the American Film" closes at ANTA NYC after 21 perfs
1978 - Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic
1978 - St Louis Card Bob Forsch no-hits Phillies, 5-0
1979 - 15th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yanks & Mets tie 1-1
1979 - 83rd Boston Marathon won by Bill Rodgers of Mass in 2:09:27
1979 - 8th Boston Women's Marathon won by Joan Benoit Samuelson in 2:35:15
1979 - Failed Palestinian attack on Zaventem Airport in Belgium
1979 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Sam Shepard for "Buried child"
1980 - Arthur Ashe retires from professional tennis
1980 - Delhi beat Bombay by 240 runs to win Ranji Trophy final
1980 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1981 - "Copperfield" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 13 performances
1981 - Columbia space shuttle returns [04/24]
1982 - Queen Elizabeth proclaims Canada's new constitution
1983 - Steve Garvey sets NL record by playing in 1,118 consecutive games
1984 - 13th Boston Women's Marathon won by Lorraine Moller of NZ in 2:29:28
1984 - 88th Boston Marathon won by Geoff Smith of Great Britain in 2:10:34
1984 - Oakland A Dave Kingman hits 3 HRs including a grand slam
1984 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Mary Oliver for "American Primitive"
1985 - "Grind" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 79 performances
1985 - Caps 1-Isles 2-Patrick Div Semifinals-Isle win series 3-2
1986 - To dispel rumors he's dead, Moammar Gadhafi appears on TV
1986 - West Indies complete 5-0 demolition of England
1987 - August Wilson's "Fences" wins 1987 Pulitzer Prize for drama
1987 - FCC imposes a broader definition of indecency over airwaves
1987 - Howard Stern & Infinity Broadcasting are warned by FCC
1987 - Michael Jordon, becomes 2nd NBA to score 3000 points in a season
1987 - Peter Taylor's "Summons to Memphis" wins Pulitzer Prize for fiction
1987 - Pulitzer prize awarded to August Wilson for "Fences"
1987 - British Conservative MP Harvey Proctor appears at Bow Street Magistrates' Court in London
           charged with gross indecency.
1989 - 1st Seniors Golf Tradition: Don Bies wins
1989 - Berendrechtsluis opens in Antwerp, biggest flood lock in world
1989 - Costa Rica beats US 1-0, in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup
1989 - Pat Bradley wins LPGA AI Star/Centinela Hospital Golf Classic
1989 - Zeleka Metaferia wins 3rd World Cup marathon (2:10:28)
1990 - "Piano Lesson" opens at Walter Kerr Theater NYC for 320 performances
1990 - 19th Boston Women's Marathon won by Rosa Mota of Portugal in 2:25:23
1990 - 94th Boston Marathon won by Gelindo Bordin of Italy in 2:08:19
1990 - Maximum NY State unemployment benefits raised to $260 per week
1990 - Supreme Court rejects appeal from retarded man, Dalton Prejean, condemned to death for
           murdering a Louisiana state trooper in 1977
1991 - M Leander & E Seago's musical "Matador," premieres in London
1991 - St Louis Blues becomes 8th NHL team in Play-off to come back from a 3-1 deficit as they beat
           the Detroit Red Wings 3-2 in game 7
1992 - "Metro" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 13 performances
1992 - 1st concrete is poured at new ballpark at Gateway (Jacobs Field)
1992 - Afghanistan president Najibullah resigns
1992 - NY Rangers win team record 50th game
1992 - The Katina P. runs aground off of Maputo, Mozambique. 60,000 tons of crude oil spill into the
           ocean.
1993 - Jury reaches guilty verdict in Federal case against cop who beat Rodney King, but the verdict
           is not read until April 17th
1994 - Circus performers Marissa Young (24) & Matt Richardson (21) wed
1995 - 56th PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Ray Floyd wins
1997 - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Minneapolis/St Paul on WRQC 100.3 FM
2003 - The Treaty of Accession is signed in Athens admitting 10 new member states to the European
           Union.
2004 - The super liner Queen Mary 2 embarks on her first Trans-Atlantic crossing, linking the golden
           age of ocean travel to the modern age of ocean travel.
2007 - Virginia Tech massacre: The deadliest mass shooting in modern American history. The
           gunman, Seung-Hui Cho, shoots 32 people to death and injures 23 others before committing
           suicide.
2008 - Start of Papal Journey of Pope Benedict XVI to the United States
2012 - At least 55 people are killed in the Syrian uprising despite UN presence to oversee ceasefire
2012 - For the first time since 1977 no Pulitzer Prize is awarded for fiction

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 16, 2013, 11:58:51 AM

This Day in History for 16th April


Famous Weddings

1994 - Singer Harry Connick Jr (26) weds model Jill Goodare (30) at St. Louis Cathedral in New
           Orleans, Louisiana
1996 - Singer Judy Collins (57) weds industrial designer Louis Nelson (59) at Cathedral of St. John
           the Divine in New York City
2005 - One Tree Hill actress Sophia Bush (23) weds actor Chad Michael Murray (24) at Hotel Casa Del
           Mar in Santa Monica, California
2005 - "Survivor: All-Stars" winner Amber Mariano (26) weds The Amazing Race star Rob Mariano
            (29) at the Atlantis Resort on Paradise Island in the Bahamas

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 16, 2013, 12:03:33 PM

Famous Divorces


Famous Weddings

1816 - Leading Romantic Age poet Lord Byron signs Deed of Separation dissolving his marriage with
           Lady Byron at her request after 1 year of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 16, 2013, 01:39:29 PM

This Day in History for 16th April


Famous Birthdays

(http://i.historyorb.com/charlie-chaplin.jpg)                  (http://i.historyorb.com/pope-benedict-xvi.jpg)                 (http://i.historyorb.com/martin-lawrence.jpg)
Comedian Charlie Chaplin (1889)          265th Pope Benedict XVI (1927)              Comedian Martin Lawrence (1965)


778 - King Louis the Pious (d. 840)
1319 - King John II of France (d. 1364)
1495 - Petrus Apianus, German mathematician (d. 1557)
1628 - Cornelis Evertsen de Young, vice admiral of Zealand
1635 - Frans van Mieris, the Elder, Dutch painter
1646 - Jules Hardouin Mansart, French architect (d. 1708)
1648 - John Luyken, poet/etcher (Duytse Lyre)
1652 - Clement XII, [Lorenzo Corsini], Italy, Pope (1730-40)
1660 - Hans Sloane, England, physician/naturalist/founder (British Museum)
1661 - Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, British poet and statesman (d. 1715)
1673 - Francesco Feroci, composer
1682 - John Hadley, mathematician/inventor (1st reflecting telescope)
1693 - Anne Sophie Reventlow, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1743)
1697 - Johann Gottlieb Gorner, composer
1703 - Caffarelli, [Gaetano Majorano], Italian castra singer/duke
1728 - Joseph Zwart, Scottish chemist/physicist
1738 - Henry Clinton, British general (d. 1795)
1755 - Élisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun, French painter (d. 1842)
1800 - Jozef Stefani, composer
1800 - William Chambers, author/publisher (Basis of Communication & Coding)
1800 - George Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan, British soldier (d. 1888)
1808 - Caleb Blood Smith, Secy Int (Union), died in 1864
1816 - Edward "Old Allegheny" Johnson, Major General (Confederate Army)
1820 - Georg Curtius, German classical linguist
1821 - Ford Maddox Brown, painter
1823 - Mother Joseph, [Esther Pariseau], religious leader (US capitol)
1823 - Orlando Bolivar Wilcox, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1907
1823 - Ferdinand Eisenstein, German mathematician (d. 1852)
1827 - Octave Crémazie, French Canadian poet (d. 1879)
1832 - John A Neuhuys, painter
1838 - Karel Bendl, composer
1844 - Anatole France, writer (Thaïs, Wickerwork Woman, Nobel 1921)
1847 - Hans Auer, Swiss architect, (d. 1906)
1848 - Kandukuri Veeresalingam, Social Reformer of Andhra Pradesh, India (d. 1919)
1850 - Herbert Baxter Adams, US, historian (American Historical Association)
1851 - Ernst Josephson, Sweden, artist
1859 - Winifred Cochrane, Countess of Dundonald, philanthropist (d. 1924)
1861 - Isaac Murphy, US jockey (won 628 races)
1865 - Henry George Chauvel, Australian general (d. 1945)
1867 - Jose de Diego, Puerto Rico, patriot/PR Secretary of Justice
1867 - Wilbur Wright, of aeronautical fame (Wright Brothers)
1868 - Joel Angel, Russian musicologist/composer
1868 - Spottiswoode Aitken, Edinburgh Scot, actor (Eagle, Home Sweet Home)
1871 - John Millington Synge, Ireland, dramatist/poet (Riders to the Sea)
1871 - Martin Lunssens, composer
1878 - R E "Tip" Foster, cricketer (287 on debut England v Aust SCG 1903)
1881 - Edward Frederick Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax/ambassador to US (1940-46)
1882 - Seth Bingham, composer
1885 - Leo Weiner, Hungary, composer (Fasching)
1886 - Ernst Thalmann, German communist presidential candidate
1886 - Jekabs Graubins, composer
1886 - Konstantin Mostras, composer
1889 - Charlie Chaplin, (Tramp), comedian (City Lights)/IBM salesman
1893 - Federico Mompou, composer
1893 - Joseph Yasser, composer
1895 - Robert Dean Frisbie, American writer (d. 1948)
1897 - Arthur Charles Ernest Hoeree, composer
1897 - Jaap Vranken, Dutch organist/composer (Stabat Mater)
1897 - John B Glubb, British commandant/writer (A soldier with the Arabs)
1899 - Osman Achmatowicz, Polish chemist (d. 1988)
1900 - Polly Adler, Russia, bordello proprieter/author (House is not a Home)
1901 - Karel Albert, Flemish composer (Marieken van Nymeghen)
1901 - Leo Poos, nazi police officer (caught Dutch underground agents)
1904 - Clifford Case, (Sen-R-NJ)
1904 - Fifi D'Orsay, Montreal, actress (Life Jimmy Dolan, Girl from Calgary)
1904 - Lily Pons, Draguignan France, soprano diva (Hitting a New High)
1905 - John Lee-Barber, admiral
1906 - Bep [Elisa H] Bakhuis, Dutch soccer star/writer
1906 - Cobina W "Coby" Molenaar, Dutch peace activist
1906 - Marion Lloyd Vince, Bkln NY, fencer (National champ 1928, 31)
1906 - Pigmeat Markham, Durham NC, comedian (Here Comes da Judge-Laugh In)
1907 - August Eigruber, Austrian war criminal (d. 1947)
1907 - Joseph-Armand Bombardier, French-Canadian inventor and businessman (Bombardier) (d.
           1964)
1909 - Herman Uyttersprot, Flemish literature historian
1911 - Christine McIntyre, actress (3 Stooges movies)
1911 - William Stearn, botanist
1912 - David Langton, Scotland, actor (Quintet, St Joan, Abandon Ship)
1912 - John Halas, animator
1912 - Garth Williams, American illustrator (d. 1996)
1912 - Catherine Scorsese, Italian-American actress (d. 1997)
1913 - Constance Shacklock, opera singer
1913 - Les Tremayne, London, actor (Angry Red Planet, War of the Worlds)
1913 - Lord Aberconway, CEO (John Brown & Co)
1914 - John Hodiak, Pittsburgh PA, actor (A Bell for Adamo, Lifeboat)
1915 - Dany [Daniel S] Tuijnman, head of Dutch traffic & water
1915 - Gerard McLarnon, actor/writer
1917 - Barry Nelson, American actor (d. 2007)
1918 - Spike Milligan, India, actor/comedian (Digby, 3 Musketeers)
1918 - Joan Alexander, American actress
1918 - Dick Gibson, British racing driver
1919 - Merce Cunningham, choreographer (Acrobat in Every Soul is a Circus)
1919 - Tom Willmore, English geometer (d. 2005)
1920 - Barry Nelson, Oakland, actor (Airport, My Favorite Husband)
1920 - Dermot O'Callaghan Grubb, prison governor
1920 - John William Farr, Detroit, bank robber (FBI Most Wanted List)
1920 - Kees Scherer, Dutch photographer (World Press Photo)
1921 - Peter Ustinov, London, actor (Death on Nile, Logan's Run, Billy Budd)
1922 - Christopher Samuel Youd, UK, sci-fi author (Tripods Trilogy), (d. 2012)
1922 - Kingsley Amis, London, novelist (Lucky Jim, James Bond Dossier)
1922 - Leo Tindermans, British statesman
1922 - Eddie Bert, Yonkers, New York, bebopjazz trombonist, (d. 2012)
1924 - Geoffrey Johnson Smith, actor (Norman Loves Rose, Drinking Games)
1924 - Henry Mancini, Cleveland, composer/conductor (Pink Panther)
1924 - John Harvey-Jones, CEO (ICI)
1925 - Edie Adams, Kingston Pa, Mrs Ernie Kovacs (Murial Cigar), actress
1926 - Barbara Tizzard, British educator
1927 - Joseph Ratzinger, German theologist/dogmaticus
1927 - Peter Mark Richman, Phila Pa, actor (Andrew-Dynasty)
1927 - Pope Benedict XVI [Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger], Marktl, Bavaria, Germany
1928 - Dick "Night Train" Lane, NFL defensive back (Rams, Cards, Lions)
1929 - Roy Hamilton, singer (You'll Never Walk Alone)
1930 - Frank Page, British broadcaster/actor (Hudson Hawk, Dark Dancer)
1930 - Herbie Mann, Brooklyn NY, jazz flute/sax (Just Wallin')
1930 - John Robson, British ambassador (Norway)
1931 - Piet de Visser, economist/Dutch MP (PvdA)
1932 - Imre Polyak, Hungary, featherweight (Olympic-gold-1964)
1932 - Vince Hill, singer (Roses of Picardy, La Vie en Rose)
1933 - Joan Bakewell, British broadcaster/actress (Cold Comfort Farm)
1933 - Joseph Bottoms, Santa Barbara, California, actor (Blind Date, Braker)
1933 - Perry Botkin Jr, NYC, orchestra leader (Bert Convy Show)
1934 - Brian Peppiatt, joint CEO (SG Warburg Securities)
1934 - Geoffrey Owen, British editor (Financial Times)
1934 - Richard Kenshaw, British broadcaster
1934 - Robert Stigwood, producer (Saturday Night Fever, Grease)
1935 - Bobby Vinton, Pitts Pa, singer (Roses are Red, Blue on Blue)
1935 - Haskell "Cool Papa" Sadler, blues singer/guitarist
1935 - Sarah Kirsch, German poet
1936 - James Rand, British judge (Advocate General)
1938 - Michael Hirst, chief constable (Leicestershire England)
1938 - Gordon Wilson, Scottish politician
1938 - Rich Rollins, American baseballer
1939 - Donald MacCormick, British broadcaster
1939 - Dusty Springfield, [Mary O'Brien], London, vocalist (Growing Pains)
1939 - John DeLaFose, zydeco Musician
1939 - Margaretha de Boer, Dutch minister (PvdA)
1939 - Reinier Lucassen, Dutch painter (Kuifje contra James Union)
1939 - Boris Dvornik, Croatian actor (d. 2008.)
1940 - David Holford, cricketer (cousin of G S Sobers WI leg-spin all-rounder)
1940 - Lord Camoys, deputy CEO (Barclays de Zoete Wedd)
1940 - Margrethe II, Queen of Denmark (1972- )
1940 - Paul Cox, actor (Exile, Golden Braid, Touch Me)
1940 - Queen Margrethe II, of Denmark
1940 - Stephen Lawrence Pruslin, composer
1940 - Benoît Bouchard, French-Canadian politician
1941 - Cliff Stearns, (Rep-R-Florida)
1942 - Jim Lonborg, American baseball player
1943 - Dave Peverett, London, English rocker (Foghat, Savoy Brown)
1943 - Ewald Vanvugt, author (Kiss of Delight, Seed of Love)
1943 - Johnny Watkins, cricketer (NSW leg-spinner, bowled 6 overs for Aust)
1943 - Ruth Madoc, actress (Hi Di Hi)
1944 - Dennis Russell Davies, composer
1944 - Bob Montgomery, Nashville, Tennessee, last Major League Baseball player to bat without a
           helmet (1979)
1945 - Goran Antunac, Yugoslavia, International Chess Master (1975)
1945 - Stefan Grossman, NYC, country blues singer (Yazoo Basin Boogie)
1945 - Tom Allen, American politician
1946 - Margot Adler, American journalist
1947 - Gerry Rafferty, Paisley Scotland, guitarist/vocalist (Baker Street)
1947 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, [Lew Alcindor], NBA center (Mil Bucks, LA Lakers)
1948 - Lynne Franks, British public relations consultant
1949 - Melody Patterson, American actress
1950 - David Graff, Lancaster Ohio, actor (Police Academy 2, 3, 4, 6)
1951 - John Bentley, rocker
1951 - Pierre Toutain-Dorbec, French photographer
1951 - Ioan Mihai Cochinescu, Romanian writer and photographer
1951 - Björgvin Halldórsson, Icelandic singer
1951 - Mordechai Ben David, Jewish singer
1952 - Peter Westbrook, St Louis Mo, US fencer (Olympic-bronze-88, 92, 96)
1952 - Michel Blanc, French actor
1952 - Billy West, American voice actor
1953 - Jay O Sanders, Austin TX, actor (Meeting Venus, V I Warshawski)
1953 - J. Neil Schulman, American writer
1954 - Ellen Barkin, Bronx NY, actress (Big Easy, Sea of Love)
1954 - John Bowe, Australian racing driver
1955 - Charlotte Morrison, English large landowner/multi-millionaire
1955 - Henri, Heir Apparent Prince of Luxembourg
1955 - Bruce Bochy, American baseball player and manager
1956 - David M Brown, Arlington Va, Cmdr USN/astronaut
1956 - Marty Dickerson, Middletown OH, golfer (1994 ShopRite Classic-22nd)
1956 - Lise-Marie Morerod, Swiss skier
1958 - Philip Bainbridge, British cricketeer
1959 - Anne Kursinski, equestrian show jumper (Olympics-silver-96)
1959 - Scott McKinsey, American television director
1960 - Wahab Akbar, Filipino politician (d. 2007)
1960 - Rafael Benítez, Spanish football manager
1960 - Pierre Littbarski, German footballer
1961 - Doris Dragović, Croatian singer
1962 - David Pate, LA Cal, tennis star
1962 - Ian MacKaye, rocker (Cyrano de Bergerac)
1962 - Jeanne Golay, Coral Gables Fla, cyclist (Olympics-16th-92, 96)
1963 - Garry Galley, Montreal, NHL defenseman (Buffalo Sabres)
1963 - Hu Na, China, tennis star
1963 - Jimmy Osmond, Ogden Utah, singer (Donnie & Marie)
1963 - Nick Berry, Britain, actor (Wicksy-EastEnders)
1963 - Salim Malik, cricketer (memorable Pakistani & Essex batsman)
1964 - Dave Pirner, rocker (Soul Asylum)
1964 - Robert Kelker-Kelly, Wichita Kansas, (Bo-Days of our Live)
1964 - David Kohan, American television producer
1965 - Caren Kemner, Quincy IL, volleyball outside hitter (Oly-bronze-92, 96)
1965 - Gerardo, rocker
1965 - Jon Cryer, actor (Pretty in Pink, Superman IV)
1965 - Martin Lawrence, comedian (Martin)
1965 - Michael Wong Man Tak, Hong Kong actor and director
1966 - Lewis Tillman, NFL running back (Chic Bears)
1967 - Charles Evans, NFL running back (Minnesota Vikings)
1968 - Grace Kim, Korea, tennis star
1969 - Fernando Vina, Sacramento CA, infielder (Milwaukee Brewers)
1969 - Melinda Rich, Muskegon Mich, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-13th-1993)
1970 - Fran Robinson, California, actress (Lauren-Charlie & Company)
1970 - Ian Franklin, CFL cornerback (Edmonton Eskimos)
1970 - Steve Emtman, NFL defensive tackle (Miami Dolphins)
1970 - Walt Williams, NBA forward/guard (Toronto Raptors, Miami Heat)
1971 - Selena, Texas, spanish singer (Grammy-1994)
1971 - Frederik Nilsson, Stockholm SWE, IHL forward (Team Sweden, KC (IHL))
1971 - Natasha Zvereva, Minsk Belarus, tennis ace (finals 1995 Indian Wells)
1971 - Selena [Quintanilla], tejano vocalist
1971 - Trey Maples, Wheat Ridge Colo, Canadian Tour golfer (1993 Canadian)
1971 - Max Beesley, English musician and actor
1971 - Moses Chan, Hong Kong actor
1972 - Conchita Martinez, Monzon Spain, tennis star (1996 final Indian Wells)
1972 - Jim Ballard, NFL/WLAF quarterback (Scottish Claymores, Buffalo Bills)
1972 - Mario Bradley, WLAF cornerback (London Monarchs)
1973 - Bonnie Pink, Japanese singer
1974 - Mat Devine, American singer (Kill Hannah)
1974 - Xu Jinglei, Chinese actress, singer and director
1974 - Valarie Rae Miller, American actress
1975 - Nicky Sualua, NFL fullback (Dallas Cowboys)
1975 - Sean Maher, American actor
1975 - Nick Pickard, British actor
1976 - Lukas Haas, actor (Music Box, Witness, Testament, Leap of Faith)
1976 - Dan Kellner, American fencer
1976 - Shu Qi, Taiwanese actress
1977 - Alek Wek, Sudanese supermodel
1977 - Fredrik Ljungberg, Swedish footballer
1978 - Matthew Lloyd, Australian rules footballer
1978 - Lara Dutta, Indian actress
1979 - Christijan Albers, Dutch Formula One driver
1979 - Sixto Peralta, Argentine footballer
1980 - Jesse Tendler, Madison Wisc, actor (Nick-Ellen Burstyn Show)
1980 - Paul London, American professional wrestler
1982 - Boris Diaw, French basketball player
1982 - Barry Jones, Scottish magician
1982 - Jonathan Vilma, American football player
1982 - Gina Carano, American Mixed Martial Arts fighter.
1983 - Cat Osterman, American softball pitcher
1983 - George Patis, Greek badminton player
1983 - Marié Digby, American Singer
1984 - Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, American author
1984 - Noah Fleiss, American actor
1985 - Mark Baker, Welsh author and historian
1985 - Luol Deng, British-Sudanese basketball player
1985 - Benjamín Rojas, Argentine actor and singer
1986 - Paul di Resta, British racing driver
1987 - Milton J Cross, NYC, TV announcer (Met Opera Auditions of the Air)
1987 - Neil Haskell, Finalist of SYTYCD Season 3
1987 - Aaron Lennon, English footballer
1990 - Heather Fulton, American marine biologist
1990 - Lorraine Nicholson, American actress
1992 - Prince Sébastien of Luxembourg, Prince of Luxembourg
1993 - Mirai Nagasu, American Figure Skater
1994 - Liliana Mumy, American actress
2008 - Princess Eléonore of Belgium, Belgian princess

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 16, 2013, 01:52:17 PM

This Day in History for 16th April


Famous Deaths

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Wax Museum Creator
Madame Tussaud (1850)


69 - Otho, Roman Emperor (b. 32)
744 - al-Walid II, Umayyad caliph
924 - Berengar of Friuli, King of Italy
1113 - Sviatopolk II of Kiev, Russian prince (b. 1050)
1115 - Svjatopolk II, great monarch of Kiev, dies [or 1113]
1118 - Adelaide del Vasto, wife of Roger II of Sicily
1198 - Duke Frederick I of Austria
1446 - Filippo Brunelleschi, architect, dies
1496 - David van Bourgondie, Bishop of Utrecht (1456-96), dies at about 69
1529 - Louis de Berquin, French humanist/reformer/heretic, burned at stake
1619 - Denijs Calvaert/Caluwaert, [Dionisio Fiamingo], Flemish painter, dies
1645 - Tobias Hume, English composer
1687 - George Villiers 2nd duke of Buckingham, dies at 59
1689 - Aphra Behn, English dramatist (b. 1640)
1743 - Cornelis van Bijnkershoek, Dutch lawyer (Roman law), dies at 69
1756 - Jacques Cassini, Fr astronomer (Discover rings of Saturn), dies at 79
1760 - Laurence, 4th Earl Ferrers, executed for murder of his steward
1783 - Christian Mayer, Czech astronomer (b. 1719)
1788 - Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French naturalist (b. 1707)
1825 - John Henry Fuseli, painter/art writer (Tracks in the Snow), dies at 84
1828 - Francisco Goya y Lucientes, Spanish painter/cartoonist, dies at 82
1846 - Domenico Dragonetti, composer, dies at 83
1850 - Marie [Gresholtz] Tussaud, maker of wax figures, dies at 88
1858 - Johann Baptist Cramer, Ger/Brit pianist/composer/publisher, dies at 87
1859 - Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian (b. 1805)
1860 - Carolina, duchess of Berry/daughter of crown prince of Naples, dies
1865 - Robert C Tyler, US Confederate brig-general, dies in battle
1870 - Anatoli O Demidov, Russian ruler of Donato/traveller, dies
1876 - Augustin-Philippe Peellaert, composer, dies at 83
1879 - Bernadette, st/(saw Virgin Mary at Lourdes), dies in Nevers France
1881 - George William Martin, composer, dies at 56
1888 - Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, Polish physicist (b. 1845)
1899 - Emilio Jacinto, Filipino poet and revolutionary (b 1875)
1904 - Maximilian Kronberger, German poet (b. 1888)
1904 - Samuel Smiles, Scottish writer and reformer (b. 1812)
1914 - George W Hill, US astronomer (moon orbit), dies at 76
1915 - Nelson W. Aldrich, American politician (b. 1841)
1916 - Tom Horan, cricketer (15 Tests for Aust, 471 runs, 11 wickets), dies
1920 - John Conrad Nordqvist, composer, dies at 80
1924 - Jack Board, cricket wicket-keeper (Eng in 6 Tests 1898-1906), dies
1928 - Henry Birks, Canadian businessman, founder of Henri Birks and Sons (b. 1840)
1929 - Abraham van Stolk Jzn, art collector, dies at 57
1930 - José Carlos Mariátegui, Peruvian journalist, political philosopher and activist (b. 1894)
1938 - Bertram Wagstaff Mills, circus proprietor, dies
1938 - Steve Bloomer, English footballer (b. 1874)
1941 - Josiah Charles Stamp, 1st baron/statisician, dies
1946 - Arthur Chevrolet, Swiss-born race car driver and automobile designer (b. 1884)
1947 - Rudolf Höß, commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp (b. 1900)
1949 - Sutan Ibrahim gelor Datuk Tan Malaka, Indon communist, executed at 54
1951 - Emile Erens, Dutch hagiographer (Pastor of Ars), dies at 85
1955 - Abdullah Seif el-Islam, brother of Yemenite king Ahmed, beheaded
1958 - Rosalind Franklin, British chemist (b. 1920)
1959 - Charles Halton, dies at 83
1968 - Edna Ferber, American author (American Beauty), dies at 82
1968 - Fay Bainter, actress (Jezebel, Our Town, State Fair), dies at 76
1970 - Richard Neutra, American architect (b. 1892)
1972 - Yasunari Kawabata, Japanese author (Nobel 1968), dies at 72
1978 - Lucius D Clay, gen/gov US zone W-Germany (airlift), dies at 80
1981 - Eric Hollies, cricketer (13 Tests for England, 44 wickets), dies
1985 - Scott Brady, [Gerald Tierney], actor (Shotgun Slade), dies at 60
1988 - Abu Jihad, [Khalil al-Wazzir], PLO-leader, murdered
1988 - Clifford Roach, cricketer (16 Tests early in WI cricket history), dies
1988 - Jacques de Kadt, Dutch 2nd chamber member (soc-dem), dies at 90
1988 - Khalil al-Wazir, PLO milt commander, assassinated by Israeli commandos
1988 - Warde Donovan, dies at 72
1989 - Tawfieq Yusuf Awwaad, Lebanese writer, dies
1991 - David Lean, director (28 academy awards), dies of pneumonia at 83
1992 - Andy Russell, drummer/vocalist (Your Hit Parade), dies of stroke at 72
1992 - Frank Killmond, dies at 58
1992 - Neville Brand, actor (Stalag 17), dies of emphysema at 71
1993 - John P W Meefout, sculptor (Laying wife), dies at 77
1994 - John McLiam, dies of Parkinson's disease at 75
1994 - Ralph Waldo Ellison, US writer (Invisible Man), dies at 80
1994 - Ron Vawter, US actor (Roy Cohn, Silence of the Lambs), dies at 45
1994 - Samuel Selvon, author, dies at 70
1995 - Arthur English, comedian, dies at 75
1995 - Cheyenne Brando, daughter of Marlon, commits suicide
1995 - Cyril Enfield, film Director, dies at 80
1995 - Stewart Myles MacPherson, broadcaster, dies at 86
1995 - Iqbal Masih, Pakistani child slave labourer, activist (b. 1982)
1996 - Lucille Bremer, dancer/actress (Ziegfeld Follies), dies at 73
1996 - Madeleine Bourdouxhe, writer, dies at 89
1996 - Raymond Earl Hill, saxophonist, dies at 62
1996 - Stavros Spyros Niarchos, Greek shipowner, dies at 86
1997 - Emilio Azcarraga Milmo, media tycoon, dies at 66
1997 - Mae Boren Axton, song writer (Heartbreak Hotel), dies at 82
1997 - Michael Stroka, actor (Aristede-Dark Shadows), dies of cancer at 57
1997 - Roland Topor, French illustrator (b. 1938)
1998 - Fred Davis, English snooker player (b. 1913)
1998 - Alberto Calderón, Argentine mathematician (b. 1920)
1999 - Skip Spence, Canadian-born guitarist, singer and songwriter (Jefferson Airplane) (b. 1946)
2001 - Alec Stock, English football manager (b. 1917)
2002 - Ruth Fertel, American restaurateur (b. 1927)
2002 - Robert Urich, American actor (b. 1946)
2003 - Graham Jarvis, Canadian actor (b. 1930)
2003 - Graham Stuart Thomas, English author and garden designer (b. 1909)
2005 - Kay Walsh, British actress (b. 1911)
2005 - Kim Mu-saeng, South Korean actor (b. 1943)
2005 - Marla Ruzicka, American humanitarian worker and peace activist (b. 1976)
2006 - Francisco Adam, Portuguese actor and model (b. 1983)
2007 - Gaetan Duchesne, Canadian hockey player (b. 1962)
2007 - Maria Lenk, Brazilian swimmer and first Brazilian woman to compete in the Olympic Games (b.
           1915)
2007 - Seung-Hui Cho, Korean American murderer (b. 1984), see List of victims of the Virginia Tech
           massacre
2007 - Jocelyne Couture-Nowak, American instructor of French (b. 1958)
2007 - Kevin Granata, American professor of Engineering (b. 1961)
2007 - Liviu Librescu, American Jewish-Romanian professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics (b.
          1930)
2007 - G. V. Loganathan, Indian American professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering (b. 1954)
2007 - Frank Bateson, New Zealand astronomer (b. 1909)
2008 - Edward Lorenz, American mathematician and meteorologist (b. 1917)
2008 - Joseph Solman, American painter
2010 - Rasim Delic, Bosnian military chief of staff and war criminal (b. 1949)
2012 - Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, Danish shipping Magnate, dies at 98

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 17, 2013, 09:35:49 AM

This Day in History for 17th April


Historical Events

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Baseball Great Babe Ruth                    Soviet Union Premier Joseph Stalin         Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini

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Pop Singer & Beatle                                     NHL all-time top scorer
Paul McCartney                                                  Wayne Gretzky


858 - Benedict III ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1397 - Geoffrey Chaucer tells the Canterbury Tales for the first time at the court of Richard II.
           Chaucer scholars have also identified this date (in 1387) as when the book's pilgrimage to
           Canterbury starts.
1492 - Christopher Columbus signs contract with Spain to find Indies
1524 - Giovanni Verrazano, a florentine navigator, discovers New York Bay
1534 - Sir Thomas More confined in London Tower
1555 - Siena surrenders for Spanish troops
1596 - Arch duke Albrecht of Austria occupies Calais
1629 - 1st commercial fishery established
1704 - 1st successful US newspaper; published in Boston by John Campbell
1711 - Charles VI becomes Holy Roman Emperor after the death of this brother Joseph I
1747 - French troops occupy Zeeuws-Flanders, Netherlands
1758 - Francis Williams, 1st US black college graduate, publishes poems
1793 - Battle of Warsaw
1797 - Sir Ralph Abercromby attacks San Juan, Puerto Rico in what would be one of the largest
           invasions to Spanish territories in America.
1808 - Bayonne Decree by Napoleon I of France orders seizure of US ships
1817 - 1st US school for deaf (Hartford, Conn)
1824 - Russia abandons all North American claims south of 54° 40'N
1839 - Guatemala forms republic
1853 - Thorbecke government resigns
1853 - US Marine Hospital at Presidio (SF) forms
1861 - Indianola TX - "Star of West" taken by Confederacy
1861 - Virginia is 8th state to secede
1863 - R Grierson's: La Grange, TN to Baton Rouge, LA
1864 - Battle of Plymouth, NC
1864 - Bread revolt in Savannah, Georgia
1864 - Grant suspends prisoner-of-war exchanges
1865 - Mary Surratt is arrested as a conspirator in Lincoln's assassination
1869 - 1st pro baseball games-Cin Reds 24, Cin amateurs 15
1875 - "Snooker" (variation of pool) invented by Sir Neville Chamberlain
1892 - 1st Sunday NL baseball game, Reds beat Cards 5-1
1895 - Treaty of Shimonoseki signed, ends 1st Sino-Japanese War (1894-95)
1900 - 7 high chiefs of American Samoa sign Instrument of Cession
1905 - US Supreme court judges maximum work day unconstitutional
1905 - The Supreme Court of the United States decides Lochner v. New York which held that the
           "right to free contract" was implicit in the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
            of the United States Constitution.
1907 - Ellis Island, NY-11,745 immigrants arrive
1912 - 1st unofficial gold record (Al Jolson's "Ragging The Baby To Sleep")
1920 - American Professional Football Association forms (NFL)
1923 - Longest NL opening game, Phillies & Dodgers tie 5-5 in 14
1924 - Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures & Louis B Mayer Co merged to form MGM
1925 - NY Yankee Babe Ruth has ulcer surgery
1925 - Paul Painlevé follows Edouard Herriot on as French premier
1927 - Japan's Wakarsoeki government falls/Baron Tanaka becomes premier
1930 - Abkhazian ASSR forms in Georgian SSR
1932 - Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia ends slavery
1933 - Chicago Bears win their 1st NFL Game beating NY Giants 23-21
1934 - New Fenway Park opens, Washington Senators beat Red Sox 6-5
1935 - Provincial-National elections (Musserts NSB achieves 7.9%/44 chairs)
1937 - Cartoon characters Daffy Duck, Elmer J Fudd & Petunia Pig, debut
1939 - Joe Louis KOs Jack Roper in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
1939 - SN Behrman's "No Time for Comedy," premieres in NYC
1939 - Stalin signs British-France-Russian anti-nazi pact
1941 - British troop land in Iraq/Yugoslavia; surrender to nazis
1941 - Office of Price Administration forms (handled rationing)
1941 - World War II: The Kingdom of Yugoslavia surrenders to Germany.
1942 - 12 Lancasters bombs MAN-factory in Augsburg
1942 - Operations begin to destroy Sobibor Concentration Camp
1942 - POW French General Henri Giraud escapes from his castle prison in Festung Königstein.
1943 - Admiral Yamamoto flies from Truk to Rabaul
1943 - SS-lt-general Jurgen Stoop arrives in Warsaw
1945 - 8th Air Force bombs Dresden
1945 - German occupiers flood Wieringermeer Neth
1945 - Benito Mussolini flees from Salò to Milan
1945 - US troops lands in Mindanao
1946 - Syria declares independence from French administration
1947 - Jackie Robinson bunts for his 1st major league hit
1951 - NY Yankee Mickey Mantle's 1st game, he goes 1 for 4
1953 - Mickey Mantle hits a 565' (172 m) HR in Wash DC's Griffith Stadium
1955 - Betty Jameson wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
1956 - Bulgaria premier Tchervenkov resigns
1956 - Kominform disbands
1956 - Premium Savings Bonds introduced in Great Britain
1956 - USSR's Cominform (Parliament) dissolves
1956 - Willie Mosconi sinks 150 consecutive balls in a billiard tournament
1958 - Brussel's (Belgium) World Fair opens
1960 - American Samoa sets up a constitutional government
1960 - Cleveland Indians trade Rocky Colavito to Tigers for Harvey Kuenn
1961 - 1,400 Cuban exiles land in Bay of Pigs attempt to overthrow Castro
1961 - 33rd Academy Awards - "Apartment," Burt Lancaster & Liz Taylor win
1964 - "Cafe Crown" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 3 performances
1964 - "High Spirits" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 375 performances
1964 - 1st game at Shea Stadium, NY Mets lose to Pittsburgh Pirates, 4-3
1964 - Ford Mustang formally introduced ($2368 base)
1964 - Jerrie Mock becomes 1st woman to fly solo around the world
1966 - 100th intl soccer meet between Netherlands-Belgium (3-1)
1966 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Raleigh Ladies Golf Invitational
1967 - Shortwave Radio NY Worldwide goes back on the air after a week off
1967 - Surveyor 3 launched; soft lands on Moon, April 20
1968 - "Fade Out-Fade In" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 72 perfs
1968 - A's 1st game in Oakland-Alameda Stadium, lose 4-1 to Balt Orioles
1969 - Bernadette Devlin elected to British house of commons
1969 - Czechoslovakia's Communist Party chairman Alexander Dubcek deposed
1969 - Mont Expos Bill Stoneman no-hits Phillies, 7-0
1969 - Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Sen Robert F Kennedy
1969 - The Band (formerly The Hawks), perform their 1st concert
1970 - Apollo 13 limps back safely, Beech-built oxygen tank no help
1970 - Paul McCartney's 1st solo album "McCartney" is released
1971 - Egypt, Libya & Syria form federation (FAR)
1971 - People's Republic Bangladesh forms, under sheik Mujib ur-Rahman
1972 - 1st Boston Women's Marathon won by Nina Kuscsik of NY in 3:10:26
1972 - 76th Boston Marathon won by Olavi Suomalainen of Finland in 2:15:39
1972 - Revised Dutch constitution proclaimed
1972 - Kiteman attempting to throw out 1st ball in Phillie Vet crashes into centerfield seats
1973 - 2nd Boston Women's Marathon won by Jacqueline Hansen of CA in 3:05:59
1973 - 77th Boston Marathon won by Jon Anderson of Oreg in 2:16:03
1973 - German counter-terrorist unit GSG 9 founded.
1974 - Bundy victim Susan Rancourt disappears from CWU, Ellensburg, WA
1974 - Moslem fundamentalists assault military academy in Heliopolis Egypt
1975 - Khmer Rouge captures Phnom Penh, Cambodia (Kampuchea Natl Day)
1975 - Penguins 6-Isles 4-Quarterfinals-Penguins hold 3-0 lead
1975 - Phnom Penh fell to Communist insurgents, ending Cambodia's 5-year war
1976 - NL greatest comeback, trailing 12-1 Phils win 18-16 in 10, Mike Schmidt hits 4 consecutive
           HRs
1977 - "I Love My Wife" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 864 performances
1977 - Christian-democrats win Belgium parliamentary election
1977 - Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Women's International Golf Tournament
1978 - 63,500,000 shares traded on NY stock exchange (record)
1978 - 7th Boston Women's Marathon won by Gayle Barron of Ga in 2:44:52
1978 - 82nd Boston Marathon won by Bill Rodgers of Mass in 2:10:13
1978 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Carl Sagan for "Dragons of Eden"
1979 - Brian Clark's "Whose Life is it Anyway?" premieres in London
1981 - Isle Potvin's 3 playoff power-play goals tie NHL record vs Oilers
1981 - Ranger's Anders Hedberg is 2nd to score on a Stanley Cup penalty shot
1982 - Canada adopts its constitution
1982 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1983 - 1st National Coin Week begins
1983 - Grete Waltz runs female world record marathon (2:25:29)
1983 - In Warsaw, police route 1,000 Solidarity supporters
1983 - India entered space age launching SLV-3 rocket
1983 - Lynn Adams wins LPGA Combanks Orlando Golf Classic
1983 - Nolan Ryan strikes out his 3,500th batter
1983 - Islanders tie NHL record with 3 shorthanded playoff goals vs Rangers Rangers 7-Isles 6-
           Patrick Div Finals-Isles hold 2-1 lead Wayne Gretzky scores 7 goals in one Stanley Cup playoff 
           game
1984 - Braves pitcher Pascual Perez suspended due to cocaine usage
1984 - Libyan embassy demonstration, 1 shot dead
1986 - IBM produces 1st megabit-chip
1986 - Netherlands & Scilly Islands sign peace treaty (war of 1651)
1986 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Larry McMurtry for "Lonesome Dove"
1987 - Julius Erving becomes 3rd NBA player to score 30,000 points
1987 - Richard Wilbur appointed as US poet laureate
1987 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1988 - Ethiopian Belayneh Densimo runs world record marathon (2:06:50)
1988 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA AI Star/Centinela Hospital Golf Classic
1989 - 18th Boston Women's Marath won by Ingrid Kristiansen of Nor in 2:24:33
1989 - 93rd Boston Marathon won by Abebe Mekonen of Ethiopia in 2:09:06
1989 - Maximum NY State unemployment benefits raised to $245 per week
1989 - Polish labor union granted legal status
1989 - Soviet-US agreement allows Soviets to fight US pros
1990 - Gas explodes on passenger train in Kumrahar India, 80 die
1991 - Dow Jones closes above 3,000 for 1st time (3,004.46)
1991 - Railroad workers go on strike in US
1993 - Police officers found guilty of violating Rodney Kings civil rights
1993 - STS-56 (Discovery) lands
1994 - "Little More Magic" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 30 perfs
1994 - "Twilight - Los Angeles 1992" opens at Cort Theater NYC for 72 perfs
1994 - 55th PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Lee Trevino wins
1994 - Aruba government of Oduber falls
1994 - Val Skinner wins LPGA Atlanta Women's Golf Championship
1995 - 24th Boston Women's Marathon won by Uta Pippig of Germany in 2:25:11
1995 - 99th Boston Marathon won by Cosmas Ndeti of Kenya in 2:09:22
1997 - John Bell, 115, recieves new pacemaker
1997 - NJ Devil Martin Brodeur is 2nd NHL goalie to score in a playoff game
2002 - Four Canadian Forces soldiers are killed in Afghanistan by friendly fire from two United States
           Air Force F-16s, the first deaths in a combat zone for Canada since the Korean War.
2012 - The St Cuthbert Gospel, Europe's oldest intact book, purchased by the British Library for 9
           million pounds

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 17, 2013, 09:37:30 AM

This Day in History for 17th April


Famous Weddings

1993 - "The Bangles" lead singer Susanna Hoffs (34) weds "Austin Powers" director Jay Roach (35)
1994 - Jennie Garth weds Dan Clark
2009 - World's no. 1 professional tennis player Andy Roddick (29) weds fashion model and actress
           Brooklyn Decker (25) in Austin, Texas
2011 - Actress and model Torrey Devitto (26) weds actor Paul Wesley (28) in New York

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 17, 2013, 09:43:18 AM

This Day in History for 17th April


Famous Birthdays

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Journalist Harry Reasoner (1923)            Actress Jennifer Garner (1972)              Singer Victoria Beckham (1974)


1278 - Michael IX Palaeologus, co-ruling Eastern Roman Emperor (d. 1320)
1539 - Tobias Stimmer, Swiss painter/cartoonist (Comedia)
1573 - Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria (d. 1651)
1586 - John Ford, English dramatist ('Tis Pity She's a Whore)
1587 - Marco Ivan Lukacic, composer
1598 - Giovanni Riccioli, Italian astronomer (d. 1671)
1620 - Marguerite Bourgeoys, founder of the Congregation of Notre Dame (d. 1700)
1622 - Henry Vaughan, English poet (Silex Scintillans)
1644 - Abraham Jansz Storck, painter, baptized
1666 - Francois Valentijn, Dutch vicar/writer
1676 - Frederik I, van Hessen Kassel, King of Sweden (1720-51)
1683 - Johann David Heinichen, composer
1699 - Robert Blair, Scottish poet (Grave)
1710 - Henry Erskine, 10th Earl of Buchan, British Freemason (d. 1767)
1715 - Johann Wolfgang Kleinknecht, composer
1719 - Christian Gottfried Krause, composer
1734 - Taksin, King of Thailand (d. 1782)
1738 - Philip Hayes, composer
1741 - Johann Gottlieb Naumann, composer
1741 - Samuel Chase, judge (signed Decl of Ind)
1750 - François de Neufchâteau, French statesman and intellectual figure (d. 1828)
1774 - Vaclav Jan Krtitel Tomasek, organist/pianist/composer
1788 - Joseph Gilbert Totten, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1864
1794 - Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, German botanist (d. 1868)
1797 - Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Tolbecque, Belgian composer/conductor
1798 - Étienne Bobillier, French mathematician (d. 1840)
1809 - Philip St George Cocke, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1861
1811 - Ann Sheppard Mounsey, composer
1813 - Henry Washington Benham, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1884
1816 - Thomas Hazlehurst, English Methodist chapel builder (d. 1876)
1820 - Gottfried Conradi, composer
1827 - French C Baeckelmans, Flemish architect (St Amanduskerk, Antwerp)
1833 - Jean-Baptiste Accolay, Belgian composer (d. 1900)
1837 - John Pierpont Morgan, US banker/CEO (US Steel)
1837 - J. P. Morgan, American financier (d. 1913)
1842 - Maurice Rouvier, French statesman (d. 1911)
1845 - Isabel Barrows, US, editor/penologist (Conference on Negro Question)
1849 - William R. Day, American diplomat and Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1923)
1863 - Johannes P Boskaljon, Curacao composer/conductor
1863 - Augustus Edward Hough Love, English mathematician (d. 1940)
1865 - Ursula Julia Ledochowska, Polish-Austrian Catholic saint (d. 1939)
1866 - Ernest Starling, British physiologist (d. 1927)
1868 - Charles R Gallas, Dutch lexicographer (French dictionary)
1869 - Johannes M Meulenhoff, Dutch publisher
1870 - Ray Stannard Baker, US, journalist (Puliter Prize 1940)
1876 - Ian Hay, Scotland, novelist/playwright (PIp, Carrying On)
1877 - Matsudaira Tsuneo, Japanese diplomat (d. 1949)
1881 - Anton Wildgans, writer
1882 - Artur Schnabel, Lipnik Austria, pianist (Beethoven Piano Sonatas)
1883 - Hermann Darewsky, composer
1884 - Leo Frank, American convict (d. 1915)
1885 - Cecil Burleigh, composer
1885 - Isak Dinesen, Danish writer (Out of Africa, 7 Gothic Tales)
1885 - Karen Blixen-Finecke, [pen name Isak Dinesen], Danish writer (Out of Africa)
1886 - Otto Lederer, Czechoslovakia, actor (Jazz Singer)
1890 - Art Acord, Glenwood Sevier UT, western actor (Arizona Kid, Hard Fists)
1892 - Jean PJC Haesaert, Flemish lawyer/sociologist
1895 - Bert Wheeler, actor (Nitwits, Hold 'em Jail, High Flyers, Rainmakers)
1896 - Senor Wences, ventriloquist (his hand acts as a puppet)
1897 - Antonius F "Anton" Coolen, Dutch author (Village by the River)
1897 - Harald Saeverud, Bergen Norway, composer (Saline) [NS]
1897 - Thornton N Wilder, US, novelist/playwright (Our Town)
1899 - Vincent Wigglesworth, entomologist
1901 - George Keyt, artist
1902 - Anton Beuving, lyricist (Ketelbinkie)
1902 - Jaime Torres Bodet, Mexican politician (d. 1974)
1903 - Gregor Piatigorsky, Ekaterinoslav Russia, cellist (or 4/20)
1903 - Nicolas Nabokov, Near Lubcha Minsk Russia, composer (Holy Devil)
1903 - Morgan Taylor, American athlete (d. 1975)
1904 - Edward Chodorov, playwright/director (Story of Louis Pasteur)
1904 - Naoomal Jeoomal, cricketer (pioneer Indian Test opening batsman)
1905 - Arthur Lake, Corbin Ky, actor (Dagwood-Blondie)
1905 - Louis Jean Heydt, Montclair NJ, actor (Joe-Waterfront)
1906 - M Rooi, editor-in-chief (New Rotterdam Daily)
1906 - Sidney R. Garfield, American physician (d. 1984)
1909 - Alain Emile Louis Marie Poher, politician
1909 - Humphrey Sims Moore, pacifist/journalist
1909 - Patrick Reilly, diplomat
1910 - Ivan Goff, Australian screenwriter (d. 1999)
1911 - Earl of Lauderdale
1911 - Jean-Pierre Herve Bazin, writer
1911 - Mikhail Botvinnik, of USSR, world chess champion (1948-63)
1912 - Isador Caplan, lawyer/Aldeburgh Festival Pioneer
1913 - Paul Langton, Salt Lake City Utah, actor (Leslie-Peyton Place)
1913 - Richard Travis, Carlsbad NM, actor (Missile to the Moon)
1914 - George W. Davis, American art director (d. 1984)
1915 - Joe Foss, American soldier and politician (d. 2003)
1916 - Azijn Banana, [Oscar Enau], Antillean publicist
1916 - David Stafford-Clark, psychiatrist
1916 - Donald Gibson, British vice-admiral
1916 - Ryoei Saito, businessman
1916 - Sirimavo Bandaranaike, world's 1st woman PM (Sri Lanka, 1960..77)
1916 - Vinegar Banana, [Oscar Enau], Antillean publicist
1917 - Bill Clements, American politician
1918 - Anne Shirley, UK, actress (Devil & Daniel Webster, Stella Dallas)
1918 - William Holden, Ill, actor (Stalag 17, Bridge Over River Kwai, SOB)
1919 - Gilles Lamontagne, French Canadian politician
1919 - Chavela Vargas, Costa Rican-Mexican singer
1920 - Bengt N Anderberg, Swedish poet/writer (Kain)
1920 - Joan "Maudie" Warburton, painter
1921 - Donald Barron, CEO (Midland Bank)
1923 - Harry Reasoner, Dakota City Iowa, newscaster (60 Minutes, ABC, CBS)
1923 - Lindsay Anderson, Bangalore India, director (Thursday's Children)
1923 - Lloyd Biggle Jr, US, sci-fi author (Silence is Deadly)
1923 - Norman Potter, cabinetmaker designer/writer
1923 - Solly Hemus, American baseball player
1924 - Patrick Sergeant, founder (Euromoney Publications)
1924 - Althea T L Simmons, human rights activist/chief lobbyist (NAACP)
1925 - Anne Harris, CEO (Natl Federation of Women's Institutes)
1925 - John Yates, bishop (Lambeth England)
1925 - Joyce Buck, actress/interior designer
1926 - Arthur Hockaday, director-Gen (Commonwealth War Graves Commission)
1926 - G M Hughes, professor/zoologist
1926 - Michael Vernon, CEO (RNLI)
1926 - Gerry McNeil, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2004)
1927 - Christopher Whelen, composer
1927 - Tadeusz Mazowiecki, premier of Poland (1989-90)
1928 - Cynthia Ozick, US, author (Pagan Rabbi & Other Stories)
1929 - Eileen Stamers-Smith, headmistress (Malvern Girls' College)
1929 - James Last, orchestra leader/composer/arranger
1929 - Lady (James) Mellon, CEO (Volunteer Development Scotland)
1930 - Chris Barber, jazz trombonist
1930 - Genevieve, Paris France, singer (Jack Paar Show, Scruples)
1931 - Joan Clague, director of nursing services (Marie Curie Foundation)
1931 - John Bartlett, tennis player (Davis Cup capt-Britain)
1931 - John Chalstrey, alderman/Lord Mayor (London)
1931 - Joyce Molyneux, chef
1931 - Ruth Etchells, principal (St John's College-Durham)
1932 - Graziella Sciutti, Italian opera singer
1932 - Han J A Hansen [Jansen], Dutch journalist (King Comes!)
1932 - Ramsay Melhuish, diplomat
1933 - Penelope Lively, writer
1933 - Tim Rathbone, MP
1934 - Don Kirshner, rock & roll producer (invented bubblegum music)
1935 - Theo Angelopoulos, Greek film director
1936 - Lord Justice Aldous
1936 - Pete Graves, rocker (Moonglows)
1937 - Brian Sedgemore, British MP
1937 - Daffy Duck, animated character
1937 - Eduard N Stepanov, Russian cosmonaut
1937 - Galina Samsova, ballerina
1937 - Terry Dicks, British MP
1937 - Ferdinand Piëch, Austrian-German automotive engineer and executive
1938 - David Dilks, vice-chancellor (Hull U)
1938 - K M P O'Brien, archbishop (St Andrews & Edinburgh)
1938 - Ben Barnes, American politician
1938 - Kerry Wendell Thornley, co-founder of Discordianism
1939 - Robin Knox-Johnston, yachtsman
1940 - Anja Silja, German soprano
1941 - Adolphus Hailstork, composer
1941 - Billy Fury, Liverpool, singer/guitarist (When Will You Say I Love You)
1941 - Max Stafford-Clark, artistic director (Royal Court Theatre)
1942 - Mario Brenta, writer/director (Maicol, Barnabo of the Mountains)
1942 - David Bradley, British actor
1943 - Roy Estrada, rocker (Morthers Of Invention)
1944 - John Lill, professor/pianist
1945 - Vincent A M van der Burg, Dutch MP (CDA)
1946 - Clare Francis, yachtswoman/novelist (Come Hell or High Water)
1946 - Henry Kelly, British broadcaster
1946 - J R Baines, professor (Egyptologist)
1947 - Linda Martin, Irish singer
1947 - Tsutomu Wakamatsu, Japanese baseball player
1948 - Jan Hammer, composer (Escape from TV, Miami Vice)
1948 - Viscount Bridport
1949 - Heini Hemmi, Switzerland, giant slalom (Olympic-gold-1976)
1950 - L. Scott Caldwell, American actress
1950 - Bruce McNall, American former NHL team owner
1951 - Olivia Hussey, Buenos Aires, actress (Romeo & Juliet, Death on Nile)
1952 - Željko Ražnatović, Serbian warlord (d. 2000)
1954 - Kim Tyler, Hollywood California, actress (Kyle-Please Don't Eat Daisies)
1954 - Riccardo Patrese, driver (Grand Prix)
1954 - Rowdy Roddy Piper, Canadian professional wrestler
1954 - Michael Sembello, American musician
1955 - Pete Shelley, vocal/guitar (Buzzcocks-Going Steady, Love Bites)
1955 - Peter Michalke, journalist
1955 - Rob Bolland, Dutch singer/guitarist (Bolland & Bolland)
1956 - Faye Young, WBL forward (NY Stars, NJ Stars)
1956 - Kaye Young, WBL forward (NY Stars, NJ Stars)
1956 - Pillow, [Therese Joan Bell], California, bodybuilder (Gold Classic 1983)
1957 - Byron Cherry, Atlanta Ga, actor (Coy-Dukes of Hazzard)
1957 - Nick Hornby, English author
1958 - Sergei Yuriyevich Vozovikov, Russian major/cosmonaut
1959 - Sean Bean, English actor (The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, A Game of Thrones)
1959 - David Hearn, Wash DC, slalom single canoe (Olympics-9th-96)
1959 - Elizabeth Lindsey, actress (China Beach)
1959 - Stephen Singleton, Sheffield, rocker (ABC)
1959 - Teri Austin, Toronto Canada, actress (Terminal Choice, Knots Landing)
1960 - Michael Whitaker, showjumper
1961 - Boomer Esiason, NFL quarterback (NY Jets, Cincinnati Bengals)
1961 - Norman Cowans, cricketer (England fast bowler in 19 Tests 1982-85)
1961 - [Norman] Boomer Esiason, NFL QB (Cincinnati Bengals, NY Jets)
1961 - Frank J. Christensen, American labor leader
1962 - Nancy Hogshead, Iowa City, swimmer (Olympic-gold-1984)/model (jockey)
1963 - Joel Murray, American actor
1964 - Ken Daneyko, Windsor, NHL defenseman (NJ Devils)
1964 - Raye Hollit, American Gladiator (Zap)
1964 - Maynard James Keenan, American singer (Tool and A Perfect Circle)
1964 - Lela Rochon, American actress
1965 - William Mapother, American actor
1965 - Yoshiki Kuroda, Japanese urban planner
1966 - Lela Rochon, actress (Waiting to Exhale)
1966 - Susie Redman, Salem OH, LPGA golfer (1995 Nabisco Dinah Shore-2nd)
1966 - Vikram, Indian actor
1967 - Aaron Wallace, NFL defensive end/linebacker (Oakland Raiders)
1967 - Leslie Bega, LA California, actress (Maria Tomlinson-Head of the Class)
1967 - Marquis Grisom, Atlanta GA, outfielder (Atlanta Braves, Cleve Indians)
1967 - Timothy Gibbs, Burbank California, actor (Father Murphy, Santa Barbara)
1967 - Marquis Grissom, American baseball player
1967 - Kimberly Elise, American actress
1967 - Henry Ian Cusick, Peruvian-born Scottish actor
1967 - Liz Phair, American musician/songwriter
1968 - Maurits, Prince of Netherlands
1968 - Ritchie Woodhall, boxer
1968 - Roger Twose, cricketer (Warwickshire batsman, New Zealand 1995)
1969 - Alexander McQueen, fashion designer
1970 - Tony Sacca, WLAF quarterback (Barcelona Dragons)
1970 - Redman, American rapper
1971 - David Oliver, Sechelt, NHL right wing (Edmonton Oilers)
1972 - Benjamin Dodwell, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1972 - Gordon Laro, NFL tight end (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1972 - Keith Lyle, safety (St Louis Rams)
1972 - Muttiah Muralitharan, cricketer (leading Sri Lankan Test off-spinner)
1972 - Tony Boselli, NFL offensive tackle (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1972 - Jarkko Wiss, Finnish Footballer
1972 - Gary Bennett, American baseball player
1972 - Jennifer Garner [Affleck], Houston, Texas. American actress (Sydney Bristow-Alias)
1972 - Claire Sweeney, English actress
1973 - Brett Maher, Adelaide SA Australia, basketball guard (Olympics-96)
1973 - Gene Makowsky, CFL offensive linebacker (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1973 - Jeff Lewis, NFL quarterback (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1973 - Kenneth Carlsen, Denmark, tennis star
1973 - Ross Aloisi, Australian soccer midfielder (Olyroos, Olympics-96)
1973 - Theo Ratliff, NBA forward/center (Detroit Pistons, Phila 76ers)
1973 - Kaihō Ryōji, Japanese sumo wrestler
1974 - Victoria Adams, "Posh Spice
1974 - James Hamilton, linebacker (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1974 - Marcel Nijenhuis, soccer player (NEC)
1974 - Victoria Beckham [Adams], Harlow, Essex, English singer (Posh Spice-Spice Girls)
1974 - Mikael Åkerfeldt, Swedish guitarist and singer (Opeth)
1975 - Trifun Zivanovic, Santa Monica, fig skater (1995 Pac Coast Jr champ)
1975 - Gabriel Soto, Mexican actor
1976 - Nadine Thomas, Miss Jamaica Universe (1997)
1976 - Monet Mazur, American actress and musician
1976 - Alex Nesic, American actor
1977 - Pascal de Vries, soccer player (FC Twente)
1977 - Sizzla, Jamaican dancehall artist
1977 - Phil Jamieson, Australian singer (Grinspoon)
1978 - Bilal Abdul-samad, rocker (Boys)
1978 - Jason White, Scottish rugby player
1979 - Tram-Anh Tran, actress (Ghostwriters')
1979 - Siddharth Narayan, Indian actor
1980 - Crystal Carlson, Miss Maine Teen USA (1997)
1980 - Curtis Woodhouse, English footballer/boxer
1980 - Lee Hyun-il, South Korean badminton player
1981 - Hanna Pakarinen, Finnish singer
1981 - Ryan Raburn, American baseball player
1982 - Lee Jun Ki, South Korean actor and model
1982 - Brad Boyes, Canadian hockey player
1983 - Stanislav Chistov, Russian hockey player
1983 - Roberto Jimenez, Peruvian football player
1985 - Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, French tennis player
1990 - Jonathan Brown, Welsh footballer
1995 - Paulie Litt, American actor
1996 - Dee Dee Davis, American actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 17, 2013, 09:45:24 AM

This Day in History for 17th April


Famous Deaths

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United States founding father
Benjamin Franklin (1790)


326 - Alexander of Alexandria, Patriarch of Alexandria
485 - Proclus, Greek mathematician, dies in Athens [or Apr 14]
617 - Donnán of Eigg, Celtic Christian martyr, patron saint of Eigg
818 - Bernhard I, King of Italy, dies
858 - Benedict III, Italian Pope (855-58), dies
1080 - King Harald III of Denmark (b. 1041)
1272 - Zita/Cita, Italian maid/saint, dies at about 59
1297 - Willem van Afflighem, Flemish poet/abbot St Truiden, dies at about 86
1427 - Jan IV, duke of Brabant/Limburg/wife of Jacoba van Bayern, dies
1539 - George, Duke of Saxony (b. 1471)
1574 - Joachim Camerarius, [Liebhard Kammerer], German philologist, dies
1630 - Christian I, ruler of Anhalt-Bernburg (battle of White Mt), dies
1679 - John van Kessel, Flemish painter, dies at 53
1680 - Kateri Tekakwitha, first American Indian to receive beatification (b. 1656)
1696 - Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, French writer (b. 1626)
1711 - Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1678) dies of smallpox
1713 - David Hollatz, Pomeranian dogmatician (b. 1648)
1714 - Philipp Heinrich Erlebach, composer, dies at 56
1726 - Henriette Amalia, ruler of Nassau-Dietz, dies at 49
1742 - Arvid Horn, Swedish statesman (b. 1664)
1761 - Thomas Bayes, English mathematician
1764 - Johann Mattheson, German composer/musicologist, dies at 82
1790 - Benjamin Franklin, US, (Poor Richards Almanac), dies at 84
1799 - Richard Jupp, English architect (b. 1728)
1835 - William Henry Ireland, forger (Shakespearean manuscripts), dies
1837 - Edouard viscount de Walckiers, very wealthy slave trader, dies
1838 - J Schopenhauer, writer, dies at 71
1843 - Samuel Morey, American inventor (b. 1762)
1854 - Gottlob Wiedebein, composer, dies at 74
1863 - Daniel Smith Donelson, Confederate general/cousin of Andrew Jackson, dies at 61
1873 - Semyon Stepanovich Gulak-Artemovsky, composer, dies at 60
1873 - Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy, Russian artist (b. 1783)
1882 - George Jennings Sanitary engineer (b. 1810)
1890 - John Barnett, composer, dies at 87
1891 - Jules Eugene Abraham Alary, composer, dies at 77
1892 - Alexander Mackenzie, 2nd Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1822)
1899 - Hans Balatka, composer, dies at 74
1902 - Francis of Assisi of Bourbon, King Consort of Spain (b. 1822)
1915 - Johannes P Kelly, [Kellij], Dutch actor/operetta writer, dies at 60
1930 - Alexander Golovin, Russian painter (b. 1863)
1936 - Charles J M Ruys de Beerenbrouck, Dutch PM (1918-23, 29-33), dies
1937 - Yi Sang, Korean Poet (b. 1910)
1941 - Al Bowlly, British dance band vocalist (b. 1899)
1942 - Jean Perrin, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1870)
1944 - J T Hearne, cricketer (took 49 wkts in 12 Tests for England), dies
1945 - Hannie Schaft, "Girl with red hair," executed
1945 - Ion Pillat, Romaniams poet/senator (Umbra timpului), dies
1945 - Walter Model, German fieldmarshal, commits suicide at 54
1946 - John Iddon, cricketer (car accident 5 Tests for Eng 1934-35), dies
1948 - Johan P earl of Limburg Stirum, diplomat, dies at 75
1948 - Percy Sherwell, cricketer (S Afr captain in 13 Tests 1905-11), dies
1954 - Lucreţiu Pătrăşcanu, Romanian communist activist (b. 1900)
1960 - Eddie Cochran, rocker, dies at 21 in a car crash
1962 - Louise Fazenda, dies of cerebral hemorrhage at 66
1967 - Red Allen, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1908)
1968 - Margaret Seddon, dies at 95
1970 - Sergei U S Aleksi, patriarch of Russian-Orthodox church, dies at 92
1971 - Roberto Lupi, composer, dies at 62
1974 - Frank McGee, Today show host, dies of cancer at 52
1974 - Herbert Elwell, US composer (Happy Hypocrite), dies at 75
1974 - Vinnie Taylor, rocker (Canned Heat), dies of a drug overdose
1975 - Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Indian philosopher (b. 1888)
1976 - Jean-Jacques Gailliard, Belgian painter, dies at 85
1976 - Henrik Dam, Danish biochemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1895)
1977 - Marjorie Gateson, actress (One Man's Family), dies at 86
1977 - William Cardinal Conway, Northern Irish clergyman (b. 1913)
1983 - Felix Pappalardi, rocker (Cream, Mountain), dies
1983 - Mark W Clark, US general (WW II), dies at 87
1983 - Peter Potter, DJ (Peter Potter Show, Juke Box Jury), dies at 78
1984 - Claude Provost, French Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1933)
1985 - Ilona Bodden, writer, dies
1986 - Bessie Head, writer, dies
1987 - Carlton Barrett, Jamaican reggae drummer (No woman no cry), dies at 36
1987 - Dick Shawn, comedian (Producers), dies on stage at 57
1987 - Cecil Harmsworth King, owner of Mirror Group Newspapers (b. 1901)
1988 - Eva Novak, actress (Medicine Man), dies of pneumonia at 90
1988 - Louise Nevelson, sculptor, dies of brain tumor at 88
1989 - Charles Lampkin, dies
1990 - Ralph David Abernathy, US civil rights leader, dies
1991 - Jack Yellen, US poet (Sons o' Fun), dies at 97
1992 - Hank Penny, country music singer, dies at 73 of heart failure
1993 - Turgut Özal, president of Turkey (1989-93), dies at 65
1994 - Peter Hacker, US journalist/actor (NBC, Broadcast News), dies at 69
1995 - A R A (Anton) Murray, cricketer (289 runs & 11 wkts in 10 Tests), dies
1995 - Nancy Mayhew Youngman, artist/educator, dies at 88
1996 - Eva Jones, poet/novelist, dies at 82
1996 - Jose Luis Lopez Aranguren, philosopher, dies at 86
1996 - Michele Carew, daughter of baseball great Rod, dies of Leukemia at 18
1997 - Chaim Herzog, President of Israel (1983-93), dies at 78
1997 - Allan Francovich, American documentarian
1998 - Linda McCartney, American-born wife of Paul McCartney (b. 1941)
2003 - Robert Atkins, American dietician (b. 1930)
2003 - Paul Getty, American-born philanthropist (b. 1932)
2003 - Earl King, American musician and songwriter (b. 1934)
2003 - Yiannis Latsis, Greek shipping tycoon (b. 1910)
2004 - Edmond Pidoux, Swiss writer (b. 1908)
2004 - Soundarya, Indian actress (b. 1971)
2007 - Kitty Carlisle, American actress and television personality (b. 1910)
2008 - Aimé Césaire, French Martinican poet and politician (b. 1913)
2008 - Danny Federici, organ player for E-Street Band (b. 1950)
2011 - Eric Gross, Austrian-Australian composer (b. 1926)
2011 - Nikos Papazoglou, Greek singer and songwriter (b. 1948)
2011 - AJ Perez, Filipino teen actor (b. 1993)
2012 - Dimitris Mitropanos, Greek singer, dies from a heart attack at 64

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 18, 2013, 12:26:13 PM

This Day in History for 18th April


Historical Events

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Naturalist Charles Darwin                        Frontier Outlaw Billy the Kid                 Poet Ezra Pound

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Basketball Player Bill Russell                     Rocker/Beatle John Lennon                     Writer Alex Haley

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Novelist Alice Walker                        Van Halen Rocker David Lee Roth


310 - St Eusebius begins his reign as Catholic Pope
387 - Bishop Ambrosius of Milan baptizes Augustinus
1025 - Bolesław Chrobry is crowned in Gniezno, becoming the first King of Poland.
1506 - The cornerstone of the current St. Peter's Basilica is laid.
1518 - Bona Sforza is crowned as queen consort of Poland.
1521 - Parliament of Worms: Cardinal Alexander questions Maarten Luther
1552 - Mauritius of Saksen occupies Linz
1663 - Osman declares war on Austria
1666 - Peace of Kleef: Netherlands & bishop Von Galen of Munster
1676 - Sudbury, Mass attacked by Indians
1738 - Real Academia de la Historia ("Royal Academy of History") founded in Madrid.
1775 - Paul Revere & William Dawes ride from Charleston to Lexington warning the "British are
           coming!"
1783 - Fighting ceases in the American Revolution, eight years to the day since it began.
1797 - France & Austria signs cease fire
1809 - 1st run of 2,000 guineas horse race at Newmarket England
1834 - Charles Darwin sails to Rio Santa Cruz up Patagonia
1835 - William Lamb Lord Melbourne forms British government
1838 - Wilkes' expedition to South Pole sails
1848 - American victory at the battle of Cerro Gordo opens the way for invasion of Mexico.
1853 - 1st train in Asia (Bombay to Tanna, 36 km)
1856 - Russian Republic Chancellor Earl von Nesselrode resigns
1861 - Battle of Harpers Ferry, VA
1861 - Col Robert E Lee turns down offer to command Union armies
1862 - Battle of Ft Jackson, Ft St Philip & New Orlean's, LA
1864 - Battle of Poison Springs, AR (Camden Expedition)
1865 - Confederate Gen Johnson surrendered to Gen Sherman in North Carolina
1868 - San Francisco Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals formed
1869 - 1st international cricket match, held in SF, wins by Californian
1876 - Daniel O'Leary completes a 500 mile walk in 139 hrs 32 min
1879 - Trial of Standing Bear-Crook on indians citizen rights begins
1880 - An F4 tornado strikes Marshfield, Missouri, killing 99 people and injuring 100.
1881 - Natural History Museum of South Kensington England opens
1881 - Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico.
1890 - NY Commission of Emigration ends, closing Castle Clinton
1899 - John McGraw, at 36, managerial debut as Oriole manager
1899 - The St. Andrew's Ambulance Association is granted a Royal Charter by Queen Victoria.
1902 - Denmark is 1st country to adopt fingerprinting to identify criminals
1904 - L'Humanité, under Jean Jaurès begins publishing
1906 - 8.25 earthquake shakes SF Calif
1906 - Calvinist Reformed Union in Neth Church forms in Utrecht
1906 - SF earthquake & fire kills nearly 4,000 & destroys 75% of city
1906 - The Los Angeles Times story on the Azusa Street Revival launches Pentecostalism as a
           worldwide movement.
1907 - Augustus Thomas' "Witching Hour," premieres in NYC
1907 - Fairmont Hotel opens
1908 - Tommy Burns KOs Jewy Smith in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
1912 - The Cunard liner RMS Carpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic to New York City.
1915 - French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the
           lines during World War I.
1918 - Cleveland center fielder Tris Speaker turns an unassisted double play
1921 - Junior Achievement incorporated in Colorado Springs Colo
1921 - Philip James Barry's "Punch for Judy," premieres in NYC
1922 - Netherlands soccer team defeats Denmark 2-0
1923 - 74,000 (62,281 paid) on hand for opening of Yankee Stadium
1923 - Poland annexes Central Lithuania
1924 - 1st crossword puzzle book published (Simon & Schuster)
1925 - World's fair opens in Chicago
1926 - Rhein Stadium opens in Dusseldorf Germany
1927 - Chiang Kai-Shek forms anti-government in China
1929 - Palace for People's industry in Amsterdam devastated by fire
1934 - 1st "Washateria" (laundromat) opens (Fort Worth, Tx)
1934 - Hitler names J von Ribbentrop, ambassador for disarmament
1935 - Gen Sarazen's double eagle on 15th, wins him his 2nd Masters
1935 - Netherlands election (Musserts NSB wins 8% of vote)
1936 - Pan-Am Clipper begins regular passenger flights from SF to Honolulu
1938 - Headless Mad Butcher victim found in Cleveland
1939 - Franz von Papen becomes German ambassador in Turkey
1939 - Hubert Pierlot forms Belgian government
1942 - "Stars & Stripes" paper for US armed forces starts
1942 - James H Doolittle bombs Tokyo & other Japanese cities
1942 - Stanley Cup: Toronto Maple Leafs beat Detroit Red Wings, 4 games to 3
1944 - 48th Boston Marathon won by Gerard Cote of Canada in 2:31:50.4
1944 - Leonard Bernstein & Jerome Robbins' ballet premieres in NYC
1945 - 1 armed outfielder, St L Brown Pete Gray, 1st game he goes 1 for 4
1945 - Epe freed (by corporal G van Aken)
1945 - Clandestine Radio 1212, after broadcasting pro-nazi propoganda for months used their
           influence to trap 350,000 German army group B troops
1945 - Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Bolivia are established.
1946 - "Call Me Mister" opens at National Theater NYC for 734 performances
1946 - Jackie Robinson debuts as 2nd baseman for the Montreal Royals
1946 - League of Nations dissolves (3 months after UN starts)
1946 - Rome/Auerbach/Horwitt's musical "Call Me Mister," premieres in NYC
1946 - US recognizes Tito's Yugoslavia government
1948 - International Court of Justice opens at Hague Netherlands
1949 - Republic of Ireland withdraws from British Commonwealth
1950 - 1st opening night-game, Cards beat Pirates, 4-2
1950 - 1st transatlantic jet passenger trip
1950 - Polish Catholic church & government sign accord over relations
1950 - Sam Jethroe is 1st black to play for Boston Braves
1950 - Yankees win 15-10 after trailing Red Sox 9-0 in 6th
1951 - "Make a Wish" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 102 performances
1951 - Dutch Antilles government of Da Costa Gomez forms
1951 - France, West Germany & Benelux form European Steel & Coal Community
1951 - NY Yankee Mickey Mantle goes 1-for-4 in his 1st game
1953 - "Pal Joey" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 542 performances
1954 - Colonel Nasser seizes power & becomes PM of Egypt
1954 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
1955 - "Ankles Aweigh" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 176 perfs
1955 - 1st "Walk"/"Don't Walk" lighted street signals installed
1955 - 1st Bandoeng Conference - Afro-Asian conference opens
1956 - Egypt & Israel agree to a cease fire
1958 - Government troops reconquer Padang, Middle-Sumatra Indonesia
1958 - NL single-game record of 78,682, Giants lose to Dogers 6-5, in LA
1958 - A United States federal court rules that poet Ezra Pound is to be released from an insane
           asylum.
1959 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Toronto Maple Leafs, 4 games to 1
1961 - CONCP is founded in Casablanca as a united front of African movements opposing Portuguese
           colonial rule.
1962 - 16th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat LA Lakers, 4 games to 3
1963 - "Sophie" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 8 performances
1963 - Dr James Campbell performed the 1st human nerve transplant
1963 - Stanley Cup: Toronto Maple Leafs beat Detroit Red Wings, 4 games to 1
1964 - "Cafe Crown" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 3 performances
1964 - "Foxy" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 72 performances
1964 - Artisans strike in Belgium ends
1964 - Sandy Koufax is 1st to strike out the side on 9 pitches
1964 - Van Joe Orton's "Entertaining Mr Sloane"
1966 - Bill Russell became 1st black coach in NBA history (Boston Celtics)
1968 - 178,000 employees of US Bell Telephone System go on strike
1968 - 1st ABA basketball championship began
1968 - Dutch Department of Amnesty International forms
1968 - London Bridge is sold to US oil company (to be erected in Arizona)
1968 - Mart Crowley's "Boys in the Band," premieres in NYC
1968 - Peter Luke's "Hadrian VII," premieres in London
1968 - SF's Old Hall of Justice demolished
1968 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1969 - Melina Mercouri establishes Greek Aid Fund
1971 - Gavaskar makes 220 in 2nd inning v WI after 124 in 1st
1971 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Raleigh Golf Classic
1972 - "Lost in the Stars" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 39 performances
1974 - Red Brigade kidnaps Italian attorney general Mario Sossi
1975 - John Lennon releases "Stand by Me"
1976 - 30th Tony Awards: Travesties & Chorus Line win
1976 - Judy Rankin wins LPGA Karsten- Ping Golf Open
1977 - "Side by Side" by Stephen Sondheim opens at Music Box NYC for 390 perfs
1977 - 6th Boston Women's Marathon won by Miki Gorman of California in 2:48:33
1977 - 81st Boston Marathon won by Jerome Drayton of Canada in 2:14:46
1977 - Alex Haley, author of "Roots," awarded Pulitzer Prize
1977 - Eddie Murray hits his 1st HR
1977 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Michael Cristofer for "Shadow Box"
1978 - Senate votes to turn Panama Canal over to Panama on Dec 31, 1999
1979 - "Real People" premieres on NBC TV
1979 - Major Haddad declares South-Lebanon independent
1980 - Zimbabwe (formerly Southern Rhodesia) declares independence from UK
1981 - Pawtucket & Rochester start a 33-inning baseball game
1982 - Atlanta Braves win record 11th straight opening game (beat Astros)
1982 - Canada Constitution Act replaces British North America Act
1982 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA CPC Women's Golf International
1982 - Zimbabwe capital Salisbury renamed Harare
1983 - 12th Boston Women's Marathon won by Joan Benoit Samuelson in 2:22:43
1983 - 87th Boston Marathon won by Greg Meyer of Mass in 2:09:00
1983 - A lone suicide bomber kills 63, at US Embassy in Lebanon
1983 - KMO-AM in Tacoma Wash changes call letters to KAMT (now KKMO)
1983 - Pulitzer Prize awarded to Alice Walker for "The Color Purple"
1983 - Rangers 3-Isles 1-Patrick Div Finals-Series tied at 2-2
1984 - Challenger flies back to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB
1984 - Joan Benoit runs world record female marathon (2:22:43)
1985 - Flyers 3-Isles 0-Patrick Div Finals-Flyers hold 1-0 lead
1986 - Robert M Gates, becomes deputy director of CIA
1986 - Titan rocket explodes seconds after liftoff from Vandenberg AFB
1987 - An unconscious skydiver is rescued by another diver in mid-air
1987 - Bob Land wins his 6th straight Kenduskeag Stream Canoe Race
1987 - Mike Schmidt hits 500th home run (vs Robinson-Pirates)
1987 - Pat Knauff, France sets 1-leg downhill ski speed record (115.012 mph)
1988 - 17th Boston Women's Marathon won by Rosa Mota of Portugal in 2:24:30
1988 - 92nd Boston Marathon won by Ibrahim Hussein of Kenya in 2:08:43
1988 - Barbra Streisand records "Warm All Over"
1989 - Zimbabwe gains independence
1990 - Bankruptcy court forces Frank Lorenzo to give up Eastern Airlines
1990 - Birmingham Fire issued an original franchise in WLAF
1990 - Supreme Court rules states could make it a crime to possess or look at child pornography,
           even in one's home
1991 - Census Bureau said it failed to count up to 63 million in 1990 census
1991 - Congress ends railroad worker 1 day strike
1991 - John Stockton breaks his own NBA season assist record at 1,136
1992 - Start of South Africa's 1st Test Cricket since 1970 (v WI Bridgetown)
1993 - "Ain't Broadway Grand" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 25 perfs
1993 - 54th PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Tom Wargo
1993 - David Lee Roth arrested in NYC for purchasing marijuana for $10
1993 - Trish Johnson wins LPGA Atlanta Women's Golf Championship
1994 - "Beauty & the Beast" opens at Palace Theater NYC
1994 - 23rd Boston Women's Marathon won by Uta Pippig of Germany in 2:21:45
1994 - 98th Boston Marathon won by Cosmas Ndeti of Kenya in 2:07:15
1994 - Arsenio Hall announces he will end his show in May 1994
1994 - Brian Lara scores 375 for WI vs England to beat Sobers' record
1994 - Cricketer Brian Lara hits 375 runs on 1 day (world record)
1994 - Former President Nixon suffered a stroke & dies 4 days later
1994 - Lebanon drops relations with Iran
1994 - Roseanne Barr Arnold files for divorce from Tom Arnold
1994 - STS-59 (Endeavour) lands [approx]
1995 - Houston Post folds after 116 years
1995 - Quarterback Joe Montana announces his retirement from football
1996 - "Funny Thing Happened," opens at St James Theater NYC for 715 perfs
1996 - In Lebanon, at least 106 civilians are killed when the Israel Defense Forces accidentally shell
           the UN compound at Quana.
2007 - The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act in a 5-4
           decision.
2012 - The Casoria Contemporary Art Museum in Naples begins burning artworks after cultural
           institution budget cuts

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 18, 2013, 01:24:30 PM

This Day in History for 18th April


Famous Weddings

1599 - Valencia arch duke Albrecht of Austrian marries Isabella of Spain
1956 - Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier III of Monaco (civil ceremony)
1973 - American science fiction writer "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" Philip K Dick marries
           5th wife Leslie (Tessa) Busby
1992 - Tennis ace Stefan Edberg marries Annette Olsen in Sweden
1993 - Beirut-hostage Terry Anderson marries Madeleine Bassil
2001 - NBA star player Kobe Bryant (22) weds Vanessa Laine at St. Edward Roman Catholic Church
           in Dana Point, California

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 18, 2013, 01:25:24 PM

This Day in History for 18th April


Famous Divorces

1994 - Roseanne Barr Arnold files for divorce from Tom Arnold

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 18, 2013, 01:42:24 PM

This Day in History for 18th April


Famous Birthdays

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Actor James Woods (1947)                   TV Host Conan Chris O'Brien (1963)        Actress Melissa Joan Hart (1976)


1480 - Lucretia Borgia, murderess (poison)/daughter (Pope Alexander VI)
1521 - Francois de Coligny, ruler of van Andelot, French general (Jarnac)
1580 - Thomas Middleton, English playwright (Game of Chess)
1590 - Ahmed I, 14th Sultan of the Ottoman Emperor (1603-17); constructed the Blue Mosque
1605 - Giacomo Carissimi, composer
1729 - Gaetano B Vestris, Italian/French ballet dancer
1732 - George Colman, "the Elder
1740 - Francis Baring, banker/merchant
1744 - Pieter 't Hoen, Dutch journalist/patriot
1759 - Jacques-Christian-Michel Widerkehr, composer
1764 - Bernhard Anselm Weber, pianist/conductor/composer
1771 - Karl Philipp Fürst zu Schwarzenberg, Austrian field marshal (d. 1820)
1777 - Ignac Ruzitska, composer
1786 - Franz Xaver Schnyder von Wartensee, composer
1797 - Louis-Adolphe Thiers, president of France
1803 - Charles F Pahud de Montagnes, gov-gen of Neth East Indies (1856-61)
1806 - Ludwig Schuberth, composer
1813 - James McCune Smith, African-American doctor and abolitionist (d. 1865)
1817 - George Henry Lewes, English philosophical writer (Life of Goethe)
1819 - Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, Cuban Revolutionary (d. 1874)
1819 - Franz von Suppé, Austrian composer (d. 1895)
1838 - Paul Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, French scientist (d. 1912)
1839 - Frantz Jehin-Prume, composer
1839 - Henry Clarence Kendall, New South Wales Australia, poet (Bell Birds)
1842 - Antero Tarquinio de Quental, Portugal, poet (Beatrice)
1845 - Wilhelm Gericke, composer
1852 - George Clausen, painter
1855 - Abraham Bredius, Dutch art historian (Jan Steen)
1855 - Josef Gruber, composer
1857 - Clarence S Darrow, defense attorney at Scopes monkey trial
1859 - Eduard G H H Cuypers, architect (Sanatorium High-Laren)
1863 - Felix Blumenfeld, composer
1864 - Richard Harding Davis, US, journalist/author (In The Fig)
1868 - Didericus G van Epen, genealogist (Dutch Patriciate)
1871 - Henry Stephenson, Brit WI, actor (Conquest, Little Old NY, Mr Lucky)
1873 - Jean Roger-Ducasse, composer
1874 - Oskar Ernst Bernhardt, German author (d. 1941)
1875 - Ivana Brlic-Mazuranic, Croatian writer (d. 1938)
1877 - Vicente Sotto, Filipino patriot, author (d. 1950)
1880 - Sam Crawford, baseball player (d. 1968)
1881 - Hermann KJ Zilcher, German pianist/composer (Dr Eisenbart)
1881 - Max Weber, Polish/Russian/US painter
1882 - Leopold Stokowski, London England, conductor (Cincinnati Symphony)
1884 - Magda Janssens, Flemish/Neth actress/acting teacher (Maria Stuart)
1888 - Arnold Henry Moore Lunn, skier
1888 - Duffy Lewis, American baseball player (d. 1979)
1889 - Jessie Street, Austrialian pro womans/aborigine rights fighter
1889 - John Kilbane, US, featherweight boxing champ (1912-23)
1890 - James Rennie, Toronto Ontario, actor (Lash, Little Damozel)
1893 - Violette Morris, French athlete (d. 1944)
1896 - C Eugene Wegmann, Swiss geologist (Le Jura plisse)
1897 - Pedro Regas, actor (Pat Paulsen's Half a Comedy Hour) [or Apr 12]
1897 - Ardito Desio, Italian topographer (d. 2001)
1898 - Lord Leatherland, British journalist/Labour peer
1900 - Louise Tazewell, [Louise Skiller Tazewell], entertainer
1901 - Al Lewis, American lyricist (d. 1967)
1902 - Giuseppe Pella, Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1981)
1903 - Leonid Kinskey, St Petersburg Russia, actor (Casablanca)
1903 - Yury Sergeyevich Milyutin, composer
1904 - Pigmeat Markham, American comedian (d. 1981)
1905 - George H. Hitchings, American scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1998)
1906 - Clara Eggink, [Ebbele], Dutch poetess (Life with JC Bloem)
1906 - Edgar Unsworth, Justice of Appeals (Gibralter)
1907 - Miklos Rozsa, Budapest Hungary, movie composer (Atomic Cafe, Fedora)
1907 - Stephen Longstreet, American writer (All or Nothing)
1908 - Edward Roberts, bishop (Ely)
1908 - Henry Guinness, missionary
1908 - Joseph Keilberth, German conductor (Bayreuther Festspiele)
1910 - Jamie L Whitten, (Rep-D-MS, 1941- )
1910 - Sylvia Fisher, soprano (Albert Herring Opera)
1911 - Francis Frederick Johnson, architect
1911 - George Huntington Hartford II, NYC, heir (A&P)
1912 - John Lapworth Holt, boat Designer
1912 - Wendy Barrie, Hong Kong, hostess (Wendy Barrie Show)
1913 - Al Hodge, actor (Capt Video)
1913 - Kent Wheeler Kennan, composer
1913 - Milos Sokola, composer
1913 - Susan Bosence, textile designer
1914 - C S Nayudu, cricketer (brother of C K, 11 Tests as leggie)
1914 - Henk Lankhorst, pacifist/Dutch MP (PSP)
1915 - Joy Gresham Lewis, American writer, wife of C. S. Lewis (d. 1960)
1917 - Louise Frederika, Queen of Greece
1917 - Ty LaForest, Canadian baseball player (d. 1947)
1918 - Robert Zimonyi, Hungary, cox (Olympic-Hungary-bronze-1948/US-gold-64)
1918 - Roger de Grey, president (Royal Academy)
1918 - Tony Mottola, Kearney NJ, guitarist/host (Melody Street)
1918 - Cliff Hillegass, American publisher (d. 2001)
1919 - Virginia O'Brien, American singer and actress (d. 2001)
1920 - Walter Clegg, MP
1921 - Barbara Hale, Dekalb Ill, actress (Della Street-Perry Mason)
1922 - Avril Angers, actress (Brass Monkey)
1923 - Baroness Platt of Writtle, British CEO (Equal Opportunities Comm)
1923 - Leif Panduro, Danish writer ('k Have varnish on traditions)
1924 - Buxton Daeblite Orr, composer
1924 - Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, Vinton La, blues singer (Mary is Fine)
1924 - Henry J Hyde, (Rep-R-IL)
1924 - Lord Mason of Barnsley, MP (Lab)/British defense secretary
1924 - Raf de Linde, [Raphael van Hecke], author (Vaarwel on Gertrude)
1925 - Bob Hastings, Bkln NY, actor (McHale's Navy, All in the Family)
1925 - Lionel Edmund "Sonny" Taylor, musician
1925 - Robert Caldwell Crawford, composer
1926 - Doug Insole, cricketer (England batsman of the 50's, nine Tests)
1926 - Gunter Meisner, Germany, actor (Between Wars, Quiller Memorandum)
1927 - Jim De Courcy, cricketer (in Newcastle Australian batsman 1953)
1927 - Samuel P. Huntington, American political scientist
1928 - Jean-Francois Pailliard, Vitry-le-Francois France, conductor
1929 - Peter Hordern, British CEO (Fina)
1929 - Peter Jeffrey, actor (Dr Phibes Rides Again, Twinsanity)
1930 - Clive Revill, Wellington NZ, actor (Legend of Hell House)
1931 - Klas Lestander, Sweden, 20K biathlon (Olympic-gold-1960)
1932 - Dominic Milroy, OSB/headmaster (Ampleforth College England)
1933 - Alan Devereux, CEO (Scottish Tourist Board)
1934 - Jaap F Scherpenhuizen, Dutch MP (VVD)
1934 - James Drury, NYC, actor (Virginian)
1934 - Jan Klusak, composer
1934 - Jap F Scherpenhuizen, Dutch MP (VVD)
1934 - Mark Kingston, actor (Intimate Contact)
1934 - George Shirley, American tenor
1935 - Joel Hefley, (Rep-R-Colorado)
1935 - Paul A Rothchild, record producer
1936 - Brian Fuller, commandant (Fire Service College, England)
1936 - Harold Innocent, [HS Harrison], English actor (Tall Guy)
1936 - Madeleine Gillian Jinkinson, medical administrator
1937 - Robert Hooks, Wash DC, actor (Fast Walking, Aaron Loves Angela)
1937 - Tatyana Shchelkanova, USSR, long jumper (Olympic-bronze-1964)
1937 - Jan Kaplický, British architect of Czech origin
1938 - Andreas J "Cat" Liebenberg, supreme commander (S Afr army)
1939 - Glen Hardin, rocker
1939 - Von McDaniel, baseball player
1939 - Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran
1939 - Thomas J. Moyer, American judge
1940 - Ed Garvey, labor leader (Major League Baseball Players Association)
1940 - Ira von Furstenberg, [Virginia Caroline] Rome Italy, Princess (Monaco)
1940 - Joseph L Goldstein, Sumter SC, physician (Nobel-1985)
1940 - Skip Stephenson, Omaha Neb, comedian (Real People)
1941 - Mike Vickers, rock guitarist (Manfred Mann-Mighty Quinn)
1941 - Walter Francis Sweeney, Cohasset, Massachusetts, NFL Guard (San Diego Chargers), (d.
           2013)
1942 - Dick K J Tommel, chemist/(D66) Dutch Asst Sec of State (1994- )
1942 - Jochen Rindt, German race car driver
1942 - Steve Blass, American professional baseball player
1944 - Irvine Shillingford, cricketer (cousin of Grayson, 4 Tests for WI)
1944 - Rudy Shackelford, composer
1945 - Margaret Hassan, Irish-born aid worker (d. 2004)
1946 - Alexander "Skip" Spence, Canada, guitarist/vocalist (Moby Grape-Omaha)
1946 - Anne Boyd, composer
1946 - Harvey Kagan, rocker
1946 - Hayley Mills, London England, actress (Parent Trap, Pollyanna)
1946 - Lenny Baker, rocker (Sha Na Na)
1947 - David Gee, director (Friends of the Earth)
1947 - Dorothy Lyman, Minneapolis Mn, (All my Children, Naomi-Mama's Family)
1947 - James Woods, Warwick RI, actor (Salvador, Against All Odds)
1947 - Lori Martin, Glendale California, actress (Velvet-National Velvet)
1947 - Kathy Acker, American author (d. 1997)
1947 - Herbert Mullin, American serial killer
1948 - "Tiny" Nate Archibald, NBA guard (Cincinnati)
1948 - Catherine Malfitano, NYC, soprano (Metropolitan Opera)
1948 - Skip Stephenson, Omaha Neb, comedian (Real People)
1949 - Geoff Bodine, American race car driver
1950 - Bill Sudderth III, trumpeteer (Atlantic Star-Touch 4 Leaf Clover)
1950 - Kenny Ortega, American film and TV producer and choreographer
1951 - Ricardo Fortaleza, Australian-Filipino boxer
1951 - Pierre Pettigrew, Canadian politician
1952 - Jim Scholten, Midland Mich, country singer (Betty's Bein' Bad)
1953 - Rick Moranis, Toronto, (SCTV, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, Spaceballs)
1954 - Kim Stone, bassist (Spyro Gyra-Morning Dance)
1955 - Amschel Rothschild, banker
1955 - Anne-Marie Palli, Ciboure France, LPGA golfer (1992 ShopRite)
1956 - David Wayne Edwards, Neosho MO, PGA golfer (1980 Walt Disney)
1956 - Eric Roberts, Miss, actor (Pope of Greenwich Village, King of Gypsies)
1956 - John James, Minneapolis Mn, actor (Jeff Colby-Dynasty)
1956 - Melody Thomas Scott, actress (Nikki-Young & Restless)
1956 - Anna Kathryn Holbrook, American actress
1956 - Poonam Dhillon, Indian actress
1958 - Bernadette Robi, model/ex-wife of football player Lynn Swann
1958 - Lee Pattinson, rock bassist (Echo & Bunnymen-Heaven Up Here)
1958 - Malcolm Marshall, cricketer (WI quickie 1978-91, WI top wicket-taker)
1959 - Jim Eisenreich, St Cloud MN, outfielder (Philadelphia Phillies, Fla Marlins)
1960 - Ocl Sweda, rocker (Bulletboys)
1961 - Ian Doig, Seaforth Ont, Canadian Tour golfer (1985 Florida Classic)
1961 - Jane Leeves, London, actress (Murphy Brown, Daphne Moon-Fraiser)
1961 - Jeff Cook, Muncie IN, Nike golfer (1990 Greater Ozarks Open)
1961 - Kelly Hansen, heavy metal rocker (Hurricane-I'm on to You)
1961 - Pamella Bordes, New Dehli India, Brit parliament prostitute
1961 - Steve Lombardi, American wrestler
1962 - Mick Sweda, heavy metal (Bulletboys, King Kobra-Ready to Strike)
1962 - Shirlie Hollman, rocker (Pepsi & Shirley-All Right Now)
1962 - Wilber Marshall, NFL linebacker (NY Jets)
1963 - Conan Chris O'Brien, Brookline Mass, TV host (Late Night)
1963 - Phil Simmons, cricketer (West Indian opening batsman)
1963 - Eric McCormack, Canadian-American actor (Will and Grace)
1964 - Niall Ferguson, British historian
1964 - Rithy Panh, Cambodian film director
1964 - Jim Ellison, musician
1964 - Mark Berry, aka Bez, Dancer in Happy Mondays
1965 - Diana Villegas, rocker (Triplets)
1965 - Sylvia Villegas, rocker (Triplets)
1965 - Vicky Villegas, rocker (Triplets)
1965 - Rob Stenders, Dutch radio discjockey
1966 - Chuck Wade, Menomonee Falls Wisc, diver (Olympics-96)
1966 - Michelle Chryst, WPVA volleyballer (Santa Cruz-17th-1994)
1966 - Valeri Kamensky, Voskresensk Russia, NHL left wing (Avalanche, Oly-S-98)
1966 - Trine Hattestad, Norwegian athlete
1967 - Jayce Fincher Jr, heavy metal bassist (Southgang-Tainted Angel)
1967 - Kenneth Gant, NFL safety (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1967 - Marcel Valk, soccer player (RKC, Go Ahead Eagles)
1967 - Maria Bello, American actress
1968 - Christian Slater, actor (Tucker, Wizard, Young Guns 2) [or Aug 19]
1968 - Mary Birdsong, American actress
1968 - David Hewlett, English born Canadian actor
1969 - Vladimir Tsyplakov, Inta Russia, NHL left wing (LA Kings, Belarus 1998)
1969 - Princess Sayako of Japan
1969 - Keith R.A. DeCandido, American author
1970 - Carl Simpson, NFL defensive tackle (Chic Bears)
1970 - Francois Leroux, Ste-adele, NHL defenseman (Pitts Penguins)
1970 - Heike Friedrich, East Germany swimmer (world record 200m)
1970 - Peter Giles, London Ontario, kayaker (Olympics-96)
1970 - Vladimir Antipin, hockey defenseman (Team Kazakhstan Oly-1998)
1970 - William Roaf, NFL tackle (NO Saints)
1970 - Greg Eklund, American musician
1970 - Rico Brogna, American baseball player
1971 - Dan Kordic, Edmonton, NHL defenseman (Phila Flyers)
1971 - Kerry Lynn Kemper, Miss Nebraska USA (1996)
1971 - Oleg Petrov, Moscow Russia, NHL right wing (Montreal Canadiens)
1971 - Tamara Braun, American actress
1972 - Jeff Traversy, CFL defensive tackle (Calgary Stampeders)
1972 - Eli Roth, American film director
1973 - Derrick Brooks, NFL linebacker (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1973 - Haile Gebresleassie, Ethiopia, 10k runner (Olympics-gold-96)
1973 - James "Jamie" Koven, Morristown NJ, rower (Olympics-5th-1996)
1973 - Haile Gebrselassie, Ethiopian athlete
1974 - Mark Tremonti, American musician
1974 - Millie Corretjer, Puerto Rican singer
1974 - Edgar Wright, British director
1976 - Melissa Joan Hart, Sayville NY, actress (Clarissa, Sabrina)
1976 - Fayray, Japanese singer
1976 - Justin Ross, American politician
1977 - Dan Lacouture, NHL hockey player
1979 - Michael Bradley, American basketball player
1979 - Anthony Davidson, British Formula One driver
1979 - Nuria Fergó, Spanish singer
1979 - Matthew Upson, English footballer
1979 - Kourtney Kardashian, American reality television star
1980 - Robyn Regehr, Canadian ice hockey player
1981 - Brian Buscher, American baseball player
1982 - Marie-Élaine Thibert, Canadian singer
1982 - Scott Hartnell, NHL hockey player
1983 - Miguel Cabrera, Venezuelan baseball player
1983 - Fodil Hadjadj, Algerian footballer
1984 - America Ferrera, American actress
1985 - Łukasz Fabiański, Polish footballer
1985 - Karl Reindler, Australian racing driver
1985 - Elena Temnikova, Russian singer (Serebro)
1986 - Maurice Edu, American soccer player
1986 - Billy Butler, American baseball player
1987 - Danny Guthrie, English footballer
1987 - Sandra Lyng Haugen, Norwegian singer
1989 - Alia Shawkat, American actress
1994 - Moises Arias, American Actor
1996 - Alexey Zhigalkovich, Belarusian Singer
2007 - Hayah bint Hamzah, Princess of Jordan

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 18, 2013, 01:49:15 PM

This Day in History for 18th April


Famous Deaths

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Theoretical Physicist
Albert Einstein (1955)


680 - Mu'awijja, kalief of Al-Schaam, dies
1161 - Theobald of Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury
1504 - Filippino Lippi, painter, dies at about 52
1530 - Francois Lambert d'avignon, French church reformer, dies at about 43
1552 - John Leland, antiquary, dies
1556 - Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet (Flora, Antigone), dies at 61
1558 - Roxelana, wife of Suleiman the Magnificent
1567 - Wilhelm von Grumbach, German military man, dies at 63
1587 - John Foxe, author (Book of Martyrs), dies
1610 - Robert Parsons, English jesuit leader/plotter, dies at 63
1612 - Emanuel Van Meteren, merchant/historian, dies
1636 - Julius Caesar, English judge
1650 - Simonds d'Ewes, English antiquarian (b. 1602)
1674 - John Graunt, English statistician (b. 1620)
1679 - Hofmannswaldau, writer, dies
1684 - Gonzales Cocx, [Coques], painter, dies
1689 - George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys of Wem/infamous judge, dies
1690 - Charles V Leopold, Duke of Lotharingen/Austrian fieldmarshal, dies
1710 - Pierre de La Barre, composer, dies at 75
1732 - Louis Feuillée, French explorer (b. 1660)
1794 - Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1714)
1796 - Johan Wilcke, Swedish physicist (b. 1732)
1800 - John Evangelist Schreiber, composer, dies at 84
1800 - Pieter Fouquet, art merchant (Atlas of Fouquet), dies
1807 - Erasmus Darwin, physician writer and botanist (Influence), dies (b. 1731)
1818 - Pieter PJQ Ondaatje, Ceylon/Dutch lawyer, dies at 59
1824 - Edward Jones, composer, dies at 72
1830 - Jose Mauricio Nunes Garcia, composer, dies at 62
1845 - Nicholas T the Saussure, Swiss chemist/botany, dies at 77
1853 - William King, US VP, dies a month after his inauguration
1854 - Joseph Antoni Frantiszek Elsner, composer, dies at 84
1855 - Jean-Baptiste Isabey, painter, dies
1861 - Heinrich August Neithardt, composer, dies at 67
1867 - Robert Smirke, architect, dies
1871 - Omar Pasha, [Michael Lats], Croatian governor, dies at 64
1873 - Justus Freiherr von Liebig, German chemist, dies at 69
1874 - David Livingstone, African explorer, buried in Westminster Abbey
1879 - Anthony Pannizim, principal librarian (British Museum), dies
1883 - Agnes Tyrrell, composer, dies at 36
1898 - Gustave Moureau, painter, dies
1906 - Luis Martín, Spanish Superior-General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1846)
1917 - Moritz F Freiherr von Bissing, gov-gen of Belgium (1914-17), dies at 73
1917 - Vladimir Serbsky, Russian psychiatrist (b. 1858)
1919 - Enny Vrede, [Maria M Muller], Dutch actress, drowns at 35
1921 - Earnest [Bachigaloupi] Tourniaire, actor (Inkwartiering), dies at 70
1925 - Charles Ebbets, Pres (Dodgers), dies
1928 - Henryk Melcer-Szczawinski, composer, dies at 58
1935 - Ignazio Guidi, Italian orientalist/archaeologist, dies at 90
1935 - Panait Istrati, Romanian writer (b. 1884)
1936 - Ottorino Respighi, Italian composer (Belkis), dies at 56
1936 - Seaborn M Denson, composer, dies at 82
1938 - Richard Runciman Terry, musicologist, dies
1939 - Theo Mann, actress (Pink Bernd, Hedda Gabler), dies at 88
1940 - Florrie Forde, music hall artist, dies
1940 - Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher, historian, dies
1941 - ... Korysis, PM of Greece, commits suicide
1942 - Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, American socialite (b. 1875)
1943 - I Yamamoto, admiral of Japanese fleet, dies
1944 - Cécile Chamindale, composer, dies
1945 - Ernest T Pyle, British/US newscaster, killed in WW II at 44
1945 - John Ambrose Fleming, electrical engineer, dies
1945 - Ernie Pyle, American journalist (b. 1900)
1947 - Benny Leonard, lightweight boxing champ (1917-25), dies at 51
1949 - Leonard Bloomfield, linguist/philosopher, dies
1949 - Will Hay, English comedian and actor (b. 1888)
1951 - António Óscar Carmona, 97th Prime Minister of Portugal and 11th President of Portugal (b.
          1869)
1955 - Don Blackie, cricketer (3 Tests for Australia 1928-29), dies at 46
1955 - Eugen Herrigel, Zen philosopher/scholar, dies in Germany at 70
1955 - Albert Einstein, Nobel laureate (b. 1879)
1958 - Maurice-Gustave Gamelin, French generalissmo (WW I, WW II), dies at 85
1958 - Richard B Goldschmidt, German zoologist (butterflies), dies
1959 - Irving Cummings Sr, actor/director (In Old Ariz), dies at 70
1960 - Emory Johnson, director (Phantom Express, Shield of Honor), dies at 66
1963 - Henrietta Kreis, 3rd of famous Wallenda aerialist to fall to death
1963 - Meyer Jacobstein, American politician (b. 1880)
1964 - Albe Vidakovic, composer, dies at 49
1964 - Ben Hecht, playwright (Child of the Century), dies at 71
1965 - Guillermo González Camarena, Mexican inventor (b. 1917)
1967 - Karl Miller, German footballer (b. 1913)
1969 - Piotr F Scharoff, Russ/Italian actor/director (Chechov), dies at 82
1971 - Masao Oki, composer, dies at 69
1974 - Betty Compson, actress (Barker, Weary River, Drag Net), dies at 77
1974 - Marcel Pagnol, French writer/movie (Topaz), dies at 79
1975 - Rob Touber, [Robert J Noordervliet), chansonnier/director, dies at 38
1976 - Percy Julian, holder of more than 138 chemical patents, dies at 78
1976 - Mahmoud Younis, Suez Canal nationalization Engineer (b. 1911)
1983 - Alan Melville, cricketer (11 Tests for South Africa, 894 runs), dies
1984 - John Lee Mahin, screenwriter, dies of emphysema at 81
1986 - Marcel Dassault, [Bloch], French airplane builder, dies at 94
1988 - Pierre Desproges, French humorist (b. 1939)
1990 - Robert D Webb, director/actor (Love Me Tender, Jackals), dies at 87
1990 - Gory Guerrero, professional wrestler (b. 1921)
1992 - Florence Randall, model/designer (Bill Blass), dies at 54 of cancer
1993 - Arthur P Smith, US founder of Miami Planetarium, dies at 76
1993 - Masahiko Kimura, Japanese judoka (b. 1917)
1994 - Ken Oosterbroek, South African press photographer, shot dead at 32
1995 - Arturo Frondizi, President of Argentina (1958-62), dies
1996 - Kalim Siddiqui, islamic campaigner, dies at 62
1996 - Michael Leander Farr, record producer, dies at 55
1996 - Piet Hein, architect/poet/mathematician/inventor, dies at 80
1996 - Robert William Paine, architect, dies at 88
1997 - Edward Barker, cartoonist, dies at 46
1998 - Terry Sanford, American politician (b. 1917)
2002 - Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer (b. 1914)
2002 - Wahoo McDaniel, American football player and professional wrestler (b. 1938)
2003 - Edgar F. Codd, English computer scientist (b. 1923)
2004 - Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, first Prime Minister of Fiji and President of Fiji (b. 1920)
2005 - Sam Mills, American football player (b. 1959)
2007 - Iccho Itoh, mayor of Nagasaki (b. 1945)
2009 - Stephanie Parker, Welsh actress (b. 1987)
2011 - Olubayo Adefemi, Nigerian footballer (b. 1985)
2012 - Dick Clark, American radio and television personality, dies from a heart attack at 82

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 19, 2013, 09:07:58 AM

This Day in History for 19th April


Historical Events

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Captain/Explorer James Cook              French National Heroine Joan of Arc      Playwright George Bernard Shaw

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31st US President Herbert Hoover             Baseball Great Babe Ruth                  WW2 General Douglas MacArthur

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Singer & Actress Barbra Streisand       Champion Boxer Evander Holyfield                  265th Pope Benedict XVI


607 - Comet 1P/607 H1 (Halley) approaches within 0.0898 AUs of Earth
1012 - Martyrdom of Alphege in Greenwich, London.
1451 - Alam Shah of Delhi resigns throne
1524 - Pope Clemens VII fires Neth inquisitor-general French Van de Holly
1529 - 2nd Parliament of Spiers bans Lutheranism
1539 - Charles, protestant German monarch, signs Treaty of Frankrfurt
1552 - Mauritius of Saksen captures Karel
1587 - Sir Frances Drake sails into Cadiz Spain & sinks Spanish fleet
1591 - Chartres surrenders to king Henri IV in France
1619 - Theatrum Anatomicum opens in Amsterdam
1713 - Emperor Karel VI ends Pragmatic Sanctions
1770 - Amsterdam buys Van Aerssens family 1/3 part of Suriname
1770 - Capt James Cook 1st sees Australia
1774 - CW Glucks opera "Iphigenia in Aulis," premieres in Paris
1775 - Minutemen Capt John Parker orders not to fire unless fired upon
1775 - American Revolution begins - Lexington Common, shot "heard round the world"
1782 - John Adams secures Dutch Republic's recognition of the United States as an independent
           government and house he purchased in The Hague, Netherlands became first American
           embassy.
1810 - Venezuela achieves home rule: Vicente Emparan, Governor of the Captaincy General is
           removed by the people of Caracas and a Junta is installed.
1825 - 33 patriotic exiles return to Uruguay
1836 - Nikolai Gogol's "Revisor," premieres in St Petersburg
1837 - Cheyney University forms as the Institute for Colored Youth
1839 - Treaty of London constitutes Belgium an independent kingdom & Luxembourg a Grand Duchy
1852 - California Historical Society forms
1853 - Netherlands Van Hall government forms
1861 - Baltimore riots-4 soldiers, 9 civilians killed
1861 - Lincoln orders blockade of Confederate ports (Civil War)
1863 - Union troops/fleet occupy For Huger, Virginia
1864 - Naval Engagement at Cherbourg, FR: USS Kearsage vs CSS Alabama
1874 - Barracks on Alcatraz Island destroyed in fire
1877 - Opera "Les Cloches de Cornerville" is produced (Paris)
1890 - Henry Morton Stanley inaugurated in Brussels
1892 - Charles Duryea takes 1st American-made auto out for a spin (Mass)
1894 - Jules Massenet's opera "Werther," premieres in NYC
1896 - Herzl's "The Jewish State" is published
1897 - 1st American marathon ran, John J McDermott wins in 2:55:10 (Boston)
1897 - 1st performance of Debussy's "Pelléas et Mélisande"
1898 - 2nd Boston Marathon won by Ron McDonald of Mass in 2:42:00
1899 - 3rd Boston Marathon won by Lawrence Brignolia of Mass in 2:54:38
1900 - 4th Boston Marathon won by Jim Caffrey of Canada in 2:39:44.4
1900 - Highest scoring opening game, Phils beat Braves 19-17 in 10
1901 - 5th Boston Marathon won by Jim Caffrey of Canada in 2:29:23.6
1901 - James J Caffrey wins Boston marathon (2:29:23.6)
1902 - 6th Boston Marathon won by Sam Mellor of NY in 2:43:12
1904 - 8th Boston Marathon won by Michael Spring of NY in 2:38:04.4
1904 - Much of Toronto destroyed by fire
1905 - 9th Boston Marathon won by Fred Lorz of NY in 2:38:25.4
1906 - 10th Boston Marathon won by Tim Ford of Mass in 2:45:45
1906 - Belgian naval education ship Comte The Stain de Naeyer sets sail
1906 - SF Earthquake ends killing 452
1907 - 11th Boston Marathon won by Tom Longboat of Canada in 2:24:24
1909 - 13th Boston Marathon won by Henri Renaud of NH in 2:53:36.8
1909 - Joan of Arc receives beatification
1910 - 14th Boston Marathon won by Fred Cameron of Canada in 2:28:52.4
1910 - Halley's comet seen by naked eye 1st time this trip (Curacao)
1911 - 15th Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar of Mass in 2:21:39.6
1911 - George Bernard Shaw's "Fanny's First Play," premieres in London
1912 - 16th Boston Marathon won by Mike Ryan of NY in 2:21:18.2
1913 - 17th Boston Marathon won by Fritz Carlson of Minn in 2:25:14.8
1915 - 19th Boston Marathon won by Edouard Fabre of Canada in 2:31:41.2
1916 - "Bing Boys are Here" opens in London
1916 - 20th Boston Marathon won by Arthur Roth of Mass in 2:27:16.4
1916 - Italians troops conquer Col di Lana at Merano
1917 - 21st Boston Marathon won by Bill Kennedy of NY in 2:28:37.2
1919 - 23rd Boston Marathon won by Carl Linder of Mass in 2:29:13.4
1919 - French assembly decides on 8 hour work day
1919 - Leslie Irvin of US makes 1st parachute jump & free fall
1919 - Opera "Monsieur Beaucaire" is produced (London)
1920 - 24th Boston Marathon won by Peter Trivoulidas of Greece in 2:29:31
1921 - 25th Boston Marathon won by Frank Zuna of NJ in 2:18:57.6
1921 - Funeral of last German Emperoress, Augusta Victoria
1922 - 26th Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar of Mass in 2:18:10
1923 - 27th Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar of Mass in 2:23:37.4
1923 - New Egyptian law allows suffrage for men, except soldiers
1924 - "National Barn Dance" premieres on WLS Chicago
1924 - 28th Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar of Mass in 2:29:40.2
1926 - 30th Boston Marathon won by Johnny Miles of Canada in 2:25:40.4
1927 - "Vagabond King" opens in London
1927 - 31st Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar of Mass in 2:40:22.2
1928 - 32nd Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar of Mass in 2:37:07.8
1928 - Japanese troops occupies Sjantung-schiereiland
1928 - Yanks are out of 1st place for 1st time since May 1926
1928 - The 125th and final fascicle of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
1929 - 33rd Boston Marathon won by Johnny Miles of Canada in 2:33:08.6
1930 - 34th Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar of Mass in 2:34:48.2
1932 - 36th Boston Marathon won by Paul de Bruyn of Germany in 2:33:36.4
1932 - Pres Herbert Hoover suggests 5 day work week
1933 - 37th Boston Marathon won by Leslie Pawson of RI in 2:31:01.6
1933 - FDR announces US will leave gold standard
1934 - 38th Boston Marathon won by Dave Komonen of Canada in 2:32:53.8
1934 - Shirley Temple appears in her 1st movie, "Stand Up & Cheer"
1935 - 39th Boston Marathon won by John A Kelley of Mass in 2:32:07.4
1936 - Anti-Jewish riots break out in Palestine
1936 - First day of the Great Uprising in Palestine.
1937 - 41st Boston Marathon won by Walter Young of Canada in 2:33:20
1938 - 42nd Boston Marathon won by Leslie Pawson of RI in 2:35:34.8
1938 - Phil Emmett Mueller & Dodger Ernie Koy both homer in their 1st at bat
1939 - 43rd Boston Marathon won by Ellison Brown of RI in 2:28:51.8
1939 - Connecticut finally approves Bill of Rights (148 years late)
1940 - "Lake Shore Ltd" derails speed killing 34 near Little Falls NY
1940 - 44th Boston Marathon won by Gerard Cote of Canada in 2:28:28.6
1940 - Dutch prime minister De Geer declares state of siege
1941 - 45th Boston Marathon won by Leslie Pawson of RI in 2:30:38
1941 - B Brecht's "Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder," premieres in Zurich
1941 - Bulgarian troops invade Macedonia
1941 - Milk rationed in Holland
1942 - 46th Boston Marathon won by Joe Smith of Mass in 2:26:51.2
1943 - 47th Boston Marathon won by Gerard Cote of Canada in 2:28:25.8
1943 - SS-lt-gen Jurgen Stoop leads destruction of ghetto of Warsaw
1943 - Bicycle Day - Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann deliberately takes LSD for the first time.
1944 - Allied fleet attack Sabang Sumatra
1945 - 49th Boston Marathon won by John A Kelley of Mass in 2:30:40.2
1945 - Rodgers & Hammerstein musical "Carousel" opens on Broadway
1945 - US aircraft carrier Franklin heavy damaged in Japanese air raid
1945 - US offensive against Shuri-barrier on Okinawa
1945 - The diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Guatemala are established.
1946 - Yankees switch from 3rd base to 1st base dug out
1947 - 51st Boston Marathon won by Yun Bok Soh of Korea in 2:25:39
1947 - AAU record for a 25' rope climb is set in 4.7 seconds
1947 - French ship explodes in Texas City harbor, kills about 522
1947 - Stanley Cup: Toronto Maple Leafs beat Montreal Canadiens, 4 games to 2
1947 - Suh Yun Buck wins world record marathon (2:25:39)
1948 - 52nd Boston Marathon won by Gerard Cote of Canada in 2:31:02
1948 - ABC-TV network begins
1948 - Chiang Kai-shek elected president of Nationalist China
1949 - 53rd Boston Marathon won by Gosta Leandersson of Sweden in 2:31:50.8
1949 - Yankees dedicate a plaque for Babe Ruth
1950 - 54th Boston Marathon won by Kee Yong Ham of Korea in 2:32:39
1951 - "Tree Grows in Brooklyn" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 267 perfs
1951 - 55th Boston Marathon won by Shigeki Tanaka of Japan in 2:27:45
1951 - Gen Douglas MacArthur ends his military career
1952 - 56th Boston Marathon won by Doroteo Flores of Guatemala in 2:31:53
1953 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA San Diego Golf Open
1953 - WAFB TV channel 9 in Baton Rouge, LA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 - 58th Boston Marathon won by Veikko Karvonen of Finland in 2:20:39
1954 - 7-time winner of Boston Marathon, 65-year-old Clarence Demar, runs his last race at Boston
           finishing 78th
1955 - 59th Boston Marathon won by Hideo Hamamura of Japan in 2:18:22
1955 - The German automaker Volkswagen, after six years of selling cars in the United States,
           founds Volkswagen of America in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey to standardize its dealer and 
           service network.
1956 - 1st ML baseball game in NJ, Dodgers beat Phils in Roosevelt Stadium
1956 - 60th Boston Marathon won by Antti Viskari of Finland in 2:14:14
1958 - 62nd Boston Marathon won by Franjo Mihalic of Yugoslavia in 2:25:54
1959 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
1959 - Uprising in La Paz Bolivia, fails
1960 - 64th Boston Marathon won by Paavo Kotila of Finland in 2:20:54
1960 - Baseball uniforms begin displaying player's names on their backs
1960 - Comiskey Park's famed "exploding" scoreboard begins operating
1961 - 65th Boston Marathon won by Eino Oksanen of Finland in 2:23:39
1962 - 66th Boston Marathon won by Eino Oksanen of Finland in 2:23:48
1962 - NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 46,900m
1963 - "Hot Spot" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 43 performances
1963 - 67th Boston Marathon won by Aurele Vandendriessche of Belgium in 2:18:58
1964 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Invitational
1964 - Rightist coup in Laos, Suvanna Phuma remains premier
1964 - Roger Sessions' opera "Montezuma," premieres in West-Berlin
1965 - 1st all news radio station (WINS 1010 AM in NYC) begins operating
1965 - 69th Boston Marathon won by Morio Shigematsu of Japan in 2:16:33
1965 - T.A.M.I. Show premieres in London
1965 - At a cost of $20,000, the outer Astrodome ceiling is painted because of sun's glare, this
           causes the grass to die
1966 - In 1st regular season game at Anaheim Stadium, Angels lose 3-1 to Chic
1966 - 70th Boston Marathon won by Kenji Kimihara of Japan in 2:17:11
1966 - Roberta Bignay becomes 1st woman to run in the Boston Marathon
1967 - "Casino Royale" premieres
1967 - 71st Boston Marathon won by Dave McKenzie of New Zealand in 2:15:45
1967 - Beatles sign a contract to stay together for 10 years (they don't)
1967 - Yugoslav author Mihaljo Mihaljov sentenced 4½ years
1968 - 72nd Boston Marathon won by Amby Burfoot of Conn in 2:22:17
1968 - Belgian construction workers strike
1968 - NL owners approve expansion for 2 new teams
1970 - "Look to the Lilies" closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 25 perfs
1970 - 24th Tony Awards: Borstal Boy & Applause win
1970 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Raleigh Ladies Golf Invitational
1971 - 75th Boston Marathon won by Alvaro Mejia of Colombia in 2:18:45
1971 - Charles Manson sentenced to life (Sharon Tate murder)
1971 - Sierra Leone becomes a republic (Natl Day)
1971 - USSR Salyut 1 launched; 1st manned lab in orbit
1972 - "Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope" opens at Playhouse NYC for 1,065 perfs
1972 - Bangladesh becomes a member of British Commonwealth
1972 - Hungary revises constitution
1972 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1973 - Barbra Streisand records "Between Yesterday & Tomorrow"
1973 - Steinbrenner replaces Mike Burke with Gabe Paul as Yankee president
1973 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1974 - Oriole Al Bumbry hits an inside-the-park HR against NY Yankees
1975 - India launches 1st satellite with help of USSR
1976 - 5th Boston Women's Marathon won by Kim Merritt of Wis in 2:47:10
1976 - 80th Boston Marathon won by Jack Fultz of Wash, DC in 2:20:19
1978 - Yitzhak Navron elected 5th president of Israel
1979 - FCC raids & shuts down pirate radio station WFAT (Bkln NY)
1979 - Following a 6-3 loss to the Orioles, Yanks Goose Gossage & Cliff
1979 - Johnson brawl, Gossage sustains a sprained ligament in his left thumb
1981 - Beth Daniel wins LPGA Florida Lady Citrus Golf
1981 - Oakland A's runs record to 11-0
1981 - William Finn's musical "March of Falsettos," premieres in NYC
1981 - Rochester Red Wings & Pawtucket Red Sox play to 2-2 tie in 32 innings, game suspended at
           4:07 AM (Pawtucket later wins in 33rd)
1982 - 11th Boston Women's Marathon won by Charlotte Teske of Ger in 2:29:33
1982 - 86th Boston Marathon won by Alberto Salazar of Oreg in 2:08:51
1982 - Guinon Bluford announced as 1st black astronaut
1982 - Rosie Ruiz, marathon race cheater, arrested for forgery
1982 - Sally Ride announced as 1st woman astronaut
1982 - USSR Salyut 7 space station put into orbit
1983 - France performs nuclear test
1984 - Nemesis, death star of dinosaurs 1st appears in print (Nature mag)
1985 - 16th Space Shuttle Mission (51-D)-Discovery 4 returns to Earth
1985 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1985 - Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia's national anthem, and green and gold as the
           national colours.
1986 - Michael Spinks beats Larry Holmes in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1987 - Brendon Kuruppu scores 201* on Test Cricket debut (Sri Lanka v NZ)
1987 - Brewers score 5 runs in 9th to win 6-4 & record 12th straight AL win
1987 - Gregory Robertson does 200-mph free fall to save unconscious skydiver
1987 - Jacqueline Blanc, sets women's downhill ski speed rec (124.902 mph)
1987 - Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Santa Barbara Golf Open
1987 - LA Clippers end season with a terrible 12-70 record
1987 - Last wild condor captured on California wildlife reserve
1987 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1989 - Gun turret explodes on USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors
1989 - Kevin Elster (NY Mets), sets errorless shortstop mark at 73
1989 - Republic Day in Sierra Leone
1990 - Contra guerrillas, leftist Sandinistas & incoming government agree to truce
1990 - Marla Maples appears on ABC's Prime-Time
1990 - Pistons & 76'ers get into a fight accruing $162,500 fines (NBA record)
1990 - Truce in Nicaragua's civil war
1991 - Evander Holyfield beats George Foreman in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1991 - Greyhound Bus posts $195 million loss for 1990
1992 - "4 Baboons Adoring the Sun" closes at Beaumont NYC after 38 perf
1992 - Balki & Mary Ann wed on "Perfect Strangers"
1992 - Dottie Mochrie wins LPGA Sega Women's Golf Championship
1993 - 22nd Boston Women's Marathon won by Olga Markova of Russia in 2:25:27
1993 - 97th Boston Marathon won by Cosmas N'deti of Kenya in 2:09:33
1993 - Branch Davidians in Waco Texas dies in fire after 51 day siege (accident, suicide, tear gas are
           disputed causes)
1993 - Fire in psychiatric institute in South Korea, kills 40
1993 - South Dakota governor George Mickelson and seven others are killed when a state-owned
           aircraft crashed lands in Iowa.
1994 - 15th Emmy Sports Award presentation
1994 - Graeme Obree bicycles world record 10km (11:25.88)
1994 - Inkatha ends boycott of South African multi-racial election
1994 - Rodney King award $3,800,000 in compensation of police beating
1994 - Supreme Court outlaws excluding people from juries because of gender
1995 - Chopper 4 1st used on WNBC TV (NYC) news
1995 - Truck bomb at Federal Building in Oklahoma City, kills 168 & injures 500
1996 - Rangers scores 16 in 8th vs Orioles
1996 - South Africa defeat Pakistan to win the Pepsi Cup in Sharjah
1997 - Renee Slaughter, crowned 14th Miss Hawaiian Tropic Intl
1997 - SD Padres & St Louis Cards play at Aloha Stadium Hawaii
1998 - 59th PGA Seniors Golf Championship:
1999 - The German Bundestag returns to Berlin.
2005 - Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger elected Pope Benedict XVI on the second day of the Papal conclave.
2011 - Fidel Castro resigns from the Communist Party of Cuba's central committee after 45 years of
           holding the title.
2012 - Levon Helm, American rock musician, dies from throat cancer at 71

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Post by: MysteRy on April 19, 2013, 09:09:09 AM

This Day in History for 19th April


Famous Weddings

1956 - US actress Grace Kelly marries Monaco's Prince Rainier III (in Church)
1997 - Tennis player champion Andre Agassi (26) weds actress and model Brooke Shields (31) in
           Monterey, California
2005 - "Extra" co-host Dayna Devon (35) weds plastic surgeon Dr. Brent Moelleken at the Hans
            Fahden Winery in Calistoga, California
2008 - New York Giants NFL quarterback Eli Manning (27) weds Abby McGrew (24) at the One & Only
           Palmilla Resort in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

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Post by: MysteRy on April 19, 2013, 09:17:00 AM

This Day in History for 19th April


Famous Birthdays

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Actor Dudley Moore (1935)             Indy Car Driver Al Unser Jr (1962)        Tennis Player Maria Sharapova (1987)


1320 - Pedro I, King of Portugal (1357-67)
1603 - Michel le Tellier, French statesman (d. 1685)
1605 - Orazio Benevoli, composer
1658 - Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (d. 1716)
1660 - Sebastian Duron, composer
1665 - Jacques Lelong, French bibliographer (d. 1721)
1686 - Vasily Tatishchev, Russian statesman (d. 1750)
1700 - Georg Abraham Schneider, composer
1715 - James Nares, composer
1721 - Roger Sherman, signer (Decl of Ind, Constitution)
1721 - Thomas McKean, attorney (signed Declaration of Independence) [or 3/19]
1728 - Francisco Albergati Capacelli, Italian playwright
1737 - Geert Reinders, Dutch cattle breeder/inoculation propagandist
1768 - Adrian H Haworth, English entomologist/botanist
1771 - Giuseppe Cartufo, composer
1772 - David Ricardo, economist
1785 - Alexandre Pierre Francois Boely, composer
1787 - Deaf Smith, American frontiersman and revolutionary (d. 1837)
1795 - Christian Gottfried Ehrenburg, German zoologist
1798 - Franz Joseph Glaser, composer
1798 - Heinrich Maria von Hess, historical painter
1801 - Gustav T Fechner, [Dr Mises], German philosopher/physicist
1814 - Louis Amédée Achard, French novelist (d. 1875)
1817 - John Philip, painter
1821 - Mortimer Dormer Leggett, Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1896
1830 - Rudolf Cornely, German bible expert/jesuit
1832 - Jose Echegaray y Eizaguirre, mathematician/dramatist (Nobel 1904)
1832 - Lucretia Rudolph Garfield, 1st lady (1881)
1840 - Andrea Bezzola, writer
1850 - Edward John Gregory, painter/engraver
1850 - Theo Mann-Bouwmeester, Dutch actress (Pink Bernd, Hedda Gabler)
1857 - Lucien Levy-Bruhl, philosopher
1858 - May Robson, [Mary J Robison], Melbourne Aust, actress (Apple Annie)
1858 - Siegfried Ochs, composer
1861 - Warden Oncle, [Edward Vermeulen], Flemish farmer/writer
1863 - Felix Blumenfeld, composer
1866 - Henri WA Deterding, Dutch oil magnate (Royal Oil, Shell)
1868 - Max Von Schillings, German composer/conductor (Der Pfeifertag)
1873 - Sydney Barnes, cricketer (probably England's greatest bowler)
1874 - Firmin Baes, Flemish painter
1874 - Ernst Rüdin, Swiss psychiatrist, geneticist, and eugenicist (d. 1952)
1876 - Hendrik W A E, duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin/king of Netherlands
1877 - Ole Evinrude, inventor (outboard marine engine)
1879 - Richard Scheibe, German sculptor (Adler mit Hakenkreuz)
1883 - Getulio Vargas, president of Brazil (1930-45, 1951-54), modernizer
1883 - Richard von Mises, Austrian-born mathematician (d. 1953)
1888 - William L Axt, composer
1889 - Otto Georg Thierack, German jurist and politician (d. 1946)
1890 - Lou Bandy, [Lodewijk F Dieben], revue-artist (Look for the Sun)
1891 - Francoise Rosay, Paris, actress (Interlude, Women in Prison, Saraband)
1891 - Ricardo Bacchelli, Italian writer/poet (La Ronda)
1892 - Germaine Tailleferre, [Les Six], Pau-St-Maur France, composer
1895 - Anton F Pieck, Den Helder, Netherlands, illustrator (Efteling, Kaatsheuvel)
1897 - Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, sculptor/art benefactor
1897 - Vivienne Segal, Phila, Broadway actress (Pal Joey)
1897 - Peter de Noronha, Indian businessman and philanthropist (d. 1970)
1898 - Constance Talmadge, Brooklyn NY, comedienne/actress (Intolerance)
1898 - Sybil Andrews, English/Canadian painter
1899 - George O'Brien, American actor (d. 1985)
1900 - Richard Arthur Warren Hughes, English writer (Fiction as Truth)
1900 - Roland Michener, Governor General of Canada (d. 1991)
1903 - Eliot Ness, untouchable (FBI agent-Chicago)
1905 - John S "Jimmy" Thach, US pilot/admiral (WW II)
1905 - Tommy Benford, jazz drummer
1907 - Alan Wheatley, England, actor (Adventure of Robin Hood)
1907 - Gino Contilli, composer
1907 - Lina Basquette, Mateo Cal, actress (Paradise Park, Pleasure, Goldie)
1910 - Andrew Gilchrist, historian/diplomat
1911 - Francesco Maria Saraceni, composer
1912 - Glenn T Seaborg, American chemist (AEC, Plutonium, Nobel 1951)
1912 - William Murray, teacher/educationalist
1913 - Cyril English, British educator
1914 - Andrew Wilkinson, pediatrician
1915 - Dorian Le Gallienne, composer
1915 - Harry Craft, baseball manager
1917 - Johnny Hoes, Dutch musician/producer (Wished I'd stayed with my Mom)
1919 - Gil Langley, cricketer (Australian wicket-keeper 1951-56)
1920 - Frank Fontaine, Cambridge Mass, comedian (Crazy Guggenheim)
1921 - Glyn England, CEO (CEGB, Windcluster Ltd)
1921 - Will Ogdon, composer
1922 - Erich Hartmann, German WW II pilot (downed 352 Russian aircrafts)
1922 - Luigi Barbbarito, reverend (Apostolic ProNuncio)
1925 - Hugh O'Brian, [Krampke], Rochester NY, actor (Wyatt Earp, Search)
1927 - Don Barbour, Greencastle Ind, singer (4 Freshmen)
1928 - Alexis Korner, Paris, musician (Blues Inc-Bootleg Him)
1928 - John Horlock, British vice-chancellor (Open College)
1929 - Edward Crook, Detroit Mich, middleweight boxer (Olympic-gold-1960)
1930 - Dick Sargent, American actor (d. 1994)
1931 - Alex Webster, Kearney, New Jersey, football coach (NY Giants), (d. 2012)
1931 - Denis Henry, British high court judge
1931 - Garfield Morgan, Brtish actor (Odessa File, To Catch a Spy)
1931 - Hendrick J "Kobie" Coetsee, South Africa minister of Defense/Justice
1931 - Walter Stewart, Canadian journalist (d. 2004)
1932 - Andrea Mead Lawrence, Rutland Vt, alpine slalom skier (Oly-2 gold-52)
1933 - Jayne Mansfield, [Vera Jane Palmer], Bryn Mawr Pa, American actress (Fat Spy)
1933 - Dick Sargent, Carmel California, actor (Darrin-Bewitched)
1933 - Harold "Dickie" Bird, cricketer (noted England Test umpire)
1934 - Dickie Goodman, parody singer (Flying Saucer)
1934 - Jan Helge Guttorm Bark, composer
1934 - John Roch, high court judge
1935 - Dudley Moore, London England, actor (10, Arthur, Bedazzled, 6 Weeks)
1935 - Peter Scott, QC
1936 - Csaba Szabo, composer
1936 - Ruby Johnson, US singer (I'll Run Your Hurt Away)
1936 - Wilfried Martens, premier (Belgium, 1979-81, 1981-92)
1937 - Elinor Donahue, Tacoma Wash, actress (Father Knows Best, Get a Life)
1937 - Joseph Estrada, actor and 13th President of the Philippines
1938 - Jonathan Tunick, composer
1939 - E Clay Shaw Jr, (Rep-R-FL, 1981- )
1939 - Ellen Weston, NYC, actress (Betty-SWAT)
1939 - Michael Macaulay, cricketer (Tvl, W Prov, OFS, NE Tvl, E Prov & S Afr)
1940 - Algy Cluff, CEO (Spectator, Cluff Resources)
1940 - Genya Ravan, American vocalist (Goldie & the Gingerbreads, Ten Wheel Drive)
1941 - Michel Roux, chef de cuisine
1941 - Roberto Carlos, Brazilian singer
1942 - Alan Price, England, rock keyboardist (Animals-House of the Rising Sun)
1942 - Bas Jan Ader, Dutch artist (disappeared 1975).
1942 - Jack Roush, American racing entrepreneur
1943 - Mike Kelly, rocker (Duprees)
1944 - Bernard Worrell, US keyboardist (Funkadelic-Cosmic Slop)
1944 - Margo MacDonald, Scotish national broadcaster
1944 - Mark "Flo" Volman, rocker (Flo & Eddie, Turtles-Eleanor)/DJ (WKRK)
1944 - James Heckman, American economist, Bank of Sweden Prize
1945 - Nuria Ortiz, Mexico, skeet shooter (Olympic-13th-1968)
1946 - Leon Wessels, S Afr lawyer/underminister of Law & Order
1946 - Tim Curry, Cheshire England, actor (Rocky Horror Show)
1946 - Viktor Viktorovich Zabolotsky, Russia, cosmonaut (BST-02)
1946 - Mary Jo Slater, American casting director
1947 - Frits Castricum, journalist/Dutch MP (PvdA)
1947 - Murray Perahia, NYC, pianist (Avery Fischer Prize-1975, Grammy 1988)
1947 - Wilf Stevenson, director (British Film Institute)
1948 - Rick Miller, American baseball player
1949 - Myra McCulloch, teacher academic/administrator
1949 - Paloma Picasso, [Gilot], Paris France, actress (Immoral Tales)
1949 - Larry Walters, American "lawn chair" pilot (d. 1993)
1950 - Jeff Hammond, cricketer (Australian fast bowler on 1973 WI tour)
1950 - Marc Demeyer, Belgian bicyclist (Paris-Brussel '74)
1951 - Barry Brown, American actor and writer (d. 1978)
1951 - Jóannes Eidesgaard, Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands
1952 - Adny Shernoff, rocker
1953 - Sara Simeoni, Italy, high jumper (Olympic-gold-1980)
1953 - Rod Morgenstein, American musician (Winger)
1953 - Ruby Wax, British television personality
1954 - Trevor Francis, British soccer manager
1956 - Lori West, Denver CO, LPGA golfer (1994 State Farm-5th)
1956 - Sue Barker, England, tennis star
1957 - Belinda Lipscomb, vocalist (Midnight Star-No Parking)
1957 - Bo[as] Watson, vocalist (Midnight Star-No Parking)
1957 - Rod Morgenstern, rocker (Winger)
1957 - Mukesh Ambani, Indian businessman
1960 - Frank Viola, Hempstead NY, pitcher (Twins, Mets/Cy Young-1988)
1960 - Roger Merrett, Australian footballer
1961 - Richard Phelps, British pentathelete
1962 - Al Unser Jr, Indy-car racer (over 10 wins)
1962 - Christa Teno, Tecumseh Ontario, LPGA golfer (1989 Mitsubishi-44th)
1963 - Valerie Plame Wilson, former C.I.A. agent
1964 - Harris Barton, NFL tackle (SF 49ers)
1964 - Scott Kamienicki, pitcher (NY Yankees)
1965 - Natalie Dessay, French soprano
1965 - Suge Knight, American record producer
1966 - Paul Reiffel, cricketer (Victorian & Australian pace bowler)
1966 - Randolph Keys, NBA forward (Milwaukee Bucks)
1966 - Véronique Gens, French soprano
1967 - Steven H Silver, American science fiction editor
1967 - Dar Williams, American musician and songwriter
1968 - Ashley Taylor Judd, Granada Hills California, actress (Kuffs, Sisters)
1968 - Brent Mayne, Loma Linda CA, catcher (NY Mets)
1968 - Keith McCants, NFL defensive end (Arizona Cardinals)
1968 - Roger Reinson, CFL linebacker (Calgary Stampeders)
1968 - Thomas Nock, Zurich Switzerland, actor (Tartort, Gemini-Twin Stars)
1968 - Craig McNeil, American writer, lawyer, and military officer
1968 - Mswati III, King of Swaziland
1968 - Pascal Kleiman, Spanish DJ, producer, musician
1968 - Arshad Warsi, Indian actor
1969 - Carlos Reyes, Miami FL, pitcher (Oakland A's)
1969 - Danelle Marie Folta, Hammond IN, playmate (Apr, 1995)
1969 - James Westphal, Oak Park Illinois, 10k runner
1969 - Jesse James, American television personality and motorcycle builder
1970 - Luis Miguel, Vera Cruz Mexico, spanish singer
1970 - Michael Barrow, NFL linebacker (Houston Oilers, Carolina Panthers)
1970 - Rick Hamilton, WLAF linebacker (Barcelona Dragons)
1970 - Kelly Holmes, English athlete
1971 - Otis Scott, Gainesville Fla, 400m/800m runner
1972 - Eric Jack, NFL cornerback (Atlanta Falcons)
1972 - Jeff Wilkins, NFL kicker (SF 49ers)
1972 - Rivaldo, Brazilian footballer
1974 - Ante Moric, Australian soccer midfielder (Olyroos, Olympics-96)
1974 - Akara Amarttayakul, Thai actor
1975 - Jason Gillespie, cricketer (SA fast bowler, Australia 1996)
1975 - Nazarena Almada, Miss Argentina Universe (1997)
1975 - Temoc Suarez, Greenwood SC, soccer forward (Olympics-gold-96)
1975 - Jussi Jääskeläinen, Finnish footballer
1976 - Vanessa Guzman, Miss Universe-Mexico (1996)
1976 - Ruud Jolie, Dutch guitarist (Within Temptation)
1977 - Lucien Mettomo, Cameroonian footballer
1977 - Joe Beimel, American baseball player
1977 - Dennys Reyes, Mexican baseball player
1978 - Adrienne Parker, Miss Tennessee Teen USA (1996)
1978 - Whitney Metzler, 400m medley swimmer (Olympics-8th-96)
1978 - Gabriel Heinze, Argentinian footballer
1978 - James Franco, American actor
1978 - Amanda Sage, American born visionary artist
1979 - Challen Sievers, Downers Grove Ill, rhythmic gymnast (Olympics-96)
1979 - Mariah Billado, Miss Vermont Teen USA (1997)
1979 - Kate Hudson, Los Angeles, California, American actress (Almost Famous, You, Me and
           Dupree)
1980 - Alexis Thorpe, American actress
1981 - Hayden Christensen, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canadian actor (Sam-Life as a House, Star
           Wars)
1981 - Martin Havlat, Czech hockey player
1981 - Kasie Head, American actress and model
1981 - Troy Polamalu, American football player
1981 - Catalina Sandino Moreno, Colombian actress
1983 - Alberto Callaspo, Venezuelan baseball player
1983 - Zack Duke, American baseball player
1983 - Joe Mauer, American baseball player
1983 - Curtis Thigpen, American baseball player
1984 - Lee Da Hae, South Korean actress
1985 - Valon Behrami, Swiss Footballer
1986 - Candace Parker, American basketball player
1987 - Maria Sharapova, Russian tennis player
1987 - Joe Hart, English Under-21 Footballer
1987 - Oksana Akinshina, Russian actress
1987 - Courtland Mead, American actor
1989 - Fiona MacGillivray, Canadian vocalist (The Cottars)
1990 - Kim Chiu, Filipino actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 19, 2013, 09:20:05 AM

This Day in History for 19th April


Famous Deaths

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Naturalist Charles Darwin (1882)           German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer (1967)


843 - Judith, French empress/2nd wife of Louis de Vrome, dies
1012 - Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 954)
1044 - Gothelo, duke of Neth-Lotharingen, dies
1054 - Leo IX, [Bruno von Egesheim und Dagsburg], Pope (1049-54), dies at 51
1390 - Robert II, King of Scots, dies
1529 - John Cuspinianus, [Spiessheimer], German physician, dies at about 55
1560 - Philipp Melanchton (Schwazerd), church reformer, dies at 63
1567 - Michael Stifel, German theologist/mathematician, dies at about 79
1578 - Uesugi Kenshin, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1530)
1588 - Paolo Veronese (Cagliari), painter, dies
1608 - Earl of Dorset, poet/statesman, dies
1618 - Thomas Bastard, clergyman and epigrammatist (b. 1565 or 1566)
1627 - John Beaumont, English poet (b. 1583)
1629 - Sigismondo d'India, Italian composer
1645 - Anton van Diemen, gov-gen (Neth East Indies), dies at about 51
1645 - William Smith, composer, dies at 42
1684 - Roger Williams, English theologian and colonist (b. 1603)
1686 - Antonio de Solís y Ribadeneyra, Spanish writer (b. 1610)
1689 - Christina, Queen of Sweden (1644-54), dies
1706 - Galenus Abrahamsz de Haen, Dutch baptist leader, dies
1733 - Elizabeth Villiers, mistress of William III of England
1739 - Nicholas Saunderson, mathematician, dies
1751 - Peter Lacy, Irish-born Russian Field marshal (b. 1678)
1768 - Filippo della Valle, Italian sculptor, dies at about 70
1770 - Esprit Joseph Antoine Blanchard, composer, dies at 74
1772 - Johann Peter Kellner, composer, dies at 66
1773 - Florian Johann Deller, composer, dies at 43
1776 - Jacob Israel Emden, [Jacob ben Tswi], German rabbi, dies at 78
1791 - Richard Price, nonconformist minister/writer (Alabi's World), dies
1799 - Pieter Hellendaal, violinist/organist/composer (Glees), dies at 78
1813 - Benjamin Rush, physician/abolotionist (signed Decl of Ind), dies at 67
1824 - George Gorden Noel "Lord" Byron, poet, dies at 36
1831 - Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, German mathematician (b. 1765)
1840 - Jean-Jacques Lartigue, Roman catholic bishop of Montreal (b. 1777)
1852 - Vasili A Zjukovski, Russian folk poet/translator (Homerus), dies at 69
1854 - Robert Jameson, Scottish naturalist (b. 1774)
1862 - Louis Powell Harvey, US governor of Wisconsin, drowns
1862 - Simon Fraser, Canadian explorer, dies
1867 - Robert Smirke, British architect, dies
1870 - Andreas Schelfhout, painter/etcher/lithographer, dies at 83
1870 - Camille Marie Stamaty, composer, dies at 59
1870 - William Henry Havergal, composer, dies at 77
1874 - Owen Jones, architect, dies
1876 - Samuel Sebastian Wesley, composer, dies at 65
1881 - Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl (Beaconsfield)/novelist, dies
1881 - Michel Abeloos, Flemish sculptor, dies at 53
1882 - Charles Robert Darwin, naturalist (Origin of Species), dies at 73
1889 - Warren De La Rue, astronomer/chemist, dies
1892 - Fr. Thomas Dale SSC, Anglican clergyman prosecuted for Ritualist practices in the 1870s (b.
          1821)
1893 - John Addington Symonds, critic/poet, dies
1895 - George Scharf, critic, dies
1895 - Victor J van Hinsbergh, South Neth engraver (PTT-stempels), dies at 70
1901 - Alfred Horatio Belo, American newswriter and businessman (b. 1839)
1906 - Pierre Curie, French physicist/chemist (Nobel 1903), dies
1906 - Spencer Gore, British tennis player and cricketer (b. 1850)
1914 - Charles Pierce, philosopher/scientist, dies
1916 - Ephraim Shay, American inventor (b. 1839)
1923 - Thomas Paine Westendorf, composer, dies at 75
1926 - Squire Bancroft, [Butterfield], actor/manager (Haymarket), dies at 84
1926 - Alexander Alexandrovich Chuprov, Russian statistician (b. 1874)
1930 - Georges-Casimir Dessaulles, Canadian senator (b. 1827)
1932 - Wladyslaw Rzepko, composer, dies at 77
1937 - William M Conway, English historian/explorer (Spitzbergen), dies at 81
1938 - Henry John Newbolt, poet/author (Studies Green & Gray), dies at 75
1941 - Johanna Muller-Hermann, composer, dies at 63
1943 - Alexander Schmorell, German resistance fighter, beheaded
1943 - Gustave Doret, composer, dies at 76
1943 - Kurt Huber, German resistance fighter, beheaded
1943 - Willy Graf, German resistance fighter, beheaded
1944 - Tommy Hitchcock, polo player (Westchester Cup 1924, 27), dies at 44
1945 - J P Heyboer, resistance fighter, executed
1949 - Ulrich Salchow, Swedish figure skater (b. 1877)
1950 - Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th baron Berners/composer, dies at 66
1956 - Ernst R Curtius, German literature historian, dies at 70
1956 - Lionel K P "Buster" Crabb, British diver (WW II), dies at 47
1956 - Leon N H Jungschlaeger, head milt intelligence Neth-Indies, dies at 52
1957 - Charles Funk, Encylopediest (Funk & Wagnalls), dies at 76
1957 - Johan W Albarda, 1st Dutch SDAP minister (1939-45), dies at 79
1964 - Cyril Merry, cricketer (WI batsman in 2 Tests 1933), dies
1965 - George Davis, actor (Private Lives, Devil May Care), dies at 75
1967 - Konrad Adenauer, West Germany chancellor (1949-63), dies at 91
1968 - Tommy Bridges, US baseball pitcher (Detroit Tigers), dies at 61
1972 - Adolf Bach, German philologist/sociologist, dies at 82
1978 - Emile de Strijker, Belgian philosopher, dies at 70
1980 - Ethel Wilson, actress (Aunt Harriet-Aldrich Family), dies at 88
1980 - Tony Beckley, actor (Assault, When a Stranger Calls), dies at 51
1981 - Ernst Levy, composer, dies at 85
1983 - Jerzy Andrzejewski, writer (Ashes & Diamonds), dies at 73
1983 - Lorene Scott, actress (Faraway Hill), dies at 74
1986 - Alvin Childress, actor (Amos-Amos 'n' Andy), dies at 78
1986 - Dag Ivar Wiren, composer, dies at 80
1987 - Hugh "Lumpy" Brannum, Actor (Mr Green Jeans), dies at 77
1987 - Maxwell D Taylor, US commander 101st airborne (WW II), dies at 85
1988 - Kwon Ki-ok, first Korean female pilot (b. 1901)
1989 - Daphne Du Maurier, English writer (Rebecca, Jamaica Inn), dies at 82
1990 - Vladislav Ivanovich Gulyayev, Russia, cosmonaut, dies at 52
1991 - Stanley Hawes, British-born Australian film producer, director and administrator (b. 1905)
1992 - Alice Mary Riley, entertainer, dies of cancer at 51
1992 - Frankie Howerd, actor (Carry on Doctor, Up the Front), dies at 70
1992 - Pat Thompson, actress (Strictly Ballroom), dies at 51
1992 - Robert F Clayton, drummer (Jody Grind), dies at 26 in a car crash
1992 - Robert Paul Haynes, bassist (Jody Grind), dies at 26 in a car crash
1993 - David Koresh, [Vernon Howell], cult leader (Davidians), suicide
1993 - George Mickelson, Gov of SD, & 7 others, die in a plane crash
1994 - Frederick Ferrari, crazy Gang Member, dies at 81
1994 - Larry Davis, blues Singer/Guitarist, dies at 57
1994 - Louis Simmonds, bookseller, dies at 87
1994 - Michael Carreras, film Director, dies at 67
1994 - Michel van Rooy, Dutch actor (Doctor Vlimmen, The Attack), dies at 43
1995 - "King" Herbert Whitaker, tenor sax, dies at 66
1995 - Igor Hajek, translator/writer, dies at 64
1995 - J Peter Grace Jr, CEO (W R Grace), dies from cancer at 81
1995 - Kenneth Burslam Gardner, librarian/Orientalist, dies at 70
1996 - Bernard Edwards, bass player, dies at 44
1996 - Norman Oldfield, cricketer (scored 99 runs in Test for England), dies
1996 - Peg Ridge, peace campaigner, dies at 72
1997 - El Duce, American singer and drummer (The Mentors) (b. 1958)
1998 - Octavio Paz, Mexican diplomat and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914)
1999 - David Sanes, US Navy employee
1999 - Hermine Braunsteiner, Nazi war criminal (b. 1919)
2000 - Louis Applebaum, Canadian conductor and composer (b. 1918)
2004 - Norris McWhirter, Scottish co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (b. 1925)
2004 - John Maynard Smith, English biologist (b. 1920)
2005 - Ruth Hussey, American actress (b. 1911)
2005 - Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Danish jazz bassist (b. 1946)
2005 - George Pan Cosmatos, Greek film director (b. 1941)
2005 - Clement Meadmore, Australian sculptor (b. 1929)
2006 - Scott Crossfield, American pilot, first man to fly at Mach 2 (b. 1921)
2006 - Zola Levitt, Messianic Jewish preacher (b. 1938)
2007 - Jean-Pierre Cassel, French actor (b. 1932)
2007 - Helen Walton, wife of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton (b. 1919)
2008 - John Marzano, American baseball player (b. 1963)
2008 - Germaine Tillion, French anthropologist, member of French Resistance (b. 1907)
2008 - Alfonso López Trujillo, Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (b. 1935)
2009 - J.G. Ballard, British novelist. (b. 1930)
2010 - Keith "Guru" Elam, American rapper (b. 1966)
2010 - Edwin Valero, Venezuelan boxer (b. 1981)
2010 - Carl Williams, Australian criminal (b. 1970)
2011 - Elisabeth Sladen, British actress (b. 1946)
2012 - Valeri Vasiliev, Society ice hockey defenceman, dies at 62

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Post by: MysteRy on April 20, 2013, 09:45:37 AM

This Day in History for 20th April


Historical Events

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Composer George Friedrich Handel         March King John Philip Sousa       Playwright George Bernard Shaw

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Fighter Ace The Red Baron                  Singer & Actress Barbra Streisand             Actor, Screenwriter & Director
(Manfred von Richthofen)                                                                                                   Woody Allen

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Basketball Superstar                                  Pop Star Madonna
Michael Jordan


295 - 8th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
850 - Guntherus becomes bishop of Cologne
1139 - 2nd Lateran Council (10th ecumenical council) opens in Rome
1505 - Jews are expelled from Orange Burgandy by Philibert of Luxembourg
1551 - John Dudley becomes English Earl Marshal
1650 - VOC-management sets new guidelines
1653 - Cromwell routes English parliament to house
1657 - Battle in Santa Cruz Bay, Tenerife: English fleet under Robert Blake sinks Spanish silver fleet
1689 - The former King James II of England, now deposed, lays siege to Derry.
1702 - Comet C/1702 H1 approaches within 0.0437 AUs of Earth
1715 - Nicholas Rowe's "Tragedy of Lady Jane Gray," premieres in London
1759 - George Frideric Handel is buried in Westminster Abbey
1770 - Capt Cook arrives in New South Wales
1775 - British begin siege of Boston
1777 - New York adopts new constitution as an independent state
1792 - France declares war on Austria, Prussia & Sardinia
1799 - Friedrich von Schiller's "Wallensteins Tod," premieres in Weimar
1799 - Napoleon issues a decree calling for establishing Jerusalem for Jews
1809 - Napoleon I defeats Austria at Battle of Abensberg, Bavaria
1810 - The Governors of Caracas declares the national sovereignty from Spain.
1828 - René Caillié is first non-Muslim to enter Timbouctou.
1836 - Territory of Wisconsin created
1841 - 1st detective story (Poe's "Murders in Rue Morgue") published
1853 - Harriet Tubman starts Underground Railroad
1861 - Battle of Norfolk, VA
1861 - Colonel Robert E Lee resigns from Union army
1862 - The first pasteurization test completed by Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard.
1865 - Chicago's Crosby Opera House opens
1871 - 3rd Enforcement Act (President can suspend writ of habeas corpus)
1872 - SF Bar Association organized
1879 - 1st mobile home (horse drawn) used in a journey from London & Cyprus
1884 - Pope Leo XIII encyclical "On Freemasonry"
1888 - 246 reported killed by hail in Moradabad, India
1894 - 136,000 mine workers strike in Ohio for pay increase
1896 - 1st public film showing in US John Philip Sousa's "El Capitan," premieres in NYC
1898 - US Assay Office in Deadwood, South Dakota opens
1902 - Marie & Pierre Curie isolate the radioactive element radium chloride
1903 - 7th Boston Marathon won by John Lorden of Mass in 2:41:29.8
1903 - NY Highlanders play their 1st game, with Jack Chesbro losing 3-1 to Al Orth & Washington
1904 - George Bernard Shaw's "Candida," premieres in London
1904 - Louisiana Purchase Exposition opens in St Louis
1908 - 12th Boston Marathon won by Tom Morrissey of NY in 2:25:43.2
1908 - Opening day of competition of the New South Wales Rugby League.
1910 - Cleve Indians Addie Joss 2nd no-hitter, beats Chicago, 1-0
1910 - Halley's Comet passes 29th recorded perihelion at 87.9 million km
1912 - Fenway Park officially opens, Red Sox beat NY Highlanders 7-6 in 11
1912 - Tiger Stadium in Detroit opens, Tigers beat Cleve Indians 6-5
1914 - 18th Boston Marathon won by James Duffy of Canada in 2:25:01.2
1914 - 33 killed by soldiers during mine strike in Ludlow, Colo
1916 - German-British sea battle off Belgian coast
1916 - Weeghman Park (Wrigley Field) in Chicago opens, Cubs beat Cin Reds 7-6
1917 - Pravda (Lenin names Russia "Free land of world")
1918 - Manfred von Richthofen, aka The Red Baron, shoots down his 79th and 80th victims marking
           his final victories before his death the following day.
1919 - Polish Army captures Vilno, Lithuania from Soviet Army
1920 - 7th modern Olympic games opens in Antwerp Belgium
1920 - Balfour Declaration recognized, makes Palestine a British Mandate
1920 - Big Show ends 2 year run on NBC radio
1920 - Tornadoes kill 219 in Alabama & Mississippi
1920 - Phillies mgr Gravvy Cravath puts himself in as pinch hitter, his 3- run homer beats NY Giants
           3-0
1925 - 29th Boston Marathon won by Charles Mellor of Ill in 2:33:00.6
1926 - 1st check sent by radio facsimile transmission across Atlantic
1931 - 35th Boston Marathon won by Jim Henigan of Mass in 2:46:45.8
1931 - British House of Commons agrees for sports play on Sunday
1934 - Heinrich Himmler becomes inspector Prussian secret state police
1935 - "You're Hit Parade" begins broadcasting (becomes #1 quickly)
1936 - 40th Boston Marathon won by Ellison Brown of RI in 2:33:40.8
1936 - Jews repel an Arab attack in Petach Tikvah Palestine
1939 - New York World's Fair opens
1939 - Ted Williams' 1st hit (off of Yankee Red Ruffing) a double
1940 - 1st electron microscope demonstrated (RCA), Philadelphia, Pa
1941 - 100 German bombers attack Athens
1941 - Dodgers start to wear liners in their caps
1942 - German occupiers forbids Dutch access to their beach
1942 - Heavy German assault on Malta
1943 - Braves manager Casey Stengel is struck by a taxi, fractures a leg
1944 - Dutch Communist Party-resistance fighter John Postma sentence to death
1944 - NFL legalizes coaching from bench
1945 - Cleveland Browns organization formed by Arthur "Mickey" McBride
1945 - German occupiers flood Beemster & Fencer
1945 - Soviet troops enter Berlin
1945 - US 7th army captured German city of Nuremberg
1945 - US forces conquer Motobu peninsula on Okinawa
1946 - 1st baseball broadcast in Chicago, Cards vs Cubs
1946 - 50th Boston Marathon won by Stylianos Kyriakides of Greece in 2:29:27
1947 - Frederik IX becomes king of Denmark
1948 - NYC hikes subway fare from 5 cents to 10 cents
1948 - Walter P Reuther UAW pres shot & wounded at his home in Detroit
1949 - Jockey Bill Shoemaker wins his 1st race, in Albany, California
1950 - Balt's Memorial Stadium opens - Orioles of International League
1951 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
1951 - Velsen city council demands investigation of police collaborators
1953 - 57th Boston Marathon won by Keizo Yamada of Japan in 2:18:51
1954 - "Golden Apple" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 125 performances
1955 - "Saint of Bleecker St" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 92 perfs
1957 - 61st Boston Marathon won by John J Kelley of Conn in 2:20:05
1957 - Yankee Bill Skowron becomes 3rd player to hit a ball out of Fenway
1958 - Buses replace Key System trains at 3 AM
1958 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
1958 - Montreal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins 4 games to 2 for Stanley Cup
1958 - Morocco demands departure of Spanish troops
1959 - 63rd Boston Marathon won by Eino Oksanen of Finland in 2:22:42
1960 - "From A to Z" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 21 performances
1961 - American Harold Graham makes 1st rocket belt flight
1962 - NASA civilian pilot Neil A Armstrong takes X-15 to 63,250 m
1962 - New Orleans Citizens Co gives free 1-way ride to blacks to move North
1962 - OAS-leader ex-general Salan arrested in Algiers
1963 - "Sophie" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 8 performances
1963 - -30] All Africa Conferences of Churches opens in Kampala Uganda
1964 - 68th Boston Marathon won by Aurele Vandendriessche of Belgium in 2:19:59
1964 - 86% of black students boycott Cleveland schools
1965 - People's Republic China offers North Vietnam military aid
1966 - WDCA TV channel 20 in Washington, DC (IND) begins broadcasting
1967 - French author Régis Debray caught in Bolivia
1967 - NY Met Tom Seaver's 1st victory, beats Cubs, 6-1
1967 - US Surveyor 3 lands on Moon
1967 - US planes bomb Haiphong for 1st time during Vietnam War
1967 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1967 - A Globe Air Bristol Britannia turboprop crashes at Nicosia, Cyprus, killing 126.
1968 - Pierre Elliott Trudeau sworn-in as Canada's PM
1968 - S Afr Boeing 707 crashes at Windhoek, 122 killed
1968 - English politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial Rivers of Blood speech.
1969 - 23rd Tony Awards: Great White Hope & 1776 win
1969 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
1970 - 74th Boston Marathon won by Ron Hill of Great Britain in 2:10:30
1970 - Bruno Kreisky becomes 1st socialist chancellor of Austria
1970 - Ron Hill's 2:10:30 at Boston, sets new US marathon record
1971 - Barbra Streisand records "We've Only Just Begun"
1971 - US Supreme Court upholds use of busing to achieve racial desegregation
1972 - Apollo 16's Young & Duke land on Moon with Boeing Lunar Rover #2
1972 - Kallicharran scores his 2nd Test century in his 2nd Test Cricket
1973 - Canadian ANIK A2 becomes 1st commercial satellite in orbit
1974 - Paul McCartney releases "Band on the Run"
1975 - 29th Tony Awards: Equus & Wiz win
1975 - 4th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Sandra Palmer
1975 - Penguins 1-Isles 3-Quarterfinals-Penguins hold 3-1 lead
1976 - George Harrison sings lumberjack song with Monty Python
1977 - Supreme Court rules "Live Free or Die" may be covered on NH licenses
1977 - Woody Allen's film "Annie Hall" premieres
1980 - Cubans begin to arrive in US from Mariel boatlift
1980 - Donna White wins LPGA Florida "Lady Citrus" Golf Tournament
1980 - Climax of Berber Spring in Algeria as hundreds of Berber political activists are arrested.
1981 - 10th Boston Women's Marathon won by Allison Roe of NZ in 2:26:46
1981 - 85th Boston Marathon won by Toshihiko Seko of Japan in 2:09:26
1981 - Final performance of TV show "Soap" airs
1981 - Rocker Papa John Phillips arrested for drug possession
1982 - Atlanta Braves become 1st team to win 1st 12 games of the season
1983 - Pres Reagan signs a $165B bail out for Social Security
1983 - Rangers 2-Isles 7-Patrick Div Finals-Isles hold 3-2 lead
1983 - Soyuz T-8 launched; mission aborted when capsule fails to dock
1983 - Soyuz T-8 is launched (lands 2 days later)
1984 - Russian offensive in Panshirvallei Afghanistan
1985 - Carlos Lopes runs world record marathon (2:07:12)
1985 - Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Mark Williams
1985 - Karyn Marshall of NYC lifted 303 lbs in a clean & jerk lift
1985 - ATF raid on The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord compound in northern
          Arkansas.
1986 - "Jerry's Girls" closes at St James Theater NYC after 139 performances
1986 - Michael Jordan sets NBA playoff record with 63 points in a game
1986 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1986 - Vladimir Horowitz performs in his Russian homeland
1987 - 16th Boston Women's Marathon won by Rosa Mota of Portugal in 2:25:21
1987 - 91st Boston Marathon won by Toshihiko Seko of Japan in 2:11:50
1987 - Sri Lanka: Tamils shoot 122 Singalezen dead
1987 - US deports Karl Linnas, charged with nazi war crimes, to USSR
1988 - Balt Orioles set worst record to start a season 0-14 (will go 0-21)
1988 - NJ Devils 1st playoff hat trick-Eric Broten
1988 - US accuses Renamo of killing 100,000 Mozambiquians
1988 - Yanks HR 9,999 (D Winfield) 10,000 (C Washington) 10,001 (J Clarke)
1990 - Pete Rose pleads guilty to hiding $300,000 in income
1990 - 8 2/3 inning perfect game pitched by Brian Holman of Oakland A's is spoiled by a home run hit
           by Ken Philips
1991 - "Les Miserables," opens at Odense Teater, Odense
1991 - 1st non stop flight Schiphol-Flamingo airport Bonaire
1991 - Mark Lenzi is 1st diver to score 100 pts on a dive (101.85)
1991 - Raghib "Rocket" Ismael signs with Toronto Argonauts for $26.2 million
1992 - 100th episode of "Murphy Brown" airs
1992 - 21st Boston Women's Marathon won by Olga Markova of Russia in 2:23:43
1992 - 96th Boston Marathon won by Ibrahim Hussein of Kenya in 2:08:14
1992 - All star concert in memory of Freddie Mercury held at Wembley Stadium
1992 - Expo '92 opens in Seville Spain
1992 - Joan Lunden, breaks her left shoulder after being thrown from a horse
1992 - Madonna signs $60-million deal with Time Warner
1993 - Uranus passes Neptune (once every 171 years)
1994 - Danny Harold Rolling, sentenced to death in Florida, for killing 5
1994 - Serbian army bombs hospital in Goradze Bosnia, 47 killed
1994 - Sohail & Inzamam make world record ODI partnership of 263
1994 - Space shuttle STS-59 (Endeavour 6), lands
1996 - Chicago Bulls win record 72 games in a season
1997 - "Gin Game," opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 144 performances
1997 - "Present Laughter," closes at Walter Kerr Theater NYC
1997 - 1st baseball game in Hawaii, Cards beat Padres in doubleheader
1997 - 27th Easter Seal Telethon raises $47,392,682
1997 - 58th PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Hale Irwin
1997 - Cubs beat NY Mets ending NL worst opening, lost 14 straight games
1997 - Karrie Webb wins LPGA Susan G Komen International
1997 - Myrtle Beach LPGA Classic
1997 - Nick Price wins golf MCI Classic
1997 - PGA Seniors Championship
1997 - Mark McGwire, is 4th to HR on Detroit Tiger left field roof (others are Frank Howard, Harmon
           Killibrew, & Cecil Fielder)
1998 - TAME Boeing 727-200 chartered by Air France crashes into Cerro El Cable mountain after
           takeoff from Bogotá, Colombia, killing 53.
1998 - German terrorist group Red Army Faction announces their dissolution after 28 years.
1999 - Columbine High School massacre: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill 13 people and injure 24
           others before committing suicide at Columbine High School located in Jefferson County,
           Colorado.
2004 - In Iraq, 12 mortars are fired on Abu Ghraib Prison by insurgents, killing 22 detainees and
           wounding 92.
2007 - Johnson Space Center Shooting: A man with a handgun barricades himself in NASA's Johnson
           Space Center in Houston, Texas before killing a male hostage and himself.
2008 - Danica Patrick wins the Indy Japan 300 becoming the first female driver in history to win an
           Indy car race.
2010 - Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion kills 11 and causes rig to sink, initiating a massive oil
           discharge in the Gulf of Mexico.
2012 - Plane crash near Islamabad, Pakistan, kills 127 people
2012 - 40 people are killed and 27 injured after a tractor trailer collided with a bus in Alamo, Mexico

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 20, 2013, 09:48:24 AM

This Day in History for 20th April


Famous Weddings

2007 - Indian film actor and producer Abhishek Bachchan (31) weds actress Aishwarya Rai (33) at
           the Bachchan residence in Juhu, Mumbai
2008 - "The Game" actress Tia Mowry (29) weds actor Cory Hardrict (32) at the Biltmore Hotel in
           Santa Barbara, California
2011 - "Hollywood Confidential" radio host Leeza Gibbons (54) weds Steven Fenton (41) at the
            rooftop of the Montage Hotel in Beverly Hills

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 20, 2013, 09:49:54 AM

This Day in History for 20th April


Famous Divorces

2006 - Actor-writer Charlie Shanian (39) divorces former Beverly Hills, 90210 actress Tori Spelling (32)
           only 15 months after their lavish $1-million wedding

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 20, 2013, 09:55:58 AM

This Day in History for 20th April


Famous Birthdays

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Dictator of Nazi Germany                           Actor George Takei (1940)                   Actress Carmen Electra (1972)
Adolph Hitler (1889)


702 - Jafar Sadiq, Muslim scholar (d. 765)
1442 - Edward IV, King (England, 1461-83)
1494 - John Agricola, [Schneider], German theologist/prime minister
1586 - Saint Rose of Lima, Peruvian saint (d. 1617)
1592 - John Eliot, St Germans Cornwall, English MP/author
1594 - Matthaus Apelles von Lowenstern, composer
1633 - Emperor Go-Komyo of Japan (d. 1654)
1646 - Charles Plumier, French botanist (d. 1704)
1650 - William Bedloe, English informer (d. 1680)
1668 - Yuri Troubetzkoy, Governor of Belgorod (d. 1739)
1705 - Balthasar Schmid, composer
1718 - David Brainerd, American missionary (d. 1747)
1723 - Cornelius Harnett, American delegate to the Continental Congress (d. 1781)
1725 - Johann Friedrich Kloffler, composer
1726 - Jozef de Ferraris, French/Austrian earl/general/cartographer
1745 - Philippe Pinel, physician, founder of psychiatry
1748 - Georg Michael Telemann, composer
1748 - Guillaume Albert Teniers, composer
1761 - Johann Gottlieb Karl Spazier, composer
1808 - Louis-Napoleon (Napoleon III), emperor of France (1852-71)
1809 - John Smith Preston, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1881
1818 - Heinrich Göbel, German-born inventor (d. 1893)
1824 - Alfred Holt Colquitt, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1894
1826 - Dina M Craik, writer
1827 - John Gibbon, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1896
1839 - Carol I, King of Romania (1881-1914)
1850 - Daniel Chester, French/American sculptor (Minute Man)
1851 - Young Tom Morris, Scottish golfer (d. 1875)
1857 - Charles LP "Philip" Zilcken, painter/author (HW Knife Day)
1857 - Hermann Bang, writer
1858 - Auguste Chapuis, composer
1860 - Charles Gordon Curtis, US attorney/inventor (Curtis Turbine)
1860 - Pieter Jelles Troelstra, Dutch MP (SDAP)
1866 - Victor Hollaender, composer
1870 - Simeon Roncal, composer
1870 - Maulvi Abdul Haq, Father of Urdu, Pakistani scholar (d.1961)
1871 - William Henry Davies, Wales, poet (Autobiography of a Super Tramp)
1876 - Gerard J Arbous, actor/publicist (Prince William of Orange)
1879 - Robert Lynd, Irish writer/critic (Pleasures of Ignorance)
1879 - Paul Poiret, French couturier (d. 1944)
1881 - Nikolai Miaskovsky, Novogeorievsk Poland, composer (Kirov is With Us)
1881 - Sem Dresden, composer/conductor
1882 - Holland Smith, U.S. General (d. 1967)
1884 - Princess Beatrice of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1966)
1889 - Adolph Hitler, Braunau, Austria, dictator and Führer of Nazi Germany (1936-45)
1889 - Albert Jean Amateau, Turkish-born businessman and social activist (d. 1996)
1890 - Adolf Scharf, president Austria (1957-65)
1890 - Maurice Duplessis, premier of Québec, known as "Le Chef" (d. 1959)
1893 - Harold Lloyd, Burchard Neb, silent comic (Why Worry, Safety Last)
1893 - Hermann Ungar, writer
1893 - Edna Parker, American supercentenarian
1893 - Joan Miró, Spanish painter and sculptor (d. 1983)
1894 - Martinus Nijhoff, poet/interpreter/linguistic (spelling)
1895 - Emile Christian, American musician (d. 1973)
1896 - Senor Wences, ventriloquist (Close the Door)
1896 - Wop May, Canadian aviator (d. 1952)
1897 - Bernard Verhoeven, poet/literature (About the Laugh)
1897 - Gregory Ratoff, Petrograd Russia, actor/director (Corsican Brothers)
1900 - Fred Raymond, composer
1900 - Kees Verwey, painter/water colors painter/cartoonist
1901 - Michel Leiris, French cultural anthropologist
1902 - Donald Wolfit, England, actor (Lawrence of Arabia, Becket, Accursed)
1902 - Vesselin Stoyanov, composer
1903 - Dagmar Edqvist, Swedish author (Kamrathustru-Wife & Comrade)
1904 - Bruce Cabot, Carlsbad NM, actor (Diamonds are Forever, King Kong)
1904 - George Stibitz, American scientist (d. 1995)
1907 - Miran Bux, cricketer (his one season of Test & 1st-class play 1954-55)
1907 - William Dollar, St Louis, ballet dancer/choreographer
1908 - Wilhelmus M Bekkers, bishop of Hertogenbosch
1908 - Lionel Hampton, orchestra leader/vibraphone improviser (Depths Below)
1909 - Guido Alberti, literary patron/businessman
1909 - Richard Stubbs, publicity adviser
1910 - Robert F Wagner, (Mayor-D-NYC, 1954-65) [or May 15]
1911 - Kukrit Pramoj, politician
1912 - David Townsend, cricketer (3 Tests Eng v WI 1935)
1912 - Ed Jones, (Rep-D-TN, 1969- )
1912 - Frederick Craig Riddle, violist
1912 - Soewarsil Djojopoespito, Indonesia, writer (Toe the Line)
1913 - Dick Wessel, WI, actor (Dick Tracy vs Cueball, Beware of Blondie)
1914 - Betty Lou Gerson, American actress (d. 1999)
1915 - Joseph Wolpe, South African-born psychotherapist (d. 1997)
1919 - Richard Hillary, Australian Spitfire pilot and author (d. 1943)
1920 - John Paul Stevens, Illinois, 103rd Supreme Court Justice (1975- )
1920 - Ronald Speirs, WWII Veteran (d. 2007)
1921 - Donald Gunn MacRae, sociologist
1921 - Janine Sutto, French Canadian actress
1923 - Tito Puente, Puerto Rico, bandleader (Dance Mania)
1923 - Mother Angelica, American nun and broadcaster
1924 - Gerhard Samuel, composer
1924 - Nina Foch, Leiden Netherlands, actress (American in Paris)
1924 - Paul M Van Buren, US theologist (Theological Explorations)
1925 - Ernie Stautner, NFL tackle (Steelers)/WLAF head coach (Galaxy)
1925 - Richard Hoffmann, composer
1926 - Harriett Elizabeth Byrd, politician (Wyoming house of Reps)
1927 - Karl Muller, Switzerland, superconductivity physicist (Nobel 1987)
1928 - Johnny Gavin, Irish footballer (d. 2007)
1928 - Gerald S. Hawkins, English astronomer (d. 2003)
1929 - Bob Braun, Ludlow Ky, singer (Dotty Mack Show)
1930 - Alan Oakman, cricketer (England batsman against Australia 1956)
1931 - Lee H Hamilton, Daytona Beach Fla, (Rep-D-Ind, 1965- )
1934 - Lindsay Oliver John Boynton, furniture historian
1936 - Pat Roberts, (Rep-R-KS, 1981- )
1936 - Pauli Ellefsen, Miðvágur, Vágar, Faroe Islands, Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands
1936 - Pat Roberts, American politician
1938 - Bernard Malivoire, France, cox pair (Olympic-gold-1952)
1938 - Betty Cuthbert, Australia 100m/200m/400m dash (Olympic-gold-1956, 64)
1938 - Johnny Tillotson, Jacksonville Fla, singer (Gidget, Poetry in Motion)
1939 - Gro Harlem Brundtland, Norwegian premier (1981-82, 86-89, 90- )
1939 - Peter S. Beagle, American author
1940 - George Takei, LA California, actor (Sulu-Star Trek, Green Berets)
1940 - James Gammon, Newman Ill, actor (Cool Hand Luke, Nick-Nash Bridges)
1940 - Jan Cremer, Dutch writer/sculptor (I, John Cremer)
1940 - Pilar Miro, director (Wether, Beltenebros)
1941 - Joni Evans, NYC, publisher (Simon & Schuster, Random House)
1943 - Edie Sedgwick, Santa Barbara CA, actor (Ciao Manhattan)
1943 - Ian Watson, UK, sci-fi author (Book of Being, Whores of Babylon)
1943 - Michael Greer, Galesburg Ill, actor (Bobby Gentry Show)
1943 - John Eliot Gardiner, English conductor
1945 - Jimmy Winston, London, organist (Samll Facres-Itchycoo Park)
1945 - Michael Brandon, American actor
1946 - Julien Poulin, French Canadian actor
1946 - Gordon Smiley, American racecar driver (d. 1982)
1947 - David Leland, Cambridge England, actor/director (Nothing But Trouble)
1947 - Björn Skifs, Swedish singer (Blue Swede)
1947 - Andrew Tobias, American journalist and author
1948 - Craig Frost, keyboardist (Grand Funk Railroad-Some Kind of Wonderful)
1948 - Gregory Itzin, American actor
1948 - Rémy Trudel, French Canadian politician
1949 - Jessica Lange, Cloquet Minnesota, actress (King Kong, Tootsie)
1949 - Michal, rocker
1949 - Veronica Cartwright, American actress
1950 - Itumeleng J Mosala, S Afr president (Azanian People's Org)
1950 - Steve Erickson, American novelist
1950 - Chandra Babu Naidu, Indian politician
1951 - Geraint Wyn Davies, Wales, actor (Bury Me in Niagara, High Hopes)
1951 - Luther Vandross, NYC, rock vocalist (Dance with my Father), (d. 2005)
1952 - Tamara Sergeyevna Zakharova, Russian cosmonaut
1952 - Toine van Benthem, dentist/playwright/cabaret performer (Purper)
1952 - Božidar Maljković, Serbian basketball coach
1953 - Sebastian Faulks, British novelist
1954 - Peter Toohey, cricketer (NSW & Australian batsman 1977-80)
1954 - Gilles Lupien, French Canadian ice hockey player
1955 - Donald R Pettit, Silverton Oregon, PhD/astronaut
1956 - Beatrice Ask, Swedish politician
1957 - Graeme Fowler, cricketer (England left-handed opener early 80s)
1957 - Richenel, [Hubertus R Baars], singer/performer (Turn My Page)
1957 - Geraint Wyn Davies, Welsh-Canadian actor
1958 - Viacheslav Fetisov, Moscow, NHL defenseman (Team Russia, Detroit)
1959 - Clint Howard, Burbank California, actor (Gentle Ben)
1960 - Rodney Holman, NFL tight end (Detroit Lions)
1961 - Don "Hitman" Mattingly, Indiana, 1st baseman (NY Yankees/MVP 1985)
1961 - Marci Bozarth, Lampasas TX, LPGA golfer (1994 Lady Keystone Open-37th)
1961 - Don Mattingly, American baseball player
1961 - Konstantin Lavronenko, Russian actor
1963 - Brett Edward Garsed, Victoria Australia, heavy metal artist (Nelson)
1963 - Kal Swan, heavy metal rocker
1963 - Mauricio Gugelmin, Brazilian racing driver
1963 - Aubrey de Grey, British biomedical gerontologist
1964 - John Carney, NFL kicker (San Diego Chargers)
1964 - Paul Nobes, cricketer (prolific opening batsman for Victoria & SA)
1964 - Andy Serkis, English actor
1965 - Jim Terrell, Cin Oh, sprint canoe (Olympics-96)
1965 - Kostas Hatzidakis, Greek politician
1965 - Adrian Fernández, Mexican racing driver
1966 - David Chalmers, Australian philosopher
1967 - J D Roth, Beverly Hills California, TV host (Fun House)
1967 - Lara Jill Miller, Allentown Pa, actress (Samantha-Gimme a Break)
1967 - Miroslav Stefanovic, soccer player (FC Volendam)
1967 - Townsend Saunders, White Sands NM, freestyle wrestler (Oly-sil-92, 96)
1967 - Mike Portnoy, American drummer (Dream Theater)
1968 - LeShundra Nathan, Birmingham Ala, heptathlete
1969 - John van Halst, soccer player (FC Twente)
1969 - Takayuki Kobori, hockey defenseman (Team Japan 1998)
1969 - Chris Jarvis, children's TV personality
1970 - Ben Weir, Rock Island Ill, Canadian Tour golfer (1993 Bogey Hills-2nd)
1970 - Shemar Moore, Oakland Cal, actor (Malcolm-Young & Restless)
1970 - Adriano Moraes, Brazilian rodeo performer
1971 - Chris Penn, NFL wide receiver (KC Chiefs, Chicago Bears)
1971 - Grant Smith, Australian field hockey forward (Olympics-96)
1971 - John Senden, Brisbane QLD, Australasia golfer
1971 - Terry Smith, NFL wide receiver (Indianapolis Colts)
1971 - Yonel Jourdain, NFL running back/kick returner (Buffalo Bills)
1971 - Carla Geurts, Dutch swimmer
1971 - Tina Cousins, English singer
1972 - Le Huynh Đuc, Vietnamese footballer
1972 - Carmen Electra [Tara Leigh Patrick], Sharonville, Ohio, American model and actress (Scary
           Movie, Meet the Spartans)
1972 - Stephen Marley, Jamaican musician
1973 - Itula Mili, tight end (Seattle Seahawks)
1973 - Lamond Murray, NBA forward (LA Clippers)
1973 - Todd Hollandsworth, Dayton OH, outfielder (LA Dodgers)
1973 - Geoff Lloyd, British radio presenter
1974 - Ben[jamin] Lincoln Holbrook, Hartland Wis, rower (Olympics-1996)
1974 - Kevin Sullivan, Brantford Ontario, 1.5k runner (Olympics-96)
1974 - Paul Bradford, cornerback (San Diego Chargers)
1976 - Joey Lawrence, Phila Pa, actor (Gimme a Break, Blossom, Summer Rental)
1976 - Lenka Nemeckova, Brno Czech, tennis star (1993 Futures-Maribor-SLO)
1976 - Shay Given, Irish footballer
1977 - Lisa Ervin, figure skater (US Nationals-4th-1992)
1977 - Johnny "The Bull" Stamboli, professional wrestler
1978 - Mirei Kuroda, Japanese gravure idol
1980 - Jasmin Wagner, German singer
1981 - Matus Valent, male fitness model
1983 - Terrence J, American television host
1983 - Miranda Kerr, Australian supermodel
1984 - Tyson Griffin, American mixed martial artist
1986 - Cameron Duncan, New Zealand director (d. 2003)
1987 - John Patrick Amedori, American actor

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 20, 2013, 09:58:14 AM

This Day in History for 20th April


Famous Deaths

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Actress Agnes Moorehead (1974)


1164 - Victor IV, [Ottaviano Montecello], Italian antipope (1159-64), dies
1176 - Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, English soldier (b. 1130)
1314 - Clement V, [Bertrand Got], pope (1305-14) move papacy to Avignon, dies
1317 - Agnes van Montepulciano, Italian mystic/saint, dies
1521 - Zhengde, Emperor of China (b. 1491)
1534 - Elizabeth Barton, [St Magd van Kent], British prophet, dies
1558 - Johannes Bugenhagen, German reformer (b. 1485)
1632 - Nicolas Antione, converted to Judiasm, burned at the stake
1643 - Christoph Demantius, composer, dies at 75
1662 - Gerard Terborch, the elder, painter, dies
1695 - Georg Caspar Weckler, composer, dies at 63
1703 - Lancelot Addison, English royal chaplain (b. 1632)
1765 - Abigail Williams, American accuser in the Salem witch trials (b. 1674)
1768 - Giovanni AC Canaletto, Italian painter/cartoonist (Rialto), dies at 70
1769 - Pontiac, indian chief to Ottawa, murdered
1786 - John Goodricke, English deaf & dumb astronomer, dies at 21
1812 - George Clinton, 4th US VP, dies at 73 1st VP to, die in office
1820 - Arthur Young, author (Annals of Agriculture), dies
1821 - Franz K Achard, German physicist/chemist, dies at 67
1831 - John Abernethy, English surgeon (b. 1764)
1836 - Johan I Jozef, monarch of Liechtenstein/fieldmarshal, dies at 75
1839 - Giuseppe Rossini, father of Italian composer Gioacchino Rossini, dies
1869 - Johann Carl Gottfried Loewe, composer, dies at 72
1869 - Piotr Studzinski, composer, dies at 42
1872 - Ljudwit Gaj, Croatian writer/poet (Pjesma iz Zagorja), dies at 62
1873 - William Tite, English architect (b. 1798)
1874 - Alexander H. Bailey, American politician (b. 1817)
1887 - Muhammad Sharif Pasha, Egyptian statesman (b. 1826)
1899 - Joseph Wolf, German artist (b. 1820)
1900 - Mebel Mercer, popular British singer, dies
1906 - Australian wombat; oldest known marsupial, dies in London Zoo at 26
1908 - Henry Chadwick, sports reporter (baseball), dies at 85
1912 - Bram Stoker, Irish theater manager/writer (Dracula), dies at 64
1918 - Reginald Harry Mybirgh Hands, cricketer (1 Test for SA), dies
1932 - Giuseppe Peano, mathematician, dies
1935 - Juliaan de Vriendt, Flemish painter, dies at 92
1941 - Barend ter Haar, Dutch lawyer, dies in Buchenwald at 49
1947 - Christian X, king of Denmark (1912-47), dies at 76
1951 - Ivanoe Bonomi, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1873)
1953 - Erich Weinert, writer, dies at 62
1956 - Jaap Vranken, organist/composer (Stabat mater), dies
1956 - Lieven Duvosel, Flemish music composer (Levensschets), dies at 78
1962 - Arthur Harmat, composer, dies at 76
1962 - Jesse G Vincent, engineer designed 1st V-12 engine, dies at 82
1964 - Eddie Dyer, baseball player (b. 1899)
1965 - Dick Wessel, dies of heart attack on 52nd birthday
1968 - Marion Weeks, singer/actress, dies of stroke at 81
1971 - Cecil Parker, actor (Court Jester, Operation Snafu), dies at 73
1973 - Robert Armstrong, actor (Fall Guy, Exposed), dies at 82
1974 - Agnes Moorehead, actress (Endora-Bewitched), dies at 67
1974 - Mohammed Ayub Khan, premier/president (Pakistan), dies
1977 - Bryan Foy, director/writer, dies at 80
1977 - Len Johnson, cricketer (one Test for Australia, 3-66 & 3-8), dies
1977 - Sepp Herberger, German football coach (b. 1897)
1979 - Peter Donald, host (Masquerade Party), dies at 60
1982 - Andrew Sandham, cricketer (325 Eng 1930, 879 runs in 14 Tests), dies
1982 - Archibald MacLeish, US, lawyer/writer (Conquistador), dies at 89
1982 - Mimi Boesnach, actress (Wedding of Kloris & Roses), dies at 82
1983 - Jerzy Andrezjewski, writer, dies
1984 - Mabel Mercer, English/US singer (Fly me to the moon), dies at 84
1984 - Hristo Prodanov, Bulgarian mountaineer (b. 1943)
1986 - Sibte Hassan, Pakistani activist, journalist and writer (b. 1916)
1987 - Antony Tudor, dancer/choreographer (Amer Ballet Theater) dies at 78
1990 - Horst Sinderman, RDA 1st minister (1973-76), dies
1991 - Don[ald] Siegel, US director (Coogan's Bluff/Dirty Harry), dies at 78
1991 - Jumjaagiyn Tsedenbal, Mongolian politician, dies
1991 - Sean O'Faolain, [J Whelan], Irish writer (Nest of Simple), dies at 91
1991 - Steve Marriott, English guitarist (Small Faces), dies in a fire at 44
1991 - Yumzhagin Tsendenbal, PM of Mongolia (1952-74), dies
1992 - Benny Hill, comedian (Benny Hill Show), dies of a heart attack at 67
1992 - Johnny Shines, Delta blues singer/guitarist, dies at 76
1993 - Cantinflas, [Mario Moreno], Mexican actor (Pepe), dies at 81
1994 - Jean Carmet, French actor (Merci la Vie, Le Sucre), dies at 72
1995 - Milovan Djilas, Yugoslavian politician (1945-54), dies
1995 - R E S Wyatt, cricketer (England capt 16 times), dies
1995 - Sunil Jayasinghe, Sri Lankan wicketkeeper (1979 World Cup), suicide
1995 - Tessie O'Shea, entertainer, dies at 81
1996 - Cecilia Grace Hunt Reeves Gillie, bBC Executive, dies at 88
1996 - Christopher Robin Milne, bookseller, dies at 75
1996 - Tran Van Tra, soldier, dies at 77
1999 - Victims and shooters of the Columbine High School massacre
1999 - Rick Rude, American professional wrestler (b. 1958)
1999 - Señor Wences, Spanish ventriloquist and comedian (b. 1896)
2001 - Giuseppe Sinopoli, Italian conductor and composer (b. 1946)
2002 - Alan Dale, American singer (b. 1925)
2003 - Ruth Hale, American playwright and actress (b. 1908)
2003 - Daijiro Kato, Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1976)
2003 - Bernard Katz, German-born biophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
           (b. 1911)
2005 - Fumio Niwa, Japanese novelist (b. 1904)
2005 - Zygfryd Blaut, Polish football player (b. 1943)
2006 - Anna Svidersky (b. 1988)
2007 - Andrew Hill, American jazz composer and pianist (b. 1931)
2007 - Michael Fu Tieshan, Chinese bishop (b. 1931).
2008 - VL Mike, American Rapper (b. 1976)
2008 - Monica Lovinescu, Romanian essayist, literary critic and journalist (b. 1923)
2010 - Dorothy Height, American civil rights activist (b. 1912)
2011 - Tim Hetherington, British-American photojournalist (b. 1970)
2011 - Chris Hondros, American photographer (b. 1970)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 21, 2013, 10:13:02 AM

This Day in History for 21st April


Historical Events

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Lexicographer Noah Webster                Playwright George Bernard Shaw              Fighter Ace The Red Baron
                                                                                                                             (Manfred von Richthofen)

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Singer & Cultural Icon                        Singer & Actress Barbra Streisand
Elvis Presley


753 BC - Romulus and Remus found Rome (traditional date).
43 BC - Battle of Mutina: Mark Antony is again defeated in battle by Aulus Hirtius, who is killed.
          Antony fails to capture Mutina and Decimus Brutus is murdered shortly after.
953 - Otto I the Great gives Utrecht fishing rights
1420 - Treaty of Saint Maartens Dike
1453 - Turkish fleet sinks ships Golden Receiver in Constantinople
1509 - Henry the VIII becomes King of England
1521 - Battle at Villalar: Emperor Charles I beats Communards
1526 - Battle at Panipat: Mogol Emperor Babur beats sultan Ibrahim Lodi
1572 - France & England sign anti-Spanish military covenant
1600 - 1st date in James Clavell's novel Shogun (OS)
1649 - Maryland Toleration Act passed, allowing all freedom of worship
1654 - England & Sweden sign trade agreement
1689 - William III & Mary Stuart proclaimed king & queen of England
1739 - Spain & Naples-Austria sign peace accord
1785 - Russian tsarina Catharina II ends noble privileges
1789 - John Adams sworn in as 1st US VP (9 days before Washington)
1792 - Tiradentes, a revolutionary leading movement for Brazil's independence, is hanged, drawn and
           quartered.
1794 - NYC formally declares coast of Ellis Island publically owned, so they can build forts to protect
           NYC from British
1818 - Franz Grillparzer's "Sappho," premieres in Vienna
1828 - Noah Webster publishes 1st American dictionary
1836 - Battle of San Jacinto, in which Texas wins independence from Mexico
1855 - 1st train crosses Miss River's 1st bridge, Rock Is Ill-Davenport Ia
1857 - Alexander Douglas patents the bustle
1862 - Congress establishes US Mint in Denver, Co
1862 - Ellen Price Wood's "East Lynne, premieres in Boston
1863 - Bahá'u'lláh, founder of the Bahá'í Faith, enters gardens of Rivden, near Baghdad. Makes the
           declaration of aha'u'llah during 12 days spent there
1865 - Abraham Lincoln's funeral train leaves Washington
1878 - First Lady Lucy Hayes begins egg rolling contest on White House lawn
1878 - NY installs 1st firehouse pole
1878 - Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Inscrutabili
1878 - Ship Azor leaves Charleston with 206 blacks for Liberia
1884 - Potters Field reopened as Madison Park
1892 - Black Longshoremen strike for higher wages in St Louis Mo
1894 - George Bernard Shaw's "Arms & the Man," premieres in London
1898 - Phillies' pitcher Bill Duggleby hits a grand slam on 1st at bat
1898 - Spanish-American War: The U.S. Congress, on April 25, recognizes that a state of war exists
           between the United States and Spain as of this date.
1904 - Ty Cobb makes his pro debut for Augusta (South Atlantic League)
1908 - Frederick A Cook claims to reach North Pole (He didn't)
1910 - Cleve Naps play 1st game at League Park, lose to Det Tigers 5-0
1913 - German passenger ship Imperator runs aground
1913 - Gideon Sundback of Sweden patents the zipper
1914 - US marines occupy Vera Cruz, Mexico, stay 6 months
1918 - World War I: German fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen, known as "The Red Baron", is shot
           down and killed over Vaux sur Somme in France.
1920 - John Galsworthy's "Skin Game," premieres in London
1921 - Ottawa Senators beat Vanc Millionaires 3 games to 2 for Stanley Cup [or 4/4]
1922 - The first Aggie Muster is held as a remembrance for fellow Aggies who had died in the
           previous year.
1925 - Chuvash Autonomous Region in RSFSR becomes Chuvash ASSR
1925 - No baseball games played in NL due to Charles Ebbets' funeral
1925 - Noel Coward's "Fallen Angels," premieres in London
1930 - Fire at Ohio State Penitentiary kills 322
1930 - Vladimir Mayakovsky's "Moskva Golid," premieres in Moscow
1934 - Moe Berg, Senators catcher, plays AL record 117th cons errorless game
1935 - King Boris of Bulgaria forbids all political parties
1940 - 1st $64 Question, "Take It or Leave It," on CBS Radio
1940 - Netherlands beats Belgium 4-2 in soccer
1941 - Greece surrenders to nazi-Germany
1944 - NFL Chic Cardinals & Pittsburgh Steelers merge (dissolves on Dec 3)
1945 - Allied troops occupy German nuclear laboratory
1945 - He Shima Okinawa conquered in 5 days, 5,000 die
1945 - Ivor Nivello's "Perchance to Dream," premieres in London
1945 - Russia army arrives at outskirts of Berlin
1945 - US 7th Army occupies Neurenberg
1946 - SED, Socialistic Einheitspartei Germany forms in East Germany
1948 - 1st Polaroid camera was sold in US
1948 - 2nd NBA Championship: Balt Bullets beat Phila Warriors, 4 games to 2
1951 - 5th NBA Championship: Rochester Royals beat NY Knicks, 4 games to 3
1951 - Stanley Cup: Toronto Maple Leafs beat Montreal Canadiens, 4 games to 1
1952 - BOAC begins 1st passenger service with jets (London-Rome route)
1952 - Secretary's Day (now Administrative Professionals' Day) is first celebrated.
1954 - Gregori Malenkov becomes premier of USSR
1954 - USAF flies French battalion to Vietnam
1955 - Bkln Dodgers win, then record 10th straight game to begin a season
1955 - J Lawrence & R E Lee's "Inherit the Wind," premieres in NYC
1955 - Minas Gerais Argentina tunnel caves in; 30 die
1956 - Elvis Presley's 1st hit record, "Heartbreak Hotel," becomes #1
1957 - Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
1957 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Fidei Donum
1959 - 1211-kg great white shark becomes largest fish ever caught on a rod
1959 - Alf Dean using a rod & reel hooks a 2,664lb, 16' 10" white shark
1960 - Brasilia becomes capital of Brazil
1960 - Founding of the Orthodox Bahá'í Faith in Washington, D.C.
1961 - Dirk U Suffocated chosen as sec-gen of NATO
1961 - French army revolts in Algeria
1961 - USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 32,000 m
1962 - Century 21 Exposition opens in Seattle, Washington
1963 - Beatles meet Rolling Stones for 1st time
1963 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Sunshine Women's Golf Open
1963 - The Universal House of Justice of the Bahá'í Faith is elected for the first time.
1964 - Pirates & Cubs combine for 9 HRs, Pirates win 8-5
1965 - New York World's Fair reopens for 2nd & final season
1966 - Emperor Haile Selassie (Ethiopia) visits Kingston Jamaica
1967 - Dodgers 1st rain out in Los Angeles (after 737 consecutive games)
1967 - EO, Evangelical Broadcasting, begins in Netherlands
1967 - Josef Stalin's daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva, defects to US
1967 - Military coup in Greece, Konstantinos Kollias becomes premier
1967 - Svetlana Alliluyeva (Josef Stalin's daughter) defects in NYC
1968 - 22nd Tony Awards: Rosencranz & Guilderstern & Hallelujah Baby! win
1968 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
1969 - 73rd Boston Marathon won by Yoshiaki Unetani of Japan in 2:13:49
1970 - Reds clout 7 HRs by 6 batters, Braves counter with 3 HRs, 6 for one team & 9 different
           batters for two teams, all tie or set records
1970 - The Hutt River Province Principality secedes from Australia.
1971 - Original Codex Reguis (with Edda-liederen) returns to Iceland
1972 - John Young & Charles Duke explores Moon (Apollo 16)
1972 - Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 4 (Copernicus) launched
1974 - 28th Tony Awards: River Niger & Raisin win
1974 - 3rd Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Jo Ann Prentice
1975 - 4th Boston Women's Marathon won by Liane Winter of W Germ in 2:42:24
1975 - 79th Boston Marathon won by Bill Rodgers of Mass in 2:09:55
1975 - Last South Vietnam president Nguyen Van Thieu resigns after 10 years
1975 - Liane Winter wins world record female Boston marathon (2:42:24)
1976 - Swine Flu vaccine, for non-epidemic, enters testing
1976 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1977 - "Annie" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 2377 performances
1977 - Billy Martin pulls Yankee line-up out of a hat, beats Blue Jays 8-6
1977 - Broadway play "Annie" opens, 1st of 2,377 performances
1977 - C Strouse & M Charnins musical "Annie," premieres in NYC
1977 - Zia ur-Rahman appointed president of Bangladesh
1979 - "Carmelina" closes at St James Theater NYC after 17 performances
1980 - 84th Boston Marathon won by Bill Rodgers of Mass in 2:12:11
1980 - Howard Stern begins broadcasting on WWWW Detroit Mich
1980 - 9th Boston Women's Marathon won by Jacqueline Gareau of Can in 2:34:28 Rosie Ruiz
           disqualified as women's champ she hadn't run entire course
1981 - US furnish $1 billion in arms to Saudi-Arabia
1982 - Atlanta Braves win their 13th straight game
1982 - Dr Michael E Bakey performs 1st successful heart implant
1982 - Dutch Queen Beatrice addresses US Congress
1983 - 1 pound coin introduced in United Kingdom
1984 - "Nightline" reverts back from 1 hour to ½ hour
1984 - After 37 weeks, "Thriller" is knocked off as top album by "Footloose"
1984 - Centers for Disease Cont says virus discovered in France causes AIDS
1984 - Franz Weber of Austria skis downhill at a record 209.8 kph
1984 - Montreal Expo David Palmer no-hits St Louis Cards, 4-0 in a perfect 5 inn game
1985 - Bomb attacks in NATO/AEG-Telefunken building in Brussels
1985 - Flyers 5-Isles 2-Patrick Div Finals-Flyers hold 2-0 lead
1985 - Ingrid Kristiansen wins London Marathon in a record 2:21:06
1985 - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA J&B Scotch Pro-Am Golf Tournament
1986 - 15th Boston Women's Marathon won by I Kristiansen of Norway in 2:24:55
1986 - 90th Boston Marathon won by Rob de Castella of Australia in 2:07:51
1986 - Bob Hering sets Formula One power boat record (165.338 mph, Ariz)
1986 - Geraldo Rivera opens Al Capone's vault on TV & finds nothing
1987 - Brewers lose, ending AL season-opening winning streak at 13 games
1987 - Dow Jones Avg soared 664.7; 2nd biggest one-day gain in history
1987 - Milwaukee Brewers lose after 13th straight victory to start season
1987 - Richard Hadlee makes highest Test Cricket score of 151* (v Sri Lanka)
1987 - Tamil bomb attack in Colombo Sri Lanka, 115 killed
1988 - 1st four-day games in County Cricket Championship commence
1988 - Barbra Streisand records "You'll Never Know"
1989 - George W Bush & Edward W Rose become CEO of Texas Rangers
1989 - Thousands of Chinese crowd into Beijing's Tiananmen Square cheering students demanding
           greater political freedom
1990 - "Cartoon All Stars to Rescue" shown on all 4 TV networks
1990 - National League umpire is arrested for stealing baseball cards
1990 - Reds win running their record to 9-0, best start in club history
1991 - 52nd PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Jack Nicklaus
1991 - Jakov Tolstikov wins 4th World Cup marathon (2:09:17)
1991 - Rosa Mota wins 4th World Cup female marathon (2:26:14)
1991 - Greatest extra-inning comeback, Pitts scores 6 in bottom of 11th erasing 5 run Cub lead,
           Pirates also trailed 7-2 in bottom of 9th
1992 - "High Rollers" opens at Helen Hayes theater on Broadway
1992 - Mobil Oil tug with 12,000 gallons of oil run aground in Arthur Kill
1992 - Robert Alton Harris is put to death in the California Gas Chamber for 3 murders.
1993 - "Wilder, Wilder, Wilder" opens at Circle in Sq NYC for 30 perfs
1993 - Brazil votes against a monarchy
1994 - "Picnic" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 45 performances
1994 - Eddie Murray sets record for switch hit HRS in a games (11 times)
1994 - Serbian army bombs distress clinic in Goradze Bosnia, 28 killed
1994 - The first discoveries of extrasolar planets are announced by astronomer Alexander
           Wolszczan.
1995 - Boston Celtics final game at Boston Gardens, NY Knicks win 98-92
1995 - FBI arrested Timothy McVeigh & charge him with Oklahoma City bombing
1996 - "Delicate Balance," opens at Plymouth Theater NYC
1996 - 57th PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Hale Irwin
1996 - Barb Mucha wins LPGA Chick-fil-A Charity Golf Championship
1996 - Chicago Bulls win NBA record 72 games (72-8)
1996 - Matabeleland beat Mashonaland Country Dist to win Logan Cup
1996 - Wayne James scores 99 & 99 & ct 11 stp 2 in Logan Cup Final
1997 - 101st Boston Marathon won by Lameck Aguta of Kenya in 2:10:34
1997 - 26th Boston Women's Marathon won by Fatuma Roba of Ethopia in 2:26:23
1997 - Ashes of Timothy Leary & Gene Roddenberry launched into orbit
2008 - The United States Air Force retires the F-117 Nighthawk.
2012 - Two trains in Sloterdijk, Netherlands, injure 117 people in a head on collision
2012 - Chicago White Sox pitcher, Philip Humber, pitches the 21st MLB perfect game against the
           Seattle Mariners

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 21, 2013, 10:56:36 AM

This Day in History for 21st April


Famous Weddings

1993 - Rolling Stone Bill Wyman weds Suzanne Accosta on French Riveria
2006 - Professional drag racer Andrew Hines (22) weds Tanya Phillips at the First Baptist Church in
           Tampa, Florida
2007 - Bolivian model Carla Moron weds architect Pedro Gantier at la Iglesia San Francisco de Santa
           Cruz
2007 - Pop singer sensation Anastacia (38) weds her bodyguard Wayne Newton at the Quinta Real
           Huatulco in Huatulco, Mexico
2012 - Actress Carey Mulligan (26) weds "Mumford & Sons" lead singer Marcus Mumford (25) in
           Somerset, England
2012 - Music legend Neil Diamond (71) weds music manager Katie McNeil (42) at the Beverly Hills
           Hotel

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 21, 2013, 11:06:45 AM

This Day in History for 21st April


Famous Birthdays

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Rocker Iggy Pop (1947)                           Musician Robert Smith (1959)


1488 - Ulrich von Hutten, German poet/humanist/patriot
1546 - Arcangelo Crivelli, composer
1555 - Ludovico Carracci, Italian painter (d. 1619)
1619 - John A van Riebeeck, colonial director/founder (Cape Colony)
1651 - Blessed Joseph Vaz, Apostle of Ceylon (d. 1711)
1652 - Michel Rolle, French mathematician (d. 1719)
1671 - John Law, Scottish economist (d. 1729)
1672 - Johann Philipp Kafer, composer
1673 - Wilhelmina Amalia of Brunswick, Holy Roman Empire Empress (d. 1742)
1713 - Louis Duke de Noailles, marshal of France
1730 - Antonin Kammel, composer
1749 - Johann Michael Malzat, composer
1774 - Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist/astronomer (balloonist)
1775 - Alexander Anderson, US, engraver/illustrator (Shakespeare)
1779 - William Knyvett, composer
1795 - Vincenzo Pallotti, Italian saint
1803 - Levin Minn Powell, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1885
1806 - Peter van Schendel, Dutch painter
1809 - Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter, Secy State (Confederacy)
1810 - John Putnam Chapin, American politician (d. 1864)
1811 - Alson Sherman, American politician (d. 1903)
1814 - Beni Egressy, composer
1816 - Charlotte Bronte, Tornton England, novelist (Jane Eyre)
1816 - Louis Trezevant Wigfall, Confederate Army, died in 1874
1824 - Anselmo Clave, composer
1828 - Hippolyte Taine, French philosopher/historian (Voyage in Italy)
1834 - William Rufus Terrill, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
1837 - Fredrik Bajer, Denmark, politican/feminist/pacifist (Nobel 1908)
1838 - John Muir, US, naturalist/discoverer (glaciers in High Seirras)
1838 - Nat Thompson, cricketer (1st batsman dismissed in a Test match)
1840 - Franz Xaver Haberl, German priest/musicologist (Magister choralis)
1849 - Oskar Hertwig, Germany, embryologist, discovered fertilization
1851 - Charles Barrois, French geologist (d. 1939)
1853 - Charles-Theodore Malherbe, composer
1854 - Eusapia Palladino, Napolitanse with parergische phenomenons
1854 - Wladyslaw Rzepko, composer
1854 - William Stang, Roman Catholic Bishop (d. 1907)
1864 - Max Weber, German sociologist/economist/historian (Ancient Judaism)
1867 - Benjamin A Jesurun, Antillian literary
1870 - Edwin S. Porter, American film pioneer (d. 1941)
1871 - Leo Blech, composer
1871 - Vojtech Rihovsky, composer
1872 - GW Bitzer, [Johann Gottlob Wilhelm Bitzer], Roxbury MA
1878 - Albert Weisgerber, German painter/graphic artist
1879 - Kartini, Indonesian national figure (d. 1904)
1881 - Jules-Marie Canneel, Flemish painter/caricaturist (Rocks of Oran)
1882 - Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1961)
1886 - Charlie Naughton, Glasgow Scotland, actor (Frozen Limits)
1887 - Lillian Walker, Brooklyn NY, entertainer
1887 - Joe McCarthy, American baseball manager (d. 1978)
1889 - Paul Karrer, Swiss chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1971)
1892 - Jaroslav Kvapil, composer
1896 - Henry M de Montherlant, French novelist and stage author (La Reine Morte)
1898 - Steve Owen, NFL tackle, coach (NY Giants)
1899 - Clement D'Hooghe, composer
1899 - Randall Thompson, NYC, composer (Trip to Nahant)
1901 - Julian Bautista, composer
1902 - Bernard J H "Ben" Stroman, recensent/writer (Jomtof & Blue Beard)
1903 - Hans Hedtoft, premier Denmark (1947..55)
1904 - Gijsbert van Hall, banker/mayor of Amsterdam (1957-67)
1905 - Edmund G "Pat" Brown, (Gov-D-California)
1905 - Pat Brown, American politician (d. 1996)
1906 - Tom Burns, editor
1907 - Antoni Szalowski, composer
1907 - Beatrice Kay, NYC, singer/actress, Sister Sue-Calvin & Col)
1908 - Louis Hostin, France, Light Heavyweight, Olympic-gold-1932, 36)
1909 - Rollo May, US, psychologist, Love & Will)
1911 - Leonard Warren, NYC, baritone, Met 1939-60) died on stage
1911 - Ivan Combe, American inventor (d. 2000)
1912 - Feike P Asma, Dutch organist
1912 - Marcel Camus, French director, Orfeu negro)
1912 - Nell [Petronella GS] Koppen, actress, Kniertje-Op Hoop van Zegen)
1912 - Eve Arnold, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, photojournalist (Marilyn Monroe) (d. 2012)
1913 - Choh Hao Li, bio-chemist professor, isolated growth hormones)
1913 - Kai-Uwe von Hassel, German politician
1913 - Norman Parkinson, England, fashion photographer, Harper's Bazaar)
1914 - Norman Panama, American screenwriter (d. 2003)
1915 - Andor Kovach, composer
1915 - Anthony Quinn, Mexico, actor, Zorba the Greek, Lawrence of Arabia)
1915 - Frick, [W Groebli], Swiss clown, Frick & Frack)
1916 - Sidney Clute, Brooklyn NY, actor, Lou Grant, Cagney & Lacey)
1917 - Emanuel Vardi, Jerusalem Israel, violist, SD Symph 1978-82)
1919 - Franc [Franklin E] Essed, Suriname agricultural eng, Oper Grasshopper)
1919 - John Goddard, cricketer, West Indian all-rounder 1948-57)
1919 - Don Cornell, American singer (d. 2004)
1920 - Bruno Maderna, Venice Italy, conductor/composer, Hyperion) [or Mar 21]
1920 - Christopher Dark, NY, actor, Suddenly, Tenderfoot)
1920 - Edmund Adamkiewicz, German footballer (d. 1991)
1921 - Jack Fletcher, Forest Hills NY, actor, Grady, Bob Crane Show)
1922 - Allan Watkins, cricketer, England batsman late 40s early 50s)
1923 - Andrea Domburg, Dutch actress, (Theo d'Or Prize, Keetje Tippel)
1923 - John Mortimer, English barrister and writer
1924 - Daniel Melnick, NYC, producer, Get Smart)
1924 - Ira Louvin, Rainsville Ala, country singer, Louvin Brothers)
1926 - Elizabeth, Alexandra Mary Windsor II, Queen of England, 1952- )
1926 - Arthur Rowley, English Footballer (d. 2002)
1927 - Robert Brustein, NYC, dean, Yale School of Drama)
1927 - Gerald Flood, British actor (d. 1989)
1930 - Don Tyson, founder, Tyson Foods)
1930 - Margaret Rose, London England, Princess of York [or Aug 21]
1930 - Silvana Mangano, Rome Italy, actress (Death in Venice, Barabbas)
1932 - Angela Mortimer, English tennis player, Wimbledon)
1932 - Elaine May, Phila Pa, comedienne/writer/actress, New Leaf)
1932 - Elaine May, American comedian
1934 - Martin Horton, cricketer, England off-spin all rounder, 2 Tests 1959)
1935 - Charles Grodin, Pitt, actor, Woman in Red, Lonely Guy, Heartbreak Kid)
1935 - Robin Dixon, England, 2 man bobsled (Olympic-gold-1960)
1935 - Thomas Kean, American politician
1936 - Anthony Joseph Gnazzo, composer
1936 - Bob Cleary, US, ice hockey player (Olympic-gold-1960)
1936 - James Dobson, American evangelist
1937 - Charles Lee Herron, Ky, FBI most wanted fugitive (Jan 1 1986)
1939 - Ernie Maresca, singer/songwriter (Runaround Sue, Wanderer)
1939 - John McCabe, composer
1939 - Helen Prejean, American writer
1940 - Souleymane Cisse, director (Waati, Yeelen, Finye, Baara)
1942 - Bobby McClure, US gospel singer (Don't Mess Up a Good Thing)
1944 - Adrian Hurley, Australian basketball coach
1945 - Diana Darvey, British actress, singer and dancer (d. 2000)
1946 - S Venkataraghavan, cricket (Indian off-spinner, Test ump, ICC referee)
1947 - Alan Warner, rocker (Foundations)
1947 - Iggy Pop, [James Osterberg], Mich, rocker (Zombie Birdhouse)
1947 - John Weider, bassist (Family-Family Entertainment)
1948 - Claire Denis, Paris France, actress (Boom Boom, Chocolat)
1948 - Gary A Condit, (Rep-D-California)
1948 - Lord Egremont, English large landowner/multi-millionaire
1948 - Paul Davis, Meridian Mi, country/rock vocalist (I Go Crazy)
1949 - Patti LuPone, Northport NY, actress/singer (Evita, Life Goes On)
1951 - Aleksandr Ivanovich Laveykin, Russian cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-2)
1951 - Nicoel Barclay, rocker
1951 - Tony Danza, Brooklyn, (Tony Banta-Taxi, Tony Micelli-Who's the Boss)
1951 - Michael Hartley Freedman, American mathematician
1951 - Robert Gotobed, English drummer (Wire)
1953 - Edward Ray Fiori, Lynwood CA, PGA golfer (1979 Southern Open)
1954 - Dale Eggeling, Statesboro GA, LPGA golfer (1995 Oldsmobile Classic)
1954 - James Morrison, American actor
1954 - Ebiet G. Ade, Indonesian singer
1956 - Rick DeMont, US, 400m swimmer, drug disqualification (1972 Olympics)
1956 - Phillip Longman, American demographer
1957 - Jesse Orosco, Santa Barbara CA, pitcher (NY Mets, Orioles, Dodgers)
1957 - Edward Leslie, American professional wrestler
1958 - Andie MacDowell, [Rosali Anderson], SC, actress (Green Card) [or 2/12]
1958 - Kyle Stevens, LPGA golfer
1958 - Mike Barson, rock keyboardist (Madness)
1958 - Michael Zarnock, American author and columnist
1958 - Yoshito Usui, Japanese manga artist
1959 - Robert Smith, Sussex, rock guitarist/vocalist (Cure-Hell's Kitchen)
1959 - Jerry Only, American musician (The Misfits)
1959 - Michael Timmins, Canadian musician (Cowboy Junkies)
1959 - Tim Jacobus, American artist (Goosebumps)
1960 - Julius Korir, Kenya, 3K steeplechaser (Olympic-gold-1984)
1962 - Sergei Viktorovich Zalyotin, Russia, major/cosmonaut
1962 - Les Lancaster, American baseball player
1963 - John Cameron Mitchell, El Paso TX, actor (Misplaced, Band of the Hand)
1963 - Ken Caminiti, Hanford CA, infielder (San Diego Padres)
1963 - Roy Dupuis, Canadian actor
1964 - Louise Mullard, Kurri Kurri NSW, golfer (1990 T3 Coca Cola Classic)
1964 - Ludmila Engquist, Russian-born Swedish athlete
1965 - Ed Belfour, Carman, NHL goalie (Chicago Blackhawks)
1965 - Gary Grant, NBA guard (NY Knicks)
1965 - Karen Foster, Lufkin Tx, playmate (Oct, 1989)
1965 - Fiona Kelleghan, American academic and critic
1966 - Judy Diduck, ice hockey defenseman (Canada, Oly-98)
1966 - Michael Franti, American musician
1968 - Peter van Foxes, soccer player (Ajax)
1969 - Conrad Clarks, NFL center (Indianapolis Colts)
1969 - Dwight Hollier, NFL linebacker (Miami Dolphins)
1969 - Robin Meade, American reporter
1970 - Israel Stanley, NFL/WLAF defensive end (NO Saints, Rhein Fire)
1970 - Stewart Malgunas, Prince George, NHL defenseman (Washington Capitals)
1970 - Glen Hansard, Irish songwriter and actor
1970 - Rob Riggle, American comedian
1970 - Nicole Sullivan, American actress
1971 - Jennifer Reed, Miss USA-Michigan (1997)
1971 - Samantha Druce, youngest woman to swim English Channel
1971 - Tom Cavallo, NFL/WLAF linebacker (Frankfurt Galaxy, SF 49ers)
1971 - Tony Mcgee, NFL tight end (Cin Bengals)
1971 - Alexander Kravchenko, Russian professional poker player
1971 - Hasan Akbar, American convicted murderer
1972 - David Williams, Bedford PA, outfielder (SF Giants)
1972 - Lori Flick, Boston Massachusetts, Miss America-Massachusetts (1997)
1972 - Tia Jackson, WNBA forward (Phoenix Mercury)
1972 - Gwendal Peizerat, French ice dancer
1972 - Severina Vučković, Croatian singer
1973 - Jonathan Nsenga, Belgian athlete
1974 - Brice Hunter, wide receiver (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1975 - Angela Michelle Hughes, Anderson SC, Miss America-SC (1997)
1975 - Danyon Joseph Loader, Dunedin NZ, 200m/400m swimmer (Olymp-2 gold-96)
1976 - Rommel Adducul, Filipino basketball player
1977 - Karen Ann Peterson, Miss Aruba Universe (1997)
1977 - Doseone, American rapper
1978 - Aimee Delatte, Miss Arkansas Teen USA (1996)
1978 - Avi Phillips, Ontario, actor (Maniac Mansion)
1978 - Melissa Coish, Miss New Hampshire Teen USA (1996)
1978 - Jukka Nevalainen, Finnish drummer (Nightwish)
1978 - Branden Steineckert, American drummer (Rancid), (The Used)
1978 - Jacob Burns, Australian footballer
1979 - James McAvoy, Scottish actor
1980 - Vincent Lecavalier, Canadian hockey player
1980 - Tony Romo, American football player
1980 - Jeff Keppinger, American baseball player
1981 - Stephanie Larimore, American model
1982 - Carnell "Cadillac" Williams, American football player
1983 - Paweł Brożek, Polish footballer
1984 - Ashley Peldon, Staten Is NY, actress (Marsha-Guilding Light, Deceived)
1986 - Audra Cohen, American tennis player
1986 - Alexander Edler, Swedish hockey player
1987 - Nadif Chowdhury, Bangladeshi cricketer
1988 - Pedro Mosquera, Spanish footballer
1988 - Robbie Amell, Canadian actor
2007 - Princess Isabella of Denmark

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 21, 2013, 11:12:52 AM

This Day in History for 21st April


Famous Deaths

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Fighter Ace The Red Baron
 (Manfred von Richthofen) (1918)


1073 - Alexander II, [Anselmo da Baggio], Pope (1061-73), dies
1109 - Anselmus, philosopher/archbishop of Canterbury, dies
1142 - Pierre Abélard, French writer (b. 1079)
1329 - Frederick IV, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1282)
1509 - Henry VII, 1st Tudor king of England (1485-1509), dies at 52
1551 - Oda Nobuhide, Japanese warlord (b. 1510)
1552 - Peter Apianus, [Bennewitz/Bienewitz], German astronomer, dies at 50
1557 - Petrus Apianus, German mathematician (b. 1495)
1574 - Cosimo de Medici, Italian duke of Toscane, dies at about 54
1652 - Pietro Della Valle, composer, dies at 66
1696 - Andres de Sola, composer, dies at 61
1699 - Jean Racine, French dramatist (b. 1639)
1701 - Asano Naganori, Japanese warlord (b. 1667)
1719 - Philippe de la Hire, French mathematician and historian (b. 1640)
1720 - Antoine Hamilton, French writer (b. 1646)
1722 - Robert Beverley, Jr., historian of Colonial Virginia (b. 1673)
1730 - Jan Palfijn, Flemish physician/inventor (forceps), dies at 79
1736 - Frans Eugenius, duke/prince of Savoye, dies at 72
1780 - Ferdinand Zellbell, composer, dies at 60
1792 - Tiradentes, Brazilian revolutionary (b. 1746)
1793 - John Michell, English seismologist (b. 1724)
1815 - Joseph Winston, U.S. Congressman from North Carolina (b. 1746)
1825 - Johann Friedrich Pfaff, German mathemattician (b. 1765)
1852 - Ivan Nabokov, Russian general (b. 1787)
1868 - Henry James O'Farrell, Australian would-be assassin of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh
1871 - Elisabeth Grube, writer, dies
1878 - Temistocle Solera, composer, dies at 62
1898 - Louis Theodore Gouvy, composer, dies at 78
1899 - Heinrich Kiepert, German cartographer/geographer, dies at 80
1900 - Heinrich Vogl, composer, dies at 55
1910 - Mark Twain, [Samuel Clemens], auther (Huckleberry Finn), dies at 74
1918 - "Red Baron", [Manfred von Richtofen], shot down in WW I at 25
1918 - Manfred von Richthofen [The Red Baron], German pilot dies after his plane his shot down at
           25
1922 - Alessandro Moreschi, Italian castrato (b. 1858)
1924 - Eleanora Duse, Ital actress (La Gioconda, La Locandiera), dies at 64
1930 - Christine [Elizabeth C] Poolman, Dutch actress (Mother), dies at 79
1930 - Robert S Bridges, poet laureate (Testament of beauty), dies at 85
1938 - Muhammad Iqbal, Brt E Indies lawyer/Pakistan national hero, dies at 65
1938 - Allama Iqbal, Indian philosopher and poet (b. 1877)
1939 - Herman Finck, composer, dies at 66
1945 - John Poston, British major/Montgomery's ADC, dies in battle at 25
1946 - Robert Graham, cricketer (3 wkts for S Afr in 2 Tests 1898-99), dies
1946 - John Maynard Keynes, English economist (b. 1883)
1948 - Carlos Lopez Buchardo, composer, dies at 66
1952 - Leslie Banks, actor (Henry V, 21 Days, Eye Witness), dies at 61
1952 - [Richard] Stafford Cripps, Engl min of Plane-manufacturing, dies at 62
1956 - Charles MacArthur, American writer (b. 1895)
1961 - James Melton, opera tenor (Ford Festival), dies at 57
1962 - Frederick Handley Page, designer of 1st big airplane (40 seats), dies
1965 - Edward V Appleton, English physicist (Nobel Prize 1947), dies at 72
1967 - Andre L Danjon, French astronomer, dies at 77
1968 - Norman Demuth, composer, dies at 69
1968 - Toby Halicki, car-crash film producer 48, killed shooting stunt
1971 - Edmund Lowe, actor (Front Page Detective), dies at 81
1971 - Francois "Doc" Duvalier, dictator of Haiti, dies at 64
1973 - Ursula Jeans, actress (Cavalcade, Over the Moon), dies at 66
1973 - Arthur Fadden, thirteenth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1894)
1974 - Charles "Chic" Harley, American football player (b. 1895)
1975 - Jack Allan Westrup, composer, dies at 70
1977 - Gummo [Milton] Marx, US comic (Marx Brothers), dies at 84
1978 - Sandy Denny, country singer, dies at 37
1980 - Aleksandr Oparin, Russian biochemist (b. 1894)
1980 - Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet and painter (b. 1928)
1981 - Harry Lee, cricketer (scored 18 & 1 in only Test for England), dies
1982 - Joe Sawyer, actor (Biff O'Hara-Adventures of Rin Tin Tin), dies at 80
1985 - Rudi Gernreich, US designer (miniskirt), dies at 62
1985 - Tancredo Neves, president-elect of Brazil, dies at 75
1985 - Foster Hewitt, Canadian radio pioneer (b. 1902)
1986 - Salah Jaheen, Egyptian poet and cartoonist (b.1930)
1987 - Edith S Green, (Rep-D-Ore), dies at 77
1989 - James Kirkwood, actor/writer (Devil's Holiday), dies at 64
1989 - Princess Dukhye of Korea (b. 1912)
1990 - Johnny Beagley, winner of two 1942 World Series games, dies
1990 - Erté, French artist (b. 1892)
1991 - Richard Bolling, (Rep-D-Missouri), dies at 74
1991 - Willi Boskovsky, Austrian conductor (new years concert), dies at 81
1992 - Robert Harris, murderer, executed in Calif's gas chamber at 39
1992 - Vladimir K Romanov, Grand Duke/Rus pretender to the throne, dies at 74
1993 - Hal Schumacher, baseball pitcher, dies at 82
1994 - Clement Merk, animal trainer, dies at 93
1995 - Robert Elliott Storey Wyatt, cricketer, dies at 93
1995 - Stafford Heginbotham, toymaker/Football Club Chairman, dies at 61
1996 - A H Kardar, cricketer (3 Tests for India & 23 for Pak 1946-58), dies
1996 - Dzhokhar Dudayev, separatist leader and President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria
          (1991), dies at 52
1996 - Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder, oddsmaker/sportscaster (CBS), dies at 76
1996 - Robert Hersant, press baron, dies at 76
1996 - Rodney Meredith Thomas, architect/painter, dies at 93
1996 - Zora Arkus-Duntov, engineer, dies at 86
1997 - Andres Rodriguez, Paraguayan president (1989-93), dies
1997 - Diosdado Macapagal, Philippine president (1961-65), dies
1998 - Jean Francois Lyotard, French philosopher and sociologist (b. 1924)
1999 - Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, American actor and musician (b. 1904)
2000 - Neal Matthews, Jr., American singer (b. 1929)
2003 - Nina Simone, American singer and pianist (b. 1933)
2004 - Mary McGrory, American journalist (b. 1918)
2005 - Gerry Marshall, British racing driver (b. 1941)
2006 - T.K. Ramakrishnan, Indian politician (b. 1922)
2006 - Telê Santana, Brazilian football manager (b. 1931)
2007 - Lobby Loyde, Australian guitarist and songwriter (b. 1941)
2008 - Al Wilson, American singer (b. 1939)
2010 - Gustav Lorentzen, Norwegian singer-songwriter (b. 1947)
2010 - Juan Antonio Samaranch, International Olympic Committee president (b. 1920)
2012 - Charles Colson, Nixon adviser (Watergate), dies from a brain hemorrhage at 80

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 22, 2013, 11:09:10 AM

This Day in History for 22nd April


Historical Events

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King of England King Charles I           Confederate General Robert E Lee                 Baseball Great Babe Ruth

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Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini               Dictator of Nazi Germany                Champion Boxer Evander Holyfield
                                                                        Adolph Hitler


296 - St Gaius ends his reign as Catholic Pope
536 - St. Agapetus I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1056 - Supernova Crab nebula last seen by the naked eye
1073 - Pope Alexander II buried/Ildebrando chosen as Pope Gregory VII
1145 - 19th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
1164 - Raynald of Dassel names Guido di Crema as anti-pope Paschalis III
1370 - Bastille begins being built in Paris
1500 - Pedro Alvarez Cabral discovers Brazil & claims it for Portugal
1509 - Henry VIII ascended to throne of England
1521 - French king Francois I declares war on Spain
1526 - 1st slave revolt occurs in SC
1529 - Treaty of Saragosa: Spain & Portugal divide eastern hemisphere
1648 - English army claims king Charles I responsible for bloodshed
1659 - Lord protector Cromwell disbands English parliament
1671 - King Charles II sits in on English parliament
1674 - Netherlands & Munster sign peace treaty
1676 - Battle of Etna - Neth/Spain vs France, M de Ruyter fatally wounded
1677 - Battle at Catania: between French & Dutch fleet
1692 - Edward Bishop is jailed for proposong flogging as cure for witchcraft
1722 - 19 VOC "komplotteurs" in Batavia executed
1728 - Pierre de Marivaux' "Le Triomphe de Plutus," premieres in Paris
1769 - Madame du Barry becomes King Louis XV's "official" mistress
1793 - Pres Washington attends opening of Rickett's, 1st circus in US
1796 - Napoleon defeats Piedmontese at Battle of Mondovi
1804 - Gioacchino Rossini (12) performs in Imola
1809 - Battle at Eckmuhl - Napoleon beats Austria arch duke Karl
1817 - Curacao prohibits use of white paint due to fierce sunlight
1823 - Baltic Club (Exchange) forms in London
1823 - R J Tyers patents roller skates
1838 - English steamship "Sirius" docks in NYC after Atlantic crossing
1861 - Robert E Lee named commander of Virginia Confederate forces
1864 - US mints 2 cent coin (1st appearance of "In God We Trust")
1876 - 1st NL game, Boston Braves beat Phila Athletics 6-5
1876 - Tsjaikovsky completes his "Swan Lake" ballet
1876 - Phila Nationals Wes Fisler scores baseball's 1st run
1884 - Thomas Stevens starts 1st bike trip around world (2 yrs 9 mos)
1884 - US recognizes King Leopold II's Congo Free State
1889 - Oklahoma land rush officially started; some were "sooner"
1893 - Francis Dhanis army occupies Kasongo
1893 - Paul Kruger elected president of Transvaal for 3rd time
1897 - NYC Jewish newspaper "Forward" begins publishing (still active)
1898 - 1st Spanish-American War action: USS Nashville, takes enemy ship
1898 - Baltimore James Hughes no-hits Boston Braves 8-0
1898 - Cincinnati Red Theodore Breitenstein no-hits Pirates 11-0
1898 - Congress passes Volunteer Army Act calling for a Volunteer Cavalry
1898 - US President McKinley orders blockade of Cuban harbors
1903 - American Power Boat Association forms
1903 - NY Highlanders (Yankees) 1st game, Senators win 3-1 before 11,950
1905 - Operations begin uniting conservatory of Nature monument Amsterdam
1906 - 10th anniversary Olympic games open at Athens, Greece
1906 - New rule puts umpire in sole charge of all game balls
1908 - Queensland beat NSW by 171 runs for their 1st cricket win at Gabba
1913 - Montenegro troops march into Skoetari, North-Albania
1914 - Babe Ruth's 1st professional game (as a pitcher) is a 6-hit 6-0 win
1914 - Mexico ends diplomatic relations with US
1915 - 1st military use of poison gas (chlorine, by Germany) in WW I
1915 - 2nd Battle of Ypres begins
1915 - NY Yankees don pinstripes & hat-in-the-ring logo for 1st time
1916 - France battles at Fort Douaumont
1922 - South Ossetian Autonomous Region forms in Georgian SSR
1924 - Hague Chambers of Commerce forms
1926 - Persia, Turkey & Afghanistan sign treaties of security
1927 - 1st performance of Roger Sessions' Symphony in E
1930 - US, Britain & Japan sign London Naval Treaty
1931 - Egypt & Iraq sign peace treaty
1933 - Dutch government forbids leftwing radio address
1937 - NYC college students stage 4th annual peace strike
1940 - Rear Adm Joseph Taussig testifies before US Senate Naval Affairs Committee that war with
           Japan is inevitable (He was right)
1943 - German counter attack in North-Tunisia
1943 - RAF shoots down 14 German transport planes over Mediterranean Sea
1944 - Allies land near Hollandia, New-Guinea
1944 - Hitler & Benito Mussolini meet at Salzburg
1945 - Concentration Camp at Sachsenhausen liberated
1945 - Stanley Cup: Toronto Maple Leafs beat Detroit Red Wings, 4 games to 3
1946 - SED, Sozialistic Einheitspartei Deutschlands, party forms
1947 - 1st NBA Championship: Phila Warriors beat Chicago Stags, 4 games to 2
1948 - WTVR TV channel 6 in Richmond, VA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1951 - Ticker-tape parade for General MacArthur in NYC
1952 - 1st atomic explosion on network news, Nob, Nevada
1952 - Eugene Ionesco's "Les Chaises," premieres in NYC
1954 - Achiel van Acker forms Belgian government
1954 - NBA adopts 24-second shot clock & 6 team-foul rule
1954 - Senate Army-McCarthy televised hearings began
1954 - USSR joins UNESCO
1955 - Congress orders all US coins bear motto "In God We Trust"
1955 - KC Athletic's 1st game, beat Tigers 6-2
1956 - Patty Berg wins LPGA Dallas Golf Open
1957 - All NL teams intergates, John Irwin Kennedy is 1st black on Phillies
1959 - Yankee Whitey Ford strikes-out 15, beating Senators, 1-0 in 14 innings
1959 - Chicago White Sox beat KC Athletics 20-6, in 1 inning Sox score 11 runs on 1 hit, 10 walks,
           & 3 errors
1961 - Uprising of French parachutist of Gen Salan/Challe in Algeria
1962 - Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Sunshine Golf Open
1962 - NY Mets tiea NL record by losing 9 straight to start season
1962 - Pirates tie then record of 10 straight wins to start season
1962 - Stanley Cup: Toronto Maple Leafs beat Chicago Blackhawks, 4 games to 2
1964 - Tanganyika & Zanzibar form republic Tanzania
1964 - World's Fair (Flushing Meadow, Corona Park, NY) opens
1966 - Atlanta Braves win their 1st game, beating NY Mets 8-4
1966 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1967 - Martial Law goes into effect in Greece
1969 - 1st human eye transplant performed
1969 - Joe Frazier KOs Dave Zyglewick in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
1969 - Robin Knox-Johnston ends 312 day non-stop sailing
1970 - "Park" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 5 performances
1970 - 1st Earth Day held internationally to conserve natural resources
1970 - Flat Earth celebrated
1970 - NY Met Jerry Grote sets record of 20 put outs by a catcher
1970 - NY Met Tom Seaver strikes out last 10 Padres, for a total of 19
1970 - Senators beat Yankees 2-1 in 18 innings
1971 - Soyuz 10 launched
1972 - Apollo astronauts John Young & Charles Duke ride on Moon
1974 - Barbara Walters becomes news co-anchor of Today Show
1975 - Penguins 2-Isles 4-Quarterfinals-Penguins hold 3-2 lead
1976 - Barbara Walters becomes 1st female nightly network news anchor
1976 - Director Ingmar Bergman leaves Sweden due to taxation
1977 - Simon Peres becomes premier of Israel
1978 - Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Earl Anthony
1979 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Florida Lady Citrus Golf Tournament
1979 - Mick Jaggar & Keith Richards give a benefit concert in Canada
1981 - 10,000 copper workers in Chile strike
1981 - Almost 1 million West German metal workers in strike
1981 - Dodgers rookie Fernando Valenzuela tosses his 3rd shutout in 4 starts
1981 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1981 - Largest US bank robbery (Tucson Ariz), more than $3.3 million stolen
1982 - Atlanta Braves lose after winning 1st 13 games of season
1982 - Launch of STS-3-Lousma & Fullerton [03/23]
1983 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1983 - Rangers 2-Isles 5-Patrick Div Finals-Isles win series 4-2
1983 - Soyuz T-8 returns to Earth
1983 - Start of 1st Sri Lanka-Australia Test Cricket match (at Kandy)
1983 - Stern mag announces major historical find-discovery of 60 volume personal diaries written by
           Adolph Hitler (turned out to be a hoax)
1984 - Vicki Fergon wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic
1986 - Consumer Price Index drops .04% for 2nd month in a row
1986 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1987 - Sri Lanka Air Force bomb Tamil, 100s killed
1988 - Women are allowed to compete in Little 500 bicycle race (Indiana)
1988 - NJ Devil Patrik Sundstrom ties NHL playoff record of 8 pts in a playoff game (hat trick & 5
           assists) in 10-4 rout over the Capitals
1989 - "Welcome to the Club" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 12 perfs
1990 - "Truly Blessed" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 33 performances
1990 - Lebanon release US hostage Robert Polhill after 39 months
1991 - Earthquake strikes Costa Rica & Panama, kills 95
1991 - Frank Thomas is 1st White Sox to homer at new Comiskey Park
1991 - Intel releases 486SX chip
1991 - Johnny Carson announces he will retire next year from Tonight Show
1991 - Shalom America (Jewish cable network) is launched in Brooklyn & Queens
1992 - "High Rollers Social & Pleasure Club" closes at H Hayes NYC 14 perfs
1992 - 6.0 earthquake in California
1992 - Gas explodes in sewer, kills 200 in Guadalajara Mexico
1992 - Plane crash at Perris Valley Airport California, kills 16 parachutists
1993 - "Who's Tommy" opens at St James Theater NYC for 899 performances
1993 - Candid Camera creator Allen Funt suffers a stroke at 78
1993 - Holocaust Memorial Museum dedicated in Wash DC
1993 - Seattle Mariner Chris Basio no-hits Boston Red Sox
1993 - Tennis star Bjorn Borg divorces Loredana Berte
1993 - The web browser Mosaic version 1.0 is released.
1994 - 7,000 Tutsi's slaughtered in stadium of Kibuye Rwanda
1994 - Borge Ousland reaches North pole
1994 - Ice skater Tonya Harding sues ex-husband Jeff Gillooly for $42,500
1994 - In Denmark the largest lollipop, weighing 3,011 pounds, made
1994 - Michael Moorer beats Evander Holyfield in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1994 - Schelto Patijn appointed mayor of Amsterdam
1995 - General Tire World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Mike Aulby
1995 - George Foreman beats Axel Schulz in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1997 - Haouch Khemisti massacre in Algeria - 93 villagers killed.
1997 - The Japanese embassy hostage crisis ends in Lima, Peru.
1998 - Disney's Animal Kingdom opens at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, United States.
2000 - In a pre-dawn raid, federal agents seize six-year-old Elián González from his relatives' home
           in Miami, Florida.
2000 - The Big Number Change takes place in the United Kingdom.
2004 - Two fuel trains collide in Ryongchon, North Korea, killing up to 150 people.
2006 - 243 people are injured in pro-democracy protest in Nepal after Nepali security forces open fire
           on protesters against King Gyanendra.
2006 - Four Canadian soldiers are killed 75 kilometers north of Kandahar, Afghanistan by a roadside
           bomb planted by Taliban militants, the worst single day combat loss for the Canadian army
           since the Korean War.
2012 - 30 year old women collapses and dies during London Marathon

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 22, 2013, 11:11:22 AM

This Day in History for 22nd April


Famous Weddings

1939 - Actor and naval officer of World War II Douglas Fairbanks Jr (29) weds Huntington Hartford's
           former wife Mary Lee Hartford
1995 - "Extra" TV co-host Arthel Neville (32) weds Carolina Panther running back Derrick Lassic (25)
            at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church
2003 - "Star Trek: Enterprise" actress Jolene Blalock (28) weds "Live Nation" CEO Michael Rapino in
            Negril, Jamaica
2006 - "Entourage" actor Kevin Dillon (40) weds model-actress Jane Stuart (28) in Las Vegas
2006 - "Save The Last Dance" actor Sean Patrick Thomas (35) weds "The Fantastic Four" actress
            Aonika Laurent in New Orleans
2011 - American actor Eddie Cibrian (37) weds American country and pop singer LeAnn Rimes (28) at
           a private home in California

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 22, 2013, 11:13:00 AM

This Day in History for 22nd April


Famous Divorces

1993 - Tennis star Bjorn Borg divorces Loredana Berte

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 22, 2013, 11:45:35 AM

This Day in History for 22nd April


Famous Birthdays

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Marxist Revolutionary                               Actor Jack Nicholson (1937)                Musician Daniel Johns (1979)
Vladimir Lenin (1870)


1357 - Johan I, King of Portugal (1383-1433)
1451 - Isabella I, of Castile, Queen of Spain (1479-1504), patron of Columbus
1610 - Alexander VIII, [Pietro Ottoboni], Italy, lawyer/Pope (1689-91)
1640 - Mariana Alcoforado, Portugal, nun
1658 - Giuseppe Torelli, Verona, Italy, composer (Concerti Grossi)
1682 - Willem I Kerricx the Young, Flemish architect/sculptor/painter
1690 - John Carteret, Earl Granville (C), English chief minister (1722-42)
1692 - James Stirling, Scottish mathematician (d. 1770)
1707 - Henry Fielding, England, novelist (Joseph Andrews, Tom Jones)
1711 - Eleazar Wheelock, American founder of Dartmouth College (d. 1779)
1724 - Immanuel Kant, Konigsberg Germ, philosopher (Critique of Pure Reason)
1744 - James Sullivan, 7th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1808)
1766 - Madame de Staël, French author (d. 1817)
1773 - Jean V baron de Rebecque, Swiss/Dutch army leader
1775 - Georg Hermes, German philosopher/theologist (Hermenianen)
1781 - Christian Friedrich Hermann Uber, composer
1799 - Jean Poiseuille, physician/physiologist (blood pressure)
1812 - Solomon Caesar Malan, British orientalist (d. 1894)
1816 - Philip James Bailey, English poet (Festus)
1816 - Charles Denis Bourbaki, French general
1818 - Cadwallader Colden Washburn, Major General (Union volunteers)
1823 - Alfred Gibbs, Major General (Union Army), died in 1868
1827 - William Hopkins Morris, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1900
1828 - Guilherme Antonio Cossoul, composer
1831 - Alexander McDowell McCook, Major General (Union volunteers)
1832 - Julius Sterling Morton, Nebraska, (Gov-Neb), started Arbor Day
1839 - August W Eichler, German botanist
1840 - Odilon Redon, French painter (d. 1916)
1844 - Lewis Thornton Powell, would-be assassin of Secretary of State William H. Seward (d. 1865)
1852 - Guillaume IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (d. 1912)
1853 - Alphonse Bertillon, France, anthropologist, devised crime ID system
1854 - Henri-Marie Lafontaine, Belgium, international lawyer (Nobel 1913)
1856 - [Marie] Louise Hens, Flemish actress (Two Orphans)
1858 - Ethel Mary Smyth, composer
1860 - Ada Rehan, American stage actress (d. 1916)
1863 - Cornelis A J van Dishoeck, Dutch publisher
1864 - Phil May, Wortley Yorkshire, cartoonist
1866 - Hans von Seeckt, German general (Future of the Reich)
1868 - Jose Vianna da Motta, composer
1868 - Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria (d. 1924)
1870 - Nikolai Lenin, [Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov], Bolshevik/USSR revolutionist
1872 - Princess Margaret of Prussia, queen of Finland (d. 1954)
1873 - Ellen Anderson Glasgow, US, novelist (Ancient Law, Pulitzer-1942)
1876 - Georg Lurich, Estonian wrestler (d. 1920)
1878 - Kitty Gordon, Folkestone England, entertainer
1881 - Alexander Kerensky, Simbirsk, Russian PM (1917)
1884 - Armas Emmanuel Launis, composer
1884 - John van Capel, oldest man in Netherlands (Died Sept 3, 1992)
1889 - Ludwig Renn, writer
1889 - Richard Glücks, German SS officer and concentration camp administrator (d. 1945, by suicide)
1891 - Belle Bennett, Milcoon Rapids IA, actress (Stella Dallas, Iron Mask)
1891 - Harold Jeffreys, English astronomer (d. 1989)
1891 - Nicola Sacco, American anarchist (d. 1927)
1891 - Vittorio Jano, Italian engineer (d. 1965)
1892 - Nikolai Obouhov, composer
1892 - Vernon Johns, American civil rights activist (d. 1965)
1899 - Martyn Green, London, actor (Gilbert & Sullivan, Iceman Cometh)
1902 - Megan Lloyd George, English politician
1904 - J[ulius] Robert Oppenheimer, NY, head of Manhattan (A-bomb) Project
1905 - Robert Choquette, French Canadian novelist, poet and diplomat (d. 1991)
1906 - Eric William Fenby, composer/president (Delius Society)
1906 - Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten, second in line to the Swedish throne (d. 1946)
1907 - Ivan Efremov, Russian paleontologist and author (d. 1972)
1908 - Eddie Albert, [Heimberger], Rock Island Il, actor (Oliver-Green Acres)
1909 - Ralph Byrd, Dayton Ohio, actor (Dick Tracy TV Show)
1909 - Rita Levi-Montalcini, Italian neurologist, Nobel laureate, (d. 2012)
1909 - Indro Montanelli, Italian journalist and historian (d. 2001)
1910 - Eric Scowen, physician
1910 - R J Ritchie, tennis player
1910 - Norman Steenrod, American mathematician (d. 1971)
1912 - Gavalda Miguel Querol, composer
1912 - Kathleen Mary Ferrier, England, contralto (Orfeo Ed Evridice)
1914 - Charles Hubert Sisson, author/poet (Christopher Homm)
1914 - Hans Baumann, writer
1914 - Jan de Hartog, Dutch/English writer (Holland's Glory)
1914 - Michael Wittman, German soldier and tank ace (d. 1944)
1915 - Dick Dudley, Tenn, TV host (Village Barn)
1915 - Lord Airedale, British Lord (social democrat)
1916 - Earl of Oxford & Asquith, governor (Seychelles)
1916 - Lord Menuhin, OM
1916 - Yehudi Menuhin, NYC, violinist/conductor (Bartok's Sonata)
1917 - Leo Abse, biographer/MP
1917 - Sidney Nolan, Australia, painter/illustrator (Ned Kelly)
1918 - Mickey Vernon, baseball player
1919 - Donald Cram, US, biochemist (Nobel 1987)
1920 - Hal March, SF California, actor/TV host ($64,000 Question, Outrage)
1920 - Jos de Haes, Flemish philological/poet (Misery of the Word)
1922 - Charles Mingus, Arizona, jazz bassist (Pithecanthropus Erectus)
1922 - Lou Stein, Phila Pa, pianist (Tonight! America After Dark)
1922 - Richard C Diebenkorn Jr, US, painter (Ocean Park Paintings)
1923 - Betty Page, Kingsport Tn, playmate (Jan, 1955)/model (Dark Angel)
1923 - Hugh Lloyd, actor (Punch & Judy Man, Dunroamin' Rising)
1923 - Paula Fox, US children's books author (Poor George)
1923 - Peter Bowring, CEO (C T Bowring)
1923 - Avis Bunnage, English actress (d. 1990)
1923 - Aaron Spelling, American television producer (Charlie's Angels), (d. 2006)
1925 - Christopher Ball, Oxford, warden (Keble College)
1925 - George Cole, London England, actor (Minder, Vampire Lovers)
1926 - Bob Flannigan, Greencastle Ind, singer (4 Freshmen)
1926 - Charlotte Rae, Milwaukee Wisc, actress (Edna-Facts of Life)
1926 - James Stirling, Scottish D-day-parachutist/architect/knight
1927 - Pascal Bentoiu, composer
1927 - Laurel Aitken, Jamaican singer (d. 2005)
1929 - Geoffrey Marshall, Provost (Queen's College, Oxford)
1929 - Margaret Pereira, forensic scientist
1929 - Michael Atiyah, educator (Trinity College - Cambridge England)
1929 - Robert Wade-Gery, diplomat/exec director (Barclays de Zoete Wedd)
1929 - Victoria Opoku-Ware, Ghanaian queen
1931 - Henk Gortzak, Dutch MP (CPN/PSP)
1931 - Robert Dickson, Canada, ice hockey player (1948)
1931 - Ronald Hynd, British choreographer (English National Ballet)
1931 - Siem Vroom, Dutch actor (The Lift, Bridge Too Far, Mysteries)
1932 - Michael Colgrass, Chicago Illinois, composer (Best Wishes)
1933 - John A Llewellyn, Cardiff Wales, astronaut
1933 - Robin Hutton, merchant banker
1934 - 9th viscount Portman, British large landowner/multi-millionaire
1934 - David Ratford, diplomat
1934 - John K Barlow, English rubberplanter/financier/multi-millionaire
1934 - Nico Ladenis, British restauranteur (Nico at 90)/=
1934 - Viscount Portman, Britsh landowner/multimillionaire
1935 - Christopher Ball, linguist/warden (Keble College-Oxford)
1935 - Paul Chambers, American jazz bassist (d. 1969)
1936 - Glen Campbell, Delight Ark, actor/singer (Time I Get to Phoenix)
1936 - Pierre Hétu, French Canadian conductor and pianist (d. 1998)
1937 - Bobbi Fiedler, (Rep-R-CA, 1981- )
1937 - David Summerscale, head master (Westminster School England)
1937 - Jack Nicholson, NJ, actor (One Flew Over Cuckoo's Nest, Shining)
1937 - Jack Nitzsche, composer/songwriter (An Officer & a Gentleman)
1937 - Ken Palmer, cricketer (1-190 in only Test for England, now Test ump)
1937 - Kenneth Palmer, cricket umpire
1938 - Alan Bond, tycoon/yachtsman
1938 - Adam Raphael, English journalist and author
1939 - Jason Miller, Scranton PA, actor/writer (Exorcist, Light of Day)
1939 - John Chilcot, civil servant
1939 - John Foley, mjr-general
1940 - Peter Goldstein, joint founder (Superdrug)
1943 - Mel Carter, singer (Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me)
1943 - Steve Dunne, cricketer (NZ Test umpire on international panel)
1943 - Louise Glück, American poet and 12th US Poet Laureate
1944 - Joshua Rifkin, composer
1944 - Steve Fossett, American adventurer (d. 2007)
1945 - Alan Dukes, Irish president (Fine Gael
1945 - Donald Graham, US businessman(?)
1945 - Gielijn Escher, Dutch postage stamp artist
1945 - Robert Key, MP/British undersecretary for National Heritage
1946 - Archy Kirkwood, MP (L-D)
1946 - Dectuplets, Bacacay Brazil, 8 males & 2 females
1946 - John Waters, director (Hairspray)
1946 - Louise Harel, Quebec politician
1946 - Nicole Garcia, French actress and director
1947 - Barry Guy, composer
1948 - Carole Drinkwater, actress (Father, All Creatures Great & Small)
1949 - Spencer Haywood, Silver City Ms, NBAer (Oly-gold-1968, Knicks)
1950 - Jancis Robinson, wine writer/broadcaster
1950 - Lewis Biggs, curator (Tate Gallery-North Liverpool)
1950 - Peter Frampton, Kent Engld, guitarist/vocalist (Frampton Comes Alive)
1951 - Paul Carrack, Sheffield England, rock vocalist (Squeeze/Ace-How Long)
1951 - Ana María Shua, Argentine poet
1952 - Marilyn Chambers, American pornographic actress
1952 - François Berléand, French actor
1953 - Steve Bond, Haifa Israel, actor (General Hospital, To Die For)
1953 - Juhani Komulainen, Finnish composer
1954 - Joseph Bottoms, Santa Barbara Cal, actor (Surfacing, Blind Date)
1955 - Arthur Baker, rock producer (Afrika Banbaataa-Planet Rock)
1956 - Catherine Mary Stewart, Edmonton, actress (Passion & Paradise)
1957 - Alan Campbell, Homestead Fla, actor (E Z-3's a Crowd)
1957 - Ethel White, WBL guard (NY Stars)
1957 - Donald Tusk, Polish Prime Minister
1958 - Ashraf Ali, cricket wicket-keeper (Pakistani mid-80s)
1958 - Ken Olandt, actor (April Fool's Day, Imposter, Leprechaun)
1959 - Nicky Le Roux, South Africa, LPGA golfer (1994 Atlanta Champ-15th)
1959 - Ranjan Madugalle, cricketer (pioneer of Sri Lanka's Test teams)
1959 - Ryan Stiles, Seattle Wash, actor (Lewis-Drew Carey Show)
1960 - Lloyd Honeyghan, English welterweight boxing champ (1986)
1960 - Mart Laar, Estonian statesman
1960 - Randall L. Stephenson, American business executive
1961 - Byron Allen, LA California, comedian (Real People, Byron Allen Show)
1961 - Jeff Hostetler, NFL QB (NY Giants, Raiders, Redskins/1990 Superbowl)
1961 - Jimmy Key, Huntsville Alabama, pitcher (Blue Jays, NY Yanks, Orioles)
1962 - David Wettlaufer, Kitchener Ont, golfer (Ontario Beefeater-1986, 87)
1962 - Denise Baldwin, Atlanta GA, LPGA golfer (1991 Futures Salisbury)
1962 - Jeff Minter, English video game programmer
1964 - Bob McCann, NBA forward (Washington Bullets)
1964 - Chris Makepeace, Toronto, actor (Vamp, My Bodyguard, Meatballs, Oasis)
1965 - Lauri Hendler, actress
1965 - Peter Zezel, Canadian ice hockey player
1966 - Glenn Parker, NFL offensive tackle (Buffalo Bills, KC Chiefs)
1966 - Serge Poudrier, hockey defenseman (Team France 1998)
1966 - Mariana Levy, Mexican actress (d. 2005)
1967 - Bart Bowen, Albuquerque NM, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1967 - Harvey Williams, NFL running back (Oakland Raiders)
1967 - Mike Buck, NFL quarterback (Arizona Cardinals)
1967 - Sheryl Lee, Boulder Colo, actress (Twin Peaks, Love Lies & Murder)
1967 - Sherri Shepherd, American comedian and actress
1968 - Bimbo Coles, NBA guard (Golden State Warriors)
1968 - Carlos Costa, Spain, tennis star
1968 - Jo Angel, cricketer (big WA right-arm fast bowler, Australia 1993-)
1968 - Vernell Coles, basketball player (Olympic-bronze-1988)
1968 - Zarley Zalapski, Edmonton, NHL defenseman (Calgary Flames)
1969 - Bobby Olive, NFL wide receiver (Indianapolis Colts)
1969 - Craig Logan, Scotland, rock bassist (Bros Front, Bon Jovi-New Jersey)
1969 - George Williams, Lacrosse WI, catcher (Oakland A's)
1969 - Roger Jones, NFL center (Cin Bengals)
1969 - Dion Dublin, English footballer
1970 - Claus Biedermann, WLAF linebacker (Rhein Fire)
1970 - Coleman Bell, NFL tight end (Washington Redskins)
1970 - Regine Velasquez, Filipino singer and actress
1971 - Ingo Rademacher, German FR, actor (Jasper Jacks-General Hospital)
1971 - James Burton, NFL cornerback (Chic Bears)
1971 - Milos Holan, Bilovec Cze, NHL defenseman (Anaheim Mighty Ducks)
1971 - Nicklas Kulti, Sweden, tennis star
1971 - Daisuke Enomoto, Japanese people space tourist
1971 - Eric Mabius, American actor
1972 - Anna Falchi, Tampera Finland, actress (La Dolce Vita '90)
1972 - Sabine Appelmans, Aalst Belg, tennis star (Strasbourg doubles final)
1972 - Owen Finegan, Australian rugby union footballer
1973 - Christopher Sanders, tight end (Washington Redskins)
1973 - Scott Fields, NFL linebacker (Atlanta Falcons)
1973 - Ofer Talker, Israeli footballer
1973 - Adem Poric, Australian former footballer
1974 - Adam Parfitt, Victoria BC, rower (Olympics-96)
1974 - Georgia Goettmann, model (Cosmo-May 1995)
1974 - Shavo Odadjian, Armenian-born bassist (System of a Down)
1975 - Brian Manning, wide receiver (Miami Dolphins)
1975 - Stijn Haeldermans, Belgian soccer player (MVV)
1975 - Greg Moore, Canadian race car driver (d. 1999)
1975 - Carlos Sastre, Spanish cyclist
1976 - Milena Mayorga, Miss Universe-El Salvador (1996)
1976 - Michał Żewłakow, Polish footballer
1977 - Mark van Bommel, Dutch footballer
1977 - Aaron Fink, American guitarist (Breaking Benjamin)
1978 - Esteban Tuero, Argentinian race car driver
1978 - Jason Stollsteimer, American singer (The Von Bondies)
1979 - Zoltan Gera, Hungarian footballer
1979 - Daniel Johns, Australian musician (Silverchair)
1980 - Aaron Metchnik, Santa Barbara California, actor (Stephen-Torkelsons)
1980 - Monica Flammer, Gainesville Fla, gymnast (alt-Olympics-96)
1980 - Nicolas Douchez, French footballer
1980 - Courtney Friel, presenter of World Poker Tour
1980 - Carlos Hernández, Venezuelan baseball player
1980 - Aaron Michael Metchik, American actor
1981 - Ken Dorsey, American football player
1982 - Kaká, Brazilian footballer
1982 - Tim Hamilton, Slovak adult movie actor
1983 - Matt Jones, American football player
1984 - Michelle Ryan, English actress
1984 - Amelle Berrabah, British singer (Sugababes)
1985 - Lauri Hendler, Ft Belvoir Va, actress (Julie-Gimme a Break)
1986 - Dusan Sakota, Serbian-Greek basketball player
1986 - Amber Heard, American actress
1986 - Marshawn Lynch, American Football player

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 22, 2013, 01:37:24 PM

This Day in History for 22nd April


Famous Deaths

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Singer Jane Froman (1980)                 Farm Labor Leader Cesar Chavez (1993)               37th US President
                                                                                                                                   Richard Nixon (1994)


296 - Pope Caius
536 - St. Agapetus I, Italian Pope (535-36), dies
1253 - Elias van Cortona, Italian general (1232-39), dies at about 53
1355 - Eleonora Plantagenet, daughter of King Edward II, dies at 36
1462 - Gilbert of Lannoy, master of Villerval/Tronchiennes/Santes, dies
1521 - Juan de Padilla, Spanish nobleman/communero-rebel, beheaded
1592 - Bartolommeo Ammanati, Italian sculptor/architect, dies at 80
1648 - Catharina Belgian van Nassau, daughter of Willem, dies at 69
1662 - John Tradescant, traveller/gardener, dies
1672 - Georg Stiernhielm, Swed scholar/author/poet (Hercules), dies at 73
1699 - Hans A baron von Abschatz, Silesian poet, dies at 53
1722 - Pieter Erberfeld, German/Thais merchant on Java, dies
1758 - Antoine de Jussieu, French naturalist (b. 1686)
1776 - Johann Adolph Scheibe, German music theroist/composer, dies at 67
1778 - James Hargreaves, inventor (spinning jenny), dies
1782 - Josef Ferdinand Norbert Seger, composer, dies at 66
1788 - Zacharias H Alewijn, Dutch poet, dies 46
1806 - Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, French admiral (stabbed) (b. 1763)
1821 - John Crome, [Old Crome], English landscape painter/etcher, dies at 52
1827 - Thomas Rowlandson, caricaturist, dies
1830 - Knud L Rahbek, Danish literary/historian, dies at 69
1833 - Richard Trevithick, inventor (steam locomotive), dies at 62
1839 - Denis Davydov, Russian general and poet (b. 1784)
1844 - Henri-Montan Berton, composer, dies at 76
1854 - Nicolás Bravo, Mexican politician and soldier (b. 1786)
1864 - Joseph Gilbert Totten, US Union general-major, dies at 76
1865 - Francis Washburn, US Union colonel/gen major, dies of injuries
1877 - James P. Kirkwood, American civil engineer (b. 1807)
1883 - Octave Fouque, composer, dies at 38
1892 - Edouard-Victoire-Antoine Lalo, composer, dies at 69
1893 - Chaim Aronson, inventor and academic (b. 1825)
1896 - Thomas Meik, British civil engineer (b. 1812)
1899 - E J (Ned) Gregory, cricketer (one Test for Aust), dies
1901 - William Stubbs, historian/bishop, dies
1908 - Henry Campbell-Bannerman, British premier (1905-08), dies
1925 - Andre Caplet, composer, dies at 46
1929 - Odon Peter Jozsef de Mihalovich, composer, dies at 86
1929 - Henry Lerolle, French painter (b. 1848)
1930 - Jeppe Aakjaer, Danish poet (b. 1866)
1933 - Frederick Henry Royce, motorcar pioneer, dies
1941 - Arthur Briscoe, cricketer (South African batsman in 2 Tests), dies
1944 - Mezio Agostini, composer, dies at 68
1945 - Kathe Kollwitz, German graphic artist, dies at 77
1946 - Harlan Fiske Stone, Chief Justice Supreme Court (1941-46), dies at 73
1946 - Lionel Atwill, actor (Capt Blood, Great Waltz), dies at 61
1950 - Charles H Houston, architect of NAACP legal campaign, dies at 54
1951 - Stanley Ridges, actor (possessed, Sgt York, Mr Ace), dies at 59
1951 - Horace Donisthorpe, British entomologist (b. 1870)
1953 - Top Naeff, [Anthonetta van Rhijn-N], Dutch writer, dies at 75
1957 - Ignatius Roy D Campbell, British poet (Garcia Lorca), dies at 54
1961 - Maria Radulphus, [Adrian Hermus], Curacao school inspector, dies at 91
1962 - Solomon Pimsleur, composer, dies at 61
1962 - Vera Reynolds, actress (Dragnet Patrol, Lawless Woman), dies at 62
1967 - Tom Conway, actor (Mark Saber, Betty Hutton Show), dies at 62
1968 - Stephen H. Sholes, American recording executive (b. 1911)
1975 - Mary Philips, actress (Farewell to Arms), dies at 75
1976 - Frutuoso de Lima Viana, composer, dies at 79
1977 - Charles Sanford, orchestra leader (Your Show of Shows), dies at 71
1978 - Will Geer, actor (Grandpa Walton-Waltons), dies at 75
1980 - Jane Froman, singer (Jane Froman's USA Canteen), dies at 72
1980 - Tommy Caldwell, rocker (Marshall Tucker Band), dies
1981 - Brailsford Reese Brazeal, dean (Morehouse College), dies at 76
1982 - Melville Bell Grosvenor, pres (Natl Geographic Society), dies at 80
1983 - Earl "Fatha" Hines, US, jazz pianist/conductor, dies
1983 - Walter Slezak, actor (Bedtime For Bonzo), commits suicide in NY at 80
1984 - Ansel Adams, US photographer, dies at 82
1985 - Paul H. Emmett, American chemical engineer (b. 1900)
1986 - Mircea Eliade, writer, dies
1988 - Irene Rich, US actress (Beau Brumell, Champ), dies at 96
1989 - Huey Newton, US, Black Panther leader, shot dead at 47
1990 - Bertil Unger, actor (Devil & Max Devlin), dies
1992 - Billy Wayne White, murderer, executed in Texas at 34
1992 - Joop [Joseph] van Santen, Dutch 1st Chamber member (CPN), dies
1992 - Youcca Troubatzkoy, actress (Flower of the Night), dies
1993 - Andries Treurnicht, founder S Afr Conservative Party, dies at 72
1993 - Cesar Chavez, US farm worker (United Farm Workers), dies at 66
1993 - Mark Koenig, baseball shortstop (NY Yankees), dies at 88
1994 - D Nauta, theologist/church historian/lawyer, dies at 96
1994 - Denis Pitts, journalist, dies at 64
1994 - Jack Alexander Bently, trombonist, dies at 80
1994 - Richard Nixon, 37th President (1969-75), dies of a stroke at 81
1994 - Schmidt Hans Burkhardt, artist, dies at 89
1995 - Don Pullen, pianist/composer, dies at 53
1995 - Maggie Kuhn, activist (Gray Panthers), dies at 89
1996 - David Shipman, film historian, dies at 63
1996 - Erma Bombeck, humorist (Grass is Greener), dies at 69
1996 - Hiteshwar Saikia, PM of Indian state of Assam (1991-96), dies
1996 - Harold "Jug" McSpaden, American professional golfer (b. 1908)
1998 - Kitch Christie, South African rugby coach (b. 1940)
1999 - Apostolos Nikolaidis, Greek singer (b. 1938)
1999 - Chan Canasta, magician and mindreader (b. 1920)
2002 - Linda Lovelace, American adult actress (b. 1949)
2003 - Martha Griffiths, U.S. Congresswoman (b. 1912)
2003 - Michael Larrabee, American athlete (b. 1933)
2003 - Felice Bryant, American songwriter (b. 1925)
2004 - Pat Tillman, American football player and U.S. Army Ranger (killed in action) (b. 1976)
2004 - Jason L. Dunham, American Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1981)
2005 - Norman Bird, UK character actor (b. 1920)
2005 - Robert Farnon, Canadian-born composer and conductor (b. 1917)
2005 - Erika Fuchs, German translator (b. 1906)
2005 - Philip Morrison, American physicist (b. 1915)
2006 - Alida Valli, Italian actress (b. 1921)
2007 - Juanita Millender-McDonald, congresswoman from southern California (b. 1938)
2008 - Ed Chynoweth, Canadian ice hockey executive (b. 1941)
2011 - Moin Akhter, Pakistani actor (b. 1950)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 23, 2013, 11:26:28 AM

This Day in History for 23rd April


Historical Events

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First US President                                Playwright William Shakespeare                Baseball Player Hank Aaron
George Washington

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Author James Baldwin                              Rocker Pete Townshend                Radio shock jock Howard Stern


215 BC - A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the
           Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene.
1014 - King Brian Boru of Ireland beats Danes at Battle of Clontarf
1154 - Damascus surrenders to sultan Nur ad-Din van Aleppo
1229 - Ferdinand III of Castile conquers Cáceres.
1343 - St. George's Night Uprising.
1348 - 1st English order of knighthood founded (Order of Garter)
1500 - Pedro Cabral lands & annexes Brazil (Terra da Vera Cruz)
1501 - Portuguese navigator Pedro Cabral & 6 ships return to Lisbon
1504 - King Maximilian I routes troops to Bavaria
1597 - William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor is first performed, with Queen Elizabeth I
           of England in attendance.
1616 - Netherlands buys De Briel/Vlissingen/Fort Rammekens from England
1633 - Sweden & Protestant German monarchy form Union of Heilbronn
1635 - Oldest US public institution, Boston Latin School founded
1660 - Treaty of Oliwa is established between Sweden and Poland.
1661 - English king Charles II crowned in London
1662 - Connecticut chartered as an English colony
1705 - Richard Steele's "Tender Husband," premieres in London
1723 - Cornelis Steenoven elected archbishop of Utrecht
1775 - Opera "Il Ré Pastore" is produced (Salzburg)
1789 - President-elect George Washington moves into Franklin House, NY
1795 - William Hastings acquitted in England of high treason
1798 - Dutch emperor accepts new Constitution
1826 - Missolonghi captured by Turks
1827 - William Rowan Hamilton presents his Theory of systems of rays.
1838 - English steamship "Great Western" crossing Atlantic docks in NYC
1851 - Canada issues its 1st postage stamps
1860 - Dem convention in Charleston SC divided over slavery
1861 - Arkansas troops seize Ft Smith
1864 - Battle of Cane River, LA (Red River Expedition, Monett's Ferry)
1867 - Queen Victoria & Napoleon III turn down plans for a channel tunnel
1871 - Blossom Rock in SF Bay blown up
1878 - 1st Dutch test drive of steam tram
1881 - Gilbert & Sullivan's opera "Patience" produced in London
1883 - John Heemskerk Azn forms Dutch government
1891 - Jews are expelled from Moscow Russia
1896 - Vitascope system of movie projection 1st shown at Koster & Bial's Music Hall (NYC)
1900 - 1st know occurrence of word "hillbillie" (NY Journal)
1903 - NY Highlanders (Yankees) win their 1st game beating Wash Senators 7-2
1904 - American Academy of Arts & Letters forms
1908 - Denmark, Germany, Engld, France, Neth & Sweden signs North Sea accord
1910 - International Exhibition opens in Brussels
1915 - ACA becomes National Advisory Council on Aeronautics (NACA)
1916 - Lord Dunsany's "Night at an Inn," premieres in NYC
1918 - Battle of Zeebrugge ends
1918 - Dover Patrol overthrows Germany U-boat in East Sea
1918 - National Urban League forms
1919 - Major leagues open a reduced 140-game season
1920 - Turkish Grand National Assembly 1st meets, in Ankara
1920 - The national council in Turkey denounces the government of Sultan Mehmed VI and
           announces a temporary constitution.
1921 - Charles Paddock runs world record 100m (10.4 secs)
1923 - Inauguration ceremonies take place of Gdynia as a temporary military port and fishers'
           shelter.
1924 - British Empire Exhibition opens at Wembley
1925 - 1st London performance of operetta "Fasquita" staged
1925 - Pastor LH Perquin forms Union of Catholic Dutch Radio (KRO) forms
1932 - Shakespeare Memorial Theatre opens at Stratford-on-Avon
1932 - The 153-year old De Adriaan Windmill in Haarlem, the Netherlands burns down.
1933 - Dovo soccer team forms in Veenendaal
1935 - Polish Constitution of 1935 is adopted.
1936 - Carl Hubbell's 1st start of season is his 17th straight win
1938 - Sudeten Germans in Czechoslovakia demand self government
1939 - 1st performance of Béla Bartok's 2nd Concerto for violin
1939 - Boston Red Sox Ted Williams hits his 1st HR
1940 - Dance hall fires kills 198 (Natchez Miss)
1940 - NY Yankees dedicate a plaque to Jacob Rupert
1941 - Greece Army surrenders to German Nazis RAF brings Greek king George II to Egypt
1942 - 4-day allied bombing on Rostock begins
1942 - Luftwaffe bombs Exeter
1943 - British & US offensive directed at Tunis/Bizerta
1945 - Concentration camp Flossenburg liberated
1945 - US troops in Italy cross river Po
1946 - Bkln Dodger Ed Head no-hits Boston Braves, 5-0
1948 - KSTP TV channel 5 in St Paul-Minneapolis, MN (ABC) 1st broadcast
1949 - Chinese Red army conquerors Nanjing
1949 - Courtesy mail boxes for motorists started in SF
1949 - Netherlands annexes Elten & Tudderen
1950 - 1st major league day game completed under lights (Phils 6, Braves 5)
1950 - 4th NBA Championship: Min Lakers beat Syracuse Nationals, 4 games to 2
1950 - Nationalist China evacuates Hainan Island
1950 - Stanley Cup: Detroit Red Wings beat NY Rangers, 4 games to 3
1951 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Richmond Women's Golf Open
1952 - Bob Cain of Browns & Bob Feller of Indians each pitch a one-hitter
1952 - NY Giant Hoyt Wilhelm wins his 1st relief game & hits his only HR
1952 - Oil pipeline from Kirkuk to Banias completed
1953 - General Charles P Cabell, USAF, becomes deputy director of CIA
1953 - KTAR (now KPNX) TV channel 12 in Phoenix, AZ (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 - WCOV TV channel 20 in Montgomery, AL (IND/CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 - Hammerin' Hank Aaron hits 1st of his 755 homers
1955 - "Kismet" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 583 performances
1955 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Carrollton Golf Open
1956 - US Supreme court ends race segregation on buses
1958 - Gil Hodges hits his 300th HR & Pee Wee Reese plays in 2,000th game
1959 - "Destry Rides Again" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 472 perfs
1959 - 1st heliport in Britain opens in London
1960 - 1st performance of Ferde Grofe's "San Francisco Suite"
1961 - "Tenderloin" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 216 performances
1961 - Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
1961 - Algiers putsch by French generals.
1962 - 1st US satellite to reach the moon launched
1962 - NY Mets win their 1st game ever, after going 0-9, beat Pirates 9-1
1962 - Ranger 4, 1st US satellite to reach Moon launched from Cape Canaveral
1963 - "She Loves Me" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 302 perfs
1963 - Jerry Bock & S Harnick's musical "She Loves Me," premieres in NYC
1964 - James Baldwin's "Blues for Mr Charlie," premieres in NYC
1964 - New York State Theater opens
1964 - Houston Colt 45s Ken Johnson becomes 1st major league pitcher to lose a 9 inning no-hitter,
           Reds win 1-0
1965 - Launch of 1st Soviet communications satellite
1967 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Raleigh Ladies Golf Invitational
1967 - Soyuz 1 launched; Vladimir Komarov becomes 1st in-flight casualty
1968 - "I'm Solomon" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 7 performances
1968 - 1st decimal coins issued in Britain (5 & 10 pence)
1968 - United Methodist Church forms
1969 - ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Jim Chestney
1969 - LA Laker Jerry West scores 53 points
1969 - Over 1000 square miles flooded in Shantung Province China
1969 - Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death for killing Bobby Kennedy
1971 - Columbia University operations virtually end, by student strike
1971 - Soyuz 10 launched; cosmonauts become 1st in Salyut 1 space station
1972 - 26th Tony Awards: Sticks & Bones & 2 Gentlemen of Verona win
1972 - Apollo 16 astronauts explores Moon surface
1972 - Betty Burfeind wins LPGA Birmingham Centennital Golf Classic
1974 - USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR
1975 - Harold Pinter's "No Man's Land," premieres in London
1977 - ADO The Hague soccer team forms
1977 - Dr Allen Bussey completes 20,302 yo-yo loops
1977 - Milt workers kill 300-500 students in Addis Ababa
1977 - Czech chess master Vlastimil Hort plays 201 games simultaneously & only loses 10
1978 - Amy Alcott wins LPGA American Defender Golf Classic
1978 - Reds Joe Morgan ends record streak of 91 cons errorless games at 2nd
1978 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1979 - Fighting in London between the Anti-Nazi League and the Metropolitan Police's Special Patrol
           Group results in the death of protester Blair Peach.
1980 - Soviet sub catches fire off Japan, 9 die
1982 - Conch Republic is established.
1982 - The ZX Spectrum is released.
1983 - David Hookes scores his only Test Cricket century, 143* v Sri Lanka
1984 - AIDS-virus identified (acquired immune deficiency syndrome)
1985 - Brooklyn College soccer team wins Nepal's invitational
1985 - Coca-Cola announced it is changing its secret flavor formula
1985 - Flyers 5-Isles 3-Patrick Div Finals-Flyers hold 3-0 lead
1985 - New Coke debuts
1986 - Grand Floridian Beach Resort groundbreaking
1986 - Madrid-Nelli Cooman runs world record 60m indoor (7 sec)
1987 - 28 construction workers killed in an apt collapse in Bridgeport, Ct
1987 - NJ Devils farm team Maine Mariners (AHL) move to Utica (Devils) NY
1988 - A Greek pedals self-powered aircraft, 74 miles
1988 - Federal smoking ban during domestic airline flights of 2 hrs or less
1988 - Karolina Szabo runs female world record 25k (1:29:30)/30k (1:47;06)
1989 - Betsy King wins LPGA USX Golf Classic
1989 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar plays his last game as a Laker
1989 - Nolan Ryan blows a no hitter in 9th inning
1989 - Students in Beijing China announce class boycotts
1990 - 11th Emmy Sports Award presentation
1991 - Bjorn Borg loses 6-2, 6-3 to Jordi Arrese after 8 year lay off
1991 - Gordon Greenidge scores 223 v Aus, his last Test Cricket knock at home
1991 - USSR grants republics right to secede under certain conditions
1992 - "Shirnada" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 4 performances
1992 - Marion Berry (former mayor of Wash DC) let out of prison
1992 - McDonald's opens its 1st fast-food restaurant in China
1993 - Eritrea votes to secede from Ethiopia
1993 - Motley Crue's Mike Mars files for divorce from Emi-Canyn
1993 - Peter Townshend's musical "Tommy," premieres in NYC
1994 - Army shoots to death 23-40 fishermen in Gonaives Haiti
1994 - General Tire World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Norm Duke
1994 - Libertarian party nominates Howard Stern for Governor of NY
1995 - Laura Davis wins LPGA Chick-fil-A Charity Golf Championship
1995 - Pres Clinton declares a national day of mourning for Oklahoma City
1996 - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Reno NV on KRZQ 96.5 FM
1996 - Sotherby begins 4 day auction of Jackie O stuff-take in $34.5 million
1997 - "Titanic," opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC
1997 - 32nd Academy of Country Music Awards: LeAnn Rines & Brooks & Dunn
1997 - Omaria massacre in Algeria: 42 villagers are killed.
2003 - Beijing closes all schools for two weeks because of the SARS virus.
2009 - The gamma ray burst GRB 090423 it's observed for 10 seconds as the most distant object of
           any kind and also the oldest known object in the universe.
2011 - Zach Daniels defeated Rick Michaels to become the new TNT Heavyweight Champion.
2012 - Netherlands Prime Minister, Mark Rutte, tenders resignation, paving the way for early elections
2012 - Rangers F.C. owner, Craig Whyte, is banned for life from any involvement in Scottish football
2012 - 38,000 London Marathon entrants have their home and email contacts published in a data
           protection breach

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 23, 2013, 11:28:04 AM

This Day in History for 23rd April


Famous Weddings

1927 - Mary Barbara Hamilton (25,)best-selling British romantic author, marries 1st husband
           Alexander McQorquodale
2006 - "Rascal Flatts" guitarist Joe Don Rooney (30) weds Playboy's 2005 Playmate of The Year
           Tiffany Fallon (31) in an intimate ceremony held on the beach at San Jose del Cabo, Mexico

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 23, 2013, 11:31:00 AM

This Day in History for 23rd April


Famous Divorces

1992 - British Princess Anne (the Princess Royal)and her 1st husband Captain Mark Phillips divorce after
          19 years
1993 - Motley Crue's Mike Mars files for divorce from Emi-Canyn

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 23, 2013, 12:02:30 PM

This Day in History for 23rd April


Famous Birthdays

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US President                                           Filmmaker Michael Moore (1954)               Actor Kal Penn (1977)
James Buchanan (1791)


1170 - Isabelle of Hainaut, queen of France (d. 1190)
1185 - King Afonso II of Portugal (d. 1223)
1464 - Johanna van Valois, Queen of France
1464 - Robert Fayrfax, composer
1484 - Julius Caesar Scaliger, Italy, scholar (On the Subtlety of Things)
1500 - Alexander Alesius, [Aless/Alane], System theologist/physician
1500 - Alexander Ales, Scottish theologian (d. 1565)
1516 - Georg Fabricius, German poet, historian, and archaeologist (d. 1571)
1598 - Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp, naval commander
1621 - William Penn, English admiral (d. 1670)
1623 - Jan Adam Reincken, composer
1628 - Johann van Waveren Hudde, Dutch mathematician (d. 1704)
1629 - John Commelin, director (Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam)
1649 - Andreas Kneller, composer
1676 - King Frederick I of Sweden (d. 1751)
1697 - George Baron Anson, British admiral/explorer
1708 - Friedrich von Hagedorn, German poet (Versuch einiger Poem)
1715 - Johann Friedrich Doles, composer
1720 - Vilna Gaon, Lithuanian rabbi (d. 1797)
1725 - Saint Gerard Majella, Catholic saint (d. 1755)
1728 - Samuel Wallis, explorer (Wallis Island)
1735 - Ildephons Haas, composer
1746 - Félix Vicq-d'Azyr, French physician and anatomist (d. 1794)
1747 - Alexandre-Auguste Robineau, composer
1756 - Alexander Reinagle, composer
1775 - Joseph Mallord Turner, England, landscape painter (Shipwreck)
1791 - James Buchanan, Cove Gap PA, (Fed/Dem), 15th US president (1857-61)
1791 - W Friedrich Olivier, German landscape painter/cartoonist
1792 - John Thomas Romney Robinson, Irish astronomer and physicist (d. 1882)
1794 - Wei Yuan, Chinese scholar (d. 1856)
1803 - Jules J baron d'Anethan, Belgian minister of Justice
1804 - Guillaume Nerenburger, Belgian general (Triangulatie of Belgium)
1809 - Eugene-Prosper Prevost, composer
1810 - Thomas Wright, historian
1812 - Louis-Antoine Julien, conductor
1813 - Stephen Arnold Douglas, (Little giant), US senator (Lincoln debates)
1813 - Frédéric Ozanam, French scholar (Society of Saint Vincent de Paul) (d. 1853)
1818 - James Anthony Froude, historian
1818 - John Gill Shorter, Gov (Confederacy), died in 1872
1821 - Pierre Dupont, song writer
1823 - Abd-ul-Mejid, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1861)
1827 - Johann F Ritter von Schulte, German Catholic lawyer
1828 - Albert FA, king of Saxon (1873-1902)
1838 - Alfred J Verwee, Flemish painter
1852 - Edwin Markham, US, poet (1st winner of American Acad of Poets Award 1937)
1853 - Winthrop M. Crane, 40th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1920)
1857 - Ruggero Leoncavallo, Italian composer (I pagliacci/Zaza)
1858 - Max K E Ludwig Planck, German physicist (Planck Constant, Nobel 1918)
1861 - Edmund Henry Hynman, 1st viscount Allenby of Megiddo/Fieldmarshal
1865 - Ali-Agha Shikhlinski, Russian-Azerbaijani general (d. 1943)
1867 - Simon Abramsz, Dutch teacher/writer (For the Young Ones)
1872 - Violet Gordon-Woodhouse, British musician (d. 1951)
1876 - Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, German historian (d. 1925)
1877 - Arthur Farwell, composer
1881 - Claude Carter, South African slow lefty cricketer (1912-22)
1881 - Otakar Sini, composer
1882 - Albert Coates, St Petersburg Russia, conductor/composer (Eagle)
1882 - Max [G M J] Winders Maximilien, Belgium, architect (WW II)
1888 - Georges Vanier, French-Canadian soldier and diplomat (d. 1967)
1889 - Charles Warrell, big Chief I-Spy writer/teacher
1890 - Donald Nichols Tweedy, composer
1890 - Marcel L'Herbier, French director/screenwriter (El Dorado)
1891 - Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev, Sontsovka, Ukraine, composer (Peter and the Wolf)
1892 - Minus van Looi, [Benjamin van der Voort], Flemish writer
1892 - R Huelsenbeck, writer
1893 - Frank Borzage, Salt Lake City, director (7th Heaven, Strange Cargo)
1894 - Basil Sydney, England, actor (Hamlet, Jassy, Simba, Farmer's Wife)
1894 - George Renevant, Paris, actor (Moulin Rouge, Scotland Yard, Comrade X)
1894 - Cow Cow Davenport, American pianist (d. 1955)
1895 - Ngaio Marsh, New Zealand writer (d. 1982)
1896 - Margaret Kennedy, novelist
1897 - Harold French, director (Encore)/actor
1897 - John Wengraf, Vienna Austria, actor (12 to Moon, Pride & Passion)
1897 - Lester Bowles Pearson, (L) 14th Canadian PM (1963-68) (Nobel 1957)
1897 - Lucius du Bignon Clay, US, general (WW II)/gov (West Germany)
1898 - Edwin E Dwinger, German writer (General Vlassov)
1899 - Vladimir Nabokov, St Petersburg, Russia, novelist (Lolita, Ada)
1900 - Ary Verhaar, composer
1900 - Henry Barraud, composer
1900 - Joseph Green, film maker
1900 - Jim Bottomley, American baseball player (d. 1959)
1901 - E.B. Ford, British ecological geneticist (d. 1988)
1902 - Halldór Laxness, Icelandic writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
1903 - Guy Simonds, youngest general officer in the Canadian army (d 1974)
1904 - Duncan Renaldo, Spain, actor (Cisco Kid)
1904 - Leslie French, actor/singer (More than a Miracle)
1905 - Lord Carew, Ireland, judge (dressage)
1906 - Marcel Hillaire, Cologne Germany, actor (Adv in Paradise)
1906 - Maria Arnoldo, [Adrianus Broeders], photographer/writer
1907 - Baroness Dudley
1908 - Frederick Hawkins, dancer
1908 - Herbert Telley, British actuary
1908 - Myron Waldman, American animator (d. 2006)
1909 - Thomas Padmore, senior civil servant
1911 - Ronald Neame, director (1st Monday in Oct, Poseidon Adventure)
1911 - Simone Simon, France, actress (All Money Can Buy, Ladies in Love)
1913 - Jan Meyerowitz, composer
1914 - Andrew Martin, Lord-Lt (Lechestershire England)
1914 - John Hubbard, Indiana Harbor Indiana, actor (Don't Call Me Charlie)
1914 - Mitsu Suzuki, teacher of tea ceremony at SF Zen Center
1915 - Arnold Hall, CEO (Hawker Siddeley Group)
1916 - Bud Wilkinson, college football coach (Oklahoma)
1917 - Jacob Kistemaker, nuclear physicist (ultra centrifuge)
1917 - Dorian Leigh, American supermodel (d. 2008)
1918 - Anthony Craxton, British TV producer
1918 - Maurice Druon, [Kessel], French writer/journalist (Prix Goncourt)
1918 - Gordon Hirabayshi, Seattle, Washington, American civil rights activist and WWII internment
           opponent (Hirabayshi v. United States), (d. 2012)
1919 - Dorian Leigh, San Antonio TX, model, sister of Suzy Parker
1919 - Talivaldis Kenins, composer
1919 - Oleg Penkovsky, Soviet double-agent
1920 - Eric Yarrow, CEO (Clydesdale Bank)
1920 - Louis Barron, composer
1921 - Janet Blair, Altoona Pa, actress (Leave it to the Girls, Smith Family)
1921 - Warren Spahn, left-handed pitcher (Boston/Milwaukee Braves)
1922 - Boy [Segundo JA] Ecury, Aruba, resistance fighter
1922 - Diarmuid Downs, auto engineer
1923 - Avram Davidson, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Peregrine: Primus, Rork!)
1923 - James Kirkup, travel writer/poet/novelist (African in Greenland)
1923 - Nathan "Dambuza" Mdledle, singer
1923 - Antonino Rocca, professional wrestler
1923 - Dolph Briscoe, Governor of Texas
1924 - Arthur Frackenpohl, Irving NJ, composer (Natural Superiority of Music)
1924 - Colin Welch, columnist/critic
1924 - James Colin Ross Welch, journalist
1924 - Malcolm Anson, CEO (Wessex Water Authority)
1924 - Chuck Harmon, American baseball player
1926 - James P Donleavy, Brooklyn, novelist (Ginger Man, Onion Eaters)
1926 - Richard Laws, Master (St Edmunds College Cambridge)
1927 - Russell Smith, composer
1928 - Bill Cotton, CEO (Noel Gay TV)
1928 - Okke Jager, Dutch theologist/writer/poet
1928 - Shirley Temple Black, Ca, actress (Heidi)/ambassador (UN)
1929 - George Steiner, professor (English)
1930 - Alan Oppenheimer, NYC, actor (6 Million Dollar Man, Eischied)
1930 - Michael Bowen, RC Archbishop (Southwark)
1932 - Halston, [R Halston Frowick], fashion designer (1972 Hall of Fame)
1932 - Jim Fixx, jogger/writer (Jim Fixx on Running)
1933 - Roger Wittevrongel, Flemish painter
1935 - David Evans, MP
1935 - Bunky Green, American musician
1936 - Elias, [Etienne Michiels], Flemish painter
1936 - Estelle Harris, actress (Estelle Castanza-Seinfeld)
1936 - John D'Arcy, cricketer (NZ Test batsman on 1958 England tour)
1936 - Joseph Willaert, Flemish painter
1936 - Roy Orbison, Vernon Tx, rocker (Pretty Woman)
1937 - Barry Shepherd, cricketer (Australian lefty bat early 60's)
1937 - Don Massengale, Jackson TX, PGA golfer (1966 Bing Crosby Celebrity)
1937 - Victoria Glendinning, author (Edith Sitwell A Unicorn Among Lions)
1938 - Leonard Ernest John Chant, social worker
1938 - Russell Hillhouse, under-sect Scottish Office
1938 - Steven D Symms, (Sen-R-ID, 1981- )
1939 - David Birney, Wash DC, actor (Brigette Loves Bernie, St Elsewhere)
1939 - Ray Peterson, Denton Tx, singer (Tell Laura I Love Her)
1939 - William Hagerty, editor (People)
1940 - Lee Majors, [Harvey Yeary], Mich, TV actor ($6,000,000 Man, Stunt Man)
1940 - Richard Monaco, US, sci-fi author (Grail War, Final Quest)
1940 - Michael Copps, American Federal Government official
1941 - Ed Stewart, British DJ
1941 - Hal Daub, (Rep-R-NB, 1981- )
1941 - Jacqueline Boyer, French singer
1941 - Paavo Lipponen, Prime Minister of Finland 1995-2003
1941 - Michael Lynne, American film executive
1942 - Sandra Dee, [Zuck], Bayonne NJ, actress (Gidget, Imitation of Life)
1943 - Carmen von Thyssen, Barcelona Spain, Baroness
1943 - Herve Villechaize, France, "Da Plane! Da Plane!" (Fantasy Island)
1943 - Hugh Davies, composer
1943 - Tony Esposito, Ontario, NHL goalie (Chicago Blackhawks)
1943 - [Gerardus] Bob van Toll, actor/interpreter/director (Pastorale 1943)
1944 - Niklaus Schilling, Basel Germany, director (Dormire, Atem, Rheingold)
1947 - Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, Ireland, political activist [or 1940]
1947 - Saskia, [Trudy van den Berg], singer (S & Serge, Spinning Wheel)
1948 - Richard Day, engineer/development expert
1948 - Tessa Wyatt, actress (Beast in the Cellar, Wedding Night)
1948 - Pascal Quignard, French author
1948 - Serge Thériault, French-Canadian comedian and actor
1949 - Blair Brown, Wash DC, actress (Altered States, Molly Dodd)
1949 - John Miles, vocal/guitar/keyboards (John Miles Band-Rebel, Zaragon)
1949 - Joyce DeWitt, Wheeling WV, actress (Janet Wood-Three's Company)
1949 - Walter Sweeney, MP
1951 - Loek M L H A Hermans, Dutch MP (VVD)
1952 - Lionel Johnston, Augusta Ga, actor (Sons & Daughters)
1952 - Narada, [Michael Walden], Mich, rocker (Don't Want Nobody Else)
1952 - Terry Moor, Hartford Conn, tennis star
1952 - Tony Maselli, (fictional character on "Who's the Boss")
1953 - Fred Upton, (Rep-R-Michigan)
1953 - James Russo, NYC, actor (My Own Private Idaho, China Girl)
1954 - Michael Moore, Flint, Michigan, American filmmaker (Fahrenheit 9/11, Bowling for Columbine,
           Sicko)
1955 - Captain Sensible, [Ray Burns], UK, rock bassist (Women & Capts 1st)
1955 - Judy Davis, Perth Australia, actress (Husbands & Wives)
1955 - Mike Smith, British DJ
1955 - Su Ingle, British TV hostess
1955 - Tony Miles, chess player
1956 - Peter Teravainen, Plymouth MA USA, Australasia golfer
1957 - Jan Hooks, Decatur Georgia, comedienne actress (SNL, Designing Women)
1957 - Kathleen Lynch, Motueka NZ, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1957 - Kenji Kawai, Japanese composer
1958 - Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson, Icelandic music composer
1959 - Terri Luckhurst, LPGA golfer
1960 - Joseph Martin Mudd, Louisville KY, PGA golfer (1988 Federal Express)
1960 - Steve Clark, Hillsborough England, rock guitarist (Def Leppard)
1960 - Valerie Bertinelli, Del, (1 Day at a Time, Sydney); Ms Eddie Van Halen
1961 - Terry Gordy, American professional wrestler (d. 2001)
1961 - George Lopez, American actor and comedian
1962 - John Hannah, Scottish actor
1963 - Benoit Doucet, Montreal Quebec, hockey forward (Team Germany 1998)
1963 - Magnús Ver Magnússon, Icelandic powerlifter
1964 - Dan Frischman, Whippany NJ, actor (Arvid Engen-Head of the Class)
1964 - Gen, [Simon Matthews], English pop drummer (Jesus Jones-Zeroes & Ones)
1964 - Martin Lopez-Zubero, Spanish backstroke swimmer (world record 200m)
1965 - Donna Weinbrecht, skier (Olympic-gold)
1966 - Jacques "Jacq" Koumans, soccer player (NAC)
1966 - Richard Greenwood, LA California, Canadian Tour golfer (1990 Napa Valley)
1966 - Wayne Drinkwalter, CFL defensive tackle (BC Lions)
1966 - Jim Stynes [James], Dublin Ireland, Hall of Fame Australian rules footballer (only foreigner to
           win Brownlow medal), (d. 2012)
1967 - Brent Muscat, rocker (Faster Pussycat-Wake Me When It's Over)
1967 - Melina Kanakaredes, Akron Ohio, actress (Eleni Andros-Guiding Light)
1967 - Rheal Cormier, New Brunswick, pitcher (Montreal Expos)
1968 - Susan Emily Savastano, E Providence RI, Miss RI-America (1991)
1968 - Timothy McVeigh, American terrorist (d. 2001)
1968 - Princess Aisha bint Al Hussein of Jordan
1968 - Princess Zein bint Al Hussein of Jordan
1969 - Nadeem Shahid, cricketer
1969 - Yelena Shushunova, Russian gymnast
1969 - Richard Wolstencroft, Australian Filmmaker
1969 - Martin López-Zubero, Spanish swimmer
1970 - Cristiano Caratti, Italy, tennis star (1987 Orange Bowl boys doubles)
1970 - Frank Temming, WLAF running back (Amsterdam Admirals)
1970 - Scott Bairstow, American actor
1970 - Dennis Bayne Culp, American singer/songwriter
1970 - Sadao Abe, Japanese actor
1971 - Chuck Adams, Pacific Palisades California, tennis star (1989 USTA Boys)
1971 - Charmaine Sinclair, English model
1972 - Rachel Hetherington, Port Macquarie NSW, golfer (1993 NSW Champ)
1972 - Pierre Labrie, Canadian poet
1972 - Patricia Manterola, Mexican singer
1972 - Sonya Smith, American actress
1973 - Derek Armstrong, Ottawa, NHL center (NY Islanders)
1973 - Patrick Poulin, Vanier, NHL left wing (Tampa Bay Lightning)
1974 - Joey Kent, wide receiver (Tennessee Oilers)
1974 - Sam Madison, cornerback (Miami Dolphins)
1974 - Carlos Dengler, American musician (Interpol)
1974 - Barry Watson, American actor
1975 - Bret Anderson, CFL slot back (BC Lions)
1975 - Jón Þór Birgisson, Icelandic musician and singer (Sigur Rós)
1976 - Tamas Buday Jr, Budapest Hungary, Canadian canoeist (Olympics-96)
1977 - John Cena, American professional wrestler
1977 - Andruw Jones, Curaçaoan baseball player
1977 - Willie Mitchell, Canadian ice hockey player
1977 - Kal Penn, Montclair, New Jersey, American actor (Dr. Lawrence Kutner-House, The Namesake)
           and civil servant
1977 - Lee Young-Pyo, Korean footballer
1979 - Barry Fratelli, Scottish bassist (The Fratellis)
1979 - Yana Gupta, Indian actress & model
1979 - Jaime King, American actress
1979 - Lauri Ylönen, Finnish singer (The Rasmus)
1981 - Gabriella MAO Windsor, daughter of English prince Michael
1981 - Sean Henn, American baseball player
1981 - Joanna Krupa, Supermodel/actress
1981 - Chris Sharma, American rock climber/boulderer
1982 - Taio Cruz, London/English R&B, Pop, Hip Hop singer
1983 - Daniela Hantuchová, Slovakian tennis player
1983 - Jennifer Heil, Canadian free style skier
1984 - Alexandra Kosteniuk, Chess Woman World Champion
1985 - Angel Locsin, Filipina TV and movie actress
1986 - Sven Kramer, Dutch speedskater
1986 - Jessica Stam, Canadian supermodel
1987 - Emily Fox, American cupstacking champion
1988 - Victor Anichebe, Nigerian footballer
1989 - Nicole Vaidišová, Czech tennis player
1990 - Matthew Dillon Underwood, American actor

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 23, 2013, 01:31:38 PM

This Day in History for 23rd April


Famous Deaths

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Playwright                                              Russian President 
William Shakespeare (1616)                    Boris Yeltsin (2007)


34 - Christ, crucified, according to Isaac Newton
303 - Saint George, Greek officer in the Roman army, beheaded. Patron saint of many lands including
         England
725 - Wihtred, King of Kent
871 - Ethelred I, king of Wessex/brother of Alfred the Great, dies
990 - Ekkehart II, [Palatinus], monk to St-Gallen/poet, dies
997 - Vojtech "Adalbert" of Prague, 2nd bishop of Prague/apostle, dies at 40
1014 - Brian Boru, High King of Ireland, dies in battle at Clontarf
1016 - Æthelred II "the Unready", king of England (979-1016), dies
1151 - Queen Adeliza of England (b. 1103)
1217 - King Inge II of Norway (b. 1185)
1407 - Olivier de Clisson, French soldier (b. 1326)
1416 - Blaise/Blasius of Parma, Ital astrologist/philosopher/algebra, dies
1605 - Boris Godunov, chief adviser to Tsar Fyodor I and Tsar of Russia (1598-1605), dies after a
           lengthy illness and a stroke at approximately 20
1616 - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spanish writer (Don Quixote), dies at 69
1616 - William Shakespeare, English poet and playwright (b. 1564) (Julian calendar) dies aged 52
1616 - El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, Peruvian writer (b. 1539)
1625 - Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange, dies at 57
1670 - Loreto Vittori, composer, dies at 69
1691 - Jean-Henri D'Anglebert, composer, dies
1695 - Henry Vaughan, poet (Silex Scintillans), dies at 72
1702 - Margaret Fell, English Quaker leader (b. 1614)
1728 - Tomas de Torrejon y Velasco, composer, dies at 83
1732 - Cajetan Kolberer, composer, dies at 63
1740 - Thomas Tickell, poet, dies
1742 - Mihael Omerza, composer, dies at 62
1762 - Johann Samuel Endler, composer, dies at 67
1774 - Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich, painter, dies
1781 - James Abercrombie, British general (b. 1706)
1786 - Alexander Cozens, English water colors painter, dies at about 68
1792 - Karl Friedrich Bahrdt, German theologian and adventurer (b. 1741)
1794 - Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, French statesman (executed) (b. 1721)
1812 - Franz Sebastian Haindl, composer, dies at 85
1827 - Johanna C Wattier-Ziesenis, actress (Phaedra/Lady MacBeth), dies at 65
1838 - John W Janssens, gov-gen of Cape Colony/Dutch-Indies, dies at 75
1839 - Jacques Félix Emmanuel Hamelin, French explorer (b. 1768)
1847 - Erik Gustaf Geijer, composer, dies at 64
1850 - William Wordsworth, poet, dies at 80
1853 - Auguste Laurent, chemist, dies
1865 - James Dearing, US Confederate brig-general, dies at 24
1878 - Friedrich Preller, landscape painter, dies
1880 - Guess Saleh, [Sarief Bastaman], Javanese painter, dies
1885 - William Henry Holmes, composer, dies at 73
1889 - Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, French writer (b. 1808)
1895 - Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig, physiologist, dies
1895 - Carl Ludwig, German physician (b. 1815)
1897 - Clement Harris, composer, dies at 25
1905 - Karel Komzak, composer, dies at 54
1905 - Gédéon Ouimet, Quebec politician (b. 1823)
1907 - Alfred Packer, American Cannibal (b. 1842)
1915 - Rupert Chawner Brooke, English poet (Lithuania), dies at 27
1918 - Percy Thomson Dean, lt-commander, killed at Zeebrugge, dies
1925 - Andre Caplet, French composer (Le miroir de Jesus), dies at 45
1926 - Joseph Pennell, artist/author, dies
1929 - Rudolf W Nilsen, Norwegian poet (Hverdagen), dies at 28
1936 - Teresa de la Parra, Venezuelan writer (b. 1889)
1942 - Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear, pres of Argentina (1922-28), dies at 73
1945 - Albrecht Haushofer, writer, dies at 42
1946 - Jesus Castillo, composer, dies at 68
1951 - Charles G. Dawes, Vice President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b.
           1865)
1952 - Elisabeth Schumann, singer, dies
1952 - Minus van Looi, [Benjamin van der Neart], Flemish writer, dies at 60
1952 - Julius Freed, American inventor and banker (b. 1887)
1955 - Robert H Woltjer, classical/AR-First-Member of parliament, dies at 76
1957 - William Orlamond, actor (Flesh & Devil, Words & Music), dies at 89
1960 - Cornelis Jan Bakkerr, Dutch/US nuclear physicist, dies
1960 - Toyohiko Kagawa, Japanese Christian-social reformer/writer, dies at 71
1965 - Josephina J "Fien" de la Mar, Dutch actress (Pygmalion), dies at 67
1969 - Krzystzof Komeda, composer, dies at 37
1970 - Herb Shriner, humorist/TV host (Herb Shriner Show), dies at 51
1971 - William Tubman, president of Liberia (1944-71), dies at 76
1973 - Otto Eissfeldt, German old testament scholar, dies at 85
1975 - Pete Ham, rocker (Badfinger), commits suicide by hanging himself at 27
1975 - R D Brinkmann, writer, dies
1975 - William Hartnell, actor (Dr Who), dies at 67
1976 - James Flavin, actor (Man With a Camera), dies at 69
1976 - Ronald Radd, actor (King Lear, Up Jumped a Swagman), dies at 47
1976 - Shimen Ruskin, actor (Meyer-Corner Bar), dies at 68
1979 - Blair Peach, New Zealand-born anti-fascist (b. 1946)
1981 - Josep Pla, Catalan journalist and writer (b. 1897)
1983 - Buster Crabbe, 400m US swimmer (Olympics-gold-1932), dies at 73
1983 - Selena Royale, actress (Robot Monster), dies at 78
1984 - August "Guus" Oster, actor/director (Carrie), dies at 68
1985 - Kent Smith, actor (Peyton Place, Invaders), dies at 78
1985 - Sam J Ervin Jr, (Sen-D-NC), dies at 88
1986 - Harold Arlen, [Hyman Arluck], US composer, murdered at 81
1986 - Jim Laker, cricketer (193 wkts for England at 21 24), dies
1986 - Otto Preminger, dir (Advise & Consent, Anatomy of Murder), dies at 79
1988 - Arthur Michael, Lord Ramsey/archbishop of Canterbury, dies
1990 - Albert Salmi, (Caddyshack), kills terminally ill wife & self at 62
1990 - Palmer Deane, actor (Still of the Night), dies
1990 - Paulette Goddard, actress (Hazard), dies in Switzerland at 78
1991 - Peter Bailey, Graphic designer/calligrapher, dies
1991 - Johnny Thunders, American musician (b. 1952)
1992 - Deron Johnson, 1965 NL run leader, dies of cancer at 53
1992 - Satyajit Ray, Indian director (Distant Thunder/Agantuk), dies at 70
1992 - Victoria Kellem Lederman, model, dies of amyloidosis at 52
1993 - Bertus Aafjes, poet/writer (World is a Muze), dies at 78
1993 - Lalith Athulathmudali, Sri Lankan minister, murdered at 59
1994 - Cassidy Clinton Cremer, author (John Cremer), murdered at 30
1994 - Cecile Dreesmann, son of Anton Dreesmann, dies at 74
1995 - Howard Cosell, sportscaster (Monday Night Football), dies at 77
1995 - John Stennis, (Sen-D-MS), dies at 93
1995 - Lonesome Sundown, blues singer/guitarist, dies at 66
1995 - Robert Selby Taylor, bishop, dies at 86
1996 - Leonard Kuntstat, blues discographer, dies at 70
1996 - Pamela Lyndon Travers, writer (Mary Poppins), dies at 96
1996 - Jean-Victor Allard, Canadian military officer (b. 1913)
1997 - Denis Compton, English cricketer (b. 1918)
1998 - Constantine Karamanlis, Greek politician (b. 1907)
1998 - James Earl Ray, American assassin (b. 1928)
2003 - James H. Critchfield, American Central Intelligence agent (b. 1917)
2003 - Fernand Fonssagrives, French photographer (b. 1910)
2005 - Joh Bjelke-Petersen, Premier of Queensland (b. 1911)
2005 - Al Grassby, Australian immigration minister (b. 1928)
2005 - John Mills, English actor (b. 1908)
2005 - Romano Scarpa, Italian-born comic artist (b. 1927)
2005 - Earl Wilson, American baseball player (b. 1934)
2006 - Johnnie Checketts, New Zealand fighter pilot (b. 1912)
2007 - Paul Erdman, American economist and author (b. 1932)
2007 - David Halberstam, American journalist, historian and author (b. 1934)
2007 - Boris Yeltsin, first President of the Russian Federation (b. 1931)
2011 - Geoffrey Russell, 4th Baron Ampthill (b. 1921)
2011 - John Sullivan, British comedy writer (b. 1946)
2011 - Tom King, American songwriter and musician (b. 1943)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 24, 2013, 02:42:44 PM

This Day in History for 24th April


Historical Events

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Chocolate Tycoon                                  British war time Prime Minister              US President John F. Kennedy
Milton S. Hershey                                             Winston Churchill

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Pop Singer & Beatle                                Radio shock jock Howard Stern              New York Yankees Owner
Paul McCartney                                                                                                          George Steinbrenner

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Singer Shania Twain


1479 BC - Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt, although power effectively shifts to
                Hatshepsut (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th Dynasty).
1184 BC - The Greeks enter Troy using the Trojan Horse (traditional date).
858 - Nicolaas I succeeds Benedict III as pope
1066 - Halley's Comet sparks English monk to predict country'll be destroyed
1185 - Battle at Danoura: Yoshitsune Minamoto's fleet beats imperial fleet
1288 - Jews of Yroyes France are accused of ritual murder
1311 - Gen Malik Kafur returns to Delhi after campaign in South India
1364 - Pope Urbabus V names John V van Virneburg as bishop of Utrecht
1524 - Duke of Bourbon drives admiral Bonnivet out of Milan
1547 - Battle of Muhlberg: Emperor Karel V vs ruler Johan F the Brave
1570 - Battles between Spanish troops & followers of sultan Suleiman
1596 - Pacificatie of Ireland drawn
1704 - "Boston News-Letter," 1st successful newspaper in US, forms
1792 - "La Marseillaise" composed by Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle
1800 - Library of Congress establishes with $5,000 allocation
1801 - 1st performance of Joseph Haydn's oratorio "Die Jahreszeiten"
1823 - Eugene Scribes "Le Menteur Veridique," premieres in Paris
1833 - Jacob Evert & George Dulty patent 1st soda fountain
1863 - Skirmish at Okolona/Birmingham, Mississippi (Grierson's Raid)
1865 - Fire alarm & police telegraph system put into operation (SF)
1867 - Black demonstrators stage ride-ins on Richmond Va streetcars
1872 - Volcano Vesuvius erupts
1877 - Last federal occupying troops withdraw from south (New Orleans)
1877 - Russo-Turkish War, 1877-1878: Russia declares war on Ottoman Empire.
1880 - Amateur Athletic Association, governing body for men's athletics in England & Wales, is
           founded in Oxford, England
1883 - 28 Surinamers depart to Amsterdam World's Fair
1884 - National Medical Association of Black physicians organizes (Atlanta)
1888 - Eastman Kodak forms
1891 - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Final Problem"
1894 - French cyclist Henri Desgrange rides 100km in world record 2:39:18
1894 - Phillies Lave Cross hits for cycle vs Bkln Dodgers
1895 - Joshua Slocum completes around-the-world voyage in 11-m boat
1897 - 1st reporter, William Price (Wash Star), assigned to White House
1898 - US fleet under commodore Dewey sails from Hong Kong to Philippines
1898 - Spanish-American War: Spain delares war after rejecting US ultimatum to withdraw from
           Cuba
1899 - Transvaal British Uitlanders ask Queen Victoria for aid
1900 - Passing of Andrew Halliday, cable car pioneer
1901 - 1st AL game, Chic beats Cleve Blues 8-2, 3 other games rained out
1905 - 1st-class Cricket debut of Jack Hobbs, Surrey v Gentlemen (18 & 28)
1905 - Senators execute a triple-play & beat Yankees 4-3
1907 - Hersheypark, founded by Milton S. Hershey for the exclusive use of his employees, is opened.
1908 - Mr & Mrs Jacob Murdock become 1st to travel across US by car, they leave LA in a Packard &
           arrive in NYC in 32d-5h-25m
1909 - Harry Hillman & Lawson Robertson run 100m 3-legged race in 11 seconds
1910 - German Catholic youth movement Quickborn forms
1913 - The skyscraper Woolworth Building in New York City is opened.
1915 - German army fires chloroform gas in Ieper
1915 - Massacre of Armenians by Turks starts (Armenian Martyrs Day)
1915 - Pitts' Frank Allen no-hits St Louis (Federal League), 2-0
1916 - Easter rebellion of Irish against British occupation begins
1916 - Ernest Shackleton and five men of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition launch a lifeboat
           from uninhabited Elephant Island in the Southern Ocean to organise a rescue for ice-trapped
           ship Endurance.
1917 - Yankee lefty George Mogridge no-hits Red Sox 2-1 at Fenway
1920 - British Mandate over Palestine goes into effect (lasts 28 years)
1920 - Polish troops attack Ukraine
1921 - 1st municipal elections for men & women in Belgium
1923 - General harbor strike begins in NYC
1925 - 88°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in April
1928 - Fathometer, which measures underwater depth, patented
1929 - 1st non-stop England to India flight takes-off
1929 - Thorvald Stauning becomes premier of Denmark
1932 - German national election (NSDAP 36.3% in Prussia)
1933 - 1st major league to get 4 consecutive doubles in 9 inn (Dick Bartell)
1938 - Lindenheuvel soccer team forms
1941 - British army begins evacuation of Greece
1941 - Dutch Prince Bernhard becomes an RAF pilot
1942 - Luftwaffe bombs Exeter
1944 - 1st Boeing B-29 arrives in China "over the Hump"
1944 - RAF bombs Munich
1944 - United Negro College Fund incorporates
1945 - Albert B "Happy" Chandler is named 2nd baseball commissioner
1945 - Delegates of 46 countries gather in SF (to discuss UN)
1946 - 11 players Tinker, Evers, Chance, Burkett, McCarthy, Waddell, Plank, Walsh, Chesbro, Griffith,
           & McGinnity are named to Hall of Fame
1949 - 3rd Tony Awards: Death of a Salesman & Kiss Me Kate win
1950 - "Peter Pan" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 320 performances
1950 - Independent republic of South Molukkas declared
1950 - Pres Harry Truman denies there are communists in US government
1951 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Sacramento Women's Golf Invitational Open
1953 - Winston Churchill knighted by Queen Elizabeth II
1954 - 1st American, civilian pilot, P.R. Holden, wounded in Indochina
1954 - Australia & USSR break diplomatic relations
1954 - WSEE TV channel 35 in Erie, PA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1955 - Conference of Bandung against colonialism/for self determination, ends
1955 - Gaullists lose elections in France
1955 - KFDM TV channel 6 in Beaumont, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting
1955 - KMAU (now KGMV) TV channel 3 in Wailuku, HI (CBS) begins broadcasting
1956 - AL ump Frank Umont is 1st to wear glasses in a regular season game
1957 - Chic Cub pitchers walk NL record 9 Reds in 5th inning
1958 - Lee Walls hits 3 HRS, as Cubs beat Dodgers 15-2
1959 - Neth Dance Theater opens (Rudi of Dantzig & Cut Flier)
1959 - WICD TV channel 15 in Champaign, IL (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1960 - 14th Tony Awards: Miracle Worker & Fiorello! win
1960 - Heavy earthquake strikes South Persia, 500 killed
1960 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Civitan Golf Open
1960 - Record 4 grand slams hit today
1961 - JFK accepts "sole responsibility" following Bay of Pigs
1961 - Vasa, which sunk on her maiden voyage in 1628, is raised
1961 - The 17th century Swedish ship Vasa is salvaged.
1962 - 1st Lockheed A-12 is taxi tested
1962 - MIT sends TV signal by satellite for 1st time: CA to MA
1962 - Sandy Koufax's 2nd 18-strikeout game
1963 - 17th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat LA Lakers, 4 games to 2
1963 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1964 - Mexico becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1965 - "Comedy in Music-Opus 2" closes at John Golden NYC after 192 perfs
1965 - Military coup under Donald Reid Cabral in Dominican Republic
1965 - NY Met Casey Stengel wins his 3,000 game as manager
1966 - Atlanta Braves win NL-record 18 straight home games (17 in Milwaukee)
1966 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Invitational
1967 - 21st NBA Championship: Phila 76ers beat SF Warriors, 4 games to 2
1967 - Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland says in a news conference that the
           enemy had "gained support in the United States that gives him hope that he can win
           politically that which he cannot win militarily."
1968 - ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Pete Tountas
1968 - Leftist students take over Columbia University, NYC
1968 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1968 - Mauritius becomes a member state of the United Nations.
1969 - Gen Lin Piao succeeds Mao, is seriously wounded
1969 - Lebanese army in battle with Palestinians
1969 - Paul McCartney says there is no truth to rumors he is dead
1969 - US B-52's drop 3,000 ton bombs at Cambodian boundary
1970 - China PR launches its 1st satellite transmitting song "East is Red"
1970 - Gambia becomes a republic within Commonwealth
1970 - Senegal adopts constitution
1971 - "Frank Merriwell" opens/closes at Longacre Theater NYC for 1 perf
1971 - Soyuz 10 returns to Earth
1974 - Dutch women hockey team becomes world champion
1974 - NFL grants franchise to Tampa Bay Bucaneers
1975 - Penguins 1-Isles 4-Quarterfinals-series tied at 3-3
1975 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1977 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA American Defender Golf Tournament
1978 - Angels Nolan Ryan strikes out 15 Mariners, 20th time he has 15 in game
1979 - Rhodesian bishop Muzorewa wins general election
1980 - US military operation to save 52 hostages in Iran, fails, 8 die
1981 - Bill Shoemaker wins his 8,000th race, 2000 more than any other jockey
1981 - IBM-PC computer introduced
1981 - San Antonio blocks 20 Golden State shots to set NBA reg game record
1981 - US ends grain embargo against USSR
1982 - 150 Khomeini followers assault student dormitory in West Germany
1982 - Cards win 12th game in a row; 7-4 over Phillies
1982 - Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Mike Durbin
1983 - "Show Boat" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 73 performances
1983 - Austrian socialist party loses parliamentary election
1983 - Hollis Stacy wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic
1984 - Oiler's Wayne Gretzky is 3rd to score on a Stanley Cup penalty shot
1985 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Carolyn Lizer for "Yin"
1987 - Howard Stern holds a free speech rally at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza NYC
1988 - Rosie Jones wins LPGA USX Golf Classic
1989 - 10s of thousands of students strikes in Beijing China
1989 - Massachusetts declares today "New Kids on the Block Day"
1990 - Brian Friel's "Dancing at Lughnasa," premieres in Dublin
1990 - Security law violator Michael Milken pleads guilty to 6 felonies
1990 - US 66th manned space mission STS 31 (Discovery 10) launches into orbit
1990 - West & East Germany agree to merge currency & economies on July 1st
1990 - Gruinard Island, Scotland, is officially declared free of the anthrax disease after 48 years of
           quarantine.
1991 - 26th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks
1991 - Freddie Stowers is awarded the posthumous Medal of Honor for which he had been
           recommended in 1918.
1992 - "Man of La Mancha" opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 108 performances
1992 - George Steinbrenner drops his suits against baseball
1992 - Vinson Pike fined £1000 for distributing obscene computer pictures
1993 - 1000 kg heavy IRA car bomb explodes in London, killing 1
1993 - Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by George Branham
1993 - An IRA bomb devastates the Bishopsgate area of London.
1994 - "Broken Glass" opens at Booth Theater NYC for 73 performances
1994 - "Flowering Peach" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 41 performances
1994 - Armando Calderon Sol wins El Salvador presidential election
1994 - Bomb attack in center of Johannesburg, 9 killed
1994 - David Robinson scores ties 7th highest total in the NBA - 71
1994 - NY Rangers sweep NY Islanders in NHL playoffs
1995 - Court orders Darryl Strawberry to pay back $350,000 in taxes
1995 - Dow Jones Index hits record 4303.98
1995 - Package bomb, linked to Unabomber, blows up killing Gilbert B Murray
1996 - "Jack-Night on Town with John Barrymore" opens at Belasco for 12 perf
1996 - 31st Academy of Country Music Awards: Shania Twain
1996 - Highest scoring baseball game in 17 years - Twins 24, Tigers 11
1997 - "Steel Peer," opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC for 76 performances
2004 - The United States lifts economic sanctions imposed on Libya 18 years previously, as a reward
           for its cooperation in eliminating weapons of mass destruction.
2005 - Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church
           taking the name Pope Benedict XVI.
2006 - King Gyanendra of Nepal gives into the demands of protesters and restores the parliament
           that he dissolved in 2002.
2007 - Iceland announces that Norway will shoulder the defense of Iceland during peacetime.

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 24, 2013, 02:43:57 PM

This Day in History for 24th April


Famous Weddings

1558 - Queen Mary Stuart of Scotland marries French crown prince Francois
1575 - William (the Silent) of Orange marries 3rd wife Charlotte de Bourbon and former French nun
1854 - Austria's Franz Joseph I marries Elisabeth A E "Sissi"
1963 - English princess Alexandra marries Sir Angus Ogilvy at Westminster Abbey
1992 - Rock star David Bowie (45) weds supermodel Iman (37) in Switzerland
1993 - ABC news analyst Jeff Greenfield weds Karen Gannett
1994 - Actress Kelly Preston (26) weds actor Lou Diamond Phillips (32)
2004 - Prince Friso of Orange (35), 2nd son of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands marries Mabel Wisse
           Smit (35) without formal permission of parliament.
2004 - Model-actress Ali Landry (30) weds TV personality Mario Lopez (30) at the exclusive Las
           Alamandas resort outside Puerto Vallarta, Mexico

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 24, 2013, 02:44:52 PM

This Day in History for 24th April


Famous Divorces

2007 - Recording artist and the most-awarded female act of all-time Whitney Houston (43) divorces
           R&B singer-songwriter Bobby Brown (38) due to irreconcilable differences after 14 years of 
           marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 24, 2013, 02:51:37 PM

This Day in History for 24th April


Famous Birthdays

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Actress Shirley MacLaine (1934)                    Singer & Actress                               Singer Kelly Clarkson (1982)
                                                               Barbra Streisand (1942) 


1533 - William I of Orange (d. 1584)
1538 - Gugliemo Gonzaga, composer
1581 - Vincent de Paul, French saint (d. 1660)
1594 - Benedikt Lechler, composer
1620 - John Graunt, statistician, founder of science of demography
1660 - Cornelis Dusart, Dutch painter/engraver
1670 - Christian Ludwig Boxberg, composer
1706 - Giovanni Battista Martini, composer
1718 - Nathaniel Hone, Irish-born painter (d. 1784)
1721 - Johann Philipp Kirnberger, German composer, baptised
1742 - Roman Hoffstetter, composer
1743 - Edmund Cartwright, England, cleric, inventor (power loom)
1750 - Simon-Antoine-Jean Lhuillier, Swiss mathematician
1766 - Robert Bailey Thomas, founder (Farmer's Almanac)
1773 - Harman W Muntinghe, lawyer/Dutch colonial director
1784 - Peter Vivian Daniel, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1860)
1791 - Nikolaj A Bestuzhev, Russia, writer/painter (Account about Holland)
1796 - K L Immermann, writer
1804 - Thomas Oliver Selfridge, Comm (Union Navy)
1807 - Charles Ferguson Smith, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
1814 - Angela Burdett-Coutts, philanthropist extrordinaire
1814 - Vincente F Lopez, Argentina historian (La Novia del Hereje)
1815 - Anthony Trollope, England, novelist/poet (Barchester Towers)
1815 - James Edward Harrison, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1875
1822 - Erastus Barnard Tyler, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1824 - Fournier, Swiss/French postage stamp forger
1828 - Robert Brank Vance, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1899
1829 - George Peabody Estey, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1881
1836 - Jeltje de Bosch Kemper, Dutch feminist
1837 - Friedrich von Holstein, German diplomat (die graue Eminenz)
1845 - Carl Spitteler, Switz, poet (Prometheus & Epimetheus; Nobel 1919)
1849 - Joseph S Gallieni, general (Battle of Marne)/milt governor (Paris)
1851 - Eduardo Acevedo Diaz, Uruguaian writer (Ismael, Grito de Gloria)
1856 - Henri POBJ Pétain, French marshal (Verdun/Vichy regime)
1864 - George AA Alting van Geusau, dir-gen (PTT)/Dutch Min of War (1918-20)
1867 - Fannie Thomas, became oldest known American (113 y 273 d at death)
1873 - Theodor Korner von Siegringen, Austrian general/president
1874 - John Russell Pope, US, architect (Jefferson Memorial)
1874 - Willem E Roelofs, Dutch painter/cartoonist
1875 - Jeno Huszka, composer
1876 - Ioannis Georgiadis, Greek fencer (d. 1960)
1876 - Erich Raeder, German naval commander (d. 1960)
1877 - Charles Cuvillier, composer
1878 - Jean Crotti, Swiss artist (d. 1958)
1882 - Hugh Dowding, commander of RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain (d. 1970)
1883 - Jaroslav Hasek, Czech writer (Brave soldier Schweik) [or April 30]
1886 - Kurt Pinthus, writer
1886 - R Pelgrom, oldest Dutch man (died Apr 15, 1994, 9 days short of 108)
1887 - Denys Finch Hatton, English big-game hunter (d. 1931)
1889 - [Richard] Stafford Cripps, Engl min of Plane-manufacturing (1942-45)
1889 - Lyubov Popova, Russian painter (d. 1924)
1892 - Jack Hulbert, Ely England, actor (Into the Blue, Bulldog Jack)
1893 - Robert Harron, NYC, actor (Birth of a Nation, Intolerance)
1895 - S Constantine Timoshenko, Russian marshal/people's commissioner
1897 - Benjamin Lee Whorf, linguist (or 1797)
1897 - Gyorgy Kosa, composer
1897 - Manuel Ávila Camacho, President of Mexico (d. 1955)
1899 - Oscar Zariski, Russian-born mathematician (d. 1986)
1903 - Jose A Primo de Rivera y Saenz de Heredia, founder (Spanish Falange)
1903 - Mike Michalske, NFL guard (NY Yankees, Green Bay Packers)
1903 - Siegfried F Nadel, Austrian/British anthropologist (Black Byzantium)
1904 - Willem De Kooning, Rotterdam Netherland, artist (North Atlantic Light)
1905 - Robert Penn Warren, 1st US poet laureate (All the King's Men)
1906 - William Joyce, Irish fascist (d. 1946)
1907 - Vaclav Trojan, composer
1908 - Heddy Bouber, [Hermanus G Blom], actor (Bluejackets)
1908 - Marceline Day, American actor (d. 2000)
1909 - Bernhard Grzimek, zoologist (West Germany)
1909 - Irven Spence, animator
1911 - Jack E Leonard, Chicago Ill, comedian (Disorderly Orderly)
1911 - Karl O Schiller, German economist (Minister of Economics)
1911 - Robert Joseph Kane, Ithaca NY, Pres of US Olympic Comm (1976)
1911 - Sigursveinn David Kristinsson, composer
1914 - Bernard Caulfield, judge
1914 - Justin Wilson, cajun chef (Wise Potato Chips)
1914 - Ruth White, Perth Amboy NJ, actress (Up the Down Staircase)
1916 - Stanley Kauffmann, NYC, playwright (Red Handkerchief Man)
1916 - Lou Thesz, American professional wrestler (d. 2002)
1917 - Len Creed, bookmaker
1921 - Laci Boldemann, composer
1922 - J D Cannon, Salmon Idaho, actor (McCloud, Ike, Call to Glory)
1924 - Marilyn Erskine, Rochester NY, actor (Fran-Tom Ewell Show)
1924 - Yehoshua Lakner, composer
1924 - Sir Clement Freud, British writer, radio personality, and politician
1924 - Ruth Kobart, American actor and singer (d. 2002)
1927 - Josy Barthel, Luxembourg, 1500m runner (Olympic-gold-1952)
1927 - Pasqualino de Santis, cinematographer
1927 - Patrick Bowles, writer/translator
1928 - Gustav Krivinka, composer
1929 - Ferit Tuzun, composer
1929 - Dr.Rajkumar, Kannada actor
1930 - Conn Findlay, Stockton California, coxswain (Oly-2 gold/bronze-56, 64, 76)
1930 - Jerome Callet, American musician
1931 - Bridget Riley, British painter (op-art)
1932 - Coen[rad] Flink, Dutch actor (Pastorale 1943, Havinck, Honneponnetje)
1932 - Vladimir Yengibaryan, Yerevan, Armenia, welterweight boxer (Olympic gold, 1956), (d. 2013)
1933 - Freddie Scott, US songwriter/singer (Cry to Me)
1933 - Patricia Bosworth, American actor, journalist, writer and biographer
1933 - Claire Davenport, British actress (d. 2002)
1933 - Alan Eagleson, Canadian ice hockey agent and promoter
1933 - Helmuth Lohner, Austrian actor
1934 - John Barbour, Toronto, TV host (Real People)
1934 - Shirley MacLaine, Richmond Va, actress/mystic (Irma la Douce)
1935 - Louis Keith, Chicago, physician (expert on multiple-births)
1936 - Jill Ireland, London, actress (Breakout, Assassination, Chino)
1937 - Joe Henderson, American jazz saxophonist (d. 2001)
1940 - David Larter, cricketer (two-metre tall England pace bowler)
1940 - Sue Grafton, American author
1941 - John Williams, Melbourne Australia, guitarist (Acad Award)
1942 - Barbra Streisand, Bkln NY, singer/actress/award winner (People)
1942 - Richard M Daley, (mayor-D-Chicago)
1942 - Valeri Abramovich Voloshin, Russian cosmonaut
1943 - Richard Sterban, Camden NJ, country singer (Oak Ridge Boys-Elvira)
1944 - [Bernard] St Clair Lee [Calhoun], US singer (Rock the Boat)
1945 - Doug Clifford, rock drummer (Creedence Clearwater Revival-Proud Mary)
1945 - Eugene O'Brien, composer
1945 - Robert Knight, rocker
1945 - Doug Riley, Canadian musician (d. 2007)
1946 - Bruce Stuart Saylor, composer
1946 - Dick Rivers, French singer and actor
1947 - Glenn Cornick, rock bassist (Jethro Tull-Thick as a Brick)
1947 - Hubert Ann Kelly, US singer (Hues Corporation/Rock the boat)
1947 - Josep Borrell Fontelles, Former President of the European Parliament
1947 - Roger D. Kornberg, American chemist, Nobel-prized
1948 - Benzion Freshwater, English multi-millionaire
1948 - Eddie James Hart, Martinez Cal, 4x100m relay runner (Olympic-gold-72)
1948 - Paul Cellucci, 69th Governor of Massachusetts and former United States Ambassador to
           Canada
1949 - Véronique Sanson, French singer and songwriter
1951 - Andrew John Fairclough, trade union educator
1953 - Eric Bogosian, Woburn MA, actor (Talk Radio)
1953 - John P Hiler, (Rep-R-IN, 1981- )
1953 - Porter Carroll Jr, drummer (Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover)
1954 - Jack Blades, rock bassist (Damn Yankees-Coming of Age, Night Ranger)
1954 - Vince Ferragamo, NFL/CFL quarterback (LA Rams, Montreal Alouettes)
1954 - Mumia Abu-Jamal, American death-row inmate
1955 - Jack Kingston, (Rep-R-Georgia)
1955 - Michael O'Keefe, NJ, actor (Caddyshack, Ironweed, Slugger's Wife)
1955 - John de Mol, Dutch media businessman
1957 - David J, British musician
1957 - Boris Williams, British musician
1958 - Fernando Luna, Spain, tennis star
1958 - Valery Lantratov, Russian ballet dancer
1958 - Brian Paddick, British former deputy assistant commissioner and most senior openly gay
           police officer
1959 - Yvonne D Cagle, West Point NY, MD/astronaut
1959 - Malcolm Oastler, Australian engineer
1960 - Paula Yates, London England, Mrs Bob Geldof/rocker/writer (Blondes)
1962 - Stuart Pearce, English footballer and manager
1963 - Billy Gould, LA California, rock bassist (Faith No More)
1963 - Joey Vera, heavy metal rocker (Armored Saint-Aftermath)
1963 - Mano Solo, French singer
1963 - Tõnu Trubetsky, Estonian musician
1964 - Cedric the Entertainer, American comedian and actor
1964 - Djimon Hounsou, Beninese actor
1965 - Mike Blowers, Wurlzburg Germany, infielder (NY Yankees, LA Dodgers)
1965 - Son Chang Min, South Korean actor
1966 - Margashayam Venkataramana, cricketer (Indian off-spinner 1989)
1966 - Pascale Paradis-Mangon, France, tennis star
1966 - Theo Adams, WLAF tackle (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1966 - Pierre Brassard, Quebec humorist and actor
1966 - Alessandro Costacurta, Italian footballer
1967 - Dino Radja, NBA forward (Boston Celtics)
1967 - Leslie M Marx, Ft Belvoir Va, fencer-epee (Olympics-96)
1967 - Pam[ela] Bustin, Somerset Mass, field hockey defender (Olympics-96)
1968 - Aaron Comes, rocker (Spin Doctors)
1968 - Mark Vanderloo, Waddenveen Neth, model
1968 - Todd Jones, Marietta GA, pitcher (Houston Astros)
1968 - Tracy Gravely, CFL linebacker (Montreal Alouettes)
1968 - Hashim Thaci, Kosovan politician
1968 - Stacy Haiduk, American actress
1969 - Elias Atmatsidis, Greek footballer
1969 - Melinda Clarke, American actress
1969 - Viveca Paulin, Swedish actress
1970 - Damien Fleming, Aust cricket pace bowler (hat-trick on Test debut)
1970 - Emanuela Zardo, Switzerland, tennis star
1971 - Jeff Brohm, quarterback (San Francisco 49ers)
1971 - Ken Klee, Indianapolis, NHL defenseman (Washington Capitals)
1971 - Kumara Dharmasena, cricketer (Sri Lankan off-spinner)
1971 - Phil Rogers, Adelaide SA Aust, 100m breaststroker (Oly-bronze-92, 96)
1971 - Mauro Pawlowski, Belgian guitarist and singer
1972 - Chipper Jones, Deland FL, infielder (Atlanta Braves)
1972 - Jamie Brown, NFL tackle (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1972 - Nicolas Gill, Montreal Quebec, 86kg judoka (Olympics-bronze-92, 96)
1972 - Rab Douglas, Scottish footballer
1972 - Jure Košir, Slovenian skier
1973 - Eric Snow, NBA guard (Phila 76ers, Seattle Supersonics)
1973 - Jamie Brown, NFL tackle (Denver Broncos)
1973 - Mark Babic, Australian soccer defender (Olyroos, Olympics-96)
1973 - Melissa Short, Kaaawa Hawaii, Miss America (Hawaii-Top 10-1997)
1973 - Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar, cricketer (prodigy at 16, Indian capt at 23)
1973 - Ville Peltonen, hockey forward (Team Finland Oly-Bronze-1998)
1973 - Gabby Logan, British television presenter
1974 - Jared Tomich, defensive end (New Orleans Saints)
1974 - Marc Collins, NFL punter (Seattle Seahawks)
1974 - Toine Rorije, soccer player (Go Ahead Eagles)
1974 - Joseph Bruce, American rapper
1974 - Eric Kripke, American television writer, director and producer
1974 - Brian Marshall, American bassist
1974 - Dave Vitty, British radio personality
1975 - Justin Boocock, Launceston Australia, canoeist (Olympics-96)
1975 - Michael Stewart, NBA center (Sacramento Kings)
1975 - Sam Doumit, American actress
1976 - Shane McDermott, actor (Garrett Booth-Swan's Crossing)
1976 - Sonya Jeyaseelan, Newestminster BC, tennis star (1995 Futures Fla)
1976 - Steve Finnan, Irish footballer
1977 - Ryan Mitchell, Port Augusta SA Australia, swimmer (Olympics-96)
1977 - Siarhey Balakhonau, Belarusian writer
1977 - Carlos Beltran, Puerto Rican baseball player
1978 - Eric Balfour, American actor
1978 - Kim Hyun-ju, Korean actress
1978 - Stella Damasus Aboderin, Nigerian actress
1979 - Laurentia Tan, Singaporean Paralympic equestrienne
1980 - Fernando Arce, Mexican footballer
1980 - Austin Nichols, American actor
1981 - Taylor Dent, American tennis player
1982 - Kelly Clarkson, Fort Worth, Texas, American singer and winner of the inaugural season of TV
           series American Idol
1983 - Princess Iman bint Al Hussein of Jordan
1984 - Tyson Ritter, American musician
1987 - Kristopher Letang, Canadian hockey player
1987 - Jan Vertonghen, Belgian footballer
1988 - Michael Tylo, son of US actor/actress Michael Tylo/Deborah Hunter
1992 - Sean Rademaker, actor (Kirkland Harrison-Another World)
1994 - Austin Rogers, American actor
1998 - Ryan Newman, American actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 24, 2013, 02:53:08 PM

This Day in History for 24th April


Famous Deaths

624 - Mellitus, third Archbishop of Canterbury
709 - Wilfrid, English bishop and saint, dies at about 76
729 - Egbert[us], English bishop/saint, dies in Iona at 89
1077 - Geza I, King of Hungary (1074-7), dies
1185 - Antoku Taira, emperor of Japan (1180-85), drowns
1338 - Marquis Theodore I of Montferrat (b. 1291)
1530 - Jacopo Sannazaro, Italian poet (De partu Virginis), dies
1617 - Carlo Concino, French marquis of Ancre/state advisor, murdered
1622 - Fidelis of Sigmaringen, Swiss friar, martyr, and saint (b. 1577)
1656 - Thomas Fincke, Danish mathematician and physicist (b. 1561)
1731 - Daniel Defoe, English novelist (Robinson Crusoe), dies
1736 - Prince Eugene of Savoy, French-born Austrian general (b. 1663)
1758 - Florian Wrastill, composer, dies at 41
1776 - Carolus van de Abeele, Flemish Jesuit, dies at 84
1776 - Giuseppi Paolucci, composer, dies at 49
1779 - Eleazar Wheelock, American founder of Dartmouth College (b. 1711)
1824 - Herman Muntinghe, theologist (History of Mankind), dies at 71
1827 - Pierre Joseph Candielle, composer, dies at 82
1848 - Francois van Campenhout, Belgian composer (Brabanconne), dies at 69
1850 - Louis Alexandre Piccinni, composer, dies at 70
1852 - Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet (b. 1783)
1855 - Walenty Karol Kratzer, composer, dies at 75
1875 - Jose Maria de la Purificacion Ventura, composer, dies at 58
1891 - Count Helmuth K B von Moltke, Prussian gen/fieldmarshal, dies
1900 - George J D Campbell, Brit min of Indies (1868-74, 80-85), dies at 76
1904 - Friedrich Siemens, German industrial, dies at 77
1912 - Justin M'Carthy, politician/novelist (Miss Misanthrope), dies at 81
1917 - Oskar Blumenthal, writer, dies
1922 - Richard Batka, composer, dies at 53
1924 - George Street, English cricket wicket keeper (1 Test 1923), dies
1924 - G. Stanley Hall, American psychologist (b. 1844)
1928 - Ferdinand B Hummel, composer, dies at 72
1935 - Paul Klengel, composer, dies at 80
1936 - Alphons Diepenbrock, composer, dies at 73
1936 - Bernard van Dieren, composer, dies at 51
1938 - George Grey Barnard, American sculptor (b. 1863)
1939 - John Foulds, composer, dies at 58
1942 - Karin Boye, Swedish author (b. 1900)
1942 - Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian author (b. 1874)
1943 - Gerardus H de Hare, socialist vicar, dies at 63
1944 - William Stephens, U.S. political figure (b. 1859)
1945 - Anton de Kom, Suriname resistance fighter, dies at 47
1945 - Hubert Bath, composer, dies at 61
1947 - Willa Cather, American writer (b. 1873)
1948 - Joseph Wihtol, composer, dies at 84
1948 - Manuel Marua Ponce, Mexican composer (Ferial), dies at 65
1948 - Rosita Marstini, actress (I Cover Waterfront, Big Parade), dies at 54
1952 - Hans [Hendrik A] Kramers, physicist (quantum mechanics), dies at 57
1952 - Jules Poncelet, Belgian minister of State, dies at 82
1955 - Alfred Polgar, Austrian writer/theater critic, dies at 79
1956 - Albrecht G Alt, German theologist (Small Schriften), dies at 72
1956 - Henry Stephenson, actor (Conquest, Mr Lucky), dies at 85
1957 - Andries CD de Graeff, gov-gen of Neth Indies (1926-31), dies at 84
1959 - Jef van Hoof, composer, dies at 72
1960 - John P "John" Musch, actor/founder (JM), dies at 84
1961 - Lee Moran, actor (Circus Clown), dies of heart ailment at 72
1964 - Gerhard Domagk, German bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
          (declined) (b. 1895)
1965 - Louise Dresser, actress (State Fair, Ship Comes In, Mammy), dies at 86
1967 - Frank Overton, actor (12 O'Clock High), dies at 48
1967 - Vladimir M Komarov, cosmonaut (Voshkod I), dies in Soyuz 1 at 40
1968 - Norman McKaye, actor (Untamed Fury, Frogman), dies at 62
1968 - Tommy Noonan, actor (Gentlemen Perfer Blondes), dies at 45
1974 - Bud Abbott, comedian (Abbott & Costello), dies at 78
1975 - William Hartnell, actor (Jackpot, This Sporting Life), dies at 67
1976 - Mark Tobey, US abstract painter, (Broadway Norm), dies at 85
1979 - John Carroll, actor (Hired Wife, Fiesta, Geraldine), dies at 72
1980 - Alentejo Carpentier, Cuban/Fren writer (Guerra del Tiempo), dies at 75
1983 - Rolf Stommelen, German race car driver (b. 1943)
1985 - Sergei Yutkevich, Russian director, (Otello, Banya), dies at 80
1986 - Bessie Wallis Warfield Simpson, (Edward abdicated for her), dies at 89
1986 - Bill Edrich, cricketer (39 Tests for England), dies
1988 - E S "Bob" Newson, cricketer (South African fast bowler in 1930's), dies
1990 - Joseph Leberman, entertainer, dies
1990 - Tom Rolfing, actor (He Knows You're Alone, Cliff-Another World), dies
1991 - J de Graaf, ethicus/president church & peace, dies
1993 - Oliver R Tambo, chairman (African National Congress), dies at 75
1995 - Douglas Gunsekera, banker, dies at 77
1996 - Donald Cammell, film director, dies at 62
1996 - Erma Bombeck, columnist (Septic Tank is Always Greener), dies
1996 - Preston Lockwood, actor (House of Windsor, Black Candle), dies at 83
1997 - Pat Paulsen, comedian (Smothers Brothers Show), dies at 69
2001 - Al Hibbler, American singer (b. 1915)
2001 - Leon Sullivan, African-American civil rights leader and pastor (b. 1922)
2004 - Estée Lauder, American cosmetics entrepreneur (b. 1906)
2005 - Ezer Weizman, President of Israel (b. 1924)
2005 - Fei Xiaotong, Chinese sociologist (b. 1910)
2006 - Steve Stavro, Canadian businessman and sports team owner (b. 1927)
2006 - Moshe Teitelbaum, Hassidic rabbi (b. 1914)
2006 - Brian Labone, English footballer (b. 1940)
2009 - John Michell, British writer, (b. 1933)
2011 - Sathya Sai Baba, Indian guru, spiritual figure (b. 1926)
2011 - Marie-France Pisier, French actress (b. 1944)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 25, 2013, 10:32:21 AM

This Day in History for 25th April


Historical Events

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Fictional Character                                       Father of Psychology                           Composer Giacomo Puccini
Robinson Crusoe                                            Sigmund Freud

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Singer & Cultural Icon                              NHL all-time top scorer                           Country Singer Roger Miller
Elvis Presley                                              Wayne Gretzky

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Russian President Boris Yeltsin


1185 - Sea battle at Dan-no-ura: Minamoto Yoritomo beats Taira-family
1449 - Anti-pope Felix V resigns
1507 - Geographer Martin Waldseemuller 1st used name America
1541 - -26) Liege flooded after heavy down pour
1604 - Count Maurits' army lands at Cadzand
1607 - Battle at Gibraltar: Dutch fleet beats Spanish/Portuguese fleet
1614 - Amsterdam Bank of Loan forms
1626 - Battle at the Dessauer bridge: Monarch Albrecht von Wallenstein beats Earl of Mansfeld
1660 - English Convention Parliament meets & votes to restore Charles II
1678 - French troops conquer Ypres
1684 - Patent granted for thimble
1707 - Battle of Almansa-Franco-Spanish forces defeat Anglo-Portuguese
1719 - Daniel Defoes publishes "Robinson Crusoe"
1747 - Prince Willem V appointed viceroy of Zealand
1792 - Guillotine 1st used, executes highwayman Nicolas J Pelletier
1829 - Charles Fremantle arrives in the HMS Challenger off the coast of modern-day Western
           Australia prior to declaring the Swan River Colony for the United Kingdom.
1846 - Thornton Affair: Open conflict begins over the disputed border of Texas, triggering the
           Mexican-American War.
1849 - The Governor General of Canada, Lord Elgin, signs the Rebellion Losses Bill, outraging
           Montreal's English population and triggering the Montreal Riots.
1850 - Paul Julius Reuter, use 40 pigeons to carry stock market prices
1859 - Ground broken for Suez Canal
1861 - Battle of Lavaca, TX
1861 - American Civil War: The Union Army arrives to reinforce Washington, D.C.
1862 - Battle of New Orleans LA - US Admiral Farragut occupies New Orleans
1864 - Battle of Marks' Mill, Arkansas (Camden Expedition)
1867 - Tokyo opens for foreign trade
1875 - Latest date for measurable snow in NYC (3")
1876 - Chicago Cubs 1st NL game, beats Louisville 4-0 (1st NL shutout)
1881 - 250,000 Germans petition to bar foreign Jews from entering Germany
1881 - French troops occupy Algeria & Tunisia
1886 - Sigmund Freud opens practice at Rathausstrasse 7, Vienna
1891 - Pres Benjamin Harrison visits SF
1896 - Fight in Central Dance Hall starts fire (Cripple Creek Colorado)
1896 - Sidney Jones & Harry Greenbacks musical premieres in London
1898 - Spanish-American War: The United States declares state of war on Spain effective from 21st
           April.
1901 - Erve Beck hits American League's 1st home run
1901 - New York becomes 1st state requiring auto license plates ($1 fee)
1901 - In last of 9th, Detroit Tigers, trailing by 13-4, score 10 runs to win one of greatest
           comebacks in baseball (1st game in Detroit)
1902 - Erwin Harvey becomes 1st Cleveland ballplayer (Cleveland Bronchos) to have six hits in one
           game
1904 - NY Yankee Jack Chesbro's 1st of 41 wins this year
1905 - Latest day of 1st-class cricket in an Aust season (NSW v Qld)
1905 - Whites win right to vote in South Africa
1915 - 78,000 ANZAC troops land at Gallipoli
1925 - Paul von Hindenburg elected president of Germany
1926 - Giacomo Puccini's opera "Turandot," premieres in Milan
1926 - Persian cossack officer Reza Chan crowns himself Shah Palawi
1927 - Spain routes 20,000 soldiers to Morocco (uprising Rifkabylen)
1928 - Buddy, a German Shepherd, becomes 1st guide dog for the blind
1932 - Rose Franken's "Another Language," premieres in NYC
1933 - NY Yankee Russ Van Atta shuts out Washington Senators 16-0
1933 - US & Canada drop Gold Standard
1938 - 1st use of seeing eye dog
1941 - Operation Merkur: Hitler orders conquest of Kreta
1942 - Luftwaffe bombs Bath
1943 - The Demyansk Shield for German troops in commemoration of Demyansk Pocket is instituted.
1944 - United Negro College Fund incorporates
1945 - 45 countries convene UN Conference on Intl Organization in SF
1945 - Allied air raid on Surabaja, Java
1945 - British troops reach Grebbe line Neth
1945 - Clandestine Radio 1212, used to hoax Nazi Germany's final transmission
1945 - Last Boeing B-17 attack against Nazi Germany
1945 - Red army completely surrounds Berlin
1945 - US & Soviet forces meet at Torgau Germany on Elbe River
1946 - "Exposition Flyer" rammed at Napierville Illinois, killing 48
1946 - Christopher Fry's "Phoenix too Frequent," premieres in London
1947 - Lou Thesz beats Whipper Watson in St Louis, to become wrestling champ
1947 - Trial against WW II mayor of Amsterdam Edward Voete begins
1949 - Friedrich Durrenmatt's "Romulus der Grosse," premieres in Basel
1949 - Michael Brown, rocker (Left Bank-Don't Walk Away Renee)
1950 - Ambon (proclaims RMS (Republik Maluku Selatan)
1950 - Chuck Cooper becomes 1st black to play in NBA
1952 - 6th NBA Championship: Minneapolis Lakers beat NY Knicks, 4 games to 3
1952 - American Bowling Congress approves use of an automatic pinsetter
1952 - German "Country" Bathe-Wurttemberg forms
1953 - Scientists identify DNA
1954 - Bell labs announces 1st solar battery (NYC)
1954 - British raid Nairobi Kenya (25,000 Mau Mau suspects arrested)
1954 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island atmospher
1954 - WDEF TV channel 12 in Chattanooga, TN (CBS) begins broadcasting
1956 - Elvis Presley's "Heartbreak Hotel" goes #1
1956 - Noel Coward's musical "South Sea Bubble," premieres in London
1957 - 1st experimental sodium nuclear reactor operated
1957 - Ibrahim Hashim forms Jordanian government
1957 - WUHY TV channel 35 in Philadelphia, PA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1959 - St Lawrence Seaway linking Atlantic, Great Lakes opens to shipping
1960 - 1st submerged circumnavigation of Earth completed (Triton)
1961 - "Young Abe Lincoln" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 27 perfs
1961 - France performs nuclear test at Reggane Proving Grounds Algeria
1961 - Mercury/Atlas rocket lifted off with an electronic mannequin
1961 - Premier Moise Tsjombe of Katanga arrested in Congo
1961 - Robert Noyce patents integrated circuit
1961 - Unmanned Mercury test explodes on launch pad
1962 - Cleve sends Harry Chiti to Mets for a player to be named later, on
1962 - Lion & Tiger Veldt at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo is dedicated
1962 - US Ranger spacecraft crash lands on Moon
1962 - US resumes above ground nuclear testing, at Christmas Island
1962 - June 15 the Mets send Chiti back to Cleveland
1964 - Stanley Cup: Toronto Maple Leafs beat Detroit Red Wings, 4 games to 3
1965 - 19th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat LA Lakers, 4 games to 1
1965 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Pensacola Golf Invitational
1966 - Drunk driver kills 10 children in Asse Belgium
1966 - The city of Tashkent is destroyed by a huge earthquake.
1967 - Abortion legalized in Colorado
1967 - Britain grants internal self-government to Swaziland
1967 - Jules Feiffer's "Little Murders," premieres in NYC
1968 - "Half a Sixpence" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 512 performances
1969 - BBC Radio serial "Dales" 5,400th & last episode
1969 - Last radio broadcast of "Mrs Dale's Diary" on BBS
1970 - "Park" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 5 performances
1970 - Freda Payne releases "Band of Gold"
1970 - Melanie releases "Lay Down"
1971 - About 200,000 anti-Vietnam War protesters march on Washington
1971 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational
1971 - US canal rights in Nicaragua & rights to Corn Islands expire
1971 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1972 - Hans-Werner Grosse glides 907.7 miles (1,461 km) in an AS-W-12
1973 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1974 - Chancellor Willy Brandt sect Gunther Guillaume found to be a spy
1974 - Leo Tindemans forms Belgium government
1974 - Marcello Caetano overthrown in Portugal (Carnation revolution)
1974 - NFL moves goal posts & adopts sudden-death playoff
1975 - 1st Boeing Jetfoil revenue service, Hong Kong to Macao
1975 - Mario Soares' Socialist Party wins Portugal's free election
1975 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1975 - West German embassy blown-up in Stockholm Sweden
1976 - Elections in Vietnam for a National Assembly to reunite the country
1976 - India all out for 97 v West Indies
1976 - Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic
1976 - Portugal adopts constitution
1976 - Cub centerfielder Rick Monday rescues US flag from 2 fans trying to set it on fire
1977 - Cin Reds tie record of 12 runs in 5th inning beating Braves 23-9
1977 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1978 - Phillie Phanatic makes 1st appearance
1978 - Supreme Court rules pension plans can't require women to pay more
1979 - "Rock 'n Roll High Schools" premieres
1979 - Peace treaty between Israel & Egypt goes into effect
1980 - A's manager Billy Martin restrained by umps from attacking a fan
1980 - Announcement of Jimmy Carter hostage rescue bungle in Iran
1980 - Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Wayne Webb
1980 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1981 - Mariners mgr Maury Wills is suspended for 2 games after ordering Seattle's grounds crew to
           enlarge batter's boxes by one foot
1981 - More than 100 workers are exposed to radiation during repairs of a nuclear power plant in
           Tsuruga, Japan.
1982 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1982 - In accordance with Camp David, Israel completes Sinai withdrawal
1982 - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Orlando Lady Golf Classic
1982 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1982 - Yanks fire manager Bob Lemon & replaces him with Gene Michael
1983 - "Nightline" expands from ½ hour to a full hour
1983 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1983 - Portugal's Soares' Partido Socialista wins parliamentary election
1983 - Yuri Andropov invites US schoolgirl Samantha Smith to USSR
1983 - Pioneer 10 travels beyond Pluto's orbit.
1984 - Rock group Wings disbands
1984 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1985 - "Big River" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 1005 performances
1985 - Flyers 2-Isles 6-Patrick Div Finals-Flyers hold 3-1 lead
1985 - For 2nd time, Wayne Gretzky, scores 7 goals in a Cup game
1985 - Roger Miller's musical "Big River," premieres in NYC
1985 - West German Parliament ruled it illegal to deny the holocaust
1986 - ETA bomb attacks Madrid killing 5
1986 - Mswati III is crowned King of Swaziland, succeeding his father Sobhuza II.
1988 - "Nightline" goes on location to Jerusalem Israel
1988 - John Demjanjuk (Ivan the Terrible), sentenced to death in Jerusalem
1988 - NASA launches space vehicle S-211
1989 - Mike Tyson gets a speeding ticket for drag racing in Albany NY
1989 - Penguin Mario Lemuix ties NHL playoff record of 4 goals in 1st period
1990 - 25th Academy of Country Music Awards: Clint Black & Kathy Mattea win
1990 - Hubble space telescope is placed into orbit by shuttle Discovery
1990 - Violeta Barrios de Chamorro begins a 6 year term as Nicaragua's pres
1991 - "Grand Hotel" closes at Beck Theater NYC after 1018 performances
1991 - Designer Mary McFadden (52) announces divorce of Kohie Yohannan (23)
1991 - Lisa Olson brings suit against NFL NE Patriots for sexual harassment
1991 - Lucy Simon & Marsha Norman's musical premieres in NYC
1992 - "Shimada" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 4 performances
1992 - Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Marc McDowell
1993 - "Blood Brothers" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 839 performances
1993 - Russia elects Boris Yeltsin leader
1994 - 14" of snow in Southern Calif
1994 - Bomb attack on taxi stand in Johannesburg, 10 killed
1994 - Fishing boat with school children capsize at Lanaka Syria, 46 killed
1994 - King Azlan Shah of Malaysia resigns
1994 - Mexican businessman & billionaire Angel Losada kidnap
1994 - Tsutomu Hata elected premier of Japan
1995 - "Month in the Country" opens at Roundabout Theater NYC for 79 perfs
1995 - 16th Emmy Sports Award presentation
1996 - "Bring in Da Noise, Bring in Da Funk," opens at Ambassador Theater NYC
1997 - Seattle Mariner Ken Griffey Jr hits his 250th HR
2005 - The final piece of the Obelisk of Axum is returned to Ethiopia after being stolen by the
           invading Italian army in 1937.
2005 - Bulgaria and Romania sign accession treaties to join the European Union.
2005 - 107 die in Amagasaki rail crash in Japan.
2007 - Boris Yeltsin's funeral - the first to be sanctioned by the Russian Orthodox Church for a head
           of state since the funeral of Emperor Alexander III in 1894.
2011 - At least 300 people killed in deadliest tornado outbreak in the Southern United States since
           the 1974 Super Outbreak.
2012 - The United Kingdom dips back into recession after the economy shrunk 0.2% in the first
           quarter of 2012

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 25, 2013, 10:33:49 AM

This Day in History for 25th April


Famous Weddings

1981 - Maureen Reagan (40) marries 3rd husband, Dennis Revell (28)
2003 - "Angel" actress Amy Acker (26) weds actor James Carpinello (27) at Hans Fahden Vineyard in
           Napa Valley, California
2009 - TV personality Spencer Pratt (28) weds media personality and singer Heidi Montag (25) at
           Westminster Presbyterian Church in Pasadena

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 25, 2013, 10:35:02 AM

This Day in History for 25th April


Famous Divorces

1991 - Designer Mary McFadden (52) announces divorce of Kohie Yohannan (23)
2012 - Comedian and actor Martin Lawrence (47) files for divorce from Shamicka Gibbs due to
           irreconcilable differences after 1.5 years of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 25, 2013, 01:52:23 PM

This Day in History for 25th April


Famous Birthdays

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Jazz Singer Ella Fitzgerald (1917)                 Actor Hank Azaria (1964)                   11th Panchen Lama Gedhun
                                                                                                                                    Choekyi Nyima (1989)


32 - Marcus Salvius Otho, Roman Emperor (d. 69)
1214 - Louis IX, King of France (1226-70)
1228 - Conrad IV, Andria Italy, King of Germany, Jerusalem and Sicily (d. 1254)
1284 - Edward II, King of England (1307-27)
1287 - Roger de Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, de facto ruler of England (d. 1330)
1502 - Georg Major, German Protestant theologian (d. 1574)
1567 - Aurelio Signoretti, composer
1599 - Oliver Cromwell, Puritan lord protector of England (1653-58)
1608 - Jean BG duke of Orleans, brother of French King Louis XIII/general
1614 - Hieronymus van Beverningk, chief Dutch treasurer/maecenas
1614 - Marc'Antonio Pasqualini, composer
1621 - Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, British soldier, statesman, and dramatist (d. 1679)
1666 - Johann Heinrich Buttstett, composer
1677 - Guillaume Coustou Sr, French sculptor (Chevaux the Marly)
1690 - Gottlieb Theophil Muffat, composer
1694 - Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, English architect (d. 1753)
1710 - James Ferguson, astronomer
1723 - Giovanni Marco Rutini, composer
1725 - Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel, British admiral (d. 1786)
1730 - Fedele Fenaroli, composer
1767 - Nicolas Oudinot, French marshal (d. 1847)
1769 - Mark Isambard Brunel, engineer/inventor
1770 - Georg Sverdrup, Norwegian philologist (d. 1850)
1776 - Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh (d. 1857)
1792 - John Keble, Anglican priest/founder (Oxford Movement)
1818 - Marek Konrad Sokolowski, composer
1824 - Gustave-Rodolphe-Clarence Boulanger, painter
1825 - Charles Ferdinand Dowd, US, standardized time zones
1837 - William Charles Levey, composer
1840 - James Dearing, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1865
1841 - Pauline Lucca, soprano
1842 - Antonio Fogazzarro, Italian writer/poet (Il santo/Leila)
1843 - Alice of the United Kingdom, Grand Duchess of Hesse (d. 1878)
1849 - Felix Klein, German mathematician (Evanston Colloquium)
1851 - Leopoldo Alas y Ureña, a.k.a. "Clarín", Spanish novelist (d. 1901)
1862 - Edward Grey, English viscount of Fallodon/minister of Foreign affairs
1867 - Jean Demoor, Belgian physician/physiologist
1868 - John Bevins Moisant, pioneer aviator, first to cross English Channel with passenger and a cat,
           killed in New Orleans whose present day airport was originally name for him. (D. 1910)
1869 - Karl Prohaska, composer
1871 - Sara Amsel, Indonesian/Dutch actress
1872 - Charles Burgess Fry, cricketer/world record long jumper
1874 - Guglielmo Marconi, Bologna Italy, inventor (radio, Nobel 1909)
1876 - Ruben Marcos Campos, composer
1881 - Hans Windisch, German new testament expert
1883 - Elsa Maxwell, Keokuk Iowa, writer (Jack Paar Show)
1889 - Charles Kellaway, cricketer (great Australian all-rounder of 1920's)
1895 - Stanley Rous, British soccer official
1897 - Haro Levoni Step'anyan, composer
1897 - VAA Mary, English princess
1898 - Fred Haney, baseball player (d. 1977)
1900 - Hubert Miles Gladwyn Jebb, 1st Baron Gladwyn, British politician and diplomat
1900 - Wolfgang Pauli, Swiss/Us physicist (Pauli inhibition, Nobel 1945)
1901 - Ernst Gernot Klussmann, composer
1902 - Werner Heyde, German psychiatrist (d. 1964)
1903 - Camilla Horn, actress (Rebus, Vertigine, Polterabend, Matinee Idol)
1903 - Carl Gustav Sparre Olsen, composer
1903 - Andrey Nikolayevich Kolmogorov, Russian mathematician (d. 1987)
1905 - Hugh Willatt, solicitor/public servant
1905 - Walter Hassan, engineer
1905 - George Nepia, New Zealand rugby player (d. 1986)
1906 - Sally Salminen, writer
1906 - William J Brennan Jr, NJ, 92nd Supreme Court judge (1956-90) [or 8/25]
1906 - Zoltan Gardonyi, composer
1907 - Paula Trueman, NYC, actress (Gran-Billy)
1907 - Vasily Pavlovich Solov'yov-Sedoy, composer
1908 - Edward R Murrow, Pole Creek NC, newscaster (Person to Person)
1909 - Jaroslav Doubrava, composer
1912 - Gladys L Presley, mother of Elvis
1913 - Earl Bostic, Tulsa OK, alto sax player (Flamingo, Temptation)
1913 - Russ Conway, Brandon Manitoba, actor (Richard Diamond Private Eye)
1914 - Claude Mauriac, writer
1914 - Marcos Perez Jimenez, president/dictator Venezuela
1914 - Ross Lockridge, Jr., American writer (d. 1948)
1915 - A J A Quintus Bosz, Indonesian/Suriname lawyer
1915 - William Goyen, writer
1917 - Ella Fitzgerald, Newport News VA, jazz singer (Is it live or Memorex)
1918 - Astrid Varnay, Stockholm Sweden, soprano (Met Opera 1941-56)
1918 - Gerard Henri de Vaucouleurs, French astronomer (d. 1995)
1919 - Heinz Wunderlich, composer
1920 - Jean Carmet, actor (Cache Cash, Miss Mona, Night Magic)
1920 - Marre, reformer of the bar
1921 - Jean Mogin, Belgian poet
1921 - Karel Appel, painter (Vragende Children)
1923 - Aafje J R Bouber, [Blom], actress (Traveller Without Baggage)
1923 - Albert King, Mississippi, blues singer/guitarist (Bad Look Blues)
1923 - Anita Bjorak, actress (Miss Julie, Loving Couples, Night People)
1923 - Francis Graham-Smith, British astronomer
1923 - Melissa Hayden, Toronto Canada, ballerina (1961 Silver Bowl)
1923 - Albert King, American musician (d. 1992)
1924 - Erzsebet Szonyi, composer
1924 - Franco Mannino, composer
1925 - Anthony Christopher, British trade unionist
1925 - Kay E. Kuter, American actor (d. 2003)
1926 - Paul Walter Furst, composer
1926 - Gertrude Fröhlich-Sandner, Austrian politician (d. 2008)
1927 - Ernst Widmer, composer
1927 - Albert Uderzo, French cartoonist
1929 - Jose Angel Valente, Spanish poet (A modo the esperanza)
1929 - Yvette Corlett, athlete
1929 - Yvette Williams, NZ, long jumper (Oly-gold-52)
1930 - Dotty Mack, Cincinnati Ohio, actress (Paul Dixon Show)
1930 - Paul Mazursky, Brooklyn, writer/director (Moscow on the Hudson)
1930 - Roy Marshall, cricket opener (prolific Hampshire only 4 Tests for WI)
1931 - David Shepherd, painter
1931 - Felix Berezin, Russian mathematician (d. 1980)
1932 - Lia Manoliu, Romania, discus thrower (Olympic-gold-1968)
1932 - Meadowlark Lemmon, basketball star (Harlem Globetrotter) [or 0421]
1932 - William Roache, England, actor (Ken Barlow-Coronation Street)
1933 - Helen Paling, British circuit judge
1933 - Jerry Leiber, songwriter (Leiber & Stoller)
1934 - David de Peyer, cancer research campaigner
1934 - Denny "Scott" Miller, Bloomington Ind, actor (Wagon Train)
1934 - Peter McParland, Northern Irish footballer
1935 - April Ashley, English model
1937 - Bo Brundin, Stockholm Sweden, actress (Rhinemann Exchange)
1937 - Thomas Faber, publisher
1938 - Ton Schulten, Dutch artist
1938 - Roger Boisjoly, Lowell, Massachusetts, aerodynamicist (anticipated challenger disaster), (d.
           2012)
1939 - Richard earl of Lichfield, English photographer
1939 - Veronica Sutherland, British diplomat
1939 - Ted Kooser, American poet and US Poet Laureate
1940 - Al Pacino, NYC, actor (And Justice For All, Godfather, Scorpio)
1940 - Marian Norrie
1940 - O B McClinton, [Burnett], country singer (Keep your arms around me)
1941 - Bertrand Tavernier, actor (Capt Conan, L627, Daddy Nostalgie)
1941 - Chris Augustine, rocker (Every Mother's Son)
1941 - Lawrence J Smith, (Rep-D-FL, 1983- )
1941 - Princess Muna al-Hussein, of Jordan
1942 - John Martin Dalby, composer
1942 - Jon Kyl, (Rep-R-Arizona)
1942 - Jon Kyl, American politician
1944 - John Bryant, editor (Europeans)
1945 - Bjorn Ulvaeus, rock vocalist/guitarist (ABBA-Waterloo, Dancing Queen)
1945 - Michael Kogel, rocker
1945 - Stu Cook, rock bassist (Creedence Clearwater Revival-Proud Mary)
1945 - Walt Wesley, NBA star (Cleveland Cavaliers, Milwaukee Bucks, LA Lakers)
1946 - ... Zhirinovsky, [Edelstein], Russian ultra nationalist/anti semite
1946 - Digby Fairweather, jazz trumpeter
1946 - Peter Sutherland, CEO (Allied Irish Banks)
1946 - Ronnie Gilbert, rocker (Lifeline, Harp)
1946 - Talia Shire, [Coppola], Lake Success NY, actress (Adrienne-Rocky)
1946 - Vladimir Zhirinovsky, [Edelstein], Russian nationalist/anti-semite
1947 - Bill Fontana, composer
1947 - Jeffrey DeMunn, Buffalo NY, actor (Blaze, Frances, Windy City)
1947 - Johan Cruyff, Dutch soccer player/coach (Ajax/Barcelona)
1947 - Johan Cruijff, Dutch footballer
1948 - Mike Selvey, cricketer (England pace bowler of late 70's)
1948 - Yu Shyi-kun, former Premier of Taiwan
1949 - Michael Brown, NYC, keyboardist (Left Bank-Don't Walk Away Renee)
1949 - Dominique Strauss-Kahn, French economist, lawyer, and politician
1949 - Vicente Pernía, Argentine footballer
1949 - James Fenton, British poet
1950 - Steve Ferrone, Sussex, rock drummer (Average White Band)
1951 - Ian McCartney, MP
1951 - Linda Stone, pharmacist
1951 - Ian McCartney, British Member of Parliament
1952 - Cory Day, Bronx NY, rock vocalist
1952 - Vladislav Tretiak, USSR hockey player (Olympic-gold-1972, 76)
1952 - Ketil Bjørnstad, Norwegian pianist
1953 - Gary Cosier, cricketer (Australian batsman 1975-78, 109 on debut v WI)
1953 - Ron Clements, American animation director
1954 - Rob Crosby, Sumter SC, country singer (She's a Natural)
1955 - Buster Mottram, tennis player
1955 - Joanne Abbott, Sarnia Ontario, yachter (Olympics-96)
1955 - John Nunn, British chess player
1955 - Américo Gallego, Argentine footballer
1955 - Parviz Parastui, Iranian actor
1956 - Jaroslava Schallerová, Hungarian actress
1957 - Eric Bristow, "Crafty Cockney
1958 - Chris Johnson, Arcata CA, LPGA golfer (1990 Atlantic City Classic)
1958 - Fish, [Derek William Dick], Scottish vocalist (Marillion-Sugar Mice)
1958 - Flab, rocker
1959 - Billy Rankin, Glasgow, Scotland, rocker
1959 - Tony Phillips, Atlanta GA, baseballoutfielder: Chicago White Sox
1959 - Dominique Blanc, French actress
1960 - Bruce Redman, Australian film producer
1961 - Dinesh D'Souza, American author
1964 - Andy Bell, rocker (Erasure-Oh L'Amour)
1964 - Jackie Campbell, LA Cal, WPVA volleyballer (Nationals-5th-1993)
1964 - Jamie Siddons, cricketer (Victorian & SA batsman ODI for Aust 1988)
1964 - Hank Azaria, New York City, American actor (The Birdcage) and voice behind many characters
           in The Simpsons (Moe, Apu, Chief Wiggum, Comic Book Guy, Carl Carlson)
1964 - Wisit Sasanatieng, Thai film director
1965 - Denis Perez, hockey defenseman (Team France 1998)
1965 - Mark Bryant, NBA forward/center (Phoenix Suns, Houston Rockets)
1965 - Eric Avery, American musician (Jane's Addiction, Deconstruction, Polar Bear)
1966 - Darren Holmes, Asheville NC, pitcher (Colorado Rockies)
1966 - Isabelle Pasco, France, actress (Ave Maria)/model (Elle, Vogue)
1967 - Angel Martino, Americus GA, 50m/100m freestyle (Oly-gold/2 br-92, 96)
1969 - Darren Woodson, NFL safety (Dallas Cowboys)
1969 - Gavin Bruk-Jackson, cricketer (Zimbabwe Test batsman 1993)
1969 - Jon Olsen, US, 100m freestyle/400m/800m medley (Olymp-gold-1992, 96)
1969 - Marisa Pedulla, Bellefonte PA, half-lightweight judoka (Olympics-96)
1969 - Nir Shental, Israel, Men's 470 yachter (Oly-15th-1996)
1969 - Sanjeeva Ranatunga, cricketer (Sri Lankan Test batsman 1994- )
1969 - Travis Fryman, Lexington KY, infielder (Detroit Tigers)
1969 - Joe Buck, American sports broadcaster
1969 - Renée Zellweger, American actress
1970 - Corwin Brown, NFL safety (NY Jets, NE Patriots)
1970 - Steve Tovar, NFL linebacker (Cin Bengals)
1970 - Tionne Watkins, American singer
1971 - Andrew Grigg, CFL receiver (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1971 - Brad Clontz, Stuart VA, pitcher (Atlanta Braves)
1971 - Eric England, NFL defensive end (Arizona Cardinals)
1971 - Michelle Harris, Newark Delaware, Miss America-Delaware (1996)
1971 - Pam Schaffrath, Chicago IL, female catcher (Colo Silver Bullets)
1971 - Tomoko Kawakami, (Voice Actress), Japanese Seiyuu
1972 - Percell Gaskins, linebacker (Carolina Panthers)
1972 - Sara Baras, Spanish ballerina
1973 - Alek Stojanov, Windsor, NHL right wing (Pitts Penguins)
1973 - Barbara Rittner, Krefeld German FR, tennis star (1992 Schenectady)
1973 - Paige Gordon, North Vancouver BC, diver (Olympics-16-92, 96)
1973 - Wes Martin, Calgary Alta, golfer (1990 Alberta Jr Masters-2nd)
1973 - Fredrik Larzon, Swedish drummer (Millencolin)
1974 - Brad Hassell, Australian soccer striker (Olyroos, Olympics-96)
1974 - Libor Prochazka, hockey defenseman (Team Czech Oly-Gold-1998)
1974 - Tricia Dunn, ice hockey forward (USA, Oly-98)
1974 - Twan Russell, linebacker (Washington Redskins)
1975 - Jacque Jones, San Diego CA, baseball outfielder (Olympics-bronze-96)
1975 - Ruben Gomez, rocker (Menudo-Cannonball)
1975 - Emily Bergl, English-American actress
1975 - Chris Lilley, Australian actor, comedian, and writer
1976 - Tim Duncan, NBA forward (San Antonio Spurs)
1976 - Rainer Schüttler, German tennis player
1976 - Gilberto, Brazilian footballer
1977 - Jonathan Angel, SF California, actor (Tommy Delucca-Saved By The Bell)
1977 - Marguerite Moreau, actress (Connie-Mighty Ducks, D2, D3)
1977 - Ilias Kotsios, Greek footballer
1977 - Paavo Siljamäki, Finnish musician
1977 - Constantinos Christoforou, Cypriot singer
1977 - Matthew West, American Christian singer
1978 - Letícia Birkheuer, Brazilian model
1978 - Matt Walker, British Paralympic swimmer
1980 - Alejandro Valverde, Spanish cyclist
1980 - Bruce Martin, New Zealand cricketer
1980 - Kazuhito Tadano, Japanese basaball player
1981 - Felipe Massa, Brazilian Formula One driver
1981 - John McFall, British Paralympic sprinter
1981 - Anja Pärson, Swedish skier
1981 - Dwone Hicks, National Football League runningback
1982 - Monty Panesar, English cricketer
1982 - Brian Barton, American baseball player
1983 - DeAngelo Williams, National Football League runningback
1983 - J.P. Howell, American baseball player
1984 - Andre' Woodson, American football quarterback
1984 - Robert Andino, Baseball player
1985 - Jonathan Halyalkar, Ramsey NJ, actor (Billy-Who's the Boss)
1985 - Giedo van der Garde, Dutch racing driver
1987 - Johann Smith, American soccer player
1988 - James Sheppard, Canadian ice hockey player
1988 - Sara Paxton, American actress
1989 - Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, 11th Panchen Lama
1989 - Robbie Tarrant, Australian football player
1996 - Allisyn Ashley Arm, American child actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 25, 2013, 02:00:13 PM

This Day in History for 25th April


Famous Deaths

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Surgeon William Beaumont (1853)


68 - Saint Mark, the first Pope of Alexandria and the founder of Christianity in Africa
974 - Ratherius of Verona/Liege, bishop/abbot, dies at about 84
1265 - Roger de Quincy, 2nd Earl of Winchester, English crusader
1295 - Sancho IV, the Brave, scholar/king of Castile/Leon, dies
1342 - Benedict XII, [Jacques Fournier], Pope (1334-42), dies
1472 - Leon Battista degli Alberti, scupltor/musician (Dinner Pieces), dies
1482 - Margaret of Anjou, Queen (Henry VI), dies
1516 - John Yonge, English diplomat (b. 1467)
1566 - Diane de Poitiers, mistress of French King Henry II, dies aged 66
1566 - Louise Labé, French poet
1595 - Torquato Tasso, Italian poet/playwright, dies at 51
1605 - Naresuan, King of Siam (b. 1555)
1607 - Don Juan Alvarez, Spanish Admiral (Gibraltar), dies in battle
1607 - Jacob van Heemskerck, Dutch Admiral (Nova Zambia), dies in battle
1635 - Alessandro Tassoni, Ital political writer (Rape of Bucket), dies at 69
1647 - Matthias Gallas, Austrian earl of Campo/duke of Lucerna, dies at 62
1660 - Henry Hammond, English churchman (b. 1605)
1663 - Heinrich Pape, composer, dies at 53
1690 - David Teniers the Younger, Flemish painter (Pictorium), dies at 79
1728 - John Woodward, geologist/physician, dies
1740 - Shrimant Baji Rao Vishwanath Bhat, also known as Baji Rao I, a general and Peshwa (b.
           1699)
1744 - Anders Celsius, Swed astronomer (Centegrade Thermometer), dies at 42
1770 - Jean-Antoine Nollet, French abbot and physicist (b. 1700)
1792 - Johann Friedrich Gottlieb Beckmann, composer, dies at 54
1792 - Nicolas J Pelletier, French highwayman, 1st person guillotined
1800 - William Cowper, English lawyer/poet (Olney Hymns), dies at 68
1808 - Alois Luigi Tomasini, composer, dies at 66
1822 - Frederick "William" Herschel, German/British astronomer, dies at 83
1828 - John Goldberg, Dutch patriot/statesman, dies at 64
1840 - Siméon-Denis Poisson, French mathematician (b. 1781)
1845 - Thomas Duncan, painter, dies
1853 - William Beaumont, physiologist, dies at 67
1862 - Charles Ferguson Smith, US Union Gen-Maj, dies of infection at 55
1873 - Walter de la Mare, Engl poet/author (Behold the Dreamer), dies at 43
1878 - Anna Sewell, English author (b. 1820)
1891 - Nathaniel Woodard, English educationalist (b. 1811)
1892 - Henri Duveyrier, French explorer (b. 1840)
1905 - Jacob Olie, Dutch photographer, dies at about 70
1906 - John Knowles Paine, US composer, dies at 67
1911 - Emilio Salgari, Italian novelist (b. 1862)
1915 - Nicola d' Arienzo, composer, dies at 72
1915 - Frederick William Seward, United States Assistant Secretary of State (b. 1830)
1923 - Louis-Olivier Taillon, Quebec politician (b. 1840)
1925 - George Stephanescu, composer, dies at 81
1926 - Ellen K S Key, Swed author/feminist (Century of the Child), dies at 76
1928 - Pjotr N Wrangel, Russian baron general, dies at 49
1931 - A J Y (Bert) Hopkins, cricketer (20 Tests for Aust, 509 runs), dies
1937 - Clem Sohn, air show performer dies at 26 when his chute fails to open
1937 - Michał Drzymała, Polish rebel (b. 1857)
1942 - Paul Kornfeld, writer, dies at 52
1943 - Vladimir Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko, playwright/director, dies
1944 - Tony Mullane, Irish-born American baseball player (b. 1859)
1946 - Albert Knight, cricketer (3 Tests for England on 1903-04 tour), dies
1946 - Joseph Vine, cricketer (batted in two Tests Eng v Aust 1911-12), dies
1951 - Jerzy Fitelberg, composer, dies at 47
1954 - Joseph Hergesheimer, novelist (Java Head), dies
1955 - Constance Collier, actress (Perils of Pauline), dies at 77
1955 - Paulus B Barth, Swiss painter/lithographer, dies at 73
1960 - Amanullah, emir/king of Afhanistan (1919-28), dies at 67
1960 - Hope Emerson, actress (I Married Joan, Peter Gunn), dies at 62
1960 - Ilmari Henrik Reinhold Krohn, composer, dies at 92
1961 - Hans F Blunck, writer, dies
1966 - Maurice Roelants, Belgian author (Prayer for a Good End), dies at 70
1968 - John Tewksbury, American athlete (b. 1876)
1969 - Margarita Xirgu, actress (Bloody Wedding), dies at 80
1970 - Anita Louise, actress (Gorilla, Anthony Adverse), dies at about 55
1971 - Max Drischner, composer, dies at 80
1972 - George Sanders, actor (Mr Freeze-Batman, Ivanhoe), dies at 65
1975 - Mike Brant, Israeli singer (b. 1947)
1976 - Carol Reed, director (Agony & Ecstasy), dies
1976 - Margaret Bannerman, actress (Great Defender), dies at 79
1978 - Lee Kim Lai, Singaporean police officer (b. 1960)
1980 - Katia Mann, wife of German writer Thomas Mann (b. 1883)
1982 - Celia Johnson, actress (Brief Encounter, Happy Breed), dies at 73
1982 - Don Wilson, TV announcer (Jack Benny Show), dies at 81
1982 - John Cody, US cardinal/archbishop of Chicago (1965-82), dies at 74
1982 - Paul de Vree, Flemish writer/essayist (Round Table), dies
1982 - William R Burnett, US, writer (Asphalt Jungle), dies at 82
1984 - Richard Benedict, actor (Okinawa), dies at 64 of a heart attack
1985 - Murray Matheson, actor (Felix-Banacek), dies at 72
1985 - Richard Haydn, British actor (Mutiny on the Bounty), dies at 80
1988 - Boris Kremenliev, composer, dies at 76
1988 - Carolyn Franklin, singer/songwriter/son of Aretha, dies at 43
1988 - Clifford D[onald] Simak, sci-fi author (Hugo, Way Station), dies at 83
1989 - George Coulouris, actor (Papillon, Runaway Bus), dies at 85
1990 - Dexter Gordon, Jazz saxophonist, dies of kidney failure at 67
1991 - Frank Hamilton, actor (Subterraneans), dies at 66
1991 - Theo Laseroms, [Tank], Dutch soccer player (Feyenoord), dies
1992 - Brian Macleod, Canadian musician, dies of cancer at 39
1992 - Dany [Daniel S] Tuijnman, Dutch min of traffic & water, dies at 77
1992 - Panos Christi, entertainer, dies of AIDS at 54
1992 - Yutaka Ozaki, Japanese rock artist, dies at 26 of pulmonary edema
1993 - Rosita Moreno, actress (Walls of Gold), dies of heart attack at 85
1994 - David Langton, British actor (Upstairs Downstairs), dies at 82
1994 - George Gennimatas, Greek minister of National Economy, dies at 55
1994 - Talaat Yassin Hamman, militant Moslem leader, shot dead at 32
1995 - Art Fleming, game show host (Jeopardy), dies at 74
1995 - Francis Henry Smith, librarian, dies at 85
1995 - Ginger Rogers, actress/dancer (Top Hat, Stage Door), dies at 83
1995 - Joseph Heifitz, film director, dies at 89
1996 - John Eustace Theodore Brancker, lawyer/parliamentarian, dies at 87
1996 - John Lorne Campbell, folklorist, dies at 90
1996 - Saul Bass, designer, dies at 74
1998 - Wright Morris, American writer (b. 1910)
1999 - Lord Killanin, Irish International Olympic Committee president (b. 1914)
2000 - David Merrick, American theatrical producer (b. 1911)
2000 - Lucien le Cam, French mathematician (b. 1924)
2001 - Michele Alboreto, Italian race car driver (b. 1956)
2002 - Indra Devi, yoga teacher (b. 1899)
2002 - Lisa Lopes, American rapper (TLC) (b. 1971)
2003 - Samson Kitur, Kenyan athlete (b. 1966)
2004 - Thom Gunn, British poet (b. 1929)
2005 - Swami Ranganathananda, Indian monk (b. 1908)
2006 - Jane Jacobs, American-born Canadian urbanist (b. 1916)
2007 - Alan Ball, English footballer (b. 1945)
2007 - Bobby "Boris" Pickett, American singer and songwriter (b. 1938)
2007 - Arthur Milton, English footballer and cricketer (b. 1928)
2008 - Humphrey Lyttelton, Jazz musician and broadcaster, (b. 1921)
2009 - Beatrice Arthur, American comedian, actress, and singer, (b. 1922)
2009 - John Marchi, American politician (b. 1921)
2010 - Dorothy Provine, loving grandmother, (b. 1935)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 26, 2013, 07:42:41 PM

This Day in History for 26th April


Historical Events

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Composer Frederic Chopin                    Mathematician and Astronomer               American Baseball                     
                                                                   Nicolaus Copernicus                           Player Roger Maris

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Singer Rod Stewart                                Heavyweight Boxing Champion                   Writer Alex Haley
                                                                         Mike Tyson

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Comedian David Letterman


757 - Paolo Orsini replaces his brother Pope Stephen II, as Paul I
1220 - German king Frederick II grants bishops sovereign rights
1467 - The miraculous image in Our Lady of Good Counsel appear in Genazzano, Italy.
1478 - 1st Easter
1478 - Pazzi conspirators attack Lorenzo de'Medici & kill Giuliano de'Medici
1514 - Copernicus makes his 1st observations of Saturn
1532 - Sultan Suleiman through Hungary on away to Vienna
1564 - William Shakespeare baptized
1607 - 1st British to establish an American colony land at Cape Henry, Va
1654 - Jews are expelled from Brazil
1655 - Dutch West Indies Co denies Peter Stuyvesant's desire to exclude Jews from New Amsterdam
1677 - Emperor Leopold I forms University of Innsbruck
1721 - Smallpox vaccination 1st administrated
1755 - 1st Russian university opens (Moscow)
1777 - Sybil Ludington, 16, rode from NY to Ct rallying her fathers militia
1803 - Meteorites fall in L'Aigle, France
1814 - King Louis XVIII lands on Calais, from England
1819 - Odd Fellows Lodge forms
1828 - Russia declares war on Turkey to support Greece's independence
1835 - Frederic Chopins "Grand Polonaise Brillante," premieres in Paris
1841 - "Bombay Gazette" begins publishing on silk
1853 - Dutch King William III disbands 2nd Chamber
1855 - Composer Gioacchino Rossini leaves Italy
1859 - Dan Sickles is acquitted of murder on grounds of temporary insanity 1st time this defense is
           successfully used
1865 - Battle of Durham Station, NC (Greensboro)
1865 - Battle of Ft Tobacco, VA
1865 - Confederate Gen J E Johnston surrenders Army of Tenn, at Durham NC
1887 - Huntsville Electric Co forms to sell electricity
1890 - Henry Morton Stanley inaugurated in London
1893 - 1st Cleveland Board of Park Commissioners forms
1900 - AL opener in Cleve draws 6,500
1904 - Bell Telephone Company of Antwerp Belgium forms
1905 - Cubs Jack McCarthy becomes only major league player to throw out 3 runners at plate in 1
           game, all were ends of a double play
1906 - 1st motion pictures shown in Hawaii
1907 - Jamestown, Va Tercentenary Exposition opens
1912 - 1st homerun hit at Fenway Park (Hugh Bradley, Red Sox)
1913 - Panama-Pacific International Exposition opens in SF
1913 - Sun Yet San calls for revolt against pres Yuan Shikai in China
1915 - Italy secretly signes Pact of London with Britain, France & Russia
1920 - H Shapley & H D Curtis hold "great debate" on nature of nebulae
1925 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Edna Ferber for "So big"
1926 - Germany & Russia sign neutrality/peace treaty
1926 - Karachai Autonomous Region forms in RSFSR (until 1943)
1928 - Madame Tussaud's waxwork exhibition opens in London
1929 - 1st non-stop England to India flight lands
1931 - Lou Gehrig hits a HR but is called out for passing a runner, mistake costs him AL home run
           crown; he & Babe Ruth tie for season
1932 - Jean Anouilh's "L'Ermine," premieres in Paris
1933 - Jewish students are barred from school in Germany
1935 - Frank Boucher is given NHL's Lady Byng Trophy for sportsmanship permanently for winning it
           7 of 11 years
1936 - Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 4th Symphony
1937 - German Luftwaffe destroys Basque town of Guernica in Spain
1938 - Austrian Jews required to register property above 5,000 Reichsmarks
1941 - A tradition begins, 1st organ at a baseball stadium (Chicago Cubs)
1941 - Potatoes rationed in Holland
1942 - Coal mine explosion kills 1,549 at Honkeiko Manchuria
1942 - Luftwaffe bombs Bath
1944 - 1st B-29 attacked by Japanese fighters, one fighter shot down
1944 - Papandreou government in Greece forms
1945 - Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, leader of France's Vichy collaborationist regime during WW II,
           arrested for treason
1945 - World War II: Battle of Bautzen - last successful German tank-offensive of the war and last
           noteworthy victory of the Wehrmacht.
1947 - "Bless the Bride" musical opens in London
1950 - Last horse race at Havre de Grace Track in Md, is run
1950 - U of Miami ends William & Mary straight tennis match victories at 82
1951 - Queen Juliana opens Brielsche Mausoleum
1952 - Patty Berg scores 64, best competitive round of golf by a woman
1952 - US minesweeper "Hobson" rams aircraft carrier "Wasp," kills 176
1954 - Far Eastern Affairs conference opens in Geneva
1954 - Nationwide test of Salk anti-polio vaccine begins
1956 - First container ship left Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas
1957 - Jamestown, Va 350th Anniversary Festival opens
1959 - Cuba invades Panama
1959 - Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Betsy Rawls Golf Open
1961 - French paratroopers' revolt suppressed in Algeria
1961 - Roger Maris hits 1st of 61 homers in 1961
1962 - 1st Lockheed A-12 flies
1962 - Ariel 1 Launch (1st UK Satellite)
1962 - Ranger 4 crash lands on (backside of) Moon
1962 - Red Sox Bill Monbouquette no-hits White Sox 1-0
1962 - US/UK launch Ariel; 1st international payload
1964 - 18th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat SF Warriors, 4 games to 1
1964 - Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1964 - Tanganyika & Zanzibar form United Republic of Tanganyika & Zanzibar
1965 - Ives' 4th Symphony premieres
1966 - Arnold "Red" Auerbach retires as Boston Celtic's coach
1966 - An earthquake of magnitude 7.5 destroys Tashkent.
1967 - "Hallelujah, Baby!" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 293 perfs
1967 - KSPS TV channel 7 in Spokane, WA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1967 - San Marco 2 Launch (1st Equatorial Launch)
1968 - Students seize administration building at Ohio State
1968 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1968 - US underground nuclear test, "Boxcar," 1 megaton device
1969 - "Celebration" closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 110 performances
1969 - "George M!" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 435 performances
1969 - Firestone World Bowling Tournament (Mercury Open) won by Jim Godman
1970 - "Company" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 690 performances
1971 - Heaviest rains ever in Bahia district of Brazil, 15" in 24 hrs
1971 - SF lightship replaced by automatic buoy
1971 - Turkey state of siege proclaimed
1973 - "2 Gentlemen of Verona," musical opens in London
1973 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1974 - Landslide in Huancavelica Province Peru creates a natural dam
1974 - Malta adopts constitution
1974 - Yankees trade Peterson, Beene, Kline & Buskey to Indians for Chambliss, Tidrow & Upshaw
1975 - Mario Soares' Socialist Party wins 1st free election in Portugal
1975 - Penguins 0-Isles 1-Quarterfinals-Isles win series 4-3
1975 - Phillies Mike Schmidt's 2 HRs ties NL record of 11 HRs in April
1976 - Pan Am begins non-stop flights NYC-Tokyo
1977 - NY's famed disco Studio 54 opens
1978 - France sends troops to Chad
1978 - NASA launches space vehicle S-201
1980 - Gerard Nijboer runs Dutch record marathon (2:09:01)
1980 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1980 - Iran begins scattering US hostages from US Embassy
1980 - Longest jump by a jet boat is set at 120'
1980 - Phillies' Steve Carlton pitches his 6th 1-hitter (beats Cards)
1981 - "Copperfield" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 13 performances
1981 - Beth Solomon wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic
1982 - Argentina surrenders to Britain on S Georgia near Falkland Island
1982 - CBS radio begins youth oriented broadcast Radio Radio
1982 - Gene Michael becomes NY Yankee manager for 2nd time
1982 - Rod Stewart is mugged, gunman steals his $50,000 Porsche
1983 - Bruins 2-Isles 5-Wales Conference Championship-Isles hold 1-0 lead
1983 - Dow Jones Industrial Avg breaks 1,200 for 1st time
1983 - San Antonio spurs beat Denver Nuggets, 152-133 in NBA playoff game
1984 - Liverpool's Cavern Club reopens
1984 - Pres Reagan visits China
1986 - Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Marshall Holman
1986 - France performs nuclear test
1986 - Game between Angels & Twins delayed for 9 minutes by strong winds
1986 - Worst nuclear disaster, 4th reactor at Chernobyl USSR explodes, 31 die
1987 - "Barbara Cook: A Concert..." closes at Ambassador NYC after 13 perfs
1988 - 1st TNN Viewers choice awards-Randy Travis wins in 5 categories
1988 - NBA approves addition of 3rd referee in 1988-89 season
1988 - NY Met Davey Johnson becomes 2nd manager to record 400 victory in 1st 4 years (Al Lopez
          did it 1st)
1989 - AT&T announces NJ's 201 area code will split into 908 & 201
1989 - Mike Tyson is ticketed for driving 71 MPH in 30 mile zone in Albany
1990 - "Accomplice" opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC for 52 performances
1990 - 126 die in a (6.9) earthquake in China
1990 - Danny Wood of New Kids, steps on a stuffed animal & twists his ankle
1990 - NY court of appeals ends 2½ year legal battle over 1988 America's Cup by refusing
           jurisdiction of case
1990 - Nolan Ryan ties Bob Feller's record of pitching 12 1-hitters
1991 - "Dinosaurs" premieres on ABC-TV
1991 - 23 killed in Kansas & Oklahoma by tornadoes
1991 - Soccer star Diego Maradona, suspended for using cocaine, arrested in Argentina for
           possession & distribution of illegal narcotics
1992 - "Grand Hotel" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 1,018 perfs
1992 - "Growing Pains," final episode on ABC TV
1992 - "Jelly's Last Jam" opens at Virginia Theater NYC for 569 performances
1992 - "Master Builder" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 45 performances
1992 - "Metro" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 13 performances
1992 - "Who's The Boss," final episode after 8 years on ABC TV
1992 - Alex Haley, (Roots), wins 1992 Ellis Island Award, posthumously
1992 - Maggie Will wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic
1992 - Ozzie Smith steals his 500th base
1993 - "Shakespeare for My Father" opens at Helen Hayes NYC for 266 perfs
1993 - Boeing 737 crashes at Aurangabad, kills 56
1993 - NBC announces Conan O'Brien to replace David Letterman
1993 - STS-55 (Columbia) launches into orbit
1994 - 26.9°C in Prestebakke Norway (Norwegian April high temp record)
1994 - Taiwan Airbus A-300 crashes at Nagoya Japan, 262 killed
1994 - 1st multi-racial election in South Africa begins [3 days] Dr Nomaza Paintin in NZ is 1st black
           South African to vote
1994 - Physicists announce first evidence of the top quark subatomic particle.
1995 - Baseball season begins after lengthy strike
1995 - Coors Field, opens in Denver, Rockies beat Mets 11-9 in 14 innings
1996 - Shaun Pollock takes 4 wkts in 4 balls for Warwickshire in B&H
1996 - Sotherby ends 4 day auction of Jackie O stuff-take in $34.5 million
1997 - "Life," opens at Barrymore Theater NYC
2002 - Robert Steinhäuser infiltrates and kills 17 at Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt,Germany before
           dying of a self-inflicted gunshot.
2005 - Under international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in
           Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country.
2007 - Queen's Pier is officially closed by the Hong Kong Government, after a bitter struggle by
           conservationists, in order to facilitate land reclamation in Hong Kong's Central district
2012 - 70 people are killed by rocket attacks by the Syrian Army on the city of Hama
2012 - Indonesia suspends imports of American beef after a confirmed case of mad cow disease in
           California

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 26, 2013, 07:46:27 PM

This Day in History for 26th April


Famous Weddings

1709 - Frisian viceroy Johan Willem Friso marries countess Maria Louisa
1923 - English prince Albert Duke of York (George VI) marries Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at
           Westminster Abbey
1946 - Father Divine, a controversial religious leader who claims to be God, marries the much-
           younger Edna Rose Ritchings, a celebrated anniversary in the International Peace Mission
           movement.
1986 - Actor/body builder Arnold Schwarzenegger weds newscaster Maria Shriver
1994 - "Mad About You" actress Leila Kenzel (33) weds Neil Monaco (34)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 26, 2013, 08:26:44 PM

This Day in History for 26th April


Famous Birthdays

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Philosopher David Hume (1711)           Chinese Actor and Martial Artist
                                                                              Jet Li (1963)


121 - Antonius Marcus Aurelius, [Marcus A Verus], Emperor of Rome (161-180)
570 - Muhammed, founder of Islam, according to the Shi'a sect. Other sources suggest April 20.
1319 - Jean II, the Good, king of France (1350-64)
1538 - Giovanni P Lomazzo, Italian writer/poet (Trattato)
1564 - William Shakespeare, Stratford-on-Avon England, baptism and presumed birth date,
           playwright and poet
1567 - Nicolas Forme, composer
1573 - Marie de'Medici, Queen of France
1603 - Francesco Nigetti, composer
1637 - Philip J van Lichtenbergh, Governor of Suriname, baptized
1648 - Pedro II, King of Portugal (1683-1706)
1662 - Maria Luisa of Orleans, queen consort of Spain (d. 1689)
1710 - Thomas Reid, Scottish philosopher (d. 1796)
1711 - David Hume, English empiricist/philosopher (Treatise of Human Nature)
1718 - Esek Hopkins, US, 1st commander-in-chief (US Navy)
1726 - Pasquale Paoli, Corsican freedom fighter
1774 - Christian Leopold von Buch, German geologist (d. 1853)
1776 - Joan M Kemper, Dutch lawyer (designed civil code law book)
1782 - Maria Amalia of Bourbon-Sicily, wife of Louis Phillip of Austria
1785 - John James Audubon, Haiti, bird watcher/artist
1787 - Ludwig Uhland, writer
1796 - Auguste-Matthieu Panseron, composer
1798 - Ferdinand Eugene Delacroix, French painter/lithograph/etcher (Journal)
1798 - James Beckwourth, American explorer (d. 1867)
1801 - Ambrose Dudley Mann, American diplomat (d. 1889)
1804 - Charles Goodyear, American politician (d. 1876)
1806 - Ludwig Friedrich Hetsch, composer
1808 - Martha Finley, children's book author
1812 - Alfred Krupp, German arms merchant
1820 - Alice Cary, Cincinnati, American poet (Cincinnati Sentinel)
1822 - Frederick Law Olmsted, architect/writer (designed Central Park)
1822 - Jan Albert van Eyken, composer/organist
1826 - George Hull Ward, American general (d. 1863)
1826 - Ambrose R. Wright, American Civil War General (d. 1872
1827 - Charles Edward Hovey, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1834 - Artemus Ward, (Charles Farrar Browne), humorist
1834 - Horatio Richmond Palmer, composer
1836 - Erminnie Adelle Platt, US, ethnologist (Iriquois-English Dictionary)
1839 - Cyrus Hamblin, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1867
1841 - Wilhelm Scherer, German literature historian
1856 - Sir Joseph Ward, 17th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1930)
1860 - Alphonse M A J Ariëns, Dutch pastor
1863 - Arno Holz, writer
1863 - Charles Haslewood Shannon, lithographer/painter
1868 - Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere/Newspaper publisher
1868 - Robert Herrick, US writer (Common lot)
1873 - Otto zur Linde, German author (Charon)
1874 - J H "Biddy" Anderson, cricketer (one Test South Africa v Australia 1902)
1875 - Syngman Rhee, South Korea, pres of South Korea (1948-60) [or Mar 26]
1878 - Ethel Griffies, actress (Billy Liar, Birds, We Live Again)
1878 - Saint Rafael Guízar Valencia, Mexican Catholic bishop
1879 - Owen Williams Richardson, England, physicist (Nobel 1928)
1880 - Mikhail Fokine, Russia, choreographer/founder of modern dance
1884 - Harry Sothern, actor (Dr Huer-Buck Rogers)
1886 - Ma Rainey, [Gertrude Pridgett], "Mother of the Blues" American singer (d. 1939)
1886 - Ğabdulla Tuqay, Tatar poet (d. 1913)
1888 - Aleksandr Mikhailov, USSR, astronomer
1888 - Anita Loos, American screenwriter, novelist (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) and playwright (d.
          1981)
1889 - Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austria, philosopher (Tractatus)
1890 - Edgar "E Livingstone" Kennedy, US actor/director (My Old Dutch)
1893 - Draza Mihajlovic, Serbian WWII hero and war criminal (d. 1946)
1894 - Rudolf Hess, Nazi official (d. 1987)
1896 - Ernst Udet, WWI pilot and film actor, Luftwaffe officer (d. 1941)
1897 - Olga Chekova, Russia, actress (Italian Strawhat, Cry of the Children)
1897 - Eddie Eagan, American sportsman (d. 1967)
1898 - Edward PF Eagan, Denver, boxer (Oly-gold-20)/bobsledder (Oly-gold-32)
1898 - John Grierson, documentary film maker
1898 - Vicente Aleixandre, Spain, writer (Ambito, Bird of Paper, Nobel 1977)
1899 - Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, TX, actor (Hoedown, Country Fair, Blackmail)
1900 - Charles Richter, Ohio, Earthquakes seismologist (Richter scale)
1900 - Douglas Sirk, director (Zu Neuen Ufern, Boefje)
1900 - James Sutherland, English literature scholar/actor (Rob Roy 1953)
1900 - Hack Wilson, American baseball player (d. 1948)
1903 - Geoffrey Worthington, Air vice-marshall
1903 - Niven Busch, US screenwriter (Postman Always Rings Twice)
1904 - Paul E "Cardinal" Leger, archbishop (Montreal)
1905 - Charles K Feldman, [Gould], NYC, producer (Casino Royale)
1905 - Denis O'Dea, Dublin, actor (Esther & the King, Treasure Island)
1905 - Jean Vigo, France, actor/director (Zero For Conduct, L'Atlante)
1906 - Gracie Allen, Mrs George Burns, comedienne (George Burns Show)
1906 - Leopold Spinner, composer
1907 - Theun de Vries, writer (February; PC Hooft prize 1981)
1909 - Richard Howorth, cricketer (English all-rounder, three county doubles)
1910 - Erland von Koch, composer
1910 - Ernst Tittel, composer
1910 - Johan Doorn, Dutch journalist/resistance fighter (Orange Newspaper)
1910 - Tomoyuki Tanaka, director (Godzilla)
1911 - Marianne Hoppe, Rostock Germany (Bei Thea, Liebrauen)
1912 - A. E. van Vogt, Canada, sci-fi author (Wizard of Linn) (d. 2000)
1914 - Bernard Malamud, US, novelist (Fixer, Natural, Pulitizer 1967)
1914 - Charlie Chester, British comedian (Never Say Die)
1914 - Horace Leonard Gold, Sci-Fi writer/editor
1914 - James William Rouse, US builder (shopping malls/Columbia, Maryland)
1914 - Wilfred Howard Mellers, composer
1916 - Arnoldus Christian Vlok van Wyk, composer
1916 - Morris L West, Australia, novelist (Shoes of the Fisherman)
1916 - Vic Perrin, American actor (d. 1989)
1917 - I[eoh] M[ing] Pei, Canton, China, architect (1961 Brunner Prize)
1917 - Sal "The Barber" Maglie, pitcher (NY Giants, 8th best won-lost pct)
1917 - I.M. Pei, Chinese-born architect
1918 - Fanny Blankers-Koen, Holland, 100m/200m dash, hurdler (Olym-gold-1948)
1918 - Jack Morpurgo, American Literature scholar (Leeds University)
1918 - Stafford Repp, California, actor (Chief O'Hara-Batman, Plunder Road)
1920 - Juan C Lampe, Aruba, pianist/composer
1921 - Harry Knutton, Maj-Gen/dir-general (London City & Guilds Institute)
1921 - Jimmy Giuffre, jazz musician
1921 - Margaret Gowing, professor (history, science)
1922 - James Holt, medieval historian
1922 - Margaret Scott, founder (Australian Ballet School)
1922 - Mike Kellin, Hartford Ct, actor (Honestly Celeste, Fitz & Bones)
1922 - Paul-Andre Gaillard, composer
1922 - Pol Bury, Belgian sculptor
1922 - Jeanne Sauvé, French Canadian politician (d. 1993)
1923 - Oliver Millar, Surveyor (Queen's Pictures)
1924 - Russell Nype, Zion Ill, singer/actor (Burton Farley-Dorothy)
1925 - Jørgen Ingmann, Danish musician
1925 - Frank Hahn, Berlin, Germany, British economist (Hahn's Problem), (d. 2013)
1926 - David Coleman, sports commentator
1926 - Michael Joughin, CEO (Scottish Hydro-Electric)
1926 - Oldrich Frantisek Korte, composer
1926 - Preston "Bob" Tisch, NFL co-owner (NY Giants)
1926 - Michael Mathias Prechtl, German illustrator (d. 2003)
1927 - Anne McLaren, biologist/zoologist/actress (Things to Come)
1927 - Jack Douglas, comedian (My Brother Was an Only Child, Jack Paar Show)
1928 - Gordon Downey, British Comptroller General/Reader Rep (Independent)
1929 - Richard Mitchell, American author and professor (d. 2002)
1930 - Derek Waring, actor (Barnacle Bill, Arthur-Heart of the Country)
1930 - Justin Gosling, principal (St Edmund Hall Oxford)
1930 - Roger Moens, Belgium, 800m runner (Olympic-silver-1960)
1932 - Francis Lai, French film music composer
1932 - Michael Smith, English-born chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2000)
1933 - Carol Burnett, San Antonio Tx, comedian/actress (Annie, 4 Seasons)
1933 - Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, Puerto Rican activist (d. 2005)
1934 - J Micheal McCloskey, environmentalist/chairman (Sierra Club)
1936 - Edward Cazalet, British High Court Judge
1937 - Robert Boozer, Omaha Neb, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1960), (d. 2012)
1938 - Duane Eddy, Phoenix, Az, country singer (Peter Gunn, Cannonball)
1938 - Maurice Williams, rocker
1938 - Willie Wood, bowler
1939 - Roger Buckley, British High Court Judge
1940 - Giorgio Moroder, composer (Let it Ride, Cat People, Top Gun)
1941 - John Battle, MP
1941 - John Mitchell, American composer
1942 - Bobby Rydell, Phila Pa, rock singer (Wild One, Bye Bye Birdie)
1942 - Claudine Auger, Paris France, Miss France (1958)/actress (Thunderball)
1942 - Vitali Andreyevich Grishchenko, Russia, cosmonaut
1942 - Michael Kergin, Canadian diplomat
1943 - Claudine Auger, Miss France (1958)/actress (Thunderball)
1943 - Gary Wright, singer, dream weaver (Spooky Tooth-It's All About)
1943 - Peter Zumthor, Swiss architect
1944 - David O'B Martin, (Rep-R-NY, 1981- )
1944 - Martha Rockwell, Providence RI, skier (Mount Washington)
1944 - Amien Rais, Indonesian politician
1945 - Giorgio Moroder, producer/singer/songwriter (150 gold discs)
1945 - V K Ramaswamy, cricketer (Indian Test umpire stood in 1996 World Cup)
1945 - Sylvain Simard, Quebec politician
1947 - Donna Elizabeth De Varona, Greenwich Ct, swimmer (Olympic-2 gold-64)
1947 - Gervase Frank Ashworth Jackson-Stops, architectural adviser
1947 - Warren Clarke, English actor
1948 - Boyd Matson, TV host/correspondent (National Geographic Explorer)
1948 - Gerry Sikorski, (Rep-D-MN, 1983- )
1949 - Jimmy Hall, rocker (Wet Willie)
1949 - Carlos Bianchi, Argentinian footballer
1949 - Jerry Blackwell, American wrestler (d. 1995)
1950 - Howard "Leon" Reeder, rock guitarist (Champaign)
1950 - Peter Schaufuss, director of ballet (Deutsche Opera Berlin)
1951 - Lynne Jones, MP
1952 - Popo Simon Molefe, secretary-general (South Africa UDF)
1955 - Mike Scott, American baseball player
1956 - Koo Stark, [Kathleen Dee-Anne], photographer/actress (Emily)
1958 - Giancarlo Esposito, actor (Bob Roberts, School Daze, King of NY)
1958 - Johnny "Earl of" Dumfries, racing driver
1958 - John Crichton-Stuart, 7th Marquess of Bute
1958 - Jeffrey Guterman, American mental health counselor
1959 - Ann O'Neill, Toowoomba QLD, golfer (1989 Downs District Champ)
1959 - John Corabi, American Musician
1960 - Roger Taylor, rock drummer (Duran Duran-Hungry Like the Wolf)
1961 - Albert Lawrence, Jamaica, 4X100m relayer (Olympic-silver-1984)
1961 - Joan Chen, [Chen Chong], Shanghai China, actress (Heaven & Earth)
1961 - Nancy Scranton, Centralia IL, golfer (1991 du Maurier Ltd Classic)
1962 - Graham "Skin" Skinner, rocker (Hipsway)
1962 - Michael Damian, San Diego, singer (Rock on)/actor (Young & Restless)
1962 - Colin Anderson, English footballer
1962 - Debra Wilson, American actress and comedian
1963 - Bill Wennington, NBA center (Chicago Bulls)
1963 - Michael Damian, actor/singer (Joseph & Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat)
1963 - Thomas Searle, hockey defenseman (Team Austria 1998)
1963 - Jet Li, Beijing, Chinese actor and martial artist (Romeo Must Die, Unleashed)
1964 - Tod Bass, LA California, actor (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In)
1965 - Kevin James, American comedian
1966 - Andrea Temesvari, Budapest Hungary, tennis star (1985 US Clay Courts)
1966 - Yoshihiro Togashi, Mangaka who created YuYu Hakusho
1967 - Klaus Merk, Augsburg GER, hockey goaltender (Team Germany 1998)
1967 - Matt Peterson, Chicago IL, Nike golfer (1992 Hawkeye Open-7th)
1967 - Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Academy Award nominated British actress
1967 - Glen Jacobs, American professional wrestler
1968 - Ahmed Elmaghraby, Suez Egypt, US field hockey forward (Olympics-96)
1970 - Melania Trump, Slovenian model
1970 - Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins, American singer (TLC)
1971 - Ryan Yarborough, NFL wide receiver (Baltimore Ravens, NY Jets)
1971 - Jay DeMarcus, American bassist (Rascal Flatts)
1972 - Francisco Cordova, Veracruz Mexico, pitcher (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1972 - Marco Rivera, NFL/WLAF guard (Scot Claymores, GB Packers-Superbowl 31)
1972 - Natrone Means, NFL running back (San Diego Chargers, Jacksonville Jaguars)
1972 - Avi Nimni, Israeli Footballer
1972 - Kiko Narváez, Spanish footballer
1973 - Damien Munoz, Miss USA-Colorado (1997)
1973 - Mark Davis, NBA guard/forward (Phila 76ers, Minnesota Timberwolves)
1973 - Tracy Kathleen Hayes, Wheaton Ill, Miss America (Illinois-5th-1996)
1973 - Chris Perry, English footballer
1974 - Ivana Milicevic, Croatian-American actress
1974 - Adil Ray, English radio presenter (BBC Asian Network)
1975 - Jabbar Threats, defensive end (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1975 - Trudi Ferguson, Miss Universe-Jamaica (1996)
1975 - Nathan "Joey" Jordison, American musician (Slipknot)
1975 - Nerina Pallot, British singer
1976 - Sarah Tueting, ice hockey goalie (USA, Oly-98)
1977 - Jason Earles, American actor
1977 - Kosuke Fukudome, Japanese baseball player
1977 - Chris Johnston, Irish rugby player
1977 - Tom Welling, American actor
1978 - Avant, American singer
1978 - Joe Crede, American baseball player
1978 - Peter Madsen, Danish footballer
1979 - Sean Fox, actor (3 Ninjas Kick Back, Calendar Girl)
1979 - Janne Wirman, Finnish musician (Children of Bodom)
1979 - Ariane Moffatt, Quebec singer and songwriter
1980 - Jordana Brewster, Panama, actress (Nikki Graves-As the World Turns)
1980 - Marne Patterson, Sherman Oaks Cal, actress (Nicole-Something So Right)
1980 - Channing Tatum, American actor
1981 - Matthieu Delpierre, French footballer
1981 - Ms. Dynamite, English musician
1982 - Joanne Gobure, Nauruan poet
1982 - Cooper Wallace, National Football League tight end
1982 - Brock Gillespie, American basketball player
1982 - Jon Lee, British singer (S Club)
1983 - José María López, Argentine racing driver
1983 - Jessica Lynch, American P.O.W.
1984 - Ryan O'Donohue, Pomona Ca, actress (Byrds of Paradise, Boys are Back)
1984 - Mija Martina, Bosnian singer
1985 - John Isner, American Tennis player
1985 - Nam Gyu-Ri, Korean singer, member of See Ya
1987 - Jessica Lee Rose, American-born New Zealand actress, famous YouTube star lonelygirl15

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 26, 2013, 08:45:49 PM

This Day in History for 26th April


Famous Deaths

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Assassin John Wilkes Booth (1865)           Comedienne/Actress Lucille Ball (1989)


757 - Stephen II, Pope (752-57), dies
1192 - Emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan (b. 1127)
1196 - Alfonso II, King of Aragon (1162-96), dies
1444 - Robert Campin, South Neth painter/porter of Doornik, dies at about 65
1476 - Simonetta Vespucci, inspiration of Botticelli (b.1453)
1478 - Giuliano de' Medici, Medeheerser of Florence, murdered at about 24
1489 - Ashikaga Yoshihisa, Japanese shogun (b. 1465)
1558 - Jean Francois Fernel, French physician, dies
1648 - Christoph Thomas Walliser, composer, dies at 79
1703 - Georg Christoph Leuttner, composer, dies at 58
1716 - John Somers, 1st Baron Somers, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1651)
1726 - Jeremy Collier, Engl bishop/historian/opponent to theater, dies at 75
1731 - Daniel Defoe, English author (Robinson Crusoe), dies at about 70
1784 - Nano Nagle, Irish convent founder (b. 1718)
1785 - Karl Siegmund von Seckendorff, composer, dies at 40
1789 - Peter I Panin, Russian general (Pugatshov-uprising), dies at about 67
1805 - Jean BG d'ansse the Villoison, classic (Anecdota Graeca), dies at 55
1827 - Bernardo Ottani, composer, dies at 90
1865 - Charles J Sax, Belgium musician and father of Adolphe Sax inventor of the saxophone, dies at
           74
1865 - John Wilkes Booth, assassin, is shot dead near Bowling Green VA at 27
1881 - Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen, German general (b. 1815)
1892 - Sir Provo Wallis, British Admiral and naval hero (b. 1791)
1907 - Pietro Plantania, composer, dies at 79
1910 - Bjornstjerne Bjornson, Norwegian writer (Mary, Nobel 1903), dies at 77
1920 - Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician (b. 1887)
1922 - Hans Sommer, composer, dies at 84
1924 - Josef Labor, composer, dies at 82
1932 - Bill Lockwood, cricketer (43 wickets in 12 Tests for England), dies
1936 - Tammany Young, American actor (b.1886)
1938 - Edmund Husserl, German philosopher (study of phenomenon), dies at 79
1940 - Carl Bosch, German chemist (BASF, IG Farben, Nobel 1931), dies at 65
1941 - Jean Demoor, Belgian physician/physiologist/educationalist, dies at 74
1944 - Violette Morris, French athlete (b. 1893)
1945 - Pavlo Skoropadsky, Ukrainian politician and general (b. 1871)
1945 - Sigmund Rascher, Nazi doctor (b. 1909)
1946 - Hermann Keyserling, count/philosopher (Unsterblichkeit), dies at 65
1950 - G. Murray Hulbert, American politician (b. 1881)
1951 - John Alden Carpenter, US composer (Sea Drift), dies at 75
1951 - Arnold Sommerfeld, German physicist (b. 1868)
1952 - Charles L Baars, Dutch actor (Women Tamers), dies at 59
1956 - Edward Arnold, actor (Mr Smith Goes to Washington), dies at 66
1957 - Gichin Funakoshi, Father of Japanese Shotokan Karatedo (b. 1868)
1958 - Joe Small, cricketer (WI all-rounder in 1928 series), dies
1958 - Johan N C "Joan" Collette, painter, dies at 68
1960 - Wander J de Haas, Dut physicist (Einstein-De Haas effect), dies at 82
1961 - Gail Russell, actress (Calcutta, Moonrise, El Paso), dies at 36
1964 - Edwin John Pratt, Canadian poet (Towards the Last Spike), dies at 81
1964 - Pieter van der Lijn, Dutch geologist (Boulder Book), dies at 93
1965 - Aaron Avshalomov, composer, dies at 70
1969 - Morihei Ueshiba, Japanese martial artist and founder of aikido (b. 1883)
1970 - Gypsy Rose Lee, stripper/actress (Pruitts of S Hampton), dies at 56
1970 - John Knittel, writer, dies at 79
1970 - Paul Celan, writer, dies at 49 [or May 5]
1970 - Erik Bergman, Lutheran pastor (b. 1886)
1972 - Margaret A R Bonds, US pianist/composer/arranger, dies at 59
1972 - Fernando Amorsolo, Filipino painter (b. 1892)
1973 - Irene Ryan, actress (Granny-Beverly Hillbillies), dies at 69
1976 - Allan Jackson, newscaster (Youth Takes a Stand), dies at 60
1976 - Neil McCallum, actor (Pete-Saber of London), dies at 45
1976 - Sid James, South African-born British comedian, dies at 62
1980 - Cicely Courtneidge, actress (Double Exposure), dies at 87
1981 - Jim Davis, actor (Jack Ewing-Dallas), dies at 65
1981 - Madge Evans, TV panelist (Masquerade Party), dies at 71
1981 - Robert Davi, dies at 54
1982 - Celia Johnson, British actress (Jean Brodie), dies of stroke at 73
1982 - Ville Ritola, Finnish 5/10km runner (Olympic-gold-1924, 28), dies
1983 - Bronislaw Kaper, composer, dies at 81
1983 - Vaughn Taylor, actor (Johnny Jupiter), dies at 72
1984 - Henry Rowland, actor (Rogue's Regiment), dies at 70
1984 - May McAvoy, actress (Ben Hur), dies at 82 after a heart attack
1984 - William "Count" Basie, jazz piano great, dies on 80th birthday
1986 - Bessie Love, actress (Broadway Melody, Isadora), dies at 87
1986 - [William] Broderick Crawford, actor (Highway Patrol), dies at 74
1986 - Dechko Uzunov, Bulgarian painter (b. 1899)
1987 - John Ernest Silkin, British politician (b. 1923)
1987 - Shankar, Of Noted Bollywood Music Director Duo Shankar-Jaikishan (b. 1922)
1989 - Lucille Ball, comedienne (I Love Lucy), dies of heart attack at 78
1990 - Carlos Pizarro Leongomez, Colombian pres candidate, assassinated
1991 - Carmine Coppola, composer/father of Francis Ford Coppola, dies
1991 - Emily McLaughlin, US actress (Jessie-General Hospital), dies at 61
1991 - Leo Arnaud, French-American composer (b. 1904)
1991 - Richard Hatfield, Canadian politician (b. 1931)
1992 - Alberta Vaughn, actress (Wild Horse, Silver Devil), dies at 87
1992 - Clyde Hartley, entertainer, dies at 68
1994 - Masutatsu Oyama, Founder of Japanese Kyokushin Karate (b. 1927)
1995 - Alexander Knox, actor/writer (Gorky Park, Accident), dies at 88
1996 - Burton Stein, historian, dies at 69
1996 - John Norrie McArthur, malariologist/microscopist, dies at 94
1996 - Stirling Silliphant, screenwriter, dies at 78
1997 - Joey Faye, comic (Fruit of the Loom grapes), dies at 86
1997 - Peng Zhen, mayor of Beijing China (1951-66), dies
1997 - Yegorov, Russian leader (1994-95), dies
1999 - Adrian Borland, English musician (The Sound) (b. 1957)
1999 - Jill Dando, British television presenter (b.1961)
2002 - Robert Steinhäuser German spree killer (b.1983)
2003 - Rosemary Brown, Canadian politician (b. 1930)
2003 - Max Nicholson, Irish environmentalist (b. 1904)
2003 - Peter Stone, American writer (b. 1930)
2004 - Hubert Selby Jr., American author (b. 1928)
2005 - Mason Adams, American actor (b. 1919)
2005 - Maria Schell, Swiss-Austrian actress (b. 1926)
2005 - Augusto Roa Bastos, Paraguayan author (b. 1917)
2007 - Jack Valenti, American political advisor and film executive (b. 1921)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 27, 2013, 02:33:37 PM

This Day in History for 27th April


Historical Events

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Composer                                                         Confederate General                Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini
George Friedrich Handel                                    Thomas Jackson

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Baseball Great Babe Ruth                        Heavyweight Champion Boxer                Rocker/Beatle John Lennon
                                                                           Rocky Marciano


1124 - David I becomes King of Scots.
1296 - Battle of Dunbar: The Scots are defeated by Edward I of England.
1509 - Pope Julius II excommunicates Italian state of Venice
1518 - Treaty of St Truiden: anti-French Trapdoors/Bourgondisch covenant
1522 - Battle at Bicacca: Charles I & Pope Adrianus VI beat France
1526 - Mogol King Babur beats sultan of Delhi
1539 - Re-founding of the city of Bogotá, New Granada (nowadays Colombia), by Nikolaus
           Federmann and Sebastián de Belalcázar.
1565 - 1st Spanish settlement in Philippines, Cebu City, forms
1576 - Peace of Beaulieu & Paix de Monsieur
1578 - Duel of the Mignons claims the lives of two favorites of Henry III of France and two favorites of Henry I, Duke of Guise.
1643 - Tirso de Molina's "Bellaco Sois, Gomez," premieres in Madrid
1646 - King Charles I flees Oxford
1650 - The Battle of Carbisdale: Royalist army under Marquess of Montrose invades mainland
           Scotland from Orkney; defeated by a Covenanter army.
1662 - Netherlands & France sign military covenant
1667 - The blind and impoverished, John Milton sells the copyright of Paradise Lost for £10.
1694 - Frederik August I "the Strong" becomes monarch of Saksen
1749 - First performance of Handel's Fireworks Music in Green Park, London.
1773 - British Parliament passes Tea Act (Boston won't like this)
1805 - US Marines attack shores of Tripoli
1810 - Beethoven composes his famous piano piece, Für Elise.
1813 - Americans under Gen Pike capture Toronto; Pike is killed
1828 - Zoological Gardens at Regent's Park London, opens
1838 - Fire destroys half of Charleston
1840 - Foundation stone for new Palace of Westminster, London, laid by wife of Sir Charles Barry.
1841 - Imakita Kosen, 1st Zen teacher of D.T. Suzuki, found the awakening
1857 - Establishment of Jewish congregations in Lower Austria prohibited
1859 - "Pomona" sinks in North Atlantic drowning all 400 aboard
1860 - Thomas Jackson is assigned to command Harpers Ferry
1861 - President Abe Lincoln suspends writ of habeas corpus
1861 - West Virginia secedes from Virginia after Virginia secedes from US
1863 - Battle of Streight's raid: Tuscumbia to Cedar Bluff, AL
1865 - Cornell University (Ithaca NY) is chartered
1865 - Steamboat "Sultana" explodes in Mississippi River, kills up to 1,547. 1450 of 2000 paroled
           Union POWs on their way home are killed when river steamer "Sultana" blows up
1867 - Opera "Romeo et Juliette" is produced (Paris)
1870 - Heinrich Schliemann discovers Troi
1874 - White League, Paramilitary white supremacist organization, forms
1877 - Opera "Le Roi de Lahore" is produced (Paris)
1877 - President Hayes removes Federal troops from LA, Reconstruction ends
1881 - Pogroms against Russian Jews start in Elisabethgrad
1890 - French troops under Capt Archinard occupy Oussebougou West Sudan
1897 - Grant's Tomb (famed of song & legend) dedicated
1903 - 1st Highlander (Yankee) shut-out, Phila A's win 6-0
1903 - Long Island's Jamaica Race Track opens
1904 - The Australian Labor Party becomes the first such party to gain national government, under
           Chris Watson.
1905 - World Exposition opens in Luik
1908 - 4th modern Olympic games opens in London
1909 - Sultan of Turkey Abdul Hamid II is overthrown
1910 - Belgian parliament rejects socialist motion for general voting rights
1911 - Following the resignation and death of William P. Frye, a compromise is reached to rotate the
           office of President pro tempore of the United States Senate.
1912 - Relief laws replaces those of 1854, in Netherlands
1914 - Honduras becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1918 - Giants' 9-0 winning start & Dodgers' 0-9 losing streak are stopped
1920 - Pogrom leader Petljoera declares Ukraine Independence
1921 - Hadjememaar, [Corn de Gelder] elected in Amsterdam
1922 - Fritz Langs "Dr Mabuse, der Spieler" premieres in Berlin
1922 - Yakut ASSR formed in Russian SFSR
1923 - Benito Mussolini government italian place in South Tirol/Alto Adige
1924 - Antwerp soccer tie Belgium-Netherlands 1-1
1926 - In the Giants' 9-8 win over Phillies, Mel Ott, 17, 1st appearance
1927 - Carabineros de Chile (Chilean national police force and gendarmery) are created.
1931 - 100°F (38°C), Pahala, Hawaii (state record)
1933 - Karl Jansky reports reception of cosmic radio signal in Wash DC
1933 - Jessop & Son department store in Nottingham, England, acquired by John Lewis Partnership.
           The partnership's first shop outside London.
1935 - Brussel's World Expo opens
1935 - Yanks pull a 1st inning triple-play & beat Phila A's 9-8
1937 - 1st US social security payment made
1940 - Himmler orders establishment of Auschwitz Concentration Camp
1941 - German troops occupy Athens Greece
1942 - Belgium Jews are forced to wear stars
1942 - Tornado destroys Pryor Oklahoma killing 100, injuring 300
1943 - Lou Jansen & Jan Dieters arrested, lead illegal CPN party in Holland
1943 - Soviet Union breaks contact with Polish government exiled in London
1944 - Boston Brave Jim Tobin no-hits Bkln Dodgers, 2-0
1945 - 2nd Republic of Austria forms
1945 - Italian partisans capture Benito Mussolini prisoner
1945 - US 5th army enters Genua
1945 - World War II: The Völkischer Beobachter, the newspaper of the Nazi Party, ceases
           publication.
1946 - 1st radar installation aboard a coml ship installed
1947 - Babe Ruth Day celebrated at Yankee Stadium & through out US
1948 - Arab legion attacks Gesher bridge on Jordan River
1950 - "Tickets, Please" opens at Coronet Theater NYC for 245 performances
1950 - South Africa passes Group Areas Act segregating races
1951 - Mohammed Mossadeq chosen premier of Persia
1952 - "4 Saints in 3 Acts" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 15 perfs
1953 - 1st general elections in British Guyana, won by Jagans PPP
1953 - Wrestler Freddie Blassie coins term "Pencil neck geek"
1956 - Burma Premier U Nu's Volksliga voor Vrijheid loses election
1956 - Heavyweight champ, Rocky Marciano, retires undefeated from boxing
1959 - "Today" show goes abroard 1st time (Paris France)
1959 - Liu Sjau-chi elected president of China PR
1959 - The last Canadian missionary leaves the People's Republic of China.
1960 - 1st atomic powered electric-drive submarine launched (Tullibee)
1960 - South Korean pres Syngman Rhee resigns
1960 - Togo (formerly French Togo) declares independence from French adm
1961 - NASA launches Explorer 11 into Earth orbit to study gamma rays
1961 - NFL officially recognizes Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio
1961 - Sierra Leone declares independence from UK
1962 - Arnold Wesker's "Chips with Everything," premieres in London
1962 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1963 - "Jopie" Pengel forms government in Suriname
1963 - Cuban premier Fidel Castro arrives in Moscow
1964 - John Lennon's "In His Own Write" is published in US
1965 - "I'm Solomon" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 7 perfs
1965 - RC Duncan patents "Pampers" disposable diaper
1966 - Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 2nd cello concert
1967 - Expo '67 opens in Montreal
1967 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1968 - "Education of Hyman Kaplan" closes at Alvin NYC after 28 perfs
1968 - Balt Oriole Tom Phoebus no-hits Boston, 6-0
1968 - Congress of Political Party Radicals (PPR) forms in Netherlands
1969 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Raleigh Ladies Golf Invitational
1971 - Curt Flood resigns Senators after 13 games & departs for Denmark
1972 - Apollo 16 returns to Earth
1972 - NYC Mayor John Lindsey appeals that John Lennon not be deported
1973 - KC Royal Steve Busby no-hits Detroit Tigers, 3-0
1974 - Pan Am 707 crashes into mountains of Bali, killing 107
1975 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Charity Golf Classic
1975 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1976 - "So Long 174th St" opens at Harkness Theater NYC for 16 performances
1976 - Arabic Monetary Fund established in Abu Dhabi
1977 - Bloody riots in Soweto South Africa
1977 - HCC, Hobby Computer Club, forms in Netherlands
1977 - 28 people are killed in the Guatemala City air disaster.
1978 - 14th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yanks beat Mets 4-3 in 11
1978 - Accident at nuclear reactor Willow Island, W Virginia, kills 51
1978 - Afghanistan revolution (National Day), pro-Russian military coup
1979 - George Harrison releases "Love Comes to Everyone"
1980 - Barbara Barrow wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic
1981 - 1st female soccer official is hired by NASL
1981 - Xerox PARC introduces the computer mouse.
1982 - Nordiques 1-Isles 4-Semifinals-Isles hold 1-0 lead
1982 - Trial of John W Hinckley Jr attempted assassin of Reagan, begins
1983 - Nolan Ryan becomes strikeout king (3,509), passing Walter Johnson
1984 - Cleve Indians beat Detroit Tigers, 8-4, in 19 innings
1984 - Over 70 inches of snow falls on Red Lake Montana
1986 - "Sweet Charity" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 368 performances
1986 - Captain Midnight (John R MacDougall) interrupts HBO
1986 - Pat Bradley wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic
1987 - US Justice Dept bars Austrian Chancellor Kurt Waldheim from entering US, due to his aid of
           Nazi Germany during WW II
1989 - "Starmites" opens at Criter Ctr SR Theater NYC for 60 performances
1989 - Beijing students take over Tiananmen Square in China
1989 - Hurricane in Bangladesh, kills 500
1989 - Mandatory seatbelt law goes into effect in Italy
1990 - 50th annual barbershop quartet singing convention held (Mich)
1990 - Dodger Orel Hershiser undergoes career-threatening shoulder surgery
1990 - Villanova's women set a 6,000 m relay world record of 17:18:10
1991 - "Lucifer's Child" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 28 perfs
1991 - Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by David Ozio
1992 - "Small Family Business" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 48 perfs
1992 - NY Mets trade David Cone to Toronto Blue Jays for Jeff Kent
1992 - The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, comprising Serbia and Montenegro, is proclaimed.
1992 - Betty Boothroyd becomes the first woman to be elected Speaker of the British House of
           Commons in its 700-year history.
1993 - Afghan Antonov AN-32 crashes at Tashqurgan, kills 76
1994 - "Inspector Calls" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 454 performances
1994 - 29.0°C in Genevad, Sweden (Swedish April high temperature record)
1994 - 7th longest NHL game: NJ Devils beat Buffalo Sabres (125 min 43 sec)
1994 - Graeme Obree bicycles world record time (52,713 km)
1994 - President Nixon buried in Nixon Library in Calif
1994 - Twins righty Scott Erickson no-hits Brewers 6-0
1995 - "Indiscretions" opens at Ethel Barrymore Theater NYC for 221 perfs
1995 - Coors Field in Colo opens - Denver Rockies beats Mets 11-9 in 14
1996 - Brunswick World Tournament of Champions won by Dave D'Entremont
1997 - "Little Foxes," opens at Vivian Beaumont NYC for 56 performances
1997 - "Stanley," closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC
1997 - Frank Nobilo wins Greater Greensboro Chrysler Classic at Forest Oaks
1997 - Las Vegas Senior Golf Classic by TruGreen-ChemLawn
1997 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Chick-fil-A Charity Championship
2002 - The last successful telemetry from the NASA space probe Pioneer 10.
2005 - The Superjumbo jet aircraft Airbus A380 makes its first flight from Toulouse, France.
2006 - Construction begins on the Freedom Tower for the new World Trade Center in New York City.
2007 - Estonian authorities remove the Bronze Soldier, a Soviet Red Army war memorial in Tallinn,
           amid political controversy with Russia.
2011 - The deadliest day of the 2011 Super outbreak of tornadoes, the largest tornado outbreak, in
           United States history.
2012 - Four explosions in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, kill 27 people

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 27, 2013, 02:36:33 PM

This Day in History for 27th April


Famous Weddings

1981 - Beatle Ringo Starr marries actress Barbara Bach [Goldbach]
1981 - Beatle Ringo Starr marries actress Barbara Bach [Goldbach]
1996 - Soap opera actor Lorenzo Lamas (38) weds Playboy model and actress Shauna Sand (24) in
           Rockland County, New York
1996 - Romanian gymnast and three-time Olympic gold medalist Nadia Comaneci (35) weds gymnast
           champion Bart Conner (38) in Bucharest, Romania

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 27, 2013, 02:37:47 PM

This Day in History for 27th April


Famous Divorces

2004 - Oscar-winning actress Halle Berry files for divorce from her second husband, R&B singer Eric
           Benet, six months after the couple separated

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 27, 2013, 02:44:37 PM

This Day in History for 27th April


Famous Birthdays

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Inventor Samuel Morse (1791)                US President Ulysses S. Grant (1822)


1410 - John Van Lannoy, Flemish governor of Holland/Zealand/West Frisia
1623 - Johann Adam Reincken, composer
1650 - Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel), queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1714)
1701 - Charles Emanuel I, King of Sardinia
1707 - John Burman, Dutch botanist/director botanical gardens
1718 - Thomas Lewis, Irish-born Virginia settler (d. 1790)
1724 - Ferdinand Philipp Joseph Lobkowitz, composer
1724 - Col. Thomas Gardner, a heroic political figure and soldier (d. 1775)
1737 - Edward Gibson, England, historian (Decline & Fall of Roman Emp)
1748 - Adamantios Korais, Greek humanist scholar (d. 1833)
1755 - Marc-Antoine Parseval, French mathematician (d. 1836)
1759 - Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, England, writer/feminist (Female Reader)
1767 - Andreas Jakob Romberg, German violinist/composer (Song of the Clock)
1791 - Samuel Morse, Charlestown, Massachusetts, American inventor (telegraph, Morse code) and
           painter
1802 - Abraham Louis Niedermeyer, composer
1803 - Alfred Julius Becher, composer
1806 - Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies, queen of Spain (d. 1878)
1812 - Friedrich von Flotow, composer
1812 - William W. Snow, American politician (d. 1886)
1820 - Herbert Spencer, Derby England, Victorian philosopher (Social Statics)
1822 - Ulysses S. Grant, [Hiram], Ohio (R), 18th president (1869-77)
1824 - William Richard Bexfield, composer
1828 - Gerben Colmjon, Dutch Frisian linguist/publisher
1835 - John Murray Corse, Pitts, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers) [or 9/27]
1840 - Edward Whymper, 1st to climb Matterhorn (1865)
1848 - King Otto I of Bavaria (d. 1916)
1850 - Hans Hartwig von Beseler, German general (d. 1921)
1853 - Jules Lemaître, French critic and dramatist (d. 1914)
1861 - Georgy L'vovich Catoire, composer
1861 - Johan M Skjoldborg, Danish writer (Dynaes-Digte)
1865 - Emile Erens, Dutch Hagiographer (Pastor of Ars)
1869 - William Victor Harris, composer
1871 - Arthur Finlay Nevin, composer
1873 - Harry M O'Connor, Chicago IL, actor (Stranger than Fiction)
1875 - Andre Baillon, Belgian/French author (Un homme si simple)
1875 - Freddie Fane, cricketer (Hobbs' 1st Test opening partner)
1875 - Lumsden Hare, Ireland, actor (Oregon Trail, Desert Fox, Young Bess)
1878 - Frank Alvin Gotch, American professional wrestler (d. 1917)
1883 - Hubert Harrison, St Croix Virgin Island, writer/freedom fighter
1884 - Louis de Bree, [Louis C Davids], actor (Bluejackets)
1888 - Florence La Badie, Canadian actress (d. 1917)
1892 - Louis Victor de Broglie, physicist (studied electrons)
1893 - Norman Bel Geddes, Adrian Mich, theatrical designer (Rivals, Dead End)
1893 - Allen Sothoron, American baseball player (d. 1939)
1894 - Nicolas Slonimsky, composer
1894 - George Petty, WWII Pin-Up Artist (d. 1975)
1896 - Rogers Hornsby, 2nd baseman (St Louis Cards)
1896 - Wallace Hume Carothers, inventor (nylon)
1900 - Walter Lantz, animator (Woody Woodpecker's creator)
1902 - Kitty Kelly, NYC, actress (Ladies of the Jury, Behind Office Doors)
1903 - Frank Belknap Long, American writer (Rim of the Unknown)
1903 - Hans Walter Kosterliz, biochemist
1904 - Arthur F Burns, economist/chairman (Federal Reserve Board)
1904 - Cecil Day-Lewis, England, poet laureate/detective (Nicholas Blake)
1904 - Ragnar Skrede, Norwegian poet (Lauvfall)
1905 - Julian Stryjkowski, writer
1905 - Philip Radcliffe, composer
1906 - Mark Alexander Abrams, market researcher
1906 - Yórgos Theotokás, Greek novelist (d. 1966)
1909 - Muriel C Bradbrook, English writer (That Infidel Place)
1911 - Colin Gordon, Ceylon, actor (John-Baron)
1911 - Georges Dargaud, French publisher (Asterix, Tintin)
1912 - Franz Weyergans, Belgian literary (Les Gens Heureux)
1912 - Frederick Rand Weissman, philanthropist
1912 - Renato Rascel, actor (7 Hills of Rome, Secrets of Santa Vittoria)
1913 - Philip Hauge Abelson, American physicist (d. 2004)
1914 - Albert Soboult, French historian
1916 - Jan Rychlik, composer
1916 - Enos Slaughter, American baseball player (d. 2002)
1918 - John Alfred Scali, journalist/correspondent (ABC)
1918 - Kirby Stone, NYC, jazz combo leader (Baubles Bangles & Beads)
1918 - Willem N "Pim" Koot, pianist of Concert building (Oh, Lady! Lady!)
1918 - Sten Rudholm, Swedish jurist, member of the Swedish Academy
1919 - Walter Ritchie, sculptor
1920 - Guido Cantelli, Italian conductor (d. 1956)
1920 - Edwin Morgan, Scottish poet
1920 - Mark Krasnosel'skii, Russian-Ukrainian mathematician (d. 1997)
1922 - Daphne Anderson, London, actress (Beggar's Opera, Hobson's Choice)
1922 - Jack Klugman, Phila (Oscar-Odd Couple, Quincy, Goodbye Columbus), (d. 2012)
1922 - Martin Gray, Polish-born American writer, holocaust survivor
1927 - Connie Kay, jazz drummer
1927 - Coretta Scott King, Marion Ala, civil rights leader
1927 - John Joseph Moakley, (Rep-D-Massachusetts, 1973- )
1927 - Sheila Scott, English aviatrix (d. 1988)
1929 - Nina Ponomareva Romaschkova, USSR, discus thrower (Oly-gold-1952, 60)
1930 - Roelof F "Pik" Botha, South African minister of Foreign affairs
1931 - Igor Oistrach, Russian violinist/son of David Oistrach
1931 - Krzystzof Komeda, composer
1932 - Casey Kasem, Detroit Mich, radio personality (American Top 40)
1932 - Charles Adkins, US, light welterweight boxer (Olympic-gold-1952)
1932 - Chuck Knox, NFL coach (Rams, Bills, Seahawks)
1932 - Francois Bayle, composer
1932 - Maxine Brown, rocker (Browns)
1932 - Petar Ozgijan, composer
1932 - Anouk Aimée, French actress
1932 - Gian-Carlo Rota, Italian-born mathematician and philosopher (d. 1999)
1936 - Khalid Wazir, cricketer (son of S Wazir Ali 2 Tests for Pakistan 1954)
1936 - Geoffrey Shovelton, English opera singer
1937 - Phil Jones, newsman (CBS)
1937 - Sandy Dennis, American actress (d. 1992)
1938 - Earl Anthony, bowler (PBA money champ 1974-6, 1981-3)
1939 - Jerry Mercer, Montreal Canada, rock drummer (April Wine)
1939 - Judy Carne, Northhampton Engl, comedienne (Laugh-in, Fair Exchange)
1939 - Stanislaw Dziwisz, Polish Cardinal
1941 - Friedrich Goldmann, composer
1941 - Jan D Blaauw, Dutch MP (VVD)
1941 - Judith Blegen, Missoula Mont, opera singer (Papagena-Magic Flute)
1941 - Jennings Michael Burch, American author
1941 - Lee Roy Jordan, American football player
1942 - Gordon Roddick, English cosmetic manufacturer (Body Shop)
1942 - Valeri Vladimirovich Polyakov, Russian cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-6, TM-18)
1943 - Eugene Polyakov, dancer
1943 - Helmut Marko, auto racer (Le Mans Grand Prix)
1944 - Cuba Gooding, US singer (Everybody Plays the Fool)
1944 - Herb Pedersen, Berkley Ca, singer (Desert Rose Band-Love Reunited)
1944 - Michael Fish, British TV weatherman
1945 - August Wilson, US, playwright (Fences, Pulitzer 1987)
1946 - John Maclean, cricketer (Australian wicket-keeper 1978-79)
1947 - Ann Peebles, Missouri, singer (I Can't Stand the Rain)
1947 - Herbie Murrell, US singer (Stylistics-You are My Everything)
1947 - Pete Ham, Swansea Wales, rock vocalist (Badfinger-Come & Get It)
1947 - Peter Gena, composer
1947 - George Kenneth Butterfield, American politician
1948 - Katie Pierson, NJ, vocals/guitarist (B-52's-Rock Lobster, Love Shack)
1948 - Frank William Abagnale, Jr., con artist turned security consultant.
1948 - Amrit Bohra, Nepalese politician
1949 - Doug Sheehan, Santa Monica California, American actor (Ben-Knots Landing, Joe Kelly-
           General Hospital)
1949 - Yoshiaki Fujiwara, wrestler (NJPW/PWF/UWF)
1951 - Ace Frehley, Bronx NY, heavy metal rocker (Kiss-Beth, Frehley's Comet)
1951 - Boris Kinberg, rock percussionist (Mink Deville)
1952 - Ari Vatanen, Finnish rally driver
1952 - George Gervin, American basketball player
1952 - Larry Elder, American political commentator
1953 - Ellen L Shulman Baker, Fayetteville NC, MD/astronaut (STS 34, 50, 71)
1953 - Arielle Dombasle, French singer and actress
1955 - Cora Ann Mahalick, NJ, news anchor (WNYW-TV)
1956 - Dennie Shupryt-Knoop, Chicago Ill, beach volleyballer (Olympics-96)
1956 - Bryan Harvey, American musician
1957 - Michel Barrette, Canadian actor and stand-up comedian
1958 - Keith Denunzio, rocker
1959 - Marco Pirroni, London, rock guitarist (Adam & The Ants)
1959 - Sheena Easton, [Shirley Orr], Glasgow Scotland, singer (Sugar Walls)
1959 - Louis Lortie, French Canadian concert pianist
1962 - Denise Baldwin, Atlanta, LPGA golfer (1991 Futures Salisbury Classic)
1962 - Patricia Plumer, Covina California, 1.5k/5k runner
1962 - Patricia Susan Plumer Levere, Covina, California, 3K runner
1962 - Ángel Comizzo, Argentine footballer
1962 - James LeGros, American actor
1963 - Arther van Dijk, drummer (Ivy Green)
1963 - Grant Show, actor (Jake-Melrose Place, Rick-Ryan's Hope)
1963 - Schae Harrison, Orange California, actress (Darla-Bold & Beautiful)
1963 - Cali Timmins, Canadian actress
1963 - Russell T. Davies, Welsh television writer and executive producer of Doctor Who
1964 - Paul Osbaldiston, CFL kicker (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1965 - Courtenay Becker-Dey, Greenwich Conn, Europe yachter (Oly-bronze-1996)
1966 - Peter McIntyre, cricketer (Australian leg-spinner 1995)
1967 - Bridgette Gordon, WNBA forward (Sacramento Monarchs, Olympic-gold-88)
1967 - Willem-Alexander CGF, Dutch crown prince/son of Queen Beatrix of Neth
1967 - Aki Avni, Israeli entertainer
1967 - Tommy Smith, Scottish jazz musician
1967 - Erik Thomson, Australian actor
1967 - Jason Whitlock, American sportswriter
1968 - Adrian Cooper, NFL tight end (Minnesota Vikings)
1969 - Brett Steven, Bermuda, NZ tennis player (Olympics-96)
1969 - Francine "Frankie" McRae, Australian softball outfielder (Oly-br-96)
1969 - Mica Paris, rocker (So Good)
1969 - Tyrone Rodgers, CFL defensive linebacker (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1969 - Cory Booker, Mayor of Newark, New Jersey
1969 - Darcey Bussell, British ballerina
1969 - Grahame Cheney, Australian boxer
1970 - Mikiko Hagiwara, WNBA guard (Sacramento Monarchs)
1970 - Tim Hanshaw, NFL guard (SF 49ers)
1971 - Craig Keith, NFL tight end (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1971 - Hayley Carr, Salzburg Austria, actress (Courtney-As the World Turns)
1971 - James Burton, cornerback (Chicago Bears)
1971 - Ricky Sutton, WLAF defensive end (Barcelona Dragons)
1971 - Tess Daly, British television presenter
1972 - Alison McKnight, Bakersfield California, 100m hurdler/heptathlete
1972 - David Lascher, NYC, actor (Josh-Clueless, Kidz in the Wood)
1972 - Ethan Brooks, NFL/WAFL tackle (Atlanta Falcons, Rhein Fire)
1972 - Silvia Farina, Milan Italy, tennis star (1995 Maria Lankowitz doubles)
1972 - Tim Ruddy, NFL center (Miami Dolphins)
1972 - Tommy Thompson, NFL punter (SF 49ers)
1973 - Andre Govan, Culver City California, actor (Monster Squad)
1974 - Carlos Fortes, soccer player (Sparta)
1974 - Pete Chryplewicz, tight end (Detroit Lions)
1974 - Johnny Devine, Canadian professional wrestler
1975 - Andre Gower, actor (Baby Makes 5, Fathers & Sons, Mr President)
1975 - Kenny Harris, safety (Arizona Cardinals)
1975 - Michael Booker, cornerback (Atlanta Falcons)
1975 - Rabih Abdullah, former National Football League player
1975 - Chris Carpenter, American baseball player
1976 - Walter Pandiani, Uruguayan footballer
1976 - Isobel Campbell, Scottish singer and composer
1976 - Sally Hawkins, English film actress
1977 - Khalid Zoubaa, French runner
1977 - Jerry Trainor, American actor
1978 - Adamantia Kontogiorgi, Greek actress
1979 - Will Boyd, American musician
1979 - Natasha Chokljat, Australian netballer
1980 - Christian Lara, Ecuadorian footballer
1980 - Ananda Mikola, Indonesian racing driver
1980 - Sybille Bammer, Austrian tennis player
1980 - Talitha Cummins, Australian journalist
1981 - Patrik Gerrbrand, Swedish footballer
1981 - Fabrizio Faniello, Maltese singer
1981 - Joey Gathright, American baseball player
1982 - Katrina Johnson, American actress
1983 - Ari Graynor, American actress
1984 - Patrick Stump, American musician (Fall Out Boy)
1984 - Frank Carter, British musician (Gallows) and tattooist
1984 - Pierre-Marc Bouchard, hockey player
1984 - Daniel Holdsworth, Australian Rugby League player
1986 - Elena Risteska, Macedonian singer
1987 - William Moseley, British actor
1987 - Emma Taylor-Isherwood, Canadian actress
1987 - Elliott Shriane, Australian speed skater
1989 - Emily Rios, American actress
1992 - James Duke Mason, son of singer Belinda Carlisle & Morgan Mason

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 27, 2013, 02:46:57 PM

This Day in History for 27th April


Famous Deaths

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English Politician John Trenchard (1695)


630 - King Ardashir III of Persia
1076 - Willem, bishop of Utrecht (1054-76), murderer of earl Floris I, dies
1124 - Alexander I, King of Scots (1107-24), dies
1404 - Philip, the Stout, Duke of Burgundy, dies at 62
1521 - Ferdinand Magellan, world traveler, killed by Filipino natives at 50
1599 - Maeda Toshiie, Japanese general (b. 1538)
1605 - Leo XI, [Alessandro O de' Medici], Italian Pope (1605), dies at 69
1613 - Robert Abercromby, Scottish Jesuit (b. 1532)
1625 - Mori Terumoto, Japanese warrior (b. 1553)
1656 - Gerard van Honthorst, painter, dies at 65
1656 - Jan J van Goyen, Dutch landscape painter, dies at 60
1682 - Theodorus III, czar of Russia (1676-82), dies
1694 - Johan Georg IV, elector of Saxony (1691-94), dies at 25
1695 - Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, [Asbaje], Mexican poetress/nun, dies at 44
1695 - John Trenchard, English statesman (b. 1640)
1702 - Jean Bart, French capt/sea hero (Escape out of Plymouth), dies at 51
1758 - Jan Francisci, composer, dies at 66
1764 - Jaime de Casellas, composer, dies at 73
1782 - William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot, English politician (b. 1710)
1794 - William Jones, British Orientalist/jurist, dies at 47
1813 - Zebulon M Pike, US explorer (Pike's Peak), dies in battle at 34
1871 - Sigismond Fortune Francois Thalberg, composer, dies at 59
1872 - Ion Heliade-Radulescu, Romanian politician/author, dies at 70
1873 - William Charles Macready, English actor (b. 1793)
1881 - Ludwig A Benedek, Austrian general, dies at 76
1882 - Ralph Waldo Emerson, US poet (Representive Men), dies
1893 - John Murray Corse, US general (Union), dies on his 58th birthday
1896 - Henry Parkes, known as the Father of Federation (b. 1815)
1901 - Richard Redhead, composer, dies at 81
1902 - Julius Sterling Morton, who started Arbor Day, dies at 72
1915 - Alexander N Skriabin, Russ pianist/composer (Prometheus), dies at 43
1915 - Alexander Scriabin, Russian composer (b. 1872)
1932 - Harold "Heart" Crane, US poet (Bridge), commits suicide at 32
1932 - Hart Crane, American writer (b. 1899)
1936 - Frederik A Stoett, linguist (Dutch Proverbs), dies at 72
1936 - Karl Pearson, mathematician, dies
1937 - Antonio Gramsci, Italian philosopher/marxist theorist, dies at 46
1938 - Edmond Rubbens, Belgian minister to Colonies, dies at 44
1941 - Penelope Delta, Greek author (b. 1874)
1950 - Adam Tadeusz Wieniawski, composer, dies at 70
1950 - Karl Straube, German organist/conductor, dies
1951 - Philip Albert Myburgh Hands, cricketer (7 Tests for South Africa), dies
1952 - Guido Castelnuovo, Italian mathematician (b. 1865)
1957 - Mario A Gianini, creator (maraschino cherry), dies
1959 - Gordon Armstrong, inventor (baby incubator), dies
1961 - Roy Del Ruth, director (About Face, Folies Bergere), dies at 67
1962 - A. K. Fazlul Huq, Bengali statesman (b. 1873)
1964 - Georg Britting, writer, dies at 73
1965 - Alan Bunce, actor (Albert-Ethel & Albert), dies at 61
1965 - Edward R Murrow, newscaster (Person to Person), dies at 57
1969 - Dino Terranova, actor (Young Dillinger), dies at 65
1969 - René Barrientos, President of Bolivia (b. 1919)
1970 - Arthur Shields, actor (Your Show Time), dies at 73
1972 - Kwame Nkrumah, president of Ghana, dies at 62
1972 - Phil King, rock (Blue Oyster Cult), shot in head at 24 while gambling
1973 - Jim Sims, cricketer (England leg-spinner in 4 Tests 1935-37), dies
1973 - Libbe de Wal, founder of Humanistic Covenant, dies at 72
1973 - Carlos Menditeguy, Argentine racing driver (b. 1914)
1975 - Nicholas Soussanin, actor (Last Command), dies at 86
1977 - Stanley Adams, actor (Lillies of the Field, Thunder Alley), dies at 61
1978 - Mohammed Daud, premier/president of Afghanistan, murdered
1982 - Tom Tully, actor (Line-up, Shane), dies at 85
1984 - Piet Kraak, Dutch soccer player, dies at 63
1988 - David Scarboro, British actor (b. 1968)
1989 - Konosuke Matsushita, Japanese industrialist (b. 1894)
1991 - Ken Curtis, actor (Lost, Freckles, California Gold Rush), dies at 74
1991 - Marcus Heeresma, writer/poet (Anna, Son of a Whore), dies
1992 - Olivier Messiaen, French composer, dies at 83
1993 - Hans Sahl, German/US writer (Tie Exil im Exil), dies at 90
1994 - Jerome Lejeune, physiologist, dies at 69
1994 - John Preston, US writer (Gay House, Big Gay Book), dies at 48
1994 - Lynne Frederick Unger, actress (Trail of Pink Panther), dies at 39
1995 - Willem Frederik Hermans, Dutch writer (b. 1921)
1996 - Joan Sterndale Bennett, actress (Elizabeth-Dark Shadows), dies at 86
1996 - William Egan Colby, cIA Director, dies at 76
1997 - Paul Lambert, actor (Tom-Executive Suite), dies at 73
1998 - Carlos Castaneda, Peruvian-born writer (b. 1925)
1998 - John Bassett, Canadian publisher and media baron (b. 1915)
1998 - Dominique Aury, French novelist (b. 1907)
1999 - Al Hirt, American trumpeter (b. 1922)
2000 - Vicki Sue Robinson, American singer (b. 1954)
2002 - George Alec Effinger, American author (b. 1947)
2002 - Ruth Handler, American toy manufacturer (b. 1916)
2002 - Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, Swiss industrialist and art collector (b. 1921)
2006 - Julia Thorne, ex-wife of John Kerry (b. 1944)
2007 - Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor (b. 1927)
2009 - Frankie Manning, an American dancer, instructor, choreographer, and one of the founding
           fathers of Lindy Hop. (b. 1914)
2009 - Feroz Khan, Indian actor (b. 1939)
2009 - Woo Seung-yeon, South Korean actress and model (b. 1983)
2011 - Marian Mercer, American actress (b. 1935)
2012 - Bill Skowron, American MLB player, dies from lung cancer at 81

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 28, 2013, 11:24:50 AM

This Day in History for 28th April


Historical Events

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Captain/Explorer James Cook                 37th US President Richard Nixon       Singer & Actress Barbra Streisand
 
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French President Charles de Gaulle


357 - Emperor Constantius II visits Rome
585 - War between Lydia & Media ended by solar eclipse
1192 - Assassination of Conrad of Montferrat (Conrad I), King of Jerusalem, in Tyre, two days after
           his title to the throne confirmed by election. Killing carried out by Hashshashin.
1202 - King Philip II throws out John without Country, from France
1253 - -May 7th) Utrecht destroyed by fire
1253 - Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk, propounds Nam Myoho Renge Kyo for the first time and
           declares it to be the essence of Buddhism, in effect founding Nichiren Buddhism.
1376 - English parliament demands supervision on royal outlay
1503 - Battle at Cerignalo: Spanish army under G Cordoba beats France
1521 - Treaty of Worms: Emperor Charles names his brother Ferdinand Arch duke of Neth-Austria
1550 - Powers of Dutch inquisition extends
1611 - Establishment of the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, The Catholic University
           of the Philippines, the oldest existing university in Asia and the largest Catholic university in
           the world.
1635 - Virginia Gov John Harvey accused of treason & removed from office
1655 - English admiral Blake beats Tunen pirate fleet
1686 - 1st volume of Isaac Newton's "Principia" published
1770 - Capt James Cook aboad Endeavor lands at Botany Bay in Australia
1788 - Maryland becomes 7th state to ratify constitution
1789 - Fletcher Christian leads Mutiny on HMS Bounty & Capt William Bligh
1796 - Cease fire of Cherasco
1804 - 31 English ships sail Suriname river demanding transition colony from the Dutch
1818 - Monroe proclaims naval disarmament on Great Lakes & Lake Champlain
1829 - Dutch parliament accepts new press laws
1847 - George B Vashon becomes 1st black to enter NY State Bar
1848 - Free last slaves in French colonies
1855 - 1st veterinary college in US incorporated in Boston
1865 - Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera "L'Africaine," premieres in Paris
1892 - 1st performance of Antonin Dvorák's overture "Carneval"
1901 - 1st soccer game between Belgium (8) & Netherlands (0)
1901 - Cleveland's Bock Baker gives up a record 23 singles as White Sox beat Blues (Cleveland
           Blues!) 13-1
1902 - Using the ISO 8601 standard Year Zero definition for the Gregorian calendar preceded by the
           Julian calendar, the one billionth minute since the start of January 1, Year Zero occurs at
           10:40 AM on this date.
1910 - 1st night air flight (Claude Grahame-White, England)
1914 - 181 die in coal mine collapse at Eccles WV
1914 - W H Carrier patents air conditioner
1919 - 1st jump with Army Air Corp (rip-cord type) parachute (Les Irvin)
1920 - Azerbaijan SSR joins USSR (1st time)
1922 - WOI (Ames, Iowa) country's 1st licensed educational radio station
1923 - Wembley Stadium opens-Bolton Wanderers vs West Ham United (FA Cup)
1924 - 119 die in Benwood West Virginia coal mine disaster
1925 - Kurd rebels surrender to Turkish army
1925 - Netherlands & Great Britain return to gold standard
1930 - 1st night organized baseball game (Independence KS)
1931 - Program for woman athletes approved for 1932 Olympics track & field
1932 - 1st broadcast of "One Man's Family" on NBC-radio
1932 - Yellow fever vaccine for humans announced
1934 - FDR signs Home Owners Loan Act
1934 - Soccer team Blue White '34 forms
1934 - Spanish government of Samper forms
1934 - Tigers' Goose Goslin grounds into 4 straight double plays
1935 - Moscow underground opens (81 km long)
1937 - 1st animated cartoon electric sign displayed (NYC)
1937 - 1st commercial flight across Pacific, Pan Am
1939 - Hitler claims German-Polish non-attack treaty still in effect
1940 - Glenn Miller records "Pennsylvania 6-5000"
1940 - Rudolf Hess becomes commandant of concentration camp Auschwitz
1941 - Last British troops in Greece surrenders
1942 - "WW II" titled so, as result of Gallup Poll
1942 - Nightly "dim-out" begins along East Coast
1943 - 1st performance of Marc Blitzstein's "Freedom Morning"
1943 - German-Italian counter offensive in North-Africa
1943 - US 34th Division occupies Djebel el Hara North Tunisia
1944 - Stalin meets Polish/US priest S Orlemanski
1944 - Exercise "Tiger" ends with 750 US soldiers dead in D-Day rehearsal after their convoy ships
           were attacked by German torpedo boats
1945 - British commands attack Elbe & occupies Lauenburg
1945 - US 5th army reaches Swiss border
1947 - Thor Heyerdahl & "Kon-Tiki" sail from Peru to Polynesia
1949 - Bkln, Commish Chandler suspends Durocher but he is absolved on May 3 NY fan charges Leo
           Durocher with assault after Giants lose 15-2 to
1949 - Former Philippine First Lady Aurora Quezon, 61, is assassinated while en route to dedicate a
           hospital in memory of her late husband; her daughter and 10 others are also killed.
1952 - Patty Berg wins LPGA Richmond Golf Open
1952 - St Louis Browns lend 2 black minor leaguers to Hankyu Braves of Japan
1952 - WW II Pacific peace treaty takes effect
1952 - Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Commander of NATO.
1955 - WBIQ TV channel 10 in Birmingham, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1956 - Last French troop leave Vietnam
1956 - Reds Frank Robinson hits his 1st of 586 HRs
1957 - Patty Berg wins LPGA Western Golf Open
1957 - WSOC TV channel 9 in Charlotte, NC (ABC) begins broadcasting
1958 - Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1958 - Vanguard TV-5 launched for Earth orbit (failed)
1958 - Vice Pres Richard Nixon begins goodwill tour of Latin America
1959 - KLOE TV channel 10 in Goodland, KS (CBS) begins broadcasting
1959 - KPLR TV channel 11 in Saint Louis, MO (IND) begins broadcasting
1960 - "Christine" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 12 performances
1960 - WIPM TV channel 3 in Mayaguez, PR (PBS) begins broadcasting
1961 - Lt Col Gueorgui Mossolov takes E-66A to 34,714 m altitude
1961 - Warren Spahn pitches 2nd no hitter at 41 beats SF Giants, 1-0
1963 - Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1963 - 17th Tony Awards: "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" and "A Funny Thing Happened on the
           Way to the Forum" win
1964 - Japan joins OECO
1965 - Barbra Streisand stars on "My Name is Barbra" special on CBS
1965 - Lindsey Nelson broadcasts game at Astrodome from a hanging gondola
1965 - Richard Helms replaces Marshall S Carter as deputy director of CIA
1965 - US marines invade Dominican Republic, stay until October 1966
1965 - William F Raborn Jr replaces John A McCone as 7th head of CIA
1966 - 20th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat LA Lakers, 4 games to 3
1966 - 38th Academy Awards - "Sound of Music," Julie Christie & L Marvin win
1966 - Cleve ties record with 10th straight win since Opening Day
1966 - OCAM, Common Afro-Mauritian Organization forms
1967 - Expo 67 opens in Montreal
1967 - Muhammad Ali refuses induction into army & stripped of boxing title
1968 - 11 year-old Mary Bell strangles 4 year-old
1968 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Raleigh Ladies' Golf Invitational
1969 - Charles de Gaulle resigns as president of France
1969 - King Crismson with Greg Lake & Ian McDonald debuts
1971 - Dutch social democratic party/D'66/DS'70 win parliamentary election
1971 - Samuel Lee Gravely Jr becomes 1st black admiral in US Navy
1972 - Courts awarded Kentucky Derby prize money to 2nd place winner because winner was given
           drugs before race
1973 - Over 6000 Mk. 82 500 pound bombs detonate over the course of 18 hours in a railyard in
           northern California. 5500 structures are damaged, and the town of Antelope, California
           ceases to exist, with every building being reduced to the foundation. This accident leads to
           the passing of the Transportation Safety Act of 1974 which makes the NTSB an independent
           agency.
1974 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic
1975 - John Lennon appears on "Tonight" & Ringo on "Smother Brothers"
1975 - South-Vietnam Gen Duong Van Minh sworn in as president till April 30
1977 - Christopher Boyce convicted for selling secrets
1977 - Andreas Baader & members of Baader-Meinhoff jailed for life after a trial lasting nearly 2 years
           in Stuttgart, Germany
1977 - The Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for
           the Purposes of Patent Procedure is signed.
1980 - Cyrus Vance, Carter's Secretary of State, resigns
1980 - Reunion Arena in Dallas opens
1981 - Galician current Statute of Autonomy.
1983 - Argentine government declares all 15-30,000 missing persons dead
1983 - Bruins 4-Isles 1-Wales Conference Championship-Series tied 1-1
1983 - NASA launches Geos-F
1984 - "La Tragedie de Carmen" closes at Beaumont Theater NYC after 187 perfs
1985 - Alice Miller wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic
1985 - Billy Martin named NY Yankee manager for 4th time
1985 - Fernando Valenzuela sets record of 41 scoreless inn to start season
1986 - Chernobyl, USSR site of world's worst nuclear power plant disaster
1987 - NBA announces expansion to Charlotte NC & Miami Fla in 1988 & Minneapolis Minn & Orlando
           Fla in 1989
1987 - American engineer Ben Linder is killed in an ambush by U.S.-funded Contras in northern
           Nicaragua.
1988 - "Chess" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 68 performances
1988 - Aloha Airlines Boeing 737 roof tears off in flight; kills stewardess
1988 - Baltimore Orioles lose AL record 21 games in a row
1988 - NJ Devils set all time playoff mark for penalty minutes
1989 - Argentina, hit by rocketing inflation, runs out of money
1989 - Iran protests sale of "Satanic Verses" by Salman Rushdie
1990 - "Chorus Line" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 6,137 performances
1990 - Boston Celtics score most points in a playoff, beat NY Knicks 157-128
1990 - Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Dave Ferraro
1990 - Last issue of Dutch communist daily De Waarheid (The Truth)
1991 - "Gypsy" opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 105 performances
1991 - "Taking Steps" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 78 perfs
1991 - Space Shuttle STS 39 (Discovery 12) launched
1992 - Brewers beat Blue Jays 22-2 with AL record 31 hits in 9 innings
1992 - Italian President Francesco Cossiga formally resigns
1993 - "Tango Passion" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 5 performances
1993 - Carlo Ciampi forms Italian government with ex-communists
1993 - Zambian plane crashes at Libreville, Gabon, 30 soccer players die
1993 - NY Islanders beat Wash Caps 4 to 1 in playoffs, Caps Dale Hunter attacks Pierre Turgeon
           after scoring, in hockey's worst cheap shot
1994 - 1st multi-racial election in South Africa ends [3 days]
1994 - Aldrich Ames, former CIA officer & wife Rosario plead guilty to spying
1994 - Freddy Thielemans sworn in as mayor of Brussels Belgium
1995 - Gas explosion in South Korean metro, 103 die
1995 - Sri Lankaan BAE748 crashes at Palaly, 52 die
1996 - "Big," opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 193 performances
1996 - Martin Bryant shoots & kills 35 in Port Arthur Tasmania
1996 - Meg Mallon wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic
1997 - "Jekyll & Hyde" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC
2001 - Millionaire Dennis Tito becomes the world's first space tourist.
2005 - The Patent Law Treaty goes into effect.
2012 - Tent collapse in St Louis, Missouri, kills one and injures 110 people

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Post by: MysteRy on April 28, 2013, 11:33:00 AM

This Day in History for 28th April


Famous Weddings

1938 - King Zog of Albania marries Countess Geraldine of Hungary
1950 - King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand marries Mon Rajawongse Sirikit at Sra Pathum Palace
           after a quiet engagement in Lausanne, Switzerland July 19, 1949.
1990 - Guns & Roses' Axl marries Erin Everly (annulled same year)
2007 - Reality TV producer Mark Burnett (46) weds former "Touched By An Angel" actress Roma
           Downey (47) in a private ceremony at their home in Malibu

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 28, 2013, 11:40:11 AM

This Day in History for 28th April


Famous Divorces

1994 - Lisa Marie Presley separates from Danny Keough

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 28, 2013, 11:53:25 AM

This Day in History for 28th April


Famous Birthdays

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Industrialist Oskar Schindler (1908)               Iraqi President                                  Actress Penélope Cruz (1974)
                                                                 Saddam Hussein (1937)


1442 - Edward IV, King of England (1461-70, 71-83)
1545 - Yi Sun-sin, Korean admiral (d. 1598)
1592 - George Villiers, 1st duke of Buckingham/English admiral
1630 - Charles Cotton, English poet (d. 1687)
1686 - Michael Brokoff, Czech sculptor (d. 1721)
1715 - Franz Sparry, composer
1748 - Lorenz Justinian Ott, composer
1750 - Paul Ignaz Kurzinger, composer
1753 - Franz K Achard, German physicist
1757 - Claus Nielsen Schali, composer
1758 - James Monroe, Westmoreland Va, (D-R) 5th pres (1817-25)
1765 - Sylvestre François Lacroix, French mathematician (b. 1834)
1770 - Nikita P Panin, Russian diplomat/minister of Foreign affairs
1774 - Francis Baily, describer of "Baily's Beads" during solar eclipse
1795 - Charles Sturt, England, explorer (Australia)
1809 - Conradus Leemans, Dutch archaeologist
1810 - Daniel Ullmann, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1892
1812 - Daniel Henry Rucker, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1910
1815 - Andrew Jackson Smith, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1897
1819 - Ezra Abbot, American Bible scholar (d. 1884)
1825 - James Winning McMillan, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1826 - Alexander Stadtfeld, composer
1838 - Tobias M Carel Asser, Holland, advocate of world law (Nobel 1911)
1842 - Louis PMFG of Orleans, earl of Brazil (1870-89)
1846 - Johann E Backlund, Swedish astronomer (planets/asteroids)
1848 - Ludvig Schytte, composer
1864 - William F A Ellison, Irish clergyman/director (Armagh Observatory)
1868 - Georgy Voronoy, Russian mathematician (d. 1908)
1870 - Hermann Suter, composer
1873 - Harold Bauer, English/US pianist (Beethoven-Association)
1874 - Karl Kraus, writer
1874 - Sidney Toler, Warrensburg MO, actor (Madame X, Meeting at Midnight)
1876 - Frank Cavanagh, one of football's coaching greats
1878 - Lionel Barrymore, [Blythe], Phila, actor (Free Soul, Dr Kildare)
1879 - Edgar Tytgat, Flemish painter/etcher
1879 - Franz Arnold, writer
1882 - Alberto Pirelli, Italian industrialist
1886 - Erich Salomon, German photographer
1888 - Henry DG Crerar, Canadian general (WW I/Italy/Netherland)
1889 - Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, premier/dictator Portugal (1932-68)
1889 - Bryant Washburn, Chicago, actor (Exposure, Millionaire Kid, Nabonga)
1889 - Karel WFM Doorman, Dutch rear admiral
1892 - Georges Antoine, composer
1892 - John Jacob Niles, composer
1892 - Joseph Dunninger, NYC, mentalist (Amazing Dunninger)
1897 - Ye Jianying, Chinese general and politician (d. 1986)
1900 - Bruno Apitz, writer
1900 - Jan Hendrik Oort, Dutch astronomer (hypothesized "Oort Cloud")
1900 - Maurice Thorez, secretary-general (French Communist Party)
1901 - Corry Vonk, [Cornelia D], wife of Wim Kan (ABC-cabaret)
1902 - Johan Borgen, Norwegian author (d. 1979)
1906 - Bartholomeus J "Bart" Bok, Dutch/US astronomer (Milky Way)
1906 - Pierre [Louis] Boileau, Paris France, novelist (Vertigo)
1906 - Kurt Gödel, Austrian mathematician (d. 1978)
1906 - Paul Sacher, Swiss conductor (d. 1999)
1908 - Arnoud Breeveld, Suriname bishop
1908 - Jack Fingleton, cricketer (Australian opener of 30's)
1908 - Michael T Fitzmaurice, Chicago IL, actor (Reported Missing, 14 Hours)
1908 - Oskar Schindler, Zwittau, Moravia, Austria-Hungary, Austrian businessman and subject of the
           novel Schindler's Ark and the film Schindler's List. (d. 1974)
1910 - Sam Merwin, Jr., American mystery fiction writer (d. 1996)
1911 - Frans Vroons, actor/tenor/director (Neth Opera)
1911 - Lee Falk, American comic strip writer (d. 1999)
1912 - Odette Hallowes, British classified agent in France (WW II)
1914 - Skuli Halldorsson, composer
1916 - Ferruccio Lamborghini, Italian automobile manufacturer (d. 1993)
1917 - Joop Waasdorp, Dutch writer (Naked Life)
1917 - Robert Woodruff Anderson, New York, writer (Tea & Sympathy, Never Sang for My Father)
1917 - Robert Cornthwaite, St Helen Oregon, actor (Thing, War of the Worlds)
1920 - Nan Merriman, US/Neth singer (Arturo Toscanini NBC Orch)
1921 - Rowland Evans, White Marsh Pa, news reporter (CNN-Evans & Novak)
1922 - Guillaume Jorissen, Flemish politician (Volksunie)
1922 - Iser J Koepermann, Russian/US world checkers champ (1958-68, 75-76)
1922 - William S Broomfield, (Rep-R-MI, 1956- )
1922 - William Guarnere, WWII Veteran
1922 - Alistair MacLean, Scottish novelist (d. 1987)
1923 - Adele Mara, Dearborn Mich, actress/singer (Cool Million, Wheels)
1923 - Wolfgang Steffen, composer
1924 - Kenneth David Kaunda, founder/president (Zambia, 1964-91)
1924 - Donatas Banionis, Lithuanian actor
1925 - Richard C Sarafian, NYC, director/actor (Foley Square)
1926 - Harper Lee, author (To Kill a Mockingbird)
1926 - Blossom Dearie, American jazz singer
1927 - Garfield Weston, English industrial/billionaire (Twinings Tea)
1928 - Yves Klein, French sculptor/painter
1928 - Eugene M. Shoemaker, American planetary scientist (d. 1997)
1929 - Carolyn Jones, Amarillo Texas, actress (Morticia-Addams Family)
1930 - Christopher John Magenis Headington, composer
1930 - James Baker 3, Houston, Sec of Treasury (1985-88), Sec State (1989-92)
1932 - Marek Kopelent, composer
1933 - Karl Heinz Wahren, composer
1933 - Oliver "Bops Junior" Jackson, drummer
1934 - Lois Duncan, American novelist
1936 - John Martin Tchicai, composer, (d. 2012)
1937 - Saddam Hussein, [At-Takriti], Al-Awja, president of Iraq (1979-2003)
1938 - Beverly F Albert, architect
1938 - Madge Sinclair, Kingston Jamaica, actress (Bell-Roots, Trapper John)
1941 - Ann-Margret, Valsjobya Sweden, actress (Bye Bye Birdie, Tommy)
1941 - K. Barry Sharpless, American chemist, Nobel laureate
1941 - Lucien Aimar, French cyclist
1941 - Iryna Zhylenko, Ukrainian poet
1942 - Ghislaine Hermanez, architect
1942 - Mike Brearley, cricketer (outstanding England captain 1977-81)
1943 - Fantastic Johnny C[orley], US singer (Boogaloo down Broadway)
1943 - John Oliver Creighton, Orange Tx, Capt USN/astronaut (STS 51G, 36, 48)
1943 - Jacques Dutronc, French singer and actor
1944 - Elizabeth LeCompte, American theater director
1944 - Jean-Claude Van Cauwenberghe, Belgian politician
1944 - Alice Waters, American chef
1945 - Ajit Manohar Pai, cricketer (one Test India v NZ 1969)
1946 - Ginette Reno, French Canadian singer, songwriter and actress
1947 - Steve Khan, jazz musician (Christmas Waltz)
1948 - Marcia Strassman, NYC, actress (Julle Kotter-Welcome Back Kotter)
1948 - Terry Pratchett, English author
1948 - Dorothée Berryman, French Canadian actress and singer
1949 - Jerome "Jay" Apt, Springfield Mass, astronaut (STS 37, 47, 59, 79)
1949 - Indian Larry, American stuntsman (d. 2004)
1949 - Bruno Kirby, American actor (d. 2006)
1950 - Jay Leno, New Rochelle, comedian/talk show host (Tonight Show)
1950 - Willie Colon, Bronx NY, actor (Last Flight)
1952 - Mary McDonnell, Wilkes-Barre PA, actress (Sneakers, Independence Day)
1953 - Julie Cole, LPGA golfer
1953 - Kim Gordon, American musician (Sonic Youth)
1953 - Roberto Bolano, Latin American author and poet
1954 - Ron Zook, American Football Coach
1955 - Eddie Jobson, rock violinist (Zappa, UK, Roxy Music-For Your Pleasure)
1955 - Paul Guilfoyle, American actor
1955 - Nicky Gumbel, British author and priest
1956 - Jeremy John Beadle, writer/broadcaster
1956 - Paul S Lockhart, Amarillo Tx, Major USAF/astronaut
1957 - Leopold Eyharts, France, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-26, TM-28/27)
1957 - Wilma Landkroon, Dutch singer
1958 - Hal Evan Sutton, Shreveport LA, PGA golfer (1982 Walt Disney)
1958 - Nancy Lee Grahn, actress (Santa Barbara)
1960 - Wally Langdon, bassist (Bob Color)
1960 - John Cerutti, American baseball player and announcer (d. 2004)
1960 - Ian Rankin, Scottish novelist
1960 - Joel H. Rosenthal American political scientist
1960 - Jón Páll Sigmarsson, Icelandic strength athlete (d. 1993)
1960 - Walter Zenga, Italian footballer
1961 - Cathy Gerring, Ft Wayne IN, LPGA golfer (1990 Lady Keystone Open)
1961 - Futoshi Matsunaga, Japanese serial killer
1962 - Evguenni Rochtchin, NHL forward (Team Belarus, Oly-98)
1964 - Barry Larkin, Cincinnati OH, infielder (Cin Reds)
1964 - Helen Marina Lucy Windsor, England, daughter of Prince Edward
1964 - Mark Hager, Australian field hockey forward/capt (Olympics-4th-88, 96)
1964 - Mark Steven Robinson, American director
1964 - Noriyuki Iwadare, Japanese composer
1965 - Steven Blum, American voice actor
1966 - Jim Poole, Rochester NY, pitcher (Cleveland Indians)
1966 - John Patrick Daly, Sacramento CA, PGA golfer (1995 British Open)
1966 - Too Short, American rapper
1967 - Monique Noel, Salem Oregon, playmate (May, 1989)
1967 - Pete Stoyanovich, NFL kicker (Miami Dolphins, KC Chiefs)
1968 - Andy Flower, cricketer (Zimbabwe keeper & victorious Test captain)
1968 - Damion Lyons, CFL cornerback (BC Lions)
1968 - Mark Carrier, NFL safety (Chic Bears, Detroit Lions)
1968 - Howard Donald, British musician
1969 - Merlelynn Lange-Harris, Toronto Ontario, basketball center (Oly-96)
1970 - Jason Belser, defensive back (Indianapolis Colts)
1970 - Mark Harris, wide receiver (San Francisco 49ers)
1970 - Nicklas Lidstrom, Vasteras SWE, NHL defenseman (Team Sweden, Detroit)
1970 - Richard Fromberg, Australia, tennis star
1970 - Diego Simeone, Argentine footballer
1971 - Chris Young, Penn, actor (Bryce Lynch-Max Headroom, Great Outdoors)
1971 - Meredith McGrath, Midland Mich, tennis star (1996 Essen doubles)
1971 - Mihai Apostal, Bucharest Romania, Canadian kayaker (Olympics-96)
1971 - Simbi Khali, actress (Nina-Third Rock From the Sun)
1971 - Bridget Moynahan, American actress
1972 - Jan Benda, Reet Belgium, hockey forward (Team Germany 1998)
1972 - Jean-Paul van Gastel, soccer player (Willem II)
1972 - Michelle Menzies, Barrie Ont, Canadian ice pairs (1995, 96 Can champs)
1972 - Joseph Bruce, American musician
1973 - Earl Holmes, linebacker (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1973 - Marc[us] Blake Schneider, Lubbock TX, rower (Olympics-bronze-1996)
1973 - Melvin Hayes, NFL tackle (NY Jets, Tennessee Oilers)
1973 - Serge Zwikker, NBA center (Houston Rockets)
1973 - Elisabeth Röhm, American actress
1973 - Jorge Garcia, American actor
1973 - Francisco Palencia, Mexican footballer
1974 - Sergei Stas, NHL defenseman (Team Belarus, Oly-98)
1974 - Penélope Cruz, Alcobendas, Madrid, Spanish actress (Vanilla Sky, Waking Up in Reno)
1974 - Richel Hersisia, Dutch boxer
1974 - Vernon Kay, British TV/radio presenter
1975 - James Thrash, wide receiver (Washington Redskins)
1975 - Martin Lewis, NBA guard (Toronto Raptors)
1977 - Derrick Wayne Frazier, American convicted murderer (d. 2006)
1978 - Nate Richert, St Paul Minn, actor (Harvey-Sabrina)
1978 - Lauren Laverne, Disc jockey, television presenter and former singer
1979 - Bahram Radan, Iranian actor
1980 - Josh Howard, American basketball player (Dallas Mavericks)
1981 - Jessica Alba, American actress
1982 - Nikki Grahame, Big Brother 7 Star
1983 - Roger Johnson, English footballer
1986 - George Nozuka, Canadian Singer/Songwriter

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 28, 2013, 11:58:12 AM

This Day in History for 28th April


Famous Deaths

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Italian Dictator
Benito Mussolini (1945)


1089 - Dirk de Grote, bishop of Verdun/Basel/archbishop of Trier, dies
1109 - Hugo van Cluny, 6th abbott of Cluny/saint, dies
1192 - Conrad of Montferrat (Conrad I), King of Jerusalem (b. mid 1140s)
1498 - Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland, English politician
1533 - Nicholas West, English bishop and diplomat (b. 1461)
1710 - Thomas Betterton, English actor
1716 - Louis de Montfort, French catholic priest (b. 1673)
1726 - Thomas Pitt, British Governor of Madras (b. 1653)
1741 - Magnus Julius De la Gardie, Swedish General and statesman (b. 1668)
1770 - Marie AC de Camargo, Spanish/Italian/Belgian dancer, dies at 60
1772 - Johann Friedrich Struensee, physician of Christian VII of Denmark (b. 1737)
1781 - Cornelius Harnett, American delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1723)
1799 - Francois Giroust, composer, dies at 62
1804 - Hans Gram, composer, dies at 49
1813 - Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov, Russian field marshal (b. 1745)
1816 - Johann Heinrich Abicht, German philosopher (b. 1862)
1841 - Peter Chanel, French saint (b. 1803)
1843 - William Wallace, Scottish mathematician (rights of Wallace), dies
1853 - Ludwig Tieck, writer, dies at 79
1858 - Johannes Peter Müller, German physiologist (b. 1801)
1865 - Samuel Cunard, Canadian-born British shipping magnate (b. 1787)
1873 - A Manzoni, writer, dies at 88
1881 - Robert W Ollinger, US warden/last victim of Billy the Kid, dies
1887 - Carl Ferdinand Pohl, composer, dies at 67
1896 - Heinrich von Treitschke, German historian, dies
1905 - Fitzhugh Lee, American Confederate general (b. 1835)
1925 - Louis F J Bouwmeester, actor (Shakespeare), dies
1926 - Zip the Pinhead, American freak show performer (b. 1857)
1933 - Robin Irvine, actor (Easy Virtue), dies at 31
1935 - Alexander Campbell Mackenzie, Scotish composer, dies at 87
1936 - Foead I, king of Egypt (1922-36), dies
1944 - Frank Knox, U.S. Vice-Presidential candidate (b. 1874)
1945 - Benito Mussolini, Fascist leader (Italy), shot after trial at 61
1945 - Claretta Petacci, mistress of Mussolini, executed
1945 - Hans Bloesch, writer, dies
1945 - Roberto Farinacci, Italian fascist (b. 1892)
1946 - Louis Bachelier, French mathematician (b. 1870)
1949 - Aurora Quezon, First Lady of the Philippines (shot) (b. 1888)
1954 - Léon Jouhaux, French labor leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1879)
1955 - Lode Cantens, Flemish playwrite (Gnomes of the City), dies at 43
1957 - Heinz "Pritzl" Bär, German fighter pilot (b. 1913)
1960 - Anton Pancake, astronomer/marxist theorist, dies at 87
1964 - Rolf de Maré, Swedish art collector (b. 1888)
1965 - Ferdinand Bordewijk, Dutch lawyer/writer (Character), dies at 80
1966 - Ralph Bunker, actor (Ghost Goes West), dies of a stroke at 77
1969 - Johannes Rontgen, composer, dies at 70
1970 - Ed Begley, actor (Mr Koppel-Leave it to Larry), dies at 69
1973 - Pat Henning, actor (Goodyear TV Playhouse), dies at 62
1973 - Clas Thunberg, Finnish speed skater (b. 1893)
1974 - Paul Page, actor (Girl from Havanna, Moth), dies at 70
1975 - Jan A de Jonge, Dutch historian, dies at 48
1976 - Eugen Roth, writer, dies at 81
1977 - Ricardo Cortez, actor/director (Bad Company, Flesh), dies at 87
1979 - Feliks Roderyk Labunski, composer, dies at 86
1980 - Dee Carroll, [Betty Jean Marsh], actress (Mad Bomber, Split), dies
1981 - Mickey "Toy Bulldog" Walker, welterweight champ (1922-26) dies at 79
1982 - Bert van Dongen, [Abraham J Cohen], Dutch singer/actor, dies at 66
1982 - EW "Nobby" Clark, Engl cricketer (32 wickets in 8 Tests 1929-34), dies
1983 - Ron James, cricketer (NSW's Sheffield Shield capt 1949-50), dies
1984 - Glen H Taylor, US senator/VP candidate (1948), dies at 80
1984 - Silvia A Warner, writer, dies
1987 - Ben Linder, development worker, murdered by Contras in Nicaragua
1988 - B. W. Stevenson, American country singer (b. 1949)
1989 - Olaff J de Landell [JB van Sparwoude], Dutch writer, dies at 77
1990 - Jean Blazer Baney, entertainer, dies
1991 - Floyd B McKissick, US founder (CORE), dies
1991 - Ken Curtis, actor (Festus-Gunsmoke), dies at 74
1991 - Steve Broidy, American motion picture executive (b. 1905)
1992 - Francis Bacon, Irish/British abstract painter, dies at 82
1992 - Olivier Messiaen, French composer (St Francois d'Assise), dies at 83
1992 - Iceberg Slim, American writer (b. 1918)
1993 - Jim Valvano, basketball coach (NC State), dies of cancer at 47
1995 - Andrew Salkey, author editor/broadcaster, dies at 67
1995 - Henry C Rogers, press Agent, dies at 81
1995 - Peaches Roy Davis, baseball pitcher, dies at 89
1996 - Giles Grangier, film director, dies at 84
1996 - Henry Clarke, fashion photographer, dies at 75
1996 - Julio Cesar Mendez Montenegro, politician, dies at 80
1996 - William E Colby, director of CIA (1973-76), dies
1997 - Susan Seddon Boulet, artist, dies of cancer at 45
1998 - Ramakant Desai, Indian cricketer (b. 1939)
1999 - Rory Calhoun, American actor (b. 1922)
1999 - Alf Ramsey, English football manager (b. 1920)
1999 - Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1921)
2000 - Penelope Fitzgerald, English writer (b. 1916)
2000 - Jerzy Einhorn, Polish-Swedish doctor, researcher and politician (b. 1925)
2002 - Alexander Lebed, Russian general (b. 1950)
2002 - Lou Thesz, American wrestler (b. 1916)
2005 - Chris Candido, American wrestler (b. 1972)
2005 - Taraki Sivaram, Tamil journalist of Sri Lanka (b. 1959)
2005 - Percy Heath, American jazz bassist (Modern Jazz Quartet) (b. 1923)
2007 - Dabbs Greer, American actor (b. 1917)
2007 - Tommy Newsom, American bandleader (b. 1929)
2007 - Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, German physicist and philosopher (b. 1912)
2009 - Valeria Peter Predescu, Romanian singer (b. 1947)
2009 - Ekaterina Maximova, Russian ballerina (b. 1939)
2012 - Patricia Medina, English actress, dies from natural causes at 92

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 29, 2013, 01:30:14 PM

This Day in History for 29th April


Historical Events

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Classical music prodigy Mozart                Naturalist Charles Darwin            26th US President Theodore Roosevelt

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43rd US President George W. Bush 


1091 - Battle at Monte Levunium: Emperor Alexius I beats Petshegenes
1429 - Joan of Arc leads Orleans, France, to victory over English
1522 - Emperor Charles V names Frans van Holly inquisitor-gen of Netherlands
1540 - Emperor Charles declares all privileges of Gent ended
1550 - Emperor Charles V gives inquisiters additional authority
1553 - Flemish woman introduces practice of starching linen into England
1623 - 11 Dutch ships depart for the conquest of Peru
1628 - Sweden & Denmark sign defense treaty against Duke of Wallenstein
1636 - Prince Frederik Henry occupies Schenkenschans
1644 - Farm leader Li Zicheng becomes emperor of China & flees Peking
1661 - Chinese Ming dynasty occupies Taiwan
1670 - Pope Clemens X elected
1672 - Franco-Dutch War: Louis XIV of France invades the Netherlands.
1701 - Drenthe Neth adopts Gregorian calendar, tomorrow is May 12, 1701
1706 - Emperor Jozef I becomes monarch of Cologne/Bavaria
1707 - English/Scottish parliament accept Act of Union; form Great Britain
1715 - John Flamsteed observes Uranus for 6th time
1781 - French fleet occupies Tobago during American War of Independence
1781 - French fleet stopped Britain from seizing the Cape of Good Hope
1784 - Premiere of Mozart's Sonata in B flat, K454 (Vienna)
1793 - Cornerstone laid for Groningen's new townhall
1813 - Rubber is patented
1834 - Charles Darwin's expedition sees top of Andes from Patagonia
1845 - Macon B Allen & Robert Morris Jr, 1st blacks to open law practice
1852 - 1st edition of Peter Roget's Thesaurus published
1853 - Comet C/1853 G1 (Schweizer) approaches within 0.0839 AUs of Earth
1856 - Peace between England & Russia
1857 - US Army, Pacific Div HQ permanently forms at Presidio (SF)
1861 - Maryland's House of Delegates votes against seceding from Union
1862 - 100,000 federal troops prepare to march into Corinth, Miss
1862 - New Orleans fell to Union forces during US Civil War
1863 - Battle of Chancellordville, VA (Fredericksburg, Wilderness Tavern)
1864 - -30] Skirmish at Jenkins' Ferry, Arkansas
1864 - The Theta Xi fraternity is founded at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York.
1882 - The "Elektromote" - forerunner of the trolleybus - is tested by Ernst Werner von Siemens in
           Berlin.
1886 - 1st public Dutch electricity opens
1888 - Old Kavallison, Congo: Stanley meet Emin Pasha
1892 - Charlie Reilly is baseball's 1st pinch hitter
1894 - Commonweal of Christ (Coxey's Army) arrives in Wash, DC 500 strong to protest
           unemployment; Coxey arrested for trespassing at Capitol
1901 - 27th Kentucky Derby: Jimmy Winkfield on His Eminence wins in 2:07.75
1901 - Anti semitic riot in Budapest
1903 - Limestone slides at Turtle Mountain kills 9 (Frank Alberta)
1905 - 2" rain falls in 10 mins in Taylor, TX
1905 - Pierre de Brazza lands in Libreville Gabon
1910 - Ex-president Theodore Roosevelt visits Amsterdam
1912 - 108°F (42°C), Tuguegarao, Philippines (Oceania record)
1912 - Frank Wedekind's "Tod und Teufel," premieres in Berlin
1913 - Swedish engineer Gideon Sundback of Hoboken patents all-purpose zipper
1916 - Irish nationalists set post office on fire in Dublin
1918 - Tris Speaker ties career outfield record of 4 unassisted double plays
1922 - 1st official Intl Weightlifting Federation Champ (Tallinn, Estonia)
1925 - Netherlands returns to gold standard
1926 - France & US reach accord on repayment of WW I
1927 - Construction of Spirit of St Louis is completed
1930 - 123 runs are scored in 7 major league games
1930 - North Sea floodgate at Ijmuiden (biggest in world) officially opens
1930 - Telephone connection England-Australia goes into service
1931 - Cleve Indian Wes Ferrell no-hits St Louis Browns, 9-0
1934 - Pitts is last major league city to play a home game on a Sunday
1936 - 1st pro baseball game in Japan is played Nagoya defeats Daitokyo, 8-5
1939 - Whitestone Bridge connecting Bronx & Queens opens
1940 - 1st radio broadcast of "Young Dr Malone" on CBS
1940 - Norwegian King Haakon & government flees to England
1940 - Robert Sherwood's "There Shall be No Night," premieres in NYC
1942 - Japanese troop march into Lashio, cuts off Burma Road
1942 - Jews forced to wear a Jewish Star in Netherlands & Vichy-France
1943 - Dietrich Bonhoeffer arrested by nazis
1943 - Noel Coward's "Present Laughter," premieres in London
1943 - US 34th Division occupies Hill 609, North Tunisia
1944 - Surprise attack by Van de Peat on General Landsdrukkerij in the Hague
1945 - 1st food drop by RAF above nazi-occupied Holland (operation Manna)
1945 - Japanese army evacuates Rangoon
1945 - Terms of surrender of German armies in Italy signed
1945 - US liberates 31,601 in Nazi concentration camp in Dachau Germany
1945 - Venice & Mestre were captured by the Allies
1946 - 28 former Jap leaders indicted in Tokyo as war criminals
1948 - Bradman scores 107 Aust v Worcs, 152 mins, 15 fours
1953 - Joe Adcock is 1st to homer into Polo Grounds' center field bleachers
1953 - The first U.S. experimental 3D-TV broadcast showed an episode of Space Patrol on Los
           Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV.
1955 - G Gronchi elected president of Italy
1956 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Open
1956 - WLUC TV channel 6 in Marquette, MI (CBS/NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1956 - WSPA TV channel 7 in G'ville-Spartanburg, SC (CBS) begins broadcasting
1956 - WWBT TV channel 12 in Richmond, VA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1957 - 1st military nuclear power plant dedicated, Fort Belvoir Va
1961 - ABC's "Wide World of Sports, debuts
1962 - 16th Tony Awards: Man For All Seasons & How to Succeed win
1962 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1963 - KRE-AM in Berkeley CA changes call letters to KPAT
1964 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1965 - Australian government announces it would send troops to Vietnam
1965 - Earthquake hits Seattle; 5 die
1965 - Malta is 18th member of Council of Europe
1967 - Aretha Franklin releases "Respect"
1968 - "Hair" opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 1750 performances
1969 - "Trumpets of the Lord" opens at Brooks Atkinson NYC for 7 perfs
1970 - 50,000 US & South Vietnamese troops invade Cambodia
1971 - Bill Graham closes down Fillmore & Fillmore East
1971 - Boeing receives contract for Mariner 10, Mercury exploration
1971 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1973 - Gloria Ehret wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic
1974 - President Nixon said he will release edited tapes made in White House
1975 - Ethiopia nationalizes all ground/earth
1975 - Flyers 4-Isles 0-Semifinals-Flyers hold 1-0 lead
1975 - Vietnam War: Operation Frequent Wind: The U.S. begins to evacuate US citizens from Saigon
           prior to an expected North Vietnamese takeover. U.S. involvement in the war comes to an 
           end.
1976 - Minister Irene Vorrink begins fluoridating Dutch drinking water
1977 - British Aerospace forms
1979 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Otey Crisman Golf Classic
1980 - Corazones Unidos Siempre Chi Upsilon Sigma National Latin Sorority Inc. is founded.
1981 - Peter Sutcliffe admits he is the Yorkshire Ripper (murdered 13 women)
1981 - Phillie Steve Carlton is 1st lefty to strike out 3,000 batters
1982 - 17th Academy of Country Music Awards: Alabama, Barbara Mandrell
1982 - Alfredo Magana elected pres of El Salvador
1982 - Nordiques 2-Isles 5-Semifinals-Isles hold 2-0 lead
1983 - Harold Washington sworn in as Chicago's 1st black mayor
1984 - "Oliver!" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 17 performances
1984 - Betsy King wins LPGA Freedom/Orlando Golf Classic
1985 - 17th space shuttle mission (51-B)-Challenger 7 launched
1985 - Ranger Larry Parrish is 5th to hit 3 HRs in a game in both leagues
1985 - Tony Tubbs TKOs Greg Page in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1986 - 800,000 books destroyed by fire in LA Central Library
1986 - Boston Red Sox Roger Clemens strikes out 20 Seattle Mariners
1987 - Chicago Cub Andre Dawson hits for cycle
1987 - Japan's premier Nakasone visits the US
1988 - Orioles beat White Sox 9-0 for 1st 1988 win after 21 loses
1989 - 2nd government of Lubbers falls
1990 - "Change in the Heir" opens at Edison Theater NYC for 16 performances
1990 - Dan Quisenberry (all-time AL save king, 238) announces his retirement
1990 - STS-31 (Discovery 10) lands
1990 - Wrecking cranes began tearing down Berlin Wall at Brandenburg Gate
1991 - "Our Country's Good" opens at Nederlander Theater NYC for 48 perfs
1991 - Croatia declares independence
1991 - Cyclone strikes Bangladesh, 139,000 die/10 million homeless
1991 - Earthquake in Georgia, kills 100
1992 - "Falsettos" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 487 performances
1992 - 27th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks
1992 - Country singer Doug Stone, 35, undergoes quadruple bypass surgery
1992 - Jury acquits LA police officers of beating Rodney King, riots begin
1992 - Sheena Easton collapses on stage while performing in "Man of LaMancha"
1992 - Voting ends on choice of Elvis stamps
1994 - Ferry boat smashes into Mombasa Harbor Kenya, kills over 300
1994 - Israel & PLO sign economic accord
1995 - Final TV broadcast of "Empty Nest" on NBC TV
1995 - KC Royal John Nonely is 70th to HR on his 1st at bat
1995 - Longest sausage ever, at 2877 miles, made in Kitchener Ontario
1996 - "Rent," opens at Nederlander Theater NYC
1996 - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Fresno CA on KFRR 104.1 FM
1997 - "Candide," opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 103 performances
1997 - KC Royal Chili Davis is 75th to hit 300 HRs
1997 - The Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 enters into force, outlaws the production,
           stockpiling and use of chemical weapons among its signatories.
1998 - 15th Miss Hawaiian Tropic crowned
1999 - Avala TV Tower near Belgrade is destroyed in NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.
2002 - The United States is re-elected to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, one year
           after losing the seat it had held for 50 years.
2004 - Dick Cheney and George W. Bush testify before the 9/11 Commission in a closed, unrecorded
           hearing in the Oval Office.
2004 - Oldsmobile builds its final car ending 107 years of production.
2005 - Syria completes withdrawal from Lebanon, ending 29 years of occupation.
2005 - New Zealand's first civil union takes place.
2007 - Republic Protests in Turkey.
2012 - International Chemical Weapons Convention deadline for chemical weapon stockpiles comes
           into effect

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 29, 2013, 01:32:07 PM

This Day in History for 29th April


Famous Weddings

1945 - Adolf Hitler marries Eva Braun
1964 - Princess Irene marries Spanish prince Carel Hugo de Bourbon Parma
1988 - "60 Minutes" newscaster Diane Sawyer weds Mike Nichols
1988 - Burt Reynolds & Loni Anderson marry
1989 - Rock band Bon Jovi lead singer Jon Bon Jovi (27) weds Dorothea Hurley (26) at Graceland
           Chapel in Las Vegas
2004 - "Gentlemen's Agreement" Oscar Best Supporting Actress Celeste Holm (85) weds opera
           singer Frank Basile (41) in Manhattan
2006 - "The O.C." actress Amanda Righetti (23) weds film director and writer Jordan Alan in Oahu,
           Hawaii
2006 - Ranchera singer Lupillo Rivera weds Mayeli in Garden Grove, California
2011 - Wedding of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Kate Middleton.

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 29, 2013, 01:39:08 PM

This Day in History for 29th April


Famous Birthdays

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Comedian Jerry Seinfeld (1955)               Actor Daniel Day-Lewis (1958)                Actress Uma Thurman (1970)


534 - Taliesin, Welsh poet, according to legend in Mabinogion
1584 - Melchior Teschner, composer
1636 - Esaias Reusner, composer
1660 - Matthias Henriksen Schacht, composer
1665 - James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde, Irish statesman and soldier (d. 1745)
1667 - John Arbuthnot, Scottish writer (Alexander Pope)
1686 - Peregrine Bertie, 2nd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (d. 1742)
1727 - Jean-Georges Noverre, French dancer/choreographer (ballet d'action)
1745 - Oliver Ellsworth, 3rd Chief Justice Supreme Court (1796-1800)
1758 - Georg Carl von Döbeln, Swedish Lieutenant General and war hero (d. 1820).
1762 - Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, French marshal (d. 1833)
1771 - Matthaus Stegmayer, composer
1780 - Charles Nodier, French writer (d. 1844)
1783 - David Cox, English painter (Treatise on landscape painting)
1784 - Samuel Turell Armstrong, American politician and acting Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1850)
1806 - Earnest Freiherr von Feuchtersleben, Austria, physician/philosopher
1808 - Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch, German politician/reformer [or 1883]
1815 - Abram Duryee, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1890
1818 - Alexander II N Romanov, Tsar of Russia (1855-81)
1830 - Adolph Sutro, SF mayor, built Cliff House, railways, tunnels
1837 - Georges Boulanger, French general and politician (d. 1891)
1842 - Karl Millöcker, Dutch composer (d. 1899)
1854 - Henri Poincaré, France, mathematician/astronomer/philosopher
1855 - Anatol K Liadov, Russian composer (Bewitched Lake) [OS]
1855 - Edmund van der Straeten, composer
1857 - Edouard Rod, France/Swiss writer (Mishel' Tes'e)
1857 - Frantisek Ondricek, composer
1860 - Lorado Taft, US, sculptor (Black Hawk)
1862 - Vittorio Mario Vanzo, composer
1863 - William Randolph Hearst, publisher (SF Examiner, Seattle P-I)
1863 - Constantine P. Cavafy, Greek poet (d. 1933)
1863 - Maria Theresa Ledochowska, Polish-Austrian Catholic nun (d. 1922)
1871 - Louis William Stern, German/US philosopher (Intelligence of Children)
1872 - Eyvind Alnaes, composer
1872 - Harry Payne Whitney, American businessman (d. 1930)
1873 - Alida J M Tartaud-Klein, actress/stage star (Rotterdam Stage)
1875 - Rafael Sabatini, Italian/British writer (d. 1950)
1876 - Zauditu of Ethiopia (d. 1930)
1879 - Thomas Beecham, England, composer (found London Philharmonic)
1882 - Hendrik N Werkman, painter/printer/resistance fighter (Hot printing)
1885 - Egon E Kisch, Czech writer/journalist (Rasende Reporter)
1885 - Wallingford Riegger, Albany Georgia, composer (Bacchangle)
1893 - Elisaveta Bagrjana, [Beltsheva], Bulgaria, poet
1893 - Harold C Urey, Ind, physicist (Deuterium, Nobel 1934)
1895 - Malcolm Sargent, English conductor (Promenade Concerts)
1896 - Jacques Leon Wolfe, composer
1896 - Walter Mehring, writer
1899 - Duke Ellington, Wash DC, [Edward Kennedy], bandleader (Take "A" Train)
1899 - Karl Yngve Skold, composer
1899 - Natalie Talmadge, actress (Our Hospitality)
1901 - George Osborne Sayles, historian
1901 - Hirohito, Emperor of Japan (1926-89)
1902 - Theodore Chanler, composer
1903 - Frank Parker, NYC, singer (Arthur Godfrey Show, Masquerade Party)
1904 - Enrico Mattei, Italian oil magnate
1904 - Russ Morgan, Scranton Pa, orchestra leader (Welcome Aboard)
1907 - Fred Zinneman, Austria, director (From Here to Eternity, Julia)
1907 - Tino Rossi, Ajaccio France, singer (Deux Amours, Marlene)
1908 - Jack [Stewart] Williamson, US, sci-fi author (Cometeers)
1908 - Philippe Brun, jazz trumpeter
1909 - Daniel Raphael Mayer, journalist/resistance leader
1909 - Tom Ewell, [S Yewell Tompkins], Ky, actor (Tom Ewell Show, 7 Yr Itch)
1910 - John Beavan, newspaper editor
1912 - Italo Valenti, Italian sculptor
1912 - Richard Carlson, MN, actor (All I Desire, Flat Top, Valley of Gwangi)
1912 - Terence de Vere White, novelist/critic
1913 - Jack Alexander Bently, trombonist
1913 - Thomas Chalmers, broadcaster
1914 - Ewan Roberts, Edinburgh Scotland, actress (Pvt Benjamin)
1915 - Donald Mills, singer (Mills Brothers)
1917 - Celeste Holm, American actress
1918 - Mervyn Roye Harvey, cricketer (brother of Neil, Test for Australia)
1919 - Celeste Holm, NYC, actress (Gentleman's Agreement, All About Eve), (d. 2012)
1920 - Edward Blishen, writer teacher/broadcaster
1920 - Harold Samuel Shapero, Lynn Mass, composer (9 Minute Opera)
1921 - Cornelis de Jager, Dutch astronomer (Sun)
1922 - George Allen, football coach (LA Rams, Washington Redskins)
1922 - Parren J Mitchell, (Rep-D-MD, 1971- )
1922 - Tommy Noonan, WA, actor (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Promises Promises)
1922 - Toots [Jean] Thielemans, Belgian/US jazz musician/composer
1922 - Helmut Krackowizer, Austrian motorcyclist (d. 2001)
1923 - Irvin Kershner, Phila, director (Never Say Never Again)
1923 - Maxine Audley, London, actress (Peeping Tom, Ricochet, House of Cards)
1924 - Al Balding, Toronto Ont, Canadian Tour golfer (Quebec Open-1952)
1924 - Renée Jeanmaire, Paris France, dancer (Hans Christian Anderson)
1925 - Ab Abspoel, Dutch actor/director (Surprise Attack, Elevator)
1925 - Danny Davis, rocker (Nashville Brass
1925 - Ned Austin, American character actor (d. 2007)
1926 - Carie Meek, (Rep-D-Florida)
1927 - Betsy Ancker-Johnson, physicist/auto company exec
1927 - Dorothy Manley, England, 100m sprint (Olympic-silver-1948)
1928 - Big Jay McNeely, rocker
1928 - Carl Gardner, Tyler Tx, rock vocalist (Coasters-Searchin)
1929 - Peter Joshua Sculthorpe, composer
1929 - Vaclav Kucera, composer
1929 - W Kempowski, writer
1929 - [John] Jeremy Thorpe, British MP (Liberal)
1929 - Mickey McDermott, American baseball player (d. 2003)
1930 - Alf Valentine, cricketer (great West Indian lefty spinner)
1930 - Alfred Lewis Valentine, Jamaican cricket player
1930 - Jean Rochefort, French actor
1931 - Aleksei Aleksandrovich Gubarev, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 17, 28)
1931 - Anthony "Lonnie" Donegan, Scotish skiffle vocalist/guitarist
1931 - Lonnie Donegan, Glasgow Scotland, vocalist
1931 - William Ball, actor (Suburban Commando)
1931 - Frank Auerbach, German-born British painter
1932 - King Hu, film director
1932 - Yevgeni Alekseyevich Zaikin, Russian cosmonaut (Voshkod 2 backup)
1933 - Darijan Bozic, composer
1933 - Keith Baxter, South Wales, actor (Barretts at Wimpole Street)
1933 - Raymond Earl Hill, saxophonist
1933 - Rod Marvin McKuen, Oakland California, singer/composer (Alone, Beatsville)
1933 - Mark Eyskens, Prime Minister of Belgium
1934 - Pedro Pires, premier (Cape Verde, 1975-91)
1934 - Luis Aparicio, Venezuelan baseball player
1934 - Otis Rush, American musician
1935 - Len Weinrib, NYC, comedian (Spike Jones Show)
1935 - Otto M Zykan, composer
1936 - April Stevens, Niagara Falls NY, rock vocalist (Deep Purple)
1936 - Jacob Rothschild, English banker/multi-millionaire
1936 - Lane Smith, Memphis TN, actor (Perry White-Lois & Clark)
1936 - Zubin Mehta, Bombay India, conductor (NY Philharmonic)
1937 - Jill Paton Walsh, English writer
1938 - Fred Dibnah, English television personality (d. 2004)
1938 - Klaus Voormann, German musician, artist, and record producer
1940 - Brian Taber, cricket wicket-keeper (Australian between Grout & Marsh)
1941 - Jonah Barrington, British World champion squash player (1966-73)
1942 - Galina A Kulakova, USSR, nordic skier (Olympic-3 golds-1972)
1942 - Klaus Voorman, rock bassist (Manfred Mann-Mighty Quinn)
1943 - Duane Allen, Taylortown Texas, country singer (Oak Ridge Boys-Elvira)
1944 - Benedikte, Danish princess/daughter of Frederik IX
1944 - Jim Hart, Evanston, Ill, NFL quarterback (St Louis Cardinals)
1944 - Richard Kline, American actor and director
1945 - Tammi Terrell, soul singer (Ain't No Mountain High Enough)
1945 - Hugh Hopper, rocker (Soft Machine)
1945 - Richard Warwick, actor (Johnny Dangerously, Sebastine, If)
1945 - [Thomasina] Tammi Terrell, [Montgomery], singer (Ain't No Mt High)
1946 - Franc Roddam, director (K2, Bride, Aria, Quadrophenia)
1947 - Jim Ryun, US, 1500m runner/broke 4 minute mile (Olympic-silver-1968)
1947 - John Laurence Miller, SF CA, golfer (US Open 1973, British Open 1976)
1947 - Tommy James, singer (cri-im-son & clo-o-ver o-o-ver & o-o-ver)
1947 - Olavo de Carvalho, Brazilian philosopher
1948 - Reb Brown, Los Angeles CA, actor (Cage, Yor, Capt America, Fast Break)
1948 - Bruce Cutler, American attorney
1949 - Anita Dobson, England, actress (Annie Watts-EastEnders)
1949 - Eddie Hart, US, 100m runner (Olympic-1972)
1949 - Francis Rossi, England, guitarist/vocalist (Status Quo-Down Down)
1950 - Phillip Noyce, Australian film director
1950 - Debbie Stabenow, American politician
1951 - Dale Earnhardt, American race car driver (d. 2001)
1952 - Deborah Van Valkenburgh, Schnectady, actress (Too Close for Comfort)
1952 - Nora Dunn, Chic Ill, comedienne (SNL, Miami Blues, Working Girl)
1952 - David Icke, English writer
1952 - Bob McClure, American baseball player
1953 - Nikolai Nikolayevich Budarin, Kirya Russia, cosmonaut (STS 71, TM-27)
1954 - Bill Paxon, (Rep-R-New York)
1954 - Deborah Iyall, rocker (Romeo Void)
1954 - Jake Burton Carpenter, American snowboarder
1955 - Jerry Seinfeld, comedian/actor (Jerry-Seinfeld)
1955 - Kate Mulgrew, Dubuque Iowa, actress (Capt Janeway-Star Trek Voyager)
1955 - Wendee Lee, American voice actress
1955 - Gino Quilico, Canadian baritone
1956 - Ron Verlin, rocker (Shooting Star)
1956 - Ketil Stokkan, Norwegian singer
1957 - Richie C Robertson, rock bassist/vocalist (Fabulous Poodles)
1957 - Mark Kendall, American guitarist
1957 - Timothy Treadwell, American bear enthusiast (d. 2003)
1958 - Daniel Day-Lewis, England, actor (Last of the Mohicans, My Left Foot)
1958 - Eve Plumb, Burbank, actress (Jan-Brady Bunch, I'm Gonna Get You sorrya)
1958 - Michelle Pfeiffer, Midway City California, actress (Married to the Mob)
1958 - Simon Edwards, rocker (Fairground Attraction-Find My Love)
1958 - Gary Cohen, Baseball broadcaster
1960 - Gerard Joling, Dutch singer (Love is in Your Eyes)
1960 - Joseph Guzaldo, Chicago Ill, actor (Stir Crazy)
1960 - William Lee Glasson Jr, Fresno CA, PGA golfer (1985 Kemper Open)
1960 - Phil King, English bassist
1960 - Robert J. Sawyer, Canadian writer
1960 - Caveh Zahedi, American filmmaker
1961 - Fumihiko Tachiki, Japanese seiyū
1962 - Bruce Driver, Toronto, NHL defenseman (NY Rangers)
1962 - Dieter Hegen, Kaufbeuren GER, hockey forward (Team Germany 1998)
1962 - Robert Druppers, runner (world record 1 km indoor)
1963 - Mike Babcock, NHL Coach
1964 - Federico Castelluccio, Italian-American actor
1965 - Reggie Miller, NBA player (Indiana Pacers)
1966 - John VanderWal, Grand Rapids MI, outfielder (Colorado Rockies)
1966 - Phil Tufnell, cricketer (England slow lefty & slower fieldsman)
1967 - Curtis Joseph, Keswick Ont, NHL goalie (Team Canada, Edmonton Oilers)
1967 - Elizabeth "Betsy" McCagg, Kirkland Wash, rower (Olympics-4th-92, 96)
1967 - Mary McCagg, Seattle Wash, rower (Olympics-4th-92, 96)
1967 - Rachel Williams, Greenwich Village NY, model (Absolut Vodka, Elle)
1967 - Master P, American rapper
1968 - Browning Nagle, NFL quarterback (NY Jets, Atlanta Falcons)
1968 - Carnie Wilson, LA California, rock vocalist (Wilson Phillips-Hold On)
1969 - Arthur Marshall, NFL wide receiver (NY Giants)
1969 - Paul Adelstein, American actor
1970 - Andre Agassi, Las Vegas Nev, tennis star (Oly-gold-96, US Open 1994)
1970 - Arnaud Briand, hockey forward (Team France 1998)
1970 - Derrick Frazier, NFL cornerback (Philadelphia Eagles)
1970 - J R Phillips, West Covina CA, infielder (Philadelphia Phillies)
1970 - Leuea Tagoai, CFL defensive end (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1970 - Mark McMillian, NFL cornerback (Philadelphia Eagles, KC Chiefs)
1970 - Uma Thurman, Boston Mass, actress (Baron Munchausen, Pulp Fiction)
1970 - William Martin III, Charleston SC, finn yachter (Olympics-23rd-1996)
1970 - China Forbes, American singer and songwriter (Pink Martini)
1971 - Sterling Hitchcock, Fayetteville NC, pitcher (NY Yanks, Sea Mariners)
1972 - Gwendolyn Wentland, Flint Michigan, high jumper
1972 - Dustin McDaniel, American politician
1973 - David Belle, French physical educator
1974 - Alana Blahoski, ice hockey forward (USA, Oly-98)
1974 - Anggun, Indonesian singer
1974 - Pascal Cygan, French footballer
1974 - Julian Knowle, Austrian tennis player
1974 - Jasper Wood, Canadian violinist
1975 - John Macready, LA California, gymnast (Olympics-5th-96)
1975 - Béres Zoo, Hungarian radio DJ
1975 - Rafael Betancourt, Venezuelan baseball player
1976 - God Shammgod, NBA guard (Wash Wizards)
1976 - Nayla Micherif, Miss Brazil Universe (1997)
1976 - Jay Orpin, Swedish composer and producer
1977 - Claus Jensen, Danish footballer
1977 - Rocío Carrasco, Spanish TV host and socialite
1978 - Mike Bryan, Oxnard California, tennis star (USTA National 18 doubles)
1978 - Tony Armas, Jr., Venezuelan baseball player
1979 - Ryan Sharp, Scottish racing driver
1979 - Lee Dong-Gook, Korean footballer
1979 - Jo O'Meara, British singer (S Club)
1979 - Matt Tong, English drummer (Bloc Party)
1980 - Mathieu Biron, Canadian ice hockey player
1980 - Kian Egan, Irish singer (Westlife)
1980 - Kelly Shoppach, American baseball player
1981 - Émilie Mondor, Canadian athlete (d. 2006)
1981 - George McCartney, Northern Irish footballer
1981 - Alex Vincent, American actor
1982 - Kamran Jawaid, Pakistani film critic
1983 - Jay Cutler, American football player
1983 - Yuriko Shiratori, Japanese gravure idol and actress
1983 - Sam Jones III, American Actor
1983 - David Lee, American basketball player
1984 - Phạm Văn Quyến, Vietnamese footballer
1984 - Taylor Cole, American actress
1984 - Firass Dirani, Lebanese-Australian actor
1986 - Renee Alway, American Model
1987 - Alicia Morton, American actress
1988 - Younha, Korean pop singer
1993 - Aurelia Clasina Lucia Wildeboer, daughter of Pieter & Mirtle
2003 - Barbaro, American thoroughbred racehorse (d. 2007)
2003 - Maud Behn, Princess of Norway
2007 - Infanta Sofía of Spain, Princess of Spain

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 29, 2013, 01:44:05 PM

This Day in History for 29th April


Famous Deaths

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Director Alfred Hitchcock (1980)


852 - Amalarius/Fortunatus/Symphosius of Metz/Lyon, bishop, dies at 76
926 - Burchard II, Duke of Swabia
1380 - Catherine of Siena, Italian saint (b. 1347)
1499 - John IV, Dutch army leader/earl of Egmond, dies
1535 - John Houghton, English, executed
1594 - Thomas Cooper, English bishop, lexicographer, and writer
1630 - Agrippa d'Aubigné, French poet (b. 1552)
1658 - John Cleveland, English poet (b. 1613)
1676 - Michiel A de Ruyter, Dutch rear-admiral, (Newport), killed at 69
1698 - Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, First Lord of the British Admiralty (b. 1655)
1699 - Samuel Apostool, vicar/theologist (Zonisten), dies at 50
1707 - George Farquhar, Irish dramatist (b. 1678)
1712 - Juan Bautista Jose Cabanilles, composer, dies at 67
1743 - Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre, French writer (b. 1658)
1768 - Georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and minerologist (b. 1694)
1776 - Edward Wortley Montagu, English traveler and writer (b. 1713)
1793 - Yechezkel Landau, Polish rabbi (b. 1713)
1793 - John Michell, English scientist (b. 1724)
1798 - Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus, German entomologist (b. 1723)
1813 - Christian Danner, composer, dies at 55
1841 - A Bertrand, writer, dies
1854 - Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, English general (b. 1768)
1864 - Charles-Julien Brianchon, math (Brianchon's theorem), dies at 80
1871 - John Gelinde van Blom, Fries notary/author, dies at 75
1903 - Paul du Chaillu, French explorer (b. 1835)
1905 - Ignacio Cervantes, composer, dies at 57
1916 - Jørgen Pedersen Gram, Danish mathematician (b. 1850)
1918 - Gavrilo Princip, Bosnian murderer of arch duke Ferdinand, dies at 22
1920 - William Henry Seward, Jr., Union Brigadier General in the American Civil War (b. 1839)
1921 - Arthur Mold, Brit cricket bowler (1893, banished for throwing), dies
1928 - Henrich Federer, Switz, writer (I Switch Off The Light), dies at 61
1933 - Constantine P. Cavafy, Greek poet (b. 1863)
1935 - Leroy Carr, rocker, dies=
1936 - Florentinus M Wibaut, Amsterdam social alderman, dies at 76
1937 - William Gillette, American actor (b. 1853)
1943 - Joseph Achron, Latvian violinist/composer (Golem suite), dies at 56
1943 - Karl Adrian Wohlfart, composer, dies at 68
1943 - Sidney A K Keyes, English poet (Foreign Gate), dies at 20
1944 - Bernardino Machado, President of Portugal (b. 1851)
1945 - Matthias Kleinheisterkamp, German SS officer (b. 1893)
1947 - Irving Fisher, US economist, dies at 80
1951 - Jules Verstraete, [Julien G de Graef], actor (Boefje), dies at 67
1951 - Ludwig J J Wittgenstein, Austria/English philosopher, dies at 62
1953 - Moise Kisling, Polish/French painter (La souris boiteuse), dies at 62
1954 - Ernst Heldring, Dutch merchant/ship owner/financier, dies at 82
1956 - Nemesio Otano y Eugenio, composer, dies at 75
1957 - Otallo Morales, composer, dies at 82
1961 - Cisco Houston, American folk singer (b. 1918)
1964 - Albert Saverys, Flemish painter, dies at 77
1966 - Eugene O'Brien, actor (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm), dies at 85
1967 - Anthony Mann, US director (El Cid, Last Frontier), dies at 60
1967 - J.B. Lenoir, American Blues Musician (b. 1929)
1972 - Ntare V, deposed King of Burundi, killed in an abortive coup
1973 - Manfred Gurlitt, composer, dies at 82
1975 - Charles McMahon Jr, US USMC lance corporal, killed in Vietnam
1975 - Darwin Judge, USMC-corporal, 1 of last US soldiers killed in Viet
1975 - Michael John Shea, USMC-lt/pilot, 1 of last soldiers killed in Vietnam
1975 - William Craig Nystul, USMC capt, 1 of last US soldiers killed in Viet
1976 - Wilhelm Maler, composer, dies at 73
1979 - Julia A Perry, US composer/conductor (Soul Symphony), dies at 55
1979 - Hardie Gramatky, American author and animator (b. 1907)
1980 - Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, British director (Psycho, Birds), dies at 80
1986 - Seamus McElwaine, Irish IRA-terrorist, killed at 25
1988 - Andrew Cruickshank, actor (Body in Library, Murder Most Foul), dies
1988 - Jan Kapr, composer, dies at 74
1991 - Claude Gallimard, French publisher, dies
1992 - Mae Clarke, actress (Public Enemy, Frankenstein), dies at 84
1993 - Cy Howard, director (Lovers & Other Strangers), dies at 77
1993 - Michael Gordon, actor/director (Pillow Talk), dies at 83
1993 - Mick Ronson, English guitarist/producer (Mott the Hoople), dies at 46
1994 - Bill Quinn, US actor (Quinn Brothers, Birds, Lucky Stiff), dies at 81
1994 - Erik Erikson, anthropologist, dies at 53
1994 - Oscar Sheldon A Williams, artist/critic, dies at 74
1995 - Robert Gibb, zoo/theme park creator, dies at 57
1996 - David William Eric Davis, broadcaster, dies at 87
1996 - Jaime Garcia Terre, poet/essayist, dies at 71
1996 - Siti Hartinah Suharto, wife of Pres Suharto of Indonesia, dies at 72
1996 - Tony Hymphris, political activist, dies at 45
1997 - Keith Ferguson, blues (Fabulous Thunderbirds), dies of overdose at 50
1997 - Mike Royko, columnist, dies of stroke at 64
1997 - Peter Tali Coleman, gov of Americ Samoa (1956-61, 78-85, 89-93), dies
1998 - Hal Laycoe, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1922)
2002 - Bob Akin, American industrialist and race car driver (b. 1936)
2002 - Lor Tok, Thai comedian and actor (b. 1914)
2004 - Sid Smith, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1925)
2005 - William J. Bell, American television writer and producer (b. 1927)
2005 - Mariana Levy, Mexican actress, singer, and television show host (b. 1966)
2006 - John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian economist (b. 1908)
2007 - Milt Bocek, American baseball player (b. 1912)
2007 - Josh Hancock, American baseball player (b. 1978)
2007 - Ivica Račan, former Prime Minister of Croatia (b. 1944)
2007 - Arve Opsahl, Norwegian actor, known as the leader of Olsenbanden
2007 - Dick Motz, New Zealand cricket player (b. 1940)
2007 - Zhang Taofang, Chinese sniper (b. 1931)
2008 - Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist, known as the first to synthesize LSD (b. 1906)
2012 - Shukri Ghanem, Libyan Prime Minister, dies at 69
2012 - Amarillo Slim, American professional poker player, dies at 83

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 30, 2013, 10:41:26 AM

This Day in History for 30th April


Historical Events

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First US President                                   Novelist Charles Dickens                          Dictator Fidel Castro
George Washington

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Pop Singer & Beatle                                  264th Pope John Paul II
Paul McCartney


311 - Emperor Galerius legal recognizes Christians in the Roman Empire
313 - Roman emperor Licinius unifies the entire Eastern Roman Empire under his rule.
711 - Islamic conquest of Hispania: Moorish troops led by Tariq ibn-Ziyad land at Gibraltar to begin
          their invasion of the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus).
1064 - German King Henry IV gives away Utrecht county of West Friesland
1315 - Enguerrand de Marigny is hanged on the public gallows at Montfaucon.
1349 - Jewish community at Radolszell Germany, exterminated
1396 - Crusaders & earl of Nevers depart from Dijon
1483 - Orbital calculations suggest that on this day, Pluto moved inside Neptune's orbit until July 23,
           1503.
1492 - Columbus is given royal commission to equip his fleet
1492 - Spain announces it will expels all Jews
1506 - Philip of Bourgondy & England sign trade agreement
1527 - England & France sign treaty of Westminster
1562 - 1st French colonists in US: Jean Ribault & colonists arrive in Florida
1563 - Jews are expelled from France by order of Charles VI
1598 - 1st theater performance in America (Spanish comedy-Rio Grande)
1616 - English King Jacob I leaves Brielle/Vlissingen
1650 - French rebel Henri de la Tour Turenne signs treaty with Spain
1661 - Tsjeng Tsj'eng-Kung begins siege of Dutch fort Zeelandia, Formosa
1671 - Petar Zrinski, the Croatian Ban from the Zrinski family, is executed.
1695 - William Congreve's "Love for Love," premieres in London
1722 - Game of Billiards is mentioned in New England Courant
1725 - Emperor Charles VI & King Philip IV of Spain sign Treaty of Vienna
1748 - Ceasefire at Aken ends
1763 - London Journalist John Wilkes confined in the Tower
1772 - John Clais patents 1st scale
1774 - Pope Clement XIV proclaims a universal jubilee
1789 - George Washington inaugurated as 1st president of US
1790 - Colonial troops occupy Bonni's marroon village
1794 - The Battle of Boulou is fought, in which French forces defeated the Spanish under General
           Union.
1798 - Dept of Navy forms
1803 - US doubles in size through Louisiana Purchase ($15 million)
1804 - Hague's Theater opens
1808 - 1st practical typewriter finished by Italian Pellegrini Turri
1812 - (Eastern) Louisiana admitted as 18th US state
1838 - Nicaragua declares independence from Central American federation
1852 - Anton Rubinsteins opera "Dmitri Donskoi," premieres in St Petersburg
1857 - San Jose State University forms
1859 - Charles Dickens' "A Tale Of Two Cities" is first published in literary periodical All the Year
           Round, continues in weekly installments until Nov 26
1859 - Paul Morphy returns from 10-mo chess tour of Europe, retires
1860 - Navaho indians attack Fort Defiance (Canby)
1861 - President Lincoln ordered Federal Troops to evacuate Indian Territory
1862 - Swift Run Gap, WV skirmishes
1863 - Mexican forces attacked the French Foreign Legion in Hacienda Camarón, Mexico.
1864 - Battle of Jenkin's Ferry, Arkansas; Gen W R Scurry is killed
1864 - New York becomes 1st state to charge a hunting license fee
1865 - -5/1] Gen Shermans "Haines's Bluff" at Snyder's Mill, Virginia
1869 - Hawaiian YMCA organized
1871 - The Camp Grant Massacre of Apaches in Arizona Territory, perpetrated by white & Mexican
           adventurers; 144 die
1885 - Boston Pops Orchestra forms
1887 - 1st game played at Broad & Huntingdon St Park (Baker Bowl) in Philadelphia; Phillies beat
           Giants 19-10
1888 - Hail stones kills about 250 in Moradabad district of Delhi
1889 - 1st US national holiday, on centennial of Washington's inauguration
1889 - George Washington Bridge linking NYC & NJ opens
1898 - Championship wrestling match at Met turns into a brawl
1900 - 165 lb Robert Fitzsimmons KOs 305 lb Ed Dunkhost in a boxing match
1900 - USA annexes Hawaii
1900 - Casey Jones dies in a train wreck in Vaughn, Mississippi, while trying to make up time on the
           Cannonball Express.
1902 - Debussy's opera "Pelléas et Mélissande," premieres in Paris
1903 - NY Highlanders (Yankees) 1st home game, (Hilltop Park-168th St & Broadway, Manhattan),
           they beat Wash Senators, 6-2
1904 - Ice cream cone makes its debut
1905 - 1st official soccer game between Belgium-Netherlands (1-4)
1907 - Honolulu, Hawaii becomes an independent city.
1910 - Cleve Indian Addie Joss wins 2nd no-hitter beating White Sox
1911 - Portugal approves woman suffrage
1916 - Chicago Cubs play 1st game at Weeghman Park (Wrigley Field) beat Reds
1918 - Orange Nassau soccer team forms in Groningen
1919 - Phillies beat Bkln Dodgers 9-0 in 20 innings
1921 - American Professional Football Association reorganizes in Akron
1921 - Pope Benedict XV encyclical "On Dante"
1922 - Chic White Sox Charles Robertson perfect games Detroit Tigers, 2-0
1925 - Automaker Dodge Brothers, Inc is sold to Dillon, Read & Company for $146 million plus $50
           million for charity.
1927 - Princess Juliana gets seat in Dutch Council of State
1928 - Cherkess Autonomous Region forms in RSFSR (until 1957)
1929 - Earnest Streeruwitz becomes chancellor of Austria
1934 - Austrian gets "Austrian facist" constitution
1935 - World Congress for Women's Rights concludes in Istanbul
1937 - The Philippines holds a plebiscite for Filipino women on whether they should be extended the
           right to suffrage; over 90% would vote in the affirmative.
1938 - Bradman scores 258 Aust v Worcs, 293 mins, 33 fours 1 five
1938 - The first televised FA Cup Final takes place between Huddersfield Town and Preston North
           End.
1939 - NBC/RCA 1st public TV demo with FDR at opening of NY World's Fair
1939 - Tropicana ballet of Havana Cuba, forms
1940 - Bkln Dodger Tex Carleton no-hits Cin Reds, 3-0
1941 - Spread of Judaism begins in Croatia
1942 - 1st submarine built on Great Lakes launched, (Peto), Manitowoc, Wi
1943 - Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp for Jews forms
1943 - Dutch strike against forced labor in Nazi Germany's war industry
1943 - Noel Coward's "This Happy Breed," premieres in London
1944 - NY Giant Phil Weintraub gets 11 RBIs
1944 - NY Giant, Mel Ott scores 6 runs in 1 game drawing 5 walks for 4th time
1945 - "Arthur Godfrey Time" begins a 27 year run on CBS radio
1945 - Concentration camp Munchen-Allag freed
1945 - Lord Haw-Haw calls for crusade against the bolsheviks
1945 - Red Army occupies Demmin
1945 - Red Army opens attack on German Reichstag building in Berlin
1945 - Russian Army frees Ravensbruck concentration camp
1945 - US troops attack the Elbe
1946 - Cleve Indian Bob Feller's 2nd no-hitter beats NY Yankees, 1-0
1947 - Boulder Dam renamed in honor of Herbert Hoover
1948 - "Inside USA" opens at Century Theater NYC for 339 performances
1948 - Org of American States charter signed at Bogota, Colombia
1948 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
1950 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA 144-hole Golf Weathervane
1952 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Stockton Golf Open
1952 - Mr Potato Head is 1st toy advertised on television
1953 - Little-Bigger League changes its name to Babe Ruth League
1954 - Darius Milhauds 4th Concert for piano/orch premieres in Haifa
1955 - Element 101, Mendelevium, announced
1955 - Imperial Bank of India nationalized
1955 - Perez Prado's "Cherry Pink & Apple Blossom White" goes #1 for 10 weeks
1955 - West German unions protest for 40-hour work week & more wages
1958 - Ted Williams is 10th major league player to get 1,000 extra-base hits
1961 - 1st shuttle flights between Wash DC, Boston & NYC begin (Eastern)
1961 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1961 - Premier Fidel Castro of Cuba receives Lenin-Peace Prize
1961 - SF Giant Willie Mays hits 4 HRs in a game
1962 - NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 75,190 m
1962 - Willie Mays hits 4 HRs
1967 - Highest tower to the world finished, 537m (USSR)
1967 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Club Golf Invitational
1967 - NY Met pitcher Tom Seaver wins hist 1st game
1967 - Orioles' Stu Miller & Steve Barber lose 2-1 despite no-hitting Tigers
1968 - 3 Oriole pitchers walk 14 NY Yankees in a 9 inning game
1969 - Cin Red Jim Maloney 3rd no-hitter beats Houston Astros, 10-0
1969 - WEDB TV channel 40 in Berlin, NH (PBS) begins broadcasting
1970 - Cubs Billy Williams is 1st NLer to play in 1,000 consecutive games
1970 - US troops invade Cambodia
1971 - 25th NBA Championship: Milwaukee beat Balt Bullets in 4 games
1972 - "Arthur Godfrey Time" ends a 27 year run on radio
1972 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Alamo Ladies Golf Open
1973 - Nixon announces resignation of Haldeman, Ehrlichman, et al
1973 - Paul McCartney releases "Red Rose Speedway" including "My Love"
1973 - Women's tennis groups end disputes over sanctioning tournaments
1974 - Pres Nixon hands over partial transcripts of Watergate tape recordings
1975 - Last US helicopter leaves US embassy grounds, Saigon surrenders
1976 - Muhammad Ali beats Jimmy Young in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1976 - Royal Canadian Mint opens a branch in Winnipeg Manitoba
1976 - Wings release "Silly Love Songs"
1977 - "Party with Comden & Green" closes at Morosco NYC after 92 perfs
1977 - Billy Graham beats Bruno Sammartino in Baltimore, to become WWF champ
1977 - Ron Cey sets record of 29 RBIs in April
1978 - "Elvis: The Legend Lives!" closes at Palace NYC after 101 perfs
1978 - Janet Coles wins LPGA Natural Light Lady Tara Golf Classic
1979 - Mary Therese Friel, (New York), crowned 28th Miss USA
1980 - "Barnum" opens at St James Theater NYC for 854 performances
1980 - Ronald Harwood's "Dresser," premieres in London
1980 - Terrorists seize Iranian Embassy in London
1980 - Beatrix, Wilhelmina Armgard, crowned queen of Netherlands
1980 - Juliana, Queen of the Netherlands, abdicates
1981 - "Can-Can" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 5 performances
1981 - 16th Academy of Country Music Awards: Barbara Mandrell & George Jones
1982 - Alvaro Magana chosen to succeed Jose N Duarte as pres of El Salvador
1982 - Atlanta Braves win record 12th straight from beginning of season
1982 - Iranian offensive in Khusistan
1983 - Bruins 3-Isles 7-Wales Conference Championship-Isles hold 2-1 lead
1984 - 1700 skiers participate in an alpine event at Are Sweden
1984 - Strong winds cause a 30 min delay in Toronto Blue Jays game
1985 - Dale Murphy drives in record tying 28th & 29th runs of April
1985 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1985 - Last edition of Brink Daily Mail/Sunday Express in South Africa
1986 - Ashrita Furman peformed 8,341 somersaults over 12 miles
1986 - Mariners strike out 16 times, set record of 36 in 2 consecutive games
1987 - Lou Lamoriello is named NJ Devils President
1987 - NY Islander Mike Bossy plays his final game
1988 - Baltimore Orioles win record 14th straight from beginning of season
1988 - Largest banana split ever, at 455 miles long, was made in Penns
1988 - NJ Devils beat Caps 3-2 taking 7th game of Patrick Division final
1988 - NY Knights 1st arena football game beats Cobras 60-52 (10,157 in LA)
1988 - NY Yank Dave Winfield gets his 29th RBI of April-Sets AL & ties ML Rec
1988 - World Exposition, Expo 88 opens in Brisbane Australia
1989 - Critics Siskel & Ebert film their 500th TV movie-review show
1989 - Kathy Postlewait wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic
1989 - Pope John Paul II beatifies Victoire Rasoamanarivo of Madagascar
1989 - US beats Costa Rica 1-0, in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup
1990 - As Met pitcher David Cone argues a call at 1st base, 2 Braves score
1990 - Seattle's Brian Holman's perfect game broken up with 2 outs in 9th
1990 - US 66th manned space mission STS 31 (Discovery 10) returns from space
1990 - US hostage Frank Reed freed after 4 years in hands of pro-Iranians
1991 - In Bangladesh a cyclone killed over 131,000 & left 9 million homeless
1992 - 208th & final episode of Cosby Show on NBC-TV
1993 - The World Wide Web is born at CERN.
1993 - Virgin Radio broadcasts for the first time in the United Kingdom.
1995 - "Blood Brothers" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 839 perfs
1995 - "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 24 perfs
1995 - "Rose Tattoo" opens at Circle in the Square Theater NYC for 80 perfs
1995 - After 120 years the last 15 A & S dept stores close
1995 - Val Skinner wins LPGA Sprint Golf Championship
1996 - "Buried Child," opens at Atkinson Theater NYC for 77 performances
1996 - Dutch/Itallian Beppo-SAX launches from Cape Canaveral
1996 - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Grand Rapids MI on WKLQ 94.5 FM
1997 - "London Assurance," opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 72 performances
1997 - 42 million watch "Ellen" admit she is gay
1997 - Atlanta Braves win record 19 games in April
1997 - Big Ben stops at 12:11 PM for 54 minutes
1997 - Pres Clinton's daughter Chelsea chooses to attend Stanford College
1997 - Tajik Prest Imomali Rakhmonov wounded in assassination attempt
1997 - Tino Martinez hits record 34 RBIs in April
1999 - Cambodia joins the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) bringing the total
           members to 10.
2001 - The Mitchell Report on the Arab-Israeli conflict is published.
2002 - A referendum in Pakistan overwhelmingly approves the Presidency of Pervez Musharraf for
           another five years.
2004 - U.S. media release graphic photos of American soldiers abusing and sexually humiliating Iraqi
           prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison.
2008 - Two skeletal remains found near Ekaterinburg, Russia were confirmed by Russian scientists to
           be the remains of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia and one of his sisters.
2009 - Chrysler automobile company files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
2009 - Failed attack on the Dutch Royal Family results in 7 deaths and 17 injured.
2009 - The United Kingdom formally ends combat operations in Iraq.
2012 - The unfinished One World Trade Center overtakes the Empire State building to become the
           tallest building in New York
2012 - Spain's economy double dips after a 0.3% contraction and 25% unemployment rate
2012 - Overloaded ferry in the Brahmaputra River,India, killing 103 people
2012 - Manchester City defeat Manchester United 1-0 in what is claimed to be the biggest match in
           the English Premier League's history

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 30, 2013, 10:42:47 AM

This Day in History for 30th April


Famous Weddings

1290 - Joan of Acre (18), daughter of Edward I marries (1) Gilbert de Clare, Duke of Hertford at
           Westminster Abbey.
1937 - General Douglas MacArthur marries Jean Faircloth
1961 - Lee Harvey Oswald marries Marina Prusakova in Minsk USSR
1988 - Actor Tom Hanks (31) weds actress Rita Wilson (31)
1994 - Soccer great Pele (53) weds psychologist Assiria Seixas Lemos (36)
2007 - "Timbiriche" pop singer Paulina Rubio (35) weds Spanish public relations executive Nicolas
           "Colate" Vallejo Najera in Cancun, Quintana Roo
2008 - Singer-songwriter Mariah Carey (41) weds actor and rapper Nick Cannon (31) at Bahamian
           estate on the island of Windermere
2011 - Actor Lorenzo Lamas (53) weds model Shawna Craig at Casa Dorada Resort in Cabo, San
           Lucas

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 30, 2013, 10:49:18 AM

This Day in History for 30th April


Famous Birthdays

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Country Singer                                         Prime Minister of Canada                       Actress Kirsten Dunst (1982)
Willie Nelson (1933)                                    Stephen Harper (1959)


1245 - King Philip III of France (d. 1285)
1309 - Kazimierz III de Great, King of Poland (1333-70)
1553 - Louise de Lorraine-Vaudémont, queen of France (d. 1601)
1602 - William Lilly, England, astrologer/author/almanac compiler
1651 - Jean-Baptiste de la Salle, French priest/theorist/saint
1662 - Queen Mary II of England (d. 1694)
1664 - François Louis, Prince of Conti, French general (d. 1709)
1710 - Johann Kaspar Basselet von La Rosée, Bavarian general (d. 1795)
1717 - Guillaume Gommaire Kennis, composer
1723 - Mathurin Jacques Brisson, French naturalist (d. 1806)
1743 - Robert Jasper van de Capellen, master of Marsch/politician
1767 - Jean Henri Appelius, lawyer/minister of Finance
1770 - David Thompson, English/Canadian explorer (Columbia River)
1777 - Carl Friedrich Gauss, world's great mathematician
1790 - John Cockerill, English/Belgian industrialist
1792 - Johann Friedrich Schwencke, composer
1797 - Andreas V Michiels, Dutch military governor of West-Sumatra
1803 - Albrecht Graf von Roon, Prime Minister of Prussia (d. 1879)
1805 - William Kerley Strong, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1867
1812 - Kaspar Hauser, German son of grand duke Karel van Bathe
1823 - George JD Campbell, Scottish/Brit Minister to Indies (1868-74/80-85)
1830 - Davis Tillson, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1895
1837 - Alfred Gaul, composer
1846 - Rosalie Amstein, writer
1853 - Alfred v Berger, writer
1857 - Eugen Bleuler, Swiss psychiatrist (d. 1940)
1858 - Mary Scott Lord Dimmick Harrison, 1st lady (1889-1893)
1864 - Frans Netscher, Dutch writer/journalist (Studies of nude model)
1864 - Juhan Liiv, Estonian poet (d. 1913)
1865 - Max Nettlau, German anarchist (d. 1944)
1869 - Hans Poelzig, German architect (d. 1936)
1870 - Franz Lehar, operetta composer (Naughty Marietta)
1874 - Cyriel Verschaeve, Belgian priest/writer
1876 - Orso Mario Corbino, Italian physicist (d. 1937)
1877 - Alice B. Toklas, American companion of Gertrude Stein (d. 1967)
1882 - Trijntje "Nine" van de Schaaf, author (To the Invisible)
1883 - David John de Lloyd, composer
1884 - Albert Israel Elkus, composer
1885 - Luigi Russolo, composer
1886 - Frank Merrik, composer
1888 - John Crowe Ransom, US poet/critic (God Without Thunder)
1889 - Acario Cotapos, composer
1889 - Rudolph Hermann Simonsen, composer
1891 - Watze Cuperus, Frisian author (Swart mar leaflik)
1893 - Joachim von Ribbentrop, Nazi foreign minister (d. 1946)
1895 - Philippe Panneton, French Canadian physician, diplomat and writer (d. 1960)
1896 - Gary Davis, Laurens SC, blues/folk guitarist (A Little More Faith)
1896 - Hans List, Austrian inventor (d. 1996)
1897 - Humberto Mauro, Brazillina director and screenwriter (d. 1983)
1899 - Jannetje Fisherman-Roosendaal, author (regional novels)
1899 - Lucie Mannheim, Berlin, actress (East Meets West, 39 Steps)
1901 - Simon Kuznets, Ukrainian-born economist, Nobel laureate (d. 1985)
1902 - Andre-Francois Marescotti, composer
1902 - Rudolf Wittelsbach, composer
1903 - Gunther AR Raphael, German composer (Symphony Breve)
1908 - Eve Arden, American actress (d. 1990)
1908 - Bjarni Benediktsson, Icelandic foreign and later prime minister (d. 1970)
1909 - Juliana, Queen of Netherlands (1948-80)
1909 - F. E. McWilliam,Irish sculptor (d. 1992)
1910 - Al Lewis, actor (Leo-Car 54, Grandpa-Munsters)
1911 - Hans Studer, composer
1911 - John-Baptist J Walgrave, [Henricus/Humanus], Flemish, theologist
1911 - Luise Rinser, writer
1912 - Eve Arden, Mill Valley California, actress (Connie-Our Miss Brooks)
1912 - Manuel Gutierrez Mellado, soldier/politician
1913 - Bernard Charles Sendall, deputy director general (ITA)
1913 - Edith Fowke, folklorist
1914 - Sid Weiss, bassist
1916 - Claude Shannon, information theorist
1916 - Dugo D Schenker, Suriname/Antillian producer
1916 - Robert Shaw, Red Bluff California, chorale conductor (Robert Shaw Chorale)
1917 - Bea Wain, US singer/radio host (Lucky Strike Hit Parade)
1918 - W Donald McNeill, tennis champ (US Open-1940)
1919 - Valeer [Valerius V] van Kerkhove, Flemish writer/producer
1920 - Duncan Hamilton, driver
1920 - Leen 't Hart, Dutch organist/composer
1922 - Anton Murray, cricketer (South African batsman in 10 Tests 1951-55)
1923 - Alan Wharton, cricketer (Engld batsman once v NZ 1949, scored 7 & 13)
1923 - George Byatt, playwright
1923 - Al Lewis, American actor (d. 2006)
1924 - Sheldon Harnick, Chicago, lyricist (Fiorello, Fiddler on the Roof)
1925 - Corinne Calvet, Paris France, actress (Phantom of Hollywood)
1925 - Johnny Horton, American musician (d. 1960)
1926 - Cloris Leachman, Des Moines Iowa, actress (Last Picture Show, Phyllis)
1926 - Corinne Calvet, France, actress (Apache Uprising)
1926 - Edmund Cooper, UK, sci-fi author (Seed of Light, All Fool's Day)
1927 - Johnny Horton, Los Angeles Ca, rocker
1927 - Lars Hall, Sweden, Pentathelete (Olympic-gold-1952)
1928 - Hugh Hood, Canadian author (d. 2000)
1929 - Peter Carsten, Weissenberg Bavaria, actor (Mr Super Invisible)
1930 - Raoul de Keyser, [Dekeyser], Flemish painter
1931 - William L [Bill] Clay, (Rep-D-MO, 1969- )
1932 - Anton Larrauri, composer
1933 - Willie Nelson, Abbott Texas, country singer (On the Road Again)
1934 - Jerry Lordan, English composer and singer (d.1995)
1936 - Zohra Lampert, actress (Doctors' Hospital, Girl With Something Extra)
1938 - Gary Collins, Venice California, actor (6th Sense, Home Show), (d. 2012)
1938 - Larry [Van Cott] Niven, US, sci-fi author (5 Hugo, Neutron Star)
1938 - Juraj Jakubisko, Slovak film director
1939 - Ellen Taafe Zwilich, Miami Florida, (1st woman composer Pulitzer 1982)
1939 - Pieter van Vollenhoven, husband of Dutch Princess Margriet
1940 - Burt Young, NYC, actor (Convoy, Rocky)
1941 - Johnny Farina, rocker (Santo & Johnny)
1941 - Wilfried Jentzsh, composer
1943 - Bobby Vee, Fargo ND, (Devil or Angel, Night has a Thousand Eyes)
1943 - Robert L Livingston, (Rep-R-Louisiana, 1977- )
1943 - Frederick Chiluba, former Zambian president (1991-2001)
1944 - Jill Clayburgh, NYC, actress (Unmarried Woman, Semi-Tough)
1944 - Richard Shoff, rocker (Sandpipers)
1945 - Annie Dillard, American writer (An American Childhood)
1945 - Claude van de Berge, [Rony MF Pauwels], Flemish writer (Graph Theory)
1945 - Michael J Smith, Beaufort NC, Cmdr USN, astr (51L-Challenger disaster)
1945 - Mike Beacon, rocker (Ox)
1945 - Mimi Farina, rocker (Reflections in a Crystal Wind)
1946 - Donald Schollander, Charlotte NC, swimmer (Olympic-4 gold-64)
1946 - Karl XVI Gustav F H, King of Sweden (1973- )
1946 - Bill Plympton, American animator
1947 - Robert Scott, (Rep-D-Virginia)
1947 - Leslie Grantham, English actor
1947 - Mats Odell, Swedish politician
1947 - Tom Køhlert, Brondby IF coach
1948 - Perry King, Alliance OH, actor (Andy Warhol's "Bad")
1948 - Wayne Kramer, guitarist (MC5, Dangerous Madness)
1949 - Phil Garner, baseball manager
1951 - Panuta Rosani, Poland, discus (Olympic 1976) drug disqualified
1952 - Tom Pesek, PC programmer (creator of HAL 9000 program)
1952 - Jacques Audiard, French film director
1953 - Merrill Osmond, Ogden Utah, singer (Osmond Brothers, Donnie & Marie)
1954 - Gunther Tiersch, German DR, 8 man cox (Olympic-gold-1968)
1954 - Jane Campion, New Zealand film director
1955 - Dimitra Papandreau, Greece, wife of Greek PM Andreas Papandreau
1955 - Nicolas Hulot, French journalist
1956 - Jorge Chaminé, Portuguese baritone
1956 - Lars von Trier, Danish film director
1957 - Duane G Carey, St Paul Minn, major USAF/astronaut
1957 - Aviva Chomsky, American historian, daughter of Noam Chomsky
1958 - Charles Berling, French actor, director and screenwriter
1959 - Kamaran Abdalla, Iraq/Engl/Neth actor (Goede Tijden Selechte Tijden)
1959 - Lauren Howe, LPGA golfer
1959 - Paul Gross, Canadian actor, director, and writer
1959 - Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada
1959 - W. Thomas Smith, Jr, American author and columnist
1960 - Kerry Healey, American politician
1960 - David Miscavige, American cult leader
1961 - Isiah Thomas, NBA forward (Detroit Piston; 1990 NBA playoff MVP)
1963 - Steve Smith, Glasgow Scotland, NHL defenseman (Chicago Blackhawks)
1964 - Ian Healy, cricket wicket-keeper (Australian since 1988)
1964 - Jeff Reboulet, Dayton OH, infielder (Minnesota Twins)
1964 - Barrington Levy, Jamaican musician
1965 - Adrian Pasdar, Pittsfield Mass, actor (C Oliver Resor-Feds, Top Gun)
1965 - Daniela Costian, Australian discus/shot putter (Olympics-96)
1966 - Aundray Bruce, defensive end (Oakland Raiders)
1966 - David Meggett, NFL running back (NY Giants, NE Patriots)
1966 - Jeff Brown, Ottawa, NHL defenseman (Hartford Whalers)
1967 - Steven Mackintosh, British actor
1968 - Babette Van Veen, Neth, actress (Linda-GTST, Blueberry Hill)
1968 - Paulo Jr, Brazilian pop bassist (Sepultura, Morbid Visions)
1968 - Richard Pilon, Saskatoon, NHL defenseman (NY Islanders)
1968 - Roger Mar, Seattle Wash, rapid fire pistol (Olympics-1996)
1968 - Sandra Beikoff, Mackay QLD, golfer (1990 Sunshine Coast Open)
1969 - Dexter Rogers, St Petersburg Fla, volleyball opposite hitter (Oly-96)
1969 - Joey Restivo, Brooklyn, rocker (Linear-I Never Felt This Way, Lies)
1969 - Warren Defever, American musician, composer
1970 - Brad Layton, Seymour Ind, rower (Olympics-1996)
1970 - Debbie D, Phila Pa, actress (Attack of Vampire Mermaid)
1970 - Ken Stanton, American Radio Personality
1971 - B J Tyler, NBA guard (Toronto Raptors)
1971 - Matt Martin, Hamden, NHL defenseman (Toronto Maple Leafs, Oly-US-94)
1971 - Randy Bierman, WLAF tackle (Scottish Claymores)
1971 - Ryan Hawblitzel, West Palm Beach Fla, pitcher (Colorado Rockies)
1971 - Ty Hallock, fullback (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1971 - John Boyne, Irish novelist
1971 - Darren Emerson, English DJ (Underworld)
1972 - Kendricke Bullard, NFL wide receiver (NE Patriots)
1972 - Mario Schaden, hockey forward (Team Austria 1998)
1973 - Akon, American R&B Singer
1974 - Cedric Jones, defensive end (NY Giants)
1974 - Chris Darkins, NFL running back (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1975 - Beverley Peele, model [or Apr 7]
1975 - Johnny Galecki, Bree Belgium, actor (American Dreamer, David-Roseanne)
1975 - Elliott Sadler, American race car driver
1975 - Mike Chat, American actor
1976 - Amanda Palmer, American musician (The Dresden Dolls)
1977 - Jeannie Haddaway, American politician
1977 - Pell James, American actress
1979 - Gerardo Torrado, Mexican footballer
1981 - John O'Shea, Irish footballer
1981 - Emma Pierson, British actress
1982 - Kirsten Dunst, Point Pleasant, New Jersey, American actress (Interview with the Vampire,
           Spider-Man)
1982 - Lloyd Banks, American rapper
1982 - Cleo Higgins, British singer and actress
1982 - Andrew Seeley, Canadian actor and singer
1983 - Tatjana Hüfner, German luger
1983 - Troy Williamson, American football player
1983 - Yamini, Tamil Singer
1984 - Shawn Daivari, Persian-American professional wrestler and manager
1985 - Ashley Alexandra Dupré, American singer and call girl
1986 - Dianna Agron, Savannah, Georgia, American Actress (Quinn Fabray-Glee)
1987 - Nikki Webster, Australian entertainer
1987 - Rohit Sharma, Indian Cricketer
1988 - Molloko, SD Zoo, 1st California condor chick conceived in captivity

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on April 30, 2013, 10:54:10 AM

This Day in History for 30th April


Famous Deaths

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Impressionist painter                                Dictator of Nazi Germany                      Ballet choreographer
Edouard Manet (1883)                                    Adolph Hitler (1945)                        George Balanchine (1983)


65 - Lucan, Roman poet (b. 39)
313 - Gaius G V Maximus, [Daia], Emperor of Rome, dies
535 - Amalaswintha, queen of Ostrogoten, murdered
1030 - Mohammud van Ghazna, Turkish mayor (G'widen)/Islamic ruler, dies
1063 - Emperor Renzong of China (b. 1010)
1131 - Adjutor, Roman Catholic Saint
1196 - Boudouin II, bishop of Utrecht (1178-96), dies
1214 - Huguccio/Hugo van Pisa, Italian bishop, dies
1328 - ... Eckhard, German theologist/mystic, dies
1341 - John III, Duke of Brittany (b. 1285)
1439 - Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick, English military leader (b. 1382)
1524 - Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard, French soldier (b. 1473)
1544 - Thomas Audley, 1st Baron Audley of Walden, Lord Chancellor of England
1630 - Ercole Porta, composer, dies at 44
1632 - Jean de Tilly, fieldmarshal, dies
1632 - Sigismund III, King of Poland/Sweden, dies at 65
1642 - Dmitry Pozharsky, Russian prince (b. 1578)
1655 - Eustache Le Sueur, French painter (b. 1617)
1660 - Peter Scriverius, Dutch lawyer/historian, dies at 84
1696 - Robert Plot, British naturalist (b. 1640)
1708 - Simon de Vries, book seller/writer (Unequal), dies
1712 - Philippus van Limborch, remonstrants theologist/vicar, dies at 78
1736 - Johann Albert Fabricius, German classical scholar and bibliographer (b. 1668)
1743 - Pedro de Peralta y Barnuevo, Peruvian playwright/poet, dies
1758 - François d'Agincourt, French composer (b. 1684)
1784 - Franz K earl von Velbruck, German free mason, dies
1785 - Frederick Philipse 3, land owner (Bronx, Westch & Putnam), dies at 65
1792 - Hans Adolf Friedrich von Eschstruth, composer, dies at 36
1792 - John Montague 4th Earl of Sandwich, English Naval minister, dies at 73
1793 - Lorenzo Fago, composer, dies at 88
1795 - Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, French writer and numismatist (b. 1716)
1800 - John H Midderigh, Rotterdam patriot, dies at 46
1828 - Shaka, the great Zulu King, killed
1829 - George Washington Adams, son of John Q Adams, dies on City Is NYC
1841 - Peter Andreas Heiberg, Danish author and philologist (b. 1758)
1847 - Charles L J, archduke of Austria/gov-gen (Austria-Netherland), dies
1848 - Friedrich Freiherr Gagern, German/Dutch army commandant, dies at 53
1855 - Henry Rowley Bishop, British composer/conductor, dies at 68
1859 - Sergei T Aksakov, Russian writer (Bagrova-vnuka), dies at 67
1865 - Robert Fitzroy, English admiral and meteorologist (b. 1805)
1875 - Jean Frederic Waldeck, French explorer, lithographer, and cartographer (b. 1766)
1883 - Édouard Manet, French impressionist painter dies at 61
1887 - Friedrich Wilhelm Markull, composer, dies at 71
1893 - Gyula Beliczay, composer, dies at 57
1895 - Gustav Freytag, writer, dies at 78
1896 - Antonio Cagnoni, composer, dies at 68
1900 - John Luther (Casey) Jones, dies in Cannonball Express train wreck
1903 - Emily Stowe, Canadian physician and suffragist (b.1831)
1912 - František Kmoch, Czech composer, dies at 63
1919 - Henry Wood, England cricket wicket keeper (in 4 Tests 1888-92), dies
1922 - David M Chumaceiro, Curacaos poet, dies
1931 - Sammy Woods, cricketer (3 Tests for Australia, 3 for England), dies
1933 - Luis Sanchez Cerro, Pres of Peru, assassinated by Hurtado de Mendoza
1934 - William Henry Welch, dies at 75
1936 - Alfred Edward Housman, English poet (b. 1859)
1942 - Catherine Murphy Urner, composer, dies at 51
1942 - J van Hoddis, writer, dies at 54
1943 - Beatrice Potter Webb, British writer (My Apprenticeship), dies at 85
1943 - Etty Hillesum, Dutch diarist, dies in Auschwitz
1943 - Otto Jespersen, Danish philologist (b. 1860)
1945 - Adolph Hitler, German dictator (1936-45), commits suicide at 56
1945 - Eva Braun, mistress/wife of Hitler, commits suicide at 33
1952 - Charles Radoux-Rogier, composer, dies
1956 - Alben W Barkley, (VP-D-1949-53), dies at 78
1957 - Ludwig Schiedermair, German musicologist (Beethoven), dies at 80
1959 - Armand Louis Joseph Marsick, composer, dies at 81
1963 - Bryant Washburn, actor (Nabonga, Millionaire Kid), dies at 74
1965 - Helen Chandler, actress (Dracula, Salute, Last Flight), dies at 56
1966 - Richard Farina, American writer and folk rocker, dies on his birthday in a motorcycle accident
1970 - Hall Johnson, composer, dies at 82
1970 - Inger Stevens, actress (Katy-Farmer's Daughter), commits suicide at 35
1970 - Jacob Presser, historian/writer (Doom, Ondergang), dies at 71
1971 - Elmo Roper, pollster (Roper Poll), dies at 70
1972 - Gia Scala, actress (Garment Jungle, I Aim at the Stars), dies at 38
1972 - Ntare V, king of Burundi, murdered
1973 - Josie Sedgwick, actress (White Moth), dies of stroke at 75
1973 - Václav Renč, Czech poet, dramatist and translator (b. 1911)
1976 - Edvard Fliflet Braein, composer, dies at 51
1977 - Clive Martin Douglas, composer, dies at 73
1980 - Mary McCarty, actress (French Line), dies
1980 - Luis Muñoz Marín, Puerto Rican poet, journalist, and politician (b. 1898)
1982 - Albert TLCA Bird, lecture artist, dies
1982 - Herman Tholen, Dutch cabaret performer (Juveniles), dies
1982 - Taisen Deshimaru, founder of several Zen centers in France, dies at 67
1982 - Lester Bangs, American music journalist, author, and musician (b. 1949)
1983 - George Balanchine, Russian/US ballet composer/choreographer, dies from Creutzfeldt–Jakob
           disease at 79
1983 - Jerry Hatsuo Fujikawa, actor (Uncle Matsu-Mr T & Tina), dies at 71
1983 - Muddy Waters, US blues singer/guitarist (Mad Love), dies at 70
1984 - Arthur T "Bomber" Harris, bombed nazi-Germany, dies
1987 - Hugh Dempster, actor (Anna Karenina, Candles at Nine), dies
1988 - James McCracken, US tenor, dies at 61
1989 - Sergio Leone, Italian director (Good, Bad & Ugly), dies at 60
1989 - Yi, Bang-ja, Crown Princess of Korea (b. 1901)
1991 - George Sperti Sperti, inventor (Preparation H), dies at 91
1991 - Michael G Hagerty, actor (Overboard), dies at 39
1992 - Daan van Driel, Dutch cartoonist/WWII resist fighter (Trouw), dies
1993 - David Waymer, NFLer (Saints, 49'ers, Raiders), dies at 34
1993 - Eric Rowan, cricketer (26 Tests for South Africa), dies
1993 - Tommy Caton, English footballer (b. 1962)
1994 - David Langton, dies of a heart at 81
1994 - Ferdinando Scarfiotti, Italian set designer (Last Emperor), dies at 53
1994 - Geoffery Michael Roberts, vintner, dies at 46
1994 - Richard McClure Scarry, US kid book illustrator/writer, dies at 74
1994 - Roland Ratzenberger, Austrian race car driver, dies in crash at 31
1995 - Donald Edwin White, ad copywriter/opera administrator, dies at 59
1995 - Reinaldo de Carvalho, carnival king, dies at 34
1996 - David Michael Ifshin, British political campaign organiser, dies at 46
1996 - David Opatoshu, actor (Torn Curtian, Raid on Entebbe), dies at 78
1996 - Frank Henry Copplestone, TV executive, dies at 71
1996 - Helene Cordet, entertainer/nightclub owner, dies at 78
1996 - Julio Cesar Mendez Montenegro, pres of Guatemala (1966-70), dies
1998 - Nizar Qabbani, Syrian poet (b. 1926)
2002 - Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, founder of the Gründerzeit Museum in Berlin-Mahlsdorf. (b. 1928)
2003 - Peter 'Possum' Bourne, New Zealand race car driver (b. 1956)
2003 - Wim van Est, Dutch cyclist (b. 1923)
2003 - Mark Berger, University of Kentucky professor (b. 1955)
2005 - Ron Todd, TGWU General Secretary (1985 - 1992) (b. 1927)
2006 - Lawrence Patrick, Biomechanics Professor, crash test subject
2006 - Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Indonesian novelist
2007 - Grégory Lemarchal, French singer (b. 1983)
2007 - Kevin Mitchell, American football player (b. 1971)
2007 - Tom Poston, American actor (b. 1921)
2007 - Gordon Scott, American actor (b. 1927)
2007 - Zola Taylor, American singer (b. 1938)
2008 - John Cargher, Australian radio broadcaster (b. 1919)
2010 - Gerry Ryan, Irish radio broadcaster (b. 1956)
2011 - Dorjee Khandu, Indian, Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh (b. 1955)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 01, 2013, 09:00:26 AM

This Day in History for 1st May


Historical Events

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King of Hawaii Kamehameha I                Classical music prodigy Mozart                Baseball Great Babe Ruth

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First Director of the FBI                               Actor Orson Welles                                Dictator Fidel Castro
J Edgar Hoover

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Singer & Cultural Icon                                   Singer Elton John                               Rocker Mick Fleetwood
Elvis Presley

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264th Pope John Paul II                       43rd US President George W. Bush


305 - Diocletian and Maximian retire from the office of Roman Emperor.
1006 - Supernova observed by Chinese & Egyptians in constellation Lupus
1048 - Bishop Bernold flees St Pieterskerk for Utrecht Neth
1328 - Wars of Scottish Independence end: Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton - the Kingdom of
           England recognises the Kingdom of Scotland as an independent state.
1394 - Ekiho, exorcised the Zen temple & it's surroundings from an old badger
1523 - Danish king Christian III arrives in Veere
1528 - Pánfilo the Narváez begins exploration to with 350 men to Florida
1544 - Turkish troops occupy Hungary
1551 - Council of Trente resumes
1598 - Jacob van Necks merchant fleet departs for Java
1625 - Portuguese & Spanish expedition recaptures Salvador (Bahia)
1625 - Prince Frederik Henry appointed viceroy of Holland
1682 - Louis XIV & his court inaugurates Paris Observatory
1703 - Battle at Rultusk: Swedish army beats Russians
1704 - Boston Newsletter publishes 1st newspaper ad
1707 - England, Wales & Scotland form UK of Great Britain
1711 - Arch duke Karel of Austria/Hungarian rebellion sign Peace of Szatmar
1715 - Prussia declares war on Sweden
1725 - Spain & Austria sign trade treaty
1751 - 1st American cricket match is played
1753 - Publication of Species Plantarum by Linnaeus, and the formal start date of plant taxonomy
           adopted by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature.
1756 - France & Austria sign alliance
1757 - Austria & France divide Prussia
1759 - British fleet occupies Guadeloupe, West-Indies, on France
1776 - Adam Weishaupt founds secret society of Illuminati
1777 - RB Sheridans "School for Scandal," premieres in London
1778 - American Revolution: The Battle of Crooked Billet begins in Hatboro, Pennsylvania.
1781 - Emperor Jozef II decrees protection of population
1785 - Kamehameha, the king of Hawaiʻi defeats Kalanikupule and establishes the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi
1786 - Mozart's opera "Marriage of Figaro" premieres in Wien (Vienna)
1822 - John Phillips becomes 1st mayor of Boston
1834 - Belgian parliament accept railway laws
1840 - 1st adhesive postage stamps ("Penny Blacks" from England) issued
1841 - 1st emigrant wagon train leaves Independence, Missouri for Calif
1844 - Whig convention nominates Henry Clay as presidential candidate
1846 - Ida Pfeiffer (48) begins trip around world
1848 - The Fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta is founded at Jefferson College in Canonsburg,
           Pennsylvania.
1850 - John Geary becomes 1st SF mayor
1851 - Great Exhibition opens in Chrystal Palace London
1852 - The Philippine peso is introduced into circulation.
1853 - Argentina adopts it's constitution
1854 - Amsterdam begins transferring drinking water out of the dunes
1857 - William Walker, conqueror of Nicaragua, surrenders to US Navy
1861 - Lee orders Confederate troops under T J Jackson to Harper's Ferry
1862 - Union captain David Farragut conquers New Orleans
1863 - Battle of Chancellorsville, VA (29,000 injured or died)
1863 - Battle of Port Gibson, Mississippi
1863 - Confederate "National Flag" replaces "Stars & Bars"
1863 - Confederate congress passed resolution to kill black soldiers
1864 - -8] Battle at Alexandria, Louisiana (Red River Campaign)
1864 - Atlanta campaign, GA begins
1864 - Wilderness campaign
1866 - American Equal Rights Association forms
1867 - Howard University chartered
1867 - Reconstruction of South begins, black voter registration
1869 - Folies Bergere opens in Paris
1873 - 1st US postal card issued
1873 - Emperor Franz Jozef opens 5th World's Exposition in Vienna
1875 - 238 members of "Whiskey Ring" accused of anti-US activities
1875 - Alexandra Palace reopens after the 1873 fire burnt it down.
1883 - "Buffalo Bill" Cody put on his 1st Wild West Show
1883 - Amsterdam World's Fair opens
1883 - Baseball returns to Phila, 1st NL game since 1876
1883 - NY Athletic Club hires Bob Rogers as 1st American pro sports trainer
1884 - Construction begins on Chicago 1st skyscraper (10 stories)
1884 - Moses Walker became 1st black player in major league
1884 - Proclamation of the demand for eight-hour workday in the United States.
1885 - Maria "Goeie Mie" Swanenburg sentence to life for killing 27 in Neth
1886 - US general strike for 8 hour day, begins
1889 - 2nd International Congress calls for 1st International Workers Day 1st May 1890 to mark
           protests in Chicago in 1886
1889 - Bayer introduces aspirin in powder form (Germany)
1891 - Cy Young pitches 1st game played in Cleveland's League Park Cleveland Spiders 12, Cincinnati
           Redlegs 3
1892 - US Quarantine Station opens on Angel Island, SF Bay
1893 - World Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago
1898 - George Dewey commands, "You may fire when you are ready, Gridley" as US route Spanish
           fleet at Manila
1900 - Premature blast collapses mine tunnel killing 200 at Scofield, Utah
1900 - Roermond soccer team forms in Roermond
1901 - Detroit Tigers commit 12 errors against Chicago White Sox
1901 - Herb McFarland hit 1st grand slam in American League
1901 - Pan-American Exposition opens in Buffalo
1906 - Phillie's John Lush no-hits Bkln Dodgers, 6-0
1907 - Belgium government of De Trooz forms
1907 - Indian Mine Laws passes (concessions from Neth-Indies)
1908 - World's most intense shower (2.47" in 3 minutes) at Portobelo Panama
1909 - Netherlands begins unity with Belgium
1912 - Amsterdam-North soccer team DWV forms
1912 - Beverly Hills Hotel opens
1913 - Longacre Theater opens at 220 W 48th St NYC
1914 - China's 1st president Yuan Shikai wins dictatorial qualification
1915 - British Lusitania leaves NY, for Liverpool
1915 - German submarine sinks US ship Gulflight
1919 - Mount Kelud (Indonesia) erupts, boiling crater lake which broke through crater wall killing
           5,000 people in 104 small villages
1920 - Babe Ruth's 1st Yankee HR & 50th of career, out of Polo Grounds
1920 - Belgian-Luxembourg toll tunnel opens
1920 - Brooklyn Dodgers tie Boston Braves, 1-1, in 26 innings
1921 - Drusian sultan Pasja al-Atrasj elected governor of Suwayda
1922 - Charlie Robertson of Chicago pitches a perfect no-hit, no-run game
1924 - Admiral Paul Koundouriotis becomes president of Greece
1925 - A's Jimmie Foxx, 17, 1st game; he pinch-hits a single
1925 - Cyprus becomes a British Crown Colony
1926 - British coal-miners go on strike
1926 - Brooklyn Dodgers & Boston Braves deadlock at 1-1 in 26 innings
1926 - Satchel Paige makes pitching debut in Negro Southern League
1927 - 1st British airliner to serve cooked meals (Imperial Airways)
1927 - Netherlands beats Belgium 3-2 in soccer match in Amsterdam
1927 - Panningen soccer team forms in Panningen
1928 - 6 children die & 10 injured by hailstones in Klausenburg, Romania
1928 - Drunken fascist Erich Wichman attacks VARA-radio transmitter
1928 - Lei Day begun (a Hawaiian celebration)
1928 - Pitcairn Airlines (later Eastern) begins service
1928 - Rotterdam soccer team Black White '28 forms
1929 - Brooklyn's Johnny Finn sets 100 yard sack race in 14.4 seconds
1929 - Farm workers strike begins in East-Groningen
1929 - Police kill 19 Mayday demonstrators in Berlin
1930 - Bradman scores 236 Aust v Worcs, his 1st f-class innings in Eng
1931 - Empire State Building opens in NYC
1931 - Norway claims Peter I Island
1931 - Singer Kate Smith begins her long-running radio program on CBS
1932 - 1st Suriname union congress at Paramaribo
1934 - Austria signs pact with Vatican
1934 - Philippine legislature accepts US proposal for independence
1934 - Water state kingdom dismisses NSB-leader Anton Mussert
1935 - Boulder Dam completed
1935 - Canada's 1st silver dollar is circulated
1936 - Emperor Haile Selassie leaves Ethiopia as Italian invades
1936 - FBI's J Edgar Hoover arrests Alvin Karpis
1937 - FDR signs act of neutrality
1939 - Batman comics hit street
1939 - Pulitzer Prize awarded to Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Yearling)
1940 - 140 Palestinian Jews die as German planes bomb their ship
1940 - The 1940 Olympics are cancelled
1941 - "Citizen Kane," directed & starring Orson Welles, premieres in NY
1941 - General Mills introduces Cheerios
1941 - German assault on Tobruk
1942 - Radio Orange calls to defy order to wear "Jewish star"
1943 - 1st edition of illegal "The Free Artist" appears in Amsterdam
1943 - 69th Kentucky Derby: Johnny Longden aboard Count Fleet wins in 2:04
1943 - Food rationing begins in US
1943 - German Wehrmacht deployed in order to break Dutch strikes
1943 - German plane sinks boat loaded with Palestinian Jews bound for Malta
1943 - Rauter signs unofficial death sentence
1944 - Messerschmitt Me 262 Sturmvogel, 1st jet bomber, makes 1st flight
1944 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Martin Flavin (Journey in the dark)
1944 - Surprise attack on Weteringschans Amsterdam, fails
1945 - 900 occupiers of Demmin Vorpommeren, commit suicide
1945 - Admiral Karl Doenitz forms German government
1945 - Australian & Dutch troops lands on Tarakan
1945 - General Belgian Labor Union (ABVV) party forms
1945 - Radio Budapest, Hungary re-enters shortwave broadcasting after WW II
1945 - Seys-Inquart flees to Flensburg
1945 - Soviet army reach Rostock
1946 - Fieldmarshal Montgomery appointed British supreme commander
1946 - Mrs Emma Clarissa Clement named "American Mother of Year"
1946 - Start of 3 year Pilbara strike of Indigenous Australians.
1946 - The Paris Peace Conference concludes that the islands of the Dodecanese should be returned
           to Greece by Italy.
1947 - Cleve Indians abandon League Park to play all games at Municipal Stad
1947 - Lt General Hoyt S Vandenberg, USA, ends term as 2nd head of CIA
1947 - Radar for coml & private planes 1st demonstrated
1947 - Rear Admiral Roscoe H Hillenkoetter, USN, becomes 3th director of CIA
1948 - 74th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Arcaro aboard Citation wins in 2:05.4
1948 - North Korean proclaims itself People's Democratic Republic of Korea
1948 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Auspicia quaedam
1948 - Glenn Taylor, Idaho Senator, arrested in Birmingham Alabama for trying to enter a meeting
           through a door marked "for Negroes"
1949 - A's Elmer Valo is 1st AL'er to hit 2 bases-loaded triples in a game
1949 - Gerard Kuiper discovers Nereid, (2nd satellite of Neptune)
1950 - Gwendolyn Brooks, is 1st Black awarded a Pulitzer Prize (poetry)
1950 - Mayor of Brussels reluctantly bans May Day parade
1950 - New marriage laws enforced in People's Republic China
1950 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Rodgers & Hammerstein (South Pacific)
1950 - WJIM (now WLNS) TV channel 6 in Lansing, MI (CBS) begins broadcasting
1951 - 600,000 march for peace & freedom in Germany
1951 - Dutch Reformed Church introduces new church choir
1951 - Mickey Mantle's 1st HR
1951 - Minnie Minoso becomes the 1st black to play for the White Sox
1952 - Marines take part in an atomic explosion training in Nevada
1952 - Mr Potato Head, introduced
1952 - TWA introduces tourist class
1954 - 80th Kentucky Derby: Raymond York aboard Determine wins in 2:03
1954 - Bishops publish Mandement (member socialist org forbidden)
1954 - HSA-UWC Forms (Unification Church) (Moonies)
1954 - WAPA TV channel 4 in San Juan, PR (NBC/SFN) begins broadcasting
1955 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Tournament
1955 - Bob Feller's 15th 1 or less hitter (12 1-hitters, 3 no-hitters)
1956 - A doctor in Japan reports an "epidemic of an unknown disease of the central nervous
           system", marking the official discovery of Minamata disease.
1957 - Flevo Boys soccer team forms in Emmeloord
1957 - Larry King's 1st radio broadcast
1957 - US give Poland credit of $95 million
1957 - Vanguard TV-1 booster test reaches 195 km
1958 - Ambonese rebellion bombed Ambon/conquer Morotai
1958 - Arturo Frondizi sworn in as president of Argentina
1959 - Floyd Patterson KOs Brian London in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
1959 - West Germany introduces 5 day work week
1959 - White Sox Early Wynn beats Red Sox 1-0 on his own HR
1960 - India's Bombay state split into Gujarat & Maharashtra states
1960 - Pancho Gonzalez retires from tennis
1960 - Russia shoots down Francis Gary Powers' U-2 spy plane over Sverdlovsk
1961 - 1st US airplane hijacked to Cuba
1961 - Fidel Castro announces there will be no more elections in Cuba
1961 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)
1961 - Tanganyika granted full internal self-government by Britain
1962 - 1st French underground nuclear experiment in the Sahara
1962 - Bo Belinsky pitches a no-hitter, in his 4th start
1962 - France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria
1962 - JFK authorizes Area Redevelopment Act (ARA)
1963 - 1st American (James Whittaker) conquers Mount Everest
1963 - Indonesia takes control of Irian Jaya (west New Guinea) from Neth
1964 - 1st BASIC program runs on a computer (Dartmouth)
1965 - 91st Kentucky Derby: Bill Shoemaker on Lucky Debonair wins in 2:01.2
1965 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Chicago Blackhawks, 4 games to 3
1965 - USSR launches Luna 5; later impacts on Moon
1965 - Battle of Dong-Yin, a naval conflict between ROC and PRC, takes place.
1966 - Last British concert by Beatles (Empire Pool in Wembley)
1966 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Club Golf Invitational
1966 - Radio RSA, South Africa begins shortwave transmitting
1966 - US troops shooting targets in Cambodia
1967 - Anastasio Somoza Debayle becomes president of Nicaragua
1967 - Jelle Zijlstra becomes president of Netherlands Bank
1967 - Elvis Presley & Priscilla Beaulieu wed in Las Vegas
1967 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Bernard Malamud (Fixer)
1968 - "Ben Franklin in Paris" closes at Lunt Fontanne NYC after 215 perfs
1968 - Phillies J Boozer is ejected for throwing spitballs during his warmup
1969 - 43 Unification church couples wed in NYC
1969 - Houston Don Wilson 2nd no-hitter beats Cin Reds, 4-0
1969 - Leonard Tose buys NFL Philadelphia Eagles for $16,155,000
1969 - Pirate Radio Station 259 (England/France) begins transmitting
1971 - 97th Kentucky Derby: Gustavo Avila on Canonero II wins in 2:03.2
1971 - Amtrak Railroad begins operation
1971 - Rolling Stones release "Brown Sugar"
1972 - "Different Times" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 24 performances
1972 - North Vietnamese troops occupy Quang Tri Activities Committee
1972 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Wallace Stegner (Angle of Repose)
1972 - Radio's Mutual Black Network premieres
1973 - SF Giants score 7 runs with 2 outs in 9th to beat Pirates, 8-7
1975 - Islander Parise & Potvin score within 14 seconds in playoffs Flyers 5-Isles 4-semifinals-Flyers
           hold 2-0 lead
1976 - 102nd Kentucky Derby: Angel Cordero Jr on Bold Forbes wins in 2:01.6
1976 - Jos Hermens, runs Dutch record for 20K (57:24.2)
1977 - Chantal Langlace runs female world record marathon (2:35:15.4)
1977 - Debbie Austin wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic
1977 - Empress Lilly dedicated
1977 - 36 people are killed in Taksim Square, Istanbul, during the Labour Day celebrations.
1978 - 1st black mayor of New Orleans (Ernest Morial) inaugurated
1978 - MVV soccer team forms in Maastricht
1978 - Naomi Uemura became 1st to reach North Pole overland alone
1979 - Elton John becomes 1st pop star to perform in Israel
1979 - Home rule introduced to Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland)
1979 - Marshall Islands (in Pacific) become self-governing
1980 - "Day in Hollywood, A Night..." opens at John Golden NYC for 588 perf
1980 - 15th Academy of Country Music Awards: Barbara Mandrell wins
1980 - Sabres & Islanders play to 1:20 of 5th period in a playoff
1980 - Amer Book Award: William Styron (Sophie Choice)/T Wolfe (Right Stuff)
1981 - Billie Jean King admits to a lesbian affair with Marilyn Barnett
1981 - Harrison Williams (Sen-D-NJ) convicted on FBI Abscam charges
1981 - Radio Shack releases Model III TRSDOS 1.3
1982 - 108th Kentucky Derby: Ed Delahoussaye on Gato Del Sol wins in 2:02.4
1982 - 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville Tennessee opens
1982 - Nordiques 4-Isles 5 (OT)-semifinals-Isles hold 3-0 lead
1983 - "My One & Only" opens at St James Theater NYC for 767 performances
1983 - Hollis Stacy wins LPGA CPC International Golf Tournament
1983 - Nolan Ryan surpasses Walter Johnson for most strikeouts (3,508)
1984 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1984 - Mick Fleetwood (of Fleetwood Mac) files for bankruptcy
1985 - "Communist" bomb attack kills 2 firemen in Brussels
1985 - US president Reagan ends embargo against Nicaragua
1985 - William Hoffman's "As Is," premieres in NYC
1986 - Bill Elliott sets stock car speed record of 212.229 mph
1986 - Tass reports Chernobyl nuclear power plant mishap
1986 - Will Stegers expedition reaches North Pole
1987 - 46 HRs hit in 13 baseball games
1987 - Pope John Paul II beatifies Edith Stein, a Jewish born nun
1988 - "Romance/Romance" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 297 perfs
1988 - IRA attack in Roermond, kills 3
1988 - Patti Rizzo wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic
1989 - 135 acre Disney's MGM studio officially opens to public
1989 - Jockey Chris Antley ends record of 64 consecutive winning days
1989 - US Supreme Court rules employees have legal burden to prove non- discriminatory reasons
           for not hiring or promoting
1990 - "Prelude to a Kiss" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC
1991 - "Will Rogers Follies" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 983 performances
1991 - A's Rickey Henderson steals an all time record 939th base vs Yanks
1991 - Angola's civil war ends
1991 - Last day of Test cricket for Gordon Greenidge
1991 - Milwaukee Brewers beat Chicago Cubs, 10-9, in 19 innings
1991 - Rickey Henderson breaks Lou Brocks record with his 939th steal
1991 - Texas Ranger Nolan Ryan pitches record 7th no hitter (beats Toronto 3-0)
1991 - Skin-Spit-Skin featuring lesbian, homosexual & hetrosexual nude couples caressing, is seen
           by 5,000 in NYC
1992 - Eric Houston kills 4 in a California HS where he failed history 4 yrs prior
1992 - LA Dodgers postpone 3 games due to racial riots due to Rodney King
1992 - NY Rangers wins their 1st ever 7th game of a playoff (vs NJ Devils)
1992 - Rickey Henderson steals his 1,000th base
1993 - 119th Kentucky Derby: Jerry Bailey aboard Sea Hero wins in 2:02.4
1993 - Bomb attack on Sri Lankan president (26 die)
1994 - "My Fair Lady" closes at Virginia Theater NYC after 165 performances
1994 - "Rise & Fall of Little Voice" opens at Neil Simon NYC for 9 perfs
1994 - -3] Tornado & hail storms hit Jiangxi China, 95 killed
1994 - Charles Kuralt, retires as CBS newsman (On the Road)
1994 - Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Sprint Senior Challenge Golf Tournament
1994 - Sherri Steinhauer wins LPGA Sprint Golf Championship
1995 - "On the Waterfront" opens at Atkinson Theater NYC for 8 performances
1995 - Steve Waugh scores 200 for Australia v WI at Sabina Park
1995 - Croatian forces launch Operation Flash during the Croatian War of Independence.
1996 - "Ideal Husband" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 308 performances
1996 - Gerald Williams is 1st NY Yankee since 1934 to get 6 hits in a game
1997 - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in San Diego CA on KIOZ 105.3 FM
1997 - Toni Blair elected PM of UK
1997 - Tasmania becomes the last state in Australia to decriminalize homosexuality.
2000 - Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo declares the existence of "a state of rebellion",
           hours after thousands of supporters of her arrested predecessor, Joseph Estrada, storm
           towards the presidential palace at the height of the EDSA III rebellion.
2003 - 2003 invasion of Iraq: In what becomes known as the "Mission Accomplished" speech, U.S.
           President George W. Bush declares that "major combat operations in Iraq have ended" on
           board the USS Abraham Lincoln off the coast of California.
2004 - Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and
           Slovenia join the European Union, celebrated at the residence of the Irish President in Dublin.
2006 - The Puerto Rican government closes the Department of Education and 42 other government
           agencies due to significant shortages in cash flow.
2007 - The Los Angeles May Day mêlée occurs, in which the Los Angeles Police Department's
           response to a May Day pro-immigration rally become a matter of controversy.
2008 - The London Agreement on translation of European patents, concluded in 2000, enters into
           force in 14 of the 34 Contracting States to the European Patent Convention.
2009 - Same-sex marriage is legalized in Sweden.
2010 - Car bomb fails to go off in Times Square, New York City
2011 - Pope John Paul II is beatified by his successor, Pope Benedict XVI.
2012 - China and Russia sign $15 billion dollar trade deal
2012 - Guggenheim Partners make the largest ever purchase of a sports franchise after buying the
           Los Angeles Dodgers for $2.1 billion

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 01, 2013, 09:03:26 AM

This Day in History for 1st May


Famous Weddings

1576 - Stefan Batory, the reigning Prince of Transylvania, marries Anna Jagiellon and they become
           the co-rulers of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
1884 - "Poems of Passion" author Ella Wheeler Wilcox (33) weds Robert M. Wilcox in Milwaukee,
           Wisconsin
1929 - American poet e.e (Edward Estlin) Cummings marries 2nd wife Anne Minnerly Barton
1967 - King of Rock and Roll Elvis Presley (32) weds actress Priscilla Beaulieu (21) at Aladdin Hotel in
           Las Vegas, Nevada
1991 - Actor Robert Duvall weds Sharon Brophy
1996 - Actress and talk show host Kelly Ripa (26) weds film actor Mark Consuelos (25) in Las Vegas
1998 - "Reality Bites" actor Ethan Hawke (27) weds "Pulp Fiction" actress Uma Thurman (28)
1999 - "Dixie Chicks" singer Emily Erwin (26) weds singer-songwriter Charlie Robison (34) at Lone
           Star State in Texas
1999 - "As Good As It Gets" actor Greg Kinnear (35) weds British model Helen Labdon (29)
2009 - Olympic swimmer gold medalist Amanda Beard (27) weds photographer Sacha Brown (34) in
           Wakatobia, Indonesia
2010 - Actor-producer Seth Green (36) weds actress Clare Grant (30) at George Lucas's Skywalker
           Ranch in Nacasio, California

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 01, 2013, 09:05:15 AM

This Day in History for 1st May


Famous Divorces

1978 - Actress and model Bianca Jagger files for divorce from Rolling Stone rocker Mick Jagger after 7
           years of marriage on the grounds of his adultery with model Jerry Hall

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 01, 2013, 09:12:36 AM

This Day in History for 1st May


Famous Birthdays

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1st Duke of Wellington &                         Actress Jodhi May (1975)
British Prime Minister
Arthur Wellesley (1769)


1218 - John I, Count of Hainaut (d. 1257)
1218 - Rudolph I of Germany, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1291)
1238 - Magnus VI Lagabuter, King of Norway (1263-80)
1285 - Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, English politician (d. 1326)
1545 - Franciscus Junius, [Francois du Jon], French/Neth calvinist theologist
1567 - Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt, Dutch royal painter
1577 - Francois van Kinschot, Dutch treasurer
1582 - Marco da Gagliano, Italian opera composer
1592 - Johann A Schall von Bell, German missionaries/astronomer
1594 - John Haynes, Massachusetts colonial magistrate
1672 - Joseph Addison, England, essayist (Spectator)
1735 - John H van Kinsbergen, Dutch lt-admiral/founder of Dutch Marines Corp
1738 - Kamehameha I, King of Hawaii (1782-1819) (d. 1819)
1759 - Jacob Albright, [Albrecht], German/US predictor
1764 - Benjamin Henry Latrobe, engineer/architect (built Capitol)
1764 - Gottfried Rieger, composer
1769 - Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington and British Prime Minister (Tory) (1828-30)
1771 - George Guest, composer
1775 - Jacob-Joseph-Balthasar Martinn, composer
1800 - Ret Thomas Aloysius Dornin, Comm (Union Navy), died in 1874
1804 - Aleksey Khomyakov, Russian poet (d. 1860)
1807 - John Bankhead "Prince John" Magruder, Major General (Confederate Army)
1818 - Jose Amador de los Rios, Spanish historian/poet
1819 - William Steele, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1885
1825 - George Inness, US landscape painter (Delaware Water Gap)
1829 - Jose M de Alencar, Brazilian writer/minister of Justice
1830 - Mother (Mary Harris) Jones, US reformer and labor organizer
1831 - Emily Stowe, Canadian physician and suffragist (d. 1903)
1835 - Alfred Napoleon Alexander "Natti" Duffie, Brig Gen (Union volunteers)
1839 - Chardonnet, inventor (rayon)
1850 - Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, Governor General of Canada (d. 1942)
1851 - Laza Lazarević, Serbian writer and psychiatrist (d. 1891)
1852 - Calamity [Martha] Jane [Burke], frontier adventurer/indian fighter
1852 - Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish neuroscientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1934)
1858 - Anthony Johnson Showalter, composer
1859 - Bohuslav Jeremias, composer
1859 - Willem J Leyds, Dutch/South Africa lawyer/politician/diplomat
1872 - Sidónio Pais, Portuguese military and politician (d. 1918)
1880 - Conrad Weiss, German writer/poet (Tantum dic verbo)
1881 - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, France, philosopher/paleontologist
1884 - Felipe Boero, composer
1884 - Francis Curzon, 5th Earl Howe, British politician, naval officer and racing driver (d. 1964)
1887 - Alan Gordon Cunningham, Irish/Brit gen/director of Palestine (1945-48)
1892 - Howard Barlow, Plain City Ohio, conductor (Voice of Firestone)
1895 - Leo Sowerby, Grand Rapids Michigan, composer (Pulitzer 1946)
1896 - Herbert Backe, German Nazi politician (d. 1947)
1896 - Mark Wayne Clark, American general (d. 1984)
1896 - J. Lawton Collins, American general (d. 1987)
1898 - Eugene R Black, US, Pres of World Bank (1953-62)
1900 - Ignazio Silone, Italy, novelist/politician (Bread & Wine)
1901 - Heinz Eric Roemheld, American film composer (d. 1985)
1901 - Antal Szerb, Hungarian author and historian (d. 1945)
1905 - Leila Hyams, NYC, actress (Big House, Ruggles of Red Gap)
1905 - Nikolai Tikhonov, Soviet PM (1980-85)
1905 - Paul Desruisseaux, French Canadian lawyer, businessman and politician (d. 1982)
1906 - Horst Schumann, Nazi physician (d. 1983)
1907 - Jan Pauw, CEO (Aruban Theater Group)
1907 - Oliver Hill, civil rights attorney (d. 2007)
1907 - Kate Smith, American singer (d. 1986)
1908 - Giovanni Guareschi, Italian writer (Don Camillo, Peppone)
1909 - Ethel Jane Cain, original UK Speaking Clock voice
1909 - George Melachrino, composer
1909 - Janis Ritsos, writer
1909 - Yannis Ritsos, Greek poet
1910 - Cliff Battles, Akron Oh, NFL hall of famer (Braves, Redskins)
1912 - Anna Pollak, mezzo-soprano
1912 - Felipe Padilla de Leon, composer
1912 - Otto Kretschmer, German U-Boat commander (d. 1998)
1913 - Walter Susskind, Praha (Prague) Czechoslovakia, conductor
1913 - Louis Nye, American comedian and actor (d. 2005)
1915 - Archie Williams, American athlete (d. 1993)
1916 - Glenn Ford, Quebec Canada, actor (Cade's County, Big Heat, Midway)
1916 - Jane Jacobs, Scranton, Pa, urbanologist
1917 - Danielle Darrieux, France, actress (Alexander the Great, Mayerling)
1917 - John Beradino, LA California, actor (Steve Hardy-General Hospital)
1917 - Louis G "Lo" van Hensbergen, actor/author (Amsterdam Affair)
1917 - Ahron Soloveichik, Orthodox Jewish rabbi
1918 - Jack Paar, Canton Ohio, American television host of the Jack Paar Show (d. 2004)
1918 - Gersh Budker, Russian physicist (d. 1977)
1919 - Alwyn Farquharson, Scottish clan-captain/large landowner
1919 - Dan O'Herlihy, Ireland, actor (Fail Safe, Last Starfighter, Robocop)
1921 - 12th Lord Middleton, English large landowner/multi-millionaire
1921 - Paul Daels, president (Flemish Iron Pilgrimage committee)
1923 - Joseph Heller, Bkln NY, novelist (Catch-22, 1963 Arts & Letters Award)
1924 - Earl George, composer
1924 - Enrico Josif, composer
1924 - Patricia Roberts Harris, 1st US black woman cabinet member
1924 - Terry Southern, writer
1925 - Chuck Bednarik, Penn, NFL hall of fame center/linebacker (Phila)
1925 - Malcolm Scott Carpenter, Boulder Colo, astronaut (Mercury 7-Aurora 7)
1926 - Peter Lax, Hungarian Mathematician
1927 - Greta Andersen, Denmark, 100m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-gold-1948)
1927 - Israr Ali, cricket pace bowler (Pakistani in 4 Tests 1952-59)
1927 - Lord Bathurst, English earl/large landowner/multi-millionaire
1927 - Roland Verhavert, Flemish screen writer (Sea Gulls Die in the Harbor)
1927 - William Mitchell Byers, musician
1928 - Raoul Servais, Belgian cartoonist/pres (l'ASIFA)
1928 - Desmond Titterington, Northern Irish racer (d. 2002)
1929 - Sonny James, [James Loden], Hackelburg AL, rocker (Young Love)
1929 - Sonny Ramadhin, cricket spin bowler (great WI)
1930 - Little Walter, [Marion Walter Jacobs], rocker
1930 - Ollie Matson, NFL halfback (Cardinals, Rams, Lions, Eagles)
1930 - Richard Riordan, former mayor of Los Angeles
1934 - Alette Beaujon, Curacaos poet (Gedichten on the Bay & Elsewhere)
1934 - Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, Mexican politician
1935 - Ann Robinson, American actress
1937 - Bo Nilsson, Swedish composer (Doppelspiel)
1937 - Una Stubbs, English actress
1939 - Judy Collins, Seattle Wash, singer (Send in the Clowns, Clouds)
1939 - Max Robinson, Richmond Virginia, American broadcast journalistr (ABC Evening News) (d.
          1988)
1939 - Ray Aranha, Miami FL, actor (Nick-Married People)
1940 - Elsa Peretti, Italian jewelry designer
1941 - Barbara Barendrecht, [BHM Wurfbain], actress (Dirty Picture)
1941 - Juraj Hatrick, composer
1942 - Stephen Macht, Phila Pa, actor (Joe-Knots Landing, Cagney & Lacey)
1943 - Joy Harmon, St Louis Mo, actress (Cool Hand Luke)
1944 - Rita Coolidge, Nashville Tn, singer (Higher & Higher, We're All Alone)
1944 - Suresh Kalmadi, Indian politician
1946 - Bruce Robinson, actor (Story of Adele H)
1946 - Jerry Weiss, NYC, rocker (Blood Sweat & Tears)
1946 - Joanna Lumley, Kashmir India, actress (Abs Fab, OHM's Secret Service)
1946 - Nick Fortune, [Nicholas Fortuna], rock bassist (Buckinghams Chicago)
1946 - Tony Ashton, rocker
1946 - Valentin Muratov, USSR, floor exercise gymnist (Olympic-gold-1956)
1946 - John Woo, Hong Kong director
1947 - Carlos Ward, rocker (B T Express)
1947 - Ghulam Abbas, cricketer (scored 12 & 0 in only Test for Pakistan 1967)
1947 - Sergio Infante, Chilean poet and writer
1948 - James Wise, US soul singer (Archie Bell & the Drells)
1949 - Douglas Barr, Cedar Rapids Iowa, actor (Howie-Fall Guy)
1949 - Margo Miller, SF California, fencer-epee (Olympics-96)
1949 - Tim Hodgkinson, English composer and musician (Henry Cow)
1949 - Paul Teutul, Sr., founder of Orange County Choppers
1950 - Marina Stepanova, Russian hurdler (world record 1986)
1950 - Dann Florek, American actor
1950 - Danny McGrain, Scottish footballer
1951 - Gordon Greenidge, cricketer (great West Indian opener 1974-91)
1951 - Antony Worrall Thompson, English celebrity chef
1953 - Elquemedo Willett, cricketer (WI lefty spinner early 70's)
1953 - Felix Hanemann, rocker (Zebra)
1953 - Mindy Moore, LPGA golfer
1953 - Glen Ballard, American songwriter and record producer
1954 - Michael Scott, reporter (Entertainment Tonight)
1954 - Ray Parker Jr, Detroit Mich, rock guitarist/vocalist (Ghostbusters)
1954 - Taslim Arif, cricketer (Pakistani keeper/batsman, 210 v Aust 1980)
1954 - Joel Rosenberg, science fiction author
1955 - Julien Wiener, cricketer (Australian opening batsman 1979-80)
1955 - Nick Feldman, English musician
1956 - Byron Stewart, Baxter Springs Ks, actor (Warren Coolidge-St Elsewhere)
1957 - Dick Swett, (Rep-D-New Hampshire)
1957 - Paul D Ronney, LA California, ScD/astronaut (STS 83 alt)
1957 - Rick Darling, cricketer (accident-prone/dashing Aussie opener 1978-79)
1957 - Steve Farris, rock guitarist (Mr Mister)
1957 - Ko Otani, Japanese composer
1959 - Eddie Johnson, NBA guard/forward (Houston Rockets, Indiana Pacers)
1959 - Paul Smith, rock saxophonist (Haircut 100)
1960 - Albert McDonald, Dartmouth NS, US canoe (alt-Olympics-96)
1961 - Charlie O'Brien, Tulsa OK, catcher (Brewers, Mets, Braves, Blue Jays)
1961 - Steven Cauthen, jockey (1978 Kentucky Derby-Affirmed)
1961 - Marilyn Milian, current judge on The People's Court
1962 - Gary Clark, NFL wide receiver (Miami Dolphins)
1962 - Paula Weishoff, Hollywood CA, volleyballer (Oly-Sil-84, br-92, 96)
1962 - Reggie Pleasant, CFL cornerback (Edmonton Eskimos)
1963 - Robert Seguso, Minneapolis MN, tennis star
1964 - Carlos Aalbers, Dutch soccer player (NEC)
1964 - Ruth Picardie, journalist
1964 - Sarah FE Armstrong-Jones, daughter of princess Margaret & Lord Snowdon
1965 - Jon Warren, Akron Ohio, 1.5k runner
1966 - Armando Reynoso, San Luis Potosi Mexico, pitcher (Colorado Rockies)
1966 - Charlie Schlatter, NYC, actor (18 Again, Heartbreak Hotel)
1966 - Johnny Colt, Cherry Point NC, rock bassist (Black Crowes)
1966 - Mark Coogan, Manhaset NY, marathoner (Olympics-96)
1966 - Olaf Thon, German football player
1967 - Bill Schultz, NFL/WLAF offensive tackle (Den Broncos, Scot Claymores)
1967 - Marvcus Patton, NFL linebacker (Washington Redskins)
1967 - Scott Coffey, HI, actor (Satisfaction, Shout)
1967 - Tawni Cable, Salem Oregon, playmate (June 1989)
1967 - Yael Arad, Israel, Women's half middleweight judoka (Oly-1996)
1967 - Tim McGraw, American musician
1968 - Anton Scheutjens, soccer player (Roda JC)
1968 - Lisa Campbell, Victoria Australia, badminton player (Olympics-96)
1968 - Mark Scott, Paramus NJ, rock drummer (Trixter-Give It To Me Good)
1968 - Denise Masino, American Female Bodybuilder
1968 - Oliver Bierhoff, German footballer
1968 - Sol Kyung-gu, South Korean actor
1968 - D'arcy Wretzky, American musician (The Smashing Pumpkins)
1969 - Billy Owens, NBA forward/guard (Sacramento Kings)
1969 - Bryan Marchment, Scarborough, NHL defenseman (Edmonton Oilers)
1969 - Carrie Stevens, Buffalo NY, playmate (June 1997)
1969 - Wes Anderson, American director and writer
1970 - Alex Van Pelt, NFL quarterback (Buffalo Bills)
1970 - Allen DeGraffenreid, WLAF wide receiver (Scotland Claymores)
1970 - Alundis Brice, NFL cornerback (Dallas Cowboys)
1970 - Damon Diletti, Australian field hockey goal keeper (Oly-silver-92, 96)
1971 - Ethan Albright, NFL tackle (Miami Dolphins, Buffalo Bills)
1971 - Jamie Marie Swenson, Miss USA-South Dakota (1997)
1971 - Renee Poetschka, Australian 200m/400m (Olympics-92, 96)
1971 - Stuart Appleby, Cohuna Australia, Nike golfer (1994 Victorian PGA)
1971 - Ajith Kumar, Indian film actor
1972 - Bobby Chouinard, Manilla Phillipines, pitcher (Oakland A's)
1973 - Curtis Martin, NFL running back (NE Patriots)
1973 - Frank Beede, NFL center (Seattle Seahawks)
1973 - Oliver Neuville, German footballer
1974 - Keri Phebus, Laguna Beach California, tennis star
1974 - Matthew Hatchette, NFL wide receiver (Minnesota Vikings)
1974 - Vladimir Zavyalov, hockey forward (Team Kazakhstan Olympics-1998)
1975 - Austin Croshere, NBA forward (Indiana Pacers)
1975 - Marc-Vivien Foé, Cameroonian footballer (d. 2003)
1975 - Jodhi May, London, British actress (A World Apart, The Other Boleyn Girl)
1975 - Alexei Smertin, Russian footballer
1976 - Darius McCrary, actor (Edward Winslow-Family Matters)
1977 - Anna Louise Wilson, Dunedin NZ, 100m breast stroke (Olympics-96)
1977 - Dan Regan, American musician (Reel Big Fish)
1977 - Vera Lischka, Austrian swimmer
1978 - Sachie Hara, Japanese actress
1979 - Jennifer Botterill, ice hockey forward (Canada, Oly-98)
1979 - Kimberly Grigsby, Miss Virginia Teen USA (1997)
1979 - Mauro Bergamasco, Italian rugby player
1979 - Ben Easter, American actor
1980 - Jan Heylen, Belgian racing driver
1980 - Ana Claudia Talancón, Mexican actress
1981 - Aliaksandr Hleb, Belarusian footballer
1981 - Derek Asamoah, Ghanaian Footballer
1981 - Wes Welker, American football player
1982 - Tommy Robredo, Spanish tennis player
1983 - The Human Tornado (Craig Williams), American professional wrestler
1984 - Alexander Farnerud, Swedish footballer
1984 - Keiichiro Koyama, Japanese musician (NEWS)
1984 - Farah Fath, American actress
1985 - Drew Sidora, American actress
1986 - Cristian Benítez, Ecuadorian footballer
1986 - Adam Casey, Australian footballer
1987 - Shahar Pe'er, Israeli tennis player
1987 - Matt Di Angelo, English Actor
1988 - Graeme Owens, English footballer
1991 - Creagen Dow, American actor
1997 - Ariel Gade, American actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 01, 2013, 09:14:43 AM

This Day in History for 1st May


Famous Deaths

408 - Arcadius, Eastern Roman emperor (b. 337/338)
1118 - Edith of Scotland, first wife of Henry I of England (b. c. 1080)
1171 - Dermot MacMurrough, last Irish King of Leinster, dies
1240 - Jacques de Vitry, Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati and dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals
1277 - Stefanus IV Uros I de Great, King of Serbia (1243-76), dies
1308 - Albrecht I van Habsburg, German King (1298-1308), murdered
1447 - Louis VII, Duke of Baveria (1413-43), dies
1456 - Hugues de Lannoy, Flemish viceroy of Holland/Zealand, dies
1471 - Thomas a Kempis, spiritual writer (Navolging of Christ), dies at 91
1539 - Isabella of Portugal, queen of Spain and empress of Germany (b. 1503)
1555 - Marcellus II, [Marcello Cervini], Italian Pope (1555), dies at 53
1572 - Pius V, [Antonio Ghislieri], great-inquisiteur/Pope (1566-72), dies
1679 - Esaias Reusner, composer, dies at 43
1700 - John Dryden, English poet/playwright (Rival Ladies), dies
1703 - Kiva Yoshinaka, Japanese monarch, murdered
1731 - Johann Ludwig Bach, German composer (b. 1677)
1738 - Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Carlisle, English statesman (b. c. 1669)
1772 - Gottfried Achenwall, German lawyer/statistics/economist, dies at 52
1813 - Jean-Baptiste Bessières, French marshal (killed in combat) (b. 1768)
1831 - Antonius van Alphen, apostle vicar of De Bosch, dies at 82
1863 - Edward Dorr Tracy, US Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 29
1870 - Francisco Solano Lopez, fieldmarshal/president of Paraguay
1872 - Amalia, princess of Weimar/wife of prince Hendrik the Navigator, dies
1873 - David Livingstone, British physician/explorer (Africa), dies at 60
1874 - Vilem Blodek, composer, dies at 39
1886 - Conrad Busken Huet, writer (Country of Rubens)
1886 - Heinrich Franz Daniel Stiehl, composer, dies at 56
1892 - Willem A Scholten, manufacturer (potatoes), dies at 89
1896 - Nasr-ed-Din, shah of Persia (184.-96), murdered at 65
1898 - Alphonse Wauters, Belgian historian, dies at 81
1899 - Ludwig Büchner, German philosopher and physician (b. 1824)
1902 - John Glover, English chemist (production sulfuric acid), dies at 85
1903 - Arthur Haygarth, cricketer (compiler of "Scores & Biographies"), dies
1903 - Luigi Arditi, violist/composer, dies at 80
1904 - AntonínDvorak, Czech composer (Slavic Dancing), dies at 62
1904 - Antonín Dvořák, Czech composer (b. 1841)
1913 - John Barclay Armstrong, Texas Ranger and U.S. Marshal (b. 1850)
1917 - Jose E Rodo, Uruguayan writer (Motivos de proteo), dies
1921 - Louis Campbell-Tipton, composer, dies at 43
1924 - August Cuppens, Flemish author (Limburgs Driemanschap), dies at 62
1926 - Nicolaus Adriani, translator (Middle-Celebes Language), dies at 60
1932 - Paul Doumer, Pres France (1931-32), assassin by Russia's Paul Gargalov
1934 - Alexander Alexandrovich Davidenko, composer, dies at 35
1935 - Henri Pélissier, French cyclist (b. 1889)
1937 - Snitz Edwards, actor (Phantom of the Opera, College), dies at 75
1941 - John R Locksmith de Brown, vicar/CHU-politician, dies at 71
1943 - Johan Oscar Smith, Norweigian Christian leader and founder of Smith's Friends (b.1871)
1945 - Desider Antalffy-Zsiross, Hungarian organist/composer, dies at 59
1945 - Paul Josef Goebbels, Nazi minister on propoganda, commits suicide
1946 - Edward Cuthbert Bairstow, composer, dies at 71
1946 - Percy William Whitlock, composer, dies at 42
1947 - Sanner, leader of Norger blood bath, executed
1948 - Christos Ladas, Greek minister of Justice, murdered
1952 - William Fox, [Fried], US film pioneer (Nickelodeon), dies at 73
1954 - Tom Tyler, actor (Lost Ranch, Coyote Trails), dies at 50
1957 - Grant Mitchell, actor (Great Lie, Laura, Cairo, Conflict), dies at 82
1959 - Oscar Torp, Norwegian premier, dies
1963 - Lope K. Santos, Filipino writer, Father of the Philippine National Language and Grammar (b.
           1879)
1965 - Leo Spies, composer, dies at 65
1965 - Spike Jones, composer (Spike Jones Show), dies at 53
1968 - Harold G Nicolson, English author (English sense of humor), dies at 71
1968 - Jack Adams, Canadian ice hockey player, coach and general manager (b.1895)
1969 - Ella Logan, actress (52nd Street, Woman Chases Man), dies at 56
1969 - George Parker, cricketer (2 Tests for S Afr 1924), dies
1970 - Crown Prince Euimin, Crown Prince Korea (b. 1897)
1971 - Edith Day, actress (Romance of Air), dies at 75
1971 - Glenda Farrell, actress (Grand Slam, Exposed), dies at 66
1972 - Fernand Ansseau, Belgian operator (Orfeo), dies at 82
1976 - Rex O'Malley, actor (Camille, Zara, Midnight, Thief), dies at 75
1976 - Alexandros Panagoulis, Greek poet who fought the military junta in Greece (b. 1939)
1976 - T.R.M. Howard, civil rights leader, entrepreneur, surgeon (b. 1908)
1978 - Aram Katchaturian, Russian composer (The Earth), dies at 74
1979 - Berkeley Bertram McGarrell Gaskin, cricketer (2 Tests for WI), dies
1981 - Clarence A Bacote, historian/political scientist, dies at 75
1981 - Peter Huchel, writer, dies at 78
1982 - Gene Sheldon, actor (Bernardo-Zorro), dies at 72
1982 - William Primrose, Scottish violist (b. 1903)
1983 - V N Swamy, Indian cricket pace bowler (without distinction), dies
1984 - Gordon Jenkins, orchestra leader (NBC Comedy Hour), dies at 73
1985 - George Pravda, Czechoslovakian actor, dies at 68
1986 - Hylda Baker, English comedy actress (b. 1905)
1986 - Hugo Peretti, American songwriter and record producer (b. 1916)
1988 - Carroll Righter, astrologer, dies at 88 of postrate cancer
1988 - Paolo Stoppa, actor (Garibaldi, Visit, Freedom Fighters), dies
1989 - David Webster, South African white anti-apartheids activist, murdered
1989 - Douglass Watson, actor (Mac Cory-Another World), dies at 68
1989 - Marion Mack, actress (General), dies
1989 - Sally Kirkland, fashion editor at LIFE (b. 1912)
1990 - Sunset Carson, cowboy actor (El Paso Kid, Oregon Trail), dies at 62
1991 - Richard Thorpe, director (Jailhouse Rock, Night Must Fall), dies
1992 - Sharon Redd, American house music and urban contemporary singer (b. 1945)
1993 - Hans [Henri EA] Tuynman, provo (Full-time Provo), dies at 50
1993 - Ranasinghe Premadasa, pres (Sri Lanka, 1989-93), assassinated at 68
1994 - Ayrton Senna, Brazilian Grand prix driver, dies in crash at 34
1996 - Asher Wallfish, journalist, dies at 67
1996 - Ivo Rudolph Jarosy, film scholar/exhibitor, dies at 74
1996 - William Mitchell Byers, musician, dies on 79th birthday
1997 - Bebe, AKA Flipper, dolphin, dies at 40
1998 - Eldridge Cleaver, American activist (b. 1935)
2000 - Steve Reeves, American actor (b. 1926)
2003 - Miss Elizabeth, American wrestler (b. 1960)
2006 - Big Hawk, American rapper (b.1969)
2006 - Johnny Paris, American saxophonist (Johnny and the Hurricanes) (b. 1940)
2006 - Rob Lacey, Christian Author. (b. 1962)
2008 - Anthony Mamo, Malta's first President (b. 1909)
2008 - Deborah Jeane Palfrey, Washington, D.C. prostitution service owner (b. 1956)
2009 - Danny Gans, Canadian-born Las Vegas entertainer (b. 1956)
2010 - Rob McConnell, Canadian jazz composer/arranger and valve trombonist (b. 1935)
2011 - Ted Lowe, English snooker commentator (b. 1920)
2012 - Charles "skip" Pitts, American soul and blues guitarist, dies from lung cancer at 65

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 02, 2013, 11:29:32 AM

This Day in History for 2nd May


Historical Events

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Playwright George Bernard Shaw                Jazz Singer Ella Fitzgerald                    Playwright Arthur Miller

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Playwright Tennessee Williams               Country Singer Kenny Rogers                   264th Pope John Paul II

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Businessman & T.V. Personality
Donald Trump


1194 - King Richard I of England gives Portsmouth its first Royal Charter.
1230 - William de Braose, 10th Baron Abergavenny is hanged by Prince Llywelyn the Great.
1335 - Otto the Merry, Duke of Austria, becomes Duke of Carinthia.
1345 - "Quaden Maendach" in Gent: Battles between volders & weavers
1497 - John Cabot departs to North-America
1526 - German evangelical monarchy joins Schmalkaldische League
1536 - King Henry VIII accused Anna Boleyn of adultery & incest
1595 - King Philip II names Albrecht of Austria land guardian of Neth
1598 - France & Spain signs Peace of Vervins
1668 - Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle/1st peace of Aken: ends War of Devolution, French-Spanish war in
           The Netherlands
1670 - King Charles II charters Hudson Bay Company
1672 - John Maitland becomes Duke of Lauderdale and Earl of March.
1703 - Portugal signs treaty with England to become a Great Covenant
1749 - Empress Maria Theresa signs "Haugwitzschen State reform"
1750 - Carlo Goldoni's "La Botega di Caffè," premieres in Mantua
1776 - France & Spain agreed to give weapons to American rebels
1780 - William Herschel discovers 1st binary star, Xi Ursae Majoris
1808 - Uprising against French occupation begins in Madrid
1824 - Goethe visits Ettersberg (Buchenwald)
1829 - After anchoring nearby, Captain Charles Fremantle of the HMS Challenger, declares the Swan
           River Colony in Australia.
1833 - Czar Nicolas bans public sale of serfs
1845 - Domingo Sarmiento publishes "Civilización y Barbarie"
1847 - Sabbath famine
1853 - Franconi's Hippodrome opens (NYC)
1863 - South defeats North in Battle of Chancellorsville, Va
1863 - Stonewall Jackson attacks Chancellorsville, wounded by his own men
1865 - Pres Johnson offers $100,000 reward for capture of Jefferson Davis
1866 - Peruvian defenders fight off Spanish fleet at the Battle of Callao.
1876 - Ross Barnes hit 1st home run in National League
1876 - The April Uprising breaks out in Bulgaria.
1878 - US stops minting 20 cent coin
1885 - "Good Housekeeping" magazine is 1st published
1885 - Congo Free State formed by King Leopold II of Belgium
1887 - G Rossini's corpse transfered to Santa Croce, Florence
1887 - Hannibal W Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film
1889 - Abyssinian emperor Menelik II/Italy signs Treaty of Wichale
1890 - Territory of Oklahoma created
1900 - George Bernard Shaws "You Never Can Tell," premieres in London
1903 - 29th Kentucky Derby: Hal Booker aboard Judge Himes wins in 2:09
1904 - 30th Kentucky Derby: Shorty Prior aboard Elwood wins in 2:08.50
1905 - French newspapers publish lists of Jules Vernes unpublished work
1906 - 32nd Kentucky Derby: Roscoe Troxler aboard Sir Huon wins in 2:08.8
1907 - Belgium Jules baron de Trooz forms Belgian government
1908 - 1908 "Take me out to the Ball Game registered for copyright.
1909 - Honus Wagner steals his way around bases in 1st inning against Cubs
1911 - French troops occupy Fès El Bali Morocco
1915 - Old Fordham Road in Bronx renamed Landing Road
1916 - US president Wilson signs Harrison Drug Act
1916 - 2nd Ave & Bronx Terrace renamed Bronx Blvd; Seward Pl renamed Sycamore Ave; Herald Ave
           renamed Dickinson Ave; Monroe & Selwyn Avenue named
1917 - Cin Fred Tooney & Chic's Hippo Vaughn pitch duel no-hitter, Vaughn gives up 2 hits & a run
           in 10th, so Cin wins 1-0
1918 - General Motors acquires the Chevrolet Motor Company of Delaware.
1919 - 1st US air passenger service starts
1920 - 1st game of National Negro Baseball League played in Indianapolis
1921 - Begin 3rd anti-German revolt in Upper-Silesia
1922 - WBAP-AM begins broadcasting from Fort Worth Texas
1923 - Senator Walter Johnson pitches his 100th shutout, beats Yanks 3-0
1924 - Netherlands refuses to recognize USSR
1925 - Kezar Stadium in SF's Golden Gate Park opens
1926 - US military intervenes in Nicaragua
1927 - Intl Economic Conference (52 countries including USSR) opens
1927 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Louis Bromfield (Early Autumn)
1928 - KPQ-AM in Wenatchee WA begins radio transmissions
1930 - Des Moines (Western League) defeats Wichita 13-6 to open 1st ballpark with permanently
           installed lights
1932 - Jack Benny's 1st radio show premieres (NBC Blue Network)
1932 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Pearl S Buck (Good Earth)
1933 - In Germany, Adolf Hitler bans trade unions
1934 - Nazi-Germany begins People's court
1936 - "Peter & Wolf" premieres in Moscow
1936 - 62nd Kentucky Derby: Ira Hanford aboard Bold Venture wins in 2:03.6
1936 - Emperor Haile Selassie & family flee Abyssinia
1938 - Ella Fitzgerald records "A-Tisket, A-Tasket"
1938 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Thornton Wilder (Our Town)
1939 - Lou Gehrig ends 2,130 consecutive game streak, Yanks beat Tigers 22-2
1941 - FCC approves regular scheduled coml TV broadcasts to begin July 1
1941 - Martin Bormann succeeds Rudolf Hess as Hitler's deputy
1941 - Nazi occupied Netherlands layoff Jewish journalists
1941 - Ted Williams lowest average (.308) in year he hit over .400
1942 - 68th Kentucky Derby: Wayne D Wright aboard Shut Out wins in 2:04.4
1942 - Japanese troops occupy Mandalay Burma
1943 - German troops vacate Jefna Tunisia
1944 - WABD (WNEW, now WNYW) TV channel 5 in NYC (DUM/MET/FOX) 1st broadcast
1945 - Allies occupy Wismar
1945 - Dutch Queen Wilhelmina & Princess Juliana reach Gilze-Rijen
1945 - German Army in Italy surrenders
1945 - Russia takes Berlin; General Weidling surrenders
1945 - Yugoslav troops occupy Trieste
1946 - Prisoners revolt at Alcatraz, 5 die
1946 - The "Battle of Alcatraz" takes place, killing two guards and three inmates.
1947 - Eugene O'Neill's "Moon for the Misbegotten," premieres in NYC
1949 - Arthur Miller wins Pulitzer Prize for "Death of a Salesman"
1949 - Bolivian state of siege proclaimed
1949 - Don Newcombe, 1st start, shuts out Cincinnati on 5 hits to win 3-0
1950 - Carlo Terrons "Giuditta," premieres in Milan
1950 - Dutch 1st Chamber accept Laws on immigration
1950 - Dutch PM Malan recognizes South-Africa but not China PR
1952 - 1st performance of John Cage's "Water Music"
1952 - 1st scheduled jet airliner passenger service began with a BOAC Comet
1952 - Operations begin at United Suriname Workers of Netherlands which flew from London to
           Johannesburg carrying 36 passengers
1953 - 79th Kentucky Derby: Hank Moreno aboard Dark Star wins in 2:02
1953 - Feisal II installed as king of Iraq
1953 - Hussein I installed as king of Jordan
1954 - Stan Musial hits 5 HRs in a doubleheader
1955 - India poses discrimination "onaanraakbaren" punishable
1955 - Pulitzer prize awarded Tennessee Williams for (Cat on Hot Tin Roof)
1955 - WGBH TV channel 2 in Boston, MA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1956 - US Lab detects high-temperature microwave radiation from Venus
1956 - US Methodist church disallows race separation
1958 - Yanks threaten to broadcast games nationwide if NL goes ahead with plans to broadcast,
           games into NYC
1959 - 85th Kentucky Derby: Bill Shoemaker aboard Tomy Lee wins in 2:02.2
1960 - Harry Belafonte 2nd Carnegie Hall performance
1960 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Al Drury (Advice & Consent)
1960 - "American Bandstand's" Dick Clark
1960 - House investigating committee, looking into payola questions
1962 - Benfica wins 7th Europe Cup I
1962 - OAS strikes in Algeria
1962 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1962 - WMHT TV channel 17 in Schenectady-Alby-Tro, NY (PBS) 1st broadcast
1964 - 90th Kentucky Derby: Bill Hartack aboard Northern Dancer wins in 2:00
1964 - Beatles' "Beatles' 2nd Album" goes #1 & stays #1 for for 5 weeks
1964 - Mad Dog Vachon beats Verne Gagne in Omaha, to become NWA champ
1964 - First ascent of Shishapangma the fourteenth highest mountain in the world and the lowest of
           the Eight-thousanders.
1965 - "New Faces of 1965" opens at Booth Theater NYC for 52 performances
1965 - Early Bird satellite goes into commercial service
1965 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Golf Invitational
1965 - Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Open
1966 - Pulitzer prize awarded Arthur M Schlesinger Jr (Thousand Days)
1967 - Stanley Cup: Toronto Maple Leafs beat Montreal Canadiens, 4 games to 2
1968 - 1st performance of Roger Sessions' 8th Symphony
1968 - 22nd NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat LA Lakers, 4 games to 2
1968 - Gold reaches then record high ($39.35 per ounce) in London
1968 - Israeli television begins transmitting
1969 - British liner Queen Elizabeth II leaves on maiden voyage to NY
1970 - 1st woman jockey at Kentucky Derby (Diane Crump)
1970 - 96th Kentucky Derby: Mike Manganello on Dust Commander wins 2:03.4
1970 - KOAI (now KNAZ) TV channel 2 in Flagstaff, AZ (NBC) 1st broadcast
1971 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
1972 - Electrical fire in Sunshine Silver mine. 126 die (Kellogg Idaho)
1972 - Lt General Vernon A Walters, USA, becomes deputy director of CIA
1972 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1974 - Former VP Spiro Agnew disbarred
1975 - Apple records closes down
1976 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Lady Tara Golf Classic
1977 - "King & I" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 719 performances
1978 - NBA championship: Portland Trailblazers win in 4 games
1979 - "Quadrophenia" premieres in London
1979 - -May 10] Vivekananda (Sri Lanka) begins nonstop ride, cycling 187 hrs, 28 min, around
           Vihara Maha Devi Park, Colombo, Sri Lanka
1979 - 14th Academy of Country Music Awards: Kenny Rogers & Barbara Mandrell
1980 - Joseph Doherty & 3 other IRA men arrested for murder
1980 - Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in Wall (Part II)" is banned in South Africa
1980 - Pope John Paul II begins African tour
1980 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1981 - 107th Kentucky Derby: Jorge Velasquez on Pleasant Colony wins in 2:02
1981 - Radio Shack re-releases Model III TRSDOS 1.3 with 2 fixes
1982 - Beth Daniel wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic
1982 - Falklands War: Argentine cruiser General Belgrano sunk by British submarine Conqueror,
           killing more than 350 men
1983 - 6.7 earthquake injures 487 in Coalinga Calif
1984 - "Sunday in the Park with George" opens at Booth NYC for 604 perfs
1984 - Indians' Andre Thornton ties record for most walks (6 in 16 inn)
1984 - Mattingly's single breaks up Lamarr Hoyt's perfect game bid
1984 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1985 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1986 - Dynamo Kiev wins 26th Europe Cup II
1986 - Transportation Expo 86 opens in Vancouver, BC
1987 - 113th Kentucky Derby: Chris McCarron aboard Alysheba wins in 2:03.4
1988 - Balt Orioles sign a 15 year lease to remain in Balt & get a new park
1988 - David Mamet's "Speed-the-Plow," premieres in NYC
1988 - Jackson Pollock's "Search" sold for $4,800,000
1988 - Reds manager Pete Rose is suspended for 30 days for pushing an ump
1990 - "Some Americans Abroad" opens at Vivian Beaumont NYC for 62 perfs
1990 - South Africa & African National Congress open talks to end apartheid
1991 - Pope John Paul II's encyclical on Centesimus annus
1992 - "High Rollers Social & Pleasure Club" opens at H Hayes NYC 14 perfs
1992 - 118th Kentucky Derby: Pat Day aboard Lil E Tee wins in 2:03
1992 - Yugoslav Army seize Bosnian Pres Alija Izetbegovic
1993 - "5 Guys Named Moe" closes at Eugene O'Neill NYC after 445 perfs
1993 - "Candida" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 45 performances
1993 - "Redwood Curtain" closes at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC after 40 perfs
1993 - "Tango Passion" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 5 performances
1993 - Kristi Albers wins Sprint Golf Classic
1993 - Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Sprint Senior Challenge Golf Tournament
1994 - Bus crashes into a tree at Gdansk Poland, 30 killed
1994 - Dr Kervokian found innocent on assisting suicides
1994 - Michael Bolton found plagurized Isley Bros "Love is Wonderful Thing"
1994 - in Poland bus disaster 32 people died.
1995 - "Hamlet" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 121 performances
1995 - Expos bat out of order against Mets in 6th inning
1995 - Serb missiles exploded in the heart of Zagreb, killing six
1997 - Donald Trump & Marla Maples announce they are separating
1997 - Mercury Mail announces its 1 millionth internet subscriber
1997 - Police arrest transsexual hooker Atisone Seiuli with Eddie Murphy
1997 - Republic of Texas security chief Robert Scheidt surrenders
1998 - 124th Kentucky Derby
1998 - The European Central Bank is founded in Brussels in order to define and execute the
           European Union's monetary policy.
1999 - Panamanian election, 1999: Mireya Moscoso becomes the first woman to be elected President
           of Panama.
2000 - Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet of the Netherlands unveils the Man With Two Hats
           monument in Apeldoorn and the other in Ottawa on May 11, 2000. Symbolically linking both
           Netherlands and Canada for their assistance throughout World War II.
2000 - President Bill Clinton announces that accurate GPS access would no longer be restricted to
           the United States military.
2002 - Marad massacre of eight Hindus near Palakkad in Kerala.
2004 - Yelwa massacre of more than 630 nomad Muslims by Christians in Nigeria.
2008 - Cyclone Nargis makes landfall in Myanmar killing over 130,000 people and leaving millions of
           people homeless.
2011 - Osama bin Laden, the suspected mastermind behind the September 11 attacks and the FBI's
           most wanted man is killed by the United States special forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
2011 - The 2011 E. coli O104:H4 outbreak strikes Europe, mostly in Germany, leaving more than 30
           people dead and many others sick from the bacteria outbreak.
2012 - Edvard Munch's famous painting 'The Scream' sells at auction for $119,922,500
2012 - Barcelona football player Lionel Messi breaks the European goal-scoring record with 68 goals

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 02, 2013, 11:43:48 AM

This Day in History for 2nd May


Famous Weddings

1652 - Daughter of the Prince of Orange, Albertine Agnes marries William Frederick Prince of Nassau-
           Dietz
1816 - Léopold (Léopold I)of Saxe-Coburg, 1st King of Belgium following independence from the
           Netherlands marries British Princess Charlotte Augusta
1922 - Dancer Isadora Duncan (44) weds Sergei Esenin (26)
1946 - "Rebecca" actress Joan Fontaine (28) weds producer and actor William Dozier (38)
1998 - Actor-comedian Jim Belushi (43) weds Jennifer Sloan (30) at their home garden in Brentwood,
           Los Angeles
2009 - Actress Maggie Gyllenhaal (32) weds film and stage actor Peter Sarsgaard (38) in a small
           chapel in Brindisi, Italy

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 02, 2013, 11:58:54 AM

This Day in History for 2nd May


Famous Birthdays

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Empress of Russia                                   Fighter Ace The Red Baron             Actor & Professional Wrestler The Rock
Catherine the Great (1729)                   (Manfred von Richthofen) (1892)                  (Dwayne Johnson) (1972)

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Recording Artist & Fashion Designer
Lily Allen (1985)


1360 - Yongle, Emperor of China (d. 1424)
1451 - René II, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1508)
1458 - Leonor of Viseu, queen of Portugal (d. 1525)
1551 - William Camden, English historian (Brittania, Annales)
1601 - Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit/inventor (magic lantern)
1660 - Pietro Alessandro Gaspare Scarlatti, Palermo Italy, composer (Tigrane)
1695 - Giovanni Niccolo Servandoni, Italian-born architect (d. 1766)
1702 - Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, German theologian (d. 1782)
1729 - Catherine the Great [Catherine II], Stettin, Pomerania, Kingdom of Prussia, Empress of Russia
           (1762-96)
1729 - Florian Johann Deller, composer
1737 - William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1805)
1740 - Elias Boudinot, lawyer/patriot, found American Biblical Society
1750 - John André, British Army officer of the American Revolutionary War (d. 1780)
1752 - Ludwig August Lebrun, composer
1754 - Vicente Martin y Soler, composer
1768 - Jean-Louis M Alibert, French dermatologist
1772 - Novalis, writer
1773 - Henrik Steffens, Norwegian philosopher (d. 1845)
1779 - John Galt, Scotland, novelist (Ayrshire Legatees, Lawrie Todd)
1810 - Hans Christian Lumbye, composer
1810 - Leo XIII, 257th Roman Catholic pope (1878-1903)
1817 - Zikmund Michal Kolesovsky, composer
1821 - Abram Sanders Piatt, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1908
1828 - Désiré Charnay, French archaeologist (d. 1915)
1837 - Henry Martyn Robert, parliamentarian (Robert's Rules of Order)
1843 - Carl Michael Ziehrer, composer
1844 - Elijah McCoy, black inventor, held over 50 patents
1846 - Zygmunt Noskowski, composer
1853 - Marie Verstraete, actress (Louise-Frou Frou)
1855 - Theodore Moses Tobani, composer
1857 - Frederic Cliffe, composer
1859 - Eugene D'Harcourt, composer
1859 - Jerome Klapka Jerome, English writer (d. 1927)
1860 - D'Arcy Thompson, zoologist/classicist (On Growth & Form)
1860 - Theodor Herzl, Austria, journalist/founder (Zionist movement)
1862 - Marie F M Emmanuel, French composer/musicologist (Salamine)
1865 - Clyde Fitch, American playwright (d. 1909)
1869 - Tyrone Power Sr, London England, actor (Alexanders Ragtime Band)
1872 - G G van der Hoeven, Dutch editor-in-chief (NRC)
1879 - James F. Byrnes, American statesman, and Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1972)
1884 - Francois de Vries, Dutch economist
1885 - Hedda Hopper, American gossip columnist (d. 1966)
1886 - Gottfried Benn, writer
1887 - Edward Collins, NY, Hall of Fame baseball infielder (White Sox, A's)
1887 - Vernon Castle, English dancer (d. 1918)
1890 - E[dward] E[lmer] "Doc" Smith, US, sci-fi author (Triplanetary). Died 1965
1892 - Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen [The Red Baron], Breslau, German World War I fighter ace
1893 - Beppie Nooij Jr, Dutch actress (Rooie Sien) [or May 13, 1912]
1895 - Alfred Kurella, writer
1895 - Peggy Bacon, Ridgefield Ct, author/illustrator (Off With Their Heads)
1895 - Lorenz Hart, American lyricist (d. 1943)
1896 - Helen of Greece and Denmark, queen of Romania (d. 1982)
1897 - J. Fred Coots, American songwriter (d. 1985)
1898 - Jef [Josephus C F] Last, Dutch poet/politician (The Spark)
1900 - Helen Morgan, singer/actress (Applause, Frankie & Johnny)
1901 - Bob Wyatt, cricketer (England batsman 1927-37)
1901 - Lev N Lunts, Russia, writer (Outside the Law, City of Truth)
1901 - Robert Elliott Storey Wyatt, cricketer
1901 - Willi Bredel, writer
1902 - Brian Aherne, Worcestershire England, actor (Juarez)
1902 - Erin O'Brien-Moore, LA CA, actress (Peyton Place, Our Little Girl)
1903 - Benjamin Spock, CT, pediatrician (Common Sense Book of Baby Care)
1903 - Oivin Fjeldstad, composer
1904 - Georgi Dimitrov, composer
1906 - Aileen Riggin, Newport RI, springboard diver (Olympic-gold-1920, 24)
1906 - Maurice Thiriet, composer
1906 - Philippe Halsman, American photographer (d. 1979)
1907 - Pinky Lee, children's show host (Pinky Lee Show)
1908 - William Bakewell, LA California, actor (Stage manager-Pinky Lee Show)
1910 - Laurie Nash, cricketer (Tasmanian fast-bowler, 2 Tests for Australia)
1910 - Alexander Bonnyman, U.S. Marine (d. 1943)
1911 - Lillian Rambach, teacher violinist
1912 - Axel Springer, German newspaper magnate
1912 - Marten Toonder, writer/cartoonist (Mr Bommel)
1913 - Nigel Patrick, London Engld, actor/director (Sapphire, Prize of Gold)
1914 - Dennis Dyer, cricketer (opened batting for South Africa v England 1947)
1915 - Jan Hanus, composer
1915 - Van Alexander, NYC, orchestra leader (Gordon MacRae Show)
1915 - Doris Fisher, American songwriter (d. 2003)
1915 - Peggy Mount, English actress (d. 2001)
1917 - Albert Castelyns, Belgian water polo player and bobsledder
1918 - Frederick Archibauld Warner, diplomat
1919 - Than Wyenn, NYC, actor (Pete Kelly's Blues)
1920 - Jacob Gilboa, composer
1920 - Jean-Marie Auberson, Swiss conductor (d. 2004)
1920 - Otto Buchsbaum, Austrian writer and ecological activist (d. 2000)
1921 - Satyajit Ray, Calcutta India, director (Goddess, Adversary)
1922 - Abraham Rosenthal, editor (NY Times)
1923 - Christina Spierenburg, Dutch singer
1924 - Aafje Heynis, Dutch singer
1924 - Theodore Bikel, Austrian/US folk singer/actor (Russians Are Coming)
1924 - Jamal Abro, Sindhi writer (d. 2004)
1925 - David Ironside, cricketer (S Afr swing bowler in 3 Tests v NZ 1953-54)
1925 - Roscoe Lee Browne, Woodbury NJ, actor (McCoy, Saunders-Soap)
1925 - Svatopluk Havelka, composer
1925 - John Neville, English theatre and film actor
1926 - Gérard D. Lévesque, Quebec politician (d. 1993)
1927 - Ray Barrett, Australian actor
1929 - Edward Levy Irving, composer
1929 - Luc Ferrari, composer
1929 - Sydney Gedye, cricketer (opening batsman in four Tests for NZ 1964)
1929 - Link Wray, American guitarist (d. 2005)
1930 - Marco Pannella, Italian politician and activist
1931 - Phil Bruns, American actor and writer (Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman), (d. 2012)
1932 - Bruce Glover, Chicago Ill, actor (Diamonds are Forever)
1932 - Kees de Galan, Dutch economist
1932 - Malcolm Leyland Lipkin, composer
1932 - Maury Allen, American sportswriter
1933 - Bunk Gardner, rocker (Mothers Of Invention)
1935 - Faisal II, King of Iraq (1939-58)/son of Ghasi I
1935 - Hussain ibn Talal, King of Jordan (1952- )
1935 - Link Wray, rocker (Link Wray & His Ray Men)
1935 - Lance LeGault, American actor, (d. 2012)
1935 - Luis Suárez Miramontes, Spanish footballer and manager
1936 - Michael Rabin, NYC, violinist (In Memorium)
1936 - Quinn Redeker, Woodstock Ill, actor (Dan Raven, Young & Restless)
1937 - Gisela Elsner, writer
1937 - Lorenzo Music, Bkln NY, writer/actor/voice (Carlton-Rhoda, Garfield)
1938 - Constantine Bereng Seeiso, king Moshushoe II of Lesotho
1938 - Chief Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho (d. 1996)
1939 - Sumio Iijima, Japanese physicist
1940 - Bryan Davis, cricketer (bro of Charlie WI batsman v Australia 1965)
1940 - Sari van Heemskerck Pillis-Duvekot, Dutch MP (VVD)
1941 - Jules Wijdenbosch, premier Suriname
1941 - Clay Carroll, American baseball player
1942 - Jacques Rogge, Belgian International Olympic Committee president
1944 - F Innerhofer, writer
1944 - John Verity, rocker (Argent)
1945 - Bianca Perez Morena de Macias Jagger, Nicaragua, model and socialite
1945 - Bob Henrit, English pop drummer (Kinks-Waterloo Sunset)
1945 - Goldy McJohn, rocker (Steppenwolf)
1945 - Randy Cain, US soul singer (4 Gents/Delfonics)
1945 - Robert Henrit, England, rocker (Argent)
1945 - Sarah Weddington, American attorney
1945 - Judge Dread, English musician (d. 1998)
1946 - Lesley Gore, Tenafly NJ, singer (It's My Party)
1946 - David Suchet, English actor
1947 - Bill Lowery, (Rep-R-CA, 1981- )
1948 - Larry Gatlin, Seminole Tx, country singer (Gatlin Bros-Broken Lady)
1949 - Joey Phillips, percussionist (Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover)
1950 - Lou Gramm, Rochester NY, rocker (Foreigner-Want to Know What Love Is)
1950 - Duncan Gay, Australian politician
1952 - Christine Baranski, Buffalo NY, actress (Maryann-Cybill, Birdcage)
1952 - Mari Natsuki, Japanese singer, dancer and actress
1953 - "Keith" Jamaal Wilkes, NBA forward (Golden State-Rookie of Yr 1975)
1954 - Bulelani T Ngcuka, South African attorney/leader (UDF)
1954 - Roberta Pedon, American glamour model (d. 1982)
1955 - Ian Callen, cricketer (one Test Australia v India 1978, six wickets)
1955 - Jay Osmond, rocker (Osmond Brothers)
1955 - Joe Callis, rocker
1956 - David Rhodes, English guitarist
1957 - Domonic L Pudwill Gorie, Lake Charles LA, USN/astronaut (sk: STS-91)
1958 - Kim Jones, Sonoma California, 5k runner
1959 - Alan Best, Canadian animation director and producer
1960 - Ravi Ratnayeke, cricketer (Sri Lankan pace bowler & opening batsman)
1961 - Doctor Robert, [Bruce R Howard], rocker (Blow Monkeys-Wicked Ways)
1961 - Peter Doohan, Australia, tennis star
1961 - Phil Vickery, English celebrity chef
1962 - Elizabeth Berridge, Westchester NY, actress (Amadeus, Funhouse)
1962 - Nancy Harvey, Swift Current Sask, LPGA golfer (1995 Youngstown-11th)
1962 - Stephen Daldry, English film director
1962 - Ray Traylor, American professional wrestler (d. 2004)
1962 - Jimmy White, English snooker player
1963 - Brian Tochi, LA California, actor (Dr Alan Poe-St Elsewhere, Renegades)
1963 - Jos van Eck, Dutch soccer player (Sparta)
1963 - Kenton Leonard, CFL cornerback (Calgary Stampeders)
1964 - Kelly Michael Gibson, New Orleans LA, PGA golfer (1995 Bob Hope-7th)
1966 - Belinda Stronach, Canadian politician
1967 - Kerryn McCann, Australian marathoner (Olympics-96)
1968 - Reggie Slack, CFL quarterback (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1968 - Will Furrer, WLAF quarterback (Amsterdam Admirals)
1968 - Midorikawa Hikaru, Japanese voice actor
1968 - Jeff Agoos, American soccer player
1968 - Ziana Zain, Malaysian singer and actress
1969 - Brian Lara, cricketer (WI left-hand bat Smashed world records in 1994)
1969 - Glen Young, NFL linebacker (San Diego Chargers)
1970 - Vania Thomas, Miss US Virgin Islands Universe (1997)
1971 - Greg Bishop, NFL guard (NY Giants)
1972 - Erik Maes, Dutch soccer player (MVV)
1972 - Jennifer Miriam, Oklahoma City OK, playmate (March, 1997)
1972 - Jill Savery, Fort Lauderdale Fl, synchronized swimmer (Olympics-gold-96)
1972 - Peter Ogilvie, Vancouver BC, 100m sprinter (Olympics-96)
1972 - Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, American professional wrestler and actor
1972 - Paul Adcock, English footballer
1973 - Rich Yurkiewicz, NFL/WLAF linebacker (Atlanta Falcons, Amst Admirals)
1973 - Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, German film director and screenwriter
1974 - Miles Joseph, West Springfield Mass, soccer forward (Olympics-gold-96)
1974 - Garðar Thór Cortes, Icelandic tenor
1974 - Andy Johnson, Welsh footballer
1975 - Mark Johnson, Dayton Ohio, baseball pitcher (Olympics-bronze-96)
1975 - Murray William Burdan, Wellington NZ, swimmer (Olympics-96)
1976 - Ailleen Damiles, Miss Universe-Philippines/Miss Photogenic (1996)
1976 - Nancy Feber, Antwerp Belgium, tennis star
1977 - Amy D'Entremont, Stoneham Mass, figure skater (1995 NE Jr champ)
1977 - Jenna Von Oy, actress (Seven-Blossom)
1977 - Fredrik Malm, Swedish politician
1977 - Luke Hudson, American baseball player
1978 - Steve Bays, Canadian musician
1979 - Jason Chimera, Canadian ice hockey player
1979 - Roman Lyashenko, Russian ice hockey player (d. 2003)
1980 - Tim Borowski, German footballer
1980 - Miloš Glogovac, Serbian footballer
1980 - Pierre-Luc Gagnon, Canadian skateboarder
1980 - Zat Knight, English footballer
1980 - Troy Murphy, American basketball player
1980 - Brad Richards, Canadian ice hockey player
1981 - Matt Murray, English footballer
1981 - Chris Kirkland, English footballer
1982 - Lorie, French singer
1983 - Christa Rigozzi, Swiss model
1984 - Saulius Mikoliūnas, Lithuanian footballer
1984 - Thabo Sefolosha, American basketball player
1985 - Kyle Busch, American race car driver
1985 - Lily Allen, English singer and songwriter
1985 - Sarah Hughes, American figure skater
1985 - David Nugent, English footballer
1985 - Jarrod Saltalamacchia, American baseball player
1986 - James Kirk, Canadian actor
1987 - Nana Kitade, Japanese singer
1988 - Lara Liang, Taiwanese-American Singer
1990 - Kay Panabaker, American actor
1995 - Kelsey Lewis, American actress
2000 - Angel Sy, Filipina child actor

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 02, 2013, 12:10:49 PM

This Day in History for 2nd May


Famous Deaths

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Painter, Scientist & Visionary                     First Director of the FBI                      Islamic Militant & Terrorist 
Leonardo da Vinci (1519)                             J Edgar Hoover (1972)                        Osama bin Laden (2011)


373 - Athanasius, Patriarch of Alexandria (b. 298)
649 - Maruta of Tagrit, theology/1st mafriaan Jakobitische church, dies
756 - Emperor Shōmu, Emperor of Japan (b. 701)
907 - Boris I of Bulgaria
1230 - William de Braose, Lord of Abergavenny (b. 1197)
1250 - Toeransa, sultan of Egypt, murdered
1300 - Blanche of Artois, regent of Navarre (b. 1248)
1450 - William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English military leader (b. 1396)
1459 - Pierozzi Antoninus, Italian archbishop of Florence/saint, dies
1488 - Jacob van Horne, Burgundy statesman, dies
1519 - Leonardo Da Vinci, artist/scientist, dies at 67
1564 - Cardinal Rodolfo Pio da Carpi, Italian humanist (b. 1500)
1567 - Marin Drzic, Croatian playwright (Dundo Maroje), dies
1627 - Lodovico Grossi da Viadana, Italian composer (b. 1560)
1667 - George Wither, English writer (b. 1588)
1669 - Pieter Jansz Post, master builder (Waag, Gouda), dies at 61
1683 - Stjepan Gradić, Croatian philosopher and scientist (b. 1613)
1685 - Adriaen van Ostade, Dutch painter, buried
1711 - Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester, English statesman (b. 1641)
1727 - Paul Aler, French jesuit/poet (Gradus ad Parnassum), dies at 70
1736 - Albert Seba, Amsterdam pharmacist, dies at 71
1799 - Henri-Joseph Rigel, composer, dies at 58
1802 - Herman Willem Daendels, Dutch statesman (b. 1762)
1810 - Rev. Dr. Henry Jerome de Salis, divine (b.1740)
1818 - Herman W Daendels, governor-gen of Guinea (1815-18), dies at 55
1819 - Mary Moser, English painter (b. 1744)
1845 - August Pauly, German writer (Real Encyclopedia), dies at 48
1849 - David H Chasse, baron/gen (fought Napoleon at Waterloo), dies at 84
1857 - LC Alfred the Musset, French poet (Lesson caprices Marianne), dies
1864 - Giacomo Meyerbeer, composer, dies at 72
1892 - Wilhelm Rust, composer, dies at 69
1897 - William Cleaver Francis Robinson, composer, dies at 63
1919 - Gustav Landauer, German socialist, dies
1927 - Ernest Starling, British physiologist (b. 1866)
1937 - Arthur Somervell, composer, dies at 73
1945 - Martin Bormann, propoganda minister for Hitler, dies
1945 - Ludwig Stumpfegger, German SS doctor (b. 1910)
1945 - Joe Corbett, baseball player (b. 1875)
1947 - Dorothea Binz, Nazi war criminal (b. 1920)
1954 - Pauline de Cock-Manifarges, singer, dies at 82
1955 - Tadeusz Jarecki, composer, dies at 66
1957 - Joseph McCarthy, commie hunting senator (R-Wisc), dies at 47
1957 - Tadeusz Zygfryd Kassern, composer, dies at 53
1958 - Alfred Weber, German economist/sociologist, dies at 89
1960 - Caryl Chessman, rapist executed after 12 years of appeals at 39
1961 - J C White, cricketer (49 wickets in 15 Tests for Engld 1921-31), dies
1963 - Jack Crawford, cricketer (469 runs & 39 wickets in 12 Tests), dies
1963 - Tomas Vackar, composer, dies at 17
1963 - Van Wyck Brooks, US historian (Ordeal of Mark Twain), dies at 77
1964 - Nancy N Witcher Astor, US/Eng feminist/ex of Waldorf Astor, dies
1968 - Donald L Hall, airplane designer (Spirit of St Louis), dies at 69
1969 - Franz JHMM von Papen, German chancellor (1932), dies at 89
1972 - Hugo Hartung, writer, dies at 69
1972 - J Edgar Hoover, first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (1924-72) dies at 77
1973 - Alan Carney, actor (Herbie-Take it from Me), dies at 61
1979 - Giulio Natta, Italian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
1980 - Clarrie Grimmett, cricket (36 Tests for Australia, 216 wickets), dies
1980 - George Pál, Hungarian-born film director (b. 1908)
1982 - Helmut Dantine
1982 - Hugh Marlowe, actor (Jim Matthews-Another World), dies at 71
1983 - Marius F Duintjer, architect, dies
1983 - Norm Van Brocklin, American football star (b. 1926)
1984 - Jack Barry, game show emcee (Joker's Wild), dies at 66
1984 - Piet van Aken, Flemish writer (Failing God, Niggers), dies at 64
1985 - Hal LeRoy, dancer/actor (Harold Teen), dies at 71 after surgery
1985 - Milton S Eisenhower, US diplomat, dies at 85
1985 - Attilio Bettega, Italian rallydriver (b.1951)
1985 - Larry Clinton, American trumpeter and bandleader (b. 1909)
1986 - Henri Toivonen, Finnish rallydriver (b.1956)
1989 - Giuseppe Siri, Italian Catholic Cardinal (b. 1906)
1989 - Veniamin Kaverin, Russian writer (b. 1902)
1990 - David Rappaport, 3'11' actor (Wizard, LA Law), shoots himself at 38
1990 - Oleg Anatolyevich Yakovlev, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 49
1990 - William Levi Dawson, composer, dies at 90
1991 - Hal Bell, dies at 65
1991 - Leib Lensky, dies at 82
1991 - Ronald McKie, Australian author (b. 1909)
1992 - Joey Cuevas, dancer, dies at 34
1992 - Lee Salk, baby doctor/author, dies of cardiac arrest at 65
1992 - Margareth Wallmann, Austrian opera director, dies at 88
1992 - Philip Dunne, screenwriter, dies of cancer at 84
1992 - Wilbur Mills, (Rep-D-Ark)/involved with Fanne Foxe, dies at 82
1993 - Julio Gallo, wine maker (Gallo), dies in a car accident at 82
1993 - WLPM, the Short, Dutch MP (KVP, 1945-73), dies at 83
1993 - Will Weng, Sunday Times crossword puzzle editor (1968-78), dies at 86
1994 - Louis Calaferte, writer (Requiem of the Innocents), dies at 65
1994 - Wilson Charles Geoffery Baldwin, hero, dies at 75
1995 - Michael Hordern, English actor (b. 1911)
1996 - Arthur Leslie Noel Douglas Houghton, civil servant, dies at 97
1996 - Emile Habibi, writer, dies at 73
1996 - Peter John Swales, football club chairman, dies at 63
1997 - Paulo Freire, Brazilian educator (b. 1921)
1998 - Gene Raymond, American actor (b. 1908)
1998 - Hideto "hide" Matsumoto, Japanese musician (b. 1964)
1998 - Justin Fashanu, English footballer (b. 1961)
1998 - Kevin Lloyd, British actor (b. 1949)
1999 - Oliver Reed, English actor (b. 1938)
2001 - Ted Rogers, British comedian (b. 1935)
2001 - Gina Mastrogiacomo, American actress (b. 1961)
2002 - John Nathan-Turner, English television producer (b. 1947)
2002 - W. T. Tutte, English-born codebreaker (b. 1917)
2005 - Kenneth B. Clark, American psychologist (b. 1914)
2005 - Wee Kim Wee, 4th President of Singapore (b. 1915)
2006 - Louis Rukeyser, American columnist (b. 1933)
2007 - Brad McGann, New Zealand film director and screenwriter (b. 1964)
2008 - Beverlee McKinsey, American actress (b. 1940)
2009 - Jack Kemp, former United States Congressman and 1996 Vice Presidential Candidate (b.
           1935)
2010 - Lynn Redgrave, British actress (b. 1943)
2011 - Osama bin Laden, leader of al-Qaeda and 'the most wanted man in the world' (b. 1957)
2012 - Junior Seau, NFL inside linebacker, commits suicide at 43

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 03, 2013, 02:08:30 PM

This Day in History for 3rd May


Historical Events

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Statesman/Philosopher                          Yankee Clipper Joe DiMaggio                  Author Margaret Mitchell
Francis Bacon

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Playwright Tennessee Williams                          Singer Tom Jones                     Jewish Victim & Diarist of the
                                                                                                                               Holocaust Anne Frank

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British Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher


1294 - John II becomes duke of Brabant/Limburg
1342 - Count Hartmann II becomes ruler of Vaduz (Liechtenstein)
1382 - Battle on Beverhoutsfield near Brugge
1455 - Jews flee Spain
1491 - Kongo monarch Nkuwu Nzinga is baptised by Portuguese missionaries, adopting the
           baptismal name of João I.
1494 - Jamaica discovered by Columbus; he names it "St Iago"
1512 - Pope Julius II opens 5th Council of Lateran at St. John Lateran Basilica in Rome
1515 - Persian Gulf: Portugese fleet occupies Ormuz
1616 - Treaty of Loudun kills French civil war
1621 - Francis Bacon accused of bribery
1624 - Spanish silver fleet sails to Panama
1629 - French huguenot leader duke De Rohan signs accord with Spain
1640 - English Upper house accept Act of Attainder
1654 - Bridge at Rowley Mass begins charging tolls for animals
1660 - Sweden, Poland, Brandenburg & Austria sign Peace of Oliva
1661 - Johannes Hevelius observes 3rd transit of Mercury ever to be seen
1662 - Royal charter granted Connecticut
1678 - French conquering fleet at Curacao, 1200 die
1715 - Edmund Halley observes total eclipse phenomenon "Baily's Beads"
1722 - Pierre de Marivaux' "La Double Inconstance," premieres in Paris
1747 - Willem IV appointed viceroy of Holland/Utrecht
1765 - 1st US medical college opens in Philadelphia
1791 - The Constitution of May 3 (the first modern constitution in Europe) is proclaimed by the Sejm
           of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
1802 - Washington, D.C. is incorporated as a city
1808 - Goya's "Executions of 3rd of May"
1808 - Finnish War: Sweden loses the fortress of Sveaborg to Russia.
1808 - Peninsular War: The Madrid rebels who rose up on May 2 are fired upon near Príncipe Pío hill.
1810 - Lord Byron swims Hellespont
1815 - Battle at Tolentino: Austria beats king Joachim of Naples
1822 - Society for Propagation of Faith starts (Lyon, France)
1830 - 1st regular steam train passenger service starts
1837 - The University of Athens is founded.
1845 - 1st black lawyer (Macon B Allen) admitted to bar (Mass)
1845 - Fire kills 1,600 in popular theater in Canton China
1846 - Mexican army surrounds fort in Texas
1849 - The May Uprising in Dresden begins - the last of the German revolutions of 1848.
1851 - Most of SF destroyed by fire; 30 die
1855 - Antwerp-Rotterdam railway opens
1860 - Charles XV of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden.
1861 - Gen Winfield Scott presents his Anaconda Plan for the North against the South in US Civil
           War
1861 - Lincoln asks for 42,000 Army Volunteers & another 18,000 seamen
1863 - Battle of Fredricksburg, VA (Marye's Heights)
1863 - Battle of Salem Church, VA
1864 - 3rd day in Battle at Alexandria Louisiana: Confederate assault
1867 - The Hudson's Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island.
1886 - M A Maclean elected 1st mayor of Vancouver, BC
1898 - Camp Merriman forms at Presidio (SF) (see 0517)
1900 - 26th Kentucky Derby: Jimmy Boland aboard Lieut Gibson wins in 2:06.25
1901 - Fire destroyed 1,700 buildings in Jacksonville, Florida
1902 - 28th Kentucky Derby: Jimmy Winkfield on Alan-a-Dale wins in 2:08.75
1903 - AVC Heracles (SC Heracles '74) soccer team forms in Almelo
1906 - British-controlled Egypt takes Sinai peninsula from Turkey
1909 - 35th Kentucky Derby: Vincent Powers on Wintergreen wins in 2:08.2
1916 - The leaders of the Easter Rising are executed in Dublin.
1917 - 1st performance of Ernest Bloch's symphony "Israel"
1919 - Afghanistan Emir Amanoellah begins war against Great Britain
1919 - America's 1st passenger flight (NY-Atlantic City)
1921 - West Virginia imposes 1st state sales tax
1922 - Mayor Hylan closes streets for building of Yankee Stadium
1922 - Salt layer find at Winterswijk
1923 - 1st nonstop transcontinental flight (NY-San Diego) completed
1924 - Aleph Zadik Aleph is formed in Omaha, Nebraska by Sam Beber.
1926 - British general strike-3 million workers support miners
1926 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Sinclair Lewis (Arrowsmith)
1926 - US marines land in Nicaragua (9-mo after leaving), stay until 1933
1928 - Japanese atrocities in Jinan, China.
1929 - Prussia bans anti-fascists
1932 - 24 tourists begin 1st air-charter holiday (London-Basle, Switz)
1933 - 1st female director (Nellie T Ross) of US Mint takes office
1934 - Bradman scores 206 Aust v Worcestershire, 210 mins, 27 fours
1936 - French People's Front wins elections
1936 - NY Yankee Joe DiMaggio makes his major-league debut, gets 3 hits
1937 - Margaret Mitchell wins Pulitzer Prize for "Gone With the Wind"
1938 - Concentration camp at Flossenburg goes into use
1938 - Lefty Grove defeats Tigers 4-3 for 1st of record 20 consecutive wins at his home field Fenway
           Park; he doesn't lose there until May 12 1941
1938 - Vatican recognizes Franco-Spain
1939 - The All India Forward Bloc is formed by Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.
1941 - -4] German air raid on Liverpool
1941 - 67th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Arcaro aboard Whirlaway wins in 2:01.4
1942 - Japanese troop attack Tulagi, Gavutu & Tanambogo, Solomon Islands
1942 - Luftwaffe bombs Exeter
1942 - Nazi's execute 72 OD'ers in reprisial in Sachsenhausen, Netherlands
1942 - Nazi's require Dutch Jews to wear a Jewish star
1943 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Upton Sinclair (Dragon's Teeth)
1943 - Strike against obligatory labor camps ends, after 200 killed
1943 - US 1st armour division occupies Mateur Tunisia
1944 - "Meet Me in St Louis" opens on Broadway
1944 - Meat rationing ends in US
1945 - 1st Polish armour brigade occupies Wilhelmshafen
1945 - Allies arrests German nuclear physics Werner Heisenberg
1945 - British troop join in Rangoon
1945 - German ship "Cap Arcona" sinks in East Sea, 5,800 killed
1946 - International military tribunal in Tokyo begins
1947 - 73rd Kentucky Derby: Eric Guerin aboard Jet Pilot wins in 2:06.8
1947 - Japan forms a constitutional democracy
1947 - New post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect.
1948 - Pulitzer prize awarded to James Michener & Tennessee Williams
1949 - 1st firing of a US Viking rocket; reached 80 km
1951 - Gil McDougald ties major league record with 6 RBIs in 1 inning
1951 - NY Yankee Gil McDougald is 5th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (9th)
1951 - London's Royal Festival Hall opens.
1951 - The Festival of Britain opens.
1952 - "Call Me Madam" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 644 performances
1952 - 1st landing by an airplane at geographic North Pole
1952 - 78th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Arcaro aboard Hill Gail wins in 2:01.6
1953 - WTVO TV channel 17 in Rockford, IL (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 - Westchester conference of American Library Association proclaims "Freedom to
           Read"
1954 - KTEN TV channel 10 in Ada-Ardmore, OK (ABC) begins broadcasting
1954 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Charles A Lindbergh & John Patrick
1954 - WHA TV channel 21 in Madison, WI (PBS) begins broadcasting
1956 - "Most Happy Fella" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 678 performances
1956 - A new range of mountains discovered in Antarctica (2 over 13,000')
1956 - Frank Loesser's musical "Most Happy Fella," premieres in NYC
1958 - 84th Kentucky Derby: Ismael Valenzuela aboard Tim Tam wins in 2:05
1958 - WINS suspends Alan Freed for causing a riot in Boston, he quits
1959 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Land of the Sky Golf Tournament
1959 - Tiger's Charlie Maxwell hits 4 consecutive HRs in a doubleheader
1960 - Harvey Schmidt/Tom Jones' musical "Fantasticks," premieres in NYC
1960 - The Anne Frank House opens in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
1961 - Warren Spahn pitches a 2 hitter after pitching a no hitter
1962 - Express train crashed into wreckage of a commuter train & a freight, killing 163, injuring 400
           (Tokyo, Japan)
1963 - Leslie Narum is only Balt Oriole to homer on his 1st at bat
1964 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Clifford Ann Creed Golf Invitational
1965 - 1st use of satellite TV, Today Show on Early Bird Satellite
1965 - 3rd Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 2-1 in 10
1965 - Cambodia drops diplomatic relations with the US
1965 - Don Steele, begins a 40+ year radio career at KRTH (LA California)
1965 - KTCI TV channel 17 in St. Paul-Minneapolis, MN (PBS) 1st broadcast
1965 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Irwin Unger (Greenback Era)
1966 - WDHO (now WNWO) TV channel 24 in Toledo, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
1967 - Black students seize finance building at Northwestern U
1968 - Holland Pirate Radio Station VRON becomes Radio Veronica Intl
1969 - "Trumpets of the Lord" closes at Brooks Atkinson NYC after 7 perfs
1969 - 95th Kentucky Derby: Bill Hartack on Majestic Prince wins in 2:01.8
1970 - 24th NBA Championship: NY Knicks beat LA Lakers, 4 games to 3
1970 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Golf Invitational
1971 - All Things Considered premieres on 112 National Public Radio stations
1971 - Erich Honecker succeeds Walter Ulbricht as East German party leader
1971 - National Public Radio begins programming
1971 - Nixon administration arrests 13,000 anti-war protesters in 3 days
1971 - Pulitzer prize awarded to John Toland (Rising Sun)
1973 - Chicago's Sears Tower, world's tallest building (443 m), topped out
1973 - KC Royals' George Brett gets his 1st major league hit
1975 - 101st Kentucky Derby: Jacinto Vasquez on Foolish Pleasure wins 2:02
1975 - Christa Vahlensieck runs female world record marathon (2:40:15.8 )
1976 - Panama 747SP lands after record flight around world (46:26)
1976 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Saul Bellow (Humboldt's Gift)
1978 - "Sun Day" - solar energy events are held in US
1978 - Anderlecht wins 18th Europe Cup II
1978 - Last cricket test match appearance for Bobby Simpson, at Kingston
1978 - WI all set to lose cricket test v Aust at Kingston till riots end game
1978 - The first unsolicited bulk commercial e-mail (which would later become known as "spam") is
           sent by a Digital Equipment Corporation marketing representative to every ARPANET address
           on the west coast of the United States.
1979 - 1st woman prime minister of Great Britain (Margaret Thatcher)
1979 - Bobby Bonds hits his 300th HR (2nd to have 300 HRs & 300 stolen bases)
1979 - Martin Sherman's "Bent," premieres in London
1980 - 106th Kentucky Derby: Jacinto Vasquez on Genuine Risk wins in 2:02
1980 - Giants 1st baseman Willie McCovey hits his 521st & final HR
1980 - Texas Ranger Ferguson Jenkins becomes 4th to win 100 games in AL & NL
1981 - "Can-Can" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 5 performances
1981 - "Moony, Shapiro Songbook" opens & closes at Morosco Theater NYC
1981 - Sally Little wins LPGA CPC Women's Golf International
1982 - ABC's All Talk network begins on radio (2 west coast stations)
1982 - NY Times reports that military will get 25% of NASA's budget
1982 - Pres Reagan begins 5 minute weekly radio broadcasts
1983 - Bruins 3-Isles 8-Wales Conference Championship-Isles hold 3-1 lead
1983 - Soviet leader Andropov decreases nuclear weapons in Europe
1983 - US bishops condemn nuclear weapons
1985 - Date of $5 million check in "View to a Kill"
1986 - 112th Kentucky Derby: Bill Shoemaker aboard Ferdinand wins in 2:02.8
1986 - Air Lanka crashes, killing 22
1986 - Cubs 3rd baseman Ron Cey hits his 300th & 301st HR
1986 - NASA launches Goes-G, it failed to achieve orbit
1986 - NY Yankee Don Mattingly is 6th to hit 3 sacrifice flies in a game
1987 - "Mikado" closes at Virginia Theater NYC after 46 performances
1987 - Cindy Hill wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic
1987 - Miami Herald reports a woman spent Friday & Saturday with Gary Hart
1988 - 4,200 kg Colombian cocaine in seized at Tarpon Springs Florida
1988 - Jasper Johns' "Diver" sold for $4,200,000
1991 - 356th & final episode of CBS 2nd longest running series Dallas, 2nd only to Gunsmoke
1991 - The Declaration of Windhoek is signed.
1992 - Balt's Gregg Olson, 25, is youngest to record 100 saves
1992 - Danielle Ammaccapane wins LPGA Centel Golf Classic
1992 - NY Met Eddie Murray is 24th to hit 400 HRS
1992 - Ohio Glory wins 1st WLAF game (after 6 loses), beat Frankfurt 20-17
1992 - Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Centel Senior Golf Challenge
1993 - "Kiss of the Spider Woman" opens at Broadhurst NYC for 906 perfs
1994 - 29th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks wins
1994 - D66/Dutch Liberal Party win Dutch 2nd Parliamentary election
1994 - US space probe Clementine launched
1995 - "My Thing of Love" opens at Beck Theater NYC for 16 performances
1995 - Australia beat West Indies to regain the Frank Worrell Cricket Trophy
1995 - David Bell debuts for the Indians (3rd generation player, Gus & Buddy)
1996 - Martin Moxon & Michael Vaughan make 362 1st wkt Yorks v Glam
1997 - 123rd Kentucky Derby: Gary Stevens aboard Silver Charm wins in 2:02.3
1997 - ABC Bud Light Masters Bowling Tournament won by Jason Queen
1997 - Garry Kasparov begins chess match with IBM supercomputer Deep Blue
1999 - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma is slammed by an F5 tornado killing forty-two people, injuring 665,
           and causing $1 billion in damage. The tornado was one of 66 from the 1999 Oklahoma
           tornado outbreak.
1999 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 11,000 for the first time in its history at
           11,014.70.
1999 - Stephen Hendry defeats Mark Williams 18-11 to win the World Snooker Championship for a
           record seventh time.
2000 - The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS
           posted on Usenet.
2001 - The United States loses its seat on the U.N. Human Rights Commission for the first time since
           the commission was formed in 1947.
2002 - A military MiG-21 aircraft crashes into the Bank of Rajasthan in India, killing eight.
2003 - New Hampshire's famous Old Man of the Mountain collapses.
2006 - Armavia Flight 967 crashes into the Black Sea, killing 113 people on board, with no survivors.
2006 - Zacarias Moussaoui is sentenced to life in prison in Alexandria, Virginia.
2007 - British girl Madeleine McCann disappears from her bed in a holiday apartment in Praia da Luz,
           Portugal.

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 03, 2013, 02:11:30 PM

This Day in History for 3rd May


Famous Weddings

1986 - Actress-singer Annette Funicello (43) weds harness racing horse breeder and trainer Glen
           Holt
1991 - Andy Williams weds Debbie Hass
1992 - Beverly Hills 90210 Gabrielle Carteris marries Charles Isaacs
1997 - "Port Charles" soap opera actor Jon Lindstrom (39) weds "The Young and The Restless"
           actress Eileen Davidson (38) in Cambria, California
1998 - "Jekyll & Hyde" lead singer Linda Eder (37) weds composer Frank Wildhorn (38) at their new
           8-acre estate in North Salem, New York
2003 - "Friends" actor Matt LeBlanc (35) weds former model Melissa McKnight (38) at a private estate
           overlooking Anini Beach in Kilauea, Hawaii

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 03, 2013, 02:45:09 PM

This Day in History for 3rd May


Famous Birthdays

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Humanist philosopher                                  Middle/welterweight                          Godfather of Soul
Niccolo Machiavelli (1469)                        championship boxer Sugar                     James Brown (1933)
                                                                     Ray Robinson (1921)


612 - Constantine III, Byzantine Emperor (d. 641)
1415 - Cecily Neville, mother of Edward IV of England and Richard III of England (d. 1495)
1428 - Pedro González de Mendoza, Spanish cardinal and statesman (d. 1495)
1446 - Margaret of York / Margaret of Burgendy, wife of Charles I, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1503)
1469 - Niccolo Machiavelli, Florence, Italy, politician/writer (Prince), d. 1527)
1514 - Bartholomaeus a Martyribus, [Fernandez], primate of Portugal
1535 - Alessandro "Agnolo" Allori, Italian painter/carpet designer
1647 - John A "Joannes" Antonides van der Goes, poet (Bellone aen bant)
1649 - Johann Valentin Meder, composer
1662 - Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann, German architect (d. 1736)
1692 - Jan J Mauricius, Dutch governor-general of Suriname (1742-51)
1695 - Henri Pitot, Italian-born French engineer (d. 1771)
1708 - Johann Adolph Scheibe, German music theroist/composer
1713 - Alexis Clairault, French mathematician (d. 1765)
1729 - Florian Leopold Gassmann, composer
1737 - Friedrich Schwindl, composer
1742 - Jean-Baptiste Krumphultz, composer
1744 - Freidrich Wilhelm Weis, composer
1752 - Braz Francisco de Lima, composer
1761 - August von Kotzebue, German dramatist (d. 1819)
1764 - Elisabeth PMH, princess of France/son of king Louis XVI
1768 - Charles Tennant, Scottish chemist and industrialist (d. 1838)
1773 - Giuseppe Acerbi, Italian traveller/nature investigator/diplomat
1815 - Hermanus W Witteveen, Dutch theologist
1816 - Montgomery Cunningham Meigs, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union Army), died in 1892
1819 - Nicola De Giosa, composer
1826 - Charles XV Louis E, King of Sweden/Norway (1859-72)/poet
1844 - Edouard A Drumont, French anti-semitic journalist
1844 - Richard D'Oyly Carte, England, opera impresario (Ivanhoe)
1849 - Jacob Riis, Denmark, reporter (NY Tribune, NY Evening Sun)
1849 - Bernhard von Bülow, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1929)
1857 - George Gore, American baseball player (d. 1933)
1859 - Andy Adams, US writer (Log of a Cowboy)
1860 - John Scott Haldane, Scottish physiologist (d. 1936)
1860 - Vito Volterra, Italian mathematician (d. 1940)
1861 - Emmett Dalton, American outlaw (d. 1937)
1867 - Jack Hearne, cricketer (cousin of George & Alec 12 Tests for Eng)
1870 - Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (d. 1948)
1873 - Nikolay N Tcherepnin, St Petersburg, composer of ballets, songs [OS]
1873 - [Nicoline] Magdalene Anchor-Roll, Norwegian author (Kvinnen og Den)
1873 - Pavlo Skoropadsky, Ukrainian general (d. 1945)
1874 - Francois Coty, Corsica, Corsican senator/perfume maker
1874 - V. Walfrid Ekman, Swedish oceanographer (d. 1954)
1876 - Bert Hopkins, cricketer (Australian pace bowler of the 1900's)
1876 - John Elicius Benedict B P Quick Carrington Dwyer, cricketer (Sussex)
1877 - Karl Abraham, German psychoanalyst (d. 1925)
1879 - Fergus McMaster, Australian businessman (d. 1950)
1886 - Marcel Dupré, French organist and composer (d. 1971)
1888 - Beulah Bondi, American actress (d. 1981)
1890 - B Traven, writer
1891 - Tadeusz Peiper, Polish poet (d. 1969)
1892 - Beulah Bondi, Chicago, actress (It's a Wonderful Life)
1892 - George Thomson, demonstrated electron diffraction (Nobel 1937)
1893 - Hope Landin, Minneapolis MN
1893 - Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian writer and public benefactor (d. 1975)
1895 - Earnest Kantorowicz, German/US historian (Laudes regiae)
1895 - Zoltan Korda, Hungarian/British director (Jungle Book, 4 Feathers)
1895 - Cornelius Van Til, philosopher and Christian apologist (d. 1987)
1896 - Dodie Smith, English novelist and playwright (d. 1990)
1896 - Karl Allmenroder, German World War I Ace (d. 1917)
1897 - V K Krishna Menon, India, minister of defense
1898 - Golda Meir, [Meyerson], Kiev Ukraine, 4th Israeli PM (1969-74)
1898 - Septima Poinsette Clark, civil rights activist/educator
1899 - Aline MacMahon, McKeesport Pa, actress (Backdoor to Heaven)
1901 - Gino Cervi, Bologna Italy, actor (Les Miserables, Naked Maja)
1902 - Hugo Friedhofer, composer
1902 - Jack Larue, NYC, actor (Lights Out, Mouthpiece, My Favorite Brunette)
1902 - Seton I Miller, Chehalis WA, writer (Pete's Dragon, Istanbul)
1902 - Walter Slezak, Vienna, actor (Bedtime for Bonzo, Inspector General)
1903 - Bing Crosby, Tacoma Wash, singer (White Christmas, Going My Way)
1904 - Charles "Red" Ruffing, NY Yankee pitcher, hitter (1930-46)
1904 - John Breeden, SF CA, actor (Salute, Madame Racketeer, Joy Street)
1905 - Albrecht Luitpold G Ferdinand Michael Wittelsbach, duke of Bavaria
1905 - Sebastian Lewis Shaw, actor (High Season, Ace of Spades, Caste)
1906 - Mary Astor, Quincy IL, actress (Maltese Falcon, Dinky)
1907 - Earl Wilson, Rockford Ohio, columnist (Midnight Earl)
1910 - Alceo Galliera, composer
1910 - Norman Corwin, American radio pioneer
1911 - John Rhea "Yank" Lawson, trumpeter
1912 - Virgil Fox, American organist (d. 1980)
1913 - Earl Blackwell, Atlanta Ga, author (Celebrity Register)
1913 - William M Inge, US playwright (Picnic-Pulitzer 1953)
1915 - Evencio Castellanos, composer
1915 - Stu Hart, Canadian professional wrestler and trainer (d. 2003)
1916 - Henry Barbosa Gonzalez, San Antonio Tx, (Rep-D-Tx, 1961- )
1916 - Pierre Emmanuel, French poet (Sodome)
1916 - Léopold Simoneau, French Canadian tenor (d. 2006)
1917 - James Penberthy, composer
1917 - Betty Comden, American lyricist, (d. 2006)
1917 - Kiro Gligorov, Macedonia, President of the Republic of Macedonia 1991-1999 (d. 2012)
1918 - Ted Bates, English former footballer (d. 2003)
1919 - Pete Seeger, NYC, folk singer (Weaver, Goodnight Irene)
1919 - John Cullen Murphy, American comic strip artist (d. 2004)
1921 - Sugar Ray Robinson, [Walter Smith], Ailey, Georgia, middle/welterweight boxer (1946-52, 55,
           58), (d. 1989)
1921 - Vasco dos Santos Goncalves, Portuguese leftist colonel
1921 - Joe Ames, American singer (d. 2007)
1922 - Marina Svetlova, ballerina/choreographer (Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo)
1922 - Len Shackleton, English former footballer (d. 2000)
1923 - Ralph M Hall, (Rep-D-TX, 1981- )
1923 - George Hadjinikos, Greek pianist and conductor
1924 - Mary Carver, LA California, actress (Cecilia-Simon & Simon)
1924 - Yehuda Amichai, Israeli poet (d. 2000)
1924 - Ken Tyrrell, English founder of eponymous F1 racing team (d. 2001)
1925 - Nina Bara, Buenos Aires Arg, actress (Tonga-Space Patrol)
1928 - Jeanne Bal, Santa Monica California, actress (Pat-Love & Marriage)
1929 - Hendrik L van Beek, Dutch vice-admiral
1929 - Jaharna Imam, Bangladeshi writer/political activist
1930 - David Evatt Tunley, composer
1931 - Joseph Lichtman Layton, dancer
1932 - Robert Osborne, American film historian
1933 - Collie Smith, cricketer (exciting WI all-rounder all too briefly)
1933 - James Brown, Barnwell, South Carolina, American soul singer (Hot Pants, Living in America)
           and originator of funk music (d. 2006)
1933 - Alex Cord, American actor
1934 - Georg Kroll, composer
1934 - Henry Cooper, English boxer
1934 - Frankie Valli, American singer (The Four Seasons)
1935 - Donald P Hodel, Portland Ore, US Secretary of Interior (1985-89)
1935 - Ron Popeil, American inventor
1936 - Engelbert Humperdinck, [Arnolde Dorsey], India, singer (EH Show)
1937 - Frankie Valli, [Castelluccio], Newark NJ, singer (Four Seasons-Sherry)
1937 - Nélida Piñon, Brazilian writer
1938 - Chris Cannizzaro, American baseball player
1939 - Jonathan David Harvey, English composer (Bhakti, Music of Stockhausen)
1939 - Jose Torres, US, boxer (Olympics)
1939 - Samantha Eggar, London England, actress (Collector)
1940 - Konrad "Conny" Plank, German record producer and musician
1940 - Clemens Westerhof, Dutch football manager
1941 - Nona Gaprindasvili, USSR, world women's chess champ (1962-78)
1941 - Edward "Monk" Malloy, American university president
1942 - Lynn Farleigh, Bristol England, actress (Lovers of Their Time)
1942 - Věra Čáslavská, Czech gymnast
1942 - Dave Marash, American journalist
1942 - C.L. Otter, American politician, governor of Idaho
1943 - John Costello, historian
1944 - Ian Peter Leslie Smith, journalist
1944 - Peter Staples, rocker (Troggs-Wild Thing)
1945 - Sadiq Mohammad, cricketer (attacking Pakistan opening batsman 1969-81)
1946 - Greg Gumbel, sportscaster (CBS TV, WFAN)
1946 - Norm Chow, American football coach
1947 - Doug Henning, Ft Garry Manitoba, magician (Broadway play-Magic)
1948 - Chris Mulkey, American actor
1949 - Albert Sacco Jr, Boston Mass, PhD/astronaut (STS 73)
1949 - Ron Wyden, (Rep-D-OR, 1981- )
1950 - Mary Hopkin, South Wales, singer (Those Were the Days)
1951 - Christopher Cross, [Geppert], Texas, singer (Sailing, Arthur's Theme)
1951 - Tatyana Tolstaya, Russian writer
1952 - Allen Wells, England, 100m dash (Olympic-gold-1980)
1952 - Caitlin Clarke. American actress (d. 2004)
1953 - Bruce Hall, Champaign Ill, rock bassist (Reo Speedwagon)
1953 - Van McLain, rocker (Shooting Star)
1954 - Gary Young, American drummer (Pavement)
1955 - David Hookes, cricketer (dashing Australian LHB, S Aussie stalwart)
1955 - Timmy Cappello, rock & sax player (played with Tina Turner, Ringo Starr & The Lost Boys)
1956 - Marc Bellemare, French Canadian lawyer and politician
1957 - Cactus Moser, Montrose Co, country singer (Highway 101-Cry Cry Cry)
1957 - Rod Langway, Formosa, NHL defenseman (Mont Canadiens, Wash Caps)
1958 - Kevin Kilner, American actor
1958 - Sandi Toksvig, Danish comedian and radio presenter
1959 - Ben Elton, London UK, actor (Stark, Friday Night Live)
1959 - David Ball, Blackpool, rock keyboardist (Soft Cell)
1959 - Uma Bharati, Indian politician
1959 - Ben Elton, British comedian and author
1960 - Amy Steel, American actress
1961 - Steve McClaren, English football manager
1961 - Joe Murray, American cartoonist
1961 - David Vitter American politician
1962 - Anthony Gilligan, Penrith NSW, Australasia golfer
1962 - Anders Graneheim, Swedish bodybuilder
1963 - Jeff Hornacek, NBA guard (Utah Jazz)
1963 - Jamie Reeves, British strongman
1963 - Sally Whittaker, English actress
1964 - Ron Hextall, Winnipeg, NHL goalie (Phila Flyers, NY Islanders)
1965 - Rob Brydon, Welsh comedian
1965 - Nina Garcia, Colombian-American fashion expert and television personality
1965 - John Jensen, Danish footballer
1966 - Paul Stevenson, Victoria Australia, badminton player (Olympics-96)
1966 - Peter Abbay, American actor
1966 - Firdous Bamji, Indian-American actor
1966 - Darren Morgan, Welsh snooker player
1966 - M-16 [Ernest Mateen], Brooklyn New York, Cruiserweight boxing champion, (d. 2012)
1968 - Deborah Caprioglio, Miestre Italy, actress (Big Game Hunter)
1968 - Jay Darlington, London England, keyboardist (Kula Shaker)
1968 - Shane Minor, American singer
1969 - Karen Kraft, San Mateo California, rower (Olympics-silver-96)
1969 - Daryl F. Mallett, American writer/editor
1970 - Alexia Dechaume-Ballert, La Rochelle France, tennis star (1992 Aust)
1970 - Ted Crowley, Concord Mass, US hockey defenseman (Olympics-1994)
1971 - James Roberson, defensive end (Tennessee Oilers)
1971 - Damon Dash, American label executive
1971 - Josey Scott, American singer (Saliva)
1972 - Brett Hayman, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1972 - Josh Taves, defensive end (New England Patriots)
1972 - Vyacheslav Kozlov, Voskresensk Russia, NHL forward (Detroit Red Wings)
1972 - Shonie Carter, American MMA fighter
1972 - Suzi Suzuki, former Japanese adult actress
1973 - Dominique Monami, Verviers Belgium, tennis star
1973 - Michel Traveller, soccer player (Ajax)
1974 - Princess Haya bint Hussein of Jordan
1975 - Maksim Mrvica, Croatian pianist
1975 - Eva Santolaria, Spanish actress
1975 - Dulé Hill, American actor
1976 - Jeff Halpern, American ice hockey player
1977 - Mashima Hiro, Japanese Mangaka of Rave Master and Fairy Tail
1977 - Ryan Dempster, American baseball player
1978 - Paul Banks, American vocalist (Interpol)
1978 - Christina Hendricks, American actress
1978 - Lawrence Tynes, American football player
1979 - Steve Mack, American professional wrestler
1980 - Marcel Vigneron, American chef (Top Chef)
1981 - Farrah Franklin, American singer (former member of Destiny's Child)
1982 - Igor Olshansky, Ukrainian-born American football player
1983 - Joseph Addai, American football player
1983 - Romeo Castelen, Dutch footballer
1983 - Márton Fülöp, Hungarian footballer
1983 - Myriam Fares, Lebanese singer
1984 - Cheryl Burke, American professional dancer
1984 - Nam Sang-mi, South Korean actress and model
1985 - Greg Raposo, American pop/rock singer

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 03, 2013, 02:49:22 PM

This Day in History for 3rd May


Famous Deaths

1010 - Ansfried, 9th bishop of Utrecht (995-1010)/saint, dies at about 69
1152 - Matilda of Boulogne, Queen of England (b. 1105)
1160 - Peter Lombard, Italian scholar and bishop (b. c.1100)
1270 - King Béla IV of Hungary (b. 1206)
1294 - Jan I, duke of Brabant/Limburg/poet, dies
1410 - Alexander V, [Petros Philargi], Kreta's Pope (1409-10), dies
1442 - Engelbert I, Earl of Nassau-Dillenburg, dies
1481 - Mehmed II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1432)
1567 - Leonhard Paminger, composer, dies at 72
1598 - Anna Guarini, Italian singer (b. 1563)
1606 - Henry Garnet, English Jesuit (executed) (b. 1555)
1614 - Sasbout Vosmeer, RC theologist/apostole vicar, dies at 66
1622 - Pedro Páez, Spanish Jesuit missionary (b. 1564)
1654 - Francois van Kinschot, treasurer-gen/chancellor of Brabant, dies at 77
1679 - James Sharp, English archbishop (assassinated) (b. 1613)
1693 - Claude de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French courtier (b. 1607)
1703 - Eglon van de Down, still-life painter, dies
1704 - Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, Austrian violist/composer, dies at 59
1707 - Michiel de Swaen, South Netherlands physician/poet, dies at 53
1724 - John Leverett the Younger, American President of Harvard (b. 1662)
1737 - Abraham Patras, gov-gen of East-Indies (1735-37), dies at 65
1750 - John Willison, Scottish minister and writer (b. 1680)
1752 - Samuel Ogle, British provincial Governor of Maryland (b. c. 1692)
1758 - Benedict XIV, [Prospero L Lambertini], Pope (1740-58), dies at 83
1763 - George Psalmanazar, British impostor (b. 1679)
1764 - Francesco Algarotti, Italian earl/encyclopedist, dies at 53
1779 - John Winthrop, American astronomer (b. 1714)
1783 - Pieter Valck(x), South Netherlands sculptor, dies at 49
1792 - Carlo Zuccari, composer, dies at 87
1839 - Ferdinando Paer, composer, dies at 67
1841 - Cornelis T Elout, Dutch minister of Finance/Navy/Colonies, dies at 74
1854 - William Beale, composer, dies at 70
1856 - Adolfo Fumagalli, composer, dies at 27
1856 - Adolphe Charles Adam, French composer/critic (Giselle), dies at 52
1861 - Anthony Philip Heinrich, composer, dies at 80
1863 - Elisha Franklin "Bull" Paxton, US Confederate brig-gen, dies at 35
1868 - Olof Wilhelm Udden, composer, dies at 68
1881 - Josip Jurcic, Slovic writer (Schone Vida), dies
1893 - Josef Rudolf Zavrtal, composer, dies at 73
1902 - David R Capriles, Curacaos director of psychiatric, dies at 64
1917 - Norman Callaway, NSW bat, cricketer (207 in only FC innings), dies
1918 - Charlie Soong, Christian Missionary
1921 - Théodore Pilette, Belgian racing driver (b. 1883)
1926 - Napoleon V Bonaparte, French pretender to the throne, dies at 63
1931 - Frank Hoyt Losey, composer, dies at 59
1931 - Otto Winter-Hjelm, composer, dies at 93
1932 - Anton Wildgans, Austr writer (Dies Irae)/dir Burgtheater, dies at 51
1939 - [Karl Eduard] Wilhelm Groener, German general, dies at 71
1940 - Henry Ossian Flipper, American soldier, former slave and first African American to graduate
           from the United States Military Academy at West Point, dies at 84
1942 - Johan H Westerveld, lt-col/leader Order Service, executed
1942 - Thorvald Stauning, Prime Minister of Denmark (b. 1873)
1943 - Leslie Heward, composer, dies at 45
1945 - Louis L H de Visser, Dutch MP (CPN), dies at 66
1955 - Philips C Visser, explorer/ambassador to Moscow, dies
1958 - Frank Foster, cricketer (England all-rounder, 11 Tests 1911-12), dies
1961 - Maurice [Jean Jacques] Merleau-Ponty, French philosopher, dies at 53
1964 - Diana Wynyard, dies at 58
1965 - Howard Spring, British author (Heaven Lies About Us), dies at 76
1965 - Otto Forst de Battaglia, Austrian diplomat/genealogist, dies at 75
1966 - Wylie Watson, dies at 77
1968 - Leonid Leonidovich Sabaneyev, composer, dies at 86
1969 - Imre Vincze, composer, dies at 42
1969 - Zakir Hussain, 3rd President of India, (b. 1897)
1970 - Candelario Huizar, composer, dies at 82
1972 - Bruce Cabot, actor (Diamonds are Forever), dies at 68
1972 - Les Harvey, rocker, dies
1975 - Samuel Gonard, chairman (International Red Cross), dies at 78
1976 - David Bruce, dies at 62
1976 - Ernie Nevers, college fullback (Stanford), dies at 72
1978 - Wim van Doorne, Dutch auto manufacturer (DAF), dies at 71
1979 - Erin O'Brien-Moore, actress (Nurse Choate-Peyton Place), dies at 76
1982 - Helmut Dantine, actor (Shadow of the Cloak), dies at 64
1983 - Vaughn Taylor, act (Jailhouse Rock), dies of cerebal hemmorrhage at 72
1986 - Robert Alda, actor (Dan Lewis-Supertrain), dies at 72
1987 - Dicky Fuller, cricketer (one Test for WI 1935, one run, 0-12), dies
1987 - Yolande Christina Dalida, dies at 54
1988 - Lev Semenovich Pontryagin, Russian mathematician (b. 1908)
1989 - Christine Jorgensen, 1st transsexual, dies at 62
1989 - Muriel Ostriche, dies
1989 - Edward Ochab, Polish Communist politician (b. 1906)
1990 - Pimen, [Sergei Irzyekov], patriarch of Rus-orthodox church, dies at 79
1991 - Gerrit Mik, child psychiatrist/Dutch MP (D66), dies
1991 - Jersy Kosinski, author (Being There), dies at 57
1991 - Margaret Tallichet, actress (Stranger on the 3rd Floor), dies
1991 - Mohammed Abdel Wahab, Egyptian singer and composer (b. 1907)
1992 - Elizabeth Lennox, radio singer, dies of heart seizure at 98
1992 - George Murphy, (Sen-R-Ca, 1965-71)/actor, dies of Leukemia at 89
1992 - Peter Bruni, dies of heart failure at 60
1994 - Gustaaf AWC baron van Hemert Dingshof, mayor of Maarn, dies at 78
1994 - Haty Tegelaar-Boonacker, Dutch MP (CDA), dies at 63
1994 - Milford Dolliole, pioneer jazz drummer, dies at 90
1994 - Richard Scarry, author/illustrator of children's books, dies at 74
1995 - Michael Horden, actor (Fool, Green Man, Scoop), dies at 83
1996 - Jack Weston, actor (Ishtar, Rad, Cuba), dies of lymphoma at 71
1996 - Timothy Gullikson, tennis player/coach, dies at 45
1997 - Narciso Yepes, Spanish classical guitarist (b. 1927)
1999 - Joe Adcock, American baseball player (b. 1927)
1999 - Steve Chiasson, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1967)
2000 - John Joseph Cardinal O'Connor, Catholic Archbishop of New York (b. 1920)
2001 - Billy Higgins, American drummer (b. 1936)
2002 - Barbara Castle, British politician (b. 1910)
2002 - Evgeny Svetlanov, Russian composer and pianist (b. 1928)
2003 - Suzy Parker, American actress (b. 1932)
2004 - Anthony Ainley, British actor (b. 1932)
2004 - Ken Downing, British racing driver (b. 1917)
2004 - Darrell Johnson, American baseball player (b. 1928)
2006 - Karel Appel, Dutch painter (b. 1921)
2006 - Pramod Mahajan, Indian politician (b. 1949)
2006 - Earl Woods, Athlete and father of Tiger Woods (b. 1932)
2007 - Warja Honegger-Lavater, Swiss illustrator (b. 1913)
2007 - Wally Schirra, American astronaut (b. 1923)
2007 - Knock Yokoyama, Japanese comedian and politician (b. 1932)
2008 - Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo, Spanish former Primer Minister (b. 1926)
2009 - Ram Shewalkar, Indian Marathi writer, cardiac arrest.(b.1931)
2011 - Thanasis Veggos, Greek actor (b. 1927)
2011 - Jackie Cooper, American actor (b. 1922)
2011 - Sergo Kotrikadze, Georgian footballer (b. 1936)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 04, 2013, 11:48:17 AM

This Day in History for 4th May


Historical Events

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Composer                                                Naturalist Charles Darwin                  Confederate General Robert E Lee
George Friedrich Handel 

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Gangster Al Capone                                    Nobel Laureate Author                        Jazz Singer Ella Fitzgerald
                                                                     Ernest Hemingway

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British Prime Minister                           Singer-Songwriter Courtney Love
Margaret Thatcher

1256 - The Augustinian monastic order is constituted at the Lecceto Monastery when
           Pope Alexander IV issues a papal bull Licet ecclesiae catholicae.
1303 - Flemings conquers Middelburg
1415 - Religious reformers John Wycliffe and Jan Hus are condemned as heretics at the Council of
           Constance.
1471 - Battle of Tewkesbury - King Edward IV vs Ex-queen Margaretha
1493 - Spanish Pope Alexander VI divides America between Spain & Portugal
1494 - Christopher Columbus lands in Jamaica
1540 - Venice & Turkey sign Treaty of Constantinople
1572 - Veere sides with Geuzen
1626 - Peter Minuit becomes director-general of New Netherlands
1634 - Johan van Walbeecks fleet departs to West-Indies
1652 - Battle at Etampes: French army under Turenne beats Fronde rebels
1686 - Municipality of Ilagan is founded in the Philippines.
1715 - French manufacturer debuts 1st folding umbrella (Paris)
1728 - George F Handel's opera "Tolomeo, re di Egitto," premieres in London
1747 - Willem IV appointed viceroy of Overijssel
1776 - Rhode Island declares independence from England
1780 - American Academy of Arts & Science founded
1780 - Charles Bunbury on Diomed wins 1st Epsom Derby
1783 - Herschel reports seeing a red glow near lunar crater Aristarchus
1799 - Fourth Anglo-Mysore War: The Battle of Seringapatam: The siege of Seringapatam ends
           when the city is assaulted and the Tipu Sultan killed by the besieging British army, under the
           command of General George Harris.
1805 - Henry C Overing buys 80 acres of Throggs Neck in Bronx
1814 - Bourbon reign restored in France
1814 - King Ferdinand VII of Spain signs the Decrete of the 4th of May, returning Spain to
           absolutism.
1818 - Netherlands & England sign treaty against illegal slave handling
1834 - Charles Darwin's expedition reaches 200 km from Atlantic Ocean
1839 - The Cunard Steamship Company Ltd forms San Bonifacio
1843 - Great-Britain annexes Natal
1846 - US state Michigan ends death penalty
1847 - NY State creates a Board of Commissioners of Emigration
1851 - 1st major SF fire
1858 - War of Reform (Mexico); Liberals establish capital at Vera Cruz
1859 - The Cornwall Railway opens across the Royal Albert Bridge linking the counties of Devon and 
           Cornwall in England.
1861 - At Gretna LA, one of 1st guns of Rebel navy is cast
1862 - -5] Battle at Williamsburg, Virginia
1862 - Yorktown, VA - McClellan halted his troop before town as it is full of armed torpedoes left by
           CS Brigadier General Gabrial Rains
1863 - Battle of Chancellorsville-action at Salem Church
1863 - End of Chancellorsville - Beaten Union army withdraws
1864 - -16] actions at Drewry's Bluff, Virginia
1864 - Gen Grant's Army at Potomac attacks at Rappahannock
1864 - Ulysses S. Grant crosses Rapidan & begins his duel with Robert E Lee
1864 - Ulysses S. Grant crosses Rapidan & begins his duel with Robert E Lee
1865 - Battle of Citronville, AL; Richard Taylor surrenders
1865 - Battle of Mobile, AL
1866 - Woodward's Gardens opens to public
1869 - The Naval Battle of Hakodate takes place in Japan.
1871 - 1st baseball league game (National Association of Baseball Players), (Ft Wayne 2, Cleveland 0)
           Deacon Jim White gets 1st hit, a double
1878 - Phonograph shown for 1st time at Grand Opera House
1883 - John Gordon Cashmans begins "Vicksburg Evening Post" (Miss)
1886 - Haymarket riot in Chicago; bomb kills 7 policemen
1888 - Italy & Spain sign military covenant
1893 - Cowboy Bob Pickett invents bulldogging
1896 - 1st edition of London Daily Mail (halfpenny)
1896 - Grease fire ignites half ton of dynamite at Cripple Creek Colorado
1897 - 23rd Kentucky Derby: Buttons Garner aboard Typhoon II wins in 2:12.5
1897 - Fire in Paris bazaar at Rue Jean Goujon kills 200
1898 - 24th Kentucky Derby: Willie Simms aboard Plaudit wins in 2:09
1899 - 25th Kentucky Derby: Fred Taral aboard Manuel wins in 2:12
1904 - Construction begins by the United States on the Panama Canal.
1904 - Charles Stewart Rolls meets Frederick Henry Royce at the Midland Hotel in Manchester,
           England.
1910 - Canadian Currency Act, 1910, receives Royal Assent
1910 - Canadian parliament accept creation of Royal Canadian Navy
1910 - Tel Aviv founded
1912 - Italian mariners occupy Turkish Island of Rhodes
1915 - Italy drops Triple Alliance with Austria-Hungary & Germany
1916 - At request of US, Germany curtails its submarine warfare
1917 - Arabs sack Tel Aviv
1918 - Yankees set record with 8 sacrifices, beat Red Sox's Babe Ruth 5-4
1919 - 1st legal Sunday baseball game in NYC (Phillies beat Giants 4-3)
1919 - FVC soccer team forms
1919 - Giants play their 1st legal Sunday home game, 35,000 see Phils win 4-3
1922 - KNX-AM in Los Angeles CA begins radio transmissions
1923 - Bloody street battles between nazi's, socialist & police in Vienna
1923 - NY state revokes Prohibition law
1924 - 8th Olympic games open at Paris, France
1924 - German Republic election fascists & communists win
1925 - League of Nations conference on arms control & poison gas usage
1926 - General strike hits Britain
1927 - 1st balloon flight over 40,000 feet (Scott Field, Ill)
1927 - Nicaragua agrees to a US supervised presidential election in 1928
1929 - Lou Gehrig hits 3 consecutive HRs, Yankees 11, Tigers 9
1931 - Mustafa Kemal Pasja becomes Turkish president
1932 - Al Capone, convict of income tax evasion, enters Atlanta Penitentiary
1933 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Archibald Macleish (Conquistador)
1935 - 61st Kentucky Derby: Willie Saunders aboard Omaha wins in 2:05
1936 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Harold L Davis (Honey in the Horn)
1938 - Douglas Hyde (a protestant) becomes 1st president of Eire
1940 - 21 "not neutral" nazis & communists arrested in Netherlands
1940 - 66th Kentucky Derby: Carroll Bierman aboard Gallahadion wins in 2:05
1942 - Battle of Coral Sea begun (1st sea battle fought solely in air)
1942 - Food 1st rationed in US
1942 - German occupiers imprison 450 prominent Dutch as hostages
1942 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Ellen Glasgow (In this our Life)
1943 - NL Ford Frick demonstrates revised balata ball to reporters by bouncing it on his office carpet
           ball proves to be 50% livelier
1945 - German troops in Netherlands, Denmark & Norway surrender
1946 - 5 die in a 2 day riot at Alcatraz prison in SF bay
1946 - 72nd Kentucky Derby: Warren Mehrtens aboard Assault wins in 2:06.6
1946 - Wash's Cecil Travis gets 6 straight hits before being stopped
1948 - The Hague Court of Justice convicts Hans Rauter (SS) to the death
1949 - Air crash at Turijn (whole Torino-soccer team survives)
1952 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Fresno Golf Open
1953 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Ernest Hemingway (Old Man & The Sea)
1954 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island
1956 - Queen Juliana unveils National Monument to Dams in Amsterdam
1956 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
1957 - 83rd Kentucky Derby: Bill Hartack aboard Iron Liege wins in 2:02.2
1957 - Alan Freed hosts "Rock n' Roll Show" 1st prime-time network rock show
1957 - Anne Frank Foundation forms in Amsterdam
1958 - Alberto Lleras Camargo chosen president of Colombia
1959 - 1st Grammy Awards: Perry Como & Ella Fitzgerald win
1959 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Archibald Macleish (JB)
1960 - 1st great Delta dam closes, North-South Beveland
1961 - 1st on-the-road Spacemobile lecture given.
1961 - CORE begins freedom rides from Washington, DC
1961 - Malcolm Ross & Victor Prather reach 34,668 m (record) in balloon
1961 - South-Africa ANC-leader John Nkadimeng arrested
1962 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1963 - 89th Kentucky Derby: Braulio Baeza aboard Chateaugay wins in 2:01.8
1963 - Pitcher Bob Shaw sets record of 5 balks in a game
1964 - "Another World" & "As the World Turns" premieres on TV
1964 - 70 GATT-countries confer in Geneva
1964 - KIII TV channel 3 in Corpus Christi, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
1964 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Richard Hofstadter (Anti-intellectualism)
1965 - Willie Mays 512th HR breaks Mel Ott's 511th NL record
1966 - Soviet government signs accord about building Fiat factory in USSR
1967 - Lunar Orbiter 4 launched by US; begins orbiting Moon May 7
1968 - 1st ABA championship: Pitts Pipers beat NO Buccaneers, 4 games to 3
1968 - 94th Kentucky Derby: Ismael Valenzuela aboard Forward Pass wins
1968 - Dancer Image DQ due to drugs after winning 94th Kent Derby in 2:02½
1969 - Charles Gordone's "No Place to be Somebody," premieres in NYC
1969 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Club Golf Invitational
1969 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens sweep St Louis Blues in 4 games
1970 - National Guard kills 4 at Kent State in Ohio
1970 - Premier Kosygin affirms existence Russian military advisors in Egypt
1970 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Erik H Erikson (Gandhi's Truth)
1972 - Vietcong forms revolutionary government in Quang Tri South Vietnam
1972 - The Don't Make A Wave Committee, a fledgling environmental organization founded in Canada
           in 1971, officially changes its name to "Greenpeace Foundation".
1973 - 1st TV network female nudity-Steambath (PBS)-Valerie Perrine
1973 - BPAA US Women's Bowling Open won by Millie Martorella
1973 - Longest game in Veterans' Stadium, Phillies beat Braves 5-4 in 20
1973 - Patriarch Shenuda II of Kopitisch church visits the pope
1973 - Phillies beat Braves 5-4 in 20 innings
1973 - Wings release "Red Rose Speedway" in UK
1974 - 100th Kentucky Derby: Angel Cordero Jr. aboard Cannonade wins in 2:04
1975 - Ed Bullins' "Taking of Miss Jane," premieres in NYC
1975 - Flyers 1-Isles 0-Semis-Flyers hold 3-0 lead-Isles held to 14 shots
1975 - Houston's Bob Watson scores baseball's one-millionth run of all time
1975 - Maria Astrologes wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic
1976 - "1600 Pennsylvania Avenue" opens at Mark Hellinger NYC for 7 perfs
1978 - Russian president Brezhnev visits West-Germany
1979 - Jackie Mercer wins her 4th golf title 31 years after her 1st
1979 - Margaret Thatcher elected prime minister of England
1979 - NASA launches Fltsatcom-2
1980 - Dodgers bat out of order against Phillies in 1st inning
1980 - Hollis Stacy wins LPGA CPC Women's Internationalional Golf Tournament
1980 - White Sox 1st baseman Mike Squires catches final inning of 11-1 loss to Brewers, becoming
           1st lefty to catch since Dale Long in 1958
1981 - Rockline premieres on KLOS FM in Los Angeles
1981 - Silvana Cruciata runs 15k female world record (49:44.0)
1981 - Yankee Ron Davis strikes out 8 consecutive Angels, ran record of 13 strikeouts of last 14
           faced, also saved Gene Nelsons 1st win, 4-2
1982 - British torpedo boat Sheffield off Falkland hit by Exocet rocket
1982 - Nordiques 2-Isles 4-Semifinals-Isles win series 4-0
1982 - Twins rookie outfielder Jim Eisenreich, who suffers from Tourette's Syndrome, removes
           himself, due to taunts from Red Sox bleacher fans
1983 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1984 - Dave Kingman's fly ball never comes down (stuck in Metrodome ceiling)
1985 - 111th Kentucky Derby: Angel Cordero Jr on Spend A Buck wins 2:00.2
1986 - President Babrak Karmal resigns as party leader of Afghanistan
1988 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1989 - Junior Felix of Toronto becomes 53rd to hit HR on 1st at bat
1989 - US launches Magellan to Venus
1989 - US space shuttle STS-30 launched
1990 - Angela Bowie reveals that ex husband David slept with Mick Jagger
1990 - Latvia's parliament votes 138-0 (1 abstention) for Independence
1990 - Oriole Gregg Olson sets relief pitcher rec of 41 cons scoreless inns
1990 - Pakistan beat Aust by 36 runs to win Austral-Asia Cup, Sharjah
1991 - 117th Kentucky Derby: Chris Antley aboard Strike the Gold wins in 2:03
1991 - ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Doug Kent
1991 - Actress Sharon Gless & producer Barney Rosenzeig wed
1991 - Indians' Chris James sets club record for most RBIs in a game (9)
1991 - Morris K Udall, (Rep-D-Ariz), resigns due to Parkinson disease
1991 - NY Mets M Sasser & Mark Carreon are 8th to hit consecutive pinch HRs
1991 - Pres Bush is hospitalized for erratic heartbeat
1993 - "Angels in America-Millennium Approaches" opens at Kerr for 367 perfs
1994 - Arsenal wins 34th Europe Cup II
1994 - Courtney Love cleared of drug charges
1996 - 122nd Kentucky Derby: Jerry Bailey aboard Grindstone wins in 2:01
1996 - ABC Bud Light Masters Bowling Tournament won by Ernie Schlegel
1996 - Greg Pavlik one-hits Tigers making the Rangers 1st AL team to pitch back-to-back one-
           hitters since the Washington Senators in 1917
1997 - Bruno's Memorial Senior Golf Classic
1997 - Phil Blackmar wins 50th Houston golf Open
1997 - Tammie Green wins LPGA Sprint Titlehoders Championship
1998 - A federal judge in Sacramento, California, gives "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski four life
           sentences plus 30 years after Kaczynski accepts a plea agreement sparing him from the
           death penalty.
2000 - Ken Livingstone becomes the first Mayor of London.
2001 - The Milwaukee Art Museum addition, the first Santiago Calatrava-designed structure in the
           United States, opens to the public.
2002 - Barry Bonds hits his 400th home run as a Giant, leading his team to a 3-0 win over
           Cincinnati. Bonds is the first player to hit 400 homers for one team and 100 with another
2007 - Greensburg, Kansas is almost completely destroyed by a 1.7m wide EF-5 tornado.
2007 - The Scottish National Party wins the Scottish general election and becomes the largest party
           in the Scottish Parliament for the first time ever.
2012 - 14 decapitated bodies and 9 hung from a bridge are found in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 04, 2013, 02:01:13 PM

This Day in History for 4th May


Famous Weddings

1996 - Actor-producer Forest Whitaker (35) weds actress-model Keisha Nash (23) in Montego Bay,
           Jamaica
1996 - "CSI Miami" actor David Caruso (40) weds flight attendant Margaret Buckley (33)
2009 - Two-time Tony winner singer-actress Bebe Neuwirth (50) weds Napa Valley's Destino vineyard
           founder Chris Calkins at the Players Club in New York

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 04, 2013, 02:36:28 PM

This Day in History for 4th May


Famous Birthdays

(http://i.historyorb.com/hosni-mubarak.jpg)                  (http://i.historyorb.com/audrey-hepburn.jpg)                 (http://i.historyorb.com/mike-dirnt.jpg)
Egyptian President                                 Actress Audrey Hepburn (1929)            Bassist Rocker Mike Dirnt (1972)
Hosni Mubarak (1928)


1006 - Khajeh Abdullah Ansari, The Persian Sufi (d. 1088), Herat, Khorasan (now Afghanistan)
1008 - King Henry I of France (d. 1060)
1611 - Carlo Rainaldi, composer
1631 - Mary I Henriette Stuart, daughter of Charles I/queen of England
1635 - Willem van Outhoorn, Dutch governor-general (Dutch East Indies)
1654 - Kangxi Emperor of China (d. 1722)
1655 - Bartolomeo di Francesco Cristofori, Italy, piano builder
1715 - Richard Graves, English writer (d. 1804)
1733 - Jean-Charles de Borda, French mathematician, physicist, political scientist, and sailor (d.
          1799)
1738 - Josef Kohaut, composer
1744 - Marianne von Martinez, composer
1752 - John Brooks, 11th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1825)
1763 - Franz Stanislaus Spindler, composer
1767 - Tyagaraja, Composer of Indian classical Carnatic music (d. 1847)
1769 - Charles Hague, composer
1772 - Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus, German publisher (d. 1823)
1776 - Johann Friedrich Herbart, Germany, philosopher/psychologist
1777 - Charles-Louis-Joseph Hanssens, composer
1781 - Karl Christian Friedrich Krause, German philosopher (d. 1832)
1796 - Horace Mann, US, educator/author/editor (pioneered public schools)
1796 - Joseph Pannell Taylor, Brigadier General (Union Army), died in 1864
1796 - William H. Prescott, American historian (d. 1859)
1820 - Joseph Whitaker, England, publisher, founded Whitaker's Almanack
1820 - Julia Gardiner Tyler, 2nd wife of Pres John Tyler (1841-45)
1822 - Charles Boucher de Boucherville, Quebec politician (d. 1915)
1825 - Thomas Henry Huxley, scientist/humanist/Darwinist
1825 - Augustus Le Plongeon, French antiquitarian (d. 1908)
1826 - Frederick Church, US romantic landscape painter (Hudson River Sch)
1827 - John Hanning Speke, British explorer (d. 1864)
1835 - Edmund Hart Turpin, composer
1852 - Alice Pleasance Liddell, English schoolgirl model for Alice in Wonderland (d. 1934)
1860 - Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek, Vienna Austria, composer (Donna Diana)
1867 - Dynam-Victor Fumet, composer
1870 - Alexandre Benois, Russian artist (d. 1960)
1871 - Mynona, writer
1873 - Joe De Grasse, Canadian film director (d. 1940)
1875 - Ramiro de Maeztu y Whitney, Spanish writer (Don Quixote & Celestine)
1875 - Reggie Schwartz, cricketer (1st of great South African googlists)
1877 - Arthur Lang, US, boxer/businessman (Died Aug 8, 1992 at 115)
1881 - Aleksandr F Kerenski, Russian premier (1917-Prelude to Bolshevism)
1882 - Wilhelm Lehmann, writer
1889 - Francis J Spellman, US Cardinal
1891 - Frederick Jacobi, composer
1891 - Johan W F Werumeus Buning, Dutch poet (Daily Bread)
1893 - Edgar Dearing, Ceres CA, actor (Abraham Lincoln, Free & Easy)
1893 - Royal Butler, [Edwin Richey], Atlanta GA, actor
1902 - Cola [Nicolas] Debrot, Bonaire governor (Neth Antilles)/author
1902 - Cvjetko Rihtman, composer
1902 - Rodney Meredith Thomas, architect/painter
1903 - Luther Adler, NYC, actor (Dr Bernard Altman-Psychiatrist)
1904 - Umm Kulthum, Egyptian singer (official Date of Birth) (d. 1975)
1905 - Mátyás Seiber, Budapest Hungary, composer (Scherzando)
1906 - Esmond Knight, East Sheen England, actor (Hamlet, Sleeping Murder)
1907 - Lincoln Kirstein, American impresario (d. 1996)
1909 - Howard Da Silva, [Silverblatt], Cleve Oh, actor (Ben Franklin-1776)
1909 - Jeroom Verten [Jozef F Vermetten], Flemish playwright
1910 - Mady Alfredo, [Maria M the Brieder], actress (Alicia)
1912 - Lou Brown, Bkln, orchestra leader (Jerry Lewis Show)
1913 - Lady Katherine Brandram, née Princess of Greece and Denmark (d. 2007)
1914 - Abdel Karim Kassem, general/premier/dictator of Iraq (1958-63)
1914 - Emmanuel Robles, Algerian-Fren journalist/playwright (Lesson Hauteurs)
1915 - Curt Conway, Boston MA, actor (Raw Deal)
1915 - Pedro Saenz, composer
1916 - Maurice "Moe" Purtill, jazz drummer
1917 - Edward Toner Cone, composer
1918 - Kakuei Tanaka, Japanese PM (1972-74), convicted of bribe-taking
1918 - Thomas Mead, Australian politician and journalist (d. 2004)
1919 - Dimiter Petkov, composer
1919 - Mary Ann McCall, singer
1921 - John van Kesteren, Dutch tenor (Komische Oper, West-Berlin)
1921 - Patsy Garrett, Atlantic City NJ, actress (Nanny & the Professor)
1921 - Edo Murtić, Croatian painter (d. 2005)
1922 - John Paul Hammerschmidt, (Rep-R-AR, 1967- )
1923 - Ed Cassidy, American musician (Spirit)
1923 - Assi Rahbani, Lebanese composer and author
1924 - Peter Aldersley, actor/disc jockey
1924 - Tat'yana Petrovna Nikolayeva, composer
1925 - Peter Blum, German/South African/English poet (Capricorn)
1925 - Maurice R. Greenberg, American businessman
1926 - G Reinshagen, writer
1926 - Milton "Milt" Thompson, US NASA-test pilot/chief-engineer (X-15)
1927 - Terry (Owen John) Scott, Watford UK, English actor and comedian (Carry On Films)
1928 - Betsy Rawls, Spartanburg SC, golfer (US Womens Open-51, 53, 57, 60)
1928 - Hosni Mubarak, Kafr-El Meselha, Egypt, Egyptian president (1981-2011)
1928 - Maynard Ferguson, Verdun Quebec, jazz trumpeter (Roulette)
1928 - Wolfgang von Trips, German racing driver (d. 1961)
1929 - Audrey Hepburn, Brussels Belg, (Breakfast at Tiffany's, My Fair Lady), (d. 1993)
1929 - Sidney Lamb, American linguist
1930 - Roberta Peters, NYC, operatic soprano (NY Met)
1931 - Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, Moscow Russia, conductor (USSR State Radio)
1931 - Thomas Stuttaford, British doctor and writer
1932 - Fausto Razzi, composer
1933 - J. Fred Duckett, Texan sports announcer and teacher
1934 - Pete Barbutti, Scranton Pa, comedian (Garry Moore Show)
1936 - El Cordobés, Spanish matador
1937 - Ron Carter, jazz bassist (Ron Carter Meets Bach)
1937 - Hans Ulrich Lehmann, composer
1937 - Mr. Fuji, Former professional wrestler
1937 - Dick Dale, American guitarist
1938 - Tyrone Davis, US R&B singer (Are you serious)
1938 - William J Bennett, US Secretary of Education (1985-88)
1938 - Carlos Monsiváis, Mexican writer
1939 - Amos Oz, Jerusalem, Israel, author (My Michael)
1939 - Paul Gleason, American actor (d. 2006)
1940 - Dick Curl, Chester Pa, offensive coordinator coach (Barcelona Dragons)
1940 - Robin Cook, American novelist
1941 - David LaFlamme, Utah, electric violinist (It's a Beautiful Day)
1941 - George F Will, political analyst (Night Line)
1941 - George Will, American writer
1942 - Ronnie Bond, drummer (Troggs-Wild Thing)
1943 - Nickolas Ashford, SC, singer (Ashford & Simpson-Solid as a Rock)
1943 - Stella Parton, sister of Dolly Parton/singer (A Woman's Touch)
1943 - Mikhail Chemiakin, Russian painter
1944 - Paul Gleason, Jersey City NJ, actor (Breakfast CLub, Die Hard)
1944 - Peggy Santiglia McGannon, NJ, rocker (Angels)
1945 - George Wadenius, rocker (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
1945 - Monika van Paemel, Belgian writer (Accursed Fathers)
1945 - Narasimhan Ram, Indian journalist
1946 - Renee Powell, LPGA golfer
1946 - John Watson, Northern Irish racecar driver
1948 - Billy O'Donnell, harness racer driver of year (1984)
1948 - Hurley Haywood, American race car driver, and three-time winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans
1948 - George Tupou V, Tonga, King of Tonga (2006-2012), (d. 2012)
1949 - Gerrit J P van Otterloo, Dutch MP (PvdA)
1949 - Sybil Danning, [Danninger], Weis Austria, actress (Chained Heat)
1949 - Zal Cleminson, rocker (Alex Harvey Band)
1949 - John Force, American race car driver
1949 - Graham Swift, British author
1950 - Darryl Hunt, English pop bassist (Pogues-Pair of Brown Eyes)
1950 - Hilly Hicks, LA California, actor (Roll Out, Roots)
1950 - René CM van Asten, Dutch actor (Herenstraat 10)
1951 - Gene Greenwood, (Rep-R-Pennsylvania)
1951 - Jackie Jackson, [Sigmund], Gary In, rocker (Jackson 5-ABC)
1951 - Colin Bass, British bassist (Camel)
1951 - Mick Mars, American guitarist (Mötley Crüe)
1951 - Tirso Cruz III, Filipino actor and singer.
1952 - Michael Barrymore, English comedian, actor, quiz master and entertainer
1954 - Julie Budd, Bkln, singer (Child of Plenty)
1954 - Pia Zadora, American actress
1955 - Robert Ellis Orrall, American singer
1956 - Jackie Bertsch, LPGA golfer
1956 - Michael L Gernhardt, Mansfield OH, astronaut (STS 69, 83, 94, sk 100)
1956 - Ulrike Meyfarth, Frankfurt West Germany, high jumper (Olympic-gold-1972)
1956 - David Guterson, American author
1956 - Ken Oberkfell, American baseball player
1956 - Sharon Jones, Augusta Georgia, soul/funk singer (Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings)
1957 - Peter Sleep, cricketer (Australian leg-spin all-rounder 1979-90)
1957 - Richard E Grant, Swaziland, actor (Posse, Bram Stoker's Dracula)
1958 - Keith Haring, Kutztown Pa, graffiti artist (Vanity Fair, Paris Review)
1959 - Randy Travis, Marshville NC, country singer (Diggin' Up Bones)
1959 - Robert Raymond Tway, Oklahoma City OK, PGA golfer (1986 Shearson)
1959 - Rohn Stark, NFL punter (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1959 - Scott Armstrong, American professional wrestling referee
1960 - Martyn Moxon, cricketer (England batsman in ten Tests 1986-89)
1960 - Andrew Denton, Australian television presenter and comedian
1961 - Eugene Daniel, NFL center (Indianapolis Colts, Baltimore Ravens)
1961 - Jay Aston, rocker
1961 - Mary Elizabeth McDonough, Van Nuys Cal, actress (Erin-Waltons)
1961 - Luis Herrera, Colombian cyclist
1961 - Ishita Bhaduri, Indian (Bengali) Poet
1962 - Tracy Vaccaro, Glendale California, playmate (October, 1983)
1962 - Oleta Adams, American singer
1964 - Goran Prpic, Yugoslavia, tennis star
1964 - Zsuzsa Mathe, Hungarian painter and visual artist, founder of transrealism
1965 - Adri Bogers, Dutch soccer player (Willem II)
1966 - Monica Tranel [Michini], Billings Mont, rower (Olympics-96)
1966 - Jane McGrath, co-founder of the McGrath Foundation for breast cancer (d. 2008)
1967 - Derek MacCready, CFL defensive tackle (Edmonton Eskimos)
1967 - John Child, East York Ontario, beach volleyballer (Olympics-bronze-96)
1967 - Matthew Crane, Kimberton Pa, actor (Matt Cory-Another World)
1967 - Ana Gasteyer, American actress
1967 - Kate Garraway, English GMTV Presenter
1968 - Andre Collins, NFL linebacker (Cin Bengals)
1968 - Eddie Perez, Cuidad Ojeda Venezuela, catcher (Atlanta Braves)
1968 - Kevin Todd, Winnipeg, NHL center (LA Kings)
1968 - Julian Barratt, English comedian and musician, one half of The Mighty Boosh
1969 - Micah Aivazoff, Canadian ice hockey player
1969 - Ryan Shamrock, American wrestling valet
1970 - Dawn Staley, Phila, basketball guard (Olympics-gold-96)
1970 - Gregg Alexander, American musician (New Radicals)
1971 - Derrick Clark, NFL/WLAF fullback (Broncos, Rhein Fire)
1971 - Steve Glenn, CFL linebacker (BC Lions)
1971 - Joe Borowski, American baseball player
1971 - Luiz Garcia, Jr., Brazilian racing driver
1972 - Mike Dirnt [Michael Ryan Pritchard], Berkeley, California, American musician (Green Day)
1972 - Ethan Watts, Phila, volleyball middle blocker (Olympics-96)
1972 - Gretchen Ulion, ice hockey forward (USA, Oly-98)
1972 - Marc Lamb, WLAF T (London Monarchs)
1973 - Edward Hervey, NFL wide receiver (Dallas Cowboys)
1973 - Matthew Barnaby, Ottawa, NHL left wing (Buffalo Sabres)
1973 - Melissa Boyd, Miss Ohio USA (1996)
1973 - Michelle Martinez, Dallas Texas, Miss America (Texas-Top 10-1997)
1973 - Guillermo Barros Schelotto, Argentine footballer
1974 - Miguel Cairo, Venezuelan baseball player
1975 - Pablo Ruiz, Buenos Aires Arg, spanish singer
1975 - Laci Peterson, American murder victim (d. 2002)
1976 - Heather Kozar, Akron OH, playmate (Jan, 1998)
1976 - Ben Grieve, American baseball player
1976 - Jason Michaels, American baseball player
1977 - Emily Perkins, Canadian actress
1977 - Mariano Pernía, Argentine-Spanish footballer
1978 - Shaenon K. Garrity, American webcomics writer and artist
1978 - Brett Burton , Australian Football Player for the Adelaid Crows
1979 - Wes Butters, British broadcaster
1979 - Lance Bass, American singer (*NSYNC)
1979 - Lesley Vainikolo, Tongan born rugby union and rugby league player
1980 - Andrew Raycroft, NHL goalie
1981 - Eric Djemba-Djemba, Cameroon footballer
1982 - Kleopas Giannou, Greek footballer
1982 - Markus Rogan, Austrian swimmer
1982 - Hector King, Mexican singer-songwriter
1982 - Rasheeda,American hiphop singer
1983 - Trisha Krishnan, Indian actress
1983 - Derek Roy, Canadian ice hockey player
1984 - Manjural Islam, Bangladeshi test cricket player (d. 2007)
1984 - Kevin Slowey, American baseball player
1984 - Montell Owens, American football player
1985 - Anthony Fedorov, American singer
1985 - Ravinder Bopara, English cricketer
1987 - Cesc Fabregas, Spanish footballer
1987 - Jorge Lorenzo, Spanish motorcycle racer
1987 - Anjeza Shahini, Albanian singer
1989 - Rory McIlroy, Holywood Northern Ireland, Professional Golfer
1992 - Courtney Jines, American actress
1994 - Alexander Gould, American actor
1994 - Pauline Ducruet, daughter of HSH Princess Stéphanie of Monaco

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 04, 2013, 02:37:57 PM

This Day in History for 4th May


Famous Deaths

1436 - Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson, Swedish statesman (b. 1390s)
1471 - Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales (killed in battle) (b. 1453)
1471 - Edmund Beaufort, 4th Duke of Somerset, English military commander (executed)
1506 - Husayn Bayqarah, ruler of Herat (b. 1438)
1519 - Lorenzo II de' Medici, Duke of Urbino (b. 1492)
1566 - Luca Ghini, Italian physician and botanist (b. 1490)
1594 - Paul Buys, Grand Pensionary of Holland, dies at 62
1604 - Claudio Merulo, composer, dies at 71
1605 - Ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian biologist/medical, dies at 82
1615 - Adriaan van Roomen, Flemish mathematician (b. 1561)
1626 - Arthur Lake, Bishop of Bath and Wells, English bishop and Bible translator (b. 1569)
1677 - Isaac Barrow, English mathematician (b. 1630)
1684 - John Nevison, English highwayman (b. 1639)
1729 - Louis-Antoine, Cardinal de Noailles, French cardinal (b. 1651)
1734 - James Thornhill, English painter
1737 - Eustace Budgell, English writer (b. 1686)
1752 - Pieter Snyers, Flemish painter/engraver, dies at 71
1770 - Christian Gottfried Krause, composer, dies at 51
1774 - Anthony Ulrich II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (b. 1714)
1776 - Jacques Saly, French sculptor (b. 1717)
1790 - Matthew Tilghman, American delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1718)
1799 - Tipu Sultan, Indian military leader killed during Battle of Seringapatam (b. 1750)
1811 - Nikolay Kamensky, Russian general (b. 1776)
1824 - Joseph Joubert, French essayist and moralist (b. 1754)
1832 - Jan van Speyck, Dutch admiral, buried in New Church
1855 - Camille Pleyel, Austria piano builder/composer, dies at 66
1858 - Aimé Bonpland, French explorer and botanist (b. 1773)
1859 - Joseph Diaz Gergonne, French mathematician (b. 1771)
1879 - William Froude, Brit civil eng/shipbuilder (F Integer), dies at 68
1880 - Edward Clark, Governor of Texas (b. 1815)
1885 - Aleksandar I Karadjordjevic, monarch of Serbia (1842-58), dies at 78
1891 - Sherlock Holmes, "dies" at Reichenbach Falls
1893 - George Washington Hewitt, composer, dies at 82
1901 - John Jones Ross, Canadian politician (b. 1831)
1903 - Goce Delchev, a revolutionary from the Balkans - leader of the Internal Macedonian
           Revolutionary Organization (b. 1872)
1916 - Joseph Mary Plunkett, Irish revolutionary (b. 1887)
1919 - Milan Rastislav Štefánik, Slovak politician, French general and astronomer (b. 1880)
1922 - Viktor Kingissepp, Estonian Bolshevik politician (b. 1888)
1928 - Barry E Odell Pain, English writer (Punch), dies at 63
1929 - Henry Morton Dunham, composer, dies at 75
1937 - Noel Rosa, Brazilian songwriter (b. 1910)
1938 - Carl von Ossietzky, German pacifist/writer (Nobel 1935), dies at 48
1953 - Edward B B Shanks, British poet/critic, dies at 60
1953 - Thomas Tertius Noble, composer, dies at 85
1955 - Georges Enescu, Romanian/French violist/composer (Oedipe), dies at 73
1955 - Louis Breguet, French aviation pioneer, dies at 75
1961 - Anita Stewart, dies of heart attack at 66
1965 - Norman Brokenshire, TV moderator (Four Square Court), dies at 66
1966 - Juan Maria Thomas Sabater, composer, dies at 69
1967 - Bengt Axel von Torne, composer, dies at 75
1969 - Osbert Sitwell, English writer (b. 1892)
1970 - 4 students, at Kent State University killed by Ohio National Guard
1970 - William Schroeder (b. 1950)
1971 - Donald Dexter Van Slyke, US chemist (Cyanosis), dies at 88
1971 - Joseph Csaky, Hungarian/French sculptor, dies at 83
1971 - Louis de Bree, [Louis C Davids], Dutch actor (Bluejackets), dies at 87
1972 - Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
          (b. 1886)
1973 - Jane Bowles, writer, dies at 56
1974 - Israel Citkowitz, composer, dies at 65
1974 - John Wengraf, actor (Pride & Passion, 12 to the Moon), dies at 77
1975 - Moe Howard, [Moses Horowitz], comedian (3 Stooges), dies at 77
1980 - Josip Broz Tito, leader of Yugoslavia (1943-80), dies at 87
1980 - Kay Hammond, actress (Blithe SPirit, 5 Golden Hours), dies
1983 - Nino Sanzogno, composer, dies at 72
1984 - Diana Dors, actress (Berserk!), dies at 52 of cancer
1984 - Bob Clampett, American cartoonist (b. 1913)
1985 - Clarence Wiseman, the 10th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1907)
1987 - Cathryn Damon, actress (Mary Campbell-Soap), dies at 56
1987 - Dick Hillenius, Dutch biologist/writer, dies at 59
1987 - Paul Butterfield, singer/harmonica player, dies of drug abuse at 44
1990 - Don Appell, dies
1991 - Dennis Crosby, son of Bing, commits suicide at 54
1992 - Henri Guillemin, French historian, dies at 89
1992 - Ismael Galeano, "Commandant Franklyn" (Contra), dies
1992 - Vitali Andreyevich Grishchenko, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 50
1992 - Gregor Mackenzie, Labour Party (UK) politician (b. 1927)
1994 - Karl Francis Hettinger, onion Field survivor, dies at 59
1995 - Lewis T Preston, banker, dies at 68
1995 - Louis Krasner, violinist, dies at 91
1996 - Jean Crepin, soldier/industrialist, dies at 87
1996 - Stanley William Reed, cineaste, dies at 85
1997 - Alvy Moore, actor/producer (Mr Kimball-Green Acres), dies at 75
1997 - Vijayananda Dahanayake, PM of Sri Lanka (1959-60), dies
2001 - Bonnie Lee Bakley, American murder victim (b. 1956)
2005 - David Hackworth, U.S. Army officer and military journalist (b. 1930)
2009 - Dom Deluise, American comedian, actor (b. 1933)
2010 - Ernie Harwell, American sportscaster (b. 1918)
2010 - Zvonimir Levačić - Ševa, Croatian humorist and entertainer (b. 1943)
2012 - MCA [Adam Yauch], beastie boys vocalist, dies from cancer at 47

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 05, 2013, 10:06:18 AM

This Day in History for 5th May


Historical Events

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Naturalist Charles Darwin                           Composer Tchaikovsky                 Pacifist and Spiritual Leader Gandhi

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Novelist Norman Mailer                        Country singer Tammy Wynette


553 - 2nd Council of Constantinople (5th ecumenical council) opens
1260 - Kublai Khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire.
1382 - Battle of Beverhoutsveld - population beats drunken army
1430 - Jews are expelled from Speyer Germany
1494 - On 2nd voyage to New World, Christopher Columbus sights Jamaica
1640 - English Short Parliament unites
1646 - King Charles I surrenders at Scotland
1665 - Nicolaas Witsen visits patriarch Nikon in Moscow
1726 - Marie de Camargo (16) premieres at Opera of Paris
1762 - Russia & Prussia sign peace treaty, Treaty of Saint Petersburg ending the Seven Years War
1764 - Smolny-institution forms in St Petersburg for noble girls
1780 - 2nd oldest learned society in US (American Academy of Arts & Sciences) forms (Boston)
1789 - French States-General for It first since 1614 together
1809 - Citizenship is denied to Jews of Canton of Aargau Switzerland
1809 - Mary Kies is 1st woman issued a US patent (weaving straw)
1814 - British attack Ft Ontario, Oswego, NY
1816 - American Bible Society organized (NY)
1834 - Charles Darwin's expedition begins at Rio Santa Cruz
1835 - King Leopold opens Brussels-Mechelen railway
1842 - City-wide fire burns for over 100 hours (Hamburg Germany)
1847 - American Medical Association organized (Philadelphia)
1854 - English pirate Plumridge robs along pro-English Finnish coast
1855 - NYC regains Castle Clinton, to be used for immigration
1861 - Alexandria, VA - CS troops abandon city
1862 - French army intervenes in Puebla, Mexico: Cinco de Mayo
1862 - Peninsular Campaign-Battle of Williamsburg, VA
1863 - Battle of Tupelo, MS
1863 - Joe Coburn KOs Mike McCoole for US boxing title in 63rd round
1864 - Atlanta Campaign: 5 days fighting begins at Rocky Face Ridge
1864 - Battle between Confederate & Union ships at mouth of Roanoke
1864 - Battle of Wilderness, VA (Germanna Ford, Wilderness Tavern)
1864 - Campaign in Northern Georgia - Chattanooga GA to Atlanta GA
1865 - 1st US train robbery (North Bend Ohio)
1874 - Dutch 2nd Chamber passes child labor law
1877 - Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the
           United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles.
1881 - Anit-Jewish rioting in Kiev Ukraine
1886 - The Bay View Tragedy occurs, as militia fire upon a crowd of protesters in Milwaukee,
           Wisconsin killing seven.
1891 - Music Hall (Carnegie Hall) opens in NY, Tchaikovsky as guest conductor
1893 - Panic of 1893: Great crash on NY Stock Exchange
1900 - "The Billboard" began weekly publication
1904 - Cy Young of Boston pitches perfect game against Phila A's (3-0)
1905 - Robert S Abbott published 1st issue of newspaper "Chicago Defender"
1908 - 34th Kentucky Derby: Arthur Pickens on Stone Street wins in 2:15.2
1908 - Great White Fleet arrives in SF
1912 - 5th Olympic games open at Stockholm, Sweden
1912 - Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda begins publishing (4/22 OS)
1915 - German U-20 sinks Earl of Lathom
1916 - US marines invade Dominican Republic, stay until 1924
1917 - St Louis Brown Ernie Koob no-hits Chic White Sox, 1-0
1920 - German-Latvian peace treaty signed
1920 - Polish troops occupy Kiev
1920 - US Pres Wilson makes Communist Labor Party illegal
1921 - 1st ranger for Cleveland Metroparks hired
1921 - Miniature newspaper published (Brighton Gazette 10 x 13 cm)
1922 - Construction begins on Yankee Stadium (Bronx)
1924 - Unions terminate Twentse textile strike
1925 - John T Scopes arrested for teaching evolution in Tennessee
1925 - Ty Cobb goes 6 for 6, (16 total bases)
1925 - Yankee Everett Scott is benched, ending his 1,307-game playing streak
1925 - Afrikaans is established as an official language in South Africa.
1926 - Geldrop soccer team forms
1926 - Sinclair Lewis refuses his Pulitzer Prize for "Arrowsmith"
1927 - Dmitri Sjostakovitch' 1st Symphony, premieres in Berlin
1930 - 1st woman to fly solo from Engl to Australia takes-off (Amy Johnson)
1930 - Bradman scores 185* Aust v Leicestershire, 317 mins, 16 fours
1932 - Japan & China sign a peace treaty
1934 - 60th Kentucky Derby: Mack Garner aboard Cavalcade wins in 2:04
1935 - Jessie Owens of US, sets then long jump record at 26' 8½"
1936 - Edward Ravenscroft patents screw-on bottle cap with a pour lip
1936 - Italian troops occupy Addis Ababa
1938 - Phillies Harold Kelleher faces 16 batters in 6th, as Cubs score 12 runs, both marks are NL
           records off one hurler in a single inning
1939 - Flash floods kill 75 in Northeast Kentucky
1940 - Norwegian government in exile forms in London
1941 - 2 Fokker's employees flee nazi occupied Netherlands to England
1941 - Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa
1941 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert E Sherwood (There shall be no night)
1941 - Chanel No. 5 was released.
1942 - British assault on Diego Suarez Madagascar
1942 - US begins rationing sugar during WW II
1943 - Postmaster General Frank C Walker invents Postal Zone System
1944 - Gandhi freed from prison
1944 - Russian offensive against Sebastopol Krim
1945 - Mauthausen Concentration camp liberated
1945 - Netherlands & Denmark liberated from Nazi control
1945 - Uprising against SS-occupying troops in Prague
1945 - Premier Gerbrandy on Radio Orange tells Dutch they are liberated
1945 - World War II: Admiral Karl Dönitz, leader of Germany after Hitler's death, orders all U-boats
           to cease offensive operations and return to their bases.
1947 - Mississippi Valley flooding kills 16 & causes $850M in damage
1947 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert Penn Warren (All the King's Men)
1948 - 1st air squadron of jets aboard a carrier
1948 - Belgian government of Spaak resigns
1949 - Council of Europe forms
1949 - KGO TV channel 7 in San Francisco, CA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1949 - Statue of Council of Europe drawn
1949 - Tiger 2nd baseman Charlie Gehringer selected to Hall of Fame
1950 - Phumiphon Abundet crowned as king Rama IX of Thailand
1951 - "Out of This World" closes at New Century Theater NYC after 157 perfs
1951 - 77th Kentucky Derby: Conn McCreary aboard Count Turf wins in 2:02.6
1952 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Herman Wouk (Caine Mutiny)
1952 - Ron Necciai of Pitts Pirate's Bristol Twins Class D farm team, strikes out 27, as he no-hits
           Welch Minors, 4 Minors do reach base
1954 - Military coup by general Alfredo Stroessner in Paraguay
1955 - "Damn Yankees" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 1022 performances
1955 - Indies parliament accept hindu-divorce
1955 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada test Site
1955 - West Germany granted full sovereignty by 3 occupying powers
1956 - 82nd Kentucky Derby: David Erb aboard Needles wins in 2:03.4
1956 - Broekster Boys soccer team forms in Damwoude
1956 - Jim Bailey (US) runs mile a record 3:58.6 in LA Calif
1956 - World championships of judo are 1st held, in Tokyo
1957 - Adolf Scharf elected president of Austria
1957 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Open
1958 - KNME TV channel 5 in Albuquerque, NM (PBS) begins broadcasting
1958 - Pulitzer prize awarded to James Agee for (Death in the Family)
1958 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
1961 - Alan Shepard becomes 1st American in space (aboard Freedom 7)
1962 - 88th Kentucky Derby: Bill Hartack aboard Decidedly wins in 2:00.4
1962 - LA Angel Bo Belinsky no-hits Balt Orioles, 2-0
1962 - West Side Story soundtrack album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 54 weeks which is more than
           20 weeks longer than any other album
1963 - Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Open
1964 - Separatists riot in Quebec
1965 - 1st large-scale US Army ground units arrive in South Vietnam
1966 - Borussia Dortmund wins 6th Europe Cup II
1966 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Detroit Red Wings, 4 games to 2
1966 - Willie Mays hit his 512th HR
1968 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Club Golf Invitational
1969 - 23rd NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat LA Lakers, 4 games to 3
1969 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Norman Mailer (Armies of the Night)
1970 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada test Site
1971 - "Earl of Ruston" opens at Billy Rose Theater NYC for 5 performances
1971 - Race riot in Brownsville section of Brooklyn (NYC)
1972 - Alitalia DC-8 crashes west of Palermo Sicily; killing 115
1973 - 99th Kentucky Derby: Ron Turcotte aboard Secretariat wins in 1:59.4
1974 - Sandra Spuzich wins LPGA Lady Tara Golf Classic
1975 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Michael Shaara (Killer Angels)
1975 - A's release pinch runner Herb Washington (played 104 games without batting, pitching, or
           fielding He stole 30 bases, & scored 33 runs)
1976 - Anderlecht wins 16th soccer Europe Cup II
1976 - Train collision at Schiedam Neth, kills 24
1978 - Cin Red Pete Rose becomes 14th player to get 3,000 hits
1979 - 105th Kentucky Derby: Ron Franklin on Spectacular Bid wins in 2:02.4
1979 - Masterpiece Radio Theater begins broadcasting
1979 - Voyager 1 passes Jupiter
1980 - Siege at Iranian Embassy in London ends; British commandos & police stormed the building
1980 - Constantine Karamanlis is elected for the first time President of Greece.
1981 - 16th & final Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 4-1, hold 8-7-1 edge
1983 - Bruins 5-Isles 1-Wales Conference Championship-Isles hold 3-2 lead
1983 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1984 - 110th Kentucky Derby: Laffit Pincay Jr aboard Swale wins in 2:02.4
1985 - Amy Alcott wins LPGA Moss Creek Women's Golf Invitational
1986 - Hall of Fame & Museum announced to be built in Cleveland
1987 - Congress begins Iran-Contra hearings
1987 - Detroit Tigers are 11 games back in AL, but go on to win AL East
1987 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1988 - Eugene A Marino installed as 1st black US archbishop
1989 - Mike Tyson gets 2nd speeding ticket for drag racing in Albany NY
1990 - 116th Kentucky Derby: Craig Perret aboard Unbridled wins in 2:02
1990 - ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Chris Warren
1990 - Paul Hogan & Linda Koslowski wed in Byron Bay, Eastern Australia
1991 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic
1991 - A riot breaks out in the Mt. Pleasant section of Washington, D.C. after a Salvadoran man is
           shot by police.
1992 - Country singer Tammy Wynette hospitalized with bile duct infection
1994 - "Sally Marrand Her Escorts" opens at Helen Hayes NYC for 50 perfs
1994 - Labour beats Conservatives in British local elections
1994 - North-Yemen air force bombs Aden South Yemen
1995 - Last basketball game at Boston Gardens (Magic beats Celtics)
1996 - "Jack-Night on Town with J Barrymore" closes at Belasco after 12 perfs
1996 - Karrie Webb wins LPGA Sprint Titleholders Golf Championship
1996 - Renette Cruz, Vancouver, wins Miss Canadian Universe
1997 - "Married With Children" final episode on Fox TV
1997 - Iridium-1 Delta 2 Launch, Successful
2000 - Conjunction of Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn & Moon
2005 - The United Kingdom general election takes place, in which Tony Blair's Labour Party is re-
           elected for a third, consecutive term.
2006 - The government of Sudan signs an accord with the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA).
2007 - Kenya Airways Flight KQ 507 crashes in Cameroon.
2012 - 17 people are killed and 47 missing after a flash flood in Nepal
2012 - Japan shuts down its nuclear reactors leaving the country without nuclear power for the first
           time since 1970

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 05, 2013, 11:11:39 AM

This Day in History for 5th May


Famous Weddings

1797 - Napoleon I's sister Elisa marries Felix Bacciochi
1978 - "Happy Days" actor Anson Williams (28) weds Lorrie Maheffey
1990 - "Crocodile Dundee" actors Paul Hogan (50) weds Linda Kozlowski (32) at their newly built $3
           million mansion at Faraway Possum Creek in New South Wales, Australia
2000 - Academy Award-winning actress Angelina Jolie (24) weds actor Billy Bob Thornton (44) at The
           Little Church of The West Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas, Nevada
2007 - Actress and singer Brittany Murphy (29) weds writer and director Simon Monjack (37) at their
           home in Los Angeles City
2007 - "Scream" actress Neve Campbell (33) weds actor John Light (32) in Malibu
2012 - Actress Julie Benz (40) weds marketing executive Rich Orosco (39) at the historic John
           Sowden house in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 05, 2013, 11:32:44 AM

This Day in History for 5th May


Famous Birthdays

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Communist Philosopher                               Country singer                                                  Singer-songwriter
Karl Marx (1818)                                         Tammy Wynette (1942)                                    Craig David (1981)


867 - Uda, Emperor of Japan (d. 931)
1210 - King Afonso III of Portugal (d. 1279)
1352 - Ruprecht, Roman catholic German king
1479 - Guru Amar Das, third Sikh Guru (d. 1574)
1546 - Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, English politician (d. 1623)
1557 - Emmanuel-Philibert van Lalaing, baron of Montigny/marquis of Renty
1635 - Philippe Quinault, French playwright (L'amant indiscret)
1657 - Jacques Danican Philidor, composer
1680 - Giuseppe Porsile, composer
1715 - Daniel Dal Barba, composer
1747 - Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1792)
1749 - Jean-Frederic Edelmann, composer
1764 - Robert Craufurd, British general (d. 1812)
1800 - Louis Hachette, French publisher (Librairie Hachette)
1804 - Jacob Kats, Flemish writer (Earthly Paradise)
1813 - Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher (d. 1855)
1815 - Eugene-Marin Labiche, French playwright
1817 - George Washington Julian, MC (Union), died in 1899
1818 - Karl Marx, Trier, Prussia, philosopher (Communist Manifesto, Das Kapital), (d. 1883)
1819 - Stanislaw Moniuszko, Polish composer
1823 - James Allen Hardie, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1876
1826 - Eugenie M de Montijo y de Guzman, Empress of France
1830 - John Batterson Stetson, American hat manufacturer (d. 1906)
1832 - H H Bancroft, historian, publisher (History of Pacific States)
1833 - Ferdinand von Richthofen, German geographer/explorer
1834 - Viktor Hartmann, Russian architect and painter (d. 1873)
1835 - Leopold II, Belgian crown prince, baptized
1842 - Johann Nepomuk Fuchs, composer
1846 - Federico Chueca, composer
1846 - Henryk Sienkiewicz, Poland, author (Quo Vadis, Nobel 1905)
1848 - Adalbert von Goldschmidt, composer
1849 - Hambletonian, Chester NY, greatest standardbred horse
1854 - Antonio Smareglia, composer
1862 - Max Elskamp, Belgian author/poet (Lesson Joies Blondes, Maya)
1863 - Frederik A Stoett, linguist (Dutch Proverbs)
1865 - Felicjan Szopski, composer
1865 - Nellie Bly, [Elizabeth Cochran Seaman], American journalist and writer (d. 1922)
1866 - Thomas B. Thrige, Danish industrialist (d. 1938)
1867 - Thomas Tertius Noble, composer
1869 - Hans Pfitzner, Russian-born composer (d. 1949)
1871 - Alberto Cametti, composer
1879 - Symon Petlyura, leader Ukraine (pogroms)
1883 - Charles Bender, only American Indian in baseball's Hall of Fame
1883 - Leopold Samuel, composer
1883 - Petar Konjovic, composer
1883 - Archibald Wavell, British general (d. 1950)
1884 - Wang Tjing-Wei, premier China (1932-35)
1885 - Henri Velge, 1st chairman (Belgian Council of State)
1886 - Manuel Borguno, composer
1887 - Estelle Hemsley, Boston MA
1887 - Lord Geoffrey Fisher of Lambeth, archbishop of Canterbury
1889 - Herbie Taylor, cricketer (prolific South African pre- & post-WWI)
1890 - Christopher Morley, author (Kitty Foil)
1894 - Kit Guard, Denmark, actor (El Diablo Rides, Kid Courageous)
1899 - Freeman Gosden, Richmond Va, radio actor (Amos-Amos 'n' Andy)
1900 - Charles Jewtraw, US, 500m speed skater (Olympic-gold-1924)
1900 - Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt, German composer/conductor (Hassan gewinnt)
1900 - Mervyn A Ellison, British astronomer (spectrohelioscope)
1901 - Blind Willie McTell, American ragtime singer and guitarist (d. 1959)
1903 - James Beard, US, culinary expert/author (Delights & Prejudices)
1904 - Gordon Richards, British jockey (winner of 4,870 races)
1905 - Arnold Meijer, Dutch leader of fascist Dutch National/Black Front
1905 - Robert Houben, Belgian CVP-minister of Public health (1958)
1906 - Ursula Jeans, Simla India. actress (I Lived With You, Over the Moon)
1907 - Benny Baker, St Joseph MO, actor (18 Again, Sting II, Thunderbirds)
1907 - Kenneth Muir, English scholar
1907 - Yoritsune Matsudaira, composer
1908 - Jacques Massu, French general (Algeria)
1908 - Rex Harrison, [Reginald Carey], Engld, actor (My Fair Lady, Cleopatra)
1908 - Kurt Böhme, German bass (d. 1989)
1909 - Miklos Radnoti, writer
1910 - William I Martin, US pilot/vice-admiral (WW II)
1911 - Giles Grangier, film director
1911 - Norman Oldfield, cricketer (Engl batsman one Test v WI 1939, 80 & 19)
1911 - Phillip Edmund Clinton Manson-Bahr, specialist in tropical medicine
1912 - Alice Faye, [Ann Leppert], NYC, actress (Barricade, State Fair)
1912 - W Fenton Morley, preacher
1913 - Tyrone Power, Cleve, actor (Mark of Zorro, Alexander's Ragtime Band)
1915 - Richard H Rovere, Jersey City, journalist (Goldwater Caper)
1915 - Alice Faye, American actress (d. 1998)
1916 - Mutal' Burkhanov, composer
1916 - Zail Singh, President of India (d. 1994)
1917 - Ron Saggers, cricket wicket-keeper (effective NSW & Aussie late 40's)
1918 - Erbie Bowser, pianist
1919 - George London, Montreal Canada, bass-baritone (Monterone-Rigoleto)
1919 - Tony Canadeo, Chicago, NFL hall of fame halfback (Green Bay Packers)
1919 - Georgios Papadopoulos, Greek dictator (d. 1999)
1920 - John Hidalgo Moya, architect/designer (Skylon)
1921 - Sonja Oosterman, Dutch singer (Marketensters)
1922 - Jay D Miller, record producer
1922 - Phil Gordon, Meridian Miss, singer/actor (Jasper-Bev Hillbillies)
1923 - Godfrey Quigley, actor (Barry Lyndon, Educating Rita, Rooney)
1923 - Richard Wollheim, British philosopher (d. 2003)
1924 - Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, Buenos Aires, director (Monday's Child)
1924 - Theo Olof, German/Neth violinist/prodigy/concert master
1925 - Monica Lewis, actress (Box Office)
1925 - Leo Ryan, United States Congressman (d. 1978)
1925 - Mykola Plaviuk, Rusiv, Poland, Ukranian president (1978-81), (d. 2012)
1926 - Ann B Davis, Schenectady NY, American actress (Bob Cummings Show, Alice-Brady Bunch)
1927 - Charles Rosen, NYC, pianist/musicologist (Sonata Forms)
1927 - Pat Carroll, Shrevport La, comedienne/actress (Make Room for Daddy)
1927 - Sid O'Linn, cricketer (soccer for South Africa 1947, cricket 1960)
1928 - Pierre Schoendoerffer,Chamalieres, France, director and screen-writer (The Anderson
           Platoon), (d. 2012)
1929 - John S Ragin, Newark NJ, actor (Dr Astin-Quincy ME)
1930 - Michael James Adams, USAF pilot (X-15)
1931 - Greg, Belgian comic-book writer (Achille Talon) (d, 1999)
1932 - Aurel Stroe, composer
1932 - Will Hutchins, Atwater California, actor (Sugarfoot, Hey Landlord)
1934 - Ace Cannon, American saxophonist
1935 - Douglas Marland, West Sand Lake NY, soap opera writer (Gen Hospital)
1936 - Patrick Gowers, British composer
1937 - Rob Van Gennep, publisher
1938 - Jerzy Skolimowski, Warsaw Poland, director (Hands Up, Deep End)
1938 - Johnnie Taylor, Crawfordsville, Arkansas, R&B and multi-genre singer (Disco Lady, I Believe in
           You), (d. 2000)
1938 - Michael Murphy, LA CA, actor (McCabe & Mrs Miller, Unmarried Woman)
1939 - James R Jones, (Rep-D-OK, 1973- )
1939 - Cesare Fiorio, Italian sporting director of various Formula One teams
1940 - Lance Henriksen, actor (Aliens, Pumpkinhead, Knights, Hard Target)
1941 - Aleksandr Ragulin, USSR, ice hockey play (Olympic-gold-1964, 68, 72)
1941 - Howie Komives, NBA star (NY Knicks, Buffalo Braves)
1942 - Amy Hill, actress (Grandma-Seinfeld, Pauly Shore)
1942 - Tammy Wynette [Virginia Pugh], Redbay Alabama, country singer (Stand by your Man), (d.
           1998)
1942 - Marc Alaimo, American actor
1943 - Michael Palin, England, comedian (Monty Python, Fish Called Wanda)
1943 - Raphael, Spanish singer
1944 - Jean-Pierre Leaud, Paris France, actor (Detective)
1944 - John Rhys-Davies, Salisbury England, actor (Sir Edward-Quest, Sliders)
1944 - Roger Raised, English actor (Nicholas Nickleby)
1944 - Bo Larsson, Swedish footballer
1945 - Jiri Svoboda, composer (Accumulator 1)
1945 - Raphael, Spain, spanish singer (When the Sun Sets, Lo Meyur de Ano)
1945 - Kurt Loder, Entertainment reporter
1946 - Stefania Sandrelli, Viareggio Italy, actress (Lie, Conformist, 1900)
1948 - Bill Ward, Birmingham England, heavy metal drummer (Black Sabbath)
1948 - Frank Esier-Smith, rocker
1949 - Anna Bergman, Stockholm Sweden, actress (Agent 69)
1950 - Maggie MacNeal, Dutch singer (Mouth & MacNeal, I See a Star)
1950 - Googoosh, Faegheh Atashin (فائقه آتشین), Iranian, Persian Singer & actress
1951 - Rex Goh, rock guitarist (Air Supply)
1952 - Louis Cortelezzi, rock saxophonist (Mink DeVille)
1952 - Campbell McComas, Australian impersonator and broadcaster (d. 2005)
1953 - Billy Burnette, Memphis Tn, rock guitarist (Fleetwood Mac)
1954 - Angelo Kimball, Boston Mass, rock guitarist (Face To Face)
1954 - John Greg Adams, Scottsdale AZ, PGA golfer (1982 Hall of Fame-2nd)
1954 - Dave Spector, American television personality and commentator
1955 - Melinda Culea, Western Springs Ill, actress (A-Team, Brotherly Love)
1955 - Robert Feld, Nashville Tn, National Scrabble Champion (1990)
1956 - Dick Kemper, Amsterdam Neth, rock vocalist/bassist (Vandenberg)
1957 - Lisa Eilbacher, Dharan Saudi Arabia, actress (Beverly Hills Cop)
1957 - Thereza Bazaar, rocker (Dollar-Love's Gotta Hold on Me)
1957 - Peter Howitt, British actor and film director
1958 - Ron Arad, Israeli aircraft navigator missing in action.
1959 - Ian McCullough, rock vocalist (Echo & Bunnymen-Heaven Up Here)
1959 - Brian Phelps, American disk jockey and actor
1961 - Hiro Hase, wrestler (NJPW)
1962 - Jenifer McKitrick, American songwriter
1963 - Simon Rimmer, English chef
1963 - Heidi Kozak, American actress
1963 - James LaBrie, Canadian singer (Dream Theater)
1964 - Heike Henkel, German FR, world record indoor high jumper (1992)
1964 - Lorraine McIntosh, British pop singer (Deacon Blue-Fellow Hoodlums)
1964 - Ulrich Wilson, soccer player (FC Volendam)
1965 - Paul Frase, NFL defensive tackle (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1965 - Glenn Seton, Australian racing driver
1966 - Mike Stapleton, Sarnia, NHL center (Winnipeg Jets)
1966 - Shawn Drover, Canadian drummer (Megadeth)
1967 - Brad Baxter, NFL fullback (NY Jets)
1967 - Charles Nagy, Fairfield CT, pitcher (Cleveland Indians)
1967 - Takehito Koyasu, Japanese seiyu (voice actor)
1967 - Maro Mavri, Greek fashion model and actress
1968 - Craig Hendrickson, CFL tackle (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1968 - Michael Titley, WLAF TE (London Monarchs)
1968 - Robert David Burns, Mission Hills CA, PGA golfer (1994 Buick-5th)
1968 - Tim Neilsen, cricket wicket-keeper (South Australian 1991)
1969 - Bryan Ivie, Torrance California, volleyball middle blocker (Oly-br-92, 96)
1970 - Harold Nash, CFL halfback (Montreal Alouettes)
1970 - LaPhonso Ellis, NBA forward (Denver Nuggets)
1970 - Kyan Douglas, American TV-personality
1970 - Juan Acevedo, baseball player
1970 - Naomi Klein, Canadian author and activist
1970 - Will Arnett, Canadian-American actor
1970 - Soheil Ayari, French racer
1971 - Harold Miner, NBA guard (Cleveland Cavaliers)
1971 - Keith Hamilton, defensive end (NY Giants)
1971 - Ken Brown, NFL linebacker (Denver Broncos)
1971 - Reggie Jones, wide receiver (KC Chiefs)
1971 - David Reilly, American singer (God Lives Underwater) (d. 2005)
1972 - Barrett Brooks, NFL tackle (Philadelphia Eagles)
1972 - Brigitta Boccoli, Milan Italy, actress (Manhattan Baby)
1972 - Janelle Lynn Canady, Miss Alaska USA (1996)
1972 - Mikael Renberg, Pitea Swe, NHL right wing (Phila Flyers, TB Lightning)
1972 - Mike Hollis, kicker (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1972 - Ron Snook, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1972 - Rushia Brown, WNBA forward/center (Cleveland Rockers)
1972 - Travis Jervey, NFL running back (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1972 - Wendy Kaye, Memphis Tenn, playmate (Jul, 1991)
1972 - Zigmund Palffy, Skalica Slo, NHL right wing (NY Islanders)
1972 - James Cracknell, British rowing champion, double Olympic gold medalist
1973 - Johan Hedberg, Nacka SWE, hockey goalie (Team Sweden, Oly-1998)
1973 - Matt Dubuc, CFL running back (Toronto Argonauts)
1973 - Muhsin Muhammad, wide receiver (Carolina Panthers)
1973 - Tina Yothers, Whittier California, actresss (Jennifer-Family Ties)
1974 - Seiji Ara, Japanese racing driver
1975 - Christine Buschur, Eagle River Alaska, Miss America-Alaska (1997)
1976 - Sage Stallone, Sylvester's son/actor (Rocky V)
1976 - Anastasios Pantos, Greek footballer
1976 - Juan Pablo Sorín, Argentine footballer
1977 - Tiffany Roberts, Petaluma California, soccer midfielder (Olympics-96)
1977 - Choi Kang-hee, South Korean actress
1978 - Bruno Cheyrou, French footballer
1978 - Morgan Pehme, American filmmaker and writer
1978 - Santiago Cabrera, Chilean actor
1979 - Vincent Kartheiser, American actor
1980 - Bonnie Lynn Gagnon, Miss New Hampshire Teen USA (1997)
1980 - Yossi Benayoun, Israeli Footballer
1980 - DerMarr Johnson, American basketball player
1981 - Danielle Christine Fishel, Mesa AZ, actress (Topanga-Boy Meets World)
1981 - Marcelle Bittar, Brazilian supermodel
1981 - Chris Duncan, baseball player
1981 - Craig David, Southhampton England, English singer (7 Days, Insomnia)
1982 - Wouter D'Haene, Belgian flatwater canoer
1982 - Randall Gay, National Football League player
1982 - Edyta Sliwinska, Polish ballroom dancer
1982 - Jay Bothroyd, English footballer
1982 - Dieter Brummer, Australian TV Actor
1983 - Henry Cavill, English actor
1983 - Scott Ware, American footballer
1984 - Wade MacNeil, Canadian guitarist (Alexisonfire)
1984 - Eve Torres, American dancer and model
1985 - Shoko Nakagawa, Japanese actress, illustrator and singer
1985 - Terrence Wheatley, American Football player
1985 - P. J. Tucker, American basketball player
1987 - Marija Šestić, Bosnian singer
1988 - Jessica Dubroff, American aviator (d. 1996)
1988 - Brooke Hogan, American singer
1988 - Skye Sweetnam, Canadian singer and songwriter
1988 - Adele, English singer
1989 - Chris Brown, American singer
1990 - Tatiana Celia Kennedy Schlossberg, NYC, daughter of Caroline

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 05, 2013, 11:37:59 AM

This Day in History for 5th May


Famous Deaths

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French Emperor                                          Nobel Peace Laureate
Napoleon Bonaparte (1821)                     Carlos Saavedra Lamas (1959)


200 - Sun Ce, warlord of the Han Dynasty (b. 175)
311 - Gaius VM Galerius, emperor of Rome, dies at about 50
984 - Gerberga of Saxony, Queen of Western Francia
1028 - Alfonso V, King of Leon/Galicia (999-1028), dies in battle
1194 - Casimir II, the Just, grand duke of Poland (1177-94), dies. Born 1138
1219 - King Leo II of Armenia (b. 1150)
1309 - Charles II, the Lame, King of Naples (1285-1309), dies
1504 - Anton of Burgundy, the Great Bastard, knight, dies at about 82
1525 - Frederik III, the Wise, ruler of Saxon (1486-1525), dies at 62
1582 - Charlotte de Bourbon, Princess of Orange, dies
1586 - Henry Sidney, Lord Deputy of Ireland (b. 1529)
1604 - Claudio Merulo, Italian organist/composer, dies at 71
1613 - Johann Steuerlein, composer, dies at 66
1672 - Samuel Cooper, English painter (b. 1609)
1678 - Anna M van Schurman, Dutch poet/spoke 10 languages, dies at about 70
1702 - Jacob Hintze, composer, dies at 79
1705 - Leopold I von Hapsburg, Emperor of Holy Roman Empire, dies at 64
1766 - Jean Astruc, French physician and scholar (b. 1684)
1786 - Pedro III, King of Portugal, dies
1801 - Philippe-Lambert-Joseph Spruyt, Flemish painter/engraver, dies at 74
1808 - Pierre Jean George Cabanis, French physiologist (b. 1757)
1811 - Robert Mylne, Scottish architect (b. 1734)
1821 - French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte (1799-1815), dies in exile on the island of Saint Helena
1827 - Frederick Augustus I of Saxony (1806-27), dies at 76
1831 - Friedrich Ludwig Seidel, composer, dies at 65
1837 - Niccolo Antonio Zingarelli, Italian composer/bandmaster, dies at 85
1840 - Gottlob Benedikt Bierey, composer, dies at 67
1840 - Matthaus Fischer, composer, dies at 76
1855 - Sir Robert Inglis, Bt, English politician (b. 1786)
1859 - Peter G L Dirichlet, German mathematician, dies at 53
1864 - Alexander Hays, US Union-general-major, dies in battle at 44
1864 - John Marshall Jones, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 43
1864 - Leroy A Stafford, US Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 42
1875 - Jan A C A van Nispen tot Sevenaer, Dutch MP (1848-75), dies at 71
1885 - Lauro Rossi, composer, dies at 73
1886 - Joseph Albert, German photographer (Albertotype), dies at 61
1892 - Jan Nepomuk Skroup, composer, dies at 80
1892 - August Wilhelm von Hofmann, German chemist (b. 1818)
1896 - Silas Adams, American lawyer and politician (b. 1839)
1900 - Ivan Aivazovsky, Russian painter (b. 1817)
1902 - Bret Harte, writer, dies at 65
1909 - Pauline Staegeman, German feminist, dies
1921 - Alfred H Fried, Austrian/German pacifist (Nobel 1911), dies
1927 - Charles Boissevain, editor in chief (General Trade 1885-1908), dies
1931 - Glen Kidston, British aviator and racing driver (b. 1899)
1941 - Natalija Obrenović, Queen of Serbia (b. 1859)
1942 - Qemal Stafa, Albanian politician (b. 1920)
1945 - Peter Van Pels, Jewish Refugee (b. 1926)
1947 - Ty LaForest, Canadian baseball player (b. 1917)
1951 - Eddie Dunn, comedian (Face to Face, Spin the Picture), dies at 54
1956 - Charles R Gallas, lexicographer (French Dictionary), dies at 88
1957 - Mikhail Fabianovich Gnesin, composer, dies at 74
1959 - Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentine politician, dies at 80
1960 - Sulho Ranta, composer, dies at 58
1962 - Ernest Tyldesley, cricketer (990 runs in 14 Tests for England), dies
1963 - Heinrich Gebhard, composer, dies
1963 - Jacobus JP Old, architect/co-founder (Stijl), dies at 73
1968 - Albert Dekker, dies of accidental suffocation at 62
1969 - Ben Alexander, actor (Frank Smith-Dragnet), dies at 57
1971 - Alice Tissot, actress (Italian Straw Hat), dies of cancer at 81
1971 - Petro Scaglione, Italian procureur-general, killed by Mafia
1971 - Violet Jessop, Titanic survivor (b. 1887)
1972 - Rev Gary David, vocalist, dies at 76
1976 - Thomas Burnett Swann, sci-fi author (Day of Minotaur), dies at 47
1977 - Ludwig Erhard, German minister of Economic Affairs (CDU), dies at 80
1978 - Alfred H H Gilligan, cricketer (4 Tests for England), dies
1979 - Shirley O'Hara, actress (Wild Party), dies at 68
1980 - Edmond Vandercammen, Belgian writer/poet (Grand Combat), dies at 79
1981 - Bobby Sands, IRA activist/terrorist dies in the 66th day of his hunger strike
1983 - John Williams, actor (Family Affair, Dial M for Murder), dies at 80
1983 - Horst Schumann, Nazi physician (b. 1901)
1985 - Sir Donald Bailey, British civil engineer (b. 1901)
1986 - Jon William Haussermann Jr, composer, dies at 76
1986 - Rui Coelho, composer, dies at 94
1988 - George Rose, actor (Devil's Disciple, Hideaways), dies at 68
1988 - Tamara Pos, Suriname/Dutch activist
1988 - Michael Shaara, American author (b. 1928)
1989 - Frank Easton, cricket wicketkeeper (NSW 1933-39), dies
1991 - William De Acutis, dies at 33
1992 - Ben Frommer, dies at 78
1992 - Dick Yarmy, dies of lung cancer at 58
1992 - Jean-Claude Pascal, French actor (Golden Salamander), dies at 64
1992 - Stefano d'Arrigo, Siciilian writer, dies at 72
1993 - Balak Brahmachari, [Marxist Godman], Indies guru, dies at 73
1993 - Irving Howe, US writer/critic (Dissent), dies at 72
1993 - Lenore Kingston Jenson, dies of cancer at 79
1994 - Hein Salomonson, architect, dies at about 83
1994 - Joe Layton, director (Richard Pryor Live on Sunset Strip), dies at 63
1995 - Anthony Wagner, genealogist, dies at 86
1995 - Bernard Benjamin Gillis, judge, dies at 89
1995 - Esther Waterhouse, doctor/methodist, dies at 86
1995 - James Pack, naval officer museum curator, dies at 81
1995 - Lionel Alexander Bethune [Alastair] Pilkington, engineer, dies at 75
1995 - Mikhail Moseyevich Botvinnik, world chess champ, dies
1995 - Thomas Eden Binkley, musician, dies at 63
1996 - Ai Qing, poet, dies at 86
1996 - Beryl Burton, cyclist, dies at 58
1997 - Walter Gotell, German actor (b. 1924)
2000 - Gino Bartali, Italian cyclist (b. 1914)
2001 - Clifton Hillegass, American writer and publisher
2001 - Raymond Kessler, American midget wrestler
2002 - Hugo Banzer, Bolivian dictator (b. 1926)
2002 - Paul Klipsch, American engineer, noted for his loudspeaker designs. (b. 1904)
2002 - George Sidney, American film director (b. 1916)
2003 - Walter Sisulu, South African activist (b. 1912)
2004 - Ritsuko Okazaki, Japanese singer-songwriter (b. 1959)
2006 - Naushad Ali, Indian composer (b. 1919)
2007 - Theodore Harold Maiman, Inventor (b. 1927)
2008 - Irv Robbins, Canadian-American entrepreneur (b. 1917)
2011 - Yosef Merimovich, Israeli football player and manager (b. 1924)
2011 - Claude Choules, last surviving World War I veteran (b. 1901)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 06, 2013, 05:51:03 PM

This Day in History for 6th May


Historical Events

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The Sun King Louis XIV                                   Confederate General                        Baseball Great Babe Ruth
                                                                          James Longstreet

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Author John Steinbeck                        Soviet Union Premier Joseph Stalin        Racing Car Driver Mario Andretti

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Actor Tom Cruise                                     King of Pop Michael Jackson


1312 - Pope Clement V closes Council of Vienna
1527 - Spanish & German Imperial troops sack Rome; ending Renaissance
1529 - Battle at Gogra: Mogol emperor Babur beats Afghans & Bengals
1536 - King Henry VIII, orders bible be placed in every church
1542 - Francis Xavier reaches Old Goa, the capital of Portuguese India at the time.
1598 - Arch duke Albrecht & Isabella become monarch of Southern Netherlands
1604 - Leon VII Spanish poet's first poem is published: La Cocina.
1626 - Dutch colonist Peter Minuit buys Manhattan Island from local Indians for 60 guilders worth of
           trinkets
1642 - Ville Marie (Montreal) forms
1644 - Johan Mauritius resigns as governor of Brazil
1648 - Battle at Zolty Wody-Bohdan Chmielricki's Cossaks beat John II Casimir
1672 - Brandenburgs monarch Frederik Willem signs treaty with Netherlands
1682 - Louis XIV of France moves his court to Versailles.
1733 - 1st international boxing match: Bob Whittaker beats Tito di Carni
1753 - French King Louis XV observes transit of Mercury at Mendon Castle
1757 - Battle at Prague: Frederik II of Prussia beats emperor army
1787 - 1st Black Masonic Lodge (African # 459) forms Prince Hall, Boston
1794 - Haiti, under Toussaint L'Ouverture, revolts against France
1804 - Suriname sold to English (until Feb, 1816)
1833 - John Deere makes 1st steel plow
1835 - James Gordon Bennett, Sr. publishes the first issue of the New York Herald (price 1 cent).
1840 - 1st postage stamps (Penny Black) issued (Great Britain)
1844 - Johan Thorbecke argue general right to vote
1848 - Otto Tank ends slavery in Suriname colony
1851 - Dr John Gorrie patents a "refrigeration machine"
1851 - Linus Yale patents Yale-lock
1851 - New slave regulations go into effect in Suriname
1851 - SF Chamber of Commerce starts
1853 - 1st major US rail disaster kills 46 (Norwalk, Connecticut)
1860 - SF Olympic Club, 1st US athletic club forms
1860 - Giuseppe Garibaldi's Mille sets sail from Genoa to the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
1861 - Arkansas & Tennessee becomes 9th & 10th states to secede from US
1861 - Jefferson Davis approves a bill declaring War between US & Confederacy
1864 - Battle of Port Walthall Junction, VA
1864 - Battle of Wilderness-Gen Longstreet seriously injured
1864 - General Sherman begins advance to Atlanta Georgia
1882 - Chinese Exclusion Act: US Congress ceases Chinese immigration
1882 - Epping Forest England dedicated by Queen Victoria
1882 - Thomas Henry Burke and Lord Frederick Cavendish are stabbed and killed during the Phoenix
           Park Murders in Dublin.
1889 - Universal Exposition opens in Paris, Eiffel Tower completed
1890 - Mormon Church renounces polygamy [1006-Truth Restored (Morman pub)]
1891 - Conductors on London General Omnibus Company go on strike
1895 - 21st Kentucky Derby: Soup Perkins aboard Halma wins in 2:37.50
1896 - 22nd Kentucky Derby: Willie Simms aboard Ben Brush wins in 2:07.75
1902 - British SS Camorta sinks off Rangoon; 739 die
1902 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place" (BG)
1902 - Zulu assault at Holkrantz South-Africa
1903 - Chicago White Sox commit 12 errors against Detroit Tigers
1904 - American Lung Association holds its 1st meeting
1906 - "Temporary" permit to erect overhead wires on Market St SF
1907 - 33rd Kentucky Derby: Andy Minder aboard Pink Star wins in 2:12.6
1910 - King George V ascends to British throne
1910 - George V becomes King of the United Kingdom upon the death of his father, Edward VII.
1913 - King Nikita I of Montenegro vacates Skoetari, North-Albania
1914 - British House of Lords rejects women suffrage
1915 - Allies attack Cape Helles, Hellespont
1915 - German U-20 sinks Centurion SE of Ireland
1915 - Red Sox Babe Ruth pitching debut & 1st HR, loses to Yanks 4-3 in 15
1916 - Belgian troop march into Kigali, German East-Africa
1917 - St Louis Brown Bob Groom no-hits Chic White Sox, 3-0
1919 - Paris Peace Conference disposes of German colonies; Ger E Africa is assigned to Britain &
           France, German SW Africa to South Africa
1921 - American Soccer League forms
1925 - Ty Cobb hits his 5th HR in 2 games tying Cap Ansons record of 1884
1929 - AL announces it will discontinue MVP award
1929 - NY to SF footrace begins
1933 - 59th Kentucky Derby: Don Meade aboard Brokers Tip wins in 2:06.8
1933 - Italy & USSR sign trade agreement
1934 - Red Sox score 12 runs in 4th inning including record 4 consecutive triples hit by Carl
           Reynolds, Moose Solters, Rick Ferrell, & B Walters
1935 - British King George & Queen Mary celebrates silver jubilee
1935 - KTM-AM in Los Angeles California changes call letters to KEHE (now KABC)
1935 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Audrey Wurdemann (Bright Ambush)
1937 - Dirigible Hindenburg explodes in flames at Lakehurst, NJ (36 die)
1938 - Dutch writer Maurits Dekker sentenced to 50 days for "offending a friendly head of state"
           (Hitler)
1939 - 1st performance of Honegger/Claudel's "Jeanne d'Arc Ouch B-cher"
1939 - 65th Kentucky Derby: James Stout aboard Johnstown wins in 2:03.4
1940 - Pulitzer prize awarded to John Steinbeck (Grapes of Wrath)
1941 - Joseph Stalin became premier of Russia
1941 - At California's March Field, Bob Hope performs his first USO show.
1942 - Corregidor & Philippines surrender to Japanese Armies
1943 - British 1st army opens assault on Tunis
1944 - 70th Kentucky Derby: Conn McCreary aboard Pensive wins in 2:04.2
1944 - KJR-AM in Seattle Wash swaps calls with KOMO
1945 - Gen J Blaskowitz surrenders German troops in Netherlands
1945 - World War II: Axis Sally delivers her last propaganda broadcast to Allied troops (first was on
           December 11, 1941).
1946 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Arthur M Schlesinger (Age of Jackson)"
1948 - "Sally" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 36 performances
1950 - "Great to Be Alive" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 52 perfs
1950 - 76th Kentucky Derby: William Boland on Middleground wins in 2:01.6
1951 - Pitts Pirate Cliff Chambers no-hits Boston Brave, 3-0
1953 - Brown's Bobo Holloman 1st major league start, no-hits Phila A's, 6-0
1954 - Roger Bannister of Britain breaks 4 minute mile (3:59:4)
1955 - West Germany joins NATO
1956 - Gus Bell (Reds) homers off Bob Miller in both ends of a double header
1956 - WRCB TV channel 3 in Chattanooga, TN (NBC) begins broadcasting
1957 - Italian government of Segni resigns
1957 - Last broadcast of "I Love Lucy" on CBS-TV
1957 - Pulitzer prize awarded to John F Kennedy (Profiles in Courage)
1959 - Iceland gunboats shoot at British fishing ships
1960 - Pres Eisenhower signs Civil Rights Act of 1960
1960 - Students attack Dutch embassy in Djakarta
1960 - Trotsky's murderer Jacques Mornard (Ramon Mercader), freed in Mexico
1961 - 87th Kentucky Derby: John Sellers aboard Carry Back wins in 2:04
1961 - Omer Vanaudenhove chosen chairman of Belgium Liberal Party
1962 - 1st nuclear warhead fired from Polaris submarine (Ethan Allen)
1962 - Antonio Segni elected president of Italy
1962 - Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Tournament
1962 - Pathet Lao breaks cease fire/conquerors Nam Tha Laos
1962 - US performs nuclear test at Pacific Ocean
1963 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Barbara Tuchman (Guns of August)
1964 - Joe Orton's "Entertaining Mr Sloan," premieres in London
1965 - Lawry & Simpson complete opening stand of 382 against W Indies
1966 - Canadian Minister of Finance announces a $20 Centennial gold coin
1966 - Most runs scored in 11th inning (9) Phils score 5 to beat Pirates 8-7
1966 - Myra Hindley and Ian Brady are sentenced to life imprisonment for the Moors Murders in
           England.
1967 - 400 students seize administration building at Cheyney State College
1967 - 93rd Kentucky Derby: Bobby Ussery on Proud Clarion wins in 2:00.6
1967 - Maureen Wilton runs female world record marathon (3:15:22)
1967 - Zakir Hussain elected 1st Moslem president of India
1968 - Battle between students & troops in Paris, 1000 injured
1968 - Giants reliever Lindy McDaniel sets NL record of 225th consecutive errorless game (108
           chances consecutively since June 16, 1964)
1968 - Spain closes border to Gibraltar except to Spaniards
1970 - Yuchiro Miura of Japan skies down Mt Everest
1972 - 98th Kentucky Derby: Ron Turcotte aboard Riva Ridge wins in 2:01.8
1972 - Deniz Gezmiş, Yusuf Aslan and Hüseyin İnan are executed in Ankara for attempting to
           overthrow the Constitutional order.
1973 - 1st WHA championship, New England Whalers beat Win Jets, 4 games to 1
1973 - Judy Rankin wins LPGA American Defender-Raleigh Golf Classic
1974 - A's pitcher Paul Lindblad makes an errant throw in 1st inning of 6-3 loss to Balt ends his
           record streak of 385 consecutive errorless games
1974 - Bundy victim Roberta Parks disappears from OSU, Corvallis, Ore
1974 - Smallest attendance at Phila's Veterans Stadium (4,149)
1974 - Stolen "Guitar Player" painting by Jan Vermeer found in London
1974 - W German chancellor W Brandt resigns
1975 - Bundy victim Lynette Culver disappears from Pocatello, Idaho
1975 - Early warnings provided by REACT (ham radio operators) means only
1975 - 3 people die in tornado that strikes Omaha, Nebraska
1976 - An earthquake strikes Friuli, causing 989 deaths and the destruction of entire villages.
1977 - "Beatles at Hollywood Bowl," released in UK
1978 - 104th Kentucky Derby: Steve Cauthen aboard Affirmed wins in 2:01.2
1978 - South Africa military goes into Angola
1979 - Fred Markham set a bicycle speed record of 818 kph over 200 m
1979 - Louis LaRusso II's "Knockout," premieres in NYC
1979 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Women's International Golf Tournament
1979 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1981 - "Inacent Black" opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 14 performances
1981 - Mariners manager Maury Wills is fired & replaced by Rene Lachemann
1981 - US expels Libyan diplomats
1982 - Seattle Mariner Gaylord Perry becomes 15th pitcher to win 300 games
1984 - Balt Oriole Cal Ripken Jr hits for cycle
1984 - Jose Napoleon Duarte wins El Salvador presidential election
1985 - 17th Space Shuttle Mission (51-B)-Challenger 7 lands at Edwards AFB
1986 - Berlin: Real Madrid wins 15th UEFA Cup
1986 - Donald E Pelotte becomes 1st native American bishop
1986 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1987 - Gary Hart denies affair with model Donna Rice
1987 - Mario Andretti sets one-lap speed record at Indy at 218.204 MPH
1987 - Niroslav Milhailovic begins 54 hours of telling jokes
1987 - PTL's Jim Bakker & Rich Dortch dismissed from Assemblies of God
1987 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1988 - Graeme Hick scores 405 for Worcs v Somerset 35 fours 11 sixes
1988 - Doughnutgate incident: NJ Devils' coach Jim Schoenfeld tells referee Don Koharski to 'eat
           another doughnut you fat pig!,' he is suspended
1989 - 115th Kentucky Derby: Pat Valenzuela on Sunday Silence wins in 2:05
1990 - Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic
1990 - Former president PW Botha quit South Africa's ruling National Party
1990 - Tom Cruise is ticketed for careless operation of a vehicle in SC
1991 - Phillie Lenny Dykstra slams his sports car into 2 trees
1991 - Seppo Raty of Finland sets javelin record to 301' 9"
1991 - Space Shuttle STS 39 (Discovery 12) lands
1992 - NY Met Anthony Young begins losing streak of at least 26 games
1992 - Werder Bremen wins 32nd Europe Cup II
1993 - STS-55 (Columbia) lands
1994 - Chunnel linking England & France officially opens
1994 - Comedian Bobcat Goldthwait sets fire to the couch on Tonight Show
1994 - House passes the assault weapons ban
1994 - Lennox Lewis TKOs Phil Jackson in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
1994 - Nelson Mandela & his ANC, finally confirmed winners in South Africa
1995 - 121st Kentucky Derby: Gary Stevens on Thunder Gulch wins in 2:01.2
1995 - ABC Bud Light Masters Bowling Tournament won by Mike Aulby
1995 - Classic Sports Network begins on cable TV
1996 - Guatemala's leftist guerrillas sign key accord with government of President Alvaro Arzu aimed
           at ending 35 years of civil war
1996 - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Hartford CT on WCCC 106.9 FM
1996 - The body of former CIA director William Colby is found washed up on a riverbank in southern
           Maryland, eight days after he disappeared.
1997 - Army Staff Sgt Delmar Simpson gets 25-year sentence for rape
1997 - Michael Jackson & Bee Gees inducted into Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
1997 - NHL Hartford Whalers become Carolina Hurricanes
1997 - Rick Pitino becomes coach of Boston Celtics
1997 - The Bank of England is given independence from political control, the most significant change
           in the bank's 300-year history.
1998 - Kerry Wood strikes out 20 Houston Astros to tie the major league record held by Roger
           Clemens. He threw a one-hitter and did not walk a batter in his 5th career start.
2001 - During a trip to Syria, Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to enter a mosque.
2002 - Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn is shot and killed by an animal rights activist.
2004 - The season finale of the sitcom Friends airs
2008 - Chaiten Volcano erupts in Chile, forcing the evacuation of more than 4,500 people.
2010 - The second largest intraday point swing in Dow Jones Industrial Average history occurs.
2012 - Francois Hollande elected President of France
2012 - Greece parliamentary election results in 60% support for parties opposed to austerity
           measures

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 06, 2013, 05:53:07 PM

This Day in History for 6th May


Famous Weddings

1476 - Emperor Frederik III of Habsburg & duke Charles the bold arrange marriage of their children
1950 - Liz Taylor's 1st marriage (Conrad Hilton Jr)
1960 - English princess Margaret marries Antony Armstrong-Jones (Lord Snowdon) at Westminster
           Abbey
1997 - "The X-files" actor David Duchovny (36) weds actress Tea Leoni (31) in the garden of the
           Grace Church School
2001 - Actress-singer Billie Piper (18) weds media mogul Chris Evans (35) at the Little Church of the
           West in Las Vegas
2006 - Former WWF Women's Champion Sable (38) weds IWGP World Heavyweight Champion Brock
           Lesnar (28) in Medina, Minnesota
2006 - "Scooter" techno rocker lead singer H.P. Baxxter (40) weds model Simone Mustert at
           Tremsbuttel Castle near Hamburg
2006 - Duchess of Cornwall's daughter Laura Parker-Bowles (28) weds former Calvin Klein model
           Harry Lopes (28) at Church of Saint Cyriac in Lacock, Wiltshire
2006 - "Coronation Street" actress Julia Haworth (26) weds Jon Wormald at St. Stephen's CE Church
           in Burnley, Lancashire
2006 - Race car driver "Champ Car World Series" two time winner Sebastien Bourdais (27) weds
           Claire Bagot at Cathedral Saint-Julien in Le Mans, France
2007 - Evanescence singer Amy Lee (25) weds Josh Hartzler (29) in Little Rock, Arkansas
2007 - "The Fast and the Furious" actress Jordana Brewster (27) weds movie producer Andrew Form
           (38) in Bahamas

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 06, 2013, 05:54:21 PM

This Day in History for 6th May


Famous Divorces

2006 - "Dallas" actress Victoria Principal (56) divorces plastic surgeon Harry Glassman (63) due to
           irreconcilable differences after nearly 21 years of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 06, 2013, 06:00:13 PM

This Day in History for 6th May


Famous Birthdays

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Father of Psychology                               Actor Orson Welles (1915)                      Actor George Clooney (1961)
Sigmund Freud (1856)


973 - Henry II, Roman Catholic German king/emperor (1002/14-24)
1397 - Sejong the Great of Joseon, ruler of Korea (d. 1450)
1501 - Marcellus II, [Marcello Cervini], Italy, humanist/Pope (1555, 22 days)
1581 - Frans Francken, the Younger, painter
1606 - Lorenzo Lippi, [Perlone Zipoli], poet/painter
1638 - Henry Capell, 1st Baron Capell, First Lord of the British Admiralty (d. 1696)
1713 - Charles Batteux, French philosopher (d. 1780)
1758 - Maximilien Robespierre, Arras Fr, French revolutionary/avocat (1781)
1759 - Francois GJS Andrieux, French writer/politician
1769 - Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1824)
1785 - Arvir A Afzelius, Swedish story teller
1786 - Ludwig Borne, writer
1790 - Vaclav Vilem Wurfel, composer
1797 - Joseph Brackett, American religious leader and composer (d. 1882)
1800 - Ferdinand Marcucci, composer
1800 - Roman Sanguszko, Polish aristocrat and general (d. 1881)
1801 - George Sears Greene, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1899
1802 - Friedrich Wilhelm Schirmer, artist
1806 - Chapin Aaron Harris, US, found America Society of Dental Surgeons
1809 - William Walker, composer
1812 - Marin R Delany, Charlestown Va, 1st black major in US Medical Corp
1813 - Joseph Tarr Copeland, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1893
1814 - Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, violinist/composer
1825 - Joseph Bailey, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1867
1829 - Phoebe Ann Coffin, 1st female ordained minister in New England
1830 - Guido Gezelle, Flemish priest/poet
1838 - Alfred Humphreys Pease, composer
1843 - Grove Karl Gilbert, geologist, investigated Lake Bonneville, Utah
1849 - Wyatt Eaton, artist
1856 - Robert Edwin Peary, US, arctic explorer (North Pole-Apr 6 1909)
1856 - Sigmund Freud, Freiberg in Mähren, Moravia, Austrian neurologist and father of psychology,
          (d. 1939)
1858 - Georges Adolphe Hue, composer
1859 - Luis Maria Drago, Argentina, statesman, anti-interventionist
1859 - Willem J T Kloos, Dutch poet (Act of Simple Justice)
1861 - Radindranath Tagore, Hindu poet/mystic/composer (Nobel 1913)
1861 - Motilal Nehru, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1931)
1868 - Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont, Poland, novelist (Chiopi, Nobel-1924)
1868 - Gaston Leroux, French writer (d. 1927)
1869 - Joseph Cuvelier, Belgian historian/archivist
1870 - Amedos Peter Giannine, San Jose California, founded Bank of America
1870 - John McCutcheon, cartoonist (Pulitzer Prize-1931)
1871 - August Reusner, composer
1871 - Ch Morgenstern, writer
1871 - Victor Grignard, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1935)
1872 - Willem de Sitter, Dutch scientist (d. 1934)
1875 - William Daniel Leahy, Iowa, 5 star admiral/chief of staff (1949)
1879 - Johan H T Norlind, Swedish musicologist
1879 - Bedrich Hrozny, Czech orientalist (d. 1952)
1880 - Baron W Edmund, Archangel & Ironside, British fieldmarshal
1882 - Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany (d. 1951)
1883 - Jose Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher/author [or May 9]
1888 - Emmanuel Celler, (Rep-D-NY, 1923-73)
1889 - Arthur Morison, typographer
1890 - Claire Whitney, NY, silent film actress (Blind Fools, Haunted Mine)
1894 - Filip Lazar, composer
1895 - Rudolph Valentino, Castellaneta Italy, sheik/actor (Eagle)
1895 - Fidél Pálffy, Hungarian Nazi (d. 1946)
1895 - Júlio César de Mello e Souza, Brazilian writer (d. 1974)
1897 - Paul Alverdes, German writer (Pfeiferstube)
1898 - Daniel Gerber, Freemont Mi, beloved by babies at mealtime
1899 - Billy Cotton, British entertainer (d. 1969)
1902 - Walter Dawson, British Air Chief marshall
1902 - Harry Golden, American journalist (d. 1981)
1902 - Max Ophüls, German-born director (d. 1957)
1903 - Toots Shor, New York restaurateur (d. 1977)
1904 - Catherine Lacey, London England, actress (Sorcerors)
1904 - Harry Martinson, Sweden, novelist/poet (Trade Wind-Nobel 1974)
1904 - Raymond Bailey, American actor (d. 1980)
1904 - Moshe Feldenkrais, Ukrainian-born founder of the Feldenkrais method (d. 1984)
1905 - Norman De Tar, composer
1905 - [Bernard] Toots Shor, raconteur/restauranteur (Toots Shor)
1906 - Andre Weil, [Bourbaki], French/US mathematician
1906 - Enrique Laguerre, Puerto Rican writer (d. 2005)
1907 - Weeb Ewbank, NFL coach (Baltimore Colts, NY Jets)
1908 - Necil Kazim Akses, composer
1909 - Loyd Sigmon, American amateur ("ham") radio broadcastor (d. 2004)
1910 - Antoon Breyne, Belgian journalist
1912 - Barend Roest Crollius, painter/writer (Chronicle Sins of Youth)
1912 - Bill Quinn, NYC, actor (Rifleman, Van Ranseleer-All in the Family)
1912 - Hugh Martell, British Vice Admiral
1913 - Carmen Cavallaro, NYC, actor (Hollywood Canteen, Diamond Horseshoe)
1913 - Gyula David, composer
1913 - Jack [John T] Aitken, British anatomist
1913 - Kenneth Horne, English paper manufacturer/multi-millionaire
1913 - Ronald Harris, British 1st Church Estates Commissioner
1913 - Stewart Granger, [James Stewart], London, actor (Prisoner of Zenda)
1915 - George Perle, Bayonne NJ, composer (12 Tone Tonality)
1915 - John Arnold, British high court judge
1915 - May Henriquez-Alvarez, Curacao, sculptor
1915 - Orson Welles [George], Kenosha Wisc, actor (Citizen Kane, War of the Worlds), (d. 1985)
1915 - Theodore H White, historian/writer (Making of President)
1916 - Adriana Caselotti, animation voice (Show White)
1917 - Kal Mann, American lyricist (d. 2001)
1918 - Godfrey Ridout, composer
1918 - Sydney Chatton, England
1919 - Frank Ereaut, Balliff of Jersey
1920 - John Henderson, Lord-Lieutenant (Berkshire England)
1921 - Erich Freid, writer
1921 - Freddy Randall, jazz trumpeteer
1921 - Robert Fell, CEO (British Stock Exchange)
1922 - Alan Ross, editor (London Magazine)
1922 - Carlos J Moorhead, (Rep-R-CA, 1973- )
1922 - John Ernest, constructionist artist
1922 - Pat Harder, Milwaukee, NFL fullback (Cardinals, Lions)
1922 - Camille Laurin, Quebec psychiatrist and politician (d. 1999)
1923 - Elizabeth Sellars, Glasgow Scotland, actress (Chalk Garden)
1923 - Guiseppe Martelli, physicist
1923 - Vladimir Etush, Russian actor
1924 - Mimi Benzell, Bridgeport Ct, operatic soprano (Gilda-Rigoletto)
1924 - Denny Wright, British guitarist (d. 1992)
1925 - Patrick Meany, CEO (Rank Organization)
1926 - John Hamilton-Jones, CEO (Richmond Enterprises)/British Maj-Gen
1926 - Marguerite Piazza, New Orleans LA, operatic soprano (Young Broadway), (d. 2012)
1926 - [Martin] Ross Hunter, Cleveland OH, actor (Ever Since Paris)
1926 - Gilles Grégoire, Quebec politician, co-founder of the Parti Québécois (d. 2006)
1927 - Ettore Manni, Rome Italy, actor (Fatal Desire, Heroes in Hell)
1927 - Michael Frederick, cricketer (one Test WI v Engld 1954, scored 0 & 30)
1928 - Robert Poujade, French politician
1929 - John Polk Allen, Carnegie Oklahoma, CEO (Biosphere 2)
1929 - John Taylor, bishop (St Albans)/Lord High Almoner to Queen
1929 - Rosemary Camp, president (Council for British Archaeology)
1931 - Marvin Leath, (Rep-D-TX, 1979- )
1931 - Willie Mays, Westfield Alabama, baseball centerfielder (Giants, NY Mets), "Say Hey Kid" (660
           HRs, MVP 1954)
1932 - Gunther Hauk, composer
1932 - John Bond, cricket umpire
1932 - Viscount Coke, English large landowner/art collector
1933 - Lord Pender
1934 - Richard C Shelby, (Rep-D-AL (1979-86)/Sen-D-AL, 1987- )
1936 - Joanna Dunham, actress (Possession, House the Dripped Blood)
1936 - Sylvia Robinson, rocker (Mickey & Sylvia-Love is Strange)
1936 - Bernard Lemaire, French Canadian businessman (Cascades)
1937 - Rubin Carter, American boxer
1938 - Eleanor Platt, QC
1938 - Jean Garon, Quebec economist and politician
1938 - Larry Gogan, Irish radio personality
1939 - Anthony Blacker, master-general of Ordnance
1939 - Herbie Cox, rocker (Cleftones)
1939 - Zhanna Dmitriyevna Yerkina, Russian cosmonaut
1940 - Henry Habibe, Arubian poet (Kerensentenchi)
1940 - Murray Sidlin, Baltimore Maryland, conductor (Natl Symph 1973-77)
1941 - Fred J Eckert, (Rep-D-NY, 1985-87)
1941 - Ghena Dimitrova, actress (Nabucco)
1942 - Colin Earl, rocker
1942 - Rin Kaiho, professional Go player
1943 - Andreas Baader, leader of the German organization Red Army Faction (d. 1977)
1944 - Anton Furst, American production designer (d. 1991)
1944 - Masanori Murakami, First Japanese baseball player in major leagues
1945 - Bob Seger, Dearborn Mich, folk singer (Silver Bullet Band-Shake Down)
1945 - Richard Eyers, LA California, actor (My Friend Irma, Stagecoach West)
1945 - Victoria Bond, composer
1946 - Jim Ramstad, (Rep-R-Minnesota)
1946 - Susan Brown, actress (Gail Baldwin-General Hospital)
1947 - Andy Roberts, cricketer (NZ batsman 1976)
1947 - Ben Masters, Corvalis OR, actor (Vic-Another World, Making Mr Right)
1947 - Dennis Cowan, London, rocker (Bonzo Dog Band)
1947 - Richard "Dick" Fosbury, Portland Ore, high jumper (Oly-gold-68)
1947 - Sandra Fisher, painter
1947 - Martha Nussbaum, American philosopher
1947 - Alan Dale, New Zealand actor
1948 - Richard Cox, NYC, actor (Mark-Executive Suite)
1949 - David Cornell Leestma, Muskegon Mich, USN/astronaut (STS 41-G, 28, 45)
1950 - Robbie McIntosh, drummer (Avg White Band-Show your Hand)
1951 - Samuel Doe, President of Liberia (d. 1990)
1952 - Chiaki Naito-Mukai, Tatebayashi Japan, astronaut (STS 65, sk:95)
1952 - Christian Clavier, French actor
1952 - Michael O'Hare, American actor
1953 - Lynn Whitfield, Baton Rouge, actress (Josephine Baker, Equal Justice)
1953 - Tony Blair, British Prime Minister (Labour, 1997-2007 )
1953 - Michelle Courchesne, Quebec politician
1953 - Graeme Souness, Scottish footballer/manager
1954 - Sergei Nikolayevich Tresvyatsky, Russia, cosmonaut
1954 - Dora Bakoyannis, Greek politician
1955 - Donald A Thomas, Cleve Ohio, PhD/Astronaut (STS 65, 70, 83, 94)
1955 - John Hutton, MP
1955 - Tom Bergeron, American game show host
1958 - Lolita Flores, Spanish singer and actress
1959 - Charles Hendry, Cuckfield Sussex, British Conservative Party politician
1959 - Eric D Fingerhut, (Rep-D-Ohio)
1959 - Kate Collins, Boston Mass, actress (Natalie Hunter-All My Children)
1959 - Scott Hood, Seattle Wash, Canadian Tour golfer (1989 Montana Open-2nd)
1960 - Bart de Boer, Dutch guitarist (Ivy Green)
1960 - Julianne Phillips, Lake Oswego Oregon, actress (Frankie Reed-Sisters)
1960 - Larry Steinbachek, rock synthesizer (Bronski Beat-Smalltown Boy)
1960 - John Flansburgh, American musician
1960 - Phyllis Treigle, American soprano
1961 - Clay O'Brien, Ray Az, actor (Weedy-Cowboys)
1961 - George Clooney, Lexington Kentucky, actor (Dr Douglas Ross-ER, Batman)
1961 - Roma Downey, Derry Ireland, actress (1 Life to Live, Touched by an Angel)
1962 - Neil Foster, cricketer (England right-fast medium)
1962 - Adam Yellin, American record producer
1963 - Alessandra Ferri, British ballerina (American Ballet Theater)
1964 - Dana Hill [Goetz], Van Nuys California, actress (2 of Us, Shoot the Moon)
1964 - Kim Oden, Ala, US Olympic volleyball player (NCAA Play of Decade-80s)
1964 - Mike Grob, Billings Montana, Canadian Tour golfer (1988 Manitoba-3rd)
1964 - Mike McGruder, NFL cornerback (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1965 - Bob Bassen, Calgary, NHL center (Dallas Stars)
1965 - Ken Harvey, NFL linebacker (Washington Redskins)
1965 - Norman Whiteside, British soccer player
1965 - Paul Frase, NFL defensive end (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1965 - Tim Simpson, Atlanta GA, Nike golfer (1985 Southern Open)
1965 - Zahid Sadiq, cricketer
1967 - Patrick F Manning Jr, Poughkeepsie NY, rower (Olympic-92)
1968 - Andy Kelly, WLAF quarterback (Rhein Fire)
1968 - Linnea Marie Fayard, Shrevept La, Miss Louisiana-America (1991-5th)
1968 - Lætitia Sadier, French singer (Stereolab)
1969 - Mark Thomas, NFL defensive end (Carolina Panthers, Packers, Bears)
1969 - Pascall Davis, WLAF linebacker (Amsterdam Admirals)
1969 - Jim Magilton, Northern Irish footballer
1970 - Emerson Martin, NFL guard (Pittsburgh Steelers, Carolina Panthers, Packers)
1970 - Kavan Smith, Canadian actor
1971 - Rob Holmberg, NFL linebacker (Oakland Raiders)
1971 - Chris Shiflett, Guitarist for Foo Fighters
1972 - Dean Larsson, BC Canada, Nike golfer (1994 Monterrey Open-46th)
1972 - Martin Brodeur, Montreal, NHL goalie (NJ Devils, Team Canada)
1973 - Clay Williams, OL (Indianapolis Colts)
1973 - Joe Spiteri, Australian soccer striker (Olyroos, Olympics-96)
1973 - Wendy Ward, San Antonio Texas, LPGA golfer (1995 GHP Classic-15th)
1976 - Lindsay Page, Madison Wis, figure skater (1997 E Great Lakes Sr-3rd)
1977 - Gabriela Aguilar, Miss Costa Rica Universe (1997)
1977 - Shannon Shakespeare, Mission BC, 100m swimmer (Olympics-96)
1977 - Trent Steed, Sydney NSW Australia, swimmer (Olympics-96)
1977 - Christophe Brandt, Belgian cyclist
1978 - Fredrick Federley, Swedish politician
1978 - John Abraham, American football player
1978 - Alexander Fedorov, Russian bodybuilder
1979 - Nikki Hayes, Irish radio personality
1980 - Brooke Bennett, 800m freestyle (Olympics-gold-96)
1980 - Kasumi Takahashi, Tokyo Japan, Australian rhythmic gymnast (Oly-96)
1980 - Ricardo Oliveira, Brazilian footballer
1980 - Scott Colton, American professional wrestler
1980 - Mario Stojić, Croatian basketball player
1980 - Taebin, Korean singer (1TYM)
1980 - Kelly van der Veer, Dutch reality TV star
1981 - Matthew Leone, bassist of Madina Lake
1981 - Nathan Leone, lead singer of Madina Lake
1981 - Edyta Sliwinska,Polish professional dancer
1981 - Mark O'Connell, American drummer (Taking Back Sunday)
1983 - Adrianne Palicki, American actress
1985 - Chris Paul, All-Star NBA Point Guard
1986 - Cindy Daniel, Quebec singer
1986 - Tyler Hynes, Canadian actor
1987 - Moon Geun-young, South Korean actress
1989 - Dominika Cibulkova, Slovakian tennis player
1996 - Dominic Scott Kay, American actor

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 06, 2013, 06:08:09 PM

This Day in History for 6th May


Famous Deaths

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Naturalist                                                   Naturalist/Pacifist                           Educator Maria Montessori (1952)
Alexander von Humboldt (1859)               Henry David Thoreau (1862)

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CIA Director                                              Singer/Actress (1992)
William Casey (1987)                                 Marlene Dietrich


523 - Thrasamunde, king of Vandalen
680 - Muawiyah I, caliph (b. 602)
988 - Dirk II, West Frisian count of Holland
1085 - King Alfonso VI, of Leon conquered Toledo, dies
1124 - Balak, Emir of Aleppo, murdered
1475 - Dieric Bouts, Dutch painter, dies at about 64
1502 - James Tyrrell, alleged murderer of the Princes in the Tower (executed)
1527 - Karel van Bourbon, military governor (Lombardije), dies at 37
1540 - Jean Luis Vives, Spanish theory/humanist/reformer, dies at 48
1596 - Giaches de Wert, Flemish composer (b. 1535)
1620 - Hayyim ben Joseph Vital, Palestinian-born Kabbalist (b. 1543)
1631 - Robert Bruce Cotton, English politician
1638 - Cornelius Jansen, theologian (Jansenism), dies
1642 - Frans Francken, the Younger, Flemish painter, dies on 61st birthday
1666 - Paul Siefert, composer, dies at 79
1678 - Joseph de La Barre, composer, dies at 44
1708 - François de Laval, first bishop of New France (b. 1623)
1727 - Catharina I, Latvia tsarina of Russia, dies at about 42
1739 - Bernardus Smijtegelt, vicar (Gekrookte Reed), dies at 63
1757 - Maximilian Ulysses Count Browne, Austrian field marshal (b. 1705)
1757 - Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton, British politician (b. 1683)
1757 - Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin, Prussian field marshal (b. 1684)
1776 - James Kent, composer, dies at 76
1794 - Jean-Jacques Beauvarget-Charpentier, composer, dies at 59
1814 - George Joseph Vogler, composer, dies at 64
1836 - Christian Ignatius Latrobe, composer, dies at 78
1840 - Francisco de Paula Santander, Colombian president and independence leader (b. 1792)
1841 - John Thomson, composer, dies at 35
1852 - Charles-Louis-Joseph Hanssens, composer, dies at 75
1856 - William Hamilton, metaphysicist, dies
1859 - Friedrich Heinrich Alexander, explorer/scientist, dies
1859 - Alexander von Humboldt, German naturalist, dies at 89
1862 - Henry David Thoreau, US writer/pacifist (Walden Pond), dies at 44
1864 - Henry Livermore Abbott, US Union brig-general, dies in battle
1864 - Micah Jenkins, Confederate brig-general (friendly fire), dies at 28
1877 - Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Finnish poet (b. 1804)
1882 - Frederick Cavendish, assassinated by Fenian Invincibles, in Dublin
1882 - Thomas Henry Burke, assassinated by Fenian Invincibles, in Dublin
1890 - Hubert Leonard, composer, dies at 71
1892 - Ernest Guiraud, composer, dies at 54
1904 - Franz von Lenbach, German painter, dies at 67
1910 - Edward VII, King of England (1901-10), dies at 68
1916 - Dirk Bos, Dutch MP (Liberal), dies at 53
1916 - Earl Ross Drake, composer, dies at 50
1919 - Frank Lyman Baum, author (Wizard of Oz), dies at 62
1924 - Carel S Adama van Scheltema, poet/writer (socialism), dies at 47
1936 - Hans Jelmoli, composer, dies at 59
1948 - 43 communist rebels, executed in Athens
1949 - A L Ochse, cricketer (10 wickets in 3 Tests for S Afr 1927-29), dies
1949 - Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian philosopher (Nobel 1911), dies at 86
1950 - Agnes Smedley, writer, dies
1951 - Élie Cartan, French mathematician (b. 1869)
1952 - Alberto Savinio, Italian composer (Capitano Ulisse), dies at 60
1952 - Maria Montessori, Italian physician/educationist, dies at 81
1960 - Paul Abraham, Hungarian composer (Blume von Hawaii), dies at 67
1961 - Lucian Blaga, philosopher/poet (Transcendental censor), dies at 65
1963 - Monty Wooley, actor (Pied Piper, Man Who Came to Dinner), dies at 74
1963 - Theodore von Kármán, Hungarian-born physicist (b. 1881)
1964 - Harold Morris, composer, dies at 74
1967 - Zhou Zuoren, Chinese writer (b. 1885)
1971 - Helene Weigel, Austrian/German actress (Metropolis), dies at 70
1972 - Deniz Gezmiş, Turkish Left-wing Political Activist (b. 1947)
1973 - Ernest MacMillan, composer, dies at 79
1975 - Jozsef Mindszenty, [Joseph Prehm], Hungarian cardinal, dies at 83
1976 - Karel M J F Cruysberghs, Flemish author (On the Pulpit), dies at 85
1978 - Ethelda Bleibtrey, US swimmer (Olympics-3 gold-1920), dies at 76
1978 - Ko van Dijk Jr, Dutch actor (Zaak M P), dies at 61
1982 - Sam Baker, dies
1983 - Kai Winding, American trombonist and jazz composer (b. 1922)
1984 - Bonner Pink, Conservative Party politician
1984 - Mary Cain, Mississippi newspaper editor and politician (b. 1904)
1985 - Julie Vega, Filipino child actress and singer (b. 1968)
1987 - William J Casey, director of CIA (1981-87), dies at 73
1989 - Guy Williams, actor (Zorro, Lost in Space)
1990 - Charles Farrell, actor (Vern-My Little Margie), dies at 89
1991 - Anthony van Kampen, writer (Ketelbinkie, Geschonden Eldorado), dies
1991 - Chucky Mullins, US soccer player, dies
1991 - Thomas A Carlin, dies at 62
1991 - Wilfrid Hyde-White, Brits actor (Peyton Place/140+ films), dies at 87
1992 - Jilly Rizzo, restauranteur/friend of Frank Sinatra, dies in car at 75
1992 - Marlene Dietrich, [Maria Losch], actress (Angel), dies in Paris at 90
1992 - Gaston Reiff, Belgian athlete (b. 1921)
1993 - Ann Todd, actress (Things to Come, Danny Boy), dies of stroke at 84
1993 - Minnie Gentry, actress (Def by Temptation), dies in NY at 77
1994 - Fred Sadoff, actor (Quiet American), dies of AIDS at 67
1994 - Haskell "Cool Papa" Sadler, blues singer/guitarist, dies at 59
1994 - Helen Lessore, artist, dies at 86
1994 - Montague Modlyn, broadcaster, dies at 72
1994 - Moses Rosen, Romania's chief rabbi, dies at 81
1995 - Dona Maria Pia de Braganca, pretender to Port throne, dies at 88
1995 - Leanoard "Red" Truss, R&B singer, dies at 47
1995 - Nicholas Palmer, TV writer/producer, dies at 57
1995 - Noel Brotherston, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1956)
1995 - Hilda Toledano (b. 1907)
1996 - Frank Hercules, writer, dies at 85
1996 - Geoffrey Dawes, physiologist, dies at 78
1996 - Geoffrey Hodges, bomb disposal expert, dies at 87
1996 - Joseph Stone, lawyer, dies at 79
1996 - Leon Joseph Suenens, cardinal, dies at 91
1996 - Michael Gerzon, mathematician, dies at 50
2002 - Otis Blackwell, American pianist, singer and songwriter (b. 1932)
2002 - Pim Fortuyn, Dutch politician (b. 1948)
2003 - Art Houtteman, baseball player (b. 1927)
2004 - Philip Kapleau, American Zen teacher (b. 1912)
2004 - Barney Kessel, American jazz guitarist (b. 1923)
2006 - Lillian Asplund, last American RMS Titanic survivor (b. 1906)
2006 - Shigeru Kayano, Japanese Ainu activist (b. 1926)
2006 - Grant McLennan, co-founder of Australian band The Go-Betweens (b. 1958)
2006 - Lorne Saxberg, Canadian television journalist (b. 1958)
2007 - Enéas Carneiro, Brazilian politician (b. 1938)
2007 - Curtis Harrington, American film director (b. 1926)
2007 - Đorđe Novković, Croatian songwriter (b. 1943)
2009 - Kevin Grubb, former NASCAR driver (b. 1978)
2010 - Robin Roberts, American baseball player (b. 1926)
2012 - George Lindsey, American actor, dies at 83

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 07, 2013, 02:55:21 PM

This Day in History for 7th May


Historical Events

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First US President                                     English Philosopher and                      Chancellor Otto Von Bismarck
George Washington                                 Founder of Pennsylvania
                                                                       William Penn

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Comedian Martin Lawrence


558 - In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses. Justinian I immediately orders the
           dome rebuilt.
1274 - 2nd Council of Lyons (14th ecumenical council) opens
1355 - 1,200 Jews of Toledo Spain killed by Count Henry of Trastamara
1416 - Monk Nicolaas Serrurier arrested because of heresy at Tournay
1429 - English siege of Orleans broken by Joan of Arc
1579 - Congress of Cologne forms in Netherlands
1624 - Admiral Hermites conquering fleet reaches Callao the Lima, Peru
1638 - Cornelis S Goyer takes possession of Mauritius (uninhabited)
1660 - Isaack B Fubine of Savoy, in The Hague, patents macaroni
1663 - Theatre Royal in Drury Lane London opens
1664 - Louis XIV of France inaugurates The Palace of Versailles.
1697 - Stockholm's royal castle (dating back to medieval times) is destroyed by fire (in the 18th
           century, it is replaced by the current Royal Palace).
1700 - William Penn began monthly meetings for Blacks advocating emancipation
1718 - The city of New Orleans was founded by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville .
1727 - Jews are expelled from Ukraine by Empress Catherine I of Russia
1748 - French troops conquer Maastricht in the War of the Austrian Succession
1765 - Adm Nelsons flagship HMS Victory launched
1771 - Samuel Hearne explores Copper Mine River of Canada
1775 - Turkish state of Bukovina secedes from Austria
1789 - 1st inaugurational ball (for George Washington in NYC)
1792 - Capt Robert Gray discovers Grays Harbor (Washington)
1800 - Indiana Territory organized
1824 - Beethoven's 9th (Chorale) Symphony, premieres in Vienna
1832 - Greece becomes independent republic
1832 - Otto of Bavaria is chosen king of Greece
1836 - The settlement of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico is elevated to the royal status of villa by the
           government of Spain.
1840 - Tornado strikes Natchez Miss, kills 317
1847 - American Medical Association organizes (Phila)
1848 - Prussians stop insurrection in Varsovia
1856 - Argentine & Brazilian sign a navigation pact
1861 - Riot occurs between prosecessionist & Union supporters in Knoxville TN
1862 - Battle of West Point, VA (Eltham's Landing, Barnhamsville)
1862 - Much of Enschede Neth destroyed by fire
1864 - Battle of Wilderness ends (total losses: USA-17,666; CSA-7,500)
1864 - Skirmish at Port Walthall Junction Virginia (Drewry's Bluff)
1866 - German premier Otto von Bismarck seriously wounded in assassin attempt
1867 - Blacks stage ride-in to protest segregation in New Orleans
1873 - US marines attack Panama
1875 - German SS Schiller sinks near Scilly Islands, 312 killed
1877 - Cin Enquirer, 1st uses term "Bullpen" to indicate foul territory
1885 - John E W Thompson, named minister to Haiti
1888 - Edouard Lalo's opera "Le roi d'Ys," premieres in Paris
1888 - George Eastman patents "Kodak box camera"
1891 - Battle in Bunyoro: Capt F Lugard stops Moslem rebellion, 300 killed
1895 - In Saint Petersburg, Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the
           Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention - the world's first radio receiver. In the
           former Soviet Union the anniversary of this day is celebrated as Radio Day.
1902 - Soufriere volcano on St Vincent kills 2-5,000
1904 - Flexible Flyer trademark registered
1907 - Charles Collier wins 1st Isle of Man TT Race: (38.22 mph)
1909 - Construction begins on first 100 houses in Ahuzat Bayit (Tel Aviv)
1910 - 35th Preakness: R Estep aboard Layminster wins in 1:40.6
1912 - Columbia University approves plans for awarding the Pulitzer Prize in several categories The
           award is established by Joseph Pulitzer
1913 - British House of Commons rejects woman's right to vote
1914 - US Congress establishes mother's day
1915 - Lusitania sunk by German submarine; 1198 lives lost
1917 - Red Sox Babe Ruth beats Wash Senator Walter Johnson, 1-0
1920 - USSR recognizes Georgia's independence
1921 - 47th Kentucky Derby: Charles Thompson on Behave Yourself wins 2:04.2
1922 - Belgian soccer team defeats Netherlands: 1-2
1922 - NY Giant Jesse Barnes no-hits Phillies, 2-0
1923 - Mine strike at Belgian Borinage railroad
1924 - Peruvian Torre forms APRA, Alianza Popular Revolutionaria Americana
1925 - Phillies have their 8th game postponed in a row
1925 - Pirate shortstop Glenn Wright makes an unassisted triple play
1927 - SF Municipal Airport (Mills Field) dedicated
1927 - Angelos Sikelianos organizes the first Delphic Festival in Delphi to celebrate the ancient Greek
           Delphic ideal.
1928 - England lowers age of women voters from 30 to 21
1928 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Thornton Wilder for (Bridge of San Luis Rey)
1930 - Duleepsinhji scores 333 for Sussex v Northants in 330 mins
1932 - 58th Kentucky Derby: Eugene James aboard Burgoo King wins in 2:05.2
1934 - Neth Princess Juliana opens Juliana Canal
1934 - Part of Khabarovsk becomes a Jewish Autnomous Region
1934 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Sidney Kingsley (Men in White)
1934 - World's largest pearl (6.4 kg) found at Palawan, Philippines
1938 - 64th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Arcaro aboard Lawrin wins in 2:04.8
1938 - Dutch Minister of Justice Goseling calls fugitives of nazi-Germany "undesired strangers"
1939 - Germany & Italy announced an alliance known as the Rome-Berlin Axis
1941 - British House of Commons votes for Churchill (477-3)
1941 - Cornerstone of B of A building at 300 Montgomery laid
1941 - Glenn Miller records "Chattanooga Choo Choo" for RCA
1942 - Battle of Coral Sea ends stopping Japanese expansion
1942 - Nazi decree orders all Jewish pregnant women of Kovno Ghetto executed
1943 - British 11th Huzaren occupies Tunis Tunisia
1943 - Dutch men 18-35 obliged to report to labor camps
1943 - Liberty Ship George Washington Carver, named after scientist, launched
1943 - US 1st Armour division occupies Ferryville Tunisia
1943 - US 9th Infantry division occupies Bizerta/Bensert Tunisia
1944 - German assault on Tito's hideout in Drvar Bosnia
1945 - Branch Rickey announces formation of the US Negro Baseball League
1945 - British troops pull into Utrecht Neth
1945 - Formal undertaking of complete German surrender
1945 - Mauthausen Concentration Camp liberated
1945 - Nazi generals Jodl & Von Friedenburg surrender
1945 - Princess Irene Brigade moves into the Hague Neth
1945 - Pulitzer prize awarded to John Hersey (Bell for Adano)
1945 - SS open fire on crowd in Amsterdam, killing 22
1946 - William H Hastie inaugurated as 1st black governor of Virgin Islands
1946 - Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (later renamed Sony) is founded with around 20
           employees.
1947 - "Kraft Television Theater" premieres on NBC
1947 - General MacArthur approves Japanese constitution
1947 - Paraguayian government unleashes contra revolt
1948 - Nazi collaborator V-Mann Antonius van de Waals sentence to death
1949 - 75th Kentucky Derby: Steve Brooks aboard Ponder wins in 2:04.2
1951 - Intl Olympic committee allows Russia to participate in 1952 Olympics
1951 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Conrad Richter (The Town)
1952 - The concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by
           Geoffrey W.A. Dummer.
1953 - "Can Can" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 892 performances
1953 - Record 537-kg swordfish is caught by LE Marron, in Chile
1954 - French surrender to Vietminh after 55-day siege at Dien Bien Phu
1954 - US, Great-Britain & France reject Russian membership in NATO
1955 - 81st Kentucky Derby: Bill Shoemaker aboard Swaps wins in 2:01.8
1955 - USSR signs peace treaty with France & Great-Britain
1955 - West Europe Union established
1956 - Battle at Oran, Algeria, kills 300
1956 - NY Giant Bill White, homers in his 1st at bat
1956 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett
1957 - Indians' pitcher Herb Score is hit by a line drive off Gil McDougald
1957 - Maj Johnson, USAAF flies a Lockheed Starfight to 17.28 miles (27.8 K)
1958 - Howard Johnson sets aircraft altitude record in F-104, 27,810 m
1959 - "Roy Campanella Night" Largest baseball crowd (93,103 in LA Coliseum) sees Dodgers' Sandy
           Koufax beat Yankees 6-2 in exhibition
1960 - "Christine" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 12 performances
1960 - "Flower Drum Song" closes at St James Theater NYC after 602 perfs
1960 - "From A to Z" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 21 performances
1960 - 86th Kentucky Derby: Bill Hartack on Venetian Way wins in 2:02.4
1960 - Dodgers Larry & Norm Sherry are baseball's 10th brother battery
1960 - LA Dodger Norm Sherry's 11th HR wins the game for brother Larry
1960 - Leonid Brezhnev replaces Kliment Voroshilov as pres of USSR
1960 - Michael Tal beats Botvinnik 12½-8½ for world chess championship
1960 - USSR announces Francis Gary Powers confessed to being a CIA spy
1961 - "Young Abe Lincoln" closes at Eugene O'Neill NYC after 27 perfs
1961 - Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Open
1962 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Theodore H White (Making of President 1960)
1962 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1963 - Bruno Sammartino becomes WWF champ
1963 - SETC Telstar 2 launched (apogee 6,700 miles (10,800 km))
1965 - WAOW TV channel 9 in Wausau, WI (ABC) begins broadcasting
1966 - 92nd Kentucky Derby: Donald Brumfield aboard Kauai King wins in 2:02
1966 - Mamas & Papas "Monday Monday" hits #1
1966 - Yankees fire manager Johnny Keene
1967 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Tall City Golf Open
1969 - 2nd ABA championship: Oakland Oaks beat Indiana Pacers, 4 games to 1
1969 - Lt General Robert E Cushman, Jr, USMC, becomes deputy director of CIA
1970 - "Long & Winding Road" becomes Beatles' last American release
1972 - 26th NBA Championship: LA Lakers beat NY Knicks, 4 games to 1
1972 - Betty Burfeindt wins Sealy LPGA Golf Classic
1973 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Eudora Welty (Optimist's Daughter)
1974 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert Lowell (Dolphin)
1975 - Flyers 3-Isles 4 (OT)-Semifinals-Flyers hold 3-1 lead
1975 - Pres Ford declares an end to "Vietnam Era"
1975 - Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 53 launched to study X-rays
1977 - "Happy End" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 75 performances
1977 - 103rd Kentucky Derby: Jean Cruguet on Seattle Slew wins in 2:02.2
1979 - 5th UNCTAD-conference opens in Manila
1979 - Gary Roenicke hits into Orioles 13th triple play (Oakland)
1980 - Josip Tito, Yugoslav president, buried
1980 - Samm-Art Williams' "Home," premieres in NYC
1982 - "Is There Life after High School?" opens at Barrymore NYC for 12 perfs
1982 - Federal jury rules NFL violates antitrust laws in preventing
1982 - IBM releases PC-DOS version 1.1
1982 - Oakland Raiders to move to LA
1982 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1983 - 109th Kentucky Derby: Ed Delahoussaye on Sunny's Halo wins in 2:02.2
1983 - August Hoffman performs record 29,051 consecutive sit-ups
1983 - Bruins 4-Isles 8-Wales Conference Championship-Isles win series 4-2
1984 - $180m out-of-court settlement reached in Agent Orange suit
1984 - Sharon Barrett wins LPGA Potamkin Cadillac Golf Classic
1986 - Bucharest wins 31st Europe Cup I
1986 - Phillies outfielder Garry Maddox, retires
1987 - 105°F in Sacramento, CA
1987 - Diane Chambers' (Shelley Long) final episode on Cheers
1988 - 114th Kentucky Derby: Gary Stevens on Winning Colors wins in 2:02.2
1988 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1989 - Juli Inkster wins LPGA Crestar Golf Classic
1989 - Mark Merrony (Wales) cycles for 30 mins in Nepal at 21,030 feet
1989 - Panamanian voters reject dictator Manuel Noriega's bid for presidency
1991 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1991 - Haryana beat Bombay in the Ranji Cricket Trophy final by 2 runs
1992 - 5 NYC cops arrested in Hauppauge Long Island for selling cocaine
1992 - Constitutional amendment barring mid-term congressional raises passes
1992 - Jockey Angel Cordero retires after winning over 7,000 horse races
1992 - US space shuttle STS-49 launched (maiden voyage of Endeavour)
1993 - South Africa agrees to multi-racial elections
1994 - 120th Kentucky Derby: Chris McCarron on Go For Gin wins in 2:03.6
1994 - Denver Nuggets become NBA's 1st #8 seed to beat a #1 seed (Seattle)
1994 - Edvard Munchs painting "The Scream" recovered 3 months after stolen
1995 - "On the Waterfront" closes at Atkinson Theater NYC after 8 perfs
1995 - Jacques Chirac wins French presidential election
1995 - Michelle McGann wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic
1995 - Twins beat Indians 10-9 in 17 innings, 6 hours & 36 minutes
1996 - Comedian Martin Lawrence suffers a nervous breakdown
1997 - Expos scores 13 in 6th at Giants
1997 - Galileo, 4th Ganymede Flyby (Orbit 8 )
1998 - Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for $40 billion USD and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest
           industrial merger in history.
1999 - Kosovo War: In Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, three Chinese citizens are killed and 20
           wounded when a NATO aircraft bombs the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.
1999 - In Guinea-Bissau, President João Bernardo Vieira is ousted in a military coup.
1999 - Pope John Paul II travels to Romania becoming the first pope to visit a predominantly Eastern
           Orthodox country since the Great Schism in 1054.
1999 - A jury finds The Jenny Jones Show and Warner Bros. liable in the shooting death of Scott
           Amedure, after the show purposely deceived Jonathan Schmitz to appear on a secret same-
           sex crush episode. Schmitz later killed Amedure and the jury awarded Amedure's family $25
           million USD.
2002 - A China Northern Airlines MD-82 plunges into the Yellow Sea, killing 112 people.
2007 - The tomb of Herod the Great is discovered.
2012 - NATO air strike kills 14 and woulds 6 civilians in Afghanistan's Badghis Province
2012 - Vladimir Putin sworn in for third six year term as President of Russia
2012 - Paeleoclimatological research claims dinosaur flatulence may have warmed the earth

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Post by: MysteRy on May 07, 2013, 02:58:03 PM

This Day in History for 7th May


Famous Weddings

1914 - 28th US President Woodrow Wilson's daughter Eleanor marries in The White House
1958 - "The Mark of Zorro" actor Tyrone Power (44) weds Debbie Ann Minardos
1994 - Gary Hart's girlfriend Donna Rice (36) weds Jack Hughes (42)
1994 - Matlock actor Daniel Roebuck (30) weds Kelly Durst (24)
1995 - Eldest son of Shirley Jones and screenplay writer Shaun Cassidy (36) weds actress Susan Diol
           (30) in Westwood, California
2005 - "Growing Pains" actress Alan Thicke (58) weds model Tanya Callau at The One and Only
           Palmilla Resort in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
2005 - Country music singer Billy Dean (43) weds Stephanie Paisley at Cheekwood Botanical Gardens
           in Nashville, Tennessee
2005 - Lawyer Bobby Shriver (51) weds artist Malissa Feruzzi (41) in Los Angeles
2006 - Actress Tori Spelling (32) weds actor Dean McDermott (39) at Wakaya Club in Wakaya Island,
           Fiji
2011 - "The Amazing Race" winners Meghan Rickey and Cheyne Whitney marry at the Hard Rock
           Hotel, San Diego
2012 - Former "Dexter" actress Julie Benz (40) weds marketing executive Rich Orosco (39) at the
           historic John Sowden house in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles

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Post by: MysteRy on May 07, 2013, 04:46:46 PM

This Day in History for 7th May


Famous Birthdays

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Composer                                                   Actress/First Lady (1919)                      Television Journalist
Tchaikovsky (1840)                                          Eva Peron-Duarte                               Tim Russert (1950)


1328 - Louis VI the Roman, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1365)
1530 - Louis I Condé, French prince/leader of hugenots
1574 - Innocent X, [Giambattista Pamfili], 236th pope (1644-55)
1643 - Stephanus Van Cortlandt, American politician (d. 1700)
1700 - Gerard van Swieten, Dutch botanist
1704 - Carl Heinrich Graun, composer
1724 - Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser, Austrian general (d. 1797)
1740 - Nikolai Arkharov, Russian general (d. 1814)
1748 - Olympe de Gouges, playwright and feminist revolutionary (d. 1793)
1763 - Józef Antoni Poniatowski, Polish general/marshal of France (d. 1813)
1767 - Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussia, Duchess of York and Albany (d. 1820)
1769 - Giuseppe Farinelli, composer
1774 - William Bainbridge, American Commodore (d. 1833)
1787 - Jacques Viger, French Canadian politician, first mayor of Montreal (d. 1858)
1795 - Gerhard M Roentgen, industrialist (founder dockyard Fijenoord)
1803 - Johan Peter Cronhamm, composer
1812 - Robert Browning, London England, poet (Pied Piper)
1826 - Varina Howell Davis, 1st lady (Confederacy), died in 1905
1827 - Francis Engle Patterson, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
1832 - Carl G Neumann, German mathematician/physicist (Neumann-functions)
1833 - Johannes Brahms, Hamburg Germany, composer
1840 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Votkinsk, Russia, composer (1812 Overture, Swan Lake), (d. 1893)
           [NS]
1845 - Jacob van Stolk Azn, timber merchant/art collector
1847 - Archibald Primrose, Earl of Rosebery (Lib), British PM (1894-95)
1857 - William A. MacCorkle, American politician (d. 1930)
1866 - Cornelis J K van Aalst, president (Dutch Trading Company)
1867 - Philippine "Pine" Belder, [Mary de Klerk], actress (Hope of Blessing)
1873 - Clarence Dickinson, composer
1882 - Willem Elsschot, [Alfons J de Ridder], Flemish writer (Mend)
1883 - Gino Roncaglia, composer
1883 - Martin Albertz, German theologist (Church Jesus Christ)
1885 - George "Gabby" Hayes, Wellesvile NY, actor (In Old Santa Fe, El Paso)
1887 - Henri Pourrat, French writer (Gaspard of the Montagnes)
1890 - Billy House, Minn, actor (Imitation of Life, Bedlam, Egg & I)
1891 - Harry McShane, Scottish socialist (d. 1988)
1892 - Archibald MacLeish, Glencoe Ill, polit essayist/poet/dramatist (JB)
1892 - Josip Broz Tito, WW II partisan, leader of Yugoslavia (1943-80)
1893 - Frank J. Selke, Canadian ice hockey manager (d. 1985)
1897 - Kitty McKane, England, tennis (Oly-gold/2 silver/2 bronze-1920, 24)
1898 - Vera Chapman, writer
1900 - Bauke Tuinstra, Dutch/Frisian notary/author (Earste Keur)
1900 - Ralph Truman, London England, actor (Web of Evidence)
1901 - Gary Cooper, Montana, actor (2 Acad Awards-Sgt York, High Noon)
1901 - L T Coggeshall, medical scientist/ US Secretary of HEW (1956-58)
1901 - Marcel Poot, Belgian baron/composer
1902 - Sal Gliatto, baseball player
1903 - Basil Nield, judge/politician
1907 - Jef van Durme, composer
1908 - Ed MacDonald, actor (Mysteries of Chinatown)
1908 - Wouter Paap, composer
1909 - Edwin H Land, inventor (instant photography (Polaroid))
1911 - Ishiro Honda, Japanese film director (d. 1993)
1912 - Paul H F Brenneker, Neth/Antillian photographer/folklorist
1914 - Sir Arthur Snelling, British Ambassador (d. 1996)
1916 - Huw Wheldon, British broadcaster (d. 1986)
1917 - David Tomlinson, Scotland, actor (Mary Poppins, Helter Skelter)
1917 - William Geoffrey Biddle, bomb disposal expert
1918 - Argeliers Leon, composer
1919 - Eva Peron-Duarte [Evita], Argentina, 1st lady/actress, (d. 1952)
1921 - Gale Robbins, Chic, actress (Fuller Brush Girl, Mr Hex)
1922 - Darren McGavin, Spokane Wash, actor (Night Stalker, Tribes, Turk 182)
1922 - Lew Anderson, American actor and bandleader (d. 2006)
1922 - Joe O'Donnell, American documentary photographer, photojournalist (d. 2007)
1923 - Anne Baxter, Mich City Ind, actr (Myra-Marcus Welby, Victoria-Hotel)
1923 - Pete V Domenici, (Sen-R-NM, 1973- )
1924 - Albert Band, American film director (d. 2002)
1926 - Val Bisoglio, NYC, actor (Lt Marsh-Police Woman, Danny-Quincy ME)
1927 - Jim Lowe, Springfield Mass, DJ (WNEW) "King of Trivia"
1927 - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, German screenwriter
1927 - Jim Lowe, American singer
1928 - John Ingle, actor (Edward Quartermaine-General Hospital), (d. 2012)
1928 - Marvin Mitchelson, attorney
1929 - Dick Williams, baseball player, manager (including Seattle 1986-87)
1929 - Sally L Smith, educator/founder (Lab School of Wash)
1929 - Babe Parilli, American football player
1930 - Aviard Gavrilovich Fastovets, Russia, cosmonaut
1930 - Horst Bienek, German poet
1930 - Totie Fields, American comedienne (d. 1978)
1931 - Gene [Rodman] Wolfe, US, sci-fi author (Soldier of Arete)
1931 - Nel J Ginjaar-Maas, Dutch under-secretary of Education (VVD)
1931 - Teresa Brewer, Toledo Ohio, singer (Put Another Nickel In)
1932 - Hans Boskamp, [Johan HG Hoelscher], actor/producer (Oh My Papa)
1932 - Pete Domenici, Republican senator from New Mexico
1933 - Johnny Unitas, NFL QB (Balt Colts, San Diego); one of the greats
1933 - Nexhmije Pagarusha, Albanian singer
1934 - Ben Smith, Atlanta GA, PGA golfer (Ralphs Senior Classic-4th)
1934 - Donald Russell Holler, composer
1934 - Heinz Marti, composer
1934 - Willard Scott, weatherman (Today)
1935 - Kevin O'Connor, Honolulu Hawaii, actor (Bogie, Special Effects)
1935 - Isobel Warren, Canadian author
1936 - Cornelius Cardew, composer
1937 - Claude Raymond, Quebec baseball player
1938 - Johnny Caldwell, Ireland, flyweight boxer (Olympic-bronze-1956)
1939 - Jimmy Ruffin, vocalist (What Becomes of Broken Hearted)
1939 - Johnny Maestro, NY rock vocalist (Crests-16 Candles, Brooklyn Bridge)
1939 - Marco St John, New Orleans La, actor (Rayford-Ball Four)
1939 - Rudolphus FM "Ruud" Lubbers, director Dutch/CDA-premier (1982-94)
1939 - Volker Braun, writer
1939 - Sidney Altman, Canadian molecular biologist, Nobel laureate
1940 - Armando Krieger, composer
1940 - John Irvin, actor (Moment in Time)
1940 - Angela Carter, English novelist and journalist (d. 1992)
1940 - Jim Connors, American Radio personality (d. 1987)
1941 - Grahame Bilby, cricketer (two Tests NZ v England 1966)
1943 - Christopher Taylor White, rocker
1943 - Peter Horak, jetboat jumper
1943 - Rick West, [Richard Westwood], rocker (Brian Poole & Tremeloes)
1943 - Peter Carey, Australian author
1944 - Alison Margaret Bauld, composer
1944 - John Heard, actor (Pelican Brief, CHUD, Radio Flyer, Big)
1944 - Sivi Aberg, actress (Batman TV show)
1944 - Eva Norvind, Mexican actress (d. 2006)
1944 - Richard O'Sullivan, British actor
1945 - Robin Strasser, NYC, actress (Dorian-One Life to Live, Another World)
1945 - Wim A Mateman, Dutch MP (CDA)
1945 - Christy Moore, Irish folk artist
1946 - Bill Danoff, Springfield Mass, vocalist (Starland Vocal Band)
1946 - Bill Kreutzmann, Palo Alto CA, American rock drummer (Grateful Dead)
1946 - Richard L Brodsky, US lawyer/NY State Assemblyman (D) (1983- )
1946 - Brian Turner, English celebrity chef
1948 - Peter Wingfield, Wales, rocker/actor (Methos-Highlander)
1949 - Marilyn Cole, Portsmouth England, playmate of the year (Jan, 1972)
1949 - Stuart Marshall, director (Desire)
1950 - Prairie Prince, rocker (Tubes)
1950 - Randall 'Tex' Cobb, American boxer and actor
1950 - Tim Russert, Buffalo NY, American television journalist and host of NBC's Meet the Press, (d.
           2008)
1951 - David Whitton, campaigner
1951 - Robert Hegyes, NJ, actor (Underground Aces, Welcome Back Kotter)
1952 - Amy Heckerling, Bronx, dir (Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Clueless)
1952 - Derek Taylor, rocker (Let it Be, Beatles Anthology)
1953 - Pat McInally, American National Football League player
1953 - Ian McKay, British soldier (VC recipient) (d. 1982)
1954 - Philippe Geluck, Belgian cartoonist
1954 - Amy Heckerling, American director
1955 - Peter Reckell, Elkhart, actor (Days of our Lifes)
1955 - Kevin Reed, American theologian
1956 - Jan Peter Balkenende, Prime Minister of the Netherlands
1956 - Anne Dudley, British composer
1956 - Jean Lapierre, Canadian politician and television host
1957 - Shauna McDonald Brown, TV producer
1957 - [Christopher St John] "Sinjin" Smith, LA CA, volleyballer (Oly-96)
1957 - Ray Fernandez, American wrestler (d. 2004)
1959 - Michael E Knight, Princeton NJ, actor (Date with Angel, All My Child)
1959 - Robin L Freeman, St Charles MO, PGA golfer (1993 Northern Telecom-3rd)
1959 - Tamara E Jernigan, Chattoonaga, PhD/astro (STS 40, 52, 67, 80)
1959 - Barbara Yung Mei-ling, Hong Kong actress (d. 1985)
1960 - Arnon Ohad, co-pilot (El Al) plane that crashed on Bijlmer Amsterdam
1960 - Adam Bernstein, American music video/television director
1960 - Almudena Grandes, Spanish novelist
1961 - Linda Somers, Bitburg Germany, US marathoner (Olympics-31st-96)
1961 - Phil Campbell, British musician (Motörhead)
1962 - Robbie Knievel, daredevil, son of Evel (Chips Something Special)
1963 - Johnny Lee Middleton, American musician (Savatage & Trans-Siberian Orchestra)
1964 - Leslie O'Neal, NFL defensive end (San Diego Chargers, St Louis Rams)
1964 - Mustapha Zerqti, Moroccan/Neth writer (Ihtidaar hub fi el-mahd)
1964 - Ronnie Harmon, NFL running back (San Diego Chargers, Tennessee Oilers)
1964 - Doug Benson, American comedian
1965 - Reuben Davis, NFL defensive tackle (San Diego Chargers)
1965 - Owen Hart, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 1999)
1966 - Anderson Cummins, cricketer (in Packer's Valley Barbados & WI quickie)
1967 - Joe Rice, legislator in the U.S. state of Colorado
1968 - Joe King, NFL safety (Oakland Raiders)
1969 - Katerina Maleeva, Bulgaria, tennis player (US Open Junior 1984)
1969 - Melanie Valerio, 400m freestyle swimmer (Olympics-96)
1969 - Eagle Eye Cherry, Swedish musician
1969 - Rick Porras, American co-producer
1970 - Edwin Zoetebier, Dutch soccer player (FC Volendam)
1970 - Mark Smith, Pasadena CA, outfielder (Baltimore Orioles)
1970 - Sebastien Britten, Brossard Que, figure skater (1995 Canadian Champ)
1971 - Cameron McFadzean, Melbourne VIC Australia, canoeist (Olympics-96)
1971 - Dave Karpa, Regina, NHL defenseman (Anaheim Mighty Ducks)
1971 - Jose Munoz, WLAF offensive tackle (Rhein Fire)
1971 - Rondell Jones, NFL safety (Denver Broncos, Baltimore Ravens)
1971 - Horgh, (Reidar Horghagen) Norwegian drummer (Immortal/Hypocrisy)
1972 - Chris Hayes, safety (NY Jets)
1972 - John Holecek, NFL linebacker (Buffalo Bills)
1972 - Vince Stewart, WLAF defensive tackle (Barcelona Dragons)
1972 - Frank Trigg, American Mixed Martial Arts Fighter
1973 - Dameian Jeffries, NFL defensive end (NO Saints)
1973 - Kristian Lundin, record producer
1973 - Paolo Savoldelli, Italian cyclist
1974 - Scott Whittaker, center/tackle (Oakland Raiders)
1974 - Breckin Meyer, American actor
1974 - Ian Pearce, English footballer
1975 - Jason Tunks, London Ontario, discus thrower (Olympics-96)
1975 - Zee, American hip hop artist
1976 - Nicholas Butcher, LA Ca, field hockey midfielder/forward (Olympics-96)
1977 - Marko Milic, NBA guard (Phoenix Suns)
1977 - Patrick Johnson, American broadcaster
1978 - Stian Arnesen (Nagash/Lex Icon), Norwegian Black Metal musician
1978 - Brian Clevinger, American author
1978 - Shawn Marion, American basketball player
1979 - Katie Douglas, American basketball player
1980 - Johan Kenkhuis, Dutch swimmer
1980 - Kate Lawler, English reality television personality and disc jockey
1982 - Akos Buzsaky, Hungarian Football player
1984 - Alex Smith, American football player
1984 - Drew Stanton, American football player
1984 - James Loney, American baseball player
1985 - Drew Neitzel, American college basketball player
1986 - Mark Furze, Australian actor
1986 - Matt Helders, English musician, drummer for Arctic Monkeys
1987 - Katie Danza, daughter of Tony & Tracy Danza
1987 - Michael Maidens, English footballer (d. 2007)
1988 - Natalie Mejia, member of the American R&B/Pop group Girlicious
1992 - Gavin Hetherington, British actor

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Post by: MysteRy on May 07, 2013, 04:48:46 PM

This Day in History for 7th May


Famous Deaths

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Gangster Al Capone (1929)


685 - Marwan I ibn al-Hakam, 4th kalief of Omajjaden (684-85), dies
973 - Otto I the Great, Holy Roman Emperor (962-973), dies at 60
1092 - Remigius de Fécamp, first bishop of Lincoln (b. unknown)
1166 - Willem I, the Bad, king of Sicily (1154-66)
1205 - Ladislaus III Arpad, King of Hungary (1204-05), dies at 5 or 6
1427 - Thomas la Warr, 5th Baron De La Warr, English churchman
1523 - Franz von Sickingen, Germ knight/protect of poor, dies of wounds at 42
1539 - Guru Nanak Dev, Founder of Sikhism (b. 1469)
1539 - Ottaviano Petrucci, Italian printer (b. 1466)
1617 - David Fabricius, German astronomer, dies at 53
1667 - Johann Jakob Froberger, German organist/singer/composer, dies at 50
1671 - Edward Montagu, English baron Kimbolton, dies at about 68
1671 - Pieter Stockmans, Flemish chairman of Opperkrijgshof, dies at 62
1673 - Johannes Teellinck, Dutch vicar, dies at about 58
1682 - Tsar Feodor III of Russia (b. 1661)
1718 - Mary of Modena, wife of James II of England (b. 1658)
1736 - John Weldon, composer, dies at 60
1792 - Aert Schouman, Dutch bird/portrait painter, dies at 82
1793 - Johan A Zoutman, Dutch lt admiral (battle of Doggersbank), dies at 68
1793 - Pietro Nardini, composer, dies at 71
1800 - Laurens P van Spiegel, regent/pension advisor (1787-95), dies at 64
1800 - Niccolo Piccinni, Italian composer (Roland), dies at 72
1805 - William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1737)
1814 - Franz Volrath Buttstett, composer, dies at 79
1818 - Leopold Jan Antonin Kozeluh, composer, dies at 70
1825 - Antonio Salieri, Italian composer, dies in Vienna at 74
1836 - Norbert Burgmuller, composer, dies at 26
1840 - Caspar David Friedrich, German painter (b. 1774)
1863 - Amiel Weeks Whipple, US Union gen-major, dies of injuries at 46
1868 - Henry Peter Brougham, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1778)
1871 - Louis Papineau, political reformer, dies
1876 - Franz count of Pocci, German artist/composer (Alchemist), dies at 69
1876 - William Buell Sprague, American clergyman and author (b. 1795)
1884 - Judah P Benjamin, confederate minister of War, dies at 72
1887 - C. F. W. Walther, American Lutheran theologian (b. 1811)
1896 - H. H. Holmes (Herman Webster Mudgett) , American serial killer (b. 1860)
1900 - Richard Storrs Willis, composer, dies at 81
1904 - Peter Hille, writer, dies
1914 - Edward Mollenhauer, composer, dies at 87
1915 - Alfred G Vanderbilt, US millionaire, dies aboard Lusitania
1915 - Alfred Scott Witherbee Jr, US Lusitania officer, dies
1915 - Charles Frohman, dies aboard Lusitania
1922 - Max Wagenknecht, German composer (b. 1857)
1925 - William Hesketh Lever, First Viscount Leverhulme (b. 1851)
1928 - Alexander Afanasii Spendiaryan, composer, dies at 56
1929 - Albert Anselmi, US gangster, murdered by Al Capone
1929 - John Scalise, US gangster, murdered by Al Capone
1929 - Joseph "Top Toad" Giunta, US gangster, murdered by Al Capone
1932 - Albert Thomas, French social minister of Weapon production, dies
1934 - Edward Naylor, composer, dies at 67
1940 - George Lansbury, Labour Party Leader (b. 1859)
1941 - David Wijnkoop, revolutionary socialist, dies
1941 - Sir James George Frazer, Scottish anthropologist (b. 1854)
1942 - Felix Paul von Weingartner, Austria conductor/composer, dies at 79
1946 - Anton A Mussert, engineer/NSB leader, executed
1946 - Joe Humphries, cricket wicket keeper (3 Tests for Engld 1907-08), dies
1951 - Warner Baxter, dies at 62
1953 - Ormerod Pearse, cricketer (55 runs & 3 wkts in 3 Tests for S Af), dies
1958 - Nyogen Senzaki, 1st Zen teacher to reside in USA, dies at 81
1962 - Jimmy Conlin, dies at 77
1967 - Judith Evelyn, dies of cancer at 54
1967 - Lorenzo Bandini, Italian Formula One driver (b. 1935)
1968 - Lurleen Burns, wife of George Wallace/gov of Alabama, dies at 41
1970 - Carlos Estrada, composer, dies at 60
1971 - Willem Banning, Dutch theologist/sociologist (Karl Marx), dies at 83
1977 - Irwin Fischer, composer, dies at 73
1981 - Mieczyslaw Kolinski, composer, dies at 79
1982 - Alfred Adam, dies at 72
1983 - Peter Edel, writer, dies
1985 - Dawn Addams, actress (Alan Young Show, Star Maidens), dies at 54
1986 - Gaston Deferre, French politician, dies at 75
1986 - Jeffrey Mylett, American actor (b. 1949
1987 - Colin Blakely, dies at 56
1988 - Harris Glenn Divine, dies of natural causes at 42
1990 - Jessica James, actress (Spring Break), dies of breast cancer at 60
1993 - Mary Philbin, actress (Phantom of the Opera), dies at 89
1994 - Clement Greenberg, US art critic (Art & Culture), dies at 85
1994 - Margaret Skeete, oldest American, dies at 115
1995 - Ernest H Martin, impressario, dies at 75
1995 - Lawrence Josset, engraver, dies at 84
1995 - Maria Luisa Bemberg, fil maker, dies at 73
1995 - Ray McKinley, drummer, dies at 84
1996 - Albert Meltzer, anarchist, dies at 76
1996 - Henry Diamond, Irish Nationalist MP, dies at 87
1996 - Howard Frank Trayton Smith, diplomat/head of MI5, dies at 76
1998 - Allan McLeod Cormack, South African physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1924)
1998 - Eddie Rabbitt, American musician (b. 1941)
2000 - Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., American actor (b. 1909)
2002 - Seattle Slew, American racehorse (b. 1974)
2002 - Kevyn Aucoin, Makeup Artist and Photographer (b. 1962)
2004 - Waldemar Milewicz, Polish reporter (b. 1956)
2005 - Tristan Egolf, American writer (b. 1971)
2005 - Peter W. Rodino, American politician (b. 1909)
2005 - Otilino Tenorio, Ecuadorian footballer (b. 1980)
2006 - Richard Carleton, Australian news reporter (b.1943)
2006 - Joan C. Edwards, American philanthropist (b. 1918)
2006 - Machiko Soga, Japanese actress, singer, and tokusatsu legend (b. 1943)
2007 - Diego Corrales, American boxer (b. 1977)
2007 - Octavian Paler, Romanian writer and journalist (b. 1926)
2007 - Yahweh ben Yahweh, American cult leader (b. 1935)
2009 - David Mellor, English cutlery designer (b. 1930)
2011 - Seve Ballesteros, Spanish golfer (b. 1957)
2011 - Allyson Hennessy, Trindadian television presenter
2011 - Big George, British broadcaster, composer, bandleader and musician (b. 1957)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 08, 2013, 03:00:43 PM

This Day in History for 8th May


Historical Events

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Naturalist Charles Darwin                  French National Heroine Joan of Arc     Pacifist and Spiritual Leader Gandhi

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US President John F. Kennedy                 Heavyweight Boxing Champ                    Hall of Fame MLB shortstop
                                                                   Muhammad Ali                                            Ernie Banks

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Heavyweight Boxing Champion              Heavyweight Boxing Champ 
Mike Tyson                                                     Lennox Lewis


535 - John II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
589 - Reccared summons the Third Council of Toledo
615 - St Boniface IV ends his reign as Catholic Pope
685 - St Benedict II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1360 - Treaty of Brétigny signed by English & French
1429 - French troops under Joan of Arc rescues Orleans
1450 - Jack Cade's Rebellion-Kentishmen revolt against King Henry VI
1521 - Parliament of Worms installs edict against Marten Luther
1541 - Hernando de Soto discovers Mississippi River
1624 - Hung king Bethlen Gabor & emperor Ferdinand II sign Treaty of Vienna
1639 - William Coddington founds Newport RI
1660 - English parliament declares Charles Stuart to be King Charles II of England
1721 - Michelangiolo dei Conti replaces Pope Clement XI, as Innocent XIII
1741 - France & Bavaria sign Covenant of Nymphenburg
1784 - Only known deaths by hailstones in US (Winnsborough SC)
1792 - British Capt George Vancouver sights, names Mt Rainier, Wash
1792 - US establishes military draft
1821 - Greek War of Independence: The Greeks defeat the Turks in Gravia.
1823 - "Home Sweet Home" 1st sung (London)
1834 - Charles Darwin's expedition returns to the Beagle
1834 - Prussia, Austria & Russia sign classified accord about Belgium
1840 - Alexander Wolcott patents Photographic Process
1842 - Versailles to Paris train catches fire; 50 die
1846 - 1st major battle of Mexican War fought at Palo Alto Texas
1847 - Robert Thompson patents rubber tire
1858 - John Brown holds antislavery convention
1861 - Richmond Va, is named the capital of the Confederacy
1862 - Valley Campaign: Federals repulsed at Battle of McDowell Va
1863 - Confederación Granadina becomes Estados Unidos de Colombia
1864 - Actions at Stony Creek/Nottoway bridge Virginia (Drewry's Bluff)
1864 - Atlanta Campaign: Severe fighting near Dalton
1864 - Battle of Spotslyvania Court House begins
1871 - English-US treaty ends Alabama dispute
1877 - 1st Westminster Dog Show held
1878 - 1st unassisted triple play in organized baseball, by Paul Hines
1879 - George Selden files for 1st patent for a gasoline-driven automobile
1881 - Henry Morton Stanley signs contract with Congolian monarch
1882 - David Belasco's "La Belle Russe," premieres in NYC
1885 - Sarah Ann Henley survives 76-m jump from Clifton Bridge, Avon, Engl
1886 - Jacob's Pharmacy in Atlanta sells 1st Coca-Coke (contained cocaine)
1895 - China cedes Taiwan to Japan under Treaty of Shimonoseki
1896 - Yorkshire Cricket all out for 887 against Warwickshire
1897 - 22nd Preakness: T Thorpe aboard Paul Kauvar wins in 1:51¼
1898 - The first games of the Italian Football League are played.
1899 - The Irish Literary Theatre in Dublin opens.
1900 - 250 grave robbers shot to death
1900 - John McGraw & Wilbert Robinson sign with Cardinals
1901 - In their long-delayed AL home opener, Boston defeats Phila 12-4
1902 - Mt Pelee erupts, wipes out St Pierre, Martinique, kills 30,000
1906 - Phila A's pitcher Chief Benders plays outfield & hits 2 HRs
1907 - Boston's Big Jeff Pfeffer no-hits Cin Reds, 6-0
1907 - Tommy Burns beats Jack O'Brien in 20 for heavyweight boxing title
1909 - Albert Raines runs world record marathon (2:46:04.6)
1909 - Frederick Barrett runs world record marathon (2:42:31)
1914 - Paramount Pictures is formed.
1915 - 41st Kentucky Derby: Joe Notter aboard Regret wins in 2:05.4
1916 - German munitions bunker in Fort Douaumont explodes
1919 - 1st transatlantic flight take-off by a navy seaplane
1919 - Appingedam soccer team forms
1919 - Edward George Honey first proposes the idea of a moment of silence to commemorate The
           Armistice of World War I, which later results in the creation of Remembrance Day.
1920 - 46th Kentucky Derby: Ted Rice aboard Paul Jones wins in 2:09
1921 - Sweden abolished capital punishment
1923 - Hobbs scores his 100th 100, 116* v Somerset at Bath
1924 - Arthur Honegger's "Pacifica 231," premieres
1924 - Memel territories given to Lithuania
1924 - Workers at Werkspoor in Amsterdam strike against 3rd wage cut
1925 - 51st Preakness: Clarence Kummer aboard Coventry wins in 1:59
1925 - French colonial army beats Rifkabylen in Morocco
1926 - 1st flight over North Pole (Bennett & Byrd)
1926 - A Philip Randolph organizes Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
1926 - Fire breaks out in Fenway Park
1929 - Jan Mayen island, 500 km NNE of Iceland, incorporated into Norway
1929 - NY Giant Carl Hubbell no-hits Pirates, 11-0
1931 - Operette "Land of Smiles," premieres in London
1933 - Mohandas Gandhi begins a 21-day fast in protest against British oppression in India.
1935 - Cin Red Ernie Lombardi doubles in 6th, 7th, 8th & 9th beat Phils 15-4
1936 - Jockey Ralph Neves unexpectedly revived after being declared dead after a fall. His wife fainted
           when he returned to track
1937 - 63rd Kentucky Derby: Charley Kurtsinger on War Admiral wins 2:03.2
1938 - Stravinsky's "Dumbarton Oaks," premieres in Washington, DC
1941 - German Q-ship Pinguin sinks in Indian Ocean
1942 - Aircraft carrier Lexington sunk by Japanese air attack at Coral Sea
1942 - German summer offensive opens in Crimea
1942 - 1st twilight game in 24 years, the Dodgers top Giants 7-6 raising $60,000 for Navy Relief
           Fund
1943 - 69th Preakness: Johnny Longden aboard Count Fleet wins in 1:57.4
1943 - Adm Cunningham of Brit fleet: "Sink, burn & destroy; let nothing pass"
1944 - 33 communist resistance fighter sentenced to death
1945 - Canadian troops move into Amsterdam
1945 - Chinese counter attack at Tsjangte, supports by 14th air fleet
1945 - Gen Von Keitel surrenders to Marshal Zhukov
1945 - V-E Day; Germany signs unconditional surrender, WW II ends in Europe
1946 - Red Sox Johnny Pesky scores 6 runs in 1 game
1946 - The Estonian school girls Aili Jõgi and Ageeda Paavel blow up the Soviet memorial that
           preceded the Bronze Soldier in Tallinn.
1947 - A movement among Card players to protest its 1st meeting with Jackie Robinson & the
           Dodgers is aborted by a talk from owner Sam Breadon
1948 - Bradman scores 146 Aust v Surrey, 174 mins, 15 fours
1949 - West German constitution approved
1950 - Chiang Kai-shek asks US for weapons
1951 - Dacron men's suits introduced
1951 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
1952 - "Of Thee I Sing" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 72 performances
1952 - "Shuffle Along" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 4 performances
1952 - Mad Magazine debuts
1953 - WIPB TV channel 49 in Muncie, IN (PBS) begins broadcasting
1954 - 1st shot-put over 60' (18.29 m)-Parry O'Brien, Los Angeles, CA
1956 - John Osbornes "Look Back in Anger," premieres in London
1958 - Pres Eisenhower orders National Guard out of Central HS, Little Rock
1958 - VP Nixon is shoved, stoned, booed & spat upon by protesters in Peru
1959 - 3-deck Nile excursion steamer springs a leak panicking passengers who capsized ship. 200
           drown just yards from shore
1960 - USSR & Cuba resume diplomatic relations
1960 - Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Betsy Rawls Peach Blossom Golf Open
1961 - 1st practical sea water conversion plant-Freeport Texas
1961 - Alan Shepard receives NASA Distinguished Service Medal, Washington
1962 - "Funny Thing Happened" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 965 perfs
1962 - 1st Atlas Centaur Launch
1962 - London trolley buses go out of service
1963 - "Dr No" premieres in US
1963 - JFK offers Israel assistance against aggression
1965 - 1st shut put over 70' (Randy Matson 70' 7")
1966 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Tall City Golf Open
1966 - Last game at old Busch stadium, St Louis Card lose 10-5 to SF
1966 - Only HR ever hit out of Baltimore's Memorial Park (Frank Robinson)
1967 - Muhammad Ali is indicted for refusing induction in US Army
1967 - The Philippine province of Davao is split into three: Davao del Norte, Davao del Sur, and
           Davao Oriental.
1968 - Jim (Catfish) Hunter of Oakland pitches perfect game vs Twins (4-0)
1968 - Pulitzer prize awarded to William Styron (Confessions of Nat Turner)
1969 - Cambodia recognizes German DR
1969 - Pope Paul VI publishes constitution Sacra Ritum Congregation
1970 - Beatles release "Let it Be" album
1970 - Construction workers break up an anti-war rally in NYC's Wall Street
1970 - NBA championship: Knicks beat Lakers, 113-99
1971 - "Earl of Ruston" closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC after 5 performances
1972 - Sabena aircraft at Lod Intl, Tel Aviv, captured by Palestinians
1973 - Ernie Banks fills in for Cubs mgr Whitey Lockman who is ejected during the game, thus
           technically becoming baseball's 1st black manager
1973 - Indians holding SD hamlet of Wounded Knee for 10 weeks surrender
1974 - 50 MPH speed limit in Britain lifted
1974 - Canada government of Trudeau falls
1974 - FC Magdenburg wins 14th Europe Cup II
1976 - "1600 Pennsylvania Avenue" closes at Mark Hellinger NYC after 7 perfs
1976 - The rollercoaster Revolution (roller coaster), the first steel coaster with a vertical flip, opens at
           Six Flags Magic Mountain
1977 - David Berkowitz pleads guilty in "Son of Sam" 44-caliber shootings
1977 - Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Lady Tara Golf Classic
1978 - ABC TV airs "Stars Salute Israel at 30"
1978 - Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Women's International Golf Tournament
1979 - Radio Shack releases TRSDOS 2.3
1980 - Sabres take only 15 shots, Islanders 22, in a playoff game
1980 - World Health Organization announced smallpox had been eradicated
1981 - Ron Davis pitches 10th consecutive strike out, 1 short of record
1982 - Canucks 5-Isles 6 (OT)-Stanley Cup-Isles hold 1-0 lead
1983 - Janet Coles wins LPGA Lady Michelob Golf Tournament
1984 - Chicago White Sox beat Milwaukee Brewers, 7-6, in 25 inn (completed 5/9)
1984 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1984 - Minnesota Twins Kirby Puckett debuts with 4 singles
1984 - Thames Barrier to stop flooding in London officially completed
1984 - USSR announces it will not participate in LA Summer Olympics
1985 - 20th Academy of Country Music Awards: Alabama & Judds win
1985 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1987 - Gary Hart quits democratic presidential race (Donna Rice affair)
1987 - The Loughgall ambush: The SAS kill 8 IRA members and 1 civilian, in Loughgall, Northern
           Ireland.
1988 - "Oba Oba" closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 46 performances
1988 - Francois Mitterrand elected president of France
1988 - Juli Inkster wins LPGA Crestar Golf Classic
1988 - Mike Tyson crashes his $183,000 Bently on Varick St in NYC
1988 - Amateur referees work NJ Devil-Boston Bruin playoff games, as NHL referees walk-off, due to
           a restraining order brought by Devils
1989 - Paul McCartney releases "My Brave Face" & remake of "Ferry Cross the Mersey"
1989 - US space shuttle STS-30 lands
1990 - Cuyahoga County voters approve sin tax to build Cleveland Gateway
1990 - Reindependence Day of Estonia
1991 - CIA director William H Webster resigns
1993 - ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Phil Ware
1993 - Lennox Lewis beats Tony Tucker in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1993 - 16 year old Keron Thomas disguises himself as a motorman & takes NYC subway train &
           2,000 passengers on a 3 hour ride
1994 - "Rise & Fall of Little Voice" closes at Neil Simon NYC after 9 perfs
1994 - 500th commentary by Andy Rooney on 60 Minutes
1994 - Colorado Silver Bullets (all-female pro baseball team) 1st game
1994 - Ernesto Perez Balladares elected president of Panama
1994 - Jose Maria Figueres becomes president of Costa Rica
1994 - Laura Davies wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic
1994 - Pres Clinton announces US will no longer repatriate boat people
1994 - Erling Kagge becomes the first person to complete the Three Poles Challenge.
1996 - NY Yankee Dwight Gooden wins his 1st AL game beating Tigers 10-3
1996 - S Afr's Const Assembly adopts permanent post-apartheid constitution
1997 - Tea Leoni & David Duchovny wed in Greenwich Village
1999 - Nancy Mace becomes the first female cadet to graduate from The Citadel military college.
2005 - The new Canadian War Museum opens, in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of V-E
           Day.
2007 - A new Northern Ireland Executive is formed under the leadership of Ian Paisley of the
           Democratic Unionist Party as First Minister and Martin McGuinness of Sinn Féin as Deputy
           First Minister.
2010 - The last piece of Yankee Stadium falls in the Bronx, New York, marking the end of the two
           year demolition process.
2010 - Barrow AFC won the English FA Trophy at Wembley, this makes them the only team in the
           world to win it at both the Old & New Wembley stadiums.

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 08, 2013, 04:49:26 PM

This Day in History for 8th May


Famous Weddings

1967 - "Bye Bye Birdie" actress Ann-Margret (26) weds actor and screenwriter Roger Smith (34)
1978 - Singer Donny Osmond (20) weds Debra Glenn (19) at Salt Lake Temple in Utah
1981 - Author John Grisham (26) weds Renee Jones
1999 - "ER" actor Goran Visnjic (34) weds Croatian artist Ivana Vrdoljak
2009 - Westlife singer Kian Egan (29) weds actress Jodi Albert (25) in Barbados

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 08, 2013, 04:56:27 PM

This Day in History for 8th May


Famous Birthdays

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33rd US President                                          Jaws Novelist                                           King of Latin Pop
Harry Truman (1884)                                  Peter Benchley (1940)                            Enrique Iglesias (1975)


1326 - Joanna I of Auvergne, queen of France (d. 1360)
1460 - Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (d. 1536)
1492 - Andreas Alciatus, [Giovanni Andrea-Alciato], Italian lawyer
1521 - Peter Canisius, [Pieter de Hondt/Kanijs], jesuit/saint
1527 - Johann Walter, composer
1587 - Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy (d. 1637)
1592 - Francis Quarles, English poet (Argalus & Parthenia, Emblems)
1622 - Claes Rålamb, Swedish statesman (d. 1698)
1629 - Niels Juel, Danish admiral (d. 1697)
1632 - Heino Heinrich Graf von Flemming, German marshal (d. 1706)
1641 - Nicolaas Witsen, etcher/mayor (Amsterdam)
1653 - Claude-Louis-Hector de Villars, Marshall of France (d. 1734)
1668 - Alain R Lesage, French author (Turcaret ou le Financier)
1670 - Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans, English soldier (d. 1726)
1673 - Johann Valentin Eckelt, composer
1703 - Gottlob Harrer, composer
1735 - Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland, English painter (d. 1811)
1737 - Edward Gibbon, England, historian (Decline & Fall of Roman Empire)
1738 - Mikhail Kamensky, Russian general (d. 1809)
1742 - Johann Baptist Krumpholtz, composer
1745 - Carl Philipp Stamitz, composer
1750 - Elias Mann, composer
1753 - Miguel Hidalgo y Castilla, father of Mexican independence
1763 - John Goldberg, Dutch patriot/statesman
1778 - Johann Gansbacher, composer
1786 - Thomas Hancock, founded British rubber industry
1786 - Jean Vianney, French Catholic priest (d. 1859)
1803 - Joseph Napoleon Ney Moskova, composer
1806 - Jan Bedrich Kittl, composer
1810 - James Cooper, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
1814 - Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin, anarchist
1815 - Jean Delphin Alard, French violinist/composer
1821 - William Henry Vanderbilt, member of the Vanderbilt family (d. 1885)
1824 - William Walker, filibuster/president of Nicaragua (1856-57)
1825 - George Bruce Malleson, Indian officer (d. 1898)
1828 - Jean Henri Dunant, Switz, writer/founder (Red Cross, YMCA, Nobel 1901)
1828 - Sharbel Makhluf, Lebanese monk (d. 1898)
1829 - Louis Moreau Gottschalk, 1st internationally recognized US pianist
1833 - Frank Wheaton, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1903
1836 - Bryan Morel Thomas, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1905
1839 - Francis W Warre-Cornish, English vice-provost of Eton/writer
1839 - Adolphe-Basile Routhier, French Canadian lyricist (O Canada) (d. 1920)
1842 - Emil C Hansen, Danish physiologist
1844 - Hermann Gradener, composer
1846 - Oscar Hammerstein, Germany, opera/playwright (Kohinoor)
1850 - Ross Barnes, baseball player (d. 1915)
1853 - Charles Lee Williams, composer
1853 - Dan Brouthers, baseball player (d. 1932)
1857 - Frits [Frederik H] Tartaud, Dutch actor/husband of Alida Klein
1858 - John Meade Falkner, novelist (Moonfleet)
1859 - Johan Jensen, Danish mathematician (d. 1925)
1873 - Henry Leveson-Gower, cricketer (England capt 1909-10 later official)
1882 - Philips C Visser, Dutch explorer/diplomat
1884 - Harry Truman, Lamar Missouri, 33rd US President (D) (1945-1953), (d. 1972)
1886 - Jef van Hoof, composer
1891 - Chet "Red" Hoff, pitcher (NY Yankees 1911-15), lived to 103+
1892 - Ezio Pinza, Rome Italy, bass singer (South Pacific, RCA Victor Show)
1893 - Francis Quimet, Mass shop asst who won golf's US Open (1913)
1893 - Edd Roush, baseball player (d. 1988)
1893 - Teddy Wakelam, English sports broadcaster and rugby union player (d. 1963)
1895 - Edmund Wilson, American critic/writer (Patriotic Gore)
1895 - Fulton J Sheen, El Paso Ill, bishop (Life is Worth Living)
1895 - Jose Gomez, [Joselito el Gallo], bullfighter
1895 - James H. "Dutch" Kindelberger, American aerospace pioneer (d. 1962)
1899 - Jan F van Hall, Dutch sculptor/resistance fighter
1899 - [Friedrich] August von Hayek, Aust/British economist (Road to Serfdom)
1899 - Arthur Q. Bryan, American voice actor (d. 1959)
1901 - Turkey Stearnes, baseball player (d. 1979)
1902 - Andre Michel Lwoff, physiologist
1902 - Milford "Curly" Page, cricketer (NZ bat early 1930's, All Black half)
1903 - Fernandel, [Fernand JD Contandin], French actor (Paris Holiday)
1903 - Joseph Desire Fernandel, Marseilles France, comedian (Grand Chef)
1904 - John Derrick Mordaunt Snagge, bBC news announcer/commentator
1904 - John Snagge, commentator (BBC)
1905 - Inglis Gundry, composer
1905 - Red Nichols, American musician (d. 1965)
1906 - David Van Vactor, Plymouth Indiana, composer (Chaconne)
1906 - Roberto Rossellini, Rome Italy, director (Open City)
1908 - Arturo De Cordova, [Rodriguez], Merida Mexico, actor (Medal for Benny)
1910 - Mary Lou Williams, US jazz pianist/composer (Zodiac Suite)
1910 - Ronald Russell, actor/manager (We are Angels, Little Dorrit)
1911 - Robert Johnson, blues singer (King of Delta Blues Singer)
1911 - Wilhelm F de Gaay Fortman, Dutch lawyer/foreign minister
1912 - George Woodcock, author
1912 - Gertrud Fussenegger, [Dorn], Austrian writer (Mohrenlegende)
1913 - Sidney James, [Cohen], Johannesburg, actor (Carry On)
1914 - Lord Murton, of Lindisfrarne, deputy chairman (Comm House of Lords)
1914 - Romain Gary, Polish writer (d. 1980)
1915 - John Archer, Osceola Nebraska, actor (Destination: Moon)
1916 - Gordon Scarrott, engineer
1916 - João Havelange, Brazilian industrialist
1916 - Swami Chinmayananda, Indian spiritualist (d. 1993)
1919 - Sultan Ismail Hajibeyov, composer
1920 - Maurice Cranston, political scientist
1920 - Sloan Wilson, Norwalk, Conn, novelist (Man in the Gray Flannal
1920 - Tom of Finland, Finnish fetish artist (d. 1991)
1921 - Graham Leonard, bishop of London
1921 - Saul Bass, designer
1922 - Brian Kellett, CEO (Port of London Authority)
1924 - Tristan Jones, sailor
1925 - Ali Hassan Mwinyi, president of Tanzania (1985- )
1925 - Lord Jauncey of Tullichettle, lord of appeal in ordinary
1926 - David Attenborough, producer/TV host/scientist
1926 - Don Rickles, Queens NY, comedian (Don Rickles Show, CPO Sharkey)
1926 - Erico Menczer, Fiume Italy, cinematographer (Chosen, Miranda)
1926 - Richard F Attenborough, environmentalist/zoologist (BBC)
1926 - Ronald Waterhouse, high court judge
1927 - Ian Denholm, CEO (Murray Investment Trust)
1927 - Philip Wilkinson, deputy chairman (National Westminster Bank)
1928 - Theodore Sorenson, presidential advisor (JFK)/author (1000 Days)
1928 - William Jay Sydeman, composer
1929 - V N M Korte-van Hemel, Dutch Secretary of Justice (CDA)
1929 - Claude Castonguay, Quebec politician
1930 - Doug Atkins, Humbolt Tn, NFL hall of famer (Browns, Bears, Saints)
1930 - Gary Snyder, [Japhy Ryder], beat poet (Rip Rap & Cold Mountain Poems)
1930 - Heather Harper, soprano
1931 - Charles M Wilson, composer
1932 - Julieta Campos, Cuban-Mexican writer (d. 2007)
1932 - Phyllida Law, Scottish actress
1932 - Sonny Liston, American heavyweight boxer (d. 1970)
1933 - Alistair Service, writer/publisher
1934 - Leonard Hoffmann, high court judge
1934 - Roger Kendrick, governor (Dartmoor Prison)
1935 - Jack Charlton, soccer manager (Rep of Ireland)
1935 - Salome Jens, Milwaukee Wisc, actress (From Here to Eternity)
1935 - Viscount Falkland, British peer (Lib-Dem)
1936 - James Darren, actor (Time Tunnel)
1936 - Neville Purvis, British vice admiral (Chief of Fleet Support)
1937 - Daniel Robberechts, Belgian writer (Labia Majora)
1937 - Dennis DeConcini, (Sen-D-AZ, 1977- )
1937 - Michael Simmons, Air Marshal (British Ministry of Defense)
1937 - Thomas Pynchon, novelist (V)
1937 - Carlos Gaviria Díaz, Colombian politician
1937 - Mike Cuellar, baseball player
1938 - Javed Burki, cricketer (Pakistani batsman in 25 Tests 1960-69)
1938 - Pierre Lucien Claverie, bishop of Oran
1938 - Jean Giraud, Val-de-Marne, France, comic artist (Alien, Tron), (d. 2012)
1939 - Otis Paul Drayton, Glen Cove NY, 4x100m runner (Olympic-gold-1964)
1940 - James Blyth, CEO (Boots)
1940 - Peter Benchley, NYC, novelist (Jaws, The Deep), (d. 2006)
1940 - Ricky Nelson, NJ, rock star (Hello Mary Lou, It's Late, Garden Party)
1940 - Irwin Cotler, Canadian politician
1940 - Toni Tennille, American singer
1941 - James A Traficant Jr, (Rep-D-OH, 1985- )
1941 - Jim Mitchum, Bridgeport CT, actor (Blackout, Invincible 6)
1941 - John Fred, rocker
1941 - Mahmoud Ahmed, Ethiopian singer
1942 - Angel Cordero Jr, Santurce PR, jockey (Seattle Slew) [or Nov 8]
1942 - Euclid "Motorhead" Sherwood, rocker (Mothers Of Invention)
1942 - Norman Lamont, MP/Chancellor of Exchequer
1942 - Robin Hobbs, cricketer (England leg-spinner 1967-71)
1942 - Ruth Holland, journalist
1942 - Terry Neill, Northern Irish footballer
1943 - Paul Samwell-Smith, rocker (Yardbirds-For Your Love)
1943 - Rick Samwell-Smith, rocker (Yardbirds-For Your Love)
1943 - Toni Tennille, Montgomery Ala, female Beachboy (Capt & Tennille)
1944 - Gary Glitter, [Paul Gadd], England, rocker (Rock & Roll Part II)
1945 - Arthur Docters van Leeuwen, jurist (Holland's secret service)
1945 - Keith Jarrett, jazz musician/film composer (Nachtfahrer)
1946 - André Boulerice, Quebec politician
1947 - Felicity Lott, English soprano (We come to the river)
1947 - Phil Sawyer, rocker (Spencer Davis Group)
1947 - Rick Zehringer, Ohio, rocker (McCoys)
1947 - H. Robert Horvitz, Nobel laureate
1948 - John Reid, MP
1948 - Maurizio Nichetti, actor (Icicle Thief, Volcano)
1948 - Stephen Stohn, Canadian television producer (Degrassi)
1951 - Chris Frantz, Ky, rock drummer (Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club)
1951 - Deborah Harmon, actress (Ted Knight Show, M*A*S*H, Just the 10 of Us)
1951 - Philip Bailey, rocker (Earth Wind & Fire-Shining Star, Easy Lover)
1952 - Beth Henley, Jackson Miss, actress/playwright (Miss Firecracker)
1952 - Charles J Camarda, NYC, PhD/astronaut
1953 - Alex Van Halen, Amsterdam The Netherlands, Dutch drummer (Van Halen)
1954 - David Keith, Knoxville Tenn, actor (Back Roads, Firestarter)
1954 - Pat Meyers, LPGA golfer
1955 - Stephen Furst, Norfolk Va, actor (Animal House, Elliot-St Elsewhere)
1956 - Jeff Madrigali, Walnut Creek California, soling yachter (Olymp-bronze-96)
1957 - Deana Deardruff, US, 4 X 100m swimmer (Olympic-gold-1972)
1957 - Jeff Wincott, Toronto Canada, actor (Night Heat)
1957 - Bill Cowher, American football coach
1958 - Lovie Smith, American football coach
1959 - Ronnie Lott, Albuquerque, NM, NFL defensive back (SF 49er)
1960 - Franco Baresi, Italian footballer
1960 - Eric Brittingham, American bassist
1961 - Riaz Poonawalla, cricketer (Indian 12th man/UAE bat 1994 ICC Trophy)
1961 - David Winning, Canadian film director
1961 - Akira Taue, Japanese professional wrestler
1962 - Terry Baker, CFL kicker (Montreal Alouettes)
1963 - Clemens Lothaller, Austria, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-13 backup)
1963 - Izabela Kloc, Polish politician
1963 - Terry Christian, British radio presenter
1963 - Robin Jarvis, British writer
1964 - Cheryl Richardson, Palo Alto California, actress (Jennie-General Hospital)
1964 - Eric Brittingham, rocker (Cinderella-Heartbreak Station)
1964 - Melissa Gilbert Brinkman, LA, actress (Little House on the Prairie)
1964 - Peter Gill, rocker (Frankie Goes to Hollywood-Relax) [or Mar/Jan 8]
1964 - Dave Rowntree, British musician (Blur)
1966 - Eddie Brown, CFL slot back (Edmonton Eskimos)
1966 - Claudio Taffarel, Brazilian footballer
1966 - Marta Sánchez, Spanish singer
1968 - Franklin Langham, Augusta GA, Nike golfer (1993 Permian Basin Open)
1968 - John Johnson, NFL linebacker (NO Saints)
1968 - Omar Camporese, Italy, tennis star
1968 - Johan Pehrson, Swedish politician
1969 - Brad Culpepper, NFL defensive tackle (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1969 - Duane Forde, CFL fullback (Calgary Stampeders)
1969 - Swift Burch, CFL defensive end (Montreal Alouettes)
1969 - Akebono Taro, sumo wrestler
1970 - Christine Stark, Winnipeg Manitoba, volleyballer (Olympics-96)
1970 - Marco Heering, soccer player (Go Ahead Eagles)
1970 - Michael Bevan, cricketer (dashing NSW & Australian lefty bat)
1971 - Carlos Brooks, NFL cornerback (Arizona Cardinals)
1971 - Chris Wolf, actor/musician (Guys Next Door)
1971 - Stephen Ingram, NFL tackle/guard (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1972 - Chris Sanders, NFL wide receiver (Tennessee/Houston Oilers)
1972 - Keelin Curnuck, Miss New York USA (1996)/Ms Venus Swimwear (1994)
1973 - Wolf Wigo, Abington Penn, water polo driver (Olympics-96)
1973 - Hiromu Arakawa, Japanese artist
1974 - Calvin Branch, cornerback (Oakland Raiders)
1974 - Colin Daynes, Windsor Ontario, 68 kg Greco Roman wrestler (Olympic-96)
1974 - Korey Stringer, NFL tackle (Minnesota Vikings)
1974 - Jon Tickle, English entertainer
1975 - Enrique Iglesias, Madrid, Spanish singer-songwriter and King of Latin Pop (Bailamos, Hero)
1975 - Jussi Markkanen, Finnish ice hockey player
1975 - Gastón Mazzacane, Argentine racing driver
1976 - Oleg Tverdovsky, Donetsk Ukr, NHL defenseman (Winnipeg Jets)
1976 - Martha Wainwright, Canadian musician and songwriter
1976 - Ian "H" Watkins, pop singer (Steps)
1977 - Jennifer Walcott, American Playboy Playmate
1978 - Cindy Parlow, Memphis Tenn, soccer forward (Olympics-96)
1978 - Sandra Kleinova, Prague Czech, tennis star (1995 Futures-Turku-FIN)
1978 - Lúcio, Brazilian footballer
1978 - Jang Woo Hyuk, Korean singer
1978 - Matthew Davis, American actor
1978 - Josie Maran, American model
1979 - Jayna Cronin Geneva NY, dance skater (& Dreger-1997 Natl-13th)
1980 - Michelle McManus, Scottish singer
1980 - Benny Yau, Canadian entertainer
1981 - Andrea Barzagli, Italian footballer
1981 - Björn Dixgård, Swedish guitarist
1981 - Yasuko Tajima, Japanese swimmer
1981 - John Maine, American baseball player
1982 - Adrian Gonzalez, American baseball player
1983 - Matt Willis, British singer
1984 - Nadine Chandrawinata, 2006 Miss Universe Pageant (Indonesia)
1985 - Mashio Miyazaki, Japanese actress
1986 - Marvell Wynne, American soccer player
1987 - Felix Jones, American football player

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 08, 2013, 04:58:26 PM

This Day in History for 8th May


Famous Deaths

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King of Hawaii Kamehameha I (1819)


535 - John, [Mercurius], Italian Pope (533-35), dies
685 - Benedict II, Italian Pope (683-85), dies
1192 - Duke Ottokar IV of Styria (b. 1163)
1278 - Emperor Duanzong of China (b. 1268)
1319 - Haakon V, King of Norway (1299-1319), dies
1473 - John Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, English politician (b. 1420)
1538 - Edward Fox, English bishop
1577 - Viglius ab Aytta Zuichemus, lawyer/President (Raad van State), dies
1672 - Jean-Armand du Peyrer, Comte de Tréville and French Officer (b. 1598)
1684 - Henri Dumont, composer, dies
1725 - John Lovewell, US indian fighter, dies in battle
1766 - Samuel Chandler, English non-conformist minister (b. 1693)
1773 - Ali Bey Al-Kabir, Egyptian Mameluk head, dies (b. 1728)
1781 - Richard Jago, English poet (b. 1715)
1785 - Pietro Longhi, painter, dies
1785 - Étienne François, duc de Choiseul, French statesman (b. 1719)
1788 - Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Italian-born physician and naturalist (b. 1723)
1794 - Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, chemist (identified oxygen), guillotined
1809 - Augustin Pajou, French sculptor (Bachante), dies at 78
1818 - Franz Ignaz Kaa, composer, dies at 78
1819 - Kamehameha I, King of Hawaii (1782-1819)
1829 - Mauro Giuseppe Sergio Pantaleo Giuliani, composer, dies at 47
1837 - Alexander Balashov, Russian general and statesman (b. 1770)
1842 - Jules Dumont d'Urville, French explorer (b. 1790)
1844 - Charles XIV Johan, [Jean B Bernadotte], King of Sweden/Norway, dies
1846 - Giacomo Cordella, composer, dies at 59
1853 - Joannes P Roothaan, 1st Dutch lt col-gen of Jesuits, dies at 67
1864 - James Samuel Wadsworth, gen-mjr (Union), dies in battle at 56
1873 - John Stuart Mill, great Empiricist philosopher, dies at 66
1876 - Truganini, last originating Tasmanian, dies
1880 - Gustave Flaubert, French novelist (b. 1821)
1885 - Pavel Krizkovsky, composer, dies at 65
1887 - Alexander Ulyanov, brother of Lenin/hanged for assassination of tsar
1891 - Helena Petrovina Blavatsky, Russian theosophist, dies
1894 - Klara Fey, German orch leaser (Die Kleinen Betrachtungen), dies at 79
1903 - Eugene-Henri-Paul Gauguin, French painter (Tahiti), dies
1904 - Eadweard Muybridge, English photographer (horse trot), dies
1909 - Friedrich von Holstein, German diplomat, dies
1915 - Henry McNeal Turner, 1 US black army chaplain, dies at 82
1924 - Lev N Lunts, Russian writer (Outside the Law), dies at 23
1930 - Lvar Henning Mankell, composer, dies at 61
1932 - Albert Thomas, French socialist politician
1936 - Oswald Spengler, German philosopher (Underworld of Abendlandes), dies
1941 - Heinrich Zollner, composer, dies at 86
1943 - Mordicai Anielewicz, commander of Warsaw ghetto uprising, killed
1945 - Bernhard Rust, Nazi education minister (b. 1883)
1947 - Harry Gordon Selfridge, American-born department store founder (b. 1858)
1948 - Alfred Holy, composer, dies at 81
1948 - U Saw, Burmese politician (b. 1900)
1950 - Franklin Dyall, dies at 76
1950 - Vital Brazil, Brazilian physician (b. 1865)
1952 - William Fox, Austrian-born film producer (b. 1879)
1957 - Johannes C B "Jan" Sluyters, Dutch painter, dies at 75
1958 - Nasni Matni, Lebanese journalist, murdered
1959 - Renato Caccioppoli, Italian mathematician/pianist, suicide at 55
1960 - Hugo Alfven, Swedish composer (Midsommarvaka), dies at 88
1960 - J. H. C. Whitehead, British mathematician (b. 1904)
1961 - James Fairfax, actor (Gale Storm Show), dies at 63
1965 - H T W Hardinge, cricketer (scored 25 & 5 in only Test for Engld), dies
1967 - Barbara Payton, actress (Dallas, Trapped, Bad Blonde), dies at 39
1967 - Elmer Rice, NY playwright/director/novelist, dies at 74
1967 - Laverne Andrews, singer (Andrews Sisters), dies at 51
1969 - Remington Kellogg, American naturalist (b. 1892)
1973 - Ralph Miller, last 19th century baseball player, dies
1974 - Graham Bond, rocker, dies jumping under a train
1975 - Avery Brundage, CEO (Intl Olympic Committee, 1952-72), dies at 87
1976 - Alan Baxter, dies at 67
1976 - Ulrike Meinhof, lead Germany Red Army Faction, dies
1979 - Talcott Parsons, US sociologist, dies at 76
1981 - Margaret Lindsay, actress (G Men, Lady Killer, Jezebel), dies at 70
1981 - Maurice Fernandes, cricket captain (WI in 1st Test win, 1930 v Eng), dies
1982 - Gilles Villeneuve, Canadian auto racer, dies in an accident
1982 - Neil Bogart, American record executive (b. 1943)
1984 - Gino Bianco, Brazilian racing driver (b. 1916)
1985 - Dolph Sweet, actor (Gil McGowan-Another World), dies at 74
1985 - Edmond O'Brien, actor (Sam Benedict), dies of Alzheimer's at 69
1985 - Karl Marx, German composer/conductor, dies at 87
1987 - Pam Ewing, (Victoria Principal) character on Dallas, is killed off
1987 - Doris Stokes, British psychic medium (b. 1920)
1988 - Robert A Heinlein, sci-fi writer (Friday), dies of heart failure at 80
1990 - Tomas O'Fiach, [Tomas Seamus Fee], Irish cardinal-archbishop, dies
1991 - Jean Langlais, composer, dies at 84
1991 - Lloyd Ford, stuntman, dies at 79
1991 - Ronnie Brody, British actor (Superman 3, What's Up Nurse), dies at 72
1992 - Addeke H Boerma, dir-gen (FAO), dies at 80
1992 - Brian Moore, writer (Catholics), dies of heart failure at 59
1992 - Gul Mahomed, cricketer (8 Tests for India & one for Pakistan), dies
1992 - Margaretha D Ferguson-Wigerink, author (Fear on Java), dies
1992 - Richard Derr, actor (When Worlds Collide), dies at 74 of cancer
1993 - Kees Deenik, singer/conductor
1993 - Avram Davidson, American writer (b. 1923)
1994 - Cobina W "Coby" Molenaar, peace activist, dies at 88
1994 - George Peppard, actor (Breakfast at Tiffanys, A-Team), dies at 65
1994 - Rupert Haselden, journalist/screenwriter, dies at 36
1994 - Steven Keats, actor (Death Wish), dies of apparent suicide at 48
1995 - Carroll Best, bluegrass banjo, dies at 63
1995 - Jerry Zipkin, socialite, dies at 80
1995 - Prem Bhatia, journalist, dies at 83
1995 - Teresa Teng, singer, dies at 41
1996 - Jane Cowan, cello teacher, dies at 80
1996 - Luis Miguel Domiguin, bullfighter, dies at 69
1996 - Serge Chermayeff, architect/designer, dies at 95
1996 - Garth Williams, American illustrator (b. 1912)
1997 - Kai-Uwe Von Hassel, German Pres of Bundestag (CDU 1969-72), dies
1998 - Bebe Rebozo, American banker and Watergate figure (b. 1912)
1999 - Dirk Bogarde, London England, actor (b. 1921) (Death in Venice, Servant)
1999 - Ed Gilbert, American actor (b. 1931)
1999 - Dana Plato, American actress (b. 1964)
2000 - Guadalupe "Pita" Amor, Mexican poet (b. 1918)
2000 - Alexander Chislenko, Russian-American transhumanist (b. 1959)
2000 - Henry Nicols, AIDS activist (b. 1973)
2005 - Nicolás Vuyovich, Argentine racing driver (b. 1981)
2006 - Iain Macmillan, Abbey Road photographer (b. 1938)
2008 - Eddy Arnold, Country music star (b. 1918)
2008 - François Sterchele, Belgian football player (b. 1982)
2009 - Dom DiMaggio, American baseball player (b. 1917)
2009 - Bud Shrake, American writer (b. 1931)
2011 - Lionel Rose, Australian boxer (b. 1948)
2012 - Nicholas Katzenbach, American Attorney General, dies at 90
2012 - Maurice Sendak, American author/illustrator, dies at 83

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 09, 2013, 11:41:54 AM

This Day in History for 9th May


Historical Events

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                                                      Communist Party of the Soviet Union
                                                                    Nikita Khrushchev

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1457 BC - Battle of Megiddo (15th century BC) between Thutmose III and a large Canaanite coalition
         under the King of Kadesh. It is the first battle to have been recorded in what is accepted as
         relatively reliable detail.
1012 BC - Solar Eclipse seen at Ugarit, 6:09-6:39 PM.
328 - Athanasius is elected Patriarch bishop of Alexandria.
1092 - Lincoln Cathedral consecrated
1336 - Italian poet Francesco Petrarca climbs Mont Ventoux
1386 - Treaty of Windsor between Portugal-England
1450 - 'Abd al-Latif (Timurid monarch) is assassinated.
1460 - Court yard episcopal palace Atrecht has witch burnings
1502 - Columbus left Spain on his 4th & final trip to New World
1519 - Austrian adel/burgerij in uprising against central government
1573 - Polish Parliament selects duke of Anjou as king
1588 - Duke Henri de Guises troops occupy Paris
1671 - Col Thomas Blood attempts to steal Crown Jewels
1689 - English King Willem III declares war on France
1726 - Five men arrested during a raid on Mother Clap's molly house in London are executed at
           Tyburn.
1738 - England routes fleet in Mediterranean Sea & West-Indies
1753 - King Louis XV disbands French parliament
1754 - 1st newspaper cartoon in America-divided snake "Join or Die"
1766 - John Byron back in England after trip around the world
1785 - British inventor Joseph Bramah patents beer-pump handle
1788 - English parliament accepts abolishing of slave trade
1836 - HMS Beagle with Charles Darwin departs Port Louis, Mauritius
1837 - "Sherrod" burns in Mississippi River below Natchez Miss; 175 dies
1846 - Battle of Resaca de la Palma-US sends Mexico back to Rio Grande
1862 - Battle of Farmington, MS
1862 - Battle of Ft Pickens, FL (Pensacola), evacuated by CS
1862 - US Naval Academy relocated from Annapolis MD to Newport, RI
1864 - -20] Skirmish at Ware Bottom Church, Virginia
1864 - Battle of Cloyd's Mt, & Swift Creek, VA (Drewery's Bluff, Ft Darling)
1864 - Battle of Dalton, GA
1864 - Ship battle at Helgoland, Austria-Denmark
1868 - Anton Bruckner's 1st Symphony in C, premieres
1868 - The city of Reno, Nevada, is founded.
1873 - Der Krach: Vienna stock market crash heralds the Long Depression.
1874 - Victoria Embankment, in London opens
1874 - The first horse-drawn bus makes its début in the city of Mumbai, plying two routes.
1877 - Mihail Kogălniceanu reads, in the Chamber of Deputies, the Declaration of Independence of
           Romania. This day became the Independence Day of Romania.
1882 - Telegraph Hill RR Co organized
1887 - Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show opens in London.
1889 - 15th Kentucky Derby: Thomas Kiley aboard Spokane wins in 2:34.50
1896 - 1st horseless carriage show in London (featured 10 models)
1899 - Lawn mower patented
1901 - Australia opens its 1st parliament in Melbourne
1901 - Cleve's Earl Moore no-hits Chic White Sox 9 inn but loses in 10th 4-2
1904 - The steam locomotive City of Truro becomes the first steam engine to exceed 100mph.
1908 - Dirk Fock becomes governor of Suriname
1911 - Fire breaks out at Empire Theater in Edinburgh Scotland
1913 - 17th amendment provides for election of senators by popular vote
1914 - 40th Kentucky Derby: John McCabe aboard Old Rosebud wins in 2:03.4
1914 - Pres Wilson proclaims Mother's Day
1914 - J.T. Hearne becomes the first bowler to take 3000 first-class wickets.
1915 - German & French fight Battle of Artois
1916 - British-France Sykes-Picot meet over division of Turkey
1925 - Cornerstone for Hebrew University, Jerusalem laid
1926 - Richard Byrd & Floyd Bennett make 1st flight over North Pole
1927 - 53rd Preakness: Whitey Abel aboard Bostonian wins in 2:01.6
1927 - Canberra replaces Melbourne as the capital of Australia
1927 - The Australian Parliament first convenes in Canberra.
1929 - NY Giant Carl Hubbell no-hits Pittsburgh Pirates
1929 - WJW-AM in Cleveland Ohio begins radio transmissions
1930 - 56th Preakness: Earl Sande aboard Gallant Fox wins in 2:00.6
1931 - 57th Preakness: George Ellis aboard Mate wins in 1:59
1932 - 58th Preakness: Eugene James aboard Burgoo King wins in 1:59.8
1932 - Piccadilly Circus, 1st lit by electricity
1932 - WOC-AM in Davenport Iowa merges with WHO to become WHO-WOC
1933 - Spanish anarchists call for general strike
1934 - Bradman out for a Cricket duck against Cambridge University!
1936 - 1st KLM airplane to land on Bonaire
1936 - Italy takes Addis Abba, annexing Absynnia (Ethiopia)
1937 - Reds beat Phillies 21-10 (Ernie Lombardi goes 6 for 6)
1939 - Catholic church beatified the 1st Native American, Kateri Tekakwitha
1941 - English Army breaks German spy codes
1942 - 68th Preakness: Basil James aboard Alsab wins in 1:57
1943 - 5th German Pantser army surrenders in Tunisia
1943 - Rotschild-Haddassh University Hospital opens
1944 - 1st eye bank opens in New York
1944 - Country singer Jimmie Davis becomes governor of Louisiana
1944 - Dutch resistance fighter Gerard Musch arrested
1944 - Joe McCarthy returns as Yankee manager after an illness
1944 - Russians recapture Crimea by taking Sevastopol
1945 - Czechoslovakia liberated from Nazi occupation (Natl Day)
1945 - Jersey liberated from nazis
1945 - Nazi propagandist Max Blokzijl arrested
1945 - New balata ball used in baseball, 50% livilier
1945 - Norwegian nazi collaborators Vidkun Quisling arrested
1945 - Victory celebration at Red Square
1945 - World War II: Partisans liberate Ljubljana.
1945 - World War II: Hermann Göring is captured by the United States Army.
1945 - World War II: The Soviet Union marks Victory Day.
1945 - World War II: The Channel Islands are formally liberated by the British.
1946 - 1st hour long entertainment TV show, "NBC's Hour Glass" premieres
1946 - 1st variety show on TV "NBC's Hour Glass," premieres
1946 - King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy abdicates, replaced by Umberto
1949 - Britain's 1st launderette opens in Queensway London
1949 - Prince Rainier III becomes leader of Monaco
1950 - French Foreign min Robert Schuman calls for European community EGKS
1950 - Norman Dello Joco's premieres in Bronxville
1951 - Air raid on Chinese positions at Yalu River
1955 - German Federal Republic joins NATO
1956 - First ascent of Manaslu, the world's eighth-highest mountain.
1958 - Botvinnik recaptures world chess championship
1959 - Dorothy Rigney, husband John, & Hank Greenberg resign from White Sox
1960 - Nigeria becomes a member of British Commonwealth
1960 - US is 1st country to use the birth control pill legally
1960 - US send U-2 over USSR
1961 - Balt Oriole Jim Gentile hits 2 grand slams (9 RBIs) vs Minnesota Twins
1961 - FCC Chairman Newton N Minow criticizes TV as a "vast wasteland"
1961 - Jim Gentile is 4th to hit grand slams in consecutive innings
1962 - Beatles sign their 1st contract with EMI Parlophone
1962 - Laser beam successfully bounced off Moon for 1st time
1962 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1963 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1964 - Khrushchev visits Egypt
1964 - Peter & Gordon release "World Without Love"
1965 - Beatles attend a Bob Dylan concert
1965 - Luna 5 launched (USSR) 1st attempt to soft land on Moon (fails)
1966 - 1st black member of Federal Reserve Board (A F Brimmer)
1966 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1967 - 1st flight of Fokker F-28 Fellowship
1967 - Gijsbert van Hall resigns as mayor of Amsterdam
1969 - BPAA All-Star Bowling Tournament won by Billy Hardwick
1970 - 100,000s demonstrate against Vietnam War
1971 - 23rd Emmy Awards: All in the Family, Jack Klugman & Jean Stapleton
1971 - Elizabeth Bonner runs female world record marathon (3:01:42)
1971 - Friends of Earth return 1500 non-returnable bottles to Schweppes
1971 - Largest walk in crowd (31,626) in Balt Oriole history
1971 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA San Antonio Alamo Golf Open
1973 - For 2nd time, Johnny Bench hits 3 HRs in a game
1974 - House Judiciary Committee begin formal hearings on Nixon impeachment
1975 - Brian Oldfield shot puts 22.86 m (world record)
1975 - Flyers 1-Isles 5-Semifinals-Flyers hold 3-2 lead
1976 - "So Long 174th St" closes at Harkness Theater NYC after 16 perfs
1976 - Sally Little wins LPGA Ladies Masters at Moss Creek Golf Tournament
1977 - Hotel Poland in Amsterdam destroyed by fire, 33 killed
1977 - Mabel Murphy Smythe confirmed as ambassador to Rep of Cameroon
1977 - Patty Hearst let out of jail
1978 - "Ain't Misbehavin'" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 1604 perfs
1978 - Corpse of kidnapped ex-premier Aldo Moro found
1978 - Fee Waybill of Tubes breaks a leg falling off stage
1978 - Musical "Ain't Misbehavin'," premieres in NYC
1978 - PSV beats Bastica, 3-0, to win UEFA Cup in Eindhoven Neth
1980 - 35 motorists die as a Liberian freighter rams a Tampa Bay Bridge
1981 - Kazimiroff Blvd in Bronx named for a Bronx historian
1982 - "9" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 739 performances
1982 - Arthur Kopit's musical "Nine," premieres in NYC
1982 - Sally Little wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic
1983 - 18th Academy of Country Music Awards: Alabama & Willie Nelson
1984 - Alexander Calder's "Big Crinkly" sells for $852,000
1984 - Chicago White Sox beat Milwaukee Brewers, 7-6, in 25 inn (started 5/8)
1984 - White Sox & Brewers play 8:06, game, longest timed baseball game
1987 - 183 die aboard a Polish jetliner that crashes in Warsaw
1987 - Oriole Eddie Murray is 1st to switch hit HRs in 2 consecutive games
1988 - A's winning streak hits 14, ends tommorow
1988 - Australia's new parliament house is opened by Queen Elizabeth
1988 - Belgium: 8th government of Martens forms
1988 - The new Australian Parliament House opens in Canberra.
1989 - "Saratina!" closes at Cort Theater NYC after 597 performances
1989 - Journalist petition Chinese government for freedom of press
1989 - NY Mets Kevin Elster, errors after 88 errorless games at shortstop
1989 - NY Mets Rick Cerone, errors after 159 errorless games as catcher
1989 - VP Quayle say in United Negro College Fund speech: "What a waste it is to lose one's mind"
           instead of "a mind is terrible thing to waste"
1990 - NY Newsday reporter Jimmy Breslin suspended for a racial slur
1990 - Sampdoria wins 30th Europe Cup II
1991 - Italian actress Laura Antonelli found guilty of cocaine possession
1991 - Michael Landon appears on Tonight Show to talk about his cancer
1992 - America Cup finals begin in San Diego
1992 - Final episode of "Golden Girls" airs on NBC-TV
1992 - Michelle McLean, 19, of Namibia, crowned 41st Miss Universe
1992 - Armenian forces capture Shusha, marking a major turning point in the Karabakh War.
1993 - "Ain't Broadway Grand" closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 25 perfs
1993 - "Song of Jacob Zulu" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 53 perfs
1993 - Landslide in Nambija Ecuador, kills 300
1993 - Meg Mallon wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic
1993 - Mustapha Matura's "Playboy of West Indies," premieres in NYC
1993 - Paraguay holds its 1st pres & parliamentary elections in 50 years
1994 - "Passion" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 280 performances
1994 - Mass murderer Joel Rifkind found guilty in NY
1995 - Cleveland Indians tie record of scoring 8 runs before making an out, they beat Twins 10-0
1995 - Kinshasa, Zaire under quarantine after an outbreak of Ebola virus
1997 - 1st US ambassador since Saigon fell arrives in Vietnam
1997 - San Diego Padres retire #35 worn by pitcher Randy Jones
2001 - In Ghana 129 football fans die in what became known as the Accra Sports Stadium Disaster.
           The deaths were caused by a stampede (caused by the firing of teargas by police personnel
           at the stadium)that followed a controversial decision by the referee handling a crucial match
           between arch-rivals Accra Hearts of Oak and Kumasi Asante Kotoko.
2002 - The 38-day stand-off in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem comes to an end when the
           Palestinians inside agree to have 13 suspected militants among them deported to several
           different countries.
2002 - In Kaspiysk, Russia, a remote-controlled bomb explodes during a holiday parade killing 43 and
           injuring at least 130.
2004 - Chechen president Akhmad Kadyrov is killed in a land mine bomb blast under a VIP stage
           during a World War II memorial victory parade in Grozny, Chechnya.
2005 - Liberal commentary website The Huffington Post is launched
2006 - Estonia ratifies the European Constitution.
2006 - George Preca is canonised as the first Maltese saint in history.
2012 - Mark Rothko's "Orange, Red, Yellow" becomes the most expensive contemporary art piece to
           be sold at auction for $86.9 million dollars
2012 - A Russian passenger jet disappears with 45 people on board
2012 - United States President, Barack Obama, officially states his support for same sex marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 09, 2013, 11:43:20 AM

This Day in History for 9th May


Famous Weddings

1987 - Actor Tom Cruise (27) & actress Mimi Rogers (33), marry
2000 - Puerto Rican actress and former Miss Universe Dayanara Torres (25) weds singer-songwriter
           Marc Anthony (31) in Las Vegas, Nevada
2004 - "Underworld" director Len Wiseman (31) weds actress Kate Beckinsale (30) at the Hotel Bel-
           Air in Los Angeles, California
2005 - Oscar-winning actress Renee Zellweger (36) weds country-music heartthrob singer Kenny
           Chesney (37) on the island of St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands
2009 - "The O.C." actress Autumn Reeser (28) weds writer-director Jesse Warren (31) under a 200-
            year old oak tree at the Ojai Valley Inn & Spa in Ojai, California

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 09, 2013, 11:44:28 AM

This Day in History for 9th May


Famous Divorces

2008 - "The View" former co-host Star Jones (46) divorces investment banker Al Reynolds (39) after
            three-and-a-half years of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 09, 2013, 11:50:39 AM

This Day in History for 9th May


Famous Birthdays

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Archaeologist and                                  Newscaster Mike Wallace (1918)           The Pianoman Billy Joel (1949)
Discoverer of Tutankhamun
Howard Carter (1873)


1147 - Minamoto no Yoritomo, Japanese shogun (d. 1199)
1265 - Dante Alighieri, Italian poet (Divina Commedia)
1596 - Abraham van Diepenbeeck, painter
1738 - John Pindar, [Peter], physician/poet
1740 - Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (Barber of Seville)
1783 - Alexander Ross, Canada, pioneer/fur trader
1785 - James Pollard Espy, Penns, meteorologist (Philosphy of Storms)
1793 - Johannes C de Jonge, Dutch historian/archivist
1796 - August Pauly, German classicus (Real Encyclopedia)
1800 - John Brown, Torrington, Connecticut, American revolutionary abolitionist (d. 1859)
1801 - Samuel Cousins, mezzotint engraver
1810 - Louis Gallait, historical painter
1810 - WFLC Marianne, princess of Orange-Nassau/daughter of king Willem I
1814 - Adolph von Henselt, composer
1824 - William Edmonson "Grumble" Jones, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1829 - Ciro Pinsuti, pianist/composer
1833 - Boleslaw Dembinski, composer
1837 - Adam Opel, German manufacturer (cycling, motorcars)
1843 - Belle Boyd, spy (Confederate)/actress/lecturer
1844 - [Maria] Catharina Beersmans, Belgian actress (Bad Herders)
1846 - Nikolay Feopemptovich Solov'yov, composer
1855 - Julius Rontgen, composer
1860 - James Matthew (J.M.) Barrie, Scotland, novelist (Margaret Ogilvy, Peter Pan). Dies 1937.
1865 - August de Boeck, composer
1866 - Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Leader of Indian Independence Movement (d. 1915)
1873 - Howard Carter, London, British archaeologist and egyptologist (found King Tutankhamen's
           tomb)
1873 - Lilian Mary Baylis, manager (Old Vic & Sadler's Wells Theater)
1873 - Anton Cermak, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1933)
1882 - Henry J Kaiser, builder (Liberty Ships, Jeeps, Boulder Dam)
1882 - George Barker, American painter (d. 1965)
1886 - Francis Biddle, United States Attorney General (d. 1968)
1887 - Jules Van de Leene, Belgian writer
1887 - Sir Ernest de Silva, Sri Lankan Philanthropist (d. 1957)
1888 - Rolf de Maré, Swedish art collector and museum director (d. 1964)
1892 - Eric Westberg, composer
1892 - Zita, empress (Austria)/Queen (Hungary)
1893 - William Moulton Marston, American psychologist, writer (co-creator, Wonder Woman) (d.
           1947)
1895 - Lucian Blaga, Romaniams philosopher/poet (Dogmatic Aeon)
1895 - Richard Barthelmess, NYC, actor (Broken Blossoms, Noose)
1899 - Edward Pollock, saxophone/clarinet
1901 - Fuzzy Knight, Fairmont WV, actor (Oklahoma Annie, Cowby & the Lady)
1901 - George Duckworth, cricket wicket-keeper (England late 20's early 30's)
1903 - Walter Dehmel, writer
1906 - Eleanor Estes, author (Ginger Pye, Moffats)
1907 - Baldur von Schirach, German writer/nazi politician (Frame)
1907 - Kathryn Kuhlman, famed evangelist (d. 1976)
1907 - Fred Warngård, Swedish athlete (d. 1950)
1908 - Mary Goldsmith, American ceramist (d. 2007)
1909 - Don Messer, Canadian country musician (d. 1973)
1910 - Barbara Woodhouse, dog training expert
1910 - P E Palia, cricketer (appeared in India's 1st Test-Lord's 1932)
1911 - Harry Simeone, Newark NJ, choral director (Kate Smith Show)
1912 - Pedro Armendariz, Mexico, actor (From Russia With Love)
1912 - Per Imerslund, "The aryan idol" (d. 1943)
1913 - John Hayes, Admiral
1913 - Victor Smith, Admiral (Australian Chiefs of Staff)
1914 - Carlo Maria Giulini, conductor
1914 - Frank Chacksfield, arranger/orchestra leader
1914 - Hank Snow, Nova Scotia Canada, country singer (I Went to Your Wedding)
1914 - Josef Muller-Brockmann, graphic designer/writer
1914 - Theodore Kheel, labor negotiator (Fair Employment Practices)
1915 - Richard Janvrin, British vice admiral
1916 - Bernard William George Rose, composer/organist
1916 - Cyril Bowles, bishop of Derby
1916 - Douglas Guest, organist
1917 - George Fleming, cyclist
1917 - John Arnatt, actor (Circumstantial Evidence)
1918 - Mike Wallace, Brookline Mass, newscaster (Biography, 60 Minutes), (d. 2012)
1918 - Orville Freeman, Minneapolis, (Sen-D-Mn)/Sec of Agriculture (1961-69)
1919 - Arthur English, comedian/actor (Malachi's Cove)
1920 - Richard Adams, author (Day Gone By)
1920 - William Tenn, American author
1921 - Mona Van Duyn, American poet (d. 2004)
1921 - Daniel Berrigan, American peace activist
1922 - Sheila Burrell, actress (Black Orchid, Paranoiac, Laughter in Dark)
1923 - Johnny Grant, American radio personality, television producer (d. 2008)
1924 - Bulat S Okudzjava, Russian author (Student!)
1924 - Connie Russell, NYC, singer (Club Embassy, Garroway at Large)
1924 - Gerard Wernars, Dutch graphic designer (Library stamps 1991)
1924 - Jean J A Girault, French director/screenwriter (l'Amour)
1925 - Peter Leng, Master General of the Ordnance
1926 - Alistair MacFarlane, principal (Heriot-Watt University England)
1926 - Francis Kennedy, British diplomat
1926 - Joshua Hassan, chief minister (Gibralter)
1926 - Robin Cooke, pres (NZ Court of Appeal)
1927 - John McDermott, Lord Justice of Appeal (Northern Ireland)
1927 - Manfred Eigen, German physicist/chemist (Nobel 1967)
1927 - Ray Katt, baseball player
1928 - Barbara Ann Scott, Ottawa Ontario, figure skater (Olympic-gold-1948), (d. 2012)
1928 - Pall Pampichier Palsson, composer
1928 - Richard A "Pancho" Gonzalez, LA California, tennis star (US 1948-49)
1928 - Ralph Goings, American painter
1929 - Anthony Lloyd, Lord Justice of Appeal
1929 - Kay Dotrice, British actress (d. 2007)
1930 - Joan Sims, actress (Carry on Behind, Carry on Cleo)
1931 - Vance DeVoe Brand, Longmont Co, astro (Apollo 18, STS-5, 41B, 35)
1932 - Conrad Hunte, cricketer (great West Indian opener 1958-66)
1932 - David Plastow, CEO (Medical Research Council)
1932 - Gavin Lyall, author (Conduct of Major Maxim)
1932 - Geraldine McEwan, actress (Henry V)
1932 - J Alex McMillan, (Rep-R-NC, 1985- )
1933 - Johnny Grant, unofficial mayor of Hollywood
1934 - Alan Bennett, Engld, playwright/actor (Secret Policeman's Other Ball)
1934 - John Robertson, deputy chairman (Barclays de Zoete Wedd)
1934 - Roy Massey, Master of Choristers (Hereford Cathedral)
1935 - Nokie Edwards, American guitarist (The Ventures)
1936 - Albert Finney, Salford UK, actor (Dresser, Under the Volcano)
1936 - Floyd Robinson, baseball player (White Sox, Reds, A's)
1936 - Glenda Jackson, Cheshire England, actress (Women in Love)
1936 - Terry Downes, middleweight boxing champ (1961-62)
1936 - Terry Drinkwater, TV newsman (CBS)
1937 - Dave Prater, Ocilla Ga, rock vocalist (Sam & Dave)
1937 - Sonny Curtis, Texas, guitarist (Crickets)
1937 - José Rafael Moneo, Spanish architect
1938 - Geoffrey Holland, civil servant
1938 - Nokie Edwards, rocker (Ventures)
1938 - Charles Simic Yugoslavian-born poet, 15th Poet Laureate of the United States
1939 - Bruce Mather, composer
1939 - Herbert Hippauf, baseball player
1939 - Jim Dent, Augusta GA, PGA golfer (1989 MONY Syracuse Senior)
1939 - Kenneth Warby, fastest man on water at 300 knots (345 mph)
1939 - Nokle Edwards, rocker
1939 - Ralph Boston, Laurel Miss, long jumper (Oly-gold/sil/brz-60, 64, 68)
1939 - Pierre Desproges, French humorist (d. 1988)
1939 - Ion Ţiriac, Romanian tennis manager
1940 - Dick Morrissey, saxophonist
1940 - James L Brooks, producer/director (Broadcast News, Taxi, Critic)
1941 - Dorothy Hyman, England, sprinter (Oly-silver-60)
1941 - Jan Dibbets, sculptor/artist (Dutch Mountains)
1941 - Pete Birrell, rock bassist (Freddie & The Dreamers)
1942 - John D Ashcroft, (Gov-MO)
1942 - Mike Millward, rocker
1942 - Tommy Roe, Atlanta, rocker (Hooray for Hazel)
1942 - William Olner, MP
1943 - Bruce Milner, rocker (Every Mother's Son)
1943 - Maurice Foster, cricketer (West Indies batsman of 70's)
1943 - Tommy Roe, rocker
1944 - Don Dannemann, rocker (Cyrkle)
1944 - Richard Furay, Ohio, rock vocalist (Buffalo Springfield, Poco)
1945 - Steve Katz, NYC, rock guitarist/vocalist (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
1946 - Candice Bergen, Beverly Hills, actr (Carnal Knowledge, Murphy Brown)
1947 - Anthony Corlan, Cork City Ireland, actor (Something for Everyone)
1948 - John Drayton Mahaffey, Kerrville TX, PGA golfer (1978 PGA Champ)
1948 - Hans Georg Bock, German mathematician
1948 - Calvin Murphy, American basketball player
1949 - Billy Joel, Bronx, rock vocalist (Pianoman, Capt Jack, Bridge)
1949 - Oleg Yuriyevich Atkov, Russian cosmonaut (Soyuz T-10)
1950 - James A Butts, LA California, triple jumper (Olympic-silver-1976)
1950 - Matthew Kelly, actor/TV host (Holding the Fort, Relative Strangers)
1950 - Tom Petersson, Rockford Il, rock bassist (Cheap Trick)
1951 - Alley Mills, Chicago Ill, actress (Norma Arnold-Wonder Years)
1952 - Patrick Ryecart, actor (Silas Mariner)
1953 - Daniel Talbot, Montreal Que, golfer (Quebec Open-1979, 81, 84)
1953 - Gregory Beecroft, Chorpus Christi TX, actor (Guiding Light)
1953 - Ron Jackson, baseball player
1953 - Scott McInnis, (Rep-R-Colorado)
1954 - Balazs Taroczy, Hungary, tennis star
1955 - Kevin Peter Hall, Pitts Pa, actor (Misfits of Science)
1955 - Myra Blackwelder, LPGA golfer
1955 - Anne-Sofie von Otter, Swedish mezzo-soprano
1955 - Meles Zenawi, Prime Minister of Ethiopia, (d. 2012)
1956 - Wendy Crewson, Canadian actress
1957 - Fred Markham, 1st man to pedal a bike 65 mph
1957 - John Stuper, baseball pitcher (St Louis Cardinals)
1958 - Esko Rechardt, Finland, yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1980)
1959 - Andrew Jones, cricketer (highly consistent for NZ at 1st drop)
1959 - Asantha De Mel, cricketer (pioneering Sri Lankan Test opening bowler)
1960 - Iain Butchart, cricket all-rounder (Zimbabwe, Test v Pak 1995)
1960 - Jim Reilly, rocker (Red Rockers)
1960 - Tony Gwynn, LA CA, outfielder (San Diego Padres)
1961 - Rene Capo, Pinal del Rio Cuba, half-heavyweight judoka (Olympics-96)
1962 - Dave Gahan, Essex, rock vocalist (Depeche Mode-Dreaming of Me)
1962 - John Corbett, actor/singer (Chris-Northern Exposure)
1962 - Paul Heaton, rocker (Housemartins-Happy Hour, Over There)
1963 - Sanja Doležal, Croatian singer (Novi fosili)
1964 - Miloslav Mecir, Czechoslovakia, tennis player (Olympic-gold-1988)
1964 - Kevin Saunderson, American music producer and disc jockey
1965 - Ben Volpeliere-Pierrot, rocker (Curiosity Killed Cat-Keep Distance)
1965 - Marc Logan, NFL running back (Washington Redskins)
1965 - Steve Yzerman, Cranbrook BC, NHL forward (Team Canada, Detroit)
1965 - Ken Nomura, Japanese racing driver
1965 - Janu Tornell, American model and Survivor contestant
1966 - Mark Tinordi, Red Deer, NHL defenseman (Washington Capitals)
1968 - Bruce Pickens, NFL cornerback (Oakland Raiders)
1968 - David Benoit, NBA forward (Utah Jazz, NJ Nets)
1968 - Marie-Jose Perec, Guadeloupe, French 200m/400m runner (Oly-2 gold-96)
1968 - Vince Workman, NFL running back (Packers, Panthers, Colts)
1969 - Carla Overbeck, Pasadena California, soccer defender (Olympics-96)
1969 - Renn Crichlow, Ottawa Ontario, canoeist (Olympics-8-92, 96)
1969 - Amber, Dutch musician
1970 - Doug Christie, NBA guard/forward (Toronto Raptors)
1971 - Paul McGuigan, English bassist (Oasis)
1972 - Dan Hollander, Royal Oak Mich, figure skater (1996 Great Lakes champ)
1972 - Dave Barr, WLAF quarterback (Scotland Claymores)
1972 - Simon Hollingsworth, Australian 400m hurdler (Olympics-92, 96)
1972 - Megumi Odaka, Japanese actress and artist
1972 - Daniela Silivaş, Romanian gymnast
1973 - Chu Sang-mi, South Korean actress
1974 - Shin Yahata, hockey forward (Team Japan 1998)
1974 - Stephane Yelle, Ottawa, NHL center (Colorado Avalanche)
1975 - Brian Deegan, Freestyle Motocross innovator
1975 - Chris Diamantopoulos, Canadian actor
1975 - Tamia, Canadian singer
1976 - Faye Johnstone, Auckland NZ, archer (Olympics-96)
1977 - Choi Jeong-yoon, South Korean actress
1977 - Maggie Dixon, American college basketball coach (d. 2006)
1977 - Iñigo Landaluze, Spanish cyclist
1978 - Leandro Damián Cufré, Argentine footballer
1978 - Aaron Harang, American baseball player
1979 - Rosario Dawson, American actress
1979 - Pierre Bouvier, Canadian musician (Simple Plan)
1979 - Andrew W.K., American musician
1979 - Brandon Webb, American baseball player
1980 - Angela Nikodinov, Spartanburg SC, figure skater (1997 Pacif Sr champ)
1980 - Tatewin Means, Miss South Dakota Teen USA (1996)
1980 - Tony Schmidt, German racing driver
1980 - Cho Hyeon Jae, South Korean actor
1980 - Grant Hackett, Australian swimmer
1981 - Bill Murphy, American baseball player
1982 - Rachel Boston, American actress
1983 - Tyler Lumsden, American baseball player
1983 - Gilles Müller, Luxembourgian tennis player
1984 - Prince Fielder, American baseball player
1985 - Jake Long, American football player
1988 - Skye Regan, Canadian Actress and Writer
1988 - John Ryan Fitzpatrick, Canadian race truck driver
1996 - Mary Matilyn Mouser, American child actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 09, 2013, 11:52:07 AM

This Day in History for 9th May


Famous Deaths

1079 - Stanislaus, Polish bishop of Cracow, murdered
1280 - Magnus VI Lagaboeter, King of Norway (1263-80), dies at 42
1315 - Hugh V, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1282)
1443 - Niccolo d'Albergati, Italian cardinal, dies
1446 - Mary of Enghien, Queen of Naples (b. 1368)
1460 - Jean Lavite, Atrechts painter, dies
1474 - Peter van Hagenbach, Elzasser knight/land guardian, beheaded
1590 - Karel "Cardinal" van Bourbon, archbishop of Rouen, dies at 66
1657 - William Bradford, Governor (Plymouth Colony, Mass), dies
1667 - Marie Louise de Gonzague-Nevers, French Queen of Poland (1645-48)
1688 - Frederick William, Great Elector of Brandenburg, dies at 68
1707 - Dietrich Buxtehude, German organist/composer, dies at about 69
1745 - Tomaso Antonio Vitali, composer, dies at 82
1747 - John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair, Scottish soldier and diplomat (b. 1673)
1760 - Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf und Pottendorf, Austrian born German religious and social
           reformer, dies at 59
1785 - Franz Xaver Schnitzer, composer, dies at 44
1790 - William Clingan, American delegate to the Continental Congress
1791 - Francis Hopkinson, US writer/music/lawyer, dies at 53
1799 - Claude-Benigne Balbastre, composer, dies at 72
1805 - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, German poet/playwright, dies at 45
1822 - Charles Duquesnoy, composer, dies at 62
1850 - Louis-Joseph Gay-Lussac, chemist/physicist, dies
1853 - Johann Philipp Samuel Schmidt, composer, dies at 73
1861 - Peter Ernst von Lasaulx, German philosopher and writer (b. 1805)
1864 - "Uncle" John Sedgwick, US Union general-major, dies in battle at 50
1864 - Thomas Donnely Doubleday, US Union Col, dies in an accident
1880 - Johann Hermann Berens, composer, dies at 54
1884 - Hermanus W Witteveen, theologist, dies at 69
1889 - William S. Harney, U.S. general (b. 1800)
1903 - Rudolf Serkin, Bohemian/US pianist, dies
1905 - Ernst Pauer, composer, dies at 78
1914 - C.W. Post, American food manufacturer (b. 1854)
1915 - François Faber, Luxembourgish cyclist (b. 1887)
1918 - George Coşbuc, Romanian poet (b. 1866)
1926 - Joseph Mallaby Dent, publisher, dies
1927 - Tommy Routledge, cricketer (4 Tests for South Africa 1892-96), dies
1928 - Constantin Dimitrescu, composer, dies at 81
1931 - A[lbert] A[braham] Michelson, US physicist (1907 Nobel), dies at 78
1937 - Walter Mittelholzer, Swiss aviation pioneer, dies in crash at 43
1938 - Thomas B. Thrige, Danish industrialist (b. 1866)
1944 - Ethel Mary Smyth, composer, dies at 86
1945 - Clem Hill, cricketer (49 Tests for Australia 1896-1912), dies
1949 - Louis II, Prince of Monaco, dies
1950 - Esteban Terradas i Illa, Catalan mathematician, scientist, and engineer (b. 1883)
1951 - Marie Ault, dies at 80
1952 - Canada Lee, black actor (Lost Boundaries), dies in NYC at 45
1955 - Kate Booth, the oldest daughter of William and Catherine Booth (b. 1858)
1957 - Ezio F Pinza, Italian bass (Scale of Milan, NY Met Opera), dies
1957 - Heinrich Campendonk, German painter/wood carver/glasier, dies at 67
1958 - Bill Goodwin, TV announcer (Burns & Allen), dies at 47
1965 - Leopold Figl, premier Austria, dies at 62
1966 - Alfred Mendelsohn, composer, dies at 56
1966 - Wilhelmus M Bekkers, bishop of Dukeenbosch, dies
1967 - Elmar Berkovich, Dutch industrial designer (Eindhoven theater), dies
1967 - Philippa Duke Schuyler, composer, dies at 35
1968 - Finlay Currie, dies at 90
1968 - Harold Gray, US comic strip artist (Little Orphan Annie), dies at 74
1968 - Marion Lorne, actress (Aunt Clara-Bewitched), dies at 81
1968 - Phil Arnold, actor (Skidoo, Errand Boy, Damn Yankees), dies at 58
1968 - Mercedes de Acosta, American poet, playwright, costume designer, and socialite (b. 1893)
1970 - Percy Brier, composer, dies at 84
1970 - Walter P Reuther, US worker's union leader/president (CIO), dies
1970 - Andrew Watson Myles, Canadian politician (b. 1884)
1974 - Lyubomir Pipkov, composer, dies at 69
1975 - Philip Dorn, dies at 73
1976 - Raymond Chevreuille, Belgian composer, dies at 74
1976 - Valentino Bucchi, composer, dies at 59
1976 - Jens Bjørneboe, Norwegian author (b. 1920)
1977 - James Jones, US writer (Bad Blood, From Here to Eternity), dies at 55
1977 - Walter Kraft, composer, dies at 71
1978 - Aldo Moro, 5 times PM of Italy, assassinated by the Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization Red
           Brigades at 61
1979 - Cyrus S. Eaton, Canadian-American financier, industrialist and steel magnate, dies at 95
1979 - Lan Adomian, composer, dies at 73
1981 - C E "Nip" Pellew, cricketer (10 Tests 484 runs at 37), dies
1981 - Nelson Algren, US writer (Man with the Golden Arm), dies at 72
1981 - Ralph Allen, English footballer (b. 1906)
1985 - Reginald Dixon, British theatre organist, dies at 80
1985 - Edmond O'Brien, actor (Moon Pilot, Wild Bunch), dies at 69
1986 - Dirk de Vroome, [Red Giant], Limbourg activist, dies at 60
1986 - Herschel Bernardi, actor (Lt Jacoby-Peter Gunn, Arnie), dies at 62
1986 - Tenzing Norgay, Tibetan climber (Mount Everest 1953), dies at 71
1987 - Obafemi Awolowo, Nigeria, pres of Nigeria (1979-83), dies at 78
1989 - Keith Whitley, country singer (Don't Close Your Eyes), dies at 33
1989 - Paul J Steenbergen, actor (Ciske de Rat), dies at 82
1990 - Luigi Nono, Ital composer (Intolleranza), dies at 66
1990 - Pauline Frederick, 1st women to moderate Pres debate, dies at 84
1991 - James L Reinsch, media-advisor (Roosevelt/Churchill/Kennedy), dies
1991 - Ronnie Brody, British actor (Superman III, Whats Up Nurse), dies at 72
1991 - Rudolf Serkin, Bohemian/US pianist, dies
1992 - Mike Tyrell [Red Baron], British air acrobat, dies in an accident
1993 - Freya Stark, English author (Sunday Bloody Sunday), dies at 61
1993 - Mary Duncan Sanford, dies at 98
1993 - Penelope Gilliatt [Conner], British author
1994 - Elias Motsoaledi, South African freedom fighter (b. 1924)
1995 - Abha Gandhi, servant to Gandhi, dies at 68
1995 - Charles Montgomery Monteith, publisher, dies at 74
1995 - Marshall Royal, jazz Sax/Clarinet, dies at 82
1995 - Percy Mansell, cricketer (355 runs in 13 Tests for S Afr), dies
1997 - Marco Ferreri, Italian film director (b. 1928)
1998 - Alice Faye, American actress (b. 1915)
2001 - James E. Myers, American songwriter (Rock Around the Clock) and producer (b. 1919)
2002 - Dan Devine, American football coach (b. 1924)
2003 - Russell B. Long, U.S. Senator from Louisiana (b. 1918)
2004 - Akhmad Kadyrov, Chechen president (b. 1951)
2004 - Alan King, American comedian (b. 1927)
2005 - Nasrat Parsa, Afghani singer (b. 1969)
2007 - Dwight Wilson, second-to-last Canadian WWI veteran (b. 1901)
2007 - Edith Rodriguez, hospital emergency room refused to treat (b. 1964)
2008 - Jack Gibson, Australian rugby league footballer and coach (b. 1929)
2008 - Nuala O'Faolain, Irish journalist (b. 1942)
2009 - Chuck Daly, American basketball coach (b. 1930)
2010 - Otakar Motejl, Czechoslvakian politician (b. 1932)
2010 - Lena Horne, American singer and actress (b. 1917)
2011 - Wouter Weylandt, Belgian cyclist (b. 1984)
2012 - Vidal Sassoon, British hairdresser and businessman, dies from leukemia at 84

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 10, 2013, 04:34:45 PM

This Day in History for 10th May


Historical Events

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First US President                                     First Director of the FBI                   The British war time Prime Minister
George Washington                                            J Edgar Hoover                                  Winston Churchill

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Baseball Player Hank Aaron                    Radio shock jock Howard Stern              Anti-apartheid activist/South
                                                                                                                                    African President
                                                                                                                                      Nelson Mandela


1267 - Vienna's church orders all Jews to wear a distinctive garb
1278 - Jews of England imprisoned on charges of coining
1291 - Scottish nobles recognize authority of English king Edward I
1427 - Jews are expelled from Berne Switzerland
1497 - Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci leaves for 1st voyage to the New World
1503 - Columbus discovers Cayman Islands
1525 - Church reformer John Pistorius caught in the Hague
1534 - French navigator Jacques Cartier reaches Newfoundland
1559 - Scottish Protestants under John Knox uprise against queen-mother Mary
1570 - Czar Ivan IV becomes Protestant
1624 - Jacob Willekens & Piet Heyn conquer Salvador, Civil rights activist
1652 - John Johnson, a free black, is granted 550 acres in Northampton, Va
1655 - Jamaica captured by English
1676 - Bacon's Rebellion, frontiersmen vs Virginia government begins
1752 - Benjamin Franklins 1st tests the lightning rod
1768 - John Wilkes is imprisoned for writing an article for The North Briton severely criticizing King
           George III. This action provokes rioting in London.
1774 - Louis XVI ascends to throne of France
1775 - 2nd Continental Congress convenes in Pa issues paper currency for 1st time
1775 - 2nd Continental Congress names George Washington, supreme commander
1775 - Green Mountain Boys capture Fort Ticonderoga NY-American Revolution
1787 - Parliament impeaches Warren Hastings
1796 - French government arrest 10 utopists
1796 - Napoleon defeats Austria in Battle of Lodi Bridge
1796 - Riot after disagreement of patriotic demand in Amsterdam
1797 - 1st Navy ship, the "United States," is launched
1801 - First Barbary War: The Barbary pirates of Tripoli declare war on the United States of America.
1816 - English steamship "Defiance" arrives at Rotterdam harbor
1823 - 1st steamboat to navigate the Mississippi River arrives at Ft Snelling
1824 - The National Gallery in London opens to the public in its temporary home in a townhouse on
           Pall Mall
1837 - Panic of 1837: New York City banks fail, and unemployment reaches record levels.
1849 - Pack destroys Astor Place opera house in NYC (22 killed)
1857 - Indian Mutiny begins with revolt of Sepoys in Meerut
1861 - Union troops march on state militia in St Louis, MI
1862 - Battle of Plum Run Bend, TN (Plum Point Bend)
1864 - Battles at Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia
1864 - Skirmish at Ny River Virginia
1865 - Jefferson Davis captured at Irwinsville Georgia
1865 - Surrender of Sam Jones
1869 - Golden Spike driven, completes Promontory Pt Ut-Transcontinental RR
1870 - Jem Mace & defends his heavyweight crown against Irish champ Joe Coburn, it lasts 1 hr & 17
           minutes, & neither is struck by a punch
1871 - Peace of Frankfurt-am-Main concluded between France & Germany ends Franco-Prussian war
1872 - Victoria Woodhull becomes 1st woman nominated for US president
1876 - Centennial Fair opens in Philadelphia
1879 - Meteor falls near Estherville, Iowa
1880 - General Wolseley opens new legislative council in Pretoria
1881 - Lighthouse on Ameland begins operation
1889 - 17th Preakness: W Anderson aboard Buddhist wins in 2:17.5
1893 - 19th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Kunze aboard Lookout wins in 2:39.25
1893 - Imperial Institute in London opens
1905 - 31st Kentucky Derby: Jack Martin aboard Agile wins in 2:100.75
1906 - Russia's Duma (Parliament) meets for 1st time
1907 - Paul Dukas' opera "Ariane et Barbe Bleue," premieres in Paris
1908 - 1st Mother's Day observed (Phila)
1909 - Winchester's Fred Toney no-hits Lexington for 17 inning
1910 - 1st aircraft air display held (Hendon, England)
1910 - 36th Kentucky Derby: Fred Herbert aboard Donau wins in 2:06.4
1910 - Comet Halley's closest approach to Earth in 1910 pass
1913 - 39th Kentucky Derby: Roscoe Goose aboard Donerail wins in 2:04.8
1913 - Yanks commit 8 errors & still beat Tigers 10-9 in 10 innings
1915 - Zeppelin drops hundred of bombs on Southend-on-Sea
1916 - Disastrous fire in Ellendale, ND
1916 - Historic Shipport Museum opens in Amsterdam
1917 - Atlantic ships get destroyer escorts to stop German attacks
1918 - HMS Vindictive sunk to block entrance of Ostend Harbor
1919 - 45th Kentucky Derby: Johnny Loftus aboard Sir Barton wins in 2:09.8
1919 - Race riot in Charleston SC, 2 blacks killed
1921 - Luigi Pirandello's "Sei Personaggi in Cerca d'Autore," premieres
1922 - Dr Ivy Williams is 1st woman to be called to the English Bar
1922 - WHB-AM in Kansas City MO begins radio transmissions
1922 - The United States annexes the Kingman Reef.
1924 - J Edgar Hoover appointed head of FBI
1926 - 52nd Preakness: John Maiben aboard Display wins in 1:59.8
1928 - WGY, Schenectady begins regular TV programming
1929 - 55th Preakness: Louis Schaefer aboard Dr Freeland wins in 2:01.6
1929 - 64th British Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 292 at Muirfield Gullane
1930 - 1st US planetarium opens (Adler-Chicago)
1930 - Clarrie Grimmett takes 10 for 37 v Yorkshire at Sheffield
1931 - Golf ball size hail falls in Burlington NJ
1932 - Government declares "Wilhelmus" Neth national anthem
1932 - Senate chairman Albert Lebrun becomes president of France
1933 - Deutsche Arbeitsfront (DAF) forms
1933 - Nazis stage public book burnings in Germany
1933 - Paraguay declares war on Bolivia
1933 - Suriname worker's union leader A de Come banish to Netherlands
1936 - Manuel Azaña elected president of Spain
1936 - Nahas Pasja becomes premier of Egypt
1937 - Busmen strike in London
1938 - Banning speech on anti-fascism demonstration in Amsterdam
1940 - British Local Defense Volunteers (Home Guard) forms
1940 - Dutch torpedo boat Johan van Galen sinks
1940 - Dutch-Indies Gov Van Starkenborch proclaims end to state of siege
1940 - French marines stationed on Aruba
1940 - French troops arrive in Zealand/Brabant Netherlands
1940 - Nazi armies attack Netherlands, Belgium & Luxembourg
1940 - Winston Churchill succeeds Neville Chamberlain as British Prime Minister
1940 - World War II: The first German bombs of the war fall on England at Chilham and Petham, in
           Kent.
1941 - 67th Preakness: Eddie Arcaro aboard Whirlaway wins in 1:58.8
1941 - Adolph Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland
1941 - England's House of Commons & Holborn Theater destroyed in a blitz
1941 - Queen Wilhelmina on Radio Orange warns against treason
1942 - World War II: The Thai Phayap Army invades the Shan States during the Burma Campaign.
1944 - Chinese offensive in West-Yunnan
1944 - Smith v Allwright (excluding Blacks from primary voting) is illegal
1945 - Allies capture Rangoon from the Japanese
1945 - Russian troops occupied Prague
1946 - Red Sox win 15th straight beat Yanks 5-4, DiMaggio hits Grand Slam
1946 - Umberto II succeeds Victor Emmanuel III as king of Italy
1947 - "Chocolate Soldier" closes at Century Theater NYC after 69 perfs
1947 - 73rd Preakness: Doug Dodson aboard Faultless wins in 1:59
1948 - 1st attack by Egyptian irregular forces at Kfar Darom Israel
1948 - Winston Churchill visits The Hague
1950 - 1st Neth-US telex sent
1951 - Z Alexander Looby elected to Nashville City Council
1952 - "Shuffle Along" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 4 performances
1953 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Sacramento Golf Open
1953 - KCBD TV channel 11 in Lubbock, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 - Bolshoi-ballet does not appear in Paris
1956 - French government sends 50,000 reservists to Algeria
1956 - KFSN TV channel 30 in Fresno, CA (ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting
1957 - 1st meeting of legislative of Cameroon
1957 - Dmitri Sjostakovitsch 2nd Piano concert, premieres in Moscow
1959 - Joyce Ziske wins LPGA Howard Johnson Golf Invitational
1959 - Soviet forces arrive in Afghanistan
1959 - Giants Jim Hearn allows 2 runs against Pirates, game is suspended, Hearn is released &
           charged with loss 2 months after his retirement
1960 - John F Kennedy wins primary in West Virginia
1960 - US atomic sub USS Triton completes 1st around world under water trip
1960 - USS Nautilus completes 1st circumnavigation of globe under water
1961 - "Beyond the Fringe," premieres in London
1963 - Decca signs Rolling Stones on advice of Beatle George Harrison
1964 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Squirt Ladies' Golf Open Invitational
1966 - 25°F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in May
1967 - Foundation AZ soccer team forms in Alkmaar
1967 - Hank Aaron only inside the park HR (vs Jim Bunning)
1967 - Keith Richards, Brian Jones & Mick Jagger arrested on drug charges
1967 - Stockholm Vietnam-Tribunal declares US aggression in Vietnam/Cambodia
1967 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1968 - Vietnam peace talks began in Paris between the US & North Vietnam
1969 - Apollo 10 transmit 1st color pictures of Earth from space
1969 - Turtles play White House, Mark Volman falls off stage 5 times
1969 - US troop begin attack on Hill 937/Hamburger Hill
1970 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
1970 - Brave's Hoyt Wilhelm pitches in his 1,000th game, loses to Cards 6-5
1970 - Stanley Cup: Boston Bruins sweep St Louis Blues in 4 games
1971 - US special delivery rates go from 45 cents to 60 cents
1972 - Overloaded South Korean bus plunges into reservoir, killing 77
1972 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1973 - 27th NBA Championship: NY Knicks beat LA Lakers, 4 games to 1
1973 - 9th Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 8-4
1973 - Establishment of Frente Polisario in Mauritania
1973 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Chicago Blackhawks, 4 games to 2
1974 - 7th ABA championship: NY Nets beats Utah Stars, 4 games to 1
1975 - Brian Oldfield of US put shot 75', an unofficial record
1978 - "Angel" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 5 performances
1978 - Liverpool wins 23rd Europe Cup
1979 - Federated States of Micronesia becomes self-governing
1979 - John McMullen becomes CEO of Houston Astros
1979 - Vivekananda (Sri Lanka) completes nonstop cycle ride of 187 hrs, 28 min, around Vihara Maha
           Devi Park, Colombo, Sri Lanka [From May 2]
1980 - "Happy New Year" closes at Morosco Theater NYC after 17 performances
1981 - Amy Alcott wins LPGA Lady Michelob Golf Tournament
1981 - Francois Mitterrand defeats Valery Giscard d'Estang for Pres of France
1981 - Montreal Expo Charlie Lee no-hits SF Giants, 4-0
1982 - WABC NYC plays its last record (John Lennon's Imagine)
1982 - WABC joins ABC's All Talk radio network
1983 - "Laverne & Shirley," last airs on ABC-TV
1983 - Lee Chin Yong performs 170 continuous chin-ups in Seoul
1983 - Oilers 0-Isles 2-Stanley Cup-Isles hold 1-0 lead
1984 - Intl Court of Justice rules on US blockade of Nicaragua
1985 - Challenger transports back to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB
1986 - "Rock Me Amadeus," by Falco hit #1 on UK pop chart
1987 - Jody Rosentha wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic
1988 - Edgar Degas' "Danseresje of 14" sold for $10,120,000
1989 - FC Barcelona wins 29th Europe Cup II
1989 - Gen Manuel Noriega's government nullifies country's elections, which the opposition had won
           by a 3-1 margin
1990 - "Zoya's Apartment" opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 45 perfs
1990 - French TGV-train hits record speed of 510.6 kph
1990 - Howard Stern holds a mock funeral for rival John DeBella
1991 - Oakland A's Jose Canseco is seen leaving Madonna's apt
1992 - "Hamlet" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 45 performances
1992 - Bible Lands Museum opens in Jerusalem Israel
1992 - Jennifer Wyatt wins LPGA Crestar-Fresh Farm Golf Classic
1993 - Fire in clothing factory at Bangkok, kills 145
1993 - Last TV appearance of Mies Bouwman
1993 - Paul Cezannes still life sells for $28,600,000 in NYC
1993 - Premier Lubbers opens Terminal West on Schiphol
1994 - "Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public" opens at Lunt-Font NYC for 16 per
1994 - Barbra Striesand's begins 1st concert tour in 30 years
1994 - Drew Barrymore (19) files for divorce from Jeremy Thomas (31)
1994 - Nelson Mandela sworn in as South Africa's 1st black president
1994 - Silvio Berlusconi forms Italian government with 5 neo-fascists
1995 - 30th Academy of Country Music Awards: Reba McEntire wins
1995 - Britain lifts a 23-year ban on ministerial talks with Sinn Fein
1995 - In South Africa, 104 miners killed in an elevator accident
1996 - "Twister" premieres
1996 - 2 US Marine helicopters collided during joint US & British war games
1996 - Excel Communications, Inc. becomes the youngest company ever to join the New York Stock
           Exchange (NYSE), trading under the symbol (ECI).
1997 - Chicago Cubs turn baseballs 68th triple play (vs SF Giants)
2001 - In Ghana, a stampede at a football game kills over 120 spectators.
2002 - Anaheim Angels crush the Chicago White Sox 19-0. The Angels join the 1923 Indians, 1939
           Yankees and 1950 Red Sox as the only teams to beat two opponents by 19 or more runs in
           the same season
2003 - The May 2003 tornado outbreak sequence takes place.
2005 - A hand grenade which was thrown by Vladimir Arutyunian lands about 65 feet (20 metres)
           from U.S. President George W. Bush while he was giving a speech to a crowd in Tbilisi,
           Georgia, but it malfunctions and does not detonate.
2012 - The Red Cross suspends all humanitarian work in Pakistan after a worker was kidnapped and 
           killed
2012 - Two bombings in Damascus, Syria, kill 55 people and injure 370

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 10, 2013, 04:37:13 PM

This Day in History for 10th May


Famous Weddings

1927 - 1954 Nobel Prize winner in Literature Ernest Hemingway (27) weds journalist Pauline Pfeiffer
           (31)
1976 - "KISS" former lead guitarist Ace Frehley (25) weds Janette Trerotola
1986 - Tommy Lee drummer of Motley Crue marries Heather Locklear
2003 - "Broadway" singer-actress Carol Channing (82) weds Harry Kullijian at Big Valley Grace
           Community Church in Modesto, California
2003 - Fashion designer Shoshanna Lonstein (28) weds investment analyst Joshua Gruss at the
           Metropolitan Club in New York City
2003 - "Ocean's Eleven" director and producer Steven Soderbergh (40) weds former fashion model
           Jules Asner (35) in Manhattan, New York
2005 - Actress and model Heidi Klum (39) weds British soul and R&B singer-songwriter Seal (49) in
           Costa Careyes, Mexico
2005 - Actress and model Heidi Klum (39) weds British soul and R&B singer-songwriter Seal (49) in
           Costa Careyes, Mexico
2008 - President George W. Bush's daughter Jenna Bush (26) weds Henry Hager (30) at the Bush
           family ranch in Texas
2012 - Food Network chef Robert Irvine (46) weds "TNA" pro wrestler Gail Kim (35) in California

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 10, 2013, 04:38:47 PM

This Day in History for 10th May


Famous Divorces

1994 - Drew Barrymore (19) files for divorce from Jeremy Thomas (31)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 10, 2013, 04:46:20 PM

This Day in History for 10th May


Famous Birthdays

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Assassin John                                         Musician Sid Vicious (1957)                Rocker Bono (Paul Hewson) (1960)
Wilkes Booth (1838)


1265 - Emperor Fushimi of Japan (d. 1317)
1536 - Thomas Howard, 4th duke of Norfolk, English Earl Marshall
1604 - Jean Mairet, French dramatist (d. 1686)
1697 - Jean Marie I'aine Leclair, composer
1705 - Gallus Zeiler, composer
1724 - Johan A Zoutman, Dutch lt-admiral (battle of Doggersbank)
1727 - Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, French minister of Finance (17.. -76)
1730 - George Ross, US judge (signed Declaration of Independence)
1741 - Johann Michael Schmidt, composer
1746 - Gaspard Monge, French mathematician (d. 1818)
1754 - Asmus Jakob Carstens, painter
1760 - Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle, soldier/author/composer (Marseillaise)
1760 - J P Hebel, writer
1769 - Jean Lannes, duc de Montebello, Marshal of France
1770 - Louis Nicholas Davout, French fieldmarshal (defeated Prussians)
1775 - Robert Gray, Sea Captain (d. 1806)
1776 - George Thomas Smart, composer
1780 - Peter Lichtenthal, composer
1783 - Niccola Benvenuti, composer
1788 - Augustin-Jean Fresnel, optics pioneer/physicist
1788 - Catherine Pavlovna of Russia, German queen (d. 1819)
1795 - Jacques-Nicolas-Augustin Thierry, historian
1800 - Nikolay Alexeyevich Titov, composer
1810 - James Shields, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1879
1813 - Montgomery Blair, Franklin County Ky, lawyer (Dred Scot V Sandford)
1822 - August Ritter von Pettenkofen, painter
1823 - John Sherman, MC (Union), died in 1900
1824 - Charles Henry Van Wyck, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1895
1825 - Rudolf Viole, composer
1830 - Francois M Raoult, French physicist/chemist (law of Raoult)
1837 - Pinckney B S Pinchback, Lt gov (Louisiana)
1838 - James, 1st Viscount Bryce, historian/statesman
1838 - John Wilkes Booth, American stage actor and assassin (President Lincoln)
1840 - Hadzhi Dimitar, Bulgarian revolutionist (d. 1868)
1841 - James Gordon Bennett Jr., American publisher (d. 1918)
1843 - Kaufmann Kohler, reform rabbi/theologian
1843 - Benito Pérez Galdós, Spanish novelist (d. 1920)
1847 - Wilhelm Killing, German mathematician (d. 1923)
1850 - Thomas Johnstone Lipton, Glasgow, yachtsman/tea magnate (Lipton Tea)
1855 - Anatoli Liadov, St Petersburg, Russia, composer (Enchanted Lake) [NS]
1857 - Hendrik Zwaardemaker, Dutch physiologist (olfactometer)
1858 - Frederick Zech Jr, composer
1866 - Léon Bakst, Russian artist (d. 1924)
1867 - Jim Kelly, cricket wicket-keeper (Australian 1896-1905)
1868 - Ed Barrow, American baseball manager (d. 1953)
1872 - Marcel Mauss, French sociologist (d. 1950)
1873 - Carl J Eldh, Swedish sculptor
1873 - Jan Kalf, literary/art historian (Preservation of museums)
1874 - Moses Schorr, Polish rabbi, senator, historian and orientalist (d. 1941)
1876 - Ivan Cankar, Slavs author (Hlapec Jernej-Njegova Pravica)
1877 - Roderich Mojsisovics-Mojsvar, composer
1878 - Gustav Stresemann, German chancellor (1923, Nobel 1926)
1879 - Symon Petlura, Ukrainian statesman (d. 1926)
1882 - Thurston Hall, Boston MA, actor (Roaming Lady, In Society)
1885 - Fritz v Unruh, writer
1885 - Marie Benavente, [Maria Wissink], actress (Scapegoat)
1886 - Karl Barth, Basel Switzerland, theologian/author (Action in Waiting)
1886 - Olaf Stapleton, British religious sci-fi writer (Star Maker)
1886 - Felix Manalo, Founder and 1st Executive Minister of the Iglesia ni Cristo (d. 1963)
1887 - Jacobus C Bloem, Dutch poet (Sintels)
1888 - Max[imilian Raoul Walter] Steiner, Vienna, composer (Gone With Wind)
1889 - Mae Murray, Portsmouth, Virginia, American silent screen actress (d. 1965)
1894 - Dimitri Tiomkin, Russia, composer (Acad Award 1954-High & Mighty)
1897 - Dalton Parry Conyngham, cricketer (one Test South Africa v England 1923)
1897 - Ewart Levy
1897 - Einar Gerhardsen, Prime minister of Norway (d. 1987)
1898 - Ariel Durant, writer (Story of Civilization)
1898 - Herbert Elwell, Minneapolis Minnesota, composer (Happy Hypocrite)
1899 - Fred Astaire, Omaha Neb, tap dancer/actor (Easter Parade, Swingtime)
1899 - Dimitri Tiomkin, Ukrainian-born composer (d. 1979)
1901 - Albert Dondeyne, Belgian philosopher/theologist
1902 - David O Selznick, Pittsburgh Pa, producer (Gone With the Wind)
1902 - Joachim Prinz, author/Rabbi of Berlin (1926-37)
1902 - Anatole Litvak, Ukrainian-born film director (d. 1974)
1903 - Kay Petre, early racing driver
1903 - Otto Bradfisch, Nazi leader (d. 1994)
1904 - David Brown, CEO (Aston Martin Lagonda)
1905 - Angus Paton, civil engineer
1905 - Markos Vamvakaris, Greek rebetiko musician and songwriter (d. 1972)
1907 - Harilaos Perpessas, composer
1908 - Carl Albert, (D) speaker of the House
1908 - Henry Diamond, Irish Nationalist MP
1909 - Harold Francis Collison, trade Unionist
1909 - Lord Collison, British union leader (agriculture workers)
1909 - Maybelle Carter, Nickelsville Va, country singer (Johnny Cash Show)
1910 - Jimmy Demaret, winner of 44 golf tournaments, but not the Open
1910 - Margot Turner, matron-in-chief (Army Nursing Service)
1911 - Bel Kaufman, American author
1912 - Edward Gardner, Queen's Court/MP
1912 - Erik Jorgensen, composer
1912 - Harold Myers, film journalist
1914 - Charles McGraw, NYC, actor (Michael-Falcon, Smith Family)
1914 - Lord Smith, British surgeon
1915 - Bert van Dongen, [Abraham J Cohen], singer/impressionist/actor
1915 - Denis Thatcher, husband of British PM Margaret (1979-90)
1915 - Duke of Sutherland
1915 - Monica Dickens, author/founder (US Samaritians)
1915 - Salah Abou Seif, director
1916 - Milton Babbitt, US mathematician/composer (Widow's Lament)
1918 - Margo, singer (Golden Irish Favorites)
1918 - T Berry Brazelton, doctor (On Being a Father)
1918 - George Welch, American pilot (d. 1954)
1919 - Ella Grasso, (Gov-D-Ct)
1919 - Louis Sen A Kaw, Surinam dam builder
1919 - Tibor Sarai, composer
1920 - Basil Kelly, Lord Justice of Appeals (Northern Ireland)
1921 - Bert Weedon, rocker
1921 - Nancy Walker, Phila, Bounty ads/actress (Rhoda, McMillan & Wife)
1922 - David Orr, deputy chairman (Inchcape)/CEO (British Council, Unilever)
1923 - John Dugdal, Lord-Lt (Salop)
1923 - Heydar Aliyev, Ex-President and Leader of Azerbaijan Republic (d. 2003)
1925 - Edward Fursdon, British Maj-Gen (defense council)
1926 - Duncan Watson, president (World Blind Union)
1926 - Hugo Banzer, Bolivian dictator (d. 2002)
1927 - Nayantara Sahgal, Indian author
1928 - Arnold Rüütel, Estonian president
1929 - Brian Corby, CEO (Prudential)
1929 - Marquess of Downshire
1930 - June Knox-Mawer, British radio host/novelist (World of Islands)
1930 - Pat Summerall, NFLer (NY Giants)/sportscaster (CBS)/alchoholic
1930 - Scott Muni, American radio DJ (d. 2004)
1931 - Lord Michael Mustill, of Pateley Bridge, Lord Justice of Appeal
1931 - Ettore Scola, Italian director and screenwriter
1932 - Earl of Rothes
1932 - Francoise Fabian, Hussein Dey Algeria, actress (Happy New Year)
1933 - Barbara Taylor Bradford, author
1934 - Cliff Wilson, snooker player
1934 - William Lithgow, Scottish industrialist/multi-millionaire
1934 - Jeanine Basinger, American film scholar
1935 - Henry Fambrough, US singer (Spinners)
1935 - Larry Williams, rocker
1936 - Anthony Mullens, British Lt-Gen (Deputy chief of defense)
1936 - Gary Owens, Mitchell SD, disc jockey/TV host (Laugh In, Gong Show)
1936 - Michael Stone, English broker/multi-millionaire (Man Group)
1936 - Trevor Clay, Gen-Sec (Royal College of Nursing)
1936 - Jayne Cortez, Fort Huachuca, Arizona, poet (I see Chano Pozo), (d. 2012)
1937 - Arthur Kopit, US, playwright (Day Whores Came Out to Play Tennis)
1937 - Jim Hickman, baseball player (Mets, Dodgers, Cubs)
1937 - Tamara Press, USSR, shot putter/discus thrower (Oly-gold-60)
1938 - Manuel Santana, tennis player (US Open 1965)
1938 - Maxim Shostakovich, Leningrad Russia, conductor (Atlanta Symph)
1938 - Merritt Ranew, baseball player
1938 - Michael Shea, director (Hanson Trust)/Queen's press sect
1938 - Peter Davies, Major-General/Director-General (RSPCA)
1938 - Philip Gordon Winsor, composer
1938 - Jean Becker, French director, screenwriter and actor
1940 - Arthur Alexander, US singer/songwriter (Lonely Just Like Me)
1940 - Taurean Blacque, actor (Neal Washington-Hill Street Blues)
1940 - William Cash, MP
1940 - Wayne A. Downing, retired United States Army general
1941 - Danny Rapp, Phila, rocker (Danny & Juniors)
1941 - Ken Berry, baseball player (White Sox, Angels, Brewers, Indians)
1941 - Win Bischoff, CEO (Schroders)
1942 - Bill Coday, US singer (You're Gonna Then Me)
1942 - Ingram Douglas Marshall, composer
1942 - Youssouf Sambo Bâ, Burkinabé politician
1943 - Bruce Raymond, jockey
1943 - James Earl Chaney, US civil rights activist
1943 - Andrzej Badeński, Polish athlete (400 metres) (d. 2008)
1943 - David Clennon, American actor
1943 - Richard Darman, American economist
1944 - Abdul Kadir, cricketer (Pakistani batsman-keeper in 4 Tests 1964-65)
1944 - Anne-Marie Pisier
1944 - Jackie Lomax, Liverpool, rocker (Is This What You Want)
1944 - Jim Abrahams, Shorewood WI, director (Hot Shots, Top Secret)
1944 - Kathy Farrer, LPGA golfer
1944 - Marie-France Pisier, Daclat Vietnam, actress (Scruples, Midnight)
1945 - Justice Laws
1945 - Pamelo Mounk'a, musician
1946 - Graham Gouldman, Manchester England, bassist (10cc-No Milk Today)
1946 - Maureen Lipman, actress (Educating Rita, Wonderworks)
1946 - Dave Mason, Worcester England, singer/songwriter (We Just Disagree)
1946 - Donovan, Scottish musician
1947 - Jay Ferguson, Burbank California, rocker (Spirit-I Got A Line on You)
1947 - Meg Foster, Conn, actress (Sunshine, Cagney & Lacey)
1947 - Paul Nicholas Young, architect
1947 - Caroline Cooney, American author
1947 - Thomas Tessier, American author
1948 - Christopher Gent, CEO (Vodafone Group)
1951 - Ron Banks, US R&B singer (Dramatics-Whatcha See is Whatcha Get)
1951 - Steve Gunderson, (Rep-R-WI, 1981- )
1952 - Sly Dunbar, Kingston Jamaica, reggae drummer (Sly & Robbie)
1952 - Kikki Danielsson, Swedish singer
1953 - Barbara Moxness, LPGA golfer
1953 - Lawrence Lau, actor (Jamie Frame-Another World)
1953 - Steve Thomas, rocker (Shooting Star)
1953 - John Diamond, English journalist (d. 2001)
1953 - Tito Santana, Mexican-American professional wrestler
1954 - Jeff Apple, Miami Florida, producer (In the Line of Fire)
1955 - Bruce Hartzler, Wash DC, canoe (alt-Olympics-96)
1955 - Chris Berman, sportscaster (ESPN)
1955 - Mark David Chapman, assassin (John Lennon)
1956 - Vladislav Listyev, Russian television anchor and journalist (d. 1995)
1957 - Phil Mahre, Yakima Wash, alpine slalom skier (Oly-gold/silver-80, 84)
1957 - Sid Vicious, [John Simon Ritchie], England, bassist (Sex Pistols)
1957 - Steve Mahre, Yakima Wash, twin alpine slalom skier (Oly-Silver-80, 84)
1958 - Ellen Ochoa, LA California, PhD/Astronaut (STS 56, 66)
1958 - Jeannette Kohlhaas, LPGA golfer
1958 - Margaret Ward, LPGA golfer
1958 - Rick Santorum, (Rep-R-Penn)
1958 - Yu Suzuki, Japanese creator of Virtua Fighter series
1959 - Dan Schayes, NBA center/forward (Miami Heat, Orlando Magic)
1960 - Bono [Paul Hewson], Dublin, Ireland, rocker (U2-Joshua Tree)
1960 - Merlene Ottey, Jamaican/Italian running star (Olympics)
1960 - Tauseef Ahmed, cricketer (leading Pakistani off-spinner of 80's)
1960 - Victoria Rowell, Portland ME, actress (Drucilla-Young & Restless)
1961 - Blyth Tait, England, NZ equestrian 3 day event (Olympics-gold-96)
1961 - Randy Cunneyworth, Etobicoke, NHL left wing (Ottawa Senators)
1961 - Teri Copley, Arcadia California, actress (Mickey-We've Got it Made)
1961 - Johanna ter Steege, Dutch actress
1962 - Garry Daley, keyboard (China Crisis-Christian)
1962 - Joey Meyer, baseball player
1962 - Robby Thompson, W Palm Beach FL, infielder (SF Giants)
1963 - Lisa M Nowak, Wash DC, Lt Cmdr USN/astronaut
1964 - Dean Spriddle, Plymouth Engld, Canadian Tour golfer (1994 Oak Valley)
1965 - Jim Schreiner, Kailua Hawaii, kayak (alt-Olympics-96)
1965 - Linda Evangelista, St Catherines Canada, model (Elite)
1965 - Mike Butcher, baseball player
1965 - Rony Seikaly, NBA center (Orlando Magic, Golden State Warriors)
1965 - Todd Kalis, NFL guard (Cin Bengals)
1966 - Jonathan Edwards, Britain, triple jumper (Olympics-gold/silver-92, 96)
1966 - Mikael Andersson, Malmo Swe, NHL left wing (Tampa Bay Lightning)
1967 - Nobuhiro Takeda, Japanese footballer and sportscaster
1967 - Scott Brison, Canadian politician
1967 - Jon Ronson, British journalist and author
1967 - Young MC, American rapper
1968 - Julie Smith, Glendora California, softball infielder (Olympics-gold-96)
1968 - Erik Palladino, American actor
1968 - Al Murray, British comedian
1969 - Curtis Whitley, NFL center (Panthers, Packers, Raiders)
1969 - Dennis Bergkamp, Amsterdam Neth, soccer player (Ajax)
1969 - Judson Mills, Purcellville Va, actor (Hutch-As The World Turns)
1969 - Martin Driever, WLAF tight end (Rhein Fire)
1969 - Pete Schourek, Austin TX, pitcher (Cin Reds)
1969 - John Scalzi, American writer
1970 - Andre Stolz, Brisbane QLD, Australasia golfer
1970 - Perry Blake, Irish singer/songwriter
1970 - Dallas Roberts, American actor
1970 - Gabriela Montero, Caracas Venezuela, Venezuelan-American pianist
1971 - Andrei Kravtsov, Queensland Australia, gymnast (Olympics-96)
1971 - Eric Stock, soccer player (NEC)
1971 - Ronnie Dixon, NFL defensive tackle (Philadelphia Eagles, NY Jets)
1971 - Adriano Giannini, Italian actor
1972 - Akili Johnson, NFL defensive back (Atlanta Falcons)
1972 - Emma Ridley, Hanpstead England, actress (Return to Oz)
1972 - Farrell Duclair, CFL fullback (Calgary Stampeders)
1972 - Stuart Carlisle, cricketer (Zimbabwe Test batsman 1995-)
1972 - Radosław Majdan, Polish footballer
1973 - Jerome Williams, NBA forward (Detroit Pistons)
1973 - Joshua Eagle, Australian tennis player
1974 - Grant Williams, NFL tackle (Seattle Seahawks)
1974 - Janet Reasons, Port Orchard Washington, Miss America-Washington (1997)
1974 - Sylvain Wiltord, French footballer
1975 - Adam Deadmarsh, Trail BC, NHL center (Colorado Avalanche, Oly-98)
1975 - Hélio Castroneves, Brazilian race car driver
1976 - Stuart Braithwaite, Scottish musician (Mogwai)
1976 - Rob Malda, American internet writer/editor (Slashdot)
1976 - Udo Mechels, Belgian singer
1976 - Aggeliki Tsiolakoudi, Greek javelin thrower
1977 - Amanda Borden, Cincinnati Ohio, gymnast (World-silv-94, Oly-gold-96)
1977 - Henri Camara, Senegalese footballer
1977 - Nick Heidfeld, German Formula 1 driver
1977 - Chas Licciardello, Australian comedian, member of The Chaser
1978 - Kenan Thompson, American actor
1979 - Lee Hyori, South Korean singer
1981 - Humberto Suazo, Chilean footballer
1982 - Daniel Harris, Australian rules footballer
1982 - Despina Caldis, Greek-Australian actress
1982 - Jeremy Gable, American playwright
1983 - Gustav Fridolin, Swedish politician
1983 - Natalia Zabala, Miss Spain 2007
1984 - Edward Mujica. Venezuelan baseball player
1985 - Ryan Getzlaf, Canadian ice hockey player
1987 - Anej Lovrečič, Slovenian football (soccer) player
1989 - Lindsey Shaw, American actress
1991 - Emily McEnroe, daughter of Tatum O'Neal & John McEnroe
1993 - Charice Pempengco, Filipino singer
1993 - Mirai Shida, Japanese actress
2000 - Shyann McClure, American actress and model
2004 - The Gosselin Sextuplets

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 10, 2013, 04:50:53 PM

This Day in History for 10th May


Famous Deaths

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Confederate General
Thomas Jackson (1863)


238 - Gaius Julius Verus Maximinus, the Thracian, Roman Emperor, murdered
995 - Boudouin, bishop of Utrecht
1290 - Duke Rudolph II of Austria (b. 1271)
1424 - Go-Kameyama, Emperor of Japan
1493 - Colin Campbell, 1st Earl of Argyll, Scottish politician
1521 - Sebastian Brant, Alsatian humanist (b. 1457)
1566 - Leonhard Fuchs, German botanist, dies at 65
1569 - Juan the Avila, Spanish minister/writer
1637 - Susanna van Baerle, Dutch wife of Constantine Huygens, dies at 37
1641 - Johan Banér, Swedish soldier (b. 1596)
1653 - John Bicker, ship builder/merchant/regent, dies at 61
1657 - Gustaf Horn, Swedish soldier and politician (b. 1592)
1691 - Colonel John Birch, English soldier (b. 1615)
1696 - Jean de La Bruyère, French writer (b. 1645)
1710 - Georg Dietrich Leiding, composer, dies at 46
1717 - John Hathorne, American magistrate (b. 1641)
1726 - Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans, English soldier (b. 1670)
1733 - Barton Booth, English actor (b. 1681)
1737 - Nakamikado Emperor of Japan (b. 1702)
1760 - Johann Christoph Graupner, composer, dies at 77
1764 - Picander, [Christian Henrici], German writer (Die Weiberprobe), dies
1770 - Charles Avison, composer, dies at 61
1774 - Louis XV, king of France (1715-74), dies at 64
1785 - Etienne Joseph Floquet, composer, dies at 36
1787 - William Watson, English physician and scientist (b. 1715)
1789 - Guillaume Gommaire Kennis, composer, dies at 72
1792 - John Stevens, American delegate to the Continental Congress
1794 - Elisabeth PMH, princess of France, beheaded at 30
1798 - George Vancouver, British explorer, (Voyage of Discovery), dies at 40
1807 - Comte de Rochambeau, French soldier (b. 1725)
1818 - Paul Revere, American patriot, dies
1820 - Matthaus Stegmayer, composer, dies at 49
1826 - Giuseppe Sigismondo, composer, dies at 86
1829 - Thomas Young, physicist/decipherer of Egyptian hierogolyphics, dies
1833 - Francois GJS Andrieux, French writer/politician, dies at 74
1849 - Katsushika Hokusai, Japanese painter, dies at 89
1859 - John Archduke of Austria, dies
1863 - Thomas Jackson, ["Stonewall"], Confederate general (Civil War), dies at 39
1864 - James Clay Rice, lawyer/Union brig-general, dies in battle at 34
1864 - Thomas Greeley Stevenson, Union brig-general, dies at about 27
1868 - Henry Bennett, American politician (b. 1808)
1869 - Wilhelm Bernhard Molique, composer, dies at 66
1880 - John Goss, composer/organist, dies at 79
1885 - Edward Stephen, composer, dies at 62
1885 - Ferdinand Hiller, composer, dies at 73
1889 - Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian satirist (b. 1826)
1897 - William Thomas Best, composer, dies at 70
1897 - Andrés Bonifacio, Filipino revolutionary leader (b. 1863)
1904 - Henry M Stanley, [John Rowlands], British explorer, dies
1909 - Johannes de Koo, journalist/playwright, dies
1910 - Stanislao Cannizzaro, Italian chemist, dies at 85
1910 - William Huggins, discoverer of stellar nature of Andromeda, dies
1915 - Albert Weisgerber, German painter/graphic artist, dies in battle
1920 - John Wesley Hyatt, inventor/plastics pioneer, dies
1923 - Vaslav Vorovsky, Russian delegate, assassinated
1924 - Adolfo Albertazzi, Italian writer (L'ave), dies at 58
1937 - William Tedmarsh, silent movie actor (b. 1876)
1938 - Percy McAlister, cricketer (8 Tests, punches Clem Hill in 1912), dies
1940 - Euphemia "Phemia" Molkenboer, Dutch author/poster artist, dies at 56
1942 - Joseph M Weber, comedian/singer (Weber & Lewis Fields), dies at 74
1943 - Andre Bertulot, Belgian resistance fighter, hanged
1943 - Arnaud/Armand Fraiteur, Belgian resistance fighter, hanged
1943 - Maurice-Albert Raskin, Belgian resistance fighter, hanged
1945 - Richard Glücks, German SS officer (b. 1889)
1950 - John G Fletcher, US poet (Burning Mountain), dies
1950 - Belle da Costa Greene, librarian, bibliographer, archivist (b. 1883)
1954 - George Hirst, cricketer (36,323 1st-class runs, 2739 wickets), dies
1955 - Tommy Burns, Canadian boxer (b. 1881)
1955 - John Radecki, Australian stained glass artist (b. 1865)
1960 - Juri Olescha, writer, dies at 61
1960 - Yury Olesha, Russian novelist (b. 1899)
1963 - Gene "Big Daddy" Lipscomb, American football player (b. 1931)
1964 - Carol Haney, dancer (Pantomime Quiz), dies at 35
1964 - Ignace Lilien, composer, dies at 66
1964 - Mikhail Larionov, Russian painter (b. 1881)
1965 - Hubertus J van Mook, Dutch min of Colonization (1942-45), dies at 70
1967 - Lorenzo Bandini, Italian racing driver, (b. 1935)
1968 - Maurie Sievers, cricket medium-pacer (Austral v England 1936-37), dies
1968 - Philippa Bevans, dies at 55
1968 - Scotty Beckett, dies at 38
1971 - Mihail Jora, composer, dies at 79
1971 - Shukichi Mitsukuri, composer, dies at 75
1973 - Jack E Leonard, Chicago Ill, comedian, dies at 62
1973 - Loren Tindall, dies of heart attack at 51
1974 - Hal Mohr, Cinematographer, Husband of Evelyn Venable (b. 1894)
1976 - George Curzon, dies at 77
1976 - Elias Aslaksen, Leader of Smith's Friends (b. 1888)
1977 - Joan Crawford, actress (Mildred Pierce), dies at 69
1979 - John Cameron Andrieu Bingham Morton, satirist (Beachcomber), dies
1979 - Louis Paul Boon, Flemish writer (Eros & the Lonely Man), dies at 67
1982 - Jean C M Picart le Doux, French designer, dies
1982 - Peter Weiss, German playwright (Marat-Sade), dies at 65
1983 - John P Strijbos, writer (Called that Bird), dies at 92
1984 - Joaquin Agostinho, Portuguese cyclist, dies at 41
1984 - Robert Moore, actor (Marshall-Diana), dies at 56
1988 - Shen Congwen, Chinese writer (b. 1902)
1989 - Woody Shaw, American jazz musician (b. 1944)
1990 - Susan Oliver, actress (Disorderly Orderly), dies of cancer at 61
1990 - Walker Percy, physician/novelist (Lancelot), dies of cancer at 73
1991 - Armand HF Boni, [Armand the Good], Flemish poet/writer, dies
1992 - Joan Merrill, vocalist, dies of a stroke at 74
1992 - John Lund, actor (Perils of Pauline), dies at 81
1992 - Liesbeth Saijers, sculptor, dies
1992 - Sylvia Sims, singer (Flower Drum Song), dies of a heart attack at 74
1994 - John Wayne Gacy, mass murderer, executed in Illinois at 52
1994 - Lucebert [J Swaanswijk], poet/cartoonist (PC Hooft 1967), dies at 69
1994 - Phyllis Flowerdew, school Reading text author, dies at 81
1995 - Harold Berens, comedian, dies at 92
1995 - Hilde Jarecki, educationist, dies at 83
1995 - Jimmy Raney, jazz guitarist, dies at 67
1997 - Joanie Weston, roller derby queen (Bay Bombers), dies at 61
1999 - Shel Silverstein, American poet and composer (b. 1930)
2000 - Dédé Fortin, Quebec singer and songwriter (Les Colocs) (b. 1962)
2000 - Jules Deschênes, Quebec superior court judge (b. 1923)
2001 - Deborah Walley, American actress (b. 1943)
2002 - Lynda Lyon Block, convicted murderer (b. 1948)
2002 - Yves Robert, French actor, screenwriter and director (b. 1920)
2003 - Milan Vukcevich, Yugoslavian chemist and chess problem composer (b. 1937)
2005 - David Wayne, American singer (Metal Church) (b. 1958)
2006 - Raizo Matsuno, Japanese politician (b. 1917)
2006 - A. M. Rosenthal, American newspaper editor (b. 1922)
2006 - Soraya, Colombian-American singer (b. 1969)
2006 - Val Guest, British film director (b. 1911)
2008 - Leyla Gencer, Turkish soprano (b. 1928)
2008 - Jessie Jacobs, Australian Actress (b. 1990)
2010 - Frank Frazetta, American artist (b. 1928)
2011 - Michael Baze, American horse racing jockey (b. 1987)
2012 - Evelyn Johnson, American pilot, dies at 102
2012 - Carroll Shelby, American automobile designer, dies at 89

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 11, 2013, 07:18:41 PM

This Day in History for 11th May


Historical Events

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Naturalist Charles Darwin                        Author and Nobel Laureate                    British war time Prime Minister
                                                                        William Faulkner                                   Winston Churchill

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Singer & Cultural Icon                              Actor/Singer Richard Harris                   Singer/Actor Frank Sinatra
Elvis Presley

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Composer                                                Pop Star Madonna                              Racing Car Driver Mario Andretti
Andrew Lloyd Webber


330 - Constantinople (Byzantium) becomes capital of Roman Empire
1189 - Emperor Frederik I Barbarossa & 100,000 crusaders depart Regensburg
1310 - Fifty-four members of the Knights Templar are burned at the stake in France for being
           heretics.
1421 - Jews are expelled from Styria Austria
1502 - Columbus begins 4th & last trip to "Indies"
1548 - Start of great fire in Brielle
1625 - Boers besiege Frankenburg estate in Upper-Austria
1647 - Peter Stuyvesant arrives in New Amsterdam.
1674 - Netherlands & Cologne sign peace treaty
1678 - French admiral Jean d'Estrees' fleet runs aground on Aves-islands, Curaaao
1689 - Battle of Bantry Bay, French & English naval battle
1690 - English troops of W Phips conquer Port Royal Nova Scotia
1745 - Battle of Fontenoy (Doornik): Austrian Succession war
1749 - British parliament accept Consolidation Act: fleet reorganization
1751 - 1st hospital founded (Pennsylvania Hospital) in the 13 Colonies in America
1752 - 1st US fire insurance policy issued (Philadelphia)
1772 - Amsterdam theater destroyed by fire, 18 killed
1784 - England & Tippu Sahib van Mysore sign peace treaty
1792 - Columbia River discovered & named by US Capt Robert Gray
1812 - Waltz introduced into English ballrooms. Most observers consider it disgusting & immoral. No
           wonder it caught on!
1812 - Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby of the House
           of Commons, London.
1813 - In Australia, William Lawson, Gregory Blaxland and William Wentworth, lead an expedition
           westwards from Sydney. Their route opens up inland Australia for continued expansion
           throughout the 19th century.
1814 - Americans defeat British at Battle of Plattsburgh
1816 - American Bible Society forms (NY)
1820 - Launch of HMS Beagle the ship that took young Charles Darwin on his scientific voyage.
1833 - "Lady-of-the-Lake" strikes iceberg & sinks in N Atlantic; kills 215
1841 - Lt. Charles Wilkes lands at Fort Nisqually in Puget Sound.
1850 - Work starts on 1st brick building in SF
1857 - Sepoy-revolt in Meerutkazerne, Delhi
1858 - Minnesota admitted as 32nd US state
1862 - Confederates scuttle CSS Virginia off Norfolk, VA
1864 - Battle of Yellow Tavern, VA (Sheridan's Raid, South Anna Bridge)
1864 - Gen J E B Stuart is mortally wounded at Yellow Tavern
1865 - Jeff Thompson surrenders
1867 - Treaty of London drawn, concerning Luxembourg
1875 - George "Charmer" Zettlein pitches the 1st 9 inning shutout
1881 - Bedrich Smetana's opera "Libusa," premieres in Prague
1887 - 13th Kentucky Derby: Isaac Lewis aboard Montrose wins in 2:39.25
1888 - 16th Preakness: F Littlefield aboard Refund wins in 2:49
1891 - The Otsu Scandal takes place.
1892 - 18th Kentucky Derby: Lonnie Clayton aboard Azra wins in 2:41½
1893 - Henri Desgrange establishes 1st bicycle-world record (35.325 km)
1894 - American RR Union strikes Pullman Sleeping Car Co
1897 - Wash Senator catcher Charlie Farrell throws out 8 attempted stealers
1900 - James J Jeffries KOs James J Corbett in 23 for heavyweight boxing title
1904 - Andrew Carnegie donates $1.5M to build a peace palace
1907 - Bank of SF incorporated
1907 - A derailment outside Lompoc, California kills 32 Shriners when their chartered train jumps off
           the tracks at a switch near Surf Depot.
1910 - Montana's Glacier National Park forms
1911 - The United States becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1912 - 38th Kentucky Derby: Carol H Shilling aboard Worth wins in 2:09.4
1916 - Einstein's Theory of General Relativity presented
1917 - Britain grants Royal Letters Patent to New Zealand
1918 - 44th Kentucky Derby: William Knapp on Exterminator wins in 2:10.8
1919 - Cincinnati Reds Hod Eller no-hits St Louis Cards, 6-0
1919 - Yanks' Jack Quinn & Senators' Walter Johnson, 12 inning 0-0 tie
1921 - Tel Aviv is 1st all Jewish municipality
1923 - 10 HRs hit in Phillies 20-14 victory over St Louis Cards
1924 - Cartel des Gauches wins French parliamentary election
1924 - Pulitzer Prize awarded to Robert Frost (New Hampshire)
1924 - Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging the two companies.
1925 - Communist Party of Holland splits
1925 - Kara-Kalpak Autonomous Region constituted in RSFSR
1926 - Airship Norge leaves Spitsbergen for 1st air crossing of Arctic O
1927 - Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences forms
1927 - Belgium beats England 9-1 in soccer
1927 - Louis B Mayer forms Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
1928 - 54th Kentucky Derby: Chick Lang aboard Reigh Count wins in 2:10.4
1928 - 54th Preakness: Raymond Sonny Workman aboard Victorian wins in 2:00.2
1928 - 63rd British Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 292 at Royal St George's
1928 - General Electric opens 1st TV-station (Schenectady, NY)
1929 - 1st regularly scheduled TV broadcasts (3 nights per week)
1929 - Dr Annie Webb Blanton forms Delta Kappa Gamma Society in Austin Tx
1931 - Credit-Anstalt, Austria's largest bank, fails beginning financial collapse of Central Europe
1935 - 61st Preakness: Willie Saunders aboard Omaha wins in 1:58.4
1940 - 66th Preakness: Fred A Smith aboard Bimelech wins in 1:58.6
1940 - NY World's Fair reopens
1941 - 1st Messerschmidt 109F shot down above England
1942 - Japanese troops conquer Kalewa
1942 - William Faulkner's collections of short stories, Go Down, Moses, is published.
1943 - Hermann Goering-division in Tunisia surrenders
1943 - US 7th div lands on Attu, Aleutian, (1st US territory recaptured)
1944 - Opposition group surprise attack post office Washer
1944 - Slomp Resistance fighter (Frits de Zwerver) freed from Arnhem prison
1945 - US marines conquer Awatsha Draw Okinawa
1946 - 1st night game at Boston Braves Field (Giants 5, Braves 1)
1946 - 72nd Preakness: Warren Mehrtens aboard Assault wins in 2:01.4
1946 - UMNO is created.
1947 - BF Goodrich announced the development of tubeless tire (Akron Ohio)
1947 - Laos accepts constitution for parliamentary democracy
1948 - Haganah takes control of Safed & port of Haifa
1948 - Luigi Einaudi elected president of Italy
1949 - 1st Polaroid camera sold $89.95 (NYC)
1949 - By a vote of 37-12, Israel becomes 59th member of UN
1949 - Siam renames itself Thailand
1950 - Belgium mine disaster at Borinage, 39 die
1950 - Eugene Ionesco's "La Cantatrice Chauve," premieres in Paris
1951 - Jay Forrester patents computer core memory
1953 - Tornado kills 114 in Waco Texas ($39M damage)
1953 - Winston Churchill criticizes John Foster Dulles domino theory
1955 - Israel attacks Gaza
1956 - Pinky Lee Show, last airs on NBC-TV
1957 - Gabriel Paris forms government of Colombia
1958 - Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Lawton Golf Open
1958 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
1958 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island
1959 - "Kookie, Kookie Lend Me Your Comb" by Byrnes & Connie Stevens hits #4
1959 - Elvis Presley's 1st entry on UK charts with "Heartbreak Hotel"
1959 - Rodgers & Barer's musical "Once upon a mattress," premieres in NYC
1959 - Yankee catcher Yogi Berra's errorless streak of 148 games ends
1960 - French liner "France" launched
1960 - Israeli soldiers capture Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires
1960 - The first contraceptive pill is made available on the market.
1962 - Antonio Segni becomes president of Italy
1962 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1962 - US sends troops to Thailand
1963 - "Puff (The Magic Dragon)" by Peter, Paul & Mary hits #2
1963 - LA Dodger Sandy Koufax 2nd no-hitter beats NY Giants, 8-0
1963 - Racial bomb attacks in Birmingham Alabama
1965 - "Flora, the Red Menace" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 87 performances
1965 - 1st of 2 cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000 (India)
1965 - Bangladesh windstorm kills 17,000
1965 - Ellis Island added to Statue of Liberty National monument
1965 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1965 - West Indies becomes 1st holders of the Frank Worrell Cricket Trophy
1966 - Real Madrid wins 11th Europe Cup I
1967 - "Sing, Israel Sing" opens at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC for 14 perfs
1967 - 100,000,000th US phone connected
1967 - Great Britain, Ireland & Denmark apply for EG membership
1968 - Richard Harris releases "MacArthur Park"
1968 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens sweep St Louis Blues in 4 games
1968 - Students & police battle in Paris, 100s injured
1968 - The Toronto Transit Commission opens the largest expansion of its Bloor-Danforth Line,
           going to Scarborough in the east, and Etobicoke in the west.
1969 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
1969 - Monty Python comedy troupe forms
1970 - Henry Marrow is murdered in a violent racially-motivated crime in Oxford, North Carolina.
1971 - Cleveland's Steve Dunning becomes last AL pitcher to hit grand slam
1972 - Giants trade Willie Mays to Mets for pitcher Charlie Williams & cash
1972 - John Lennon says his phone is tapped by FBI on Dick Cavett Show
1972 - Stanley Cup: Boston Bruins beat NY Rangers, 4 games to 2
1972 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1973 - Dutch government of Uyl forms
1973 - Citing government misconduct, Daniel Ellsberg has his charges for his involvement in releasing
           the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times dismissed.
1974 - "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" by Frank Sinatra hits #83
1974 - "Tubular Bells" by Mike Oldfield hits #7
1974 - Steely Dan releases "Rikki Don't Lose that Number"
1975 - Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Lady Tara Golf Classic
1975 - Flyers 1-Isles 2-Semifinals-Series tied at 3 games
1975 - Israel signs an agreement with European Economic Market
1976 - Emmy 3rd Daytime Award presentation
1976 - Last broadcast of "Marcus Welby, MD" on ABC-TV
1977 - Hamburger SV wins 17th soccer Europe Cup II
1977 - Ted Turner manages an Atlanta Braves game
1978 - Margaret A Brewer is 1st female general in the US Marine Corps
1980 - Pam Higgins wins LPGA Lady Michelob Golf Tournament
1980 - Pete Rose, 39, steals second, third, & home in one inning for Phillies
1981 - Andrew Lloyd Webber/TS Eliot's musical "Cats," premieres in London
1981 - Kim Carnes' "Bette Davis Eyes" hits #1, stay there 9 weeks
1982 - Canucks 4-Isles 6-Stanley Cup-Isles hold 2-0 lead
1983 - "Dance a Little Closer" opens & closes at Minskoff Theater NYC
1983 - Aberdeen wins 23rd Europe Cup II
1983 - Comet C/1983 H1 (IRAS-Araki-Alcock) approaches 0.0312 AUs of Earth
1984 - Johan Cruijff quits soccer
1984 - Tigers set best 30 game start record (26-4)
1984 - Transit of Earth as seen on Mars
1985 - 40 die and 150 injured in fire at Bradford City football ground, England
1985 - Booby trap bomb kills 86 people in India
1985 - Madonna's "Crazy For You," single goes #1
1985 - Pope John Paul II arrives in Netherlands
1985 - Dave Concepcion becomes 4th Cin Red teammate to get 2,000 hits, others include Pete Rose,
          Tony Perez & Cesar Cedeno
1986 - Muffin Spencer-Devlin wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic
1987 - 1st heart-lung transplant take place (Baltimore)
1987 - Corazon Aquino is elected president in the Philippines
1988 - France performs nuclear test
1988 - KV Mechelen wins 28th Europe Cup II
1988 - Mario Andretti records fastest Indianapolis 500 lap (221.565 mph)
1989 - 217th & final episode of "Dynasty" is aired
1989 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1989 - Kenya announces worldwide ban on ivory to preserve its elephant herds
1989 - President Bush orders nearly 2,000 troops to Panama
1990 - NY Yankees trade Dave Winfield to Angels for Mike Witt
1993 - 28th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks wins
1993 - Paramaribo Suriname TV studio destroyed by fire
1994 - "Grease," opens at Eugene O' Neill Theater NYC for 1,503 performances
1994 - "Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult," released in France
1994 - 6 white racists sentenced to death in South Africa
1994 - Inter Milan wins 23rd UEFA Cup
1995 - In New York City, more than 170 countries decide to extend the Nuclear Nonproliferation
          Treaty indefinitely and without conditions.
1996 - Florida Marlin Al Leiter no hits Colo Rockies, 11-0
1996 - Valujet DC-9 crashes in Miami, 109 die
1997 - "Play On!" closes at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC after 61 performances
1997 - NY Mets C Everett & Butch Huskey are 9th to hit consecutive pinch HRs
1997 - Paine Webber Senior Golf Invitational
1997 - Sara Lee LPGA Classic
1997 - Scott McCarron wins Bellsouth Golf Classic
1997 - Terry-Jo Myers wins LPGA Sara Lee Classic
1997 - Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov 3.5-2.5 in chess
1998 - India conducts three underground nuclear tests in Pokhran, including a thermonuclear device.
2002 - Last performance of the musical Cats in London's West End.
2002 - Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet of the Netherlands unveils the Man With Two Hats
           monument in Ottawa and Apeldoorn (May 2), 2000, symbolically linking both the Netherlands
           and Canada for their assistance throughout the Second World War.
2007 - Pope Benedict XVI canonizes the first Brazilian-born saint, Frei Galvão.
2009 - An American soldier in Iraq opened fire on a counseling center at Camp Liberty in Bagdhad,
           leaving 5 other US soldiers dead and 3 soldiers wounded.
2012 - Chinese scientists break world record by transferring photons over 97 kilometers using
           quantum teleportation

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 11, 2013, 07:21:01 PM

This Day in History for 11th May


Famous Weddings

1970 - Sammy Davis Jr weds Altovise
1996 - Fashion designer Cynthia Rowley (39) weds retail store designer Bill Keenan (43) at
           Manhattan City Hall in New York
2001 - Actress Suzanne Pleshette (64) weds actor Tom Poston (79) at Manhattan's City Hall

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 11, 2013, 07:30:14 PM

This Day in History for 11th May


Birthdays

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Painter Salvador Dali (1904)                Actress Natasha Richardson (1963)       Actor & Singer Holly Valance (1983)


1568 - Christian I, ruler of Anhalt-Bernburg (Battle of White Mountain)
1571 - Niwa Nagashige, Japanese warlord (d. 1637)
1654 - Cornelis van Alkemade, Dutch historian
1720 - Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen, German adventurer (d. 1797)
1722 - Peter Camper, Leyden Holland, anatomist/professor (Amsterdam)
1731 - Johann Gottfried Seyfert, composer
1733 - Victoire of France, daughter of king Louis XV (d. 1799)
1752 - Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German anthropologist (d. 1840)
1763 - János Batsányi, Hungarian poet (d. 1845)
1772 - Henri-Jean Rigel, composer
1791 - Jan Vaclav Hugo Vorisek, composer
1799 - John Lowell, American philanthropist (d. 1836)
1801 - Henri Labrouste, French architect (d. 1875)
1807 - Ira Aldridge, Great 19th century black Shakespearian actor (Othello)
1811 - Chang & Eng Bunker, Chinese Siamese twins
1811 - Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1893)
1817 - Fanny Cerrito, Italian ballet dancer (d. 1909)
1821 - [Carlos] Charles John Stolbrand, Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
1823 - Alfred Stevens, Belgian painter
1824 - Jean-Léon Gérôme, French painter and sculptor (d. 1904)
1827 - Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French sculptor and painter (d. 1875)
1830 - John Converse Starkweather, Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
1835 - Kārlis Baumanis, Latvian composer (d. 1905)
1838 - Walter Goodman, British painter, illustrator and author (d. 1912)
1840 - Filippo Capocci, composer
1841 - Ernst von Possart, German actor/stage manager/reciter
1852 - Charles Warren Fairbanks, (R) 26th US VP (1905-09)
1854 - John Blackham, cricketer (Australia's 1st wicketkeeper)
1854 - Ottmar Mergenthaler, Hachtel Germany, inventor (linotype)
1855 - Anatol Konstantinovich Lyadov, Russian composer (Bewitched Lake)
1858 - Carl Hauptmann, writer
1861 - Frederick Russell Burnham, father of the international scouting movement (d. 1947)
1869 - Francisco Lacerda, composer
1871 - Frank Schlesinger, American astronomer (d. 1943)
1875 - Harriet Quimby, American aviator (d. 1912)
1878 - Jan Machiel Reyskens, oldest male resident of the Netherlands. Died 1990 aged 111.
1881 - Jan van Gilse, composer/resistance fighter (Frau Helga von Staveren)
1881 - Pascual Rogatis, composer
1881 - Al Cabrera, Spanish-born Cuban baseball player (d. 1964)
1881 - Theodore von Kármán, Hungarian physicist (d. 1963)
1882 - Joseph Marx, Austrian composer/critic
1888 - Irving Berlin, [Isadore Balin], Temum Siberia, composer (White Xmas)
1888 - P A J Losecaat Vermeer, leader of Dutch High Council
1888 - Willis A. Lee, World War II U.S. naval admiral (d. 1945)
1890 - Woodall Rodgers, mayor of Dallas, Texas (d. 1961)
1891 - Henry Morgenthau Jr, US Secretary of Treasury (1934-45)
1892 - Margaret Rutherford, England, actress (Murder Most Foul)
1894 - Anton A Mussert, Dutch nazi leader (NSB)
1894 - Florimond Cornellie, Belgium, yachting (Olympic-gold-1920)
1894 - Martha Graham, Allegheny Penn, choreographer (Appalachian Spring)
1895 - Jan Parandowski, writer
1895 - William Grant Still, Woodville Mississippi, composer (Afro-American)
1896 - Josip Slavenski, composer
1896 - Philippo de Pisis, Italian painter
1897 - Izak W van der Merwe, [Boerneef], S Afr writer (Tweetalige Woordeboek)
1897 - Robert E. Gross, American businessman (d. 1961)
1899 - Paulino Masip, Spanish playwright (d. 1963)
1901 - Mari Sandoz, Nebraska, author (Cheyenne Autumn)
1902 - Kaarlo Sarkia, Finnish poet (Unen Kaivo)
1903 - Charlie Gehringer, Detroit Tigers' 2nd baseman (1924-42)
1904 - Guus Weitzel, Dutch radio-announcer
1904 - Salvador Dali, Figueras Spain, surrealist artist (Crucifixion)
1905 - Marjorie Sykes, peace campaigner
1906 - Kent Taylor, [Louis Weiss], Iowa, actor (Boston Blackie, Rough Riders)
1907 - Rose Ausländer, German poet (d. 1988)
1907 - Rip Sewell, American baseball player (d. 1989)
1909 - Herbert Murrill, composer
1910 - Jorge Croner de Vasconcelos, composer
1911 - Doodles Weaver, LA California, comedian (Spike Jones & City Slickers)
1911 - Edgar Beck, president (John Mowlem)
1911 - Roy James Alfred Kaulback, soldier
1911 - Mitchell Sharp, Canadian politician (d. 2004)
1912 - Foster Brooks, Louisville Ky, comedian/actor (Miles-Mork & Mindy)
1912 - Phil Silvers, Bkln NY, comedian (Sgt Bilko-Phil Silvers Show)
1913 - Clare Grundman, composer
1913 - Tutti Camarata, Glen Ridge NJ, orchestra leader (Vic Damone Show)
1913 - Robert Jungk, Austrian publicist (d. 1994)
1914 - Haroun Tazieff, French volcanologist (d. 1998)
1916 - C J Cela, writer
1916 - Camilo Jose Cela, Spain, author (La Colmena-1951)
1917 - Hon Montague Woodhouse, Greek resistance organiser
1918 - Richard P Feynman, physicist (Feynman-diagrams/Nobel prize 1965)
1918 - Robert Hunt, CEO (Dowty Group)
1920 - Beryl Bryden, jazz singer
1920 - Denver Pyle, Bethune Colo, actor (Dukes of Hazzard, Tammy, Doris Day)
1921 - Ian Percival, QC/MP
1921 - Hildegard Hamm-Brücher, German politician
1922 - Nestor Chylak, American baseball umpire (d. 1992)
1922 - Ameurfina Melencio-Herrera, Filipino Supreme Court jurist
1923 - Joan Moriarty, Brigadier matron-in-chief/dir (Army Nursing Services)
1923 - Lord Gordon "Gordy" White, English industrialist/multi-millionaire
1923 - Vincent Gordon Lindsay White, tycoon
1924 - Antony Hewish, radio astronomer
1924 - Jackie Milburn, English soccer star (Newcastle United)
1924 - Eugene Dynkin, Russian mathematician
1925 - Rhodes Boyson, MP
1925 - Edward J. King, 66th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 2006)
1926 - Ernest Harrison, CEO (Racal Electronics)
1926 - Frank Thring, Melbourne Australia, actor (El Cid, Ben-Hur)
1927 - Justice Hollis
1927 - Mort Sahl, Montreal, comedian/political satirist/beatnik (Big Party)
1927 - Zilpha Keatly Snyder, US, sci-fi author (Headless Cupid)
1927 - Gene Savoy, American author, explorer, scholar and cleric (d. 2007)
1928 - Yaacov Agam, Israeli sculptor
1928 - Brother Andrew, Dutch missionary
1929 - Edward Anson, British vice-admiral
1930 - M J Hamlin, Principal/Vice-Chancellor (Dundee University)
1930 - Stanley L Elkin, Bkln NY, writer/professor (Living End)
1930 - Edsger Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist (d. 2002)
1930 - Bud Ekins, American stuntman (d. 2007)
1930 - William Carey, Baltimore, Maryland, American businessman and philanthropist (W.P. Carey &
           Co. LLC) (d. 2012)
1931 - Stephen Smalley, rev/dean (Chester)
1932 - Henriette Santer, clinical Psychologist
1932 - Valentino [Garavani], Milan Italy, fashion designer
1933 - Louis Farrakhan, minister (black islam nation, million man march)
1934 - James M Jeffords, (Rep-R-VT, 1975- )
1935 - Doug McClure, Glendale California, actor (Checkmate, Virginian, Roots)
1935 - Francisco Umbral, Spanish novelist (d. 2007)
1936 - Ulrich Berkes, writer
1936 - Carla Bley, American musician and composer
1937 - David Allan, cricketer (West Indian wicketkeeper 1962-66)
1938 - Carla Bley, [Carla Borg], Oakland, musician (Escalator Over the Hill)
1938 - Harvey Sollberger, Cedar Rapids Ia, flutist/composer (2 Oboes Troping)
1939 - Milt Pappas, baseball pitcher
1939 - Carlos Lyra, Brazilian musician
1940 - Ronald Anthony Pellegrino, composer
1940 - Juan Downey, Chilean video artist (d. 1993)
1941 - Eric Burdon, Walker-on-Tyne England, rock vocalist (Animals-House of the Rising Sun)
1941 - Ian Redpath, cricketer (dependable Australian opening batsman 1964-76)
1941 - Graham Miles, English snooker player
1942 - Rachel Billington, British writer
1943 - Arnie Satin, rocker
1943 - George Edwards, composer
1943 - Les Chadwick, bassist (Gerry & Pacemakers-Ferry Crossed the Mersy)
1943 - Nancy Greene, Canada, giant slalom (Olympic-gold-1968)
1943 - Juliet Harmer, English actress
1944 - John Benaud, cricketer (brother of Richie, Australian bat 1972-73)
1946 - Plume Latraverse, Quebec singer and musician
1947 - Claude "Butch" Hudson Trucks, drummer (Allman Brothers)
1948 - Alfred Matt, Austria, slalom (Olympic-bronze-1968)
1948 - Nirj Deva, Sri Lankan-British politician
1948 - Shigeru Izumiya, Japanese folk musician
1950 - Dane Iorg, baseball player (Philles, Cards)
1950 - Jeremy Paxman, broadcaster
1951 - Mike Sleman, rugby player
1952 - Darrow Igus, Newark NJ, comedian (Fridays, Roll Out)
1952 - Shohreh Aghdashloo, Iranian actress
1952 - Frances Fisher, English-born actress
1952 - Mike Lupica, American sports journalist
1952 - Renaud Séchan, French composer
1952 - Warren Littlefield, American television executive
1953 - Boyd Gaines, Atlanta Ga, actor (Mark-One Day at a Time, Sure Thing)
1953 - David Gest, American television producer
1954 - Edgar Riley Jr, rocker (Axe K)
1954 - Judith Weir, composer
1954 - John Gregory, English football manager
1954 - Lubomir Stoykov, Bulgarian journalist and broadcaster
1955 - Jos Haagmans, Dutch singer (Frank Boeijen Group)
1955 - Mark Herndon, Springfield Mass, country drummer (Alabama-Take Me Down)
1955 - John DeStefano, Jr., American politician
1956 - Theresa Burke, Canadian journalist
1956 - Alex Lester, British broadcaster
1957 - Luca Urbani, Rome Italy, MD/astronaut (STS 78-alt)
1958 - Peter Antonie, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1958 - Walt Terrell, baseball player
1959 - Martha Quinn, Albany NY, MTV VJ (Tracey-Bradys)
1960 - Jorgen Schult, German FR, discus thrower (world record 1986)
1961 - Cecile Licad, Manila Philippines, pianist (Leventritt Award-1981)
1961 - Diana Lee[-Hsu], Seattle Wa, playmate (May, 1988)
1962 - Steve Bono, NFL quarterback (KC Chiefs, GB Packers-Superbowl 31)
1963 - Blair Piercy, Vancouver, Canadian Tour golfer (1992 Cordova Bay Open)
1963 - Mark Breland, Bkln NY, welterweight boxer (Olympic-gold-1984)
1963 - Natasha Richardson, London England, actress (Gothic, Handmaid's Tale)
1963 - Gunilla Carlsson, Swedish politician
1963 - Masatoshi Hamada, Japanese comedian
1963 - Roark Critchlow, actor
1964 - Bobby Witt, Arlington VA, pitcher (Texas Rangers)
1964 - Drew Story, San Clemente California, canoe (alt-Olympics-96)
1964 - Floyd Youmans, baseball pitcher (Expos)
1964 - Jeff Sellers, baseball pitcher (Red Sox)
1964 - John Parrott, snooker player
1964 - Katie Wagner, daughter of Robert Wagner/model/guest VJ (MTV)
1965 - Greg Dulli, American musician
1965 - Monsour del Rosario, Filipino martial artist and actor
1966 - Chris Mohr, NFL punter (Buffalo Bills)
1966 - Trenidad Hubbard, Chicago IL, outfielder (Colorado Rockies)
1966 - Christoph Schneider, German drummer (Rammstein)
1967 - Eric Young, New Brunswick NJ, infielder (Colorado Rockies)
1967 - Jamie Brayshaw, cricketer (son of Ian WA & SA right-handed batsman)
1967 - Kenneth Gould, Chic Ill, Welterweight boxer (Olympic-bronze-1988)
1968 - Jeffrey Donovan, American actor
1969 - Amy Legacki, Terrytown NY, 10k runner
1970 - Dean Capobianco, Australian 200m/400m (Olympics-92, 96)
1970 - Michael Joubert, Australian 400m/800m (Olympics-96)
1970 - Nicky Katt, American actor
1970 - Glenn Hugill, British television presenter and producer
1971 - Corey Fuller, NFL cornerback (Minnesota Vikings)
1971 - Yo Murphy, WLAF receiver (Scottish Claymores)
1972 - Andrew Bonhomme, Melbourne VIC, Australasia golfer
1972 - Hicham El-Mashtoub, NFL center (Houston Oilers)
1972 - Stefen Reid, CFL linebacker (Montreal Alouettes)
1972 - Anita Hegh, Australian actress
1973 - Dean Pullar, Cobram Victoria Australia, diver (Olympics-96)
1973 - Michelle Venturella, US softball infielder (Olympics-gold-96)
1973 - Patrick Sapp, NFL offensive linebacker (San Diego Chargers)
1973 - James Haven, American actor
1974 - Roger Juffing, soccer player (Fortuna Sittard
1974 - Stanley Gene, Papua New Guinean rugby league footballer
1974 - Billy Kidman, American professional wrestler
1974 - Benoît Magimel, French actor
1974 - Darren Ward, Welsh footballer
1977 - Janne Ahonen, Finnish ski jumper
1977 - Gonzalo Colsa, Spanish footballer
1977 - Pablo García, Uruguayan footballer
1977 - Victor Matfield, South African rugby union footballer
1977 - Matthew Newton, Australian actor
1978 - Perttu Kivilaakso, Finnish Cellist from the band Apocalyptica
1978 - Laetitia Casta, French supermodel and actress
1979 - Erin Lang, Canadian musician
1980 - Matthew Lawrence, Phila, actor (Dynasty, Matthew-Brotherly Love)
1981 - Austin O'Brien, actor (Apollo 13, My Girl 2, Lawnmower Man)
1981 - Lauren Jackson, Australian basketball player
1981 - Daniel Ortmeier, American baseball player
1982 - Jonathan Jackson, Orlando Fla, actor (Lucky-General Hospital)
1982 - Andrew Walter, American football player
1983 - Frédéric Xhonneux, Belgian decathlete
1983 - Matt Leinart, American football player
1983 - Holly Valance, Melbourne, Victoria, Australian actress (Felicity "Flick" Scully-Neighbours) and
           singer
1984 - Andres Iniesta, Spanish football player
1985 - Sifow (Shiho Fujita), Japanese pop star and business woman
1986 - Abou Diaby, French footballer
1986 - Ronny, Brazilian footballer
1986 - Manuel "Grubby" Schenkhuizen, Dutch Professional Gamer
1987 - Louis Murphy, American college football player
1987 - Monica Roşu, Romanian gymnast
1987 - Justin King, American football player
1989 - Giovani dos Santos, Mexican footballer
1989 - Ace Hood, American rapper

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 11, 2013, 07:35:31 PM

This Day in History for 11th May


Famous Deaths

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British Prime Minister                         Reggae Musician Bob Marley (1981)          Author Douglas Adams (2001)
(The Great Commoner)
William Pitt the Elder (1778)


1304 - Mahmud Ghazan, Mongol ruler (b. 1271)
1610 - Matteo Ricci, Italian missionary (China), dies
1631 - Christoph Buel, composer, dies at 57
1672 - Charles Seton, 2nd Earl of Dunfermline, English royalist (b. 1615)
1708 - Jules Hardouin Mansart, French architect (b. 1646)
1723 - Jean Galbert de Campistron, French dramatist (b. 1656)
1742 - Francesco Stradivari, Ital violin maker/son of Antonius, dies at 70
1772 - Joseph Kerckhoff, Limburg surgeon/robber captain, hanged
1777 - George Pigot, Baron Pigot, British governor of Madras (b. 1719)
1778 - William Pitt Sr, English premier (1756-61, 66-68), dies at 69
1779 - John Heart, US farmer (signed Decl of Independence), dies at about 68
1812 - Spencer Perceval, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (assassinated) (b. 1762)
1819 - Caspar Furstenau, composer, dies at 47
1845 - Karoly Filtsch, composer, dies at 14
1848 - Tom Cribb, English boxer (b. 1781)
1849 - Carl Otto Ehrenfried Nicolai, composer and conductor, dies at 38 of a stroke
1849 - Jeanne Françoise Julie Adélaïde Récamier, French socialite (b. 1777)
1857 - E Francois Vidocq, French criminalogist/police officer, dies at 81
1871 - John Herschel, cataloguer of southern hemisphere stars, dies at 79
1881 - Henri-Frederic Amiel, Swiss/French writer (Journal Intime), dies at 59
1885 - Ferdinand Hiller, German pianist/composer/conductor, dies at 73
1887 - Jean Baptiste Boussingault, French chemist (b. 1802)
1891 - A. E. Becquerel, French physicist (b. 1820)
1895 - Feliks Jaronski, composer, dies at 71
1907 - John Albert Delany, composer, dies at 54
1916 - Karl Schwarzschild, German astronomer (s-effect), dies
1916 - Max Reger, composer, dies at 43
1916 - Max [Johann BJM] Reger, German composer/pianist/organist, dies at 43
1917 - Otto Adolf Klauwell, composer, dies at 66
1920 - William D Howells, US author (A Woman's Reason), dies at 83
1927 - Henry Martyn Robert, (Robert's Rules of Order), dies at 90
1927 - Juan Gris, Spanish cubist painter, dies at 40
1929 - Jozef Murgaš, Slovak inventor (b. 1864)
1934 - Orest Khvolson, Russian physicist (b. 1852)
1935 - Edward H Thompson, US archaeologist (Mayan civilization), dies at 78
1937 - Viliam Figus, composer, dies at 62
1938 - Arnold Sauwen, Flemish poet (Hours of Solitude), dies at 81
1939 - Evgenii Miller, Russian counter-revolutionary (b. 1867)
1944 - Henk Hos, resistance fighter, executed at 37
1947 - Ture Rangstrom, composer, dies at 62
1949 - Adrianus PHA de Kleyn, throat/nose/otologist (ear doctor), dies at 65
1952 - Giovanni Tebaldini, composer, dies at 87
1953 - Jean Adair, dies at 80
1955 - G L Jessop, cricketer (match-winning batsman, brilliant field), dies
1956 - Walter S Adams, US astronomer/director of Mount Wilson, dies at 79
1960 - John D Rockefeller Jr, philanthropist, dies at 86
1963 - Herbert Spencer Gasser, American physiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1888)
1965 - Ludovicus H "Lode" Baekelmans, Flemish playwright, dies at 86
1965 - Roger Vailland, French author, dies at 57
1970 - Johnny Hodges, American musician (b. 1906)
1973 - Grigory M Kosinzev, Russian director, dies
1973 - Lex Barker, American actor (b. 1919)
1976 - Alvar Aalto, architect (Finlandia House), dies at 78
1976 - Camille Schmit, composer, dies at 68
1976 - J Anaya, Bolivian military/ambassador to France, murdered
1978 - John Clinge Doorenbos, Dutch journalist/poet, dies at 93
1979 - Joan Chandler, dies at 55
1979 - Lester Raymond Flatt, musician (Ballad of Jed Clampett), dies at 64
1981 - Bob Marley, reggae singer, dies of brain & lung cancer at 36
1981 - Hoyt J Fuller, editor (1st World magazine), dies at 57
1982 - Leigh Snowden, actress (Hot Rod Rumble), dies at 51 of cancer
1982 - Piet van Egmond, organist/conductor, dies at 70
1983 - Zenna [Chlarson] Henderson, author (Anything Box), dies at 65
1985 - Chester Gould, cartoonist (Dick Tracy), dies at 84
1985 - Garmt Stuiveling, literatrary (Ego & Echo), dies at 77
1985 - Jorja Curtright, actor (Whistle Stop), dies of a heart attack
1985 - Samuel Frith, English co-founder of soccer team (Bradford City), dies
1986 - Henry P. McIlhenny, American philanthropist (b. 1910)
1986 - Fritz Pollard, American football player (b. 1894)
1988 - H A R (Kim) Philby, British double agent, dies
1991 - Filip J Field, dies at 67
1991 - Ho Dam, foreign minister North-Korea (1970-83), dies
1992 - Carlos Herrera, drink inventor (Margarita), dies at 90
1992 - Elizabeth McDonald, inventor (Spic & Span), dies at 98
1994 - Alfred James Broomhall, methodist Missionary, dies at 82
1994 - Danny Overbea, blues singer/guitarist, dies at 68
1994 - Leonard Friedman, violinist, dies at 63
1994 - Lewis B Puller, US writer (Pulitzer 1992), commits suicide at 48
1994 - Timothy Carey, dies of stroke at 64
1995 - Arthur Lubin, director (Francis The Talking Mule, Mr Ed), dies at 96
1995 - David Avidan, poet/writer, dies at 62
1995 - William John Phillips, actor (Nothing but a Man), dies at 80
1996 - Bruce Boyce, singer/teacher, dies at 85
1996 - Joan Thirkettle, journalist, dies at 48
1996 - Malcolm MacEwen, writer, dies at 84
1996 - Nnamdi Azikiwe, Pres of Nigeria (1963-66), dies
1996 - Walter Hyatt, #Musician, dies at 46
1996 - Ademir Marques de Menezes, Brazilian footballer (b. 1922)
1997 - Brenda Carlin, TV producer/wife of comedian George Carlin, dies at 57
2000 - Paula Wessely, Austrian actress (b. 1907)
2001 - Douglas Adams, English author (b. 1952)
2002 - Joseph Bonanno, Italian-born gangster (b. 1905)
2002 - Renaude Lapointe, French Canadian journalist and senator (b. 1912)
2003 - Noel Redding, English bassist (The Jimi Hendrix Experience) (b. 1945)
2004 - John Whitehead, American singer (McFadden & Whitehead) (b. 1949)
2004 - Mick Doyle, Irish rugby union footballer and coach
2005 - Michalis Genitsaris, Greek rebetiko singer and composer (b. 1917)
2006 - Floyd Patterson, American boxer (b. 1935)
2006 - Frankie Thomas, American actor (b. 1921)
2006 - Yossi Banai, Israeli singer (b. 1932)
2007 - Malietoa Tanumafili II, Sovereign Ruler of Samoa (b. 1913)
2007 - Bernard Gordon, blacklisted American author (b. 1918)
2008 - Dottie Rambo, American gospel singer (b. 1934)
2008 - John Rutsey, Canadian drummer, formerly for Canadian progressive rock band Rush (b.1953)
2008 - Bruno Neves, portuguese cyclist that died in competition (b.1981)
2010 - Frank Frazetta, American fantasy and science fiction artist (b. 1928)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 12, 2013, 01:52:43 PM

This Day in History for 12th May


Historical Events

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Naturalist Charles Darwin                      Playwright George Bernard Shaw         Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini

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British war time Prime Minister                      Author Henry Miller                         Singer-Songwriter Bob Dylan
Winston Churchill

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Pop Singer & Beatle                                  264th Pope John Paul II                         Anti-apartheid activist/
Paul McCartney                                                                                                        South African President
                                                                                                                                Nelson Mandela

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Singer-Songwriter Sinead O'Connor


254 - Stephan I replaces Lucius I as Catholic Pope
919 - Duke Henry of Saxon becomes king Henry I of Oostfrankische rich
1082 - Battle at Mailberg: Vratislav II of Bohemia beats Leopold II of Austr
1215 - English barons serve ultimatum on king John without Country
1328 - Holy Roman Emperor Louis IV and assembly of priests select P Rainalducci as anti-Pope
           Nicolaas V
1328 - Antipope Nicholas V, a claimant to the papacy, is consecrated in Rome by the Bishop of
           Venice.
1459 - Sun City India founded by Rao Jodhpur
1525 - Battle at Biblingen: Zwabische Union beats rebel Wurttembergse farmers
1534 - Wurttemberg becomes Lutherian
1551 - San Marcos University in Lima Peru, opens
1588 - Catholic League under duke Henri de Guise occupies Paris
1604 - Spanish garrison of Aardenburg surrenders to Mauritius
1640 - Uprising against Spanish king Philip IV
1689 - England & Netherlands form League of Augsburg
1695 - English king Willem III departs to Netherlands
1701 - Drenthe adopts Gregorian calendar (yesterday is 4/29/1701)
1733 - Maria Theresa crowned queen of Bohemia in Prague
1776 - Turgot, French minister of Finance, resigns
1777 - 1st ice cream advertisement (Philip Lenzi-NY Gazette)
1780 - British troops occupy Charleston, South Carolina (Revolutionary War)
1789 - Society of St Tammany is formed by Revolutionary War soldiers. It later becomes an infamous
           group of NYC political bosses
1792 - Toilet that flushes itself at regular intervals is patented
1797 - First Coalition: Napoleon I of France conquers Venice.
1821 - The first big battle of the Greek War of Independence against the Turks occurs in Valtetsi.
1832 - Gaetano Donizetti's opera "L'elisir d'amore," premieres in Milan
1835 - Charles Darwin visits copper mines in North Chile
1849 - Willem Alexander PFL crowned king Willem III in Amsterdam
1862 - Federal troops occupies Baton Rouge Louisiana
1863 - Battle of Raymond, Miss
1864 - Battle of Drewry's Bluff, VA (Ft Darling)
1864 - Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia
1864 - Battle of Todd's Tavern, VA (Sheridan's Raid)
1864 - Butler attacks Drewry's Bluff on James River
1864 - US Union colonel Emory Upton (24) promoted to brigade-general
1865 - Last land action of Civil war at Palmito Ranch, Texas
1870 - Manitoba becomes a province of Canada
1871 - Segregated street cars integrated in Louisville, Ky
1873 - Oscar II of Sweden-Norway is crowned King of Sweden.
1874 - US Assay Office in Helena, Montana authorized
1875 - 1st recorded shutout in pro baseball, Chicago 1, St Louis 0
1877 - Ottawa Rough Riders 1st outside competition vs Britannia
1881 - Treaty of Bardo, Tunisia becomes a French protectorate
1885 - Battle of Batoche, French Canadians rebel against Canada
1888 - Crouching start 1st used by Charles Sherrill of Yale
1890 - Louisiana legalized prize fighting
1890 - The first-ever official County Championship match begins. Yorkshire beats Gloucestershire by
           eight wickets at Bristol. George Ulyett scores the first century in the competition.
1891 - Riot against tax increase in Paramaribo Suriname
1894 - Ludwig Englander's musical "Passing Show," premieres in NYC
1897 - 1800-1900 year old fossil of "girl of Yde" found in Drente Neth
1897 - Battle at Thessalie: Turkish army beats Greece
1898 - Louisiana adopts new constitution with "grandfather clause" designed to eliminate black
           voters
1900 - Boer attack under Sarel Eloff, about 70 killed
1900 - Lord Roberts' troops occupies Crown city
1901 - Pres McKinley visits SF
1908 - George Bernard Shaws' "Getting Married," premieres in London
1908 - Wireless Radio Broadcasting is patented by Nathan B Stubblefield
1909 - 34th Preakness: Willie Doyle aboard Effendi wins in 1:39.8
1910 - 2nd NAACP conference (NYC)
1910 - Phil A's Chief Bender no-hits Cleveland Indians, 4-0
1913 - Harry Green runs world record marathon (2:38:16.2)
1915 - Croatians plunder Armenia, killing 250
1915 - Franklin K Mathiews, presents idea of "Book Week"
1917 - 42nd Preakness: E Haynes aboard Kalitan wins in 1:54.4
1917 - 43rd Kentucky Derby: Charles Borel on Omar Khayyam wins in 2:04.6
1919 - Yanks & Senators play 2nd straight extra inning tie, 4-4 in 15
1921 - National Hospital Day 1st observed
1923 - 49th Preakness: Benny Marinelli aboard Vigil wins in 1:53.6
1924 - 50th Preakness: John Merimee aboard Nellie Morse wins in 1:57.2
1924 - 7th PGA Championship: Walter Hagen at French Lick CC Ind
1925 - Uzbekistan & Kirgizistan become autonomous Soviet republics
1925 - Walter Hagen wins PGA golf tournament
1926 - Airship Norge is 1st vessel to fly over North Pole
1926 - British general strike ends
1926 - Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 1st Symphony, premieres in Leningrad
1926 - Gen Pilsudski sets coup on premier Witos compared
1926 - Umberto Nobile flies airship over North Pole
1928 - Benito Mussolini ends woman's rights in Italy
1928 - Opium laws enforced
1929 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Julia Peterkin (Scarlet Sister Mary)
1930 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Marc Connelly (Green Pastures)
1932 - Body of kidnapped son of Charles Lindbergh is found in Hopewell NJ
1933 - Federal Emergency Relief Administration & Agricultural Adjustment Administration form to
           help the needy & farmers
1934 - "Cocktails For Two," by Duke Ellington hits #1
1934 - 60th Preakness: Robert Jones aboard High Quest wins in 1:58.2
1936 - Ralph Vaughan Williams' "Poisoned Kiss," premieres in London
1937 - George VI crowned King of England
1937 - St Louis Cards beat Philadelphia Phillies, 15-3
1937 - Coronation of King George VI of Britain at Westminster Abbey.
1938 - Sandoz Labs manufactures LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide)
1940 - French mariners occupy St Maarten
1940 - German tanks conquer Moerdijkbrug
1940 - Nazi blitz conquest of France began by crossing Muese River
1941 - Great British convoy marches into Alexandria
1941 - Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic
           computer, in Berlin.
1942 - 1,500 Jews gassed in Auschwitz
1942 - David Ben-Gurion leaves Jewish state in Palestine
1942 - Nazi U-boat sinks American cargo ship at mouth of Mississippi River
1942 - Russia occupies Crackow, until Aug 23, 1943
1943 - Axis forces in North Africa surrender
1943 - British premier Winston Churchill arrives in US
1943 - German troops in Tunisia North Africa surrender
1944 - 900+ 8th Air Force bombers attack Zwikau, Bohlen & Brux
1944 - Krim purged of nazi troops
1944 - Secret Police arrest Gerrit Van de Peat
1948 - Queen Wilhelmina resigns
1949 - 1st foreign woman ambassador received in US (S V L Pandit India)
1950 - Darius Milhauds opera "Bolivar," premieres in Paris
1951 - 1st H Bomb test, on Enewetak Atoll
1952 - Charlton Playground named in Bronx
1952 - Gaj Singh is crowned Maharaja of Jodhpur.
1953 - KUHT TV channel 8 in Houston, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting
1955 - Chicago Cub Sam Jones is 1st black to pitch no-hitter (Pirates, 4-0)
1956 - Bkln Dodger Carl Erskine's 2nd no-hitter, beats NY Giants, 3-0
1956 - East Pakistan struck by cyclone & tidal waves
1957 - Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Smokey Golf Open
1958 - "Nee Nee Na Na Na Na Nu Nu" by Dicky Doo & The Dont's hits #40
1958 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
1959 - "Nervous Set" opens at Henry Miller's Theater NYC for 23 performances
1960 - Elvis Presley appears on a Frank Sinatra special
1961 - Botvinnik wins world chess championship for 3rd time
1962 - Grevelingendam closes
1962 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1963 - Bob Dylan walks out of the "Ed Sullivan Show"
1963 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Alpine Civitan Golf Open
1963 - Race riot in Birmingham Alabama
1964 - Manlio Brosio chosen as sec-gen of NATO
1965 - Israel & West Germany exchange letters beginning diplomatic relations
1966 - St Louis' Busch Stadium opens, Braves lose to Cards 4-3 in 12 inns
1967 - H Rap Brown replaces Stokely Carmichael as chairman of Student
1967 - Provo disbands in Neth Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
1968 - "March of Poor" under rev Abernathy reach Washington, DC
1968 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Tall City Golf Open
1968 - WSKG TV channel 46 in Binghamton, NY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1969 - Kenneth H Wallis achieved record speed for an autogiro-179 KPH
1970 - Ernie Banks hits his 500th home run
1970 - Harry A Blackmun is confirmed as a justice on Supreme Court
1970 - KTVM TV channel 6 in Butte, MT (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1970 - Race riots in Augusta Georgia; 6 blacks killed (5 by cops)
1970 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1972 - Milwaukee Brewers beat Minnesota Twins, 4-3, in 22 innings (completed 5/13)
1972 - Paul McCartney & Wings release "Mary Had a Little Lamb"
1973 - 6th ABA championship: Indiana Pacers beat Ky Colonels, 4 games to 3
1973 - Dueling Tubas by Martin Mull hits #92
1974 - 28th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Milwaukee, 4 games to 3
1974 - Jo Ann Prentice wins LPGA American Defender-Raleigh Golf Classic
1975 - US merchant ship Mayaguez seized by Cambodian forces
1976 - Bayern Munich wins 21st Europe Cup 1
1977 - 1st quadrophonic concert (Pink Floyd in London)
1977 - Emmy 4th Daytime Award presentation
1978 - Commerce Dept says hurricane names will no longer be only female
1979 - Chris Evert's 125-match winning streak on clay comes to an end
1980 - 1st nonstop crossing of US via balloon (Maxie Anderson & son Chris)
1980 - West Ham United wins the FA Cup, beating Arsenal 1-0 at Wembley Stadium. Midfield
           playmaker Trevor Brooking scores the winner with a rare header.
1981 - "Lena Horne: Lady, Music" opens at Nederlander NYC for 333 perfs
1981 - Isles tie own rec with 2 shorthanded playoff goals in a pd vs Minn
1982 - FC Barcelona wins 22nd Europe Cup II
1982 - Pulitzer prize awarded to John Updike (Rabbit is Rich)
1982 - US Football League forms
1982 - In Fatima Portugal, a Spanish priest with a bayonet is stopped prior to his attempt to attack
           Pope John Paul II
1983 - Julie Lynne Hayek, (California), crowned 32nd Miss USA
1983 - Oilers 3-Isles 6-Stanley Cup-Isles hold 2-0 lead
1984 - Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 41-D
1984 - France performs nuclear test
1984 - Joe Lucius scored his 13th hole-in-one on same hole
1984 - S Afr prisoner Nelson Mandela sees his wife for 1st time in 22 years
1984 - White Horse by Laid Back hits #26
1984 - World of Rivers world exposition opens in New Orleans
1985 - Amy Eilberg is ordained in NY as 1st woman Conservative rabbi
1985 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic
1986 - Bicycle is pedaled 65 mph
1986 - President Reagan appoints Dr James C Fletcher NASA Administrator
1986 - Fred Markham (US), unpaced & unaided by wind, is 1st to pedal 65 mph on a level course, Big
           Sand Flat, Calif
1988 - "Carrie" opens at Virginia Theater NYC for 5 performances
1989 - "Entertainment Tonight" performs their 2,000th TV performance
1989 - Last graffiti covered NYC subway car retired
1989 - Retired Brit pilot Jack Mann is kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists
1990 - 3rd time Saturday Night Live uses time delay (Andrew Dice Clay hosts)
1990 - Comic Relief '90 (4th one) raises $4.7 million
1990 - Nora Dunn & Sinead O'Connor boycott Saturday Night Live to protest Andrew "Dice" Clay's
           hosting
1991 - Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Crestar-Fresh Farm Golf Classic
1991 - A new cancer drug is announced, which can only be found in bark of a rare tree in the Pacific
           Northwest
1992 - 1st Belgian woman (Ingrid Baeyens) to ascend Mount Everest
1993 - Final episode of 6 year run of ABC's "Wonder Years" in Netherlands
1993 - Last broadcast of "Knots landing" on CBS
1993 - Last broadcast of "Cheers" on NBC-TV
1993 - Parma wins 33rd Europe Cup II
1994 - WIBC Bowling Queens won by Anne Marie Duggan
1995 - Dow Jones for 5th straight day of the week sets a new record (4430.59)
1995 - Jose Mesa gets 1st of his M.L. record 37 consecutive saves
1995 - Martin Brodeur ties NHL record getting his 3rd playoff shutout in 4
1996 - "Inherit the Wind" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 45 performances
1996 - "Night of the Iguana" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 68 perfs
1996 - 42nd McDonald's LPGA Championship won by Laura Davies
1996 - Yankees losing 8-0 to Chicago White Sox, come back to win 9-8
1997 - 14 North Koreans defect to South Korea
1997 - Angels scores 13 in 7th vs White Sox
1997 - Russia & Chechnya sign peace deal after 400 years of conflict
1997 - Susie Maroney, 22, of Australia, is 1st to swim from Cuba to Florida
1997 - Tornado narrowly misses downtown Miami
1999 - David Steel becomes the first Presiding Officer (speaker) of the modern Scottish Parliament.
2002 - Former US President Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba for a five-day visit with Fidel Castro
           becoming first President of the United States, in or out of office, to visit the island since
           Castro's 1959 revolution.
2003 - The Riyadh compound bombings, carried out by Al Qaeda, kill 26.
2003 - Fifty-nine Democratic lawmakers bring the Texas Legislature to a standstill by going into
           hiding in a dispute over a Republican congressional redistricting plan.
2007 - 2007 Karachi riots , which killed over 50 people in Karachi and above 100 injured, on the
           arrival of Chief Justice of Pakistan; Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry in Karachi city.
2008 - 2008 Wenchuan earthquake (measuring around 8.0 magnitude) occurs in Sichuan, China,
           killing over 69,000 people
2010 - An Afriqiyah Airways Flight crashes and kills everyone but one person on board.
2012 - The discovery of a missing Mayan calender piece disproves 2012 Armageddon

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 12, 2013, 01:54:15 PM

This Day in History for 12th May


Famous Weddings

1191 - Richard I of England marries Berengaria of Navarre.
1641 - Prince Willem II of Orange (14) marries English princess Mary Henrietta Stuart (9)
1959 - Liz Taylor's 4th marriage (Eddie Fisher)
1971 - Rolling Stone rocker Mick Jagger (27) weds actress and model Bianca Pérez-Mora Macia (26)
           at St Tropez Town Hall, France
2001 - American actor Eddie Cibrian (28) weds TV personality Brandi Glanville (28) at the beachfront
           Ritz-Carlton, Los Angeles
2005 - "La Femme Nikita" actress Anne Parillaud (45) weds musician Jean-Michel Jarre (56) in Paris
2011 - Victoria's Secret model Lily Aldridge (25) weds Kings of Leon singer Caleb Followill (29) at San
           Ysidro Ranch in Montecito, California
2012 - McFly guitarist Tom Fletcher (27) weds actress Giovanna Falcone (27) at One Marylebone in
           London
2012 - "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" actress Mercedes McNab (30) weds real estate developer Mark
            Henderson at the CostaBaja resort in La Paz, Mexico

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 12, 2013, 01:56:35 PM

This Day in History for 12th May


Famous Divorces

2004 - Model and actress Ali Landry divorces (30) "Saved by the Bell" actor Mario Lopez (30) due to
           infidelity only less than 2 weeks after getting married

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 12, 2013, 02:03:59 PM

This Day in History for 12th May


Famous Birthdays

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Nurse Florence Nightingale (1820)             Fictional TV Character                       Skateboarder Tony Hawk (1968)
                                                                Homer Simpson (1956)


1401 - Emperor Shōkō (d. 1428)
1496 - Gustav I of Sweden (d. 1560)
1590 - Cosimo II de Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1621)
1622 - Louis de Buade de Frontenac, Governor General of New France (d. 1698)
1626 - Louis Hennepin, Flemish missionary (d. 1705)
1662 - Jan F van Bloom, [Orizonte] Flemish painter, baptized
1670 - Frederick Augustus I/ August II, the Strong, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland (reputed
           to have sired 355 children) (d. 1733)
1679 - Giovanni Antonio Ricieri, composer
1700 - Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian architect
1725 - Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans (d. 1785)
1739 - Johann Baptist (Jan Krtitel) Vanhal, composer
1751 - Gaetano Manna, composer
1754 - Franz Anton Hoffmeister, composer
1767 - Manuel de Godoy, Spanish statesman (d. 1851)
1776 - Juan Bros y Bertomel, composer
1790 - [Johannes] Carsten Hauch, Danish writer
1797 - Johann Hermann Kufferath, composer
1803 - Justus Freiherr von Liebig, German chemist (agricultural chemics)
1804 - Robert Baldwin, (L) help establish government in Canada (or 1904)
1806 - Amos Beebe Eaton, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1877
1806 - J V Snellman, Finland, journalist/statesman/nationalist
1812 - Edward Lear, England, landscape painter, (Complete Nonsense Book)
1812 - Louis Ludwig Blenker, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
1813 - Johann Czerski, German chaplin
1820 - Florence Nightingale, Florence Italy, nurse (Crimean War)
1828 - Gabriel Dante Rossetti, England, poet/painter, Pre-Raphaelite figure
1829 - Pavlos Carrer, Greek composer (d. 1896)
1842 - Jules Emile Fred Massenet, Montaud France, composer (Manon, Le Cid)
1845 - Gabriel Urbain Faure, Pamiers France, composer (Requiem, Ballade)
1850 - Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. statesman (d. 1924)
1863 - Charles Bordes, composer
1867 - Hugh Trumble, cricket off-spinner (great Aust at turn of century)
1868 - Halsey William Wilson, US, publisher of reference books
1874 - Clemens Freiherr von Pirquet, Austrian physician (Reaction of Pirquet)
1876 - Harold, grandson of English queen Victoria
1880 - Lincoln Ellsworth, led 1st transarctic, transantarctic flights
1880 - W Hupkes, engineer/director (Dutch Rail 1938)
1886 - Albert Saverys, Flemish painter
1886 - Hermann Grabner, composer
1886 - Piotr F Scharoff, Russian/Italian actor/director (Chechov)
1887 - Nandor Zsolt, composer
1889 - Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank
1892 - Fritz Kortner, Austrian-born director (d. 1970)
1894 - Cleo Ridgely, NY, silent screen actress (I Remember Mama)
1895 - Jiddu Krishnamurti, India, philosopher (Songs of Life) [NS=May 22]
1899 - Indra Devi, Latvian Yoga Instructor (d. 2002)
1900 - Helene Weigel, Austria/German actress (Metropolis, Mutter Courage)
1901 - Hyam Greenbaum, composer
1902 - Heinrich Kirchner, German sculptor
1903 - Lennox R F Berkeley, British composer (Castaway)
1903 - Wilfrid Hyde-White, England, actor (My Fair Lady, Peyton Place)
1906 - William M Ewing, US geologist/geophysicist
1907 - Katharine Hepburn, Hartford CT, actress (Adam's Rib, On Golden Pond)
1907 - Leslie Charteris, English/US detective writer (Enter the Saint)
1910 - Dorothy Crowfoot-Hodgkin, British chemist (penicillin/B12/Nobel 1964)
1910 - Gordon Jenkins, Webster Grove Mo, orchestra leader (NBC Comedy Hour)
1910 - Charles B. Fulton, American jurist (d. 1996)
1912 - Marshall Royal, jazz sax/clarinet
1912 - Archibald Cox, U.S. Solicitor General (d. 2004)
1914 - Bertus Aafjes, Dutch poet/writer
1914 - Dan Daniel, (Rep-D-VA, 1969- )
1914 - Howard K Smith, LA, TV newsman (ABC, Moderated Kennedy-Nixon debate)
1915 - Mary Kay Ash, American businesswoman, founded Mary Kay Cosmetics (d. 2001)
1916 - Ellis Bonoff Kohs, composer
1917 - Andre A Rieu, Dutch conductor
1918 - Oscar Beregi Jr, Hungary, actor (Young Frankenstein, Panic in City)
1918 - Julius Rosenberg, Soviet spy (d. 1953)
1921 - Edvard Mikcaeli Mirzoyan, composer
1921 - Giovanni Benelli, archbishop (Florence)/Papal candidate
1921 - Henry Mackie, designer of the Belfast Calorimeter
1921 - Joseph Beuys, Germany, avant-garde painter/politician
1921 - Farley Mowat, Canadian writer and naturalist
1922 - Barend Busnac, office clerk/resistance fighter
1922 - Marco Denevi, Argentine writer (d. 1998)
1923 - Ewart G Abner, record company executive
1923 - Giovanni Testori, Italian writer (Rocco e i suoi fratelli)
1923 - Lord Laing, English biscuit manufacturer/pilot/multi-millionaire
1924 - Alexander Esenin-Volpin, Russian mathematician
1925 - John Simon, theater critic (NY Times)
1925 - Lawrence "Yogi" Berra, catcher/coach/manager (NY Yankees, Mets)
1925 - Tony Hancock, Birmingham England, actor (Rebel, Wrong Box)
1926 - Earl Hutto, Panama City Fla, (Rep-D-FL, 1979- )
1926 - Mervyn M Dymally, (Rep-D-CA, 1981- )
1928 - Manuel Lujan Jr, (Rep-R-NM, 1969- )
1928 - Burt Bacharach, KC Mo, composer (I'll Never Fall in Love Again)
1928 - Henry Cosby, African-American songwriter (d. 2002)
1929 - Dollard St. Laurent, Canadian ice hockey player
1929 - Sam Nujoma, first President of Namibia
1930 - Pat McCormick-Keller, Lakewood California, diver (Oly-4 gold-1952, 56)
1931 - Johan Fleerackers, Flemish vice-president of Dutch One
1933 - Andrey Voznesensky, Russian poet
1935 - Johnny Bucyk, Canadian ice hockey player
1936 - Tom Snyder, Milwaukee Wisc, newscaster (Tommorow, NBC Weekend News)
1936 - Guillermo Endara, President of Panama
1936 - Tom Snyder, American television personality (d. 2007)
1936 - Frank Stella, American painter
1937 - Beryl Burton, UK, won record (7) women's cycling titles
1937 - George Carlin, Bronx, comedian (7 dirty words, AM & FM, Carwash)
1937 - Gerry E Studds, (Rep-D-MA, 1973- )
1938 - Andrei Amalrik, Russian writer/dissident
1938 - Millie Perkins, Passaic NJ, actress (Jane-Knots Landings)
1938 - Susan Hampshire, London England, actress (Vanity Fair, Living Free)
1939 - Ronald Ziegler, press secretary (Nixon)
1939 - Miltiadis Evert, Greek politician
1939 - Reg Gasnier, Australian rugby league footballer
1941 - Anthony Newman, LA California, harpsichordist/organist (Bhajeb)
1941 - Little Jayotis Washington, US R&B singer (Persuasions)
1941 - Ruud de Wolff, singer/guitarist (Blue Diamonds)
1942 - Barry B[rookes] Longyear, US, sci-fi author (City of Baraboo)
1942 - Dumitru Dediu, Romania, cosmonaut (Soyuz 40 backup)
1942 - Ian Dury, Upminster Essex, rocker (Blockheads)/actor (Judge Dredd)
1942 - Timothy Hugh Brown, theatre critic
1942 - Billy Swan, Cape Giradeau La, rocker (I Can Help)
1943 - David Walker, rock keyboardist (Gary Lewis & Playboys-Diamond Ring)
1943 - Linda Dano, LA California, actress (Felicia Gallant-Another World)
1944 - Eva Demski, writer
1944 - James Purify, US singer (I'm Your Puppet)
1945 - Jayotis Washington, rocker
1945 - Linda Carlson, Knoxville Tn, actress (Bev-Newhart, Katie-Kaz)
1945 - Willie Parnell, US singer (Archie Bell & the Drells)
1945 - Patrick Ricard, French businessman
1946 - Ian McLagan, rocker (Faces)
1946 - Leonard Baichan, cricketer (WI opener, 103 v Pakistan on debut 1975)
1946 - L. Neil Smith, American science fiction author
1947 - Michael Ignatieff, Canadian politician
1947 - Micheline Lanctôt, American film actor, director and screenwriter
1947 - catherine yronwode, American writer and editor
1948 - Lindsay Ann Crouse, NYC, actress (Slapshot, Iceman, Places in Heart)
1948 - Steve Winwood, England, rock bassist (A Higher Love)
1950 - Billy Squier, Mass, heavy metal guitarist (Don't Say No)
1950 - Bruce Boxleitner, Elgin Ill, actor (Scarecrow & Mrs King, Babylon 5)
1950 - Gabriel Byrne, Dublin Ireland, actor (Hello Again, Cool World)
1950 - Jocko Marcellino, rocker (Sha Na Na)
1950 - Renate Stecher-Meissner, German DR, sprinter (Oly-gold-72)
1950 - Shozo Fujii, judoka
1951 - Gunnar Larrson, Sweden, 200m/400m swimmer (Olympic-gold-1972)
1955 - Kix Brooks, Shreveport La, singer (Brooks & Dunn-Brand New Man)
1956 - Homer Simpson, fictional character from the long running television show "The Simpsons"
1956 - Bernie Federko, Canadian ice hockey player
1956 - Glenn Robbins, Australian comedian
1957 - Lou[is Rodman] Whitaker, 2nd baseman (Detroit Tigers)
1957 - Lou Whitaker, American baseball player
1958 - Beth Maitland, actress (Traci-Young & Restless)
1958 - Christian Brando, son of Marlon/killed sisters boyfriend
1958 - Kim Greist, Stamford CT, actress (CHUD, Brazil, Payoff, Manhunter)
1958 - Andreas Petroulakis, Greek political caricaturist
1958 - Eric Singer, American drummer
1959 - Dave Christian, Minn, NHL right wing (Wash Caps, Olympic-gold-1980)
1959 - Ving Rhames, American actor
1960 - Lisa Martin, Australian marathoner (Olympic-silver 1988)
1960 - Lisa Ondieki, Australian marathoner (Olympics-7th-84, 88, 96)
1961 - Billy Duffy, rocker (Cult-Hell's Kitchen)
1961 - Lar Park Lincoln, American actress
1961 - Bruce McCulloch, Canadian actor
1961 - Thomas Dooley, German-American Soccer Player
1962 - Amy Benz, Rochester NY, LPGA golfer (1994 Oldsmobile Classic-3rd)
1962 - Emilio Estevez, NYC, actor (Breakfast Club, Young Guns, Mighty Ducks)
1962 - Mark Bradshaw, Happy Camp California, diver (Olympics-96)
1962 - Brett Gurewitz, American songwriter and record producer (Bad Religion) (Epitaph)
1963 - Stefano Modena, Italian racing driver
1963 - Charles Pettigrew, American singer (Charles and Eddie) (d. 2001)
1964 - Joy Ellen Kitzmiller, LA California, US badminton player (Olympic-92)
1965 - Stacy Wilson, ice hockey forward (Canada, Oly-98)
1965 - Steve Finley, Union City TN, outfielder (San Diego Padres)
1966 - Rafael Bournigal, Azua Dom Rep, infielder (Oakland A's)
1966 - Stephen Baldwin, actor (Beast, Lawrenceville Stories, Usual Suspects)
1966 - Steven Conran, Lithgow NSW, Australasia golfer
1966 - Bebel Gilberto, Brazilian singer
1967 - Cara Coughenour, Sioux City IA, female pitcher (Colo Silver Bullets)
1967 - Lawrence Rucchin, hockey defenseman (Team Italy 1998)
1967 - Robert Blackmon, defensive back (Indianapolis Colts, Seattle Seahawks)
1967 - Warren Rychel, Tecumseh, NHL left wing (Colorado Avalanche)
1968 - Mark Clark, Bath Ill, pitcher (NY Mets)
1968 - Tony Hawk, American skateboarder
1968 - Scott Schwartz, American actor
1968 - Catherine Tate, British comedian
1969 - Kim Fields Freeman, LA California, actress (Tootie-Facts of Life)
1969 - Cesar Millan, professional dog trainer
1969 - Kevin Nalty, famed YouTuber
1970 - Andreas Hestler, Victoria BC, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1970 - Andrew Coltart, Dumfries Scotland, Australasia golfer
1970 - James Michael Furyk, West Chester PA, PGA golfer (1994 Las Vegas-5th)
1970 - Mike Malizia, Utica NY, Nike golfer (1993 Doral-Ryder Open-61st)
1970 - Mike Weir, Sarnia Ont, Canadian Tour golfer (Ontario Amateur-1990, 92)
1970 - Stevie Anderson, NFL wide receiver (Arizona Cardinals)
1970 - Todd Hallett, Shelburne Nova Scotia, rower (Olympics-7-92, 96)
1970 - Samantha Mathis, American actress
1971 - Craig Novitsky, NFL tackle (NO Saints)
1971 - Jamie Luner, Palo Alto California, actress (Cindy-Just the 10 of Us)
1971 - Tommy Johnson, WLAF cornerback (Amsterdam Admirals)
1971 - Doug Basham, American professional wrestler
1972 - Annette Albertson, Reno Nevada, Miss America-Nevada (1997)
1972 - David Oaks, 100m/200m runner
1972 - Jason Kyle, NFL linebacker (Seattle Seahawks)
1972 - Michelle Kahn, Miss Universe-Trinidad & Tobago (1996)
1972 - Paul Stout, Saugus California, actor (Phillip-Scarecrow & Mrs King)
1973 - MacKenzie Astin, LA California, actor (Facts of Life, Garbage Pail Kids)
1973 - Stefano Margoni, hockey forward (Team Italy 1998)
1973 - Kendra Kassebaum, American stage actress
1973 - Travis Lutter, Mixed Martial Arts Fighter
1974 - Anna Ozolins, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1974 - Tiffany Stoker, Clovis California, Miss America (California-4th-1996)
1975 - Lawrence Phillips, running back (St Louis Rams)
1975 - Jonah Lomu, New Zealand rugby union footballer
1976 - Matthew P Newmark, actor (Joseph Carroll-Guns of Paradise)
1977 - Iva Majoli, Yugoslavia, tennis star
1977 - Monique de Bruin, Porland Oregon, fencer-foil (Olympics-96)
1977 - Graeme Dott, British snooker player
1977 - Rebecca Herbst, American actress
1978 - Amy Wheaton, actress (Curse)
1978 - Thomas Odoyo, cricketer (Kenyan all-rounder 1996 World Cup)
1978 - Hossein Reza Zadeh, Iranian weightlifter
1978 - Jason Biggs, American actor
1978 - Wilfred Le Bouthillier, Acadian singer
1978 - Josh Phelps, American baseball player
1978 - Aya Ishiguro, Japanese singer (formerly Morning Musume)
1979 - Erdinç Saçan, Turkish-Dutch politician
1979 - Andre Carter, American football player
1979 - Steve Smith, American football player
1981 - James Graham - Founder HistoryOrb.com
1981 - Kentaro Sato, Japanese composer
1981 - Lorena Bernal, Spanish model and actress, Miss Spain 1999
1983 - Charilaos Pappas, Greek footballer
1985 - Tally Hall, American soccer player
1985 - Jeroen Simaeys, Belgian footballer
1986 - Emily VanCamp, Canadian actress
1988 - Marcelo, Brazilian footballer
1992 - Malcolm David Kelley, American actor
1995 - Sullivan and Sawyer Sweeten, American actors
1995 - Luke Benward, American actor

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 12, 2013, 02:06:36 PM

This Day in History for 12th May


Famous Deaths

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Poet Nelly Sachs (1970)


912 - Leo VI Sophos, Byzantine Emperor (886-912), dies at 45
1003 - Gerbert, French scholar, dies in Rome
1003 - Pope Sylvester/Silvester II, [Gerbert van Aurillac], 1st French Pope (999-1003), dies
1012 - Sergius IV, [Pietro Crescentii], Italian Pope (1009-12), dies
1382 - Johanna I, Queen of Naples/Provence, dies
1465 - Thomas Palaeologus, Despot of the Despotate of Morea
1634 - George Chapman, English dramatist/interpreter, dies
1641 - Thomas Wentworth, English viceroy of Ireland, beheaded at 48
1649 - Isaac Doreslaer, English lawyer/diplomat, murdered
1684 - Edme Mariotte, French physicist and priest
1699 - Lucas Achtschellinck, Flemish painter (b. 1626)
1708 - Adolf Friedrich II of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1658)
1737 - Cornelis van Alkemade, historian, dies at 83
1748 - Thomas Lowndes, English astronomer (b. 1692)
1759 - Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor (b. 1700)
1784 - Abraham Trembley, Swiss naturalist (b. 1710)
1792 - Charles Simon Favart, French dramatist (b. 1710)
1796 - Johann P Uz, German poet (Theodicee), dies at 75
1801 - Nicholas Repnin, Russian statesman (b. 1734)
1811 - Louis-Charles-Joseph Rey, composer, dies at 52
1814 - Robert Treat Paine, US judge (signed Decl of Ind), dies at 83
1825 - Elias Mann, American composer, dies at 75
1825 - Stanislao Mattei, composer, dies at 75
1843 - Johann Georg Lickl, composer, dies at 74
1845 - August Wilhelm Schlegel, German poet/interpreter/critic, dies at 77
1845 - János Bacsanyi, Hungarian poet (b. 1763)
1852 - John Richardson, Canadian writer (War of 1812), dies
1856 - Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, French mathematician (b. 1786)
1860 - Charles Barry, English architect (b. 1795)
1861 - Christian Heinrich Hohmann, composer, dies at 50
1864 - Abner Monroe Perrin, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 37
1864 - J E B Stuart, Confederate General, dies at 31
1867 - Friedrich William Eduard Gerhard, German archaeologist (b. 1795)
1871 - Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber, French opera composer, dies at 89
1871 - John F W Herschel, British astronomer (Catalogue of Nebulae), dies
1876 - Henri A Esquiros, French poet (Evangile du peuple), dies at 63
1876 - Georgi Benkovski, Bulgarian revolutionary, brutally killed by the Turks (b. 1843)
1884 - Bedrich Friedrich Smetana, Czech composer (2 Widows), dies at 60
1896 - Juan Morel Campos, composer, dies at 38
1897 - Ulrika "Minna" Cant-Johnstown, Finnish playwright, dies at 53
1897 - Willem Roelofs, painter/lithographer, dies
1907 - J K Huysmans, writer, dies at 59
1908 - Melesio Morales, composer, dies at 69
1916 - James Connolly, Irish socialist (b. 1868)
1921 - Emilia Pardo Bazan, Spanish writer (La sirena negra), dies
1924 - Charles Henri Marechal, composer, dies at 82
1925 - Alfred Milner, British governor (Cape Colony)/minister, dies at 71
1925 - Amy Lowell, writer, dies at 51
1925 - Artur Napoleao dos Santos, composer, dies at 82
1925 - Amy Lowell, American poet (b. 1874)
1930 - Pieter Jelles Troelstra, Dutch SDAP leader, dies at 70
1931 - Eugene Ysaye, composer, dies at 72
1931 - Eugene-Auguste Ysaye, composer, dies at 72
1932 - Lindbergh baby, found dead
1935 - Josef Pilsudski, Polish dictator (1926-35), dies
1935 - Józef Piłsudski, Polish statesman (b. 1867)
1943 - Albert Stoessel, composer, dies at 48
1944 - Arthur T Quiller-Couch [Q], British author/critic, dies at 80
1948 - Isidor Achron, composer, dies at 55
1951 - Oscar DePriest, (Rep-D-Ill), dies at 80
1956 - Hendrik P Marchant, Dutch minister of Education, dies at 87
1956 - Louis Calhern, dies at 61
1956 - Vladimir Ambros, composer, dies at 65
1957 - Erich von Stroheim, Austrian/US actor (Grand Illusion), dies at 71
1957 - Alfonso de Portago, Spanish bobsledder and race car driver (b. 1928)
1960 - Cecil Armstrong Gibbs, composer, dies at 70
1962 - Dick Calkins, co-author (Buck Rogers), dies at 67
1963 - Stanislaw Wiechowicz, composer, dies at 69
1963 - Bobby Kerr, Canadian runner (b. 1882)
1965 - Roger Vailland, French playwright (La Truite), dies at 57
1966 - Felix Martin Julius Steiner, German Heer and Waffen-SS officer (b. 1896)
1967 - Julius Kalas, composer, dies at 64
1967 - John Masefield, British writer (b. 1878)
1970 - Leonie "Nelly" Sachs, German/Swedish poet (Nobel 1966), dies at 78
1970 - Wladyslaw Anders, Polish general (WW I, WW II), dies at 78
1971 - J M Taylor, cricketer (20 Tests 1920-26, 997 runs), dies
1971 - Heinie Manush, American baseball player (b. 1901)
1973 - Frances Marion, screenwriter (Pollyanna, Camille), dies at 85
1973 - Art Pollard, American racecar driver (b. 1927)
1980 - Lillian Roth, actress (Animal Crackers, Alice Sweet Alice), dies
1981 - Benjamin H Sheares, president of Singapore, dies
1982 - Humphrey Searle, writer (20th Century counterpoint), dies at 66
1984 - Doris May, actress (Peck's Bad Boy), dies at 81 of heart failure
1985 - Jean Debuffet, French painter/sculptor, dies
1986 - Elisabeth Bergner, dies at 85
1986 - Lee Bonnell, dies
1987 - Victor Feldman, pianist/drummer, dies at 53
1989 - Joe Valdez Caballero, creator of hard taco, shell, dies at 81
1989 - Marcelle de Manziarly, composer, dies at 89
1990 - Chen Kenmin, Japanese chef (b. 1912)
1992 - Joe Burke, president (KC Royals), dies at 68, dies
1992 - Robert Reed, actor (Brady Bunch), dies of AIDs at 59
1992 - Lenny Montana, American actor (b. 1926)
1994 - Alfred Lane Beit, connoisseur, dies at 91
1994 - David Brooks, psychologist, dies at 91
1994 - Helen Lee Mai, Hong Kong actress, dies at 63
1994 - John Smith, British Labour Party chairman (1992-94), dies at 55
1994 - Xenophon Balaskas, cricketer (9 Tests for South Africa, 22 wkts), dies
1995 - Arthur Lubin, film director, dies at 95
1995 - Giorgio Belladonna, bridge champion, dies at 71
1995 - Reza Abdoh, theatre Director, dies at 32
1996 - Hubert William Dean, air armaments specialist, dies at 84
1996 - Robert Edwin Hall, mountaineer/businessman, dies at 35
1999 - Abd-al-Aziz ibn Abd-Allah ibn Baaz, Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia 1993-1999 (b. 1910)
1999 - Saul Steinberg, Romanian-American cartoonist (b. 1914)
2000 - Adam Petty, American race car driver (b. 1980)
2001 - Perry Como, American singer (b. 1912)
2001 - Alexei Tupolev, Russian aircraft designer (b. 1925)
2002 - Erich Kulas, ECW Wrestler (Mass Transit)
2003 - Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, French UN High Commissioner for Refugees (b. 1933)
2005 - Martin Lings, English Islamic scholar (b. 1909)
2005 - Monica Zetterlund, Swedish actress and singer (b. 1937)
2006 - Gillespie V. Montgomery, former U.S. representative from Mississippi (b. 1920)
2007 - Mullah Dadullah Akhund, Taliban military leader (b. 1966?)
2007 - Teddy Infuhr, American former child actor (b. 1936)
2008 - Robert Rauschenberg, American artist (b. 1925)
2008 - Irena Sendler, Polish social worker, WWII heroine (b. 1910)
2009 - Antonio Vega, Spanish pop singer-songwriter (b. 1957)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 13, 2013, 07:42:51 PM

This Day in History for 13th May


Historical Events

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Classical music prodigy Mozart               British war time Prime Minister                   French President
                                                                           Winston Churchill                         Georges Pompidou

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Radio shock jock Howard Stern                  264th Pope John Paul II                       King of Pop Michael Jackson

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NFL Running Back and Convicted Criminal
OJ Simpson


535 - St Agapitus I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
609 - Pope Boniface I turns Pantheon in Rome into a Catholic church
641 - Eligius (Saint Eloy) becomes bishop of Doornik-Noyon
1106 - Henry I of Limburg becomes duke of Neth-Lutherans
1110 - Crusaders march into Beirut causing a bloodbath
1364 - Peter Coutherel banished from Leuven
1497 - Pope Alexander VI excommunicates Girolamo Savonarola
1559 - Excavated corpse of heretic David Jorisz burned in Basel
1568 - Mary Queen of Scots is defeated by English at battle of Langside
1588 - King Henri III flees Paris
1607 - English colonists (John Smith) lands near James River in VA
1624 - Admiral Hermites fleet blockade Lima Peru
1637 - Cardinal Richelieu of France creates the table knife
1643 - Battle at Grantham: English parliamentary armies beat royalists
1643 - Heavy earthquake strikes Santiago Chile; kills 1/3 of population
1648 - Construction of the Red Fort at Delhi is completed.
1652 - Ingen Ryuki invited to become the abbot of Sofokuji temple in Nagasaki
1654 - Venetian fleet under Adm Adeler beats Turkish
1767 - Mozart's opera "Apollo et Hyacinthus," premieres in Salzburg
1777 - University library at Vienna opens
1779 - War of Bavarian Succession ends
1787 - Arthur Phillip sets sails with 11 ships of criminals to Botany Bay, Australia
1820 - Opera "Die Jagarsbrautt" is completed
1830 - Republic of Ecuador is founded, with Juan Jose Flores as president
1835 - 1st foreign embassy in Hawaii forms
1846 - US declares war on Mexico, 2 months after fighting begins
1848 - First performance of Finland's national anthem.
1861 - Queen Victoria announces England's position of neutrality
1861 - The Great Comet of 1861 is discovered by John Tebbutt of Windsor, New South Wales,
           Australia.
1864 - -16] Atlanta Campaign: Battle of Resaca Georgia
1865 - S Brownsville, TX (Palmito Ranch) Final engagement of Civil War PVT John J Williams of 34th
           Indiana is last man killed
1874 - Pope Pius IX encyclical "On Greek-Ruthenian rite"
1876 - Amersfoort-Zutphen railway opens
1877 - Caesar Franck's "Lesson Eolides," premieres
1882 - Toba-indians killed 20 members of French expedition
1884 - Institute for Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) forms
1887 - 15th Preakness: William Donohue aboard Dunboyne wins in 2:39.25
1888 - DeWolf Hooper 1st recited "Casey at Bat"
1888 - Princess Isabel of Brazil signs "Lei Auréa" abolishing slavery
1890 - 18th Preakness: W Martin aboard Montague wins in 2:36.75
1890 - Lord Salisbury offers Germany Helgoland in exchange for Zanzibar, Uganda & Equatoria
1891 - 17th Kentucky Derby: Isaac Murphy aboard Kingman wins in 2:52.25
1905 - James J Jeffries retires as boxing champ
1906 - Bezalel Art School opens in Jerusalem
1909 - Christian National Labor Workers (CNV) party begins in Netherlands
1909 - The first Giro d'Italia takes place in Milan. Italian cyclist Luigi Ganna is the winner.
1911 - 37th Kentucky Derby: George Archibald aboard Meridian wins in 2:05
1911 - NY Giant Fred Merkle is 1st to get 6 RBIs in an inning (1st)
1912 - Royal Flying Corps forms in England
1913 - 1st four engine aircraft built and flown (Igor Sikorsky-Russia)
1916 - 1st observance of Indian (Native American) Day
1916 - 42nd Kentucky Derby: Johnny Loftus aboard George Smith wins in 2:04
1916 - Native American Day is 1st observed
1917 - 1st appearance of Mary to 3 shepherd children in Fatima, Portugal
1917 - Ernest Bloch's "Schelomo," premieres
1918 - 1st US airmail stamps issued (24 cents)
1922 - 48th Kentucky Derby: Albert Johnson aboard Morvich wins in 2:04.6
1922 - 48th Preakness: L Morris aboard Pillory wins in 1:51.6
1923 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Willa Carter (One of Ours)
1926 - German government of Luther falls
1927 - "Black Friday" on Berlin Stock Exchange
1927 - VVOG soccer team forms in Harderwijk
1930 - Farmer killed by hail in Lubbock, Texas
1930 - Only known fatality due to hail
1931 - Paul Doumer elected president of France
1933 - 59th Preakness: Charley Kurtsinger aboard Head Play wins in 2:02
1934 - Great dustbowl storm
1936 - Quiroga government takes office in Spain
1939 - 65th Preakness: George Seabo aboard Challedon wins in 1:59.8
1939 - SS St Louis departs Hamburg with 937 Jews fugitives
1940 - British bomb factory at Breda
1940 - Churchill says I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears & sweat
1940 - Dutch Queen Wilhelmina flees to England
1940 - German breakthrough at Grebbelinie
1941 - Martin Bormann is named head of Nazi Party Chancellery in Germany
1941 - Trial against resistance fighter comte d'Estienne d'Orves begins
1941 - Willy Lewis' US jazz band performs in Switzerland
1942 - Helicopter makes its 1st cross-country flight
1942 - Pitcher Jim Tobin belts 3 HRs in a game
1943 - German & Italian forces in Africa surrender
1943 - German occupiers confiscate all radios
1944 - 70th Preakness: Conn McCreary aboard Pensive wins in 1:59.2
1945 - US troops conquer Dakeshi Okinawa
1946 - Sarwate & Banerjee add 249 for 10th wkt for Indians v Surrey
1946 - US convicts 58 camp guard of Mauthausen concentration camp to death
1946 - Winston Churchill welcomed in Rotterdam
1947 - Senate approved the Taft-Hartley Act limiting the power of unions
1949 - 1st British-produced jet bomber, Canberra, makes its 1st test flight
1950 - Diner's Club issues its 1st credit cards
1950 - The first round of the Formula 1 World Championship is held at Silverstone.
1952 - Minor-league Bristol pitcher Ron Necciai strikes out 27 in 9-innings
1952 - Pandit Nehru becomes premier of India
1952 - The Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India, holds its first sitting.
1953 - NY Giants Willie Mays & Darryl Spencer each hit 2 HRs & a triple
1954 - "Pajama Game" opens at St James Theater NYC for 1063 performances
1954 - Labour Party wins British municipal elections
1954 - Robin Roberts gives up a HR then retires next 27 men in a row
1954 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
1954 - The anti-National Service Riots, by Chinese Middle School students in Singapore, take place.
1955 - Mickey Mantle hits 3 consecutive HRs of at least 463'
1956 - Pachyderm Building at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo opens
1958 - French settlers riot against French army in Algeria
1958 - Jordan & Iraq form Arab Federation
1958 - Pierre Pflimlin forms French government
1958 - Rioters attack US VP Nixon in Venezuela
1958 - Stan Musial, is 8th to get 3,000 hits
1958 - The trade mark Velcro is registered.
1959 - Kraft Music Hall with Milton Berle, last airs on NBC-TV
1960 - 1st launch of Delta satellite launching vehicle; it failed
1960 - Phillies lose 3rd consecutive 1-0 game
1960 - WOLE TV channel 12 in Aguadillo, PR
1962 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Western Golf Open
1965 - Rolling Stones record "Satisfaction"
1965 - Several Arab nations break ties with West Germany after it established diplomatic relations
           with Israel
1966 - Rolling Stones release "Paint it Black"
1966 - Federal education funding is denied to 12 school districts in the South because of violations of
           the 1964 Civil Rights Act
1967 - NY Yankee Mickey Mantle hits career HR #500 off Stu Miller
1967 - Octagonal boxing ring is tested to avoid corner injuries
1968 - 1,000,000 French demonstrate against De Gaulle & Georges Pompidou
1969 - Race riots, later known as the May 13 Incident, take place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
1970 - Beatles movie "Let it Be" premieres
1971 - Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane seriously injured in a car accident
1972 - 115 die in nightclub atop 7-story Sennichi dept store (Osaka Japan)
1972 - Milwaukee Brewers beat Minnesota Twins, 4-3, in 22 innings (started 5/12)
1973 - "Cyrano" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 49 performances
1973 - Bobby Riggs beat Margaret Smith Court in Mother's Day match in Calif
1973 - Judy Rankin wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
1975 - "Rodgers & Hart" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 108 performances
1975 - Flyers 4-Isles 1-Semifinals-Flyers win semifinals 4-3
1975 - Hail stones as large as tennis balls hit Wernerville Tenn
1976 - 9th & final ABA championship: NY Nets beat Denver Nuggets, 4 games to 2
1977 - Howard Stern begins broadcasting at WRNW, Briarcliff Manor NY
1978 - "Angel" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 5 performances
1978 - "Runaways" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 199 performances
1978 - Henry Rono of Kenya sets record for 3,000 m steeplechase (8:05.4)
1978 - Joie Chitwood drives a Chevette 5.6 miles on just 2 wheels
1978 - Musical "Runaways" with Elizabeth Swados premieres in NYC
1979 - "Utter Glory... Morrissey Hall" opens & closes at Mark Hellinger NYC
1979 - Sandra Post wins LPGA Lady Michelob Golf Tournament
1979 - Shah & family sentenced to death in Teheran
1980 - Cincinnati Red Ray Knight hits 2 HRs in 5th inning vs NY Mets
1981 - Dinamo Tbilisi wins 21st Europe Cup II
1981 - Pope John Paul II is shot and critically wounded by Turkish gunman Mehemet Ali Agca in St
           Peter's Square, Vatican City
1982 - Braniff Airlines files for bankruptcy
1982 - Canucks 0-Isles 3-Stanley Cup-Isles hold 3-0 lead
1982 - Chicago Cubs win their 8,000th (beat Astros)
1982 - Soyuz T-5 is launched-Berezovoi & Lebedev for 211 days in space
1982 - Terri Lea Utley, 20, (Arkansas), crowned 31st Miss USA
1983 - Reggie Jackson is 1st major leaguer to strike out 2,000 times
1984 - "Oliver!" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 17 performances
1984 - Amy Alcott wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic
1984 - Johan Cruyffs last competitive match
1985 - Carlton Fisk becomes 5th catcher to steal 100 bases
1985 - Laura Elena Martinez-Herring, 21, (Texas), crowned 34th Miss USA
1985 - Phila Police bomb a house held by group "Move," kills 11
1987 - Ajax wins 27th Europe Cup II
1989 - Approx 2,000 students begin hunger strike in Tiananmen Square, China
1989 - Minn Twin Kirby Puckett becomes 35th to hit 4 doubles in a game
1989 - Trinidad & Tobago ties US 1-1, in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup
1990 - "Change in the Heir" closes at Edison Theater NYC after 16 perfs
1990 - Dottie Mochrie wins LPGA Crestar Golf Classic
1991 - "Michael Jackson: Magic & Madness" goes on sale
1991 - Apple releases Macintosh System 7.0
1991 - South African activist Winnie Mandela convicted of abducting 4 blacks
1991 - Yankee Stadium fans sing "Like a Virgin" to Jose Canseco
1992 - 3 astronauts simultaneous walked in space for the 1st time
1992 - Ajax wins 21st UEFA Cup
1992 - Concrete foundation for ballpark at Gateway (Jacobs Field) is poured
1992 - Final episode of "Night Court" airs on NBC-TV
1992 - Frank Stallone beats Geraldo Rivera in boxing on Howard Stern Show
1992 - Li Hongzhi gave the first public lecture on Falun Gong in Changchun, People's Republic of
           China.
1993 - 6th annual business person run held in Wall Street
1993 - Arsenio Hall's 1,000th show retrospective seen in Netherlands
1993 - CBS' Knots Landing ends 14 year run with 334th show in Netherlands
1993 - KC Royal George Brett hits his 300th HR
1993 - Methane gas explosion in Secunda coal mine South-Africa, kills 50
1994 - Indians, begin a 18 home game hoome win streak at Jacobs Field
1995 - 6.5 earthquake hits Greece
1995 - New Zealand beats US for the America's Cup
1995 - Chelsi Smith, 21, of USA, crowned 44th Miss Universe Shanna Lynn Moakler, (19-NY),
           replaces Chelsi Smith as Miss USA
1996 - OJ Simpson appears on British TV discussing his not guilty verdict
1996 - Severe thunderstorms and a tornado in Bangladesh kill 600 people.
1997 - Eddie Murray is 6th baseball player to play in 3,000 games
1998 - Race riots break out in Jakarta, Indonesia, where shops owned by Indonesian of Chinese   
           descendants are looted and women raped.
1998 - India carries out two nuclear tests at Pokhran, in addition to the three conducted on May 11.
           The United States and Japan impose economic sanctions on India.
2000 - In Enschede, the Netherlands, a fireworks factory explodes, killing 22 people, wounding 950,
           and resulting in approximately €450 million in damage.
2001 - Silvio Berlusconi's House of Freedoms coalition wins the Italian general elections.
2005 - The Andijan Massacre occurs in Uzbekistan.
2006 - 2006 São Paulo violence: a major rebellion occurs in several prisons in Brazil.
2007 - Construction of the Calafat-Vidin Bridge between Romania and Bulgaria begins.
2007 - Republic Protests in Turkey.
2012 - 49 dismembered bodies are found on a Mexican highway as part of the Mexican drug war
2012 - Torrential rain in Hunan Province, China, destroys a bridge, 3,500 homes and displaces
           28,000 people
2012 - Manchester City win the English Premier League for the first time

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 13, 2013, 07:55:35 PM

This Day in History for 13th May


Famous Weddings

1922 - "Latin Lover" silent actor Rudolph Valentino (27) weds film costume and set designer Natacha
           Rambova (25) in Mexicali, Mexico
1932 - Russian composer Dmitri Sjostakovitch marries Nina Varsar
2003 - Former NBA star Dennis Rodman (42) weds Michelle Moyer on a small civil ceremony in
           Newport Beach, California
2006 - Actress Sara Bakker weds Sloan Alexander at the United Church on the Green in New Haven,
           Connecticut
2006 - British football star player Gary O'Neil (22) weds Donna Guerin in Highclere Castle, Hampshire

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 13, 2013, 09:24:05 PM

This Day in History for 13th May


Famous Birthdays

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Singer-Songwriter                                      Basketball Player D                            Actor Robert Pattinson (1986)
Stevie Wonder (1950)                                 Dennis Rodman (1961)   


1024 - Hugh of Cluny, French saint (d. 1109)
1254 - Maria of Brabant, queen of France (d. 1321)
1314 - Sergius of Radonesh, Russian saint
1588 - Ole Worm, Danish physician (d. 1654)
1592 - John Cloppenburg, vicar/theologist
1638 - Richard Simon, French Biblical critic (d. 1712)
1655 - Innocent XIII, [Michelangiolo dei Conti], Italy, 244th Pope (1721-24)
1699 - Marquis of Pombal, Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1782)
1707 - Carl von Linné, Swedish scientist (d. 1778)
1712 - Johann Hartwig Ernst, Count von Bernstorff, Danish statesman (d. 1772)
1717 - Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria (Wife of emperor Franz I)
1729 - Henry William (Baron) Stiegel, early American glassmaker
1730 - Charles Watson-Wentworth 2nd Marquis of Rockingham, British PM (1765-66, 1782) and
           Whig
1735 - Horace Coignet, composer
1742 - Archduchess Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen (d. 1798)
1746 - Oliver Brownson, composer
1753 - Lazare Carnot, French general, politician, and mathematician (d. 1823)
1756 - Wojciech Zywny, composer
1761 - Adrian Loosjes Pzn, publisher/writer (Mauritius Lijnslager)
1776 - Charles Ots, composer
1776 - Rodrigo Ferreira da Costa, composer
1792 - Pius IX "Pio Nono", [Giovanni-Maria Mastai-Ferretti], Pope (1846-78)
1794 - Louis-Leopold Robert, French painter (d. 1835)
1795 - Joshua Ratoon Sands, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1883
1795 - Gérard Paul Deshayes, French geologist (d. 1875)
1822 - Francis of Assisi of Bourbon, King Consort of Spain (d. 1902)
1828 - Josephine Elizabeth Butler, social reformer
1830 - Zebulon Baird Vance, Governor (Confederacy), died in 1894
1831 - Willem baron of Goltstein of Oldenaller, Dutch minister of Colonies
1840 - L-M Alphonse Daudet, French writer (Tartarin of Tarascon)
1842 - Arthur Seymour Sullivan, London England, composer (Gilbert & Sullivan)
1843 - Count Paul J Smet de Naeyer, Belgian politician
1847 - Johannes Haarklou, composer
1854 - Louis H Chrispijn, Dutch director (Lost & Found, Silvia Silombra)
1854 - Paul Klengel, composer
1856 - Peter Henry Emerson, 1st to promote photography as an independent art
1856 - Tom O'Rourke, American boxing manager (d. 1938)
1857 - Ronald Ross, England, pathologist (Nobel 1902)
1859 - Eugust Enna, composer
1866 - Ottokar Eugen Novacek, composer
1867 - Frank Brangwyn, Wales, painter/muralist/cartoonist (Willam Morris)
1868 - Paolo Gallico, composer
1874 - Henry Clough-Leiter, composer
1876 - Raoul Laparra, composer
1881 - Ilona Durigo, Hungarian singer
1882 - Georges Braque, Argenteuil, Val-d'Oise, French cubist painter and sculptor (Bike)
1883 - Henk JFM Sneevliet, leader RSAP/editor Spartacus (Dutch-Indies)
1883 - Georgios Papanikolaou, Greek doctor, inventor of the Pap smear (d. 1962)
1886 - Joseph Achron, Latvia/US violinist/composer (Golem suite)
1891 - Fritz Rasp, Bayreuth Germany, actor (Diary of a Lost Girl)
1894 - Ásgeir Ásgeirsson, 2nd President of Iceland (d. 1972)
1896 - Charles F Pahud de Mortanges, Dutch equestrian (Olympic-gold-1928, 32)
1898 - Justin Tuveri, Italian veteran of the First World War (d. 2007)
1900 - Jos Panhuysen, author (Pornographer)
1903 - Alfred Pugsley, civil engineer
1903 - Paul Page, Birmingham AL, actor (Girl From Havana, Moth)
1904 - Alfred Earle Birney, poet
1904 - Tim Wall, cricketer (18 Tests for Australia 1928-34)
1906 - Thomas Mitchell, architect/engineer
1907 - Austin Whitaker, schoolmaster classical scholar/archivist
1907 - Daphne du Maurier, English writer (Rebecca, Parasites)
1907 - Laurence Kirwan, archaeologist
1908 - Michael Richardson, commandant (Home for Disabled Sailors)
1911 - Maxine Sullivan, [Marietta Williams], US singer/actress (Going Places)
1911 - Robert Middleman, Cin Oh, actor (Barney-Monroes)
1911 - Robert Middleton, American film and television actor (d. 1977)
1912 - Helen Craig, San Antonio TX, actress (Snake Pit, They Live by Night)
1912 - Gil Evans, Canadian musician (d. 1988)
1912 - Judah Nadich, American rabbi (d. 2007)
1913 - Sanjiva Reddy, president (India)
1913 - William R Tolbert, president Liberia (1971-80)
1913 - Lambros Konstantaras, Greek actor (d. 1985)
1914 - Joe Louis, world heavyweight boxing champion (1937-49)
1915 - John Habakkuk, principal (Jesus College in Oxford)
1917 - Paul Osmond, British senior civil servant
1917 - Wilhelmus C Wijen, [Broeder Pius], social worker (Curacao)
1918 - John Johnston, British diplomat (Rhodesia, Malaysia)
1918 - T. Balasaraswati, Bharatanatyam dancer (d.1984)
1920 - Ratu Kasmisere Mara, PM of Fiji (1960-70, 70- )/pres (1994- )
1920 - Gareth Morris, British flautist (d. 2007)
1921 - Syd[ney G] Vincent, British mine workers leader
1922 - Michael Ainsworth, British cricketer (d. 1978)
1922 - Beatrice Arthur, American actress
1924 - Harry Schwarz, South African MP and Ambassador to the US
1924 - Theodore Mann, American theatre producer and director
1926 - Beatrice Arthur, [Frankel], NY, actress (Maude, Dorothy-Golden Girls)
1926 - Wallace Breem, British author
1927 - Clive Barnes, drama critic (NY Times, NY Post)
1927 - Herbert Ross, director/choreographer (Footloose)
1927 - Archie Scott-Brown, English race car driver (d. 1958)
1928 - Édouard Molinaro, French film actor, director and screenwriter
1928 - Enrique Bolaños, President of Nicaragua
1928 - Jim Shoulders, Champion rodeo cowboy (d. 2007)
1930 - Mike Gravel, (Sen-R-Alaska)
1930 - Vernon Shaw, former president of Dominica
1931 - Eileen Diss, theatrical designer (August, Secret Places, Betrayal)
1931 - Jim Jones, reverend, poisoned over 100 in Guyana (Jonestown Massacre)
1931 - Sydney Lipworth, CEO (Monopolies & Mergers Commission)
1931 - William Utting, chief inspector (British Social Services)
1931 - Jim Jones, American cult leader (d. 1978)
1933 - Alden Ashforth, composer
1933 - Sid Morrison, (Rep-R-WA, 1981- )
1933 - Stig Gustav Schonberg, composer
1934 - Adolf Muschg, writer
1934 - Leon Wagner, baseball player (d. 2004)
1935 - Nigel Butterley, composer
1935 - Yizhak Sadai, composer
1935 - Dominic Cossa, American baritone
1936 - Alan Rayfield, governor (Long Latin Prison)
1936 - Rafael Campos, Santiago Dominican Republic, actor (Tonka)
1937 - John Cope, MP/Paymaster General
1937 - Judith Somogi, NYC, conductor (Frankfurt Opera-1982)
1937 - Roger [Joseph] Zelazny, sci-fi author (6 Hugos, Chronicles of Amber)
1937 - Zohra Lampert, NYC, actress (Doctor's Hospital)
1937 - Roch Carrier, Canadian novelist
1937 - Trevor Baylis, English inventor of the wind-up radio
1938 - Buck Taylor, Hollywood California, actor (Monroes, Gunsmoke)
1938 - Laurent Beaudoin, French Canadian businessman (Bombardier)
1938 - Giuliano Amato, Italian politician
1939 - Anthony Hide, racehorse trainer
1939 - Harvey Keitel, actor (Taxi Driver, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs)
1939 - Terry Dill, Forth Worth TX, PGA golfer (1992 Bank One Senior Classic)
1939 - William W Cobey Jr, (Rep-R-NC, 1985-87)
1939 - Hildrun Claus, German athlete
1940 - Bruce Chatwin, England, writer (On the Black Hill)
1940 - Richard Brooks, singer (Impressions)
1941 - Joe Brown, singer/guitarist
1941 - Ritchie Valens, singer (Donna, La Bamba)
1941 - Senta Berger, Vienna Austria, actress (Cast a Giant Shadow)
1942 - Jim Douglas, jazz guitarist
1942 - Vladimir A Dzhanibekov, USSR, cosmo (Soyuz 27, 39, T-6, T-12, T-13)
1943 - Mary Wells, Detroit, singer (My Guy)
1944 - Betsy Finley Ashton, broadcast journalist/author/lecturer
1944 - Carolyn Franklin, US singer/songwriter (Baby Baby Baby, Angel)
1944 - Clive Radley, cricketer (England batsman in 8 Tests 1978)
1944 - Crispin Agnew of Lochnaw, British explorer/genealogist
1944 - Armistead Maupin, American author
1945 - Magic Dick, [Richard Salwitz], harmonicaist (J Geils Band-Centerfold)
1945 - Sam Anderson, American actor
1946 - Danny Klein, NYC, rock bassist (J Geils Band-Centerfold)
1946 - Tim Pigott-Smith, actor (Sweet William, Jewel in Crown)
1947 - David Hughes, cricketer
1947 - Pete "Overend" Watts, rock bassist (Mott The Hoople-All Young Dudes)
1947 - Stephen R Donaldson, US, sci-fi author (Lord Foul's Bane)
1947 - Edgar Burcksen, Dutch film editor
1949 - Franklin Ajaye, BKln NY, comedian/actor (Jazz Singer, Car Wash)
1949 - John Glover, conductor
1949 - Overend Watts, rock bassist (Mott the Hoople-All the Young Dudes)
1949 - Zoe Wanamaker, actress (Raggedy Rawney)
1950 - Danny Kirwan, London, rocker (Fleetwood Mac)
1950 - John "Jocko" Marcellino, rocker/actor (Tagget, Hot to Trot, Rain Man)
1950 - Stevie Wonder, Saginaw, Michigan, American singer-songwriter (You are the Sunshine of My
           Love)
1951 - Paul Thompson, rock drummer (Roxy Music)
1951 - Selina Scott, TV newscaster (West 57th)
1951 - Jim Douglas, American politician, governor of Vermont
1952 - John R Kasich, (Rep-R-OH, 1983- )
1952 - Manfred Langer, Austrian/Dutch disco builder
1952 - Sew Shivnarine, cricketer (3 Tests for WI 1978, later USA captain)
1954 - Johnny Logan, Irish singer and songwriter
1956 - Aleksandr Yuriyevich Kaleri, Russia, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-14)
1956 - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Founder of the Art of Living Foundation
1957 - Claudie Andre-Deshays, France, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-24)
1957 - Eloise Broady, Houston Tx, playmate (Apr, 1988)
1957 - Alan Ball, American screenwriter, director, and producer
1957 - Andrea Klump, German terrorist
1958 - Frances Barber, Wolverhampton England, actress (Castaway)
1959 - Robert Earnshaw, racehorse trainer
1960 - Richard M "Dick" van de Toorn, actor (Pastorale)
1960 - Shannon Vessup-Millen, LA California, WPVA volleyballer (National-9th-1991)
1961 - Dennis Rodman, Trenton, New Jersey, NBA forward (Chicago Bulls)
1962 - Eduardo Palomo, Mexican actor (d. 2003)
1962 - Kathleen Jamie, Scottish poet
1962 - Sean McDonough, American sports newscaster
1962 - Paul McDermott, Australian comedian
1963 - Julian Brookhouse, rocker (Curiosity Killed Cat-Keep Your Distance)
1963 - Wally Masur, England, tennis star
1964 - Sam Randolph, Santa Barbara CA, Nike golfer (1993 New England-2nd)
1964 - Sara Gomer, England, tennis star
1964 - Stephen Colbert, American comedian and actor
1964 - Ronnie Coleman, American bodybuilder
1964 - Tom Verica, American actor
1965 - Chris Washburn, NBAer
1965 - José Antonio Delgado, Venezuelan mountain climber (d. 2006)
1965 - Hikari Ota, Japanese comedian
1965 - Tasmin Little, English violinist
1965 - Lari White, American country music singer
1966 - Kamen Vodenicharov, Bulgarian entertainer
1966 - Darius Rucker, American singer (Hootie & the Blowfish)
1966 - Nikos Aliagas, Greek TV show host
1967 - Chuck Schuldiner, American musician (Death, Control Denied) (d. 2001)
1967 - Melanie Thornton, African American German pop singer, former member of La Bouche. (d.
           2001)
1968 - Annette DeLuca, North Bergen NJ, LPGA golfer
1968 - James Harris, NFL defensive end (Minnesota Vikings)
1968 - Alison Goldfrapp, English musician
1968 - Buckethead, Guitarist
1968 - Miguel Ángel Blanco, Spanish politician (d. 1997)
1968 - PMD, American rapper
1969 - Lyle Mouton, Lafayette Louisiana, outfielder (Chic White Sox)
1969 - André Schmechta, German musician (X Marks the Pedwalk)
1970 - Doug Evans, NFL defensive back (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1970 - Giuseppe Busillo, hockey forward (Team Italy 1998)
1970 - Mark Beaufait, Royal Oak Mich, US hockey forward (Olympics-1994)
1970 - Mitch Lyons, NFL tight end (Atlanta Falcons, Pittsburgh Steelers)
1970 - Selwyn Jones, NFL defensive back (Seahawks, Den Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1971 - Hamish Pepper, Auckland NZ, laser single handed yachter (Olympics-96)
1971 - Michael Sirotka, Chicago IL, pitcher (Chic White Sox)
1971 - Rob Fredrickson, NFL linebacker (Oakland Raiders)
1971 - Tom Nalen, NFL center (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1972 - Darryl Sydor, Edmonton, NHL defenseman (Dallas Stars)
1972 - Josh Heinrich, NFL/WLAF defensive end (Lions, Barcelona Dragons)
1972 - Stefaan Maene, Belgian swimmer
1973 - Brooke Jennifer Gambrell, Boise Idaho, Miss America-Idaho (1996)
1973 - Michelle Mouser, Miss USA-Ohio (1997)
1974 - Albert Connell, wide receiver (Washington Redskins)
1974 - Lisa Jacob, 800m freestyle relay (Olympics-96)
1974 - Brian Geraghty, American actor
1974 - Tim McMahon, American hardcore singer (Mouthpiece, Hands Tied, Triple Threat)
1975 - Chris Crawford, NBA forward (Atlanta Hawks)
1976 - Mark Delaney, Welsh footballer
1977 - Diane Halber, Torrance California, fig skater (1996 Natl Collegiate champ)
1977 - Sara DeCosta, ice hockey goalie (USA, Oly-98)
1977 - Ilse DeLange, Dutch singer
1977 - Neil Hopkins, American actor
1977 - Samantha Morton, English actress
1977 - Robby Hammock, baseball player
1978 - Mike Bibby, American basketball player
1978 - Ryan Bukvich, American baseball player
1978 - Barry Zito, American baseball player
1978 - Steve Mildenhall, English football player
1978 - Dilshan Vitharana, Sri Lankan cricketer
1979 - Prince Carl Philip of Sweden
1979 - Michael Madden, American musician (Maroon 5)
1980 - Waka Inoue, Japanese gravure idol and actress
1980 - Mau Marcelo, Filipino singer
1981 - Sunny Leone, Canadian model
1981 - Jimmy Yang, American wrestler
1981 - Rebecka Liljeberg, Swedish actress
1982 - Yoko Kumada, Japanese gravure idol
1982 - Oguchi Onyewu, American footballer
1983 - Yaya Touré, Ivorian footballer
1983 - Casey Donovan, Australian singer
1983 - Grégory Lemarchal, French singer (d. 2007)
1983 - Anita Görbicz, Hungarian handball player
1984 - Caitlin Murphy, Australian actress and Model
1985 - Travis Zajac, Canadian ice hockey player
1986 - Giuliana Marino, Playboy Playmate of the Year, Germany 2005
1986 - Robert Pattinson, London, English actor (Cedric Diggory-Harry Potter, Edward Cullen-Twilight)
1986 - Scott Sutter, Swiss footballer
1987 - Hunter Parrish, American actor
1993 - Debby Ryan, American actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 13, 2013, 09:41:44 PM

This Day in History for 13th May


Famous Deaths

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Arctic explorer/Nobel Laureate
Fridtjof Nansen (1930)


384 - Servatius/Aravatius, bishop of Tongeren, dies at 65+
1162 - Géza II of Hungary
1176 - Matthias I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1119)
1312 - Theobald II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1263)
1381 - John of Chatillon, governor/viceroy of Holland, dies
1390 - Robert II the Steward, King of Scots (1371-90), dies
1573 - Takeda Shingen, Japanese warlord (b. 1521)
1619 - Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, lands advocate, beheaded
1704 - Louis Bourdaloue, French Jesuit preacher (b. 1632)
1732 - Theodor Schwartzkopff, composer, dies at 72
1742 - Ludwig IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (b. 1719)
1776 - Anton de Haen, medical Ratio medendi, dies at 71
1787 - Johann Michael Malzat, composer, dies at 38
1793 - Martin Gerbert, composer, dies at 72
1807 - Eliphalet Dyer, American statesman and judge (b. 1721)
1812 - Johann Matthias Sperger, composer, dies at 62
1831 - Christian G Korner, German lawyer, dies at 74
1832 - Georges Cuvier, French naturalist (b. 1769)
1835 - John Nash, British town planner/architect (Regent's Park), dies
1839 - Israel Ashkenazi of Shklov, found Ashkenazic community (1815), dies
1839 - Joseph Fesch, French cardinal/war commission/earl/senator, dies
1864 - Junius Daniel, Confederate brig-general, dies at 35
1866 - Nikolai Brashman, Russian mathematician (b. 1796)
1873 - Kaspar Masek, composer, dies at 79
1882 - Jules-Nicolas Crevaux, French explorer, murdered at 35
1884 - Cyrus Hall McCormick, inventor, dies
1885 - Juliana Horatia [Gatty] Ewing, author (Lob Lie-by-the-Fire), dies
1885 - Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, German physician (b. 1809)
1892 - Jean Alexander Ferdinand Poise, composer, dies at 63
1896 - Nora Perry, writer, dies
1901 - Leopoldo Alas y Ureña, a.k.a. "Clarín", Spanish novelist and literary critic (b. 1851)
1904 - Jan Boissevain, ship owner/politician, dies
1914 - R E Foster, only dual England captain at cricket & soccer, dies
1916 - Sholem Aleichem, yiddish writer (Fiddler on the Roof), dies
1921 - Jean Aicard, French poet and novelist (b. 1848)
1925 - Boris V Savinkov, Russian writer/terrorist, dies
1926 - Libert H. Boeynaems, Belgian Catholic prelate (b. 1857)
1930 - Fridtjof Nansen, Arctic explorer/diplomat (Nobel 1922), dies at 68
1930 - Helena Lange, German feminist, dies
1931 - Josif Marinkovic, composer, dies at 79
1933 - Paul Ernst, writer, dies at 67
1937 - Ekaterina Geladze, mother of Joseph Stalin (b. 1858)
1938 - Charles Edouard Guillaume, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
1942 - Hyam Greenbaum, composer, dies at 41
1945 - Tubby Hall, American musician (b. 1895)
1951 - Marianne [Goudeket-]Philips, author (Issue Beukennoot), dies at 65
1956 - Aleksandr A Fadejev, Russ author (Young Guard), commits suicide at 54
1961 - Gary Cooper, 2 time Acad award winning actor (High Noon), dies at 60
1962 - Frank Jenks, actor (Colonel Flack), dies of cancer at 60
1962 - Franz Jozef Kline, US expressionist painter, dies at 51
1962 - H Trendley Dean, doctor (introduced fluoridation into water)
1963 - Alois Hudal, bishop, helped Nazi war criminals escape (b. 1885)
1966 - Henk [Hendrik M] of Randwijk, poet/editor in chief (illegal), dies
1967 - Frank McGrath, actor (Wagon Train), dies at 64
1971 - Valerian Mikhaylovich Bogdanov-Berezovsky, composer, dies 67
1972 - Dan Blocker, American actor (Hoss-Bonanza), dies at 43
1974 - Jaime Torres Bodet, Mexican writer (b. 1902)
1975 - Bob Wills, actor (Lone Prairie), dies at 69
1978 - Albert Roberts, cricketer (5 Tests for NZ, 7 wickets), dies
1979 - Nelly Aenders, actress (In Pyama), dies at 65
1981 - Carl Weinrich, composer, dies at 76
1982 - Kara Abulfazogli Karayev, composer, dies at 64
1982 - Renzo Rossellini, Italian composer, dies at 74
1985 - Leatrice Joy, silent screen star, dies in Riverdale (Bronx) NYC at 91
1985 - Selma Diamond, comedienne (Selma-Night Court), dies of cancer at 64
1988 - Chet Baker, jazz trumpeter, fell to death out of a hotel window at 59
1990 - Venedikt Jerofejev, Russian writer, dies
1991 - Jimmy McPartland, jazz cornetist, dies of cancer at 83
1992 - Floyd Arceneaux, trumpeter, dies at 58
1992 - Gisela Elsner, writer, dies at 55
1992 - F. E. McWilliam, Northern Irish sculptor (b. 1909)
1993 - Borolas, [Joaquin Garcia], Mexican comedian (Santa Sangre), dies at 71
1993 - Evert "Eef" Dolman, Dutch cyclist (Olympic-gold-1964), dies at 47
1993 - Joaquin Garcia, Mexican comic actor, dies of heart attack at 71
1994 - Arthur Basil Cotle, medievalist, dies at 77
1994 - Duncan Hamilton, driver, dies at 74
1994 - Ruth Gillette, actress (Wild Gold), dies of cancer at 88
1995 - Cecil Marley, cricketer (WICBC pres 1971-74, Jamaican capt 1946), dies
1996 - John "Jack" Baines, mountaineering publisher, dies at 57
1999 - Gene Sarazen, American golfer (b. 1902)
2000 - Paul Bartel, American actor (b. 1938)
2001 - R.K. Narayan, Indian novelist (b. 1906)
2001 - Jason Miller, American playwright (b. 1939)
2002 - Valeri Lobanovsky, Ukrainian footballer and manager (b. 1939)
2002 - Ruth Cracknell, Australian actress (b. 1925)
2005 - George Dantzig, American mathematician (b. 1914)
2005 - Michael Ross, American serial killer (b. 1959)
2005 - Eddie Barclay, French record producer (b. 1921)
2006 - Jaroslav Pelikan, American historian (b. 1923)
2006 - Johnnie Wilder, Jr., American singer (b. 1949)
2008 - Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Sheikh of Kuwait (b. 1930)
2008 - Ron Stone, American television reporter (b. 1936)
2009 - Rabbi Meir Brandsdorfer, member of the Rabbinical Court of the Edah HaChareidis, Jerusalem
2009 - Frank Aletter, American character actor (b. 1926)
2011 - Derek Boogaard, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1982)
2011 - Bruce Ricker, American jazz and blues documentarian (b. 1942)
2012 - Donald "Duck" Dunn, American bassist, dies at 70

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 14, 2013, 11:17:26 AM

This Day in History for 14th May


Historical Events

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The Sun King Louis XIV                             Naturalist Charles Darwin                      26th US President
                                                                                                                               Theodore Roosevelt

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Author Virginia Woolf                            33rd US President Harry Truman                 Jewish Victim & Diarist
                                                                                                                                       of the Holocaust
                                                                                                                                            Anne Frank

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11th Panchen Lama Gedhun Choekyi Nyima


649 - Theodore I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1027 - Robert II, the Vrome, names son Henry I, king of France
1264 - Battle at Lewes during the 2nd Barons War: Simon van Leicester beats English King Henry III
1483 - Coronation of Charles VIII of France ("Charles l'Affable").
1509 - Battle of Agnadello, French beat Venitians in Northern Italy
1576 - Dutch Council of State replaced by Council of Beroerten
1607 - 1st permanent English settlement in New World, Jamestown, Va
1608 - The Protestant Union is founded in Auhausen.
1610 - Assassination of Henri IV of France, bringing Louis XIII to the throne.
1638 - Admiral Adam Westerwolt conquerors Batticaloa, Ceylon
1643 - Louis XIV (4) becomes King of France
1664 - Turkish great Kiprulu attacks 120,000 Donau soldiers
1702 - England & Netherlands declares war on France & Spain
1702 - Swedish troops under King Charles XII occupy Warsaw
1747 - A British fleet under Admiral George Anson defeats the French at first battle of Cape
           Finisterre.
1767 - British government disbands Americans import duty on tea
1787 - Delegates gather in Phila to draw up US constitution
1796 - 1st smallpox inoculation administered, by Edward Jenner
1800 - Friedrich von Schiller's "Macbeth," premieres in Weimar
1804 - Lewis & Clark set out from St Louis for Pacific Coast
1811 - Paraguay gains independence from Spain (Natl Day)
1832 - Felix Mendelssohn's "Hebrides," premieres
1835 - Charles Darwin reaches Coquimbo in Northern Chile
1842 - Illustrated London News; the world's first illustrated weekly newspaper, begins publication
1845 - Utrecht-Arnhem Railway opens
1853 - Gail Borden patents her process for condensed milk
1861 - The Canellas meteorite, an 859-gram chondrite-type meteorite, strikes the earth near
           Barcelona, Spain.
1862 - Adolphe Nicole of Switzerland patents chronograph
1863 - American Civil War: The Battle of Jackson, MS takes place.
1868 - Japanese Boshin War: end of the Battle of Utsunomiya Castle, former Shogunate forces
           withdraw northward to Aizu by way of Nikkō.
1874 - 1st admission charge at a football game, Harvard beats Uni of McGill (Montreal) 3-0
1878 - Vaseline is 1st sold (registered trademark for petroleum jelly)
1879 - The first group of 463 Indian indentured labourers arrive in Fiji aboard the Leonidas.
1884 - Anti-Monopoly party forms in US
1885 - 11th Kentucky Derby: Babe Henderson aboard Joe Cotton wins in 2:37.25
1886 - 12th Kentucky Derby: Paul Duffy aboard Ben Ali wins in 2:36.50
1888 - 14th Kentucky Derby: George Covington aboard MacBeth II wins in 2:38.00
1889 - The children's charity the NSPCC is launched in London.
1890 - 16th Kentucky Derby: Isaac Murphy aboard Riley wins in 2:45
1892 - Vitesse 1892 soccer team forms in Arnhem
1894 - Fire in Boston bleachers spreads to 170 adjoining buildings
1896 - Lowest US temperature in May recorded (-10°F-Climax, Colo)
1897 - Great-Britain signs treaty with Emperor Menelik II of Abyssinia
1903 - President Theodore Roosevelt visits SF
1904 - 1st Olympics in US are held (St Louis)
1905 - 2nd official intl soccer match, Neth beats Belgium 4-0
1906 - Flagpole at the White Sox ballpark breaks during pennant-raising
1908 - 1st passenger flight in an airplane
1910 - Canada authorizes issuing of silver dollar coins
1913 - French Hals museum opens in Harleem Netherlands
1913 - Wash Senator Walter Johnson ends record scorless streak at 56 innings
1914 - Chic Jim Scott no-hits Cleve, gives up 2 hits in 10th & loses 1-0
1918 - Sunday baseball is made legal in Wash DC
1919 - 45th Preakness: Johnny Loftus aboard Sir Barton wins in 1:53
1919 - Pope Benedictus XV publishes encyclical In hac tanta
1920 - Wash Senator Walter Johnson wins his 300th game vs Detroit
1920 - Giants inform Yankees that the lease allowing them to play in the Polo Grounds will not be
           renewed at end of 1920 season
1921 - Florence Allen is 1st woman judge to sentence a man to death
1921 - Mussolini's fascists obtains 29 parliament seats
1925 - Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway is published.
1927 - "Ain't She Sweet?" hits #1 on the pop singles chart by Ben Bernie
1927 - 53rd Kentucky Derby: Linus McAtee aboard Whiskery wins in 2:06
1927 - Cap Arcona is launched at the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg.
1927 - The University of Chicago's local collegiate organization, Phi Sigma, becomes incorporated
           under Illinois law as Eta Sigma Phi, the National Honorary Classical Fraternity.
1928 - John McGraw is knocked down by a taxicab & suffers a broken leg
1931 - Ådalen shootings: five people are killed in Ådalen, Sweden, as soldiers open fire on an
          unarmed trade union demonstration.
1932 - "We Want Beer!" parade in NY
1935 - Griffith Planetarium opens in LA
1935 - LA's Griffith Planetarium opens, 3rd in US
1935 - Plebiscite in Philippines ratifies independence agreement
1935 - Northamptonshire County Cricket Club gains (over Somerset at Taunton by 48 runs) what
           proved to be their last victory for 99 matches, a record in the County Championship. Their
           next Championship win was not until May 29, 1939.
1938 - 64th Preakness: Maurice Peters aboard Dauber wins in 1:59.8
1938 - English soccer team beats Nazi-Germany, 6-3
1939 - Lina Medina becomes the world's youngest confirmed mother in medical history at the age of
           five.
1940 - Admiral Furstner departs to England
1940 - Boston's Jimmie Foxx HR goes over Comiskey Park's left field roof
1940 - German breakthrough at Sedan
1940 - Lord Beaverbrook appointed British minister of aircraft production
1940 - Nazi bombs Rotterdam (600-900 dead), Netherlands surrender to Germany
1940 - World War II: The Netherlands surrenders to Germany.
1941 - 3,600 Parisian Jews arrested
1942 - US Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) forms
1943 - Sinking of the Australian Hospital Ship Centaur off the coast of Queensland, by a Japanese
           submarine.
1944 - 91 German bombers harass Bristol
1944 - British troops occupy Kohima
1944 - Gen Rommel, Speidel & von Stulpnagel attempt to assassinate Hitler
1945 - Kamikaze-Zero strikes US aircraft carrier Enterprise
1945 - US offensive on Okinawa, Sugar Loaf conquered
1946 - Paul Hindemith's "For Those We Love," premieres
1948 - Israel declares independence from under British administration
1948 - Israeli Radio Station Kol Yisrael's 1st broadcast
1948 - Jordan's Arab League captures Atarot, north of Jerusalem
1948 - US grants Israel de facto recognition
1948 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
1948 - WBEN (now WIVB) TV channel 4 in Buffalo, NY (CBS) begins broadcasting
1949 - "Love Life" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 252 performances
1949 - 75th Preakness: Ted Atkinson aboard Capot wins in 1:56
1949 - Harry Truman signs bill establishing a rocket test range at Cape Canaveral
1950 - Pitts Johnny Hopp goes 6 for 6 including 2 HRs
1951 - "Flahooley" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 40 performances
1951 - Ernie Kovacs Show, TV Variety debut on NBC
1951 - Sammy Fain/EY Harburg's musical "Flahooley," premieres in NYC
1954 - Belgium shortens military conscription from 20 to 18 months
1955 - US performs nuclear test at Pacific Ocean
1955 - Warsaw Pact is signed by the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany,
           Hungary, Poland & Romania
1957 - "New Girl in Town" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 432 performances
1957 - Bob Merrill's musical "New Girl in Town," premieres in NYC
1960 - "At the Drop of a Hat" closes at John Golden NYC after 216 perfs
1960 - USSR launch 1st (unmanned) space capsule
1960 - Virgil Thomson's "Missa Pro Defunctis," premieres in Potsdam NY
1961 - Bus with 1st group of Freedom Riders bombed & burned in Alabama
1961 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Columbus Golf Open
1961 - Stirling Moss wins the 1961 Monaco Grand Prix
1962 - Ex-pres Milovan Djilas sentenced to 5 years
1962 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1963 - Kuwait is 111th member of the United Nations
1964 - Underground America Day is 1st observed
1965 - 2nd Chinese atom bomb explodes
1965 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1966 - 1st reported monitoring of pirate radio station WBBH (NJ)
1966 - A Lover's Concerto by Mrs Miller hits #95
1967 - Mickey Mantle's 500th HR off Oriole's Stu Miller
1967 - Pirate Radio Station 270 (England) closes down
1968 - Beatles announce formation of Apple Corp
1968 - Czech government announces liberalizing reforms under Alexander Dubcek
1968 - RAF-leader Andreas Baader sentenced to 3 years in West Berlin
1969 - Abortion & contraception legalized in Canada
1969 - Last Chevrolet Corsair built
1970 - Cops kill 2 students in racial disturbance (Jackson State U, Miss)
1970 - Harry A Blackmun appointed to Supreme Court
1970 - NYC local newspaper "Our Town" begins publishing
1970 - RAF-leader Andreas Baader freed after serving 2 years in West Berlin
1970 - The Red Army Faction is established in Germany.
1972 - 24th Emmy Awards: All in the Family, Carrol O'Conner & Jean Stapleton
1972 - In Willie Mays 1st game as a NY Met his homer beats SF Giants, 5-4
1973 - Gold hits record $102.50 an ounce in London
1973 - Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, last airs on NBC-TV
1973 - Skylab launched, 1st Space Station
1973 - US Supreme court approves equal rights to females in military
1974 - Symbionese Liberation Army destroyed in shoot-out, 6 killed
1975 - Dynamo Kiev wins 15th Europe Cup II
1975 - French press reports massive deportation from Cambodia
1975 - US forces raid Cambodian island of Koh Tang to free Mayaguez ship
1975 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1976 - Lowell Thomas ends 46 years as radio network reporter
1976 - Oil tanker Urqui Ola explodes off Spanish coast
1977 - English football international Bobby Moore retires
1977 - KC Royals Jim Colborn no-hits Texas Rangers, 6-0
1977 - Netherlands State Delta Kappa Gamma Society forms
1977 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens sweep Boston Bruins in 4 games
1978 - "Working" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 25 performances
1978 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Greater Baltimore Golf Classic
1978 - First round of the presidential elections in Upper Volta.
1980 - "Musical Chairs" opens at Rialto Theater NYC for 15 performances
1980 - Dept of Health & Human Services begins operation
1980 - Valencia wins 20th Europe Cup II
1980 - Bucky Dent hits an inside park HR, Royals walk 14 Yanks including 5 with bases loaded, Yanks
           win 16-3
1981 - 35th NBA Championship: Bost Celtics beat Houston Rockets, 4 games to 2
1981 - NASA launches space vehicle S-192
1982 - Guinea adopts constitution
1983 - "She Blinded Me with Science" by Thomas Dolby hits #5
1983 - Oilers 1-Isles 5-Stanley Cup-Isles hold 3-0 lead
1983 - Rosa Mota runs female world record 20k (1:06:55.5)
1984 - 19th Academy of Country Music Awards: Alabama
1986 - Institute for War documents publishes Anne Franks complete diary
1986 - Reggie Jackson hit his 537th HR passing Mickey Mantle into 6th place
1986 - Pride of Baltimore lost at sea.
1987 - "Little Shop of Horrors" is released in Germany
1987 - Colt revolver (Peacemaker) of 1873 sells for $242,000
1988 - "Mail" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 36 performances
1988 - 1st non-pitcher (Jose Oquendo) in 20 years to get a decision in a baseball game, he & St
           Louis Cards lose to Braves 7-5 in 19 inn
1988 - Carrollton bus collision: a drunk driver going the wrong way on Interstate 71 near Carrollton,
           Kentucky, United States hits a converted school bus carrying a church youth group. The
           crash and ensuing fire kill 27.
1989 - 1st Tour de Trump bicycle race run (Atlanta)
1989 - 1st time since 1948 a player hit 6 consecutive doubles (Kirby Puckett)
1989 - Cindy Rarick wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Golf Classic
1989 - Demonstration for democratic reforms in Beijing's Tiananmen square
1989 - Final TV episode of "Family Ties" airs
1989 - Moonlighting, TV Crime Drama last airs on ABC
1990 - 46th time opposing pitchers hit HR, Valenzuela (Dodgers)/Gross (Expos)
1990 - Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,821.53
1991 - 42 die in a train collision is Japan
1991 - Robert M Gates becomes head of CIA
1991 - World's Largest Burrito created at 1,126 lbs
1991 - Winnie Mandela sentenced to 6 years for complicity in kidnapping & beating of four youths,
           one of whom died, She is freed pending appeal
1992 - WIBC Bowling Queens won by Cindy Coburn-Carroll
1994 - Dave Winfield passes Frank Robinson for 12th on RBI list with 1,617
1994 - FA cup final at Wembley Stadium London
1995 - "My Thing of Love" closes at Beck Theater NYC after 16 performances
1995 - 41st McDonald's LPGA Championship won by Kelly Robbins
1995 - Eddie Murray of Indians hits his 463rd career home run (ties for 18th)
1995 - Dalai Lama proclaims 6-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima 11th reincarnation of Panchen Lama,
           Tibet's 2nd most sr spiritual leader
1996 - NY Yankee Dwight Gooden no-hits Seattle Mariners 2-0
1997 - Baseball's Exec Council suspends NY Yank owner George Steinbrenner
1998 - Last episode of Seinfeld on NBC (commercials are $2M for 30 seconds)
2002 - Ten members of the Darwin-based Network Against Prohibition invade the Legislative
           Assembly of the Northern Territory of Australia.
2004 - The Constitutional Court of South Korea overturns the impeachment of President Roh Moo-
           hyun.
2005 - Pope Benedict XVI observes his first beatification, elevating Blessed Marianne of Molokai on
           the road to canonization into sainthood.
2005 - The former USS America (CV-66), a decommissioned supercarrier of the United States Navy,
           is deliberately sunk in the Atlantic Ocean after four weeks of live-fire exercises. She is the
           largest ship ever to be disposed of as a target in a military exercise.
2012 - 1,500 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons agree to end mass hunger strike
2012 - Stanford University scientists develop prototype bionic eye

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 14, 2013, 11:24:30 AM

This Day in History for 14th May


Famous Weddings

1962 - Princess Sophia of Greece weds Don Juan Carlos of Spain
1994 - Mayflower Madame Sydney Biddle Barrows (42) weds television producer Darnay Hoffman (46)
           at Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City
1996 - Actor Antonio Banderas (35) weds actress Melanie Griffith (38) at the Westminster register
           office in London
1999 - "Sunset Beach" actor Clive Robertson (33) weds actress Libby Purvis (30) at sunset on
           Necker Island
2004 - Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark (35), eldest son of Margrethe II of Denmark and heir
           apprent, marries Mary Elizabeth Donaldson (32), at Copenhagen Cathedral
2005 - The Beverly Hills, 90210 actor Jason Priestley (35) weds British makeup artist Naomi Lowde at
           the One & Only Ocean Club on Paradise Island in the Bahamas
2011 - Country singer Blake Shelton (34) weds singer Miranda Lambert (27) at Don Strange Ranch in
           Boerne, Texas

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 14, 2013, 11:54:58 AM

This Day in History for 14th May


Famous Birthdays

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Director George Lucas (1944)                   Actress Cate Blanchett (1969)                Facebook Founder
                                                                                                                             Mark Zuckerberg (1984)


1316 - Charles IV, King of Bohemia (1346-78) and Holy Roman Emperor (1355-78). Dies 1378
1553 - Margaret of Valois, wife of Henry IV (d. 1615)
1652 - Johann Philipp Fortsch, composer
1666 - Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia (d. 1732)
1679 - Peder [Nielsen] Horrebow, Danish astronomer
1686 - Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, Prussia, inventor (thermometer) [NS=5/24]
1699 - Hans Joachim von Zieten, Prussian field marshal (d. 1786)
1701 - William Emerson, English mathematician (d. 1782)
1707 - Antonio Teixeira, composer
1710 - Adolf Frederik, king of Sweden (1751-70)
1725 - Ludovico Manin, last Doge of Venice (d. 1802)
1727 - Thomas Gainsborough, English painter (Blue Boy), baptized
1737 - George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, British statesman (d. 1806)
1752 - Albrecht Thaer, German agronomist (d. 1828)
1752 - Timothy Dwight, American theologian (d. 1817)
1771 - Robert Owen, England, factory owner/socialist
1781 - Friedrich von Raumer, German historian/parliamentarian
1798 - Frantisek Palacky, Czech historian
1805 - Johann Peter Emilius Hartmann, composer
1814 - Charles Beyer, German-British locomotive engineer (d. 1876)
1816 - Gualtiero Sanelli, composer
1817 - Alexander Kaufmann, German poet (d. 1893)
1830 - George Pierce Doles, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
1832 - Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician (d. 1903)
1836 - James Patrick Major, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1877
1846 - Arnold Kerdijk, Dutch lib politician/founder (Social Weekly newspaper)
1846 - Pieter W A Cort van de Linden, Dutch premier (1913-18)
1864 - Eleanor Everest Freer, composer
1867 - Kurt Eisner, German premier of revolutionary Bavaria (1918-19)
1870 - Zygmunt Denis Antoni Stojowski, composer
1872 - Elia Dalla Costa, Italian cardinals (d. 1961)
1878 - James L. Wilkinson, American baseball executive (d. 1964)
1880 - Wilhelm List, German field marshal (d. 1971)
1881 - Ed Walsh, American baseball pitcher, lowest lifetime ERA (1.82)
1881 - G. Murray Hulbert, American politician (d. 1950)
1883 - Jan Olieslagers, Belgian aviation pioneer (Antwerp Devil)
1883 - Julian Eltinge, Mass, vaudeville star/greatest female impersonator
1885 - Otto Klemperer, Breslau Germany, conductor/composer (Das Ziel)
1888 - Miles Mander, Wolverhampton England, actor (Tower of London)
1890 - Alex Pompez, American baseball executive (d. 1974)
1891 - Egon Kornauth, composer
1892 - Arthur Vincent Lourie, composer
1892 - Felix Petyrek, composer
1893 - Ivan Alexandrovich Vishnegradsky, composer
1893 - Louis Verneuil, French playwright (d. 1952)
1895 - Lew Lehr, Phila, comedian (Stop Me if I heard this One)
1895 - Renato Lunelli, composer
1897 - Sidney Bechet, US, jazz clarinetist/saxophonist/band leader
1897 - Ed Ricketts, American marine biologist (d. 1948)
1898 - Bonifacio Gil Garcia, composer
1898 - Zutty Singleton, US jazz drummer
1899 - Pierre Victor Auger, French physicist (d. 1993)
1899 - Earle Combs, American baseball player (d. 1976)
1900 - Billie Dove, [Lilian Bohny], NYC, actress (Black Pirate, Stolen Bride)
1900 - Leo Smit, composer
1900 - Hal Borland, American author (d. 1978)
1900 - Edgar Wind, German art historian (d. 1971)
1901 - Robert Ritter, German psychologist (d. 1951)
1903 - Billie Dove, American actress (d. 1997)
1904 - Hans Albert Einstein, American professor (d. 1973)
1904 - Marcel Junod, Swiss physician (d. 1961)
1905 - Jean Daniélou, French cardinal (d. 1974)
1906 - Hastings Kamuzu Banda, president of Malawi (1964-94)
1906 - James Flavin, Portland Me, actor (Man With a Camera)
1907 - Dick Bentley, entertainer
1907 - Mohammed Ayub Khan, general/premier/president (Pakistan)
1907 - Hans von der Groeben, German diplomat (d. 2005)
1907 - Johnny Moss, American poker player (d. 1995)
1909 - Vladimir Alatortsev, USSR, International Chess Master (1950)
1911 - Hans Vogt, composer
1911 - J Borremans, Belgian politician (communist)/MP
1912 - Marguerite Fawdry, museum curator
1915 - Harry Joseph Chick Daugherty, trombonist (Spike Jones & City Slickers)
1916 - Lance Dossor, British-born concert pianist (d. 2005)
1916 - Del Moore, American comedian (d. 1970)
1916 - Marco Zanuso, Italian architect
1917 - Herta Ryder, literary agent
1917 - Lou Harrison, Portland Oregon, composer (Rapunzel)
1917 - Lou Harrison, American composer (d. 2003)
1918 - Arthur McIntyre, cricket wicket-keeper (England 3 times early 50's)
1919 - Heloise Bowles, columnist Heloise's mother (Hints from Heloise)
1919 - Maarten Vrolijk, Dutch soc-dem party minister (CRM 1965-66)
1919 - Solange Chaput-Rolland, French-Canadian journalist and politician (d. 2001)
1919 - John Hope, American meteorologist (d. 2002)
1921 - Arve Opsahl, Norwegian actor (d. 2007)
1922 - Agha Hasan Abedi, banker
1922 - Richard Deacon, actor (Mel Cooley-Dick Van Dyke Show)
1922 - Franjo Tuđman, Croatian politician (d. 1999)
1923 - Diane Arbus, [Nemerov], NYC, photographer (Vogue/Harper's Bazaar)
1923 - Adnan Pachachi, Iraqi politician
1924 - Joly Braga Santos, composer
1925 - Patrice Munsel, Spokane Wash, soprano (Patrice Munsel Show)
1925 - Tristram Ogilvie Cary, composer
1925 - Al Porcino, American jazz trumpet player
1926 - Cestmir Gregor, composer
1926 - Eric Morecambe, London, comedian (Morecambe & Wise, Picadilly Palace)
1927 - Shirley Spork, LPGA golfer
1927 - Herbert W. Franke, Austrian writer
1928 - Will "Dub Jones, American singer (The Coasters) (d. 2000)
1928 - Frederik H. Kreuger, Dutch scientist and inventor
1929 - Vladimir Antoshin, USSR, International Chess Grandmaster (1964)
1929 - Henry McGee, British actor (d. 2006)
1929 - Gump Worsley, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007)
1929 - Barbara Branden, Canadian writer and lecturer
1930 - Edward V "Ned" Regan, Planfield NJ, (Controller-R-NY, 1978- )
1930 - Phillipo Seed, social work academic
1931 - Alvin Augustus Lucier Jr, composer
1932 - Robert Bechtle, American painter
1933 - John Mortimore, cricketer (England off-spinner 1959-64)
1933 - Lajos Kovacs, Hungary, actor (Wings of Desire)
1933 - Frank Harte, Irish singer and song collector
1933 - Michael Chevalier, German voice actor
1934 - Frederik von Pallandt, singer
1934 - Siân Phillips, Welsh actress
1936 - Bobby Darin, [Walden Waldo Cassotto], Bronx, singer (Mack the Knife)
1937 - Dick Howser, shortstop (Kansas City A's), manager (KC Royals)
1937 - Eric Herfst, Dutch cabaret performer/actor (Floris)
1937 - Peter Frederic Williams, composer
1939 - M N Fathulin, cosmonaut
1940 - Chay Blyth, English sailor (Alone in Order to the World)
1940 - Troy Shondell, American singer
1940 - 'H'. Jones, British Soldier (VC recipient) (d. 1982)
1941 - Nasim-ul-Ghani, cricketer (Pakistani left-handed all-rounder 1958-73)
1942 - Byron L Dorgan, (Rep-D-ND, 1981- )
1942 - Gerald Mark Shapiro, composer
1942 - Lord McAlpine, English contractor/multi-millionaire
1942 - Tony Perez, baseball player
1942 - Valeriy Brumel, Soviet athlete (d. 2003)
1942 - Rüdiger Vogler, German actor
1943 - Alan B Mollohan, (Rep-D-WV, 1983- )
1943 - Dereck "Lek" Leckenby, guitarist
1943 - Elizabeth Ray, Marshall NC, congressman Wayne Hays' lover
1943 - Jack Bruce, Lanarkshire Scotland, bassist (Cream-White Room)
1943 - Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, President of Iceland
1944 - Francesca Annis, London England, actress (Madame Bovary, Dune)
1944 - Gene Cornish, Ottawa, rock bassist/vocalist (Fotomaker, Rascals)
1944 - George Lucas, Modesto CA, director (Star Wars, Indiana Jones)
1944 - Troy Shondell, rocker (Many Sides of Troy Shondell)
1945 - Yochanan Vollach, Israeli footballer and president of Maccabi Haifa
1946 - Alan David Marks, pianist/composer
1946 - Derek Lek Leckenby, rock guitarist (Herman's Hermits-Kinda Hush)
1946 - Robert Jarvik, surgeon/inventor (Jarvik 7 artificial heart)
1947 - Al Ciner, Chicago Ill, rock guitarist (American Breed)
1947 - Dick "Dirt" Tidrow, baseball pitcher (NY Yankees)
1947 - Karin Struck, writer
1947 - Tamara Dobson, Baltimore MD, actress (Amazons, Cleopatra Jones)
1948 - Bob Woolmer, cricketer (England batsman mid-70's)
1948 - Dave LaRoche, baseball pitcher (NY Yankees)
1948 - Walter Olkewicz, Bayonne NJ, actor (Last Resort, Wizards & Warriors)
1949 - Klaus-Peter Thaler, German cyclist
1950 - Mark Blum, Newark NJ, actor (Worth Winning, Blind Date, Presidio)
1951 - Robert Zemeckis, American film director (Forrest Gump, Back to the Future)
1951 - Jay Beckenstein, saxophonist (Spyro Gyra-Morning Dance)
1951 - Seasan Hubley, [Susan], NYC, actress (Vice Squad, Hardcore)
1952 - David Byrne, Dumbarton Scotland, rock guitarist/singer (Talking Heads-Burning Down the
           House)
1952 - Donald R McMonagle, Flint Mich, Mjr USAF/astronaut (STS 39, 54, 66)
1952 - M J Smith, LPGA golfer
1952 - Scott Irwin, American professional wrestler (d. 1987)
1953 - Bill Meek, Upland PA, prone rifle (Olympics-8th-1996)
1953 - Tom Cochrane, Toronto Canada, rock vocalist/guitarist (Red Rider)
1953 - Norodom Sihamoni, King of Cambodia
1954 - Jens Sparschuh, German writer
1955 - Peter Kirsten, cricketer (South African middle-order batsman)
1955 - [Jose] Dennis Martinez, Nicaragua, pitcher (Orioles, Expos, Indians)
1956 - Gillian [Marucha] Bradshaw, US, sci-fi author (Hawk of May)
1956 - Steve Hogarth, Kendal England, vocals (Marillion-Clutching at Straws)
1957 - William G Gregory, Lockport NY, Mjr USAF/Astronaut (STS 67)
1957 - Leon White, American professional wrestler
1958 - Christine Brennan, American sports columnist
1959 - Connie Brighton, Wichita Falls TX, playmate (Sept, 1982)
1959 - Mike Quick, NFL wide receiver (Philadelphia Eagles)
1959 - Patrick Bruel, Algerian/French actor/rock vocalist (Coup of Sirocco)
1960 - Carlyle Best, cricketer (WI batsman late 80's)
1960 - Frank Nobilo, Auckland NZ, Australasia golfer
1960 - Anne Clark, English singer
1960 - Steve Williams, American wrestler
1961 - Tim Roth, London England, actor (Reservoir Dogs, Vincent & Theo)
1961 - Ulrike Folkerts, German actress
1961 - Alain Vigneault, Canadian ice hockey coach
1962 - C C Deville, rocker (Poison-Talk Dirty to Me)
1962 - Ian Astbury, Merseyside, rock vocalist (Cult-Fire Woman)
1963 - Pat Borders, Columbus OH, catcher (California Angels)
1964 - James M Kelly, Burlington Iowa, Capt USAF/astronaut
1964 - Nancy Sorel, actress (Generations, Black Foix)
1964 - Suzy Kolber, American sportscaster
1965 - Curt Harnett, Toronto Ontario, sprint cyclist (Olympics-bronze-92/96)
1965 - Dave Widell, NFL center/guard (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1965 - Joey Cora, Caguas Puerto Rico, infielder (Seattle Mariners)
1965 - Kelvin Martin, NFL wide receiver (Philadelphia Eagles)
1965 - Eoin Colfer, Irish writer
1966 - Fab Morvan, France, Lip Syncher (Milli Vanilli)
1966 - Fabrice Morvan, Guadeloupe, singer (Milli Vanilli-Girl You Know)
1966 - Leroy Blugh, CFL defensive end (Edmonton Eskimos)
1966 - Mark Jackson, NBA guard (Indiana Pacers)
1966 - Pooh Richardson, NBA guard (LA Clippers)
1966 - Marianne Denicourt, French actress
1966 - Raphael Saadiq, American musician (Tony! Toni! Toné!)
1967 - Natasha Elaine Kaiser-Brown, Des Moines Iowa, 400m runner
1967 - Shaun Creighton, Australian distance runner (Olympics-96)
1967 - Tony Siragusa, NFL defensive tackle (Indianapolis Colts, Balt Ravens)
1967 - Valeria Marini, Rome Italy, sports commentator (Italian Soccer)
1968 - Hiroshi Matsuura, hockey forward (Team Japan 1998)
1969 - David William Wood, Boston, rocker (New Kids-Lovin' You Forever)
1969 - Cate Blanchett, Melbourne, Victoria, Australian actress (Elizabeth, Galadriel-The Lord of the
           Rings)
1970 - Natasha Ryan, LA California, actress (Amy-Ladies' Man)
1970 - Sylvester Stanley, WLAF defensive tackle (Rhein Fire)
1971 - Raphael Wiggins, Oakland California, rapper (Lifelines)
1971 - Sofia Coppola, American director
1972 - Chad Cascadden, NFL linebacker (NY Jets)
1972 - Gabriel Mann, American actor
1972 - Mark Ruskell, England-born Scottish politician
1973 - John Davis, WLAF tight end (Amsterdam Admirals, Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1973 - Shanice, [Wilson], Pittsburgh Pa, vocalist (Discovery, Loving You)
1973 - Voshon Lenard, NBA guard (Miami Heat)
1973 - Natalie Appleton, Canadian-born singer
1973 - Anais Granofsky, Canadian actress and director
1973 - Julian White, English rugby union footballer
1974 - Ken Belanger, Sault-ste-marie Ca, NHL left wing (NY Islanders)
1974 - Keram Malichi-Sanchez, actor (No Contest, Catwalk, Boulevard)
1974 - Jennifer Allan, American model
1975 - Carmen Klomp, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1975 - Nicki Sørensen, Danish road bicycle racer
1975 - Salim Iles, Algerian swimmer
1976 - Terrance Cauthen, Trenton NJ, lightweight boxer (Olympics-bronze-96)
1976 - Hunter Burgan, American musician (AFI)
1976 - Brian Lawrence, American baseball player
1976 - Martine McCutcheon, British actress
1977 - Anca Barna, Cluj Romania, tennis star (semifinals 1995 ITF Poland)
1977 - Cesarina Mejia, Miss Dominican Republic Universe (1997)
1977 - Jayna Hefford, ice hockey forward (Canada, Oly-98)
1977 - Sophie Anderton, English model and television personality
1977 - Roy Halladay, American baseball player
1977 - Ada Nicodemou, Australian actress
1978 - Heather Brink, Lincoln Neb, gymnast (Olympics-96)
1978 - André Macanga, Angolan footballer
1978 - Gustavo Varela, Uruguayan footballer
1978 - Eddie House, American basketball player
1978 - Brent Harvey, Australian footballer
1979 - Carlos Tenorio, Ecuadorian footballer
1979 - Clinton Morrison, English-born Irish footballer
1980 - Eugene Martineau, Dutch decathlete
1980 - Hugo Southwell, Scottish rugby union footballer
1980 - Zdeněk Grygera, Czech footballer
1981 - Sarbel, Greek-born singer
1982 - Ai Shibata, Japanese swimmer
1982 - BeardyMan, English beatboxer
1983 - Amber Tamblyn, Santa Monica California, actress (Emily Bowen-Gen Hospital)
1983 - Anahí, Mexican actress and singer (RBD)
1983 - Tom Welham, British musician (Thirteen Senses)
1984 - Gary Ablett, Jr., Australian rules footballer
1984 - Michael Rensing, German footballer
1984 - Nigel Reo-Coker, English footballer
1984 - Mark Zuckerberg, White Plains, New York, American internet entrepreneur and founder of
           Facebook
1985 - Sally Martin, American actress
1986 - Camila Sodi, Mexican actress
1987 - Franck Songo'o, Cameroonian footballer
1987 - Francois Steyn, South African rugby union footballer
1990 - Emily Samuelson, American ice dancer
1993 - Miranda Cosgrove, American actress and singer

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 14, 2013, 12:00:50 PM

This Day in History for 14th May


Famous Deaths

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Founder of Heinz                                  Singer/Actor Frank Sinatra (1998)
Henry John Heinz (1919)


347 - Pachomius, Egyptian monastery founder/abbot (Coenobieten), dies
649 - Theodore, Greek Pope (642-49) (excommunicated by Paul II), dies
964 - John XII, [Octavianus], Pope (955-64), dies
1470 - Charles VIII of Sweden (b. 1409)
1565 - Nicolaus von Amsdorf, German reform theologist, dies
1574 - Guru Amar Das, third Sikh Guru (b. 1479)
1608 - Charles III, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1543)
1610 - Henry IV, 1st Bourbon King of France (1572, 89-1610), murdered at 56
1643 - Louis XIII, King of France (1610-43), dies at 41
1649 - Friedrich Spanheim, Dutch theologian (b. 1600)
1669 - Georges de Scudéry, French writer (b. 1601)
1688 - Antoine Furetière, French writer (b. 1619)
1726 - John B Wellekens, poet/painter (Wedding Guests), dies
1726 - Moshe Darshan, Rabbi/author (Torat Ahsam), dies
1742 - Dominique Marie Valet, French RC/old-catholic bishop, dies at 64
1754 - Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée, French writer (b. 1692)
1761 - Thomas Simpson, English mathematician (rule of Simpson), dies at 50
1801 - Johann Ernst Altenburg, composer, dies at 66
1818 - Matthew Gregory Lewis, English novelist (b. 1775)
1820 - Paul Friedrich Struck, composer, dies at 43
1832 - John van Speijk, Dutch heroic sailor, buried
1833 - Johann Wilhelm Cornelius von Konigslow, composer, dies at 88
1847 - Fanny Cacilia Mendelssohn Hensel, composer, dies at 41
1860 - Ludwig Bechstein, German writer (b. 1801)
1863 - Emile Racine Gauthier Prudent, composer, dies at 46
1864 - William N Green Jr, Union brig-general, dies
1870 - Ramon Vilanova y Barrera, composer, dies at 69
1873 - Gideon Brecher, Austrian physician and writer (b. 1797)
1877 - John Roberts, composer, dies at 54
1878 - Ookubo Toshimichi, Japanese statesman, samurai, and one of the three great nobles who led
           the Meiji Restoration (b. 1830)
1887 - Lysander Spooner, American philosopher (b. 1808)
1889 - Volney E. Howard, American politician (b. 1809)
1893 - Earnest E Kummer, German mathematician (surface of Kummer), dies at 83
1893 - Johan T Buys, Dutch lawyer, dies at 65
1904 - Richard Hol, Dutch composer/organist/conductor, dies at 78
1906 - Carl Schurz, German revolutionary and statesman (b. 1829)
1912 - August Strindberg, Swedish writer (Deaddans), dies at 63
1912 - Frederik VIII C W K, King of Denmark (1906-12), dies at 68
1918 - James Gordon Bennett, Jr., American newspaper publisher (b. 1841)
1919 - Henry John Heinz, founder of the H. J. Heinz Company, dies at 74
1923 - Charles de Freycinet, French prime minister (b. 1828)
1925 - Henry Rider Haggard, English writer (Dawn, She), dies
1931 - David Belasco, American theatrical producer (b. 1853)
1931 - Denys Finch Hatton, English big-game hunter (b. 1887)
1934 - Lou Criger, American baseball player (b. 1872)
1936 - Edmond HH Allenby, English fieldmarshal in Egypt, dies at 74
1936 - Samuel Pl'h Naber, spy/librarian, dies at 71
1938 - Jacobus C J "Jacques" Hermans, actor (Ghetto), dies at 81
1940 - Eddy [Charles E] du Platform, writer/poet, dies
1940 - Emma Goldman, US anarchists/feminist/author (Living My Life), dies
1940 - Jacob van Gelderen, economist/sociologist/SDAP-2nd-Chamber, dies at 49
1940 - Menno ter Braak, Dutch writer (Forum, New Elite), suicide at 38
1943 - Henri La Fontaine, Belgian Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1854)
1945 - Heber J. Grant, seventh president of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b.
          1856)
1947 - John Ray Sinnock, US chief engraver (1925-47), dies at 59
1953 - Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Japans/US painter/etcher, dies at 59
1954 - Heinz Guderian, German General (b. 1888)
1955 - Betty Ann Davies, dies at 44
1957 - Marie Vassilieff, Russian artist (b. 1884)
1959 - Sidney Bechet, US jazz clarinetist/saxophonist/bandleader, dies at 62
1962 - Florence Auer, American actress (b. 1880)
1965 - Frances Perkins, US 1st female minister of Labor (1933-45), dies at 83
1966 - Georgia BD Camp Johnson, US poet/playwright, dies at 88
1966 - Megan Lloyd George, English politician, dies at 64
1968 - Husband Edward Kimmel, commandant US Ocean fleet WW II, dies at 86
1969 - Enid Bennett, silent film actress (Skippy, Hairpins), dies at 75
1969 - Frederick Lane, Australian swimmer (b. 1888)
1970 - Billie Burke, comedienne (Glinda-Wizard of Oz), dies at 84
1973 - Jean Gebser, German-born author, linguist, and poet (b. 1905)
1976 - Keith Relf, rock vocalist (Yardbirds), electrocuted at 33
1978 - Robert Menzies, twelfth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1894)
1979 - Paul van 't Veeer, Dutch journalist/writer (Vrije Volk), dies at 57
1980 - Hugh Griffith, actor (Passover Plot, Ben Hur, Tom Jones), dies at 67
1980 - Wilhelm Weismann, composer, dies at 79
1982 - Baron Mariel-Henri Jaspar, Belgian minister/ambassador, dies
1982 - Hugh Beaumont, actor (Ward-Leave it to Beaver), dies at 73
1983 - Miguel Aleman Valdes, attorney/pres of Mexico (1946-52), dies at 80
1983 - Roger J. Traynor, American judge (b. 1900)
1984 - Larry Stock, songwriter (Blueberry Hill), dies
1984 - Walter Rauff, German colonel (b. 1906)
1985 - Mohammed Munir, Indonesian worker's union leader, executed
1987 - Rita Hayworth, actress (Gilda), dies of Alzheimer's disease at 68
1988 - Willem Drees, PM of Netherland (1948-58), dies at 101
1990 - Andre Ameller, composer, dies at 78
1991 - Ast Fonteyne, Flemish lecture artist, dies
1991 - Herman Niels, Flemish radio director, dies
1991 - Jiang Qing, widow of Chinese leader Mao Tse Tung, commits suicide
1991 - John Edward Craven, dies
1991 - Shintaro Abe, minister of Exterior of Japan (1982-86), dies
1992 - Lyle Alzado, NFL defense linesman (Raiders), dies of cancer at 43
1993 - Patrick Haemers, Belgian criminal, commits suicide at 40
1993 - William Randolph Hearst, US newspaper magnate (Pulitzer), dies at 85
1994 - Leonard Teale, Australian actor/reciter (Homicide), dies
1995 - Maezumi Hakuyu Taizan Koun, teacher (Zen Buddhism), dies at 64
1995 - Christian B. Anfinsen, American Nobel laureate (b. 1916)
1996 - Edqard John Gurney, politician, dies at 82
1996 - Qazaleh Alizadeh, writer, dies at 48
1996 - Sritharan Jeganathan, cricketer, 1st Sri Lankan Test player to die
1996 - Vera Chapman, writer, dies at 98
1997 - Harry Blackstone Jr, magician, dies of cancer at 62
1997 - Laurie Lee, writer, dies at 42
1997 - Princess Caradja-Kretzulesco, descendant of Dracula, dies at 76
1997 - Thelma Carpenter, singer, dies at 76
1998 - Frank Sinatra, American singer and actor, dies at 82
1998 - Marjory Stoneman Douglas, American conservationist (b. 1890)
2000 - Obuchi Keizo, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1937)
2003 - Dave DeBusschere, American basketball player (b. 1940)
2003 - Wendy Hiller, British actress (b. 1912)
2003 - Robert Stack, American actor (b. 1919)
2004 - Anna Lee, British actress (b. 1913)
2006 - Lew Anderson, American actor and bandleader (b. 1922)
2006 - Stanley Kunitz, American poet (b. 1905)
2006 - Eva Norvind, Mexican actress (b. 1944)
2007 - Mary Goldsmith, American ceramist (b. 1908)
2007 - Ülo Jõgi, Estonian freedom fighter (b. 1921)
2010 - Goh Keng Swee, former Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore (b. 1918)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 15, 2013, 02:01:28 PM

This Day in History for 15th May


Historical Events

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Astronomer Johannes Kepler                  Religious Leader Joseph Smith Jr           Yankee Clipper Joe DiMaggio

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Soviet Union Premier Joseph Stalin        Heavyweight Champion Boxer                      Pop Singer & Beatle
                                                                     Rocky MarcianoSmith Jr                           Paul McCartney

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Comedian/Actor Robin Williams


756 - Abd-al-Rahman I becomes emir of Cordova Spain
884 - Marinus I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1004 - Henry II the Saint crowned king of Italy
1213 - English king John names Stephen Langton Archbishop of Canterbury
1248 - Archbishop Konrad v Hochstaden lays cornerstone for Koln cathedral
1252 - Pope Innocent IV issues the papal bull ad exstirpanda, which authorizes, but also limits, the
           torture of heretics in the Medieval Inquisition.
1492 - Cheese & Bread rebellion: German mercenaries kills 232 Alkmaarse
1514 - Jodocus Badius Ascensius publishes Christiern Pedersen's Latin version of Saxo's Gesta
           Danorum, the oldest known version of that work.
1525 - German boer army surrounded/slaughters 5,000; ends Boer war
1525 - The battle of Frankenhausen ends the Peasants' War.
1536 - Anna Boleyn & George Boleyn Lord Rochford accused of adultery/incest
1572 - Louis van Nassau & huguenots occupy Valenciennes
1602 - Cape Cod discovered by English navigator Bartholomew Gosnold
1610 - Parliament of Paris appoints Louis XIII ( 8 ) as French king
1618 - Johannes Kepler discovers harmonics law
1625 - 16 rebellious farmers hanged in Vocklamarkt Upper-Austria
1648 - Treaty of Munster: Spain & Netherlands ratified
1665 - Pope Alexander VII convicts Jansenisme
1672 - 1st copyright law enacted by Massachusetts
1701 - The War of the Spanish Succession begins.
1702 - War of Spanish Succession, 1st American conflict between England & France
1718 - James Puckle, a London lawyer, patents world's 1st machine gun
1730 - Robert Walpole becomes England 1st prime minister (was: chief min)
1791 - Maximilien Robespierre proposes the Self-denying Ordinance.
1793 - Diego Marín Aguilera flies a glider for "about 360 meters", at a height of 5-6 meters, during
           one of the first attempted flights.
1796 - France & Sardinia sign Peace treaty of Paris
1796 - French troops occupy Milan
1796 - First Coalition: Napoleon enters Milan in triumph.
1800 - King George III survives a 2nd assassination attempt
1800 - Pope Pius VII calls on French bishops to return to Gospel principles
1817 - Ambonese uprising against Dutch authority, under T Matulesia
1817 - Opening of the first private mental health hospital in the United States, the Asylum for the
           Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason (now Friends Hospital) in Philadelphia,
           Pennsylvania.
1829 - Joseph Smith ordained by John the Baptist according to Joseph Smith
1836 - Francis Baily observes "Baily's Beads" during annular solar eclipse
1849 - Philadelphia Turngemeinde founded
1851 - Rama IV, [Phra Chomklao Chaoyuhua], king of Thai (1851-68), crowned
1856 - 2nd SF Vigilance Committee organized
1858 - Royal Italian Opera opens in Covent Garden London
1862 - -May 17] Battle of Princeton WV
1862 - Battle of Drewry's Bluff (Ft Darling), Virginia
1862 - Confederate cruiser The Alabama runs aground near London
1862 - Department of Agriculture created
1862 - Gen Benjamin F Butler delegates "Woman Order" of NO to be his whores
1862 - Union Grounds, Brooklyn, 1st baseball enclosure, opens
1864 - Battle of New Market, Virginia
1864 - Skirmish at Marksville (Avoyelles) (Red River Campaign)
1868 - Dutch government of Zuylen van Nijevelt falls
1869 - National Woman Suffrage Association forms
1876 - 2nd Kentucky Derby: Bobby Swim aboard Vagrant wins in 2:38.25
1882 - May Laws-Czar Alexander III bans Jews from living in rural Romania
1883 - Italy signs military treaty with Austria-Hungary & Germany
1885 - Canadian Meti insurgent Louis Reil captured, Saskatchewan
1891 - British Central African Protectorate (now Malawi) forms
1891 - Jules Massenets opera "Griselde," premieres in Paris
1891 - Operations begin at Philips & Co in Holland
1891 - Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Rerum novarum
1894 - 20th Kentucky Derby: Frank Goodale aboard Chant wins in 2:41
1896 - Tornado kills 78 in Texas
1897 - The Greek army retreats with heavy losses in the Greco-Turkish War.
1902 - Lyman Gilmore is 1st person to fly a powered craft
1902 - Portugal bankrupt by revolt in Angola
1905 - Las Vegas Nevada founded
1905 - Pierre de Brazza reaches Leopoldville
1906 - NY Giants' Hooks Wiltse strikes out 4 batters in 1 inning
1910 - The last time a major earthquake happened on the Elsinore Fault Zone.
1911 - British house of commons accept Parliament Bill
1911 - Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Indiana University, incorporates
1911 - Supreme Court dissolves Standard Oil (Sherman Antitrust Act)
1911 - The Georgios Averof cruiser is bought by Greece.
1912 - 37th Preakness: Clarnence Turner on Colonel Holloway wins in 1:56.6
1912 - Ty Cobb rushes a heckler at a NY Highlander game & is suspended
1914 - Henri Rabauds opera "Marouf, Savetier de Caire," premieres in Paris
1914 - Bolivia becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1915 - A T & T becomes 1st corporation to have 1 million stockholders
1916 - Asiago Italy falls when Austrian troops attack the Italian front
1918 - 1st airmail postal service (NY, Phila & Wash DC)
1918 - 1st regular airmail service (between NY & Wash) inaugurated
1918 - 43rd Preakness: Johnny Loftus aboard War Cloud wins in 1:53.6
1918 - 44th Preakness: Charles Peak aboard Jack Hare Jr wins in 1:53.4
1918 - Greeks troops lands at Smyrna
1918 - Washington Senator Walter Johnson pitches 1-0, 18 inning game
1918 - The Finnish Civil War ends.
1919 - Bkln Dodgers score 10 runs in 13th to beat Reds 10-0
1920 - Soccer team ADO '20 forms in Heemskerk
1923 - Cooperation of Dutch Molen forms
1926 - 52nd Kentucky Derby: Albert Johnson on Bubbling Over wins in 2:03.8
1926 - British general strike ends, but mine workers go on strike
1928 - Mickey Mouse made his 1st appearance in "Plane Crazy"
1929 - Fire in X-ray film stock kills 125 at Crile Clinic (Cleve Ohio)
1930 - Ellen Church becomes 1st airline stewardess, United (SF to Cheyenne)
1931 - Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Quadragesimo anno
1932 - The May 15 Incident: in an attempted Coup d'état, the Prime Minister of Japan Inukai
           Tsuyoshi is killed.
1933 - 1st voice amplification system to be used in US Senate
1934 - Dept of Justice offers $25,000 reward for Dillinger, dead or alive
1934 - Karlis Ulmanis names himself fascist dictator of Latvia
1935 - Pirates beat Phillies 20-5
1935 - The Moscow Metro is opened to public.
1936 - Amy Johnson arrives in Croydon England from S Afr in record 4d16h
1937 - 63rd Preakness: Charley Kurtsinger aboard War Admiral wins in 1:58.4
1938 - Paul-Henri Spak forms red coalition of Belgium
1940 - German armour division moves into Northern France
1940 - German troops occupy Amsterdam, Gen Winkelman surrenders
1940 - Nazi's capture General Dutch Persbureau (ANP)
1940 - USS Sailfish (SS-192) recomisioned, origionaly the Squalus.
1940 - McDonald's opens its first restaurant in San Bernardino, California.
1941 - 1st British turbojet flies
1941 - British attack Halfaya-pass & Fort Capuzzo in Egypt & Libya
1941 - Joe DiMaggio starts 56-game hitting streak; Yanks lose 13-1
1941 - Nazi occupiers in Neth forbid Jewish music
1942 - Gasoline 1st rationed in US (17 Eastern States)
1942 - Nazi occupiers in Neth arrests 2,000 Dutch officers
1943 - Halifax bombers sinks U-463
1943 - Warsaw ghetto uprising ends, in it's destruction
1943 - Joseph Stalin dissolves the Comintern (or Third International).
1944 - 14,000 Jews of Munkacs Hungary deported to Auschwitz
1944 - Cincinnati Red Clyde Shoun no-hits Boston Braves, 1-0
1944 - Eisenhower, Montgomery, Churchill & George VI discuss D-Day plan
1944 - Sergei Aleksi becomes guardian of Patriarch Throne
1945 - World War II: The final skirmish in Europe is fought near Prevalje, Slovenia.
1948 - 28 year old British Mandate over Palestine ends
1948 - 74th Preakness: Eddie Arcaro aboard Citation wins in 2:02.4
1948 - Australia scores 721 runs in one day v Essex, world record
1948 - Bradman scores 187 Aust v Essex, 124 minutes, 33 fours 1 five
1948 - Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq & Saudi-Arabia troops attack Israel
1951 - AT&T is 1st US company to have one million stockholders
1951 - The Polish cultural attache in Paris, Czesław Miłosz, asks the French government for political
           asylum.
1952 - Detroit Tiger Virgil Trucks no-hits Wash Senators, 1-0
1952 - Johnny Longden becomes 2nd jockey to ride 4,000 winners
1953 - Heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano KOs Jersey Joe Walcott in Chicago
1953 - Osip Zadkines monument to "The destroyed city" unveiled in Rotterdam
1954 - KGLO (now KIMT) TV channel 3 in Mason City, IA (CBS) 1st broadcast
1955 - Austrian state treaty signed making Austria independent again
1955 - Building of space travel center at Baikonur Kazachstan begins
1955 - KPUA (now KGMD) TV channel 9 in Hilo, HI (CBS) begins broadcasting
1955 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1955 - Vienna Treaty: Brit, France, US & USSR restores Austria's independence
1955 - The first ascent of Makalu, the world's fifth highest mountain.
1957 - 18,000 people at Madison Sq Garden-Billy Graham launched a crusade
1957 - 1st British H-bomb explosion (over Christmas Island)
1958 - USSR launches Sputnik III
1959 - 100th anniversary of 1st college baseball game, between Amherst & Williams Teams reenact
           the original contest
1960 - Chic Cub Don Cardwell no-hits St Louis Cards, 4-0
1960 - Dmitri Shostakovitch's 7th String quartet, premieres in Leningrad
1960 - KHVO TV channel 13 in Hilo, HI (ABC) begins broadcasting
1960 - Sputnik 4 launched into Earth orbit; later recovery failed
1960 - Taxes took 25% of earnings in US
1961 - "Bonanza" by Al Caiola Orchestra hits #19
1961 - 36 Unification church couples wed in Korea
1961 - Pope John XXIII publishes encyclical Mater et Magistra
1962 - US marines arrive in Laos
1963 - Last Project Mercury flight, L Gordon Cooper in Faith 7, launched
1963 - Peter, Paul & Mary win their 1st Grammy (If I Had a Hammer)
1963 - Tottenham Hotspur wins 3rd Europe Cup II at Rotterdam
1964 - Sporting Portugal wins 4th Europe Cup II at Antwerp
1964 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1965 - 91st Preakness: Ron Turcotte aboard Tom Rolfe wins in 1:56.2
1965 - Canadian Football Players Association organizes
1965 - Igor Vodic beats Mad Dog Vachon in Omaha, to become NWA champ
1966 - 1st day of Sunday play in County Cricket, Essex v Somerset
1966 - Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Invitational
1966 - South Vietnamese army battle Buddhists, about 80 die
1967 - Jo Ann Prentice wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
1967 - Paul McCartney meets his future wife Linda Eastman
1968 - "Wonderwall" with George Harrison premieres at Cannes Film Festival
1968 - 1st AL game played in Milwaukee, is a 4-2 California win against Chicago
1968 - A tornado strikes Jonesboro Arkansas at 10 PM, killing 36
1968 - Paul McCartney & John Lennon appear on Johnny Carson Show to promote Apple records, Joe
          Garagiola is substitute host
1969 - Associate Justice Abe Fortas resigns from Supreme Court
1970 - Beatles' last LP, "Let It Be," is released in US
1970 - Elizabeth Hoisington & Anna Mae Mays named 1st female US generals
1970 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1970 - Mississippi Highway Patrol kills 2 at Jackson State College
1970 - South-Africa excluded from Olympic play
1971 - "70, Girls, 70" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 35 performances
1971 - 97th Preakness: Gustavo Avila aboard Canonero II wins in 1:54
1971 - Radio Nordsee International's ship bombed
1972 - "Hard Job Being God" opens at Edison Theater NYC for 6 performances
1972 - Bus plunges into Nile River killing 50 pilgrims. (Minia Egypt)
1972 - George Wallace shot & left paralyzed by Arthur Bremer in Laurel, Md
1972 - Ryukyu Is & Daito Is returned to Japan after 27 yrs of US control
1972 - The island of Okinawa, under U.S. military governance since its conquest in 1945, reverts to
           Japanese control.
1973 - California Angel Nolan Ryan's 1st no-hitter beats KC Royals, 3-0
1974 - Mail truck terrorists take school in Maalot, 30 killed
1974 - Walter Scheel succeeds Heinemann as president
1974 - Ma'alot massacre: A total of 31 people, including hostage takers, are killed.
1975 - 11th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yanks beat Mets 9-4
1975 - Emmy 2nd Daytime Award & Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation
1976 - 102nd Preakness: John Lively aboard Elocutionist wins in 1:55
1976 - Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation
1976 - Fonz Song by Heyettes hits #91
1976 - Kentucky Moonrunner by Cledus Maggard hits #85
1977 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Greater Baltimore Golf Classic
1980 - 1st trans-US balloon crossing
1980 - Flyers score 8 goals against Islanders in playoffs
1980 - Shawn Weatherly, (SC (will win Miss Universe), crowned 29th Miss USA
1981 - "Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island" airs
1981 - 2nd City TV's (SCTV) network premier (NBC)
1981 - George Harrison releases "All Those Years Ago" in UK
1981 - Len Barker of Cleveland pitches perfect game vs Toronto
1981 - SCTV Network 90, sequel to Second City Television debut on NBC
1981 - Soyuz 40 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Rumanian) to Salyut 6
1982 - 108th Preakness: Jack Kaenel aboard Aloma's Ruler wins in 1:55.4
1983 - Lenore Muraoka wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic
1983 - Madison Hotel (Boston) destroyed by implosion
1985 - Everton wins 25th Europe Cup II at Rotterdam
1986 - Argentine ex-president Galtieri sentenced to 12 years
1987 - 1st Energiya Launch (USSR)
1987 - Record archery score for a pair over 24 hrs, is set
1988 - "Carrie" closes at Virginia Theater NYC after 5 performances
1988 - "Gospel at Colonus" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 61 perfs
1988 - 2nd American Comedy Award: Robin Williams & Tracey Ullman
1988 - Moscow began withdrawing its 115,000 troops in Afghanistan
1988 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Golf Classic
1988 - Soviets begin withdrawal from Afghanistan
1989 - "Chu Chem" closes at Ritz Theater NYC after 44 performances
1989 - Blue Jays fire manager Jimy Williams & replace him with Cito Gaston
1989 - Soviet Pres Gorbachev in Beijing for 1st Sino-Soviet summit in 30 yrs
1989 - US Basketball League cancels its summer schedule
1989 - Maxwell House coffee runs ads during "Roe vs Wade" movie despite threat of boycott by
           right-to-lifers
1990 - "Cemetery Club" opens at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC for 56 perfs
1990 - "Portrait of Doctor Gachet" by Vincent Van Gogh sold for $825 million
1990 - Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,822.45
1990 - Edmonton Oiler Klima beats Boston Bruins in 6th period
1990 - Mona Grudt, 19, of Norway, crowned 39th Miss Universe
1991 - Defense releases docs claiming Noriega is "CIA's man in Panama"
1991 - Edith Cresson becomes France's 1st female premier
1991 - Manchester United wins 31th Europe Cup II at Rotterdam
1991 - Nepal premier Bhattarai resigns
1991 - Pres Bush takes Queen Elizabeth to Oakland A's-Balt Oriole game
1991 - Red Sox & White Sox play then slowest 9 inning game (4:11)
1992 - Colombo '92 opens in Genoa Italy
1992 - NY dept store chain Alexanders announces closing of all 11 stores
1992 - Part of Cruger Avenue in Bronx renamed Regis Philbin Avenue
1993 - 119th Preakness: Mike Smith aboard Prairie Bayou wins in 1:56.6
1993 - Alamodome in San Antonio TX opens
1993 - Montreal Expo retires their 1st #, #10 for Rusty Staub
1994 - 40th McDonald's LPGA Championship won by Laura Davies
1995 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1997 - ABC News & Starwave Corp launch ABCNEWS.com
1997 - STS 84 (Atlantis 19), launches, 6th Shuttle-Mir Mission
2008 - California becomes the second U.S. state after Massachusetts in 2004 to legalize same-sex
           marriage after the state's own Supreme Court rules a previous ban unconstitutional.
2010 - Jessica Watson becomes the youngest person to sail, non-stop and unassisted around the
           world solo.
2012 - Eurozone economy narrowly avoids recession
2012 - Greece's fifth attempt to a form a coalition government fails and new June elections are
           scheduled

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 15, 2013, 02:08:03 PM

This Day in History for 15th May


Famous Weddings

1567 - Mary, Queen of Scots marries James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell
1948 - Dancer and actress Cyd Charisse (26) weds singer Tony Martin (34)
1993 - Actress Jane Seymour weds actor James Kesch
1996 - Auto racing champ-turned-TV commentator Danny Sullivan (46) weds former Manhattan
           financial planner Brenda Bosveld (33) in Monte Carlo, Monaco
2009 - Former Bachelorette star Jen Schefft (32) weds Chicago's public relations executive Joe
           Waterman (35) at the Private Dining Rooms of Spiaggia in Chicago, Illinois
2010 - Actress and model Danneel Harris (33) weds actor Jensen Ackles (34) at the Rosewood
           Crescent Court Hotel in Dallas, Texas
2011 - Actress Tamera Mowry (32) weds Fox News Correspondent Adam Housley (39) at Villagio Inn
          & Spa in Napa, California

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 15, 2013, 02:20:39 PM

This Day in History for 15th May


Famous Birthdays

(http://i.historyorb.com/emmitt-smith.jpg)                  (http://i.historyorb.com/zara-phillips.jpg)
American Football Player                           Daughter of Princess
Emmitt Smith (1969)                                 Anne Zara Phillips (1981)


1565 - Henrick de Keyser, architect/master builder of Amsterdam
1567 - Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi, Cremona Italy, composer (L'Orfeo)
1608 - René Goupil, French Catholic missionary (Canadian Martyrs) (d. 1642)
1720 - Maximilian Hell, Slovakian astronomer (d. 1792)
1749 - Levi Lincoln, Sr., American revolutionary, statesman, politician, and acting Governor of
           Massachusetts (d. 1820)
1754 - Pierre Dutillieu, composer
1759 - Maria Theresia von Paradis, composer
1764 - Johann Nepomuk Kalcher, composer
1773 - Clemens L Metternich, Austrian prince
1786 - General Dimitris Plapoutas, a Revolutionary in the Greek War of Independence (d. 1864)
1791 - Baron Floris A van Hall, Dutch minister of Justice/Finance
1795 - Adolf B Marx, German music theorist
1802 - Isaac Ridgeway Trimble, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1888
1807 - Luigi Ferdinando Casamorata, composer
1808 - Gottfried Herrmann, composer
1808 - Michael William Balfe, composer
1810 - Jacob Thompson, (Confederacy), died in 1885
1813 - Stephen Heller, composer
1817 - Debendranath Tagore, Indian religious reformer (d. 1905)
1819 - Thomas Leonidas Crittenden, Major General (Union volunteers)
1830 - Laurence Simmons Baker, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1907
1830 - Martinus W van der Aa, author/Dutch head-editor (The Time)
1841 - Giovanni Bolzoni, composer
1845 - Ilja [Elias] Metsjnikov, USSR, zoologist/bacteriologist (Nobel 1908)
1848 - Viktor Vasnetsov, Russian painter (d. 1926)
1855 - Eduard von Keyserling, Baltic German writer (Dritte Stiege)
1856 - Lyman Frank Baum, NY, children's book author (Wizard of Oz)
1857 - Williamina Fleming, Scottish-born astronomer (d. 1911)
1859 - Pierre Curie, France, physicist (Nobel 1903)
1860 - Ellen Louise Axson Wilson, 1st wife of Woodrow Wilson
1862 - Arthur Schnitzler, Austria, playwright/novelist (La Ronde)
1865 - Albert Verwey, Dutch poet/literature historian (Motion)
1873 - Nikolay N Tcherepnin, St Petersburg, composer of ballets, songs [NS]
1878 - Francisco Pujol, composer
1880 - Otto Dibelius, German theologist/bishop (Confessional Church)
1883 - Stanley Robert Marchant, composer
1888 - Jean Wahl, French philosopher
1889 - Bessie Hillman, founder (Almalgamated Clothing Workers of America)
1890 - Katherine Anne Porter, US, novelist (Ship of Fools)
1891 - Chief Nipo T Strongheart, Yakima WA, US Native American actor (Pony Soldier)
1891 - David Vogel, Ukraine, author (Huwelijksleven)
1891 - Fritz Feigl, Austria, chemist (spot tests)
1891 - Mikhail Bulgakov, Russia, playwright/novelist (Black Snow)
1892 - Jimmy Wilde, boxer (d. 1969)
1893 - Michel Gusikoff, composer
1893 - Stanley Lupino, English comic (Cheer Up, Over She Goes)
1895 - Charles Lamont, SF CA, director (Abbott & Costello Go to Mars)
1895 - William D. Byron, U.S. Congressman (d. 1941)
1898 - Arlette-Leonie Arletty, [Bathiat], Courbevoie France, actress (Maxime)
1899 - Jean-Etienne Valluy, French general (d. 1970)
1901 - Xavier Herbert, Australian author (d. 1984)
1901 - Luis Monti, Argentine-Italian footballer (d. 1983)
1902 - Richard J Daley, (Mayor-D-Chic)
1903 - Anny Ondra, Czechoslovakia, actress (Blackmail, Manxman)
1903 - Maria Reiche, German-born mathematician and archaeologist (d. 1998)
1904 - Clifton Fadiman, Bkln NY, TV host (Information Please, Quiz Kids)
1904 - Gustav-Adolf Boltenstein, Sweden, equest dressage (Oly-gold-1952, 56)
1905 - Joseph Cotten, Virginia, actor (3rd Man, Airport 77, Hearse)
1907 - Josef Alexander, composer
1907 - Phillip Piratin, communist
1907 - Sukhdev Thapar, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1931)
1908 - Lars-Eric Vilner Larsson, Akarp Sweden, composer (Linden)
1909 - James Mason, England, actor (Lolita, Bloodline, Boys From Brazil)
1909 - Rodolfo Cornejo, composer
1910 - Constance Cummings, Wash, actress (John & Julie, 7 Sinners, Glamour)
1910 - Robert F Wagner, (Mayor-D-NYC, 1949-65) [or Apr 20]
1911 - Leo Fuchs, Polish/US Yiddish actor (Galitzianer Cowboy)
1911 - Max Frisch, Swiss architect/writer (Stiller, Biedermann)
1911 - Herta Oberheuser, Nazi doctor (d. 1978)
1912 - Alexis Kagame, Rwanda, priest/writer
1912 - Alexis Nihon, Bahamas, wrestler (Olympics-1968)
1912 - Arthur Victor Berger, NYC, composer (Ideas of Order)
1914 - Jack Pepys, immunologist
1914 - Pierre Froidebise, composer
1914 - Turk Broda, ice hockey goaltender (d. 1972)
1915 - Maurice B Latey, commentator (BBC World Service)
1915 - Paul A Samuelson, economist (1970 Nobel, 1947 John Bates Clark Medal)
1915 - Gus Viseur, French button accordionist (d. 1974)
1916 - Bill Williams, Bkln NY, actor (Starlit Time, Date With the Angels)
1917 - Hugh Edward Lance Falkus, filmmaker/naturalist
1918 - Eddy Arnold, Henderson TN, country singer (Cattle Call, Anytime)
1918 - Joseph Wiseman, Montreal, actor (Dr No, Viva Zapata, Les Miserables)
1919 - Charles Palmer, cricketer (one Test 1955, later MCC president)
1920 - Hugh Henry Home Popham, aviator/writer/poet
1922 - Enrico Berlinguer, Italian communist/sec-gen (CPI) [or May 25]
1922 - Jakucho Setouchi, Japanese writer and Buddhist nun
1923 - Richard Avedon, US, photographer (1957 ASMP award)
1923 - John Lanchbery, English composer (d. 2003)
1923 - Johnny Walker, Indian actor (d. 2003)
1924 - Andrea Gyarmati, Hungary water polo player (Olympics, 1948-60)
1924 - Don Kenyon, cricketer (England batsman in 8 Tests 1951-55)
1924 - Jaime Garcia Terre, poet/essayist
1924 - Ursula Thiess, Hamburg, actress (Monsoon, Bengal Brigade, Americano)
1924 - Maria Koepcke, German ornithologist (d. 1971)
1925 - Andrey Yakoulevich Eshpay, composer
1925 - Emmanuel Ghent, composer
1925 - Jos Jacobs, Flemish director (Madonna of Nedermunster)
1926 - Anthony Shaffer, twin brother playwright (Sleuth)
1926 - Clermont Pepin, composer
1926 - Peter Shaffer, twin brother playwright (5 Finger Exercise, Equus)
1929 - Jack Flavell, cricketer (England pace bowler in 4 Tests 1961-64)
1930 - Jasper Johns, Augusta, Ga, painter/sculptor (Green Target)
1931 - David Healy, actor (Supergirl, Doomsday Gun, Patton, Be My Guest)
1931 - F Korthals Altes, Dutch minister of Justice (VVD)
1931 - Ken Venturi, American golfer
1932 - John Glen, Thames England, actor (Spy Who Loves Me, Backfire)
1934 - David Robin Francis Guy Greville, 8th Duke of Warwick
1935 - Ted Dexter, cricketer (in Milan Superb England batsman of 60's)
1936 - Anna Maria Alberghetti, Italy, singer/actress (Cinderfella)
1936 - Donald [Anthony] Moffitt, US, sci-fi author (Jupiter Theft)
1936 - Jean Balissat, composer
1936 - Paul Zindel, playwright (Effects of Gamma Rays on Marigolds)
1936 - Wavy Gravy, American clown and activist
1936 - Ralph Steadman, British cartoonist
1937 - Trini Lopez, Trinidad, singer/guitarist (If I Had a Hammer)
1937 - Madeleine Albright, U.S. Secretary of State
1938 - Lenny Welch, Asbury Park NJ, (Breaking up is Hard to Do)
1938 - Mireille Darc, French actress
1939 - Brian Hartley, mathematician
1939 - Dorothy Shirley, British athlete
1940 - Beth Stone, LPGA golfer
1940 - Mireille Darc, Toulon France, actor (Week End, Hurried Man)
1940 - Paul Rudd, Boston Mass, actor (Conn Yankee in King Arthur's Court)
1941 - Cyril Cooray, cricketer (Sri Lankan Test umpire on intl panel)
1941 - K T Oslin, Crossett Ar, country singer (80's Ladies)
1941 - Lainie Kazan, Brooklyn, singer/actress (Lust in the Dust, Beaches)
1941 - Richard Edward Wilson, composer
1942 - Anthony Wayne England, Indianapolis, PhD/astronaut (STS 51-F)
1942 - Doug Lowe, 35th Premier of Tasmania
1943 - Harve Brosten, comedy writer/producer/director (All in the Family)
1944 - Gunilla Hutton, Goteborg Sweden, actress (Petticoat Junction)
1944 - Miruts Yifter, Ethiopia, 5K/10K runner (Olympic-gold-1980)
1944 - Tich, rocker
1944 - Bill Alter, Missouri State Senator
1945 - Lasse Berghagen, Swedish singer
1945 - Duarte Pio, Duke of Braganza, heir to the Portuguese crown
1946 - Chazz Palminteri, Bronx NY, actor (Jade, Diabolique, Bronx Tale)
1947 - Graham Goble, Adelaide,Australia, rock guitarist (Little River Band)
1948 - Brian Eno, Woodbridge England, rock keyboardist/singer (On Land)
1949 - Eric J Beekes, actor/singer (Hunk)
1949 - Frank L Culbertson Jr, Charleston SC, Cmdr USN/astro (STS-38)
1949 - Wendy Pritchard, Australian women's field hockey team manager (Oly-96)
1950 - Nicholas Hammond, American actor
1951 - Dennis Frederiksen, rocker (Toto-Roseanna, Africa)
1952 - Rick Waits, baseball pitcher (Rangers, Indians, Twins)
1953 - George Brett, WV, KC Royal 3rd baseman (1980 AL MVP)
1953 - Mike Oldfield, England, composer (Tubular Bells)
1954 - Bob Beauchemin, Winnipeg Canada, golfer (West Coast Open-1982, 83)
1954 - Robert P. Harrison, American thinker
1955 - Lee Horsley, Muleshoe Tx, actor (Nero Wolfe, Matt Houston)
1956 - Alice Miller, Marysville CA, LPGA golfer (1985 Nabisco Dinah Shore)
1956 - Dan Patrick, American sportscaster
1957 - Juan José Ibarretxe, Basque Lehendakari (Prime Minister)
1957 - Kevin Von Erich, American professional wrestler
1958 - Ron Simmons, American professional wrestler
1959 - Andrew Eldritch, rocker (Sisters of Mercy-Walk Away, Black Planet)
1959 - Kaokor Galaxy, Thai boxer
1960 - Rob Bowman, American film director
1961 - Anne Kelly, LPGA golfer
1961 - Katrin Cartlidge, British actress (d. 2002)
1961 - Melle Mel, American musician
1963 - George Heidweiler, Suriname, Dutch painter
1963 - Grant Herslov, LA California, actor (Wayne-Spencer, Under One Roof)
1964 - Pamela Dukes, Bronx NY, discus thrower
1964 - Pierre Trentin, France, 1K time trials (Olympic-gold-1968)
1965 - Dan Stryzinski, NFL punter (Atlanta Falcons)
1965 - Glen Hnatiuk, Selkirk Manitoba, Nike golfer (1992 Mississippi Gulf)
1965 - Jeff Rochlin, Bkln NY, actor (Cutting Class, Splitz, Taps)
1965 - Raí, Brazilian footballer
1966 - Paul Ysebaert, Sarnia, NHL left wing (Tampa Bay Lightning)
1967 - John Smoltz, Detroit MI, pitcher (Atlanta Braves, 1996 Cy Young)
1967 - Omar Vizquel, Caracas Venezuela, shortstop (Seattle Mariners, Indians)
1967 - Madhuri Dixit, Indian actress
1968 - James "Jim" Neil, Buffalo NY, rower (Olympics-1996)
1968 - Leroy Hoard, NFL running back (Cleveland Browns, Minnesota Vikings)
1968 - Todd Porter, NJ, actor (Hamilton-Whiz Kids)
1968 - Cecilia Malmström, Swedish politician
1968 - Seth Putnam, American musician
1969 - Emmitt Smith, running back (Dallas Cowboys, 3-time NFL rushing leader)
1969 - Holly McPeak, Manhattan Beach CA, beach volleyballer (Olympics-96)
1969 - Hideki Irabu, Japanese baseball player
1969 - Asalah Nasri, Syrian singer
1970 - Artie Smith, NFL defensive end (Cin Bengals)
1970 - Cory Philpot, CFL running back (BC Lions)
1970 - Desmond Howard, NFL receiver (Jacksonville Jaguars, Oakland Raiders)
1970 - Frank de Boer, Dutch soccer star (Ajax)
1970 - Keith Tower, NBA center (LA Clippers)
1970 - Prince Be, rapper (PM Dawn)
1970 - Rod Smith, NFL wide reciever (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1970 - Ronald de Boer, Dutch soccer player (Ajax)
1970 - Tony Brown, NFL cornerback (Seattle Seahawks)
1970 - Martin Rossiter, Welsh Musician
1970 - Rod Smith, American football player
1971 - Scott Shipley, Bremerton Wash, slalom single kayak (Olympics-6th-96)
1971 - Phil Pfister, American strength athlete
1972 - David Charvet, actor (Melrose Place)
1972 - Patrick Pothuizen, soccer player (Vitesse)
1972 - Tirrell Greene, WLAF guard (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1972 - Troy Drake, NFL tackle (Philadelphia Eagles)
1973 - Suzannah Bianco, San Jose CA, synchronized swimmer (Olympics-alt-96)
1973 - Vic"Tori"a Davey Spelling, LA Ca, actress (Donna-Beverly Hills 90210)
1974 - A J Hinch, Wavely IA, baseball catcher (Olympics-bronze-96)
1974 - Addilson dos Santos, soccer player (Sparta)
1974 - Ahmet Rodan Zappa, son of Frank/rocker (Z, 2 Hip 4 TV)
1974 - Shiney Ahuja, Indian actor
1975 - Ray Lewis, American football linebacker (Baltimore Ravens)
1976 - Eric DuBose, Bradenton Fl, baseball pitcher (Olympics-bronze-96)
1976 - Adolfo Bautista, Mexican footballer
1976 - Jacek Krzynówek, Polish footballer
1976 - Ryan Leaf, American football player
1978 - Amy Chow, San Jose California, gymnast (Olympics-gold/silver-96)
1978 - David Krumholtz, NYC, actor (Billy Kulchak-Chicago Sons)
1978 - Krissy Taylor, model
1978 - Edu, Brazilian footballer
1978 - Dwayne DeRosario, Canadian footballer
1978 - Caroline Dhavernas, Canadian actress
1980 - Josh Beckett, American baseball player
1980 - Rocky Marquette, American actor
1981 - Zara Anne Elizabeth Phillips, daughter of Princess Anne
1981 - Patrice Evra, French-Senegalese footballer
1981 - Justin Morneau, Canadian baseball player
1981 - Jamie-Lynn Sigler, American actress
1982 - Segundo Castillo, Ecuadorian footballer
1982 - Alex Breckenridge, American actress
1982 - Veronica Campbell-Brown, Jamaican athlete
1982 - Tatsuya Fujiwara, Japanese actor
1982 - Jessica Sutta, American dancer, singer and actress (The Pussycat Dolls)
1983 - Devin Bronson, American guitarist (Avril Lavigne)
1984 - Sérgio Jimenez, Brazilian racing driver
1985 - Cristiane, Brazilian footballer
1986 - Matías Fernández, Chilean footballer
1986 - Adam Moffat, Scottish football player
1986 - Kyle Loza,Freestyle Motocross Rider
1987 - Ersan İlyasova, Turkish basketball player
1987 - Jennylyn Mercado, Filipina actress and singer
1987 - Andy Murray, Scottish tennis player
1990 - Joe Mattock, English football player
1995 - Ksenia Sitnik, Belarusian singer

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 15, 2013, 02:25:02 PM

This Day in History for 15th May


Famous Deaths

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Poet Emily Dickinson (1886)        Country Singer June Carter Cash (2003)


392 - Valentinianus II, emperor of Rome (375-392), murdered at 21
884 - Marinus I, [Martinus II], Pope (882-84), dies
913 - Hatto I, Archbishop of Mainz
1036 - Emperor Go-Ichijō of Japan (b. 1008)
1157 - Yury Dolgoruky, Russian prince
1174 - Nur ad-Din, King of Syria (1146-1174), dies at 56
1381 - Eppelein von Gailingen, German robber baron
1470 - Charles VIII of Sweden (b. 1409)
1482 - Paolo Toscanelli, Italian physician & mapmaker, dies
1585 - Niwa Nagahide, Japanese warlord (b. 1535)
1591 - Dmitry Ivanovitch, youngest son of Russian Tsar Ivan IV, murdered at 8
1609 - Giovanni Croce, Italian composer (b. 1557)
1621 - Henrick de Keyser, Amsterdam's master builder, dies at 56
1622 - Peter Plancius, Flemish vicar/cartographer, dies at about 69
1634 - Hendrick Avercamp, Dutch painter (b. 1585)
1685 - Henri Otto, Spanish marquis of Caretto/Savona/Grana, dies
1698 - Marie Champmeslé, French actress (b. 1642)
1699 - Edward Petre, English Jesuit and privy councilor (b. 1631)
1714 - Roger Elliott, British general and Governor of Gibraltar
1740 - Ephraim Chambers, English encyclopaedist (b. 1680)
1746 - Giovanni Antonio Ricieri, composer, dies at 67
1760 - Alaungpaya, King of Burma (b. 1711)
1761 - Jacob Mossel, governor-general (Dutch East Indies), dies at 56
1773 - Alban Butler, English Catholic priest and writer (b. 1710)
1782 - Marquis of Pombal, Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1699)
1785 - Karel Blazej Kopriva, composer, dies at 29
1801 - Louis C count Barbiano de Belgioioso, Austrian diplomat, dies at 73
1821 - John Wall Calcott, composer, dies at 54
1822 - Christian Ludwig Dieter, composer, dies at 64
1823 - Antonio Frantisek Becvarovsky, composer, dies at 69
1824 - Alexander Campbell, composer, dies at 60
1832 - Carl Friedrich Zelter, composer, dies at 73
1833 - Edmund Kean, English actor (Shylock), dies at 46
1842 - Emanuel A D M J count de las Cases, French historian (Napoleon), dies at 76
1845 - Samuel I Wiselius, Dutch lawyer/businessman/writer, dies at 76
1855 - Jan Mazereeuw, Frisian farmer/sect leader, dies at 75
1872 - Thomas Hastings, composer, dies at 87
1873 - Alexander J Cuza, monarch of Moldavia/Romania, dies at 53
1879 - Gottfried Semper, German architect (b. 1803)
1886 - Emily Dickinson, US poet, dies at 55
1889 - Alfred Potocki, premier Austrian/governor/viceroy of Galicia, dies
1892 - Arthur Hodister, British ivory seller (Heart of Darkness), murdered
1895 - Joseph Whitaker, British publisher (Whitaker' Almanack), dies at 75
1899 - Francisque Sarcey, French writer (Le Temps), dies at 70
1924 - Paul d'Estornelles de Constant, French diplomat/pacifist, dies at 71
1926 - Mohammed VI Vahideddin, last sultan of Turkey (1918-22), dies
1932 - Ki Inukai, premier Japan (1931-32), murdered
1933 - Ernest Torrence, actor (I Cover the Waterfront), dies at 54
1935 - Kazimir Malevich, Polish/Ukrainian artist (b. 1878)
1937 - Phillip Snowden, British politician (b. 1864)
1940 - Joseph Limburg, liberal 2nd-Member of parliament (1905-19), dies at 75
1940 - Willem A Bonger, Dutch criminologist (Race & Crime), suicide at 63
1945 - Major Courtney, US medal of honor marine, dies in battle of Sugar Loaf
1945 - Charles Williams, UK writer (b. 1886)
1948 - Edward Flanagan, American priest and founder of Boys Town (b. 1886)
1952 - Albert Basserman, actor (Madame Curie, Rhapsody in Blue), dies at 84
1952 - Italo Montemezzi, composer, dies at 76
1954 - William March, American writer (b. 1893)
1956 - Austin Osman Spare, English magician (b. 1886)
1958 - Michael G the Boer, historian (Harbor of Amsterdam), dies at 91
1959 - Berend van den Amstel, [Bernard CED Hattink], Dutch actor, dies at 56
1964 - Cornelis H Edelman, Dutch geologist, dies at 61
1964 - Vladko Maček, Kingdom of Yugoslavia deputy prime minister (b. 1879)
1965 - Adrian Schoevers, Dutch director (Schoevers Institution), dies
1967 - Edward Hopper, US painter (House by Railroad), dies at 84
1967 - Jaromir Fiala, composer, dies at 74
1971 - Tyrone Guthrie, English director, producer, and writer (b. 1900)
1972 - Nigel Green, actor (Skull, Tobruk, Ipcress File), dies at 47
1973 - Willem H Rassers, Dutch cult anthropologist (Pandji-Novel), dies at 95
1976 - Samuel Eliot Morison, US historian (Admiral of Ocean Sea), dies at 88
1978 - Sir Robert Menzies, twelfth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1894)
1982 - Gordon Smiley, American race car driver (b. 1946)
1984 - Lionel Charles Robbins, British economist, dies at 85
1984 - Francis Schaeffer, American theologian, philosopher, and pastor (b. 1912)
1985 - Jackie Curtis, actor (Underground USA), dies of a drug overdose at 38
1986 - Theodore H White, US journalist (Making of Pres, Pulitzer), dies at 71
1986 - Elio de Angelis, Italian race car driver (b. 1958)
1987 - John Baur, museum director, dies at 78
1987 - Wynne Gibson, actor (Night After Night, Aggie Appleby), dies
1988 - Andrew Duggan, actor (Jigsaw, Firehouse), dies of cancer at 64
1988 - Greta Nissen, actress (Ambassador Bill), dies
1989 - John Waldo Green, composer, dies at 80
1989 - Johnny Green, American songwriter (b. 1908)
1991 - Bud Freeman, jazz tenor saxophonist, dies of cancer at 84
1991 - Freddie Paris, dies
1991 - Reno Brown, dies
1991 - Ronald Lacey, actor (Raiders of Lost Ark, Next Victim), dies at 55
1991 - Andreas Floer, German mathematician (b. 1956)
1992 - Bruce Hopkins, performer/director, dies at 44
1992 - Robert Morris Page, US physicist (radar), dies at 88
1992 - Jovy Marcelo, Filipino race car driver (b. 1965)
1993 - Salah Ahmed Ibrahim, Sudanese writer, poet, and diplomat (b. 1933)
1994 - Frederik baron van Pallandt, Danish singer (Nina & F), murdered at 61
1994 - Gilbert Roland, Mexican/US actor (Armand in Camille), dies at 88
1994 - Ronnie Potsdammer, singer/song/text writer/programmer, dies at 71
1994 - Royal Dano, actor (Ghoulies 2), dies of a heart attack at 71
1994 - [Henry] John Baker, resistance fighter/journalist (Slogan), dies at 79
1995 - Edouard Dermit, actor (Testament of Orpheus), dies at 69
1995 - Eric Richard Porter, actor (Crucible, Hennessy), dies at 67
1995 - Johnny Van Derrick, jazz violinist, dies at 68
1995 - Perry Lederman, folk singer, dies at 52
1996 - George M Tindley, songwriter/vocalist, dies at 57
1996 - Charles B. Fulton, American jurist (b. 1910)
1998 - Earl Manigault, American basketball player (b. 1944)
2003 - June Carter Cash, American musician and singer (b. 1929)
2003 - George Francis, British gangster (b. 1940)
2005 - Alan B. Gold, Quebec Chief Justice (b. 1917)
2007 - Jerry Falwell, American evangelist (b. 1933)
2007 - Yolanda King, American actress and activist, daughter of Martin Luther King, Jr. (b. 1955)
2008 - Alexander Courage, composer of original Star Trek theme (b. 1919)
2008 - Tommy Burns, Scottish footballer (b. 1956)
2008 - Robert Dunlop, Northern Irish motorcycle racer, younger brother of Joey Dunlop (b. 1960)
2009 - Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, Australian actor (b. 1923)
2009 - Wayman Tisdale, American basketball player (b. 1964)
2010 - Loris Kessel, Swiss racing driver (b. 1950)
2010 - Besian Idrizaj, Footballer (b. 1987)
2012 - Carlos Fuentes, Mexican author, dies from a haemorrhage at 83

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 16, 2013, 02:29:22 PM

This Day in History for 16th May


Historical Events

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Astronomer Johannes Kepler                  US President Abraham Lincoln           French National Heroine Joan of Arc

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Heavyweight Champion Boxer            Singer & Actress Barbra Streisand                  Actor/Comedian Bill Cosby
Rocky Marciano

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Pop Singer & Beatle                          Basketball Superstar Michael Jordan             Parody Singer and Comedian
Paul McCartney                                                                                                                 Weird Al Yankovic


955 - Alberich II, (bastard?) son of Octavianus elected pope
1165 - Ramjbam & his family reach Acre Palestine
1204 - Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire.
1527 - Florence becomes a republic
1532 - Sir Thomas More resigns as English Lord Chancellor
1547 - Protestant German monarch surrenders to Karel in Wittenberg
1568 - Mary Queen of Scotland flees to England
1571 - Johannes Kepler, by his own calculations, is conceived at 4:37 AM
1584 - 7 Westfriese towns divide monasteries of Egmond/Blokker/St-Pietersdal
1605 - Camillo Borghese elected to succeed Pope Leo XI becomes Paul V
1606 - 2,000 foreigners murdered in Russia
1648 - Battle at Zolty Wody: Bohdan Chmielricki's cosacks beat John Casimir
1747 - Prince Willem V sworn in as admiral-general of Neth
1763 - Samuel Johnson 1st meets his future biographer James Boswell in London
1771 - The Battle of Alamance, a pre-American Revolutionary War battle between local militia and a
           group of rebels called "The Regulators", occurs in present-day Alamance County, North
           Carolina.
1792 - Denmark abolishes slave trade
1795 - Hedges Treaty: Bataafse Republic becomes French vassel state
1796 - Lombardije Republic forms
1803 - Peace of Amiens ends
1804 - Senate & Tribune declare Napolean leader of France
1811 - Peninsular War-Allies defeat French at Albuera
1815 - The Governor of New South Wales, Lachlan Macquarie, officially names the town of Blackheath
           in the upper Blue Mountains.
1817 - Mississippi River steamboat service begins
1822 - Greek War of Independence: The Turks capture the Greek town of Souli.
1860 - -18] Chicago: Republican convention selects Abraham Lincoln candidate
1861 - Twiggs Surrender, San Antonio, Texas during US Civil war
1861 - Confederate government offers war volunteers $10 premium
1861 - Kentucky proclaims its neutrality
1862 - Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir builds 1st automobile
1863 - Battle of Champion's Hill, MS-bloodiest action of Vicksburg Campaign
1864 - Atlanta Campaign: Battle of Resaca, ends (since May 13)
1864 - Battle of Bermuda Hundred, VA
1864 - Last battles at Drewry's Bluff, Virginia (6,666 casualties)
1866 - Charles Elmer Hires invents root beer
1866 - Congress authorizes the nickel 5 cent piece (replaces silver half-dime)
1868 - Bedrich Smetana's opera "Dalibor," premieres in Prague
1868 - By one vote, Senate fails to impeach President Andrew Johnson
1869 - Cincinnati Reds play their 1st baseball game, win 41-7
1872 - Metropolitan Gas Company lamps lit for 1st time
1874 - 1st recorded dam disaster in US (Williamsburg Mass)
1875 - Quake in Venezuela & Colombia kills 16,000
1877 - May 16, 1877 political crisis in France.
1879 - Antonin Dvorák's "Slavic Dancing," premieres
1879 - Treaty of Gandamak to set up Afghan state between Russia & English
1881 - World's 1st elec tram goes into service in Lichterfelder (near Berlin)
1882 - 8th Kentucky Derby: Babe Hurd aboard Apollo wins in 2:40.00
1884 - 10th Kentucky Derby: Isaac Murphy aboard Buchanan wins in 2:40.25
1888 - CPR opens Hotel Vancouver, Vancouver, BC
1891 - George A Hormel & Co introduce Spam
1894 - Fire in Boston destroys baseball stadium & 170 other buildings
1901 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Priory School" (BG)
1902 - 2 deaf-mutes face each other for 1st time as Dummy Hoy leads off for the Reds against
           Dummy Taylor of the Giants, Reds win 5-3
1903 - 1st transcontinental motorcycle trip begins at SF (George Wymann)
1903 - George Wyman makes 1st motorcycle trip across the US
1910 - US Bureau of Mines forms
1911 - Remains of a neanderthal man found in Jersey UK
1911 - Zeppelin "Deutscheland" wrecked at Dusseldorf
1914 - American Horseshoe Pitchers Association organizes in Kansas City
1914 - Ewing Field, near Masonic Street, opens
1916 - 41st Preakness: Linus McAtee aboard Damrosch wins in 1:54.8
1918 - The Sedition Act of 1918 is passed by the U.S. Congress, making criticism of the government
           an imprisonable offense.
1920 - Joan of Arc (Jean D'arc) canonized a saint
1920 - Spanish bullfighter Joselito is fatally gored fighting his last bull
1921 - 47th Preakness: F Coltiletti aboard Broomspun wins in 1:54.2
1922 - White Star Line Majestic completes 5½ day maiden voyage
1924 - 108°F (42°C) in Blitzen Oregon
1925 - 51st Kentucky Derby: Earl Sande aboard Flying Ebony wins in 2:07.6
1927 - NY Yankee Bob Meusel steals 2nd, 3rd & home
1927 - Supreme Court ruled bootleggers must pay income tax
1929 - 1st Academy Awards - "Wings," Emil Jennings & Janet Gaynor wins
1929 - In Hollywood, California, the first Academy Awards are handed out.
1930 - 6th Walker Cup: US, 10-2
1931 - 57th Kentucky Derby: Charley Kurtsinger on Twenty Grand wins 2:01.8
1932 - Yanks 4th straight shutout to equal record set by Cleveland & Boston
1933 - Cecil Travis becomes 1st player to get 5 hits in his 1st game
1936 - 1st British air hostess (Daphne Kearley) flight to France
1936 - 62nd Preakness: George Woolf aboard Bold Venture wins in 1:59
1938 - 1st animal breeding society forms (NJ)
1938 - 38 die in Terminal Hotel fire (Atlanta Ga)
1938 - In cricket Bradman scores 278 Aust v MCC, 349 mins, 35 fours 1 six
1939 - 1st AL night game, Phila Shribe Park (Indians 8, Athletics 3 in 10)
1939 - Food stamps are 1st issued
1940 - Nazi's forbid non-professional auto workers
1940 - Premier Winston Churchill returns to London from Paris
1941 - 1st US/radio performance of Bennett's "Symphony in D for the Dodgers"
1941 - Germans made their last major air attack on Britain
1941 - Italian army under Aosta surrenders to Britain at Amba Alagi Ethiopia
1941 - Last great German air attack on Great Britain (Birmingham)
1941 - Nazis forbid Dutch Organization of Actors (NOT)
1942 - 1st transport of British/Dutch prisoners to South Burma
1943 - -17th] RAF bombs Möhne & Eder (Battle of Ruhr)
1943 - German troops destroy synagogue of Warsaw
1943 - Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto ends after 30 days of fighting
1944 - 1st of 180,000+ Hungarian Jews reach Auschwitz
1944 - Milt police attack gypsies
1945 - Violent battles around Sugar Loaf/Half Moon Okinawa
1946 - Musical "Annie Get Your Gun," starring Ethel Merman premieres in NYC
1948 - Botvinnik wins 5-player tournament to determine world chess champion
1948 - CBS news correspondent George Polk's body is found in Greece
1948 - Chaim Weizmann elected 1st president of Israel
1948 - Egyptians enter the Gaza
1948 - George Polk, CBS news correspondant, body found
1948 - Israel issues its 1st postage stamps
1951 - The first regularly scheduled transatlantic flights begin between John F Kennedy International
           Airport in New York City and Heathrow Airport in London, operated by El Al Israel Airlines.
1952 - "New Faces (of 1952)" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 365 performances
1953 - Phillies Curt Simmons gives up a single, then retires next 27 in a row
1954 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA National Capital Golf Open
1954 - Ted Williams gets 8 hits in 1st game (DH) since breaking collarbone
1954 - WGAN (now WGME) TV channel 13 in Portland, ME (CBS) 1st broadcast
1955 - Heavyweight Rocky Marciano KOs Don Cockell in SF
1955 - King Baudouin of Belgium visits Congo
1955 - Ray Lindwall scores his 2nd Test Cricket century 118 at Bridgetown
1955 - Rocky Marciano TKOs Don Cockell in 9 for heavyweight boxing title
1956 - Egypt recognizes People's Republic of China
1956 - Great Britain performs nuclear Test at Monte Bello Is Australia
1956 - Kraft Theater presents an act from "Profiles in Courage"
1956 - Laker takes 10-88 for Surrey v Australians at the Oval
1957 - Maj Irwin, USAAF flies a Lockheed Starfight to a record 1,404.18 MPH
1957 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Invicti Athletae
1957 - US launches its 3rd atomic submarine, USS Skate, at Groton Conn
1957 - Yanks involved in Copacabana Incident, leads to Billy Martin trade
1958 - Eli Beeding experiences 83 g deceleration on a rocket sled, New Mex
1958 - Walter Irwin flies 2,259 KPH in F-104A Starfighter
1959 - 85th Preakness: William Harmatz aboard Royal Orbit wins in 1:57
1959 - WTOM TV channel 4 in Cheboygan, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting
1960 - Big 4 summit in Paris collapses as USSR levels spy charges against US
1960 - Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser, at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu,
           California.
1961 - 13rd Emmy Awards: Jack Benny Show, Raymond Burr & Barbara Stanwyck
1963 - "Beast in Me" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 4 performances
1963 - Gordon Cooper completes 22 orbits in Faith 7, ends US Proj Mercury
1964 - 90th Preakness: Bill Hartack aboard Northern Dancer wins in 1:56.8
1964 - USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1964 - Verne Gagne beats Mad Dog Vachon in Omaha, to become NWA champ
1965 - "Roar of the Greasepaint" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 232 perfs
1965 - Balt Oriole Jim Palmer's pitching debut, beats Yankees 7-5 & homers
1965 - Bomb destroys USAF base Bien Hoa South Vietnam
1965 - Spaghetti-O's 1st sold
1965 - Susie Maxwell wins LPGA Muskogee Civitan Golf Open
1965 - WNJU TV channel 47 in NY-Linden, NY (TEL) begins broadcasting
1965 - The Campbell Soup Company introduces SpaghettiOs under its Franco-American brand.
1966 - Beach Boys' "Pets Sounds" is released
1966 - National Welfare Rights Organization organizes
1966 - Stokely Carmichael named chairman of Student Nonviolent Coordinating
1967 - Phila voters approve a $13 million bond issue to build a new stadium
1968 - Earthquake kills 47 in Japan
1969 - Barbra Streisand appears at a Friars Club Tribute
1969 - Students occupies Magden House Amsterdam
1969 - US nuclear sub Guitarro sinks off SF
1969 - USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1969 - Venera 5 lands on Venus, returns data on atmosphere
1969 - Who's Pete Townsend & Roger Daltrey charged with assault
1970 - 96th Preakness: Eddie Belmonte aboard Personality wins in 1:56.2
1970 - Grover Henson Feels Forgotten by Bill Cosby hits #70
1971 - 1st class postage now costs 8 cents (was 6 cents)
1971 - Benjamin Britten's opera "Owen Wingrave," premieres in Aldwych
1971 - Bulgaria adopts it's constitution
1972 - "Don't Play Us Cheap" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 164 perfs
1972 - Greg Luzinski's 500' HR hits Liberty Bell monument in Phila Vet
1972 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Suzuki Golf Internationale
1973 - ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Dave Soutar
1973 - AC Milan wins 13th Europe Cup II in Saloniki
1974 - Helmut Schmidt becomes West German chancellor
1974 - USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1975 - India annexes Principality of Sikkim
1975 - Japanese Junko Tabei became 1st woman to reach Mt Everest's summit
1975 - Muhammad Ali TKOs Ron Lyle in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
1975 - Wings release "Listen to What the Man Said" in UK
1976 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens sweep Phila Flyers in 4 games
1976 - Sue Roberts wins LPGA American Defender Golf Classic
1977 - 5 die as NY Airway helicopter topples on Pan Am bldg in NYC
1977 - Muhammad Ali beats Alfredo Evangelist in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1979 - FC Barcelona wins 19th Europe Cup II in Basel
1979 - NL approves Astros sales from Ford Motors to John J McMullen for $19M
1980 - 34th NBA Championship: LA Lakers beat Phila 76ers, 4 games to 2
1980 - Brian May of rock group Queen collapses on stage with hepatitis
1980 - Paul McCartney releases "McCartney II" album
1980 - Former Buggles members Geoff Downes & Trevor Horn replace Jon Anderson & Rick
           Wakeman in Yes
1981 - "Bette Davis Eyes" by Kim Carnes hits #1 for next 9 weeks
1981 - 107th Preakness: Jorge Velasquez aboard Pleasant Colony wins in 1:54.6
1981 - Houston Astro Craig Reynolds hits 3 triples beating Cubs 6-1
1982 - "Barnum" closes at St James Theater NYC after 854 performances
1982 - "Is There Life after High School?" closes at Barrymore after 12 perfs
1982 - Columbia moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating in preparation for STS-4
1982 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Michelob Golf Tournament
1982 - Salvador Jorge Blanco wins presidential election in Dominican Rep
1982 - Stanley Cup: NY Islanders sweep Vancouver Canucks in 4 games
1983 - Lebanese parliament accept peace accord with Israel
1983 - Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement rebels against the Sudanese government.
1984 - Guinea-Bissau adopts constitution
1984 - Juventus wins 24th Europe Cup II in Basel
1984 - Phillie pitcher Steve Carlton hits a grand slam homer
1984 - US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1984 - Mackay pays $218,718 for 44,166 tickets to keep Twins in Minnesota Twins sell 51,863 tickets
           but only 6,346 fans show up for the game
1985 - Michael Jordan named NBA Rookie of Year
1985 - Pope John Paul II arrives in Belgium
1986 - "Top Gun," premieres
1986 - Bobby Ewing (Patrick Duffy) comes back from dead on Dallas
1986 - Joaquín Balaguers PRSC wins Dominican Rep parliamentary election
1986 - South African Pres P W Botha sends Coetsee to visit Mandela
1986 - The Seville Statement on Violence is adopted by an international meeting of scientists,
           convened by the Spanish National Commission for UNESCO, in Seville, Spain.
1987 - "Mystery of Edwin Drood" closes at Imperial NYC after 608 perfs
1987 - 113th Preakness: Chris McCarron aboard Alysheba wins in 1:55.8
1987 - Weird Al Yankovic performs live at 72nd National Orange Show
1987 - "Bobro 400," a barge carrying 3,200 tons of garbage, set sail from NY, beginning an
           unsuccesful 8-week search for a dumping site
1988 - Surgeon Gen C Everett Koop reports nicotine as addictive as heroin
1988 - US Supreme Court rules trash may be searched without a warrant
1989 - Soviet president Mikhail S Gorbachev & Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping ended a 30-year rift
           when they formally met in Beijing
1990 - Dominican Republic President Joaquín Ricardo Balaguer re-elected
1990 - Juventus wins 19th UEFA Cup in Avellino
1991 - Daily Planet fires cub reporter Jimmy Olson (Superman character)
1991 - Queen Elizabeth becomes 1st British monarch to address US congress
1992 - "Smells Like Nirvana," by Weird Al Yankovic hits #35
1992 - 118th Preakness: Chris McCarron aboard Pine Bluff wins in 1:55.6
1992 - Polls show Perot, Bush & Clinton could be in a deadlock
1992 - US space shuttle STS-49 lands (maiden voyage of Endeavour)
1993 - "3 Men on a Horse" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 40 performances
1993 - "Wilder, Wilder, Wilder" closes at Circle in Sq NYC after 30 perfs
1993 - Farmer Sugeng finds 1.2 million year old Pithecanthropus IX skull
1993 - Judd Nelson pleads no contest to kicking Kim Evans in the head
1993 - Laura Davies wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Championship
1993 - Suleyman Demirel elected president of Turkey
1994 - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Orlando FL on WTKS 104.1 FM
1994 - Jacqueline Onassis admitted to the hospital for cancer treatment
1994 - Joaquín Balaguer (86) elected president of Dominican Republic
1994 - Tennis star Jennifer Capriati arrested on possession of marijuana
1995 - Japanese police arrest cult leader Shoko Asahara & charged him with Nerve-gas attack on
           Tokyo's subways two months earlier
1996 - Sammy Sosa is 1st Chic Cub to hit 2 HRS in 1 inning
1997 - Atlanta Braves beat St Louis Cardinals, 1-0 in 13 innings
1997 - Brandi Sherwood, (Idaho) replaces Brook Lee (Miss Univ) as Miss USA
1997 - Brook Mehealani Lee, 26, of US crowned 46th Miss Universe
1997 - Expos trailing SF Giants by 9 runs comeback to win 14-13
1997 - St Louis Cards Gary Gaetti records his 2,000th hits
1998 - 124th Preakness
2003 - In Casablanca, Morocco, 33 civilians are killed and more than 100 people are injured in the
           Casablanca terrorist attacks.
2004 - The Day of Mourning at Bykivnia forest, just outside of Kiev, Ukraine. Here during 1930s and
           early 1940s communist bolsheviks executed over 100,000 Ukrainian civilians.
2005 - Kuwait permits women's suffrage in a 35-23 National Assembly vote.
2006 - A large earthquake (7.4 on the Richter scale) occurs near New Zealand.
2007 - Alex Salmond is elected First Minister of Scotland. He is the first Scottish National Party leader
           to be elected as First Minister after winning a historic victory at the Scottish general election   
           on the 3rd May.
2011 - Space shuttle Endeavour launches for its final commission in space

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 16, 2013, 02:31:01 PM

This Day in History for 16th May


Famous Weddings

1770 - Marie Antoinette (14) marries future King Louis XVI (15) of France
1836 - US writer Edgar Allan Poe (26) marries his 13-year-old cousin Virginia Clemm
1880 - British writer Mary Anne Evans, pen name George Eliot, aged 60 marries John Cross, 20 years
           her junior
1981 - Pretenders' Martin Chambers weds Tracy Atkinson
1987 - Rocker David Crosby weds Jan Dance in LA
2006 - "Korn" bassist Fieldy (36) weds Deena Beber at the St. Regis Monarch Beach Resort in Dana
           Point, California
2009 - Actress Jennifer Freeman (23) weds NBA guard Earl Watson (29) in Beverly Hills, California
2010 - British comedian David Walliams (38) weds supermodel Lara Stone (26) at Claridge's Hotel in
           London

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 16, 2013, 02:31:58 PM

This Day in History for 16th May


Famous Divorces

2008 - "24" actor Kiefer Sutherland (37) divorces former model Elizabeth Kelly Winn (42) due to
           irreconcilable differences after nearly 8 years of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 16, 2013, 02:37:58 PM

This Day in History for 16th May


Famous Birthdays

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Actor Pierce Brosnan (1953)                     Singer Janet Jackson (1966)                   Actress Megan Fox (1986)


1558 - Andreas of Austria, Bohemia cardinal/gov of Netherlands (1598-1600)
1578 - Everard Digby, English conspirator (d. 1606)
1609 - Ferdinand, Austria, cardinal of Spain/governor of Netherlands
1641 - Dudley North, financier/economist
1659 - Campegius Vitringa, Dutch theologist
1710 - William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot, English politician (d. 1782)
1718 - Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematician (d. 1799)
1748 - Antonius van Alphen, apostolic vicar of De Bosch
1761 - John Opie, artist
1763 - Louis-Nicolas Vauquelin, chemist (discovered chromium, beryllium)
1782 - John Sell Cotman, water color artist
1788 - Friedrich Rückert, German Poet, Translator and Orientalist (d. 1866)
1801 - William H. Seward, United States Secretary of State, bought Alaska at 2 ¢/acre (d. 1872)
1804 - Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, educator/founder (US kindergarten)
1806 - George C Cadwalader, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1879
1816 - Henry Hopkins Sibley, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1886
1819 - Daniel Ammen, Capt (Union Navy), died in 1898
1821 - Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician (d. 1894)
1822 - Eduard Hille, Dutch composer/conductor
1824 - Edmund Kirby Smith, Fla, General (Confederate Army), died in 1893
1824 - Levi Parsons Morton, (R) 22nd US VP (1889-93)
1827 - Petrus J H Cuypers, architect (Amsterdam Museum, Central station)
1831 - David Edward Hughes, inventor (microphone, teleprinter)
1832 - Philip Danforth Armour, founder (Armour Foods)
1845 - Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, Russian microbiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1916)
1850 - Arthur Henry Mann, organist/composer
1857 - Juan Morel Campos, composer
1858 - Frank Lynes, composer
1858 - Hanus Trnecek, composer
1860 - Herman Webster Mudgett, American Serial Killer (d. 1896)
1866 - Ernest Watson Burgess, US sociologist (ecological school)
1878 - Taylor Holmes, Newark NJ, actor (Tobor the Great, Beware My Lovely)
1880 - Julian Tannen, NY, comedian (Great Moment)
1887 - Bull Montana, Vogliera Italy, actor (Brass Buttons, Victory)
1887 - J van Hoddis, writer
1889 - Joan Collette, Dutch (male) painter (New Church, Delft)
1892 - Coenraad B van Haeringen, linguist/etymologist (Dutch Dictionary)
1892 - Richard Tauber, [Ernst Seiffert], Austria/British, tenor/conductor
1893 - Jose Calvo Sotelo, Spanish minister of Finance (1925-30)
1893 - Paul Amadeus Pisk, composer
1897 - Walther Geiser, composer
1898 - August de Schrijver, Belgian politician/founder (CVP)
1898 - Tamara de Lempicka, Polish-born painter (d. 1980)
1902 - Jan Kiepura, Sosnowiec Poland, vocalist/actor (Her Wonderful Lie)
1904 - Hugh Plaxton, Canada, ice hockey player (Olympic-gold-1928)
1904 - Lily Pons, opera singer/actress (That Girl From Paris)
1905 - H[erbert] E[rnest] Bates, novelist (Feast for July, Love for Lydia)
1905 - Henry Fonda, Grand Is Nebraska, actor (Mr Roberts, On Golden Pond)
1906 - Arturo Uslar Pietri, Venezuela, writer/minister (Lanzas Coloradas)
1906 - Ernie McCormick, cricketer (Australian quickie of late 30's)
1906 - Nicholas Beriozoff, ballet master
1906 - Alfred Pellan, French Canadian painter (d. 1988)
1906 - Margret Rey, author and illustrator (d. 1996)
1907 - Robert Tisdall, Ireland, 400m hurdler (Olympic-gold-1932)
1908 - Hilary Preston, editor
1908 - Mohammed Roem, Indonesian foreign minister (Linggadjati)
1909 - Charles Wislon, principal (Glasgow University)
1909 - Margaret Sullavan, American actress (d. 1960)
1910 - Olga Berggolts, Russian poet (d. 1975)
1911 - Margaret Sullavan, Norfolk Va, actress (Back Street)
1911 - Olaff J de Landell, [JB Wemmerslager van Sparwoude], writer
1912 - Studs Terkel, NYC, author/host (Stud's Place, Working)
1913 - Woody Herman, jazz clarinetist/bandleader/composer (Thundering Herds)
1914 - Edward T. Hall, American anthropologist and author
1916 - Adriana Caselotti, cartoon voice
1916 - Bernard Braden, broadcaster/actor (All Night Lone, Full Treatment)
1916 - Ephraim Katzir, biophysicist/president (Israel)
1916 - Irene Elizabeth Beatrice Ighodaro, doctor/social reformer
1917 - George Gaynes, Helsinki Finland, actor (Henry-Punky Brewster)
1917 - Geraint Jones, conductor/organist
1918 - Edward Thomas, historian/intelligence expert
1918 - Juan Rulfo, Mexican writer (Pedro Paramo)
1918 - Kevin Skelton, Bishop (Lichfield)
1918 - Wilf Mannion, English former footballer (d. 2000)
1919 - Liberace, West Allis WI, pianist (Liberace Show, Evil Chandell-Batman)
1919 - Richard Mason, author
1919 - [Wladziu Valentino] Liberace, West Allis Wisconsin, pianist
1919 - Ramon Margalef, Spanish scientist (d. 2004)
1920 - Martine Carol, [Maryse Mopurer], Saint-Mande France, actress (Nana)
1920 - Dave Philley, Paris, Texas, Major League Baseball switch-hitter (record 9 straight pinch hits),
           (d. 2012)
1921 - Harry Carey Jr, Saugus California, actor (She Wore a Yellow Ribbon), (d. 2012)
1921 - Robert Croften Brown, politician
1922 - Colin Cole, Principal King of Arms
1922 - Russell Wood, treasurer (Queen Elizabeth)
1923 - Merton Miller, American economist, Nobel laureate (d. 2000)
1924 - Dawda Kairaba Jawara, president (Gambia, 1970-94)
1924 - Frank F Mankiewicz, NYC, columnist (Perfectly Clear)
1925 - Bobbejaan Schoepen, Belgian entertainer
1926 - Jan Zimmer, composer
1927 - John Walford, solicitor
1927 - Nílton Santos, Brazilian footballer
1928 - Billy Martin, baseball 2nd baseman/manager (NY Yankees, Oakland A's)
1928 - Reginald Askew, dean (King's College London)
1928 - Hiroshi Nakajima, Chiba, Japan, doctor (WHO Director-General, 1988-98), (d. 2013)
1929 - Adrienne Cecile Rich, Balt Md, feminist writer (Diamond Cutters), (d. 2012)
1929 - John Conyers Jr, (Rep-D-MI, 1965- )
1929 - Osmo Uolevi Lindeman, composer
1929 - Claude Morin, French Canadian politician
1930 - Desmond Langley, gov (Bermuda)
1930 - Don Conicannon, government minister
1930 - Friedrich Gulda, Austrian pianist/composer (Hangman's Songs)
1930 - Brian Davies, Brisbane, Australia, Rugby League player, (d. 2012)
1931 - Donald James Martino, Plainfield NJ, composer (Noturnno-Pulitzer 1974)
1931 - Jack Dodson, Pitts Pa, actor (Howard Sprage-Andy Griffith Show)
1931 - Lowell P Weicker, (Sen-R-CT, 1971-88/Gov-D-CT)
1931 - Peter Levi, poet/writer
1931 - Denise Filiatrault, French Canadian actress and director
1931 - Natwar Singh, Indian politician
1931 - Hana Brady, Killed during Holocaust
1932 - Isaac "Redd" Holt, US drummer (Young-Holt Unlimited-In Crowd)
1934 - Anthony Walker, commandant (Royal College of Defense Studies)
1934 - Nicholas Goodison, CEO (TSB Group)
1935 - James Bolam, English actor
1936 - Philippe de Montebello, Paris, art exhibitionist (Treasures of Tut)
1936 - Roy Hudd, comedian (Blood Beast Terror, Vampire Beast Craves Blood)
1936 - Roy Hudd, English radio and television actor
1936 - Karl Lehmann, German Catholic cardinal
1937 - James Hunt Jr, (Gov-NC)
1937 - Yvonne Craig, Taylorville Ill, actress (Batgirl-Batman, Kissin Cousin)
1938 - Anthony Walker, commandant (Royal College of Defense Studies)
1938 - Stuart Bell, MP
1940 - Bernardo Bertolucci, Parma Italy, director (1900, Last Emperor)
1940 - Gareth Roberts, chancellor (Sheffield University)
1941 - John McWilliams, MP
1941 - Maurice Henry Weddington, composer
1943 - Dan Coats, (Rep-R-IN, 1981- )
1943 - Jon Jost, director (All the Vermeers in NY)
1944 - Billy Cobham, Panama, jazz artist (Same Ole Love)
1944 - Danny Trejo, American actor
1945 - Brewster H Shaw Jr, Mich, Col USAF/astro (STS-9, STS 61B, STS-28)
1945 - James Moran, (Rep-D-Virginia)
1945 - Nicky Chinn, English songwriter/producer (Chinn & Chapman)
1946 - Robert Fripp, guitarist (King Crimson)
1946 - Jessi B Wilson, Mississippi, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
1946 - Roger Earl, rocker (Foghat)
1947 - Barbara Lee, US singer (Chiffons, He's So Fine)
1947 - Bill Smitrovich, actor (Crime Story, Miami Vice)
1947 - Rosie Barnes, MP
1948 - Katia Dandoulaki, Greek actress
1949 - Jimmy Hood, MP
1949 - Rick Reuschel, pitcher (NY Yankees)
1949 - William Sputnik Spooner, rock guitarist (Grateful Dead, Tubes)
1950 - Jock Bartley, rocker (Firefall)
1950 - Johannes Bednorz, German superconductivity physicist (Nobel 1987)
1950 - Ray Condo, Canadian rockabilly musician
1951 - Jonathan Richman, rocker (Modern Lovers-New England, Egyptian Reggae)
1952 - James Herndon, American media psychologist
1953 - Pierce Brosnan, County Meath Ireland, actor (Remington Steele, Golden Eye)
1953 - David Maclean, British minister of state
1953 - Richard Page, LA California, rocker (Mr Mister)
1953 - Rick Rhoden, pitcher (NY Yankees)
1954 - Janet Maw, actress (Sparrow, King John, Mayor of Casterbridge)
1954 - [Dafydd] Rhys Williams, Saskatoon Canada, MD/astronaut (sk: STS 90)
1955 - Debra Winger, Columbus Oh, actress (Officer & Gentleman)
1955 - Hazel O'Connor, Coventry England, singer/actress (Breaking Glass)
1955 - Jack Morris, St Paul Minn, pitcher (Detroit Tigers)
1955 - Olga Korbut, Grodno Belorussia, gymnist (Olympic-2 golds-1972)
1957 - Joan Benoit Samuelson, Cape Elizabeth ME, marathoner (Oly-gold-1984)
1958 - Glenn Gregory, rock vocalist (Heeaven 17-Electric Dreams)
1959 - Bob Patterson, Jacksonville FL, pitcher (Chicago Cubs)
1959 - Mare Winningham, Phoenix Az, actress (St Elmo's Fire, Turner & Hooch)
1959 - Ty Armstrong, Waxahachie TX, Nike golfer (1993 Anheuser-Busch-19th)
1960 - Anne Parillaud, Paris France, actress (Subway, Nikita, Innocent Blood)
1961 - Nina Arvesen, White Plains NY, actress (Cassandra-Young & Restless)
1961 - Kevin Guidry, NFL tackle (Denver Broncos)
1961 - Kevin McDonald, Canadian comedian and actor
1961 - Charles Wright, American professional wrestler known as "The Godfather"
1962 - Gary Crocker, cricketer (Zimbabwe Test batsman)
1963 - Jon Coffelt, American artist
1963 - Mercedes Echerer, Austrian actress and politician
1964 - John Salley, NBA star (Detroit Pistons)
1964 - Boyd Tinsley, American violinist (Dave Matthews Band)
1965 - Brent Jasmer, Portland Oregon, actor (Sly-Bold & Beautiful)
1965 - Lori Sippel, Stratford Ontario, softball pitcher (Olympics-96)
1965 - Krist Novoselic, American bassist (Nirvana)
1966 - Janet Jackson, Gary Indiana, singer, Michael's sister (Control)
1966 - Scott Reeves, Santa Monica California, actor (Ryan-Young & Restless)
1966 - Sean Quilty, Australian marathoner (Olympics-96)
1966 - Thurman Thomas, NFL running back (Buffalo Bills)
1968 - Ralph Tresvant, Boston, singer (New Editon)
1969 - Marcel Schewe, cricketer (Holland wicket-keeper 1996 World Cup)
1969 - Steven Earl Lewis, LA California, 4X100/400m runner (Olympic-gold-1988)
1969 - Tracey Gold, NYC, actress (Carol-Growing Pains, Incredible Sunday)
1969 - David Boreanaz, American actor
1969 - Tucker Carlson, American television commentator
1969 - Steve Lewis, American athlete
1970 - Eric Lynch, NFL running back (Detroit Lions)
1970 - Gabriela Sabatini, Argentina, tennis player (Olympic-silver-1988)
1971 - Khari Jones, CFL/WLAF quarterback (BC Lions, Scottish Claymores)
1971 - Rachel Goswell, English singer and songwriter (Slowdive, Mojave 3)
1972 - Keith Burns, NFL linebacker (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1972 - Matthew Hart, cricketer (NZ lefty spinner 1994- )
1972 - Khary Payton, American actor
1973 - Jason Acuña "Wee-Man", American television personality
1974 - Conal Groom, Northford Conn, rower (Olympics-1996)
1974 - Keith Thibodeaux, cornerback (Washington Redskins)
1974 - Laura Pausini, Italian pop singer
1974 - Sonny Sandoval, American singer (P.O.D.)
1975 - Tony Kakko, Finnish singer (Sonata Arctica)
1975 - Tonéx, American singer
1977 - Dolcenera, Italian singer
1977 - Jean-Sébastien Giguère, Canadian ice hockey player
1978 - Vincent Larusso, Livingston, NJ, actor (Adam-Mighty Ducks, D2, D3)
1978 - Lionel Scaloni, Argentine footballer
1978 - David Ford, English singer/songwriter
1979 - Evan Ferrante, actor (Owen-Swan's Crossing)
1979 - McKenzie Lee, English pornographic actress
1980 - Mikel Alonso, Spanish footballer
1980 - Michael Ryan, American ice hockey player
1980 - Melanie Lofton, American Journalist
1981 - Jessica Ponzo, Miss New Jersey Teen USA (1996)
1981 - Jim Sturgess, English actor
1982 - Łukasz Kubot, Polish tennis player
1982 - Hanna Mariën, Belgian athlete
1982 - Joo Ji Hoon, Korean actor and model
1983 - Mince Fratelli, Scottish Drummer (The Fratellis)
1983 - Nancy Ajram, Lebanese singer
1983 - Kyle Wellwood, Canadian ice hockey player
1984 - Mickie Knuckles, American female professional wrestler
1984 - Jensen Lewis, American baseball player
1985 - Anja Mittag, German footballer
1985 - Stanislav Ianevski, Bulgarian actor
1985 - Corey Perry, Canadian ice hockey player
1986 - Megan Fox, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, American actress (Transformers) and model
1986 - Andy Keogh, Irish footballer (Wolverhampton Wanderers)
1998 - Ariel Waller, Canadian child actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 16, 2013, 02:41:08 PM

This Day in History for 16th May


Famous Deaths

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Fairytale writer                                       Muppeteer Jim Henson (1990)
Charles Perrault (1703)


583 - Saint Brendan, Irish navigator (b. 484)
942 - Saadiah Gaon, head of Talmudic Academy of Sura, dies
1265 - Saint Simon Stock, English saint (b. 1165)
1434 - Pieter Appelmans, Flemish architect/master builder, dies at about 60
1569 - Dirk Willems, Anabaptist Martyr
1620 - William Adams, English navigator (b. 1564)
1657 - Andrzej Bobola, Polish Jesuit missionary (b. 1591)
1667 - Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton, English statesman (b. 1607)
1669 - Pietro da Cortona, [Berrettini], painter/architect, dies
1669 - Reyer Anslo, writer/poet, dies at about 42
1691 - Jacob Leisler, becomes 1st American colonist hanged for treason
1703 - Charles Perrault, French author/fairy tale writer, dies at 75
1754 - Giovanni Carlo Maria Clari, composer, dies at 76
1762 - Ernst Chreistian Hesse, composer, dies at 86
1768 - Cornelis Writer, fleet supervisor, dies at about 81
1777 - Button Gwinnet, US revolutionary leader, dies from wounds
1778 - Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness, English diplomat (b. 1718)
1782 - Daniuel Charles Solander, botanist, dies
1790 - Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke, English politician (b. 1720)
1805 - Christian Brunings, hydraulic engineer, dies at 68
1819 - Alexander van Bylandt, military, dies at 75
1829 - William Congreve, English officer, dies at 56
1830 - Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier, mathematician, dies
1835 - Felicia Dorothea Hemans, poet/hymn writer, dies
1847 - Kaspar Ett, German organist/composer, dies at 59
1862 - Lev A Ms, Russian nobleman/poet, dies at 40
1863 - Lloyd Tilghman, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 47
1864 - Lean Bear, Cheyenne chief, murdered
1880 - Karl August Krebs, composer, dies at 76
1891 - Ion Brătianu, Romanian statesman (b. 1821)
1892 - John Banvard, painted worlds largest painting (3 mile canvas), dies
1892 - Theodoor J Canneel, Flemish painter, dies at 74
1903 - Eduard Rappoldi, composer, dies at 72
1904 - N I Bobrikov, Russian governor-general in Finland, dies
1910 - Henri E Cross [Delacroix], French painter, dies at 53
1913 - Louis Perrier, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1849)
1918 - Eusapia Palladino, Napolitan, dies at 64
1920 - Levi P. Morton, United States Vice President under Benjamin Harrision (b. 1824)
1926 - Mehmed VI Vahideddin (Mohammed Osman), last sultan of Turkey, dies
1928 - Edmund William Grosse, poet/author, dies
1929 - Lilli Lehmann, soprano, dies
1932 - Ki Imukai, premier of Japan (1931-32), murdered
1932 - William Pember Reeves, politician/poet, dies
1938 - Stephen Fairbairn, oarsman/coach, dies
1942 - Bronislaw Kasper Malinowski, anthropologist, dies
1943 - Alfred Hoche, German psychiatrist (b. 1865)
1944 - George Ade, US novelist/playwright (Counsel Widow), dies at 78
1944 - Leone Sinigaglia, composer, dies at 75
1944 - Max Brand, [Frederick Schiller Faust], western author, dies
1944 - George Ade, American author (b. 1866)
1947 - Frederick Hopkins, English biochemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1861)
1949 - William Newzam Prior Nicholson, painter/engraver, dies
1952 - Alec Hearne, cricketer (scored 9 in Test for Eng v South Africa 1892), dies
1953 - Django Reinhardt, Belgian musician (b. 1910)
1954 - Clemens Krauss, Austrian conductor (Vienna State Opera), dies at 61
1954 - Werner Bischof, Swiss photographer, dies accidentally at 38
1955 - James Agee, US critic/writer (Death in Family), dies in NY
1956 - H. B. Reese, American founder of Reese's (b. 1876)
1957 - Eliot Ness, American federal agent (b. 1903)
1958 - Jeroom Verten [Jozef F Vermetten], Flemish playwright, dies at 49
1959 - Joe Cook, Stage comedian, dies at 69
1959 - Elisha Scott, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1894)
1961 - George A. Malcolm, American jurist & educator (b. 1881)
1966 - Randolph Turpin, boxer, shot dead in his home
1969 - Johnny Jordan, cameraman (You Only Live Twice), dies at 44
1972 - Maxime Dumoulin, composer, dies at 79
1975 - Michael X, (Abdul Malik), hanged in Trinidad, for murder
1979 - Asa Philip Randolph, labor leader & civil rights pioneer, dies at 90
1981 - Ernie Freeman, American pianist and arranger (b. 1922)
1983 - Carel Brons, composer, dies at 52
1984 - Andy Kaufman, comedian (Latka-Taxi), dies of cancer at 35
1984 - Irwin Shaw, US writer (Rich Man, Poor Man), dies at 71
1985 - Margaret Hamilton, actress (Wicked Witch-Wizard of Oz), dies at 82
1988 - Kay Baxter, best bodybuilder in the world (1983-85), dies in car crash at 42
1988 - Louise Wood, director of Girl Scouts of USA (1961-72), dies at 78
1988 - Charles Keeping, English illustrator (b. 1924)
1989 - Hassan Khaled, sheik of Lebanon, murdered
1990 - Dag Drollet, Cheyenne Brando's boyfriend killed by brother Christian
1990 - Jim Henson, puppeteer (Sesame Street, Muppet Show), dies at 53
1990 - Sammy Davis Jr, singer/actor (Golden Boy), dies at 64
1991 - Prudence Nesbitt, British actress/TV producer, dies
1992 - Marisa Mell, actress (Hostages), dies of cancer at 53
1992 - Chalino Sanchez, Mexican musician (b, 1960)
1993 - Marv Johnson, US soul singer (You Got What it Takes), dies at 54
1994 - Alain Cuny, actor (Lovers, Emanuelle, Camille Claudel), dies
1994 - Barbara Jean Jones, fictional character on General Hospital, dies at 7
1994 - Phani Majumdar, film director, dies at 82
1994 - Vasek Simek, Czech/US actor (Green Card, Mistress), dies at 66
1995 - Lola Flores, singer/actress (Kuma Ching, Faraona), dies at 70
1995 - Ragnhild Marie Hatton, historian, dies at 82
1996 - Edward McInnes, German scholar, dies at 60
1996 - Mike Jeremy Boorda, Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) commits suicide at 57
1996 - Pierre Debizet, resistance fighter/special agent, dies at 72
1997 - Elbridge Durbrow, American diplomat (b. 1903)
2000 - Bodacious the Bull Famous rodeo bull (b. 1988)
2001 - Brian Pendleton, English musician (The Pretty Things) (b. 1944)
2002 - Alec Campbell, the last surviving ANZAC (b. 1899)
2002 - Big Dick Dudley, American professional wrestler (b. 1968)
2003 - Mark McCormack, American businessman (b. 1930)
2010 - Ronnie James Dio, American heavy metal vocalist (b. 1942)
2010 - Hank Jones, American jazz pianist (b. 1918)
2011 - Bob Davis, Australian rules footballer (b. 1928)
2011 - Bill Skiles, American comic (b. 1931)
2011 - Edward Hardwicke, English actor (b. 1932)
2012 - James Abdnor, American senator, dies at 89

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 17, 2013, 01:43:20 PM

This Day in History for 17th May


Historical Events

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The Sun King Louis XIV                              US Calvary Commander                     Abolitionist Frederick Douglass
                                                                 George Armstrong Custer

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Baseball Player Hank Aaron                 Singer-Songwriter Stevie Wonder                Actress Mary Tyler Moore

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Anti-apartheid activist/South
 African President
Nelson Mandela


218 - 7th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
352 - Liberius begins his reign as Catholic Pope replacing Julius I
884 - St Adrian III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1521 - Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, is executed for treason.
1525 - Battle at Zabern: duke of Lutherans beats rebels
1527 - Pánfilo de Narváez departs to explore Florida
1536 - Anne Boleyns 4 "lovers" executed
1544 - Scot earl Matthew van Lennox signs secret treaty with Henry VIII
1579 - Artois/Henegouwen/French-Flanders sign Treaty/Peace of Parma recognizing Spanish duke
           van Parma as land guardian
1590 - Anne of Denmark is crowned Queen of Scotland.
1620 - 1st merry-go-round seen at a fair (Philippapolis, Turkey)
1630 - Italian Jesuit Niccolo Zucchi, 1st to see 2 belts on Jupiter surface
1631 - Earl Johann Tilly attacks Maagdenburg
1648 - Emperor Ferdinand III defeats Maximilian I of Bavaria
1672 - Frontenac becomes governor of New France (Canada)
1673 - Louis Joliet & Jacques Marquette begin exploring Mississippi
1678 - King Charles II & Louis XIV sign secret treaty
1712 - Maximilian Emanuel of Bavaria honored as "sovereign of Netherlands"
1733 - England passes Molasses Act, putting high tariffs on rum & molasses imported to the colonies
           from a country other than British possessions
1742 - Frederick great (Emperor of Prussia) beats Austrians
1744 - French army takes Austrian Netherlands
1750 - -18] Tax revolt in Gorinchem
1756 - Britain declares war on France (7 Years' or French & Indian War)
1775 - American Revolutionary War: the Continental Congress bans trade with Canada.
1787 - English slave ship Sisters, from Africa to Cuba, capsizes
1792 - 24 merchants form NY Stock Exchange at 70 Wall Street
1794 - Hard frost in southern New England
1803 - John Hawkins & Richard French patent the Reaping Machine
1804 - Lewis & Clark begin exploration of Louisiana Purchase
1809 - Papal States annexed by France
1814 - Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden (Natl Day)
1814 - Norwegian constitution passed by constitutent assembly at Eidsvoll
1814 - Occupation of Monaco changes from French to Austrian.
1837 - Royal Decides installs the Weapon of Belgium firm(ly)
1845 - Rubber band patents
1848 - Premier earl Schimmelpenninck resigns
1849 - Fire destroy Centrum in St Louis Missouri
1853 - Thorbeckes liberals win 2nd-Parliamentary election
1859 - Australian Rules Football first 'laws of the game' published
1860 - German football club TSV 1860 München is founded
1862 - Battle of Princeton WV, ends, about 128 casualities
1863 - Battle of Big Black River Bridge, MS
1863 - Rosalía de Castro publishes Cantares Gallegos, her first book in the Galician language.
1864 - Battle of Adairsville Georgia, Union forces Confederates to retreat
1865 - The International Telegraph Union (later the International Telecommunication Union) is
           established.
1871 - Indians fighter Gen Sherman escapes in ambulance vs Comanches
1872 - Bohemian Club incorporated
1875 - 1st Kentucky Derby: Oliver Lewis aboard Aristides wins in 2:37.75
1876 - 7th US Cavalry under Custer leaves Ft Lincoln
1877 - Edwin T Holmes installs 1st telephone switchboard burglar alarm
1881 - 7th Kentucky Derby: Jim McLaughlin aboard Hindoo wins in 2:40
1881 - Frederick Douglass appointed recorder of deeds for Wash DC
1881 - Revised version of New Testament
1883 - Buffalo Bill Cody's 1st wild west show premieres in Omaha
1884 - Alaska becomes a US territory
1890 - Clyde Fitch's "Beau Brummel," premieres in NYC
1890 - Comic Cuts, 1st weekly comic paper, published in London
1890 - Pietro Mascagni's opera "Rustic Chivalry" premieres in Rome at the Teatro Costanzi
1894 - 19th Preakness: Fred Taral aboard Assignee wins in 1:49.25
1895 - W G Grace completes his 100th 100 v Somerset at Bristol
1898 - Camp Merritt forms in Presidio [see 0503]
1899 - Victoria & Albert Museum foundation laid, London, England
1900 - British troops relieve Mafeking (Cape Colony)
1902 - Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient
           mechanical analog computer.
1903 - Cleve Indians beat NY Highlanders 9-2 in Columbus Ohio
1904 - Maurice Ravel's "Shéhérazade," premieres in Paris
1905 - Waseda U of Tokyo defeats LA High School 5-3 in baseball
1906 - Switzerland's Simpion Tunnel open to rail traffic
1909 - White firemen on Georgia RR strike to protest hiring blacks
1910 - Canada sets the designs for the 1-50 cent coins
1911 - 36th Preakness: Eddie Dugan aboard Watervale wins in 1:51
1915 - 40th Preakness: Douglas Hoffman aboard Rhine Maiden wins in 1:58
1915 - Cubs George "Zip" Zabel relieves with 2 outs in 1st & winds up with 4-3 19-inning win over
           Brooklyn in longest relief job ever
1915 - Last liberal British government of Asquith falls
1915 - National Baptist Convention chartered
1916 - British Summer Time (Daylight Savings), 1st introduced
1919 - War Department (UK) orders use of National Star Insignia on all airplanes.
1920 - 1st De Havilland double-decker flight (London) lands in Schiphol
1920 - 1st flight by Dutch airlines KLM (Koninklijke-Luchtvaart-Maatschappij)
1921 - Belgian-Luxembourg sign customs union
1921 - President Harding opens (via telephone) 1st Valencia Orange Show
1923 - Fire during closing day ceremonies at Grover Cleveland School (SC)
1924 - 50th Kentucky Derby: John Mooney aboard Black Gold wins in 2:05.2
1925 - Cleveland Indian Tris Speaker gets his 3,000th hit
1926 - Chiang Kai-shek is made supreme war lord in Canton
1926 - German government of Marx takes power
1927 - Chicago Cubs beat Boston Braves, 4-3, in 22 innings
1927 - U.S. Army aviation pioneer, Major Harold Geiger, dies in the crash of his Airco DH.4 de
           Havilland plane at Olmstead Field, Pennsylvania
1928 - 9th modern Olympic games opens in Amsterdam
1930 - 56th Kentucky Derby: Earl Sande aboard Gallant Fox wins in 2:07.6
1932 - Congress changes name "Porto Rico" to "Puerto Rico"
1933 - Vidkun Quisling and Johan Bernhard Hjort form Nasjonal Samling — the national-socialist
           party of Norway.
1937 - Juan Negrin succeeds Largo Caballero as Spain's premier
1938 - Congress approves Vinson Naval Act, which funds a two-ocean navy
1938 - Radio quiz show "Information Please!" debuts on NBC Blue Network
1939 - 1st sports telecast-Columbia vs Princeton-college baseball
1940 - Germany occupies Brussels, Belgium & begins invasion of France
1940 - Nazi's bombs Middelburg/B IJzerdrat begins illegal defiance
1941 - Pennsylvania declares legal holiday to honor A's manager Connie Mack
1942 - Dutch SS vows loyalty to Hitler
1943 - The United States Army contracts with the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School to
           develop the ENIAC.
1943 - World War II: the Dambuster Raids by No. 617 Squadron RAF on German dams.
1944 - -18] Allied air raid on Surabaja, Java
1944 - Chinese/US arm forces take Myitkyina Airport, Burma
1944 - General Eisenhower sets D-Day for June 5th
1944 - Operation Straightline: Allies land in Neth New-Guinea
1945 - 2 US P-47 Thunderbolts bomb Kiushu
1946 - KVP Labor/Communists win 1st post-WW2 Dutch parliamentary elections
1946 - Pres Harry Truman seizes control of nation's railroads to delay a strike
1947 - "Street Scene" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 148 performances
1948 - Israel liberates Acre, Nebi Yusha & Telel-Kadi
1948 - Soviet Union recognized Israel
1949 - British government recognizes Republic of Ireland
1952 - 78th Preakness: Conn McCreary aboard Blue Man wins in 1:57.4
1953 - Patty Berg wins LPGA Reno Golf Open
1953 - Yanks & Browns use record 41 players in a game
1954 - Supreme Court unanimously rules on Brown v Topeka Board of Education reversed 1896
           "separate but equal" Plessy Vs Ferguson decision
1955 - Dutch government of Drees resigns
1957 - Prayer Pilgrimage, biggest civil rights demonstration to date (DC)
1957 - School desegregation law, Brown v Board of education
1958 - 84th Preakness: Ismael Valenzuela aboard Tim Tam wins in 1:57.2
1958 - Emergency crisis proclaimed in Algeria
1959 - Sam Snead sets PGA record for 36 holes at 122
1960 - 1st atomic reactor system patents, J W Flora of Canoga Park CA
1961 - Castro offers to exchange Bay of Pigs prisoners for 500 bulldozers
1962 - Marin County withdraws from BART district
1963 - Bruno Sammartino beats Buddy Rogers in NY, to become WWF champ
1963 - Houston Colt .45's Don Notterbart no-hits Phillies, 4-1
1963 - US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1964 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Muskogee Civitan Golf Open Invitational
1964 - Phillies triple play Houston Colt .45s
1966 - KFDO (now KVIJ) TV channel 8 in Sayre, OK (ABC) begins broadcasting
1967 - Dylan's 1965 UK Tour is released as film "Don't Look Back"
1968 - European Space Research Org launches 1st satellite
1968 - Frank Howard belts record 8th HR in 5th straight game
1968 - US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1969 - "My Wife, My Dog, My Cat," by Maskman & The Agents hits #92
1969 - 95th Preakness: Bill Hartack aboard Majestic Prince wins in 1:55.6
1969 - Balt, Cleve & Pitts agree to go from NFC to AFC in NFL
1969 - Russian probe Venera 6 landed on Venus
1970 - Hank Aaron becomes 9th player to get 3,000 hits
1970 - Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Johnny Londoff Chevrolet Golf Tournament
1970 - Thor Heyerdahl crosses Atlantic on reed raft Ra
1971 - Stephen Schwartz' musical "Godspell," premieres off-Broadway
1971 - Washington State bans sex discrimination
1972 - Neth & China PR exchange ambassadors
1972 - Tottenham Hotspur wins 1st UEFA Cup in London
1973 - "Nash at Nine" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 21 performances
1973 - Joe Ferguson, hits the 6,000th Dodger home run
1973 - Senate Watergate Committee begins its hearings
1973 - Stevie Wonder releases "You are the Sunshine of my Love"
1973 - US performs 3 nuclear tests at Rifle Colorado
1973 - Angels outfielder Bobby Valentine breaks his leg trying to scale wall to prevent a Dick Green
           home run during a 5-4 loss to the A's
1974 - Bayern Munchen wins 20th Europe Cup 1 at Brussels
1974 - Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 15th String quartet
1975 - "Funky Gibbon" by The Goodies hits #79
1975 - 101st Preakness: Darrel McHargue aboard Master Derby wins in 1:56.4
1975 - 10cc releases "I'm Not in Love"
1975 - Mick Jagger punches a restaurant window, gets 20 stitches
1975 - NBC paid $5M for rights to show "Gone with the Wind" one time
1976 - 28th Emmy Awards: Mary Tyler Moore Show, Jack Albertson & M Learned
1976 - Earthquake in Uzbekistan: 1000's killed
1977 - Menahem Begins Likoed-party wins election in Israel
1978 - Lee Lacy hits record 3rd consecutive pinch-hit home run
1979 - -12°F (-11°C), on top of Mauna Kea, Hawaii (state record)
1979 - Emmy 6th Daytime Award presentation
1979 - Phillies beat Cubs, 23-22, on 50 hits with 11 HRs
1980 - 106th Preakness: Angel Cordero Jr aboard Codex wins in 1:54.2
1980 - Kumar Anandan balanced on one foot for 33 hours
1980 - Major race riot in Miami Florida - 16 killed, 300 injured
1980 - Paul & Linda McCartney appear on Saturday Night Live
1981 - "Inacent Black" closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 14 performances
1981 - Islanders score 5 power play goals against Flyers in a playoff
1981 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Coca-Cola Golf Classic
1983 - Israel & Lebanon sign a peace treaty
1983 - Stanley Cup: NY Islanders sweep Edmonton Oilers in 4 games
1984 - Cincinnati Reds Mario Soto throws 4 strikeouts in one inning
1984 - Mai Shanley, 21, (NM), crowned 33rd Miss USA
1984 - Prince Charles calls a proposed addition to the National Gallery, London, a "monstrous
           carbuncle on the face of a much-loved and elegant friend," sparking controversies on the
           proper role of the Royal Family and the course of modern architecture.
1985 - Les Anderson, catches record 97 lb 4 oz Chinook Salmon, off Alaska
1986 - "Chicken Song" by Spitting Image hit #1 on the UK pop chart
1986 - 112th Preakness: Alex Solis aboard Snow Chief wins in 1:54.8
1987 - "Stardust" closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 102 performances
1987 - Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Golf Classic
1987 - USS Stark hit by Iraqi missiles, 37 sailors die
1989 - Longest Cab Ride Ever: 14,000 miles cost $16,000!
1989 - Napoli wins 18th UEFA Cup in Stuttgart
1989 - Nelson Mandela receives a BA from University of South Africa
1989 - Vincent Van Gogh's "Portrait of Dr Gachet" auctioned for $825M
1990 - Cheers' star Kelsey Grammer sentenced to jail for 30 days for DWI
1990 - Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,831.71
1990 - European court rules pension rights for both men & women
1990 - WIBC Bowling Queens won by Patty Ann
1990 - the WHO takes Homosexuality out of its list of mental illnesses.
1991 - Lupita Jones, 23, of Mexico, crowned 40th Miss Universe
1992 - 38th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Betsy King
1992 - Expos Gary Carter is 3rd to catch 2,000 games (joins Boone & Fisk)
1993 - Intel's new Pentium processor is unveiled
1994 - Bakili Muluzi's UDF wins Malawi presidents/parliamentary election
1996 - Alicia Machado, 18, of Venezuela crowned 45th Miss Universe
1996 - Habib & Whitaker make 320 for 5th Cricket wkt, Leics v Worcs
1997 - 123rd Preakness: Gary Stevens aboard Silver Charm wins in 1:54
1997 - WIBC Bowling Queens won by Sandra Jo Shiery-Odom
1997 - Troops of Laurent Kabila march into Kinshasa.
1998 - 44th McDonald's LPGA Championship won by Se Ri Pak
2000 - In the Philippines an explosion rocks Glorietta 2 injuring 13 persons, mostly teenagers.
           According to local authorities, the homemade bomb was placed in front of a toilet beside a
           video arcade.
2004 - Massachusetts becomes the first U.S. state to legalize same-sex marriage
2006 - The aircraft carrier USS Oriskany is sunk in the Gulf of Mexico to be an artificial reef
2007 - Trains from North and South Korea cross the 38th Parallel in a test-run agreed by both
           governments. This is the first time that trains have crossed the Demilitarized Zone since 1953.

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 17, 2013, 01:44:57 PM

This Day in History for 17th May


Famous Weddings

1997 - Sylvester Stallone weds Jennifer Flavin in London
2008 - Singer-songwriter and actress Ashlee Simpson (26) weds rock band Fall Out Boy bassist Pete
           Wentz (31) in Encino, California

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 17, 2013, 01:50:32 PM

This Day in History for 17th May


Famous Birthdays

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Singer-Songwriter                                    Musician Trent Reznor (1965)
Enya (Eithne Ní Bhraonáin) (1961)


1155 - Jien, Japanese poet and historian (d. 1225)
1443 - Edmund, Earl of Rutland, brother of Kings Edward IV of England and Richard III of England
1451 - Engelbert II, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg-Dietz/viceroy of Luxembourg
1490 - Albrecht von Hohenzollern, 1st duke of Prussia
1551 - Martin Delrio, Flemish theologian and occultist (d. 1608)
1568 - Christoph Thomas Walliser, composer
1576 - Ferdinand van Apshoven, the Older, Flemish painter, baptized
1628 - Archduke Ferdinand Charles of Austria, Regent of the Tyrol (d. 1662)
1682 - Bartholomew Roberts, Welsh pirate (d. 1722)
1691 - Antoine Court, French reformed theologist
1706 - Andreas Felix von Oefele, German historian and librarian (d. 1780)
1718 - Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness, English diplomat and politician (d. 1778)
1732 - Francesco Pasquale Ricci, composer
1741 - John Penn, US attorney (signed Declaration of Independence) [OS=May 6]
1743 - Seth Warner, American revolutionary leader (d. 1784)
1749 - Edward Jenner, England, physician, discovered vaccination
1758 - John St Aubyn, British fossil collector (d. 1839)
1768 - Caroline, Brunswick, Queen Consort of King George IV
1768 - Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, English general (d. 1854)
1794 - Anna Brownell Jameson, Dublin, writer
1796 - Martinus J Niewindt, bishop of Curacao (christen slaves)
1800 - Carl Friedrich Zollner, composer
1803 - Robert Smith Surtees, novelist
1804 - Ottho G Heldring, Dutch vicar/reformer (Heldring Institutions)
1808 - Charles-Louis-Adolphe Vogel, composer
1812 - Joseph Warren Revere, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1880
1819 - Johann Nepomuk Kafka, composer
1821 - Sebastian Kneipp, German naturopathist (d. 1897)
1823 - Charlotte Helen Sainton-Dolby, contralto/composer
1836 - Joseph Norman Lockyer, discoverer (Helium)/founder (Nature magazine)
1836 - Wilhelm Steinitz, Austria, world chess champion (1866-94)
1836 - Virginie Loveling, Belgian writer and poet (d. 1923)
1844 - Julius Wellhausen, German biblical scholar (d. 1918)
1846 - Edmund Bishop, English secretary of Thomas Carlyle
1850 - Antonio Scontrino, composer
1867 - Gerrit Mannoury, Dutch mathematician/philosopher
1868 - Horace Elgin Dodge, American automobile manufacturer (d. 1920)
1871 - Henricus P Bremmer, art historian (Modern Kunstwerken)
1873 - Dorothy Miller Richardson, Abingdon Berkshire, novelist
1873 - Henri Barbusse, Asnieres France, novelist (Le Feu)
1876 - Alban Collignon, Belgian sport journalist
1879 - Simon Petlyura, Ukrainian independence fighter (d. 1926)
1886 - Alfonso XIII of Spain (d. 1941)
1888 - A P "Tich" Freeman, cricket leg-spinner (legend for Kent & England)
1888 - Selmer Jackson, Iowa, actor (Life & Legend of Wyatt Earp)
1889 - Alfonso Reyes, Mexican poet/historian/diplomat (Higenia Cruel)
1890 - Philip James, composer
1891 - Princess Alexandra, Duchess of Fife (d. 1959)
1896 - Brazilio da Cunha Luz Itibere, composer
1896 - Hannah Tillich, writer
1897 - Odd Hassel, Norwegian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981)
1898 - Alfred Joseph Casson, Canadian painter (d. 1992)
1899 - Ralf Harolde, Pittsburgh PA, actor (Framed, Smart Money, Tip-off)
1900 - Nicolai Berezowsky, composer
1900 - Ruhollah Khomeini, Iran's ayatollah (1979-89)
1901 - Werner Egk, Auchsesheim Germany, composer (Die Zaubergeige)
1902 - John Vincent, composer
1903 - Douglas Packard, British Lt General
1903 - James "Cool Papa" Bell, Starkville, Mississippi, baseball center fielder in Negro league baseball,
           considered by many to have been one of the fastest men ever to play the game (d. 1991)
1904 - Jean Gabin, French actor (d. 1976)
1905 - John Patrick, screenwriter
1906 - Eric Mensforth, president (Westland Aircraft)
1906 - Zinka Milanov, Croatian soprano (d. 1989)
1907 - Charles Cawley, British chief scientist/minister of power
1907 - Horace McMahon, South Norwalk Ct, actor (Martin Kane Private Eye)
1907 - Ilona Schacherer Elek, Budapest Hung, fencer (Olympic-gold-1936, 48)
1908 - Sigismund Toduta, composer
1908 - Zinka Milanov, Zagreb Yugoslavia, soprano (Ljublama Opera 1927)
1909 - Edward Playfair, British senior civil servant
1909 - Magda Schneider, actress (Eva, Going Gay, Be Mine Tonight)
1911 - Knut Anders Haukfield, SOE Operative
1911 - Maureen O'Sullivan, Boyle Ireland, actress (Tarzan, Pride & Prejudice)
1911 - Lisa Fonssagrives, Swedish-born supermodel (d. 1992)
1912 - Archibald Cox, special prosecutor (Watergate)
1912 - Clarence "Ace" Parker, NFL QB (Brooklyn, Boston Yanks)
1912 - Sandor Vegh, violinist teacher conductor
1913 - Alec Ogilvie, CEO (Powell Duffryn)
1913 - Lord Hirshfield, chartered accountant
1913 - Hans Ruesch, Swiss racing driver (d. 2007)
1914 - Guido Masanetz, composer
1915 - Joseph D Craggs, electrical engineer
1916 - Cornelis A Eman, Aruban politician
1916 - John Hinde, photographer/circus promoter
1918 - Birgit Nilsson, Karup Sweden, operatic soprano (Elektra, Salome)
1919 - Antonio Aguilar, Mexican singer and actor (d. 2007)
1919 - Merle Miller, American biographer (d. 1986)
1920 - Harriet Van Horne, Syracuse NY, columnist/panelist (Leave it to Girls)
1920 - Lydia Wideman, Finland, 10K cross country skier (Olympic-gold-1952)
1921 - Dennis Brain, London England, french-hornist (Serenade)
1921 - John Garlick, British senior civil servant
1921 - Bob Merrill, American composer and lyricist (d. 1998)
1923 - Michael Beetham, Marshal (RAF)
1923 - Miles Wingate, deputy master (Trinity House)
1923 - Peter Mennin, Erie Pennsylvania, composer (Moby Dick)
1924 - Frantisek Kovaricek, composer
1924 - Lord Tombs, CEO (Rolls Royce)
1924 - Thomas Baird, vice-admiral
1926 - Cicely Berry, voice director (Royal Shakespeare Company)
1926 - David Young, Lt-Gen/CEO (Cairn Tech)
1926 - Earl of Airlie, KT
1926 - Geoffrey Caston, vice chancellor (U of South Pacific)
1926 - Lord Chamberlain, Earl of Airilet
1926 - Tenniel Evans, rev/actor (10 Rillington Place, My Brother's Keeper)
1927 - Ronald Halstead, deputy CEO (British Steel)
1928 - Donald Cameron Watt, historian
1928 - Ian Griggs, bishop (Ludlow)
1928 - Vivian Moses, biotechnologist
1929 - Raymond Hide, geophysicist
1931 - Dewey Redman, jazz musician
1932 - Arthur Jones, principal (Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester)
1932 - Colin Hope, CEO (T/N)
1932 - Peter Burge, cricketer (dashing Australian batsman of 50's & 60's)
1932 - Rodric Braithwaite, British ambassador to USSR
1934 - Earl Morrall, NFL QB (Lions, Giants, Colts)
1935 - Dennis Christopher George Potter, playwright (Karaoke, Midnight Movie)
1935 - Ivan Slone, world-famous watchmaker
1936 - Dennis Hopper, KS, actor (True Grit, Blue Velvet, Easy Rider)
1936 - Lars Gustafsson, writer
1936 - Philippe Boesmans, composer
1937 - Hazel R. O'Leary, United States Secretary of Energy
1938 - Don Dolan, Staten Island NY, actor (Guy Lewis- General Hospital)
1938 - Jason Bernard, actor (Judge-Liar Liar)
1938 - Pervis Jackson, rocker (Spinners)
1938 - Trinus Riemersma, Dutch-Frisian writer (Conquest of Leeuwarden)
1939 - Hugh Dykes, MP
1939 - Wim de Bie, CEO (Simplistic Covenant)
1939 - Gary Paulsen, American author
1940 - Alan Kay, American computer scientist
1941 - David Howell Cope, composer
1941 - Malcom Hale, rocker
1941 - Miriam Margolyes, actress (Will Be)
1941 - Ben Nelson. American politician
1941 - Grace Zabriskie, American actress
1942 - Caroline Charles, fashion designer
1942 - Taj Mahal, NYC, singer/songwriter (Real Thing)
1943 - Johnny Warren, Australian Footballer (d. 2004)
1943 - Vicky Moscholiou, Greek singer (d. 2005)
1944 - Arif Butt, cricketer (pace bowler for Pakistan in three Tests 1964-65)
1944 - Canon P B Price, general secretary, USPG
1944 - Jesse Winchester, Shreveport La, singer/songwriter (Learn to Love it)
1944 - Paul Crossley, concert pianist
1945 - D A S Pennefather, Maj-General/Commandant (General Royal Marines)
1945 - George Miller, (Rep-D-CA, 1975- )
1946 - Sinaida Turchina, USSR, team handball (Olympic-gold-1976)
1946 - Udo Lindenberg, German musician
1946 - F. Paul Wilson, American novelist
1947 - John Traicos, cricketer (in Egypt South Africa 1970, Zimbabwe 1992-93)
1949 - Bill Bruford, English drummer (Yes, King Crimson-Red, Genesis)
1949 - Timothy Cordy, British director (Town/Country Planning Association)
1950 - A A Johnson, MP
1950 - Christian Lacroix, French couturier (Chic Frills)
1950 - Keith Bradley, MP
1950 - Howard Ashman, American lyricist (d. 1991)
1950 - Janez Drnovšek, Slovenian politician
1951 - I R Evans, CEO (Hyder, Welsh Water)
1951 - Simon Hughes, MP
1952 - Jody Pijper, Dutch (background) singer
1952 - Howard Hampton, Canadian politician
1953 - George Johnson, LA California, rocker (Brothers Johnson)
1953 - Kathleen Sullivan, Pasadena Ca, newscaster (ABC-TV, CBS Morning Show)
1953 - Nicholas Bacon, premier baronet of England
1953 - Yoko Shimada, Kumamota Japan, author (Kir Royal)/actress (Shogun)
1954 - John Iles, dolby supervisor (Elephant Man, Richard III)
1954 - Michael Roberts, jockey
1955 - Bill Paxton, actor (Brain Dead, Next of Kin, Indian Summer, True Lies)
1956 - Bob Saget, Phila, comedian (Full House, America's Funniest Home Video)
1956 - Sue Carpenter, TV presenter/journalist
1956 - Sugar Ray [Charles] Leonard, Rocky Mount North Carolina, boxer (Olympics-gold-76)
1956 - Dave Sim, Canadian cartoonist
1957 - Pascual Pérez, Dominican baseball player, (d. 2012)
1958 - Vincent Henar, Surinam, bassist (Fra Fra Sound)
1959 - Paul Di'anno, rocker (Iron Maiden Chingford, London V Early Vocalist
1959 - Jim Nantz, American broadcaster
1960 - Fiona Hutchison, Miami Fla, actress (One Life to Live, Guiding Light)
1960 - Lou DiBella, American boxing promoter
1961 - Enya [Eithne Ní Bhraonáin], Gweedore, County Donegal, Irish singer and songwriter (A Day
           Without Rain)
1962 - Scott Case, NFL safety (Dallas Cowboys)
1962 - Tracey Bryn, rocker (Voice of Beehive-Let it Bee)
1962 - Craig Ferguson, Glasgow, Scottish actor, writer and comedian
1962 - Lise Lyng Falkenberg, Danish writer
1963 - Jon Koncak, NBA center (Orlando Magic)
1964 - Menno Oosting, Dutch tennis player (d. 1999)
1965 - Trent Reznor, musician (9 Inch Nails)
1965 - Richard Baumhammers, American spree killer
1966 - Danny Manning, NBA forward/center (Phoenix Suns)
1966 - Mark Kratzmann, Australia, tennis star
1966 - Mark Schmocker, Interlaken Switz, US team handball goalie (Oly-96)
1967 - Cameron Bancroft, actor (Beverly Hills 90210)
1967 - Debbie Dutch, Titusville NJ, actress (Hell's Paradox)
1968 - Tim Grunhard, NFL center (KC Chiefs)
1969 - Aaron Ruffin, CFL defensive back (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1969 - Craig Erickson, NFL quarterback (Indianapolis Colts, Miami Dolphins)
1969 - Paige Turco, Boston MA, actress (Melanie-Guiding Light)
1969 - Ujesh Ranchod, cricketer (Zimbabwe off-spinner 1993)
1969 - Thom Filicia, American television personality
1969 - Alan Doyle, Canadian musician (Great Big Sea)
1970 - Alan Wetmore, CFL fullback (Montreal Alouettes)
1970 - Derrick Deese, NFL guard (SF 49ers)
1970 - Hubert Davis, NBA guard (Dallas Mavericks, NY Knicks)
1970 - Jim Cummins, Dearborn, NHL right wing (Chicago Blackhawks)
1970 - Jodie Rogers, Melbourne Victoria Australia, diver (Olympics-96)
1970 - John Karelse, soccer player (NAC)
1970 - Jordan Nathaniel M Knight, Mass, rocker (New Kids-Hangin' Tough)
1970 - Renzo Furlan, Italy, tennis star
1970 - Stefania Croce, Bergamo Italy, golfer (95 State Farm Rail Classic-11)
1970 - Todd Mundt, NBA center (Atlanta Hawks)
1970 - Matt Lindland, American mixed martial arts fighter
1971 - Bill Lindsay, Big Fork, NHL left wing (Florida Panthers)
1971 - Mark Williams, NFL linebacker (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1971 - Shaun Hart, Australian footballer
1972 - Elena Wagner, Sofia Bulgaria, tennis star (1996 ITF/Redbridge-GBR)
1972 - John Burrough, NFL defensive tackle (Atlanta Falcons)
1973 - Jay Riemersma, tight end (Buffalo Bills)
1973 - Josh Homme, American musician and songwriter
1973 - Matthew McGrory, American actor (d. 2005)
1973 - Sasha Alexander, American television actress
1973 - Steve Barakatt, Canadian composer
1974 - Marcia Turner, Cambridge Mass, Miss America (Mass-Top 10-1996)
1974 - Wiki González, Venezuelan baseball player
1974 - Sendhil Ramamurthy, American actor
1975 - Cheick Kongo, French martial artist
1975 - Jonti Picking, British cartoonist
1975 - Kostas Sommer, Greek actor
1975 - Laura Voutilainen, Finnish singer
1975 - Alex Wright, German professional wrestler
1976 - Anna Windsor, Sydney NSW Australia, swimmer (Olympics-96)
1976 - Daniel Komen, Nyaru Kenya, 5k runner
1976 - Peter Devine, NYC, fencer-foil (Olympics-96)
1976 - José Guillén, Dominican baseball player
1976 - Lee-Hom Wang, American-born Taiwanese musician and composer
1977 - Jere Michael, Aspen Colo, figure skater (1994 National Jr champ)
1978 - John Foster, American baseball player
1978 - Paddy Kenny, Irish goalkeeper
1978 - Carlos Pena, Dominican baseball player
1979 - Wayne Thomas, English footballer
1980 - Davor Džalto, Serbian art historian
1980 - Dallas Taylor, American singer (Underoath)
1981 - Beñat Albizuri, Spanish cyclist
1981 - Giannis Taralidis, Greek footballer
1981 - R. J. Helton, American Idol finalist
1981 - Shiri Maimon, Israeli singer
1981 - Leon Osman, English footballer
1982 - Tony Parker, French-American basketball player
1983 - Nicky Hofs, Dutch footballer
1983 - Channing Frye, American basketball player
1983 - Jeremy Sowers, American baseball player
1984 - Christian Bolaños, Costa Rican footballer
1984 - Christine Robinson, Canadian water polo player
1985 - Matt Ryan, American football player
1985 - Derek Hough, American dancer and singer
1986 - Tahj Mowry, American actor
1988 - Nikki Reed, American actress
1990 - Leven Rambin, American actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 17, 2013, 01:52:27 PM

This Day in History for 17th May


Famous Deaths

1050 - Guido van Arezzo, Italian music theorist, dies
1189 - Minamoto no Yoshitsune, Japanese general (b. 1159)
1336 - Emperor Go-Fushimi of Japan (b. 1288)
1365 - Louis VI the Roman, Duke of Bavaria and Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1328)
1395 - Constantine Dragas, Serbian ruler of a semi-independent realm
1464 - Thomas de Ros, 10th Baron de Ros, English politician (executed) (b. 1427)
1510 - Sandro Botticelli, Florentine Renaissance painter (Birth of Venus), dies at about 65
1521 - Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, English politician (b. 1478)
1575 - Matthew Parker, archbishop of Canterbury (1559-75), dies at 68
1591 - Jost/Jobst/Jodocus Amman, Swiss cartoonist/graphic artist, dies at 51
1606 - Forges Dimitri #1, czar of Russia (1605-06), murdered
1626 - Juan Pujol, Catalan composer (b. 1570)
1695 - Cornelis de Heem, painter, dies
1727 - Catherine I, Empress of Russia (1725-27), dies
1729 - Samuel Clarke, theologian, dies
1765 - Alexis Claude Clairault, French mathematician (b. 1713)
1796 - Jacob Wilhelm Lustig, composer, dies at 89
1797 - Michel-Jean Sedaine, French dramatist (b. 1719)
1801 - William Heberden, English physician (b. 1710)
1807 - John Gunby, Maryland Soldier in the American Revolutionary War (b. 1745)
1809 - Leopold Auenbrugger von Auenbrugg, physician, dies
1822 - Armand-Emmanuel du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, French-Russian statesman (b. 1766)
1829 - John Jay, first Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1745)
1838 - Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French diplomat (b. 1754)
1838 - René Caillé, French explorer (b. 1799)
1839 - Archibald Alison, Scottish author (b. 1757)
1840 - Niccolo Paganini, composer, dies at 57
1851 - Jean E "Adrian" van Bevervoorde, journalist (Treason), dies at 31
1864 - N Hawthorne, writer, dies at 59
1866 - Adolf Bernhard Marx, composer, dies at 70
1868 - Isami Kondo, Shinsengumi Commander (b. 1834)
1872 - Fryderyk Edward Sobolewski, composer, dies at 63
1875 - John C. Breckinridge, Vice President of the United States (b. 1821)
1879 - Asa Packer, railroad magnate and founder of Lehigh Valley Railroad (b. 1805)
1883 - Lydia Estes Pinklham, patent-medicine manufacturer, dies
1884 - Louis Brassin, composer, dies at 43
1886 - John Deere, American blacksmith and manufacturer of agricultural equipment who founded
           Deere & Company, dies at 82
1888 - Giacomo Zanella, Italian poet (b. 1820)
1889 - William Roxby Beverly, artist, dies
1892 - Gyorgy Klapka, Hungarian general/parliament leader, dies at 72
1914 - Peter Leyten, bishop of Breda (1885-1914), dies at 79
1916 - Gervais Bernard Gaston Salvayre, composer, dies at 68
1916 - Boris Borisovich Galitzine, Russian physicist (b. 1862)
1917 - Charles Anthoni Johnson Brooke, ruler of Sarawak (b. 1829)
1919 - Bohumil Pazdirek, composer, dies at 80
1919 - Guido von List, German occult author (b. 1848)
1920 - Maitland Hathorn, cricketer (325 runs in 12 Tests S Afr 1901-11), dies
1926 - Lucien Herr, French leader (Correspondance entre Schiller), dies
1927 - Harold Geiger, U.S. Army aviation pioneer (b. 1884)
1930 - Herbert David Croly, US founder (New Republic), dies at 61
1931 - Johan [Eliza J] de Master, art critic/writer, dies
1931 - Timothy Cole, wood engraver, dies
1935 - Paul Dukas, French composer (b. 1865)
1936 - Panagis Tsaldaris, twice Greek prime minister (b. 1868)
1938 - Jakob Ehrlich, Austrian politician and zionist (b. 1877)
1943 - Montagu Love, actor (Wind), dies at 65
1945 - Jan van Geenen, resistance fighter, dies
1945 - Sasaki Shigetsu Sokei-an, founder 1st Zen Institute of America, dies
1947 - George William Forbes, Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1869)
1950 - Eduardo Fabini, composer, dies at 67
1951 - Karl Heinrich David, composer, dies at 66
1953 - Eric De Lamarter, composer, dies at 73
1955 - Alan Fairfax, cricketer (10 Tests for Australia 1928-31), dies
1955 - Francesco Balilla Pratella, composer, dies at 75
1955 - Leslie Hylton, cricketer (West Indies quickie 1939), hung for murder
1957 - Shalva Azmayparashvili, composer, dies at 54
1961 - Frans van Cauwelaert, Flemish minister/mayor of Antwerp, dies at 81
1961 - Henri Gagnon, composer, dies at 74
1963 - John Wilce, physician and former head football coach at the Ohio State University (b. 1888)
1964 - Otto V Kuusinen, pres of Karelo-Finnish soviet rep (1940-56), dies 82
1967 - John Wesley Work, composer, dies at 65
1967 - Nigel Martin Balchin, novelist, dies
1969 - Joseph Beran, Czech archbishop of Prague/cardinal, dies at 80
1970 - Nigel M Balchin, English author (My Executioner), dies at 61
1973 - Alexander J Kropholler, Dutch architect/writer, dies at 91
1974 - Charles Braswell, actor (Only Game in Town), dies at 49
1974 - Ernest Nash, German born archaeologist (b. 1898)
1978 - John Selwyn Brooke Selwyn Lloyd, speaker of house of commons, dies
1981 - Hugo Freidhofer, composer, dies at 80
1981 - Jeannette Ridlon Piccard, 1st US woman free balloon pilot, dies
1985 - Bobby Ewing, (Patrick Duffy) killed off on Dallas
1985 - Hugh Burden, actor (Night of Laughing Dead), dies at 72
1985 - Abe Burrows, songwriter, composer, and writer (b. 1910)
1987 - Gunnar Myrdal, Sweden, economist (Nobel 1974), dies at 88
1992 - George Hurrell, Hollywood photographer, dies of cancer at 87
1992 - Lawrence Welk, conductor/accordionist (Lawrence Welk Show), dies of pneumonia at 89
1992 - Leonardo del Ferro, [Keyser], US epic tenor, dies
1992 - Warren Neal Boxer, dies of AIDS at 34
1994 - Alain Cuny, [René X Marie], French actor (La Dolce Vita), dies at 85
1994 - Andrew Brown, film Producer, dies at 55
1994 - Donald Keith Falkner, singer, dies at 94
1994 - Willian Noel Moffet, architect, dies at 82
1995 - Nathan "Dambuza" Mdledle, singer, dies at 72
1996 - Rusi Modi, cricketer (736 runs 10 post-war Tests for India), dies
1996 - Scott Evans Brayton, racing car driver, dies at 37
1996 - Willi Daume, olympic organiser, dies at 82
1996 - Willis Conover, broadcaster, dies at 75
1996 - Johnny "Guitar" Watson, musician, dies at 61
1996 - Kevin Gilbert, American singer, composer and instrumentalist (b. 1966)
1999 - Bruce Fairbairn, Canadian record producer and musician (b. 1949)
2000 - Donald Coggan, 101st Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1909)
2001 - Frank G. Slaughter, American novelist and physician (b. 1908)
2002 - Dave Berg, American cartoonist (b. 1920)
2002 - Sharon Sheeley, American songwriter (b. 1940)
2002 - Ladislao Kubala, Hungarian-Spanish footballer (b. 1927)
2003 - Frank "Pop" Ivy, American and Canadian football coach (b. 1916)
2004 - Jørgen Nash, Danish artist (b. 1920)
2004 - Ezzedine Salim, leader of Iraqi Governing Council (b. 1943)
2005 - Frank Gorshin, American actor (b. 1934)
2006 - Cy Feuer, American playwright (b. 1911)
2006 - Eric Forth, British Member of Parliament (b. 1944)
2006 - Captain Nichola Goddard, Canadian soldier (b. 1980)
2007 - Lloyd Alexander, author (b. 1924)
2009 - Mario Benedetti, Uruguayan journalist, novelist, and poet (b. 1920)
2009 - Jung Seung-hye, South Korean film producer (b. 1965)
2010 - Walasse Ting, Chinese/American painter (b. 1929)
2011 - Harmon Killebrew, American baseball player (b. 1936)
2012 - Donna Summer, American singer, dies from lung cancer at 63

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 18, 2013, 02:32:21 PM

This Day in History for 18th May


Historical Events

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French Emperor                                      US President Abraham Lincoln             Last Emperor of Russia Nicholas II
Napoleon Bonaparte

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Israeli Prime Minister                                  Golfer Tiger Woods
Menachem Begin

1096 - Crusaders massacre Jews of Worm
1268 - The Principality of Antioch, a crusader state, falls to the Mamluk Sultan Baibars in the Battle of
           Antioch.
1291 - Sultan of Egypt & his son take last Christian stronghold of Acre
1302 - Bruges Matins; the nocturnal massacre of the French garrison in Bruges by local Flemish
           militia.
1385 - Peace of Doornik: Gent & Louis van Thoughts
1593 - Playwright Thomas Kyd's accusations of heresy lead to an arrest warrant for Christopher
           Marlowe.
1596 - Willem Barents leaves Amsterdam for Novaya Zemlya
1619 - Hugo the Great sentenced to life in prison
1631 - English colony Massachusetts Bay grants puritarian voting right
1631 - John Winthrop is elected 1st governor of Massachusetts
1642 - Montreal Canada founded
1652 - Rhode Island enacts 1st law declaring slavery illegal
1703 - Dutch & English troops occupy Cologne
1756 - England declares war on France
1765 - Fire destroys a large part of Montreal, Quebec.
1783 - First United Empire Loyalists reach Parrtown, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada after leaving
           the United States.
1794 - 2nd battle of Bouvines (France-Austria)
1803 - Britain declares war on France after Napoleon Bonaparte continues interfering in Italy &
           Switzerland
1804 - Napoleon Bonaparte proclaimed Emperor of France
1811 - Battle of Las Piedras: The first great military triumph of the revolution of the Río de la Plata in
           Uruguay lead by Jose Artigas.
1830 - Edwin Budding of England signs an agreement for manufacture of his invention, lawn mower.
           Saturdays are destroyed forever
1843 - United Free Church of Scotland forms
1846 - US troops attack Rio Grande occupying Matamoros
1848 - Opening of the first German National Assembly (Nationalversammlung) in Frankfurt, Germany.
1851 - Amsterdam-Nieuwediep telegraph connection linked
1852 - Massachusetts rules all school-age children must attend school
1860 - Republican Party nominates Abraham Lincoln for president
1861 - Battle of Sewall's Point VA-1st Federal offense against South
1861 - Friedrich Hebbels "Kriemhildes Rache," premieres in Weimar
1863 - Siege of Vicksburg, MS
1864 - Battle of Yellow Bayou, LA (Bayou de Glaize, Old Oaks)
1866 - French government of De Putte resigns
1869 - Surrender and dissolution of the Ezo Republic to Japan.
1880 - 6th Kentucky Derby: George Lewis aboard Fonso wins in 2:37.5
1887 - Emmanuel Chabriers opera "Le Roi Malgré Luis," premieres in Paris
1889 - Jules Massenets opera "Esclarmonde," premieres in Paris
1896 - US Supreme court affirms race separation (Plessy v Ferguson)
1896 - Khodynka Tragedy: A mass panic on Khodynka Field in Moscow during the festivities of the
           coronation of Russian Tsar Nicholas II results in the deaths of 1,389 people.
1897 - Irish Music Festival 1st held (Dublin)
1897 - American baseball NY Giant William (Bill) Joyce sets record of 4 triples in 1 game
1897 - Paul Dukas "L'Apprenti Sorcier Pruimtabak on the Market," premieres
1897 - Dracula, a novel by Irish author Bram Stoker is published.
1899 - World Goodwill Day-26 nations meet in 1st Hague Peace Conference
1900 - Britain proclaims protectorate over kingdom of Tonga
1904 - American Ion Perdicaris kidnapped in Morocco
1910 - Passage of Earth through tail of Halley's Comet causes near-panic
1911 - Pres/dictator Jose Porfirio Diaz of Mexico term ends
1912 - A's beat Tigers 24-2, who use amateurs protesting Ty Cobbs suspension
1912 - Maurits Binger establishes 2 Dutch movie companies
1916 - US pilot Kiffin Rockwell shoots down German aircraft
1917 - Satie/Massine/Picasso's ballet "Parade," premieres in Paris
1917 - US passes Selective Service act
1918 - Neth Indian Volksraad installed in Batavia
1918 - TNT explosion in chemical factory in Oakdale Penn kills 200
1920 - 46th Preakness: Clarence Kummer aboard Man o' War wins in 1:51.6
1922 - Dutch 2nd Chamber agrees to 48 hour work week (was 45 hrs)
1926 - Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson vanished in Venice California She showed up a month
           later & said she had been kidnapped
1927 - "Slide Lake" in Gros Ventre Wyoming collapses
1927 - Grauman's Chinese Theater opens in Hollywood Calif
1927 - Ritz Hotel opens in Boston
1929 - 55th Kentucky Derby: Linus McAtee on Clyde Van Dusen wins in 2:10.8
1929 - Dodgers beat Phillies 20-16 & lost 8-6 in 2nd game (record 50 runs)
1933 - Tennessee Valley Act (TVA) Act signed by FDR, to build dams
1933 - 1st major league All-Star Game announced for July 6 at Comiskey Park It will be played as
           part of the Chicago World's Fair
1934 - Academy Award 1st called Oscar in print (Sidney Skolsky)
1934 - Congress approves "Lindbergh Act," makes kidnapping a capital offense
1934 - Jimmie Foxx hits 1st HR in Comiskey Park center field bleachers
1934 - TWA began commercial service
1935 - Harold Gimblett scores 123 in 80 mins on debut for Somerset
1940 - German troops conquer Brussels
1941 - An Egyptian steamer sinks
1941 - Italian army under general Aosta surrenders to Britain in Ethiopia
1941 - Jewish veterans honor their dead
1942 - NYC ends night baseball games for rest of WW II
1943 - Allied bombers attack Pantelleria in the Mediterranean Sea
1944 - Polish 2nd Army corps captures convent of Monte Cassino Italy
1944 - Expulsion of more than 200,000 Tartars from Crimea by Soviet Union begins, they are
           accused of collaborating with the Germans
1945 - Tigers & A's both have 7 straight games postponed due to rain
1947 - A's catcher Warren Rosar catches his 147th game without an error
1948 - "Ballet Ballads" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 62 performances
1948 - Arab Legion captures fort on Mt Scopus
1948 - Saudi Arabia joins invasion of Israel
1948 - The First Legislative Yuan of the Republic of China officially convenes in Nanking.
1949 - Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America incorporates
1950 - "Liar" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 12 performances
1950 - Tommy Glaviano makes 3 consecutive errors on grounders
1951 - UN moves HQ to NYC
1951 - US General Collins predicts use of atom bomb in Korea
1952 - Professor WF Libby said Stonehedge dates back to 1848 BC
1953 - 1st woman to break sound barrier (Jacqueline Cochrane, USA)
1953 - Jacqueline Cochran is 1st woman to break the sound barrier
1954 - European Convention on Human Rights goes into effect
1955 - 28.7 cm rain falls at Lake Maloya New Mexico (state record)
1955 - Atkinson & Depeiaza take WI from 6-187 to 6-494 in day v Aust
1955 - Queen Juliana opens E55 fair in Amsterdam
1956 - Hungarian party leader Matyas Rákosi enforces his own policy
1956 - Mickey Mantle hits HR from both sides of plate for record 3rd time
1956 - Queen Juliana opens Rembrandt fairs in Amsterdam
1957 - 83rd Preakness: Eddie Arcaro aboard Bold Ruler wins in 1:56.2
1958 - Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Open
1959 - "Castin' My Spell" by Johnny Otis Show hits #52
1959 - "Judy" by David Seville hits #86
1959 - "Russian Band Stand" by Spencer & Spencer hits #91
1960 - Eillen Fulton begins playing Lisa on As the World Turn (for > 30 yrs)
1960 - Jean Genets "Le Balcon," premieres in Paris
1961 - "Donnybrook!" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 68 performances
1963 - "Beast in Me" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 4 performances
1963 - "If You Wanna Be Happy" by Jimmy Soul hits #1
1963 - 89th Preakness: Bill Shoemaker aboard Candy Spots wins in 1:56.2
1964 - David Frost interviews Paul McCartney on BBC
1964 - Supreme Court rules unconstitutional to deprive naturalized citizens of citizenship if they
           return to home country for more than 3 years
1965 - Gene Roddenberry suggests 16 names including Kirk for Star Trek Capt
1965 - WTAF TV channel 29 in Philadelphia, PA (IND) begins broadcasting
1967 - Silver hits record $1.60 an ounce in London
1967 - Tenn Gov Ellington repeals "Monkey Law," upheld in 1925 Scopes Trial
1968 - 94th Preakness: Ismael Valenzuela aboard Forward Pass wins in 1:56.8
1968 - AL Kaline hits his 307th HR, surpassing Hank Greenberg as a Tiger
1968 - Frank Howard ties AL record with HR in his 6th consecutive game his 10 home runs in the
           most in 6 games
1969 - "Canterbury Tales" closes at Eugene O'Neill NYC after 122 perfs
1969 - Apollo 10 (Stafford/Cernan/Young) launched toward lunar orbit
1969 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA St Louis Women's Golf Invitational
1971 - 4th ABA Championship: Utah Stars beat Kentucky Colonels, 4 games to 3
1971 - Bulgarian constitution goes into effect
1971 - Pres Nixon rejects 60 demands of Congressional Black Caucus
1971 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Chicago Blackhawks, 4 games to 3
1971 - Vampire rapist Wayne Bodens last victim found
1972 - "Me & The Chimp," last airs on CBS-TV
1972 - John Sebastian makes 63 consecutive free throws while blindfolded
1973 - Russian party leader Brezhnev visits West Germany
1973 - WIBC Bowling Queens won by Dotty Fothergill
1974 - "Streak" by Ray Stevens hits #1
1974 - 100th Preakness: Miguel Rivera aboard Current Little wins in 1:54.6
1974 - India becomes 6th nation to explode an atomic bomb
1977 - Juventus wins 6th UEFA Cup at Bilbao
1977 - Menachem Begin becomes Israel's Prime Minister
1977 - Nightclub in Cincinnati fire kills 164
1978 - Italy legalizes abortion
1978 - Russian dissident Yuri Orlov exiled to compulsory work
1980 - Belgium 3rd government of Martens forms
1980 - China PR launch 1st intercontinental rocket
1980 - Donna White wins LPGA Coca-Cola Golf Classic
1980 - Fernando Belaunde Terry elected president of Peru
1980 - Mount St Helens blows its top in Washington State, 60 die
1980 - Gwangju Massacre: Students in Gwangju, South Korea begin demonstrations, calling for
           democratic reforms.
1982 - Tigers outfielder Larry Herndon is 14th to hit 4 consecutive HRs
1982 - Unification Church founder Rev Sun Myung Moon convicted of tax evasion
1983 - Senate revises immigration laws, gives millions of illegal aliens legal status under an amnesty
           program
1985 - "One Night In Bangkok" by Murray Head hits #3
1985 - 111th Preakness: Pat Day aboard Tank's Prospect wins in 1:53.4
1985 - 1st remote location for "Nightline" (South Africa)
1986 - "Singin' in the Rain" closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 367 perfs
1986 - Becky Pearson wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Golf Classic
1986 - Chung Kwung Ying did 2,750 atomic hand-stand push-ups
1986 - David Goch finishes swimming 55,682 miles in a 25-yd pool
1986 - South African army occupies Botswana, Zimbabwe & Zambia
1986 - Chung Kwung Ying did 2,750 "atomic" hand-stand push-ups
1988 - Bayer Leverkusen wins 17th UEFA Cup at Leverkusen
1988 - In just Oakland's 39th of the season, pitcher Dave Stewart breaks record with his 12th balk
           en route to 16
1989 - Lisa Strawberry files for divorce from Darryl
1990 - 2 Germanys sign a monetary union treaty
1990 - Cubs Ryne Sandberg ends 2nd baseman record 123 errorless game streak
1990 - Judy Carne arrested at JFK airport on an 11 year old drug warrant
1990 - Return To Green Acres TV movie airs
1991 - 117th Preakness: Jerry Bailey aboard Hansel wins in 1:54
1991 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1991 - USSR launches 2 cosmonauts to MIR space station
1992 - Supreme Court rules states could not force mentally unstable criminal defendants to take
           anti-psychotic drugs
1993 - Danish people vote in favor of ratifying the Maastricht Treaty
1993 - Italian police arrest Mafia boss Benedetto "Nitto" Santapaola
1994 - AC Milan wins Europe Cup 1: 4-0 against Barcelona
1994 - Israel withdraws from the Gaza Strip
1994 - Tropical Butterfly Garden at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo opens
1995 - WIBC Bowling Queens won by Sandra Postma
1996 - 122nd Preakness: Pat Day aboard Louis Quatorze wins in 1:53.2
1996 - WIBC Bowling Queens won by Lisa Wagner
1997 - "King David," opens at New Amsterdam Theater NYC
1997 - 43rd McDonald's LPGA Championship won by Chris Johnson
1997 - Cadillac NFL Senior Golf Classic
1997 - Tiger Woods wins Byron Nelson Golf Classic
1998 - United States v. Microsoft: The United States Department of Justice and 20 U.S. states file an
           antitrust case against Microsoft.
2006 - The post Loktantra Andolan government passes a landmark bill curtailing the power of the
           monarchy and making Nepal a secular country.
2009 - Sri Lankan Civil War: The LTTE are defeated by the Sri Lankan government, ending almost 26
           years of fighting between the two sides.

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 18, 2013, 02:35:02 PM

This Day in History for 18th May


Famous Weddings

1152 - Henry II of England marries Eleanor of Aquitaine
1996 - NFL Buffalo Bills quarterback Jim Kelly (36) weds former marketing director Jill Waggoner (27)
           at St. Christopher's Catholic Church in suburban Buffalo
1996 - "As the World Turns" actor Shawn Christian (30) weds personal trainer Deborah Quinn in Gun
           Lake, Michigan
2003 - Actress Rena Sofer (34) weds director and producer Sanford Bookstaver (29) in Malibu,
           California
2005 - Television presenter and former Miss Germany Verona Feldbusch (37) weds German
            entrepreneur Franjo Pooth at the San Diego Court House in San Diego, California
2007 - Grammy award-winning singer Amy Winehouse (23) weds former video production assistant
           Blake Fielder-Civil (25) in Miami, Florida

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 18, 2013, 02:35:58 PM

This Day in History for 18th May


Famous Divorces

1989 - Lisa Strawberry files for divorce from Darryl

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 18, 2013, 02:48:39 PM

This Day in History for 18th May


Famous Birthdays

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Last Emperor of Russia                           264th Pope John Paul II (1920)                  Actor Yun Fat Chow (1955)
Nicholas II (1868)


1048 - Omar Khayyám, Persian mathematician, poet and philosopher (d. 1131)
1186 - Konstantin of Rostov, Prince of Novgorod (d. 1218)
1474 - Isabella d'Este, Marquise of Mantua (d. 1539)
1610 - Stefano della Bella, Italian printmaker (d. 1664)
1662 - George Smalridge, English bishop of Bristol (d. 1719)
1692 - Joseph Butler, Wantage Berkshire, theologian
1711 - Ruggiero G Boscovich, [Rudzer J Boskovic], Italian astronomer
1744 - Joseph Beer, Bohemia clarinetist/composer (5th clarinet flap)
1759 - Charles Duquesnoy, composer
1778 - Charles William Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry (d. 1854)
1785 - John Wilson, Scottish writer (d. 1854)
1788 - Hugh Clapperton, Annan Scotland, African explorer
1797 - Frederick Augustus II, King of Saxony (1836-54)
1798 - Ethan Allen Hitchcock, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1870
1815 - Thomas Stanhope Bocock, rep (Confederacy), died in 1891
1817 - James William Denver, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1892
1819 - Julius Hopp, composer
1830 - Karl Goldmark, Keszthely Hungary, composer (Sakuhtala)
1836 - Isidor Vorobchievici, composer
1850 - Oliver Heaviside, London, physicist (predicted ionosphere)
1851 - James Budd, Governor of California (d. 1908)
1854 - Bernard Zweers, Dutch composer (To my Fatherland)
1862 - Freiherr Albert von Schrenk-Notzing, German para-psychologist
1864 - Jan P Veth, Bayern, Dutch painter/etcher/lithographer/art historian
1865 - William Heinemann, England, publisher (Chemical Instrumental)
1868 - Nicholas II Aleksandrovitsj, last tsar of Russia (1894-1917)
1869 - Ruprecht, crown prince of Bavaria/general-fieldmarshall
1871 - Franiska zu Reventlow, writer
1872 - Bertrand Russell, England, mathematician/philosopher (Nobel 1950)
1875 - Guido Alberto Fano, composer
1881 - Georgi Atanasov, composer
1882 - Eduardo Fabini, composer
1882 - Babe Adams, American baseball player (d. 1968)
1883 - Walter Gropius, Berlin Germany, architect (Bauhaus school of design)
1885 - Eurico Gaspar Dutra, president of Brazil (1945-50)
1886 - Ole Windingstad, composer
1887 - Ernst Wiechert, writer
1889 - G Gunnarson, writer
1889 - Thomas Midgley, American chemist and inventor (d. 1944)
1891 - Rudolf Carnap, philosopher (German Logical Positivist)
1896 - Walter Fitzgerald, Keyhan Devonport England
1897 - Frank Capra, Ital, director (Its a Wonderful Life, Arsenic & Old Lace)
1897 - Jack Raine, London England, actor (Quartet)
1898 - Juan J Domenchina, Spanish poet/interpreter (sombra desterrada)
1900 - Sarah Miriam Peale, US, portrait painter (Gen Lafayette-1825)
1901 - Harry Robert Wilson, composer
1901 - Henri-Pierre Sauguet, Bordeaux France, composer (La Chotte)
1901 - Vincent du Vigneaud, US biochemist
1902 - [Robert] Meredith Willson, Mason City Iowa, composer (Music Man)
1903 - George E Stone, Lodz Poland, actor (Viva Villa, Last Mile)
1904 - Jacob K Javits, (Sen-R-NY)
1905 - Eric Zeisl, composer
1905 - Hedley Verity, cricketer (terrific slow lefty for England pre-WW II)
1907 - Clifford Curzon, London England, pianist (MacFarren Gold Medal)
1907 - Robley D Evans, nuclear physicist
1907 - Carl Mydans, American photographer (d. 2004)
1909 - Fred Perry, English tennis star/commentator (Wimbledon, 1934-36)
1910 - Arthur van Schendel, Dutch art historian
1911 - Joe Turner, KC, blues singer (Corrine Corrina, Shake Rattle & Roll)
1911 - Lord Hartwell
1911 - Sigrid Gurie, Brooklyn NY, actor (Algiers, Sofia, Refugee)
1912 - Georg von Opel, German auto manufacturer
1912 - Perry Como, [Pierino], Canonsburg Pa, singer/TV (Perry Como Show)
1912 - Richard Brooks, Phila, director (Blackboard Jungle, In Cold Blood)
1913 - Charles Trenet, French singer and songwriter (d. 2001)
1914 - Anthony Fell, British MP
1914 - Boris Christoff, Bulgaria/Italian bass (Boris Godunov)
1914 - Pierre A Balmain, France, fashion designer (1940's "New Look")
1915 - Leon Shenandoah, native American leader
1917 - Charles Wintour, journalist
1917 - James Donald, Aberdeen Scotland, actor (Bridge on River Kwai, Vikings)
1918 - George Welch, American pilot and war hero (d. 1954)
1918 - Massimo Girotti, Italian actor (d. 2003)
1919 - Margot Fonteyn, Surrey England, prima ballerina (Giselle)
1920 - John Paul II, [Karol Wojtyla], Wadowice, Poland, 264th Roman Catholic Pope (1978-2005)
1920 - Lucia Mannucci, Italian singer (Quartetto Cetra)
1921 - Anthony Epstein, FRS/pathologist
1922 - Bill Macy, Revere Mass, actor (Walter-Maude, Oh! Calcutta)
1922 - GMcC Kitson, British principal (Central School of Speech/Drama)
1922 - Gerda Boyesen, Norwegian-born body psychotherapist (d. 2005)
1922 - Kai Winding, Danish-born Jazz musician (d. 1983)
1923 - Liam Sullivan, Jacksonville Ill, actor (Mapoy-Monroes)
1924 - Jack Whitaker, Phila Pa, sportscaster (ABC, CBS)
1924 - Priscilla Pointer, American actress
1926 - Dirch Passer, Danish actor (d. 1980)
1927 - Richard Body, MP
1928 - G R Hall, nuclear scientist
1928 - P G Hammersley, British Rear-Admiral
1928 - Pernell Roberts, Waycross Ga, actor (Adam-Bonanza, Trapper John MD)
1929 - Kai Winding, Denmark, American Jazz composer, (d. 1983)
1929 - Johan N Block, aviation pioneer (Martinair/Transavia/Air Holland)
1929 - Lord St John of Fawsley
1929 - Roger Matton, composer
1930 - Barbara Goldsmith, New Rochelle, author (Little Gloria Happy At Last)
1930 - Don Leslie Lind, Midvale Utah, astronaut (STS 51-B)
1930 - Fred[erick Thomas] Saberhagen, US, sci-fi author (Book of Swords)
1930 - Geoffrey Littler, CEO (County NatWest Group)
1930 - Warren B Rudman, (Sen-R-NH, 1980- )
1931 - Robert Morse, Newton Mass, actor (That's Life, Jack Frost)
1931 - Don Martin, American cartoonist (d. 2000)
1932 - John Clement, chairman (Unigate Group)
1933 - Bernadette Chirac, French politician
1934 - Dwayne Hickman, LA, actor (Dobie Gillis, How to Stuff a Wild Bikini)
1937 - Brooks Robinson, Baltimore Oriole 3rd baseman (1955-77)
1937 - Jacques Santer, Pres (European Commission)
1939 - Glen Hardin, Texas, rocker (Crickets)
1939 - Patrick Cormack, MP
1939 - Giovanni Falcone, Italian magistrate (d. 1992)
1939 - Gordon O'Connor, Canadian politician
1940 - A Marshall Stoneham, FRS, physicist
1940 - Pat Trimborn, cricket pace bowler (South African in 4 Tests 1966-70)
1941 - Diane McBain, Cleve Ohio, actress (Surfside Six, Spinout, Donner Pass)
1941 - M S Longair, astronomer
1942 - Albert Hammond, rocker
1942 - Keith Hellawell, Chief Constable (West Yorkshire)
1942 - Marquess of Reading
1942 - N P (Nobby) Stiles, footballer
1942 - Rodney Dillard, rocker (Glittergrass)
1943 - James Reiher, American professional wrestler
1944 - Peter Ryan, British national director (Police Training)
1944 - W. G. Sebald, German-born writer (d. 2001)
1945 - Bhagwat Chandrasekhar, cricketer (brilliant Indian leggie 1964-79)
1945 - John Richard Patterson, businessman
1945 - Maarten van Traa, Dutch MP (PvdA)
1946 - George Alexander, rocker
1946 - Reggie Jackson, "Mr October" baseball rightfielder (Yankees, A's)
1946 - Frank Hsieh, former Premier of Taiwan
1946 - Andreas Katsulas, American actor (d. 2006)
1947 - Candice Azzara, Brooklyn NY, actress (Fatso)
1947 - John Bruton, Prime Minister (Republic of Ireland)
1948 - Felix MH Troch, Flemish actor/director (Gekkenbriefje)
1948 - Joe Bonsall, Phila, country singer (Oak Ridge Boys-Elvira)
1949 - Bill Wallace, rocker/actor (Fear, Avenging Force, Desperate)
1949 - Rick Wakeman, rock keyboardist (Yes-Fish Out of Water)
1949 - Stuart Gannes, Detroit Mich, writer (Fortune)
1949 - William Wallace, rocker (Guess Who)
1950 - Rodney Milburn Jr, USA, hurdler (Olympic-gold-1972)
1950 - Thomas Gottschalk, Bamberg Germany, (Telespiele)
1951 - Angela Voigt, German DR, long jumper (Olympic-gold-76)
1951 - Denny Dillon, comedian (SNL, Dream On)
1951 - James Stephens, Mount Kisko NY, actor (Paper Chase, Devil's Island)
1951 - Rodger Davis, Sydney NSW, Australasia golfer
1951 - Jim Sundberg, American baseball player
1952 - Diane E[lizabeth] Duane, US, sci-fi author (Door into Fire)
1952 - George Strait, Pearsall Tx, country singer (All My Exes Live in Texas)
1952 - Martin R Hoke, (Rep-R-Ohio)
1952 - Jeana Yeager, American aviator
1953 - Helen Chadwick, artist
1953 - [Feliciano] Butch Tavares, rocker (Tavares)
1954 - Martyn Wiley, writer/broadcaster
1954 - Wreckless Eric, rocker (Waxworks, Be Stiff)
1954 - Reinhold Heil, German composer
1955 - Yun Fat Chow, Nam Nga Island Hong Kong, actor (Better Tomorrow)
1956 - Joe [Naomichi] Ozaki, Tekushima Japan, golfer (1995 Phoenix Open-8th)
1957 - Michael Cretu, rocker (Enigma)
1958 - Ray Donaldson, NFL center (Dallas Cowboys)
1958 - Toyah Wilcox, Birmingham England, rocker (I Want to Be Free)
1959 - Graham Dilley, cricketer (England wicket-taker of 80's)
1960 - Jari Kurri, Helsinki Fin, NHL left wing (NY Rangers, LA Kings, Colo)
1960 - Tom Jackson, Oakville Ont, Canadian Tour golfer (1991 CPGA Winter)
1960 - Yannick Noah, France, tennis player (French 1983)
1962 - Mike Whitmarsh, San Diego CA, beach volleyballer (Olympics-silver-96)
1962 - Nanne Grönvall, Swedish singer
1962 - Sandra Cretu, German singer
1962 - Mike Darnell, American television executive
1963 - Marty McSorley, Hamilton, NHL defenseman (LA Kings, NY Rangers)
1964 - Will Wolford, NFL tackle (Indianapolis Colts, Pittsburgh Steelers)
1965 - Erik Hanson, Kinnelon NJ, pitcher (Toronto Blue Jays)
1965 - Rufus Porter, NFL linebacker (NO Saints)
1965 - Rufus Porter, linebacker (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1965 - Ingo Schwichtenberg, German drummer (d. 1995)
1966 - Mike Inez, US rock bassist (Alice in Chains-Facelift)
1966 - Michael Tait, American musician (dc Talk, Tait)
1967 - Jaime Gomez, Arlington TX, Nike golfer (1992 Boise Open)
1967 - Karl Dunbar, NFL defensive tackle (Arizona Cardinals)
1967 - Heinz-Harald Frentzen, German F1 driver
1967 - Rob Base, American rapper
1968 - Ernie Logan, NFL defensive end (Jacksonville Jaguars, NY Jets)
1969 - Jean-Chris. Filippin, hockey defenseman (Team France 1998)
1969 - Martika, [Marta Marrero], Cuba, singer (Toy Soldiers)
1970 - Clemens Zwijnenberg, soccer player (FC Twente)
1970 - Vicky Sunohara, ice hockey forward (Canada, Oly-98)
1970 - Tina Fey, American writer/actress
1971 - Ben Coleman, guard/offensive tackle (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1971 - Clifton Sunada, Honolulu HI, extra-lightweight judoka (Olympics-96)
1971 - Craig Hentrich, NFL punter (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1971 - Daniel Gowing, Germany, NZ judoka (Olympics-96)
1971 - Karen Bye, ice hockey forward (USA, Oly-98)
1971 - Lael Perlstrom, Laguna Beach Cal, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-25-1995)
1971 - Rich Garces, Maracay Aragua Venezuela, pitcher (Boston Red Sox)
1971 - Desiree Horton, American helicopter pilot/television reporter
1971 - Nobuteru Taniguchi, Japanese racing driver
1972 - Turner Stevenson, Prince George, NHL right wing (Montreal Canadiens)
1973 - Darren Van Impe, Saskatoon, NHL defenseman (Anaheim Mighty Ducks)
1973 - David Bailey, WLAF tackle (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1973 - Donyell Marshall, NBA forward (Golden State Warriors)
1973 - Markus Brunner, hockey forward (Team Italy 1998)
1973 - Tory James, NFL defensive back (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1973 - Walter Scott, NFL defensive tackle (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1973 - Dario Franchitti, Scottish racecar driver
1974 - Nelson Figueroa, American baseball player
1975 - John Higgins, Scottish snooker player
1975 - Jack Johnson, American musician
1975 - Peter Iwers, Swedish bass player (In Flames)
1976 - Ron Mercer, NBA guard (Boston Celtics)
1977 - Lee Hendrie, English footballer
1977 - Danny Mills, English footballer
1978 - Jennifer Streblow, Oshkosh Wisconsin, Miss America-Wisconsin (1997)
1978 - Ricardo Carvalho, Portuguese footballer
1978 - Marcus Giles, American baseball player
1979 - Kaci Thompson, Miss Nevada Teen USA (1997)
1979 - Mariusz Lewandowski, Polish footballer
1979 - Julián Speroni, Argentine footballer
1979 - Milivoje Novakovič, Slovenian footballer
1980 - Aileen Campbell, Scottish Politician
1980 - Jeff Roehl, American football player
1980 - Ali Zafar, Pakistani singer and model
1981 - Mahamadou Diarra, Malian footballer
1982 - Jason Brown, English-born footballer
1982 - Eric West, American singer and actor
1983 - Gary O'Neil, English footballer
1983 - Luis Terrero, Dominican baseball player
1983 - Vince Young, American football player
1984 - Scarlett Keegan, Playboy Playmate
1984 - Niki Terpstra, Dutch cyclist
1984 - Joakim Soria, Mexican baseball player
1986 - Ryan Lamb, English rugby union player
1987 - Luisana Lopilato, Argentine actress and model
1988 - Ryan Cooley, Canadian television actor
1992 - Josh Phelps, Soccer Player
1992 - Spencer Breslin, American actor
1997 - Alana Etheridge, American actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 18, 2013, 02:50:39 PM

This Day in History for 18th May


Famous Deaths

526 - John I, Pope (523-26), dies
1160 - Erik IX Helgi, [The Saint], King of Sweden, dies
1401 - Władysław Opolczyk (German: Ladislaus von Oppel, count palatine of Hungary 1367-1372,
           governor of Halych-Volhynia 1372 - 1378, count palatine of Poland
1410 - Ruprecht, Roman catholics German king, dies
1450 - Sejong the Great of Joseon, ruler of Korea (b. 1397)
1550 - John, Cardinal of Lorraine, French churchman (b. 1498)
1551 - Domenico di Pace Beccafumi, Italian Renaissance-Mannerist painter (d. 1486)
1584 - Ikeda Motosuke, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1559)
1587 - Felix van Cantalice, Italian saint, dies
1625 - Francisco Gomez de Sandoval y Rojas, Spanish marquis of Denia, dies
1653 - Carel Reyniersz, gov-gen (Neth East Indies), dies at 48
1675 - Jacques Marquette jesuit/missionaries (Chicago), dies at 37
1675 - Stanisław Lubieniecki, Polish astronomer (b. 1623)
1692 - Elias Ashmole, antiquary, dies
1724 - Johann K Amman, Swiss/Dutch doctor for deaf-mutes, dies at 54
1733 - Georg Bohm, German organist/composer, dies at 71
1767 - Thaddaus Ferdinand Lipowsky, composer, dies at 28
1780 - Charles Hardy, British governor of Newfoundland
1781 - Túpac Amaru II, Peruvian Indian revolutionary, a descendant of the last Inca ruler, Túpac
           Amaru (b. 1742)
1799 - Pierre de Beaumarchais, dramatist, dies
1800 - Alexander Suvorov, Russian general (b. 1729)
1807 - John Douglas, Scottish Anglican bishop and man of letters (b. 1721)
1808 - Jacob Albright, [Albrecht], German/US preacher, dies at 49
1808 - Elijah Craig, American minister and inventor (b. 1738?)
1829 - Bernardo Bittoni, composer, dies at 72
1829 - Maria Josepha of Saxony, queen consort of Spain (b. 1803)
1832 - Bonafacio Asioli, composer, dies at 62
1839 - Carolina [Maria A] Bonaparte (countess Lipona), dies at 57
1844 - Richard McCarty, American politician (b. 1780)
1848 - William A Leidesdorf, mixed-race early Californian, dies at 38 in SF
1862 - William H Keim, US Union brig-general, dies in battle at 48
1864 - James Byron Gordon, Confederate brig-gen, dies at 41
1889 - Isabella Glyn Dallas, Scottish Shakepearean actress (b. 1823)
1900 - Jean Gaspard Felix Ravaisson-Mollien, French philosopher (b. 1813)
1909 - George Meredith, English poet/writer (Diana of Crossways), dies at 81
1910 - Flor van Duyse, composer, dies at 66
1910 - Eliza Orzeszkowa, Polish novelist (b.1841)
1911 - Gustav Mahler, Austr composer (Children's Death Songs), dies at 50
1913 - Otto Reubke, composer, dies at 70
1918 - Toivo Kuula, composer, dies at 34
1922 - Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or
           Medicine (b. 1845)
1927 - Andrew Kehoe, American mass murderer (b. 1872)
1930 - Joao Marcellino Arroyo, composer, dies at 68
1936 - Alick Maclean, composer, dies at 63
1949 - James T Adams, US historian (Pulitzer 1921)
1952 - Rossetter Gleason Cole, composer, dies at 86
1953 - Tom Killick, cricketer (at the crease 2 Tests for Eng 1929), dies
1955 - Mary McLeod Bethune, educator & civil rights leader, dies at 79
1956 - Maurice Tate, cricketer (39 Tests for England, 155 wickets), dies
1961 - Henry O'Neill, actor (Lady Killer, Nothing But Trouble), dies
1963 - Ernie Davis, American football player (b. 1939)
1965 - Eduard J Dijksterhuis, mathematician (Archimedes), dies at 72
1966 - Paul Althaus, German theologist (That Christian Wahrheit), dies at 78
1967 - Andy Clyde, Hopalong Cassidy's sidekick, dies at 75
1967 - Richard Ainley, actor (I Dood It, Above Suspicion), dies at 56
1972 - Eero Aukusti Sipila, composer, dies at 53
1973 - Jeannette Rankin, 1st Congresswoman (1917-19, 41-43), dies at 92
1974 - Daniel R Topping, US owner (NY Yankees), dies at 61
1975 - Leroy Anderson, composer, dies at 66
1980 - Ian Curtis, English rock vocalist (Joy Division), commit suicide at 23
1980 - Reid Blackburn, a photojournalist for National Geographic was also a victim of Mount St.
           Helens eruption (b. 1952)
1980 - Harry Truman, victim of Mount St. Helens eruption (b. 1896)
1980 - David A. Johnston, a U.S. Volcanoligist was also a victim of Mount St. Helens eruption (b.
           1949)
1981 - Arthur O'Connell, actor (Mr Peepers, 2nd Hundred Years), dies at 73
1981 - William Saroyan, US stagewriter (Time of your life), dies at 72
1985 - Tex Terry, actor (Apache Rose, Timberjack), dies at 82
1986 - John Bubbles Sublett, tap dancer (Black & Bubbles), dies at 84
1987 - Wilbur J Cohen, 1st employee of Social Security System, dies at 73
1988 - Daws Butler, cartoon voice (Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound), dies at 71
1990 - Jill Ireland, actress (Carry on Nurse, Family), dies of cancer at 54
1991 - Edwina Booth, actress (Trader Horn), dies of heart failure at 86
1992 - Marshall Thompson, actor (Bog), dies of congestive heart failure at 65
1992 - Skip Stephenson, comedian (Real People), dies of heart attack at 52
1993 - Heinrich Albertz, theologist/mayor of Berlin (1966-67), dies at 78
1993 - Pamela M Cunnington, English architect/writer, dies at 67
1995 - Alexander Gudonov, Russian dancer/actor (Witness), dies at 45
1995 - Elisha Cook Jr, actor (Maltese Falcon, Shane), dies at 91
1995 - Elizabeth Montgomery, actress (Bewitched), dies of cancer at 62
1995 - Gordon Reynolds, musician, dies at 74
1995 - Robert Harris, actor (Werewolf of London), dies at 95
1996 - Dermot O'Callaghan Grubb, prison governor, dies at 76
1996 - Simon Weinstock, businessman/racehorse owner, dies at 44
1997 - Bridgette Andersen, American actress (b. 1975)
1999 - Augustus Pablo, Jamaican singer (b. 1954)
1999 - Betty Robinson, American runner (b. 1911)
2000 - Stephen M. Wolownik, Russian musician and arranger (b. 1946)
2000 - Maulana Yousuf Ludhianvi, Muslim scholar
2002 - Davey Boy Smith, English professional wrestler (b. 1962)
2003 - Anna Santisteban, Puerto Rican beauty contest organizer (b. 1914)
2003 - Barb Tarbox, Canadian anti-smoking crusader (b. 1961)
2004 - Elvin Jones, American jazz drummer (b. 1927)
2004 - Serge Turgeon, Quebec actor and union leader (b. 1946)
2006 - Andrew Martinez, U.C. Berkeley's "Naked Guy" (b. 1972)
2007 - Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist (b. 1932)
2007 - Yoyoy Villame, Philippine novelty singer and movie actor (b. 1932)
2008 - Joseph Pevney, American television director
2009 - Velupillai Prabhakaran,Sri Lankan founder and leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
          (b. 1954)
2009 - Dolla American Rapper a.k.a. Roderick Anthony Burton II (b.1987)
2009 - Wayne Allwine, American voice actor (b.1947)
2012 - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, German baritone, dies at 86

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 19, 2013, 12:10:15 PM

This Day in History for 19th May


Historical Events

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English Monarch                                    Chancellor Otto Von Bismarck                   Writer/Poet Oscar Wilde
Queen Elizabeth I

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Actress Mary Tyler Moore                            Actress Sophia Loren                   Parody Singer and Comedian Weird
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715 - St Gregory II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1506 - Columbus selects his son Diego as sole heir
1515 - George van Saksen-Meissen sells Friesland for 100,000 gold guilders to arch duke Charles
1517 - Philip van Bourgondie installed as bishop of Utrecht
1547 - Monarch Johan Frederik surrenders to Karel
1568 - English queen Elizabeth I arrests Scottish queen Mary
1571 - Miguel Lopez de Lagazpi founded Manilla in the Phillipines
1585 - Spain confisquates English ships
1608 - Matthias von Habsburgs army reaches Lieben, at Prague
1635 - France declares war on Spain
1643 - Battle at Rocroi/Allersheim: French army destroys Spanish army
1643 - Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, Connecticut & New Harbor form United Colonies of New
           England
1649 - An Act declaring England a Commonwealth is passed by the Long Parliament. England would
           be a republic for the next eleven years.
1652 - Spanish troops occupy Grevelingen
1662 - Uniformity Act of England goes into effect
1749 - George II grants charter to Ohio Company to settle Ohio Valley
1780 - About midday, near-total darkness descends on much of New England to this day it's cause is
           still unexplained
1792 - Russian army enters Poland
1793 - Netherlands captures French island of St Maarten (held until 1795)
1796 - Game protection law restricts encroachment on Indian hunting grounds
1802 - French Order of Legion d'Honneur forms
1828 - U.S. President John Quincy Adams signs the Tariff of 1828/Tariff of Abominations into law to
           protect industry in the North
1848 - 1st department store opens
1848 - Mexico gives Texas to US, ending the war
1856 - Sen Charles Sumner, Mass, spoke out against slavery
1857 - William Francis Channing & Moses G Farmer patents electric fire alarm
1862 - Homestead Act becomes law provides cheap land for settlement of West
1863 - Siege of Vicksburg, investment of city complete
1864 - Battle of Port Walthall Junction, VA (Bermuda Hundred)
1864 - Last engagement in series of battles known as Spotsylvania
1864 - Skirmish at Cassville Georgia
1865 - President Jefferson Davis is captured by Union Cavalry in Georgia
1878 - Blanche Kelso Bruce appointed register of treasury by Pres Garfield
1884 - Ringling Brothers circus premieres
1885 - 1st mass production of shoes (Jan Matzeliger in Lynn, Massachusetts)
1885 - German chancellor Bismarck takes possession of Cameroon & Togoland
1886 - Camille Saint-Saëns' 3rd Symphony in C, premieres
1891 - Rice Institute, which became Rice University, is chartered
1892 - Charles Brady King invents pneumatic hammer
1892 - National Society of Colonial Dames of America founded
1893 - Heavy rain wash "quick clay" into a deep valley, kills 111 (Norway)
1896 - 1st auto (Benz) to arrive in Netherlands
1897 - Oscar Wilde is released from Reading Gaol.
1898 - Post Office authorizes use of postcards
1900 - Great Britain annexes Tonga archipelago
1900 - World's longest railroad tunnel (Simplon) links Italy & Switz, opens
1902 - Great Britain & Boers resume peace talks in Pretoria
1905 - Tom Jenkins beats Frank Gotcha for heavyweight wrestling champ
1906 - Dutch King Victor Emmanuel & Swiss president open Simplon tunnel
1906 - Federated Boys' Club (Boys' Club of America) organizes
1906 - Italian King Victor Emmanuel & Swiss president open Simplon tunnel
1906 - Portugal's King Carlos I names Joao Franco premier
1909 - Jack Johnson fights Jack O'Brien to no decision in 6 for boxing title
1910 - Cleve Indian Cy Young gets his 500th win, beats Wash 5-4 in 11 innings
1911 - Maurice Ravels opera "L'Heure Espagnole," premieres in Paris
1911 - Phila Athletics are 12½ games back in AL, & will win World Series
1912 - AL Pres Ban Johnson tells Tigers if they continue protest of Ty Cobb's suspension, they will
           be banned from baseball
1913 - Webb Alien Land-Holding Bill passes, forbidding Japs from owning land
1916 - Escadrille Américaine (Lafayette) transfered to Verdun
1918 - Wash 1st Sunday game, Senators beat Cleveland 1-0 in 18 innings
1919 - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk lands at Samsun on the Anatolian Black Sea coast, initiating what was
           later termed the Turkish War of Independence. The anniversary of this event is the official
           date of commemoration of the Pontic Greek Genocide in Greece and Cyprus.
1921 - Congress sharply curbs immigration, setting a national quota system
1923 - 49th Kentucky Derby: Earl Sande aboard Zev wins in 2:05.4
1923 - KPD (communist revolts) in German Ruhr cities occupied by Allies
1926 - French air force bombs Damascus Syria
1928 - "Firedamp" explodes in Mather Pa coal mine killing 195 of 273 miners
1928 - 51 frogs enter 1st annual "Frog Jumping Jubilee" (Angel's Camp, Cal)
1929 - Cloudburst causes stampede in Yankee Stadium crushes 2 people to death
1929 - General Feng Yu-Xiang of China declares war on Chiang Kai-Shek government
1930 - White woman win voting rights in South-Africa
1931 - Ironclad cruiser Germany launched in Kiel
1934 - Military coup by Col Damian Veltsjev in Bulgaria
1934 - Sherlock Holmes crossword puzzle in "Sat Review of Lit" Males who solved puzzle became
           members of Baker Street Irregulars
1935 - NFL adopts an annual college draft to begin in 1936
1937 - John Murray/Allen Boretz' "Room Service," premieres in NYC
1939 - Churchill signs British-Russian anti-nazi pact
1940 - Amsterdam time becomes MET (Middle European Time)
1940 - French counter attack at Pronne under Gen De Gaulle
1941 - Germany occupiers in Holland forbid bicycle taxis
1941 - New nazi battleship Bismarck leaves Gdynia, Poland
1942 - Braves Paul Waner is 3rd NLer to get 3,000 hits (Anson & Wagner)
1943 - Berlin is declared "Judenrien" (free of Jews)
1943 - Churchill pledges England's full support to US against Japan
1944 - 240 gypsies transported to Auschwitz from Westerbork Neth
1944 - German defense line in Italy collapsed
1945 - Start of the 1st Victory Test Cricket between England & Aust Services
1946 - Dutch Cooperation for Sexual Reform (NVSH) forms in Amsterdam
1950 - NY Times reports of worlds smallest & dumbest mechanical brain
1951 - 77th Preakness: Eddie Arcaro aboard Bold wins in 1:56.4
1951 - UN begins counter offensive in Korea
1953 - Nuclear explosion in Nevada (fall-out in St George, Utah)
1954 - Postmaster General Summerfield approves CIA mail-opening project
1955 - Atkinson & Depeiaza make 347 stand for 7th wkt WI v Australia
1956 - 82nd Preakness: Bill Hartack aboard Fabius wins in 1:58.4
1956 - Pirate Dale Long hits 9th-inning HR, 1st HR in 8 straight games
1957 - Adone Zoli forms Italian government
1958 - Premiere of Harold Pinter's "Birthday Party," in London
1958 - South Pacific soundtrack album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 31 weeks
1958 - US & Canada form North American Air Defense Command (NORAD)
1959 - Jan de Quay becomes premier of Netherlands
1960 - Alan Freed & eight other DJ accused of taking radio payola
1960 - Belgian parliament requires rest day for self employed
1960 - Juan Marichal debuts as SF Giant pitcher, beats Phillies on 1 hitter
1960 - USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 33,222 m
1961 - New pier opens in Scheveningen
1962 - "Bravo, Giovanni" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 76 performances
1962 - "John Birch Society," by Chad Mitchell Trio hits #99
1962 - 88th Preakness: John Rotz aboard Greek Money wins in 1:56.2
1962 - Indonesian paratroopers land in New Guinea
1962 - Stan Musial breaks Honus Wagner's NL hit record with 3,431
1962 - US performs nuclear test at Christmas Island (atmospheric)
1963 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Muskogee Civitan Golf Open
1964 - US diplomats find at least 40 secret microphones in Moscow embassy
1965 - Patricia R Harris named 1st US black female ambassador (Luxembourg)
1965 - West Ham United wins 5th Europe Cup II
1967 - US bombs Hanoi
1967 - USSR ratifies treaty with Engl & US banning nuclear weapons in space
1968 - 20th Emmy Awards: Get Smart, Mission Impossible & Barbara Bain
1968 - Frank Howard fails to homer, after hitting 10 in 6 consecutive games
1968 - Pirate Radio Brumble of Northern England 1st heard
1971 - USSR launches Mars 2, 1st spacecraft to crash land on Mars
1972 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1972 - WMAV TV channel 18 in Oxford, MS (PBS) begins broadcasting
1973 - "Daisy" A Day by Jud Strunk hits #14
1973 - "Smith" opens at Eden Theater NYC for 17 performances
1973 - 99th Preakness: Ron Turcotte aboard Secretariat wins in 1:54.4
1974 - Joanne Carner Golf Invitational wins LPGA Bluegrass
1974 - Stanley Cup: Phila Flyers beat Boston Bruins, 4 games to 2
1974 - Valeri Giscard d'Estaing wins French presidential election
1975 - 27th Emmy Awards: Mary Tyler Moore Show, Robert Blake & Jean Marsh
1975 - Farm truck packed with wedding party struck by a train, killing 66 in truck, 40 miles south of
           Poona, India
1975 - Junko Tabei is 1st woman to climb to the top of Mount Everest
1976 - Gold ownership legalized in Australia
1976 - Liverpool wins 5th UEFA Cup at Bridge
1976 - Senate establishes permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
1976 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1977 - "Smokey & the Bandit," premieres
1979 - "In The Navy" by Village People hits #3
1979 - 105th Preakness: Ron Franklin aboard Spectacular Bid wins in 1:54.2
1980 - "Blackstone" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 104 performances
1980 - Ringo & Barbara Bach are involved in a car crash
1981 - Pirate Jim Bibby gives up a leadoff single to Brave Terry Harper, then retires next 27 batters
1982 - IFK Göteborg wins 11th UEFA Cup at Göteborg
1982 - Sophia Loren jailed in Naples for tax evasion
1983 - NASA launches Intelsat V satellite, no. 506
1983 - Weird Al Yankovic gives live performance at Wax Museum in Wash DC
1984 - "King Of Suede" by Weird Al Yankovic hits #62
1984 - 110th Preakness: Angel Cordero Jr aboard Gate Dancer wins in 1:53.6
1984 - STS 41-D vehicle moves to launch pad
1984 - Stanley Cup: Edmonton Oilers beat NY Islanders, 4 games to 1
1984 - Pat LaFontaine scores 2 goals within 22 sec in an NHL playoff game
1985 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Golf Classic
1986 - Anti-apartheid activist HClane Pastoors sentenced to 10 yrs in S Afr
1987 - 1st American Comedy Award
1988 - Red Sox retire Bobby Doerr's #1
1988 - Carlos Lehder Rivas, of Colombia's Medellin drug cartel, is convicted in Florida for smuggling
           more than 3 tons of cocaine into US
1989 - Dow Jones Avg passes 2,500 mark for 1st time, closes at 2,501.1
1989 - Sue Ellen (Linda Gray) last appearance on Dallas
1990 - 116th Preakness: Pat Day aboard Summer Squall wins in 1:53.6
1990 - General Elvis, TV Drama last airs on ABC
1991 - "Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story" closes at Shubert NYC after 225 perfs
1991 - Pat Bradley wins LPGA Centel Golf Classic
1991 - Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Centel Senior Golf Challenge
1991 - Willy T Ribbs becomes 1st black driver to make Indianapolis 500
1992 - 27th Amendment ratified, prohibits Congress from raising its salary
1992 - Amy Fisher shoots Mary Jo Buttafuoco in Massapequa LI
1992 - Englishman Dave Gauder, 224 lbs, pulls 196 ton jumbo jet, 3 inches
1992 - Ric Flair wins NWA wrestling title
1992 - VP Dan Quayle attacks Murphy Brown for being a single mother and as a poor example of
           family values
1993 - Boeing 727 crashes into mountain at Medellin Colombia, kills 132
1993 - Dow Jones closes above 3,500 for 1st time (3,500.03)
1993 - Juventus wins 22th UEFA Cup at Torino
1994 - Final Episode of LA Law after 8 year run
1994 - Omar Sharif suffers a mild heart attack
1994 - Tennis star Jennifer Capriati (18), checks into a drug rehab center
1995 - Emmy 22nd Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 15th time
1995 - World's youngest doctor, Balamurali Ambati, 17, graduates Mount Sinai
1996 - STS 77 (Endeavour 11), launches into orbit
2009 - Sri Lanka announces victory in its 27 year war against the terrorist organisation, Liberation
          Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
2012 - Chelsea defeat Bayern Munich in penalty shootout to win the UEFA Champion's League
2161 - Syzygy: 8 of 9 planets aligned on same side of sun

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 19, 2013, 02:27:57 PM

This Day in History for 19th May


Famous Weddings

1853 - Dutch prince Henry marries princess Amalia of Saxony-Weimar
1979 - Guitarist Eric Clapton marries Patti Boyd
1997 - Film and stage actor Matthew Broderick (50) weds Sex and the City actress Sarah Jessica
           Parker (47) in New York
2006 - "Liverpool" goalkeeper Pepe Reina (23) weds Yolanda Ruiz in Cordoba, Spain
2008 - Film actress Jessica Alba (31) weds film/TV producer Cash Warren (33) at the Beverly Hills
           Courthouse in Beverly Hills, California
2012 - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (28) weds his longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan at a small
           ceremony in Palo Alto, California

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 19, 2013, 02:36:03 PM

This Day in History for 19th May


Famous Birthdays

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Swimmer Florence Chadwick (1918)             African American Activist                   Professional Wrestler André
                                                                        Malcolm X (1925)                             the Giant (André René
                                                                                                                                    Roussimoff) (1946)


1469 - Giovanni della Robbia, Italian sculptor
1611 - Innocent XI, [Benedetto Odescalchi], Italy, 240th Pope (1676-89)
1616 - Johann Jakob Froberger, German singer/organist/composer
1700 - José de Escandón, Spanish colonial governor (d. 1770)
1724 - Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol, British admiral and politician (d. 1779)
1744 - Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1818)
1746 - Johann Friedrich Peter, composer
1755 - Gabriele Prota, composer
1762 - Johann G Fichte German philosopher (Wissenschaftslehre)
1770 - Antoine-Charles Glachant, composer
1773 - Arthur Aikin, English mineralogist (d. 1854)
1795 - Johns Hopkins, philanthropist, founded Johns Hopkins University
1797 - Maria Isabel of Portugal, queen of Spain (d. 1818)
1808 - Samuel Jameson Gholson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1883
1812 - Felix Kirk Zollicoffer, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1862
1815 - John Gross Barnard, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1882
1827 - Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour, French statesman (d. 1896)
1828 - Adin Ballou Underwood, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1839 - Alice Mary Smith, composer
1858 - Roland Napoleon Bonaparte, French officer/traveller (Surinam)
1859 - Nellie Melba, [Heal Mitchell], Australian soprano (Peach Melba)
1860 - Victor E Orlando, Italy's premier (1917-19)
1861 - Dame Nellie Melba, Australian opera singer (d. 1931)
1862 - Mikhail Nesterov, Russian painter (d. 1942)
1864 - Carl Ethan Akeley, US, naturalist, devoleped animal mount process
1869 - Jules Poncelet, Belgian minister of State
1870 - Albert Fish, American serial killer (d. 1936)
1873 - Federico Gerdes, composer
1874 - Gilbert Laird Jessop, cricketer (The Croucher)
1878 - Adam von Ahn Carse, composer
1879 - Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, US/Eng's feminist/ex of Waldorf Astor
1880 - Allard R Hulshoff, architect of Amsterdam (1924)
1881 - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, 1st President of Turkey (d. 1938)
1882 - Mohammed Mosaddeq, Prime Minister of Iran (d. 1967)
1883 - Henricus WJM Keuls, Dutch lawyer/poet (Dancing Lamp)
1884 - Arthur Meulemans, Belgian composer (Adriaan Brouwer) (or 5/10)
1890 - Ho Chi Minh, trail blazer/leader of Vietnam (1946, 1969)
1891 - Oswald Boelcke, German World War I pilot (d. 1916)
1892 - Konstatin G Paustovski, Russian author (Povestj Zjizni) [OS]
1895 - Albert Hay Malotte, composer
1895 - Cecil Gray, composer
1896 - Michael Balcon, Birmingham England, producer/father of Jill Balcon
1897 - Frank Luke, American World War I pilot (d. 1918)
1898 - Julius Evola, Italian philosopher (d. 1974)
1899 - Leonid Maksimovich Leonov, novelist/playwright
1901 - Ivo Cruz, composer
1904 - Anthony Bushell, Kent England, actor (Journey's End)
1904 - Sven Thofelt, Sweden, pentathlete (Olympic-gold-1928)
1906 - Bruce Bennett, American athlete and actor (d. 2007)
1908 - Percy Williams, Canadian athlete (d. 1982)
1909 - Bruce Bennett, Tacoma Wash, actor (Before I Hang, Sahara)
1909 - Schlomo Joffe, composer
1909 - Nicholas Winton, British Humanitarian
1910 - Alan Melville, cricketer (graceful South African batsman 1938-49)
1913 - Albert Hardy, photographer
1913 - Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, president of India
1914 - Max Perutz, Austrian-born molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d.
           2002)
1914 - Go Seigen, Japanese Go player
1914 - Alex Shibicky, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2005)
1918 - Florence Chadwick, San Diego, swimmer (1st to swim English Channel both ways), (d. 1995)
1918 - Abraham Pais, Dutch-born American physicist (d. 2000)
1919 - Betty Jameson, Norman OK, LPGA golfer (1947 US Women's Open)
1920 - Tina Strobos, Netherlands, physician and resistor to Nazi occupation, (d. 2012)
1921 - Charles van de Reve, slavic (Belief of Kameraden)
1921 - Daniel Gelin, Angers France, Maria Schneider's dad, actor (Obsession)
1921 - Karel van het Reve, Dutch Slavist (Comrade's Religion)
1922 - David McLean, Akron Oh, actor (Tate-Tate)
1924 - Sandy Galbraith Wilson, composer
1925 - Malcolm X, [Little], [Detroit Red], Omaha NB, founder (Black Muslims)
1925 - Guy Provost, French Canadian actor (d. 2004)
1926 - Paul Cooper, composer
1926 - Swami Kriyananda, Indian teacher and author
1928 - Anthony C B Chapman, England, sports car builder/autoracer (Formula 1)
1928 - Pol Pot, Cambodian dictator (d. 1998)
1928 - Colin Chapman, founder of Lotus Cars (d. 1982)
1929 - Harvey Cox, US theologist (Secular City)
1929 - Michael Adamis, composer
1929 - John Stroger Chicago politician
1930 - Hans Kox, composer
1930 - Lorraine Hansberry, playwright (Raisin in the Sun)
1931 - Eric Davidson, comedy scriptwriter
1931 - Ruben Radica, composer
1931 - Eric Tappy, Swiss tenor
1931 - Bob Anderson, British racing driver (d. 1967)
1932 - Alma Cogan, English singer (d. 1966)
1932 - Paul Erdman, American economist and author (d. 2007)
1932 - Claude Blanchard, Quebec comedian and actor (d. 2006)
1934 - David Sinclair, actor (Love & Hate)
1934 - James Charles Lehrer, Wichita Ks, news anchor (McNeil-Lehrer Report)
1934 - Jan Wijn, Dutch pianist
1934 - Ruskin Bond, Indian author
1935 - David Hartman, Pawtucket RI, TV personality (Good Morning America)
1935 - F R Fries, writer
1936 - Elisabeth Schwartz, Austria, pairs figure skater (Olympic-gold-1956)
1937 - Sanne Sannes, Dutch photographer
1937 - Pat Roach, English actor and wrestler (d. 2004)
1938 - James H Bilbray, (Rep-D-Nevada)
1938 - Moisés da Costa Amaral, East Timorese leader (d. 1989)
1939 - 17th earl of Pembroke, English landowner/director (Emily)
1939 - Francis R Scobee, Wash, USAF/astronaut (STS 41C, 51L-Chal disaster)
1939 - James Fox, London England, actor (Greystoke)
1939 - Nancy Kwan, Hong Kong, actress (Flower Drum Song, World of Suzie Wong)
1939 - Richard Lowe Teitelbaum, composer
1939 - Tomasz Sikorski, composer
1939 - Livio Berruti, Italian athlete
1939 - James Fox, English actor
1940 - Carlos Diegues, actor (Xica)
1940 - Frank Lorenzo, airline executive (Continental, Texas Air, Eastern)
1940 - Joan Staley, playmate (Nov, 1958)
1940 - Mickey Newbury, rocker
1940 - Jan Janssen, Dutch cyclist
1941 - Jane Brody, writer/nutritionist
1941 - Jimmy Hoffa Jr, son of Jimmy Hoffa/Teamster union leader
1941 - Marc-Antonio Consoli, composer
1941 - Nora Ephron, NY, novelist/screenwriter/director (Michael, Heartburn), (d. 2012)
1942 - Gary Kildall, creator of CP/M
1942 - James Topping, author of CP/M
1942 - Robert Kilroy-Silk, British politician and television presenter
1944 - Peter Mayhew, British-American actor
1945 - Peter Townshend, England, rock guitarist/vocalist/composer (The Who-Tommy)
1946 - Diedre Lenihan, Atlanta Ga, actress (Wendy-Needles & Pins)
1946 - Mary Bryan, LPGA golfer
1946 - Michele Placido, Foggia Italy, actor (La Lupa, Poliziotti)
1946 - Phillip Rudd, Melbourne, rock drummer (AC/DC-Rock 'n Roll Damnation)
1946 - André the Giant, French professional wrestler (d. 1993)
1946 - Claude Lelièvre, Belgian commissioner for children's rights
1947 - Jerry Hyman, Bkln, rock singer/trombonist (Blood Sweat & Tears)
1948 - Grace Jones, [Mendoza], Spanishtown Jamacia, singer/actress (Vamp)
1948 - Jean-Pierre Haignere, France, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-17)
1948 - Tom Scott, LA, saxophonist/bandleader (Pat Sajak Show)
1949 - Dusty Hill, rocker (ZZ Top)
1951 - Joey Ramone, [Jeffrey Hyman], lead singer of the punk rock band The Ramones (Baby I Love
           You)
1951 - Dick Slater, American professional wrestler
1952 - Barbara Loomis, rocker (BT Express)
1952 - Bert van Marwijk, Dutch football manager
1953 - Henry Lascelles, English grandson of princess Mary
1953 - Shavarsh Karapetyan, Soviet Armenian finswimmer
1953 - Victoria Wood, British comic actress
1953 - Dawud M. Mu'Min, American convicted murderer (d. 1997)
1954 - Rick Cerone, Newark NJ, catcher (Yankees/Red Sox/Mets/Expos)
1954 - Phil Rudd, Australian drummer (AC/DC)
1955 - Ed Whitson, pitcher (NY Yankees, SD Padres)
1955 - Pierre J Thuot, Groton Conn, Lt Cmdr USN/astronaut (STS 36, 49, 62)
1956 - Althea Gwyn, WBL center (NY Stars)
1956 - Martyn Ware, rocker (Heaven 17-Electric Dreams)
1956 - Steve Ford, actor (Young & Restless)/son of Pres Gerald Ford
1957 - Bill Laimbeer, NBA forward (Cleveland Cavaliers, Detroit Pistons)
1957 - Sophia Crawford, London England, actress (Power Rangers)
1959 - Nicole Brown Simpson, Frankford Germany, Mrs OJ Simpson (murdered)
1960 - Yazz, [Yasmin Evans], London, England, singer (Fine Time)
1961 - Lisa Rathgber, Hillsboro Ill, bowler (LPBT Rookie of Year 1980)
1961 - Lisa Wagner, bowler (3-time LPBT Player of Year, Bowler of Decade)
1961 - Gregory Poirier, American screenwriter and director
1962 - Iain Harvie, Scottish rock guitarist (Nothing Ever Happens)
1963 - Rebecca Bradley, LPGA golfer
1963 - Filippo Galli, Italian footballer
1964 - Michael Dean Standly, Abilene TX, PGA golfer (1993 Freeport-McMoRan)
1965 - Edward Odumbe, cricketer (Kenyan pace bowler 1996 World Cup)
1965 - Joshua Rifkind, actor (Marshall Chronicles)
1965 - Maile Flanagan, American actress
1966 - Keith Jennings, NFL tight end (Chic Bears)
1966 - Marc Bureau, Trois Rivieres, NHL center (Montreal Canadiens)
1966 - Polly Walker, British actress
1966 - Sophia Crawford, English actress and martial artist
1967 - John Friesz, NFL quarterback (Seattle Seahawks)
1967 - Turk Wendell, Pittsfield MA, pitcher (Chicago Cubs)
1967 - Massimo Taccon, Italian painter and sculptor
1968 - James Parrish, NFL outside linebacker (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1968 - Jeanne Basone, Brubank California, wrestler (Hollywood-GLOW)
1968 - Mark Janssens, Surrey, NHL center (Hartford Whalers)
1968 - Paul Justin, NFL quarterback (Indianapolis Colts)
1969 - Cecile Ulbrich Tucker, Warren Maine, rower (Olympics-96)
1969 - David Wharton, Warminster PA, US Olympic swimmer (Olympic-silver-88)
1969 - Kevin Scott, WLAF cornerback (Scotland Claymores)
1969 - Richard Dumas, NBA forward (Phila 76ers)
1970 - Choi Kyung-Ju, South Korean professional golfer
1971 - Darryl Morrison, NFL safety (Washington Redskins)
1971 - Lori Ann Mundt, Yorkton Saskatchawan, volleyball player (Olympics-96)
1971 - Psicosis, Mexican professional wrestler
1972 - Ronald Williams, CFL running back (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1972 - Willie Brown, NFL/WLAF linebacker (Seattle Seahawks. Rhein Fire)
1972 - Jenny Berggren, Swedish singer (Ace of Base)
1973 - Andreas Johansson, Hofors SWE, NHL forward (Pitts, NY Islanders)
1974 - Andrew Johns, Australian rugby league footballer
1975 - London Fletcher, American football player
1975 - Masanobu Ando, Japanese actor
1975 - Pretinha, Brazilian footballer
1976 - Kevin Garnett, NBA forward (Minnesota Timberwolves)
1977 - Manuel Almúnia, Spanish footballer
1977 - Brandon Inge, American baseball player
1978 - Marcus Bent, English footballer
1979 - Barbara Nedeljakova, Slovak actress
1979 - Diego Forlán, Uruguayan footballer
1979 - Andrea Pirlo, Italian footballer
1980 - Drew Fuller, American actor/model
1980 - Tony Hackworth, English footballer
1981 - Georges St. Pierre, Mixed Martial Arts Fighter
1981 - Luciano Figueroa, Argentine footballer
1981 - Klaas-Erik Zwering, Dutch swimmer
1981 - Nate Cole, American singer
1982 - Pål Steffen Andresen, Norwegian footballer
1982 - Kevin Amankwaah, English footballer
1983 - Jessica Fox, British actress
1984 - Marcedes Lewis, American football player
1986 - Eric Lloyd, American actor
1986 - Mario Chalmers, NCAA basketball player
1987 - David Edgar, Canadian football (soccer) player
1987 - Mariano Torres, Argentine footballer
1988 - Lily Cole, English model/actress
1991 - Jordan Pruitt, American singer

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 19, 2013, 02:38:30 PM

This Day in History for 19th May


Famous Deaths

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British Prime Minister
William Gladstone (1898)


804 - Alcuin of York, English scholar, dies in Tours France at 69
988 - Dunstan[us], English archbishop of Canterbury, dies
1102 - Stephen, Count of Blois (b. c. 1045)
1125 - Vladimir Monomakh, Russian prince (b. 1053)
1296 - Celestine V, [Pietro del Murrone], Pope (1294), dies
1319 - Louis d'Évreux, son of Philip III of France (b. 1276)
1389 - Dmitri Donskoi, Grand Prince of Muscovy (b. 1350)
1526 - Emperor Go-Kashiwabara of Japan (b. 1464)
1531 - Jan Łaski, Polish statesman and diplomat (b. 1456)
1536 - Anne Boleyn, Queen of England/wife of Henry VIII, beheaded
1536 - Lord Rochford, English brother of Anna Boleyn, beheaded
1601 - Costanzo Porta, Italian composer
1610 - Thomas Sanchez, Spanish theologian (b. 1550)
1637 - Isaac Beeckman, Dutch scientist and philosopher (b. 1588)
1647 - Sebastian Vrancx, Flemish painter (captain of vigilante), dies
1653 - Carel Reyniersz, gov-gen of Neth East Indies, dies at 48
1715 - Charles Montagu, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1661)
1786 - John Stanley, composer, dies at 74
1795 - Josiah Bartlett, US physician/judge (signed Decl of Ind), dies at 65
1795 - James Boswell, Scottish biographer (b. 1740)
1798 - William Byron, 5th Baron Byron, English dueler (b. 1722)
1800 - French Bosbeeck, veterinarian/robber, hanged
1801 - Herman H Vitringa, politician (National Meetings), dies
1821 - Camille Jordan, French politician (b. 1771)
1825 - Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de Saint-Simon, French political philosopher (b. 1760)
1845 - Maria EJ Versfelt, mistress of general Moreau/marshal Ney, dies at 68
1864 - Nathaniel Hawthorne, US, writer (Scarlet Letter), dies
1872 - Johan van Dale, schoolmaster (New Dutch Language Wordbook), dies at 44
1876 - Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, Dutch historian/politician, dies at 74
1885 - Peter W. Barlow, English engineer (b. 1809)
1890 - Gus Kempis, cricketer (South Africa's 1st Test), dies of fever at 24
1895 - Jose J Marti y Perez, Spanish/Cuban poet (Versos sencillos), dies
1898 - William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1809)
1901 - Marthinus Wessels Pretorius, 1st pres Rep South-Africa, dies at 81
1903 - Arthur Shrewsbury, cricketer (1277 runs at 35 47 in 23 Tests), dies
1904 - Auguste Molinier, French historian (b. 1851)
1907 - Benjamin Baker, English engineer (b. 1840)
1912 - Bolesław Prus, Polish writer (b. 1847)
1915 - John Simpson Kirkpatrick stretcher bearer with the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps
           at Gallipoli during World War I (b. 1892)
1918 - Raoul Lufbery, French-American World War I fighter pilot and flying ace (b. 1885)
1922 - Heinrich I Quincke, German internist (postural drainage), dies at 79
1924 - Billy Zulch, cricketer (S Afr batsman scored 2 Test centuries), dies
1928 - Henry Franklin Belknap Gilbert, composer, dies at 59
1928 - Max Scheler, German philosopher, dies at 53
1935 - Charles Martin Tornow Loeffler, French composer, dies at 74
1935 - Thomas E Lawrence (of Arabia), dies in a motorcycle crash
1942 - [Nicoline] Magdalene Anchor-Roll, Norwegian author (Enken), dies at 69
1943 - Kristjan Raud, Estonian painter (b. 1865)
1945 - Philipp Bouhler, German nazi leader (b. 1889)
1946 - Booth Tarkington, American novelist (b. 1869)
1953 - Damasco Berenguer y Fuste, Spanish gen/min of War, dies at 79
1954 - Aart A van Schelven, church historian (Willem of Orange), dies at 73
1954 - Charles Edward Ives, US composer (Unanswered Question), dies at 79
1958 - Bruno Sturmer, composer, dies at 65
1958 - Ronald Colman, British actor (Prisoner of Zenda), dies at 67
1958 - Archie Scott-Brown, English race car driver (b. 1927)
1961 - Joe Howard, singer (Gay Nineties Revue), dies at 94
1965 - Maria Dabrowska, Polish writer (Znaki Zycia), dies
1966 - Tortoise, reportedly given to Tonga's King by Capt Cook (1773), dies
1969 - Coleman Hawkins, US jazz musician/composer, dies
1971 - Bernard Wagenaar, Neth/US composer, dies at 76
1971 - Ogden Nash, poet/TV panelist (Masquerade Party), dies at 68
1978 - George Gladstone, cricketer (one Test WI v England 1930), dies
1983 - Jean Rey, Belgian politician and President of the European Commission dies at 80
1986 - Jimmy Lyons, American musician (b. 1931)
1987 - Alice B[radley] Sheldon, sci-fi author (Byte Beautiful), dies at 71
1987 - James Tiptree, Jr, American author (b. 1915)
1988 - Virginia Farmer, actresss (Cyrano de Bergerac), dies at 90
1989 - Able J Herzberg, Russ/Neth lawyer (Eichmann in Jerusalem), dies
1989 - E Galgoczi, writer, dies
1989 - Robert Webber, actor (Alex-Moonlighting), dies of ALS at 64
1989 - CLR James, West Indian writer and journalist (b. 1901)
1991 - Douglas L Mays, cartoonist (Punch), dies
1991 - Rini Otte, Dutch actress (Ergens in Nederland), dies at 74
1993 - Nemesio Antunes, Chilean painter, dies at 75
1993 - Richard Murphy, director (3 Stripes in the Sun), dies of stroke at 81
1993 - S W Sohoni, cricketer (4 Tests for India), dies
1994 - Henry Morgan, TV panalist (To Tell the Truth), dies of cancer at 74
1994 - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, 1st lady (1961-63), dies of cancer at 64
1994 - Jacques Cesar Ellul, writer, dies at 82
1994 - Luis Ocana, Span cyclist (Tour de France 1973), commits suicide at 48
1996 - Margaret Rawlings, actress (Roman Holiday), dies at 89
1997 - Millie, dog of President Bush (Millie's Book), dies at 12
1998 - Sōsuke Uno, Japanese prime minister (b. 1922)
1999 - James Blades, English percussionist (b. 1901)
1999 - Candy Candido, American actor (b. 1913)
2000 - Yevgeny Khrunov, cosmonaut (b. 1933)
2001 - Susannah McCorkle, American singer (b. 1946)
2002 - John Gorton, nineteenth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1911)
2002 - Walter Lord, American writer (b. 1917)
2004 - Tony Randall, actor (Felix Unger in The Odd Couple) dies aged 84
2004 - Mary Dresselhuys, Dutch actress (b. 1907)
2005 - Henry Corden, American actor and voice artist (b. 1921)
2006 - Freddie Garrity, English lead singer from the band Freddie and the Dreamers (b. 1940)
2007 - Dean Eyre, New Zealand politician (b. 1914)
2008 - Vijay Tendulkar, Indian playwright, (b. 1928)
2009 - Robert F. Furchgott, American chemist, Nobel Laureate (b. 1916)
2009 - Herbert York, American physicist (b. 1921)
2011 - Garret FitzGerald, Irish politician and former Taoiseach (b. 1926)
2012 - Robert Boozer, American basketball player, dies at 75

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 20, 2013, 08:39:29 AM

This Day in History for 20th May


Historical Events

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Playwright William Shakespeare            Clothing Designer Levi Strauss                   Inventor Thomas Edison

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Baseball Great Babe Ruth                          Actress Mary Tyler Moore                        Singer Elton John

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Basketball Superstar
Michael Jordan


325 - 1st Christian ecumenical council opens at Nicaea, Asia Minor
1217 - The Second Battle of Lincoln is fought near Lincoln, England, resulting in the defeat of Prince
           Louis of France by William Marshal, 2nd Earl of Pembroke.
1293 - Earthquake strikes Kamakura Japan, 30,000 killed
1293 - King Sancho IV of Castile creates the Study of General Schools of Alcalá.
1303 - Treaty of Paris restores Gascony to British in Hundred Years War
1310 - Shoes were made for both right & left feet
1347 - Rienzo calls Rome for people's tribunal
1495 - French King Charles VIII leaves Naples
1498 - Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama arrives at Calcutta India
1501 - Joao da Nova Castell discovers Ascension Islands
1521 - Ignatius Loyola seriously wounded by a cannon ball
1524 - Duke of Albany leaves Scotland
1570 - Egidius Coppens publishes Abraham Ortelius' "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum"
1571 - Venice, Spain & Pope Pius form anti-Turkish Saint League
1591 - Spanish troops in Zutphen surrenders to Willem Louis/Mauritius
1609 - Shakespeare's Sonnets are first published in London, perhaps illicitly, by the publisher
           Thomas Thorpe.
1631 - Magdeburg in Germany seized by forces of the Holy Roman Empire under earl Johann Tilly,
           most inhabitants massacred, one of the bloodiest incidents of the Thirty Years' War.
1639 - Dorchester Mass, forms 1st school funded by local taxes
1690 - England passes Act of Grace, forgiving followers of James II
1704 - Elias Neau forms school for slaves in NY
1734 - 1st Jockey Club forms in SC
1774 - Britain gives Quebec, Labrador & territory north of Ohio
1775 - Citizens of Mecklenburg County, NC declare independence of Britain
1784 - England & Netherlands signs peace treaty (Peace of Paris)
1825 - Charles X becomes King of France
1830 - 1st railroad timetable published in newspaper (Baltimore American)
1830 - D Hyde patents fountain pen
1835 - Otto is named the first modern king of Greece.
1840 - York Minster was badly damaged by fire
1845 - 1st legislative assembly convenes in Hawaii
1845 - HMS Erebus and HMS Terror with 134 men under John Franklin sail from the River Thames in
           England, beginning a disastrous expedition to find the Northwest Passage. All hands are lost.
1861 - Cornerstone of University of Washington laid in Seattle
1861 - Kentucky proclaims its neutrality in Civil War
1861 - North Carolina becomes 11th & last state to secede from Union
1861 - US marshals appropriate previous year's telegraph dispatches, to reveal prosecessionist
           evidence
1862 - Homestead Act provides cheap land for settlement of West
1864 - Battle at Ware Bottom Church, Virginia, 1,400 killed or injured
1864 - Spotsylvania-campaign ends after 10,920 killed/injured
1867 - Brit parliament rejects John Stuart Mills law on women's suffrage
1867 - Royal Albert Hall foundation laid by Queen Victoria
1868 - Republican National Convention, meets in Chicago, nominates Grant
1870 - Second Chamber abolishes capital punishment
1873 - Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis patent first blue jeans with copper rivets
1875 - Intl Bureau of Weights & Measures forms by treaty
1879 - 5th Kentucky Derby: Charlie Shauer aboard Lord Murphy wins in 2:37
1882 - Germany/Austria-Hungary/France sign Triple Alliance
1882 - Henrik Ibsen's "Ghosts" (Gengangere) premieres in Chicago
1882 - St Gotthard-railroad tunnel between Switzerland & Italy opens
1891 - History of cinema: The first public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope.
1892 - George Sampson patents clothes dryer
1892 - Triple Alliance between Germany, Italy & Austria forms
1895 - 1st commercial movie performance (153 Broadway, NYC)
1896 - The six ton chandelier of the Palais Garnier falls on the crowd resulting in the death of one
           and the injury of many others.
1900 - 2nd modern Olympic games opens in Paris (lasted 5 months)
1902 - Cuba gains independence from Spain
1902 - US military occupation of Cuba (since Jan 1, 1899) ends
1910 - Funeral for Britain's King Edward VII
1911 - Edwin Boaler Alletson hits 189 in 90 mins Notts v Sussex
1913 - 38th Preakness: James Butwell aboard Buskin wins in 1:53.4
1915 - Bataafsche Petroleum Me begins oil extraction of Maracaibo
1916 - Codell, Kansas hit by tornado (also on same date in 1917 & 1918)
1916 - Saturday Evening Post cover features Norman Rockwell painting
1917 - Turkish government authorizes Jews to return to Tel Aviv & Jaffa
1918 - 1st electrically propelled warship (New Mexico)
1919 - Volcano Keluit on Java, erupts killing 550
1920 - Policemen raid the Cubs' bleachers & arrest 24 fans for gambling
1922 - "Egypt" sinks off Ushant after colliding with "Seine," killing 90
1922 - Babe Ruth & Bob Meusel, suspended on October 16, 1921, by Judge Kennesaw Mountain
           Landis, return to the NY lineup & go hitless
1923 - Stanley Baldwin, becomes PM of UK
1926 - Belgian government of Jaspar takes power
1926 - Congress passes Air Commerce Act, licensing of pilots & planes
1926 - Railway Labor Act became law
1926 - Thomas Edison says Americans prefer silent movies over talkies
1927 - At 7:40 AM, Lindbergh takes off from NY to cross Atlantic for Paris
1927 - Saudi Arabia becomes independent of Great Britain (Treaty of Jedda)
1930 - 1st airplane catapulted from a dirigible, Charles Nicholson, pilot
1930 - University of California dedicates $1,500 to research on prevention & cure of athlete's foot
1932 - Amelia Earhart leaves Newfoundland 1st woman fly solo across Atlantic
1932 - Engelbert Dollfuss becomes chancellor of Austria
1939 - "3 Little Fishies," by Kay Kyser hits #1
1939 - 1st regular transatlantic airmail (Pan Am: NY to Marsseille France)
1940 - Gen Guderians tanks reach The Channel (British expeditionary army)
1940 - Soccer team HZVV forms in Hoogeveen
1940 - Trailing 7-1 in 9th to Pitts, Phils win 8-7
1941 - Archer's "Christian Calendar & Gregorian Reform" published
1941 - Former Dutch PM Colijn says Neth Indies not ready for independence
1941 - Germany invades Crete
1941 - White Sox Taft Wright sets AL record of RBIs in 13 consecutive games
1942 - US Navy 1st permitted black recruits to serve
1943 - French, British & US victory parade in Tunis Tunisia
1944 - US Communist Party dissolves
1945 - Keith Miller scores 105 in the 1st Victory Test Cricket at Lord's
1946 - Cubs Claude Passeau makes his 1st error since September 21, 1941, ending pitcher's fielding
           record of 273 consecutive errorless chances
1948 - 1st use of Israeli Air Force & 1st war victory, defeating Syrian army
1948 - Cleve Indians tie AL record of 18 walks (beat Red Sox 13-4)
1950 - 76th Preakness: Eddie Arcaro aboard Hill Prince wins in 1:59.2
1954 - Chiang Kai-shek becomes president of Nationalist China
1955 - Argentine parliament accepts separation of church & state
1956 - Atomic fusion (thermonuclear) bomb dropped from plane-Bikini Atoll
1956 - Jordan government of Samir resigns
1958 - US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)
1959 - Ford wins battle with Chrysler to call its new car "Falcon"
1959 - Japanese-Americans regain their citizenship
1959 - Shah of Persia visits Netherlands
1959 - Yanks sink to last place, 1st time since May 25, 1940
1960 - Baseball game in Milwaukee postponed due to dense fog
1961 - 87th Preakness: Johnny Sellers aboard Carry Back wins in 1:57.6
1961 - Henzes opera "Elegy for Young Lovers," premieres in Schwetzingen
1961 - Mauritania adopts constitution
1961 - White mob attacks "Freedom Riders" in Montgomery, Alabama
1962 - Patty Berg wins LPGA Muskogee Civitan Golf Open
1963 - Sukarno appointed president of Indonesia
1964 - Buster Mathis defeats Joe Fraizer to qualify for US Olympic team
1965 - Pakistani Boeing 720-B crashes at Cairo Egypt, killing 121
1965 - Yorkshire all out for 23 v Hampshire at Middlesbrough
1967 - 10,000 demonstrate against war in Vietnam
1967 - 93rd Preakness: Bill Shoemaker aboard Damascus wins in 1:55.2
1967 - BBC bans Beatle's "A Day in the Life" (drug references)
1969 - US troop capture Hill 937/Hamburger Hill Vietnam
1970 - 100,000 march in NY supporting US policies in Vietnam
1970 - 2 die in a NYC subway accident
1970 - Beatles' "Let it Be" movie premieres in UK
1971 - Pentagon reports blacks constitute 11% of US soldiers in SE Asia
1972 - "Different Times" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 24 performances
1972 - "Hard Job Being God" closes at Edison Theater NYC after 6 performances
1972 - 5th ABA Championship: Indiana Pacers beat NY Nets, 4 games to 2
1972 - 98th Preakness: Eldon Nelson aboard Bee Bee Bee wins in 1:55.6
1972 - Cameroon adopts its constitution
1972 - Republic of Cameroon declared as constitution is ratified
1973 - "2 Gentlemen of Verona" closes at St James Theater NYC after 613 perfs
1973 - 25th Emmy Awards: Waltons, All in the Family & Mary Tyler Moore
1973 - Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Bluegrass Golf Invitational
1974 - Soyuz 14 returns to Earth
1976 - USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR
1978 - 104th Preakness: Steve Cauthen aboard Affirmed wins in 1:54.4
1978 - 3 PFLP members kill a cop near El Al airlines in Orly Airport, Paris
1978 - US launches Pioneer Venus 1; produces 1st global radar map of Venus
1979 - "I Love My Wife" closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 864 perfs
1979 - 1st western pop star to tour USSR-Elton John
1979 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Coca-Cola Golf Classic
1980 - 710 families in Love Canal area (Niagara Falls NY) are evacuated
1980 - Drummer Peter Criss quits Kiss
1980 - Fire in nursing home in Kingston Jamaica, kills 157
1980 - In a referendum, 59.5% of Quebec voters reject separatism
1981 - Ipswich Town wins 10th UEFA Cup at Amsterdam
1983 - Larry Holmes beats Tim Witherspoon in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1983 - Michael Dokes & Mike Weaver fight to a draw in 15 for hw boxing title
1983 - Phillies Steve Carlton passes W Johnson with 2nd most strike outs
1984 - "On Your Toes" closes at Virginia Theater NYC after 505 performances
1984 - Barb Bunkowsky wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Charity Golf Classic
1984 - Boston's Roger Clemens beats Twins, 5-4, for his 1st victory
1985 - 1150 Lebanese/Palestinian prisoners exchanged for 3 Israelis
1985 - Dow Jones industrial avg closes above 1300 for 1st time
1985 - FBI arrests John A Walker Jr, convicted of spying for USSR
1985 - Indians-Brewers game at Cleve Stadium is 1st rain-out of 1985, ends record string of 458 ML
           games since Opening Day without a rain-out
1985 - Israel exchanges 1,100+ Arab prisoners for 3 Israeli soldiers
1985 - Larry Holmes beats Carl Williams in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1985 - US began broadcasts to Cuba on Radio Marti
1986 - Christy Fichtner, 23, (Texas), crowned 35th Miss USA
1986 - Flintstones 25th Anniversary Celebration airs on CBS-tv
1987 - Gutenborg wins 16th UEFA Cup at Dundee
1987 - Wrestler Jerry Lawler sues WWF & Harley Race for trademark name "king"
1988 - Howard Stern fans disrupt WMMR's & John DeBella's "Louie Louie" parade
1988 - Mike Schmidt hits his 535th HR, moving into 8th place
1989 - 115th Preakness: Pat Valenzuela aboard Sunday Silence wins in 1:53.8
1989 - China declares martial law in Beijing
1989 - Toonces The Cat takes the wheel on Saturday Night Live
1989 - Walter McConnel, 57, is oldest to reach 27,000' Mt Everest top
1990 - "Truly Blessed" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 33 performances
1990 - Cindy Rarick wins LPGA Planters Pat Bradley Golf International
1990 - Hubble Space Telescope sends 1st photograph's from space
1991 - Chic Bull Michael Jordan, named NBA's MVP
1991 - Jeff Reardon gains his 300th career save
1991 - Soviet parliament approves law allowing citizens to travel abroad
1992 - FC Barcelona wins 373 Europe Cup 1 at London
1992 - India launches its 1st satellite independently
1992 - Rap singer raps 597 syllables in under 60 seconds
1993 - 10m meteor comes within 150,000 km of Earth (1993KA)
1993 - 274th & final "Cheers" on NBC
1993 - Ukraine Premier Leonid Koetsjma resigns
1994 - Bobcat Goldthwait charged with misdemeanors for fire on Tonight Show
1994 - Miss India (Sushmita Sen) selected Miss Universe
1994 - Sony Theaters & Cineplex (NYC) hike movie ticket prices to $8.00
1995 - 121st Preakness: Pat Day aboard Timber Coutry wins in 1:54.4
1995 - CBS News fires co-anchor Connie Chung
1995 - Twins Marty Cordova ties rookie record of HRs in 5 consecutive games
1997 - Cosmos Zenit-2 Launch (Russia), Failed
1997 - Thor-2A Delta 2 Launch (Norway/USA), Successful
1997 - White Sox Frank Thomas reaches base safely for 15th straight time
2002 - The independence of East Timor is recognized by Portugal, formally ending 23 years of
           Indonesian rule and 3 years of provisional UN administration (Portugal itself was the former
           colonizer of East Timor until 1976).
2012 - Tomislav Nikolić elected president of Serbia
2012 - 6.0 magnitude earthquake kills 6 and injures dozens in northern Italy

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 20, 2013, 08:52:15 AM

This Day in History for 20th May


Famous Weddings

1995 - "Eagles" singer Don Henley (47) weds model Sharon Summerall (33) in Malibu
1995 - "Broadcast News" actress Holly Hunter (37) weds cinematographer Janusz Kaminski (35)
2000 - "Benny and Joon" actress Mary Stuart Masterson (33) weds film director Damon Santostefano
2000 - "Stone Temple Pilots" front man Scott Weiland (32) weds model Mary Forsberg (25)
2006 - "Dog the Bounty Hunter" TV personality Duane Dog Chapman (53) weds Beth Smith at the
           Hilton Waikoloa Village in Hawaii
2006 - Comedian-actress Mo'Nique (38) weds actor Sidney Hicks in an idyllic island ceremony
2006 - Race car driver Jacques Villeneuve (35) weds Johanna Martinez at a civil ceremony in
           Switzerland
2011 - Actor Doug Hutchison (51) weds country singer Courtney Stodden (16) in Las Vegas, Nevada

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 20, 2013, 08:58:48 AM

This Day in History for 20th May


Famous Birthdays

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Rocker Joe Cocker (1944)                             Goddess of Pop Cher                       Broadcaster Louis Theroux (1970)
                                                                (Cherilyn Sarkisian) (1946)


1315 - Bonne of Luxembourg, wife of John II of France (d. 1349)
1364 - Henry Percy, [Harry Hotspur], British soldier/politican
1470 - Pietro Bembo, cardinal/theologian
1537 - Hieronymus Fabricius Ab, Aquapend Italy, physician (De Formato Foetu)
1547 - Melchior Bischoff, composer
1554 - Paulo Bellasio, composer
1593 - Jacob Jordaens, Flemish barok artist
1593 - Salomo Glassius, German theologian (d. 1656)
1660 - Andreas Schlüter, German sculptor (d. 1714)
1663 - William Bradford, British-born printer (d. 1752)
1706 - Seth Pomeroy, American gunsmith and soldier (d. 1777)
1726 - Francis Cotes, English painter (d. 1770)
1737 - William Petty Fitzmaurice, British statesman (d. 1805)
1750 - Stephen Girard, bailed out US bonds during War of 1812
1754 - Hans Gram, composer
1759 - William Thornton, architect (Capitol building, Wash DC)
1764 - J Gottfried Schadow, German sculptor/cartoonist/lithographer
1768 - Dolley Dandridge Payne Madison, 1st lady (1809-17)
1769 - Andreas Vokos Miaoulis, Greek admiral and politician (d. 1835)
1772 - William Congreve, English officer (design fire rocket)
1799 - Honoré de Balzac, French novelist (d. 1850)
1806 - John Stuart Mill, UK, philosopher/political economist/Utilitarian
1812 - Gustav Adolf Mankell, composer
1818 - William George Fargo, founder (Wells Fargo)
1822 - Emile Erckmann, [E-Chatrian], French writer (Waterloo)
1822 - Frederic Passy, French economist/pacifist (Nobel 1901)
1825 - Antoinette Brown Blackwell, clergy (1st ordained US female minister)
1828 - James William Reilly, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1905
1830 - Amalia MdGA, princess of Saxon-Weimar-Eisenach/wife of prince Henry
1830 - Hector H Malot, French writer (Without Family)
1838 - Jules Méline, French statesman (d. 1925)
1841 - Sara Louisa Oberholtz, social reformer, anti-smoking advocate
1844 - Henri Julien Felix Rousseau, French ambassador/painter (Dream)
1850 - Eaton Faning, composer
1851 - Emile Berliner, Germany, inventor (flat phonograph record)
1851 - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, US, nun/daughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne
1856 - Henri E Cross [Delacroix], French painter
1860 - Eduard Buchner, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1917)
1874 - Folkert E Posthuma, Dutch minister of Agriculture/Industry
1876 - John Owen Jones, composer
1881 - Wladyslaw Sikorski, premier Poland (WW II general)
1882 - Sigrid Undset, Norway, novelist (Kristin Lavransdatter, Nobel 1928)
1883 - Paul Arntzenius, painter/graphic artist/etcher
1889 - Felix Arndt, composer
1889 - Margery Allingham, detective story writer
1889 - William Lawther, union leader
1890 - Beniamino Gigli, Italy, tenor (Enzo-La Gioconde)
1894 - Adela Rogers St John, journalist/author (Foreign Correspondent)
1894 - Chandrashekarendra Saraswati, Indian Hindu sage, Jivanmukta (d. 1994)
1895 - Reginald J "R" Mitchell, English aviation manufacturer (Spitfire)
1897 - Diego Abad de Santillán, Spanish anarchist (d. 1983)
1899 - Estelle Taylor, Delaware, actress (8 Commandments)
1899 - John M Harlan, Chicago, 91st Supreme Court justice (1955-71)
1899 - Alexander Deyneka, Ukrainian painter (d. 1969)
1901 - Max Euwe, Netherlands, world chess champion (1935-37)
1901 - Otto Waldis, Austria, actor (Port of Hell, Unknown World)
1902 - Hans Sahl, writer
1903 - Jerzy Fitelberg, composer
1904 - Russell Hardie, Buffalo NY, actor (Sequoia, In Old Kentucky)
1905 - Gerrit Achterberg, Dutch poet (Sailing)
1905 - Harry Campion, statistician/founder (Brit Central Statistical Office)
1906 - Giuseppe Siri, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1989)
1908 - Jimmy Stewart [James], PA, actor (Mr Smith Goes to Wash, Wonderful Life), (d. 1997)
1909 - Edward Moss Hutchinson, educationalist
1909 - John Arkell, director of administration (BBC)
1911 - Annie M G Schmidt, writer (Fam Doorsnee, Jip & Janneke)
1911 - Gardner F[rancis] Fox, US, sci-fi author (Kothar-Barbarian Swordsman)
1911 - Gardner Fox, American writer (d. 1986)
1912 - Joseph Proce, 3rd victim of NYC's Zodiac killer (survives)
1913 - Henry Cadbury Brown, architect
1913 - Ion Dumitrescu, composer
1913 - William Hewlett, cofounder (Hewlett-Packard Co)
1914 - Corneliu Coposu, Romanian politician (d. 1995)
1914 - Hideko Maehata, Japanese swimmer (d. 1995)
1915 - Moshe Dayan, Israeli general/minister of Defense
1915 - Peter Copley, actor (Victim, King & Country)
1916 - Cornelie Coposu, politician
1916 - John McIntyre, theologian
1916 - Owen Chadwick, chancellor (U of East Anglia)
1916 - Trebisonda Valla, Italian athlete (d. 2006)
1916 - Alexei Petrovich Maresiev, Russian flying ace (d. 2001)
1917 - Enyss Djemil, composer
1917 - Richard Charles Cobb, historian
1917 - Guy Favreau, French Canadian lawyer (d. 1967)
1917 - Bergur Sigurbjörnsson, Icelandic politician (d. 2005)
1918 - Edward B. Lewis, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (d. 2004)
1919 - George Gobel, Chicago Ill, comedian/TV personality (I Love My Wife)
1920 - Betty Driver, actress (Penny Paradise)
1920 - John Cruickshank, banker
1920 - William Simpson, British trade union leader
1921 - John Harrison, British vice admiral/surgeon
1921 - John Marchi, (Rep-R-NY)
1921 - W Borchert, writer
1921 - Hal Newhouser, American baseball player (d. 1998)
1922 - Clifford Butler, vice chancellor (Loughborough Univ of Technology)
1923 - Edith Fellows, Boston, actress (Pennies From Heaven, City Streets)
1923 - Hugh Beach, British General
1923 - Samuel Selvon, author
1924 - Betty Driver, actress (Coronation St, Pardon the Expression)
1924 - Peter Shore, MP (Labour)
1925 - D French Slaughter Jr, (Rep-R-VA, 1985- )
1925 - Chester Ludgin, American baritone (d. 2003)
1926 - David Hedison, Providence RI, actor (Colbys, Voyage to Bottom of Sea)
1926 - John Lucarotti, scriptwriter
1926 - Vic Ames, rocker (Ames Brothers)
1926 - Bob Sweikert, American race car driver (d. 1956)
1927 - David Frederick Barlow, composer
1927 - Walter Aschaffenburg, composer
1927 - [Harold] Bud Grant, Wisc, CFL/NFL player/coach (Winnipeg, Minnesota)
1927 - Franciszek Macharski, Polish Cardinal
1928 - David Berriman, CEO (Rose Thomson Young group of Lloyds Trustees)
1928 - David Hedison, actor (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)
1928 - Jack Kevorkian, controversial American medical doctor
1929 - Andre Carolus Cirino, Suriname/Indian poet
1930 - James McEachin, Pennert NC, actor (Harry-Tenafly)
1930 - Robert Bunyard, Commandant (British Police Staff College)
1931 - Chiharu Igaya, Japan, slalom (Olympic-silver-1956)
1931 - Ken Boyer, American baseball player (d. 1982)
1933 - Constance Towers, actress (Capitol, Shock Corrider, Naked Kiss)
1936 - Anthony Zerbe, Cal, actor (Harry-O, Centennial, They Call Me Mr Tibbs)
1937 - Dave Hill, Jackson MI, PGA golfer (1967 Memphis)
1937 - Earl of Iveagh, pres (Guiness Pics)
1937 - Lord "Benjie" Iveagh, British brewer (Guinness)/large landowner
1937 - Teddy Randazzo, song writer (I'm on the Outside Looking In)
1938 - Alan Smithers, British professor
1938 - Christina Bass-Kaiser, 3K Dutch speed skater (Olympic-gold-1972)
1938 - Marinella, Greek singer and actress
1939 - Gro Harlem Brundtland, Norway, PM/feminist/conservatist
1940 - Sadaharu Oh, of Yomiuri Giants (Japan), hit 868 career HR
1940 - Shorty Long, soul singer/pianist (Here Comes the Judge)
1940 - Stan Mikita, NHL center (led NHL in scoring 4 times)
1941 - Goh Chok Sole, premier of Singapore (1990- )
1941 - John Strasberg, American actor
1942 - Lynn Davies, long jumper
1942 - Paula, [Jill Jackson], Tx, singer (Hey Paula)
1942 - Simon Keswick, British financier/merchant (Hong Kong)
1942 - Carlos Hathcock, American Marine sniper (d. 1999)
1943 - Deryck Murray, cricket wicket-keeper (West Indian 1963-80)
1943 - Ian Vallance, CEO (British Telecom)
1943 - Tison Street, composer
1943 - Al Bano, Italian singer
1944 - Boudouin de Groot, Dutch singer (Good night mister president)
1944 - Cipa Dichter, Rio de Janeiro Brazil, pianist/wife of Misha Dichter
1944 - David M Walker, Columbus Ga, Capt USN/astron (STS 51-A 30, 53, 69)
1944 - Joe Cocker, Sheffield England, rock vocalist (Little Help From My Friends)
1944 - Keith Fletcher, cricket captain (Essex & England)
1944 - Dietrich Mateschitz, Austrian businessman
1945 - Harold E Ford, (Rep-D-TN, 1975- )
1945 - Lord Hollick, CEO (MAI)
1945 - Nikolai Nikolayevich Fefelov, Russian colonel/cosmonaut
1945 - Wally Herger, (Rep-R-California)
1945 - Vladimiro Montesinos, Peruvian politician
1946 - Bakhaavaa Buidaa, Mongolia, wrestler (Oly-silver-1972) disqualified
1946 - Cher [Cherilyn Sarkisian], El Centro, California, American singer and actress (I Got You Babe,
           Jack Lalane, Mask)
1946 - Craig Patrick, NHL coach
1947 - Iain Vallance, CEO (British Telecom)
1948 - Dave Thomas, St Catherines Ontario, comedian (SCTV, Grace Under Fire)
1948 - John Amiel, director (Queen of Hearts, Tune in Tomorrow)
1948 - John R McKernan Jr, (Rep-R-ME, 1983-86/Gov-Maine)
1948 - Samuel Gejdenson, (Rep-D-Connecticut, 1981- )
1949 - Nick Joe Rahall II, (Rep-D-WV, 1977- )
1950 - Yvon Lambert, French Canadian ice hockey player
1950 - Reinaldo Merlo, Argentine footballer
1951 - Michael D Crapo, (Rep-R-Idaho)
1951 - Thomas D Akers, St Louis, Major USAF/astronaut (STS 41, 49, 61, 79)
1951 - William Cullen Bryant, actor (Hell Squad)
1952 - Warren Cann, Victoria Canada, rock drummer (Ultravox)
1952 - Roger Milla, Cameroonian footballer
1953 - Robert Doyle, Australian politician
1954 - Galina Vasilyevna Amelkina, Russia, doctor/cosmonaut
1954 - James Henderson, country singer (Black Oak Arkansas)
1954 - Guy Hoffman, American musician (Violent Femmes)
1954 - David Paterson, American politician
1954 - Cindy Hensley McCain, wife of John McCain
1954 - Robert Van de Walle, Belgian judoka
1955 - Nigel Griffiths, MP (Labour)
1955 - Steve George, rock keyboardist (Mr Mister)
1955 - Zbigniew Preisner, Polish film composer
1956 - Andrew Hilditch, cricketer (Australian opening bat 1979-85)
1956 - Tomas Smid, Czech, tennis star
1956 - Ingvar Ambjørnsen, Norwegian author
1956 - Dean Butler, American actor
1956 - William Michaelian, American novelist and poet
1958 - Jane Wiedlin, Wisc, singer/guitarist (GoGos, Fur, Rush Hour)
1958 - Mike Engleman, Sonoma California, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1958 - Ronald Prescot Reagan Jr, LA, Pres son/TV host (Ron Reagon Show)
1959 - Bronson Pinchot, NYC, actor (Perfect Strangers, Beverly Hills Cop)
1959 - Peter Greene, Bkln NY, producer (After Midnight)
1959 - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, American singer (d. 1997)
1960 - John Cowsill, rock vocalist (Cowsills-Hair)
1960 - Susan Cowsill, Newport RI, rock vocalist (Cowsills-We Can Fly)
1960 - Tony Goldwyn, LA California, actor (Ghost, Kuffs, Traces of Red)
1960 - John Billingsley, American actor
1961 - Clive Allen, WLAF kicker (London Monarchs)
1961 - Kit Clarke, rocker (Danny Wilson-Mary's Prayer)
1961 - Nick Heyward, guitar/vocals (Haircut 100-Favourite Shirts)
1961 - Sally Quinlan, LPGA golfer
1961 - Vaughn Jefferis, Matangi NZ, equestrian 3 day event (Olymp-bronze-96)
1962 - Lydia Cheng, NYC, Ms Big Apple bodybuilder (1982) (Pumping Iron 2)
1962 - Sylvie Rauch, Munich German FR, nude model/actress
1963 - Brian Nash, Glendale California, actor (Joel-Please Don't Eat Daisies)
1963 - David Wells, Torrance CA, pitcher (Baltimore Orioles, NY Yankees)
1963 - Dipak Chudasama, cricketer (Kenya opening batsman 1996 World Cup)
1964 - Earl Charles Spencer, Sandringham England, brother of Princess Diana
1964 - Jeff Schwarz, US baseball pitcher (California Angels, Chicago White Sox)
1964 - Joseph Sinnott Edwards, Chicago, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
1964 - Paul W Richards, Scranton PA, astronaut
1964 - Todd Peat, WLAF guard (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1965 - Bruno Marie-Rose, French runner (world record 200 m indoor)
1965 - Fia Porter, Mexia Tx, actress (Audrey Ames-One Life to Live)
1965 - Joe Cioe, Cranston RI, Canadian Tour golfer (NH Open-1992, 93)
1965 - Todd Stottlemyre, Yakima WA, pitcher (St Louis Cardinals, Blue Jays)
1965 - Ted Allen, American television host
1966 - Lawyer Tillman, NFL tight end (Green Bay Packers, Carolina Panthers)
1966 - Liselotte Neumann, Finspang Sweden, LPGA golfer (1988 US Women's Open)
1966 - Mindy Cohn, LA, actress (Facts of Life)
1966 - Paolo Seganti, actor (Damian-As the World Turns)
1966 - Dan Abrams, American TV reporter
1966 - Gina Ravera, American actress
1967 - Beate Reinstadler, Stuttgart Ger, tennis star (1989 Futures Israel)
1967 - Gabriele Muccino, Italian film director
1967 - Ramzi Yousef, Kuwaiti-born Pakistani terrorist
1968 - Damon Mays, NFL wide receiver (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1968 - Phil Hansen, NFL defensive end (Buffalo Bills)
1968 - Waisale Serevi, Fijian rugby union and rugby sevens footballer
1969 - Alberto Mancini, Argentina, tennis star
1969 - Suzanne Lawrence, Humble Texas, Miss Texas-America (1991) (4th)
1969 - Brian Gerard James, American professional wrestler
1970 - Jason York, Nepean, NHL defenseman (Anaheim Mighty Ducks)
1970 - Missy Cress, Burbank CA, female catcher (Colo Silver Bullets)
1970 - Niklas Andersson, Kungalv SWE, NHL forward (Team Sweden, NY Islanders)
1970 - Terrell Brandon, NBA guard (Cleveland Cavaliers, Milwaukee Bucks)
1970 - Louis Theroux, Singapore, English television broadcaster (Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends,
           When Louis Met....)
1971 - Jonas Berqvist, Angelhorn SWE, hockey forward (Team Sweden, Oly-98)
1971 - Niklas Andersson, Kungalv Swe, NHL left wing (NY Islanders)
1971 - Sandy Schreur, Dutch soccer player (NEC)
1971 - Šárka Kašpárková, Czech athlete
1971 - Tony Stewart, American race car driver
1972 - Michael Cox, Hannibal Missouri, 1.5k runner
1973 - Elsa Lunghini, French singer and actress
1974 - Brandon Jessie, tight end (NY Giants)
1975 - Isaac Gálvez, Spanish cyclist (d. 2006)
1975 - Mark Zupan, American quadriplegic rugby player
1976 - Ramón Hernández, Venezuelan baseball player
1976 - Tomoya Satozaki, Japanese baseball player
1977 - Angela Goethals, actress (VI Warshawski, Heartbreak Hotel)
1977 - Leonardo Noeren Franco, Argentine footballer
1977 - Matt Czuchry, American actor
1977 - Chad Muska, American Skateboarder for Element Skateboards
1977 - Miriam Parrish, American television actress
1979 - Tamika Thomas, Miss Michigan Teen USA (1996)
1980 - Austin Kearns, American Baseball player
1981 - Iker Casillas, Spanish footballer
1981 - Calico Cooper, American actress and dancer
1981 - Lindsay Taylor, American basketball player
1981 - Mark Winterbottom, Australian racing driver
1982 - Petr Čech, Czech footballer
1982 - Imran Farhat, Pakistani cricketer
1983 - Jr. NTR, Indian film actor
1984 - Kenny Vasoli, American singer
1986 - Dexter Blackstock, English footballer
1986 - LaLa Brown, American singer (d. 2007)
1988 - Carla Humphries, Filipina actress
1993 - Caroline Zhang, American figure skater
2010 - Lady Cosima Windsor, daughter of Alexander Windsor, Earl of Ulster

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 20, 2013, 09:00:09 AM

This Day in History for 20th May


Famous Deaths

685 - King Ecgfrith of Northumbria (b. 645)
1277 - John XXI, [Petrus Juliani/Hispanus], Portuguese Pope (1276-77), dies. (b. 1215)
1285 - John II of Jerusalem, King of Cyprus (b. 1259)
1444 - Bernardinus van Siena, Italian saint, dies at 63
1449 - Peter, Prince/regent of Portugal/writer (Virtuosa Benfeitoria), dies
1471 - Henry VI, king of England (1422-61, 70-71)/France (1431-71), dies
1503 - Lorenzo de Medici, Italian patron (b. 1463)
1506 - Christopher Columbus, explorer, dies in poverty, in Spain at 55
1509 - Catharina Sforza, Italian duchess of Forli, dies at 45
1550 - Ashikaga Yoshiharu, Japanese shogun (b. 1510)
1597 - Matthijs Heldt, dies in battle
1622 - Osman II, sultan of Turkey (1618-22), dies
1648 - Wladyslaw IV Wasa, King of Poland, dies
1650 - Francesco Sacrati, composer, dies at 44
1669 - Joris van der Hagen, landscape painter, dies
1677 - George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol, British statesman (b. 1612)
1713 - Thomas Sprat, English writer (b. 1635)
1717 - John Trevor, British statesman (b. 1637)
1722 - Sébastien Vaillant, French botanist (b. 1669)
1732 - Thomas Boston, Scottish church leader (b. 1676)
1751 - Domingo Miguel Bernaube Terradellas, composer, dies at 38
1782 - Carlo Giovanni Testori, composer, dies at 68
1782 - Christoph Gottlieb Schroter, composer, dies at 82
1782 - William Emerson, British mathematician (b. 1701)
1793 - Charles Bonnet, Swiss naturalist (b. 1720)
1795 - Ignác Martinovics, Hungarian physicist/revolutionary, beheaded
1825 - Papaflessas, Greek priest and government official (b. 1788)
1834 - Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert de Motier, nobleman, dies
1834 - Marquis de Lafayette, French general, dies
1841 - Joseph Blanco White, theological writert, dies
1847 - Mary Lamb, writer, dies
1864 - John Clare, English poet (Little Trotty Wagtail), dies at 70
1873 - Sir George-Étienne Cartier, French-Canadian statesman (b. 1814)
1875 - Amalia, wife of King Otto of Greece, dies at 58
1876 - Harold, grandson of English queen Victoria, dies at 8 days old
1876 - Khristo Botev, Bulgarian poet, dies
1880 - Eugene LFC prince the Ligne, Belgian prince of Ambise, dies at 76
1883 - William Chambers, author/publisher, dies
1896 - Clara Josephine Wieck Schumann, composer/pianist, dies at 76
1900 - Gustav Heinrich Graben-Hoffman, composer, dies at 80
1909 - Ernest Hogan, blackface comedian and musician (b. 1859)
1910 - Jean-Baptiste Theodore Weckerlin, composer, dies at 88
1911 - E M Grace, cricketer (one Test v Australia 1880, 36 & 0), dies
1917 - Philipp von Ferrary, Italian philatelist (b. 1850)
1917 - Valentine Fleming, Scottish politician (b. 1887)
1919 - Jacob Verdam, philosopher, dies
1923 - Hans Goldschmidt, German chemist, dies
1926 - Dick Pougher, cricketer (17 & 3-26 in only Test for Engld 1892), dies
1935 - Ivans, [Jacob van Schevichaven], lawyer/detective writer, dies at 68
1939 - Joe Carr, NFL hall of famer/NFL president (1921-39), dies at 59
1940 - Amar Singh, cricketer (of pneumonia Indian pace bowler 1932-36), dies
1940 - Joris [Georges] van Severen, Flem fascist/Member of parliament, dies
1946 - Jacob Ellehammer, Danish inventor (b. 1871)
1947 - Philipp Lenard, Austrian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1862)
1949 - Randolph West, American biochemist, known for the Dakin-West reaction (b. 1890)
1956 - Andre Eugene Maurice Charlot, actor (Summer Storm), dies
1956 - Max Beerbohm, caricturist/writer (Yet Again), dies
1959 - Alfred Schutz, Austrian/US architect/philosopher, dies at 60
1961 - Josef "Pips" Priller, German fighter ace (b. 1915)
1968 - Albert Hartkopf, cricketer (one Test for Australia), dies
1968 - Kees van Dongen, Dutch/French painter, dies at 91
1969 - Fred Sherman, actor (Chain Lightning), dies after a stroke at 64
1969 - Royal Beal, actor (Death of a Salesman), dies of cancer, at 69
1971 - Waldo Williams, Welsh poet (b. 1904)
1972 - Cornelis J van der Klauw, Dutch biologist/zoologist, dies at 78
1972 - Walter Winchell, columnist/narrator (Untouchables), dies at 75
1973 - Jarno Saarinen, Finnish motorcycle racer (b. 1945)
1975 - Dame Barbara Hepworth, English sculptor, dies in fire at 72
1975 - Jacques Stehman, composer, dies at 62
1976 - Syd Howe, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1911)
1976 - Zelmar Michelini, Uruguayan politician, member of the Christian-Democrat party, and Héctor
           Gutiérrez Ruiz "disappeared"
1980 - Jack Walsh, cricketer (at Wallsend)/commentator (NBN), dies
1984 - Peter Bull, British actor (Dr Doolittle), dies of a heart attack at 72
1985 - George Memmoli, actor (Earl-Hello Larry), dies at 46
1986 - Bernard Naylor, composer, dies at 78
1986 - Willem Pee, Belgian linguistic, dies at 83
1989 - Anton Diffring, actor (Zeppelin, Fahrenheit 451), dies at 70
1989 - Gilda Radner, comedienne (SNL, Haunted Honeymoon), dies at 42
1989 - John R Hicks, English economist (Nobel 1972), dies
1991 - Julian Orbon De Soto, composer, dies at 65
1992 - Roger Keith Coleman, American convict
1993 - Max Klein, inventor (paint by numbers), dies at 77
1994 - Dallas Pratt, collector, dies at 79
1994 - Ronald Russell, actor/manager (We Are Angels), dies at 83
1994 - Vivien John, artist, dies at 79
1996 - Eric Davidson, comedy scriptwriter, dies at 65
1996 - George Malcolm Thomson, journalist, dies at 96
1996 - Jack Wyngaard, dancer, dies at 37
1996 - Janaki Ramachandran, PM of Indian state of Tamil Nadu (1988), dies
1996 - John Pertwee, actor (Dr Who), dies at 76
1996 - Julius Marmur, biochemist/geneticist, dies at 70
1996 - Lewis B Combs, naval commander/civil engineer, dies at 101
1997 - Virgilio Boat, president of Colombia (1986-90), dies
2000 - Jean Pierre Rampal, French flutist (b. 1922)
2000 - Malik Sealy, American basketball player (b. 1970)
2001 - Renato Carosone, Italian musician (b. 1920)
2002 - Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist (b. 1941)
2005 - Paul Ricoeur, French philosopher (b. 1913)
2005 - William Seawell, United States Army Brigadier General (b. 1918)
2007 - Norman Von Nida, Australian golfer (b. 1914)
2008 - Hamilton Jordan, former Carter White House Chief of Staff (b. 1944)
2009 - Arthur Erickson, Canadian architect (b.1924)
2009 - Lucy Gordon, British model and actress (b. 1980)
2011 - Randy Savage, American Pro-Wrestler (b. 1952)
2012 - Abdel Basset Ali Al-Megrahi, convicted bomber (Pan Am 103), dies from prostate cancer at 60
2012 - Robin Gibb, British singer song-writer, dies from colon and liver cancer at 62

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 21, 2013, 08:37:38 AM

This Day in History for 21st May


Historical Events

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Key Figure of Medieval                              Humanitarian Clara Barton                  Baseball Great Babe Ruth
Rus Alexander Nevsky

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Yankee Clipper Joe DiMaggio                   Baseball Player Hank Aaron                       Painter Michelangelo

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Singer Elton John                                   Parody Singer and Comedian
                                                                       Weird Al Yankovic


143 - Earliest known date in Amer-pre Mayan king Harvest-Bergvorst installed
685 - Battle at Nechtansmere/Dun Nechtain: Picts beat Northumbrians
878 - Syracuse, Italy is captured by the Muslim sultan of Sicily.
879 - Pope John VIII gives blessings to duke Branimir and to Croatian people, considered to be
         international recognition of Croatian state.
996 - Pope Gregory V crowns his cousin Otto III German emperor
1040 - King Henry III gives Utrecht the Groninger currency
1216 - French crown prince Louis enters England
1260 - Kublai Khan of the Mongol Empire sends his envoy Hao Jing and two other advisors to the
           Song Dynasty court of Emperor Lizong of Song; while attempting to negotiate with the Song
           in order to resolve their conflict, Hao Jing and his fellow emissaries are imprisoned by order of
           the high Chancellor of China, Jia Sidao.
1420 - Treaty of Troyes-French King Charles VI gives France to English
1471 - King Edward IV enters London
1502 - Portuguese admiral Da Nova discovers St Helena
1526 - -Jun 8] Sermon of Bathe, Aargau: TC evangelical theology
1602 - Martha's Vineyard 1st sighted (Captain Bartholomew Gosnold)
1674 - General John Sobieski chosen King of Poland
1683 - West Indian Company sells 1/3 of Suriname
1725 - The Order of St. Alexander Nevsky is instituted in Russia by the empress Catherine I. It would
           later be discontinued and then reinstated by the Soviet government in 1942 as the Order of
           Alexander Nevsky.
1758 - Mary Campbell is abducted from her home in Pennsylvania by Lenape during the French and
           Indian War.
1793 - Curacao Island Council forbids criticism on House of Orange
1804 - Lewis & Clark Expedition begins
1809 - Battle at Aspern-Essling: Austrian arch duke Karl beats Napoleon
1819 - 1st bicycles (swift walkers) in US introduced in NYC
1832 - 1st Democratic National Convention (Baltimore)
1840 - NZ became a British colony
1846 - 1st steamship arrives in Hawaii
1856 - Lawrence Kansas captured, sacked by pro-slavery forces
1861 - NC is 10th state to secede from Union
1861 - Richmond, Va is designated Confederate Capital
1863 - Siege on Port Hudson, Louisiana begins
1864 - GEN David Hunter takes command of Dept of West Virginia
1864 - Russia declares an end to the Russian-Circassian War and many Circassians are forced into
           exile. The day is designated to be the Circassian Day of Mourning.
1866 - 1st-class debut of G F Grace aged 15 years 159 days
1871 - -July 28] French regular troops attack Commune of Paris; 17,000 die
1878 - 4th Kentucky Derby: Jimmy Carter aboard Day Star wins in 2:37.25
1879 - Battle of Iquiquw
1879 - War of the Pacific: Two Chilean ships blocking the harbor of Iquique (then belonging to Peru)
           battle two Peruvian vessels in the Battle of Iquique.
1881 - American Red Cross founded by Clara Barton
1881 - US Nation Lawn Tennis Association forms
1886 - 14th Preakness: S Fisher aboard Bard wins in 2:45
1891 - Boxers Peter Jackson & Jim Corbett fight to a draw in 61 rounds
1892 - Ruggero Leoncavallo's opera "Pagliacci" premieres in Milan
1894 - 22-year-old French Anarchist Émile Henry is executed by guillotine.
1897 - Yerkes Observatory 40" (1m) refractor used for 1st time
1898 - US Assay Office in Seattle, Washington authorized
1904 - Federation Internationale de Football Association (Soccer) forms in Paris
1906 - Louis H Perlman patents a demountable tire carrying rim for cars
1907 - 32nd Preakness: G Mountain aboard Don Enrique wins in 1:45.4
1908 - 1st horror movie (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde) premieres in Chicago
1908 - Bill Burns has no-hitter broken up with 2 outs in 9th
1914 - 39th Preakness: Andy Schuttinger aboard Holiday wins in 1:53.8
1914 - Greyhound Bus Co begins in Minnesota
1916 - Britain begins "Summer Time" (Daylight Savings Time)
1917 - Leo Pinckney, 1st American drafted during WW I
1917 - The Great Atlanta fire of 1917 takes place.
1918 - House of Representatives passes amendment allowing women to vote
1921 - Oldest radio station west of Mississippi River licensed in Greeley Co
1922 - "On the Road to Moscow" is 1st cartoon to receive a Pulitzer Prize
1922 - Col Ruppert buys out Col Huston interest in NY Yankees for $1,500,000
1922 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Eugene O'Neill (Anna Christie)
1922 - Ruppert buys out Huston interest in Yankees for $15 million
1924 - Leopold & Loeb kidnap Bobby Franks for fun
1925 - Canadians allow to sell beer
1925 - George Lloyd of Dolobran becomes British High Director of Egypt
1925 - Roald Amundsun leaves Spitsbergen with 2 seaplanes to North Pole
1926 - White Sox Earl Sheely hits a record 6th consecutive double
1927 - Lindburgh lands in Paris, after 1st solo air crossing of Atlantic
1929 - Automatic electric stock quotation board installed, NYC
1929 - Sergei Prokoviev's ballet "Prodigal Son," premieres in Paris
1930 - Max Bishop draws 8 walks in a doubleheader
1930 - NY Yankee Babe Ruth hits 3 consecutive homers
1931 - Belgian government of Jaspar falls
1932 - 1st Curtis Cup: US wins, 5½-3½ at Wentworth Club (Wentworth, England)
1932 - 1st transatlantic solo flight by a woman (Amelia Earhart) lands in Ireland
1933 - Mt Davidson Cross lit by FDR via telegraph
1934 - Oskaloosa Iowa, becomes 1st US city to fingerprint its citizens
1936 - Sada Abe is arrested after wandering the streets of Tokyo for days with her dead lover's
           severed genitals in her hand. Her story soon becomes one of Japan's most notorious
           scandals.
1938 - Bradman scores 143 Aust v Surrey, 198 mins, 11 fours
1940 - AVRO-chairman Willem Vogt fires all Jewish employees
1940 - Allied counter attack at Atrecht North-France
1940 - Reynaud forms French government
1941 - 1st US ship sunk by a U-boat (SS Robin Moore)
1941 - German airforce occupies airport at Maleme Kreta
1941 - Singer Johan Heesters visits Dachau concentration camp
1942 - Great-Britain convoy PQ16 departs to Russia
1943 - Fastest 9 inning AL baseball game (89 mins), White Sox beat Senators
1944 - Hitler begins attack on English/US "terror pilots"
1945 - Aust Services win 1st Victory Test Cricket at Lord's by 6 wickets
1945 - German war criminal Heinrich Himmler captured
1945 - Lauren Bacall & Humphrey Bogart wed
1948 - NY Yank Joe Dimaggio hits for cycle (single, double, triple, HR)
1950 - Vietnamese troops of Ho Chi-Minh attack Cambodia
1951 - The opening of the Ninth Street Show, otherwise known as the 9th Street Art Exhibition - a
           gathering of a number of notable artists, and the stepping-out of the post war New York
           avant-garde, collectively know as the New York School.
1952 - Bkln Dodgers score 15 runs in 1st inning & beat Cin Reds, 19-1
1952 - Dutch Queen Juliana opens Amsterdam-Rhine Canal
1953 - French government of Mayer resigns
1954 - Amendment to give 18-year-olds right to vote is defeated
1955 - "House of Flowers" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 165 performances
1955 - 1st transcontinental round-trip solo flight-sunrise to sunset
1955 - WFRV TV channel 5 in Green Bay, WI (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
1956 - Jordan government of Said el-Mufti forms
1956 - US explodes 1st airborne hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll
1956 - WITI TV channel 6 in Milwaukee, WI (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting
1957 - French government of Mollet resigns
1958 - Indonesian paratroopers reconquers Morotai Island
1958 - US performs nuclear test at Bikini Island (atmospheric tests)
1959 - "Gypsy" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 702 performances
1959 - Cleveland Metroparks Zoo Children's Petting Farm opens
1960 - 86th Preakness: Bobby Ussery aboard Bally Ache wins in 1:57.6
1961 - Governor Patterson declares martial law in Montgomery
1962 - 3 more Cleveland HR set AL record for most HR (26) over 8 games
1964 - 1st nuclear-powered lighthouse begins operations (Chesapeake Bay)
1964 - Fire in Belgium resort, kills 19
1964 - US begin intelligence flights above Laos
1966 - "Downtown" by Mrs Miller hits #82
1966 - "Time for Singing" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 41 performances
1966 - 92nd Preakness: Don Brumfield aboard Kauai King wins in 1:55.4
1966 - Louie Louie by The Kingsmen reentered the chart & hits #97
1966 - Muhammad Ali TKOs Henry Cooper in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
1967 - "Sing, Israel Sing" closes at Brooks Atkinson NYC after 14 perfs
1967 - Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
1968 - Cubs Billy Williams sets outfielder record of 695 straight game
1968 - Paul McCartney & Jane Asher attend an Andy Williams concert
1968 - USSR performs nuclear test (underground)
1968 - WEKW TV channel 52 in Keene, NH (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 - Nuclear-powered sub USS Scorpion, with 99 men, reported missing & is later found at the
           bottom of the ocean off Azores
1969 - Robert Kennedy's murderer Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death
1969 - Slovan Bratislava wins 9th Europe Cup II in Basel
1969 - After 9,015 at bats Hank Aaron is lifted for a pinch hitter, Mike Lum, who doubled in a 15-3
           victory over NY Mets
1969 - Civil unrest in Rosario, Argentina, aka Rosariazo, following the death of a 15-year-old
           student.
1970 - National Guard mobilizes to quell disturbances at Ohio State U
1970 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1971 - Chelsea wins 11th Europe Cup II in Athens
1971 - National Guard mobilizes to quell riot in Chattanooga Tenn
1972 - "Heathen!" opens & closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC for 1 performance
1972 - "Lost in the Stars" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 39 perfs
1972 - Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Bluegrass Golf Invitational
1972 - Michelangelo's Pietà in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome is damaged by a vandal.
1975 - Borussia Mönchengladbach wins 4th UEFA Cup at Enschede
1975 - Lowell W Perry confirmed as chairman of Equal Opportunity Comm
1975 - Trial against Baader-Meinhof-group begins in Stuttgart
1977 - "Fiddler on the Roof" closes at Winter Garden NYC after 167 perfs
1977 - 103rd Preakness: Jean Cruguet aboard Seattle Slew wins in 1:54.4
1977 - Albert Innaurato's "Gemini," premieres in NYC
1977 - Fire in hotel Duc de Brabant Brussels, kills 19
1977 - SD Padres beat Mont Expos, 11-8, in 21 innings
1978 - 118 Unification church couples wed in England
1978 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Coca-Cola Golf Classic
1978 - Yamada Mumon Roshi appointed head of Zen Rinzai Sect
1979 - Dan White convicted of manslaughter death of SF mayor Moscone
1979 - Elton John becomes 1st western rocker to perform live in USSR
1979 - National Volksraad installed in Namibia
1979 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat NY Rangers, 4 games to 1
1980 - "Empire Strikes Back" premieres
1980 - Eintracht Frankfurt wins 9th UEFA Cup at Frankfurt
1980 - Ensign Jean Marie Butler is 1st woman to graduate from US service acad
1981 - Francois Mitterrand becomes president of France
1981 - Kim Seelbrede, (Ohio), crowned 30th Miss USA
1981 - Stanley Cup: NY Islanders beat Minnesota North Stars, 4 games to 1
1982 - British troops lands on Falkland Islands
1983 - "Bang The Drum All Day" by Todd Rundgren hits #63
1983 - 109th Preakness: Donald Miller Jr on Deputed Testamony wins in 1:55.4
1983 - Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB, for mating for STS-7 mission
1983 - David Bowie's "Let's "Dance," single goes #1
1986 - Atlanta Brave Rafael Ramirez hits 4 doubles in a game
1986 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1987 - Military coup in Fiji Islands under lt col Sitivani Rabuka
1987 - Xignals PC Board BBS begins in Alabama
1988 - "Da'Butt" by EU hits #35
1988 - "Fat" by Weird Al Yankovic hits #99
1988 - 114th Preakness: Eddie Delahoussaye aboard Risen Star wins in 1:56.2
1988 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1989 - 35th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Nancy Lopez
1990 - Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,844.68
1990 - Last episode of "Newhart" airs on CBS-TV
1991 - Ethiopia's Marxist president (Mengistu Haile Mariam) resigns
1992 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1992 - NJ senate overrides Governor Florio's veto & lowers sales tax to 6%
1993 - Dayanara Torres, 18, of Puerto Rico, crowned 42nd Miss Universe
1993 - Opposition leader Xanana Gusmao of East-Timor sentenced to life
1993 - Robin Smith scores 167 in England Texaco Trophy loss v Australia
1993 - Venezuela president Carlos Andres Perez fired
1994 - "Best Little Whorehouse" closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 16 perfs
1994 - 120th Preakness: Pat Day aboard Tabasco Cat wins in 1:56.4
1994 - Reds bat out of order against Dodgers in 2nd inning
1994 - South Yemen secedes from Yemen
1994 - Sushmita Sen, 18, of India, crowned 43rd Miss Universe
1995 - Chris Johnson wins Star Bank LPGA Golf Classic
1996 - Blackout in many areas of Queens NY
1996 - Ken Griffey Jr, 26, is 8th youngest to hits 200 home runs
1996 - Red Sox pitcher Roger Clemens beats Yankees for his 200th win
1996 - The Trappist Martyrs of Atlas are executed.
1997 - Emmy 24th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 17th time
1998 - In Miami, Florida, five abortion clinics are hit by a butyric acid attacker.
1998 - Suharto, the Indonesian dictator who had ruled for 32 years, resigns.
1999 - All My Children star Susan Lucci finally wins a Daytime Emmy after being nominated 19 times,
           the longest period of unsuccessful nominations in television history
2001 - French Taubira law officially recognizes the Atlantic slave trade and slavery as crimes against
           humanity.
2003 - An earthquake hits northern Algeria killing more than 2,000 people.
2004 - Sherpa Pemba Dorjie climbs Mount Everest in 8 hours 10 minutes, breaking his rival Sherpa
           Lakpa Gelu's record from the previous year.
2004 - Stanislav Petrov is awarded the World Citizen Award for averting a potential World War III in
           1983.
2006 - The Republic of Montenegro holds a referendum proposing independence from the State
           Union of Serbia and Montenegro. The Montenegrin people choose independence with a
           majority of 55%.
2006 - The Swedish ice hockey team Tre Kronor takes gold in the World Championship, becoming
           the first nation to hold both the World and Olympic titles separately in the same year.
2007 - The Cutty Sark is badly damaged by fire in London, England. She is the last surviving clipper.
2012 - 120 people are killed and 350 injured by a suicide bomb in Sana'a, Yemen
2012 - 13 people are killed and 22 people injured after a bus falls 80 metres off a cliff in Albania

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 21, 2013, 08:39:28 AM

This Day in History for 21st May


Famous Weddings

1553 - English queen for 9 days, Lady Jane Grey (16 or 17) marries Lord Guildford Dudley
1825 - Prince Willem FK marries Louise AWA of Prussia
1988 - Jane Powell weds Dickie Moore
1994 - Burger King spokesman Dan Cortese (26) weds Dee Dee Hemby (26)
1994 - Country singer Trisha Yearwood (29) weds Robert Reynolds (32)
1998 - Supermodel Cindy Crawford (32) weds restaurateur Rande Gerber (36) on Paradise Island in
           the Bahamas
1999 - NFL legend Deion Sanders (31) weds model Pilar Biggers in Paradise Island, Bahamas
2005 - "Second Time Around" actor Boris Kodjoe (32) weds "Soul Food" actress Nicole Ari Parker
           (34) in Gundelfingen, Germany
2011 - TV actress Sara Rue (33) weds Kevin Price (35) at Bel Air Bay Club in Pacific Palisades,
           California

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 21, 2013, 08:49:38 AM

This Day in History for 21st May


Famous Birthdays

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English Social Reformer                   Actor Mr. T (Laurence Tureaud) (1952)
Elizabeth Fry (1780)


1471 - Albrecht Durer, Nornberg Germany, Renaissance painter/print maker
1527 - Philip II, King of Spain (1556-98) & Portugal (1580-98)
1633 - Joseph de La Barre, composer
1653 - Eleonora Maria Josefa of Austria, queen consort of Poland and Lithuania (d. 1697)
1671 - Azzolino Bernardino Della Ciaia, composer
1680 - Frederich Karl Erbach, composer
1688 - Alexander Pope, London, English poet (Rape of the Lock, translation of Homer) (d.1744)
1720 - Antonio Corbisiero, composer
1722 - Wilhelm Gottfried Enderle, composer
1755 - Alfred Moore, American judge (d. 1810)
1763 - Joseph Fouché, French statesman (d. 1820)
1775 - Lucien Bonaparte, prince of Canino/Musignano
1780 - Elizabeth Fry, Quaker minister/prison reformer/nurse
1792 - Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, French scientist (d. 1843)
1796 - Reverdy Johnson, rep (Union), died in 1876
1821 - John F Loudon, Dutch entrepreneur/colonial director
1822 - Dabney Herndon Maury, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1900
1822 - Mosby Monroe Parsons, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) died in 1865
1825 - George Lafayette Beal, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1826 - Danillo II, ruler of Montenegro
1827 - William P. Sprague, American politician from Ohio (d. 1899)
1832 - Elizabeth Storrs Mead, American educator (d. 1917)
1834 - Charles-Albert Gobat, Switz, politician/lawyer/author (Nobel 1902)
1835 - Newton Martin Curtis, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1835 - František Chvostek, Moravian physician (d. 1884)
1841 - Joseph Parry, composer
1843 - Louis Renault, French lawyer
1843 - Charles Albert Gobat, Swiss politician (d. 1914)
1850 - Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian volcanologist (d. 1914)
1851 - Leon Bourgeois, France, politician, internationalist (Nobel 1920)
1853 - Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac, French politician (d. 1905)
1855 - Emile A G Verhaeren, Belgian poet/writer (Les Flammes Hautes)
1858 - Jose Battle Ordonez, Uruguay, politician
1860 - Willam Einthoven, Dutch physiologist/inventor (electrocardiograph)
1864 - Princess Stephanie of Belgium (d. 1945)
1865 - C J Thomsen, Denmark, archaeologist, named Stone/Iron/Bronze Ages
1867 - John James Ferris, cricketer (mighty Australian bowler of late 1880's)
1867 - Marie Joseph Leon Desire Paque, composer
1872 - Henry Warren, Boston Mass, inventor (Telechon electric clock)
1873 - Emil Ermatinger, Switz, literature historian
1873 - Everard Verachtert, Flemish translator (I speak beschaafd Dutch)
1873 - Hans Berger, German neuroscientist (d. 1941)
1878 - Glenn Hammond Curtiss, US, inventor (hydroplane)
1878 - Louis L H de Visser, Dutch MP (CPN)
1880 - Pablo Luna y Carne, composer
1880 - Tudor Arghezi, Romanian writer (d. 1967)
1882 - Georgine M "May" Basting, actress (Hostage Rights of Aemstel)
1884 - Manuel Pérez y Curis, Uruguayan poet (d. 1920)
1885 - Sophie of Schönburg-Waldenburg, wife of Prince William of Wied (d.1936)
1887 - Mabel Taliaferro, NYC, actress (Sentimental Tommy, My Love Come Back)
1888 - May Aufderheide, composer
1890 - Albert van Raalte, conductor (AVRO-orchestra)
1892 - John Peale Bishop, US poet (This Side of Paradise)
1893 - Arthur Carr, cricket captain (England v Australia 1926)
1893 - Simon Delmonte, actor/director (Boemeladvocaat)
1898 - Armand Hammer, NYC, millionaire industrialist (Occidental Petroleum)
1898 - Karel Haba, composer
1899 - Ilse Lagner, writer
1899 - Ralph Sanford, Springfield Mass, actor (Life & Legend of Wyatt Earp)
1901 - Horace Heidt, Alameda California, orchestra leader (Swift Show Wagon)
1901 - Suzanne Lilar, [Verbist], France/Belgian writer (Le burlador)
1902 - Earl Averill, baseball player (d. 1983)
1902 - Marcel Lajos Breuer, Hungarian-born architect (d. 1981)
1903 - Ali Sastroamidjojo, Indonesian attorney/minister/premier (1953..7)
1903 - Manly Wade Wellman, Angola, sci-fi author (After Dark, Devil's Planet)
1903 - Pedro Aramburu, president Argentina
1904 - Fats Waller, [Thomas Wright], jazz singer/composer (Ain't Misbehavin')
1904 - Robert Montgomery, Beacon NY, actor/dir (Earl of Chicago, Yellow Jack)
1905 - Edward Lockspeiser, composer
1906 - Keith Rigg, cricketer (Australian Test batsman in the thirties)
1909 - Guy de Rothschild, French banker
1909 - François-Albert Angers, Quebec economist (d. 2003)
1912 - John Curtis Gowan, American psychologist (d. 1986)
1912 - Monty Stratton, baseball player (d. 1982)
1913 - Gina Bachauer, Greek pianist (d. 1976)
1916 - Harold Robbins, NYC, author (Moneychangers, Carpetbaggers, Betsy)
1916 - Joseph Janni, producer
1916 - Leonard Manasseh, architect
1916 - Tinus Osendarp, Dutch runner (d. 2002)
1917 - Dennis Day, Irish tenor/comedian (Jack Benny Show, Danny Boy)
1917 - Heather Swift, local councillor
1917 - Jean-Louis Curtis, French writer (Just Causes)
1917 - Raymond Burr, BC Canada, actor (Perry Mason, Ironsides, Godzilla)
1917 - Ronald John Bilsland Colville, businessman
1918 - Leonard Mullens, rubber physicist
1919 - Lord Maxwell, senator/prof (college of Justice Scotland)
1919 - Mark Wood, bishop (Ludlow)
1920 - Anthony Steel, London, actor (Malta Story, Wooden Horse)
1921 - Andrei Sakharov, Moscow, physicist, human rights worker (Nobel '75)
1923 - Bettye Danoff, LPGA golfer
1923 - Doris Mae Akers, gospel singer/songwriter
1923 - Armand Borel, Swiss mathematician (d. 2003)
1924 - Peggy Cass, Boston MA, actress/TV panelist (To Tell the Truth, Mame)
1924 - Robert Parris, Philadelphia, composer (Book of Imaginery Beings)
1924 - Jack Twyman, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, basketball player (Rochester/Cincinnati Royals), (d.
           2012)
1926 - Dan Perlsweig, horse trainer
1926 - Joseph Horovitz, composer
1926 - Rick Jason, NYC, actor (Day of the Wolves, Eagles Attack at Dawn)
1926 - Robert Creeley, Mass, poet/novelist (Island)
1927 - George Levy, antique dealer/heritage campaigner
1927 - Kay Kendall, Yorkshire England, actress (Genevieve, Les Girls)
1929 - Charles Wadsworth, Barnesville Georgia, pianist (Lincoln Center)
1929 - Paul Winslow, cricketer (big-hitter for South Africa, 108 v England 1955)
1929 - Robert Welch, designer/silversmith (Robert Welch flatware)
1930 - David Smith, principal/vice chancellor (Edinburgh University)
1930 - Malcolm Fraser, PM of Australia (Liberal, 1975-83)
1930 - Stanley Wells, director (Shakespeare Institute U of Birmingham)
1931 - Desmond Wilcox, broadcaster
1931 - George Vassiliou, president of Cyprus (1988-93)
1932 - G Wohmann, writer
1932 - John Armitage, principal (College of St Hilda & St Bede Durham)
1932 - Robert Sherlaw Johnson, composer
1933 - Barry Norman, Britain, film critic (Film Greats)
1933 - Maurice André, French trumpeter, (d. 2012)
1934 - Phillip King, British sculptor
1934 - Bengt I. Samuelsson, Swedish biochemist, Nobel laureate
1935 - Terry Lightfoot, clarinetist/bandleader (New Orleans Jazzmen)
1936 - Ama Samy, Burma, Jesuit priest/Zen teacher/disciple of Yamada Koun
1936 - Dipak Nandy, founder (Runnymead Trust)
1938 - David Groh, Bkln NY, actor (Joe-Rhoda, Don-Another Day)
1938 - Urs Widmer, writer
1939 - Heinz Holliger, composer
1940 - Tony Sheridan, Norwich, Norfolk,singer-songwriter and guitarist, (d. 2013)
1941 - Anatoli Semyonovich Levchenko, USSR, cosmonaut (TM-4)
1941 - Ronald Isley, Cincinnati Ohio, singer (Isley Brothers-Twist & Shout)
1941 - Martin Carthy, English musician
1942 - David Hunt, Wales sec of state
1942 - Robert C Springer, St Louis, Col USMC/astronaut (STS-29, STS-38)
1943 - Hilton Valentine, rock guitarist (Animals-House of the Rising Sun)
1944 - Janet Dailey, US, author
1944 - Manual Pina, fashion designer
1944 - Marcie Blane, rocker
1944 - Mary Robinson, pres of Republic of Ireland (Labour, 1990- )
1944 - Mike Degett, horse trainer
1945 - Ernst Willi Messerschmid, Reutlingen Germany, astronaut (STS 22)
1946 - David Hill, Australian TV-reporter/owner (Fox Sports)
1946 - Ronald Bear, actor/director (Havana, Make-up)
1947 - Bill Champlin, Oakland Ca, rocker
1947 - Dorothy Germain, LPGA golfer
1947 - Richard Hatch, Santa Monica California, actor (Battlestar Galactica)
1947 - Jonathan Hyde, Australian-born actor
1948 - Carol Potter, actress (Beverly Hills 90210)
1948 - Leo Sayer, [Gerard], England, singer (When I Need Love)
1949 - Andrew Nell, editor (Sunday Times)
1949 - Arno Hintjens, Belgian singer (T C Matic)
1949 - Rosalind Plowright, British soprano (Aida, Senta)
1951 - Al Franken, comedian/writer/actor (SNL, Stuart Saves His Family)
1952 - Mr. T, [Lawrence Tureaud], Chicago, American actor (A-Team, Rocky III, T & T)
1952 - Mr. T, American actor
1954 - Bill Abbott, Sarnia Ontario, yachter (Olympics-96)
1954 - Marina Langner, Dusseldorf Germany, Miss World runner-up (1975)
1954 - Marc Ribot, American musician
1955 - John Glavin, rock keyboardist (Molly Hatchet
1955 - Liaqat Ali, cricket pace bowler (Pakistani in six Tests 1975-79)
1955 - Stan Lynch, Gainesville Fl, rock drummer (Tommy Petty & Heartbreakers)
1955 - Paul Barber, British field hockey player
1957 - Judge Reinhold, Wilmington DE, actor (Fast Times at Ridgemont High)
1957 - Sue Woodstra, Colton Ca, volleyball player (Olympic-silver-1984)
1957 - Bruce Buffer, American Mixed Martial Arts Announcer
1957 - Nadine Dorries, British politician
1957 - Renée Soutendijk, Dutch actress
1958 - Monte Lynch, cricketer (Surrey batsman, WI Rebel, England ODI player)
1958 - Jefery Levy, American television director
1958 - Sabine Bischoff, Tauberbischofsheim, Germany, fencer (Oly Gld 1984), (d. 2013)
1959 - Nick Cassavetes, American actor and director
1960 - Mark Kevin Carnevale, Annapolis MD, PGA golfer (1992 Chattanooga)
1960 - Kent Hrbek, American baseball player
1960 - Mohanlal, Indian actor
1961 - Tim Lever, keyboard/sax (Dead or Alive-You Spin Me Round)
1963 - Yelena Vodorezova, USSR, figure skater (Olympic-1976)
1963 - Richard Appel, American writer
1963 - Kevin Shields, Musician (My Bloody Valentine)
1964 - Annabel Schofield, Llanelli Wales, actress (Laurel Ellis-Dallas)
1964 - Tom Harding, Kalamazoo Mich, Canadian Tour golfer (1991 Transamerica)
1964 - Tommy Albelin, Stockholm Swe, NHL defenseman (Calgary Flames)
1964 - Danny Bailey, English footballer
1964 - Nancy Daus, American professional wrestler (d. 2007)
1964 - Carolyn Lawrence, American actress
1966 - Manon Kelley, Quebec City Canada, actress (Red Lips 2)
1967 - Cindy Haley, Tyler TX, LPGA golfer (1987 Texas Amateur-2nd)
1967 - Rogel Nachum, Israel, Men's triple jump (Oly-1996)
1967 - Todd Doohan, Sarnia Ont, Canadian Tour golfer (Western Ont Amateur-92)
1967 - Tracy Simien, NFL linebacker (KC Chiefs)
1968 - Julie Vega, Filipino child actress and singer (d. 1985)
1968 - Matthias Ungemach, German rower
1969 - Reid Simpson, Flin Flon, NHL left wing (NJ Devils)
1969 - Masayo Kurata, Japanese voice actress
1969 - Pierluigi Brivio, Italian footballer
1970 - Dorsey Levens, NFL running back (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1970 - Roman Turek, Strakonice CZE, hockey goalie (Team Czech Rep, Oly-98)
1970 - Scott "Munnster" Munn, Larkspur California, rower (Olympics-1996)
1970 - Veronica Sanchez, Michoan Mexico, WPVA volleyballer (Hermosa-17-1994)
1970 - Carl Veart, Australian former footballer
1971 - Eric Nies, actor (MTV Real World, Grind)
1971 - Jeff Stavroff, Columbus OH, Canadian Tour golfer (1994 Space Coast-4)
1972 - Alesha Oreskovich, Tampa FL, playmate (Jun, 1993)
1972 - Liliko Ogasawara, Englewood NJ, middleweight judoka (Olympics-96)
1972 - The Notorious B.I.G. [Christopher Wallace], New York City, New York, rapper (Life After
           Death), (d. 1997)
1972 - Adriano Cintra, Brazilian musician (CSS)
1973 - Noel Fielding, British comedian
1974 - Fairuza Balk (The Craft, Gas Food Lodging)
1974 - Havoc, American rapper (Mobb Deep)
1975 - Lee Gaze, Welsh guitarist
1976 - Deron Miller, American rock musician
1976 - Kardinal Offishall, Canadian rapper
1977 - Quinton Fortune, South African footballer
1977 - Ricky Williams, American football player
1978 - Kandy Marshall, Miss Virginia Teen USA (1996)
1978 - Briana Banks, German-American pornographic actress
1978 - Jamaal Magloire, Canadian professional basketballer
1978 - Adam Gontier, Canadian singer Three Days Grace
1979 - Damián Ariel Álvarez, Argentinian footballer
1979 - Gaspard Augé, French musician
1979 - Jesse Capelli, Canadian pornographic actress
1979 - James Clancy Phelan, Australian novelist
1979 - Jamie Hepburn, Member of the Scottish Parliament
1979 - Scott Smith, mixed martial arts fighter
1980 - Chris Raab, American actor
1981 - Beth Botsford, 100m/200m backstroke (Olympics-gold-96)
1981 - Belladonna, American pornographic actress
1981 - Max, German singer
1981 - Josh Hamilton, Major League Baseball player
1984 - Lorena Ayala, Spanish-Dutch model and beauty queen
1984 - Brandon Fields, National Football League punter
1985 - Frustaci Septuplets, California, Patricia Frustaci gives birth to 7
1985 - Andrew Miller, Major League Baseball player
1985 - Kano, British rapper
1985 - Mutya Buena, English singer (ex-Sugababes)
1985 - Marco Carta, Italian singer
1986 - Myra, Mexican-American singer
1987 - Ashlie Brillault, American actress
1988 - Jonathan Howson, English footballer
1991 - Sarah Ramos, American actress
1992 - Olivia Olson, American singer and actress
1994 - Tom Daley, English diver

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 21, 2013, 08:51:44 AM

This Day in History for 21st May


Famous Deaths

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Social Worker and Nobel
Laureate Jane Addams (1935)


987 - Louis V, last Carlovingians King of France (966-987), dies
1254 - Conrad IV of Germany (b. 1228)
1481 - Christian I, king of Denmark/Norway/Sweden, dies
1512 - Pandolfo Petrucci, ruler of Siena
1524 - Thomas Howard 2nd duke of Norfolk, general/premier, dies at about 80
1542 - Hernando de Soto, dies while searching for gold, near Mississippi R
1607 - John Rainolds, English scholar (b. 1549)
1639 - Giovan D "Tommaso" Campanella, Italian philosopher/poet, dies at 70
1647 - Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, poet/playwright (Warenar), dies at about 65
1650 - James Graham, Marquis of Montrose, Scottish general, hanged
1664 - Elizabeth Poole, Puritan businesswoman
1670 - Niccolo Zucchi, Italian astronomer (b. 1586)
1686 - (N. S.) Otto von Guericke, German scientist (b. 1602)
1690 - John Eliot, English missionary in Massachusetts, dies at 85
1703 - Roemer Vlacq, Dutch admiral, dies in battle
1719 - Pierre Poiret, French mystic (b. 1646)
1725 - Robert Haley earl of Oxford, English Whig-premier (1710-4), dies at 63
1742 - Lars Roberg, Swedish physician (b. 1664)
1771 - Christopher Smart, English poet (b. 1722)
1786 - Carl W Scheele, Swedish pharmacist/chemist, dies at 43
1790 - Thomas Warton, English poet (Oxford sausage), dies
1810 - Charles GLAAT chevalier d'Eon de Beaumont, French spy, dies at 81
1812 - Joseph Wolfl, composer, dies at 38
1815 - Roman Hoffstetter, composer, dies at 73
1817 - Johann Friedrich Christmann, composer, dies at 64
1844 - Guiseppi Baini, composer, dies at 68
1860 - Johannes Frederick Frohlich, composer, dies at 53
1862 - John Drew, Irish-born American actor (b. 1827)
1879 - Arturo Prat, Chilean naval officer (b. 1848)
1885 - Gavril Yakimovich Lomakin, composer, dies at 73
1894 - August A Kundt, German physicist, (test of Kundt), dies at 54
1894 - Emile Henry, French anarchist (b. 1872)
1895 - Franz von Suppe, Austrian composer (Poet und Bauer), dies at 76
1897 - Karol Mikuli, composer, dies at 77
1911 - Williamina Fleming, Scottish-born astronomer (b. 1857)
1915 - Leonid Gobyato, Russian general (b. 1875)
1919 - Victor A D Segalen, [Max Anely], French ship's doctor/writer, dies
1919 - Yevgraf Fyodorov, Russian mathematician (b. 1853)
1924 - Bobby Franks, killed by Leopold & Loeb, at 14
1926 - Georgy L'vovich Catoire, composer, dies at 65
1926 - Ronald Arthur A Firbank, British writer (Prancing Nigger), dies at 40
1929 - V P F A Royle, cricketer (one Test England v Australia 1879), dies
1933 - John Henry Mackay, Scottish/German author (Der Schwimmer), dies at 69
1935 - Hugo de Vries, botanist Gruppenweise Artbildung, dies at 87
1935 - Jane Addams, a founder of ACLU (Nobel 1973), dies at 65
1949 - Klaus Mann, German writer, dies at 42
1952 - John Garfield, actor (Juarez, Air Force), dies at 39
1954 - Janos Hammerschlag, composer, dies at 68
1957 - Edwin St Hill, cricketer (two Tests for West Indies 1930-31), dies
1957 - Aleksandr Vertinsky, Russian singer (b. 1889)
1964 - James Franck, German-born physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1882)
1965 - Geoffrey de Havilland, British aircraft designer (b. 1882)
1966 - Pat O'Malley, silent film actor (Wild One, Quiet Man), dies at 75
1968 - Doris Lloyd, actress (Oliver Twist), dies of heart strain at 71
1970 - Vinton Hayworth, actor (Gen Schaeffer-I Dream of Jeannie), dies at 63
1970 - E. L. Grant Watson, Australian biologist (b. 1885)
1971 - Dennis King, actor (Devil's Brother), dies of heart ailment at 73
1973 - Carlo E Gadda, Italian engineer/writer (War Diary), dies at 79
1973 - George Breakstone, actor/director (Great Expectations), dies at 53
1973 - Vaughn Monroe, singer/orchestra leader (Vaughn Monroe Show), dies at 61
1976 - Sulo Nikolai Salonen, composer, dies at 77
1978 - Joseph EA "Jo" Spier, Dutch cartoonist/water color painter, dies at 77
1980 - Ida Kaminska, actress (Shop on Main Street), dies
1981 - Yuki Shimoda, actor (Farewell to Manzanar), dies
1981 - Patsy O'Hara, Irish hunger striker (b. 1957)
1981 - Raymond Mccreesh, Irish hunger striker (b. 1957)
1983 - Finn Einar Mortensen, composer, dies at 61
1983 - Kenneth Clark, English art historian (b. 1903)
1984 - Andrea Leeds, actress (Stage Door, Earthbound), dies of cancer at 70
1984 - Ann Little, actress (Roaring Road), dies at 93
1985 - Julie Vega, Philippine Actress (b. 1968)
1987 - Alejandro Rey, actor (Carlos-Flying Nun), dies at 57
1988 - Dino Conte Grandi, Italy, delegate to league of nations, dies at 92
1990 - Franklyn Seales, actor (Silver Spoon, Onion Field), dies of AIDS at 37
1990 - Mary Victor Bruce, who flew around empire state bldg in 1930, dies
1990 - Moelvi Mohammed Farouk, Indian spiritual leader, murdered
1991 - Bobby Dale, dies at 92
1991 - Jean Van Joutte, PM of Belgium (1952-54), dies
1991 - Rajiv Gandhi, Indian Prime Minster (1984-91), assassinated at 46
1992 - Brendan Nulholland, Daily Mail reporter, dies at 59
1992 - Elizabeth David, British cookbook writer, dies
1992 - Mrithi, gorilla (Gorilla in the Mist), dies at 24
1992 - Skip Stephenson, TV host (Real People), dies
1993 - John Frost, English lt-kol (operation Market Garden 1944), dies at 80
1993 - John Holland, actor (They Saved Hitler's Brain), dies at 65
1994 - Cliff Wilson, snooker player, dies at 60
1994 - Forsyth Hardy, documentary film pioneer, dies at 84
1994 - Giovanni Goria, PM of Italy (1987-88), dies
1994 - John Henry Weidner, Dutch/US resistance fighter, dies at 81
1995 - Kieron Walsh, academic, dies at 46
1995 - Les Aspin, US sec of Defense (1993-95), dies of stroke at 56
1995 - Patrick Bowles, writer/translator, dies at 68
1996 - Al "Lash" La Rue, cowboy actor (Lash of the West), dies at 78
1996 - Bobby Tulloch, ornithologist, dies at 67
1996 - Eric Stuart Woord, archaeologist, dies at 83
1996 - Laurence Dowdall, lawyer, dies at 91
1996 - Mary Perot Nichols, journalist, dies at 79
1996 - Peter Fletcher, music teacher, dies at 60
1999 - Karnail "Bugz" Pitts, American rapper (D12) (b. 1979)
2000 - Barbara Cartland, English author (b. 1901)
2000 - Sir John Gielgud, British actor (b. 1904)
2000 - Mark R. Hughes, American entrepreneur (b. 1956)
2002 - Niki de Saint Phalle, French artist (b. 1930)
2003 - Frank D. White, American politician (b. 1933)
2003 - Alejandro de Tomaso, Argentine-Italian racing driver and car manufacturer (b. 1928)
2005 - Howard Morris, American comic actor and director (b. 1919)
2006 - Spencer Clark, American racecar driver (b. 1987)
2006 - Katherine Dunham, American dancer (b. 1909)
2006 - Cherd Songsri, Thai film director (b. 1931)
2006 - Billy Walker, American singer (b. 1929)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 22, 2013, 09:23:28 AM

This Day in History for 22nd May


Historical Events

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Macedonian King and                             US President Abraham Lincoln             Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini
Conqueror of Persia
Alexander the Great

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British war time Prime Minister                 American Baseball Player                        Actress Mary Tyler Moore
Winston Churchill                                               Roger Maris

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Comedian David Letterman                   42nd US President Bill Clinton


334 BC - The Macedonian army of Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of the
          Granicus
760 - 14th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
1176 - Murder attempt by "Assassins" on Saladin near Aleppo
1200 - Peace of Goulet
1370 - Jews are expelled/massacred from Brussels Belgium
1377 - Pope Gregory XI issues five papal bulls to denounce the doctrines of English theologian John
           Wycliffe.
1455 - Open battle in England's 30-year War of the Roses (St Albans)
1455 - Richard of York takes St Albans, kidnapping King Henry VI
1526 - Pope Clemens VII, France, Genoa, Venice, Florence & Milan form Anti-French League of
           Cognac
1570 - 1st atlas, with 70 maps, published
1594 - Earl Mauritius & Willem Louis begins siege of Groningen
1629 - Emperor Ferdinand II & Danish King Christian IV sign Peace of Lubeck
1659 - France, England & Netherlands sign "Hedges Concerto" treaty
1712 - Emperor Karel VI crowned king of Hungary
1746 - Russia & Austria sign treaty of cooperation
1761 - 1st life insurance policy in US, issued in Phila
1762 - Sweden & Prussia sign peace treaty
1784 - Ceylonese student leader Pieter Quint Ondaatje demands democracy
1803 - 1st public library opens (Connecticut)
1807 - Former VP Aaron Burr is tried for treason in Richmond Va (acquitted)
1807 - Townsend Speakman 1st sells fruit-flavored carbonated drinks (Phila)
1819 - 1st steam propelled vessel to cross Atlantic (Savannah leaves Ga)
1826 - The HMS Beagle departs on its first voyage.
1836 - Felix Mendelssohn's oratorium "St Paul," premieres in Dusseldorf
1840 - The transporting of British convicts to the New South Wales colony is abolished.
1842 - Farmers Lester Howe and Henry Wetsel discover Howe Caverns when they stumble upon a
           large gaping hole in the ground.
1843 - 1st wagon train, 1000+ depart Independence Missouri for Oregon
1849 - Abraham Lincoln patents a buoying device
1856 - Violence in Senate, SC rep Brooks used a cane on Mass Sen Sumner
1858 - Confederación Granadina (now Colombia) forms
1863 - General Grant begins siege on Vicksburg
1863 - War Dept establishes Bureau of Colored Troops
1864 - Battle of N Anna River, VA (Totopotamy River, Haw's Shop, Hanovertown)
1868 - Great Train Robbery-7 men (Reno Brother) make off with $98,000 in cash
1872 - Amnesty Act restores civil rights to Southerners (except for 500)
1877 - 3rd Kentucky Derby: Billy Walker aboard Baden-Baden wins in 2:38
1883 - Cub's Billy Sunday's 1st at bat, begins 14 consecutive strikes out
1884 - 1-armed pitcher Hugh Daily fanned 13 hitters
1885 - 13th Preakness: Jim McLaughlin aboard Tecumseh wins in 2:49
1888 - Leroy Buffington patents a system to build skyscrapers
1891 - 1st motion picture shown to Natl Federation of Women's Clubs
1892 - Dr Washington Sheffield invents toothpaste tube
1893 - Montreal Athletic Association beat Ottawa Generals 2-1, in 1st Cup Game
1897 - The Blackwall Tunnel under the River Thames was officially opened
1900 - Associated Press organizes in NYC as non-profit news cooperative
1900 - Edwin S Votey patents pneumatic piano player
1902 - 36th Belmont: John Bullman aboard Mastermam wins in 2:22.6
1903 - Launch of the White Star Liner, SS Ionic.
1905 - Royal Academy in Delft Holland becomes Technical High School
1906 - 10th anniversary Olympic games close at Athens, Greece
1906 - 31st Preakness: Walter Miller aboard Whimsical wins in 1:45
1906 - Wright Brothers patents an aeroplane
1907 - Albert Trott takes two hat-tricks in an innings, Mddx v Somerset
1909 - 1st SF fireboat, David Scannell, launched
1911 - Braves pitcher, Cliff Curtis, loses his 23rd game in a row
1915 - Local train collides with troop train killing 226 (Gretna Scotland)
1915 - Lassen Peak erupts with a powerful force, and is the only mountain, other than Mount St.
           Helens, to erupt in the continental US during the 20th century.
1916 - French troops occupy parts of Fort Douaumont Verdun
1923 - Stanley Baldwin succeeds Andrew Bonar Law as British premier
1924 - In Chicago, Nathan Leopold & Richard Loeb kidnap Robert Franks
1926 - "Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue" by Gene Austin hits #1
1926 - Chiang Kai-shek replaces communists in Guomindang China
1926 - Dutch Communist Party expels David Wijnkoop
1927 - 8.3 earthquake strikes Nan-Shan China, 200,000 killed
1927 - Dodgers beat Phillies, 20-4
1928 - US Congress accept Jones-White Merchant Naval Act
1930 - Ruth hits 3 consecutive HR (8th-10th of 60 in 1930)
1930 - Yankee "Bronx Bombers" hit 14 HRs in a game
1931 - Canned rattlesnake meat 1st goes on sale in Florida
1933 - Loch Ness Monster is 1st reportedly sighted by John Mackay
1933 - World Trade Day/National Maritime Day 1st celebrated
1936 - Aer Lingus (Aer Loingeas) is founded by the Irish government as the national airline of the
           Republic of Ireland.
1938 - Dodgers announce contracts to install lights at Ebbets Field
1939 - Hitler & Benito Mussolini sign "Pact of Steel"
1940 - Dutch Premier De Geer begins working with nazis
1940 - Premier Winston Churchill flies to Paris to decide with General Maxime Weygand a strategy to
           save the city
1941 - British troops attack Baghdad
1942 - Mexico declares war on nazi-Germany & Japan
1942 - The Steel Workers Organizing Committee disbands, and a new trade union, the United
           Steelworkers, is formed.
1943 - 1st jet fighter is tested
1943 - RAF scatters 1st copies of "The Flying Hollander"
1943 - Stalin disbands Komintern
1945 - 6th Marine division reaches suburbs of Naha Okinawa
1945 - NSB-Fuhrer Rost van Tonningen attempts & fails at suicide
1946 - Yankees turn triple-play & defeat Tigers' 5-3
1947 - "Truman Doctrine" goes into effect, aiding Turkey & Greece
1947 - 1st US ballistic missile fired
1950 - Celal Bayar elected president of Turkey
1950 - Dutch poet Gerrit Achterberg wins PC Hooft prize
1950 - Richard Strauss' "4 Last Songs" (4 letzte Lieder) in London
1953 - President Eisenhower signs Offshore Oil Bill
1953 - Yankee Irv Noren hits into a triple-play, Yanks beat Wash 12-4
1954 - 80th Preakness: Johnny Adams aboard Hasty Road wins in 1:57.4
1954 - KREX TV channel 5 in Grand Junction, CO (CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 - Robert Zimmerman aka Bob Dylan is Bar Mitzvahed
1955 - Oldest man to drive in the Grand Prix (aged 55) finishes 6th
1956 - "Bob Hope Show," last airs on NBC-TV
1956 - KRIS TV channel 6 in Corpus Christi, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
1957 - KBTX TV channel 3 in Bryan, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting
1957 - Red Sox set AL record by smashing 4 HRs in 6th inning in 11-0 win
1957 - South Africa government approves race separation in universities
1959 - Benjamin O Davis Jr becomes 1st black gen-major in USAF
1960 - Virtually all coastal towns between 37th & 44th parallels severly damaged by tsunami that
           strikes Hilo, Hawaii at 01:04 AM
1961 - "Mother-In-Law" by Ernie K-Doe hits #1
1961 - "Touchables In Brooklyn" by Dickie Goodman hits #42
1961 - 1st revolving restaurant (Top Of The Needle in Seattle), opens
1962 - 14th Emmy Awards: Bob Newhart Show, E G Marshall & Shirley Booth
1962 - Neth telephone net becomes completely automated
1962 - Robert A Rushworth, USAF major, takes X-15 to 30,600m
1962 - Roger Maris walks 5 times (record 4 intentionally) in a 9 inn game
1962 - Continental Airlines Flight 11 crashes after bombs explode on board.
1963 - A C Milan wins 8th Europe Cup 1 at London
1963 - Greek parliament leader Lambrakis injured
1963 - Mickey Mantle hits a ball off Yankee Stadium's facade
1964 - LBJ presents "Great Society"
1965 - "Super-cali-fragil-istic-expi-ali-docious" hits #66
1965 - Beatles' "Ticket to Ride," single goes #1
1965 - Mad Dog Vachon beats Igor Vodic in Omaha, to become NWA champ
1966 - 18th Emmy Awards: Fugitive, Dick Van Dyke & Mary Tyler Moore
1966 - Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
1967 - "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood," debuts on NET (now PBS)
1967 - Egyptian president Nassar closes Straits of Tiran to Israel
1967 - Fire at L'Innovation dept store kills 322 (Brussels, Belgium)
1968 - Pitts Pirate Willie Stargell hits 3 HRs, a double & a single
1969 - Stafford & Cernan pilot Apollo 10 LEM 9.4 mi(15km) above lunar surface
1970 - Arab terrorists kill 9 children & 3 adults on a school bus
1970 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1970 - Mel Stottlemyre sets record by walking 11, but wins 2-0
1972 - Ceylon becomes Republic of Sri Lanka as its constitution is ratified
1972 - Ton Sijbrands becomes world checker champion
1972 - US president Nixon begins visit Moscow
1973 - Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation
1973 - President Nixon confesses his role in Watergate cover-up
1974 - Ruffian begins her racing career as a filly & dies 14 months later
1974 - Soccer team Veendam forms
1974 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1975 - 8th ABA Championship: Kentucky Colonels beat Ind Pacers, 4 games to 1
1976 - NASA launches space vehicle S-179
1976 - St Louis Cardinal Reggie Smith hits 3 HR
1977 - Final European scheduled run of Orient Express (94 years)
1977 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Coca-Cola Golf Classic
1977 - Red Sox (6) & Brewers (5) tie single game HR record of 11
1979 - Canadians elect conservatives, Joseph Clark replaces Pierre Trudeau
1979 - Commencement of 1st ICC Trophy (PNG v E Afr & Singapore v Arg)
1981 - Soyuz 40 returns to Earth
1983 - Pat Bradley wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Charity Golf Tournament
1983 - Toronto Blue Jay Cliff Johnson hits record 18th pinch hit HR
1985 - Pete Rose 2,108th run passes Hank Aaron as NL run scoring leader
1985 - Real Madrid wins 14th UEFA Cup at Madrid
1985 - US sailor Michael L Walker arrested for spying for USSR
1986 - Cher called David Letterman an asshole on Late Night on NBC
1987 - 30 killed in a Texas tornado
1988 - 34th LPGA Championship won by Sherri Turner
1988 - Károly Grósz succeeds party leader Janos Kádár in Hungary
1990 - Andre Dawson sets record being intentionally walked 5 times
1990 - Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,852.23
1990 - Final episode of "Newhart" airs
1990 - Microsoft releases Windows 3.0
1990 - North & South Yemen merge to form Republic of Yemen
1991 - Inter Milan wins 20th UEFA Cup at Rome
1991 - NFL Owners agree to add 2 teams in 1994
1991 - Roh Jai Bong resigns as premier of South Korea
1992 - California Angels, are involved in a bus crash, in NJ
1992 - India launches its Agni rocket
1992 - Johnny Carson's final appearance as host of Tonight Show
1993 - Riddick Bowe TKOs Jesse Ferguson in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
1994 - Elaine Crosby wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
1994 - Toronto NBA franchise unveils name "Raptors" & logo
1995 - Laverne & Shirley 20th anniversary reunionn special, televised
1996 - "Tartuffe: Born Again," opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 29 perfs
1996 - Emmy 23rd Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 16th time
1997 - Kelly Flinn, US Air Force's first female bomber pilot certified for combat, accepts a general
           discharge in order to avoid a court martial.
1998 - Lewinsky scandal: a federal judge rules that United States Secret Service agents can be
           compelled to testify before a grand jury concerning the scandal, involving President Bill
           Clinton.
2002 - In Washington, DC, the remains of the missing Chandra Levy are found in Rock Creek Park.
2002 - American civil rights movement: a jury in Birmingham, Alabama, convicts former Ku Klux Klan
           member Bobby Frank Cherry of the 1963 murders of four girls in the bombing of the 16th
           Street Baptist Church.
2003 - In Fort Worth, Texas, Annika Sörenstam becomes the first woman to play the PGA Tour in 58
           years.
2004 - The U.S. town of Hallam, Nebraska, is wiped out by a powerful F4 tornado that broke a width
           record at an astounding 2.5 miles wide. It also kills one local resident.
2006 - Results from the Montenegrin independence referendum, 2006 are announced. 55.4% of
           voters vote to become independent from the Serbia and Montenegro Union.
2011 - An EF5 Tornado strikes the US city of Joplin, Missouri killing at least 158 people, the single
           deadliest US tornado since modern record keeping began in 1950.
2012 - 14 people die and 30 are injured in train collision in India
2012 - Philip Philips is crowned the eleventh American Idol

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Post by: MysteRy on May 22, 2013, 09:26:41 AM

This Day in History for 22nd May


Famous Weddings

1980 - Marlo Thomas & Phil Donahue marry
2004 - Felipe, Prince of Asturias, of the Spanish Royal Family weds Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano at The
           Almudena Cathedral in Madrid, Spain
2005 - "Alias" actor Kevin Weisman (34) weds Jodi Tanowitz at Menlo Circus Club in Atherton,
           California
2010 - Singer-songwriter and guitarist Alanis Morissette (38) weds rapper Mario Treadway (32) in
           Los Angeles
2010 - "Numb3rs" star David Krumholtz (32) weds actress Vanessa Britting (29) at The Plaza Hotel
           in New York City
2011 - R&B singer Keyshia Cole (28) weds NBA Cleveland Cavaliers Daniel Gibson (25) in Cleveland,
           Ohio

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 22, 2013, 09:30:31 AM

This Day in History for 22nd May


Famous Divorces

2001 - Actress and former fitness guru Jane Fonda (63) divorces CNN founder Ted Turner (62) due to
           irretrievably broken marriage 10 years after getting married

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Post by: MysteRy on May 22, 2013, 09:41:11 AM

This Day in History for 22nd May


Famous Birthdays

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Composer Richard Wagner (1813)             Author of Sherlock Holmes                       Super Model & Actress
                                                                Arthur Conan Doyle (1859)                        Naomi Campbell (1970)


1622 - Louis de Buade de Frontenac, Governor of New France (d. 1698)
1671 - Abraham Patras, governor-general of East-Indies (1735-37)
1715 - François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, French cardinal and statesman (d. 1794)
1722 - Johannes Schmidlin, composer
1724 - Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne, French explorer (d. 1772)
1759 - Gervais-Francois Couperin, composer
1770 - Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom (d. 1840)
1772 - Ram Mohan Roy, Hindu reformer (d. 1833)
1780 - Jan Emmanuel Dulezalek, composer
1783 - Thomas Forbes Walmisley, composer
1804 - John William (Turk) Livingston, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1885
1808 - G de Nerval, writer
1813 - Richard Wagner, Leipsig Germany, composer (Ring, Flying Dutchman)
1820 - Alexander Ernst Fesca, composer
1821 - Alfred Sully, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1879
1823 - Solomon Bundy, American politician (d. 1889)
1823 - Isabella Glyn Dallas, British Shakepearean actress (d. 1889)
1826 - George Parr, cricketer (legendary Notts batsman, 1st Eng touring capt)
1841 - Catulle Mendès, French poet (d. 1909)
1844 - Mary Cassatt, US, Impressionist painter (Woman Bathing)
1849 - Louis Perrier, Swiss politician (d. 1913)
1850 - Johann Schrammel, composer
1852 - Emile Sauret, composer
1859 - Arthur Conan Doyle, UK, author brought Sherlock Holmes to life twice
1862 - August Cuppens, Flemish author/pastor
1865 - Enrique Morera, composer
1874 - Daniel F Malan, premier of South-Africa (1948-54)
1874 - Francesco Paolo Neglia, composer
1879 - Eastwood Lane, composer
1879 - Jean Emile Paul Cras, composer
1879 - Warwick Armstrong, cricketer (Big Ship Great Aussie skipper 1920-21)
1879 - Alla Nazimova, Ukrainian-born actress, scriptwriter, and producer (d. 1945)
1884 - Alceo Toni, composer
1885 - Julio Fonseca, composer
1885 - Giacomo Matteotti, Italian politician (d. 1924)
1891 - J R Becher, writer
1891 - Robert Gordon Sproul, educator/college pres (Univ of California)
1891 - Eddie Edwards, American jazz trombonist (d. 1963)
1892 - Louis van Tulder, Dutch tenor (From Office Stool to High C)
1895 - Jiddu Krishnamurti, India, philosopher (Songs of Life) [OS=May 12]
1897 - Robert Neumann, Austrian/British author (Waters of Babylon)
1898 - René de Vos, Dutch actor/composer (Jij Bent Mijn Leven)
1900 - Yvonne de Gaulle, wife of Charles de Gaulle (d. 1979)
1901 - Maurice J. Tobin, 56th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1953)
1902 - Al Simmons, Milwaukee, American baseball outfielder (A's), lifetime batting avg of .334 (d.
          1956)
1903 - Yves Rocard, French physicist (d. 1992)
1904 - Anne de Vries, writer (Bartje)
1904 - Paul Viiding, Estonian poet (d. 1962)
1906 - Harry Ritz, US comic (Ritz Brothers-Silent Movie)
1907 - Laurence Olivier, England, actor (Rebecca, Hamlet, Jazz Singer)
1907 - Hergé, Belgian comic book creator (d. 1983)
1908 - Rattana Pestonji, Thai filmmaker (d. 1970)
1908 - Horton Smith. American golfer (d. 1963)
1910 - Johnny Olson, TV announcer (Price is Right)
1911 - Anatol Rapoport, Russ/US mathem/biologist (game theory)
1912 - Hendrik Koekoek, Dutch MP (Farmers Party)
1913 - Andrea C Bensddorp, Dutch/South African actress (Commensaal)
1913 - Carlyle Blackwell Jr, CA, actor (Docks of NY)
1914 - Vance Packard, Granville Summit Pa, author (Hidden Persuaders)
1914 - Sun Ra, American musician (d. 1993)
1916 - Gordon Binkerd, composer
1917 - Jean-Louis Laffitte Curtis, novelist
1917 - Georg Tintner, Austrian-born conductor (d. 1999)
1917 - Nathan Davis, American actor
1917 - Daniel Nagrin, American modern dancer and choreographer
1918 - David Land, impressario
1919 - Paul Vanden Boeynants, premier Belgium (1966-68, 1978-79)
1920 - Hugh Armstrong Clegg, industrial relations academic
1920 - Thomas Gold, astronomer (proposed steady-state theory of universe)
1920 - Thomas Gold, Austrian astrophysicist (d. 2004)
1922 - Judith Crist, NY, movie critic (TV Guide)
1922 - Quinn Martin, American television producer (d. 1987)
1924 - Charles Aznavour, Armenia, French singer (Monsieur Carnavel, Tin Drum)
1924 - Claude Andre Francois Ballif, composer
1924 - Helen Wedemeyer, Hilo Hawaii, actress (Hawaii Five-O)
1925 - Jean Tinguely, Swiss sculptor artist (movement objects)
1925 - James King, American tenor (d. 2005)
1927 - Eric Petrie, cricketer (NZ wicketkeeper of the late 1950's)
1927 - Michael Constantine, Penn, actor (Room 222, Don't Drink the Water)
1927 - Phil Tucker, American director
1928 - Roscoe Robinson, US gospel singer
1928 - T Boone Pickens, CEO (Shamrock, Mesa Petroleum Co)
1929 - Asher Ben-Yohanan, composer
1930 - Dieuwke Y W de Graaff-Nauta, Dutch undersecretary of the Interior
1930 - Kenny Ball, rocker, (d. 2013)
1930 - Harvey Milk, Woodmere, NY, politicians and gay activist, (d. 1978)
1933 - John Browning, Denver Colorado, pianist (Leventritt Award-1956)
1934 - Peter Nero, NYC, conductor/pianist (A Sunday in NY)
1934 - Arne Harris, American television sports director (d. 2001)
1935 - Ron Piché, Quebec baseball player
1936 - M. Scott Peck, American psychiatrist and writer (d. 2005)
1938 - Frank Converse, actor (It's About Time, Dr Cook's Garden, Movin' On)
1938 - Richard Benjamin, NYC, director/actor (Goodbye Columbus, He & She)
1938 - Susan Strasberg, NYC, actress (In Praise of Older Women, Manitou)
1940 - Bernard Shaw, news correspondant (CBS, CNN)
1940 - Erapalli Prasanna, cricketer (one of India's big four spinners)
1940 - Michael Sarrazin, actor (Seduction, They Shoot Horses Don't They)
1941 - Paul Winfield, LA, actor (Star Trek II, Huckleberry Finn, Mars Attack)
1941 - Sebastian Forbes, composer
1941 - Sir Menzies Campbell, British politician
1941 - Martha Langbein, German athlete
1942 - Barbara Parkins, Vancouver BC, actress (Betty-Peyton Place, Asylum)
1942 - Calvin Simon, US rock vocalist (Funkadelic-1 Nation Under a Groove)
1942 - Malika A Sabirova, Russian dancer
1942 - Pallo Jordan, South African ANC member/heads (Radio Freedom)
1942 - Theodore Kaczynski, American terrorist
1943 - Tommy John, pitcher (Yankee/Dodger)
1943 - Betty Williams, Northern Irish political activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1943 - Gesine Schwan, German politician and science professor
1946 - George Best, footballer/soccer player (Manchester United, Northern Ireland)
1946 - Howard Kendall, English footballer and football manager
1948 - Richard Baker, (Rep-R-Louisiana)
1950 - Bernie Taupin, lyricist (writes with Elton John)
1950 - Alekos Alavanos, Greek politician
1952 - Jan Todd, woman power lifter, once lifted 248 kg in a squat
1952 - R W Eaks, Colorado Springs CO, Nike golfer (1990 Quicksilver Open)
1953 - John Edward Stevens, NYC, bank robber (FBI Most Wanted List)
1953 - Doris Barnett, German politician
1953 - Cha Bum-Kun, Korean footballer
1954 - Jerry Dammers, keyboardist (Specials-Special)
1955 - Iva Davies, rock guitarist/vocalist (Icehouse)
1955 - Sam Coppersmith, (Rep-D-Arizona)
1955 - Jimmy Lyon, American guitarist (Eddie Money)
1956 - Douglas Heyes Jr, LA California, actor (Captains & Kings, Aspen)
1956 - Natasha Shneider, Russian-born musician
1957 - Lisa Murkowski, American politician
1957 - Gary Sweet, Australian actor
1959 - Ed Fry, actor (Larry-As the World Turns, Adam Cory-Another World)
1959 - Morrissey, British rock vocalist (Everyday is Like Sunday)
1959 - [Patrick] Morrissey, rocker (Depeche Mode-Somebody)
1959 - Steven Morrissey, English singer
1960 - Hideaki Anno, Japanese director
1961 - Dana Williams, Dayton Ohio, singer (Diamond Rio-Meet in the Middle)
1962 - Andrew Donald Magee, Paris France, PGA golfer (1988 Pensacola Open)
1962 - Brian Pillman, American professional wrestler (d. 1997)
1964 - David Lidberg, jockey
1964 - Ashley Renee, American fetish model
1966 - Donald Royal, NBA forward (Charlotte Hornets, Orlando Magic)
1966 - Jose Mesa, Azua Dom Rep, pitcher (Cleveland Indians)
1966 - Kenny Hickey, American guitarist (Type O Negative)
1967 - Brooke Smith, American actress
1967 - John Vanderslice, American musician
1968 - Alan Levine, Park Ridge IL, pitcher (Chic White Sox)
1968 - Brent Geiberger, Santa Barbara CA, Nike golfer (1994 Queen Mary-2nd)
1968 - Carmie Vairo, Vancouver BC, softball infielder (Olympics-96)
1968 - Mike Harbold, Oakland California, sprint kayak (Olympics-96)
1968 - Randy Brown, NBA guard (Chicago Bulls)
1968 - Kevin Carolan, American actor and comedian
1969 - Tim Wiley, Lexington Mass, kayak (alt-Olympics-96)
1969 - Vaughn Eshelman, Philadelphia PA, pitcher (Boston Red Sox)
1970 - Clyde Johnson, cornerback (KC Chiefs)
1970 - Eric Wunderlich, US, 200m breaststroke (Olympics-7th-96)
1970 - Marcus Dowdell, NFL wide receiver/kick returner (Arizona Cardinals)
1970 - Naomi Campbell, London England, model/actress (Cool as Ice, Unzipped)
1970 - Pedro Diniz, Brazilian Formula One driver
1971 - Corey Croom, NFL running back (NE Patriots)
1971 - Troy Barnhart, Hanford CA, water polo 2m offense (Olympics-96)
1971 - Manuel Ortiz, Mexican professional wrestler
1972 - Alison Eastwood, daughter of actor Clint/actress (Tightrope)
1972 - Mike Hollis, NFL kicker (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1972 - Rich Owens, NFL defensive end (Washington Redskins)
1972 - Anna Belknap, American actress
1972 - Annabel Chong, Singapore actress
1973 - Aaron Graham, corner (Arizona Cardinals)
1973 - Daniel Tiatto, Australian soccer midfielder (Olyroos, Olympics-96)
1973 - Julian Tavarez, Santiago Dom Rep, pitcher (Cleveland Indians)
1973 - Leslie Ratliffe, WLAF offensive tackle (Rhein Fire)
1973 - Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Danish actor
1974 - Greg Jones, linebacker (Washington Redskins)
1974 - Sean Gunn, American actor
1974 - A. J. Langer, American actress
1975 - Cole Hauser, Santa Barbara CA, actor (Randy-High Incident)[or Mar 22]
1975 - Jaane Niinimaa, Raahe FIN, NHL defenseman (Finland Oly-br-98, Flyers)
1975 - Tracy Brookshaw, American professional wrestler and valet
1975 - Salvador Ballesta, Spanish Footballer.
1976 - Christian Vande Velde, Chicago Ill, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1977 - Vinnie Potestivo, American TV Producer
1977 - Alastair Ralphs, Canadian professional wrestler
1977 - Seán Óg Ó hAilpín, Irish hurler
1977 - Dre Bly, American Football Player
1978 - Ginnifer Goodwin, American actress
1978 - Katie Price, British model
1979 - Nadia Khan, TV Presenter
1979 - Maggie Q, American actress
1980 - Rhett Fisher, actor/musician
1980 - Steven Baker, Australian rules footballer
1980 - Chad Tracy, American baseball player
1981 - Bryan Danielson, American professional wrestler
1981 - Jürgen Melzer, Austrian tennis player
1982 - Apolo Anton Ohno, American short track speed skater
1982 - John Bobek, American actor
1983 - John Hopkins, Anglo-American motorcycling racer
1984 - Joe Lauzon, American martial artist
1985 - Tranquillo Barnetta, Swiss footballer
1985 - Caridee English, American Model
1985 - Marc-Antoine Pouliot, Canadian ice hockey player
1987 - Novak Đoković, Serbian tennis player

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 22, 2013, 09:44:19 AM

This Day in History for 22nd May


Famous Deaths

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Author Victor Hugo (1885)


337 - Constantine the Great, Emperor of Rome (306-37) dies at 47
748 - Empress Genshō of Japan (b. 680)
987 - Louis V le Faineant, the Lazy, king of France (986-87), poisoned at 20
1068 - Emperor Go-Reizei of Japan (b. 1025)
1455 - Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland, English politician (killed in battle)
1455 - Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset, English commander (killed in battle) (b. 1406)
1457 - Saint Rita of Cascia, Italian saint (b. 1381)
1501 - Robert Gaguin, French writer/diplomat (Arte Metrificandi), dies at 66
1538 - John Forrest, English Franciscan friar (martyred) (b. 1471)
1540 - Francesco Guicciardini, Italian historian/pres of Romagna, dies at 57
1666 - Gaspar Schott, German scientist (b. 1608)
1667 - Alexander VII, [Fabio Chigi], Italian Pope (1655-67), dies at 68
1688 - Johann A Quenstedt, German Lutherian theologist, dies at 70
1745 - François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie, French military leader (b. 1671)
1746 - Thomas Southerne, Irish dramatist (b. 1660)
1760 - Israel ben Eliezer, Polish-born mystical rabbi (b. 1700)
1772 - Durastante Natalucci, Italian historian (b. 1687)
1781 - Garret Wesley Mornington, composer, dies at 45
1801 - Heinrich Gottfried Reichard, composer, dies at 58
1819 - John H van Kinsbergen, lt-admiral/founder (Corps Marines), dies at 84
1825 - Domenico Corri, composer, dies at 80
1851 - Mordecai Manuel Noah, American writer, journalist (b. 1755)
1859 - Ferdinand II, [Re Bomba], Dutch King of Sicily, dies at 49
1868 - Julius Plucker, German mathematician/physicist (formula of P), dies
1878 - Franz von Holstein, composer, dies at 52
1880 - Heinrich WA Freiherr von Gagern, German liberal politician, dies at 80
1885 - Victor(-Marie) Hugo, French writer (Les Miserables), dies at 83
1898 - Edward Bellamy, writer, dies at 48
1910 - Jules Renard, French writer (Le plaisir the rompre), dies at 46
1921 - Marie E Wilton, writer, dies
1925 - John [Denton Pinkstone] French, Brit field marshall (WWI), dies at 72
1928 - William HT Gairdner, Engl missionary (Nile Mission Press), dies at 54
1932 - Lady Augusta, [Isabella Gregory], playwright (Gold Apple), dies at 80
1939 - Ernst Toller, writer, dies at 45
1939 - Jiri Mahen, Czech author (b. 1882)
1945 - Carel A Lion Cachet, lithographer/wood carver, dies
1948 - Claude McKaye, Jamaican/US author (Banjo, Home to Harlem), dies at 57
1949 - Hans Erich Pfitzner, Russian/German composer, dies at 80
1949 - Klaus H T Mann, German/US writer (Turning Point), dies
1953 - Vaclav Klicka, composer, dies at 70
1961 - Joan Davis, actress (I Married Joan), dies of heart attack at 53
1965 - Bobby Watson, comedian (Hitler Gang, Boys Town), dies at 77
1965 - Heinrich Barth, Swiss philosopher (Das Sein in der Zeit), dies
1965 - Christopher Stone, first disc jockey in the United Kingdom (b. 1882)
1966 - Tom Goddard, cricketer (22 wkts in 8 Tests for England 1930-39), dies
1967 - James Langston Hughes, American poet laureate, dies at 65
1970 - Joseph W Krutch, US writer (Measure of Man), dies at 76
1972 - Margaret Rutherford, English actress (Murder Ahoy, VIP's), dies at 80
1975 - Torben Meyer, actor (Viking, Roberta, Sunny), dies at 90
1975 - Lefty Grove, American Baseball Player (b. 1900)
1977 - Gijsbert van Hall, banker/mayor of Amsterdam (1957-67), dies at 73
1977 - Marius Monnikendam, Dutch choir composer, dies at 80
1978 - Bjarne Brustad, composer, dies at 83
1984 - John Marley, actor (Cat Ballou), dies at 77 following heart surgery
1986 - Martin Gabel, actor (Thief, Marnie), dies at 63
1987 - Mario Zafred, composer, dies at 65
1988 - Dennis Day, tenor/comedian (Jack Benny Show, Danny Boy), dies at 71
1988 - Giorgio Almirante, Italy, fascist (member of parliament), dies at 73
1989 - Steven DeGroote, South African classical pianist (b. 1953)
1990 - Max Wall, actor (Jabberwocky), dies
1990 - Rocky Graziano, boxer/writer/actor (Mr Rock & Roll), dies at 71 of heart failure
1991 - Lino Brocka, director (Macho Dancer, Jaguar), dies in car crash at 51
1992 - Zellig Harris, American linguist (b. 1909)
1993 - Mieczyslaw Horszowski, Polish/US pianist (Carnegie Hall), dies at 100
1994 - Frederick Hemming McClintock, criminologist, dies at 68
1994 - Mitacq, [Michel Tacq], Belgium comic strip artist (Beaver Patrol), dies
1995 - Robert Flemyng, actor (Kafka, Rebecca, Funny Face), dies at 83
1996 - Duncan Montgomery Stewart, academic, dies at 66
1996 - Rex Collings, writer/publisher, dies at 70
1997 - Alfred Hershey, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
          1908)
1998 - José Enrique Moyal, mathematical physicist (b. 1910)
2003 - Ousmane Zongo, Burkinabé shooting victim
2004 - Mikhail Voronin, Russian gymnast (b. 1945)
2004 - Richard Biggs, American actor (b. 1960)
2005 - Charilaos Florakis, Greek politician, long-time General Secretary of the Communist Party of
           Greece (b. 1914)
2005 - Thurl Ravenscroft, American voice actor and singer (b. 1914)
2005 - Julia Randall, American poet (b. 1924)
2006 - Lee Jong-wook, Korean Director-General of the World Health Organisation (b. 1945)
2006 - Heather Crowe, Canadian activist (b. 1945)
2008 - Robert Asprin, American author (b. 1946)
2012 - Wesley Brown, 1st African American US Naval Academy graduate, dies at 85

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 23, 2013, 08:48:07 AM

This Day in History for 23rd May


Historical Events

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Pirate Legend William Kidd                     Military and Political Leader                       Outlaw Jesse James
                                                                        Simon Bolivar

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Animator Walter Elias Disney                     Novelist Thomas Mann                       Yankee Clipper Joe DiMaggio

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264th Pope John Paul II


1059 - Henri I crowns his son compassionate King Philip I of France
1275 - King Edward I of Engld orders cessation of persecution of French Jews
1420 - Jews of Syria & Austria expelled
1421 - Jews of Austria imprisoned & expelled
1430 - Joan of Arc is captured at Compiegne & sold to the British
1493 - King Charles VIII & Maximilian I of Austria signs Peace of Senlis
1536 - Pope Paul III installs Portugese inquisition
1544 - German emperor Charles V recognizes king Christian III of Denmark
1555 - Giampietro Caraffa elected Pope Paul IV
1568 - Battle at Heiligerlee: Dutch rebels beat Spanish, 100s killed
1568 - The Netherlands declare their independence from Spain.
1576 - Tycho Brahe given Hveen Island to build Uraniborg Observatory
1609 - Official ratification of the Second Charter of Virginia takes place.
1611 - Matthias von Habsburg chosen king of Bohemia
1618 - 2nd Defenestration of Prague; beginning of 30 Years War. Four Catholic Lords Regents
           thrown out of window
1644 - Johan Mauritius van Nassau resigns as head of Civil rights activists
1647 - Willem II sworn in as viceroy of Holland
1660 - King Charles II returns from exile sails from Scheveningen to England
1667 - King Afonso VI of Portugal flees
1701 - After being convicted of piracy and of murdering William Moore, Captain William Kidd is
           hanged in London.
1706 - Battle of Ramillies-Marlborough defeats French; 17,000 killed
1750 - Carlo Goldoni's "Il Bugiardo," premieres in Mantua
1774 - Chestertown tea party occurs (tea dumped into Chester River)
1785 - Benjamin Franklin announces his invention of bifocals
1788 - SC becomes 8th state to ratify US constitution
1813 - South American independence leader Simón Bolívar enters Mérida, leading the invasion of
           Venezuela, and is proclaimed El Libertador ("The Liberator")
1844 - Declaration of Bab (Baha'i festival) ('Azamat 7, 1)
1853 - Buenos Aires gains independence from Argentina (reunited 1859)
1861 - 3 fleeing slaves enter Fort Monroe Virginia
1861 - Virginia citizens vote 3 to 1 in favor of secession
1862 - Battle at Front Royal, Virginia
1862 - Valley Campaign-Stonewall Jackson takes Ft Royal, Virginia
1863 - Organization of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Battle Creek, Michigan.
1864 - Battle of Dallas, GA
1864 - Battle of North Anna, Va, 1st of 3 days of fighting
1865 - -24] Victory parade in Washington, DC (Grand Review)
1865 - Flag flown at full staff over White House, 1st time since Lincoln shot
1867 - Jesse James-gang rob bank in Richmond Missouri (2 die, $4,000 taken)
1873 - 1st Preakness: G Barbee aboard Survivor wins in 2:43
1873 - Canada's North West Mounted Police Force forms
1873 - Postal cards sold in SF for 1st time
1876 - 1st NL no-hitter (Joe Borden, Boston)
1878 - Atty John Henry Smyth named minister to Liberia
1882 - 6" of snow falls in eastern Iowa
1883 - 9th Kentucky Derby: William Donohue aboard Leonatus wins in 2:43
1883 - Baseball game between one-armed & one-legged players
1884 - 12th Preakness: S Fisher aboard Knight of Ellerslie wins in 2:39.5
1887 - 1st transcontinental train arrives in Vancouver, BC
1894 - William Love hosts ground breaking ceremonies for Love Canal
1898 - 1st Philippine Expeditionary Troops sail from SF
1900 - Associated Press News Service forms in NY
1901 - 35th Belmont: H Spencer aboard Commando wins in 2:21
1901 - Indians score 9 runs after 2 outs in 9th to beat Senators 14-13
1901 - Ottawa Mint Act receives Royal Assent
1901 - US captures leader of Philippine rebels, Emilio Aguinaldo
1903 - 1st automobile trip across US from SF to NY, ended April 1
1903 - 1st direct primary election law in US adopted, by Wisconsin
1907 - The unicameral Parliament of Finland gathers for its first plenary session.
1908 - Dirigible explodes over SF Bay, 16 passengers fall, none die
1908 - Part of Great White Fleet arrives in Puget Sound, Wash
1911 - NY Public Library building at 5th Avenue dedicated by Pres Taft
1915 - Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary & Germany during WW I
1916 - Heavy battles at Fort Douaumont Verdun
1917 - Dutch 2nd Chamber okays 1908 conscription draft
1918 - King Oil/Shell refinery on Curacao officially opens
1920 - Pope Benedictus XV publishes encyclical Pacem Dei
1921 - "Shuffle Along" 1st black musical comedy, opens in NYC
1922 - "Abie's Irish Rose" 1st of over 2,500 performances
1922 - Harry Greb gave Gene Tunney his only professional boxing defeat
1922 - Walt Disney incorporates his 1st film company Laugh-O-Gram Films
1923 - 1st flight of Sabena: Brussel-Lympne, Great Britain
1923 - Launch of Belgium's SABENA airline.
1926 - Hack Wilson is 1st to hit a home run off Wrigley Field scoreboard
1926 - Lebanese constitution forms under French mandate
1928 - Bomb attack on Italians embassy in Buenos Aires, 22 die
1931 - Whipsnade Zoo opens in Whipsnade Beds England
1932 - Sir Hubert Ferdinand Opperman sets 24 hr record of 860 mi, 367 yds
1934 - The Auto-Lite Strike culminates in the "Battle of Toledo", a five-day melée between 1,300
           troops of the Ohio National Guard and 6,000 picketers.
1935 - 1st scheduled night game, postponed due to rain (Cincinnati)
1939 - British decoration, George Cross, 1st presented
1939 - British parliament plans to make Palestine independent by 1949
1939 - Dmitri Shostakovitch appointed professor at conservatory of Leningrad
1939 - Hitler proclaims he wants to move into Poland
1939 - Submarine Squalis sank off Portsmouth NH, 26 die
1940 - 1st great dogfight between Spitfires
1941 - Joe Louis beats Buddy Baer on DQ in 7 for heavyweight boxing title
1941 - Rudolf Harbig runs world record 1k (2:21.5)
1943 - -24] 826 Allied bombers attack Dortmund
1943 - Thomas Mann begins writing his novel Dr Faustus
1944 - British/Canadian troops occupy Pontecorvo Italy
1944 - Chinese counter offensive at Hunan front
1944 - Operation-Buffalo: Allied jailbreak out Anzio-bridgehead
1944 - Polo Grounds host 1st NYC night game since 1941
1945 - British milt police arrest Admiral Karl Doenitz
1945 - German island of Helgoland in North Sea surrenders to British
1945 - Heinrich Himmler, German Nazi leader & Gestapo leader, commits suicide in prison at 44
1945 - Lord Haw-Haw arrested at Danish boundary
1947 - PC Hooft prize forms for literature
1948 - Joe DiMaggio hits 3 consecutive HRs
1948 - Ramat Rahel gateway to Jerusalem is repossessed by Israel
1949 - Federal Republic of [West] Germany proclaimed (Republic Day)
1951 - Peter Ustinov's "Love of Four Colonels," premieres in London
1953 - 79th Preakness: Eric Guerin aboard Native Dancer wins in 1:57.8
1953 - WHIZ TV channel 18 in Zanesville, OH (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 - Presbyterian Church begins accepting women ministers
1956 - World Trade Center dedicated in Ferry Building, SF
1958 - Schools 1st use Cliff's Notes
1958 - Mao Tse tung start "Great leap forward" movement in China
1958 - Explorer 1 ceases transmission.
1959 - "Party with Comden & Green" closes at John Golden NYC after 44 perfs
1959 - Presbyterian church accepts women preachers
1960 - "Finian's Rainbow" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 12 performances
1960 - "Got A Girl" by The Four Preps hits #24
1960 - Israel announces capture of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina
1960 - WGTV TV channel 8 in Athens-Atlanta, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1960 - WKBM TV (now WLII) channel 11 in Caguas/San Juan, PR 1st broadcast
1960 - WRCA radio changes call letters back to WNBC (NYC)
1962 - Joe Pepitone 2nd Yankee to hit 2 HRs in 1 inning (Joe DiMaggio)
1962 - OAS leader general Raoul Salan sentenced to life
1962 - Scott Carpenter orbits Earth 3 times in US Aurora 7
1963 - NBC purchases 1963 AFL championship game TV rights for $926,000
1964 - Dale Greig runs female marathon world record (3:27:45)
1965 - Franz Jonas elected president of Austria
1965 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
1965 - Pontoon ferry overturned on Shire River Malawi, kills 150
1966 - Beatles release "Paperback Writer"
1967 - Government bans submarines near South Africa
1968 - AC Milan wins 8th Europe Cup II in Rotterdam
1968 - Beatles open 2nd Apple Boutique at 161 New Kings Road, London
1969 - BBC orders 13 episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus
1969 - Lauwerszee Dike in Holland closes
1969 - Who release rock opera "Tommy"
1970 - Grateful Dead's 1st performance outside of US (England)
1970 - SD Padres beat SF Giants 17-16 in 15 innings
1970 - USSR performs nuclear test (underground)
1970 - A fire breaks out in the Britannia Bridge over the Menai Straits in north Wales contributing to
           its partial destruction and causing approximately £1,000,000 worth of fire damage.
1971 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Suzuki Golf Internationalionale
1971 - Rock group Iron Butterfly disbands
1974 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1974 - Italian Red Brigade officer Mario Sossi freed
1976 - Amy Alcott wins '76 LPGA Golf Classic
1977 - Benin adopts its constitution
1977 - Supreme Court refuses to hear appeals of Watergate wrong doers H R Halderman, John
           Ehrlichman & John Mitchell
1977 - Moluccan extremists hold 105 schoolchildren & 50 others hostage on a hijacked train in Neth,
           children released May 27, siege ends June 11
1978 - AL approves transfer of Red Sox to Jean Yawkey for $15M
1978 - General strike in Peru
1979 - "Kids Are All Right" premieres
1979 - 1st edition of "Wisden Cricket Monthly"
1979 - Borussia Minchengladbach wins 8th UEFA Cup at Dusseldorf
1979 - Rocker Tom Petty files chapter 11 bankruptcy
1979 - West-Germany elects Karl Carstens president
1980 - ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Neil Burton
1981 - Barcelona fascists take 200 people hostage
1981 - NASA launches Intelsat V satellite, no. 501
1982 - BBC warns Britain will bomb Argentina
1982 - Cathy Morse wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Charity Golf Classic
1982 - Colin Wilson rides a surfboard 294 miles
1982 - Pope John Paul II declares "Peerke" Donders divine
1983 - Radio Moscow announcer Vladimir Danchev praises Afghanistan Muslims standing up to
           Russia; he is removed from the air
1984 - Tottenham Hotspur win 13th UEFA Cup at London against Anderlecht
1984 - Detroit Tigers win AL record tying 16th straight road game
1986 - US & West Europeans veto heavier sanctions against South Africa
1988 - Maryland stops sale of cheap pistols on Jan 1, 1990
1989 - 3rd American Comedy Award: Paula Poundstone
1989 - Angela Visser, 22, of Holland, crowned 38th Miss Universe
1989 - Lincoln Square in Bronx named
1989 - Cleve loses & drop to 21-22, this is the latest a sub .500 team is in 1st place (AL East)
1990 - A C Milan wins 35th Europe Cup 1 at Vienna
1990 - Cost of rescuing savings & loan failures is put at up to $130 billion
1990 - Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,856.26
1990 - NY Yankees hit 6 home runs to beat Minnesota Twins 12-0
1991 - Last Cubans troops leave Angola
1991 - Phillie Tommy Greene no-hits Mont Expos, 2-0
1991 - San Diego Sockers win 4th consecutive Major Soccer League championship
1991 - US Supreme Court bars subsidized clinics from discussing abortion
1992 - NY Yankees play in their 4th straight extra inning game
1992 - Pres Bush orders Coast Guard to intercept boats with Haitian refugees
1993 - Val Skinner wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
1994 - 270 pilgrims dies in bustle round Mina Saudi-Arabia
1994 - Roman Herzog elected president of Germany
1994 - Star Trek The Next Generation, finale airs this week in syndication
1995 - 47th time opposing pitchers hit HRS, K Foster (Cubs)/M Freeman (Rocks)
1996 - Fred Norris of the Howard Stern show changes his name legally to Eric
1997 - "King David," closes at New Amsterdam Theater NYC
1997 - Mel Karmazin replaces Peter Lund as CEO of CBS TV
1998 - The Good Friday Agreement is accepted in a referendum in Northern Ireland with 75% voting
           yes.
2002 - The "55 parties" clause of the Kyoto protocol is reached after its ratification by Iceland.
2003 - The euro exceeds its initial trading value as it hits $1.18 for the first time since its
           introduction in 1999.
2004 - Part of Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport's Terminal 2E collapses, killing four people and injuring
           three others.
2008 - The International Court of Justice (ICJ) awards Middle Rocks to Malaysia and Pedra Branca
           (Pulau Batu Puteh) to Singapore, ending a 29-year territorial dispute between the two countries.

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 23, 2013, 08:50:44 AM

This Day in History for 23rd May


Famous Weddings

1953 - John F. Kennedy's sister Eunice Kennedy (31) weds activist and attorney Sargent Shriver at
           Saint Patrick's Cathedral in New York City
1992 - "Once and Again" actress Sela Ward (35) weds actor Howard Sherman (42)
2004 - Singer-guitarist Michelle Branch (21) weds musician Teddy Landau at Isla Pardito, Mexico
2012 - Grammy-winning Spanish pop star Alejandro Sanz (43) weds longtime girlfriend Raquel Perera
           (37) in Barcelona

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 23, 2013, 08:52:21 AM

This Day in History for 23rd May


Famous Divorces

1533 - King Henry VIII & Catherine of Aragon's marriage declared null & void by authority English clergy
           not the Pope

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 23, 2013, 09:19:55 AM

This Day in History for 23rd May


Famous Birthdays

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King of France King Philip I (1052)                    Singer-Songwriter                        74 Time Jeopardy Champion
                                                                        Jewel Kilcher (1974)                            Ken Jennings (1974)


1052 - King Philip I of France (d. 1108)
1100 - Emperor Qinzong of China (d. 1161)
1598 - Claude Mellan, French engraver/cartoonist/painter, baptized
1606 - Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish writer (d. 1682)
1617 - Elias Ashmole, antiquary
1620 - Pieter Neefs, the Younger, Flemish painter, baptized
1644 - Thomas Eisenhut, composer
1696 - Johann Caspar Vogler, composer
1707 - Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish botanist and the Father of Taxonomy (d. 1778)
1710 - Francois-Gaspard Adam, French sculptor (garden sculptures)
1718 - William Hunter, obstetrician/medal writer
1729 - Giuseppe Parini, Italian priest/poet (Il Giorno)
1734 - Friedrich Anton Mesmer, Austria, physician/hypnotist (Mesmerism)
1735 - Charles Joseph, prince the Ligne, Belgian fieldmarshal/author
1737 - Louis Francois Chambray, composer
1741 - Andrea Lucchesi, composer
1753 - Giovanni Battista Viotti, violonist/composer
1754 - Andrea Appiana, Italian royal painter (Napoleon)
1756 - Nicolas-Joseph Hullmandel, composer
1759 - Antoinio da Silva Leite, composer
1790 - Jules Dumont d'Urville, French explorer (d. 1842)
1794 - Isaak-Ignaz Moscheles, composer
1795 - Charles Barry, architect
1799 - Thomas Hood, English poet/composer (Song of the Shirt)
1812 - Henri A Esquiros, French poet/writer (Les Vierges Folles)
1813 - Mason Brayman, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1895
1820 - James Buchanan Eads, US, engineer/inventor (Eads Bridge-St Louis)
1820 - Lorenzo Sawyer, 9th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California (d. 1891)
1824 - Ambrose Everett Burnside, Major General (Union volunteers)
1828 - Edward Hitchcock, America's 1st prof of physical ed (Amherst College)
1832 - Pieter J B C R van der Aa, Dutch Indologist/geographer
1834 - Carl Heinrich Bloch, Danish painter (d. 1890)
1837 - James Sanks Brisbin, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1892
1843 - Pedro Miguel Marques y Garcia, composer
1844 - `Abdu'l-Bahá, Successor to Prophet of the Bahá'í Faith (d. 1921)
1848 - Helmuth J L von Moltke, German general/chief of staff (WW I)
1848 - Otto Lilienthal, pioneer aviator
1851 - Antoni Stolpe, composer
1862 - William "Dummy" Hoy, professional baseball player who lived to 99
1864 - Louis Glass, composer
1865 - Epitácio Pessoa, President of Brazil (d. 1942)
1866 - Gustav Aschaffenburg, German psychiatrist/criminalologist
1871 - Sigurd Lie, composer
1873 - Leo Baeck, rabbi/president (World Union for Progressive Judaism)
1875 - Alfred P. Sloan, American long-time president and chairman of General Motors (d. 1966)
1879 - Dezső Lauber, Hungarian sportsman (d. 1966)
1882 - James Gleason, NYC, writer/actor (Bishop's Wife, Flying Fool)
1883 - Douglas Fairbanks, Denver CO, actor (Zorro/3 Musketeers/Robin Hood)
1884 - Corrado Gini, Italian sociologist (d. 1965)
1887 - Thoralf Skolem, Norwegian mathematician (d. 1963)
1888 - Adrian Roland Holst, Dutch poet (Raged & Tired)
1888 - Zack Wheat, American baseball player (d. 1972)
1889 - Ernst Niekisch, German politician (d. 1967)
1890 - Herbert Marshall, London, actor (Murder, Razor's Edge, Little Foxes)
1890 - Virginia Eames, Ft Davis TX, entertainer
1891 - Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1974)
1893 - Ulysses S. Grant IV, American geologist and paleontologist (d. 1977)
1896 - Felix Martin Julius Steiner, German Heer and Waffen-SS officer (d. 1966)
1898 - Frank McHugh, actor (Front Page, Gold Diggers 1935, Mighty Joe Young)
1898 - Joseph Hazen, lawyer
1898 - Scott O'Dell, American author (d. 1989)
1900 - Hans Frank, German Nazi war criminal (d. 1946)
1901 - Edmund Rubbra, Northampton England, composer (Morning Watch) [or 3/23]
1902 - Mark Lothar, composer
1903 - Walter Reisch, US, screenwriter (Ninotchka, Gaslight, Titanic)
1906 - Hellmuth Christian Wolff, composer
1907 - Kenneth Allen, engineer
1907 - Matthew Campbell, British senior civil servant
1908 - John Bardeen, US, physicist (transistor, Nobel 1956, 1972)
1908 - Max Abramovitz, US architect (Lincoln Center, UN Building)
1909 - Edwin Arrowsmith, diplomat
1910 - Artie Shaw, [Arthur Arshawsky], NYC, bandleader (Come'on my House)
1910 - Franz Jozef Kline, US expressionist painter
1910 - Hugh Casson CH, architect
1910 - Scatman Crothers, [Benjamin], Terre Haute IN, actor (Zapped, Shining)
1910 - Margaret Wise Brown, American author (d. 1952)
1911 - Boris Kremenliev, composer
1911 - Melvin M Payne, president (National Geographic Society)
1912 - David Barran, CEO (Midland Bank, England)
1912 - John Payne, Roanoke Va, actor (Restless Gun)
1912 - Marius Goring, Isle of Wight, actor (Herr Palitz-Holocaust)
1912 - Samuel Curran, vice chancellor (Strathclyde University)
1913 - Ian Graeme, major-general
1913 - Ruth Fernandez legendary singer from Puerto Rico
1914 - Alec Dickson, founder (VSO)
1914 - Barbara Ward, economist/writer (Only One Earth)
1914 - Leo Lerman, actor/manager/critic (Dance Magazine)
1914 - Travis Kemp, dancer/teacher
1915 - Clyde Wiegand, physicist
1916 - M Jean Francaix, composer
1916 - Margaret Hayden Rector, playwright (living legacy award 1995)
1917 - Edward Norton Lorenz, American mathematician and meteorologist (d. 2008)
1918 - Bulent Arel, composer
1918 - Bumps Blackwell, rocker
1918 - Denis Compton, cricketer (England batsman 1938-56 & Arsenal forward)
1919 - Betty Garrett, St Joseph Mo, actress (Irene-All in the Family)
1919 - Robert KJE Antonissen, South African literary
1919 - Ruth Fernandez, Ponce, Puerto Rico, singer (When you Return), politician, (d. 2012)
1920 - Helen O'Connell, Lima Ohio, singer (Green Eyes, Anapola)
1920 - Sid Melton, Bkln NY, actor (Alf-Green Acres, Charlie-Danny Thomas)
1921 - Humphrey Lyttelton, jazz musician/actor (It's Great to Be Young)
1921 - James [Benjamin] Blish, US/UK, sci-fi author (Hugo, Star Trek Reader)
1921 - Loren Tindall, OK, actor (Meet Me on Broadway, Girl of Limberlost)
1921 - Montague Modlyn, broadcaster
1921 - Sanderson Temple, circuit judge
1922 - Dennis Compton, author/crickleter
1923 - Alicia de Larrocha, Copenhagen Denmark, pianist (Orquesta Sinfonica)
1923 - Nirode Chowdhury, Indian cricket pace bowler (1949-52)
1924 - Desmond Carrington, British radio host (Jim-Calamity the Cow)
1924 - Michael McCrum, master (Corpus Christi College Cambridge)
1924 - V N Swamy, cricketer (one Test India v NZ 1955, DNB, 0-45)
1925 - Joshua Lederberg, American molecular biologist, Nobel laureate (d. 2008)
1925 - Mac Wiseman, American musician
1928 - Nigel Davenport, Cambridge England, actor (Without a Clue, Masada)
1928 - Nina Otkalenko, USSR, 800m runner (9 world records)
1928 - Rosemary Clooney, Kentucky, singer/paper towels spokeswoman (Coronet)
1928 - Jeannie Carson, English actress and comedian
1928 - Pauline Julien, French Canadian singer (d. 1998)
1929 - Joe Modise, South African commandant of Umkhonto we Sizwe (1965- )
1929 - Ulla Jacobson, Swedish actress (One Summer of Happiness)
1930 - Richard Anuszkiewicz, Erie, Pa, painter
1930 - Friedrich Achleitner, German poet
1931 - Barbara Barrie, Chicago, actress (Breaking Away, Barney Miller)
1932 - James Lester, MP
1932 - John Lyons, Cambridge England, Master (Trinity Hall)
1933 - Bruce A Peterson, US test pilot (M2, HL-10)
1933 - Gerrit J M Braks, Dutch minister of agriculture & land & fishing (CDA)
1933 - Joan Henrietta Collins, London, actress (Alexis-Dynasty, Bitch)
1934 - Malcolm Gill, deputy head (Bank for Intl Settlements)
1934 - Robert A Moog, inventor (Moog Synthesizer)
1935 - Juliet Campbell, British ambassador (to Luxembourg)
1935 - Lord Grenfell, head of External affairs European office, world bank
1936 - Charles Kimbrough, actor (Murphy Brown)
1936 - Douglas John Gorman, businessman
1936 - Robert Sangster, horse owner/trainer
1936 - Ingeborg Hallstein, German opera singer
1937 - John Mazza, horse trainer
1938 - John R Miller, (Rep-R-WA, 1985- )
1938 - Peter Preston, editor (Guardian)
1939 - Ron Stevens, horse trainer
1939 - Michel Colombier, French composer and songwriter (d. 2004)
1941 - Jackson Hill, composer
1942 - K. Raghavendra Rao, Indian film director
1942 - Gabriel Liiceanu, Romanian philosopher
1942 - Zalman King, Trenton, New Jersey, actor and director (Wild Orchid), (d. 2012)
1943 - John Newcombe, Australia, tennis pro (Wimbledon 1967, 70, 71)
1943 - Lars-Ake Nilsson, diplomat
1943 - Norman Johnson, singer/songwriter
1943 - Peter Kenilorea, PM Solomon Islands
1944 - General George Norman Johnson, US singer (Down at the Beach Club)
1944 - Giles Smith, TV journalist
1944 - Olga Maitland, MP
1944 - Ramon "Tiki" Fulwood, US drummer (Funkadelic, Knee Deep)
1945 - Elliott Bernerd, English broker/multi-millionaire
1945 - Lauren Chapin, actress (Kathy-Father Knows Best)
1945 - Misty Morgan, country keyboardist (duo with Jack Blanchard)
1945 - Padmarajan, Indian film director (d. 1991)
1946 - Tom Dorris, horse trainer
1946 - Frederik de Groot, Dutch actor
1946 - H. Paul Shuch, American SETI scientist
1947 - Ann Hui, director (Boat People)
1947 - Jonathan Pryce, North Wales, stage actor (Miss Saigon)
1947 - Bernard Comrie, English linguist
1947 - Jane Kenyon, American poet (d. 1995)
1948 - Reggie Cleveland, baseball player
1949 - Alan Garcia Perez, pres of Peru (1985-90)
1950 - Linda Thompson, Memphis Tn, actress (Hee Haw)
1951 - Anatoli Karpov, USSR, world chess champion (1975-85)
1951 - Judy Rodman, Riverside California, country singer (Girls Ride Horses Too)
1951 - Antonis Samaras, Greek politician
1952 - "Marvelous" Marvin Hagler, NJ, middleweight boxing champ (1982-83)
1952 - Deborah Adair, actress (Tracey-Dynasty, Kate-Day of Our Life)
1952 - James Mankey, rocker (Concrete Blonde)
1952 - Anne-Marie David, French singer
1955 - John Stevens, MEP
1956 - Ursula Plassnik, Austrian politician
1956 - Mark Shaw, New Zealand rugby footballer
1956 - Buck Showalter, American baseball player and manager
1957 - Jimmy McShane, Pop singer (Baltimora-Tarzan Boy)
1957 - Mark Arnold, American actor
1958 - Shelly West, Cleve OH, country singer (Red Hot, West by West)
1958 - Thomas Reiter, Germany, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-22)
1958 - Mitch Albom, American writer
1958 - François Feldman, French singer
1959 - Linden Ashby, actor (Mortal Kombat)
1959 - Marcella Mesker, Netherlands, tennis star
1961 - Dave Babych, Edmonton, NHL defenseman (Vancouver Canucks)
1961 - Drew Carey, Cleve Oh, actor/comedian (Drew-Drew Carey Show)
1961 - Kevin Romine, baseball player
1962 - Karen Duffy, [Duff], NYC, MTV VJ/actress (Meet Wally Sparks)
1962 - Keith Brantley, Scott AFB Ill, marathoner (Olympics-96)
1962 - Imran Anwar, Pakistani Internet pioneer and American TV personality
1964 - Kenny Gattison, NBA forward (Orlando Magic)
1964 - Staci Greason, Denver, actress (Isabella Toscando-Days of Our Lives)
1964 - Ruth Metzler-Arnold, member of the Swiss Federal Council
1965 - James Hasty, NFL cornerback (KC Chiefs)
1965 - Lilian Drescher, Venezuela, tennis star
1965 - Woorkeri Venkat Raman, cricketer (Indian slow left-arm all-rounder)
1965 - Tom Tykwer, German film director
1965 - Manuel Sanchís Hontiyuelo, Real Madrid footballer
1966 - Gary Roberts, North York, NHL left wing (Calgary Flames)
1966 - Graeme Hick, cricketer (in Zimbabwe Massive run-scorer for Worcs)
1967 - Craig John Monk, Auckland NZ, finn class yachter (Olympics-96)
1967 - Anna Ibrisagic, Swedish politician
1968 - Daryl Hobbs, NFL wide receiver (Oakland Raiders)
1968 - Tiffany Rochelle-Anderson, Laguna Beach Ca, WPVA (Nationals-13th-1995)
1968 - Guinevere Turner, American actress
1969 - Pat Hurst, San Leandro CA, LPGA golfer (1995 Rolex Rookie of the Year)
1969 - Ramon Caraballo, baseball player
1970 - Grahae Hick, cricketer
1970 - Ricky Gutierrez, Miami FL, infielder (Houston Astros)
1970 - Yigal Amir, Israeli assassin of Yitzhak Rabin
1970 - Nanette Burstein, American director/producer
1970 - Bryan Herta, American race car driver
1970 - Blake Schwendiman, American author
1971 - Issac Booth, NFL cornerback/safety (Cleveland Browns)
1971 - Joseph Rogers, CFL receiver (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1971 - Marshall Boze, San Manual AZ, pitcher (Milwaukee Brewers)
1971 - Laurel Holloman, American actress
1972 - Isabelle Fijalkowski, WNBA center/forward (Cleveland Rockers)
1972 - Marco van Hoogdalem, Dutch soccer player (Roda JC)
1972 - Rene Ingoglia, running back (Buffalo Bills)
1972 - Shannon Brown, NFL defensive tackle (Atlanta Falcons)
1972 - Rubens Barrichello, Brazilian formula one driver
1973 - Verna Vasquez, Miss Universe-best swimsuit (Curacao, 1997)
1974 - Duane Clemons, linebacker (Minnesota Vikings)
1974 - Jewel Kilcher, Payson, Utah, American singer-songwriter (Pieces of You)
1974 - Kimber West, Atlanta GA, playmate (Feb 1997)
1974 - Ken Jennings, American game show contestant
1974 - Matt Hindle, Canadian bobsledder
1974 - Mónica Naranjo, Spanish singer
1975 - Vincent Goossens, soccer player (Dordrecht '90)
1975 - Kim Sung-soo, South Korean actor
1976 - Kelly Marie Monaco, Phila PA, playmate (April, 1997)
1976 - Melanie Joyce Bell, Vernon New Jersey, Miss America-New Jersey (1997)
1976 - Ricardinho, Brazilian footballer
1978 - Scott Raynor, American drummer (formerly of blink-182)
1978 - Mike González, American baseball player
1978 - Carolyn Moos, American model and professional basketball player
1979 - Brian Campbell, Canadian ice hockey player
1979 - Kirk Saarloos, American baseball player
1979 - Rasual Butler, American basketball player
1980 - Sarah Louise Catherwood, Christchurch NZ, 4x200m swimmer (Oly-96)
1980 - Theofanis Gekas, Greek footballer
1980 - Lane Garrison, American actor
1981 - Gwenno Saunders, Former Welsh dancer, now singer with The Pipettes
1982 - Cyrill Gloor, Swiss footballer
1982 - Malene Mortensen, Danish singer
1982 - Tristan Prettyman, American musician
1983 - Cristiano Bilanzola, Canadian musician and film-maker
1983 - Alex Shelley, American professional wrestler
1983 - Heidi Range, English singer (Sugababes)
1984 - Adam Wylie, actor (Picket Fences)
1985 - Ross Wallace, Scottish footballer
1986 - Ruben Zadkovich, Australian soccer player
1988 - Morgan Pressel, American golfer

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 23, 2013, 09:26:08 AM

This Day in History for 23rd May


Famous Deaths

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Pirate Legend William Kidd (1701)                    American Outlaw                                    Oil Industrialist
                                                                       Bonnie Parker (1934)                        John D Rockefeller (1937)


1125 - Hendrik V, Roman catholics German king/emperor (1098/1111-25), dies
1304 - Jehan de Lescurel, French poet and composer
1423 - Benedict XIII, [Pedro the Luna], Spanish Pope (1394-1423), dies
1498 - Girolamo Savonarola, dictator of Florence (1494-98), hanged at 45
1523 - Ashikaga Yoshitane, Japanese shogun (b. 1466)
1524 - Ismail I, Shah of Persia (b. 1487)
1568 - Adolf van Nassau, German son of Willem the Rich, dies in battle at 27
1627 - Luis de Gongora y Argote, poet/writer, dies
1648 - Luis de Nain, painter, dies
1662 - John Gauden, English bishop and writer (b. 1605)
1668 - Philips Wouwerman, Haarlems painter, buried
1670 - Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1610)
1684 - Adriaen Backer, Amsterdams painter buried at about 48
1691 - Adrien Auzout, French astronomer (b. 1622)
1701 - William Kidd, Scottish pirate, hanged at London's Execution Dock
1752 - William Bradford, English-born printer (b. 1663)
1754 - John Wood, architect/town planner, dies
1783 - James Otis, American lawyer, dies
1785 - William Woollett, engraver, dies
1786 - Móric Beňovský, Slovak officer and explorer, King of Madagascar (b. 1746)
1813 - Geraud Duroc, French general (b. 1772)
1825 - Ras Gugsa of Yejju, Regent of the Emperor of Ethiopia
1834 - Charles Wesley, composer, dies at 76
1838 - John W Janssens, gov-gen (Cape Colony), dies at 75
1841 - Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher/theologist, dies at 76
1842 - Jose de Espronceda y Delgado, Spanish revolutionary/poet, dies at 34
1846 - Franciszek Ksawery Drucki-Lubecki, Polish politician (b. 1778)
1851 - Lucas Pieter Roodbaard, architect, dies at 69
1855 - Charles Robert Malden, English explorer (b. 1797)
1857 - Augustin Louis Cauchy, French mathematician (b. 1789)
1860 - Albert Richard Smith, author/lecturer, dies
1867 - Archibald Alison, Scottish historian, dies at 74
1868 - Kit Carson, American trapper, scout, and Indian agent (b. 1809)
1875 - Johann Wilhelm Mangold, composer, dies at 78
1881 - Kit Carson, frontiersman, dies
1881 - Leopold von Ranke, historian, dies
1883 - Cyprian K Norwid, Polish painter/poet/playwright (Wanda), dies
1886 - Leopold von Ranke, German historian (b. 1795)
1887 - Ludwig Mathias Lindeman, composer, dies at 74
1891 - Ignace Xavier Joseph Leybach, composer, dies at 73
1893 - Anton von Schmerling, Austrian statesman (b. 1805)
1895 - Franz E Neumann, German mineralogist/physicist, dies at 96
1897 - Aleko Konstantinov, Bulgarian writer (To Chicago & Back), dies at 34
1905 - Martinus W van AA Meerbeke, head-editor (Time), dies at 75
1906 - Henrik Johan Ibsen, Norwegian playwright (Doll House), dies at 78
1908 - Francois Coppee, French poet, dies
1920 - Svetozar Boroević, Austrian field marshal (b. 1856)
1926 - Hans Koessler, composer, dies at 73
1934 - Bonnie Parker, American outlaw (Bonnie & Clyde), killed in police ambush at 23
1934 - Clyde Barrow, outlaw (Bonnie & Clyde), killed in police ambush
1937 - John Davison Rockfeller, industrialist, dies at 97 in Ormond Beach Fla
1937 - John D Rockefeller, American industrialist and philanthropist, dies at 97
1938 - Philip Kleintjes, republic leader, dies at 70
1940 - Andrej N Rimski-Korssakov, Russian musicologist/son of Nikolai, dies
1940 - Paul Nizan, French journalist/writer (Ce Soir/Aden Arabia), dies at 35
1941 - Lord Herbert Austin, motor manufacturer, dies
1941 - Slavko Osterc, composer, dies at 45
1947 - C F Ramuz, writer, dies at 68
1952 - Georg Alfred Schumann, composer, dies at 85
1954 - H R Bromley-Davenport, cricketer (batted in 4 Tests for England), dies
1960 - Georges Claude, engineer/inventor, dies
1961 - Joan Davis, comedic actress (I Married Joan), dies at 53
1965 - David Smith, sculptor, dies
1965 - Earl Webb, American baseball player (b. 1897)
1966 - Ruth Gates, Denton TX, actress (Aunt Jenny-Mama), dies at 79
1966 - Demchugdongrub, Mongolian politician (b. 1902)
1967 - Philip Coolidge, actor (I Want to Live, Tingler), dies at 58
1967 - Sanne Sannes, photographer, dies at 30
1968 - James Burke, actor (Ellery Queen, Army Surgeon), dies at 81
1968 - Merle Kendrick, orchestra leader (Window on the World), dies at 72
1969 - Diane Aubrey, actress (Haunted Strangler), dies of heart attack at 79
1969 - Jimmy McHugh, composer (Can't Give You Anything But Love), dies at 74
1969 - Peter Alma, painter/graphic artist, dies at 83
1970 - Nydia Westman, actress (Going My Way, Young Mr Bobbins), dies at 68
1973 - Athena Lorde, actress (Fuzz, Skin Game, Firecreek), dies at 57
1974 - Kathleen Cannell, writer, dies
1975 - Jackie "Moms" Mabley, comedienne (Amazing Grace), dies at 81
1979 - Hubert van Doorne, auto manufacturer (DAF), dies at 79
1981 - George Jessel, US comic/toastmaster (Diary of Young Comic), dies at 83
1981 - Rayner Heppenstall, English novelist (d. 1911)
1981 - David Lewis, Canadian labour lawyer and politician (b. 1909)
1983 - Albert Claude, Belgian biologist (Nobel 1974), dies at 84
1986 - Sterling Hayden, actor (Blue & Gray), dies at 70
1987 - Karel Albert, Flemish composer (Marieken van Nymeghen), dies at 86
1988 - David Schoenbrun, CBS broadcast bureau head (Wash, Paris), dies at 73
1989 - Georgy Tovstonogov, Russian theatre director (b. 1915)
1991 - Jean van Houte, Belgian premier, dies
1991 - Peter T Thwaites, British brig-gen/playwright (Love or money), dies
1991 - William Sinnot, Scottish pop musician (Shamen), dies at 30
1991 - Wilhelm Kempff, German pianist and composer (b. 1895)
1992 - Atahualpa Yupanqui, Argentine singer/composer/poet/guitarist, dies
1992 - Giovanni Falcone, anti-mafia judge (Palermo), murdered
1993 - James Millhollin, actor (Anston Foster-Grindl), dies at 77
1994 - Carl Althoff, German circus director, dies at 82
1994 - Joe Pass, US jazz guitarist (The Trio), dies at 65
1994 - Ray Candy, American professional wrestler (b. 1951)
1996 - Dorothy Hyson, actress (Spare a Copper, Sing as We Go), dies at 81
1996 - Kronid Arkadyevich Lyubarsky, human rights activist, dies at 61
1996 - Patrick Cargill, actor (Up Pompeii, Magic Christian), dies at 77
1996 - Rob Hall, New Zealand high altitude climber (b. 1941)
1996 - Scott Fischer, American high altitude climber (b. 1955)
1999 - Owen Hart, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1965)
2002 - Sam Snead, American golfer (b. 1912)
2003 - Jean Yanne, French actor and director (b. 1933)
2004 - Ramon Margalef, Spanish scientist (b. 1919)
2006 - Clifford Antone, American businessman (b. 1949)
2006 - Lloyd Bentsen, American politician (b. 1921)
2006 - Frits Bernard, American activist (b. 1920)
2006 - Kazimierz Górski, Polish footballer (b. 1921)
2008 - David Mitton, British television director (b. 1939)
2009 - Roh Moo-hyun, 16th President of the Republic of Korea (b. 1946)
2010 - Jose Lima, Dominican baseball player (b. 1972)
2010 - Simon Monjack, English actor, producer, & writer (b. 1970)
2010 - Gane Todorovoski, Macedonian literary critic, poet, & publicist (b. 1929)
2010 - Leonida Georgievna, Grand Duchess Of Russia (b. 1914)
2012 - Joseph Lesniewski, soldier (Easy Company, 101st Airborne), dies at 91
2012 - Paul Fussell, American historian, dies from natural causes at 88

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 24, 2013, 08:34:21 AM

This Day in History for 24th May


Historical Events

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Co-founder of the Methodist                    Inventor Samuel Morse                        Chancellor Otto Von Bismarck
Movement John Wesley

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Inventor Thomas Edison                         Dictator Fidel Castro                               British Prime Minister
                                                                                                                              Margaret Thatcher

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Parody Singer and Comedian                     Comedian Tim Allen
Weird Al Yankovic   


1086 - Abbott Dauferio/Desiderius becomes Pope Victor III
1153 - Malcolm IV becomes King of Scots
1218 - The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt.
1276 - Magnus Ladulås is crowned King of Sweden in Uppsala Cathedral.
1300 - King Philip IV occupies Flanders, Earl Gwijde captured
1370 - Hanzesteden signs peace treaty with Danish king Waldemar IV
1487 - Imposter Lambert Simnel ceremony crowned as King Edward VI of Dublin
1595 - Nomenclator of Leiden University Library appears, the first printed catalog of an institutional
           library.
1621 - The Protestant Union is formally dissolved.
1653 - German Parliament selects Ferdinand II king of Austria
1658 - Battle of Dunes (Spanish-French War) fought
1660 - English king Charles II visits Netherlands
1667 - French troops attack into Southern Netherlands
1689 - English Parliament guarantees freedom of religion for Protestants
1697 - English King William III travels through northern Europe
1726 - -26] People's revolt due to increase in gin/brandy tax
1738 - Methodist Church forms
1738 - John Wesley is converted, essentially launching the Methodist movement; the day is
           celebrated annually by Methodists as Aldersgate Day.
1798 - Irish Rebellion of 1798 led by the United Irishmen against British rule begins.
1809 - Dartmoor Prison opens to house French prisoners of war
1815 - George Evans discovers Lachlan River, Australia
1818 - Gen Andrew Jackson captures Pensacola Florida
1822 - Battle of Pichincha, Bolívar secures independence of Quito from Spain
1824 - Pope Leo XII proclaims a universal jubilee
1829 - Pope Pius VIII issues his program for pontificate
1830 - "Mary Had A Little Lamb," is published
1830 - 1st passenger rail service in US (Baltimore & Elliots Mill, Maryland)
1832 - The First Kingdom of Greece is declared in the London Conference.
1844 - Samuel Morse taps out "What hath God wrought" (1st telegraph message)
1846 - Gen Zachary Taylor captures Monterey in Mexican War
1854 - Anthony Burns, slave, arrested by US Deputy marshals in Boston
1854 - Lincoln University, Penn, 1st Black college in US founded by John Miller Dickey and Sarah
           Emlen Cresson
1856 - Pottawatomie Massacre took place in Kansas
1861 - Alexandria, VA occupied by Federal troops
1861 - Maj Gen Benjamin Butler declares slaves "contraband of war"
1862 - Beardslee field telegraph used for 1st time
1862 - Westminster Bridge across Thames opens
1866 - Berkeley, California named (for George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne)
1870 - Memoria of Jackson Kemper, 1st Missionary Bishop in US
1873 - Leo Delibes' opera "Le Roi l'a Dit," premieres in Paris
1877 - 5th Preakness: C Holloway aboard Cloverbrook wins in 2:45.5
1878 - CA Parker (Harvard) wins 1st American bike race, Beacon Park Boston
1879 - 7th Preakness: L Hughes aboard Harold wins in 2:40.5
1881 - Canadian ferry Princess Victoria sinks near London Ontario, 200 die
1881 - Turkey cedes Thessaly and Arta back to Greece.
1883 - Brooklyn Bridge opened by Pres Arthur & Gov Cleveland
1884 - Anti-Monopoly party & Greenback Party forms People's Party in US
1887 - Sultan Bargash of Zanzibar grants E Afr Association at East African harbors
1890 - Caprivi succeeds Bismarck on as chancellor of Germany
1890 - Geo Train & Sam Wall circle world in record 67 days, Tacoma-Tacoma
1890 - Tivoli Theater of Varities opens in London
1895 - Henry Irving becomes 1st theatrical knight
1899 - 1st auto repair shop opens (Boston)
1900 - 34th Belmont: Nash Turner aboard Ildrim wins in 2:21¼
1901 - Seventy-eight miners die in the Caerphilly pit disaster in South Wales.
1902 - Empire Day 1st celebrated in Britain
1902 - Cleve's Bill Bradley is 1st ALer to hit a HR run in 4 consecutive games, not duplicated until
           Babe Ruth does it June 25, 1918
1905 - 39th Belmont: Eugene Hildebrand aboard Tanya wins in 2:08
1908 - Belgium Catholic socialist/liberal parliamentary election
1908 - John Masefields "Tragedy of Nan," premieres in London
1909 - Bristol University granted Royal Charter
1915 - Thomas Edison invents telescribe to record telephone conversations
1916 - Conscription begins in Britain
1916 - French driven out of Fort Douaumont after 500 killed or injured
1916 - Last British-Indian contract workers arrive in Suriname
1916 - US pilot William Thaw shoots down a German Fokker
1918 - Cleveland Indians Stan Coveleski sets club record for most innings pitched (19)
1918 - Cleveland beats Yankees 3-2 in 19th inning
1921 - 1st parliament for Northern Ireland elected
1921 - British Legion forms
1922 - Record temperature in Netherlands for May (35.6°C)
1922 - Russian-Italian trade agreement signed
1926 - Paavo Nurmi runs world record 3000 m (8:25.4)
1928 - Record 12 future Hall of Famers take the field, as Yanks beat A's 9-7
1928 - Umberto Nobile flies airship over North Pole again
1929 - Detroit Tigers beats Chicago White Sox, 6-5, in 21 innings
1930 - 1st woman to fly from England to Australia solo, lands (Amy Johnson)
1930 - Bradman scores 252* Australia v Surrey, 290 mins, 29 fours
1930 - Ruth homers in both games of a doubleheader, giving him 9 in one week
1931 - 1st air-conditioned train installed-B&O Railroad
1933 - Dmitri Shostakovitch's Preludes, premieres in Moscow
1934 - Colombia & Peru sign accord about harbor city Leticia
1935 - 1st major league night baseball game, in Cincinnati (Reds 2, Phil 1)
1936 - Dutch bishops forbid membership of Nazi party
1936 - Tony Lazerri 2 grand slams (11 RBIs); Ben Chapman sets record by reaching 1st 7 times
           safely, Yanks beat A's 25-2
1940 - 1st night game at NY's Polo Grounds (Giants 8, Braves 1)
1940 - 1st night game at St Louis Sportsman Park (Indians 3, Browns 2)
1940 - Dutch Queen Wilhelmina speaks on BBC radio
1940 - Dutch army demobilizes
1940 - German tanks reach Atrecht France
1940 - Hitler affirms Gen von Rundstedts "Stopbevel"
1940 - NY Giants rip Boston Bees 8-1 in 1st night game at Polo Grounds
1941 - Bismarck sinks British battle cruiser HMS Hood, 1,416 die 3 survive
1943 - Admiral Donitz stops U-boat in Atlantic Ocean
1943 - U-441 shoots Sunderland seaplane down over Gulf of Biskaje
1944 - Enver Hoxha becomes head of Albania anti fascists
1944 - Icelandic voters severe all ties with Denmark
1946 - Bill Dickey replaces Joe McCarthy as Yankee manager
1948 - Benjamin Brittens "Beggar's Opera," premieres in Cambridge
1951 - Racial segregation in Wash DC restaurants ruled illegal
1951 - US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)
1953 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Doctor Mellifluus
1954 - 1st rocket attains 150 mi (241 km) altitude, White Sands, NM
1954 - Dr Peter Murray Marshall becomes 1st black to head an AMA unit
1954 - German airline Lufthansa forms
1954 - IBM announces vacuum tube "electronic" brain that could perform 10 million operations an
           hour
1956 - Conclusion of the Sixth Buddhist Council on Vesak Day, marking the 2,500 year anniversary
           after the Lord Buddha's Parinibbāna.
1957 - Anti American riots breakout in Taipei, Taiwan
1957 - Heavy earthquake strikes Colombia
1958 - "New Girl in Town" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 432 perfs
1958 - Pres Batista opens offensive against Fidel Castro's rebellion
1958 - UP & International News Service merge into United Press International
1959 - 1st house with built-in bomb shelter exhibited (Pleasant Hills Pa)
1959 - Empire Day renamed Commonwealth Day in England
1960 - 1 millionth Dutch telephone installed
1961 - 27 Freedom Riders arrested in Jackson, Mississippi
1961 - Explorer (12) fails to reach Earth orbit
1961 - Cyprus enters the Council of Europe.
1962 - M Scott Carpenter aboard Aurora 7 launched into Earth orbit
1963 - 1st Lockheed A-12 to crash, CIA pilot Ken Collins ejects safely
1964 - 18th Tony Awards: Luther & Hello Dolly win
1964 - Beatles' 3rd appearance on Ed Sullivan
1964 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open Invitational
1964 - Longest HR (471') in Balt Memorial Stadium (Harmon Killebrew, Minn)
1964 - Panic in Lima Peru soccer stadium, kills 300
1965 - Supreme Court declares federal law allowing post office to intercept communist propaganda is
           unconstitutional
1966 - "Mame" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 1508 performances
1967 - AFL grants a franchise to Cincinnati Bengals
1968 - Haiti closes down shortwave station 4VEH for 40 days
1968 - Mick Jagger & Marianne Faithfull arrested for drug possession
1968 - Pres De Gaulle proposes referendum & students set fire to Paris bourse
1968 - FLQ separatists bomb the U.S. consulate in Quebec City.
1969 - Beatles' "Get Back," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 5 weeks
1970 - Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Bluegrass Golf Invitational
1970 - Peter Queen quits Fleetwood Mac to join a religious cult
1970 - The drilling of the Kola Superdeep Borehole begins in the Soviet Union.
1971 - A commuter bus plunges into Panama Canal, killing 38 of 43 aboard
1972 - Glasgow Rangers wins 12th Europe Cup II at Barcelona
1972 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1973 - Earl Jellicoe resigns as Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the Lords.
1974 - Dean Martin Show, last airs on NBC-TV
1975 - Dutch government of De Uyl decides to obtain an F-16
1976 - 1st commercial SST flight to North America (Concorde to Wash DC)
1976 - Muhammad Ali TKOs Richard Dunn in 5 for heavyweight boxing title in Munich
1976 - In the Judgment of Paris, wine testers rate wines from California higher than their French
           counterparts, challenging the notion of France being the foremost producer of the world's
           best wines.
1977 - USSR President Podgorny resigns
1978 - Dutch Investment bill (WIR) law goes into effect
1979 - Billy Martin issues a public apology to Reno sportswriter Ray Hagar
1979 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1980 - "Rock Lobster" by B-52's hits #56
1980 - Iran rejects a call to World Court to release US hostages
1980 - Stanley Cup: NY Islanders beat Phila Flyers, 4 games to 2
1981 - Bobby Unser wins, loses, & wins a controversial Indy 500
1981 - Hostage situation ends at Central Bank in Barcelona Spain
1981 - Kathy Hite wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
1982 - Liberation of Khorramshahr, Iranians recapture of the port city of Khorramshahr from the
           Iraqis during the Iran-Iraq War.
1983 - Fred Sinowatz succeeds Bruno Kreisky as chancellor of Austria
1983 - Supreme Court rules government can deny tax breaks to schools that racially discriminated
           against students
1984 - "Wiz" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 13 performances
1984 - Det Tigers win AL record 17th straight road game
1985 - "View to a Kill" premieres in US
1985 - -25) cyclone hits Bangladesh; about 10,000 die
1986 - Margaret Thatcher becomes 1st British PM to visit Israel
1986 - Reginald Huffstetler trode water for 985 hrs
1986 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Calgary Flames, 4 games to 1
1987 - 33rd LPGA Championship won by Jane Geddes
1987 - Al Unser Sr, 47, wins his 4th Indy 500
1988 - John Moschitta set record for fast talking: 586 words per minute
1988 - Porntip Nakhirunkanok, 19, of Thailand, crowned 37th Miss Universe
1988 - Power outage in Boston Garden in NHL's Stanley Cup finals
1988 - Section 28 is passed as law by Parliament in the United Kingdom.
1989 - "Indiana Jones & Last Crusade" premieres
1989 - AC Milan wins 34th Europe Cup 1 at Barcelona
1989 - French war criminal Paul Touvier arrested in monastery in Nice
1989 - NHL's NY Rangers fire GM & coach Phil Esposito
1989 - Weird Al Yankovic records his UHF soundtrack
1989 - NY Yankee hurler Lee Gutterman sets record of pitching 30-2/3 innings before giving up his
          1st run of season
1989 - Sonia Sutcliffe, wife of the Yorkshire Ripper, is awarded £600,000 in damages (later reduced
           to £60,000 on appeal) after winning a libel action against Private Eye.
1990 - Andre Dawson receives a record 5 intentional walks in a game
1990 - Stanley Cup: Edmonton Oilers beat Boston Bruins, 4 games to 1
1990 - A car carrying American Earth First! activists Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney explodes in 
           Oakland, California, critically injuring both.
1992 - Al Unser Jr wins Indy 500
1992 - Colleen Walker wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
1992 - Pat Bradley wins J C Penney/LPGA Skins Game Golf Tournament
1992 - Despite trailing 7-1, NY Yanks tie Milwaukee Brewers & then score 1 in 9th to avoid 5th
           straight extra inning game
1993 - Eritrea achieved independence from Ethiopia after 30-year civil war
1993 - Kim Basinger files for bankruptcy to avoid paying $7.4M settlement
1993 - Kurd rebellion kills 33 soldiers & 5 citizens in Turkey
1994 - Poison singer Bret Michaels gets into a car crash
1996 - "Spy Hard," starring Leslie Nielsen is released
1997 - Actor Tim Allen arrested for drunk driving in Mich
1997 - STS 84 (Atlantis 19), lands
1997 - Telstar-5 Proton Launch, Successful
1998 - Indianapolis 500 race
1999 - Venezuela enters the Antarctic Treaty System.
2000 - Israeli troops withdraw from southern Lebanon after 22 years of occupation.
2001 - Mountain climbing: 15-year-old Sherpa Temba Tsheri becomes the youngest person to climb
           to the top of Mount Everest.
2001 - The Versailles wedding hall disaster in Jerusalem, Israel, kills 23 and injures over 200 in
           Israel's worst-ever civil disaster.
2001 - The Democrats gain control of the U.S. Senate for the first time since 1994 when Senator
           James Jeffords of Vermont abandons the Republican Party and declares himself an
           independent.
2002 - Russia and the United States sign the Moscow Treaty.
2004 - Communications in North Korea: North Korea bans mobile phones.

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 24, 2013, 08:35:29 AM

This Day in History for 24th May


Famous Weddings

1935 - Swedish princess Ingrid marries Danish crown prince Frederik (IX)
1986 - Country Singer Garth Brooks marries Sandy
2002 - Princess Martha Louise of Norway (30) weds author Ari Behn (29) in Trondheim
2003 - Oscar winning-actress Kate Winslet (27) weds director Sam Mendes (36) in Anguilla Island
2003 - Actor and film director Kenneth Branagh (42) weds film art director Lindsay Brunnock in a
           secret ceremony

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 24, 2013, 08:57:31 AM

This Day in History for 24th May


Famous Birthdays

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Singer-Songwriter                              Country Singer Rosanne Cash (1955)             Actor John C. Reilly (1965)
Bob Dylan (1941) 


15 BC - Julius Caesar Germanicus, Roman commander (d. 19)
1522 - John Jewel, English bishop (d. 1571)
1544 - William Gilbert, Essex England, physicist (researcher into magnetism)
1605 - Nikon, [Nikita Minin], patriarch of Russian-orthodox church
1610 - Giovanni Battista Chinelli, composer
1616 - John Maitland, Duke of Lauderdale (d. 1682)
1619 - Philips Wouwerman(s), Dutch painter
1650 - John Churchill, 1st duke of Marlborough, English general strategist
1671 - Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1737)
1677 - Alexandre de Villenueve, composer
1689 - Daniel Finch, 8th Earl of Winchilsea, English politician (d. 1769)
1736 - Juan de Sesse y Balaguer, composer
1738 - George III, King of Great Britain (1760-1820)
1743 - Jean-Paul Marat, France, revolutionist
1751 - Charles Emanuel II, King of Sardina (1796-1802)
1753 - Oliver Cromwell, Burlington NJ, decorated black soldier who served with Washington in US
           War of Independence
1754 - Giacomo Conti, composer
1767 - Joseph Ignaz Schnabel, composer
1781 - Louis-Francois Dauprat, composer/horn player
1794 - William Whewell, British philosopher (History of Inductive Science)
1803 - Charles LJL Bonaparte, Corsican/French prince of Canino/Musignano
1803 - Alexander von Nordmann, Finnish zoologist (d. 1866)
1807 - Cornelis E van Koetsveld, vicar/literature
1807 - Thomas Duncan, painter
1810 - Abraham Geiger, theologian/author/leader of Reform Judaism
1811 - Charles Clark, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1877
1816 - Emanuel Leutze, US, painter (Washington Crossing the Delaware)
1816 - Robert Seaman Granger, (Union Army Bvt Major general, died in 1894)
1819 - Victoria Alexandrine, Queen of Great Britain (1837-1901)
1830 - Alexei Savrasov, Russian painter (d. 1897)
1831 - Richard Hoffman, composer
1836 - Joseph Rowntree, British social reformer (d. 1925)
1838 - Paul Laband, German lawyer
1840 - Frederick Walker, painter
1841 - Charles Napier Henry, painter
1841 - Tito Mattei, pianist/composer
1850 - Ernest Albert Waterlow, water-color painter
1852 - Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham, author/politician
1854 - Louis Mountbatten, admiral (WW I)
1854 - John Riley Banister, American law officer and cowboy (d. 1918)
1855 - Arthur Wing Pinero, British playwright
1858 - Johan C Braakensiek, political cartoonist (Green Amsterdammer)
1863 - George Grey Barnard, American sculptor (d. 1938)
1866 - Armando Frid, Argentina, live until July 28 1990 (124 years)
1868 - Charles E. Taylor, First aircraft maintenance professional (d. 1956)
1870 - Benjamin Cardozo, American jurist (d. 1938)
1870 - Jan Christiaan Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa and proponent of Commonwealth &
           League of Nations (d. 1950)
1878 - Lillian Moller Gilbreth, engineer (CIOS Gold Medal-1954)
1879 - H. B. Reese, American inventor of Reese's and founder (d. 1956)
1881 - Mikulas Schneider-Trvavsky, composer
1882 - Creighton Hale, Cork Ireland, actor (Gorilla Man, Way Down East)
1885 - Susan Sutherland Isaacs, English educational psychologist (d. 1948).
1886 - Paul Paray, French conductor and composer (d. 1979)
1887 - Edward "Mick" Mannock, Irish WWI flying ace (d. 1918)
1891 - Benedictus H Danser, Dutch botanist
1891 - William F Albright, US old testament scholar/archaeologist
1893 - W H Walter Baade, German/US astronomer (Andromeda)
1895 - H S T L "Stork" Hendry, cricketer (Australian all-rounder post-WWI)
1895 - Samuel I Newhouse, US millionaire publisher (Parade, Vogue, Glamour)
1898 - Kathleen Hale, British children book writer/illustrator (Orlando)
1899 - Suzanne Lenglen, France, Wimbledon tennis champion (6-times)
1899 - Henri Michaux, French poet (d. 1984)
1900 - Lionel Conacher, Canadian athlete and politician (d. 1954)
1900 - Eduardo De Filippo, Italian actor and screenwriter (d. 1984)
1901 - José Nasazzi, Uruguayan footballer (d. 1968)
1903 - Aram Katchaturian, Armenian composer, (Earth)
1903 - Hilding Hallnas, composer
1904 - George Formby, [William Booth], Brit singer/comic (Let George Do It)
1904 - Kenneth Buckley, British rear-admiral
1904 - Patrick Johnson, physicist
1905 - Mikhail Sholokhov, USSR, writer (And Quiet Flows the Don, Nobel 1965)
1905 - Zdenek Blazek, composer
1906 - Edmund Sargant, solicitor
1906 - John Mayo, director-general (Help the Aged)
1908 - Kresimir Fribec, composer
1908 - Michael Roberts, historian
1909 - Guillermo Diaz-Plaja, Spanish literary/poet (Lorca)
1909 - Louis Fornberg, writer
1909 - Wilbur Mills, (Rep-D-Ark)/involved with Fanne Foxe
1910 - Margers Zarins, composer
1910 - Nils-Eric Fougstedt, composer
1911 - Barbara West, English survivor of the Titanic sinking (d. 2007)
1912 - Joan Hammond, British operatic soprano
1912 - Joseph Anthony, [Deuster], US director/actor (Matchmaker, Tomorrow)
1913 - Audrey Brown, England, 4 X 100m runner (Olympic-silver-1936)
1913 - Willi Daume, olympic organizer
1914 - Clifford Irving, Chairman (Isle of Man government)
1914 - George Tabori, writer
1914 - Lilli Palmer, [Peiser], Germany, actress (Gentle Sex, Lotte in Weimar)
1916 - Roden Cutler, Governor (New South Wales)
1917 - Derek Hodgson, British high court judge
1917 - Lord Campbell of Alloway, QC
1917 - Theodore Hesburgh, Syracuse NY, president (Notre Dame)
1918 - Coleman A Young, civil rights leader (Mayor-D-Detroit)
1918 - D V Jennings, solicitor
1919 - Sid Couchey, Cleveland, Ohio, comic book artist (Richie Rich), (d. 2012)
1922 - Sadao Bekku, composer
1923 - Paul Bramley, oral surgeon
1923 - Siobhan McKenna, Ireland, stage actress (Saint Joan)
1925 - Francois J [Frank] le Roux, chief whip (South Afr Conserv Party)
1925 - Mai Zetterling, Vaeras Sweden, actress (Witches, Offbeat, Jet Storm)
1926 - Len Maddocks, cricket wicket-keeper (Australian mid-50's)
1926 - Stanley Baxter, Scottish actor
1927 - John Kelly Jr, US, sculls (Oly-bronze-1956)/brother of Grace Kelly
1927 - Martinus J Mentz, South African MP (Conservative)
1927 - Timothy Beven, CEO (Barclays Bank)
1928 - Peter Griffiths, MP
1928 - Stanley Baxter, British comedian (Joey Boy, Fast Lady)
1928 - William Trevor, Brit writer (Children of Dynmouth, Fools of Fortune)
1930 - Hans-Martin Linde, composer
1930 - Ivor Richardson, Judge (NZ Court of Appeals)
1931 - Michael Lonsdale, French actor
1932 - Arnold Wesker, British playwright (Bratkartoffeln Inbegriffen)
1932 - Elaine Malbin, opera singer
1932 - Graham Arnold, artist
1932 - James Anderton, Chief constable (Manchester England)
1932 - Terence Heiser, British senior civil servant
1933 - Christopher Staughton, British Lord Justice of Appeal
1933 - Hemchandra Tukaram Dani, cricketer (Test Ind v Pak, 1-19, ct 1, DNB)
1933 - Joaquín Vaquero Turcios, Spanish painter
1933 - Tony Mullett, dir-general (National Criminal Intelligence Service)
1933 - Aharon Lichtenstein, Orthodox Jewish rabbi
1934 - Jane Byrne, (Mayor-D-Chic)
1934 - Barry Rose, English choir-trainer and organist
1935 - Joan Micklin Silver, American director
1936 - Harold Budd, composer
1938 - Glen Hall, cricket leg-spinner (South African in one Test v England 1964)
1938 - Tommy Chong, Edmonton, Alberta, comedian/actor (Cheech & Chong)
1938 - David Viscott, American psychiatrist (d. 1996)
1939 - Gert J Schutte, Dutch MP (GPV)
1940 - Gary Burghoff, Bristol CT, actor (Radar-M*A*S*H)
1940 - Joseph Brodsky, USSR, author (Less than 1, Nobel 1987)
1941 - Andres Garcia, Santo Domingo Dom Rep, actor (Tiger Shark)
1941 - Baroness Hollis of Heigham, history lecturer (U of East Anglia)
1941 - Bob Dylan, [Zimmerman], Minn, singer/songwriter (Blowin' in Wind)
1941 - Brian Dennis, composer
1941 - Konrad Boehmer, composer
1941 - Martin Mogg, governor (British Durham Prison)
1941 - Tony Valentino, rocker (Standells-Dirty Water)
1942 - Ali Bacher, cricketer (South African batsman & capt in 60's)
1942 - Derek Quinn, guitarist (Freddie & Dreamers-I'm Telling You Now)
1942 - Sarah Dash, Trenton NJ, rocker (LaBelle-Lady Marmalade)
1943 - James Levine, British conductor
1943 - Gary Burghoff, American actor
1944 - Patti LaBelle, [Holt], Phila Pa, singer (LaBelle-Lady Marmalade)
1945 - Priscilla Presley, Bkln NY, actress (Jenna-Dallas, Naked Gun)
1945 - Richard Ottaway, MP
1945 - Steven Norris, British MP
1946 - Irina Kirszenstein Szewinska, Lenningrad, long jumper (Oly-bron-1972)
1946 - Jeremy Treglown, English scholar/editor (TLS)
1946 - Steve Upton, rock drummer (Wishbone Ash-There's the Rub, Locked In)
1947 - Luke Rittner, sect-gen (Arts Council)
1947 - Mike Reid, Altoona Penn, country singer (Walk on Faith)
1947 - Martin Winterkorn, German automotive executive
1949 - John Illsley, rocker (Dire Straits)
1949 - Jim Broadbent, English actor
1950 - Jo Ann Washam, LPGA golfer
1950 - Larry Seidlin, American judge
1951 - Rob Baker, rock drummer (Red Rider)
1951 - Ronald A Parise, Warren Ohio, PhD/astronaut (STS 35, STS 67)
1953 - Alfred Molina, London, actor (Enchanted April, Prick up your Ears)
1953 - Nell Campbell, [Laura], Sydney Australia, actress (Rocky Horror)
1955 - Rosanne Cash, Memphis Tn, country singer (Seven Year Ache, I Wonder)
1955 - Thad Ackel, horse trainer
1956 - Helen Terry, rocker (Now You're Mine)
1956 - Michael Jackson, Northern Irish clergyman
1957 - John G Rowland, (Rep-R-CT, 1985- )
1959 - George Glanos, horse trainer
1960 - Pete Metzelaars, NFL tight end (Carolina Panthers, GB Packers, Lions)
1962 - Bev Lidyoff, Huntington Park Ca, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-7th-1994)
1962 - Dorothy Trapp, equestrian 3-day (Olympics-96)
1963 - Gene Anthony Ray, Harlem NY, dancer/actor (Leroy-Fame)
1963 - Horace Holden Jr, Atlanta GA, slalom double canoe (Olympics-11th-96)
1963 - Joe Dumars, NBA guard (Detroit Pistons)
1963 - Ken Ftach, St Louis Mo, tennis star
1963 - Ivan Capelli, Italian racing driver
1963 - Michael Chabon, American author
1963 - Kathy Leander, Swiss singer
1963 - Rich Rodriguez, American football coach
1964 - Adrian Moorhouse, British 100m breaststroker (Olympic-gold-1988)
1964 - Elizabeth McColgan, British running star (world record 5 km indoor)
1964 - Pat Verbeek, Sarnia Ont, NHL forward (Team Canada, NY Rangers)
1965 - Chris Jorgis, Palo Alto California, US badminton player (Olympic-92)
1965 - John C. Reilly, Chicago, Illinois, American actor (Chicago, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story)
1965 - Shinichiro Watanabe, Japanese anime director
1966 - Tommy Turner, jockey
1966 - Tony Jones, NFL tackle (Cleveland Browns, Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1966 - Eric Cantona, French footballer
1966 - Ricky Craven, American NASCAR driver
1967 - Heavy D, rapper
1967 - Margaret Crowley, Australian 800m/1500m runner (Olympics-96)
1967 - Steve McDonald, rocker (Redd Kross)
1968 - Jerry Dipoto, Jersey City NJ, pitcher (NY Mets)
1969 - Martin McCague, cricketer (in Ulster AIS product, Eng quickie 1993-94)
1969 - Rich Robinson, rocker (Black Crowes-Shake Your Money Maker)
1970 - Jeff Zgonina, NFL defensive tackle (Carolina Panthers, Packers, Rams)
1970 - Nick Castaneda, Birmingham Ala, pairs skater (& Dawn Piepenbrink)
1970 - Thomas Alden Page, Glenridge NJ, rocker (New Kids-Hangin' Tough)
1970 - Tommy Page, American singer
1971 - Paul Ragusa, Bulach Switz, Canadian 48 kg freestyle wrestler (Oly-96)
1971 - Troy Barnett, NFL defensive end (NE Patriots)
1972 - Danny Bautista, Santo Domingo Dom Rep, outfielder (Atlanta Braves)
1972 - Petra Schwarz-Ritter, Vienna Aus, tennis star (1988 Futures-Bari-ITA)
1972 - Tito Paul, NFL defensive back (Arizona Cardinals, Cincinnati Bengals)
1972 - Viktor Ujcik, Jihlava CZE, hockey (Team Czech Rep)
1972 - Greg Berlanti, American television writer and producer
1973 - Karim Alami, Morocco, tennis star
1973 - Ville Peltonen, Vantaa FIN, NHL forward (Team Finland, San Jose)
1973 - Ruslana, Ukrainian singer
1974 - Ace Custis, NBA forward (Dallas Mavericks)
1974 - Marcus Coleman, free safety (NY Jets)
1974 - Maria Alejandra Vento, Caracas Venz, tennis star (1995 Futures-Braz)
1974 - Natalie Neaton, Royal Oak Mich, soccer forward (Olympics-96)
1974 - Will Sasso, Canadian actor and comedian
1974 - Masahide Kobayashi, Japanese baseball player
1975 - Katie King, ice hockey forward (USA, Oly-98)
1975 - Yannis Goumas, Greek footballer
1975 - Marc Gagnon, Canadian short track speed skater
1975 - Maria Lawson, British Singer
1976 - Alessandro Cortini, Italian musician
1976 - Catherine Cox, Australian netballer
1976 - Bob Maesen, Belgian flatwater canoer
1977 - Kym Valentine. Australian actress
1978 - Jade Winter, Australian swimmer (Olympics-96)
1978 - Brian Ching, American footballer
1978 - Bryan Greenberg, American actor
1978 - Brad Penny, American baseball player
1978 - Johan Holmqvist, Swedish hockey player
1979 - Tracy McGrady, NBA forward (Toronto Raptors)
1979 - Frank Mir, American UFC fighter
1980 - Billy L Sullivan, LI NY, actor (Will Pacino-Something So Right)
1980 - Cecilia Cheung, Hong Kong actress and singer
1981 - Shelby Lyons, Oswego NY, pairs skater (& Wells-1995 Midwest champ)
1981 - Marketa Janska, Czech model and Playboy Playmate
1982 - Issah Ahmed, Ghana football player
1982 - DaMarcus Beasley, American footballer
1983 - Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw, Anglo-Australian videogame creator and critic
1984 - Sarah Hagan, American actress
1984 - Brodney Pool, American football player
1985 - Tim Bridgman, British racing driver
1986 - Mark Ballas, professional dancer
1986 - Jordan Metcalfe, English actor
1987 - Dominika Kasprzycka, Polish singer
1987 - Guillaume Latendresse, French-Canadian hockey player
1988 - Billy Gilman, American singer
1989 - Tara Correa-McMullen, American actress (d. 2005)
1990 - Joey Logano, American racecar driver
1991 - Erika Umeda, Japanese singer
1992 - Travis T. Flory, American actor
1995 - Prince Joseph Wenzel of Liechtenstein
1996 - Matthew Eappen, Boston Mass, baby killed by nanny Louise Woodward

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 24, 2013, 09:10:52 AM

This Day in History for 24th May


Famous Deaths

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Mathematician and Astronomer
Nicolaus Copernicus (1543) 


1144 - Petronella, wife of earl Floris II the Vette of Holland/regent, dies
1153 - David I, King of Scots (1124-53), dies at about 68
1351 - Abu al-Hasan 'Ali, Sultan of Morocco (b. circa 1297)
1408 - Taejo of Joseon, ruler of Korea (b. 1335)
1425 - Murdoch Stewart, 2nd Duke of Albany, Scottish politician (b. 1362)
1456 - Ambroise de Loré, French military commander (b. 1396)
1543 - Nicolas Copernicus, astronomer, dies in Poland
1612 - Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury/PM (1598-1612), dies at 48
1665 - Maria de Jesus de Agreda [Maria Coronel], Spanish franciscans, dies
1669 - Pieter Cuypers, South Neth lawyer, dies at 48
1670 - Ferdinand II, ruler of Toscane, dies at 59
1696 - Albertine Agnes, princess of Orange-Nassau, dies at 62
1725 - Jonathan Wild, English criminal (b. 1682)
1734 - Georg Ernst Stahl, German physician and chemist (b. 1660)
1749 - Graf Valentin Potocki, Polish nobleman
1751 - William Hamilton, of Gilbertsfield, poet, dies
1762 - Joseph Umstatt, composer, dies at 51
1773 - Jan Zach, composer, dies at 73
1792 - George Brydges, 1st baron Rodney/admiral, dies
1792 - Jakob M R Lenz, writer (That Soldier), dies
1804 - Simon Style, Fries medical/writer, dies at 73
1806 - John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll, British field marshal (b. 1723)
1826 - Friedrich Fesca, composer, dies at 37
1831 - Benjamin Carr, composer, dies at 62
1843 - Sylvestre François Lacroix, French mathematician (b. 1765)
1844 - William Crockford, clubman/gambler, dies
1850 - Jane Porter, novelist (Scottish Chiefs), dies at 74
1851 - Stanko Vraz, [Jakob Frass], Slavic poet (Grammatica), dies at 40
1861 - Elmer Ellsworth, US warrior (Chicago Zouaves), shot to death at 23
1861 - James T Jackson, US landlord (doodde EE Ellsworth), shot dead)
1871 - Francisco Salvador Daniel, composer, dies at 40
1872 - Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, painter, dies
1876 - Henry Kingsley, English/Australian writer, dies at 46
1876 - Georgi Benkovski, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1843)
1879 - William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist (Liberator), dies at 73
1881 - Samuel Palmer, landscape painter, dies
1883 - Abdel Kadir, Algerian leader (b. 1808)
1894 - William Joseph Westbrook, composer, dies at 63
1895 - Joseph Quinaux, Belgian painter, dies at 73
1908 - Old Tom Morris, Scottish golfer (b. 1821)
1919 - Amado Nervo, [Juan C Ruiz de Nervo], Mexican poet, dies at 48
1941 - Lancelot Holland, British vice-admiral ((WW II/Hood), dies in battle
1943 - Vladimir I Nemirovitch-Dantshenko, Russian playwright, dies at 84
1948 - Alfred Kastner, composer, dies at 78
1948 - Jacques Feyder, Belgian director and screenwriter (b. 1885)
1949 - Aleksey Shchusev, Russian architect (b. 1873)
1950 - Archibald Wavell, British general (b. 1883)
1953 - Cor Hermus, actor (Bleeke Bet, William of Orange, Jantes), dies at 63
1956 - Guy Kibbee, actor (Capt Blood, Babes in Arms), dies at 74
1959 - John Foster Dulles, US Secretary of State (1953-59), dies at 71
1963 - Elmore James, blues guitarist, dies at 45 of a heart attack
1968 - Bernard Rogers, composer (Warrior, Passion), dies at 75
1969 - Mitzi Green, actress (Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer), dies at 48
1972 - Asta Nielsen, actress (Joyless Street), dies at 88
1972 - Gavin Muir, actor (Hollister-Betty Hutton Show), dies at 64
1972 - Ismail Yasin, Egyptian comedian and actor (b. 1915)
1974 - Duke Ellington, blues singer, dies of cancer at 75
1976 - Henk Lankhorst, pacifist/Dutch MP (PSP), dies at 62
1976 - Melle J Oldeboerrigter ("Melle"), painter/cartoonist, dies at 65
1979 - Jan Arvan, actor (Red Skelton Show, Zorro), dies
1981 - George Jessel, actor (Diary of a Young Comic), dies at 83
1981 - Jack Warner, [Waters], actor (Captive Heart), dies at 84
1984 - Vincent J. McMahon, American professional wrestling promoter (b. 1914)
1986 - Gunnar Bjornstrand, actor (7th Seal, Devil's Eye), dies at 76
1986 - Stephen D Thorne, Lt Cmdr USN/astronaut, dies in a plane crash at 33
1986 - Yakima Canutt, actor/director (Diary of a Young Comic), dies at 91
1987 - Hermione Ferdinanda Gingold, actress (Gigi, Music Man), dies at 89
1988 - James "Hamish" Hamilton, Brit publisher (Salinger/Mitford), dies at 87
1988 - Tom Burtt, cricketer (NZ slow left-armer in 11 Tests 1947-53), dies
1989 - Herwig Hensen [Flor Mielants], Flemish dramatist/poet, dies at 72
1991 - Gene Clark, folk-rocker (Byrds-Tambourine Man), dies at 49
1991 - Miriam di San Servolo, Italian actress (b. 1912)
1992 - Joan Sanderson, actress (Young Wives' Tale, Fawlty Towers), dies at 79
1993 - Jesus Posadas Ocampo, Mexican cardinal/archbishop, shot dead at 66
1993 - Milton O Thompson, astronaut (Dynasoar, X-15), dies at 66
1994 - Jean-Pierre E Plooij, Dutch writer (Bird House), dies at 48
1994 - John Barrington Wain, author, dies at 69
1994 - Sandor Lakatos, Hungarian violist/orchestra leader, dies at 69
1994 - Yehuda Mor-Mirkovsky, Israeli kibbutz-founder, dies at 96
1995 - Harold Wilson, British PM (1964-70, 74-76), dies of cancer at 79
1995 - Mike Pyne, jazz Pianist, dies at 54
1996 - Alexander Langsdorf, physicist, dies at 83
1996 - Harry Campion, statistician, dies at 91
1996 - Jack McCarthy, kiddie show host (Popeye), dies of cancer at 81
1996 - Jacob R Druckman, composer, dies at 67
1996 - John Abbott, British actor (Lady Jane, Quest), dies at 90
1996 - Joseph Mitchell, writer, dies at 87
1997 - Edward Mulhare, actor (Ghost & Mrs Muir), dies of lung cancer at 74
2000 - Kurt Schork, American reporter (b. 1947)
2002 - Wallace Markfield, American writer (b. 1926)
2003 - Rachel Kempson, English actress (b. 1910)
2004 - Henry Ries, American photographer (b. 1917)
2004 - Milton Shulman, Canadian author and critic (b. 1913)
2004 - Edward Wagenknecht, American literary critic (b. 1900)
2005 - Carl Amery, German writer (b. 1922)
2005 - Arthur Haulot, Belgian journalist (b. 1913)
2005 - Vivian Liberto, first wife of Johnny Cash (b. 1934)
2006 - Henry Bumstead, American art director (b. 1915)
2006 - Michał Życzkowski, Polish technician (b. 1930)
2007 - Bill Johnston, Australian cricketer (b. 1922)
2008 - Dick Martin American comedian (b. 1922)
2009 - Jay Bennett, American guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, engineer, producer, and singer-
           songwriter (b. 1963)
2010 - Ray Alan, English ventriloquist & television entertainer (b. 1930)
2010 - Virendra Bhatia, Indian politician (b. 1947)
2010 - Tapen Chatterjee, Bengali actor from India (b. 1937)
2010 - Raymond V. Haysbert, African-American business executive and civil rights leader (b. 1920)
2010 - Anneliese Rothenberger, German operatic lyric soprano (b. 1926)
2010 - Morrie Martin, Former Major League Baseball (b. 1922)
2010 - Petr Muk, Czech composer, musician, performer, and singer (b. 1965)
2010 - Paul Gray, American bassist (Slipknot) (b. 1972)
2011 - Huguette Clark, Heiress of the Clark Copper fortune, life-long reclusion from society. (b.
           1906)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 25, 2013, 02:27:29 PM

This Day in History for 25th May


Historical Events

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Founder of Protestanism                           Writer/Poet Oscar Wilde                     Ford Motor Company Founder
Martin Luther                                                                                                                  Henry Ford

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First Secretary of the                            Actress Mary Tyler Moore                         Ford Motor Company Founder
   General Secretary of the                                                                                     Communist Party of the Soviet
Union Nikita Khrushchev                                                                                          Union Mikhail Gorbachev

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Parody Singer and Comedian
Weird Al Yankovic


1085 - King Alfonso VI of Castily/Leon occupy Toledo on Moren
1241 - 1st attack on Jewish community of Frankfort-on-the-Main Germany
1420 - Henry the Navigator is appointed governor of the Order of Christ.
1521 - Edict of Worms outlaws Martin Luther & his followers
1522 - Emperor Karel I returns to Spain
1632 - Albrecht von Wallenstein recaptures Prague on Saksen
1659 - Richard Cromwell resigns as English Lord Protector
1660 - English King Charles II lands in Dover
1720 - "Le Grand St Antoine" reaches Marseille, plague kills 80,000
1721 - John Copson becomes America's 1st insurance agent
1738 - A treaty between Pennsylvania and Maryland ends the Conojocular War with settlement of a
           boundary dispute and exchange of prisoners.
1784 - Jews are expelled from Warsaw by Marshall Mniszek
1787 - Constitutional convention opens at Phila, G Washington presiding
1793 - Father Stephen Theodore Badin is 1st US Roman Catholic priest ordained
1810 - The Primera Junta (local gouvernment) is established in Argentina
1810 - In the May Revolution, citizens of Buenos Aires expel the Spanish Viceroy Cisneros during
           Semana de Mayo.
1825 - American Unitarian Association founded
1837 - The Patriots of Lower Canada (Quebec) rebel against the British for freedom.
1844 - 1st telegraphed news dispatch is published in Baltimore Patriot
1861 - John Merryman is arrested under suspension of writ of habeas corpus it later sparks a
           supreme court decision protecting writ
1862 - Battle of Winchester VA
1864 - Battle of New Hope Church, GA
1868 - Aust Aboriginal Cricket tour of England begins v Surrey Gentlemen
1870 - Irish Fenians raid Eccles Hill, Quebec
1876 - 1st tie in NL history (Athletics & Louisville, 2-2 in 14)
1876 - 4th Preakness: G Barbee aboard Shirley wins in 2:44.75
1878 - Gilbert/Sullivans opera "HMS Pinafore," premieres in London
1887 - Gas lamp at Paris Opera catches fire; 200 die
1895 - 20th Preakness: Fred Taral aboard Belmar wins in 1:50.5
1895 - Oscar Wilde sentenced to 2 years hard labor for being a sodomite
1895 - The Republic of Formosa is formed, with Tang Ching-sung as the president.
1898 - 1st US troop transport to Manila leaves SF
1899 - 33rd Belmont: R Clawson aboard Jean Beraud wins in 2:23
1900 - Eyre M Shaw, 78, becomes oldest gold medalist in Olympics
1904 - 38th Belmont: George Odom aboard Delhi wins in 2:06.6
1906 - After 20 straight wins, Boston Pilgrims lose to Chicago White Sox 3-0
1911 - Revolution in Mexico overthrows President Jose Porfirio Diaz
1914 - British House of Commons passes Irish Home Rule
1915 - 2nd Battle of Ypres ends with 105,000 casualties
1915 - Chicago Claude Hendrix no-hits Pitts (Federal League), 10-0
1919 - Casey Stengel releases a sparrow from under his baseball cap
1922 - Babe Ruth suspended 1 day & fined $200 for throwing dirt on an ump
1923 - Britain recognizes Transjordan with Abdullah as its leader
1926 - Sholom Schwartzbard assassinates Symon Petliura, the head of the Paris-based government-
           in-exile of Ukrainian People's Republic.
1927 - Henry Ford stops producing Model T car (begins Model A)
1932 - Goofy, aka Dippy Dawg, 1st appears in 'Mickey's Revue' by Walt Disney
1934 - Béla Bartòk's "Enchanted Deer," premieres
1935 - Babe Ruth hits his last 3 home runs, Boston Braves vs Pirates
1935 - Jesse Owens equals or breaks 6 world records in one hour
1936 - The Remington Rand strike, led by the American Federation of Labor, begins.
1937 - 1st airmail letter to circle globe returns to NY
1938 - Spanish Civil War: The bombing of Alicante takes place, with 313 deaths.
1939 - Carl Storck becomes 2nd NFL president
1940 - German troops conquer Boulogne
1940 - Golden Gate Intl Expo reopens
1941 - 5,000 drown in a storm at Ganges Delta region in India
1941 - Ted Williams raises his batting avg over .400 for 1st time in 1941
1943 - Riot at Mobile Ala shipyard over upgrading 12 black workers
1943 - Trident conference in Wash DC (operation plan '43 against Japan)
1944 - Partisan leader Tito escapes Germans surrounding Bosnia
1945 - Arthur C Clark proposes relay satellites in geosynchronous orbit
1946 - Abdullah ibn Hussein becomes king of Jordan
1946 - Jordan gains independence from Britain (Natl Day)
1947 - Coal dust explosion rocks Centralia Coal Co's Mine #5 killing 111
1948 - 30th PGA Championship: Ben Hogan at Norwood Hills CC St Louis
1948 - SF receives its 1st telecast
1949 - Chinese Red army occupies Shanghai
1950 - Bkln-Battery Tunnel opens in NYC
1951 - NY Giant Willie Mays 1st major league game (goes 0 for 5)
1953 - 1st atomic cannon electronically fired, Frenchman Flat, Nevada
1953 - 1st non-commercial educational television station-Houston, Texas
1953 - Braves Max Surkont strikes out record 8 Reds in a row
1955 - Series of 19 twisters destroy Udall Kansas & most of Blackwell Okla
1956 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Haurietis aquas
1957 - "Shinbone Alley" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 49 performances
1959 - Khrushchev visits Angola
1959 - Supreme ct rules La prohibiting black-white boxing unconstitutional
1960 - George Crowe's record 11th pinch-hit HR
1961 - JFK sets goal of putting a man on Moon before the end of decade
1961 - NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 32,770 m
1962 - Isley Brothers release "Twist & Shout"
1962 - US performs nuclear test at Christmas Island (atmospheric)
1962 - US unions AFL-CIO starts campaign for 35-hour work week
1963 - "Hot Spot" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 43 performances
1963 - Early Wynn wins his 300th baseball game
1963 - Great Britain ends its amateur-professional classes in cricket
1963 - Organization for African Unity formed by Chad, Mauritania & Zambia
1964 - 16th Emmy Awards: Dick Van Dyke Show, Dick Van Dyke & Mary Tyler Moore
1964 - Frank Gilroy's "Subject is Roses," premieres in NYC
1964 - Ground is broken for a new stadium in St Louis
1964 - Supreme Court rules closing schools to avoid desegregation unconstitut
1965 - Dave Davies of Kinks stumbles & is knocked unconscious on stage
1965 - India & Pakistan border fights
1965 - Muhammad Ali KOs Sonny Liston in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
1965 - Roel van Duyn, Martijn Ananar & Rob Faado align in Provo
1966 - Peru & Argentina soccer fans fight in Lima; 248 die
1967 - Celtic wins 12th Europe Cup 1 in Lisbon
1967 - John Lennon takes delivery of his psychedelic painted Rolls Royce
1968 - BPAA All-Star Bowling Tournament won by Jim Stefanich
1968 - BPAA US Women's Bowling Open won by Dotty Fothergill
1968 - Gateway Arch in St Louis dedicated
1968 - Rolling Stones release "Jumping Jack Flash"
1968 - Unicorn by The Irish Rovers hits #7
1969 - "Midnight Cowboy" released with an X rating
1969 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Bluegrass Golf Invitational
1969 - Sudanese government is overthrown in a military coup
1970 - 3rd ABA Championship: Indiana Pacers beat LA Stars, 4 games to 2
1971 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1972 - Heavyweight Joe Frazier KOs Ron Stander
1972 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1973 - Argentine Peronist Hector Campora installed as president
1973 - Borussia Minchengladbach wins 2nd UEFA Cup at Enschede
1973 - George Harrison releases "Give Me Love" in UK
1973 - US launches 1st Skylab crew Kerwin, Conrad, Weitz
1975 - 29th NBA Championship: Golden Warriors sweep Wash Bullets in 4 games
1975 - Cleve's Dennis Eckersley, debuts shuting out the A's 6-0
1975 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA American DefenderGolf Classic
1977 - "Beatles Live! At Star-Club in Hamburg Germany" released
1977 - "Brady Bunch Hour," last airs on ABC-TV
1977 - Dutch social democratic party wins parliamentary election
1977 - Liverpool wins 22nd Europe Cup 1 in Rome
1977 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1977 - Original "Star Wars" movie released
1978 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins, 4 games to 2
1979 - American Airlines DC-10 crashes on takeoff from Chicago killing 273 including 2 on the ground
1979 - Israel begins to return Sinai to Egypt
1979 - Raul Gonzales of Mexico completes 50,000 m walk in record 3:41:38.4
1980 - "Musical Chairs" closes at Rialto Theater NYC after 15 performances
1980 - Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
1980 - Jacek Wszoka of Poland sets high jump record (7'8")
1981 - Bobby Unser becomes 1st Indy 500 winner to be disqualified
1981 - Carl Yastrzemski is 4th to get 3,000 hits (Cobb, Musial & Aaron)
1981 - Daniel Goodwin, scales outside of Chicago's Sears Tower in 7 hours
1981 - Rangers' Bill Stein sets AL record with 7 consecutive pinch hits
1982 - Ferguson Jenkins becomes 7th pitcher to strike out 3,000 batters
1982 - Iranian troops reconquer Khorramshar
1982 - STS-4 vehicle moves to launch pad
1983 - "Return of the Jedi" (Star Wars 3) released
1983 - 1st National Missing Children's Day is proclaimed
1983 - Fire in Nassermeer Egypt kills 357
1983 - France performs nuclear test
1983 - Kirk Gibson (Tigers) & Jorge Orta (Blue Jays) hit inside park HRs
1984 - Det Tigers lose to Seattle 7-3 ends record tying 17 consecutive wins
1984 - Red Sox trade pitcher Dennis Eckersley to Cubs for Bill Buckner
1985 - Allan Border scores 4th successive 1st class 100 (v Derbyshire)
1985 - Cyclone ravages Bangladesh; 11,000 killed
1986 - 30,000,000 watch "Live Aid," a massive benefit concert
1986 - 7,000,000 Americans form "Hands Across America"
1986 - 95-year-old woman scores a hole-in-one in Florida
1986 - Ferry boat Shamia sinks on Maghna River Bangladesh, 600 killed
1986 - Hands Across America - 6 million people hold hands from California to NY
1986 - KC Royal George Brett gets his 2,000th hit
1986 - Laurie Rinker wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
1986 - Virgilio Barco elected president of Colombia
1988 - PSV wins Europe Cup
1989 - Eastern Airlines graduates it 1st class of non-union pilots
1989 - Mariners trade Mark Langston to Montreal for Randy Johnson
1989 - Mikhail Gorbachev elected Executive President in the Soviet Union
1989 - Stanley Cup: Calgary Flames beat Montreal Canadiens, 4 games to 2
1989 - Weird Al Yankovic records "She Drives Like Crazy"
1991 - "People Are Still Having Sex," by LaTour hits #35
1991 - Israel evacuates 14,000 Ethiopian Jews
1991 - Stanley Cup: Pittsburgh Penguins beat Minn North Star, 4 games to 2
1992 - Jay Leno becomes permanent host of "Tonight Show"
1992 - NY Yankees score 9 runs before 1st out in 8th inn, beat Brewers 13-7
1992 - Oscar Luigi Scalfaro elected president of Italy
1994 - Emmy 21st Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci not nominated
1995 - The Bosnian Serb Army kills 72 youngsters in the Bosnian city of Tuzla.
1996 - Jennifer Maria Holsten, 18, crowned Miss Filipino-American
1997 - Bell Atlantic Senior Golf Classic
1997 - David Frost wins Golf's Colonial Final in Fort Worth Texas
1997 - Indianapolis 500 race
1997 - Minnesota Twins retire Kirby Puckett's uniform #
1997 - Rosie Jones wins LPGA Corning Classic
1997 - Todd & Mel Stottlemyre become 1st father & son to win 100 games
1997 - A military coup in Sierra Leone replaces President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah with Major Johnny
           Paul Koromah.
1999 - The United States House of Representatives releases the Cox Report which details the
           People's Republic of China's nuclear espionage against the U.S. over the prior two decades.
2000 - Liberation Day of Lebanon. Israel withdraws its army from most of the Lebanese territory
           after 22 years of its first invasion in 1978.
2001 - 32-year-old Erik Weihenmayer, of Boulder, Colorado, becomes the first blind person to reach
           the summit of Mount Everest.
2002 - A train crash in Tenga, Mozambique kills 197 people.
2002 - China Airlines Flight 611: A Boeing 747-200 breaks apart in mid-air and plunges into the
           Taiwan Strait killing 225 people.
2003 - Néstor Kirchner becomes President of Argentina after defeating Carlos Menem. He is the first
           elected President since the economic crisis.
2007 - The Ostankino Tower in Moscow catches fire for the second time.
2009 - North Korea allegedly tests its second nuclear device. Following the nuclear test, Pyongyang
           also conducted several missile tests bulding tensions in the international community.
2011 - Oprah Winfrey airs her last show, ending her twenty five year run of The Oprah Winfrey
           Show.
2012 - Up to 116 people are massacred, including women and children, by the Syrian army in Houla,
           in the Homs province
2012 - A SpaceX Dragon becomes the first commercial spacecraft to dock at the International Space
           Station

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 25, 2013, 02:29:05 PM

This Day in History for 25th May


Famous Weddings

1661 - King Charles II marries Portuguese princess Catherina the Braganca
1901 - Russian physician, dramatist and author Anton Chekhov marries actress Olga Knipper
1961 - King Hussein of Jordan marries Princess Muna al-Hussein (Antoinette Gardiner).
1996 - Actress Kelley Menighan (29) weds actor-singer Jon Hensley (31) in Chicago, Illinois

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 25, 2013, 02:30:42 PM

This Day in History for 25th May


Famous Divorces

2000 - Television producer and director Mark Tinker (49) divorces actress and painter Kristin Harmon
           (54) after 12 years of marriage
2012 - Actress Halina Mlynkova (35) divorces actor Lukasz Nowicki (39) after 9 years of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 25, 2013, 02:48:48 PM

This Day in History for 25th May


Famous Birthdays

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Actor Ian McKellen (1939)                        Actress Anne Heche (1969)              Singer-Songwriter Lauryn Hill (1975)


1048 - Emperor Shenzong of China (d. 1085)
1334 - Emperor Sukō (d. 1398)
1458 - Mahmud Begada, Sultan of Gujarat (d. 1511)
1494 - Jacopo Pontormo II, Italy, painter (Sepulture of Christ)
1550 - Camillus de Lellis, Italian soldier/monastery founder/saint
1606 - Charles Garnier, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1649)
1661 - Claude Buffier, French philosopher and historian (d. 1737)
1688 - Christian August Jacobi, composer
1713 - John Stuart, 3rd earl of Bute, English premier (1760-63)
1725 - Samuel Ward, American politician (d. 1776)
1726 - Giuseppi Paolucci, composer
1729 - Jean de Neufville, Dutch/US merchant (started 4th English war)
1767 - Ferdinand Franzl, composer
1767 - Friedrich Johann Eck, composer
1779 - Henry M Baron de Kock, Dutch officer/politician
1781 - Ferdinand K J, archduke of Austria-Este/gov-gen (Sicily)
1783 - Philip Pendleton Barbour, Virginia politician and U.S. Supreme Court justice (d. 1841)
1803 - Ralph Waldo Emerson, US, essayist/philosopher (Concord Hymn)
1818 - Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss cultural historian
1821 - Diederich Krug, composer
1830 - Jules de Geyter, Belgian poet (International)
1839 - John Eliot, English meteorologist
1845 - Lip Pike, American baseball player (d. 1883)
1846 - Princess Helena of the United Kingdom, daughter of Queen Victoria (d. 1923)
1846 - Naim Frashëri, Albanian poet and writer(d. 1900)
1847 - Alphonse Goovaerts, composer
1847 - John Alexander Dowie, [Elijah the Restorer], US, evangelist
1852 - William Muldoon, US wrestler and owner of NY health institute "The Olympia," (d. 1933)
1856 - Louis Franchet d'Espèrey, French general (d. 1942)
1860 - James McKeen Cattell, American psychologist (d. 1944)
1865 - Frederick Augustus III, King of Saxon (1904-18)
1865 - John Raleigh Mott, organizer (YMCA, Nobel 1946)
1865 - Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist (Zeeman effect, Nobel 1902)
1877 - Billy Murray, singer (Denver Nightengale)
1878 - Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, actor (Stormy Weather, Little Colonel)
1879 - W Maxwell Aitken lord Beaverbrook, Canada/English banker
1880 - Jean Alexandre Barré, French neurologist (d. 1967)
1882 - Harry Fox, entertainer
1882 - Marie Doro, American actress (d. 1956)
1886 - Philip Murray, founded Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
1886 - Rash Behari Bose, leader against the British Raj in India (d. 1945)
1887 - Pio of Pietrelcina, Catholic saint (d. 1968)
1888 - Miles Malleson, writer/actor (Phantom of Opera, Postman's Knock)
1889 - Gilardo Gilardi, composer
1889 - Igor Sikorsky, Russian-American pioneer of aviation in both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft
1889 - Sverre Jordan, composer
1891 - Robert W P Peereboom, Dutch editor in chief (Haarlem Newspaper)
1894 - Dirk Vansina, Flemish playwright (Verschaeve Gives Evidence)
1896 - Jan N Bakhuizen van den Brink, theologist/church historian
1897 - Alan Kippax, cricketer (22 Tests for Australia 1924-34, brilliant bat)
1898 - Bennett Cerf, publisher (Random House) panelist (What's My Line)
1898 - Gene Tunney, world heavyweight boxing champion (1926-30)
1898 - Gustav Regler, writer
1898 - Mischa Levitzki, composer
1899 - Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bengali poet, musician, revolutionary and philosopher (d. 1976)
1900 - Alain Grandbois, French Canadian poet (d. 1975)
1901 - Milenko Zivkovic, composer
1902 - Helvi Lemmikke Leiviska, composer
1903 - Binnie Barnes, British actress (d. 1998)
1904 - Kurt George Hugo Thomas, composer
1905 - Binnie Barnes, London, actress (Adv of Marco Polo, Diamond Jim)
1905 - Joseph C Harsch, Toledo Ohio, newscaster (Background)
1907 - Rachel Carson, conservationist/writer (silent springs)
1907 - U Nu, premier Burma (1948-58, 1960-62)
1907 - U Nu, Burmese politician (d. 1995)
1908 - David Lean, British director (Lawrence of Arabia)
1908 - Theodore Roethke, US, poet (Words for the Wind)
1909 - Alfred Kubel, German politician (d. 1999)
1909 - Marie Menken, American experimental filmmaker and socialite (d. 1970)
1910 - Ernest Anderson, publicist
1912 - Eddie Maxwell, singer (Yes We Have No Bananas)
1912 - Princess Dukhye of Korea (d. 1989)
1913 - Joseph Peter Grace, businessman
1913 - Richard Dimbleby, British journalist and broadcaster (d. 1965)
1915 - Daniel Wolf, journalist
1916 - Lou van Rees, Dutch impresario [or May 29]
1916 - Virginia Ginny Simms, actress/singer (Kay Kyser Band)
1917 - Dorothy Sarnoff, US, actress(?)
1917 - Jimmy Hamilton, saxophonist
1917 - Steve Cochran, Eureka CA, actor (Mozambique, Gay Senotiys, Dallas)
1918 - Peder Lunde, Norway, yachtsman (Olympic-silver-1952)
1919 - Gino Negri, composer
1919 - Lindsey Nelson, Pulaski Tn, sportscaster (NY Mets)
1921 - Hal David, New York, lyricist (Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head), (d. 2012)
1923 - John Weitz, spy/author/fashion designer (Friends in High Places)
1924 - István Nyers, Hungarian footballer (d. 2005)
1925 - Aldo Clementi, composer
1925 - Jeanne Crain, Barstow California, actress (Man Without a Star)
1925 - Don Liddle, baseball player (d. 2000)
1926 - Claude Akins, Nelson GA, actor (BJ & Bear, Movin' On, Lobo)
1926 - Kitty Kallen, rocker
1927 - Robert Ludlum, NYC, spy novelist (Bourne Identity)
1928 - Frigyes Hidas, composer
1928 - Mary Tuck, social researcher/civil servant
1929 - Beverly Sills, [Belle "Bubbles" Miriam Silverman], Bkln NY, soprano
1929 - David S Ruder, 23rd chairman of Security & Exchange Commission
1929 - Warren Frost, American actor
1931 - John Gabriel, Niagara Falls NY, actor (Cat Gang, Fantasies)
1931 - Aili Jõgi, Estonian freedom fighter
1932 - Georgi Mikhailovich Grechko, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 17, 26, T-14)
1932 - John Grogery Dunne, US writer (Up Close & Personal, True Confessions)
1932 - K C Jones, Taylor Tx, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1956)
1933 - Roger Bowen, actor (M*A*S*H, Main Event, What about Bob, Petulia)
1933 - Ray Spencer, English footballer
1934 - David J Burke, Liverpool England, writer
1934 - Ron Nesson, press secretary (Gerald Ford)
1935 - Cookie Gilchrist, American football player
1935 - Victoria Shaw, Australian-born American actress (d. 1988)
1936 - Rusi Surti, cricketer (Indian slow lefty, hat-trick for Qld 1969), *d. 2013)
1936 - Tom T Hall, Olive Hill Ky, country singer/writer (Harper Valley PTA)
1938 - Ludmil Buldakova, USSR, volleyball player (Olympic-gold-1972)
1938 - Raymond Carver, poet/short story writer (Furious Season)
1939 - Dixie Carter, TN, actress (Designing Women, Edge of Night)
1939 - Ian McKellen, England, actor (Keep, Plenty, Scarlet Pimpernel)
1942 - Bill Young, rocker
1942 - Brian "Blinky" Davison, rocker
1943 - John "Poli" Palmer, rocker (Family K)
1943 - Leslie Uggams, NYC, singer/actress (Leslie Uggams Show, Roots)
1943 - Poli Palmer, rocker (Family)
1943 - Sally Jesse Raphael, TV talk show host (Sally) [or Feb 25]
1943 - Wynand C Malan, South African lawyer/NP/DP-politician
1943 - Jessi Colter, American singer
1944 - Frank Oz, Hereford England, American muppetteer (Grover-Sesame Street, Muppet Show)
1944 - Frank Oz, Heresford England, puppeteer (Sesame St, Muppet Show)
1944 - Robert Michael Payton, pizza magnate
1944 - John Bunnell, former Sheriff of Multnomah County, Oregon and TV personality
1944 - Robert MacPherson, American mathematician
1945 - Dave Lee Travis, DJ
1946 - Irnema Szewinski Kirszenstein, Poland, 200m runner (1968 Olym Gold)
1946 - Janet E[llen] Morris, US, sci-fi author (Golden Sword, Tempus)
1946 - Tommy Cecil, ferryman
1946 - David A. Hargrave, RPG designer
1947 - Jessi Colter, [Miriam Johnson], Phoenix, country singer (I'm Not Lisa)
1947 - Karen Valentine, Santa Rosa CA, actress (Love American Style, Room 222)
1947 - Mitch Margo, Bkln, rocker (Tokens-Lion Sleeps Tonight)
1948 - Sgt. Slaughter, American professional wrestler
1948 - Klaus Meine, German musician (Scorpions)
1949 - Jamaica Kincaid, [Elaine P Richardson], Antigua/US journalist (NYer)
1949 - Lalith Kaluperuma, cricketer (two Tests for Sri Lanka 1982)
1951 - Clifford Archer, bassist (Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover)
1951 - Bob Gale, American screenwriter
1952 - Al Sarrantonio, American writer
1952 - Gordon Smith, American politician
1952 - Jeffrey Bewkes, American media executive
1953 - Donald Albert Weibring Jr, Quincy IL, PGA golfer (1979 Quad Cities)
1953 - Jane Priest, Perth Australia, Prince Charles' lover
1953 - Rich Alves, Pleasanton California, singer (Pirates of Miss-Fred Jake)
1953 - Eve Ensler, American playwright
1953 - Daniel Passarella, Argentine footballer
1953 - Stan Sakai, Japanese-American cartoonist (Usagi Yojimbo)
1954 - Alison Stern, wife of radio personality Howard Stern (Private Parts)
1955 - Connie Selleca, Bronx, actress (Hotel, Capt America II)
1955 - Alistair Burt, British politician
1956 - Tatsutoshi Goto, wrestler (WAR/NJPW)
1956 - Sugar Minott, Jamaican singer
1956 - David P. Sartor, American music composer
1957 - Hillary Bailey Smith, Boston MA, actress (Nora-One Life to Live)
1957 - Edward Lee, American writer
1958 - Claus Minah, singer (Scorpions)
1958 - Dorothy Straight, 4 year old author (How World Begun)
1958 - Klaus Meine, rocker (Scorpions-No One Like You)
1958 - Paul Weller, guitar (Jam-This is Modern World, Style Council)
1959 - Cathryn Harrison, London England, actress (Old Woman in Black Moon)
1959 - Manolis Kefalogiannis, Greek politician
1959 - Julian Clary, British television personality
1960 - Amy Klobuchar, American politician, junior senator from Minnesota
1961 - Hiro Saito, wrestler (All-Japan/NJPW/Calgary)
1962 - Amy Read, Birmingham MI, golfer (1994 Healthsouth Palm Beach-15th)
1962 - Zulqarnain, cricketer (last person in alphabetical order to play Test)
1963 - Mike Myers, Canada, comedian (SNL, Wayne's World) [or Jun 25]
1964 - David Shaw, St Thomas, NHL defenseman (Tampa Bay Lightning)
1964 - Ivan Bella, Slovak cosmonaut
1965 - Mark Knight, California, rock guitarist (Bang Tango-Dancin' on Coals)
1965 - Remco Prins, Dutch rock guitarist/vocalist (Burma Shave-Stash)
1965 - Roef-Ragas, Dutch actor (Missing Link, Red Rain, Juju, Mykosch)
1965 - Stefka Kostadinova, Bulgaria high jumper (world record 1987)
1965 - George Hickenlooper, American documentary film-maker
1966 - Bill Haselman, Long Branch NJ, catcher (Boston Red Sox)
1966 - Dave Hollins, Buffalo NY, infielder (Minnesota Twins)
1966 - Melissa McNamara, Tulsa OK, LPGA golfer (1991 Stratton Mt Classic)
1966 - Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands
1967 - Danny Gonzales, jockey
1967 - Juan Jimenez, WLAF quarterback/receivers coach (Barcelona Dragons)
1967 - Luc Nilis, Belgian soccer player (RSC Anderlecht/PSV)
1967 - Ruthie Bolton, McClain Miss, basketball guard (Olympics-gold-96)
1967 - Poppy Z. Brite, American author
1968 - Debbi Miho Koyama, LPGA golfer (1995 US Women's Open-28th)
1968 - Kendall Gill, NBA guard/forward (NJ Nets)
1968 - Nathalie Schneyder, SF California, synchronized swimmer (Olympics-gold-96)
1968 - Shawn Bouwens, NFL guard (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1969 - Anne Heche, Ohio, actress (Donnie Brasco, Juror, Volcano)
1969 - Matt Borlenghi, LA California, actor (Brian Bodine-All My Children)
1969 - Stacy London, American fashion consultant
1970 - Danni Roche, Melbourne VIC Australia, field hockey midfielder (Oly-96)
1970 - Heather Simmons-Carrasco, Mt View Ca, synchro swimmer (Oly-alt-96)
1970 - Joey Eischen, West Covina CA, pitcher (LA Dodgers)
1970 - Lindsay Greenbush, LA, twin actress (Carrie-Little House on Prairie)
1970 - Michael B Enyaer, writer (Pilot One)
1970 - Robert Croft, cricketer (Glamorgan off-spinner, England 1996-)
1970 - Sandra Dopfer, Lustenau Austria, tennis star (1995 Futures-Lerida)
1970 - Sidney Greenbush, LA, twin actress (Carrie-Little House on Prairie)
1970 - Satsuki Yukino, Seiyuu
1971 - Alan Kline, NFL tackle (NO Saints)
1971 - Justin Henry, Rye NY, actor (Kramer vs Kramer, 16 Candles)
1971 - Keith Hamilton, NFL defensive tackle (NY Giants)
1971 - Larry Thompson, CFL/NFL wide receiver (Seattle Seahawks, BC Lions)
1971 - Tim Kroeker, Chilliwack BC, 110m hurdler (Olympics-96)
1971 - Marco Cappato, Italian politician
1972 - Antonio Lang, NBA forward (Cleveland Cavaliers)
1972 - Tony Ronaldson, Adelaide SA Australia, basketball forward (Oly-96)
1973 - Duncan Free, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1973 - Earl Mackey, NFL linebacker (Minnesota Vikings)
1973 - Jeff Smith, NFL/WLAF corner (Scotland Claymores/KC Chiefs)
1973 - Josee Corbeil, Pointe-Claire Quebec, volleyball player (Olympics-96)
1973 - Maria Jose Gaidano, Buenos Aires Arg, tennis star (1993 Belgium doubles)
1973 - Racquel Spurlock, WNBA center (Houston Comets)
1973 - Demetri Martin, American comedian
1973 - Molly Sims, American model and actress
1973 - Daz Dillinger, American hip-hop performer
1974 - Dennis Stallings, linebacker (Tennessee Oilers)
1974 - Frank Klepacki, American musician
1975 - Adam Saathoff, Tuscon Ariz, running target (Olympics-1996)
1975 - Lauryn Hill, South Orange, New Jersey, American singer-songwriter (The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill)
1976 - Tarik Glenn, offensive tackle (Indianapolis Colts)
1976 - Cillian Murphy, Irish actor
1976 - Ethan Suplee, American actor
1976 - Sandra Nasic, German singer (Guano Apes)
1977 - Giel Beelen, Dutch radio DJ
1978 - Brian Urlacher, American football player
1979 - Carlos Bocanegra, American footballer
1979 - Sam Sodje, Nigerian footballer
1979 - Jonny Wilkinson, English international and Newcastle Falcons rugby player
1979 - Caroline Ouellette, French Canadian ice hockey player
1980 - Jae Hee, South Korean actor
1980 - David Navarro, Spanish footballer
1982 - Adam Boyd, English footballer
1982 - Daniel Braaten, Norwegian footballer
1982 - Ryan Gallant, American skateboarder
1983 - Kunal Khemu, Indian actor
1984 - Unnur Birna Vilhjálmsdóttir, 2005 Miss World
1984 - Marion Raven, Norwegian singer-songwriter (M2M)
1984 - Kyle Brodziak, Canadian ice hockey player
1984 - Shawne Merriman, American football player
1984 - Kostas Martakis, Greek singer
1985 - Luciana Abreu, Portuguese singer and actress
1986 - Yoan Gouffran, French footballer
1986 - Juri Ueno, Japanese actress
1987 - Timothy Derijck, Belgian footballer
1987 - Yves De Winter, Belgian goalkeeper
1993 - Dilley sextuplets, American sextuplets

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 25, 2013, 03:04:26 PM

This Day in History for 25th May


Famous Deaths

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Cosmetics Mogul Madame
C J Walker (1919)


615 - Boniface IV, Pope (608-15), dies
709 - Aldhelm, Abbot of Malmesbury, Bishop of Sherborne. English poet and scholar (b. cica 639)
946 - Edmund the Older, king of Wessex/England (939-46), dies
967 - Murakami, Emperor of Japan (b. 926)
992 - Mieszko I first lord and knight of Poland, duke of Polans (b. circa 935)
1085 - Gregory VII, [Ildebrando], Pope (1073-85), dies
1125 - Hendrik V, last Salische German king, dies
1261 - Alexander IV, [Rinaldo dei conti di Segni], Pope (1254-61), dies
1452 - John Stafford, Archbishop of Canterbury
1510 - Georges d'Amboise, French cardinal/viceroy in North Italy, dies at 49
1555 - Gemma Frisius, Frisian geographer/astronomer, dies at 46
1555 - Henry II of Navarre (b. 1503)
1595 - Valens Acidalius, German critic and poet (b. 1567)
1632 - Adam Tanner, Austrian mathematician and philosopher (b. 1572)
1667 - Gustaf Bonde, Swedish statesman (b. 1620)
1681 - Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Spanish playwright (b. 1600)
1693 - Marie-Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, comtesse de la Fayette, French writer (b. 1634)
1741 - Daniel Ernst Jablonski, German theologian (b. 1660)
1765 - Pierre-Joseph Le Blan, composer, dies at 53
1789 - Anders Dahl, Swedish botanist (b. 1751)
1797 - John Griffin Whitwell, 4th Baron Howard de Walden, British field marshal (b. 1719)
1805 - William Paley, English philosopher (b. 1743)
1826 - Christian Friedrich Ruppe, composer, dies at 72
1848 - Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, German writer (b. 1797)
1849 - Andreas Michiels, Dutch milt gov of West Sumatra, dies in battle at 52
1849 - Benjamin d'Urban, British general and colonial administrator (b. 1777)
1862 - Johann N Nestroy, Aust actor (Einmal Keine Sorgen Haben), dies at 60
1895 - Ahmed Djevdet Pasja, Turkish minister of Justice, dies at 73
1899 - Marie-Rosalie "Rosa" Bonheur, French painter, dies at 68
1912 - Austin Lane Crothers, American politician (b. 1860)
1914 - Paolo Giorza, composer, dies at 81
1916 - Jack Marsh, cricketer (Aboriginal bowler played for NSW 1900-03), dies
1917 - Leon Felix Augustin Joseph Vasseur, composer, dies at 72
1917 - Maksim Bahdanovič, Belarusian poet (b. 1891)
1919 - Madame C J Walker, wealthy cosmetics manufacturer, dies at 51
1924 - Theodore Morse, composer, dies at 51
1924 - Lyubov Popova, Russian painter (b. 1889)
1926 - Symon Petlyura, leader of Ukraine (pogroms), assassinated at 47
1927 - Payne Whitney, American businessman (b. 1876)
1930 - Randall Thomas Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1848)
1934 - Gustav Theodore Holst, English composer (Ode to Death), dies at 59
1935 - Sir Frank Watson Dyson, English astronomer (b. 1868)
1936 - Jan Levoslav Bella, composer, dies at 92
1937 - Henry O Tanner, artist, dies
1940 - Joe De Grasse, American film director (b. 1873)
1943 - Nils von Dardel, Swedish post-impressionist painter (b. 1888)
1949 - Simon H Spoor, intelligence officer/general (WW II), dies at 47
1951 - Paula von Preradović, Croatian-born writer (b. 1887)
1954 - Robert Capa, Hungarian-born photojournalist (b. 1913)
1958 - Rolland Beaumont, cricketer (5 Tests for South Africa), dies
1964 - Vasily Andreyevich Zolotaryov, composer, dies at 92
1965 - Sonny Boy Williamson, [Aleck Miller], blues player, dies at 65
1968 - Charles K Feldman, [Gould], producer (Casino Royale), dies at 63
1971 - Jo Etha Collier, young black woman killed by 3 whites in Drew Miss
1971 - Mark Brunswick, composer, dies at 69
1971 - Terence De Marney, actor (Case Thomas-Johnny Ringo), dies at 62
1974 - Donald Crisp, actor/director (Beloved Brat, Dawn Patrol), dies at 91
1974 - Frank Ward, cricketer (4 Tests for Australia 1936-38), dies
1974 - Pam Morrison, wife of Door's vocalist Jim, dies of drug overdose
1977 - Yevgenia Ginzburg, Russian writer (b. 1904)
1979 - John Arthur Spenkelink, American murderer (b. 1949)
1981 - Rosa Ponselle, US singer (Metropolitan Opera), dies at 84
1981 - Roy Brown, American boxer/rocker, dies of a heart attack at 55
1981 - Fredric Warburg, British publisher and author (b. 1898)
1982 - Larry J Blake, actor (Earth vs the Flying Saucers), dies at 68
1983 - Sydney Box, academy award producer, dies at 76
1983 - Jean Rougeau, French Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1925)
1983 - Black Jack Stewart, Canadian NHL hockey player (b. 1917)
1984 - Piet Ketting, Dutch pianist/conductor/composer, dies at 79
1985 - Harold Hecht, choreographer, dies at 77 of cancer
1985 - Robert Nathan, US writer/poet (Portrait of Jennie), dies at 91
1986 - Chester Bowles, US senator/ambassador, dies at 85
1988 - Ernst Ruska, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
1990 - Vic Tayback, actor (Mel-Alice), dies of a heart attack at 60
1991 - Dorothy Davis Bostwick, entertainer, dies
1992 - Danny Biasone, persuaded NBA to use 24 second clock, dies at 83
1992 - Marshall Thompson, US actor (To Hell & Back), dies at 66
1992 - Nancy Walker, actress (Ida Morgenstein-Rhoda), dies of cancer at 71
1992 - Philip C Habib, US diplomat (Middle-East/Asia), dies at 72
1992 - Viktor Grishin, hardline soviet communist, dies at 78, dies
1993 - Dan Seymour, actor (Bombs over Burma, Intrigue, Watusi), dies at 78
1993 - Louise Tazewell, entertainer, dies at 93
1994 - Eric Gale, guitarist, dies at 55
1995 - Dany Robin, actress (Follow the Boys, Topaz, Julietta), dies at 68
1995 - Dick Curless, singer/songwriter, dies at 63
1995 - Krešimir Ćosić, Croatian basketball player (b. 1948)
1996 - Bernard Charles Sendall, deputy director general of ITA, dies at 83
1996 - Buck, dog (Married with Children), dies at 13
1996 - David W Howe, test pilot, dies at 77
1996 - Enid Kathleen Hutchinson, adult educationalist, dies at 86
1996 - John Morrison, politician/landowner, dies at 89
1996 - Laurence Marks, journalist, dies at 67
1996 - Renzo de Felice, historian, dies at 67
1997 - Muhammad Fadhel, PM of Iraq (1953-54), dies
2000 - Nicholas Clay, British actor (b. 1946)
2002 - Pat Coombs, English actress (b. 1926)
2003 - Jeremy Michael Ward, American musician (The Mars Volta) (b. 1976)
2004 - Roger W. Straus, Jr., American publisher (b. 1917)
2005 - Sunil Dutt, Indian actor and politician (b. 1929)
2005 - Robert Jankel, British coachbuilder (b. 1938)
2005 - Graham Kennedy, Australian television personality (b. 1934)
2005 - Ruth Laredo, American pianist (b. 1937)
2005 - Gregory Scott Johnson, American murderer (b. 1965)
2006 - Desmond Dekker, Jamaican ska musician (b. 1941)
2007 - Charles Nelson Reilly, American actor and host (b. 1931)
2008 - J. R. Simplot, American potato farmer (b. 1909)
2009 - Haakon Lie, Norwegian politician (b. 1905)
2010 - Siphiwo Ntshebe, South African opera singer (b. 1975)
2010 - Alexander Belostenny, Ukrainian basketball player (b. 1959)
2010 - Alan Hickinbotham, Australian businessman, football player, & football coach (b. 1925)
2010 - Gabriel Vargas, Mexican cartoonist (b. 1915)
2010 - Silvius Magnago, Italian politician (b. 1914)
2010 - Michael H. Jordan, businessman and former CEO PepsiCo and CBS Corporation (b. 1936)
2011 - Terry Jenner, Australian cricketer (b. 1944)
2012 - Edoardo Mangiarotti, Italian fencer, dies at 93

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 26, 2013, 02:48:13 PM

This Day in History for 26th May


Historical Events

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Last Emperor of Russia                     Marxist Revolutionary Vladimir Lenin             Baseball Great Babe Ruth
Nicholas II

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Seamstress Credited with                              First Secretary of the                        Parody Singer and Comedian
Creating the First American Flag             Communist Party of the Soviet                      Weird Al Yankovic
Betsy Ross                                                 Union Nikita Khrushchev

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265th Pope Benedict XVI


451 - The Battle of Avarayr between Armenian rebels and the Sassanid Empire takes place. The
         Armenians are defeated militarily but are guaranteed freedom to openly practice Christianity.
961 - German King Otto II crowned
1328 - William of Ockham forced to flee from Avignon by Pope John XXII
1538 - Geneva expels John Calvin and his followers from the city. Calvin lives in exile in Strasbourg
           for the next three years.
1596 - England, France & Netherlands signs Drievoudig Covenant against Spain
1637 - 1st battle of Pequot at Mystic Ct kills 500 indians
1647 - Massachusetts disallows priest access to colony
1647 - Alse Young becomes the first person executed as a witch in the American colonies, when she
           is hanged in Hartford, Connecticut.
1736 - Battle of Ackia (La), British & Chickasaw Indians defeat French
1770 - The Orlov Revolt, a first attempt to revolt against the Turks before the Greek War of
           Independence ends in disaster for the Greeks.
1781 - Bank of North America incorporates in Philadelphia
1790 - Territory South of River Ohio created by Congress
1798 - British kill about 500 Irish insurgents at the Battle of Tara
1805 - Lewis & Clark 1st see Rocky Mountains
1805 - Napoleon is crowned king of Italy
1824 - Brazil is recognized by US
1828 - Mysterious feral child Kaspar Hauser is discovered wandering the streets of Nuremberg.
1834 - Portuguese Civil war ends, Dom Miguel capitulates
1860 - Garibaldi occupies Palermo Italy
1861 - Postmaster General Blair announces end of postal connection with South
1861 - Union blockades New Orleans LA & Mobile AL
1864 - -30] Skirmish along the Totopotomoy Creek, Virginia
1864 - Territory of Montana formed
1865 - Battle of Galveston TX, surrender of Edmund Kirby Smith
1868 - President Andrew Johnson avoids impeachment by 1 vote
1869 - Boston University is chartered by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
1874 - 2nd Preakness: William Donohue aboard Culpepper wins in 2:56.5
1876 - HMS Challenger returns from 128,000-km oceanographic exploration
1883 - 11th Preakness: G Barbee aboard Jacobus wins in 2:42.5
1884 - Fred Spofforth takes 7-34 & 7-3 v England XI in 4 hours
1887 - Racetrack betting becomes legal in NY state
1894 - Emanuel Lasker (26) becomes World Champion chess player
1896 - 1st American intercollegiate bicycle race, Manhattan Beach NY
1896 - Dow Jones begins an index of 12 industrial stocks (closing is 40.94)
1896 - Last Czar of Russia, Nicholas II, crowned
1896 - James Dunham murders six people in Campbell, California.
1898 - 32nd Belmont: F Littlefield aboard Bowling Brook wins in 2:32
1898 - SF approves City Charter, allows Municipal ownership of utilities
1900 - British troops under Ian Hamilton attack the Vaal in South Africa
1903 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of 3 Gables" (BG)
1905 - A pogrom against Jews in Minsk Belorussia
1906 - Archaeological Institute of America forms
1906 - Vauxhall Bridge is opened in London.
1907 - Chic White Sox Ed Walsh no-hits NY Highlanders, 8-1 in 5 inning game
1908 - At Masjed Soleyman (مسجد سليمان) in southwest Persia, the first major commercial oil strike in the
           Middle East is made. The rights to the resource are quickly acquired by the United Kingdom.
1911 - 1st Indianapolis 500 auto race is run
1913 - Actors' Equity Association forms (NYC)
1913 - Emily Duncan becomes Great Britain's first woman magistrate.
1915 - H H Asquith forms a coalition government in England
1917 - Walt Cruise hit 1st HR out of Braves Field
1918 - Georgian Social Democratic Republic declares independence from Russia
1918 - Armenia defeats the Ottoman Army in the Battle of Sardarapat.
1922 - Lenin suffers a stroke
1923 - 1st Le Mans Grand Prix d'Endurance is run
1923 - Socialist Workers Youth International forms in Hamburg
1924 - German government of Marx resigns
1924 - Pres Calvin Coolidge signs Immigration law: restricting immigration
1925 - Babe Ruth is finally out of bed, 5 weeks after ulcer surgery
1925 - Tigers' Ty Cobb is 1st to collect 1,000 extra-base hits (ends 1,139)
1926 - Lebanon adopts constitution
1928 - A's commit 7 errors & lose to Yanks 7-4
1930 - Joe Sewell, strikes out twice of his 3 times in 1930, by Pat Caraway
1930 - Supreme Court rules buying liquor does not violate the Constitution
1932 - Admiral Makoto Saito forms parliament in Tokyo
1933 - 2nd emergency Dutch government of Colijn forms
1933 - Phillies Chuck Klein hits for cycle vs St Louis Cards
1934 - Century of Progress Exposition reopens in Chicago
1936 - 1st government of Zealand in Belgium ends
1937 - Dutch Rail NV at law forms
1937 - San Francisco Bay's Golden Gate Bridge opens
1938 - House on un-American Activities forms
1940 - 1st successful helicopter flight in US: Vought-Sikorsky US-300 designed by Igor Sikorsky
1940 - Operation Dynamo begins evacuating defeated Allied troops from Dunkirk
1941 - American Flag House (Betsy Ross' Home) given to city of Phila
1941 - Ark Royal airplane sights German battleship Bismarck
1941 - German occupiers begin youth labor
1942 - Anglo-Soviet Treaty signed in London
1942 - Belgium Jews are required by Nazis to wear a Jewish star
1942 - Tank battle at Bir Hakeim: African corps vs British army
1943 - 1st president of a black country to visit US (Edwin Barclay, Liberia)
1943 - Jews riot against Germany in Amsterdam
1943 - Premier Churchill & General Marshall fly from US to North Africa
1944 - 82nd Airborne div D-day-landing at La Haye du Puits to Ste Mere Eglise
1945 - US drop fire bombs on Tokyo
1946 - 2-for-42 & hitting .048 for 1946, Mel Ott stops playing baseball
1946 - Darius Milhauds 3rd Concert for piano/orchestra premieres in Prague
1946 - Klement Gottwald becomes premier of Czechoslovakia
1946 - Patent filed in US for H-Bomb
1948 - Entire Hagana-arm forces sworn-in as Israeli soldiers
1948 - South Africa elects a nationalist government with apartheid policy
1951 - Vaughan Williams "Pilgrim's Progress," premieres in London
1953 - Dutch Convair crashes at Schipholweg, 2 die
1955 - "7th Heaven" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 44 performances
1955 - Conservatives win British parliamentary election
1955 - Khrushchev arrives in Belgrade
1956 - Aircraft carrier "Bennington" burns off RI, killing 103
1956 - Reds' John Klippstein, Hershel Freemman & Joe Blacks no-hitter, broken up with 2 outs in
          10th & lose to Braves in 11th, 2-1
1957 - Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Land of Sky Golf Open
1958 - Ceylon emergency crisis proclaimed
1958 - US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)
1958 - Union Square, SF becomes state historical landmark
1959 - Harvey Haddix pitches 12 perfect innings, loses in 13th
1961 - Freedom Ride Coordinating Committee establishes in Atlanta
1961 - USAF bomber flies Atlantic in a record of just over 3 hours
1962 - "All American" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 80 perfs
1963 - 15th Emmy Awards: Dick Van Dyke Show, E G Marshall & Shirley Booth
1963 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
1963 - Organization of African Unity forms
1963 - Wes Stock becomes only Balt Oriole to win a doubleheader
1964 - "Fade Out-Fade In" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 199 perfs
1965 - Dutch Voting Rights Bill passes
1965 - Revised Intl Convention on Safety of Life at Sea takes effect
1966 - Buddhist sets self on fire at US consulate in Hué South-Vietnam
1966 - Guyana (formerly British Guiana) declares independence from UK
1967 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1968 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
1969 - Apollo 10 astronauts returned to Earth
1969 - John & Yoko begin their 2nd bed-in (Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montreal)
1970 - The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2.
1971 - Soviet Union's Concorde, TU-144, makes its 1st appearance
1972 - Joe Frazier TKOs Ron Stander in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
1972 - Nixon & Brezhnev signs SALT accord
1972 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1972 - The British state-owned travel firm Thomas Cook & Son is sold to a consortium of private
           businesses headed by the Midland Bank.
1973 - Bahrain adopts it's constitution
1973 - Beatles' "Beatles 1967-1970," album goes #1
1973 - Chic White Sox beat Cleve Indians, 6-3, in 21 inn (game complete 5/28)
1973 - Funky Worm by Ohio Players hits #15
1973 - Super Fly Meets Shaft by John & Ernest hits #31
1973 - Tippett's 3rd Piano sonata, premieres
1974 - During a David Cassidy concert in London a 14 year old is trampled
1974 - Joanne Carner wins Hoosier LPGA Golf Classic
1975 - Tennis game in Surrey championships lasts 31 minutes
1977 - George Willig climbs NYC World Trade Center
1978 - 1st legal gambling casino opens in Atlantic City
1979 - Dancin' Fool by Frank Zappa hits #45
1980 - Dietmar Mogenburg of West Germany ties high jump record at 7'8"
1980 - Phillie Steve Carlton is 1st NLer to record 6, 1-hitters
1980 - Soyuz 36 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Hungarian) to Salyut 6
1981 - Marine jet crashes on flight deck of USS Nimitz, killing 14
1981 - The Italian Prime Minister Arnaldo Forlani and his coalition cabinet resign following a scandal
           over membership of the pseudo-masonic lodge P2 (Propaganda Due).
1982 - Aston Villa wins 27th Europe Cup 1 of Rotterdam
1982 - British ship Atlantic Conveyor & Coventry were hit in Falkland war
1983 - 29th Walker Cup: US, 13½ - 10½
1983 - Challenger moves to launch pad for STS-7
1983 - LA Lakers set NBA playoff game record of fewest free throws
1983 - NASA launches Exosat
1983 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1984 - Floods kill 14 in Tulsa Okla
1984 - Frisbee is kept aloft for 1,672 seconds in Philadelphia
1984 - Tulsa Oklahoma gets 13" of rain, 14 die
1985 - Danny Sullivan wins Indy 500 by 24 seconds following a spin
1985 - Explosions destroys 2 tankers off of Gibraltar, 30 die
1985 - Patti Rizzo wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
1987 - Cecilia Bolocco, 22, of Chile, crowned 36th Miss Universe
1987 - Great offensive against Tamil-rebellion in Jaffra Sri Lanka
1987 - Supreme Court ruled dangerous defendants could be held without bail
1987 - William H Webster replaces Robert M Gates as 14th director of CIA
1988 - Stanley Cup: Edmonton Oilers sweep Boston Bruins in 4 games
1989 - At 7:42 AM, radio has a 30 2nd silence, honoring radio
1989 - Danish parliament allows legal marriage among homosexuals
1989 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1990 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1990 - Philadelphia Phillies retire Mike Schmidt's uniform #20
1991 - Betsy King wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
1992 - Carlos Martinez hits a ball off Jose Canseco's head for a HR
1992 - Weird Al Yankovic begins his Off The Deep End tour
1993 - Emmy 20th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 14th time
1993 - Olympique Marseille wins 38th Europe Cup I at Munich
1993 - Long fly ball by Indians' Carlos Martinez bounces off Jose Canseco's head & goes over fence
           for a home run
1996 - "Midsummer Night's Dream" closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 66 perfs
1996 - Indianapolis 500 race
1996 - Laura Davies wins J C Penney/LPGA Skins Golf Game
1996 - Rosie Jones wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
1997 - Sammy Sosa (Cubs) & Tony Womack (Pirates) hit inside the park HRs
1998 - Date for Paula Jones sex harassment trial vs Pres Clinton
1998 - The United States Supreme Court rules that Ellis Island, the historic gateway for millions of
           immigrants, is mainly in the state of New Jersey, not New York.
2002 - The Mars Odyssey finds signs of large ice deposits on the planet Mars.
2002 - Álvaro Uribe becomes President of Colombia.
2003 - Only three days after a previous record, Sherpa Lakpa Gelu climbs Mount Everest in 10 hours
           56 minutes. The tourism ministry of Nepal confirms this record in July that year.
2004 - The New York Times publishes an admission of journalistic failings, claiming that its flawed
           reporting and lack of skeptism towards sources during the buildup to the 2003 war in Iraq
           helped promote the belief that Iraq possessed large stockpiles of weapons of mass       
           destruction.
2004 - The United States Army veteran Terry Nichols is found guilty of 161 state murder charges for
           helping carry out the Oklahoma City bombing.
2006 - The May 2006 Java earthquake kills over 5,700 people, leaves 200,000 homeless.
2012 - A gunman in the Finnish town of Hyvink
2012 - Pope Benedict XVI's butler is arrested for allegedly leaking confidential documents

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 26, 2013, 02:54:49 PM

This Day in History for 26th May


Famous Weddings

1994 - Michael Jackson (35) weds Elvis' daughter Lisa Marie Presley (26) in La Romana, Dominican
           Republic
1996 - "Seinfield" actor-comedian Wayne Knight (41) weds makeup artist Paula Sutor (44) in Pacific
           Palisades, California
2006 - Soccer star player Joshua Kennedy (23) weds Australian Opals player Jacinta Hamilton at St.
           Joseph's Catholic Church in Port Melbourne

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 26, 2013, 03:03:26 PM

This Day in History for 26th May


Famous Birthdays

(http://i.historyorb.com/peter-cushing.jpg)                  (http://i.historyorb.com/lenny-kravitz.jpg)                 (http://i.historyorb.com/helena-bonham-carter.jpg)
Actor Peter Cushing (1913)                    Musician Lenny Kravitz (1964)          Actress Helena Bonham Carter (1966)


1264 - Prince Koreyasu, Japanese shogun (d. 1326)
1478 - Clement VII, [Giulio de' Medici], Italy, Pope (1523-34)
1566 - Mehmed III, Ottoman Emperor (1595-1603)
1591 - Dirck Janszoon Sweelinck, composer
1602 - Philippe de Champaigne, French painter (d. 1674)
1667 - Abraham De Moivre, French mathematician (De Moivre's theorem)
1669 - Sébastien Vaillant, French botanist (d. 1722)
1689 - Mary Wortley Montagu, English essayist, feminist, eccentric
1700 - Nikolaus L earl von Zinzendorf und Pottendorf, German evangelist
1759 - Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, writer/mother of Mary Shelley
1764 - Edward Livingston, American jurist and statesman (d. 1836)
1771 - Rahel Varnhagen von Ense-Levin, German saloon owner/author
1773 - Hans Georg Nageli, composer
1782 - Joseph Drechsler, composer
1799 - Alexander S Pushkin, Russia, writer (Eugene Onegin)
1806 - Henry Knox Thatcher, Comm (Union Navy), died in 1880
1822 - E de Goncourt, writer
1825 - Felipe Gutierrez y Espinoza, composer
1835 - Edward Porter Alexander, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1846 - Arthur Coquard, composer
1850 - Christine [Elizabeth C] Poolman, Dutch actress (Stupid force)
1853 - Monroe A Althouse, composer
1856 - George Templeton Strong, composer
1859 - Alfred Edward Housman, Bromsgrove England, poet (A Buried Life)
1863 - Robert Fitzsimmons, Boxing champion (d. 1917)
1865 - Akseli V Gallen-Kallela, Fins painter/graphic artist/illustrator
1865 - Robert W. Chambers, American artist (d. 1933)
1866 - John Eigenhuis, writer (Tough Workers)
1867 - Mary of Teck, wife of George V of the United Kingdom (d. 1953)
1871 - Camille Huysmans, Belgian premier (1946-47)
1873 - Cornelis G N de Vooys, translator/founder (New Taalgids)
1873 - Olaf Gulbransson, Norwegian artist (d. 1958)
1874 - Henry Farman, French aviation pioneer (double decker)
1876 - Jack Root, boxing's 1st light heavyweight champion
1877 - Isadora Duncan, SF, free form/interpretative dancer
1877 - Jean Schlumberger, French writer (La Mort de Sparte)
1877 - Sadao Araki, Japanese general/minister of War (1931-34)
1883 - Mamie Smith, American singer (d. 1946)
1884 - Charles Winninger, Athens Wisc, actor (Charlie Farrell Show)
1886 - Al Jolson, [Asa Yoelson], jazz singer/silent actor (Mamie, Swanee)
1890 - Kurt Edzard, German sculptor (nudes/portraits)
1893 - Eugene Goossens, London England, conductor/composer (Perseus)
1893 - Norma Talmadge, NY, actress (Sign on Door, Camille)
1895 - Dorothea Lange, US documentary photographer
1895 - Paul Lukas, Budapest Hungary, actor (Watch on the Rhine, Sphynx)
1898 - Ernst Bacon, composer
1898 - Gerard Bertouille, composer
1899 - Otto E Neugebauer, Austrian/US math historian
1899 - Pieter Menten, Dutch war criminal
1899 - Antonio Barrette, French Canadian politician (d. 1968)
1903 - Estes Kefauver, (Sen-D-Tn)
1904 - Vlado Perlemuter, Polish pianist (d. 2002)
1905 - Hans Holewa, composer
1907 - Carleton Young, NY, actor (Reefer Madness, Pride of the Bowery)
1907 - John Wayne [Marion Mitchell Morrison], Winterset IA, actor (Green Berets, True Grit)
1907 - Jean Bernard, French physician (d. 2006)
1908 - Robert Morley, England, actor (High Road to China, African Queen)
1908 - Nguyen Ngoc Tho, Prime Minister of South Vietnam
1909 - Matt Busby, Scottish soccer coach (Manchester United)
1909 - Richard Maibaum, NYC, screenwriter (Goldfinger)
1910 - Adolfo Lopez Mateos, president of Mexico
1910 - Laurance S Rockefeller, NYC, CEO (Chase Manhattan Bank)
1911 - Ben Alexander, NV, actor (Dragnet, Outer Gate, Mr Doodles Kicks Off)
1911 - Ben Alexander, American actor (d. 1969)
1912 - Janos Kádár, premier Hungary (1956-58)
1913 - Fred Bertrand, Belgian politician
1913 - Peter Cushing, England, actor (Dracula, Star Wars, Dr Who)
1913 - Robert Shaw, town planner
1914 - Archie Duncan, Glasgow Scotland, actor (Sherlock Holmes)
1915 - Sam Edwards, American actor (d. 2004)
1915 - Antonia Forest, British children's author (d. 2003)
1916 - Moondog, American composer, musician and poet (d. 1999)
1916 - Henriette Roosenburg, Dutch journalist (d. 1972)
1917 - Eva Szorenyi, Hungarian actress, freedom activist for Hungary
1918 - Anton Christoforidis, Greek boxer (d. 1985)
1919 - Jay Silverheels, Canadian actor (Tonto-Lone Ranger)
1919 - Peter Malcolm Gordon Raleigh, journalist
1920 - Jack Cheetham, cricketer (South African batsman, Test capt early 50's)
1920 - Peggy Lee, American singer (d. 2002)
1921 - Frank Mooney, cricketer (dependable wicket-keeper for NZ in 13 Tests)
1923 - Horst Tapper, German director/actor (Derrick)
1923 - James Arness, Minneapolis MN, actor (Matt Dillon-Gunsmoke, Thing)
1923 - Oren Lee Staley, 1st pres of National Farmers Organization (1955-79)
1923 - Roy Dotrice, Guernsey Channel Island, actor (Wizard)
1924 - Cooper Evans, (Rep-R-IA, 1981-87)
1925 - Alec McCowen, Tunbridge Wells England, actor (Never Say Never Again)
1926 - Maria de Lourdes Martins, composer
1926 - Dirch Passer, Danish actor
1926 - Phyllis Gotlieb, Canadian author
1926 - Miles Davis, Alton, Illinois, American jazz musician, trumpeter and composer (d. 1991)
1927 - Jacques Bergerac, France, actor (Gigi, Les Girls, Thunder in Sun)
1929 - Hugo Raes, Flemish writer (Horses Jump & Fresh Sea)
1932 - Grigor Vachkov, Bulgarian actor (d. 1980)
1934 - Abdulah M "Dulah" Omar, South African attorney/UDF-leader
1935 - Sheila Steafel, South African-born British actress
1937 - Yehuda Yannay, composer
1938 - Jackie Liebesit, rocker (Can)
1938 - Teresa Stratas, [Anastasia Stratakis], Toronto, soprano (Salome)
1938 - William Elden Bolcom, Seattle Washington, composer (Oracles)
1938 - Pauline Parker, New-Zealandic murderess
1938 - Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, Russian playwright and novelist
1939 - Brent Musburger, sportscaster (CBS-TV)
1939 - Gerald Ronson, English multi-millionaire
1939 - Merab Kostava, Georgian anti-Soviet leader
1940 - Monique Gagnon-Tremblay, French Canadian politician
1940 - Levon Helm, Elaine Arkansas, American musician (The Band), (d. 2012)
1941 - Imants Kalnins, composer
1941 - Reg Bundy, British performer (d. 2003)
1941 - John Kaufman, sculptor
1942 - Ray Ennis, England, guitar (Swinging Blue Jeans-You're No Good)
1943 - Erica G Terpstra, Oly swimmer/Dutch MP (VVD)
1944 - Verden "Phally" Allen, keyboardist (Mott the Hoople)
1944 - Sam Posey, American race car driver, TV commentator and author
1945 - Garry Peterson, rocker (Guess Who)
1946 - Neshka Robeva, Bulgarian Rhythmic gymnas and coach.
1946 - Mick Ronson, English musician (d. 1993)
1947 - Glenn Turner, cricketer (masterful NZ opening batsman)
1947 - Piers Gray, critic/writer
1947 - Sherry Bain, California, actress (Pipe Dreams)
1948 - Geoff Greenidge, cricketer (no relation to Gordon, WI opener 1972-74)
1948 - Stevie Nicks, American rocker and songwriter (Fleetwood Mac, Bella Donna)
1949 - Dan Pastorini, NFL quarterback (Houston Oilers, Raiders) [or Dec 25]
1949 - Dayle Haddon, Montreal Quebec Canada, actress (Bedroom Eyes)
1949 - Hank Williams Jr, Shreveport La, country singer (Honky Tonk)
1949 - Pam Grier, Winston-Salem NC, actress (Big Bird Cage, Tough Enough)
1949 - Philip Michael Thomas, Columbus Ohio, actor (Miami Vice)
1949 - Ward Cunningham, American computer programmer and inventor
1951 - Muhammed Ahmad Faris, Syria, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-3)
1951 - Sally Kristen Ride, LA California, 1st US woman astronaut (STS-7, STS 41G), (d. 2012)
1951 - Madeleine Taylor-Quinn, Irish politician
1952 - David Meece, Christian musician
1953 - Michael Portillo, British politician
1954 - Alan Hollinghurst, British novelist
1954 - Danny Rolling, American murderer (d. 2006)
1955 - Candace L Collins, Dupo Illinois, playmate (Dec, 1979)
1955 - Masaharu Morimoto, Japanese chef
1955 - Wesley Walker, American football player
1956 - Frédéric Dutoit, French politician
1957 - Margaret Colin, actress (Independence Day, Three Men & a Baby)
1957 - François Legault, French Canadian politician
1957 - Kristina Olsen, American musician
1957 - Pontso S.M. Sekatle, Lesotho academic and politician
1959 - Beverly Lee, rocker
1959 - Brian Peaker, London Ontario, rower (Olympics-96)
1959 - Nancy White-Brophy, Montague PEI, LPGA golfer (1994 McCall's-25th)
1959 - Wayne Hussey, rocker (Mission-Lover for Life)
1959 - Steve Hanley, English musician (The Fall, Tom Hingley and the Lovers)
1959 - Ole Bornedal, Danish film director, actor and producer
1960 - Rob Murphy, American baseball player
1961 - Stephen Robert Pate, Ventura CA, PGA golfer (1987 Southwest Classic)
1961 - Tarsem Singh, Indian film director
1962 - Bob[cat] Goldthwait, Syracuse NY, comedian (Police Academy)
1962 - Colin Vearncombe, rocker (Black-Wonderful Like)
1962 - Genie Francis, Englewood NJ, actress (General Hospital, Bare Essence)
1963 - Charles Van Eman, Pitts, actor (Charlie-All My Children, Dynasty II)
1963 - Eddie Martin Jr, jockey
1964 - Kevin Kennedy, baseball manager (Texas Rangers)
1964 - Lenny Kravitz, American musician
1965 - Greg Lloyd, NFL linebacker (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1965 - Jacqueline Mary Nelson, Upper Hutt NZ, points race cyclist (Oly-96)
1965 - Hazel Irvine, British television presenter
1966 - Helena Bonham Carter, London, English actress (Fight Club, Howards End)
1966 - Anthony Edwards, NFL wide receiver (Arizona Cardinals)
1966 - Billy Downes, Camden NJ, Nike golfer (1994 New England Classic)
1966 - Grant Bradburn, cricketer (son of Wynne NZ off-spinner 1990- )
1966 - Zola Budd Pieterse, Bloemfontein South Africa, track star (Oly-1988)
1967 - Igor Zemlyanoy, hockey defenseman (Team Kazakhstan Oly-1998)
1967 - Jean Bartholomew, Queens NY, LPGA golfer (1989 Duke U Champ)
1967 - Phil Doyle, Australian writer
1968 - Frederik, Heir Apparent Crown Prince of Denmark
1968 - Rachael Sporn, Australian basketball forward (Olympics-bronze-96)
1968 - Pat Kenney, American professional wrestler
1968 - Fernando León de Aranoa, Spanish film director
1968 - Steve Sedgley, English footballer
1969 - John Baird, Canadian politician
1969 - Musetta Vander, South African actress
1970 - Sam Mack, NBA forward/guard (Houston Rockets, Vancouver Grizzlies)
1970 - Sebastian Barrie, NFL defensive tackle (San Diego Chargers)
1970 - Nobuhiro Watsuki, Japanese cartoonist
1971 - Darwin Ireland, NFL linebacker (Chic Bears)
1971 - Lewis Capes, WLAF defensive tackle (London Monarchs)
1971 - Steven Rice, Kitchener, NHL right wing (Hartford Whalers)
1971 - Matt Stone, American television producer
1972 - Patsy Palmer, British actress
1974 - Lars Frölander, Swedish swimmer
1975 - Christopher Lindsey Donaldson, Dunedin NZ, 100m/200m runner (Oly-96)
1975 - Travis Lee, San Diego CA, baseball 1st baseman (Olympics-bronze-96)
1975 - Nicki Aycox, American actress
1976 - Benji Gregory, Encino California, actor (Brian Tanner-Alf)
1976 - Markus Wieland, hockey defenseman (Team Germany 1998)
1976 - Scott Humphries, Greely Colo, tennis star (1995 doubles Binghampton)
1976 - Justin Pierre, American singer (Motion City Soundtrack)
1977 - Raina Telgemeier, American cartoonist
1977 - Luca Toni, Italian footballer
1977 - Mark Hunter, American musician (Chimaira)
1977 - Misaki Ito, Japanese actress
1978 - Phil Elverum, American singer-songwriter
1979 - Elisabeth Harnois, American actress
1979 - Mehmet Okur (Memo), Turkish basketball player
1979 - Ashley Massaro, American model and professional wrestler
1981 - Eda-Ines Etti, Estonian singer
1981 - Irini Merkouri, Greek singer
1982 - Yoko Matsugane, Japanese model
1982 - David Reed, British writer and comedian
1988 - Joel Selwood, Australian footballer
1990 - Zenouska Mowatt, granddaughter of English princess Alexandra
1991 - Julianna Rose Mauriello, American actress
1996 - Austin Michael Luciano, actor (Dante Carlino-Another World)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 26, 2013, 03:05:01 PM

This Day in History for 26th May


Famous Deaths

604 - Augustinus van Canterbury, bishop/apostle of England, dies (or 605)
735 - Bede (Beda Venerabilis), English historian and monk, (b. circa 672 or 673)
818 - Ali ar-Rida, Shia Imam (b. 766)
1055 - Margrave Adalbert of Austria
1421 - Mehmed I, Ottoman Sultan (1413-21). B. 1389.
1512 - Bayezid II, Ottoman Sultan (1481-1512) dies at 62
1595 - Philippus Nerius, [Filippo Neri], Italian merchant/saint, dies at 79
1609 - Cornelis Claesz, mapmaker, buried
1648 - Vincent Voiture, French poet (b. 1597)
1653 - Robert Filmer, English writer (b. 1588)
1679 - Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria (b. 1636)
1685 - Charles II, Elector Palatine (b. 1651)
1703 - Samuel Pepys, English marine expert (Diary)/composer, dies at 70
1742 - Pylyp Orlyk, Ukrainian Zaporozhian Cossack starshina, diplomat (b. 1672)
1753 - Willem Maurits, earl of Nassau/gov of Zeeuws-Flanders, dies
1762 - Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, German philosopher (b. 1714)
1799 - James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, Scottish judge (b. 1714)
1814 - Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, officially named the Guillotine (b. 1789)
1818 - Michael A Barclay de Tolly, Russian fieldmarshal/War Minister, dies
1824 - Capel Lofft, English writer (b. 1751)
1831 - Georg Hermes, German philosopher/theologist (Hermenianen), dies
1831 - Ciro Menotti, Italian patriot (b. 1798)
1832 - Francois-Louis Perne, composer, dies at 59
1840 - Sidney Smith, British admiral (b. 1764)
1864 - Ch Sealsfield, writer, dies at 71
1868 - Michael Barrett, Irish nationalist, last British public execution
1871 - Aime Maillart, composer, dies at 54
1873 - August Conradi, composer, dies at 51
1876 - Frantisek Palacky, Czech historian/MP, dies at 77
1880 - John Curwen, composer, dies at 63
1881 - Jakob Bernays, German philologist (b. 1824)
1883 - Abdelkader El Djezairi, Algerian leader, scholar and national hero (b.1808)
1883 - Edward Sabine, Irish astronomer (b. 1788)
1891 - Frederick Bowen Jewson, composer, dies at 67
1902 - Almon Strowger, American inventor (b. 1839)
1904 - Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French neurologist (b. 1857)
1905 - Alphonse de Rothschild, French banker, dies
1907 - Ida McKinley, First Lady of the United States (b. 1847)
1908 - Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Indies theologist (Ahmadiyya motion), dies at 69
1912 - Jan Blockx, Belgian opera composer (Bride of the Sea), dies at 61
1924 - Johann Heinrich Beck, composer, dies at 67
1924 - Victor Herbert, Irish/US cellist/composer/conductor, dies at 65
1926 - S V Petlura, Ukrainain ataman, assassinated by Shalom Schwarzbard
1933 - Jimmie Rodgers, country singer, dies at 35
1933 - Horatio Bottomley, British financier and politician (b. 1860)
1939 - Charles H Mayo, US surgeon/co-founder (Mayo Clinic), dies at 74
1939 - Cornelis J Cutters, supreme commander of Navy (1910-18), dies
1943 - Edsel Ford, owner (Ford Motor Company), dies at 49
1944 - C M Francois, cricketer (WWII, 252 runs in 5 Tests for South Africa), dies
1946 - Friedrich A H von Waldeck, monarch of Waldeck, dies
1948 - Theodore Morell, Hitler's personal physician (b. 1886)
1950 - Antonina Neshdanova, Russian soprano (Bolshoi Theater), dies
1951 - Lincoln Ellsworth, artic explorer, dies at 71
1952 - Damaso Alonso, Spanish linguistic/poet (Hombrey Dios), dies at 55
1954 - Franz Pfemfert, writer, dies at 74
1954 - Lionel Conacher, Canadian athlete (b. 1900)
1956 - Al Simmons, outfielder (A's)/lifetime batting avg of .334, dies at 54
1959 - Ed Walsh, baseball pitcher (1.82 ERA), dies at 78
1959 - Joe Kelly, TV host (Quiz Kids), dies at 57
1963 - Sharon Lynn, actress (Way Out West, Big Broadcast), dies at 53
1966 - Don Castle, actor (Motor Patrol, Born to Speed), dies at 47
1966 - Neal Dodd, actor (Only Women, You Belong to Me), dies at 86
1967 - Antoon Spinoy, Belgian politician, dies at 60
1967 - George E Stone, actor (5 Star Final, Front Page), dies at 64
1968 - William E "Little Willie" John, US R&B-singer (Fever), dies at 30)
1969 - Kathryn Minner, entertainer, dies of heart attack at 77
1969 - Paul Hawkins, Australian racing driver (b. 1937)
1969 - Allan H. Loughead, American aviation pioneer (Lockheed Corporation; b. 1889)
1971 - John Longden, actor (Man From Interpol), dies at 70
1973 - Jacques Lipchitz, US cubist sculptor, dies at 81
1974 - Kitty Gordon, entertainer, dies at 96
1974 - Silvio Moser, Swiss racing driver (b. 1941)
1976 - Martin Heidegger, German philosopher (Holzweg), dies at 86
1976 - Juan Maino, Chilean leader of MAPU, "disappeared"
1977 - Jim Boles, actor (Kraft Music Hall, One Man's Family), dies at 63
1977 - William Powell, rocker (O'Jays), dies of cancer at 35
1978 - Cybele, Greek actress (b. 1887)
1979 - George Brent, actor (Baby Face, Dark Victory, 42nd St), dies at 75
1989 - Don Revie, Former footballer and England and Leeds United Manager (b. 1927)
1991 - Tom Cassidy, anchor (CNN), dies of AIDs at 41
1991 - Tom Eyen, playwright (Dreamgirls), dies of cardiac arrest at 50
1993 - Carleton Morse, radio dramatist (One Man's Family), dies at 91
1993 - Cor de Great, pianist/conductor/composer (Vernissage), dies at 78
1993 - Marvin Young, producer/child actor (Player), dies at 90
1994 - George Wildman Ball, under minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 84
1994 - Warren Harding "Sonny" Sharrock, American jazz Guitarist, dies at 53
1995 - Isadore "Friz" Freling, cartoon director (Sylvester), dies at 88
1995 - Ron Weatherburn, jazz pianist, dies at 61
1995 - Severn Darden, comedian (Second City), dies at 65
1996 - Halka Grossman, resistance fighter/politician, dies at 76
1996 - Matima Kinuani Mpiosso, musician, dies at 45
1997 - Manfred Von Ardenne, German scientific pioneer, dies at 90
1999 - Paul Sacher, Swiss conductor (b. 1906)
1999 - Waldo Semon, American inventor (b. 1898)
2001 - Vittorio Brambilla, Italian racing driver (b. 1937)
2001 - Anne Haney, American actress (b. 1934)
2001 - Moven Enock Mahachi, Defence Minister of Zimbabwe (b. 1952)
2002 - Mamo Wolde, Ethiopian runner (b. 1932)
2003 - Kathleen Winsor, American writer (b. 1919)
2004 - Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh, Russian astronomer (b. 1931)
2004 - Dullah Omar, South African lawyer (b. 1934)
2005 - Eddie Albert, American actor (b. 1906)
2005 - Chico Carrasquel, Venezuelan baseball player (b. 1928)
2006 - Édouard Michelin, CEO of Michelin (b. 1963)
2006 - Kevin O'Flanagan, Irish athlete and physician (b. 1919)
2007 - J Edward Oliver, cartoonist and composer (b. 1942)
2008 - Sydney Pollack, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1934)
2009 - Peter Zezel, Canadian professional hockey player (b. 1965)
2010 - Jean Constantin, Romanian actor (b. 1928)
2010 - Art Linkletter, Canadian-American radio and television personality (b. 1912)
2010 - Christopher Moran, British Air Chief Marshal (b. 1956)
2010 - Kieran Phelan, Irish senator (b. 1949)
2010 - Jarvis Williams, American football player (b. 1965)
2011 - Arisen Ahubudu, Sri Lankan scholar, author and playwright (b. 1920)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 27, 2013, 09:18:14 AM

This Day in History for 27th May


Historical Events

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Russian Tsar Peter the Great                    Writer Jean-Paul Sartre                          Comedian Jerry Lewis

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Pop Singer & Beatle                              Russian President Boris Yeltsin
Paul McCartney 


927 - Battle of the Bosnian Highlands: Simeon I of Bulgaria is defeated by King Tomislav of Croatia.
1120 - Richard III of Capua is anointed as prince two weeks before his untimely death.
1281 - Flemish Earl Gwijde Dampierre takes financial responsibility of Brugge
1328 - French king Philip VI Valois crowned
1529 - 30 Jews of Posing Hungary, charged with blood ritual, burned at stake
1660 - Denmark & Sweden sign ceasefire
1679 - Habeaus Corpus Act (no false arrest & imprisonment) passes in UK
1689 - Anthonie Heinsius succeeds G Fagel as pension advisor of Holland
1703 - St Petersburg (Leningrad) founded by Peter the Great
1738 - Turkish troops occupy Orsova & Ochakov
1796 - James S McLean patents his piano
1798 - The Battle of Oulart Hill takes place in Wexford, Ireland.
1813 - Americans capture Ft George, Canada
1849 - The Great Hall of Euston station in London is opened.
1850 - Mormon Temple in Nauvoo Illinois destroyed by tornado
1854 - Marine Telegraph from Ft Point to SF completed
1856 - Doctor William Palmer found guilty of poisoning
1862 - Battle of Hanover Court House, VA (Slash Church, Peake's Station)
1863 - CSS Chattahoochie explodes on Chattahoochie River GA, 18 die
1863 - Siege of Port Hudson LA
1864 - Skirmish at Salem Church (Haw's Shop), Virginia
1878 - 6th Preakness: C Holloway aboard Duke of Magenta wins in 2:41.75
1878 - Australians Cricket 41 & 12-1 defeat MCC 33 & 19
1881 - 9th Preakness: T Costello aboard Saunterer wins in 2:40.5
1882 - 10th Preakness: T Costello aboard Vanguard wins in 2:44.5
1883 - Czar Alexander III crowned in Moscow
1893 - Audath Yisroel forms at Kattowitz (Katowice) Poland
1895 - British inventor Birt Acres patents film camera/projector
1896 - Bay District Race Track closes
1896 - Tornado hit St Louis, killing 255 & leaving thousands homeless
1898 - Arthur Pinero's "Trelawney of the 'Wells'," premieres in London
1900 - Lord Roberts' army fights the Vaal in South Africa
1902 - 27th Preakness: L Jackson aboard Old England wins in 1:45.8
1903 - 37th Belmont: John Bullman aboard Africander wins in 2:21.75
1903 - Queen Wilhelmina opens Berlages Merchants bureau in Amsterdam
1904 - NL record of 5 stolen bases in a game (Dennis McGann, NY Giants)
1905 - 30th Preakness: W Davis aboard Cairngore wins in 1:45.8
1905 - Japanese fleet destroys Russian East Sea fleet in Straits of Tushima
1906 - 1st outlining of Gustav Mahler's 6th symphony, in Essen
1907 - Bubonic Plague breaks out in SF
1908 - Maulana Hakeem Noor-ud-Din iss elected the first Khalifa of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community.
1916 - Groundbreaking begins on Hugh Grant Circle in Bronx
1917 - Race riot in East St Louis Illinois, 1 black killed
1918 - Battle of Aisne
1919 - 1st transatlantic flight ends; US Navy flying boat takes 11 days
1920 - Tatar ASSR forms in Russian SFSR
1921 - Afghanistan gains sovereignty
1921 - After 84 years of British control, Afghanistan achieves sovereignty
1927 - Japanese military intervention in Chinese civil war
1927 - Thomas Masaryk elected Czechoslovakia president
1929 - 2nd Ryder Cup: Britain-Ireland, 7-5 at Moortown, England
1930 - Richard Drew invents masking tape
1930 - The 1,046-foot (319-meter) Chrysler Building in New York City, the tallest man-made
           structure at the time, opens to the public.
1931 - 1st full scale wind tunnel for testing airplanes, Langley Field Va
1931 - Piccard & Knipfer make 1st flight into stratosphere, by balloon
1933 - Austrian communist party banned
1933 - Century of Progress Exposition opens in Chicago
1933 - Federal Securities Act signed
1933 - Trailing 11-3, Yanks score 12 runs in 8th & beat White Sox 15-11
1933 - Walt Disney's "3 Little Pigs" released
1935 - Supreme Court declares FDR's Natl Recovery Act unconstitutional
1936 - RMS Queen Mary leaves Southampton for NY on maiden voyage
1937 - Carl Hubbell wins his 24th consecutive game (since July 17, 1936)
1937 - Golden Gate Bridge, SF, dedicated
1938 - Bradman scores his 1000th cricket run of Eng season, earliest to do so
1940 - British & French begin evacuation of Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo)
1940 - World War II: In the Le Paradis massacre, 97 soldiers from a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are
           shot after surrendering to German troops.
1941 - Allied troops begin evacuating Kreta
1941 - FDR declares state of emergency due to Germany's sinking of Robin Moor
1941 - German battleship Bismarck sunk by British naval force
1942 - Dorie Miller, awarded navy cross for deeds at Pearl Harbor
1942 - Hitler orders 10,000 Czechs murdered
1942 - Italian army begin siege of French western Fort Bir Hachim
1942 - Top German Nazi Reinhard Heydrich is shot & mortally wounded in Prague
1943 - French defiance under Jean Moulin meets secretly in Paris
1943 - US forbid racial discrimination in war industry
1944 - Allies land on Biak, Indonesia (operation Horlicks)
1944 - Japanese advance in Hangkhou China
1944 - Jean-Paul Sartres "Huis Clos," premieres in Paris
1948 - Arabs blow up Jewish synagogue Hurvat Rabbi Yehudah he-Hasid
1948 - Hank Greenberg buys an interest in the Cleveland Indians
1949 - Indians start 12-17, owner Bill Veeck arranges a "Second Opening Day"
1949 - Martin Canine, cartoon character, spoofs Martin Kane
1949 - Russian stop train traffic West-Berlin
1950 - "Arms & the Girl" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 134 performances
1950 - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Wallace Stevens
1951 - Chinese Communists force Dalai Lama to surrender his army to Beijing
1951 - Maritime Museum at Aquatic Park, SF opens
1952 - European Defense Community forms
1953 - Dutch social democratic/Dutch Liberal Party win municipal elections
1955 - Boston Red Sox Norm Zauchin gets 10 RBIs, beating Senators 16-0
1955 - Red Buttons Show, last airs on NBC-TV
1956 - French raid in Algiers
1956 - US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)
1957 - Toronto's CHUM-AM, (1050 kHz) becomes Canada's first radio station to broadcast only top
           40 Rock n' Roll music format.
1958 - Ernest Green & 600 whites graduate from Little Rock's Central HS
1958 - Vanguard SLV-1 launched for Earth orbit (failed)
1958 - The F-4 Phantom II first flight.
1960 - 1st use of oversized catching mitt (Balt Oriole Clint Courtney)
1960 - Balt manager Paul Richards devises oversized catcher's mitt
1960 - Military coup overthrows democratic government of Turkey
1961 - 1st black light is sold
1961 - Fiorentina wins 1st Europe Cup II in Florence
1961 - Pres Kennedy announces US goal to reach Moon
1961 - Ralph Boston of US, sets then long jump record at 27' ½"
1962 - Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
1963 - 3 NJ businessman purchase NHL Colorado Rockies, & get approval to move them to NJ
           Meadowlands (Devils)
1963 - Jomo Kenyatta elected 1st prime minister of Kenya
1964 - "From Russia With Love" premieres in US
1964 - Inter Milan wins 9th Europe Cup 1 in Vienna
1965 - Inter Milan wins 10th Europe Cup 1 in Milan
1966 - 55th German F-104 Starfighter crashes
1966 - 6 French fighters crash above Spain
1967 - "Sherry!" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 65 performances
1967 - Australians vote in favor of a constitutional referendum granting the Australian government
           the power to make laws to benefit Indigenous Australians and to count them in the national
           census.
1968 - 6th Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 4-3
1968 - NL awards Montreal & SD major league franchises
1968 - Nuclear submarine USS Scorpion is lost
1968 - The meeting of the Union Nationale des Étudiants de France (National Union of the Students
           of France) takes place. 30,000 to 50,000 people gather in the Stade Sebastien Charlety.
1969 - Jerry Lewis Show second run, last airs on NBC-TV
1969 - Walt Disney World construction begins
1970 - British expedition climbs south face of Annapurna I
1970 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1971 - 23rd Walker Cup: Britain-Ireland, 13-11
1971 - UCLA wins NCAA basketball championship
1972 - "Applause" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 900 performances
1972 - "Jimmy Castor Bunch's Troglodyte" (Cave Man) hits #6
1973 - Rick Wohlhuter runs record 880 yards in 1:44.6
1974 - Pirates Ken Brett no-hits Padres until 9th inning
1975 - Paul McCartney releases "Venus & Mars"
1975 - Stanley Cup: Phila Flyers beat Buffalo Sabres, 4 games to 2
1975 - Worst motor vehicle disaster in UK; bus full of elderly women plunges Dibble's Bridge
           Yorkshire, killing 38
1976 - "Something's Afoot" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 61 performances
1977 - 2 Boeing 747s by Pan Am & KLM collide in Canary Islands, killing 582
1977 - New York City fines George Willig 1 cent for each of 110 stories he climbed
1979 - Penny Pulz wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
1979 - Pope John Paul ordains John J O'Conner as a bishop
1980 - South Korean police ends people's uprising; 2,000 killed
1980 - The Gwangju Massacre: Airborne and army troops of South Korea retake the city of Gwangju
           from civil militias, killing at least 207 and possibly many more.
1981 - John Hinckley attempts suicide by overdosing on Tylenol
1981 - Lenny Randle tries to blow a slow roller foul but ump says no
1981 - Liverpool wins 26th Europe Cup 1 at Paris
1981 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1982 - "Do Black Patent Leather Shoes..." opens at Alvin NYC for 5 perfs
1982 - John McMullen buys NHL Colorodo Rockies & gets approval to move to NJ
1983 - Former EPA official Rita Lavelle indicted for contempt of Congress
1984 - Beth Henley's "Miss Firecracker contest," premieres in NYC
1984 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
1984 - Manuela Manleeva wins 3 singles tennis matches in one day
1985 - Britain agrees to return Hong Kong to China in 1997
1985 - Inaugural bands parade for Pres Reagan
1986 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1986 - Norway Showcase groundbreaking
1986 - Prest Reagan orderes 2 Poseidon-class submarines be dismantled
1987 - Jim & Tammy Bakker appear on "Nightline" after PTL scandal
1987 - Postage wins 32nd Europe Cup 1 in Vienna
1987 - Yank Phil Niekro is 3rd pitcher to make 700th start (Young & Sutton)
1988 - Senate ratified a treaty eliminating medium-range nuclear missiles
1990 - 74th Indianapolis 500 runs
1990 - Caesar Gaviria Trujillo chosen pres of Colombia
1990 - Jan Stephenson wins J C Penney LPGA Golf Skins Game
1990 - Pat Bradley wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
1990 - Radical Democratic Party holds 1st political meetings in Moscow
1991 - Austrian Boeing 767-300 explodes at Bangkok, 223 die
1993 - Dale Murphy ends carreer at 398 HRs
1993 - Mafia bombs Uffizi-museum in Florence, kills 6
1994 - Alexander Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia after 20 years in exile
1994 - Final broadcast of Arsenio Hall talk show
1994 - Flintstones live action movie opens in theaters
1994 - Larry King ended his radio show
1995 - In Culpeper, Virginia, actor Christopher Reeve is paralyzed from the neck down after falling
           from his horse in a riding competition.
1997 - 1st all female (20 British women) team reaches North Pole
1997 - Arie Luyendyk wins his 2nd Indianapolis 500
1997 - Judge finds Pamela Lee not guilty of breaking a contract
1997 - Major league revenue sharing begins, NY Yanks pay out most $28M
1997 - Marv Albert pleads innocent to charges of sexual assault
1997 - Russian Pres Boris Yeltsin signs a historic treaty with NATO
1998 - Oklahoma City bombing: Michael Fortier is sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $200,000
           for failing to warn authorities about the terrorist plot.
1999 - The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands indicts
           Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in
           Kosovo.
2006 - The May 2006 Java earthquake strikes at 5:53:58 AM local time (22:53:58 UTC May 26)
           devastating Bantul and the city of Yogyakarta killing over 6,600 people.
2012 - A NATO airstrike kills a family of eight, including six children, in Afghanistan

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 27, 2013, 09:19:39 AM

This Day in History for 27th May


Famous Weddings

1994 - Radio personality Rush Limbaugh weds wife #3, Marta Fitzgerald
1995 - "Friends" actress Lisa Kudrow (31) weds French advertising executive Michel Stern (37) in
           Malibu
1996 - "Crosby, Stills & Nash" Rock and Roll Hall of Famer guitarist Stephen Stills (51) weds
           recording-studio manager Kristen Hathaway (30) at the Ritz-Carlton in Palm Beach, Florida
2005 - "Amazing Race 6" winner Kendra Bentley (25) weds Freddy Holliday (34) in Bal Harbour,
           Florida
2006 - "The Lineup" anchor Kimberly Guilfoyle (37) weds "Idesign" host Eric Villency at the 5-star
           Sandy Lane Resort in St. James, Barbados

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 27, 2013, 09:20:43 AM

This Day in History for 27th May


Famous Divorces

2003 - Actress Angelina Jolie (26) divorces actor Billy Bob Thornton (47) due to irreconcilable
           differences

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 27, 2013, 09:26:37 AM

This Day in History for 27th May


Famous Birthdays

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Folk Hero of the American Old                Actor Christopher Lee (1922)                    Actor Joseph Fiennes (1970)
West Wild Bill Hickok (1837)


1332 - Ibn Khaldun, Tunis, Arab historian/sociologist (Muqaddimah)
1519 - Girolamo Mei, Italian historian (d. 1594)
1576 - Caspar Schoppe, German scholar (d. 1649)
1595 - Benedictus Carpzovius, [Benedikt Carpzov], German lawyer
1601 - Antoine Daniel, Jesuit missionary and martyr (d. 1648)
1623 - William Petty, English scientist and philosopher (d. 1687)
1626 - William II, prince of Orange/stadholder
1651 - Louis-Antoine, Cardinal de Noailles, French cardinal (d. 1729)
1652 - Elisabeth C "Liselotte" van de Palts, German/French duchess of Orleans
1738 - Bonaventura Furlanetto, composer
1738 - Nathaniel Gorham, American politician (d. 1796)
1756 - Maximilian I Jozef, King of Bavaria
1774 - Francis Beaufort, admiral/hydrographer (Beaufort wind force scale)
1794 - Cornelius Vanderbilt, millionaire (B & O railroad)
1799 - Jacques-Francois-Fromental-Elle Halevy, [Elie Levy], composer
1806 - Charles-Joseph Tolbecque, composer
1815 - Henry Parkes, British journalist/premier of Australia
1818 - Amelia Jenks Bloomer, suffragette known for her pantaloons
1819 - Julia Ward Howe, US, author/lecturer (Battle Hymn of the Republic)
1820 - Mathilde Bonaparte, French princess and socialite (d. 1904)
1822 - Henry Wylde, composer
1822 - Josef Joachim Raff, composer
1823 - John Gray Foster, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1874
1827 - Samuel F. Miller, American politician (d. 1892)
1836 - Edwin Gray Lee, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1870
1836 - Jay Gould, US railroad executive, financier
1837 - "Wild Bill" Hickok, [James Butler], cowboy/scout
1837 - Robert Frederick Hoke, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1912
1837 - Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter (d. 1887)
1839 - Luigi Capuana, Sicilian author/critic (Roccaverdina)
1849 - "Blind" Tom Bethune, pianist/composer
1850 - Thomas Neill Cream, Glasgow, Scotland, serial killer (Lambeth poisoner), (d. 1892)
1852 - Billy Barnes, cricketer (England all-rounder 1880-90)
1854 - Georges Eekhoud, Belgian writer (Jeune Belgium)
1860 - Manuel Teixeira Gomes, 7th President of Portugal (d. 1941)
1861 - Victoria E Matthews, educator
1864 - Ante Trumbić, Croatian politician (d. 1938)
1867 - Arnold Bennett, England, novelist/playwright/critic (Great Babylon)
1870 - Lionel Palairet, cricketer (elegant England bat in the Golden Age)
1871 - Georges-Henri Rouault, Fr expressionist painter (Miserere et Guerre)
1874 - Dustin Farnum, US, actor (Squaw Man, Virginian) [or 1870]
1874 - Richard von Schaukal, Austria poet/writer (Eros Thanatos)
1876 - Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, Polish writer (d. 1945)
1879 - Lucile Watson, actress (Great Lie, Watch on the Rhine, Let's Dance)
1879 - Hans Lammers, German SS officer (d. 1962)
1881 - Rudolf Pannwitz, German writer
1884 - Bax Brod, composer
1887 - Emiel van der Straeten, Flemish playwright (Sudanese legends)
1887 - Erich Kuttner, German journalist/historian (Vorwarts)
1887 - Frank Woolley, cricketer (long-running England left-arm all-rounder)
1888 - Louis Durey, composer
1891 - Claude Adonai Champagne, composer
1892 - Sara Heyblom, Dutch actress (Pygmalion, Fietsen naar de Maan)
1893 - Hermann Dörnemann, German supercentarian (d. 2005)
1894 - Dashiell Hammett, Maryland, detective novelist (Sam Spade, Maltese Falcon)
1894 - Louis-Ferdinand Céline, French writer (d. 1961)
1895 - Marij Kogoj, composer
1897 - John Douglas Cockroft, English physicist (Radar, Nobel 1951)
1900 - Uładzimir Zylka, Belarusian poet (d. 1933)
1902 - Celius Dougherty, composer
1904 - Chuhei Nambu, Japanese athlete (d. 1997)
1906 - Robert Shone, director-general (NEDC)
1907 - Felix de Nobel, Dutch orchestra leader
1907 - Rachel Louise Carson, biologist/ecologist/writer (Silent Spring)
1908 - Alex Brown, snooker player
1908 - Harold Rome, composer (Fanny, Pins & Needles)
1908 - Melle J Oldeboerrigter, [Melle], Dutch painter/cartoonist
1909 - Isador Goodman, composer
1910 - Daniel Greenway, CEO (Daniel Greenway & Sons)
1911 - Hubert Humphrey, (Sen-D-Minn) 38th VP (1965-69), 1968 Pres candidate
1911 - Torolf Elster, Norwegian journalist/writer (Frihet och demokrati)
1911 - Vincent Price, St Louis MO, actor (House on Haunted Hill, Fly, Laura)
1911 - Teddy Kollek, Austrian-born Israeli politician (d. 2007)
1912 - John Cheever, writer (Wapshot Chronicle)
1912 - Sam Snead, Hot Springs VA, PGA golfer (PGA-1963, 65, 67, 70, 72, 73)
1912 - Terry Moore, American baseball player (d. 1995)
1913 - Arthur Mervyn Stockwood, bishop (Southwark England)
1913 - Wolfgang Schulze, [Wols], German cartoonist/painter
1914 - Hugh Le Caine, composer
1914 - Lord Erroll of Hale, British minister
1914 - Rose Stainton, CEO (British Airways)
1915 - Herman Wouk, NYC, novelist (Caine Mutiny, Winds of War)
1915 - Mario del Monaco, Italian opera singer (Verdi/Puccini)
1915 - Louise Annand-MacFarquhar, Lanarkshire, Scotland, painter and film-maker (At the Museum),
          (d. 2012)
1916 - Norman Griggs, VP (Building Society Association)
1918 - Yasuhiro Nakasone, premier of Japan (1982-87)
1919 - Kam Fong, Honolulu Hawaii, actor (Hawaii Five-0)
1920 - Michael Webster, CEO (DRG)
1920 - William Crawshay, Lord-Lt of Gwent
1921 - Caryl Chessman, kidnapper who got death penalty (1960)
1921 - Redd Stewart, Ashland City Tn, guitarist/pianist (Pee Wee King Show)
1922 - Christopher Lee, London England, actor (Hound of Baskervilles)
1922 - Sidney AK Keyes, English poet (Iron Laurel)
1922 - Christopher Lee, English actor
1923 - Henry Kissinger, Secretary of State (1973-77)/Nobel Peace Prize (1973)
1923 - Lord Freyberg, British Colonel of General Staff
1923 - Sumner Redstone, American entrepreneur
1925 - John Moberly, diplomat
1925 - Tony Hillerman, American writer
1926 - Gordon Leggat, cricketer (open batsman for NZ in 9 Tests 1953-56)
1927 - Bryan Cowgill, deputy chairman (Mirror Group)
1927 - Jan Blokker, Dutch writer/journalist (VPRO, People's Newspaper)
1928 - Thea Musgrave, Barnton Midlothian Scot, composer (Mary Queen of Scots)
1929 - Donald Howard Keats, composer
1930 - Eino Tamberg, composer
1930 - John Barth, novelist (Sot-Weed Factor)
1930 - Simon Barrington-Ward
1930 - William S Sessions, Arkansas, director of FBI
1931 - Florence Sharples, director (British YWCA)
1931 - John Chapple, British chief of General Staff
1931 - Kenny Price, Florence Ky, country singer (Midwestern Hayride, Hee Haw)
1931 - Veroslav Neumann, composer
1931 - James Wilson, Boston, Massachusetts, criminologist ('Zero Tolerance' policing), (d. 2012)
1932 - [Herman] Junior Parker, Arkansas, blues vocalist/songwriter (Mystery Train)
1932 - Jeffrey Bernard, singer
1933 - Ted Rogers, Canadian entrepreneur
1934 - Harlan [Jay] Ellison, US, sci-fi author (7 Hugos, Doomsman, Babylon 5)
1935 - Elias Gistelinck, Flemish composer
1935 - Lee Meriwether, LA California, Miss America (Time Tunnel, Barnaby Jones)
1935 - Ramsey Lewis, Chic, pop jazz artist (Hang on Sloopy)
1936 - Benjamin Bathurst, vice chief of British Defense Staff
1936 - Eric Anderson, headmaster (Eton)
1936 - Lord Holme, president British Liberal Party
1936 - Louis Gossett Jr, Bkln NY, actor (Officer & Gentleman, Deep)
1936 - Marcel Masse, Canadian politician
1939 - Don Williams, Floydada Texas, country singer (I Believe in You)
1939 - Earl Cairns, CEO (S G Warburg & Co)
1939 - Jerry Mercer, rock drummer (April Wine Montreal Montreal)
1939 - Socratis Kokkalis, Greek businessman
1940 - Rene Koering, composer
1941 - Adriaan Venema, Dutch journalist/author (Mussert)
1941 - Allan Carr, Ill, director (Grease, Happiest Millionaire)
1941 - Davina Phillips, actress
1942 - Kent Bede Bernard, Trinidad, 4X400 runner (Olympic-bronze-1964)
1942 - Priscilla Anne McLean, composer
1942 - Roger Freeman, British minister of transport
1942 - Lee Baca, American law enforcement official
1943 - Bruce Weitz, Norwalk Ct, actor (Hill St Blues, Death of a Centerfold)
1943 - Cilla Black, Liverpool England, rock vocalist (You're My World)
1944 - Christopher J Dodd, (Gov/Sen-D-CT, 1981- )
1945 - Bruce Cockburn, Ottawa Canada, folk rock vocalist (Waterwalker)
1946 - Lewis Collins, English actor
1946 - Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Danish musician (d. 2005)
1947 - Liana Alexandra, composer
1947 - Peter DeFazio, (Rep-D-Oregon)
1947 - Robert Reinacher Jr, horse trainer
1947 - Branko Oblak, Slovenian footballer
1948 - Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Volkov, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-8, T-14, TM-7)
1948 - Anna E "Annelies" Balhan, Dutch revue-artist/actress (Sweet Chairty)
1948 - Pete Sears, bassist (Jefferson Starship)
1951 - John Conteh, boxer
1951 - Norma Jean Almodovar, Binghampton, auto-biographer (Cop to Call Girl)
1954 - Catherine Carr, US breaststroke swimmer (Olympics-2 gold-1972)
1954 - Pauline Hanson, Australian politician
1954 - Jackie Slater, American football player
1955 - Bill Malley, Oakland CA, Nike golfer (1991 El Paso Open-30th)
1955 - Graeme "Jock" Edwards, cricketer (beefy NZ lefty batsman late 70's)
1955 - Richard Schiff, American actor
1955 - Eric Bischoff, American professional wrestling promoter
1956 - Lisa Niemi, Houston Tx, actress (Dirty Dancing, Will Rodgers Follies)
1956 - Nick Lowery, NFL kicker (NY Jets)
1956 - Steve Pagano, horse trainer
1956 - Cynthia McFadden, American television anchor
1957 - Bruce Furniss, US swimmer (Olympics-2 gold-1976)
1957 - Duncan Goodhew, swimmer
1957 - Siouxsie Sioux, [Susan Ballion], Kent England (Siouxsie & Banshees)
1958 - Linnea Quigley, Davenport Iowa, actress (Night of Demons, Virgin High)
1958 - Neil Finn, rocker (Split Enz-I Got You, Crowded House)
1960 - Ray Armsetad, Kirksville Mo, 4X400 runner (Olympic-gold-1984)
1960 - Vinodhan John, cricket pace bowler (Sri Lankan in 6 Tests 1983-84)
1961 - Cathy Silvers, NYC, actress (Jenny-Happy Days, Foley Square)
1961 - Jill Sterkel, US swimmer (Olympics-bronze-1976, 84, 88)
1961 - John Lugbill, Wauseon Ohio, US canoist/kayaker (Olympic-92)
1961 - Peri Gilpin, Waco Tx, actor (Roz Doyle-Frasier)
1962 - Mariangela D'Abbraccio, Naples Italy, TV actress (Passioni)
1962 - Meg Parsont, personality (David Letterman Show)
1962 - Ravi Shastri, cricketer (Indian SLA all-rounder 1981-92)
1962 - Ray Borner, Australian basketball center (Olympics-1984, 88, 92, 96)
1962 - Steven Brill, American film writer and director
1964 - Adam Carolla, American comedian and television personality
1965 - Jacob Brumfield, Bogalusa LA, outfielder (Toronto Blue Jays)
1965 - Pat Cash, Australia, tennis player (Wimbledon 1987)
1965 - Todd Bridges, SF CA, actor (Diff'rent Strokes, Fish)
1966 - Eric Leckner, NBA center (Detroit Pistons)
1966 - John Jaha, Portland OR, infielder (Milwaukee Brewers)
1966 - Ray Sheppard, Pembroke, NHL right wing (Florida Panthers)
1966 - Sean Kinney, US rock drummer (Alice in Chains-We Die Young)
1967 - Chin Yang, jockey
1967 - Doug West, NBA guard (Minnesota Timberwolves)
1967 - George McCloud, NBA forward/guard (Dallas Mavericks, Phoenix Suns)
1967 - Paul Gascoigne, soccer player
1967 - Ruthie Bolton Holifield, WNBA guard (Sac Monarchs/Olympics-gold-96)
1968 - Cedric Smith, NFL running back (Wash Redskins, Arizona Cardinals)
1968 - Frank Thomas, "Big Hurt", 1st baseman (Chicago White Sox, 1993 MVP)
1968 - Jeff Bagwell, Boston Mass, infielder (Houston Astros)
1968 - John Connelly, Toledo OH, Nike golfer (1991 NH Open)
1969 - Chip Beake, WLAF administrative assistant (Barcelona Dragons)
1969 - Francois Letourneau, St Jerome Quebec, canoeist (Olympics-96)
1969 - Lesley Tashlin, Toronto Ontario, 100m hurdler (Olympics-96)
1969 - Todd Hundley, Martinsville VA, catcher (NY Mets)
1969 - Travis Williams, NBA forward (Charlotte Hornets)
1969 - Dondre Whitfield, American actor
1970 - Liz Earley, St Catharines Ontario, LPGA golfer (1995 Thailand Open)
1970 - Michael Blackburn, Australian laser yachter (Olympics-96)
1970 - Todd Collins, linebacker (New England Patriots)
1970 - Tim Farron, British politician
1970 - Joseph Fiennes, Salisbury, Wiltshire, English actor (Enemy at the Gates, Shakespeare in Love)
1970 - Michele Bartoli, Italian cyclist
1971 - Corey Beck, NBA guard (Charlotte Hornets)
1971 - Ferdino Hernandez, soccer player (FC Utrecht)
1971 - Monika Schnarre, US actress (Bold & Beautiful)
1971 - Scott Szeredy, NFL/WLAF kicker/punter (Chiefs, Barcelona Dragons)
1971 - Paul Bettany, English actor
1971 - Wayne Carey, Australian rules footballer
1971 - Kaur Kender, Estonian author
1971 - Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, American singer (TLC) (d. 2002)
1971 - Glenn Ross, Northern Irish strongman
1972 - Antonio Freeman, NFL wide reciever (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1972 - Karen Hecox, US 1500m runner
1972 - Troy Sienkiewicz, NFL tackle/guard (San Diego Chargers)
1972 - Ivete Sangalo, Brazilian singer
1972 - Todd Demsey, American golfer
1973 - Jack McBrayer, American actor and comedian
1974 - Danny Wuerffel, NFL quarterback (New Orleans Saints)
1975 - André 3000, American musician (OutKast)
1975 - Michael Hussey, Australian cricketer
1975 - Jadakiss, American rapper (The Lox)
1975 - Jamie Oliver, British chef and television personality
1976 - Richard Park, Seoul Kor, NHL center (Pitts Penguins)
1976 - RJD2, American hip-hop producer
1977 - Abderrahmane Hammad, Algerian athlete
1977 - Mahela Jayawardene, Sri Lankan cricketer
1978 - Adin Brown, American soccer player
1979 - Mile Sterjovski, Australian footballer
1980 - Jessica Deglau, Vancouver BC, 200m butterfly (Olympics-96)
1981 - Johan Elmander, Swedish footballer
1981 - Miloy, Angolan footballer
1981 - Fivos Constantinou, Cypriot distance runner
1981 - Özgür Çevik, Turkish singer and actor
1983 - Bobby Convey, American soccer player
1984 - Kalle Spjuth, Swedish bandy player
1984 - Blake Ahearn, NBA basketball player
1985 - Chien-Ming Chiang, Taiwanese baseball player
1990 - Ekaterina Zaikina, Russian figure-skater

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 27, 2013, 09:28:56 AM

This Day in History for 27th May


Famous Deaths

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Duke of Milan Ludovico Sforza (1508)


366 - Procopius, Roman usurper (b. 326)
866 - Ordono I, King of Asturia (850-66), dies
927 - Tsar Simeon I of Bulgaria (b. 864 or 865)
1039 - Dirk III Hierosolymita, Count of Holland, dies
1178 - Godfried van Rhenen, bishop of Utrecht, dies
1444 - John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, English military leader (b. 1404)
1508 - Ludovico Sforza [il Moro], Italian duke of Milan, dies at 55
1525 - Thomas Muentzer, German rebel leader
1541 - Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury (b. 1473) beheaded for treason in Tower of London
           by Henry VIII
1549 - Lijsbeth Dirksdr, Fries antabaptist, drowns
1564 - Jean Caulvin, [John Calvin], priest/church reformer, dies at 54
1569 - Francois de Coligny, French general (Jarnac), dies
1576 - Louis de Boisot, Dutch admiral, drowns at about 44
1580 - Jonker Barthold Entens van Mentheda until Middelstum, dies
1596 - Tibaldi II, Italian painter/sculptor/architect, dies
1610 - François Ravaillac, French assassin of Henry IV of France (b. 1578)
1615 - Marguerite de Valois, queen of Henry IV of France (b. 1553)
1627 - Everhardus van Bronchorst, lawyer, dies at 73
1638 - Nicolas Forme, composer, dies at 71
1652 - Jacques Huyn, composer, dies at 39
1661 - Archibald Campbell, Scottish politician, beheaded at about 53
1675 - Gaspard Dughet, French painter (b. 1613)
1690 - Giovanni Legrenzi, Italian composer, dies at 63
1702 - Dominique Bouhours, French critic (b. 1628)
1707 - Marquise de Montespan, French mistress of Louis XIV of France (b. 1640)
1708 - Jacques Danican Philidor, composer, dies at 51
1768 - Johann M Fleischmann, German/Dutch stamp/letter designer, dies
1781 - Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Italian physicist (b. 1716)
1790 - Jeremiah Carlton, laziest man in history, heir to a large fortune at 19 went to bed & stayed
           there for next 70 yrs, dies at 89
1797 - Francois-Noal "Gracchus" Babeuf, French utopian socialist, dies at 36
1831 - Jedediah Smith, American explorer (b. 1799)
1840 - Niccolo Paganini, composer/violinist, dies at 57
1855 - Nikolaj A Bestoezjev, Russ writer/painter (Account of Holland), dies
1863 - Edward Payson Chapin, Union Brigadier General, dies at 31
1876 - Joseph Bosworth, lexicographer/scholar, dies
1878 - Carlo Marsili, composer, dies at 49
1887 - Coenraad J van Houten, Dutch cocoa manufacturer, dies at 86
1896 - Allard Pierson, theologist/philosopher/art historian/poet, dies
1896 - Aleksandr Grigorievich Stoletov, Russian physicist (b. 1839)
1902 - Jan van Droogenbroeck, Flemish poet, dies
1910 - Robert Koch, German bacteriologist (TB, Cholera, Nobel), dies
1914 - Joseph Wilson Swan, physicist/chemist, dies
1916 - Joseph S Gallieni, General/military governor of Paris, dies
1918 - Henry Adams, US literature historian (Esther), dies at 80
1919 - Kandukuri Veeresalingam, Indian social activist (b. 1848)
1925 - Ed McKeever, pres (Bkln Dodgers), dies of pneumonia
1926 - Srečko Kosovel, Slovenian poet (b. 1904)
1934 - Meijer Linnewiel, [Prof Kokadorus], Amsterdam street hawker, dies
1939 - Joseph Roth, Austria journalist (Fluctuate ohne Ende), dies at 44
1941 - AH Borgesius, tutor/experimentator/amateur astronomer, dies at 76
1947 - Ed Konetchy, American baseball player (b. 1885)
1949 - Ropert L Ripley, cartoonist (Believe It or Not), dies at 55 in NY
1951 - Thomas Blamey, soldier, dies
1953 - Jesse Burkett, American baseball player (b. 1868)
1954 - Herzmanovsky-Orlando, writer, dies
1958 - Ainslie Pryor, actor (Adventures of Hiram Holiday), dies at 46
1958 - Samuel Stritch, US cardinal/archbishop (Chicago), dies
1960 - Edward Brophy, actor (Champ, Dumbo, Great Guy), dies at 65
1960 - George Zucco, actor (Fog Island, Black Raven, Desire Me), dies at 74
1960 - James Montgomery Flagg, American illustrator (b. 1877)
1963 - Lambrakis, Greek EDA-parliament leader, murdered
1964 - Jawaharial Nehru, Independent India's 1st PM, dies at 74
1967 - Ernst Niekisch, German politician (b. 1889)
1968 - Little Willie John, rocker, dies at 30
1969 - Jeffrey Hunter, actor (Christopher Pike-Star Trek Cage), dies at 43
1970 - Emmy van Lokhorst, author, dies at 78
1971 - Chips Rafferty, actor (Kona Coast, Walk into Hell), dies at 62
1975 - Ezzard Charles, heavyweight boxing champion (1949-51), dies at 53
1976 - Ruth McDevitt, actress (Jo-All in the Family), dies at 80
1983 - Arnoldus Christian Vlok van Wyk, composer, dies at 67
1985 - Kay Campbell, actress (All My Children), dies at 80
1986 - Gaston Duribreux, Flemish writer (Sour Dove), dies at 82
1986 - Isma'il Raji' al-Faruqi, Palestinian-born philosopher (b. 1921)
1987 - John Howard Northrop, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1891)
1988 - Florida Friebus, actress (Bob Newhart Show), dies of a stroke at 79
1988 - Melvin J "Cy" Oliver, US jazz composer/orchestra leader, dies at 77
1988 - Renato Salvatori, actor (Burn, Luna, 2 Women), dies
1989 - Jack Starrett, director/actor (Chase, Nightwish, 1st Blood), dies
1989 - Arseny Tarkovsky, Russian poet (b. 1907)
1990 - Robert B. Meyner, American politician (b. 1908)
1991 - Ed Dodd, cartoonist (Mark Trail), dies at 88
1991 - Leopold Nowak, Austrian musicologist (b. 1904)
1992 - Daniel Robberechts, Belgian writer (Aankomen in Avignon), dies at 55
1992 - Glen White, dancer/actor (Graft, Camille), dies of AIDS at 42
1992 - John Myhers, director/actor (Billion Dollar Hobo), dies at 70
1992 - Tony "Big Tuna" Accardo, mobster (St Valentines Day), dies at 86
1992 - Uncle Charlie Osborne, American fiddler (b. 1890)
1993 - Jan Wiley, actress (Underdog, Brute Man, She Wolf of London), dies
1993 - Willem P G Assmann, Dutch MP, dies at 85
1994 - Norman Cook, British museum curator, dies at 87
1994 - Red Rodney, [Albino Red/The Red Arrow], bebop-trumpeter, dies at 66
1994 - Theo Swagemakers, portrait painter, dies at 95
1995 - C W Stubblefield, music promoter, dies at 64
1995 - Ulyses Simpson Kay, composer, dies at 78
1996 - Albert "Pud" Brown, clarinetist/saxophonist, dies at 79
1996 - Ivan Sutton, concert Promotoer, dies at 82
1996 - Jack Massey, groundsman, dies at 85
2000 - Crawford Murray MacLehose of Beoch, British statesman (b. 1917)
2000 - Maurice Richard, Canadian hockey player (b. 1921)
2000 - Kazimierz Leski, Polish engineer, fighter pilot, intelligence and counter-intelligence officer (b.
           1912)
2001 - Ramon Bieri, American actor (b. 1929)
2003 - Luciano Berio, Italian composer (b. 1925)
2006 - Craig Heyward, American football player (b. 1966)
2006 - Paul Gleason, American actor (b. 1939)
2006 - Alex Toth, American cartoonist (b. 1928)
2006 - Rob Borsellino, American columnist (b. 1949)
2006 - Oduvil Unnikrishnan, Indian actor (b. 1944)
2007 - Izumi Sakai, Japanese singer (b. 1967)
2007 - Ed Yost, American inventor (b. 1919)
2007 - Gretchen Wyler, American actress (b. 1932)
2008 - Franz Künstler, Last remaining Austro-Hungarian Empire World War I veteran (b. 1900)
2010 - Payut Ngaokrachang, Thai animator (b. 1929)
2011 - Jeff Conaway, American actor (b. 1950)
2011 - Margo Dydek, Polish basketball player (b. 1974)
2011 - Gil Scott-Heron, American poet, musician and author (b. 1949)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 28, 2013, 02:05:49 PM

This Day in History for 28th May


Historical Events

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First US President                                    British Prime Minister                               Pop Singer & Beatle
George Washington                                 Neville Chamberlain                                   Paul McCartney

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Actress Mary Tyler Moore                       Parody Singer and Comedian                  42nd US President Bill Clinton
                                                                       Weird Al Yankovic


585 BC - A solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by Greek philosopher and scientist Thales, while
              Alyattes is battling Cyaxares in the Battle of the Eclipse, leading to a truce. This is one of     
              the cardinal dates from which other dates can be calculated.
640 - Severinus begins his reign as Catholic Pope (elected in 638)
1037 - German emperor Koenraad II removes "Constitutio the Feudis"
1156 - Battle at Brindisi: King Willem of Sicily beats Byzantine fleet
1349 - 60 Jews murdered in Breslau Silesia
1358 - Daint-Leu at Oise begins French boer uprising
1521 - Pope Leo X signs treaty with Holy Roman Emperor Charles V
1539 - Hernando de Soto lands in Florida
1588 - Spanish Aramada under Medina-Sidonia departs Lisbon to invade England
1608 - Claudio Monteverdi's "Arianna," premieres in Mantua
1635 - Zorilla's "El Desafio de Carlos V," premieres in Madrid
1644 - Bolton Massacre by Royalist troops under the command of the Earl of Derby.
1664 - 1st Baptist Church organizes (Boston)
1674 - German Parliament declares war on France
1731 - All Hebrew books in Papal State are confiscated
1741 - Spain & Bavaria sign treaty
1742 - 1st indoor swimming pool opens (Goodman's Fields, London)
1754 - George Washington defeats French & indians at Ft Duquesne (Pitts)
1774 - 1st Continental Congress convenes (Virginia)
1818 - 1st steam-vessel to sail Great Lakes launched
1830 - Congress authorizes native Indian removal from all states to western prairie
1845 - Fire in Quebec Canada, 1,500 houses destroyed
1849 - Princess WFLC Marianne & Albrecht of Prussia separate
1858 - Dion Boucicault's "Foul Play," premieres in London
1863 - 1st black regiment (54 Mass) leaves Boston to fight in Civil War
1866 - Dutch government of Zuylen van Nijevelt/Heemskerk forms
1871 - Paris communards revolt put down
1875 - 3rd Preakness: L Hughes aboard Tom Ochiltree wins in 2:43.5
1880 - 8th Preakness: L Hughes aboard Grenada wins in 2:40.5
1892 - Sierra Club forms by John Muir in SF, for conservation of nature
1900 - Fire in Cincinnati nearly destroys Reds' grandstand
1900 - Solar eclipse occurs
1901 - 26th Preakness: Fred Landry aboard The Parader wins in 1:47.2
1901 - Laws against phosphor matches enacted (inhibition white phosphorous)
1904 - 29th Preakness: Eugene Hildebrand aboard Bryn Mawr wins in 1:44.2
1906 - Shields/Cobbs musical "His honor, the Mayor," premieres in NYC
1907 - Auto-Cycle Union Tourist Trophy, 1st held
1912 - Jackie Matthews takes 2 cricket hat-tricks same day Aust v South Africa
1915 - John B Gruelle patents Raggedy Ann doll
1918 - Azerbaijan gains independence and declares itself a Democratic Republic
1919 - Armenia declares it's Independence
1923 - Attorney General says it is legal for women to wear trousers anywhere
1923 - US unemployment has nearly ended
1926 - Military coup by Gen Manuel Gomes da Costa in Portugal
1926 - US Customs Court created by congress
1927 - Hammond scores his 1,000th cricket run of the season after 22 days
1928 - Dodge Brothers Inc & Chrysler Corp merged
1929 - 1st all color talking picture "On With the Show" exhibited (NYC)
1930 - Georges Forbes succeeds Joseph Ward as premier of NZ
1930 - The Chrysler Building in New York City officially opens.
1932 - Dam closed, at current monument (South Seas)
1934 - Bradman gets 160 Aust v Middlesex, 124 mins, 27 fours, 1x6, 1x5
1934 - Hobbs scores his 197th & last FC cricket ton at 51 years 163 days
1934 - Near Callander, Ontario, the Dionne quintuplets are born to Olivia and Elzire Dionne, later
           becoming the first quintuplets to survive infancy.
1934 - The Glyndebourne festival in England is inaugurated.
1936 - Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication.
1937 - Golden Gate Bridge in SF opens to vehicular traffic
1937 - Neville Chamberlain becomes PM of England
1938 - Foundation for Tel Aviv harbor laid
1938 - Hindemiths opera "Mathis der Maler," premieres in Zurich
1940 - Belgium surrenders to Germany, King Leopold III gives himself up
1940 - British-French troops capture Narvik Norway
1940 - Irving Berlin's musical "Louisiana Purchase," premieres in NYC
1941 - 1st night game at Wash DC, Griffith stadium (Yanks 6, Senators 5)
1941 - British army begins evacuation of Kreta
1941 - NY Yankees nip Wash Senators 6-5 in 1st night game at Griffith Stadium
1942 - 1,800 Czechs murdered by Nazis during attack on Heydrich
1943 - British militia reaches Tito
1946 - 1st night game at Yankee stadium (Senators 2, Yanks 1)
1948 - Iraq captures Ge'ulim settlement
1951 - After going 0-for-12, Willie Mays connects for his 1st major league home run
1951 - Bernardus J Alfrink appointed bishop's asst of Utrecht
1951 - Jerry Colonna Show, debuts on ABC-TV
1952 - Memphis Kiddie Park opens in Brooklyn, Ohio. The park's Little Dipper roller coaster would
           become the oldest operating steel roller coaster in North America.
1952 - The women of Greece are given the right to vote.
1953 - Premier of 1st animated 3-D cartoon in Technicolor-"Melody"
1955 - 81st Preakness: Eddie Arcaro aboard Nashua wins in 1:54.6
1955 - Bob Sweikert wins Indianapolis 500
1955 - Fay Crocker wins LPGA Wolverine Golf Open
1955 - Henry Bolte becomes Premier of the state of Victoria.
1956 - Dale Long becomes 1st to hit HRs in 8 straight games
1956 - Eisenhower signs farm bill allows government to store agricultural surplus
1957 - NL approves Bkln Dodgers' & NY Giants' move to west coast
1957 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1957 - WPSD TV channel 6 in Paducah, KY (NBC) begins broadcasting
1958 - French government of Pflimlin resigns/200,000 demonstrate against De Gaulle
1958 - Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Land of Sky Golf Open
1959 - Congressional Committee of Astronautics meets Project 7 astronauts
1959 - Johnson & Bart's musical "Lock up your daughters," premieres in London
1959 - Monkeys Able & Baker zoom 300 mi (500 km) into space on Jupiter missile, became 1st
           animals retrieved from a space mission
1960 - "Greenwillow" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 95 performances
1961 - Amnesty Intl founded (Nobel Peace Prize 1977)
1961 - Last trip (Paris to Bucharest) on Orient Express (after 78 years)
1961 - Record 27 HRs hit in 7 AL games
1962 - Suit alleging de facto school segregation filed in Rochester NY
1962 - US stock market drops $20.8 B in 1 day
1962 - Wide World of Sports with Chris Schenkel premieres on CBS radio
1963 - Cyclone hits Chittagong, Bangladesh; about 1 million houses destroyed
1963 - Estimated 22,000 die in another cyclone in Bay of Bengal (India)
1963 - Jomo Kenyatta becomes 1st PM of Kenya
1964 - Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 9th String quartet
1964 - Jawaharlal Nehru cremated in New Dehli
1964 - Palestine National Congress forms the PLO in Jerusalem
1964 - Unmanned Apollo 2 Saturn test launched into Earth orbit
1965 - Fire & explosion at Dhori mine in Dhanbad India kills 400
1966 - "Ballad Of Irving" by Frank Gallop hits #34
1966 - Dmitri Shostakovitch's 11th String quartet, premieres in Leningrad
1967 - Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 2nd Violin concert
1967 - Francis Chichester arrives home at Plymouth from Round-the-world trip
1967 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1968 - AL announces it is splitting into 2 divisions
1968 - NL grants San Diego Padres a franchise
1968 - Senator Eugene McCarthy wins Democrate primary in Oregon
1969 - AC Milan wins 14th Europe Cup 1 in Madrid
1970 - The formerly united Free University of Brussels officially splits into two separate entities, the
           French-speaking Université Libre de Bruxelles and the Dutch-speaking Vrije Universiteit
           Brussel.
1971 - Paul McCartney releases his 2nd solo album "Ram"
1971 - USSR Mars 3 launched, 1st spacecraft to soft land on Mars
1972 - White House "plumbers" break into Democratic Natl HQ at Watergate
1973 - Chic White Sox beat Cleve Indians, 6-3, in 21 inn (game started 5/26)
1974 - "Magic Show" opens at Cort Theater NYC for 1859 performances
1974 - 26th Emmy Awards: MASH, Alan Alda & Mary Tyler Moore win
1974 - Emmy 1st Daytime Award presentation
1974 - Italians fascist bomb demonstrators in Brescia, 6 killed
1974 - Stephen Schwartz' musical "Magic Show," premieres in NYC
1975 - Bayern Munchen wins 20th Europe Cup 1 in Paris
1975 - Soyuz 18 launches
1977 - 165 killed in a fire at Beverly Hills Supper Club in Kentucky
1978 - Al Unser became 5th to win Indianapolis 500, 3 times
1978 - Second round of the presidential elections in Upper Volta. The election is won by incumbent
           Sangoulé Lamizana.
1979 - European Market accepts Greece as member
1980 - 2 Oakland A's steal home in 1st inning
1980 - Joe Darby does a standing long jump of 12'5"
1980 - Nottingham Forrest wins 25th Europe Cup 1 in Madrid
1982 - Leonard Maltin's 1st appearance on Entertainment Tonight
1982 - Pope John Paul II is 1st pope to visit Great Britain
1983 - "Ricky" by Weird Al Yankovic hits #63
1983 - Hamburger ZV wins 28th Europe Cup 1 in Athens
1985 - David Jacobsen taken hostage in Beirut Lebanon
1985 - Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-G
1986 - Democratic Labor Party wins parliamentary election in Barbados
1986 - White Sox Joe Cowley sets record striking out 1st 7 Rangers he faces
1987 - 60th Natl Spelling Bee: Stephanie Petit wins spelling staphylococci
1987 - Mathias Rust, 19, W German pilot, makes unauthorized landing in USSR
1987 - Monitor, Civil War warship, is discovered by a deep sea robot
1987 - Paul Pearman jumps 21 barrels on a skateboard in Augusta
1987 - Southern League no-hit record-Bob Milacki pitches 11 1/3 no-hit inn
1987 - Stacking of Discovery's SRBs completed
1989 - Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
1989 - Emerson Fittipaldi wins Indianapolis 500
1990 - Cesar Gaviria Trujillo installed as president of Colombia
1990 - Dave Thomas Comedy Show, debuts on CBS-TV
1990 - Eugenia Charles' Dom'n Freedom Party wins election in Dominica
1990 - Longest wheelie (David Robilliard with 5h12m33s (Channel Islands)
1991 - Ethiopian rebels seize Addis Ababa
1992 - 65th National Spelling Bee: Amanda Goad wins spelling lyceum
1993 - 200,000 demonstrate against mafia terror
1993 - Polish government of Suchocka falls
1994 - "Cafe American," last airs on NBC-TV
1994 - Twin's Dave Winfield passes Rod Carew into 15th hit list (3,054)
1995 - "Inspector Calls" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 454 performances
1995 - Alison Nichols wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
1995 - Dottie Mochrie wins J C Penney/LPGA Skins Golf Game
1995 - Earthquake hits Russian town of Khabarovsk, killing 2,000 people
1995 - Southwestern Florida outside of Tampa begins using new area code 941
1995 - White Sox (5) & Tigers (7) combine for record 12 HRs at Tiger Stadium
1996 - U.S. President Bill Clinton's former business partners in the Whitewater land deal, James
           McDougal and Susan McDougal, and Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker, are convicted of
           fraud.
1997 - Bob Dylan hospitalized in England with histoplasmosis
1997 - Linda Finch completes Amelia Earhart attempted around-the-world flight
1997 - Tornado in Jarrell Texas kills at least 28
1997 - Wallace Berg, 42, is 4th American to scale Mt Everest for 3rd time
1998 - Nuclear testing: Pakistan responds to a series of Indian nuclear tests with five of its own,
           prompting the United States, Japan, and other nations to impose economic sanctions.
1999 - In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece "The Last
           Supper" is put back on display.
1999 - Two Swedish police officers are murdered with their own fire arms by the bank robbers Jackie
           Arklöv and Tony Olsson after a dramatic car chase.
2002 - NATO declares Russia a limited partner in the Western alliance.
2003 - Peter Hollingworth becomes the first Governor-General of Australia to resign his office as a
           result of criticism of his conduct.
2004 - The Iraqi Governing Council chooses Ayad Allawi, a longtime anti-Saddam Hussein exile, to
           become prime minister of Iraq's interim government.
2008 - The first meeting of the Constituent Assembly of Nepal formally declares Nepal a republic,
           ending the 240-year reign of the Shah dynasty.

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 28, 2013, 02:08:09 PM

This Day in History for 28th May


Famous Weddings

1894 - Belgium Princess Josephine marries Prince Karl von Hohenzollern
1954 - "The Bad and the Beautiful" actor Kirk Douglas (37) weds producer Ann Buydens (24) at
           Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas
1988 - Genie Francis (General Hospital) weds Jonathan Frakes (Star Trek TNG)
1989 - Delta Burke (Designing Women) weds Gerald McRaney (Major Dad)
1998 - "Xena: The Warrior Princess" Lucy Lawless (30) weds executive producer Rob Tapert (43) at
           Saint Monica Catholic Church in Santa Monica, California
2006 - "Average Joe" actor Adam Mesh (30) weds Jessica Malca in Miami, Florida
2010 - "Beverly Hills 90210" actor Ian Ziering (46) weds Erin Kristine Ludwig at the Resort at Pelican
           Hill in Newport Coast, California
2011 - Former American beauty queen Candice Crawford (24) weds Dallas Cowboys football
           quarterback Tony Romo (31) at Arlington Hall in Dallas, Texas
2011 - Actress and former "Clean House" host Niecy Nash (41) weds electrical engineer Jay Tucker at
           the Church Estate Vineyard in Malibu

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 28, 2013, 02:10:09 PM

This Day in History for 28th May


Famous Divorces

1533 - England's archbishop voids the marriage of King Henry VIII & Anne Boleyn

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 28, 2013, 02:19:16 PM

This Day in History for 28th May


Famous Birthdays

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Ottoman Sultan Selim II (1524)          Versatile Athlete Jim Thorpe (1888)             Singer Kylie Minogue (1968)


1140 - Xin Qiji, Chinese poet (d. 1207)
1371 - John, the Fearless, Burgundy France, Duke of Burgundy/warrior
1524 - Selim II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1574)
1577 - Floris II van Pallandt, Dutch earl of Culemborg/politician
1582 - William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele, English statesman (d. 1662)
1588 - Pierre Seguier, Chancellor of France (d. 1672)
1641 - Janez Vajkard Valvasor, Slovenian polymath (d. 1693)
1660 - George I, King of England (1714-27)
1676 - Jacopo Riccati, Italian mathematician (d. 1754)
1692 - Joseph Butler, English philosopher (d. 1752)
1738 - Joseph Ignace Guillotin, France, physician/inventor (guillotine)
1759 - William Pitt, the Younger (C), English PM (1783-1801, 1804-06)
1765 - Jean Baptiste Cartier, composer
1777 - Joseph-Henri-Ignace Mees, composer
1778 - Friedrich Westenholz, composer
1779 - Thomas Moore, Irish poet (d. 1852)
1780 - Joseph Frohlich, composer
1782 - Wouter J van Troostwijk, Dutch painter
1789 - Bernard S Ingemann, Danish author (Tomorrow- og Aftensange)
1798 - Josef Dessauer, composer
1807 - Jan van Swieten, Dutch general/governor of West-Sumatra
1807 - Louis Agassiz, Switzerland, naturalist/geologist/teacher
1810 - Alexandre Calamo, Switz, painter/etcher/lithographer
1818 - Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, US Confederate gen (Hero of Sumter)
1819 - William Birney, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1907
1820 - Willem Doorenbos, [Keerom], literary/critic
1828 - Alpheus Baker, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1891
1828 - Bartel Wilton, machinefabrikant/ship builder
1830 - George Lucas Hartsuff, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1874
1830 - Karoly Filtsch, composer
1831 - Eliza Ann Gardner, underground railway conductor
1836 - Alexander Mitscherlich, German chemist (d. 1918)
1837 - George Ashlin, Irish architect (d. 1921)
1837 - Tony Pastor, American vaudeville performer (d. 1908)
1838 - Basil Wilson Duke, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1916
1841 - Giovanni Sgambati, composer
1844 - Leon Felix Augustin Joseph Vasseur, composer
1851 - Dick Barlow, cricketer (immortal England all-rounder of 1880's)
1853 - Carl Larsson, Swedish painter (d. 1919)
1858 - Carl Rickard Nyberg, Swedish inventor (d. 1939)
1862 - Henry W Slocum Jr, tennis champ (US Open-1888)
1863 - Georg Adler, German state economist
1865 - Gerrit Grijns, Dutch physiologist (Vitamin E)
1868 - Claude Anet, [Jean Schopfer], French writer (Fille Perdue)
1872 - Marian Smoluchowski, Polish physicist (d. 1917)
1874 - G K Chesterton, writer
1878 - Paul Pelliot, French sinologist (d. 1945)
1879 - Milutin Milankovic, Yugoslavian astronomer/meteorologist
1883 - George Dyson, composer
1883 - Luigi Perrachio, composer
1883 - Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Indian activist (d. 1966)
1883 - Clough Williams-Ellis, Welsh architect (d. 1978)
1884 - Edvard Benes, premier/president of Czechoslovakia (1921-22, 35-48)
1884 - Theo(door) van Reijn, Dutch sculptor/lithographer
1886 - Nicolai Sokoloff, near Kiev Ukraine, conductor (Seattle Symph)
1886 - Santo Trafficante, Sr., Sicilian-born American mobster (d. 1954)
1887 - Hank Mann, NYC, actor (City Lights, Smoky, Dawn Trail, Fugitive Road)
1888 - James Francis Thorpe, Shawnee OK, decathelete (Olympic-gold-1912)
1888 - Jim Thorpe, Prague, Oklahoma, versatile American athlete (Olympics-gold-1912) (d. 1953)
1889 - Jose Padilla, composer
1892 - Minna Gombell, Baltimore, actress (Bad Girl, Thin Man, Hello Sister)
1894 - Sammy White, RI, actor (711 Ocean Drive, Sound Off)
1896 - Marius Monnikendam, Dutch choir composer
1896 - Warren Giles, baseball's National League president
1897 - Henry Kendall, London, actor (Amazing Quest, Shadow, Rich & Strange)
1898 - Andy Kirk, jazz musician
1900 - Owen Aisher, president (Marley)
1900 - Tommy Ladnier, American musician (d. 1939)
1903 - Gaston Duribreux, Flemish writer (Golden Sail)
1904 - Shalva Mikhaylovich Mshvelidze, composer
1906 - Mary Ralton, director (British WRAC)
1906 - Phil Regan, singer (My Wild Irish Rose)
1907 - Frederick George Emmison, archivist/historian
1907 - Henry Ritz, comedian/dancer (Ritz Brothers)
1907 - Patrick Browne, British Lord justice of appeal
1908 - Ian Lancaster Fleming, London England, author (James Bond)
1909 - John Schepens, [Jean Baudoux], Flemish journalist/writer (Polyfoto)
1909 - Red Horner, Canadian hockey player (d. 2005)
1910 - Rachel Kempson, actress (Captive Heart)
1910 - Stuart Piggott, archaeologist
1910 - T-Bone Walker, Linden Tx, blues guitarist (Funky Town, Well Done)
1911 - Bob Crisp, cricketer (South African pace bowler of 30's)
1911 - Jean-Pierre Levy, resistance leader
1911 - Thora Hird, British actress (d. 2003)
1912 - Leslie Monson, diplomat
1912 - Patrick White, Australia, novelist (Happy Valley, Nobel 1973)
1912 - Herman Johannes, Indonesian scientist and politician (d. 1992)
1913 - Gordon Wolstenholme, physician
1914 - W G G Duncan-Smith, fighter pilot
1915 - Scott McKay, Pleasantville Iowa, actor (Stage Door)
1915 - Wolfgang Schneiderhan, violinist
1915 - Joseph Greenberg, American linguist (d. 2001)
1916 - C Wright Mills, US sociologist (Power Elite) [or Aug 28]
1916 - Gerald McArthur, detective
1916 - Thora Hird, actress (Nightcomers, Kind of Loving)
1916 - Walker Percy, Birmingham Ala, writer (Adventures of a Bad Catholic)
1917 - "Papa" John Creach, violinist
1917 - Barry Commoner, Brooklyn NY, biologist (Science & Survival)
1917 - Gerald Cash, Gov-Gen (Bahamas)
1917 - Marshall Reed, Englewood California, actor (Fred Asher-Lineup)
1917 - Pape John Creech, rocker (Hot Tuna, Jefferson Airplane)
1919 - Duke of Rutland, British land owner/multimillionaire
1919 - Frank Middlemass, actor (Island, Oliver Twist)
1919 - John Eldridge, CEO (Matthews Wrightmson)
1921 - Heinz G. Konsalik, German author (d. 1999)
1922 - John Alderson, chief constable (Devon & Cornwall UK)
1922 - Lou Duva, American boxing trainer
1922 - Barney Rosset, Chicago, Illinois, publisher and free speech advocate (publisher of Tropic for
           Cancer), (d. 2012)
1923 - Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao, India, film star (Patala Bhairavi)
1923 - György Ligeti, Hungarian composer (d. 2006)
1924 - Edward du Cann, CEO (Lonrho)
1924 - Lord Rippon, British MP
1924 - Reginald Eyre, solicitor/MP
1925 - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Zehlendorf Germany, baritone (Doktor Faust), (d. 2012)
1925 - Martha Vickers, Ann Arbor MI, actress (Alimony, Man I Love, Ruthless)
1927 - Bernhard Lewkovitch, composer
1927 - Francois Nourissier, French writer (Un petit bourgeois)
1927 - Gyorgy Ligeti, composer
1927 - Norman Ireland, CEO (Bowater)
1927 - Robert Evans, CEO (British Gas)
1928 - Albert Booth, British government minister
1928 - Jacob R Druckman, composer
1929 - Leslie Wight, cricketer (one Test WI v India 1953, scored 21)
1929 - Patrick McNair-Wilson, MP
1930 - Edward Seaga, PM (Jamaica)
1930 - Julian Penkivil Slade, composer
1931 - Carroll Baker, Penn, actress (Andy Warhol's Bad, Babydoll, Harlow)
1931 - Ervin Junger, composer
1931 - Peter Talbot Westergaard, composer
1931 - Raymond Miquel, chairman (Scottish Sports Council)
1931 - Stephen Birmingham, Hartford, author (Real Lace: America's Irish Rich)
1932 - Henning Christiansen, composer
1932 - Lord Renton, MP (Conservative)
1932 - Timothy Renton, MP
1933 - John Karlen, Bkln NY, actor (Harvey Lacey-Cagney & Lacey)
1933 - Philip Otton, high court judge
1934 - Dionne Quintuplets, secluded quintuplets, born Annette, Alive Cecile, Alive Emelie, Dead 1954
           Marie, Dead 1970 Yvonne, Alive, First known set of surviving quintuplets, these girls were
           treated as
1934 - Julian Slade, composer
1934 - Rob du Bois, composer
1935 - Kenneth Kleinwort, English banker/multi-millionaire
1936 - Maki Ishii, composer
1936 - Claude Forget, French-Canadian politician
1938 - Jerry West, W Virginia, NBA superstar (LA Lakers, Olympic-gold-1960)
1938 - Prince Buster, Jamaican reggae musician/producer (Madness)
1940 - Betty Shabazz, educator/talk show hostess/widow (Malcolm X)
1940 - Hans Dulfer, tenor saxophonist/director (Paradiso)
1940 - Thomas E Petri, (Rep-R-WI, 1979- )
1940 - Maeve Binchy [Snell], Dalkey,Ireland, novelist (Light a Penny Candle), (d. 2012)
1941 - Beth Howland, Boston Mass, actress (Vera-Alice, Company)
1941 - Guntram Vesper, writer
1942 - Stanley B. Prusiner, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1943 - Dennis Riley, composer
1943 - Liz Edgar, horse show jumper
1943 - Ray Mitchell, governor (Albany Prison, England)
1943 - Tony Mansfield, [Anthony Bookbinder], rock drummer (Billy J Kramer)
1943 - Elena Souliotis, Greek soprano (d. 2004)
1944 - Adriaan T "Ad" Zuiderent, poet/critic (On the Droge)
1944 - Billy Vera, musician (& Beaters-At This Moment, Into the Night)
1944 - Gladys Knight, Atlanta Ga, singer, leader of Pips (Last Train)
1944 - Rudy Giuliani, (Mayor-R/L-NYC, 1994- )
1944 - Faith Brown, British actress
1945 - Gary Stewart, Latcher County Ky, country singer (She's Actin' Single)
1945 - John Fogerty, Berkeley Cal, rock vocals (Creedence Clearwater Revival
1945 - Hunter "Patch" Adams, American doctor
1945 - John N. Bambacus, American politician
1946 - Madeleine Le Roux, Wyoming, Broadway actress (Cry Uncle)
1946 - Satchidanandan, Indian poet
1946 - Skip Jutze, American baseball player
1947 - Faith Brown, impressionist
1947 - Patti Reynolds, Chicago Ill, playmate (Sept, 1965)
1947 - Sondra Locke, Shelbyville Tenn, actress (Heart Is a Lonely Hunter)
1947 - Zahi Hawass, Egyptian Egyptologist
1947 - Lynn Johnston, Canadian cartoonist
1948 - Bob Shearer, Melbourne VIC, Australasia golfer
1948 - Ray Laidlaw, British rock drummer (Jack the Lad)
1949 - Shelley Hamlin, San Mateo CA, LPGA golfer (1978 Patty Berg Classic)
1949 - Sue Holderness, actress (Marlene-Only Fools & Horses, Sandbaggers)
1949 - Wendy O. Williams, American musician (The Plasmatics) (d. 1998)
1950 - Ian Bradley, British writer and academic
1950 - Jim Harris, American professional wrestler
1952 - Russell J. Wintner, American film executive
1953 - Arto Lindsay, rocker/actor (Cookie, Desperately Seeking Susan)
1954 - George E Mahlberg, Astrophysicist, Mt Palomar/Mt Wilson CA (1974-78)
1954 - John Tory, Canadian politician
1954 - Youri Egorov, Soviet classical pianist (d.1988)
1955 - Mark Howe, American ice hockey player
1956 - Germaine Montenesdro, 2nd victim of NYC's Zodiac killer (survives)
1956 - Jeff Dujon, cricket wicket-keeper (WI 1981-91, their most successful)
1956 - Mark Alexander Lees, rowing Coach
1956 - Susie Diane Owens, Arkansas City Kansas, playmate (March, 1988)
1956 - Markus Höttinger, Austrian racing driver (d. 1980)
1957 - Kirk Gibson, Mich, outfield (Tigers, Dodgers, 1988 NL MVP)
1957 - Walter R Tucker, (Rep-D-California)
1957 - Ben Howland, American college basketball coach
1958 - Yvet Anna, painter
1959 - Leon "The Bop" Klaasse, rock drummer/singer (The Pilgrims-Red)
1959 - John Morgan, British etiquette expert (d. 2000)
1960 - Allan Green, cricketeer
1961 - Roland Gift, UK, rocker (Fine Young Cannibals-She Drives Me Crazy)
1962 - Brandon Cruz, actor (Eddie-Courtship of Eddie's Father)
1963 - Eugene Robinson, NFL safety (Seattle Seahawk, GB Packers-Superbowl 31)
1963 - Houman Younessi, Iranian-born scientist
1963 - Gavin Harrison, British drummer (Porcupine Tree)
1964 - Armon Gilliam, NBA forward (Milwaukee Bucks, NJ Nets)
1964 - Beth Herr, Middletown Ohio, tennis star
1964 - Leisa Sheridan, Omaha NE, playmate (Jul, 1993)
1964 - Mark MacKay, Brandon GER, hockey forward (Team Germany 1998)
1964 - Jeff Fenech, Australian boxer
1964 - Phil Vassar, American country music singer
1965 - Catherine Tanvier, France, tennis star
1965 - Chantal Bailey, Champaign Ill, speed skater (Olympics-1994)
1965 - Christa Miller, NYC, actress (Kate-Drew Carey Show)
1965 - Michael Charles Brisky, Brownsville TX, PGA golfer (1995 Buick-2nd)
1965 - Chris Ballew, American musician
1966 - Gavin Robertson, NSW cricket off-spin all-rounder (Aust ODI-Pak 1994)
1967 - Glen Rice, NBA guard/forward (Charlotte Hornets)
1967 - Kari Wuhrer, Brookfield Ct, MTV/actress (Beverly Hills 90210)
1967 - Tory Epps, NFL defensive tackle (NO Saints)
1968 - Char Thompson, WLAF running back (Barcelona Dragons)
1968 - Kylie Minogue, Melbourne Australia, rock vocalist (Locomotion)
1968 - Sandra Bacher, Long Island NY, half-heavyweight judoka (Oly-92, 96)
1968 - Tomas P Pukstys, Chicago Ill, javelin thrower (Olympics-8th-96)
1969 - Bob Meeks, WLAF corner (Barcelona Dragons)
1969 - Damian Rhodes, St Paul, NHL goalie (Ottawa Senators)
1969 - Frank McCormack, Leicester Mass, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1970 - Ben Williams, WLAF defensive end (London Monarchs)
1970 - David Roberts, Alameda California, US hockey forward (Olympics-1994)
1970 - Jason Belser, NFL cornerback (Indianapolis Colts)
1970 - Morgan Fox, Prince George BC, playmate (Dec, 1990)
1970 - Ian Cashmore, English actor and paranormal investigator
1970 - Glenn Quinn, Irish actor (d. 2002)
1971 - Jeff Gove, Seattle WA, Nike golfer (1991 Ralphs Senior Classic)
1971 - Nick Bravin, NYC, fencer-foil (Olympics-96)
1971 - Isabelle Carré, French actress
1972 - Cheryl Demkowski, Syracuse NY, dance skater (& Gregory Maddalone)
1972 - Denise Booker, Liverpool, golfer (S Australian Jr champ 1990)
1972 - Michael Boogerd, Dutch cyclist
1972 - Guidoni Junior Doriva, Brazilian footballer
1973 - Pat Peake, Rochester, NHL center (Washington Capitals)
1973 - Todd Sweeris, Grand Rapids Mich, table tennis player (Olympics-96)
1974 - Alicia Minshew, American actress
1975 - Caresa Winters, Miss South Dakota USA (1996)
1975 - Mike Fisher, Naperville Ill, soccer midfielder (Olympics-gold-96)
1976 - Liam O'Brien, American voice actor
1976 - Alexei Nemov, Russian gymnast
1976 - Glenn Morrison, Rugby League Player
1977 - Ashley Ryan Ruiz Offord, Miami Fla, singer (Menudo-Cannonball)
1977 - Elisabeth Hasselbeck, American television panelist (The View)
1977 - Jeremy Borash, American professional wrestling announcer
1979 - Joeri Jansen, Belgian athlete
1979 - Jesse Bradford, American actor
1979 - Ronald Curry, American football player
1979 - Monica Keena, American actress
1980 - Cheri Wheeler, Miss Georgia Teen USA (1997)
1980 - Miguel Pérez, Spanish footballer
1980 - Mark Feehily, Irish musician (Westlife)
1981 - Daniel Cabrera, Dominican baseball player
1981 - Adam Green, American singer and songwriter
1982 - Alexa Davalos, American actress
1982 - Jhonny Peralta, Dominican baseball player
1983 - Steve Cronin, American soccer goalkeeper
1983 - Humberto Sanchez, Dominican baseball player
1984 - Beth Allen, New Zealand actress
1985 - Colbie Caillat, American folk singer-songwriter
1986 - Charles N'Zogbia, French footballer
1986 - Berrick Barnes, Australian Rugby player
1986 - Joseph Cross, American actor
1986 - Michael Oher, American football player at Ole Miss
1988 - David Perron, Canadian ice hockey player
2010 - Prince Louis of Bourbon, elder son of Prince Louis, Duke of Anjou

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 28, 2013, 03:05:52 PM

This Day in History for 28th May


Famous Deaths

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Lexicographer                                    King of Great Britain Edward VIII (1972)
Noah Webster (1843)


1089 - Lanfrance, Archbishop of Canterbury, dies
1259 - Christoffel I, King of Denmark, dies
1317 - Guy van Avesnes/Henegouwen, bishop of Utrecht, dies at about 63
1357 - Afonso IV, King of Portugal (1325-57), dies at 66
1521 - Willem van Croij, duke of Soria, dies at about 62
1534 - Dirk Martens, Flemish printer/humanist, dies at about 83
1556 - Saitō Dōsan, Japanese daimyo (b. 1494?)
1650 - Gilles Hayne, composer, dies at 59
1672 - John Trevor, English politician (b. 1626)
1685 - Pieter de la Court, economist/historian, dies at about 67
1747 - Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, French writer (b. 1715)
1750 - Emperor Sakuramachi of Japan (b. 1720)
1787 - Johann Georg Leopold Mozart, Austrian composer, dies at 67
1791 - Joseph Schmitt, composer, dies at 57
1805 - Ridolfo Luigi Boccherini, Ital composer/cellist (Minuet), dies at 62
1808 - Richard Hurd, English bishop and writer (b. 1720)
1811 - Henry Dundas, British minister (b. 1742)
1816 - Ras Wolde Selassie, Ethiopian warlord
1828 - Daikokuya Kōdayū, Japanese castaway (b. 1751)
1833 - Johann Christian Friedrich Haeffner, composer, dies at 74
1836 - Anton Reicha, composer, dies at 66
1838 - Thomas Busby, composer, dies
1843 - Noah Webster, lexicographer (Webster's Dictionary), dies at 84
1849 - Anne Bronte, English novelist (The Tenant of Wildfell Hall), dies
1862 - Lev A Ms, Russian nobleman/poet, dies at 40 [5/16]
1863 - Edmund Kirby Jr, Union-brig-gen, dies of injuries at 23
1864 - Henry H Giesy, US Union-brig-general, dies in battle
1864 - Simion Bărnuţiu, Romanian philosopher and liberal politician (b. 1808)
1878 - John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1792)
1883 - August Freyer, composer, dies at 79
1889 - Willem M d'Ablaing, lawyer, dies at 37
1890 - Viktor Ernst Nessler, composer, dies at 49
1898 - Edward Bellamy, US author (Looking Backward), dies
1911 - Stephanus J du Toit, So Afr theologist/journalist (Afr Bond), dies
1913 - Lord Avebury, [John Lubbock], British banker/politician, dies
1914 - Adolf Gustaw Sonnenfeld, composer, dies at 76
1916 - Ivan Franko, Ukrainian writer (b. 1856)
1921 - Geo Mestdagh, Belgian aviation pioneer, dies
1922 - Carl Teike, composer, dies at 58
1927 - Georges Eekhoud, Belgian writer (Belgian Kempen), dies
1927 - Boris Kustodiev, Russian painter (b. 1878)
1937 - Alfred Adler, Austria psychiatrist (Individual Psychology), dies at 67
1940 - Randle Ayrton, actor (Manx Man), dies at 70
1940 - Theodor Streicher, composer, dies at 65
1940 - Walter Connolly, actor (It Happened One Night, Good Earth), dies at 53
1940 - Friedrich Karl von Hessen (b. 1868)
1944 - Katri Vala, Finnish poet, dies at 42
1947 - August Eigruber, Austrian war criminal (b. 1907)
1948 - Unity Mitford, English fascist sympathizer (b. 1914)
1953 - Hori Tatsuo, Japanese writer (b. 1904)
1954 - Achille Longo, composer, dies at 54
1958 - Mikulas Schneider-Trvavsky, composer, dies at 77
1959 - Bert Collins, cricketer (19 Tests for Aust 1920-26), dies
1963 - Vissarion Yakovlevich Shebalin, composer, dies at 60
1964 - John Finley Williamson, conductor (Westminster Choir), dies at 76
1968 - Fyodor Matveyevich Okhlopkov, Yakut-born Soviet sniper (b. 1908)
1969 - Rhys Williams, actor (Nightmare, Okinawa, Corn is Green), dies at 71
1971 - Audie Murphy, actor (Whispering Smiths), dies at 46
1971 - Jean Vilar, French actor (b. 1912)
1972 - Edward VIII, King of Great Britain and Northern Ireland dies at 77
1973 - Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt, Germ composer/conductor (Hassan), dies at 73
1973 - Jacques Lipchitz, Polish/French/US art critic sculptor, dies at 81
1975 - Eric Emerson, entertainer, dies
1975 - Roy Roberts, actor (Petticoat Junction, Lucy Show), dies at 75
1976 - Steffan Danielsen, Faroese painter (b. 1922)
1977 - Jiri Reinberger, composer, dies at 63
1978 - Arthur Brough, English actor (b. 1905)
1980 - Rolf Nevanlinna, Finnish mathematician (b. 1895)
1981 - Mary Lou Williams, black musician, dies at 71 in Durham NC
1981 - Stefan Wyszynski, Polish Cardinal, dies
1982 - Lt Col 'H'. Jones VC, British soldier (Falklands War) (b. 1940)
1983 - Erastus Corning 2nd, American politician, 72nd Mayor of Albany, New York (b. 1909)
1984 - Eric Morecambe, British comedian (Morecambe & Wise), dies at 58
1986 - Lurene Tuttle, actress (Father of Bride, Julia), dies at 79
1987 - Charles Ludlam, actor (Big Easy), dies at 44
1990 - Giorgio Manganelli, writer, dies at 67
1990 - Hussein Bin Onn, 1st minister of Malasia (1976-81), dies
1990 - Joseph Hardy, actor/director (Tree Grows in Brooklyn), dies at 71
1991 - Brigitte B Fischer, writer, dies
1991 - Ethel Lois Payne, journalist (Chic Defender), dies at 79
1993 - Charles Barnett, cricketer (20 Tests for England), dies
1994 - Julius Boros, pro golfer (US Open 1952), dies of heart attack at 74
1994 - Rita Gillespie, tV Director, dies at 65
1995 - Daniela Rocca, actress (Battle of Austerlitz), dies at 57
1995 - Henning Kronstam, dancer, dies at 60
1995 - Jean Elizabeth Leuckert Muir, designer dressmaker, dies at 66
1995 - Jean Muir, (Dress Queen), British model, dies at 66
1996 - John "Jack" Layden, local politician, dies at 70
1996 - Sidney Greenbaum, grammarian, dies at 66
1998 - Phil Hartman, Canadian actor, comedian (b. 1948)
2001 - Francisco Varela, Chilean biologist and philosopher (b. 1946)
2001 - Joe Moakley, American politician (b. 1927)
2002 - Jean Berger, German-born composer (b. 1909)
2003 - Oleg Makarov, cosmonaut (b. 1933)
2003 - Martha Scott, American actress (b. 1912)
2003 - Ilya Prigogine, Russian-born physicist and chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
           (b. 1917)
2004 - Umberto Agnelli, Swiss-born automobile executive (b. 1934)
2006 - Thorleif Schjelderup, Norwegian author and ski jumper (b. 1920)
2007 - Marquise Hill, American football player (b. 1982)
2007 - Toshikatsu Matsuoka, Japanese politician (b. 1945)
2008 - David Mitton, Scottish-born director (b. 1938)
2008 - Robert Justman, American television producer (b. 1926)
2010 - Gary Coleman, American actor (b. 1968)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 29, 2013, 03:58:05 PM

This Day in History for 29th May


Historical Events

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Mount Everest Conquerer                     Singer & Actress Barbra Streisand              Country Singer Johnny Cash
Edmund Hillary

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NBA Legend Larry Bird                           Russian President Boris Yeltsin              Indy Car Driver Al Unser Jr


363 - Roman Emperor Julian defeats the Sassanid army in the Battle of Ctesiphon, under the walls of
         the Sassanid capital, but is unable to take the city.
757 - St Paul I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1138 - Anti-Pope Victor IV (Gregorio) overthrows self for Innocentius II
1167 - Battle of Monte Porzio - A Roman army supporting Pope Alexander III is defeated by Christian
           of Buch and Rainald of Dassel
1176 - Battle at Legnano: Lombard League beats Frederick Barbarossa and the Holy Roman Empire
1414 - Council of Constance deposes Pope John XXIII
1453 - Constantinople falls to Muhammad II (Turks); ends Byzantine Empire
1453 - French banker Jacques Coeurs possessions confiscated
1576 - Spanish army under Mondragon conquerors Zierik sea
1592 - At the Battle of Sacheon, the Korean navy led by Admiral Yi Sun Shin, repels a Japanese army
           that outnumbers it nearly 3 to 1.
1630 - Gov John Winthrop begins "History of New England"
1652 - English Admiral Robert Blake drives out Dutch fleet under lt-adm Tromp
1660 - Charles II restored to English throne after Puritan Commonwealth
1677 - Treaty of Middle Plantation establishes peace between the Virginia colonists and the local
           Indians.
1692 - Battle at La Hogue: English & Dutch fleet beat France
1692 - Royal Hospital Founders Day 1st celebrated
1721 - South Carolina formally incorporated as a royal colony
1727 - Peter II (11) becomes Tsar of Russia
1733 - The right of Canadians to keep Indian slaves is upheld at Quebec City.
1753 - Joseph Haydns "Krumme Teufel," premieres
1765 - Patrick Henry historic speech against the Stamp Act, answering a cry of "Treason!" with, "If
           this be treason, make the most of it!"
1780 - Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton massacres Colonel Abraham Buford's continentals
           allegedly after the continentals surrender. 113 Americans are killed.
1787 - "Virginia Plan" proposed
1790 - Rhode Is becomes last of original 13 colonies ratifying Constitution
1848 - Battle at Curtazone: Austrians beat Sardinia-Piemonte
1848 - Wisconsin becomes 30th state
1849 - Lincoln says "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of
           the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time."
1851 - Sojourner Truth addresses 1st Black Women's Rights Convention (Akron)
1861 - Dorothea Dix offers help in setting up hospitals for Union Army
1864 - Mexican Emperor Maximilian arrives at Vera Cruz
1868 - The assassination of Michael Obrenovich III, Prince of Serbia, in Belgrade.
1874 - Present constitution of Switzerland takes effect
1884 - 1st steam cable trams start in highgate
1889 - August Strindberg's "Hemsoborna," premieres in Copenhagen
1897 - 31st Belmont: J Scherrer aboard Scottish Cheiftain wins in 2:23.25
1900 - 25th Preakness: H Spencer aboard Hindus wins in 1:48.4
1900 - Trademark "Escalator" registered by Otis Elevator Co
1902 - Dutch State Mine law forms
1903 - May coup d'etat: Alexander Obrenovich, King of Serbia, and Queen Draga, are assassinated in
           Belgrade by the Black Hand (Crna Ruka) organization.
1905 - Pogrom against Jewish community in Brisk Lithuania
1909 - Frank "Home Run" Baker's 1st career home run
1910 - Pope's encyclical on Editae Saepe, against church reformers
1911 - 1st running of Indianapolis 500
1912 - 15 young women fired by Curtis Publishing for dancing "Turkey Trot" during their lunch break
1913 - Igor Stravinsky's ballet score The Rite of Spring is premiered in Paris, provoking a riot.
1914 - Ship rams Canadian ship Empress of Ireland on St Lawrence R; 1024 die
1916 - NY Giants win 17th consecutive road game
1916 - Official flag of president of US adopted
1916 - US forces invade Dominican Republic, stay until 1924
1919 - Charles Strite files patent for the pop-up toaster
1919 - Einstein's light-bending prediction confirmed by Arthur Eddington
1919 - The Republic of Prekmurje founded
1922 - Ecuador becomes independent
1922 - US Supreme Court rules organized baseball is a sport & not a business & thus not subject to
           antitrust laws
1924 - AEK Athens FC is established on the anniversary of the siege of Constantinople by the Turks.
1928 - Fritz von Opel reaches 200 kph in experimental rocket car
1932 - World War I Veterans begin to assemble in Washington, DC in the Bonus Army to request
           cash bonuses promised to them to be paid in 1945.
1935 - Hague local museum opens
1940 - Adolf Kiefer swims world record 100 yards backstroke (58.8 sec)
1940 - Arthur Seyss-Inquart installed as Reich commissar of Hague Neth
1940 - In WW II, Germans capture Ostend & Ypres in Belgium & Lille in France
1942 - Bing Crosby records "White Christmas," greatest selling record to date
1943 - Confederacy of Algiers (Churchill-Marshall-Eisenhower)
1943 - Meat & cheese rationed in US
1944 - British troops occupy Aprilia Italy
1945 - US 1st Marine division conquerors Shuri-castle Okinawa
1946 - KVP wins Provincial National election in Netherlands
1949 - Candid Camera, TV comedy Variety, moves to NBC
1951 - 1st North Pole flight in single engine plane-CF Blair
1952 - 2nd Round Conference between Dutch Antilles & Suriname ends
1953 - Edmund Hillary & Tensing Norkay are 1st to reach summit of Everest
1954 - Pope Pius X issues holy declaration
1954 - First of the annual Bilderberg conferences.
1955 - Jordan government of Tewfik Abdul Huda resigns
1956 - Arnold Schoenberg's "Modern Psalm," premieres
1956 - WESH TV channel 2 in Daytona Beach-Orlando, FL (NBC) 1st broadcast
1957 - Algerian rebels kill 336 collaborators
1957 - Laos government of prince Suvanna Phuma resigns
1957 - NYC Mayor Robert Wagner says he plans to confer with the Giants & Dodgers about the
           proposed move to the west coast
1958 - Real Madrid wins 3rd Europe Cup 1 in Brussels
1959 - Charles de Gaulle forms French government
1960 - Everly Brothers "Cathy's Clown" hits #1
1962 - Barbra Streisand appears on "Garry Moore Show"
1965 - Phillies Dick Allen hits 529' HR out of Connie Mack Stadium
1966 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Baton Rouge Ladies Golf Invitational
1967 - Australian Paul McManus water skis barefoot for 1:30:19
1967 - Pope Paul VI names 27 new cardinals, including Karol Wojtyla, archbishop of Krakow, who
           later became Pope John Paul II
1968 - Manchester United wins 13rd Europe Cup 1 in London
1968 - Truth in Lending Act signed into law
1968 - UN resolves sanctions on white-minority-ruled Rhodesia
1969 - Britain's Trans-Arctic expedition makes 1st crossing of Arctic Sea ice
1969 - General strike in Cordoba, Argentina, leading to the Cordobazo civil unrest.
1970 - USSR performs nuclear test (underground)
1971 - Court Room by Clarence Carter hits #61
1972 - Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1973 - Thomas Bradley elected 1st black mayor of Los Angeles Calif
1973 - Columbia Records fires president Clive Davis for misappropriating $100,000 in funds, Davis
           will start Arista records
1974 - Northern Ireland is brought under direct rule from Westminster
1976 - "One Piece At A Time" by Johnny Cash hits #29
1976 - Only HR of Joe Niekro's 22-year career, comes off brother Phil
1977 - A J Foyt wins Indianapolis 500 for a record 4th time
1977 - NBC News & Information Service (24 hr news) ends on radio
1977 - Sandra Spuzich wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
1977 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1977 - Janet Guthrie becomes 1st woman to drive in Indy 500
1977 - Sue Press is 1st woman golfer to hit consecutive holes-in one
1978 - 1st class postage now 15 cents (13 cents for 3 years)
1978 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Golden Lights Golf Championship
1978 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1979 - Bishop Abel Muzorewa is sworn in as Zimbabwe's 1st black PM
1979 - Radio's 1st rock network "Source" premieres
1980 - "Billy Bishop Goes to War" opens at Morosco Theater NYC for 12 perfs
1980 - 53rd National Spelling Bee: Jacques Bailly wins spelling elucubrate
1980 - Attempted assassination on Vernon Jordan Jr National Urban League pres
1980 - J Turners "Juliet & Her Nurse" sold for $6,400,000 in NYC
1980 - Larry Bird beats out Magic Johnson for NBA rookie of year
1981 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1982 - "I Know What Boys Like," by The Waitresses hits #62
1982 - 1st papal visit to Britain since 1531
1982 - Pentagon plans 1st strategy to fight a nuclear war
1983 - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
1983 - Yuri Dumchev of USSR throws discus a record 71.86 m
1984 - Boston Red Sox retires #9 (Ted Williams) & #4 (Joe Cronin)
1985 - Juventus wins 30th Europe Cup 1 in Brussels, 39 die in riot
1985 - Amputee Steve Fonyo completes cross-Canada marathon at Victoria, British Columbia, after
          14 months.
1986 - 59th National Spelling Bee: Jon Pennington wins spelling odontalgia
1987 - "Twilight Zone" director John Landis found innocent in death of actor
1987 - Michael Jackson attempts to buy Elephant Man's remains
1987 - Robin Ventura set a college baseball record with hits in 57 games
1988 - Graeme Hick scores his 1,000th run of 1st-class cricket season
1988 - President Zia ul-Haq fires government/disbands parliament in Pakistan
1988 - Sherri Turner wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
1989 - Phillies 3rd baseman Mike Schmidt, 39, retires
1989 - Student protesters in China construct a replica of Statue of Liberty
1990 - An earthquake hit Peru, killing 56
1990 - Boris Yeltsin is elected president of the Russian republic
1990 - Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,870.49
1990 - Mets replace manager Davey Johnson with Buddy Harrelson
1990 - NY Mets fire manager Davey Johnson & hire Bud Harrelson
1990 - Rickey Henderson steals record 893rd base, breaking Ty Cobb's record
1991 - "Les Miserables," opens at ACTEA Theatre, Auckland NZ
1991 - Crevena Zvezda wins 36th Europe Cup I
1992 - NY Mets score in 9th to end home shut-out streak at 3 games
1992 - White Sox Tim Raines swipes his 700th career base
1993 - Nazi's kill 5 Turkish women in Solingen Germany
1993 - Texas Ranger Jose Canseco pitches 8th inning in 15-1 loss to Red Sox, he gives up 3 runs
           on 2 hits & 3 walks, he damages his arm
1994 - "Joseph & the Amazing" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 223 perfs
1994 - "Picnic" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 45 performances
1994 - Al Unser Jr wins 78th Indianapolis 500 in 3:06:29.006 (255.89 kph)
1994 - Beth Daniel wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
1994 - Great comet-iceball seen above North sea
1994 - Hungary's Socialist Party wins parliamentary election
1994 - Patty Sheehan wins J C Penney/LPGA Skins Golf Game
1996 - Space Shuttle STS 77 Endeavour 11), lands
1997 - 70th National Spelling Bee: Rebecca Sealfon wins spelling euonym
1997 - Jesse Timmedequas, found guilty of rape/murder of Megan Kanka, 7
1997 - Span scientists announce new human species in 780,000 year old fossil
1999 - Olusegun Obasanjo takes office as President of Nigeria, the first elected and civilian head of
           state in Nigeria after 16 years of military rule.
1999 - Space Shuttle Discovery completes the first docking with the International Space Station.
2001 - U.S. Supreme Court rules that disabled golfer Casey Martin can use a cart to ride in
           tournaments.
2001 - International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers inaugurated.
2004 - The World War II Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.
2004 - The Al-Khobar massacres in Saudi Arabia kill 22.
2005 - France resoundingly rejects the European Constitution.
2012 - Thousands march in protest in Johannesburg against Brett Murray's controversial painting
           The Spear
2012 - Facebook's problematic public listing could cost those involved $115 million from technical
           glitches
2012 - A 5.9 magnitude earthquake kills 24 people near Bologna, northern Italy
2012 - Indonesian police make the biggest drug bust in ten years after seizing over a million ecstasy
           pills valued at $45 million

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 29, 2013, 03:59:41 PM

This Day in History for 29th May


Famous Weddings

1506 - Earl Willem I van Nassau-Dillenburg weds countess Walburg van Egmont
1884 - Irish writer Oscar Wilde marries Constance Lloyd at St. James Church, Paddington, London
2004 - "Party of Five" actor Scott Wolf (35) weds "Real World" cast member Kelley Limp at St. Paul's
           Episcopal Church in Fayetteville, Arkansas
2006 - "America's Next Top Model" first winner Adrianne Curry (23) weds "The Brady Bunch" actor
           Christopher Knight (48) in Joliet, Illinois
2006 - Award-winning English actress Tamzin Outhwaite (35) weds former "EastEnders" actor Tom
           Ellis (26) at All Saints Church in Lullington, Somerset
2010 - "Survivor: Fiji" winner Earl Cole (39) weds pharmacist Shelley Lee at the St. Regis Princeville
           Resort on Kauai

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 29, 2013, 04:01:04 PM

This Day in History for 29th May


Famous Divorces

2010 - Five-time Grammy Award singer Shania Twain (42) divorces music producer Robert John Lange
           (59) after 14 years of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 29, 2013, 04:17:40 PM

This Day in History for 29th May


Famous Birthdays

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US President                                           Composer Danny Elfman (1953)             Musician Noel Gallagher (1967)
John F. Kennedy (1917)


1594 - Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, Bavarian general (d. 1632)
1627 - Anne ML of Orleans, duchess of Montpensier (Grand Mademoiselle)
1630 - Charles II, King of England (1660-85)
1673 - Cornelis van Bijnkershoek, lawyer/president of High Council
1675 - Humphry Ditton, English mathematician (d. 1715)
1716 - Louis J M Daubenton, French zoologist
1722 - James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster, Irish politician (d. 1773)
1730 - William Jackson, composer
1731 - Orazio Mei, composer
1736 - Patrick Henry, US, patriot "Give me liberty or give me death"
1741 - Johann Gottfried Krebs, composer
1773 - Princess Sophia of Gloucester (d. 1844)
1791 - Pietro Romani, composer
1794 - Johann Heinrich von Mädler, German astronomer (d. 1874)
1810 - Erasmus Darwin Keyes, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1895
1810 - Juan B Alberdi, [Figarillo], Argentina politician/writer
1810 - Solomon Meredith, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1875
1823 - John H. Balsley, American carpenter (d. 1895)
1824 - Cadmus Marcellus Wilcox, Major General (Confederate Army)
1825 - David Bell Birney, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1864
1826 - Ebenezer Butterick, inventor (tissue paper dress pattern)
1827 - Reuben Lindsay Walker, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1890
1837 - Alexander F de Savornin Lohmann, Dutch minister/party leader (CHU)
1837 - Luca Fumagalli, composer
1839 - Ned Gregory, cricketer (bro of Dave, father of Syd Played 1st Test)
1840 - Hans Makart, Austrian painter (Plague in Florenz)
1841 - Sylvester Magee, last living American slave and oldest person who ever lived, (d. 1971)
1843 - Emile Pessard, composer
1846 - Albert Gyorgy earl Apponyi, Hungarian minister of Education
1851 - Leon VA Bourgeois, French premier (1895-96, Nobel 1920)
1852 - Jindrich z Albestu Kaan, composer
1860 - Isaac Albéniz, Spanish composer (d. 1909)
1863 - Arthur Mold, English cricketer (d. 1921)
1864 - A H Borgesius, Dutch amateur astronomer
1874 - G. K. Chesterton [Gilbert Keith], London, English writer (Man Who Made Gold)
1880 - Oswald Spengler, Germany, philosopher (Decline of West)
1881 - Frederik Septimus Kelly, composer
1883 - William Beatton Moonie, composer
1885 - Erwin F Finlay-Freundlich, British astronomer (theory of relativity)
1890 - Francis de Bourguignon, composer
1892 - Alfonsina Storni, Argentine poet (La inquietud del rosal)
1894 - Beatrice Lillie, Toronto, comedian/actress (Around World in 80 Days)
1894 - Josef von Sternberg, Austrian director (Der blaue Engel)
1896 - George L Funke, botanist (Flower Physiology)
1897 - Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Brno Austria, movie composer (Violanta)
1897 - Ignace Lilien, composer
1903 - Bob Hope, [Leslie Townes], Kent England, entertainer (famous profile)
1904 - Robert Knox, bacteriologist
1905 - Fela Sowande, composer
1905 - Jan [Johannes] Teulings, Dutch actor/director (That Joyous Eve)
1905 - Sebastian Shaw, Holt England, actor (Return of Jedi, Chimera)
1906 - Hans Joachim Schaeuble, composer
1906 - Terence Hanbury White, Bombay India, novelist (England Have My Bones)
1906 - T.H. White, British author (d. 1964)
1907 - Desmond Shawe-Taylor, critic
1907 - Hartland Molson, Canadian businessman and senator (d. 2002)
1909 - Neil R[onald] Jones, US, sci-fi author (Space War, Twin Worlds)
1910 - Agnes Beatrice Read, medical social worker
1911 - James Marjoribanks, British ambassador
1911 - Louis Wain, agricultural scientist
1912 - John B M R "John" Hanlo, Dutch poet (Go to the Mosque)
1912 - Lucie Aubrac [Bernard], Paris, history teacher and French resistance member, (d. 2007)
1913 - Douglas Black, physician
1913 - Iris Adrian, LA California, actress (Blue Hawaii, Bluebeard)
1913 - Tony Zale, American boxer (d. 1997)
1914 - Stacy Keach, Sr., American actor (d. 2003)
1915 - David Jenklins, librarian (National Library of Wales)
1915 - Igor Buketoff, Hartford Conn, conductor (Iceland Symph 1964-65)
1915 - Lord Huntingfield, British agent to UN Secreteriat
1915 - Karl Münchinger, German conductor (d. 1990)
1916 - Carl M Story, fiddler
1917 - John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Mass, (Sen-D-Mass), 35th Pres (1961-1963)
1918 - Herb Shriner, humorist/TV host (Herb Shriner Show)
1918 - Isabel Dean, Engl, actress (5 Days one Summer, Virgin Island, Ransom)
1920 - Robin Haydon, British diplomat
1921 - Clifton James, NYC, actor (Buster & Billie, David & Lisa)
1921 - George Terry, chief constable (Sussex England)
1921 - James Clifton, Spokane Wash, actor (Live & Let Die)
1922 - Iannis Xenakis, Braila Romania, composer/architect/mathematician
1922 - John Heerbecq, Church commissioner
1923 - Earl of Morley, Lord Lt (Devon)
1923 - Richard Worsley, quarter master General
1925 - Kenneth Couzens, CEO (Coal Products)
1926 - Charles Denner, Tarnow Poland, actor (And Now My Love)
1926 - Iannis Xenakis, composer/architect/engineer
1927 - Carl Toms, stage designer (1 Million BC, Moon Zero Two)
1927 - Dick Hillenius, Dutch biologist/writer
1927 - Trevor Holdsworth, CEO (National Power)
1928 - Felix Rohatyn, Vienna Austria, investment banker (NY Big MAC Bonds)
1929 - Anthony Grant, British MP
1929 - Katie Boyle, [Lady Sander Saunders], British broadcaster
1929 - Kennetgh Couzens, CEO (Coal Products)
1930 - Eleanor Fazan, opera/show choreographer (Lassiter, Ruling Class)
1930 - Eddy Choong, Penang, Malaysia, Chinese badminton player , (d. 2013)
1931 - Carl Toms, stage designer
1932 - Paul R. Ehrlich, American biologist and author who founded the group Zero Population Growth
1933 - Helmuth Rilling, German conductor
1935 - Andre P Brink, South African writer (Dry White Season)
1935 - Denis J Worrall, South African politician/leader (DP)
1935 - Martin Garrod, Commandant General (Royal Marines)
1936 - Arlene McQuade, NYC, actress (Rosalie-Goldbergs)
1937 - Alwin Schockemohle, horse show jumper
1937 - Irmin Schmidt, rocker (Can)
1937 - Peter Kolman, composer
1937 - Charles W. Pickering, American judge
1938 - Francis Thomas (Fay) Vincent, baseball commissioner
1939 - Al Unser, auto racer (Indianapolis 500-1970, 71)
1939 - Martin Garrod, Commandant General Royal Marines
1939 - Nanette Newman, writer/actress (Endless Game, Of Human Bondage)
1940 - Farooq Leghari, President of Pakistan
1941 - Douglas Scott, mountaineer
1941 - Roy Crewsdon, Manchester, rocker (Freddie & The Dreamers)
1942 - Kevin Conway, NYC, actor (Flash Point, Cage of Angels)
1942 - Pierre Bourque, Former mayor of Montreal
1943 - Bob Edgar, (Rep-D-PA, 1975-87)
1943 - E Thomas Coleman, (Rep-R-MO, 1976- )
1943 - Terry Pavey, editor (TV Times)
1943 - Robert W. Edgar, Theologian
1944 - Helmut Berger, actor (Ash Wednesday, Damned, Picture of Dorian Gray)
1944 - Quentin Davies, MP (C)
1945 - Lord Fraser of Carmyllie, Minister of State (Scotland)
1945 - Martin Pipe, horse trainer
1945 - Gary Brooker, rock keyboardist (Procol Harum)
1946 - Robin Johnson, Brooklyn, actress (Times Square)
1946 - Fernando Buesa, Basque politician (d. 2000)
1947 - Mark Nelson, Brooklyn NY, crew member (Biosphere 2)
1947 - Gene Robinson, American ecclesiastic
1948 - Anthony Geary, Coalville Utah, actor (Luke/Bill-General Hospital)
1948 - Linda Esther Gray, opera singer
1948 - Michael Berkley, composer/broadcaster
1948 - Nick Mancuso, Italian-Canadian actor
1949 - Francis Rossi, London, guitarist (Status Quo-Picture of a Matchstick Man)
1949 - Brian Kidd, English footballer
1950 - Rebbie [Maureen] Jackson, Gary Indiana, singer (R U Tuff Enuff)
1950 - Talat Ali, cricketer (Pakistani opening batsman in ten Tests 1972-80)
1951 - Peter Chernin, President of News Corporation
1952 - Louise Cooper, UK, sci-fi author (Nemesis, Inferno, Infanta, Nocturne)
1953 - Danny Elfman, LA California, composer (Simspon Show Theme)
1953 - Ranji Nanan, cricketer (Trinidad off-spinner, 1 Test v Pakistan 1981)
1953 - Rick Henderson, Beaumont Tx, singer (Mason Dixon-Karen Comes Around)
1955 - Jerry Dengler, Colo Springs, singer (Mason Dixon-Karen Comes Around)
1955 - John Hinckley Jr, shot & wounded Pres Reagan (1981)
1955 - Mike Porcaro, rock bassist (Toto-Roseanna, Africa)
1955 - Sut Jhally, Kenyan-born American educator
1956 - LaToya Jackson, singer (If You Feel the Funk)/posed for Playboy
1956 - Greg R, rocker (Bad)
1956 - La Toya Yvette Jackson, Gary Indiana, singer (Playboy, Millipede)
1956 - Larry Blackmon, rocker (Cameo-Alligator Woman)
1957 - Jeb Hensarling, American politician
1958 - Annette Bening, Topeka KS, actress (Grifters, Bugsy, Valmont) [or 5/5]
1958 - Ivar Sisniega, Mexico, pentathelete (Olympic-1980)
1958 - Sam Clancy, WLAF defensive assistant coach (Barcelona Dragons)
1958 - Willem Holleeder, Dutch criminal
1959 - Mel Gaynor, Glasgow Scotland, rock drummer (Simple Minds-Water Front)
1959 - Rupert Everett, actor (Princess Daisy, Another Country)
1959 - Tamayo Otsuki, actress (Mrs Yamagami-Davis Rules)
1960 - Adrian Paul, London England, actor (Dance to Win, Highlander)
1961 - David Palmer, heavy metal drummer (ABC, AC/DC)
1961 - Melissa Etheridge, US singer/songwriter/guitarist (Never Enough)
1961 - Todd Boonstra, Minneapolis Minn, cross country skier (Olympics-1994)
1962 - Eric Davis, LA CA, outfielder (Cin Reds)
1962 - Gerry Norquist, Portland OR, Nike golfer (1990 Boise Open-5th)
1962 - John D. LeMay, American actor
1963 - Lisa Whelchel, Fort Worth Texas, actress (Blair-Facts of Life)
1963 - Tracey E Bregman, Munich Germany, actress (Lauren-Bold & Beautiful, Days of Our Life)
1963 - Blaze Bayley, British singer (ex-Iron Maiden)
1963 - Ukyo Katayama, Japanese racing driver
1965 - Charlie Hayes, Hattisburg MS, 3rd baseman (Pittsburgh Pirates, NY Yankees)
1965 - Emilio Sanchez, Madrid Spain, Tennis player (1988 Olympic bronze)
1965 - Jammo Myllys, Savonlinna FIN, hockey goalie (Team Finland, Oly-Br-98)
1966 - Floyd Turner, NFL wide receiver (Indianapolis Colts)
1967 - Bill Risley, Chicago IL, pitcher (Toronto Blue Jays)
1967 - Karina Orum, Denmark, golfer (Scandinavian champion 1989)
1967 - Mike Keane, Winnipeg, NHL right wing (Colorado Avalanche)
1967 - Ray Bernard, CFL linebacker (Montreal Alouettes)
1967 - Noel Gallagher, Manchester, English pop musician (Oasis)
1968 - Brian Roche, NFL tight end (San Diego Chargers)
1968 - Duane Young, NFL tight end (San Diego Chargers)
1969 - Toby Borland, Quitman LA, pitcher (Philadelphia Phillies)
1969 - Wiltrud Probst, Nuermberg Germany, tennis star (1992 Belgian Open)
1969 - Chan Kinchla, Canadian musician (Blues Traveler)
1970 - Natarsha Belling, Australian news presenter
1971 - Eric Lucas, Quebec professional boxer
1972 - Bill Curley, NBA forward (Portland Trail Blazers, Minn Timberwolves)
1972 - David Hendrix, NFL strong safety (San Diego Chargers)
1972 - Kenny McEntyre, WLAF cornerback (London Monarchs)
1972 - Kevin McDougal, CFL quarterback (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1972 - Közi, Japanese visual kei artist
1972 - Stanislas Renoult, French singer
1973 - Emma Johnson, Sydney NSW Australia, swimmer (Olympics-96)
1973 - Etdrick Bohannon, NBA forward (Indiana Pacers)
1973 - Jason Dawe, North York, NHL left wing (Buffalo Sabres)
1973 - Malcolm Allen, Wauchope NSW Australia, swimmer (Olympics-96)
1973 - Tiffany M Sloan, Orange county California, playmate (Oct, 1992)
1973 - Alpay Özalan, Turkish footballer
1973 - Anthony Azizi, American actor
1973 - Mark Lee, American musician (guitarist for Third Day)
1974 - Barbara Mulej, Kranj Slovenia, tennis star (1992 Futures Germ)
1974 - Kenny Bynum, running back (San Diego Chargers)
1974 - Robyn Petroskey, Minneapolis Minn, figure skater (1996 Midwest champ)
1974 - Myf Warhurst, Australian radio presenter on Triple J and TV personality on Spicks and Specks
1974 - Marc Gené, Spanish Formula One driver
1975 - Alexander Zhurik, hockey defenseman (Belarus, Oly-98)
1975 - Bianca Langham, Australian field hockey fullback/halfback (Olympic-96)
1975 - Melanie Janine Brown, "Scary Spice", Leeds, vocalist (Spice Girls)
1975 - Shoshanna Lonstein, NYC, girlfriend (Jerry Seinfeld)
1975 - Anthony Wall, English golfer
1976 - David Buckner, American musician (Papa Roach)
1976 - Caçapa, Brazilian footballer
1976 - Jerry Hairston Jr., American baseball player
1976 - Yūsuke Iseya, Japanese model and actor
1977 - Brent Roberts, Leesville La, diver (Olympics-96)
1977 - Danny Gerard, Mt Vernon NY, actor (Alan Silver-Brooklyn Bridge)
1977 - Massimo Ambrosini, Italian footballer
1977 - Antonio Lebo-Lebo, Angolan footballer
1978 - Pelle Almqvist, Swedish musician (The Hives)
1978 - Sébastien Grosjean, French tennis player
1978 - Adam Rickitt,British/New Zealand actor
1979 - Luann Roberts, Miss Alabama Teen USA (1996)
1979 - Brian Kendrick, American professional wrestler
1979 - Arne Friedrich, German football player
1979 - John Rheinecker, Major League Baseball player
1979 - Casey Sheehan, American soldier; son of Cindy Sheehan (d. 2004)
1981 - Andrei Arshavin, Russian footballer
1982 - Ana Beatriz Barros, Brazilian model
1982 - Joanne Borgella, American plus-sized model and singer
1982 - Matt Macri, American baseball player
1983 - Richard Jackson, Redlands California, actor (Ryan Meyers-Saved by the Bell)
1983 - Rama Claproth, Indonesian blues guitarist
1984 - Carmelo Anthony, American basketball player
1986 - Dylan Postl, American professional wrestler
1986 - Jaslene Gonzalez, Puerto Rican/American fashion model
1986 - Valy Hedjasi, Afghan singer
1987 - Alessandra Toreson, American actress
1989 - Danielle Riley Keough, grand daughter of Elvis Presley
1990 - Dave Morton, American guitarist
1991 - Kristen Alderson, American actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 29, 2013, 04:22:27 PM

This Day in History for 29th May


Famous Deaths

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English Dramatist
 William Schwenck Gilbert (1911)


1259 - King Christopher I of Denmark (b. 1219)
1379 - King Henry II of Castile (b. 1334)
1405 - Philippe de Mézières, advisor to Charles V of France
1425 - Hongxi Emperor of China (b. 1378)
1453 - Constantine XI Dragases, last Byzantine Emperor, dies at 49
1500 - Bartholomeu Diaz de Narvaez (Novaez), Portuguese sea explorer, drowns
1544 - Jacobus Latomus [Jasques Masson], Belgian inquisitor, dies at about 68
1546 - Cardinal Beaton, English archbishop of St Andrews, murdered
1593 - John Penry, English congressionalist, executed
1629 - Arnold Baert, Flemish lawyer/member of Great Council, dies at about 74
1660 - Gyorgy Rákóczi II, prince of Transsylvania, dies in battle
1660 - Peter Scriverius, lawyer/historian, dies at 44
1660 - Frans van Schooten, Dutch mathematician (b. 1615)
1680 - Abraham Megerle, composer, dies at 73
1691 - Cornelis Tromp, admiral-general/son of Maarten T, dies at 61
1750 - Giuseppe Porsile, composer, dies at 70
1788 - Jacques Aliamet, French etcher/engraver, dies at 61
1790 - Israel Putnam, American Revolutionary War general (b. 1718)
1796 - Carl Fredrik Pechlin, Swedish politician (b. 1720)
1814 - Josephine, empress of France (1804-14), dies
1815 - Cornelis de Gijselaar, politician/patriot, dies at 64
1816 - Madame L'Ouverture, widow of Haiti's leader Toussaint L'O, dies
1829 - Humphry Davy, scientist/inventor (Miner's safety lamp), dies at 84
1833 - William Marshall, composer, dies at 84
1847 - Emmanuel, marquis de Grouchy, French marshal (b. 1766)
1862 - Franciszek Wincenty Mirecki, composer, dies at 71
1866 - Winfield Scott, American general (b. 1786)
1868 - Michael Obrenovich III, Prince of Serbia (b. 1823)
1869 - Philippe Vandermaelen, Flemish cartographer/publisher, dies at 73
1877 - John Lothrop Motley, (History of United Netherlands), dies at 63
1882 - Vasily Perov, Russian painter (b. 1833)
1883 - Albrecht of Prussia, mistress of John van Rossum, dies at 73
1883 - WFLC Marianne, princess of Orange-Nassau, dies
1885 - Alfred von Meissner, Austria physician/writer (Ziska), dies at 63
1892 - Baha'u'llah [Mirza HA Noeri], Persian founder (Baha'i), dies at 74
1896 - Gabriel Auguste Daubrée, French geologist (b. 1814)
1899 - Frantz Jehin-Prume, composer, dies at 60
1903 - Bruce Price, American architect (b. 1845)
1905 - Leon Francis Victor Caron, composer, dies at 55
1910 - Mili Alexeyevich Balakirev, Russian composer (Islamej), dies at 73
1911 - William Schwenck Gilbert, English dramatist (Gilbert & Sullivan), dies at 74
1919 - Robert Bacon, American politician (b. 1860)
1922 - Jevgeni B Vachtangov, Armenian/Russian actor/director, dies at 39
1924 - Pierre-Paul Cambon, French diplomat (Madrid/London), dies
1933 - Frank Sugg, cricketer (batted in 2 Tests for England 1888), dies
1934 - Eugenie Besserer, actress (Anna Christie, Madame X), dies at 65
1935 - Josef Suk, Czech violinist/composer, dies at 61
1939 - Ursula Julia Ledochowska, Polish-Austrian Catholic saint (b. 1865)
1942 - John Barrymore, US actor (Beloved Rogue, Dinner at 8), dies at 60
1943 - Hermann Hans Wetzler, composer, dies at 72
1946 - Martin Gottfried Weiss, Commandant of Dachau concentration camp (b. 1905)
1948 - May Whitty, actress (Gaslight, Mrs Miniver, Suspicion), dies at 82
1951 - Dimitrios Levidis, composer, dies at 66
1951 - Fanny Brice, Zeigfield Girl (Baby Snooks Show), dies at 59
1951 - Josef Bohuslav Foerster, composer, dies at 91
1951 - Robert Kahn, composer, dies at 85
1953 - Man Mountain Dean, American professional wrestler (b. 1891)
1955 - Daniel G van Beuningen, art collector, dies at 78
1956 - Albert H Edelkoort, theologist (Christusverwachting), dies at 65
1956 - Hermann Abendroth, German conductor (Gewandhausorkest), dies at 73
1957 - George Bacovia [Vasiliu], Romanian poet/composer (Plumb), dies at 75
1958 - Juan Ramon Jiménez, Spanish poet (Nobel 1956), dies at 76
1961 - Uuno Kalervo Klami, composer, dies at 60
1967 - Geronimo Baqueiro Foster, composer, dies at 69
1970 - John Gunther, author/host (John Gunther's High Road), dies at 68
1971 - Max Trapp, composer, dies at 83
1972 - Moe Berg, American baseball player and spy (b. 1902)
1972 - Stephen Timoshenko, Ukrainian-born mechanical engineer (b. 1878)
1973 - Eric Applewhite, entertainer, dies
1973 - P. Ramlee, Malaysian film actor, director, singer and songwriter. (b. 1929)
1977 - Goddard Lieberson, composer, dies at 66
1977 - Ba Maw, Burmese politician (b. 1893)
1979 - Mary Pickford, actress (Coquette, Suds, Secrets), dies at 86
1979 - John H. Wood, Jr., American federal judge (b. 1916)
1982 - Romy Schneider, actress (Cardinal), dies of cardiac arrest at 43
1983 - Arvīds Pelše, Soviet Latvian statesman (b. 1899)
1985 - 39, die at Heysel Stadium in Liverpool in a riot prior to soccer match
1985 - Madge West, actress (Grandma-McLean Stevenson Show), dies at 93
1987 - Alain Vincx, Belgian stuntman, dies in an accident at 40
1989 - John Cipollina, American musician (Quicksilver Messenger Service) (b. 1943)
1991 - Coral Browne, Australian actor (Ruling Class), dies of cancer at 77
1992 - Bill Beyers, actor (Wally-Capitol), dies of AIDS at 37
1992 - Karl Carstens, president of RFA (1979-84), dies
1992 - Peter John "Ollie" Halsall, guitarist, dies of a heart attack at 43
1992 - Pippa Steele, actress (Vampire Lovers), dies of cancer at 44
1993 - Billy Conn, boxer (fought Joe Louis 1951), dies of pneumonia at 75
1993 - Tiny Hofman, Amsterdam activist (Nieuwmarkt), dies at 68
1994 - Erich Honecker, president of German DR (1971-89), dies in Chile at 81
1994 - Ezra Taft Benson, min of Agr/leader of mormon (1985-94), dies at 94
1994 - Harry Levin, literary Scholar, dies at 81
1994 - Jose Bohr, actor (El Traidor, Sueno de Amor), dies at 92
1994 - Joseph Janni, producer, dies at 78
1994 - Oliver "Bops Junior" Jackson, drummer, dies at 61
1995 - Margaret Chase Smith, 1st woman Rep & Sen (R-Me), dies at 97
1996 - James George "Jimmy" Rowles, jazz pianist, dies at 77
1996 - Jeremy Sinden, actor (Chariots of Fire, Ascendancy, Harem), dies at 45
1996 - Tamara Toumanova, dancer, dies at 77
1997 - George Fenneman, announcer (You Bet Your Life), dies at 77
1997 - Jeff Buckley, musician, drowns at 30
1997 - John Sengstacke, publisher (Defender), dies at 84
1998 - Barry M. Goldwater, U.S. Senator from Arizona and presidential candidate (b. 1909)
2002 - Mildred Benson, American writer (b. 1905)
2003 - David Jefferies, British motorcycle racer (b. 1972)
2004 - Archibald Cox, Watergate special prosecutor (b. 1912)
2004 - Samuel Dash, American Congressional counsel (b. 1925)
2005 - George Rochberg, American composer (b. 1918)
2006 - Steve Mizerak, American pool player (b. 1944)
2006 - Jacques Bouchard, Quebec advertising executive (b. 1930)
2007 - Dave Balon, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1938)
2007 - Lois Browne-Evans, Bermudian Politician (stroke) (b. 1927)
2007 - Posteal Laskey, American convicted murderer widely believed to be the Cincinnati Strangler of
           natural causes (b. 1938)
2008 - Luc Bourdon, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1987)
2008 - Harvey Korman, American actor (b. 1927)
2008 - Dianne Odell, American medical figure (b. 1947)
2009 - Karine Ruby, French snowboarder and Olympic champion (b. 1978)
2010 - Dennis Hopper, American actor and director (b. 1936)
2011 - Ferenc Mádl, Hungarian politician, President of Hungary (b. 1931)
2011 - Bill Clements, Governor of Texas (b. 1917)
2011 - Sergei Bagapsh, Abkhazian president (b. 1949)
2012 - Doc Watson, American bluegrass musician, dies from complications following surgery at 89

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 30, 2013, 12:13:24 PM

This Day in History for 30th May


Historical Events

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French National Heroine                           US President & General                         Baseball Great Babe Ruth
Joan of Arc                                                Andrew Jackson

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Baseball Manager                                         Author Henry Miller                           Motorcycle Daredevil Robert
Tom Lasorda

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New York Yankees Owner                         Comedian David Letterman
George Steinbrenner


1035 - Boudouin V van Rijsel becomes earl of Flanders
1087 - German emperor Henry IV crowns his son Koenraad
1100 - Burchard becomes bishop of Utrecht
1381 - English boer uprising begins in Essex
1416 - Jerome of Prague, burned at the stake for heresy by church Council of Constance
1431 - Hundred Years' War: in Rouen, France, 19-year-old Joan of Arc is burned at the stake by an
           English-dominated tribunal.
1434 - Battle at Lipany
1498 - Columbus departs with 6 ships for 3rd trip to America
1522 - French troops driven out of Genoa
1527 - U of Marburg (Germany) founded
1539 - Spanish explorer Fernando de Soto discovers Florida
1574 - Henry III follows brother Charles IX as king of France
1574 - Sea battle at Lillo Belgium (Adolf Van Haemstede vs Louis de Boisot)
1584 - Earl Adolf van Nieuwenaar/Meurs becomes viceroy of Gelderland
1631 - France/Maximilian van Bavarian signs Accord of Fontainebleau
1635 - Emperor Ferdinand II & Saksen sign Peace of Prague
1642 - From this date all honours granted by Charles I are retrospectively annulled by Parliament
1646 - Spain & Netherlands signs temporary cease fire
1783 - Benjamin Tower of Phila publishes 1st daily newspaper in US
1793 - Georges Couthon chosen member of French Committee the Salut Public
1806 - Andrew Jackson kills Charles Dickinson in a duel after Dickinson had accused Jackson's wife of
           bigamy.
1808 - Napoleon annexes Tuscany & gave it seats in French Senate
1814 - Napoleonic Wars: War of the Sixth Coalition - the Treaty of Paris (1814) is signed returning
           French borders to their 1792 extent.
1821 - James Boyd patents Rubber Fire Hose
1822 - House slave betrays Denmark Vesey conspiracy (37 blacks hanged)
1832 - Evariste Galois give his theory on free assembly (dies in duel May 31)
1832 - The Rideau Canal in eastern Ontario is opened.
1842 - John Francis attempts to assassinate Queen Victoria
1848 - 2nd battle at Gioto: Sardinia-Piemonte beats Austrians
1848 - William G Young patents ice cream freezer
1848 - Mexico ratifies treaty giving US; New Mexico, California & parts of Nevada, Utah, Arizona &
           Colorado in return for $15 million
1854 - Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed Missouri Compromise opens north slavery
1854 - Territories of Kansas & Nebraska created
1858 - Hudson's Bay Co rights to Vancouver Island revoked
1862 - Battle of Booneville MS - captured Gen Beauregard evacuates Corinth
1864 - Cavalry fight at Battle of Bethesda Church/Totopotomoy Creek Virginia during US Civil War
1866 - Opera "Die Verkaufte Braut" premieres (Prague)
1868 - Memorial Day 1st observed when 2 women in Columbus Mississippi placed flowers on both
           Confederate & Union graves
1876 - Ottoman sultan Abd-ul-Aziz is deposed and succeeded by his nephew Murat V.
1879 - 92°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in May
1879 - Gilmore Garden (NYC) renamed Madison Square Garden
1879 - An F4 tornado strikes Irving, Kansas, killing 18 and injuring 60.
1883 - Rumor that the Brooklyn Bridge is going to collapse caused a stampede that kills 12
1889 - Brassier invented
1890 - 1st Dodger home run (Dave Foutz)
1894 - Bobby Lowe is 1st to hit 4 HRs in 1 baseball game
1895 - W G Grace scores his 1,000th Cricket run of the season after 22 days
1896 - 1st car accident occurs, Henry Wells hit a bicyclist (NYC)
1899 - 24th Preakness: R Clawson aboard Half Time wins in 1:47
1901 - Hall of Fame for Great American on NYU campus dedicated
1901 - Memorial Day 1st observed in US
1903 - 28th Preakness: W Gannon aboard Flocarline wins in 1:44.8
1904 - Frank Chance gets hit by pitch 5 times in a doubleheader
1906 - 40th Belmont: Lucien Lyne aboard Burgomaster wins in 2:20
1907 - 41st Belmont: G Mountain aboard Peter Pan wins
1908 - 1st federal workmen's compensation law approved
1908 - 42nd Belmont: Joe Notter aboard Colin win
1908 - Aldrich Vineland Currency Act forerunner to Federal Reserve System
1908 - Paris advocate E Archdeacon is 1st passenger in a airplane
1908 - US Assay Office in Salt Lake City, Utah authorized
1909 - National Conference on the Negro is held
1909 - Reuben Siegel laid cornerstone of 1st home in Tel-Aviv
1910 - 44th Belmont: James Butwell aboard Sweep wins in 2:22
1911 - 1st Indianapolis 500 car race, Ray Harroun wins at 74.59 MPH (120 KPH)
1912 - US Marines sent to Nicaragua
1913 - 1st Balkan War ends, Treaty of London
1913 - New country of Albania, forms
1913 - John McGraw joins Fred Clarke, Cap Anson, Frank Selee, & Connie Mack
1913 - as managers who have won 1,000 games
1914 - The new and then largest Cunard ocean liner RMS Aquitania, 45,647 tons, sets sails on her
           maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City.
1917 - Alexander I becomes king of Greece.
1921 - Lord Dunsany's "If," premieres in London
1921 - Memorial to Capt Eddie Grant, killed in WW I, unveiled at Polo Grounds
1921 - Salzburg, Austria, votes to join Germany
1922 - Latvia & Vatican sign accord
1922 - Lincoln Memorial dedicated
1922 - Cubs swap Max Flack for Cards Cliff Heathcote during middle of doubleheader. Both play for
           both teams that day
1923 - Howard Hanson's 1st Symphony "Nordic," premieres
1924 - Socialist Matteotti falls in Italian parliament by fascists
1925 - British mariners shoot on demonstrators
1925 - Peter DePaolo became 1st man to average over 100 mph at Indy
1925 - Rogers Hornsby replaces Branch Rickey as manager of Cardinals
1925 - In China protests erupt against the Great Powers infringing on Chinese sovereignty.
1927 - Walter Johnson records 113th & last shutout of his career
1930 - Bill Arnold wins Indianapolis 500 car race (161.6 kph)
1931 - Phillies Chuck Klein homers off Ben Cantwell (Braves) in both ends DH
1932 - Yankees dedicate a plaque to Miller Huggins
1933 - Patent on invisible glass installation
1935 - Babe Ruth's final game, goes hitless for Braves against Phillies
1937 - 20th PGA Championship: Denny Shute at Pittsburgh FC Aspinwall PA
1937 - Memorial Day Massacre - Chicago police shoot on union marchers, 10 die
1937 - Pitcher Carl Hubbell's 24th consecutive victory
1937 - Police kill 10 strikers at Republic Steel Plant in Chicago
1937 - 61,756, 2nd-largest crowd in Polo Grounds history, sees Dodgers ends Carl Hubbell's
           consecutive-game winning streak at 24
1938 - Yanks sweep Red Sox 10-0 & 5-4 in front of 83,533 at Yankee Stadium
1941 - 1st anti semitic measures in Serbia
1941 - English Army enters Baghdad, chasing pro-German coup government
1941 - German capture Kreta
1942 - 1,047 bombers bomb Cologne in RAF's raid of WW II
1942 - Reichsfuhrer Himmler arrives in Prague
1942 - Satchel Paige pitches 5 innings to defeat Dizzy Dean All-Stars 8-1
1942 - US aircraft carrier Yorktown leaves Pearl Harbor
1943 - French general De Gaulle arrives in Algiers
1943 - US troops reconquer Attu Aleutians
1944 - Transport nr 75 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1946 - Braves Bernard Malamud HR shatters Bulova clock in Ebbets Field
1946 - United flight 521 crashes on takeoff at LaGuardia Airport (NY) 42 die
1948 - Schenectady Blue Jays Tom Lasorda strikes out 25 in 15-inning game
1948 - A dike along the flooding Columbia River breaks, obliterating Vanport, Oregon within minutes.
           Fifteen people die and tens of thousands are left homeless.
1949 - East Germans constitution approved
1949 - NPS/VHP win 1st general election in Suriname
1949 - WRTV TV channel 6 in Indianapolis, IN (ABC) begins broadcasting
1950 - Patty Berg wins LPGA Eastern Golf Open
1951 - Ezzard Charles beats Joey Maxim in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1952 - Charlie Grimm succeeds Tommy Holmes as manager of Boston Braves
1952 - Darius Milhaud's "West Point Suite," premieres
1953 - 1st major league network baseball game-Cleveland 7, Chicago 2
1953 - 23rd French Mens Tennis: Ken Rosewall beats V Seixas (63 64 16 62)
1953 - 23rd French Womens Tennis: Maureen Connolly beats Doris Hart (62 64)
1954 - Dutch bishops forbid membership to non-catholic sporting clubs
1954 - Emile Zatopek runs world record 5K (13:57.2)
1954 - Hector Villa-Lobos' "Odisseia de Uma Raca," premieres
1955 - KMVT TV channel 11 in Twin Falls, ID (CBS/NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 - Said el-Mufti forms Jordan government
1955 - Tunisia begins domestic self governing
1956 - Bus boycott begins in Tallahassee Florida
1956 - Mickey Mantle misses by 18" hitting 1st HR out of Yankee Stadium
1956 - US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)
1957 - Real Madrid wins 2nd Europe Cup 1 in Madrid
1957 - Test Cricket debut for Rohan Kanhai v England at Edgbaston
1958 - US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)
1958 - Unidentified soldiers killed in WW II & Korean War buried in Arlington
1959 - "First Impressions" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 84 performances
1959 - "Nervous Set" closes at Henry Miller's Theater NYC after 23 perfs
1959 - Iraq terminates milt assistance pact with US due to neutrality
1959 - Pres Somoza ends emergency crisis in Nicaragua
1959 - Pres Stroessner disbands Paraguay's parliament
1959 - World's 1st hovercraft (SR-N1) tested at Cowes England
1959 - The Auckland Harbour Bridge is officially opened today in Auckland, New Zealand.
1961 - Dutch DC-8 crashes after takeoff at Lisbon, 62 die
1961 - Maris hits his 10th & 11th of 61 HRs
1961 - Long time Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo is assassinated in Santo Domingo,Dominican
           Republic.
1962 - 69 killed in bus crash (Ahmedabad India)
1962 - Benjamin Britten's "War Requiem," premieres
1964 - "Beyond the Fringe" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 673 perfs
1964 - Beatles 1961 record of "Cry for a Shadow" is #1 in Australia
1964 - Beatles' "Love Me Do," single goes #1
1964 - Giants sweep Mets 5-3 & 8-6 in 23 inn, records include elapsed time of 9:50, 47 strikeouts,
           7:22 for 2nd game & NY's 22 K's in 2nd games
1965 - France performs nuclear test at Ecker Algeria (Underground)
1965 - Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
1965 - Viet Cong offensive against US base Da Nang, begins
1965 - Vivian Malone, is 1st black to graduate from University of Alabama
1966 - 300 US airplanes bomb North Vietnam
1966 - Graham Hill wins Indianapolis 500 car race (232.2 kph)
1966 - US launches Surveyor 1 to Moon
1967 - Biafra declares independence from Nigeria
1967 - King Hussein of Jordan visits Cairo
1967 - Robert "Evel" Knievel's motorcycle jumps 16 automobiles
1967 - Yankee Whitey Ford, nearing 41, announces his retirement from baseball
1968 - Beatles begin work on their only double album "Beatles"
1968 - President De Gaulle disbands French parliament
1968 - University church in Leipzig German DR, blown up
1968 - West German Parliament accepts emergency crisis law
1969 - Derek Clayton runs world record marathon (2:08:33.6) at Antwerp
1969 - Gibraltar adopts constitution
1969 - People revolt in Willemstad, Curacao
1969 - Riots on the Caribbean island of Curaçao
1970 - "Minnie's Boys" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 80 performances
1970 - Baseball All-Star voting is returned to fans
1971 - 36 hospitalized during Grateful Dead concert; drunk LSD apple juice
1971 - Train crash at Duivendrecht Neth, 5 die
1971 - US Mariner 9 1st satellite to orbit Mars launched
1971 - Willie Mays hits his 638th HR, sets NL record of 1,950 runs scored
1972 - 3 Jap PFL terrorists kills 24, wound 72 at Tel Aviv's Lod Intl airport
1972 - The Angry Brigade goes on trial over a series of 25 bombings throughout Britain.
1973 - Ajax wins 3rd Europe Cup
1974 - 10th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yanks beat Mets 9-4
1975 - European Space Agency (ESA) forms
1975 - Wings release "Venus & Mars" album
1976 - 22nd LPGA Championship won by Betty Burfeindt
1976 - Bobby Unser sets world record for fastest pit stop (4 seconds)
1977 - Cleve Indian Dennis Eckersley no-hits California Angels, 2-0
1979 - Nottingham Forrest wins 24th Europe Cup 1 at Munich
1979 - Pat Underwood makes his pitching debut for Detroit beats brother Tom
1979 - Percom Data Company Inc release Microdos for Radio Shack's TRS-80
1979 - Ted Coombs begins a 5,193 mile roller skate from LA to NYC
1980 - 1st papal visit to France since 1814
1980 - Tiger reliever John Hiller, 37, (who had a 1971 heart attack), retires
1980 - Turner's painting "Juliet & Her Nurse" sells for $6.4 million
1980 - Twins Ken Landreaux ends his hitting streak after 31 games
1981 - "Nightline" extends from 4 nights to 5 nights a week (Friday)
1981 - Bangladesh Pres Ziaur Rahman is shot by group of rebel officers
1981 - LA Dodgers are quickest to get 1,000,000 attendence (22 games)
1982 - "Do Black Patent Leather Shoes..." closes at Alvin NYC after 5 perf
1982 - Closest Indy 500, Gordon Johncock beats Rick Mears by 0.16 seconds
1982 - Sandra Spuzich wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
1982 - Spain becomes 16th member of NATO
1983 - Surrey all out for 14 vs Essex, their lowest score ever
1983 - AL Pres Lee MacPhail suspends Yankees owner George Steinbrenner for one week, for his
           public criticism of umpires
1984 - Bomb explodes in rebel leader Eden Pastora headquarters in Nicaragua
1984 - Liverpool wins 29th Europe Cup 1 in Rome
1984 - NL suspends Mario Soto 5 days for Reds-Cubs fight on May 27th
1985 - Stanley Cup: Edmonton Oilers beat Phila Flyers, 4 games to 1
1986 - Ariane-2 (ESA) launched
1986 - Bobby Rahal is 1st to avg over 170 mph in Indianapolis 500
1986 - France performs nuclear test
1987 - Mike Tyson TKOs Pinklon Thomas in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
1987 - North American Philips Company unveils compact disc video
1987 - Tony Tucker TKOs Buster Douglas in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
1987 - West German Mathias Rust lands airplane on Red Square
1989 - Margaret Ray pleads guilty to breaking into David Letterman's house
1990 - 135 die in a (6.4) earthquake in Peru
1990 - Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,878.56
1990 - Earthquake hit Peru, killing 135
1991 - 64th National Spelling Bee: Joanne Lagatta wins spelling antipyretic
1991 - Arturo Barrios runs world record one-hour distance (21,096 km)
1991 - Supreme Court rules prosecutors can be sued for legal advice they give police & can be held
           accountable
1992 - Minn Twin Bert Blyleven is 2nd to win as teenager & 40 year old
1992 - NY Lotto pays $30 million to one winner (#s are 12-15-30-33-40-48)
1992 - NY Yankee Scott Sanderson becomes 9th to beat all 26 teams
1992 - UN votes for sanctions against Serb-led Yugoslavia to halt fighting
1993 - Betsy King wins J C Penney/LPGA Skins Game Golf Tournament
1993 - Kelly Robbins wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
1996 - 69th National Spelling Bee: Wendy Guey wins spelling vivisepulture
1996 - John Tesh's final day as host of "Entertainment Tonight"
1996 - Albert Belle uses a forearm to break up a double play & nearly breaks Brewer 2nd baseman
           Fernando Vina's nose, Belle gets 2 game suspension
1997 - Betty Shabazz, widow of Malcolm X, set afire by 12 year old grandson
1997 - Ken Dryden becomes president of NHL's Toronto Maple Leafs
1998 - A magnitude 6.6 earthquake hits northern Afghanistan, killing up to 5,000.
2012 - A number of nations including Germany, Turkey and Canada, expel Syrian diplomats following
           the Houla massacre
2012 - Vishwanathan Anand wins his fifth World Chess Championship

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 30, 2013, 01:12:55 PM

This Day in History for 30th May


Famous Weddings

1536 - English king Henry VIII marries Jane Seymour, his 3rd wife
1992 - Paul Simon weds Edie Brickell
1998 - Nephew of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands Prince Maurits of Orange-Nassau, van
           Vollenhoven (30) weds to commoner Marilene van den Broek (28) in Apeldoorn
1999 - "The Goodbye Girl" actor Richard Dreyfuss (51) weds accountant Janelle Lacey in Los Angeles
2008 - Film actor Charlie Sheen (42) weds socialite Brooke Mueller (30) at a private estate in Los
           Angeles, California

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 30, 2013, 01:19:40 PM

This Day in History for 30th May


Famous Birthdays

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Key Figure of Medieval Rus                     Guitarist Tom Morello (1964) 
Alexander Nevsky (1220)


1010 - Emperor Renzong of China (d. 1063)
1220 - Alexander Nevsky, Pereslavl-Zalessky, Vladimir-Suzdal, Prince of Novgorod and Grand Prince
           of Vladimir, considered the key figure in medieval Rus (1252-63)
1423 - Georg Purbach, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1461)
1524 - Selam II Sari, the blonde, sultan of Turkey (1566-74)
1578 - Valentin Dretzel, composer
1623 - Wallerand Vaillant, painter/engraver, baptized
1623 - John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, English politician (d. 1686)
1653 - Claudia Felicitas of Austria, Empress consort of Germany (d. 1676)
1713 - Princess Caroline Elizabeth of Great Britain (d. 1757)
1718 - Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire, English politician (d. 1793)
1719 - Roger Newdigate, English politician (d. 1806)
1757 - Henry Addington, Viscount Sidmouth (C), British PM (1801-04)
1797 - Johann Christian Lobe, composer
1800 - Karl W Feuerbach, German mathematician (Position of Feuerbach)
1808 - Joaquim Casimiro Jr, composer
1812 - John Alexander McClernand, Major General (Union volunteers)
1814 - Eugène Charles Catalan, Belgian mathematician (d. 1894)
1819 - William McMurdo, British army officer (d. 1894)
1820 - Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau, French Canadian politician (d. 1890)
1829 - Levin Goldschmidt, German business law expert
1830 - Edward Winslow Hinks, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1832 - George Doherty Johnston, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1835 - Alfred Austin, Leeds England, poet laureate of England (Garden)
1844 - Louis Varney, composer
1845 - Amadeus/Amadeo I, duke of Aosta and King of Spain (1870-73)
1846 - Peter Carl Fabergé, Russian goldsmith and jeweler (d. 1920)
1847 - Alice Sophia Stopford Green, Ireland, proponent of Irish independence
1853 - Andries Andre, Dutch actor/husband of Geertruida Meeuwissen
1853 - Karl Fritjof Valentin, composer
1858 - Siegfried Alkan, German composer (d. 1941)
1859 - Pierre Marie Felix Janet, France, psychologist/neurologist
1867 - Arthur Vining Davis, Sharon Mass, CEO (Alcoa-1910-57)
1871 - Olga Engl, Austrian actress (d. 1946)
1875 - Giovanni Gentile, Italian philosopher (d. 1944)
1878 - Mike Donlin, American baseball player (d. 1933)
1879 - Colin Blythe, cricketer (outstanding English slow lefty pre-WW I)
1881 - Georg von Küchler, German field marshal (d. 1968)
1882 - Wyndham Halswelle, Scottish runner (d. 1915)
1883 - Riccardo Zandonai, composer
1886 - Randolph Bourne, American writer (d. 1918)
1887 - Alexander Archipenko, Ukraine sculptor/lithographer
1887 - Gino Tagliapietra, composer
1888 - James A Farley, postmaster general (1932-38)
1891 - Iman J van den Bosch, Belgian resistance fighter
1892 - Fernando Amorsolo, Filipino painter (d. 1972)
1894 - Hubertus J van Mook, Dutch minister of Colonies (1942-45)
1895 - Maurice Tate, cricketer (great England pace bowler of 20's)
1896 - Howard Hawks, Goshen Ind, director/producer (Rio Bravo, Scarface)
1901 - Cornelia Otis Skinner, Chic, writer (When Our Hearts Were Young & Gay)
1902 - Seton Howard Frederick Lloyd, archaeologist
1902 - Stepin Fetchit, [Lincoln Perry], Fla, actor (Miracle in Harlem)
1903 - Countee Cullen, Balt Md, poet (Black Christ & Other Poems)
1903 - Ray Howard-Jones, artist
1904 - Ernesto de la Guardia Jr, President of Panama (1956-60)
1906 - Bruno Gröning, German faith healer (d. 1959)
1907 - Elly Beinhorn, German pilot (d. 2007)
1907 - Germaine Tillion, French anthropologist, member of French Resistance (d. 2008)
1908 - Mel[vin J] Blanc, voice (Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd & Porky Pig)
1909 - Benny Goodman, Chicago, clarinetist/bandleader (King of Swing)
1909 - George Headley, cricketer (in Panama All-time great WI batsman)
1910 - Ralph Metcalfe, American athlete (d. 1978)
1910 - Inge Meysel, German actress (d. 2004)
1911 - Douglas Fowley, NYC, actor (Grandpa-Pistols 'n' Petticoats)
1912 - Alexander Langsdorf, physicist
1912 - Hugh Griffith, Wales, actor (Ben Hur, Mutiny on the Bounty, Oliver!)
1912 - Joseph Stein, dramatist/playwright (Fiddler on the Roof)
1912 - Julian Gustave Symons, writer
1913 - Cedric Thorpe Davie, composer
1914 - Bobby Sherwood, Indianapolis Ind, orchestra leader (Milton Berle Show)
1915 - Jerome Bert Weisner, military scientist/disarmer
1916 - Joseph W Kennedy, scientist (1 of 4 discoverers of plutonium)
1918 - Guadalupe "Pita" Amor, Mexican poet (d. 2000)
1918 - Bob Evans, American restaurateur (d. 2007)
1919 - René Barrientos, President of Bolivia (d. 1969)
1920 - John Heawood, actor/singer/choreographer (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang)
1922 - Harry Clement Stubbs, US, sci-fi author (Needle, Iceworld)
1922 - Hal Clement, American writer (d. 2003)
1923 - Jimmy Lydon, Harrington Pk NJ, actor (Richard-Love That Jill)
1924 - Norbert Schemansky, USA, middle heavyweight (Olympic-gold-1952)
1925 - Claude Prey, composer
1925 - Eddy Bruma, Suriname politician
1925 - Gerard John Toorenaar, political commissar in Amsterdam (1975-79)
1926 - Christine Jorgensen, pioneer transsexual
1926 - Edouard Van Remoortel, Brussels, conductor (1958-62 St Louis Symph)
1926 - James Whitman McLamore, businessman
1927 - Clint Walker, Hartford Ill, actor (Kodiak, Cheyenne, Dirty Dozen)
1927 - Dick Noel, Bkln NY, TV host (It's a Small Wonder)
1927 - Evelyn Wesler Zemel, US, author (American Glass Animals)
1928 - John Keith Wright, English economist/asst sect of state (1971-84)
1928 - Agnès Varda, French director
1928 - Pro Hart, Australian artist (d. 2006)
1928 - Gustav Leonhardt, Master Dutch Harpsichordist, organist and conductor
1929 - Michael Mellinger, Bavaria, actor (Goldfinger)
1930 - Mark Birley, British nightclub owner (d. 2007)
1930 - Robert Ryman, American painter
1932 - Pauline Oliveros, Houston Texas, composer (Sound Patterns)
1932 - Seppo Antero Yrjonpoika Nummi, composer
1934 - Alexei A Leonov, Siberia USSR, cosmonaut (Voskhod II, Soyuz 19)
1934 - Alketas Panagoulias, Greek footballer and coach, (d. 2012)
1936 - Galina Shostakovitch, daughter of Russian composer Dmitri
1936 - Keir Dullea, Cleveland OH, actor (2001, 2010, David & Lisa)
1936 - Roy Harford, cricketer (brother of Noel NZ wicketkeeper v India 1968)
1936 - Ruta Lee, actress (Operation Eichmann, Marjorie Morningstar)
1937 - Arthur C Jacobs, poet
1937 - Harry Statham, American basketball coach
1938 - Wilfried A de Pree, Dutch MP (PvdA)/theologist
1939 - Michael J Pollard, Passaic NJ, actor (Bonny & Clyde, Roxanne)
1939 - Dieter Quester, Austrian racing driver
1940 - David Ackroyd, Orange NJ, actor (I Come in Peace, Memories of Me)
1942 - Dan Miller, (Rep-R-Florida)
1942 - Lenny Davidson, London, rock guitarist (Dave Clark 5-Glad All Over)
1943 - Gale Sayers, NFL running back (Chicago Bears)
1944 - Larry Davidson, rocker (Dave Clark 5-Glad All Over)
1945 - Meredith MacRae, Houston Tx, actress (Petticoat Junction, My 3 Sons)
1945 - Norman Eshley, English actor
1946 - Candy Lightner, political activist/founder (MADD)
1947 - Jocelyne Bourassa, LPGA golfer
1948 - Michael Piller, American screenwriter (d. 2005)
1949 - Bob Willis, cricketer (superb England fast bowler 1971-84)
1949 - P.J. Carlesimo, American basketball coach
1950 - Bertrand Delanoë, French politician
1950 - Paresh Rawal, Indian actor
1951 - Stephen Tobolowsky, Tx, actor (Single White Female, Thelma & Louise)
1951 - Fernando Lugo, Paraguayan politician
1951 - Zdravko Čolić, Yugoslav-Bosnian singer
1952 - Zoltan Kocsis, composer
1953 - Colm Meaney, actor (Star Trek Deep Space 9)
1955 - Nicky "Topper" Headon, English drummer (Clash-Complete Control)
1955 - Jake "The Snake" Roberts, American wrestler
1956 - Jonathan Idema, Poughkeepsie, New York, torturer, kidnapper and con artist (d. 2012)
1957 - Allison Roe, Auckland NZ, marathoner (NYC-1981)
1957 - Chris Van Jaarsveld, guitarist (Sleeze Beez)
1957 - Michael Clayton, Melbourne VIC, Australasia golfer
1958 - Marie Fredriksson, Ostra-Lj Swed, singer (Roxette-Must Have Been Love)
1958 - Michael E Lopez-Alegria, Madrid Spain, Lt Cmdr/astro (STS 73, sk 92)
1958 - Ted McGinley, Newport Beach California, actor (Love Boat, MWC, Dynasty)
1958 - Steve Israel, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (D-
           New York)
1959 - Frank Vanhecke, Belgian politician
1960 - Stephen "Tea Tower" Duffy, rocker (Lilac Time-Paradise Song)
1961 - Ella Arolovich, Leningrad USSR, model
1961 - Ralph Carter, NYC, actor (Michael Evans-Good Times)
1961 - Trey Parker, rapper/actor (Newsies, Hull High)
1962 - Jan Gunnarsson, Sweden, tennis star
1962 - John Alt, NFL tackle (KC Chiefs)
1962 - Tonya Pinkins, Chicago Ill, actress (Livia Frye-All My Children)
1962 - Kevin Eastman, American comic book creator
1963 - Helen Patricia Sharman, Great Britain, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-12)
1963 - Lynda Wiesmeier, Washington DC, playmate (Jul, 1982)
1964 - Nhi Lan Le, Vietnam, US fencer-foil (Olympics-96)
1964 - Wynonna, [Christina Judd], Ashland Ky, singer (Judds-Why Not Me)
1964 - Tom Morello, American guitarist (Audioslave, Rage Against the Machine)
1964 - Andrea Montermini, Italian racing driver
1965 - Tammy Parks, Rockville Centre NY, actress (Attack of 60' Centerfold)
1965 - Tyronne Stowe, NFL linebacker (Seattle Seahawks)
1966 - Gary Martin, cricket pace bowler (Zimbabwe ODI)
1966 - Stephen Malkmus, American musician (Pavement)
1967 - Rechelle Hawkes, Albany W Aust, field hockey midfielder (Olympics-96)
1968 - Amy Fuller, Westlake California, rower (Olympics-4th-92, 96)
1968 - Jerry Springer, White Plains NY, Canadian Tour golfer
1968 - Tim Burgess, English rock vocalist (Charlatans-Only One I Know)
1968 - Zacarias Moussaoui, French citizen found guilty relating to September 11, 2001 attacks
1968 - Kelley Armstrong, Novelist
1970 - Audrey Wooding, LPGA golfer
1970 - Sam Rogers, NFL linebacker (Buffalo Bills)
1970 - Ness Wadia, Indian industrialist
1971 - Drahomir Kadlec, Pribham CZE, hockey defenseman (Team Czech Rep)
1971 - Jiri Slegr, Jihlava Cze, NHL defenseman (Edmonton Oilers, Oly-G-98)
1971 - Kyle Vander Kuyp, Australian 110m hurdler (Olympics-96)
1971 - Idina Menzel, American actress and singer
1972 - Allen Aldridge, NFL linebacker (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1972 - Anthony Cook, NFL defensive end/defensive tackle (Tenn Oilers)
1972 - Jeff Jones, NFL tackle (Detroit Lions)
1972 - Manny Ramirez, Santo Domingo Dom Rep, outfielder (Cleveland Indians)
1972 - Renita Farrell, Townsville Qld Aust, field hockey midfielder (Oly-96)
1972 - Terry Wilburn, WLAF running back (Barcelona Dragons)
1972 - Soichiro Hoshi, Japanese seiyuu
1973 - Christine Pavone, Miss USA-Connecticut (1997)
1973 - Je'Rod Cherry, safety (New Orleans Saints)
1973 - Jennifer Darst, Dallas Texas, pairs skater (& Arthur Reid)
1973 - Steve Charbonneau, CFL defensive linebacker (Montreal Alouettes)
1973 - Leigh Francis, British comedian
1974 - David Wilkie, Ellensburg, NHL defenseman (Montreal Canadiens)
1974 - Konstantinos Chalkias, Greek footballer
1974 - Cee-Lo, American musician
1974 - Big L, American rapper (d. 1999)
1975 - Andrew Farrell, English rugby league and union footballer
1976 - Omri Hairi Katz, LA California, actor (Marshall Teller-Eerie Indiana)
1976 - Magnus Norman, Swedish tennis player
1977 - Akwá, Angolan footballer
1977 - Rachael Stirling, British actress
1978 - Krassmira Todorava, Miss Bulgaria Universe (1997)
1978 - Lyoto Machida, Brazilian mixed martial artist
1979 - Mike Bishai, Canadian ice hockey player
1979 - Kugimiya Rie, Japanese seiyuu (voice actress)
1980 - Steven Gerrard, English footballer
1981 - Andrey Arshavin, Russian Footballer
1981 - Gianmaria Bruni, Italian racing driver
1981 - Devendra Banhart, American singer and songwriter
1981 - Blake Bashoff, American actor
1981 - Ahmad Elrich, Australian footballer
1982 - Eddie Griffin, American basketball player (d. 2007)
1984 - Matt Maguire, Australian rules footballer
1984 - Jordan Palmer, American football player
1986 - Ashley Slaney, daughter of Olympians Mary Decker & Richard Slaney
1989 - Kevin Covais, American singer
1990 - Dean Collins, American actor

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 30, 2013, 01:33:49 PM

This Day in History for 30th May


Famous Deaths

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Poet Alexander Pope (1744)                          The Gray Ghost John                         Novelist & Poet Boris
                                                                   Singleton Mosby (1916)                         Pasternak (1960)


727 - Hubertus, bishop of Tongeren-Maastricht/saint, dies at about 72
1035 - Boudouin IV, count of Flanders (988-1035), dies
1159 - Wladislaus II the Exile of Poland (b. 1105)
1252 - Ferdinand III the holy, King of Castile/Leon, dies
1416 - Jerome of Prague, Czech radical Christian teacher burned at the stake for heresy by church
           Council of Constance
1431 - Joan of Arc, French heroine and saint (b. 1412)
1434 - Prokop the Great, Hussite general
1469 - Lope de Barrientos, Spanish bishop
1574 - Charles IX, King of France (1560-74), dies
1576 - Harada Naomasa, Japanese retainer and samurai
1593 - Christopher Marlowe, Brit dramatist (Tamburlaine the Great), murdered
1640 - Andre Duchesne, French historian/genealogy, dies
1640 - Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter, dies at 62
1696 - Henry Capell, 1st Baron Capell, First Lord of the British Admiralty (b. 1638)
1718 - Arnold J van Keppel, earl of Albemarle/general, dies at about 48
1718 - Bernard Nieuwentyt, physician/theologist, dies at 63
1730 - Arabella Churchill, English mistress of James II of England (b. 1648)
1744 - Alexander Pope, English poet (Eloisa to Abelard), dies at 56
1746 - Giovanni Antonio Pollarolo, composer, dies at 69
1770 - François Boucher, French painter (b. 1703)
1778 - Voltaire, [Francois-Marie Arouet], French writer (Candide), dies at 42
1791 - Ildephons Haas, composer, dies at 56
1797 - Carl Ludwig Junker, composer, dies at 48
1809 - Johan B Scheffer, portrait painter, dies at about 43
1833 - Josef Slavik, composer, dies at 27
1840 - Dominique J de Eerens, gov-gen of Dutch-Indies, dies at 59
1864 - James Barbour Terrill, US attorney/Confederate brig-gen, dies at 26
1865 - William Clarke Quantrill, criminal/Confederate bushwhacker, dies at 27
1870 - Gustave Vogt, composer, dies at 89
1901 - Victor D'Hondt, Belgian mathematician (b. 1841)
1906 - William Yeates Hurlstone, composer, dies at 30
1912 - Wilbur Wright, US aviation pioneer, dies
1916 - John Singleton Mosby, American Confederate officer, dies at 82
1918 - Georgi V Plechanov, Russian revolutionary theorist, dies
1919 - Lord John WS Raleigh, British physicist (Nobel 1904), dies
1922 - David Mendes Chumaceiro, Curacaos poet (Adelfas), dies at 45
1923 - Camille Chevillard, composer, dies at 63
1923 - Charles Fichardt, cricketer (S Afr batsman in 2 Tests 1892-96), dies
1925 - Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, German historian (b. 1876)
1926 - Vladimir Steklov, Russian physicist (b. 1864)
1934 - Togo Heihachiro, Japanese admiral (b. 1848)
1935 - Lothar Windsperger, composer, dies at 49
1938 - Raden Sutomo, Indonesian freedom fighter, dies at 49
1939 - Floyd Roberts, Auto racer, killed during 1939 Indianapolis 500 (b. 1904)
1940 - Y de Smit-Rog, eldest Dutchman, dies at 104
1941 - Prajadhipok, Rama VII, king of Thailand (b. 1893)
1944 - Jessie Ralph, actress (Good Earth, San Francisco), dies at 79
1945 - Irma Laplasse, Flemish farmer/nazi collaborator, executed
1946 - Louis Slotin, Canadian Scientist at Los Alamos (b. 1910)
1947 - Sidney Hugo Nicholson, composer, dies at 72
1947 - Georg Ritter von Trapp, World War I Austrian submarine commander (b. 1880)
1951 - Hermann Broch, writer, dies at 64
1953 - George Barnes, cinematographer, dies at 60
1953 - Dooley Wilson, American musician and actor (b. 1886)
1954 - Ahmad Amin, Egyptian historian/author, dies at 67
1957 - Toivo R Pekkanen, Finnish writer (Black Ecstacy), dies
1959 - Thomas Carl Whitmer, composer, dies at 85
1960 - Boris Pasternak, Russian poet (Dr Zhivago), dies at 70
1961 - Rafael L Trujillo Molina, dictator Dom Rep (1930-61), murdered at 69
1964 - Leo Szilard, Hungarians/US nuclear physicst, dies at 66
1964 - Eddie Sachs, American auto racer (b. 1927)
1964 - Dave MacDonald, American auto racer (b. 1936)
1967 - Claude Rains, actor (Invisible Man), dies at 77
1969 - Gaston Brenta, composer, dies at 66
1969 - John Cipollini, guitarist, dies of ephysema at 45
1971 - Audie Murphy, most decorated American WW II hero/actor (Sierra), killed in plane crash at 46
1971 - Rodd Redwing, actor (Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory), dies at 66
1971 - Marcel Dupré, French organist and composer (b. 1886)
1972 - Margaret Ruthven Lang, composer, dies at 104
1973 - Hal Hastings, orchestra leader (Chevrolet on Broadway), dies at 66
1975 - Michel Simon, actor (Panic, Plague, Two of Us), dies at 80
1975 - Tatsuo Shimabuku, Japanese martial artist (b. 1908)
1976 - Max Carey, American baseball player (b. 1890)
1977 - Claire Goll, writer, dies at 86
1977 - Paul Desmond, US jazz saxophonist, dies at 52
1979 - Jack Raine, actor (Quartet), dies at 82
1980 - Carl Radle, bassist (Derek & Dominoes), dies of a kidney ailment
1981 - Ziaur Rahmen, pres of Bangladesh, is assassinated
1981 - Don Ashby, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1955)
1983 - Alfred M Gruenther, US general/NATO-commander (1953-56), dies at 84
1986 - Hank Mobley, US jazz saxophonist, dies at 55
1987 - Frank Carlson, (Gov/Rep/Sen-R-Ks), dies at 94
1987 - Turk Murphy, jazz trombonist, dies at 71
1988 - Ella Raines, actress (Uncle Harry, Runaround, Impact), dies at 66
1989 - Zinka Milanov, Met Opera Diva, dies of a stroke at 83
1991 - Manolo Gomez Bur, Spanish comedian dies at 74
1992 - Daniel Addes, actor (Victor-Sunst Grill), dies at 59
1992 - Karl Carstens, president German FR (1979-84), dies at 77
1992 - Leen 't Hart, organist/composer, dies at 72
1993 - Herman S Blount, Sun Ra, US jazz pianist (Solar Arkestra), dies at 79
1993 - Sun Ra, blues pianist/orchestra leader, dies of strokes at 79
1994 - Baron Marcel Bich, inventor (Bic Pen), dies at 79
1994 - Ezra Taft Benson, 13th head of Mormon Church, dies at 94
1994 - Jean Gattegno, translator/scholar, dies at 58
1994 - Juan Carlos Onetti, Uruguayan writer (La vida breve), dies at 85
1994 - Marcel Bich, Italian/French baron/pen manufacturer (Bic), dies at 79
1994 - Agostino Di Bartolomei, Italian footballer (b. 1955)
1995 - Bobby Stokes, soccer star, dies at 44
1995 - Philip Owen A Sherrard, scholar theologian poet/translator, dies at 72
1995 - Ted Drake, soccer star, dies at 82
1995 - Thomas Dorrington Tomlinson, Brit national park warden, dies at 87
1995 - Lofty England, English automotive engineer and race team manager (b.1911)
1996 - Bob Stroup, trombonist, dies at 57
1996 - John Cameron, judge, dies at 96
1996 - John Kahn, bassist, dies at 47
1996 - Leon-Etienne Duval, archbishop/cardinal, dies at 92
2000 - Tex Beneke, American bandleader and musician (b. 1914)
2000 - Doris Hare, Welsh actress (b. 1905)
2003 - Mickie Most, English record producer (b. 1938)
2005 - Fazal Mahmood, Pakistani cricketer (b. 1927)
2005 - Tomasz Pacyński, Polish writer (b. 1958)
2006 - Shohei Imamura, Japanese film director (b. 1926)
2006 - Robert Sterling, American actor (b. 1917)
2006 - David Lloyd, New Zealand biologist (b. 1938)
2007 - Jean-Claude Brialy, French actor and author (b. 1933)
2008 - Lorenzo Odone, American medical figure (b. 1978)
2009 - Torsten Andersson, Swedish painter (b. 1926)
2010 - Duff Roblin, Canadian politician (b. 1917).
2011 - Clarice Taylor, American actress (b. 1917)
2012 - Andrew Huxley, British physiologist and Nobel laureate, dies at 94
2012 - Jack Twyman, American Hall of Fame basketball player, dies from complications from blood
           cancer at 78

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 31, 2013, 07:22:18 AM

This Day in History for 31st May


Historical Events

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Statesman/Philosopher                            Baseball Great Babe Ruth                      British war time Prime Minister
Francis Bacon                                                                                                               Winston Churchill

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French President                                 Singer-Songwriter Stevie Wonder                  Comedian Jerry Seinfeld
Charles de Gaulle   


1279 BC - Rameses II (The Great) (19th dynasty) becomes pharaoh of Ancient Egypt.
70 - Rome captures 1st wall of the city of Jerusalem
1223 - Mongol invasion of the Cumans: Battle of the Kalka River - Mongol armies of Genghis Khan
           lead by Subutai defeat Kievan Rus and Cumans.
1417 - Jacoba van Bavarian becomes countess of Holland/Zealand/Henegouwen
1495 - Emperor Maximilian, Pope Alexander VI, Milan, King Ferdinand, Isabella & Venice sign anti-
           French Saint League
1531 - "Women's Revolt" in Amsterdam: wool house in churchyard aborted
1564 - Battle on Gotland: Lubeck & Denmark beat Sweden
1578 - Martin Frobisher sails from Harwich, England to Frobisher Bay, Canada, eventually to mine
           fool's gold, used to pave streets in London.
1621 - Sir Francis Bacon thrown into Tower of London for 1 night
1634 - US colony Massachusetts Bay annexes Maine colony
1659 - Netherlands, England & France sign Treaty of The Hague
1665 - Jerusalem's rabbi Sjabtai Tswi proclaims himself Messiah
1669 - Citing poor eyesight, Samuel Pepys records the last event in his diary.
1696 - John Salomonsz elected chief of Saint-Eustatius
1727 - France, England & Netherlands sign accord of Paris
1744 - French troops conquer Kortrijk
1759 - The Province of Pennsylvania bans all theater productions.
1790 - US copyright law enacted
1790 - Alferez Manuel Quimper explores the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
1813 - In Australia, Lawson, Blaxland and Wentworth, reached Mount Blaxland, effectively marking
           the end of a route across the Blue Mountains.
1821 - Cathedral of Assumption of Blessed Virgin Mary, 1st US Catholic cathedral, is dedicated in
           Baltimore
1836 - HMS Beagle anchors in Simons Bay, Cape of Good Hope
1837 - Astor Hotel opens in NYC, it later becomes the Waldorf-Astoria
1847 - Rotterdam-Hague Railway opens
1849 - Last edition of Orange sheet "Journal de La Haye"
1853 - Elisha Kane's Arctic expedition leaves NY aboard Advance
1859 - Phila A's organize to play "town ball" became baseball 20 years later
1861 - Gen Beauregard is given command of Confederate Alexandria Line
1861 - Mint at New Orleans closes
1862 - Battle of Seven Pines VA (Fair Oaks)
1864 - Raid at Morgan's Kentucky
1868 - 1st Memorial Day parade held in Ironton, Ohio
1868 - Dr James Moore (UK) wins 1st recorded bicycle race, (2k) velocipede race at Parc fde St Cloud,
           Paris
1870 - Congress passes 1st Enforcement Act (rights of blacks)
1870 - E J DeSemdt patents asphalt pavement
1875 - Reciprocity Treaty between US & Hawaii ratified
1878 - German battleship Grosser Kurfurst sinks, 284 killed
1878 - US Congress accept decrease in dollar circulation
1879 - 1st electric railway opens at Berlin Trades Exposition
1879 - Madison Square Garden opens
1880 - League of American Wheelmen (1st US bicycle association), forms in Newport RI
1883 - French fleet under Pierre begins siege of Tamatave, Madagascar
1884 - Dr John Harvey Kellogg patents "flaked cereal"
1889 - Johnstown Flood; 2,209 die in Penn
1891 - Work on trans-Siberian railway begins
1893 - Whitcomb Judson, Chicago, patents a hookless fastening (zipper)
1899 - -June 5] Conference of Bloemfontein fails
1899 - Bronx acquires Keltch Memorial Park
1900 - British troops under Lord Roberts occupy Johannesburg
1900 - Piet de Law captures Lt-Col Spragges Irish Yeomanry
1900 - Tom Hayward scores 1,000th cricket run of season (sets record 1074)
1900 - US troops arrive in Beijing, help put down Boxer Rebellion
1902 - Australia Cricket all out 36 v England, Edgbaston, their lowest ever
1902 - Boer War Ends; Treaty of Unity signed, Britain annexes Transvaal
1905 - Emperor Wilhelm II lands in Tanger
1906 - Attack on King Alfonso XIII & Victoria von Battenberg in Madrid
1907 - Taxis 1st began running in NYC
1908 - Miss Pottelsberghe de la Pottery is 1st airplane passenger (Belgium)
1909 - 1st NAACP conference (United Charities Building, NYC)
1910 - Cape of Good Hope becomes part of Union of South Africa
1910 - Glenn Curtiss flies from Albany to NYC
1910 - Union of South Africa declares independence from UK
1911 - R.M.S. Titanic launched.
1912 - US marines land on Cuba
1913 - 17th amendment (direct election of senators) declared ratified
1913 - Alexis Ahlgren runs world record maraton (2:36:06.6)
1914 - Chic White Sox Joe Benz no-hits Cleve Indians, 6-1
1915 - An LZ-38 Zeppelin makes an air raid on London
1916 - Battle of Skagerrak: Brit-German sea battle at Jutland (10,000 dead)
1916 - British battle cruiser Invincible explodes, killing all but 6
1917 - 1st jazz record released (Dark Town Strutters Ball)
1919 - NC-4 aircraft commanded by AC Read completes 1st crossing of Atlantic
1921 - Suffy McInnis (1st base) begins an errorless string of 1,700
1923 - China & USSR exchange diplomats
1926 - Portuguese president Bernardino Machedo resigns after coup
1926 - Sesquicentennial Exposition opens in Philadelphia
1927 - Ford Motor Company produces last "Tin Lizzie" (begins Model A)
1927 - Tiger 1st baseman Johnny Neun makes an unassisted triple play
1928 - 1st aerial cross of Pacific takes off from Oakland
1928 - Charlie Hallows scores his 1,000th run of Cricket season
1929 - Atlantic City Convention Center opens
1930 - Bradman gets his 1,000th run of the English Cricket season
1930 - Building begins on Albert Canal in Belgium
1930 - Comet 73P/1930 (Schwassmann-Wachmann 3) approaches 0.0617 AUs of Earth
1931 - 7.1 magnitude Earthquake destroys Quetta in modern-day Pakistan: 40,000 dead.
1935 - Babe Ruth grounds out in his final at bat
1935 - Quake kills 50,000 in Quetta Pakistan
1937 - 1st quadruplets to finish college (Baylor University)
1937 - Bkln Dodgers snap NY Giant Carl Hubbell's 24-game winning streak
1937 - German battleships bomb Almeria Spain
1938 - Bill Edrich scores his 1,000th run of cricket season, all at Lord's
1940 - Gen-major Bernard Montgomery leaves Duinkerken
1940 - Premier Winston Churchill flies to Paris to meet with Marshal August Pétain who announces he
           is willing to make a seperate peace with Germany
1941 - -June 1) 32.0 cm rain falls on Burlington Kansas (state record)
1941 - 1st issue of "Parade" goes on sale
1941 - 41 U boats sunk this month (325,000 ton)
1941 - British troops vacate Kreta
1941 - German occupiers forbids Jews access to beach & swimming pools
1941 - A Luftwaffe air raid in Dublin, Ireland claims 38 lives.
1942 - 25th PGA Championship: Sam Snead at Seaview CC Atlantic City NJ
1942 - Luftwaffe bombs Canterbury
1943 - "Archie" comic strip 1st broadcast on radio
1943 - Cards Mort Cooper pitches 1st of back-to-back one-hitters
1944 - Allied breakthrough in Italy
1947 - 79th Belmont: Ruperto Donoso aboard Phalanx wins in 2:29.6
1947 - Communists grab power in Hungary
1947 - Eastern DC-4 crashes between Ft Deposit & Perryville Md, kills 53
1947 - Italian government of Gasperi forms
1948 - Tommy Lasorda strikes out 25 Amsterdam Rugmakers (in 15 innings)
1949 - 31st PGA Championship: Sam Snead at Hermitage CC Richmond VA
1949 - Charley Lupica begins stay on 4 foot square platform atop a 60' pole, vowing to stay until
           Indians clinch pennant. (They don't, & stays 117 days)
1950 - Due to rain, Indy 500 shortened to 345 miles, Johnny Parson wins
1950 - Laker takes 14-12-2-8 in Test Cricket trial
1951 - Neth & South Africa sign cultural accord
1953 - Lebanese president Camille Shamun disbands government
1953 - WSUN TV channel 38 in St Petersburg-Tampa, FL (IND) 1st broadcast
1955 - Construction begins on Soviet cosmodrome launch facilities
1955 - Great Britain proclaims emergency crisis due to railroad strike
1955 - Supreme Court orders school integration "with all deliberate speed"
1956 - Mickey Mantle HR just misses clearing Yankee Stadium's roof
1957 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Christmas Island (atmospheric)
1958 - Dick Dale invents "surf music" with "Let's Go Trippin"
1958 - US performs nuclear test at Bikini Island (atmospheric tests)
1959 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Cavalier Golf Open
1961 - Benfica wins 6th Europe Cup 1 at Bern
1961 - Chuck Berry's amusement park, Berryland in St Louis, opens
1961 - JFK visits Charles de Gaulle in Paris
1961 - Judge Irving Kaufman orders Board of Ed of New Rochelle, to integrate
1961 - Union of South Africa becomes a republic, leaves Commonwealth
1962 - "Tell It To Groucho" last airs on CBS-TV
1962 - The West Indies Federation dissolves.
1964 - Charles Schmid kills first Pied Piper victim
1964 - Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
1964 - SF Giants beat NY Mets, 8-6, in 23 innings (2nd game) (7 hrs 32 mins)
1965 - Jim Clark becomes 1st foreigner in 49 years to win Indy
1967 - Bayern Munchen wins 7th Europe Cup II at Neurenberg
1969 - "Dear World" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 132 perfs
1969 - "Gitarzan" by Ray Stevens peaks at #8
1969 - John Lennon & Yoko Ono record "Give Peace a Chance"
1969 - Stevie Wonder releases "My Cherie Amore"
1970 - At 03:23 PM, Yungay Peru levelled by 7.75 earthquake (50-70,000 die)
1970 - KDUB TV channel 40 in Dubuque, IA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1970 - Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA O'Sullivan Ladies' Golf Open
1971 - WDXR (now WKPD) TV channel 29 in Paducah, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1972 - Ajax wins Europe Cup 1 in Rotterdam
1973 - Glenn Turner scores his 1,000th cricket run of English season
1974 - Israel & Syria sign an agreement concerning Golan Heights
1974 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1975 - "Goodtime Charley" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 104 performances
1975 - Fred Newman makes 12,874 baskets in a one-day exhibition
1976 - Loudest PA (76 KW) for Who's Quadrophenia in London
1977 - "Beatlemania" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 920 performances
1977 - Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani becomes heir apparent to throne of Qatar
1977 - Trans Alaska oil pipeline completed
1979 - "I Remember Mama" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 108 performances
1979 - Radio City Music Hall (NYC) reopens
1979 - Zimbabwe proclaims independence
1980 - "Love Stinks" by J Geils Band peaks at #38
1980 - Police & youthful rebels battle in Zurich
1981 - Cathy Reynolds wins LPGA Golden Lights Golf Championship
1982 - "Best Little Whorehouse in Tx" opens at Eugene O'Neill NYC for 63 perf
1983 - 37th NBA Championship: Phila 76ers sweep LA Lakers in 4 games
1984 - 57th National Spelling Bee: Daniel Greenblatt wins spelling luge
1984 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1984 - Viv Richards hits 189* (170 balls) v England, ODI cricket record
1985 - 41 tornadoes hit Northeast US, killing 88
1985 - Guatemala adopts constitution
1985 - New Orleans Saints are sold for $70,204,000
1985 - Tornados in Penn, Ohio, NY & Canada kill 88 & injured more than 1,000
1985 - 1985 United States-Canadian tornado outbreak: Forty-one tornadoes hit Ohio, Pennsylvania,
           New York, and Ontario, leaving 76 dead.
1985 - Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) became a Schedule I drug in the United States.
1987 - Cindy Rarick wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
1987 - Saul Ballesteros drives 3 golf balls off Mt McKinley, Alaska
1987 - Stanley Cup: Edmonton Oilers beat Phila Flyers, 4 games to 3
1989 - "Rambling with Gambling" 20,000th radio program on WOR-AM (NYC)
1989 - 1st International Rock Awards
1989 - 1st presentation of rock n roll Elvis awards
1989 - Speaker of House Jim Wright resigns
1990 - 63rd National Spelling Bee: Amy Marie Dimak wins spelling fibranne
1990 - BPAA US Women's Bowling Open won by Dana Miller-Mackie
1990 - NYC's Zodiac killer shoots 3rd victim, Joseph Ponce
1990 - Seinfeld starring Jerry Seinfeld, debuts on NBC as Seinfeld Chronicles
1991 - Sides in Angola sign a treaty ending 16 year civil war
1992 - 46th Tony Awards: Dancing at Lughnasa & Crazy For You win
1992 - 5th Children's Miracle Network Telethon raises $1,060,000
1992 - Barb Mucha wins LPGA Oldsmobile Golf Classic
1993 - President Dobrica Cosic of little Yugoslavia flees
1994 - Padres scores 13 in 2nd vs Pirates
1996 - Mark Van Thillo & Abigail Alling, former biospherian win $100,000 lawsuit against Biospheric
           Development for Space Biospheres Ventures
1997 - "Once Upon a Matress," closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 187 perf
1997 - Donovan Bailey beats Michael Johnson in 150m race
1997 - The Confederation Bridge opens, linking Prince Edward Island with mainland New Brunswick.
2002 - The New Jersey Nets defeat the Boston Celtics 96-88 in Game 6 of the NBA's Eastern
           Conference Championship, winning the series 4 games to 2 to advance to their first NBA
           Finals appearance.
2008 - Usain Bolt breaks the world record in the 100m sprint, with a wind-legal (+1.7m/s) 9.72
           seconds.
2010 - Shayetet 13 soldiers tried to stop the flotilla that wanted to break the blockade on Gaza
           Strip. During the boarding on the MV Mavi Marmara ship, a violent confrontation had started.
           It caused the death of 9 activists who were on board, and several more injured activists.
           Moreover, several israeli soldiers were injured.
2012 - Egypt formally ends its 31 year state of emergency

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 31, 2013, 07:24:05 AM

This Day in History for 31st May


Famous Weddings

1919 - 1st wedding held in an aircraft (over Houston, Texas)
1991 - Oldest bride - Minnie Munro, 102, weds Dudley Reid, 83, in Australia
2002 - "NYPD Blue" actress Sharon Lawrence (30) weds doctor Thomas Apostle at Saint Sophia
           Cathedral in Los Angeles
2008 - "Law & Order" actress Alana De La Garza (31) weds writer Michael Roberts in Orlando, Orange
          County, Florida

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 31, 2013, 07:30:20 AM

This Day in History for 31st May


Famous Birthdays

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Actor Clint Eastwood (1930)                          Model & Actress                                 Actor Colin Farrell (1976)
                                                                 Brooke Shields (1965)


1443 - Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII of England (d. 1509)
1469 - Manuel I, King of Portugal (1495-1521) during era of exploration
1472 - Erardus van der Mark, prince-bishop of Luik/cardinal
1557 - Feodor I (Fyodor/Theodore Ivanovich), Czar of Russia (1584-98)
1640 - Michał Wiśniowiecki, King of Poland (d. 1673)
1656 - Marin Marias, composer
1664 - Giulio Alberoni, Spanish/Italian minister/cardinal
1674 - Friedrich Erhard Niedt, composer
1701 - Alexander Cruden, compiler of a concordance to King James Bible
1744 - Richard Edgeworth, writer, Bath
1753 - Pierre V Vergniaud, French politician/police leader
1773 - Ludwig Tieck, writer
1801 - Johann Georg Baiter, Swiss philologist (d. 1887)
1802 - Cesare Pugni, composer
1804 - Jeanne-Louise Farrenc, composer
1810 - Horatio Seymour, Gov (Union), died in 1886
1817 - Edouard Deldevez, composer
1817 - Georg Herwegh, writer
1818 - John Albion Andrew, Gov (Union), died in 1867
1819 - Walt Whitman, West Hills, NY, poet (Leaves of Grass)
1835 - Hijikata Toshizō, Japanese military leader (d. 1869)
1837 - Ernest Daudet, French writer (White Terror)
1837 - Stephen Dodson Ramseur, Mjr General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
1837 - William Henry Fitzhugh "Rooney" Lee, Major General (Confederate Army)
1838 - Henry Sidgwick, English philosopher (Wife at University)
1852 - Francisco Moreno, Argentine explorer (d. 1919)
1857 - Pius XI, [Ambrogio DA Ratti], Italy, 259th Pope (1922-39)
1860 - Walter Richard Sickert Munich, Danish/English painter (The Miner)
1861 - Emily Perkins Bissell, welfare worker (1st christmas seal drive, 1907)
1863 - Francis E Younghusband, British journalist/explorer
1864 - Albert J M Bakker, Dutch actor (Teun the night watch)
1866 - Vladimir Ivanovich Rebikov, composer
1872 - Charles G Abbot, US, astronomer (Constant Sun)
1872 - William Heath Robinson, England, illustrator/cartoonist (Don Quixote)
1875 - Italo Montemezzi, composer
1879 - Mark Hambourg, composer
1882 - Sándor Graf Festetics, Hungarian politician (d. 1956)
1883 - Lauri Kristian Relander, 2nd President of Finland (d. 1942)
1885 - Alois Hudal, bishop, helped Nazis escape trial (d. 1963)
1887 - Saint-John Perse, France, poet/diplomat (Nobel 1960) [or Mar 31]
1888 - Jack Holt, US, golddigger/actor (Cat People, San Francisco, Brimstone)
1889 - Athene Seyler, London, actress (Make Mine Mink)
1892 - Gregor Strasser, German pharmacist/NSDAP-Reich organization leader
1892 - Konstatin G Paustovski, Russian author (Bespokojnaja Joenostj) [NS]
1892 - Louis Fourestier, composer
1892 - Willem Ravelli, baritone singer
1892 - Michel Kikoine, Belarus painter (d. 1968)
1892 - Konstantin Georgiyevich Paustovsky, Russian writer (d. 1968)
1894 - Fred Allen, Cambridge Mass, comedian (Fred Allen Radio Show)
1897 - Margalo Gillmore, London, actress (Skirts Ahoy, High Society)
1898 - Johan Brouwer, Dutch pianist/writer/resistance fighter
1898 - Norman Vincent Peale, Ohio, clergyman (Power of Positive Thinking)
1899 - Leonid Leonow, writer
1900 - Helma Wolf-Catz, Dutch author (Undercurrent, Coral Reef)
1901 - Alfredo Antonini, American conductor and composer (d. 1983)
1902 - Billy Mayerl, composer
1902 - Henk Schaer, [Hendricus JM Schaareman], actor/conductor
1902 - Ralph Walter Wood, composer
1905 - Roy Peaches Davis, baseball pitcher
1905 - Florence Desmond, English actress and comedian (d. 1993)
1907 - Valston Hancock, British air marshal
1908 - Don Ameche, Kenosha WI, actor (Cocoon, Trading Places)
1908 - Nils Poppe, Swedish actor (d. 2000)
1909 - Jan Lewando, British director (Marks & Spencer)
1909 - Thor Thorvaldsen, Norway, yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1948, 52)
1910 - Francis Avery Jones, British gastro-enterologist
1911 - Edward Adamson, art therapist/collector
1912 - Barbara Pepper, NYC, actress (Doris Ziffel-Green Acres, Rogue Tavern)
1912 - Dave O'Brien, Big Springs TX, actor (Kiss Me Kate, 1st Aid)
1912 - Henry M "Scoop" Jackson, (Sen-D-Wash)
1912 - Martin Schwarzschild, US astronomer (evolution)
1912 - Alfred Deller, English countertenor (d. 1979)
1913 - Peter Gibson, British Rear-Admiral
1914 - Akira Ifukube, composer
1916 - Bert Haanstra, Holten Netherlands, director (Fanfare)
1916 - John Vivyan, actor (Mr Lucky, Wrong Man, Imitation of Life)
1916 - Judy Campbell, actress (Convoy, Bonnie Prince Charlie)
1919 - Chet Gierlach, music publisher/composer
1919 - Emmanual Tettey Mensah, musician
1920 - Edward Bennett Williams, lawyer/team owner (Redskins, Balt Orioles)
1921 - Alida Valli, Pola Italy, actress (Miracle of the Bells, 3rd Man)
1921 - Andrew Grima, British jeweller
1921 - Robert Arthur Ley, UK, sci-fi author (Telepath, Power of X)
1921 - Howard Reig, American radio and television announcer
1922 - Denholm Elliott, London, actor (Alfie, Cuba, Doll's House, King Rat)
1922 - Elisabeth, arch duchess of Austria/princess of Liechtenstein
1923 - Clint Rainier III, Prince of Monaco (1949- )
1923 - Wolfgang Lesser, composer
1924 - Russell Endean, cricketer (28 Tests for South Africa, handled the ball 1956)
1926 - Derek Birley, British Vice-Chancellor (Ulster U)
1926 - Probir Sen, cricket wicketkeeper (India in late 40's/early 50's)
1926 - Viscount Ingleby
1927 - Isabel Stoate, British diplomat
1927 - James Eberle, Brit admiral/director (Royal Institute of Intl Affairs)
1927 - Michael Sandberg, British CEO (Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corp)
1927 - Red Holloway [James], Helena, Arkansas, jazz tenor saxophonist, (d. 2012)
1928 - Jacob Lateiner, Havana Cuba, pianist/professor (Juiliard)
1928 - Pankaj Roy, cricketer (Indian opener, 413 partnership w/Vinoo Mankad)
1929 - Aladar Zoltan, composer
1929 - Elaine Stewart, Montclair NJ, actress (Take the High Ground)
1929 - Neil Shaw, British CEO (Tate & Lyle)
1930 - Clint Eastwood, SF California, actor (Dirty Harry)/mayor (Carmel, California)
1930 - William Taylor, British Chairman of Convocation (London University)
1931 - John Schrieffer, US physicist (Nobel 1972)
1931 - Justice Turner
1931 - Shirley Verrett, New Orleans, mezzo-soprano (Cassandra-Les Troyens)
1931 - Steve Horn, (Rep-R-California)
1932 - Elizabeth Southey, British CEO (Natl Fed of Women's Institutes)
1932 - George Vallings, British Vice-Admiral
1932 - Ronald Hampel, British CEO (ICI)
1932 - Jay Miner, American microchip designer (d. 1994)
1934 - Bent Peter Rasch, Denmark, canoe (Olympic-gold-1952)
1934 - Jim Hutton, Binghamton NY, actor (Ellery Queen)
1934 - Karl-Erik Welin, composer
1935 - Bruce Bolton, cricketer (two Tests NZ v England 1959)
1935 - Jim Bolger, 35th Prime Minister of New Zealand
1937 - Vladislav Ivanovich Gulyayev, Russia, cosmonaut
1938 - John Prescott, British MP
1938 - Peter Yarrow, NYC, (Peter, Paul & Mary-Puff the Magic Dragon)
1939 - Charles Drain, singer
1939 - Terry Waite, Anglican Church envoy/Lebanese hostage
1940 - Augie Mayer, rocker (Sir Douglas Quintet)
1940 - Elfi Mikesch, cinematographer (Erotique, Out of America, Malina)
1940 - Gilbert Shelton, American underground comics illustrator
1941 - Gil [Walter] Morgan, Haddock GA, PGA golfer (1990 Kemper Open)
1941 - Johnny Paycheck, Greenfield OH, singer (Take This Job & Shove It)
1941 - June Clark, British Professor of Nursing (Middlesex U)
1941 - Kenneth Cooper, NYC, harpsichordist/professor (Barnard, Bkln)
1941 - Louis J. Ignarro, American pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate
1942 - Happy Hairston, NBA star (Cin, Detroit, LA)
1942 - John Daniel, British Vice-Chancellor (Open U)
1943 - Earl of Macclesfield
1943 - Joe Namath, PA, NFL QB (NY Jets), $400,000 man (1969 Superbowl)
1943 - Sharon Gless, LA California, actress (Chris Cagney-Cagney & Lacey)
1944 - Mick Ralphs, guitarist (Mott the Hoople, Bad Company)
1945 - Linda Davies, British Judge
1945 - Bernard Goldberg‎, American journalist
1946 - Debbie Moore, founder/CEO (Pineapple Dance Studios)
1946 - Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German director (Marriage of Maria Braum)
1946 - Steve Bucknor, cricketer (West Indian Test umpire, FIFA referee)
1946 - Ted Baehr, American media critic
1947 - William H Campbell Jr, rocker
1948 - Duncan L Hunter, (Rep-R-CA, 1981- )
1948 - John Bonham, Redditch England, drummer (Led Zeppelin-Stairway to Heaven)
1948 - Lynda Bellingham, actress (Sweeney, Scarlet Tunic)
1949 - Steven Kampmann, Phila, actor (Kirk-Newhart)
1949 - Tom Berenger, Chicago IL, actor (Big Chill, Someone to Watch Over Me)
1949 - Nancy Shade, American soprano
1950 - Edward Barker, cartoonist
1950 - Gregory Harrison, Catalina California, actor (Trapper John, Logan's Run)
1952 - Karl Bartos, German musician (Kraftwerk, Electronic)
1953 - Pirkka-Pekka Petelius, Finnish actor
1954 - Vicki Sue Robinson, American singer (d. 2000)
1954 - Thomas Mavros, Greek footballer
1955 - Ben de Lisi, British fashion designer
1955 - Laura Baugh, Gainesville FL, LPGA golfer (1994 Youngstown Classic-9th)
1955 - Tommy Emmanuel, Australian Guitarist CGP
1956 - Bart van Poppel, Dutch bassist/guitarist/singer (Tambourine)
1956 - Yoshiko Sakakibara, Chiba Japan, actress (Sailor Moon, Vampire Hunter)
1956 - Fritz Hilpert, German musician and sound engineer (Kraftwerk)
1957 - Jim Craig, North Easton Mass, hockey goalie (oly-gold-1980)
1957 - Stephen Jones, British milliner
1958 - Angel Franco, Asuncion Paraguay, golfer (1993 Nike Dominion)
1958 - Gary George Hallberg, Berwyn IL, PGA golfer (1983 Andy Williams)
1958 - Kyle Secor, Tacoma Wash, actor (Tim Bayliss-Homicide)
1958 - Mkhuseli Jack, South African UDF-leader (consumer boycots)
1960 - Chris Elliott, actor/comedian (Get a Life, David Letterman Show)
1960 - Norm Johnson, NFL place kicker (Seattle Seahawk, Pittsburgh Steelers)
1960 - Peter Winterbottom, British rugby player
1961 - Harry Enfield, comedian (Dermot-Men Behaving Badly, Saturday Live)
1961 - Lea Thompson, actress (Back to the Future, Caroline In The City)
1962 - Corey Hart, Montreal Canada, vocalist (I Wear My Sunglasses at Night)
1962 - Henry Williams, CFL receiver (Edmonton Eskimos)
1962 - Joe Orsulak, Glen Ridge NJ, outfielder (Florida Marlins)
1962 - Sebastian Koch, German actor
1963 - Wendy Smith, rocker (Prefab Sprout-2 Wheels Good)
1963 - Viktor Orbán, Hungarian politician
1963 - Wesley Willis, American musician (d. 2003)
1964 - DMC, rocker
1964 - Scotti Hill, Manhasset NY, rock guitarist (Skid Row-Psycho Love)
1964 - Leonard Asper, Canadian businessman
1964 - Darryl McDaniels, American musician (Run-D.M.C.)
1965 - Annette Renee Peters, [nee Hand], Reno Nevada, 1500/3000 runner
1965 - Brooke Shields, NYC, model/actress (Blue Lagoon, Suddenly Susan)
1966 - Jessica Monroe, Palo Alto California, Canadian rower (Olympics-96)
1966 - Roshan Mahanama, cricketer (Sri Lankan opening batsman)
1966 - Jeremy Hotz, Canadian stand-up comedian
1967 - Kenny Lofton, E Chicago Indiana, outfielder (Cleveland Indians)
1967 - Sandrine Bonnaire, Clermont France, actress (Vagabond, Police)
1967 - Phil Keoghan, New Zealand television personality
1968 - Duane Causwell, NBA center (Miami Heat, Sacramento Kings)
1969 - Juliet Haslam, Adelaide SA Australia, field hockey midfielder (Oly-96)
1970 - Cory Mantyka, CFL guard (BC Lions)
1971 - Brad Elberg, CFL running back (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1971 - Lenny McGill, NFL cornerback (Atlanta Falcons)
1971 - Murray Hocking, Victoria Australia, badminton player (Olympics-96)
1971 - Sarah O'Hare, model (Cosmopolitan-Jan 1994)
1971 - Troy Malave, Cumana Venezuela, outfielder (Boston Red Sox)
1972 - Bryan Walker, safety (Washington Redskins)
1972 - Eileen Richetelli, Milford Conn, diver (Olympics-96)
1972 - Karl Geary, Irish actor
1972 - Dave Roberts, American baseball player
1973 - Dominique van Roost, Verviers Belg, tennis star (1995 Futures-GBR)
1973 - Marty Janzen, Miami FL, pitcher (Toronto Blue Jays)
1973 - Tyrone Williams, NFL defensive back (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1974 - Bindi Mansfield, Mooerbank NSW Australia, diver (Olympics-96)
1974 - Jim Carey, Dorchester MA, NHL goalie (Washington Capitals)
1974 - Steve Martin, defensive tackle (Indianapolis Colts)
1974 - Chad Campbell, American golfer
1974 - Adrian Tomine, American cartoonist
1975 - Sienna Guillory, English actress
1976 - Colin Farrell, Dublin, Irish actor (In Bruges, Minority Report)
1976 - Matt Harpring, American basketball player
1977 - Joachim Olsen, Danish athlete
1977 - Moses Sichone, Zambian footballer
1977 - Eric Christian Olsen, American actor
1977 - Theodoros Baev, Bulgarian-born Greek volleyball player
1977 - Debbie King, English TV presenter
1977 - Scott Klopfenstein, American musician (Reel Big Fish)
1977 - Phil Devey, Canadian baseball player
1977 - Domenico Fioravanti, Italian swimmer
1977 - Greg Leeb, Canadian ice hockey player
1977 - Joel Ross, British disc jockey
1977 - June Sarpong, British television presenter
1980 - Andy Hurley, American musician (Fall Out Boy)
1981 - Jake Peavy, American baseball player
1982 - Jonathan Tucker, American actor
1983 - Dustin Wells, New Zealand footballer
1983 - Reggie Yates, English television presenter
1983 - David Hernandez, American singer
1984 - Nate Robinson, American basketball player
1984 - Jason Smith, Australian actor
1985 - Ian Vouyoukas, Greek basketball player
1986 - Robert Gesink, Dutch cyclist
1986 - Sopho Khalvashi, Georgian musical artist
1986 - Melissa McIntyre, Canadian actress
1988 - Hope Partlow, American Singer
1990 - Liberty Irene Kasem, daughter of Casey & Jean Kasam

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on May 31, 2013, 07:34:30 AM

This Day in History for 31st May


Famous Deaths

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Physician                                                 Heavyweight Boxing Champion
Elizabeth Blackwell (1910)                              Jack Dempsey (1982)


455 - Petronius Maximus, senator/Emperor of Rome, lynched
1091 - Hendrik van Verdun, bishop of Luik (1075-91), dies
1198 - Moses ben Solomon Ha-Cohen, rabbi of Mainz, dies
1246 - Isabella of Angouleme, queen of John of England
1349 - Thomas Wake, English politician (b. 1297)
1408 - Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Japanese shogun (b. 1358)
1410 - King Martin I of Aragon (b. 1356)
1495 - Cecily Neville, mother of Edward IV of England and Richard III of England, (b. 1415)
1504 - Engelbert II, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg-Dietz, dies
1551 - Aristotele "Basiano" da Sangallo, Italian set designer, dies
1558 - Philip Hoby, English politician (b. 1505)
1567 - Pereguin de la Grange, French minister/martyr of Reform, dies
1567 - Guido de Bres, Belgian theologian (b. 1522)
1594 - Tintoretto, Italian Mannerist painter, dies at 75
1620 - Willem Louis, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg, dies at 59
1665 - Pieter J Saenredam, Dutch architectural painter, dies at 67
1680 - Joachim Neander, German clergyman (b. 1650)
1696 - Heinrich Schwemmer, composer, dies at 75
1740 - Frederick-William I, King of Prussia (1713-1740), dies at 51
1747 - Andrei Osterman, Russian statesman (b. 1686)
1799 - Pierre Lemonnier, French astronomer (b. 1715)
1809 - Ferdinand von Schill, Prussian officer/rebel, dies in battle at 33
1809 - Franz Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer (Jahreszeiten), dies at 77
1809 - Jean Lannes, French marshal (b. 1769)
1831 - Samuel Bentham, British mechanical engineer (b. 1757)
1832 - Évariste Galois, French mathematician (b. 1811)
1837 - Joseph Grimaldi, greatest clown (king of pantomime), dies at 57
1846 - Philip Marheineke, German clergyman (b. 1780)
1847 - Thomas Chalmers, Scottish pastor (b. 1780)
1848 - Eugénie de Guérin, French writer (b. 1805)
1849 - Leonard PJ du Bus de Gisignies, gov-gen of Neth-Indies, dies at 69
1854 - Vatroslav Lisinski, composer, dies at 34
1862 - Robert Hatton, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at about 34
1900 - James Loudon, gov-gen of Neth-Indies (1871-75), dies at 75
1900 - John Power, Irish baronet/whiskey manufacturer, dies in battle
1906 - Hermann Schell, German theologist (Gott und Geist), dies at 56
1906 - King Alfonso XIII, assassinated in Madrid
1906 - Victoria von Battenberg, assassinated in Madrid
1908 - C L "Boy" Johnson, cricketer (Test for South Africa 1895-96), dies
1908 - Louis-Honoré Fréchette, French Canadian poet (b. 1839)
1910 - Elizabeth Blackwell, 1st woman physician, dies at 89
1916 - Horace Hood, British spy (Battle of Jutland), dies in battle
1928 - Ludwig Enneccerus, German leader, dies at 85
1928 - Manuel de Oliveira Lima, Brazilian historian, dies at 60
1931 - Felix-Raymond-Marie Rouleau, French Canadian cardinal, archbishop of Quebec (b. 1866)
1942 - Reinhard Heydrich, German protector of Bohemia & Moravia, assassinated
1947 - Adrienne Ames, actress (Black Sheep, 24 Hours), dies at 39
1947 - Henri G Casadesus, Fr altviolist/composer (viola d'amour), dies at 66
1948 - Jose Vianna da Motta, composer, dies at 80
1952 - Walter Schellenberg, German lawyer/headed spy (Venlo), dies
1955 - "Wild Bill" Vukovich, killed in Indy 500
1955 - Raoul Gunsbourg, composer, dies at 95
1957 - Leopold Staff, Polish poet (b. 1878)
1960 - Willem Elsschot, [Alfons de Ridder], Flemish writer (Kas), dies at 78
1960 - Walther Funk, Nazi leader (b. 1890)
1961 - Walter Little, Canadian politician (b. 1877)
1962 - Adolf Eichmann, Nazi war criminal, hanged at Ramie Prison in Israel at 56
1962 - Eduardo Toldra, composer, dies at 67
1962 - Henry Fountain Ashurst, American politician (b. 1874)
1963 - Carel C van Essen, archaeologist (Art of Ancient Rome), dies at 63
1967 - Billy Strayhorn, American composer, pianist and arranger (b. 1915)
1970 - Terry Sawchuk, hockey player (b. 1929)
1971 - Dainty Ironmonger, cricketer (74 wkts in 14 Tests after age 46), dies
1971 - Massimo Campigli, Italian painter/illustrator, dies at 75
1971 - Reinhold Niebuhr, US theologist, dies at 78
1972 - Walter Freeman, American physician (b. 1895)
1973 - Albert Egges van Giffen, Dutch archaeologist, dies at 89
1974 - Adelle Davis, US nutrionalist (Let's stay healthy), dies at 70
1976 - Jacques Monod, French biochemist, dies
1976 - Martha Mitchell wife of former Att Gen John Mitchell, dies in NY at 57
1977 - William Castle, American film director (b. 1914)
1978 - József Bozsik, Hungarian footballer (b. 1925)
1979 - Nigel Howard, cricketer (England captain 1951-52 tour of India), dies
1982 - Jack Dempsey, former heavyweight boxing champ/actor, dies at 86
1986 - James Rainwater, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1917)
1987 - Dorothy Patrick, actress (Torch Song, New Orleans, High Wall), dies
1989 - C L R James, cricket writer (distinguished Trinidadian), dies
1989 - Charles A Hufnagel, doc (artificial heart valve pioneer), dies at 72
1989 - Terry Drinkwater, CBS news correspondent, dies at 53 of cancer
1991 - Angus Wilson, [Johnstone-W], British writer (Wrong Set), dies
1991 - H N "Swanie" Swanson, literary agent, dies at 91 of a stroke
1992 - Lutz Stavenhagen, top aid to Chancellor Helmut Kohl, dies at 52
1993 - John Granger, actor (Advise & Consent), dies at 69
1993 - Spuds Mackenzie, American advertisement dog
1994 - Doug Freeman, cricketer (2 Tests of leg-spin for NZ 1933), dies
1994 - Emmanuel "Manny" Klein, trumpeter, dies at 86
1994 - Herva Nelli, soprano, dies at 85
1994 - Sidney Gilliat, British screenwriter/director, dies at 86
1995 - Tim Mara, owner (NY Giants), dies at 59
1996 - Colin Morris, playwright/documentary filmmaker, dies at 80
1996 - Elsbeary Hobbs, singer, dies at 59
1996 - Neela Sanjiva Reddy, president of India (1977-82), dies
1996 - Paul Peter Piech, artist, dies at 76
1996 - Peter Gordon Dorrell, archaeologist/photographer, dies at 68
1996 - Timothy Francis Leary, Harvard prof/LSD guru, dues of cancer at 75
1997 - Rosie Will Monroe, WW II icon (Rosie the riveter), dies at 76
1997 - James Bennett Griffin, American archaeologist (b. 1905)
1998 - Charles Van Acker, Belgian racing driver (b. 1912)
2000 - Tito Puente, American musician (b. 1923)
2000 - Johnnie Taylor, American singer (b. 1938)
2001 - Arlene Francis, American television personality (d. 1907)
2004 - Robert Quine, American guitarist (b. 1941)
2004 - Étienne Roda-Gil, French songwriter and screenwriter (b. 1941)
2006 - Ryan Bennett, broadcast commentator (b. 1970)
2006 - Miguel Berrocal, sculptor (b. 1933)
2006 - Raymond Davis Jr., American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914)
2006 - Lula Mae Hardaway, American songwriter, mother of singer Stevie Wonder (b. 1930)
2009 - Millvina Dean, last living survivor of the RMS Titanic disaster died. (b. 1912)
2009 - George Tiller, American abortion doctor (b. 1941)
2009 - Danny La Rue, British entertainer (b. 1927)
2010 - Louise Bourgeois, French-born American sculpter (b. 1911)
2010 - Brian Duffy, British photographer and film producer (b. 1933)
2010 - William A. Fraker, American cinematographer (b. 1923)
2010 - Rubén Juárez, Argentine bandoneonist (b. 1947)
2010 - Benjamin Lees, American composer (b. 1924)
2010 - Merata Mita, New Zealander filmmaker (b. 1942)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 01, 2013, 05:02:58 PM

This Day in History for 1st June


Historical Events

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The Sun King Louis XIV                            Naturalist Charles Darwin                   Comedienne/Actress Lucille Ball

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French President                                       Musician Ravi Shankar                   Pop Singer & Beatle Paul McCartney
Charles de Gaulle

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Parody Singer and Comedian                 Comedienne/Actor Roseanne
Weird Al Yankovic   


4000 BC - Approximate domestication of the horse in the Eurasian steppes near Dereivka, central
               Ukraine (hypothesis only)
193 - Roman Emperor Didius Julianus is assassinated.
794 - Charles the Great opens general synod in Frankfurt
1204 - King Philip Augustus of France conquers Rouen.
1215 - Beijing, then under the control of the Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, is captured by
           the Mongols under Genghis Khan, ending the Battle of Beijing.
1283 - Albrecht I van Habsburg becomes ruler of Austrian/Bull market
1283 - Treaty of Rheinfelden: Duke Rudolph II of Austria waives his right to the Duchies of Austria
           and Styria.
1459 - Pope Pius II opens congress of Mantua
1485 - Matthias of Hungary takes Vienna from Frederick III
1495 - 1st written record of Scotch Whiskey appears in Exchequer Rolls of Scotland, Friar John Cor
           is the distiller
1526 - Parliament of Spiers: Lutheran monarchy freed of their belief
1533 - Anne Boleyn crowned queen of England
1562 - Emperor Ferdinand & Sultan Suleiman signs treaty
1568 - Duke of Alva oversees beheading of 18 nobles in Brussels as part of Council of
           Troubles/Council of Blood
1608 - Valse Dimitri forms his 2nd Russian anti-government
1638 - 1st earthquake recorded in US, at Plymouth, Mass
1641 - France & Portugal sign anti-Spanish covenant
1649 - Czar Aleksei throws out English merchants from Moscow
1657 - 1st Quakers arrives in New Amsterdam (NY)
1660 - Mary Dyer is hanged for defying a law banning Quakers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1670 - Engl king Charles II & Fr king Louis XIV sign anti-Dutch treaty
1679 - The Scottish Covenanters defeat John Graham of Claverhouse at the Battle of Drumclog.
1746 - French troops conquer Antwerp
1774 - Boston Port Bill: British government orders Port of Boston closed
1789 - 1st US congressional act becomes law (on administering oaths)
1792 - Kentucky admitted as 15th US state
1794 - Glorious First of June; first naval battle between Britain (under Admiral Lord Howe) and France
           (Vice-Admiral Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse) during French Revolutionary Wars. Britain
           gains tactical win.
1796 - Last of Britain's troops withdraws from US
1796 - Tennessee admitted as 16th US state
1808 - 1st US land-grant university founded-Ohio Univ, Athens, Ohio
1809 - Allardyce Barclay begins a bet of walking 1 mile every hour for 1,000 hours. Each hour he
           walked a mile round trip from his home
1813 - Capt John Lawrence utters Navy motto "Don't give up the ship"
1815 - Napoleon swears fidelity to the Constitution of France.
1834 - HMS Beagle for anchor in Port Famine, Magallanes Street
1835 - 6th national black convention (Phila)
1836 - Charles Darwin returns to Capetown
1843 - It snows in Buffalo & Rochester NY & Cleveland Ohio
1843 - Sojourner Truth leaves NY to begin her career as antislavery activist
1845 - Homing pigeon completes 11,000 km trip (Namibia-London) in 55 days
1855 - US adventurer Wm Walker conquers Nicaragua, reestablishes slavery
1857 - Charles Baudelaire's Fleurs du mal is published.
1861 - 1st skirmish in Civil War, Fairfax Court House, Va
1861 - British territorial waters & ports off-limits during Civil War
1861 - Skirmish at Arlington Mills, VA
1861 - US & Confederacy simultaneously stop mail interchange
1862 - 2nd/last day of battle at Fair Oaks/7 Pines Va (11,165 casualties)
1862 - Gen Lee assumes command after Joe Johnston is injured at 7 Pines
1862 - Slavery abolished in all US possessions
1864 - -Nov] Shenandoah Valley campaign
1864 - Battle of Cold Harbor, VA (Gaines' Mill, Gaines' Farm)
1864 - Confederate cruiser The Georgia sold to The English
1866 - General Dutch Typographer Union forms
1866 - Renegade Irish Fenians invade Ft Erie Ontario from US
1868 - Texas constitutional convention meets in Austin
1868 - Treaty of Bosque Redondo is signed allowing the Navajos to return to their lands in Arizona
           and New Mexico.
1869 - Voting machine patented (Thomas A Edison)
1872 - 6th Belmont: James Roe aboard Joe Daniels wins in 2:58.25
1877 - Society of American Artists forms
1877 - US troops authorized to pursue bandits into Mexico
1879 - Napoleon Eugene, the last dynastic Bonaparte, is killed in the Anglo-Zulu War.
1880 - 1st pay telephone installed
1880 - US census at 50,155,783
1881 - Bell Phone opens 1st Dutch telephone exchange
1886 - The railroads of the Southern United States convert 11,000 miles of track from a five foot rail
           gauge to standard gauge, beginning May 31.
1888 - California gets its 1st seismograph
1890 - US census at 62,622,250
1893 - Opera "Falstaff" is produced (Berlin)
1898 - Trans-Mississippi International Exposition opens in Omaha
1899 - Cricket test debut of Wilfred Rhodes & Victor Trumper in Grace's last
1900 - British army occupiers Pretoria South-Africa
1902 - Blue-White United soccer team of Amsterdam forms
1905 - Lewis & Clark Centennial Exposition opens in Portland, Oregon
1907 - -27°F (-33°C), Sarmiento, Argentina (South American record)
1908 - John Krohn begins walk around perimeter of US, which took 357 days
1909 - Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition opens in Seattle
1910 - SC Enschede soccer team forms in Enschede
1911 - 1st US group insurance policy written, Passaic, NJ
1912 - Stormvogels soccer team forms in Ijmuiden
1915 - 1st Zeppelin air raid over England
1916 - German attack on Fort Vaux, Verdun
1917 - Hank Gowdy is 1st baseball player to enlist during WW I
1918 - Excelsior Maassluis soccer team forms in Maassluis
1918 - White Sox losing 5-4 against NY Yankees, load the bases in 9th with no outs Chick Gandil
           lines to Frank Baker who turns a triple play
1919 - Rhineland Republic forms in Wiesbaden
1920 - RKSV Volendam soccer team forms in Volendam
1920 - Adolfo de la Huerta becomes president of Mexico.
1921 - Race riot in Tulsa Oklahoma (21 whites & 60 blacks killed)
1922 - Royal Ulster Constabulary is founded.
1923 - NY Giants beat Phillies, 22-5, Giants score in every inning
1925 - Lou Gehrig replaces Wally Pipp (1st of record 2130 consec games)
1926 - Ignacy Mocicki elected president of Poland
1927 - Peace Bridge between US & Canada opens
1930 - 6th French Mens Tennis: Henri Cochet beats Bill Tilden (36 86 63 61)
1930 - 6th French Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats Helen Jacobs (62 61)
1930 - Alphense Boys soccer team forms in Alphen on Rhine
1930 - Bradman scores cricket 191 Australia v Hampshire, 240 mins, 26 fours
1931 - Rozenburg soccer team forms in Rozenburg
1932 - Lunteren soccer team forms in Lunteren
1933 - Century of Progress world's fair opens in Chicago
1934 - AFC '34 soccer team forms in Alkmaar
1935 - Driving test & license plates introduced in England
1935 - Yanks set solo HR record with 6 beat Boston 7-2
1936 - "Lux Radio Theater" moved from NYC to Hollywood
1936 - Queen Mary completes its maiden voyage, arriving in NY
1937 - Chic White Sox Bill Dietrich no-hits St Louis Browns, 8-0
1937 - Prince Konoye becomes Japanese premier
1938 - Protective baseball helmets 1st worn by batters
1939 - 1st boxing match to be televised, Lon Nova defeats Max Baer
1939 - 1st night game at Phil's Shribe Park (Pirates 5, Phillies 2)
1939 - British sub "Thetis" sinks in Liverpool Bay with all 99 aboard
1939 - Retired German Col-gen Gerd von Runstedt returns to service
1940 - Coffee & tea rationed in Holland
1940 - Gen-mjr Bernard Montgomery returns to London
1940 - Nazi occupiers kick Jews out of Dutch air guard
1941 - 12.59" (31.98 cm) rainfall, Burlington Kansas (state 24-hr record)
1941 - British troops occupy Bagdad Iraq
1941 - Germany bans all Catholic publications
1941 - Germany occupies Kreta
1941 - NY Giant Mel Ott hits his 400th HR & his 1,500th RBI
1943 - Germany shoots down a civilian flight from Lisbon to London, all die
1943 - Pirates Rip Sewell 1st throws his dew-drop (eephus) ball in a game
1944 - Gen Montgomery/Patton/Bradley/Dempsey/Crerar meet in Portsmouth
1944 - Nazi occupiers make it punishable to give aid to allied pilots
1945 - WLB-AM in Minneapolis Minn changes call letters to KUOM
1946 - 78th Belmont: Warren Mehrtens aboard Assault wins in 2:30.8
1946 - Spijkenisse soccer team forms in Spijkenisse
1946 - Ion Antonescu is executed.
1947 - OPA, which issued WW II rationing coupons, disbands
1947 - Photosensitive glass developed
1948 - Israel & Arabs agree to a cease fire
1949 - 1st magazine on microfilm offered to subscribers (Newsweek)
1949 - British government grants Cyrenaica (East-Libya) independence
1949 - KSL TV channel 5 in Salt Lake City, UT (CBS) begins broadcasting
1949 - Lucille Ball & Desi Arnaz wed for the second time
1949 - Microfilm copies of "Newsweek" magazine 1st offered
1950 - WKZO (now WWMT) TV channel 3 in Kalamazoo, MI (CBS) 1st broadcast
1951 - 1st self-contained titanium plant opens (Henderson Nevada)
1951 - International Cheese treaty signed
1952 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Cross Country Weathervane Golf Tournament
1952 - Catholic church puts Andre Gides "Labor" on the index
1953 - KMJ (now KSEE) TV channel 24 in Fresno, CA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 - WDAY TV channel 6 in Fargo, ND (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 - Emile Zatopek runs record 6 mile: (27:59.2)/10,000m (28:54.2)
1955 - Habib Bourguiba ends exile from Tunisia
1957 - 1st US runner breaks 4 minute mile (Don Bowden) [see May 5, 1956]
1958 - Belgian christian-democrats win parliamentary election
1958 - Charles de Gaulle elected premier of France
1958 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Gatlinburg Golf Open
1959 - 2-time champ Monterrey Mexico barred from 1959 Little League competition for using players
           outside predetermined geographical area
1959 - Constitution of Tunisia promulgated (National Day)
1960 - "Finian's Rainbow" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 12 performances
1960 - WDTV TV channel 5 in Clarksburg-Weston, WV (CBS) begins broadcasting
1961 - FM multiplex stereo broadcasting 1st heard
1962 - Oscar 2 (ham radio satellite) launched into Earth orbit
1962 - Roda JC soccer team reforms in Kerkrade
1962 - USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 40,420 m
1963 - "El Watusi" by Ray Barreto hits #17
1963 - Jomo Kenyatta becomes 1st premier of Kenya
1963 - King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, becomes Emperor of Ethiopia
1965 - A Penzias & R Wilson detect 3°K primordial background radiation
1965 - coal mine explosion in Fukuoka Japan kills 236
1966 - 2,400 persons attend White House Conference on Civil Rights
1966 - George Harrison is impressed by Ravi Shankar's concert in London
1966 - Joaquin Balaguer elected president of Dominican Republic
1966 - Shortwave station Radio NY Worldwide changes calls from WRUL to WNYW
1967 - Beatles release Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in US & goes gold
1967 - Mayor-council form of government instituted for Washington, DC
1968 - 100th Belmont: Gus Gustines aboard Stage Door Johnny wins in 2:27.2
1968 - Simon & Garfunkel's "Mrs Robinson" hits #1
1969 - Tobacco advertising is banned on Canadian radio & TV
1970 - "Everything Is Beautiful" by Ray Stevens hits #1
1970 - Com Bowie Kuhn reprimands Astro Jim Bouton for writing "Ball Four"
1970 - Soyuz 9 launched into Earth orbit for 18 days
1970 - Tigers Al Kaline collides with another player & swallows his tongue
1971 - "You're a Good Man Charlie Brown" opens at Golden NYC for 31 perfs
1971 - Ed Sullivan's final TV show on CBS
1972 - Dmitri Shostakovitch's 15th Symphony, Dutch premieres in West Berlin
1972 - Tswanaland becomes Bophuthatswana in South Africa
1972 - West German police arrest RAF-leader Andreas Baader
1973 - George Harrison's "Living in the Material World" goes gold
1973 - Greek Pres Papadopoulos asks for "parliamentary presidential republic"
1973 - Paul McCartney & Wings release "Live & Let Die"
1974 - "My Girl Bill" by Jim Stafford hits #12
1974 - Bundy victim Brenda Ball disappears from Burien, Wash
1974 - Chemical plant explodes in Flixborough Lincs kills 28 in UK
1974 - The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal Emergency
           Medicine.
1975 - "Chicago" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 947 performances
1975 - 21st LPGA Championship won by Kathy Whitworth
1975 - California Angel Nolan Ryan 4th no-hitter beats Balt Orioles, 1-0
1975 - Cars in Netherlands must have seatbelts
1975 - Ron Woods replaces Mick Taylor as Rolling Stone guitarist
1976 - Great-Britain & Iceland terminate codfish war
1977 - British Virgin Islands adopts constitution
1977 - Russia charges Jewish rights activist Anatoly Shcharansky with treason
1977 - SC Heerenveen soccer team forms in Heerenveen
1978 - Cricket Test debut of David Gower, v Pakistan, Edgbaston, scores 58
1978 - High Council destroys judgment against war criminal Pieter Menten
1978 - The first international applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty are filed.
1979 - 33rd NBA Championship: Sea Supersonics beat Wash Bullets, 4 games to 1
1979 - Rhodesian bishop Able Muzorewa becomes premier
1979 - Ted Coombs began a 5,193 mile roller skate from LA to NYC
1979 - Wings release "Old Siam, Sir"
1979 - Vizianagaram district is formed in Andhra Pradesh, India.
1979 - The first black-led government of Rhodesia in 90 years takes power.
1980 - 1st transmission of CNN, Cable News Network
1980 - ANC sets fire to Sasol oil installations in South Africa
1980 - Barbra Streisand appears at an ACLU Benefit in Calif
1980 - Beth Daniel wins LPGA Golden Lights Golf Championshipship
1980 - Steve Garvey, hits the 7,000th Dodger home run
1980 - Ted Turner's Cable News Network begins broadcasting
1982 - Rickey Henderson is fastest to reach 50 stolen bases in a year
1984 - Douglas H Mitchell, QC of Calgary becomes 6th CFL Commissioner
1984 - KWK-AM in St Louis MO changes call letters to KGLD
1984 - Netherlands' Lubbers government gives 48 sites for cruise missiles
1984 - Weightlifter Alexander Gunyashev of USSR snatches a record 211 kg
1985 - "Just A Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody" by David Lee Roth hits #12
1985 - Viv Richards scores 300 in a day on the way to 322 v Warwicks cricket
1985 - Weird Al Yankovic released his Dare To Be Stupid LP
1986 - 32nd LPGA Championship won by Pat Bradley
1986 - 40th Tony Awards: I'm Not Rappaport & Mystery of Edwin Drood win
1987 - Phil Niekro 314th combines with Joe to have most wins by bros (530)
1988 - "Les Miserables," opens at Shubert Theatre, LA
1988 - "Morton Downey Jr Show," debuts in TV syndication
1988 - Train crash in Zeeland Neth, kills 2
1989 - 62nd National Spelling Bee: Scott Isaacs wins spelling spoliator
1989 - Robin Givens & Mike Tyson granted final divorce in NJ
1990 - "Cemetery Club" closes at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC after 56 perfs
1990 - Cowboy Channel on cable TV begins transmitting
1990 - Detroit Pistons beat Trailblazers in Portland for 1st time since 1974
1990 - Dow Jones Avg hits a record high of 2,900.97
1991 - Roseanne Arnold & Tom Arnold wed again, they divorced later
1992 - America West Arena opens in Phoenix
1992 - E Lamps (20 year lightbulb) introduced
1992 - Snowfall in Colorado
1992 - Stanley Cup: Pittsburgh Penguins sweep Chicago Blackhawks in 4 games
1993 - Brooklyn NY begins recycling
1993 - Connie Chung joins Dan Rather as anchors of CBS Evening News
1993 - Guatemala president Jorge Serrano overthrown by army
1993 - Melchior Ndadaye elected pres of Burundi
1994 - FX Channel, Cable Network, debuts
1994 - Gen H Norman Schwarzkopf released from hospital after prostate surgery
1994 - Guns n Roses drummer Matthew Sorum files to divorce Kai
1995 - 68th National Spell Bee: Justin Tyler Carroll wins spelling xanthosis
1995 - Rangers' Kenny Rogers scoreless inning streak ends after 39
1996 - MTV Movie Awards
1996 - Sony does not renew lease on megatron in Times Square
1997 - 10th Children's Miracle Network Telethon raises $5,400,186
1997 - 1st NY Women Film Festival opens
1997 - 51st Tony Awards: Titanic & Last Night of Ballyhoo win
1997 - Ameritech Senior Golf Open
1997 - Annika Sorenstam wins LPGA Michelob Light Classic
1997 - Donovan Bailey beats Michael Johnson in 150m race
1997 - Heartland LPGA Classic
1997 - LA Dodger Wilton Guerrero's bat breaks, revealing it is corked
1997 - Vijay Singh wins Golf Memorial at Muirfield Village CC, 14 under par
1997 - Hugo Banzer wins the Presidential elections in Bolivia.
2000 - The Patent Law Treaty (PLT) is signed.
2001 - Dipendra of Nepal slaughters his family during dinner.
2001 - Dolphinarium massacre: an Hamas suicide bomber kills 21 at a disco in Tel Aviv.
2003 - The People's Republic of China begins filling the reservoir behind the Three Gorges Dam.
2005 - The Dutch referendum on the European Constitution results in its rejection.
2005 - The longest oil/natural gas explosion in the Houston, Texas area occurs in Crosby, Texas.
           The drill was owned by the Louisiana Oil and Gas Company.
2007 - Jack Kevorkian is released from prison after serving eight years of his 10-25 year prison term
           for second-degree murder in the 1998 death of Thomas Youk, 52, of Oakland County,
           Michigan.
2007 - Smoking is banned from United Kingdom's public places.
2008 - A fire at the backlot of Universal Studios Hollywood destroys several icons from movies, such
           as Courthouse Square, the clock tower from Back to the Future, and the King Kong exhibit
           on the studio tour.
2009 - Air France Flight 447 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil on a flight from
           Rio de Janeiro to Paris. All 228 passengers and crew were killed.
2009 - General Motors files for chapter 11 bankruptcy. It is the fourth largest United States
           bankruptcy in history.
2012 - New York Mets pitcher Johan Santana pitches a no-hitter against the St. Louis Cardinals

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 01, 2013, 05:05:17 PM

This Day in History for 1st June


Famous Weddings

1896 - Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw (41) marries Charlotte Frances Payne-Townshend
           (41)in Covent Garden, London.
1933 - Charlie Chaplin weds Paulette Goddard
1997 - Grammy Award-winning singer Kenny Rogers (59) weds Wanda Miller (31) at his ranch in
           Athens, Georgia
2005 - "The White Stripes" guitarist, pianist and lead vocalist Jack White (29) weds British model
           Karen Elson (26) in Manaus, Brazil
2005 - "The Amazing Race 7" executive assistant Alex Ali and Lynn Warren in Ottawa, Canada
2006 - Korean "My Sassy Girl" actor-singer Cha Tae-Hyun (30) weds pop lyricist Choi Suk-eun at the
           Sheraton Grande Walkerhill Hotel in Seoul City
2007 - Legendary crooner Tony Bennett (80) weds his longtime girlfriend Susan Crow (47) in New
           York City

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 01, 2013, 05:06:24 PM

This Day in History for 1st June


Famous Divorces

1989 - Robin Givens & Mike Tyson granted final divorce in NJ
1991 - Roseanne Arnold & Tom Arnold wed again, they divorced later
1994 - Guns n Roses drummer Matthew Sorum files to divorce Kai

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 01, 2013, 06:08:16 PM

This Day in History for 1st June


Famous Birthdays

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Actress Marilyn Monroe (1926)              Super Model Heidi Klum (1973)                   Singer-Songwriter
                                                                                                                             Alanis Morissette (1974)


1076 - Mstislav I of Kiev (d. 1132)
1300 - Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk, son of Edward I of England (d. 1338)
1480 - Tiedemann Giese, Polish Catholic bishop (d. 1550)
1503 - Wilhelm von Grumbach, German lt col
1549 - Allesandre Spontone, composer
1563 - Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, English prime minister (1598-1612)
1611 - Felician Schwab, composer
1633 - Geminiano Montanari, Italian astronomer (d. 1687)
1653 - Georg Muffat, composer
1675 - Francesco Scipione, marchese di Maffei, Italian archaeologist (d. 1755)
1679 - Johan Runius, Swedish poet (Dudaim)
1755 - Frederico Fiorillo, Ital's violist/composer
1757 - Ignaz J Pleyel, Austria composer/piano builder (Piano method)
1762 - Edmund Ignatius Rice, Irish founder of the Christian Brothers and Presentation Brothers (d.
           1844)
1763 - Christian Gottlob Saupe, composer
1765 - Christiane Vulpius, wife of Johann W von Goethe
1765 - Friedrich Ludwig Seidel, composer
1769 - Joseph Antoni Frantiszek Elsner, composer
1771 - Ferdinando Paer, composer
1776 - John George Schetky, composer
1780 - Karl von Clausewitz, Prussian strategist
1790 - Salomon J Rappoport, Czech rabbi/learned (Ereg miliem)
1790 - Ferdinand Raimund, Austrian playwright (d. 1836)
1796 - Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, French mathematician (d. 1832)
1800 - Edward Deas Thomson, Australian politician (d. 1879)
1801 - Brigham Young, painter/religious leader (Mormon church)/polygamist
1803 - Mikhail I Glinka, Russian composer [OS=May 20]
1804 - Mikhail Ivan Glinka, Novosspaskoye Russia, composer (Jota Aragonesa)
1806 - John Buchanan Floyd, Ex-Sect of War (Union), died in 1863
1815 - Otto of Greece (d. 1862)
1825 - John Hunt Morgan, Brigadier General (Confederate cavalry commander)
1826 - Carl Bechstein, German piano inventor
1826 - Hermann Zopff, composer
1831 - John Bell Hood, Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1879
1833 - John Marshall Harlan, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1911)
1843 - Henry Faulds, Scottish fingerprinting pioneer (d. 1930)
1844 - Galusha Pennypacker, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1916
1844 - John J. Toffey, American Civil War hero (d. 1911)
1848 - Otto Valdemar Malling, composer
1858 - William W Campbell, Canadian poet (Beyond the Hills of Dream)
1862 - Antonio JdC Feijo, Portuguese diplomat/poet (Bailatas)
1878 - John Masefield, England, 15th poet laureate (Salt-Water Ballads)
1881 - Charles Kay Ogden, English writer and linguist (d. 1957)
1882 - John Drinkwater, English poet/playwright (Abraham Lincoln)
1886 - Ernst Kurth, Austrian/Swiss musicologist
1887 - Clive Brook, London England, actor/director (List of Adrian Messenger)
1890 - Frank Morgan, [Francis P Wupperman], NYC, actor (Wizard of Oz), (d. 1949)
1892 - Amanullah, emir/king of Afghanistan (1919-28)
1892 - Samuel L M Barlow, composer
1898 - Curtis Stevens, US, 2 man bobsled (Olympic-gold-1932)
1898 - Edgar "Cookie" Fairchild, NYC, bandleader (Jerry Colonna Show)
1898 - Lieb Glantz, composer
1898 - Molly Picon, NYC, Yiddish actress (Milk & Honey)
1899 - Werner Janssen, NYC, conductor/composer (New Years Eve in NY)
1899 - Edward Charles Titchmarsh, English mathematician (d. 1963)
1901 - John W Van Duren, playwright (I Remember Mama)
1901 - John Van Druten, English screen writer (d. 1957)
1901 - Hap Day, Canadian hockey player and manager (d. 1990)
1903 - Percy William Whitlock, composer
1903 - Blessed Vasyl Velychkovsky C.Ss.R Bishop and Martyr (d. 1973)
1905 - Dinora de Carvalho, composer
1905 - Robert Newton, England, actor (Henry V, Around the World in 80 Days)
1907 - Frank A Whittle, England inventor (jet engine)
1908 - Percy Edwards, animal imitator
1909 - Szymon Goldberg, Polish/US violinist/conductor (Neth Chamber orch)
1909 - Hans Vogt, Norwegian linguist (d. 1986)
1911 - Gertrude Michael, AL, actress (Cleopatra, Menace, Club Havana)
1913 - Bill Deedes, British journalist (d. 2007)
1915 - John Randolph, NYC, actor (King Kong, Lucan, Lucas Tanner, Angie)
1917 - William S. Knowles, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate, (d. 2012)
1919 - Boris Lazarevich Klyuzner, composer
1921 - Nelson Riddle, Oradell NJ, musical conductor (Batman, Frank Sinatra)
1922 - Abdul Rashid, Pakistan, field hockey player (Olympic-gold-1960)
1922 - Joan Caulfield, East Orange NJ, actress (Liz-My Favorite Husband)
1922 - Joan Copeland, [Miller], NYC, actress (Roseland, A Little Sex)
1922 - Povel Ramel, Swedish entertainer (d. 2007)
1924 - Paula Hinton, dancer
1924 - William Sloane Coffin, American clergyman (d. 2006)
1925 - Richard Erdman, Enid Ok, actor (Stalag 17, Anything Goes)
1925 - Dilia Díaz Cisneros, Venezuelan teacher
1926 - Andy Griffith, Mount Airy NC, actor (Andy Griffith Show, Matlock), (d. 2012)
1926 - Marilyn Monroe, [Norma Jean Mortenson], LA, actress (Some Like It Hot)
1928 - Bob Monkhouse, Kent England, comedian (Bonkers)
1928 - Georgi Timofeyevich Dobrovolsky, Odessa, cosmonaut (Soyuz 11)
1929 - Yehudi Wyner, composer
1930 - Edward Woodward, Croydon England, actor (Breaker Morant, Wickerman)
1930 - Matt Poore, cricketer (NZ batsman in 14 tests 1953-56 average 15.43)
1930 - Ty Hardin, Ill, actor (Berserk, PT 109) [or Jan 1]
1930 - John Lemmon, English logician (d. 1966)
1932 - Francis Cameron, cricketer (NZ pace bowler took 61 wickets 1961-65)
1932 - Philo [Rolf] Bregstein, Dutch writer (Dingen die niet Voorbijgaan)
1933 - Alan "the Horse" Ameche, Wisc, NFL fullback (Baltimore Colts)
1933 - Charles Wilson, (Rep-D-TX, 1973- )
1933 - Ian Sinclair, cricketer (2 Tests NZ v WI 1956, bowling average 120.00)
1934 - Pat Boone, Florida, singer/actor (April Love, Cross & Switchblade)
1934 - Peter Masterson, Houston Texas, actor (Ambush Bay)
1934 - Sylvia Syms, London, actress (Asylum, Moonraker, Shirley Valentine)
1934 - Willy Roggeman, Flemish writer (Goldfish, Nardis)
1935 - James George, US, weightlifter (Olympic-silver-1960/bronze-1956)
1935 - John Edward Porter, (Rep-R-IL, 1980- )
1935 - Reverend Ike, SC, evangelist minister (Joy of Living)
1935 - Reverend Ike, American televangelist
1936 - Bekim Fehmiu, actor (Black Sunday, Permission to Kill, Cagliostro)
1936 - Gerald Scarfe, British illustrator
1937 - Colleen McCullough, Wellington, Australian author (Tim, Indecent Obsession)
1937 - Morgan Freeman, Memphis Tn, actor (Driving Mrs Daisy, Glory)
1937 - Rosaleen Linehan, Irish actress
1939 - Cleavon Little, Chickasha Oklahoma, actor (Blazing Saddles, Toy Soldiers)
1940 - Rene Auberjonois, actor (Clayton-Benson, Star Trek Deep Space 9)
1940 - Kip Thorne, American physicist
1941 - Edo de Waart, Amsterdam Holland, conductor (Houston Opera-1976)
1942 - Tom Mankiewicz, LA California, screenwriter (Diamonds are Forever)
1943 - Ely van Tongeren, Dutch guitarist/singer (Buffoons)
1943 - Richard Goode, Bronx, concert pianist (1980 Avery Fisher Award)
1944 - Robert Powell, England, actor (Jigsaw Man, Shaka Zulu, Secrets)
1945 - Linda Scott, singer (Hey Look at Me Now)
1946 - Brian Cox, actor (Killer Party, Manhunter)
1946 - Carol Neblett, Modesto California, soprano (NYC Opera)
1946 - Brian Cox, Scottish actor
1947 - Jonathan Pryce, Welsh actor (Evita, Brazil, Praying Mantis)
1947 - Ron Wood, rock guitarist (Faces, Jeff Beck Group, Rolling Stones)
1947 - Ron Dennis, CBE, F1 team principal (McLaren)
1948 - Tom Sneva, US auto racer (Indianapolis 500-1983)
1948 - Tomáš Halík, Czech priest and public intellectual
1949 - Mike Levine, rock keyboardist/bassist (Triumph)
1950 - Annemarie Jorritsma-Lebbink, Dutch minister of Traffic (VVD)
1950 - Charlene [D'Angelo], singer (I've Never Been To Me)
1950 - Gemma Craven, Dublin, actress (Wagner, Story of Slipper & Rose)
1950 - Gennadi Mikhailovich Manakov, colonel/cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-10, TM-16)
1953 - Diana Canova, West Palm Beach Fla, actress (Corrine-Soap)
1953 - David Berkowitz, American serial killer (Son of Sam)
1955 - Chiyonofuji, sumo wrestler
1955 - Lorraine Moller, Boulder Colo, NZ athelete (Olympics-96)
1955 - Ralph Morse, British actor, singer and writer of historical dramas
1956 - Lisa Hartman Black, Houston, singer/actress (Tabitha, Knots Landing)
1956 - Robin Mattson, LA California, actress (Janet Green-All My Children)
1957 - Dorota Kędzierzawska, Polish film director
1958 - Cathy Hearn, Wash DC, slalom kayak (Olympics-7th-96)
1958 - Ahron Bregman, Israeli journalist
1959 - Alan "Wild"er, English rock vocalist/music (Depeche Mode-Wild!)
1959 - Martin Brundle, British race car driver and F1 television commentator
1960 - Simon Gallup, English bassist (The Cure)
1961 - Johnny Ray Huston, Mt Vernon IL, PGA golfer (1990 Honda Classic)
1961 - Mark Rodenhauser, NFL center (Green Bay Packers, Carolina Panthers)
1961 - Paul Coffey, Weston Ontario, NHL forward (Oilers, Penguins, Red Wings)
1962 - Jesse Johnson, rocker (Time)
1962 - Sherri Howard, Sherman Tx, 4X400m hurdler (Olympic-gold-1984)
1963 - Mike Joyce, rock drummer (Smiths-Ask, Panic, London)
1964 - Rashid Patel, cricketer (Indian pace bowler, Lamba incident)
1964 - Mark Curry, American comedian and actor
1965 - Dan Quinn, Ottawa, NHL center (Phila Flyers)
1965 - India Allen, Portsmouth Va, playmate of the year (Dec, 1987)
1966 - Greg Schiano, American football coach
1967 - Carlos van Wanrooy, soccer player (NEC)
1967 - Olivier Delaitre, Metz France, tennis star (1991 Guaruja Doubles)
1967 - Vernon Turner, WLAF WR (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1967 - Roger Sanchez, American disc jockey
1968 - Jason Donovan, rocker/actor (Neighbors)
1968 - Jeff Hackett, London, NHL goalie (Chicago Blackhawks)
1968 - Jerry Crafts, WLAF tackle (Amsterdam Admirals)
1968 - Larry Centers, NFL running back (Arizona Cardinals)
1969 - Ari Sulander, hockey goaltender (Team Finland Oly-Bronze-1998)
1969 - Erin Hartwell, Phila, time trial cyclist (Olymp-bronze/silver-92, 96)
1970 - Joshua Compston, art impressario
1970 - Raylee Johnson, NFL defensive end (San Diego Chargers)
1970 - Scott Couper, WLAF receiver (Scottish Claymores)
1970 - Shane Matthews, NFL quarterback (Chic Bears)
1970 - Alexi Lalas, American soccer player
1970 - Karen Mulder, Dutch supermodel
1970 - R. Madhavan, Indian actor
1971 - Mario Cimarro, Cuban actor
1971 - Roldán González, Cuban singer
1972 - Cheryl Abplanalp, Bryn Mawr Penn, team handball wing (Olympics-1996)
1972 - Jon Witman, fullback (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1972 - Leta Lindley, Phoenix AZ, LPGA golfer (1995 State Farm Rail-3rd)
1972 - Nicholas Porzig, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1972 - Scott Greene, fullback (Carolina Panthers)
1972 - Daniel Casey, English actor
1973 - Jeffrey Schiebler, New Westminster BC, 10k/steeplechase (Olympics-96)
1973 - Ray Carey, US, 200m butterfly (Olympics-96)
1973 - Frederik Deburghgraeve, Belgian swimmer
1973 - Adam Garcia, Australian actor
1973 - Derek Lowe, American baseball player
1973 - Heidi Klum, Bergisch Gladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia, German supermodel
1974 - Alanis Nadine Morisette, vocalist (Jagged Little Pill)
1974 - Akis Zikos, Greek footballer
1975 - Michal Grosek, Gottwaldov Cze, NHL left wing (Buffalo Sabres)
1975 - James Storm, American professional wrestler
1976 - Camille Martens, Vancouver BC, gymnist (Olympics-96)
1977 - Danielle Harris, American actress
1977 - Sarah Wayne Callies, American actress
1977 - Brad Wilkerson, American baseball player
1977 - Richard Williams, British racing driver
1978 - Karen Kwan, Torrance California, figure skater (1995 Pac Coast Sr champ)
1979 - Santana Moss, American football player
1980 - Oliver James, British actor
1981 - Carlos Zambrano, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player
1981 - Brandi Carlile, American singer and songwriter
1982 - Justine Henin (formerly Henin-Hardenne), Belgian tennis player
1983 - Jake Silbermann, American actor
1984 - Naidangiin Tüvshinbayar, first Mongolian athlete win gold medal from Olympics
1984 - Oliver Tielemans, Dutch racing driver
1985 - Mário Hipólito, Angolan footballer
1985 - Nick Young, American basketball player
1986 - Dayana Mendoza, Miss Universe 2008
1987 - Zoltán Harsányi, Slovakian footballer
1988 - Nami Tamaki, Japanese pop singer
1992 - Felix Drake, English child actor

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 01, 2013, 06:12:39 PM

This Day in History for 1st June


Famous Deaths

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US President                                           Author Helen Keller (1968)
James Buchanan (1868)


195 BC - Gaozu of Han of China
193 - Didius Julianus, ship owner/emperor of Rome (193), murdered at 61
1191 - Philips van de Elzas, count of Vlanderen, dies
1340 - Jan III van Diest, bishop of Utrecht (1322-40), dies
1434 - Władysław II Jagiełło , King of Lithuania and later also Poland, dies (b.1351)
1568 - Duke of Alva and authority of Council of Troubles behead 18 nobles in Brussels for treason
           and heresy
1568 - Gijsbert van Bronkhorst-Batenburg, calvinist leader, beheaded
1571 - John Story, English Catholic
1616 - Tokugawa Ieyasu (b. 1543)
1625 - Honoré d'Urfé, French writer (b. 1568)
1639 - Melchior Franck, German composer
1660 - Mary Dyer, English Quaker (martyred)
1676 - Creutz, Swedish admiral (Öland), dies in battle
1676 - Uggla, Swedish admiral (Öland), dies in battle
1710 - David Mitchell, British admiral (b. 1642)
1713 - Johan Runius, Swedish poet (Dudaim), dies at 34
1729 - Matthaeus de Cock, gov-gen of Neth Indies (1725-29), dies at about 65
1740 - Samuel Werenfels, Swiss theologian (b. 1657)
1763 - Johann Caspar Vogler, composer, dies at 67
1769 - Edward Holyoke, President of Harvard University (b. 1689)
1795 - Pierre-Joseph Desault, French anatomist (b. 1744)
1810 - Johann Paul Wessely, composer, dies at 47
1815 - Louis Alexandre Berthier, French marshal (b. 1853)
1823 - Louis Nicholas Davout, French fieldmarshal, dies at 53
1826 - Jean Frédéric Oberlin, Alsatian pastor (b. 1740)
1830 - Sahajanand Swami, believed to be an incarnation of god by his followers, leaves his mortal
           body. (b. 1781)
1841 - David Wilkie, Scottish artist (b. 1785)
1846 - Gregory XVI, [Bartolomeo A Cappellari]/Mauro, Pope dies at 80
1861 - John Q Marr, US Confederate captain, dies in battle at Fairfax Courthouse, the first Confederate death of the war
1864 - Solomon George Washington Dill, poor white ally of blacks, assassinated in his home by white
           terrorists in SC
1864 - Hong Xiuquan, Chinese rebel (b. 1812)
1868 - James Buchanan, 15th US president (1857-61), dies at 77
1873 - Joseph Howe, Canadian politician (b. 1804)
1876 - Christo Botew, writer, dies
1909 - Giuseppe Martucci, composer, dies at 53
1910 - Francis S Haden, English surgeon/graphic artist, dies at 91
1918 - Friedrich Richard Faltin, composer, dies at 83
1918 - Jaroslav Novotny, composer, dies at 32
1922 - Frank Walters, cricketer (Test for Australia 1885, scored 7 & 5), dies
1926 - Vasily Mikhaylovich Metallov, composer, dies at 64
1927 - J. B. Bury, Irish historian (b. 1861)
1935 - Alberto Cametti, composer, dies at 64
1941 - Hugh S Walpole, British writer (Killer & the Slain), dies
1942 - Ernest Pingoud, composer, dies at 53
1942 - Vladislav Vancura, Czech physician/resistance fighter, executed at 50
1943 - Leslie Howard, actor (Romeo & Juliet), Nazis shot down his plane at 50
1943 - Wilfrid B. Israel, Jewish activist
1946 - Ion Antonescu, fascist premier/dictator of Romania, executed
1948 - Sonny Boy Williamson, [John Lee], blues player, dies at 34
1948 - Alex Gard, Russian-born caricaturist (b. 1900)
1951 - Rafael Altamira Crevea, Spanish lawyer/historian, dies at 85
1952 - John Dewey, US philosopher (Common Faith), dies at 92
1954 - Martin Andersen Nexø, Danish writer (b. 1869)
1955 - F Melius Christiansen, composer, dies at 84
1955 - Theo Frenkel, actor (Footlights, Hague's Comedy), dies
1959 - Sax Rohmer, English author (b. 1883)
1960 - Lester Patrick, NHL coach/star, dies at 76
1960 - Paula Hitler, sister of Adolf Hitler. (b. 1896)
1964 - Rutkowski Bronislaw, composer, dies at 66
1966 - Papa Jack Laine, American musician (b. 1873)
1968 - Helen Keller, blind & deaf/author (Let us Have Faith), dies at 87
1968 - [Johan] Erik Lindegren, Swedish poet/interpreter, dies at 57
1969 - Ivar Ballangrud, Norwegian ice skater (b. 1904)
1970 - G Ungaretti, writer, dies at 82
1971 - Reinhold Niebuhr, US theologist (Nature & Destiny of Man), dies at 78
1973 - Harvey S Firestone Jr, US tire manufacturer, dies at 75
1973 - Mary Kornman, actress (Desert Trail, Swing it Professor), dies at 57
1973 - Walter Greaza, actor (Leonard-Martin Kane, Treasury Men), dies at 76
1975 - Steve Prefontaine, 5K (Olympics-4-1972), dies at 25
1976 - Pieter Balledux, actor/stage manager/resistance fighter, dies at 89
1979 - Jack Mulhall, actor (Buck Rogers, Held for Ransom), dies at 91
1979 - Werner Forssman, German urologist (Nobel 1956), dies
1980 - [Richard] Rube Marquard, US baseball pitcher, dies at 90
1980 - Arthur Nielsen, American market analyst (b. 1897)
1981 - Carl Vinson, (Rep-D-Ga, 1914-64), dies at 97
1981 - Naim Chadir, PLO-representative in Brussels, murdered
1982 - Hendrik Algra, Newspaper publisher/Dutch MP (ARP), dies
1983 - Anna Seghers, writer, dies at 82
1983 - Charles Tham, of Saxon-Coburg-Gotha, count of Flanders/Prince, dies
1985 - Richard Greene, actor (Adv of Robin Hood), dies at 67
1986 - Jo Gartner, Austrian racing driver (d. 1958)
1987 - Errol W Barrow, PM of Barbados (1961-76), dies at 67
1987 - Rashid Karami, 10 time premier of Lebanon, dies in bomb attack at 65
1990 - Eric Barker, actor/writer (Carry on Sergeant, Roommates), dies
1991 - David Ruffin, rock vocalist (Temptations), dies of drug overdose at 50
1992 - Howard Ralston, actor (Pollyana), dies
1992 - Louise Hoff, entertainer, dies at 69
1992 - Michael King, actor (Lonely are the Brave), dies at 69
1994 - Frances Heflin, actress (Mona Tyler-All My Children), dies at 70
1994 - Juan J H Rovira, Spanish general, murdered
1994 - Willem C L "Wim" van der Grinten, lawyer/KVP-politician, dies at 80
1995 - Prudence Hyman, dancer, dies at 80
1995 - Ronald Anthony "Tony" Clegg, property trader, dies at 58
1996 - Don Grolnick, jazz musician, dies at 48
1996 - Fernand Schokweiler, judge, dies at 60
1996 - Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, president of India, dies at 83
1996 - Ray Combs, TV host (Family Feud), commits suicide at 40
1996 - Robert Arthur Hughes, missionary/surgeon, dies at 85
1996 - Stephen Jones, art historian, dies at 41
1997 - Nikolai Tikhonov, Soviet PM (1980-85), dies at 92
1998 - Darwin Joston, American actor (b. 1937)
1999 - Christopher Sydney Cockerell, British engineer and inventor (b. 1910)
2001 - Queen Aiswarya of Nepal (b. 1949)
2001 - King Birendra of Nepal (b. 1945)
2001 - Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist (b. 1920)
2002 - Hansie Cronje, South African cricketer (b. 1969)
2003 - Johnny Hopp, baseball player (b. 1916)
2004 - William Manchester, American writer (b. 1922)
2005 - George Mikan, American basketball player (b. 1924)
2006 - Rocío Jurado, Spanish singer and actress (b. 1944)
2007 - Arn Shein, American sports writer (b. 1928)
2007 - Tony Thompson, Singer in R&B group Hi-Five (b. 1975)
2008 - Tommy Lapid, Israeli journalist and politician (b. 1931)
2008 - Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer (b. 1936)
2010 - Lt. Gen. William H. Ginn, Jr., U.S. Air Force officer (b.1928)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 02, 2013, 11:03:43 AM

This Day in History for 2nd June


Historical Events

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King of England King Charles I                Abolitionist Harriet Tubman                  US President Grover Cleveland

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Baseball Great Babe Ruth                             Queen Elizabeth II                              US Beat Poet Allen Ginsberg

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264th Pope John Paul II                       Comedian/Actor Robin Williams                   Director Steven Spielberg


455 - A D Gaiseric & the Vandals sacked Rome
575 - Benedict I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
657 - St Eugene I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1615 - First Récollet missionaries arrive at Quebec City, from Rouen, France.
1619 - England & Netherlands signs treaty about business in the Indies
1625 - Prince Frederik Henry sworn in as viceroy of Holland/Zealand
1627 - English king Charles I establishes Guyana Company
1633 - Prince Frederik Henry conquerors fort Rhine at Cologne
1676 - Battle at Palermo: French beats Dutch/Spanish fleet
1697 - Monarch August van Saksen becomes Catholic
1746 - Russia & Austria sign agreements
1763 - Pontiac's Rebellion: At what is now Mackinaw City, Michigan, Chippewas capture Fort
           Michilimackinac by diverting the garrison's attention with a game of lacrosse, then chasing a
           ball into the fort.
1774 - Intolerable Acts: Amendment to original Quartering Act enacted, allowed governor in colonial
           America to house British soldiers in uninhabited houses, outhouses, barns, or other buildings
           if suitable quarters not provided.
1780 - Anti Catholic demonstration attacks parliament in London
1780 - The Derby horse race is held for the first time.
1797 - 1st ascent of "Great Mountain" (4,622') in Adirondack NY (C Broadhead)
1834 - 5th national black convention meet (NYC)
1835 - P T Barnum & his circus begin 1st tour of US
1848 - The Slavic congress in Prague begins.
1851 - 1st US alcohol prohibition law enacted (Maine)
1855 - The Portland Rum Riot occurs in Portland, Maine.
1857 - James Gibbs, Va, patents chain-stitch single-thread sewing machine
1858 - Donati Comet 1st seen named after it's discoverer
1862 - Gen Robert E Lee takes command of Confederate armies of E VA & NC
1862 - Raid at Early's: Maryland towards Washington DC
1863 - Harriet Tubman leads Union guerrillas into Maryland, freeing slaves
1864 - Battle of Cold Harbour, Day 2
1865 - At Galveston, Kirby-Smith surrenders Trans-Mississippi Dept
1866 - Renegade Irish Fenians surrender to US forces
1869 - Cleveland's Forest City play their 1st game (vs Cin Red Stockings)
1873 - Construction begins on Clay St (SF) for world's 1st cable railroad
1875 - James Augustine Healey became 1st Black Catholic Bishop in US
1876 - Hristo Botev, a national revolutionary of Bulgaria, is killed in Stara Planina
1881 - Haarlem-Zandvoort Railway opens
1882 - Pierre de Brazza festival welcomed in Paris
1883 - 1st night baseball under lights, Ft Wayne Indiana
1883 - Chicago's "El" opens to traffic
1886 - Grover Cleveland is 1st to wed during presidency (Frances Folsom)
1896 - 30th Belmont: Henry Griffin aboard Hastings wins in 2:24.5
1896 - Guglielmo Marconi applies to patent the radio, accepted 2 July 1897
1899 - Black Americans observed day of fasting to protest lynchings
1901 - Benjamin Adams arrested for playing golf on Sunday (NY)
1902 - 2nd statewide initiative & referendum law adopted, in Oregon
1903 - Netherlands Korfball League forms
1903 - Pirates win a triple header from Dodgers
1904 - Professor Schron finds microbe that causes photosynthesis
1908 - 33rd Preakness: Eddie Dugan aboard Royal Tourist wins in 1:46.4
1909 - 43rd Belmont: Eddie Dugan aboard Joe Madden wins in 2:21.6
1909 - Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
1910 - 1st roundtrip flight over English Channel (C S Rolls, England)
1910 - Pygmies discovered in Dutch New Guinea
1913 - 1st strike settlement mediated by US Dept of Labor-RR clerks
1913 - Demonstrations for general voting right in Neth
1914 - Glenn Curtiss flies his Langley Aerodrome
1916 - German troops under Lt Rackow take Fort Vaux
1919 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Carl Sandburg (Cornhuskers)
1920 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Eugene O'Neill (Beyond the Horizon)
1922 - Suffy McInnis (1st base) ends an errorless string of 1,700 chances
1924 - Snyder Act: US citizenship granted to all American Indians
1925 - NY Yankee Lou Gehrig begins his 2,130 consecutive game streak
1928 - Velveeta Cheese created by Kraft
1930 - Sarah Dickson becomes 1st woman Presbyterian elder in US, Cincinnati
1932 - Franz von Papen "Cabinet of the Baron" premieres
1933 - FDR authorizes 1st swimming pool built inside the White House
1933 - WNJ-AM in Newark NJ goes off the air
1935 - Babe Ruth, 40, announces his retirement as a player
1936 - Gen Anastasio Somoza takes over as dictator of Nicaragua
1940 - Heavy German bombing on Dunkirk beach
1942 - Red Sox star Ted Williams enlists as a Navy aviator
1943 - 99th Pursuit Squadron flies 1st combat mission (over Italy)
1943 - German assault on Sebastopol Krim, begins
1944 - Generals Eisenhower & Montgomery dine in Portsmouth
1944 - Judendurchgangslager Vught disbands
1946 - Italian plebiscite chooses republic over monarchy (National Day)
1947 - "Louisiana Lady" opens at Century Theater NYC for 4 performances
1947 - Hungarian premier Ferenc Nagy resigns
1949 - Transjordan renamed Jordan
1950 - ST Louis Browns pitcher Harry Dorish swipes home vs Wash Senators
1951 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Evangelii praecones
1952 - 650,000 metal workers go on strike in US
1952 - Maurice Olley of General Motors begins designing the Corvette
1953 - Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey
1954 - John Costello (Cons) becomes premier of Ireland
1955 - The USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade declaration and thus normalize relations between
           both countries, discontinued since 1948.
1956 - Yugoslav president Tito visits Moscow
1957 - Fay Crocker wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament
1957 - US TV interviews Khrushchev
1958 - Alan Freed joins WABC (NYC) radio
1958 - Brooks Robinson, hits into 1st of record 4 triple plays
1958 - Yankees pitcher Whitey Ford fans 6 in a row to tie an AL record
1959 - Allen Ginsberg writes his poem "Lysergic Acid," SF
1960 - Broadway theaters close (labor dispute between owners & Actors Equity)
1962 - 32nd French Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats Roy Emerson (36 26 63 97 62)
1963 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
1964 - "Follies Bergere" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 191 performances
1964 - Lal Bahadur Sjastri elected premier of India
1964 - Rolling Stones 1st US concert tour debuts in Lynn, Mass
1965 - 2nd of 2 cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000 (Ganges R India)
1966 - US Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum; 1st lunar soft-landing
1967 - Race riots in Roxbury section of Boston
1968 - Canadians must get government permission to export silver
1968 - WBLG (now WTVQ) TV channel 62 in Lexington, KY (ABC) 1st broadcast
1969 - Australian aircraft carrier "Melbourne" slices US destroyer "Frank E Evans" in half, killing 74
           (South Vietnam)
1969 - Murle Lindstrom wins LPGA O'Sullivan Ladies Golf Open
1971 - Ajax wins 16th Europe Cup 1
1973 - "Nash at Nine" closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 21 performances
1974 - Judy Rankin wins LPGA Baltimore Golf Classic
1974 - Mali adopts constitution
1974 - Malta's constitution goes into effect
1975 - 1st time snow fell in London in June
1975 - James A Healy, 1st black Roman Catholic bishop, consecrated (Maine)
1975 - VP Rockefeller finds no pattern of illegal activities at CIA
1976 - East-Timor People's Assembly accepts annexation through Indonesia
1977 - NJ allows casino gambling in Atlantic City
1979 - John Paul II becomes 1st pope to visit a communist country (Poland)
1979 - NASA launches space vehicle S-198
1980 - "Your Arm's Too Short to Box..." opens at Ambassador NYC for 149 perfs
1981 - Barbara Walters asks Katharine Hepburn what kind of tree she would be
1982 - "Blues in the Night" opens at Rialto Theater NYC for 53 performances
1983 - 1980 movie "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes," released in Germany
1983 - Toilet catches fire on Air Canada's DC-9, 23 die at Cincinnati
1984 - "Welcome To Fun Zone" hosted by Dr Demento airs on NBC-TV
1984 - Actress Jill Ireland has a radical mastectomy
1984 - Flight readiness firing of Discovery's main engines
1985 - 31st LPGA Championship won by Nancy Lopez
1985 - 39th Tony Awards: Biloxi Blues & Big River win
1985 - Andreas Papandreous PASOK-party wins election in Greece
1985 - RJ Reynolds Company proposed a merger with Nabisco
1986 - NYC transit system issues a new brass with steel bullseye token
1986 - Regular TV coverage of US Senate sessions begins
1987 - Mariners draft Ken Griffey Jr #1
1988 - 61st Natl Spell Bee: Rageshree Ramachandran wins spelling elegiacal
1988 - Consumer Reports calls for a ban on the Suzuki Samurai automobile
1989 - "Dead Poets Society" starring Robin Williams, premieres
1989 - 14 year old Scott Isaacs spells spoliator to win 1989 Spelling Bee
1989 - Cincinnati Red Eric Davis hits for cycle
1989 - 10,000 Chinese soldiers are blocked by 100,000 citizens protecting students demonstrating
           for democracy in Tiananmen Square, Beijing
1990 - "Turtle Power" by Partners In Kryme hits #13
1990 - Seattle's Randy Johnson, no-hits Tigers, 2-0
1991 - 45th Tony Awards: Lost in Yonkers & Will Rogers Follies win
1991 - 4th Children's Miracle Network Telethon
1991 - Rosie Jones wins LPGA Rochester Golf International
1991 - Seppo Raty of Finland improves his world javelin record to 318' 1"
1991 - Three Andrettis finished 1-2-3 in the Miller 200 at Wisconsin
1992 - Former NFL NY Giant Coach Bill Parcells undergoes open heart surgery
1992 - Wilson Phillips release their 2nd album "Shadows & Light"
1994 - 67th National Spelling Bee: Ned Andrews wins spelling antediluvian
1994 - Chinook helicopter crashes in North Scotland (29 killed)
1994 - Indonesian censors ban Steven Spielberg's "Schindler's List"
1994 - Sharon Stone files $12m lawsuit against her jeweler
1995 - John Valentin hits 3 HRs
1996 - 50th Tony Awards: Master Class & Rent win
1996 - 51st US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Annika Sorenstam
1996 - 9th Children's Miracle Network Telethon
1997 - Albert Belle's Chic White Sox tying 27-game hitting streak ends
1997 - Liberals beat Conservatives in France
1997 - Timothy McVeigh found guilty of 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, killing 168
1998 - The CIH computer virus is discovered in Taiwan.
1999 - The Bhutan Broadcasting Service brings television transmissions to the Kingdom for the first
           time.
2003 - Europe launches its first voyage to another planet, Mars. The European Space Agency's Mars
           Express probe launches from the Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan.
2004 - Ken Jennings begins his 74-game winning streak on the syndicated game show Jeopardy!.

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 02, 2013, 11:07:02 AM

This Day in History for 2nd June


Famous Weddings

1129 - Fulco V's son Godfried marries king Henry I's daughter Mathildis
1886 - 22nd and 24th US President Grover Cleveland (49) weds Frances Folsom (21) in the Blue
           Room at the White House
1951 - "The Thin Man" actress Myrna Loy (45) weds UNESCO delegate Howland H. Sargeant
1989 - Rolling Stones Bill Wyman marries Mandy Smith
2012 - Actress Drew Barrymore (37) weds writer Will Kopelman in Montecito, California
2012 - Vice President Joe Biden's daughter Ashley Biden (30) weds Dr. Howard David Krein at St.
           Joseph on the Brandywine in Wilmington, Delaware

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 02, 2013, 11:14:52 AM

This Day in History for 2nd June


Famous Birthdays

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Drummer Charlie Watts (1941)                  Actor Wayne Brady (1972)


926 - Murakami, Emperor of Japan (d. 967)
1504 - George/Joris van Egmont, bishop of Utrecht
1535 - Leo XI, [Alessandro O de' Medici], Italy, Pope (1605)
1577 - Giovanni Righi, composer
1614 - Benjamin Rogers, composer
1624 - Jan III Sobieski, King of Poland (1674-96)
1715 - Herman-Francois Delange, composer
1732 - Martha Washington, 1st, 1st lady (1789-97)
1740 - Marquis de Sade, 1st known sadist/writer (Justine)
1751 - Antoni Weinert, composer
1758 - Cornelis R T Krayenhoff, Dutch fortress engineer/cartographer
1759 - Jan Ekels, the Young, Dutch painter
1773 - John Randolph, U.S. Senator from Virginia (d. 1833)
1774 - William Lawson, explorer of New South Wales, Australia (d. 1850)
1777 - Christian Traugott Tag, composer
1802 - Adrian van der Hoop Jr, Dutch poet/critic
1806 - Isaac Strauss, composer
1807 - Robert Fuhrer, composer
1815 - Philip Kearny, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
1821 - Ion Bratianu, (Lib), premier of Romania (1876-88)
1823 - Gédéon Ouimet, French Canadian politician (d. 1905)
1828 - James Cutler Dunn Parker, composer
1830 - Olivier Metra, composer
1831 - Benjamin Hardin Helm, Brigadier General (Conf)/Lincoln's brother-in-law
1831 - Jan G Palm, Curacao, bandmaster/choir master/composer
1835 - Pius X, [Giuseppe Sarto], 257th Roman Catholic pope (1903-14)
1838 - Grand Duchess Alexandra Petrovna (d. 1900)
1840 - Thomas Hardy, England, poet/novelist (Far from the Madding Crowd)
1842 - Constantly AM Cap, Flemish poet/etcher
1849 - Paul-Albert Besnard, French painter/graphic artist (La femme)
1857 - Edward William Elgar, Broadheath Engld, composer (Pomp & Circumstance)
1857 - Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Denmark, poet (Poutnici Svetem, Nobel 1917)
1858 - Harry Rowe Shelley, composer
1863 - Paul Felix Weingartner, Germany, conductor (Zara, Dalmatia)
1864 - Ben Webster, London England, actor (Old Curiosity Shop)
1865 - George Lohmann, cricketer (England's great bowler late 19th cent)
1869 - Jack O'Connor, baseball player (d. 1937)
1876 - Hakon Borresen, composer
1879 - Adolf Herckenrath, Flemish playwright/poet (Avondvlam)
1883 - Bokke R S Pollema, Dutch Frisian journalist/author (Lock of Hair)
1887 - Howard Johnson, American songwriter (d. 1941)
1890 - Hedda Hopper, [Elda Furry], PA, gossip columnist (From Under My Hat)
1891 - Ernst Kunz, composer
1891 - Thurman Arnold, American attorney and jurist (d. 1969)
1899 - Royal Beal, Brookline MA, actor (Death of a Salesman)
1900 - David Wynne, composer
1901 - Michael Todd, producer (Around the World in 80 Days)
1904 - Johnny Weissmuller, actor (Tarzan)/100m swimmer (Oly-5 gold-1924, 28)
1904 - Frank Runacres, English artist (d. 1
1907 - Dorothy West, US journalist/author (Living is Easy)
1908 - Gordon Weir, cricketer (NZ batsman in 11 Tests 1930-37)
1909 - Robin Orr, composer
1911 - Xia Hong, writer
1913 - Barbara Pym, romantic author (Very Private Eye), (d. 1980)
1913 - Bert Farber, Bkln NY, orchestra leader (Arthur Gudfrey, Vic Damone)
1913 - Walter Andreas Schwarz, German singer and author (d. 1992)
1915 - Lester del Rey, US, sci-fi author (Moon Trilogy, Marooned on Mars)
1915 - Robert Moffat Palmer, composer
1915 - Walter Tetley, NYC, animation voice (Sherman-Bullwinkle Show)
1915 - Alexandru Nicolschi, Russian communist (d. 1992)
1915 - Florence Holway, Massachusetts, 75 year old rape victim and activist, (d. 2012)
1917 - Max Showalter, Caldwell Ks, actor/composer (Stockard Channing Show)
1917 - Heinz Sielmann, German photographer and filmmaker (d. 2006)
1918 - Ruth Atkinson, American cartoonist (d. 1997)
1919 - Nat Mayer Shapiro, American painter (d. 2005)
1920 - Michael James O'Hehir, commentator/journalist
1920 - Yolande Donlan, NJ, actress (Jigsaw, Expresso Bongo, Penny Princess)
1920 - Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Polish-born cr
1920 - Tex Schramm, American football team president and general manager (d. 2003)
1920 - Frank G. Clement, Governor of Tennessee (d. 1969)
1921 - Alexander Salkind, producer (Superman)
1922 - Charlie Sifford, American go
1922 - Juan Antonio Bardem, Spanish director and screenwriter (d. 2002)
1923 - Del Simmons, rocker (Capt Beefheart)
1924 - June Callwood, Canadian jounalist and activist (d. 2007)
1926 - Milo O'Shea, Dublin Ireland, actor (Barbarella, Romeo & Juliet)
1927 - Andre Vandernoot, Flemish conductor (Royal Flemish Opera)
1927 - Phillip Burton, historian (Vanishing Eagles)
1927 - W. Watts Biggers, American novelist and animator, (d. 2013)
1928 - John Anthony Bowden Cuddon, writer/teacher
1929 - Alcides Lanza, composer
1929 - Frederic Devreese, composer
1929 - Willaim Brown, television executive
1929 - Norton Juster, American author and archi
1929 - Ken McGregor, Australian tennis player
1930 - Charles Pete Conrad Jr, Phila, USN/astro (Gem 5 11, Ap 12, Skylab 2)
1930 - Bob Lillis, baseball player
1931 - Larry Jackson, baseball player
1932 - Sammy Turner, Patterson, NJ, singer (Lavender Blue Moods)
1932 - Yaroslav Kirillovich Golovyanov, cosmonaut
1933 - Bob Rozario, Shanghai China, orchestra leader (Tony Orlando, Marie)
1933 - Jerry Lumpe, baseball player
1934 - Johnny Carter, US singer (Give your baby a standing ovation)
1935 - Carol Shields, American-born novelist (d. 2
1935 - Roger Brierley, English actor (d. 2005)
1935 - Dimitri Kitsikis, Greek turkologist
1936 - Sally Kellerman, Long Beach Cal, actress (M*A*S*H, Back to School)
1936 - Vladimir Golubnichy, USSR, 20K walker (Olympic-gold-1960, 68)
1937 - Jimmy Jones, rocker
1938 - Frits Wols, [Eugene W Wong Loi Sing], Suriname, sec-gen (UNESCO)
1938 - Gene Michael, baseball shortstop/manager/general manger (NY Yankees)
1938 - Kevin Brownlow, English film historian and author
1939 - Charles Miller, rock flutist/saxophonist (War)
1940 - Christopher Bernau, Santa Barbara CA, actor (Guiding Light)
1940 - Constantine II, deposed King of Greece (1964-73)
1940 - Horace Clarke, baseball 2nd baseman (NY Yankees)
1940 - Jim Maloney, baseball pitcher
1941 - Charlie Watts, drummer (Rolling Stones-Brown Sugar)
1941 - Oda Mayumi, Tokyo, resident artist (Green Gulch Zen Center)
1941 - Stacy Keach, Savannah Ga, actor (Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer)
1941 - William Guest, Atlanta Ga, singer (Gladys Knight Show)
1942 - Marie Cheatham, Oklahoma, actress (Search for Tomorrow, Guiding Light)
1943 - Charles Haid, SF Ca, actor (Andy Renko-Hill St Blues, Altered States)
1943 - John Lilipaly, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (PvdA)
1943 - Maarten B Engwirda, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (D66)
1943 - Ilaiyaraaja, Indian composer
1944 - Garo Yepremian, NFL place kicker (Miami Dolphins)
1944 - Marvin Hamlisch, NYC, composer/pianist (Sting, Chorus Line), (d. 2012)
1944 - Poul Jensen, Denmark, yachting (Olympic-gold-1976, 80)
1945 - Bob Benrit, rocker
1946 - Roger Freed, baseball player
1946 - Peter Sutcliffe, English murd
1947 - Jan Ferraris, LPGA golfer
1947 - Mark Elder, British opera and symphony conductor
1948 - Albert Innaurato, Phila, playwright/director (Age in Soho)
1948 - Jerry Mathers, Sioux City Iowa, actor (Beaver-Leave It To Beaver)
1949 - Heather Couper, British astron
1950 - Joanna Gleason, Toronto Canada, actress (Morgan-Hello Larry)
1950 - Toni Alessandrini, Chicago Ill, actress (Vice Academy Part 2)
1950 - [Antone] Chubby Tavares, rocker (Tavares)
1951 - Larry Clark Robinson, NHL defenseman (Mont Canadiens, Norris-77, 80)
1951 - Steve Brookins, rocker (.38 Special)
1952 - Gary Bettman, American National Hockey League commissioner
1953 - Craig Robert Stadler, San Diego CA, PGA golfer (Masters 1982)
1954 - Michael Steele, rocker (Bangles-Eternal Flame, Walk Like an Egyptian)
1955 - Dennis Haysbert, San Mateo California, actor (Code Red)
1955 - Gary Grimes, SF, actor (Summer of '42, Class of '44)
1955 - Dana Carvey, Missoula MT, comedian (SNL, Garth-Wayne's World)
1955 - Chantal Hochuli, Swiss-born socialite
1956 - Mark L Polansky, Paterson NJ, pilot/astronaut
1956 - Mani Ratnam, Indian dire
1956 - Malcolm Garrett, English graphic designer
1957 - King Lizzard, American enterta
1957 - Mark Lawrenson, English Football Pundit
1958 - Lex Lugar, [Larry Pfohl], Atlanta Ga, wrestler (WWF/WCW/NWA)
1959 - Charlie Huddy, Oshawa, NHL defenseman (Buffalo Sabres)
1959 - Lydia Lunch, US singer/poetess (Teenage Jesus, Jerks)
1960 - Tony Hadley, rock vocalist (Spandau Ballet-True)
1960 - Kyle Petty, American race car dr
1961 - John Cameroon, guitarist (Claw Boys Claw)
1961 - Kerry Junna-Saxby, Australian 10k walker (Olympics-15th-1992, 96)
1961 - Dez Cadena, American musician (Black Flag)
1962 - Darnell Coles, baseball player
1962 - Laura Witvoet, Alberta Canada, LPGA golfer (1995 LPGA Corning-52nd)
1963 - Brian Harvey, baseball umpire (NL)
1963 - Jay B Cooper, Coral Gables Fla, Canadian Tour golfer (1992 Jamaica)
1963 - Tim Balmer, Milwaukee Wis, Canadian Tour golfer (Bermuda Open-1990)
1964 - Caroline Link, German film director and screenwriter
1965 - Mark Waugh, cricketer (twin of Steve mighty batsman for Australia)
1965 - Steve Waugh, cricketer (twin of Mark mighty batsman for Australia)
1965 - Jim Knipfel, American autobiographer and journa
1966 - Pedro Guerra, Spanish songwriter and singer
1967 - Mike Evans, WLAF DL (Amsterdam Admirals)
1967 - Mike Stanton, Houston TX, pitcher (NY Yankees, Boston Red Sox)
1967 - Randy Hilliard, NFL cornerback (Denver Broncos)
1968 - Beetlejuice, member of Howard Stern's Wack
1968 - Jon Culshaw, British comedian
1969 - David Wheaton, Minneapolis Minn, tennis star (1987 US junior boys)
1969 - Kurt Abbott, Zanesville OH, infielder (Florida Marlins)
1969 - Cy Chadwick, English actor
1970 - Andy McCollum, NFL center/guard (New Orleans Saints)
1970 - Eric Riley, NBA center (Dallas Mavericks, Minnesota Timberwolves)
1970 - Marty Mcinnis, Weymouth, NHL left wing (NY Islanders)
1970 - Mike Kelly, baseball player
1970 - Randy Fuller, NFL defensive back (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1970 - B-Real, American rapper (Cypress Hill)
1971 - Martin Suji, cricketer (Kenyan pace bowler 1996 World Cup)
1971 - Steve Brooks, WLAF tight end (Frankfurt Galaxy, London Monarchs)
1971 - Anthony Montgomery, American a
1971 - Kateřina Jacques, Czech politician
1972 - Brad Ottis, tackle (Arizona Cardinals)
1972 - Dwayne Joseph, NFL cornerback (Chic Bears)
1972 - Renee Heiken, Peoria IL, LPGA golfer (1994 Florida Women's Open)
1972 - Wayne Brady, Columbus, Georgia, American actor and comedian (The Wayne Brady Show,
           Whose Line Is It Anyway?)
1972 - Wentworth Miller, American actor
1972 - Simon Staho, Danish film director
1973 - Jayantha Silva, cricketer (Sri Lankan Test left-arm spinner 1995)
1974 - Tammy Holmes, Berkeley California, female outfielder (Colo Silver Bullets)
1974 - Matt Serra, American mixed martial ar
1974 - Gata Kamsky, American chess player
1975 - Dontae' Jones, NBA forward (Boston Celtics)
1975 - Sally Newmarch, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1976 - Adrian Carlos Olivares, Mexico City, singer (Menudo-Cannonball)
1976 - Elly Hutton, Australian 100m sprinter (Olympics-96)
1976 - Josef Marha, Havl-brod Cze, NHL center (Colorado Avalanche)
1976 - Rachel White, Columbus Nebraska, Miss America-Nebraska (1997)
1976 - Queen 'Masenate Mohato Seeiso, Queen consort of Lesotho
1976 - Earl Boykins, American basketball pl
1976 - Tim Rice-Oxley, English musician (Keane)
1976 - Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira, Brazilian mixed martial artist
1977 - Zachary Quinto, American actor
1978 - Nikki Cox, actress (Unhappily Ever After)
1978 - A.J. Styles, American professional wrestler
1978 - Dominic Cooper, English a
1978 - Justin Long, American actor
1980 - Fabrizio Moretti, Brazilian-born rock drummer (The Stro
1980 - Abby Wambach, American Soccer player
1981 - Chin-hui Tsao, Taiwanese baseball player
1981 - Nikolay Davydenko, Russian professional tennis pl
1981 - Tucker Rountree, American guitarist and composer.
1982 - Jewel Staite, Canadian actress
1983 - Christopher Higgins, American ice hockey pl
1983 - Brooke White, American singer
1985 - Ana Cristina, Cuban American singer,composer, and actress
1987 - Darin Zanyar, Swedish Singer
1988 - Sergio Agüero, Argentinian footballer
1988 - Patrik Berglund, Swedish hockey player
1989 - Freddy Adu, Ghanaian-American footballer
1990 - Brittany Curran, American actress
1994 - Prima Sellecchia Tesh, daughter of John Tesh & Connie Sellecca

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 02, 2013, 11:19:55 AM

This Day in History for 2nd June


Famous Deaths

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Murderer Lizzie Borden (1927)


657 - Eugene I, Italian Pope (654-7), dies
910 - Richilde of Provence, Queen of Western Francia
1418 - Katherine of Lancaster, wife of Henry III of Castile
1564 - Gellius Faber, [Jelle Smit], Fries theologist, dies
1567 - Shane O'Neill, Irish chieftain
1572 - Thomas Howard 4th duke of Norfolk, English Earl, executed at 36
1575 - Pieter Aertsen, [Long Worm], painter, dies at about 65
1581 - James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton, regent of Scotland
1597 - Diederik Sonoy, German/Neth governor of Northern quarter, dies at 67
1632 - Ernst Casimir, count of Nassau-Dietz/mayor of Friesland, dies at 58
1639 - Floris II van Pallandt, earl of Culemborg/politician, dies at 62
1678 - Pieter the Great, regent/diplomat, dies at 63
1693 - John Wildman, English soldier and politician
1701 - Madeleine de Scudéry, French writer (b. 1607)
1716 - Ogata Korin, Japanese painter
1750 - Johann Valentin Rathgeber, German composer, dies at 68
1754 - Ebenezer Erskine, Scottish religious dissenter (b. 1680)
1761 - Jonas Alströmer, Swedish industrialist (b. 1685)
1785 - Jean Paul de Gua de Malves, French mathematician (b. 1713)
1812 - John W de Winter, Dutch vice-adm, dies at battle at Kamperduin at 51
1833 - Simon Byrne, Irish bare-knuckle prize fighter (b. 1806)
1839 - Wijnand YY Nuijen, painter/lithographer (Wrecked), dies at 26
1864 - George Pierce Doles, US businessman/Confed brig-general, dies at 34
1865 - John E Feisser, founder (1st Dutch baptist church), dies at 59
1865 - Ner Alexander Middleswarth, American politician (b. 1783)
1873 - Francois Hainl, composer, dies at 65
1875 - Józef Kremer, Polish messianistic philosopher (b. 1806)
1879 - E Louis JJ Napoleon Bonaparte, crown prince, dies in battle at 23
1881 - Émile Littré, French lexicographer (b. 1801)
1882 - Guiseppi Garibaldi, Italian rebel leader, dies at 74
1896 - Gerhard Rohlfs, German explorer (Abbsynia/Ethiopia), dies
1901 - James A Herne, [J Aherne], US playwright (Margaret Fleming), dies
1901 - George Leslie Mackay, Canadian missionary (b. 1844)
1908 - Redvers H Buller, English general, dies at 68
1927 - Eduard GHH Cuypers, architect (De Hooge Vuursche), dies at 67
1927 - Freidrich Hegar, composer, dies at 85
1927 - Lizzie Borden, American accused murderer, dies at 68
1929 - Charles Coventry, cricketer (13 runs in 2 Tests Eng v S Af 1889), dies
1933 - Frank Jarvis, American athlete (b. 1878)
1937 - Louis Vierne, composer, dies at 66
1940 - Willem E Roelofs, painter/cartoonist, dies
1941 - Lou Gehrig, 1st baseman (NY Yankee), dies of ALS in Riverdale NY at 37
1941 - Lou Gehrig, American baseball player (b. 1903)
1947 - Hermann Darewsky, composer, dies at 64
1948 - Viktor Brack, Nazi physician (b. 1904)
1948 - Karl Brandt, personal physician of Adolf Hitler (b. 1904)
1948 - Karl Gebhardt, Nazi doctor (b. 1897)
1948 - Waldemar Hoven, German physician (b. 1903)
1948 - Wolfram Sievers, Nazi physician (b. 1905)
1949 - Dynam-Victor Fumet, composer, dies at 82
1949 - Ernest Ford, composer, dies at 91
1950 - Stanislas Bizot, French checker player (world champ 1925), dies at 70
1951 - Alain, [Emile-Auguste Chartier], French philosopher, dies at 83
1951 - John Erskine, US writer/poet/pianist (Venus Love Goddess), dies at 71
1956 - Jean Hersholt, actress (Emma, Grand Hotel, Greed), dies at 69
1961 - George S Kaufman, playwright/dir/pulitzer prize winner, dies at 72
1961 - Peter H "Paul" Huf, actor/director (Dutch Comedy), dies at 70
1962 - Franc S Finzgar, Slovic writer (Service Girls), dies
1962 - V Sackville-West, writer, dies at 70
1967 - Zamah Cunningham, actress (Menosha the Magnificent), dies at 74
1967 - Benno Ohnesorg, German student (b. 1940)
1968 - André Mathieu, Quebec pianist and composer (b. 1929)
1970 - Bruce McLaren, New Zealand car racer, designer, and founder of eponymous race team (b.
           1937)
1970 - Giuseppe Ungaretti, Italian poet (b. 1888)
1970 - Albert Lamorisse, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1922)
1971 - Charles de Keukeleire, Belgian director (Evil Eye), dies at 66
1972 - Franz Philipp, composer, dies at 81
1974 - Elliott Sullivan, actor (Sergeant), dies at 66
1974 - Waldemar F Eric Marx, cricketer (3 Tests South Africa v Aust 1921-22), dies
1974 - Hiroshi Kazato, Japanese racing driver (b. 1949)
1975 - Eisaku Sato, premier of Japan (1964-71 Nobel 1974), dies at 74
1976 - Alan Dewitt, actor (Mr Tyler-It's About Time), dies at 52
1976 - Bartoes, [Albertus J Wijstma], cabaret performer/comic, dies at 73
1976 - Juan José Torres, former President of Bolivia, assassinated in the frame of Operation Condor
1977 - Forrest Lewis, actor (Great Gildersleeve, Ichabod & Me), dies at 77
1977 - Henri D Gagnebin, Swiss organist/composer, dies at 91
1977 - Stephen Boyd, actor (Fantastic Voyage, Ben-Hur, Lisa), dies at 48
1979 - Jim Hutton, actor (Ellery Queen), dies of liver cancer at 45
1982 - Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, Pakistani politician (b. 1904)
1983 - Stan Rogers, musician, dies in aircraft fire
1984 - Georgios Kasassoglou, Greek musician (b. 1908)
1986 - Daniel Sternefeld, Belgian conductor/composer (Elegie), dies at 80
1986 - Aurel Joliat, Canadian hockey player (b. 1901)
1987 - Andres Segovia, Spanish composer/guitarist, dies at 94
1987 - Sammy Kaye, orchestra leader (Sammy Kaye Show), dies at 77
1988 - Horace A Hildreth, (Gov-Maine, 1945-49), dies at 85
1989 - Ted a'Beckett, cricketer (4 Tests 1928-32), dies
1990 - Frederick Mellinger, founder of Fredericks of Hollywood, dies at 76
1990 - Jack Gilford, actor (Cracker Jacks), dies at 82
1990 - Rex Harrison, actor (My Fair Lady), dies of cancer at 82
1990 - Robert Noyce, co-inventor (semi-conductor)/founder (Intel), dies
1990 - Stuart Hall, actor (Cavalcade, Dawn Patrol), dies
1992 - Philip Dunne, founder (Screen Writers Guild), dies of cancer at 84
1993 - French JFM of Thiel, Dutch 2nd chamber chairman (1963-72), dies at 86
1993 - Johnny Mize, baseball player, dies at 80
1994 - David Stove, Australian philosopher (b. 1927)
1996 - John Alton, cinematographer, dies at 94
1996 - Leon Garield, writer, dies at 74
1996 - Peter Bird, ocean rower, dies at 49
1996 - Amos Tversky, Israeli psychologist (b. 1937)
1997 - Doc Cheatham, jazz musician, dies of stroke at 91
1998 - Sylvester Ritter, American professional wrestler (b. 1952)
1999 - Junior Braithwaite, Jamaican musician (The Wailers) (b. 1949)
2000 - Svyatoslav Fyodorov, Russian ophthalmologist (b. 1927)
2000 - Gerald Whitrow, British mathematician (b. 1912)
2001 - Imogene Coca, American actress (b. 1908)
2001 - Frank Stagg, Baptist Theologian (b. 1911)
2001 - Joey Maxim, American boxer (b. 1922)
2003 - Fred Blassie, American professional wrestler (b. 1918)
2004 - Loyd Sigmon, American amateur ("ham") radio broadcaster (b. 1909)
2005 - Gunder Gundersen, Norwegian Nordic combined skier and sports official (b. 1930)
2005 - Chloe Jones, Model and pornographic actress (b. 1975)
2005 - Samir Kassir, Lebanese journalist and teacher (b. 1950)
2005 - Melita Norwood, British spy (b. 1912)
2006 - Keith Smith, English professional rugby player (b. 1952)
2006 - Vince Welnick, musician, keyboardist (The Grateful Dead) (b. 1951)
2007 - Huang Ju, Chinese Vice-Premier
2007 - Kentaro Haneda, Japanese composer (b. 1949)
2008 - Bo Diddley, American musician (b. 1928)
2008 - Mel Ferrer, American actor, film director and film producer (b. 1917)
2009 - David Eddings, American fantasy writer. (b. 1931)
2011 - Willem Duys, Dutch commentator and music producer (b. 1928)
2012 - Kathryn Joosten, american actress, dies from lung cancer at 72
2012 - Richard Dawson, English-American actor, dies from esophageal cancer at 79

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 03, 2013, 10:47:00 AM

This Day in History for 3rd June


Historical Events

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Outlaw Jesse James                              Inventor Alexander Graham Bell             US President John F. Kennedy

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Beatles Drummer Ringo Starr              Baseball Player Darryl Strawberry               264th Pope John Paul II

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Golfer Tiger Woods


350 - Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman Emperor,
         entering Rome at the head of a group of gladiators.
1083 - Henry IV of Germany storms Rome, capturing St Peter's Cathedral
1098 - After 5-month siege in 1st Crusade, the Crusaders seize Antioch Turkey
1140 - French scholar Peter Abelard is found guilty of heresy.
1326 - Treaty of Novgorod delineates borders between Russia and Norway in Finnmark.
1357 - Peace of Aat
1539 - Hernando De Soto claims Florida for Spain
1540 - Hernando de Soto crosses Appalachian Mountain, 1st European to do so
1620 - Construction of the oldest stone church in French North America, Notre-Dame-des-Anges,
           begins at Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
1621 - Dutch West India Company (WIC) receives charter for The West Indies (included, The
           Americas, Caribbean and West Africa)
1658 - Pope Alexander VII appoints François de Laval vicar apostolic in New France.
1665 - Duke of York defeats Dutch fleet off the coast of Lowestoft
1748 - Amsterdam establishes municipal postal service
1752 - Moscow houses & churchs destroyed by fire
1770 - Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo founded in Calif
1781 - Jack Jouett rides to warn Jefferson of British attack
1789 - Alex Mackenzie explores Mackenzie River (Canada)
1818 - Maratha Wars between British & Maratha Confederacy in India ends
1833 - 4th national black convention meets (Phila)
1851 - 1st baseball uniforms worn, NY Knickerbockers wear straw hat, white shirt & blue long
           trousers
1856 - Cullen Whipple patents screw machine
1860 - Comanche, Iowa completely destroyed by 1 of a series of tornadoes
1861 - 1st Civil War land battle-Union defeats Confederacy at Philippi, WV
1864 - Gen Lee wins his last victory of Civil War at Battle of Cold Harbor
1871 - Jesse James & his gang robs Obocock Bank (Corydon Iowa), of $15,000
1875 - Alexander Graham Bell makes 1st voice transmission
1876 - Lacrosse introduced in Britain & Canada
1884 - John Lynch (R-MS) chosen 1st black major-party natl convention chair
1886 - 24 Christians burn to death in Namgongo Uganda
1888 - "Casey at the Bat" published (SF Examiner)
1889 - The Canadian Pacific Railway is completed from coast to coast.
1899 - W G Grace's last day of Test cricket aged 50 yrs 320 days
1906 - Belgian King Leopold II calls Congo his private possession
1907 - Centro Escolar University is established by Librada Avelino and Carmen de Luna in Manila,
          Philippines.
1911 - "Come Josephine in My Flying Machine" hits #1
1913 - Dutch 1st Chamber accepts Health laws
1916 - National Defense Act establishes ROTC
1918 - Supreme Court rules child labor laws unconstitutional
1919 - Liberty Life Insurance Co (Chicago) organized by blacks
1921 - A sudden cloudburst kills 120 near Pikes Peak, Colorado
1924 - Gila Wilderness Area established by Forest Service
1925 - Eddie Collins, is 6th to get 3,000 hits
1925 - Goodyear airship "Pilgrim" makes 1st flight (1st with enclosed cabin)
1925 - White Sox manager Eddie Collins gets 3,000 hit
1929 - 1st trade show at Atlantic City Convention Center (electric light)
1929 - Border dispute between Peru & Chile resolved
1929 - Chile, Peru & Bolivia sign accord about Tacna-Arica-area
1930 - Grover Cleveland Alexander is released by the Phillies
1932 - John McGraw, who came to NY in 1902, resigns as manager of Giants
1932 - Lou Gehrig is 1st to hit 4 consecutive HRs; Yanks beat A's 20-13
1932 - Von Hindenburg disbands German Parliament
1933 - A's score 11 runs in 2nd, Yanks score 10 in 5th & win 17-11
1933 - Pope Pius XI encyclical "On oppression of the Church in Spain"
1934 - Dr Frederick Banting co-discoverer of insulin, is knighted
1935 - French Normandie sets Atlantic crossing record of 1,077 hours
1935 - One thousand unemployed Canadian workers board freight cars in Vancouver, British
           Columbia, beginning a protest trek to Ottawa, Ontario.
1937 - Josh Gibson HR's just 2 feet below rim of Yankee Stadium (580' drive)
1938 - German law on "Entartete Art" legalizes art robbery
1939 - 71st Belmont: James Stout aboard Johnstown wins in 2:29.6
1939 - Beer Barrel Polka hits #1 on the pop singles chart by Will Glahe
1940 - Last British/French troop leave Dunkirk
1941 - Attack on telephone exchange in Schiphol
1941 - German occupiers stamp "J" on Jewish passports
1943 - United Nations Relief & Rehabilitation Administration forms
1943 - A mob of 60 from the Los Angeles Naval Reserve Armory beat up everyone perceived to be
           Hispanic, starting the week-long Zoot Suit Riots.
1944 - 76th Belmont: G L Smith aboard Bounding Home wins in 2:32.2
1944 - Generals Giraud & de Gaulle reach agreement on constitution
1944 - Nazis pull out of Rome
1946 - 1st bikini bathing suit displayed (Paris)
1946 - Intl Milt Tribunal opens in Tokyo against 28 Japanese war criminals
1946 - US Supreme court rules race separation on buses, unconstitutional
1947 - British viceroy of India lord Mountbatten visits Pakistan
1948 - "Sleepy Hallow" opens at St James Theater NYC for 12 performances
1948 - 200" (5.08 m) Hale telescope dedicated at Palomar Observatory
1948 - Korczak Ziolkowski begins sculpture of Crazy Horse near Mt Rushmore
1949 - 1st negro to graduate from US Naval Academy (Wesley Anthony Brown)
1949 - Dragnet is 1st broadcast on radio (KFI in Los Angeles)
1949 - GN Clark becomes 1st female US treasurer
1950 - French expedition reaches top of Himalayan peak of Annapurna in Nepal
1952 - Romanian premier Petru Groza chosen president
1953 - Congress cites research of NYC librarian Robert Henderson in proving
1953 - KVOS TV channel 12 in Bellingham/Vancouver, WA (CBS) begins
1953 - Alexander Cartwright officially credited by U.S. Congress as founder of baseball
1955 - KLFY TV channel 10 in Lafayette, LA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1955 - Stan Musial hits his 300th HR
1956 - 3rd class travel on British Railways ends
1956 - KGUN TV channel 9 in Tucson, AZ (ABC) begins broadcasting
1956 - Marlene Bauer Hagge wins LPGA Pittsburgh Golf Open
1957 - Howard Cosell's 1st TV show
1958 - Referendum allows city to sell Chavez Ravine to the Dodgers
1959 - 1st US Air Force Academy graduation
1959 - 1st class graduates from Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo
1959 - Eisenhower routes Canadian premier Diefenbaker message off the Moon
1959 - Real Madrid wins 4th Europe Cup 1
1959 - Singapore adopts constitution
1961 - "Wildcat" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 172 performances
1961 - 93rd Belmont: Braulio Baeza aboard Sherluck wins in 2:29.2
1961 - JFK & Khrushchev meet in Vienna
1962 - Air France Boeing 707 crashes on takeoff from Paris, kills 130
1962 - Betsy Rawls & Kathy wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
1962 - Lee Harvey Oswald arrives by train in Oldenzaal Neth
1962 - WBKO TV channel 13 in Bowling Green, KY (ABC) begins broadcasting
1963 - A Northwest Airlines DC-7 crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of British Columbia, killing
           101.
1964 - Ringo Starr collapses from tonsillitis & pharyngitis
1964 - Rolling Stones begin 1st US tour (with Bobby Goldsboro & Bobby Vee)
1965 - Gemini 4 launched; 2nd US 2-man flight (McDivitt & White)
1966 - European DX Council forms in Copenhagen (shortwave listeners)
1966 - Gemini 9 launched; 7th US 2-man flight (Stafford & Cernan)
1967 - 99th Belmont: Bill Shoemaker aboard Damascus wins in 2:28.8
1967 - Aretha Franklin's "Respect" reaches #1
1968 - Canada announces it will replace silver with nickel in coins
1968 - Poor Peoples March on Washington
1968 - Yanks turn 21st triple-play in their history lose 4-3 to Twins
1968 - Valerie Solanas, author of SCUM Manifesto, attempts to assassinate Andy Warhol by shooting
           him three times.
1969 - Last episode of Star Trek airs on NBC (Turnabout Intruder)
1970 - 1st artificial gene synthesized
1970 - Ray Davies of Kinks travels round trip NY-London to change 1 word in "Lola," (Coca-Cola to
           Cherry Cola) because of BBC coml reference ban
1971 - Chic Cub Ken Holtzman 2nd no-hitter beats Cin Reds, 1-0
1971 - Test Cricket debut of Imran Khan, v Engl at Edgbaston (5, 0-36, 0-19)
1972 - "Hot Rod Lincoln," by Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen hits #9
1972 - 1st female US rabbi installed, Sally J Priesand at 25
1972 - Sally J Priesand becomes 1st female US rabbi
1972 - Yanks score 8 times in 13th beating White Sox 18-10
1973 - "Smith" closes at Eden Theater NYC after 17 performances
1973 - At Paris air show, Tupolev 144, a Soviet supersonic airliner, crashes
1973 - Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Sealy-Faberge Golf Classic
1973 - Tupolev 144 crashes at Paris, 15 killed
1974 - Yitzhak Rabin forms a new Israeli government
1976 - Queen's "Bhoemian Rhapsody" goes gold
1976 - Test Cricket debut of Mike Brearley v West Indies (0 & 17)
1976 - US presented with oldest known copy of Magna Carta
1977 - Balt Orioles pull their 6th triple play (9-6-4-6-6 vs KC Royals)
1977 - Belgium government of Tindemans forms
1977 - US & Cuba talk about diplomatic relations
1978 - Phillies Dave Johnson is 1st to hit 2 pinch hit grand slams in a year
1979 - "Madwoman of Central Park West" opens on Broadway
1979 - 33rd Tony Awards: Elephant Man & Sweeny Todd win
1979 - Ex-president Idi Amin of Uganda flees to Libya
1979 - Ixtoc I rig in Gulf of Mexico blows; 3 million bbl of oil spilled
1979 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Golden Lights Golf Championship
1979 - World's worst oil spillage occurred in the Gulf of Mexico
1980 - "It's So Nice to Be Civilized" opens at Martin Beck NYC for 8 perfs
1980 - Crew of Soyuz 36 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 35
1980 - ESPN begins televising college world series games
1980 - Jimmy Carter wins enough delegates for renomination
1980 - NY Mets draft Darryl Strawberry, 18, #1
1981 - Pope John Paul II released from hospital after assassination attempt
1982 - 55th National Spelling Bee: Molly Dieveney wins spelling psoriasis
1982 - Israeli ambassador Shlomo Argov seriously wounded by Palestinians
1984 - "Wiz" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 13 performances
1984 - 30th LPGA Championship won by Patty Sheehan
1984 - 38th Tony Awards: Real Thing & La Cage Aux Folles win
1985 - Brewers draft B J Surhoff #1
1985 - Massive anti-ETA demonstration in Basques
1986 - Battles in Beirut; 53 killed
1987 - "Little Shop of Horrors," released in France
1987 - "Pee-wee's Big Adventure," released in France
1987 - Cubs & Astro tie Oriole & Ranger record of 3 grand slams in a game
1988 - "Big," premieres in US
1988 - Margo Adams sues Red Sox 3rd baseman Wade Boggs for palimony
1989 - Chinese troops kill hundred of pro-democracy students in Beijing
1989 - Houston Astros beat LA Dodgers, 5-4, in 22 innings (7:14:09)
1989 - Leaking pipe of Asha, USSR causes 2 trains to catch fire; 460 die
1989 - Nolan Ryan pitches his 2nd one-hitter this season & 11th overall
1990 - 3rd Children's Miracle Network Telethon raises $894,560
1990 - 44th Tony Awards: Grapes of Wrath & City of Angels win
1990 - Cathy Gerring wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
1991 - Mount Unzen erupts in Japan, worst eruption in Japanese history
1991 - NY Yankees selected 19-year-old Brien Taylor, #1 in amateur draft
1991 - Thomas Hearns captures WBA light-heavyweight title
1992 - Joan Lunden ordered to pay her ex-husband $18,000 a month support
1992 - World's largest environmental summit opens (Rio De Janeiro Brazil)
1993 - 66th National Spelling Bee: Geoff Hooper wins spelling kamikaze
1994 - 5.9 earthquake/floods SE Java (150+ killed)
1994 - WIIZ (98.7) FM goes off the air
1995 - Expos pitcher Pedro Martinez perfect game is broken up in 10th inning as San Diego's Bip
           Roberts leads off with a double, Mont wins 1-0
1998 - Eschede train disaster: an ICE high speed train derails in Lower Saxony, Germany, causing
          101 deaths.
2006 - The union of Serbia and Montenegro comes to an end with Montenegro's formal declaration of
           independence.
2007 - USS Carter Hall (LSD-50) engaged pirates after they boarded the Danish ship Danica White
           off the coast of Somalia. (details)
2012 - Suicide car bombing kills 15 and inures 42 people in Bauchi, Nigeria
2012 - Plane crash in Lagos, Nigeria, kills all 152 passengers and 40 people on the ground
2012 - Tiger Woods' 73rd PGA tour victory equals Jack Nicklaus's record

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 03, 2013, 10:50:13 AM

This Day in History for 3rd June


Famous Weddings

1929 - Actor and naval officer of World War II Douglas Fairbanks Jr (19) weds actress Joan Crawford
           (24) at St. Malachy in New York City
1937 - Duke of Windsor (Edward VIII) weds Mrs Wallis Warfield Simpson in France
1941 - Author Irving Wallace marries writer Sylvia Kahn
1989 - Country singer Rebe McEntire weds her manager Narvel Blackstone at Emerald Bay in Lake
           Tahoe, Nevada
1994 - Pearl Jam rocker Eddie Vedder (29) weds Beth Liebling (27) in the Eternal City
2001 - Writer and actress Tina Fey (31) weds "Saturday Night Live" composer Jeff Richmond (40) on
           a Greek Orthodox ceremony at The Merion Tribute House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2005 - Earl of Mornington, Arthur Wellesley (27) weds great-granddaughter of Lord Beaverbrook and
           model/make-up artist Jemma Kidd (30) in a seaside ceremony on the beach near Sandy Lane
           Hotel in Barbados
2006 - Pop band Hanson member Zac Hanson (20) weds Kate Tucker (22) at the Second Ponce de
           Leon Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia
2006 - Actor and Ben Affleck's younger brother Casey Affleck (30) weds actress/model Summer
           Phoenix (28) in McIntosh County, Georgia
2006 - Telenovela actress Adamari Lopez (35) weds Latin singing sensation Luis Fonsi (28) at La
           Iglesia de San Jose in Villa Caparra, Puerto Rico

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 03, 2013, 11:12:51 AM

This Day in History for 3rd June


Famous Birthdays

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Surgeon and Medical Researcher             Beat Poet Allen Ginsberg (1926)                 
Charles R Drew (1904)

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Singer Kelly Jones (1974)                      Tennis Player Rafael Nadal (1986)


1540 - Charles I of Austria (d. 1590)
1610 - Jacob Neefs, Flemish engraver/publisher, baptised
1657 - Manuel de Egues, composer
1659 - David Gregory, Scottish astronomer (d. 1708)
1660 - Johannes Schenck, composer
1685 - Cornelis Hop, Amsterdam regent/diplomat
1723 - Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Italian-born naturalist (d. 1788)
1726 - James Hutton, Edinburgh Scotland, geologist
1738 - Johann Christoph Oley, composer
1746 - James Hook, composer
1750 - Frederic Thieme, composer
1761 - Henry Scrapnel, English inventor (shrapnel shell)
1770 - Manuel Belgrano, Argentina
1771 - Sydney Smith, Woodford Essex, preacher/reformer/author
1773 - Caspar G C Reinwardt, German/Dutch biologist
1773 - Michael Gottard Fischer, composer
1780 - William Hone, England, author/bookseller (Every-Day Book)
1782 - Charles Waterton, eccentric naturalist/pioneer
1801 - Frantisek Jan Skroup, composer
1804 - Richard Cobden, West Sussex, founder (Anti-Corn-Law League)
1808 - Jefferson F Davis, Ky, Pres of Confederate States of America (1861-5)
1812 - Pieter Mijer, Dutch gov-gen of Neth Indies (1866-72)
1815 - Martin Edward Green, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1863
1818 - Louis Faidherbe, French general (d. 1889)
1819 - Johann Barthold Jongkind, Lattrop Neth, Dut/Fr painter (Winter Scenes)
1819 - Thomas Ball, US, sculptor/painter/singer
1824 - Charles Kinnaird Graham, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1828 - Jean Alexander Ferdinand Poise, composer
1828 - Jose Inzenga y Castellanos, composer
1829 - Alfonse Charles Renaud de Vilback, composer
1831 - Otho French Strahl, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
1832 - Alexander Charles Lecocq, composer
1839 - Paul Lindau, German playwright/critic (Der Herr im Hause)
1840 - Eugeen van Oye, Flemish writer/poet (Morning Twilight)
1841 - Eduardo Caudella, composer
1843 - Frederik VIII CWK, King of Denmark (1906-12)
1844 - Detlev [Freiherr Friedrich A von] Liliencron, German poet
1844 - Emile Paladilhe, composer
1844 - Garret Augustus Hobart, (R) 24th US VP (1897-99)
1853 - William Matthew Flinders Petrie, English Egyptologist (d. 1942)
1864 - Ransom Eli Olds, auto (Oldsmobile) & truck (REO) manufacturer
1865 - George V, Saksen-Coburg [Windsor], King of Great Britain (1910-36)
1866 - George Howells Broadhurst, English director (d. 1952)
1867 - Bela Anton Szabados, composer
1868 - Lvar Henning Mankell, composer
1869 - Maria Radulphus, inspector on Curacao (Radulphus College)
1870 - Jules JBV Bordet, Belgian bacteriologist (syphillis, Nobel 1919)
1873 - Otto Loewi, Frankfurt am Main Germany, physician (Nobel-1936)
1877 - Raoul Dufy, France, Fauvist painter (Palm)
1879 - Pieter J A Adriani, Dutch tax lawyer
1879 - Raymond Pearl, American biologist (d. 1940)
1881 - Mikhail Larionov, Russian painter (d. 1964)
1887 - Emil Axman, composer
1888 - Tom Brown, American musician (d. 1958)
1893 - Assen Karastoyanov, composer
1895 - Kavalam Madhava Panikkar, India, diplomat (Asia & Western Dominance)
1898 - Rosa Chacel, spanish novelist
1899 - Georg von Bekesy, Budapest Hungary, physician (Nobel-1961)
1900 - Gerard den Brabander, [Jan G Jofriet], poet (Nothing New)
1901 - Maurice Evans, Dorchester England, actor (Maurice-Bewitched)
1902 - Edward Wayne, physician (Queen of Scotland)
1903 - Eddie Acuff, American actor (d. 1956)
1904 - Charles R Drew, pioneer of blood plasma research
1904 - Jan Peerce, [Jacob Pincus Perelmuth], NYC, tenor (NY Met Opera)
1905 - Martin Gottfried Weiss, German, commandant of Dachau concentration camp (d. 1946, by
           execution)
1906 - Josephine Baker, dancer/Parisian night club owner (Folies-Bergere)
1906 - Louis Simmonds, bookseller
1906 - Norman Gallichan, cricketer (all-rounder in 1 Test NZ v England 1937)
1906 - Robert Brown Black, British diplomat/gov (Hong Kong)
1906 - Walter Robins, cricketer (dynamic England leg-spin all-rounder)
1907 - Antonio Emmanvilovich Spadavecchia, composer
1908 - Adele Dixon, actress (Calling the Tune)
1908 - Eddie Acuff, actor (Guns of the Pecos, Phantom Creeps, Outer Gate)
1910 - Wilfred Thesiger, explorer/writer
1911 - Ellen Corby, Racine Wisc, actress (Grandma Walton-Waltons)
1911 - Mason Gross, Dr/TV professor (Think Fast, Two for the Money)
1911 - Olaf Okern, Norway, Nordic skier (Olympic-medal-1948)
1911 - Paulette Goddard, [Marion Levy], Switz, actress (Great Dictator)
1912 - Richard D'Aeth, president (Hughes Hall Cambridge)
1912 - William Douglas-Home, playwright (Now .. Barabbas)
1913 - Pedro Mir, Dominican Poet Laureate (d. 2000)
1914 - Eugene Fuller, polymath/linguist
1914 - Ronald George Woodman, pilot
1915 - Iris Meredith, Sioux City Iowa, actress (Son of Davy Crockett)
1915 - Leo Gorcey, NYC, actor (Mannequin, Road to Zanzibar)
1917 - Leo Gorcey, American actor (d. 1969)
1918 - Patrick Cargill, actor (Help, Hammerhead)
1918 - Lili St. Cyr, American ecdysiast (d. 1999)
1920 - Lord Brandon of Oakbrook, Lord of appeal (Ordinary)
1921 - Forbes Carlile, Australian athlete
1922 - Alain Resnais, France, director (Providence, Hiroshima, Mon Amour)
1922 - Ivan Patachich, composer
1922 - M Alain Resnais, Vannes France, director (Melo, I Want to Go Home)
1923 - Michael Jaffe, director (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge England)
1923 - Igor Shafarevich, Russian mathematician
1924 - David Richard Holloway, literary Editor
1924 - Michael Gow, commandant (Royal College of Defense Studies)
1924 - Jimmy Rogers, Ruleville, Mississippi, Blues musician (Muddy Waters' Band), (d. 1997)
1924 - Ted Mallie, American radio and television announcer (d. 1999)
1925 - Gerhard Zwerenz, writer
1925 - Thomas Winning, Roman Catholic archbishop (Glasgow)
1925 - Tony Curtis, [Bernard Schwartz], Bronx, NY, actor (Some Like It Hot)
1926 - Allen Ginsberg, Newark, New Jersey, American beat poet (Howl)
1926 - Carlos Veerhoff, composer
1926 - Colleen Dewhurst, Montreal Canada, actress (Maggie-Blue & Grey)
1926 - Hamilton Fish Jr, (Rep-R-NY, 1969- )
1926 - Janez Maticic, composer
1926 - Roscoe G Bartlett, (Rep-R-Maryland)
1927 - Boots Randolph, Paducah KY, saxophonist (Yakety Sax)
1928 - Donald Judd, US, sculptor (minimal art)
1928 - John Reid, cricketer (prolific NZ batsman 1949-65)
1928 - Sheila Faith, MP/MEP
1929 - Chuck Barris, Phila, TV game show producer/host (Gong Show) [or 6/2]
1929 - Howard Yanks, founder (Philadelphia folk festival)
1929 - Werner Arber, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate
1930 - Marion [Eleanor] Zimmer Bradley [Breen], sci-fi author (Storm Queen)
1930 - Michael Melle, cricketer (South African pace bowler of early 1950's)
1930 - Dakota Staton, American jazz singer (d. 2007)
1930 - Ben Wada, Japanese television producers
1931 - Francoise Arnoul, actress/composer (French Cancan, Jacko & Lise)
1931 - Raúl Castro, Cuban statesman
1931 - Lindy Remigino, American athlete
1932 - Dakota Staton, [Rabia Aliyah], US jazz singer (In the Night)
1933 - Isa ibn Salman Al Khalifah, emir of Bahrain (d. 1999)
1934 - Jim Gentile, baseball player
1934 - Rolland D. McCune, American theologian
1935 - Edward McGrady, MP
1935 - Raoul Franklin, chancellor (City University London)
1935 - Ted Curson [Theodore], Philadelphia, Jazz Trumpeter, (d. 2012)
1936 - Colin Meads, New Zealand rugby player
1936 - David Nicholls, priest/theologian/political theorist
1936 - Harry Pitt, vice chancellor (Reading University)
1936 - Larry McMurtry, US scriptwriter (Lonesome Dove, Pulitzer 1986)
1936 - Philip J Attenborough, CEO/publisher (Hodder & Stoughton)
1936 - Jim Gentile, baseball player
1937 - Solomon P Ortiz, (Rep-D-TX, 1983- )
1939 - David Frederick Stock, composer
1939 - Phil Gallie, MP
1939 - Steve Dalkowski, baseball player
1940 - Richard Edwards, cricketer (WI pace bowler 1968-69 Aust/NZ tour)
1942 - Anita Harris, singer/actress (Follow that Camel)
1942 - Curtis Mayfield, Chicago, rock vocalist (Freddie's Dead, Superfly)
1942 - Duane Josephson, baseball player
1943 - Billy Cunningham, NBA/ABA (Phila 76ers, Carolina Cougers)
1943 - Eddie McGrady, MP
1943 - Mike Dennis, rocker (Dovells)
1944 - Edith McGuire, US 200m sprinter (Olympic-gold-1964)
1944 - Michael Clarke, NYC, rock drummer (Byrds-Turn! Turn! Turn!)
1944 - Eddy Ottoz, Italian athlete
1945 - Hale S Irwin, Joplin MO, PGA golfer (1974 US Open)
1946 - Anita Pollack, MEP (Labour)
1946 - Earl of Cromer, managing director (Inchcape (China) Ltd)
1946 - Eddie Holman, rocker
1946 - Ian Hunter, England, rocker (Mott the Hoople-All the Young Dudes)
1946 - Tristan Rogers, Australia, actor (Robert Scorpio-General Hospital)
1946 - Penelope Wilton, [Penelope Alice], Scarborough North Yorkshire, English actress (Cry
           Freedom, Norman Conquests)
1947 - Timothy David, diplomat
1947 - Mickey Finn, British guitarist and percussionist (T. Rex) (d. 2003)
1947 - Mike Burgmann, Australian racing driver (d. 1986)
1947 - John Dykstra, American special effects supervisor
1949 - David Evenett, MP (Conservative)
1949 - Stephen Ruppenthal, composer
1950 - Marlene Elejarde, Havana Cuba, 4x100m runner (Olympic-silver-1968)
1950 - Suzi Quatro[cchio], Detroit, singer (Stumblin')/actress (Happy Days)
1950 - Melissa Mathison, American screenwriter
1950 - Christos Verelis, Greek politician
1951 - David Ogilvie, cricketer (5 Tests for Australia 1977-78)
1951 - Deniece Williams, [Chandler], IN, singer (Love Wouldn't Let Me Wait)
1952 - Billy Powell, keyboards (Lynyrd Skynyrd-That Smell, Freebird)
1952 - David Richards, CBE, British motor racing entrepreneur
1954 - Cindy Ferro, LPGA golfer
1954 - Dan Hill, rocker (Sometimes When We Touch)
1954 - Wally Weir, Quebec ice hockey player
1956 - Danny Wilde, rocker (Rembrandts)
1956 - Suren Nalbandyan, USSR, lightweight (Olympic-gold-1976)
1956 - George Burley, Scottish football player and manager
1957 - Horst-Ulrich Hänel, German field hockey player
1958 - Ann Wilson, Brisbane Qld, golfer (1985 R/U NSW Open)
1958 - Ibrahim Hussein, marathoner, (Boston Marathon-1988, 91, 92)
1958 - Scott Valentine, actor (Nick-Family Ties, My Demon Lover)
1959 - Sam Mills, NFL linebacker ( New Orleans Saints and Carolina Panthers), (d. 2005)
1959 - Tom Arnold, former husband of Rosanne Barr/actor (True Lies, Stupids)
1960 - Barry Lyons, baseball player
1960 - Carl Rackemann, cricketer (Queensland & Australian quickie)
1960 - Jack Daugherty, baseball player
1960 - Steve Lyons, baseball player
1961 - Kevin Arnott, cricketer (Zimbabwe batsman, 101* v NZ 1992)
1961 - Peter Glen Vidmar, LA California, gymnist (Olympic-2 gold/silver-1984)
1961 - Lawrence Lessig, American lawyer and author
1962 - Connie Price-Smith, St Charles MO, discus thrower (Oly-5th-96)
1962 - Susannah Constantine, British fashion guru
1963 - Deb Richard, Abbeville LA, LPGA golfer (1991 Women's Kemper Open)
1963 - Sabrina Goles, Yugoslavia, tennis star
1963 - Yuri Yuriyevich Krikun, Russia, cosmonaut
1963 - Rudy Demotte, Belgian politician
1963 - Toshiaki Karasawa, Japanese actor
1964 - Nelson Liriano, Puerto Plata Dom Rep, infielder (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1964 - Kerry King, American musician (Slayer)
1964 - Doro Pesch, German singer
1964 - James Purefoy, British actor
1965 - Suzan Kaminga, Austin TX, bodybuilder
1965 - Mike Gordon, American musician
1965 - Jeff Blumenkrantz, American composer and actor
1966 - Wasim Akram, cricketer (brilliant Pakistani lefty fast bowler)
1967 - Tamas Darnyi, Hungary, backstroke swimmer (Oly-gold-88, 92)
1967 - William "Bill" Carlucci, Minneapolis Minn, rower (Olympics-bronze-96)
1967 - Anderson Cooper, American reporter
1968 - Jon Baker, WLAF defensive end (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1968 - Samantha Sprackling, Nigerian singer
1969 - Ray Roberts, tackle (Detroit Lions)
1969 - Hiroyuki Takami, Japanese musician
1970 - Andrea Congreaves, WNBA forward/center (Charlotte Sting)
1970 - Carl Everett, baseball player
1970 - Lanee Butler, Manhasset NY, mistral sailboat yachter (Olymp-11th-1996)
1970 - Peter Newton, Kailua Hawaii, sprint kayak (Olympics-96)
1970 - Esther Hart, Dutch singer
1970 - Julie Masse, French Canadian singer
1970 - Peter Tägtgren, Swedish musician (Hypocrisy) and producer
1970 - Ammon McNeely, American rock climber
1971 - Aaron Ledesma, baseball player
1971 - Carl Everett, Tampa Fla, outfielder (NY Mets)
1971 - Mark Parrish, Columbia MD, canoe (alt-Olympics-96)
1972 - Bryan Rekar, Oak Lawn IL, pitcher (Colorado Rockies)
1972 - Omar Douglas, NFL wide receiver (NY Giants)
1972 - Robert Kennedy, cricketer (New Zealand opening bowler 1996)
1973 - Charles Emanuel, safety (Philadelphia Eagles)
1973 - Sargis Sargsian, Yerevan Armenia, tennis star (1995 NCAA)
1974 - Alison McCreary, Florence Alabama, Miss America (Alabama-4th-1997)
1974 - Ashaundai Smith, CFL receiver (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1974 - Bryan Still, wide receiver (San Diego Chargers)
1974 - Kelly Jones, Welsh singer (Stereophonics)
1974 - Arianne Zuker, American actress
1975 - Jamie Nails, offensive tackle (Buffalo Bills)
1975 - Jose Molina, Puerto Rican baseball player
1976 - Jamie McMurray, American NASCAR driver
1976 - Yuri Ruley, American drummer
1976 - Enda Markey, Irish/Australian entertainer
1977 - Cris, Brazilian footballer
1977 - Az-Zahir Hakim, American football player
1977 - Travis Hafner, American baseball player
1978 - Lyfe Jennings, R&B singer and song-writer
1980 - Lazaros Papadopoulos, Greek basketball player
1982 - Yelena Isinbayeva, Russian pole vaulter
1986 - Alexandros Karageorgiou, Greek archer
1986 - Rafael Nadal, Manacor, Majorca, Balearic Islands, Spanish tennis player
1986 - Tomas Verner, Czech Republic ice skater
1986 - Adrián Vallés, Spanish racing driver
1986 - Al Horford, American basketball player
1986 - Brenden Richard Jefferson, African-American actor
1987 - Lalaine, American actress and singer
1987 - Masami Nagasawa, Japanese actress
1989 - Katie Hoff, American swimmer
2002 - Prince Tirso of Bulgaria, titular Bulgarian royal family
2006 - Countess Leonore, Member of the Dutch Royal Family

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 03, 2013, 11:15:25 AM

This Day in History for 3rd June


Famous Deaths

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Composer Georges Bizet (1875)


545 - Chlotilde, wife of French king Clovis/saint, dies at about 70
1107 - Kilidj Arslan I, Seldjoeken-sultan, dies in battle
1395 - Ivan Shishman of Bulgaria
1397 - William Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, English military leader (b. 1328)
1411 - Duke Leopold IV of Austria (b. 1371)
1548 - Juan de Zumárraga, Spanish Catholic bishop of Mexico (b. 1468)
1594 - Michel Renichon, priest, executed
1594 - John Aylmer, English political theorist (b. 1521)
1615 - Sanada Yukimura, Japanese samurai (b. 1567)
1640 - Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, English politician (b. 1584)
1649 - Manuel de Faria e Sousa, Portuguese historian and poet (b. 1590)
1657 - William Harvey, English physician (b. 1578)
1659 - Morgan Llwyd, Welsh Puritan preacher and writer (b. 1619)
1661 - Gottfried Scheidt, composer, dies at 67
1679 - Jean-Francius Miller, painter, buried
1688 - Maximilian H of Bayern, prince-bishop of Luik, dies at 66
1732 - Pieter Vuyst, Dutch gov-gen of Ceylon, executed
1764 - Hans A Brorson, Danish poet/bishop of Ribe, dies at 69
1780 - Thomas Hutchinson, American colonial governor of Massachusetts (b. 1711)
1804 - Jean-Engelbert Pauwels, composer, dies at 35
1809 - John "Christmas" Beckwith, composer, dies at 58
1826 - Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin, Russian writer (b. 1766)
1844 - Louis-Antoine, the Bourbon, French duke of Angouleme, dies
1849 - Francois de Paule Jacques Raymond de Fossa, composer, dies at 73
1858 - Julius Reubke, composer, dies at 24
1861 - Stephen A Douglas, "Little Giant", senator (Lincoln Debates), dies
1864 - James P McMahon, US Union colonel (164th NY), dies in battle
1864 - Peter A Porter, US Union colonel (8th NY), dies in battle
1865 - Okada Izō, Japanese samurai (b. 1838)
1872 - Heinrich Esser, composer, dies at 53
1875 - Georges Bizet, French composer, dies at 36
1877 - Frank Pocock, British explorer, drowned in the Congo
1877 - Ludwig Ritter von Köchel, Austrian musicologist (b. 1800)
1881 - Japanese giant salamander, dies in Dutch zoo at 55; oldest amphibian
1882 - Christian Wilberg, German painter (b. 1839)
1888 - Cark Reidel, composer, dies at 60
1890 - Henryk Oskar Kolberg, composer, dies at 76
1894 - Karl Eduard Zachariae, German expert on Byzantine Law (b. 1812)
1898 - Nikolai Afanisev, composer, dies at 77
1898 - Samuel Plimsoll, English MP ( Folkestone), dies at 74
1899 - Johann Baptist Strauss, Austria, composer (Waltz King), dies at 73
1904 - Vincent Tancred, cricket (Bernard & Louis bro, Test for S A), suicide
1913 - Josef Richard Rozkosny, composer, dies at 79
1924 - Franz Kafka, Czech writer (Trial, Amerika, Metamorphosis), dies at 40
1928 - Li Yüan-hung, Chinese general and political figure (b. 1864)
1933 - William Muldoon, Belfast NY, boxing commissioner, dies at 88
1943 - Folkert E Posthuma, Min of Agriculture, dies
1946 - Michail I Kalinin, Pres (Supreme Soviet), dies at 60
1949 - Amedos Peter Giannine, founder of Bank of America dies at 79
1955 - Barbara Graham, American murderer (b. 1923)
1959 - Ole Windingstad, composer, dies at 73
1963 - John XXIII, [Angelo G Roncalli], Pope (1958-63), dies at 81
1963 - Paul Maxey, actor (Matt-Lassie, Mayor-People's Choice), dies at 57
1963 - Nazim Hikmet, Turkish poet (b. 1902)
1964 - Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Finnish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
1966 - Alice Calhoun, actress (Flowing Gold, Between Friends), dies at 65
1967 - Arthur Mitchell Ransome, critic/children's book author, dies
1967 - Arthur W Tedder of Glenguin, British air marshal (WW II), dies at 76
1967 - Gertrude "Mickey" MacFadden, entertainer, dies of heart attack at 67
1970 - Douwe Hermans Kiestra, [Harm Harmstra], Fries boer/writer, dies at 70
1970 - H G Hjalmar Schacht, pres Germany Kingdom bank/minister of Eco, dies
1971 - Heinz Hopf, German mathematician (b. 1894)
1973 - Dory Funk, professional wrestler (b. 1919)
1975 - Ozzie Nelson, actor (Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet), dies at 69
1977 - Archibald Vivian Hill, English physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886)
1977 - Roberto Rossellini, Italian film director (b. 1906)
1979 - Arno Schmidt, writer, dies at 65
1981 - Carleton Coon, anthropology prof (What in the World), dies at 76
1981 - Eric Dalton, cricketer (698 runs for South Africa at 31 72), dies
1983 - Miroslav "Standa" Bares, actress (Te Gkek Om Los te Lopen), dies at 60
1983 - Nanna, Rafi Khawar, Lollywood actor, Lahore
1986 - Anna Neagle, actress (Courtney Affair)/dancer, dies at 81
1986 - Arthur Charles Ernest Hoeree, composer, dies at 89
1986 - Patricia Wheel, actress (Christine-Woman to Remember), dies at 42
1987 - Will Sampson, actor (From Here to Eternity, Yellow Rose), dies at 54
1989 - Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian ayatollah, dies at 89
1989 - John McCauley, NHL official (b. 1945)
1990 - Tom Brown, actor (Judge Priest, Hello sorryer, Ex-Champ), dies at 77
1990 - Stiv Bators, American musician (The Dead Boys) (b. 1949)
1991 - Andy Milligan, cinematographer/director (Sweeney Todd), dies at 62
1991 - Eva La Gailliene, Brit/US actress/director (Resurrection), dies at 92
1991 - Harry Glicken, volcanologist, killed by Mt Unzen Volcano in Japan
1991 - Thomas C Lasorda, artist/son Dodger manager, dies of pneumonia at 33
1991 - Takeshi Nagata, Japanese geophysicist (b. 1913)
1992 - Patrick Peyton, Rosary Priest, dies of kidney failure at 83
1992 - Robert Morley, actor (Around the World in 80 Days), dies at 84
1992 - William E Gaines, publisher (Mad Magazine), dies at 70
1993 - Bob Fitzsimmons, NY radio DJ (WNEW AM/WABC AM/WHN AM), dies at 53
1994 - Hub Matthijsen, violinist/bandmaster, dies at 52
1994 - Jack Cowie, cricketer (9 Tests for NZ, 45 wkts at 21 53), dies
1994 - Parmeso Emekrasha, buddhist Monk, dies
1994 - Roger Wolcott Sperry, physicist, dies at 89
1995 - Alastair Webster Mackie, poet/teacher, dies at 69
1995 - Dilys Powell, film Critic, dies at 93
1995 - Estelle Brody, actress (Safari, Kitty, Plaything), dies at 94
1995 - Frank Waters, writer, dies at 92
1995 - Jean-Patric Manchette, thriller writer, dies at 52
1996 - Len Creed, bookmaker, dies at 79
1996 - Peter Glenville, actor/director (Hotel Paradiso, Becket), dies at 82
1996 - Tito Okello, Ugandan general, dies at 81
1997 - Dennis James, American television personality (b. 1917)
1998 - Poul Bundgaard, Danish actor and singer (b. 1922)
2001 - Anthony Quinn, Mexican-born actor (b. 1915)
2003 - Felix de Weldon, Austrian sculptor (b. 1907)
2004 - Frances Shand Kydd, mother of Diana, Princess of Wales (b. 1936)
2004 - Quorthon, Swedish musician (Bathory) (b. 1966)
2005 - Harold Cardinal, Cree political leader, writer, and lawyer (b. 1945)
2006 - Johnny Grande, original accordion/piano/keyboard player for Bill Haley's Comets (b. 1932)
2009 - David Carradine, American actor (b. 1936)
2009 - Koko Taylor, American blues musician, popularly known as the "Queen of the Blues." (b.
           1928)
2009 - Sam Butera, American jazz musician (b. 1927)
2010 - John Hedgecoe, English photographer (b. 1932)
2010 - Rue McClanahan, American actress (b. 1934)
2011 - Jack Kevorkian, American pathologist, right-to-die activist (b. 1928)
2011 - James Arness, American actor (d. 1923)
2011 - Andrew Gold, American singer, musician and songwriter. (b. 1951)

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Post by: MysteRy on June 04, 2013, 07:40:05 AM

This Day in History for 4th June


Historical Events

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King of England King Charles I              British war time Prime Minister                      First Secretary of the
                                                                       Winston Churchill                   Communist Party of the Soviet Union
                                                                                                                                     Nikita Khrushchev

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JFK Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald               Tennis Player Steffi Graf                        264th Pope John Paul II


781 BC - The first historic solar eclipse is recorded in China.
1039 - Henry III becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
1070 - Roquefort cheese created in a cave near Roquefort, France
1133 - Rome-Innocentius II crowns Lotharius III Roman-German emperor
1391 - Mob led by Ferrand Martinez surounds & sets fire to Jewish quarter of Seville Spain, surviving 
           Jews sold into slavery
1487 - Lord Lovell & John de la Poles army land at Furness Lancashire
1615 - Siege of Osaka Forces under the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu take Osaka Castle in Japan.
1632 - Prince Frederik Henry conquerors Venlo
1647 - British army seizes King Charles I as a prisoner
1664 - Viceroy Willem Frederik conquerors Dijlerschans
1666 - Battle at Duinkerk: English vs Dutch fleet
1741 - Prussia goes to the Covenant of Nymphenburg
1745 - Battle at Hohenfriedberg Silezie: Frederick the Great (Prussia) defeats Austrians & Saxons
1756 - Quakers leave assembly of Pennsylvania
1760 - Great Upheaval: New England planters arrive to claim land in Nova Scotia, Canada taken from
           the Acadians.
1769 - A transit of Venus is followed five hours later by a total solar eclipse, the shortest such
           interval in history.
1783 - Montgolfier brothers launch 1st hot-air balloon (unmanned)
1784 - Madame Elizabeth Thible becomes the first female balloonist.
1789 - US constitution goes into effect
1792 - Capt George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for Britain
1794 - Congress passes Neutrality Act, bans Americans from serving in armed forces of foreign
           powers
1802 - Grieving over the death of his wife, Marie Clotilde of France, King Charles Emmanuel IV of
           Sardinia abdicates his throne in favor of his brother, Victor Emmanuel.
1805 - Tripoli forced to conclude peace with US after war over tribute
1812 - Louisiana Territory officially renamed "Missouri Territory"
1825 - Unseasonable hurricane hits NYC
1831 - National Congress selects Leopold von Saksen-Coburg as King of Belgium
1832 - 3rd national black convention meets (Phila)
1845 - Mexican-US war starts
1850 - Empire Engine Company No 1 organized
1850 - Self deodorizing fertilizer patented in England
1862 - Confederates evacuate Ft Pillow, Tenn
1868 - Van Bosse/Fock government begins
1870 - 4th Belmont: W Dick aboard Kingfisher wins in 2:59.5
1873 - 1st contract workers of British-Indies Co arrives in Suriname
1875 - Pacific Stock Exchange opens
1876 - An express train called the Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco, California, via
           the First Transcontinental Railroad only 83 hours and 39 minutes after having left New York
           City.
1878 - Cyprus ceded by Turkey to Britain for administrative purposes
1884 - 18th Belmont: Jim McLaughlin aboard Panique wins in 2:42
1892 - Oil City & Titusville Penn, destroyed by oil tank explosion; 130 die
1892 - Sierra Club forms in SF
1896 - Henry takes his 1st Ford through streets of Detroit
1907 - Automatic washer & dryer introduced
1912 - Cone of Mount Katmai (Alaska) collapses
1912 - Massachusetts passes 1st US minimum wage law
1913 - Suffragette Emily Davison steps in front of King George V's horse Anmer at the Epsom Derby
1916 - Russian General Brusilov fails on his Eastern Front attack
1917 - 1st Pulitzer prize awarded to Richards & Elliott (Julia Ward Howe)
1917 - American men begin registering for the draft
1917 - Order of British Empire inaugurated
1919 - Senate passes Women's Suffrage bill
1919 - US marines invade Costa Rica
1920 - Peace of Trianon between Allies & Hungary
1927 - 1st Ryder Cup: US beats England, 9½-2½ at Worcester Country Club (Worcester,
           Massachusetts, US)
1927 - Johnny Weissmuller set swim records in 100-yard & 200-yard free-style
1928 - President of the Republic of China Zhang Zuolin is assassinated by Japanese agents.
1929 - George Eastman demonstrates 1st technicolor movie (Rochester NY)
1932 - 64th Belmont: Tom Malley aboard Faireno wins in 2:32.8
1932 - Edouard Herriot becomes premier of France
1937 - Leon Blum becomes premier of People's front government of France
1938 - 10th Walker Cup: Britain-Ireland wins 7½-4½ at the Old Course at St Andrews
1938 - 70th Belmont: James Stout aboard Pasteurized wins in 2:29.6
1940 - 1st NL night game at Sportsman's Park (Dodgers 10, Cardinals 1)
1940 - 1st night game at Forbes Field (Pirates 14, Braves 2)
1940 - British complete miracle of Dunkirk by evacuating 300,000 troops
1940 - German forces enter Paris
1940 - The synthetic rubber tire unveiled
1940 - Winston Churchill says "We shall fight on the seas & oceans"
1941 - Nazi's forbid Jews access to beach & swimming pools
1941 - Rep of Croatia orders all Jews to wear a star with the letter Z
1942 - Battle of Midway begins; Japan's 1st major defeat in WW II
1942 - Capitol Record Co opens for business
1942 - USS Yorktown sinks near Midway Island
1943 - Argentina taken over by Gen Rawson & Col Juan Peron
1943 - Race riots in LA
1943 - St Louis Card Mort Cooper pitches his 2nd consecutive 1 hitter
1944 - 1st British gliders touches down on French soil for D-Day
1944 - 1st submarine captured & boarded on high seas-U 505
1944 - 5th Army enters & liberates Rome from Mussolini's Fascist armies
1944 - French general De Gaulle arrives in London
1945 - 6th Marine division occupies Orokoe Peninsula Okinawa
1945 - US, Russia, England & France agree to split occupied Germany
1946 - Largest solar prominence (300,000 mi/500,000 km) observed
1947 - "Louisiana Lady" closes at Century Theater NYC after 4 performances
1947 - House of Reps approves Taft-Hartley act
1949 - "Cavalcade of Stars" debuts (DuMont); Jackie Gleason made host in 1950
1950 - CVP wins Belgian parliamentary election
1950 - Dutch cyclist Wim van Est wins Bordeaux-Paris (586 km in 17:25)
1951 - Mississippi Valley State University founded
1951 - Pirate's Gus Bell hits for cycle helps beat Phillies 12-4
1953 - Pitts trades outfielder Ralph Kiner & Joe Garagiola to Chic
1954 - Arthur Murray flies X-1A rocket plane to record 27,000 m
1954 - France grants Vietnam independence inside French Union
1955 - Mickey Rooney Show," TV comedy last airs on NBC
1956 - Speech by Khrushchev blasting Stalin made public
1957 - 1st commercial coal pipeline placed in operation
1957 - May & Cowdrey make 411 stand v WI Ramadhin bowls 98 overs
1958 - French premier De Gaulle arrives in Algiers
1958 - SF Giants Hank Sauer & B Schmidt are 2nd to hit consecutive pinch HRs
1961 - Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Western Golf Open
1962 - Lee Harvey Oswald departs Rotterdam on SS Maasdam to US
1963 - 1st transmission of "Pop Go the Beatles" on BBC radio
1963 - British Minister of War John Profumo resigns due to Christine Keeler
1964 - Beatles "World Tour" begins in Copenhagen Denmark
1964 - LA Dodger Sandy Koufax 3rd no-hitter beats Phil Phillies, 3-0
1964 - Maldives adopts constitution
1964 - Test Cricket debut of Geoff Boycott v Australia at Trent Bridge, 48
1965 - Rolling Stones release "Satisfaction"
1966 - "Batman & His Grandmother" by Dickie Goodman hits #70
1966 - -10] Hurricane Alma, kills 51 in Honduras
1966 - 98th Belmont: William Boland aboard Amberoid wins in 2:29.6
1967 - 19th Emmy Awards: Mission Impossible, Monkees, Don Knotts & Lucy Ball
1967 - KTVN TV channel 2 in Reno, NV (CBS) begins broadcasting
1967 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA St Louis Women's Golf Invitational
1967 - Monkees take home an Emmy for their Outstanding comedy Series
1967 - Curt Flood's record 568 straight chances without an error ends (227 straight games)
1967 - Stockport Air Disaster: British Midland flight G-ALHG crashes in Hopes Carr, Stockport, killing
           72 passengers and crew.
1968 - Don Drysdale pitches his 6th straight shutout, en route to 58 innings
1969 - Beatles release Ballad Of John & Yoko/Old Brown Shoe, in US
1969 - Nicky Hopkins quits rock & rolls, Jeff Beck Group
1969 - 22-year-old man sneaks into wheel pod of a jet parked in Havana & survives 9-hr flight to
           Spain despite thin oxygen levels at 29,000 ft
1970 - 43rd National Spelling Bee: Libby Childress wins spelling croissant
1970 - SD Padres draft Mike Ivie #1
1970 - Tonga (formerly Friendly Islands) declares independence from UK
1970 - WSMW TV channel 27 in Worcester, MA (IND) begins broadcasting
1970 - Yanks Horace Clarke breaks up a no-hitter in the 9th for the 1st of 3 times in 28 days
1971 - J Luns appointed secretary-general of NATO
1971 - Oakland A's beat Wash Senators, 5-3, in 21 innings
1971 - Zaheer Abbas scores Cricket 274 at Edgbaston, 544 minutes 38 fours
1972 - Angela Davis, black activist, acquitted of killing a white guard
1972 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
1972 - Record 8 shutouts pitched in 16 major league games (AL=5, NL=3)
1973 - 43rd French Womens Tennis: Margaret Court beats C Evert (67 76 64)
1973 - A patent for the ATM is granted to Don Wetzel, Tom Barnes and George Chastain.
1974 - NFL grants franchise to Seattle Seahawks
1974 - Never repeated 10 cent Beer Night at Cleveland, unruly fans stumble onto field & cause
           Indians to forfeit the game to Rangers with score tied 5-5 in 9th
1975 - Oldest animal fossils in US discovered in NC
1977 - Apple II, the 1st personal computer, goes on sale
1977 - Violence during Puerto Rican Day in Chicago kills 2
1978 - "Working" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 25 performances
1978 - 32nd Tony Awards: Da & Ain't Misbehavin' win
1978 - 6th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): JoAnne Carner
1978 - Liberal Julio Turbay Ayola wins Colombia elections
1979 - South-African pres Vorster resigns due to scandal
1979 - Sri Lanka forfeit ICC Trophy game vs Israel for political reasons
1981 - 54th National Spelling Bee: Paige Pipkin wins spelling sarcophagus
1982 - "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan," released in USA
1982 - Israel attacks targets in south Lebanon
1983 - 53rd French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats Mima Jausovec (61 62)
1984 - 18th Music City News Country Awards: Statler Brothers
1984 - Arnold Palmer fails to make US Open golf tournament 1st time in 32 yrs
1984 - Bruce Springsteen releases "Born in the USA"
1984 - DNA is successfully cloned from an extinct animal
1984 - NY Mets draft Shawn Abner, 17, #1
1985 - STS 51-G vehicle moves to launch pad
1985 - Supreme Court strikes down Alabama "moment of silence" law
1986 - Jonathan Pollard, spy for Israel, pleads guilty in US court
1987 - Danny Harris beats Edwin Moses, ends streak of 122 cons hurdle wins
1988 - "Cabaret" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 262 performances
1988 - 42nd Tony Awards: M Butterfly & Phantom of the Opera win
1988 - 58th French Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats N Zvereva (60 60)
1988 - Longest game in Balt Memorial Stadium (5:46) 14 inn (beat NY 7-6)
1988 - Rickey Henderson steals 2 bases for record 249 as a NY Yankee
1989 - 2nd Children's Miracle Network Telethon raises $770,000
1989 - 43rd Tony Awards: Heidi Chronicles & Jerome Robbin's Broadway win
1989 - Beijing cop shoots & wounds Chinese priemer Li Ping
1989 - Eastern Europe's 1st somewhat free election in 40 years held in Poland
1989 - Gas explodes near 2 passenger trains in USSR, kills 100s
1989 - Largest parade in Bronx history honors 350th anniversary
1989 - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Rochester Golf International
1989 - Red Sox lead Blue Jays 10-0 in 7th, but lose 12-11 in 12 for Blue Jays 12th consecutive
           victory at Fenway
1990 - 24th Music City News Country Awards: R Van Shelton & Patty Loveless
1990 - Greyhound Bus files bankruptcy
1990 - LA Dodger Ramon Martinez strikes out 18 Atlanta Braves
1990 - NY Telephone company announces that it wants Bronx area code 917
1990 - Dr Jack Kevorkian assisted an Oregon woman to commit suicide, beginning a national debate
           over the right to die
1991 - 1st post WW II non-communist government in Albania
1991 - Lesbian priest Elizabeth Carl is ordained in Episcopal Church
1991 - Pope John Paul II compares abortion with nazi murders
1991 - Robert Strauss becomes US ambassador to Soviet Union
1992 - San Jose voters reject Giants plan to build a new stadium
1992 - USPO announces young Elvis beats old Elvis stamp
1994 - Haile Gebre Selassie runs world record 5 km (12:56.96)
1995 - "Jackie Mason: Politically Incorrect" closes at Golden NYC at 347 perf
1995 - 49th Tony Awards: Love! Valour! Compassion! & Sunset Boulevard win
1995 - 8th Children's Miracle Network Telethon raises $1,331,000
1995 - Dale Eggeling wins LPGA Oldsmobile Golf Classic
1998 - Terry Nichols is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
2001 - Gyanendra, the last King of Nepal, ascends to the throne after the massacre in the Royal
           Palace.
2012 - US drone attack kills 15 militants in Pakistan, including high ranking al-Qaeda official, Abu
           Yahya al-Libi
2012 - Car bomb kills 26 and injures 190 people in central Baghdad, Iraq
2012 - Japan's stock market plummets to record lows with the S&P/TOPIX 150 reaching its lowest
           level since 1983
2012 - Wedding party bus crashes killing 23 and injuring 60 people in Islamabad, Pakistan

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Post by: MysteRy on June 04, 2013, 07:41:49 AM

This Day in History for 4th June


Famous Weddings

1960 - "Last Tango In Paris" actor Marlon Brando (36) weds Mexican-American actress Movita
           Castaneda (42)
1970 - "When Harry Met Sally" actor Billy Crystal (22) weds guidance counselor Janice Goldfinger
1986 - Legendary singer Bob Dylan (45) weds his backup singer Carolyn Dennis (32)
2000 - "Titanic" producer-director James Cameron (45) weds actress Suzy Amis (38) in Malibu,
           California
2006 - "General Hospital" actor Greg Vaughan (32) weds Dutch actress Touriya Haoud (28) in Los
           Angeles, California
2006 - "KISS" guitarist Tommy Thayer (45) weds Amber Peek at Four Seasons Aviara in Carlsbad,
          California
2010 - "Friends" star David Schwimmer (43) weds Zoe Buckman (25) in a small private ceremony

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 04, 2013, 07:42:51 AM

This Day in History for 4th June


Famous Divorces

2012 - "The Wonder Years" actress Danica McKellar (37) divorces composer Mike Verta (36) due to
           irreconcilable differences after 3 years of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 04, 2013, 07:48:36 AM

This Day in History for 4th June


Famous Birthdays

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Actor Noah Wyle (1971)                           Actress Angelina Jolie (1975)


1394 - Philippa of England, queen of Denmark, Norway and Sweden (d. 1430)
1489 - Antoine, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1544)
1604 - Claudia de' Medici, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (d. 1648)
1665 - Zacharie Robutel de La Noue, Canadian soldier (d. 1733)
1694 - Francois Quesnay, French personal physician of Louis XIV
1697 - Jacob Israel Emden, [Jacob ben Tswi], German rabbi
1700 - Theodoor Verhaegen, Flemish sculptor
1704 - Benjamin Huntsman, English inventor and manufacturer (d. 1776)
1738 - George III, English King during American Revolution (1760-1820)
1744 - Patrick Ferguson, Scots army officer and rifle designer (d. 1780)
1751 - John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon
1754 - Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach, Austrian editor and astronomer (d. 1832)
1770 - James Hewitt, composer
1787 - Constant Prévost, French geologist (d. 1856)
1801 - James Pennethorne, architect
1803 - Gabriel James Rains, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1881
1815 - Paul Jones Semmes, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1863
1816 - Phillipe Regis Denis de Keredern de Trobriand, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union)
1821 - Apollon Maykov, Russian poet (d. 1897)
1828 - Alexander William Campbell, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1833 - Garnet Joseph, 1st viscount Wolseley soldier
1838 - Servaas Daems, [Peeter Klein], Flemish writer (Lute & Flute)
1846 - Josef Sittard, music writer
1863 - Edmond R H Regout, Dutch industrialist/politician
1864 - Nassau William Senior, British economist
1866 - Miina Sillanpää, Finnish politician (d. 1952)
1867 - Carl Gustaf baron Mannerheim, general/president of Finland (1944-46)
1869 - Boudouin LPMCAJL, prince of Belgium/count of Vlaanderen
1876 - Robert Dower, cricketer (1 Test South Africa v England 1898, scored 0 & 9)
1877 - Heinrich Wieland, German chemist (bile acids-Nobel 1927)
1878 - Frank N D Buchman, US theologist (Moral Rearmament)
1879 - Mabel Lucie Attwell, English children's author and illustrator (d. 1964)
1881 - Clara Blandick, actress (Huckleberry Finn, Romance, Tom Sawyer)
1881 - Natalia Goncharova, Russian painter (d. 1962)
1882 - Karl Valentin, German comic/writer
1887 - Tom Longboat, marathon runner (d. 1949)
1891 - Erno Rapee, composer
1893 - Armand Calinescu, premier of Romania
1893 - Daan Boens, Flemish poet (Man who sold his Wife)
1894 - Blanch Knopf, publishing CEO (Knopf)
1895 - Dino Conte Grandi, Italy, delegate to league of nations (1925-32)
1899 - Leo Spies, composer
1899 - Hassan Fathy, Egyptian architect (d. 1989)
1902 - Richard Allen, India, field hockey goal tender (Olympic-gold-1928)
1906 - Richard Whorf, actor/director (Yankee Doodle Dandy, Keeper of Flame)
1907 - Marjan Kozina, composer
1907 - Jacques Roumain, Haitian writer (d. 1944)
1907 - Patience Strong, English poet and journalist (d. 1990)
1908 - Earl of Halsbury, chancellor (Brunei University)
1908 - Lambertus L van Rooijen, Dutch actor
1908 - Rosalind Russell, Waterbury CT, actress (Mame, Take a Letter Darling)
1908 - Walther Vanbeselaere, Flemish art historian
1909 - Paul Nordoff, Philadelphia, composer (Frog Prince)
1909 - William Batten, CEO (NY Stock Exchange 1976-84)
1910 - Christopher Cockerell, inventor (Hovercraft)
1910 - Jacques Berque, Islamic scholar
1911 - Austin Andrew Wright, sculptor
1912 - Robert Jacobsen, Danish sculptor (great iron sculptures)
1913 - Bruno Bettinelli, composer
1914 - Willy-August Linnemann, Danish writer/journalist
1915 - Modibo Keita, president of Mali (1960-68)
1915 - Walter Hadlee, cricketer (father of Richard & Dayle), New Zealand batsman 40's
1916 - Cecil Blacker, CEO (British Equestrian Federation)
1916 - Fernand Leduc, Canadian painter (The Automatistes)
1917 - Allen Greenwood, deputy CEO (British Aerospace)
1917 - Charles Collingwood, Mich, news commentator (CBS, Chronicles)
1917 - Howard Metzenbaum, (Sen-D-Ohio, 1974- )
1917 - Robert Merrill, Bkln NY, baritone (NY Metropolitan Opera)
1918 - LeRoy Walker, Atlanta Ga, CEO (US Olympic Committee)
1920 - Marion Motley, NFL running back (all-time leading AAFC rusher)
1920 - Russell E. Train, Jamestown, Rhode Island, environmentalist/administrator (EPA, WWF), (d.
           2012)
1921 - Nina Vyroubova, Russ/French ballerina (Pavlova-prize 1957)
1921 - Bobby Wanzer, American professional basketball player and coach
1922 - Irwin Bazelon, Evanston Illinois, composer (Duo for Viola)
1922 - John McNamara, baseball player
1922 - John West, vice chancellor (Bradford University)
1923 - John Lea, British vice-admiral
1923 - Elizabeth Jolley, Australian writer (d. 2007)
1924 - Dennis Weaver, Joplin Mo, actor (Chester-Gunsmoke, Duel, Battered)
1926 - Nan Leslie, LA California, actress (Kings Row, Californians)
1926 - Robert Earl Hughes, became heaviest known human (486 kg)
1927 - Geoffrey Palmer, British actor (Smacks & Thistle)
1927 - Priscilla Morrill, Medford Mass, actress (Edie Grant-Mary Tyler Moore)
1928 - Paul Greening, master of Queen's household
1928 - Ruth Westheimer, Germany, sex therapist (WYNY-FM)
1929 - Karolos Papoulias, Greek politician
1930 - Morgana King, jazz singer/actress (Godfather)
1930 - Pentti Raitio, composer
1931 - Cesar Bolanos, composer
1932 - John Barrymore Jr, Beverly Hills California, actor (Pantomine Quiz)
1932 - Oliver Nelson, American jazz composer and arranger (d. 1975)
1932 - Maurice Shadbolt, New Zealand writer
1933 - John Sparrow, Chairman (British Horserace Betting Levy Board)
1934 - Seamus Elliott, Irish cyclist (d. 1971)
1935 - Hendrikus C "Henk" Admiraal, Dutch actor (Rififi in Amsterdam)
1936 - Bruce Dern, Winnetka Ill, actor (Coming Home, Silent Running, Tatoo)
1936 - David Lyon, CEO (Bowater)
1937 - Freddie Fender, Mexico, country singer (Feelings)
1937 - Mortimer B Zuckerman, CEO (US News & World Report, NY Daily News)
1937 - Freddy Fender, American musician (d. 2006)
1937 - Robert Fulghum, American author
1937 - Gorilla Monsoon, American professional wrestler (d. 1999)
1938 - Art Mahaffey, baseball player
1939 - Phil Linz, baseball shortstop (NY Yankees)
1940 - Dorothy Rudd Moore, composer
1940 - Gerrit H Terpstra, economist/Dutch 2nd Chamber member (CDA)
1940 - Ludwig Schwarz, Austrian bishop
1943 - Sandra Haynie, Fort Worth TX, LPGA golfer (1974 US Women's Open)
1943 - Joyce Meyer, American religious leader
1944 - Charlie Whitney, rock guitarist (Family)
1944 - Michelle Phillips, Long Beach CA, singer/actress (Mamas & Papas)
1944 - Roger Ball, Scotland, saxophonist (Average White Band)
1945 - Anthony Braxton, jazz musician
1945 - Daniel Topolski, writer/photographer/rowing coach
1945 - Gordon Waller, Scotland, singer (Peter & Gordon-World Without Love)
1945 - Ivan "Ironman" Stewart, Mickey Thompson off-road champ (1983, 84, 90)
1945 - Margaret Impert, Horseheads NY, actress (Maggie, Spencer's Pilots)
1946 - Bettina Gregory, correspondent/journalist (ABC-TV)
1947 - Viktor Klima, Chancellor of Austria
1948 - Bob Champion, horse trainer/jockey
1948 - Rosemary Joyce, model/actress (Daphne Draper-Search For Tomorrow)
1948 - Sandra Post, LPGA golfer
1949 - Gabriel Arcand, French Canadian actor
1950 - Brian Rose, cricketer (England batsman in 9 Tests 1977-81)
1950 - Dagmar Krause, West Germany, singer (Henry Cow, Art Bears)
1950 - Wayne Powers, New Rochelle NY, actor (Laverne & Shirley, 13 East)
1951 - David Yip, actor (Ping Pong)
1951 - Yvonne MCT van Rooy, Dutch Secretary of State Secretary (CDA)
1951 - Charles Dickinson, American author
1951 - Wendy Pini, American comic book writer and artist
1952 - Carlene Watkins, Hartford CT, actress (Tough Enough)
1952 - Catherine Watkins, Hartford Ct, actress (It's Not Easy, Mary)
1952 - Parker Stevenson, Phila Pa, actor (Falcon Crest, Stroker Ace)
1953 - Susumu Ojima, Japanese entrepreneur (Huser)
1953 - Paul Samson, British guitarist (Samson) (d. 2002)
1955 - Paul Stewart, English writer
1955 - Mary Testa, American stage actress
1956 - John Treacy, marathonr (Olympics-silver-1984)
1956 - Terry Kennedy, baseball player
1956 - Martin Adams, English darts player
1956 - Keith David, American actor
1956 - John Hockenberry, American journalist
1957 - Tony Pena, Monte Cristi Dom Rep, catcher (Cleveland Indians)
1958 - Julie Gholson, Birmingham Ala, actress (Where the Lilies Bloom)
1958 - Tony Pigott, cricketer (England pace bowler in a Test v NZ 1984)
1959 - Lord Rayleigh, agri-businessman (Lord Rayleigh Farms)
1959 - Paul Taylor, rocker (Winger-17)
1959 - Rod Connop, CFL corner (Edmonton Eskimos)
1960 - Bradley Walsh, British actor
1961 - Cathy Marino, LPGA golfer
1961 - El Debarge, Grand Rapids Mich, rocker (Debarge-All this Love)
1961 - Ferenc Gyurcsány, Hungary prime minister
1962 - Zenon Jaskuła, Polish cyclist
1962 - John P. Kee, American Gospel singer
1963 - Carey Nelson, Canada, marathoner (Olympics-96)
1963 - Jim Lachey, NFL tackle (Washington Redskins)
1963 - Mossimo Giannulli, fashion designer (hot)
1963 - Xavier McDaniel, NBA forward (Seattle SuperSonics)
1964 - Chris Kavanagh, rocker (Sigue Sigue Sputnik-Love Missile F-111)
1964 - Steve Searcy, baseball player
1964 - Eva Fampas, Greek guitarist
1965 - Andrea Jaeger, Chicago, tennis player (retired as a teenager)
1965 - Beau Allred, baseball player
1965 - Jonathan Canter, LA Cal, tennis star
1965 - Kurt Stillwell, Glendale CA, infielder (Texas Rangers)
1965 - Tim Perry, NBA forward (NJ Nets)
1965 - Mick Doohan, Australian motorcycle racer
1966 - Nick Kypreos, Toronto, NHL left wing (Toronto Maple Leafs)
1966 - Cecilia Bartoli, Italian mezzo-soprano
1966 - Vladimir Voevodsky, Russian mathematician
1967 - Rick Wilkins, Jacksonville FL, catcher (Houston Astros)
1967 - Scott Servais, La Crosse Wisc, catcher (Chicago Cubs)
1967 - Simon Sheldon-Collins, Australian baseball pitcher (Olympics-1996)
1968 - Scott Wolf, Boston Mass, actor (Broken Arrow, Party of 5)
1968 - Stacy Leigh Arthur, Naperville Ill, playmate (Jan, 1991)
1968 - Al B. Sure, American R&B singer
1969 - Regi Blinker, soccer player (Feyenoord)
1969 - Robert Perez, Bolivar Venezuela, outfielder (Toronto Blue Jays)
1969 - Tine Moberg-Parker, Oslo Norway, Canada Europe class yachter (Oly-96)
1969 - Horatio Sanz, Chilean-born comedian
1970 - Gary Lynagh, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1970 - Ronnie Harris, NFL wide receiver (Seattle Seahawks)
1970 - Richie Hawtin, Canadian musician
1970 - David Pybus, British musician
1971 - Noah Wyle, Hollywood California, actor (Dr John Carter-ER)
1971 - Patrick Scott, NFL/WLAF linebacker (Pittsburgh Steelers, Frankfurt Galaxy)
1971 - Roy Janse, Edmonton Alberta, tornado yachter (Olympics-96)
1971 - Tanya Beyer, St Paul Minn, playmate (Feb, 1992)
1971 - Joseph Kabila, Congolese politician
1971 - James Callis, British actor
1971 - Shoji Meguro, Japanese composer
1972 - Derian Hatcher, Sterling Heights MI, NHL defenseman (Dallas Stars)
1972 - Nikka Costa, American singer
1972 - Rob Huebel, American comedian
1973 - Antonio Anderson, defensive tackle (Dallas Cowboys)
1973 - Corey Walker, running back (Philadelphia Eagles)
1973 - Doug Colman, linebacker (NY Giants)
1973 - Sir Mawn Wilson, NFL wide reciever (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1974 - Darin Erstad, outfielder (California Angels)
1974 - James Miller, Australian pole vaulter (Olympics-96)
1974 - Johnny Taylor, NBA forward (Orlando Magic)
1974 - Lyndsay Kahler, Orange California, Miss America-California (1997)
1974 - Andrew Gwynne, British politician
1974 - Stefan Lessard, American musician
1975 - Betty Okino, Uganda, US gymnist (Olympic-92)
1975 - Dinanath Ramnarine, cricketer (Trinidad & Tobago leg-spinner)
1975 - Kurt Dreger, Ironwood Mich, dance skater (& Cronin-1997 Natl-13th)
1975 - Russell Brand, British comedian and television personality
1975 - Henry Burris, American Football Quarterback
1975 - Angelina Jolie, Los Angeles, California, American actress (Girl, Interrupted, Lara Croft: Tomb
           Raider)
1977 - Dionisis Chiotis, Greek footballer
1977 - Alex Manninger, Austrian footballer
1977 - Berglind Icey, Icelandic actor
1977 - Quinten Hann, Australian former snooker player
1979 - Naohiro Takahara, Japanese footballer
1979 - Daniel Vickerman, Australian rugby union player
1980 - Alicja Janosz, Polish singer
1980 - François Beauchemin, French Canadian ice hockey player
1981 - Giourkas Seitaridis, Greek footballer
1981 - T. J. Miller, American actor and comedian
1982 - Ronnie Prude, National Football League player
1982 - Jin, Chinese-American rapper
1982 - Jamie Dornan, Irish model and actor
1983 - Emmanuel Eboué, Ivorian footballer
1984 - Ian White, Canadian hockey player
1984 - Rainie Yang, Taiwanese singer and actress
1984 - Jenaveve Jolie, Mexican-American pornographic actress
1985 - Lukas Podolski, Polish-born footballer
1985 - Bar Refaeli, Israeli model
1985 - Evan Lysacek, American figure skater
1985 - Ana Carolina Reston, Brazilian fashion model (d. 2006)
1986 - Shane Kippel, Canadian actor
1988 - Leigh Adams, Australian Footballer
1992 - Earvin Johnson III, son of NBA foward Magic Johnson
1992 - Dino Jelusić, Croatian singer
1993 - ... Mowatt, grandson of English princess Alexandra

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 04, 2013, 07:49:50 AM

This Day in History for 4th June


Famous Deaths

1039 - Conrad II the Salian, King/Emperor of Germany (1024/27-39), dies at 49
1135 - Emperor Huizong of China (b. 1082)
1206 - Adèle of Champagne, wife of Louis VII of France
1257 - Duke Przemysl I of Poland
1267 - Hendrik of Vianden, bishop of Utrecht (1252-67), dies
1316 - Louis X, King of France (1314-16), dies at 26
1394 - Mary de Bohun, wife of Henry IV of England (b. c 1369)
1463 - Flavio Biondi, Italian writer (Rome instaurata), dies at about 65
1558 - Maximilian of Burgundy, leader of Holland/admiral, dies at 43
1585 - Muretus (Marc Antoine de Muret), French humanist (b. 1526)
1608 - Francesco Caracciolo, Italian religious founder/saint, dies at 44
1663 - William Juxon, archbishop of Canterbury (1660-63), dies
1674 - John Lievensz, painter/etcher/wood carver, dies at 66
1792 - John Burgoyne, soldier/playwright, dies
1793 - Jan Ekels de Young, Dutch painter, dies at 34
1798 - Giacomo Casanova, Italian adventurer/writer/librarian and womanizer, dies at 73
1801 - Frederick Muhlenberg, American statesman (b. 1750)
1809 - Nicolai Arbraham Abildgaard, Danish painter/architect, dies at 65
1818 - John van Well, choreographer/mime (Pierrot), dies at 44
1825 - Ferdinand I, King of Sicily/Naples (Ferdinand IV), dies
1826 - Karl Maria FE von Weber, German composer (Oberon), dies at 39
1830 - Antonio José de Sucre, Great Marshall of Ayacucho (b. 1795)
1850 - Willem F Mauritius HK, prince of Orange, dies at 74
1872 - Johan R Thorbecke, literature/liberal premier, dies
1872 - Stanislaw Moniuszko, composer, dies at 53
1875 - Eduard Mörike, German poet (b. 1804)
1880 - Eugen Adam, painter, dies
1905 - Carl Albert Loeschhorn, composer, dies at 85
1907 - Agathe Grondahl, composer, dies at 59
1915 - William Charles Denis Browne, composer, dies at 26
1916 - Mildred J Hill, composer/musician (Happy Birthday To You), dies at 56
1921 - Heinrich E Albers-Schoenberg, German x-ray experimenter, dies at 56
1922 - William Halse Rivers, British psychologist/anthropologist, dies
1925 - Gheorghe Dima, composer, dies at 77
1925 - Pierre Louys, [PF Louis], French writer (Aphrodite), dies
1926 - Eugeen of Oye, Flemish writer/poet (Sparks & Radiates), dies
1926 - Fred Spofforth, cricketer (18 tests 94 wkts 41 Best match 14-90), dies
1926 - Frederick Robert Spofforth, cricketer/demon bowler, dies
1929 - Harry Frazee, Boston Red Sox owner from 1916-1923 (b. 1881)
1931 - Ibn Ali Hussein, King of Hejaz, dies
1937 - Donald Eligon, cricketer (Trinidad, nail in his cricket boot), dies
1939 - Tommy Ladnier, American musician (b. 1900)
1941 - Wilhelm II von Hohenzollern, emperor (Germany, 1888-1918), dies
1942 - Reinhard Heydrich, German protector (Bohemia/Moravia (Lidice)), dies
1943 - Jean du Bela, singer/actor (Sobibor), dies at 39
1945 - Georg Kaiser, playwright, dies at 66
1950 - Sam Staples, cricket pace bowler (3 Tests 1927-28), dies
1951 - Serge Koussevitsky, conductor/composer, dies at 76
1954 - Harold Hoffman, (Gov-NJ), dies at 58
1956 - Max Kowalski, composer, dies at 73
1956 - Katherine MacDonald, American actress (b. 1881)
1958 - M Lichnowsky, writer, dies at 79
1959 - Charles Vidor, director (Gilda, Farewell to Arms), dies at 58
1960 - Lucien Littlefield, actor (Mr Beasley-Blondie), dies at 64
1962 - William Beebe, US biologist/explorer, dies at 84
1962 - Clem McCarthy, American sportscaster (b. 1882)
1964 - Samuil Marshak, Russian poet (b. 1887)
1965 - Bernard Verhoeven, poet/educator (Pleidooi near een non), dies
1968 - Dorothy Gish, [de Guiche], actress (Home Sweet Home), dies at 70
1970 - Hjalmar Schcacht, [Horace Greeley], Nazi minister, dies
1970 - Jopie [Johan A] Pengel, premier Suriname, dies
1970 - Menasha Skulnik, comedian (Menasha the Magnificent), dies at 78
1970 - Sonny Tufts, actor (Atomic Blonde, 7 Year Itch), dies at 58
1971 - Georg Lukács, Hungarian philosopher (b. 1885)
1972 - Godfried Devreese, composer, dies at 79
1973 - Arna Bontemps, writer (Harlem Renaissance), dies at 72 in Nashville
1973 - Murray Wilson, father of beachboys Brian, Carl & Dennis, dies at 55
1975 - Evelyn Brent, actress (Nitwits, Last Command, Spy Train), dies at 75
1979 - Edward Dawson, cricketer (England batsman in 5 Tests 1927-30), dies
1989 - Ayatalloh Ruhullah Khomeini, Iranian leader (-1989), dies at 89
1989 - Dik Browne, cartoonist (Hi & Lois, Hagar the Horrible), dies at 71
1989 - Vaclav Kaslik, Czech opera composer/conductor, dies at 71
1990 - Jack Gilford, comedic actor (Cocoon II), dies at 82 of stomach cancer
1992 - Carl Stotz, founder (baseball's little league), dies at 82
1993 - June Smaney, actress (Sainted Sister), dies of apparent suicide at 71
1994 - Derek Lek Leckenby, rock guitarist (Herman's Hermits), dies at 48
1994 - Earle Warren, alto Sax Player, dies at 79
1994 - Horace "Stephen" McNally, attorney/actor (Johnny Belinda), dies at 80
1994 - Massimo Troisi, Italian actor/director (Ricomincio da tre), dies at 41
1994 - Roberto Burle Marx, landscape gardener, dies at 84
1994 - Sophie Winter, actress (She's a Good Fighter), dies at 33
1994 - Thomas Stuart Willan, historian, dies at 84
1994 - Toto Bissainthe, voodoo poet, dies at 59
1995 - Ernest Borneman, sexual researcher psychotherapist, dies at 80
1995 - Herta Ryder, literary agent, dies at 77
1995 - Paul WIlliams, climber, dies at 49
1995 - William J Law, sailor, dies at 84
1996 - Tito Okello, president of Uganda (1985-86), dies
1997 - Kurt Adler, therapist/writer, dies at 92
1997 - Ronnie Lane, bassist (Faces), dies of multiple sclerosis at 51
2001 - Dipendra of Nepal (b. 1971)
2001 - John Hartford, American musician (b. 1937)
2002 - Fernando Belaúnde Terry, Peruvian politician (b. 1912)
2004 - Steve Lacy, American saxophonist (b. 1934)
2004 - Nino Manfredi, Italian actor (b. 1921)
2007 - Clete Boyer, American baseball player (b. 1937)
2007 - Jim Clark, American sheriff and segregationist (b. 1922)
2007 - Bill France Jr., NASCAR pioneer (b. 1933)
2007 - Sotiris Moustakas, Greek actor (b. 1940)
2007 - Freddie Scott, American singer and songwriter (b. 1933)
2007 - Craig L. Thomas, United States Senator (b. 1933)
2008 - Nikos Sergianopoulos, Greek actor (b. 1952)
2010 - John Wooden, American basketball player and coach (b. 1910)
2011 - Juan Francisco Luis, U.S. Virgin Islander governor (b. 1940)
2011 - Andreas P. Nielsen, Danish author and composer (b. 1953)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 05, 2013, 11:13:09 AM

This Day in History for 5th June


Historical Events

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Physicist & Mathematician                      Inventor Charles Babbage                      US President Grover Cleveland
Isaac Newton

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Ford Motor Company Founder              Military Leader George Marshall                     Pop Singer & Beatle
Henry Ford                                                                                                                      Paul McCartney

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Tennis Player Steffi Graf


70 - Titus & his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem
754 - Friezen murders bishop Boniface & over 50 companions
1257 - Kraków, Poland receive city rights.
1288 - Battle of Woeringen: Reinald I vs Jan I
1305 - Bordeaux's archbishop Bertrand the Got elected Pope Clement V
1507 - England & Netherlands sign trade agreement
1625 - Spanish troops under Spinola conquer Breda
1632 - Prince Frederik Henry conquerors Roermond
1661 - Isaac Newton admitted as a student to Trinity College, Cambridge
1716 - England & Emperor Karel VI signs military treaty
1752 - Prince Willem van Orange becomes Knight of Garter
1783 - Joseph & Jacques Montgolfier make 1st public balloon flight
1794 - Congress prohibits citizens from serving in foreign armed forces
1798 - The Battle of New Ross: The attempt to spread United Irish Rebellion into Munster is
           defeated.
1805 - 1st recorded tornado in "Tornado Alley" (Southern Illinois)
1806 - 1st trotter to break 3 minute mile (Yankee)
1806 - Batavian Republic becomes Kingdom of Holland
1808 - -6] Battle at Wagram: French army beats Austrians
1827 - Turks capture Acropolis & takes Athens during Greek War of Independ
1829 - The HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba.
1833 - Ada Lovelace (future 1st computer programmer) meets Charles Babbage
1846 - Telegraph line opens between Phila & Balt
1848 - Statue of prince Willem the Silent unveiled
1849 - Danish National Day-Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy
1855 - Anti-foreign anti-Roman Catholic Know-Nothing Party's 1st convention
1857 - Walter Woodbury & James Page open photo studio in Batavia (Djakarta)
1861 - Federal marshals seize arms & gunpower at Du Pont works DE
1863 - Battle of Franklin's Crossing, VA (Deep Run)
1863 - CSS "Alabama" captures "Tailsman" in Mid Atlantic
1864 - Battle of Piedmont, VA (Augusta City)
1869 - 3rd Belmont: C Miller aboard Fenian wins in 3:04.25
1870 - Constantinople in fire; 900 die
1872 - Republican National Convention meets (Phila)
1873 - Sultan Bargash closes slave market of Zanzibar
1875 - Pacific Stock Exchange formally opens
1876 - Bananas become popular in US, at Centennial Exposition in Phila
1879 - 13th Belmont: George Evans aboard Spendthrift wins in 2:42.75
1882 - Storm & floods hits Bombay; about 100,000 die
1884 - William Sherman refuses Republican presidential nomination saying "I will not accept if
           nominated & will not serve if elected"
1886 - 20th Belmont: Jim McLaughlin aboard Inspector B wins in 2:41
1888 - Democrats nominate Grover Cleveland for president
1888 - The Rio de la Plata Earthquake takes place.
1899 - Alfred Dreyfus' acquitted
1900 - Lord Roberts' army occupies Pretoria
1907 - Automatic washer & dryer are introduced
1911 - Red Sox Joe Wood strikes out 3 pinch hitters in 9th for 5-4 win
1912 - US marines invade Cuba (3nd time)
1913 - Dutch Disability laws go into effect
1915 - 47th Belmont: George Byrne aboard The Finn wins in 2:18.6
1915 - Denmark amends its constitution to allow women's suffrage.
1917 - 10 million US men begin registering for draft in WW I
1920 - 1st rivet driven on Bank of Italy headquarters at 1 Powell
1920 - A's VP Thomas Shibe denies charges that baseballs are livelier
1925 - 29th US Golf Open: Willie Macfarlane shoots a 291 at Worcester CC Mass
1926 - Indians triple-play Yankees & win 15-3
1927 - 3rd French Mens Tennis: R Lacoste beats B Tilden (64 46 57 63 11-9)
1927 - Johnny Weissmuller sets 100-yard & 200-yard free-style swim record
1929 - Ramsey MacDonald forms minority Labour government in Britain
1931 - Jules Renkin becomes premier of Belgium
1933 - Gold standard abolished
1934 - 1st formal meeting of Baker Street Irregulars (NYC)
1937 - 69th Belmont: Charley Kurtsinger aboard War Admiral wins in 2:28.6
1937 - Henry Ford initiates 32 hour work week
1940 - 1st synthetic rubber tire exhibited Akron Oh
1940 - American Negro Theater organizes
1940 - Battle of France begins in WW II
1940 - Gen Von Bock starts German offensive in Somme
1940 - General De Gaulle becomes under minister of Defense
1940 - Gov of Suriname & Neth Antilles refuse entry to Jewish refugees
1940 - Netherlands rations petroleum
1940 - Synthetic rubber tire unveiled
1941 - Sandor Szabo beats B Nagurski in St Louis, to become wrestling champ
1942 - British offensive in North Africa under general Ritchie
1942 - Elwood Ordnance Plant near Joliet Illinois kills 54
1942 - USA declares war on Bulgaria, Hungary & Romania
1943 - 75th Belmont: Johnny Longden aboard Count Fleet wins in 2:28.2
1943 - German occupiers arrest Louvain University's chancellor
1944 - 1st B-29 bombing raid; 1 plane lost due to engine failure
1944 - 1st British gliders touched down on French soil for D-Day
1944 - Allies march into Rome
1944 - Fieldmarshal Rommel goes on vacation
1944 - General Eisenhower decides invasion set for June 6
1944 - King Victor Emmanuel abdicates the throne for his son Umberto
1945 - Opera "Peter Grimes of Benjamin Britten," premieres in London
1945 - USA, UK, USSR, France declare supreme authority over Germany
1946 - Fire at LaSalle Hotel cocktail lounge kills 61 (Chicago Ill)
1947 - Sec of State George C Marshall outlines "Marshall Plan"
1948 - Phillies Richie Ashburn sets NL rookie consecut hitting streak at 23
1950 - US Supreme Court undermines legal foundations of segregation
1952 - 1st sporting event televised nationally-Walcott vs Charles boxing
1952 - Test Cricket debut of Freddie Trueman v India at Headingley
1952 - Jersey Joe Walcott beats Ezzard Charles in 15 for heavy weight boxing title
1953 - Denmark adopts a new constitution
1953 - US Senate rejects China PR membership to UN
1954 - "Your Show Of Shows," last airs on NBC-TV
1954 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Ecclesiae fastos
1955 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Eastern Golf Open
1955 - NY Yankee Mickey Mantle hits 550' HR off Chicago Billy Pierce
1956 - "Milton Berle Show," last airs on NBC-TV
1956 - Fed court rules racial segregation on Montgomery buses anti-Const
1957 - NY narcotics investigator, Dr Herbert Berger, urges AMA to investigate use of stimulating
           drugs by athletes
1959 - Bob Dylan graduates Hibbing HS in Minn
1959 - The first government of the State of Singapore is sworn in.
1960 - "George Gobel Show," last airs on CBS-TV
1960 - Joyce Ziske wins LPGA Wolverine Golf Open
1963 - Princess Marijke changes her name to Christina
1963 - State of siege proclaimed in Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini arrested
1964 - Davie Jones & King Bees debut "I Can't Help Thinking About Me," group disbands but Davie
           Jones goes on to success as David Bowie
1965 - "Wooly Bully" by Sam the Sham & Pharaohs hits #2
1965 - 97th Belmont: John Sellers aboard Hail to All wins in 2:28.6
1965 - Lopez Arellano becomes president of Honduras
1966 - Cin Red Leo Cardenas hits 4 HRs in a doubleheader
1966 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Clayton Federal Golf Invitational
1967 - 6 day war between Israel & Arab neighbors begin
1967 - Murderer Richard Speck sentenced to death in electric chair
1967 - WSBE TV channel 36 in Providence, RI (PBS) begins broadcasting
1967 - Royal Canadian Mint ordered to start converting 10 cent & 25 cent coins to pure nickel as
           soon as possible
1968 - 12:16AM PST-Sirhan Sirhan shoots Bobby Kennedy, who dies next day
1969 - Dutch Antilles government of Kroon resigns
1969 - Race riot in Hartford Connecticut
1969 - The International communist conference begins in Moscow.
1970 - KPAX TV channel 8 in Missoula, MT (CBS) begins broadcasting
1970 - Chile becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1971 - 103rd Belmont: Walter Blum aboard Pass Catcher wins in 2:30.6
1972 - "If You Had Wings" opens
1972 - UN Conference on Human Environment opens in Stockholm
1972 - Yugoslav president Tito visits USSR
1973 - 43rd French Mens Tennis: Ilse Nastase beats Nikki Pilic (63 63 60)
1974 - A's Reggie Jackson & Bill North engage in clubhouse fight at Detroit
1975 - 48th National Spelling Bee: Hugh Tosteson wins spelling incisor
1975 - British population agrees to European Common Market membership
1975 - Egypt president Sadat reopens Suez Canal (closed since 1967)
1976 - "Bigfoot" by Bro Smith hits #57
1976 - 108th Belmont: Angel Cordero Jr aboard Bold Forbes wins in 2:29
1976 - Teton Dam in Idaho burst causing $1 billion damage (14 die)
1977 - 1st personal computer, Apple II, goes on sale
1977 - 31st NBA Championship: Port Trailblazers beat Phila 76er, 4 games to 2
1977 - 31st Tony Awards: Shadow Box & Annie win
1977 - Coup in Seychelles (National Day)
1977 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Talk Tournament '77 Golf Tournament
1977 - LA Dodgers retire Walt Alston's #24
1979 - Seychelles adopts constitution
1980 - Soyuz T-2 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
1981 - Astro's Nolan Ryan passes Early Wynn as all-time walk leader (1,777)
1981 - Center of Disease Control reports of a pneumonia affecting gays (AIDS)
1981 - George Harrison releases "Somewhere in England"
1981 - TODAY/PC runs for 1st time
1982 - "Murphy's Law" by Cheri hits #39
1982 - 114th Belmont: Laffit Pincay Jr aboard Conquistador Cielo wins in 2:28
1982 - 52nd French Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Andrea Jaeger (76 61)
1982 - Waterfront streetcar begins operating in Seattle
1983 - 37th Tony Awards: Torch Song Trilogy & Cats win
1983 - 53rd French Mens Tennis: Yannick Noah beats Mats Wilander (62 75 76)
1983 - Alice Miller wins West Virginia LPGA Golf Classic
1984 - Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time" becomes #1
1984 - Indira Gandhi orders attack on Sikh's holiest site (Golden Temple)
1986 - SD Padre Steve Garvey ejected for 1st time
1987 - "Nightline" presents it's 1st "Town Meeting" the subject is AIDS & the show runs until 3:47
           AM
1987 - Dwight Gooden returns from drug rehabilitation & allows wins game
1988 - 1st Children's Miracle Network Telethon raises $590,000
1988 - 58th French Mens Tennis: Mats Wilander beats Henri Leconte (75 62 61)
1988 - Kay Cottee sails into Sydney as 1st woman to circle globe alone
1988 - Laura Davies wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic
1988 - Longest champagne cork flight is 177'9 in NY
1988 - Russian orthodox church celebrates 1,000th anniversary
1989 - 23rd Music City News Country Awards: R Van Shelton & Randy Travis
1989 - Billy Smith, last original NY Islander, retires
1989 - Paul McCartney releases "Flowers in the Dirt"
1989 - Toronto Blue Jays Skydome stadium opens, Milwaukee Brewers win 5-3
1990 - South African troops plunder Mandela's dwelling
1991 - Lesbian priest Elizabeth Carl ordained in Episcopal Church
1991 - Mikhail Gorbachev receives his 1990 Nobel Peace Prize
1991 - Space Shuttle STS 40 (Columbia 12) launched
1993 - "Livin' On The Edge" by Aerosmith hits #18
1993 - 125th Belmont: Julie Krone aboard Colonial Affair wins in 2:29.8
1993 - 63rd French Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats M J Fernandez (46 62 64)
1993 - Liberian Charles Taylors rebellion kills 550 fugitives
1993 - Somali warlord Aidids murders 23 Pakistani
1994 - "Gray's Anatomy" opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 8 performances
1994 - 64th French Mens Tennis: S Bruguera beats A Berasategui (63 75 26 61)
1994 - 64th French Womens Tennis: A Sanchez Vicario beats M Pierce (64 64)
1994 - 7th Children's Miracle Network Telethon
1994 - Beth Daniel wins LPGA Oldsmobile Golf Classic
1995 - 29th Music City News Country Awards: Alan Jackson & Reba McEntire
1995 - The Bose-Einstein condensate is first created.
1996 - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Memphis TN on WMFS 92.9 FM
1998 - A strike begins at the General Motors parts factory in Flint, Michigan, that quickly spreads to
           five other assembly plants (the strike lasted seven weeks).
2001 - U.S. Senator Jim Jeffords leaves the Republican Party, an act which shifts control of the
           United States Senate from the Republicans to the Democratic Party.
2001 - Tropical Storm Allison makes landfall on the upper-Texas coastline as a strong tropical storm
           and dumps large amounts of rain over Houston. The storm caused $5.5 billion in damages,
           making Allison the costliest tropical storm in U.S. history.
2003 - A severe heat wave across Pakistan and India reaches its peak, as temperatures exceed 50°C
          (122°F) in the region.
2006 - Serbia declares independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro.

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 05, 2013, 11:17:24 AM

This Day in History for 5th June


Famous Weddings

1974 - "Sly and the Family Stone" frontman Sly Stone (31) weds model-actress Kathy Silva at
           Madison Square Garden
1993 - Singer Mariah Carey weds Tommy Mottola, CEO (Sony Music)
1997 - Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher (30) weds Meg Mathews at the Little Church of the West in Las
           Vegas
1999 - Actress Reese Witherspoon (23) weds actor Ryan Phillippe (24) at the Old Wide Awake
           Plantation along the Sono River in Charleston, South Carolina
1999 - 1994 Figure Skater World Champion Yuka Sato (26) weds her fellor skater Jason Dungjen
1999 - Baritone belter Frankie Laine (86) weds retired real estate agent Marcia Kline (61) near San
           Diego
2004 - Actress Jennifer Lopez (43) weds salsa artist Marc Anthony (42) in Beverly Hills, California
2005 - "All My Children" cast members Alexa Havins (24) weds actor Justin Bruening (25) in a seaside
           ceremony held on Cinnamon Bay on the island of St. John
2010 - "Bond girl" actress Gemma Arterton (24) weds Stefano Catelli (37) at a secret ceremony at
           the hilltop village of Zuheros in Andalucia, Spain

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 05, 2013, 11:19:14 AM

This Day in History for 5th June


Famous Divorces

2009 - "Lost" actress Emilie de Ravin (27) divorces actor Josh Janowicz (27) after three years of
           marriage
2012 - NBC musical drama series "Smash" actress Debra Messing (43) divorces actor and producer
           Daniel Zelman (44) by their mutual decision after 10 years of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 05, 2013, 11:26:31 AM

This Day in History for 5th June


Famous Birthdays

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Actor Spalding Gray (1941)                        Author Ken Follett (1949)                     Actor & Former Rapper
                                                                                                                              Mark Wahlberg (1971)


1341 - Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, son of Edward III of England (d. 1402)
1493 - Justus Jonas, German Protestant reformer (d. 1555)
1523 - Margaret of France, Duchess of Berry (d. 1573)
1553 - Bernardino Baldi, Italian mathematician (d. 1617)
1554 - Elisabeth of Austria, queen consort of France (d. 1592)
1640 - Pu Songling, Chinese writer (d. 1715)
1646 - Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Italian mathematician (d. 1684)
1660 - Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (d. 1744)
1664 - Mustafa II, sultan of Turkey (1695-1703)
1665 - Nicolas Bernier, composer
1686 - Cristoph Raupach, composer
1695 - Johann Conrad Schlaun, German barok architect
1718 - Thomas Chippendale, England, furniture maker (baptized)
1723 - Adam Smith, Kirkcaldy Scot, economist (Wealth of Nations) (baptized)
1736 - Corneille F de Nelis, Flemish scholar/bishop of Antwerp
1757 - Pierre Jean George Cabanis, French physiologist (d. 1808)
1759 - Theodor Zwetler, composer
1760 - Johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist (discovered yttrium)
1771 - Ernst Augustus I, Duke of Cumberland/King of Hanover (1837-51)
1771 - Willem F, count of Bylandt, Dutch military officer
1781 - Christian August Lobeck, German scholar (d. 1860)
1798 - Alexey Fyodorovich L'vov, composer
1813 - Prosper Philippe Catherine Sainton, composer
1819 - John Couch Adams, English astronomer (co-discover Neptune)
1823 - George Thorndike Angell, Mass, lawyer (ASPCA)
1825 - Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry, Georgia, educator (Rep-Ala, 1857-61)
1826 - Ivar Christian Hallstrom, composer
1827 - Beverly Holcombe Robertson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1831 - Marcus Joseph Wright, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1922
1850 - Pat Garrett, American Western lawman (d. 1908)
1862 - Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish physician (Nobel 1911)
1863 - Arthur Somervell, composer
1868 - James Connolly, Irish socialist (d. 1916)
1874 - Jack Chesbro, baseball pitcher (NY Yankees - won 41 in 1904)
1876 - Tony Jackson, American musician (d. 1920)
1877 - Johan W Albarda, 1st Dutch socialist minister (1939-45)
1878 - Franklyn Farnum, actor (Cowboy & Bandit, Scarlet Car, Frontier Days)
1878 - [Francisco] Pancho Villa, Mexico, revolutionary/guerrilla leader
1879 - Adolf Wiklund, composer
1879 - Robert Mayer, German-born philanthropist (d. 1985)
1879 - René Pottier, French cyclist (d. 1907)
1883 - John Maynard Keynes, Cambridge England, economist/math/journalist
1884 - Ivy Compton-Burnett, novelist
1884 - Ralph Benatzky, Czech composer (d. 1957)
1885 - Georges Mandel, [Louis Rothschild], French Foreign minister (-1940)
1887 - Ruth Benedict, New York City, American anthropologist (Patterns of Culture)
1888 - Raden Mas Nato Suroto, Indonesia, poet (Melatiknoppen)
1892 - Alexander Loudon, diplomat (Washington)
1894 - Roy Thomson, Lord Thomson of Fleet, English publisher (d. 1976)
1895 - August Baeyens, Flemish composer (Coriolanus)
1895 - William Boyd, Ohio, cowboy (Hopalong Cassidy)
1898 - Federico Garcia Lorca, Spain, poet/dramatist (Blood Wedding)
1900 - Barbara Gooden, novelist
1900 - Dennis Gabor, inventor (holography (3D laser photography)) [or Jan 5]
1901 - Anastasia N Romanova, great ruler of Russia/daughter of last tsar
1902 - Hugo Huppert, writer
1905 - Art Donovan, NFL defensive tackle (Balt, NY Yanks, Dallas)
1905 - John Abbott, London, actor (Smogasboard)
1906 - Kenneth Anderson, deputy comptroller (British GPO)
1906 - Margaret Rawlings, actress (Roman Holiday)
1906 - Viscount Rochdale, British CEO
1907 - Rolf Bongs, writer
1907 - Rudolf Peieris, physicist
1908 - Jack Jacob, senior master (British Supreme Court)
1909 - Alfred Uhl, composer
1911 - Arthur Vick, vice chancelor (Queens University, Belfast)
1911 - Charles Fletcher, physician/CEO (ASH)
1912 - Eric Hollies, cricketer (England leggie, bowled Bradman)
1912 - Josef Neckermann, German FR, equestrian dressage (Olympic-gold-1968)
1912 - Dean Amadon, American ornithologist (d. 2003)
1913 - Friedrich Wildgans, composer
1914 - Beatrice de Cardi, archaeoligist
1914 - Rose Hill, singer/actress (Nicholas Nickleby, Shot in the Dark)
1914 - Stan Jones, Douglas Az, actor (Sheriff of Cochise)
1915 - Alfred Kazin, US writer/literature critic (Inmost Leaf)
1915 - Lancelot Ware, founder (MENSA)
1916 - Eddie Joost, baseball player
1916 - Jack Sutherland, journalist
1916 - Syd Barnes, cricketer (Australian batsmen of 30's/40's)
1917 - Carel van Dillen, resistance fighter
1918 - Branimir Sakac, composer
1919 - Akeo Watanabe, Tokyo Japan, conductor (Nippon Phil Orch 1956-68)
1919 - Richard McClure Scarry, children's author/illustrator
1920 - Cornelius Ryan, US historian/writer (Italians: Face of a Nation)
1920 - Kurt Edelhagen, West German jazz pianist (Klimbim)
1920 - Marion Motley, AAFC, NFL fullback (Cleveland Browns, Pittsburgh)
1921 - Lancelot Pierre, cricketer (1 Test WI v England 1948, 0-28)
1923 - Daniel Rogers Pinkham, Lynn Massachusetts, composer (Signs of Zodiac)
1923 - Jorge Daponte, Argentine racing driver (d. 1963)
1924 - Kenneth Burslam Gardner, librarian/orientalist
1925 - Bill Hayes, Harvey Ill, actor (Your Show of Shows, Days of our Life)
1925 - Dorothy Claire, LaPorte Ind, singer (Winchell & Mahoney)
1925 - William L Dickinson, (Rep-R-AL, 1965- )
1925 - Art Donovan, American football star
1928 - Otto V Walter, writer
1928 - Robert Lansing, SD California, actor (12 O'Clock High, Equalizer, Automan)
1928 - Tony Richardson, England, director (Delicate Balance, Hotel NH)
1930 - Nikolay Nikolayevich Sidel'nikov, composer
1930 - Robert Buchanan, founder (Center for History of Tech Bath University)
1930 - Roger W Suddards, solicitor
1930 - Alifa Rifaat, Egyptian writer (d. 1996)
1931 - Jacques Demy, France, director (Lola, Magic Donkey)
1931 - John Dellow, commisioner (London Metropolitan Police)
1931 - Jerzy Prokopiuk, Polish philosopher, antroposopher
1932 - A R Dawson, rugby player
1932 - Christy Brown, Dublin, novelist (My Left Foot, Down All the Days)
1934 - Bill D Moyers, Hugo Oklahoma, news commentator (Bill Moyers' Journal)
1934 - F Curtis Michel, LaCrosse Wisconsin, astronaut
1934 - Gwen Swire, British social worker
1934 - Katherine Helmond, actress (Soap, Coach)
1935 - Peter Schat, Dutch opera composer (Labyrint, Houdine, Symposion)
1936 - Barry Wilson, deputy chief (British Defense Staff)
1936 - M A "Kelly" Seymour, cricketer (S Afr off-spinner in 7 Tests 1963-70)
1936 - Connie Hines, American actress
1937 - Stanley Lunetta, composer
1938 - Karin Balzer, German DR, hurdler (Olympic-gold-1968)
1938 - Marion Chapman, smallest known premature baby to survive (280 g)
1939 - Joe Clark, [Charles Joseph], (P-C) 16th Canadian PM (1979-80)
1939 - Margaret Drabble, British author (Needle's Eye)
1940 - H R "Tiger" Lance, cricketer (South African batting all-rounder 1961-67)
1940 - Moira Anderson, Scotland, singer (Loch Lomond)
1941 - Duane Duke Sims, baseball player
1941 - Floyd Butler, rocker
1941 - Jeffrey Rooker, MP (Labour)
1941 - Martha Argerich, Buenos Aires Argentina, pianist (debut 1949)
1941 - Spalding Gray, RI, actor (Beaches, Clara's Heart, Heavy Petting)
1941 - Robert Kraft, American owner of the New England Patriots
1942 - Charles Dodge, composer
1942 - Nelson "Bo" Burton Jr, bowler/sportscaster (Pro Bowlers Tour)
1942 - Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, pres of Equatoriaal Guinee (1979- )
1943 - Ann Craft, researcher/writer
1943 - Bill Hopkins, composer
1943 - Matthew Lesko, American author
1944 - Chris Finnegan, UK, middleweight boxing champ (Olympic-gold-1968)
1944 - Tommie Smith, US sprinter (Olympic-gold-1968) [or Jan 5]
1944 - Colm Wilkinson, Irish singer
1945 - Ambar Roy, cricketer (nephew of Pankaj Batted in 4 Tests 1969-70)
1945 - Don Reid, Va, country singer (Statler Bros-Flowers on the Wall)
1945 - John Carlos, track star (Olympic bronze 1968); gave black power salute
1945 - Klaus Wyborny, actor (Klammer auf Klammer Zu)
1945 - John Carlos, American athlete
1946 - Fred Stone, rock guitarist (Sly & Family Stone-Stand)
1946 - Fuzzy Fuscaldo, rocker (Capt Beefheart)
1946 - Gillian Hills, Cairo Egypt, actress (Blow-up, Clockwork Orange)
1946 - Michael Monarch, rocker (Steppenwolf)
1946 - Stefania Sandrelli, Viareggio Italy, actress (Afredo, Key)
1947 - David Hare, playwright (Strapless, Plenty, Wetherby, Fatale)
1947 - Eric Molobi, South Africa, activist (ANC)
1947 - Laurie Anderson, performance artist (O Superman, Excellent Birds)
1947 - Tom Evans, Liverpool, rock bassist/vocalist (Badfinger)
1948 - Frank Estersmith, Australia, rocker (Air Supply)
1949 - Ken Follett, Cardiff, Wales, spy author (Eye of the Needle, Lie Down with Lions)
1950 - Adrian Cosma, Romania, team handball (Olympic-silver-1976)
1950 - Ronnie Dyson, US, singer (Hair, All over your face)
1950 - J. J. Bittenbinder, American television host and author
1951 - Suze Orman, American financial advisor, writer, and television personality.
1952 - Carole Fredericks, American singer (d. 2001)
1952 - Daniel Katzen, American classical musician
1953 - Kathleen Kennedy, American film producer
1954 - Peter Erskine, jazz drummer (Weather Report)
1954 - Michael "Nicko" McBain, Eng hard rock drummer (Iron Maiden-Powerslave)
1954 - Phil Neale, cricketer
1954 - Nancy Stafford, [Nancy Elizabeth], Wilton Manors Florida, Miss Florida (1977)/American
           actress (Joan-St Elsewhere)
1954 - Haluk Bilginer, Turkish actor
1955 - Edino Nazareth Filho, Brazilian football player
1956 - Kenny G, saxophonist (Duotones)
1956 - Richard A Searfoss, Mount Clemons Mich, Astronaut (STS 58, 76, sk 90)
1956 - Richard Butler, English singer (Psychedelic Furs)
1957 - Jim Woodward, Wilmington DE, Nike golfer (1994 Miss Gulf Coast-50th)
1958 - Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi, President of the Comoros
1959 - Michael Winans, gospel singer (Winans)
1960 - Leslie Hendrix, American actress
1960 - Margo Lanagan, Australian author
1961 - Ramesh Krishnan, Indian tennis star
1961 - Teri Nunn, California, rock vocalist (Berlin-You Take my Breathe Away)
1961 - Mary Kay Bergman, American voice actress (d. 1999)
1962 - Astrid, Belgian princess/daughter of Albert II
1962 - Jeff Garlin, American comedian
1964 - Laura Charameda, Marshall Mich, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1964 - Mags, rocker (Fuzzbox-Into Rescue)
1964 - Karl Sanders, American musician (Nile)
1965 - Bob Probert, Windsor, NHL right wing (Chicago Blackhawks)
1965 - Edward Hartman, Skalica CZE, hockey goalie (Team Slovakia)
1965 - Karen Sillas, Bkln NY, actress (Prime Suspect)
1965 - Sandrine Piau, French soprano
1966 - Bill Spiers, Orangeburg SC, infielder (Houston Astros)
1966 - Tina Barrett, Balt, LPGA golfer (1989 Mitsubishi Motors Ocean State)
1967 - Joe Deloach, US, 200m runner (Olympic-gold-1988)
1967 - Matt Bullard, NBA forward (Houston Rockets, Atlanta Hawks)
1967 - Ray Lankford, Modesto California, outfielder (St Louis Cardinals)
1967 - Ron Livingston, American actor
1969 - Ed Smith, WLAF tight end (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1969 - Keith Powe, WLAF/CFL defensive lineback (Win Blue Bombers, Claymores)
1969 - Brian McKnight, American musician
1970 - Izabella Scorupco, Bialystok Poland, actress (Golden Eye)
1970 - Martin Gelinas, Shawinigan, NHL left wing (Vancouver Canucks)
1970 - Todd Burger, guard (Chicago Bears)
1971 - Mark Wahlberg, Boston, Massachusetts, rap singer (Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch) and
           actor (Boogie Nights, The Departed)
1971 - Pedro Garau, WLAF running back (Barcelona Dragons)
1971 - Vaughn Parker, NFL guard/tackle (San Diego Chargers)
1971 - Susan Lynch, Northern Irish actress
1971 - Takaya Tsubobayashi, Japanese racing driver
1972 - Mike Bucci, American professional wrestler
1972 - Chuck Klosterman, American journalist
1972 - Pavel Kotla, Polish conductor
1973 - Brady Smith, defensive end (New Orleans Saints)
1973 - Clay Williams, WLAF OL (Amsterdam Admirals)
1973 - Sean Moran, defensive end (Buffalo Bills)
1973 - Lamon Brewster, American boxer
1973 - Daniel Gildenlöw, Swedish musician and songwriter
1973 - Gella Vandecaveye, Belgian judoka
1974 - Chad Allen Lazzari, Cerritos Ca, actor (David-Our House, St Elsewhere)
1974 - Chassity Lazzari, Cerritos Cal, actress
1974 - Russ Ortiz, American baseball player
1975 - Zydrunas Ilgauskas, NBA center (Cleveland Cavaliers)
1975 - Sandra Stals, Belgian athlete
1976 - Ross Noble, British comedian
1977 - Chantal Lefebvre, Ville LaSalle Que, ice dancer (1996 Canadians-2nd)
1977 - Christian Martucci, American musician
1977 - Nourhanne, Lebanese singer
1977 - Navi Rawat, American actress
1977 - Liza Weil, American actress
1978 - Korina Nikolaou, Miss Cyprus Universe (1997)
1978 - Misha Ivetich, Miss Indiana Teen USA (1996)
1978 - Fernando Meira, Portuguese football player
1979 - Pete Wentz, American musician (Fall Out Boy)
1979 - David Bisbal, Spanish singer
1979 - Fraser Watts, Scottish cricketer
1979 - Jason White, American NASCAR driver
1980 - Yasser Latif Hamdani, Pakistani constitutional lawyer
1980 - Sutee Suksomkit, Thai football player
1981 - Jade Goody, British television personality
1981 - Sebastien Lefebvre, Canadian musician (Simple Plan)
1983 - Bill Bray, American baseball player
1983 - Marques Colston, American football player
1984 - Cécilia Cara, French singer and actress
1985 - Kenny De Ketele, Belgian cyclist
1987 - Lara Bingle, Australian model
1987 - Charlie Clements, English actor
1992 - Emily Seebohm, Australian Swimmer
1995 - Troye Mellet, Australian Actor And Singer
2005 - Irene Urdangarin, granddaughter of King Juan Carlos I of Spain

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 05, 2013, 11:34:12 AM

This Day in History for 5th June


Famous Deaths

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Novelist Stephen Crane (1900)           US President Abraham Lincoln (1902)                 US President & Actor
                                                                                                                                    Ronald Reagan (2004)


535 - Epiphanius of Constantinople, patriarch of Constantinople
754 - Boniface, [Winfrid], English saint/archbishop (Dokkum), dies at 79
754 - Eoda, English speaking bishop of Utrecht, murdered
1017 - Emperor Sanjō of Japan (b. 976)
1118 - Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester
1288 - Hendrik VI, earl of Luxembourg/Laroche (1281-88), dies in battle
1296 - Edmund Crouchback, son of Henry III of England (b. 1245)
1383 - Dmitry Konstantinovich, Russian prince (b. 1324)
1443 - Ferdinand, Portuguese saint/slave to Fez, dies
1568 - Lamoraal, earl of Egmont/prince of Gavere, beheaded
1568 - Philips van Montmorency count of Horne, admiral/statesman, beheaded
1568 - Willem Key, painter, dies at about 47
1625 - Orlando Gibbons, English organist/composer (Silver Swan), dies at 41
1667 - Pietro Sforza, Italian theologist (Assertiones Theologicae), dies
1688 - Constantine Phaulkon, Greek adventurer (b. 1667)
1716 - Roger Cotes, English mathematician (b. 1682)
1722 - Johann Kuhnau, composer, dies at 62
1738 - Isaac de Beausobre, French Protestant pastor (b. 1659)
1785 - Gottfried August Homilius, composer, dies at 71
1791 - Frederick Haldimand, Swiss-born British colonial governor (b. 1718)
1816 - Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (Serva Padrona), dies at 76
1825 - Odysseas Androutsos, hero in the Greek War of Independence
1826 - Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber, composer (Oberon), dies at 39
1852 - Tomasz Napoleon Nidecki, composer, dies at 45
1861 - John Garland, US Union colonel/brig-general, dies in battle
1861 - Tomas Genoves y Lapetra, composer, dies at 55
1864 - William Edmonson "Grumble" Jones, Confederate brigadier general, dies in battle at 39
1866 - John McDouall Stuart, Australian explorer (b. 1815)
1868 - Anselm Huttenbrenner, composer, dies at 73
1880 - Jacobus J Cremer, painter/author (Betuwsche Novellen), dies at 52
1885 - Julius Benedict, composer (Protoghesi), dies at 80
1894 - Immanuel Faisst, composer, dies at 70
1898 - Salvatore Ferragamo, Italian Shoemaker
1900 - Stephen Crane, author (Red Badge of Courage), dies at 28
1902 - Louis J. Weichmann, chief witness in the trial of the assassins of Abraham Lincoln (b. 1842)
1906 - Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher (b. 1842)
1908 - Luca Fumagalli, composer, dies at 71
1910 - O. Henry, American author (b. 1862)
1913 - Chris von der Ahe, baseball pioneer (b. 1851)
1915 - Brzeska, sculptor, dies
1916 - Horatio H Kitchener, British General (Sudan), drowns at 65
1920 - Rhoda Broughton, Welsh author (b. 1840)
1921 - Georges Feydeau, French playwright (Chat and Poche), dies at 58
1923 - George H Breitner, impressionist painter, dies at 65
1927 - Paul Lacombe, composer, dies at 89
1930 - Jules Pascin, [Julius Pincas], Bulgarian/US painter/cartoonist, dies
1932 - Henry Taberer, cricket (bowl Trumper only Test wkt for South Africa), dies
1939 - Elijah Beardsworth, world quick shaving champion, dies
1939 - Frank Van de Goes, writer/marxist theorist, dies
1944 - Riccardo Zandonai, composer, dies at 61
1953 - Bill Tilden, tennis champ, dies at 60
1953 - Roland Young, actor (David Copperfield, Irene, Dulcy), dies at 65
1953 - William Farnum, actor (Drifter, Scarlet Letter), dies at 76
1966 - Natacha Rambova, costume designer, dies at 69
1967 - Edna Park Edwards, entertainer, dies at 72
1970 - "Jopie" Pengel, [Johan A], premier Suriname (1963-69), dies at 54
1970 - Jay Irving, cartoonist (Draw Me a Laugh), dies at 69
1973 - Max Terhune, actor (Range Justice, Night Riders), dies at 82
1975 - Paul Keres, Estonian chess player (b. 1916)
1976 - Walter Field, entertainer, dies at 101
1976 - Violet Wilkey, American actress (b. 1903)
1977 - "Sleepy" John Estes, rocker (Electric), dies at 74
1978 - John Meulenhoff, Dutch publisher, dies at 71
1979 - Pauline Offner, Zen Theravadin nun, dies at 53
1980 - Lauritz Lauritzen, German politician, dies at 70
1981 - Philo McCullough, actor (Branded, Ridin' Thru), dies
1984 - Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, Indies Sikh leader
1988 - Clarence M Pendleton, chairman of comm on Civil Rights (1981-88) dies
1990 - J Zeldenrust, pathology-anatomy, dies
1990 - Vasily V Kuznetsov, pres of USSR supreme soviet (1982-83, 85), dies
1992 - Laurence Naismith, actor (Scrooge, Gypsy Girl), dies at 83
1992 - Max Lerner, US writer/columnist (NY Post), dies at 88
1993 - Conway Twitty, country star (Linda on My Mind), dies in surgery at 59
1994 - Ish Kabbible, [Merwyn A Bogue], cornetist (Kay Kyser), dies at 86
1994 - Thomas Millar, historian, dies at 67
1995 - Bettina Vernon-Warren, dancer, dies at 75
1996 - Baldev Singh Chahal, campaigner, dies at 59
1996 - Vito Scotti, actor (Nude Bomb, Get Shorty, Big Bus), dies at 78
1997 - J Anthony Lukas, writer (Pulitizer, Common Ground), suicide at 64
1998 - Jeanette Nolan, American actress (b. 1911)
1998 - Sam Yorty, Mayor of Los Angeles (b. 1909)
1999 - Mel Tormé, American singer ("The Velvet Fog"), composer, and actor (b. 1925)
2000 - Don Liddle, baseball player (b. 1925)
2001 - Pedro Laín Entralgo, Spanish writer, medical and humanist
2002 - Gwen Plumb, Australian actress (b. 1912)
2002 - Dee Dee Ramone, American bassist (The Ramones) (b. 1952)
2003 - Jürgen Möllemann, German politician (b. 1945)
2003 - Manuel Rosenthal, French composer and conductor (b. 1904)
2004 - Iona Brown, British violinist and conductor (b. 1941)
2004 - Ronald Reagan, American radio sports announcer, western film actor, governor of California,
           and 40th President of the United States (b. 1911)
2005 - Adolfo Aguilar Zínser, Mexican politician (b. 1949)
2005 - Susi Nicoletti, German actress (b. 1918)
2006 - Frederick Franck, American artist and writer (b. 1909)
2007 - Povel Ramel, Swedish entertainer (b. 1922)
2009 - Boris Pokrovsky, Russian operatic stage director (b. 1912)
2009 - Jeff Hanson, American singer-songwriter (b. 1978)
2012 - Ray Bradbury, American author, dies at 91
2012 - Barry Unsworth, British novelist, dies from lung cancer at 81

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 06, 2013, 07:16:11 AM

This Day in History for 6th June


Historical Events

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Clothing Designer                                    Father of Psychology                       French President Charles de Gaulle
Levi Strauss                                                   Sigmund Freud 

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US Attorney General                                 Artist & Musician Yoko Ono                   Tennis Great John McEnroe
Robert Francis Kennedy

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Chinese Communist Party Leader        US President George H. W. Bush
Deng Xiaoping 


1002 - German king Henry II the Saint crowned
1242 - 24 wagonloads of Talmudic books burned in Paris
1391 - Inhabitants of Seville Spain massacres 5,000 Jews
1513 - Battle at Novara: Habsburgers vs Valois
1520 - France & England sign treaty of Scotland
1523 - Gustav Vasa is elected King of Sweden, marking the end of the Kalmar Union.
1536 - Mexico begins it's inquisition
1639 - Massachusetts grants 500 acres of land to erect a gunpowder mill
1654 - Queen Christina of Sweden resigns & converts to Catholicism
1660 - Denmark & Sweden signs peace treaty
1664 - New Amsterdam renamed NYC
1665 - Battle at Monte Carlo: English & Portuguese army beat Spain
1673 - France & Brandenburg sign peace treaty
1683 - The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, opens as the world's first university museum.
1716 - 1st slaves arrive in Louisiana
1744 - France & Prussia sign peace treaty
1752 - 3rd great fire in Moscow in 2 weeks; 1/3 of city destroyed
1772 - Haitian explorer Jean Baptiste-Pointe Dusable settles Chicago
1795 - Fire destroy 1/3 of Copenhagen; 18,000 injured
1797 - Napoleon forms Ligurische Republic
1801 - Peace of Badajoz: Spain-Portugal
1809 - Sweden declares independence, constitutional monarchy established
1809 - Sweden promulgates a new Constitution, which restores political power to the Riksdag of the
           Estates after 20 years of Enlightened absolutism.
1813 - US invasion of Canada halted at Stoney Creek (Ont)
1816 - 10" snowfall in New England, "year without a summer" (Mount Tambora)
1831 - 2nd national black convention (Phila)
1832 - The barricades fall and the Paris student uprisings of 1832 end.
1844 - Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) forms in London
1850 - Levi Strauss make his 1st pair of blue jeans
1859 - Australia: Queensland is established as a separate colony from New South Wales (Queensland
           Day).
1861 - Lincoln's cabinet declares Union government will pay for expenses once states have mobilized
           volunteers
1862 - Battle of Memphis-city is surrendered
1862 - Battle of Port Royal, SC (Port Royal Ferry)
1862 - Skirmish at Harrisonburg, PA
1863 - Battle of Milliken's Bend, LA & Williamsport, MD
1864 - Battle of Lake Chicot, AR (Dutch Bayou)
1875 - Netherlands goes on the gold standard
1882 - Cyclone in Arabian Sea (Bombay India) drowns 100,000
1882 - Electric iron patented by Henry W Seely, NYC
1882 - The Shewan forces of Menelik defeat the Gojjame army in the Battle of Embabo. The Shewans
           capture Negus Tekle Haymanot of Gojjam, and heir victory leads to a Shewan hegemony over
           the territories south of the Abay River.
1885 - 19th Belmont: Paul Duffy aboard Tyrant wins in 2:43
1885 - Opera "Lakmé" is produced (Paris)
1889 - Great Fire in Seattle destroys 25 downtown blocks
1890 - United States Polo Association forms, NYC
1896 - 21st Preakness: Henry Griffin aboard Margrave wins in 1:51
1896 - George Samuelson leaves NY harbor to row across Atlantic
1904 - National Tuberculosis Association organized, Atlantic City, NJ
1905 - French Foreign minister Delcasse resigns on German request
1906 - Paris Métro Line 5 is inaugurated with a first section from Place d'Italie to the Gare d'Orléans
           (today known as Gare d'Austerlitz).
1911 - Nicaragua signs treaty turning over customs to US (not ratified)
1912 - The eruption of Novarupta in Alaska begins. It is the second largest volcanic eruption of the
           20th century.
1913 - Rabbit Maranville, is thrown out trying to steal home 3 times
1914 - 1st air flight out of sight of land (Scotland to Norway)
1916 - Voters in East Cleveland approves women suffrage
1918 - Battle of Belleau Wood, 1st US victory of WW I
1919 - Assent is given to an Act to amend the Canadian Currency Act, 1910
1919 - Finland declares war on bolsheviks
1919 - The Republic of Prekmurje ends.
1920 - Gen Wrangel opens offensive against red Army
1921 - Detroit Stars' Bill Gatewood pitches the 1st no-hitter in Negro League history, defeating the
           Cuban Stars 4-0
1921 - The Southwark Bridge in London, is opened for traffic by King George V and Queen Mary.
1924 - 28th US Golf Open: Cyril Walker shoots a 297 at Oakland Hills CC Mich
1925 - Walter Percy Chrysler founded Chrysler Corp (Iacocca is 8 months old)
1926 - Egyptian government of Adly Pasha forms
1931 - "There Ought To Be A Moonlight Saving Time" by Guy Lombardo hits #1
1931 - Yanks turn triple-play but lose 7-5 to Indians
1932 - Carlos Davila coup against pres Juan Montero of Chile
1932 - Ijsselmeervogels soccer team forms in Spakenburg
1932 - US Federal gas tax enacted
1932 - The Revenue Act of 1932 is enacted, creating the first gas tax in the United States, at a rate
           of 1 cent per US gallon (1/4 ¢/L) sold.
1933 - 1st drive-in theater opens (Camden NJ)
1933 - US Employment Service created
1934 - Securities & Exchange Commission established
1934 - Yankee Myrl Hoag hits 6 singles in one game
1936 - 40th US Golf Open: Tony Manero shoots a 282 at Baltusrol GC NJ
1936 - 68th Belmont: James Stout aboard Granville wins in 2:30
1936 - Aviation gasoline 1st produced commercially Paulsboro NJ
1937 - Phillies trailing 8-2 to St Louis, forfeit game
1938 - Sigmund Freud arrives in London
1939 - NY Giants beat Reds 17-3, with 5 HRs in 4th inning
1939 - NY supreme court justice J F Crater legally declared dead
1941 - 1st navy vessel constructed as mine layer Terror launched
1941 - Giants use plastic batting helmets for 1st time
1942 - 1st nylon parachute jump (Hartford Ct-Adeline Gray)
1942 - 74th Belmont: Eddie Arcaro aboard Shut Out wins in 2:29.2
1942 - Japanese forces retreat, ending Battle of Midway
1942 - Japanese troop land on Kiska, Aleutians
1944 - Baseball cancels all games honoring D-Day invasion
1944 - D-Day: 150,000 Allied Expeditionary Force lands in Normandy, France
1944 - Nazi troops executed 96 prisoners by firing squad
1944 - Theodore Roosevelt Jr receives congressional medal of honor
1944 - U-955, U-970, U-629, U-373 sink in Gulf of Biskaje
1944 - Alaska Airlines commences operations.
1945 - "Free People" premieres in Amsterdam
1946 - 11 Basketball of America Association teams meet to schedule 1st season
1946 - Henry Morgan is 1st to take off shirt on TV
1946 - Martin Kresses begins publishing "Eric the Viking" comic strip
1946 - The Basketball Association of America is formed in New York City.
1947 - Treaty drawn for establishment of Intl Patent Institute
1949 - "It Pays To Be Ignorant," game Show, debut on CBS-TV
1949 - WKY (now KTVY) TV channel 4 in Oklahoma City, OK (NBC) 1st broadcast
1950 - German DR & Poland sign treaty about Oder-Neisse border
1950 - Turkey: The Adhan in Arabic is legalized.
1954 - Patty Berg wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament
1955 - Bill Haley & Comets, "Rock Around the Clock" hits #1
1956 - David Marshall, Singapore's first Chief Minister, resigns.
1958 - Ozzie Virgil is 1st black to play as a Tiger
1958 - Premier Charles de Gaulle says Algeria will always be French
1960 - Roy Orbison releases "Only the Lonely"
1960 - South Africa police kills 11 Pondo's at Nqusa Hill
1960 - Steve Allen Show," last airs on NBC-TV
1962 - Beatles meet their producer George Martin for 1st time, they record "Besame Mucho" with
           Peter Best on drums
1963 - Gasunie established
1964 - 96th Belmont: Manuel Ycaza aboard Quadrangle wins in 2:28.6
1964 - Beatles arrive in netherlands
1964 - Under a temporary order, the rocket launches at Cuxhaven, Germany, are terminated, though
           they never resume.
1965 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Blue Grass Golf Invitational
1965 - Yankees Tom Tresh bangs 3 consecutive HRs beating White Sox 12-0
1966 - Activist James Meredith wounded by white sniper in Mississippi
1966 - Claus Von Bulow & Martha (Sunny) Crawford wed
1966 - Gemini 9 completes 45 orbits after rendezvous with "angry alligator"
1966 - NFL & AFL announce their merger
1966 - Stokely Carmichael launches "Black Power" movement
1967 - Israeli troops occupy Gaza
1968 - WKHA TV channel 35 in Hazard, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 - Senator Robert Kennedy dies from his wounds after he was shot the previous night.
1969 - Joe Namath resigns from NFL after Pete Rozelle, football commissioner, said he must sell his
           stake in a bar
1970 - 102nd Belmont: John Rotz aboard High Echelon wins in 2:34
1971 - "Ed Sullivan Show" last broadcasts on CBS-TV
1971 - Air West filght 706 collides with Navy Phantom jet over LA, 50 die
1971 - John Lennon & Yoko Ono unannounced appearance at Fillmore East in NYC
1971 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
1971 - Soyuz 11 takes 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 1 space station
1971 - WHAE (now WGNX) TV channel 46 in Atlanta, GA (CBN) begins broadcasting
1971 - Willie Mays hits record 22nd & last extra inning HR
1972 - David Bowie releases "Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust"
1972 - Explosion at world's largest coal mine kills 427 (Wankie Rhodesia)
1972 - Gold hits record $60 an ounce in London
1972 - US bombs Haiphong, North-Vietnam; 1000s killed
1974 - 47th National Spelling Bee: Julie Ann Junkin wins spelling hydrophyte
1974 - A new Instrument of Government is promulgated making Sweden a parliamentary monarchy.
1975 - British voters decide to remain in Common Market
1975 - Nolan Ryan's bid for 2nd no-hitter broken in 6th inning
1975 - Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam established
1976 - 30th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Phoenix Suns, 4 games to 2
1976 - Pat Bradley wins LPGA Girl Talk Golf Classic
1977 - "Washington Post" reports US has developed neutron bomb
1977 - Doobie Brothers sponsor a Golf Classic & Concert for United Way
1977 - Joseph L Howze installed as bishop of Roman Catholic diocese (Miss)
1977 - Supreme Court tosses out automatic death penalty laws
1978 - Proposition 13 cuts California property taxes 57%
1979 - 200th running of horse's Derby in England
1979 - Josef Mengeles corpse excavated in Brazil
1979 - Royal Air force receives 1st F-16
1979 - Willie Horton becomes 43rd player to hit 300 HRs in the majors
1980 - Bjorn Borg beats John McEnroe for Wimbledon title
1981 - 113th Belmont: George Martens aboard Summing wins in 2:29
1981 - 51st French Womens Tennis: Hana Mandlikova beats Sylvia Hanika (62 64)
1981 - Maya Yang Lin wins competition to design the Vietnam War Memorial
1981 - A passenger train travelling between Mansi and Saharsa, India, jumps the tracks at a bridge
           crossing the Bagmati river. The government places the official death toll at 268 plus another
           300 missing; however, it is generally believed that the actual figure is closer to 1,000 killed.
1982 - 30,000 Israeli troops invade Lebanon to drive out PLO
1982 - 36th Tony Awards: Life & Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby & Nine win
1982 - 52nd French Mens Tennis: Mats Wilander beats G Vilas (16 76 60 64)
1982 - Bernard Glassman, installed as abbot of Zen Center of NY
1982 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA McDonald 's Golf Classic
1983 - 17th Music City News Country Awards: Marty Robbins & Roy Acuff
1983 - Bottle with note of June 9, 1910 found in Queensland
1983 - Emmy 10th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 4th time
1983 - Li Xiannian becomes pres/Deng Xiaoping supreme commander of China PR
1983 - Nicaragua expels 3 US diplomats
1983 - Twins draft pitcher Tim Belcher #1
1984 - 1,200 die in Sikh "Golden Temple" uprising India
1985 - 55th French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats Navratilova (63 67 75)
1985 - 58th National Spelling Bee: Balu Natarajan wins spelling milieu
1985 - Body of Nazi criminal, Dr Josef Mengele located & exhumed
1985 - Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts "status" of Aruba
1985 - Soyuz T-13 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station
1986 - Jurgen Schull sets world discus record (74.07 m)
1986 - Kathy Ormsby, a 21-year-old member of NC State track team jumps off a bridge permanently
           paralyzing herself
1987 - 119th Belmont: Craig Perret aboard Bet Twice wins in 2:28.2
1987 - 57th French Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats M Navratilova (64 46 86)
1987 - NY Yankees play their 13,000th game
1988 - 22nd Music City News Country Awards: Randy Travis & Statler Brothers
1988 - 3 giant turtles found in Bronx sewage plant
1988 - George Bush makes campaign promise to support reparations for WW II
1988 - Japanese-American internees (promise broken, May 1989)
1989 - Mets turn their 1st triple play in 7 years but lose to Cubs 8-4
1990 - 2nd International Rock Awards
1990 - For 2nd time this season, Cecil Fielder belts 3 home runs in a game
1990 - Stump Merrill replaces Bucky Dent as NY Yankee manager
1991 - Albert Belle is shipped to minors for not running out a ground ball
1991 - Dana Plato receives 6 yr suspended sentence for robbing a video store
1991 - NBC announces Jay Leno will replace Johnny Carson on May 25, 1992
1991 - Test Cricket debut of Graeme Hick, v West Indies at Headingley
1992 - 124th Belmont: Eddie Delahoussaye aboard AP Indy wins in 2:26
1992 - 62nd French Womens Tennis: Monica Seles beats Steffi Graf (62 36 10-8)
1992 - Ben Vereen suffers injuries when hit by a car
1992 - NY Met Eddie Murray sets RBI record by a switch hitter
1992 - WLAF World Bowl 2: Sacramento beats Orlando 21-17 (Montreal)
1993 - 47th Tony Awards: Angels in America & Kiss of the Spider Woman win
1993 - 63rd French Mens Tennis: S Bruguera beats Jim Courier (64 26 62 36 63)
1993 - 6th Children's Miracle Network Telethon
1993 - Jane Geddes wins LPGA Oldsmobile Golf Classic
1993 - Punsalmaagiyn Otsjirbat recognized as president of Mongolia
1993 - Ramiro de Leon Carpio elected pres of Guatemala
1994 - 28th Music City News Country Awards: Alan Jackson & Ray Stevens
1994 - 6.0 earthquake/avalanche destroys Toez Colombia (about 1000 killed)
1994 - Brian Lara scores 501 not out for Warwickshire vs Durham
1994 - CD-councillor H Selhorst arrested for hard-drugs trade
1994 - Cricketer Brian Lara hits record 501 not out/390 runs in 1 day
1994 - Tupolev-154M crashes at Xian China, 160 killed
1994 - Warwickshire score 4 for 810 declared against Durham
1995 - 1st Blockbuster Entertainment Awards
1998 - 130th Belmont
1998 - 68th French Womens Tennis:
1999 - In Australian Rules Football, Tony Lockett breaks the record for career goals, previously 1299
           by Gordon Coventry and which had stood since 1937.
1999 - At the Putim maximum security prison in Brazil, 345 prisoners run from the main gate in the
           largest jailbreak in Brazilian history, marking the 10th escape for the three-year-old facility. In
           the ensuing manhunt, two fugitives are killed and five innocent bystanders are accidentally
           jailed.
2002 - Eastern Mediterranean Event. A near-Earth asteroid estimated at 10 metres diameter
           explodes over the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Libya. The resulting explosion is
           estimated to have a force of 26 kilotons, slightly more powerful than the Nagasaki atomic
           bomb.
2004 - Tamil is established as a Classical language by the President of India, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam in
           a joint sitting of the two houses of the Indian Parliament.
2005 - The United States Supreme Court votes to ban medical marijuana in Gonzales v. Raich.
2012 - Transit of Venus (between Earth & Sun) occurs
2012 - The Solar Impulse completes the world's first intercontinental flight powered by the sun

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 06, 2013, 07:18:20 AM

This Day in History for 6th June


Famous Weddings

1857 - Sophia of Nassau marries the future King Oscar II of Sweden-Norway.
1942 - "The Thin Man" actress Myrna Loy (36) weds John Hertz Jr. in New York City
1956 - Three-time Olympic Champion figure skater Sonja Henie (44) weds Norwegian shipping
           magnate and art patron Niels Onstad (47)
1960 - Singer-actress Eartha Kitt (33) weds Bill McDonald
1976 - Pittsburgh Steelers quaterback Terry Bradshaw (27) weds ice skater Jo Jo Starbuck (25) at
           Bel-Air Hotel in Los Angeles
1992 - "The Montel Williams Show" talk show host Montel Williams (35) weds burlesque dancer Grace
           Morley
2002 - Former "Survivor" contestant and talk show host Elisabeth Filarski (25) weds former Boston
           College quarterback Tim Hasselbeck (24) at St. Mary
2004 - "Trick Pony" lead singer Heidi Newfield (33) weds NFL agent Bill Johnson in Destin, Florida
2007 - Spice Girl singer Melanie Brown (32) weds producer Stephen Belafonte in Las Vegas, Nevada
2009 - "Survivor: Gabon" castaway Matty Whitmore weds Jamie Mass at Malibou Lake Mountain Club
           in Malibu

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 06, 2013, 07:19:54 AM

This Day in History for 6th June


Famous Divorces

2010 - Gossip Girl star Kelly Rutherford (40) divorces German entrepreneur Daniel Giersch (34) due to
           irreconcilable differences after 2 years of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 06, 2013, 07:27:00 AM

This Day in History for 6th June


Famous Birthdays

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Antarctic Explorer                                   Novelist Thomas Mann (1875)                     Actor Daniel Logan (1987)
Robert Scott (1868) 


1236 - Wen Tianxiang, Chinese prime minister (d. 1283)
1436 - Regiomontanus (Johannes Muller), prepares astronomical tables
1502 - King John III of Portugal (d. 1557)
1519 - Andrea Cesalpino, Italian philosopher and botanist (d. 1603)
1576 - Giovanni Diodati, Swiss Protestant clergyman (d. 1649)
1580 - Godefroy Wendelin, Flemish astronomer (d. 1667)
1599 - Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter (d. 1660)
1606 - Pierre Corneille, France, dramatist (El Cid, Horace)
1622 - Claude-Jean Allouez, French Jesuit missionary and explorer (d.1857)
1625 - Domenico Guidi, Italian sculptor
1661 - Giacomo Antonio Perti, composer
1676 - Georg Reidel, composer
1695 - Adriaen Valckenier, gov-gen Neth-Indies (1737-41)/killed 8,000 Chinese
1714 - King Joseph I of Portugal (d. 1777)
1722 - Adrien Trudo Sale, composer
1735 - Anton Schweitzer, composer
1755 - John Flaxman, English sculptor (Westminster Abbey tomb stones)
1755 - Nathan Hale, hanged patriot, had but one life to give for his country
1756 - John Trumbull, US painter (Declaration of Independence)
1765 - Cornelis Loots, Dutch accountant/poet (Dwingelandij)
1772 - Maria Teresa of the Two Sicilies, Holy Roman Empire Empress consort (d. 1807)
1799 - Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin, Russian writer and poet (Eugene Onegin) (5/26 OS)
1804 - Petter Conrad Boman, composer
1807 - Adrien Francois Servais, composer
1813 - Israel Washburn, gov (Union), died in 1883
1815 - Francesco Antonio Norberto Pinto, composer
1819 - William Howard Glover, composer
1826 - Sarah Parker Remond, US/Italian abolitionist
1829 - John Baillie McIntosh, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1888
1829 - Shusaku Honinbo, Japanese Go player (d. 1862)
1840 - John Stainer, composer
1840 - William Francis Bartlett, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1841 - Eliza Orzeszkowa, Polish novelist (d.1910)
1842 - James Morrison Steele Mackaye, US actor (Amer Acad of Dramatic Art)
1844 - Konstantin Savitsky, Russian painter (d. 1905)
1847 - Gerben Postma, [Ids], Frisian writer (Swealtsjeblommen)
1850 - Karl F Braun, Germany, co-developed wireless telegraphy (Nobel 1909)
1857 - Aleksandr Lyapunov, Russian mathematician (d. 1918)
1860 - William R Inge, English theologist/Deacon St Paul's Cathedral
1862 - Henry John Newbolt, English sea historian/poet
1867 - David Abercrombie, Abercrombie & Fitch founder (d. 1931)
1868 - Robert Falcon Scott, Plymouth, British leader of ill-fated south pole expedition
1869 - Siegfried Wagner, German opera composer/conductor
1872 - Alexandra Fjodorovna Romanova, last Russian tsarina (1894-1918)
1875 - Thomas Mann, Germany, novelist (Magic Mountain-Nobel 1929)
1878 - Vincent de Moro-Giafferi, French criminal attorney (d. 1956)
1879 - L Patrick Abercrombie, English architect
1880 - William T Cosgrave, president Irish Free state
1886 - Paul Dudley White, heart specialist
1890 - Dorothy Heyward, NYC, playwright (Porgy)
1890 - Ted Lewis, American bandleader (d. 1971)
1891 - Istvan Kardos, composer
1891 - Vladislac Vancura, writer
1892 - Donald F. Duncan Sr., American entrepreneur (d. 1971)
1893 - Ludovic Feldman, composer
1894 - Sabin V Dragoi, composer
1896 - Italo Balbo, Italian pilot/gov-gen of Libya (La marcia su Rome)
1896 - Robert Sheriff, playwright (Journey's End)
1896 - Henry Allingham, English first world war veteran
1898 - Ninette de Valois, [Edris Stannus], Engl, ballerina (Royal Ballet)
1898 - Walter Abel, St Paul Mn, actor (Suspicion, Dream Girl)
1900 - Arthur Askey, Liverpool, actor (Bees in Paradise, Ghost Train)
1900 - Manfred Sakel, Polish psychiatrist (d. 1957)
1901 - Achmed Sukarno, Java, PM of Indonesia (1945-67)
1902 - Avraham Daus, composer
1902 - Harold Roxbee Cox Kings Norton, aeronautical engineer
1902 - Jimmie Lunceford, American bandleader (d. 1947)
1903 - Aram Il'yich Khachaturian, Tiflis Georgia, musician/composer (Gayane)
1905 - John Gart, Russia, orchestra leader (Paul Winchell Show)
1906 - Max Zorn, German mathematician (lemma of Zorn)
1906 - Stefan Andres, writer
1907 - Bill Dickey, NY Yankee hall-of-fame catcher (1928-43)/manager (1946)
1909 - Isaiah Berlin, philosopher
1909 - M J Gopalan, cricketer (1 Test India v England 1933-34)
1910 - Ben Aerden, [John Mikkelsen], actor (Hamlet)
1910 - Toshitsugu Ogiwara, composer
1913 - Jiri Hajek, Czech jurist/foreign minister
1913 - Carlo L. Golino, American scholar (d. 1991)
1915 - Vincent Persichetti, Phila Pennsylvania, composer (Sibyl)
1917 - Kirk Kerkorian, CEO (MGM, UA)
1917 - Prior Jones, cricketer (WI pace bowler in 9 Tests 1948-52)
1918 - Maria Montez, Dominican Rep, actress (Arabian Nights)
1918 - Richard Crane, Newcastle Ind, actor (Surfside 6)
1918 - Tom Scott, poet/editor
1919 - Charles Pringle, British air marshal
1922 - Ian Hamilton, composer
1923 - V. C. Andrews, American author (d. 1986)
1924 - Serge Nigg, composer
1926 - Klaus Tennstedt, Merseburg Germany, conductor (Fidelio)
1926 - Tom Ryan, comic strip cartoonist (Tumbleweeds)
1928 - George Deukmejian, Menands NY, (Gov-Cal)
1929 - Boguslaw Schaffer, composer
1929 - Viktor Konezki, writer
1929 - Sunil Dutt, Indian actor and politician (d. 2005)
1930 - Frank Tyson, cricketer ("Typhoon" England pace destroyer mid-50's)
1931 - Lloyd Lindroth, the Liberace of the Harp
1932 - Billie Whitelaw, Coventry England, actress (Omen, Adding Machine)
1932 - David R Scott, San Antonio Tx, Col USAF/astronaut (Gem 8, Apol 9, 15)
1933 - Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist (tunneling microscope-Nobel 1986)
1934 - Ad G J Lansink, chemist/Dutch 2nd Chamber member (CDA)
1934 - Albert II FHTCEM, king of Belgium (1993- )
1934 - Philippe Entremont, France, pianist/conductor (Vienna Chamber Orch)
1935 - Bobby Mitchell, NFL running back/wide receiver (Browns, Redskins)
1935 - Jean Gattegno, translator/scholar
1935 - Misja Mengelberg, Dutch jazz pianist/composer (Reconstruction)
1936 - Levi Stubbs, rocker (4 Tops-Same Old Song)
1938 - Prince Luís of Orléans-Braganza, pretender to the Brazilian throne
1939 - Gary "US" Bonds, [Anderson], Fla, singer/songwriter (New Orleans)
1939 - Louis Andriessen, Dutch composer (Reconstruction)
1939 - Marian Wright-Edelman, health care president (Childrens Defense Fund)
1939 - Nganani Enos J Mabuza, South African leader (Inyandza Natl Movement)
1940 - Laudir De Olivera, rocker (Chicago)
1940 - Phillip Rhodes, composer
1940 - Sandra Morgan, 100m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-gold-1956)
1940 - Willie-John McBride, British rugby player
1941 - Alexander Cockburn, Scottish-born American journalist, (d. 2012)
1942 - Howie Kane, rocker
1942 - Larry "The Mole" Taylor, rocker (Canned Heat)
1942 - Sandra Morgan, US 4 X 100m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-gold-1956)
1943 - Asif Iqbal, cricketer (elegant Pakistani batsman 1964-80)
1943 - Ken Hatfield, former N.C.A.A. Football Head Coach
1944 - Edgar Froese, rocker (Tangerine Dream)
1944 - Peter Albin, SF California, rocker (Big Brother & Holding Co)
1944 - David Penhaligon, British politician
1944 - Phillip Allen Sharp, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1945 - David Dukes, SF, actor (Beacon Hill, 79 Park Avenue, Winds of War)
1945 - David E Bonior, (Rep-D-MI, 1977- )
1946 - Chelsea Brown, Chicago Ill, comedienne (Laugh-in, Matt Lincoln)
1946 - Lasse Hallstrom, director (Once Around, My Life as a Dog, ABBA)
1947 - Marion Coakes, England, equestrian show jumper (Olympic-silver-1968)
1947 - Terry Williams, rocker (First Edition)
1947 - Robert Englund, Glendale, California, American actor (Freddy vs. Jason, A Nightmare on Elm
           Street)
1947 - David Blunkett, English politician
1947 - Ada Kok, Dutch swimmer
1948 - Richard Sinclair, English musician (Caravan)
1949 - Edgar Warren Williams, composer
1949 - Holly Near, American folksinger
1950 - Chantal Akerman, actor/director (Akermania, Je Tu II Elle)
1951 - Dwight Twilley, Tulsa Oklahoma, country singer (Twilley Don't Mind)
1951 - Noritake Takahara, Japanese racing driver
1952 - Yukihiro Yakahashi, rocker (Yellow Magic Orchestra)
1952 - Harvey Fierstein, American actor
1953 - Ken Calvert, (Rep-R-California)
1953 - Dimitris Avramopoulos, Greek politician
1954 - Harvey Fierstein, Brooklyn NY, playwright (Torch Song Trilogy, ID4)
1954 - Cynthia Rylant, American author
1955 - Sandra Bernhard, Flint Mich, actress (King of Comedy, Nancy-Roseanne)
1956 - Andy Pycroft, cricketer (Zimbabwe Test batsman)
1956 - Bjorn Borg, Sodertlage Sweden, tennis champ (Wimbledon 1976-79)
1956 - Jay C Buckey, NYC, physician/astronaut (STS 58 alt, sk: 90)
1956 - Marilyn Jones, Pitts Pa, actress (Carey-King's Crossing)
1957 - Mike Gatting, cricketer (England batsman 1977-95 & captain)
1958 - Elaine Crosby, Birmingham MI, LPGA golfer (1989 Mazda Japan Classic)
1959 - Amanda Pays, London England, actress (Max Headroom, Off Limits)
1959 - Georgios Voulgarakis, Greek politician
1959 - Jimmy Jam, American record producer
1959 - Colin Quinn, American comedian
1959 - David Schultz, American wrestler (d. 1996)
1960 - Lola Forner, Alicante SW Spain, Miss Spain (1979)
1960 - Steve Vai, Carle Place, New York, American guitarist (Frank Zappa, David Lee Roth Band,
           Whitesnake)
1961 - Bill Bates, NFL safety (Dallas Cowboys)
1961 - Sydney Walsh, actress (Mo-Hooperman)
1961 - Tom Araya, Chilean musician (Slayer)
1961 - Nir Brand, Israeli composer
1961 - Aldo Costa, Italian engineer
1963 - Dannette Leininger, Kailua HA, team handball wing (Olympics-92, 96)
1963 - Vladimir Ruzicka, hockey forward (Team Czech Oly-Gold-1998)
1963 - Jason Isaacs, English actor
1964 - Dee C Lee, [Diane Sealey], rocker (Style Council-You're Best Thing)
1964 - Sherry J Traylor, Mexico Missouri, Miss Missouri-America (1991)
1964 - Konnan, Mexican professional wrestler
1965 - David Whyte, rocker (Brother Beyond-Can You Keep a Secret)
1965 - Sally McDermid, Australian softball outfielder (Olympics-bronze-96)
1965 - Wendy Wiebe, St Catharines Ontario, rower (Olympics-96)
1966 - Angela Cavagna, Genoa Italy, singer
1966 - Tony Yeboah, Ghanaian footballer
1966 - Sean Yseult, American musician (White Zombie)
1967 - Max Casella, actor (Vinnie-Doogie Howser)
1967 - Michael Timpson, NFL wide receiver (Chic Bears, Philadelphia Eagles)
1967 - Wasim Haider, cricketer (member Pakistan's 1992 World Cup squad)
1967 - Paul Giamatti, American actor
1968 - Brian Wright, Stillwater Oklahoma, Canadian Tour golfer (1991 NM Open-2nd)
1968 - Craig Roberts, Everett WA, Canadian 68 kg freestyle wrestler (Oly-96)
1968 - Edwin Vurens, Dutch soccer player (FC Twente)
1968 - François Avard, Canadian writer and scenarist
1968 - Alan Licht, American guitarist, composer and journalist
1969 - Brian Greenfield, WLAF punter (London Monarchs)
1969 - Douglas Lee Mitchell, Miles Mi, heavy metal artist (Southgang)
1969 - Mike Croel, NFL linebacker (NY Giants)
1969 - Sunil Joshi, cricketer (Indian Test left-arm spinner 1996)
1970 - Randy Jordan, NFL running back (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1970 - Eugeni Berzin, Russian cyclist
1970 - Sarah Dessen, American author
1970 - Albert Ferrer, Spanish footballer
1970 - Anthony Norris, American professional wrestler
1971 - Mike Craig, St Mary's, NHL right wing (Toronto Maple Leafs)
1972 - Dulip Liyanage, cricketer (Sri Lanka righty fast-medium Test bowler)
1972 - Erin Woodley, Mississauga Ontario, synchro swimmer (Olympic-silver-96)
1972 - Frankie King, NBA guard (LA Lakers)
1972 - Gary Downs, running back (Atlanta Falcons)
1972 - Jeff Williams, Australian baseball pitcher (Olympics-1996)
1972 - Marko Kiprusoff, Turku FIN, NHL defenseman (Team Finland, Montreal)
1972 - Cristina Scabbia, Italian singer (Lacuna Coil)
1973 - Ashfaq Ahmed, cricketer (Pakistan pace bowler 1993-)
1973 - Jamie Wilson, tackle (Carolina Panthers)
1973 - Jon Hesse, NFL linebacker (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1973 - Olindo Mare, kicker (Miami Dolphins)
1973 - Kat Swift, American politician (Green Party)
1974 - Brooke Wilkins, Australian softball pitcher (Olympics-bronze-96)
1974 - Patrick Hape, tight end (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1974 - Danny Strong, American actor
1974 - Sonya Walger, British actress
1975 - Niklas Sundstrom, Ornskoldsvik Swe, NHL left wing (NY Rangers)
1975 - Staci Keanan, [Anastasia Love Sagorsky], actress (Nicole-My 2 Dads)
1975 - Cheer Chen, Taiwanese singer and musician
1975 - Nina Kaczorowski, American actress
1976 - Lukas Hass, actor (Mars Attacks, Lady in White, Witness, Music Box)
1976 - Melanie Sibetang, Miss Northern Marianas Universe (1997)
1976 - aKido, Canadian musician
1976 - Geoff Rowley, British skateboarder
1977 - David Connolly, Irish footballer
1977 - Bryn Williams, Welsh chef
1978 - Carl Barât, English musician (The Libertines and Dirty Pretty Things)
1978 - Judith Barsi, American actress (d. 1988)
1978 - Mariana Popova, Bulgarian singer
1979 - Summer Newman, Miss Georgia Teen USA (1996)
1980 - Matt Belisle, American baseball player
1980 - Martin Devaney, English footballer
1981 - Johnny Pacar, American film actor
1983 - Gemma Bissix, British actress
1984 - Noor Sabri, Iraqi footballplayer
1984 - Shannon Stewart, American model
1985 - Drew Galloway, Scottish professional wrestler
1987 - Kyle Falconer, Scottish musician
1987 - Rubin Okotie, Austrian footballer
1987 - Daniel Logan, Auckland, New Zealand actor (Boba Fett-Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the
           Clones)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 06, 2013, 07:32:15 AM

This Day in History for 6th June


Famous Deaths

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Author and Nobel Laureate              Psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung (1961)                   Actor Jack Haley (1979)
Gerhart Hauptmann (1946) 

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Actress Anne Bancroft (2005)


840 - Agobard, archbishop of Lyon (anti-semite), dies
1134 - Norbertus van Xanten, monastery founder, dies at about 51
1393 - Emperor Go-En'yu of Japan (b. 1359)
1480 - Vecchietta, Italian artist and architect
1548 - Juan de Castro, Portuguese explorer (b. 1500)
1563 - Ikeda Nagamasa, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1519)
1583 - Nakagawa Kiyohide, Japanese warlord (b. 1556)
1671 - Stenka/Stepan Razin, Russian cossack/boer leader quartered alive (ns. 16 June)
1686 - Joannes B van Neercassel, RC spiritual leader of Neth, dies at 60
1710 - Francoise de la Baume Le Blanc, mistress of king Louis XIV, dies at 65
1730 - Alain Emmanuel de Coëtlogon, Marshal of France (b. 1646)
1735 - Georg Osterreich, composer, dies at 71
1740 - Alexander Spotswood, British governor of Virginia Colony
1747 - Jean Barriere, composer, dies
1784 - Joan Derk van de Capellen, leader of democratic Patriots, dies at 42
1785 - Johann Michael Demmler, composer, dies at 36
1799 - Patrick Henry, American revolutionary (b. 1736)
1813 - Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart, French architect
1815 - Samuel Whitbread, English Politician
1816 - Christiane Vulpius, wife of Johann W von Goethe, dies at 51
1832 - Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher (b. 1748)
1836 - Antons Klemens Theodor, king of Saksen (1827-36), dies at 80
1840 - Marcellin Champagnat, French priest (b. 1789)
1843 - Friedrich Hölderlin, German poet and dramatist (b. 1770)
1852 - Tommaso Marchesi, composer, dies at 79
1861 - Giuseppe Concone, Italian singing teacher, dies at 59
1861 - Count Camillo Benso di Cavour, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1810)
1862 - Turner Ashby, General, killed near Harrisonburg VA, dies at 33
1877 - Prairie Flower, daughter of Ponca & chief Standing Bear, dies
1878 - Gottfried Herrmann, composer, dies at 70
1878 - Robert Stirling, Scottish inventor (b. 1790)
1881 - Henry Vieuxtemps, Belgian composer, dies at 61
1883 - Ciprian Porumbescu, composer, dies at 29
1891 - John A. Macdonald, 1st Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1815)
1898 - Constant A Serrure, Flemish historian, dies at 62
1914 - Walter T Watts-Dunton, England, lawyer/poet/writer (Aylwin), dies
1916 - Yuan Shikai, president of China, dies at 56
1917 - Iacob Moresianu, composer, dies at 59
1922 - Lillian Russell, entertainer, dies at 60
1926 - Henry Tate, composer, dies at 52
1928 - Heinrich Gottlieb Noren, composer, dies at 67
1934 - Julije Kempf, Croatian historian and writer (b. 1864)
1935 - Jacques Urlus, tenor (Opera of Leipzig, Song of the Earth), dies at 68
1935 - Julian Byng, British army officer (b. 1862)
1937 - Jean Harlow, actr (Bombshell), dies from gallbladder infection at 26
1939 - Ford Madox Ford, writer, dies at 65
1940 - E E Clive, actor (Bulldog Drummond, Night Muss Fall), dies at 56
1941 - Louis Chevrolet, American automotive pioneer (b. 1878)
1943 - Karl Landsteiner, Austrian/US pathologist (Nobel 1930), dies at 74
1944 - Danny Brotheridge, British lieutenant, 1st to die during D-Day
1944 - Gerrit John van de Peat, artist/resistance fighter, executed at 41
1945 - Meinoud M Rost van Tonningen, anti semite/NSB (1937-41), suicide
1946 - Gerhart Hauptmann, writer, dies at 83
1947 - Norman Reid, cricketer (Test S Af v Aust 1921-22, 11 & 6, 2-63), dies
1948 - Louis Lumière, French movie pioneer (b. 1864)
1951 - Lionel Hallam, cricketer (England capt 1921), dies
1951 - Olive Tell, American actress (b. 1894)
1955 - Max Meldrum, Scottish-born Australian painter (b. 1875)
1956 - Margaret Wycherly, actress (Claudia), dies at 74
1958 - Lily Theresa Strickland, composer, dies at 71
1961 - Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist (b. 1875)
1961 - Carl Gustav Jung, Swiss Psychiatrist, dies at 85
1962 - Guinn Williams, actor (Big Boy-Circus Boy), dies of poisoning at 63
1962 - Yves Klein, French sculptor/painter, dies at 34
1964 - Robert Warwick, actor (Konga, Zorro, Lady Godiva), dies at 85
1965 - Lester Matthews, (Sir Dennis-Adv of Fu Manchu), dies at 64
1966 - Claudette Orbison, wife of singer Roy, dies in a motorcyle crash
1967 - Edward G Givens Jr, Major USAF/astronaut, dies in an car crash at 47
1968 - Franklin C Fry, US minister (World Rad of Church), dies
1968 - Robert Kennedy, (Sn-D-NY), assassinated in LA by Sirhan Sirhan at 42
1968 - Randolph Churchill, son of Winston Churchill (b. 1911)
1971 - Arnold Elston, composer, dies at 63
1974 - Blanche Yurka, actress (Tale of 2 Cities, Cry of Werewolf), dies at 86
1975 - Larry Blyden, actor (Joe & Mabel, What's My Line), dies at 49
1976 - J Paul Getty, oil magnate/billionaire, dies at 83
1976 - Victor Varconi, actor (Divine Lady, King of Kings), dies at 85
1977 - Sophie Stewart, actress (As You Like It), dies at 69
1979 - Jack Haley, American actor (The Wizard of Oz), dies of a heart attack at 80
1982 - Kenneth Rexroth, American poet (b. 1905)
1984 - A[rthur] Bertram Chandler, author (Empress of Outer Space), dies at 72
1984 - Bill Voce, cricketer (key player of the Bodyline series), dies
1985 - Siem Devout, Dutch actor, dies at 54
1986 - Bhavana Balachandran, Indian actress
1988 - Ella Raines, actress (Brute Force), dies of throat cancer at 66
1991 - Larry Kert, actor (Tony-West Side Story), dies of AIDS at 60
1991 - Stan Getz, jazz saxophonist (Girl from Impanima), dies at 64
1991 - Sylvia Porter, economist/author (Money Book), dies at 77
1992 - Larry Riley, actor (Soldier Story, Knots Landing), dies of AIDS at 39
1992 - Thijs van Lier, lawyer/Dutch MP (PvdA), dies at 44
1993 - James Bridges, writer/director (Paper Chase), dies of cancer at 57
1993 - Peter Tazelaar, adjutant of Dutch queen Wilhelmina, dies at 73
1994 - Barry Sullivan, actor (Great Gadsby), dies at 81
1994 - John Morey Downs, actor/dancer/singer, dies at 80
1994 - John Slot, mayor of Eethen/Hardenberg/Ede, dies
1994 - Mark McManus, actor (Ned Kelly), dies of pneumonia at 59
1994 - Peter Graves, English actor (Derby Day/Admirable Crichton), dies at 82
1994 - Willie Humphrey, jazz clarinetist, dies at 93
1995 - Imam Elissa, singer, dies at 76
1995 - James Anderson, writer, dies at 41
1996 - George Snell, genetecist, dies at 92
1996 - Glyn Worsnip, broadcaster, dies at 57
1996 - Jean Sinclair, teacher/campaigner, dies at 88
1996 - Richard Michael Hills, comedy script writer, dies at 70
1999 - Anne Haddy, Australian actress (b. 1930)
2000 - Frédéric Dard, French writer (b. 1921)
2002 - Robbin Crosby, American guitarist (Ratt) (b. 1959)
2003 - Ken Grimwood, American writer (b. 1944)
2003 - Dave Rowberry, British musician (The Animals) (b. 1940)
2005 - Anne Bancroft, American actress, dies from uterine cancer at 73
2005 - Dana Elcar, American actor (b. 1927)
2006 - Billy Preston, American musician (b. 1946)
2006 - Hilton Ruiz, Puerto Rican-American jazz pianist (b. 1952)
2006 - Arnold Newman, American photographer (b. 1918)
2010 - Marvin Isley, American Musician The Isley Brothers (b. 1953)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 07, 2013, 11:09:53 AM

This Day in History for 7th June


Historical Events

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Frontiersman Daniel Boone               Pacifist and Spiritual Leader Gandhi        Mountain Climber George Mallory

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Ballet choreographer                                US Admiral Chester Nimitz            Mountain Country Singer Johnny Cash
George Balanchine

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Singer-Songwriter Bob Dylan                      264th Pope John Paul II                      Pop Star Madonna

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King of Pop Michael Jackson


555 - Vigilius ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1099 - 1st Crusaders arrive in Jerusalem
1340 - Rotterdam Netherlands founded
1413 - King Ladislaw of Naples occupies Rome
1420 - Troops of the Republic of Venice capture Udine, ending the independenceo f the Patriarchate
           of Aquileia.
1494 - Treaty of Tordesillas, Spain & Portugal divide America
1527 - Pope Clement VII surrenders to emperor Charles V's armies
1546 - England signs Peace of Andres with Scotland/Ireland
1557 - England declares war on France
1614 - 2nd parliament of King James I, dissolves passing no legislation
1628 - English king Charles I accepts Petition of Rights
1654 - Louis XIV crowned King of France
1672 - Battle by Solebay: Dutch adm M de Ruyter beats French/English fleet
1692 - Earthquake in Porte Royale, Jamaica, kills 3,000
1694 - English invasion army under Thomas Talmash reaches Brest
1769 - Daniel Boone begins exploring Bluegrass State of Kentucky
1776 - Richard Lee (VA) moves Decl of Independence in Continental Congress
1780 - Anti-Catholic riot in London, 100s die
1788 - Masses stone French government army at Grenoble
1798 - Jews of Pesaro Italy fast commemorating murder of Jews
1800 - David Thompson reaches the mouth of the Saskatchewan River in Manitoba.
1832 - Asian cholera reaches Quebec, brought by Irish immigrants, and kills about 6,000 people in
           Lower Canada.
1839 - Hawaiian Declaration of Rights is signed
1860 - Workmen start laying track for Market Street Railroad, SF
1862 - Skirmish at Union Church, VA (Peninsular)
1862 - Gen B Butler orders William Mumford hanged after he removed & destroyed US flag on display
           over New Orleans Mint
1862 - The United States and Britain agree to suppress the slave trade.
1863 - Battle of Milliken's Bend, LA-Jefferson Davis' home burnt
1863 - Mexico City captured by French troops
1864 - Abe Lincoln renominated for Pres by Republican Party
1866 - Irish Fenians raid Pigeon Hill, Quebec
1866 - 1,800 Fenian raiders are repelled back to the United States after they loot and plunder around
           Saint-Armand and Frelighsburg, Quebec.
1873 - 7th Belmont: James Roe aboard Springbok wins in 3:01.75
1880 - War of the Pacific: The Battle of Arica, assault and capture of Morro de Arica (Arica Cape),
           that ended the Campaña del Desierto (Desert Campaign).
1881 - 15th Belmont: T Costello aboard Saunterer wins in 2:47
1887 - Monotype type-casting machine patented by Tolbert Lanston, Wash DC
1892 - John J Doyle of Clev Spiders is 1st to pinch hit in a baseball game
1892 - Republican convention in Minneapolis begins
1893 - Gandhi's first act of civil disobedience.
1896 - G Harpo & F Samuelson leave NY to row the Atlantic (takes 54 days)
1898 - Social Democracy of America party holds 1st national convention, Chic
1900 - Boer general Christian de Law occupiers British train depot Roodewal
1905 - Norway dissolves union with Sweden (in effect since 1814)
1906 - Chicago Cubs score 11 in 1st inning, beating NY Giants 19-0
1906 - Famous Cunard passenger liner Lusitania launches
1909 - Cleveland Industrial Exposition opens
1909 - Mary Pickford made her screen debut at the age of 16.
1912 - St Pius X encyclical "On Indians of South America"
1912 - US army tests 1st machine gun mounted on a plane
1916 - Germany troop march into Fort Faux, Verdun
1919 - Sette giugno: Riot in Malta; four are killed.
1924 - 56th Belmont: Earl Sande aboard Mad Play wins in 2:18.8
1924 - George Leigh-Mallory disappears 775' from Everest's summit
1926 - Swedish government of Ekman forms
1929 - Margaret Bondfield becomes 1st Dutch female minister (of Labor)
1929 - Vatican City becomes a sovereign state
1930 - 62nd Belmont: Earl Sande aboard Gallant Fox wins in 2:31.6
1930 - NY Times agrees to capitalize the n in "Negro"
1932 - Pitcher John Quinn, 47, is oldest player to have an extra-base hit (a double) & bat in a run, as
           the Dodgers beat the Cubs 9-2
1933 - George Balanchine/Kurt Weills "7 Deadly Sins," premiers in Paris
1936 - Yanks beat Indians 5-4 in 16; longest game without a strikeout
1938 - 1st play telecast with original Broadway cast, "Susan & God"
1938 - Boeing 314 Clipper flying boat 1st flown (Eddie Allen)
1938 - The Douglas DC-4E makes its first test flight.
1939 - 1st king & queen of England to visit US, George VI & Elizabeth
1939 - Cleve Indians sets AL record of 16 inning game without striking out, however lose game 5-4
           to NY Yankees
1940 - British/French troops evacuate Narvik
1941 - 45th US Golf Open: Craig Wood shoots a 284 at Colonial Club Fort Worth
1941 - 73rd Belmont: Eddie Arcaro aboard Whirlaway win in 2:31 (triple crown)
1942 - Battle of Midway ends: Adm Nimitz wins 1st WW II naval defeat of Japan
1942 - Germany Armys march into Sebastopol
1942 - Japanese troops lands on Attu, Aleutian Islands
1944 - Achilles Veen soccer team forms in Veen
1944 - Canadian 50th division occupies Bayeux
1944 - Claus von Stauffenberg meets Hitler
1946 - Pirates players vote 20-16 to walkout rather than play the Giants
1946 - US Supreme Court bans discrimination in interstate travel
1948 - Communist complete takeover of Czechoslovakia; Pres Bernes resigns
1948 - KVP wins Dutch Second-Parliamentary election
1952 - "3 Wishes after Jamie" closes at Mark Hellinger NYC after 94 perfs
1952 - 7th Curtis Cup: British Isles, 5-4
1952 - 84th Belmont: Eddie Arcaro aboard One Count wins in 2:30.2
1953 - 1st color network telecast in compatible color, (Boston Mass)
1953 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Eastern Golf Open
1953 - Mary Terrell wins struggle to end segregation in Wash DC restaurants
1953 - WDAU (now WYOU) TV chan 22 in Scranton Wilkes-Barre, PA (CBS) begins
1954 - 1st microbiology laboratory dedicated (New Brunswick NJ)
1955 - "$64,000 Question" premieres on CBS TV
1955 - 1st President to appear on color TV (Eisenhower)
1955 - India premier Nehru visit USSR
1956 - Singapore government of Marshall resigns
1957 - Mickey Stewart holds 7 cricket catches for Surrey v Northants
1958 - 90th Belmont: Pete Anderson aboard Cavan wins in 2:30.2
1958 - Battles between Turkish & Greeks Cypriots break out
1959 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament
1959 - KLX-AM in Oakland California changes call letters to KEWB (now KNEW)
1962 - NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 31,580 m
1963 - 1st Rolling Stones TV appearance (Thank Your Lucky Stars) & release 1st single, "Come on"
1964 - Beatles travel canals of Amsterdam
1965 - Gemini 4 completes 62 orbits
1965 - Morocco King Hassan suspends constitution, grabs power
1965 - Sony Corp introduced its home video tape recorder, priced at $995
1965 - Supreme Court rules 1879 Ct law ban of contraceptives unconstitutional
1965 - The Supreme Court of the United States decides on Griswold v. Connecticut, effectively
           legalizing the use of contraception by married couples.
1966 - NY Mets pass up Reggie Jackson to draft Steve Chilcott #1
1967 - 2 Moby Grape members arrested for contributing to deliquency of minors
1967 - Israel captures Wailing Wall in East Jerusalem, Jericho & Bethlehem
1967 - NY Yankees draft Ron Blomberg #1
1968 - Sirhan Sirhan indicted for Bobby Kennedy assassination
1968 - The body of assassinated U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy lies in state at St. Patrick's
           Cathedral, New York.
1969 - "Johnny Cash Show," debuts on ABC-TV
1969 - 101st Belmont: Braulio Baeza aboard Arts & Letters wins in 2:28.8
1969 - Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash combine on a Grand Ole Opry TV special
1969 - Tommy James & Shondells release "Crystal Blue Persuasion"
1969 - Wash Senators draft Jeff Burroughs #1
1970 - 22nd Emmy Awards: Marcus Welby, Robert Young & Susan Hampshire
1970 - Jockey Willie Shoemaker passes Johnny Longden with his 6,033 win
1970 - Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
1970 - The Who's "Tommy" is performed at NY's Lincoln Center
1971 - Soviet Soyuz 11 crew completes 1st transfer to orbiting Salyut
1972 - "Grease" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 3,388 performances
1972 - German Chancellor Willy Brandt visits Israel
1972 - Hsan Hua, Zen teacher, conducted 1st ordination ceremony in America
1972 - Pirate's Gene Alley bases-loaded walk, beats Padres 1-0 in 18th
1973 - Rangers draft Texas high school pitcher David Clyde #1
1974 - Padres draft Brown University shortstop Bill Almon #1
1975 - "Thank God I'm a Country Boy," by John Denver hits #1
1975 - Dennis Lillee takes 1st one-day 5WI, 5-34 v Pakistan World Cup
1975 - Spain's Manuel Orantes wins US Open, beating Jimmy Connors in 3 sets
1975 - Sri Lanka's 1st one-day international, v WI Cricket World Cup
1975 - Sony introduces the Betamax videocassette recorder for sale to the public.
1976 - NBC Nightly News with John Chancellor & David Brinkley, premieres
1977 - Anita Bryant leads successful crusade against Miami gay rights law
1977 - White Sox draft Harold Baines #1
1978 - 32nd NBA Championship: Wash Bullets beat Sea Supersonics, 4 games to 3
1978 - Emmy 5th Daytime Award presentation
1979 - 52nd National Spelling Bee: Katie Kerwin wins spelling maculature
1979 - Bhaskara 1, Indian Earth resources/meteorology satellite, launched
1979 - Portugal government of Mota Pinto resigns
1979 - Rocker Chuck Berry is charged with tax evasion
1980 - "Billy Bishop Goes to War" closes at Morosco NYC after 12 perfs
1980 - "Cars," by Gary Numan hits #9
1980 - 112th Belmont: Eddie Maple aboard Temperence Hill wins in 2:29.8
1980 - 50th French Mens Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats Vitas Gerulaitis (64 61 62)
1980 - Jeff Norman runs world record 50k (2:48:06)
1980 - Tommy John wins his 200th, 3-0 on a 2-hitter
1981 - 35th Tony Awards: Amadeus & 42nd Street win
1981 - 51st French Mens Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats I. Lendl (61 46 62 36 61)
1981 - Israeli F-15/F-16 destroys alleged Iraqi plutonium production facility
1981 - Sandra Post wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Classic
1982 - 16th Music City News Country Awards: Barbara Mandrell
1982 - Habres rebel army occupies capital of Chad, N'djamena
1982 - LA Dodger Steve Garvey is 5th to play in 1,000 consecutive games
1982 - NY Mets draft Dwight Gooden, Roger McDowell & Randy Myers
1982 - Pres Reagan meets Pope John Paul II & Queen Elizabeth
1982 - Steve Garvey plays in his 1,000th consecutive game & goes 0-for-4
1983 - Steve Carlton temporarily passes Nolan Ryan with his 3,552 strike out
1986 - 118th Belmont: Chris McCarron aboard Danzig Connect wins in 2:29.8
1986 - 56th French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats M Navratilova (26 63 63)
1986 - Madonna's "Live to Tell," single goes #1
1986 - Pirates draft 3rd baseman Jeff King #1
1987 - 41st Tony Awards: Fences & Les Miserables win
1987 - 57th French Mens Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats Mats Wilander (75 62 36 76)
1987 - Andy Van Slyke HRs off R McDowell in both ends of double header
1987 - Betsy King wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Championship
1988 - Aluminum contaminates Cornish England's water supply
1989 - 23 year old olympic barefoot South African runner Zola Budd retires
1989 - Atlanta Fulton County Comm approves $210M stadium for the Falcons
1989 - For one second this morning, the time is 01:23:45, 6-7-89
1989 - Suriname SLM-173 (DC-8) crashes near Paramaribo Airport killing 173
1989 - Wayne Gretzky wins his 9th NHL Hart (MVP) Trophy in 10 years
1989 - 1st Baseball game to start outdoors & end indoors, as Toronto Blue Jays stadium closes roof
           during game at 8:48, & beat Brewers 4-2
1990 - Michael Jackson hospitalized for chest pains
1990 - South Africa president F W de Klerk lifts 4 year olf state of emergency
1991 - Mount Pinatubo (Philippines) erupts for 1st time
1992 - "Small Family Business" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 48 perfs
1992 - 62nd French Mens Tennis: Jim Courier beats Petr Korda (75 62 61)
1992 - Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Championship
1992 - EUVE Launch
1993 - 27th Music City News Country Awards: Alan Jackson & Vince Gill
1993 - Cleveland breaks ground for Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
1993 - Crickets Graham Gooch dismissed handled the ball v Aust, Old Trafford
1993 - Prince celebrated his birthday by changing his name to a symbol
1994 - A's outfielder Rickey Henderson steals his 1,100th career base
1995 - The long range Boeing 777 enters service with United Airlines.
1996 - Julia & Noah wed on "All My Children"
1997 - 129th Belmont: Chris McCarron aboard Touch Gold wins in 2:28.8
1997 - 67th French Womens Tennis: Iva Majoli beats Martina Hingis (64 62)
1997 - Cosmos 2344 Proton-K Launch (Russia), Failed
1997 - Stanley Cup: Detroit Red Wings sweep the Phila Flyers
1998 - 68th French Mens Tennis:
1998 - James Byrd, Jr. is dragged to death by Shawn Allen Berry, Lawrence Russel Brewer, and John
           William King in Jasper, Texas in a racially-motivated hate crime.
2001 - Tony Blair's Labour Party wins another landslide victory in the General Election.
2006 - British Houses of Parliament temporarily shut down due to anthrax alert.
2012 - 16th century archaeology remains of the Curtain Theatre, where some of Shakespeare's plays
           were first performed, were found under a pub in London
2012 - Credit rating agency Fitch downgrades Spain's credit rating to BBB in the wake of
           international bailout speculation
2012 - A bus falls into a ravine in La Paz, Bolivia, killing 16 and injuring 32 people

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 07, 2013, 11:11:38 AM

This Day in History for 7th June


Famous Weddings

421 - Eudocia A Athenais marries Oostromeins emperor Theodosius II
1601 - Louis Gunther of Nassau weds countess Anna Margaretha of Manderscheid
1925 - Three Stooges leader Moe Howard (28) weds Helen Schonberger
1937 - Three Stooges member Curly Howard (33) weds Elaine Ackerman
1975 - Academy Award-winning director Ron Howard (21) weds Cheryl Alley (21) at Magnolia Park
           United Methodist Church in Burbank, California
1986 - Air Supply guitarist Graham Russell weds Jodi Varble
1991 - Singer Jimmy Osmond weds Michelle Larson
2003 - "Sidewalks of New York" actor-director Edward Burns (34) weds Calvin Klein model Christy
           Turlington (32) at St. Peter and Paul's Catholic Church in San Francisco, California
2003 - "Dawson's Creek" actor Kerr Smith (31) weds actress Harmoni Everett (28) at The La Quinta
           Resort and Club in Palm Springs, California

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 07, 2013, 11:16:47 AM

This Day in History for 7th June


Famous Birthdays

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Singer Tom Jones (1940)                 Tennis Player Anna Kournikova (1981)


1529 - Étienne Pasquier, French lawyer and man of letters (d. 1615)
1619 - Paulus Voet, Dutch jurist/historian
1730 - Georg von Pasterwiz, composer
1736 - Karl Frieberth, composer
1761 - John Rennie, Scottish engineer (d. 1821)
1770 - Earl of Liverpool, (C) British PM (1812-27)
1778 - George Bryan "Beau" Brummel, London England, English dandy
1811 - James Young Simpson, Scotland, obsterician (used chloroform)
1812 - Theophilus Toulmin Garrard, Brig Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1902
1825 - Richard D Blackmore, England, author (Norie, Lorna Doone)
1831 - Amelia Edwards, English author and Egyptologist (d. 1892)
1833 - Alexander Ritter, composer
1837 - Alois Hitler, father of Adolf Hitler (d. 1903)
1840 - Charlotte MAAVCL, princess of Belgium/Emperor of Mexico (1864-67)
1843 - Susan Elizabeth Blow, US, pioneered kindergarten education
1845 - Leopold von Auer, Hungarians/US violinist
1846 - Wladyslaw Gorski, composer
1848 - Paul Gaugin, [Eugene Henri], French post-impressionist painter
1862 - Philipp Lenard, Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1947)
1865 - Guido Gasperini, composer
1867 - Luigi Maurizio Tedeschi, composer
1868 - Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish architect, designer, and illustrator (d. 1928)
1873 - Landon Ronald, composer
1874 - Theodor Streicher, composer
1877 - Charles Glover Barkla, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1944)
1879 - Knud J V Rasmussen, Danish pole explorer (Thule)
1879 - Joan Voûte, Dutch astronomer (d. 1963)
1883 - Sylvanus Morley, U.S. archaeologist and spy (d. 1948)
1884 - Julius P Hoste, Belgium minister/daily newspaper publisher (Last News)
1885 - Percy Brier, composer
1886 - Henri Coandă, Romanian aerodynamics pioneer (d. 1972)
1887 - William Walraven, Dutch journalist/writer (Indian Daily)
1891 - Athos Palma, composer
1891 - Koos [Jacobus J] Vorrink, Dutch politician (SDAP/AJC/PvdA)
1896 - Robert Mulliken, US, chemist/physicist (Nobel 1966)
1896 - Vivien Kellems, TV hostess (Power of Women)
1896 - Imre Nagy, Hungarian politician (d. 1958)
1896 - Douglas Campbell, American World War I flying ace (d. 1990)
1897 - George Szell, Budapest Hungary, conductor (Metropolitan 1942-45)
1899 - Elizabeth Bowen, Dublin, novelist (Death of the Heart, Encounters)
1900 - Jan [Johannes A A] Engelman, poet/translator/critic (Garden of Eros)
1902 - Herman B Wells, president and chancellor of Indiana University (d. 2000)
1909 - Jessica Tandy, London, actress (Birds, Cocoon, Batteries Not Included)
1909 - Peter W Rodino, (Rep-D-NJ, 1949- )/chaired Watergate council
1909 - Virginia Apgar, American physician and childbirth specialist (d. 1974)
1910 - Bradford Washburn, American explorer, (d. 2007)
1911 - Franz Reizenstein, composer
1911 - Silas Roy Crain, singer/arranger/songwriter
1911 - Brooks Stevens, automotive designer (d. 1995)
1913 - Anthony David Machell Cox, medievalist
1917 - Gwendolyn Brooks, US poet (Bean Eaters, Annie Allen, Pulitzer 1950)
1917 - Dean Martin, Steubenville Ohio, American singer/actor (with Jerry Lewis)
1918 - Irene Vorrink, Dutch minister (health & environment)
1920 - Georges Marchais, political leader (French Communist Party)
1921 - Tal Farlow, American jazz guitarist (d. 1998)
1922 - Hubert Du Plessis, composer
1922 - Leo Reise, Canadian ice hockey player
1923 - Giorgio Belladonna, bridge champion
1923 - Jules Deschênes, Canadian jurist (d. 2000)
1924 - Dolores Gray, Chic Ill, singer/actress (Designing Woman, Kismet)
1925 - Camille Flammarion, French astronomer/writer (Thunder & Lightning)
1925 - Pieternella "Nel" van Arem, Dutch actress (Sea Gull)
1926 - Dick Williams, Wall Lake Iowa, choral director (Andy Williams Show)
1927 - Martin Carter, poet/critic
1927 - Charles de Tornaco, Belgian racing driver (d. 1953)
1928 - Anthony Nicholas Maria Wahl, historian
1928 - Charles Louis Strouse, composer
1928 - Dave Bowen, footballer
1928 - David Malcolm Lewis, expert in Greek Epigraphy
1928 - James Ivory, producer/director (Howard's End, Remains of the Day)
1928 - Reg Park, British bodybuilder
1929 - John Turner, Richmond England, (L) 17th Canadian PM (1984)
1929 - The Grand Wizard of Wrestling, Wrestling manager (d. 1983)
1930 - Ian Leggat, cricketer (1 Test v South Africa 1953-54 without distinction)
1931 - Henry Weinberg, composer
1931 - Lang Jeffries, Ontario Canada, actor (Skip-Rescue 8 )
1931 - Virginia McKenna, actress (Born Free, Chosen, Lions are Free, Simba)
1931 - Malcolm Morley, English-born painter
1933 - Henk E Koning, Dutch sect of Finances (VVD)
1933 - Herb Score, pitcher (Cleveland Indians)
1934 - Philippe Entremont, Rheims France, concert pianist
1934 - Samuel Lipman, music critic
1935 - Harry Crews, US writer/actor (Indian Runner), (d. 2012)
1935 - Thomas Kailath, American engineer
1937 - Bert sugar, Washington D.C., sports writer (Sting like a Bee), (d. 2012)
1937 - Neeme Järvi, Estonian conductor
1938 - Judy Ann Scott-Fox, agent
1940 - Tom Jones [Sir Thomas John Woodward], Pontypridd, Welsh singer (What's New Pussycat)
1941 - Jaime Laredo, Bolivia, violinist (Qn Elisabeth of Belgium prize 1959)
1943 - Ken Osmond, actor (Eddie Haskel-Leave it To Beaver)
1943 - Mel Levine, (Rep-D-CA, 1983- )
1943 - Nikki Giovanni, poet (LHJ Woman of the Year 1973)
1944 - Bill Rafferty, Queens NY, comedian (Laugh-In, Real People)
1944 - Clarence White, guitarist (Byrds-Turn! Turn! Turn!)
1945 - Wolfgang Schüssel, Chancellor of Austria
1946 - Jenny Jones, [Janina Stronski], Canada, comedienne (Jenny Jones Show)
1946 - Terry Gale, Wyalkatchem WA, Australasia golfer
1947 - Thurman Munson, baseball catcher/captain (NY Yankees)
1949 - Jack Ryland, rock vocalist (Three Dog Night)
1950 - Gary Graham, Long Beach, California, American actor (Alien Nation, Star Trek: Enterprise)
1951 - Anne Twomey, Boston Ma, actress (Secret, Deadly Friend, Imagemaker)
1952 - Liam Neeson, N Ireland, actor (Schindler's List, Les Miserables)
1953 - Johnny Clegg, rocker
1953 - Dougie Donnelly, Scottish television broadcaster
1954 - Lui Passaglia, Vancouver BC, CFL place kicker (BC Lions)
1954 - Louise Erdrich, American author
1955 - Joey Scarbury, Ontario California, singer (Greatest American Hero)
1955 - William Koch, US skier (World Cup 1982)
1955 - William Forsythe, American actor
1956 - Robert Dover, equestrian dressage (Olympics-bronze-96)
1957 - Neal Radford, cricketer (Zambia Engld pace bowler in 3 Tests 1986-88)
1957 - Juan Luis Guerra, Dominican musician
1957 - Ruth Anderson, Welsh rug hooker famous for her folk rugs
1958 - Christopher Marcantel, Smithtown NY, actor (Chip-Nurse, Loving)
1958 - Francesca Thyssen, lugano Switz, baroness
1958 - O+> (Prince), [Rogers Nelson], Minn, rocker/actor (1999, Purple Rain)
1958 - Phillipe Boccara, Le Mans France, US sprint kayak (Olympics-96)
1958 - Surakiart Sathirathai, Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand
1958 - Prince, American musician
1960 - Bill Prady, American television producer
1961 - Dave Catching, American musician
1962 - Janice Lawrence Braxton, WNBA center (Cleve Rockers, Olym-gold-1984)
1962 - Paddy McAloon, rocker (Prefab Sprout-2 Wheels Good)
1962 - Takuya Kurosawa, Japanese racing driver
1962 - Michael Cartellone, American drummer (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
1963 - Steven David Rintoul, Bowral Australia, PGA golfer (1994 Buick-2nd)
1963 - Roberto Alagna, French tenor
1964 - Caroline Anne Hare, Lower hutt NZ, 5k/10k (Olympics-96)
1964 - Graeme Labrooy, cricketer (Sri Lankan pace bowler in 9 Tests 1986-91)
1964 - Judie Aronson, American actress
1964 - Gia Carides, Greek-Australian actress
1965 - Mick Foley, American professional wrestler
1965 - Damien Hirst, English artist
1966 - Dan Payne, CFL tackle (Toronto Argonauts)
1966 - Heathcliff Slocumb, Jamaica NY, pitcher (Boston Red Sox)
1966 - Stephane Richer, Ripon, NHL right wing (NJ Devils)
1967 - Sarah Malin, Greenwich Ct, actress (Stephane Prescott-Another World)
1967 - Terance Mathis, NFL wide receiver (Atlanta Falcons)
1968 - Adam Walker, NFL running back (SF 49ers)
1968 - Melissa Coombes, San Gabriel CA, female pitcher (Colo Silver Bullets)
1969 - Lachlan Elmer, Australian field hockey halfback (Oly-silver-92, 96)
1969 - Mark Sohn, Arlington Heights Ill, gymnast (Olympics-96)
1969 - Kim Rhodes, American actress
1970 - Andrei Kovalenko, Gorky Russia, NHL right wing (Mont Canadiens, Edmonton)
1970 - Chad Fann, NFL tight end (Arizona Cardinals, SF 49ers)
1970 - Mike Modano, Livonia MI, NHL forward (Team USA, Dallas Stars)
1970 - Cafu, Brazilian football player
1971 - Terrell Buckley, NFL cornerback (Miami Dolphins)
1971 - Alex X. Mooney, American politician
1972 - Jeff Burris, NFL cornerback/punt returner (Buffalo Bills)
1972 - Karl Urban, New Zealand actor
1973 - Napoleon Kaufman, NFL running back (Oakland Raiders)
1973 - Robert Barr, NFL tackle (Seattle Seahawks)
1973 - Song Yun-ah, South Korean model and actress
1974 - Jason Caswell, Winnipeg Manitoba, Skeet shooter (Olympics-96)
1974 - Mahesh Bhupathi, India, tennis pro
1974 - Bear Grylls, British survivor
1975 - Allen Iverson, NBA guard (Phila 76ers)
1976 - Cassidy Rae, Clarmont Fla, actress (Sarah-Models Inc, Clarissa)
1976 - David Diaz, Chicago Ill, light welterweight boxer (Olympics-96)
1976 - Necro, Jewish American rapper
1977 - Marcin Baszczyński, Polish football player
1977 - Joe Horgan, baseball player
1977 - Odalis Pérez, baseball player
1978 - Adrienne Frantz, Mt Clemens Mich, (Tiffany Thorne-Sunset Beach)
1978 - Bill Hader, American comedian
1978 - Tony An, Korean singer (H.O.T)
1979 - Kevin Hofland, Dutch footballer
1981 - Tyler Johnson, baseball player
1981 - Anna Kournikova, Russian tennis player
1981 - Stephen Bywater, British goalkeeper
1981 - Kevin Kyle, Scottish footballer
1981 - Larisa Oleynik, American actress
1981 - Amrita Rao, Indian model and actress
1982 - Virgil Vasquez, American baseball player
1983 - Mark Lowe, American baseball player
1985 - Charlie Simpson, British pop singer
1988 - Milan Lucic, Canadian Hockey player (Boston Bruins)
1988 - Michael Cera, Brampton, Ontario, Canadian actor (Arrested Development, Superbad)
1989 - Michael Joseph Tamboli, Eldesburg Md, born 01:23:45 PM on 6-7-89
1993 - Jordan Fry, American actor

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 07, 2013, 11:20:05 AM

This Day in History for 7th June


Famous Deaths

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Short Story Writer                                    Author Henry Miller (1980)
Dorothy Parker (1967)


555 - Vigilius, Italian Pope (537-55), dies
1329 - Robert Bruce, King of Scots (1306-29), dies at 53
1337 - Willem III the Good, earl of Holland/Zealand, dies at about 49
1358 - Ashikaga Takauji, Japanese shogun (b. 1305)
1394 - Anne of Bohemia, wife of Richard II of England (plague) (b. 1367)
1492 - Kazimierz IV, King of Poland (1447-92), dies at 64
1549 - Eelke Fouckens, Frisian anabaptist, beheaded
1555 - Maarten van Rossum, Dutch army leader, dies at about 76
1571 - Pier Francesco Corteccia, composer, dies at 68
1572 - August I [Sigismund II August], king of Poland (1548-72), dies at 42
1618 - Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, English Governor of Virginia (b. 1577)
1624 - Anne of Saint Bartolomaeus, Flemish nun/monk/saint, dies at 74
1631 - Mumtax Mahal, wife of Shah Jahan of India, her tomb (Taj Mahal)
1654 - Giambattista Andreini, Italian playwright/actor, dies at 76
1667 - Thomas de Keyser, Amsterdam master builder/painter, buried
1672 - Willem J van Gendt, admiral/governor of Breda, dies at about 37
1676 - Paul Gerhardt, German hymnist (b. 1606)
1711 - Henry Dodwell, Irish theologian (b. 1641)
1754 - Nikolaj Eigtved, Danish, architect (Amalienborg Square), dies at 52
1778 - Johann Georg Zechner, composer, dies at 62
1779 - William Warburton, English critic and Bishop of Gloucester (b. 1698)
1784 - Jean-Baptiste Canavas, composer, dies at 71
1789 - Vaclav Jan Kopriva, composer, dies at 81
1800 - Willem A Alting, governor-genl of Neth-Indies (1780-97), dies at 75
1810 - Luigi Schiavonetti, Italian engraver (b. 1765)
1814 - Robert Jasper van der de Capellen, mister of Marsch, dies at 71
1821 - Tudor Vladimirescu, Romanian rebellion-leader (b. cca. 1780)
1826 - Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist (b. 1787)
1840 - Frederik Willem III, King of Prussia (1797-1840), dies at 69
1854 - Charles Baudin, French admiral (b. 1792)
1859 - David Cox, English artist (b. 1783)
1862 - William B Mumford, 1st US citizen hanged for treason, at 42
1863 - Franz Xavier Gruber, composer, dies at 75
1866 - Chief Seattle, Native American leader
1876 - George Sand, writer, dies at 71
1877 - Winand C H Staring, geologist (Bottom of Netherlands), dies at 68
1893 - Johann Schrammel, composer, dies at 43
1896 - Pavlos Carrer, Greek composer (b. 1829)
1906 - Johan P Van de Kellen, stamp cutter/lithographer, dies at 74
1911 - Maurice Rouvier, French statesman (b. 1842)
1915 - Benjamin Lambord, composer, dies at 35
1916 - Émile Faguet, French writer and critic (b. 1847)
1926 - Henry Charles Tonking, composer, dies at 63
1927 - Voikov, Soviet ambassador to Warsaw, murdered
1927 - Edmund James Flynn, Premier of Quebec (b. 1847)
1928 - Chiang Tsolin, Chinese warlord of North-China, murdered
1929 - J E P McMaster, cricketer (Eng v S Af Test 1889 (out for 0), dies
1932 - Emil Pauer, composer, dies at 76
1935 - Ivan V Mitsjoerin, Russian botanist, dies
1936 - Stjepan Seljan, Croatian explorer (b. 1875)
1938 - Norbert Fonteyne, Flemish writer (How Flemings Came Late), dies
1940 - James Hall, writer/actor (Millie, Hell's Angels), dies at 39
1942 - Alan Blumlein, English electronics engineer (b. 1903)
1945 - Nishida Kitaro, scholar/philosopher/Zen practitioner, dies at 74
1945 - Ruben Marcos Campos, composer, dies at 69
1948 - Georges Adolphe Hue, composer, dies at 90
1951 - Bobel, Braune, Naumann, Ohlendorf, Pohl, Schallenmair & Otto Schmidt, Nazi war criminals,
           hanged
1954 - Alan M Turing, British mathematician (Turing), commits suicide at 41
1956 - Julien Benda, Fren philosopher/writer (La trahison des clercs), dies
1957 - Elizabeth S Kingsley, double-Crostic puzzle creator, dies
1958 - Roger Hartigan, cricketer (2 Tests for Aust in 1908), dies
1961 - Robert Griffith, producer of Pajama Game, dies
1963 - Zasu Pitts, actress (Wedding March, Life With Father), dies at 65
1964 - Charlie Llewellyn, cricketer (544 runs in 15 Tests for South Africa), dies
1965 - Judy Holliday, comedienne (Born Yesterday, Adam's Rib), dies at 42
1965 - Pierre Cardevielle, Fren composer/conductor (L'ile Rouge), dies at 59
1965 - Richard Billinger, Austria poet/writer (Bauernpassion), dies
1966 - Hans/Jean Arp, French/Swiss painter/poet/sculptor, dies at 78
1967 - Dorothy Parker, US writer (Enough Rope), dies at 73
1967 - Pauline Brooks, actress (Make a Million), dies of cancer at 54
1967 - Anatoly Maltsev, Russian mathematician (b. 1909)
1968 - Dan Duryea, actor (Pride of the Yankees), dies of cancer at at 60
1969 - Leo Gorcey, actor (Bowery Boys), dies at 53
1970 - Edward M Forster, Brit writer (Maurice, passage to India), dies at 91
1970 - E. M. Forster, English author (b. 1879)
1973 - Lane Bradford, actor (Dead Man's Gold, Gun Hawk), dies at 50
1976 - Bobby Hackett, jazz cornetist/orchestra leader (Air time '57), dies at 61
1978 - Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
1979 - Forrest Carter, American author (b. 1925)
1980 - Henry [Valentine] Miller, US writer (Tropic of Capricorn), dies at 88
1980 - Richard Bonnelli, actor (Enter Madame), dies
1980 - Elizabeth Craig, British writer (b. 1883)
1980 - Henry Miller, American artist/author, dies at 88
1983 - Charles von Saksen-Coburg-Gotha, Belgium prince, buried
1983 - Daniele Amfiteatrov, composer, dies at 81
1984 - George Givot, actor (Versatile Vaudeville), dies at 81
1987 - John Blofeld, writer/translator/Zen practitioner, dies at 73
1988 - Joe Partridge, cricketer (S Afr pace bowler 1963-65), commits suicide
1988 - Vernon Washington, American actor (b. 1927)
1989 - Milton van Embricqs, Suriname/Dutch publicist, dies
1989 - Percy Stuart, Suriname/Dutch sports journalist, dies
1989 - Chico Landi, Brazilian racing driver (b. 1907)
1990 - Barbara Baxley, actress (Norma Rae), dies at 63 of a heart attack
1991 - Eric Francis, actor (Shillingbury Blowers), dies
1992 - Bob Sweeney, director/actor (Toby Tyler), dies of cancer at 73
1992 - William France, founder (Daytona 500), dies at 82
1993 - Drazen Petrovic, NBA player (NJ Nets), dies in auto-accident at 28
1994 - Barry Sullivan, actor (Streets of SF, Oh, God!), dies at 81
1994 - Dennis Potter, British TV writer (Pennies from Heaven), dies at 59
1994 - Joseph Ruzindana, Rwandian bishop of Bjumba, murdered
1994 - Stuart Havelock Hollingdale, anthropologist, dies at 42
1994 - Vincent Nsengijumva, Rwandan archbishop of Kigali, murdered
1995 - Joseph Tomelty, actor/playwright (Bedevilled, Moby Dick), dies at 84
1995 - Hsuan Hua, influential Buddhist master in the United States (b. 1918)
1996 - Jose Maria Valverde, philosopher poet/translator, dies at 70
1996 - Noel Walton Bott, engineer, dies at 88
1996 - [Francis] Max Factor Jr, makeup inventor, dies at 91
1999 - Paco Stanley, Mexican TV entertainer (b. 1942)
2001 - Carole Fredericks, American singer (Fredericks Goldman Jones) (b. 1952)
2001 - Víctor Paz Estenssoro, President of Bolivia (b. 1907)
2002 - Mary Lilian Baels, Belgian princess (b. 1916)
2003 - Trevor Goddard, English actor (b. 1962)
2006 - John Tenta, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1963)
2006 - Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Jordanian-born Mujahid (b. 1966)
2008 - Rudy Fernandez, Filipino actor (b. 1953)
2008 - Jim McKay, American sportscaster (b. 1921)
2009 - Kenny Rankin, American singer (b. 1940)
2009 - Hugh Hopper, British musician (b. 1945)
2010 - Stuart Cable, Welsh musician (b. 1970)
2010 - Adriana Xenides, Australian TV personality (b. 1956)
2010 - Omar Rayo, Colombian painter, sculptor, caricaturist and plastic artist. (b. 1928)
2011 - Nataraja Ramakrishna, Indian classical dancer and composer. (b. 1923)
2011 - Paul Dickson, American football player and coach (b. 1937)
2012 - Phillip Tobias, South African palaeoanthropologist, dies at 86
2012 - Bob Welch, American musician, commits suicide by gunshot at 66

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 08, 2013, 09:16:58 AM

This Day in History for 8th June


Historical Events

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4th US President James Madison               Baseball Great Babe Ruth                     Baseball Player Hank Aaron

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Spanish Dictator Francisco Franco              Tennis Player Steffi Graf


65 - Jews revolt against Rome, capturing fortress of Antonia in Jerusalem
68 - Rome Senate accepts emperor Galba
452 - Italy invaded by Attila the Hun
536 - St Silverius begins his reign as Catholic Pope
793 - Vikings plunder St Cuthbert convent Lindisfarne
979 - Louis V de Luie, crowned King of France
1191 - Richard I arrives in Acre thus beginning his crusade.
1405 - Richard le Scrope, Archbishop of York and Thomas Mowbray, Earl of Norfolk, are executed in
           York on Henry IV's orders.
1551 - Pope Julius III excommunicates Duke Ottario Farnese of Parma
1624 - Earthquake strikes Peru
1632 - Prince Frederik Henry conquerors Sittard
1663 - Battle at Amegical: English & Portugese fleet beats Spanish
1690 - Siddi general Yadi Sakat, razes the Mazagon Fort in Mumbai.
1694 - English troop landing at Brest attack (300 killed)
1761 - British fleet occupies Belle Britain
1783 - Laki Volcano in southern Iceland begins 8-month eruption
1786 - Commercially made ice cream 1st advertised (Mr Hall, NYC)
1789 - James Madison introduces a proposed Bill of Rights in the U.S. House of Representatives.
1815 - 39 German states unite under Act of Confederation
1824 - Washing machine patented by Noah Cushing of Quebec
1829 - 1st UK municipal swimming pool outside of London, opens in Liverpool
1834 - HMS Beagle sails from Port Famine to Cape Turn
1846 - Battle at Gwanga: British troops beat Bantu
1856 - Pitcairn Islanders arrive on Norfolk Island
1861 - US Sanitary Commission is given executive approval
1861 - American Civil War: Tennessee votes to secede from the Union.
1862 - Valley Campaign-Battle of Cross Keys, Virginia
1865 - Tristanderl und Zusholde, premieres
1869 - Ives W McGaffey of Chicago patents 1st vacuum cleaner (it sorrys)
1872 - Congress endorses penny post card
1878 - 12th Belmont: L Hughes aboard Duke of Magenta wins in 2:43.5
1882 - 16th Belmont: Jim McLaughlin aboard Forester wins in 2:43
1886 - 1st Civil Rights Act passes
1887 - Herman Hollerith receives a patent for his punch card calculator.
1889 - Cable Cars begin service in LA
1889 - Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure "Boscombe Valley Mystery" (BG)
1892 - Homer A Plessy refuses to go to segregated RR car (Plessy v Ferguson)
1896 - 1st car is stolen
1900 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of 6 Napoleons" (BG)
1911 - Belgium government of Schollaert falls
1912 - Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.
1914 - 34.7°F (1.5°C) in De Bilt, Netherlands
1915 - 92°F (33.3°C) in De Bilt, Netherlands
1917 - Walt Disney graduates from Benton High School
1918 - Nova Aquila, brightest nova since Kepler's nova of 1604, discovered
1920 - Reds' Edd Roush falls asleep in center during long infield argument Heinie Groh goes to wake
           him, but ump ejects Roush for delay of game
1921 - Babe Ruth arrested for speeding, fined $100, & held in jail until 4 PM
1927 - Tony Lazzeri hits 3 HRs Yanks beat White Sox 12-11
1928 - 1st US-to-Australia flight lands (Sir Charles Kingford)
1929 - 61st Belmont: Mack Garner aboard Blue Larkspur wins in 2:32.8
1929 - Venezuelan rebel Rafael Urbina overthrows Fort Amsterdam, Curacao kidnap governor
           Fruytier
1931 - Duke & Duchess of Kent wed
1931 - Suriname Work Committee under Louis Doedel forms in Paramaribo
1933 - A's Jimmie Foxx homers his 1st 3 at bats for 4 consecutive HRs
1935 - 39th US Golf Open: Sam Parks Jr shoots a 299 at Oakmont CC PA
1935 - 67th Belmont: Willie Saunders aboard Omaha wins in 2:30.6
1935 - Lou Gehrig collides with Carl Reynolds & leaves the game
1936 - 1st parking meters are invented
1937 - World's largest flower blooms in NY Botanical Garden, 12' calla lily
1939 - British king George VI visits US
1940 - 72nd Belmont: Fred A Smith aboard Bimelech wins in 2:29.6
1940 - Discovery of element 93, neptunium, announced
1940 - Last British troops leave Narvik Norway
1941 - English & French troop overthrow pro-German Syria
1942 - Bing Cosby records "Silent Night"
1944 - 1st SS-Pantser corps counter attacks at Normandy
1944 - Allies occupy Port-and-Bessin Normandy
1944 - Dutch Resistance fighter Frans Duwaer arrested
1944 - Gen Montgomery lands in Normandy, forms HQ in Chateau de Creully
1946 - "Lute Song" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 142 performances
1946 - Sukarno calls for anti colonial defiance in Indonesia
1948 - "Milton Berle Show" premieres on NBC TV
1948 - "Sally" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 36 performances
1948 - John Rudder becomes 1st negro commissioned officer in US marines
1949 - Siam changes name to Thailand
1950 - Boston Red Sox beat St Louis Browns 29-4 (win by record 25 runs)
1950 - Jean Duvieusart becomes Belgian premier
1950 - Test Cricket debut of Ramadhin & Valentine (8-104 1st inn) v England
1950 - Sir Thomas Blamey becomes the only Field Marshal in Australian history.
1952 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Eastern Women's Golf Open
1953 - Cluster of 6 tornadoes touch down in Flint Michigan killing 113
1953 - Segregated lunch counters in DC forbidden by Supreme Court
1953 - Tornadoes kill 110 in Mich & Ohio
1955 - Dodgers option Tommy Lasorda to make room on roster for Sandy Koufax
1956 - Lim Yem Hock forms Singapore government
1956 - WDAM TV channel 7 in Laurel-Hattiesburg, MS (NBC) begins broadcasting
1958 - 4th LPGA Championship won by Mickey Wright
1959 - 1st official "missile mail" lands (Jacksonville, Fla)
1959 - X-15 makes 1st unpowered flight, from a B-52 at 11,500 m
1960 - 1st date in James Clavell's novel "Nobel House"
1960 - Argentine government demands release of Adolf Eichmann
1961 - Test Cricket debut of William Morris Lawry, v Eng at Edgbaston, 57
1961 - Milwaukee sets record of 4 consecutive HRs (Eddie Mathews, Hank Aaron, Joe Adcock & Frank
           Thomas)
1962 - Jim Beatty runs world record 2 mile (8:29.8 )
1963 - "Mr President" closes at St James Theater NYC after 265 performances
1963 - 95th Belmont: Braulio Baeza aboard Chateaugay wins in 2:30.2
1963 - American Heart Association is 1st agency to campaign against cigarettes
1965 - A's draft Rick Monday #1
1965 - US troops ordered to fight offensively in Vietnam
1965 - USSR launches Luna 6; missed Moon
1966 - NFL & AFL announce plans to become NFC & AFC in 1970
1966 - Topeka, Kansas is devastated by a tornado that registers as an "F5" on the Fujita Scale: the
           first to exceed US$100 million in damages. Sixteen people are killed, hundreds more injured,
           and thousands of homes damaged or destroyed.
1967 - Israel attacks USS Liberty in Mediterranean, killing 34 US crewmen
1968 - Bermuda adopts its constitution
1968 - Don Drysdale pitches a record 58th consecutive scoreless inning
1968 - Gary Puckett & Union Gap release "Lady Will Power"
1968 - James Earl Ray, alleged assassin of Martin Luther King Jr, captured
1968 - New colonial constitution for Bermuda adopted
1968 - Rolling Stones release "Jumpin' Jack Flash"
1968 - The body of assassinated U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy is laid to rest at Arlington National
           Cemetery.
1969 - "Smothers Brothers comedy Hour," last airs on CBS-TV
1969 - 21st Emmy Awards: Get Smart, Don Adams & Susan St James
1969 - Brian Jones leaves The Rolling Stones
1969 - General Franco closes Spain's frontier with Gibraltar
1969 - KDNL TV channel 30 in Saint Louis, MO (IND) begins broadcasting
1969 - Mickey Mantle Day, 60,096 saw #7 retired (I was there-BTG)
1969 - Nixon says 25,000 US troops would leave Vietnam by end of August
1969 - Rolling Stones guitarist Mick Taylor replaces Brian Jones
1969 - Susie Berning wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
1970 - Players & management end labor dispute up min salary to $12,000
1971 - North Vietnam demands US end aid to South Vietnam
1971 - White Sox draft Danny Goodwin #1, he refuses to sign
1972 - Padres draft Dave Roberts #1, Indians draft Rick Manning #2
1972 - Test Cricket debut of Tony Greig, v Australia at Old Trafford (57/62)
1973 - Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco appointed premier of Spain
1974 - 106th Belmont: Miguel Rivera aboard Little Current wins in 2:29.2
1974 - Keyboardist Rick Wakeman quits rock group "Yes"
1974 - US & Saudi Arabia sign military-economic contract
1975 - 2 passenger trains collided near Munich Germany killing 35
1975 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Girl Talk Golf Classic
1975 - USSR launches Venera 9 for Venus landing
1976 - Houston Astros draft Floyd Bannister #1
1977 - Nolan Ryan notches his 4th career 19-strikeout game
1978 - 51st National Spelling Bee: Peg McCarthy wins spelling deification
1978 - Braves draft Bob Horner #1
1978 - Nevada jury rules Howard Hughes "Mormon Will" is a forgery
1979 - "The Source," 1st computer public information service, goes on-line
1979 - Mariners draft Al Chambers #1
1979 - Wings release "Back to the Egg" album
1980 - "It's So Nice to Be Civilized" closes at Martin Beck NYC after 8 perfs
1980 - 26th LPGA Championship won by Sally Little
1980 - 34th Tony Awards: Children of a Lesser God & Evita win
1980 - 50th French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats Virginia Ruzici (60 63)
1981 - 15th Music City News Country Awards: Mandrell Sisters
1981 - Seattle Mariners draft Mike Moore #1
1982 - 36th NBA Championship: LA Lakers beat Phila 76ers, 4 games to 2
1982 - Brazilian B-727 flight crashes into mountain; 135 die
1982 - Emmy 9th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 3rd time
1982 - Reagan addresses joint session of British Parliament
1983 - "Trading Places," "Ghostbusters," & "Gremlins," premieres
1983 - Charlos Vieira begins 191 hr "nonstop" cycling in Leiria, Portugal
1983 - Marlies Gohr runs female European record 100m (10.81)
1984 - Homosexuality is declared legal in the state of New South Wales, Australia.
1985 - 117th Belmont: Eddie Maple aboard Creme Fraiche wins in 2:27
1985 - Pirates score 10 in top of 1st, but lose 15-11 to Phillies, as Steve becomes 1st Phillie to
           switch hit HRs in same game
1986 - "Big Deal" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 70 performances
1986 - 40th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Hous Rockets, 4 games to 2
1986 - 56th French Mens Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats Mikael Pernfors (63 62 64)
1986 - Alleged Nazi Kurt Waldheim elected pres of Austria
1986 - Juli Inkster wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Championship
1986 - Longest 9 inning AL game (4h16m), Balt Orioles beat Yankees 18-9
1987 - 21st Music City News Country Awards: Randy Travis
1987 - Oliver North's secretary Fawn Hall tesifies at Iran-Contra hearing
1987 - New Zealand's Labour government legislates against nuclear weapons and nuclear powered
           vessels. This makes New Zealand the first and (as of June 2006) only nation to ban these
           things from its territory.
1988 - Nippon Airways announces that painting eyeballs on Jets cut bird collisions by 20%
1989 - Pirates score 10 in 1st (their best inning since 1942), prompts Pirate Jim Rooker to say he
           would walk from Pitts to Phila if Pirates lost, Phillies beat them 15-11, Rooker walks at end of
           season broa
1990 - "It's Garry Shandling's Show," last airs on Fox-TV
1990 - Phil Bradley hits 18th inside-the-park HR in Oriole history
1991 - "Our Country's Good" closes at Nederlander Theater NYC after 48 perfs
1991 - 123rd Belmont: Jerry Bailey aboard Hansel wins in 2:28
1991 - 61st French Womens Tennis: Monica Seles beats A S Vicario (63 64)
1991 - College World Series: Louisiana State defeats Wichita State 6-3
1991 - Former NY Jet Mark Gastineau wins 1st pro boxing fight in 12 seconds
1991 - Victory parade held in Wash DC (Persian Gulf War)
1991 - Warren Schutte, is 1st non American to win NCAA Div 1 golf title
1992 - 26th Music City News Country Awards: Alan Jackson & Garth Brooks
1992 - NY Yankee pitcher Steve Howe is banned from baseball for 7th time
1992 - Thomas Klestil succeeds Waldheim as president of Austria
1993 - Premier Marc Bazin of Haiti resigns
1994 - 7.8 earthquake strikes North Bolivia
1994 - Mass murderer Joe Rifkind sentenced to 27 years
1995 - "Buttons on Broadway" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 40 perfs
1995 - Downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia.
1996 - 128th Belmont: Rene Douglas aboard Editor's Note wins in 2:28.96
1996 - 66th French Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats A S Vicario (63, 67, 108)
1996 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1996 - Dean Jones takes career-best 5-112 for Derbyshire v Hampshire
1996 - Lloyd & Titchard complete 358 stand for 4th wkt Lancs v Essex
1996 - PBA National Championship Won by Butch Soper
1996 - Panama becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1997 - "Young Man From Atlanta" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 85 perfs
1997 - 67th French Mens Tennis: Gustavo Kuerten beats S Bruguera (63 64 62)
1997 - BellSouth Senior Golf Classic at Opryland
1997 - Justin Leonard wins golf's Kemper Open at TPC at Avenel
1997 - Pat Hurst wins LPGA Oldsmobile Classic
2004 - Transit of Venus (between Earth & Sun) occurs
2007 - Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia is hit by the State's worst storms and flooding in 30
           years resulting in the death of nine people and the grounding of trade ship, the MV Pasha
           Bulker.
2008 - The Akihabara massacre took place on the Sunday-pedestrian-zoned Chūōdōri street. A man
           killed seven in an attack on a crowd using a truck and a dagger.
2012 - A bus bombing in Pakistan kills 18 and injures 35 people

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 08, 2013, 09:18:37 AM

This Day in History for 8th June


Famous Weddings

1961 - English prince Edward, Duke of Kent, weds Katharine Worsley
1996 - Lyricist and songwriter Carole Bayer Sager (52) weds former chairman of Warner Bros.
           Robert Daly (60) in Bel Air, California
2002 - Teen rock star Taylor Hanson (19) weds Natalie Bryant (18) at Callaway Gardens in Pine
           Mountain, Georgia
2003 - "The Sopranos" actor Dominic Chianese (72) weds United Nations conference planner Jane
           Pittson (56) in Manhattan
2007 - "Desperate Housewives" actor Dougray Scott (41) weds actress Claire Forlani (35) at the
           Council Common Hall in Pievebobigliana, Italy

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 08, 2013, 09:19:28 AM

This Day in History for 8th June


Famous Divorces

2004 - "TLC" singer Tionne Watkins (34) divorces rapper Mack 10 (32) due to adultery after nearly 4
           years of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 08, 2013, 09:29:36 AM

This Day in History for 8th June


Famous Birthdays

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US First Lady                                          Comedian Jerry Stiller (1927)                     Rapper Kanye West (1977)
Barbara Bush (1925)


1318 - Eleonora Plantagenet, daughter of King Eduard II/wife of Reinald II
1625 - Giovanni D Cassini, Perinaldo, France, discoverer (4 moons of Saturn)
1652 - William Dampier, English explorer/pirate
1671 - Tomaso Albinoni, Italian composer (Adagio in G-minor)
1717 - John Collins, American politician (d. 1795)
1722 - Jakob Friedrich Kleinknecht, composer
1724 - John Smeaton, Leeds, civil engineer
1740 - Gabriele Mario Piozzi, composer
1743 - Alessandro Cagliostro, Palermo Italy, adventurer
1745 - Caspar Wessel, Danish mathematician (d. 1818)
1753 - Nicolas-Marie Dalayrac, composer
1756 - Cornelis van Foreest, mayor of Alkmaar
1757 - Cardinal Ercole Consalvi, Italian Roman Catholic Cardinal (d. 1824)
1759 - Thomas Dunham Whitaker, Rainham Norfolk UK, topographer
1772 - Robert Stevenson, Glasgow, civil engineer
1783 - Joseph Lincke, composer
1804 - Jan Baptist van Son, Dutch politician (RC)
1805 - Luigi Ricci, composer
1806 - Gideon Johnson Pillow, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1878
1812 - Robert Schumann, Zwickau Germany, composer (Neue Zeitschrift fuer Musik)
1812 - Spyridon Xyndas, composer
1813 - David Dixon Porter, Rear Admiral (Union Navy), died in 1891
1814 - Charles Reade, England, novelist (Cloister & Hearth)
1821 - John Dunlap Stevenson, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1897
1821 - Samuel White Baker, London England, explorer (Ceylon/Egypt)
1824 - James Loudon, gov-gen of Neth-Indies
1824 - William Montgomery Gardner, Brig Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1901
1829 - John Everett Millais, England, painter (Order of Release)
1831 - Thomas J. Higgins, decorated Union Army soldier (d. 1917)
1834 - George Garrett, composer
1837 - Jan Kleczynski, composer
1837 - Moriz Heyne, German germanist (Beowulf)
1842 - John Q. A. Brackett, 36th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1918)
1847 - Ida Sazton McKinley, 1st lady (1897-1901)
1849 - Juliaan Dillens, Flemish sculptor (Anspach Monument)
1851 - Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval, French physicist (d. 1940)
1854 - Douglas Colin Cameron, Canadian politician (d. 1921)
1856 - Natalia Janotha, composer
1858 - Antonio Nicolau, Spanish composer/conductor
1859 - Smith Wigglesworth, British religious figure (d. 1947)
1860 - Alicia Boole Stott, Irish mathematician (d. 1940)
1867 - Frank Lloyd Wright, Richland Center Wisc, master builder (Guggenheim)
1881 - Prospero Bisquertt, composer
1885 - Karl Genzken, Nazi physician (d. 1957)
1888 - Poul Julius Ouscher Schierbeck, composer
1889 - Joseph L Hromadka, Czech theologist (Lenin prize 1957)
1894 - Erwin Schulhoff, Czech/Russian composer/pianist (Ogelala)
1896 - Samuel Gonard, chairman (International Red Cross)
1897 - John G. Bennett, British scientist and author (d. 1974)
1900 - Herman J Friedericy, [H J Merlijn], writer (Last general)
1901 - Lena Baker, American murderer (d. 1945)
1902 - Albe, [Renaut A Joostens], Flemish writer (Andalusian Diary)
1903 - Gerrit C Berkouwer, Dutch theologist (Dogmatic Studies)
1903 - Ralph Webster Yarborough, politician
1903 - Ronald Shiner, actor (Carry on Admiral, Keep it Clean, Aunt Clara)
1905 - Brian Coffey, poet
1906 - Charles Janssens, Belgium, actor (Mira, Malpertuis)
1906 - S Nazir Ali, cricketer (bro of Wazir Ali, India's 1st Test 1932)
1909 - Maria M van de Berg, actress (It was April 1st)
1909 - William Odling, major-general
1910 - Aleksandr T Tvardovski, Russian conductor [NS=June 21]
1910 - John W Campbell, US, sci-fi writer (Moon is Hell)
1910 - Fernand Fonssagrives, French photographer (d. 2003)
1911 - Van Lingle Mungo, SC, pitcher (Dodgers, Giants)
1912 - Ian Morrow, company director
1912 - Harry Holtzman, American abstract artist (d. 1987)
1913 - Graham Watson, literary agent
1913 - Janos Jagamas, composer
1913 - Peter Diamand, artistic administrator
1914 - Joseph de Pietro, US, 56kg weightlifter (Olympic-gold-1948)
1914 - KuBa, writer
1915 - Gustaaf AWC baron van Hemert Dingshof, (mayor-Maarn Neth)
1915 - Julian Ridsdale, MP
1916 - Francis Crick, British co-discovered DNA's structure (Nobel 1962)
1916 - Luigi Comencini, Italian film director (d. 2007)
1917 - Byron R Whizzer White, Ft Collins, NFLer/Supreme Court Just (1962-93)
1918 - Robert Preston, Newton MA, actor (Music Man, Mame, Last Starfighter)
1918 - John D. Roberts, American chemist
1919 - Guy Overton, cricketer (NZ pace bowler in 3 Tests on 1953-54 SA tour)
1920 - A J Mottram, tennis player
1920 - Bert Leysen, TV director (Belgian National TV)
1920 - Gwen Harwood, Australian poet (d. 1995)
1921 - Alexis Smith, Penticton BC Canada, actress (Jessica-Dallas, Follies)
1921 - Alwyn Williams, Vice-Chancellor (Glasgow U)
1921 - Lord Campbell of Croy
1921 - Sheila Ryan, KS, actress (Big Fix, Mule Train, Ringside, Caged Fury)
1921 - Suharto, general/president Indonesia (1967- )
1921 - LeRoy Neiman, American painter, (d. 2012)
1922 - Myron Healy, Petalumus California, actor (Wyatt Earp)
1923 - Alice Coleman, geographer
1923 - Jean Maxwell-Scott, Lady-in-Waiting (Prin Alice Duchess Gloucester)
1923 - Karel Goeyvaerts, Flemish composer (Summer Games)
1923 - Malcolm Boyd, American Episcopal Priest and author
1924 - George Kirby, Chicago, comedian (ABC Comedy Hour, Pearl Bailey Show)
1924 - Glidewell, Lord Justice
1924 - Ian Colquhoun, cricket wicket keeper (NZ vs England 1954-55)
1924 - Sheldon Allman, Chicago, actor (Norm-Harris Against the World)
1924 - William Barlow, CEO (BICC)
1924 - Lyn Nofziger, American political operative (d. 2006)
1925 - Barbara Pierce Bush, Flushing, New York, US 1st lady (1989-93)
1925 - Eddie Gaedel, 3'7" St Louis Browns pinch-hitter (he walked)
1925 - Del Ennis, baseball player (d. 1996)
1926 - Anatol Vieru, composer
1926 - Cranley Onslow, MP
1926 - Nico Kiasashvii, professor of English Literature
1927 - Dame Anne Warburton, President (Lucy Cavendish College-Cambridge_
1927 - David Hobman, director (Age Concern England)
1927 - Jerry Stiller, Bkln NY, comedian (Frank Constanza-Seinfeld)
1927 - Michael Levey, director (British National Gallery)
1928 - Jiri Dvoracek, composer
1928 - Kat[ i ]e [Gertrude] Wilhelm, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Hamlet Trap)
1929 - Earl Ferrers, British minister of state (Dept of Environment)
1929 - Ventappa Muddiah, cricketer (Indian off-spinner in 2 Tests 1959-61)
1930 - Bo Gunnar Widerberg, Malmö Sweden, director (Elvira Madigan)
1930 - Dana Wynter, London, actress (Airport, Invasion of the Body Snatchers)
1930 - Michael Codron, theatrical producer
1930 - Yannis Ioannidis, composer
1930 - Robert Aumann, German-born Israeli mathematician; Nobel laureate
1930 - Marcel Léger, Quebec politician (d. 1993)
1931 - Ivan V Lali, poet
1931 - James Leander "Leo" Nichols, honorary consul
1932 - Hans Gunter Helms, composer
1932 - Lady Littler, CEO (Gaming Board for Great Britain)
1932 - Ray Illingworth, cricketer (England off-spin all-rounder & captain)
1932 - Raymond Illingworth, CEO )England committee, TCCB)
1933 - Dr Robert Stevens, Master (Pembroke College, Oxford)
1933 - Eric Parker, deputy CEO (Trafalgar House)
1933 - Joan Rivers, [Molinsky], Bkln, comedienne (Late Show, Hollywood Sq)
1934 - Millicent Martin, Romford England, actress (Alfie, Nothing but the Best)
1936 - James Darren, Phila, actor (TJ Hooker, Diamond Head, Venus in Furs)
1936 - Kenneth G. Wilson, American physicist, Nobel laureate
1937 - Bruce McCandless II, Boston, Cap USN/astronaut (STS 41B, STS-31)
1937 - Norma Shaw, bowler
1939 - Bernie Casey, Wyco WV, actor (Boxcar Bertha, Rent-a-Cop)
1939 - Herb Adderley, Phila, NFL hall of famer (Packers, Cowboys)
1940 - Nancy Sinatra, Jersey City, singer (Boots are Made for Walkin')
1940 - Sherman Garnes, rock vocalist (Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers)
1941 - Clarence "Fuzzy" Haskins, US pop singer (Funkadelic-Knee Deep)
1941 - Joop H van den Berg, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (PvdA)
1942 - Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Skvortsov, Russian cosmonaut
1942 - Chuck Negron, singer (3 Dog Night-Joy to the World)
1942 - Gael Ramsey, Brigadier commander (HQ Aldershot Garrison)
1942 - Willie D Davenport, Troy Alabama, 110m hurdler (Olympic-gold-1968)
1943 - Colin Baker, actor (Dr Who, Swallows & Amazons)
1943 - J C A Barrett, Headmaster (Leys School-Cambridge)
1943 - Vicki Stangroome, campaigner
1943 - Willie Davenport, Troy Ala, bobsledder/hurdler (Olympics-gold-68)
1943 - William Calley, American war criminal
1944 - Boz Scaggs, [William Royce], Dallas Tx, rocker (Steve Miller Band)
1944 - Don Grady, [Agrati], actor (Robbie Douglas-My Three Sons), (d. 2012)
1944 - Mark Belanger, American baseball player (d. 1998)
1944 - Marc Ouellet, Archbishop of Quebec City
1945 - Derek Underwood, cricketer ("Deadly" Maybe the best post-war SLA)
1945 - Donna Deitch, director (Sexual Advances, Women of Brewster Place)
1946 - Dudley Fishburn, MP
1946 - Elizabeth A Lynn, US, sci-fi author (Watchtower, Red Hawk)
1946 - Richie Robinson, cricketer (Victorian keeper, Australian batsman 1977)
1947 - Joan La Barbara, composer
1947 - Julie Driscoll, rocker/actress (33 1/3 Revolutions Per Monkee)
1947 - Mick Box, rock guitarist (Uriah Heep)
1947 - Eric F. Wieschaus, American biologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1949 - Emmanuel Ax, Lvov Poland, pianist (Artur Rubinstein Comp-1974)
1949 - Hildegard Falck, German FR, 800m runner (Olympic-gold-1972)
1949 - Emanuel Ax, Polish-born pianist
1949 - Jeffrey Mylett, American actor (d. 1986)
1950 - Elmar Oliveira, Waterbury Connecticut, violinist (Naumburg 1978)
1950 - Kathy Whitton Baker, Midland Tx, actress (Right Stuff, 16 Candles)
1951 - Bonnie Tyler, [Gaynor Hopkins], rocker (Total Eclipse of the Heart)
1951 - Tony Rice, American acoustic guitarist
1952 - Lindka Cierach, fashion designer
1952 - Martin Taylor, CEO (Barclays Bank)
1953 - Ad Tak, Dutch cyclist
1954 - Sergei Storchak, Russian deputy finance minister
1955 - Griffin Dunne, actor (American Werewolf in London, Who's That Girl)
1955 - James Jonathan Sylvers, rocker
1955 - Tim Berners-Lee, English internet developer
1955 - Greg Ginn, American guitarist (Black Flag)
1957 - Scott Raymond Adams, Catskill NY, cartoonist (Dilbert)
1957 - Don Robinson, American baseball player
1958 - Keenan Ivory Wayans, NYC, comedian (In Living Color)
1958 - Stan Brock, NFL tackle (San Diego Chargers)
1960 - Linda Hanley, Laguna Beach California, beach volleyballer (Olympics-4th-96)
1960 - Mick Hucknall, rocker (Simply Red-Every Time We Say Goodbye)
1961 - Kevin Gross, Downey CA, pitcher (Texas Rangers)
1961 - Ursula Buchfellner, Munich Ger, playmate (Oct, 1979)/actr (Bloodline)
1962 - Nick Rhodes, [Bates], keyboardist (Duran Duran-Hungry Like the Wolf)
1962 - Kristine W, American musician
1963 - John Restino, Westchester NY, Canadian Tour golfer (1993 Tommy Armour)
1963 - Kino Haitsma, pianist/arrangeur (Josephine)
1963 - Susan Smith, LPGA golfer
1963 - Keti Garbi, Greek singer
1964 - Butch [Harry Lee] Reynolds Jr, Akron, Ohio, 4X400m runner
1964 - Nelli [Antoinette HC] Fiere-Cooman, Neth, runner (WR 60 m in 7.00)
1965 - Kevin Ritz, Eatonstown NJ, pitcher (Colorado Rockies)
1965 - Robert Platus, NYC, lip syncher (Milli Vanilli-Girl You Know This)
1965 - Chris Chavis, American professional wrestler
1966 - Brian Williams, NFL center (NY Giants)
1966 - Doris Pearson, Essex, rocker (5 Star-Silk & Steel)
1966 - Julianna Margulies, Spring Valley NY, actress (Carol Hathaway-ER)
1967 - Kathryn Marshall, Dundee Scotland, LPGA golfer (1995 Jamie Farr)
1967 - Neil Mitchell, rocker (Wet, Wet, Wet-Wishing I Was)
1967 - Stephane Simian, France, tennis star
1967 - Willie Williams, WLAF tight end (Amsterdam Admirals)
1968 - Dave Mlicki, Cleveland Ohio, pitcher (NY Mets)
1968 - Rob Ray, Belleville, NHL left wing (Buffalo Sabres)
1969 - Glenn Rogers Jr, CFL defensive back (Edmonton Eskimos)
1969 - Laurel Martin, Hummelstown PA, field hockey forward (Olympics-96)
1969 - J.P. Manoux, American actor
1969 - Marcos Siega, American director
1969 - David Sutcliffe, Canadian actor
1970 - Troy Vincent, NFL cornerback (Miami Dolphins, Philadelphia Eagles)
1970 - Gabrielle Giffords, American politician
1971 - Amanda Jahn, Miss USA-Missouri (1997)
1971 - Elena Brioukhovets, Odessa Ukraine, tennis star (finalist 1990 Moscow)
1971 - Jamie Morgan, Australia, tennis star
1971 - Tom Nutten, CFL/NFL centers (Hamilton Tiger Cats, Buffalo Bills)
1971 - Mark Feuerstein, American actor
1972 - David Sloan, NFL tight end (Detroit Lions)
1972 - P[eter] J[ason] Farley, Hackensack, bass (Trixter-Give It To Me Good)
1972 - Christian Mayrleb, Austrian footballer
1973 - Bryant Reeves, NBA center (Vancouver Grizzlies)
1973 - Michael Sheldon, NFL offensive tackle (Buffalo Bills)
1973 - Lexa Doig, Canadian actress
1973 - Lucija Šerbedžija, Croatian actress
1974 - Gabe Northern, defensive end (Buffalo Bills)
1975 - Bryan McCabe, St Catherines, NHL defenseman (NY Islanders)
1975 - Shilpa Shetty, Indian actress
1976 - Lindsay Davenport, Palos Verdes CA, tennis star (Olympics-gold-96)
1976 - Kenji Johjima, Japanese baseball player
1977 - Belvilyn Ada Tenorio, Miss Universe-Northern Marianas (1996)
1977 - Yvette Basting, Breda Neth, tennis star (1994 Futures-Flensberg-GER)
1977 - Kanye West, Atlanta, Georgia, American rapper and record producer
1978 - Maria Menounos, Miss Massachusetts Teen USA (1996)
1979 - Derek Trucks, American guitarist
1979 - Pete Orr, Canadian baseball player
1979 - Luis Ernesto Michel, Mexican football player
1981 - Matteo Meneghello, Italian racing driver
1981 - Alex Band, American singer (The Calling)
1981 - Ai Nonaka, Japanese voice actor
1981 - Sara Watkins, American fiddle player
1981 - Jess Weixler, American actress
1982 - Dickson Etuhu, Nigerian footballer
1982 - Irina Lazareanu, Romanian-Canadian model
1982 - Katy Morgan-Davies, British politician
1982 - Nadia Petrova, Russian tennis player
1983 - Kim Clijsters, Belgian tennis player
1983 - Lee Harding, Australian punk-rock singer
1983 - Mamoru Miyano, Japanese seiyuu
1984 - Andrea Casiraghi, son of Princess Caroline of Monaco
1984 - Javier Mascherano, Argentine footballer
1985 - Alexandre Despatie, French-Canadian diver
1986 - Patrick Kaleta, American hockey player
1989 - Gary Wilson, Scottish Musician
1994 - Nicholas Joseph Mills, son of Chris Evert & Andy Mills

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 08, 2013, 09:32:45 AM

This Day in History for 8th June


Famous Deaths

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US President & General                   Mountain Climber George Mallory (1924)
Andrew Jackson (1845)


218 - Opellius Macrinus, emperor of Rome (217-8), dies in battle at 54
632 - Mohammed, prophet of Islam (Koran), dies (according to tradition)
1042 - Harthacnut/Harthacanute, King of Denmark and England (b. 1018) Lambeth
1115 - Peter van Amiens, French minister of crusades, dies at about 64
1376 - "Black Prince" of Wales, son of King Edward of England, dies at 46
1383 - Thomas de Ros, 5th Baron de Ros, English Crusader (b. 1338)
1384 - Kanami, Japanese actor (b. 1333)
1476 - George Neville, English archbishop and statesman
1505 - Hongzhi, Emperor of China (b. 1470)
1611 - Jean Bertaut, French poet (b. 1552)
1612 - Hans Leo Hassler, composer, dies at 49
1621 - Anne de Xainctonge, French saint (b. 1567)
1628 - Rudolph Goclenius, German philosopher (b. 1547)
1661 - John Elsevier, book publisher/publisher, dies at 39
1688 - Hans Bontemantel, Amsterdams merchant, buried
1695 - Christian Huygens, inventor/astronomer (ring of Saturn), dies at 66
1711 - Katharina Lescaille, [Netherlands Sappho], poetess, dies at 61
1716 - Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (b. 1658)
1727 - August Hermann Francke, German Protestant minister (b. 1663)
1742 - Omobono Stradivari, Italian violin maker/son of Antonius, dies at 62
1768 - Johann J Winckelmann, German archaeologist, dies at 50
1771 - George Montague-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, English statesman (b. 1716)
1790 - Charles-Joseph van Helmont, composer, dies at 75
1794 - G A Borger, writer, dies
1795 - Louis XVII Charles, king of France (1793-95), dies at 10
1796 - Felice de Giardini, composer, dies at 80
1803 - Joannes Natalis Paquot, Belgian priest/historian, dies at 80
1806 - George Wythe, US attorney (signed Decl of Indep), dies at about 79
1809 - Thomas Paine, writer (Age of Reason, Common Sense), dies at 72
1814 - Friedrich Heinrich Himmel, composer, dies at 48
1831 - Sarah Kemble Siddons, English actress (Lady Macbeth), dies at 75
1835 - Gian Domenico Romagnosi, Italian physicist (b. 1761)
1845 - Andrew Jackson, (D) 7th pres (1828-37), dies at 78
1857 - Douglas William Jerrold, British playwright and satirist (b. 1803)
1865 - Joseph Paxton, designer (Crystal Palace), dies
1870 - Johann Gottlob Topfer, composer, dies at 78
1871 - Satank, Kiowa indian chief, shot to death
1874 - Cochise, Apache leader
1876 - George Sand, French author (Indiana, Consuelo), dies at 71
1884 - Henry Clay Work, composer, dies at 51
1885 - Ignace Bourget, Bishop of Montreal (b. 1799)
1889 - Gerard Manley Hopkins, poet, dies at 54
1906 - Christian Frederik Emil Horneman, composer, dies at 65
1908 - Johan Lindegren, composer, dies at 66
1913 - Emily Wilding Davison, suffragette, trampled to death by a horse
1919 - Jacob Fabricius, composer, dies at 78
1924 - Andrew Irvine, English mountain climber (climbing accident) (b. 1902)
1924 - George Leigh Mallory, English mountain climber (climbing accident) (b. 1886)
1929 - Bliss Carman, poet, dies
1940 - Frederick Shepherd Converse, US composer, dies at 69
1945 - Karl Hanke, Nazi official (b. 1903)
1947 - Tom O'Brien, actor (Flying Fool), dies at 56
1948 - Franz Carl Bornschein, composer, dies at 69
1948 - Hanson Carter, cricket (28 Tests for Aust, caught 44 stumped 21), dies
1951 - Eugène Fiset, French Canadian military officer and politician (b. 1874)
1953 - Godfrey Tearle, actor (39 Steps, Mandy, At Dawn We Die), dies at 68
1956 - Marie Laurencin, French painter (b. 1883)
1965 - Edmondo Rossoni, Italian fascist (b. 1884)
1966 - Anton Melik, Slovenian geographer (b. 1890)
1967 - Elliot Griffis, composer, dies at 74
1967 - Laverne Andrews, vocalist (Andrews Sister), dies
1969 - Robert Taylor, actor (Death Valley Days), dies of lung cancer at 57
1970 - Abraham Maslow, American psychologist (b. 1908)
1972 - Jimmy Rushing, US blues singer, dies at 68
1973 - Eino Mauno Aleksanteri Linnala, composer, dies at 76
1975 - William F Jenkins, author (Time Tunnel, Land of Giants), dies at 78
1979 - Herb Polesie, producer/playwright (20 Questions), dies at 79
1979 - Louis Salvador Palange, composer, dies at 61
1980 - Ernst Busch, German singer and actor (b. 1900)
1982 - [Leroy] Satchel Paige, US baseball pitcher, dies at 75
1984 - Gordon Jacob, composer, dies at 88
1987 - Yogi Horton, drummer (Luther Vandross), commits suicide at 33
1988 - Eli Mintz, actor (Boardwalk), dies
1988 - Russell Harty, broadcaster, dies
1988 - Virgil Oliver Jr, entertainer, dies
1990 - Alfredo Poveda, president of Consul of Ecuador (1976-79), dies
1990 - Jose Figueres, president of Costa Rica (1948-49, 53-58, 70-74), dies
1991 - Bertice Reading, Dutch actress (Moon in the Gutter), dies
1991 - Mary Bacon, jockey, dying of cancer, commits suicide by gun at 43
1992 - Beverly Carter, entertainer, dies at 51
1992 - Farag Foeda, Egyptian writer/publicist, murdered
1992 - William France, founder (Daytona 500), dies at 82
1992 - William McGowan, entrepreneur (MCI), dies at 64
1993 - René Bousquet, French Vichy-police chief deports jews, dies at 84
1993 - Root Boy Slim, American entertainer (b. 1945)
1994 - William Marshall, actor/director (Santa Fe Trail), dies at 86
1995 - Juan Carlos Ongania, pres of Argentina (1966-70), dies
1995 - Lord Erskine of Rerrick, peer, dies at 69
1995 - Sheikh Iman, singer, dies at 76
1996 - Barry Linehan, actor (Bullseye, Dark Places, Witchcraft), dies at 70
1996 - Gerry Gomez, cricketer (West Indian captain played 29 Tests), dies
1996 - Michael Fox, actor (Amos-Falcon Crest, Skinheads), dies at 75
1996 - Percy Edwards, animal imitator, dies at 88
1996 - Phyllis Stedman, politician, dies at 79
1997 - George Turner, Australian author (b. 1916)
1998 - Sani Abacha, President of Nigeria (b. 1943)
1998 - Maria Reiche, German-born mathematician and archaeologist (b. 1903)
2000 - Jeff MacNelly, American political cartoonist (b. 1948)
2003 - Leighton Rees, Welsh darts player (b. 1940)
2004 - Mack Jones, American baseball player (b. 1938)
2006 - Robert Donner, American actor (b. 1931)
2006 - Abouna Matta El Meskeen, Coptic Orthodox monk (b. 1919)
2007 - Kenny Olsson, Swedish speedway racer (b. 1977)
2007 - Richard Rorty, American postanalytic, pragmatic philosopher (b. 1931)
2008 - Šaban Bajramović, Serbian Romani musician (b. 1936)
2009 - Omar Bongo, President of Gabon (b. 1935)
2012 - Frank Cady, American actor, dies at 96

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 09, 2013, 07:34:11 AM

This Day in History for 9th June


Historical Events

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Gangster Al Capone                             French President Charles de Gaulle                     Queen Elizabeth II

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Golfer Jack Nicklaus                           Pop Singer & Beatle Paul McCartney           Singer-Songwriter Bob Dylan

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Tennis Player                                          Parody Singer and Comedian                 King of Pop Michael Jackson
Martina Navratilova                                    Weird Al Yankovic


68 - Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide, imploring his secretary Epaphroditos to slit his throat to
         evade a Senate-imposed death by flogging.
641 - Arabic/Islamic army contrasts with the Hippo over Alexandria
721 - Odo of Aquitaine defeats the Moors in the Battle of Toulouse.
922 - French republic chooses Robert I, King of France
1075 - Battle at Homburg/Unstrut: German king Henry IV beats Saksen
1310 - Duccio's Maestà Altarpiece, a seminal artwork of the early Italian Renaissance, is unveiled and
           installed in the Siena Cathedral in Siena, Italy.
1456 - 23rd recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
1525 - Tax revolt in Hertogenbosch
1529 - Zurich declares war on Catholic kantons
1531 - Pope Clemens VII & Francois I sign secret treaty against Karel V
1534 - Jacques Cartier 1st sails into mouth of St Lawrence River
1549 - Book of Common Prayer is adopted by the Church of England
1549 - England enforces Act of Supremacy
1572 - Willem van Oranges army occupies Gelderland
1628 - 1st deportation from what is now US, Thomas Morton from Mass
1650 - The Harvard Corporation, the more powerful of the two administrative boards of Harvard, is
           established. It is the first legal corporation in the Americas.
1720 - Sweden & Denmark signs 3rd Treaty of Stockholm
1732 - Royal charter for Georgia granted to James Oglethorpe
1742 - Battle of Bloody Marsh-Spanish assault on Simons Island, Georgia
1752 - French army surrenders to the English in Trichinopoly India
1772 - 1st Protestant church west of Penn (in Ohio) holds communion
1772 - 1st naval attack of Revolutionary War takes place in Providence, RI
1784 - John Carroll appointed supervisor of US Catholic Missions
1789 - Spanish capture British schooner Northwest America near Vancouver I
1790 - 1st book copyrighted under constitution, "Philadelphia Spelling Book"
1802 - US Academy at West Point founded
1815 - End of the Congress of Vienna: New European political situation is set.
1822 - Charles Graham patents false teeth
1851 - SF Committee of Vigilance forms (1st time)
1856 - 500 Mormons leave Iowa City, Iowa and head west for Salt Lake City, Utah carrying all their
           possessions in two-wheeled handcarts.
1860 - 1st US "dime novel" published: "Malaseka, The Indian Wife of the White Hunter," by Mrs Ann
           Stevens
1862 - Battle of Port Republic, last of 5 battles in Jacksons Valley camp
1863 - Battle of Brandy Station, VA (Fleetwood, Beverly Ford)
1864 - Battle of Big Shanty, GA
1864 - Battle of Kenesaw Mountain, GA (Pine Mt, Pine Knob, Golgotha)
1865 - Battle of Grand Gulf, MS
1868 - 1st meeting of Board of Regents, University of California
1869 - Charles Elmer Hires sells his 1st root beer (Phila)
1870 - Washington: Pres Grant meets with Sioux chief Red Cloud
1873 - Alexandra Palace burnt down, after being open for only 16 days.
1877 - 11th Belmont: C Holloway aboard Cloverbrook wins in 2:46
1883 - 17th Belmont: Jim McLaughlin aboard George Kinney wins in 2:42.5
1883 - 1st commercial electric railway line begins operation (Chicago El)
1887 - 21st Belmont: Jim McLaughlin aboard Hanover wins in 2:43.5
1888 - 22nd Belmont: Jim McLaughlin aboard Sir Dixon wins in 2:40.25
1890 - Opera "Robin Hood" premieres in Chicago
1891 - Painter Gauguin arrives in Papeete, Tahiti
1892 - 26th Belmont: W Hayward aboard Patron wins in 2:12
1898 - China leases Hong Kong's new territories to Britain for 99 years
1899 - James J Jeffries KOs Bob Fitzsimmons in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
1901 - NY Giants get record 31 hits to beat Cin Reds 25-13
1902 - 1st Automat restaurant opens (818 Chestnut St, Phila)
1906 - Boston Beaneaters (NL) end 19-game losing streak beat Cards 6-3
1909 - Alice Huyler Ramsey, a 22-year-old housewife and mother from Hackensack, New Jersey,
           becomes the first woman to drive across the United States. With three female companions,
           none of whom could drive a car, in fifty-nine days she drove a Maxwell automobile the 3,800
           miles from Manhattan, New York, to San Francisco, California.
1910 - Passenger on SS Arawatta throws bottle with note overboard (found June 6, 1983 in
           Queensland)
1914 - Honus Wagner, is 2nd to get 3,000 hits
1915 - William Jennings Bryan quits as Secretary of State
1919 - General steel strike in France
1919 - Red Army captures Ufa
1922 - First ringing of the Harkness Memorial Chime at Yale University.
1923 - 55th Belmont: Earl Sande aboard Zev wins in 2:19
1923 - Brinks unveils 1st armored security vans
1923 - Bulgarian premier Stamboeliski & King Boris III overthrown
1924 - "Jelly-Roll Blues," is recorded by blues great, Jelly Roll Morton
1928 - 60th Belmont: Clarence Kummer aboard Vito wins in 2:33.2
1928 - Charles Kingsford-Smith & Charles Ulm are 1st to fly across the Pacific when they end their
           flight from California to Brisbane
1929 - Venezuelan rebel Urbina lets Dutch/Curacaose hostages free
1930 - Paavo Nurmi runs world record 6 mile (29:36.4)
1930 - Chicago Tribune reporter Jake Lingle is killed during rush hour at the Illinois Central train
           station by the Leo Vincent Brothers, allegedly over a $100,000 USD gambling debt owed to
           Al Capone.
1931 - 1st rocket-powered aircraft design patented (R Goddard)
1931 - 1st showing of a Donald Duck cartoon
1933 - Spanish president Zamora takes power
1933 - Walter Johnson takes over as Cleveland manager
1934 - 1st Donald Duck cartoon, Wise Little Hen, released
1934 - 38th US Golf Open: Olin Dutra shoots a 293 at Merion Cricket Club PA
1934 - 66th Belmont: Wayne D Wright aboard Peace Chance wins in 2:29.2
1934 - Donald Duck made his 1st screen appearance ("The Wise Little Hen")
1934 - Lawson Little beats Gene Sarazen by 3 strokes for US Open
1934 - Olin Dutra beats Gene Sarazen by 1 stroke for US Open
1935 - Ho-Umezu Agreement: the Republic of China, under KMT administration, recognizes Japanese
           occupations in Northeast China.
1936 - Page Miss Glory (1936), premieres in USA
1938 - Second Chamber agrees to return Jews to nazi-Germany
1940 - 44th US Golf Open: Lawson Little shoots a 287 at Canterbury GC OH
1940 - General Charles de Gaulle's 1st meeting with Winston Churchill
1940 - Norway surrenders to Germany during WW II
1941 - Ammunition plant at Fort Smederovo in Belgrade explodes; kills 1,500
1941 - Archbishop De Young bans priest cooperation on Rijks radio
1942 - Adipatie Ario Soejono becomes minister in Gerbrandy government
1942 - German-Neth press reports, 3 million Dutch sent to East-Europe
1942 - Nazis kill all inhabitants of Lidice Czechoslovakia
1943 - "Pay-as-you-go" (withholding) US income tax deductions authorized
1944 - Russian offensive in Carelia
1945 - "Gruesome Twosome," premieres in USA
1945 - -10] Australian troops lands in Brunei Bay North-Borneo
1945 - 71st Kentucky Derby: Eddie Arcaro aboard Hoop Jr wins in 2:07
1945 - Following an 8-7 win over the Phils, Brooklyn manager Leo Durocher is arrested on a
           complaint by a fan that Durocher slugged him
1946 - 19 guests at Canfield Hotel die in fire (Dubuque Iowa)
1946 - 66,545 fans help Yanks break million attendance mark, the earliest
1946 - Bhumibol Adulyadej, becomes king of Thailand
1946 - Joe Louis KOs Billy Conn in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
1946 - NY Giant Mel Ott is 1st mgr ejected from both games of a doubleheader
1948 - WBZ TV channel 4 in Boston, MA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1949 - Mrs Georgia Neese Clark of Kansas becomes 1st woman treasurer of US
1951 - "Doodles Weaver Show," debuts on NBC-TV
1953 - "Milton Berle Show/Texaco Star Theater," last airs on NBC-TV
1953 - South African premier Malan visits Netherlands
1953 - Worcester County tornado (94 killed, 1310 injured, 10,000 homeless)
1954 - Joseph Welch asks Sen Joseph McCarthy "Have you no sense of decency, sir?" during Senate-
           Army hearings
1955 - 100°F - Hottest day in Seattle Washington
1955 - Test Cricket debut of Ken Barrington, v South Africa, Trent Bridge
1956 - Heavy earthquake strikes Afghanistan, 400 killed
1957 - Anthony Eden resigns as British PM
1957 - First ascent of Broad Peak (the world's 12th highest mountain).
1958 - "Purple People Eater" by Sheb Wooley hits #1
1958 - HM Queen Elizabeth II officially opens London Gatwick Airport, (LGW), Crawley, West Sussex,
           United Kingdom.
1959 - 1st ballistic missile sub launched (George Washington-Groton, Ct)
1960 - ABC & AFL sign a 5 year contract
1960 - Typhoon Mary in China killed at least 1,600
1961 - Ryne Duren sets AL record with 7 straight strikeouts against Red Sox
1962 - "Bill of Hare," premieres in USA
1962 - 94th Belmont: Bill Shoemaker aboard Jaipur wins in 2:28.8
1962 - Tony Bennett debuts in concert at Carnegie Hall in NYC
1963 - 1st Sunday night game in baseball SF Giants lose to Houston Colts 3-0
1963 - Barbara Romack wins LPGA Rock City Ladies Golf Open
1963 - Barbra Streisand appears on "Ed Sullivan Show"
1963 - Colt .45s beat Giants 3-0 in major leagues' 1st Sunday night game
1963 - Equal Pay Act enacted
1963 - Movie "Cleopatra" opens in NY
1964 - Jack Nicklaus wins British Open golf tournament
1965 - Frenchman, Machal Jazy, runs record mile in 3:53.6
1966 - 5 Minnesota Twins (Rich Rollins, Zolio Versailes, Tony Oliva, Don Michner, & Harmon Killebrew)
           all homer in 7th inning to beat A's 9-4
1967 - Boycott scores 246* v India, Leeds, 573 minutes, 29 fours 1 six
1967 - Israeli troops reach Suez Canal
1967 - Monkees appear at Hollywood Bowl
1968 - 38th French Mens Tennis: Ken Rosewall beats R Laver (63 61 26 62)
1968 - 38th French Womens Tennis: Nancy Richey beats Anne H Jones (57 64 61)
1968 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Bluegrass Ladies Golf Invitational
1968 - Yugoslav president Tito promises reforms
1969 - Brian Jones quits (sic) Rolling Stones because of his drug problems
1969 - Warren Burger confirmed as US Chief Justice
1970 - Argentine milt junta under lt-gen Lanusse drives out pres Ongania
1970 - Bob Dylan given honorary Doctorate of Music at Princeton University
1970 - Harry A Blackmun, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice
1971 - Abdul Zahir appointed premier of Afghanistan
1971 - Paul McCartney's album "Ram" goes gold
1972 - 14" of rain in 6 hrs burst Rapid City SD dam, drowns 237
1972 - 1st all-nite grad parties
1972 - Bruce Springsteen signs a record deal with Columbia
1973 - 105th Belmont: Ron Turcotte aboard Secretariat wins in 2:24
1973 - Secretariat becomes 1st Triple Crown winner in 25 years by winning horse racing's Belmont
           Stakes
1974 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Desert Inn Golf Classic
1974 - Supergroup Blind Faith's (Clapton, Windwood, Baker) 1st concert
1975 - 107th Belmont: Bill Shoemaker aboard Avatar wins in 2:28.2
1975 - Fire in prison hospital kills 10 prisoners & 1 guard (Sanford Fla)
1975 - House of Commons is broadcast live by radio for 1st time
1975 - Tony Orlando & Dawn receives gold record for "He Don't Love You"
1977 - 50th National Spelling Bee: John Paola wins spelling cambist
1977 - George & Patti Harrison divorce
1977 - Silver jubilee of Queen Elizabeth celebrated with fireworks
1978 - Gutenberg Bible (1 of 21) sells for $2.4 million, London
1978 - Larry Holmes beats Ken Norton in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1978 - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) strikes down 148 year policy of
           excluding black men from priesthood
1979 - 111th Belmont: Ruben Hernandez aboard Coastal wins in 2:28.6
1979 - 49th French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats Wendy Turnbull (62 60)
1979 - Michael Cairney topples a record row of 169,713 dominoes
1979 - Phillies wear burgundy uniforms for 1st & last time
1979 - Willie Horton is honored at Seattle's Kingdome
1980 - 14th Music City News Country Awards: Statler Brothers & Loretta Lynn
1980 - Comedian Richard Pryor suffers burns from free basing cocaine
1980 - Phillies & SF Giants end their game at 3:11 AM
1980 - Soyuz T-2 returns to Earth
1982 - General Efrain Rios Montt declares himself president of Guatemala
1982 - Israel wipes out Syrian SAM missiles in Bekaa Valley
1983 - 56th National Spelling Bee: Blake Giddens wins spelling purim
1983 - M Thatchers Conservative Party wins British parliamentary election
1983 - Zimbabwe win their 1st one-day cricket international, v Australia
1984 - "Laserphonic Fantasy" premieres
1984 - 116th Belmont: Laffit Pincay Jr aboard Swale wins in 2:27.2
1984 - 54th French Womens Tennis: Martina Navratilova beats C Evert (63 61)
1984 - Cyndi Lauper's 1st #1 "Time After Times"
1984 - Donald Ducks 50th birthday celebrated at Disneyland
1984 - Jurgen Hingsen of West Germany sets record for decathlon, 8,798 pts
1984 - NASA suffers a launch vehicle failure launching Intelsat 509
1984 - Polygram's Hanover Germany plant produces its 10 millionth CD
1984 - Weird Al Yankovic gives a live performance at Starlight Amphitheater
1985 - 39th NBA Championship: LA Lakers beat Boston Celtics, 4 games to 2
1985 - 55th French Mens Tennis: Mats Wilander beats Ivan Lendl (36 64 62 62)
1985 - Alice Miller wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Championship
1985 - American Thomas Sutherland is kidnapped & held hostage in Lebanon
1985 - Bernard Hinault wins Tour de France
1985 - USSR's Vega 1 deposits lander on surface of Venus
1986 - 20th Music City News Country Awards: Statler Brothers & Loretta Lynn
1986 - Angel Don Sutton (298 wins) beats White Sox Tom Seaver (306 wins) 3-0
1986 - Dow Jones-index hits record 45.71 points
1986 - Rogers Comm report on Challenger disaster blames Morton Thiokol
1988 - "Bloodsport (1987)," premieres in Germany
1988 - Attorney General Meese orders Joseph Doherty deported to UK
1989 - "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier," premieres in USA
1989 - Barry Switzer resigns as head coach of Oklahoma's football
1989 - Michael Chang's French Open tennis win makes him youngest male to go to finals
1989 - Rare tornado in Philadelphia kills 1
1990 - 122nd Belmont: Michael Kinane aboard Go & Go wins in 2:27.2
1990 - 60th French Womens Tennis: Monica Seles beats Steffi Graf (76 64)
1990 - Czechoslovakia beats US 5-1 in World Cup soccer
1990 - Dodger Eddie Murray ties Mickey Mantle with baseball's switch hit HRs in 10 games
1990 - Kerry Kennedy (daughter of Robert) & Andrew Coumo (Mario's son) wed
1990 - Michael Jackson is hospitalized with inflamed rib cartilage
1990 - Monica Seles beats Steffi Graf for French Open tennis title
1991 - 61st French Mens Tennis: Jim Courier beats A Agassi (36 64 26 61 64)
1991 - 9th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Jim Albus
1991 - Jack La Lanne, 76, arrested for suspicion of DWI
1991 - Jane Geddes wins LPGA Atlantic City Golf Classic
1991 - WLAF 1st world bowl London Monarchs defeat Barlecona Dragons 21-0
1993 - "Amantes" (1991), premieres in France
1993 - "Body Snatchers" (1993), premieres in France
1993 - "Ce que femme veut" (1993), premieres in France
1993 - "Passion Fish" (1992), premieres in France
1993 - "Tout capour ca!" (1993), premieres in France
1993 - "What's Love Got to Do with It" (1993), premieres
1993 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat LA Kings, 4 games to 1
1993 - Tickets for Indians 1st season in Jacobs Field go on sale
1994 - "Hudsorryer Proxy," premieres in Germany
1994 - 5.6 earthquake strikes South-Mexico
1994 - Angolan plane bombs school in Waku Kungo (89 killed)
1995 - Brady Bunch Movie, (1995), premieres in UK
1995 - Congo (1995), premieres in USA
1995 - Dumb & Dumber (1994), premieres in Sweden
1995 - Killer (1994), premieres in UK
1995 - Kiss of Death (1995), premieres in UK
1995 - Man of the House (1995), premieres in UK
1995 - Neak Sre (1993), premieres in UK
1995 - Party Girl (1995), premieres in USA
1995 - Smoke (1995), premieres in USA
1995 - Wigstock The Movie (1994), premieres in USA
1996 - 66th French Mens Tennis: Yevgeny Kafelnikov beats M Stich (76, 75, 76)
1996 - Michelle McGann wins LPGA Oldsmobile Golf Classic
1996 - Sunday League cricket game Kent 6-314 overhaul Leicestershire's 4-311
1997 - British lease on New Territories in Hong Kong expires
1997 - Detroit Tigers baseball team bat out of order against Oakland A's in 1st inning
1999 - Kosovo War: the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and North Atlantic Treaty Organization sign a
           peace treaty.
2012 - It is announced that up to $125 million dollars in loans will be given to aid Spain's struggling
           banks
2012 - Burma riots kill 20 people and burn down 300 houses

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 09, 2013, 07:36:26 AM

This Day in History for 9th June


Famous Weddings

1936 - Novelist and journalist George Orwell (33) weds Eileen Maud O'Shaugnessy (30) at St. Mary's
           Church
1991 - Bruce Springsteen weds his backup singer Patty Scialfa
1993 - Japanese crown prince Naruhito weds Masaka Owada
2001 - "Law & Order" actress and model Angie Harmon (28) weds New York Giant NFL player Jason
           Sehorn (30) at Highland Park Presbyterian Church in Dallas, Texas
2002 - "In Your Eyes" singer Peter Gabriel (51) weds Meah Flynn at Li Capanni Hotel in Italy
2005 - "Good Morning, Miami" actor Mark Feuerstein (34) weds TV writer/producer Dana Klein at The
           Four Seasons-Biltmore Hotel in Santa Barbara, California
2005 - "Saved By The Bell" actress Tiffani Thiessen (31) weds actor Brady Smith in Montecito,
           California
2006 - Actor Oliver Hudson (29) weds actress Erinn Bartlett (33) at One & Only Palmilla in Cabo San
           Lucas, Mexico
2007 - "Ugly Betty" actress Ana Ortiz (36) weds musician Noah Lebenzon at the Horned Dorset
           Primavera Hotel in Rincon, Puerto Rico
2008 - "Tommy Tutone" band lead singer Tommy Heath weds longtime girlfriend Lisa Scholtz in Lake
           Tahoe, California
2009 - Boxing legend Mike Tyson (43) weds Lakiha Spicer (32) at La Bella Wedding Chapel in Las
           Vegas, Nevada
2012 - Actor Matthew McConaughey (42) weds model Camilla Alves (30) in Austin, Texas

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 09, 2013, 07:37:45 AM

This Day in History for 9th June


Famous Divorces

1977 - George & Patti Harrison divorce
2009 - Elizabeth Watson (39) divorces Major League Baseball outfielder Barry Bonds (44) due to
           irreconcilable differences after 11 years of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 09, 2013, 07:45:12 AM

This Day in History for 9th June


Famous Birthdays

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Russian Tsar Peter the Great (1672)          Actor Michael J. Fox (1961)                    Actor Johnny Depp (1963)

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Actress Natalie Portman (1981) 


1508 - Primož Trubar, Slovenian Protestant reformer (d. 1586)
1510 - Nicolaas van Nieuwland, corrupt 1st bishop of Harlem
1573 - Henricus Hondius, Dutch etcher/publisher
1580 - Daniel Heinsius, Flemish scholar (d. 1655)
1588 - Johann Andreas Herbst, composer
1595 - King Wladislaus IV of Poland (d. 1648)
1597 - Pieter J Saenredam, architecture painter
1640 - Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (1658-1705)
1661 - Tsar Feodor III of Russia (d. 1682)
1672 - Peter the Great [Pyotr Alexeyevich Romanov], tsar of Russia (1682-1725)
1686 - Andrei Osterman, Russian statesman (d. 1747)
1768 - Samuel Slater, American industrialist (d. 1835)
1781 - George Stephenson, Newcastle England, inventor (RR locomotive)
1791 - John Howard Payne, US, author/actor/diplomat (Home Sweet Home)
1792 - Frederic L G, Earl of Merode, Belgian revolutionary
1810 - Carl Otto Ehrenfried Nicolai, composer
1812 - Hermann von Fehling, German chemist (Fehling's reagens)
1812 - Johann G Galle, German astronomer (discovered Neptune)
1828 - Carlo Marsili, composer
1829 - Gaetano Braga, composer
1833 - John Rogers Cooke, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1891
1836 - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, 1st woman mayor in England (Aldeburgh)
1843 - Bertha von Suttner, Austria, novelist/pacifist (Nobel 1905)
1845 - Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto (d. 1914)
1849 - Joseph Vezina, composer
1849 - Michael Peter Ancher, Danish painter (d. 1927)
1851 - Charles Joseph Bonaparte, French politician (d. 1921)
1854 - Gerardus J P J Bolland, Dutch philosopher (Bolland Society)
1861 - Floris H Verster, [van Wulverhorst], painter/cartoonist/etcher
1865 - Carl Nielsen, Norre-Lyndelse Denmark, composer (Det Uuslukkelige)
1865 - Lucien-Denis-Gabriel-Alberic Magnard, French composer
1875 - Henry Dale, London, physiologist (Nobel-1936)
1877 - Rudolf Borchardt, writer
1879 - Dudley Digges, Irish actor
1879 - Oscar Back, Austrian-Dutch viola player
1882 - Bobby Kerr, Canadian sprinter (d. 1963)
1884 - Johannes Clinge Doorenbos, Dutch journalist/conductor
1886 - Kusaku Yamada, composer
1888 - Adrian Grigor'yevich Shaposhnikov, composer
1888 - Hugo Kauder, composer
1890 - Leslie Banks, English actor/director (Jamaica Inn, 48 Hours)
1891 - Cole Porter, Indiana, composer/lyricist (Anything Goes, Kiss Me Kate)
1893 - Samuel N Behrman, US screenwriter (Tale of 2 Cities, Daddy Long Legs)
1893 - Irish Meusel, American baseball player (d. 1963)
1896 - Aura Abranches, Lisbon Portugal, actress (Lisboa, O Primo Basilio)
1896 - Catherine Filene Shouse, philanthropist (Wolf Trap Institute)
1898 - Curzio Malaparte, [Kurt E sorryert], Italian author (Kaputt)
1898 - Luigi Fagioli, Italian race car driver (d. 1952)
1900 - Fred Waring, Tyrone Penn, musician/conductor/inventor (Waring Blender)
1900 - Prosper Cocquyt, Belgian brewer/pilot
1901 - George Price, cartoonist
1901 - Marion Gering, actress (Sarumba, Rumba, Ready for Love, 24 Hours)
1905 - Harry "Bull" Alexander, cricketer (Aus quick 1 Test Bodyline series)
1905 - Walter Kraft, composer
1906 - Tonio Selwart, Germany, actor (Barefoot Contessa, Naked Maja)
1908 - J F Williams-Wynne, Lord-Lieutenant (Gwynedd)
1908 - Robert Cummings, Joplin Mo, actor (Love that Bob, Dial M For Murder)
1909 - Jose Luis Lopez Aranguren, philosopher
1910 - Geoffrey Musson, British General
1910 - Vbilmos Demian, composer
1911 - George Webb, British actor (d. 1998)
1912 - Edgar Evans, tenor
1912 - Ingolf Dahl, Hamburg Germany, composer (Andante & Arioso)
1913 - Alida Margaretha Bosshardt, lt-colonel of Dutch Salvation Army
1913 - Patrick Steptoe, scientist (developed in vitro fertilization)
1914 - Barbara Mullen, Boston MA, actress (Thunder Rock, Innocent Sinners)
1914 - Hermann Haller, composer
1915 - Jane Cowan, cello teacher
1915 - Les Paul, Waukesha Wi, guitarist/inventor (Les Paul guitar)
1915 - Les Paul (Lester William Polsfuss) Waukesha Wisconsin, American musician and inventor
1916 - Robert S McNamara, US Sec of Defense (1961-68)/head (World Bank)
1917 - Eric J. Hobsbawm, Alexandria, Sultanate of Egypt, Marxist historian (The Age of Revolution;
           Capital; and Empire), (d. 2012)
1918 - Rob de Vries, Dutch WW II resistance fighter/dir/actor (Ciske de Rat)
1919 - Izaak Boleslavski, Russian chess player
1920 - Isobel June Braybrooke English, novellist
1921 - Agnes Keleti, Hungary, gymnist (Olympic-gold-1952, 56)
1921 - Arthur Hertzberg, American Jewish scholar (d. 2006)
1922 - George Axelrod, playwright (Breakfast at Tiffany, Bus Stop)
1922 - P G Beazley, MEP
1922 - John Gillespie Magee, Jr., American poet and aviator (d. 1941)
1922 - Fernand Seguin, Canadian biochemist - Radio and TV animator (d. 1988)
1924 - Christine Goitschel, France, slalom (Olympic-gold-1964)
1924 - Peter Heatly, CEO (Commonwealth Games Federation)
1924 - Tony Britton, Birmingham England, actor (Day of Jackal, Girl in my Soup)
1925 - Roy Hughes, MP
1925 - [John] Keith Laumer, [Anthony LeBaron], US, sf author (Retief's War)
1926 - Mona Freeman, Baltimore, actress (Black Beauty, Dear Wife, Heiress)
1926 - Roy Smalley, shortstop (Cubs, Braves, Phillies, Twins, Yankees)
1927 - Franco Donatoni, composer
1927 - Norman Sisisky, (Rep-D-VA, 1983- )
1928 - Geraint Gruffydd, director (U of Wales Centre for Welsh Studies)
1929 - Johnny Ace [John Marshall Alexander, Jr.], Memphis, Tennessee, rhythm and blues singer (My
           Song)
1929 - June O'Dell, deputy CEO (Equal Opportunities Commission)
1929 - Keith A St H Gardner, Jamaica, 4x400m runner (Olympic-bronze-1960)
1929 - Robert E Badham, (Rep-R-CA, 1977- )
1930 - Lin[wood] [Vrooman] Carter, US, sci-fi author (Thongor of Lemuria)
1930 - Marvin Kalb, NYC, educator/newscaster (CBS/NBC, Meet the Press)
1930 - Barbara, French singer (d. 1997)
1931 - Bill Virdon, 2nd baseman (St Louis Cards)/mgr (NY Yankees)
1931 - Jackie Mason, Wisc, comedian (World According to Me, Chicken Soup)
1931 - Joe Santos, American actor
1932 - Douglas Smith, CEO (Acas)
1933 - Dick Orkin, Williamsport Pa, actor (Tim Conway Show)
1933 - Don Young, (Rep-R-AK, 1973- )
1933 - Patrick Symons, British vice-admiral
1934 - Donald Duck, famous fowl
1934 - Helga Haase, German FR, 500m speed skater (Olympic-gold-1960)
1934 - Jackie Wilson, Detroit, singer (Lonely Teardrops, Night)
1934 - Joe Santos, Bkln NY, actor (Rockford Files, AKA Pablo, Shamus)
1934 - Michael Mates, MP
1934 - Pal Karolyi, composer
1934 - Wild Jimmy Spruill, blues guitarist
1935 - Diana Van Der Vlis, actress (Lovespell, Girl in Black Stockings)
1936 - Mick O'Dwyer, Gaelic footballer and manager
1937 - Sven Conrad Stayers, cricketer (WI fast bowler 1962)
1937 - Harald Rosenthal, German biologist
1938 - Anne Kenny, Mudgee NSW, golfer (1968, 71 Australian Champ)
1938 - Charles Wuorinen, NYC, composer (Pulitzer 1980)
1938 - Jeremy Hardie, CEO (W H Smith Group)
1938 - Peter Sanders, CEO (Commission for Racial Equality)
1938 - Roger Hurn, CEO (Smith's Industries)
1939 - David Hobbs (auto racer)
1939 - Derek Hunt, CEO (MFI Furniture Group)
1939 - Ileana Cotrubaş, Romanian soprano
1939 - Charles Webb, author
1940 - Dick Vitale, US, sportscaster (ESPN, ABC "Oh Baby!")
1941 - Billy Hatton, rocker
1941 - Jon Lord, England, keyboardist (Deep Purple-Hush, White Snake), (d. 2012)
1941 - Peter Wilson, CEO (Gallaher)
1942 - Nicholas Lloyd, editor (Daily Express)
1942 - Richard Hutton, cricketer (son of Len, 5 Tests 1971)
1943 - Charles Saatchi, English magnate (Saatchi & Saatchi)
1943 - Joe [William] Haldeman, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Nebula, Worlds Apart)
1943 - Joe Haldeman, science fiction writer
1944 - 23 puppies, (record litter) born to Lena, a foxhound, Ambler Penn
1944 - Brigid Bazlen, Wisc, actress (Pam-Too Young to go Steady)
1944 - Viscount Craigavon
1944 - record litter of 23 puppies is born to Lena, a foxhound, Ambler Penn
1945 - Faina Myelink, USSR, discus thrower (Olympic-gold-1972)
1945 - Luis Ocaña, Spanish cyclist (d. 1994)
1945 - Nike Wagner, German woman of the theater
1946 - Peter Kilfoyle, British MP
1947 - John Gurda, American historian
1948 - Jim Bailey, NCAA punter (most punts in season-101, Va Milt Academy)
1948 - Nathaniel Rosen, Altadena Ca, cellist (Tchaikovsky-gold-1978)
1948 - Gudrun Schyman, Swedish politician
1949 - Douglas Henderson, British MP
1951 - Benny Neyman, Dutch singer (I Don't Know How)
1951 - Dave Parker, baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates, NL MVP 1978)
1951 - James Newton Howard, American film composer
1952 - Uzi Hitman, Israeli singer (d. 2004)
1954 - Pete Byrne Bath - English rocker (Naked Eyes)
1954 - George Pérez, American comic book artist
1954 - Gregory Maguire, American fantasy writer
1956 - Patricia Cornwell, American author
1957 - Elly van Holly, running star (3k indoor world record)
1958 - Donald Michael Santini, Mass, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
1959 - Peter Fowler, Hornsby NSW, Australasia golfer
1959 - Christian Wulff, German politician, currently prime minister of Lower Saxony.
1960 - Nancy Taylor, SF CA, LPGA golfer (1994 Rochester Intl-54th)
1960 - Steve Paikin, Canadian journalist
1961 - Michael J. Fox, Edmonton, Alberta, Canadian actor (Family Ties, Back to the Future, Teen
           Wolf)
1961 - Aaron Sorkin, American writer
1962 - Eddie Lundon, rocker (China Crisis-Christian)
1963 - Johnny Depp, Queensboro Ky, actor (21 Jump Street, Ed Wood)
1963 - Gilad Atzmon, Israeli jazz musician and author
1964 - Gloria Reuben, Toronto, actress (Jeanie Boulet-ER)
1964 - Wayman Tisdale, NBA center/forward (Phoenix Suns)
1964 - Hiroko Yakushimaru, Japanese actress and singer
1965 - Gloria Reuben, actress (Jeanie Boulet-ER)
1965 - Jeff Williams, Santa Monica California, beach volleyballer (Olympics-96)
1965 - Michelle Francis Bird, campaigner
1966 - Anthony Martino, CFL punter (Calgary Stampeders)
1967 - Robert Reading, Buffalo NY, 110m hurdler
1968 - Tom Rouen, NFL punter (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1969 - Keith Alex, NFL guard (Minnesota Vikings)
1969 - Mitch McLee, [Douglas Lee Mitchell], Miles Mi, drummer (Southgang)
1969 - Eric Wynalda, American footballer
1970 - Harry Van Hofwegen, CFL defensive tackle (BC Lions)
1970 - Russ Romaniuk, Winnipeg, NHL left wing (Phila Flyers)
1971 - D'Marco Farr, defensive tackle (St Louis Rams)
1971 - Joey Gullion, Gallopolis OH, Nike golfer (NIKE SC Classic-18th)
1971 - Roderick Lewis, NFL tight end (Houston/Tennessee Oilers)
1971 - Romano Sion, soccer player (Dordrecht '90/FC Groningen)
1971 - Gilles De Bilde, Belgian footballer
1971 - Rick Renstrom, American guitarist
1972 - Bryan Strang, cricket pace bowler (brother of Paul Zimbabwe 1995- )
1972 - Steven Salter, CFL offensive linebacker (Toronto Argonauts)
1972 - Wardell Rouse, NFL linebacker (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1972 - Tomoe Hanba, Japanese voice actress
1973 - Chris Villarrial, center/guard (Chicago Bears)
1973 - Grant Marshall, Mississauga, NHL right wing (Dallas Stars)
1973 - Orlondo Steinauer, CFL cornerback (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1973 - Tedy Bruschi, linebacker (New England Patriots)
1973 - Laura Ponte, Spanish model and royal
1973 - Frederic Choffat, Swiss film director
1974 - Jana Nejedly, Prague Czech, Canadian tennis player (Olympics-96)
1974 - Jon Harris, defensive end (Philadelphia Eagles)
1974 - Samoth, Norwegian guitarist (Emperor, Zyklon)
1974 - Tim Shaw, British radio personality
1974 - Randy Winn, American baseball player
1975 - Andrew Symonds, cricketer (Birmingham, brilliant Qld & Gloucs batsman)
1975 - Carolyne Lepage, Montreal Quebec, 48 kg judoka (Olympics-96)
1975 - Paul Agostino, Australian soccer striker (Olyroos, Olympics-96)
1975 - Otto Addo, Ghanaian footballer
1975 - Jeff Saturday, American football player
1977 - Zephnad Wattimury, Dutch soccer player (FC Groningen
1977 - Roopa Mishra, Indian civil servant
1977 - Amisha Patel, Indian actress
1977 - Peja Stojakovic, Serbian basketball player
1978 - Elizabeth Reid, Fairfax Va, gymnast (alt-Olympics-96)
1978 - Lucia Povraznikova, Miss Slovak republic Universe (1997)
1978 - Shandi Finnessey, game hostess
1978 - Miroslav Klose, German footballer
1978 - Matthew Bellamy, British musician (Muse)
1978 - Michaela Conlin, American actress
1980 - Mike Fontenot, American baseball player
1980 - Lehlohonolo Seema, Lesotho footballer
1980 - Udonis Haslem, American basketball player
1981 - Natalie Portman [Natalie Hershlag], Jerusalem, Israeli/American actress (Professional, Everyone
           Says I Love You)
1981 - Vic Zhou, JVKV band member, Taiwanese actor, singer and model.
1981 - Anoushka Shankar, Famous sitarist and daughter of Ravi Shankar
1982 - Amber Yoder, Miss Indiana Teen USA (1997)
1982 - Christina Stürmer, Austrian singer
1982 - Andrew Walker, Canadian actor
1983 - Danny Richar, Dominican baseball player
1984 - Yulieski Gourriel, Cuban baseball player
1984 - Kaleth Morales, Colombian singer and songwriter (d. 2005)
1984 - Wesley Sneijder, Dutch footballer
1984 - Masoud Shojaei, Iranian footballer
1985 - Sonam Kapoor, Indian actress
1985 - Sebastian Telfair, American basketball player
1986 - Adamo Ruggiero, Canadian actor
1986 - Kary Ng, Hong Kong singer and actress
1988 - Mae Whitman, American Actress
1991 - Abraham Joseph Groening, son of Simpson creator Matt Groening
1993 - Danielle Chuchran, American actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 09, 2013, 07:49:10 AM

This Day in History for 9th June


Famous Deaths

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Novelist Charles Dickens (1870)        Writer/Nobel Laureate Miguel Asturias (1974)


62 - Claudia Octavia, wife of Nero (b. 40)
68 - Claudius Nero, Roman emperor (54-68), commits suicide at 31
373 - Ephrem the Syrian, Christian hymnodist
597 - St. Columba, Christian missionary (b. 521)
630 - King Shahrbaraz of Persia
1171 - Jacob Ben Meir, [Rabbenu Tam], French Tosofist, dies
1361 - Philippe de Vitry, French composer/poet, dies at 69
1382 - Philip of Lead, lawyer of Utrecht, dies
1563 - William Paget, 1st Baron Paget, English statesman (b. 1506)
1572 - Jeanne d'Albret, queen of Navarra, dies at 44
1583 - Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
1597 - Jose de Anchieta, Spanish jesuit/missionary, dies
1656 - Thomas Tomkins, composer, dies
1681 - William Lilly, English astrologer, dies
1716 - Banda Bahadur, Sikh military commander (executed)
1717 - Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de la Mothe-Guyon, French mystic, dies at 69
1717 - Louis Le Quointe, composer, dies at 64
1820 - Wilhelmina FS, princess of Prussia/Orange, dies at 68
1825 - M Pauline Bonaparte, Corsican duchess of Parma/Guastalla, dies at 44
1832 - Manuel Garcia, composer, dies at 57
1834 - William Carey, one of the founders of the Baptist Missionary Society (b. 1761)
1839 - Gerrit J Pijman, Dutch minister of War (1798-1800), dies at 89
1847 - Pierre-Simon Ballanche, French philosopher/poet (Orphée), dies
1863 - Benjamin Franklin "Grimes" Davis, Union major, dies in battle at 30
1868 - James Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak (1841-68), dies
1870 - Charles Dickens, English writer (David Copperfield), dies at 58
1870 - Erik Drake, composer, dies at 82
1875 - Gérard Paul Deshayes, French geologist (b. 1795)
1892 - Friedrich Wilhelm Langhans, composer, dies at 59
1892 - Taiso Yoshitoshi, Woodblock print artist
1892 - William Grant Stairs, Canadian explorer (b. 1863)
1897 - Alvin Graham Clark, dies 3 weeks after 1st use of Yerkes 40" lens
1901 - Walter Besant, novelist/philanthropist, dies
1907 - Manuel Estrada Vabrera, president Guatemala, murdered
1908 - Jose FdT Coelho, Portuguese writer (Os meus amores), dies at 46
1911 - Carry Amelia Moore Nation, American temperance leader, dies
1912 - Ion Luca Caragiale, Romanian writer (b. 1852)
1922 - Albert Baertsoen, Flemish painter/etcher, dies at 56
1929 - Lewis Bennison, dies
1931 - Henrique Oswald, composer, dies at 79
1932 - Natalia Janotha, composer, dies at 76
1939 - Owen Moore, actor (She Done Him Wrong), commits suicide at 52
1944 - 99 inhabitants of Tulle, hanged by SS
1946 - Rama VIII, king of Siam (1935-46), dies at 21
1947 - Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz, president of Poland (1939-40), dies at 62
1952 - Adolf Busch, German composer (b. 1891)
1953 - Ugo Betti, dramatist, dies
1957 - Robert Oboussier, composer, dies at 56
1958 - Robert Donat, actor (Citadel, Goodbye Mr Chips, 39 Steps), dies at 53
1960 - René Maran, Martiniques writer (Batouala, Prix Goncourt), dies
1961 - Camille Guérin, French scientist (b. 1872)
1962 - Henry Kendall, actor (Shadow, Romance & Riches), dies at 65
1964 - Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook/newspaper owner (Leatherhead), dies
1964 - W Maxwell Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, Engl Min of Info, dies at 85
1967 - Stefan Boleslaw Poradowski, composer, dies at 64
1968 - Bernard Cronin, Australian author and journalist (b. 1884)
1971 - Harold Lloyd Jr, actor (Frankenstein's Daughter), dies at 40
1973 - Erich von Manstein, German military commander (b. 1887)
1974 - Miguel Asturias, Guatemalan writer, dies at 74
1974 - Phillip Tead, actor (Lightnin', Fighting Blade), dies at 80
1975 - David Frederick Barlow, composer, dies at 48
1976 - James A Farley, US Postmaster General (1932-38), dies at 88
1976 - Paul T B Rodenko, Dutch poet/writer (Never Marry a Witch), dies at 55
1976 - Sybil Thorndike, actress (Melba, Major Barbara), dies at 93
1977 - Bill Merritt, cricketer (6 Tests of leg-spin for NZ, 12 wkts), dies
1977 - Hans Andreus, [Johan W van de Zant], Dutch poet, dies at 51
1979 - Cyclone Taylor, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1884)
1980 - Leonard Huizinga, journalist/writer (Olivier & Adrian), dies at 73
1981 - Allen Ludden, game show host (Password), dies at 63
1981 - Russell Hayden, actor (Hidden Gold, Apache Chief, Justice), dies
1982 - Guillaume Jorissen, Flemish politician, dies at 60
1982 - Hank Ladd, TV host (Arrow Show, Waiting for the Break), dies at 74
1987 - Grandon Rhodes, actor (Gentleman From Nowhere), dies
1987 - Madge Kennedy, actress (Marrying Kind, 3 Bad Sisters), dies
1989 - Piet[er J] Lieftinck, Dutch minister of Finance (1945-52), dies
1989 - W Schnurre, writer, dies at 68
1989 - Rashid Behbudov, Azerbaijani singer and actor (b. 1915)
1991 - Bob Irwin, Comedian, dies of Alzheimer's related illness at 88
1991 - Charles Loloma, painter/sculptor, dies
1991 - Claudio Arrau, Chilian/US pianist/composer, dies at 88
1991 - Max van Praag, Dutch singer, dies at 77
1992 - Cathy Bennett, jury selection expert, dies of breast cancer at 41
1992 - Clarence Miller, blues/jazz vocalist, dies at 69 of a heart attack
1993 - Alexis Smith, dancer/actress (Follies), dies of cancer at 72
1993 - Arthur Alexander, singer/songwriter (You Better Move On), dies at 53
1993 - Ian Mikardo, British politician, dies
1994 - Angela Lakeberg, siamese twin, dies at 11 months
1994 - Dhirendra Bhramachari, [Flying Swami], hindu leader, dies at 70
1994 - Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist (Plan of Labor, Nobel 1969), dies at 91
1994 - Lloyd Lindroth, the Liberace of the Harp, dies at 63
1995 - Charles Rowe, cricket (scored 0 in only Test for NZ v Aust 1946), dies
1995 - Frank Chacksfield, conductor/arranger, dies at 81
1995 - Walter Landor, designer, dies at 81
1996 - Edward Morris Bernstein, economist, dies at 91
1996 - Robert Kidd, marine geoscientist, dies at 48
1996 - Walter Pardon, carpenter/traditional singer, dies at 81
1997 - Reid Shelton, actor (Daddy Warbucks-Annie), dies of stroke at 71
1997 - Stanley Knowles, Canadian politician (b. 1908)
2000 - Jacob Lawrence, American painter (b. 1917)
2004 - Rosey Brown, American football player (b. 1932)
2004 - Brian Williamson, Jamaican Gay Activist (b. 1945)
2006 - Drafi Deutscher, German Schlager singer (b. 1946)
2007 - Frankie Abernathy, Former The Real World: San Diego castmate (b. 1981)
2008 - Algis Budrys, American writer (b. 1931)
2009 - Dick May, Former NASCAR racecar driver
2011 - M. F. Husain, Indian artist, painter (b. 1915)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 10, 2013, 01:31:02 PM

This Day in History for 10th June


Historical Events

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Naturalist Charles Darwin                Confederate General/KKK Grand Wizard           Baseball Great Babe Ruth
                                                                  Nathan Bedford Forrest

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US President John F. Kennedy              Singer & Cultural Icon Elvis Presley           Baseball Player Hank Aaron

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Tennis Great John McEnroe                       Tennis Player Steffi Graf                        264th Pope John Paul II


1190 - Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowns in the Sally River while leading an army to
           Jerusalem.
1358 - French boer leader Guillaume Cale captured
1538 - Catholic German monarchy signs League of Neurenberg
1539 - Council of Trent: Paul III sends out letters to his bishops, delaying the Council due to war and
           the difficulty bishops had traveling to Venice.
1540 - Thomas Cromwell arrested in Westminster
1605 - Valse Dimitri crowned Russian tsar for 1st time
1610 - Thomas West, Baron de La Mar, is appointed governor of Virginia
1610 - 1st Dutch settlers arrive (from NJ), to colonize Manhattan Island
1619 - Thirty Years' War: Battle of Záblatí, a turning point in the Bohemian Revolt.
1624 - Netherlands & France sign anti-Spanish Treaty of Compiègne
1627 - Piet Heyn conquerors 38 ships at bay of Salvador
1639 - 1st American log cabin at Fort Christina (Wilmington Delaware)
1648 - Moscow's people uprise against regent Boris Morozov
1652 - In Boston, John Hull opens the 1st mint in America
1682 - Tornado in Connecticut uproots a 3' diameter oak tree
1719 - Jacobite Rising: Battle of Glen Shiel.
1720 - Mrs Clements of England markets 1st paste-style mustard
1752 - Ben Franklin's kite is struck by lightning-what a shock!
1760 - NY passes 1st effective law regulating practice of medicine
1761 - Puritan version of "Othello" opens in Newport Rhode Island
1772 - Burning of Gaspée, British revenue cutter, by Rhode Islanders
1786 - A landslide dam on the Dadu River created by an earthquake ten days earlier collapses, killing
           100,000 in the Sichuan province of China.
1793 - 1st public zoo opens in Paris
1793 - Washington replaced Philadelphia as US capital
1794 - Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Phila, forms
1794 - France revolutionary regime begins trials
1801 - Tripoli declares war on US for refusing tribute
1805 - First Barbary War: Yussif Karamanli signs a treaty ending hostilities with the United States.
1809 - 1st US steamboat to a make an ocean voyage leaves NY for Phila
1818 - Pesaro opera theater opens with Rossini's "La gaza ladra"
1826 - Sultan Mahmud II rebellious elite corp, slaughter 20,000 in Turkey
1829 - The first Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes
           place.
1834 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin sails Pacific Ocean
1838 - Myall Creek Massacre in Australia: 28 Aboriginal Australians are murdered.
1846 - Robert Thomson obtains an English patent on a rubber tire
1847 - Chicago Tribune begins publishing
1848 - 1st telegraph link between NYC & Chicago
1848 - Battle at Vicenza: Austrians beat Sardinia-Piemonte
1854 - Georg F B Reiman proposes that space is curved
1854 - The first class of the United States Naval Academy students graduate.
1857 - England passes an act putting Canada on the decimal currency system
1861 - Battle of Big Bethel VA (Bethel Church, Great Bethal)-Union retreats
1863 - Battle of Brice's Crossroads, Miss; Nathan Bedford Forrest w/3500 defeats 8000 Feds
1864 - Battle of Kellar's Bridge KY (Licking River)
1864 - Battle of Waynesboro VA
1865 - Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" 1st performance Munich Germany
1868 - 2nd Belmont: Bobby Swim aboard General Duke wins in 3:02
1869 - 'Agnes'arrives in New Orleans with 1st ever shipment of frozen beef
1871 - 5th Belmont: W Miller aboard Harry Basset wins in 2:56
1871 - Sinmiyangyo: Captain McLane Tilton leads 109 Marines in naval attack on Han River forts on
           Kanghwa Island, Korea.
1876 - 10th Belmont: William Donohue aboard Algerine wins in 2:40.5
1880 - Charlie Jones becomes 1st to hit 2 HRs in 1 inning
1882 - Anti-colonization mass society of Alexandria Egypt kills 50 Europeans
1890 - 24th Belmont: Pike Barnes aboard Burlington wins in 2:07.75
1891 - 25th Belmont: Ed Garrison aboard Foxford wins in 2:08.75
1892 - Wilbert Robinson sets record by going 7-for-7 in a 9-inning game
1893 - 27th Belmont: Willie Simms aboard Commanche wins in 1:53.25
1898 - US Marines land in Cuba, during Spanish-American War
1899 - Improved Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks forms in Cincinnati
1902 - Patent for window envelope granted to H F Callahan
1905 - 1st forest fire lookout tower placed in operation, Greenville, Me
1908 - 1st flying club, Aeronautical Society of NY, opens
1911 - Queen Wilhelmina opens Rembrandt house in Amsterdam
1915 - British/French troops conquer German colony of Cameroon
1915 - Girl Scouts founded
1916 - 48th Belmont: E Haynes aboard Friar Rock wins in 2:22
1916 - Great Arab Revolt begin
1917 - 60,000 people of Petrograd welcome Prince Kropotkin (banned 41 years)
1917 - Limburgse mine workers strike
1921 - Babe Ruth becomes all time HR champ with #120 (Gavvy Cravath)
1922 - 54th Belmont: C H Miller aboard Pillory wins in 2:18.8
1924 - 1st political convention broadcast on radio-Republicans at Cleveland
1925 - Inaugural service for the United Church of Canada, a union of Presbyterian, Methodist, and
           Congregationalist churches held in Toronto Arena.
1926 - Phillies Russ Wrightstone hits for the cycle
1930 - Winnipeg Rugby Football Club forms
1931 - Norway occupies East-Greenland
1932 - 1st demonstration of artificial lightning Pittsfield Mass
1932 - 67th British Golf Open: Gene Sarazen shoots a 283 at Prince's England
1933 - 37th US Golf Open: Johnny Goodman shoots a 287 at North Shore Ill
1933 - 65th Belmont: Mack Garner aboard Hurryoff wins in 2:32.6
1934 - Italy beats Czechoslovakia 2-1 (OT) in soccer's 2nd World Cup at Rome
1934 - USSR & Romania regain diplomatic relations
1935 - Dr Robert Smith & William Wilson of Akron form Alcoholics Anonymous
1938 - Charlie Barnett makes 98 by lunch v Australia at Trent Bridge
1939 - Barney Bear, cartoon character, by MGM, debuts
1940 - French government moves to Bordeaux
1940 - German "Dutch Q-ship Atlantis" sinks Norwegian tanker
1940 - German 5th Armour division occupies Rouen
1940 - Italy declares war on France & Britain during WW II
1940 - Norway surrenders to nazis
1940 - World War II: Canada declares war on Italy.
1942 - Massacre at Lidice (Czechoslovakia), Gestapo kills 173
1942 - Nazis burn village of Lidice Bohemia, as reprisal of killing Heydrich
1943 - FDR becomes 1st US pres to visit a foreign country during wartime
1943 - FDR signs withholding tax bill into law (this is W-2 Day!)
1944 - Joe Nuxhall at 15 becomes youngest ML baseball player
1944 - Joe Nuxhall, 15, of Cin Reds is youngest player in major league
1944 - Nazi murders in Oradour-sur-Glane, France
1944 - World War II: In Distomo, Boeotia Prefecture, Greece 218 men, women and children are
           massacred by German troops.
1945 - US destroyer William D Porter ("Willie Dee") sunk by kamikaze
1946 - Italian Republic established
1946 - Rear Admiral Sidney W Souers, USNR, ends term as 1st director of CIA Lieutenant General
           Hoyt S Vandenberg, USA, becomes 2nd director of CIA
1947 - Saab produces its first automobile.
1949 - Istvan Dobi becomes Hungarian premier
1950 - 50th US Golf Open: Ben Hogan shoots a 287 at Merion Golf Club PA
1950 - 82nd Belmont: William Boland aboard Middleground wins in 2:28.6
1950 - Germany doesn't annex Oder-Neissegrens
1952 - Chic White Sox Sam Mele is 6th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (4th)
1952 - Pres Harry Truman desires nationalizing steel industry
1952 - St Louis Browns fire manager Rogers Hornsby
1954 - KQED TV channel 9 in SF, CA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1954 - PBS reaches SF: KQED (Channel 9) starts broadcasting
1955 - 1st separation of virus into component parts reported
1955 - KWEX TV channel 41 in San Antonio, TX (IND) begins broadcasting
1956 - 16th modern Olympiad equestrian events open in Stockholm
1956 - Marlene Bauer Hagge wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament
1957 - 3rd LPGA Championship won by Louise Suggs
1957 - Harold MacMillan becomes British PM
1957 - John Diefenbacker (C) elected PM of Canada
1959 - Rocky Colovito hits 4 consecutive HRs in 1 game
1962 - A record 54 home runs hit in baseball
1962 - Igor Ter-Ovanesyan of USSR, sets then long jump record at 27' 3½"
1962 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Austin Civitan Golf Tournament
1963 - JFK signs law for equal pay for equal work for men & women
1964 - Rolling Stones record their 12x5 album at Chess Studios in Chicago
1964 - Southern filibuster on civil rights bill ends; cloture invoked
1965 - Vietnam War: The Battle of Dong Xoai begins.
1966 - Beatles "Paperback Writer" is released in UK
1966 - Beatles record "Rain," 1st to use reverse tapes
1966 - Cleve Indian Sonny Siebert no-hits Wash Senator, 2-0
1966 - Janis Joplin's 1st live concert (Avalon Ballroom in SF)
1966 - Mamas & Papas win gold record for "Monday, Monday"
1967 - 15,000 attend Fantasy Faire & Magic Mountain Music Festival, Calif
1967 - Israel, Syria, Jordan, Iraq & Egypt end "6-Day War" with UN help
1967 - USSR drops diplomatic relations with Israel
1967 - Argentina becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1968 - "Danny Thomas Hour," last airs on NBC-TV
1968 - AL games at Balt & Chicago postponed honoring Robert Kennedy
1968 - KCFW TV channel 9 in Kalispell, MT (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
1968 - WHTV (now WTZH) TV channel 24 in Meridian, MS (NBC/CBS) 1st broadcast
1971 - 11 die in a train crash in Salem Ill
1971 - 44th National Spelling Bee: Jonathan Knisely wins spelling shalloon
1972 - 104th Belmont: Ron Turcotte aboard Riva Ridge wins in 2:28
1972 - Elvis Presley records a live album at NY's Madison Square Garden
1972 - Hank Aaron's grandslammer (14) ties him for NL lead with Gil Hodges & moves him ahead of
           Willie Mays as #2 HR hitter (649)
1973 - 19th LPGA Championship won by Mary Mills
1973 - NASA launches Radio Astronomy Explorer 49 into lunar orbit
1974 - Mike Schmidt hits a ball off public address speaker on Astrodome roof
1974 - Rumor's government in Italy resigns
1974 - Brandon Ramirez, noted visionary and graphics designer born in TJ, Mexico. Known as the
           father of Rambo the next generation.
1975 - Rockefeller panel reports on 300,000 illegal CIA files on Americans
1975 - Yanks sponsor Army Day at temporary home, Shea Stadium during 21-gun salute, part of
           fence is blown away, & another part is set afire
1976 - 49th National Spelling Bee: Tim Kneale wins spelling narcolepsy
1976 - 67,000 fans attends Wings concert at Seattle's Kingdome
1977 - Apple Computer ships its 1st Apple II
1977 - James Earl Ray (Martin Luther King's killer) escapes from prison
1978 - 110th Belmont: Steve Cauthen aboard Affirmed wins in 2:26.8
1978 - Yankees trade Ken Holzman for Ron Davis
1978 - Costa Rica becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1979 - 25th LPGA Championship won by Donna Caponi Young
1979 - 49th French Mens Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats Victor Pecci (63 61 67 64)
1979 - Balt Orioles pull their 8th triple play (5-4-3 vs Cleve)
1981 - IRA's Joseph Doherty escapes from Crumlin Road Jail
1981 - Pete Rose ties Stan Musial's NL record of 3,630 hits
1981 - Sebastian Coe of England sets 800m record (1:41.73) in Florence
1981 - Seven Brothers Square in Bronx named honoring 7 Santini Bro Moving Co
1982 - "Taxi," last airs on ABC, moves to NBC in the fall
1982 - Battle of Sultan Yakoub - 3 IDF members captured
1982 - Israeli troops reach outskirts of Beirut
1982 - John N McMahon replaces Bobby R Inman becomes deputy director of CIA
1984 - 38th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat LA Lakers, 4 games to 3
1984 - 54th French Men Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats John McEnroe (36 26 64 75 75)
1984 - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA McDonald's Kids Golf Classic
1984 - US missile shot down an incoming missile in space for 1st time
1984 - Zhu Jian Hua of China high jumps a record 7'10" (2.39m)
1985 - 19th Music City News Country Awards: Statler Brothers, B Mandrell
1985 - Claus von Bulow acquitted on charges he tried to murder his wife
1985 - Coca Cola announces they'd bring back their 99-year-old formula
1985 - French agents blow up Greenpeace boat Rainbow Warrior near NZ
1986 - A Bartlett Giamatti becomes president of baseball's NL
1987 - Discovery's SRBs & External Tank are mated
1988 - Greatest number of participants (31,678) on a bicycle tour (London)
1989 - "Tales From The Crypt," TV Anthology, debuts on HBO
1989 - 121st Belmont: Pat Day aboard Easy Goer wins in 2:26
1989 - 59th French Womens Tennis: A Sanchez Vicario beats S Graf (76 36 75) favored Steffi Graf,
           also 1st Spaniard to win a grand slam title
1990 - "Accomplice" closes at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC after 52 perfs
1990 - "Meet Me in St Louis" closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 253 perfs
1990 - 60th French Mens Tennis: Andres Gomez beats A Agassi (63 26 64 64)
1990 - 8th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Jack Nicklaus
1990 - Burger King begins using Newman's Own Salad Dressing
1990 - Detroit Pistons beat Trailblazers for 1st time since 1974 in Portland
1990 - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Championship
1990 - Rap group 2 Live crew members arrested in Fla for obscenity
1991 - "Twin Peaks," on ABC-TV
1991 - 25th Music City News Country Awards: Ricky Van Shelton
1991 - Mother of All Parades-NYC welcomes desert storm troops
1991 - South Florida & Denver picked for 1993 NL franchises
1992 - "Price" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 47 performances
1992 - Intelsat K launched
1993 - "She Loves Me" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 61 performances
1994 - Biggest European clock ever (9100 kg/(237) 2.5 m) at Aarle-Rixtel
1994 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1994 - Jennifer Capriati, tennis ace, checks out of drug abuse clinic
1995 - "Month in the Country" closes at Roundabout Theater NYC after 79 perfs
1995 - 127th Belmont: Gary Stevens aboard Thunder Gulch wins in 2:32
1995 - 65th French Womens Tennis: Steffi Graff beats A.S. Vicario (76 46 60)
1995 - Orioles Jeff Manto, hits his 4th consecutive homer
1996 - 30th Music City News Country Awards: Alan Jackson
1996 - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Toledo OH on WBUZ 106.5 FM
1996 - Intel releases 200 mhz pentium chip
1996 - Stanley Cup: Colo Avalanche sweep Florida Panthers in 4 games
1996 - Colo Avalanche sweeps Fla Panthers by winning 1-0 in 6 periods
1997 - Feng Yun-2B Long March 3 Launch (China), Successful
1997 - Kevin Brown of Florida Marlins no hits SF Giants 9-0
1997 - MTV Movie Awards
1997 - Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot orders the killing of his defense chief Son Sen and 11 of Sen's
           family members before Pol Pot flees his northern stronghold.
1999 - Kosovo War: NATO suspends its air strikes after Slobodan Milošević agrees to withdraw
           Serbian forces from Kosovo.
2001 - Pope John Paul II canonizes Lebanon's first female saint Saint Rafqa
2002 - The first direct electronic communication experiment between the nervous systems of two
           humans is carried out by Kevin Warwick in the United Kingdom.
2003 - The Spirit Rover is launched, beginning NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission.
2008 - The Gora Prai airstrike by the United States reportedly kills 11 Pakistani paramilitary troops.
2012 - A Helicopter crash near Nairobi, Kenya, kills five people, including George Saitoti, a Kenyan
           cabinet minister

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Post by: MysteRy on June 10, 2013, 01:32:34 PM

This Day in History for 10th June


Famous Weddings

1995 - Actress-singer Holly Robinson (30) weds NFL Philadelphia Eagle quarterback Rodney Peete
           (29) in Los Angeles
1999 - Model-actress Esther Canadas (22) weds model Mark Vanderloo (31) at the 900-year-old
           Vallombrosa Abbey in Tuscany
2000 - "Live! with Kelly and Michael" executive producer Michael Gelman (38) weds CBS's Early Show
           correspondent Laurie Hibberd (36) at a Long Island estate
2002 - 1988 and 1994 Olympic Champion skater Ekaterina Gordeeva (31) weds 1998 Olympic
           Champion figure skater Ilia Kulik (25) in San Francisco
2006 - Spanish singer Bertin Osborne (51) weds Venezuelan model Fabiola Martinez in Seville, Spain
2012 - Country music singer Wynonna Judd (48) weds "Highway 101" drummer Cactus Moser in
           Leiper's Fork, Tennessee

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 10, 2013, 01:33:30 PM

This Day in History for 10th June


Famous Divorces

2004 - Model-actress Ali Landry (30) divorces "Saved by the Bell" actor Mario Lopez (30) due to
           irreconcilable differences only 2 weeks after getting married

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 10, 2013, 01:42:56 PM

This Day in History for 10th June


Famous Birthdays

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Actress Judy Garland (1922)                  Actress Elizabeth Hurley (1965)                 Actress Leelee Sobieski (1983)


1213 - Fakhruddin 'Iraqi, Persian philosopher
1613 - Johann Georg II, elect of Saxon (1656-80)
1630 - Willem van Bemmel, Dutch painter/etcher
1632 - Esprit Fléchier, French writer and bishop (d. 1710)
1637 - Jacques Marquette, jesuit/missionary founder (Chicago)
1657 - James Cragg the Elder, British politician (d. 1721)
1688 - James Francis Edward Stuart 'The old Pretender', claimed thrones of England and Scotland as
           James III/James VIII (d. 1766)
1706 - John Dollond, owner of 1st patent for achromatic lens
1710 - James Short, Scottish mathematician (d. 1768)
1735 - John Morgan, American physician-in-chief of Continental Army
1753 - William Eustis, 12th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1825)
1781 - Giovanni Battista Polledro, composer
1782 - Amable-G-P B de Barante, French politician/historian
1790 - Louis Joseph Daussoigne-Mehul, composer
1803 - Henry Darcy, French scientist (d. 1858)
1804 - Hermann Schlegel, German ornithologist (d. 1884)
1808 - Friedrich Kaiser, Dutch astronomer (Kaiser compass-card)
1819 - J D Gustave Courbet, French realist painter (Demoiselles the la Seine)
1825 - Sondre Norheim, Norwegian skier (d. 1897)
1825 - Princess Hildegard of Bavaria d. 1864
1831 - W A Remy, composer
1832 - Edwin Arnold, English writer (Light of India)
1832 - Nikolaus A Otto, German technician (gas motor, otto motor)
1834 - Hendrik Pierson, Dutch theologist (HP Foundation)
1835 - Constant A Serrure, Flemish historian
1835 - Ferdinand IV SMJJBFLGRRJ, ruler of Toscane
1835 - Rebecca Latimer Felton, U.S. Senator (d. 1930)
1836 - Yamaoka Tesshu, Japanese swordsman/master of kendo
1838 - Meyer E van Beem, actor (Black Venus)
1839 - Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg, Council President of Denmark (d. 1912)
1840 - Thomas Fentress Toon, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1902
1840 - Theodor Philipsen Danish painter (d. 1920)
1843 - Heinrich von Herzogenberg, composer
1844 - J Albert Neuhuys, Dutch painter (Haagse school)
1844 - Karl Hagenbeck, German animal trainer (Von Tieren und Menschen)
1859 - Jacques F H Perk, Dutch poet (Iris, Wood Song)
1861 - Josephus T J Cuypers, Dutch architect (St Bavo, Haarlem)
1861 - Pierre M M Duhem, French naturalist/philosopher/historian
1862 - Mrs. Leslie Carter, American actress (d. 1937)
1863 - Louis M A Couperus, Dutch poet/writer (Eline Vere)
1865 - Frederick A Cook, US, explorer (claimed falsely to be at North Pole)
1869 - Gustave Vanzype, Belgian literary/headed La Gazette
1879 - Benjamin Lambord, composer
1880 - Margit Kaffka, writer
1882 - Neville Henderson, British diplomat
1886 - Baron Josse Emile van Dievoet, Flemish lawyer
1888 - Leo Weismantel, German writer (Der Reiter der Apocalypse)
1889 - Cliff Clark, actor (Kid Glove Killer, Golden Hoofs, Vigilante Hideout)
1890 - Paul J M Lindemans, Flemish agricultural engineer/author
1890 - Powell Weaver, composer
1890 - Sessue Hayakawa, Japan, actor (Bridge on River Kwai, Hell to Eternity)
1891 - Al Dubin, Swiss songwriter (Tiptoe Thru the Tulips)
1893 - Franz Andre, Belgian conductor
1894 - Pavel Borkovec, Czech composer (Stmivani, [Twilight])
1895 - Immanuel Velikovsky, writer (Worlds in Collision)
1895 - Hattie McDaniel, Wichita Kansas, 1st African American actress to win an Oscar (Gone With The
           Wind)
1898 - Virginia Valli, [McSweeney], Chicago IL, actress (Pleasure Garden)
1899 - Raoul Salan, Fr/Indochina/Algeria (leader OAS)
1900 - Henri Bruning, Dutch literary
1901 - Frederick Loewe, Austrian-born composer (d. 1988)
1902 - Gaston Brenta, composer
1902 - J Wouterus van Dieren, Dutch biologist (Terschelling)
1903 - Clyde Beatty, US animal trainer/actor (Big Cage)
1903 - Theo Lingen, German director/actor (M, Charm of La Boheme) [or Jun 19]
1904 - Frederick Loewe, composer (Learner & Loewe)
1906 - Janos Viski, composer
1907 - Fairfield Porter, American painter (d. 1975)
1908 - Brinsley Ford, CEO (National Art Collections Fund)
1908 - Ernst B Chain, German chemist/bacteriologist (penicillin, Nobel 1945)
1909 - Erwin Dressel, composer
1910 - Howlin' Wolf, [Chester Arthur Burnett], harmonica (Big City Blues)
1910 - Robert Still, composer
1910 - Frank Demaree, American baseball player (d. 1958)
1910 - Robert Still, English composer (d. 1971)
1911 - C P "Chilla" Christ, cricketer (Qld spinner late 30's)
1911 - Ralph Kirkpatrick, Leominster MA, harpsichordist (Domenico Scarlatti)
1911 - Terence Rattigan, playwright (Winslow Boy, Browning Version)
1912 - Leslie Brown, Bishop (St Edmundsbury & Ipswich)
1912 - William Gordon Harris, civil engineer
1912 - Jean Lesage, Premier of Quebec (d. 1980)
1913 - John Edmunds, composer
1913 - Thor Johnson, Wisconsin Rapids Wisconsin, conductor (Cin Symph 1958)
1913 - Tikhon Nikoleyevich Khrennikov, composer
1913 - Van Carlyle Wilton-Davies, archdeacon Emeritus (Oxford)
1913 - Wilbur J Cohen, 1st employee of Social Security System
1914 - Polly Hill, Dr/anthropologist
1914 - Saul Bellow, Lachine Quebec, author (Mr Sammler's Planet, Nobel 1976)
1915 - Oscar Comras, Bronx, drummer (namesake of Comras Mall in Bronx Park)
1916 - Bill Waddington, British actor/comedian (Percy-Coronation Street)
1917 - William Barr, rector (Exeter College, Oxford)
1918 - Barry Morse, actor (Fugitive-Lt Philip Gerard, Winds of War)
1919 - Kevin O'Flanagan, Irish athlete and physician (d. 2006)
1919 - Haidar Abdel-Shafi, Palestinian Negotiator and community leader (d. 2007)
1920 - Zbynek Vostrak, composer
1921 - Philip Mountbatten, Greece, Duke of Edinburgh/Prince, Mr Elizabeth II
1921 - Jean Robic, French cyclist (d. 1980)
1922 - Judy Garland, [Frances Gumm], Minnesota, actress/singer (Wizard of Oz)
1922 - Rose Moffard, (acting Gov-AZ)
1923 - Earl Hamner Jr, Schuyler Va, TV narrator (Waltons)
1923 - Robert Maxwell, [Jan Hoch], Czech, billionaire/CEO (NY Daily News)
1925 - Don Costa, actor (Impossible Years, Soul of Nigger Charlie)
1925 - Nat Hentoff, columnist/novelist (Village Voice, The Cold Society)
1926 - June Haver, Rock Island, actress (Dolly Sisters, Girl Next Door)
1926 - Lionel Jeffries, actor (Fanny, Prisoner of Zenda)
1926 - Willem Oltmans, Dutch journalist (Outlawed, Free as a Bird)
1927 - Michael Walsh, major-general/director (Overseas Relations)
1927 - Lin Yang-kang, Chinese politician
1927 - Ladislao Kubala, Hungarian-born footballer (d. 2002)
1928 - Asher Wallfish, journalist
1928 - Maurice Sendak, NYC, author/illustrator (Where The Wild Things Are), (d. 2012)
1929 - Harald Juhnke, Berlin Germany, actor (Guitars of Love)
1929 - James McDivitt, Chicago, Brig Gen USAF/astronaut (Gemini 4, Apollo 9)
1929 - Vasile Herman, composer
1929 - Ian McCahon Sinclair, Australian politician
1931 - Jim [Purvis] Ferree Jr, Pine Bluff NC, PGA golfer (1958 Vancouver)
1931 - João Gilberto, Brazilian singer and guitarist
1932 - Gardner McKay, NYC, actor (Pleasure Seekers, Boots & Saddles)
1932 - George Burns, British TV host
1932 - J Bennett Johnston, (Sen-D-LA, 1972- )
1932 - Branko Lustig, film producer
1933 - F Lee Bailey, Waltham Mass, attorney (Sam Shepard case, OJ case)
1933 - Georgi Atanasov, Bulgarian Prime Minister
1934 - Nicolas Roussakis, composer
1934 - Paul Gibson, British high court judge
1935 - Tom Pendry, MP (Labour)
1936 - Graham Carleton Greene, literary agent
1937 - Richard Foreman, NYC, theatrical director (Daily Life)
1939 - Alexandra Stewart, Montreal, actress (In Praise of Older Women)
1939 - Guy Harwood, horse trainer
1940 - John William Stevens, jazz drummer
1941 - Harry Muskee, Dutch rock vocalist (Cuby & Blizzards)
1941 - Jurgen Prochnow, actor (Das Boot)
1941 - Shirley Owens Alston, Passaic NJ, singer (Shirelles-Soldier Boy)
1941 - Soraya Khashoogi, Leicester England, wife (Adrian Khashoogi)
1941 - Mickey Jones, American musician and actor
1942 - Janet Vogel, rocker (Skyliners)
1942 - Preston Manning, Canadian politician
1943 - Jeff Greenfield, NYC, media commentator (Firing Line, Nightline)
1943 - Simon Jenkins, editor (Times)
1944 - Rick Price, rocker (Move)
1945 - Martin Wesley-Smith, composer
1945 - Ron Glass, Evansville Ind, actor (Ron-Barney Miller, New Odd Couple)
1946 - Matthew Fisher, England, keyboardist (Procol Harum-Conquistador)
1946 - Mensje F van Keulen-van der Steen, Dutch writer (Bleeker's Summer)
1947 - Ken Singleton, Mt Vernon NY, baseball player (Orioles)
1949 - Kevin Corcoran, actor (Swiss Family Robinson, Babes in Toyland)
1949 - John Sentamu, Archbishop of York
1951 - Burglinde Pollak, German DR, pentathlete (Olympics-bronze-1972)
1951 - Dan Fouts, NFL QB (San Diego Chargers)
1951 - Vicky Latta, Auckland NZ, equestrian 3 day event (Olympics-96)
1953 - John Edwards, American politician and lawyer
1955 - Andrew Stevens, Memphis Tn, actor (Seduction, Boys in Company C, Fury)
1956 - Georg Borwin, Duke of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
1957 - Lindsay Hoyle, British politician
1957 - Hidetsugu Aneha, Japanese architect
1959 - Timothy Van Patten, Bkln NY, actor (White Shadow, Master)
1959 - Eliot Spitzer, American politician
1959 - Carlo Ancelotti, A.C. Milan coach
1960 - Balakrishna Nandamuri, Indian actor
1961 - Maxi Priest, [Max Elliott], Jamaican/English singer (Wild World)
1961 - Kim Deal, American musician (Pixies), (The Breeders)
1961 - Kelley Deal, American musician (The Breeders)
1962 - Brent Sutter, Viking, NHL center (Chicago Blackhawks)
1962 - Duane Sutter, NHL player (NY Islander)
1962 - Floris Jansen, cricketer (Netherlands pace bowler 1996 World Cup)
1962 - Gina Gershon, American actress
1962 - Vincent Perez, Swiss actor
1962 - Akie Abe, current First Lady of Japan
1963 - Brad Henry, American politician (current Oklahoma governor)
1963 - Jeanne Tripplehorn, American actress
1964 - Pete Jordan, Elmhurst IL, Nike golfer (1992 Fresno Open-2nd)
1964 - Jimmy Chamberlin, American musician (The Smashing Pumpkins)
1964 - Ben Daniels, British actor
1965 - Claudio Mezzadri, Switzerland, tennis star
1965 - Elizabeth Hurley, Basingstroke England, actress (Christabel)
1965 - Linda Evangelista, Canada, super model/actress (Catwalk, Unzipped)
1965 - Vincent Perez, actor (The Crow-City of Angels)
1966 - Doug McKeon, NJ, actor (Big Shamus Little Shamus, Centennial)
1966 - David Platt, English footballer
1967 - Human Beatbox, [Darren Robinson], rocker (Fat Boys-Jail House Rock)
1967 - Emma Anderson, British guitarist and songwriter (Lush, Sing-Sing)
1968 - Kevin Donnalley, NFL guard/tackle (Houston/Tennessee Oilers)
1968 - Susan Haskell, actress (Marty-One Life to Live, Strictly Business)
1968 - Bill Burr, American comedian
1968 - Jimmy Shea, American skeleton racer
1968 - The D.O.C., American rapper
1969 - Fred Foggie, WLAF cornerback (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1969 - Tony McCoy, NFL defensive tackle (Indianapolis Colts)
1969 - Ronny Johnsen, Norwegian footballer
1969 - Kate Snow, American TV journalist
1970 - David Wilson, WLAF safety (Scottish Claymores)
1970 - Laurel Korholz, La Jolla California, rower (Olympics-4th-96)
1970 - Mike Doughty, American singer
1971 - DeWayne Dotson, NFL linebacker (Miami Dolphins)
1971 - Jeff Rodgers, WLAF defensive end (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1971 - Leanza Cornet, TV host (Entertainment Tonight)
1971 - Bobby Jindal, American politician; Louisiana Congressman, Governor
1971 - Joel Hailey, American singer
1971 - Bruno N'Gotty, French footballer
1972 - C J Richardson, NFL safety (Arizona Cardinals, Seattle Seahawks)
1972 - David Dunn, NFL wide receiver (Cin Bengals)
1972 - Edward Reevey, St John NB, Canadian Tour golfer (1992 SC Intercol)
1972 - Pat Johnson, NFL safety (Miami Dolphins)
1972 - Radmila Šekerinska, Macedonian politician
1972 - Steven Fischer, American film producer and director
1973 - Brandon Sanders, safety (NY Giants)
1973 - Carl Kidd, NFL defensive back (Oakland Raiders)
1973 - David Friedman, LA California, actor (Jason-Little House on the Prairie)
1973 - Wade Miller, CFL linebacker (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1973 - Faith Evans, American singer
1973 - Pokey Reese, American baseball player
1975 - Henrik Pedersen, Danish footballer
1975 - Risto Jussilainen, Finnish ski jumper
1976 - Lisa Jean Costantino, Miss USA-Vermont (1997)
1976 - Hadi Saei Bonehkohal, Persian taekwondoka
1976 - Freddy García, American baseball player
1976 - Stefan Postma, Dutch footballer
1976 - Esther Ouwehand, Dutch politician, parliamentarian for the Party for the Animals
1977 - Takako Matsu, Japanese singer and actress
1977 - Adam Darski, Polish musician most known for being the leader of Behemoth
1977 - Mike Rosenthal, American football player, sports radio talk show host
1978 - Shane West, American actor
1978 - Brian West, American soccer player
1979 - Konstantinos Loumpoutis, Greek footballer
1979 - Jake Tsakalidis, Georgian-Greek basketball player
1980 - Francelino Matuzalem, Brazilian footballer
1980 - Jessica Di Cicco, American actress
1981 - Burton O'Brien, Scottish footballer
1981 - Hoku, American singer and actress
1981 - Prince Hashim bin Al Hussein, of Jordan
1981 - Jonathan Bennett, actor (Mean Girls)
1982 - Tara Lipinski, Philadelphia Pa, figure skater (1997 World Champ)
1982 - Princess Madeleine of Sweden
1983 - Leelee Sobieski, New York City, American actress (Deep Impact, Joan of Arc, Uprising)
1984 - Dirk Van Tichelt, Belgian judoka
1985 - Kristina Lundberg, Swedish ice hockey player
1985 - Vasilis Torosidis, Greek footballer
1987 - Martin Harnik, Austrian footballer
1987 - Amobi Okoye, Nigeria-born American football player
1987 - Kelly Vitz, American actress
1991 - James Cleveland McFadden-Talbot, son of Gates McFaden (Star Trek NG)
1994 - Nicholas Santo Pietro, son of Vanna White

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 10, 2013, 01:49:02 PM

This Day in History for 10th June


Famous Deaths

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Macedonian King and                              Musician Ray Charles (2004)
Conqueror of Persia
Alexander the Great (323 BC)


323 BC - Alexander the Great, Macedonian king, dies from either fever or excessive wine at 32, (or
           the 11th June)
1075 - Ernest of Austria (b. 1027)
1190 - Frederick I Barbarossa, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1122)
1247 - Rodrigo Jimenez de Rada, archbishop Toledo/advisor Alfonso VIII, dies
1424 - Duke Ernest of Austria (b. 1377)
1552 - Alexander Barclay, English poet
1556 - Martin Agricola [M Sore], German composer/cantor, dies
1560 - Mary de Guise, queen-mother of Scotland
1580 - Luis Vaz de Camoes, Portugal's national poet (Os Lusiados), dies
1584 - Francois-Hercule de Valois, French crown prince, dies at 28
1588 - Valentin Weigel, German mystic, dies
1607 - John Popham, English politician
1654 - Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor/architect, dies at 58
1680 - Johan Göransson Gyllenstierna, Swedish statesman (b. 1635)
1727 - George Ludwig, German monarch of Hannover/king of England, dies at 67
1735 - Thomas Hearne, English antiquarian (b. 1678)
1776 - Leopold Widhalm, Austrian luthier (b. 1722)
1791 - Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte, French admiral (b. 1720)
1800 - Johann Abraham Peter Schulz, German composer, dies at 53
1831 - Hans Karl von Diebitsch, Russian field marshal (b. 1785)
1834 - Antonius van Gils, RC theologist (against Relief), dies at 75
1836 - André-Marie Ampère, French physicist (b. 1775)
1839 - Nathaniel Pryor, sgt of Lewis & Clark Expedition, dies
1849 - Friedrich Wilhelm Michael Kalkbrenner, composer, dies at 63
1849 - Thomas Robert Bugeaud, Marshal of France and duke of Isly (b. 1784)
1868 - Michael Obrenovic, ruler of Sweden, murdered
1883 - Carl Gradener, composer, dies at 71
1893 - Elek Erkel, composer, dies at 49
1896 - Amelia Dyer, English murderer (b. 1829)
1898 - Tuone Udaina, last speaker of the Dalmatian language.
1899 - Ernest Chausson, French composer (Solitude dance le bois), dies at 44
1901 - Robert Williams Buchanan, British dramatist (b. 1841)
1902 - Auguste Schmidt, German teacher/feminist, dies at 68
1902 - Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan poet (b. 1845)
1903 - Alexander I, King of Serbia are assassinated
1903 - Dragia, Queen of Serbia, assassinated
1903 - Luigi Cremona, Italian mathematician (grafostatica), dies
1909 - Edward Everett Hale, American author (b. 1822)
1912 - Anton Aškerc, Slovenian poet (b. 1856)
1918 - Arrigio Enrico Boito, composer, dies at 76
1923 - Pierre Loti, [Julien Viaud], French sea officer/writer, dies
1924 - Giacomo Matteotti, Italian socialist deputy, assassinated by fascists
1926 - Antonio Gaudi y Cornet, Spanish architect, dies
1930 - Adolf Harnack, German theologian (b. 1851)
1934 - Frederick Delius, English composer (Suite Florida), dies at 72
1937 - Robert Borden, eighth Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1854)
1941 - Herschel Mayall, actor (Tale of 2 Cities), dies at 78
1941 - Marcus Garvey, US black leader (Back to Africa Movement), dies at 52
1942 - Jean François van Royen, Sect-Gen of Concentration Camp Amersfoort, dies at 63
1942 - Ross Gregory, cricketer (Australian batsman 1937), dies
1944 - French Duwaer, Dutch printer/resistance fighter, executed
1944 - Gerrit Jan van der Veen, [Wolffensperger], resister, executed at 41
1944 - Johan Limpers, sculptor/resistance fighter, executed at 28
1944 - Willem Jacob van Stockum, Dutch physicist (b. 1910)
1946 - Ananda Mahidol, king of Siam, shot dead at 20
1946 - Jack Johnson, 1st black heavyweight champion, dies in car accident
1947 - Alexander Bethune, Canadian politician (b. 1852)
1949 - Sigrid Undset, Norwegian writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1882)
1953 - Grzlegorz Fitelberg, composer, dies at 73
1954 - Will Rossiter, composer, dies at 87
1958 - Angelina Weld Grimke, American journalist (b. 1880)
1959 - Zoltán Meskó, Hungarian Nazi (b. 1883)
1963 - Anita King, actress (Tender Loving Care), dies of heart attack at 74
1964 - Louis Gruenberg, composer, dies at 79
1967 - Frank Butler, actor/screenwriter (Road to Bali, China), dies at 76
1967 - Spencer Tracy, US actor (7th Cross, Father ot Bride), dies at 67
1968 - Yury Sergeyevich Milyutin, composer, dies at 65
1969 - Frank Lawton, actor (David Copperfield, Skin Game), dies at 64
1971 - Michael Rennie, actor (Day the Earth Stood Still), dies at 61
1971 - Virginia Eames, entertainer, dies of heart attack at 82
1973 - William M Inge, US playwright (Come Back Little Sheba), dies at 60
1974 - Henry WFA, English duke of Gloucester/baron Culloden, dies at 74
1976 - Adolph Zukor, Hungarian/US fur trader/movie producer, dies at 103
1980 - Denys Morkel, South African cricketer (batsman scored 663 runs 1927-32), dies
1981 - Russell "Lucky" Hayden, actor (Judge Roy Bean), dies at 68
1982 - Addie "Micki" Harris, US singer (Shirelles-Mama Said), dies at 42
1982 - Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German director, dies of drug overdose at 36
1985 - Bob Prince, sportscaster (Monday Night Baseball), dies at 68
1985 - George Chandler, actor (Lassie), dies of Alzheimer's disease at 87
1986 - Merle Miller, American biographer (b. 1919)
1987 - Elizabeth Hartman, actress (Fixer, Patch of Blue), dies at 45
1988 - Louis L'Amour, western writer (Bowdrie), dies at 80 of cancer
1989 - Richard Quine, director/actor (Babes on Broadway), dies at 68
1991 - Vercors, [Jean Bruller], French writer (Silence of Mer), dies
1992 - Hachidal Nakamura, composer (Sukiyaki), dies at 61 of heart failure
1992 - Otto FAH van Nispen, mayor of Pannerden/MP (KVP), dies at 85
1992 - Peter Von Zerneck, actor (Foreign Affair), dies at 84
1992 - Zak Hernández, American soldier (b. 1973)
1993 - Alexis Smith, actress (Constant Nymph), dies of cancer at 72
1993 - Alice Reinhart, entertainer, dies at 83
1993 - Richard Webb, actor (Captain Midnight), shoots himself at 77
1993 - Les Dawson, English Comedian (b. 1934)
1994 - Edward Kienholz, US sculptor (Back seat of a '38 Dodge), dies at 66
1994 - Mary Maxwell Gates, philanthropist/mother of Bill Gates, dies at 64
1995 - Ernest Anderson, publicist, dies at 85
1995 - Masaya Hanai, businessamn, dies at 82
1995 - Ron Morrisby, cricketer (prolific batsman for Tasmania 1931-52), dies
1996 - Hugh Burnton Mitchell, US senator, dies at 89
1996 - Jo Van Fleet, actress (Seize the Day, Cinderella), dies at 75
1996 - Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, painter, dies at 89
1996 - Norman Lambert, British restuarateur, dies
1996 - Uno Choyo, writer, dies at 98
1998 - Hammond Innes, English author (b. 1914)
1998 - Jim Hearn, American baseball player (b. 1921)
2000 - Hafez al-Assad, President of Syria (b. 1930)
2000 - Brian Statham, English cricketer (b. 1930)
2001 - Princess Leila of Iran (b. 1970)
2001 - Mike Mentzer, American bodybuilder (b. 1951)
2002 - John Gotti, American gangster (b. 1940)
2003 - Donald Regan, Chief of Staff and U.S. Treasury Secretary (b. 1918)
2003 - Bernard Williams, English philosopher (b. 1929)
2003 - Dr Phil Williams, Welsh politician and scientist (b. 1939)
2004 - Ray Charles, Grammy winning crooner who blended gospel and blues, dies aged 73
2005 - Curtis Pitts, American aircraft designer (b. 1915)
2007 - Augie Auer, Meteorologist and television presenter (b. 1940)
2008 - Chinghiz Aitmatov, Kyrgyzstani-Soviet writer (b. 1928)
2009 - Tenniel Evans, English actor (b. 1926)
2010 - Metropolitan Basil Schott, Archbishop of the Byzantine Catholic Archeparchy of Pittsburgh (b.
          1939)
2011 - Brian Lenihan, Jnr, Irish Politician (b. 1959)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 11, 2013, 11:07:23 AM

This Day in History for 11th June


Historical Events

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Captain/Explorer James Cook                  United States founding father                 Baseball Great Babe Ruth
                                                                      Benjamin Franklin

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Director Alfred Hitchcock                         American Baseball Player                      US President John F. Kennedy
                                                                            Roger Maris

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Singer Olivia Newton-John                         264th Pope John Paul II                      Singer Lionel Richie

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Prime Minister of Canada
Stephen Harper


1184 BC - Trojan War: Troy is sacked and burned, according to calculations by Eratosthenes.
631 - Emperor Taizong of Tang, the Emperor of China, sends envoys to the Xueyantuo bearing gold
         and silk in order to persuade the release of enslaved Chinese prisoners who were captured
         during the transition from Sui to Tang from the northern frontier; this embassy succeeded in
         freeing 80,000 Chinese men and women who were then returned to China.
758 - Abbasid Arabs and Uyghur Turks arrive simultaneously at Chang'an, the Tang Chinese capital,
         in order to offer tribute to the imperial court. The Arabs and Turks bicker and fight over
         diplomatic prominence at the gate, in order to present tribute before the other. A settlement is
         reached when both are allowed to enter at the same time, but through two different gates to
         the palace.
1231 - Harderwijk becomes a city
1345 - The megas doux Alexios Apokaukos, chief minister of the Byzantine Empire, is lynched by
           political prisoners.
1429 - Hundred Years' War: The start of the Battle of Jargeau.
1488 - Battle of Sauchieburn, Scotland
1517 - Sir Thomas Pert reaches Hudson Bay
1572 - Spanish co-land guardian duke of Medinaceli arrives in Lock
1578 - England grants Sir Humphrey Gilbert a patent to explore & colonize US
1594 - Philip II recognized the rights and privileges of the local nobles and chieftains in the
           Philippines, which paves way to the creation of the Principalía (i.e., elite ruling class of native
           nobility in Spanish Philippines).
1644 - Florentine scientist describe invention of barometer
1666 - -14] Vierdaagse Sea battle (Ruyter-Monk vs Prince Ruprecht)
1676 - Battle at Öland: Danish & Dutch fleet under CM Tromp beats Sweden
1685 - James Scott, Duke of Monmouth, rebels against Catholic king James II
1690 - English king Willem III departs to Ireland
1699 - England, France & Neth agree on 2nd Extermination treaty of Spain
1726 - Cardinal Fleury succeeds duke of Bourbon as French premier
1742 - Benjamin Franklin invents his Franklin stove
1770 - Capt James Cook discovers Great Barrier Reef off Australia
1774 - Jews of Algiers escape attack of Spanish Army
1776 - Continental Congress creates committee (Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin,
           Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston) to draft a Declaration of Independence
1788 - 1st British ship built on Pacific coast begun at Nootka Sound, BC
1788 - Russian explorer Gerasim Izmailov reaches Alaska.
1793 - 1st American stove patent is granted to Robert Haeterick
1816 - Gas Light Co of Baltimore founded
1825 - The first cornerstone is laid for Fort Hamilton in New York City.
1837 - The Broad Street Riot occurres in Boston, fueled by ethnic tensions between English-Americans and Irish-Americans.
1838 - Iowa Territory is organized
1859 - Comstock silver load discovered near Virginia City, Nevada
1864 - -12] Battle of Trevillian Station, VA (Central Railroad)
1864 - 300' (90 m) of Meigg's Wharf washed away in storm
1864 - Battle at Cynthiana Kentucky: Gen Hobsons unit caught
1864 - Battle of Laurel Hill, WV
1864 - Confederate warship CSS Alabama runs into harbor of Cherbourg
1866 - The Allahabad High Court (then Agra High Court) is established in India.
1870 - 1st-stone Amstel Brewery opens in Amsterdam
1876 - Republicans pick Rutherford B Hayes as presidental candidate
1878 - DC is given a new government by Congress, 3 commissioners appointed by president (change
           in 1974)
1891 - Puerto Rican flag adopted
1892 - The Limelight Department, one of the world's first film studios, is officially established in
           Melbourne, Australia.
1895 - 1st auto race
1895 - Charles E Duryea patents a gas-driven automobile
1896 - US Assay Office in Deadwood South Dakota authorized
1898 - 1st US Marines (600) land at Guantanamo Cuba during Spanish-American War
1898 - 23rd Preakness: Willie Simms aboard Sly Fox wins in 1:49.75
1898 - Emperor De Zong proclaims reforms in Peking
1900 - -12] Battle at Diamond Hill: British troops chase General Botha
1901 - Cook Islands annexed & proclaimed part of New Zealand
1904 - Cub's Bob Wicker no-hits NY Giants, wins in 12th on 1 hitter, 1-0
1904 - German Lt-Gen Lothar von Trotha lands in Swapokmund, SW-Africa
1905 - Penns Railroad debuts fastest train in world (NY-Chicago in 18 hrs)
1907 - Northants all out for 12 v Gloucestershire
1907 - George Dennett, aided by Gilbert Jessop, dismisses Northamptonshire for 12 runs, the lowest
           total in first-class cricket.
1911 - Tigers trailing White Sox 13-1 come back to win 16-15
1911 - UNIA founded by Garvey
1917 - King Alexander assumes the throne of Greece after his father Constantine I abdicated under
           pressure by allied armies occupying Athens.
1919 - 23rd US Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 301 at Brae Burn CC Mass
1919 - 51st Belmont: J Loftus aboard Sir Barton wins in 2:17.6 & Trip Crown
1920 - Republicans nominate Warren G Harding for president
1921 - 53rd Belmont: Earl Sande aboard Grey Lag wins in 2:16.8
1921 - Brazil adopts women suffrage
1924 - Bene Brak Palestine founded
1924 - Koos Vorrink elected President of AJC
1927 - 59th Belmont: Earl Sande aboard Chance Shot wins in 2:32.6
1927 - Babe Ruth hits 19th & 20th of 60 HRs
1927 - Charles Lindbergh is awarded the 1st Distinguished Flying Cross
1928 - Alfred Hitchcock's 1st film, "Case Of Jonathan Drew," is released
1934 - Disarmament conference in Geneva fails
1935 - Inventor Edwin Armstrong gives the first public demonstration of FM broadcasting in the
           United States, at Alpine, New Jersey.
1936 - Presbyterian Church of America founded at Philadelphia
1936 - International Surrealist Exhibition opens in London, England.
1937 - Marx Brothers' "A Day At The Races" released
1938 - 42nd US Golf Open: Ralph Guldahl shoots a 284 at Cherry Hills Denver
1938 - Cin Red Johnny Vander Meer no-hits Boston Braves, 3-0
1938 - Compton scores 1st Test Cricket ton (102 v Aust) aged 20 yrs 19 days
1938 - Earthquake in Belgium
1938 - England declare at 8 for 658 v Australia at Trent Bridge
1939 - King & Queen of England taste 1st "hot dogs" at FDR's party
1940 - Italy declares war on allies/raids Malta
1940 - Premier Winston Churchill flies to Orleans
1940 - World War II: British forces bomb Genoa and Turin in Italy.
1940 - World War II: First attack of the Italian Air force on the island of Malta.
1941 - 2nd great raid on Jews of Amsterdam
1941 - Vichy-French planes bomb Tel Aviv, killing 20 Jews
1942 - German army defeated at El-Alamein North Africa
1942 - US & USSR sign Lend-Lease agreement during WW II
1943 - British invades Pantelleria (tiny island south of Sicily)
1943 - Heinrich Himmler orders liquidation of Polish ghettos
1944 - 15 US aircraft carriers attack Japanese bases on Marianas
1944 - 1st Serbian Orthodox cathedral in US, Cathedral of St Sava, NYC
1944 - KP gang surprise attack on Dome Arnhem jail
1947 - WW II sugar rationing finally endd in US (began May 28, 1942)
1949 - 49th US Golf Open: Cary Middlecoff shoots a 286 at Medinah CC ILL
1949 - 81st Belmont: Ted Atkinson aboard Capot wins in 2:30.2
1949 - Emile Zatopek runs world record 10,000m (29:28.2)
1950 - Ben Hogan wins US Open golf tournament
1951 - Mozambique becomes an oversea province of Portugal
1951 - NY Times reports the NYC subway will auction off things found
1953 - "Amos 'n Andy," TV Comedy, also radio from '29; last aired on CBS
1953 - Test Cricket debut of Alan Davidson at Trent Bridge
1955 - 1st magnesium jet airplane flies
1955 - 87th Belmont: Eddie Arcaro aboard Nashua wins in 2:29
1955 - Le Mans race car accident kills 83 spectators (race continues)
1957 - 12 die in a train crash in Vroman Colo
1958 - UN Security council sends observers to Lebanon
1959 - Postmaster General bans D H Lawrence's book, Lady Chatterley's Lover (overruled by US
           Court of Appeals in Mar 1960)
1960 - 92nd Belmont: Bill Hartack aboard Celtic Ash wins in 2:29.2
1960 - House packed with wedding celebrants collapses killing 30 (Pakistan)
1961 - "Winston Churchill," last airs on ABC-TV
1961 - Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament
1961 - Norm Cash becomes 1st Det Tiger to hit a ball out of Tiger Stadium
1961 - Roger Maris hits 19th & 20th of 61 HRs
1962 - President FDR accepted an honorary degree from Yale
1962 - Frank Morris, John Anglin and Clarence Anglin become the only prisoners to successfully
           escape from the prison on Alcatraz Island.
1963 - Gov Wallace tries to prevent blacks registering at U of Alabama
1963 - Greek government of Karamanlis resigns
1963 - JFK says segregation is morally wrong & that it is "time to act"
1964 - Chicago police break up Rolling Stones press conference
1964 - Manfred Mann record Do Wah Diddy Diddy
1964 - Queen Elizabeth orders Beatles to her birthday party, they attend
1964 - West Germany seeks talks with Czechoslovakia
1966 - "(I'm A) Road Runner" by Jr Walker & The All-Stars peaks at #20
1966 - "I Am A Rock" by Simon & Garfunkel peaks at #3
1966 - "On A Clear Day You..." closes at Mark Hellinger NYC after 280 perfs
1966 - "Paint It, Black" by The Rolling Stones peaks at #1
1966 - "Skyscraper" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 248 perfs
1966 - "Sloop John B" by The Beach Boys hit #1 in UK
1966 - French & German media mistakenly report death of Roger Daltry
1966 - Janis Joplin plays her 1st gig (SF)
1967 - A J Foyt & Dan Gurney drove a Ford to victory in Le Mans
1967 - Chicago Cubs (7) & NY Mets (4) tie record of 11 HRs in a game
1967 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Bluegrass Golf Invitational
1967 - Race riot in Tampa Florida; National Guard mobilizes
1967 - Mexico becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1969 - "The Ballad Of John & Yoko" by The Beatles hit #1 in UK
1969 - David Bowie releases "Space Oddity"
1970 - US leaves Wheelus AFB Libya
1971 - US & Japan sign accord to return Okinawa to Japan
1971 - US ends ban on China trade
1972 - 18th LPGA Championship won by Kathy Ahern
1972 - 31°F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in June
1972 - KPAT-AM in Berkeley CA returns from KRE
1974 - Bundy victim Georgann Hawkins disappears from UW, Seattle, Wash
1974 - Mel Stottlemyre's AL record 272nd consecutive start, without relief
1975 - 1st oil pumped from North Sea oilfield
1975 - Greece adopts constitution
1975 - One-day international cricket debut, Javed Miandad age 17 yrs 364 days
1976 - "Magnificent Marble Machine," last airs on NBC-TV
1976 - Anti-apartheid advocate Dumisa Ntsebeza arrested in South Africa
1976 - Australian band AC/DC begin their 1st headline tour of Britain
1976 - Beatles "Rock & Roll Music" LP is released in USA
1977 - "Ain't Gonna Bump No More (With No Fat Woman)" by Joe Tex hits #12
1977 - "Dance & Shake Your Tambourine" by Universal Robot Band peaks at #93
1977 - "I Need A Man" by Grace Jones peaks at #83
1977 - "I'm Your Boogie Man" by KC & Sunshine Band peaks at #1
1977 - "Lonely Boy" by Andrew Gold peaks at #7
1977 - "The Pretender" by Jackson Browne peaks at #58
1977 - "Watch Closely Now" by Kris Kristofferson peaks at #52
1977 - 109th Belmont: Jean Cruguet aboard Seattle Slew wins in 2:29.6
1977 - Dutch marines rescued hostages from a Moluccan held train in Holland
1977 - ELO releases "Telephone Line"
1977 - Main Street Electrical Parade premieres in the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World
1978 - "Grease" starring John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John opens
1978 - 24th LPGA Championship won by Nancy Lopez
1978 - Bjorn Borg wins French Open Title
1978 - Christa Tybus of London sets record of 24½ hrs of hula-hoop
1978 - Joseph Freeman Jr is 1st black priest in Church Of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
1979 - Chuck Berry pleads guilty to income tax evasion, sentenced to 4 months
1980 - K-Ingleside streetcar converts to METRO service (SF)
1981 - Cannibal Issei Sagawa kills Dutch student
1981 - Mariners beat Orioles 8-2 at Kingdome, then players go on strike
1981 - Richter Scale 6.9 magnitude Golbaf earthquake at Iran, killing at least 2,000.
1982 - Israel & Syria stop fighting in Lebanon
1982 - Larry Holmes TKOs Gerry Cooney in 13 for heavyweight boxing title
1982 - Movie "ET the Extra-Terrestrial" released (highest grossing film)
1982 - Pope John Paul II visits Argentina
1983 - "Always Something There To Remind Me" by Naked Eyes peaks at #8
1983 - "Cool Places" by Sparks & Jane Wiedlin peaks at #49
1983 - "Faithfully" by Journey peaks at #12
1983 - "My Love" by Lionel Richie peaks at #5
1983 - "Theme From Doctor Detroit" by Devo peaks at #59
1983 - "When I'm With You" by Sheriff peaks at #61
1983 - 115th Belmont: Laffit Pincay Jr aboard Caveat wins in 2:27.8
1983 - Cards outfielder Lonnie Smith checks into a drug rehab
1983 - Don Genalo needs just 3 of 5 pins to win Southern California Open bowling tournament,
           miscalculates his score & intentionally gutters his ball
1983 - Zhu Jianhua of China set a new world record in high jump at 7-9 14
1984 - Funeral for S Nakagawa & burial of half of his ashes
1984 - Supreme Court declares illegally obtained evidence may be admitted at trial if it could be
           proved that it would have been discovered legally
1985 - Russian space probe Vega 1 lands on Venus
1985 - Von Hayes becomes 21st to hit 2 HRS in an inning (Phils-26, Mets-7)
1985 - WJW-AM/TV in Cleveland Ohio change call letters to WRMR
1986 - "Blacke's Magic," last airs on NBC-TV
1986 - Amnesty International megaconcert
1987 - Margaret Thatcher is 1st British PM in 160 years to win 3rd consecutive term
1988 - "Everything Your Heart Desires" by Daryl Hall & John Oates peaks at #3
1988 - "Rooty Toot Toot" by John Cougar Mellencamp peaks at #61
1988 - "We All Sleep Alone" by Cher peaks at #14
1988 - 120th Belmont: Eddie Delahoussaye aboard Risen Star wins in 2:26.6
1988 - 25th Curtis Cup: British Isles, 11-7
1988 - Freedomfest - Mandela addresses Wembley Stadium London
1988 - Galina Chistyakova of USSR sets long jump woman's record (24"8½")
1988 - Yanks' Rick Rhoden becomes 1st pitcher to DH (0 for 1 with an RBI)
1989 - 59th French Mens Tennis: Michael Chang beats S Edberg (61 36 46 64 62)
1989 - 7th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Orville Moody
1989 - Robin Hood 16 wins LPGA Planters Pat Bradley Points Golf International
1990 - Supreme Court says law prohibiting desecration of US flag unconstitut
1990 - UN appoints Olivia Newton-John environmental ambassador
1990 - Federal judge sentenced former national security adviser John M Poindexter to 6 months for
           making false statements to Congress
1990 - Nolan Ryan pitches his 6th no-hitter beating Oakland, in 9th he retires Ken Phelps, Rickey
           Henderson & Willie Randolph (all ex Yanks)
1991 - Microsoft releases MS DOS 5.0
1992 - Owners approve sale of Seattle Mariners to a Japanese group
1992 - Tracy Austin, 29, is youngest inductee of Intl Tennis Hall of Fame
1992 - US Olympic baseball team plays 1st exhibtion game, beat Venez 20-0
1993 - "Jurassic Park" opens, sets box office weekend record of $502 million
1993 - "Scattergories," game show; last airs on NBC-TV
1993 - "Scrabble," second run," TV Game Show; last airs on NBC-TV
1994 - "Meet The Flintstones" by The BC 52's peaks to #33
1994 - 126th Belmont: Pat Day aboard Tabasco Cat wins in 2:26.8
1994 - Drunken officer shoots 7 people dead in Falun Sweden
1994 - Moshood Abiola becomes pres of Nigeria
1994 - Cbox is 39'115 long, 20'85 wide, & 8' high in Jacksonville, Fl Largest popcorn container is 6,619.76 cubic feet full of popped corn
1995 - 65th French Mens Tennis: Thomas Muster beats Michael Chang (75 62 64)
1995 - Julie Larsen wins Edina Realty LPGA Golf Classic
1995 - Rondell White has six hits & hits for the cycle in 13-innings
1996 - Bob Dole, (Sen-R-KS), resigns from US senate to run for president
1998 - Compaq Computer pays $9 billion for Digital Equipment Corporation in the largest high-tech
           acquisition.
2001 - Timothy McVeigh is executed for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
2002 - Antonio Meucci is acknowledged as the first inventor of the telephone by the United States
           Congress.
2004 - Cassini-Huygens makes its closest flyby of Phoebe.
2004 - Ronald Reagan's funeral is held at Washington National Cathedral.
2008 - Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper made an official historic apology to Canada's First
           Nations in regard to a residential school abuse in which children were isolated from their
           homes, families and cultures for a century.
2009 - A Texas mother was hit by lightning while standing in her kitchen inside her Texas home.
           Witnesses say the lightning came through a light fixture and struck her chest and exited her
           foot. Her 9-year-old son franticly called 9-1-1 to save her life. She had to spend three days in
           the hospital.
2012 - Five people are killed after an ambulance hits a roadside bomb in Afghanistan
2012 - 23 people are killed after two villages are attacked in northern Nigeria
2012 - The Nobel Prize is reduced by 20% to prevent any future undermining of capital
2012 - Two earthquakes in Afghanistan trigger landslides that kill more than 80 people
2012 - Los Angeles Kings defeat New Jersey Devils 6-1 in game 6 to win the NHL's Stanley Cup

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 11, 2013, 11:09:21 AM

This Day in History for 11th June


Famous Weddings

1509 - King Henry VIII marries wife #1 Catherine of Aragon
2002 - Musician Paul McCartney (59) weds former model and anti-landmines campaigner Heather Mills
          (34) at Castle Leslie in County Monaghan, Ireland
2005 - "Clueless" actress Alicia Silverstone (28) weds musician Christopher Jarecki in Lake Tahoe,
           California
2011 - Recording artist Lily Allen (26) weds Sam Cooper (32) at St. James The Great church in
           Gloucestershire, England

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 11, 2013, 11:19:06 AM

This Day in History for 11th June


Famous Birthdays

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Playwright & Poet                                        1st Woman Elected to                         Actor Hugh Laurie (1959)
Ben Jonson (1572)                               Congress Jeannette Rankin (1880)

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Actor Shia LaBeouf (1986)


1403 - John IV, Duke of Brabant (d. 1427)
1456 - Anne Neville, wife of Richard III of England (d. 1485)
1540 - Barnabe Googe, English poet (d. 1594)
1572 - Ben Jonson, England, playwright/poet (Volpone, Alchemist)
1588 - George Wither, English writer (d. 1667)
1672 - Francesco Antonio Bonporti, composer
1696 - Francis Edward James Keith, Scottish soldier and Prussian field marshal (d. 1758)
1697 - Francesco A Vallotti, Italian organist/composer/theorist
1704 - Jose Antonio Carlos de Seixas, composer
1713 - Edward Capell, English critic (d. 1781)
1719 - Franz K von Velbruck, German free mason/prince-bishop of Luik
1723 - J G Palitzsch, 1st saw Halley's comet on return, Prolitz
1740 - Luigi Gatti, composer
1741 - Joseph Warren, American doctor and soldier (d. 1775)
1776 - John Constable, England, landscape painter (Hay Wain)
1807 - James Findlay Schenck, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1882
1808 - Charles Henry Poor, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1882
1815 - Julia Margaret Cameron, English photographer (d. 1879)
1816 - Robert Huston Milroy, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1890
1822 - Samuel Davis Sturgis, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1889
1823 - James Lawson Kemper, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1895
1829 - Hendrik Gerhard, Founder (Dutch Social-Democratic)
1840 - Henri Braekeleer, Flemish painter/etser
1842 - Alfred, Liechtenstein noble/politician
1842 - Carl von Linde, German engineer and industrialist (d. 1934)
1846 - William Louis Marshall, American general and engineer (d. 1920)
1847 - Millicent Garrett Fawcett, leader (English women's movement)
1861 - Sigismund Vladislavovich Zaremba, composer
1863 - Eduard David, German undersecretary (constitution of Weimar)
1864 - Richard Georg Strauss, Munich Germany, composer (Don Quixote)
1865 - Jan H Leopold, Dutch poet (translated Omar Khayyam)
1867 - Charles Fabry, discoverer (ozone layer in upper atmosphere)
1874 - Richard Stohr, composer
1876 - Alfred L Kroeber, Hoboken NJ, author (Anthropologist looks at History)
1877 - Renee Vivien, English-born poet (d. 1909)
1879 - Roger Bresnahan, baseball player (d. 1944)
1879 - Max Schreck, German actor (d. 1936)
1880 - Jeannette Rankin, 1st woman elected to US Congress (Rep-Montana)
1883 - Frank O King, Cashton Wisc, cartoonist (Gasoline Alley)
1886 - David Steinman, NYC, bridge designer (Hudson, Triborough)
1886 - Lillian Fontaine, Reading England, actress (Suddenly it's Spring)
1888 - Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian anarchist (d. 1927)
1889 - Wesley Ruggles, actor/producer/director (Keystone Kops)
1892 - Edward B B Shanks, British poet/critic
1894 - Dai Vernon (David Frederick Wingfield Verner), Canadian magician, The Professor (d. 1992)
1895 - Nikolai A Bulganin, Gorki Russia, premier of USSR (1955-58)
1897 - Bruno Frei, writer
1899 - George Frederick McKay, composer
1899 - Yasonari Kawabata, Japan, novelist (Thousand Cranes)
1900 - Lawrence E Spivak, Bkln NY, news panelist (Meet the Press)
1902 - Vissarion Yakovlevich Shebalin, composer
1903 - Ernie Nevers, NFL fullback (Duluth Eskimos, Chicago Cardinals)
1904 - Clarence "Pinetop" Smith, jazz pianist/singer (Boogie Woogie Piano)
1904 - Daphne Fielding, socialite/writer
1904 - Emil Frantisek Burian, composer
1906 - Clifford Leofric Purdy Bishop, bishop
1907 - Anton D Hildebrand, children's book writer (Man in the Moon)
1907 - Jose Bernabe Marino Barreto y Casanova, pianist vocalist bandleader
1907 - Paul Mellon, US, oil magnate/pres (Washington National Gallery of Art)
1910 - Carmine Coppola, composer/conductor (Godfather II, Apocalypse Now)
1910 - Jacques-Yves Cousteau, France, oceanic explorer (Calypso)
1911 - Russ Hodges, Dayton Tn, sportscaster (Wednesday Night Fights)
1912 - Mukhtar Ashrafi, composer
1912 - William Baziotes, painter (abstract expressionist)
1913 - John Elliott Terry, managing director (National Film Finance Corp)
1913 - Revaz Kondrat'yevich Gabichvadze, composer
1913 - Vince Lombardi, NFL coach (Green Bay Packers)
1914 - Gerald Mohr, NYC, actor (Christopher-Foreign Intrigue)
1914 - Hendrik Berkhof, Dutch theologist (Church & Emperor)
1914 - Jack Mann, pilot/hostage
1915 - David Kindersley, font designer/cutter
1915 - Nicholas Metropolis, Greek-American mathematician, physicist and computer scientist (d.
           1999)
1917 - James Bostock, painter/engraver
1917 - Joseph B. Wirthlin, LDS apostle
1919 - Richard Todd, Ireland, actor (Dorian Gray, Assassin Yangtse Incident)
1920 - Bir Bikram Shah Deva Mahendra, King of Nepal (1955-72)
1920 - Hazel Scott, Trinidad, singer/pianist (Hazel Scott)
1920 - Irving Howe, US, writer/critic (World of Our Fathers)
1920 - Robert Hutton, Kingston NY, actor (Torture Garden, Rocket)
1921 - Beatrice "Fiet" van Ommeren-Samson, Suriname writer
1921 - Michael Meyer, UK, novelist/Ibsen translator (Hedda Gabler)
1922 - Erving Goffman, sociologist (presentation of self in everyday life)
1922 - John Bromfield, South Bend In, actor (Easy to Love)
1922 - Michael Cacoyannis, director (Zorba the Greek, Trojan Women)
1922 - Tony Charmoli, director/choreographer (Dinah Shore, Danny Kaye)
1923 - Gerard Vaughn, MP (Conservative)
1924 - Ed Farhat, American professional wrestler (d. 2003)
1925 - William Styron, Va, novelist (Confess of Nat Turner, Sophie's Choice)
1925 - Richard White, Gisborne, New Zealand, rugby union player (55 games as an All Black), (d.
           2012)
1926 - Brother Dave Gardner, Novelty singer/comedian
1926 - Carlisle Floyd, Latta SC, composer (Slow Dusk)
1927 - Beryl Grey, prima ballerina
1927 - Eric St Eval Atkinson, cricketer (bro of Denis WI pace bowler 1958-59)
1927 - John Aspinall, owner (casino, zoos)
1927 - Josef Anton Reidl, composer
1927 - Marcus Fox, conservative MP/chairman (1922 Committee)
1928 - Fabiola de Mora y Aragon, Spanish Queen of Belgium
1928 - Gerard van Leijenhorst, Dutch undersecretary of the Interior (CDA)
1930 - Anatoli Fyodorovich Voronov, Russia, cosmonaut (Soyuz 12a backup)
1930 - Charles B Rangel, (Rep-D-NY, 1971- )
1931 - Lord Cameron of Lochbroom, lord advocate
1931 - Lucianna Paluzzi, Rome Italy, actress (Five Fingers, Thunderball)
1931 - Tab Hunter, NYC, actor (Tab Hunter Show)
1931 - Audrey Schuh, American soprano
1932 - Athol Fugard, Middleburg South Africa, anti-apartheid writer (Blood Knot)
1932 - Timothy Sainsbury, British minister of state
1933 - Jud Strunk, Jamestown NY, singer/comedian (Laugh-In)
1933 - Gene Wilder, American actor
1934 - Anthony Evans, British high court judge
1934 - Pookie Hudson, vocalist (Goodnite Sweetheart Goodnite-Spaniels)
1934 - Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark
1935 - Gene Wilder, [Jerome Silbermann], Milwaukee, actor (Silver Streak)
1935 - Sheikh Fazalur Rehman, cricketer (played 1 Test Pakistan v WI 1958)
1936 - George Bryan Ingham, artist
1936 - Jud Strunk, American musician and comedian (d. 1981)
1937 - Chad Everett [Raymon Lee Cramton], South Bend, Indiana, American actor (Medical Center,
           Airplane II)
1937 - Johnny Brown, St Petersburg Fla, comedian (Good Times, Leslie Uggams)
1937 - Robin Warren, Australian pathologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine
1939 - Barry George Barrington Porter, politician
1939 - Barry Porter, MP (Conservative)
1939 - Christina Crawford, author, Joan's daughter (Mommie Dearest)
1939 - Jackie Stewart, Scotland, driver/sports announcer (27 Grand Prix)
1939 - Rachel Heyhoe Flint, English cricket player/journalist
1939 - Wilma Burgess, country-pop singer
1939 - Bernard Purdie, American session drummer
1940 - Joey Dee, Passaic NJ, singer (Hey Let's Twist, 2 Tickets to Paris)
1942 - Somachandra De Silva, cricketer (Sri Lankan leg-spinner 1982-84)
1943 - Henry Hill Jr., Brooklyn, New York, mobster and FBI informant (inspired Goodfellas), (d. 2012)
1944 - Alan Horworth, MP
1944 - Barry Stevens, British/Neth, choreographer (Personals, Young Again)
1944 - James "Ox" D A van Hoften, Fresno California, astronaut (STS 11, STS 20)
1945 - Adrienne Barbeau, Sacramento California, actress (Maude, Swamp Thing)
1946 - Jenny Pittman, horse trainer
1946 - John Lawton, British rock singer (Uriah Heep)
1946 - Michael Wilkes, commander (UK Field Army)
1947 - Glenn Leonard, R&B singer (Temptations)
1947 - Henry Cisneros, first Hispanic to serve as mayor of a major U.S. city (San Antonio), later
           Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in the Clinton Administration
1947 - Laloo Prasad Yadav, Indian politician
1948 - Anthony Nelson, British Sec of Treasury
1948 - Skip Alan, [Alan Skipper], drummer (Them, Pretty Things)
1948 - Stephen Schnetzer, Boston Mass, actor (Cass Winthrop-Another World)
1949 - Frank Beard, rocker (ZZ Top-She Got Legs, Fandango)
1949 - George Willig, stuntman (climbed World Trade Center in 1977)
1949 - Tom Pryce, British racing driver (d. 1977)
1949 - Benjamin Vasserman, Estonian graphic artist
1950 - Graham Russell, Melbourne Australia, rock vocalist (Air Supply)
1950 - Debbie "Pokey" Watson, US, 200m backstroke swimmer (Olympic-gold-1968)
1950 - Lindsey de Paul, singer
1950 - Michael Swan, Palo Alto California, actor (Duncan-As The World Turns)
1951 - Collis King, cricketer (WI all-rounder late 70s)
1951 - Jan Fransen, Dutch MP (VVD)
1951 - Maren Seidler, Bkln NY, shot putter (Olympics-11th-1968)
1951 - Mark D Siljander, (Rep-R-MI, 1981- )
1951 - Mithra Wettimuny, cricketer (brother of Sidath 2 Tests for SL v NZ 1983)
1951 - Yasumasa Morimura, Japanese appropriation artist
1952 - Donnie Van Zant, rock vocalist (.38 Special)
1952 - Russell Hitchcock, Melbourne Australia, rock vocalist (Air Supply)
1953 - Peter Bergman, actor (All My Children, Starland Vocal Band)
1954 - Gary Fencik, NFL defensive back (Chicago Bears)
1954 - John Dyson, cricketer (NSW & Australian opening batsman)
1955 - Tony Allcock, bowler
1955 - Yuriy Sedykh, Soviet hammer thrower
1956 - Joe Montana, NFL quarterback (SF 49ers)
1957 - Bruce Plummer, Seattle Wash, Canadian Tour golfer (1994 West Coast)
1957 - Jamaaladeen Tacuma, American musician
1958 - Deborah Vidal, Ponce Puerto Rico, LPGA golfer (1994 Oldsmobile-19th)
1959 - Hugh Laurie [James Hugh Calum Laurie], Oxford, English actor (Strapless, Dr Gregory House-
           House)
1961 - Caroline Quentin, English actress
1961 - María Barranco, Spanish actress
1962 - Michael Kenny, WLAF offensive assistant (Scottish Claymores)
1962 - Erika Salumäe, Estonian cyclist, Olympian
1963 - Max Stevens, Millmeran QLD, Australasia golfer
1963 - Tommy Barnhardt, NFL punter (Carolina Panthers, GB Packers, TB Bucs)
1963 - Bruce Kimball, American diver
1963 - Sandra Schmirler, Canadian curler (d. 2000)
1964 - Kim Gallagher, Phila, 800m runner (Olympic-silver-1984)
1964 - Jean Alesi, French Formula One driver
1965 - Anthony Painter, Milton NSW, Australasia golfer
1965 - Giola Bruno, rocker (Expose)
1965 - Joe Cain, NFL linebacker (Chic Bears, Seattle Seahawks)
1965 - Manuel Uribe Garza, morbidly obese Mexican
1966 - Scott Mellanby, Montreal, NHL right wing (Florida Panthers)
1966 - Tiffany Cohen, Culver City California, swimmer (Olympic-2 gold-1984)
1967 - Clare Carey, actress (Kelly Fox Rosebrock-Coach)
1967 - John Doherty, pitcher
1967 - Mario Chitarroni, hockey forward (Team Italy 1998)
1968 - Staci Baldwin, Miss Washington USA (1996)
1969 - Johan Hansma, soccer player (SC Heerenveen)
1969 - Nancy Blogg, Swiss dancer (Josephine)
1969 - Peter Dinklage, American actor
1969 - Steven Drozd, American drummer
1969 - Matt McGrath, American actor
1970 - Brock Marion, NFL safety (Dallas Cowboys)
1970 - Roman Kontsek, hockey forward (Team Slovakia 1998)
1970 - William Selby, Monroeville MI, infielder (Boston Red Sox)
1970 - Chris Rice, singer/songwriter
1971 - Dion Foxx, NFL linebacker (Miami Dolphins)
1971 - Duane Dmytryshyn, CFL receiver (Toronto Argonauts)
1972 - Andrew Peterson, NFL tackle (Green Bay Packers, Carolina Panthers)
1972 - Joe O'Brien, WLAF defensive tackle (Scottish Claymores)
1973 - Lance Johnstone, defensive end (Oakland Raiders)
1973 - Robby Kiger, Encino California, actor (Josh Fox-Crazy Like a Fox)
1973 - Tony McKenzie, WLAF guard (London Monarchs)
1974 - Emilee Klein, Santa Monica CA, LPGA golfer (1995 SAFECO Classic-2nd)
1974 - Tanya Pogatchnik, Miss Montana USA (1996)
1974 - Tatiana Ignatieva, Minsk Belarus, tennis star (1994 Futures-Sopot POL)
1975 - Choi Ji Woo, South Korean actress and model
1975 - Thomas Bimis, Greek diver
1976 - Scott Guyton, Tokoroa NZ, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1976 - Tai Anderson, American musician (bass player for Third Day)
1977 - Geoff Ogilvy, Australian golfer
1977 - Ryan Dunn, American actor
1977 - Shane Meier, Canadian actor
1978 - Joshua Jackson, actor (Mighty Ducks)
1978 - Leah Sexton, Miss Missouri Teen USA (1996)
1978 - Ujjwala Raut, Indian supermodel
1980 - Yhency Brazoban, Dominican born baseball player
1981 - Emiliano Moretti, Italian footballer
1982 - Eldar Rønning, Norwegian cross-country skier
1982 - Johnny Candido, American professional wrestler
1982 - Joey Graham, American basketball player
1982 - Steven Graham, American basketball player
1982 - Diana Taurasi, American basketball player
1983 - José Reyes, Dominican baseball player
1983 - Chuck Hayes, American basketball player
1984 - Vagner Love, Brazilian footballer
1984 - Andy Lee, Irish Boxer
1985 - Anja Rubik, Polish supermodel
1985 - Chris Trousdale, American pop singer and dancer
1985 - Josh Ramsay, Canada, singer-songwriter (Marianas Trench)
1986 - Brighton Hertford, actress (BJ Jones-General Hospital)
1986 - Shia LaBeouf, Los Angeles, California, American actor (Disturbia, Transformers)
1987 - TiA, Japanese R&B singer
1988 - Yui Aragaki, Japanese actress and model
1989 - Jeff Linton Osbourne, son of Jeffrey & Sheri
1994 - Ivana Baquero, Spanish actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 11, 2013, 11:21:55 AM

This Day in History for 11th June


Famous Deaths

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Macedonian King and
Conqueror of Persia
Alexander the Great (323 BC)


323 BC - Alexander the Great, Macedonian king, dies from either fever or excessive wine at 32, (or the 10th June)
1183 - Henry the Young King, son of Henry II of England (b. 1155)
1216 - Henry of Flanders, Emperor of the Latin Empire
1249 - Adelheid van Schaarbeek, Flemish mystic/saint, dies
1479 - Johannes a San Facundo, Spanish Augustine saint, dies
1488 - James III, King of Scots, dies in battle
1557 - King John III of Portugal (b. 1502)
1560 - Marie Guise, French wife of King James V of Scotland and mother and regent of Mary Queen
           of Scots, dies at 44
1666 - Cornelis Evertsen the Old, Swiss vice-admiral, dies in battle at 55
1674 - Susanna van Baerle, Dutch poet/wife of Geeraert Burns, dies at 52
1695 - André Félibien, French architect (b. 1619)
1698 - Balthasar Bekker, Frisian theologist (Enchanted World), dies at 64
1712 - Louis Joseph, duc de Vendôme, Marshal of France (b. 1654)
1727 - King George I of Great Britain (b. 1660)
1764 - Christoph Stoltzenberg, composer, dies at 74
1766 - Elisabeth Farnese, princess of Parma/queen of Spain, dies at 73
1775 - Egidio Romoaldo Duni, Italian composer, dies at 67
1796 - Samuel Whitbread, English brewer and politician (b. 1720)
1808 - Giovanni Battista Cirri, composer, dies at 83
1811 - Charles Frederick, liberal ruler of Baden, dies at 82
1825 - Daniel D Tompkins, 6th US Vice President (1817-25), dies at 54
1828 - Dugald Stewart, Scot philosopher (Scottish common sense), dies at 74
1847 - John Franklin, English sea captain and explorer (b. 1786)
1852 - Karl Briullov, Russian painter (b. 1799)
1856 - Friedrich H von der Hagen, German germanist, dies at 76
1858 - Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, Austrian statesman (b. 1773)
1879 - Willem, (crown)prince of Orange, dies of bronchitis or murder at 39
1882 - Louis Maigret, Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1804)
1886 - Antonio C G Crespo, Brazilian/Portuguese poet, dies at 40
1896 - Friedrich Gottlieb Schwencke, composer, dies at 72
1900 - Charles Swinnerton Heap, composer, dies at 53
1903 - Draga Masin, wife of Serbian king Aleksandar I, murdered at 35
1903 - Nikolai Bugaev, Russian mathematician (b. 1837)
1906 - Heinrich Hart, German writer (Das Lied der Menschheit), dies at 50
1908 - Georg Adler, German statehouse head, dies at 45
1911 - James Curtis Hepburn, American missionary and linguist (b. 1815)
1912 - Leon Dierx, French poet (Amants), dies at 74
1913 - Machmud Shevket Pasha, Turks grand vizier, murdered
1914 - Adolf Friedrich V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1848)
1924 - Alexander F de Savornin Lohmann Jr, Dutch minister (CHU), dies at 87
1924 - Theodore Dubois, composer, dies at 86
1927 - William Attewell, cricket bowler (England in 10 Tests 1884-1891), dies
1929 - Gyula Andressy Jr, Hungarian minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 68
1930 - George Alexander, cricketer (two early Tests for Australia), dies
1930 - Henry Clay Folger Jr, CEO (Folger Shakespeare Library), dies at 72
1934 - Lev Vygotsky, Russian psychologist (b. 1896)
1936 - Robert E. Howard, American author (b. 1906)
1937 - R. J. (Reginald Joseph) Mitchell, British aircraft designer (b. 1895)
1941 - Daniel Carter Beard, founder of the Boy Scouts of America (b. 1850)
1943 - Sam[uel] de Vries, actor (Boefje, In Sobibor), dies at 50
1949 - Koci Xoxe, Albanian vice-premier, executed
1949 - Oton Zupanic, Slavs poet (Zimzelen pod snegom), dies at 71
1951 - Montagu Odd, cricket bat-maker (W G Grace), dies
1955 - Jacques Lemaigre-Dubreuil, French industrialist, murdered
1955 - Marcel Louis Auguste Samuel-Rousseau, composer, dies at 72
1955 - Walter Hampden, actor (Sabrina, 5 Fingers, Vagabond King), dies at 75
1956 - Corrado Alvaro, Italian writer (Poesie grigio-verdi), dies at 61
1956 - Ralph Morgan, actor (Creeper, Imposter, Jack London), dies at 73
1963 - Quang Duc, Buddhist monk, immolates himself on a street in Saigon
1965 - José Mendes Cabeçadas, 95th Prime Minister of Portugal and 9th President of Portugal (b.
          1883)
1966 - Ethel Clayton, actress (Warning Shadows), dies at 82
1966 - Wallace Ford, actor (Deputy), dies of heart attack at 68
1967 - Billy Wells, Gong striker for Rank Films, dies at 79
1969 - John L Lewis, formed (Congress of Industrial Org), dies at 89
1970 - Aleksandr F Kerenski, Russian premier (1917), dies at 89
1970 - Camille Bombois, French circus wrestler/painter, dies at 87
1970 - Frank Laubach, Benton Pa, taught reading through phonetics, dies
1970 - Frank Silvera, Jamaican actor (High Chaparral), dies at 55
1970 - Earl Grant, American musician and singer (b. 1931)
1970 - William 'Billy Batts' Devino, American crime figure (b. 1921)
1974 - Julius Evola, Italian philosopher (b. 1898)
1974 - Eurico Gaspar Dutra, President of Brazil (b. 1883)
1975 - Floro Manuel Ugarte, composer, dies at 90
1976 - Jim Konstanty, American baseball player (b. 1917)
1979 - August Maes, Flemish actor/director (Farmer that Dies), dies at 85
1979 - John Wayne [Marion Mitchell Morrison], actor (Green Berets, True Grit), dies at 72
1981 - Eppo Doeve, Dutch graphic artist/cartoonist/painter, dies at 73
1984 - Enrico Berlinguer, secr-general (CP) Italy, dies
1985 - Karen Ann Quinlan, comatose patient, dies in Morris Plains NJ at 31
1985 - Sapfo Notara, Greek actress (b. 1907)
1986 - Robert E Howard, sci-fi author (Conan the Conqueror), dies at 80
1986 - Chesley Bonestell, American-born engineer, architect, and artist (b. 1888)
1988 - Giuseppe Saragat, president of Italy (1964-71), dies at 89
1988 - Nathan Cook, actor (White Night), dies of an allergic reaction at 38
1990 - Clyde McCoy, jazz trumpeter (wah wah sound), dies at 86
1991 - Vlastimil Fisar, Czech actor/pres (Intl Actors Federation), dies
1992 - Marjorie Newell Robb, oldest living survivor of Titantic, dies at 103
1992 - Marlene Hazlett, entertainer, dies of cancer
1992 - Scotty Sachs, actor (Hanoi Hilton), dies of gunshot wounds at 39
1993 - Muriel C Bradbrook, English writer (Rise of Common Player), dies at 84
1993 - Ray Sharkey, actor (Wiseguy, No Mercy, Body Rock), dies of AIDs at 40
1994 - Christopher Collins, actor (True Identity), dies after illness at 44
1994 - Herbert Anderson, actor (Henry-Dennis The Menace), dies at 77
1994 - Jack Hannah, animator, dies at 90
1994 - Kitty Rosalind Muggeridge, author, dies at 90
1995 - Lovelace Watkins, singer, dies at 58
1995 - Luigi Innocenti, designer, dies at 71
1996 - Alan Weeks, British sports commentator, dies at 72
1996 - Brigitte Helm [Gisele Eve von Kuenheim], actress (Gloria), dies at 90
1996 - Kevin Meadows, gay rights activist, dies at 21
1996 - Lonne Elder, playwright/screenwriter, dies at 69
1996 - Ulysses Dove, dancer/choreographer, dies at 49
1997 - Thalassa Cruso, gardening expert (PBS), dies of Alzheimer's at 87
1998 - Catherine Cookson, British novelist (b. 1906)
1999 - DeForest Kelley, American actor (b. 1920)
2001 - Timothy McVeigh, American terrorist (by execution; b. 1968)
2001 - Amalia Mendoza, Mexican singer (b. 1923)
2003 - David Brinkley, American television reporter (b. 1920)
2004 - Egon von Furstenberg, Swiss fashion designer (b. 1946)
2004 - Xenophon Zolotas, Greek politician (b. 1904)
2005 - Vasco Gonçalves, Portuguese general (b. 1922)
2006 - Bruce Shand, father of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall (b. 1917)
2006 - Michael Bartosh, computer expert and author (b. 1977)
2006 - Neroli Fairhall, New Zealand archer (b. 1944)
2007 - Imre Friedmann, American scientist (b. 1921)
2007 - Mala Powers, American film actress (b. 1931)
2008 - Võ Văn Kiệt, former prime minister of Vietnam (b. 1922)
2008 - Ove Andersson, Swedish rally driver (b. 1938)
2008 - Miroslav Dvořák, Czechoslovak ice hockey player (b. 1951)
2010 - Zenani Mandela, Nelson Mandela's great granddaughter (b. 1997)
2011 - Seth Putnam, American musician (b. 1968)
2012 - Norman F Lent, American republican Congressman, dies from cancer at 81
2012 - Ann Rutherford, Canadian actress, dies from heart disease at 94
2012 - Teofilo Stevenson, Cuban Heavyweight boxer, dies from a heart attack at 60

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 12, 2013, 09:28:39 AM

This Day in History for 12th June


Historical Events

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Baseball Great Babe Ruth                         Gangster Al Capone                               Jewish Victim & Diarist of the
                                                                                                                                   Holocaust Anne Frank

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Baseball Legend Connie Mack                 Anti-apartheid activist/South                     Goddess of Pop Cher
                                                           African President Nelson Mandela                  (Cherilyn Sarkisian)

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Actor/Comedian Bill Cosby                         Actor Harrison Ford                             264th Pope John Paul II


28 - Gaius Carrinas' triumphant procession through Rome
1381 - Peasants' Revolt: in England, rebels arrive at Blackheath.
1418 - An insurrection delivers Paris to the Burgundians.
1442 - King Alfonso V of Aragon occupies Naples
1523 - Frisian rebel leader Jancko Douwama arrested
1534 - Turkish adm Chaireddin "Barbarossa" allows Giulia Gonzaga to kidnap & plunder Naples
1552 - Land guardians of Netherlands attacks Verdun
1553 - King Edward VI accept archbishop Cranmers "42 Articles"
1560 - Battle of Okehazama: Oda Nobunaga defeats Imagawa Yoshimoto.
1653 - - 13] First Anglo-Dutch War: Battle of the Gabbard/ Battle at North Foreland, English fleet
           beats the Dutch
1665 - English rename New Amsterdam, NY, after Dutch pull out
1665 - England installs a municipal government in New York City (the former Dutch settlement of
           New Amsterdam).
1667 - -13] Michiel de Ruyter destroys English fleet
1672 - French army under Gen Turenne crosses Rhine at Lobith
1673 - Charles II's brother duke James of York resigns as Lord High Admiral
1683 - Rye House-plot against English king Charles II uncovered
1691 - Pope Innocent XII succeeds Alexander VIII
1701 - Act of Settlement gives English crown to Sophia, Princess of Hanover
1714 - Prussia & Russia sign secret treaty
1775 - 1st naval battle of Revolution-Unity (US) captures Margaretta (Br)
1776 - Virginia adopts Declaration of Rights
1787 - Law passes providing a senator must be at least 30 years old
1792 - George Vancouver discovers site of Vancouver BC
1812 - Napoleon invades Russia
1819 - Dutch colonial troops driven out of Palembang Sumatra
1830 - Beginning of the French colonization of Algeria: 34,000 French soldiers land 27 kilometers
           west of Algiers, at Sidi Ferruch.
1838 - Hopkins Observatory, dedicated in Williamstown, Mass
1838 - Iowa Territory forms
1839 - 1st baseball game played in America
1840 - Meteorite hits Uden, Netherlands
1845 - George Abernethy becomes 1st governor of Oregon Country
1849 - Gas mask patented by Lewis Haslett (Louisville Ky)
1859 - Comstock Silver Lode in Nevada discovered
1860 - The State Bank of the Russian Empire is established.
1861 - Missouri Governor Claiborne Jackson calls for 50,000 volunteers to stop Federates from taking over his state
1864 - Lee sends Early into Shenandoah Valley
1864 - Skirmish at Mcafee's Cross Road Georgia, about 57 dies in battle
1867 - Austro-Hungarian Empire forms
1875 - 9th Belmont: Bobby Swim aboard Calvin wins in 2:42.25
1880 - John Lee Richmond pitches 1st major league perfect game, Worcester 1, Cleveland's Forest
           City 0
1885 - Roof collapse kills 30 at murder trial in France
1889 - 88 are killed in the Armagh rail disaster near Armagh in what is now Northern Ireland.
1892 - Neth Society for Currency & Coin collecting forms
1896 - J.T. Hearne sets a cricket record for the earliest date of taking 100 first-class wickets in a
           season.
1897 - Possibly most severe quake in history strikes Assam India, shock waves felt over an area size
           of Europe (low mortality rate given size of earthquake, 1500 casualties)
1898 - Philippine nationalists declares independence from Spain to US control
1899 - New Richmond Tornado: the eighth deadliest tornado in U.S. history kills 117 peoples and
           injures around 200.
1900 - German Navy Law calls for massive increase in sea power
1903 - Niagara Falls, Ontario incorporated as a city
1903 - The Sigma Alpha Iota International Music Fraternity is founded at the University of Michigan
           School of Music.
1907 - Yanks commit 11 errors & lose 14-6 to Tigers
1908 - Lusitania crosses Atlantic in record 4 days 15 hours (NYC)
1909 - "Shine On, Harvest Moon" by Ada Jones & Billy Murray hits #1
1910 - PEC soccer team forms in Zwolle
1913 - "Dachshund" by Pathe Freres, early animated cartoon, released
1915 - 29th US Womens Tennis: Molla B Mallory beats Hazel Wightman (46 62 60)
1916 - 30th US Womens Tennis: Molla B Mallory beats Louise Raymond (60 61)
1916 - Tennis legend Bill Tilden's 1st appearance at US tennis championship
1917 - Secret Service extends protection of president to his family
1918 - 1st airplane bombing raid by an American unit, France
1919 - Dutch 2nd Chamber accord for equal Christian-public education
1920 - 52nd Belmont: Clarence Kummer aboard Man o' War wins in 2:14.2
1920 - Farmer Labor Party organized (Chicago)
1922 - German Reich president Friedrich Ebert visits Munich
1922 - St Louis Brown Hub Pruett strikes out Babe Ruth 3 straight times
1922 - St Louis gets record 10 hits in a row & beats Phillies 14-8
1923 - Harry Houdini frees himself from a straight jacket while suspended upside down, 40 feet (12
           m) above ground in NYC
1925 - William DeHart Hubbard of US, sets long jump record at 25' 10 3/4"
1926 - 58th Belmont: Albert Johnson aboard Crusader wins in 2:32.2
1926 - Brazil leaves League of Nations
1928 - NY Yankee Lou Gehrig hits 2 triples & 2 HRs to be White Sox 15-7
1930 - 34th US Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 287 at Interlachen CC Minn
1930 - Max Schmeling beats Jack Sharkey on a foul in 4 for heavyweight boxing title
1931 - Al Capone is indicted on 5,000 counts of prohibition & perjury
1933 - Financial & Economy World conference opens (66 countries)
1934 - Black-McKeller Bill passes causes Bill Boeing empire to break up into Boeing United Aircraft
           [Technologies] & United Air Lines
1935 - Weapons pact ends 3 year war of Gran Chaco (Bolivia vs Paraguay)
1935 - Senator Huey Long of Louisiana spoke continually for 15½ hours in Senate's longest speech
           on record (150,000 words)
1936 - 1st 50 KW US radio station (Pittsburgh Pa)
1937 - 41st US Golf Open: Ralph Guldahl shoots a 281 at Oakland Hills Mich
1937 - USSR executes 8 army leaders as Stalin's purge continues
1939 - 43rd US Golf Open: Byron Nelson shoots a 284 at Phila CC in Phila
1939 - Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown NY
1939 - Shooting begins on Paramount Pictures' Dr. Cyclops, the first horror film photographed in
           three-strip Technicolor.
1942 - Anne Frank gets her diary as a birthday present (Amsterdam)
1942 - Hitler orders enslavement of Slavic peoples
1942 - Tornado kills 35 in Oklahoma City
1943 - Himmler orders extermination of all Polish ghettos
1944 - 1st V-1 rocket assault on London
1944 - British 12th airborne batallion/13th & 18th Hussars conquer
1944 - British 12th battalion conquers Bréville
1944 - Churchill/Marshall/Arnold visit Montgomery's HQ in Chateau de Creully
1944 - US troop march into Carentan/Caumont, Normandy
1945 - US 7th Marine regiment conquer summit of Kunishi Ridge, Okinawa
1947 - Babe Didrikson is 1st American to win Brit Women's Amateur Golf Champ
1948 - "Hold It!" closes at National Theater NYC after 46 performances
1948 - "Sleepy Hallow" closes at St James Theater NYC after 12 performances
1948 - "William Tell Overture" by Spike Jones peaks at #6
1948 - 48th US Golf Open: Ben Hogan shoots a 276 at Riviera CC in LA
1948 - 80th Belmont: Eddie Arcaro aboard Citation wins in 2:28.2
1948 - Bradman scores 138 in 1st Test Cricket at Trent Bridge
1950 - 2 Air France DC-4s crash near Bahrain, about 100 die
1950 - Connie Mack named Honorary Manager of the All-Star Game
1952 - USSR declares peace treaty with Japan invalid
1954 - "Girl in Pink Tights" closes at Mark Hellinger NYC after 115 perfs
1954 - 86th Belmont: Eric Guerin aboard High Gun wins in 2:30.8
1954 - Bill Haley's "Rock Around the Clock," is originally released
1954 - Milwaukee Braves Jim Wilson no-hits Phillies, 2-0
1955 - "Mr Peepers" (TV Comedy) starring Wally Cox airs for last time on NBC
1955 - Monitor (full weekend program) begins on NBC radio network
1957 - Paul Anderson of US back-lifts a record 2850 kg (6,270 lbs)
1957 - Stan Musial plays in 823rd game (new NL consecutive-game streak)
1958 - "Make Me Laugh," TV Game Show; last airs on ABC-TV, syndicated 1979
1959 - SF Giants Mike McCormick no-hits Phillies, 3-0 in 5 inning game
1960 - KORN (now KDLT) TV channel 5 in Mitchell-Sioux Falls, SD (ABC) begins
1960 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament
1961 - An ailing Bill Veeck sells his interest in White Sox to Arthur Allyn
1961 - Dutch Lockheed Electricity "Sirius" accident at Cairo, kills 20
1962 - 3 convicts used spoons to dig their way out of Alcatraz
1962 - Laos prince Souvanna Phouma forms coalition government
1962 - USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 56,270 m
1963 - "Cleopatra" premieres in NYC
1964 - Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison in South Africa
1965 - "Bajour" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 232 performances
1965 - "I Had a BaIl" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 199 perfs
1965 - "What Makes Sammy Run?" closes at 84th St Theater NYC after 540 perfs
1965 - Beatles are awarded MBE
1965 - Morio Shigematsu runs world record marathon (2:12:00)
1965 - Rolling Stones release "Satisfaction"
1965 - Sonny & Cher make their 1st TV appearance, "American Bandstand"
1965 - South Vietnam Gen Nguyen Cao Ky succeeds Phan Huy Quat as premier
1965 - Big Bang theory of creation of universe is supported by announcement of discovery of new
           celestial bodies know as blue galaxies
1966 - Dave Clark 5 set record as they appear for 12th time on Ed Sullivan
1966 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Bluegrass Ladies Golf Invitational
1967 - Israel wins 6 day war
1967 - Race riot in Cincinnati Ohio (300 arrested)
1967 - Supreme Court unanimously ends laws against interracial marriages
1967 - USSR launches Venera 4 for parachute landing on Venus
1967 - Wash Senators beat Chic White Sox, 6-5, in 22 innings
1968 - "What Makes Sammy Run?" closes at 84th St Theater NYC after 540 perfs
1970 - Pitts Pirate Doc Ellis no-hits San Diego Padres, 2-0
1972 - John Lennon's political "Sometime in NYC" released including "Woman is the Nigger of the
           World" "Attica State" & "Luck of the Irish"
1973 - Close finish at Trent Bridge, NZ Cricket need 479 to win, all out 440
1973 - Yanks trade wife swapper Mike Kekich for Lowell Palmer
1975 - Billy Williams's 400th career HR
1975 - Hank Aaron's 1st HR in Milwaukee since 1965
1976 - "Yes, Yes, Yes" by Bill Cosby hits #46
1977 - "Pippin" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 1944 performances
1977 - 23rd LPGA Championship won by Chako Higuchi
1977 - Ground-breaking ceremonies for Pres Kennedy library
1978 - David Berkowitz sentenced in NY Supreme Court to 25 yrs to life
1978 - US House of Representatives allows live radio coverage
1979 - Kevin St Onge throws a playing card a record 185'
1979 - Opening ceremony at Cambridge Buddhist Association meditation in Boston
1979 - Sanista occupies parts of Managua
1979 - Tigers fire manager Les Moss, hiring Sparky Anderson
1979 - Bryan Allen flew man-powered Gossamer Albatross over English Channel in a human-powered
           aircraft; flight took 2 hrs, 49 min
1980 - Reagan said he would submit to periodic medical tests
1981 - "Raiders Of The Lost Ark" starring Harrison Ford premieres
1981 - 3rd baseball strike starts
1981 - Baseball players begin a 50 day strike, their 3rd strike
1981 - Larry Holmes TKOs Leon Spinks in 3 for WBC heavyweight boxing title
1981 - Only candidate Hassan Gouled Aptidon wins Djibouti pres election
1982 - 750,000 anti-nuclear demonstrators, rally in Central Park NYC
1982 - Battle of Mount Longdon Falkland Islands
1982 - Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel perform in Rotterdam
1983 - 29th LPGA Championship won by Patty Sheehan
1983 - Comet C/1983 (Sugano-Saigusa-Fujikawa) approaches 0.0628 AUs of Earth
1983 - Winston Davis takes 7-51 in Cricket World Cup match v Australia
1986 - P W Botha declares South African national emergency
1987 - Central Afr Rep ex-emperor Jean-Bédell Bokassa sentenced to death
1988 - 6th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Billy Casper
1988 - Andy Hampton is 1st American to win Round of Italy
1988 - Mei-Chi Cheng wins LPGA Rochester Golf International
1988 - The Republic of Ireland beats England 1-0 at Euro88 thanks to a headed goal by Ray
           Houghton. This is Ireland's first competitive match at a major football tournament.
1989 - "Doctor Doctor," TV Comedy starring Matt Frewer, debuts on CBS-TV
1989 - Ben Johnson, Canadian Olympian, admits using steroids
1990 - Egypt (500-1 longshot) ties favorite Neth 1-1 in World Cup game
1990 - NY Yankee reliever Dave Righetti becomes 9th to record 200 saves
1990 - Oakland A's Rickey Henderson becomes 2nd to steal 900 bases
1990 - Orioles Cal Ripken plays in his 1,308th consecutive game to move past Everett Scott into 2nd
           place on the all-time list
1990 - NY Mets beat Chicago Cubs 19-8 at Wrigley Field, Cubs outfielder Doug Dazcenzo pitched a
           scoreless 9th inning
1991 - 45th NBA Championship: Chicago Bulls beat LA Lakers, 4 games to 1
1991 - Boris Yelstin elected president of Russian Federation
1992 - "Batman Returns" is released in USA
1993 - "Three Little Pigs" by Green Jelly hits #17
1994 - -17] Pope John Paul II visits Spain
1994 - 48th Tony Awards: Angels in America: Perestroika & Passion win
1994 - Cab Calloway suffered massive stroke at his home in White Plaines NY
1994 - Liselotte Neumann wins Minnesota LPGA Golf Classic
1996 - 3 Phila Fed Court judges overturn US indecency ban on internet
1996 - Marge Schott gives up day-to-day operations because of her numerous insensitive comments
           about Adolf Hitler, working women & Asians
1997 - 1st ever baseball inter-league game SF Giants beat Texas Rangers 4-3
1999 - Kosovo War: Operation Joint Guardian begins - a NATO-led United Nations peacekeeping
           force KFor enters the province of Kosovo in Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
2000 - Sandro Rosa do Nascimento takes hostages while robbing Bus #174 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil;
           the highly-publicized standoff becomes a media circus and ends with the death of do
           Nascimento and a hostage.
2002 - Los Angeles Lakers beat New Jersey Nets 4-0 in NBA finals MVP: Shaquille O'Neal, L.A.
2004 - A 1.3 kilogram chondrite type meteorite strikes a house in Ellerslie, New Zealand causing
           serious damage but no injuries.
2008 - Ireland rejects the Lisbon Treaty in a referendum, thus putting into question the reform
           programme of the European Union.
2009 - Protests in Iran following the presidential election.
2009 - TSC: All television broadcasts in the United States switch from analog NTSC to digital ATSC
           transmission.
2012 - The chemical compound NOTT-202, which is capable of selectively absorbing carbon dioxide, is
           created
2012 - An Australian coroner's report rules that a dingo was responsible for the death of a baby in
          1980
2012 - The World Health Organization concludes that diesel exhaust causes cancer

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 12, 2013, 09:55:28 AM

This Day in History for 12th June


Famous Weddings

1971 - Tricia Nixon & Edward F Cox marry at White House
1999 - Actor and film director David Arquette (27) weds "Friends" actress Courteney Cox (34) at
           Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, California
1999 - Former Olympic gymnast Shannon Miller (22) weds lawyer and ophthalmologist Chris Phillips
           (26) at Quail Springs Baptist Church in Oklahoma City

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 12, 2013, 10:33:25 AM

This Day in History for 12th June


Famous Birthdays

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US President                                           Jewish Victim & Diarist of the                 Musician Pete Farndon (1952)
George H. W. Bush (1924)                       Holocaust Anne Frank (1929)


1107 - Emperor Gaozong of China (d. 1187)
1468 - Juan del Encina, composer
1519 - Cosimo I de Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany and art patron of Florence (d. 1574)
1526 - Marc-Antoine de Muret, composer
1577 - Paul Guldin, Swiss astronomer and mathematician (d. 1643)
1599 - Jan W van Brederode, governor (Hertogenbosch)/fieldmarshal
1659 - Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Japanese samurai (d. 1719)
1771 - Patrick Gass, Falling Springs PA, sgt of Lewis & Clark Expedition
1775 - Karl Freiherr von Müffling, Prussian field marshal (d. 1851)
1777 - Robert Clark, American politician (d. 1837)
1795 - John Marston Jr, Comm (Union Navy), died in 1885
1798 - Samuel Cooper, Sect of War/General (Confederate Army), died in 1876
1802 - Harriet Martineau, controversial journalist, political economist, abolitionist and life-long
           feminist (d. 1876)
1806 - John A. Roebling, German-America civil engineer (Brooklyn Bridge) (d. 1869)
1812 - Edmond Hébert, French geologist (d. 1890)
1819 - Charles Kingsley, [Parson Lot], Engl vicar/historian (Westward Ho!)
1821 - Henry Moses Judah, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1866
1825 - John Cook, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1910
1827 - Johanna Spyri, Swiss author (d. 1901)
1829 - Johanna Spyri, Switzerland, writer (Heidi)
1842 - Rikard Nordraak, composer
1851 - Oliver Joseph Lodge, England, early radio pioneer
1857 - Achille Simonetti, composer
1861 - William Attewell, English cricketer (d. 1927)
1874 - Willem Louis Frederic Landre, composer
1875 - Sam De Grasse, Canadian actor (d. 1953)
1876 - Narciso Garay, composer
1877 - Thomas C Hart, US admiral (Asiatic fleet)
1878 - James O Curwood, US, journalist/writer (Kazan the wolfdog)
1881 - Juan de Hernandez, composer
1885 - Werner Erich Josten, Elberfeld Germany, composer (Jungle)
1888 - Zygmunt Janiszewski, Polish mathematician (d. 1920)
1890 - Egon Schiele, Austrian painter/graphic artist
1892 - John Donald Robb, composer
1892 - Djuna Barnes, American author (d. 1982)
1893 - Kommer Kleijn, Dutch actor/radio play director (Paul Vlaanderen)
1897 - Alexandre Tansman, Lodz Poland, composer (Dyptique)
1897 - Anthony Eden, Earl of Avon (C), British PM (1955-57)
1900 - Amadeo Roldan, composer
1900 - Betsy van Es, Flemish actress (Sonna)
1902 - Hendrik J Elias, Flemish historian/(mayor-Ghent)
1903 - Emmett Hardy, American musician (d. 1925)
1904 - Eino Roiha, composer
1905 - Ray Barbuti, American athlete (d. 1988)
1906 - Sandro Penna, Italian poet (d. 1977)
1907 - Giorgio Nataletti, composer
1908 - Max Tailleur, adjudant to Prince Bernhard/Jewish humorist
1908 - Ronald Selby Wright, minister
1908 - Alphonse Ouimet, Canadian TV pioneer and president of the CBC (d. 1988)
1908 - Marina Semenova, Russian ballerina
1909 - Archie Bleyer, Corona NY, orchestra leader (Arthur Godfrey)
1909 - Mansel Treharne Thomas, composer
1910 - Bill Naughton, English playwright (d. 1992)
1911 - Milovan Djilas, Yugoslavia, writer/politician (New Class)
1912 - Eddie Williams, blues/Jazz Bassist
1912 - Mary Lavin MacDonald Scott, author
1912 - Russell "Lucky" Hayden, Chico California, actor (Judge Roy Bean)
1912 - Jameel Jalibi, Pakistani scholar, writer, and Urdu linguist
1913 - Jean Victor Allard, Canadian army general (d. 1996)
1914 - Peter Lancelot Williams, dance journalist
1914 - William Lundigan, Syracuse NY, actor (Climax)
1914 - Bill Kenny, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, singer (The Bill Kenny Show), (d. 2012)
1915 - David Rockefeller, CEO (Chase Manhattan Bank)
1915 - Christopher Mayhew, British politician (d. 1997)
1916 - Irwin Allen, NYC, director (Land of the Giants, Poseidon Adventure)
1916 - Ivan Tors, TV producer (Sea Hunt, Flipper)
1917 - Priscilla Lane, US, actress (Arsenic & Old Lace)
1918 - Samuel Z. Arkoff, American film producer (d. 2001)
1919 - Uta Hagen, Germany, actress (Boys From Brazil)/teaches acting
1919 - Vera Hruba Ralston, Czech, actress (Dakota, Accused of Murder)
1920 - Peter Jones, England, actor (From a Bird's Eye View)
1920 - Dave Berg, American cartoonist (d. 2002)
1920 - Jim Siedow, American actor (d. 2003)
1921 - H C Artmann, writer
1921 - Hendrik J Witteveen, economist/minister of finance/director (IMF)
1921 - James Houston, Toronto, author/filmmaker (Tikta'Liktak)
1921 - Christopher Derrick, British writer (d. 2007)
1922 - Leif Thybo, composer
1923 - Marta Pan, Hungarian/French sculptor (Great spiral)
1924 - George Herbert Walker Bush, MA, 43 VP (1981-89) 41st Pres (R, 1989-93)
1926 - Jackie Pallo, English professional wrestler (d. 2006)
1927 - Henry Slesar, Brooklyn NY, headwriter (Edge of Night)
1927 - Timir Pinegin, Moscow, Russia, sailor (Olympic gold 1960), (d. 2013)
1928 - Michael Wishart, artist
1928 - Richard Sherman, composer/lyricist (Mary Poppins)
1928 - Vic Damone, [Vito Farinola], Bkln, singer (Street Where You Live)
1929 - Anne Frank, Holland, Nazi victim/diarist (Diary of Anne Frank)
1929 - Brigid Brophy, novelist/campaigner
1930 - Barbara Harris, 1st US Episcopal female bishop
1930 - Hans Koetsier, Dutch sculptor (KLM-Schiphol)
1930 - Jim Burke, cricketer (Australian opener of 50s)
1930 - Donald Byrne, American chess player (d. 1976)
1930 - Jim Nabors, American actor
1930 - Innes Ireland, Scottish racing driver (d. 1993)
1932 - Jim Nabors, Sylacauga Al, actor/singer (Gomer Pyle)
1932 - Mamo Wolde, Ethiopia, marathoner (Olympic-gold-1968)
1932 - Rona Jaffe, novelist (Mazes & Monsters)
1933 - Eddie Adams, American photographer, won Pulitzer Prize (d. 2004)
1934 - John A. Alonzo, American cinematographer (d. 2001)
1935 - Christoph Meckel, writer
1935 - Ian Craig, cricketer (prodigious Australian bat of 50's)
1936 - Bill Zeliff, (Rep-R-NH)
1937 - Vladimir Arnold, Russian mathematician
1937 - Antal Festetics, Austrian biologist
1938 - Tom Oliver, Australian actor
1939 - Francis X McCloskey, (Rep-D-Indiana, 1983- )
1939 - GAI Schuijt, Dutch jurist (information law)
1939 - Geoff Griffin, cricketer (S Afr quick, hat-trick & chuck v Eng 1960)
1941 - Chick Corea, Chelsea Mass, jazz pianist (Delhpi I, Toy Dance)
1941 - Lucille Roybal-Allard, (Rep-D-California)
1941 - Roy Harper, Manchester, rocker (Folkjokeopus)
1941 - Reg[inald] Presley, [Ball], rock vocalist (Troggs-Wild Thing), (d. 2013)
1941 - Marv Albert, NYC, "Yes!" sportscaster (NBC-TV)/back biter
1941 - Roy Harper, English musician
1942 - Len Barry, [Leonard Borisoff], Philadelphia, American rocker (1-2-3-Dovells)
1942 - Bert Sakmann, German physiologist, Nobel laureate
1944 - Howard Cowart, rocker
1944 - Linda Foster, Lancaster England, actress (Doris-Hank)
1944 - Maurice Jackson, US singer (Independents-Leaving You)
1945 - Alfred Antony Francis Gell, social anthropologist
1945 - James Naughton, US, actor (Trauma Center) [7/6/46]-
1945 - Terry Anderson, Sydney NSW Aust, US rapid fire pistol (Olympic-80, 96)
1946 - Harry Glasper, English writer
1947 - Ronald J Freeman II, Elizabeth NJ, 4x400m runner (Olympic-gold-1968)
1948 - Barry Bailey, Doraville Ga, rocker (Atlanta Rhythm Section)
1948 - Norbert Phillip, cricketer (WI pace bowler late 70s)
1948 - Hans Binder, Austrian racing driver
1949 - Yuri Michaylovich Baturin, Russian cosmonaut (SK:Soyuz TM-28)
1949 - Marc Tardif, Canadian ice hockey player
1951 - Alan Dysert, Danville Ill, actor (Sean Cudahy-All My Children)
1951 - Bun E Carlos, [Brad Carlson], rock drummer (Cheap Trick-Dream Police)
1951 - Brad Delp, guitarist (Boston-More Than a Feeling)
1951 - Dean Unruh, Riverton Wyoming, WLAF offensive line coach (Rhein Fire)
1951 - Andranik Margaryan, 14th Prime Minister of Armenia (d. 2007)
1952 - Dale Krantz, singer (Rossington-Collins Band)
1952 - Oliver Knussen, Glasgow Scotland, composer (Chicara)
1952 - Seigfried Brietzke, German DR, coxless rower (Oly-gold-1972, 76, 80)
1952 - Pete Farndon, English musician (The Pretenders) (d. 1983)
1952 - Spencer Abraham, Secretary of Energy under George W. Bush
1953 - Grace Jones, Kingston Jamacia (she claims but actually 5/19/48)
1953 - Rebecca Holden, Austin Tx, actress (April-Knight Rider)
1953 - Rocky Burnette, Memphis, rock vocalist (Towing the Line)
1953 - Allan Weiner, American radio station owner
1954 - Tineke Schouten, Dutch TV host
1954 - Neil Oatley, English engineer
1956 - Terry Alderman, cricketer (prolific Australian medium-pacer 1981-91)
1957 - Javed Miandad, cricketer (Pakistan batsman Got a kick out of Lillee)
1957 - Jim Morris, impressionist/comedian (Ronald Reagan, George Bush)
1957 - Timothy Busfield, East Lansing Mich, actor (Elliot-30 Something)
1958 - Fernando "Frank" Caldeiro, Buenos Aires Arg, astronaut
1958 - Rebecca Holden, American actress and singer
1959 - Jalal-ud-din, cricketer (Pakistani paceman, ODI hat-trick v Aust 1982)
1959 - Jenilee Harrison, Glendale California, actress (Cindy-3's Company, Dallas)
1959 - Kenneth D Herdigein, Suriname/Dutch actor (Say A)
1959 - Scott Thompson, comedian (Kids in the Hall, Larry Sanders Show)
1959 - Steve Bauer, St Catharines Ontario, cyclist (Olympics-silver-84, 96)
1959 - John Linnell, American musician (They Might Be Giants)
1959 - Jervis Johnson, Games Designer for Games Workshop, Nottingham
1960 - Mark John Calcavecchia, Laurel NE, PGA golfer (1987 Honda Classic)
1961 - Rod Latham, cricketer (NZ opening batsman)
1961 - Jim Goad, American author
1962 - Ally Sheedy, [Alexandria], NYC, actress (Wargames, Breakfast Club)
1962 - Michael Link, Provo Utah, actor (Earl-Julia)
1962 - Paul Clark, English musician (The Bolshoi)
1962 - John Enos III, American actor
1963 - Philippa June Baker, Wanganui NZ, double scull rower (Olympics-96)
1963 - Warwick Capper, Australian rules footballer
1963 - Tim DeKay, American actor
1963 - Jerry Lynn, American professional wrestler
1963 - Johnny Weiss, American professional wrestler
1963 - Philippe Bugalski, French rally driver
1964 - Paula Marshall, Rockville MD, actress (Lindsay Sutton-Chicago Sons)
1964 - Peter Such, cricketer (England off-spinner 1993-)
1964 - Derek Higgins, Irish racing driver
1965 - Cathy Tyson, Liverpool England, actress (Serpant & Rainbow)
1965 - Cindy Lee Berryhill, US singer/songwriter (Baby)
1965 - Gwen Torrence, Lithonia GA, 100m/200m/400m (Olympics-2 gold-92, 96)
1965 - Filip Topol, Czech musician and writer
1965 - Vicky Vette, Norwegian-born adult film actress
1967 - Neil Maxwell, cricketer (all-rounder for Fiji 1990, Victoria & NSW)
1967 - Frances O'Connor, Australian actress
1967 - Icíar Bollaín, Spanish actress, director and writer
1968 - Patty Armstrong, Torrance California, diver (Olympics-96)
1968 - Scott Aldred, Flint MI, pitcher (Minnesota Twins)
1968 - Sherry Stringield, actress (ER)
1968 - Bobby Sheehan, American musician (Blues Traveler) (d. 1999)
1969 - Kevin Turner, NFL fullback (Philadelphia Eagles)
1969 - Mathieu Schneider, NYC, NHL defenseman (NY Islanders, Toronto)
1969 - Zsolt Daczi, Hungarian guitarist (Omen, Bikini) (d. 2007)
1970 - Damon Buford, Baltimore MD, outfielder (Texas Rangers)
1970 - Lee Mayberry, NBA guard (Milwaukee Bucks, Vancouver Grizzlies)
1970 - Gordon Michael Woolvett, Canadian actor
1971 - Florencia Labat, Buenos Aires Argentina, tennis star (1992 Austrian)
1971 - Iwan Tomasz, soccer player (Roda JC, Feyenoord)
1971 - Mark Henry, Silsbee TX, 238+lbs (108+kg) weightlift (Oly-14th-92, 96)
1971 - Phillip Bobo, WLAF receiver (Amsterdam Admirals)
1971 - Ryan Klesko, Westminster CA, outfielder (Atlanta Braves)
1971 - Stephanie Thater, Kirkwood Mo, volleyball middle blocker (Olympics-96)
1971 - Thomas Bailey, WLAF wide receiver (Rhein Fire)
1972 - Inger Miller, LA California, 100m runner
1972 - Nathalie Baudone, Rocurt Belgium, tennis star (3rd round 1995 US Open)
1972 - Patrick van Diemen, Dutch soccer player (FC Utrecht, NEC)
1972 - Scott Dawes, Australian baseball catcher (Olympics-1996)
1972 - Bounty Killer, Jamaican deejay
1973 - Hanna Riikka Nieminen, ice hockey right wing (Finland, Oly-98)
1973 - Jason Caffey, NBA forward (Chicago Bulls)
1973 - Rick Plum, Dutch soccer player (Roda JC, MVV)
1973 - Takis Fyssas, Greek footballer
1973 - Darryl White, Australian rules footballer
1974 - Kerry Kittles, NBA guard (NJ Nets)
1974 - Vanessa Baker, Australia, diver (Olympics-96)
1974 - Hideki Matsui, Japanese baseball player
1975 - Ryan Tucker, NFL center (St Louis Rams)
1975 - Scott Ferrier, Australia, high jumper/decathlete (Olympics-96)
1976 - Kristin Alicia Beall Ludecke, Eustis Fla, Miss America-Florida (1996)
1976 - Thomas Sørensen, Danish footballer
1977 - Andrea Schwartz, Winnipeg Manitoba, 200m butterfly (Olympics-96)
1977 - Kenny Wayne Shepherd, American blues-rock guitarist
1978 - Shiloh Strong, actor (Maybe This Time, House of Cards)
1978 - DJ Qualls, American model and actor
1979 - Wil Horneff, Englewood NJ, actor (Ghost in the Machine, Sandlot)
1979 - Dallas Clark, American football player
1980 - Larry Foote, American football player
1980 - Marco Bortolami, Italian rugby union player
1981 - Adriana Lima, Brazilian supermodel
1982 - Loïc Duval, French racing driver
1982 - Ben Blackwell, American musician
1982 - Jason David, American football player
1983 - Josh Dies, American author and musician (Showbread)
1983 - Bryan Habana, South African rugby player
1983 - Christine Sinclair, Canadian soccer player
1985 - Blake Ross, American software developer
1985 - Tasha-Ray Evin, Canadian musician (Lillix)
1985 - Kendra Wilkinson, American Playboy bunny/Playmate/Television Personality
1985 - Sam Thaiday, Australian professional rugby league player
1985 - Chris Young, American musician
1992 - Allie DiMeco American musician and actress (The Naked Brothers Band)
1992 - Philippe Coutinho, Brazilian football player
1992 - Ryan Malgarini, American actor
1997 - William Cuddy, Canadian actor

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 12, 2013, 10:44:39 AM

This Day in History for 12th June


Famous Birthdays

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NFL Running Back and Convicted Criminal
OJ Simpson (1994)


816 - Leo III, Italian Pope (795-816), dies
918 - Ethelfleda, Lady of the Mercians
1020 - Lyfing, Archbishop of Canterbury
1036 - Tedald, Bishop of Arezzo
1231 - Antonius van Padua, [Fernando M de Bulhom], Port minister, dies at 35
1418 - Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac, Constable of France (b. 1360)
1435 - John FitzAlan, 14th Earl of Arundel, English military leader (b. 1408)
1490 - Adriaan Vilain II of Rassegem, peace of Tours, murdered at about 39
1560 - Imagawa Yoshimoto, Japanese daimyo (b. 1519)
1560 - Ii Naomori, Japanese warrior (b. 1506)
1565 - Adrianus Turnebus, French classical scholar (b. 1512)
1567 - Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1490)
1616 - Cornelis F Schuyt, Dutch organist/composer (Madrigalen), dies
1647 - Thomas Farnaby, English grammarian
1675 - Charles Emanuel II, Duke of Savoy (1638-75), dies at 40
1687 - Jurriaen van Streeck, Dutch still life painter, buried
1758 - Augustus William, Prince of Prussia (b. 1722)
1759 - William Collins, English poet (Ode to Simplicity), dies at 37
1761 - Meinrad Spiess, composer, dies at 77
1772 - Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne, French explorer (b. 1724)
1778 - Philip Livingston, American merchant (signed Declaration of Independance), dies at 62
1788 - Johann A Cramer, prime minister/poet, dies at 65
1789 - Jean E Liotard, [Turk], Swiss painter (Maria-Theresia), dies
1816 - Pierre Augereau, Marshal of France and duc de Castiglione (b. 1757)
1818 - Egwale Seyon, Emperor of Ethiopia
1850 - Jean V Constant de Rebecque, Swiss/Dutch army leader, dies at 77
1853 - John C de Jonge, Dutch historian/archivist, dies at 60
1858 - Cornelis Smit, Dutch ship builder/ship owner, dies at 74
1858 - William Horsley, composer, dies at 83
1878 - Hendrik J Jut, Dutch murderer [Head of Jut], dies at 26
1887 - Gustav Weber, composer, dies at 41
1888 - Carel Vosmaer, art historian/poet/editor (Neth Spectator), dies at 62
1904 - Camille de Renesse, Belgian Count (b. 1836)
1912 - Frederic Passy, French economist/pacifist (Nobel 1901), dies
1917 - Maria Teresa Carreno, composer, dies at 63
1922 - Wolfgang Kapp, German politician (Kapp putsch 1920), dies at 63
1928 - Salvador Diaz Miron, Mexicans poet, dies
1930 - Dyce Willcocks, cricketer ("Grand Old Man" of Canadian cricket), dies
1932 - René de Clerq, Flemish poet/writer (Book of Love), dies
1932 - Theodorus Heemskerk, lawyer/Dutch sec of state (1866..88), dies at 79
1936 - Isidore Weiss, French world checker champion, dies
1936 - Karl Kraus, writer, dies at 62
1937 - Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1893)
1942 - Walter Leigh, composer, dies at 36
1946 - Count Hisaichi Terauchi, Japanese fieldmarshal, dies
1947 - Jazeps Medins, composer, dies at 70
1952 - Michael von Faulhaber, Cardinal/archbishop of Munich, dies at 83
1957 - James F "Jimmy" Dorsey, US orchestra leader, dies at 53
1962 - John N Ireland, English composer/pianist (Epic March), dies at 82
1963 - Andrew Browne, Irish/British admiral (Cape Matapan, WW II), dies at 80
1963 - Medgar Evers, NAACP official, shot in Jackson Miss at 37
1966 - Hermann Scherchen, German conductor/music publisher, dies at 74
1966 - Thomas Chalmers, actor (Blind Alleys, Outrage), dies at 81
1968 - Fidelio Friedrich Finke, composer, dies at 76
1969 - Alexander Deyneka, Ukrainian painter (b. 1899)
1972 - Edmund Wilson, US writer (To the Finland station), dies at 79
1972 - Saul David Alinsky, radical writer (John L Lewis), dies at 63
1978 - Guo Moruo, Chinese writer (b. 1892)
1980 - Milburn Stone, actor (Doc-Gunsmoke), dies at 75
1980 - Billy Butlin, Founder of the brand of holiday venues known as Butlins (b. 1899)
1982 - Karl von Frisch, Austrian zoologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
          1886)
1982 - Sgt Ian McKay VC, British soldier (Falklands War) (b. 1953)
1983 - Norma Shearer, actress (Escape, Romeo & Juliet), dies at 82
1986 - Antoon Breyne, Belgian journalist, dies at 76
1986 - Tony Desimone, combo leader (Ernie in Kovacsland), dies at 66
1988 - Marcel Poot, Belgian baron/composer, dies at 87
1989 - Peter Conrad Baden, composer, dies at 80
1989 - Lou Monte, American singer (b. 1917)
1990 - Terence O'Neil, lord/PM of Ulster (1963-69), dies
1992 - Edward Fleming, Danish director (Lille Spejl), dies
1992 - Gerda Nicolson, actress (Next of Kin, Clinic), dies
1994 - Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Lubavitcher leader (1950-94), dies at 92
1994 - Nicole Brown Simpson, ex-wife of OJ, murdered at 35 (probably by OJ)
1994 - Otto Roesch, paleontologist, dies at 93
1994 - Ron Goldman, waiter, murdered with wife of OJ Simpson at 27
1995 - Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, pianist, dies at 75
1996 - Ilona Ference, actress (Quatermass II, Star of My Night), dies at 78
1996 - MacKenzie John, pipe major, dies at 83
1997 - Bulat Okudzhava, Russian writer and musician (b. 1924)
2000 - P.L.Deshpande, Marathi writer (b. 1919)
2002 - Bill Blass, American fashion designer (b. 1922)
2003 - Gregory Peck, American actor (b. 1916)
2005 - Scott Young, Canadian sportswriter, novelist, and journalist (b. 1918)
2006 - György Ligeti, Hungarian composer (b. 1923)
2006 - Kenneth Roy Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, Canadian businessman and art collector
          (b. 1923)
2007 - Don Herbert aka "Mr. Wizard", American television host (b. 1917)
2008 - Derek Tapscott, Welsh footballer (b. 1932)
2012 - Henry Hill Jr., American mobster and FBI informant, dies from a heart condition at 69

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 13, 2013, 08:56:07 AM

This Day in History for 13th June


Historical Events

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Military and Political Leader                    Yankee Clipper Joe DiMaggio                Baseball Great Babe Ruth
Simon Bolivar

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First Black Supreme Court Justice            Reggae Musician Bob Marley                 Queen Elizabeth II
Thurgood Marshall

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Country Singer Jerry Lee Lewis                WWF Wrestler Hulk Hogan


1325 - Sheik Ibn Battuta begins 1st world trip, Tangiers to Mecca
1373 - Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of Alliance (world's oldest) signed in London
1392 - Assassination attempt on Pierre de Craon Van Clisson of France, fails
1547 - King Ferdinand of Austria subjects himself on Turkish sultan Suleiman
1611 - John Fabricius dedicates earliest sunspot publication
1655 - Adriana Nooseman-van de Bergh is 1st actress in Amsterdam theater
1665 - Sea battle at Lowestoft: English fleet beats Dutch
1707 - Hungary declares itself independent under Ferenc Rákóczi II
1721 - England signs Treaty of Madrid
1727 - Spain underwrites Preliminairy of Paris
1753 - Austria, England & Modena sign secret military treaty
1774 - Rhode Island becomes 1st colony to prohibit importation of slaves
1777 - Leonard Norcross patents a submarine diving suit
1777 - Marquis de Lafayette lands in US
1789 - Mrs Alexander Hamilton serves ice cream for dessert to Washington
1792 - King Louis XVI fires French government
1798 - Mission San Luis Rey de Francia founded in California
1828 - Simon Bolívar proclaimed dictator
1837 - 1st Mormon missionaries to British Isles leave Kirtland, Ohio
1855 - Opera "Les Vêpres Sicilenne" is produced (Paris)
1863 - Battle of Winchester VA
1863 - Samuel Butler publishes 1st part of "Erewhon," Christchurch, NZ
1863 - Skirmish at Berryville Virginia
1865 - Pres Johnson proclaims reconstruction confederate states
1866 - House passes 14th Amendment (Civil rights for blacks)
1868 - Oscar J Dunn (a black) is elected Lt Governor of Louisiana
1871 - Hurricane kills 300 in Labrador
1874 - 8th Belmont: G Barbee aboard Saxon wins in 2:39.5
1878 - Congress of Berlin meets to divide African colonization
1881 - The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack.
1886 - Fire destroys nearly 1,000 buildings in Vancouver, BC
1886 - King Ludwig II of Bavaria found dead in Lake Starnberg south of Munich at 11:30 PM at 40.
           Builder of palace of Neuschwanstein and patron of Wagner
1888 - Congress creates Department of Labor
1889 - 2' of snow accumulates in Rawlins Wyoming
1889 - 23rd Belmont: W Hayward aboard Eric wins in 2:47.25
1890 - Eagle Ave in the Bronx is cut out & named
1895 - Emile Levassor wins 1st Paris-Bordeaux-Paris auto race (24 kph)
1898 - Yukon Territory of Canada organized, Dawson chosen as capital
1900 - China's Boxer Rebellion against foreigners & Christians
1902 - Prussian Upper house gives 350 million marks to Poland
1905 - NY Giant Christy Mathewson 2nd no-hitter, beats Chicago Cubs, 1-0
1907 - Lowest temp ever in 48 US states for June, 2°F in Tamarack Calif
1908 - Tommy Burns KOs Bill Squires in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
1910 - Pilot Charles Hamilton makes 1st 1-day round-trip from NY to Phila
1910 - William D Crum, a SC physician, appointed minister to Liberia
1912 - NY Giant Christy Mathewson wins his 300th game
1913 - 45th Belmont: Roscoe Troxler aboard Prince Eugene wins in 2:18
1913 - Yanks win 13th game of year after losing 36 games
1914 - 28th US Womens Tennis: Mary K Browne beats Marie Wagner (62 16 61)
1917 - Germany bombs London
1917 - World War I: the deadliest German air raid on London during World War I is carried out by
           Gotha G bombers and results in 162 deaths, including 46 children, and 432 injuries.
1918 - Phillies & Cards tie 8-8 in 19 innings
1920 - Post Office says children could not be sent by parcel post
1921 - Yanks' pitcher Babe Ruth hits 2 HRs beating Tigers 11-8
1922 - Longest attack of hiccups begins Charlie Osborne, 98 hiccupped over 435 million times before
           it stops, He dies 11 months after it stops
1924 - Bene Berak Palestine founded
1924 - Gaston Doumergue elected as 1st protestant French premier
1924 - Yanks win by forfeit over Tigers, their 3rd forfeit win
1925 - 57th Belmont: Albert Johnson aboard American Flag wins in 2:16.8
1927 - Ticker-tape parade welcomed Charles A Lindbergh to NYC
1930 - 1st Nudist Colony opens
1930 - 22 people killed by hailstones in Siatista Greece
1931 - 63rd Belmont: Charley Kurtsinger aboard Twenty Grand wins in 2:29.6
1932 - Air force's Marmaduke Brutal becomes leader of revolutionary junta
1932 - Great Britain & France sign peace treaty
1933 - 1st sodium vapor lamps installed (Schenectady NY)
1933 - Federal Home Owners Loan Corporation authorized
1933 - German Secret State Police (Gestapo) established
1935 - Hammond scores his 100th hundred, 116 for Gloucs v Somerset
1935 - James J Braddock beats Max Baer in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1936 - 2nd Belgian government of Van Zealand forms
1937 - Joe DiMaggio hits 3 consecutive HRs against St Louis Browns
1937 - Stalin executes Rus officers Tuchachevski, Jakir, Putna & Uberevitch
1938 - Great Cricket innings of 232 by Stan McCabe v England at Trent Bridge
1938 - Jews injured & property destroyed in Przemyal Poland
1940 - Paris evacuates before German advance
1942 - 1st V-2 rocket launch, Peenemunde, Germany; reached 1.3 km
1942 - FDR creates Office of War with Elmer Davis as head
1942 - Germany puts 4 saboteurs on Long Island
1942 - OSS, Office of Strategic Services, form
1942 - The United States opens its Office of War Information.
1944 - German counter attack on Villers-Bocage Normandy
1944 - Nazi Germany begins V-1 (Fieseler Fi-103) buzz-bomb attacks
1945 - Heerjansdam soccer team forms
1945 - Orokoe peninsula Okinawa captured, with 6,000 dead
1946 - 1st transcontinental round-trip flight in 1-day, California-Maryland
1946 - King Umberto II of Italy abdicates
1947 - 1st night game at Fenway Park (Red Sox 5, White Sox 3)
1948 - Babe Ruth's final farewell at Yankee Stadium, he dies Aug 16th
1950 - South African parliament accept "Groups Area Act"
1951 - UN arm forces reach Pyongyang Korea
1952 - Soviet fighters shoot Swedish Dakota down over East Sea, kills 8
1953 - 53rd US Golf Open: Ben Hogan shoots a 283 at Oakmont CC in Oakmont PA
1953 - 85th Belmont: Eric Guerin aboard Native Dancer wins in 2:28.6
1953 - Alec Bedser takes 14-99 (7-55 & 7-44) v Australia
1953 - Jim Peters runs world record marathon (2:18:40.2)
1953 - KOAA TV channel 5 in Pueblo-Colorado Spgs, CO (NBC) 1st broadcast
1954 - Cornerstone of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, laid in Bronx
1955 - Mercedes racing car kills 77 at Le Mans France
1956 - "Shangri-La" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 21 performances
1956 - After 72 years, Britain gives up Suez Canal to Egyptian control
1956 - Parliamentary election: Dutch Democrates 50/KVP 49
1956 - Real Madrid wins 1st Europe Cup
1957 - Mayflower II from Plymouth, England, reaches Plymouth Mass
1957 - Ted Williams becomes 1st ALer to have 2, 3-HR games in a season
1958 - Frank Zappa graduates from Antelope Valley High School in Lancaster Ca
1959 - "Sammy Kaye Show," last airs on ABC-TV
1959 - 59th US Golf Open: Billy Casper shoots a 282 at Winged Foot GC NY
1959 - 91st Belmont: Bill Shoemaker aboard Sword Dancer wins in 2:28.6
1960 - "Alley-Oop" by Dyna-Sores peaks at #59
1960 - Prince Norodom Sihanoek becomes head of Cambodia
1961 - "Billy Barnes People" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 8 performances
1962 - "Bob Newhart Show," last airs on NBC-TV
1962 - Norway named ombudsman
1963 - Vostok 6 launched, pilot is 1st woman cosmonaut
1964 - Basil Heatley runs world record marathon (2:13:55)
1965 - 19th Tony Awards: Subject Was Roses & Fiddler on the Roof win
1965 - Susie Maxwell wins LPGA Western Golf Open
1966 - Supreme Court's Miranda decision; suspect must be informed of rights
1967 - "You Only Live Twice" premieres in US
1967 - Thurgood Marshall nominated as 1st black Supreme Court justice
1969 - Mick Taylor leaves John Mayall Band & joins Rolling Stones
1970 - "In The Summertime" by Mungo Jerry hit #1 in UK
1970 - Beatles' "Let It Be," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 4 weeks
1970 - Beatles' "Long & Winding Road," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks
1971 - 17th LPGA Championship won by Kathy Whitworth
1971 - NY Times began publishing "Pentagon Papers"
1973 - Garvey, Lopes, Cey & Russell play together for 1st time, set record of staying together as an
           infield for 8½ years (LA Dodgers)
1974 - Henry Aaron addresses House of Representatives
1976 - 4th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Donna Caponi
1976 - Bob Marley performs in Amsterdam
1976 - Inge Helten runs female European record 100m (11.04)
1977 - Convicted Martin Luther King assassin James Earl Ray recaptured
1978 - Israeli Defense Forces withdraw from Lebanon.
1979 - "Madwoman of Central Park West" opens at 22 Steps NYC for 86 perfs
1979 - Sioux nation receives $100 million in compensation for Black Hills SD
1980 - Billy Joel's "Glass Houses" hits #1
1980 - Deborah Harry/Meat Loaf film, "Roadie," premieres
1980 - Paul McCartney releases "Waterfall"
1980 - Rep John Jenrette Jr (D-SC) indicted in "Abscam" investigation
1980 - UN Security Council calls for South Africa to free Nelson Mandela
1981 - 39 Unification church couples wed in Germany
1981 - Teenager fires 6 blanks at Queen Elizabeth II
1981 - Tom Snyder interviews Charles Manson on "Tomorrow"
1982 - 28th LPGA Championship won by Jan Stephenson
1982 - Fahd becomes king of Saudi Arabia when King Khalid dies at 69
1983 - Pioneer 10 is 1st man-made object to leave Solar System
1986 - Pres Reagan criticizes South African state of emergency
1986 - Steve Garvey 1st ejection from a game, after Atlanta's triple-play
1987 - Daniel Buettner, Bret Anderson, Martin Engel & Anne Knabe complete cycling journey of
           15,266 mi from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska to Argentina
1988 - 45th time opposing pitchers hit HRS, Mark Davis (Padres)/Mike Krukow
1988 - Boston Red Sox are 10 games back in AL, & go on to win AL East
1988 - Fed jury finds Liggett liable in death of NJ woman of lung cancer
1988 - George Harrison releases "This is Love"
1988 - US Supreme Court refuses to hear Yonkers argument they aren't racist
1989 - 43rd NBA Championship: Detroit Pistons sweeps LA Lakers in 4 games
1989 - Houston's Terry Puhl plays in his 1,403rd game (most by a Canadian)
1989 - Jerry Lee Lewis gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
1990 - "Les Miserables," opens at S Alberta Jubilee Centre, Calgary
1990 - Boeing 767 sets nonstop commercial flight, Seattle to Narobi Kenya
1990 - Nelson & Winnie Mandela welcomed in NYC
1990 - Wash DC mayor Marion Barry announces he will not seek a 4th term
1991 - A spectator is killed by lightning at US Open Golf tournament
1991 - NHL owners present contract to players (leads to Apr 1, 1992 strike)
1991 - The National, 1st all-sports daily newspaper, ceases publication
1993 - "Someone Who'll Watch Over Me" closes at Booth NYC after 232 perfs
1993 - 39th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Patty Sheehan
1993 - Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani re-elected president of Iran
1993 - YokoZuna beats Hulk Hogan to become WWF champ
1994 - Chicago Cub 2nd baseman Ryne Sandberg, retires due to poor play, he forfeits $15.7 million
           of his $25 million contract
1994 - Don Mattingly plays 1st base 1,469 game for Yankees (2nd most)
1994 - A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, blames recklessness by Exxon and Captain Joseph Hazelwood
           for the Exxon Valdez disaster, allowing victims of the oil spill to seek $15 billion in damages.
1995 - Indians' Dennis Martinez no-hits Balt 11-0
1995 - NJ Devils beat Phila Flyers, to go to their 1st Stanley Cup finals
1996 - Freeman in Montana give up to FBI after 81 days
1996 - The Montana Freemen surrender after an 81-day standoff with FBI agents.
1997 - 51st NBA Championship: Chicago Bulls beat Utah Jazz 4, games to 2
1997 - Jurors in Oklahoma City bombing trial sentence Timothy McVeigh to death
1997 - Red Wings Vladimir Konstantinov & Slava Fetisov hurt in car crash
1997 - American fugitive Ira Einhorn is arrested in France for the murder of Holly Maddux after 16
           years on the run, though he would not return for another four years.
2000 - Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.
2000 - President Kim Dae Jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea, for the
           beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang.
2002 - The United States of America withdraws from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
2005 - A jury in Santa Maria, California acquits pop singer Michael Jackson of molesting 13-year-old
           Gavin Arvizo at his Neverland Ranch.
2007 - The Al Askari Mosque is bombed again.
2011 - Christchurch, New Zealand is hit by another strong earthquake measuring magnitude 6.3
2012 - A series of bombings across Iraq kill 93 and wound 300 people
2012 - San Francisco Giants' Matt Cain pitches first perfect game in the franchise's history against
           the Houston Astros

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 13, 2013, 08:57:44 AM

This Day in History for 13th June


Famous Weddings

1525 - Martin Luther marries Katharina von Bora, against the celibacy rule decreed by the Roman
           Catholic Church for priests and nuns.
1625 - English king Charles I marries French princess Henriette
1945 - "Three Smart Girls" actress Deanna Durbin (23) weds film writer, producer and actor Felix
           Jackson at The Little Church Of The West in Las Vegas
1999 - CNBC anchor-reporter Maria Bartiromo (31) weds son of multimillionaire financier Saul
           Steinberg, Jonathan Steinberg (34) in Long Island, New York

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 13, 2013, 09:02:07 AM

This Day in History for 13th June


Famous Birthdays

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Comedian Tim Allen (1953)                  Twin Actress Mary Kate Olsen (1986)


40 - Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman general and Governor of Britain, conquered Wales and Northern
       England
823 - Charles II, the Bald, King of France (843-77)/emperor (875-77)
1539 - Jost/Jobst/Jodocus Amman, Swiss cartoonist/graphic artist/illustrator
1592 - Tobias Michael, composer
1627 - Fidel Molitor, composer
1649 - Adrien Baillet, French scholar and critic (d. 1706)
1701 - Angelo Antonio Caroli, composer
1736 - Henryk Klein, composer
1752 - Fanny Burney, England, author (Camille, Evelina)
1757 - Christian Ludwig Dieter, composer
1761 - Anton Wranitzky, composer
1763 - Jose B de Andrada e Silva, premier of Brazil
1765 - Anton Eberl, composer
1773 - Thomas Young, British philologist/physician (light interference)
1775 - Antoni Radziwiłł, Polish-Lithuanian politician and musician (d. 1833)
1786 - Winfield Scott, army general (Union)/presidential candidate
1790 - Jose Antonio Peez, president of Venezuela
1795 - Thomas Arnold, English educator/historian (History of Rome)
1806 - Bernard ter Haar, Dutch vicar/poet/church historian
1809 - George Philip St Cooke, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1895
1820 - WF Hendrik, the Navigator, prince of the Netherlands/admiral
1821 - Albert, duc de Broglie, France, premier (1873-74, 1977)
1821 - Navy Gustavus Vasa Fox, Asst Secy (Union), died in 1883
1822 - Carl Schmidt, German chemist (d. 1884)
1823 - Gustave Paul Cluseret, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1900
1824 - Julius Eichberg, composer
1825 - Benjamin Jefferson Hill, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1880
1827 - Alberto Henschel, German-Brazilian photographer and businessman (d. 1882)
1829 - Antonio Zamara, composer
1831 - James Clerk Maxwell, Scotish physicist (electromagnetic theory, speed of light)
1854 - Charles Algernon Parsons, British inventor (steam turbine)
1863 - Josef Venantius von Woss, composer
1863 - Lady Lucy Duff Gordon, English fashion designer (d. 1935)
1864 - Rudolf Kjellén, Swedish political scientist (d. 1922)
1864 - Dwight B. Waldo, American educator and historian (d. 1939)
1865 - William Butler Yeats, Ireland, poet (Wild Swans at Coole-Nobel 1923)
1866 - Lambertus Zijl, sculptor (Trade scholarship)
1869 - Ede Poldini, composer
1874 - Leopoldo Lugones, Argentina, writer
1875 - Max d' Ollone, composer
1876 - William Sealey Gosset, English chemist, statistician (d. 1937)
1879 - George Gunn, cricketer (elegant English batsman 1907-30)
1879 - Johannes G Geelkerken, Dutch reformed vicar
1884 - Anton Drexler, founder of the German Worker's Party (d. 1942)
1884 - Gerald Gardner, British occultist (d. 1964)
1884 - Etienne Gilson, French philosopher (d. 1978)
1887 - Bruno Frank, writer
1888 - Fernando A Nogueira de Seabra Pessoa, Portuguese poet
1891 - Nell Craig, NJ, actress (Calling Dr Kildare, Queen of Sheba)
1892 - Basil Rathbone, Johannesburg South Africa, actor (Sherlock Holmes)
1893 - Dorothy Leigh Sayers, England, novelist (9 Taylors)
1894 - Isaak E Babel, Russian writer (Konarmija, Marija) [or Jul 13]
1894 - Jacques-Henri Lartigue, France, photographer
1894 - Mark van Doren, Ill, author (Happy Critic, Transients)
1894 - Dr. Leo Kanner, Austrian-American physician (d. 1981)
1897 - Paavo Johannes Nurmi, Finland, 5K runner (Olympic-gold-1920/24/28)
1898 - Eva J C Beck, actress (Resurrection)
1899 - Carlos Chavez, Mexico City, conductor/composer (Sinfonia India)
1900 - Ian Hunter, Capetown South Africa, actor (Dr Blood's Coffin, White Unicorn)
1901 - Lode Zielens, Flemish author/journalist (Obscure Blood)
1901 - Tage F Erlander, Swedish premier (1946-69)
1903 - Harold "Red" Grange, "Galloping Ghost" of football (Illinois Bears)
1903 - Philipp Kutev, composer
1905 - Doc Cheatham, jazz musician
1905 - Kumar Shri Duleepsinhji, cricketer (England 1929-31)
1906 - Bruno de Finetti, Italian mathematician (d. 1985)
1910 - Mary Whitehouse, British campaigner (d. 2001)
1910 - Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, Galician writer (d. 1999)
1910 - Mary Wickes, American actress (d. 1995)
1911 - Albert Cleage, famous African
1911 - Luis W Alvarez, physicist (Nobel-1968) [or Jan 17]
1912 - Mary Wickes, St Louis Mo, actress (Dennis the Menace, Julia, Doc)
1912 - Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, French Canadian poet (d. 1943)
1913 - Ralph Edwards, Merino Colo, TV host (This is Your Life)
1913 - Etienne Leroux, major Afrikaans author.
1915 - J Donald Budge, US tennis player (1st to hold world's 4 major titles)
1916 - Mary Wickes, character actress (Sister Act)
1918 - Ben Johnson, Foraker Oklahoma, actor (Chisum, Battle Force, Dillinger), (d. 1996)
1918 - Helmut Lent, German night fighter pilot (d. 1944)
1919 - Leif Kayser, composer
1920 - Eiji Okada, actor (Traffic Jam, Yakuza, Ugly American)
1920 - Knut Nordahl, Sweden, soccer player (Olympic-gold-1948)
1922 - Mel Parnell [Melvin], New Orleans, Louisiana, Major League Baseball pitcher (Boston Red
           Socks, 1947-56), (d. 2012)
1924 - Percy Rodrigues, Montreal Quebec, actor (Brainwaves)
1925 - Hans Fellner, bookseller
1926 - Geoffrey Finsberg, politician
1926 - Paul Lynde, Mt Vernon Ohio, comedian (Uncle Arthur-Bewitched)
1927 - Knut Wiggen, composer
1928 - Jean Villain, writer
1928 - John Forbes Nash, American mathematician, Nobel laureate
1929 - Alan Civil, English French horn player (d. 1989)
1929 - Ralph McQuarrie, Gary, Indiana, conceptual designer (Star Wars, E.T.), (d. 2012)
1930 - Ryszard Kukliński, Polish colonel (d. 2004)
1931 - Lachlan Macleay, USAF/pilot
1931 - Irvin D. Yalom, psychotherapist,Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University
1933 - Bob Litty, US
1933 - Tom King, British politician
1934 - Lady Annabel Goldsmith, English socialite
1935 - Aleksandr Alekseyevich Kiselyov, Russia, cosmonaut
1935 - Christo [Javacheff], Bulgaria, artist, wrapper (Running Fence)
1935 - Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebonnt, French artist
1935 - Samak Sundaravej, Thai 25th Prime Minister (former)
1937 - Eleanor Holmes Norton, Wash DC, lawyer/(Rep-D-DC)
1938 - Carole Jo Callison, LPGA golfer
1938 - Gwynne Howell, British opera singer
1938 - Peter Michael, English electronic manufacturer (UEI, Paintbox)
1939 - Don "Sugarcane" Harris, rocker/actor (Soup for 1, Greeased Lightning)
1939 - Tom Cheek, American baseball player (d. 2005)
1940 - Bobby Freeman, SF, rocker (Do You Want to Dance)
1941 - Robert Forester, Rochester NY, actor (Banyon, Nakia)
1941 - Tom Hallick, Buffalo NY, actor (Search)
1941 - Esther Ofarim, Israeli singer
1941 - Marcel Lachemann, American baseball player
1942 - James Carr, US, gospel singer (To Love Somebody)
1943 - Edward Skorek, Poland, volleyball player (Olympic-gold-1976)
1943 - Malcolm McDowell, Leeds England, actor (Clockwork Orange, Caligula)
1944 - Joe Amato, NHRA top fuel drag racing champion (1991)
1945 - Ronald J Grabe, NYC, Col USAF/astronaut (STS 51-J, 30, 42, 57)
1945 - Whitley Strieber, American author
1946 - Danny Klein, rocker
1947 - Daniel P A "Danie" Schutte, South African underminister of Justice
1947 - Jerrold Nadler, (Rep-D-NY)
1947 - Peter Holm, boyfriend of Joan Collins
1948 - Garnet Bailey, Canadian ice hockey player and executive (d. 2001)
1948 - Joe Roth, American executive, producer and film director
1949 - Dennis Locorriere, Union City NJ, rock guitarist (Dr Hook)
1950 - Michael Stark, Australian actor
1950 - Gerd Zewe, German footballer
1951 - Jonathan Hogan, Chicago IL, actor (House on Carroll St)
1951 - Liz Phillips, composer
1951 - Richard Thomas, New York City, American actor (John Boy-Waltons, Last Summer, Johnny
           Belinda)
1951 - Stellan Skarsgard, Swedish actor (Breaking the Waves)
1952 - Tony Bruno, American talkshow host
1952 - Jean-Marie Dedecker, Belgian politician and former judoka
1953 - Bo Donaldson (Billy Don't Be a Hero)
1953 - Tim Allen, Denver Colo, comedian (Tim-Home Improvement, Jungle2Jungle)
1954 - Bo [Robert] Donaldson, rock vocalist (Billy Don't Be a Hero)
1954 - Daniel Seemiller, Pitts, US Olympic table tennis player (Olympic-92)
1954 - Jorge Santana, rocker (Malo)
1954 - Andrzej Lepper, Polish politician
1954 - Rita Cadillac, Brazilian dancer
1955 - Alan Hansen, Scottish football pundit
1959 - Steve Georganas, Australian politician
1962 - Hannah Storm, sports journalist (CNN, NBC)
1962 - Karen Kurreck, Urbana Ill, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1962 - Mark Frankel, actor (Leon the Pig Farmer)
1962 - Davey Hamilton, American racing driver
1963 - Bettina Bunge, Switz, tennis player (Virginia Slims of California 1983)
1963 - Catarina Lindqvist, Sweden, tennis player (Swedish Open 1986)
1963 - Edward Sturing, soccer player (Vitesse)
1963 - Jeff Brehaut, Mountain View CA, Nike golfer (1994 NIKE Alabama-3rd)
1963 - Josef Heiss, Garmisch GER, hockey goaltender (Team Germany 1998)
1963 - Randy Gilhen, Zweibrucken Ger, NHL center (Winnipeg Jets)
1963 - Paul De Lisle, American musician (Smash Mouth)
1964 - Jennifer Gillom, WNBA center/forward (Phoenix Mercury/Oly-gold-1988)
1964 - Sarunas Marciulionis, NBA guard (Sacramento Kings)
1964 - Christian Wilhelm Berger, Romanian composer
1965 - Maninder Singh, cricketer (Indian leftarm spinner in 35 Tests 1982-93)
1965 - Infanta Cristina, Duchess of Palma de Mallorca
1965 - Lukas Ligeti, Austrian composer and drummer
1966 - Thyme Lewis, SF California, actor (Jonah-Days of our Lives)
1966 - Grigori Perelman, Russian mathematician
1966 - Naoki Hattori, Japanese racing driver
1967 - Darren Baker, Chambersburg PA, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1968 - Bruce Beaton, CFL corner (Montreal Alouettes)
1968 - Deniece Peterson, rocker (5 Star-Silk & Steel)
1968 - David Gray, British musician
1968 - Fabio Baldato, Italyan cyclist
1969 - Jamie Walters, actor/singer (Heights, Beverly Hills 90210, Shout)
1969 - Robert Harris, NFL defensive end (NY Giants)
1969 - Søren Nystrøm Rasted
1969 - Svetlana Krivelyova, Russian athlete
1970 - Chris Cairns, cricketer (son of Lance, NZ all-rounder)
1970 - Lance Ringnald, Des Moines Iowa, US gymnist (Olympic-92)
1970 - Shaun Young, cricketer (Tasmanian all-rounder, Young Aust 1995)
1970 - Rivers Cuomo, American musician (Weezer)
1970 - Mikael Ljungberg, Swedish wrestler (d. 2004)
1971 - Broderick nonuplets, Sydney Australia
1971 - David Mendenhall, actor (Over the Top, Space Raiders, Witchfire)
1971 - Lauri Marie Gapp, Miss USA-North Dakota (1997)
1972 - Sale Isaia, OL (Baltimore Ravens)
1972 - Natalie MacMaster, Canadian musician
1973 - Ines Gorrochategui, Cordoba Arg, tennis star (1991 Futures-Brindisi)
1973 - Kano Hills, tackle (New Orleans Saints)
1973 - Sam Adams, NFL defensive tackle (Seattle Seahawks)
1973 - Ville Laihiala, Finnish musician (Sentenced, Poisonblack)
1973 - Kasia Kowalska, Polish pop rock singer
1974 - Elli Overton, Canada, Australian swimmer (Olympics-5th-92, 96)
1974 - Harvey Esajas, Suriname/Dutch soccer player (Feyenoord)
1974 - Valeri Bure, Moscow Russia, NHL right wing (Montreal Canadiens, Oly-S-98)
1974 - Selma Björnsdóttir, Icelandic singer
1974 - Steve-O, American television personality
1974 - Brande Roderick, American actress
1974 - Takahiro Sakurai, Japanese voice actor
1975 - Dave Roche, Lindsay, NHL left wing (Pitts Penguins)
1975 - Johannes Grenzfurthner, Austrian artist, writer, curator and director
1975 - Riccardo Scimeca, English footballer
1976 - Kym Marsh, English singer, actress, & T.V. presenter
1976 - Jason 'J' Brown, English Singer
1977 - Alexei Kariozhny, NHL forward (Team Belarus, Oly-98)
1978 - Allison Dickey, Miss Iowa Teen USA (1996)
1978 - Ethan Embry, American actor
1978 - Mathis Künzler, Swiss actor
1978 - Mikako Ichikawa, Japanese actress and model
1979 - Nila Håkedal, Norwegian beach volleyball player
1980 - Florent Malouda, French footballer
1980 - Markus Winkelhock, German racing driver
1980 - Darius Vassell, English footballer
1980 - Sarah Connor, German singer
1981 - Chris Evans, American actor
1981 - David Madden, 4th-ranked Jeopardy! champion of all-time
1982 - Kenenisa Bekele, Ethiopian athlete
1983 - Matt Allison, British racing driver
1983 - Jason Spezza, Canadian hockey player
1984 - Nery Castillo, Mexican-Uruguayan footballer
1985 - Raz-B, American singer (B2K)
1985 - Danny Syvret, Canadian ice hockey player
1985 - Filipe Albuquerque, Portuguese racing driver
1986 - Ashley Fuller Olsen, twin actress (Michelle-Full House)
1986 - Mary Kate Olsen, twin actress (Michelle-Full House)
1986 - Kat Dennings, American actress
1989 - Lisa Tucker, American singer
1990 - Aaron Johnson, British actor
1992 - Tyler Davison, was world's smallest baby at 6 inches, 11 ounces

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 13, 2013, 09:04:19 AM

This Day in History for 13th June


Famous Deaths

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Television Journalist
Tim Russert (2008)


1036 - Ali az-Zahir, caliph (b. 1005)
1142 - Godfried II, duke of Brabant/Neth-Lotharingen, dies
1231 - Anthony of Padua, Portuguese saint (b. 1195)
1256 - Tankei, Japanese sculptor (b. 1173)
1371 - Jan V of Virneburg, bishop of Utrecht (Pledge Vollenhove), dies
1550 - Johann Spangenberg, composer, dies at 66
1550 - Veronica Gambara, Italian poet, dies at 64
1612 - Charles van Croij, prince of Chimay/Duke of Aarschot, dies at 51
1636 - George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly, Scottish politician (b. 1562)
1645 - Miyamoto Musashi, Japanese swordsman
1665 - Auke Stellingwerf, lt-admiral of Friesland, dies in battle at about 29
1665 - Egbert Meussen Kortenaer, vice-admiral, dies in battle at about 29
1665 - Jacob van Wassenaer, [Foggy Obdam], lt-admiral, dies in battle at 55
1713 - Arcangelo Corelli, Italian violinist/composer, dies at about 49
1749 - Jan F van Bloemen, [Orizonte], Flemish painter, dies at 87
1784 - Henry Middleton, American president of the Continental Congress (b. 1717)
1810 - J G Seume, writer, dies at 47
1821 - [Izaak J] Alexander Gogel, minister of finance/patriot, dies at 55
1825 - Johan Peter Melchior, German sculptor, dies at 82
1839 - Martin-Pierre Dalvimare, composer, dies at 66
1865 - Cleaveland J Campbell, Union brig-general, dies at about 29
1873 - Angelo Maurizio Gaspare Mariani, composer, dies at 51
1881 - Josef Skoda, Czech physician (b. 1805)
1898 - Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1840)
1904 - Nikiphoros Lytras, Greek painter (b. 1832)
1905 - Theodoros Delyannis, premier Greece, murdered
1905 - Tippo-Tip, [Hamed ben Mohammed], Zanzibar merchant, dies at about 67
1920 - Essad Pasja, Albanian military man/minister, murdered at peace confer
1927 - Henry CK "Clan" Petty-Fitzmaurice, gov of India (1888-94), dies at 82
1928 - Damaso Ledesma, composer, dies at 60
1930 - Henry Segrave, British racing driver who held land speed records and the water speed record
           (b. 1896)
1931 - Shibasaburo Kitasato, Japanese physician (b. 1851)
1939 - Arthur Coningham, cricketer (one Test for Australia 1894), dies
1939 - Volter A Kilpi, Finnish writer (Suljetuilla Porteilla), dies at 64
1943 - Kočo Racin, Macedonian poet (b. 1908)
1944 - Christopher Heseltine, cricketer (2 Tests for England 1895-96), dies
1946 - Edward Bowes, radio host (Major Bowes Amateur Hour), dies at 71
1952 - Max Pulver, writer, dies
1954 - Nikolai Obouhov, composer, dies at 62
1958 - Edwin Keppel Bennett, British writer (b. 1887)
1961 - Ben Jones, Missouri, horse trainer (Citation, Whirlaway), dies at 79
1962 - Eugene Goossens, British composer (Perseus), dies at 69
1965 - Martin Buber, German/Israel philosopher/zionist/theologist, dies at 87
1965 - David Drummond, Australian politician (b. 1890)
1972 - Clyde L Mcphatter, US singer (Drifters-Without Love), dies at 39
1972 - Dündar Taşer, Turkish nationalist (b. 1925)
1973 - Alvin Derold Etler, composer, dies at 60
1973 - Frantisek Suchy, composer, dies at 82
1976 - Don Bolles, US journalist (against Arizona), dies
1977 - Tom C Clark, former Supreme Court Justice (1949-67), dies in NY at 77
1977 - Matthew Garber, British child actor (Mary Poppins) (b. 1956)
1979 - Darla Hood, actress (Our Gang 1935-45), dies at 47
1982 - Abdul Aziz Khaled, King of Saudi-Arabia, dies at 69
1982 - Ken "Slasher" Mackay, cricketer (Aussie all-rounder 1956-63), dies
1982 - Peter Maivia, wrestler (b. 1935)
1984 - Marinus de Jong, Dutch composer, dies at 92
1986 - Benny Goodman, clarinetist/bandleader (King of Swing), dies at 77
1987 - Geraldine Page, actress (Blue & Gray), dies at 62
1989 - Fran Allison, actress (Kukla, Fran & Ollie), dies at 81
1993 - Donald "Deke" K Slayton, US major/astronaut (Apollo 18), dies at 69
1993 - Gérard Côté, Canadian runner (b. 1913)
1994 - Anne Aitken, student of Zen, dies at 83
1994 - Igor Youskevitch, dancer, dies at 82
1994 - James Pollack, US room designer, dies at 55
1994 - Nadia Gray, actress (Naked Runner, Maniac, Candide), dies at 71
1995 - David Parry, guitarist, dies 53
1996 - David Nicholls, priest/theologian/political theorist, dies at 60
1998 - Birger Ruud, Norwegian athlete (b. 1911)
2002 - John Hope, American meteorologist (b. 1919)
2003 - Malik Meraj Khalid, Former caretaker Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1916)
2004 - Dick Durrance, American skier (b. 1914)
2004 - Ralph Wiley, American journalist and writer (b. 1952)
2005 - Jonathan Adams, English actor (b. 1931)
2005 - Álvaro Cunhal, Portuguese politician and writer (b. 1913)
2005 - David Diamond, American composer (b. 1915)
2005 - Lane Smith, American actor (b. 1936)
2006 - Charles Haughey, Taoiseach (b. 1925)
2007 - Walid Eido, Lebanese MP (b. 1942)
2008 - Tim Russert, American television host, NBC News Meet the Press moderator, dies at 58
2008 - Gertrude Fröhlich-Sandner, Austrian politician (b. 1926)
2009 - Mitsuharu Misawa, Japanese professional wrestler (b. 1962)
2009 - Fathi Yakan, Lebanese leader and Muslim cleric (b. 1933)
2012 - William S. Knowles, American chemist and Nobel laureate, dies from complications from
          amyotrophic lateral sclerosis at 95

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 14, 2013, 10:09:38 AM

This Day in History for 14th June


Historical Events

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Inventor Charles Babbage                    31st US President Herbert Hoover             Jewish Victim & Diarist of the
                                                                                                                                   Holocaust Anne Frank

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French President                                Singer & Cultural Icon Elvis Presley               Rocker/Beatle John Lennon
Charles de Gaulle

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Singer/Actor Frank Sinatra               US President & Actor Ronald Reagan


1276 - While taking exile in Fuzhou in southern China, away from the advancing Mongol invaders, the
           remnants of the Song Dynasty court hold the coronation ceremony for the young prince
           Zhao Shi, making him Emperor Duanzong of Song.
1381 - Richard II in England meets leaders of Peasants' Revolt on Blackheath. The Tower of London
           is stormed by rebels who enter without resistance.
1535 - Karel V's fleet sails under Andrea Doria to Tunis
1565 - Catharina de Medici & Duke of Alva discuss Calvinism
1597 - At 4:30 AM Willem Barents leaves Novaya Zemlya for Netherlands
1615 - Jacques Le Maire sail to Zuidland/Terra Australis
1623 - 1st breach-of-promise lawsuit: Rev Gerville Pooley, Va files against Cicely Jordan, he loses
1634 - Russia & Poland sign Peace treaty of Polianov
1642 - 1st compulsory education law in America passed by Massachusetts
1645 - Battle at Naseby Leicester: New Model army under Oliver Cromwell & Thomas Fairfax beats
           royalists
1647 - English New Model-army installed
1658 - Battle at Dunes: English & French fleet beat Spanish
1673 - Battle at Schooneveld: Michiel de Ruyter beats French/English fleet
1755 - 1st edition of Dr Johnsons "Dictionary"
1775 - US Army founded
1777 - Continental Congress adopts Stars & Stripes replacing Grand Union flag
1789 - Capt William Blighs reaches Timor
1800 - Battle of Marengo (Alessandria): Bonaparte vs Austria
1807 - Emperor Napoleon I's French Grande Armee defeats the Russian Army at the Battle of
           Friedland in Prussia (modern Russian Kaliningrad Oblast) ending the War of the Fourth
           Coalition.
1821 - Badi VII, king of Sennar, surrenders his throne and realm to Ismail Pasha, general of the
           Ottoman Empire, ending the existence of that Sudanese kingdom.
1822 - Charles Babbage proposes a difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society
           entitled "Note on the application of machinery to the computation of astronomical and
           mathematical tables".
1834 - Hardhat diving suit patented by Leonard Norcross, Dixfield, Maine
1834 - Isaac Fischer Jr patents sandpaper
1834 - Sandpaper patented by Isaac Fischer Jr, Springfield, Vermont
1839 - 1st Henley Regatta held
1841 - 1st Canadian parliament opens in Kingston, Ontario
1846 - Belgian Liberal Party forms
1846 - California (Bear Flag) Republic proclaimed in Sonoma, declaring independence from Mexico
1847 - Robert von Bunsen invents the Bunsen burner
1850 - Fire destroys part of SF
1861 - Harpers Ferry evacuated by rebels in face of McClellan's advance
1863 - Battle of 2nd Winchester, Virginia
1864 - US Union warship USS Kearsarge appears at Cherbourg
1870 - All-pro Cincinnati Red Stockings suffer 1st loss in 130 games
1872 - Trade unions are legalised in Canada.
1876 - 1st player to hit for cycle (George Hall, Phila Athletics)
1876 - California Street Cable Car Railroad Co gets its franchise
1880 - 14th Belmont: L Hughes aboard Grenada wins in 2:47
1881 - Player piano patented by John McTammany Jr (Cambridge, Mass)
1898 - France signs Niger Convention
1900 - Hawaiian Territorial Government begins
1900 - The Reichstag approves a second law that allows the expansion of the German navy.
1901 - 1st golf championship is played
1904 - Dutch troops occupies Kuto Reh, Sumatra, killing all inhabitants
1906 - Pogrom against Jews in Bialystok, Polish Russia
1907 - Government of Transvaal sends home 50,000 Chinese day workers
1907 - Norway restricts woman's voting rights
1907 - Norway adopts female suffrage.
1908 - Fourth German Navy Bill is passed authorising the financing the building of another four major
           warships.
1917 - 1e German air attack on England, 100+ killed in East-London
1917 - Gen Pershing & his HQ staff arrived in Paris during WW I
1919 - 1st nonstop air crossing of Atlantic (Alcock & Brown) leaves Nfld
1922 - 5th PGA Championship: Gene Sarazen at Oakmont CC Oakmont Pa
1922 - Charles Hoffner wins PGA golf tournament
1922 - Pres Harding is 1st US president to use radio, dedicating the Francis Scott Key memorial in
           Baltimore
1923 - Recording of 1st country music hit (Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane)
1924 - Test Cricket debuts of Herbert Sutcliffe & Maurice Tate v South Africa
1924 - WOKO-AM radio begins transmitting from Albany NY
1926 - 2nd French Womens Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen beats Mary K Browne (61 60)
1928 - Republican Natl Convention, met in KC, nominated Herbert Hoover
1929 - Prussia & Vatican sign Concord
1930 - VVGZ soccer team forms in Zwijndrecht
1931 - French "St Philbert" overturns off St Nazaire France, drowns 450
1931 - Reinhard Heydrichs 1st meeting with Himmler
1932 - German government of von Papen forms
1933 - Lou Gehrig & Joe McCarthy thrown out of game, McCarthy suspended 3 games but Gehrig
           isn't, so he continues his streak at 1,249 games
1934 - Hitler & Benito Mussolini meet in Vienna
1934 - Max Baer KO's Primo Carnera in 11 for HW box champ in Long Island City
1934 - WOQ-AM in KC Missouri goes off the air
1935 - Chaco War between Bolivia & Paraguay ends
1936 - Oranienburg Concentration Camp opens
1938 - Bradman scores 144* in 1st Test Cricket at Trent Bridge
1938 - Chlorophyll patented by Benjamin Grushkin
1938 - Dorothy Lathrop wins 1st Caldecott Medal (kid books author)
1940 - Auschwitz concentration camp opens (3 million killed there)
1940 - German U-47 sinks airship Balmoral
1940 - German forces occupied Paris during WW II
1941 - Ground broken for Boeing Plant II (ex-AFLC Plant 13) Wichita KS
1941 - Estonia loses 11,000 inhabitants as a consequence of mass deportations into Siberia
1942 - 1st bazooka rocket gun produced Bridgeport Ct
1942 - Anne Frank begins her diary
1942 - French government of Reynaud resigns
1942 - Walt Disney's "Bambi" animated movie is released Thumper's 1st job
1944 - 1st B-29 raid against mainland Japan
1944 - General Charles de Gaulle lands at Courselles France
1946 - Canadian Library Association established
1948 - Klemens Gottwald becomes president of Czechoslovakia
1949 - State of Vietnam forms, Bao Dai installed as Emperor
1949 - WROC TV channel 8 in Rochester, NY (NBC) begins broadcasting
1951 - "Courtin' Time" opens at National Theater NYC for 37 performances
1951 - 1st commercial computer, UNIVAC 1, enters service at Census Bureau
1952 - 52nd US Golf Open: Julius Boros shoots a 281 at Northwood Club Dallas
1952 - Boston Brave Warren Spahn strikes out 18 Cubs in 15 innings
1952 - General strike in Tunisia
1952 - Jim Peters runs world record marathon (2:20:42.2)
1952 - Keel laid for 1st nuclear powered sub USS Nautilus (4th to be named Nautilus)
1952 - Braves Warren Spahn ties NL record of Jim Whitney with 18 strikeouts against the Cubs in
          15-inning, 3-1 loss
1953 - Eisenhower condemns McCarthy's book burning proposal
1953 - Elvis Presley graduates from LC Humes High School in Memphis Tenn
1953 - Military coup by general Gustavo Rojas Pinilla in Colombia
1953 - Yanks sweep Indians 6-2, 3-0 before 74,708 win streak at 18 straight
1954 - Pres Eisenhower signs order adding words "under God" to the Pledge
1955 - Chile becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1956 - "New Faces of 1956" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 221 perfs
1957 - 42.0 cm rain falls on East St Louis, Illinois (state record)
1957 - Edouard Carpentier beats Lou Thesz, to become NWA wrestling champ
1958 - 58th US Golf Open: Tommy Bolt shoots a 283 at Southern Hills in Tulsa
1958 - British parachutists lands on Cyprus
1959 - Beverly Hanson wins LPGA American Women's Golf Open
1961 - 106°F, hottest temperature in SF
1962 - Albert DeSalvo, better known as the Boston Strangler, murders Anna Slesers, his first victim.
1962 - The European Space Research Organisation is established in Paris - later becoming the
           European Space Agency.
1963 - NY Met Duke Snider hits his 400th HR
1963 - Valery Bykovsky in Vostok 5 orbits earth 81 times in 5 days
1964 - Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
1965 - Beatles release album "Beatles VI"
1965 - Cincinnati Red Jim Maloney no-hits NY Mets but loses in 11, 1-0
1965 - John Lennon's 2nd book "A Spaniard in the Works" is published
1966 - Dutch police beat construction workers, 60 injured
1966 - Miami beats St Petersburg (Florida State League) 4-3 in 29 innings longest uninterrupted
           game in organized baseball
1967 - Mariner 5 Launch (Venus Flyby)
1967 - Steve Allen Show," premieres on CBS-TV
1967 - USSR launches Kosmos 166 for observation of Sun from Earth orbit
1968 - Off duty Dutch military permitted to wear regular clothing
1969 - John & Yoko appear on David Frost's British TV Show
1969 - Oakland A's Reggie Jackson gets 10 RBIs to beat Red Sox 21-7
1970 - Cincinnati Red Stockings loses 1st game after winning 130 straight
1972 - Hurricane Agnes kills 117
1973 - 46th National Spelling Bee: Barrie Trinkle wins spelling vouchsafe
1974 - Angels' Nolan Ryan strikes out 19 Red Sox in 12 innings
1975 - 45th French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats M Navratilova (26 62 61)
1975 - Janis Ian releases "At 17"
1975 - USSR launches Venera 10 for Venus landing
1976 - "Gong Show" premieres on TV (syndication)
1976 - 12th Mayor's Trophy Game Yanks beat Mets 8-4
1978 - Down 9-7 in 10th with 2 outs, Yanks Paul Blair hits a 3 run HR
1978 - Sierra Leone adopts constitution
1979 - Canada all out 45 in Cricket World Cup v England, in 40 3 overs
1979 - NY Giants Willie McCovey 513th HR is an NL lefty record
1979 - Rock group "Little Feat" disbands
1980 - Theme From NY, NY by Frank Sinatra hits #32
1981 - 27th LPGA Championship won by Donna Caponi Young
1981 - No Nukes concert at Hollywood Bowl
1982 - Argentina surrenders to Britain on Falkland Is, ends 74-day conflict
1983 - 5 killed in a fire at a Ramada Inn in Fort Worth, Tx
1984 - Southern Baptist convention decide on no women clergy members
1985 - "Michael Nesmith In Television Parts" premieres on NBC-TV
1985 - Earl Weaver comes out of retirement to manage Balt Orioles
1985 - Lebanese Shiite Muslim extremists hijacked TWA Flight 847
1987 - 41st NBA Championship: LA Lakers beat Boston Celtics, 4 games to 2
1987 - 4th full-duration test firing of redesigned SRB motor
1987 - Colleen Walker wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
1988 - Woman sues Chuck Berry for $5,000,000 alleges he hit her
1989 - Ground breaking begins in Minn on world's largest mall
1989 - Nolan Ryan becomes 2nd pitcher to defeat all 26 teams
1989 - Ronald Reagan is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II
1989 - Rocker Carol King gets a star in Hollywood's walk of fame
1989 - Zsa Zsa Gabor arrested for slaping Beverly Hills motorcycle patrolman
1990 - 44th NBA Championship: Det Pistons beat Por Trailblazers, 4 games to 1
1990 - Date of the events in the movie Mr Destiny
1990 - NL announces plans to expand from 12 to 14 teams for 1993 season
1990 - Supreme Court rules police check for drunk drivers constitutional
1991 - "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves" opens
1991 - Leroy Burrell of USA sets 100m record (9.90) in NYC
1991 - Space Shuttle STS 40 (Columbia 12) lands
1992 - 10th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Dave Stockton
1992 - 46th NBA Championship: Chicago Bulls beat Port Trailblazers, 4 games to 2
1992 - Anne-Marie Palli wins ShopRite LPGA Golf Classic
1992 - Mona Van Duyn is named 1st female US poet laureate
1992 - Ozzie Smith breaks Roy McMillan's NL mark by taking part in his 1,305th career double play
1993 - Japanese space probe Sakigake passes Earth
1993 - Tansu Ciller appointed 1st female premier of Turkey
1994 - Stanley Cup: NY Rangers beat Vancouver Canucks, 4 games to 3
1995 - 49th NBA Championship: Houston Rockets sweep Orlando Magic in 4 games
1995 - Giants infielder Mike Benjamin goes 6-for-7 in 13-inning 4-3 win
1996 - "Cable Guy" starring Jim Carrey is released
1996 - Karl Krikken out handled the ball for Derbyshire v Indians
1998 - "Comic Relief" benefit comedy show
1998 - World Bowl in Frankfurt Germany
2001 - China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan form the Shanghai
           Cooperation Organisation.
2005 - Asafa Powell of Jamaica sets a new Men's 100 meters world record of 9.77 at the Athens
           Olympic Stadium
2012 - An explosion at an Indian steel plant kills 11 people and severely injures 16
2012 - The world's first stem-cell assisted vein transplant is undertaken by Swedish doctors on a 10
           year old girl

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 14, 2013, 10:11:32 AM

This Day in History for 14th June


Famous Weddings

1541 - Duke Willem van Gulik of Gelre marries Jeanne d'Albret
1936 - Singer and cowboy actor Roy Rogers (24) weds Arlene Wilkins in Roswell, New Mexico
1950 - American science fiction writer "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" Philip K Dick marries
           2nd wife Kleo Apostolides
1958 - Nelson Mandela weds Winnie Madikizela
1963 - "The Golden Girls" actress Betty White (41) weds "Password" game show host Allen Ludden
           (45) at the Sands Hotel-Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada
1977 - English model Twiggy Lawson (27) weds actor Michael Witney (45)
2008 - Country singer Sara Evans (37) weds former University of Alabama quarterback Jay Barker
          (35) in Franklin, Tennessee

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 14, 2013, 10:12:18 AM

This Day in History for 14th June


Famous Divorces

2012 - New Orleans Saints coach Sean Payton (48) divorces Beth Shuey due to conflict of personalities
           after nearly 20 years of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 14, 2013, 10:18:09 AM

This Day in History for 14th June


Famous Birthdays

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Argentine Revolutionary                        Businessman & T.V. Personality              Tennis Player Steffi Graf (1969)
Che Guevara (1928)                                         Donald Trump (1946)


1479 - Giglio Gregorio Giraldi, Italian poet (d. 1552)
1529 - Ferdinand, archduke (Austria)/mayor (Bohemia)
1657 - Cornelis Cruys, [Niels Olsen Creutz], Norwegian/Dutch admiral
1691 - Jan Francisci, composer
1730 - Antonio Maria Gasparo Giaccino Sacchini, composer [or Jul 23 1734]
1736 - Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, physicist (formulated Coulomb's Law)
1760 - Candido Jose Ruano, composer
1763 - Johannes Simon Mayr, composer
1769 - Dominique Della-Maria, composer
1796 - Nikolai Brashman, Russian mathematician (d. 1866)
1801 - Heber C. Kimball, American religious leader (d. 1868)
1805 - Robert Anderson, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1871
1811 - Harriet Beecher Stowe, author (Uncle Tom's Cabin)
1812 - Fernando Wood, New York City mayor (d. 1881)
1819 - Henry J. Gardner, 23rd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1892)
1820 - John Bartlett, US, editor (compiled Familiar Quotations)
1821 - Jozef Lies, Flemish painter
1835 - Nikolay Rubinstein, composer
1836 - Thomas Wilberforce Egan, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1844 - Edouard Naville, Swiss egyptologist
1854 - Frederik Rung, composer
1855 - Robert Marion La Follette, Wisconsin, pres candidate (Progressive)
1856 - Andrey Markov, Russia, mathematician (Markov Chain)
1864 - Alois Alzheimer, Germany, psychiatrist/pathologist (Alzheimer Disease)
1865 - Auguste Jean Maria Charles Serieyx, composer
1868 - Karl Landsteiner, Austria, immunologist/pathologist (Nobel 1930)
1870 - Sophia of Prussia, consort of Constantine I of Greece (d. 1932)
1871 - Jacob Ellehammer, Danish inventor (d. 1946)
1874 - Edward Bowes, radio host (Major Bowes Amateur Hour)
1877 - Jane Bathori, French mezzo-soprano (d. 1970)
1882 - Ion Antonescu, fascist premier/dictator of Roemenia
1882 - Michael Zadora, composer
1883 - Lucien Cerfaux, Belgian bible expert
1884 - John McCormack, Irish/US singer (Irish folksongs)
1889 - Victor van Straelen, Flemish biologist/palaeontologist
1890 - May Allison, American actress (d. 1989)
1893 - Siggie Nordstrom, Swedish singer (The Nordstrom Sisters) (d. 1980)
1894 - Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (d. 1924)
1895 - Cliff Edwards, "Ukulele Ike", Hannibal Missouri, singer (54th Street Revue, When You Wish
           Upon a Star)
1895 - Louis Finkelstein, US historian/theologist (Pharizees)
1895 - Jack Adams, Canadian ice hockey player, coach and general manager (d. 1968)
1899 - Kawabata Yasunari, Zen writer (Nobel Literature 1968)
1900 - June Walker, IL, actress (War Nurse, Unforgiven)
1903 - Arthur William Raynes McDonald, radar Pioneer/pilot
1904 - Benno Ammann, composer
1906 - Carl Esmond, Wien (Vienna) Austria, actor (Smash-Up)
1906 - Gil Lamb, Minneapolis, actor (Hit Parade of 1947, Riding High)
1906 - Margaret Bourke-White, photographer/innovator/correspondent
1907 - René Char, French poet/painter
1907 - Nicolas Bentley, British writer and illustrator (d. 1978)
1907 - Chico Landi, Brazilian racing driver (d. 1989)
1908 - John Scott Trotter, Charlotte NC, orchestra leader (George Gobel Show)
1909 - Burl Ives, Hunt Ill, folk singer/actor (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)
1910 - Rudolf Kempe, Niederpoyritz Germany, conductor (Tonhalle Orch 1965-72)
1912 - E Cuyler Hammond, scientist (1st to link smoking with lung cancer)
1914 - Pauline Moore, American actress (d. 2001)
1914 - Winifred Milius Lubell, New York, American illustrator and writer (The Outer Lands) (d. 2012)
1916 - Geoffrey Goodwin, British professor of international relations
1916 - Karl-Rudi Griesbach, composer
1916 - Dorothy McGuire, Omaha, Nebraska, American actress (Old Yeller, Summer Magic)
1917 - Al "Lash" LaRue, Gretna La, actor (Lash of the West, Wyatt Earp)
1917 - Atle Selberg, Norwegian mathematician
1918 - Carter Harman, composer
1918 - Leroy T Walker, Atlanta Ga, US Olympic consultant (1960, 68, 72)
1919 - Sam Wanamaker, Chic Ill, actor (Holocaust, Competition, Raw Deal)
1919 - Gene Barry [Eugene Klass], New York City, New York, American actor (The Atomic City, Bat
           Masterson)
1920 - Helmer-Rayner Sinisalo, composer
1922 - Arthur Jacobs, musicologist
1922 - Kevin Roche, Irish architect
1923 - Donald Smith, cricketer (uneventful England opening batsman 1957)
1923 - Jack Hayward, Brit financier (Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club)
1923 - Theodore Bloomfield, composer
1924 - Solouchin, writer
1925 - Barbara Hammer Avedon, scriptwriter
1925 - David Bache, designer
1925 - Pierre Salinger, newsman (ABC)/press secretary (John Kennedy)
1926 - Hermann Kant, writer
1926 - Don Newcombe, baseball player
1928 - Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Rosario, Argentine Marxist revolutionary and physician (Cuban
           Revolution)
1929 - Alan Davidson, cricketer (mighty Australian lefty quick all-rounder)
1929 - Cy Coleman, [Seymour Kaufman], songwriter (Witchcraft, Sweet Charity)
1929 - Cy Coleman, American composer (d. 2004)
1931 - Marla Gibbs, Chicago Ill, actress (Florence-Jeffersons, Mary-227)
1932 - Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, composer
1932 - Joe Arpaio, sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona
1933 - Jerzy Kosinski, novelist (Painted Bird, Being There)
1933 - Vladislav Rastorotsky, Soviet gymnastics coach
1935 - Jan Nijland, cattle breeder/Dutch MP (CDA)
1936 - Renaldo "Obie" Benson, singer (The Four Tops) (d. 2005)
1936 - Irmelin Sandman Lilius, Finnish actor
1937 - Jørgen Leth, Danish film director
1939 - Steny H Hoyer, (Rep-D-MD, 1981- )
1939 - John F. MacArthur, American evangelist
1940 - Ben Davidson, LA California, actor (Rhino-Ball Four, Code R), (d. 2012)
1940 - Bill Baker, (Rep-R-California)
1940 - Jack Bannon, LA California, actor (Art-Lou Grant, Trauma Center)
1940 - John Mizelle, composer
1941 - John Edgar Widerman, US writer
1943 - F James Sensenbrenner, (Rep-R-Wisconsin)
1943 - Muff [Mervyn] Winwood, singer (Spencer Davis Group-Gimme Some Lovin)
1943 - W J [Billy] Tauzin, (Rep-D-LA, 1980- )
1943 - Harold Wheeler, American composer
1943 - John Miles, British racing driver
1944 - Laurie Colwin, American author (d. 1992)
1944 - Joe Grifasi, American actor
1945 - Rod Argent, rocker (She's Not There-Zombies, Hold Your Head Up-Argent)
1946 - Donald Trump, billionaire/master builder (Trump Towers/Plaza/Castle)
1946 - Ralph McAllister Ingersol II, NYC, newspaper publisher
1947 - Barry Melton, American guitarist (Country Joe and the Fish)
1949 - Alan White, English rock drummer (Yes, Ramshackled)
1949 - Bob Frankston, programmer (VisiCalc)
1949 - Rochelle Firestone, Kansas City MO, actress (Hellhole)
1949 - Jimmy Lea, British musician (Slade)
1949 - Harry Turtledove, American author
1950 - Jeremy Sinden, actor (Chariots of Fire, Ascendancy, Harem)
1950 - Rowan Williams, 104th Archbishop of Canterbury
1951 - Paul Boateng, British politician
1952 - Eddie Mekka, Worcester Mass, actor (Carmine-Laverne & Shirley)
1952 - Jimmy Lea, England, rock bassist (Slade)
1952 - Pat Summitt, American basketball coach
1952 - Leon Wieseltier, American writer.
1953 - David Thomas, US singer/songwriter (Pere Ubu)
1953 - Janet Mackey, New Zealand politician
1954 - Will Patton, Charleston SC, actor (No Way Out, Ballzaire the Cajun)
1955 - Kim Lankford, Montebello California, actress (Gingers-Knots Landing)
1955 - Larry Burrows, fictional character (Mr Destiny)
1955 - Vince Evans, NFL quarterback (Oakland Raiders)
1955 - Michael D. Duvall, California State Assemblyman
1956 - Frederick Funk, Takoma Park MD, PGA golfer (1992 Shell Houston Open)
1956 - King Diamond [Kim Petersen], Copenhagen, Denmark, heavy metal musician (Merciful Fate,
           King Diamond)
1956 - Sam Irvin, American director and producer
1958 - Brian David Willis, rock drummer (Quarterflash)
1958 - Carina Persson, Stockholm Sweden, playmate (August, 1983)
1958 - Eric Heiden, Madison, Wisconsin, US speed skater (5 Olympic gold medals 1980)
1960 - Tonie Campbell, LA California, 100m hurdler (Olympic-bronze-1988)
1961 - "Boy George" O'Dowd, androgynous vocalist & druggie (Culture Club)
1961 - Grace Jackson, St Ann Jamaica, 200m runner (Olympic-silver-1988)
1961 - Sam Perkins, NBA forward/center (Seattle Supersonics)
1962 - Scott Radecic, NFL linebacker (Indianapolis Colts)
1963 - Chris DeGarmo, guitarist (Queensryche-Breaking the Silence)
1963 - James Patrick, Winnipeg, NHL defenseman (Calgary Flames)
1963 - Laurel Kean, Portland ME, LPGA golfer (1994 JAL Big Apple-17th)
1964 - Jamie Dukes, NFL center (Arizona Cardinals)
1964 - Randall Thompson, Halifax Nova Scotia, boxer (Olympics-96)
1964 - Peter Gilliver, English lexicographer
1966 - Ricky Siglar, NFL tackle (KC Chiefs, New Orleans Saints)
1966 - Rod Stephens, NFL linebacker (Washington Redskins)
1966 - Traylor Howard, Orlando Fla, actress (Joy Byrnes-Boston Common)
1967 - Ante Mise, Yugoslav soccer player (Hajduk Split/Vitesse)
1967 - Dedrick Dodge, NFL safety (SF 49ers, Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1967 - Wendy Lian Williams, St Louis Mo, US diver (Olympic-bronze-88, 92)
1967 - Kelly Nash, American radio personality
1968 - Brian Wiggins, NFL wide receiver (Carolina Panthers)
1968 - Eric Murdock, NBA guard (Vancouver Grizzlies, Miami Heat)
1968 - Tony Smith, NBA guard (Miami Heat)
1968 - Yasmine Bleeth, NYC, actress (Ryan's Hope, 1 Life to Live, Baywatch)
1968 - Faizon Love, American actor
1969 - Eric Desjardins, Rauyn Quebec, NHL defenseman (Phila Flyers, Canada)
1969 - Eugene Chung, NFL guard (Jacksonville Jaguars, Indianapolis Colts)
1969 - Steffi Graf, Bruhl West Germany, tennis player (Grand Slam 1988)
1969 - Kyle Hebert, American voice actor
1969 - MC Ren, American rapper
1969 - Michael Gerber, American parody author
1970 - Simone Fleurice Eden, Arcadia Ca, playmate (Feb, 1989)
1970 - Todd Manning, fictional character (One Life to Live)
1970 - Willie Beamon, NFL cornerback (NY Giants)
1971 - Bruce Bowen, NBA guard (Boston Celtics)
1971 - Fred Baxter, NFL tight end (NY Jets)
1971 - Ramon Vega, former Swiss footballer
1972 - Jeff Kysar, NFL tackle (Oakland Raiders)
1972 - Rick Brunson, NBA guard (Portland Trailblazers)
1972 - Matthias Ettrich, German computer scientist (KDE)
1972 - Shaun Keaveny, British radio DJ
1973 - Daniel Marsh, cricketer (son of Rod South Aust slow lefty since 1993)
1973 - Michael Cade, NJ, actor (Sylvester Winkle-California Dreams)
1973 - Sam Shade, NFL strong safety (Cin Bengals)
1973 - Sami Kapanen, Vantaa Fin, NHL left wing (Whalers, Carolina, Oly-B-98)
1973 - Stepfret Williams, wide receiver (Dallas Cowboys)
1973 - Ceca Raznatovic, Serbian singer
1974 - Rod Payne, corner (Cincinnati Bengals)
1974 - Jang Jin-young, South Korean actress
1974 - Phillip Rhys, British actor
1975 - A J Mleczko, ice hockey forward (USA, Oly-98)
1975 - Ryuji Miki, Japanese racing driver
1975 - Chris Onstad, American cartoonist
1975 - Bob Nanna, American musician (Braid, Hey Mercedes, The City on Film)
1976 - Rita Carvalho, Miss Universe-Portugal (1996)
1976 - Alan Carr, British Stand-up comedian, Television presenter
1976 - Massimo Oddo, Italian football player
1977 - Massimiliano Neri, Italian Supermodel
1977 - Chris McAlister, American football player
1978 - Diablo Cody, American screenwriter
1978 - Steve Bégin, French-Canadian hockey player
1978 - Annia Hatch, Cuban-American gymnast
1981 - Lonneke Engel, Dutch model
1981 - Chauncey Leopardi, American actor
1982 - Jamie Green, British racing driver
1983 - John Stocco, American football player
1983 - Louis Garrel, French actor
1984 - Siobhán Donaghy, British singer (ex-Sugababes)
1984 - Lorenzo Booker, American football player
1985 - Andrew Bonner, Scottish football player
1985 - Andy Soucek, Spanish racing driver
1986 - Jonathan Clare, English cricketer
1987 - Andrew Cogliano, Professional Hockey Player
1988 - Kevin Michael McHale, American singer
1989 - Lucy Hale, American actress
1989 - Courtney Halverson, American actress
1992 - Daryl Sabara, American actor
1992 - Evan Sabara, American actor
2160 - Montgomery Edward Scott, Aberdeen Scotland, fictional eng (Star Trek)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 14, 2013, 10:24:11 AM

This Day in History for 14th June


Famous Deaths

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US Defector General                                  Washington D.C. Architect                                 Author/Poet
Benedict Arnold (1801)                            Pierre Charles L'Enfant (1825)                  Salvatore Quasimodo (1968)

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Writer Jorge Luis Borges (1986)


1144 - Aboe 'l-Kasim Mahmoed ibn Omar al-Zapowersjari, theologist, dies at 69
1161 - Emperor Qinzong of China (b. 1100)
1349 - Gunther Van Schwarzburg, German anti-king 1349, dies at about 44
1381 - Simon Sudbury, Archbishop of Canterbury
1497 - Giovanni Borgia, Duke of Borgia (b. 1474)
1544 - Antoine, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1489)
1548 - Carpentras, French composer
1594 - Orlandus Lassus, composer (Prophet sybillarum), dies at about 61
1662 - Henry Vane the Younger, British Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1613)
1674 - Marin le Roy de Gomberville, French writer (b. 1600)
1703 - Jean Herauld Gourville, French adventurer (b. 1625)
1709 - Gottfried Wegner, composer, dies at 65
1727 - Cornelis Cruys, Norwegian/Dutch admiral, dies at 70
1744 - Andre Campra, composer, dies at 83
1750 - Franz Anton Maichelbeck, composer, dies at 47
1752 - Charles-Antoine Coypel, French carpet designer, dies at 57
1752 - Daniel Marot, French/Neth, architect/engraver, dies at about 88
1789 - Johann Wilhelm Hertel, composer, dies at 61
1794 - Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford, Viceroy of Ireland (b. 1718)
1800 - Louis Charles Antoine Desaix, French military leader (b. 1768)
1800 - Jean-Baptiste Kleber, French general (b. 1753)
1801 - Benedict Arnold, Revolutionary War general, dies in London
1825 - Pierre Charles L'Enfant, French architect, dies at 70
1828 - Karl August, grand duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, dies (b. 1757)
1837 - Giacomo Leopardi, Italian writer (b. 1798)
1864 - Leonidas Polk, general, killed in action in Battle of Pine Mt
1873 - Friedrich von Raumer, German historian/parliamentarian, dies at 92
1883 - Edward FitzGerald, English poet (b. 1809)
1885 - Agustin Bethencourt, Venezuelan publisher on Curacao, dies at 58
1886 - Alexandr Ostrovsky, Russian dramatist (b. 1823)
1891 - Nicolo Gabrielli, composer, dies at 77
1907 - A Adolf Daens, Belgian priest/politician (CVP), dies
1907 - Bob McLeod, cricketer (bro of Charlie, 6 Tests for Aus 1891-93), dies
1908 - Frederick Arthur Stanley, Governor general of Canada (b. 1841)
1911 - Johan Severin Svendsen, composer, dies at 70
1916 - João Simões Lopes Neto, Brazilian writer (b. 1865)
1920 - Max Weber, German sociologist/economist/historian, dies
1926 - Mary Cassatt, American Impressionist artist (b. 1844)
1927 - Johanna C P Barbiers, actress (Voddenraper of Paris), dies at 79
1927 - Ottavio Bottecchia, Italian cyclist (b. 1894)
1927 - Jerome K. Jerome, British author (b. 1859)
1928 - Emmeline Pankhurst-Goulden, English feminist, dies
1932 - Dorimène Roy Desjardins, Canadian business pioneer
1933 - Albert Ross Parsons, composer, dies at 85
1936 - G. K. Chesterton [Gilbert Keith], English writer/poet (Father Brown), dies at 62
1938 - William W Campbell, US astronomer (Stellar Motions), dies at 76
1941 - Pieter J Kromsigt, theologist/publicist (John Knox), dies at 74
1944 - Lubor Niederle, Czech archaeologist/slavist, dies at 78
1944 - Robert H Iseley, US pilot/lt-comdr (Saipan), dies in battle
1946 - John Logie Baird, Scottish television pioneer (b. 1888)
1948 - Ernst Henrik Ellberg, composer, dies at 79
1948 - John Blackwood McEwen, composer, dies at 80
1951 - Hendrik Baels, Belgian politician, dies at 73
1960 - Ana Pauker-Rabensohn, Romanian Foreign Minister (1945-52), dies at 67
1960 - Vladimir Nikolayevich Kryukov, composer, dies at 57
1962 - Anna Sleasers, first Boston Strangler victim
1962 - Mykhaylo Verikivsky, composer, dies at 65
1964 - [Hei]ko E Arnoldi, actor/director (3 Drops of Water), dies at 81
1965 - Guido Guerrini, composer, dies at 74
1967 - Eddie Eagan, American sportsman (b. 1897)
1968 - Karl-Birger Blomdahl, Swedish opera composer (Aniara), dies at 51
1968 - Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian poet/essayist (Nobel 1959), dies at 66
1974 - Knud Christian Jeppesen, composer, dies at 81
1975 - Pablo Antonio, Filipino modernist architect (b. 1902)
1977 - Alan Reed, actor (Fred Allen)/voice (Fred Flintstone), dies at 69
1977 - Robert Middleman, actor (Barney-Monroes), dies at 66
1977 - Robert Middleton, American actor (b. 1911)
1978 - Theodore Karyotakis, composer, dies at 74
1982 - Marie Rambert, [Cyviam Ramberg], Polish/British ballerina, dies at 94
1982 - Marjorie Bennett, actress (Blossom-Dobie Gillis), dies at 87 of cancer
1986 - Alan Jay Lerner, Broadway librettist, dies in NY at 67
1986 - Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine author (Book of Sand), dies in Geneva at 86
1986 - Marlin Perkins, TV host (Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom), dies at 81
1987 - Les Favell, cricketer (757 runs for Australia), dies
1989 - Pete de Freitas, drummer (Echo & the Bunnyman), dies
1990 - Erna Berger, German soprano (b. 1900)
1991 - Joy Finzi, [Joyce A Black], British painter, dies at 84
1991 - Peggy Ashcroft, British actress (A passage to India), dies at 83
1993 - Vincent T Hamlin, cartoonist (Alley Oop), dies at 93
1994 - Denys Hay, historian, dies at 78
1994 - Harry "Little" Caesar, blues singer/actor (City Heat), dies at 66
1994 - Henry Mancini, composer (Pink Panther, Moon River), dies at 70
1994 - Lionel Grigson, professor of Jazz, dies at 52
1994 - Marianne Kunvari, writer, dies at 81
1994 - Mark Alexander Lees, rowing Coach, dies at 38
1994 - Michel Vitold, Russian/French actor (Madame et le Mort), dies at 78
1994 - Simon Prior, British auto maker, dies of injuries
1995 - Anthony Joly de Lotbiniere, television producer, dies at 69
1995 - Gesualdo Bufalino, novelist, dies at 74
1995 - Gordon Greig, journalist, dies at 63
1995 - Roger Joseph Zelazny, sci-fi writer, dies of cancer at 60
1995 - Rory Gallagher, Irish rock guitarist (See Here), dies at 47
1996 - Ted Nightingale, former colonial governor, dies at 91
1996 - Thomas Edward Montgomery, drummer, dies at 73
1997 - Henry C Gordon, USAF/astronaut (Dynasoar), dies at 71
1997 - Richard Jaeckel, actor (Starman, The Dark), dies of cancer at 70
1997 - Tesslynn O'Cull, American child abuse victim (b. 1995)
1999 - Bernie Faloney, professional football player (b. 1932)
2000 - Attilio Bertolucci, Italian poet and writer (b. 1911)
2002 - June Jordan, American writer and teacher (b. 1936)
2003 - Dale Whittington, American racing driver (b. 1959)
2004 - Ulrich Inderbinen, Swiss mountain guide (b. 1900)
2004 - Eamonn McGirr, Irish-born singer and entertainer
2005 - Carlo Maria Giulini, Italian conductor (b. 1914)
2005 - Mimi Parent, Canadian painter (b. 1924)
2006 - Jean Roba, Belgian comics author (b. 1930)
2006 - Monty Berman, British film and television producer (b. 1905)
2007 - Ruth Graham, wife of Billy Graham (b. 1920)
2007 - Robin Olds, American fighter pilot (b. 1922)
2007 - Kurt Waldheim, Austrian politician and statesman (b. 1918)
2008 - Jamelão, Brazilian samba singer (b. 1913)
2008 - Esbjörn Svensson, Swedish jazz pianist (b. 1964)
2009 - Bob Bogle, founding member of The Ventures
2009 - Ivan Della Mea, Italian singer-songwriter (b. 1940)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 15, 2013, 02:58:25 PM

This Day in History for 15th June


Historical Events

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First US President                                   King of England King Charles I                   Soldier and Former Slave
George Washington                                                                                                       Henry Ossian Flipper

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First Director of the FBI                             Rocker/Beatle John Lennon                  Singer-Songwriter Bob Dylan
J Edgar Hoover

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Artist & Musician Yoko Ono


763 BC - Assyrians record a solar eclipse that will be used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian
              history.
923 - Battle of Soissons: King Robert I of France is killed and King Charles the Simple is arrested by
         the supporters of Duke Rudolph of Burgundy.
1094 - Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar [El Cid] occupies Valencia on the Moren
1184 - King Magnus V of Norway is killed at the battle of Fimreite.
1215 - King John signs Magna Carta at Runnymede, England
1219 - King Valdemar brought victory for Denmark
1219 - Dannebrog - oldest national flag in the world - and flag of Denmark. According to legend, fell
           from the sky during the Battle of Lyndanisse (now Tallinn) in Estonia, and turned the Danes'
           luck.
1246 - Battle at Leitha: Hungary-Austrian
1246 - With the death of Duke Frederick II, the Babenberg dynasty ends in Austria.
1389 - Battle of Kossovo; Turks defeat Serbs
1567 - Battle at Carberry Scot: Protestant troops beat Earl Bothwells army
1567 - Genoa Italy expels Jews
1580 - Phillip II of Spain declares William the Silent to be an outlaw.
1626 - King Charles I disbands English parliament
1643 - Able Tasmania returns to Batavia after discovering Tasmania
1664 - NJ established
1741 - Capt Bering leaves Petropavlovsk, sailing to America
1752 - Ben Franklin's performs his kite-flying experiment
1762 - Austria uses 1st paper currency
1775 - George Washington appointed commander-in-chief of American Army
1779 - General Anthony Wayne captures Stony Point, Bronx
1785 - 2 French balloonists die in world's 1st fatal aviation accident
1802 - Toussaint L'Ouverture leaves Haiti, prisoner on French ship Héros
1804 - 12th amendment ratified; deals with manner of choosing president
1808 - Joseph Bonaparte becomes King of Spain.
1834 - Rioters in Safed Palestine kills many Jews
1836 - Arkansas becomes 25th state
1844 - Goodyear patents vulcanization of rubber
1846 - Oregon Treaty signed, setting US-British boundary at 49°N
1851 - Jacob Fussell, Baltimore dairyman, sets up 1st ice-cream factory
1857 - SF Water Works organized
1859 - Pig War: Ambiguity in the Oregon Treaty leads to the "Northwestern Boundary Dispute"
           between U.S. and British/Canadian settlers.
1860 - 1st White settlement in Idaho (Franklin)
1861 - Johnston evacuates Harpers Ferry
1862 - Gen JEB Stuart completes his "ride around McClellan"
1863 - 2nd battle at Winchester Va, ends in Federal defeat; 1350 casualities
1864 - -17] Skirmish at Gilgal Church, Georgia
1864 - Battle for Petersburg begins as Gen Grant assaults Confederate line
1864 - Capt Mendell begins building 640m long ponton bridge over James R Va
1864 - Congress passes legislation equalizing pay for Black soldiers
1864 - Robert E Lee's home area (Arlington, VA) becomes a military cemetery
1866 - Prussia attacks Austria
1867 - Atlantic Cable Quartz Lode gold mine located in Montana.
1869 - Celluloid patented by John Wesley Hyatt, Albany, NY
1869 - Mike McCoole (US) defeats Tom Allen (England) in bare-knuckle bout
1871 - Phoebe Couzins is 1st woman graduate of a US collegiate law school
1876 - Sara Spencer (R) is 1st woman to address a US presidential convention
1876 - Tsunami's after earthquake floods NE coast of Japan, kills 28,000
1877 - Henry Ossian Flipper becomes 1st African American to graduate from West Point Military
           Academy
1878 - 1st attempt at motion pictures (used 12 cameras, each taking 1 picture) done to see if all 4 of
           a horse's hooves leave the ground
1887 - Carlisle D Graham survives 2nd ride in Niagara waterfall in barrel
1887 - NY Giants beat Philadelphia Phillies 29-1
1887 - Stanley's expedition reaches Yambuya waterfalls Congo
1888 - Wilhelm II becomes emperor of Germany
1889 - Start of Sherlock Holmes Adv "Stockbroker's Clerk" (BG)
1894 - Phillies beat Cincinnati Reds, 21-8
1896 - Tsunami strikes Shinto festival on beach at Sanriku Japan 27,000 are killed, 9,000 injured,
           with 13,000 houses destroyed
1897 - Liberals/social-democrats win Dutch 2nd Parliamentary election
1898 - US House of Reps accept annexation of Hawaii
1898 - US marines attack Spanish off Guantánamo Cuba
1901 - 7th US Golf Open: Willie Anderson shoots a 331 at Myopia Hunt Club MA
1902 - Canada's Maritime Provinces switch from Eastern to Atlantic time
1902 - Minor League's most lopsided baseball game: Corsicana 51; Texarkana 3 Justin Clark of
           Corsicana, Tx minors hits 8 home runs in 1 game
1904 - Side-wheeler "General Slocum" burns in NY's East River (1,031 die)
1907 - 44 nations meet in 2nd Hague Peace Conference
1908 - World congress for Woman's rights opens in Amsterdam
1909 - Representatives from England, Australia and South Africa meet at Lord's and form the
           Imperial Cricket Conference.
1911 - Tabulating Computing Recording Corporation (IBM) is incorporated.
1912 - 26th US Womens Tennis: Mary K Browne beats Eleonora Sears (64 62)
1913 - The Battle of Bud Bagsak in the Philippine concludes.
1915 - US government mints 1st $50 gold pieces, for Panama Pacific Expo
1916 - Boys Scouts of America forms
1918 - 1" of snow falls in Northern Pennsylvania
1918 - 50th Belmont: Frank Robinson aboard Johren wins in 2:20.6
1919 - 1st nonstop Atlantic flight (Alcock & Brown) lands in Ireland
1920 - De Zweef soccer team forms in Nijverdal
1920 - Duluth lynchings in Minnesota.
1921 - Bessie Coleman reaches France as US 1st black pilot
1923 - Belgium's Theunis government falls because of mine, post & railroad strike
1924 - 1st transmission of radio Bloemendaal
1924 - Ford Motor Company manufactures its 10 millionth Model T automobile
1924 - J Edgar Hoover assumed leadership of the FBI
1924 - Native Americans are proclaimed US citizens
1925 - Phila A's go into bottom of 8th inning trailing 15-4, then score 13 times to defeat Cleveland
           17-15
1926 - 7th French government of Briand falls
1928 - Ty Cobb, 41, steals home for 50th & final time
1929 - 1st time NY curb stock exchange transacts more business than NY Exch
1931 - Eddie Collins & Harry Heilmann, retire from baseball
1931 - Poland & USSR sign friendship & trade treaty
1934 - Great Smokey Mountains National Park dedicated
1938 - 1st night game at Bkln Ebbets Field (Reds 6, Dodgers 0) as Cin Red Johnny Vander Meer
           hurls unprecedented 2nd consecutive no-hitter
1940 - 38 Italians Fiat bombers bomb Luc-and-Province
1940 - Bread & flour rationed in Holland
1940 - France surrenders to Hitler, German troops occupy Paris
1940 - Soviet Army occupies Lithuania
1943 - Congress of racial Equality (CORE) forms
1944 - US forces begin invasion of Saipan in Pacific
1945 - ANJV established in Concert building, Amsterdam
1945 - Dutch political party ANJV forms
1947 - 1st night game at Detroit Briggs Stadium (Tigers 4, Athletics 1)
1947 - 47th US Golf Open: Lew Worsham shoots a 282 at St Louis CC in MO
1948 - 1st night game at Briggs Stadium: Detroit Tigers beat Phila A's
1948 - Bradman is out for a duck, but Australia win Test Cricket anyway
1948 - WPIX TV channel 11 in NYC, NY (IND) begins broadcasting
1948 - WTNH TV channel 8 in New Haven, CT (ABC) begins broadcasting
1949 - Phils Eddie Waitkus, shot by Ruth Steinhagen, 19, at Eddgewater Hotel
1950 - Dutch police seize condoms
1951 - 1st coml electronic computer dedicated Phila
1951 - Joe Louis scored his last knock out victory
1953 - Browns end Yankees win streak at 18 & Browns 14-game losing streak
1953 - Johnny Mize is 93rd player to get 2,000 hits
1953 - NYC Transit Authority forms
1953 - WLFI TV channel 18 in Lafayette, IN (CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 - Great Britain's 2 biggest steel factory nationalized
1954 - UEFA (Union des Associations Européennes de Football) is formed in Basle, Switzerland.
1955 - Australia score 8-758 v West Indies at Kingston, their best ever
1955 - The Eisenhower administration stages the first annual "Operation Alert" (OPAL) exercise, an
           attempt to assess the USA's preparations for a nuclear attack.
1956 - John Lennon (15) & Paul McCartney (13) meet for 1st time as Lennon's rock group
           Quarrymen perform at a church dinner
1957 - "Ziegfeld Follies of 1957" closes at Winter Garden NYC after 123 perf
1957 - 42.01 cm (16.54") of rainfall, East St Louis, Ill (state record)
1957 - 57th US Golf Open: Dick Mayer shoots a 282 at Inverness Club in Toledo
1957 - 89th Belmont: Bill Shoemaker aboard Gallant Man wins in 2:26.6
1957 - Yanks trade Billy Martin & Ralph Terry for Ryne Duran
1958 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament
1960 - Angel Cordero wins his 1st of over 7000 horse races
1960 - Argentina complains to UN about Israeli illicit transfer of Eichmann
1961 - Expansion Wash Senators are 30-30, latest date an expansion team will be at .500,
           Washington will lose their next 10 games
1962 - Phillies score 10 runs in an inning against Reds en route to 13-8 win
1962 - South Africa passes a bill setting death penalty for many crimes
1962 - WWUP TV channel 10 in Sault Ste Marie, MI (CBS) begins broadcasting
1962 - Students for a Democratic Society complete the Port Huron Statement.
1963 - "Sound of Music" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 1443 perfs
1963 - "Sukiyaki" hits #1
1963 - Buddy Nobles runs world record marathon (2:14:28)
1963 - Israeli premier David Ben-Gurion resigns
1963 - SF Giants Juan Marichal no-hits Houston Colt .45s, 1-0
1964 - Last French troops leave Algeria
1965 - Bob Dylan records "Like a Rolling Stone"
1965 - Denny McLain in relief strikesout 1st 7 batters faced & record 14 in 6 2/3 innings, Bill Freehan
           ties catcher record of 19 putouts
1965 - South Africa begins economic boycott of Dutch products
1967 - Gov Reagan signs liberalized California abortion bill
1968 - "How Now, Dow Jones" closes at Lunt Fontanne NYC after 220 perfs
1968 - "I Do! I Do!" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 561 performances
1968 - "New Faces of 1965" closes at Booth Theater NYC after 52 performances
1968 - 15th Curtis Cup: US wins 10½-7½ at Royal County Down Golf Club (Newcastle, Northern
           Ireland)
1968 - John Lennon & Yoko Ono plant an acorn at Conventry Cathedral
1968 - Yummy Yummy Yummy by Ohio Express hits #4
1969 - "Hee Haw" with Roy Clark & Buck Owens premieres on CBS TV
1969 - 69th US Golf Open: Orville Moody shoots a 281 at Champs GC in Houston
1969 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic
1969 - Mets help their power needs by adding 1st baseman Donn Clendenon
1970 - 16th LPGA Championship won by Shirley Englehorn
1971 - Vernon E Jordan Jr, appointed exec director of National Urban League
1972 - Rock fall inside Vierzy Tunnel (France) causes 2 train crash; 107 die
1972 - West German police arrested RAF leader Ulrike Meinhof
1973 - "American Graffiti" opens in NYC
1974 - "Streak" by Ray Stevens hit #1 on UK pop chart
1975 - 45th French Mens Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats Guillermo Vilas (62 63 64)
1975 - Carol Mann wins Lawson's LPGA Golf Classic
1976 - Yankees trade May, Martinez, Pagan, MacGregor & Demsey to Baltimore for Holtzman,
           Alexander, Grant Jackson, Elrod Henrick & Jim Freeman
1976 - Rain out! Astrodome cancels game heavy rains make it difficult for visiting team & umpires to
           get through flooded streets to the stadium
1977 - NY Mets trade Tom Seaver to Reds for Pat Zachry
1977 - Spain's 1st free elections since 1936 (41 years)
1977 - Wim Polak becomes mayor of Amsterdam
1978 - Belgian government resigns
1978 - Italy's pres Leone resigns due to Lockheed affair
1978 - Soyuz 29 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6; they stay 139 days
1979 - 1st space shuttle SRB qualification test firing; 122 seconds
1980 - "Fearless Frank" opens at Princess Theater NYC for 12 performances
1980 - 80th US Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 272 at Baltusrol GC NJ
1980 - Dale Lundquis wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
1980 - Jorge Orta of Cleveland gets 6 hits in a baseball game
1982 - Riots in Argentina after Falklands/Malvinas defeat
1982 - Supreme Court rules all children, regardless of citizenship, are entitled to a public education
1983 - Cards trade Keith Hernandez to Mets for Neil Allen & Rick Ownbey
1983 - Supreme Court struck down state & local restrictions on abortion
1984 - "Thicke Of The Night," TV Talk Show last airs in syndication
1984 - Thomas Hearns KOs Roberto Duran
1984 - Vitesse soccer team forms in Arnhem
1985 - "Pryor's Place," children show last airs on CBS-TV
1985 - En route to Halley's Comet, USSR's Vega 2 drops lander on Venus
1985 - Pinklon Thomas KOs Mike Weaver in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
1985 - Russian space probe Vega 2 lands on Venus
1985 - Rembrandt's painting Danaë is attacked by a man later judged insane; he threw sulfuric acid
           on the canvas and cut it twice with his knife.
1986 - 86th US Golf Open: Ray Floyd shoots a 279 at Shinnecock Hills GC NY
1986 - Juli Inkster wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
1986 - Pravda announces high-level Chernobyl staff fired for stupidity
1986 - Raymond Floyd wins US Open golf tournament
1987 - Bettino Craxi's Socialist Party wins election in Italy
1987 - Michael Spinks TKOs Gerry Cooney in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
1988 - NASA launches space vehicle S-213
1988 - Turkish premier Özal meets Greek premier Papandreou in Athens
1989 - Balt Orioles pull their 9th triple play (vs Yankees)
1990 - "Dick Tracy" with Warren Beatty & Madonna premieres
1991 - Carolyn Tanny & Bob Trischel wed
1991 - Climactic eruption of the Mount Pinatubo volcano in the Philippines
1991 - Birth of the first federal political party in Canada that supports Quebec nationalism, le Bloc
           Québécois.
1992 - 1st Berlin Air Show in 60 years
1992 - Erie Sailors (Fla Marlin farm team) 1st game beat Jamestown 6-5 in 13
1992 - Ghana Airways inaugurates flights to JFK Airport (NYC)
1992 - Jeff Reardon breaks Rollie Fingers' save record with #342
1992 - Dan Quayle, relying on faulty card, erroneously instructs Trenton NJ, elementary student to
           spell "potato," "potatoe" during spelling bee
1994 - Disney's "Lion King," opens in theaters with $42 million
1994 - NY Giants cut quarterback Phil Simms
1994 - Ruth Bader Ginsburg, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice
1995 - "Chronicles of a Death Foretold" opens at Plymouth NYC for 55 perfs
1995 - Mark Ilott takes 9-19 incl all lbw hat-trick, Essex v Northants
1995 - Northants all out 46 v Essex & wins game next day
1996 - IRA bomb in Manchester wrecks city centre at 11.17am, injuring 200
1997 - "Little Foxes," closes at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC after 56 perfs
1997 - 97th US Golf Open: Ernie Els shoots a 276 Congressional CC Bethesda Md
1997 - British model Naomi Campbell, hospitalized on drug overdose
1997 - Danielle Ammaccapane wins Edina Realty LPGA Classic
1997 - Du Mauier Senior Golf Champions
2002 - Near earth asteroid 2002 MN missed the Earth by 75,000 miles (120,000 km), about one-
           third of the distance between the Earth and the Moon
2012 - Apple I computer sells for a record $374,500
2012 - Five Dutch banks, including ING, receive credit rating downgrades of one or two notches

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 15, 2013, 02:59:50 PM

This Day in History for 15th June


Famous Weddings

1905 - Princess Margaret of Connaught marries Gustav, Crown Prince of Sweden.
1928 - "King Kong" actress Fay Wray (20) weds playwright-screenwriter John Monk Saunders (30)
1966 - English writer of blockbusters, Jackie Collins weds 2nd husband Oscar Lerman
1978 - Jordan's King Hussein marries Elizabeth Halaby, 26-yr-old American
1992 - Director Frank Perry (Mommie Dearest) marries Virginia Bush Ford
2000 - "Murphy Brown" actress Candice Bergen (54) weds New York real estate magnate Marshall
           Rose (63) at a Manhattan synagogue
2002 - "American Pie" actress Shannon Elizabeth (28) weds actor Joe Reitman (34) in Jalisco, Mexico
2002 - Actor Charlie Sheen (36) weds actress Denise Richards (31) under a rose arch dotted by over
           1000 blooms in Brentwood, California
2010 - Film actor and producer Harrison Ford (67) weds actress and Golden Globe Award winner
           Calista Flockhart (45) in Santa Fe, New Mexico

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 15, 2013, 03:01:15 PM

This Day in History for 15th June


Famous Divorces

2011 - Actress and model Elizabeth Hurley (45) divorces businessman Arun Nayar due to husband's
           unreasonable behavior

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 15, 2013, 03:37:23 PM

This Day in History for 15th June


Famous Birthdays

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Actress Courteney Cox (1964)                       Rapper Ice Cube (1969)                     Actor Neil Patrick Harris (1973)


1221 - Frederik II, [Strijdbare], duke of Austria
1330 - Edward, the black prince, prince of Wales (1343-1376)
1542 - Richard Grenville, English parliament leader/vice-admiral (Roanoke)
1553 - Ernst, archduke of Austria/governor of the Netherlands
1594 - Nicolas Poussin, French painter (d. 1665)
1623 - Cornelis de Witt, Dutch statesman (Chatham)
1624 - Hiob Ludolf, German orientalist (d. 1704)
1636 - Johann David Mayer, composer
1638 - Samuel Apostool, Dutch vicar/theologist (The Sun)
1640 - Bernard Lamy, French mathematician (d. 1715)
1728 - Pietro Alessandro Pavona, composer
1734 - Johann Ernst Altenburg, composer
1749 - George Joseph Vogler, composer
1755 - Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy, French chemist (d. 1809)
1763 - Franz Danzi, composer
1765 - Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, German mathematician (d. 1831)
1767 - Rachel Donelson Jackson, wife of Pres Andrew (1828-37) (died 1828)
1789 - Josiah Henson, American slave and settlement founder (d. 1883)
1801 - Benjamin Raymond, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1883)
1805 - William Butler Ogden, first Mayor of Chicago (d. 1877)
1809 - François-Xavier Garneau, French-Canadian poet and historian (d. 1866)
1821 - Nikolay Ivanovich Zaremba, composer
1833 - Edward Moody McCook, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1909
1843 - Edvard Hagerup Grieg, Bergen Norway, composer (Bewitched One)
1864 - Joseph Guy Marie Ropartz, composer/=
1865 - L H Perquin, Dutch religious radio speaker
1865 - Paul Gilson, composer
1867 - K Balmont, writer
1875 - Herman Smith-Johannsen, cross-country skier (d. 1987)
1878 - Eduard R Verkade, Dutch actor/director/critic (Pygmalion)
1880 - Mahlon Hamilton, VA, actor (Honky Tonk, High School Girl, Mississippi)
1882 - Ion Antonescu, Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1946)
1884 - Harry Langdon, Council Bluffs IA, comic/director (Strong Man)
1886 - Charles Wood, composer
1888 - Ramon Lopez Velarde, Mexican poet (La Sangre Devota)
1893 - Jacob HA van Coeverden, boer/edelman
1894 - Robert Russell Bennett, Kansas City, composer/arranger (Oklahoma!)
1894 - Nikolai Chebotaryov, Ukrainian mathematician (d. 1947)
1898 - Thomas Henry Wait Armstrong, organist
1898 - Willem Scheps, Dutch journalist
1900 - Otto Clarence Luening, Milwaukee Wisconsin, composer (Sonority Canon)
1900 - Paul J Mares, US, jazz trumpetist/composer (Farewell blues)
1900 - Gotthard Günther, German philosopher (d. 1984)
1901 - John Wesley Work, composer
1901 - Peter Shankland, film maker/writer
1902 - David Brooks, psychologist
1902 - Erik H Erickson, psychologist (Existentionalist)
1902 - Erik Erikson, psychoanalyst (d. 1994)
1905 - James Robertson Justice, Scotland, actor (Above Us the Waves)
1906 - Louis RJ Ridder van Rappard, Dutch mayor (Zoelen)
1906 - Léon Degrelle, Belgian SS officer (d. 1994)
1908 - Sam Giancana, American mafioso (d. 1975)
1910 - Berend Giltay, composer
1910 - David Rose, London England, orchestra leader (Red Skelton Show, Stripper)
1911 - W.V. Awdry, British children's writer (d. 1997)
1913 - Trevor Huddleston, English pastor/chairman (Anti-Apartheid)
1914 - Cees [Cornelis A B] Bantzinger, Dutch cartoonist/illustrator
1914 - Saul Steinberg, Romania, cartoonist/illustrator (New Yorker)
1914 - Yuri Andropov, Russian KGB chief/1st secretary
1914 - Hilda Terry, American Cartoonist (d. 2006)
1916 - Marshall Field IV, publisher/editor (Chic Daily News, Sunday Times)
1917 - Al "Lash" La Rue, cowboy actor (Black Lash, Lash of the West)
1917 - Michalis Genitsaris, Greek singer and composer (d. 2005)
1918 - Andreas M Donner, Dutch state leader
1918 - N'garta Tombalbaye, president Chad
1919 - Alberto Sordi, Rome Italy, actor (Miser, Taxi Driver in NY)
1919 - Van Barfoot, Edinburg, Mississippi, Army colonel and Medal of Honour recipient, (d. 2012)
1920 - Amy Clampitt, poet
1920 - George Ernest Leslie, trade union official
1920 - Alla Kazanskaya, Russian stage and film actress (d. 2008)
1922 - John Veale, composer
1922 - Mo[rris K] Udall, (Rep-D-AZ, 1961- )
1923 - Erland Josephson, Stockholm Sweden, actor/dramatist (Utflykt)
1923 - Errol Garner, American jazz pianist (Misty) (d. 1977)
1924 - Mohammed Ghazali, cricketer (Pak off-spinner wicketless in 2 Tests 54)
1924 - Ezer Weizman, 7th President of Israel (d. 2005)
1925 - Gene Baker, baseball player
1925 - Jaime Sabines, Mexican poet (Tarumba, Maltiempes)
1926 - Jan Carlstedt, composer
1926 - Shigeru Kayano, Japanese Ainu activist (d. 2006)
1927 - Hugo Pratt, graphic artist
1927 - Ibn-e-Insha, Pakistani humourist and Urdu poet (d. 1978)
1929 - Geoffrey Penwill Parsons, piano accompnaist
1929 - Gideon N N Nxumalo, composer
1929 - Nigel Pickering, guitarist (Spanky & Our Gang)
1930 - Marcel Pronovost, professional ice hockey player
1932 - Einar K Enevoldson, US, Nasa test pilot (X-24B)
1932 - Mario M Cuomo, NYC, (Gov-D-NY, 1982-94)
1933 - Sergio Endrigo, Italian singer (d. 2005)
1933 - Mark Jones, English footballer (d. 1958)
1934 - Ruby Nash Cutis, Akron Oh, rocker (Ruby & The Romantics)
1935 - Belinda Lee, Devon England, actress (Who Done It, Runaway Bus)
1935 - Fernand Schokweiler, British judge
1936 - Alexandru Hrisanide, composer
1936 - Claude Brasseur, Paris France, actor (Josepha, Pardon Mon Affair)
1936 - William Joseph Levada, American Catholic prelate
1937 - Kumar Shri Indrajitsinhji, cricketer (Indian keeper in 60's)
1937 - Ray Coleman, journalist
1937 - Rolf Riehm, composer
1937 - Waylon Jennings, country singer/guitarist (Ramblin' Man)
1938 - Billy Williams, baseball player (Cubs)
1939 - Ward Connerly, American political figure
1939 - Brian Jacques, British author
1940 - Willem Frederik Bon, Dutch composer
1941 - Harry Nilsson, Bkln NY, singer/guitarist (Midnight Cowboy)
1942 - Bruce DalCanton, baseball player
1942 - Tony Coelho, (Rep-D-CA, 1979- )
1942 - Xaveria Hollander, [DeVries], Surabaya Indonesia, auth (Happy Hooker)
1943 - Aron Kincaid, LA California, actor (Warren-Bachelor Father, Ski Party)
1943 - Johnny Halliday, rocker
1943 - Xaviera Hollander, Dutch author
1944 - Inna Ryskai, USSR, volleyball player (Olympic-2 gold/2 silver-1964-76)
1944 - Robert Keppel, American criminologist
1945 - Nicola Pagett, actress (Oliver's Story, Privates on Parade)
1945 - Rod Argent, England, keyboardist (Zombies-She's Not There)
1945 - Miriam Defensor-Santiago, Philippine senator
1945 - Lawrence Wilkerson, American retired military officer
1946 - Janet Lennon, vocalist (Lennon Sisters)
1946 - Judy Pace, LA California, actress (Young Lawyers)
1946 - Ken Henderson, baseball player
1946 - Roger Tolchard, cricketer (Engl keeper played Tests as a batsman 1977)
1946 - Noddy Holder, British singer (Slade)
1946 - Demis Roussos, Greek singer
1947 - Lee Purcell, Cherry Point NC, actor (Big Wednesday, Mr Majestyk)
1947 - Paul Patterson, composer
1948 - Champ Summers, baseball player
1949 - Simon Callow, London England, actor (Good Father)
1949 - Jim Varney, Lexington Kentucky, American actor (Ernest Goes to Jail, Hey Vern)
1949 - Dusty Baker, baseball player (LA Dodgers)
1949 - Michael Lutz, bassist (Brownsville Station)
1950 - Mark Arnott, Chicago IL, actor (Return of the Secaucus 7)
1950 - Noddy Holder, rock vocalist/guitarist (Slade-Cum On Feel The Noize)
1950 - Lakshmi Mittal, Indian industrialist
1951 - Tom Forzani, CFL wide receiver (Calgary Stampeders)
1951 - Steve Walsh, American singer (Kansas)
1952 - Lorna Young, salesperson
1952 - Sandra Cassel, American actress
1953 - Rita Lee, Federic Wisc, playmate (November, 1977)
1954 - James Belushi, Chicago Ill, comedian (Sat Night Live, Trading Places)
1954 - Terri Gibbs, Augusta Ga, blind singer (Somebody's Knockin')
1954 - Paul Rusesabagina, Rwandan hotel manager
1954 - Beverley Whitfield, Australian swimmer (d. 1996)
1955 - Cathy Morse, LPGA golfer
1955 - Julie Hagerty, Cincinnati OH, actress (Airplane, Princesses)
1955 - Sally E Silverstone, Walthamstow England, Co-Captain (Biosphere 2)
1955 - Tree Rollins, Winter Haven Fla, NBA center (Cleveland Cavaliers)
1955 - Polly Draper, Gary, Indiana, American actress (Thirtysomething, Side Effects)
1956 - Ava Cadell, Budapest Hung, actress (Do or Die)
1956 - Lance Parrish, baseball player
1957 - Brad Gillis, rock guitarist/vocalist (Night Ranger)
1957 - Brett Butler, MLB center fielder
1957 - Clio Goldsmith, Paris France, actress (Gift, Heat of Desire)
1957 - Seppo Pääkkönen, Finnish actor
1958 - Wade Boggs, Nebraska, Red Sox/Yank 3rd baseman (AL bat champ 1985-88)
1959 - Eileen Davidson, Artesia California, actress (Kristen-Days of our Life)
1960 - Denise Haigh, LPGA golfer
1961 - Kai Eckhardt, German musician (Garaj Mahal)
1961 - Dave McAuley, Northern Irish boxer
1961 - Yoshimi Iwasaki, Japanese singer/actress
1962 - Andrea Rost, Hungarian soprano
1963 - Helen Hunt, LA California, actress (Jamie-Mad About You, Twister)
1963 - Scott Rockenfield, drummer (Queensryche-Breaking the Silence)
1963 - Blanca Portillo, Spanish actress
1964 - Courteney Cox, Birmingham, Alabama, American actress (Monica Geller on the NBC sitcom
           Friends)
1964 - Michael Laudrup, Danish footballer
1965 - Carrie Mitchum, LA California, actress (Donna-Bold & Beautiful)
1965 - David Bolton, Guyana, Canadian Tour golfer (1992 Lando Mem Amateur)
1965 - Annelies Bredael, Belgian rower
1965 - Adam Smith, American politician
1966 - Idalis DeLeon, American actress/singer
1967 - Yūji Ueda, Japanese voice actor
1968 - Demtra Hampton, Phila, model (Garda)
1968 - Tim Lester, NFL fullback (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1968 - Oh Dal-su, South Korean actor
1969 - Cedric Pioline, Neuilly France, tennis star (1996 Coopenhagen)
1969 - Ice Cube, rap singer/actor (Boyz in the Hood, Anaconda)
1969 - Jesse Belanger, St-georges De Beau, NHL center (Vancouver Canucks)
1969 - Maurice Odumbe, cricketer (Kenyan batsman & 1996 World Cup captain)
1969 - Sheldon Kennedy, Brandon, NHL right wing (Calgary Flames)
1969 - Oliver Kahn, German footballer
1970 - Amanda Cromwell, Wash DC, soccer midfielder (Olympics-96)
1970 - Janie Eickhoff, Long Beach California, US cyclist (Olympic-92)
1970 - Janie Quigley, Long Beach California, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1970 - Zan Tabak, NBA center (Toronto Raptors)
1970 - Leah Remini, American actress
1970 - Gaëlle Méchaly, French soprano
1971 - Nathan Astle, New Zealand cricketer (batsman), Test debut v Zimbabwe in 1996
1971 - Stuart Howell, Australian baseball pitcher (Olympics-1996)
1971 - Jake Busey, American actor
1971 - Bif Naked, Canadian musician
1972 - Andrew Pettitte, Baton Rouge LA, pitcher (NY Yankees)
1972 - DeWayne Patterson, CFL defensive tackle (Calgary Stampeders)
1972 - Jean Francois Labbe, Sherbrooke, NHL goalie (Colorado Avalanche)
1972 - Justin C G Leonard, Dallas TX, PGA golfer (1994 Anheuser-Busch-3rd)
1972 - Lianne Bennion, Seattle Wash, rower (Olympics-96)
1972 - Ramiro Mendoza, Los Santos Panama, pitcher (NY Yankees)
1972 - Sandy Mccarthy, Toronto, NHL right wing (Calgary Flames)
1972 - Tony Clark, Newton KS, infielder (Detroit Tigers)
1972 - Hank Von Helvete, Turbonegro Frontman
1973 - Dean McAmmond, Grand Cache, NHL left wing (Edmonton Oilers)
1973 - Matt Stevens, safety (Philadelphia Eagles)
1973 - Neil Patrick Harris, Albuquerque NM, actor (Doogie Howser MD)
1973 - Tore André Flo, Norwegian footballer
1973 - Pia Miranda, Australian actress
1973 - Greg Vaughan, American actor
1974 - Any Lynn Ciccolella, Monument Colorado, Miss America-Colorado (1996)
1974 - Scott Tunkin, Australian baseball infielder (Olympics-1996)
1975 - Agathe Neuner, Miss Germany Universe (1997)
1975 - Elizabeth Reaser, American actress
1975 - Rachel Wacholder, American beach volleyballer
1976 - Gary Lightbody, Northern Irish musician (Snow Patrol)
1977 - Nina Liu, Australian actress
1977 - Michael Doleac, American basketball player
1978 - RoRo, [Romell Chapman], Atlanta Ga, rapper (Another Bad Creation)
1978 - Wilfred Bouma, Dutch footballer
1978 - Zach Day, American baseball player
1979 - Alita Dawson, Miss Connecticut Teen USA (1997)
1979 - Julia Schultz, San Diego CA, playmate (Feb, 1998)
1979 - Yulia Nestsiarenka, Belarusian athlete
1979 - Charles Zwolsman Jr., Dutch racing driver
1980 - Mary Carey, American pornographic actress
1980 - Christopher Castile, American actor
1980 - Almudena Cid, Spanish gymnast
1980 - Cara Zavaleta, American model
1981 - Cristin Duren, Miss Florida Teen USA (Miss Photogenic-1997)
1981 - William Dean Martin, American musician (Good Charlotte)
1981 - Jeremy Reed, American baseball player
1981 - Jordi Vilasuso, American actor
1982 - Abdur Razzak, Bangladeshi cricketer
1982 - Haley Scarnato, American singer
1983 - Derek Anderson, American football player
1983 - Julia Fischer, German violinist
1983 - Laura Imbruglia, Australian musician
1984 - Tim Lincecum, American baseball player
1985 - Nadine Coyle, Northern Irish singer (Girls Aloud)
1988 - Miku Ishida, Japanese teen idol
1996 - Cedric Pioline, Neuilly/Seine France, tennis pro (US open final-93)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 15, 2013, 03:49:18 PM

This Day in History for 15th June


Famous Birthdays

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Jazz Singer Ella Fitzgerald (1996)


923 - Robert I, King of France (922-23), dies in battle
948 - Romanus I Lecapenus, Armenian emperor of Byzantium (919-44), dies
991 - Theophanu, wife of Holy Roman Emperor Otto II and regent of Otto III, dies (b. 960)
1073 - Emperor Go-Sanjō of Japan (b. 1034)
1246 - Frederik II "the Strijdbare", duke of Austria, dies in battle at 25
1337 - Angelus Clarenus/da Cingoli, Italian leader, dies
1341 - Andronicus III Paleologus, Byzantine emperor (1328-41), dies
1381 - Wat Tyler, leader of English Peasants' Revolt, beheaded in London
1381 - John Cavendish, Lord Chief Justice of England
1383 - John VI Cantacuzenus, Byzantine Emperor
1389 - Lazar I, Serbian prince, dies in battle
1389 - Murad I, Osmaans sultan, dies in battle
1397 - Count of Eu, French knight, dies in Turkish captivity
1467 - Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, dies at 70
1521 - Tamás Bakócz. Hungarian Catholic cardinal and statesman (b. 1442)
1557 - Sebastiaan Van Noyen, military master builder, dies
1580 - Nicolaas van Nieuwland, corrupt 1st bishop of Haarlem, dies at 70
1614 - Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton, English politician (b. 1540)
1666 - Pieter de Bitter, Dutch admiral (Colombo, Goa), dies
1677 - Giovanni Battista Chinelli, composer, dies at 67
1679 - Guillaume Courtois, French painter (b. 1628)
1702 - Georg E Rumphius, German nature explorer, dies
1703 - Gillis Schey, Dutch admiral (battle at Lowestoft), dies at 58
1708 - Romeyn de Hooghe, painter/goldsmith, buried at 62
1724 - Henry Sacheverell, English churchman and politician (b. 1674)
1750 - Marguerite De Launay, Baronne Staal, French writer (b. 1684)
1760 - Antoine Court, French reformed theologist, dies at 69
1768 - James Short, Scottish mathematician and optician (b. 1710)
1772 - Louis-Claude Daquin, French organist/composer (La Rose), dies at 77
1814 - Charles Palissot de Montenoy, French writer/politician, dies at 84
1828 - Brizio Petrucci, composer, dies at 91
1831 - Peter Fuchs, composer, dies at 78
1839 - Hans Skramstad, composer, dies at 41
1844 - Thomas Campbell, poet (Ye Mariners of England), dies at 66
1845 - Francesco Capaccini, Italian cardinal/diplomat, dies at 60
1849 - James Knox Polk, 11th Pres (1845-1849), dies in Nashville, Tenn at 53
1856 - David Cox, English painter (Treatise on Landscape Paint), dies at 73
1858 - Ary Scheffer, painter/etcher/sculptor, dies at 63
1865 - Edmun Ruffin, US secessionist/writer, commits suicide
1865 - Jakob Zeugheer, composer, dies at 61
1869 - Albert Grisar, composer, dies at 60
1875 - Johan Peter Cronhamm, composer, dies at 72
1888 - Emperor Friedrich III of Germany (b. 1831)
1889 - Mihail Eminesco, Romanian poet (Luceafarul), dies at 39
1895 - Richard Genee, composer, dies at 72
1905 - Hermann von Wissmann, German African expl/gov East-Africa, dies
1907 - William Le Baron Jenney, US architect, dies
1914 - A G Steel, cricketer (13 Tests, 29 wkts, Eng capt 1886), dies
1917 - Kristian Birkeland, Norwegian physicist (b. 1867)
1917 - Lillian Bassman, Russian emigrant to America, photographer and painter (Harper's Bazaar),
           (d. 2012)
1920 - Michel-Gaston Carraud, composer, dies at 55
1923 - Alexander Stamboeliski, premier Bulgaria (1919-23), dies
1934 - Alfred Bruneau, composer, dies at 77
1938 - Ernst L Kirchner, German painter, dies at 58
1941 - Evelyn Underhill, British writer (b. 1875)
1941 - Otfrid Foerster, German neurologist (b. 1873)
1942 - Vera Figner, writer, dies
1943 - Cecil Parkin, cricketer (32 wkts in 10 Tests for Eng 1920-24), dies
1952 - Jakob Jud, Swiss linguist/etymologist, dies at 70
1958 - Francois de Vries, economist, dies at 74
1961 - Giulio Cabianca, Italian racing driver (b. 1923)
1962 - Alfred Cortot, French pianist, dies at 84
1965 - E. A. Speiser, American Bible scholar (b. 1902
1965 - Steve Cochran, American actor (b. 1917)
1967 - Edward Eagan, boxer (Oly-gold-20)/bobsledder (Oly-gold-32), dies at 69
1968 - Samuel Earl "Wahoo Sam" Crawford, baseball pitcher, dies at 88
1968 - Wes Montgomery, jazz guitarist, dies of a heart attack at 48
1971 - Wendell Meredith Stanley, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
1976 - Jimmy Dykes, baseball player and manager (b. 1896)
1978 - Anton Roosjen, politician/NCRV-chairman, dies at 83
1979 - Ernst Meister, writer, dies at 67
1982 - Art[hur E] Pepper, US, alto saxophonist, dies at 56
1982 - Neil Fitzgerald, Irish actor (Bride of Frankenstein), dies at 90
1983 - Srirangam Srinivasarao, also known as Sri Sri, Telugu poet (b. 1910)
1984 - Meredith Willson, composer (Meredith Willson Show), dies at 82
1984 - Ned Glass, actor (Charade, Street Music), dies of heart failure at 78
1985 - Len Hopwood, cricketer (took 0-155 in two Tests Eng v Aust 1934), dies
1985 - Percy Fender, cricketer (13 Tests for England, 380 runs 29 wkts), dies
1985 - Andy Stanfield, American athlete (b. 1927)
1985 - Robert Stethem, U.S. Navy Seabee diver murdered by terrorists on TWA Flight 847 (b. 1961)
1986 - K K Tarapore, cricketer (Test for India 1948), killed by motor-scooter
1987 - J A K Cochrane, cricketer (Test for S Afr 1931), dies
1987 - Walter W Heller, US economist (Old Myths & New Realities), dies at 71
1989 - Ray McAnally, actor (My Left Foot, Empire State), dies in Dublin at 63
1989 - Victor French, actor (#44-Get Smart, Highway to Heaven), dies at 54
1989 - Maurice Bellemare, Canadian politician (b. 1912)
1991 - Happy Chandler, American politician and Commissioner of Baseball (b. 1898)
1992 - Eddie Lopat, pitcher (NY Yankees), dies at 73
1992 - Leo Halle, soccer goalie (Go Ahead, Orange), dies
1993 - John Connally, (Gov-D/R-Texas), dies at 76
1993 - Mahfoud Boucebi, Algerian psychiatrist, murdered
1993 - Vera, scarf/linen designer, dies of cardiac arrest at 87
1994 - David Lawson, executed in NC (wanted execution shown on Donahue)
1994 - Kristen Pfaff, US bass guitarist (Hole-Live through this), dies at 24
1994 - Manos Hadjidakis, Greek composer (Never on Sunday), dies at 68
1994 - Nadia Gray, actress (La Dolce Vita, Naked Summer), dies at 70
1995 - Charles Bennett, screenwriter, dies at 95
1996 - Ella Fitzgerald, singer, dies at 78
1996 - Fitzroy Maclean, the original James Bond, dies at 85
1996 - Helen Sinclair Glatz, musician, dies at 88
1996 - Jean Gimpel, author/iconoclast, dies at 77
1996 - Dick Murdoch, professional wrestler (b. 1946)
2000 - Jules Roy, French writer (b. 1907)
2001 - Henri Alekan, French cinematographer (b. 1909)
2002 - Choi Hong Hi, founder of Taekwon-Do (b. 1918)
2003 - Hume Cronyn, Canadian actor (b. 1911)
2005 - Suzanne Flon, French actress (b. 1918)
2006 - Raymond Devos, French humourist (b. 1922)
2006 - Herb Pearson, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1910)
2007 - Claudia Cohen, American gossip columnist and socialite (b. 1950)
2007 - Sherri Martel, American professional wrestler and valet (b. 1958)
2008 - Stan Winston, American special effects and makeup artist, and film director (b. 1946)
2011 - Bill Haast, American Herpetologist (b. 1910)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 16, 2013, 09:04:03 AM

This Day in History for 16th June


Historical Events

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The Sun King Louis XIV                     US President Abraham Lincoln                     Novelist & Poet James Joyce

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Versatile Athlete Jim Thorpe                     264th Pope John Paul II                     Russian President Boris Yeltsin


632 - Origin of Persian [Yezdegird] Era
1338 - German monarch declares pope & king's decree redundant
1487 - Battle at Stoke: Henry VII beats John de la Pole & Lord Lovell
1567 - Mary, Queen of Scots, imprisoned in Lochleven Castle prison Scotland
1624 - Judge directs US colony Virginia to English crown
1673 - Peace of Vossem: Fren King Louis XIV & Frederik Willem of Brandenburg
1745 - English fleet occupies Cap Breton on St Lawrence River
1746 - Battle at Piacenza: Austria & Sardinia beat Spanish & French army
1755 - British capture Fort Beauséjour, expel Acadians
1774 - Formation of Harrodsburg, Kentucky.
1775 - Liberty Bell rang for the 2nd Continental Congress
1779 - In support of the US, Spain declares war on England
1779 - Vice-admiral Hardy sails out of Isle of Wight against Spanish Armada
1779 - Spain declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the siege of Gibraltar begins.
1784 - Holland forbids orange clothes
1794 - 1st stone layed at Dutch biggest grain windmill (De Walvisch)
1815 - Battle at Ligny: French army under Napoleon beats Prussia
1815 - Battle at Quatre-Bras: allies strike French
1822 - Denmark Vessy leads slave rebellion in South Carolina
1823 - King Willem I opens shipyard at Rotterdam-Antwerp
1832 - Battle of Kellogg's Grove, Ill
1836 - London Working Men's Association forms
1858 - Abraham Lincoln says "A house divided against itself cannot stand"
1861 - Battle of Vienna, VA & Secessionville, SC (James Island)
1864 - Battle of Lynchburg VA
1864 - Skirmish at Golgotha Georgia
1864 - Union General Grant begin siege of Petersburg, Va
1871 - Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of Mystic Shrine founded, NYC
1871 - The University Tests Act allows students to enter the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and
           Durham without religious tests, except for courses in theology.
1873 - Pres Grant decrees Wallowa Valley for Nez-Perce indians
1879 - Gilbert & Sullivan's "HMS Pinafore" debuts at Bowery Theater NYC
1880 - Salvation Army forms in London
1881 - Austria-Hungary & Serbia sign military treaty
1882 - 17" hailstones weighing 1.75 lbs fall in Dubuque Iowa
1883 - 1st baseball "Ladies' Day" (NY Gothams beat Cleve Spiders 5-2)
1883 - The Victoria Hall theatre panic in Sunderland, England kills 183 children
1884 - 1st roller coaster used (Coney Island NY)
1891 - John Abbott becomes Canada's third prime minister.
1893 - RW Rueckheim invents Cracker Jack
1896 - Temperature hits 127°F at Fort Mojave, Calif
1897 - A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the United States is signed; the Republic would
           not be dissolved until a year later.
1898 - China's emperor De Zong (Guang Xu) receives Kang Youwei
1899 - Victor Trumper's 1st Test Cricket century 135* v England, Lord's
1903 - 1st Highlander (Yankee) shut-out victory 1-0 over White Sox
1903 - Ford Motors incorporates
1903 - Pepsi Cola company forms
1903 - Roald Amundsen commences the first east-west navigation of the Northwest Passage by
           leaving Oslo, Norway.
1904 - Bloomsday (date of events in James Joyce's Ulysses)
1904 - Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolai Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.
1909 - 1st US airplane sold commercially, by Glenn Curtiss for $5,000
1909 - Jim Thorpe makes his pro baseball pitching debut for Rocky Mount (ECL) with 4-2 win, this will
           cause him to forfeit his Olympic medals
1911 - A 772 gram stony meteorite strikes the earth near Kilbourn, Columbia County, Wisconsin
           damaging a barn.
1913 - South-African parliament forbids blacks owning land
1915 - The foundation of the British Women's Institute.
1916 - Boston Brave's Tom Hughes 2nd no-hitter beats Pitts, 2-0
1917 - 1st Congress of Soviets convene in Russia
1917 - 49th Belmont: James Butwell aboard Hourless wins in 2:17.8
1922 - Henry Berliner demonstrates his helicopter to US Bureau of Aeronautics
1923 - Sun Yat Sen founds military academy
1924 - South Africa all out 30 v England in 48 minutes, Gilligan 6-7
1925 - The most famous Young Pioneer camp of the USSR, Artek, is established.
1927 - 31st US Golf Open: Tommy Armour shoots a 301 at Oakmont CC in Pa
1929 - Otto E Funk, 62, ends marathon walk (NY to SF, 4165 miles in 183 days)
1930 - Sovnarkom establishes decree time in the USSR.
1931 - Austrian government of Ender falls
1932 - Germany forbids SA/SS-gang fights
1932 - Pres Hoover & VP Charles Curtis renominated by Rep Convention
1932 - Sutcliffe & Holmes make 555 opening cricket stand for Yorks v Essex
1933 - National Industrial Recovery Act becomes law (later struck down)
1933 - US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) created
1935 - US Congress accepts FDR's "New Deal"
1936 - Dutch queen Wilhelmina opens the Waal bridge
1936 - Pope Pius XI receives Anton Mussert (Dutch Nazi collaborator)
1937 - Marx Brothers' "A Day At The Races" opens in LA
1938 - Jimmie Foxx is walked a record 6 consecutive times by Browns
1938 - St Louis Browns walk Boston Red Sox Jimmy Foxx 6 times in a row
1940 - Communist government installed in Lithuania
1940 - General De Gaulle arrives in Bordeaux
1941 - 1st US federally owned airport opened Wash DC
1943 - Race riot in Beaumont Texas (2 die)
1944 - Iceland adopts constitution
1944 - King George VI visits Montgomery's HQ in Normandy
1944 - US bombs Kyushu Japan
1945 - 71st Preakness: Wayne D Wright aboard Polynesian wins in 1:58.8
1945 - Boo Ferriss loses to Yanks 3-2 after starting his career with 8 wins
1946 - "Annie Get Your Gun" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 1147 perfs
1946 - 46th US Golf Open: Lloyd Mangrum shoots a 284 at Canterbury GC Cleve
1947 - 1st network news-Dumont's "News from Washington"
1947 - Pravda denounces Marshall Plan
1949 - Gas turbine-electric locomotive demonstrated, Erie Pa
1951 - 51st US Golf Open: Ben Hogan shoots a 287 at Oakland Hills CC Mich
1951 - 83rd Belmont: David Gorman aboard Counterpoint wins in 2:29
1952 - Soviet Fighters shoot Swedish Catalina reconnaissance flight down
1953 - Despite Johnny Mize 2,000th hit, Yanks lose ending 18 game win streak & also ending St
           Louis Brown 14 game losing streak
1954 - Dutch military conscription shortened from 20 to 18 months
1954 - Ngo Dinh Diem elected president of Vietnam
1955 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament
1955 - Pope Pius XII ex-communicates Argentine Pres Juan Peron
1956 - 56th US Golf Open: Cary Middlecoff shoots a 281 at Oak Hill CC NY
1956 - 88th Belmont: David Erb aboard Needles wins in 2:29.8
1957 - French offensive in Algeria
1957 - White Sox reliever Dixie Howell hits 2 HRs to beat Wash Senators 8-6
1958 - "Flip Top Box" by Dicky Doo & The Don'ts hits #46
1958 - Government troops land on North-Celebes Indonesia
1960 - "Psycho," opens in NY
1960 - Pres Eisenhower cancels trip to Japan
1961 - Dave Garroway is fired as Today Show host
1961 - Discoverer 25 launched
1961 - Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defects to West in Paris
1962 - 2 US army officers killed in Saigon
1963 - Levi Eshkol replaces David Ben-Gurion as Israeli PM
1963 - Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Women's Golf Open
1963 - Valentina Tereshkova (USSR) is 1st woman in space, aboard Vostok 6
1964 - Amnesty granted to 3,000 political prisoners
1964 - Quake strikes Niigata Japan
1966 - "Rowan & Martin Show," debuts on NBC-TV
1966 - 20th Tony Awards: Marat/Sade & Man of La Mancha win
1967 - 50,000 attend Monterey International Pop Festival
1968 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA "500" Ladies Golf Classic
1968 - 68th US Golf Open: Lee Trevino shoots a 275 at Oak Hill CC NY
1968 - Lee Trevino is 1st to play all 4 rounds of golf's US open under par
1969 - Supreme Court rules suspension of Adam Clayton Powell Jr from House
1970 - Kenneth A Gibson elected 1st black mayor of Newark, NJ
1970 - Race riots in Miami Florida
1971 - Groningen soccer team forms in Groningen
1971 - Racial disturbance in Jacksonville Florida
1972 - The largest single-site hydro-electric power project in Canada starts at Churchill Falls,
           Labrador.
1973 - Leonid I Brezhnev visit US
1974 - 74th US Golf Open: Hale Irwin shoots a 287 at Winged Foot GC NY
1974 - Sandra Haynie wins Lawson's LPGA Golf Open
1975 - Bucks trade Kareem Abdul-Jabber & Walt Wesley to LA for 4 players
1975 - Italy's Communist party PCI, wins
1975 - Randy Farland finds a 14-leaf clover near Sioux Falls, SD
1975 - Supreme Court rules uniform minimum legal fees are a violation
1976 - Student uprisings begin in Soweto, South Africa (Soweto Day)
1977 - "Beatlemania" opens on Broadway
1977 - Fianna Fail-party wins Irish elections
1977 - Leonid Brezhnev named president of USSR
1977 - Ron Guidry's 1st complete game, 7-0 over KC Royals
1977 - Oracle Corporation is incorporated in Redwood Shores, California, as Software Development
           Laboratories (SDL) by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates.
1978 - Cin Red Tom Seaver no-hits St Louis Cards, 4-0
1978 - Ringo releases "Bad Boy" album; Wings releases "I've Had Enough"
1979 - "Logical Song" by Supertramp peaks at #6
1979 - Carl Yastrzemski hits his 1,000th extra base hit
1979 - Moslem Brotherhood kills 62 sheiks in Aleppo Syria
1980 - "Blues Brothers," premieres in Chicago
1980 - Supreme Court rules new forms of life created in labs could be patents
1982 - Britain requests Argentina arrange for return of prisoners
1983 - Charlos Vieira completes 191 hr "nonstop" cycling in Leiria Portugal
1983 - European Space Agency launches European Comm Satellite 1, Oscar 10
1983 - Pope John Paul II visits Poland
1983 - Ringo releases "Old Wave" album in West Germany
1983 - USSR party leader Yuri Andropov elected president
1984 - Edwin Moses wins his 100th consecutive 400-meter hurdles race
1984 - Matt de Waal finishes 14,290-mi round trip from Salt Lake City (106d)
1985 - 85th US Golf Open: Andy North shoots a 279 at Oakland Hills CC Mich
1985 - Pat Bradley wins LPGA Rochester Golf International
1985 - T C Chen, ahead by 4 strokes in final round of US Open
1985 - Willie Banks of USA sets triple jump record (58 feet 11 inches) in Indianapolis
1986 - 1 day general strike in South Africa
1987 - Joe Robbie Stadium in Miami, opens
1987 - Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz acquitted on all but gun possession charges after shooting
           4 black youths who tried to rob him
1988 - Boston Red Sox Barrett steals home
1988 - In Santa Barbara, CA, a team of 32 divers begin cycling underwater on a standard tricycle, to
           complete 116.66 mi in 75 hrs 20 mins
1989 - "Ghostbusters II" premieres
1989 - Funeral for Imre Nagg, leader of Hungarian uprising in 1956
1989 - Only 17 hole-in-ones recorded since US open began, today 4 more are made all on 6th hole
           (Weaver, Wiebe, Pate & Price)
1990 - "U Can't Touch This" by MC Hammer peaks at #8
1990 - Nelson & Winnie Mandela visit Leidseplein, Amsterdam
1991 - "Fiddler on the Roof" closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 241 perfs
1991 - -23] NYC Mayor Dinkins declares "Joseph Doherty Week"
1991 - 91st US Golf Open: Payne Stewart shoots a 282 at Hazeline Natl GC Minn
1991 - Boris Yeltsin elected president of Russian SSR
1991 - Colleen Walker wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
1991 - Minnesota Twins win a team record 15 games in a row
1991 - Otis Nixon steals NL record 6 bases in 1 day
1991 - With 3 runs in 9th, Balt ends Twins 15 game win streak 6-5
1992 - Caspar Weinberger (Sec of Def 1981-87), indicted on Iran-contra charge
1992 - Colo Rockies 1st minor league team's (Bend Oregon in Class A) game
1992 - Great Brit postage stamp 350 year battle near Edgehill
1992 - Jeff King is 5th to be thrown out twice trying to steal in an inning
1992 - Red Sox Mark Reardon sets record of 342 saves (vs Yanks 1-0)
1992 - Longest salami is 68'9 & 25 circumference, weighed 1,492lbs/5oz in Flekkefjord, Norway
1993 - Ken Griffey Jr slugs his 100th career home run in Seattle's
1994 - Martin Brodeur becomes 1st Devil to win Calder Trophy
1995 - "Batman Forever" opens with a record $528 million weekend
1995 - Marlins outfielder Andre Dawson hits his 400th NL career HR (429)
1995 - Salt Lake City awarded the XIX Winter Olympics in 2002
1996 - 1st competitive game played on turf in Holland (in third grade)
1996 - 50th NBA Championship: Chicago Bulls beat Seat Supersonic, 4 games to 2
1996 - 96th US Golf Open: Steve Jones shoots a 278 wins at Oakland Hills CC
1996 - Liselotte Neumann wins First Bank Edina Realty LPGA Golf Classic
1997 - 31st Music City News Country Awards: Alan Jackson & LeAnn Rimes
1997 - The Dairat Labguer massacre in Algeria; 50 people are killed.
2000 - Israel complies with UN Security Council Resolution 425 after 22 years of it issuance, which
           calls on Israel to completely withdraw from Lebanon. Israel withdraws from all of Lebanon,
           except the disputed Sheba Farms.
2012 - 32 people are killed by a car bomb in Baghdad
2012 - Coca-Cola begins business in Myanmar after 60 years
2012 - A collapse of a stage at a Toronto Radiohead concert kills one person
2012 - 30 people are killed and 15 injured after a bus falls into a gorge in Osmanabad, India

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 16, 2013, 09:05:37 AM

This Day in History for 16th June


Famous Weddings

1855 - Salvation Army founder William Booth marries Catherine Mumford
1956 - British Poet and Poet Laureate Ted Hughes marries American writer and poet (The Bell Jar)
           Sylvia Plath at St George the Martyr Holborn, London.
1996 - Soap opera actress-singer Kassie Wesley (35) weds James De Paiva (39) in Morganfield,
           Kentucky
2005 - "American Idol" singer Bo Bice (29) weds Caroline Fisher at New Hope Presbyterian Church in
           Alabama
2007 - "Two and a Half Men" actor Jon Cryer (41) weds entertainment reporter Lisa Joyner (40) at
           the Chapel at Pueblo Bonito Sunset Beach in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
2007 - Rock singer Rod Stewart (62) weds model Penny Lancaster (36) in a cloistered medieval
           abbey at La Cervara
2012 - Supermodel Agyness Deyn (29) weds "Avatar" actor Giovanni Ribisi (36) in Los Angeles
2012 - "Superbad" actress Aviva Farber (27) weds actor Ken Baumann (22) in Malibu, California
2012 - "Think Like a Man" and "Jumping the Broom" actress Meagan Good (30) weds Columbia
           Pictures VP DeVon Franklin (33) in Malibu, California

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 16, 2013, 09:06:36 AM

This Day in History for 16th June


Famous Divorces

2006 - Lady Victoria White (43) divorces legendary Hollywood film producer Robert Evans (76) due to
           irreconcilable differences only 10 months after getting married

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 16, 2013, 09:12:37 AM

This Day in History for 16th June


Famous Birthdays

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Apache Leader Geronimo (1829)               Rapper Tupac Shakur (1971)                Singer Diana DeGarmo (1987)


1139 - Emperor Konoe of Japan (d. 1155)
1332 - Isabella de Coucy, English princess (d. 1382)
1514 - John Cheke, English classical scholar (d. 1557)
1583 - Axel Gustafson Oxenstierna, Swedish earl/chancellor/regent
1591 - Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, Italian physician, mathematician, and music theorist (d. 1655)
1606 - Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall, Irish soldier (d. 1675)
1613 - John Cleveland, English poet (d. 1658)
1633 - Nathaniel Schnittelbach, composer
1633 - Jean de Thévenot, French traveler and scientist (d. 1667)
1637 - Giovanni Paulo Colonna, composer
1644 - Henrietta Anne Stuart, Princess of Scotland, England and Ireland and Duchess of Orléans (d.
           1670)
1713 - Meshech Weare, Governor of New Hampshire (d. 1786)
1738 - Mary Katharine Goddard, American printer and publisher (d. 1816)
1752 - Meingosus Gaelle, composer
1754 - Salawat Yulayev, Bashkir national hero, poet (d. 1800)
1792 - Sir Thomas Mitchell, Australian explorer (d. 1855)
1792 - John Linnell, English artist (d. 1882)
1801 - Julius Plücker, German mathematician and physicist (d. 1868)
1806 - Edward Davy, English physician, chemist, and inventor (d. 1885)
1813 - Otto Jahn, German archaeologist (d. 1869)
1820 - Athanase Coquerel, French Protestant preacher (d. 1875)
1821 - Old Tom Morris, Scottish golfer (d. 1908)
1826 - Constantin von Ettingshausen, Austrian geologist and botanist (d. 1897)
1829 - Geronimo, Apache leader (d. 1909)
1834 - Wesley Merritt, Major General (Union volunteers), (d. 1910)
1837 - Eli Long, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1903
1838 - Cushman Davis, American politician (d. 1900)
1840 - Ernst Otto Schlick, German engineer (d. 1913)
1843 - David Popper, composer
1843 - Jan Malat, composer
1853 - Johan Gustaf Emil Sjogren, composer
1858 - Gustav V, king of Sweden (1907-50)
1861 - Scato Gocko de Vries, Dutch paleographer/librarian
1863 - Paul Antonin Vidal, composer
1874 - Arthur Meighen, (C) 9th PM of Canada (1920-21, 1926)
1879 - Fritz Schulz, German law historian (Classical Novel Law)
1879 - Theo[dorus J] Thijssen, Dutch writer (Kees the boy)
1888 - Bobby Clark, vaudevillan (World's funniest circus clown)
1888 - Peter Stoner, American mathematician and astronomer (d. 1980)
1890 - Stan Laurel, [Arthur S Jefferson], England, comedian (Laurel & Hardy)
1892 - Lupino Lane, London England, actress (Love Parade)
1894 - Norman Kerry, Rochester NY, actor (Phantom of the Opera)
1895 - Stan Laurel, [Arthur S Jefferson], comedian (Laurel & Hardy)
1896 - Jean Peugeot, Frans auto manufacturer (Peugeot)
1896 - William Fitzgerald Jenkins, author (Time Tunnel, Land of Giants)
1896 - Murray Leinster, American author (d. 1976)
1897 - Elaine Hammerstein, American actress (d. 1948)
1897 - Georg Wittig, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1987)
1899 - Nelson Doubleday, US, publisher (Doubleday)
1900 - Jan van Tilburg, governor Suriname (PVDA, 1955-62)
1901 - Arthur Pierson, Oslo Norway, actor/director (Hat Check Girl)
1901 - Conrad Beck, composer
1902 - Barbara McClintock, US, cytogeneticist (Jumping Genes, Nobel 1983)
1902 - Kornelis Posthumus, Dutch chemist
1903 - Huldreich Georg Fruh, composer
1903 - Helen Traubel, American soprano (d. 1972)
1904 - Gerard Holt, Dutch architect
1906 - Alan Fairfax, cricketer (Australian all-rounder late 20's early 30's)
1907 - Jack Albertson, Malden Mass, actor (Thin Man)
1907 - John Hadfield, author/publisher (Love on a Branch Line)
1909 - Willi Boskovsky, Austria, conductor (new years concert)
1909 - Archie Fairley Carr, biologist (d. 1987)
1910 - E G Marshall, Owatonna Minn, actor (Lawrence-Defenders, Caine Mutiny)
1910 - Ilona Massey, Budapest Hungary, actress/singer (Ilona Massey Show)
1910 - Lord Richardson, president (General Medical Council)
1910 - Richard Maling Barrer, chemist
1912 - Enoch Powell, England, MP (C)/racist/Greek professor
1912 - John Peel, MP
1914 - Stewart Cathie "Billy" Griffith, cricketer (140 for England, 1948)
1914 - Stewart Griffith, secretary (MCC)
1915 - Joseph Kagan, businessman
1915 - Mariano Rumor, premier Italy
1915 - John Tukey, American statistician (d. 2000)
1916 - Francis Lopez, composer
1916 - Hank Luisetti, NBA forward (1st to use a one-handed shot)
1917 - Katharine Graham, NYC, newspaper publisher (Wash Post)
1917 - Aurelio Lampredi, Italian mechanical engineer (Ferrari; d. 1989)
1917 - Irving Penn, American photographer
1919 - Lord Aberdare, committee chairman (House of Lords)
1920 - John Howard Griffin, US, photographer/author (Black Like Me)
1920 - Raymond U. Lemieux, Canadian scientist (d. 2002)
1920 - José López Portillo, President of Mexico (d. 2004)
1921 - Lord Perry of Walton, SDP/vice chancellor (Open University England)
1923 - Ake Hermanson, composer
1923 - Henryk Czyz, composer
1923 - Ron Flockhart, Scottish racing driver (d. 1962)
1924 - Sayed Idries Shah, thinker
1925 - Faith Domergue, New Orleans, actress (House of 7 Corpses)
1925 - Richard Jacobs, philanthropist/sports owner (Cleveland Indians)
1927 - Robert Matthews, master (Clare College Cambridge England)
1927 - Thomas W "Tom" Graveney, English cricket batsman (50's & 60's)
1928 - Harold Hanham, vice chancellor (Lancaster University)
1928 - Sergiu Comissiona, Buch Romania, conductor (Haifa Symph 1959-64)
1929 - James Kirtland Randall, composer
1929 - Ramon Bieri, American actor (d. 2001)
1929 - Pauline Yates, English actress
1930 - Brian Statham, cricketer (masterful England quick for two decades)
1930 - David Konstant, bishop (Leeds)
1930 - Vilmos Zsigmond, Hungarian/American cinematographer
1931 - Courtney Alexandre Henriques Laws, community leader
1931 - Ivo Petric, composer
1931 - Robert F [Bob] Smith, (Rep-R-OR, 1983- )
1932 - David Keylsey, actor/director
1932 - Ralph Robins, CEO (Rolls-Royce)
1933 - Joachim Nowotny, writer
1934 - Eileen Atkins, London England, actress (Equus, Devil Within Her)
1934 - Janet Pilgrim, playmate (July 1955, Dec 1955, Oct 1956)
1934 - Little Caesar, vocalist (Little Caesar & the Romans)
1934 - Lord Patrick Beresforord, blood-stock agent
1934 - Lucia Dlugoszewski, composer
1934 - William Forsyth Sharpe, American economist, Nobel laureate
1934 - Elvira Vinogradova, Russian TV persona
1934 - Bill Cobbs [Wilbert], Cleveland, Ohio, American actor (Night at the Museum, The Color of
           Money)
1935 - Jim Dine, Cincinnati Oh, pop artist (St John the Divine)
1935 - James Bolam, Sunderland, Tyne-and-Wear, English actor ( When the Boat Comes In, The   
           Beiderbecke Trilogy)
1936 - August Willemsen, Dutch poet/translator
1936 - Fred Oster, Dutch TV host
1937 - August Busch III, CEO (Anheuser-Busch, St Louis Cards)
1937 - Erich Segal, Brooklyn NY, author (Love Story, Oliver's Story)
1937 - Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Tsar of Bulgaria
1938 - Joyce Carol Oates, NY, novelist (Garden of Earthly Delights)
1938 - Mickie Finn, Hugo Oklahoma, TV hostess/banjo player (Mickie Finn's)
1938 - Torgny Lindgren, Swedish writer
1940 - Billy "Crash" Craddock, Greensboro NC, singer
1940 - Hans Dorrestijn, Dutch cabaret performer
1940 - Neil Goldschmidt, Governor of Oregon
1941 - Lamont Dozier, Detroit, songwriter (Dozier-Holland-Dozier)
1941 - Aldrich Ames, CIA officer and spy for the Soviet Union
1941 - Mumtaz Hamid Rao, Pakistani journalist
1942 - Eddie Levert, Canton Ohio, vocalist (O'Jays-For the Love of Money)
1942 - Giacomo Agostini, Lovere, Italy, world motorcycle race champion
1942 - John Rostill, rocker
1943 - Joan Van Ark, New York City, New York, American actress and director (Valene-Dallas, Knots
           Landing)
1944 - Joan Barbara Grigor, artist
1944 - Takamiyama, [Jesse Kuhaulua], Hawaii, 1st non-Japanese sumo champion
1945 - Claire Alexander, Canadian ice hockey player
1945 - Lucienne Robillard, Canadian politician
1946 - Lord Astor, of Hever
1946 - Neil MacGregor, director (British National Gallery)
1946 - Simon Williams, US, actor (Fiendish plot of dr Fu Manchu)
1946 - Jodi Rell, American politician, governor of Connecticut
1947 - -minu, Swiss columnist and writer
1948 - Ron LeFlore, American baseball player
1949 - Kale Browne, San Rafael California, actor (Michael Hudson-Another World)
1949 - Peppy Castro, [Emil Thielhelm], NYC, rock vocalist (Balance)
1949 - Paulo César, Brazilian footballer
1950 - James Smith, US, singer (Stylistics-Can't Give you Anything)
1950 - Jesse Dizon, Oceanside California, actor (Ramon-Operation Petticoat)
1951 - John Salthouse, British(?) actor (American Werewolf in London)
1951 - Michel Viso, France, cosmonaut
1951 - Sonia Braga, Maringa Brazil, actress (Dona Flor & Her 2 Husbands)
1951 - Roberto Durán, Panamanian boxer
1952 - Aleksandr Zaitsev, USSR, pairs figure skating (Olympic-gold-1976, 80)
1952 - Gino Vanelli, Montreal Quebec, singer (Living Inside Myself)
1952 - Rob Kloet, pop drummer/singer (Nits-In the Dutch Mountains)
1952 - George Papandreou, junior, Greek politician
1953 - Ian Mosley, Paddington London, drummer (Marillion-Clutching at Straws)
1954 - Gary Roberts, rocker (Boomtown Rats)
1954 - Jeffrey S Ashby, Dallas Tx, astronaut (sk: STS 85)
1955 - Laurie Metcalf, Carbonville Illinois, actress (Jackie-Roseanne)
1955 - Simon Bailey, priest
1957 - Adri van Tiggelen, Dutch soccer star (Sparta/PSV)
1957 - Ian Buchanan, Scotland, actor (General Hospital, Gary Shandling Show)
1958 - Jóhannes Helgason, Icelandic guitarist (Þeyr)
1958 - Ulrike Tauber, East German swimmer
1959 - Warrior, American professional wrestler
1961 - Robbie Kerr, cricketer (Queensland opener 2 Tests for Australia 1985)
1962 - Wally Joyner, American baseball player
1962 - Femi Kuti, Nigerian Afrobeat Musician
1962 - Arnold Vosloo, South African actor
1963 - Mohsin Kamal, cricketer (Pakistani fast bowler 1984- )
1963 - Jim Fullington, American professional wrestler
1963 - Scott Alexander, American screenwriter
1965 - J J Birden, NFL wide receiver (Atlanta Falcons)
1965 - Johannes Harisch, WLAF defensive end (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1966 - Jan Zelezny, Czech, javelin thrower (Olympics-2 gold-92, 96)
1966 - [Eric] Randy Barnes, Charleston WV, shot putter (Oly-silv/gold-88, 96)
1966 - Adrienne Shelly, American actress, director and screenwriter (d. 2006)
1967 - John Franklin, American actor
1968 - Alton Montgomery, NFL safety (Atlanta Falcons)
1968 - Matt Turk, NFL punter (Washington Redskins)
1968 - Nehemiah Perry, cricketer (fine Jamaican off-spinner)
1968 - Patrick Stuart, Hollywood Cal, actor (Will Cortlandt-All My Children)
1969 - Kevin Young, Alpena MI, infielder (KC Royals)
1969 - L B Stephens, NFLer (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1969 - Mark Crossley, Welsh footballer
1970 - Michael Husted, NFL place kicker (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1970 - Phil A Mickelson, San Diego CA, PGA golfer (1991 Northern Telecom)
1970 - Clifton Collins Jr., American actor
1970 - Cobi Jones, American soccer player
1971 - Andre President, tight end (Philadelphia Eagles)
1971 - Christopher Gomez, LA California, infielder (San Diego Padres)
1971 - Tupac Shakur, Bkln NY, rap star/actor (Juice, Bullet) (killed in 1996)
1971 - Chris Gomez, American baseball player
1972 - Shawnelle Scott, NBA center (Cleveland Cavaliers)
1972 - John Cho, Korean-American actor
1972 - Simon Khan, English golfer
1972 - Ann Shoket, American magazine editor
1973 - Shannon Myers, CFL receiver (Edmonton Eskimos)
1973 - Nikos Machlas, Greek footballer
1973 - Eddie Cibrian [Edward Carl], Burbank, California, American actor (Sunset Beach, Third Watch)
1974 - Paul Lee, British sculptural artist
1975 - Asa Carlsson, Vasteras Sweden, tennis star (1995 Futures-Stockholm)
1975 - Maria Sinigerova, Miss Universe-Bulgaria (1996)
1976 - Frank van Twillert, soccer player (Go Ahead Eagles)
1977 - Kerry Wood, American baseball player
1977 - Petros Papadakis, American sportscaster, former USC football player
1978 - Daniel Brühl, German actor
1978 - Dainius Zubrus, Lithuanian ice hockey player
1978 - Jasmine Leong, Chinese Malaysian singer
1978 - Lyndsey Marshal, British film/stage/television actress
1980 - Daré Nibombé, Togolese footballer
1980 - Nehir Erdoğan, Turkish actress
1980 - Brad Gushue, Canadian curler
1980 - Martin Stranzl, Austrian footballer
1980 - Joey Yung, Hong Kong singer
1981 - Miguel Villalta, Peruvian Footballer
1981 - Benjamin Becker, German tennis player
1981 - Kevin Bieksa, Canadian ice hockey player
1981 - Ben Kweller, American singer/songwriter
1982 - May Andersen, Danish supermodel
1982 - Matt Costa, American singer/songwriter
1982 - Missy Peregrym, Canadian actress
1982 - Chris Wingert, American soccer player
1983 - Armend Dallku, Albanian footballer
1984 - Steven Whittaker, Scottish Footballer
1984 - Rick Nash, Canadian ice hockey player
1986 - Urby Emanuelson, Dutch footballer
1986 - Farhad Reza, Bangladeshi Cricketer
1986 - Rodrigo Defendi, Brazilian footballer
1986 - Robert Rothbart, Bosnian-Israeli Basketball Player
1986 - Fernando Muslera, Uruguayan footballer
1987 - Diana DeGarmo, Birmingham, Alabama, American singer
1987 - Per Ciljan Skjelbred, Norwegian footballer
1988 - Keshia Chante, Canadian singer
1988 - Leeland Dayton Mooring, American musician (Leeland)
1993 - Alice Ann Newman, daughter of Gretchen & Randy

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 16, 2013, 09:15:40 AM

This Day in History for 16th June


Famous Deaths

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Rocket Scientist Werner von Braun (1977)


956 - Hugo, the Great, duke of France, dies
1246 - Lutgardis/Ludgardis, Flemish mystic/saint, dies at about 64
1361 - John Tauler, German mystic (Gottesfreunde) dies at about 61
1397 - Philip of Artois, Count of Eu, French soldier (b. 1358)
1468 - Jean Le Fevre, Burgundian chronicler (b. ca. 1395)
1492 - Jan Coppenhole, Flemish rebel leader, beheaded
1575 - Hadrianus Junius, [Adriaen the Jonghe], medical/historian, dies at 63
1620 - Carlo Saraceni, [Carlo Veniziano], Italian painter (Judith), dies
1622 - Alexander Seton, 1st Earl of Dunfermline, Chancellor of Scotland (b. 1555)
1623 - Christian, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Wolfenbüttel, German Protestant military leader (b.
           1599)
1644 - Johannes a Sancto Thoma, [Poinset], Portuguese theologist, dies at 54
1651 - Marsilio Casentini, composer, dies at 74
1671 - Stenka Razin, Cossack rebel leader, tortured & executed in Moscow
1707 - Marie d'Orleans-Longueville, Duchess de Nemours, sovereign princess of Neuchâtel and writer
           (b. 1625)
1722 - John Churchill up Marlborough, English general strategist, dies at 72
1749 - Johann Baptista Ruffini, Italian trader (b. 1672)
1752 - Giulio Alberoni, Spanish/Italian minister/cardinal, dies at 88
1752 - Joseph Butler, English philosopher (b. 1692)
1777 - Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset, French poet and dramatist (b. 1709)
1778 - Konrad Ekhof, German actor (b. 1720)
1779 - Sir Francis Bernard, Governor of New Jersey and Massachusetts (b. 1712)
1792 - Benjamin Tupper, Continental Army officer, and pioneer to the Ohio Country (b. 1738)
1793 - Louis A count d'Affry, general/French ambassador in Netherland, dies
1804 - Johann Adam Hiller, composer, dies at 75
1808 - Georg Wenzel Ritter, composer, dies at 60
1812 - Franz Pforr, German painter/cartoonist (Lukasbund), dies at 23
1815 - Frederik Willem, duke of Brunswick (1813-15), dies in battle
1824 - Charles-François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance, Third Consul of France (b. 1739)
1831 - Joseph Ignaz Schnabel, composer, dies at 64
1837 - Valentino Fioravanti, composer, dies at 72
1850 - William Lawson explorer of New South Wales, Australia (b. 1774)
1855 - John Gorrie, American physician (b. 1803)
1858 - John Snow, English epidemiologist (b. 1813)
1866 - Joseph Méry French poet (b. 1798)
1869 - Charles Sturt, English explorer (b. 1795)
1872 - Norman MacLeod, Scottish clergyman (b. 1812)
1878 - Crawford Long, American physician (b. 1815)
1880 - James Southerton, cricketer (appeared in England's 1st 2 Tests), dies
1881 - Marie Laveau, American Voodoo practitioner (b. 1801)
1881 - Sir Josiah Mason, English manufacturer (b. 1795)
1885 - Wilhelm Camphausen, German painter (b. 1818)
1892 - Victor Tesch, Belgian lawyer/min of Justice, dies at 80
1901 - Hermann Grimm, German writer/poet/historian, dies
1902 - Ernst Schröder, German mathematician (b. 1841)
1905 - Hermann von Wissmann, German explorer/governor of E Africa, dies at 51
1910 - Wendelin Weissheimer, composer, dies at 72
1925 - Chittaranjan Das, Indian patriot and freedom fighter (b. 1870)
1925 - Emmett Hardy, American musician (b. 1903)
1928 - Dr. Mark Keppel, County Superintendent of Los Angeles County Schools from 1902-1928 (b.
           1867)
1929 - Bramwell Booth, the 2nd General of The Salvation Army (b. 1856)
1930 - Elmer Ambrose Sperry, US inventor (gyroscope compass), dies
1930 - Ezra Fitch, Abercrombie & Fitch founder (b. 1866)
1932 - Frederik W Van Oaths, psychiatrist/writer (Blades of Grass), dies
1936 - Leib Malach, Yiddish writer, dies
1939 - Chick Webb, American jazz drummer and big band leader (b. 1905)
1940 - DuBose Heyward, US writer (Porgy, Star Spangled Virgin), dies
1940 - Vitezslava Kapralova, composer, dies at 25
1941 - Lodo of Hamel, 1st Dutch secret affiliate, dies
1944 - Marc Bloch, French historian (executed) (b. 1886)
1945 - Aris Velouchiotis, Greek guerrilla resistance leader (b. 1905)
1946 - Ludwig Winder, writer, dies
1946 - Miloje Milojevic, composer, dies at 61
1947 - Jean-Francois Capart, Belgian egyptologist (Memphis), dies at 86
1952 - Andrew Lawson, Scottish-American geologist, first to map the entire San Andreas Fault (b.
           1861)
1953 - Margaret Bondfield, English politician and feminist (b. 1873)
1955 - Ozias Leduc, Quebec painter (b. 1864)
1958 - Jose Pablo Moncayo Garcia, composer, dies at 45
1958 - Imre Nagy, Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1895)
1959 - George Reeves, actor (Superman, Gone with the Wind), shoots self at 45
1961 - O C Scott, cricketer (WI leg-spinner in 8 Tests), dies
1961 - Marcel Junod, Swiss physician (b. 1904)
1963 - J C Powys, writer, dies at 90
1969 - Harold RLG 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, Brit field marshal, dies at 78
1969 - John BMR "John" Hanlo, poet (Oote oote boe), dies at 57
1969 - Karl Hubert Rudolf Schiske, composer, dies at 53
1970 - Elsa Triolet, writer, dies at 73
1970 - Heino Eller, composer, dies at 83
1970 - Brian Piccolo, American football player (b. 1943)
1971 - Lord Reith, British broadcast executive (b. 1889)
1975 - Don Robey, US gospel/impresario/producer, dies at 71
1976 - Francis E Meloy Jr, US ambassador to Lebanon, kidnapped & killed
1976 - Victor Dalby Lord, ficticious character on One Life to Live, dies
1977 - Wernher von Braun, rocket scientist (V1/V2), dies at 65 of smoking
1979 - Ben Weber, US composer (Thorne Music Award 1965), dies at 62
1979 - Liselotte Welskopf-Heinrich, writer, dies at 77
1979 - Ignatius Kutu Acheamphong, Ghanaian dictator (b. 1931)
1979 - Nicholas Ray, American film director (b. 1911)
1981 - Humphrey Keervelt, director (Suriname Planning Bureau), murdered
1981 - John S Knight, US newspaper magnate, dies at 86
1981 - Jule Gregory Charney, American meteorologist (b. 1917)
1982 - John Honeyman-Scott, guitarist (Pretenders), overdoses on drugs
1984 - Lew Andreas, American basketball coach (b. 1895)
1986 - Maurice Duruflé, French composer and organist (b. 1902)
1988 - Miguel Piñero, Puerto Rican playwright, actor, and co-founder of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. (b.
           1946)
1990 - Eva Turner, British soprano, dies
1991 - Vicky Brown, US singer (Power of Love), dies
1992 - Joris Diels, Flemish/Dutch director/actor (It's a Cruel World), dies
1993 - John B Connally, gov of Texas/shot with JFK in 1963, dies at 76
1993 - Lindsay Hassett, cricketer (3073 runs in Tests), dies
1994 - Boris Alexandrov, conductor (Red Army Song/Dance Ensemble, dies at 88
1994 - Eileen Way, actress (Les Miserables, Rainbow, Vikings), dies at 82
1994 - Terence de Vere White, novelist/critic, dies at 82
1995 - Jack Wagner, actor/voice (Disneyland, Walt Disney World), dies
1996 - David Mourao-Ferreira, poet/politician, dies at 69
1996 - Mel Allen, American sportscaster (NY Yankees), dies at 83
1997 - Dal Stivens, Australian author (b. 1911)
1999 - David Edward Sutch, British musician (b. 1940)
2000 - Empress Kōjun of Japan (b. 1903)
2003 - Pierre Bourgault, French Canadian politician (b. 1934)
2003 - Georg Henrik von Wright, Finnish-Swedish philosopher (b. 1916)
2004 - Thanom Kittikachorn, Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1912)
2005 - Enrique Laguerre, Puerto Rican writer (b. 1906)
2006 - Igor Śmiałowski, Polish actor (b. 1917)
2006 - Alireza Shapour Shahbazi, Iranian archaeologist, (b. 1942)
2007 - Grand Ayatollah Fazel Lankarani, Iranian cleric (b. 1931)
2007 - Mikhail Kononov, Soviet actor (b. 1940)
2008 - Tom Compernolle, Belgian athlete (b. 1975)
2008 - Mario Rigoni Stern, Italian writer, World War II veteran and Nazi concentration camp survivor
           (b. 1921)
2010 - Marc Bazin, Haitian politician (b. 1932)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 17, 2013, 10:49:18 AM

This Day in History for 17th June


Historical Events

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Inventor Charles Goodyear                     Heavyweight Champion Boxer           Singer & Actress Barbra Streisand
                                                                      Rocky Marciano

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Heavyweight Boxing Champion             NFL Running Back and Convicted Criminal
Mike Tyson                                             OJ Simpson


653 - St Martin I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
656 - Ali ibn Abu Talib chosen kalief of Islam
676 - Deusdedit III ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1091 - Floris II de Vette becomes earl of Holland
1119 - Charles the Good becomes earl of Flanders
1291 - Akko reconquered after 200 years by French crusaders, & destroyed
1397 - Union of Kalmar established between Denmark, Sweden & Norway
1462 - Vlad III the Impaler attempts to assassinate Mehmed II (The Night Attack) forcing him to
           retreat from Wallachia.
1497 - Battle of Deptford Bridge - forces under King Henry VII soundly defeat troops led by Michael
           An Gof.
1535 - English Catholic Cardinal John Fischer state rights
1565 - Matsunaga Hisahide assassinates the 13th Ashikaga shogun, Ashikaga Yoshiteru.
1579 - Anti-English uprising in Ireland
1579 - Sir Francis Drake lands on coast of California at Drakes Bay, names it "New Albion"
1580 - Battle at Hardenberg: Spanish troops beat rebels
1583 - Brabant: duke of Parma beats French mercenaries
1609 - Netherlands, England & France sign 12 year Covenant
1631 - Mumtaz Mahal dies during childbirth. Her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I, then
           spends more than 20 years building her tomb, the Taj Mahal.
1665 - Battle at Viciosa: English & Portuguese army beat Spain
1700 - Mass orders priest to leave the colony
1734 - French troops occupy Philipsburg at Rhine
1745 - American colonials capture Louisburg, Cape Breton I from French
1773 - Cúcuta, Colombia is founded by Juana Rangel de Cuéllar
1775 - Battle of Bunker Hill (actually it was Breed's Hill)
1789 - 3rd Estate in France declared itself a national assembly
1815 - Stephen Decatur conquerors Algerian frigate Mashouda
1824 - Bureau of Indian Affairs established
1837 - Charles Goodyear obtains his 1st rubber patent
1839 - In the Kingdom of Hawaii, Kamehameha III issues the Edict of toleration which gives Roman
           Catholics the freedom to worship in the Hawaiian Islands. The Hawaii Catholic Church and the
           Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace is later established as a result
1850 - Paddle-wheeler "G P Griffith" burns off Mentor Ohio (206 die)
1855 - Heavy French/British bombing of Sebastopol, 2000+ killed
1856 - Republican Party opens its 1st national convention in Philadelphia
1861 - Battle of Boonville, MI-Brigadier General Lyon defeats Confederate forces
1863 - Battle at Middleburg Virginia
1863 - Battle of Aldie, Confederates fail to drive back Union in Virginia
1863 - Naval Engagement at Warsaw Sound GA-USS Weehawken vs CSS Atlanta
1863 - Travelers Insurance Co of Hartford chartered (1st accident insurer)
1864 - -18] Confederate troops pull back out Solves/lost Mt, Georgia
1864 - 640m long ponton bridge over James River Virginia finished
1864 - General John B Hood replaces General Johnston
1864 - Skirmish at Mud Creek/Noyes's (Nose) Creek, Georgia
1876 - 1st to hit 2 HRs; & score 5 runs in 9 inn NL game (George Hall, A's)
1876 - Battle of Rosebud/Battle Where Girl Saved Her Brother
1877 - Indian Wars: Battle of White Bird Canyon - the Nez Perce defeat the US Cavalry at White Bird
           Canyon in the Idaho Territory.
1880 - John Ward, Providence, pitches perfect game vs Buffalo
1882 - Tornado kills 130 in Iowa
1885 - Statue of Liberty arrived in NYC aboard French ship `Isere'
1894 - 1st US poliomyelitis epidemic breaks out, Rutland, Vermont
1895 - US Ship Canal (W 225th St) in the Bronx completed; cutting Marble Hill off from Manhattan
1897 - William Frank Powell, NJ educator, named minister to Haiti
1898 - US Senate agrees to annex Hawaii
1898 - The United States Navy Hospital Corps is established.
1901 - The College Board introduces its first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT.
1911 - Belgium government of De Broqueville forms
1915 - League to Enforce Peace forms in Philadelphia
1916 - 1st national congress of Sarekat Islam at Bandoeng Java
1916 - US troops under Gen Pershing march into Mexico
1917 - British king George V takes the name Windsor
1919 - "Barney Google" cartoon strip, by Billy De Beck, premieres
1920 - Dutch 2nd Chamber accept Anti-revolution law
1928 - Amelia Earhart leaves Nfld to become 1st woman (passenger) to fly Atlantic (as a passenger
           in a plane piloted by Wilmer Stultz)
1930 - Bradman scores 131 in the 1st Test cricket at Trent Bridge
1930 - Chuck Klein sets Phillies hitting streak at 26 straight games
1932 - Oil tanker Cymbeline explodes in Montreal, Canada
1932 - Bonus Army: around a thousand World War I veterans amass at the United States Capitol as
           the U.S. Senate considers a bill that would give them certain benefits.
1933 - Kansas City Massacre: 1 FBI agent, 4 cops & 1 gangster killed by mob
1937 - Marx Brothers' "A Day At The Races" opens in NY
1938 - Japan declares war on China
1939 - Last public guillotining in France. Eugen Weidmann, a convicted murderer, is guillotined in
           Versailles outside the prison Saint-Pierre.
1940 - France asks Germany for terms of surrender in WW II
1940 - General De Gaulle departs Bordeaux for London
1940 - Germany occupiers ration bread in Holland
1940 - USSR occupies Estonia
1940 - World War II: sinking of the RMS Lancastria by the Luftwaffe near Saint-Nazaire, France.
1943 - Player-manager Joe Cronin of Red Sox hits two 3-run pinch home runs
1944 - -19] French troops under Lattre de Tssigny conquer Elba
1944 - Hitler secretly meets with von Rundstedt in Marjival Soissons
1944 - Iceland declares independence from Denmark
1944 - Republic of Iceland proclaimed at Thingvallir, Iceland
1944 - Resistance fighter/poet Col Blake arrives in London
1945 - Day of Unity in West Germany (National Day)
1946 - SW Bell inaugurates mobile telephone commercial service, St Louis
1947 - 1st round-the-world civil air service leaves NYC
1947 - Earnest Reuter becomes mayor of Berlin
1947 - Pan Am Airways chartered as 1st worldwide passenger airline
1948 - Joe Cronin pinch hit HRs in both ends of a doubleheader
1950 - 1st kidney transplant (Chicago)
1950 - Egypt, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia & Syria sign security pact
1951 - "Flahooley" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 40 performances
1952 - 2 mine cave-ins at Charleroi, Belgium
1953 - Most runs scored in 1 inning (17 by Red Sox)
1953 - Riots in East Germany for reunification
1953 - Sup Court Justice Wm O Douglas stays executions of spies Julius & Ethel Rosenberg
           scheduled for next day their 14th anniversary
1954 - CIA exile army lands in Guatemala (JF Dulles & United Fruit Co)
1954 - Rocky Marciano beats Ezzard Charles in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1954 - Televised Senate Army McCarthy hearings ends
1956 - Golda Meir begins her term as Israel's foreign minister
1957 - "So Rare" by Jimmy Dorsey Orch peaks at #2
1957 - Tuskegee boycott begins (Blacks boycotted city stores)
1958 - Radio Moscow reports execution of Hungarian ex-premier Imre Nagy
1958 - The Wooden Roller Coaster at Playland, which is in the Pacific National Exhibition, Vancouver,
           Canada opened, and is still open to this day
1959 - Eamon de Valera elected pres of Ireland
1960 - Ted Williams hit his 500th HR
1961 - "Billy Barnes People" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 8 perfs
1961 - 61st US Golf Open: Gene Littler shoots a 281 at Oakland Hills Mich
1961 - Russian ballet dancer Rudolph Nureyev defects to west in Frankfurt
1962 - 62nd US Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 283 at Oakmont CC PA
1962 - Brazil Beats Czechoslovakia in soccer's 7th World Cup at Santiago
1962 - Lou Brock is 2nd to HR into Polo Grounds right-center field bleachers
1962 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Golf Open
1963 - British House of Commons debates Profumo-Christine Keeler affair
1963 - Supreme Court rules against Bible reading/prayer in public schools
1965 - 11.08" (28.14 cm) of rainfall, Holly, Colorado (state 24-hour record)
1965 - 1st bombing by B-52 (50 km north of Saigon)
1965 - Kinks arrive in NYC beginning their 1st US tour
1966 - Peter Green joins John Mayall's Bluebreakers
1967 - "Somebody To Love" by Jefferson Airplane peaks at #5
1967 - 1st Chinese hydrogen bomb explodes
1967 - Barbra Streisand: A Happening in Central Park performed
1967 - China becomes world's 4th thermonuclear (H-bomb) power
1967 - Longest doubleheader 9:15 (Tigers & Athletics)
1968 - Belgium government of Eyskens-Merlot forms
1968 - KQEC TV channel 32 in SF, CA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 - Ohio Express' "Yummy Yummy Yummy" goes gold
1969 - "Oh! Calcutta!" opens in NYC (almost entirely in the nude)
1970 - Edwin Land patents Polaroid camera
1970 - Led Zeppelin begins their last European tour
1972 - "Long Haired Lover From Liverpool" by Little Jimmy Osmond peaks at #38
1972 - 5 arrested for burglarizing Democratic Party HQ at Watergate
1972 - Chile president Allende forms new government
1972 - Looking Glass releases "Brandy"
1972 - Five White House plumbers apprehended after second burglary of Democratic Natl HQ,
           Watergate
1973 - 1st du Maurier Golf Classic (La Canadienne): Jocelyne Bourassa
1973 - 73rd US Golf Open: Johnny Miller shoots a 279 at Oakmont CC PA
1973 - Russian party leader Brezhnev visits US
1975 - Voters in Northern Mariana Is approve commonwealth status with US
1976 - ABA (Nets, Pacers, Nuggets & Spurs) merges into NBA
1976 - Indonesia annexes Portuguese East-Timor
1978 - "Cheeseburger In Paradise" by Jimmy Buffett peaks at #32
1978 - Ron Guidry sets Yankee record with 18 strike-outs
1979 - "Sarava" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 140 performances
1979 - 79th US Golf Open: Hale Irwin shoots a 284 at Inverness Club in Toledo
1979 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Sarah Coventry Golf Tournament
1981 - Battle between Moslems & Christians in Cairo, 14 killed
1982 - Pres Reagan 1st UN Gen Assembly address ("evil empire" speech)
1982 - President Galtieri resigns after leading Argentina to defeat
1984 - Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
1984 - John Turner succeeds Pierre Trudeau as premier of Canada
1985 - 18th Space Shuttle Mission (51-G)-Discovery 5 launched
1986 - Chief Justice Warren Earl Burger resigns Antonin Scalia nominated
1987 - With the death of the last individual, the Dusky Seaside Sparrow becomes extinct.
1988 - Givens' Family reports Mike Tyson beats his wife Robin Givens
1988 - Microsoft releases MS DOS 4.0
1988 - Soyuz TM-5 launches
1988 - Women sentenced to 90 years in 1st product tampering murder case
1989 - US beats Guatemala 2-1, in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup
1990 - "Some Americans Abroad" closes at Vivian Beaumont NYC after 62 perfs
1990 - "Zoya's Apartment" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 45 perfs
1990 - 90th US Golf Open: Hale Irwin shoots a 280 at Medinah CC in Medinah Il
1990 - Chris Johnson wins LPGA Atlantic City Golf Classic
1991 - Country entertainer Minnie Pearl suffers a stroke at 78
1991 - Pres Zachary Taylors body is exhumed to test how he died
1991 - South Africa abolishes last of its apartheid laws
1992 - Conn Gov Lowell Weicker & WFAN DJ Don Imus change places for 1 day
1992 - Phila 76ers trade Charles Barkley to Phoenix Suns
1992 - Slaughtering by Inkhata-followers at Boipatong, South Africa, kills 42
1993 - Indians' Carlos Baerga hits 3 home runs against Detroit
1994 - 1994 World Cup soccer match begin, Germany vs Bolivia in Chicago
1994 - OJ Simpson doesn't turn himself in on murder charges, LA cops chase his Ford Bronco for
           1½ hours, eventually gives up (seen live on TV)
1995 - "Who's Tommy" closes at St James Theater NYC after 899 performances
1996 - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Syracuse NY on WAQX 95.7 FM
1997 - NHL announces it will add Nashville in 1998, Atlanta in 1999 & Minneapolis-St Paul &
           Columbus, Ohio in 2000
2008 - First day of legal same-sex marriage in California
2012 - France's Socialist Party wins a majority in the legislative election
2012 - Greek voters return to the polls after the failed May 6 election
2012 - American golfer, Webb Simpson, wins the US Open

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 17, 2013, 10:50:54 AM

This Day in History for 17th June


Famous Weddings

1977 - Senator Joseph Biden of Delaware (34) weds Jill Jacobs (26) at the Chapel at the United
           Nations in New York City
1997 - Pop rock band singer Kevin Jonas (24) weds Danielle Deleasa (25) at Oheka Castle
1997 - Actress and philanthropist Grace Hightower (57) weds actor Robert De Niro (68) at their
           Marbletown home
2000 - Backstreet Boys member Kevin Richardson (28) weds Kristin Willits (29) at Lee County's
           Cathedral Domain in Kentucky
2006 - Model Bianca Balti (22) weds Italian photographer assistant Christian Lucidi
2012 - "Revenge" actress Ashley Madekwe (30) weds "Secret Diary Of A Call Girl" actor Iddo Goldberg
           (36) in London, England

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 17, 2013, 10:51:37 AM

This Day in History for 17th June


Famous Divorces

1988 - Bruce Springsteen separates from Juliette Phillips

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 17, 2013, 10:57:07 AM

This Day in History for 17th June


Famous Birthdays

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Musician Barry Manilow (1943)               Tennis Player Venus Williams (1980)


1239 - Edward I, King of England (1272-1307) subdued Wales, expelled Jews from England
1603 - Joseph of Cupertino, Italian saint (d. 1663)
1604 - Johan Maurits, count of Nassau-Siegen (Maurits House)
1682 - Charles XII, King of Sweden (1697-1718)
1691 - Giovanni Paolo Pannini, Italian painter and architect (d. 1765)
1693 - Johann Georg Walch, German theologian (d. 1775)
1704 - John Kay, English inventor (d. 1780)
1714 - Cesar F Cassini, de Thury, French astronomer (geodesic labor)
1718 - George Howard, British field marshal (d. 1796)
1725 - Joseph Anton Bauer, composer
1742 - William Hooper, US attorney (signed Decl of Independence)
1750 - Michel Woldemar, composer
1756 - Pierre-Joseph Cambon, French member of Committee of Salut Public
1808 - Henrik Wergeland, Norwegian author (d. 1845)
1810 - F Freiligrath, writer
1811 - Jón Sigurðsson, Icelandic independence fighter and Icelandic historian (d. 1879)
1817 - Thomas Maley Harris, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1906
1818 - Charles Francois Gounod, Paris France, opera composer (Faust)
1818 - Sophia Frederika Mathilde, queen of Netherlands/wife of William III
1823 - John Henry Hobart Ward, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1903
1828 - Jan K J de Jonge, Dutch historian
1830 - Rochard Montgomery Gano, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1913
1832 - William Crookes, English chemist/physicist (Crookes-pipe, thallium)
1837 - Vincent Strong, civil war fighter, died in 1863
1838 - Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya/Chatterjee, Bengali writer and poet (Vande Mataram)
1839 - Fr. Arthur Tooth SSC, Anglican Clergyman prosecuted for ritualist activities (d. 1931)
1845 - Hendrik P Staal, Dutch banker
1855 - Fritz Steinbach, composer
1858 - Eben Sumner Draper, (Gov-MA)
1861 - Sidney James Jones, composer
1861 - Pete Browning, American baseball player (d. 1905)
1861 - Omar Bundy, U.S. army general and soldier (d. 1940)
1863 - Duke Charles Michael of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1934)
1867 - John Robert Gregg, Ireland, inventor (shorthand)
1867 - Henry Lawson, Australian poet (d. 1922)
1870 - George Cormack, cereal inventor (Wheaties)
1871 - James Weldon Johnson, lawyer (1st black admitted to Florida Bar)
1871 - Nicolae Iorga, writer/poet/literature historian/pres of Romania
1874 - Grant Mitchell, Columbus OH, actor (Man Who Came to Dinner)
1875 - Philipp A Kohnstamm, philosopher/theorist (Mensch & World)
1878 - Albert Thomas, French socialist politician
1880 - Carl Van Fight, US author/critic (Red, Nigger Heaven)
1880 - Russell Simpson, actor (Abraham Lincoln)
1880 - Carl Van Vechten, American writer and photographer (d. 1964)
1881 - Tommy Burns, Canadian boxer (d. 1955)
1882 - Igor F Stravinsky, Oranienbaum Russia, composer (Rite of Spring) [OS 05/06]
1882 - Adolf Friedrich VI, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1918)
1883 - Alexandre Cellier, composer
1884 - Christina C Bakker-van Bosse, feminist/pacifist
1888 - Bernhard van den Sigtenhorst Meyer, composer
1888 - Heinz Guderian, German General (d. 1954)
1895 - Slavko Osterc, composer
1898 - Maurits C Escher, Dutch graphic artist
1898 - Carl Hermann, German physicist (d. 1961)
1900 - Hermann Reuter, composer
1900 - Martin Bormann, propoganda minister (Hitler)
1902 - Sammy Fain, American popular music composer (d. 1989)
1902 - Alec Hurwood, Australian cricketer (d. 1982)
1903 - Michail Swetlow, writer
1903 - Ruth Wakefield, inventor of the Toll House Cookie, the first chocolate chip cookie (d. 1977)
1904 - Coenraad van Emde Boas, Dutch sexologist
1904 - Ralph Bellamy, Chicago, actor (Air Mail, Dive Bomber, Trading Places)
1906 - Thomas G Cowling, British mathematician/astronomer
1907 - Maurice Cloche, French film director and screenwriter (d. 1990)
1907 - Charles Eames, American designer and architect (d. 1978)
1908 - Frank Sully, St Louis MO, actor (Along Came Jones, Phantom Thief)
1908 - Jacob "Jimmy" Herman Huizinga, journalist/Writer
1908 - John Verrall, composer
1909 - Elmer Lee Andersen, Governor of Minnesota (d. 2004)
1909 - Ralph E. Winters, Canadian film editor (d. 2004)
1910 - Herbert Owen Reed, composer
1910 - Red Foley, Blue Lick Ky, country singer (Mr Smith Goes to Washington)
1910 - Red Foley, American musician (d. 1968)
1911 - Viktor P Nekrasov, Ukrainian author (Vokopach Stalingrada)
1912 - Wessel Couzijn, sculptor/cartoonist (Auschwitz-monument)
1913 - Felix Hartlaub, writer
1914 - John R Hersey, author (Hiroshima, Bell for Adano, Wall)
1915 - Stringbean, [David Akeman], Ky, banjoist/comedian (Hee Haw)
1915 - Karl Targownik, Hungarian psychiatrist (d. 1996)
1916 - Einar Englund, composer
1916 - Victor Dalby Lord, ficticious character on One Life to Live
1917 - Atle Selberg, Norwegian mathematician (d. 2007)
1918 - Maldwyn Thomas, president (Welsh Liberal Party)
1918 - Ajahn Chah, Buddhist meditation master (d. 1992)
1919 - Antonius C "Ton" Lutz, Dutch actor/director (Lucifer)
1919 - Galina Ivanova Ustvol'skaya, composer
1919 - Kingman Brewster, college president (Yale)
1919 - Max Dendermonde, [Henk Hazelhoff], Dutch literary
1920 - Beryl Reid, actress (Joseph Andrews, Psychomania, Yellowbeard)
1920 - Francois Jacob, France, biologist/bacteriologist (Nobel 1965), (d. 2013)
1920 - Patrick Duffy, MP
1920 - Jacob H. Gilbert, American politician (d. 1981)
1922 - Herbert Kelsey Jones, composer
1922 - Jerry Fielding, Pitts Pa, composer (Lively Ones, Hogan's Heroes)
1923 - Elroy "Crazylegs" Hirsch, AAFC, NFL halfback, end (LA Rams)
1924 - Gotthold Gloger, writer
1924 - Henk J Hoekstra, president (Dutch Communist Party)
1925 - Keith Larsen, Salt Lake City Utah, actor (Hunter, Brave Eagle)
1926 - Alan Walters, political economist
1926 - Manuel Enriquez, composer
1927 - Austin J Murphy, (Rep-D-PA, 1977- )
1927 - Lucio Fulci, director
1927 - Martin Böttcher, German conductor
1929 - Michael L Strang, (Rep-R-CO, 1985- )
1929 - Tigran Petrosyan, USSR, world chess champion (1963-69)
1930 - Brian Statham, cricketer
1930 - James Gathers, Sumter SC, 200m runner (Olympic-bronze-1952)
1930 - Romuald Twardowski, composer
1931 - John Baldessari, American artist
1932 - Derek Ibbotson, 5K runner (Oly-bronze-1956)
1932 - John P Murtha, (Rep-D-PA, 1974- )
1933 - Christian Ferras, French violinist/conductor
1933 - Harry Browne, American free-market libertarian writer, politician, and investment analyst (d.
           2006)
1933 - Anthony Bevilacqua, Brooklyn, New York, Roman Catholic Cardinal (Philadelphia), (d. 2012)
1936 - Ken Loach, British film director
1937 - Peter Lupus, actor (Mission Impossible)
1938 - Judy Kimball-Simon, LPGA golfer
1939 - Dickey Do, [Gerry Granahan], rocker (Dickey Doo & The Dont's)
1939 - Donald Anderson, MP (Labour)
1939 - Hanna Johansen, writer
1940 - Bobby Bell, NFL linebacker (KC Chiefs)
1940 - Tony Marlow, MP (Conservative)
1940 - George Akerlof, American economist, Nobel laureate
1942 - Norman Kuhlice, England, rocker (Swinging Blue Jeans-You're No Good)
1942 - Mohamed ElBaradei, Egyptian IAEA director, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1943 - Christopher Brown, composer
1943 - Newt[on] L Gingrich, (Rep-R-G, 1979- /Speaker of House 1995-97)
1943 - Barry Manilow, New York City, American singer/pianist (Mandy, I Write the Songs)
1943 - Burt Rutan, American aerospace engineer
1944 - Bill Rafferty, comedian (Real People, Laugh-in '77)
1944 - Chris Spedding, rocker
1944 - Chucho Castillo, Nuevo Valle de Moreno, Mexico, bantamweight boxer (WBA, WBC, 1970), (d.
           2013)
1945 - Eddy Merckx, Belgium, cyclist (5 time winner of Tour de France)
1945 - Ken Livingstone, MP (Labour)
1945 - Tony Roche, tennis coach
1945 - Frank Ashmore, American actor
1945 - Tommy Franks, American General
1945 - Ken Livingstone, English politician
1946 - Marcy Kaptur, (Rep-D-HA, 1983- )
1946 - Peter Rosei, Austrian writer
1947 - Christopher Allport, American actor (d. 2008)
1947 - George S. Clinton, American composer and musician
1947 - Paul Young, English singer and percussionist (d. 2000)
1948 - David Concepcion, Venezuela, all star shortstop (Cincinnati Reds)
1949 - Helen Rosenthal, British teacher/health administrator
1950 - Cathy Sherk, LPGA golfer
1951 - Joe Piscopo, Passaic NJ, comedian (SNL, Miller Lite commercials)
1952 - Mike Milbury, American ice hockey player, coach and executive
1954 - Mark Linn-Baker, St Louis, actor (Larry Appleton-Perfect Strangers)
1955 - Gail Jones, Australian author
1956 - Nicholas Cook, cricketer
1956 - Nick Cook, cricketer (England lefty slow bowler in 15 Tests 1983-89)
1957 - Philip Chevron, English pop musician (Pogues-Peace & Love)
1957 - Martin Dillon, American opera singer (d. 2005)
1957 - Jon Gries, American actor
1957 - Jack Wouterse, Dutch actor
1958 - Dan McVicar, Independence Mo, actor (Clarke-Bold & Beautiful)
1958 - Jello Biafra, American musician and activist
1958 - Bobby Farrelly, American film director
1958 - Sam Hamad, Syrian-born Canadian politician
1958 - Derek Lee Ragin, American countertenor
1960 - Mitzi Edge, Albany GA, LPGA golfer (1995 SAFECO Classic)
1960 - Thomas Haden Church, American actor
1962 - Ed Brady, NFL linebacker (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1962 - Michael Monroe, Finnish singer (Hanoi Rocks)
1963 - Greg Kinnear, actor/talk show host (Talk Soup, Sabrina, Later)
1963 - Kevin Glover, NFL center (Detroit Lions)
1964 - Diane Murphy, actress (Tabitha Stevens-Bewitched)
1964 - Erin Murphy, actress (Tabitha Stevens-Bewitched)
1964 - Michael Gross, West Germany, swimmer (Olympic-2 world records-1984)
1964 - Steve Rhodes, cricketer (England wicket-keeper 1994-95)
1964 - Rinaldo Capello, Italian racing driver
1965 - Dan Jansen, West Allis Wisc, speed skater (Oly-gold-1984, 88, 92)
1965 - Danny McManus, CFL quarterback (Edmonton Eskimos)
1965 - Dermontti Dawson, NFL center (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1965 - Gianluca Pozzi, Bari Italy, tennis star (1991 Brisbane)
1965 - Kami Cotler, Long Beach California, actress (Elizabeth-Waltons)
1965 - Mike Magnante, Glendale CA, pitcher (KC Royals)
1965 - Ray Seals, NFL defensive end (Pittsburgh Steelers, Carolina Panthers)
1966 - Clare Look-Jaeger, Milwaukee Wisconsin, high jumper
1966 - Fred Barnett, NFL wide receiver (Philadelphia Eagles)
1967 - Keith Sims, NFL guard (Miami Dolphins)
1967 - Pearl Sinn, LPGA golfer
1967 - Robyn Meagher, Antigonish Nova Scotia, 5k runner (Olympics-96)
1967 - Terry Davis, NBA forward/center (Dallas Mavericks, Wash Wizards)
1967 - Eric Stefani, American musician
1969 - Karen Nystrom, ice hockey forward (Canada, Oly-Silver-98)
1969 - Kevin Thornton, Amarillo, vocalist (Color Me Badd-Want to Sex You Up)
1969 - Patric Kjellberg, hockey forward (Team Sweden Oly-1998)
1969 - Paul Tergat, Kenyan athlete
1970 - Arnold Ale, WLAF linebacker (Scottish Claymores)
1970 - Jason Hanson, NFL kicker (Detroit Lions)
1970 - Popeye Jones, NBA center (Toronto Raptors)
1970 - Ron "Popeye" Jones, NBA forward (Dallas Mavericks)
1970 - Stephane Fiset, Montreal, NHL goalie (Colorado Avalanche)
1970 - Will Forte, American writer, actor and comedian
1970 - Michael Showalter, American comedian
1971 - Tripp Schwenk, US, 100m/200m backstroke (Olympics-silver-96)
1971 - Mildred Fox, Irish politician
1971 - Paulina Rubio, Mexican singer
1972 - Dirk-Jan Derksen, Dutch soccer player (Roda JC)
1972 - James McKnight, NFL wide receiver (Seattle Seahawks)
1972 - Sebastian White, musician and artist
1973 - Louis Leterrier, French film director
1973 - Leander Paes, Indian tennis player
1973 - Christian Claudio, Puerto Rican Business Consultant
1974 - Evangelia Psarra, Greek archer
1975 - Frederick Koehler, Queens NY, actor (Chip-Kate & Allie)
1975 - Petra Vaarakallio, ice hockey center (Finland, Oly-98)
1975 - Chloe Jones, American pornographic actress (d. 2005)
1976 - Sven Nys, Belgian mountainbiker & cyclo-crosser
1977 - Andrea Deak, Miss Universe-Hungary (1996)
1977 - Bernardo Federico Tomas, Prince of Netherlands
1977 - Jason Miller, Silver Springs Md, actor (New Mickey Mouse Club)
1977 - Roger Manganelli, American bassist (Less Than Jake)
1977 - Mark Tauscher, American football player
1977 - Branko Tomovic, Serbian actor
1978 - Jenny Keim, Cin Ohio, diver (Olympics-9th-96)
1978 - Kumiko Aso, Japanese actress
1978 - Isabelle Delobel, French European ice dancer
1979 - Cawey Schau, Seattle Wash, canoist (alt-Olympics-96)
1979 - Nick Rimando, American soccer player
1980 - Andee Pickens, New Orleans La, gymnast (alt-Olympics-96)
1980 - Brittney McConn, Largo Fla, figure skater (1997 Eastern Sr champ)
1980 - Venus Williams, Lynwood California, tennis star
1980 - Kimeru, Japanese singer
1981 - Kyle Boller, American football quarterback
1981 - Amrita Rao, Bollywood actress
1981 - Shane Watson, Australian cricket all-rounder
1982 - Marek Svatoš, Slovakian ice hockey player
1983 - Connie Fisher, English stage actress
1983 - Kazunari Ninomiya, Japanese singer and actor
1983 - Lee Ryan, British singer (Blue)
1984 - John Gallagher Jr. American stage actor
1985 - Marcos Baghdatis, Cypriot professional tennis player
1985 - Rafael Sóbis, Brazilian footballer
1988 - Andrew Ogilvy, Australian basketball player

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 17, 2013, 11:00:08 AM

This Day in History for 17th June


Famous Deaths

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Victim of Police Violence
Rodney King (2012)


656 - Osman ibn Affan, 3rd kalief of Islam (644-56) murdered
676 - Adeodatus/Deusdedit II, Italian Pope (672-76), dies
855 - Leo IV, Italian Pope (847-55), dies
1091 - Dirk V, count of Holland (1061-91), dies
1119 - Boudouin VII with the Axe, earl of Flanders (1111-19), dies
1463 - Princess Catherine of Portugal, writer (b. 1436)
1501 - Jan I Olbracht, King of Poland, dies
1565 - Ashikaga Yoshiteru, Japanese shogun (b. 1536)
1672 - Orazio Benevoli, Italian composer, dies at 67
1678 - Giacomo Torelli, Italian stage designer, engineer and architect dies at 69
1694 - Philip Cardinal Howard, English Catholic Cardinal (b. 1629)
1696 - John III Sobieski, King of Poland (1674-96), dies at 66
1719 - Joseph Addison, English poet/writer/secretary of state, dies at 47
1734 - Duke of Berwick, French general strategist, dies in battle
1734 - Claude-Louis-Hector de Villars, Marshal of France (b. 1653)
1740 - Sir William Wyndham, English politician (b. 1687)
1762 - Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, French writer (b. 1674)
1775 - Major John Pitcairn, British marine (killed in battle) (b. 1722)
1797 - Aga Mohammed Khan, cruel ruler of Persia, castrated & killed
1813 - Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham, English sailor and politician (b. 1726)
1815 - Hammida, Algerian admiral, dies in battle
1821 - Martín Miguel de Güemes Argentine military leader (b. 1785)
1858 - Rani Lakshmibai, queen of Jhansi in North India, one of the leading figures of the Indian
           rebellion of 1857 (b. 1828)
1862 - Charles J Canning, English 1st viceroy of British-Indies, dies at 49
1863 - Isham W Garrott, US attorney/Confederate brig-general, dies in battle
1885 - Gen Edwin H K Freiherr von Manteuffel, mayor (Elzas-Lothar'n), dies
1898 - Edward Burne-Jones, English artist (b. 1833)
1906 - Harry N Pillsbury, US chess player, dies
1906 - William Dale, international legal consultant, dies
1910 - Lady Mosley, biographer, dies
1918 - Derek Barber, CEO (Countryside Commission), dies
1928 - Ramon de Basterra, Spanish writer/diplomat (Virulo, mocedades), dies
1936 - Kenneth Loach, TV director (Singing the Blues in Red), dies
1938 - H V "Ranji" Hordern, cricketer (7 Tests for Australia 1910-12, dies
1938 - Peter Michael, CEO (Cray Electronics), dies
1939 - Eugene Weldman, last guillotined in France
1939 - Allen Sothoron, American baseball player (b. 1893)
1941 - Johan Wagenaar, Dutch composer (Cyrano de Bergerac), dies at 78
1942 - Charles Fitzpatrick, Canadian politician (b. 1853)
1950 - Syed Wazir Ali, cricketer (7 Tests for India), dies
1951 - Carl Vogler, composer, dies at 77
1952 - Alberto Williams, Argentine composer (Etrerno Reposo), dies at 89
1952 - Jack Parsons, American rocket-fuel pioneer and renegade occultist (b. 1914)
1953 - Walter Niemann, composer, dies at 76
1956 - Paul Rostock, German doctor (b. 1892)
1956 - Bob Sweikert, American racing driver (b. 1926)
1957 - D Richardson, writer, dies at 84
1959 - Abdul Mouse, Indonesian nationalist foreman/author, dies at about 68
1960 - Pierre Reverdy, French author/poet (North-South), dies at 70
1961 - Jeff Chandler, [Ira Grossel], actor (Away all boats), dies at 40
1963 - Alain F B Alanbrooke, 1st viscount of Brookeborough, dies at 79
1963 - John Whiting, British dramatist/actor (Devils), dies
1965 - Arnold Meijer, leader (Fascist Nationally Front), dies
1968 - José Nasazzi, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1901)
1970 - Matthew Henderson, cricketer (one Test for NZ 1930), dies
1971 - C Christopher Morris, cricketer (brilliant batsman for Phila), dies
1973 - Luis Van Rooten, actor (One Man's Family), dies at 66
1974 - Pamela Britton, actress (Blondie, My Favorite Martian), dies at 50
1974 - Yadavendra Singh, cricketer (Yuvraj of Patiala, Test for India), dies
1978 - Cully Richards, actor (Don't Call Me Charlie), dies at 68
1979 - Lou Frizzel, actor (Dusty Rhoades-Bonanza), dies at 58
1981 - Richard O'Connor, British general (b. 1889)
1981 - Zerna Sharp, American writer and educator (Dick and Jane) (b. 1889)
1981 - Yitzhak Zuckerman [Itzhak Zuckerman], Jewish resistance hero in World War II and one of
           the few survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, dies at 65
1983 - Eelco N van Kleffens, Dutch min of Foreign affairs 1939-46, dies at 88
1983 - Peter Mennin(i), US composer (Moby Dick), dies at 60
1984 - Chet Allen, actor (Jerry-Bonino, Slats-Troubleshooter), dies at 51
1984 - Swale, Kentucky Derby winner, collapses & dies
1985 - Piet De Somer, Belgian rector of University of Louvain, dies at 67
1986 - Jef Keuleers, Belgian worker's union leader, dies at 75
1986 - Kate Smith, singer (God Bless America), dies in Raleigh NC at 78
1987 - Dick Howser, mgr (NY Yankees & KC Royal), dies of brain cancer at 51
1989 - John Matusek, NFLer (Oak Raider)/actor, dies of a heart attack at 38
1989 - Stanley David Griggs, astronaut (STS 51-D), dies plane crash at 59
1990 - Dick Elffers, graphic artist, dies
1990 - Palmira Henry, fashion designer, dies of cerebral hemorrhage at 44
1992 - Dewey Balfa, bayou fiddler, dies at 65
1992 - Frederick Exley, novelist (Fan's Note), dies at 63
1993 - Angus Suttie, English potter, dies of AIDS at 46
1993 - French of Nouhuys, civil servant in Indonesia, dies at 88
1994 - Joeri Nagibin, Russian screenwriter (Babje Karstvo), dies at 74
1995 - Claire Sterling, journalist, dies at 75
1996 - Thomas Kuhn, American philosopher of science (b. 1922)
2000 - Ismail Mahomed, South African and Namibian Chief Justice (d. 1931)
2001 - Donald J. Cram, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1919)
2002 - Willie Davenport, American athlete (b. 1943)
2002 - Fritz Walter, German footballer (b. 1920)
2004 - Gerry McNeil, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1926)
2005 - Sam Loeb, comic book writer (b. 1988)
2005 - Karl Mueller, American bassist (Soul Asylum) (b. 1962)
2006 - Cláudio Besserman Vianna, aka "Bussunda", Brazilian comedian (b. 1962)
2006 - Arthur Franz, American actor (b. 1920)
2007 - Gianfranco Ferrè, Italian fashion designer (b. 1944)
2007 - Serena Wilson, American belly dancer (b. 1933)
2008 - Tsutomu Miyazaki, Japanese serial killer (b. 1962)
2008 - Cyd Charisse, American dancer and actress (b. 1922)
2009 - Darrell Powers, American World War II veteran of the United States 101st Airborne Division.
           (b. 1923)
2009 - Ralf Dahrendorf, German-born sociologist and politician (b. 1929)
2010 - K. S. Rajah, Singaporean jurist (b. 1930)
2012 - Rodney King, African American motorist beaten by LA cop, dies at 47

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 18, 2013, 08:51:46 AM

This Day in History for 18th June


Historical Events

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English Philosopher and                           Naturalist Charles Darwin                      Baseball Great Babe Ruth
Founder of Pennsylvania
William Penn

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British war time Prime Minister              Russian President Boris Yeltsin
Winston Churchill


618 - Coronation of the Chinese governor Li Yuan as Emperor Gaozu of Tang, the new Emperor of
         China, initiating three centuries of the Tang Dynasty's rule over China.
860 - Swedish Vikings attack Constantinople
1155 - Pope Adrian IV crowns Frederick I Barbarossa Roman-German Emperor
1178 - Proposed time of origin of lunar crater Giordano Bruno
1178 - 5 Canterbury monks report explosion on moon (only known observation)
1264 - The Parliament of Ireland meets at Castledermot in County Kildare, the first definitively known
           meeting of this Irish legislature.
1316 - Peace of Fexhe: prince-bishop Adolf II of Mark & Luikse towns
1529 - Blackfriars begin: Henry VIII & Catharina of Aragon
1538 - Treaty of Nice: ends war between Emperor Charles V & King French I
1541 - Irish parliament selects Henry VIII as king of Ireland
1574 - Polish King Hendrik of Anjou secretly leaves Poland
1580 - States of Utrecht forbid catholic worship
1583 - Richard Martin of London takes out 1st life insurance policy, on William Gibbons, premium was
           £383
1629 - Sea battle at Dungeness: Piet Heyn vs Dunkerk Cape
1639 - Treaty of Berwick: End 1st Bishop war
1643 - Skirmish at Chalgrove Field: Prince Rupert parliamentary armies
1682 - William Penn founds Philadelphia, US
1757 - Battle at Kolin Bohemia: Austrian army beats Prussia
1767 - Samuel Wallis, an English sea captain, sights Tahiti and is considered the first European to
           reach the island.
1778 - British Redcoats evacuate Phila
1779 - French fleet occupies St Vincent
1812 - War of 1812 begins as US declares war against Britain
1815 - Battle of Waterloo; Napoleon defeated by Wellington & Blucher
1821 - Opera "Der Freischutz" is produced (Berlin)
1822 - Part of US-Canadian boundary determined
1822 - Slave revolt leaders Denmark Vesey & Peter Poyas arrested in SC
1836 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin leave South-Africa
1837 - Spain gets new Constitution
1863 - After long neglect, Confederates hurriedly fortify Vicksburg
1864 - At Petersburg, Grant ends 4 days of assaults
1872 - Woman's Suffrage Convention held at Merchantile Liberty Hall
1873 - Susan B Anthony fined $100 for voting for President
1879 - W H Richardson, a black inventor, patents the children's carriage
1887 - The Reinsurance Treaty between Germany and Russia is signed.
1892 - Macademia nuts 1st planted in Hawaii
1894 - Premier Roseberry declares Uganda a British protectorate
1898 - 1st amusement pier opens in Atlantic City, NJ
1898 - 4th US Golf Open: Fred Herd shoots a 328 at Myopia Hunt Club Mass
1900 - Empress Douairiere orders I-Ho-Chuan (Boxers) to kill all foreigners
1900 - Gen Luigi Pelloux resigns as premier of Italy
1903 - 1st transcontinental auto trip begins in SF; arrives NY 3-mo later
1908 - Japanese immigration to Brazil begins when 781 people arrive in Santos aboard the Kasato-
           Maru ship
1909 - Nannie Burroughs forms national training School for Women
1910 - 16th US Golf Open: Alex Smith shoots a 298 at Phila Cricket Club PA
1915 - 21st US Golf Open: John Travers shoots a 297 at Baltusrol GC NJ
1916 - Yanks score in every inning but 8th to beat Indians 19-3 in baseball
1924 - Pope Pius XI's encyclical Maximam gravissimamque
1926 - Theodor Lessing laid-off "because he is a Jew" in Hanover
1927 - Paavo Nurmi runs world record 2000 m: 5:24.6
1928 - Amelia Earhart becomes 1st female to fly across Atlantic Ocean
1930 - Groundbreaking ceremonies for the Franklin Institute held.
1934 - US Highway planning surveys nationwide authorized
1936 - 1st bicycle traffic court in America established, Racine, WI
1936 - Polish parliament gives pres Ignacy Moscicki dictatorial power
1938 - Babe Ruth is signed as a Dodgers coach for the rest of the season
1940 - Gen Charles de Gaulle on BBC tells French to defy nazi occupiers
1940 - German occupiers slaughter cattle, pigs & chickens
1940 - Winston Churchill urges perseverance so that future generations would remember that "this
           was their finest hour"
1941 - Joe Louis KOs Billy Conn in 13 for heavyweight boxing title
1941 - Turkey signs peace treaty with nazi-Germany
1942 - Bernard W Robinson, becomes 1st black ensign in US Navy
1942 - Eric Nessler of France stays aloft in a glider for 38h21m
1943 - SS Police in Amsterdam sentence for 12 resistance fighter to death (Jewish, communists,
           homosexuality) at the census bureau
1944 - Farewell concert of Willem Mengelberg in Paris
1944 - U-767 sinks
1945 - William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) Brit radio traitor charged with treason
1946 - Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia, a Socialist calls for a Direct Action Day against the Portuguese in
           Goa. A road is named after this date in Panjim.
1947 - Cincinnati Red Ewell Blackwell no-hits Boston Braves, 6-0
1948 - American Library Association adopts Library Bill of Rights
1948 - National Security Council authorizes covert operations for 1st time
1948 - Phillies pitching great Robin Roberts debut, loses 2-0 to Pirates
1948 - UN Commission on Human Rights adopts Intl Decl of Human Rights
1949 - "Along Fifth Avenue" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 180 perfs
1950 - Cleve Indians score 14 runs in 1st inning, beat A's 21-2
1951 - De Gaulle wins French parliamentary election
1953 - Egypt proclaimed a republic, General Neguib becomes president
1953 - USAF C124 Globemaster crashes near Tokyo killing 129 servicemen
1953 - Eugene Stephens is 1st to get 3 hits & Red Sox score 17 runs in 1 Inning (7th) Red Sox beat
           Detroit 23-3
1954 - Pierre Mendès-France forms French government
1955 - "3 for Tonight" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 85 performances
1956 - Last of foreign troops leaves Egypt as Brits leave Suez Canal
1957 - John Diefenbacker (C) takes office as PM of Canada
1959 - 1st telecast transmitted from England to US
1959 - Governor of Louisiana Earl K. Long is committed to a state mental hospital; he responds by
           having the hospital's director fired and replaced with a crony who proceeds to proclaim him
           perfectly sane.
1960 - "Destry Rides Again" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 472 perfs
1960 - 60th US Golf Open: Arnold Palmer shoots 280 at Cherry Hills in Denver
1960 - Giants hire Tom Sheehan as baseball's oldest debuting manager (66)
1960 - Real Madrid wins 5th Europe Cup 1
1961 - CBS radio cancels Gunsmoke
1961 - KBMT TV channel 12 in Beaumont, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
1961 - Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Eastern Golf Open
1963 - 3,000 blacks boycott Boston public school
1964 - African Groundnut Council forms in Dakar
1967 - 67th US Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots 275 at Baltusrol GC NJ
1967 - Houston Don Wilson no-hits Atlanta Braves, 2-0
1967 - Monterey International Pop Festival rocks Southern California
1967 - Susie Maxwell wins LPGA Milwaukee Jaycee Golf Open
1968 - Supreme Court bans racial discrimination in sale & rental of housing
1972 - 72nd US Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 290 at Pebble Beach Calif
1972 - BEA Trident crashes after takeoff from Heathrow killing 118
1972 - West Germany wins soccer world championship
1972 - US Supreme Court, 5-3, confirms lower court rulings in Curt Flood case, upholding baseball's
           exemption from antitrust laws
1973 - NCAA makes urine testing mandatory for participants
1974 - Gaston Thorn forms Luxembourg government
1975 - Fred Lynn gets 10 RBIs in a Red Sox 15-1 victory over Tigers
1975 - Gary Gilmour takes 6-14 in Cricket World Cup semi v England
1975 - NBC News & Information Service (24 hr news) premieres on radio
1976 - A Joseph William Turner watercolor auctioned for £340,000
1976 - St Louis Cards Lou Brock & Hector Cruz hit inside-the-park HRs
1976 - Bowie Kuhn voids A's sales, totaling $35 million, of Joe Rudi & Rollie Fingers to Red Sox, &
           Vida Blue to Yankees
1977 - Billy Martin & Reggie Jackson get into a dug out altercation
1977 - Sex Pistols Johnny Rotten & Paul Cook, beaten & robbed by London pub
1977 - Space Shuttle test model "Enterprise" carries a crew aloft for 1st time, It was fixed to a
           modified Boeing 747
1978 - 78th US Golf Open: Andy North shoots a 285 at Cherry Hill CC in Denver
1978 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Bankers Trust Golf Classic
1978 - Victor de la Torre wins Peru election
1979 - Billy Martin becomes Yankee manager (2nd time), replacing Bob Lemon
1979 - Sri Lanka beat India by 47 runs in Cricket World Cup upset
1979 - US Pres Carter & Soviet Pres Leonid Brezhnev sign SALT II treaty limiting nuclear wepons
1979 - SALT II is signed by the United States and the Soviet Union.
1980 - Dutch 2nd Chamber joins oil boycott of South Africa
1980 - Mrs Shakuntala Devi mentally multiplies 2 13-digit #s in 28 sec
1981 - Kimberley Ann Smith, of NC, 17, crowned America's Junior Miss
1981 - Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart retires (replaced by Sandra Day O'Connor, 1st woman
           on high court)
1981 - Test cricket debut of Terry Alderman, v England at Trent Bridge
1981 - Vaccine to prevent hoof & mouth disease announced
1981 - The AIDS epidemic is formally recognized by medical professionals in San Francisco, California.
1982 - ABC's All Talk radio network expands to 22 stations
1982 - Voting Rights Act of 1965 extended by Senate by 85-8 vote
1983 - "Pump Boys & Dinettes" closes at Princess Theater NYC after 573 perfs
1983 - 7th Shuttle Mission-Challenger 2 launched-Sally Ride 1st US woman
1983 - IRA's Joseph Doherty arrested in NYC
1984 - 84th US Golf Open: Fuzzy Zoeller shoots a 276 at Winged Foot GC NY
1985 - Boston Red Sox Fred Lynn gets 10 RBIs
1986 - De Havilland Twin Otter & Bell 206 helicopter collide, kills 25
1986 - Don Sutton becomes 19th pitcher to win 300 games
1986 - Heike Friedrich swims female world record 200m freestyle (1:57.55)
1986 - Papua New Guinea score 9-455 in 60 overs v Gibraltar, ICC Trophy
1987 - Charles Glass, ABC journalist, kidnapped in Lebanon
1988 - Jeff Hamilton, hits 8,000th Dodger home run
1989 - "Starmites" closes at Criter Ctr SR Theater NYC after 60 performances
1989 - 89th US Golf Open: Curtis Strange shoots a 278 at Oak Hill CC NY
1989 - Comet Churyunov-Gerasimenko at perihelion
1989 - Laura Davies wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
1990 - 1st ever lose for Cameroon in Soccer World Cup, USSR-4 Cameroon-0
1990 - 1st sudden death US Open Golf Championship is won by Hale Irwin
1991 - Boris Yeltsin, president of Russia, arrives in US
1991 - Mud storm in Antofagasta Chile, kills 80
1991 - SF Giant pitcher Dave Dravecky's cancerous left arm is amputated
1991 - Yankee pitchers pick-off 3 Toronto Blue Jays
1992 - Ottawa Senators make goalie Peter Sidorkiewicz their 1st draft
1992 - Tampa Bay Lightning make goalie Wendell Young their 1st draft
1993 - Expo's Dennis Martinez is 92nd to win 200 games
1993 - Toru Takemitsu's "Archipelago" premieres in Aldeburgh England
1994 - Aleksander Popov swims world record 100m free style (48.21 sec)
1994 - Gay Games open in NYC
1994 - US ties Switzerland 1-1 in their 1st game of 1994 soccer World Cup
1995 - 95th US Golf Open: Corey Pavin shoots a 280 at Shinnecock Hills NY
1995 - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Rochester International Golf Tournament
1996 - Ted Kaczynski, suspected of being the Unabomber, is indicted on ten criminal counts.
2000 - 100th US Golf Open: at Pebble Beach Golf Links Calif
2001 - Protests occur in Manipur over the extension of the ceasefire between Naga insurgents and
           the government of India.
2003 - Google launches AdSense, a program that enables website publishers to serve ads targeted
           to the specific content of their individual web pages, many of which like HistoryOrb.com go on 
           to start their own publishing businesses
2006 - The first Kazakh space satellite, KazSat is launched.
2012 - 15 people are killed and 40 injured in a suicide attack in Baquba, Iraq

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 18, 2013, 08:53:14 AM

This Day in History for 18th June


Famous Weddings

1839 - Dutch prince Willem Alexander (later William III) weds cousin Princess Sophia
1858 - Norwegian modernist playwright "The Doll's House" Henrik Ibsen (30) marries Suzannah
           Thoresen (21) in Oslo
1989 - John Wayne Bobitt marries Lorena L Gallo
1992 - Actor Jameson Parker weds actress Darleen Carr
2005 - "Queens Park Rangers" football striker Djibril Cisse (23) weds Jude Littler at Bodelwyddan
           Castle in Denbighshire, North Wales
2006 - "Weezer" lead vocalist Rivers Cuomo (36) weds Kyoko Ito at a secluded beach on Paradise
           Cove in Malibu
2011 - British peer and brother of Princess Diana Charles Spencer (47) weds Canadian social
           entrepreneur and former model Karen Gordon (39) at Althorp House in Northamptonshire
2011 - Reality TV Personality Toya Carter (27) weds "The Deal" TV host Mickey Wright in Atlanta
2012 - R&B singer Bobby Brown (43) weds Alicia Etheridge in Honolulu, Hawaii

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 18, 2013, 08:54:22 AM

This Day in History for 18th June


Famous Divorces

2010 - Former Saved by the Bell actor Mark-Paul Gosselaar (36) divorces former model Lisa Ann
           Russell (39) due to irreconcilable differences after 14 years of marriage
2012 - "The L Word" actress Laurel Holloman (41) divorces architect Paul Macherey (44) due to
           irreconcilable differences after 9 years of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 18, 2013, 09:00:26 AM

This Day in History for 18th June


Famous Birthdays

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Mountain Climber                                           Pop Singer & Beatle                    Actress Isabella Rossellini (1952)
George Mallory (1886)                                   Paul McCartney (1942)


1269 - Princess Eleanor of England (d. 1298)
1318 - Princess Eleanor of Woodstock (d. 1355)
1466 - Ottaviano Petrucci, Italian printer (d. 1539)
1511 - Bartolommeo Ammanati, Italian sculptor/architect
1511 - Ponte Santa Trinita, Florence
1517 - Emperor Ogimachi of Japan (d. 1593)
1552 - Gabriello Chiabrera, Italian poet (d. 1637)
1581 - Thomas Overbury, poet (baptized)
1667 - Ivan Trubetskoy, Russian field marshal (d. 1750)
1681 - Feofan Prokopovich, theologian, archbishop of Novgorod, westernizer
1716 - Joseph M Vien, French (court)painter
1723 - Giuseppe Scarlotti, composer
1740 - Karel van Poucke, Flemish sculptor
1744 - Augustin Holler, composer
1757 - Ignaz Joseph Pleyel, composer
1757 - Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Argentine leader (d. 1833)
1758 - Pieter PJQ Ondaatje, Ceylon/Dutch jurist/patriot
1780 - Michael Henkel, composer
1794 - George Grote, British historian
1799 - William Lassell, discoverer (satellites of Uranus & Neptune)
1809 - Sylvanus William Godon, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1879
1812 - Ivan Goncharov, Russia, novelist/travel writer (Oblomov)
1813 - Pavel Annenkov, Rus literature historian (Zametsjatelnoje desjatileti)
1820 - Martin Andreas Udbye, composer
1822 - Henry David Leslie, composer
1824 - Johannes Heykamp, Catholic archbishop of Utrecht
1839 - William Henry Seward Jr, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1920
1845 - Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or
           Medicine (d. 1922)
1850 - Richard Heuberger, composer
1854 - Edward Wyllis Scripps, publisher/journalist
1857 - Henry Clay Folger Jr, US, businessman/Shakespeare fan
1858 - Hans Schardt, Swiss geologist
1860 - Hugo Loudon, CEO (Royal Dutch Oil [Shell])
1861 - Jose FdT Coelho, Portuguese writer (Os Meus Amores)
1863 - George Essex Evans, Australian poet (d. 1909)
1868 - Miklos Horthy von Nagybanya, Hungarian admiral/regent (1910-44)
1870 - Edouard Le Roy, French philosopher and mathematician
1877 - James Montgomery Flagg, illustrator ("I want you" Uncle Sam)
1881 - Eduard C "Edo" Fimmen, Dutch labor leader
1882 - Georgi Dimitrov, Bulgaria premier (1946-49) [or 6/28]
1884 - Edouard Daladier, premier France (1933..40)
1886 - George Mallory, England, mountain climber ("because it is there")
1886 - Alexander Wetmore, American ornithologist (d. 1978)
1887 - Blanche Yurka, St Paul MN, actress (Taxi, Tale of 2 Cities)
1888 - Margarita Xirgu, Barcelona Spain, actress (Bloody Wedding)
1888 - S S Van Dine, [William Huntingdon Wright], author (Canary Murder Case)
1889 - Paul Joostens, Flemish painter
1891 - Hans Ruin, Finnish Swedish-language historian
1891 - Mae Busch, Australian actress (d. 1946)
1892 - Edward Steuermann, composer
1895 - Manuela Fernández-Fojaco, Spanish supercentenarian
1896 - Blanche Sweet, Chicago, actress (Home Sweet Home, Avenging Conscience)
1896 - Cota Ramaswami, cricketer (Davis Cup for India 1922, Test 1936)
1896 - Philip Barry, US, dramatist (Philadelphia Story)
1898 - Carleton Percy Hobbs, Farnborough England
1898 - M C Escher, Dutch graphic artist
1899 - James Ralph Darling, teacher
1901 - Jimmy Dale, Bronx NYC, orchestra leader (Sonny & Cher)
1901 - Llewellyn Rees, British theater actor (Invisible Creature)
1902 - Henry Wadsworth, Maysville KY, actor (Applause, Fast & Loose)
1903 - Raymond Radiguet, French journalist/writer (Le diable ouch corps)
1903 - Jeanette MacDonald, Phila, American actress and singer (When I'm Calling You), (d. 1965)
1904 - Keye Luke, Canton China, actor (Across the Pacific, Yangtse Incident)
1904 - Manuel Rosenthal, Paris France, composer (Bootleggers)
1905 - Eduard Tubin, composer
1905 - John Gardener, boatbuilder/writer
1906 - Kay Kyser, Rocky Mount NC, orchestra leader (Kay Kyser's Kollege)
1907 - Benny Payne, Phila, pianist (Billy Daniels Show)
1907 - Froelich Rainey, Wisc, quiz moderator (What in the World)
1908 - Bud Collyer, NYC, TV emcee (Beat the Clock, To Tell the Truth)
1908 - Maria E Vieira da Silva, Portuguese painter (Infinite Passage)
1908 - Nedra Volz, American actress (d. 2003)
1908 - Stanley Knowles, Canadian politician (d. 1997)
1910 - Avon Long, Balt Md, actor (Roots: Next Generation)
1910 - Dick Foran, Flemington NJ, actor (OK Crackerby)
1910 - E G Marshall, Owatonna Minn, actor (Playhouse 90, Chicago Hope)
1910 - Ray McKinley, Fort Worth Tx, orchestra leader/drummer (Glenn Miller Time)
1910 - E.G. Marshall, American actor (d. 1998)
1912 - Glen Morris, MO, Olympic champion/actor (Tarzan)
1912 - Henry Brandon, Berlin Germany, actor (Drums of Fu Manchu)
1913 - Sammy Cahn, lyricist (3 Coins in a Fountain)
1913 - Sylvia Porter, financial writer (Sylvia Porter's Money Book)
1914 - Billy Wade, cricket wicket-keeper (South African in 11 Tests 1938-50)
1915 - Arthur Fagg, cricketer (dual double-centuries in a game for Kent 1938)
1915 - Red Adair, oilman (fought oil fires in Kuwait)
1915 - Victor Legley, composer
1916 - John Young, actor/TV panelist (Masquerade Party)
1917 - Akhmet Jevdet Ismail Hajiyev, composer
1917 - Richard Boone, LA California, actor (Paladin-Have Gun Will Travel)
1917 - Arthur Tremblay, Canadian politician (d. 1996)
1918 - Bob Carroll, singer/actor (Stage Two Revue, Stranger)
1919 - Edward Leadbitter, politician
1919 - Edwin Clarke, historian/neurologist
1919 - Mel Brandt, Bkln NY, actor (Faraway Hill)
1919 - Ted Leadbitter, British MP (Lab)
1920 - Aster Berkhof, [Louis Van de Bergh], Flemish writer (Furious Christ)
1920 - Ian Carmichael, Hull England, actor (Lucky Jim, I'm Alright Jack)
1922 - Donald L Keene, NYC, Japanese translator/critic
1922 - Claude Helffer, French pianist (d. 2004)
1923 - Herman Krebbers, Dutch violist/concert master
1924 - George Mikan, NBA center (6-time all-pro)
1924 - Liesbeth den Uyl-van Vessem, feminist/wife of Joop den Uyl
1925 - Herman "Ace" Wallace, blues guitarist/singer
1925 - Rex Collings, writer/publisher
1925 - Robert Arthur, Aberdeen Wash, actor (12 O'Clock High, Just For You)
1926 - Patricia Hutchinson, British ambassador (Uruguay)
1926 - Tom Wicker, columnist (NY Times)
1927 - Dennis Landau, CEO (Cooperative Wholesale Society)
1927 - John Phillipps Kenyon, historian/teacher
1927 - Paul Eddington, actor (Devil Rides Out, Devil's Bride)
1927 - Simeon Pironkov, composer
1927 - Eva Bartok, Hungarian-born British actress
1928 - Maggie McNamara, NYC, actress (3 Coins in a Fountain, Cardinal)
1928 - Michael Blakemore, British theater director (Country Life)
1928 - David T. Lykken, American scientist
1929 - Eva Bartok, Budapest Hungary, actress (Assassin, Crimson Pirate)
1929 - James Bishop, editor (London News Publications)
1929 - Jorgen Habermans, German sociologist (Frankfurter Schule)
1930 - Peter Phillips, CEO (AB Electronics) [or Feb 10]
1931 - Della Smith, cookbook writer/British broadcaster
1931 - Peter Batty, TV/movie producer
1931 - Fernando Henrique Cardoso, President of Brazil from 1995 to 2002
1932 - Dudley R. Herschbach, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1932 - Geoffrey Hill, English poet
1933 - Jean Wicki, Switzerland, 4-man bobsled (Olympic-gold-1972)
1933 - Tommy Hunt, US singer (Flamingos-Lovers Never Say Goodbye)
1934 - Brian Kenny, deputy supreme allied commander (Europe)
1934 - Carl de Winter, sect-gen (Federation of British Artists)
1934 - Mitsuteru Yokoyama, Japanese manga artist (d. 2004)
1935 - Hugh McColl, American banker
1936 - Ian Spurling, ballet designer
1936 - R Ronald Venetian, [Vene], president Suriname (1991- )
1937 - Gail Godwin, US, author (Perfectionists, Odd Woman)
1937 - John D [Jay] Rockefeller IV, (Sen-D-WV, 1985- )
1937 - Varbara Ann Teer, US actress/director (Natl Black Theatre Company)
1937 - Vitaly Mikhailovich Zholobov, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 21)
1938 - Joop M Worrell, Dutch MP (PvdA)
1938 - Kevin Murray, Australian rules footballer
1939 - Lou Brock, one-time baseball stolen base leader (St Louis Cards)
1939 - Lynn Whiting, horse trainer
1940 - Bob Duncan, prison warden (Gartree Prison in UK)
1940 - Jim Albus, Staten Island NY, PGA golfer (1991 Mazda Senior Players)
1940 - Michael Sheard, British actor (d. 2005)
1941 - Delia Smith, English cook and television presenter
1942 - Hans Vonk, Dutch conductor
1942 - Paul McCartney, Liverpool, English rocker & pop star (Beatles)
1942 - Roger Ebert, Urbana Ill, film critic (Siskel & Ebert at the Movies)
1942 - Thabo M Mbeki, South African economist/1st vice-president (1994- )
1942 - Carl Radle, American bass guitarist (d. 1980)
1943 - Barry Evans, actor (Dr Upton-Dr in the House, Mind Your Language)
1943 - Raffaella Carrà, Italian singer
1944 - Paul Lansky, composer
1944 - Sandy Posey, American singer
1946 - Russell Ash, British author
1946 - Fabio Capello, Italian football coach
1946 - Bruiser Brody [Frank Goodish], professional wrestler (d. 1988)
1947 - Bernard Giraudeau, La Rochelle France, actor (L'Annee des Meduses)
1947 - Douglas Young, composer
1947 - Linda Thorson, Toronto, actress (Tara-Avengers, Julia-1 Life to Live)
1948 - Éva Marton, Hungarian operatic soprano
1949 - Jerry Hollendorfer, horse trainer
1949 - William Randolph Hearst III, publisher/editor
1949 - Chris Van Allsburg, American author and illustrator
1949 - Prince Lincoln Thompson, Jamaican musician (d. 1999)
1949 - Lech Kaczyński, Polish president, 2005-present
1950 - Annelie Ehrhardt, German DR, 100m hurdler (Olympics-gold-1972)
1951 - Henny Huisman, Dutch TV host (Playback Show)
1952 - Barry Champagne, Louisiana, stunt coorindator (Licence to Kill)
1952 - Carol Kane, Cleveland Ohio, actress (Dog Day Afternoon, Simka-Taxi)
1952 - Isabella Rossellini, Rome Italy, actress (Big Night, Blue Velvet)
1952 - Rickey Gazda, rocker
1953 - Jerome Smith, US guitarist (KC & the Sunshine Band-Boogie Shoes)
1954 - William Beard, rock drummer (Face To Face)
1956 - Brian Benben, Winchester Va, actor (Dream On, Gangster Chronicles)
1957 - Andrea Evans, actress (Young & Restless, Tina-One Life to Live)
1957 - Tom Bailey, England, rocker (Thompson Twins-Doctor Doctor)
1958 - Daniels Koran, saxophonist (Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover)
1960 - Ralph Brown, British actor
1961 - Andres Galarraga, Caracas Venezuela, infielder (Colorado Rockies)
1961 - [Genevieve] Alison Moyet, Essex England, rock vocalist (Yaz, Alf)
1962 - Jan[ice] Merrill, track star (US record long distance holder 1979)
1962 - Mitsuharu Misawa, Japanese professional wrestler
1963 - Bruce Smith, NFL defensive end (Buffalo Bills)
1963 - Darren "Dizzy" Reed, US musician (Guns n' Roses-Sweet Girl of Mine)
1963 - Joe Walter, NFL tackle (Cin Bengals)
1963 - Omar Londono, jockey
1964 - Thanh Nguyen, Saigon Vietnam, 141 lbs US weightlifter (Olympics-1996)
1964 - Uday Hussein, Iraqi leader (d. 2003)
1965 - Kim Dickens, American actress and model
1966 - Bob Kempainen, Minneapolis MN, marathoner (Olympics-96)
1966 - Doug Bodger, Chemainus BC, NHL defenseman (Team Canada, San Jose)
1966 - Kurt Browning, Alberta, figure skater (Olympic-5-1994)
1966 - Luke Jensen, Grayling Mich, tennis star (1993 French Open doubles)
1966 - Robert Kempainen, Minneapolis MN, marathoner (Oly-1996)
1966 - Sandy Alomar, Salinas Puerto Rico, catcher (Cleveland Indians)
1967 - Pasquale Bruno, Italian American entrepreneur
1968 - John Lumkes, Chicago Illinois, 3k steeplechase runner
1969 - Fernando Valenzula, jockey
1969 - Jay Leeuwenburg, NFL guard/center (Chic Bears, Indianapolis Colts)
1969 - Laura Brown, LPGA golfer
1969 - Pål Pot Pamparius, Norwegian musician (Turbonegro)
1969 - Vito LoGrasso, American professional wrestler
1969 - Christopher Largen, American author
1970 - Greg Yaitanes, American television and film director
1971 - Blair Pocock, cricketer (New Zealand opening batsman 1993)
1971 - Mara Hobel, NYC, actress (Mommie Dearest)
1971 - Nathan Morris, [Alex Vanderpool], Phila Pa, rapper (Boyz II Men)
1972 - Otakar Vejvoda, Kladno CZE, hockey forward (Team Czech Rep)
1973 - Rayna Stewart, safety/cornerback (Tennessee Oilers)
1973 - Tracy Noonan, Lawrence Mass, soccer goalkeeper (Olympics-96)
1973 - Alexandros Papadimitriou, Greek hammer thrower
1973 - Julie Depardieu, French actress
1974 - Bumper Robinson, actor (Webster, Night Court)
1974 - Keith Poole, wide receiver (New Orleans Saints)
1974 - Vincenzo Montella, Italian footballer
1975 - Aleksandrs Koliņko, Latvian footballer
1975 - Martin St. Louis, Canadian hockey player
1975 - Marie Gillain, Belgian actress
1975 - Jemma Griffiths, Welsh singer-songwriter
1975 - Jamel Debbouze, French actor and producer
1976 - Alana de la Garza, American actress
1976 - Witte Wartena, Dutch artist
1976 - Blake Shelton, American Country Singer
1980 - Antonio Gates, American football player
1980 - Tara Platt, American actress
1980 - Ivana Wong, Hong Kong singer and songwriter
1980 - Craig Mottram, Australian middle distance runner
1981 - Teresa Cormack, New Zealand murder victim (d. 1987)
1981 - Ella (Jiahua) Chen, member of the Taiwanese girl-group S.H.E
1982 - Sean Conant, Irish-American artist
1984 - Mateus, Angolan footballer
1984 - Janne Happonen, Finnish skijumper
1986 - Richard Gasquet, French tennis player
1989 - Renee Olstead, American singer and actress
1991 - Willa Holland, American actress
1992 - Bob Kempainen, Minneapolis MN, marathoner (Olympics-66)
2006 - Countess Zaria of Orange-Nassau, Jonkvrouwe van Amsberg

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 18, 2013, 09:02:50 AM

This Day in History for 18th June


Famous Deaths

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Playwright & Author Maxim Gorky (1936)


741 - Leo III de Isaurier, Byzantine Emperor (717-41), dies
1234 - Emperor Chukyo of Japan (b. 1218)
1291 - Alfonso III, King of Aragon (1285-91), dies
1464 - Rogier van der Weyden, Flemish painter, dies at 65
1580 - Juliana van Stolberg, Engraver of Nassau, dies
1588 - Anna, daughter of prince Willem I/Anna van Saksen, dies at 24
1588 - Robert Crowley, English printer and poet
1629 - Piet Hein, Dutch naval commander (Spanish silver fleet) and folk hero (b. 1577) shot by
           cannonball at 51
1667 - Louise Henriette, daughter of Frederik Hendrik, dies at 39
1669 - Abraham Crijnssen, Swiss admiral, conquered Suriname, dies
1673 - Jeanne Mance, French Canadian settler (b. 1606)
1686 - Johann Quirsfeld, composer, dies at 43
1704 - Tom Brown, English satirist (b. 1662)
1726 - Michel-Richard Delalande, composer, dies at 68
1742 - John Aislabie, English politician (b. 1670)
1749 - Ambrose Philips, English poet (b. 1674)
1772 - Gerard of Swieten, botanist/painter of Maria Theresia, dies at 72
1772 - Johann Ulrich von Cramer, German judge and philosopher (b. 1706)
1788 - Adam Gib, Scottish religious leader (b. 1714)
1794 - James Murray, British military officer and administrator (b. 1721)
1799 - Johann Andre, composer, dies at 58
1815 - Thomas Picton, British general (killed in battle) (b. 1758)
1815 - Guillaume Philibert Duhesme, French general (b. 1766)
1817 - Joannes Siberg, governor-general of Neth-Indies (1801-05), dies
1821 - Charles Hague, composer, dies at 52
1824 - Ferdinand III JJ-B, archduke of Austria/ruler of Toscane, dies at 55
1835 - William Cobbett, English journalist and author (b. 1763)
1850 - Antoni Weinert, composer, dies at 99
1853 - Branko Radicevic, Serbian poet (1st Serbian Uprising), dies
1859 - Joseph Hartmann Stuntz, composer, dies at 65
1866 - Jacobus T Abels, painter, dies at 62
1876 - August Rockel, composer, dies at 61
1880 - John Sutter, US colonist (gold discovered on his land), dies at 77
1884 - Juan B Alberdi, [Figarillo], Argentine writer (Crime of War), dies at 74
1886 - Joannes A Paredis, Belgian/Neth bishop of Roermond, dies at 90
1889 - Jacques Damala, Greek military officer and actor (b. 1855)
1898 - George Ulyett, cricketer (949 runs 50 wkts for England 25 Tests), dies
1902 - Samuel Butler, British writer (Erewhom), dies at 66
1909 - Learmont Drysdale, composer, dies at 42
1911 - Franjo Zaver Kuhac, composer, dies at 76
1915 - Eufemio Zapata, brother to Mexican revolutionist Emiliano Zapata, killed by Sidronio
           Comancho
1916 - Helmuth J L von Moltke, German chief general of staff, dies at 67
1916 - Max Immelmann, German pilot (WW I), killed
1921 - Eduardo Acevedo Diaz, Uruguay writer (Nativa, Lanza y Sable), dies
1921 - Herman Baccaert, Flemish philological/writer (Kantkennis), dies at 37
1922 - John C Kapteyn, astronomer, dies at 71
1928 - Roald E G Amundsen, Norwegian pole explorer, dies
1934 - Francisco Lacerda, composer, dies at 65
1935 - August Reusner, composer, dies at 64
1936 - Maxim Gorky, [Alexei M Peshkov], Russian writer (Mother), dies at 68
1937 - Gaston Doumergue, premier/president of France (1913..34), dies
1939 - French LM "Sas" van Aerschot, Flemish actor, dies at 73
1942 - Adolf Opalka, Czech resistance fighter, shot down
1942 - Arthur Willard Pryor, composer, dies at 71
1942 - John Kubris, Czech resistance fighter, killed Heydrich, dies at 28
1945 - Colonel Roberts, commandant 22nd regiment marines, dies in battle
1945 - Simon B Buckner, US lt-gen/commandant of 10th Army, dies in action
1947 - Shigematsu Sakaibara, Japanese admiral (b. 1898)
1952 - Efim D Bogolyubov, Russian chess player, dies at 63
1955 - Walter Rein, composer, dies at 61
1955 - Willy Burkhard, composer, dies at 55
1958 - Douglas Jardine, cricketer (22 Tests for England), dies
1959 - Ethel Barrymore, [Blythe], actress (None but the lonely), dies at 79
1962 - Volkmar Andreae, Swiss conductor/composer (Bruckner), dies at 82
1963 - Pedro Armendáriz, Mexican actor (b. 1912)
1964 - Alexander Shamil'yevich Melik-Pashayev, composer, dies at 58
1965 - George Melachrino, composer, dies at 56
1967 - Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, Brazil pres (1964-67), dies at 66
1967 - Beat Fehr, Swiss racing driver (b. 1942)
1967 - Giacomo Russo, Italian racing driver (b. 1937)
1971 - Thomas Gomez, American actor (b. 1905)
1971 - Paul Karrer, Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1889)
1973 - Fritz Mahler, composer, dies at 71
1973 - Roger Delgado, actor (Agent 8 3/4, Hot Enought for June), dies at 55
1973 - Willem Vogt, Dutch radio pioneer/founder AVRO, dies at 84
1974 - Georgi K Zhukov, Russian marshal/minister of Defense, dies at 77
1974 - Júlio César de Mello e Souza, Brazilian writer (b. 1896)
1975 - Faisal Ibn Mussed Abdul Aziz, Saudi prince, beheaded in Riyadh shopping center parking lot
           for killing his uncle the king
1978 - Walter C. Alvarez, American physician (b. 1884)
1980 - André Leducq, French cyclist (b. 1904)
1980 - Terence Fisher, English film director (b. 1904)
1982 - Curt Jurgens, actor (Disorder), dies of an acute heart attack at 66
1982 - Djuna Barnes, writer, dies
1982 - John Cheever, Pulitzer prize winning author, dies at 70 in Ossining
1982 - Roberto Calvi, director (Banco Ambrosiano), hangs himself
1984 - Alan Berg, American radio talk show host
1985 - Paul Colin, French poster designer (b. 1892)
1986 - Frances Scott Fitzgerald, Daughter of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre. (b. 1921)
1987 - Bruce Marshall, writer, dies at 87
1989 - I. F. Stone, American journalist (b. 1907)
1990 - Dennis Dyer, cricketer (scored 96 3 Tests for South Africa), dies
1991 - Joan Caulfield, actress (My Favorite Husband), dies of cancer at 69
1992 - Peter Allen, entertainer (Legs Diamond), dies of aids at 48
1992 - Mordecai Ardon, one of Israel's greatest painters (b. 1896)
1994 - Jack Harkness, rose grower, dies at 75
1995 - Arthur John Howard, actor (Frieda, Last Holiday, Paradiso), dies at 85
1995 - Charles Martin, cartoonist, dies at 85
1996 - Maitland Mackie, farmer, dies at 84
1996 - Pierre Chany, writer/cycling journalist, dies at 73
1997 - Lev Kopelev, Russian writer and dissident (b. 1912)
2000 - Nancy Marchand, American actress (b. 1928)
2002 - Jack Buck, American baseball announcer (b. 1924)
2003 - Larry Doby, American baseball player (b. 1923)
2005 - Syed Mushtaq Ali, Indian cricketer (b. 1914)
2005 - Manuel Sadosky, Argentine mathematician (b. 1914)
2006 - Vincent Sherman, American film director (b. 1906)
2007 - Bernard Manning, British comedian (b. 1930)
2007 - Georges Thurston, Canadian singer (b. 1951)
2008 - Jean Delannoy, French actor and director (b. 1908)
2008 - Tasha Tudor, American illustrator (b. 1915)
2008 - Miyuki Kanbe, Japanese actor (b. 1984)
2010 - José Saramago, Portuguese writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1922)
2010 - Trent Acid, American professional wrestler (b.1980)
2011 - Clarence Clemons, American saxophonist (b. 1942)
2012 - Alketas Panagoulias, Greek footballer and coach, dies at 78
2012 - Victor Spinetti, Welsh actor, dies from prostate cancer at 82

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 19, 2013, 09:19:49 AM

This Day in History for 19th June


Historical Events

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British Prime Minister Robert Peel      32nd US President Franklin Roosevelt              Comedian Jerry Lewis

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Singer-Songwriter Bob Dylan                       Pop Singer & Beatle                           Garfield Cartoonist Jim Davis
                                                                      Paul McCartney

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Singer Donna Summer                         Champion Boxer Evander Holyfield               Formula 1 Racing Driver
                                                                                                                                    Michael Schumacher


987 - Louis IV, crowned king of France
1179 - The Norwegian Battle of Kalvskinnet outside Nidaros. Earl Erling Skakke is killed, and the
           battle changes the tide of the civil wars.
1205 - Pope Innocent III fires Adolf I as archbishop of Cologne
1269 - King Louis IX of Frances decrees all Jews must wear a badge of shame
1286 - Rabbenu Mir of Rothenbur imprisoned in fortress of Ensisheim
1306 - The Earl of Pembroke's army defeats Bruce's Scottish army at the Battle of Methven.
1464 - French King Louis XI forms postal service
1502 - Emperor Maximilian I & England sign treaty of Antwerp
1572 - Garrison under Adrian van Swieten occupy Oudewater
1586 - English colonists sailed from Roanoke Island NC
1588 - Spanish Armada heavily destroyed in storm at Coruna
1621 - Battle at Dragetsani: Turkish army beats Greece
1631 - Peace of Cherasco: Charles de Gonzaga-Nevers becomes duke of Mantua
1669 - Polish parliament selects Litouwer Michael Wisniopwiecki as king
1754 - Albany Congress held by 7 British colonies & Iroquois indians
1770 - General Church of New Jerusalem established
1770 - Emanuel Swedenborg reports the completion of the Second Coming of Christ in his work True
           Christian Religion.
1778 - Washington's troops finally leave Valley Forge
1807 - Admiral Dmitry Senyavin destroys the Ottoman fleet in the Battle of Athos.
1816 - Battle of Seven Oaks between North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company, near
           Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
1821 - Decisive defeat of the Philikí Etaireía by the Ottomans at Drăgăşani (in Wallachia).
1825 - Gioacchino Rossini's "Il viaggio a Reims," premieres
1829 - Sir Robert Peel found London Metropolitan Police (Bobbies)
1835 - New Orleans gives US government Jackson Square to be used as a mint
1846 - 1st baseball game (Cartwright Rules)-NY Nines 23, Knickerbockers 1
1848 - Elizabeth Stanton & Lucretia Mott open 1st women's rights convention
1861 - Anaheim Post Office established
1861 - Francis Pierpont is elected provisional governor of West Virginia
1862 - Slavery outlawed in US territories
1863 - Battle at Middleburg Virginia (100+ casualties)
1864 - CSS "Alabama" sunk by USS "Kearsarge" off Cherbourg, France
1864 - Skirmish at Pine Knob Georgia
1865 - Siege of Richmond, VA
1865 - Union General Granger declares slaves are free in Texas
1867 - 1st Belmont: J Gilpatrick aboard Ruthless wins in 3:05
1867 - Maximilian I of the Mexican Empire is executed by a firing squad in Querétaro, Querétaro.
1868 - Maj Gen E R S Canby removes mayor of Columbia SC
1875 - Formal opening of US Marine Hospital at Presidio
1875 - The Herzegovinian rebellion against the Ottoman Empire begins.
1881 - Muhammad Ahmad becomes Mahdi of Sudan
1889 - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Man with the Twisted Lip"
1893 - Lizzie Bordon acquitted
1894 - 28th Belmont: Willie Simms aboard Henry of Navarre wins in 1:56.5
1897 - Wee Willie Keeler's 44 game hitting streak ends
1910 - 1st airship in service "Germany"
1910 - Father's Day celebrated for 1st time (Spokane, Wash)
1912 - Tennessee University opened as Tennessee A & L State College
1914 - 54th British Golf Open: Harry Vardon shoots a 306 at Prestwick Club
1917 - After WW I King George V ordered members of British royal family to dispense with German
           titles & surnames, they take the name Windsor
1921 - Census in Great-Britain
1921 - Turk & Christian of Palestine sign a friendship treaty against Jews
1922 - Paavo Nurmi runs world record 5000m (14:28.2)
1923 - "Moon Mullins," Comic Strip, debuts
1923 - Baldwin-Mellon-agreement concerning Britain entering the war
1924 - Paavo Nurmi runs world record 1500m (3:52.6)
1926 - DeFord Bailey is 1st black to perform on Nashville's Grand Ole Opry
1931 - 1st photoelectric cell installed commercially West Haven Ct
1932 - 1st concert given in SF's Stern Grove
1932 - Hailstones kill 200 in Hunan Province, China PR
1933 - Austrian government-Dollfuss bans nazi-organizations
1934 - Federal Communications Commission (FCC) created
1936 - Dutch Premier Colijn denies relation with German call-girl
1936 - German boxer Max Schmeling World Champion KOs Joe Louis
1936 - Joe McCarthy is named to manage AL All-Stars, rather than high-strung Mickey Cochrane,
           who is very close to a nervous breakdown
1937 - Franco-troops conquer Bilbao Basques
1938 - "Olympian Flyer" express train crashes in Montana, killing 47
1938 - Italy beats Hungary 4-1 in soccer's 3rd World Cup at Paris
1938 - Paul Waner (Pirates) homers off Pete Sivess (Phillies) in DH
1938 - Reds Johnny Vander Meer extends his string of hitless baseball innings to 21 2/3 before Debs
           Garms singles for Boston in 4th
1940 - "Brenda Starr," 1st cartoon strip by a woman, appears in Chicago
1940 - German 7th Armour division under gen-maj Rommel occupies Cherbourg
1940 - Goering orders seizure of Dutch horses, car, buses & ships
1941 - Cheerios Cereal invents an O-shaped cereal
1941 - Romania orders Jews to evacuate Darabani
1941 - US president Franklin Roosevelt signs Two Ocean Navy Expansion Act
1942 - Paul Waner, is 7th to get 3,000 baseball hits
1943 - "Shiek Of Arahy" Spike Jones & City Slickers peaks at #19
1943 - NFL's Philadelphia Eagles & Pittsburgh Steelers merge, (dissolves on Dec 5)
1943 - Race riot in Beaumont Texas
1944 - Two day Battle of Philippines Sea begins
1944 - 300 Japanese aircrafts shot down
1944 - French troops free Elba
1944 - Heavy air raid on US fleet at Guam "Turkey Shoot"
1944 - Japanese troops conquer Changsha China
1944 - World War II: First day of the Battle of the Philippine Sea.
1946 - 1st TV sports/boxing spectacular-Joe Louis KOs Billy Conn
1947 - 1st plane (F-80) to exceed 600 mph (1004 kph)-Albert Boyd, Muroc Ca
1948 - Panama & Costa Rica recognize Israel
1948 - USSR blocks access road to West Berlin
1952 - "I've Got A Secret" debuts on CBS-TV with Garry Moore as host
1952 - Bkln Dodger Carl Erskine no-hits Chicago Cubs, 5-0
1953 - Albert W Dent, elected president of Natl Health Council
1953 - WCSC TV channel 5 in Charleston, SC (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 - WTPA (now WHTM) TV channel 27 in Harrisburg, PA (ABC) 1st broadcast
1954 - 54th US Golf Open: Ed Furgol shoots a 284 at Baltusrol GC in NJ
1954 - Betty Jameson wins LPGA Western Golf Open
1954 - Tasmanian Devil, debuts in "Devil May Hare" by Warner Bros
1955 - 55th US Golf Open: Jack Fleck shoots a 287 at Olympic CC in SF
1955 - Mickey Mantle hits career HR # 100
1955 - Phils beat Cubs 1-0 in 15, ties longest shut out in Phillies history
1956 - Jerry Lewis & Dean Martin end partnership after 16 films
1959 - Senate rejects Ike's appointment of Lewis Strauss for Sec of Comm
1960 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Golf Open
1960 - Loretta Lynn records "Honky Tonk Girl"
1961 - "Little Egypt (Ying-Yang)" by Coasters peaks at #23
1961 - Charlie Finley, changes A's manager Joe Gordon (26-33) for Hank Bauer
1961 - Kuwait declares independence from UK
1961 - NY Yankee Roger Maris hits his 25th of 61 HRs
1961 - US Supreme Court struck down a provision in Md's constitution requiring state office holders
           to believe in God
1963 - 2 Russian space missions return to Earth
1963 - Charter members of Canadian Football Hall of Fame chosen
1963 - Greek government of Pipinolis forms
1963 - Valentina Tereshkova 1st woman in space returns to Earth
1964 - Bob Dylan completes UK tour
1964 - Cambuur Leeuwarden BVO soccer team forms in Leeuwarden
1964 - Civil Rights Act of 1964 passes 73-27
1965 - Algerian coup under colonel Houari Boumedienne, pres Ben Bella fired
1965 - KYW-AM in Cleveland Ohio returns call letters to Philadelphia
1966 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Milwaukee Jaycee Golf Open
1967 - Paul McCartney admits on TV that he took LSD
1968 - 50,000 participate in Solidarity Day March of Poor People's Campaign
1969 - State troopers ordered to Cairo Ill, to quell racial disturbances
1970 - A Nikolayev & V Sevastyanov return after 18 days in Soyuz 9
1970 - Conservatives win British parliamentary election
1970 - Jim Bouton's controversial "Ball Four" is published
1970 - Yanks Horace Clarke breaks up a no-hitter in the 9th for the 2nd of 3 times in 28 days
1970 - The Patent Cooperation Treaty is signed.
1971 - Mayor declares state of emergency in Columbus Ga, racial disturbance
1972 - -29] Hurricane Agnes, kills 118 in NY & Florida
1972 - 40,000 pilots strike against naval officer
1973 - "Rocky Horror Picture Show," stage production opens in London
1973 - Pete Rose & Willie Davis both get career hit # 2,000
1974 - KC Royal Steve Busby 2nd no-hitter beats Milwaukee Brewers, 2-0
1974 - Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) suspends constitution
1976 - US Viking 1 goes into Martian orbit after 10-month flight from Earth
1977 - 77th US Golf Open: Hubert Green shoots a 278 at Southern Hills Tulsa
1977 - Indians fire manager Frank Robinson & replace him with Jeff Torborg
1977 - Judy Rankin wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
1977 - Pope Paul VI makes 19th-cen bishop John Neumann 1st US male saint
1977 - Red Sox set 3 game record of 16 HRs, all against Yanks
1978 - "Best Little Whorehouse..." opens at 46th St NYC for 1577 perfs
1978 - Garfield, created by Jim Davis, 1st appears as a comic strip
1978 - Ian Botham takes 8-34 v Pakistan, his best Test cricket bowling
1979 - In NY 36,211 show up to witness return of Billy Martin as Yank mgr
1979 - Mali's constitution goes into effect
1980 - Battle between police & demonstrators in Capetown, 34 killed
1981 - Boeing commercial Chinook 2-rotor helicopter is certified
1981 - European Space Agency's Ariane carries 2 satellites into orbit
1981 - Heaviest known orange (2.5 kg) exhibited, Nelspruit, South Africa
1981 - India's APPLE satellite, 1st to be stabilized on 3 axes, launched
1982 - The body of God's Banker, Roberto Calvi is found hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in
           London.
1983 - "Octopussy" premieres in US
1983 - Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
1984 - "Weird Al" Yankovic gives free live performance at Del Mar Fair
1984 - 1st live TV appearance by Chief Justice Warren Burger (Nightline)
1985 - Reggie Jackson hits his 513th HR to move into 10th place
1986 - Argentina beats West Germany 3-2 in soccer's 13th World Cup
1987 - ETA bomb attack in Barcelona, 15 killed
1987 - Geffen records sign their 1st artist (Donna Summer)
1987 - Supreme Court rules school teaching evolution need not teach creation
1987 - Ben & Jerry Ice Cream & Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia announce new Ice Cream flavor, Cherry
           Garcia
1988 - 88th US Golf Open: Curtis Strange shoots a 278 at Country Club Mass
1988 - Coup in Haiti
1988 - Namphy takes control of Haitian government
1988 - Shirley Furlong wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
1988 - World's Largest Sausage completed at 13 1/8 miles long
1988 - 32 divers finish cycling underwater on a standard tricycle,to complete 116.66 mi in 75 hrs 20
           mins
1989 - Mets Dwight Gooden wins his 100th game (100-37)
1990 - Gary Carter catches his 1,862nd career game breaks Al Lopez's NL mark
1991 - 2 of Mia Farrow's daughters arrested for shoplifting lingerie
1991 - Colombian drug baron Pablo Escobar surrenders to police
1991 - NY Yankee Steve Howe records his 1st major league save since 1987
1992 - "Batman Returns," opens
1992 - Evander Holyfield beats Larry Holmes in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1992 - Guardian Angel Curtis Sliwa is shot twice in NYC
1992 - Inkhata-blood bath in Boipatong South-Africa
1992 - NY Yankees 1st game in Baltimore Oriole's Camden Yards
1993 - Boon completes 15th Test cricket century, 164* v England at Lord's
1994 - "Sally Marrand Her Escorts" closes at Helen Hayes NYC after 50 perfs
1994 - "She Loves Me" closes at Atkinson Theater NYC after 294 performances
1994 - "Twilight - Los Angeles 1992" closes at Cort NYC after 72 perfs
1994 - 94th US Golf Open: Ernie Els shoots a 279 at Oakmont CC in Oakmont Pa
1994 - Ernesto Samper elected president of Colombia
1994 - Lisa Kiggens wins LPGA Rochester International Golf Tournament
1994 - Tigers tie record of hitting HRs in 25th consecutive games
1995 - NY Yankees announce agreement with Darryl Strawberry
1997 - "Forever Tango!," opens at Walter Kerr Theater NYC
2000 - Los Angeles Lakers beat Indiana Pacers 4-2 in NBA finals MVP: Shaquille O'Neal, L.A.
2000 - Tiger Woods wins golf's US Open by 15 shots, a record for all majors, with a US Open to-par
           record score of -12
2005 - Michael Schumacher wins controversial Formula 1 United States Grand Prix where only 6 of 20
           cars complete the race amongst ridicule
2006 - Prime ministers of several northern European nations participate in a ceremonial "laying of the
           first stone" at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Spitsbergen, Norway.
2012 - A man in Saudi Arabia is beheaded for witchcraft and sorcery
2012 - Antonis Samaras, the leader of the New Democracy party in Greece, forms a coalition
           government

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 19, 2013, 09:21:16 AM

This Day in History for 19th June


Famous Weddings

1369 - Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy marries Margaret 111 Countess of Flanders
1850 - Swedish/Norwegian crown prince Charles weds Dutch princess Wilhelmina
1942 - Actress Marilyn Monroe (16) marries first husband James Dougherty (21), a policeman
1976 - King Charles XVI Gustaf of Sweden marries Silvia Renate Sommerlath in Stockholm Cathedral,
           Ist Swedish reigning monarch to marry since 1797
1988 - Danny Spitz, heavy metal artist (Anthrax), weds Valerie
1993 - Mandy Smith (Bill Wyman's ex-wife) weds Pat van den Hauwe
1999 - Earl of Wessex Prince Edward (35) weds Sophie Rhys-Jones (34) at St. George's Chapel at
           Windsor Castle
2006 - "Lost" actress Emilie de Ravin (24) weds actor Josh Janowicz (24) in Melbourne, Australia
2006 - "Savage Garden" pop singer Darren Hayes (34) weds animator Richard Cullen in London
2010 - Crown Princess Victoria heir apparent of HM Carl XVI Gustaf, King of Sweden, weds Daniel
           Westling at Stockholm Cathedral

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 19, 2013, 09:22:07 AM

This Day in History for 19th June


Famous Divorces

2009 - "Malcolm in the Middle" actress Jane Kaczmarek (53) divorces actor Bradley Whitford (49)
           after 16 years of marriage
2010 - Backup dancer Dean Sheremet (29) divorces Grammy Award-winning singer LeAnn Rimes
           (27) after nearly eight years of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 19, 2013, 09:37:22 AM

This Day in History for 19th June


Famous Birthdays

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King of Great Britain                                Duchess of Windsor Bessie                   Comedian Moe Howard (1897)
James I Stuart (1566)                            Wallis Warfield Simpson (1896)

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Singer & Judge of American Idol             Actress Zoe Saldana (1978)
Paula Abdul (1962)


1301 - Prince Morikuni, Japanese shogun (d. 1333)
1507 - Annibale Caro, Italian poet (d. 1566)
1566 - James I Stuart, king of Scotland (James VI)/England (1567/1603-25)
1595 - Wladyslaw IV Vasa, king of Poland (1632-48)
1606 - James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, Scottish statesman (d. 1649)
1608 - Thomas Fuller, England, literary (History of the Holy War)
1613 - Christian de Placker, composer
1623 - Blaise Pascal, mathematician/physicist/religious writer (Pascal)
1633 - Philippus van Limborch, remonstrants theologist/vicar
1708 - Johann Gottlieb Janitsch, composer
1717 - Johann Wenzel Anton Stamitz, composer
1741 - Reinier Vinkeles, Dutch engraver/art collector
1749 - Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois, France, chairman (National Convention)
1764 - John Barrow, England, founded Royal Geographical Society
1764 - Jose Gervasio Artigas, general/father of Uruguay
1766 - Edmund Weber, composer
1771 - Joseph Gergonne, French mathematician (d. 1859)
1782 - Hugues F R de Lamennais, French priest/writer (L'avenir)
1782 - John Bray, composer
1783 - Thomas Sully, US portrait painter (Queen Victoria)
1790 - John Gibson, British (?) sculptor
1792 - Gustav Schwab, writer
1810 - Ferdinand David, violist/compser (Hohe Schule des Violinspiels)
1811 - Henry Prince, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1892
1814 - Johannes H Weissenbruch, landscape painter
1815 - John William Glover, composer
1815 - Cornelius Krieghoff, Canadian painter (d. 1872)
1816 - William Henry Webb, American industrialist (d. 1899)
1834 - Edgar H G Degas, French painter (ballerina)
1834 - Charles Spurgeon, English preacher (d. 1892)
1842 - Carl Johann Adam Zeller, composer
1843 - Charles Edouard Lefebvre, composer
1846 - Antonio Abetti, Italian astronomer (d. 1928)
1850 - David Jayne Hill, American diplomat (d. 1932)
1851 - Billy Midwinter, Australian cricketer (d. 1890)
1854 - Alfredo Catalani, composer
1856 - Elbert Hubbard, US, editor/publisher/author (Message to Garcia)
1858 - Charles Haddon George Alexander, [George Samson], British actor
1858 - Dirk Fock, governor-general of Neth Indies (1921-26)
1861 - Douglas Haig, British fieldmarshal (Sudan, WW I)
1861 - Jose Protasio Rizal, Philippine optician/author/nationalist
1865 - Alfred Hugenberg, German RC pres-dir of Krupp/media magnate
1865 - May Whitty, Liverpool England, actress (Mrs Minerva, Suspicion)
1867 - Eduard Jacobs, Dutch cabaret artist
1867 - Frank Iredale, cricketer (Australian batsman 1894-99)
1868 - Heinrich Schenker, [A Niloff], Austrian musicologist (Urlinie)
1874 - Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish engineer (d. 1941)
1877 - Charles Coburn, Macon Ga, actor (Acad-1943, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes)
1878 - James M Kilroe, priest of St Mary Star of the Sea, in the Bronx
1880 - Johann Sigurjonsson, Icelandic writer (Dr Rung)
1884 - Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, French Dadaist artist and writer (d. 1974)
1885 - Stevan Hristic, composer
1886 - Duchess of Windsor, American divorcee and wife of Edward VIII (abdicated)
1886 - Robert Herberigs, Flemish composer/writer (Hiawatha's Song)
1889 - Enrico Celio, president (Switzerland)
1890 - Barbara Everest, London England, actress (Fatal Witness, Inquest)
1893 - Adriaan F Dussenbroek, Dutch family dr/co-founder (Union Natl Arubano)
1896 - Bessie Wallis Warfield Simpson, Duchess of Windsor, divorcee
1897 - Moe Howard, [Moses Horowitz], Bkln NY, actor and comedian (The 3 Stooges)
1898 - Paul Muller-Zurich, composer
1898 - James Joseph Sweeney, American Catholic prelate (d. 1968)
1899 - George Calinescu, Romania, literature (Enigma Otilei)
1900 - Laura Hobson, NYC, TV writer/panelist (I've Got a Secret)
1901 - Edward Lambert, British diplomat
1902 - Guy Lombardo, London Ontario Canada, orchestra leader (Auld Lang Syne)
1903 - Walter Hammond, cricketer (one of the greatest of English batsman)
1903 - [Henry] Lou[is] Gehrig, "Iron Horse", 1st baseman for NY Yankees (d. 1941)
1903 - Hans Litten, German jurist (d. 1938)
1904 - Balis Dvarionas, composer
1905 - George Voskovec, Czech, actor (Fred-Nero Wolfe, Peter-Skag)
1905 - Taneli Kuusisto, composer
1905 - Mildred Natwick, American actress (d. 1994)
1906 - Ernst Boris Chain, German-born biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1979)
1906 - Walter Rauff, German colonel (d. 1984)
1907 - Clarence Wiseman, 10th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1985)
1908 - Mildred Natwick, Balt Md, actress (She Wore a Yellow Ribbon)
1908 - Quentin N Burdick, (Sen-D-ND, 1960-91)
1909 - Edwin Gerschefski, composer
1909 - Osamu Dazai, Japan, novelist (Tsugaru, No Longer Human)
1910 - Frederick Harry Baines, painter
1912 - Jerry Jerome, Bkln NY, saxophonist (Words & Music)
1912 - Martin Gabel, Phila, TV host (With this Ring)
1912 - Don Gutteridge, American baseball player
1912 - Virginia MacWatters, American soprano (d. 2005)
1914 - Alan Cranston, (Sen-D-CA, 1969- )
1914 - Harry Lauter, White Plains NY, actor (Waterfront)
1914 - Morgan Morgan-Giles, Brits Lt admiral/MP
1914 - Lester Raymond Flatt, TN, bluegrass (Earl-Ballad of Jed Clampett)
1914 - Anthony Bloom, Metropolitan of the Russian Orthodox Church (d. 2003)
1915 - Julius Schwartz, American editor and agent (d. 2004)
1916 - Pat Buttram, actor (Mr Haney-Green Acres)
1916 - George Pravda, Prague, Austria-Hungary, actor (Thunderball, Firefox), (d. 1985)
1917 - Joshua Nkomo, Zimbabwan minister (ZAPUA)
1918 - Evelle Jansen Younger, prosecutor (Charles Manson, Sirhan Sirhan)
1919 - Louis Jourdan, Marseilles France, actor (Gigi, Can-Can, Madame Bovary)
1919 - Pauline Kael, movie critic (NY Times, For Keeps)
1921 - Allan Davis, (mayor-London)
1921 - Herman Berserik, Dutch painter/graphic artist
1921 - Howell T Heflin, (Sen-D-Alabama, 1979- )
1921 - Rosalyn Yalow, famed award winning medical physicist
1922 - Aage Neals Bohr, Denmark, physicist/study atomic nucleus (Nobel 1975)
1924 - David Scott, priest
1924 - Leo Nomellini, NFL defensive tackle (SF 49ers)
1924 - Wassil Bykau, writer
1925 - Alfred B Nzo, South African sec-gen ANC (1969- )
1925 - Charlie Drake, British comic (Plank, Rhubarb Rhubarb, Splish Splash)
1927 - Karel Kupka, composer
1928 - Nancy Marchand, Buffalo NY, actress (Beacon Hill, Margaret-Lou Grant)
1928 - Raymond Powell, British MP
1928 - Barry Took, English comedy writer (d. 2002)
1929 - Thelma Barlow, English actress (Mavis on Coronation Street)
1930 - Bryan Kneale, British sculptor
1930 - Jul Levi, composer
1930 - Gena Rowlands, Madison Wisconsin, American actress
1931 - "Against Iain" duke of Atholl, English large landowner
1932 - Marisa Pavan, Cagliari Italy, actress (Solomon & Sheba, Rose Tattoo)
1932 - Pier Angeli, Italy (Sodom & Gomorrah, Vintage, Battle of the Bulge)
1933 - Viktor Ivanovich Patsayev, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 11)
1934 - Hammond Furlonge, cricketer (WI batsman in 3 Tests 1955-56)
1934 - Terence Clark, British diplomat
1935 - Tommy Devito, Montclair NJ, rock vocalist (Four Seasons-Sherry)
1936 - Shirley Goodman, US R&B singers (Shirley & Lee-Feels so Good)
1936 - Marisa Galvany, American soprano
1938 - Charles Gwathmey, architect (5 Architects)
1938 - John Sheil, Northern Irish High Court judge
1938 - Ian Smith, Australian actor
1939 - Peter Duffell, Brits lt-general/minister of Defense
1939 - Al Wilson, American singer (d. 2008)
1940 - Shirley "Cha Cha" Muldowney, drag racer (1st woman Top Fuel champ)
1941 - Marlene Warfield, Queens NY, actress (Victoria-Maude)
1941 - Václav Klaus, Czech politician and President
1941 - Conchita Carpio-Morales, Filipino Supreme Court jurist
1942 - Elaine "Spanky" McFarlane, rocker (Spanky & Our Gang-Lazy Day)
1942 - Jos Brink, Dutch TV host (Op Zoek)
1942 - Neil Chalmers, director (National History Museum, London)
1942 - Robert [Bob] W Kasten Jr, (Sen-R-WI, 1981- )
1944 - Chico Buarque, Brazilian musician
1945 - Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese politician (Nobel)
1945 - Tim Hovey, LA California, actor (Queen Bee, Toy Tiger, Man Afraid)
1945 - Tobias Wolff, US writer (This Boy's Life)
1945 - Radovan Karadžić, Serbian-Bosnian politician
1947 - James T Walsh, (Rep-R-NY)
1947 - Salman Rushdie, Pak, novelist (Midnight's Children, Satanic Verses)
1947 - Paula Koivuniemi, Finnish singer
1948 - Nick Drake, rocker (Back to Fruit Tree)
1948 - Phylicia Rashad, Houston, Texas, American actress and singer (The Cosby Show, One Life to
           Live)
1948 - Dervin Gordon, rocker
1950 - Constance Forslund, San Diego California, actress (Shining Season)
1950 - Ann Wilson, San Diego California, American musician (Heart-What About Love)
1951 - Daria Nicolodi, Florence Italy, actress (Terror, Shock)
1951 - Ayman al-Zawahiri, Egyptian terrorist
1951 - Francesco Moser, Italian cyclist
1952 - Robert Ainsworth, British MP
1953 - Larry Dunn, [Dunhill], US keyboardist (Earth Wind & Fire)
1954 - Jim Cooper, (Rep-D-TN, 1983- )
1954 - Michael O'Brien, British MP
1954 - Kathleen Turner, Springfield, Missouri, American actress (Accidental Tourist, Jewel of Nile)
1956 - Doug Stone, American singer
1957 - David Gleeson, Norfolk England, US, rower (Olympics-1996)
1957 - Anna Lindh, Swedish politician (d. 2003)
1959 - Kimberley Leston, journalist
1959 - Mark DeBarge, Grand Rapids Mich, rock vocalist (DeBarge-Who's Johnny)
1960 - Heike Walpot, German, cosmonaut
1960 - Johnny Lee Gray, Jr, LA California, 800m runner (Olympics-7th-1996)
1960 - Patti Rizzo, Hollywood Fla, golfer (Mexican Amateur champion 1980)
1960 - Simon Wright, heavy metal drummer (AC/DC)
1960 - Luke Morley, British guitarist
1962 - Ken Tohill, jockey
1962 - Paula Julie Abdul, Van Nuys California, singer/choreographer (Straight Up)
1962 - Phillip Hatchett, Russellville Ky, Canadian Tour golfer (1991 Quebec)
1962 - Sid Fenech, jockey
1962 - Jeremy Bates, English tennis player
1963 - Rory Underwood, English rugby union footballer
1964 - David Freedman, cricketer (NSW left-arm Chinese bowler since 1990)
1964 - Boris Johnson, British politician
1964 - Brian Vander Ark, American musician
1965 - Karen Davies, Wrexham N Wales, golfer (1991 PING-Cellular One-6th)
1965 - Sadie Frost, English actress
1965 - Luc Donckerwolke, Belgian car designer
1966 - Joichi Ito, Japanese entrepreneur
1967 - Eric Schweig, Inuvik Canada, actor (Dead Man's Walk)
1967 - Bjørn Dæhlie, Norwegian skier
1967 - Mia Sara, American actress
1968 - Jud Buechler, NBA guard/forward (Chicago Bulls)
1968 - Alastair Lynch, Australian rules footballer
1969 - Lara Spencer, American TV personality
1969 - Thomas Breitling, American entrepreneur
1970 - Chris Gray, NFL guard (Miami Dolphins, Chicago Bears)
1970 - Claire Mitchell-Taverner, Australian field hockey midfielder (Oly-96)
1970 - Leonard Humphries, CFL cornerback (BC Lions)
1970 - Quincy Dushawn Watts, Detroit Mich, 400m runner
1970 - Scott Brumfield, guard (Cincinnati Bengals)
1970 - Rahul Gandhi, Indian politician
1970 - Brian Welch, American guitarist
1970 - Antonis Remos, Greek singer
1972 - Andre Strode, CFL defensive back (BC Lions)
1972 - Anna Van der Kamp, Abbotsford BC, rower (Olympics-96)
1972 - Millard Coleman, CFL receiver (Montreal Alouettes)
1972 - Poppy Montgomery, Australian actress
1972 - Dennis Lyxzén, Swedish musician
1972 - Robin Tunney, American actress
1973 - Arne van de Berg, soccer player (Willem II)
1973 - Jahine Arnold, wide receiver (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1973 - Josie Davis, actress (Charles in Charge) [or Jan 16]
1973 - Yasuhiko Yabuta, Japanese baseball player
1974 - Doug Mientkiewicz, American baseball player
1975 - Anna Valle, Miss Universe-Italy (1996)
1975 - Anthony Parker, NBA guard (Phila 76ers)
1975 - Brandon Mitchell, defensive end (New England Patriots)
1975 - Hugh Dancy, English actor
1976 - Darnell Autry, running back (Chicago Bears)
1976 - Bryan Hughes, English footballer
1977 - Peter Warrick, American football player
1977 - Veronika Vařeková, Czech supermodel
1978 - Garfield the Cat, animated character "Big fat hairy deal"
1978 - Tyson Dux, Canadian wrestler
1978 - Dirk Nowitzki, German basketball player
1978 - Zoe Saldana, Passaic, New Jersey, American actress (Avatar, Pirates of the Caribbean: The
           Curse of the Black Pearl)
1978 - Claudio Vargas, Dominican baseball player
1978 - Mía Maestro, Argentine actress
1979 - Soni Meduna, Omaha Neb, gymnast (alt-Olympics-96)
1979 - John Duddy, Northern Irish boxer
1979 - John Ford, American software engineer
1979 - Quentin Jammer, American football player
1980 - Amy Merrill, Miss Utah Teen USA (1997)
1980 - Adel Abdulaziz, Emiratie football player
1980 - Dante Robinson, American football player
1980 - Lauren Lee Smith, Canadian actress
1982 - David Pollack, American football player
1982 - Joe Cheng, Taiwanese actor
1982 - Alexander Frolov, Russian hockey player
1983 - Mark Selby, British snooker player
1984 - Emil Coleman, orchestra leader (Arthur Murray Party)
1984 - Paul Dano, American actor
1986 - Marvin Williams, American basketball player
1987 - Rashard Mendenhall, American football player
1991 - Pontus Ekhem, Swedish hockey player
1995 - Blake Woodruff, American actor
2008 - Maddie Aldridge, daughter of Jamie Lynn Spears

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 19, 2013, 09:39:04 AM

This Day in History for 19th June


Famous Deaths

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Nobel Laureate and Novelist
William Golding (1993)


1113 - Odo/Odardus van Kamerijk, French writer/bishop of Kamerijk, dies
1312 - Piers Gaveston, earl of Cornwall, beheaded
1341 - Juliana van Falconieri, Italian saint/Swedish tenor, dies
1542 - Leo Jud[ae], Swiss pastor/church reformer
1545 - Abraomas Kulvietis Lithuanian reformer (b. 1509)
1554 - Sixt[us] Birck [Xystus Betulius], German writer (Judith), dies at 53
1584 - François, Duke of Anjou (b. 1555)
1608 - Alberico Gentili, Italian jurist (b. 1551)
1650 - Matthäus Merian, Swiss engraver (b. 1593)
1652 - Louis de Geer, Neth/Swedish industrialist/millionaire, dies at 64
1747 - Alessandro Marcello, composer, dies at 77
1747 - Nadir, shah of Persia (1736-47), murdered
1759 - Charles-Joseph-Balthazar Sohier, composer, dies at 31
1762 - Johann Ernst Eberlin, composer, dies at 60
1768 - Benjamin Tasker, Governor of Maryland (b. 1690)
1786 - Nathanael Greene, American Revolutionary general (b. 1742)
1794 - Richard H Lee, US farmer (signed Decl of Independence), dies at 62
1805 - Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, French painter (b. 1724)
1811 - Samuel Chase, US judge (signed Declar of Independence), dies at 70
1820 - Joseph Banks, English natural historian (Cook/Australia), dies
1822 - John Bray, composer, dies on 40th birthday
1837 - Aleksander A Bestoezjev-Marlinsky, Russian writer, dies in battle
1840 - John Cockerill, English/Belgian industrial/orangist, dies at 50
1844 - Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, French naturalist (b. 1772)
1864 - George Lincoln Prescott, US Union brig-gen, dies of injuries
1867 - Maximilian F J, Austrian arch duke/Emperor of Mexico, dies
1902 - John E E Dalberg baron van Acton, English historian, dies at 69
1915 - Sergey Ivanovich Taneyev, Russian composer (Oresteia), dies at 58
1921 - Ramon Lopez Velarde, Mexican poet (La Sangre Devota), dies at 33
1922 - Johannes C Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer, dies at 71
1932 - Solomon Tshkisho Platje, South African writer, dies
1936 - John Sharpe, cricketer (1-eyed fast bowler for England 1891-92), dies
1937 - James M Barrie, Scottish writer (Dear Brutus/Peter Pan), dies
1939 - Grace Abbott, social worker (US Children Bureau), dies at 60
1940 - Maurice Jaubert, composer, dies at 40
1944 - Bill Bradley, cricketer (bowled for England in two Tests 1899), dies
1944 - Han Yong-woon, Zen teacher, dies in Seoul County, Korea at 65
1947 - Willem H Fly, typographer/co-founder (SDAP), dies at 84
1949 - Syed Zafarul Hasan, Prominent Muslim philosopher (b. 1885)
1951 - Angelos Sikelianos, Greek poet (b. 1884)
1952 - Heinrich Schlusnus, German baritone (b. 1888)
1953 - Ethel Rosenberg, executed at Sing Sing, in 5 tries
1953 - Julius Rosenberg, NYC, 1st US civilian executed for espionage at 37
1956 - Lulu [Luise] Strauss und Torney, German poet/writer, dies at 82
1956 - Thomas J. Watson, American businessman (IBM) (b. 1874)
1962 - Frank Borzage, US, director (7th Heaven, Strange Cargo), dies at 69
1965 - James B Collip, Canadian bio-chemist (insulin), dies at 72
1966 - Ed Wynn, comedian (Ed Wynn Show), dies at 79
1966 - Marjan Kozina, composer, dies at 59
1968 - James Joseph Sweeney, American Catholic prelate (b. 1898)
1973 - Roger Delgado, actor (Adv's of Sir Francis Drake, Dr Who), dies at 55
1975 - Sam Giancana, American gangster (b. 1908)
1977 - Ali Shariati, Iranian sociologist (b. 1933)
1977 - Lady Olave Baden-Powell, English founder of the Girl Guide (b. 1889)
1979 - Paul Popenoe, American eugenicist (b. 1888)
1982 - John Cheever, US writer (Wapshot Chronicle, Pulitzer), dies at 70
1984 - Lee Krasner Pollock, US painter, dies at 75
1984 - Wladimir Rudolfovich Vogel, composer, dies at 88
1986 - Coluche, [Michel Colucci], French comic, dies at 41
1986 - Len Bias, 1st pick of Celtics, suffers fatal cocaine-induced seizure
1986 - Murray P Haydon, artificial heart recipient, dies in Louisville at 59
1987 - Teresa Cormack, New Zealand murder victim (b. 1981)
1988 - Zdenek Blazek, composer, dies at 83
1988 - Fernand Seguin, Canadian biologist (b. 1922)
1988 - Gladys Spellman, American. Congresswoman (b. 1918)
1989 - Hy Gardner, newspaper columnist, dies at 80
1989 - Isidore Feinstein Stone, author (I F Stone's Weekly), dies at 81
1991 - Jean Arthur [Gladys Greene], US actress (Shane), dies at 90
1992 - Kitty McKane Godfree, Tennis champ (Wimbledon 1924, 26), dies at 96
1993 - William Golding, author (Lord of the Flies, Nobel 1983), dies at 81
1994 - Christopher Clarkson, test Pilot, dies at 92
1994 - Jocelyn Olaf Hambro, financier, dies at 75
1994 - Ronald Batty, bookseller, dies at 82
1995 - Al Hansen, artist, dies at 67
1995 - Murray Dickie, opera singer/director, dies at 71
1995 - Richard Bernard Pape, POW escaper/writer, dies at 79
1995 - Peter Townsend, RAF officer (b. 1914)
1996 - Alan Ande Anderson, opera director, dies at 78
1996 - David Schine, businessman, dies at 70
1996 - Harold William Woolhouse, plant scientist, dies at 63
1996 - Henry Ralph Carr, soldier, dies at 82
1996 - Vivian Ellis, composer, dies at 91
1997 - Bobby Helms, singer (Jingle Bell Rock), dies at 63
2001 - John Heyer, Australian documentary filmmaker (b. 1916)
2003 - Laura Sadler, English actress (b. 1980)
2007 - El Fary, Spanish singer (b. 1937)
2007 - Terry Hoeppner, American football coach (b. 1947)
2007 - Antonio Aguilar, Mexican singer and actor (b. 1919)
2007 - Ze'ev Schiff, Israeli journalist (b. 1932)
2008 - Barun Sengupta, Bengali journalist (b. 1934)
2008 - Bennie Swain, American basketball player (b. 1930)
2009 - Tomoji Tanabe, Japanese supercentenarian (b. 1895)
2010 - Manute Bol, Sudanese basketball player (b. 1962)
2010 - Anthony Quinton, British philosopher (b. 1925)
2011 - Don Diamond, American actor (b. 1921)
2012 - Richard Lynch, American actor, dies at 76 (body found on this date)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 20, 2013, 08:54:12 AM

This Day in History for 20th June


Historical Events

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Inventor Samuel Morse                                Murderer Lizzie Borden                     Yankee Clipper Joe DiMaggio

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Actress Jane Wyatt                         British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher               264th Pope John Paul II

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Israeli Prime Minister                    NFL Running Back and Convicted Criminal 
Menachem Begin                                                 OJ Simpson


451 - Germans & Romans beat Atiila the Hun at Catalarinische Fields
1212 - French & Spanish crusaders unite against the Almohaden at Toledo
1214 - The University of Oxford receives its charter.
1402 - Battle of Angora (Ankara)-Tatars defeat Turkish Army
1530 - German Parliament joins to Augsburg together
1547 - Count Philip van Hessen captured
1567 - Jews are expelled from Brazil by order of regent Don Henrique
1582 - Bishop Domingo de Salazar of Manila suppresses the Philippines
1591 - Mauritius & Willem van Nassau occupy Devente
1631 - The sack of Baltimore: the Irish village of Baltimore is attacked by Algerian pirates.
1632 - Britain grants 2nd Lord Baltimore rights to Chesapeake Bay area
1633 - Charter for Maryland is given to Lord Cecil Baltimore
1656 - Polish King Jan II Casimir recaptures Warsaw
1675 - Abenaki, Massachusetts, Mohegan & Wampanoag indians form anti-English front under
           Metacom
1756 - 146 Brit soldiers imprisoned in India-Black Hole of Calcutta-most die
1756 - Siraj ud-Daulah Nawab of Bengal takes Calcutta from the British
1779 - Battle of Stone Ferry
1782 - Congress approves Great Seal of US & eagle as it's symbol
1787 - Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention to call the government the United States.
1789 - Oath of Tennis Court (for a new constitution) in France taken
1791 - King Louis XVI caught trying to escape French Revolution
1819 - 320 ton Savannah becomes 1st steamship to cross any ocean (Atlantic)
1825 - Coronation of French king Charles X the Bourbon
1826 - Siam/England sign trade/peace treaty
1837 - England issues its 1st stamp, 1P Queen Victoria
1837 - Queen Victoria at 18 ascends British throne following death of uncle King William IV Ruled for
           63 years ending in 1901
1840 - Samuel Morse patents his telegraph
1855 - Commissioners appointed to lay out SF streets west of Larkin
1862 - Barbu Catargiu, the Prime Minister of Romania, is assassinated.
1863 - 1st bank chartered in US (National Bank of Davenport Iowa)
1863 - Skirmish at Greencastle Pennsylvania
1863 - West Virginia admitted as 35th US state
1864 - Battle of Kinston NC & Battle of Abingdon VA
1864 - Battle of Petersburgs VA - in trenches
1864 - Skirmish at Lattermore's Mills/Powder Springs Georgia
1866 - Italy declares war on Austria
1867 - Pres Andrew Johnson announces purchase of Alaska
1871 - Ku Klux Klan trials began in federal court in Oxford Miss
1874 - 1st US Lifesaving Medal awarded (Lucian Clemons)
1888 - Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Libertas
1893 - Lizzie Borden acquitted in murder of parents in New Bedford Mass
1895 - 1st female PhD (science) earned (Caroline Willard Baldwin)
1895 - Canal of Smock official opens
1895 - Nicaragua, El Salvador & Honduras form a short-lived confederation
1901 - Charlotte Manye is 1st native African to graduate from a US college
1907 - 1st Portland Rose festival
1909 - 1st balloon honeymoon (Roger Burham & Eleanor Waring)
1910 - "Krazy Kat" comic strip by George Herriman debuts in NY Journal
1911 - NAACP incorporates (NY)
1912 - NY Giant Josh Devore steals 4 bases in an inning (2nd & 3rd twice)
1912 - NY Giants lead Bost Braves 14-2 into 9th, Giants win 21-12
1913 - 3 of 1st 4 Yankees hit-by-pitch en route to a record 6 hit batsman
1913 - Bert Daniels set AL mark, being hit-by-pitch 3 times in a doubleheader
1914 - 46th Belmont: Merritt Buxton aboard Luke McLuke wins in 2:20
1915 - German offensive in Argonnes
1919 - German government of Scheideman resigns
1919 - Treaty of Versailles: Germany ends incorporation of Austria
1919 - 150 die at the Teatro Yaguez fire, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
1920 - Yanks win protest of 1-0 White Sox win & game is replayed
1921 - 11.5" (29.2 cm) of rainfall, Circle, Montana (state record)
1926 - Mordecai W Johnson becomes 1st black president of Howard University
1930 - 65th British Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 291 at Hoylake Hoylake
1931 - Karl Buresch becomes chancellor of Austrian
1932 - A's Roger Cramer gets 6 consecutive hits in a game (repeats in 1935)
1936 - Jesse Owens of US sets 100 meter record at 10.2
1939 - Test flight of 1st rocket plane using liquid propellants
1940 - Joe Louis TKOs Arturo Godoy in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
1941 - German U-203 fails on torpedo attack on US battleship Texas
1942 - Adolf Eichmann proclaims deportation of Dutch Jews
1942 - German troops conquer Tobruk, North Africa
1943 - Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) founded
1943 - Detroit race riot kills 35
1943 - German round up Jews in Amsterdam
1943 - National Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) organizes
1943 - New Quebec (Chubb) Crater discovered in northern Quebec (3½ km dia)
1943 - Sweden's Gunther Hagg beats favorite Greg Rice by 35 yards in 5,000m at national AAU track
           & field championship in NY
1944 - Congress charters Central Intelligence Agency
1944 - Heavy storm hits the Channel
1944 - Nazi begin mass extermination of Jews at Auschwitz
1944 - Soviet forces conquer Wiborg
1944 - US attacks Japanese fleet in Philippines Sea
1944 - US troops occupy Biak
1946 - NYC transit begins using PA system - Car # 744 on 8th Ave IND line
1947 - Pres Harry Truman vetoes Taft-Hartley Act
1948 - "Toast of the Town" hosted by Ed Sullivan premieres on CBS-TV
1948 - 20 Jews killed when a bomb is thrown into Jewish quarter of Cairo
1948 - Cleveland draws then record 82,781 for doubleheader
1948 - Deutsche Mark introduced in West-Germany
1949 - Central Intelligence Agency Act, passes
1950 - Dutch Air Force base Tjililitan given to Indonesia\
1950 - Joe Dimaggio's 2,000th hit, Yanks beat Indians 8-2
1951 - Cleve Indian Bobby Avila hits 3 HRs, double & single vs Red Sox
1953 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Western Golf Open
1955 - "Almost Crazy" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 16 performances
1956 - Venezuelan Super Constellation crashes in NJ, 74 killed
1956 - At Detroit's Briggs Stadium, Mickey Mantle hits 2 Billy Hoeft pitches into right center field
           bleachers (no else hits 1 there)
1958 - NZ all out 47 v England at Lord's Laker 4-13, Lock 5-17
1960 - 12nd Emmy Awards: Playhouse 90, Robert Stack & Jane Wyatt
1960 - Federation of Mali (& Senegal) becomes independent of France
1960 - Floyd Patterson KOs Ingemar Johansson in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
1960 - Heavyweight Floyd Patterson KOs Ingemar Johnstown (NYC)
1963 - 1st Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 6-2
1963 - Beatles form "Beatles Ltd" to handle their income
1963 - US & USSR agree to set up "Hot Line"
1964 - 64th US Golf Open: Ken Venturi shoots a 278 at Congressional CC MD
1965 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Golf Open
1966 - 66th US Golf Open: Billy Casper shoots a 278 at Olympic CC in SF
1966 - Sheila Scott completes 1st round-the-world solo flight by a woman
1967 - Muhammad Ali convicted of refusing induction into armed services
1967 - Phillies Larry Jackson beats NY Mets for 18th straight time
1968 - Jim Hines becomes 1st person to run 100 meters in under 10 seconds
1969 - 150,000 attend Newport '69, Jimi Hendrix gets $120,000 to appear
1969 - Georges Pompidou sworn in as president of France
1969 - White Rhodesia agrees to race separation
1970 - "Ray Stevens Show," debuts on NBC-TV
1970 - British government of Edward Heath forms (with Margaret Thatcher)
1970 - Oriole's Brooks Robinson get his 2,000 career hit, a 3 run HR
1971 - Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Heritage Golf Open
1973 - Chicago's Cy Acosta is 1st AL pitcher to bat since DH rule (strikeout)
1973 - Juan Peron returns to Argentina
1973 - SF Giants Bobby Bonds sets NL record with 22 lead off HRs
1973 - Ezeiza massacre in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Snipers fire upon left-wing Peronists. At least 13
           are killed and more than 300 are injured.
1976 - 76th US Golf Open: Jerry Pate shoots a 277 at Atlanta AC in Duluth Ga
1976 - Carl Fugate, Starkweather accomplice, paroled
1976 - Czechoslovakia becomes European soccer champ
1976 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Hoosier Golf Classic
1976 - River Country opens
1977 - Menahem Begin forms Israeli government
1977 - Oil enters Trans-Alaska pipeline exits 38 days later at Valdez
1978 - 1st 6 teams of Women's Pro Basketball League (WBL) granted-Iowa, NJ, Milwaukee, Chicago,
           Minnesota & Dayton
1980 - "Blues Brothers" with Dan Akwoyd & John Belushi opens in 594 theaters
1980 - California Angels Freddie Patek, hits 3 HRs & double to beat Red Sox 20-2
1980 - Roberto Duran takes WBC welterweight title from Sugar Ray Leonard at Olympic Stadium in
           Montreal by unanimous decision
1981 - Guitarist Gerry Cott quits Boomtown Rats
1981 - Mudjahedin uprises against Iran regime
1981 - Pope John Paul II hospitalized for 55 days for infection
1982 - 82nd US Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 282 at Pebble Beach GL Calif
1982 - Israeli PM Menachem Begin arrives in Washington
1982 - Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
1982 - Pete Rose is 5th to appear in 3,000 games (Cobb, Musial, Aaron, Yaz)
1983 - 83rd US Golf Open: Larry Nelson shoots a 280 at Oakmont CC PA
1983 - NY Yankee Bobby Murcer retires
1984 - Oakland A's Dave Kingman hits his 3rd grand slam & 14th lifetime
1984 - Amber Kvanli, of Minnesota, crowned America's Junior Miss
1986 - Drs at Bethesda Naval remove 2 small benign polyps from Reagan's colon
1986 - Jim Fregosi replaces Tony LaRussa as White Sox manager
1987 - Chuti Tiu, 17, of Wisconsin, crowned America's Junior Miss
1988 - Curtis Strange wins US Open golf tournament
1988 - Haiti's general assembly dissolves
1988 - NYC WABC-AM becomes flagship radio station of NJ Devils
1988 - Price is Right model Janice Pennington is knocked out by a TV camera
1988 - WABC officially becomes the NJ Devils new home radio
1988 - Supreme Court upholds a law that made it illegal for private clubs to discriminate against
           women & minorities
1990 - 40,000-50,000 die in a (7.6) earthquake in Iran
1990 - Nelson Mandela lands in NYC to begin a tour of US
1990 - Asteroid Eureka is discovered.
1991 - The German parliament decides to move the capital from Bonn back to Berlin.
1992 - Kelly Saunders is 2nd female baseball PA announcer (Balt Orioles)
1993 - 47th NBA Championship: Chicago Bulls beat Phoenix Suns, 4 games to 2
1993 - 93rd US Golf Open: Lee Janzen shoots a 272 at Baltusrol GC NJ
1993 - Tammie Green wins LPGA Rochester International Golf Tournament
1994 - Bomb attack on Islamic temple in Mashad Iran (70 killed)
1994 - Ernie Els win's 1994 Golf US Open
1994 - Howard Stern begins 30-minute (Radio) TV show on E! cable network
1994 - OJ Simpson arraigned on murder of Nicole Simpson & Ronald Goldman
1995 - Space probe Ulysses begins 2nd passage behind the Sun
1996 - Space Shuttle STS 78 (Columbia 20), launches into space
1997 - Negotiators announce agreement in principle with tobacco industry
1999 - 99th US Golf Open: at Pinehurst CC NJ
2012 - Western Libyan tribal clashes kill 105 people and injure 500
2012 - A Syrian fighter pilot lands in Jordan and defects from the Syrian uprising

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 20, 2013, 08:57:55 AM

This Day in History for 20th June


Famous Weddings

1987 - Johnny Carson marries 4th wife Alexis Mass
2004 - Former Dallas Cowboys running back Eddie George (30) weds R&B group "SWV" member
          Tamara Johnson (33) at the Rockleigh Country Club in Rockleigh, New Jersey

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 20, 2013, 09:04:57 AM

This Day in History for 20th June


Famous Birthdays

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Singer Lionel Richie (1949)                       Actor John Goodman (1952)                   Actress Nicole Kidman (1967)


236 BC - Scipio Africanus, Roman statesman and general of the Second Punic War (d. 183 BC)
1005 - Ali az-Zahir, caliph (d. 1036)
1389 - John, Duke of Bedford, regent of England (d. 1435)
1566 - Sigismund III, King of Poland/Sweden
1583 - Jacob De la Gardie, Swedish soldier and statesman (d. 1652)
1585 - Lazaro Valvasensi, composer
1615 - Salvatore Rosa, Italian painter/musician [or 7/21]
1634 - Charles Emanuel II, Duke of Savoy (1638-75)
1642 - George Hickes, English linguistic (Old German Philology)
1647 - Johann Georg III, Elector of Saxony (1680-91)
1674 - Nicholas Rowe, England, poet laureate (Jane Shore, Tamerlane)
1694 - Hans A Brorson, Danish poet/bishop of Ribe
1717 - Jacques Saly, French sculptor (d. 1776)
1723 - Adam Ferguson, Scottish sociologist/historian
1723 - Theophilus Lindsey, English theologian (d. 1808)
1730 - Nonnosus Madlseder, composer
1733 - Betty Washington sister of George Washington
1737 - Tokugawa Ieharu, Japanese military (d. 1786)
1743 - Anna L Barbauld, writer of hymns
1756 - Joseph Martin Kraus, composer
1763 - Theobald Wolfe Tone, Irish nationalist
1770 - Moses Waddel, American educator/minister and bestselling author (d. 1840)
1771 - Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk, Scottish philanthropist (d. 1820)
1786 - Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, French poet (d. 1859)
1808 - Samson Raphael Hirsch, German rabbi (d. 1888)
1819 - Jacques Offenbach, Cologne, French composer (Tales of Hoffmann)
1823 - Jesse Lee Reno, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
1824 - George E Street, British (?) architect
1824 - John Tyler Morgan, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1907
1833 - Leon-J-F Bonnat, painter
1852 - Theodorus Heemskerk Jzn, minister of interior (1866..88) [or Jul 20]
1858 - Medardo Rosso, Italian sculptor (portraits)
1858 - Charles W. Chesnutt, American writer (d. 1932)
1860 - Jack Worrall, Australian cricketer, footballer, and coach (d. 1937)
1861 - Arthur Battelle Whiting, composer
1864 - Worm Pander, sculptor
1866 - Ivans, [Jacob van Schevichaven], Dutch lawyer/detective writer
1866 - Lord George ESMH Carnarvon, England, egyptologist (Tutanchamon)
1868 - Helen Miller Shepard, philanthropist/established Hall of Fame
1872 - George Carpenter, the 5th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1948)
1875 - Othenio Able, Austria, paleontologist
1883 - Giannotto Bastianelli, composer
1883 - Jules Verstraete, [Julien G the Graef], actor (Driestuiversopera)
1883 - Leah Baird, Chicago IL, actress (Lady Gangster)
1885 - Andrzej Gawroński, Polish scholar (d. 1927)
1887 - Arnaut Colnot, painter/graphic artist
1887 - Kurt Schwitters, German/British dada-artist/poet (collages)
1889 - John S. Paraskevopoulos, Greek-South African astronomer (d. 1951)
1891 - John A. Costello, second Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland (d. 1976)
1892 - S M Tretjakow, writer
1894 - George Delacorte, NYC, philanthropist/publisher (Dell Books)
1894 - Lloyd A Hall, Illinois, pioneer in food chemistry
1897 - Cyril "Froggy" Francois, cricketer (S Afr all-rounder v Eng 1922-23)
1897 - Elisabeth Hauptmann, German writer (d. 1973)
1899 - Anthon van der Horst, Dutch organist/composer
1899 - Jean Moulin, hero of the French Resistance (WW II)
1900 - Ernest White, composer
1901 - Iri Maruki, artist
1903 - Glenna Collett Vare, RI, Natl Am Golf champ (1922, 25, 28-30, 35)
1904 - Heinrich von Brentano di Tremezzo, German Foreign Minister
1905 - Lillian Hellman, American playwright (d. 1984)
1906 - Bob Howard, Newton Mass, singer/pianist (Sing it Again)
1906 - Catherine Cookson, England, novelist (Bannaman Legacy)
1907 - Lillian Hellman, playwright (Toys in the Attic, Little Foxes)
1907 - Jimmy Driftwood, American songwriter and musician (d. 1998)
1908 - Billy Werber, American baseball player
1909 - Cecil Marley, cricketer (Jamaican batsman 1928-1946, WICBC pres)
1909 - Errol Flynn, Hobart Tasmania, actor (Captain Blood, Robin Hood)
1909 - Joan Harrison, screenwriter
1911 - Gail Patrick, Birmingham Ala, actress (My Man Godfrey, Love Crazy)
1911 - Lord Brightman, British judge of appeals
1912 - Anthony Buckeridge, English author (d. 2004)
1914 - Friedrich Zipp, composer
1915 - Terence Young, Shanghai China, director (Dr No, Thunderball)
1915 - Dick Reynolds, Australian rules footballer and coach (d. 2002)
1916 - Johnny Morris, British broadcaster/actor (Once in a Lifetime)
1916 - William Balchin, geographer
1916 - Jean-Jacques Bertrand, premier of Quebec (d. 1973)
1917 - Igor Śmiałowski, Polish actor (d. 2006)
1918 - George Lynch, American auto racer (d. 1997)
1918 - Zoltán Sztáray, Hungarian writer
1919 - Bruce Gordon, London England, actor (Frank Nitti-Untouchables)
1919 - Ronald Hines, Dutch/British actor (Pack of Lies)
1920 - Haydn Tudor Evans, British high court judge
1923 - Marcus Bakker, Dutch MP (CPN)
1924 - Chet Atkins, Luttrell Tenn, guitarist (Me & My Guitar)
1924 - Rainer Barzel, German leader (CDU-CSU)/minister
1925 - Audie Murphy, Kingston, Texas, most decorated American WW II hero/actor (Destry, Joe
           Butterfly)
1925 - Doris J Hart, St Louis Mo, tennis player (Wimbledon 1951)
1926 - Arthur Bell, royal botanic gardens director (Kew Gardens)
1927 - John M Dengler, jazz bass sax/trumpet/trombone
1928 - David Mitchell, British MP
1928 - Jean-Marie le Pen, France, leader (National Front party)
1928 - Martin Landau, Bkln, actor (Mission Impossible, Space 1999, Ed Wood)
1928 - Robert Satanowski, composer
1928 - Eric Dolphy, Los Angeles California, jazz musician, (d. 1964)
1929 - Ingrid Haebler, Austrian pianist (Hayd/Mozart/Schubert)
1930 - Ellie Rabb, US, actor (Fabulous Baker Boys, Extreme Close-up)
1930 - John Waine, bishop (Chelmsford)
1930 - Robert Ivanovich Rozhdestvensky, poet
1930 - Paul Pender, American boxer
1930 - Magdalena Abakanowicz, Polish artist
1931 - Arne Nordheim, Larvik Norway, conductor/composer (Aftonland)
1931 - James Tolkan Calumet MI, actor (Weekend War, Leap of Faith)
1931 - Olympia Dukakis, Lowell Mass, actress (Moonstruck, Cemetery Club)
1931 - Richard Southwood, zoologist/chancellor (Oxford University)
1931 - Martin Landau, American actor
1932 - Robert Rozjdestvenski, Russian poet (Requiem, Userjoz)
1933 - Brett Halsey, Santa Ana California, actress (Paul-Follow the Sun)
1933 - Claire Tomalin, biographer/editor
1933 - Danny Aiello, NYC, actor (Moonstruck, Radio Days)
1933 - Earl of Cranbrook, CEO (Nature Conservancy Council)
1933 - Jean Boiteux, France, 400m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-gold-1952)
1934 - Brian Barder, British high commissar (Australia)
1934 - Cornel Taranu, composer
1934 - Wendy Craig, England, actress (Joseph Andrews)
1934 - Rossana Podestà, Italian actress
1935 - Anthony Pilkington, CEO (Pilkington Pic)
1936 - Billy Guy, Attasca Tx, rock baritone (Coasters-Young Blood)
1936 - Bobby Nunn, rocker (Coasters-Young Blood)
1936 - Leon Hughes, rocker
1937 - Jerry Keller, rocker/actor (If Ever I See You Again)
1938 - Nikolay Avksentevich Martinov, composer
1939 - Budge Rogers, British rugby player
1939 - R B Desai, cricketer (effective pace bowler for India in 60s)
1940 - John Mahoney, Manchester England, actor (Fraiser, Frantic, 8 Men Out)
1940 - Eugen Drewermann, German theologian
1941 - Stephen Frears, England, dir (Prick Up Your Ears, Dangerous Liaisons)
1941 - Ulf D Merbold, German physicist/astronaut (STS 9, 42, Soyuz TM-19)
1942 - Brian Wilson, Inglewood California, vocalist (Beachboys-In My Room)
1943 - Andy Etchebarren, baseball catcher (Balt Orioles)
1944 - Dave Nelson, baseball player
1944 - Terry Funk, Hammond Ind, pro wrestler (WWF/NWA)/actor (Paradise Alley)
1944 - David Roper, English actor
1945 - David S Monson, (Rep-R-UT, 1985- )
1945 - James F Buchli, New Rockford ND, USMC/astr (STS 51C, 61A, 29, 48)
1945 - John McCook, Ventura Cal, actor (Codename: Firefox, Bold & Beautiful)
1945 - [Morna] Anne Murray, Springhill Nova Scotia Canada, singer (Snow Bird)
1946 - Andre Watts, Nuremberg Germany, concert pianist (Oberon)
1946 - Duchess of Gloucester
1946 - Bob Vila, television presenter
1946 - Xanana Gusmão, President of East Timor
1947 - Candy Clark, Ok, actress (Man Who Fell to Earth, Q, American Graffiti)
1947 - David French, British director (Deep Sleep, Bingo)
1947 - John Forbes, horse trainer
1947 - Dolores Brooks, American singer (the Crystals)
1947 - Josef Clemens, German bishop and Secretary of the Pontifical Council for the Laity
1947 - Ivo Milazzo, Italian comic book artist
1948 - Joey Molland, rocker
1948 - Nigel Morris, rocker (Isotope)
1948 - Ludwig Scotty, President of Nauru
1949 - Bob Andrews, England, rock keyboardist/vocalist
1949 - Paul Shaw, Collingwood Ontario, trap shooter (Olympics-96)
1949 - Lionel Richie, Alabama, singer (Commodores, Hello, Penny Lover)
1951 - Peter Gordon, composer
1951 - Tress MacNeille, American voice actress
1951 - Paul Muldoon, Northern Irish poet
1952 - Jayne Thobois, Noblesville IN, LPGA golfer (1995 Hawaiian-56th)
1952 - John Goodman, St Louis Mo, actor (Dan Conner-Roseanne, Babe)
1952 - Larry Riley, Memphis Tn, actor (Harry-Stir Crazy, Knots Landing)
1952 - Vikram Seth, Indian poet
1953 - Alan Longmuir, Edinburgh Scotland, rocker (Bay City Rollers)
1953 - Brian J Duffy, Boston, Major USAF/astronaut (STS 45, 57, 72, sk:92)
1953 - Raul Ramirez, tennis player
1953 - Willy Rampf, German F1 technical director (BMW Sauber)
1954 - Alan [Joseph] Lamb, South African/British cricket player (Northampton)
1954 - Allan Lamb, cricketer (Langebaanweg, Cape Prov, 79 Tests for England)
1954 - Michael Anthony, rock bassist/singer (Van Halen-Pretty Woman)
1954 - Ilan Ramon, Israeli combat pilot and astronaut (d. 2003)
1956 - Peter Reid, English former footballer
1957 - Butch Patrick, Inglewood California, actor (Real McCoys, Eddie-Munsters)
1957 - Koko B. Ware, American professional wrestler
1958 - Chuck Wagner, Nashville Tn, actor (Automan)
1958 - Dickie Thon, baseball player
1958 - Ron Hornaday, American racecar driver
1958 - Kelly Johnson [Bernadette], Edmonton, London, guitarist (Girlschool), (d. 2007)
1960 - Donna Mayhew, Taylor Penn, javelin thrower
1960 - John Taylor, rocker
1960 - Michael Corbett, Collingwood NJ, actor (David-Young & Restless)
1960 - [Nigel] John Taylor, England, rock bassist (Duran Duran-Girls on Film)
1961 - Gary Varsho, baseball player
1961 - Karin Enke, Dresden German DR, speed skater (Olympic-gold-1980, 84)
1963 - Kirk Baptiste, Beaumont Tx, 200m runner (Olympic-silver-1984)
1963 - Matt Anger, Walnut Creek Cal, tennis star
1963 - Amir Derakh, American musician (Orgy)
1963 - Don West, American professional wrestling announcer
1964 - Najee Mustafaa, NFL cornerback (Oakland Raiders)
1964 - Paul David Goydos, Long Beach CA, PGA golfer (1994 BC Open-7th)
1964 - Pierfrancesco Chili, Italian motorcycle racer
1965 - Michael Landon Jr, Encino California, actor (Bonanza The Return)
1967 - Joseph William Cathcart, rock guitarist (Nelson-Love & Affection)
1967 - Pat Jablonski, Toledo, NHL goalie (Montreal Canadiens)
1967 - Nicole Kidman, Honolulu Hawaii, actress (Dead Calm, Far & Away)
1968 - Fred McAfee, NFL running back (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1968 - Garry Howe, WLAF nose tackle (Amsterdam Admirals)
1968 - Mike McCarthy, Bkln NY, pursuit cyclist (Olympics-88, 96)
1969 - Gerald Dixon, NFL linebacker (Cleveland Browns, Cincinnati Bengals)
1969 - Malivai Washington, Glenn Cove NY, tennis star (Olympics-96)
1970 - Shay-Oren Smadja, Israel, men's half middleweight judoka (Oly-1996)
1970 - Prince Moulay Rachid of Morocco
1970 - Andrea Nahles, German politician
1970 - Bruce Woodcock, American computer games analyst
1971 - Rodney Rogers, NBA forward (LA Clippers)
1971 - William Gaines, NFL defensive tackle (Washington Redskins)
1971 - Jeordie White, American musician (Marilyn Manson)
1972 - Jo Roberts, WLAF quarterback (Barcelona Dragons)
1972 - Jozef Stumpel, Nitra CZE, NHL forward (Team Slovakia, Boston)
1972 - Juan Castro, Sinaloa Mexico, infielder (LA Dodgers)
1972 - Martin Keino, Nyeri Kenya, 1.5k runner
1972 - Paras Mhambrey, Indian cricket pace bowler (Test v England 1996)
1972 - Paul Bako, American baseball player
1973 - Chino Moreno, American musician (Deftones)
1974 - Jami Ferrell, Munncie Indiana, playmate (Jan 1997)
1975 - Francois Rozenthal, hockey forward (Team France 1998)
1975 - Maurice Rozenthal, hockey forward (Team France 1998)
1975 - Daniel Zítka, Czech footballer
1976 - Jerome Fontamillas,Filipino American musician (Switchfoot)
1976 - Carlos Lee, Panamanian baseball player
1976 - Rob Mackowiak, American baseball player
1976 - Juliano Belletti, Brazilian footballer
1977 - Gordan Giriček, Croatian basketball player
1978 - LaVar Arrington, American football player
1978 - Quinton Jackson, American Mixed Martial Artist
1978 - Frank Lampard, English footballer
1978 - Jan-Paul Saeijs, Dutch footballer
1978 - Bobby Seay, American baseball player
1979 - Sydne Vogel, Anchorage Alaska, figure skater (1996 NW Pac Sr champ)
1979 - Charlotte Hatherley, English guitarist (Ash)
1979 - Charles Howell III, Professional Golfer
1979 - Cael Sanderson, Olympic Wrestler
1979 - Lani Billard, Canadian actress
1980 - Carlo Festuccia, Italian rugby union footballer
1980 - Fabian Wegmann, German road racing cyclist
1980 - Franco Semioli, Italian footballer
1980 - Tony Lovato, American singer and guitarrist (Mest)
1981 - Ardian Gashi, Albanian-Norwegian footballer
1983 - Darren Sproles, American football player
1983 - Cherrie Ying, Hong Kong actress
1983 - Josh Childress, American basketball player
1985 - Souleymane Mamam, Togolese footballer
1985 - Darko Miličić, Serbian basketball player
1988 - Shefali Chowdhury, Welsh actress
1989 - Christopher Mintz-Plasse, American actor
1997 - Maria Lark, Russian-born American actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 20, 2013, 09:06:57 AM

This Day in History for 20th June


Famous Deaths

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Engineer Jack Kilby (2005)


451 - Theodorid, King of the Visigoths
537 - Saint Silverius, and Pope till deposed in March 537, starves to death in exile
840 - Louis de Vrome, emperor of French rich, dies
885 - Bernard Plantapilosa, Count of Auvergne (b. 841)
1585 - Christianus Adrichomius, writer (Theatrum Terrae Sanctae), dies at 52
1597 - Willem Barentsz/Barents, Dutch navigator. Barents Sea named after him
1649 - Maria Tesselschade Roemers Visscher, author, dies
1668 - Heinrich Roth, German Sanskrit scholar (b. 1620)
1751 - Adriaen Valckenier, gov-gen of Neth-Indies (1737-41), dies at 56
1776 - Benjamin Huntsman, English inventor and manufacturer (b. 1704)
1787 - Carl Friedrich Abel, German/British viola player/composer, dies at 63
1800 - Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, German mathematician (b. 1719)
1820 - Manuel Belgrano, Argentine lawyer and politician (b. 1770)
1833 - Philip Knapton, composer, dies at 44
1837 - Giovanni Furno, composer, dies at 89
1837 - William IV of the United Kingdom (b. 1765)
1842 - Michael Umlauf, composer, dies at 60
1846 - Pieter Adams, architect of Rotterdam, dies at about 67
1869 - Toshizou Hijikata, Shinsengumi vice-commander (b. 1835)
1870 - Jules de Goncourt, writer, dies at 39
1876 - Antonio L de Santa Ana, pres Mexico, dies at 79
1883 - Olivier Gloux, [Gustave Aimard], French world explorer, dies at 64
1888 - Cesare Dominiceti, composer, dies at 66
1888 - John H Zuckertort, German chess player, dies at 45
1890 - Theodore Edouard Dufaure de Lajarte, composer, dies at 63
1906 - John Clayton Adams, British landscape artist (b. 1840)
1915 - Emil Rathenau, German industrialist (AEG), dies
1917 - James Mason Crafts, US chemist, dies at 78
1922 - Vittorio Monti, composer, dies at 54
1923 - Joseph Leopold Rockel, composer, dies at 85
1925 - Wilhelm Posse, composer, dies at 72
1925 - Josef Breuer, Austrian psychologist (b. 1842)
1933 - Clara Zetkin, German feminist/communist, dies
1940 - Jehan Alain, French organist/composer, dies in battle at 29
1941 - Stephanie H (Lapidoth-)Swarth, author (Lonely flowers, dies
1945 - Bruno Frank, writer, dies at 58
1947 - Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, gangster, shot dead in Beverly Hills Cal
1948 - George Frederick Boyle, composer, dies at 61
1950 - Claude Jennings, cricketer (Aust opening bat in 1912 Triangular), dies
1952 - Luigi Fagioli, Italian race car driver (b. 1898)
1953 - Hendrik de Man, sociologist (Belgian Working people Party), dies at 67
1958 - Kurt Alder, German chemist (Nobel 1950), dies
1959 - Hitoshi Ashida, Japanese politician, dies at 71
1960 - Mahlon Hamilton, actor (Peg O'My Heart, High School Girl), dies at 80
1960 - Walter Dehmel, writer, dies at 57
1963 - Gordon Jones, actor (Mike the Cop-Abbott & Costello), dies at 52
1963 - Joseph Self, murderer, executed; last Wash state execution in 25 yrs
1963 - Ralph Sanford, actor (Life & Legend of Wyatt Earp), dies at 64
1963 - Raphaël Salem, Greek mathematician (b. 1898)
1964 - Edgar Barrier, actor (Cobra Woman, Rocky, Macbeth), dies at 57
1965 - Ira Louvin, country singer (Louvin Brothers), dies at 41
1972 - Horst Salomon, writer, dies
1972 - Howard Johnson, US restaurant/hotel founder, dies at 75
1975 - Daniel Ayala Perez, composer, dies at 68
1976 - Lou Klein, American baseball player (b. 1918)
1977 - Abner Biberman, actor (Imhook-Kodiak), dies at 68
1978 - Karel G Bakker, actor (Coffee House), dies at 66
1980 - Gustaf Allan Pettersson, composer, dies at 68
1984 - Estelle Winwood, actress (Miracle on 34th Street), dies at 99
1984 - Sunny Johnson, actress (Animal House), dies cerebral hemorrhage at 30
1986 - Tim Herbert, comedian (Dagmar's Canteen), dies at 71
1990 - Ina Balin, actress (Patsy), dies at 52, of pulmonary hypertension
1994 - Bram Koopmans, cyclist/coach, dies at 78
1994 - Charlotte Auerbach, computer pioneer/mathematician, dies at 84
1994 - Emmanuel Bankole Timothy, journalist, dies at 70
1994 - Louis Benjamin, showman, dies at 71
1995 - Dennis Gomm, musician, dies at 84
1995 - Emil Mihai Cioran, writer/aphorist, dies at 84
1995 - Henry Iliffe Cozens, pilot, dies at 91
1996 - Hellevi Rombin Schine, Miss Universe (1955), dies in plane crash at 64
1996 - Irving Krick, meteorologist, dies at 89
1996 - Joseph Green, film maker, dies at 96
1996 - Michel Lebrun, crime writer, dies at 65
1996 - Walter Guevara Arze, provisional president of Bolivia (1979), dies
1997 - Bobby Helms, composer (Jingle Bell Rock), dies at 61
1997 - Lawrence Payton, rocker (4 Tops-I'll Be There), dies at 59
1998 - Conrad Schumann, East German border guard (b. 1942)
1999 - Clifton Fadiman, American author (b. 1902)
2002 - Erwin Chargaff, Austrian biochemist (b. 1905)
2002 - Tinus Osendarp, Dutch runner (b. 1916)
2003 - Bob Stump, American politician (b. 1927)
2005 - Jack Kilby, American electrical engineer and Nobel laureate, dies at 81
2005 - Larry Collins, American writer (b. 1929)
2006 - Billy Johnson, American baseball player (b. 1918)
2007 - Trevor Henry, New Zealand Justice (b. 1902)
2010 - Harry Blackmore Whittington, British palaeontologist (b. 1916)
2011 - Ryan Dunn, American actor (b. 1977)
2012 - LeRoy Neiman, American painter, dies at 91

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 21, 2013, 11:21:39 AM

This Day in History for 21st June


Historical Events

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The Sun King Louis XIV                           Director Steven Spielberg                   Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber

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Heavyweight Boxing Champion               Tennis Player Steffi Graf 
Mike Tyson


524 - Godomar, King of the Burgundians defeats the Franks at the Battle of Vézeronce.
996 - Pope Gregory V crowns Otto III Roman Catholic German emperor of Elzas
1128 - Battle of Akspoele: earl Willem of Normandy beats Diederik
1498 - Jews are expelled from Nurenberg Bavaria by Emperor Maximillian
1529 - Battle at Landriano: Leyva beats France
1547 - Great fire in Moscow
1572 - Garrison under Adrian of Swieten conquers Gouda
1582 - The Incident at Honnō-ji takes place in Kyoto, Japan.
1607 - 1st Protestant Episcopal parish in America established, Jamestown
1633 - Galileo Galilei is forced by Inquisition to "abjure, curse, & detest" his Copernican heliocentric
           views
1661 - Treaty of Kardis: Russia & Sweden sign peace treaty
1667 - Dutch Admiral Michiel de Ruyter occupies Sheerness, England
1672 - Dutch pension advisor Johan de Witt seriously wounded
1672 - French troops under king Louis XIV occupy Utrecht
1684 - King Charles II revokes Massachusetts Bay Colony charter
1734 - In Montreal in New France (today primarily Quebec), a black slave known by the French name
           of Marie-Joseph Angélique, having been convicted of the arson that destroyed much of the
           city, is tortured and hanged by the French authorities in a public ceremony that involved her
           disgrace and the amputation of a hand.
1749 - Pieter Steyn installed as pension advisor of Neth
1749 - Halifax, Nova Scotia, is founded.
1768 - 1st US bachelor of medicine degree (Dr John Archer)
1788 - US Constitution goes into effect as NH is 9th to ratify
1788 - Vizille France population demands local parliament
1791 - Fleeing French King Louis XVI & family captured at Varennes-en-Argonne
1792 - Vancouver meets Spanish ships Sutil & Mexicana off Vancouver, BC
1805 - Great Stoneface Mt found in NH
1813 - Peninsular War: Battle of Vitoria.
1821 - African Methodist Episcopal Zion (AMEZ) Church organizes (NYC)
1824 - Greek War of Independence: Egyptian forces capture Psara in the Aegean Sea.
1826 - Maniots defeat Egyptians under Ibrahim Pasha in the Battle of Vergas.
1834 - Cyrus Hall McCormick patents reaping machine
1849 - Battle at Waghausel: Prussian troops beat Baden rebels
1854 - First Victoria Cross won during bombardment of Bomarsund in the Aland Islands.
1858 - Louisiana chess prodigy Paul Morphy arrives in Europe
1863 - Battle at Upperville Virginia, 389 casualities
1864 - New Zealand Land Wars: The Tauranga Campaign ends.
1868 - Wagner's opera "Meistersinger von Nuernberg," premieres in Munich
1877 - The Molly Maguires, ten Irish immigrants, are hanged at the Schuylkill County and Carbon
           County, Pennsylvania prisons.
1879 - F W Woolworth opens 1st store (failed almost immediately)
1887 - Britain celebrates golden jubilee of Queen Victoria
1893 - 1st Ferris wheel premieres (Chicago's Columbian Exposition)
1894 - Workers in Pittsburgh strike Pullman sleeping car company
1895 - British Roseberry government falls
1898 - Guam becomes a territory of US
1900 - Dodgers score 7 in top of 11th to go ahead of Phillies, 20-13, In bottom of 11th Phillies stalls
           so umpire forfeits game to Dodgers
1903 - Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Mazarine Stone" takes place (BG)
1904 - Boston Herald tells of Red Sox trade "Dougherty as a Yankee," 1st known reference to NY
           club as Yankees (became Yankees in 1913)
1907 - 13th US Golf Open: Alec Ross shoots a 302 at Phila Cricket Club PA
1907 - E W Scripps founded United Press
1913 - Tiny Broadwick is 1st woman to parachute from an airplane
1915 - Anti-British revolt in South-Africa ends with arrest of Gen De Law
1915 - The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Guinn v. United States 238 US 347 1915,
           striking down an Oklahoma law denying the right to vote to some citizens.
1916 - Boston Rube Forster no-hits NY Yankees, 2-0
1916 - Mexican troops beat US expeditionary force under Gen Pershing
1917 - Hawaiian Red Cross forms
1919 - Bauer forms German government
1919 - German Admiral von Reuter scuttles his own captured fleet
1921 - HSC '21 soccer team forms in Haaksbergen
1923 - Marcus Garvey sentenced to 5 years for using mail to defraud
1924 - NCRV, Dutch Christian Radio Society, forms
1930 - Ruth hits 3 HRs as Yanks blow 6-0 lead in 7th & lose 15-7
1932 - Heavyweight Jack Sharkey TKOs Max Schmeling (NYC)
1932 - Jack Sharkey beats Max Schmeling in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1933 - 1st Great Lakes-to-Gulf of Mexico barge trip completed, New Orleans
1937 - French People's front government-Blum falls
1938 - Baseball's Pinky Higgins gets 12th straight hit
1938 - Bradman scores 101* in 77 minutes, Australia v Lancashire
1939 - NY Yankees announce Lou Gehrig's retirement after doctors reveal he has amyotrophic lateral
           sclerosis
1940 - German occupiers disband Dutch States-General/Council of State
1940 - The first successful west-to-east navigation of Northwest Passage begins at Vancouver,
           British Columbia.
1941 - 2nd French troops occupies Damascus Syria
1941 - After winning 20 straight at Fenway, Lefty Grove loses to Browns
1942 - 129°F (54°C), Tirat Zevi, Israel (Asian record)
1942 - President Roosevelt/premier Churchill arrives in Washington, DC
1942 - Rommel takes Tobruk in North Africa
1942 - Seinheuer throws female world record spear (47.24m)
1943 - Federal troops put down racial riot in Detroit 30 dead
1944 - Very heavy bombing on Berlin
1945 - US defeat Japanese forces on Okinawa during WW II
1946 - 10 die in fire at Baker Hotel, Dallas Texas
1946 - Bill Veeck buys Indians for $2.2 million
1946 - Fed judge rules Seattle club doesn't have to play returning serviceman
1948 - 1st stored computer program run, on Manchester Mark I
1948 - 33 1/3 RPM LP record introduced and 78's planned to be phased out (Dr Peter Goldmark-
           Columbia Records)
1948 - Lord Mountbatten resigns as gov-gen of India
1948 - Rhodes conference on Israeli-Arab war opens
1948 - WNAC (now KNEV) TV channel 7 in Boston, MA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1950 - Joe DiMaggio gets his 2,000th hit
1951 - "17" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 180 performances
1951 - Patty Berg wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open
1951 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Evangelii praecones
1952 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open
1952 - Philippine School of Commerce, through a republic act, is converted to Philippine College of
           Commerce; later to be the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.
1954 - John Landy runs world record mile (3:58.0)
1956 - Anti-protons detected in the atmosphere
1956 - German DR frees almost 19,000 prisoners
1956 - Oriole Connie Johnson beats WS Jack Harshman (1-0) in dual 1 hitters
1957 - Ellen Louks Fairclough is sworn in as Canada's first woman Cabinet Minister.
1958 - French franc devalues
1960 - Armin Hary runs world record 100m (10.0)
1962 - USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 75,190 m
1963 - Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Montini) succeeds John XXIII
1964 - Beckwith arrested for murder of Medger Evers, found guilty 30 yr later
1964 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Lady Carling Eastern Golf Open
1964 - Phillies Jim Bunning pitches perfect game (Mets) on Fathers day, in 2nd game of DH, Mets get
           3 hits, 3 being fewest hits in NL DH
1964 - 3 civil rights workers-Michael H Schwerner Andrew Goodman & James E Chaney-disappeared
           after release from a Mississippi jail
1965 - 65th US Golf Open: Gary Player shoots 282 at Bellerive CC in St Louis
1966 - Queen Juliana opens Coen tunnel in Amsterdam
1967 - Yanks take 5-3 lead in 11th & lose 6-5, in 2nd game Red Sox lead 3-2 in 9th & Yanks beat
           them 6-3
1968 - Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren resigns
1969 - 1st reported hearing of pirate radio WGHP (With God's Help Peace)
1969 - Dmitri Shostakovitch's 14th Symphony, premieres in Moscow
1969 - John Pennel pole vaults world record (5.45 m)
1969 - Zager & Evans release "In the Year 2525"
1970 - 70th US Golf Open: Tony Jacklin shoots a 281 at Hazeltine Natl Minn
1970 - Brazil beats Italy, 4-1, to win soccer's World Cup (in Mexico City)
1970 - Detroit's Cesar Gutierrez goes 7-for-7 to tie a record set in 1892
1970 - Judy Rankin wins LPGA George Washington Golf Classic
1971 - 50,000 attend Celebration of Life, rock concert, McCrea Louisiana
1971 - 71st US Golf Open: Lee Trevino shoots a 280 at Merion GC in Ardmore PA
1971 - Indians Ken Harrelson retires from baseball to play pro golf
1971 - Intl Court of Justice asks South-Africa to pull out of Namibia
1975 - "Jaws" by Steven Spielberg opens
1975 - Elton John, Eagles & Beach Boys play Wembley
1975 - Ritchie Blackmore quits Deep Purple, forms Rainbow
1975 - Soyuz 19 returns to Earth
1975 - West Indies beat Australia by 17 runs to win Cricket World Cup
1976 - Berlinguers PCI wins election in Italy
1977 - Former White House chief of staff HR Haldeman enters prison
1977 - Menachem Begin (Likud), becomes Israel's 6th PM
1978 - Andrew Lloyd Webber & Rice's musical "Evita," premiers in London
1979 - Sri Lanka beat Canada by 60 runs to win the 1st ICC Trophy
1981 - 12-bottle case of 1979 Napamedoc Cabernet wine auctioned for $24,000
1981 - 81st US Golf Open: David Graham shoots 273 at Merion GC in Ardmore Pa
1981 - Don Fagan & Walter Becker quit Steely Dan
1981 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf
1981 - Riots at Casablanca, kills 66-200
1981 - Socialists/communists win French parliamentary election
1982 - Paul McCartney releases "Take it Away"
1982 - John Hinckley found not guilty of 1981 attempted assassination of President Reagan by
           reason of insanity
1983 - Stephanie Kay Ashmore, of Alabama, 18, crowned America's Junior Miss
1983 - Tennis ace Arthur Ashe undergoes double bypass heart surgery
1985 - American, Brazilian & West German forensic pathologists confirm skeletal remains exhumed in
           Brazil were Nazi Dr Josef Mengele
1986 - "Living on Video" by Trans-X peaks at #61
1986 - "Vienna Calling" by Falco peaks at #18
1986 - Bo Jackson, Heisman Trophy winner, singns with KC Royals
1986 - Heike Drechsler of East Germany long jumps 7.45 m (women's record)
1986 - Pres Reagan gives speech defending his judicial appointments
1987 - 87th US Golf Open: Scott Simpson shoots a 277 at Olympic Club in SF
1987 - Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
1987 - Discovery rolls over from OPF to Vandenberg AFB
1987 - Mike Tyson sexually harasses a parking lot attendant
1988 - 42nd NBA Championship: LA Lakers beat Detroit Pistons, 4 games to 3
1988 - Many killed at demonstration against general Ne Win in Rangoon
1988 - Rascals begin 1st tour in 20 years
1989 - Carlton Fisk becomes AL catcher HR hitter, 307th at Yankee stadium
1989 - Supreme Court rules ok to burn US flag as a political expression
1989 - Yankees trade Rickey Henderson to A's for Plunk, Cadaret & Polonia
1990 - 7.7 Earthquake with 100s of after shocks hits Iran; about 50,000 die
1990 - Little Richard gets a star on Hollywood's walk of fame
1990 - NYC's Zodiac killer shoots 4th victim, Larry Parham
1990 - Parliament of W & E Germany recognize Oder-Neissegrens
1990 - US House of Reps vote 254-177 to stop US flag burning, doesn't pass
1990 - At Yankee Stadium rally, Nelson Mandela dons a NY Yankee baseball cap & proclaims "I am a
           Yankee!"
1991 - Jirg Haider resigns as premier of Karinthia
1991 - NY Islanders Denis Potvin & Mike Bossy, elected to Hockey Hall of Fame
1992 - 92nd US Golf Open: Tom Kite shoots a 285 at Pebble Beach GL Calif
1992 - Danielle Ammaccapan wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
1992 - Last day of test cricket for Ian Botham & Allan Lamb
1993 - "Camelot" opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 56 performances
1993 - English mathematician Andrew Wiles proves last theorem of Fermat
1993 - STS-57 (Endeavour) launches into orbit
1994 - Steffi Graf becomes 1st defending tennis champ to lose in 1st round of a major tournament
           (Wimbledon to Lorrie McNeal)
1997 - "Defending the Caveman," closes at Helen Hayes NYC after 671 perfs
1997 - 35th NHL draft Boston picks center Joe Thornton 1st
1997 - Women's National Basketball Association begins as NY Liberty beats LA Sparks
1998 - 98th US Golf Open: at Olympic Club SF
2000 - Section 28 (outlawing the 'promotion' of homosexuality in the United Kingdom) is repealed in
           Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote.
2001 - Total solar eclipse in Madagascar-Indian Ocean (4m56s)
2001 - A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, indicts 13 Saudis and a Lebanese in the 1996
           bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American servicemen.
2002 - Lennox Lewis retains boxing's WBC world Heavyweight crown with an eight round knockout
           over Mike Tyson
2004 - SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.
2006 - Pluto's newly discovered moons are officially named Nix & Hydra.
2012 - Moody's downgrades 15 major banks in the UK, US, Canada and Europe
2012 - A boat of 200 asylum seekers headed to Australia capsizes and 110 survivors are rescued
2012 - Miami Heat win the 2012 NBA finals after defeating the Oklahoma City Thunder 4 games to
           one

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 21, 2013, 11:23:21 AM

This Day in History for 21st June


Famous Weddings

1930 - "Titanic" actress Gloria Stuart (19) weds sculptor Blair Gordon Newell
1940 - 37th US President Richard Nixon (27) weds Pat Ryan (28) at the Mission Inn in Riverside,
           California
1942 - Jacqueline Kennedy's mother marries Hugh Auchincloss
1976 - Country singer Reba McEntire (21) weds national steer wrestling champion Charlie Battles
1986 - The Boomtown Rats singer Bob Geldof (34) weds broadcaster and writer Paula Yates (27) in
           Las Vegas
1991 - Eleanor Mondale marries Greg "Thunder" Malban (Minn DJ)
1992 - Actor Michael Chiklis (Commish) marries Michelle Epstein
1992 - Actress Marina Sirtis (Star Trek NG) marries rocker Michael Lamper
1997 - "Bridget Jones' Diary" actor Colin Firth (36) weds Italian film producer Livia Giuggioli (27) in
            Tuscany, Italy
1998 - "Home Alone" actor Macaulay Culkin (17) weds broadway actress Rachel Miner (17) in Stone
            Church in New Preston, Connecticut
2002 - "Tuck Everlasting" actor Jonathan Jackson (20) weds "General Hospital" actress Lisa Vultaggio
           (29)
2012 - Actor Aaron Johnson (22) weds film director and artist Sam Taylor Wood (45) in Somerset

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 21, 2013, 11:29:01 AM

This Day in History for 21st June


Famous Birthdays

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Writer Jean-Paul Sartre (1905)                 Duke of Cambridge
                                                                Prince William (1982)


1002 - Leo IX, [Bruno count of Egesheim & Dagsburg], Pope (1049-54)
1226 - King Boleslaus V of Poland (d. 1279)
1528 - Maria of Spain, Holy Roman Empire Empress (1603)
1577 - Giovanni Del Turco, composer
1596 - Michael Fjodorovitsj, tsar of Russia (1613-45)/1st Romanov
1639 - Increase Mather, New England Puritan minister (d. 1723)
1640 - Abraham Mignon, still life painter
1646 - Maria Francisca of Nemours, queen of Portugal (d. 1683)
1668 - Cajetan Kolberer, composer
1712 - Luc Urbain de Bouexic, comte de Guichen, French admiral (d. 1790)
1730 - Norinaga Moto'ori, Japanese scientist
1732 - Johann Christoph Frederic Bach, composer
1740 - Hendrik van Wijn, Dutch archivist (Algemeen Rijksarchief)
1750 - Pierre-Nicolas Beauvallet, French artist (d. 1818)
1759 - Alexander J. Dallas, American statesman and financier (d. 1817)
1763 - Pierre P Royer-Collard, French attorney/philosopher
1764 - Sidney Smith, British admiral (d. 1840)
1774 - Daniel D Tompkins, (D-R), 6th US vice-president (1817-25)
1781 - Siméon-Denis Poisson, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1840)
1782 - Pyotr Kotlyarevsky, Russian general (d. 1852)
1788 - Princess Augusta of Bavaria (d. 1850)
1790 - Wilhelm Speyer, composer
1791 - Robert Napier, British engineer (d. 1876)
1798 - Wolfgang Menzel, German writer (d. 1873)
1805 - Karl Friedrich Curschmann, composer
1805 - Charles Thomas Jackson, American scientist, polymath (d. 1880)
1811 - Carlo Matteucci, Italian physicist (d. 1868)
1812 - Moses Hess, Jewish socialist and nationalist (d. 1875)
1817 - James Brewerton Ricketts, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1887
1818 - Ernst II, duke of Saxon-Coburg-Gotha (1844-93)/composer
1818 - Joseph Abel Haskin, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1874
1823 - Edward Elmer Potter, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1889
1823 - Jean Chacornac, French astronomer (d. 1873)
1825 - William Stubbs, English historian and Anglican bishop of Oxford (d. 1901)
1839 - Joaquim M Machado de Assic, Brazil, writer (Epitaph of a small winner)
1839 - Johannes P R Tak, Dutch liberal politician
1839 - John Decatur Barry, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1867
1839 - Machado de Assis, writer
1844 - Ernest F Cambier, Belgian colonial pioneer (1st railway Congo)
1851 - Daniel Carter Beard, US, organized 1st boy scout troop
1859 - Henry O Tanner, artist
1862 - Henry Holden Huss, composer
1862 - Johannes Schlaf, writer
1862 - Damrong Rajanubhab, Thai prince and historian (d. 1943)
1863 - Max Wolf, German astronomer (d. 1932)
1864 - Heinrich Wölfflin, Swiss art historian (d. 1945)
1865 - Albert Herbert Brewer, composer
1868 - Edwin Stephen Goodrich, English zoologist (d. 1946)
1870 - Clara Immerwahr, German chemist (d. 1915)
1873 - Henry M Tomlinson, British writer (Sea & Jungle)
1876 - Willem H Keesom, physicist (helium vast)
1879 - Umberto Brunelleschi, Italian cartoonist/illustrator (Candide)
1880 - Arnold Gesell, American psychologist and pediatrician (d. 1961)
1880 - Josiah Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp, British civil servant, industrialist, economist, statistician and
           banker (d. 1941)
1882 - Rockwell Kent, artist/painter/illustrator (Canterbury Tales)
1882 - Lluís Companys i Jover, Spanish politician (d. 1940)
1883 - Feodor Gladkov, Russian socialist writer (Cement) (d. 1958)
1884 - Claude "Auk" Auchinleck, British fieldmarshal North-Africa
1887 - Norman L. Bowen, Canadian petrologist (d. 1956)
1889 - Ralph Craig, American athlete (d. 1972)
1890 - Frank Sherman Land, The order of DeMolay founder (d. 1959)
1891 - Hermann Scherchen, Berlin Germany, conductor (Nature of Music)
1891 - Pier Luigi Nervi, Italian architect (Nuove Struttura)
1892 - Reinhold Niebuhr, US, theologian (Nature & Destiny of Man)
1893 - Alois Hába, Czech composer (d. 1973)
1894 - Milward Kennedy, British public servant and mystery writer (d. 1968)
1896 - Charles B. Momsen, American inventor (d. 1967)
1898 - Donald C. Peattie, American botanist and writer (d. 1964)
1899 - Pavel Haas, composer
1900 - Gunnar Ek, composer
1902 - Wilhelm Maler, composer
1902 - Howie Morenz, professional ice hockey player (d. 1937)
1903 - Al[bert] Hirschfield, St Louis Mo, cartoonist (NINA, NY Times)
1903 - Dorothy Stickney, Dickinson ND, actress (And So They Were Married)
1903 - Helene Costello, dancer/actress (Love Toy)
1903 - Louis Krasner, violinist
1903 - Al Hirschfeld, American cartoonist (d. 2003)
1905 - Jacques Goddot, French publisher (Tour de France)
1905 - Jean Paul Sartre, existentialist/writer (Le Mur, Nobel 1964; declined)
1906 - Luis Maria Millet, composer
1906 - Harold Spina, American composer (d. 1997)
1908 - William Frankena, American philosopher (d. 1994)
1909 - Kurt Schwaen, composer
1910 - Bela Tardos, composer
1910 - Charles Jones, composer
1910 - Aleksandr Tvardovsky, Soviet poet (d. 1971)
1912 - Mary McCarthy, US, novelist (Group)
1913 - Irving Shulman, author/screenwriter
1914 - Jan Decadt, composer
1914 - William Vickrey, economist
1916 - Joe Bamford, British manufacturer/multi-millionaire
1918 - James Bysse Joll, historian
1918 - Eddie Lopat, American baseball player (d. 1992)
1919 - Gérard Pelletier, French Canadian journalist, politician, and diplomat (d. 1997)
1919 - Paolo Soleri, Italian-born American architect
1920 - Helen Cattanach, British Army Nursing Service (QARANC)
1921 - Frank Scott, Fargo ND, pianist (Lawrence Welk Show)
1921 - Jane Russell, Bemidji MN, full-figured actress (Outlaw)
1921 - Jean Kent, London England, actress (Adv of Sir Francis Drake)
1921 - Joan Tetzel, NYC, actress (Hell Below Zero, Joy in the Morning)
1921 - Jean de Broglie, French politician
1922 - Jim McConnon, cricketer (England off-spinner against Pakistan 1954)
1922 - Judy Holliday, NYC, comedienne/actress (Born Yesterday, Adam's Rib)
1923 - John Compton, Lynchburg Tn, actor (Shannon-D.A.'s Man)
1924 - Wally Fawkes, cartoonist/jazz clarinettist
1924 - Jean Laplanche, French psychoanalytic thinker
1925 - Maureen Stapleton, Troy NY, actress (Airport, Coccoon, Plaza Suite)
1925 - Giovanni Spadolini, Italian politician (d. 1994)
1926 - Conrad Hall, Tahitian-born cinematographer (d. 2003)
1927 - Carl Burton Stokes, Cleveland, (Mayor-Cleve)/TV newscaster
1927 - Jackie Collum, baseball player
1928 - Judith Raskin, NYC, soprano (Susanna-Le Nozze di Figaro)
1928 - V G Yershov, cosmonaut
1929 - Agha Saadat Ali, cricketer (Paki bat in Test v NZ 1956, scored 8*)
1929 - John Morgan, British ambassador (to Mexico)
1929 - Alexandre Lagoya, Greek-Italian classical guitarist (d. 1999)
1930 - Gerald Kaufman, British MP (shadow Foreign Secretary)
1930 - Mike McCormack, NFL offensive tackle (NY Yankees, Cleveland, Phila)
1930 - Patricia Lindop, radio biologist
1930 - Peter Marshall, police commissioner (London)
1931 - Lawrence K Grossman, News president (NBC-TV)
1931 - Margaret Heckler, US Secretary of Health & Human Services (1983-85)
1932 - Bernard Ingham, press secretary (Margaret Thatcher)
1932 - Lalo [Boris] Schifrin, Buenos Aires Argentina, composer
1932 - Ocie Lee "OC" Smith, US jazz singer (Little Green Apples)
1932 - O.C. Smith, American singer (d. 2001)
1933 - Bernie Kopell, NYC, actor (Love Boat, Get Smart, That Girl)
1934 - Wulf Kirsten, writer
1935 - Francoise Sagan, [Quoirez], Cajarc France, novelist (Bonjour Trieste)
1935 - Monte Markham, Manatee Fla, actor (Second Hundred Years, Dallas)
1936 - O C Smith, rocker
1937 - Anna Davies, prof of Comparative Philology (Oxford U)
1937 - John Edrich, cricketer (England left-handed batsman, 310* v NZ 1965)
1938 - Dan Burton, (Rep-R-IN, 1983- )
1938 - James Botten, cricketer (all-rounder in 1965 S Afr series v England)
1938 - Ron Ely, Hereford, Texas, American actor (Tarzan, Doc Savage)
1939 - Charles Boone, composer
1939 - Ruben Berrios, Puerto Rican politician
1940 - Mariette Hartley, NYC, actress (Poloroid spokesperson, Marooned)
1940 - Michael Ruse, Canadian philosopher
1941 - Pia J Barendrecht, Indonesian/Dutch actress (Pinokkio)
1941 - Joe Flaherty, American-Canadian actor
1942 - Marg Margolies-Mezvinsky, (Rep-D-Pennsylvania)
1942 - William Bradford Reynolds, Conn, US asst attorney general
1942 - Togo D. West, Jr., American attorney and public official
1942 - Henry S. Taylor, American writer
1943 - Salomé, Spanish singer
1944 - Corinna Tsopel, Athens, actress (Man Called Horse)/Miss Universe (64)
1944 - Frans Luitjes, Dutch athlete
1944 - Jon Hiseman, rocker
1944 - Miguel Danus, Vicens rocker
1944 - Ray Davies, London, singer/guitarist (Kinks-Come Dancing)
1945 - Chris Britton, England, rock guitarist (Troggs-Wild Thing)
1945 - Adam Zagajewski, Polish philosopher, poet
1946 - Brenda Holloway, US singer/songwriter (When I'm Gone)
1946 - Kate Hoey, British MP (Lab)
1946 - Malcolm Rifkind, British QC MP (Sect of State for Defense)
1946 - Maurice Saatchi, English advertising CEO (Saatchi & Saatchi)
1946 - Trond Kirkvaag, Norwegian comedian and author
1947 - Dana Rohrabacher, (Rep-R-California)
1947 - Lex van Delden, Dutch actor (Soldier of Orange)
1947 - Meredith Baxter-Birney, Ca, actr (Family Ties, Bridget Loves Bernie)
1947 - Michael Gross, Chicago Ill, actor (Family Ties, FBI murders)
1947 - Shirin Ebadi, Iranian lawyer, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
1948 - Joey Malland, Liverpool, rock guitarist (Badfinger-Come & Get It)
1948 - Ian McEwan, English writer
1948 - Lionel Rose, Australian boxer
1948 - Andrzej Sapkowski, Polish writer
1949 - Jim Bacchus, (Rep-D-Florida)
1950 - Joey Kramer, NYC, hard rock drummer (Aerosmith-Toys in the Attic)
1950 - Terry Miskolczi, Dunnville ON, Canadian Tour golfer (1976 Alberta-3rd)
1950 - Anne Carson, Canadian poet
1950 - Gérard Lanvin, French actor
1951 - Nils Lofgren, Chicago, guitarist/singer/songwriter (East Street Band)
1952 - Kôichi Mashimo, Japanese anime director
1953 - Benazir Bhutto, 1st female leader of a Moslem nation (Pakistan)
1953 - Charlie Moore Jr, baseball player
1953 - Robyn Douglass, Sendai Japan, actress (Lonely Guy, Romantic Comedy)
1953 - Michael Bowen, American actor
1953 - Augustus Pablo, Jamaican musician (d. 1999)
1954 - Anne Kirkbridge, actress (Deidre-Coronation Street)
1954 - Jeremy Coney, cricketer (NZ captain turned them into world-beaters)
1954 - Robert Pastorelli, Bkln NY, actor (Eldin-Murphy Brown)
1954 - Müjde Ar, Turkish actress
1954 - Mark Kimmitt, US Army general
1954 - Anne Kirkbride, English actress
1954 - Robert Menasse, Austrian writer
1955 - David Marshall Grant, Westport CT, actor (Legs, French Postcards)
1955 - Leigh J McCloskey, LA California, actor (Dallas, Executive Suite, Gen Hosp)
1955 - Michel Platini, French footballer
1956 - Mikhail Burtsev, USSR, sabres (Olympic-gold-1976)
1956 - Rick Sutcliffe, pitcher (LA Dodgers, Chicago Cubs)
1957 - Berke Breathed, cartoonist (Vegetarian, Bloom County, Outland)
1957 - Mark Brzezicki, rock drummer (Big Country-Wonderland)
1958 - Gennadi Ivanovich Padalka, Russian major/cosmonaut (SK: Soyuz TM-28)
1959 - Kathy Mattea, country singer (Love at the Five & Dime)
1959 - Tom Chambers, NBA forward, center (Seattle SuperSonics, Phoenix Suns)
1961 - Kip Winger, rocker (Winger-17)
1961 - Manu Chao, Spanish musician
1961 - Sascha Konietzko, German musician
1961 - Karen Barber, ice skater
1962 - Marc Copage, LA California, actor (Corey Baker-Julia)
1962 - Viktor Tsoi, Russian musician
1962 - Takeshi Asami, Japanese racing driver
1963 - Jeff Musselman, baseball player
1963 - Mike Sherrard, NFL wide receiver (NY Giants)
1964 - Doug Savant, Burbank California, actor (Matt Fielding-Melrose Place)
1964 - Kari Kennell, Colorado, playmate (Feb, 1988)/actress (Eric's Revenge)
1964 - Sammi Davis-Voss, Kidderminster England, actress (Hope & Glory)
1964 - David Morrissey, British actor
1965 - Michael Dolan, Oklahoma City OK, actor (Hamburger Hill, Liberace)
1965 - Larry Wachowski, film director
1965 - Yang Liwei, Chinese astronaut
1966 - David Williams, NFL tackle (Houston Oilers, NY Jets)
1966 - Nan Woods, actress (1 More Saturday Night)
1966 - Rudi Bakhtiar, American journalist
1966 - Mancow Muller, American radio personality
1967 - Derrick Coleman, NBA forward (Phila 76ers)
1967 - Michele Smith, Califon NJ, softball pitcher (Olympics-gold-96)
1967 - Robert Drummond, CFL running back (Toronto Argonauts)
1967 - Tim Simenson, rocker (Bomb the Bass)
1967 - Pierre Omidyar, Iranian-American billionaire
1967 - Jim Breuer, American comedian
1968 - Alastair Campbell Mackintosh, Hamilton NZ, coxless rower (Olympics-96)
1968 - Brandon Douglas, Oklahoma City, actor (Dr Quinn, Father's Homecoming)
1968 - Darryl Shannon, Barrie, NHL defenseman (Buffalo Sabres)
1968 - Henry Newby, NFL linebacker (Seattle Seahawks)
1968 - Alisyn Camerota, American journalist
1968 - Sonique, British DJ
1968 - Gretchen Carlson, American journalist
1969 - Chris Perez, CFL tackle (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1969 - Donovan Osborne, Roseville CA, pitcher (St Louis Cardinals)
1969 - Gabriella Paruzzi, Italian skier
1970 - Brandon Moore, NFL tackle (NE Patriots)
1970 - John Roethlisberger, Afton Minn, gymnast (Olympics-5th-96)
1970 - Sindee Coxx, American pornographic actress
1970 - Pete Rock, American rapper/producer
1971 - Dipendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev, Crown Prince/son of King of Nepal
1971 - Nicole Stevenson, Melbourne Australia, backstroker (Oly-bronze-92, 96)
1971 - Tyrone Drakeford, NFL cornerback (SF 49ers)
1971 - Anette Olzon, Swedish singer
1972 - Andrew Jordan, NFL tight end (Minnesota Vikings)
1972 - Billy Milner, NFL tackle (Miami Dolphins)
1972 - Heath Rylance, CFL quarterback (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1972 - Jamal Ellis, NFL/WLAF cornerback (Denver Broncos, Rhein Fire)
1972 - Marv Marshall, NFL/WLAF receiver (Buccaneers, Barcelona Dragons)
1972 - Tony Berti, NFL tackle (San Diego Chargers)
1972 - Alon Hilu, Israeli writer
1972 - Neil Doak, former Irish cricketer
1973 - Alyson Annan, Sydney NSW Aust, field hockey midfielder (Olympics-96)
1973 - Juliette Lewis, LA California, actress (Natural Born Killers, Cape Fear)
1973 - Merlakia Jones, WNBA guard/forward (Cleveland Rockers)
1973 - Sammie Burroughs, linebacker (Indianapolis Colts)
1974 - Rob Kelly, safety (New Orleans Saints)
1974 - Natasha Desborough, British radio personality
1974 - Craig Lowndes, Australian racing driver
1974 - Rob Kelly, American football player
1974 - Neely Jenkins, American musician
1976 - Natalia Cronenbold Aguilera, Miss Universe-Bolivia (1996)
1976 - Antonio Cochran, American football player
1976 - Mike Einziger, American musician
1976 - Nigel Lappin, Australian footballer
1977 - Jochen Hecht, Mannheim GER, hockey forward (Team Germany 1998)
1978 - Cristiano Lupatelli, Italian footballer
1978 - Jack Guzman, American actor
1978 - Erica Durance, Canadian actress
1978 - Dejan Ognjanović, Montenegrin football player
1979 - Chris Pratt, American actor
1980 - Sendy Rleal, Dominican baseball player
1980 - Richard Jefferson, American basketball player
1981 - Brandon Flowers, American singer and keyboardist (The Killers)
1981 - Yann Danis, Canadian ice hockey player
1982 - Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, London, England, son of Prince Charles & Lady Diana
1984 - Franck Perera, French racing driver
1984 - Alicia Alighatti, American pornographic actress
1985 - Anthony Morelli, American football player
1985 - Byron Schammer, AFL footballer
1987 - Dale Thomas, AFL footballer
1987 - Kim Ryeowook, Korean pop singer
1987 - Sebastian Prödl, Austrian footballer

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 21, 2013, 11:31:25 AM

This Day in History for 21st June


Famous Deaths

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Humanist philosopher
Niccolo Machiavelli (1527)


223 - Liu Bei, Emperor of Shu Han (b. 161)
524 - Chlodomir, king of the France to Orleans (511-24), dies at about 28
1205 - Enrico Dandolo, Doge of Venice (b. 1107)
1208 - Philip of Swabia, King of Germany and duke of Swabia (b. 1177)
1305 - King Wenceslaus II of Bohemia and Poland (b. 1271)
1377 - Edward III, king of England (1327-77), dies at 64
1421 - Jean Le Maingre, Marshal of France (b. 1366)
1527 - Niccolo Machiavelli, Florentine statesman/author, dies at 57
1529 - John Skelton, English poet, dies at about 69
1547 - Sebastiano del Piombo, Italian painter (b. 1485)
1573 - Antonie van Burgundy, mayor of sealand, dies in battle
1582 - Oda Nobunaga, Japanese warlord (b. 1534)
1591 - Aloysius [Luigi] van Gonzaga, Prince/Italian Jesuit saint, dies
1621 - Kryštof Harant, Polish soldier, writer, and composer (b. 1564)
1652 - Inigo Jones, English architect (b. 1573)
1738 - Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend, English statesman (b. 1674)
1824 - Étienne Aignan, French writer (b. 1773)
1865 - Frances Adeline Seward, wife of United States Secretary of State William H. Seward (b. 1824)
1874 - Anders Jonas Ångström, Swedish physicist (b. 1814)
1876 - Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, Mexican general (took Alamo), dies at 79
1884 - Alexander, prince/last male descendent of Johan W Friso, dies
1887 - Adolf Schimon, composer, dies at 67
1893 - Leland Stanford, American business tycoon and founder of Stanford University
1900 - Polibo Fumagalli, composer, dies at 69
1908 - Nikolai A Rimski-Korssakov, Russian composer (Sheherazade), dies at 64
1913 - Stefan O Iosif, Romanian poet (Beautiful Irine), dies at 37
1914 - Glauco Velasquez, composer, dies at 30
1914 - Bertha von Suttner, Austrian writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1843)
1925 - Jan H Leopold, poet/classical (translated Omar Khayyam), dies at 60
1934 - [James] Thorne Smith, US, sci-fi author (Stray Lamb, Turnabout)
1940 - Edouard Vuillard, French painter/graphic artist, dies
1940 - Hendrik Marsman, Dutch poet/writer/critic, drowns at 40
1940 - W Hasenclever, writer, dies at 49
1940 - Smedley Butler, American Marine general (b. 1881)
1944 - Jan Bonekamp, Dutch resistance fighter/friend of Hannie Schaft, dies
1945 - Josef Hora, Czech writer/poet (Sinking Shadows), dies at 53
1946 - Heinrich Kaminski, composer, dies at 59
1951 - Charles Dillon Perrine, American astronomer (b. 1867)
1954 - Gideon Sundback, American inventor, perfected the zipper (b. 1880)
1957 - Don McBride, actor (Mr Clyde-My Friend Flicka), dies at 68
1957 - Frantisek Kupka, Czech writer, dies at 85
1964 - Andrew Goodman, US civil rights activist, murdered at 20
1964 - James Chaney, US civil rights activist, murdered at 21
1964 - Michael Schwerner, US civil rights activist, murder at 21
1965 - Bernard M Baruch, pres advisor (termed "Cold War"), dies at 94
1968 - Ruth St Denis, ballerina (Dances of the 5 Senses), dies at 91
1969 - Maureen "Little Mo" Connolly, 1st woman grand slam (1953), dies at 34
1970 - Achmed Sukarno, 1st president of Indonesia (1945-67), dies at 68
1972 - Seth Bingham, composer, dies at 90
1973 - Frank Leahy, football coach (Notre Dame), dies at 64
1975 - Heinz Lau, composer, dies at 49
1976 - Margaret Herrick, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences director (b. 1902)
1979 - Julian Orchard, actor (Perfect Friday, Bless this House), dies at 49
1979 - Angus Maclise, American mystic, shaman, musician, and composer (b. 1938)
1981 - Gunnar Ek, composer, dies on 81st birthday
1983 - Anton G J van de Velde, Flemish writer/director (Tijl), dies at 87
1985 - Tage Erlander, Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1901)
1986 - Assi Rahbani, Lebanese composer and author (b. 1923)
1987 - Madman Muntz, American entrepreneur, businessman, electrical engineer, TV commercial actor
           (b. 1914)
1988 - Robert Lee "Bobby" Dodd, US football coach
1989 - Lee Quencey Calhoun, hurdler (Olympic-gold-1956, 60), dies at 56
1989 - Simon van Collem, Dutch journalist/TV host, dies at 70
1992 - Li Xiannian, Chinese President (1983-88), dies
1992 - Thomas Whitfield, gospel vocalist, dies of heart attack at 38
1993 - Frank Moro, entertainer, dies
1993 - Jerry Strivelli, actor (Out for Justice, Lock Up), dies at 61
1993 - Ticho Parly, Danish tenor (b. 1928)
1994 - Mark Robert Isfeld, combat Engineer, dies at 31
1995 - Kenneth Henry Lowry Lamb, broadcaster, dies at 71
1995 - Tristan Jones, sailor, dies at 71
1997 - Art Prysock, jazz musician, dies at 68
1997 - Shintaro Katsu, Japanese entertainer (b. 1931)
1997 - Fidel Velázquez Sánchez, Mexican labour leader (b. 1900)
1998 - Al Campanis, American baseball executive (b. 1916)
1999 - Kami, Japanese drummer (Malice Mizer) (b. 1973)
2000 - Alan Hovhaness, American composer (b. 1911)
2001 - John Lee Hooker, American musician (b. 1916)
2001 - Carroll O'Connor, American actor (b. 1924)
2001 - Souad Hosni, Egyptian actress (b. 1942)
2003 - Roger Neilson, Canadian ice hockey coach (b. 1934)
2003 - Leon Uris, American writer (b. 1924)
2003 - Jason Moran, Australian criminal (b. 1967)
2004 - Leonel Brizola, Brazilian politician (b. 1922)
2005 - Jaime Cardinal Sin, Filipino Catholic Archbishop of Manila (b. 1928)
2007 - Bob Evans, American restaurateur (b. 1918)
2008 - Scott Kalitta, American drag racer (b. 1962)
2011 - Robert Kroetsch, Canadian author (b. 1927)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 22, 2013, 09:40:03 AM

This Day in History for 22nd June


Historical Events

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Astronomer & Physicist                   32nd US President Franklin Roosevelt        Singer-Songwriter Stevie Wonder
Galileo Galilei   

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Tennis Great John McEnroe                    Rock Vocalist Glenn Frey                    Last Emperor of Russia Nicholas II


217 BC - Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV of Egypt defeats Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid
              kingdom.
168 BC - Battle of Pydna: Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullus defeat and capture Macedonian King
              Perseus, ending the Third Macedonian War.
431 - Council of Ephesus (3rd ecumenical council) opens
816 - Pope Stephen IV, [V] elected to succeed Leo III
1342 - Bilbo Baggins returns to his home at Bag End, (Shire Reconning)
1377 - Richard II succeeds Edward III as king of England
1476 - Battle at Morat/Murten: Charles the Stout invades Switzerland
1497 - Antitax insurrection in Cornwall suppressed at Blackheath
1533 - Ferdinand of Austria & Sultan Suleiman sign peace treaty
1559 - Jewish quarter of Prague burned & looted
1593 - Battle of Sisak: Allied Christian troops defeat the Turks.
1596 - Cornelis de Houtmans fleet reaches Banten Java
1611 - Henry Hudson set adrift in Hudson Bay by mutineers on his ship Discovery & never seen
           again
1633 - Galileo Galilei forced to recant Earth orbits Sun by Pope (on Oct 31, 1992, Vatican admits it
           was wrong)
1675 - Royal Greenwich Observatory established in England by Charles II
1679 - Battle at Bothwell Bridge on Clyde: Duke of Monmouth beats Scottish
1740 - King Frederik II of Prussia ends torture & guarantees religion & freedom of the press
1745 - Bonnie Prince Charles sails to Scotland
1772 - Slavery outlawed in England
1774 - English parliament accepts Quebec Act
1775 - 1st Continental currency issued ($3,000,000)
1799 - England & Russia decide to invade Bataafse Republic
1807 - British board USS Chesapeake, a provocation leading to War of 1812
1808 - Zebulon Pike reaches his peak
1812 - Napoleon's Grand Army invades Russia
1814 - 1st match at the present Lord's, MCC v Herefordshire
1815 - 2nd abdication of Napoleon (after Waterloo)
1825 - British Parliament abolishes feudalism and the seigneurial system in British North America.
1832 - John Howe patents pin manufacturing machine
1844 - Influential North American fraternity Delta Kappa Epsilon is founded at Yale University.
1847 - Doughnut created
1848 - Barnburners (anti-slavery) party nominates Martin Van Buren for Pres
1848 - Beginning of the June Days Uprising in Paris.
1849 - Stephen C Massett opens concert at San Francisco courthouse using only piano in Calif
1851 - Fire destroys part of SF
1864 - Battle of Ream's Station, VA (Wilson's Raid)
1864 - Skirmish at Culp's (Kulp's) House, Georgia
1865 - 1st class cricket debut of Dr W G Grace
1868 - Arkansas re-enters US
1870 - 1st Boardwalk in America invented
1870 - Congress creates Department of Justice
1873 - Prince Edward Island joins Canada
1874 - Dr Andrew T Still, discovers the science of osteopathy
1874 - Game of lawn tennis introduced
1875 - Garonne Flood: great damage in Verdun & Toulouse, kills about 1,000
1889 - Louisville Colonels set ML baseball record with 26th consecutive loss
1893 - British fleet under vice-admiral George Tryon leaves Beirut
1906 - Hakon VII crowned king of Norway
1910 - 1st airship with passengers sets afloat-Zeppelin Deutscheland
1911 - King George V of England crowned
1915 - BMT, then Brooklyn Rapid Transit, begins subway service
1918 - 32nd US Womens Tennis: Molla Bjurstedt Mallory beats E E Goss (64 63)
1918 - Circus train rammed by troop train kills 68 (Ivanhoe Illinois)
1921 - Paavo Nurmi runs world record 10,000m (30:40.2)
1922 - Herrin massacre, 19 strikebreakers and 2 union miners are killed in Herrin, Illinois.
1925 - Spain & France fight Morocco
1926 - Cardinals pick up 39-year-old Grover Alexander on waivers from Cubs
1929 - Mel Ott (Giants) homers off Leo Sweetland (Phillies) in doubleheader
1930 - Lou Gehrig hits 3 HRs in a game, Ruth hits 3 in doubleheader
1931 - RVU, Radio-Volks-University, forms
1932 - NL, finally approves players wearing numbers
1933 - German social-democratic party (SPD) forbidden
1936 - Harry Froboess dives 110 m from airship into Bodensee & survives
1936 - Virgin Islands receives a constitution from US (Organic Act)
1937 - Joe Louis KOs James J Braddock in 18 for heavyweight boxing title
1938 - Joe Louis KOs Max Schmeling at 2:04 of 1st round at Yankee Stadium
1939 - Future Queen Elizabeth of England meets future husband Philip
1940 - France falls to Nazi Germany; armistice signed, France disarms
1940 - SS rounds up 31 German/Polish/Dutch Jews in Roermond Neth
1941 - Estonians starts armed resistance against Soviet occupation
1941 - Finland invades Karelia
1941 - Germany attacks the Soviet Union & occupies the Baltic states
1941 - Germany, Italy & Romania declares war on Soviet Union during WW II
1941 - Michael Gerasimov opens grave of Tamerlan "Lenk"
1941 - President Franklin Roosevelt signs "GI Bill of Rights"
1941 - The Lithuanian 1941 independence begins.
1941 - Various Communist and Socialist French Resistance movements merge to one group.
1942 - Japanese submarine in mouth of Columbia River, Oregon
1942 - Jewish Brigade attached by British Army in WW II, forms
1943 - WEB DuBois becomes 1st Black member of National Institute of Letters
1944 - British 14th army frees Imphal Assam
1944 - FDR signs "GI Bill of Rights" (Servicemen's Readjustment Act)
1944 - Longest shut out in Phillies history, Phils beat Braves 1-0 in 15 inn
1944 - Boston Brave Jim Tobin 2nd no-hitter of yr beats Phils, 7-0 in 5 inn
1944 - Opening day of the Soviet Union's Operation Bagration against Army Group Centre.
1946 - Alec Bedser takes 7-49 v India on 1st day of his 1st Test cricket
1946 - Bill Veeck purchases Cleveland Indians
1947 - 12" rain in 42 mins (Holt, MO)
1947 - Ewell Blackwell just misses pitching back-to-back no-hitters (9th inn)
1949 - Ezzard Charles beats Jersey Joe Walcott in 15 for hw boxing title
1951 - Gene Rayburn & Dee Finch show premieres on NBC radio
1954 - Congress passes revised organic act for Virgin Islands
1955 - Antonio Segni forms government in Italy
1955 - US air patrol plane shot down above Bering sea
1957 - KC stops using streetcars in it's transit system
1958 - Game in KC between A's & Red Sox delayed 29 minutes due to tornado
1958 - Patty Berg wins LPGA Western Golf Open
1959 - "Along Came Jones" by Coasters peaks at #9
1959 - "Class" by Chubby Checker peaks at #38
1959 - Eddie Lubanski bowls 2 consecutive perfect games
1959 - Most Phillies strike out in a game (16 by Sandy Koufax)
1959 - Shunryu Suzuki completes his historical Japan to SF voyage
1959 - Vanguard SLV-6 launched for Earth orbit (failed)
1961 - Moise Tsjombe freed from prison in Congo
1961 - Beatles record Aint She Sweet, Cry for a Shadow, When the Saints Go Marching In, Why,
           Nobody's Child & My Bonnie, in Hamburg
1962 - 1st test flight of Hoovercraft
1962 - French Boeing 707 crashes at Guadeloupe, 113 killed
1963 - "Little" Stevie Wonder (13) releases "Fingertips"
1965 - Freddie Trueman ends his Test cricket career, v NZ at Lord's
1966 - "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" opens
1968 - "Here Come Da Judge" by The Buena Vistas peaks at #88
1969 - Aretha Franklin arrested in Detroit for creating a disturbance
1969 - Cleveland's Cuyahgo River catches fire
1969 - Susie Berning wins LPGA Pabst Ladies' Golf Classic
1970 - Pres Nixon signs 26th amendment (voting age lowered to 18)
1970 - Supreme Court ruled juries of less than 12 are constitutional
1970 - WSWO TV channel 26 in Springfield, OH (ABC) suspends broadcasting
1972 - "Man of La Mancha" opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 140 performances
1973 - Dutch High Council stops fluorine addition to drink water
1973 - George Harrison releases "Living in the Material World"
1973 - Skylab 2's astronauts land
1975 - Betsy Cullen wins LPGA Hoosier Golf Classic
1976 - "Godspell" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 527 performances
1976 - SD Padre pitcher Randy Jones ties record of 68 innings without a walk
1977 - Former AG John Mitchell starts 19 months in Alabama prison
1977 - Walt Disney's "Rescuers" released
1978 - James Christy's discovery of Pluto's moon Charon announced
1978 - Neo-Nazis call off plans to march in Jewish community of Skokie, Ill
1978 - Pluto's satelite Charon, is discovered
1979 - Larry Holmes TKOs Mike Weaver in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1979 - Little Richard quits rock & roll for religious pursuit
1979 - Pro Football Researchers Association forms (Canton Ohio)
1980 - Jim King begins riding Miracle Strip Roller coaster 368 hours
1980 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
1981 - 2 Habash terrorists attack a travel agency in Greece killing 2
1981 - Iran president Bani Sadr deposed
1981 - John McEnroe exhibits a disgraceful act of misbehavior at Wimbledon
1981 - Mark David Chapman pleads guilty to killing John Lennon
1982 - Manhattan institutes bus-only lanes
1982 - Pete Rose gets his 3,772nd hit, moves past Aaron into 2nd place
1982 - Prince Charles & Lady Diana take Prince William home from hospital
1982 - Susan Lea Hammett, of Miss, 18, crowned 25th America's Junior Miss
1983 - "Monty Python's The Meaning of Life," released in France
1983 - 1st time a satellite is retrieved from orbit, by Space Shuttle
1983 - NHL institutes a 5 minute sudden death overtime period
1984 - Calvin Griffith signs letter of intent to sell ownership of Twins
1984 - Carl Pohlad becomes CEO of Minnesota Twins
1984 - Jolande van de Meer swims Dutch record 800 m freestyle (8:39.30)
1984 - Joseph Luns resigns as secretary-general of NATO
1985 - "Grind" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 79 performances
1985 - "Smuggler's Blues" by Glenn Frey peaks at #12
1986 - Judy Dickinson wins LPGA Rochester Golf International
1986 - Pirate Radio Euro Weekend (Holland) begins transmitting
1986 - Spain's premier Gonzalez' Socialist Party wins elections
1987 - Tom Seaver retires after 3rd try with NY Mets
1990 - Billy Joel performs a concert at Yankee Stadium
1990 - Braves replace manager Russ Nixon with GM Bobby Cox
1990 - Florida passes a law prohibits wearing a throng bathing suit
1990 - Longest game in Toronto, Yanks beat Blue Jays 8-7 in 15 inns
1991 - "I Hate Hamlet" closes at Walter Kerr Theater NYC after 88 perfs
1991 - Quebec Nordiques pick Eric Lindros #1 at NHL entry draft
1991 - Underwater volcano, Mount Didicas, erupts in Philippines
1992 - 2 skeletons excavated in Yekaterinburg IDed as Czar Nicholas II & wife
1992 - Supreme Court rules "hate crime" laws violated free-speech rights
1993 - NY Met Anthony Young ties record of 23rd straight lose
1993 - Wilson Pickett plead guilty to auto assault due to drunk driving
1994 - 48th NBA Championship: Houston Rockets beat NY Knicks, 4 games to 3
1994 - Ken Griffey Jr breaks Ruth's record for most HRs by end of June (31)
1994 - Mets reliever John Franco sets lefty save mark at 253
1994 - US beats Colombia 2-1 in 1994 soccer world cup (1st win since 1950)
1996 - 29th Curtis Cup: Great Britain & Ireland wins 11-6
1996 - Michael Moorer beats Axel Shultz in 11 for IBF heavyweight boxing title
1996 - Saurav Ganguly scores 131 at Lord's on Test cricket debut
1997 - Ernie Els wins golf's Buick Classic
1997 - Nationwide Senior Golf Championship
1997 - Penny Hammel wins LPGA Rochester International
1997 - World Bowl: Barcelona Dragon beat Rhein Fire, 38-24
2002 - An earthquake in western Iran measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale kills more than 261 people.
2009 - 2009 Washington Metro subway crash: Two Metro trains collide in Washington, D.C., USA,
           killing 9 and injuring over 80.
2012 - Two Baghdad market bombings kill 14 people and injure 106

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 22, 2013, 09:41:40 AM

This Day in History for 22nd June


Famous Weddings

1894 - Harry Houdini marries Bessie Rahner
1985 - "Dallas" actress Victoria Principal (35) weds plastic surgeon Harry Glassman (43) in Dallas
1996 - "Full House" actress Candace Cameron (20) weds Montreal Canadiens hockey player Valeri
           Bure (22) at the Church of the Valle in Van Nuys, California
2003 - Actor Adam Sandler (36) weds actress-model Jackie Titone (28) at Dick Clark's oceanfront in
           Malibu, California
2005 - "21 Jump Street" actress Holly Robinson Peete (40) weds former pro quarterback Rodney
           Peete (39) in an outdoor ceremony held at the Wynn Las Vegas resort
2008 - Record producer Timbaland (37) weds Monique Idlett (33) in Aruba
2011 - British actor best known as British secret agent "James Bond" Daniel Craig (43) weds film and
           theatre actress Rachel Weisz (41) at a private ceremony in New York

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 22, 2013, 09:46:41 AM

This Day in History for 22nd June


Famous Birthdays

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Actress Meryl Streep (1949)                    Author Dan Brown (1964)                    Actress Mary Lynn Rajskub (1971)


1478 - Philips de Schone, Archduke of Austrian/King of Castilia (Philips I)
1611 - Pablo Bruna, composer
1613 - Lambert Pietkin, composer
1674 - Eugene J P, Earl of Merode, Belgian marquis of Westerloo
1680 - Ebenezer Erskine, Scottish religious dissenter (d. 1754)
1684 - Francesco Onofrio Manfredini, composer
1701 - Nikolaj Eigtved, Danish architect (Christiansborg Castle)
1704 - John Taylor, English classical scholar (d. 1766)
1713 - Lord John Philip Sackville, English cricketer (d. 1765)
1738 - Jacques Delille, French poet and translator (d. 1813)
1741 - Alois Luigi Tomasini, composer
1742 - Heinrich Gottfried Reichard, composer
1757 - George Vancouver, surveyed Pacific coast from SF to Vancouver I
1767 - Wilhelm von Humboldt, German philosopher and statesman (d. 1835)
1796 - Nikoli A Poveloi, Russian writer/publisher (Sotsjinenija) [OS]
1805 - Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian revolutionary (Il Apostolato Popolare)
1814 - James Henry Lane, MC (Union), died in 1866 [or Jul 28 1833]
1824 - Frederic Louis Ritter, composer
1830 - Theodor Leschetizky, composer
1837 - Paul Morphy, New Orleans, greatest chess player of all time (1857-61)
1840 - Ernest Debes, German cartographer (Baedeker)
1845 - Tom Dula, American folk character (Tom Dooley) (d. 1868)
1855 - Sam Morris, Hobart, cricketer (Barbados parents only black Aus player)
1856 - Henry Rider Haggard, author (King Solomon's Mine, She, Dawn)
1859 - Frank Heino Damrosch, author/musician/teacher (found Inst of Music)
1861 - Maximilian von Spee, German admiral (d. 1914)
1864 - Hermann Minkowski, German mathematician
1869 - Hendrikus Colijn, Dutch premier (AR 1933-39)
1871 - William McDougall, British psychologist and polymath (d. 1938)
1876 - Gwen (Gwendolen) John, Haverfordwest, Wales, Welsh painter
1879 - Thibaudeau Rinfret, jurist and Chief Justice of Canada (d. 1962)
1883 - Jose Rolon, composer
1884 - James Rector, American athlete (d. 1949)
1885 - Milan Vidmar, Slovenian engineer and chess player (d. 1962)
1887 - Albert PAA Besnard, Dutch poet/journalist (Uprising & Remorse)
1887 - Julian S Huxley, London, biologist/philosopher, Darwin's Bulldog
1888 - Harold Burton, U.S. Supreme Court justice (d. 1964)
1891 - Franz de Backer, Flemish writer (White Enemy)
1891 - Harry Seymour, NY, actor (Boy Meets Girl, Tenderfoot)
1892 - Robert Ritter von Greim, German field marshal (d. 1945)
1893 - Osvald Chlubna, composer
1896 - Francis C Denebrink, US Naval officer (WW I, WW II, Korea)
1897 - Norbert Elias, English/Dutch philosopher (Process of Civilization)
1897 - Edmund A. Chester, American broadcaster and journalist (d. 1973)
1898 - Erich Maria Remarque, German novelist (All Quiet on the Western Front)
1899 - Dorothy Devore, Fort Worth TX, actress (Narrow Street, Senior Daredevil)
1899 - Michal Kalecki, Polish economist
1900 - Jennie Tourel, St Petersburg Russia, mezzo-soprano (Met Opera 1943-47)
1901 - Jack Whiting, Phila Pa, actor/singer (Marge & Gower Champion Show)
1901 - Naunton Wayne, Wales, actor (Quartet, Hidden Room, Double Confession)
1902 - Arnold J d'Ailly, dir (Nederlandsche Bank)/mayor (Amsterdam, 1946-56)
1902 - David Burns, actor (Music Man, Hello Dolly!)
1902 - Marguerite De La Motte, American actress (d. 1950)
1903 - Carl Hubbell, pitcher (NY Giants)-253 wins, 2.97 lifetime ERA
1905 - Walter Leigh, composer
1906 - Anne Morrow Lindbergh, author/aviator, Charles' wife
1906 - Billy Wilder, Vienna, dir (Some Like It Hot, Apartment, Stalag 17)
1906 - Richard Fanshawe, England, equestion 3 day event (Olympic-bronze-1936)
1907 - Anne Morrow Lindbergh, aviator/author (Gift from the Sea)
1907 - Mike Todd, American film producer (d. 1958)
1908 - George Armin Goyder, businessman/social philosopher
1909 - Katherine Dunham, dancer/choreographer (Casbah, Stormy Weather)
1909 - Mike Todd, [Avrom Goldbogen], US director (80 days)
1910 - Peter Pears, Farnham England, tenor (Death in Venice)
1911 - Guus Jansen, jazz pianist (Net als Toen)
1911 - Marie Philipsen-Braun, swimmer (Olympic-gold-1928)
1912 - Vit Nejedly, composer
1912 - Princess Caroline Mathilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1983)
1913 - Wladyslaw Sila-Nowicki, Poland, lawyer (Solidarity)
1914 - Lilo Hardel, writer
1916 - Johnny Jacobs, American television announcer (d. 1982)
1918 - Richard Eastham, Opelousas LA, actor (Not With My Wife) [or Jan 22]
1920 - Chandrasekhar Sarwate, cricketer (batted in 9 Tests for India 1946-52)
1920 - Gladys Marea Hartman, athletics Administrator
1920 - Paul Frees, Chicago Ill, animation voice (Bullwinkle)
1921 - Barbara F Vucanovich, (Rep-R-NV, 1983- )
1921 - Gower Champion, choreographer (42nd Street, Showboat)
1921 - Joseph Papp, Bkln, stage producer/director (Pirates of Penzance)
1922 - Bill Blass, Ft Wayne Ind, fashion designer (Nancy Reagan)
1923 - Jimmy Cameron, cricketer (brother of John WI batsman 1948-49)
1926 - Ruth Zechlin, composer
1927 - Ann Petersen, Belgian actress (d. 2003)
1928 - Ralph Waite, White Plains, New York, American actor and director (Cool Hand Luke, The
           Waltons)
1931 - Henk Vonhoff, Dutch politician (VVD)
1931 - Hennadiy Udovenko, Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, politician and diplomat (UN General Assembly
           President, 1997-8), (d. 2013)
1932 - Michael Horvit, composer
1932 - Amrish Puri, Indian actor (d. 2005)
1932 - Prunella Scales, English actress
1933 - Dianne Feinstein, 1st female mayor of SF/(Sen-D-Ca)
1933 - Jacques Martin, French TV host (d. 2007)
1933 - Libor Pešek, Czech conductor
1934 - Arthur Miller, legal reporter
1935 - V V Kumar, cricketer (useful Madras leggie who only played 2 Tests)
1936 - Kris Kristofferson, Brownsville TX, singer/actor (Amerika, Millenium)
1936 - Verne Allison, singer (Dells-Open Up My Heart)
1936 - Hermeto Pascoal, Brazilian musician
1938 - Andrew Brown, film Producer
1939 - Don Matthews, American football coach in the CFL
1940 - Abbas Kiarostami, author/director (Under the Olive Trees, Close Up)
1940 - Esther Rantzen, British TV presenter
1941 - Ed Bradley, Phila, CBS news correspondent (60 Minutes)
1941 - Michael Lerner, Brooklyn NY, actor (8 Men Out, Harlem Nights)
1941 - Ed Bradley, American journalist (d. 2006)
1942 - Margreet M H Kamp, Dutch MP (VVD)
1942 - Toyohiro Akiyama, Japan, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-11)
1943 - Jimmy Castor, NYC, rocker/sax (Troglodyte, Jimmy Castor Bunch)
1943 - Eumir Deodato, Brazilian artist, producer and arranger
1944 - Klaus Maria Brandauer, Austria, actor (Mephisto, Out of Africa)
1944 - Michael Obst, German FR, coxsman (Olympic-gold-1960)
1944 - Peter Asher, London, singer (Peter & Gordon-World Without Love)
1944 - Steve Weber, guitarist, (Rounders-Holy "Boobs" Modal)
1945 - Howard Kaylan, rocker (Flo & Eddie/Turtles-Happy Together, Eleanor)
1946 - Andrew Rubin, New Bedford Mass, actor (Police Academy) [or Jan 22]
1946 - Eliades Ochoa, Cuban guitarist (Buena Vista Social Club)
1947 - David L Lander, Bkln NY, actor (Squiggy-Laverne & Shirley)
1947 - Don Henley, drummer/singer (Eagles, Boys of Summer)
1947 - Murray Webb, cricketer (NZ fast bowler in 3 Tests, 4 wkts at 117 75)
1947 - Octavia E[stelle] Butler, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Wild Seed)
1947 - Jerry Rawlings, former President of Ghana
1947 - Howard Kaylan, founding member of The Turtles
1948 - "Pistol" Pete Maravich, NBA star (Atlanta Hawks)
1948 - Nolan Clarke, cricketer (Barbados bat 1970-77, later Holland stalwart)
1948 - Sue Roberts, LPGA golfer
1948 - Todd Rundgren, Upper Darby PA, singer/guitarist (Hello it's Me)
1949 - Alan Osmond, Ogden Utah, singer (Osmond Brothers, Donnie & Marie)
1949 - Gary Moffet, Montreal, rock guitarist (April Wine)
1949 - Larry Junstrom, rock bassist (.38 Special)
1949 - Lindsay Wagner, LA Ca, actress (Bionic Woman, Paper Chase, Nighthawks)
1949 - Meryl Streep, New Jersey, American actress (French Lieutenant's Woman, Sophie's Choice)
1950 - Murphy Cross, Harve de Grace Md, actor (Phyl & Mikhy, Perfect)
1952 - Graham Greene, Canadian actor
1953 - Cyndi Lauper, American singer (Girls Just want to have Fun, Time after Time)
1953 - Bruce McAvaney, Australian sports broadcaster
1954 - Amparo Munoz, Malgra Spain, Miss Universe (1974)
1954 - Bobby Valentino, rocker (Fabulous Poodles)
1954 - Charles T Canady, (Rep-R-Florida)
1954 - Chris Lemmon, actor (Brothers & Sisters, Richard-Duet) [or Jan 22]
1954 - Freddie Prinze, NYC, comedian/actor (Chico & the Man)
1955 - LeAnn Cassaday, LPGA golfer
1956 - Derek Forbes, rocker (Simple Minds-Water Front)
1956 - Green [Gartside], rock vocalist (Scritti Politti-Flesh & Blood)
1956 - Tim Russ, Wash DC, actor (Tuvoc-Star Trek Voyager)
1956 - Alfons De Wolf, Belgian cyclist
1956 - Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Pakistani Politician and Foreign Minister
1957 - Garry Beers, Sydney Australia, rocker (Inxs-Kiss the Dirt)
1957 - John Ryder, rock bassist (Face To Face)
1957 - Nick Santagata, jockey
1958 - Bruce Campbell, Birmingham, Michigan, American actor/producer/director (Army of Darkness,
           Evil Dead II)
1959 - Wayne Federman, American comedian
1959 - Nicola Sirkis, French singer and lyricist (Indochine)
1960 - Colleen Devine, San Gabriel Cal, actress (Irreconcilable Differences)
1960 - Tracy Pollan, NYC, actress (Family Ties)/aka Mrs Michael J Fox
1960 - Erin Brockovich-Ellis
1961 - Bobby Gillespie, rocker (Primal Scream)
1961 - Jimmy Somerville, Glasgow Soctland, rocker (Bronski Beat, Communards)
1961 - Stephen Batchelor
1962 - Clyde "Glide" Drexler, NBA Guard (Houston Rockets, Port Trailblazers)
1962 - Ruby Turner, rocker (No Where to Run)
1963 - Anne-Marie Ruddock, rocker (Amazulu-Excitable)
1963 - Randy Couture, Everett Wash, 198 lbs greco-roman wrestler (Olymp-96)
1963 - John Tenta, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 2006)
1964 - Amy Brenneman, New London Ct, actress (Janice-NYPD Blue)
1964 - Greg Anderson, NBA forward/center (San Antonio Spurs, Atlanta Hawks)
1964 - Kevin Sargeant, rocker (Thrashing Doves-Reprobate's Hymm)
1964 - Mark Royals, NFL punter (New Orleans Saints, Detroit Lions)
1964 - Mike Edwards, British rock vocalist (Jesus Jones-Devil you Know)
1964 - Nico Jalink, Dutch soccer player (Sparta, NAC)
1964 - Tommy Cunningham, rocker (Wet Wet Wet-Wishing I Was)
1964 - Dan Brown, Exeter, New Hampshire, American author of thriller fiction (The Da Vinci Code)
1965 - Ľubomír Moravčík, Slovakian footballer
1965 - Uwe Boll, German film director
1966 - Camille Benjamin, Cleveland Ohio, tennis star
1966 - Euan Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe, English baron/multi-millionaire
1966 - Meyrick Pringle, cricket pace bowler (South African)
1966 - Paul Randolph, CFL linebacker (Montreal Alouettes)
1967 - Al Carlay, Manila Philippines, US fencer-foil (Olympics-96)
1967 - Eric Green, NFL tight end (Miami Dolphins, Baltimore Ravens)
1967 - Mark van Hintum, soccer player (Willem II)
1968 - Darrell Armstrong, NBA guard (Orlando Magic)
1968 - Paula Irvine, Hollywood California, actress (Lily Blake-Santa Barbara)
1969 - Derek Russell, NFL wide receiver (Houston/Tennessee Oilers)
1970 - Anne "Annie" Summertime Kakela, US rower (Olympics-4th-96)
1970 - David Frisch, NFL tight end (NE Patriots)
1970 - Rastko Cvetkovic, NBA center (Denver Nuggets)
1970 - Steven Page, Canadian singer (Barenaked Ladies)
1970 - Michel Elefteriades, Greek-Lebanese politician, artist, producer and businessman
1971 - Brant Brown, Porterville CA, infielder (Chicago Cubs)
1971 - Laryssa Biesenthal, Walkertown Ontario, rower (Olympics-96)
1971 - Mary Lynn Rajskub, Trenton, Michigan, American actress (Chloe O'Brian-24)
1971 - Kurt Warner, American football player
1973 - Benjamin Fairbrother, CFL offensive tackle (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1973 - Cory Alexander, NBA guard (San Antonio Spurs)
1973 - Lacy Goranson, Evanston Ind, actress (Becky-Roseanne)
1973 - Carson Daly, American television personality
1974 - Mark Wetges, Walnut Creek California, field hockey midfielder (Olympics-96)
1974 - Nicole Juvan, Essex Junction Vermont, Miss America-Vermont (1997)
1974 - Donald Faison, American actor
1974 - Joseph Vijay, Indian actor
1975 - Andreas Klöden, German professional road bicycle racer
1975 - Laila Rouass, Moroccan-Indian actress
1976 - Gordon Moakes, English musician (Bloc Party)
1978 - Jai Rodriguez, American TV personality
1978 - Champ Bailey, American football player
1978 - Dan Wheldon, British race car driver
1979 - Joey Cheek, American speed skater
1979 - Thomas Voeckler, French road bicycle racer
1979 - Brad Hawpe, American baseball player
1981 - Lisa Moro, Victoria Australia, gymnast (Olympics-96)
1981 - Chris Urbanowicz, guitarist of British rock band Editors
1982 - Soraia Chaves, Portuguese actress and model
1982 - Ian Kinsler, American baseball player
1984 - Jerome Taylor, West Indies international cricketer
1984 - Janko Tipsarević, Serbian tennis player
1985 - Rosa Kato, Italian-Japanese model and actress
1985 - Sofoklis Schortsanitis, Greek-Cameroonian basketball player
1986 - Ramin Ott, American Samoan football player
1988 - Kieran Lee, English football player

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 22, 2013, 09:48:42 AM

This Day in History for 22nd June


Famous Deaths

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Actress Judy Garland (1969)


1276 - Innocent V, [Pierre the Tarantaise], Pope (1276), dies at about 36
1429 - Ghiyath al-Kashi, Persian astronomer and mathematician (b. 1380)
1535 - John Fisher, English bishop (1504-35)/cardinal, beheaded at about 65
1632 - James Whitelocke, English judge (b. 1570)
1634 - Johann von Aldringen, Austrian field marshal (b. 1588)
1699 - Josiah Child, English Governor of the East India Company (b. 1630)
1714 - Matthew Henry, English non-conformist minister (b. 1662)
1735 - Pirro Conte d' Albergati Capacelli, composer, dies at 71
1741 - Joseph-Hector Fiocco, composer, dies at 38
1745 - Hubert Renotte, composer, dies at 41
1754 - Nicholas Siret, composer, dies at 91
1777 - Josef Christian, German sculptor, dies at 71
1803 - Wilhelm Heinse, writer, dies
1843 - Gabriele Prota, composer, dies at 88
1868 - Heber C. Kimball, American religious leader (b. 1801)
1874 - Howard Staunton, world chess champion, designer of chess pieces, dies
1885 - Mahdi, [Muhammad Ahmed], Sudanese music reviewer, dies
1892 - Pierre Ossian Bonnet, French mathematician (b. 1819)
1894 - Alexandre-Antonin Taché, Canadian archbishop (b. 1823)
1897 - Ralph Abercromby, British meteorologist, dies at about 54
1898 - Anton Kerner Ritter von Marilaun, Austria botanist, dies at 66
1903 - George White, black resident of Delaware, lynched
1905 - Francis Lubbock, Governor of Texas (b. 1815)
1906 - Fritz Schaudinn, German animal scholar: examined amoebasis, dies at 34
1909 - Detlev [Freiherr Friedrich A von] Liliencron, German poet, dies at 65
1910 - Marie, Princess of Wied/Orange Nassau, dies
1922 - Henry H Wilson, Field Marshal, murdered in London
1925 - Felix Klein, German mathematician (b. 1849)
1926 - Hermann Suter, composer, dies at 56
1928 - George Siegmann, actor (Birth of Nation, Queen of Sheba), dies at 46
1928 - A. B. Frost, American illustrator (b. 1851)
1930 - Karl von Amira, German historian, dies at 82
1931 - Armand Fallières, French president (b. 1841)
1932 - Tommy Treichel, American professional wrestler (b. 1892)
1933 - Henry Birkin, British racing driver (b. 1896)
1935 - Szymon Askenazy, Polish historian, diplomat and politician (b. 1866)
1936 - Moritz Schlick, Austrian philosopher (b. 1882)
1938 - C.J. Dennis, Australian writer and poet (b. 1876)
1940 - M A Noble, cricketer (giant of NSW/Australian cricket), dies
1945 - Isamu Tsjo, Japanese chief-staff 32nd Army, commits harakiri
1945 - Mitsuri Ushijima, Jap lt-gen/commandant 32nd Army, commits harakiri
1950 - Julio Fonseca, composer, dies at 65
1954 - Don Hollenbeck, newscaster (CBS Weekend News), dies at 49
1955 - Sadashiv Garpatrao Shinde, cricketer (7 Tests for India), dies at 31
1955 - Wyllis Cooper, TV narrator (Volume One), dies at 56
1959 - Hermann Brill, German politician (b. 1895)
1961 - Betty Elder, actress (Annie Get Your Gun), dies
1961 - Maria of Romania, Queen Consort of Yugoslavia (b. 1900)
1963 - Maria Tănase, Romanian singer of traditional and popular music (b. 1913)
1964 - Havank, [HF van der Kallen], detective writer (Shade), dies at 60
1965 - Adriaan F Dussenbroek, Dutch doctor/co-founder (UNA), dies at 72
1965 - David O Selznick, producer (Gone With the Wind), dies at 63
1966 - Roger Blunt, cricketer (9 Tests for NZ, 330 runs, 12 wickets), dies
1967 - Adrian Grigor'yevich Shaposhnikov, composer, dies at 79
1969 - Judy Garland, actress (Wizard of Oz, Easter Parade), dies at 47 of an overdose
1973 - Jacques Leon Wolfe, composer, dies at 77
1974 - Horace Lindrum, Australian snooker and billiards player (b. 1912)
1974 - Darius Milhaud, French composer (b. 1892)
1977 - Peter Laughner, American singer, songwriter and guitarist (Rocket From the Tombs, Pere
           Ubu) (b. 1952)
1979 - Emory Parnell, St Paul Minn, actor (Life of Riley), dies at 85
1979 - Julius Sommer, dies of heart failure, buried in Dayton Ohio
1979 - Louis Chiron, Monaco race car driver (b. 1899)
1981 - Lola Lane, actress (Zanzibar, Mystery Ship, Big Fight), dies
1982 - Alan Webb, actor (King Lear, Challenge to Lassie), dies at 75
1984 - Joseph Losey, director (Go-Between, M, Concrete Jungle), dies at 75
1987 - Fred Astaire, actor/dancer (Royal Wedding, Let's Dance), dies at 88
1988 - Bramwell Fletcher, actor (Mummy, Raffles, Svengali), dies at 84
1988 - Dennis Day, actor/tenor (Jack Benny Show), dies of ALS at 71
1988 - Ross Ford, actor (Reform School Girl, Jungle Patrol), dies
1989 - Bengt Viktor Johansson, composer, dies at 74
1989 - Lee Calhoun, hurdler (Olympics-gold-56, 60), dies at 66
1989 - Lucien Saulnier, Canadian politician (b. 1916)
1991 - Cameron Miller, actor (Portrait of Claire), dies at 82
1991 - Kevin O'Connor, actor (Bogie), dies of cancer at 56
1992 - Chuck Mitchell, actor (Penitentiary), dies
1992 - Frederic I Rinaldo, writer (Abbott & Costello meet Frankenstein), dies
1992 - M F K Fisher, cook book author, dies of Parkinson Disease at 83
1993 - Hannah Troy, fashion designer (petite), dies of heart attack at 93
1993 - M'hammed Boukhozba, Algerian sociologist, murdered at 52
1993 - Pat Nixon, 1st lady (1969-75), dies of lung cancer at 81
1994 - Jack Davies, screenwriter, dies at 80
1995 - Georges Yves Marie Congar, Dominican theologian cardinal, dies at 91
1996 - James Leander "Leo" Nichols, honorary consul, dies at 65
1996 - Ray Lindwall, cricketer (228 wkts 61 Tests for Australia), dies at 74
1996 - Salah Abou Seif, film director, dies at 81
1996 - Tertius Metcalf, businessman, dies at 63
1997 - Ted Gärdestad, Swedish singer (b. 1956)
1997 - Don Henderson, English actor (b. 1932)
2002 - Ann Landers, American columnist (b. 1918)
2002 - Darryl Kile, American baseball player (b. 1968)
2004 - Mattie Stepanek, American poet (b. 1990)
2004 - Bob Bemer, American computer scientist (b. 1920)
2004 - Kim Sun-il, South Korean translator (b. 1970)
2006 - Moose (dog actor), dog actor popular for role on Frasier (b. 1990)
2007 - Nancy Benoit, former professional wrestling valet(b. 1964)
2007 - Erik Parlevliet, Dutch field hockey player (b. 1964)
2007 - Bernhard "Bernd" Becher, German artist, worked collaboratively with Hilla Becher his wife, dies
           aged 75
2008 - George Carlin, American comedian, actor (b. 1937)
2008 - Dody Goodman, American comedienne (b. 1914)
2008 - Jane McGrath, British-born Australian cancer support campaigner (b. 1966)
2011 - Harley Hotchkiss, Canadian businessman (b. 1927)
2012 - Fernie Flaman [Ferdinand], Canadian Hall of Fame NHL player, dies at 85

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 23, 2013, 08:54:19 AM

This Day in History for 23rd June


Historical Events

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Empress of Russia                                 Abolitionist Frederick Douglass                 Singer-Rocket Scientist
Catherine the Great                                                                                                Werner von Braun

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Novelist Thomas Mann                            Hall of Fame MLB shortstop                 Animator Walter Elias Disney
                                                                Ernie Banks

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Rocker Alice Cooper                                 Comedian David Letterman                    Singer-Songwriter Bob Dylan


930 - World's oldest parliament, the Iceland Parliament, established
1295 - Pope Boniface VIII enters Rome
1298 - Duke Albrecht von Habsburg chosen Roman Catholic German king
1305 - French-Flemish peace treaty signed at Athis-sur-Orge
1532 - Henry VIII & Francois I signs secret treaty against emperor Karel V
1565 - Turgut Reis (Dragut), commander of the Ottoman Navy, dies during the Siege of Malta.
1585 - Spanish army under Tassis beats Amerongen Staatse troops
1658 - Dutch troops occupy last Portugese Fort Jafnapatnam Ceylon
1661 - Marriage contract for Charles II of England & Catharina of Portugal
1683 - William Penn signs friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape indians in Pennsylvania; only treaty
           "not sworn to, nor broken"
1713 - The French residents of Acadia are given one year to declare allegiance to Britain or leave
           Nova Scotia, Canada.
1724 - Russia & Turkey sign Treaty of Constantinople
1757 - Robert Clive defeats Indians at Plassey, wins control of Bengal
1758 - Seven Years' War: Battle of Krefeld - British forces defeat French troops at Krefeld in
           Germany.
1760 - Battle of Landshut Silesia: Austria beats Prussia
1775 - 1st regatta held on Thames, England
1776 - Final draft of Declaration of Independence submitted to US Congress
1780 - American Revolution: Battle of Springfield fought in and around Springfield, New Jersey
           (including Short Hills, formerly of Springfield, now of Millburn Township.
1784 - 1st US balloon flight (13 year old Edward Warren)
1794 - Empress Catherine II grants Jews permission to settle in Kiev
1810 - John Jacob Astor organizes Pacific Fur Co (Astoria, Oregon)
1821 - Dutch troops conquer Palembang
1848 - Bloody insurrection of workers in Paris
1854 - Antwerp-Roosendaal railway goes into use
1860 - Congress establishes Government Printing Office
1863 - Tullahoma campaign, TN
1865 - At Ft Towson, Gen Stand Watie surrenders last sizeable confed army
1868 - Christopher Latham Sholes patents "Type-writer"
1888 - Frederick Douglass is 1st African-American nominated for president
1894 - The International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne, Paris, at the initiative of
           Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
1902 - Gioacchino Rossini's unveils monument to Santa-Croce
1909 - Confessional parties win Dutch parliamentary elections
1915 - Yanks get record 16 walks & 3 wild pitches beat A's Bruno Hass, 15-0
1915 - Zeb Turner, country-rock performer (Chew Tobacco Rag)
1917 - 31st US Womens Tennis: Molla Mallory beat Marion Vanderhoef (46 60 62)
1917 - Ammunition factory in Boleweg Bohemia explodes, killing 1,000
1917 - Ernie Shore replaces Red Sox pitcher Babe Ruth with a runner on, he throws him out &
           retires all 26 he faces for a perfect game
1918 - Boston Red Sox Dutch Leonard's 2nd no-hitter beats Tigers, 5-0
1919 - Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) incorporates
1919 - Nitti government forms in Italy
1922 - 57th British Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 300 at Royal St George
1924 - 8 month Twenste textile strike ends
1925 - British warship fires on Hong Kong harbor strikers
1925 - Landslides create 3-mile long "Slide Lake" (Gros Ventre Wyoming)
1926 - 8th government of Briand van France forms
1926 - Commencement of the West Indies' 1st Test cricket match, at Lord's
1926 - The College Board administers the first SAT exam.
1927 - Lou Gehrig hits 3 HRs in 11-4 victory over Red Sox
1930 - Chicago Cubs beat Philadelphia Phillies 21-8
1931 - Wiley Post & Harold Catty took off for flight around world
1932 - Lou Gehrig plays 1,103rd successive game in a NY uniform, equaling Joe Sewell's record with
           one team (Cleveland)
1933 - Don McNeill's Pepper Pot (Breakfast Club) begins 35½ year run on NBC
1935 - Anthony Eden offers Benito Mussolini, Somalian harbor
1938 - Civil Aeronautics Authority (US) established
1938 - Marineland opens in Florida-1st aquarium
1938 - NYC Mayor LaGuardia assigns 21 cops to patrol subway
1939 - Bronko Nagurski beats Lou Thesz in Houston, to become wrestling champ
1939 - France turns over Sanjak of Alexandretta (Hatay) to Turkey
1940 - Marcel Louette seeks opposition group "White Brigade" on Antwerp
1940 - RAF bombs Schiphol
1941 - Germany occupies Telz Lithuana
1942 - World War II: Germany's latest fighter, a Focke-Wulf FW190 is captured intact when it
           mistakenly lands at RAF Pembrey in Wales.
1943 - Dutch artsens protest against nazis
1943 - RAF discovers Werner von Brauns V1/V2-base in Peenemunde
1944 - 4 tornadoes strike Appalachia, killing 153
1944 - Russian offensive in central front sector
1944 - Thomas Mann becomes a US citizen
1945 - 77th Belmont: Eddie Arcaro aboard Pavot wins in 2:30.2
1945 - Last organized Japanese defiance broken (Tarakan)
1947 - Compton & Bill Edrich make 370 stand for 3rd wkt v South Africa
1947 - Truman's veto of Taft-Hartley Act overridden by congress
1949 - 1st 12 women graduate from Harvard Medical School
1949 - Dutch Constellation plunge at Bari in sea, 33 die
1950 - Swiss parliament refuses voting right for women
1950 - Yanks & Tigers hit record 11 HRs, Tigers win 10-9
1950 - Indians' Luke Easter hits longest ball in Cleveland Stadium history, 477 feet, into upper deck,
           Section 4
1951 - British diplomats Guy Burgess & Donald Maclean flee to USSR
1951 - Most expensive US hailstorm ($1.5M crop damage & $14M property-Kansas)
1952 - US airplanes bomb energy centers at Yalu Korea
1953 - Patty Berg wins LPGA All-American Women Golf Tournament
1954 - 122°F (50°C), Overton, Nevada (state record until June 29, 1994)
1955 - Walt Disney's "Lady & the Tramp" released
1956 - "Jimmy Durante Show," last airs on NBC-TV
1956 - "Transfusion" by Nervous Norvous peaks at #8
1956 - Gamal Abdel Nasser elected president of Egypt
1958 - Dutch Reformed Church accepts women ministers
1958 - Fed judge rules race separation must end in 2½ years in Little Rock
1958 - Foundation Praemium Erasmianum (Erasmus Prize) established
1959 - Convicted Manhattan Project spy Klaus Fuchs is released after only nine years in prison and
           allowed to emigrate to Dresden, East Germany (where he resumed a scientific career).
1959 - A fire in a resort hotel in Stalheim, Norway kills 34 people.
1960 - "Pat Boone Show," last airs on ABC-TV
1960 - Japan signs security treaty with the US
1961 - Antarctic Treaty goes into effect
1961 - Cubs Ernie Banks ends his 717 consecutive-games-played streak
1961 - Phillies overcome 9-0, losing 11-2 they score 4 in 8th & 6 in 9th
1961 - USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 32,830 m
1962 - "Subways Are after Sleeping" closes at St James NYC after 205 perfs
1962 - Laos Suvanna Phuma forms government
1962 - Larry Doby, retires from Cleve Indians to play in Japan
1963 - 63rd US Golf Open: Julius Boros shoots a 293 at The Country Club Mass
1963 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open
1963 - NY Mets Jimmy Piersall, hits his 100th HR, he circles bases backwards
1963 - Pres Kennedy tours West-Europe
1964 - Gen Maxwell Taylor appointed US ambassador in South Vietnam
1967 - Jim Ryun sets mile record (3:51.1, Bakersfield CA)
1967 - LBJ & Alexei Kosygin hold 1st of 2 summit meetings in Glassboro, NJ
1967 - US Senate censures Thomas J Dodd (D-Ct) for misusing campaign funds
1968 - 74 are killed and 150 injured in a football stampede towards a closed exit in a Buenos Aires
           stadium.
1969 - French government of Couve de Murville resigns
1969 - Joe Frazier TKOs Jerry Quarry in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
1969 - Warren E Burger sworn in as Supreme Court Chief Justice
1970 - "Red Skelton Show," last airs on CBS-TV, moved to NBC-TV
1970 - Charles Rangel defeats Adam Clayton Powell in Democratic primary
1970 - Rocker Chubby Checker arrested for marijuana possession
1971 - Phillies Rick Wise no-hits Cincinnati Reds, 4-0
1971 - WTVP TV channel 47 in Peoria, IL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1972 - Hurricane Agnes is costliest natural disaster in American history
1972 - Nixon & Haldeman agree to use CIA to cover up Watergate
1972 - Pres Nixon signs act barring sex discrimination in college sports
1972 - 45 countries leave the Sterling Area, allowing their currencies to fluctuate independently of the
           British Pound.
1973 - "Cyrano" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 49 performances
1973 - "Sugar" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 506 performances
1973 - Phillies Ken Brett 4th consecutive game HR in which he pitched
1974 - 1st extraterrestrial message sent from Earth into space
1974 - 20th LPGA Championship won by Sandra Haynie
1975 - 75th US Golf Open: Lou Graham shoots a 287 at Medinah CC ILL
1975 - Rocker Alice Cooper falls off stage in Vancouver, breaks 6 ribs
1976 - CCN Tower in Toronto, tallest free-standing structure (555 m) opens
1977 - 13th Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 6-4
1978 - 33rd US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Hollis Stacy
1979 - Charlie Daniels Band releases "Devil Went Down to Georgia"
1979 - Rock group, the Knack releases "My Sharona"
1979 - West Indies beat England by 92 runs to win Cricket World Cup
1980 - "David Letterman Show," debuts on NBC-TV daytime
1980 - 1st solar-powered coast-to-coast two-way radio conversation
1980 - West German wins European soccer title (2-1 against Belgium)
1981 - "This Was Burlesque" opens at Princess Theater NYC for 28 performances
1981 - 33 inning game ends, Pawtucket 3, Rochester 2
1981 - Amanda Maccaro becomes 1st American to win Russian Ballet Competition
1981 - French government of Mauroy forms, with 4 communists
1981 - NYC mayor Koch turns down a $7,500 offer to perform comedy
1981 - Dave Koza scores Marty Barrett with bases-loaded single in bottom of 33rd inning, Pawtucket
           beats Rochester 3-2
1982 - "Cleavage" opens & closes at Playhouse Theater NYC
1982 - -117°F; All time low at South Pole
1982 - Himmy, of Australia, weighs in at domestic cat record 20.7 kg (45 lb)
1982 - Intelligence Identities Protection Act (Public Law 97-200)
1982 - Mary Hart joins Entertainment Tonight
1983 - Syria throws out PLO leader Arafat
1983 - US Supreme Court ruled Congress could not veto presidential decisions
1985 - Alice Miller wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
1985 - Bomb destroys Air India Boeing 747 in air near Ireland, 329 die
1985 - Laffit Pincay Jr becomes 2nd jockey to win $100 million
1986 - Pedro Morales swims world record 100m butterfly (52.84)
1986 - Tip O'Neill refuses to let Reagan address House
1988 - Charlotte Hornets & Miami Heat begin their NBA expansion draft
1988 - Yank manager Billy Martin's 5th term ends, Lou Pinella named manager
1989 - Movie "Batman" premieres
1990 - A rally to save Alien Nation from cancellation held at Statue of Liberty
1990 - Moldavia declares independence
1990 - Police find marijuana at Chuck Berry's home
1990 - TV Guide selects Arsenio Hall as TV personality of year
1990 - Zimbabwe beat the Netherlands by 6 wickets to win ICC Trophy
1991 - "Odd Couple" opens & closes at Belasco Theater NYC
1991 - "Weird Al" Yankovic records "Babalu Music"
1991 - Beth Daniel wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Championship
1991 - Mazda becomes 1st Japanese car to capture Le Mans 24 hour race
1992 - "Tin Bigha Day" protest in India of corridor opening to Bangladesh
1992 - Emmy 19th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 13th time
1992 - Rabin wins Israeli parliamentary election
1993 - Lindsay Wagner (Bionic Woman) files for divorce from Lawrence Mortorff
1993 - Lorena Gallo Bobbitt amputates husband's John Wayne Bobbitt's penis
1993 - UN authorizes worldwide oil embargo against Haiti
1994 - South Africa reclaims its seat in UN
1994 - Replay shows A's Bobby Witt beat KC's Gagne to 1st in 6th but ump Gary Cedarstrom calls
           him safe, runing Witt's perfect game
1996 - "Tartuffe: Born Again" closes at Circle in Sq NYC after 29 perfs
1996 - Dottie Pepper wins LPGA Rochester International Golf Tournament
1996 - Nintendo 64 goes on sale in Japan
1997 - Dow Jones drops 192.25 pts
2004 - Bob Dylan accepts honorary doctor of music degree from the University of St Andrews,
           Scotland's oldest university
2005 - San Antonio Spurs beat Detroit Pistons 4-3 in NBA finals MVP: Tim Duncan (his third), San
           Antonio
2012 - Greece proposes to slow down austerity measures by two years
2012 - A bus of Czech tourists crashes in Croatia killing 8 and injuring 44
2012 - 76 monks are hospitalized in Thailand following an attack by a swarm of bees

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 23, 2013, 09:03:42 AM

This Day in History for 23rd June


Famous Weddings

1930 - Businessman Nelson Rockefeller (21) weds Mary Todhunter Clark
1967 - John Entwistle of rock group Who weds Alison Wise
1996 - Five-time Olympic speedskater gold medalist Bonnie Blair (32) weds four-time Olympian Dave
           Cruikshank (27) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1996 - "Amadeus" actor Tom Hulce (42) weds Italian artist Cecilia Ermini
2012 - "NCIS: Los Angeles" actor Eric Christian Olsen (35) weds Sarah Wright near Jackson Hole,
           Wyoming

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 23, 2013, 09:04:51 AM

This Day in History for 23rd June


Famous Divorces

1993 - Lindsay Wagner (Bionic Woman) files for divorce from Lawrence Mortorff

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 23, 2013, 09:12:37 AM

This Day in History for 23rd June


Famous Birthdays

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King of Great Britain                                Country Singer                                       Actress Selma Blair (1972)
Edward VIII (1894)                                   June Carter Cash (1929)


47 BC - Pharaoh Ptolemy XV of Egypt (d. 30 BC)
1160 - Johannes de Matha, French saint/founder (Trinitarians)
1433 - Francis II, Duke of Brittany (d. 1488)
1456 - Margaret of Denmark, wife of James III of Scotland (d. 1486)
1534 - Oda Nobunaga, Japanese warlord (d. 1582)
1540 - Johann Baptista Serranus, composer
1596 - Johan Banér, Swedish soldier (d. 1641)
1612 - Justus G Schottel, [Schottelius], German poet
1612 - André Tacquet, Belgian mathematician (d. 1660)
1668 - Giambattista Vico, Italian philosopher and historian (d. 1744)
1683 - Etienne Fourmont, French orientalist (d. 1745)
1703 - Maria Leszczyńska, queen of Louis XV of France (d. 1768)
1716 - Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley, English politician (d. 1789)
1749 - Konrad Back, composer
1750 - Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu, French geologist (d. 1801)
1763 - Josephine Martiniques, empress of France (1804-14)
1774 - Matthijs Siegenbeek, Dutch linguist (spelling)
1799 - John Milton Bernhisel, American physician (d. 1881)
1800 - Karol Marcinkowski, Polish physician and social activist (d. 1846)
1801 - Daniel Smith Donelson, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1863
1810 - Franziska"Fanny" Elssler, Austrian ballerina
1818 - Simon Vissering, Dutch economist/minister of Finances (1879-81)
1822 - Young Marshall Moody, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1866
1824 - Carl Heinrich Carsten Reinecke, composer
1837 - Ernest Guiraud, composer
1838 - Edwin Henry Stoughton, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1868
1852 - Stephane Raoul Pugno, composer
1855 - Maude Valerie White, composer
1858 - William Ernst Johnson, Cambridge England, mathematician
1859 - Florentinus M Wibaut, Amsterdams social alderman (building of houses)
1875 - Carl Milles, Uppsala Sweden, fountain sculptor (Wedding of Rivers)
1876 - Irvin S Cobb, Ky, writer/humorist (Old Judge Priest)
1877 - Blair Fairchild, composer
1877 - Hermann Stephani, composer
1879 - William Ewart Berry, 1st viscount Camrose/English nobleman
1884 - Werner Krauss, Germany, actor (Cabinet of Dr Caligari, Joyless Street)
1884 - Cyclone Taylor, ice hockey player (d. 1979)
1887 - Ernst Rowohlt, German publisher (Rowohlt-Verlag)
1887 - John Finley Williamson, Canton Ohio, conductor (Westminster Choir)
1888 - Lee Moran, Chicago IL, actor (Circus Clown)
1888 - Bronson M. Cutting, American politician (d. 1935)
1889 - Anna Akhmatova, Bolshoy Fontan near Odessa. Russian poet (d. 1966)
1892 - Able Kiviat, US, runner (Olympic-gold-1912)
1892 - Edmund Cobb, Albuquerque NM, western actor (Comanche Territory)
1892 - Mieczyslaw Horszowski, Polish/US pianist
1893 - Donald McBride, Brooklyn NY, actor (Mr Clyde-My Friend Irma)
1894 - Alfred Kinsey, Hoboken, New Jersey, American entomologist/sexologist (Kinsey Report)
1894 - Edward VIII, King of Great Brit/N-Ireland/emperor of India (1936)
1897 - Winifred Wagner-William, German organizer (Wagner Festival)
1899 - Alexander Moiseyevich Veprik, composer
1901 - Mariel-Henri Jaspar, Belgian minister/ambassador
1901 - Paul Verhoeven, Unna Germany, director
1902 - Howard T Engstrom, Boston, computer designer (Univac)
1902 - Mathias Wieman, German actor (d. 1969)
1903 - Anthony Veiller, NYC, writer (Night of Iguana, Moulin Rouge)
1903 - Hans C Branner, Danish writer (Toys, Horse Rider)
1903 - Paul Joseph James Martin, Canadian politician (d. 1992)
1904 - Carleton Coon, prof of anthropology (What in the World)
1904 - Quintin McMillan, cricketer (South African leg spinner 1929-32)
1904 - Willie Mae "Mother" Smith, gospel singer/evangelist folk artist
1905 - Jack Pickersgill, Canadian politician (d. 1997)
1906 - Wolfgang Koeppen, writer
1907 - Dercy Gonçalves, Brazilian comedienne (d. 2008)
1908 - Paulus Akkerman, [Paul fen Nijenborn], Frisian writer (Each om Each)
1910 - Jean Anouilh, France, dramatist (Thieves' Carnival)
1910 - Milt Hinton, American jazz bassist (d. 2000)
1911 - David Ogilvy, advertising whiz (Ogilvy & Mathers)
1912 - Alan Turing, mathematician/pioneer in computer theory (Turing Machine)
1912 - Maurice Dallimore, England, actor (Collector, Lad: A Dog)
1913 - Jacques Rabemananjara, Hungarian author/vice-president (Antsa)
1913 - Molly Harris, actress/writer (Immortal)
1913 - William P Rogers, Norfolk NY, US secretary of state (1969-73)
1915 - Dennis Price, Twyford England, actor (Adventurers, Millionairess)
1916 - Irene Worth, [Hattie Abrams], Nebraska, actress (Nicolas & Alexandra)
1916 - Len Hutton, cricketer (England opener, 364 v Australia The Oval 1938)
1917 - Sid Watters Jr, horse trainer
1919 - Muhammad Boudiaf, Algerian political leader (d. 1992)
1920 - Paul Des Marais, composer
1921 - Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (1964- )
1922 - Francis Thorne, Bay Shore NY, composer (Burlesque Overture)
1922 - Leonard Dorfman, horse trainer
1922 - Hal Laycoe, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1998)
1925 - Amada Galvez Santos Ocampo, composer
1925 - Art Modell, owner (Cleveland Browns, Baltimore Ravens, Modells Stores), (d. 2012)
1925 - Richard Barber, cricketer (scored 12 & 5 in only Test NZ v WI 1956)
1925 - Miriam Karlin, English actress
1926 - Lars Johan Werle, composer
1927 - Bob Fosse, Chicago Ill, choreographer/director (Cabaret, Damn Yankees)
1929 - Dave King, Twickenham England, comedian (Kraft Music Hall)
1929 - Henri Pousseur, Malmö dy Belgium, composer (Homo Habitis)
1929 - June Carter Cash, Maces Spring Va, country singer (Johnny Cash Show)
1930 - Donn Fulton Eisele, Columbus Ohio, Col USAF/astronaut (Apollo 7)
1931 - Urs Jaeggi, writer
1932 - Bob Blair, cricketer (NZ pace bowler in 19 Tests in 50s)
1933 - Bert Convy, St Louis MO, game show host (Win, Lose or Draw)
1935 - Maurice Ferre, former mayor of Miami
1936 - Berend Boudewijn [van der Woude], Dutch TV host/director (Baantjer)
1936 - Costas Simitis, Prime Minister of Greece
1937 - Martti Ahtisaari, President of Finland
1940 - Alexander Irvine, Lord Chanceller of UK (1997- )
1940 - Diana Trask, Australia, singer (Sing Along With Mitch)
1940 - Mike Shrimpton, cricketer (occasional NZ Test batsman 1963-74)
1940 - Simon Hobday, Mareking South Africa, PGA golfer (1994 US Senior Open)
1940 - Stuart Sutcliffe, Edinburgh Scotland, rocker (Beatles)
1940 - Wilma Rudolph, St Bethlehem Tenn, runner (Olympic-3 gold-1960)
1940 - Adam Faith, English singer and actor (d. 2003)
1941 - Roger McDonald, Australian author
1941 - Richard M. Richie Roberts, former Marine and New Jersey Police Detective, Criminal Defense
           Attorney
1943 - James Levine, musical conductor (Tosca)/dir (Metropolitan Opera)
1943 - Vint Cerf, American Internet pioneer, Turing Award laureate
1944 - Rosetta Hightower, US singer (Don't Hang Up)
1945 - K B Wilson, methodist Preacher/Principal (Westminster College Oxford)
1945 - Paul Goddard, Georgia, rock bassist (Atlanta Rhythm Section)
1945 - John Garang, Sudanese leader and politician (d. 2005)
1945 - Kjell Albin Abrahamson, Swedish journalist and writer.
1946 - Russ Thacker, Wash DC, producer (Golden Seal)
1946 - Ted Shackelford, Oklahoma City Oklahoma, actor (Gary-Dallas, Knots Landing)
1946 - Ted Shackleford, American actor
1947 - Bryan Brown, Sydney, actor (F/X, Gorillas in the Mist, Kim, Tai-Pan)
1948 - Clarence Thomas, Savannah Ga, 108th US Supreme Court Justice (1991- )
1948 - Myles Goodwyn, Montreal, rock guitarist/vocalist (April Wine)
1948 - Nigel Osborne, composer
1948 - Darhyl S. Ramsey, American author
1949 - Gordon Bray, Australian sports broadcaster
1950 - Sally Geeson, Sussex England, actress (Bless This House)
1950 - Douglas C. Lord, Canadian businessman
1951 - Michèle Mouton, French race car driver
1953 - Filbert Bayi, Karatu Tanzania, 3k steeplechase (Olympic-silver-1980)
1953 - Roberta Leighton, Minneapolis Mn, actress (Ginger-Days of Our Lives)
1955 - Debbie Boostrom, Peoria ILL, playmate (Aug, 1981)
1955 - Pierre Corbeil, Canadian politician
1955 - Glenn Danzig, American musician (The Misfits and Danzig)
1955 - Maggie Greenwald, American film director and writer
1955 - Jordan, British actress and model
1955 - Jean Tigana, French footballer
1956 - Tony Hill, American football player
1957 - David Houghton, cricketer (Zimbabwe batsman, 266 v Sri Lanka 1994)
1957 - Frances McDormand, actress, (Fargo, Academy Award)
1957 - Lee John, [John L Mcgregor], English singer/actor (Body Talk)
1959 - Danny Sharp, Hamilton Ont, Canadian Tour golfer (1986 Quinte Festival)
1960 - Donald Harrison, American musician
1960 - Tatsuya Uemura, Japanese musician and programmer
1961 - LaSalle Thompson, NBA forward/center (Phila 76ers)
1961 - Mark Drillich, Dutch pop bassist (Kong-Slauerhoff)
1961 - Zoran Janjetov, Serbian comic artist
1962 - Paul LaGreca, Bronx NY, actor (Big Trouble)
1962 - Richard Coles, rock keyboardist (Communards)
1962 - Kari Takko, Uusikaupunki FIN, hockey goalie (Team Finland)
1962 - Kevin Yagher, TV/film special effects technician
1962 - Chuck Billy, American vocalist (Testament)
1963 - Colin Montgomerie, Scottish golfer
1963 - Steve Shelley, American musician (CruciSorrys and Sonic Youth)
1964 - Joey Allen, Ft Wayne Indiana, rock guitarist (Warrant-Cherry Pie)
1964 - Trent Bushey, Haverhill Mass, actor (David Rampal-All My Children)
1964 - Yun Lou, Chinese gymnast
1965 - Dawn Whiteham, New London Ct, bodybuilder (Penthouse Nov 1995)
1965 - John "Chip" McKibben II, Balboa Island California, rower (Olympics-1996)
1965 - Leith Wastle, Benalla VIC, Australasia golfer
1965 - Peter O'Malley, Bathurst NSW, Australasia golfer
1965 - Paul Arthurs, British guitarist (Oasis)
1966 - Barbara Jordan, US softball outfielder (Olympics-gold-96)
1966 - Chantal Daucourt, Bienne Switz, mountain cyclist (world-bronze-95)
1966 - Vladislav Neiman, Israel, Men's flyweight boxer (Oly-1996)
1966 - Chico DeBarge, American musician (DeBarge)
1966 - Richie Ren, Taiwanese musician
1967 - Derrick Walker, NFL tight end (KC Chiefs)
1967 - Laurie Wood, Orange California, playmate (March, 1989)
1967 - Helen Geake, British archaeologist
1968 - Kent Steffes, Ann Arbor Mich, beach volleyballer (Olympics-gold-96)
1968 - Ronnie West, WLAF RB (London Monarchs)
1969 - Elbert Ellis, NFL wide receiver (Carolina Panthers, GB Packers)
1969 - Martin Klebba, American actor
1970 - A C Earl, NBA center (Toronto Raptors)
1970 - Kerri Ann Buchberger, Russell Manitoba, volleyballer (Olympics-96)
1970 - Mike Bartrum, tight end (New England Patriots)
1970 - Rich Manning, NBA center (Vancouver Grizzlies)
1970 - Robert Brooks, NFL wide reciever (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1970 - Roger Knarren, soccer player (MVV)
1970 - Yann Tiersen, French musician
1971 - Felix Potvin, Anjou, NHL goalie (Toronto Maple Leafs)
1971 - Joe Rumolo, CFL defensive linebacker (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1972 - Cory Schlesinger, NHL running back (Detroit Lions)
1972 - Larry Whigham, NFL safety (NE Patriots)
1972 - Roell Preston, NFL wide receiver (Atlanta Falcons)
1972 - Selma Blair, Southfield, Michigan, American actress (Cruel Intentions, Legally Blonde)
1972 - Ron Corning, American television anchor
1972 - Zinedine Zidane, French footballer
1973 - Mark Larsen, jockey
1973 - Marie N, Latvian singer
1974 - Dontonio Wingfield, NBA forward (Portland Trailblazers)
1974 - Lisa Bamford, Raleigh NC, Miss America-NC (1996)
1974 - Maria Carolina Christina, Princess of Netherlands
1974 - Mark Hendrickson, NBA forward (Sacramento Kings)
1974 - Joel Edgerton, Australian actor
1975 - Alexander Serikow, Landshut GER, hockey forward (Team Germany)
1975 - Jane Jamieson, Australian heptathlete (Olympics-96)
1975 - Kevin Dyson, American football player
1976 - Paola Suarez, Pergamino Arg, tennis star (1995 Futures-Buenos Aires)
1976 - Wade Barrett, American soccer player
1976 - Joe Becker, American musician
1976 - Patrick Monahan, British comedian
1976 - Brandon Stokley, American football player
1976 - Emmanuelle Vaugier, Canadian actress
1976 - Patrick Vieira, French footballer
1977 - Hayden Foxe, Australian soccer defender (Olyroos, Olympics-96)
1977 - Miguel Ángel Angulo, Spanish footballer
1977 - Jason Mraz, American singer and songwriter
1978 - Frédéric Leclercq, French bassist (DragonForce)
1978 - Memphis Bleek, American rapper
1978 - Matt Light, American football player
1979 - LaDainian Tomlinson, American football player
1980 - Becky Cloonan, American comic book artist
1980 - Ramnaresh Sarwan, Guyanese cricketer
1983 - Jason Berrent, American performer
1983 - Brooks Laich, Canadian ice hockey player
1984 - Duffy, Welsh Singer
1988 - Isabella Leong Lok-Sze, Hong Kong singer, actress and model
1988 - Chellsie Memmel, American gymnast
1990 - Samuel Lee, FIFA 08 World Champion
1992 - Bridget Sloan, American gymnast
1996 - Charlie Jones, British actor

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Post by: MysteRy on June 23, 2013, 09:15:20 AM

This Day in History for 23rd June


Famous Deaths

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Roman Emperor Vespasian (79)


79 - Vespasian, Roman Emperor, dies at 69
758 - Ho-tse Shen-hui, Zen teacher/disciple of Hui-neng, dies at 74
1018 - Henry I of Austria
1075 - Theoduinus, Beiers prince-bishop of Liege, dies
1137 - Adalbert I, archbishop of Mainz (1111-1137), dies
1139 - Andries van Kuik, bishop of Utrecht, dies
1444 - Marcus, [Manuel] Eugenicus, Byzantine bishop of Efeze/theologist, dies
1555 - Pedro Mascarenhas, Portuguese explorer (b. 1470)
1582 - Shimizu Muneharu, Japanese military leader (b. 1537)
1615 - Mashita Nagamori, Japanese warlord (b. 1545)
1677 - Wilhelm Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1647)
1686 - William Coventry, English statesman
1707 - John Mill, English theologian
1733 - Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss scholar (b. 1672)
1770 - Mark Akenside, English poet and physician (b. 1721)
1771 - Jean-Claude Trial, composer, dies at 38
1775 - Karl Ludwig, Freiherr von Pöllnitz, German adventurer and writer (b. 1692)
1779 - Ras Mikael Sehul, warlord of Ethiopia (b. about 1691)
1801 - Bendix Friedrich Zinck, composer, dies at 58
1806 - Mathurin Jacques Brisson, French naturalist (b. 1723)
1817 - Otto Carl Erdmann Kospoth, composer, dies at 63
1832 - James Hall, Scottish geologist (b. 1761)
1833 - Nikolaus Paul Zmeskall, composer, dies at 73
1836 - James Mill, Scottish philosopher and historian, (b. 1773)
1856 - Ivan Kireevsky, Russian literary critic and philosopher (b. 1806)
1866 - Samuel Sarphati, Amsterdam physician/social activist, dies at 53
1878 - George Backing, English sea officer/explorer (B's River), dies at 81
1888 - Emil Naumann, composer, dies at 60
1891 - Francis Henry Brown, composer, dies at 73
1891 - George Parr, cricketer (Nottinghamshire & All-England), dies
1891 - Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist (b. 1804)
1893 - Sir Theophilus Shepstone, British-born South African statesman (b. 1817)
1895 - Joseph Paul Skelly, composer, dies at 44
1901 - Charles Kensington Salaman, composer, dies at 87
1916 - Victor Chapman, US legionaire/WW I pilot, killed
1919 - Amy G C A Bonet-Maury, French reformed theologist, dies
1924 - Cecil [James] Sharp, English folk musician, dies at 64
1926 - Viktor Vasnetsov, Russian painter (b. 1848)
1928 - Thomas H Rollinson, composer, dies at 84
1945 - Lt Gen Ushijima, Japanese commander, commits suicide at Okinawa
1951 - Armin Knab, German composer (Wunderhorn), dies at 70
1956 - Reyngol'd Moritsevich Glier, composer, dies at 81
1956 - Reinhold Glière, Russian composer (b. 1875)
1957 - Louis Fornberg, writer, dies at 48
1958 - Edvard Armas Jarnefeldt, composer, dies at 88
1959 - Jean Gallon, composer, dies at 80
1959 - Boris Vian, French writer and musician (b. 1920)
1961 - Franz de Backer, Flemish writer (Rubens' Daughter), dies at 70
1965 - Mary Boland, actress (Boy Trouble, New Moon), dies at 83
1969 - Stanley Andrews, actor (Old Ranger-Death Valley Days), dies at 78
1969 - Volmari Iso-Hollo, Finnish athlete (b. 1907)
1970 - Roscoe Turner, American aviator and racer (b. 1895)
1971 - George Blagoi, entertainer, dies
1971 - Walter Schulthess, composer, dies at 76
1972 - Elton Britt, country singer (Sat Night Jamboree), dies at 54
1973 - Fay Holden, actress (Mother-Andy Hardy films), dies at 77
1975 - William Hansen, actor (Homebodies), dies at 64
1980 - John Laurie, actor (39 Steps, Jericho, Kidnapped), dies at 83
1980 - Odile Versois, actress (Nude in a White Car, Young Lovers), dies
1980 - Sanjay Gandhi, Indian politician, dies
1980 - Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian (bomanslag), dies
1980 - Clyfford Still, American painter (b. 1904)
1980 - Varahagiri Venkata Giri, Fourth President of India (b. 1894)
1981 - Zarah Leander, Swedish/German singer/actress (Gabriela), dies at 79
1982 - Vincent Chin, Chinese-American hate crime victim (b. 1955)
1986 - Nigel Stock, actor (Lost Continent, Young Sherlock Holmes), dies
1988 - Dayton Lummis, actor (Moonfire, Flight that Disappeared), dies
1988 - Evert Werkman, Dutch journalist (Het Parool), dies at 73
1988 - M Gregor-Dellin, writer, dies
1989 - Werner Best, German jurist and nazi leader (b. 1903)
1991 - Antonio Jacinto, Angolan poet, dies at 66
1991 - Bill Buysman, Dutch guitarist/singer (Kilima Hawaiians), dies
1992 - Lou Ramos, entertainer, dies
1992 - Renie Irene Brouillet Conley, US, costume designer (Cleopatra), dies
1994 - Alan Frank, music publisher, dies at 83
1994 - Piet van Elk, cartoonist, dies at 74
1994 - Stanley Gebler Davies, journalist/drinker, dies at 50
1995 - Jonas Salk, biologist (Polio vaccine), dies of heart failure
1995 - Anatoly Tarasov, Russian ice hockey coach (b. 1918)
1996 - Andreas George Papandreou, PM of Greece (1981-89, 93-96), dies at 76
1996 - Angelo John Novarese, record company founder, dies at 72
1996 - Elbert Parr Tuttle, lawyer/judge, dies at 98
1996 - Pasqualino de Santis, cinematographer, dies at 69
1996 - William Walsh, academic, dies at 80
1997 - "Wino" Willie Forkner, biker (Wild One), dies of heart attack at 77
1997 - Betty Shabazz, widow of Malcolm X, suffering from burns, dies at 63
1998 - Maureen O'Sullivan, Irish actress (b. 1911)
1999 - Buster Merryfield, British actor (b. 1920)
2001 - Yvonne Dionne, one of the Canadian Dionne quintuplets (b. 1934)
2002 - Pedro 'El Rockero' Alcazar, Panamanian boxer (b. 1975)
2003 - Maynard Jackson, Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia (b. 1938)
2005 - Shana Alexander, American columnist (b. 1926)
2005 - Manolis Anagnostakis, Greek poet (b. 1925)
2006 - Aaron Spelling, American television producer (b. 1923)
2006 - Luke Graham, American wrestler (b. 1940)
2006 - Harriet, Galápagos tortoise (b. 1830)
2007 - Rod Beck, American Major League Baseball relief pitcher, dies at 38
2009 - Ed McMahon, American television personality (b. 1923)
2011 - Peter Falk, American actor (b. 1927)
2011 - Dennis Marshall, Costa Rican footballer (b. 1985)
2012 - Alan McDonald, Northern Irish footballer, dies from an apparent heart attack at 48

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 24, 2013, 09:14:23 AM

This Day in History for 24th June


Historical Events

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Co-founder of the Methodist           Artist/Cubist Co-founder Pablo Picasso        Yankee Clipper Joe DiMaggio
Movement John Wesley
Edward VIII (1894) 

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The Pianoman Billy Joel


451 - 10th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
843 - Vikings destroy Nantes
972 - Battle of Cedynia, the first documented victory of Polish forces, takes place.
1128 - Afonso I of Portugal defeats army of his mother Theresa
1298 - Rindfleish Persecutions-Jews of Ifhauben Austria massacred
1314 - Battle of Bannockburn; Scotland regains independence from England
1322 - Jews are expelled from France for 3rd time
1340 - In the Hundred Years War, British fleet destroys the French at the battle of Sluys
1374 - A sudden outbreak of St. John's Dance causes people in the streets of Aachen, Germany, to
           experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapse from
           exhaustion.
1396 - Crusaders under earl of Nevers reach Vienna
1397 - Sultan Bajezid I release caught crusaders free, for ransom
1441 - Eton College founded by Henry VI
1472 - Zoe Paleologa departs Rome for Moscow
1497 - John Cabot claims eastern Canada for England (believes he found Asia in Nova Scotia)
1497 - Cornish traitors Michael An Gof and Thomas Flamank are executed at Tyburn, London.
1509 - Henry VIII crowned King of England
1522 - Battle at La Bicocca: Emperor Karel V beats France
1522 - Portuguese Antonio de Brita signs treaty island of Ternate Molukkas
1527 - Gustaaf I begins Reformation in Sweden, taking RC possessions
1529 - Zurich & catholic kantons sign Peace of Kappel
1535 - Anabaptists Protestants conquered & disbanded
1535 - Hessische troops occupy Munster
1540 - English King Henry VIII commands his 4th wife, Anne of Cleves to leave the court
1572 - 5 clergymen of Enkhuizen, hanged
1597 - Cornelis de Houtman's fleet reaches Bantam, West Java
1610 - Battle at Klushino: King Sigismund II beats Russia & Sweden
1619 - Tsar Michails father Filaret becomes patriarch of Moscow
1647 - Lord Baltimore's niece ejected requesting vote at Maryland Council
1648 - Cossacks slaughter 2,000 Jews & 600 Polish Catholics in Ukraine
1658 - French fleet recaptures Duinkerk
1662 - Dutch invasion of Macau repulsed (Macau Day)
1664 - The colony of New Jersey is founded.
1690 - King Willem III's army lands at Carrickfergus Ireland [OS=June 14]
1692 - Kingston Jamaica founded
1717 - 1st Free Masons' grand lodge founded in London
1748 - The Kingswood School is opened by John Wesley and his brother Charles Wesley in Bristol.
           The school later moved to Bath.
1778 - David Rittenhouse observes a total solar eclipse in Philadelphia
1793 - 1st republican constitution in France adopted
1794 - Bowdoin College is founded.
1795 - US & Great Britain sign Jay Treaty, 1st US extradition treaty
1806 - English under commodore Popham/col Beresford reach Buenos Aires
1813 - Battle of Beaver Dam-British & Indian forces defeat US forces
1817 - 1st coffee planted in Hawaii on Kona coast
1821 - Battle of Carabobo; Bolívar defeats royalists outside of Caracas
1841 - Fordham University (then St John's College), opens in the Bronx
1843 - Vincenzo Soliva decrees no Jew can live outside of ghetto in Italy
1846 - Residency tax on Jews of Hungary abolished
1853 - Gadsden Purchase 29,670-square-mile (76,800 square km) from Mexico (now southern
           Arizona and New Mexico) for $10 million signed by President Franklin Pierce
1859 - Battle of Solferino, N-Italy: France/Sardinia-Austria
1861 - Battle of Mathias Point, VA-US attacks Confederate batteries
1861 - Tennessee becomes 11th (& last) state to secede from US
1863 - Planning an invasion of Pennsylvania, Lee's army crosses Potomac
1866 - 2nd Battle at Custozza: Prussian-Austria beats Italian army
1880 - First performance of O Canada, the song that would become the national anthem of Canada,
           at the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français.
1881 - 200 drown as train runs off bridge near Cuautla Mexico
1882 - NL expels umpire Richard Higham for dishonesty
1884 - John Lynch is 1st black elected chairman of Republican convention
1885 - British government of Salisbury forms
1885 - Samuel David Ferguson becomes 1st US black bishop
1894 - Decision to hold modern Olympics every 4 years
1894 - Marie Francois Sadi Carnot is assassinated by Sante Geronimo Caserio.
1897 - Hail injures 26 in Topeka Kansas
1898 - American troops, drive Spanish forces from La Guasimas Cuba
1900 - Dutch Social-Democratic Worker's party & Socialistenbond merge
1901 - 1st exhibition by Pablo Picasso, 19, opens in Paris
1901 - Jewish National Fund starts
1902 - King Edward VII develops appendicitis, delaying his coronation.
1903 - Russia prohibits meetings dealing with Zionist
1908 - Yanks replace Clark Griffith with Kid Elberfeld as manager who is destined to have worse won-
           lost pct of any Yankee mgr 27-71 (.276)
1909 - 15th US Golf Open: George Sargent shoots a 290 at Englewood GC NJ
1910 - 50th British Golf Open: James Braid shoots a 299 at St Andrews Scot
1911 - 17th US Golf Open: John McDermott shoots a 307 at Chicago GC in Ill
1913 - 53rd British Golf Open: J H Taylor shoots a 304 at Hoylake Hoylake
1914 - King Peter I of Serbia names son Alexander the Prince-regent
1916 - Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to get a million dollar contract.
1917 - Russian Black Sea fleet mutiny at Sebastopol
1920 - Chuvash Autonomous Region forms in RSFSR
1922 - AFPA changes name to NFL, Chicago Staleys become Chicago Bears
1923 - Pope Pius XI speaks against allies occupying Ruhrgebied
1924 - 59th British Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 301 at Hoylake Hoylake
1928 - 32nd US Golf Open: Johnny Farrell shoots a 294 at Olympia Fields Ill
1928 - With declining business, the Great Gorge and International Railway begins using one-person
           crews on trolley operations in Canada.
1930 - 1st radar detection of planes, Anacostia DC
1930 - Ground is broken for construction of Cleveland Stadium
1931 - USSR & Afghanistan sign neutrality treaty
1932 - Coup ends absolute monarchy in Thailand
1936 - Joe DiMaggio becomes 5th to hit 2 HRs in 1 inn, Yanks beat Browns 18-4
1936 - Mary McLeod Bethune named director of Negro Affairs in Natl Youth Adm
1938 - 500 ton meteorite lands near Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
1939 - Pan Am's 1st US to England flight
1940 - France signs an armistice with Italy during WW II
1941 - Entire Jewish male population of Gorzhdy Lithuania, exterminated
1941 - Germans advanced into Russia & took Vilna, Brest-Litovsk & Kaunas
1942 - Admiral Ernest King orders Tulagi (Solomon Island) reconquered
1942 - Africa Corps occupy Egypt
1943 - Allies begin 10-day bombing on Hamburg
1945 - Schermerhorn government forms
1945 - The Moscow Victory Parade takes place.
1946 - 11.72" (29.77 cm) of rainfall at Mellen Wisc (state 24-hr record)
1946 - Georges Bidault elected premier of France
1947 - 29th PGA Championship: Jim Ferrier at Plum Hollow CC Detroit
1947 - Flying saucers sighted over Mount Rainier by pilot Ken Arnold
1947 - Jackie Robinson swipes home for 1st of 19 times in his career
1947 - Jim Ferrier wins PGA golf tournament
1948 - Republican Natl Convention in Phila nominates NY gov Thomas Dewey
1948 - Soviet Union begins Berlin Blockade
1949 - "Hopalong Cassidy" becomes 1st network western (NBC)
1949 - A M de Jong's murderer, Ton van Gog arrested in Scheveningen Neth
1949 - Cargo airlines 1st licensed by US Civil Aeronautics Board
1950 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Western Women's Golf Open
1950 - French government-Bidault resigns
1950 - NY Giant Wes Westrum hits 3 HRs & a triple
1951 - Persian army takes over nationalized oil installations
1953 - KSWS (now KOBR) TV channel 8 in Roswell, NM (NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 - "John Murray Anderson's Almanac" closes at Imperial NYC after 229 perf
1955 - Harmon Killebrew hits his 1st HR (off Billy Hoeff)
1956 - "Steve Allen Show," returns on NBC-TV
1956 - 2nd LPGA Championship won by Marlene Hagge
1956 - WISC TV channel 3 in Madison, WI (CBS) begins broadcasting
1957 - "I Love Lucy," last airs on CBS-TV
1957 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment in
           Roth v. United States.
1960 - Geoff Griffin takes a hat-trick South Africa v England Lord's
1961 - "Happiest Girl in the World" closes at Martin Beck NYC after 97 perfs
1961 - Beatles record "If You Love Me Baby"
1961 - Iraq demands dominion over Kuwait
1962 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA J E McAuliffe Golf Tournament
1962 - Jack Reed's 22nd-inning HR wins longest NY Yankee game in history
1963 - 1st demonstration of home video recorder, at BBC Studios, London
1963 - Levi Eshkol forms Israeli government
1963 - Zanzibar granted internal self-government by Britain
1964 - FTC rules health warnings must appear on all cigarette packages
1966 - Bombay-NY Air India flight crashes into Mont Blanc (Switz), 117 die
1966 - Period of relative peace following WW II exceeds that following WW I
1967 - Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical Sacerdotalis coelibatus
1967 - Zaire adopts constitution
1968 - 14th LPGA Championship won by Sandra Post
1968 - Australia all out for 78 v England at Lord's
1968 - Deadline for redeeming silver certificate dollars for silver bullion
1968 - Jim Northrup hits 2 grand-slammers to help Tigers beat Cleve 14-3
1968 - Joe Frazier TKOs Manuel Ramos in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
1968 - Resurrection City in Wash DC closed permanently
1970 - "Catch 22" opens in movie theaters
1970 - Bobby Murcer ties record of 4 consecutive HRs
1970 - Reds play final game at Cincinnati's Crosley Field, beat Giants 5-4
1970 - Senate votes overwhelmingly to repeal Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
1972 - "Troglodyte (Cave Man)" by Jimmy Castor Bunch peaks at #6
1972 - Wake Island becomes unincorporated territory of US (US Air Force)
1972 - Yvonne Braitwaite Burke becomes 1st black chair in Dem convention
1973 - Marlene Raymond (15), limboes under a flaming bar at 6 1/8"
1973 - Susie Berning wins LPGA Heritage Village Golf Open
1974 - India all out for 42 in Lord's Test cricket in 77 mins
1974 - Steve Busby retires 1st 9 White Sox to set AL record with 33 consecutive batters retired
1975 - Eastern 727 crashes at JFK Airport NY, kills 113
1975 - Moon tremor perceived (hit by Taurid meteors)
1976 - 1975 movie "Rocky Horror Picture Show" released in Germany
1977 - IRS reveals Jimmy Carter paid no taxes in 1976
1979 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
1979 - Rickey Henderson debuts for Oakland & steals his 1st base
1980 - Affirmed wins $500,000 Hollywood Cup, 1st horse to win $2 million
1982 - Equal Rights Amendment goes down to defeat
1982 - Jean-Loup Chretien, 1st spacionaut, 2 others, lift off (Soyuz T-16)
1982 - Soyuz T-6 Launch (USSR)
1982 - Supreme Court rules pres can't be sued for actions in office
1983 - 7th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 2 lands at Edwards AFB
1983 - Don Sutton becomes 8th pitcher to strikeout 3,000 batters
1984 - Joe Morgan sets career HR mark for 2nd basemen with #265
1984 - Laurie Rinker wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
1985 - 18th Space Shuttle Mission (51-G)-Discovery 5 returns to Earth
1985 - Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-F
1986 - Guy Hunt elected 1st Republican governor of Alabama in 112 years
1986 - US Senate approves "tax reform"
1987 - CFL's Montreal Alouettes fold
1987 - Salt Lake City Trappers begin pro baseball record 29 consec win streak
1988 - Cleve pitcher Doug Jones sets record of 14 consecutive saves
1988 - Red Sox begin AL record 23rd consecutive home win streak
1989 - Cards Vince Coleman steals record 39th & 40th consecutive bases
1990 - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Rochester Golf International
1991 - NHL adopts instant-replay & tenth of second clock in final minute
1992 - Billy Joel, gets an honorary diploma from Hicksville HS at 43
1992 - Commissioner Fay Vincent permanently bans Steve Howe from baseball
1992 - Eddie Antar, CEO (Crazy Eddies), $74 m stock fraud caught in Israel
1992 - John Gotti begins life sentence in jail
1993 - Arab terror group plans bombing of Holland/Lincoln Tunnels caught
1993 - Yale computer science professor Dr. David Gelernter loses the sight in one eye, the hearing in
           one ear, and part of his right hand after receiving a mailbomb from the Unabomber.
1994 - 1st French "all news" TV (LCI) begins broadcasting
1994 - Jeff Bagwell of Astros is 28th to hit 2 HRs in an inning
1994 - Sally Fields files for divorce from 2nd husband Alan Greisman
1995 - Stanley Cup: NJ Devils sweep Detroit Red Wings in 4 games
1997 - Melissa Drexler, 18, charged with killing her baby during her prom
1997 - USAF reports Roswell 'space aliens' were dummies
1997 - Mark McGwire hits a 538 foot home run
1997 - Seat Mariner Randy Johnson strikes out 19 Oakland A's but loses
2002 - The Igandu train disaster in Tanzania kills 281, the worst train accident in African history.
2004 - In New York, capital punishment is declared unconstitutional.
2007 - The Angora Fire starts near South Lake Tahoe, California destroying 200+ structures in its
           first 48 hours.
2010 - John Isner of the United States defeats Nicolas Mahut of France at Wimbledon, in the longest
           match in tennis history.
2012 - Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood becomes President of Egypt
2012 - Female athletes will be allowed to compete for Saudi Arabia at the Olympics for the first time

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 24, 2013, 09:21:47 AM

This Day in History for 24th June


Famous Weddings

1885 - 28th US President Woodrow Wilson (28) weds Presbyterian minister daughter Ellen Louise
           Axson (25) in Savannah, Georgia
1924 - American writer Henry Miller (31) marries 2nd wife June Smerth (21) in Hoboken, New Jersey.
1983 - "NBC Sports" sportscaster Bob Costas (31) weds Carole Randall Krumenacher
2000 - "Dixie Chicks" lead vocalist Natalie Maines (25) weds "Profit" actor Adrian Pasdar (35) at The
           Little White Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas, Nevada
2005 - "Real Madrid" football striker Michael Owen (25) weds Louise Bonsall at Carden Park Hotel in
           Chester, England
2006 - "The Desperate Housewives" actress Marcia Cross (44) weds stockbroker Tom Mahoney (48)
           at Church of Our Saviour Episcopal Parish in Pasadena, California
2006 - "Numb3rs" actress Diane Farr (36) weds marketing executive Seung Yong Chung (35) at
           Rainbow Tarns, California
2010 - Actress and model Megan Fox (24) weds Beverly Hills 90210 actor Brian Austin Green (36) at
           the Four Seasons Hualalai near Kona, Hawaii

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 24, 2013, 09:23:39 AM

This Day in History for 24th June


Famous Divorces

1994 - Sally Fields files for divorce from 2nd husband Alan Greisman

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 24, 2013, 09:34:38 AM

This Day in History for 24th June


Famous Birthdays

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Writer & Satirist                                   Heavyweight Boxing Champion                Rocker Mick Fleetwood (1947)
Ambrose Bierce (1842)                              Jack Dempsey (1895)


1244 - Hendrik I, the Child, 1st count of Hessen (1256-1308)
1322 - Johanna, duchess of Brabant/Limburg (Joyful Entry)
1343 - Jeanne de Valois, Queen of Navarre (d. 1373)
1386 - Giovanni da Capistrano, Italian saint (d. 1456)
1485 - Johannes Bugenhagen, German reformer (d. 1558)
1499 - Johannes Brenz, German theologist (Dutch Brentians)
1519 - Theodore Beza, French theologian (d. 1605)
1533 - Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester/English commander-in-chief in Neth
1535 - Joan of Spain, queen consort of Portugal (d. 1573)
1542 - St. John of the Cross, Spanish Carmelite mystic, saint, priest and poet (d. 1591)
1546 - Robert Parsons, English jesuit (A Letter Disclosure)
1561 - Rombout Hogerbeets, lawyer/pension minister of Leiden
1572 - Jan Campanus, composer
1590 - Samuel Ampzing, poet (Taelbericht der Neth Spellinge)
1619 - Rijcklof Volckertsz van Goens, governor-general (Neth East Indies)
1663 - Jean Baptiste Massillon, French churchman (d. 1742)
1669 - Francois van Aerssen, Dutch vice-admiral (Suriname/Algeria)
1687 - Johann Albrecht Bengel, German scholar (d. 1757)
1694 - Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui, Swiss publicist (d. 1748)
1704 - Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, French writer (d. 1771)
1746 - Jean Baptiste Rochefort, composer
1747 - Johann Melchior Dreyer, composer
1762 - Johann Paul Wessely, composer
1771 - E I Du Pont, France, chemist/scientist (Du Pont)
1774 - François Nicolas Benoît, Baron Haxo, French general (d. 1838)
1777 - John Ross, British naval officer and explorer (d. 1856)
1795 - Ernst Heinrich Weber, German anatomist and physiologist (d. 1878)
1797 - John Hughes, archbishop, founded Fordham University in the Bronx
1803 - George James Webb, composer
1804 - Stephan L Endlicher, Austrian priest/botanist
1804 - Willard Richards, American religious leader (d. 1854)
1808 - Anna Caroline Oury, composer
1811 - John Archibald Campbell, Asst Secy War (Confederacy), died in 1889
1813 - Henry Ward Beecher, Litchfield Ct, clergyman/orator (Independent)
1820 - Henry Rootes Jackson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1898
1822 - Birkett Davenport Fry, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1891
1825 - Grand Duchess Alexandra Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1844)
1826 - George Goyder, surveyor-general of South Australia (d. 1898)
1832 - Edward Harland, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1915
1838 - Gustav von Schmoller, German economist (Lectern Socialism)
1839 - Gustavus Franklin Swift, founded Swift & Co
1840 - Louis Brassin, composer
1842 - Ambrose Bierce, Meigs County, Ohio, American writer and satirist (Devil's Dictionary, Nuggets
           & Dust)
1847 - Gervais Bernard Gaston Salvayre, composer
1848 - Brooks Adams, US philosopher (Theory of Social Revolutions)
1850 - Horatio Herbert Kitchener, England, original Order of Merit member
1852 - Victor Adler, Austrian Foreign minister (1918)
1860 - Mercedes of Orleans, queen of Spain (d. 1878)
1873 - Thomas Carl Whitmer, composer
1877 - Aleksei M Remizov, Russian writer (Iveren)
1879 - Agrippina J Vaganova, Russian ballet dancer
1882 - Carl Diem, German Olympic official (d. 1962)
1882 - Athanase David, Canadian politician and businessman (d. 1953)
1886 - George Shiels, Northern Irish dramatist (d. 1949)
1888 - Gerrit T Rietveld, Dutch architect (Juliana Hall, Sonsbeek Pavillion)
1891 - Irving Pichel, Pitts PA, actor/director (Mme Butterfly, Oliver Twist)
1893 - Roy O. Disney, a founder of the Walt Disney Company (d. 1971)
1895 - Jack Dempsey, "Manassa Mauler", heavyweight boxing champion (1919-26)
1897 - Daniel K. Ludwig, American shipping magnate (d. 1992)
1899 - Bruce Marshall, writer
1899 - Chief Dan George, actor (Harry & Tonto, Little Big Man. Smith!)
1900 - Memphis Minnie, rocker
1900 - Wilhelm Cauer, German mathematician (d. 1945)
1901 - Harry Partch, Oakland California, composer (Oedipus)
1903 - Ernest Leslie Bouts, motor-racing driver
1904 - Phil Harris [Wonga Philip], Linton, Indiana, American actor and singer (Anything Goes, Robin
           Hood)
1904 - Kurt Kusenberg, German writer (Wein Auf Lebenszeit)
1906 - Pierre Fournier, Paris France, violon cellist (Paris Conservatoire)
1906 - Willard Maas, American educator and experimental filmmaker (d. 1971)
1907 - Jose de Lima Siquiera, composer
1907 - Arseny Tarkovsky, Russian poet (d. 1989)
1908 - Hugo Distler, composer
1908 - Guru Gopinath, Indian classical dancer (d 1987)
1908 - Alfons Rebane, Estonian military officer (d. 1976)
1909 - Milton Katims, NYC, conductor/violist (WOR-NYC)
1909 - William G Penney, British physicist (1st British Atom Bomb)
1910 - Denis Dowling, baritone
1911 - Juan Manuel Fangio, racing driver
1911 - Ernesto Sábato, Argentinian writer
1912 - Brian Johnston, cricketer (BBC radio commentator & cake connoisseur)
1912 - Norman Cousins, editor (Saturday Review)
1912 - Selwyn Powell, art editor
1913 - John Kubris, Czech resistance fighter
1913 - Max van Praag, Dutch singer
1914 - Pearl Witherington CBE, British WW II secret agent (d. 2008)
1915 - Charles James Dunn, Japanese scholar
1915 - Fred Hoyle, cosmologist (proposed steady-state universe theory)
1916 - John Ciardi, poet/critic (translated Dante)
1919 - Al Molinaro, Kenosha Wisc, actor (Murray-Odd Couple, Al-Happy Days)
1920 - Bernhard Krol, composer
1920 - James Eric Storrar, fighter Pilot
1921 - Billy Casper, golfer
1922 - Aadje [Alida WM] Lyre, Dutch twin daughter of Prince Hendrik(?)
1922 - Rietje [Maria SC] Lyre, Dutch twin daughter of Prince Hendrik(?)
1922 - Roy Elihu Travis, NYC, composer (Passion of Dedipus)
1922 - Tata Giacobetti, Italian singer (Quartetto Cetra)
1923 - Jack Carter, Bkln NY, comedian/actor (Amazing Dobermans, Octagon)
1923 - Margaret Olley, Lismore Australia, painter
1924 - Ranasinghe Premadasa, president of Sri Lanka (1989-93)
1924 - Kurt Furgler, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 2008)
1924 - Brian Bevan, Australian rugby league footballer (d. 1991)
1925 - Len Jagger, English businessman/multi-millionaire
1927 - Joseph Pierce Jr, horse trainer
1930 - Herbert C Klien, (Rep-D-New Jersey)
1930 - William B. Ziff, Jr., American publishing executive (d. 2006)
1931 - Billy Casper, SD Ca, golfer, 3-time PGA Player of Year ('66, '68, '70)
1931 - Leslie Cochran, Miami, Florida, peace activist and police critic, (d. 2012)
1932 - David McTaggart, co-founder (Greenpeace)
1934 - Bob Holthus, horse trainer
1935 - Pete Hamill, Brooklyn, NY, journalist (NY Post)
1935 - Terry Riley, Colfax California, composer (Spectra)
1938 - Boris Lagutin, USSR, light-middleweight boxer (Olympic-gold-1964, 68)
1938 - Lowell Cross, composer
1938 - Lawrence Block, American writer
1938 - Don Mincher, Huntsville, Alabama, Major League Baseball first baseman, (d. 2012)
1939 - Henry Lawrence Garett III, Miami Fla, Sect of Navy (1989-92)
1940 - Vittorio Storaro, cinematographer (Taxi, Little Buddha, Dick Tracy)
1941 - Graham McKenzie, cricketer (prolific Australian pace bowler 1961-71)
1941 - Julia Kristeva, Bulgarian-French philosopher, psychoanalyst, and novelist
1942 - Gerhart Roth, writer
1942 - Michele Lee, LA California, actress/singer (Karen-Knots Landing, Love Bug)
1942 - Arthur Brown, England, rocker (Fire) [or May 24]
1943 - Georg Stanford Brown, Havana Cuba, actor (Terry Webster-Rookies)
1944 - Chris Wood, rocker (Traffic)
1944 - Jeff Beck, Surrey England, singer/guitarist (Jeff Beck Group)
1945 - Betty Stove, Netherlands, tennis player (US Doubles 1972)
1945 - Colin Blunstone, England, rocker (Zombies-Never Even Thought)
1945 - George E Pataki, Peekskill NY, (Gov-R-NY, 1995- )
1946 - Ellison S Onizuka, Hawaii, Mjr USAF/ast (STS 51C, 51L-Chal disaster)
1946 - Robert Reich, US Sec of Labor (Clinton)
1946 - David Collenette, Canadian politician
1947 - Walter Willison, Monterrey Park California, actor (McDuff the Talking Dog)
1947 - Mick Fleetwood, London, rock drummer (Fleetwood Mac-Go Your Own Way)
1947 - Marianne Delgorge, singer/actress (Ice Cream Soda)
1947 - Peter Weller, Stevens Point WI, actor (Robocop, Of Unknown Origin)
1948 - Patrick Moraz, Morges, Switzerland, progressive rock keyboard player (Yes, The Moody Blues)
1949 - John Illsley, Leicester England, rock bassist (Dire Straits)
1950 - Derrick "Duckie" Simpson, Kingston Jamaica, rocker (Black Uhuru)
1950 - Leon J P M Frissen, Dutch MP (CDA)
1950 - Mercedes R Lackey, US, sci-fi author (Arrow's Fall, Magic's Pawn)
1950 - Nancy Allen, NYC, actress (Carrie, 1941, Robocop, Dress to Kill)
1951 - Ivar Formo, Norway, 50K cross country skier (Olympic-gold-1976)
1951 - Raelene Boyle, Australia, sprinter (Oly-Silver-72)
1951 - David Rodigan, radio DJ/actor
1952 - Stephen Pusey, British-born artist
1953 - Ivo Lill, Estonian artist
1955 - Loren Lloyd Roberts, San Luis Obispo CA, PGA golfer (Nestle-1994, 95)
1955 - Gurumayi Chidvilasananda, Guru of Siddha Yoga
1955 - Betsy Randle, American actress
1956 - Joe Penny, English actor
1957 - Astro, [Terrence Wilson], England, rock vocalist (UB40-Red Red Wine)
1958 - Victor M Gerena, NYC, security guard robbed $7 million (FBI wanted)
1959 - Andy McClusky, rocker (Orchestal Manoeveres in the Dark-Electricity)
1959 - Rob Delahaye, soccer player (MVV)
1960 - Juli Inkster, Santa Cruz CA, LPGA golfer (Dinah Shore-1984, 89)
1960 - Nate Carr, Erie Pa, freestyle wrestler (Olympic-bronze-1988)
1960 - Trisha Meili, the "Central Park Jogger"
1960 - Karin Pilsäter, Swedish politician
1960 - Erik Poppe, Norwegian film director
1961 - Bernie Nicholls, Haliburton, NHL center (Chicago Blackhawks)
1961 - Curt Smith, Bath England, rock bassist/vocalist (Tears For Fears)
1961 - Jim Laver Carter, Spring Lake NC, PGA golfer (1995 Anheuser-Busch)
1961 - Natalya Shaposhnikova, USSR, sidehorse vaulter (Olympic-gold-1980)
1963 - Duval Love, NFL guard (Arizona Cardinals)
1963 - Anatoly Borisovich Jurkin, Russian writer
1963 - Preki, Serbian-born American soccer player
1963 - Mike Wieringo, American comic book artist (d. 2007)
1964 - David Daniel, jockey
1964 - Gary Suter, Madison WI, NHL defenseman (Chicago Blackhawks, USA)
1965 - Danielle Spencer, Bronx, actress (Dee Thomas-What's Happening)
1965 - Patrick Jeffrey, Morristown NJ, diver (Olympics-5th-96)
1965 - Shane Churla, Fernie, NHL right wing (LA Kings, NY Rangers)
1965 - Uwe Krupp, Cologne, Germany, NHL defenceman (Colo Avalanche, Germany 98)
1966 - John Randle, Chicoutimi Que, golfer (1992 Canadian Tour Fall-3rd)
1966 - Adrienne Shelly, American actress, director and screenwriter (d. 2006)
1967 - Bill Huard, Welland, NHL left wing (Dallas Stars)
1967 - Crystal Carson, Spaulding NE, actress (Cartel, Julia-General Hospital)
1967 - Jeff Cease, Nashville, guitarist (Black Crowes-Shake Your Money Maker)
1967 - Olaf Hampel, WLAF offensive linebacker (Frankfurt Galaxy, Rhein Fire)
1967 - Sherry Stringfield, Colo Springs Colo, actress (Laura-NYPD Blue, ER)
1967 - Richard Kruspe-Bernstein, German musician (Rammstein)
1967 - Janez Lapajne, Slovenian film director
1969 - Melissa Gurney, California, tennis player (Virginia Slims of SD, 1986)
1969 - Sean Maye, 400m/800m runner
1969 - Todd Lewis, Flint Michigan, 10k runner
1969 - Sissel Kyrkjebø, Norwegian singer
1970 - Carlos Yancy, NFL cornerback (NE Patriots)
1970 - Glenn Medeiros, singer (Someday Love)
1971 - LaMonte Coleman, NFL fullback (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1971 - Christopher Showerman, American actor
1972 - Jose Simon, WLAF defensive tackle (Barcelona Dragons)
1972 - Mitch Berger, punter (Minnesota Vikings)
1972 - Shawn King, NFL defensive end (Green Bay Packers, Carolina Panthers)
1972 - Robbie McEwen, Australian cyclist
1972 - Denis Zvegelj, Slovenian rower
1973 - Jere Lehtinen, Espoo Fin, NHL right wing (Dallas Stars, Oly-bronze-98)
1973 - Michael Cheever, corner (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1973 - Alexander Beyer, German actor
1973 - Ji Jin Hee, South Korean actor
1974 - Adam Treu, guard/tackle (Oakland Raiders)
1974 - Carrie Zarse, Chicago Il, diver (Olympics-96)
1975 - Carla Gallo, American actress
1975 - Marek Malik, Czech ice hockey player
1976 - Tyce Routson, Bellevue Wash, diver (Olympics-96)
1976 - Louisa Leaman, English author
1977 - Cliff Bayer, NYC, fencer-foil (Olympics-96)
1977 - Dimosthenis Dikoudis, Greek basketball player
1977 - Cas Jansen, Dutch actor
1978 - Pantelis Kafes, Greek footballer
1978 - Shunsuke Nakamura, Japanese footballer
1978 - Ariel Pink, American musician
1978 - Juan Román Riquelme, Argentine footballer
1978 - Erno "Emppu" Vuorinen, Finnish guitarist (Nightwish)
1978 - Luis García, Spanish footballer
1979 - Craig Shergold, British internet folklore subject
1979 - Petra Němcová, Czechoslovakian-born model
1979 - Mindy Kaling, American actress and TV producer
1980 - Kelly Dutra, Miss Rhode Island Teen USA (1996)
1980 - Cicinho, Brazilian footballer
1980 - Liane Balaban, Canadian actress
1980 - Andrew Jones, Australian racing driver
1980 - Minka Kelly, American actress
1982 - Brian Fitzgerald, American writer
1982 - Kevin Nolan, English footballer
1982 - Mark Penney, Canadian film director
1982 - Jarret Stoll, Canadian ice hockey player
1982 - Clint Bajada, Maltese television and radio presenter
1983 - John Lloyd Cruz, Filipino Actor
1984 - J.J. Redick, American basketball player
1985 - Kyle Searles, American actor
1985 - Yukina Shirakawa, Japanese gravure idol
1986 - Kaitlin Cullum, LA California, actress (Libby Kelly-Grace Under Fire)
1986 - Stuart Broad, English cricketer
1986 - Phil Hughes, American baseball player
1986 - Solange Knowles, American singer
1987 - Arturo Lupoli, Italian footballer
1987 - Lionel Messi, Argentine footballer
1990 - Michael Del Zotto, Canadian ice hockey player
1993 - Primera, an Andean condor, hatched at Cleve Zoo, 5th born in captivity

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 24, 2013, 09:38:37 AM

This Day in History for 24th June


Famous Deaths

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US President Grover Cleveland (1908)


803 - Higbald of Lindisfarne
1398 - Hongwu Emperor of China (b. 1328)
1439 - Duke Frederick IV of Austria (b. 1382)
1475 - Albrecht von Eyb, German parson (Bamberg & Eichstattt), dies at 54
1519 - Lucrezia Borgia, daughter of Pope Alexander, dies at 39
1520 - Hosokawa Sumimoto, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1489)
1572 - Adrianus van Gouda, lay brother, hanged
1572 - Cornelis van Diest, lay brother, hanged
1572 - Daniel van Arendonck, clergyman, hanged
1572 - Joannes van Naarden, priest, hanged
1572 - Ludovicus Voets, priest, hanged
1604 - Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, Lord Great Chamberlain of England (b. 1550)
1629 - Carolus Scribani, Italian/Flemish jesuit/writer, dies at 67
1637 - Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer (b. 1580)
1643 - John Hampden, English politician, dies of injuries at about 48
1652 - Andries Bicker, merchant/Amsterdam regent, dies at 65
1673 - John of Paffenrode, ruler of Ghussigny/poet, dies in battle
1707 - Kaspar von Stieler, German linguist/poet, dies at 74
1712 - Simon van der Stel, Dutch gov of Cape Colony (1679-99), dies at 72
1724 - Johann Theile, German composer (Adam und Eva), dies at 77
1766 - Adrien-Maurice, 3rd duc de Noailles, French soldier (b. 1678)
1778 - Pieter Burmann the Younger, Dutch philologist (b. 1714)
1803 - Matthew Thornton, Irish/US physician/signer (Decl of Ind), dies at 88
1817 - Thomas McKean, US attorney/signer (Decl of Independence), dies at 83
1835 - Andreas Vokos Miaoulis, Greek admiral and politician, commander of Greek naval forces in
           Greek War of Independence (b. 1769)
1882 - Joseph Joachim Raff, German opera composer (Cavatine), dies at 60
1891 - Ann Sheppard Mounsey, composer, dies at 80
1894 - M F Sadi Carnot, president of France (1887-94), murdered at about 56
1908 - Grover Cleveland, 22nd & 24th Pres (1885-89, 93-97), dies at 71
1909 - Sarah Orne Jewett, American writer (b. 1849)
1913 - Frank Lynes, composer, dies at 55
1922 - Walter Rathenau, German foreign minister, killed by anti-semites at 54
1933 - Sissieretta Joyner Jones, "Black Patti", US singer, dies at about 64
1935 - Carlos Gardel, Argentine singer (airplane crash) (b. 1890)
1936 - Nandor Zsolt, composer, dies at 49
1938 - "Digger" Robertson, cricketer (Test for Australia 1885), dies
1944 - Rio Gebhardt, composer, dies at 36
1946 - Louise Whitfield Carnegie, American philanthropist (b. 1857)
1947 - Emil Seidel, Mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (b. 1864)
1952 - Lodewijk Mortelmans, composer, dies at 84
1959 - Lou Bandy, Dutch revue-artist (Life Ain't Bad), commits suicide at 69
1962 - Lucile Watson, actress (Great Lie, Model Wife, Florian), dies at 83
1969 - Maria Belgado, entertainer, dies
1969 - Ted Hecht, actor (Time to Kill, Song of India, Gangster), dies
1969 - Willey Ley, US science writer, dies at 62
1971 - Jack Good, actor (Father Goose), dies
1971 - John Dunning, cricketer (4 Tests for NZ 1933-37), dies
1971 - Kenneth Washington, actor (Sgt Baker-Hogan's Heroes), dies at 53
1973 - Mary Carr, actress (Forbidden Trail, 2nd Wife), dies at 99
1977 - André-Gilles Fortin, Canadian politician (b. 1943)
1978 - Robert Charroux, French writer (b. 1909)
1984 - William Keighley, dir (Man who came to Dinner), dies of a stroke at 94
1984 - Clarence Campbell, Canadian NHL president (b. 1905)
1987 - Hophnie Hobah Hines Johnson, cricketer (3 Tests for WI), dies
1987 - Jackie Gleason, comedian (Honeymooners), dies of colon cancer at 71
1991 - Martin Rosenblatt, actor (Splitz, Annie Hall, NY Stories), dies at 74
1991 - Rufino Tamayo, Mexican painter, dies at 91
1991 - Sumner Locke Elliott, Australian-born American novelist (b. 1917)
1992 - Juris Podnieks, cameraman/director (Commandant), drowns
1992 - Tom Alexander, model/actor (Kurt-Forbidden Dance), dies of AIDs
1992 - Tony LeMans, singer/songwriter, dies in a car crash at 29
1994 - Leonarda da Vinci MacLaren, founder of the LSE, dies at 83
1995 - Inshan Ali, cricketer (WI chinaman bowler 1971-77), dies
1995 - John Reginald "Nat" Allen, planning enforcement officer, dies at 66
1995 - John Richard Brinsley Norton, landowner, dies at 71
1996 - Quinton Hazell, businessman, dies at 76
1997 - Brian Keith, actor (Family Affair), commits suicide at 75
1997 - Don Hutson, American athlete (b. 1913)
2000 - Vera Atkins, Romanian-born British intelligence officer (b. 1908)
2000 - David Tomlinson, English actor (b. 1917)
2002 - Pierre Werner, Prime Minister of Luxembourg (b. 1913)
2003 - Vladimir Garin, Russian actor (b. 1987)
2004 - Ifigeneia Giannopoulou, Greek songwriter (b. 1957)
2005 - Paul Winchell, American voice actor and ventriloquist (b. 1922)
2005 - Hakham Yedidia Shofet, Former chief rabbi of Iran (b. 1908)
2006 - Patsy Ramsey, mother of JonBenét Ramsey (b. 1956)
2007 - Byron Baer, American politician (b. 1929)
2007 - Chris Benoit, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1967)
2007 - Derek Dougan, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1938)
2007 - Natasja Saad, Danish reggae and dancehall artist (b. 1974)
2008 - Gerhard Ringel, Austrian mathematician (b. 1919)
2009 - Ed Thomas, well-known high school football coach from Iowa (b. 1951)
2009 - Roméo LeBlanc, 25th Governor General of Canada (b. 1927)
2011 - Tomislav Ivić, Croatian football manager (b. 1933)
2012 - Lonesome George, Pinta giant tortoise and rarest creature in the world, dies at c. 100

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 25, 2013, 11:02:54 AM

This Day in History for 25th June


Historical Events

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Jazz Singer Ella Fitzgerald                      Jewish Victim & Diarist of the               33rd US President Harry Truman
                                                                   Holocaust Anne Frank

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Singer-Songwriter Stevie Wonder                264th Pope John Paul II                Tennis Player Martina Navratilova


253 - St Lucius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
524 - Battle of Vézeronce, the Franks defeat the Burgundians.
841 - Battle of Fontenay.
1080 - Wibbert of Ravenna chosen as anti-pope Clemens III
1096 - 1st Crusade slaughter Jews of Werelinghofen Germany
1139 - Battle of Ourique: Afonso I defeats Moors
1178 - 5 Canterbury monks report something exploding on Moon
1183 - Peace of Konstanz
1243 - Sinibaldo dei Fieschi elected as Pope Innocentius IV
1298 - Rindfleish Persecutions-250 Jews killed in Rothenburg Germany
1500 - Pope Alexander VI accept Treaty of Granada
1580 - Book of Concord, standards of Lutheran Church, 1st published
1606 - Alkmaarse clergy asks "Great Dertelheyt"
1606 - St Jansday is forbidden
1607 - Mentally ill emperor Rudolf II signs Treaty of Lieben, giving up Austria, Hungary & Moravia
1621 - French government army occupies Fort St Jean d'Angély at La Rochelle
1630 - Fork introduced to American dining by Gov Winthrop
1638 - Lunar eclipse is 1st astronomical event recorded in US
1646 - Thomas Fairfax' New Model-army occupies Oxford
1658 - Spanish garrison at Duinkerk surrenders to French & British
1667 - Dr Jean-Baptiste Denys, French doctor, performs 1st blood transfusion
1672 - 1st recorded monthly Quaker meeting in US held, Sandwich, Mass
1675 - Battle at Rathenow: Brandenburgers beat Sweden
1678 - Elena Cornaro Piscopia is the first woman awarded a doctorate of philosophy.
1716 - Eugenius of Savoye named land guardian of Austrian Netherlands
1749 - General fast because of drought in MA
1788 - Virginia becomes 10th state to ratify US constitution
1794 - French troops occupy Charleroi
1798 - US passes Alien Act allowing president to deport dangerous aliens
1834 - Pope Gregory XVI's encyclical "Singulari nos" published
1835 - 1st building constructed at Yerba Buena (now SF)
1861 - Western Virginia campaign
1862 - Battle of Oak Grove, VA (Orchard, Henrico, French's Field) (Kings's Schoolhouse) Day 1 of 7
           Days
1863 - US General George Meade replaces General Hooker to be more aggressive
1864 - Horse tramway at the Hague, opens
1864 - Petersburg Campaign-Federals begin digging tunnels under Reb lines
1867 - 1st barbed wire patented by Lucien B Smith of Ohio
1868 - FL, AL, LA, GA, NC & SC readmitted to US
1868 - Pres Andrew Johnson passes a law that government workers would work 8 hr day
1870 - Opera "Die Walkure" is produced (Munich)
1876 - Battle of the Little Bighorn: 7th Cavalry wiped out by Sioux & Cheyenne, death of Lieutenant
           Colonel George Armstrong Custer.
1888 - Republican Convention, in Chicago, nominates Benjamin Harrison
1894 - American Railway Union under Eugene V Debs goes on strike
1903 - Yanks & White Sox end deadlocked at 6-6 in 18
1903 - Boston Beaneater Wiley Piatt is only 20th-century pitcher to lose 2 complete games in one
           day, falling to Pittsburgh 1-0 & 5-3
1905 - Warsaw & Lodz revolt against Russian occupation
1909 - George Sargent wins US Open golf tournament
1910 - Mann Act passed (no women across state lines for immoral purposes)
1913 - Dutch Parliamentary election (confess party looses majority)
1913 - American Civil War veterans begin arriving at the Great Reunion of 1913.
1916 - Tsar Nicolaas II fires minister of Foreign affairs Sasonov
1918 - Baku-Turkish communist party forms
1919 - 1st advanced monoplane airliner flight (Junkers F13)
1919 - Revolt of Spartacus in Hamburg
1920 - League of Nations places Intl head of Justice in Hague
1921 - 56th British Golf Open: Jock Hutchison shoots a 296 at St Andrews
1921 - Charlie McCartney scores 300 in 205 mins Aust v Notts
1925 - Military putsch under Gen Theodorus Pangulos in Greece
1926 - 61st British Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 291 at Royal Lytham
1927 - WVO soccer team forms in Oosterhout
1928 - NY Giant Fred Lindstrom ties record of 9 hits in a doubleheader
1929 - Pres Hoover authorizes building of Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam)
1932 - 36th US Golf Open: Gene Sarazen shoots a 286 at Fresh Meadows NY
1932 - Commencement of India's 1st Test cricket, v England at Lord's
1934 - Hedley Verity takes 15 wickets v Australia (7-61 & 8-43)
1934 - NY Yankee Lou Gehrig hits for the cycle beating White Sox 11-2
1934 - Yank pitcher John Broaca ties record by striking out 5 times
1935 - Joe Louis defeats Primo Carnera at Yankee Stadium
1937 - Cub Augie Galan becomes 1st player to switch hit HRs in a game
1938 - "A Tisket A Tasket" by Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb hits #1
1938 - Federal minimum wage law guarantees workers 25 cents per hour (rising to 40 cents by
           1945) and a maximum 44 hour working week
1940 - Adolf Hitler views Eiffel tower & grave of Napoleon in France
1941 - -26] Russian counter attack at Rovno
1941 - FDR issues Executive Order 8802 forbidding discrimination
1941 - Fair Employment Practices Commission established
1941 - Finland declares war on Soviet Union
1941 - Germans invade Dubno Poland, giving permission to Ukrainians to do whatever they want to
           12,000 Jews living there
1942 - British RAF staged a 1,000 bomb raid on Bremen Germany (WW II)
1942 - British premier Winston Churchill travels from US to London
1942 - Maj Gen Dwight Eisenhower appointed commander of US forces in Europe
1943 - Crematory III at Birkenau is finished
1943 - Racial unrest in Detroit
1943 - Seyss-Inquart orders mass arrests of Dutch physicians
1944 - British assault at Caen Normandy
1945 - Allied landing at Ternate Molukkas
1945 - Imperial General Headquarters in Tokyo announce fall of Okinawa
1947 - 1st edition of Anne Frank's "The Back of House" published
1947 - Heavyweight Joe Louis KOs Tami Mauriello
1947 - Tennis shoe introduced
1948 - Joe Louis KOs Jersey Joe Walcott in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
1948 - Harry Truman signs Displaced Persons Bill (205,000 Europeans to US)
1949 - Presidential election in Syria (some women allowed to vote)
1949 - Long-Haired Hare is released in Theaters starring Bugs Bunny.
1950 - Israeli airline El Al begins service
1950 - Johnny Pramesa (Reds) & Hank Thompson (Giants) hit inside the park HRs
1950 - Korean conflict begins; N Korea invades S Korea
1950 - UN member states begin using integrated forces against N Korea
1951 - 1st color TV broadcast-CBS' Arthur Godfrey from NYC to 4 cities
1952 - "Wish You Were Here" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 597 perfs
1952 - 34th PGA Championship: Jim Turnesa at Big Spring CC Louisville
1952 - Dutch social democratic party wins 2nd-Parliamentary election
1953 - 1st passenger to fly commercially around the world < 100 hours
1953 - 86°F in Anchorage Alaska
1955 - "Can Can" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 892 performances
1955 - "Imogene Coca Show," last airs on NBC-TV
1956 - 51 die in collision of "Andrea Doria" & "Stockholm" (Cape Cod)
1956 - WKNO TV channel 10 in Memphis, TN (PBS) begins broadcasting
1957 - "Jonathan Winters Show," last airs on NBC-TV
1960 - Earthquake in NE Belgium
1960 - Madagascar gains independence of France
1961 - Balt & California use a record 16 pitchers in a game (8 each) in 14 inns
1961 - Iraq announces that Kuwait is a part of Iraq (Kuwait disagrees)
1962 - Inonu government forms in Turkey
1962 - Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO) forms
1962 - Supreme Court rules NY school prayer unconstitutional
1963 - Famous cricket draw at Lord's as England hang on against the Windies
1963 - JFK speaks at Pauls Church in Frankfurt
1963 - South Africa worker's union leader Curnick Ndlovu arrested
1964 - Prince A Taylor becomes 1st black methodist bishop (NJ)
1964 - WMCA (NYC) plays Beatles' Hard Days Night Album (10 days prior to its scheduled release
           date), they decide to release it June 26th
1965 - Gyula Kallai succeeds Janos Kádár as premier of Hungary
1966 - Beatles' "Paperback Writer," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks
1966 - Dmitri Shostakovitch's 13th Symphony, premieres in Leningrad
1966 - Kosmos 122, 1st Soviet weather satellite, launched
1967 - 400 million watch Beatles "Our World" TV special
1967 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Buckeye Savings Golf Invitational
1967 - KPBS TV channel 15 in San Diego, CA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1967 - Mohammed Ali (Cassius Clay) sentenced to 5 years
1967 - First global satellite television programme - Our World
1968 - Bobby Bonds hits a grand slam in his 1st major league game (Giants)
1969 - Longest tennis match in Wimbledon history, Pancho Gonzalez beats Charles Pasarell in 112
           game (5hr12m) marathon
1971 - Stevie Wonder releases "Where I'm Coming From"
1972 - Bernice Gera becomes 1st female umpire in pro baseball
1972 - Juan Peron elected president of Argentina
1973 - John Dean begins testimony before Senate Watergate Committee
1973 - Russian party leader Brezhnev visits France
1973 - Udo Beyer of East Germany puts the shot a record 20.47 m
1975 - Mozambique gains independence from Portugal (National Day)
1976 - Ranger Toby Harrah is only shortstop not to handle a fielding chance in doubleheader
1977 - LBJ denies report he had a cancer during his presidency
1977 - Roy C Sullivan of Va is struck by lightning for 7th time!
1978 - Argentina beats Holland 3-1 in soccer's 11th World Cup at Buenos Aires
1978 - Pat Bradley wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
1979 - "Got Tu Go Disco" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 8 performances
1979 - Failed attack on NATO commander Haig in Obourg, Belgium
1980 - "Fearless Frank" closes at Princess Theater NYC after 12 performances
1981 - Supreme Court upholds male-only draft registration, constitutional
1981 - Microsoft is restructured to become an incorporated business in its home state of
           Washington.
1982 - Porn star John Holmes acquitted on murder charges
1982 - SF holds its 1st County Fair
1982 - Sec of State Alexander Haig Jr resigns, replaced by Schultz
1982 - Greece abolishes headshaving of recruits in the military.
1983 - "Evita" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 1568 performances
1983 - India beat West Indies by 43 runs to win Cricket World Cup
1983 - Udo Beyer of East Germany sets record for shot put, 22.22 m
1984 - Lydia Garrett, 24, crowned 17th Miss Black America
1984 - STS 41-D launch attempt scrubbed because of computer problem
1985 - Fireworks factory near Hallett, OK explodes (21 die)
1986 - Former Belgium premier Vanden Boeynants sentenced for fraud
1986 - Phillies give Steve Carlton, 41, his unconditional release
1987 - Pope John Paul II receives Austrian Pres Kurt Waldheim
1988 - "Chess" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 68 performances
1988 - 104°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in June
1988 - Cal Ripken Jr plays in his 1,000th consecutive game
1988 - Expos Pitcher Floyd Youmans suspended for 60 days due to drugs
1988 - Iceland's president Vigdis Finnbogadóttirelected (90+%)
1988 - Kristen Logan, 17, of Mississippi, crowned America's Junior Miss
1988 - Neth soccer team wins European Cup (2-0 against USSR)
1988 - Roger Rabbit Cartoon Character debuts in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?"
1989 - "Day By Day," last airs on NBC-TV
1989 - 1st US postmark dedicated to Lesbian & Gay Pride (Stonewall, NYC)
1989 - Betsy King wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Championship
1989 - Mets' defense does not record a single assist in a 5-1 win over Phils
1990 - "Dave Thomas Comedy Show," last airs on CBS-TV
1990 - 120°F in Phoenix Arizona
1990 - NBC decides to air episodes of "Quantum Leap" for 5 straight days
1990 - Supreme Court rules family members cannot end lives of comatose relatives unless those
           relatives previously made their wishes known
1991 - Martina Navratilova wins record 100th singles match at Wimbledon
1991 - Slovenia & Croatia declare independence from Yugoslavia
1992 - "Les Miserables," opens at Vinorhady Theatre, Prague
1992 - Alexanders Department store closes all 11 stores
1992 - STS 50 launches (Columbia)
1993 - NY Islander goalie Billy Smith elected to NHL Hall of Fame
1993 - Parliamentary election in Morocco
1994 - 1,500th goal in Soccer World Cup history scored by Caceres of Argentina
1994 - 105°F (40.5°C) at Albuquerque New Mexico
1994 - 111°F (43.9°C) at El Paso Texas
1994 - Cleve Indians 18 game home win streak ends to Yanks 11-6
1994 - Gay Games close in NYC
1994 - Japanese premier Tsutomu Hata resigns
1995 - Betsy King wins ShopRite LPGA Golf Classic
1995 - Rockies' Andres Galarraga is 4th to HR in 3 consecutive innings
1996 - The Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia kills 19 U.S. servicemen.
1997 - Christies auctions off Princess Di's clothing for $5.5 million
1997 - Galileo, 2nd Callisto Flyby (Orbit 9)
1997 - Intelsat 802 Ariane 4 Launch, Successful
1997 - J C Penney/LPGA Skins Game
1997 - NHL approves franchises in Nash, Atlanta, Columbus, & Minn-St Paul
1997 - Progress M-34 Collides with & damages Mir Space Station
1997 - Jamaica issues a warrant for singer Sade, who fails to report to court on charges of failure to
           obey a cop who signaled her to stop
1998 - In Clinton v. City of New York, the United States Supreme Court decides that the Line Item
           Veto Act of 1996 is unconstitutional.
2007 - 2007 United Kingdom floods, parts of Lincolnshire and Yorkshire flood including Louth,
           Horncastle and worst affected, Hull.
2008 - Atlantis Plastics shooting, An employee shot and killed five people after an argument, which
           ended in the gunman's suicide in Henderson, Kentucky.
2012 - 33 Syrian army officers defect to Turkey

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 25, 2013, 11:04:36 AM

This Day in History for 25th June


Famous Weddings

1976 - Actor Peter Lawford (52) weds aspiring actress Deborah Gould (25)
1999 - "Sudden Death" action star Jean-Claude Van Damme (38) weds Gladys Portugues in Knokke-
           Heist, Belgium
2005 - British pop sensation Sophie Ellis Bextor (26) weds "The Feeling" bassist Richard Jones at
           Palazzo Terranova in Umbria
2006 - Actress Nicole Kidman (45) weds country music singer-songwriter Keith Urban (44) at
           Cardinal Ceretti Memorial Chapel in Manly, Australia
2006 - Emmy-winning "Medium" actress Patricia Arquette (38) weds actor Thomas Jane (37) at the
           Palazzo Contarini in Venice, Italy
2006 - "The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp" actor Hugh O'Brian (81) weds Viginia Barber at Forest
           Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 25, 2013, 11:05:35 AM

This Day in History for 25th June


Famous Divorces

1997 - "Dumb and Dumber" actress Lauren Holly (33) divorces actor-comedian Jim Carrey (35) due to
           irreconcilable differences after 9 months of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 25, 2013, 11:11:15 AM

This Day in History for 25th June


Famous Birthdays

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Writer George Orwell (1903)                    Comedian Ricky Gervais (1961)         Rock Vocalist George Michael (1963)


1242 - Beatrice of England, Duchess of Brittanny (d. 1275)
1328 - William Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, English military leader (d. 1397)
1373 - Johanna II, Queen of Naples (1414-35)
1560 - Wilhelm Fabry, German surgeon (d. 1634)
1612 - John Albert Vasa, Polish bishop (d. 1634)
1709 - Francesco Araja, composer
1715 - Joseph-François Foulon, French politician (d. 1789)
1726 - Thomas Pennant, British naturalist
1735 - Benvenuto Robbio San Rafaele, composer
1755 - Princess Natalia Alexeievna of Russia (d. 1776)
1796 - Ferdinando Giorgetti, composer
1813 - William Hugh Keim, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
1814 - Gabriel Auguste Daubrée, French geologist (d. 1896)
1823 - James Dunwody Bulloch, Capt (Confederate Navy), died in 1901
1852 - Antoni Gaudí, Spanish architect (d. 1926)
1858 - Georges Courteline, [Moineaux], French playwright
1860 - Gustave Charpentier, French composer (opera Louise)
1862 - Vasily Georgiyevich Wrangell, composer
1863 - Emile Francqui, Belgian soldier (d. 1935)
1864 - Walther Hermann Nernst, Prussian physicist/chemist (Nobel 1920)
1865 - Robert Henri, US painter, leader of Ashcan school
1878 - Jean Gallon, composer
1884 - Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, German art promoter (d. 1979)
1886 - Henry "Hap" Arnold, commanding general, US Army Air Force (WW II)
1887 - George Abbott, Forestville NY, producer (Damn Yankees, Pajama Game)
1889 - Ethel Glenn Hier, composer
1889 - Margriet M C Baers, Flemish philosopher
1890 - Marchwitza, writer
1893 - Charlotte Greenwood, Phila, actress (Oklahoma, Moon over Miami)
1894 - Hermann Oberth, Germany, founded modern astronautics (V2/Redstone)
1897 - Basil Radford, Chester England, actor (Whiskey Galore, Night Train)
1897 - Hans Barth, composer
1898 - Kay (Katherine Linn) Sage, Albany New York, American painter and poet
1900 - Izak D du Plessis, South African writer/director (3rd World)
1900 - Lord Louis Mountbatten, of Burma, royal relative/earl/baron/admiral
1901 - Adolf Brunner, composer
1902 - Prince Yasuhito Chichibu, brother of Emperor Showa (d.1953)
1903 - Arthur Tracy, Russia, street singer (Vincent Lopez Show, Limelight)
1903 - George Orwell, [Eric A Blair], Bihar, British India, British writer (Animal Farm, 1984), (d. 1950)
1903 - Anne Revere, American actress (d. 1990)
1904 - Jan van Axel, [Johannes P Kraakman], Dutch director (Overschotje)
1905 - Ian Cromb, cricketer (NZ pace bowler in the early 1930's)
1906 - Roger Livesey, Barry Wales, actor (Drums, Life & Death of Col Blimp)
1907 - J Hans D Jensen, Germany, physicist (atomic nucleus-Nobel 1963)
1908 - Willard Van Orman Quine, American philosopher (d. 2000)
1909 - Daniel Fuchs, US writer (Summer in Williamsburg)
1911 - Reed Hadley, Petrolia Tx, actor (Racket Squad, Shock, Grand Canyon)
1911 - William H Stein, US biochemist (Nobel 1972)
1912 - Virginia Lacy Jones, US librarian/presidential advisor
1912 - William T. Cahill, Governor of New Jersey (d. 1996)
1913 - Cyril Fletcher, British comedian (d. 2005)
1915 - Peter Lind Hayes, SF California, comedian/singer (Peter Lind Hayes Show)
1916 - Theodore P Toynbee, British journalist/writer (Savage Days, Barricade)
1921 - Peter Charles Arthur Wishart, composer
1921 - Celia Franca, Canadian ballet dancer (d. 2007)
1923 - Dorothy Gilman, mystery writer
1923 - Jack Hill, cricketer (Australian leg-spinner of mid 50's)
1923 - Samuel Lewis Francis, painter
1923 - Tony Parker, oral historian
1923 - Nicholas Mosley, British writer
1924 - Sidney Lumet, Phila, director (Group, Pawnbroker, Fail Safe)
1925 - Clifton Chenier, Opelousas La, blues singer (Bayou Blues)
1925 - June Lockhart, NYC, actr (Lassie, Lost in Space, Petticoat Junction)
1925 - Robert Venturi, Phila, architect (Levittown NY, Las Vegas)
1925 - Ziggy Talent, Manchester NH, singer (Vaughn Monroe Show)
1925 - Ted Stepien, American business (d. 2007)
1926 - Ingeborg Bachmann, Austria author/poet
1928 - William Joseph Russo, composer
1928 - Peyo [Pierre Culliford], Brussels, Belgium, cartoonist (The Smurfs, Johan et Pirlouit)
1929 - Eric Carle, American author
1930 - Hugo Gabriel Gryn, rabbi
1930 - George Murdock, American actor
1930 - Mary Beth Peil, American singer
1932 - Peter Blake, British artist
1933 - Gary Crosby, California, actor (Bill Dana Show, Adam 12, Chase)
1933 - Michelangelo Pistoletto, Italian artist (glass painter)
1933 - James Meredith, American civil rights activist
1933 - Álvaro Siza Vieira, Portuguese architect
1934 - Willy Rodriguez, cricketer (occasional leg-spin bat for WI in 60's)
1935 - Eddie Floyd, Montgomery Al, singer/composer (California Girl, Falcons)
1935 - Kurt Schwertsik, composer
1935 - Wynand Breytenbach, South African under minister of Defense (1986- )
1936 - Harold Melvin, US singer (Blue Notes-My Hero)
1936 - Paul Nowee, Dutch western writer (Eagle's Eye)
1936 - Jusuf Habibie, President of Indonesia
1937 - Mirabel Morgan, author (Total Woman)
1939 - Allen Fox, American Tennis Player
1940 - Clint Warwick, [Eccles], Birmingham England, bassist (Moody Blues)
1940 - A.J. Quinnell, British writer (d. 2005)
1941 - Denys Arcand, director (Jesus of Montreal)
1942 - Patrick Michael Mitchell, Ottawa, one of FBI's most wanted
1942 - Wilbert Bank, actor/director (On Hope of Blessing)
1942 - Willis Reed, NBA hall of fame MVP center/coach (NY Knicks)
1942 - Michel Tremblay, Canadian playwright
1943 - Gerrit "Ger" Zijlstra, sculptor
1943 - Bill Moggridge [William], London, England, designer (1st laptop computer), (d. 2012)
1944 - Robert Charlebois, Canadian singer
1945 - Carly Simon, NYC, singer (Anticipation, You're So Vain)
1946 - Allen Lanier, rock keyboardist/guitarist/vocalist (Blue Oyster Cult)
1946 - Ian McDonald, London England, rock guitarist (Foreigner, King Crimson)
1946 - Roméo Dallaire, Canadian senator
1947 - Jimmie Walker, Bronx NY, comedian (JJ-Good Times, At Ease)
1948 - Michael Lembeck, Bkln, actor (Max-One Day at a Time)
1949 - Brenda Sykes, Shreveport La, actress (Ozzie's Girls, Getting Straight)
1949 - Kene Holliday, NYC, actor (Tyler-Matlock, Carter Country)
1949 - Phyllis George-Brown, Denton Tx, Miss America (1971)/sportscaster (CBS)
1950 - Leonid Georiyevich Ivanov, Russia, cosmonaut (Soyuz 33)
1950 - Tatyana Averina, USSR, speed skater 1K, 3K (Olympic-gold-1976)
1950 - Nitza Saul, Israeli actress
1951 - Lee Wilkof, Canton Ohio, actor (WEB, Delta House, Elliot-Newhart)
1951 - Michael Francis, rocker
1952 - Brian MacLeod, rock guitarist/keyboardist/vocalist (Chilliwack)
1952 - Tim Finn, rocker (Split Enz, Crowded House, Puberty Blues)
1953 - Ian Davis, cricketer (Australian batsman 1973-77)
1954 - David Paich, rock keyboardist (Toto-Africa)
1954 - John Kimmel, horse trainer
1954 - Lina Romay, Barcelona Spain, actress (Conan the Barbarian)
1954 - Daryush Shokof, Iranian filmmaker
1955 - Michael Sabatino, California, actor (Days of Our Life, Bold & Beautiful)
1956 - Boris Trajkovski, President of the Republic of Macedonia (d. 2004)
1956 - Anthony Bourdain, Chef and author
1958 - Debbie Green, South Korea, volleyball player (Olympic-silver-1984)
1959 - Jari Puikkonen, Finnish ski jumper, Winter Olympics medalist
1959 - Paris Themmen, American actor
1960 - Craig Johnston, Australian soccer player
1961 - Ricky Gervais, Reading England, actor and comedian (The Office)
1962 - Dan Turk, NFL center (Washington Redskins)
1962 - Phill Jupitus, English comedian and broadcaster
1963 - Doug Gilmour, Kingston, NHL center (Toronto Maple Leafs)
1963 - George Michael [Panos], London, British rock vocalist (Wham-I Want Your Sex)
1963 - Mike Myers, Canada, comedian (SNL-Wayne's World) [or May 25]
1963 - Mike Stanley, Fort Lauderdale FL, catcher (NY Yankees, Boston Red Sox)
1963 - Si-An Deng, Shanghai China, Canadian badminton player (Olympics-96)
1963 - Yann Martel, Canadian author
1963 - John Benjamin Hickey, American actor
1964 - Dell Curry, NBA guard (Charlotte Hornets)
1964 - Phil Emery, cricketer (NSW wicket-keeper, Australia 1994)
1964 - Emma Suárez, Spanish actress
1964 - Greg Raymer, Professional poker player
1966 - Dikembe Mutombo, NBA center (Atlanta Hawks, Denver Nuggets)
1967 - Brian Wanek, Mequon Wis, speed skater (Olympics-1994)
1967 - Joan Smith, Rochester NY, biathelete (Olympics-1994)
1967 - Roshan Jurangpathy, cricketer (2 Tests for Sri Lanka 1985-86)
1968 - Oleg Taktarov, Russian martial artist
1969 - Alina Ivanova, Ukraine, race walker (indoor 3K world record)
1969 - Armand Benneker, Dutch soccer player (MVV)
1969 - Jurgen Streppel, soccer player (Telstar/RKC)
1969 - Matt Gallant, American television host
1970 - Aaron Sele, Golden Valley MN, pitcher (Boston Red Sox)
1970 - Ana Rosa Brito, Miss Puerto Rico Universe (1997)
1970 - Lucy Benjamin, British actress
1970 - Ariel Gore, American journalist and author
1970 - Erki Nool, Estonian decathlete
1970 - Roope Latvala, Finnish musician
1971 - Michael Tucker, South Boston VA, outfielder (KC Royals)
1971 - Mike Sutherland, CFL offensive linebacker (Montreal Alouettes)
1971 - Robert Reichel, Litinov CZE, hockey forward (NY Islanders, Oly-G-98)
1971 - Ryan Carey, CFL safety (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1971 - Steve Tikolo, cricketer (outstanding Kenyan batsman in 1996 World Cup)
1971 - Santiago de Tezanos, Uruguayan architect
1971 - Scott Maslen, Actor
1971 - Angela Kinsey, American actress
1971 - Neil Lennon, Northern Irish footballer
1972 - Amy Wickus, Baraboo Wisconsin, 800m/1500m runner
1972 - Carlos Delgado, Aguadilla Puerto Rico, infielder (Toronto Blue Jays)
1972 - Mike Kroeger, Canadian musician (Nickelback)
1973 - Milan Hnilicka, hockey goaltender (Team Czech Oly-Gold-1998)
1973 - Rene Corbet, Victoriaville, NHL left wing (Colorado Avalanche)
1973 - Whitney Post, Wayland Mass, rower (Olympics-96)
1973 - Jamie Redknapp, English footballer
1974 - Lee Cole, WLAF cornerback (Rhein Fire)
1974 - Leeland McElroy, running back (Arizona Cardinals)
1974 - Vernon Crawford, linebacker (New England Patriots)
1974 - Jim LaMarca, American bass guitarist (Chimaira)
1974 - Karisma Kapoor, Indian actress
1974 - Nisha Ganatra, Canadian film director
1975 - Alberto Costa, Lerida Spain, tennis pro
1975 - Linda Cardellini, American actress
1975 - Chenoa, Spanish singer
1975 - Vladimir Kramnik, Russian chess player
1975 - Natasha Klauss, Colombian actress
1976 - Marina Alofagia McCartney, Miss New Zealand Universe (1997)
1976 - José Cancela, Uruguayan footballer
1976 - Dubravka Vukotić, Montenegrin female actor
1978 - Aftab Shivdasani, Bollywood actor
1978 - Layla El, 2006 WWE Diva Search winner
1978 - Luke Scott, American baseball player
1979 - Brandi Lynn Burkhardt, Miss Maryland Teen USA (1997)
1979 - Kelli Jones, Miss Kentucky Teen USA (1997)
1979 - Katie Doyle, American actress and reality television star
1979 - Hirooki Goto, Japanese professional wrestler
1979 - Busy Philipps, American actress
1979 - Richard Hughes, Scottish footballer
1980 - Maja Latinović, Serbian model
1980 - Nozomi Takeuchi, Japanese actress
1981 - Simon Ammann, Swiss ski jumper
1981 - Sheridan Smith, British actress
1981 - Pooja Umashankar, Indian actress
1982 - Mikhail Youzhny, Russian tennis player
1982 - Rain, Korean singer (Rain, Jeong Ji-Hoon)
1983 - Todd Cooper, British swimmer
1984 - Indigo, American actress
1986 - Charlie Davies, American soccer player
1986 - Aya Matsuura, Japanese singer
1993 - Barney Clark, English actor

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 25, 2013, 11:16:23 AM

This Day in History for 25th June


Famous Deaths

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US Calvary Commander                           Lyricist and Songwriter                     King of Pop Michael Jackson (2009)
George Armstrong Custer (1876)             Johnny Mercer (1976)


635 - Emperor Gaozu, first emperor of the Chinese Tang Dynasty (b. 566)
1134 - King Niels of Denmark
1142 - Gulielmus of Vercelli, Italian hermit/monastery founder/saint, dies
1212 - Simon de Montfort, a leader of the crusades, dies at 67
1218 - Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, French crusader (b. 1160)
1423 - Reinald IV, duke of Gelre & Gulik (Reinoud I), dies
1483 - Edward V, king of England (Apr 9-Jun 25, 1483), murdered
1483 - Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers, English writer
1514 - Berta Jacobsdr, [Suster Bertken], Dutch hermit, dies at 87
1522 - Franchinus Gaffurius, composer, dies at 71
1533 - Mary Tudor, queen consort of Louis XII of France (b. 1496)
1579 - Hatano Hideharu, Japanese warlord and samurai (b. 1541)
1593 - Michele Mercati, Italian physician and gardener (b. 1541)
1634 - John Marston, English playwright (b. 1576)
1665 - Archduke Sigismund Francis of Austria (b. 1630)
1669 - François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort, French soldier (b. 1616)
1671 - Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Italian astronomer (b. 1598)
1673 - Charles de Batz-Castelmore, Comte d'Artagnan, Captain of the Musketeers under Louis XIV
           of France (b. 1611)
1686 - Simon Ushakov, Russian painter (b. 1626)
1710 - Antonius Matthaeus, Dutch lawyer/historian, dies at 74
1715 - Jean du Casse, French admiral (b. 1646)
1767 - Georg Philipp Telemann, German late-barok composer, dies at 86
1785 - Pierre Talon, composer, dies at 63
1785 - Pieter Kintsius, VOC-supercarga/chief on Macau, dies at 53
1792 - Thomas Peters, Early Sierra Leonean founder (b. 1738)
1798 - Thomas Sandby, English architect (b. 1721)
1822 - Ernst T Amadeus Hoffmann, German writer/judge/composer, dies at 46
1838 - François Nicolas Benoît, Baron Haxo, French general (b. 1774)
1840 - Leopold count of Limburg Stirum, Dutch general/politician, dies at 82
1861 - Abd-ul-Mejid, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1823)
1866 - Alexander von Nordmann, Finnish zoologist (b. 1803)
1868 - Carlo Matteucci, Italian physicist (b. 1811)
1875 - Antoine-Louis Barye, French sculptor (b. 1796)
1876 - Boston Custer, brother of George Custer, dies at Little Bighorn
1876 - George A Custer, US general (Little Bighorn), dies at 36
1876 - John Patton, trumpeter, dies at Little Bighorn
1876 - Lame White Man, Cheyenne, dies at Little Bighorn
1876 - Myles Keogh, US officer, dies at Little Bighorn
1876 - Thomas W Custer, brother of George Custer, dies at Little Bighorn
1882 - François Jouffroy, French sculptor (b. 1806)
1884 - Hans Rott, composer, dies at 25
1896 - Emile AH Seipgens, Dutch priest/beer brewer/man of letters, dies at 58
1898 - Ferdinand J Cohn, German botanist/publicist, dies at 70
1906 - Stanford White, Architect, shot dead atop Madison Square Garden which he designed by
           Harry Thaw jealous husband of Evelyn Nesbit
1912 - Louis Antoine, Belgian miner/sect leader, dies at about 65
1916 - Thomas Eakins, American artist (b. 1844)
1918 - Jake Beckley, baseball player (b. 1867)
1926 - Symon Petljoera, pres Ukraine (pogroms), murdered in Paris
1929 - Georges Courteline [Moineaux], French playwright, dies
1937 - Colin Clive, actor (Bride of Frankenstein, Jane Eyre), dies at 39
1942 - Hans Lietzman, German theologist/church historian, dies at 67
1943 - Spencer Charters, actor (Big Town Girl, St Louis Kid), dies at 68
1944 - Lucha Reyes, Mexican singer (b. 1906)
1948 - William C. Lee, U.S. general (b. 1895)
1949 - Buck Freeman, baseball player (b. 1871)
1953 - Algy Gehrs, cricketer (6 Tests for Australia 1904-11), dies
1954 - Eduard M Meijers, Dutch lawyer (Civil Code), dies at 74
1956 - Ernest J King, US fleet admiral/Chief of Naval Operations, dies at 77
1959 - Charles Starkweather, spree killer (b. 1938)
1960 - WH Walter Baade, German/US astronomer (Andromeda), dies at 67
1962 - Ephraim Lisitsky, Hebrew poet, dies
1964 - Gerrit T Rietveld, Dutch architect (Sonsbeekpaviljoen), dies at 76
1968 - Tony Hancock, actor/writer (Call Me Genius, Rebel), dies at 43
1971 - Charles Vildrac, Paris France, poet/playwright, dies at 88
1971 - John Boyd Orr, Scottish physician, Nobel laureate (b. 1880)
1974 - Cornelius Lanczos, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1893)
1976 - Johnny Mercer, US songwriter (That old Black Magic), dies at 66
1977 - Endre Szervanszky, composer, dies at 65
1977 - Petko Staynov, composer, dies at 80
1978 - Hussein al-Ghasjmi, president of North-Yemen, murdered
1979 - Philippe Halsman, American photographer (b. 1906)
1983 - Alberto Evaristo Ginastera, Argentine composer (Panambi), dies at 67
1984 - Michel Foucault, philosoph (History of Sexuality), dies of AIDs at 57
1985 - Morris Mason, American murderer (b. 1954)
1986 - Gery Florizoone, Flemish poet, dies at 63
1987 - Boudleaux Bryant, song writer (for Everly Bros), dies at 67
1988 - Axis Sally, [Mildred E Gillars], US nazi propagandist (WW II), dies
1988 - Hillel Slovak, Israeli-born musician (Anthym/What Is This?, Red Hot Chili Peppers) (b. 1962)
1990 - Peggy Glanville-Hicks, Australian composer (Triad), dies at 77
1992 - James Stirling, Scottish D-Day parachutist/architect, dies
1992 - Jerome Brown, defensive tackle (Phila Eagle), dies in car crash at 27
1992 - William E Harris, entertainer, dies
1994 - Louis-Robert Casterman, Belgian publisher (Kuifje), dies at 74
1994 - Robert Millar, journalist, dies at 72
1995 - Warren Earl Burger, Supreme Court Justice, dies of heart failure at 78
1996 - Nicholas John, dramaturge, dies at 43
1996 - Ray Howard-Jones, artist, dies at 93
1996 - Sir Arthur Snelling, British Ambassador (b. 1914)
1997 - Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Fren oceanographer, dies of heart attack at 87
1997 - William Lyle Woratzeck, convicted killer, executed in Ariz at 51
1998 - Lounès Matoub, a famous Berber Kabyle singer (b. 1956)
1999 - Fred Feast, English actor (b. 1929)
2002 - Jean Corbeil, Canadian politician (b. 1934)
2003 - Lester Maddox, American businessman, one-time segregationist and Governor of Georgia (b.
           1915)
2005 - John Fiedler, American Actor (b. 1925)
2006 - Jaap Penraat, Dutch architect (b. 1918)
2007 - Mahasti, Persian singer (b. 1946)
2007 - J. Fred Duckett, American sports announcer and teacher (b. 1933)
2009 - Michael Jackson, American recording artist, entertainer and King of Pop music (The Jackson 5,
           Thriller, Dangerous) dies of cardiac arrest aged 50
2009 - Farrah Fawcett, American actress and pop culture figure (b.1947)
2010 - Alan Plater, English playwright (b. 1935)
2010 - Richard B. Sellars, American business executive (b. 1915)
2011 - Margaret Tyzack, English actress (b. 1931)
2011 - Goff Richards, British brass band music composer/arranger

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 26, 2013, 09:10:43 AM

This Day in History for 26th June


Historical Events

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Anti-apartheid activist/                      Singer & Cultural Icon Elvis Presley        Singer & Actress Barbra Streisand
South African President
Nelson Mandela

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Comedian David Letterman                    Actress Julia Roberts


363 - Roman Emperor Julian is killed during the retreat from the Sassanid Empire. General Jovian is
         proclaimed Emperor by the troops on the battlefield.
684 - St Benedict II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1284 - Pied Piper lures 130 children of Hamelin away (actually happened)
1409 - Council of Pisa selects Petros Philargi as 3rd Pope: Alexander V
1483 - Duke of Gloucester appoints himself King Richard III of England
1498 - Toothbrush invented
1553 - Christ's Hospital in England granted a charter
1630 - Swedish troops under Gustaf II Adolf lands at Peenemunde
1714 - Spain & Netherlands sign peace/trade agreement
1718 - Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich of Russia, Peter the Great's son, mysteriously dies after being
           sentenced to death by his father for plotting against him.
1721 - Dr Zabdiel Boylston gives 1st smallpox inoculations in America
1723 - After a lasting siege and bombardment by cannons, Baku surrenders to the Russians.
1794 - Battle of Colors: France under Jourdan beats Austrian army
1797 - Charles Newbold patents 1st cast-iron plow. He can't sell it to farmers, though, they fear
           effects of iron on soil!
1807 - Lightning hits gunpowder warehouse in Luxembourg; 230 die
1843 - Hong Kong proclaimed a British Crown Colony
1848 - 1st pure food law enacted in US
1848 - End of the June Days Uprising in Paris.
1857 - 62 receive Victoria Cross
1857 - Cawnpore England massacre
1862 - Battle of Beaver Dam Creek-Union repulses Confederacy in Virginia
1862 - Day 2 of 7 Days-Battle of Mechanicsville VA (Meadow Bridge)
1862 - US Army of Virginia established under Gen John Pope
1870 - 1st section of Atlantic City (NJ) Boardwalk opens
1870 - Wagner's opera "Valkyrie" premieres in Munich
1870 - The Christian holiday of Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States.
1879 - Ismael Pasha resigns as khedive of Egypt
1894 - Karl Benz of Germany receives US patent for gasoline-driven auto
1896 - 1st movie theater in US opens, charging 10 cents for admission
1900 - Dr Walter Reed begins research that beats Yellow Fever
1902 - Order of Merit instituted by King Edward VII
1902 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of 3 Garidebs" (BG)
1906 - Hongar Szisz wins 1st Grand-Prix (Le Mans, France)
1907 - Bolsheviks overthrows transport in Tiflis
1909 - 23rd US Womens Tennis: H Hotchkiss beats Maud Barger-Wallach (60 61)
1909 - Victoria & Albert Museum opens in London
1910 - 24th US Womens Tennis: H Hotchkiss Wightman beats L Hammond (64 62)
1910 - Hazel Hotchkiss wins US Lawn Tennis Association championship
1911 - Nieuport sets an aircraft speed record of 83 mph (133 kph)
1912 - Gustav Mahler's 9th Symphony premieres in Vienna
1915 - Germany suppresses its "Vorwarts" newspaper after it called for peace
1916 - Cleveland Indians experiment with #s on their jerseys (one game)
1917 - 1st US Expeditionary Force arrive in France during WW I
1919 - NY Daily News begins publishing
1924 - After 8 years of occupation, US troops leave Dominican Republic
1924 - Ziegfeld Follies opens on Broadway
1927 - Comet 7P/Pons-Winnecke approaches within 0.0394 AUs of Earth
1927 - The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island
1929 - ENKA/Vereinigte Glanzstoff Factory merge AKU (Genl Kunstzijde Union)
1934 - FDR signs Federal Credit Union Act, establishing Credit Unions
1934 - Germany & Poland sign no-attack treaty
1934 - W E B Du Bois resigns position at NAACP
1935 - Andrew Sandham's 100th FC hundred, 103 v Hants
1935 - Lloyd Waner sets record of 18 putouts in center in doubleheader
1935 - SDAP & CPH achieve majority in city council in Amsterdam
1935 - Work service for recent graduate obligatory in Germany
1936 - 1st flight of Fw61 helicopter
1936 - Everett Marshall beats Ali Baba in Columbus, to become wrestling champ
1937 - Test cricket debut of Len Hutton v NZ at Lord's, scores 0 & 1
1938 - Cin Red Lonny Frey hits 8 doubles in a doubleheader
1940 - End of USSR experimental calendar; Gregorian readopted 6/27
1941 - Finland enters WW II against Russia
1941 - Lithuanian fascist massacre 2,300 Jews in Kovno
1942 - German assault on British at Mersa Matruh
1944 - 2nd British army reaches Grainville-Mouen line
1944 - Yanks, Dodgers & Giants play unique 6 inn game for War Bonds, each playing successive
           innings, final score Dodgers-5, Yanks-1 & Giants-0
1945 - England win the second Victory test cricket at Bramall Lane by 41 runs
1945 - UN Charter signed by 50 nations in SF
1946 - Dutch Nazi collaborator Arnold Meijer sentenced to 5 years
1946 - Fred Allen's last radio show, his guest is Jack Benny
1948 - US denounces Soviet blockade of Berlin
1949 - 1st Belgian parliamentary election where women can vote (CVP gains)
1950 - Pres Gottwald of Czech confirms Milada Horakova's death sentence
1952 - Dutch social democratic party wins elections (29%)
1952 - Nelson Mandela & 51 others infringe South Africa curfew
1953 - KCTV (now KLST) TV channel 8 in San Angelo, TX (CBS) 1st broadcast
1953 - Russian vice-premier/interior minister Beria arrested
1954 - Jim Peters runs marathon in 2:17:39.4
1955 - Freedom Charter signed in South-Africa
1955 - Patty Berg wins LPGA Western Golf Open
1958 - Gaston Eyskens becomes premier of Belgium
1958 - Mackinac Straits Bridge, Michigan dedicated
1958 - Vanguard SLV-2 launched for Earth orbit (failed)
1959 - Ingemar Johansson TKOs Floyd Patterson in 3 for heavyweight boxing title
1959 - Queen Elizabeth & Pres Eisenhower open St Lawrence Seaway
1960 - British Somaliland (now Somalia) gains independence from Britain
1960 - Hall of Fame allows veteran committee to vote annually
1960 - Italian Somaliland declares independence from Italian-administration
1960 - Madagascar (formerly Malagasy Rep) declares independence from France
1962 - Blacks begin passive resistance in Cairo Ill
1962 - Boston Red Sox Earl Wilson no-hits LA Angels, 2-0
1962 - WSEC (now WLRN) TV channel 17 in Miami, FL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1963 - Alfons Gorbach forms Austrian government
1963 - Dutch 2nd Chamber condemns commercial TV
1963 - Kennedy visits W Berlin "Ich bin ein Berliner" (I am a Berliner)
1964 - Beatles release "A Hard Day's Night" album
1964 - Blacks & Whites riot over racial segregation in St Augustine
1964 - Moise Tsjombe forms government in Congo
1965 - Wallon party forms in Belgium
1966 - "Time for Singing" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 41 perfs
1966 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Waterloo Women's Golf Open Invitational
1966 - Kanton Bazel leads female suffrage in Switzerland
1967 - Pope Paul VI names 27 new cardinals
1968 - Executive Council decides both AL & NL to divide into 2 divisions
1968 - Iwo Jima & Bonin Islands returned to Japan by US
1970 - Frank Robinson hits 2 grand slams as Orioles beat Senators 12-2
1971 - "Man of La Mancha" closes at ANTA Wash Sq Theater NYC after 2329 perfs
1971 - Angels suspend Alex Johnson (after 5 benchings & 29 fines)
1972 - Bob Massie takes 16 wickets (8-84 & 8-53) on Test cricket debut v Eng
1972 - IRA proclaims resistant in North-Ireland
1973 - London production of "Grease" premieres
1973 - On Plesetsk Cosmodrome 9 people are killed in an explosion of a Cosmos 3-M rocket.
1974 - Liz Taylor's 5th divorce (Richard Burton)
1974 - The Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing
           gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio
1975 - Cher divorces Sonny Bono
1975 - Indian PM Indira Gandhi declares a state of emergency
1975 - Two FBI agents and a member of the American Indian Movement are killed in a shootout on
           the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota; Leonard Peltier is later convicted of the 
           murders in a controversial trial.
1976 - WS shortstop Toby Harrah plays DH without touching a batted ball
1977 - 42 die in fire inmate causes at Maury County Jail in Columbia Tenn
1977 - Debbie Austin wins LPGA Hoosier Golf Classic
1977 - Elvis Presley sings in Indianapolis, last performance of his career
1977 - The Yorkshire Ripper kills 16 year old shop assistant Jayne MacDonald in Leeds, changing
           public perception of the killer as she was the first victim who was not a prostitute.
1978 - Brittany separatists bomb Palace of Versailles in France
1978 - First dedicated oceanographic satellite, SEASAT 1, launched
1978 - Air Canada Flight 189 to Toronto overruns the runway and crashes into the Etobicoke Creek
           ravine. Two of 107 passengers on board perish.
1979 - Rocker Nigel Olsson runs a stop sign, crashes & kills a driver
1981 - "For Your Eyes Only" premieres in US
1982 - Carlos Lopes runs Europe record 10k (27:34.39)
1982 - US vetos UN Security Council resolution for a limited withdrawal from Beirut of Israeli &
           Palestine Liberation Organization forces
1983 - "Loving" premieres on TV
1983 - "Show Boat" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 73 performances
1983 - Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Rochester Golf International
1984 - 1st flight of Shuttle Discovery (41-D) scrubbed at T -4
1984 - Barbra Streisand records "Here We Are at Last"
1986 - South African journalist Zwelakhe Sisulu arrested
1987 - Losing 9-0 to Red Sox, Yanks score 11 in 3rd & win 12-11 in 10 inn
1987 - Supreme Court Justice Lewis F Powell Jr announces his retirement
1988 - Kathy Postlewait wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Championship
1989 - Canada updates coins with a new potrait of the Queen
1989 - Supreme Court rules 16 year olds can receive death penalty
1990 - 122°F in Phoenix Arizona
1990 - 8 KS & OK radio stations boycott k d lang, due to her anti-meat ad
1990 - New Kid on the Block Donnie Wahlberg release from hospital after fall
1991 - "Getting Married" opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 70 perfs
1991 - ANC leader Nelson Mandela addresses congress
1991 - Amy Elizabeth Goodman, of California, crowned America's Junior Miss
1991 - Charlotte Hornets make Larry Johnson of UNLV, NBA's #1 draft pick
1991 - Ky medical examiner announces Zachary Taylor died of natural causes
1992 - India leases Tin Bigha corridor to Bangladesh
1992 - NYC's MTA votes to ban cigarette ads on Jan 1, 1993
1992 - Supreme Court rules fund soliciting can be banned at airports
1992 - Denmark upsets German 2-0, to win European Soccer championship
1993 - "Late Night with David Letterman" airs for last time on NBC-TV
1993 - Actress Julia Roberts & country singer Lyle Lovett wed
1993 - NY Met Eddie Murray is 20th to get 1,600 RBIs
1993 - Rebecca Jones, of Georgia, 18, crowned America's Junior Miss
1993 - US Tomahawk-rockets hit Iraqi secret service, Baghdad
1993 - The U.S. launches a missile attack targeting Baghdad intelligence headquarters in retaliation
           for a thwarted assassination attempt against former President George H.W. Bush in April in
           Kuwait.
1994 - "Broken Glass" closes at Booth Theater NYC after 73 performances
1994 - "Medea" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 82 performances
1994 - 104°F (40°C) at Denver Colorado
1994 - 107°F (41.6°C) at Albuquerque New Mexico
1994 - 112°F (44.4°C) at El Paso Texas
1994 - 122°F (50°C) at Laughlin Nevada
1994 - 126°F (52.2°C) in Death Valley Calif
1994 - Air Ivory Fokker's-27 crashes at Abidjan (16 killed/1 lives)
1994 - Donna Andrews wins ShopRite LPGA Golf Classic
1994 - Kirby Puckett pass Rod Carew with 2,088 hit as Twin's top hit leader
1994 - PLO-leader Yasser Arafat returns to Gaza after 27 years
1994 - US loses to Romania 1-0 in 1994 soccer world cup
1995 - Gunmen ambush Egyptian pres Hosni Mubarak, escapes unharmed
1995 - Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani deposes his father Khalifa bin Hamad al-Thani, the Emir of Qatar,
           in a bloodless coup.
1996 - Irish Journalist Veronica Guerin is shot in her car while in traffic in the outskirts of Dublin
1997 - Galileo, Ganymede Observations (Orbit 9)
1997 - Supreme Court strikes down Internet indecency law
1997 - Supreme Court upholds doctor-assisted suicide ban
1997 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Communications Decency Act violates the First
           Amendment
2003 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Lawrence v. Texas that gender-based sodomy laws are
           unconstitutional.
2008 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules in District of Columbia v. Heller that the ban on handguns in
           the District of Columbia is unconstitutional.

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 26, 2013, 09:12:13 AM

This Day in History for 26th June


Famous Weddings

1844 - 10th US President John Tyler marries 2nd wife Julia Gardiner in NYC, 1st president to marry
           while in office
1955 - Actor Geoffrey Holder marries Carmen de Lavallade
1982 - Marie Osmond marries Steve Craig
1984 - Tiny Tim marries Miss Jan (23)
1989 - Melanie Griffith & Don Johnson marry for 2nd time
1994 - Actor Brandon Cruz (32) weds Elizabeth Finkelstein (26)
1996 - Actor Kiefer Sutherland (29) weds model Elizabeth Kelly Winn (34)
1999 - Bestselling novelist Tom Clancy (52) weds freelance journalist Alexandra Llewellyn (32) in
           Manhattan
2010 - Former WWE Diva Michelle McCool (30) weds fellow wrestler "The Undertaker" Mark Calaway
           (45) in Houston, Texas
2010 - "American Beauty" actress Mena Suvari (31) weds concert producer Simone Sestito (25) at
           Santo Stefano degli Abissini in Vatican City, Italy
2010 - "Shear Genius" TV personality finalist Janine Jarman (29) weds sales executive Matthew
           Wolcott (33) in Hollywood

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 26, 2013, 09:13:10 AM

This Day in History for 26th June


Famous Divorces

1974 - Liz Taylor's 5th divorce (Richard Burton)
1975 - Cher divorces Sonny Bono

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 26, 2013, 09:18:06 AM

This Day in History for 26th June


Famous Birthdays

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Singer Chris Isaak (1956)                          Actor Chris O'Donnell (1970)              Baseball Player Derek Jeter (1974)


1575 - Anne Catherine of Brandenburg, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1612)
1582 - Johannes Schultz, composer
1655 - Jean Deutz, merchant/Amsterdam regent
1681 - Hedwig Sophia, duchess of Holstein-Gottorp, Swedish writer (d. 1708)
1689 - Edward Holyoke, American academic (d. 1769)
1694 - Georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and mineralogist (d. 1768)
1702 - Philip Doddridge, England, Dr/nonconformist clergyman
1703 - Thomas Clap, American academic (d. 1767)
1730 - Charles Joseph Messier, astronomer (cataloguer of "M objects")
1742 - Arthur Middleton, signer (Declaration of Independence)
1747 - Leopold Jan Antonin Kozeluh, composer
1749 - Louis Joseph Claude Saint-Amans, composer
1760 - Johan I Jozef, monarch of Liechtenstein/fieldmarshal
1763 - George Morland, England, artist of rural landscapes
1819 - Abner Doubleday, Mjr Gen (Union)/inventor (baseball) [or 1/26]
1821 - Bartolomé Mitre, Argentine general
1823 - Frederick Bowen Jewson, composer
1824 - Kelvin, [William Thomson], British physicist (Kelvin Scale)
1824 - Moritz Furstenau, composer
1831 - Julius Rodenberg, [Levy], German writer (Kriegs-Songs of War & Peace)
1837 - Martin Davis Hardin II, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1923
1837 - Victor Jean Baptiste Girardey, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1854 - Robert Laird Borden, (C), 8th Canadian PM (1911-20)
1865 - Bernard Berenson, art critic (Italian Painters of the Renaissance)
1865 - Charles E Bonin, French explorer/diplomat (China)
1865 - George C Pearce, actor (Country Kid, British Agent, Valiant)
1866 - Josef Swickard, Coblenz Germany, actor (Lost City, Tale of 2 Cities)
1869 - Martin Andersen Nexø, Danish writer (d. 1954)
1874 - Albert Relf, cricketer (England all-rounder in 13 Tests 1903-14)
1874 - Mikhail Vladimirovich Ivanov-Boretsky, composer
1875 - Camille Zeckwer, composer
1876 - Nico[laas P] de Jong, Dutch radio play actor (Laughter & Tears)
1878 - Albert Siklos, composer
1878 - Ernest Torrence, Edinburgh Scotland, actor (Hunchback of Notre Dame)
1880 - Natalia, Princess Brassova (d. 1952)
1885 - Andre Maurois, [Emile Herzog], French writer (Balzac)
1885 - Anna M F van Wageningen-Salomons, author (Girl Student) [or 9/26]
1885 - Billy Jenkins, [Erich Rosenthal], Magdeburg
1886 - Margaretha C E "Greta" Beekman, actress (Wrong Poes)
1887 - Anthony G de Rothschild, Britain, philanthropist
1891 - Heinrich Lemacher, composer
1891 - Sidney Coe Howard, US, dramatist (Swords, Pulitzer 1925)
1891 - Vladislav Vancura, Czech physician/(stage)author/resistance fighter
1892 - Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, China, author (Good Earth-Nobel 1938)
1893 - "Big Bill" Broonzy, Miss, blues singer/guitarist (Blues by Broonzy)
1894 - Bill Wirges, Buffalo NY, orchestra leader (Growing Paynes)
1894 - Jeanne Eagels, actress (Rain, Under False Colors)
1895 - Jankel Adler, Polish painter
1895 - George Hainsworth, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1950)
1897 - Viola Dana, Brooklyn, actress (Willow Tree, 40 Winks, Silent Lover)
1898 - Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft designer
1898 - Chesty Puller, the most decorated Marine in history (d. 1971)
1899 - Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918)
1900 - Joseph E A "Jo" Spier, Dutch cartoonist/water color painter
1901 - Stuart Symington, (Sen-D-Mo)
1901 - William Busch, composer
1902 - Antonia Brico, Rotterdam Holland, conductor/pianist (Antonia)
1902 - William Lear, engineer/manufacturer/CEO (Lear Jet Corp)
1902 - Hugues Cuénod, Swiss Tenor
1903 - Ashley Clarke, president (Venice in Peril Fund)
1903 - Floyd "Babe" Herman, Brooklyn Dodgers' slugger (.324 lifetime average)
1904 - Peter Lorre, Hungarian/US, actor (M, Casablanca, Beast with 5 Fingers)
1904 - Frank Scott Hogg, Canadian astronomer (d. 1951)
1905 - Jack Longland, British director of education (Derbyshire)
1905 - Jan Louis Guillaume "Yvan" Doornik, Neth resistance fighter in France
1906 - Stefan Andres, German writer (Wir sind Utopia)
1906 - Viktor Schreckengost, American industrial designer (d. 2008)
1907 - Debs Garms, American baseball player (d. 1984)
1909 - "Col Tom" Parker, [Dries Van Kruijk], Neth, rock mgr (Elvis Presley)
1909 - Betty Askwith, author
1909 - Nicholas Polunin, environmentalist
1910 - Charles Spry, Australian security chief
1911 - Edward Levi, professor (Intro to Legal Reasoning)
1911 - Babe Didrikson Zaharias [Mildred Ella], Port Arthur, Texas, American athlete (U.S. Olympic Hall
           of Fame)
1913 - Maurice Wilkes, inventor (stored program concept for computers)
1913 - Aimé Césaire, French Martinican poet and politician (d. 2008)
1914 - John J "John" Beautiful Garden, sculptor
1914 - Laurie Lee, English poet/author (I Can't Stay Long)
1914 - Richard Maltby, orchestra leader (Vaughn Monroe Show)
1914 - Wolfgang Windgassen, Annemasse France, tenor (Stuttgart Opera)
1915 - Paul Castellano, American mafia boss (d. 1985)
1915 - Charlotte Zolotow, American author
1916 - Paul Derrick, co-operator/Christian socialist
1917 - William Hamilton, British MP
1919 - Lord Rawlinson, British attorney general (Ewell)
1920 - Michael Eastham, high court judge
1921 - Abe Jan Koldijk, SS-physician (Limburg's family doctor)
1921 - Violette Szabo, French WWII secret agent (d. 1945)
1922 - Alan Peacock, economist
1922 - Campbell Adamson, CEO (Abbey National Pictures)
1922 - Eleanor Parker, Ohio, actress (Caged, Detective Story, Hans Brinker)
1922 - Frances Rafferty, Sioux City Iowa, actress (December Bride)
1923 - David Haslam, British rear admiral (hydrographer)
1923 - Barbara Graham, American murderer (d. 1955)
1924 - Peter Miles, British keeper of privy purse
1924 - Syd Lawrence, bandleader (Syd Lawrence Orch)
1924 - Costas Axelos, Greek philosopher
1925 - Pavel Ivanovich Belyayev, USSR, cosmonaut (Voskhod II)
1927 - Leslie Carpenter, CEO (Reed International)
1928 - Jacob Druckman, Philadelphia, composer (Animus I Auerole)
1928 - Yoshiro Nakamatsu, Japanese inventor
1929 - Alexander Fenton, CEO (Euro Ethnological Research Center in Edinburgh)
1929 - Francesco Cossiga, president of Italy (1985- )
1929 - Ian Prestt, English ornithologist
1929 - Milton Glaser, American Designer
1930 - Willem G Statius Muller, Neth Antilles, conductor/pianist/composer
1931 - Alan Bailey, British sect (dept of transport)
1931 - Colin Wilson, author (Afterlife, Book of Great Mysteries)
1931 - Lucien Goethals, composer
1932 - Henry Bromfield, cricketer (S Afr off-spinner in 9 Tests 1961-65)
1933 - Claudio Abbado, Milan Italy, composer/conductor (London Symph-1982)
1933 - David Winnick, British MP
1934 - John V Tunney, heavyweight boxing champion/(Rep/Sen-D-California)
1934 - Josef Sommer, Germany, actor (Witness, Target, Iceman, Forced March)
1934 - Luis Felipe Pires, composer
1934 - Jeremy Wolfenden, British journalist (d. 1965)
1935 - Douglas Peterson, (Rep-D-Florida)
1936 - Robert Maclennan, British MP
1937 - Peter Pike, MP
1937 - Sombat Metanee, Thai film actor
1937 - Robert Coleman Richardson, American physicist, Nobel laureate
1938 - Neil Abercrombie, (Rep-D-Hawaii, 1986-88)
1938 - Gerald North, American climatologist
1939 - Ansar Ilgamovich Sharafutdinov, Russian cosmonaut
1939 - Charles "Chuck" Robb, (Sen-D-Va)/husband of Lynda Bird Johnson
1939 - Smangaliso P Mkhatshwa, South Africa, sec-gen (Bishops&#039; Conference 1983-88)
1940 - Billy Davis Jr, St Louis Mo, singer (5th Dimension-One Less Bell)
1940 - Robert Kramer, actor (A.K.)
1941 - Yves Beauchemin, Canadian novelist
1942 - Larry "The Mole" Taylor, Brooklyn, rocker (Canned Heat-On the Road Again)
1942 - Gilberto Gil, Brazilian singer and Minister of Culture
1943 - Georgie Fame, rock vocalist (Get Away, Ballad of Bonnie & Clyde)
1943 - Jean Knight, US singer (Mr Big Stuff)
1943 - John Allen Strang, composer
1943 - John Beasley, American actor
1944 - Ruth Kempson, linguist (SOAS)
1945 - Barry Schrader, composer
1945 - David Heyn, cricketer (Sri Lankan batsman 1975 World Cup)
1945 - Malachi York, Nuwaubian leader
1946 - Clive Francis, London England, actor (Masada)
1948 - Allen Michael Doyle, Woonsocket RI, PGA golfer (1991 Memorial-64th)
1951 - Breyson Cooper, jockey
1951 - Gary Gilmour, cricketer (exciting Aussie all-rounder 1973-77)
1951 - Pamela Bellwood, [King], NYC, actress (Ellen-W.E.B., Claudia-Dynasty)
1951 - Rindy Ross, Portland Oregon, rock vocalist/saxophonist (Quarterflash)
1952 - Gordon McQueen, soccer player
1953 - James Anderson, writer
1953 - Ralph Ezell, Union Miss, singer (Shenandoah-Sunday in the South)
1954 - Robert Davi, Astoria NY, opera singer/actor (Gangster Chronicles)
1955 - Mary Margaret Brownie, RI, fictional ID of Prymaat (Coneheads)
1955 - Mick Jones, London, rock vocalist/guitarist (Clash-Havana 3 AM)
1956 - Azhar Cachalia, Scottish/S Afr leader (United Democratic Front)
1956 - Bernard A Harris Jr, Temple Texas, MD/Astronaut (STS 55, 63)
1956 - Chris Isaak, Stockton Ca, rock singer/songwriter (Wicked Game)
1956 - Robert Davi, actor (License to Kill, Raw Deal, Wild Thing)
1957 - Patty Smyth, NYC, rock vocalist (Scandal-Warrior)
1957 - Philippe Couillard, Quebec neurosurgeon and politician
1958 - Glen Stewart Godwin, Miami Fla, murderer (FBI Most Wanted)
1959 - Mark McKinney, Canadian actor
1960 - Barbara Edwards, Albuqueque NM, playmate of year (Sept, 1983)/actress
1960 - Jumpy Geathers, NFL defensive end (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1960 - Zachary Breaux, American jazz guitarist
1961 - Greg LeMond, US bicyclist (Tour de France winner-1986, 1989, 1990)
1962 - George P N earl of St Andrews, under English prince Edward
1962 - Jerome Kersey, NBA forward (Golden State Warriors, Sea Supersonics)
1963 - Harriet Wheeler, English pop singer/composer (The Sundays)
1963 - Wendy Lucero-Schayes, Denver Co, US diver (Olympic-92)
1963 - Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky, Russian businessman
1963 - Richard Garfield, American game designer
1964 - Alison Wyeth, Isle West Middlesex England, 1.5k/5k runner
1964 - Pamela Wright, Scotland, LPGA golfer (1995 Jamie Farr Toledo-3rd)
1964 - Zeng Jinlian, Hunan China, became tallest woman known (2.46 m, 8'1")
1966 - Bryan Webb, horse trainer
1966 - Kirk McLean, Toronto, NHL goalie (Vancouver Canucks)
1966 - Paul Mokha, Erie Pa, rower (Olympics-1996)
1967 - Travis Fine, Atlanta GA, actor (Ike McSwain-Young Riders)
1968 - Shannon Sharpe, NFL tight end (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1968 - Paolo Maldini, Italian footballer
1969 - Barry Kloeth, WLAF wide receiver (Amsterdam Admirals)
1969 - Harry Boatswain, NFL tackle (Philadelphia Eagles)
1969 - Michael Myers, Cook County IL, pitcher (Detroit Tigers)
1969 - Troy Auzenne, NFL tackle (Chic Bears)
1969 - Ingrid Lempereur, Belgian swimmer
1970 - Chris O'Donnell, actor (School Ties, Robin-Batman Forever)
1970 - Nicole Richardson, Australian softball outfielder (Olympics-bronze-96)
1970 - Paul Thomas Anderson, American filmmaker
1970 - Irv Gotti, American record producer
1970 - Matt Letscher, American actor
1970 - Nick Offerman, American actor
1971 - Carlton Gray, NFL cornerback (Seattle Seahawks, Indianapolis Colts)
1971 - Eddie Parenti, Montreal Quebec, 100m butterfly swimmer (Olympics-96)
1971 - Max Biaggi, Italian motorcycle racer
1972 - Jai Taurima, Australian long jumper (Olympics-96)
1972 - Jerris McPhail, running back (Miami Dolphins)
1972 - Garou, Canadian singer
1973 - Aaron Jackson, Pitts Pa, actor (Mark Winkle-California Dreams)
1973 - Mischa Smoking, soccer player (Dordrecht '90)
1973 - Reggie Brown, NFL fullback (Seattle Seahawks)
1973 - Gretchen Wilson, American singer
1973 - Paweł Małaszyński, Polish actor
1973 - Jussi Sydänmaa, Finnish musician (Lordi)
1974 - Derek Jeter, Pequanock NJ, shortstop (NY Yankees, Rookie of Year 1996)
1974 - Dieter Kalt, hockey forward (Team Austria 1998)
1974 - Jason Kendall, San Diego CA, catcher (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1974 - Matt Striker, American professional wrestler
1974 - Jeff Frankenstein, American musician (Newsboys)
1974 - Nicole Saba, Lebanese singer
1975 - Umeki Webb, WNBA guard/forward (Phoenix Mercury)
1975 - Jonah Sorrentino, American hip hop artist
1975 - Terry Skiverton, English football player
1976 - Ed Jovanoski, Windsor Ont, NHL defenseman (Florida Panthers)
1976 - Mpumelo Mbangwa, cricketer (Zimbabwe pace bowler v Pakistan 1996)
1976 - Chad Pennington, American football player
1976 - Joe Landon, American pornographic actor
1977 - Kubo Tite, Japanese cartoonist
1977 - Mark Jindrak,American Professional Wrestler
1978 - Alexandra, French singer, L5's singer
1979 - Ryo Fukuda, Japanese racing driver
1979 - Wálter Herrmann, Argentinian basketball player
1979 - Andy O'Brien, English footballer
1980 - Jason Schwartzman, American actor
1980 - Michael Vick, American football player
1980 - Chris Shelton, American baseball player
1980 - Sinik, French singer and rapper
1984 - Elijah Dukes, American baseball player
1984 - Raymond Felton, American basketball player
1984 - Deron Williams, American basketball player
1984 - Jose Juan Barea, American basketball player
1985 - Urgyen Trinley Dorje, Tibetan spiritual leader
1986 - Drake Bell, American actor, musician
1986 - Casey Desmond, American singer
1987 - Carlos Iaconelli, Brazilian racing driver
1987 - Samir Nasri, French footballer
1992 - Jennette McCurdy, American actress
2005 - Princess Alexia of the Netherlands

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 26, 2013, 09:21:30 AM

This Day in History for 26th June


Famous Deaths

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Spanish Conquistador                            Fashion Designer
Francisco Pizarro (1541)                          Liz Claiborne (2007)


363 - Julian the Apostate, Roman Emperor (361-63)
1291 - Eleanor of Provence, wife of Henry III of England
1541 - Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conquistador who conquered the Inca Empire is assassinated in
           Lima by the son of his former companion and later antagonist, Diego Almagro the younger.
           Almagro is later caught and executed.
1631 - Justinus van Nassau, ltalian admiral (Armada), dies
1657 - Tobias Michael, composer, dies at 65
1661 - Lazaro Valvasensi, composer, dies at 76
1666 - Richard Fanshawe, diplomat/translator/poet, dies
1688 - Ralph Cudworth, philospher/cleric, dies
1778 - Angelo Antonio Caroli, composer, dies at 77
1793 - Gilbert White, naturalist/cleric, dies
1798 - Eugene Godecharle, composer, dies at 56
1810 - Joseph Michel Montgolfier, French inventor (b. 1740)
1819 - Johann Wilhelm Stadler, composer, dies at 71
1819 - Slome Duikelar, [Abraham J Swalff], Yiddish writer, dies
1827 - Christian A Vulpius, German writer (Ornaldo Ornaldini), dies
1827 - Samuel Crompton, English inventor (mule-jenny), dies at 73
1836 - Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle, author/composer (Marseillaise), dies
1863 - Andrew Hull Foote, US Union lt admiral, dies
1878 - Mercedes of Orleans, queen of Spain (b. 1860)
1896 - Louis CPR of Orleans, French duke (chosen king of Belgian), dies at 81
1906 - Alexander Muir, poet (Maple Leaf Forever), dies at 76
1918 - Peter Rosegger, Austrian poet and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1843)
1922 - Albert H K, monarch of Monaco (1889-1922), dies at 73
1923 - Edward Rae, cricketer (introduced cricket into Russian Lapland), dies
1926 - Christina Goedvolk, wife of Henry Jut, dies
1937 - Georg A Erman, Ger egyptologist (Grammar of Ancient Egypt), dies at 82
1938 - James Weldon Johnson, black leader (NAACP), dies in car crash at 67
1939 - Ford M Ford, [Hueffer], British writer, (Tietjens Saga) dies at 65
1943 - Fritz Schmidt, Nazi commissioner in Holland, commits suicide at 39
1944 - Billy Newham, cricketer (England Test 1887), dies
1945 - Erno Rapee, composer, dies at 54
1945 - Nikolay Nikolayevich Tcherepnin, composer, dies at 72
1946 - Max Kögel, SS officer (b. 1895)
1946 - Yosuke Matsuoka, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan (b. 1880)
1947 - Richard Bedford Bennett, eleventh Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1870)
1948 - Lilian Velez, Filipino actress (b. 1924)
1949 - Kim Gu, President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (b. 1876)
1956 - Clifford Brown, US jazz trumpeter (Joyspring, Jordu), dies at 25
1957 - Alfred Döblin, German writer (b. 1878)
1958 - Martinus Ballings, Flemish jesuit/author (Vocation), dies at 93
1958 - George Orton, Canadian athlete (b. 1873)
1958 - Andrija Štampar, Croatian physician and United Nations diplomat (b. 1888)
1959 - Audley Miller, cricketer (Test for England 1896), dies
1960 - John Brenden Kelly, rower (Olympic-gold-1920, 24), dies at 70
1961 - Kenneth F Fearing, US, poet (Afternoon of a pawnbroker), dies at 58
1963 - Obe Postma, Fries, poet/geography/historian (Own Cart), dies
1964 - Leo Dandurand, American-born Canadian sports executive (b. 1889)
1965 - Johan C T Kikkert, painter/etcher/critic, dies at 82
1965 - Reginald Beckwith, actor/writer (39 Steps, Dr in Love), dies at 56
1967 - Errol Hunte, cricketer (WI batsman in 3 Tests v England 1930), dies
1967 - Françoise Dorléac, French actress (b. 1942)
1971 - Guillermo Uribe Holguin, composer, dies at 91
1971 - Inia Te Wiata, opera singer, dies
1971 - Juan Manen, composer, dies at 88
1972 - David Lichine, [Lichtenstein], Russian/US choreographer, dies at 61
1973 - Arnold Richardson, composer, dies at 59
1973 - Ernest Truex, actor (Fluffy, Scared, His Girl Friday), dies at 82
1975 - St. Josemaría Escrivá, Spanish Catholic priest (b. 1902)
1977 - Lou Reizner, rock vocalist/producer (Rod Stewart, Tommy), dies at 43
1977 - Oskar Morgenstern, German/US economist, dies at 75
1978 - Rabbaji, president of South-Yemen, executed
1979 - Charles Clore, financier, dies
1981 - Peter Kreuder, German composer, dies
1982 - Alexander Mitscherlich, German psychotherapist, dies
1982 - Andre Tchaikowsy, pianist/composer, dies
1982 - Charles Russhon, USAF lt col/liaison for James Bond films, dies at 71
1982 - Sandy Powell, costume designer, dies at 82
1983 - Walter O'Keefe, songwriter/TV host (Mayor of Hollywood), dies at 82
1984 - Carl Foreman, producer, dies of cancer at 69
1984 - George H Gallup, pollster (Gallup Poll), dies at 82
1986 - Laurie Fishlock, cricketer (4 Tests for England), dies
1987 - Glen Hall, cricketer (Test for South Africa 1965), commits suicide
1990 - Anni Blomqvist, Finnish novelist (b. 1909)
1991 - Carmine Coppola, composer/conductor (Godfather II), dies at 80
1991 - Paul Andor, actor (Mad Lover, Enemy of Women), dies
1992 - Geert Vissers, Dutch TV host (Gay Dating Show), dies
1992 - Phil Rubenstein, US, actor (Tango & Cash, Robocop), dies
1992 - Herman Rohde, professional wrestler (b. 1921)
1993 - Catherine Leno, mother of Tonight Show host Jay, dies of cancer at 82
1993 - Jack Bittner, entertainer, dies
1993 - Roy Campanella, 3xMVP catcher (Dodgers), dies of a heart attack at 71
1993 - Willy C of Hemert, director/(text)poet (Small Truth), dies at 81
1993 - William H. Riker, American political scientist (b. 1920)
1994 - A "Bob" den Doolaard, author (Inn with the horseshoe), dies at 93
1994 - Ian Board, barkeeper, dies at 64
1994 - Jaharna Imam, Bangladeshi writer/political activist, dies at 65
1994 - Roelof Kiers, VPRO-programmer/director (Macchiavelli), dies at 56
1994 - Thomas henry Wait Armstrong, organist, dies at 96
1996 - Veronica Guerin, journalist, dies at 36
1997 - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, Hawaiian singer (b. 1959)
2001 - Soccer (dog actor) (b. 1988)
2002 - Arnold Brown, the 11th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1913)
2002 - Jay Berwanger, American football player (b. 1914)
2003 - Marc-Vivien Foé, Cameroon footballer (b. 1975)
2003 - Denver Randleman, U.S. Army Seargent (b. 1920)
2003 - Strom Thurmond, U.S. Senator (b. 1902)
2003 - Sir Dennis Thatcher MBE, husband of Margaret Thatcher (b. 1915)
2004 - Yash Johar, Indian film producer (b. 1929)
2004 - Naomi Shemer, Israeli singer and song-writer (b. 1930)
2005 - Richard Whiteley, British television game show host (b. 1943)
2007 - Liz Claiborne, Belgian-born American fashion designer (b. 1929)
2007 - Joey Sadler, All Black rugby player (b. 1914)
2007 - Natasja Saad, Danish Reggae singer (b. 1974)
2010 - Sergio Vega, Mexican Banda singer (b.1969)
2010 - Algirdas Brazauskas, President of Lithuania (b. 1932)
2012 - Ann Curtis, American Olympic swimmer, dies at 86
2012 - Nora Ephron, American author/screenwriter, dies from pneumonia at 71

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 27, 2013, 10:48:13 AM

This Day in History for 27th June


Historical Events

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British Army Officer that                       33rd US President Harry Truman            Heavyweight Boxing Champion
Defeated the French in                                                                                                    Mike Tyson
Canada James Wolfe

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264th Pope John Paul II


678 - St Agatho begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1358 - Republic of Dubrovnik is founded
1542 - Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo claims California for Spain
1580 - Duke van Alva's army occupies Portugal
1652 - New Amsterdam (now NYC) passes 1st speed limit law in US
1693 - 1st sea battle of Lagos: England & Holland vs France
1693 - 1st woman's magazine "Ladies' Mercury" published (London)
1697 - Polish parliament selects monarch August van Saksen as king
1709 - Peter the Great defeats Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava.
1743 - English defeat French at Dettingen
1743 - War of the Austrian Succession: Battle of Dettingen: in Bavaria, George II personally leads
           troops into battle. The last time a British monarch would command troops in the field.
1756 - French fleet conquer St Philips Castle of Minorca
1759 - General James Wolfe begins the siege of Quebec.
1778 - Liberty Bell came home to Phila after the British had left
1806 - Buenos Aires captured by British
1833 - Prudence Crandall, a white woman, arrested for conducting an academy for black females at
          Canterbury Conn
1847 - NY & Boston linked by telegraph wires
1862 - -28] Battle at Garnett's/Golding's Farms, Virginia
1862 - Battle of Gaines' Mill, VA (Cold Harbor, Chickahominy Bluffs) Day 3
1863 - Skirmish at Fairfax (Courthouse) Virginia
1864 - Atlanta Campaign: Battle of Kennesaw Mountain GA
1867 - Bank of California opens doors
1876 - 1st NLer to get 6 hits in 9 inn game (Dave Force, Phila Athletics)
1876 - Democratic Party elects Samuel Tilden as presidential candidate
1890 - Cecil Rhodes' colonies attack Motlousi at Matabeleland
1890 - George Dixon becomes 1st black boxing champ (Bantam weight)
1893 - Great stock crash on NY stock exchange
1903 - 9th US Golf Open: Willie Anderson shoots a 307 at Baltusrol GC NJ
1905 - Russian sailors mutiny aboard battleship "Potemkin"
1909 - 23rd US Womens Tennis: Hazel H Wightman beats M Barger-Wallach (60 61)
1909 - Etten-Leur 1st airplane flight in Neth (Belgium count De Lambert)
1914 - Jack Johnson beats Frank Moran in 20 for heavyweight boxing title
1914 - US signs treaty of commerce with Ethiopia
1915 - 100°F (38°C), Fort Yukon Alaska (state record)
1915 - Dutch SDAP demonstrates against conscription
1917 - 1st baseball player (Hank Gowdy) to enter WW I military service
1922 - Newberry Medal 1st presented for kids literature (Hendrik Van Loon)
1923 - Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lt. John P. Richter perform the first ever aerial refueling in a DH-4B
           biplane
1929 - 1st color TV demo (NYC)
1929 - Pres Von Hindenburg refuses to pay German debt of WW I
1931 - 3rd Ryder Cup: US wins, 9-3 at Scioto Country Club (Columbus, Ohio, US)
1933 - 4th Ryder Cup: Great Britain wins, 6½-5½ at Southport & Ainsdale, England
1934 - Federal Savings & Loan Association created
1935 - Danno O'Mahoney beats Jim Londos in Boston, to become wrestling champ
1939 - 1st night game at Cleveland Municipal Stadium (Indians 5, Tigers 0)
1939 - Brooklyn Dodgers tie Boston Braves, 2-2, in 23 innings
1939 - Headley scores a cricket century in each innings v England at Lord's
1940 - Soviet Army attacks Romania
1940 - USSR returns to Gregorian calendar
1941 - Bialystok Poland falls to Germany
1941 - Nazi manifest against the Jews in Amsterdam
1942 - FBI captures 8 Nazi saboteurs from a sub off NY's Long Island
1942 - PQ-17 convoy leaves Iceland for Archangelsk
1943 - Elly Dammers throws Dutch record spear (41,43m)
1943 - Fanny Blankers-Koen runs Dutch record 200m (24.5)
1944 - Cherbourg, France liberated by Allies
1945 - Foundation 1940-45 established
1947 - 98°F (36.8°C) in De Bilt Netherlands
1947 - WRC TV channel 4 in Washington DC (NBC) begins broadcasting
1949 - "Captain Video & His Video Rangers," debut on DUMONT-TV
1950 - "Liar" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 12 performances
1950 - 32nd PGA Championship: Chandler Harper at Scioto CC Columbus Ohio
1950 - US sends 35 military advisers to South Vietnam
1950 - North Koreans troop reach Seoul, UN asks members to aid South Korea, Harry Truman
           orders Air Force & Navy into Korean conflict
1953 - Joseph Laniel appointed French premier
1954 - 1st atomic power station opens (Obninsk, near Moscow, Russia)
1954 - CIA-sponsored rebels overthrow elected government of Guatemala
1955 - "Julius LaRosa Show," debuts on CBS-TV
1955 - 1st automobile seat belt legislation enacted (Illinois)
1956 - Indians trailing Orioles 9-1 come back to win 12-11 in 11 innings
1957 - Hurricane Audrey, kills 526 in Louisiana & Texas
1958 - Billy Pierce's perfect game bid broken with 2 outs in 9th
1958 - Harry Burrell flies KC-135 record (5:27:42.8 ) NY to London
1959 - "West Side Story" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 734 perfs
1959 - 14th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Mickey Wright
1959 - Players vote Henry Aaron unanimously for the All-Star Game
1960 - British Somaliland becomes part of Somalia
1960 - Chlorophyll "A" synthesized Cambridge Mass
1960 - Oil pipe line from Rotterdam-Ruhrgebied opens
1962 - NASA civilian pilot Joseph Walker takes X-15 to 6,606 kph, 37,700 m
1962 - Ross Perot begins Electronic Data Systems
1963 - Bill J Kramer & Dakotas record Lennon & McCartney "I Call Your Name"
1963 - Pres Kennedy spent 1st full day in Ireland
1963 - USAF Major Robert A Rushworth in X-15 reaches 86,900 m
1963 - Phillies Johnny Callison hits for cycle, but Phillie centerfielder Tony Gonzalez's error ends his
           record 205 consecutive errorless games
1964 - "New Phil Silvers Show," last airs on CBS-TV
1964 - "Sie Liebt Dich (She Loves You)" by Die Beatles peaks at #97
1964 - Jan & Dean release "Little Old Lady From Pasadena"
1965 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Carling Golf Open
1966 - 1st sci-fi soap opera, "Dark Shadows," premieres on ABC-TV
1966 - 4th Mayor's Trophy Game; Yanks beat Mets 5-2
1967 - Race riot in Buffalo NY (200 arrested)
1967 - The world's first ATM is installed in Enfield, London.
1968 - Ludvik Vaculik publishes "Manifest of 2000 words" in Prague
1969 - 50,000 attend Denver Pop Festival
1969 - Honduras/El Salvador breaks diplomatic relations due to soccer match
1969 - Police raid Stonewall Gay Bar in Greenwich Village, NY, about 400 to 1,000 patrons riot
           against police, it lasts 3 days
1971 - "You're a Good Man Charlie Brown" closes at Golden NYC after 31 perfs
1971 - 26th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by JoAnne Carner
1973 - "Live & Let Die" premieres in US
1973 - John W Dean tells Watergate Committee about Nixon's "enemies list"
1973 - Uruguay suspends constitution
1973 - The President of Uruguay dissolves Parliament and heads a coup d'état.
1974 - "Flip Wilson Show," last airs on NBC-TV
1974 - US president Nixon visits USSR
1976 - "Pacific Overtures" closes at Winter Garden NYC after 193 perfs
1976 - Air France Airbus hijacked in Germany to Uganda
1976 - Israeli raid on Entebbe, Uganda
1976 - Judy Rankin wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Invitational
1976 - Portuguese general Antonio Eanes elected president
1977 - 5-4 Supreme Court decision allows lawyers to advertise
1977 - Djibouti (Afars & Issas) claims Independence from France
1977 - Willie McCovey smashes 2 HRs in inning for 2nd time (Apr 12, 1973)
1978 - Henry Rono of Kenya sets record for 3,000 m, 7:32.1
1978 - Soyuz 30 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Polish) to Salyut 6 space station
1978 - US Seasat 1, 1st oceanographic satellite, launched into polar orbit
1979 - Heavyweight Muhammad Ali confirms that his 3rd retirement is final (it isn't)
1979 - Supreme Court rules employers may use quotas to help minorities
1980 - 1st female state police graduates (NJ)
1980 - Dodger's Jerry Reuss' no-hits SF Giants 8-0
1980 - Italian plane crashes into Tyrrheense Sea, kills 81
1980 - US revives draft registration
1981 - "Bette Davis Eyes" by Kim Carnes returns to #1 slot
1981 - Cambodia adopts its constitution
1981 - Pamela Jenks, 21, crowned 14th Miss Black America
1982 - "Dancin'" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 1,774 performances
1982 - "Play Me a Country Song" opens & closes at Virginia Theater NYC
1982 - STS-4 Launch (Columbia)
1982 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Rochester Golf International
1983 - Highest price paid for painting by a living artist 960,200 pounds - Miro
1983 - Mariners bat out of order against White Sox in 2nd inning
1983 - NASA launches space vehicle S-205
1983 - Soyuz T-9 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station
1984 - Emmy 11th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 5th time
1984 - Fire destroys a set in "A View to the Kill"
1984 - France wins soccer's European Cup
1984 - Late Night's 1st Tower Drop
1984 - Supreme Court ends NCAA monopoly on college football telecasts
1985 - First hotel strike in NY
1985 - Route 66 (Chicago to Santa Monica), is decertified
1986 - Anne White shocks Wimbledon by wearing only a body stocking
1986 - In referendum, Irish uphold ban on divorce
1986 - Robby Thompson (SF) sets record, caught stealing 4 times in 1 game
1986 - SF Giant Robby Thompson is caught stealing record 4 times
1986 - US informs NZ it will not defend it against attack
1986 - World Court rules US aid to Nicaraguan contras illegal
1987 - Supreme Court Justice Powell retires
1988 - Mike Tyson KOs Michael Spink in 91 seconds, in Atlantic City ($67m)
1988 - Reds bat out of order against Padres in 1st inning
1990 - Jose Canseco signs record $4,700,000 per year Oak A's contract
1990 - Salman Rushdie, condemned to death by Iran, contributes $8600 to help their earthquake
           victims
1991 - Emmy 18th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 12th time
1992 - "57 Channels (and Nothin' on)" by Bruce Springsteen peaks at #68
1992 - 193rd ranked Andrei Olhovsky defeats #1 seed Jim Courier at Wimbledon
1992 - Dan O'Brien fails on pole vault & eliminated from Olympics decathlon
1992 - Daryl Gates retires as LA police chief
1993 - "Falsettos" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 487 performances
1993 - 11th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Jim Colbert
1993 - NY Met pitcher Anthony Young loses record 24th straight game
1993 - Shelley Hamlin wins ShopRite LPGA Golf Classic
1993 - Don Henley booed in Milwaukee when he dedicates the song "It's Not Easy Being Green" to
           President Clinton
1994 - "Gray's Anatomy" closes at Beaumont Theater NYC after 8 performances
1994 - 118°F (47.8°C) at Lakewood New Mexico[dup]
1994 - 118°F (47.8°C) at Lakewood New Mexico (state record)
1994 - 12th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Dave Stockton
1994 - NY Daily News increases prices to 50 cents
1994 - Aerosmith become first major band to let fans download a full new track free from the
           internet
1995 - Holland's debut in English domestic comp (v Northants, NatWest)
1995 - Mason City Iowa's TV news personality Jodi Huisentruit disappears
1995 - Space shuttle STS-71 (Atlantis 14), launches
1995 - Former WMMS engineer William Alford is sentenced to 10 days & $1,000 fine for cutting feed
           during Howard Stern's broadcast from Cleveland
1998 - Opening of the Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia.
1999 - ATB go to No.1 on the UK singles chart with '9pm, Till I Come'
1999 - The Chemical Brothers go to No.1 on the UK album chart with 'Surrender', their second No.1
           album
2001 - Pope John Paul II beatifies 28 Ukrainian Greek Catholics, including 27 martyrs most of whom
           were killed by the Soviet secret police. Beatification takes place at the service in Lviv, western
           Ukraine during his first visit to this country.
2001 - The International Court of Justice finds against the United States in its judgement in the
           LaGrand Case.
2003 - The United States National Do Not Call Registry, formed to combat unwanted telemarketing
           calls and administered by the Federal Trade Commission, enrolls almost three-quarters of a
           million phone numbers on its first day.
2005 - AMD files broad antitrust complaints against Intel Corporation in U.S. Federal District Court,
           alleging abuse of monopoly powers and antitrust violations.
2007 - The Brazilian Military Police invades the favelas of Complexo do Alemão in an episode which is
           remembered as the Complexo do Alemão massacre.
2008 - Bill Gates steps down as Chairman of Microsoft Corporation to work full time for the Bill &
           Melinda Gates Foundation.

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 27, 2013, 10:56:53 AM

This Day in History for 27th June


Famous Weddings

1524 - Earl Henry III of Nassau weds Mencia de Medoza, 16-years old marquess
1964 - Broadway musical actress-singer Ethel Merman (56) weds academy award-winning actor
           Ernest Borgnine (47) in Beverly Hills, California
1992 - "One Life to Live" actress Catherine Hickland (36) weds actor Michael E. Knight (33)
1993 - Actress Julia Roberts (25) weds country singer Lyle Lovett (36) at St. James Lutheran Church
           in Marion, Indiana
1998 - Prince Michael of Greece daughter Princess Alexandra (29) weds perfume executive Nicolas
           Mirzayantz (37) in Torcello Island
1998 - The "Murphy Brown" actress Faith Ford (33) weds personal trainer and writer Campion
           Murphy (35) on Clint Eastwood's 22-acre Mission Ranch in Carmel, California
2005 - "The Young and The Restless" actress Melody Thomas Scott (49) weds supervising producer
           of the CBS daytime drama Edward J. Scott (60) for the second time in Las Vegas, Nevada
2009 - "Playboy Playmate" model Kendra Wilkinson (24) weds NFL player beau Hank Baskett (26) at
           the Playboy Mansion in Bel Air, California
2009 - Rocker Eddie Van Halen (54) weds publicist Janie Liszewski (39) at his seven-acre estate in
           the hills above Studio City, California
2011 - Actress America Ferrera (28) weds actor and director Ryan Piers Williams (31) in New York

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 27, 2013, 10:58:35 AM

This Day in History for 27th June


Famous Divorces

2007 - Former Playboy playmate and Baywatch actress Donna D'Errico (38) divorces Motley Crue
           bassist Nikki Sixx (48) due to irreconcilable differences after 9 years of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 27, 2013, 11:24:42 AM

This Day in History for 27th June


Famous Birthdays

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Author Helen Keller (1880)                      Actor Tobey Maguire (1975)


1040 - King Ladislaus I of Hungary (d. 1095)
1350 - Manuel II Palaiologos, Eastern Roman Emperor
1462 - Louis XII, the Just, King of France (1498-1515)
1550 - Charles IX, King of France (1560-74)
1615 - Johann Paul Schor, German Baroque painter
1696 - William Pepperrell, British colonial soldier (d. 1759)
1717 - Louis Guillaume Lemonnier, French botanist (d. 1799)
1718 - Wenzel Raimund Pirck, composer
1745 - Johann Nepomuk Went, composer
1789 - Philipp Friedrich Silcher, composer
1805 - Stephen Elvey, composer
1808 - Everhardus J Potgieter, Dutch writer/publisher (The Guide)
1809 - Francois de Canrobert, French marshal/parliament member
1812 - John Pike Hullah, composer
1819 - Carl Albert Loeschhorn, composer
1821 - August Conradi, composer
1828 - Junius Daniel, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
1833 - Vladislav Ivanovich Zaremba, composer
1838 - Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Bengali novelist (Anandamath)
1838 - Paul von Mauser, German weapon designer (d. 1914)
1846 - Charles S Parnell, English/Irish Home Rule Party-Lower house member
1849 - Harriet Hubbard Ayer, beauty cream maufacturer & expert/columnist
1850 - Ivan Vazov, Bulgaria, poet/novelist/playwright (Under the Yoke)
1850 - Jacob Adolf Hagg, composer
1850 - Lafcadio Hearn, US, journalist/author (Chita)
1850 - Jørgen Pedersen Gram, Danish mathematician (d. 1919)
1859 - Mildred J Hill, composer/musician (Happy Birthday To You)
1862 - May Irwin, US comedienne/singer (Hot Time in the Old Town)
1869 - Emma Goldman, anarchist/publisher (Mother Earth)
1869 - Kate Carew, American caricaturist (d. 1961)
1869 - Hans Spemann, German embryologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
           (d. 1941)
1872 - Paul Laurence Dunbar, Dayton Ohio, poet/novelist (Oak & Ivory)
1878 - Jean François van Royen, Dutch bibliophile/secretary-general of PTT
1880 - Helen Keller, Ala, blind-deaf author/lecturer had more sense than many
1882 - Eduard Spranger, German psychologist/educator
1884 - Forrester Harvey, Ireland, actor (Tarzan, Chump at Oxford)
1884 - Gaston Bachelard, French philosopher (La psychanalyse du feu)
1885 - Arthur Harmat, composer
1886 - Charles Macartney, cricketer (Governor-General)
1888 - Antoinette Perry, American theater director (d. 1946}
1888 - Lewis Bernstein Namier, English historian (d. 1960)
1889 - Alfred Courtens, Belgian sculptor
1889 - Moroni Olsen, Ogden UT, actor (Annie Oakley, Black Gold, Snow White)
1892 - Paul Colin, French poster designer (d. 1985)
1896 - Franciscus J Feron, vicaris-general of Roermond
1898 - Alexandra G "Alja" von Hoyer-Rachmanova, Russ/Aust author (Students)
1898 - Tibor Harsanyi, composer
1899 - Juan Trippe, American airline entrepreneur (d. 1981)
1900 - Otto E Passman, (Rep-D-La, 1947-77)
1905 - Ruby Middleton Forsythe, teacher (50 years in 1 room school in SC)
1906 - Vernon P Watkins, Welsh poet (Ballad of Mari Lwyd)
1907 - John McIntire, Spokane WA, actor (Naked City, Wagon Train, Virginian)
1907 - Valerie Cossart, London, actress (Hartmans)
1908 - Hans de Jong, musician/conductor (De Damrakkertjes)
1908 - William Eric David Davis, broadcaster
1908 - João Guimarães Rosa, Brazilian writer (d. 1967)
1909 - Gianandrea Gavazzeni, composer
1910 - Karel Reiner, composer
1911 - Alfred Scott Witherbee Jr, US, 3 year old who drowned on Lusitania
1911 - Paul Eekman, Flemish RC politician (1964- )
1911 - V K Narayana Menon, composer
1912 - Audrey Christie, Chic Ill, actress (Dorothy-Fair Exchange)
1913 - Willie Mosconi, world champion pool player (1941-57)
1914 - Alexander Pola, [Abraham Polak], Dutch actor/writer (Farce Major)
1914 - Giorgio Almirante, Italy, fascist (member of parliament (1948-87))
1914 - Robert Aickman, English author (d. 1981)
1915 - Hendrik W van Leeuwen, musician
1916 - Arthur Walter Lucas, picture restorer
1916 - Hallvard Olav Johnsen, composer
1917 - K M Rangnekar, cricketer (batted in 3 Tests India v Australia 1947-48)
1917 - Ronald George Hayward, political manager
1918 - Adolph Kiefer, US, 100m backstroke swimmer (Olympic-gold-1936)
1920 - I A L Diamond, screenwriter (1960 Acad Award-Apartment)
1921 - G M J Veldkamp, Dutch politician (CDA)
1921 - Muriel Pavlow, British actress
1922 - George Theophilus Walker, Washington DC, composer (Praise of Lillies)
1922 - Herbert Ziergiebel, writer
1923 - Paul F Conrad, Cedar Rapids Iowa, cartoonist (Pulitzer 1964, 71, 84)
1924 - Bob Appleyard, cricketer (superb England off-spinner, brief career)
1924 - Efua Theodore Sutherland, writer
1924 - Paul Conrad, comic strip cartoonist (LA Times)
1925 - Jerome "Doc" Pomus, rocker
1926 - Frank O'Hara, writer
1927 - Bob Keeshan, Lynbrook NY, aka Capt Kangaroo/Clarabelle (Good Morning)
1927 - Peter Bayliss, Thames England, actor (From Russia With Love)
1927 - Robert Casey, Rochester NY, actor (Henry-Aldrich Family Show)
1928 - Rudy Perpich, American politician (d. 1995)
1929 - William Afflis, American wrestler (d. 1991)
1930 - H Ross Perot, Texas, billionaire/presidental candidate (1992)
1930 - Tamio Kono, Sacramento CA, weightlifting (Oly-gold-52, 56, 60)
1931 - Alojz Srebotnjak, composer
1931 - Charles Bronfman, CEO (Seagrams, Montreal Expos)
1931 - Ryszard Kwiatkowski, composer
1932 - Hugh Wood, composer
1932 - Joachim Wohlgemuth, writer
1932 - Anna Moffo, American soprano (d. 2006)
1932 - Eddie Kasko, baseball player
1932 - Magali Noël, French actress
1934 - Anna Moffo, Wayne Penn, soprano (Adventurers) [or 1927/1932]
1935 - Laurent Terzieff, Paris, actor (Head Over Heels, Milky Way)
1935 - Eduard Pavlovich Kugno, Russia, cosmonaut
1935 - Ramon Zamora, Filipino martial arts actor (d. 2007)
1936 - John MD "Shali" Shalikashvili, Polish/US general (NATO)
1936 - Lucille Clifton, American poet
1937 - Joseph P Allen IV, Crawfordsville Ind, PhD/astronaut (STS-5, STS 51A)
1938 - Bruce E Babbitt, (Gov-D-AL)/secretary of interior
1938 - Gordon Rorke, cricketer (Australian quickie, 4 Tests at end of 50's)
1938 - Shirley Ann Field, actress (Beat Girl, Kings of the Sun) [or Jul 27]
1938 - Kathryn Beaumont, British voice actress
1939 - Neil Hawke, cricketer (Aust pace bowler & late-order bat in 60s)
1939 - Rahul Dev Burman, Indian composer and actor (d. 1994)
1940 - Erik Erikson, anthropologist
1941 - James P[atrick] Hogan, UK, sci-fi author (Giants' Star)
1941 - Krzysztof Kieslowski, Poland, director/actor (Underground Passage)
1942 - Frank Mills, pianist/composer/arranger (Music Box Dancer)
1942 - John Howard McGuire, composer
1943 - Rico Petrocelli, American baseball player
1943 - Kjersti Døvigen, Norwegian actress
1944 - Bruce Johnston, US pop musician (Beach Boys-God Only Knows)
1944 - Cornelis J "Kees" Ouwens, Dutch writer/poet (Intimate Acts)
1944 - Patrick Sercu, Belgium, 1K time trial (Olympic-gold-1964)
1945 - Catherine Lacoste, Paris France, golfer (US Women's Open 1967)
1945 - John Veltch, horse trainer
1945 - Norma Kamali, NYC, dress designer (Costumes for the Wiz)
1946 - Daria Semegen, composer
1946 - Janice Giteck, composer
1946 - Sally Priesand, 1st us woman rabbi
1947 - Francisca "Cisca" Beaudoux, actress (2 Under a Cap)
1948 - Angel Penna Jr, horse trainer
1948 - Camile Baudoin, American musician
1950 - Benjamin Peterson, US, heavyweight boxer (Olympic-gold-1972)
1951 - Julia Duffy [Julia Margaret Hinds], Minneapolis, Minnesota, American actress (Newhart, Baby
           Talk)
1951 - Sidney M Gutierrez, Albuquerque NM, Mjr USAF/astronaut (STS 40, 59)
1951 - Ulf Andersson, Sweden, International Chess Grandmaster (1972)
1951 - Mary McAleese, President of Ireland
1952 - Madan Kumar Bhandari, Nepalese politician (d. 1993)
1953 - Kent Bostick, Lowell Mass, pursuit cyclist (Olympics-84, 96)
1955 - Frank H G de Grave, Dutch MP (VVD)
1955 - Isabelle Adjani, Paris, actress (Story of Adele H, Driver, Ishtar)
1956 - Jeff Odintz, horse trainer
1956 - Brad Childress, American football coach
1956 - Ted Haggard, American evangelical preacher
1958 - Jeffrey Lee Pierce, singer/songwriter (Gun Club)
1958 - Robert Newman, LA California, actor (Joshua Lewis-Guiding Light)
1958 - Magnus Lindberg, Finnish composer
1959 - Lorrie Morgan, Nashville Tn, country singer (Out of Your Shoes)
1959 - Dan Jurgens, American comic book writer
1960 - 7th marquess of Cholmondeley, English large landowner/millionaire
1960 - Brian Dillinger, Brooklyn NY, actor (Brighton Beach Memoirs)
1960 - Jim Nussle, (Rep-R-Iowa)
1961 - Meera Syal, British-Indian comedienne and actress
1963 - Stephen Peterson, Detroit Mich, Conn, rower (Olympics-1996)
1963 - Paul Roos, Australian rules footballer
1963 - Johnny Benson, American NASCAR driver
1964 - Chuck Person, NBA forward (San Antonio Spurs)
1964 - Stephan Brenninkmeijer, Dutch film producer and director
1966 - Jason Patric, NYC, actor (Lost Boys, Solar Babies)
1966 - Jeff Conine, Tacoma Washington, outfielder (Florida Marlins)
1966 - Mercedes Paz, Tucum Argentina, tennis star (1990 Strasbourg)
1966 - Rob Harbison, Fallston MD, 3x40 rifle (Olympics-6th-1996)
1966 - J. J. Abrams, American television writer and producer
1967 - Lester Archambeau, NFL defensive end (Atlanta Falcons)
1967 - Michelle Torres, Chicago IL, tennis star
1968 - Pascale Bussières, French-Canadian actress
1969 - Mark Telerico, Cleveland Ohio, Canadian Tour golfer (1994 S Florida)
1970 - Petra Langrova, Prostejov Czech, tennis star (1995 Palermo doubles)
1970 - Ricardo Jordan, Delray Beach Fla, pitcher (Philadelphia Phillies)
1970 - Jim Edmonds, American baseball player
1971 - Brant Boyer, linebacker (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1971 - Jimmy Kemp, CFL quarterback (Edmonton Eskimos)
1971 - Yancey Arias, American actor
1971 - Jo Frost, English nanny and television host
1973 - Heath Irwin, guard (New England Patriots)
1973 - Jennifer Brundage, US softball infielder (Olympics-gold-96)
1973 - Wendell Davis, cornerback (Dallas Cowboys)
1974 - Juran Bolden, NFL cornerback (Atlanta Falcons)
1974 - Big Moe, American musician (Screwed Up Click)
1974 - Christian Kane, American actor and singer
1975 - Porter Collins, NYC, rower (Olympics-5th-1996)
1975 - Sarah Evanetz, Vancouver BC, 100m butterfly (Olympics-96)
1975 - Tobey Maguire, American actor
1975 - Daryle Ward, American baseball player
1975 - Ace Darling, American professional wrestler
1976 - Johnny Estrada, American baseball player
1977 - Arkadiusz Radomski, Polish footbaler
1977 - Raúl, Spanish footballer
1978 - Anna Kumble, British Singer, also known as Lolly
1979 - John Warne, American musician (Relient K; Ace Troubleshooter)
1979 - Kim Gyu-ri, South Korean actress
1979 - Benjamin Speed, Australian musician and film composer
1980 - Kevin Pietersen, English cricketer
1980 - Craig Terrill, American football player
1983 - Alsou, Russian singer
1983 - Dale Steyn, South African cricketer
1983 - Evan Taubenfeld, American musician
1984 - Rocio Guirao Diaz, Argentinian Model
1984 - Gökhan Inler, Swiss footballer
1984 - Emma Lahana, New Zealand actress
1984 - Khloe Kardashian, American reality television star
1984 - Julie Ordon, Swiss model
1985 - Svetlana Kuznetsova, Russian tennis player
1985 - Coby Linder, American Pop Punk Drummer (Say Anything)
1985 - Nico Rosberg, German race car driver
1985 - James Hook, Welsh rugby player
1986 - LaShawn Merritt, American sprinter
1986 - Drake Bell, musician/ songwriter / American actor
1987 - Ed Westwick, American actor
1988 - Kate Ziegler, American swimmer
1989 - Matthew Lewis, English actor
1989 - Travis Curtis, American Artist/ Amateur Skateboarder
1990 - Aselin Debison, Canadian singer
1991 - Madylin Sweeten, American actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 27, 2013, 11:51:24 AM

This Day in History for 27th June


Famous Deaths

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Religious Leader Joseph Smith Jr (1844)


444 - Cyrillus van Alexandria, patriarch of Alexandria, dies
1137 - Guigo de Castro, [Venerabilis], 5th prior of Grande Chartreuse, dies
1162 - Eudes II, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1118)
1296 - Floris V, count of Holland & Zeeland, dies
1458 - Alfonso V, King of Aragon/Sicily/Naples (Alfonso I), dies
1543 - Agnolo Firenzuola, [Giovannini], Ital monk (De golden ezel), dies
1574 - Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter and architect (b. 1511)
1603 - Jan Dymitr Solikowski, Polish archbishop and diplomat (b. 1539)
1627 - John Hayward, English historian
1638 - Lukaris Cyrillus, patriarch of Alexandria/Constantinople, dies
1641 - Michiel Jansz of Mierevelt, royal painter, dies at 74
1654 - Johann V Andreae, German vicar/writer (Christenburg), dies at 67
1672 - Roger Twysden, English antiquarian (b. 1597)
1679 - Pablo Bruna, composer, dies at 68
1720 - Guillaume Amfrye de Chaulieu, French poet (b. 1639)
1757 - Willem Gideon Deutz, Amsterdam regent/banker/merchant, dies at 59
1773 - Mentewab, dowager Empress of Ethiopia (b. circa 1706)
1776 - Thomas Hickey, plan to hand George Washington to British, executed
1785 - Egbert de Free Temminck, Amsterdam regent, dies at 84
1794 - Wenzel Anton Graf Kaunitz, Austrian statesman (b. 1711)
1794 - Philippe de Noailles, duc de Mouchy, French soldier (b. 1715)
1814 - Johann Friedrich Reichardt, composer, dies at 61
1827 - Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, German theologian (b. 1754)
1829 - James Smithson, dies, his will establishes Smithsonian Institute
1829 - Louis-Sebastien Lebrun, composer, dies at 64
1831 - Sophie Germain, French mathematician (b. 1776)
1832 - Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisla, composer, dies at 72
1839 - Ranjit Singh, gov of Lahore, dies
1844 - Hyrum Smith, founder/leader (Mormon Church), shot by mob in Carthage Ill
1844 - Joseph Smith Jr, founder/leader (Mormon Church), shot by mob at 38
1848 - Denis-Auguste Affre, archbsp of Paris (1840-48), shot to death at 54
1848 - Zschokke, writer, dies
1859 - Jean C Baud, gov-gen of Dutch-Indies (1834-36), dies at 69
1862 - Chatham Roberdeau Wheat, Confederate major, dies in battle at about 35
1863 - Martin E Green, Confederate brig-general, shot dead at 38
1864 - Charles Garrison Harker, US Union-brig-general, dies in battle at 26
1876 - Christian G Ehrenberg, German zoologist (micro-organisms), dies at 81
1889 - Carlotta Patti, Italian soprano, dies
1889 - Whitney Eugene Thayer, composer, dies at 50
1907 - Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, American educator (b. 1822)
1912 - George Bonnor, cricketer (once ran three before he was caught), dies
1917 - Gustav von Schmolle, German economist (Historical School), dies at 79
1934 - Max Pallenberg, Austria actor (Brave Suender), dies in air crash at 56
1935 - Eugene Augustin Lauste, French inventor (b. 1857)
1944 - Werner Wehrli, composer, dies at 52
1944 - Milan Hodža, Slovak politician (b. 1878)
1948 - George Templeton Strong, composer, dies at 92
1950 - Milada Horakova, Czech advocate/anti fascist, hanged
1952 - Max Dehn, German mathematician (b. 1878)
1954 - Francis L Casadesus, French violinist/composer/conductor, dies at 83
1957 - Malcolm Lowry, English writer (Ultramarine), dies at 48
1958 - Robert Greig, actor (Devil Doll, Indian Love Call), dies at 78
1960 - Harry Pollitt, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain dies at 69
1960 - Lottie Dod, English athlete (b. 1871)
1961 - Paul (II) Guilfoyle, actor (Apache, Final Anaylsis), dies at 58
1962 - Paul Viiding, Estonian poet (b. 1904)
1964 - Daniel Lazarus, composer, dies at 65
1965 - Anthony Veiller, writer, dies at 62
1966 - Arthur D Waley, [Schloss], British sinology/poet (Monkey), dies
1968 - Norman Norton, cricketer (dismissed Hobbs in only Test for S Af), dies
1969 - Richard Vance Maxfield, composer, dies at 42
1970 - Daniel Kinsey, American hurdler (b. 1902)
1971 - Kenneth Washington, actor (Sgt Baker-Hogan's Heroes), dies at 53
1973 - Earl Browder, leader US Communist Party (1930-45), dies at 82
1973 - Ernest Truex, actor (Pop-Pete & Gladys, Mr Peepers), dies at 73
1980 - Steve Peregrin Took, percussionist (T-Rex), dies at 31
1982 - Jack Mullaney, actor (My Living Doll, It's About Time), dies at 49
1983 - Don Ida, balloonists, dies during a race
1983 - Maxie Anderson, balloonists, dies during a race
1986 - Don Rogers, of Cleveland Browns, dies of cocaine poisoning
1986 - Edna Mae Cooper, actress (Folly of Vanity, Grounds for Divorce), dies
1986 - George Nepia, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1905)
1986 - Joe Maphis, American country music guitarist dies aged 65
1988 - Leonie Fuller Adams, US poetess (High Falcon), dies at 88
1989 - Alfred J Ayer, English philosopher (Logical Positivism), dies
1989 - Jack Beutel, actor (The Outlaw), dies
1991 - Klas Bruinsma, leader criminal organization, murdered
1991 - Willem J [Molly] Geertsema, liberal/foreign minister), dies
1991 - Milton Subotsky, American screenwriter (b. 1921)
1992 - Allen James, vocalist/actor (Show Boat), dies of lung cancer at 84
1992 - Sandy Amoros, Bkln Dodger, dies at 62 of pneumonia
1992 - Stefanie Ann Sargent, guitarist (7 Year Bitch), dies of overdose at 24
1993 - Wolfgang Grams, German RAF-terrorist, shot to death at 40
1994 - Jeremy Brooks, writer, dies at 67
1995 - Lionel Edmund "Sonny" Taylor, musician, dies at 70
1995 - Madeleine Gillian Jinkinson, medical administrator, dies at 59
1995 - Prez "Kidd" Kenneth, blues singer/guitarist, dies at 61
1996 - Cubby Alberto Romolo Broccoli, movie producer, dies at 87
1996 - Roy James Alfred Kaulback, soldier, dies at 85
1998 - Gilles Rocheleau, French Canadian politician (b. 1935)
1999 - George Papadopoulos, Greek dictator (b. 1919)
2001 - Tove Jansson, Finnish author (b. 1914)
2001 - Jack Lemmon, American actor (b. 1925)
2002 - John Entwistle, bass-player with The Who dies in his sleep of a heart attack in his Las Vegas
           hotel room aged 57
2003 - David Newman, American filmmaker (b. 1937)
2004 - Darrell Russell, American race car driver (b. 1968)
2004 - George Patton IV, American general (b. 1923)
2005 - Shelby Foote, American author and historian (b. 1917)
2005 - Frank Harte, Traditional Irish Singer and song collector
2005 - John T. Walton, American businessman (b. 1946)
2005 - Ray Holmes, Battle of Britain veteran (b. 1914)
2005 - Domino Harvey, English-born bounty hunter (b. 1969)
2006 - Ángel Maturino Reséndiz, Mexican serial killer, known as "The Railway Killer" (b. 1959)
2007 - Patrick Allotey, Ghanaian footballer (b. 1979)
2007 - Dragutin Tadijanović, Croatian poet (b. 1905)
2007 - William Hutt, Canadian stage and film actor (b. 1920)
2008 - Michael Turner, American comic book artist (b. 1971)
2008 - Sam Manekshaw, Indian Field Marshal (b. 1914)
2009 - Gale Storm, TV Personality (b. 1922)
2009 - Fayette Pinkney, African American singer (The Three Degrees) (b. 1948)
2011 - Mike Doyle, English former footballer (b. 1946)
2012 - Don Grady [Agrati], American actor, dies from cancer at 68

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 28, 2013, 08:28:43 AM

This Day in History for 28th June


Historical Events

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Archduke of Austria                                     First Secretary of the                          Heavyweight Boxing Champ
Franz Ferdinand                                     Communist Party of the Soviet                          Muhammad Ali
                                                                  Union Nikita Khrushchev

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Actor Eddie Murphy


767 - St Paul I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1098 - Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul.
1119 - Battle of Sarmada - Emir Ilghazi defeat French Crusaders
1245 - 1st Council of Lyons (13th ecumenical council) opens
1389 - Ottomans defeat Serbian army in the bloody Battle of Kosovo, opening the way for the
           Ottoman conquest of Southeastern Europe (see Vidovdan).
1461 - Edward IV crowned king of England
1485 - Gent/Brugge/Ieper recognize Maximilian of Austria as regent of Neth
1519 - King Carlos I elected Roman Catholic German emperor Charles V
1524 - Duke van Bourbon occupies Province
1575 - Spanish troops conquer Buren
1583 - Duke French van Valois returns to France
1593 - Earl Mauritius conquerors Geertruidenberg
1629 - Peace of Ales: Rights of French huguenots limited
1635 - French colony of Guadeloupe established in Caribbean
1651 - Battle of Beresteczko between Poles and Ukrainians starts.
1675 - Battle at Fehrbellin: Brandenburgs army beats Sweden
1748 - Riot after public execution in Amsterdam, 200+ killed
1762 - 1st reported counterfeiting attempt (Boston)
1762 - Russian tsarina Catharina II grabs power
1770 - Quakers open a school for blacks in Philadelphia
1776 - Charleston, SC repulses British sea attack
1778 - Battle of Monmouth, NJ (Gen Washington beats Clinton)
1778 - Mary Ludwig Hayes "Molly Pitcher" aids American patriots
1807 - British troops lands at Ensenada, Argentina
1820 - Tomato is proven non-poisonous
1832 - Gerrit Moll measures noise of guns
1838 - Coronation of Queen Victoria in Westminster Abbey, London
1841 - The Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique in Paris premieres the ballet Giselle
1846 - Saxophone is patented by Antoine Joseph Sax
1855 - The Sigma Chi Fraternity was founded at Miami University
1859 - 1st dog show held (Newcastle-on-Tyne, England)
1861 - Leipzig Observatory discovers short-period (6.2 yrs) Comet d'Arrest
1862 - Day 4 of 7 Days-Battle of Savage's Station/Garnett's Farm, VA
1865 - The Army of the Potomac is disbanded
1869 - Amsterdam typographer strike
1874 - Freedmen's Bank closes
1880 - Ned Kelly the Australian bushranger captured at Glenrowan.
1887 - Phillies most lopsided shut-out beating Indianapolis 24-0
1892 - Phillies tie club record of 16 straight victories
1894 - Labor Day established as a federal employees holiday
1895 - El Salvador, Honduras & Nicaragua form Central American Union
1897 - Marquis C de Bonchamps' expedition reaches Gore Ethiopia
1902 - Congress authorizes Louisiana Purchase Expo $1 gold coin
1902 - US buys concession to build Panama canal from French for $40 million
1904 - International Anti-Military Cooperation (IAMV) forms in Amsterdam
1904 - The SS Norge Runs aground and sinks
1907 - Nationals steal a record 13 bases off catcher Branch Rickey
1909 - 1st French air show, Concours d'Avation opens
1911 - Joseph Caillaux forms government in France
1914 - Austria invades Siberia (WW I)
1914 - Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo by
           young Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip at 10.45 , the casus belli of World War I.
1917 - Potato entrepreneurs begins in Amsterdam
1917 - Raggedy Ann doll invented
1918 - 1st flight between Hawaiian Islands
1919 - Carl Mazes pitches a complete doubleheader against NY Yankees
1919 - Treaty of Versailles ending WW I signed in France
1923 - Dodgers lost 7-0 lead, as Phillies score 8 in bottom of 9th
1923 - Queen Wilhelmina & Prince Henry for state visit to London
1924 - Test cricket umpire debut for Frank Chester, v South Africa at Lord's
1924 - Tornado strikes Sandusky Ohio & Lorain Ohio, killing 93
1928 - Alfred E Smith (NY-Gov) nominated for president at Dem Convention
1928 - Friedrich Schmiedl attempted rocket mail in Austria (unsuccessful)
1930 - 1st night game in Detroit at newly built Hamtramck Stadium as Negro League Detroit Stars
           take on KC Monarchs
1934 - Hitler flies to Essen (Night of Long Knifes)
1935 - Earl Averill's consecutive-game streak ends at 673
1935 - FDR ordersa federal gold vault to be built at Fort Knox Kentucky
1936 - The Japanese puppet state of Mengjiang is formed in northern China.
1938 - Bradman scores 102* in drawn 2nd Test cricket at Lord's
1939 - Joe Louis TKOs Tony Galent in 4 for heavyweight boxing title
1939 - Pan Am opens southern route transatlantic air service (Dixie Clipper)
1939 - Yanks hit 13 HRs, sweep A's 23-2 & 10-0
1940 - "Quiz Kids?" premieres on radio
1940 - Romania cedes Bessarabia to Soviet Union
1941 - German & Romanian soldiers kill 11,000 Jews in Kishinev
1941 - German troops occupy Galicia Poland
1942 - Col-gen Von Hoth' 6th Pantser enters Voronezj
1942 - Dumont TV network begins (WABD NY)
1945 - Polish Provisional government of National Unity set up by Soviets
1946 - Enrico de Nicola becomes 1st pres of Italy
1946 - Permanent radio play-by-play of Cleve Indians games begins
1947 - "Temptation (Tim-Tayshun) by Red Ingle with Jo Stafford hits #1
1948 - US/British airlift to West-Berlin begins
1950 - "Michael Todd's Peep Show" opens at Winter Garden NYC for 278 perfs
1950 - North Korean forces capture Seoul, South Korea in opening phase of the Korean War
1951 - "Amos 'n' Andy" premieres on CBS TV
1953 - 8th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Betsy Rawls
1954 - 111°F (44°C) at Camden, South Carolina (state record)
1956 - 1st atomic reactor built for private research operates Chicago Ill
1956 - Riots break out in Poznan Poland, 38 die
1957 - Reds' fans stuff ballot box, electing 8 Reds as All Star starters
1957 - Frick overrules & names Stan Musial, Willie Mays, & Hank Aaron to team
1958 - Brazil becomes world soccer champ in Sweden
1958 - Nancy Ramey swims world record 100m (1:09.6)
1959 - Phils Wally Post is only outfielder to throw out 2 runners in an inning twice (Losing to Giants
           6-0)
1960 - 10.40" (26.42 cm) of rainfall, Dunmor, Kentucky (state 24-hour record)
1961 - Phils & SF set then record longest night game (5h11m) 7-7 15 inn tie
1962 - Thalidomide drug banned in Netherlands
1963 - Belaunde Terry inaugurated as pres of Peru
1963 - Khrushchev visits East-Berlin
1964 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Waldemar Golf Open
1964 - Organization for Afo-American Unity forms in NY by Malcolm X
1965 - 1st US ground combat forces in Vietnam authorized by Pres Johnson
1965 - Princess Beatrice & Claus von Amsberg announce engagement
1966 - Ernie Terrel beats Doug Jones in 15 wba for heavyweight boxing title
1967 - George Harrison is fined £6 for speeding
1967 - Israel annexes East Jerusalem
1968 - Daniel Ellsberg indicted for leaking Pentagon Papers
1969 - John Hampshire scores 107 on Test cricket debut v WI at Lord's
1969 - Stonewall riots begin in New York City.
1970 - Mary Mills wins LPGA Len Immke Buick Golf Open
1971 - Fillmore East closes
1971 - Phillies' Rick Wise hits 2 HRs & no-hits Reds
1971 - Supreme Court (8-0) overturns draft evasion conviction of Muhammad Ali
1973 - Lawsuit in Detroit challenges Little League's "no girls" rule
1973 - Black Sports Hall of Fame forms: Paul Robeson, Elgin Baylor, Jesse Owens, Jim Brown, Wilma
           Rudolph, Joe Louis & Althea Gibson elected
1974 - Fall of earth & rocks kill 200 (Quebrada Blanca Canyon, Colombia)
1974 - Wings release "Band on the Run" & "Zoo Gang" in UK
1975 - David Bowie releases "Fame"
1975 - Golfer Lee Trevino is struck by lightning at Western Open (Ill)
1976 - 1st woman was admitted to Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs Colo
1976 - Hijacked French Airbus lands in Entebbe, Uganda
1977 - Billy Hunter becomes Rangers' 4th manager in 6 days
1977 - Supreme Court allows Federal control of Nixon tapes papers
1978 - UNICEF chooses rock group Kansas as ambassadors of goodwill
1978 - Supreme Court orders Cal medical school to admit Allan Bakke a white man claiming reverse
           discrimination when application was rejected
1979 - OPEC raises oil prices 24%
1980 - NYC transit fare rises from 50 cents to 60 cents
1981 - "Piaf" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 165 performances
1981 - 74 government officials die in attack in Iran
1981 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sarah Coventry Golf Tournament
1982 - Prince Charles & Lady Diana name their baby "William"
1983 - Bridge section along I-95 in Greenwich, Ct collapsed kills 3
1983 - NASA launches Galaxy-A
1985 - Discovery ferried back to Kennedy Space Center via Bergstrom AFB, Tx
1986 - Irish population condemns divorce
1986 - Kenneth & Nellie Pike challenge Ala Dem runoff win by AG C Graddick
1987 - "Dreamgirls" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 177 performances
1987 - Deb Richard wins LPGA Rochester Golf International
1987 - Don Baylor sets career hit-by-pitch mark at 244 (Pitcher Rick Rhoden)
1988 - Mike Tyson sues to break contract with manager Bill Cayton
1990 - 17th annual Daytime Emmy Awards
1990 - Emmy 17th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 11th time
1992 - "Chinese Coffee" opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 18 performances
1992 - 2 earthquakes, including 3rd strongest in US (7.4) rock Calif
1992 - Burharnuddin Rabbani becomes president of Afghanistan
1992 - Italian government of Amato forms
1992 - LA Police commisioner Daryl Gates steps down
1992 - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Rochester Golf International
1992 - US Dream Team beats Cuba in 1st exhibition basketball game, 133-57
1992 - The Constitution of Estonia is signed into law.
1993 - Doctors recommend ligament transplant to Jose Canseco's arm
1993 - Jacques Lemaire is named NJ Devils 8th Head Coach
1993 - NCRV shows last "Cheers" in Neth
1993 - Carlton Fisk, 45, released by White Sox, as all time leader of most games caught & most HRs
           by a catcher
1994 - NY Met Pitcher Dwight Gooden suspended for 60 days due to drug charges
1995 - NJ Devils Stanley Cup Victory Party, admidst rumours they were moving to Nashville, goalie
           Chris Terreri holds up "Nashville? NO WAY!" sign
1996 - "Nutty Professor," starring Eddie Murphy opens in theaters in the USA
1996 - The Constitution of Ukraine is signed into law.
1997 - "Master Class," closes at Golden Theater NYC after 601 performances
1997 - "Steel Peer," closes at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC after 76 perfs
1997 - TV evangelist Robert Schuller attacks a flight attendant
2000 - Cuban exile Elián González returns to Cuba following a Supreme Court order.
2004 - Estonia, Lithuania and Slovenia join the European Exchange Rate Mechanism
2004 - The 17th NATO Summit starts in Istanbul.
2004 - Sovereign power is handed to the interim government of Iraq by the Coalition Provisional
           Authority, ending the U.S.-led rule of that nation.
2005 - A final design for Manhattan's Freedom Tower is formally unveiled.
2006 - The Republic of Montenegro was admitted as the 192nd Member of the United Nations by
           General Assembly resolution 60/264.
2007 - Craig Biggio of the Houston Astros becomes the 27th member of the 3000 hit club, going 5
           for 5 against the Colorado Rockies.
2012 - A series of car bombs in Iraq kills 14 and injures 50 people

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 28, 2013, 08:30:08 AM

This Day in History for 28th June


Famous Weddings

1919 - Harry Truman (33rd US president) marries Elizabeth Virginia Wallace in Independence
1992 - US President Bush's daughter Dorothy marries Bobby Koch
2000 - Business magnate Ron Perelman (69) weds actress Ellen Barkin (46) in a traditional Jewish
           ceremony at an upper East Side synagogue
2003 - Colombian American actor John Leguizamo (42) weds estate planner Justine Maurer (35) on a
           Catholic-Jewish ceremony in New York
2008 - "Saturday Night Live" actor-comedian Chris Kattan (37) weds model Sunshine Tutt (31) at
           Chateau Du Sureau in Yosemite, California
2008 - Golfing legend Greg Norman (53) weds former tennis star Chris Evert (53) in Paradise Island,
           Bahamas

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 28, 2013, 08:31:22 AM

This Day in History for 28th June


Famous Divorces

2010 - Academy award winning actress Sandra Bullock (45) divorces "Monster Garage" host Jesse
          James (40) due to conflict of personalities after nearly 5 years of marriage
2012 - "Spy Kids" actress Alexa Vega (23) divorces film producer Sean Covel (36) due to
           irreconcilable differences after less than two years of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 28, 2013, 08:39:11 AM

This Day in History for 28th June


Famous Birthdays

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Co-founder of the Methodist              Actor & Director Mel Brooks (1926)             Actress Kathy Bates (1948)
Movement John Wesley (1703)


1367 - Sigismund, German Emperor/king of Hungary/Bohemia
1476 - Paul IV, [Giampietro Caraffa], inquisition/Pope (1555-59)
1490 - Albrecht von Brandenburg, German archbishop/monarch of Mainz/cardinal
1491 - Henry VIII, King of England (1509-47)
1503 - Giovanni della Casa, Italian poet (d. 1556)
1547 - Cristofano Malvezzi, composer
1550 - John Drusius, Flemish hebrew translator
1577 - Peter Paul Rubens, Siegen, Flemish Baroque painter (Circumcision)
1586 - Paul Siefert, composer
1641 - Marie Casimire Louise de la Grange d'Arquien, queen of Poland (d. 1716)
1703 - John Wesley, Epworth, Lincolnshire, English Christian theologian and co-founder of the
           Methodist movement
1712 - Jean Jacques Rousseau, France, composer/social contractor (Confession)
1719 - Étienne François, duc de Choiseul, French statesman (d. 1785)
1734 - Jean-Jacques Beauvarget-Charpentier, composer
1787 - Henry G W Smith, leader of British-Indian forces
1806 - Napoleon Coste, composer
1808 - Cristina di Trivulzio di Belgioioso, Italian princess/politican
1812 - Rudolf von Alt, Austrian painter
1816 - Jacob P P baron van Zuylen van Nijevelt, Min Foreign Affairs (1852-53)
1824 - Paul Broca, France, brain surgeon/anthro (located speech center)
1824 - William Tatus Wofford, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1884
1825 - Richard ACE Erlenmeyer, German chemist (Erlenemyer kolf)
1831 - Joseph Joachim, Kittsee Germany, violinist (Hungarian Concerto)
1847 - Sveinbjorn Sveinbjornsson, composer
1852 - Hans Huber, composer
1853 - Edwin Arthur Jones, composer
1865 - Otto Julius Bierbaum, German writer/journalist (Remarkable Stories)
1867 - Luigi Pirandello, Italy, writer (6 Characters-Nobel 1934)
1867 - William Courtleigh, Guelph Ontario, actor (Eyes of Youth, Madame X)
1873 - Alexis Carrel, France, surgeon/sociologist/biologist (Nobel 1912)
1874 - Oley Speaks, composer
1875 - Henri Lebesgue, French mathematician (d. 1941)
1879 - Sigurd von Koch, composer
1883 - Pierre Laval, Prime Minister of France (d. 1945)
1884 - Lamina Sankoh, early Sierra Leonean nationalist (d. 1964)
1885 - Berthold Viertel, writer
1885 - Giuseppe Mule, composer
1886 - Joe Cox, cricketer (South African pace bowler in 1913-14 series v England)
1887 - Boleslav Vomacka, composer
1888 - George Challenor, cricketer (pioneering West Indian batsman)
1889 - Frank Mayo, silent screen actor (Burning Gold, Hell's Headquarters)
1891 - Carl Panzram, American serial killer (d. 1930)
1891 - Esther Forbes, American writer (d. 1968)
1891 - Carl Spaatz, Boyertown, Pennsylvania, American Air Force general (d. 1974)
1892 - Edward H Carr, England, historian (History of Soviet Russia)
1893 - Luciano Gallet, composer
1893 - Nils Bjorkander, composer
1894 - Lois Wilson, Pitts Pa, actress (Alice-Aldrich Family)
1895 - Kazimierz Sikorski, composer
1897 - Jacobus J E Hondius, graphic artist
1900 - Leon Kruczkowski, Polish author (Kordian into Cham)
1902 - John Dillinger, US bank robber (public enemy #1)
1902 - Pierre Brunet, France, figure skater pair (Olympic-gold-1928, 32)
1902 - Richard Rodgers, Hammels Station NY, composer (Rodgers & Hammerstein)
1903 - Alan Bunce, Westfield NJ, actor (Albert-Ethel & Albert)
1904 - Wlodzimierz Pozniak, composer
1906 - Maria Goeppert Mayer, US atomic physicist (Nobel 1963)
1906 - Nancy Mayhew Youngman, artist/educator
1906 - Safford Cape, US/Belgian conductor/composer/music historian
1907 - Paul-Emile Victor, French pole explorer (La civilisation du phoque)
1908 - James L Reinsch, media-adviser (Roosevelt/Churchill/Kennedy)
1909 - Arnold Shaw, composer
1909 - Eric Ambler, London, suspense writer (Epitaph for a Spy)
1909 - French van Immerseel, Belgian graphic artist
1912 - Audrey Langford, singing teacher
1912 - Sergiu Celibidache, conductor
1913 - George Walter Selwyn Lloyd, English composer (Serf, John Socman)
1913 - Franz Antel, Austrian filmmaker (d. 2007)
1913 - Walter Oesau, German pilot (d. 1944)
1914 - Charles Urbanus, Dutch baseball player
1914 - Aribert Heim, Austrian physician
1917 - Willem "Wim" Sonneveld, Dutch singer/actor (My Fair Lady)
1917 - Katherine Rawls, American swimming champion (d. 1982)
1918 - Bert Schierbeek, [Lambertus], Dutch writer/poet (Cross Roads)
1920 - A. E. Hotchner, American editor, novelist and playwright
1921 - P V Narasimha Rao, premier of India (1991- )
1922 - Terje Stigen, Norwegian author (Det siste paradiset)
1922 - Michael Vale, American actor (d. 2005)
1923 - Lloyd Labeach, Panama City, 100m/200m runner (Olympic-bronze-1948)
1923 - Adolfo Schwelm Cruz, Argentine racing driver
1924 - Henk van Stipriaan, Dutch radio host
1926 - Mel Brooks, New York City, American actor and director (Blazing Saddles, Spaceballs)
1926 - Robert Shelton Shapiro, journalist
1926 - Robert Ledley, Flushing, Queens, New York, physiologist, biophysicist, and radiologist, (d.
           2012)
1927 - Theo van Tijn, Dutch marxist/social-historian
1927 - Frank Rowland, Newport Beach, California, Nobel laureate in chemistry, (d. 2012)
1928 - Andrew Gordon Speedie-Pask, cybernetician stage producer/lyricist
1928 - Peter Heine, cricketer (solid South African fast bowler in 1950's)
1928 - Ronald Alfred Gardyne "Rags" Butler, sailor
1928 - Dr Hans Blix, Swedish head of the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection
           Commission 2000-2003
1928 - Harold Evans, English journalist and writer; editor of The Sunday Times
1929 - Don Dubbins, Brooklyn, actor (Enchanted Island, Fix)
1930 - Nikolay Nikolayevich Karetnikov, composer
1930 - Itamar Franco, President of Brazil
1931 - Junior Johnson, American NASCAR driver
1931 - Lucien Victor, Belgian cyclist (d. 1995)
1932 - Pat Morita, Berkeley CA, actor (Happy Days, Karate Kid)
1933 - Gunnar Reynir Sveinsson, composer
1933 - Gusty Spence, Northern Irish loyalist politician
1934 - Carl M Levin, (Sen-D Michigan, 1979- )
1934 - Roy Gilchrist, cricketer (volatile WI fast bowler of late 50s)
1935 - John Inman, English actor (d. 2007)
1936 - Bill Orton, (Rep-R-UT, 1983- )
1936 - Gisela Kraft, writer
1936 - Major R Owens, (Rep-D-NY)
1936 - Peter Hall, folklorist/musician
1937 - Richard Bright, American actor (d. 2006)
1937 - George Knudson, Canadian golfer (d. 1989)
1937 - Ron Luciano, American baseball umpire (d. 1995)
1938 - Leon E Panetta, (Rep-D-CA, 1977- )
1938 - John Byner, American comedian
1938 - Moy Yat, Chinese martial artist (d. 2001)
1938 - Robert Hughes, Sydney, Australia, art critic, (d. 2012)
1940 - Muhammad Yunus, Bangladeshi banker, economist and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1940 - Roderick Wright, ex-Scottish bishop (d. 2005)
1941 - Al Downing, American baseball player
1941 - Joseph Goguen, American computer scientist (d. 2006)
1942 - "Chris" Martin Thembisile Hani, sec-gen (South African Communist Party)
1942 - Jim Kolbe, (Rep-R-AZ, 1985- )
1942 - Sjoukje Dijkstra, Holland, figure skater (Olympic-gold-1964)
1943 - Bobby Harrison, England, rock drummer (Procol Harum-Conquistador)
1943 - Ed Pastor, (Rep-D-Arizona)
1943 - Klaus von Klitzing, German physicist, Nobel laureate
1945 - Dave Knights, London, rock bassist (Procol Harum-Conquistador)
1945 - Jane Harmon, (Rep-D-California)
1946 - Bruce Davison, Phila, actor (Capt Wyler-Hunter, Willard, High Risk)
1946 - Gilda Radner, Detroit Mich, actress (SNL, Haunted Honeymoon)
1946 - John "Mike" Lounge, Denver Colo, astr (STS 51-I, STS 26, STS 35)
1946 - Robert L Asprin, US, sci-fi writer (Thieves World, Cold Cash War)
1946 - Robert Xavier Rodriguez, composer
1946 - Jaime Guzmán, Chilean politician.
1947 - Mark Helprin, US writer
1947 - Patrick Kincaid, who wrote the TODAY program; send him a card
1947 - Clarissa Dickson Wright, English celebrity chef
1947 - Anny Duperey, French film and television actress
1948 - Kathy Bates, Memphis TN, academy award winning actress (Misery)
1949 - Don Baylor, Tx, baseball player (Rockies, 1979 AL RBI leader, 267 HBP)
1949 - Edward Totah, art dealer
1950 - Ken Arthur, Australian softball asst coach (Olympics-bronze-96)
1950 - Mauricio Rojas, Swedish politician
1952 - Pietro Mennea, Italian runner (200m world record), (d. 2013)
1954 - Alice Krige, South African actress (Chariots of Fire, Ladykiller)
1954 - Ava Barber, Knoxville Tn, country singer (Lawrence Welk Show)
1955 - Mitch Addock, Macon MS, Nike golfer (1992 BC Open-11th)
1955 - Nikolai Simyatov, USSR, nordic skier (Olympic-3 golds-1976)
1955 - Shirley Cheriton, English actress
1955 - Eric Gates, English footballer
1955 - Thomas Hampson, American baritone
1956 - Noel Mugavin, Australian Rules Football player
1957 - Georgi Parvanov, President of Bulgaria
1957 - Mike Skinner, American racecar driver
1958 - Oran "Juice" Jones, rocker (Curiosity, Here I Go Again)
1958 - Sergei Shakrai, USSR, figure skater (Olympic-silver-1980)
1960 - John Elway, NFL quarterback (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1961 - Jay Schroeder, NFL quarterback (Wash Redskins, LA Raiders)
1961 - Jeff Malone, NBA guard (Washington Bullets, Miami Heat)
1962 - Anisoara Stanciu-Cusmir, Romania, long jumper (Olympic-gold-1984)
1963 - Allen Pitts, CFL slot back (Calgary Stampeders)
1963 - Andy Cousin, rocker (All About Eve-All About Scarlet & Other Stories)
1964 - Bryan Barker, NFL punter (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1964 - Stephanie Maynor, Chester England, golfer (1995 PING Welch's-13th)
1964 - Susan Mascarin, Detroit Mich, tennis star
1965 - Michele Timms, WNBA guard (Phoenix Mercury, Olympics-1988, 96)
1966 - Andrew Lang, NBA center (Minnesota Timberwolves, Milwaukee Bucks)
1966 - John Cusack, Chicago, actor (Stand By Me, Sure Thing, Better Off Dead)
1966 - Mary Stuart Masterson, Houston Tx, actress (Some Kind of Wonderful)
1966 - Mike Bellamy, WLAF receiver (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1967 - Anthony Smith, NFL defensive end (Oakland Raiders)
1967 - Matt Karchner, Berwick PA, pitcher (Chic White Sox)
1967 - Gil Bellows, Canadian actor
1968 - Adam Woodyatt, English actor
1968 - Chayanne, Puerto Rican singer
1969 - Danielle Brisebois, Bkln NY, actress (Archie's Place, Big Bad Mama 2)
1969 - Tichina Arnold, Queens, actress (Ryan's Hope, Sharla-All My Children)
1969 - Ayelet Zurer, Israeli actress
1970 - Mushtaq Ahmed, cricketer (prodigious Pakistani leggie 1990-)
1970 - [Jack] Stephen Burton, Indianapolis, actor (Chris-Out of this World)
1970 - Mike White, American filmmaker and actor
1971 - Aileen Quinn, actress (Annie)
1971 - Bobby Hurley, NBA guard (Sacramento Kings)
1971 - Gary Downs, NFL running back (Denver Broncos)
1971 - Greg Evans, NFL/WLAF safety (Buffalo Bills, Frankfurt Galaxy)
1971 - Greg Keagle, Corning NY, pitcher (Detroit Tigers)
1971 - Jeff Cothran, NFL fullback (Cin Bengals)
1971 - Tichina Arnold, American actress
1971 - Kenny Cunningham, Irish footballer
1971 - Norika Fujiwara, Japanese actress and television personality
1971 - Ron Mahay, American baseball player
1972 - Arie van de Padt, Dutch soccer player (Tonegido, Sparta)
1972 - Eric Johnson, CFL linebacker (Toronto Argonauts)
1972 - Jerry Colquitt, WLAF quarterback (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1972 - Kelly Wiltshire, CFL defensive back (Toronto Argonauts)
1972 - Marvin Jones, NFL linebacker (NY Jets)
1972 - Ryan Fujita, hockey forward (Team Japan 1998)
1972 - Alessandro Nivola, American actor
1973 - Alberto Berastegui, Spain, tennis star
1973 - Brian Maisonneuve, Detroit Mich, soccer midfielder (Olympics-gold-96)
1973 - Ingrid Seynhaeve, Brussels Belgium, model (Look of the Year 1991)
1973 - Adrian Annus, Hungarian athlete
1974 - Atilla Buday, Budapest Hungary, Canadian canoeist (Olympics-96)
1974 - Josh[ua] Crosby, Manchester Mass, rower (Olympics-1996)
1974 - Karim Abdul-Jabaar, running back (Miami Dolphins)
1974 - Rob Dyrdek, Professional skateboarder
1975 - Chad Green, Dunkirk NY, baseball outfielder (Olympics-bronze-96)
1975 - Jon Nödtveidt, Swedish musician, Dissection
1976 - Shinobu Asagoe, Japanese tennis player
1976 - Seth Wescott, American snowboarder
1977 - Lindsay Lee, Oklahoma City Oklahoma, tennis star (1995 Futures-Woodlands TX)
1977 - Harun Tekin, Turkish musician, Mor ve Ötesi
1977 - Mark Stoermer, American bass player (The Killers)
1977 - Chris Spurling, American baseball player
1979 - Florian Zeller, French novelist and playwright
1979 - Ha Ji-won, South Korean actress and singer
1979 - Randy McMichael, American football player
1981 - Michael Crafter, Australian musician
1983 - Maui Taylor, Filipino model and singer
1985 - Phil Bardsley, English football player
1986 - Kellie Pickler, American singer
1986 - Shadia Simmons, Canadian actress
1988 - Lacey Schwimmer, American dancer
1990 - Jasmine Richards, Canadian actress
1994 - Madeline Duggan, English actress
1994 - Prince Hussein bin Al Abdullah II, Prince of Jordan

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 28, 2013, 08:42:38 AM

This Day in History for 28th June


Famous Deaths

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4th US President                                        Archduke of Austria
James Madison (1836)                               Franz Ferdinand (1914)


548 - Theodora, dancer/empress of Byzantine (Nika-oproer), dies
573 - Alboin, king of Longobarden, probably poisoned by his wife
767 - Paul I, Italian Pope (757-67), dies
1061 - Floris I, count of Holland, dies
1175 - Andrei Bogolyubsky, Russian prince
1194 - Emperor Xiaozong of Song China (b. 1127)
1385 - Andronicus IV Paleologus, Byzantine anti-emperor, dies
1389 - Prince Lazar Hrebeljanović of Serbia (b. 1329)
1586 - Primož Trubar, Slovenian Protestant reformer (b. 1508)
1598 - Abraham Ortelius, [Ortels/Hortels], South Neth geographer, dies at 71
1617 - Johan Evertsen de Captain, Swiss admiral, dies in battle
1714 - Cornelis Chastelein, colonial director, dies at 56
1714 - Daniel van Papenbroeck, Flemish jesuit/historian, dies at 86
1716 - George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, English general (b. 1665)
1742 - Johann Joseph Ignaz Brentner, composer, dies at 52
1748 - Marretje Arends, [Matje of Nieuwendijk], Amsterdam plunderer, hanged
1748 - Pieter van Dort, Amsterdam plunderer, hanged
1776 - Thomas Hickey, American sergeant convicted of treason, hanged
1788 - Johann Christoph Vogel, composer, dies at 32
1798 - Pierre Dutillieu, composer, dies at 44
1802 - Johann J Angel, German author/director, dies at 60
1806 - Johann Friedrich Ludwig Sievers, composer, dies at 64
1813 - Gerhard JD von Scharnhorst, Prus min of War (1807-10), dies in battle
1830 - David Walker, abolitionist (Appeal to Colored Citizens), dies at 44
1834 - Joseph Bové, Russian architect (b. 1784)
1836 - James Madison, 4th US pres (1809-17), dies in Montpelier Va at 85
1846 - Adrian van de Ende, vicar/protestant reformer, dies at 77
1855 - Giovanni Agostino Perotti, composer, dies at 86
1857 - Joseph Fischhof, composer, dies at 53
1872 - Ludwig Friedrich Hetsch, composer, dies at 66
1876 - August W Ambros, Austria musicologist, dies at 59
1880 - Texas Jack Omohundro, American frontier scout, actor, and cowboy (b. 1846)
1881 - Jules Armand Dufaure, French statesman (b. 1798)
1889 - Maria Mitchell, 1st US woman astronomer (Vassar), dies at 70
1890 - Edouard Gregoir, composer, dies at 67
1891 - Jose Inzenga y Castellanos, composer, dies at 63
1892 - Alexandros Rhizos Rhankaves, Greek poet and statesman (b. 1810)
1909 - Israel Durham, Phillies president dies
1910 - Gustave Leon Huberti, composer, dies at 67
1913 - Manoel Ferraz de Campos Salles, President of Brazil (b. 1841)
1914 - Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria, assassinated in Sarajevo aged 50
1914 - Sophie, Princess of Austria, assassinated
1915 - Victor Trumper, cricketer (48 Tests for Australia, 3163 runs), dies
1916 - Ştefan Luchian, Romanian painter (b. 1868)
1922 - Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian poet (b. 1885)
1929 - Edward Carpenter, English poet (b. 1844)
1937 - Max Adler, Austrian socialist theorist, dies at 64
1940 - Italo Balbo, Italian pilot/gov-gen of Libya, dies at 44
1946 - Eduard Veterman, Dutch painter/playwright, dies in an auto accident
1947 - Stanislav K Neumann, Czech poet (Anti-Guide), dies at 72
1950 - Henry Balfour Gardiner, composer, dies at 72
1954 - Red deer, in Milwaukee Zoo, oldest known deer, dies at 26
1957 - Ede Poldini, composer, dies at 88
1958 - Alfred Noyes, British poet/essayist (Robin Hood), dies at 77
1958 - George Gunn, cricketer (15 Tests for England), dies at 50
1960 - Jake Swirbul, American aircraft manufacturer (b. 1898)
1962 - Mickey Cochrane, baseball hall of fame catcher, dies at 59
1963 - Frank "Home Run" Baker, (hit 2 HRs in 1911 world series) dies at 77
1964 - King Calder, actor (Lt Grey-Martin Kane Private Eye), dies at 64
1965 - [Theodora E] Betsy Ranucci-Beckman, actress (Dood Water), dies at 88
1965 - Red Nichols, American musician (b. 1905)
1971 - Henri Puvrez, Belgian sculptor (Serenity), dies at 78
1971 - Joseph Colombo, mobster, shot dead at 48
1971 - Franz Stangl, Austrian commandant of concentration camps (b. 1908)
1974 - Frank Sutton, actor (Sgt Vince Carter-Gomer Pyle USMC), dies at 50
1975 - Rod Serling, writer/host (Twilight Zone, Night Gallery), dies at 50
1975 - Konstantinos Apostolos Doxiadis, Greek architect (b. 1913)
1975 - Serge Reding, Belgian weightlifter (b. 1941)
1976 - Stanley Baker, actor (Accident, Guns of Navarone), dies at 49
1978 - Clifford Dupont, First President of Rhodesia (b. 1905)
1979 - Paul Dessau, German composer/conducter (Berlin, 1925-33), dies at 84
1980 - Heal Gahagan Douglas, (Rep-D-Ca), lost to Nixon, dies at 79
1980 - Herbie Faye, comedian (Doc, Phil Silvers Show), dies at 81
1980 - Yoshiro Irino, composer, dies at 58
1980 - José Iturbi, Spanish pianist and conductor (b. 1895)
1981 - Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti, Iran Islamic Rep Party founder, bombed
1981 - Peter Paul Kreuder, German composer, dies at 75
1981 - Terry Fox, Canadian one-legged marathoner, dies of cancer at 22
1982 - Gerard[us M] Rutten, director (Sterren stralen overal), dies
1982 - Harry Mills, US, singer (Mills Brothers), dies at 70
1985 - James Craig, actor (Human Comedy, Kismet), dies of lung cancer at 74
1985 - Lambros Konstantaras, Greek actor (b. 1913)
1988 - Kurt Raab, writer/actor (Boarding School, Stationmaster's Wife), dies
1989 - Joris Ivens, director (Indonesia), dies at 90
1990 - Estelle Lamont, entertainer, dies
1991 - Ernie McCormick, cricketer (12 Tests for Australia), dies
1991 - Klas Bruinsma, clergyman, dies
1992 - Mikhail Tai, World chess champion (1960-61), dies at 55
1993 - Boris Christoff, Bulgaria/Italian bass (Don Carlos), dies at 79
1993 - GG Allin, American punk rock singer (b. 1956)
1994 - Fredericka Carolyn Washington, actress (Black & Tan), dies at 90
1994 - William A Henry III, critic (Time Mag), dies of heart attack at 44
1995 - Donald Sinclair, vet, dies at 83
1996 - George Ghita Ionescu, academic, dies at 83
1996 - Michael Wishart, artist, dies at 68
1996 - Piers Gray, critic/writer, dies at 49
1996 - Ronald George Woodman, pilot, dies at 82
1996 - Willard F. McMurry, musician, dies at 89
2000 - Jane Birdwood, British anti-Semitic activist (b. 1913)
2000 - Nils Poppe, Swedish actor (b. 1908)
2001 - Mortimer Adler, American philosopher (b. 1902)
2001 - Joan Sims, English actress (b. 1930)
2003 - Wim Slijkhuis, Dutch athlete (b. 1923)
2004 - Anthony Buckeridge, English author (b. 1912)
2005 - Brenda Howard, American LGBT activist (b. 1946)
2006 - Jim Baen, American science fiction publisher and editor (b. 1943)
2006 - George Page, American television host (b. 1935)
2006 - Peter Rawlinson, Baron Rawlinson of Ewell, English barrister, politician and author (b. 1919)
2006 - George Unwin, British WWII fighter ace (b. 1913)
2007 - Eugene Bennett Fluckey, American Navy Submariner (b. 1913)
2007 - Kiichi Miyazawa, 78th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1919)
2008 - Ruslana Korshunova, Kazakhstani model (b.1987)
2009 - Billy Mays, American television pitchman (b. 1958)
2009 - Fred Travalena, American comedian and impressionist (b. 1942)
2009 - A. K. Lohithadas, Indian screenwriter, director, and producer (b. 1955)
2010 - Bill Aucoin, American rock band manager (b. 1943)
2010 - Robert Byrd, American politician (b. 1917)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 29, 2013, 08:42:48 AM

This Day in History for 29th June


Historical Events

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Playwright William Shakespeare                US Calvary Commander                     Boxing Champ George Foreman
                                                                 George Armstrong Custer

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43rd US President George W. Bush


512 - A solar eclipse is recorded by a monastic chronicler in Ireland.
1149 - Raymond of Antioch is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din.
1194 - Sverre is crowned King of Norway.
1312 - Roman Catholics German King Henry VII crowned
1377 - French invasion fleet lands at Rye England
1428 - Jacoba of Bavaria signs cease fire with Philip the Good
1529 - Emperor Karel V & Pope Clemens VII sign Treaty of Barcelona
1534 - Jacques Cartier discovers Prince Edward Islands Canada
1540 - English ex chancellor Thomas Cromwell sentenced as heretic
1613 - Shakespeare's Globe Theater burns down
1659 - The Russians, led by prince Trubetskoy are defeated by the Ukrainian armies of Ivan
           Vyhovsky in the Battle of Konotop.
1682 - Sofia names herself regent of Russia
1694 - Dutch fleet attacks French grain transports
1749 - New Governor, Charles de la Ralière Des Herbiers, arrives at Isle Royale (Cape Breton Island).
1755 - 515 prominant filipinos baptized as Catholic
1762 - Russian Czar Peter III divorces his wife Catharina II
1767 - British passes Townshend Revenue Act levying taxes on America
1776 - Mission Dolores founded by SF Bay
1776 - Virginia state constitution adopted & Patrick Henry made governor
1786 - Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to
           settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.
1800 - Free mason lodge establishes in Alkmaar
1850 - British ex-premier sir Robert Peel falls off his horse
1850 - Autocephaly Officially Granted by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople to The Church
           of Greece.
1854 - Netherlands allows corporal punishment
1857 - Battle at Chinhat (Indies rebel under Barkat Ahmed beat British)
1858 - Great fire in London harbor
1858 - Treaty of Algun, China cedes north bank of Amur River to Russia
1862 - Day 5 of 7 Days-Battle of Savage's Station Va
1863 - Battle at Westminster Maryland: Federal assault
1863 - George A Custer (23) appointed Union Brig-general
1863 - Lee orders his forces to concentrate near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
1863 - Very 1st First National Bank opens in Davenport, Iowa
1864 - Grand Trunk Railway accident; 100 killed
1867 - Pope Pius IX declares Gorcumse holy martyrs
1874 - Greek politician Charilaos Trikoupis publishes a manifesto in the Athens daily Kairoi entitled
           "Who's to Blame?" in which he lays out his complaints against King George. He is elected
           Prime Minister of Greece the next year.
1880 - France annexes Otaheite (Tahiti)
1881 - Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Diuturnum illud
1888 - First (known) recording of classical music made, Handel's Israel in Egypt on wax cylinder.
1891 - 100°F (SF, CA)
1891 - National Forest Service organized
1891 - Street railway in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, commences operation.
1895 - Doukhobors burn their weapons as a protest against conscription by the Tsarist Russian
           government.
1897 - Chicago beats Louisville 36-7 (baseball)
1899 - Brazo River in Texas floods 12 miles wide causing $10 mil damage
1903 - British government protests against abuser in Belgian Congo
1904 - 2 prehistoric bones found in Weerdingerveen, Drenthe
1906 - 12th US Golf Open: Alex Smith shoots a 295 at Onwentsia Club Ill
1911 - Freiherr Gautsch von Frankenthurn becomes premier
1913 - 2nd Balkan War begins-Bulgaria overthrows Greek/Serbian troops
1914 - Jina Guseva attempts to assassinate Grigori Rasputin at his home town in Siberia.
1916 - Boeing aircraft flies for 1st time
1921 - 34th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen beats E Ryan (62 60)
1922 - France grants 1 km² at Vimy Ridge "freely, and for all time, to the Government of Canada, the
           free use of the land exempt from all taxes."
1925 - Canada House opens in London, England.
1926 - Carter Woodson wins Springarn Medal for research of Black history
1926 - Arthur Meighen returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada.
1927 - 1st flight from West Coast arrives in Hawaii
1927 - First test of Wallace Turnbull's Controllable pitch propeller.
1928 - The Outerbridge Crossing and Goethals Bridge in Staten Island, New York both opened.
1929 - 1st high-speed jet wind tunnel completed Langley Field Ca
1929 - 31.1°C (88°F) hoogste temperatuur op deze dag in De Bilt
1929 - Mexico & Vatican sign Concord
1931 - 109°F (43°C), Monticello, Florida (state record)
1931 - Pope Pius XI encyclical on Nun abbiamo bisogno Mussolini
1932 - USSR & China sign no attack treaty
1933 - Primo Carnera KOs Jack Sharkey in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
1936 - Empire State Building emanates high definition TV-343 lines
1936 - Pope Pius XI encyclical to US bishops "On motion pictures"
1939 - 4th Dutch government of Colijn falls
1939 - Dixie Clipper completes 1st commercial plane flight to Europe
1940 - Anjer (Carnation) Day-anniversary of Prince Bernhard
1940 - US passes Alien Registration Act requiring Aliens to register
1940 - Batman Comics, mobsters rubbed out a circus highwire team known as the Flying Graysons,
           leaving their son Dick (Robin) an orphan
1941 - DiMaggio extends hitting streak to 42 breaking Sisler's record
1942 - Dmitri Shostakovitch's 7th Symphony, premieres
1943 - Pope Pius XII encyclical Mystic Corporis (mystic body of Christ)
1943 - US forces landed at Nassau Bay, near Salamaua, New Guinea
1943 - Germany begins withdrawing U-boats from North Atlantic in anticipation of the Allied invasion
           of Europe
1944 - German counter attack at Caen
1944 - Nazi Paul Touvier shoots 7 Jews dead
1944 - Rommel & von Rundstedt travel to Berchtesgaden
1944 - Soviet Armys join in Bobroesjk
1944 - US 7th army corp conquers Cherbourg
1945 - 20.6 cm rainfall at Litchville North Dakota (state record)
1945 - Ruthenia, formerly in Czechoslovakia, becomes part of Ukrainian SSR
1945 - Carpathian Ruthenia was annexed by Soviet Union.
1946 - "Are You with It?" closes at Century Theater NYC after 264 perfs
1946 - "Billion Dollar Baby" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 219 perfs
1946 - Black Sabbath-Brits arrest 2700 Jews in Palestine as alleged terrorist
1946 - British mandatory government of Palestine arrests 100 leaders of Yishnuv
1947 - 2nd US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Betty Jameson
1947 - Yanks beat Senators 3-1 starting a 19 game win streak
1949 - South Africa begins implementing apartheid; no mixed marriages
1949 - US troops withdraw from Korea after WW II
1950 - US beats England 1-0 in a world cup soccer game (next win in 1994)
1950 - West Indies beat England by 326 runs thanks Ramadhin & Valentine
1952 - 1st aircraft carrier to sail around Cape Horn-Oriskany
1952 - 7th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Louise Suggs
1953 - XETV TV channel 6 in Tijuana-San Diego, CA (IND) begins broadcasting
1954 - Atomic Energy Comm voted against reinstating Dr J Robert Oppenheimer
1955 - Argentine state of siege ends
1956 - Charles Dumas, makes 1st high jump over 7' (2.13 m)-LA, Calif
1956 - Federal interstate highway system act signed
1956 - PM Drees refuses resignation of queen Juliana (Greet Hofmans)
1957 - 12th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Betsy Rawls
1957 - Malenkov, Molotov, Kaganowitsj & Sjepilov leave USSR communist party
1958 - Brazil beats Sweden 5-2 in soccer's 6th World Cup at Stockholm
1959 - Pope John XXIII 1st encyclical "On truth, unity, & peace, in charity"
1960 - Joyce Ziske wins LPGA Western Golf Open
1960 - KYA-AM in SF changes call letters to KDBQ (for 2 weeks)
1961 - Launch of Transit 4a, with 1st nuclear power supply (SNAP-3)
1961 - Willie Mays is 4th major leaguer with 3 or more HRs twice in a season
1962 - 1st flight Vickers (British Aerospace) VC-10 long-range airliner
1962 - Frank Howard, hits the 5,000th Dodger home run
1963 - "Little Me" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC after 257 performances
1963 - Beatles' 1st song "From Me to You" hits UK charts
1963 - SVB, Students Unions, established under Barrel Regtien
1964 - 1st draft of Star Trek's pilot "Cage" released
1964 - Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed after 83-day filibuster in Senate
1965 - USAF Capt Joseph Henry Engle reaches 85,530 m in X-15
1966 - In the Vietnam War, US planes bombed Hanoi & Haiphong for 1st time
1966 - KBSC (now KVEA) TV channel 52 in Corona-Los Angeles, CA begins
1966 - US bombs fuel storage facilities near N Vietnamese cities
1967 - Israel removes barricades, re-unifying Jerusalem
1967 - Keith Richards is sentenced to 1 year in jail on drugs charge
1968 - "Tip-Toe Thru' The Tulips With Me" by Tiny Tim peaks at #17
1969 - 1st Jewish worship service at White House
1969 - 24th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Donna Caponi Young
1969 - On Billy Williams Day in Chicago, the Cubs outfielder passes Stan Musial's NL record for
           consecutive games played (896)
1970 - US ends 2 month military offensive into Cambodia
1971 - Rolling Stones Mick Jagger & Keith Richards sentenced on drug offense
1971 - Soyuz 11 docks with Salyut 1 for 22 days
1972 - Supreme Court rules (5-4) that Death Penalty is cruel & unusual
1972 - USSR launches Prognoz 2 into earth orbit (549/200,000 km)
1974 - Milt coup in Ethiopia
1975 - 3rd du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): JoAnne Carner
1975 - 8.10" (20.57 cm) of rainfall, Litchville No Dakota (state 24-hr rec)
1976 - Seychelles gains independence from Britain
1976 - The Seychelles become independent from the United Kingdom.
1977 - Supreme Court rules out death penalty for rapists of adults
1977 - Willie Stargell hits his 400th career HR
1978 - VP Walter F Mondale begins trip to Mid-East
1979 - "Moonraker" premieres in US
1979 - San Diego Chicken reborn at Jack Murphy Stadium
1980 - "Sweeney Todd" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 557 performances
1980 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sarah Coventry Golf Tournament
1981 - Bomb attack on headquarters of Islamic Party in Teheran, 72 killed
1981 - Hu Yaobang succeeds Hua Guofeng as leader of China PR
1982 - Voting Rights Act of 1965 extended
1983 - Angel Cordero wins his 5,000th horse races
1983 - Challenger flies back to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB
1984 - Orel Hershiser begins string of making every sched start until 1990
1984 - Pete Rose plays in record 3,309th game, surpassing Carl Yastrzemski
1984 - USSR offers to start talking about banning SDI
1985 - NASA launches Intelsat VA
1985 - STS 51-F vehicle moves to launch pad
1986 - Argentina becomes world champion soccer team (3-2 against W-Germany)
1986 - Boston Red Sox trade for Tom Seaver
1986 - Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
1986 - Sparky Anderson is 1st to win 600 games as manager in both leagues
1987 - Phil's Steve Bedrosian is 1st to record 12 saves in 12 attempts
1987 - Yanks blow 11-4 lead but trailing 14-11 Dave Winfield's 8th inning grand slammer beats
           Toronto 15-14; Mattingly also grand slams
1988 - Emmy 15th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 9th time
1989 - Emmy 16th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 10th time
1989 - Susan Lucci loses daytime emmy for 10th straight year
1990 - Marla Maples father sues National Enquirer for $12M
1990 - NY Mets tie their team career high 11 game win streak
1990 - A's Dave Stewart no-hits Blue Jays & Dodger's Fernando Valenzuela no-hits St Louis 6-0, 1st
           time no-hitters in both leagues
1991 - "Jackie Mason - Brand New" closes at Neil Simon NYC after 216 perfs
1991 - 6.0 earthquake hits southern Calif
1991 - Britain's Nick Brown, 591st rank beats 10th-seeded Goran Ivanisevic 4-6, 6-3, 7-6, 6-3 in
           2nd round at Wimbledon
1992 - "Salome" opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 9 performances
1992 - 2 earthquakes including 7.4 hits southern Calif
1992 - A's Dennis Eckersley sets record of 26th straight save of season
1992 - NHL decides Eric Lindross goes to Flyers instead of Rangers
1994 - Socialist, Tomiichi Murayama, elected premier of Japan
1994 - US reopens Guantanamo Naval Base to process refugees
1995 - George Foreman loses IBF boxing title, refused to fight Axel Schulz
1995 - Memphis Mad Dogs 1st CFL game (vs Calgary Stampeders)
1996 - Andrea Leah Plummer, of Tennessee, crowned 39th America's Junior Miss
1996 - Superman's Action Comic #1 (1938) auctioned at Sotheby at $61,900
1997 - "American Daughter" closes at Cort Theater NYC after 88 performances
1997 - "London Assurance" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 72 perfs
1997 - 18th US Seniors Golf Open: Graham Marsh
1997 - Greg Norman wins PGA St Jude Classic
1997 - Michelle McGann wins ShopRite LPGA Classic
1997 - Progress M-35 Soyuz Launch (Russia)
1997 - Tyrenda Williams, 18, of Alabama, crowned 40th America's Junior Miss
2000 - Eminem's mother goes to court claiming defamation of character in a $10 million civil suit,
           after taking exception to the line "My mother smokes more dope than I do" from her son's
           single 'My Name Is'
2002 - U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, serves as Acting President for two and a half hours, while
           President George W. Bush undergoes a colonoscopy procedure.
2002 - Naval clashes between South Korea and North Korea lead to the death of six South Korean
           sailors and sinking of a North Korean vessel.
2006 - Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that President George W. Bush's plan to
           try Guantanamo Bay detainees in military tribunals violates U.S. and international law.
2007 - Two car bombs are found in the heart of London at Picadilly Circus.
2008 - Thomas Beatie, the world's first pregnant man, gives birth to a daughter.
2012 - 16 Naxalite Maoist insurgents in India are killed by police
2012 - Three bombs in Balid, Iraq, kill 6 people and injure 45
2012 - 15,000 Japanese anti-nuclear protesters blockade the Japanese Prime Minister's office in
           Tokyo

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 29, 2013, 08:54:49 AM

This Day in History for 29th June


Famous Weddings

1822 - Nephew of Napoleon, biologist and ornithologist Prince Charles Bonaparte marries cousin
           Zenaide Bonaparte
1854 - English Novelist and author of "Jane Eyre" Charlotte Bronte marries curate Arthur Bell Nicholls
1956 - Actress and sex symbol Marilyn Monroe (30) weds for 3rd time playwright Arthur Miller (40) at
           White Plains Court House in White Plains, New York
1956 - Actress and sex symbol Marilyn Monroe (30) weds for 3rd time playwright Arthur Miller (40) at
           White Plains Court House in White Plains, New York
2002 - Actor-comedian Tom Arnold (43) weds Shelby Roos (29) at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly
           Hills
2003 - Actress Emma Thompson (44) weds actor Greg Wise (37) in Loch Eck, Scotland
2005 - American actress Jennifer Garner (33) weds actor and film director Ben Affleck (32) at the
           Parrot Cay resort on Turks and Caicos Islands
2005 - American actress Jennifer Garner (33) weds actor and film director Ben Affleck (32) at the
           Parrot Cay resort on Turks and Caicos Islands
2005 - "Access Hollywood" host Nancy O'Dell (39) weds business executive Keith Zubchevich (36) at
           the Bacara Resort & Spa in Santa Barbara, California

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 29, 2013, 09:00:18 AM

This Day in History for 29th June


Famous Divorces

2012 - Actress Katie Holmes (33) divorces American film actor and producer Tom Cruise (50) allegedly
           due to disagreement about their religious beliefs and the raising of their daughter Suri, after 5
           years of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 29, 2013, 09:11:04 AM

This Day in History for 29th June


Famous Birthdays

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Film Producer Robert Evans (1930)           Pop Singer Little Eva (1943)                 Comedian Richard Lewis (1947)


1397 - John II of Aragon (d. 1479)
1482 - Maria of Aragon, queen of Portugal (d. 1517)
1517 - Rembert Dodoens, [Rembertus Dodonaeus], physician/botanist
1596 - Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (d. 1680)
1738 - Constantin Reindl, composer
1783 - August Alexander Klengel, composer
1798 - Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet (d. 1837)
1803 - John Newton Brown, American publisher (d. 1868)
1805 - Hiram Powers, US sculptor (Greek Slave)
1824 - Victor J van Hinsbergh, South Neth engraver (PTT Stempels)
1831 - William Thomas Clark, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1905
1842 - Josef Labor, composer
1849 - Sergei J Witte, Neth/Russ count/premier Russia
1849 - John Hunn, American businessman (d. 1926)
1850 - Joseph Paul Skelly, composer
1858 - George Washington Goethals, engineer (built Panama Canal)
1861 - William James Mayo, surgeon/co-founder Mayo clinic in Minnesota
1863 - James Harvey Robinson, Ill, historian (Ordeal of Civilization)
1864 - Anton Beer-Walbrun, composer
1864 - Pietro Bonfante, Italian lawyer (Roman law)
1865 - Shigechiyo Izumi, once thought to be the world's oldest man ever but birth date now
           disputed (120 y 237 d)
1865 - William E Borah, lawyer/(Sen-R-Id)
1866 - Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Ukrainian statesman (d. 1934)
1868 - George Ellery Hale, American astronomer (d. 1938)
1870 - Joseph Carl Breil, composer
1874 - Georg Gohler, composer
1876 - Nellie Taylor Ross, 1st woman to serve as a gov (Wyoming, 1925-27)
1880 - Ludwig Beck, chef Germany general staff ("July 20th plot")
1881 - Harry Frazee, American baseball team owner (d. 1929)
1881 - Curt Sachs, German musicologist (d. 1959)
1885 - Andre Gailhard, composer
1885 - Virginia Pope, (NY Times)
1886 - George Frederick Boyle, composer
1886 - James Van Der Zee, Lenox Ma, African American photographer
1886 - Juliane Gabriels, Flemish physician (Artus Quellin)
1886 - Robert Schuman, French premier
1889 - Willie MacFarlane, Scottish golfer (d. 1961)
1893 - Aare Merikanto, composer
1893 - Antoon Schweigmann, Dutch religious poet/resistance fighter
1896 - Irene Browne, England, actress (All at Sea, Peg O' My Heart)
1897 - Ottmar Gerster, composer
1897 - Fulgence Charpentier, French-Canadian journalist (d. 2001)
1900 - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French writer (d. 1944)
1901 - Frieda Inescort, Edinburgh Scotland, actress (Pride & Prejudice)
1901 - Hendrik Diels, Flemish conductor
1901 - Nelson Eddy, Providence RI, baritone (Duets with Jeanette MacDonald)
1902 - Carl-Heinz Schroth, Innsbruck, director (Reaching for the Stars)
1902 - Ellen Clara Pollock, actress (Wicked Lady, Horror Hospital)
1903 - Alan Blumlein, English electronics engineer (d. 1942)
1905 - Manuel Altolaguirre, Spanish poet/publisher (La lenta libertad)
1906 - Ivan Chernyakhovsky, Russian general (d. 1945)
1907 - Joan Davis, St Paul Minn, actress (I Married Joan)
1907 - Paul O'Dwyer, pres of City Council (D-NYC)
1908 - Paul Lebeau, Flemish writer (Last Rose, Xanthippe)
1908 - Rene Gerber, composer
1909 - Leroy Anderson, US, composer (Syncopated Clock)
1910 - Franc Henry Loesser, US songwriter/composer (Most Happy Fella)
1910 - Burgess Whitehead, American baseball player (d. 1993)
1911 - Bernard Herrmann, New York City, New York, American composer (The Devil and Daniel
           Webster, Taxi Driver)
1911 - Bernhard, Germany, Prince (Consort to Queen Juliana of Netherlands)
1911 - Klaus E J Fuchs, German/British/German nuclear physicist/spy
1912 - John Toland, US, political writer (Rising Sun, Pulitzer 1971)
1912 - Jose Pablo Moncayo Garcia, Guadalajara Mexico, composer (Huapango)
1912 - Émile Peynaud, French oenologist (d. 2004)
1914 - Rafael Kubelik, Bychory Czechoslovakia, conductor (Cornelia Farooli)
1914 - Christos Papakyriakopoulos, Greek mathematician (d. 1976)
1916 - David Donaldson, painter
1916 - Ruth Warwick, St Joseph, Missouri, American actress and singer (Citizen Kane, All My
           Children)
1918 - Jack Harkness, rose grower
1919 - Slim Pickens, Kingsburg California, actor (Dr Strangelove, Blazing Saddles)
1919 - Lloyd Richards, American director (d. 2006)
1920 - Ray Harryhausen, movie special effect artist (Clash of Titans)
1921 - Frédéric Dard, French writer (d. 2000)
1922 - Vasko Popa, Yugoslavia/Serbian poet (Heaven is a Side Issue)
1923 - Chou Wen-Chung, Cheefoo China, composer (Mode of Shang)
1924 - Ezra Laderman, NYC, composer (Jacob & the Indians)
1924 - Flo Sandon's, Italian singer (d. 2006)
1925 - Cara Williams, Bkln NY, actress (Pete & Gladys, Cara Williams Show)
1925 - Hale Smith, composer
1925 - Giorgio Napolitano, Italian politician
1926 - Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (d. 2006)
1928 - Ian Bannen, Airdrie Scotland, actor (Eye of the Needle, Gorky Park)
1929 - Michio Mamaia, composer
1929 - Peter George, Akron Ohio, weightlifter (Oly-gold/2 silver-48, 52)
1929 - Pat Crawford Brown, American actress
1930 - Robert Evans, NYC, director/actor (Love Story, Godfather, Chinatown)
1930 - Viola Léger, Acadian-Canadian actress
1931 - Ed Gilbert, American actor (d. 1999)
1933 - Bob Shaw, baseball player
1933 - John Bradshaw, American theologian
1934 - Carl Levin, (Sen-D-MI)
1934 - Henning Kronstam, dancer
1936 - David Jenkins, US, figure skater (Olympic-gold-1960)
1936 - Harmon Killebrew, baseball player (Minnesota Twins)
1936 - Leonard Lee, US vocalist (Shirley & Lee-Let the Good Times Roll)
1938 - Billy Storm, singer (Valiants-This is the Night)
1938 - Edmund Falkiner, jazz saxophinist/probation officer
1939 - Alan Connolly, cricketer (Australian pace bowler through 60s)
1939 - Ron Headley, cricketer (son of George, 2 Tests WI v England 1973)
1940 - Louise S Groenman, Dutch MP (D66)
1940 - Viacheslav Artyomov, composer
1941 - Margritta Gummel, German DR, shot putter (Olympic-gold-1968)
1941 - Stokeley Carmichael, [Kwame Toure], US, Black Power-activist
1941 - John Boccabella, American baseball player
1942 - Bas J van der Vlies, Dutch MP (SGP)
1942 - Larry Snyder, jockey
1942 - Mike Willesee, Australian television presenter
1943 - Roger Ruskin Spear, London England, saxophonist (Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band)
1943 - Little Eva (Eva Boyd), Belhaven, North Carolina, American pop singer (Locomotion)
1944 - Collin Peterson, (Rep-D-Minnesota)
1944 - Gary Busey, Goose Creek Tx, actor (Buddy Holly Story, Star in Born)
1944 - Sean O'Malley, American Roman Catholic bishop
1945 - Johnnie Richardson, rocker (Johnnie & Joe)
1945 - Chandrika Kumaratunga, President of Sri Lanka
1946 - Egon von Furstenberg, Swiss fashion designer (d. 2004)
1946 - Ernesto Pérez Balladares, Panamanian politician
1947 - Jeff Moss, cricketer (one Test Australia v Pakistan 1979)
1947 - Richard Lewis, NYC, comedian (Marty Gold-Anything But Love)
1947 - Michael Carter, British actor
1948 - Bill Kirchen, singer/guitarist (Commander Cody & His Lost Planet)
1948 - Charles McCorquodale, art historian
1948 - Fred Grandy, Sioux City IA, (Rep-R-Iowa, 1986- )/actor (Love Boat)
1948 - Ian Paice, British hard rock drummer(White Snake, Deep Purple)
1948 - Loncoln Gordon, rocker
1949 - Dan Dierdorf, NFLer, sportscaster (Monday Night Football)
1949 - Joan Clos i Matheu, Spanish politician
1949 - Ann Veneman, American politician
1951 - Don Rosa, American ilustrator
1952 - Joe Johnson, English snooker player
1953 - Billy Hinsche, rocker
1953 - Don Dokken, heavy metal rocker (Dokken-Alone Again)
1953 - Rosa Mota, Port marathoner (Olympic-gold-1988)
1953 - Colin Hay, Kilwinning, Scotland, Scottish-Australian guitarist and singer (Men At Work)
1954 - Rick Honeycutt, Chattanooga TN, pitcher (St Louis Cardinals)
1955 - Charles J Precourt, Waltham Mass, astronaut (STS 55, 71, 84, sk:91)
1955 - Terence M. O'Sullivan, American activist
1956 - Pedro Guerrero, baseball player
1956 - Pedro Santana Lopes, former Prime Minister of Portugal
1957 - Maria Conchita Alonso, Cuba, actress (Moscow on the Hudson)
1957 - Robert Forster, Australian musician
1958 - Leslie Browne, NYC, ballerina (Turning Point)
1958 - Richard Mettee, horse trainer
1958 - Rosa Mota, Portuguese athlete
1959 - Edward F Humenik, Detroit MI, PGA golfer (1994 Kmart Greater-2nd)
1959 - Kim Hiett, jockey
1959 - Larry Parham, 4th victim of NYC's Zodiac killer (1st to die)
1960 - Sergey Kopylov, USSR, cyclist (Olympic-gold-1980)
1961 - Sharon Lawrence [Sharon Elizabeth], Charlotte, North Carolina, American actress (NYPD Blue,
           Fired Up)
1961 - Kimberlin Brown, American actress
1961 - Greg Hetson, American punk-rock guitarist
1962 - Amanda Donohoe, London, actress (CJ Lamb-LA Law)
1962 - George Zamka, American astronaut
1963 - Anne-Sophie Mutter, Rheinfeldin Germany, violinist (Berlin Phil)
1963 - Khalid El-Masri, German-born suspected terrorist
1964 - Pepper Johnson, NFL linebacker (NY Giants, Cleveland Browns)
1964 - Stedman Pearson, Essex, rock vocalist (Five Star-Silk & Steel)
1964 - Wendy Kilbourne, actress (Devon-Midnight Caller) [1964 Approx]
1965 - Barry D, [Iain Bakker], English pop musician (Jesus Jones)
1965 - Paul Jarvis, cricketer (England pace bowler 1988-93)
1965 - Tripp Eisen, American musician
1966 - John Part, Canadian darts player
1967 - John Wehner, Pittsburgh PA, infielder (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1967 - Melora Hardin, Houston Tx, actress (Family Tree, Best Times)
1967 - Murray Foster, Canadian musician
1968 - Theoren Fleury, Oxbow Sask, NHL right wing (Calgary Flames, Canada)
1969 - Erik Tammer, soccer player (SC Heerenveen, Go Ahead Eagles)
1969 - Simon Brown, cricketer (Durham pace bowler, England 1996)
1969 - Toru Hashimoto, Japanese politician
1969 - Claude Béchard, Canadian politician
1969 - Ilan Mitchell-Smith, American actor
1970 - Troy Drayton, tight end (Miami Dolphins)
1970 - Mike Vallely, American skateboarder
1971 - Dennis Gerritsen, soccer player (NAC)
1971 - Mike Sillinger, Regina, NHL right wing (Vanc Canucks, Anaheim Ducks)
1971 - Wendee Espinosa, Stockton California, female outfielder (Silver Bullets)
1971 - Kaitlyn Ashley, American pornographic actress
1971 - Matthew Good, Canadian musician
1972 - Fabrice L'Henry, hockey forward (Team France 1998)
1972 - Samantha Smith, Houlton Mo, actress (Elizabeth-Lime Street)
1972 - Nawal Al Zoghbi, Lebanese singer
1973 - George Hincapie, Queens NY, road cyclist (Olympics-76th-92, 96)
1974 - Ted Giannous, San Diego, actor (KGB Chicken)
1975 - Mathew Gates, Baldock Engld, dance skater (& Chalom-1995 Nat Jr champ)
1976 - Sandhya Chib, Miss Universe-India (1996)
1976 - Bret McKenzie, New Zealand musician
1977 - Sharon Cripps, Australian 100m/200m (Olympics-96)
1977 - Tania Joy Gibson, Lake Barrington Ill, Miss America-Illinois (1997)
1977 - Oleg Korenfeld, Russian-born American poet
1977 - Zuleikha Robinson, English actress
1978 - Sam Farrar, American bassist
1978 - Nicole Scherzinger, American singer and actress
1979 - Abs Breen, English singer
1979 - Marleen Veldhuis, Dutch swimmer
1979 - Matthew Bode, Australian Rules football player
1979 - Barış Akarsu, Turkish singer and actor (d. 2007)
1980 - Katherine Jenkins, Welsh soprano
1980 - Mel Peachey, British television personality
1980 - Martin Truex Jr, American race car driver
1981 - Nicolás Vuyovich, Argentine racing driver (d. 2005)
1981 - Joe Johnson, American basketball player
1983 - Aundrea Fimbres, American singer
1984 - Han Ji-hye, South Korean actress and model
1984 - Christopher Egan, Australian actor
1984 - Derek Lee Rock, American drummer
1985 - Quintin Demps, American football player
1986 - Austin Drage, English singer
1986 - Iya Villania, Filipina actress
1987 - Yasuka Saitou, Japanese actor
1988 - Éver Banega, Argentine footballer
1992 - Adam G. Sevani, American actor
1993 - Angela & Amy Lakeberg, US Siamese twin (separated on Aug 20th)
1993 - George Sampson, English dancer

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 29, 2013, 09:14:48 AM

This Day in History for 29th June


Famous Deaths

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Actress Lana Turner (1995)


1021 - Notker Labeo, tutor in convent Sankt Gallen, dies
1059 - Bernard II, Duke of Saxony
1252 - King Abel of Denmark (b. 1218)
1293 - Hendrik van Gent, Flemish neo-Augustian philosopher/theologist, dies
1306 - Musho [Hokai], Zen teacher/found subtemple at Jochiji, dies
1315 - Ramon Llull, Spanish philosopher (b. 1235)
1458 - Mapheus Vegius, [Maffeo Vegio], Italian lawyer/humanist/poet, dies
1509 - Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII of England (b. 1443)
1620 - John Aerts, Flemish sculptor
1696 - Michel Lambert, composer, dies
1725 - Arai Hakuseki, Japanese writer and politician (b. 1657)
1764 - Ralph Allen, English businessman and politician (b. 1693)
1779 - Anton R Mengs, German writer/neo-classic painter Madrid, dies at 51
1784 - Caesar Rodney, US judge/singer (Declar of Independence), dies at 55
1790 - Feike H Van de Crew, Fries writer (Mayke Jakkelis), dies
1798 - Kaat Mussel [Catharina Mulder], exerciser, dies
1818 - Carl P Fohr, German painter/cartoonist, dies at 22
1840 - Lucien Bonaparte, prince of Canino/Musignano, dies at 65
1852 - Henry Clay, the great compromiser, dies at 75
1855 - John Gorrie, American scientist (b. 1802)
1860 - Thomas Addison, English physician (A-Biermer Disease), dies at 67
1861 - Elizabeth Barrett-Browning, writer, dies at 55
1873 - Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Bengali poet (b. 1824)
1875 - Ferdinand I KLJM de Goedige, Emperor of Austria, dies at 82
1880 - George W Vreede, lawyer/politician, dies
1895 - Thomas Henry Huxley, English scientist (b. 1825)
1900 - Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin, Russian mathematician (b. 1900)
1903 - Rentaro Taki, composer, dies at 23
1919 - José Gregorio Hernández Venezuelan physician (b. 1864)
1921 - Otto Seeck German classical historian (b. 1850)
1923 - Fritz Mauthner, German author/philosopher (skepticism), dies at 73
1923 - Gustave Adolph Kerker, composer, dies at 66
1923 - J C Gomez, General/Venezuela's 1st VP, assassinated
1931 - Nérée Beauchemin, Quebec poet (b. 1850)
1933 - Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, US actor (Keystone comedies), dies at 46
1935 - Jack O'Neill, American baseball player (b. 1873)
1940 - Paul Klee, Swiss/German painter/tutor (Modern Art), dies at 60
1941 - Ignace Jan Paderewski, Polish statesman pianist, dies in NY at 80
1949 - Walter Giffen, cricketer (brother of George, 3 Tests), dies
1953 - Jules van Nuffel, composer, dies at 70
1955 - Max Pechstein, German painter/graphic artist (Oceania), dies at 73
1956 - Johan[nes F] Bakker Jr, actor, dies at 62
1958 - Charles Spencelayh, English painter (b. 1865)
1959 - A Cecil Snyder, Chief Justice of Puerto Rico, dies at 51
1964 - Milenko Zivkovic, composer, dies at 63
1964 - Eric Dolphy, American jazz musician (b. 1928)
1965 - Sidney Marion, actor (Outlaws is Coming, Quicksand), dies at 64
1966 - Arthur Meulemans, Belgian composer, dies at 82
1966 - Isabel Dawn, writer, dies
1966 - Ronald Shiner, actor (Aunt Clara, Forbidden, Girls at Sea), dies at 63
1967 - Jayne Mansfield, actress (Female Jungle), dies in a car crash at 34
1967 - O M Graf, writer, dies at 72
1967 - Primo Carnera, Italian boxer (b. 1906)
1968 - Kitty Kelly, actress (Ladies of Jury, Behind Office Doors), dies at 66
1969 - Moise K Tsjombe, premier Congo/Zaire, dies
1969 - Shorty Long, soul singer/pianist (Here Comes the Judge), dies at 29
1969 - Vesselin Stoyanov, composer, dies at 67
1970 - Roman Ingarden, Polish philosopher (Studia philosophica), dies at 77
1970 - Stefan Andres, German writer (Wir sind Utopia), dies at 64
1971 - Georgi T Dobrovolsky, cosmonaut (Soyuz 11-land accident), dies at 43
1971 - Viktor Patsayev, cosmonaut (Soyuz 11-landing accident), dies at 38
1971 - Vladimir Volkov, cosmonaut (Soyuz 11-landing accident), dies at 35
1973 - Germán Valdés, Mexican actor (b. 1915)
1975 - Jerry Verno, actor (River of Unrest, Ourselves Alone), dies at 79
1975 - Tim Buckley, American singer-songwriter (b. 1947)
1976 - Leonora Summers, entertainer, dies
1977 - Anton D Hildebrand, children's book writer (Monus), dies at 70
1977 - Magda Lupescu, consort of King Carol II of Romania (b. 1895)
1978 - Bob Crane, actor (Donna Reed Show, Hogan-Hogan's Heroes), murdered at 49
1979 - Ben Barnett, cricketer (4 Tests for Australia 1938), dies
1979 - Lowell George, rocker (Mothers of Invention, Little Feat), dies at 34
1981 - Mohammed Hussein Beheshti, Iran ayatollah/politician, murdered
1982 - Gerard[us PM] Knuvelder, literature historian (Anthology), dies
1982 - Henry King, director, dies at 86
1986 - Ida Mae McKenzie, entertainer, dies
1986 - John P East, (Sen-R-NC), dies at 55
1986 - Robert Drivas, actor (Our Private World), dies at 47
1990 - Irving Wallace, author (Book of Lists, Peoples Almanac), dies at 74
1992 - Mohammed Boudiaf, president of Algeria, assassinated at 73
1992 - Pierre Billotte, French military man (IIGM), dies
1993 - Héctor Lavoe, Puerto Rican singer (b. 1946)
1994 - Cameron Mitchell, actor (Man on Tightrope), dies of lung cancer at 76
1994 - Kurt Eichhorn, conductor, dies at 85
1994 - Ray Crane, trumpeter, dies at 63
1995 - Lana Turner, actress (Madame X), dies of cancer at 75
1995 - Roy Rowland, film director, dies at 84
1996 - Alexander George Ogston, biochemist, dies at 85
1996 - Bobby Keetch, footballer/entrepreneur, dies at 54
1996 - Pamela Mason, actress (Wild in the Streets), dies at 78
1997 - William Hickey, American actor (Prizzi's Honor), dies of emphysema at 69
1998 - Horst Jankowski, German pianist (b. 1936)
1999 - Allan Carr, American film producer (b. 1937)
2000 - Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor (b. 1922)
2002 - Rosemary Clooney, American singer and actress (b. 1928)
2002 - Ole-Johan Dahl, Norwegian computer scientist (b. 1931)
2002 - François Périer, French actor (b. 1919)
2003 - Katharine Hepburn, American actress (b. 1907)
2004 - Bernard Babior, American biochemist (b. 1935)
2006 - Randy Walker, American football coach (b. 1954)
2006 - Fabián Bielinsky, Argentinean film director (b. 1959)
2006 - Lloyd Richards, American actor and director (b. 1919)
2007 - Joel Siegel, American film critic (b. 1943)
2007 - Edward Yang, Taiwanese film director (b. 1947)
2008 - Don S. Davis, American actor and artist (b. 1942)
2009 - Joe Bowman (marksman), American sharpshooter, Hollywood consultant, famed bootmaker &
           master showman (b. 1925)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 30, 2013, 10:38:09 AM

This Day in History for 30th June


Historical Events

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Pacifist and Spiritual Leader Gandhi        Author Margaret Mitchell               Marxist Revolutionary Vladimir Lenin

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NFL Running Back and Convicted
Criminal OJ Simpson


296 - St Marcellinus begins his reign as Catholic Pope
350 - Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, is defeated and killed by troops of
         the usurper Magnentius, in Rome.
833 - Louis, king of Austria, crowned
949 - Otto I the Great gives away bishopdom of Utrecht "foreestrecht"
1294 - Jews are expelled from Berne Switzerland
1371 - Arnold II of Horne chosen bishop of Utrecht
1397 - Denmark, Norway & Sweden sign Union of Kalmar under Queen Margaretha
1422 - Battle of Arbedo between the duke of Milan and the Swiss cantons.
1520 - Spanish conquerors under Cortes take gold from Aztecs
1520 - The Spaniards are expelled from Tenochtitlan.
1528 - Burgundy army occupies Utrecht
1548 - Emperor Charles V orders Catholics to become Lutherans
1559 - King Henry II of France is seriously injured in a jousting match against Gabriel de
           Montgomery.
1596 - English/Dutch fleet reach Cadiz
1598 - King Philip II moves to Escorial palace
1607 - Annales Ecclesiastici (Scientific History of Catholicism) published
1643 - Battle at Atherton Moor: Royalists beat parliamentary armies
1648 - French premier cardinal Mazarin calls Saint Louis Chamber together
1651 - The Deluge: Khmelnytsky Uprising - the Battle of Beresteczko ends with a Polish victory.
1688 - Whig-Lords questions prince Willem III van Orange on Protestantism
1690 - Battle at Beachy Head: French under Tourville beat Neth/English fleet
1700 - Gelderland goes on Gregorian calendar (tomorrow is 12/7/1700)
1722 - Hungarian Parliament condemns emperor Karel VI's Pragmatic Sanctions
1734 - Russian army occupies Danzig
1741 - Pope Benedict XIV encyclical forbidding traffic in alms
1755 - Philippines close all non-catholic Chinese restaurants
1758 - Seven Years' War: The Battle of Domstadtl takes place.
1794 - Battle of Fort Recovery, Ohio
1815 - US naval hero Stephen Decatur ends attacks by Algerian pirates
1834 - Congress creates Indian Territory (now Oklahoma)
1859 - Charles Blondin is 1st to cross Niagara Falls on a tightrope
1860 - The 1860 Oxford evolution debate at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History takes
           place.
1861 - CSS Sumter slips past USS Brooklyn blockade
1862 - Battle at Nelson's Farm/Glendale/Frayser's Farm, Virginia: Confederate assault attack. 6th day
           of 7 days battles US Civil War
1862 - Gustave Flaubert completes "Salammbo"
1863 - Battles in Hanover Pennsylvania: 80 casualties
1863 - Dutch colony Suriname counts population of 33,000 slaves
1863 - Skirmish at Sporting Hill Pennsylvania
1865 - 8 alleged conspirators in assassination of Lincoln are found guilty
1870 - Ada Kepley becomes 1st female law college graduate
1871 - Guatemala revolts for agrarian reforms
1876 - Serbia declares war on Turkey
1879 - Ex-khedive Ismael Pasha leaves Cairo with train full stolen goods
1881 - Henry Highland Garnet, named minister to Liberia
1893 - Excelsior diamond (blue-white 995 carats) discovered
1894 - Korea declares independence from China, asks for Japanese aid
1894 - London Tower Bridge opens
1896 - W S Hadaway patents electric stove
1899 - Jack Hearne takes a hat-trick Eng v Australia at Headingley
1900 - 4 German liners burn at Hobokon Docks NJ, 326 die
1902 - Cleveland is 1st AL team to hit 3 consecutive HRs in same inning
1906 - John Hope becomes 1st black president of Morehouse College
1906 - Pure Food & Drug Act & Meat Inspection Act adopted
1908 - Boston's Cy Young's 2nd no-hitter, beats NY Highlanders, 8-0
1908 - Giant fireball most likely caused by the air burst of a large meteoroid or comet impacts in
           Siberia (Tunguska Event)
1909 - Jack Johnson fights Tony Ross to no decision in 6 for hw boxing title
1910 - Russia absorbs Finland
1911 - Adolphe Messimy appointed French minister of War
1911 - US Assay Office in St Louis, Missouri closes
1913 - 2nd Balkan War begins
1913 - NY Giants score 10 in 10th to beat Phillies 11-1
1914 - Mahatma Gandhi's 1st arrest, campaigning for Indian rights in South Africa
1916 - 22nd US Golf Open: Chick Evans shoots a 286 at Minikahda Club MINN
1916 - General Douglas Haig reports "The men are in splendid spirits"
1923 - NZ claims Ross Dependency in Antarctica
1924 - England score 2-503 in day's play v South Africa at Lord's
1927 - Augusto Cesar Sandino issues his Manifesto Politico
1927 - US Assay Office in Deadwood, South Dakota closes
1928 - Radio Service Bulletin lists radio stations call signs that are to be changed to conform with
           international standards
1929 - 33rd US Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 294 at Winged Foot CC NY
1930 - 1st round-the-world radio broadcast Schenectady NY
1930 - Bradman scores 254 at Lord's v England, 320 mins, 25 fours
1933 - 50,000 demonstrate in Antwerp against fascism/war
1933 - Card's Dizzy Dean strikes out 17 Cubs to win 8-2
1933 - US Assay Offices in Helena Mon, Boise Id & Salt Lake City Utah closes
1934 - "Night of Long Knives," Hitler stages bloody purge of Nazi party
1934 - French Equatorial Africa constituted a single administrative unit
1934 - NFL's Portsmouth Spartans become Detroit Lions
1935 - Danno O'Mahoney beats Ed George in Boston, to become wrestling champ
1935 - The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its first congress.
1936 - "Gone With the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell, published
1936 - 40 hour work week law approved (federal)
1936 - Haile Selassie asks League of Nations for sanctions against Italy
1936 - Margaret Mitchell's novel "Gone with the Wind" published
1938 - Superman 1st appears in DC Comics' Action Comics Series issue #1
1938 - Final game at Phila's Baker Bowl, Giants beat Phils 14-1
1939 - Heinkel He 176 rocket plane flies for 1st time, at Peenemunde
1940 - "Brenda Starr" cartoon strip, by Dale Messick, 1st appears
1940 - 58 U-boats (284,000 ton) sunk this month
1940 - US Fish & Wildlife Service forms
1941 - 61 U-boats (310,000 ton) sunk this month
1941 - Pro-nazi group declares Ukraine independence
1941 - World War II: Operation Barbarossa - Germany captures Lviv, Ukraine.
1942 - 144 U boats (700,000 ton) sunk this month
1942 - Col-gen Von Paul' 6th Army enters Ukraine
1942 - US Mint in New Orleans ceases operation
1942 - US bombs Celebes & Timor
1943 - Gen MacArthur begins Operation Cartwheel (island-hopping)
1944 - Allies land on Vogelkop, New Guinea
1944 - French Cotentin Peninsula in allied hands
1944 - Universal strike against nazi terror in Copenhagen
1944 - World War II: The Battle of Cherbourg ends with the fall of the strategically valuable port to
           American forces.
1945 - 17-day newspaper strike in NY begins
1948 - Cleve Indian Bob Lemon no-hits Detroit Tigers, 2-0
1948 - Last British armies leave Israel
1948 - Transistor as a substitute for Radio tubes announced (Bell Labs)
1949 - Dutch troops evacuate Djakarta
1950 - US Gen MacArthur visits front in South Korea/asks for US troops
1951 - "Victor Borge Show," last airs on NBC-TV
1951 - NAACP begins attack on school segregation & discrimination
1952 - "Guiding Light" soap opera moves from radio to TV
1952 - Hussein Sirri Pasha forms Egyptian government
1953 - 1st Corvette manufactured
1954 - Largest check: Internal US Treasury check at $4,176,969,623.57
1954 - Yank pitcher Tom Morgan ties record by hitting 3 batters in 1 inning This was also Bobby
           Brown's last game; he retired to become a doctor
1955 - "Johnny Carson Show," debuts on CBS-TV
1956 - "Pipe Dream" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 245 performances
1956 - "Shangri-La" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 21 performances
1956 - Lenins politics testament (1923) published in Moscow
1956 - United DC-7 & TWA collide over Grand Canyon killing 128
1958 - "No Chemise, Please" by Gerry Grenahan peaks at #24
1958 - Dutch government of Drees ends obligatory dismissal of married teachers
1959 - During a game in Wrigley Field, 2 balls were in play at same time
1960 - US stops sugar import from Cuba
1960 - Zaire (formerly Belgian Congo) declares independence from Belgium
1961 - Buddy Rogers beats Pat O'Conner in Chicago, to become NWA champ
1961 - Explorer (12) fails to reach Earth orbit
1962 - 17th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Murle Lindstrom
1962 - French Foreign Legion leaves Algeria
1962 - LA Dodger Sandy Koufax no-hits NY Mets, 5-0
1962 - Premier Ben Khedda disbands Algerian Liberation Army fighters
1962 - Rwanda & Burundi become independent
1963 - Cardinal Montini elected Pope Paul VI, 262nd head of RC Church
1963 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Carvel Ladies Golf Open
1963 - Ciaculli massacre: A car bomb, intended for Mafia boss Salvatore Greco, kills seven police and
           military officers near Palermo.
1964 - Centaur 3 launch vehicle fails to make Earth orbit
1964 - Last UN troops leave Congo
1965 - NFL grants Atlanta Falcons a franchise
1966 - Beatles land in Tokyo for a concert tour
1966 - Leopoldville Congo is renamed Kinshasa
1966 - Richath Helms, promoted from deputy director to 8th director of CIA
1966 - Test cricket debut of Derek Underwood, v WI Trent Bridge, wicketless
1966 - Vice Adm William F Raborn Jr, USN, ends term as 7th director of CIA
1967 - Maj Robert H Lawrence Jr named 1st black astronaut
1967 - Moise Tsjombe kidnapped to Algeria
1967 - Phillies Cookie Rojas pitches, plays 9th position since joining Phils
1968 - E German party leader Ulbricht receives "Order of October Revolution"
1968 - Gaullists win French parliamentary election, 358 of 458 chairs
1968 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
1969 - Derek Clayton of Australia sets Marathon record at 2:08:34
1969 - Spain cedes Ifni to Morocco
1970 - Brazil beats Italy 4-1 in soccer's 9th World Cup at Mexico City
1970 - Cincinnati's Riverfront Stadium opens, Braves beat Reds 8-2
1971 - Biesheuvel government forms
1971 - Dutch Biesheuvel government begins [or May 6]
1971 - Ohio becomes 38th state to approve of lower voting age to 18, thus ratifying 26th
           amendment
1972 - 1st leap second day; also 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985
1972 - Cincinnati Reds are 11 games back in NL, & go on to win pennant
1972 - One leap second is added to the UTC time system.
1973 - "Burns & Schreiber Comedy Hour," TV Variety; debut on ABC
1973 - Biggest US tanker "Brooklyn" christened (230,000 ton)
1973 - Observers aboard Concorde jet observe 72-min solar eclipse
1974 - 2nd du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Carole Jo Skala
1974 - Petty thief Peter Leonard sets fire to cover burglary that torches "Gulliver's" nightclub killing
           24 (Port Chester NY)
1974 - Soviet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov defects to west
1975 - Bundy victim Shelley Robertson disappears in Colorado
1975 - Heavyweight Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Bugner in Malaysia
1975 - University of California reports galaxy 3C123 at 8 billion light years distance
1976 - John Walker of NZ sets record for 2000 m, 4:51.4
1977 - Jimmy Carter cans B-1A bomber later "B-1's the B-52"
1977 - Marvel Comics publish "Kiss book" tributing rock group Kiss
1977 - US Railway Post Office final train run (NY to Wash DC)
1977 - Yankee DH Cliff Johnson hit 3 consecutive HRs in Toronto
1978 - Giants' Willie McCovey becomes 12th to hit 500 HRs
1978 - Larry Doby becomes manager of Chicago White Sox
1979 - "Got To Go Disco" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 8 performances
1979 - Johnny Rotten & Joan Collins appear together on BBC's Juke Box Jury
1980 - West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt visits Moscow
1981 - China's Communist Party condemns late Mao Tse-tung's policy
1982 - "Lena Horne: Lady, Music" closes at Nederlander NYC after 333 perfs
1982 - Federal Equal Rights Amendment fails 3 states short of ratification
1982 - Orbiter Challenger (OV-099) rolled out at Palmdale
1982 - NJ NHL franchise officially named Devils by fan balloting, runner-up names are Blades,
           Meadowlanders & Americans
1984 - Failed coup by cocaine growers in Bolivia
1984 - Last sixpence minted in Great-Britain (in use since 1551)
1984 - Longest pro football game, LA Express beats Mich Panthers 27-21 in USFL playoffs, games
           lasts 93 minutes 33 seconds
1985 - "King & I" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 191 performances
1985 - 39 remaining hostages from Flight 847 are freed in Beirut
1985 - Juli Inkster wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
1985 - LA Dodger Pedro Gonzalez sets NL record of 15 HRs in June
1986 - Georgia sodomy law upheld by Supreme Court (5-4)
1987 - Emmy 14th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 8th time
1987 - Patrik Sjoberg of Sweden set a new world record in high jump
1987 - The Royal Canadian Mint introduces the $1 coin, known as the Loonie.
1988 - "Sledge Hammer!" last aires on ABC-TV
1988 - Brooklyn dedicates a bus depot honoring Jackie Gleason
1988 - Chicago agrees to build a new stadium so White Sox won't move to Fla
1988 - French archbishop Marcel Lefebvre is excommunicated by the Roman Catholic Church.
1989 - "Les Miserables," opens at Theatre Muzyczyny, Gdynia
1989 - Attorney General Thornburgh orders Joseph Doherty deported to UK
1989 - Congressman Lukins found guilty of having sex with a 16 year old girl
1989 - NASA closes down tracking stations in Santiago, Chile & Guam
1989 - NY State Legislature passes Staten Island secession bill
1989 - Sudan suspends interim constitution following coup
1990 - East & West Germany merge their economies
1991 - 37th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Meg Mallon
1992 - 1st pay bathrooms in US open: 25 cents (NYC)
1992 - Fidel Ramos installed as president of Philippines
1992 - Total solar eclipse in Uruguay (5m21s)
1992 - Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher joins the House of Lords as Baroness Thatcher of
           Kesteven.
1993 - "Les Miserables," opens at Point Theatre, Dublin
1993 - Richard Jacobs announces Chief Wahoo will go to Jacobs Field
1994 - Airbus A330 crash at Toulouse France (7 killed)
1994 - Giants outfielder Darren Lewis errors after record 392 flawless games
1994 - Pre-trial hearings open in LA against OJ Simpson
1994 - US Ice Skating Federation bars Tonya Harding for life
1995 - Indians' Eddie Murray, is 20th to reach 3,000 hits
1996 - "Buried Child" closes at Brook Atkinson Theater NYC after 77 perfs
1996 - "Moon Over Buffalo" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 308 perfs
1996 - "State Fair," closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 118 performances
1996 - Caroline Frolic (Miss Ontario), crowned Miss Renaissance USA
1996 - Dottie Pepper wins ShopRite LPGA Golf Classic
1997 - Leap Second to synchronize atomic clocks
1998 - Sega Channel, cable's 1st on-demand video game service, closes down
2005 - Spain legalizes same-sex marriage.
2007 - A car crashes into Glasgow International Airport in Scotland, believed to be a terrorist attack.
2009 - Yemenia Flight 626 crashes off the coast of Moroni, Comoros killing 152 people and leaving 1
           survivor
2012 - 30 people attending a funeral in Zamalka, Syria, are killed on a day that saw 83 civilian deaths
2012 - Mid-Atlantic storms in the United States kill 13 and leave millions without power in Ohio,
           Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia.
2012 - Mohamed Morsi is sworn in as President of Egypt

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 30, 2013, 10:39:35 AM

This Day in History for 30th June


Famous Weddings

1975 - Cher, just 4 days after divorcing Sonny Bono marries Gregg Allman
1978 - English prince Michael marries baroness Marie-Christine von Reibnitz
1992 - Actress Cecil Hoffman (Zoe-LA Law) marries Paul Slye
2008 - Singer-actress Olivia Newton-John (59) weds natural-health businessman John Easterling (56)
           in Florida's Jupiter Island
2012 - Actor Alec Baldwin (54) weds Hilaria Thomas at St. Patrick's Old Cathedral in New York City
2012 - Mick Jagger's daughter Jade Jagger (41) weds longtime boyfriend Adrian Fillary at the Aynhoe
           Park Hotel in Oxfordshire, England
2012 - Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick (32) weds longtime girlfriend Kijfa Frink at the
           Fontainebleau resort in Miami Beach, Florida
2012 - "The Doctors" co-host Travis Stork (40) weds pediatrician Dr. Charlotte Brown in Colorado

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 30, 2013, 10:41:16 AM

This Day in History for 30th June


Famous Divorces

2006 - American singer-songwriter and TV personality Jessica Simpson (25) divorces 98 Degrees boy
           band singer Nick Lachey (32) due to irreconcilable differences after 3 years of marriage
2010 - "Scream 4" actress Neve Campbell (37) divorces actor John Light (36) due to irreconcilable 
           differences after 3 years of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 30, 2013, 10:48:25 AM

This Day in History for 30th June


Famous Birthdays

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Heavyweight Boxing Champion                Formula One Racing Driver                 Swimmer Michael Phelps (1985)
 Mike Tyson (1966)                                   Ralf Schumacher (1975)


1286 - John de Warenne, 8th Earl of Surrey, English politician (d. 1347)
1468 - Johan, the Standvastige, monarch of Saxon
1470 - Charles VIII, King of France (1483-98), invaded Italy
1503 - Johan Frederik, elector of Saxon (1532-47)
1641 - Meinhardt Schomberg, 3rd Duke of Schomberg, Irish general (d. 1719)
1669 - Mauritius Vogt, composer
1685 - Dominikus Zimmermann, German architect/painter (Liebfrauenkirche)
1685 - John Gay, British writer (d. 1732)
1722 - Jiri Antonin Benda, composer
1723 - Christian Ernst Graf, composer
1743 - Niels Schiorring, composer
1748 - Jacques D "comte" Cassini, French astronomer
1755 - Paul François Jean Nicolas Barras, French politician (d. 1829)
1768 - Elizabeth Kortright Monroe, 1st lady (1817-25)
1789 - E J Horace Vernet, French painter
1791 - Félix Savart, French surgeon/physicist (law of Biot & Savart)
1803 - Thomas Lovell Beddoes, English poet
1807 - Friedrich T Vischer, German philosopher/writer (Auch einer)
1810 - Stanko Vraz, [Jakob Frass], Slovenian/Croatian poet (illyrism)
1817 - Joseph D Hooker, British botanist
1818 - Edward John Hopkins, composer
1819 - William A Wheeler, (R) 19th VP (1877-81)
1823 - Hendrik Jan Schimmel, Dutch writer/dramatist (2 Tudors)
1823 - Dinshaw Maneckji Petit, Indian industrialist (d. 1901)
1837 - Stephen D Ramseur, youngest West Pointer to be Maj Gen
1843 - Ernest Mason Satow, British diplomat (d. 1929)
1846 - Ricardo Drigo, composer
1847 - Jacob T Cremer, min of Colonies/pres (Dutch Trading Comp)
1856 - Gerrit Kalff, writer (history of Dutch writers)
1858 - Andre Antoine, French stage manager (Theatre Libre) [or 7/31]
1860 - Gyula Andressy Jr, Hungarian minister of Foreign affairs (1918-20)
1868 - C V France, Bradford Engld, actor (Skin Game, Adventure in Blackmail)
1879 - Walter Hampden, Bkln NY, actor (Five Fingers, Hunchback of Notre Dame)
1884 - Georges Duhamel, French author (d. 1966)
1890 - Gertrude McCoy, Sugar Valley GA, silent screen actress (Blue Bird)
1890 - Horace Chapman, cricketer (leg-spin all-rounder for S Afr in 2 Tests)
1891 - Man Mountain Dean, American professional wrestler (d. 1953)
1891 - Ed "Strangler" Lewis, American professional wrestler (d. 1966)
1892 - Laszlo Lajtha, composer
1892 - Pierre Blanchar, Philippeville Algeria, actor (Magnificent Sinner)
1892 - Oswald Pohl, German Nazi leader (d. 1951)
1893 - Harold/Joseph Laski, English economist/Labour leader (1945-..)
1893 - Walter Ulbricht, president German DR
1894 - Gavrilo Princip, Bosnian assassin (arch duke Ferdinand)
1896 - Wilfred Pelletier, Montreal Canada, conductor (Voice of Firestone)
1898 - George Chandler, Waukegan Ill, actor (Lassie)
1899 - Frantisek Tomasek, bishop of Prague/cardinal
1899 - Madge Bellamy [Margaret Derden Philpott], Hillsboro, Texas, American actress (White Zombie,
           The Iron Horse)
1904 - Glenda Farrell, Enid OK, actress (Golddiggers of 1935)
1905 - Nestor Paiva, Fresno CA, actor (Comanche, Fear, Tarantula, Killer Ape)
1906 - Ralph Allen, English footballer (d. 1981)
1906 - Anthony Mann, American film actor and director (d. 1967)
1907 - Roman Shukhevych, Ukrainian politician (d. 1950)
1908 - Charles Camproux, French linguistic/author (Bestiari)
1908 - Lucino Tinio Sacramento, composer
1908 - Monica Maurice, industrialist
1908 - Winston Graham, British writer (d. 2003)
1909 - Juan Bosch, poet/pres of Dominican Republic (1962-63)
1911 - Czeslaw Milosz, Polish/American writer (Bells in Winter, Nobel 1980)
1911 - Virginia Smith, (Rep-R-NB, 1975- )
1912 - Dan Reeves, NFL team owner (Cleveland/LA Rams)
1912 - Kenneth Jameson, art educator
1912 - Madhaviah Krishnan, naturalist
1912 - [J] Tibor de Machula, Hungarian/Dutch cellist
1912 - Ludwig Bölkow, German aeronautical engineer (d. 2003)
1913 - Harry Wismer, Port Huron Mich, AFL owner (NY Titans)
1913 - Alfonso López Michelsen, 32nd Colombian President (d. 2007)
1914 - David Wayne, actor (Adam's Rib, Andromeda Strain, 3 Faces of Eve)
1914 - Natko Devcic, composer
1914 - Francisco da Costa Gomes, 16th President of Portugal (d. 2001)
1915 - Charles Rowe, cricketer (scored a pair in only Test (NZ v Aust 1946))
1917 - Lena Horne, Bkln NY, actress/singer (Stormy Weather, Wiz)
1917 - Robert Vandekerckhove, Belgian politician
1917 - Susan Hayward, Flatbush Bkln, actress (I Want to Live, Tulsa)
1918 - Stuart Foster, Binghamton NY, singer (Galen Drake Show)
1919 - Lee Krieger, MD, actor (Clambake, One Way Wahini)
1919 - Ed Yost, American inventor (d. 2007)
1920 - Sam Moskowitz, SF fandom historian
1920 - Zeno Colo, Italy, downhill skier (Olympic-gold-1952)
1921 - Gordon Reynolds, musician
1925 - Dorothy Malone, actress (Peyton Place)
1925 - Jim Levitch, horse trainer
1925 - Micheline Lannoy, Belgium, figure skating pairs (Olympic-gold-1948)
1925 - Will Gay Bottje, composer
1926 - Paul Berg, Nobel Prize laureate
1927 - Harvey Vernon, Flint Mich, actor (Jasper-Carter Country)
1927 - James Goldman, Chicago, Illinois, American screenwriter/playwright (The Lion in Winter, They
           Might Be Giants)
1927 - Joseph R Skeen, (Rep-R-New Mexico, 1981- )
1928 - Frank Ulrich Marcus, playwright/critic
1929 - Alexander Kelly, pianist/teacher
1930 - Doyle Holly, comedian/country performer (Buckaroos)
1930 - June Valli, Bronx NY, singer (Your Hit Parade)
1930 - Mac Benson, horse trainer
1930 - Nikolai Karetnikov, composer
1931 - James Loughran, British conductor
1931 - Johannes Gruijters, Dutch mayor (D66-Lelystad)
1931 - June Thorburn, Kashmir India, actress (Touch & Go, Children Galore)
1931 - Bert Eriksson, Flemish neo-Nazi (d. 2005)
1932 - Martin Mailman, composer
1933 - Mike J K Smith, cricketer (England captain mid-60s)
1933 - Lea Massari, Italian actress
1934 - Harry Blackstone Jr, magician (Blackstone Book of Magic & Illusion)
1936 - Dave Van Ronk, rocker/actor (Caffe Lena)
1936 - Nancy Dussault, Pensacola Fla, actress (Muriel-Too Close for Comfort)
1936 - Pauls Dambis, composer
1936 - Tony Musante, Bridgeport Ct, actor (David Toma-Toma, Nowhere to Hide)
1938 - Billy Mills, Pine Ridge SD, 10k (Olympics-gold-64)
1938 - Chris Hinze, Dutch flutist (Vivat Vivaldi)
1938 - William Mervin Mills, Pine Ridge SD, 10K runner (Olympic-gold-64)
1938 - Apostolos Nikolaidis, Greek singer (d. 1999)
1939 - Lindembergue Cardoso, composer
1940 - Mark Spoelstra, American folk singer (d. 2007)
1941 - John Jameson, cricketer (England batsman, 465 p/ship with Kanhai)
1941 - Larry Hall, rocker (Tape Heads)
1941 - Micki Grant, composer
1941 - Mike Leander Farr, record producer
1941 - Peter Pollock, cricketer (bro of Graeme/father of Shaun, S Af quickie)
1942 - Robert Ballard, explorer/geologist/author/discoverer (Titanic in 1985)
1943 - Florence Ballard, Detroit Mich, rocker (Supremes)
1944 - Glenn Shorrock, Sydney Australia, rock vocalist (Little River Band)
1944 - Ron Swoboda, baseball outfielder/sportscaster (NY Yankees, NY Mets)
1944 - Raymond Moody, American parapsychologist
1946 - Billy Brown, rock vocalist (Ray, Goodman, Brown)
1947 - Jasper van 't Hof, Dutch jazz pianist (Live in Montreux)
1947 - Yuri Petrovich Sheffer, Russian cosmonaut
1949 - Andrew Scott, Wales, rock guitarist (Sweet)
1949 - Bui Thanh Liem, Vietnam, cosmonaut
1949 - Eric Goetz, NYC, US shipbuilder (America's Cup 1995)
1949 - Thanh Liem Bui, Vietnam, cosmonaut
1950 - Donna Jean Willmott, Akron Ohio, FALN member (FBI most wanted)
1950 - Pablo Castillo, jockey
1951 - Andre Hazes, Dutch barkeeper/singer (We Love Orange)
1951 - Andy Scott, rocker
1951 - Stanley Clarke, Phila, rock bassist (New Barbarians-Find Out Hideaway)
1951 - Stephen S Oswald, Seattle Washington, astronaut (STS 42, 56, 67)
1952 - Athanassios S. Fokas, Greek mathematician
1952 - David Garrison, Broadway and television actor
1953 - Hal Lindes, Monterey CA, rocker (Dire Straits)
1954 - Bryn B Burrows, rock drummer (Fabulous Poodles)
1954 - Ken Olin, Chicago, actor (Thirtysomething, Det Quinn-EZ Street)
1954 - Pierre Charles, Prime Minister of Dominica (d. 2004)
1955 - Mark MacDonald, horse trainer
1956 - Adrian Wright, Sheffield, rock vocalist (Human League-Only Human)
1956 - David Alan Grier, comedian (In Living Color, Boomerang)
1956 - Ronald Winans, gospel singer (Winans)
1957 - Sarah McGuire, Springfield IL, LPGA golfer (1983 United Va Bank-5th)
1957 - Sterling Marlin, American race car driver (NASCAR)
1958 - Esa-Pekka Salonen, Helsinki Finland, conductor (Giro)
1959 - Gina Goldberg, playmate (May, 1981)
1959 - Michel Dion, Quebec City Canada, Rifle shooter (Olympics-24-92, 96)
1959 - Stephanie Farwig, Milwaukee WI, golfer (1994 LPGA Corning Classic-2nd)
1959 - Vincent D'Onofrio, American actor
1960 - Randy Ladouceur, Brockville, NHL defenseman (Anaheim Mighty Ducks)
1960 - Murray Cook, Australian children's singer (The Wiggles)
1961 - Karolyn Kirby, US beach volleyball player (Goodwill-gold-94)
1962 - Julianne Regan, rocker (All About Eve-All About Scarlet)
1962 - Vladimir Mikolaevich Dezhurov, Mordovia, astronaut (Mir 18, STS-71)
1962 - Tony Fernández, Dominican baseball player
1963 - Rupert Graves, actor (Damage, Handful of Dust, Maurice)
1963 - Yngwie J. Malmsteen, Swedish guitarist
1965 - Mitch Richmond, Fort Lauderdale Fl, NBA guard (Sac Kings, Oly-g-88, 96)
1965 - Steve Duchesne, Sept-iles, NHL defenseman (Ottawa Senators)
1965 - Gary Pallister, English footballer
1966 - "Iron" Mike Tyson, NY, youngest heavyweight boxing champ (1986-90)
1966 - Louie Aguiar, NFL punter (KC Chiefs)
1966 - Marton Csokas, New Zealand actor
1967 - Rudi Steyn, cricketer (South African opening batsman 1995)
1967 - Sheila Hudson, US triple jumper (US record 1992)
1967 - Tina Bockrath, Dayton Oh, playmate (May, 1990)/actress
1968 - Dan Peltier, Clifton Park NY, outfielder (SF Giants)
1968 - Peter Miller, CFL linebacker (BC Lions)
1968 - Philip Anselmo, American musician
1969 - Jim Montgomery, Montreal, NHL center (Phila Flyers)
1969 - Ken Gernander, Grand Rapids, NHL center (NY Rangers)
1969 - Kristina Farrar Stookey, Martha Vineyard MA, 470 yachter (Oly-4th-96)
1969 - Sanath Jayasuriya, cricketer (Sri Lankan open bat MVP-1996 World Cup)
1970 - Brian Bloom, actor (As the World Turns)
1970 - Mark Grudzielanek, Milwaukee Wisc, infielder (Montreal Expos)
1971 - Ann Marsh, Royal Oak Mich, fencer-foil (Olympics-96)
1971 - Viktor Ivanovich Patsayev, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 11), dies at 38
1971 - Anette Michel, Mexican actress
1971 - Monica Potter, American actress
1972 - Dan Comiskey, CFL guard (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1972 - Ellen Coleen Pasturzak, Portsmouth Ohio, Miss America-Ohio (1996)
1972 - Garret Anderson, Los angeles CA, outfielder (California Angels)
1972 - Tyrone Davis, NFL tight end (NY Jets, Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1972 - Sandra Cam, Belgian swimmer
1972 - James Martin, English celebrity chef
1973 - Chan Ho Park, Kong Ju City Korea, pitcher (LA Dodgers)
1973 - Dodda Ganesh, cricketer (Karnataka & India pace bowler 1997)
1974 - Michelle Kang, Fredericksburg Virginia, Miss America-Virginia (1997)
1974 - Melanie Lambert American ice skater
1975 - Natasha Sturgess, Australian mistral yachter (Olympics-96)
1975 - Ralf Schumacher, German race car driver (F1)
1976 - Brian Rocheleleau, Honolulu Hawaii, kayak (alt-olympics-96)
1977 - Lola Odusoga, Finland, Miss Universe-3rd place (1996)
1978 - Owen Lafave, ex-husband of Debra Lafave
1978 - Ben Cousins, Australian Football League player
1979 - Matisyahu, Hasidic Jewish Reggae singer
1979 - Rick Gonzalez, Hispanic-American actor
1979 - Travis Minor, National Football League Runningback
1980 - Rade Prica, Swedish footballer
1981 - Allison Schroeder, Miss Wisconsin Teen USA (1997)
1981 - Can Artam, Turkish racing driver
1981 - Matt Kirk, Canadian football Player
1981 - Karolina Sadalska, Polish kayaker
1981 - Ben Utecht, American football Player
1982 - Dan Jacobs, American guitarist (Atreyu)
1982 - Andy Knowles, British musician (Franz Ferdinand)
1982 - Mitch Maier, American baseball player
1982 - Lizzy Caplan, Los Angeles, California, American actress (Mean Girls, Marlena Diamond-
           Cloverfield)
1983 - Brendon James, British drummer (Thirteen Senses)
1983 - Marlin Jackson, American football player
1983 - Patrick Wolf, British musician
1983 - Cheryl Cole, British singer (Girls Aloud)
1984 - Fantasia Barrino, American singer
1984 - Gabriel Badilla, Costa Rican footballer
1985 - Rafal Blechacz, Polish classical pianist
1985 - Michael Phelps, Baltimore, Maryland, American swimmer (16 Olympic medals)
1985 - Fabiana Vallejos, Argentine footballer
1985 - Cody Runnels, American wrestler
1986 - Victoria Crawford, American wrestler and model
1991 - Kaho, Japanese actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on June 30, 2013, 10:50:56 AM

This Day in History for 30th June


Famous Deaths

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Physicist and Nobel Laureate
 John W Rayleigh (1919)


350 - Nepotianus, Roman usurper
1109 - Alfonso VI, (imperator totius Hispaniae), king of Leon, dies
1181 - Hugh de Kevelioc, 3rd Earl of Chester, English politician (b. 1147)
1224 - Adolf of Osnabrück, Saint Adolf (b. 1185)
1364 - Arnost of Pardubice, Archbishop of Prague (b. 1297)
1520 - Montezuma II, the last Aztec emperor, killed
1538 - Charles van Egmond, duke of Gelre/earl of Zutphen, dies at 70
1579 - Mehmed Pasha Sokolović, Turkish Janissary
1607 - Caesar Baronius, Italian cardinal and historian (b. 1538)
1649 - Simon Vouet, French painter
1655 - Jacob Boonen, South Netherlands clergyman/lawyer, dies at 81
1660 - William Oughtred, English mathematician (b. 1575)
1662 - Johannes C Verspronck, portrait painter, buried at about 64
1666 - Adam Krieger, German composer, dies at 32
1666 - Alexander Brome, British poet
1670 - Henrietta Anne Stuart, Princess of England, Scotland, and Ireland (b. 1644)
1685 - Archibald Campbell, Scottish politician, beheaded at about 55
1704 - John Quelch, a pirate was hanged (b. 1665)
1709 - Edward Lhuyd, Welsh scientist (b. 1660)
1785 - James Oglethorpe, English general and founder of the state of Georgia (b. 1696)
1792 - Francesco Antonio Rosetti, composer, dies
1796 - Abraham Yates, American Continental Congressman (b. 1724)
1817 - Abraham Gottlob Werner, German geologist
1819 - Ernst Ludwig Gerber, composer, dies at 72
1839 - Johan O Wallin, Swedish poet/archbishop (Dead Angel), dies
1857 - Alcide d'Orbigny, French naturalist (b. 1802)
1862 - Richard Griffith, US Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 48
1882 - Charles J Guiteau, assassin (Pres Garfield), hanged
1882 - Alberto Henschel, German-Brazilian photographer and businessman (b. 1827)
1889 - Eugenio Terziani, composer, dies at 64
1890 - Samuel Parkman Tuckerman, composer, dies at 71
1899 - Jon Helgason, Icelandic poet (Ur Landsudri), dies
1904 - Thomas Emmett, cricketer (English Test bowler of the sostenuter), dies
1905 - John Hay, US politician, dies
1914 - Bai Long, [White Wolf], Chinese Robin Hood/crowd leader, dies
1919 - John W S Raleigh, British physicist (Nobel 1904), dies at 76
1919 - John W Rayleigh, English physicist, dies at 76
1920 - Lena Christ, writer, dies at 38
1923 - Claude Antoine Terrasse, composer, dies at 56
1924 - Jacob Israel de Haan, Dutch poet/writer (Pypelyntjes), dies at 42
1934 - Ernst Rohm, German staff member, executed at 46
1934 - Gregor Strasser, German pharmacist/NSDAP-leader, murdered at 42
1934 - Karl Ernst, German SA-leader, murdered
1934 - Kurt von Schleiger, German chancellor (1932-33), murdered at 52
1934 - Night of the Long Knives mur
1934 - Gustav Ritter von Kahr, Prime Minister of Bavaria killed in the Night of the Long Knives
           murders (b. 1862)
1934 - Erich Klausener, Catholic politician killed in the Night of the Long Knives murders (b. 1885)
1935 - William Brockwell, cricket (Brit all-rounder in 7 Tests 1893-99), dies
1938 - Milan Rakic, Serbian poet (Nove Pesme), dies at 61
1942 - Arnoldus J H Aerts, Dutch bishop of New-Guinea, executed at 62
1946 - Michael Zadora, composer, dies at 64
1948 - Karl Wolfskehl, writer, dies at 78
1953 - Elsa Beskow, (Maartman), Swedish author (children's book), dies at 79
1953 - Gote Carlid, composer, dies at 32
1953 - Charles William Miller, father of football in Brazil (b. 1874)
1959 - Lazare Saminsky, composer, dies at 76
1959 - José Vasconcelos, Mexican writer and politician (b. 1882)
1960 - Clarence Cameron White, composer, dies at 79
1961 - Lee de Forest, American inventor (Electron Tube), dies at 87
1962 - Caspar Neher, German set designer/librettist, dies at 65
1965 - Bessie Barriscale, actress (Plain Jane, Show Folks), dies
1968 - John Gough, actor (Circus Kid, 2 for Tonight), dies at 73
1969 - Jan Evangelista Zelinka, composer, dies at 76
1971 - Georgi T Dobrovolsky, Odessa, cosmonaut (Soyuz 11), dies at 43
1971 - Vladislav Nikolayevich Volkov, cosmonaut (Soyuz 7, 11), dies at 35
1971 - Crew of Soyu
1971 - Herbert Biberman, Jewish American screenwriter and film director (b. 1900)
1973 - Elmer Layden, one of Notre Dame's legendary 4-horsemen, died
1973 - Blessed Vasyl Velychkovsky C.Ss.R Bishop and Martyr (b. 1903)
1974 - Alberta King, mother of Martin Luther King Jr, assassinated in church
1974 - Vannevar Bush, American engineer and politician (b. 1890)
1976 - Firpo Marberry, baseball player (b. 1898)
1979 - Alfons Vranckx, Belgian politician, dies at 72
1980 - Virginia Brown Faire, actress (Lonesome Trail, Temptress), dies
1983 - Bo Gentry, songwriter/producer, dies
1983 - Mary Livingstone, [Sadye Marks] Comedienne, (Jack Benny), dies at 77
1984 - Lillian Hellman, playwright, (Little Foxes), dies at 79
1985 - James Dewar, inventor (Twinkie), dies
1987 - Federico Mompou, composer, dies at 94
1987 - King Donovan, actor/director (Enforcer, Perfect Furlough), dies
1992 - Doug Delauder, entertainer, dies
1992 - Jim Alaimo, vocalist, dies after heart surgery at 53
1992 - Nico Booken, director (Jewish Labor Social), dies
1993 - George "Spanky" McFarland, child actor (Our Gang), dies at age 65
1994 - Nicholas Warner, test Pilot, dies at 51
1995 - Barney Simon, theatre director/writer, dies at 63
1995 - Gale Gordon, comedian (Our Miss Brooks, Here's Lucy), dies at 89
1995 - Georgi Timofeyevich Beregovoi, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 3), dies at 74
1995 - Phyllis Hyman, R&B/Jazz singer (Prime of My Life), suicides at 45
1995 - Sicco Mansholt, pres Commission of Europe (1972-1973), dies
1996 - Hugh Henry Home Popham, aviator/writer/poet, dies at 76
1996 - Margaux Hemingway, model/actress (Lipstick), commits suicide at 41
1996 - Michael Parkin, journalist, dies at 74
1996 - Norman Aldridge, biochemical toxicologist, dies at 76
1997 - Larry O'Day, wrestler (b. 1944)
2001 - Chet Atkins, American country guitar player and producer (b. 1924)
2001 - Joe Henderson, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1937)
2002 - Chico Xavier, popular medium in Brazil´s spiritism movement (b. 1910)
2003 - Buddy Hackett, American comic (b. 1924)
2003 - Robert McCloskey, American children's book writer and illustrator (b. 1915)
2004 - Jamal Abro, Sindhi writer (b. 1924)
2006 - Robert Gernhardt, German satirist (b. 1937)
2007 - Sahib Singh Verma, Indian politician and former Chief Minister of Delhi (b. 1943)
2009 - Pina Bausch, German choreographer (b. 1940)
2010 - Park Yong-ha, Korean actor and singer (b. 1977)
2011 - Barry Bremen, American sports imposter and business man (b. 1947)
2012 - Yitzhak Shamir, Israeli Prime Minister, dies from Alzheimer's disease at 96

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 01, 2013, 09:31:33 AM

This Day in History for 1st July


Historical Events

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Naturalist Charles Darwin                       Soldier and Former Slave                      Abolitionist Frederick Douglass
                                                               Henry Ossian Flipper

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Spanish Dictator Francisco Franco          Yankee Clipper Joe DiMaggio            Singer & Cultural Icon Elvis Presley

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Dictator Fidel Castro                               Rocker/Beatle John Lennon                     Rock Guitarist Jimi Hendrix

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Heavyweight Boxing Champ                  Heavyweight Boxing Champion
Muhammad Ali                                      Mike Tyson


69 - Bataafs nobleman Gaius Julius Civilis proclaimed emperor of Syria
70 - Titus sets up batterig rams to assault the walls of Jerusalem
251 - The Battle of Abrittus is won by the Goths against the Romans. Roman Emperors Decius and
         Herennius Etruscus are killed.
649 - Pope Martinus I elected to succeed Theodore I
1097 - 1st Crusaders defeat Sultan Kilidj Arslan of Nicea
1200 - In China, sunglasses are invented
1233 - Earl Otto II van Gelre grants Arnhem state justice
1252 - King Alfonso X "el Sabio" of Castile/Leon crowned
1253 - Battle at Westkapelle-Floris the Guardian beats Gwijde van Dampierre
1347 - Engagement of Count Louis of Male to Margaretha to daughter of Jan III
1390 - French & Genuese armada sails out against barbarian pirates
1517 - 1st burning of Protestants at stake in Netherlands
1517 - Inquisitor Adrian Boeyens (pope Adrianus VI) becomes cardinal
1535 - Sir Thomas More goes on trial in England charged with treason
1543 - England & Scotland sign Peace treaty of Greenwich
1569 - Latvia Parliament accept Union of Lublin, incorporate into Poland
1600 - Prince Maurits' army occupies Newport Flanders Neth
1656 - 1st Quakers (Mary Fisher/Ann Austin) arrives in Boston (arrested)
1674 - Spain, France & Netherlands form Triple Alliance
1689 - Matsuo Basho, zen poet, leaves for 150 days journey on Honshu Japan
1690 - Battle of Colors: French beats Spanish/Dutch army
1690 - Army of England's Protestant King William III defeats Roman Catholic King James II in Battle
           of Boyne in Ireland
1745 - Warship Elisabeth joins Bonnie Prince Charlies frigate Doutelle [OS]
1747 - Battle at Lafeld: France beat English/Dutch army
1776 - 1st vote on Declaration of Independence
1782 - American privateers attack Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
1795 - John Rutledge becomes 2nd chief justice of Supreme Court
1798 - Napoleon's fleet reaches Alexandria Egypt
1810 - Louis Napoleon resigns as king of the Netherlands
1816 - Fr frigate Medusa wrecked; basis of Géricault's "Raft of the Medusa"
1820 - 1st edition of newspaper "Courrier de la Meuse" published"
1823 - 9th Postmaster General: John McLean of Ohio takes office
1823 - United Provinces of Central America gain independence from Mexico
1831 - Admiral James C Ross reaches magnetic North Pole
1839 - Abdul-Medjid succeeds Mahmud II as Sultan of Turkey
1847 - 1st US postage stamps go on sale, 5 cent Franklin & 10 cent Washington, NYC
1850 - At least 626 ships lie at anchor around SF Bay
1858 - 1st Canadian coins minted (1, 5, 10 and 20 cent)
1858 - The joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace's papers on evolution to the
           Linnean Society.
1859 - 1st intercollegiate baseball game, Amherst beats Williams 66-32
1859 - Balloon covers a record 809 miles over St Louis
1861 - 1st public schoolhouse opens at Washington & Mason St, SF
1861 - War Dept decrees the KA & TN are to be canvassed for volunteers
1862 - Battle at Booneville Mississippi: Confed superior power driven out
1862 - Congress outlaws polygamy (1st time); bad news for Utah
1862 - US Civil War: Day 7 of 7 Days-Battle of Malvern Hill (Poindexter's Farm) Union forces repel
           Confederate attack
1862 - Emperor Alexander II grants Jews right to publish books
1862 - Battle of Holly Spring, MS
1862 - Internal Revenue Law imposes 1st federal taxes on inheritance, tobacco & on incomes over
           $600 (progressive rate)
1862 - The Russian State Library is founded.
1863 - -2] Battle at Baltimore: Crump's Crossroads Virginia
1863 - Battle of Gettysburg, Pa; Lee's northward advance halted
1863 - Free city delivery of mail begins in 49 US cities; postage 3 cents per oz
1863 - Slavery abolished in Suriname & Netherlands Antilles
1864 - Battle of Petersburg, VA [->JUL 31] -front US3695 CS---
1867 - Dominion of Canada forms (New Bruns, Nova Scotia, Ontario & Quebec)
1869 - Dutch newspaper stamp tax repealed
1869 - US mint at Carson City, Nevada opens
1870 - James W Smith of SC is one of 1st African Americans to enter West Point
1871 - The decimal currency system is made uniform in Canada
1873 - Henry Ossian Flipper of Georgia one of the first African Americans enters West Point Military
           Academy
1873 - Prince Edward Island becomes 7th Canadian province
1874 - 1st Chamber accept law against child labor
1874 - 1st US kidnapping for ransom, 4-year-old Charles Ross, $20,000
1874 - 1st US zoo opens (Philadelphia)
1875 - Universal Postal Union established
1877 - 1st edition of "Amsterdammer" published
1878 - Treaty of Berlin divide Africa up for colonization
1878 - Canada joins the Universal Postal Union.
1879 - Ex-khedive Ismael Pasha sails from Alexandria to Naples
1879 - Charles Taze Russell publishes the first edition of the religious magazine The Watchtower.
1881 - 1st international telephone conversation, Calais, ME-St Stephen, NB
1881 - US Assay Office in St Louis, Missouri opens
1881 - General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell-Childers reforms of the British Army's
           organisation, comes into effect.
1883 - ANWB forms in Utrecht
1885 - The United States terminates reciprocity and fishery agreement with Canada.
1889 - Frederick Douglass named Minister to Haiti
1889 - US mint at Carson City, Nevada reopens
1890 - Great-Britain & Germany sign Zanzibar-Helgoland Treaty
1890 - Canada and Bermuda are linked by telegraph cable.
1893 - SF Bay City Club opens 1st US bicycle race track, made of wood
1896 - Harbor of Ymuiden opens
1896 - Wilfrid Laurel sworn in as 1st French speaking premier
1897 - Bronx acquires Hutton Square
1898 - Teddy Roosevelt & his Rough Riders charge up San Juan Hill
1899 - Gideon Society established to place bibles in hotels
1899 - SF City Hall turned over to city, after 29 years of building
1902 - Ranji (230) & Newham (153) add 344 for 7th wkt, Sussex v Essex
1902 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax" (BG)
1903 - 1st Tour de France bicycle race begins
1904 - 3rd modern Olympic games opens in St Louis
1907 - World's 1st air force established (US Army)
1910 - Chicago's Comiskey Park opens - St Louis Browns beat White Sox 2-0
1910 - Union of South Africa becomes a dominion
1910 - White Sox Park (Comiskey Park) opens with 2-0 loss to Browns
1911 - German boat Panther nears for Agadir Morocco
1911 - Proclamation removes "Dei Gratia" from Canada's coins
1913 - Serbia & Greece declare war on Bulgaria
1915 - Australia begins Commonwealth Lighthouse Service
1915 - Australian Survey Corps becomes part of Military Forces
1916 - Battle on the Somme: British 4th Army walks to German lines
1916 - British court martial (Easter uprising)
1916 - Coca-Cola brings current coke formula to the market
1916 - Honus Wagner, 42, is oldest to hit an inside-the-park HR
1917 - 257cm-mirror for Mount Wilson Observatory mounted
1917 - Race riots in East St Louis Illinois (40 to 200 reported killed)
1917 - Reds Fred Toney pitches completes doubleheader victories over Pirates
1917 - Robins (Dodgers) play their 1st Sunday game in Brooklyn
1919 - 1st class postage drops from 3 cents to 2 cents
1919 - Scheveningen soccer team forms in Scheveningen
1920 - Wash Senator Walter Johnson no-hits Boston Red Sox, 1-0
1921 - The Communist Party of China is founded.
1923 - 1st permanent radio network-AT&T (WEAF NY & WMAF Mass)
1924 - Light Brigade forms
1924 - Through regular transcontinental airmail service forms, NYC-SF
1925 - NY Giant Hack Wilson hits 2 HRs in 3rd inning beating Phillies, 16-7
1925 - SDAP wins 4 chairs in Second-Parliamentary election
1925 - Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs created in UK
1926 - Canada restores gold standard
1929 - US Immigration law of 1924 in effect
1929 - US cartoonist Elzie Segar creates "Popeye"
1930 - Great-Britain signs accord for Independence of Iraq
1931 - Cleveland Municipal Stadium is completed
1931 - Ice vending machines introduced in LA 25 lbs, 15 cents
1931 - Phillies Chuck Klein hits for cycle vs Chicago Cubs
1931 - Trans African Railway in use (Benguela, Angola-Jadotville, Congo)
1932 - 45th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats Helen Jacobs (63 61)
1932 - NY Gov FDR nominated for president at Dem Convention in Chicago
1932 - NY newspaper Evening Standard goes bankrupt
1933 - German nazi regime declares that married women shouldn't work
1933 - Strauss & von Hofmannsthal's opera "Arabella," premieres in Dresden
1933 - The Canadian Parliament suspends all Chinese immigration.
1934 - 1st x-ray photo of entire body, Rochester, NY
1935 - General Neth Persbureau (ANP) forms in Amsterdam
1936 - AVRO radio broadcast studios in Hilversum opens
1936 - Watchfulness Committee forms in Amsterdam
1937 - Britain begins using an emergency phone number (999)
1937 - Rev Martin Niemöller (Bekennende Kirche) arrested in Germany
1937 - Spanish bishops support Franco & fascists
1938 - 58th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Don Budge beats Henry Austin (61 60 63)
1940 - Australia refuses entry to Dutch Jewish refugees
1941 - 1st coml TV licenses granted-W2XBS-WNBT (NBC) & WCBW (CBS), NYC
1941 - Bulova Watch Co pays $9 for 1st ever network TV commercial
1941 - Joe Dimaggio on way to 56, ties Willie Keeler's 44 game hit streak
1941 - WCBW (now WCBS) TV channel 2 in NY, NY (CBS) begins broadcasting
1941 - WNBT TV (W2XBS, Now WNBC) channel 4 in NYC (NBC) begins broadcasting
1942 - German troops conquer Sebastopol
1943 - "Pay-as-you-go" - 1st withholding tax from paychecks
1944 - 2500+ killed in London/SE England by German flying bombs
1944 - Bretton Woods Conference starts, establishing IMF & World Bank
1944 - Earl Claus von Stauffenberg promoted to colonel
1944 - General Eisenhower visits front in Normandy
1944 - US headquarter moves to Colombières Normandy
1944 - Von Rundstedt against Keitel: "Signs peace, idiots!"
1945 - 1st of the superstars returns from the WW II, Hank Greenberg homers
1945 - 55th Postmaster General: Robert E Hannegan of Mo takes office
1945 - Allies troop land on Balikpapan
1946 - Rajah cedes Sarawak to British crown
1946 - US drops atom bomb on Bikini atoll (4th atomic explosion)
1947 - 192m long passenger ship Willem Ruys (Achille Lauro) launched
1947 - Brit Dominion Affairs office becomes Commonwealth Relations office
1948 - Bradman scores 128 Australia v Surrey, 141 mins, 15 fours
1948 - Brooklyn's Roy Campanella debuts as catcher
1948 - NYC subway fare goes to 10 cents, bus fare to 7 cents and combo fare at 12 cents
1949 - 63rd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Ted Schroeder beat Drobny (36 60 63 46 64)
1949 - Bao Dai's Republic of Vietnam gains independence from France
1949 - WBRC TV channel 6 in Birmingham, AL (ABC) begins broadcasting
1949 - WCCO TV channel 4 in Minneapolis-St Paul, MN (CBS) begins broadcasting
1950 - "Lost in the Stars" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 281 perfs
1950 - 1st 407 US soldiers flown to South Korea
1950 - NYC bus fare rises to 10 cents equal to subway fare, combo fare at 15 cents
1950 - WHBF TV channel 4 in Rock Island, IL (CBS) begins broadcasting
1951 - Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Eastern Golf Open
1951 - Cleve Indian Bob Feller, 3rd no-hitter beats Det Tigers, 2-1
1953 - KLAS TV channel 8 in Las Vegas, NV (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 - KTVH (now KWCH) TV channel 12 in Hutchinson-Wichita, KS (CBS) begins
1954 - Cards' Joe Cunningham hits 2 HRs for record 3 HRs in his 1st 2 days
1954 - Test Cricket debut of Khalid Hassan, 16 yrs 352, then world record
1954 - WDBO (now WCPX) TV channel 6 in Orlando, FL (CBS) begins broadcasting
1955 - 69th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Tony Trabert beats Kurt Nielsen (63 75 61)
1955 - KOTA TV channel 3 in Rapid City, SD (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
1956 - Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Western Golf Open
1956 - Elvis Presley wearing a tuxedo appears on Steve Allen Show
1956 - Ibrahim Hashiroe succeeds Said el-Moefti as premier of Jordan
1957 - International Geophysical Year begins (until Dec 31, 1958)
1957 - WRLP TV channel 32 in Greenfield/Keene/Brat, MA (IND) 1st broadcast
1958 - The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation links television broadcasting across Canada via
           microwave.
1959 - Heinrich Lubke elected pres of West-Germany
1959 - Israeli Knesset agrees to weapon sales to West-Germany
1959 - WVTV TV channel 18 in Milwaukee, WI (IND) begins broadcasting
1959 - World Refugee Year begins
1959 - The Party of the African Federation (PFA) holds its constitutive conference.
1960 - Benjamin Britten's cantate "Carmen Baseliense," premieres in Basel
1960 - British Somaliland becomes Somalia
1960 - Fidel Castro nationalizes Esso, Shell & Texaco in Cuba
1960 - Ghana becomes a republic
1960 - Italian Somaliland gains independence, unites with Somali Republic
1960 - No passports needed inside Benelux
1960 - USSR shoots down US RB-47 reconnaissance plane
1961 - 16th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Mickey Wright
1961 - Haleakala National Park forms in Hawaii
1961 - KNDU TV channel 25 in Richland-Pasco-Kennew, WA (NBC) 1st broadcast
1962 - Algeria votes for independence
1962 - Burundi & Rwanda gain independence from Belgium (National Days)
1963 - Beatles record "She Loves You" & "I'll Get You"
1963 - Pres Kennedy arrives in Rome
1963 - US postal service institutes (Zone Improvement Plan) zip code
1963 - ZIP Codes are introduced for United States mail.
1965 - FC Twente '65 Enschede soccer team forms in Enschede
1965 - KUID TV channel 12 in Moscow, ID (PBS) begins broadcasting
1965 - Kinderstraf trial starts
1966 - 80th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: M Santana beats D Ralston (64 11-9 64)
1966 - Construction crews begin tearing up Market St to build BART
1966 - Explorer 33 launched
1966 - Medicare goes into effect
1966 - VVV soccer team forms in Venlo
1966 - The first color television transmission in Canada takes place from Toronto.
1967 - "Funny Girl" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 1348 perfs
1967 - 1st British color TV broadcast, on BBC 2
1967 - BBC starts their World Radio Club
1967 - Beatles' "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," goes #1 for 15 weeks
1967 - Canada celebrates the 100th anniversary of the British North America Act, 1867.
1968 - Bob Gibson's streak of 47 2/3 inn scoreless streak ends on wild pitch
1968 - Fortuna Sittard soccer team forms in Sittard
1968 - John Lennon's 1st full art exhibition (You are Here)
1968 - US, Britain, USSR & 58 nations sign Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty
1968 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1968 - The CIA's Phoenix Program is officially established.
1968 - Formal separation of the United Auto Workers from the AFL-CIO.
1969 - Charles Philip Arthur George invested as Prince of Wales
1969 - John & Yoko are hospitalized after a car crash
1969 - Shelby Singleton buys Sun Records from Sam Phillips
1970 - Denny McLain returns, (leaves trailiing) Tigers beat Yankees in 11
1970 - FC Utrecht soccer team forms in Utrecht
1970 - Jimi Hendrix 1st recording session (NYC)
1971 - British & Argentina sign accord about Falkland Islands
1971 - Debt raised to build San Franisco's Golden Gate Bridge paid off
1971 - State of Washington becomes 1st state to ban sex discrimination
1972 - "Follies" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 524 performances
1972 - "Hair" closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 1750 performances
1972 - Ms. magazine begins publishing
1972 - The first Gay Pride march in England takes place.
1973 - "Jesus Christ Superstar" closes at Mark Hellinger NYC after 711 perfs
1973 - 1st US-China basketball game, US collegiates beats Shanghai 96-61
1973 - Mary Mills wins LPGA Lady Tara Golf Classic
1974 - 1st Laura Ashley-store in US opens (SF)
1974 - General Pinochet becomes president of Chile
1974 - Isabel Peron succeeds husband Juan as pres of Argentina
1974 - Monmouthshire renamed Gwent & becomes part of Wales
1975 - Muhammad Ali beats Joe Bugner in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1975 - WEDway People Mover inaugurated
1976 - Kenneth Gibson, is 1st black president of US Conference of Mayors
1976 - Portugal grants autonomy to Madeira.
1977 - 84th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Virginia Wade beats B Stove (46 63 61)
1977 - FC Volendam soccer team forms in Volendam Neth
1977 - Marlies Gohr runs Europen record 100m (10.88 sec)
1978 - "Act" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 233 performances
1978 - Former Pres Nixon makes 1st public speech since resigning in 1974
1978 - Northern Territory of Australia becomes self-governing
1979 - Stampede Pass, Washington is covered with 6" of snow
1979 - Vicki Fergon wins LPGA Lady Stroh's Golf Open
1979 - Sony introduces the Walkman.
1980 - Steve Overt runs world record 3:48.8 mile in Oslo
1980 - O Canada officially becomes the national anthem of Canada.
1981 - Laurel Canyon California murders (4 die, 1 wounded)
1981 - NEC soccer team forms in Nijmegen
1981 - Nell Dunn's "Steaming," premieres in London
1981 - Prince Willem Alexander opens Willems Bridge in Rotterdam
1981 - Radio Shack 3rd release of Model III TRSDOS 1.3
1982 - 2,100 Unification church couples wed in NYC
1982 - ABC national music radio network scheduled premiere (never happened)
1982 - Challenger moves overland to Dryden
1982 - General Reynaldo Bignone sworn in as president of Argentina
1982 - Kosmos 1383, 1st search & rescue satellite, launched
1982 - PEC Swells '82 soccer team forms in Swells
1983 - Arbitrator Raymond Goetz rules 43 players who are on Disabled List during 1981 players'
           strike not entitled to salaries for that period
1984 - "Baby" closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 241 performances
1984 - Amy Alcott wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
1984 - Royals pitcher Paul Splittorff, retires
1984 - The PG-13 rating is introduced by the MPAA.
1987 - Bork nominated to Supreme Court, rejected in Oct by senate
1987 - NYC radio station WFAN-AM becomes 1st 24 hour all sports radio
1987 - WHN-AM in NY City changes call letters to WFAN (now WEVD) replacing WHN's country
           music, WYNY-FM adopts country music format
1989 - NFL owners vote unanimously to form WLAF
1989 - Yanks beat Milwaukee Brewers 4-1, score is changed to 5-1 after game is over. Umpire rules
           Roberto Kelly scored before a double-play
1990 - 11th US Seniors Golf Open: Lee Trevino
1990 - 18th du Maurier Golf Classic: Cathy Johnston
1990 - 1st Zen winter session in Sydney Zen Center's Gorrick's Run Zendo
1990 - Despite Andy Hawkins no-hitting White Sox, Yankees lose 4-0
1990 - Dordrecht '90 soccer team forms in Dordrecht
1990 - FC Swells soccer team forms in Swells
1990 - German Democratic Republic accepts Deutsche Mark as its currency
1990 - In Victoria, Australia, helmetless bike riding becomes illegal
1990 - NY Yankee Andy Hawkins throws no-hitter in Comiskey Park, losing 4-0
1992 - 6.6 earthquake in Big Bear Valley of Los Angeles
1992 - Ali Kafi becomes president of Algeria
1992 - Fox broadcasting adds Wednesday night TV programming
1993 - 1 second is added to the clock
1993 - Russian manned space craft TM-17, launches into orbit
1993 - STS-57 (Endeavour) lands
1994 - Fokker's-28 crashes at Tidjikja, Mauritania (94 killed)
1994 - Roman Herzog sworn in as German president
1994 - Soyuz TM-19 launches
1994 - Yassar Arafat returns to Gaza strip
1995 - "Kiss of the Spider Woman" closes at Broadhurst NYC after 906 perfs
1995 - Kiersten Rickenbach, of NJ, crowned America's Junior Miss
1996 - Kevan James scores 103 & takes 4 wkts in 4 balls, Hants v Ind
1996 - NHL Winnipeg Jets officially become the Phoenix Coyotes
1996 - Placido Domingo becomes art director of Washington Opera
1996 - WBSI TV replaces WNYC on channel 31 in NYC
1997 - Nevada Athletic Commission suspends Mike Tyson for biting Holyfield
1997 - STS 94 (Columbia 23) launches into orbit
1997 - UK returns Hong Kong to China
1999 - The Scottish Parliament is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth on the day powers are officially
           transferred from the old Scottish Office in London to the new devolved Scottish Executive in
           Edinburgh.
2000 - The Oresund Bridge, connecting Sweden and Denmark, opens for traffic.
2000 - Vermont's civil unions law goes into effect.
2002 - The International Criminal Court is established to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes
           against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression.
2002 - A Bashkirian Airlines (flight 2937) Tupolev TU-154 and a DHL (German cargo) Boeing 757
           collide in mid-air over Ueberlingen, southern Germany, killing 71.
2004 - Saturn Orbit insertion of Cassini-Huygens begins at 01:12 UTC and ends at 02:48 UTC.
2006 - The first operation of Qinghai-Tibet Railway in the People's Republic of China.
2007 - Smoking in England is banned in all public indoor spaces. With the ban already in force in
           Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, this means it is illegal to smoke in indoor public places
           anywhere in the UK. The ban is also put into effect in Australia.
2012 - 17 people are killed and 45 injured in an attack on two churches in Garissa, Kenya
2012 - Spain's football team crush Italy 4-0 to win the 2012 UEFA Euro Cup

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 01, 2013, 11:05:11 AM

This Day in History for 1st July


Famous Weddings

1916 - Dwight Eisenhower marries Mary `Mamie' Geneva Doud in Denver, Colorado
1982 - Over 2000 Unification Church couples marry at NY Madison Square Garden
1989 - Hugh Hefner (Playboy editor) weds playmate Kimberly Conrad
1995 - Crown Prince of Greece and the oldest son of the deposed King Constantine of Greece, Pavlos
           (28) weds Robert W. Miller's daughter Marie-Chantal Miller (26) at London's Cathedral of
           Saint Sophia
1995 - Princess Stephanie of Monaco (30) weds her bodyguard Daniel Ducruet (31) on a civil
           ceremony in Monaco
1998 - Eight-time Grammy Award-winning singer Barbra Streisand (57) weds actor James Brolin (58)
           in Malibu
2006 - "Hi-5" actress and singer Jennifer Peterson-Hind (26) weds recording artist Tom Korbee in
           Madison, Wisconsin
2011 - English model Kate Moss (37) weds English guitarist Jamie Hince (42) at St. Peter's Church,
           Southrop in Gloucestershire

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 01, 2013, 11:07:51 AM

This Day in History for 1st July


Famous Divorces

2011 - "Medium" actress Patricia Arquette (40) divorces actor Thomas Jane (39) due to irreconcilable
           differences after 5 years of marriage
2011 - Actor Ryan Reynolds (34) divorces actress Scarlett Johansson (26) due to irreconcilable
           differences after two years of marriage
2011 - Ann Serano Lopez divorces actor and talk show host George Lopez (49) due to irreconcilable
           differences
2011 - Journalist and executive producer Maria Shriver (55) divorces Hollywood action film icon
           Arnold Schwarzenegger (63) due to irreconcilable differences after 25 years of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 01, 2013, 11:45:42 AM

This Day in History for 1st July


Famous Birthdays

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Cosmetics Company CEO                         Princess of Wales                               Olympic Sprinter and Long jumper
Estée Lauder (1906)                                  Diana Spencer (1961)                                 Carl Lewis (1961)

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Actress Liv Tyler (1977) 


1381 - Laurentius Justitianus, [Lorenzo Giustiniani], saint
1481 - Christian II of Denmark, Sweden and Norway (d. 1559)
1506 - Louis II, king of Hungary/Bohemia (1516-26)
1511 - Hadrianus Junius, [Adriaen de Jonghe], medical/historian/humanist
1534 - Frederick II, King of Denmark and Norway (1559-88)
1560 - Charles van Croij, prince of Chimay/duke of Aarschot
1574 - Joseph Hall, English bishop and writer (d. 1656)
1586 - Claudio Saracini, composer
1633 - Johann Heinrich Heidegger, Swiss theologian (d. 1698)
1646 - G W Leibniz, German mathematician/philosopher; postulated monads
1663 - Franz Xaver Murschhauser, composer
1688 - Johann Ludwig Steiner, composer
1723 - Pedro R de Campomanes, Spanish economist/historian/literary
1725 - Comte de Rochambeau, French soldier (d. 1807)
1735 - James Lyon, composer
1742 - Georg C Lichtenberg, German physicist/writer (types of Lichtenberg)
1764 - Georg Christoph Grosheim, composer
1780 - Karl von Clausewitz, Prussian strategist
1788 - Jean-Victor Poncelet, mathematician, founded projective geometry
1802 - Gideon Welles, Secy Navy (Union), died in 1878
1804 - George Sand, France, (female) novelist (Valentine, Le Figaro)
1807 - Thomas Green Clemson, mining engineer, endowed Clemson University
1810 - Walter White, secretary (NAACP)
1812 - Willem J d'Ablaing van Giessenburg, Dutch genealogist/heraldicus
1818 - Ignaz Semmelweis, gynecologist
1833 - Alfred Thomas Archimedes Torbert, Bvt Major General (Union Army)
1834 - Jadwiga Łuszczewska, Polish poet (d. 1908)
1840 - Robert S Ball, Irish mathematician/astronomer
1844 - Verney L Cameroon, English explorer (Tanganyika)
1857 - Roger Connor, 1st baseman (NY Giants)
1861 - Samuel D Riddle, horse owner (Man 'o War)
1863 - William Grant Stairs, Canadian explorer (d. 1892)
1869 - William Strunk Jr., American grammarian (d. 1946)
1872 - Louis Bleriot, 1st man to fly an airplane across English Channel
1873 - Alice Guy-Blaché, American film director (d. 1968)
1874 - Michel H Campen, author/critic (Bikoerim)
1879 - Leon Jouhaux, France, socialist/co-founder UN's ILO (Nobel 1951)
1881 - Piet[er] L Kramer, architect (Amsterdam School)
1883 - Arthur Borton, English soldier (d. 1933)
1887 - Charles D Brown, Iowa, actor (Barefoot Boy, Disbarred, Night Editor)
1892 - James M Cain, Minneapolis Mn, novelist (Postman Always Rings Twice)
1893 - Walter Francis White, Atlanta Georgia
1896 - Pavel G Antokolski, Russian poet/director (Syn) [NS]
1898 - Andre-Marie Charue, bishop of Namen Belgium
1899 - Cavan O'Connor, singer
1899 - Charles Laughton, England, actor (Mutiny on Bounty, Spartacus)
1899 - Henry "Indiana" Jones Jr, fictional character "Indiana Jones"
1899 - Konstantinos Tsatsos Greek politician and president (1975-1980)
1901 - Irna Phillips, Chicago, created 6 soap operas (Guiding Light)
1901 - Sylvia Mary Paget Chancellor, philanthropist
1902 - Billy Wyler, director (Ben Hur, Mrs Miniver)
1902 - Jose Luis Sert, Spanish/US architect
1903 - Amy Johnson, British pilot
1903 - Beatrix Lehmann, England, actress (Candles at Nine, Staircase)
1904 - Mary Calderone, physician/founder (planned parenthood)
1906 - Edward Lansing Gordon Jr, Jackson Miss, long jumper (Olympic-gold-32)
1906 - Frank Parker, NYC, actor (Shawn-Days of our Life)
1906 - Estée Lauder, New York, NY, CEO (Estée Lauder cosmetics) (d. 2004)
1907 - Bill Stern, Rochester NY, sportscaster (Saturday Night Fights)
1908 - Paul Hardy, Belgian writer (Best of Painted Furniture)
1908 - Peter Anders, German opera singer
1908 - Peg Entwistle, Welsh actress (d. 1932)
1909 - Juan Carlos Onetti, novelist
1909 - Madge Evans, Manhattan NYC, TV panelist (Masquerade Party)
1909 - Bill Stern, American sportscaster (d. 1971)
1911 - Alvino Rey, Cleve Ohio, orchestra leader (King Family)
1911 - Sergei Sokolov, Soviet marshal
1912 - Ahmad H al-Bakr, Iraqi fieldmarshal/president/premier
1912 - David Brower, environmentalist/president (Sierra Club)
1912 - Roy McKelvie, soldier/sports writer
1912 - Sally Kirkland, American fashion editor (d. 1989)
1913 - Jo Sinclair, writer
1914 - Cristyl Cranz, Germany, slalom (Olympic-gold-1936)
1914 - Earle Warren, alto sax player
1914 - Magda Gabor, Budapest Hungary, actress (People vs Zsa Zsa Gabor)
1915 - Jean Stafford, US writer (Boston Adventure, Lion & Carpenter)
1915 - Viscount Leverhulm, English large landowner (Unilever)
1915 - Willie Dixon, Vicksburg Missisipi, blues artist (Walkin' the Blues, Mellow Down Easy)
1915 - Joseph Ransohoff, American neurosurgeon (d. 2001)
1916 - Olivia de Havilland, Tokyo Japan, actress (Adventures of Robin Hood)
1919 - Hans Bender, German poet
1920 - Harold Sakata, American actor (d. 1982)
1921 - Seretse Khama, 1st premier/president of Botswana (Bechuanaland)
1923 - Constance Ford, actress (Ada Hobson-Another World)
1925 - Farley Granger, San Jose CA, actor (Arnold, Rope, Deathmask)
1926 - Franclaois-Regis Bastide, writer/broadcaster
1926 - Robert Fogel, Nobel laureate
1926 - Carl Hahn, German automotive executive
1927 - Hans Eklund, composer
1927 - Ruben Gomez, baseball player
1928 - Constance Ford, US actress (Cabinet of Calgary, Ada-Another World)
1928 - Volker Wangenheim, composer
1929 - Gerald M Edelman, US biochemist (Nobel 1972)
1930 - Andreas JAI Bruggeman, Dutch mayor (Schipluiden/Leiderdorp)
1930 - Moustapha Akkad, Syrian-American filmmaker (d. 2005)
1931 - Leslie Caron, Boulogne-Biliancourt France, actr (Lili, Father Goose)
1931 - Tab Hunter, actor (Tab Hunter Show, Lust in the Dust)
1932 - Bobby Day, [Robert Byrd], Fort Worth Tx, rock vocalist (Rockin' Robin)
1932 - Ze'ev Schiff, Israeli journalist (d. 2007)
1933 - Frank Baumann, baseball player
1933 - Peter Walwyn, British race horse trainer
1934 - Jamie Farr, Toledo Oh, actor (Klinger-M*A*S*H, AfterMASH)
1934 - Jean Marsh, London England, actress (Dark Places, Eagle has Landed)
1934 - Sydney Pollack, Lafayette, director (Tootsie, Presumed Innocent)
1934 - Claude Berri, French actor, director and screenwriter
1935 - James Cotton, blues vocalist
1935 - Seiji Ozawa, [Fentian Shenyan], Manchuria, orchestra conductor
1937 - Ebrahim I Ebrahim, South African ANCer/Umkhonto we Sizwe-leader
1938 - Chester Watson, West Indian cricket fast bowler (early 60s)
1938 - Don Pavletich, baseball player
1938 - Craig Anderson, baseball player
1939 - Charles Hatcher, (Rep-D-GA, 1981- )
1939 - Delaney Bramlett, Oklahoma, rocker (Shindogs, Delaney & Bonnie)
1939 - Karen Black, American actress
1940 - Jack Acker, baseball pitcher (NY Yankees)
1940 - Kenneth Clarke, British minister
1941 - John Gould, British composer/musical comic
1941 - Rod Gilbert, Canada, NHL wing (NY Rangers)
1941 - Sally Quinn, Georgia, CBS newscaster (Morning Show)
1941 - Twyla Tharp, Portland Ind, choreographer (Twyla Tharp Dance Troupe)
1941 - Alfred G. Gilman, American scientist, Nobel laureate
1941 - Myron Scholes, American economist, Nobel laureate
1942 - Genevieve Bujold, Montreal, actress (King of Hearts, Choose Me, Coma)
1942 - Karen Black, [Ziegler], Park Ridge Ill, (5 Easy Pieces, Pyx)
1942 - William Carney, (Rep-R-NY, 1979-86)
1942 - Andraé Crouch, American singer
1943 - Jeff Wayne, musician
1945 - Deborah Harry, Miami Fla, singer (Blondie-Heart of Glass)
1945 - Mike Burstyn, Israeli-American actor
1946 - June Montiero, US, vocalist (Toys-A Lover's Concerto)
1946 - Ron Silver, NYC, actor (Gary-Rhoda, Entity, Silkwood, Best Friends)
1947 - Marc Benno, rocker
1947 - Kazuyoshi Hoshino, Japanese racing driver
1949 - John Farnham, Australian singer
1950 - David Duke, American politician, K.K.K. member
1951 - Daryl Anderson, Seattle, actor (Animal-Lou Grant)
1951 - Fred Schneider, Newark Ga, vocalist/guitarist (B-52's-Rock Lobster)
1951 - Trevor Eve, Wales, actor (Shadow Chasers)
1951 - Anne Feeney, American protest singer
1951 - Terrence Mann, American actor and dancer
1952 - Dan Aykroyd, Ottawa Canada, comedian/actor (SNL, Dragnet)
1952 - Timothy J. Tobias, American composer and musician (d. 2006)
1953 - Henry Percy, 11th duke of Northumberland, godchild of Elizabeth II
1954 - Michael Daniel Reid, Bainbridge MD, PGA golfer (1987 Seiko Tucson)
1955 - Keith Whitley, Sandy Hook Ky, country singer (Don't Close Your Eyes)
1956 - Adrian Wright, rocker (Human League-Only Human)
1956 - Bill Caudill, baseball player
1956 - Lorna Patterson, Whittier California, actress (Airplane, Pvt Benjamin)
1956 - Alan Ruck, American actor
1957 - Hannu Kamppuri, Finnish ice hockey player
1958 - Nancy Lieberman Cline, Bkln, WNBA guard (Phoenix Mercury) (Oly-S-76)
1959 - Anne Smith, Dallas TX, tennis star
1960 - Alan Ruck, Cleve Oh, actor (Stuart-Spin City)
1960 - Evelyn "Champagne" King, Bronx NY, disco singer (Shame, I'm in Love)
1960 - Lynn Jennings, Princeton NJ, 5k runner
1960 - Mike Fitzgerald, baseball player
1961 - Diana Spencer, Sandringham England, Princess of Wales, (d. 1997)
1961 - Kalpana Chawla, Karnal India, astronaut (STS 87)
1961 - Carl Lewis [Frederick], Birmingham Alabama, sprinter and long jumper (Oly-9 gold-84-96)
1961 - Malcolm Elliott, British cyclist
1962 - Andre Braugher, Chicago Ill, actor (Frank Pembleton-Homicide)
1963 - Edward Tsang Lu, Springfield Mass, astronaut (STS 84)
1963 - Roddy Bottum, LA California, rock keyboardist (Faith No More-Real Thing)
1964 - Mike Twardoski, baseball player
1964 - Poi Burton, rocker (Transvision Vamp-Velveteen)
1964 - Theresa Lynn, Louisville KY, actress (Orgasm Girl-Private Parts)
1965 - Luc Rochefort, Trois-Rivieres Que, golfer (1991 Low Amateur Quebec)
1966 - Eric Ball, NFL running back (Oakland Raiders)
1966 - Larisa Savchenko, Neiland Latvia, tennis star
1966 - Patrick McEnroe, Manhasset NY, tennis star
1966 - Shawn Burr, Sarnia, NHL left wing (Tampa Bay Lightning)
1966 - Simon Arkell, Australian pole vaulter (Olympics-17th-92, 96)
1966 - Enrico Annoni, Italian footballer
1967 - Dave Richardson, CFL tackle (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1967 - Mike Eastwood, Ottawa, NHL center (Winnipeg Jets)
1967 - Pamela Anderson Lee, Ladysmith BC, playmate (Feb 90/Home Improvement)
1967 - Tony Bennett, NFL linebacker (Indianapolis Colts)
1968 - Charles Wilson, NFL wide receiver (NY Jets)
1968 - Roshumba Williams, Chicago Ill, model (Bride)
1968 - Tim Abell, American actor
1969 - Gary Brown, NFL running back (Houston Oilers)
1969 - Graham Lloyd, cricketer (son of David, Lancashire batsman, Eng ODI 96)
1970 - Kevin O'Brien, WLAF linebacker (Barcelona Dragons)
1970 - Nicky Goetze, Milwaukee Wisc, Canadian Tour golfer (1992 NCAA Acad)
1970 - Van Malone, NFL safety (Detroit Lions)
1971 - Darick Holmes, NFL running back (Buffalo Bills)
1971 - Oleg Antonenko, hockey forward (Team Belarus, Olympics-1998)
1971 - Wanda Gonzalez, Miss Connecticut USA (1996)
1971 - Melissa Peterman [Melissa Margaret], Minneapolis, Minnesota, American actress (Reba, Fargo)
1971 - Julianne Nicholson, American actress
1971 - Steven W. Bailey, American actor
1971 - Jamie Walker, American baseball player
1972 - Corey Hirsch, Medicine Hat, NHL goalie (Vancouver Canucks)
1972 - Darrick Bledose, WLAF cornerback (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1972 - Claire Forlani, English actress
1972 - Alex Machacek, Austrian musician
1973 - Malina Milson, Australian softball 1st baseman (Olympics-bronze-96)
1974 - Michele Krasnoo, Culver City California, actress (Kickboxer IV)
1975 - Sufjan Stevens, American musician
1976 - Patrick Stephan Kluivert, Surinam/Dutch soccer player (Ajax)
1976 - Hannu Tihinen, Finnish footballer
1976 - Ruud van Nistelrooy, Dutch footballer
1977 - Liv Tyler, New York City, American actress and daughter of Aerosmith's frontman, Steven
           Tyler (Stealing Beauty)
1977 - Misty Marriah Esplin, Preston Idaho, Miss America-Idaho (1997)
1977 - Keigo Hayashi, Japanese music artist
1977 - Birgit Schuurman, Dutch musician
1978 - Eisa Istok, Miss Illinois Teen USA (1996)
1978 - Jacqie Turner, west Covina California, figure skater, 1997 SW Pacific-2nd
1978 - Vicki Renee Hughes, Miss New Mexico Teen USA (1997)
1979 - Forrest Griffin, American mixed martial artist
1980 - Patrick Aufiero, American hockey player
1981 - Tadhg Kennelly, Irish-born Australian Rules footballer
1981 - Demetria McKinney, American Actress
1982 - Carmella DeCesare, American model
1982 - Romola Garai, English actress
1982 - Justin Huber, Australian baseball player
1982 - Joachim Johansson, Swedish tennis player
1982 - Adrian Ward, American football player
1982 - Hilarie Burton, American actress
1983 - Marit Larsen, Norwegian musician (M2M)
1983 - Leeteuk, Korean singer
1988 - Evan Ellingson, American actor
1989 - Mitch Hewer, English actor
1989 - Hannah Murray, English actress
1992 - Bryant Jones, Camarillo Ca, actor (Nate Hastings-Young & Restless)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 01, 2013, 12:05:32 PM

This Day in History for 1st July


Famous Deaths

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Inventor Charles Goodyear (1860)            Actor Marlon Brando (2004)


251 - Decius, Roman Emperor (b. 207)
251 - Herennius Etruscus, joint Roman Emperor with father Decius (b. ca. 227)
868 - Ali al-Hadi, Shia Imam (b. 828)
1109 - King Alfonso VI of Castile (b. 1040)
1277 - Baibars, Mameluk sultan of Egypt (b. 1223)
1378 - Jan I V van Arkel, bishop of Utrecht/Luik, dies
1523 - Hendrik Voes, Flemish priest/church reformer, burned at stake
1523 - John of Esschen, Flemish priest/church reformer, burned at stake
1589 - Christophe Plantin, French/Belgian book publisher, dies
1592 - Marc A Ingegneri, Italian violinist/composer (Responsoria), dies
1614 - Isaac Casaubon, French-born classical scholar (b. 1559)
1622 - William Parker, 4th Baron Monteagle, British politician (b. 1575)
1627 - Nathaniel Bacon, English painter, dies at 41
1662 - Simon Ives, composer, dies at 61
1681 - Oliver Plunkett, Irish saint (b. 1629)
1691 - Marc'Antonio Pasqualini, composer, dies at 77
1708 - Emperor Tekle Haymanot I of Ethiopia (b. 1706)
1723 - Willem van de Pose, gov of Cape Colony (1699-1797), dies at about 59
1742 - Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský, Czech monk/composer, dies at 58
1774 - Henry Fox Holland, English corrupt politician, dies at 68
1776 - Francis Salvador, 1st Jew to die in American Revolutionary War
1782 - Charles Watson-Wentworth 2nd marquis of Rockingham, dies at 52
1784 - Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, composer, son of J.S. Bach, dies at 73
1805 - Georg Ritschel, composer, dies at 60
1819 - Jemima Wilkinson, American preacher (b. 1752)
1839 - Mahmud II, sultan of Turkey (1808-39), dies at 53
1847 - George F Kersting, German painter, dies at 61
1860 - Charles Goodyear, American inventor, dies at 59
1863 - John Fulton Reynolds, Union general-major, dies in battle at 42
1883 - Manuel Gregorio Tavarez, composer, dies at 39
1885 - Hermann von Fehling, German chemist (Fehling's reagens), dies at 73
1894 - Julius PJA van Nyevelt, Dutch min of Foreign affairs, dies at 77
1894 - Allan Pinkerton, American private detective (b. 1819)
1896 - Harriet Beecher Stowe, US author (Uncle Tom's Cabin), dies at 85
1910 - Marius Petipa, Fren ballet dancer/choreographer (Casse-noisette), dies
1916 - William Booth, cricketer (WW I 2 Tests for England 1913-14), dies
1922 - Giovanni Verga, Italian writer (I mala voglia), dies at 81
1925 - Erik Alfred Leslie Satie, French composer (Dreamy Fish), dies at 59
1925 - Jan P Veth, Dutch painter/lithographer/art historian, dies at 61
1939 - Louis Davids [Simon David], cabaret performer/chorus performer, dies
1943 - Auguste Reitsma, Dutch resistance fighter (census director), executed
1943 - C Bakker, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed
1943 - C L Barentsen, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed
1943 - Coos Hartogh, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed
1943 - Cor Roos, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed
1943 - Henri Halberstadt, Dutch resistance fighter (census dir), executed
1943 - Johan Brouwer, hispanist/writer/Dutch resistance fighter, executed
1943 - Koen Limperg, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed
1943 - Sam Bloemgarten, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed
1943 - Willem Arondeus, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed
1943 - Willem Brouwer, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed
1944 - Carl Mayer, actor (Dreaming Lips, Ariane, Sunrise), dies at 49
1947 - Clarence Lucas, composer, dies at 80
1949 - Louis Davids, [Simon David], cabaret artist, dies at 65
1950 - Edward Faber Schneider, composer, dies at 77
1950 - Eliel Saarinen, Fins/US architect (Chicago Trib building), dies at 76
1950 - Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, Swiss musician (b. 1865)
1953 - Azzedine Bey, Tunisian heir to the throne, murdered
1953 - Jacob D du Toit [Totius], South African poet/theologist, dies
1958 - Apie [Adrian P] Prince, Dutch writer (I Go Me Own Way), dies
1958 - Harry Nicholls Holmes, Dr (crystallized vitamin A), dies at 78
1958 - Rudolf von Laban, Czech/Ger choreographer (modern dance), dies at 78
1961 - Louis-Ferdinand Céline, French writer (b. 1894)
1963 - Camille Chautemps, premier France, dies
1964 - Pierre Monteux, French/US conductor (Concert Bldg Orch), dies at 89
1965 - Claude Thornhill, composer, dies at 55
1965 - Wally Hammond, South African cricketer (7,249 runs for England), dies
1968 - Dick Young, cricketer (England wicketkeeper v Aust 1907-08), dies
1968 - Virginia Weidler, actress (All This & Heaven Too), dies at 42
1971 - Lord Learie Constantine, WI cricketer (all-rounder & fielder), dies
1973 - Mario La Broca, composer, dies at 76
1974 - Juan D Peron, president of Argentina (1946-55, 73-74), dies at 78
1976 - Anneliese Michel, German woman said to be possessed by demons (b. 1952)
1978 - Kurt Student, German Luftwaffe general (b. 1890)
1979 - Richard Ward, actor (Beacon Hill), dies at 64
1980 - Charles Percy Snow, British writer (Friends & Associates), dies at 75
1981 - George Voskovec, actor (Fred-Nero Wolfe, Peter-Skag), dies at 76
1981 - Carlos de Oliveira, Portuguese writer (b. 1921)
1981 - Rushton Moreve, American bass player (b. 1948)
1982 - John Everett Watts, composer, dies at 51
1982 - Vera [A Veronica] Bondam, actress, dies at 86
1983 - R Buckminster Fuller, inventor/philosopher, dies in LA at 87
1984 - Moshe Feldenkrais, Ukrainian-born educator (b. 1904)
1986 - Roy Poole, actor (Winds of War), dies at 62
1987 - Snakefinger, British-born musician (b. 1949)
1988 - Hellmuth Christian Wolff, composer, dies at 82
1988 - Lex van Delden, Dutch composer/writer, dies at 68
1989 - William Ching, actor (Moonlighter, Terror in Haunted House), dies
1990 - Anna Palk, actress (Play it Cool, Frozen Dead), dies of cancer at 48
1990 - Jurriaan Schrofer, graphic designer, dies
1991 - Joost Baljeu, painter/founder-editor Structure, dies
1991 - Michael Landon, actor (Bonanza, Hwy to Heaven), dies of cancer at 54
1992 - Franco Cristaldi, Italian producer (Amarcord), dies
1992 - Francisco Mendes, Guinea-Bissauan politician (b. 1933)
1994 - Johanna Ader-Appels, resistance fighter/author, dies
1995 - Bruce Mitchell, South African cricketer (leading Test scorer with 3471), dies
1995 - Ronald Farrow, radio producer/priest, dies at 49
1995 - Wolfman Jack, disc jockey (Midnight Special), dies at 57
1996 - Alfred Marks, actor (Fanny Hill, Desert Mice), dies at 75
1996 - Margaux Hemmingway, actress (Lipstick), dies at 41
1996 - Richard Michael Fraser, political administrator, dies at 80
1996 - Steve Tesich, screenwriter/playwright, dies at 53
1997 - Joshua Hassan, head of Gibraltar (1964-69, 72-87), dies
1997 - Robert Mitchum, actor (Winds of War), dies at 79
1999 - Edward Dmytryk, Canadian-born film director (b. 1908)
1999 - Guy Mitchell, American popular singer dies at 72
1999 - Forrest Mars Sr., American candy magnate (b. 1904)
1999 - Sylvia Sidney, American actress (b. 1910)
2000 - Sarah Payne, British murder victim (b. 1992)
2000 - Walter Matthau, American actor (b. 1920)
2001 - Nikolay Basov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1922)
2003 - Herbie Mann, American jazz flutist (b. 1930)
2003 - Wesley Mouzon, American boxer (b. 1927)
2003 - N!xau, Namibian actor (b. 1944)
2004 - Marlon Brando, actor ("The Godfather", "A Street Cart Named Desire" and "On the Water
           Front") dies at 80
2004 - Peter Barnes, English writer (b. 1931)
2004 - Todor Skalovski, Macedonian composer (b. 1909)
2005 - Luther Vandross, American singer, dies at 54
2005 - Obie Benson, American musician (b. 1936)
2006 - Fred Trueman, English cricketer (b. 1931)
2008 - Mel Galley, English guitarist (b. 1948)
2009 - Karl Malden, American actor (b. 1912)
2009 - Onni Palaste, Finnish writer (b. 1917)
2009 - Mollie Sugden, English actress (b. 1922)
2009 - Alexis Argüello, Nicaraguan professional boxer (b. 1952)
2009 - Marwa El-Sherbini, Egyptian housewife (b. 1977 or 1976)
2010 - Ilene Woods, American actress (b. 1929)
2011 - Leslie Brooks, American actress (b. 1922)
2012 - Evelyn Lear, American operatic soprano, dies at 86

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 02, 2013, 12:10:05 PM

This Day in History for 2nd July


Historical Events

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Inventor Ferdinand von Zeppelin          Heavyweight Boxing Champion           Singer & Cultural Icon Elvis Presley
                                                              Jack Dempsey

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Dictator Fidel Castro                               Tennis Player Steffi Graf                        264th Pope John Paul II


311 - St Militiades begins his reign as Catholic Pope
626 - In fear of assassination, Li Shimin ambushes and kills his rival brothers Li Yuanji and Li
         Jiancheng in the Incident at Xuanwu Gate. On September 4, Shimin's father abdicates in his
         favour and Shimin becomes Emperor Taizong of Tang, Emperor of China.
706 - In China, Emperor Zhongzong of Tang has the remains of Emperor Gaozong of Tang, his wife
         and recently-deceased ruling empress Wu Zetian, her son Li Xian, her grandson Li Chongrun,
         and granddaughter Li Xianhui all interred in a new tomb complex outside Chang'an known as
         the Qianling Mausoleum, located on Mount Liang.
963 - The imperial army proclaims Nicephorus Phocas to be Emperor of the Romans on the plains             
         outside Cappadocian Caesarea.
1140 - Hartbert becomes bishop of Utrecht
1214 - Battle of La Roche-aux-Moines (Angers), part of King John of England attempt to reclaim
           Normandy from France
1298 - Battle on Hasenbuhl (Gollheim) between German kings Adolf & Albrecht I
1555 - Turgut Reis sacks the Italian city of Paola.
1561 - Menas, Emperor of Ethiopia, defeats a revolt in Emfraz.
1576 - Muitende Spanish soldiers conquer Zierik Sea
1578 - Martin Frobisher sights Baffin Island.
1582 - Battle of Yamazaki: Toyotomi Hideyoshi defeats Akechi Mitsuhide.
1600 - Battle at Newport: Earl Mauritius van Nassau beats Spanish Army
1613 - The first English expedition from Massachusetts against Acadia led by Samuel Argall.
1644 - Battle of Marston Moor: Parliamentary forces defeat royalists
1679 - Europeans first visit Minnesota and see headwaters of Mississippi in an expedition led by
           Daniel Greysolon de Du Luth.
1681 - Earl of Shaftesbury arrested for high-treason
1687 - King James II disbands English parliament
1698 - Thomas Savery patents the first steam engine
1776 - NJ gave all adults who could show a net worth of 50 pounds right to vote
1776 - Continental Congress resolves "these United Colonies are & of right ought to be Free &
           Independent States"
1777 - Vermont becomes 1st American colony to abolish slavery
1787 - De Sade shouts from Bastille that prisoners are being slaughtered
1794 - 2nd Battle of Seneffe: France-Austria
1808 - Simon Fraser completes his trip down Fraser R, BC, lands at Musqueam
1823 - Bahia Independence Day: the end of Portuguese rule in Brazil, with the final defeat of the
           Portuguese crown loyalists in the province of Bahia.
1843 - An alligator falls from sky during a Charleston SC thunderstorm
1847 - Envelope bearing 1st US 10 cent stamps, still exists today
1849 - Garibaldi in Rome begins hunger strike
1850 - Benjamin Lane patents gas mask with a breathing apparatus
1858 - Partial emancipation of Russian serfs
1861 - Battle of Hoke's Run, WV - small Union victory
1862 - Lincoln signs act granting land for state agricultural colleges
1863 - Battle of Gettysburg (2nd day)
1863 - R Morgan's: Burksville, KY to Salineville, OH [->JUL 26]
1864 - Gen Early & Confederate forces reach Winchester en route to Wash DC
1864 - Statuary Hall in US Capitol forms
1865 - William Booth founds Salvation Army (Army of the Salvation)
1867 - 1st US elevated railroad begins service, NYC
1870 - Jules Joseph d'Anethan is elected the tenth Prime Minister of Belgium.
1881 - Pres Garfield shot by Charles J Guiteau a disappointed office-seeker
1885 - Canada's North-west Insurrection ends with surrender of Big Bear
1890 - Congress passes Sherman Antitrust Act
1894 - Government obtains injunction against striking Pullman Workers
1900 - Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin 1st airship LZ-1, flies
1900 - Sibelius' "Finlandia," premieres in Helsinki
1900 - First zeppelin flight takes place on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany.
1901 - Butch Cassidy & Sundance Kid rob train of $40,000 at Wagner Montana
1902 - John J McGraw becomes manager of NY Giants (stays for 30 years)
1903 - AL/NL batting champ Ed Delahanty, disappears, found dead days later
1903 - Pitcher Jack Doscher, 1 son of a major leaguer debuts with Cubs
1906 - Yanks win by forfeit, for their 1st time
1916 - Lenin says Imperialism is caused by capitalism
1916 - Russian offensive in Armenia
1917 - Riots in East St Louis Mo
1921 - 41st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: B Tilden beats B Norton (46 26 61 60 75)
1921 - Jack Dempsey KOs George S Carpentier in 4 for heavyweight boxing title 1st million dollar
           gate ($1.7m) boxing match (Dempsey KOs Carpentier)
1926 - US Army Air Corps created; Distinguish Flying Cross authorized
1927 - 40th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats L de Alvarez (62 64)
1927 - Earthquake hits Palestine
1928 - British parliament accept female sufferage
1932 - 52nd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Ellsworth Vines beats H Austin (64 62 60)
1932 - FDR makes 1st presidential nominating conventional acceptance speech
1933 - Carl Hubbell shuts-out Cards 1-0 in 18 innings without a walk
1934 - General Lazaro Cardenas elected president of Mexico
1935 - Great Britain boxers beat US team in 1st intl Golden Gloves
1937 - 57th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Don Budge beats G von Cramm (63 64 62)
1937 - Amelia Earhart & Fred Noonan disappear over Pacific Ocean
1938 - 51st Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats Helen Jacobs (64 60)
1940 - Dutch PM Colijn publishes "Borders of 2 Worlds" (German victory)
1940 - Hitler orders invasion of England (Operation Sealion)
1940 - Lake Washington (Seattle) Floating bridge dedicated
1940 - PM Churchill meets gen-mjr B Montgomery
1940 - Indian independence leader Subhas Chandra Bose is arrested and detained in Calcutta.
1941 - DiMaggio breaks Willie Keeler's 44 game hitting streak (45th of 56)
1941 - Earthquake hits Palestine
1941 - Nazi mass murder in Lvov/Lemberg (7,000 dead)
1941 - Noel Coward's "Blithe Spirit," premieres in London
1943 - Gulf of Biskaje: Liberator bombers sinks U-126
1943 - Indians score 12 runs in 4th inning & beat Yankees 12-0
1943 - Lt Charles Hall, becomes 1st black pilot to shoot down Nazi plane
1944 - Marshal von Kluge replaces General von Rundstedt
1946 - Dutch Beel government forms
1946 - Harbor workers end strike at Rotterdam & Amsterdam
1947 - Military coup discovered in France
1948 - 62nd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Falkenburg beats Bromwich (75 06 62 36 75)
1949 - "High Button Shoes" closes at Century Theater NYC after 727 perfs
1949 - "Red Barber's Clubhouse" sports show premieres on CBS (later NBC) TV
1949 - 56th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: L Brough beats M duPont (10-8 16 10-8)
1950 - Indian Bob Feller, wins his 200th game, 5-3 over Detroit
1950 - Kinkaku-ji in Kyoto, Japan burns down.
1950 - Henri Queuille is elected the seventh Prime Minister of the Fourth French Republic.
1951 - Bill Veeck buys St Louis Browns from Bill & Charlie DeWitt
1951 - Bob & Ray show premieres on NBC radio
1951 - Hugo Yarnold stumps 6 at Dundee, Worcester v Scotland
1951 - Island advisor of Curacao installed
1951 - Leidse astronomers discover radio signal out of Milky Way system
1952 - Princess Beatrice opens miniature city of Madurodam
1954 - 68th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: J Drobny beats K Rosewall (13-11 46 62 97)
1954 - Denis Compton scores 278 in 290 minutes v Pakistan
1955 - "7th Heaven" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 44 performances
1955 - "Almost Crazy" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 16 performances
1955 - "Lawrence Welk Show" premieres on ABC
1955 - 10th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Fay Crocker
1955 - 62nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Louise Brough beats B Fleitz (75 86)
1956 - Elvis Presley records "Hound Dog" & "Don't Be Cruel"
1956 - US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)
1957 - 1st submarine designed to fire guided missiles launched, Grayback
1957 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Le pelerinage De Lourdes
1958 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island
1959 - "Plan 9 From Outer Space," one of the worse films ever, premieres
1960 - "Once Upon a Mattress" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 460 perfs
1961 - Maris hits 29th & 30th en route to 61 homers
1962 - Cubans minister of Foreign affairs RaulCastro arrives in Moscow
1962 - Fidel Castro visits Moscow
1963 - Giant Willie Mays' HR in 16th inning gives them a 1-0 win over Braves
1963 - Juan Marichal (Giants) beats Warren Spahn (Braves), 1-0 in 16 innings
1964 - Cilla Black records Beatle's "Its For You," McCartney plays piano
1964 - Grand jury indicts Beckwith in murder of Medger Evers
1964 - Pres Johnson signs Civil Rights Act & Voting Rights Act into law
1965 - 79th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Roy Emerson beats Fred Stolle (62 64 64)
1966 - 1st France nuclear explosion on Mururoa atoll
1966 - 73rd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Billie J King beats Frasier (63 36 61)
1966 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1967 - 22nd US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Catherine Lacoste
1967 - Catherine Lacoste becomes youngest (22), 1st foreigner (France) & 1st amateur to US
           Women's open golf tournament
1969 - Ireland bowl out WI for 25 at Londonderry, win by 9 wkts
1969 - Leslie West & Felix Pappalardi form rock group Mountain
1970 - 1st Boeing 747 to land in Amsterdam & Brussels
1970 - NY Yankees Horace Clarke breaks up a no-hitter in the 9th for 3rd time in 28 days
1971 - 78th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Evonne Goolagong beats M Smith (64 61)
1971 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1972 - "Fiddler on the Roof" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 3242 perfs
1972 - 27th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Susie Maxwell Berning
1972 - Bob Seagren pole vaults world record 5.63m
1972 - India & Pakistan sign peace accord
1973 - James R Schlesinger, ends term as 9th director of CIA
1973 - Nation Black Network begins operation on radio
1974 - Fernando Mameda of Portugal sets record for 10,000 m (27:13.81)
1976 - 83rd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats E Goolagong (63 46 86)
1976 - Formal reunification of North & South Vietnam
1976 - Supreme Court rules death penalty not inherently cruel or unusual
1977 - 91st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats Connors (36 62 61 57 64)
1978 - Pitcher Ron Guidry sets Yankee record of 13-0 start
1979 - Susan B Anthony dollar is issued, 1st US coin to honor a woman
1980 - Grateful Dead's Bob Weir & Mickey Hart are arrested for incitement
1980 - Julie Marie Bryan, 18, of Georgia, crowned America's Young Woman of Yr
1982 - Larry Walters using lawn chair & 42 helium balloons, rose to 16,000'
1982 - Soyuz T-6 returns to Earth
1983 - 90th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats A Jaeger (60 63)
1985 - Andrei Gromyko appointed president of USSR
1985 - European Space Agency launches Giotto (Halley's Comet Flyby)
1986 - After 14 wins, Roger Clemens suffer his 1st loss of year
1986 - General strike against Pinochet regime in Chile
1986 - Supreme Court upholds affirmative action in 2 rulings
1987 - Jim Eisenreich, comeback after nervous disorder in 1984
1987 - Nilde Iotti is named as the first female President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies.
1988 - 95th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Navratilova (57 62 61)
1989 - 10th US Seniors Golf Open: Orville Moody
1989 - 17th du Maurier Golf Classic: Tammie Green
1990 - Imelda Marcos & Adnan Khashoggi found not guilty of racketeering
1990 - Panic in tunnel of Mecca: 1,426 pilgrims trampled to death
1991 - Riot at Guns N' Roses concert in St Louis
1991 - Donald Trump proposes to Marla Maples and gives her a 7½ karat diamond ring
1992 - Braniff Airlines goes out of business
1993 - Boat sinks at Bocaue Philippines, 325 die
1993 - F-28 crashes at Sorong Irian Barat, 41 die
1993 - Kansas Royals rename stadium Ewing Kaufman Stadium after founder
1993 - Moslem fundamentalists in Sivas Turkey, set hotel on fire, kill 36
1993 - NY Met Anthony Young loses a record 25th straight game (goes to 27)
1993 - Pope John Paul II hospitalized for Cat Scan test
1994 - 101st Wimbledon Womens Tennis: C Martinez beats Navratilova (64 36 63)
1994 - 37 dies in US Air DC-9 crash in NC
1994 - John Wayne Bobbitt & Kristina Elliot arrested for domestic battery
1994 - Richard Johnson takes 10-45 for Middlesex against Derbyshire
1994 - US Air DC-9 crash in NC, 37 killed
1995 - "Rose Tattoo" closes at Circle in the Square NYC after 80 perfs
1995 - 16th US Seniors Golf Open: Tom Weiskopf
1995 - Michelle McGann wins Youngstown-Warren LPGA Golf Classic
1995 - Thailand: Banharn Silpa-Archa's party wins election
2000 - Vicente Fox Quesada is elected the first President of México from an opposition party, the
           Partido Acción Nacional after more than 70 years of continuous rule by the Partido
           Revolucionario Institucional.
2001 - AbioCor self contained artificial heart created.
2002 - Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon.
2003 - Silvio Berlusconi, Prime Minister of Italy, insults German MP Martin Schulz by calling him a
          "kapo" during a session of the European Parliament.
2004 - ASEAN Regional Forum accepts Pakistan as its 24th member.¨
2008 - Ingrid Betancourt and 14 other FARC hostages are rescued by the Colombian armed forces.
2010 - Oil tanker truck explosion in South Kivu, the Democratic Republic of the Congo kills at least
           230 people
2012 - GlaxoSmithKline settle the largest healthcare fraud case in history for US$3 Billion
2012 - Monsoon rain in East India kills at least 79 people and leaves 2.2 million homeless

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 02, 2013, 04:35:18 PM

This Day in History for 2nd July


Famous Weddings

1932 - Platinum blonde screen goddess Jean Harlow (21) weds MGM producer Paul Bern (42)
1939 - Syndicated columnist Ann Landers (21) weds business executive Julius Lederer
1952 - Zulu-leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi marries Irene Mzila
1953 - British writer ("Charlie and the Chocolate Factory") Ronald Dhal marries American actress
           Patricia Neal
1955 - Desmond Tutu marries Leah Nomalizo Shinxani
1959 - Belgian Albert, Prince of Liège marries Dona Paola, Princess Ruffo di Calabria in Brussels
2004 - Actress Mira Sorvino (36) weds actor Christopher Backus (23) in a private civil ceremony at
           the Santa Barbara Courthouse
2010 - Miss California USA 2009 Carrie Prejean (23) weds Oakland Raiders quarterback Kyle Boller
          (29) in San Diego
2011 - Charlene Princess of Monaco (33) weds Prince Albert II of Monaco (53) at the Church of St
           Devote of Monaco

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 02, 2013, 04:45:45 PM

This Day in History for 2nd July


Famous Birthdays

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Nobel Laureate Novelist                       First Black Supreme Court Justice        Comedian/Writer Larry David (1947)
Hermann Hesse (1877)                               Thurgood Marshall (1908)


419 - Valentinian III, Roman emperor (425-55)
1029 - Caliph Al-Mustansir of Cairo (d. 1094)
1262 - Arthur II, Duke of Brittany (d. 1312)
1363 - Mary, Queen of Sicily (d. 1401)
1489 - Thomas Cranmer, England, archbishop/reformer/martyr
1492 - Elizabeth Tudor, English princess (d. 1495)
1581 - Johann Staden, composer
1589 - Guillaume van Messaus, composer
1636 - Daniel Speer, composer
1644 - Abraham a Santa Clara, [Johann Megerle], German court vicar
1647 - Daniel Finch 2nd earl of Nottingham, English min of foreign affairs
1652 - Guillielmus "Willem" Kerricx, Flemish sculptor (Rozenkrans)
1665 - Samuel Penhallow, English-born American colonist and historian (d. 1726)
1667 - Pietro Ottoboni, Italian cardinal (d. 1740)
1698 - Francesco III d'Este, Duke of Modena (d. 1780)
1714 - Christoph W Ritter von Gluck, Austria composer (Il there pastore)
1724 - Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German poet
1737 - Francois Leonard Rouwyzer, composer
1746 - Hardenack Otto Conrad Zinck, composer
1756 - Christian G Korner, German lawyer/father of Karl
1763 - Peter Ritter, composer
1793 - Antoine Prumier, composer
1810 - Robert Augustus Toombs, Secy State (Confederacy), died in 1885
1814 - Atale Therese Annette Wartel, composer
1819 - Charles-Louis Hanon, French composer (d. 1900)
1820 - George Law Curry, Newspaper publisher and Governor of Oregon (d. 1878)
1821 - Charles Tupper, (C) 6th Canadian PM (1896)
1822 - Douglas Strutt Galton, English engineer (rails/trains)
1830 - John Bordenave Villepigue, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1834 - Hendry P G Quack, lawyer/economist/secr Dutch Bank
1836 - Henry Eugene Davies, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1894
1847 - Marcel Bertrand, French mine engineer (tectonic geology)
1849 - Maria Theresia of Austria-Este, queen of Bavaria (d. 1919)
1857 - Francesco Spetrino, composer
1862 - William Henry Bragg, English physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1942)
1865 - Lili Braun, Prussia, feminist/socialist writer (Im Schatten Titanen)
1867 - Herbert Prior, England, actor (Caught Short, Slave of Desire)
1876 - Wilhelm Cuno, German ship owner/republic chancellor (1922-23)
1877 - Hermann Hesse, Switzerland, novelist/poet (Steppenwolf, Nobel 1946), (d.1962)
1880 - Albert Szirmai, composer
1881 - Royal H. Weller, American politician (d. 1929)
1882 - Edgar Mayne, cricketer (Australian batsman, prolific for Victoria)
1884 - Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist (d. 1931)
1887 - Marcel Tabuteau, Compiègne France, oboist (Phila Orch 1915-54)
1888 - Selman Waksman, Russ/US microbiologist (Nobel 1951)
1889 - Cor Hermus, Dutch actor/director/writer (A Mother)
1890 - Earl Roy Curry, religious thinker and Kirtland Temple overseer (d. 1980)
1892 - Jack Hylton, English orchestra leader/impresario (Crazy Passage Show)
1893 - August Maes, Flemish actor/director (Shylock-Hamlet)
1893 - Ralph Hancock, Welsh garden designer (Rockefeller Center) (d. 1950)
1894 - Walter Brennan, Swampscott Mass, actor (Real McCoys, At Gun Point)
1896 - Lydia Mei, Estonian artist (d. 1965)
1900 - Tyrone Guthrie, English actor (d. 1971)
1901 - Arthur Rex Alston, sports commentator
1903 - Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, (C) British PM (1963-64)
1903 - Olav AFEC of Schleswig-Holstein-S-G, King Olav V of Norway (1957-91)
1904 - Carl Weinrich, composer
1904 - Gerarda "Meik" Rueter, Dutch (sculptress, if that word exists)
1905 - Jean-Rene Lacoste, France, US Open (1926)/alligator shirt designer
1906 - Alan Webb, actor (King Lear, Taming of Shrew, Challenge of Lassie)
1906 - Hans Bethe, physicist (Nobel 1967), peace worker
1906 - Robert Levine Sanders, composer
1907 - Eppo Doeve, Dutch cartoonist/painter
1907 - Leo O'Brien, cricketer (Australian batsman in 5 Tests 1932-36)
1908 - Jean Sinclair, teacher/campaigner
1908 - Thurgood Marshall, Baltimore Maryland, 1st black Supreme Court justice (1967-91), (d. 1993)
1909 - Hermann Bengtson, German historian (Greeks Ancient Times)
1910 - Earl Hawley Robinson, composer
1910 - Hans Gunther Adler, German writer
1910 - William Douglas Denny, composer
1911 - Diego Fabbri, Italian, playwright/leader (Vatican movie bureau)
1913 - Edith Heerdegen, Dresden Germany, actress (Serpent's Egg, Monpti)
1914 - Frederick Fennell, Cleveland Ohio, conductor (Time & Winds)
1914 - Mário Schenberg, Brazilian physicist (d. 1990)
1915 - 8th duke of Wellington, English large landowner/multi-millionaire
1915 - Bert Decorte, Flemish poet
1916 - Barry Gray, [Bernard Yaroslaw], interviewer (started call-in radio)
1916 - Ken Curtis, [Curtis Gates], Lamar CO, actor (Ripcord, Festus-Gunsmoke)
1916 - Hans-Ulrich Rudel, Combat pilot and highest-decorated German soldier of WWII (d. 1982)
1917 - Pierre Dubois, Dutch literary
1918 - Imam Elissa, singer
1918 - Sheikh Iman, player/singer
1918 - Wibo, Dutch cartoonist (d. 2005)
1919 - Johnny Bradford, Long Branch NJ, actor (Ransom Sherman Show)
1919 - Jean Craighead George, American writer
1920 - Eliseo Diego, latin American poet
1922 - Dan Rowan, Beggs Oklahoma, comedian (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-in)
1922 - Genrikh Matusovich Vagner, composer
1923 - Wislawa Szymborska, Prowent, Poland, poet referred to as the 'Mozart of Poetry' (Nobel
          1996), (d. 2012)
1924 - Rick Besoyan, composer
1925 - Marvin Rainwater, Wichita Ks, country singer (Ozark Jubilee)
1925 - Patrice E Lumumba, Zaire, revolutionary/1st premier of Congo
1925 - Yasushi Akutagawa, composer
1926 - Billy Usselton, saxophonist
1926 - Lee Allen, Pittsburg, Ks, tenor sax (Walkin' With Mr Lee)
1926 - Octavian Paler, Romanian writer, journalist, (d. 2007)
1927 - Brock Peters, NYC, actor/singer (Carmen Jones, To Kill a Mockingbird)
1927 - Jerome Meyer, horse trainer
1927 - Ruth Berghaus, choreographer/director
1928 - Estelita Rodriguez, Cuba, actress (Cuban Fireball, Havana Rose)
1928 - Pavel Kohout, Czech, director/author (Poor Murderer)
1929 - Imelda Marcos, politician/shoe collector/former 1st lady of Philippines
1929 - John A. Cade, American politician
1930 - Carlos Saul Menem, president of Argentina (1989- )
1931 - Robert Ito, Vancouver BC, actor (Sam-Quincy ME)
1932 - Dave Thomas, founder (Wendy's Restaurants)
1932 - Ken McMillan, Bkln NY, actor (Malone, Concrete Beat)
1932 - Sammy Turner, Paterson NJ, vocalist (Lavender Blue)
1933 - David Benjamin Lewin, composer
1933 - Kalim Siddiqui, islamic campaigner
1934 - Ivan Madray, WI cricket leg-spin all rounder, 2 Tests 3 runs 0-108)
1935 - Dick Dolman, economist/Dutch politician 2nd Chamber
1935 - Ed Bullins, Phila, playwright
1935 - Gilbert Kalish, Brooklyn NY, pianist/professor (SUNY Stony Brook)
1936 - Omar Suleiman, Qena, Egypt, army general and intelligence officer, (d. 2012)
1937 - Dick Berardino, baseball player
1937 - Polly Holliday, Jasper Ala, actress (Flo-Alice, Flo-Flo)
1937 - Richard Petty, auto race driver (Daytona 500-1979,81)
1939 - John H Sununu, US Secretary of State (R, 1989-91)
1939 - M[ichael] A[nthony] Foster, US, sci-fi author (Gameplayers of Zan)
1939 - Michael N Castle, (Rep-R-Delaware)
1939 - Paul Williams, rocker (Temptations-My Girl)
1939 - Valeri Vasilyevich Illarianov, Russia, cosmonaut
1939 - Alexandros Panagoulis, Greek politician and poet
1941 - Stéphane Venne, French Canadian songwriter
1942 - Georgi Ivanov, Bulgaria, cosmonaut (Soyuz 33)
1942 - Vicente Fox, Former Mexican president
1943 - Walter Godefroot, Belgian cyclist
1945 - James Orville Fulkerson, composer
1946 - Richard Axel, American scientist, Nobel laureate
1946 - Ron Silver, American actor
1947 - Ervin Hall, Phila, 100m hurdler (Olympic-silver-1968)
1947 - Larry David, Brooklyn NY, actor/comedian/writer (Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm)
1947 - Luci Baines Johnson Nugent Turpin, daughter of Pres LBJ
1948 - Saul Rubinek, Canadian film actor
1948 - Gene McFadden, American songwriter (d. 2006)
1949 - Roy Bittan, rocker (E Street Band)
1949 - Hanno Pöschl, Austrian actor
1950 - Johnny Colla, California, rock sax (Huey Lewis & The News-Need a New Drug)
1951 - Joey Puerta, rocker (Ambrosia)
1951 - Michele Santoro, Italian TV journalist
1952 - Johnny Coila, rocker
1952 - Linda M Godwin, Cape Girardeau Mo, PhD/astronaut (STS 37, 59, 76)
1952 - Wayne Haner, rock bassist (Axe)
1953 - Tony Armas, baseball player
1954 - Wendy Schaal, Chicago Ill, actress (It's a Living, Julie-Fantasy Is)
1955 - Andrew Divoff, Venezuelan actor
1955 - Kevin Michael Grace, Canadian journalist
1956 - Jeffrey Cooper, rock guitarist (Midnight Star-No Parking)
1956 - Jerry Hall, Mesquite Tx, model/Mrs Mick Jagger (Batman, Freejack)
1956 - Leslie Reid, Vancouver BC, equestrian dressage (Olympics-96)
1957 - Mike Anger, rocker (Blow Monkeys-Wicked Ways)
1958 - Thomas Bickerton, American Methodist bishop
1959 - Eduardo Bengoechea, Argentina, tennis star
1959 - Hoogie Drexler, jockey
1959 - Wendy B Lawrence, Jacksonville Fla, astronaut (STS 67, 86, sk:91)
1960 - Julia Montgomery, Kansas City, Missouri, American actress (One Life to Live, Revenge of the
           Nerds)
1960 - Terry Rossio, American screenwriter
1961 - Alba Parietti, Torino Italy, actress (Galagoal, Abbronzatissima)
1961 - James McNichol, LA California, actor (Fitzpatricks, California Fever)
1961 - Pat Dufficy, Westerly RI, female catcher (Colo Silver Bullets)
1961 - Michael Lindsay, Voice actor
1962 - Brandel Eugene Chamblee, St Louis MO, PGA golfer (1994 Honda-3rd)
1963 - Mark Kermode, British film critic
1964 - Dave Parsons, rocker (Transvision Vamp, Sham 69-That's Life)
1964 - DeAnne Hemmens, SF California, sprint kayak (Olympics-96)
1964 - Joe Magrane, baseball player
1964 - Jose Canseco, Havana Cuba, outfielder (Oak A's, Red Sox, 1988 AL MVP)
1964 - Shannon Ritter, jockey
1964 - Ozzie Canseco, Cuban-born American baseball player
1964 - Charles Robinson, American wrestling referee
1966 - Blaise Rhodes, Berwyn Heights MD, canoe (alt-Olympics-96)
1966 - Tim Spehr, Excelsior Springs MO, catcher (Montreal Expos)
1967 - Debee Ashby, Coventry England, topless model (There's Girl in My Soup)
1968 - Mark Tewsksbury, Canada swimmer (world record backstroke)
1968 - Mike Lee, Neptune NJ, Canadian Tour golfer (1992 Tommy Armour Tour)
1969 - Matthew Cox, American convicted felon
1969 - Jenni Rivera, Long Beach, California, singer-songwriter (Jenni, 2008), (d. 2012)
1970 - Derrick Ralph Adkins, Brooklyn NY, 400m hurdler (Olympics-gold-96)
1970 - Colin Edwin, Australian musician (Porcupine Tree)
1970 - Scotty 2 Hotty, American wrestler
1970 - Monie Love, English rapper
1970 - Steve Morrow, Irish footballer
1971 - Jared Palmer, NYC, tennis star
1971 - Troy Brown, NFL wide receiver (NE Patriots)
1971 - Evelyn Lau, Canadian author
1972 - Towanna Stone, Miss USA-Tennessee (1997, 3rd)
1972 - Darren Shan, Irish children's author
1973 - Peter Kay, British comedian
1974 - Natali Sacco, Miss Universe-Peru (1996)
1974 - Sean Casey, American baseball player
1974 - Moon So-ri, South Korean actress
1974 - Rocky Gray, American musician
1975 - Catalina Cristea, Bucharest Rom, tennis star (1995 quarter Jakarta)
1975 - Daniel Kowalski, Singapore, Aust swimmer (Olympics-bronze/silver-96)
1975 - Eric Daze, Montreal Quebec, NHL left wing (Chicago Blackhawks)
1975 - Erik Ohlsson, Swedish guitarist (Millencolin)
1976 - Krisztián Lisztes, Hungarian footballer
1976 - Ivan Tomić,Croatian buissnesman
1976 - Tomáš Vokoun, Czech hockey player
1977 - Shannan McCray, Miss District of Columbia Teen USA (1996)
1978 - Jüri Ratas, Estonian politician
1979 - Sam Hornish, Jr., American race car driver
1979 - Diana Gurtskaya, Georgian singer
1979 - Joe Thornton, Canadian hockey player
1980 - Nicole Manske, American beauty queen and motorsports television commentator
1981 - Angel Pagán, Puerto Rican baseball player
1981 - Alex Koroknay-Palicz, American youth rights activist
1981 - Aaron Voros, Canadian hockey player
1982 - Olivia Munn, American television hostess
1983 - Michelle Branch, American singer (The Wreckers)
1983 - Sammy J, Australian comedian
1984 - Vanessa Lee Chester, American actress
1984 - Thomas Kortegaard, Danish footballer
1984 - Maarten Martens, Belgian footballer
1984 - Johnny Weir, American figure skater
1985 - Rhett Bomar, American football player
1985 - Chad Henne, American football player
1985 - Ashley Tisdale, American actress and singer
1986 - Lindsay Lohan, actress (Alli Fowler-Another World)
1987 - Ruslana Korshunova, Kazakhstani model (d. 2008)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 02, 2013, 04:54:17 PM

This Day in History for 2nd July


Famous Deaths

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Astrologer/Prophet                                 British Prime Minister                             Nobel Laureate Author
Nostradamus (1566)                                 Robert Peel (1850)                                 Ernest Hemingway (1961)

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Novelist Mario Puzo (1999)


783 - Bert(h)a/Berthrada, mother of Charles the Great, dies
862 - St. Swithun, Bishop of Winchester(b. 789)
936 - Henry I the Vogelaar, German king (919-36)/duke of Saxon 912-36, dies
1298 - Adolf van Nassau, RC-German king (1292-98), dies in battle at about 43
1504 - Stephen III (Stefan the Great), ruler of Moldavia (1457-1504), dies
1566 - Nostradamus, [Michel de Nostre-Dam], French astrologist, dies at 62
1582 - Akechi Mitsuhide, Japanese samurai (b. 1528)
1591 - Vincenzo Galilei, Italian composer (b. 1520)
1619 - Olivier de Serres, French farming pioneer (silkworms), dies
1621 - Thomas Harriot, English astronomer
1644 - William Gascoigne, introduced telescopic sights, is killed at 24
1656 - François-Marie, comte de Broglie, Italian-born French commander (b. 1611)
1663 - Thomas Selle, composer, dies at 64
1674 - Eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1614)
1684 - John Rogers, president of Harvard University (b. 1630)
1700 - Lambert Doomer, painter/cartoonist, dies at about 77
1708 - Willem of Nassau, mister of Zuylenstein/lt-gen/baron Enfield, dies
1743 - Spencer Compton earl of Wilmington, English minister of Finance, dies
1746 - Thomas Baker, English antiquarian (b. 1656)
1778 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, composer, dies at 66
1778 - Bathsheba Spooner, American murderer
1794 - Franz Xaver Thomas Pokorny, composer, dies at 65
1798 - John Fitch, American inventor, clockmaker, etc, dies
1822 - Denmark Vesey, & 5 aides hanged at Blake's Landing, Charleston, SC
1833 - Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Argentine politician (b. 1757)
1843 - Samuel Hahnemann, German physician, dies at 88
1850 - Robert "Bobbie" Peel, British PM/founder London Police, dies at 62
1857 - Carlo Pisacane, Italian patriot (b. 1818)
1861 - Peter A de Genestet, vicar/poet, dies at 31
1863 - Stephen Hinsdale Weed, US Union brig-general, dies in battle at 28
1878 - Francois-Emmanuel-Joseph Bazin, composer, dies at 61
1895 - William Rockstro, composer, dies at 72
1903 - Ed Delahanty, American Hall of Fame baseball player (b. 1867)
1911 - Felix Mottl, composer, dies at 54
1912 - Tom Richardson, English cricketer (88 wickets in 14 Tests for England), dies (b. 1870)
1914 - Joseph Chamberlain, British minister to Germany, dies at 78
1915 - Gen Porfirio [Jose de la Cruz] Diaz, president Mexico, dies
1917 - Herbert Beerbohm Tree, English actor/director (Hamlet), dies
1918 - Mohammed V Resjad, sultan of Turkey (1909-18), dies
1920 - William Louis Marshall, American general and engineer (b. 1846)
1921 - Edwin Evans, cricketer (6 Tests for Australia), dies
1926 - Emile Coué, French pharmacist (recovery by auto suggestion), dies
1929 - Gladys Brockwell, actress (Oliver Twist), dies at 34
1930 - Anders Randolf, actor (Love of Sunya, Dangerous Curves), dies at 59
1932 - Manuel II, last King of Portugal (1908-10), dies at 43
1935 - Alfred Dreyfus, french colonel, dies
1936 - Harry Northrup, actor (Who's Knocking at My Door), dies at 60
1937 - Amelia Earhart Putnam, Dutch pilot/1st female to fly Atl, dies at 40
1937 - Fred L Noonan, US navigator, disappeared over Pacific Ocean
1939 - Alfred R Zimmerman, mayor of Rotterdam (1906-22), dies
1940 - Ben[jamin] Turpin, US comic (Saps at Sea, His New Job), dies
1940 - Bertram Shapleigh, composer, dies at 69
1941 - Mohammad Baqa Jilani, cricketer (Test for India), dies at 29
1946 - Anthony Overton, publisher/cosmetics manufacturer/banker, dies at 81
1949 - Georgi Dimitrov, Bulgaria premier (1946-49), dies at 67
1951 - Earnest F Sauerbruch, German nazi/surgeon, dies at 75
1952 - Henriette H Bosmans, Dutch cello player/pianist/composer, dies at 56
1955 - Edward Lawson, Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1873)
1961 - Ernest Hemingway, American author and Nobel laureate, dies from suicide at 61
1964 - Glenn "Fireball" Roberts, biggest NASCAR money winner, dies in crash
1965 - Theodora E "Betsy" Ranucci-Beckmann, actress (Klatergoud), dies at 88
1966 - Jan Brzechwa, Polish poet (b. 1900)
1968 - Francis Brennan, US cardinal of Philadelphia, dies at 74
1969 - Michael DiBiase, wrestler (b. 1923)
1970 - Jessie Street, Australian civil rights activist, dies
1971 - Edward Ballantine, composer, dies at 84
1972 - Joseph F Smith Jr, leader US mormon chuch, dies at 95
1973 - Betty Grable, US actress (How to Marry a Millionaire), dies at 56
1973 - George Macready, US, actor (Martin Peyton-Peyton Place), dies at 73
1973 - Swede Savage, dies of injuries at Indianapolis 500
1973 - Chick Hafey, baseball player (b. 1903)
1973 - George McBride, baseball player (b. 1880)
1973 - Ferdinand Schörner, German field marshal (b. 1892)
1975 - James Robertson Justice, actor (DR at Large, Dr om Love), dies at 70
1976 - Frances Howard, actress (Swan, Shock Punch), dies at 73
1977 - Vladimir V Nabokov, Russian/US writer (Lolita), dies at 78
1978 - Aris Alexandrou, Greek novelist, poet and translator (b. 1922)
1981 - Robert Emmett Keane, actor (Rookie Cop, Red Dragon), dies
1982 - Poul Rovsing Olsen, composer, dies at 59
1984 - Ramiro Cortes, composer, dies at 50
1984 - Paul Dozois, Quebec politician (b. 1908)
1985 - David Purley, British Formula 1 driver (b. 1945)
1986 - Peanuts Lowrey, baseball player (b. 1917)
1987 - Karl Linnas, accused Nazi, dies of heart failure in Russia
1987 - Michael Bennet, choreographer (Chorus Line), dies of AIDS at 44
1989 - Franklin Schaffner, American film director (b. 1920)
1990 - Muntu Myeza, S Afr anti-apartheid activist, dies in auto at 39
1990 - Snooky Lanson, singer, dies at 76
1991 - Lee Remick, actress (Days of Wine & Roses), dies of cancer at 55
1992 - Borisav Pekic, Serbian writer/politician, dies
1992 - Edith Valckaert, Belgian violinist, dies at 42
1992 - Franco Cristaldi, Italian producer/Claudia Cardinale's husband, dies
1992 - Jose Monje, [Camaron de la Isla], Spanish flamenco singer, dies
1993 - Fred Gwynne, actor (Herman-Munsters), dies of pancreatic cancer at 66
1993 - Sir Edward Dunlop, Australian war hero (b. 1907)
1994 - Andres Escobar, Colombia world cup soccer star, shot for losing to US
1994 - Marion Williams, gospel singer, dies of diabetes at 66
1994 - Maung Maung, premier of Burma (1988), dies at 69
1994 - Ralph C Rinzler, folklorist (Greenbriar Boys), dies at 59
1995 - Gail Gordon, actor (Our Miss Brooks, Lucy Show), dies of cancer at 89
1995 - George Seldes, journalist, dies at 104
1995 - Gervase F Ashworth Jackson-Stops, architectural adviser, dies at 48
1995 - Krissy Taylor, model (17 Mag), dies of respitory problems at 17
1996 - Hugh Davson, physiologist/writer, dies at 86
1997 - Jimmy Stewart, actor (It's a Wonderful Life), dies at 89
1999 - Mario Puzo, American author, dies at 78
2000 - Joey Dunlop, Irish motorcycle racer (b. 1952)
2002 - Ray Brown, American jazz bassist (b. 1926)
2004 - Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, Portuguese writer (b. 1919)
2004 - John Cullen Murphy, American comic strip artist (b. 1919)
2005 - Ernest Lehman, American screenwriter (b. 1915)
2006 - Jan Murray, American comedian (b. 1916)
2007 - Beverly Sills, American operatic soprano (b. 1929)
2008 - Natasha Shneider, Russian-born musician (b. 1956)
2008 - Elizabeth Spriggs, English-Born Actress (b. 1929)
2010 - Beryl Bainbridge, Author (b. 1932)
2011 - Itamar Franco, Brazilian politician (b. 1930)
2012 - Ben Davidson, American professional footballer and actor, dies from prostate cancer at 72

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 03, 2013, 10:54:08 AM

This Day in History for 3rd July


Historical Events

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First US President                                    Outlaw Jesse James                               32nd US President
George Washington                                                                                              Franklin Roosevelt

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Tennis Great John McEnroe                  Baseball Player Darryl Strawberry                Tennis Player Steffi Graf


324 - Battle of Adrianople Roman Emperor Constantine I defeats Co-Emperor Licinius, who flees to
         Byzantium.
683 - St Leo II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
987 - Hugo Capet crowned king of France
1090 - Battle at Hagenoorde: German emperor beats earl Egbert II
1187 - Crusaders enter Tiberias
1250 - Louis IX of France is captured by Baibars' Mamluk army at the Battle of Fariskur while he is in
           Egypt conducting the Seventh Crusade; he later has to ransom himself.
1428 - Treaty of Delft-between Jacoba of Bayern & Philip the Good
1608 - Samuel de Champlain founded city of Quebec
1630 - Emperor Ferdinand II opens German Parliament
1661 - Portugal gives Tanger & Bombay to English King Charles II
1720 - Sweden & Denmark sign peace treaty
1754 - George Washington surrenders to French, Ft Necessity (7 Years' War)
1767 - Pitcairn Island is discovered by Midshipman Robert Pitcairn on an expeditionary voyage
           commanded by Philip Carteret.
1767 - Norway's oldest newspaper still in print, Adresseavisen, is founded (first edition published this
           date).
1775 - Washington takes command of Continental Army at Cambridge, Mass
1778 - British forces massacre 360 men, women & children in Wyoming, Pa
1778 - Prussia declares war on Austria
1806 - Michael Keens exhibits 1st cultivated strawberry
1814 - Americans capture Fort Erie Canada
1816 - French frigate "Medusa" runs aground off Cap Blanc. Gross incompetence kills 150 in calm
           seas
1819 - 1st savings bank in US (Bank of Savings in NYC) opens its doors
1839 - 1st state normal school in US opens, Lexington, Mass, with 3 students
1841 - John Couch Adams decides to determine position of an unknown planet by irregularities it
           causes in the motion of Uranus
1844 - The last pair of Great Auks is killed.
1848 - Slaves freed in Danish West Indies (now US Virgin Islands)
1849 - The French entered Rome in order to restore Pope Pius IX to power. This would prove a
           major obstacle to Italian unification.
1852 - Congress authorizes US's 2nd mint (San Francisco, California)
1853 - Commodore Matthew Perry reach Japan
1861 - Colonel Jackson receives his commission as brigadier general
1861 - Pony Express arrives in SF with overland letters from NY
1861 - Martinsburg, VA - Confederate forces pull out before US advance
1863 - Battle of Donaldsonville, LA
1863 - Battle of Gettysburg Pa ends, major victory for North
1864 - Battle of Chattahoochie River, GA [until Jul 9]
1864 - Harpers Ferry, WV - Federals evacuate in face of Early's advance
1871 - Jesse James robs bank in Corydon, Iowa ($45,000)
1876 - Montenegro declares war on Turkey
1883 - SS Daphne sinks on Clyde River Scotland; 195 die
1884 - Dow Jones published it's 1st stock avg
1886 - 1st NY Tribune printing using 1st commercial linotype machine
1886 - In Germany, Karl Benz drives 1st automobile
1888 - NY Giant pitcher Rube Marquard ties record of 19 game win-streak
1890 - Idaho admitted as 43rd US state
1890 - King Leopold II gives Congo to Belgium
1895 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Black Peter" (BG)
1898 - American troops captured deserted Wake Island
1898 - Dutch Automobile Club forms (KNAC)
1898 - Joshua Slocum completes 1st solo circumnavigation of the globe
1898 - US Navy defeats Spanish fleet in Santiago harbor, Cuba
1902 - Excelsior soccer team forms in Rotterdam
1905 - Kuyper government forms in Holland
1905 - Marvin Hart KOs Jack Hart in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1907 - Pope decree forbids modernization of theology
1911 - Ty Cobb hits in his 40th straight game. Does not get a hit next day
1912 - NY Giant pitcher Rube Marquard ties record of 19 game win-streak
1913 - Common tern banded in Maine; found dead in 1919 in Africa (1st bird known to have crossed
           the Atlantic)
1913 - Confederate veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913 reenact Pickett's Charge; upon reaching
           the high-water mark of the Confederacy they are met by the outstretched hands of
           friendship from Union survivors.
1915 - US military forces occupy Haiti, remain until 1934
1916 - 1st of 3 fatal shark attacks occurred near NJ shore (4 die)
1917 - Spontaneous demonstration at Tauride-palace Petrograd
1918 - SDAP'er Suze Groenweg elected 1st woman in Dutch parliament
1920 - 40th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Bill Tilden beats Patterson (26 63 62 64)
1920 - Java Technical School Bandung opens
1920 - Royal Air Force holds an air display at Hendon, England
1923 - Harbor strike in Hull/Grimsby/Cardiff/Bristol over to London
1925 - 38th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen beats Joan Fry (62 60)
1927 - 47th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: H Cochet beats Borotra (46 46 63 64 75)
1928 - 1st color TV broadcast in London (John Logic Baird)
1929 - Dunlop Latex Development Laboratories made foam rubber
1930 - Veterans Administration created
1931 - 51st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Sid Wood Jr beats F X Shields (walkover)
1931 - Max Schmeling TKOs Young Stribling in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1932 - 1st Sunday game at Fenway Park, Yanks beat Red Sox 13-2
1932 - John McGraw retires from baseball
1934 - FDIC pays off 1st insured depositors, Fon du Lac Bank, East Peoria IL
1936 - Jahangir Khan kills a sparrow while cricket bowling, Cambridge U v MCC
1938 - President Franklin Roosevelt dedicates the Eternal Light Peace Memorial and lights the eternal
           flame at Gettysburg Battlefield.
1939 - Ernst Heinkel demonstrates 800-kph rocket plane to Hitler
1939 - Lou Gehrig day; Gehrig makes "luckiest man" speech
1940 - ARP-leader/ex-premier Colijn argues cooperation with Germany
1940 - British Royal Navy sinks French fleet in North Africa
1940 - German occupiers forbids using Dutch royal names
1942 - Germany troop march into Sebastopol
1942 - Hitler visits fieldmarshal Von Bocks headquarter/d into/d Ukraine
1943 - Liberator bombers sinks U-628
1944 - Oriole Park (minor league baseball stadium) burns down in Baltimore
1944 - US V-III-E Army corp opens assault on Coutances Cotentin
1946 - 1st Dutch government of Beel forms
1947 - 252,288 people (record) pass through Grand Central Station, NYC
1947 - Cleveland Indians purchase Larry Dolby, the 1st black in AL
1947 - Soviet Union doesn't partake in Marshall Plan
1948 - 55th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Louise Brough beats Doris Hart (63 86)
1948 - Kidnapper Caryl Chessman sentenced to death
1950 - 1st time US & North Korean forces clash in Korean War
1950 - Casey Stengel asks Joe DiMaggio to play 1st base (handles 13 chances)
1951 - 33rd PGA Championship: Sam Snead at Oakmont CC Oakmont Pa
1952 - Puerto Rico's constitution approved by US Congress
1953 - 67th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Vic Seixas beats Kurt Nielsen (97 63 64)
1954 - "Wonderful Town" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 559 perfs
1954 - 61st Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Maureen Connolly beats L Brough (62 75)
1954 - 9th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Babe Didrikson-Zaharias
1954 - Food rationing ends in Britain
1958 - "Andy Williams Show" premieres on ABC (later on CBS & NBC)
1959 - 73rd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Alex Olmedo beats Rod Laver (64 63 64)
1959 - 88th British Golf Open: Gary Player shoots a 284 at Muirfield Gullane
1962 - Algerian Revolution against French ends (Algeria gains ind on 7/5)
1964 - 78th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Roy Emerson beats Stolle (64 12-10 46 63)
1965 - 72nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Margaret Smith beats M Fraiser (64 75)
1965 - Phillies Dick Allen & Frank Thomas get into a fight during practice
1965 - USSR & Persia sign dam building & economic aid pact
1966 - 21st US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Sandra Spuzich
1966 - Brave pitcher Tony Cloninger, is 1st NL to hit 2 grand slams in a game
1966 - Race riots in Omaha Nebraska
1967 - "News at 10" premieres on English TV
1968 - 41°F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in July
1968 - Cleve Indian Luis Tiant strikes out 19 Minnesota Twins
1969 - 78,000 attend Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, RI
1970 - 200,000 attend Atlanta Pop Festival
1970 - 77th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Margaret Smith beats King (14-12 11-9)
1970 - British aircraft crashes at Barcelona, 112 killed
1970 - California Angels Clyde Wright no-hits Oakland A's, 8-0
1971 - 85th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: J Newcombe beats S Smith (63 57 26 64 64)
1973 - Brothers Jim & Gaylord Perry face each other for only time, Tigers beat Indians 5-4, as
           Gaylord loses
1973 - General Walters, serves as acting director of CIA
1974 - Pitching in major league-record 13th consecutive game for Dodgers
1974 - Soyuz 14 carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 3
1974 - Mike Marshall saves Tommy John's 4-1 win
1976 - 90th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats Ilse Nastase (64 62 97)
1976 - Adolfo Suarez becomes premier of Spain
1976 - After 12 years, Brian Wilson performs with the Beach Boys
1976 - Israel launches rescue of 103 Air France crew & passengers being held at Entebbe Airport in
           Uganda by pro-Palestinian hijackers
1977 - 5th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Judy Rankin
1977 - Turkey: premier Ecevit goes off
1977 - The Senegalese Republican Movement (MRS) is founded.
1978 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
1978 - Supreme Court rules 5-4, FCC had a right to reprimand NY radio station WBAI for
           broadcasting George Carlin's "Filthy Words"
1980 - 1st US Seniors Golf Open: Roberto deVicenzo
1980 - 73,096 in Cleveland watch Indians beat Yankees 7-0
1981 - 88th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats H Mandlikova (62 62)
1981 - NYC transit fare rises from 60 cents to 75 cents, new brass Y-cut-out token
1982 - 89th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats C Evert (61 36 62)
1982 - Riot at building Stopera Amsterdam (damages Ÿ1 million)
1983 - 11th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Hollis Stacy
1983 - 97th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: John McEnroe beats Chris Lewis (62 62 62)
1983 - Calvin Smith of US becomes fastest man alive (9.93 for 100m)
1983 - Rangers explode for 12 runs in 15th inning of a 16-4 win over the A's
1984 - Derek Underwood's maiden FC century after 22 yrs of trying
1984 - Dolphin rocket launched off San Clemente Island
1984 - Greenidge scores brilliant 214 off 241 balls to win Lord's Test
1984 - Supreme Court rules Jaycees may be forced to admit women as members
1985 - CBS announces a 21% stock buy-back to thwart Ted Turner's takeover
1986 - Kuwait's National Assembly (Majlis al Umma) dissolves
1986 - Pres Reagan presided over relighting of renovated Statue of Liberty
1987 - 2 men became 1st hot-air balloon travelers to cross Atlantic
1987 - NY Met Darryl Strawberry threatens teammates Wally Backman & Lee Mazzilli for criticizing his
           play
1988 - 16th du Maurier Golf Classic: Sally Little
1988 - A's Gene Nelson is 1st AL pitcher to steal a base since 1973
1988 - US Vincennes in Strait of Hormoez shoots Iran Airbus A300, kills 290
1988 - The Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, providing the second
           connection between the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosporus.
1989 - Peter Koech of Kenya sets 3k steeplechase rec (8:05.39) in Stockholm
1989 - Supreme Court rules states do not have to provide funds for abortions
1989 - The movie "Batman," set record of quickest $100 million (10 days)
1990 - Members of 2 Live Crew formally charged with obscenity in Florida
1991 - Gateway Board of Trustees approve a 20-year lease with Cleve Indians
1993 - 100th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats J Novotna (76 16 64)
1993 - Boon completes 16th Test Cricket century, 101 at Trent Bridge
1994 - 108th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: P Sampras beats G Ivanisevic (76 76 60)
1994 - 15th US Seniors Golf Open: Simon Hobday
1994 - 30 die in 3 fatal auto accidents in Texas
1994 - Romania eliminates Argentina 3-2 in soccer world cup
1994 - Tammie Green wins Youngstown-Warren LPGA Golf Classic
1994 - The deadliest day in Texas traffic history, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.
           Forty six people were killed in crashes.
1996 - Stone of Scone returned to Scotland.
1997 - Mississippi becomes 1st state to settle tobacco suit
2001 - A Vladivostok Avia Tupolev TU-154 jetliner crashes on approach to landing at Irkutsk, Russia
           killing 145 people.
2004 - Official opening of Bangkok's subway system.
2005 - The national law legalizing same-sex marriage takes effect in Spain.
2006 - Asteroid labeled as 2004 XP14 flies 432,308 km (268,624 miles) by Earth.
2009 - Mark II.5 Skytrain cars enter service in Metro Vancouver.
2012 - Truck bombing kills 25 people and wounds 40 in Diwaniyah, Iraq
2012 - Antonio Esfandiari wins a record $18.3 million in poker after winning the 2012 World Series of
           Poker $1,000,000 Buy-In

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 03, 2013, 11:10:23 AM

This Day in History for 3rd July


Famous Weddings

1468 - Charles the Stout, Duke of Burgundy marries Princess Margaret of York
1960 - Vernon Presley (father of Elvis) weds Dee Alliot
1992 - Gary Dell'Abate (Howard Stern Show) marries Mary
1992 - Mass Senator Ted Kennedy marries Victoria Reggie (38)
1993 - Prince Alois of Liechtenstein weds Duchess Sophie of Bavaria
2004 - Actress Tori Spelling (31) weds actor-writer Charlie Shanian (35) at her parents 56,000-
           square foot mansion in Bel Air, California
2004 - The Bachelor actor Bob Guiney (33) weds "All My Children" soap opera actress Rebecca Budig
           (31) in Long Lake, Michigan
2010 - "The Office" actress Jenna Fischer (36) weds screenwriter Lee Kirk (38) in Malibu

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 03, 2013, 11:27:39 AM

This Day in History for 3rd July


Famous Divorces

1929 - American Playwright and 1936 winner Nobel prize for literature Eugene O'Neill divorces 2nd wife
           novelist Agnes Boulton after 11 years of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 03, 2013, 11:38:13 AM

This Day in History for 3rd July


Famous Birthdays

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Playwright Tom Stoppard (1937)                 Actor Tom Cruise (1962)                             Wikileaks founder
                                                                                                                                  Julian Assange (1971)


1423 - Louis XI, King of France (1461-83)
1442 - Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado of Japan (d. 1500)
1530 - Claude Fauchet, French historian (d. 1601)
1567 - Samuel de Champlain, explorer (Lake Champlain)
1676 - Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian field marshal (d. 1747)
1683 - Edward Young, English poet (Revenge, Complaint)
1685 - Sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet, British cavalry officer (d. 1768)
1687 - Arnold Hoogvliet, Dutch poet (Abraham the Patriarch)
1728 - Robert Adam, architect/designer (Adelphi Terrace, London)
1731 - Samuel Huntington, (Gov-Ct), Continental Congress pres
1738 - John Singleton Copley, Mass, finest colonial American artist
1743 - Sophia Magdalena of Denmark, queen consort of Sweden (d. 1813)
1793 - John Claire, England, poet
1794 - Eberhard F Walcker, German organ builder (Paulskirche Frankfurt)
1796 - Nikoli A Poveloi, Russian writer/publisher (Sotsjinenija) [NS]
1802 - Joseph Labitzky, composer
1814 - Janis Cimze, composer
1819 - Louis Theodore Gouvy, composer
1821 - F Kornberger, writer
1828 - John Austin Wharton, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1865
1846 - Achilles Alferaki, composer
1850 - Alfredo Kiel, composer
1854 - Leoš Janáček, Czech composer (d. 1928)
1855 - Piotr Maszynski, composer
1860 - Charlotte Perkins Gilman, economist/lecturer/author/feminist
1860 - William Wallace, composer
1861 - Peter Jackson, heavyweight boxer (hall of famer)
1862 - Friedrich Ernst Koch, composer
1866 - Albert Gottschalk, Danish painter
1870 - Richard B Bennett, (C) 11th Canadian PM (1930-35)
1871 - Vicente Arregui Garay, composer
1872 - Habib Ullah Chan, emir of Afghanistam (1901-19)
1874 - Apirana Turupa Ngata, Kawaka NZ, Maori political/cultural leader
1875 - Ernst F Sauerbruch, German nazi/surgeon
1878 - George M Cohan, actor/singer (Phantom Pres, Give My Regards to Bdwy)
1879 - Philippe Gaubert, composer
1879 - Alfred Korzybski, Polish linguist (d. 1950)
1880 - Carl Schuricht, composer
1881 - Leon Errol, Australian actor (Ziegfeld Follies, What a Blonde!)
1883 - Alfred Korzybski, Poland, scientist (Science & Sanity)
1883 - Franz Kafka, Czech, author (Metamorphosis, Trial, Amerika)
1883 - Moses Leverock Crossley, US bio-chemist
1886 - Raymond A Spruance, US admiral/fleet commander/ambassador
1892 - Wilhelm Rettich, composer
1893 - Mississippi John Hurt, Teoc Mississippi, American blues singer and guitarist
1895 - Oles' Semyonovich Chishko, composer
1896 - Doris Lloyd, actress (Bachelor Father, Charley's Aunt, Sarah & Son)
1899 - Klimenty Arkad'yevich Korchmaryov, composer
1899 - Otto Reinhold, composer
1900 - John Mason Brown, Louisville Ky, critic (Tonight on Broadway)
1902 - Jack Newman, NZ cricket lefty pace bowler (1932-33, later knighted)
1903 - Jean du Bela, [Simon Buytekant], singer/actor (Chaste Susanna)
1906 - Francis Steegmuller, US, biographer (Cocteau)
1906 - George Sanders, Russia, actor (All About Eve-Academy Award 1950)
1906 - Gwendolen Rees, zoologist
1906 - Jack Earle, American actor and sideshow performer (d. 1952)
1907 - Arthur Steel, Dutch architect (Group '32)
1907 - Gene Gutche, composer
1908 - Thomas Narcejac, Rochefort-sur-Mer France, writer (Vertigo)
1908 - M. F. K. Fisher, American writer (d. 1992)
1908 - Robert B. Meyner, American politician (d. 1990)
1909 - Earl L Butz, US Secretary of Agriculture (1971-76); a real Butz
1909 - Lucy Kroll, entertainment agent
1909 - Stavros Niachos, Greece, shipping magnate (Those Fabulous Greeks)
1910 - Bernard Burrows, British diplomat
1910 - Eric Franklin, Indian civil servant
1911 - Joe Hardstaff Jr, cricketer (son of Joseph, 23 Tests for England)
1912 - Edward Jones, North Ireland lord justice of appeals
1913 - Hugh Stirling MacKenzie, British vice admiral
1913 - William Deakin, warden (St Anthony's College Oxford)
1917 - Helene Cordet, entertainer/nightclub owner
1917 - João Saldanha, Brazilian journalist and football manager (d. 1990)
1918 - Lord Mulley, British MP (Labour)
1920 - John Ayers Lessard, composer
1920 - Louise Allbritton, Oklahoma City, actr (Celia-Stage Door, Got a Secret)
1921 - Susan Peters, Spokane WA, actress (Random Harvest, Young Ideas)
1922 - Art Fowler, baseball player
1922 - Corneille [Cornelis G of Beverloo], Dutch painter (Africa, Antilles)
1922 - Francois Reichenbach, French director (La douceur du Village)
1922 - Tom Hudson, artist/teacher
1923 - Baroness Ryder, of Warsaw & Cavendish, worked for sick & disabled
1923 - Emmanuel Bankole Timothy, journalist
1923 - William Mills, painter
1924 - Geoffrey Sammons, senior partner (Allen & Overy)
1924 - S. R. Nathan, 6th president of Singapore
1925 - Michael Oliver, cardiologist
1926 - Johnny Coles, trumpeter
1926 - Joseph M Gaydos, (Rep-D-PA, 1969- )
1926 - William Roll, Bremen, Germany, parapsychologist (The Poltergeist, Unsolved Mysteries), (d.
           2012)
1927 - Charles Vandenhove, Belgian architect (Standard-Omnisporthal, Luik)
1927 - Ken Russell, England, director (Tommy, Altered States, Gothic)
1927 - William McMillan, moderator (Gen Assembly of Church of Scot) [or 1/29]
1928 - Evelyn Anthony, English historical writer (Poellenberg Inheritance)
1928 - G B Fuchs, writer
1928 - John Wills, lord-lt of Avon England
1929 - Eustace Gibbs, vice marshal (Diplomatic Corps)
1930 - Carlos Kleiber, Berlin Germany, conductor (Bavarian State Orch 1968)
1930 - Pete Fountain, New Orleans, jazz clarinetist (Lawrence Welk 1957-59)
1931 - Andres Burnier, [Catharina Dessaur], criminologist/author (Jongensuur)
1933 - Edward Brandt, American doctor and public health official (d. 2007)
1934 - Manfred Bieler, writer
1935 - Harrison H "Jack" Schmitt, Santa Rita NM, astronaut (Apollo 17)
1935 - John Swan, PM (Bermuda)
1936 - Anthony Lester, CEO (Runnymede Trust)
1936 - Eric Russell, cricketer (England opening batsman early 60s)
1937 - Tom Stoppard, Zlin Czech, playwright (Rosencrantz & Guildenstern-1968 Tony)
1938 - David Gandolfo, horse trainer
1938 - Shin Geum Dan, North Korea, 400m/800m runner (1962 world record)
1939 - Jay Tarses, Balt Md, actor/writer (Open All Night, Duck Factory)
1940 - Cesar Tovar, baseball player
1940 - Fontella Bass, St Louis Mo, vocalist (Rescue Me)
1940 - Heather Steel, British judge
1940 - Lance Larson, US, 100m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-silver-1960)
1940 - Lamar Alexander, American politician
1941 - Adoor Gopalakrishnan, cinematographer (Kathapurushan, Mathulikal)
1941 - Gloria Allred, feminist attorney
1941 - Wylie Walker Vale, Houston, Texas, Endocrinologist who discovered the stress hormone
1942 - Paco Stanley, Mexican TV personality (d. 1999)
1943 - Kurtwood Smith, New Lisbon, Wisconsin, American actor (That '70s Show, Robocop)
1943 - Gary Waldhorn, actor (To the Camp & Back)
1943 - Geraldo Rivera, [Gerry Rivers], NYC, news personality (20/20, Geraldo)
1943 - Judith Durham, singer
1943 - Norman E Thagard, Marianna Fl, MD/astro (STS 7, 51-B, 30, 42, 71, Mir)
1944 - Paul Young, actor (Another Time Another Place)
1945 - Iain MacDonald-Smith, England, yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1968)
1945 - Michael Cole, Madison Wisc, actor (Pete-Mod Squad)
1945 - Michael Martin, MP
1947 - Betty Buckley, Big Springs Tx, actress (Abby-8 is Enough, 1776, Cats)
1947 - Dave Barry, American humorist and author
1948 - Peter Ruzicka, composer
1948 - Tarmo Koivisto, Finnish comics artist
1949 - Jan Smithers, N Hollywood California, actress (Bailey-WKRP)
1949 - Susan Penhaligon, Manilla Philippines, actress (Dracula, Nasty Habits)
1949 - Johnnie Wilder, Jr., American singer (Heatwave) (d. 2006)
1950 - Damon Harris, Balt Md, rocker (Temptations-My Girl), (d. 2013)
1950 - Ewen Chatfield, NZ cricketer pace bowler (1975-89)
1950 - James Hahn, American politician
1951 - Mike Corby [Michael John], Windsor, Berkshire, English guitarist/keyboardist (The Babys)
1951 - Jean-Claude Duvalier, [Papa Doc], deposed Haitian president-for-life
1951 - Richard Hadlee, Christchurch, NZ, cricket bowler (431 wickets)
1952 - Alan Autry, NFLer (Green Bay Packers)/actor (Heat of the Night)
1952 - Bill Badgett Jr, horse trainer
1952 - Wasim Raja, cricketer (bro of Rameez, Pakistani lefty bat & leggie)
1953 - Alynne Beth Amkraut, Amityville NY, entertainer
1953 - Frank Tanana, baseball pitcher (California Angels)
1954 - Debbie Skinner, LPGA golfer
1955 - Julia Lyndon, Buffalo NY, playmate (August, 1977)
1955 - Matt Keough, baseball player (Oakland A's, NY Yankees)
1955 - Neil Clar, rock guitarist (Lloyd Cole & The Commotions)
1955 - Sanma Akashiya, Japanese television performer
1956 - Eddie Edwards, South Africa, tennis star
1956 - Montel Williams, TV talk show host (Montel)
1956 - Don Vito, American Viva La Bam castmember
1957 - Danny Heep, baseball player
1957 - Faye Resnick, author (Nicole Brown Simpson-Private Diary)
1957 - Laura Branigan, Brewster NY, vocalist (Gloria)
1957 - Orel Hershiser, Buffalo NY, pitcher (LA Dodgers, Cleveland Indians)
1958 - Aaron Tippin, Pensacola Fl, singer (You've Got to Stand for Something)
1958 - Robert Foth, Buffalo NY, air rifle (Olympics-1988, 92, 96)
1958 - Matthew Fraser, Canadian-British journalist
1958 - Siân Lloyd, Welsh weather presenter
1959 - Andreas Wisniewski, Berlin German FR, actor (Living Daylights)
1959 - Stephen Pearcy, LA California, heavy metal vocalist (RATT-Round & Round)
1959 - Stoyan Deltchev, Bulgaria, horizontal bar gymnist (Olympic-gold-1980)
1960 - Jack Daugherty, baseball player
1961 - Liz Stewart, SF California, playmate (July, 1984)
1961 - Vince Clarke, Basildon Essex, rock keyboardist (Erasure)
1961 - Pedro Romeiras, Portuguese dancer
1961 - Tim Smith, English musician (Cardiacs)
1962 - Taylor Dayne, [Lesley Wunderman], NY, vocalist (Tell it to My Heart)
1962 - Thomas Gibson, actor (Dr Daniel Nyland-Chicago Hope)
1962 - Tom Cruise, Syracuse, actor (Risky Business, Jerry MaGuire, Rainman)
1962 - Hunter Tylo, American actress
1963 - Tracey Emin, Croydon England, English artist
1963 - Don August, baseball player
1964 - Gary Ryan, rocker (Blackhearts)
1964 - Joe Hamorski, Peru IN, Nike golfer (1994 NIKE Greater Greenville-9th)
1964 - Louis Clark, NFL receiver (Seattle)/WLAF coach (Amsterdam Admirals)
1964 - Pia Reyes, Manila Philipines, playmate (Nov, 1988)
1964 - Warren Newson, Newnan GA, outfielder (Texas Rangers)
1964 - Joanne Harris, British author
1964 - Yeardley Smith, French-born American actress
1965 - Arno Hofstede, Dutch soccer player (Willem II, Go Ahead Eagles)
1965 - Bobby Gage, Winsted CA, Nike golfer (1993 NIKE Wichita Open-16th)
1965 - Dan Land, NFL cornerback/safety (Oakland Raiders)
1965 - Greg Vaughn, Sacramento CA, outfielder (Milwaukee Brewers, SD Padres)
1965 - Shinya Hashimoto, wrestler (NJPW)
1965 - Vinson Smith, NFL linebacker (Chic Bears)
1966 - Moises Alou, Atlanta GA, outfielder (Montreal Expos)
1966 - Neil O'Donnell, NFL quarterback (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1967 - Amy Van Horne, actress (Carla Solieto-The City)
1967 - Brian Cashman, American major league baseball executive
1968 - Jeff Phillips, Westwood NJ, actor (Hart Jessup-Guiding Light)
1968 - Teppo Numminen, Tampere Fin, NHL defenseman (Winnipeg Jets, Coyotes)
1969 - Elan Carter, Nutley NJ, playmate (June, 1994)
1969 - Kevin Hearn, Canadian musician (Barenaked Ladies)
1970 - Preston Jones, WLAF quarterback (London Monarchs)
1970 - Teemu Selanne, Helsinki Fin, NHL right wing (Anaheim Mighty Ducks)
1970 - Victor Bailey, NFL wide receiver (KC Chiefs)
1970 - Shawnee Smith, American actress
1970 - Serhiy Honchar, Ukrainian cyclist
1971 - Terry Irving, NFL outside linebacker (Arizona Cardinals)
1971 - Julian Assange, Queensland, Australia, Wikileaks founder
1972 - Leigh Andrew-Pearso, North Vancouver BC Canada, 470 yachter (Oly-96)
1972 - Ontiwaun Carter, WLAF running back (Rhein Fire)
1973 - Adrian Aucoin, Ottawa, NHL defenseman (Vancouver Canucks)
1973 - Devin Bush, NFL strong safety (Atlanta Falcons)
1973 - Fred Rodriguez, Bogota Colombia, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1973 - Johnny Terris, Canadian actor and director
1973 - Patrick Wilson, American actor
1974 - Jamie Feick, NBA forward (Milwaukee Bucks)
1975 - Jennifer Salinas, Miss USA-Illinois (1997)
1975 - John Hargis, US, Little Rock Ark, 100m butterfly (Olympics-96)
1975 - Keri Houlihan, Penn, actress (Molly-Our House)
1976 - Andrea Barber, actress (Kimmy Gibbler-Full House)
1976 - Henry Olonga, cricketer (1st black Zimbabwe Test cricketer v Pak 1995)
1976 - Shane Lynch, Dublin Ireland, Irish singer (Boyzone)
1976 - Wanderlei Silva, Brazilian mixed martial artist
1976 - Bobby Skinstad, Springbok Rugby player
1977 - Ludmila Richterova, Kosice Slovakia, tennis star
1979 - Lauren Alviti, Miss Rhode Island Teen USA (1997)
1979 - Sotirios Kyrgiakos, Greek footballer
1979 - Ludivine Sagnier, French actress
1979 - David Bacani, American baseball player
1980 - Roland Mark Schoeman, South African swimmer
1980 - Kevin Boyle, American basketballer
1982 - Kanika, Indian actress
1983 - Steph Jones, American singer and model
1984 - Syed Rasel, Bangladeshi cricketer
1984 - Corey Sevier, Canadian actor
1984 - Manny Lawson, American Football player
1985 - Minami Keisuke, Japanese singer and actor.
1987 - Sebastian Vettel, German racing driver

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 03, 2013, 11:42:49 AM

This Day in History for 3rd July


Famous Deaths

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The Witch of Wall Street
Hetty Green (1916)


683 - Leo II, Pope (681-83), dies
1090 - Egbert II van Brunswick, Fries count, dies in battle
1570 - Antonio Paleario, Italian humanist, executed by inquisition at 67
1642 - Maria de' Medici, French queen-mother, dies at about 69
1672 - Francis Willughby, English biologist (b. 1635)
1704 - Sophia Alekseyevna, regent of Russia (b. 1657)
1749 - William Jones, Welsh mathematician (b. 1675)
1778 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French writer/composer (Pygmalion), dies
1778 - Anna Maria Pertl Mozart, mother of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (b. 1720)
1795 - Louis-Georges de Bréquigny, French historian (b. 1714)
1795 - Antonio de Ulloa, Spanish general and governor of Louisiana (b. 1716)
1801 - Johann Nepomuk Went, composer, dies at 56
1809 - Joseph Quesnel, French-Canadian composer and playwright (b. 1746)
1816 - Dorothea Jordan, French actress/mistress (William IV), dies at 65
1858 - Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov, Russian painter (b. 1806)
1862 - William Barksdale, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 40
1863 - Alonzo Hersford Cushing, US Union lt, dies in battle at about 22
1863 - Lewis Addison Armistead, Confederate brigadier general Gettysburg/dies in battle at 46
1863 - Little Crow, [Ta-oya-te-duta], Santee Sioux indian chief, dies
1863 - Richard Brooke Garnett, US Confederate brig-gen, dies in battle at 45
1863 - Samuel Kosciuzko Zook, US Union general-major, dies in battle at 40
1863 - George Hull Ward, American general (b. 1826)
1873 - Josef Michal Ksawery Jan Poniatowski, composer, dies at 57
1891 - Stefano Golinelli, composer, dies at 72
1904 - Theodor Herzl, Austrian journalist/Zionist, dies
1904 - Edouard Beaupré, Canadian giant and strongman (b. 1881)
1908 - Joel Chandler Harris, created Uncle Remus, dies at 59
1910 - Julius Slabbe, Belgian writer, dies
1910 - Mordecai Sherwin, English cricket wicketkeeper (Aust 1886-88), dies
1916 - Henrietta (Hetty) Green, (Witch of Wall Street), dies at 81
1918 - Sultan Mehmed V of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1844)
1933 - Hipólito Yrigoyen, President of Argentina (b. 1852)
1934 - Henry WAE, Prince of Netherlands/father of Queen Juliana, dies
1935 - André Citroën, French automobile pioneer (b. 1878)
1940 - George Shepstone, cricketer (2 Tests for South Africa 1896-99), dies
1942 - Louis Franchet d'Espèrey, French general (b. 1856)
1948 - Adrien H Gerhard, Dutch SDAP-politician, dies at 90
1948 - Quintin McMillan, cricketer (13 Tests for South Africa), dies
1952 - Daniel Zamudio, composer, dies at 64
1952 - Henriette Bosmans, composer, dies
1954 - Siegfried Handloser, German physician (b. 1895)
1957 - Richard Mohaupt, German composer (Bucolica), dies at 52
1957 - Dolf Luque, baseball player (b. 1890)
1960 - Alfred Henry Ackley, composer, dies at 73
1965 - Clarence Loomis, composer, dies at 75
1965 - Trigger, horse (Roy Rogers), dies at 25
1966 - Andre Gailhard, composer, dies at 81
1966 - Cornelis "Kees" Boeke, theorist, dies at 81
1966 - Joseph Deems Taylor, composer, dies at 80
1967 - John Clark, actor (Last Day of the War), dies at 50
1969 - Brian Jones, guitarist (Rolling Stones), drowns to death at 25
1969 - Hermann Grabner, composer, dies at 83
1971 - Jim Morrison, rock singer (Doors), dies of heart failure at 27
1971 - Ricci Riano, entertainer, dies after long illness at 71
1972 - Mississippi Fred McDowell, jazz artist, dies at 68
1973 - Charles Ancerl, Czech conductor (Prague/Toronto), dies at 63
1974 - John C Ransom, US poet (World's Body), dies
1976 - Hans Bentz van den Berg, Dutch actor (Last Train), dies at 58
1977 - Hugh Le Caine, composer, dies at 63
1977 - Mohammed al-Zahaby, Egyptian minister, murdered
1978 - James Daly, actor (Medical Center), dies at 59
1979 - Louis Durey, French composer (b. 1888)
1981 - Ross Martin, actor (Mr Lucky, Wild Wild West), dies at 61
1982 - Henry King, US director (Song of Bernadette, Gunfighter), dies
1984 - Raoul Salan, French general/OAS leader (Algeria), dies at 85
1985 - Frank Selke, Canadian ice hockey manager (b. 1893)
1986 - Rudy Vallee, singer (Vagabond Dreams), dies at 84
1987 - Viola Dana, actress (Willow Tree, 40 Winks, Silent Lover), dies at 90
1988 - Gabriel Dell, actor (Dead End Kids), dies of leukemia at 68
1989 - Andrei Gromyko, Soviet diplomat, dies just short of his 80th birthday
1989 - Jim Backus, actor (Magoo, Gilligan's Island), dies at 76 of pneumonia
1990 - Ludi Claire Hugo, entertainer, dies at 70
1990 - Maurice Girodias, French publisher, dies at 71
1991 - Irina Nijinska, Russian/US dancer, dies at 77
1992 - Arline Bletcher, entertainer, dies of natural causes at 99
1992 - Marc Tannenbaum, rabbi (only Jew to attend Vatican II), dies at 66
1993 - Don Drysdale, American Major League Baseball player, dies of a heart attack at 56
1993 - "Curly" Joe DeRita, last of Three Stooges, dies of pneumonia at 83
1994 - Felix Kelly, artist, dies at 80
1994 - Harry Ebbeling, PC-corrector, dies at 54
1994 - Lewis A "Lew" Hoad, tennis star (Wimbledon 1953, 56), dies at 59
1994 - Pieter Hennipman, Dutch economist, dies at 85
1995 - Albert Hardy, photographer, dies at 82
1995 - Brad Lee Sexton, bass guitarist, dies at 47
1995 - Gil Wolman, situationist, dies at 65
1995 - Eddie Mazur, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1929)
1996 - Raaj Kumar, actor (Tiranga, Saudagar), dies at 68
1998 - Danielle Bunten Berry, American software developer (b. 1949)
1999 - Mark Sandman, American musician (b. 1952)
2000 - Kemal Sunal, Turkish actor (b. 1944)
2001 - Mordecai Richler, Canadian author (b. 1931)
2001 - Johnny Russell, American country singer and songwriter (b. 1940)
2003 - Gaetano Alibrandi, Papal diplomat (b. 1914)
2004 - Andrian Nikolayev, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1929)
2005 - Alberto Lattuada, Italian film director (b. 1914)
2005 - Gaylord Nelson, American politician (b. 1916)
2006 - Joseph Goguen, American computer scientist (b. 1941)
2006 - Benjamin Hendrickson, American actor (b. 1950)
2007 - Alice Timander, Swedish dentist (b. 1915)
2007 - Boots Randolph, American saxophonist (b. 1927)
2008 - Ernie Cooksey, English Footballer (b. 1980)
2008 - Larry Harmon, American entertainer and TV producer (b. 1925)
2008 - Clive Hornby, English soap actor - Emmerdale (b. 1944)
2008 - Oliver Schroer, Canadian fiddler and composer (b. 1956)
2009 - John A. Keel, American Fortean, television scriptwriter, author of The Mothman Prophecies (b.
           1930)
2012 - Andy Griffith,American actor, dies from a heart attack at 86

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 04, 2013, 09:03:32 AM

This Day in History for 4th July


Historical Events

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First US President                                    Naturalist/Pacifist                                Author of Alice in Wonderland
 George Washington                                Henry David Thoreau                                         Lewis Carroll

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Education Pioneer Booker                       Heavyweight Boxing Champion                     Pathologist and Nobel
Taliaferro Washington                            Jack Dempsey                                               Laureate Howard Florey

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Tennis Great John McEnroe                      Actress Drew Barrymore                        Champion Tennis Player
                                                                                                                             Pete Sampras


836 - Pactum Sicardi, peace between the Principality of Benevento and the Duchy of Naples
993 - Saint Ulrich of Augsburg is canonized.
1054 - Brightest known super-nova (Crab Nebula) starts shining (23 days)
1120 - Jordan II of Capua is anointed as prince after his infant nephew's death.
1187 - Battle of Hittin (Tiberias): Saladin defeats Reinoud of Châtillon
1301 - Battle at Breukelen: Holland vs Lichtenberg
1359 - Francesco II Ordelaffi of Forlì surrenders to the Papal commander Gil de Albornoz.
1415 - Angelo Correr renounces his claim to the Papacy as Pope Gregory XII
1453 - 41 Jewish martyrs burned at stake at Breslau
1534 - Christian III is elected King of Denmark and Norway in the town of Rye.
1609 - Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs at Ticonderoga, New York setting
           the tone of French-Iroquois relations for the next 150 years
1610 - Battle at Klushino: King Sigismund II beats Russian & Sweden
1634 - The city of Trois-Rivières is founded in New France, later to become the Canadian province of
           Quebec.
1636 - City of Providence, Rhode Island form
1652 - Prince of Condé starts blood bath in Paris
1653 - British Barebones Parliament goes into session
1672 - States of Holland declares "Eternal Edict" void
1693 - Battle at Boussu-lez-Walcourt: French-English vs Dutch army
1708 - Swedish King Karel XII beats Russians
1754 - George Washington gives Ft Necessity to France
1774 - Orangetown Resolutions adopted in the Province of New York, one of many protests against
           the British Parliament's Coercive Acts
1776 - US congress proclaims the Declaration of Independence and independence from Britain
1779 - French fleet occupies Grenada
1789 - 1st US tariff act
1796 - 1st Independence Day celebration is held
1802 - US Military Academy officially opens (West Point, NY)
1803 - The Louisiana Purchase is announced to the American people.
1810 - French troops occupy Amsterdam
1817 - Construction on Erie Canal begins
1819 - William Herschel makes last telescopic observation of 1819 comet
1827 - Slavery abolished in NY
1828 - Construction begins on B & O (Baltimore-Ohio) 1st US passenger RR
1829 - Cornerstone laid for 1st US mint (Chestnut & Juniper St, Phila)
1831 - "America (My Country 'Tis of Thee)" is 1st sung in Boston
1836 - Wisconsin Territory forms
1837 - Grand Junction Railway, the world's first long-distance railway, opens between Birmingham
           and Liverpool.
1838 - Huskar Colliery Mining Disaster in Silkstone England: Mining pit floods during a rainstorm
           drowning 26 children, leads to the 1842 commission on the employment of children and
           women in mines which resulted in the banning of female and child labour underground
1840 - The Cunard Line's 700 ton wooden paddle steamer RMS Britannia departs from Liverpool
           bound for Halifax, Nova Scotia on the first transatlantic crossing with a scheduled end.
1845 - Henry David Thoreau moves into his shack on Walden Pond
1845 - Texas Congress votes for annexation to US
1855 - In Brooklyn, New York, the first edition of Walt Whitman's book of poems, titled Leaves of
           Grass, is published.
1859 - Austro-Sardinian War: the Battle of Magenta.
1861 - In a special session of 27th Congress Lincoln requests 400,000 troops
1861 - Skirmish at Harper's Ferry, WV
1862 - Lewis Carroll creates Alice in Wonderland for Alice P Liddell
1862 - Battle of Port Royal, SC (Port Royal Ferry)
1862 - R Morgan's: Tomkinsville, KY to Somerset, KY [->JUL 28]
1863 - Boise, Idaho founded (now capital of Idaho)
1863 - Failed Confederate assault on Helena Arkansas (640 casualties)
1863 - General Lee's army withdraws from Gettysburg
1863 - Skirmish at Smithburg, TN
1863 - Vicksburg, Mississippi surrenders to Union forces
1864 - -9] Battle at Chattahoochee River, Georgia
1865 - 1st edition of "Alice in Wonderland" is published
1866 - Firecracker thrown in wood starts fire destroying half of Portland, Mainee, US
1868 - Battle at Ueno, Japan: last Tokugawa armies defeated
1873 - Aquarium opens in Woodward Gardens
1874 - Social Democratic Workmen's Party of North America formed
1875 - White Democrats kill several blacks in terrorist attacks in Vicksburg
1876 - 1st public exhibition of electric light in SF
1876 - Batholdi visits Bedloe Island, future home of his Statue of Liberty
1879 - Africaner Union forms by Rev SJ du Toit at Cape colony
1881 - Booker T Washington establishes Tuskegee Institute (Alabama)
1882 - Telegraph Hill Observatory opens in SF
1883 - Buffalo Bill Cody presents 1st wild west show, North Platte, Nebr
1884 - 1st US bullfight held (Dodge City Ks)
1884 - Statue of Liberty presented to US in Paris
1886 - 1st scheduled transcontinental passenger train reaches Pt Moody, BC
1887 - The founder of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, joins Sindh-Madrasa-tul-Islam,
           Karachi.
1888 - 1st organized rodeo competition held, Prescott, Ariz
1889 - Washington state constitutional convention holds 1st meeting
1892 - James Keir Hardie chosen 1st socialist in British Lower house
1892 - Western Samoa changes the International Date Line, so that year there were 367 days in this
           country, with two occurrences of Monday, July 4.
1894 - Elwood Haynes successfully tests one of 1st US autos at 6 MPH
1894 - Republic of Hawaii proclaimed, Sanford B Dole as president
1895 - Katherine Lee Bates publishes "America the Beautiful"
1898 - French liner "La Bourgogne" collides with bark Cromartyshire, 560 die
1898 - US flag hoisted over Wake Island (Spanish-American War)
1903 - Pacific Cable (SF, Hawaii, Guam, Phil) opens, Pres TR sends message
1905 - Phila A's beat Boston Red Sox 4-2 in 20 inning game
1906 - Gr Brit, France & Italy grant Independence to Ethiopia
1907 - Tommy Burns KOs Bill Squires in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
1908 - NY Giant George "Hooks" Witse no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 1-0 in 10 inn
1910 - Jack Johnson KOs James J Jeffries in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1911 - 105°F (41°C) at Vernon, Vermont (state record)
1911 - 106°F (41°C) at Nashua, New Hampshire (state record)
1911 - Ty Cobb goes 0 for 4 & ends a 40 game hit streak
1911 - White Sox Ed Walsh stops Ty Cobb's 40-game hitting streak
1912 - Detroit Tiger George Mullen no-hits St Louis Browns, 7-0
1912 - Jack Johnson TKOs Jim Flynn in 9 for heavyweight boxing title
1913 - 37th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: A F Wilding beats McLoughlin (86 63 10-8)
1914 - 1st US motorcycle race (300 miles, Dodge City Ks)
1918 - Altar dedicated at full-scale replica of Stonehenge at Maryhill, Wa
1918 - Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI ascends to the throne.
1919 - ADGB (Allgemeine Deutsche Gewerkschaftsbund) party forms
1919 - Cincinnati Reds are 10½ games back in NL, & win World Series
1919 - Jack Dempsey KOs Jess Willard in Cuba for heavyweight championship
1923 - Jack Dempsey beats Tommy Gibbon in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1925 - 44 die when Dreyfus Hotel in Boston collapses
1925 - 45th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Rene Lacoste beats J Borotra (63 63 46 86)
1925 - A's Lefty Grove beats Yanks Herb Pennock 1-0 in 15 innings
1926 - Baronie soccer team forms in Breda Neth
1926 - NSDAP-party forms in Weimar
1927 - Ir Sukarno forms PNI (Perserikatan Nasional Indonesia) in Batavia
1927 - First flight of the Lockheed Vega.
1929 - AM radio station WOWO, Indiana's transmitter burns down
1930 - 43rd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats Elizabeth Ryan (62 62)
1931 - 1st fireworks are held at Cleveland Stadium
1931 - 1st trailside museum opens in Cleveland Metroparks
1932 - Bradman scores 260, a North American record, v Western Ontario
1933 - Work begins on Oakland Bay Bridge
1934 - Jordanians revolt in Amsterdam after reduction in employment
1934 - Leo Szilard patents the chain-reaction design for the atomic bomb.
1936 - 49th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Hull Jacobs beats H Sperling (62 46 75)
1936 - League of Nations starts sanctions against Italy
1938 - 1st game at Shribe Park, Phila; Braves beat Phillies 10-5
1938 - France-Turkish friendship treaty
1939 - Red Sox Jim Tabor hits 2 grand slams in 1 game
1939 - Yankees retire 1st uniform (Lou Gehrig #4), 1st Old Timers Day
1940 - British destroys French battle fleet at Oran, Algeria, 1267 die
1940 - German occupiers forbids anti-nazis speeches
1941 - Latvia partisans shoot 416 Jews dead
1941 - Politburo of Yugoslav communist party reorganizes
1941 - Howard Florey & Norman Heatley meet for 1st time, 11 days later they successfully recreate
           penicillin
1942 - 1st American bombing mission over enemy-occupied Europe (WW II)
1942 - US air offensive against nazi-Germany begins
1944 - 1,100 US guns fire 4th of July salute at German lines in Normandy
1944 - 1st Japanese kamikaze attack, US fleet near Iwo Jima
1944 - Allied assault on Carpiquet airport at Caen
1944 - Gestapo arrests German Social Democrat Julius Leber
1946 - Anti Jewish riots in Kielce Poland, 42 die
1946 - Philippines gains independence from US
1947 - 61st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Jack Kramer beats Tom P Brown (61 63 62)
1950 - Braves Sid Gordon ties season grand slam record with 4
1950 - Harry Truman signs public law 600 (Puerto Ricans write own constitution)
1950 - The first broadcast by Radio Free Europe.
1952 - 66th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Frank Sedgman beats J Drobny (46 62 63 62)
1952 - Canadain Currency, Mint & Exchange Fund Act allows gold coins of $5, $10, and $20 to be
           minted
1953 - 60th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Maureen Connolly beats D Hart (86 75)
1953 - Imre Nagy succeeds Matyas Rákosi as premier of Hungary
1954 - WMSL (WYUR, now WAFF) TV channel 48 in Huntsville, AL (ABC) begins
1954 - West Germany beats Hungary 3-2 for soccer's 5th World Cup in Bern
1954 - Dr Sam Sheppard's wife Marilyn is murdered (he is accused of crime)
1956 - Independence National Historical Park forms in Philadelphia
1956 - US most intense rain fall (1.23" in 1 minute) at Unionville Maryland
1957 - Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts temporary tax increase
1958 - 72nd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: A Cooper beats N Fraser (36 63 64 13-11)
1959 - 66th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Maria Fraser beats Darlene Hard (64 63)
1959 - America's new 49-star flag honoring Alaska statehood unfurled
1959 - Cayman Islands separated from Jamaica, made a crown colony
1960 - 6th LPGA Championship won by Mickey Wright
1960 - America's new 50-star flag honoring Hawaiian statehood unfurled
1960 - Mickey Mantle is 18th to hit 300 HRs
1961 - Walt Disney is one of the two main speakers on the Independence Day in The Rebuild Hills at
           Skørping in Denmark
1962 - Island Records begins
1962 - KIKU (now KHNL) TV channel 13 in Honolulu, HI (IND) 1st broadcast
1964 - 71st Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Maria Fraser beats M Court (64 79 63)
1964 - Beachboy's "I Get Around" reaches #1
1965 - 20th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Carol Mann
1966 - Beatles attacked in Philippines after insulting Imelda Marcos
1966 - LBJ signs Freedom of Information Act
1967 - Opening ceremony of Tassajara Zen Mountain Center
1967 - Phillies Clay Dairymple ties NL record of 6 walks in doubleheader
1968 - Arthur Kopit's "Indians," premieres in London
1968 - Radio astronomy satellite Explorer 38 launched
1969 - "Give Peace a Chance" by Plastic Ono Band is released in UK
1969 - 140,000 attend Atlanta Pop Festival featuring Led Zep & Janis Joplin
1969 - 76th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Ann Jones beats Billie J King (36 63 62)
1969 - Italian Rumor government resigns
1969 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1969 - The Ohio Fireworks Derecho kills 18 Ohioans and destroys over 100 boats on Lake Erie.
1970 - 100 injured in race rioting in Asbury Park NJ
1970 - 84th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Newcombe beats K Rosewall (57 63 62 36 61)
1970 - Casey Kasem's "American Top 40" debuts on LA radio
1970 - Chartered Dan-Air Comet crashes into mountains north of Barcelona, Spain killing 112
           vacationing Britons
1971 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1973 - Alan Ayckbourne's "Absurd Person Singular," premieres in London
1973 - CARICOM - Caribbean Community & Common Market, forms
1973 - In audience with Italian cyclists, Pope Paul VI praises athletes who "offer the magnificent show
           of a healthy, strong, generous youth"
1974 - Mike Marshall goes 9-0 with 3 saves in 20 appearances in 30 days
1975 - 82nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Billie Jean King beats Goolagong (60 61)
1975 - Ted Bundy victim Nancy Baird disappears from Layton, Utah
1976 - Opening ceremony of the Dai Bosatsu monastery Catskill Mt NY
1976 - Raid on Entebbe-Israel rescues 229 Air France passengers
1976 - Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Bloomington Golf Classic Bicentennial
1977 - Cubs use fielder Larry Bittner as a pitcher
1977 - Nigel Harrison replaces Gary Valentine as bassist of Blondie
1977 - Red Sox wallop a major league-record 8 HRs beating Toronto 9-6
1978 - Memphis fire fighters halt 3-day strike under a court order
1979 - Algerian ex-president Ben Bella freed
1980 - Nolan Ryan is 4th to strikeout 3,000
1981 - 95th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: John McEnroe beats B Borg (46 76 76 64)
1981 - Clive Rice 105* out of 143 all out, Notts v Hants at Bournemouth
1982 - 10th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Sandra Haynie
1982 - 4th Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 4 lands at Edwards AFB
1982 - 96th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: J Connors beats J McEnroe (36 63 67 76 64)
1982 - Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado elected president of Mexico
1982 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1982 - Yankees bat out of order against Indians in 1st inning
1983 - NY Yankee Dave Righetti no-hits the Red Sox
1984 - Funeral for S Nakagawa & burial half his ashes next to N Senzaki
1984 - Kallicharran gets 206 & 6-32 in a NatWest Trophy game
1984 - NY Yankee Phil Niekro is 9th to strikeout 3,000
1984 - Yuri Sedykh of USSR throws hammer a record 86.33 m
1985 - Tinker Bell's nightly flight begins
1987 - 94th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Steffi Graf (75 63)
1987 - Discovery moves to Launch Pad 39B for STS-26 mission
1987 - Imran Khan takes 300th Test Cricket wicket, only Pakistani to do so
1987 - Nazi Klaus Barbie, "Butcher of Lyon" sentenced to life in France
1988 - 102nd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Stefan Edberg beats Becker (46 76 64 62)
1988 - KC releases pitcher Dan Quisenberry, whose 238 saves are the 4th most
1988 - US navy shoots down Iranian civilian jetliner over Gulf, kills 290
1989 - 14 year old actress Drew Barrymore, attempts suicide
1989 - Unmanned Russian Mig-23 crashes in Bellegem-Kooigem, Belgium (1 dies)
1989 - Red's Tom Browning is 3 outs away from his 2nd career perfect game when Phillie Dickie Thon
           doubles
1990 - 400 New Kids on the Block fans treated for heat exhaustion in Minn
1990 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1990 - Wrestler Brutus Beefcake injured during para-sailing
1990 - 2 Live Crew release "Banned in the USA" the lyrics quote Star Spangled Banner & Gettysburg
           Address
1992 - 99th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Monica Seles (62 61)
1992 - John Phillips, rocker (Mamas & Papas), undergoes a liver transplant
1993 - 107th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Courier (76 76 36 63)
1993 - Brandie Burton wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic
1993 - Dave Winfield hits 442nd HR to move into 19th place
1993 - Pilar Fort, crowned 25th Miss Black America
1993 - Pizza Hut blimp deflates & lands safely on W 56th street in NYC
1994 - Russian manned space craft TM-18, lands
1994 - Rwandese Patriot Front occupies Kigali
1994 - US loses to Brazil 1-0 in 1994 World Cup quarter finals
1995 - Birmingham Barracudas play 1st CFL game (vs Winnipeg)
1996 - Hot Mail, a free internet E-mail service begins
1997 - US space probe Pathfinder lands on Ares Vallis Mars
2004 - The cornerstone of the Freedom Tower is laid on the site of the World Trade Center in New
           York City. (This was largely a symbolic event; actual construction would not start for several
           weeks)
2005 - The Deep Impact collider hits the comet Tempel 1.
2006 - Space Shuttle program: STS-121 Mission - Space Shuttle Discovery launches at 18:37:55
           UTC.
2006 - North Korea tests four short-range missiles, one medium-range missile, and a long-range
           Taepodong-2. The long-range Taepodong-2 reportedly fails in mid-air over the Sea of
           Japan/East Sea.
2009 - The Statue of Liberty's crown reopens to the public after 8 years, due to security reasons
           following the World Trade Center attacks.

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 04, 2013, 09:06:01 AM

This Day in History for 4th July


Famous Weddings

1925 - American writer ("Gone with the Wind") Margaret Mitchell (24) marries 2nd husband John
           Marsh (29)
1931 - Irish writer (Ulysses) James Joyce and Nora Barnacle finally marry in London registry office
           after meeting in 1904.
1973 - British Army officer Andrew Parker Bowles (33) weds Camilla Rosemary Shand (26) at Guards
           Chapel in Birdcage Walk in London, England
1975 - Fictional wedding date of Coneheads
1992 - US actress Bobbie Eakes marries author David Stone
1997 - "Beverly Hills 90210" actor Ian Ziering (34) weds model-actress Nikki Schieler (26) in Beverly
           Hills, California
1999 - Los Angeles Galaxy soccer star player David Beckham (24) weds Spice Girls singer Victoria
           Adams (25) at the 560-acre Luttrellstown Castle outside Dublin, Ireland
2002 - Oscar-winning actress Julia Roberts (34) weds L.A. cameraman Danny Moder (33) at her 82-
           acre ranch in Taos, New Mexico
2003 - Screenwriter and producer Dean Devlin (40) weds "Another World" actress Lisa Brenner (29)
2004 - Hollywood star Julia Roberts (36) weds Danny Moder in Taos, New Mexico
2004 - Actor Dennis Quaid (50) weds real estate agent Kimberly Buffington (32) at his 500-acre
           Montana ranch in Paradise Valley, Montana
2010 - "Survivor: Thailand" star Tanya Vance weds Joseph Luczaj in Maui, Hawaii
2012 - NFL wide receiver Chad Johnson (34) weds "Basketball Wives" TV personality Evelyn Lozada in
           Saint Martin
2012 - "Grey's Anatomy" actress Sara Ramirez (36) weds TIMEC's business analyst Ryan Debolt in a
           private beachside ceremony in New York

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 04, 2013, 09:15:53 AM

This Day in History for 4th July


Famous Birthdays

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30th US President                                    Actor and Senator                                  Actress Gloria Stuart (1910)
Calvin Coolidge (1872)                            George Murphy (1902)

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New York Yankees Owner
George Steinbrenner (1930)


1330 - Ashikaga Yoshiakira, Japanese shogun (d. 1367)
1546 - Murad/Murat III, Sultan of Turkey (1574-95)
1610 - Cornelis Evertsen, the Elder, Dutch/Swiss vice-admiral
1610 - Paul Scarron, French playwright (Virgile Travesti)
1669 - Alexander von Papenhoven, Flemish religious sculptor
1694 - Louis-Claude Daquin, [d'Acquin], French organist/composer (La Rose)
1715 - Christian F Gellert, Saxony, poet/novelist (Fables & Tales)
1719 - Michel-Jean Sedaine, French dramatist (d. 1797)
1753 - Jean-Pierre-Francois Blanchard, 1st balloon flights in England, US
1762 - Marco Santucci, composer
1769 - Louis-Luc Loiseau de Persuis, composer
1790 - George Everest, Welsh surveyor (d. 1866)
1793 - Franz Xaver Pechacek, composer
1799 - F J Oscar I, King of Sweden/Norway (1844-59)
1804 - Desire de Haerne, Belgian priest/Congressional leader
1804 - Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mass, author (House of 7 Gables, Scarlet Letter)
1807 - Giuseppe Garibaldi, freedom fighter (Risorgimento)/unified Italy
1810 - Phineas T Barnum, circus magnate
1816 - Hiram Walker, American grocer and distiller (d. 1899)
1819 - Reuben Eaton Fenton, Governor (Union), died in 1885
1826 - Green Clay Smith, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1895
1826 - Stephen Foster, Lawrencevil, Pa, composer (Oh! Susanna, Swanee River)
1828 - James Johnston Pettigrew, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1828 - Theodor W Ahlwardt, German orientalist
1829 - Hermann Kotzchmar, composer
1840 - James McGranahan, composer
1841 - Edward Gailliard, Flemish linguist/archaeologicalist
1841 - Marie von Wied, Princess of Orange Nassau
1842 - Gustav Ratzenhofer, Austria, sociologist/judge/fieldmarshal
1842 - Gyula Erkel, composer
1845 - Thomas John Barnardo, English social worker
1847 - James Anthony Bailey, Detroit, circus impresario (Barnum & Bailey)
1850 - Ole Olsen, composer
1854 - Heinrich Zollner, composer
1854 - Victor Babeş, Romanian bacteriologist (d. 1926)
1867 - Stephen Mather, organized US National Park Service
1868 - Henrietta Swan Leavitt, American astronomer (d. 1921)
1869 - Karl Seitz, president of Austria
1870 - Pieter van der Lijn, Dutch geologist (Dutch boulders)
1872 - Calvin Coolidge, [Silent Cal], Plymouth Vt, (R) 30th pres (1923-29), (d. 1933)
1875 - Giovanni & Giacomo Tocci, Italy, siamese twins
1876 - William Farnum, Boston MA, actor (Spoilers, Man who Fights Alone)
1880 - George Mullin, pitcher (Detroit Tigers-no-hitter on 7/4/1912)
1880 - Pat Rooney, vaudevillian/actor (Night Club)
1881 - Ulysses S. Grant III, American soldier (d. 1968)
1882 - Cornelis van der Lugt Melsert, Dutch actor/dir (Willem van Oranje)
1883 - Alan Brooke, English general [or Jul 23]
1883 - Maximilian Oseyevich Shteynberg, composer
1883 - Rube Goldberg, cartoonist (who made the easy outrageously difficult)
1884 - Alexander Byvanck, Dutch art historian/archaeologist
1886 - Heinrich Kaminski, composer
1888 - Henry Armetta, Italian/US actor (Bell for Adano, Big Store)
1894 - Henry Carlson, basketball coach (originated figure 8 play)
1895 - Irving Caesar, songwriter
1895 - Massimo Campigli, Italian painter/illustrator
1895 - Walderman Marx, cricketer (S Af, 240 on FC debut (then world record))
1896 - Adolf Hallis, composer
1896 - Mao Dun, Chinese writer (d. 1981)
1898 - Gertrude Lawrence, English actress (Mimi, Rembrandt)
1898 - Johnny Lee, Missouri, actor (Calhoun-Amos 'n' Andy)
1898 - Dr. Pilar Barbosa, Puerto Rican historian (d. 1997)
1902 - George Murphy, New Haven Ct, (Sen-R-California)/actor/dancer (MGM Parade)
1902 - Meyer Lansky, mobster (Started numbers)
1902 - Vince Barnett, Pittsburgh, actor (Star is Born, Human Jungle)
1903 - Flor Peeters, Antwerp Belgium, organist/composer (Lied Symphony)
1904 - Angela Baddeley, London England, actress (Ghost Train, Tom Jones)
1904 - Artur Malawski, composer
1904 - Seger Pillot Ellis, pianist/vocalist
1905 - Dante Fiorillo, composer
1905 - Lionel Trilling, author (1969 Poses Award, Liberal Imagination)
1905 - Irving Johnson, American adventurer (d. 1991)
1907 - Elliott Sullivan, San Antonio TX, actor (Sergeant)
1907 - Gordon Griffith, American director (d. 1958)
1907 - Howard Taubman, American music and theater critic (d. 1996)
1908 - Aurelio Peccei, Italian businessman/chairman (Club of Rome)
1909 - Alec Templeton, Cardiff Wales, pianist/composer (Concertino Lirico)
1909 - Lynette Roberts, poet
1909 - Madeleine Barot, resistance heroine
1910 - Francis D Foley, US lt adm (WW II, Guadalcanal)
1910 - Gloria Stuart, Santa Monica California, actress (Rose-Titanic)/founder (Screen Actors Guild),
           (d. 2010)
1910 - William T "Champion Jack" Dupree, US boxer/slaughterhouse pianist
1911 - Mitch Miller, Rochester NY, sing along with Mitch (Yellow Rose of Tx)
1912 - Virginia Graham, Chicago Ill, TV personality (Girl Talk, Where Was I)
1912 - Viviane Romance, French actress (d. 1991)
1914 - Giuseppe 'Nuccio' Bertone, car designer
1915 - Christine Lavant, writer
1915 - Jimmie Rogers, Detroit Mich, singer (Sugar Hill Time)
1916 - Tokyo Rose, [Iva Toguri D'Aquino], propagandist (WW II)
1917 - Manolete, Spanish bullfighter (d. 1947)
1918 - Abigail Van Buren, [Mrs Morton Phillips], Sioux City Iowa, columnist
1918 - Alec Bedser, cricketer (mighty post-war England medium-pacer)
1918 - Ann Landers, Sioux City Iowa, twin sister/advice columnist
1918 - Buster Davis, Johnstown Pa, choral director (Garry Moore Show)
1918 - Eric Bedser, cricketer (bro of Alec, Surrey bowler but not England)
1918 - Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, King of Tonga (1965- )
1918 - Johnnie Parsons, American race car driver (d. 1984)
1918 - Pauline Phillips, Sioux City, Iowa, advice columnist (Dear Abby), (d. 2013)
1920 - Leona Helmsley, (wife of Harry), real estate billionaire/tax cheat
1920 - Norm Drucker, American basketball referee
1921 - Gerard Debreu, France, economist (Nobel 1983)
1921 - Tibor Varga, Hungarian violinist/orchestra leader (Ripley's Game)
1922 - Ghulam Ahmed, cricketer (off-spinner in 22 Tests for India in 1950's)
1923 - Rudolf Friedrich, Swiss Federal Councilor
1924 - Eva Marie Saint, Newark NJ, actress (On the Waterfront, North by Northwest)
1926 - Mary Stuart, Miami Fla, actress (Jo-Search for Tomorrow)
1926 - Alfredo Di Stéfano, Argentine-Spanish footballer
1927 - Gina Lollobrigida, Subiaco Italy, actress (Trapeze, Falcon Crest)
1927 - Neil Simon, Bronx, playwright (Odd Couple, Plaza Suite, Biloxi Blues)
1928 - Cathy Berberian, Armenia, US singer
1928 - Lloyd Lambert, bassist
1928 - Patrick Tilley, UK, sci-fi author (1st Family, Blood River)
1928 - Paul de Wispelaere, Flemish writer/essayist/critic
1928 - Sylvius G M "Boy" Rozendal, premier (Netherland's Antilles)
1929 - Al Davis, Brocton Mass, American businessman and NFL team owner (LA Raiders)
1929 - Bill Tuttle, baseball player
1929 - Chuck Tanner, baseball player
1930 - George Steinbrenner, Rocky River Ohio, owner (NY Yankees)/ship builder/horse owner, (d.
           2010)
1930 - Frunzik Mkrtchyan, Armenian actor
1930 - Yuri Tyukalov, Soviet Olympic rower
1931 - Stephen Boyd [William Millar], Glengormley, County Antrim, Irish actor (Fantastic Voyage,
           Ben-Hur)
1931 - Peter Richardson, cricketer (England batsman mid-50's)
1932 - Aurèle Vandendriessche, Belgian athlete
1934 - Colin Welland, Liverpool England, actor (Straw Dogs, Sweeney)
1935 - Paul Scoon, governor-general of Grenada (1978-92)
1937 - Hector Palma, horse trainer
1937 - Thomas Nagel, American philosopher
1938 - Bill Withers, Slab Fork WV, rhythm & blues singer (Lean on Me)
1938 - Cyril Mitchley, cricket wicket-keeper (Transvaal, later Test umpire)
1939 - Ed Bernard, Phila, actor (Joe-Police Woman, Jim-White Shadow)
1940 - Joost P van Iersel, Dutch MP (CDA)
1940 - Walter Greenman, horse trainer
1940 - Karolyn Grimes, American actress
1941 - Brian Willson, American peace activist
1941 - Sergio Oliva, Cuba, American body builder (The Myth, IFBB Mr. Olympia, 1967-9), (d. 2012)
1942 - Hal Lanier, baseball player
1942 - Michael G C F, English prince of Kent
1942 - Stefan Meller, Polish foreign minister (d. 2008)
1943 - Al "Blind Owl" Wilson, rock guitarist/vocalist (Canned Heat)
1943 - Dave Rowberry, rocker (Animals-House of the Rising Sun)
1943 - Emerson Boozer, NFL running back (NY Jet)/sportscaster
1943 - Konrad "Conny" Bauer, German musician
1943 - Milan Máčala, Czech football coach
1944 - Ray Meagher, Australian actor
1946 - Michael Milken, LA California, partner (Intl Capital Access Group)
1946 - Ron Kovic, disabled vietnam vet (Born on 4th of July)
1946 - Tish Howard, playmate (July, 1966)
1946 - Ed O'Ross, American actor
1947 - Morganna Roberts, Louisville Ky, (Baseball's kissing bandit)
1948 - Ed Armbrister, baseball player
1948 - Jeremy Spencer, rock guitarist (Fleetwood Mac-Oh Well)
1948 - René Arnoux, France, formula-1 racer (6th place-1980)
1949 - Tonio K, American singer
1950 - David Jensen, rock British DJ
1951 - Ralph Johnson, rock drummer (Earth Wind & Fire-Shining Star)
1951 - Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, American politician
1952 - Álvaro Uribe Vélez, Colombian politician
1954 - Jim Beattie, baseball pitcher (NY Yankees)
1955 - John Waite, vocalist (Babies/Bad English-Forget Me Not, Missing You)
1957 - Princess Chulabhorn of Thailand
1958 - Kirk Pengilly, Sydney Australia, rocker (Inxs-Kiss the Dirt)
1959 - Bill McCorvey, Montgomery Ala, singer (Pirates of Miss-Fred Jake)
1959 - Victoria Abril, [Victoria Rojas], Madrid Spain, actress (Libertarias)
1960 - Sid Eudy, American professional wrestler
1961 - Connie Paraskevin-Young, Detroit, sprint cyclist (Olymp-br-88, 92, 96)
1961 - Richard Allen Garriott, Austin TX, computer game designer (Origin)
1962 - Pam Shriver, Balt MD, tennis star (1991 US Open doubles/Oly-gold-88)
1962 - Roland Ratzenberger, driver
1962 - Neil Morrissey, English actor
1963 - Henri Leconte, France, tennis player (French finalist 1988)
1963 - Jose Oquendo, baseball player
1964 - Kevin Sutherland, Sacramento CA, Nike golfer (1992 Hawkeye Open-2nd)
1964 - Mark Allen Slaughter, Las Vegas, guitarist (Slaughter-Stick it Live)
1964 - Cle Kooiman, American soccer player
1964 - Mark Whiting, American filmmaker and actor
1965 - Eva Dahllof, Ornskoldsvik Sweden, golfer (1995 McCall's Classic-18th)
1965 - Harvey Grant, NBA forward (Trail Blazers, Orlando Magic, Wizards)
1965 - John Frawley, Australia, tennis star
1965 - Shelley Oates, Sydney NSW Australia, canoeist (Olympics-96)
1965 - Suzanne Peta Strudwick, Knutsford England, golfer (1995 Brit Open-7th)
1965 - Jo Whiley, English radio DJ
1966 - Adrian Caldwell, NBA forward/center (Indiana Pacers)
1966 - Lee Reherman, American actor
1967 - Rick Wilkins, baseball player
1967 - Vinny Castilla, Oaxaca Mexico, infielder (Colorado Rockies)
1967 - Andy Walker, Canadian television personality
1968 - Derek Loville, NFL running back (SF 49ers)
1968 - Loville Derek, NFL running back (Denver Broncos, Superbowl 32)
1968 - Mark Lenzi, Huntsville Ala, diver (Olympics-Gold-92, bronze-96), (d. 2012)
1968 - Jack Frost, American musician
1969 - David Wittman Buffalo, NY, 1.5k runner
1969 - Tim Jackson, Australian 100m/200m (Olympics-96)
1970 - Andrei Cherkasov, USSR, tennis star
1970 - Louise Van Voorhis, Rochester NY, 470 yachter (Olympics-4th-1992, 96)
1970 - Tony Vidmar, Australian former footballer
1971 - Steve Rucchin, Thunder Bay, NHL center (Anaheim Mighty Ducks)
1971 - Koko, sign-language gorilla
1971 - Andy Creeggan, Canadian musician
1971 - Brendan Donnelly, American baseball player
1971 - Andrew Murray, English entrepreneur
1972 - Steve Giles, St Stephens New Brunswick, canoeist (Olympics-6-92, 96)
1973 - Justin Ring, CFL linebacker (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1973 - Gackt, Japanese singer
1973 - Keiko Ihara, Japanese racing driver
1973 - Michael Johnson, English-born Jamaican footballer
1973 - Jan Magnussen, Danish racing driver
1974 - Kellee Nicole Kattleman, Miss Wyoming USA (1996)
1974 - La'Roi Glover, American football player
1975 - Reinhard Davis, hockey goaltender (Team Austria 1998)
1975 - Tania Davis, Australian violist
1976 - Daijiro Kato, Japanese motorcycle racer (d. 2003)
1977 - Katia Zygouli, Greek supermodel
1977 - Jonas Kjellgren, Swedish musician (Scar Symmetry)
1978 - Tatyana Jecmenica, Novi Sad Yugo, tennis star (1995 Futures-Novi Sad)
1978 - Emile Mpenza, Belgian footballer
1978 - Vicky Kaya, Greek supermodel and actress
1978 - Stephen McNally, British singer and songwriter (BBMak)
1978 - Becki Newton, American actress
1980 - Muhammad Ali Hasan, American filmmaker
1980 - Max Elliott Slade, American film actor
1981 - Francisco Cruceta, Dominican baseball player
1983 - Isabeli Fontana, Brazilian model
1983 - Ben Jorgensen, American musician
1983 - Andy Mrotek, American musician
1984 - Gina Glocksen, American singer
1984 - Akanishi Jin, Japanese singer
1986 - Takahisa Masuda, Japanese singer
2003 - Alessia di Matteo, Italian medical figure (d. 2005)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 04, 2013, 09:22:35 AM

This Day in History for 4th July


Famous Deaths

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US President                                                       Surgeon                                              Discoverer of Radium
Thomas Jefferson (1826)                       Karl Ferdinand von Graefe (1840)                        Marie Curie (1934) 

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Singer Barry White (2003)


907 - Luitpold, Margrave of Bavaria
943 - Taejo of Goryeo, ruler of Korea (b. 877)
965 - Pope Benedict V, Italian Roman Catholic Pope (b. unknown)
973 - Ulrich of Augsburg, German bishop (b. 890)
1187 - Reinoud van Châtillon, French prince of Antioch, dies
1301 - Willem II Berthout van Mechelen, bishop of Utrecht, dies in battle
1307 - Rudolf III, Duke of Austria/King of Bohemia dies
1336 - Elisabeth van Portugal, queen of Portugal/saint, dies at about 65
1498 - Filips van Burgundy, admiral-general of Netherlands, dies
1541 - Pedro de Alvarado, Spanish occupier, dies at about 56
1546 - Hayreddin Barbarossa, Admiral of the Ottoman Navy (b. 1478)
1578 - Charles de Berlaymont, baron of Hierges, gov/viceroy of Names, dies
1603 - Philippus the Monte, priest/bandmaster/composer, dies at 82
1623 - William Byrd, English composer (Ave verum corpus), dies at 80
1627 - Thomas Middleton, Elizabethan dramatist (Women Beware Women), dies
1648 - Antoine Daniel, French Jesuit missionary, one of the Canadian Martyrs (b. 1601)
1672 - Ambrosius Reiner, composer, dies at 67
1672 - Govert D Camphuysen, (court)painter, dies at about 48
1742 - Guido Grandi, Italian mathematician (b. 1671)
1754 - Philippe Néricault Destouches, French dramatist and author (b. 1680)
1757 - Jean-Joseph Vade, composer, dies at 38
1761 - Samuel Richardson, English writer (b. 1689)
1768 - Willem van Hairs, Fries nobleman/poet (Suicide), dies at 58
1780 - Charles Alexander, Duke of Lotharingen South Neth, dies at 67
1787 - Charles, prince de Rohan-Soubise, marshal of France, dies at 71
1789 - Claudio M da Costa, Brazilian conductor, dies at 59
1821 - Richard Cosway, English artist (b. 1742)
1826 - John Adams, 2nd president (1797-1801), dies at 90
1826 - Thomas Jefferson, 3rd president (1801-09), dies at 83
1831 - James Monroe, 5th president (1817-25), dies at 73
1840 - Karl Ferdinand von Graefe, German surgeon who helped create modern plastic surgery dies at
           53
1845 - Pierre P Royer-Collard, French philosopher/Council of 500, dies
1848 - Francois Rene de Chateaubriand, French novelist (Atala)/diplomat, dies
1850 - William Kirby, English entomologist (b. 1759)
1851 - Martin-Joseph Mengal, composer, dies at 67
1854 - Karl F Eichhorn, German law historian, dies at 72
1856 - Istvan Ferenczi, Hungarian sculptor, dies at 64
1857 - William L. Marcy, American statesman (b. 1786)
1863 - Paul Joseph Revere, US grandson of Paul Revere/Union brig-gen, dies
1881 - Johan Vilhelm Snellman, Finnish statesman (b. 1806)
1882 - Joseph Brackett, American composer (b. 1797)
1888 - Theodor Storm, German judge/author (Schimmelreiter), dies at 70
1889 - Auguste Mermet, composer, dies at 79
1891 - Frederic Louis Ritter, composer, dies at 67
1891 - Hannibal Hamlin, U.S. Vice President (b. 1809)
1901 - John Fiske, [Edmund Fisk Green], US historian/philosopher, dies
1902 - Swami Vivekananda, Indian spiritual leader (b. 1863)
1905 - Élisée Reclus, French anarchist (b. 1830)
1910 - Giovanni V Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (Mars), dies at 75
1910 - Louis Bourgault-Ducoudray, composer, dies at 70
1910 - Melville Weston Fuller, 8th Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1833)
1916 - Alan Seeger, American war poet (b. 1888)
1917 - Johan H C Kern, Dutch linguist (Sanskreet), dies at 84
1922 - Lothar von Richthofen, German pilot (b. 1894)
1923 - Florimond Fonteyne, Flemish priest/politician (Volkseeuw), dies at 67
1926 - Pier Giorgio Frassati, Italian Saint (b. 1901)
1929 - Otto Taubmann, composer, dies at 70
1931 - Emanuele F duke of Aosta, Italian WW I-general/fascist, dies at 62
1931 - Hussein ibn-Ali, sjarif Mecca/king/kalief of Hedzjaz (1917-24), dies
1934 - Chaim Nachman Bialik, zionist poet, dies
1934 - Marie Curie, French-Polish Physicist/Chemist, dies at 66
1938 - Otto Bauer, Austrian social democrat, dies at 56
1938 - Suzanne Lenglen, 6 time Wimbledon champ, dies at 39 of anemia
1941 - Antoni Łomnicki, Polish mathematician (b. 1881)
1943 - Wladyslaw Sikorski, gen/PM of Poland in exile (1939-43), dies at 62
1946 - Othenio Able, Austria paleontology, dies at 71
1946 - Gerda Steinhoff, Nazi concentration camp overseer (b. 1922)
1948 - Monteiro Lobato, Brazilian writer (b. 1882)
1952 - Walter Long, dies at 73
1957 - Judy Tyler, actress (Princess-Howdy Doody), dies at 24 in car crash
1958 - Adolf Herckenrath, Flemish playwright/poet (Avondvlam), dies at 79
1961 - Franklyn Farnum, dies of cancer at 83
1962 - Rex Bell, actor/lt-gov (Nevada), dies of heart attack at 56
1963 - Fritz Reuter, composer, dies at 66
1963 - Grant Richards, actor (Doug-Doorway to Danger), dies at 48
1963 - Bernard Freyberg, Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1889)
1970 - Harold Vanderbilt, America Cup winner (1930, 34, 37), dies at 85
1970 - Barnett Newman, American artist (b. 1905)
1971 - Don McPherson, rocker, dies at 29
1971 - Joe Cox, cricketer (4 wickets in 3 Tests for South Africa), dies
1971 - Thomas C Hart, US admiral/commander (Pacific Fleet), dies at 94
1971 - August Derleth, American writer and editor (b. 1909)
1973 - Leonid Stein, Russian chess player, dies at about 39
1974 - Mohammed SA al-Hoesseini, Mufti of Jerusalem/pres Com Palestine, dies
1975 - Georgette Heyer, English author (b. 1902)
1976 - Antoni Słonimski, Polish poet (b. 1895)
1977 - Gersh Budker, Russian physicist (b. 1918)
1979 - Lee Wai Tong, Chinese footballer (b. 1905)
1980 - Maurice Grevisse, Belgian grammarian (b. 1895)
1982 - Sylvestre A Guzman Fernandez, pres Dominican Rep, commits suicide
1982 - Terry Higgins, early British AIDS death (b. 1945)
1983 - Claus Adam, composer, dies at 65
1984 - Jimmie Spheeris, American singer-songwriter (b. 1949)
1985 - John de Quay, Dutch premier (1959-63), dies at 83
1986 - Flor Peeters, Flemish baron/organist/composer, dies at 83
1986 - Oscar Zariski, Russian mathematician (b. 1899)
1988 - Adrian Adonis, [Keith Franke], WWF wrestler, killed in auto accident
1991 - Victor Chang, Australian physician (b. 1936)
1992 - Astor Piazzolla, Argentine composer (Tango Nuevo), dies at 71
1992 - Joe Newman, US jazz trumpetist (Count Basie), dies
1993 - Anne Shirley, actress (Stella Dallas), dies of lung cancer at 75
1993 - Charles Crain, actor, dies in Hollywood at 83
1993 - Felix White, choreographer (Black Vibrations Theatre), dies at 65
1994 - Arthur Berry, artist, dies at 69
1994 - Juan Gil Poet-Albert, dies at 90
1994 - Liesbeth Struppert, actress (Pipo the Clown, Anne Frank), dies at 55
1994 - Rupert Davies, methodist scholar, dies at 84
1994 - Tawfik Ziad, Palestinian communist/Israeli MP/mayor of Nazareth, dies
1994 - Joey Marella, American professional wrestling referee (b. 1964)
1995 - Bob Ross, artist, dies at 52
1995 - Eva Gabor, actress (Green Acres), dies at 74
1995 - Jacques Berque, Islamic scholar, dies at 85
1995 - Richard "Pancho" Gonzalez, tennis great, dies of stomach cancer at 67
1996 - Clay Jones, gardener, dies at 72
1996 - Leo Avery, abbot of Quarr, dies at 58
1997 - Charles Kuralt, news anchor (CBS Sunday Morning), dies at 62
1999 - Leo Garel, American artist and cartoonist (b.1917)
2000 - Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski, Polish writer (b. 1919)
2001 - Keenan Milton, Professional Skater (b. 1974)
2002 - Benjamin O. Davis Jr., American general (b. 1912)
2002 - Mansoor Hekmat, Iranian politician (b. 1951)
2002 - Winnifred Quick, American Titanic survivor (b. 1904)
2003 - Barry White, American singer, dies at 58
2003 - André Claveau, French singer (b. 1915)
2004 - Jean-Marie Auberson, Swiss conductor (b. 1920)
2004 - Frank Robinson (Xylophone Man), an eccentric street entertainer in Nottingham, England (b.
           1932)
2005 - Hank Stram, American football coach (b. 1923)
2007 - Barış Akarsu, Turkish rock musician (b. 1979)
2007 - Bill Pinkney, American singer and performer (b. 1925)
2008 - Charles Wheeler, British journalist (b. 1923)
2008 - Jesse Helms, American politician (b. 1921)
2008 - Terrence Kiel, American Football Player (b. 1980)
2008 - Thomas M. Disch, American science fiction author (b. 1940)
2008 - Evelyn Keyes, American actress (b. 1916)
2009 - Brenda Joyce, American actress (b. 1917)
2009 - Allen Klein, American record label executive (b. 1931)
2009 - Drake Levin, American rock musician (b. 1946)
2009 - Steve McNair, American football player (b. 1973)
2009 - Lasse Strömstedt, Swedish writer (b. 1935)
2009 - Jean-Baptiste Tati Loutard, Congolese politician (b.1938)
2009 - Jim Chapin, American drummer (b.1919)
2010 - Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, Iraqi-born Lebanese Shiite Muslim cleric and Hezbollah mentor
           (b. 1935)
2011 - Otto von Habsburg, last crown prince of Austria-Hungary and MEP (1979-1999) (b. 1912)
2012 - Jimmy Bivins [James], American Hall of Fame boxer, dies from pneumonia at 92

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 05, 2013, 10:53:54 AM

This Day in History for 5th July


Historical Events

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Physicist & Mathematician                       Naturalist Charles Darwin                        Baseball Great Babe Ruth
Isaac Newton   

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Yankee Clipper Joe DiMaggio                     Zimbabwean President                        Tennis Player Steffi Graf
                                                                     Robert Mugabe

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Anti-apartheid activist/
South African President
 Nelson Mandela


649 - St Martin I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
767 - Duke of Nepi names his brother (leek) Pope Constantine II
1054 - Brightest supernova (Crab Nebula) 1st reported
1294 - Pietro del Murrone elected as Pope Coelestinus V
1295 - Scotland and France form an alliance, the beginnings of the Auld Alliance, against England.
1436 - German emperor Sigismund signs peace with Hussieten
1450 - Pope Nicolas V names Walraven van Meurs bishop of Munster
1596 - English fleet under the earl of Essex plunder Cadiz
1610 - John Guy sets sail from Bristol with 39 other colonists for Newfoundland.
1626 - Battle at Lenz: Rebel Austrian Boers defeated
1643 - 1st recorded tornado in US (Essex County, Massachusetts)
1687 - Isaac Newton's PRINCIPIA published by Royal Society in England
1750 - Slave revolt on Curacao
1770 - Battle of Chesma and Battle of Larga between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire.
1775 - US Congress adopts the Olive Branch Petition.
1791 - Jose Maria Narvaez discovers Point Grey (now Vancouver BC)
1803 - The convention of Artlenburg leads to the French occupation of Hanover (which had been
           ruled by the British king).
1808 - Battle of Buenos Aires
1809 - -6) Battle of Wagram - Napoleon beats archduke Charles
1811 - Venezuela, 1st South American country to gain independence from Spain
1813 - War of 1812: Three weeks of British raids on Fort Schlosser, Black Rock and Plattsburgh, 
           New York begin.
1814 - Americans defeat British & Canadians at Chippewa, Ontario
1830 - France invades Algeria, begins a 40 year conquest
1832 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin departs Rio de Janeiro
1834 - Provisional government forms in Oregon Country
1841 - Thomas Cook opens 1st travel agency
1843 - Committee of 9 appointed to establish civil government in Oregon Country
1859 - Capt N C Brooks discovers Midway Islands
1861 - Battle of Carthage, MO - US Gen Sigel attacks pro-secessionist
1863 - Battle of Jackson, MS & Battle of Birdsong Ferry, MS
1864 - Battle of Smith's Expedition, MS (Tupelo, Harrisburg)
1865 - Great Britain delegate's world 1st maximum speed laws
1865 - US Secret Service began operating under the Treasury Department
1871 - Trial against Kiowa chief Satanta (White Bear) & Big Tree, begins
1878 - The coat of arms of the Baku governorate was established.
1884 - German consul-general Gustav Nachtigal takes possession of Cameroon
1884 - US Congress accept 2nd Chinese Exclusion Act
1891 - Hail kills 6 horses in Rapid City, SD
1900 - Compulsory education law passes Dutch 1st Chamber
1902 - Australia won the one & only Test Cricket played at Sheffield
1904 - Giants 18-game winning streak ends as Phillies win 6-5 in 10 inn
1913 - Queen Wilhelmina meets SDAP-leader Troelstra
1914 - Boston Braves are 15 games back in NL, & win World Series
1914 - Germany offers Austria war aid to fight against Russia in Serbia
1919 - 32nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: S Lenglen beats Chambers (10-8 46 97)
1919 - Red Sox Babe Ruth hits 2 HRs in a game for his 1st of 72 times
1922 - 1st general election in Netherlands
1922 - Uprising of social righteousness in Rio de Janeiro
1922 - Women 1st vote in Dutch elections, Christian parties win
1924 - Military revolt in Sao Paulo Brazil
1929 - 42nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats Helen Jacobs (61 62)
1929 - WOWO-AM, Indiana returns to air, 1 day after transmitter burns down
1930 - 50th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Bill Tilden beats W Allison (63 97 64)
1932 - Antonio de Oliveira Salazar becomes premier/dictator of Portugal
1933 - German party Catholic Center disbands
1934 - "Bloody Thursday" - Police open fire on striking longshoremen in San Francisco.
1935 - 1st "Hawaii Calls" radio program is broadcast
1935 - 1st time brothers on opposing teams hit HRs, Tony & Al Cuccunello
1935 - Chicago Cubs are 10½ games back in NL, & go on to win the pennant
1935 - FDR signs National Labor Relations Act
1936 - 120°F (49°C), Gannvalley, South Dakota (state record)
1937 - 117°F (47°C), Medicine Lake, Montana (state record)
1937 - Chicago Cub Frank Demaree gets 6 hits in 1st game & 2 in 2nd game
1937 - Joe DiMaggio's 1st grand slammer
1937 - Republican offensive by Brunete in Spain
1937 - Spam, the luncheon meat, was introduced into the market by the Hormel Foods Corporation.
1938 - Herb Caen's 1st column in SF Chronicle
1940 - Diplomatic relations broken between Britain & Vichy government in France
1941 - German occupiers disband political parties
1942 - 1st performance of Heitor Villa-Lobos' Choros 6/9/11
1942 - Ian Fleming graduates from a training school for spies in Canada
1943 - Battle of Gulf of Kula
1943 - Battle of Koersk, USSR begins (6,000 tanks)
1943 - Liberator bombers sink U-535 in Gulf of Biskaye
1943 - US invasion fleet (96 ships) sails to Sicily
1944 - Harry Crosby takes 1st rocket airplane, MX-324, for maiden flight
1945 - Labour Party wins British parliamentary election
1945 - World War II: Liberation of the Philippines declared.
1946 - Louis Reard's bikini swimsuit design debuts at Paris fashion show
1947 - "Barefoot Boy with Cheek" closes at Martin Beck NYC after 108 perfs
1947 - 54th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Margaret Osborne beat Doris Hart (62 64)
1947 - Larry Doby signs with Cleveland Indians-1st black player in AL
1948 - Britain's National Health Service Act begins
1949 - NY Giants purchase Monty Irvin & Henry Thompson, their 1st blacks
1950 - Law of Return passes, guarantees all Jews right to live in Israel
1951 - Dodgers sweep the Giants & lead by 7½ games (Giants will win pennant)
1951 - Dr William Shockley invents junction transistor (Murray Hill NJ)
1952 - "Of Thee I Sing" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 72 performances
1952 - 59th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Maureen Connolly beats L Brough (75 63)
1953 - Jackie Pung wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament
1953 - WANC TV channel 21 in Asheville, NC (IND) begins broadcasting
1954 - B-52A bomber made its maiden flight
1954 - Last day of Test Cricket for Khalid Hassan aged 16 yrs, 356 days
1954 - The BBC broadcasts its first television news bulletin.
1955 - English harbor strike ends
1956 - France raises tobacco tax 20% due to war in Algeria
1957 - 71st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Lew Hoad beats Ashley J Cooper (62 61 62)
1957 - Tom Graveney scores 258 v West Indies at Trent Bridge
1958 - 65th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Althea Gibson beats A Mortimer (86 62)
1958 - J Pengel forms government/Emanuels premier of Suriname
1958 - First ascent of Gasherbrum I, 11th highest peak on the earth.
1959 - Ben-Gurion's Israeli government resigns
1959 - Indonesia restores constitution
1959 - Jack Gelber's "Connection," premieres in NYC
1960 - Mongolia adopts constitution
1961 - 80 die in collisions in Algiers
1961 - KUSD TV channel 2 in Vermillion, SD (PBS) begins broadcasting
1961 - St Louis Cardinal Bill White hits 3 HRs & a double
1962 - 96 murder at massacre in Oran, Algeria
1962 - Algeria gains independence after 132 years of French rule
1962 - Mantle hits 2 homers en route to 4 consecutive homers
1963 - 1st Beatle tune to hit US charts, Del Shannon "From Me to You" at #87
1966 - NYC transit fare rises from 15 cents to 20 cents
1966 - National Guard mobilizes in Omaha after 3rd night of rioting
1966 - Saturn I rocket launched at Cape Kennedy
1967 - Congo uprising under Belgian mercenary Jean Schramme
1968 - "Manifest of 1000 words" published in Prague
1968 - 82nd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats Tony Roche (63 64 62)
1968 - John Lennon sells his psychedelic painted Rolls-Royce
1968 - Phila 76'ers trade Wilt Chamberlain to LA Lakers
1969 - 83rd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats J Newcombe (64 57 64 64)
1969 - Rolling Stones play a free concert in London's Hyde Park
1970 - 25th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Donna Caponi Young
1970 - Air Canada DC-8 crashes 7 miles from Toronto's airport killing 109
1971 - 26th amendment certified (reduces voting age to 18)
1971 - Simon Gray's "Butley," premieres in London
1972 - Pierre Messmer appointed French premier
1973 - "Live & Let Die," James Bond film premieres
1973 - Isle of Man begins issuing their own postage stamps
1973 - Maj Gen Juvenal Habyarimana becomes president of Rwanda
1973 - Rwanda military coup under general-major Habyalimana
1973 - Test Cricket umpiring debut of H D "Dickie" Bird v NZ at Leeds
1974 - 81st Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats Olga Morzova (60 64)
1975 - 89th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Arthur Ashe beats J Connors (61 61 57 64)
1975 - Cape Verde Is gain independence after 500 years of Portuguese rule
1977 - Pakistan's army, led by Gen Mohammad Zia ul-Haq, seizes power
1978 - Soyuz 30 spacecraft touches down in Soviet Kazakhstan
1978 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1980 - 87th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Evonne Goolagong beats C Evert (61 76)
1980 - 94th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats McEnroe (16 75 63 67 86)
1981 - 9th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Jan Stephenson
1981 - Premier Begin's Likud party wins Israeli elections
1981 - Rajan Mahadevan recites 31,811 digits of π (Pi) from memory
1981 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1982 - Challenger flies to Kennedy Space Center via Ellington AFB, Texas
1982 - ICC Trophy record p/ship, 257 Schoonheim/Liffman, Hol v Malay
1983 - France invades Algeria
1983 - NJ Devils purchase AHL Maine Mariners as their farm team
1983 - Woman gives birth to baby 84 days after brain death (Roanoke, VA)
1984 - Supreme Court weakens 70-year-old "exclusionary rule"-evidence seized with defective court
           warrants can now be used in criminal trials
1985 - Premier Mugabe wins Zimbabwe elections
1985 - Nicholas Mark Sanders (England) begins circumnavigation of globe, covering 13,035 road
           miles in 78 days, 3 hr, 30 min
1986 - 93rd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats H Mandlikova (76 63)
1986 - Ingrid Kristiansen of Norway sets 10K woman's record (30:13.74)
1986 - Nancy Reagan cuts red, white & blue ribbon; reopens Statue of Liberty
1986 - Statue of Liberty is reopened after it is refurbished
1987 - 101st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Pat Cash beats Ivan Lendl (76 62 75)
1987 - A's Mark McGwire is 1st rookie to hit 30 home runs before All Star break
1987 - Jane Geddes wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic
1988 - Malcolm Marshall takes 7-22 at Old Trafford, England all out 93
1989 - Barry Bond's HR sets father-son (Bobby) HR record at 408
1989 - Mark McGwire's gets 100th HR, 2nd fastest (1400 at bats) (to Kiner)
1989 - Rod Stewart hits his head while on stage & knocks himself out
1989 - South-African Pres Pieter Botha visits ANC leader Nelson Mandela
1989 - Toronto Blue Jays are 10 games back in AL, & go on to win AL East
1990 - Zina Garrison upsets Steffi Graf in Wimbledon semi-finals
1991 - Colorado Rockies & Florida Marlins given final approval by owners
1991 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1991 - Lillian Cucuzza wins name Florida baseball team contest (Marlins)
1992 - 106th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Agassi beats Ivanisevic (67 64 64 16 64)
1992 - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic
1992 - Sixto Durán Ballén elected president of Ecuador
1993 - A's Rickey Henderson is 2nd to hit leadoff homers in doubleheader
1993 - Kurd guerrilla's murder 32 villager in East Turkey
1993 - Richard Chelimo run world record 10 km (27:07.91)
1994 - Boxer Buster Douglas comes out of a diabetic coma
1994 - US changes refugee policy, by sending Haitian boat people back
1994 - The United States announced it would refuse further unrestricted immigration from Haiti.
1995 - Columbia U beats Hartferd College to be 1st US to win Henley Regatta
1996 - A's scores 13 in 1st vs Angels
1996 - NY Yank John Weteland ties Lee Smith's record of 19 consecutive saves
1997 - 104th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Martina Hingis beats Jana Novotna
1997 - NY Yanks withdraw Kenny Rogers & Mariano Duncon deal for SD Padre
1998 - 53rd US Women's Open Golf Championship at Blackwolf Run GC, Kohler WI
2003 - SARS is declared to be contained by the WHO.
2004 - First Indonesian presidential election by the nation.
2006 - North Korea launched at least two short-range Nodong-2 missiles, one SCUD missile and one
           long-range Taepodong-2 missile.
2006 - Emergency United Nations Security Council meeting held at the U.N in New York City because
           of the North Korean missile tests a day before.
2009 - Roger Federer wins a record 15th Grand Slam (tennis) in tennis, winning a five set match
           against Andy Roddick at Wimbledon.
2009 - Ethnic rioting broke out in Ürümqi, Xinjiang, People's Republic of China
2012 - The Shard, the tallest building in Europe, is opened and stands at 309.6 metres (1,016 ft)
2012 - South Korea announce plans to begin "scientific' whaling of minke whales
2012 - Enrique Pena Nieto of the Institutional Revolutionary Party is elected President of Mexico after
           a recount following irregularities

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 05, 2013, 10:55:45 AM

This Day in History for 5th July


Famous Weddings

1911 - "Anne of Green Gables" author Lucy Maud Montgomery (36) weds Ewen MacDonald in Prince
           Edward Island, Canada
1943 - Actress Betty Grable (26) weds big band leader Harry James (27)
2002 - "Smallville" actor Tom Welling (25) weds model Jamie White in Martha's Vineyard,
           Massachusetts
2003 - TV personality Debbie Matenopoulos (28) weds Lions Gate Entertainment president Jay Faires
           at St. Sophia Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Los Angeles, California
2003 - "Dawson's Creek" actor James Van Der Beek (26) weds actress Heather Ann McComb (26) at
           Saddlerock Ranch in Malibu, California
2008 - "The Bachelor" TV personality Andrew Firestone (32) weds Serbian model and actress Ivana
           Bozilovic (30) at St Mark's in the Valley Episcopal Church in Los Olivos, California

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 05, 2013, 10:57:41 AM

This Day in History for 5th July


Famous Divorces

2007 - Burlesque dancer Dita Von Teese (34) divorces rocker Marilyn Manson (38) due to irreconcilable
           differences after a year of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 05, 2013, 11:14:45 AM

This Day in History for 5th July


Famous Birthdays

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US Civil War Admiral                        Nazi Physician Eugen Fischer (1874)                        French President
David Farragut (1801)                                                                                           Georges Pompidou (1911)

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The World´s First Cloned Sheep
Dolly (1996)


1321 - Joan of The Tower, Queen consort of Scotland (d. 1362)
1546 - Johann Steuerlein, composer
1586 - Thomas Hooker, Connecticut colonist (d. 1647)
1653 - Thomas Pitt, British Governor of Madras (d. 1726)
1654 - Antonio Maria Pacchioni, composer
1675 - Mary Walcott, American accuser at the Salem witch trials
1717 - Pedro III of Portugal, consort of Maria I of Portugal (d. 1786)
1718 - Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford, Viceroy of Ireland (d. 1794)
1729 - Claudio M da Costa, Brazilian poet
1755 - Sarah Kemble Siddons, Brecon England, tragic actress (Fatal Marriage)
1764 - Janos Lavotta, composer
1775 - William Crotch, composer
1793 - Pavel I Pestel, Russian officer
1794 - Sylvester Graham, developed graham cracker
1801 - David Farragut, Campbell&#039;s Station, Tennessee, US Admiral (&quot;Damn the
           torpedoes, full speed ahead!&quot;)
1805 - Robert Fitz Roy, British naval officer and scientist (d. 1865)
1810 - Phineas Taylor Barnum, Bethel Conn, circus promoter (Barnum & Bailey)
1820 - William John Macquorn Rankine, Scottish engineer and physicist (d. 1872)
1828 - Paul J C Gabriel, painter/water colors painter/etcher
1829 - Ignacio Mariscal, Writer and Mexican diplomat (d. 1910)
1841 - William C. Whitney, American financier (d. 1904)
1843 - Mandell Creighton, English bishop/historian
1847 - Agnes Marie Jacobina Zimmermann, composer
1852 - Stefano Gobatti, composer
1853 - Cecil John Rhodes, South Africa, politician/diamond merchant
1857 - Clara Zetkin, German women's rights advocate/communist
1858 - Maria J "Marie" Bakker, Dutch actress
1860 - Robert Bacon, American politician (d. 1919)
1867 - Andrew Ellicott Douglass, Dendrochronologer (study of tree rings)
1868 - William H Singer, US painter/collector (Singer Museum, Laren)
1872 - Edouard Herriot, French politician (d. 1957)
1874 - Gerhard von Keussler, composer
1874 - Eugen Fischer, Bade Germany, Nazi physician (Kaiser Wilhelm Institute), (d. 1967)
1878 - Joseph Holbrooke, English pianist/conductor/composer
1879 - Wanda Landowska, Warsaw Poland, harpsichordist (Musique Ancienne)
1879 - Dwight Filley Davis, US Sect of War/donated tennis' Davis Cup
1879 - Volkmar Andreae, Swiss conductor/composer (Tonhalle Orchestra)
1880 - Jan Kubelik, composer
1881 - Augustyn Hlond, Polish cardinal
1882 - Inayat Khan, Indian sufi (d. 1927).
1885 - Andre Lhote, French painter/art historian (Traité du paysage)
1886 - Felix Timmermans, Flemish writer/painter/cartoonist (Pallieter)
1886 - Willem Drees, PM of Netherland (PvdA, 1948-58)/Indonesia (AOW)
1889 - Jean Cocteau, France, writer/artist/director (Le Potamak, Orphée)
1890 - Frederick Lewis Allen, American social historian (d. 1954)
1891 - John Northrop, US, biochemist, crystallized enzymes (Nobel 1946)
1891 - Tin Ujević, Croatian poet (d. 1955)
1895 - Gordon Jacob, composer
1897 - Paul Ben-Haim, [Frankenburger], Munich Germany, Israeli composer
1898 - Yip Man, Ving Tsun Sifu and Master of Style (Gung-Gung) (d. 1972)
1899 - Anna Arnold Hedgeman, social activist (NYC cabinet)
1899 - Domingo Santa Cruz Wilson, composer
1899 - Marcel Achard, French screen/playwright (Jean de la Lune)
1900 - Bernardus J Cardinal Alfrink, cardinal of Utrecht Netherlands
1901 - Sergey Obraztsov, Soviet puppet master (d. 1992)
1902 - Frank Waters, writer
1902 - Henry Cabot Lodge, (Sen-R)/ambassador (VP candidate 1960)
1903 - Irwin Fischer, composer
1904 - Don Goddard, Binghamton NY, news anchor (ABC Evening News 1958-59)
1904 - Franz Adolf Syberg, composer
1904 - Harold Acton, English/Italian historian/art collector
1904 - Milburn Stone, Bruton Ks, actor (Doc-Gunsmoke)
1904 - Ernst Mayr, American biologist (d. 2005)
1905 - Isa Miranda, [Ines Sampietro], Italian model/actress (La ronde)
1905 - Jock Cameron, South African cricket keeper (captain)
1905 - Myles Horton, American educator and Civil Rights Movement teacher (d. 1990)
1909 - Andrei Gromyko, USSR, diplomat/USSR President (1985-89) [7/18 NS]
1910 - Robert K Meston, US sociologist (functionalism)
1911 - Georges Pompidou, Paris, President/Prime Minister of France (1962-74), (d. 1974)
1913 - Smiley Lewis, Louisiana, vocalist (I Hear You Knockin')
1914 - Jacob Soetendorp, Dutch rabbi
1915 - John Woodruff, American athlete (d. 2007)
1917 - Glenn Reeves, Massillon OH, actor (Defending Your Life)
1918 - George Rochberg, Paterson NJ, composer (Concord Quartet)
1920 - Issachar Miron, composer
1920 - Mary Louise Hancock, American politician and activist
1923 - John McKay, WV, football coach (USC, Tampa Bay, 5X Rose Bowl champ)
1924 - Beverly Tyler, Scranton Pa, actress (Fireball, Lorelei-Big Town)
1924 - Niels Jannasch, Canadian historian and museum curator (d. 2001)
1924 - János Starker, Hungarian cellist
1926 - Haya van Someren-Downer, 2nd Member of parliament (Dutch Lib Party)
1926 - Kenneth Gaburo, composer
1927 - W M Diggelmann, writer
1928 - Warren Oates, Depoy Ky, actor (East of Eden, Stoney Burke)
1928 - Pierre Mauroy, French politician
1929 - Graham Anthony Richard Lock, cricketer
1929 - Katherine Helmond, Galveston Tx, actress (Soap, Mona-Who's the Boss)
1929 - Mary Maxwell Gates, philanthropist/mother of Bill Gates
1929 - Tony Lock, cricketer (highly successful England slow lefty bowler)
1930 - Tommy Cook, Duluth MN, actor (Missile to the Moon)
1930 - Yutaka Makino, composer
1931 - James "Jimmy the Gent" Burke, criminal
1932 - Edgar Louis Vanderstegen Millington Drake, painter
1932 - Billy Laughlin, American actor (d. 1948)
1932 - Gyula Horn, former Hungarian prime minister
1933 - Terence Cooper, Northern Ireland, actor (Casino Royale)
1935 - Edward McInnes, German scholar
1935 - John Gilmore, American true crime author
1936 - Shirley Knight, Goessei Kansas, actress (Endless Love, Secrets)
1936 - James Mirrlees, Scottish economist, Nobel Prize laureate
1937 - Brooke Hayward, LA California, author (Haywire)
1937 - Frouwke J Laning-Boersema, Dutch politician (CDA) 2nd Chamber
1937 - Nita M Lowey, (Rep-D-New York)
1938 - Stanley Joel Silverman, composer
1939 - Booker Edgerson, American football player
1940 - Karen Shepherd, (Rep-D-Utah)
1940 - Chuck Close, American painter and photographer
1941 - Barbara Frischmuth, writer
1942 - Ada J Bas-Jansen, Dutch MP (CDA)
1942 - Johannes Löhr, German footballer and trainer
1943 - Robbie Robertson, [Jamie], Toronto Canada, rock guitarist (Band)
1943 - Curt Blefary [Curtis Le Roy], Brooklyn, New York, American baseball player (1965 AL rookie of
           year, The Sporting News Rookie of the Year)
1945 - Dick Scoppettone, rocker
1945 - Jeffrey Kramer, NYC, actor (Ted Stein-Struck by Lightning)
1945 - Humberto Benítez Treviño, Mexican Politician and Attorney General of México.
1946 - Pierre-Marc Johnson, Québécois lawyer, physician and politician
1946 - Paul Smith, British fashion designer
1946 - Gerardus 't Hooft, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laurete
1948 - Julie Nixon Eisenhower, Wash DC, daughter of Richard Milhaus
1948 - William Hootkins, American actor (d. 2005)
1949 - Benny Stolovitz, fictional character on LA Law
1950 - Gary Matthews, baseball player (1973 NL rookie of year)
1950 - Huey Lewis, rocker
1950 - Michael Monarch, LA California, rock guitarist (Steppenwolf)
1951 - Geert Jan Hessing, Dutch rock drummer (Catapult)
1951 - Richard "Goose" Gossage, relief pitcher (Yankees, Padres, A's)
1951 - Keiko Fuji, Japanese enka singer
1952 - David Dreier, (Rep-R-California, 1981- )
1952 - Michael Don McNabb, composer
1952 - Terence Tom Henricks, Bryan Oh, USAF/astronaut (STS 44, 55, 70, 78)
1954 - John Wright, NZ cricketer (opening batsman 1978-92)
1954 - Leni Björklund, Swedish politician
1954 - Jimmy Crespo, American guitarist (Aerosmith)
1955 - Michael Gismondi, rock saxophonist (Michael Stanley Band)
1956 - James Lofton, NFL wide reciever (Bills, Packers, Raiders)
1956 - Patsy Pease, American actress
1957 - David Hanson, politician
1957 - David Pinkney , British Touring Car Racer
1957 - Doug Wilson, Canadian hockey player
1958 - Meredith Ann Pierce, US, sci-fi author (Darkangel)
1958 - Patsy Pease, Winston-Salem NC, actress (Kimberly-Days of Our Lives)
1958 - Tzipi Livni, Israeli politician
1958 - Paul Daniel, British opera and symphony conductor
1958 - Bill Watterson, American cartoonist
1959 - Marc Cohn, singer (Walking in Memphis)
1959 - Patricia Pease Jeffers, NC, actress (Kimberly-Days of our Life)
1959 - Tim Shaw, cricketer (South African ODI slow lefty 1991)
1959 - Veronica Guerin, journalist
1960 - James M. Kelly, American politician
1960 - Brad Loree, Canadian actor and stunt performer
1961 - Isabelle Poulenard, French soprano
1963 - Edie Falco, American actress
1963 - Russ Lorenson, American singer and actor
1964 - Mark H Lascells, grandson of English princess Mary
1964 - Salim Raza, UAE cricket all-rounder (1996 World Cup)
1965 - Lucy Han, Hartford, Conn, WPVA volleyballer (Nationals-7th-1994)
1965 - Eyran Katsenelenbogen, Israeli jazz pianist
1966 - Kathryn Erbe, American actress
1966 - Susannah Doyle, British actress
1966 - Gianfranco Zola, Italian footballer
1967 - Tim Worrell, Pasadena California, pitcher (San Diego Padres)
1967 - Silvia Ziche, Italian comics artist
1968 - Molly Brock, Berkeley California, rower (Olympics-96)
1968 - Nate Singleton, NFL wide receiver (SF 49ers)
1968 - Shahid Anwar, cricketer (Pakistani all-rounder 1996 England tour)
1968 - Ken Akamatsu, Mangaka
1968 - Kenji Ito, Japanese composer
1968 - John Ruskin a.k.a. Nardwuar the Human Serviette, Canadian journalist
1968 - Alex Zülle, Swiss cyclist
1969 - Haylea Petrie, Australian softball outfielder (Olympics-bronze-96)
1969 - John Leclair, St Albans VT, NHL forward (Team USA, Philadelphia)
1969 - John Oostendorp, Iowa City Iowa, 220 lbs greco-roman wrestler (Oly-96)
1969 - Joshua Crayton, Redondo Beach California, kayak (alt-Olympics-96)
1969 - RZA, American rapper (Wu-Tang Clan)
1969 - Jenji Kohan, American television writer and producer
1970 - Doug Bochtler, West Palm Beach FL, pitcher (San Diego Padres)
1970 - Maureen Lee, Melbourne Australia, golfer
1970 - Mac Dre, American rapper (d. 2004)
1971 - Donna Faber, East Orange NJ, tennis star
1971 - Derek McInnes, Scottish footballer
1972 - Michael Bays, Enrico California, actor (Bronx Zoo, Days of Our Live)
1972 - Robert Esmie, Jamaica, Canadian 4X100m runner (Olympics-gold-96)
1972 - Tatsuhito Takaiwa, wrestler (NJPW)
1973 - Christy Rowe, St Paul Minn, soccer defender (Olympics-96)
1973 - Michael Sykora, Pardubice CZE, NHL defenseman (Sharks, Oly-gold-98)
1973 - Marcus Allbäck, Swedish footballer
1973 - Bengt Lagerberg, Swedish musician (The Cardigans)
1973 - Róisín Murphy, Irish musician
1973 - René Spies, German bobsledder
1974 - Márcio Amoroso, Brazilian footballer
1975 - Ai Sugiyama, Tokyo Japan, tennis star
1975 - Chris Gratton, Brantford, NHL center (Tampa Bay Lightning)
1975 - Christoph Brandner, hockey forward (Team Austria 1998)
1975 - Todd Macdonald, Charlestown, NHL goalie (Florida Panthers)
1975 - Hernán Crespo, Argentinian footballer
1975 - Gunnar H. Thomsen, Faroese musician (Týr)
1975 - Kip Gamblin, Australian dancer and actor
1976 - Nuno Gomes, Portuguese footballer
1976 - Marina Dias, Brazilian model
1976 - Bizarre, American rapper (D12)
1977 - Royce Da 5'9", American rapper
1977 - Nicolas Kiefer, German tennis player.
1978 - Carmen Kempt, Miss Canada Universe (1997)
1979 - Stiliyan Petrov, Bulgarian footballer
1979 - Shane Filan, Irish musician (Westlife)
1979 - Amélie Mauresmo, French tennis player
1980 - Eva Green, French actress
1980 - Jason Wade, American musician (Lifehouse)
1980 - David Rozehnal, Czech footballer
1981 - Jesse Crain, Canadian baseball player
1981 - Ryan Hansen, American actor
1982 - Alberto Gilardino, Italian footballer
1982 - Philippe Gilbert, Belgian cyclist
1983 - Zheng Jie, Chinese tennis player
1984 - Yu Yamada, Ryukyuan model, actress and singer
1985 - Stephanie McIntosh, Australian pop singer and actress
1985 - Nick O'Malley, British musician (Arctic Monkeys)
1989 - Joseph King, American musician (Canvas)
1991 - Jason Dolley, American actor
1996 - Dolly the sheep, first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell born in Scotland

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 05, 2013, 11:34:55 AM

This Day in History for 5th July


Famous Deaths

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British Statesman and                        Baseball Player Ted Williams (2002)
Founder of Singapore
Stamford Raffles (1826)


1316 - Infante Ferdinand of Majorca (b. 1278)
1375 - Charles III of Alençon, French archbishop (b. 1337)
1472 - Charles of Artois, Count of Eu, French military leader (b. 1394)
1539 - Antonio M Zaccaria, Italian physician/saint, dies
1626 - Stephan Fadinger, Austrian boer leader, dies in battle
1666 - Albert VI of Bavaria (b. 1584)
1676 - Carl Gustaf Wrangel, Swedish soldier (b. 1613)
1681 - Fjodor Aleksejevitsj, tsar of Russia, dies
1715 - Charles Ancillon, French Huguenot pastor (b. 1659)
1719 - Meinhardt Schomberg, 3rd Duke of Schomberg, Irish general (b. 1641)
1773 - Francisco José Freire, Portuguese historian and philologist (b. 1719)
1803 - William Jackson, composer, dies at 73
1826 - Stamford Raffles, British statesman and founder of Singapore dies at 44 of apoplexy
1833 - Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor (b. 1765)
1851 - Juanita, Mexican, lynched by California gold diggers
1852 - Johann Baptist Weigl, composer, dies at 69
1859 - Charles Cagniard de la Tour, French physicist (b. 1777)
1862 - Heinrich Georg Bronn, German geologist (b. 1800)
1871 - Cristina di Trivulzio di Belgioioso, Italian princess, dies
1883 - Frederick Scotson Clark, composer, dies at 42
1884 - Victor Masse, composer, dies at 62
1886 - Henry Gerhard, founder (Social-Democratic Union), dies at 57
1887 - August F Pott, German philological (That Personennamen), dies
1894 - Betty Paoli, writer, dies
1904 - Abai Kunanbaiuli, Kazakh poet (b. 1845)
1905 - Carel V Gerritsen, free thinker, dies
1907 - Maria Anna Mahler, Gustav Mahler's eldest daughter, dies at 5
1908 - Jonas Lie, Norwegian author (b. 1833)
1909 - Emil Bohn, composer, dies at 70
1911 - George J Stoney, Irish physicist, dies at 85
1913 - Alfred Lyttelton, cricketer (Eng wk 1880-84 demon lob bowler), dies
1920 - John Shuter, cricketer (scored 28 in only Test for England 1888), dies
1920 - Max Klinger, German graphic artist/painter/sculptor, dies at 63
1925 - Hjalmar Borgstrom, composer, dies at 61
1927 - Albrecht Kossel, German physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
          1853)
1929 - Henry Lincoln Johnson, Member of 369th regiment (aka Harlem Hell Fighters), first American to receive the Croix de guerre (b. 1897)
1932 - Sasha Cherny, Russian poet (b. 1880)
1935 - Daniel Plooy, Dutch new testament expert, dies at 58
1938 - John McIlwraith, cricketer (Tests for Australia), dies
1941 - Oskar Fried, composer, dies at 69
1944 - William Gillies Whittaker, composer, dies at 67
1945 - John Curtin, 14th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1885)
1948 - Carole Landis, US actress (1 Million BC, Topper Returns), dies at 29
1948 - G Bernanos, writer, dies at 60
1948 - Peter JM Aalberse, Dutch minister of Labor, dies at 77
1950 - Kenneth Shadrick, Pvt from WV becomes 1st US fatality in Korean War
1950 - Salvatore Giuliano, Sicilian bandit, shot by police
1957 - Charles Sherwood Noble, American-born inventor
1963 - Daniel Ruyneman, composer, dies at 76
1965 - Porfirio Rubirosa, Dominican diplomat and international playboy (b. 1909)
1966 - George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)
1969 - Ben Alexander, dies at 58
1969 - Tom Mboya, Kenyian economics minister, assassinated in Narobi at 65
1969 - Walter Gropius, architect/found (Bauhaus school of design), dies at 86
1969 - Wilhelm Backhaus, German pianist (Rubinstein-1905), dies at 85
1969 - Leo McCarey, American film director (b. 1898)
1975 - Gilda dalla Rizza, Italian soprano (b. 1892)
1979 - Elizabeth Ryan, tennis ace (won 19 Wimbledon titles), dies at 87
1979 - Judson Laire, actor/singer (Papa-Mama), dies at 76
1980 - Archibald James Potter, composer, dies at 61
1981 - Jorge Urrutia Blondel, composer, dies at 75
1983 - Arie Querido, psychiatrist (social psychiatry), dies
1983 - Harry James, swing-era bandleader/trumpet player, dies at 67
1983 - Vaclav Trojan, composer, dies at 76
1985 - Gerard Schmook, Flemish literature historian/custodian, dies at 86
1985 - Jack Robertson, South African cricket spinner (3 Tests v Aust 1935-36), dies
1985 - Marion Byron, actress (Steamboat Bill Jr), dies at 73
1989 - Ernesto Halffter, composer, dies at 84
1990 - Mitch Snyder, homeless advocate, commits suicide by hanging at 46
1991 - Howard Nemerow, US poet laureate (Pulitzer), dies
1991 - Mildred Dunnock, dies at 87
1992 - Georgia Brown, British singer/actress (Love at Stake), dies at 59
1993 - Harrison E Salisbury, US journalist (NY Times), dies at 84
1994 - Ad Gang, Dutch Liberal Party asst sec of state, dies at 67
1995 - Adrienne Keith Cohen, travel editor, dies at 69
1996 - Anne Schumacher Hummert, radio pioneer, dies at 91
1996 - Clyde Wiegand, physicist, dies at 81
1996 - Lorna Young, salesperson, dies at 44
1996 - Erik Wickberg, The Salvation Army general (b. 1904)
1997 - Mrs. Miller, American singer (b. 1907)
1998 - Sid Luckman, American football player (b. 1916)
2001 - Ernie K-Doe, American singer (b. 1936)
2002 - Ted Williams, baseball hall of famer and last player to bat over.400 in a single season (Boston
           Red Sox) dies at 84
2002 - Katy Jurado, Mexican actress (b. 1924)
2003 - Roman Lyashenko, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1979)
2004 - Hugh Shearer, Prime Minister of Jamaica (b. 1923)
2004 - Rodger Ward, American race car driver (b. 1921)
2005 - James Stockdale, U.S. Navy vice admiral (b. 1923)
2005 - Shirley Goodman, American singer (b. 1936)
2006 - Kenneth Lay, American businessman (b. 1942)
2007 - Régine Crespin, French operatic soprano (b. 1927)
2007 - Kerwin Mathews, American actor (b. 1926)
2007 - George Melly, British jazz & blues musician (b. 1926)
2008 - Hasan Doğan, 37th president of the Turkish Football Federation (b. 1956)
2010 - Bob Probert, Canadian professional ice hockey forward. (b. 1965)
2011 - Cy Twombly, American artist (b. 1928)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 06, 2013, 11:11:15 AM

This Day in History for 6th July


Historical Events

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Pirate Legend William Kidd                      Bacteriologist Louis Pasteur                 Jewish Victim & Diarist of the
                                                                                                                                 Holocaust Anne Frank

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US General George S Patton                     Tennis Player Steffi Graf                        Champion Tennis Player
                                                                                                                               Pete Sampras


1044 - The Battle of Ménfő takes place.
1189 - Richard the Lionheart is crowned King of England.
1253 - Mindaugas is crowned King of Lithuania.
1348 - Papal bull of Pope Clement VI protecting Jews during the Black Death.
1415 - Jan Hus is burned at the stake.
1483 - England's King Richard III crowned
1484 - Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cão finds the mouth of the Congo River.
1491 - Opening ceremony of Daitokuji's Shinju at subtemple
1495 - Battle at Fornovo] French king Charles VIII beats St League
1560 - England/Scotland signs Treaty of Edinburgh
1573 - Pacificatie of Boulogne: new peace treaty with huguenots
1573 - Córdoba, Argentina, is founded by Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera.
1590 - English admiral Francis Drake takes Portuguese Forts at Taag
1609 - Majesteitsbrief: Emperor Rudolf II grants Bohemia freedom of religion
1621 - Dutch gov-gen John Pieterszoon Coen takes Banda-islands, 15,000 die
1630 - Swedish troops under Gustaf II Adolf land at Peenemunde
1634 - Johan van Walbeecks ships bypass St-Anna Bay, Curacao
1641 - Battle at La Marfée Sedan: Earl Soisson beats French government army
1652 - Fire on Dutch Dam (Amsterdam's city hall burns)
1669 - LaSalle leaves Montreal to explore Ohio River
1673 - French troops conquer Maastricht as part of the Franco-Dutch War
1685 - Battle at Sedgemoor: King James II beats duke of Monmouth
1687 - Newton publishes "Principia"
1699 - Pirate Capt William Kidd is captured in Boston
1770 - Battle at Cesme: Russian fleet beats Turkish
1775 - Congress issues "Declaration of the Causes & Necessity of Taking up Arms," listing grievances
           but denying intent to be independent
1776 - Dec of Ind announced on front page of "PA Evening Gazette"
1777 - British Gen Burgoyne captures Fort Ticonderoga from Americans
1782 - British-French sea battle at Negapatam (South-Indies)
1785 - Congress unanimously resolves US currency named "dollar" & adopts decimal coinage
1787 - French government proclaims end to stamp/land tax
1787 - Orange troops occupy Area at Duurstede
1798 - US law makes aliens "liable to be apprehended, restrained, ... & removed as alien enemies"
1801 - Battle at Algeciras: French fleet beats British
1840 - Christian Hebbel's "Judith," premieres in Berlin
1848 - Mexican-American War ended with the Treaty of Guadaloupe Hidalgo
1853 - National Black convention meets (Rochester NY)
1853 - William Wells Brown publishes "Clotel," 1st novel by black American
1854 - 1st Republican state convention (Ripon Wisc)
1858 - Lyman Blake patents shoe manufacturing machine
1862 - Skirmish at Devall's Bluff Arkansas (106 casualties)
1863 - Battle of Williamsport, MD [-Jul 07]
1863 - Northern Territory passes from New South Wales to South Australia
1864 - Battle of Chattahoochee River, GA [->JUL 10] US730 CS600
1869 - Black candidate for lt governor of Va, Dr J H Harris, defeated
1882 - 14 Russian Jews of Bilu, arrive in Jaffa Palestine
1885 - Louis Pasteur successfully tests an anti-rabies vaccine
1886 - Horlick's of Wisconsin offers 1st malted milk to public
1887 - 4th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Lottie Dod beats Blanche Hillyard (62 60)
1892 - Dr Jose Rizal forms League Filipina
1892 - Striking steel workers in Homestead, Pa fire on scabs, killing 7
1892 - Dadabhai Naoroji elected as first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain.
1893 - The small town of Pomeroy, Iowa, is nearly destroyed by a tornado that kills 71 people and
           injures 200.
1894 - Cleveland sends 2,000 troops to Chicago to suppress Pullman strike
1903 - George Wyman arrives in NYC by motorcycle 51 days out of SF
1905 - Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the second time.
1908 - Robert Peary's expedition sails from NYC for north pole
1912 - Donald Lippincott runs world record 100m (10.6)
1917 - T E Lawrence captures Port of Agaba from Turkey
1919 - British R-34 lands in NY, 1st airship to cross Atlantic (108 hr)
1919 - William Veeck, sportswriter, replaces Fred Mitchell as Cubs president
1920 - Yankees score 14 in 5th inning & beat Washington Senators, 17-0
1922 - Dutch auto/airplane manufacturer Trompenburg declares bankruptcy
1923 - 36th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen beats K McKane (62 62)
1923 - Union of Soviet Socialist Republics form
1924 - 1st photo sent experimentally across Atlantic by radio, US-England
1928 - 1st all-talking motion picture shown in NY (Lights of NY)
1928 - Worlds largest record hailstone 1.5 lbs (7 inchs in diameter)) at the time falls in Potter
           Nebraska
1929 - St Louis has 2, 10 run innings & beats Phillies 28-6
1931 - 35th US Golf Open: Billy Burke shoots a 292 at Inverness Club Ohio
1932 - 1st class postage back up to 3 cents from 2 cents
1932 - Cubs shortstop Bill Jurges is shot twice in Chicago hotel room by a spurned girlfriend, Violet
           Popovich Valli
1933 - 1st All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 4-2 at Comiskey Park, Chicago
1935 - 48th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats H Jacobs (63 36 75)
1935 - Rotterdam architect A van de Steurs Museum Boymans opens
1936 - 114°F (46°C), Moorhead, Minnesota (state record)
1936 - 121°F (49°C), Steele, North Dakota (state record)
1936 - A major breach of the Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal in England sends millions of gallons
           of water cascading 200 feet into the River Irwell.
1938 - 6th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-1 at Crosley Field, Cincinnati
1939 - German Nazi's close last Jewish enterprises
1941 - NY Yankees unveil a monument to Lou Gehrig in centerfield
1942 - 10th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 3-1 at Polo Grounds, New York
1942 - Anne Frank's family goes into hiding in After House, Amsterdam
1942 - Von Hoth' IV Pantser army fights with Voronezj
1943 - 2nd day of battle at Kursk: 25,000 German killed
1943 - US destroyer William D Porter [Willie Dee] launched
1944 - 170 die in a fire at Ringling Bros Circus in Hartford Conn
1944 - French General De Gaulle arrives in Washington, DC
1944 - US General Patton lands in France
1945 - Nicaragua becomes 1st nation to formally accept UN Charter
1945 - Harry Truman signs executive order establishing Medal of Freedom
1945 - Wash Senator Rick Ferrell catches a record 1,722 games
1946 - "St Louis Woman" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 113 perfs
1946 - 53rd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Pauline Betz beats Louise Brough (62 64)
1946 - 60th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Yvon Petra beats G Brown (62 64 79 57 64)
1947 - The AK-47 goes into production in the Soviet Union.
1949 - Cin Red Walker Cooper gets 10 RBIs
1949 - Freak heat wave sent central coast of Portugal to 158°F for 2 minutes
1950 - German DR recognizes Oder-Neisse borders with Poland
1951 - 65th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Dick Savitt beats Ken McGregor (64 64 64)
1952 - Last tram ride in London
1954 - KMOS TV channel 6 in Sedalia-Warrensburg, MO (PBS) begins broadcasting
1954 - Tunisian government of M'zali, resigns
1956 - 70th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Lew Hoad beats Ken Rosewall (62 46 75 64)
1956 - 85th British Golf Open: Peter Thomson shoots a 286 at Hoylake England
1956 - Ford Frick inaugurates Cy Young Award, to honor to outstanding pitcher
1956 - Indians' Jim Busby hits a grand slam in two consecutive at bats
1957 - 64th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Althea Gibson beats Darlene Hard (63 62)
1957 - Harry S Truman Library forms in Independence, Missouri
1958 - Adolfo Lopez Mateos elected pres of Mexico
1958 - Alaska becomes 49th state
1959 - 5th LPGA Championship won by Betsy Rawls
1959 - Saar becomes part of German Federal Republic
1959 - WENH TV channel 11 in Durham, NH (PBS) begins broadcasting
1960 - Dr Barbara Moore completes a 3,207 mile walk from LA to NYC
1961 - Portuguese ship explode near Mozambique, kills 300
1962 - 76th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats Martin Mulligan (62 62 61)
1962 - Emir Said al-Djazairi takes van Algerian throne in Syria
1962 - Mantle hits his 3rd & 4th consecutive homer
1962 - Nuclear test shot Sedan; part of Operation Plowshare.
1963 - 70th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Smith beats Billie J King (63 64)
1963 - 77th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: C McKinley beats Fred Stolle (97 61 64)
1963 - South African worker's union leader Billy Nair arrested
1964 - Beatles' film "Hard Day's Night" premieres in London
1964 - Malawi (formerly Nyasaland) declares independence from UK
1965 - Rock group "Jefferson Airplane" forms
1966 - Malawi becomes a republic, Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda becomes pres
1967 - Biafran War erupts as Nigerian forces invade
1968 - 75th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Billie Jean King beats J Tegart (97 75)
1968 - Sacharov publishes "Manifest of 10,000 words"
1969 - Filming begins on "Ned Kelly" starring Mick Jagger
1969 - Frente Obrero y Liberacion (FOL) forms in Curacao
1970 - California passes 1st "no fault" divorce law
1970 - Italian Rumor government resigns
1971 - Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda sworn in as President for Life of Malawi
1971 - White House Plumbers unit formed to plug news leaks
1974 - 88th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Jimmy Connors beats K Rosewall (61 61 64)
1975 - Argentine government falls
1975 - Comoros declare independence from France (most of them)
1975 - Dmitri Shostakovitch completes Sonate for alto opus 147
1975 - Susie McAllister wins LPGA Wheeling Ladies Golf Classic
1976 - Soyuz 21 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 5 space station
1977 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1978 - Israeli jet fighters swooped over mostly Moslem West Beirut
1978 - The Taunton sleeping car fire occurred in Taunton, Somerset killing twelve people.
1979 - 86th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Chris Evert (64 64)
1979 - IRA-bomb explodes in British consulate in Antwerp
1980 - Amy Alcott wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
1980 - France performs nuclear test
1980 - Steve Carlton (14-4) pitches most strikeouts by a lefty (2,836)
1983 - 54th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 13-3 at Comiskey Park, Chicago
1983 - Supreme Court rules retirement plans can't pay women less
1983 - Fred Lynn of Angels hits All Star game 1st grand slam (AL wins 13-3)
1986 - 100th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Boris Becker beats Ivan Lendl (64 63 75)
1986 - Amy Alcott wins LPGA Mazda Hall of Fame Golf Championship
1986 - Bob Horner becomes 11th player to hit 4 home runs in a game
1986 - Ex-minister Arturo Tolentino failed coup in Philippines
1986 - Premier Nakasones Liberal Democr Party wins Japan's election
1987 - 1st of 3 massacres by Sikh extremists takes place in India
1987 - Pakistan score their 1st innings win over England, at Leeds
1987 - USSR performs nuclear test
1988 - Carlos Salinas de Gortari elected president of Mexico
1988 - North Sea oil platform Piper Alpha explodes, 166 die
1988 - Wrestler Jake Roberts convicted of battery
1989 - Despite retiring May 29, Mike Schmidt elected to start All Star game
1989 - US marshals & FCC seize pirate radio station WHOT in Brooklyn
1990 - "Jetson's the Movie" with Tiffany, premieres
1990 - After pitching a no-hitter lose, NY Yankee Andy Hawkins pitches a complete 12 inn game &
           loses 2-0
1991 - 98th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats G Sabatini (64 36 86)
1992 - Fay Vincent realigns NL, putting Cubs, Cards & Rockies in West & Cards, Braves & Marlins in
           East
1993 - Graham Thorpe scores 114 on Test Cricket debut, England v Australia
1993 - John F Kennedy Jr, gives notice of quitting as ADA in Manhattan
1994 - Irina Privalova runs 100m European Record (10.77)
1994 - Lerou Burrell runs world record 100m (9.85)
1994 - Shreveport Pirates 1st CFL game (vs Ottawa)
1995 - Lottie Dod, 15, beats Blanch Bingley at Wimbledon
1996 - 103rd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: S Graf beats Aranxta S Vicaro (63, 75)
1996 - Yankee John Weteland sets record of 20th cons saves en route to 24
1997 - "Dream-Johnny Mercer Musical," closes at Royale NYC after 109 perfs
1997 - 111th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats C Pioline (64 62 64)
1997 - Jamie Farr Kroger Classic
1997 - Kelly Robbins wins LPGA Jamie Farr Kroger Classic
1997 - Montreal Expos retire Andre Dawson's uniform #10
1997 - Wimbledon Gigi Fernandez & Natasha Zvereva beat N Arendt & M Bollegraf
1998 - Hong Kong's Kai Tak Airport is closed and the new Hong Kong International Airport at Chek
           Lap Kok becomes operational.
1999 - U.S. Army private Barry Winchell dies from baseball-bat injuries inflicted in his sleep the
           previous day by fellow soldiers for his relationship with transgendered showgirl and former
           Navy combat medic, Calpernia Addams.
2003 - The 70-meter Eupatoria Planetary Radar sends a METI message Cosmic Call 2 to 5 stars: Hip
           4872, HD 245409, 55 Cancri, HD 10307 and 47 Ursae Majoris that will arrive to these stars in 2036, 2040, 2044, 2044 and 2049 respectively.
2006 - The Nathula Pass between India and China, sealed during the Sino-Indian War, re-opens for
           trade after 44 years.
2009 - Jadranka Kosor became first female Prime minister of Croatia.
2012 - Gunmen kill 18 people in Turbat, Pakistan

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 06, 2013, 11:19:10 AM

This Day in History for 6th July


Famous Weddings

1893 - British Prince George Duke of York (later George V) marries Princess Victoria of Teck (Queen
           Mary) at St James's Palace
1953 - "James Bond" actor Roger Moore (25) weds Welsh singer Dorothy Squires (38) in Jersey City
1966 - American science fiction writer "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" Philip K Dick marries
           4th wife Nancy Hackett
1968 - US Army General Norman Schwarzkopf Jr (33) weds Brenda Halsinger
1971 - ABBA member Bjorn Ulvaeus (26) weds fellow singer Agnetha Faltskog (21)
1973 - "The Avengers" actress Diana Rigg (35) weds Israeli painter Menachen Gueffen (43)
2006 - "National Treasure" director Jon Turteltaub (42) weds co-founder of Creative Visions
           Foundation Amy Eldon at Saddlerock Ranch and Vineyard in Malibu, California

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 06, 2013, 11:22:15 AM

This Day in History for 6th July


Famous Divorces

2009 - Actress Rachael Bella (25) divorces "Terminator 2" actor Eddie Furlong (31) due to irreconcilable
           differences after 3 years of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 06, 2013, 11:52:43 AM

This Day in History for 6th July


Famous Birthdays

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British Statesman and                             Actress Janet Leigh (1927)                       43rd US President
Founder of Singapore                                                                                           George W.Bush (1946)
Stamford Raffles (1781)                                                                                                                                                                                 


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Actor/Director
Sylvester Stallone (1946)


1542 - Elisabeth van Nassau, daughter of Willem/Juliana van Stolberg
1580 - Johann Stobaeus, composer
1632 - Albert Schop, composer
1632 - Pietro Reggio, composer
1638 - Gerrit A Berckheyde, Dutch painter
1668 - Peter Burmannus, [Pieter Burman], Dutch attorney/classicist
1678 - Nicola Francesco Haym, composer
1686 - Antoine de Jussieu, French naturalist (d. 1758)
1702 - Franz Anton Maichelbeck, composer
1739 - Freidrich Wilhelm Rust, composer
1747 - Coelestin Jungbauer, composer
1747 - John Paul Jones, naval hero ("I have not yet begun to fight")
1753 - John H Midderigh, Rotterdam patriot, baptized
1755 - John Flaxman, English sculptor (Westminster Abbey tomb stones)
1766 - Alexander Wilson, Scottish-born naturalist (d. 1813)
1773 - Wenzel Thomas Matiegka, composer
1781 - Stamford Raffles, British statesman and founder of Singapore
1782 - Luis [Philippus] Brion, Curacao commander of Colombian fleet
1782 - Maria Louisa of Spain, queen of Etruria (d. 1824)
1785 - William J Hooker, English botanist/director (Kew Gardens)
1789 - Maria Isabella of Spain, queen of the Two Sicilies (d. 1846)
1793 - Jacob M de Kempenaer, Dutch lawyer/min of Internal Affairs (1848-49)
1796 - Nicholas I Pavlovitch, tsar of Russia (1825-55)
1800 - Marco Aurelio Zani de Ferranti, composer
1814 - Justus McKinstry, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1897
1817 - Albert von Kölliker, Swiss anatomist (d. 1905)
1818 - Adolf Anderssen, Prussia, world chess champion (1851-66)
1821 - Edward Winston Pettus, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1907
1832 - Maximilian F J, archduke of Austria/Emperor of Mexico
1837 - Wlasyslaw Zelenski, composer
1838 - Vatroslav Jagic, Croatian scholar (d. 1923)
1852 - John Albert Delany, composer
1856 - Edward Anseele, Belgian minister of Rail/PTT
1859 - Verner von Heidenstam, Sweden, poet/novelist (Charles Men, Nobel 1916)
1864 - Alberto Nepomuceno, Brazil, composer/conductor (Artemis)
1865 - Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, Swiss musician (d. 1950)
1868 - Petrus A Euwens, Dutch vicar/editor (Amigoe di Curacao)
1868 - Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom (d. 1935)
1873 - Paul Keller, German writer (Ferien vom Ich)
1877 - David Stanley Smith, composer
1877 - Niceto A Zamora y Torres, premier/president of Spain (1931-36)
1878 - Eino Leino, Finnish poet (d. 1926)
1881 - Josef Winckler, German dentist/writer (Quadriga, Pumpernickel)
1882 - Ralph Morgan, [Wupperman], NYC, actor (Creeper, Imposter, Jack London)
1884 - Andre Dunoyer de Segonzac, French painter/cartoonist
1884 - Harold Vanderbilt, NY, America Cup (1930,34,37)/inv contract bridge
1884 - Willem Dudok, Dutch architect (town hall Hilversum/Beehive Rotterdam)
1885 - Ernst Busch, German field marshal (d. 1945)
1888 - Annette Kellerman, Sydney Australia, swimmer (Million Dollar Mermaid)
1890 - Andrew Sandham, cricketer (Test cricket's 1st triple centurion)
1892 - Baron Willy Coppens de Houthulst, Belgian WW I pilot
1893 - Wilton St Hill, WI cricketer (3 Tests 1928-30)
1896 - Thomas W McKnew, president (National Geographic Society)
1897 - Richard Krautheimer, art Historian
1898 - Hanns Eisler, German/US composer/German DR-minister for propaganda
1900 - Emil Barth, writer
1900 - Frederica Sagor Maas, American playwright and screen writer (d. 2012)
1903 - Axel Theorell, Sweden, biochemist, studied enzymes (Nobel 1955)
1904 - Robert Whitney, Newcastle-on-Tyne England, conductor (Sospiro do Roma)
1904 - Erik Wickberg, Salvation Army general (d. 1996)
1906 - Agnes Elisabeth Lutyens, composer
1907 - M C Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter/wife of Diego Rivera
1908 - Leonce Grass, Flemish singer/conductor
1912 - Heinrich Harrer, Austrian mountaineer (d. 2006)
1914 - Jens Rohiner, composer
1915 - Dorothy Kirsten, Montclair NJ, soprano (Time to Sing, Chevy Show)
1915 - Laverne Andrews, Minneapolis MN, singer (Andrews Sisters)
1915 - Marcel Quinet, Belgian pianist/composer (Vague et Sillon)
1916 - Unica Zorn, writer
1917 - Hugo Cole, composer
1917 - Hugo Yarnold, cricketer (Worcestershire keeper & Test umpire)
1917 - Arthur Lydiard, New Zealand running coach (d. 2004)
1918 - Bert [Lambertus H] Voeten, Dutch journalist/poet (Crossing)
1918 - Eugene List, Phila Penn, pianist/prof (Eastman School of Music)
1918 - Sebastian Cabot, London, actor (Mr French-Family Affair, Time Machine)
1919 - Dorothy Kirsten, opera singer/Alzheimer disease activist
1920 - William Worthington, horse trainer
1921 - Nancy Davis Reagan, [Anne Francis Robbins], NYC, 1st Lady (1981-89)
1922 - Francisco Moncion, dancer
1922 - William Schallert, LA California, actor (Patty Duke Show, Get Smart)
1923 - Cathy O'Donnell, Siluria AL, actress (Miniver Story, Man from Laramie)
1923 - Marie McDonald, Burgin KY, singer/actress (Promises Promises)
1923 - Wojciech Jaruzelski, Polish general/pres (1989-90)
1924 - Robert Michael White, NYC, test pilot (X-15)
1925 - Bill Haley, Highland Park Mich, rock vocalist (Rock Around the Clock)
1925 - Huub H Jacobse, member of Dutch 2nd chamber (Liberal)
1925 - Merv Griffin, San Mateo California, TV host (Merv Griffin Show)
1926 - Nicky Hilton, 1st husband of Elizabeth Taylor
1927 - Charles Whittenberg, composer
1927 - Janet Leigh, [Jeanetta Morrison], Merced CA, actress (Psycho), (d. 2004)
1927 - Pat Paulsen, Wash, comedian/pres candidate (Smothers Bros Show)
1927 - Susan Cabot, Boston, actress (Carnival Rock)
1927 - [Jan] Hein Donner, Dutch chess master
1927 - Nilo Soruco, Bolivian songwriter (d. 2004)
1929 - Gerd Zacher, composer
1930 - Francoise Mallet-Joris, [F Lilar], Belgian writer (Signs & Wonders)
1930 - H J Heise, writer
1931 - Donal Donnelly, Bradford Yorkshire England, actor (Dead)
1931 - Joseph Daniel White, singer/bandleader
1931 - Jean Campeau, French Canadian businessman and politician
1932 - Della Reese, Detroit, singer/actress (Della Reese Show, Royal Family)
1933 - Frank Austin, English footballer
1935 - 14th Dalai Lama, Tibet, spiritual leader of Tibet's Lamaistic Buddhists
1936 - Dave Allen, Irish comedian (d. 2005)
1937 - Gene Chandler, [Eugene Dixon], Chicago, rocker (Duke of Earl)
1937 - Ned Beatty, Lexington Ky, actor (Deliverance, Repossed, Network)
1937 - Tony Lewis, cricketer (England batsman, captain 1972-73)
1937 - Vladimir Ashkenazy, Gorki Russia, pianist/conductor (Tchakowsky-1961)
1938 - Franco, Zaire, composer/guitarist/leader (Masumbuku)
1939 - Helena Dupont, US, equestrian 3-day even (Olympic-33rd place-1964)
1939 - Jet Harris, [Terence Harris], London, rock bassist (Drifters)
1939 - Man Mohan Sood, cricketer (scored 0 & 3 in his only Test for India)
1939 - Mary Peters, England, pentathlete (Olympic-gold-1972)
1939 - Jet Harris, English bass guitarist
1940 - Viktor Kuzkin, USSR, ice hockey player (Olympic-gold-1964, 68, 72)
1940 - Nursultan Nazarbayev, President of Kazakhstan
1940 - Jeannie Seely, American singer
1944 - Byron Berline, rocker
1944 - Gunhild Hoffmeister, German FR, 800m/1500m runner (Oly-silver-72)
1945 - Burt Ward, [Gervis], LA California, actor (Robin-Batman)
1945 - Rik Elswit, rocker (Dr Hook & Medicine Show-In the Right Place)
1945 - Rodney Matthews, English fantasy artist and illustrator
1946 - Fred Dryer, Hawthone California, NFLer (NY Giants, LA Rams)/actor (Hunter)
1946 - George W. Bush Jr, New Have, Connecticut, 43rd President of the United States (2001-09)
           and 46th Governor of Texas (1995-2000) (R-TX)
1946 - James Naughton, US, actor (Trauma center) [or June 12, 1945]
1946 - Jamie Wyeth, Penn, artist (An American Vision-Boston)
1946 - Rick Hunter, actor
1946 - Sylvester Stallone, NYC, actor/director (Rocky, Rambo, Cobra)
1946 - Peter Singer, Australian philosopher
1947 - Richard Beckinsale, Nottingham England, actor (Porridge, Doing Time)
1947 - Lance Clemons, baseball player
1948 - Brad Park, Scarborough Ontario, NHL defenseman (NY Rangers, Boston Bruins)
1948 - Nathalie Baye, Mainneville France, actress (Beau Pere, Honeymoon)
1948 - Wadih Saadeh, Lebanese-Australian poet
1948 - Tom Curley, American media executive
1949 - Shelley Hack, Greenwich Ct, actress (Tiffany Welles-Charlie's Angel)
1950 - Phyllis Hyman, jazz Singer
1950 - Ramon Guzman, jockey
1950 - Sultan Rakhmanov, Super heavyweight (Olympic-gold-1980)
1950 - John Byrne, American comic book author & artist
1950 - Hélène Scherrer, Canadian politician
1951 - Geoffrey Rush, Australian actor
1952 - Grant Goodeve, Middlebury CT, actor (Northern Exposure)
1952 - Jesse Harms, musician, of REO Speedwagon
1953 - Nanci Griffith, US singer/songwriter (Poet in My Window)
1954 - Allyce Beasley, Bkln, actress (Agnes Dipesto-Moonlighting)
1954 - James Kiberd, actor (Trevor Dillon-Loving, All My Children)
1954 - Willie Randolph, former New York Mets manager
1955 - William Wall, Irish writer
1956 - John Jorgenson, Madison Wisc, singer (Desert Rose Band-Love Reunited)
1956 - Matt Bahr, NFL kicker (NE Patriots, NY Giants)
1956 - Casey Sander, American actor
1957 - Mario Martinez, Salinas Ca, US Olympic weightlifter (Olympic-4th-1988)
1957 - Ron Duguay, Canada, hockey player (NY Rangers, Detroit Red Wings)
1958 - Jennifer Saunders, Sleaford England, actress (Absolutely Fabulous)
1958 - Mark Benson, cricketer (played Test England v India 1986, 30 & 21)
1958 - Ossie Moore, Murwillumbah NSW, Australasia golfer
1959 - John Keeble, London, rock drummer (Spandau Ballet-True)
1959 - Tahir Naqqash, cricketer (Pakistani pace-bowler in 15 Tests 1982-85)
1960 - Caroll-Ann Alie, Ottawa Ontario, yachter (Olympics-14-92, 96)
1960 - Jozef/Josef Pribilinec, Czech, speed walker (world record 10K)
1960 - Lauri Merten, Waukesha WI, LPGA golfer (1993 US Women's Open)
1960 - Valerie Brisco-Hooks, Greenwood Ms, 200m/400m runner (Olympic-gold-84)
1961 - Benita Fitzgerald-Brown, Virg, 100m hurdler (Olympic-gold-1984)
1961 - Kimberly Foster, actress (It Takes Two)
1963 - Edwin Gorter, soccer player (Lommel/FC Utrecht)
1964 - Lillie Leatherwood, Northport Ala, 4X400m relayer (Olympic-gold-1984)
1965 - Glenn Scarpelli, Staten Is NY, actor (Alex-One Day At a Time, Fantasy)
1965 - Tim Camargo, jockey
1966 - Brian Posehn, American actor
1967 - David Whitmore, NFL strong safety (Philadelphia Eagles)
1967 - Omar Olivares, Mayaguez Puerto Rico, pitcher (Detroit Tigers)
1967 - Heather Nova, Bermudian singer
1968 - Alvin Harper, NFL wide receiver (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1968 - Anthony Kershler, cricketer (NSW left-arm spinner 1994-95)
1969 - Michael Grant, vocalist (Musical Youth)
1969 - Sophia Witherspoon, WNBA guard (NY Liberty)
1969 - Brian Van Holt, American actor
1970 - Antonio Harvey, NBA center/forward (LA Clippers)
1970 - Inspectah Deck, American rapper
1970 - Frank Salvato II, Italian-American Sound Engineer and Composer
1970 - Martin Smith, English singer (Delirious?)
1971 - Adam Laurent, Santa Cruz California, pursuit cyclist (Olympics-96)
1971 - Kari Kupcinet, Chicago, actress (Julie Sanderson-Young & Restless)
1971 - Owen Lance Bill Hughes, Palmerston North NZ, kayaker (Olympics-96)
1971 - Kenya D. Williamson, American actress
1972 - Billy Davis, NFL wide receiver (Dallas Cowboys)
1972 - Isabelle Boulay, French-Canadian singer
1972 - D-Styles, American scratch DJ
1972 - Greg Norton, American baseball player
1972 - Mark Gasser, British pianist
1973 - Karl Ballard, WLAF linebacker (London Monarchs)
1974 - Steve Sullivan, Timmins, NHL center (NJ Devils)
1974 - Zé Roberto, Brazilian footballer
1975 - Amir-Abbas Fakhravar, Iranian journalist and activist
1975 - Sebastián Rulli, Argentine actor
1975 - 50 Cent, American rapper
1976 - Michelle Stanley, Littleton Colorado, Miss America-Colorado (1997)
1976 - Nikki Mott, Australian field hockey forward (Olympics-96)
1977 - Con Blatsis, Australian footballer
1977 - Makhaya Ntini, South African cricketer
1977 - Craig Handley, British film director
1978 - Rachel Rochelli, Houston TX, gymnast (alt-Olympics-96)
1978 - Tamera Mowry, twin actress (Sisters)
1978 - Tia Mowry, twin actress (Sisters)
1978 - Kevin Senio, New Zealand rugby player
1979 - Nicolas Daniel Maricio, Prince of Netherlands
1979 - Nic Cester, Australian musician (Jet)
1980 - Pau Gasol, Spanish basketball player
1981 - Nicole Kantek, NSW Australia, gymnast (Olympics-96)
1981 - Nnamdi Asomugha, American football player
1982 - Tay Zonday, American singer and keyboardist
1983 - Gregory Smith, Canadian actor
1984 - Lauren Harris, British rock singer
1984 - James Henderson, American model
1986 - Derrick Williams, American football player
1987 - Caroline Trentini, Brazilian model
1987 - Kate Nash, English singer/songwriter
1987 - Matt O'Leary, American actor
1994 - Rebecca Rosso and Camilla Rosso, British actresses

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 06, 2013, 11:58:31 AM

This Day in History for 6th July


Famous Deaths

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Author and Nobel Laureate                   Jazz Trumpeter Louis Armstrong (1971)
William Faulkner (1962)


1189 - Henry II, King of England (1154-89), dies at 56
1218 - Eudes III, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1166)
1415 - Jan Hus, Bohemian reformer (b. 1369), burned for heresy by the Church at Constance,
           Germany
1476 - Regiomontanus, [Johannes Muller of Königsberg], German astronomer (b. 1436)
1480 - Antonio Squarcialupi, composer, dies at 64
1533 - Ludovico Ariosto, Italian poet (Orlando Furioso), dies at 57
1535 - Thomas More, philosopher (Utopia), executed for treason at 57
1553 - Edward VI Tudor, King of England (1547-53), dies at 15
1568 - Johann Oporinus, Swiss book publisher/publisher, dies at 61
1583 - Edmund Grindal, English bishop of London/archbhp of York, dies at 64
1585 - Thomas Aufield, English Catholic martyr (b. 1552)
1587 - Michael Lauterbeck, assassinated Fries viceroy Willem Louis, executed
1684 - Peter Gunning, English royalist churchman (b. 1614)
1734 - Nicolas Bernier, composer, dies at 69
1758 - George Howe, 3rd Viscount Howe, British general
1762 - Peter III Feodorovich, tsar of Russia (1761-62), murdered at 34
1765 - Ferdinand Zellbell, composer, dies at 76
1768 - Conrad Johann Conrad Beissel, composer, dies at 78
1795 - Georg Gottfried Petri, composer, dies at 79
1802 - Daniel Morgan, American Revolutionary general and politician (b. ~1735)
1809 - Antoine Charles Louis Lasalle, French cavalry general (b. 1775)
1813 - Granville Sharp, British abolitionist (b. 1735)
1816 - Philipp Meissner, composer, dies at 67
1835 - John Marshall, Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1755)
1854 - Georg Ohm, German physicist (b. 1789)
1858 - Jan Emmanuel Dulezalek, composer, dies at 78
1860 - Alexandre Edouard Goria, composer, dies at 37
1863 - Strong Vincent, US Union brig-general, dies
1864 - Samuel Allen Rice, US Union brig-gen, dies of injuries at 36
1868 - Samuel Lover, composer, dies at 71
1868 - Sanosuke Harada, Shinsengumi Captain (b. 1840)
1871 - Antonio de Castro Alves, Brazilian poet (O navio negreiro), dies at 34
1879 - Henry Thomas Smart, composer, dies at 65
1893 - Guy de Maupassant, French author (b. 1850)
1896 - Alexander Sergeyevich Famintsin, composer, dies at 54
1901 - Prince Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1819)
1902 - Leopoldo Miguez, composer, dies at 51
1907 - August Johann Gottfried Bielenstein, German Linguist, Theologian (b. 1826)
1914 - Delmira Augustini, Uruguayan poet, murdered at 27
1916 - Odilon Redon, French painter (b. 1840)
1918 - Count von Mirbach, German ambassador to Moscow, dies
1922 - Maria Theresa Ledochowska, Polish-Austrian Catholic nun (b. 1863)
1932 - Kenneth Grahame, English author (b. 1859)
1933 - Robert Kajanus, composer, dies at 76
1934 - Warden Uncle, [Edward Vermeulen], Flemish landlord/writer, dies at 73
1950 - Fats Navarro, American jazz trumpet player (b. 1923)
1951 - Josef Huttel, composer, dies at 57
1952 - Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, French Canadian politician (b. 1867)
1954 - Dirk Verbeek, actor/director (Hofstad Stage), dies at 70
1955 - Paolo Gallico, composer, dies at 87
1959 - George Grosz, German cartoonist/painter (Ecce Homo), dies at 65
1960 - Aneurin Bevan, British politician (b. 1897)
1961 - Cuno Amiet, Swiss painter, dies at 93
1961 - Enrique Larreta, [E Rodriguez Maza], Argentine diplomat/writer, dies
1961 - Scott LaFaro, American musician (b. 1936)
1961 - Woodall Rodgers, American politician (b. 1890)
1962 - William Faulkner, US author (Nobel 1949), dies at 64
1962 - Archduke Joseph August of Austria, Austrian field marshal (b. 1872)
1962 - Georg, Duke of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1899)
1966 - Anne Nagel, dies of cancer at 50
1966 - Sad Sam Jones, American baseball player (b. 1892)
1970 - Marjorie Rambeau, dies at 80
1971 - Horst Lange, writer, dies at 66
1971 - Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong, jazz musician (Hello Dolly), dies at 71
1971 - Thomas C Heart, US admiral/commander (Asiatic fleet), dies
1971 - Louis Armstrong, American jazz trumpeter and singer, dies at 69
1972 - Brandon De Wilde, actor (Jamie), dies at 30 in a car crash
1972 - Sam de Grasse, dies at 97
1972 - Vincent Valentine, WI cricket pace bowler (England 1933), dies
1973 - Joe E Brown, comedian, dies after long illness at 80
1973 - Otto Klemperer, German/US conductor, dies at 88
1973 - Patrick McVey, actor (Manhunt, Big Town), dies at 63
1974 - Carlos Isamitt, composer, dies at 87
1975 - Otto Skorzeny, German/Austrian SS (Mussolini/Ardennen), dies
1975 - Ruffian, American racehorse (b. 1972)
1976 - Fritz Lenz, German geneticist (b. 1887)
1977 - Oedoen Partos, composer, dies at 69
1979 - Van McCoy, singer/songwriter (Hey Mr DJ, Hustle), dies at 35
1980 - Gail Patrick, actress (My Man Godfrey), dies of leukemia at 69
1982 - Russell Thorson, actor (One Man's Family), dies at 72
1982 - Bob Johnson, American baseball player (b. 1905)
1986 - Jagjivan Ram, Indian politician (b. 1908)
1989 - Janos Kádár, premier of Hungary (1956-58), dies at 77
1990 - Jim Samuels, comedian, dies of spinal meningitis at 41
1990 - Paul Wynne, KGO-TV SF reporter, dies of AIDS at 46
1991 - Thorley Walters, actor (Trog, Edwardians, Daisy), dies at 78
1991 - Muda Lawal, Nigerian footballer (b. 1954)
1992 - Edgardo Pallero, Argentina producer (Los hijos de fierro), dies
1993 - Ruth Lady Fermoy, maternal grandmother of Princess Diane, dies at 84
1994 - Cameron Mitchell, actor (High Chapparral), dies of lung cancer at 75
1994 - Geoffrey McQueen, TV writer, dies at 46
1995 - Aziz Nesin, writer, dies at 79
1995 - Helene Johnson, poet, dies at 87
1995 - Ivor Keys, musician/teacher, dies at 76
1996 - John Sturdy, scholar, dies at 62
1996 - Kathy Ahern, American golfer (b. 1949)
1998 - Roy Rogers, American actor (b. 1911)
1999 - Carl Gunter Jr, American politician (b. 1938)
1999 - Joaquin Rodrigo, Spanish composer (b. 1901)
1999 - Barry Winchell, American soldier (b. 1977)
2002 - Dhirubhai Ambani, Indian businessman (b. 1932)
2002 - John Frankenheimer, American film director (b. 1930)
2003 - Buddy Ebsen, American actor (b. 1908)
2003 - Skip Battin, American rocker, dies at 69
2004 - Thomas Klestil, President of Austria (b. 1932)
2004 - Syreeta Wright, American singer (b. 1946)
2005 - Bruno Augenstein, German-born mathematician (b. 1923)
2005 - L. Patrick Gray III, American FBI director (b. 1916)
2005 - Evan Hunter, American novelist (b. 1926)
2005 - Claude Simon, French writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1913)
2005 - Richard Verreau, Canadian tenor (b. 1926)
2006 - Kasey Rogers, American actress (b. 1926)
2006 - Tom Weir, Scottish climber, author and broadcaster (b. 1914)
2008 - Bobby Durham, American jazz drummer (b. 1937)
2009 - Robert McNamara, United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1916)
2009 - Leo Mol, Ukrainian Canadian artist and sculptor (b. 1915)
2009 - Johnny Collins, British folk and maritime music singer (b. 1938)
2009 - Vasily Aksyonov, Russian writer (b. 1932)
2012 - Charles David Ganao, Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo, dies at 85

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 07, 2013, 09:33:59 AM

This Day in History for 7th July


Historical Events

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Composer George Friedrich Handel                Outlaw Jesse James                        Baseball Legend Connie Mack

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Argentine Revolutionary                        Golfer Tiger Woods
Che Guevara


1124 - Tyrus surrenders to Crusaders
1438 - French church/King Charles VII release Pragmatieke Sanctie of Bourges
1456 - A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death
1495 - King Ferdinand II returns to Naples
1498 - Emperor Maximilian I establishes choir of Imperial Chapel
1534 - European colonization of the Americas: first known exchange between Europeans and natives
           of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, in New Brunswick.
1543 - French troops invade Luxembourg
1550 - Chocolate introduced
1585 - King Henri III & Duke De Guise signs Treaty of Nemours: French Huguenots lose all freedoms
1607 - "God Save the King" is 1st sung
1647 - People's uprising against high prices & Spanish rule in Naples
1668 - Isaac Newton receives MA from Trinity College, Cambridge
1713 - 1st performance of Georg F Handel's "Te Deum" & "Jubilate"
1753 - British Museum founded by an Act of Parliament (opens in 1759)
1753 - English parliament grants Jewish English citizenship
1754 - Kings College in NYC opens (renamed Columbia College)
1768 - Firm of Johann Buddenbrook founded, in Thomas Mann's novel
1777 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Hubbardton
1798 - Quasi-War: the U.S. Congress rescinds treaties with France sparking the 'war.'
1799 - Ranjit Singh's men take up their positions outside Lahore.
1801 - Toussaint L'Ouverture declares Haitian independence
1802 - 1st comic book "The Wasp," is published
1807 - France, Russia & Prussia sign Peace of Tilsit
1814 - Walter Scott's "Waverley" published
1829 - Royal Military Chapel forms
1838 - Central American federation is dissolved
1846 - US annexs California
1850 - Scottish explorer Edward Eyre reaches Albany, W-Australia
1861 - Battle of Laurel Hill, VA
1862 - Land Grant Act endows state colleges with federal land
1863 - 1st military draft by US (exemptions cost $100)
1863 - Orders barring Jews from serving under US Grant are revoked
1864 - S Middleton, MD -Early's Washington Raid-
1868 - Ed Pooley takes 12 dismissals as keeper in match Surrey v Sussex
1874 - 27th Postmaster General: James W Marshall of NJ takes office
1875 - Jesse James robs train in Otterville Missouri
1878 - Social-Democratic United forms in Amsterdam
1891 - Travelers checks patents
1892 - Katipunan: the Revolutionary Philippine Brotherhood is established leading to the fall of the
           Spanish Empire in Asia.
1898 - US annexes Hawaii
1900 - Boston hurler Kid Nichols notches his 300th career victory
1905 - 127°F (53°C), Parker Ariz (state record)
1908 - Great White Fleet leaves SF Bay
1911 - 28th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: D Chambers beats D Boothby (60 60)
1911 - Dorothea Lambert Chambers beats Dora Boothby 6-0, 6-0 in a record
1913 - British House of Commons accepts Home-Rule Law
1914 - Balt Orioles' (IL) owner Jack Dunn offers Babe Ruth, Ernie Shore & Ben Egan for $10,000 to
           Connie Mack, who refuses, pleading poverty
1915 - A Great Gorge and International Railway trolley with an extreme overload of 157 passengers
           crashes near Queenston, Ontario, killing 15.
1919 - Phillies tie major league record of 8 steals in 9 inn game
1923 - 43rd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: William Johnston beats F Hunter (60 63 61)
1923 - Cleve Indians beat Boston Red Sox 27-3 with 13 runs in 6th inning
1923 - University of Delaware invents "junior year abroad" (at Sorbonne)
1924 - Robert LeGendre of US, sets then long jump record at 25' 5½"
1928 - 41st Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats L de Alvarez (62 63)
1928 - Edward Hamm of US, sets then long jump record at 25' 11"
1928 - Sliced bread is sold for the first time by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe,
           Missouri. It is described as the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was
           wrapped".
1929 - Romania & Vatican sign concord
1930 - Construction begins on Boulder (Hoover) Dam
1932 - Bradman scores a cricket double century in Montreal
1934 - Elizabeth Ryan wins her 12th Wimbledon doubles championship
1936 - 4th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-3 at Braves Field, Boston
1937 - 5th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 8-3 at Griffith Stadium, Wash
1937 - Japanese & Chinese troops clash, (Marco Polo Bridge), becomes WW II
1939 - 52nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Alice Marble beats Kay Stammers (62 60)
1941 - Nazis executed 5,000 Jews in Kovono Lithuania
1941 - US forces land in Iceland to forestall Nazi invasion
1941 - World War II: Beirut is occupied by Free France and British troops.
1942 - Germany troop march into Woronezj
1942 - Milt all star team (including Bob Feller) losts to AL all stars 5-0
1943 - -10] Japanese premier Hideki Tojo visits Java
1943 - 3rd day of battle at Kursk: Germans occupy Dubrova
1943 - Erich Hartmann shoots 7 Russian aircraft at Kursk
1943 - Liberator bombers sinks U-517
1943 - U-951 sunk
1944 - Bomber Command drop 2,572 tons of bombs on Caen, France
1944 - Heavy Japanese counter offensive on Saipan
1946 - Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini canonized as 1st American saint
1947 - Alleged and disputed Roswell UFO incident.
1948 - 6 female reservists become 1st women sworn into regular US Navy
1948 - Cleveland Indians sign Leroy "Satchel" Paige
1948 - Indians sign Satchel Paige at 42
1949 - "Cabatgata (A Night in Spain)" opens at Broadway NYC for 76 perfs
1949 - "Dragnet" premieres on NBC radio; also a TV series in 1951 & 1967
1950 - 1st Farnborough airshow held
1950 - 64th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Budge Patty beats Sedgman (61 8-10 62 63)
1950 - 79th British Golf Open: Bobby Locke shoots a 279 at Royal Troon
1951 - 58th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Doris Hart beats Shirley Fry (61 60)
1952 - SS United States cross Atlantic in record 82:40
1953 - 35th PGA Championship: Walter Burkemo at Birmingham CC Mich
1953 - Che Guevara sets out on a trip through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica,
           Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador.
1954 - T.A.N.U. party forms in Tanzania
1954 - Formation of the TANU in Tanzania
1955 - 1st LPGA Championship won by Beverly Hanson
1956 - 63rd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Shirley Fry beats Angela Buxton (63 61)
1956 - Douglas Moore/John Latouche' opera "Ballad of Baby Doe," premieres
1956 - 7 Army trucks loaded with dynamite explode in middle of Cali, Columbia killing 1,100-1,200,
           destroying 2,000 buildings
1956 - Fritz Moravec reaches the peak of Gasherbrum II (8,035 m).
1957 - Heavy storm ravages Belgian coast
1958 - C A Milton scores 104* on Test Cricket debut, England v NZ Headingley
1958 - Pres Eisenhower signed a bill approving Alaskan statehood
1958 - William Shea outlines plans for a $12M stadium at Flushing Meadows NY
1959 - 26th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-4 at Forbes Field, Pittsburgh
1960 - Neth-US cemetery Margraten official opens
1960 - USSR shoots down a US aircraft over Barents sea
1961 - 75th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats Chuck McKinley (63 61 64)
1961 - James R Hoffa elected chairman of Teamsters
1962 - 69th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Karen Susman beats Vera Sukova (64 64)
1962 - Bill Hartack becomes 8th jockey to win 3,000 horse races
1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 - Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Lady Carling Eastern Golf Open
1964 - 35th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-4 at Shea Stadium, New York
1964 - All star MVP: John Callison (Philadelphia Phillies)
1965 - Otis Redding records "Respect"
1967 - 81st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: John Newcombe beats W Bungert (63 61 61)
1967 - Beatles' "All You Need is Love" is released
1967 - Doors' "Light My Fire" hits #1
1967 - Beginning of the civil war in Biafra.
1968 - 23rd US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Susie Maxwell Berning
1968 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1968 - Rock group "Yardbirds" disband
1969 - Canada's House of Commons approves equality of French-English lang
1969 - Der Spiegel reveals Munich's Bishop Defregger is a war criminal
1972 - 1st women FBI members sworn in (Susan Lynn Roley & Joanne E Pierce)
1972 - 79th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Billie Jean King beats Goolagong (63 63)
1972 - Dutch Minister of Agt decides to ignore soft drug usage
1973 - 78 drown as flash flood sweeps a bus into a river (India)
1973 - 80th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Billie Jean King beats C Evert (60 75)
1973 - 87th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Jan Kodes beats Alex Metreveli (61 98 63)
1973 - All women board of directors takes control of ABA's Kentucky Colonels
1973 - Balt Orioles pull their 4th triple play (5-4-3 vs Oakland)
1973 - Glenda Reiser (Canada) sets record women's mile (4:34.9)
1973 - Shoelace Park in the Bronx named
1973 - 1st all-US women's Wimbledon, Billie Jean King beats Chris Evert
1974 - Brewer Don Money sets record of consec errorless games at 3rd (78)
1974 - Sue Roberts wins LPGA Niagara Frontier Golf Classic
1974 - West Germany beats Neth 2-1 for soccer's 10th World Cup in Munich
1975 - TV soap opera "Ryan's Hope" premieres
1976 - E Henry Knoche, becomes deputy director of CIA
1976 - Lt General Vernon A Walters, USA, ends term as deputy director of CIA
1976 - Viking 2 goes into orbit around Mars
1977 - 12,000 police occupy university in Mexico City
1978 - 85th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats C Evert (26 64 75)
1978 - Solomon Islands declares independence from UK
1979 - 93rd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats R Tanner (67 61 36 63 64)
1979 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1980 - Az Judge Sandra Day O'Connor 1st female nominated to Supreme Court
1980 - Jim King completes riding Miracle Strip Roller coaster 368 hours
1980 - Larry Holmes TKOs Scott LeDoux in 7 for heavyweight boxing title
1980 - Shawn Weatherly, of USA, crowned 29th Miss Universe
1980 - Jineane Ford, (AZ) replaces S Weatherly (Miss Univ) as 29th Miss USA
1980 - Institution of sharia in Iran.
1980 - The Safra massacre in Lebanon.
1981 - The solar-powered aircraft, Solar Challenger, successfully completes a 163 mile flight across
           the English Channel
1981 - Ben Plucknett of US throws discus 72.34 m, but throw is disqualified
1981 - Sandra Day O'Connor nominated for the Supreme Court
1982 - David Moorcroft of UK sets record for 5000 m, 13:00.41
1982 - Steve Scott of US runs mile in a record 3:47.69
1983 - 11 year old Samantha Smith of Manchester, Maine, leaves for USSR
1984 - 5 die in a train crash in Williston Vt
1984 - 91st Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Chris Evert (76 62)
1985 - 92nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats C Evert (46 63 62)
1985 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Mazda Hall of Fame Golf Championship
1986 - IBM-PC DOS Version 3.2 (updated) released
1986 - It is reported Boy George is being treated for heroin addiction
1986 - Jordan government shuts al-Fatah offices
1986 - Supreme Court struck down Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduction law
1987 - Alan & Colin Wells make 303* partnership for Sussex v Kent
1987 - Kiwanis Clubs end men-only tradition, vote to admit women
1987 - Lt Col Oliver North began public testimony at Iran-Contra hearing
1987 - Yanks trailing by 7 score 7 in 7th on 7/7 & 5 in 8th-Beat Twins 12-7
1988 - Soviet Union launches Phobos 1 to probe Martian moon (unsuccessful)
1988 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1990 - 97th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Z Garrison (64 61)
1990 - NJ Devils sign Russians Viacheslav Fetisov & Sergei Starikov
1990 - Italy beats England in soccer's World Cup consolation game
1991 - 105th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Michael Stich beats B Becker (64 76 64)
1991 - Alice Miller wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic
1991 - Nolan Ryan possible 8th no-hitter ends in the 8th inning
1993 - Guntis Ulmanis elected president of Latvia
1993 - NY Met Anthony Young, loses his 26th straight game (goes to 27)
1993 - Philadelphia Phillies beat SF Giants 7-6 in 20 innings
1993 - Prodigy announces it will offer Cox newspapers
1993 - Red Tom Browning decides to watch his team play at Wrigley Field from the roof of a building
           across Sheffield Ave, he is fined $500
1994 - "Les Miserables," opens at Imperial Theatre, Tokyo
1994 - Actress Diane Lane files for divorce from Christopher Lambert
1994 - North Yemenite troops occupy Aden
1995 - Memphis Mad Dogs 1st CFL home game (vs BC Lions)
1995 - Space shuttle STS-71 (Atlantis 14), lands
1996 - 110th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: R Krajicek beats M Washington (63 64 63)
1996 - 17th US Seniors Golf Open: Dave Stockton
1996 - Joan Pitcock wins LPGA Jamie Farr Kroger Golf Classic
1996 - Space Shuttle STS 78 (Columbia 20), lands
1997 - Tiger Woods wins golf's Western Open
1997 - Tower Minn temps dip to 24°F
1998 - 69th All Star Baseball Game: at Coors Field, Denver
2002 - A scandal breaks out in the United Kingdom when news reports accuse MI6 of sheltering Abu
           Qatada, the supposed European Al Qaeda leader.
2003 - The United Communist Party of Armenia is formed.
2005 - Coordinated terrorist bomb blasts strike London's public transport system during the
           morning rush hour killing 52 and injuring 700
2005 - Influenced by Live 8, the G8 leaders pledge to double 2004 levels of aid to Africa from US$25
           to US$50 billion by the year 2010.
2007 - Pope Benedict XVI issues the Apostolic Letter Summorum Pontificum, removing restrictions
           on celebrating the old Tridentine Mass.
2007 - Worldwide performances by charity event Live Earth.
2011 - Roof of a stand in De Grolsch Veste Stadium in Enschede which was under construction
           collapsed, one killed and 14 injured.
2012 - Floods in the Krasnodar region, Russia, kill 140 people

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 07, 2013, 10:17:27 AM

This Day in History for 7th July


Famous Weddings

1977 - "American Bandstand" TV host Dick Clark (47) weds Kari Wigton (34) in Malibu, California
1984 - Frankie Valli marries Randy Clohessy
1986 - US actress Deborah Hunter marries actor Michael Tylo
1987 - "The Bold and the Beautiful" actress Hunter Tylo (25) weds actor Michael Tylo (38)
2001 - "Charlie's Angels" star Drew Barrymore (26) weds actor-comedian Tom Green (29) in Malibu
2006 - "Extreme Makeover" Bill Dorfman (47) weds former contestant on "The Apprentice" and
            beauty queen Jennifer Murphy (27) at the Trump National Golf Club in Rancho Palos Verdes,
           California
2006 - Three-time "Survivor" contestant Stephanie LaGrossa (26) weds Michael Ward in Seaside
           Heights, New Jersey
2006 - Anchor and Skating with Celebrities runner-up Jillian Barberie (39) weds actor Grant Reynolds
           (33) in Tarzana, California
2007 - Actress and model Eva Longoria (37) weds NBA player Tony Parker (30) at The Church of
           Saint Germain l'Auxerrois in Paris, France
2007 - Celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck (38) weds handbag designer Gelila Assefa (38) in a three-day
           celebration on the Italian island of Capri
2012 - "The Office" Ellie Kemper (32) weds former "Conan O'Brien" writer Michael Koman at the
           Blessed Sacrament Roman Catholic Church in New York City

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 07, 2013, 10:18:40 AM

This Day in History for 7th July


Famous Divorces

1994 - Actress Diane Lane files for divorce from Christopher Lambert
2008 - Cynthia Rodriguez (35) divorces New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez (32) due to
           long period of infidelity and emotional abandonment after 6 years of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 07, 2013, 10:28:08 AM

This Day in History for 7th July


Famous Birthdays

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Nobel Laureat Physician                        Jazz Guitarist Tiny Grimes (1916)        Beatles Drummer Ringo Starr (1940)
Camillo Golgi (1843)

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Actress Shelley Duvall (1949)


1053 - Emperor Shirakawa of Japan (d. 1129)
1119 - Emperor Sutoku of Japan (d. 1164)
1528 - Anna of Austria, Duchess of Bavaria, daughter of Ferdinand I (d. 1590)
1586 - Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, English statesman (d. 1646)
1656 - Guru Har Krishan, 8th Guru of Sikhism (d. 1664)
1690 - Johann Tobias Krebs, composer
1710 - Arvid Niclas Hopken, composer
1746 - Ludwig Wenzel Lachnith, composer
1752 - Joseph-Marie Jacquard, invented programmable loom
1778 - Antonio Francesco Gaetano S Pacini, composer
1806 - Michele Amari, Italian historian/minister of Education
1813 - William Scott Ketchum, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1871
1816 - Isaac Fitzgerald Shepard, Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1889
1824 - Alfred Pleasonton, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1897
1827 - James Murrell Shackelford, Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
1827 - William Montague Browne, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1843 - Camillo Golgi, Lombary Austrian Empire, physician/cytologist (Nobel 1906), (d. 1926)
1851 - Lillien Jane Martin, psychologist, found gerontology clinic
1851 - Charles Tindley, American gospel music composer (d. 1933)
1853 - Albert Vandal, French earl/historian (Le Pacha Bonneval)
1855 - Ludwig Ganghofer, German writer (d. 1920)
1856 - George Hearne, cricketer (brother of Frank & Alec, Test for England)
1860 - Gustav Mahler, Kalischat Bohemia Austria, composer/conductor (Titan)
1872 - Juan Lamonte de Grignon, composer
1874 - Erwin Bumke, German jurist (d. 1945)
1879 - Jacob Weinberg, composer
1882 - Zdzislaw Jachimecki, composer
1883 - Toivo Kuula, composer
1884 - Lion Feuchtwanger, German dramatist (d. 1958)
1885 - Ernest Bristow Farrar, composer
1887 - Dirk Koster, literary (New Noises)
1887 - Marc Chagall, Vitebsk Russia, artist (I & The Village)
1887 - Raymond Hatton, Red Oak IA, actor (Girls in Prison, Lady Killer)
1890 - Tom Powers, Owensboro KY, actor (Station West, Destination Moon)
1893 - Vladimir Mayakovsky, Soviet Georgia, poet (Ode to Revolution)[NS=7/19]
1893 - Miroslav Krleža, Croatian writer (d. 1981)
1897 - Anna Luther, NJ, silent screen actress (Sinners in Silk)
1898 - Hanns Eisler, composer
1899 - George Cukor, producer/director (Adam's Rib, Philadelphia Story)
1900 - Earle E. Partridge, United States Air Force general (d. 1990)
1901 - Gustav Knuth, Braunschweig Germany, actor (Freddy Unter Fremden)
1901 - Vittorio de Sica, Italian actor/director (Fietsendieven)
1902 - James McCartney, father of Beatle (Paul)
1902 - Vittorio De Sica, Sora Italy, director/actor (2 Women)
1902 - Ted "Double Duty" Radcliffe, American baseball player (d. 2005)
1904 - Simone Beck, French chef (d. 1991)
1905 - Marcel Rubin, composer
1906 - Harry Von Zell, sidekick (George Burns Show)
1906 - [Leroy] Satchel Paige, baseball pitcher, never look back
1906 - William Feller, Croatian mathematician (d. 1970)
1906 - Anton Karas, Viennese musician (d. 1985)
1907 - Helene Johnson, poet
1907 - Robert A[nson] Heinlein, US, sci-fi author (4 Hugos, Red Planet)
1908 - Evert W Beth, Dutch mathematician/philosopher
1908 - Harriette Arnow, Wayne Co, Ky, novelist (Dollmaker)
1908 - Revilo P. Oliver, American professor (d. 1994)
1911 - Eddie Mayehoff, Balt Md, actor (Hour Glass, How to Murder Your Wife)
1911 - Gian-Carlo Menotti, Italy, composer (Amahl & Night Visitors)
1911 - Joan Perry Cohn Harvey, actress (Hands of a Stranger)
1912 - Tiny Alma, [Catharina E J Stam], operetta singer (Vienna Blood)
1914 - Cor de Groot, pianist/conductor/composer (Old-Dutch Suite)
1914 - Serafim Sergeyevich Tulikov, composer
1915 - Margaret Walker Alexander, poet/novelist (For My People)
1916 - Luc Peire, Flemish painter/graphic artist
1916 - Robert Stevens Baker, composer
1916 - Tiny Grimes, Newport News Virginia, Jazz guitarist
1917 - Elton Britt, Marshall Ark, country singer (Sat Night Jamboree)
1917 - Lawrence F O'Brien, (Watergate conspirators broke into his office)
1917 - Fidel Sánchez Hernández, Salvadoran politician (d. 2003)
1919 - Jon Pertwee, English comic/actor (Dr Who, Worzel Gummidge)
1919 - William Moses Kunstler, defense attorney (Chicago 8 )
1921 - Ezzard Charles, world heavyweight boxing champion (1949-51 )
1921 - Stanislaw Wislocki, composer
1921 - Adolf von Thadden, German politician (d. 1996)
1922 - Artie Malvin, US music director (Julie LaRosa/Steve Lawrence)
1922 - Pierre Cardin, Paris France, fashion designer (Unisex)
1923 - Richard Lumley, English insurance magnate/multi-millionaire
1923 - Roberto Caamano, composer
1924 - Dieter Nowka, composer
1924 - Mary Ford, [Colleen Summer], vocalist/actress (Queen of Outer Space)
1925 - Yvonne Mitchell, London England, writer (Johnny Nobody, Genghis Khan)
1925 - Wally Phillips, American radio personality (d. 2008)
1927 - Alan J Dixon, (Sen-D-IL, 1981- )
1927 - Charlie Louvin, Rainsville Ala, country singer (Louvin Brothers)
1927 - Doc Severinson, [Carl], Arlington Oregon, bandleader/trumpeter on the Tonight Show
1928 - Colleen Summers, Pasadena California, vocal overdubber
1929 - Marcel Liebman, Belgian historian
1929 - R Baumgart, writer
1929 - Hasan Abidi, Pakistani journalist and poet (d. 2005)
1930 - Hank Mobley, US jazz saxophonist
1931 - David Eddings, US, sci-fi author (Belgariad, Malloreon)
1931 - Stanley Brock, Bkln, actor (Ivan-He's the Mayor)
1932 - Josef Zawinul, Austrian-American jazz keyboardist, composer and musician (d. 2007)
1933 - David McCullough, actor (Huey Long)
1933 - Dick Kallman, Brooklyn NY, actor (Borned to Be Loved, Verboten!)
1933 - Murray Halberg, New Zealand, 5K runner (Olympic-gold-1960)
1934 - Vinko Globokar, composer
1936 - Friedhelm Dohl, composer
1936 - Stuart Ross Dempster, composer
1936 - Nikos Xilouris, Greek singer (d. 1980)
1937 - Carroll Hubbard Jr, (Rep-D-KY, 1975- )
1939 - Laurie Silvers, horse trainer
1940 - James Toner, horse trainer
1940 - Richard K Armey, (Rep-R-Texas, 1985- )
1940 - Ringo Starr, [Richard Starkey], Liverpool, Beatles drummer (Magic Christian)
1941 - Michael Howard, British politician
1941 - Bill Oddie, English comedian and ornithologist
1942 - Carmen Duncan, Australian actress
1943 - Toto Cutugno, Italian singer
1943 - Joel Siegel, American film critic (d. 2007)
1944 - Tony Jacklin, Scunthorpe England, PGA golfer (1970 US Open)
1944 - Warren Entner, Boston Mass, rock vocalist/guitarist (Grass Roots)
1945 - James Rodford, English rock vocalist/bassist (Kinks-Mr Pleasant)
1945 - Matti Salminen, Turku Finland, bass player (King Philipp-Don Carlos)
1945 - Michael Ancram, British politician
1946 - Jean LeClerc, actor (Jeremy Hunter-All My Children)
1946 - Jim Day, Canada, equestrian show jumper (Olympic-gold-1968)
1946 - Joe Spano, SF California, actor (Henry Goldblume-Hill St Blues)
1947 - Rob Townsend, rock drummer (Family Leicester)
1947 - Felix Standaert, Belgian diplomat
1947 - Howard Rheingold, American author
1947 - Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev, King of Nepal
1948 - Fred Brown, NBAer (Seattle SuperSonic)
1948 - Larry &amp;quot;Rhino&amp;quot; Reinhardt, rock guitarist (Iron Butterfly) (d. 2012)
1948 - Jean Leclerc, French-Canadian actor
1949 - Shelley Duvall, Houston Texas, actress (Popeye, Faery Tale Theater)
1951 - Roz Ryan, Detroit Mich, actress (Amelia-Amen, Occupied)
1952 - Mando Guerrero, Mexican professional wrestler
1953 - Lynval Golding, rocker (Fun Boy Three)
1955 - Len Barker, American baseball player
1956 - Bill Lagattuta, NYC, news correspondent (CBS, 48 Hours, Eye to Eye)
1956 - Jesus Bazan, jockey
1957 - Jonathan Dayton, American film director
1957 - Berry Sakharof, Turkish-born Israeli guitarist (Minimal Compact)
1958 - Michael Marx, Portland Or, US fencer-epee (Olympic-84, 88, 92, 96)
1959 - Jessica Hahn, evangelist rape victim/model (playboy)/actress
1959 - Billy Campbell [William Oliver], Charlottesville, Virginia, American actor (Once and Again,
           Dracula)
1959 - Ben Linder, American engineer (d. 1987)
1960 - Barbara Bierman, Miami Fla, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-13th-1994)
1960 - Ralph Sampson, NBA center (Golden State Warriors, Houston Rockets)
1960 - Kevin A. Ford, American astronaut
1962 - Clive "Doctor" Jackson, rocker (Dr & Medics-Laughing at Pieces)
1962 - Shawn Paddock, rocker (Red Rockers)
1963 - Lance Johnson, Cincinnati OH, outfielder (NY Mets)
1963 - Naved Anjum, cricketer (Pakistani all-rounder, two Tests 1989-90)
1963 - Perry Richardson, SC, bassist (Firehouse-Love of a Lifetime)
1963 - Vonda Shepard, American singer
1965 - Paula Devicq, Canadian actress
1965 - Mo Collins, American actress
1966 - Hector Burba, Dayton OH, pitcher (Cin Reds)
1966 - Jeff Shaw, Washington Ohio, pitcher (Cin Reds)
1966 - Jim Gaffigan, American comedian
1966 - Gundula Krause, German folk violinist
1966 - Neil Tobin, American magician
1967 - Alfred Jackson, CFL receiver (BC Lions)
1967 - Erik van der More, soccer player (FC Utrecht)
1967 - Jason R Rich, Irvington NY, writer (Celebrity Teen Talk)
1967 - Tom Kristensen, Danish race car driver
1967 - Jackie Neal, American singer (d. 2005)
1968 - Chuck Knoblauch, Houston Texas, shortstop (NY Yankees, Minnesota Twins)
1968 - Reggie Cobb, NFL running back (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1968 - Jorja Fox, American actress
1968 - Jeff VanderMeer, American writer
1969 - Amy Carlson, Elmhurst Il, actress (Josie-Another World) [1969-Approx]
1969 - Cree Summer, actress (Freddie-Different World)
1969 - Joe Sakic, Burnaby BC, NHL center (Colorado Avalanche, Canada 1998)
1969 - Sylke Otto, German luger
1969 - Nathalie Simard, French Canadian singer
1969 - Robin Weigert, American actress
1970 - Michael McCrary, NFL defensive end (Seattle Seahawks)
1970 - Min Patel, cricketer (in Mumbai England left-arm spinner v India 1996)
1970 - Wayne McCullough, Irish boxer
1970 - Erik Zabel, German cyclist
1970 - Robia LaMorte, American actress and dancer
1971 - Darren Krein, WLAF defensive end (Barcelona Dragons)
1971 - Alistair Potts, British rower
1972 - Aldi Henry, CFL defensive back (Calgary Stampeders)
1972 - Darnay Scott, NFL wide receiver (Cin Bengals)
1972 - Lisa Leslie, California, WNBA center (LA Sparks)/foward (Oly-gold-1996)
1972 - Michael Westbrook, NFL wide receiver (Washington Redskins)
1972 - Stoney Case, NFL quarterback (Arizona Cardinals)
1972 - Manfred Stohl, Austrian rally driver
1973 - Natsuki Takaya, Japanese manga-ka
1973 - Troy Garity, American actor
1973 - Matt Mantei, American baseball player
1973 - Kārlis Skrastiņš, Latvian ice hockey player
1974 - Patrick Lalime, St Bonaventure, NHL goalie (Pitts Penguins)
1975 - Tony Benshoof, American luger
1975 - Michael Voss, Australian rules footballer
1976 - Dominic Foley, Irish footballer
1977 - Felix Vasquez, New York City Housing Authority employee
1979 - America Martin, model (Not macaroni & cheese, cheese & macaroni)
1979 - Anastasios Gousis, Greek sprinter
1979 - Carl Breeze, British racing driver
1980 - Michele Kwan, Torrance California, figure skater (Oly-94, Oly-silver-98)
1980 - John Buck, American baseball player
1980 - Deidre Downs, American beauty queen
1980 - Kaisa Jouhki, Finnish vocalist (Battlelore)
1980 - Dan Whitesides, American drummer (The Used)
1981 - Synyster Gates, American guitarist (Avenged Sevenfold)
1981 - Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Indian cricketer
1982 - Mike Glita, American bassist (Senses Fail)
1982 - George Owu, Ghanaian footballer
1982 - Cassidy (Barry Adrian Reese), American rapper
1983 - Justin Davies, Australian rules footballer
1983 - D. Woods, American singer (Danity Kane)
1984 - Minas Alozidis, Greek hurdler
1984 - Mohammad Ashraful, Bangladeshi cricketer
1984 - Marie-Mai, Canadian singer
1987 - Lena Ma, Miss World Canada 4th runner-up
1988 - Kaci Brown, American singer
1989 - Giannoulis Fakinos, Greek footballer

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 07, 2013, 10:31:42 AM

This Day in History for 7th July


Famous Deaths

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Author of Sherlock Holmes                      Rocker Syd Barrett (2006)
Arthur Conan Doyle (1930)


1129 - Shirakawa, emperor of Japan (1072-86)/budhist monk, dies at 76
1304 - Benedict XI, [Niccolo Boccasini], Pope (1303-04), dies
1307 - Edward I, King of England (1272-1307), dies at 68
1348 - John Andreae, Italian canonist, dies
1537 - Madeleine de Valois, queen of James V of Scotland (b. 1520)
1572 - Sigismund II August, last Jagellonen king of Poland, dies at 51
1573 - Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, Italian architect (b. 1507)
1647 - Thomas Hooker, clergyman, father of American democracy, dies
1656 - Michelangelo Rossi, Italian opera composer, buried at about 55
1663 - Thomas Baltzar, German violinist
1694 - Dokusho, Zen teacher, Obaku line, dies
1701 - William Stoughton, American judge at the Salem witch trials (b. 1631)
1713 - Henry Compton, Bishop of Oxford and privy councillor (b. 1632)
1764 - William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath, English politician (b. 1683)
1771 - Thomas Gray, English poet (Elegy), dies at 54
1773 - Cornelis Douwes, Dutch mathematician/astronomer, dies at 60
1774 - Giuseppi Maria Carretti, composer, dies at 83
1776 - Jeremiah Markland, English classical scholar (b. 1693)
1790 - Franciscus "Frans" Hemsterhuis, Frisian philosopher, dies at 68
1794 - Pascal Boyer, composer, dies at 51
1799 - William Curtis, English botanist (Botanical Magazine), dies at 53
1814 - Robert Jasper van der Capellen, Dutch politician, dies at 71
1816 - Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish playwright and politician (b. 1751)
1826 - Friedrich Ludwig Dulon, flautist/composer, dies at 56
1855 - Konstantin Batyushkov, Russian poet (b. 1787)
1861 - John Willis Ellis, US governor of NC (1858-61), dies
1865 - Mary Surratt, & 3 other Lincoln conspirators, hanged
1865 - Lewis Paine, Lincoln conspirator (b. 1844)
1865 - David Herold, Lincoln conspirator (b. 1842)
1878 - Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, Russian mathematician (b. 1847)
1885 - Nicola De Giosa, composer, dies at 66
1889 - Giovanni Bottesini, composer, dies at 67
1890 - Henri Nestlé, Founder of Nestlé S.A. (b. 1814)
1893 - Guy de Maupassant, writer, dies at 42
1898 - Lucien Petipa, French dancer/choreograph/ballet leader, dies
1901 - Johanna Spyri, Swiss author (b. 1827)
1903 - Ferreira Veiga, Viscount d' Arneiro, composer, dies at 64
1903 - Jose Augusto da Ferreira Veiga, composer, dies at 64
1907 - James McGranahan, composer, dies at 67
1913 - Edward Burd Grubb, American Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General (b.1841)
1919 - Paul Deusen, German philosopher/CEO (Schopenhauer-Gesellschaft), dies
1922 - Cathal Brugha, Chief of Staff of Irish Republican Army (b.1874)
1925 - Clarence Hudson White American photographer (b.. 1871)
1927 - Gösta Mittag-Leffler, Swedish mathematician (b. 1846)
1930 - Arthur Conan Doyle, British writer (Sherlock Holmes), dies at 71
1931 - Johannes Jacobus "Kodgee" Kotze, cricketer (South Africa 1902-07), dies
1932 - Alexander Grin, Russian novelist (b. 1880)
1932 - Henry Eyster Jacobs, American Lutheran theologian (b. 1844)
1933 - John M Acket, literary (New Friends), dies at 70
1934 - Doodles Tapscott, cricketer (South African batsman 1922-23), dies
1939 - James Deacon White, ball player jumped teams in 1876 (Chi), dies at 91
1944 - Erich Salomon, German photographer, dies
1944 - Georges Mandel, [Louis Rothschild], French foreign min (-1940), dies
1945 - Salomeja Neris, [S Bacinskaite-Buciene], Latvian poet, dies at 40
1949 - Bunk Johnson, American musician (b. 1879 or 1889)
1955 - Franco Casavola, composer, dies at 63
1956 - Gottfried Benn, writer, dies at 70
1958 - Raymond Hackett, dies at 55
1965 - Bill Hitch, England cricket fast-bowler (7 Tests 1911-21), dies
1965 - Moshe Sharett, 2nd Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1894)
1966 - Carmelita Geraghty, dies of heart attack at 65
1967 - Vivian Leigh, actress (Scarlet-Gone with the Wind), dies at 53
1967 - Jo Schlesser, French Formula One racing driver (b. 1928)
1968 - Leo Sowerby, composer (Pulitzer Prize), dies at 73
1969 - Erskine Sanford, dies at 83
1969 - Gladys Swarthout, US mezzo-soprano (La Gioconda), dies at 69
1970 - Allen Lane [Williams], English publisher (Penguin Books), dies at 67
1970 - Louise Harrison, mother of Beatle George, dies
1970 - Marjorie Rambeau, actress (Primrose Path, Torch Song), dies at 80
1970 - Sylvester Wiere, comedian (Wiere Brothers-Ford Festival), dies at 60
1970 - Dame Laura Knight, British impressionist artist
1971 - Claude Gauvreau, Canadian writer (b. 1925)
1971 - Ub Iwerks, American artist, director, and cartoonist (b1901)
1972 - Athenagoras, 268th patriarch of Constantinople, dies
1972 - King Talal of Jordan (b. 1909)
1973 - Max Horkheimer, German philosopher/sociologist, dies at 78
1973 - Veronica Lake, [Constance Ockleman], actress (Ramrod), dies at 58
1975 - Barbara Brown
1975 - Vito Frazzi, composer, dies at 86
1975 - Ruffian, American thoroughbred racehorse (b. 1972)
1976 - Gustav Heinemann, German president, dies at 76
1976 - Norman Foster, dies at 75
1976 - Walter Giesler, American soccer coach (b. 1910)
1979 - D P Conyngham, cricketer (one Test for South Africa), dies
1980 - Reginald Gardiner, actor (Great Dictator), dies at 77
1981 - Keefe Brasselle, actor (Be Our Guest), dies at 58
1981 - Mildred Lisette Norman a.k.a. Peace Pilgrim, American pacifist and activist
1982 - Bep [Elisa H] Bakhuis, soccer star/writer, dies at 76
1982 - Fred Stuthman, actor (Henry Adler-Hello Larry), dies at 63
1983 - George Cukor, director (My Fair Lady), dies on 84th birthday
1983 - Herman Kahn, US futurist/nuclear strategist, dies at 71
1983 - Vicki Morgan, mistress (Beautiful Bad Girl), murdered at 30
1984 - Flora Robson, actress (Great Day, Frieda), dies in her sleep at 82
1984 - Carl Boenish, American father of BASE jumping (b. 1941)
1985 - Patti McCarty, actress (Gangster of the Frontier), dies at 64
1988 - Jimmy Edwards, actor (Plank, Bottoms Up, Late Mr H), dies at 68
1990 - Bill Cullen, game show host (Price is Right), dies at 70 of cancer
1990 - Hugo Enomiya-Lassalle, Jes priest/apprentice Zen teacher, dies at 92
1990 - Cazuza, Brazilian poet, singer and composer (b. 1958)
1992 - Ruurd Faber, mayor of Aalten (1971-75), dies at 79
1993 - Mia Zapata, American singer with The Gits (b. 1965)
1994 - Anita Garvin, US actress (Sailors Beware), dies at 80
1994 - Rosa Chacel, spanish Novelist, dies at 96
1994 - Carlo Chiti, Italian race car engineer (b. 1924)
1995 - Gabor Ormai, viola Player, dies at 40
1995 - Geoffrey Freeman Allen, railway writer, dies at 73
1996 - Albrecht Luitpold Michael Wittelsbach, duke of Bavaria, dies at 91
1997 - Jerry Doggett, sportscaster (Bkln/LA Dodgers), dies at 80
1999 - Captain Vikram Batra, Indian Army officer, awarded Param Vir Chakra (September 9,1974)
2000 - Kenny Irwin, Jr., American race car driver (b. 1969)
2001 - Fred Neil, American singer-songwriter (b. 1936)
2002 - Dhirubhai Ambani, Indian business tycoon (b. 1933)
2002 - Bison Dele, American basketball player (b. 1969)
2003 - Izhak Graziani, Bulgarian-born conductor (b. 1924)
2006 - Juan de Ávalos, Spanish sculptor (b. 1911)
2006 - Syd Barrett, original guitarist and vocalist of the band Pink Floyd (b. 1946)
2006 - John Money, Sexologist (b. 1921)
2008 - Bruce Conner, American artist (b. 1933)
2008 - Dorian Leigh, American supermodel (b. 1917)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 08, 2013, 09:06:59 AM

This Day in History for 8th July


Historical Events

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Naturalist Charles Darwin                        Baseball Great Babe Ruth                  WW2 General Douglas MacArthur

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Tennis Great John McEnroe                 Singer-Songwriter Stevie Wonder                  NFL Running Back and
                                                                                                                         Convicted Criminal OJ Simpson


939 - The Major Occultation, or Ghaybat el-Kubra of Muhammad al-Mahdi
951 - Paris is founded
1099 - First Crusade: 15,000 starving Christian soldiers march in religious procession around
           Jerusalem as its Muslim defenders look on.
1283 - War of the Sicilian Vespers: Battle of Malta
1497 - Vasco da Gama departs for trip to India
1579 - Our Lady of Kazan, a holy icon of the Russian Orthodox Church, was discovered underground
           in the city of Kazan, Tatarstan.
1663 - King Charles II of England grants a charter to Rhode Island
1672 - Willem II becomes captain-/admiral-general
1680 - The first confirmed tornado in America kills a servant at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1693 - NYC authorizes 1st police uniforms in American colonies
1709 - Battle of Poltava; Russians defeat Swedes
1716 - Great Northern War: Battle of Dynekilen
1758 - English & Colonial assault on France at Ticonderoga, NY
1776 - Col John Nixon gave 1st public reading of Dec of Independence (Phila)
1777 - Vt becomes 1st state abolishing slavery, adopts male suffrage
1778 - George Washington headquarters at West Point for his Continental Army
1792 - France declares war on Prussia
1796 - US State Dept issues 1st American passport
1797 - 1st US senator (William Blount of Tennessee) expelled by impeachment
1800 - Dr Benjamin Waterhouse gives 1st cowpox vaccination to his son to prevent smallpox
1805 - American Bill Richmond knocks out Jack Holmes, Kilburn Wells, England
1816 - Frost in Waltham, MA
1822 - Chippewas turn over huge tract of land in Ontario to the United Kingdom.
1833 - Russia & Turkey sign defense treaty
1835 - Liberty Bell cracks (again)
1836 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches Saint-Helena
1838 - Arabs attack Jewish community of Safed
1849 - St Paul's Place in the Bronx named
1853 - Commodore Matthew Perry sails his frigate Susquehanna into Tokyo Bay
1859 - King Charles XV/Carl IV accedes to the throne of Sweden-Norway.
1861 - CS Gen Sibley is given command of rebel troops in NM territory
1861 - Skirmish at Florida, MI - A rebel encampment is attacked & dispersed
1862 - Odore R Timby patents revolving gun turret
1864 - The Shinsengumi sabotage the Choshu-han shishi's planned attack on Kyoto, Japan at
           Ikedaya. This event is known as Ikedaya Jiken.
1870 - Congress authorizes registration of trademarks
1870 - Gov Holden of NC declares Casswell County in a state of insurrection
1874 - The Mounties begin their March West.
1876 - White terrorists attack Black Republicans in Hamburg SC, killing 5
1889 - John L Sullivan KOs Jake Kilrain in 75 rounds (last bare-knuckle bout)
1889 - Wall Street Journal begins publishing
1891 - 61°F, highest temp for July 1891, in Baltimore & Phila
1892 - American Psychological Association organized, Worcester, Mass
1892 - St. John's, Newfoundland is devastated in the Great Fire of 1892.
1895 - Delagoa Bay Railway opens in South-Africa
1896 - William Jennings Bryan "cross of gold" speech at Dem convention
1897 - Harbor Hospital formally opens
1898 - Phillies Red Donahue no-hits Boston Braves, 5-0
1898 - US battle fleet under adm Dewey occupies Isla Grande at Manila
1898 - The shooting death of crime boss Soapy Smith releases Skagway, Alaska from his iron grip.
1900 - 1st night baseball, league game (Zanesville at Grand Rapids)
1902 - John McGraw, accused by Ban Johnson of trying to wreck Baltimore & Washington clubs,
           negotiates his release from the Orioles
1905 - Part of Angel Island allocated for Immigration Detention Center
1907 - Florenz Ziegfeld staged 1st `Follies' on NY Theater roof
1909 - 1st pro baseball game (minor league) played under lights
1911 - Nan Aspinwall is 1st woman to make solo transcont trip by horse
1912 - G E V Crutchley (Oxford) 99 retired measles v Cambridge
1912 - Giants Rube Marquard loses after winning 21 straight
1918 - Babe Ruth's blast over the fence in Fenway scores Amos Strunk, the Red Sox win 1-0 over
           Cleve, prevailing rules reduce Babe's HR to a triple
1919 - Pres Wilson returns to NYC from Versailles Peace Conference
1922 - 35th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen beats M Mallory (62 60)
1923 - Harding becomes 1st sitting president to visit Alaska (Metlakahtla)
1923 - Walter Mittelholzer flies Junkers F-13 to Spitsbergen/Oostland
1928 - Phillies set record of errorless 25 inning doubleheader
1932 - Depression low point of Dow Jones Industrial Average, 41.22
1932 - Herbert Sutcliffe scores his 100th 100, Yorkshire v Gloucs
1933 - 46th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats D Round (64 68 63)
1933 - Public Works Administration becomes effective
1935 - 3rd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 4-1 at Municipal Stadium, Cleve
1938 - Would be start of Eng/Aust Test Cricket at Old Trafford Washout
1939 - 59th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Bobby Riggs beats E Cooke (26 86 36 63 62)
1941 - 9th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 7-5 at Briggs Stadium, Detroit
1941 - All Jews living in Baltic States are obligated to wear a Jewish Star
1943 - 4th day of battle at Kursk: Gen Model uses last tank reserve
1943 - British air raid sinks U-232
1943 - NSB-leader A Mussert meets with Heinrich Himmler
1943 - US invasion fleet passes Bizerta Tunisia
1944 - British troops march into Caen
1944 - Japanese kamakize attacks on US lines at Saipan
1946 - "Tidbits of 1946" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 8 performances
1946 - Baseball grants $5,000 minimum salary
1947 - 14th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 2-1 at Wrigley Field, Chicago
1947 - Demolition begins for UN HQ in NYC
1947 - Reports are broadcast that a UFO has crashed landed in Roswell, New Mexico.
1948 - 500th anniversary Russian orthodox church celebrated in Moscow
1949 - Monte Irvin & Hank Thompson are 1st blacks to play for NY Giants
1950 - 33.4 cm rain fall at York, Nebraska (state record)
1950 - 57th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Louise Brough beats M duPont (61 36 61)
1950 - Gen Douglas MacArthur named commander-in-chief, UN forces in Korea
1950 - Leroy Deans awarded 1st Order of Purple Heart in Korea
1951 - Yankee Joe DiMaggio & mgr Casey Stengel feud
1952 - 19th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 3-2 in 5 at Shibe Park, Phila
1953 - US stops aid to Persia
1954 - KMOX (now KMOV) TV channel 4 in Saint Louis, MO (CBS) 1st broadcast
1954 - Military junta selects colonel Armas president of Guatemala
1956 - Joyce Ziske wins LPGA Syracuse Golf Open
1956 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
1957 - Baeball Owners re-elect Commissioner Ford Frick
1957 - CDC incorporates
1957 - Irish premier Eamon de Valera arrests Sinn-Fein leaders
1958 - 25th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 4-3 at Memorial Stadium, Balt
1960 - Fidel Castro ends Havana's Intl League team, Sugar Kings move to NJ
1961 - Fred Trueman takes 5-0 in 24 balls to rip through Aussies
1961 - Portuguese steamer "Save" breaks up off Mozambique, 227 die
1962 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Kelly Girls Golf Open
1963 - Reports of Charlie Finley's intention to move KC A's to Oakland
1963 - US bans all monetary transactions with Cuba
1965 - Joe Morgan is 1st Houston player with 6 hits in a game
1966 - US airline strike (until Aug 19th)
1966 - King Mwambutsa IV Bangiriceng of Burundi is deposed by his son Prince Charles Ndizi.
1967 - 74th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Billie Jean King beats A Jones (63 64)
1967 - Helen Weston of Detroit rolls a record 4,585 in 24 games
1968 - Israeli-Egyptian artillery duel along Suez Canal
1969 - Thor Heyerdahl & reed raft Ra II land in Barbados 57 days from Morocco
1969 - US troop withdrawal begins in Vietnam
1969 - IBM CICS is made generally available for the 360 mainframe computer.
1970 - SF Giant Jim Ray Hart is 8th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (5th)
1971 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1972 - US sells grain to USSR for $750 million
1973 - Mary Lou Crocker wins LPGA MARC Equity Golf Classic Crocker
1973 - NY Mets are 12½ games back in NL and go on to win pennant
1974 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1974 - Yank shortstop Jim Mason ties record with 4 doubles in 9 inn game
1975 - Israeli premier Yitzhak Rabin visits West-Germany
1975 - Pres Ford announced he'll seek Republican nomination for pres
1975 - Quake damages over 2,000 temples in Pagan Burma, 20-foot-high seated Buddha of
           Thandawgya decapitated
1976 - Randy Jones wins NL record 16 games before All Star break
1977 - Sabra Starr finishes longest recorded belly dance (100 hrs)
1978 - 92nd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats Jimmy Connors (62 62 63)
1978 - Alessandro Pertini elected pres of Italy
1978 - Pioneer-Venus 2 Multi-probe launched to Venus
1979 - Congo adopts constitution
1979 - Don Martina's MAN party wins election in Dutch Antilles
1979 - Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
1979 - Voyager 2 takes 1st ever photo of Jupiter's satellite Adrastea (J14)
1980 - 51st All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-2 at Dodger Stadium, LA
1980 - All star MVP: Ken Griffey (Cin Reds)
1981 - France performs nuclear test
1981 - PM Maurois nationalizes banks/plane/steel industry in France
1981 - Senate confirms Sandra Day O'Conner to Supreme Court (99-0)
1982 - "7 Brides for 7 Brothers" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 5 perfs
1982 - Billy Martin records his 1,000th career win as a manager
1982 - Porn star John Homes convicted of receiving stolen property
1982 - Senegalese Trotskyist political party LCT is legally recognized.
1983 - Rudi Koopmans retains European middleweight title
1984 - 98th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: John McEnroe beats J Connors (61 61 62)
1984 - Lauri Peterson wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic
1985 - 99th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Boris Becker beats K Curren (63 67 76 64)
1985 - Marge Schott becomes CEO of Cincinnati Red
1986 - Farthest thrown object-an "Aerobie" flying ring, 383 m (1,257')
1986 - NASA establishes Safety, Reliability Maintain & Quality Assurance
1986 - Zimbabwe beats Netherlands by 25 runs to win ICC Trophy
1987 - Kitty Dukakis, revealed addiction to amphetamines for 26 years
1988 - Indians' Bud Black sets club record for most batters hit in inning (3)
1988 - Miami Arena opens
1988 - Rockers Jonathan "Chico" & Robert DeBarge indicted on drug trafficking
1988 - Stevie Wonder announces he will run for mayor of Detroit in 1992
1989 - Carlos Saul Menum becomes pres of Argentina
1989 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1990 - 12:34:56 on 7/8/90 (1234567890)
1990 - Brewers beat Angels 20-7, including 13 in 5th inning
1990 - Germany beats Argentina 1-0 for soccer's 14th World Cup at Rome
1990 - Greg Lemond wins his 3rd Tour de France (90:43:20 avg 23.3 mph)
1990 - Tina Purtzer wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic
1990 - Trailing 7-0, Brewers tie Angels & then score 13 in 5th to win 20-7
1991 - Pitts Pirate Pres Carl Barger becomes 1st pres of Fla Marlins
1991 - Major league umpire Steve Palermo & former NFL defensive lineman Terence Mann were shot
           trying to help 2 waitresses from being robbed
1992 - Florida Marlins unveil their uniform
1992 - Thomas Klestil installed as president of Austria
1992 - Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe creates the office of High Commissioner
           on National Minorities.
1994 - Preliminary trial rules there is enough evidence to try OJ Simpson
1994 - Sonia O'Sullivan runs female 2K world record (5:25.36)
1994 - Space shuttle STS-65 (Columbia 17), launches
1994 - St Maarten "Godfather" Claude Wathey sentenced to 1½ years
1995 - 102nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Graf beats Arantxa S Vicario (46 61 75)
1995 - 1st CFL game between 2 US teams, Las Vegas Posse vs Sacramento Gold
1997 - 68th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 3-1 at Jacobs Field, Cleveland
1997 - NATO invites Poland, Hungary & Czech Republic to join
1999 - Allen Lee Davis is executed by electrocution by the state of Florida, the last use of the electric
           chair for capital punishment in Florida.
2003 - Sudan Airways Flight 39, with 116 people on board, crashes in Sudan; the only survivor is a
           two-year-old boy who subsequently dies as a result of his injuries.
2011 - Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched in the final mission of the U.S. Space Shuttle program.
2012 - Roadside car bomb kills 14 civilians in Afghanistan's Kandahar Province
2012 - Tens of thousands protest over election corruption in Mexico City after Enrique Pe

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 08, 2013, 09:08:42 AM

This Day in History for 8th July


Famous Weddings

1290 - Princess Margaret (15), daughter of Edward I of England marries John II of Brabant at
           Westminster Abbey
1551 - Willem of Orange weds countess Anna van Egmond & Buren
1891 - Future president Harding marries Florence K DeWolfe in Marion Ohio
1942 - British born actor "His Girl Friday" Cary Grant (38) weds American heiress and socialite
           Barbara Hutton (29)
1972 - English prince Richard marries Birgitte of Deurs (Henriksen)
1979 - Singer Marianne Faithfull (32) weds Ben Briefly
1991 - "Sanford and Son" actor-comedian Redd Foxx (68) weds Ka Ho Cho at The Little Church of
           the West in Las Vegas
2000 - Olympic figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi (28) weds Carolina Hurricanes ice hockey player Bret
           Hedican (29) at the Mauna Lani Resort in Kona, Hawaii
2006 - "Good Day L.A." co-host Jillian Barberie (39) weds actor Grant Reynolds in San Fernando
            Valley, Los Angeles
2006 - "The Surreal Life" actress Brigitte Nielsen (43) weds model Mattia Dessi at the Radisson SAS
          Golden Sands Resort and Spa in Malta
2006 - "The Surreal Life" actress Brigitte Nielsen (43) weds Italian model Mattia Dessi (27) in Malta

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 08, 2013, 10:36:57 AM

This Day in History for 8th July


Famous Birthdays

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Inventor Ferdinand von                           Oil Industrialist                                 WW2 Musician Louis Jordan (1908)
Zeppelin (1838)                                        John D. Rockefeller (1839)

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Actress Anjelica Huston (1951)


1528 - Emanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy/governor of Netherland
1545 - Don Carlos, son of Spanish king Philip II
1574 - Giovanni Battista Stefanini, composer
1593 - Artemisia Gentileschi, Italian painter (d. 1653)
1604 - Heinrich Albert, Germany, composer (Arien oder Melodien)
1621 - Jean de la Fontaine, French poet (Fables)
1637 - Johann Georg Ebeling, composer
1638 - Matteo Coferati, composer
1757 - Richard Wainwright, composer
1760 - Christian Kramp, French mathematician (d. 1826)
1766 - Dominique Jean Larrey, French surgeon (d. 1842)
1792 - Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen, queen of Bavaria (d. 1854)
1809 - Ljudwit Gaj, Croatian writer/poet (Pjesma iz Zagorja)
1819 - Alexander Hays, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1864
1819 - Vatroslav Lisinski, composer
1819 - Francis Leopold McClintock, British naval officer and explorer (d. 1907)
1821 - William Harvey Lamb Wallace, Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
1824 - Waldimir "Kriz" Krzyzanowski, Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
1826 - Benjamin Henry Grierson, Major General (Union volunteers)
1826 - Robert Kingston Scott, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1829 - Pierre A Vicomte de Ponson du Terrail, French serial writer
1830 - Frederick William Seward, United States Assistant Secretary of State (d. 1915)
1830 - Grand Duchess Alexandra Iosifovna of Altenburg (d. 1911)
1836 - Joseph Chamberlain, British minister of Commerce/Colonies
1838 - Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Baden Germany, inventor (rigid dirigibles), (d. 1917)
1839 - John D Rockefeller, Richford New York, US capitalist/founder (Standard Oil), (d. 1937)
1844 - Mary Johnson Lincoln, educator (Boston Cooking School)
1851 - Arthur J Evans, English archaeologist (Crete)
1857 - Rudolf Dellinger, composer
1867 - Kathe Kollwitz, Germany, print maker/sculptor (Bauernkrieg)
1869 - William V Moody, US poet (Death of Eve, Faith Healer)
1870 - Marie C of Zeggelen, Dutch novelist (Koloniaaltje)
1871 - Clement Harris, composer
1871 - Kornelis ter Laan, 1st Dutch socialist mayor (Zaandam)
1878 - Jimmy Quinn, Scottish footballer (d. 1945)
1882 - Percy Grainger, Melbourne, composer/pianist/conductor (Hill Songs)
1882 - Waverley John Anderson, Scottish viscount/governor of Bengal
1885 - Ann Jemima Flower, oldest resident of Netherlands
1885 - Emil Bloch, German philosopher
1889 - Eugene Pallette, Winfield KS, actor (Adv of Robin Hood, Mark of Zorro)
1890 - W Hasenvlever, writer
1891 - Elisabeth Zernike, Dutch writer (Poor Part, Bruidstijd)
1891 - Josef Hora, Czech writer/poet (Working Day)
1892 - Richard Aldington, writer
1892 - Pavel Korin, Russian painter (d. 1967)
1893 - Fritz Perls, father of Gestalt therapy
1894 - Clemens VI Trefois, Flemish architect/sociologist
1895 - Anton G J van de Velde, Flemish writer/director (God & the Worms)
1898 - Alec Waugh, London, novelist (Island in the Sun); brother of Evelyn
1898 - Melville Ruick, Boise Idaho, actor (Barton-City Hospital)
1899 - David Eli Lilienthal, US government organizer (Wisconsin)
1900 - George Antheil, Trenton NJ, composer (Airplane Sonata)
1901 - Donald Benjamin Harden, archaeologist
1904 - Bill Challis, arranger/pianist
1904 - Henri Cartan, French mathematician
1905 - Leonid Amalrik, Russian animator (d. 1997)
1906 - Philip Johnson, Cleveland Ohio, Cortalyou architect
1907 - George W Romney, (Gov-R-Mich)/US Secretary of HUD (1969-73)
1907 - Kishio Hirao, composer
1908 - Louis Jordan, Ark, alto saxman (Caldonia)
1908 - Nelson A Rockefeller, (Gov-R-NY) 41st VP (1974-77)
1909 - Petar Segedin, Croatian novelist (Holy Devil)
1910 - Govan AM Mbeki, South African leader (ANC/SACP)
1911 - Gertrude Niesen, NY, actress (Start Cheering)
1911 - Ken Farnes, cricket bowler (fast England in pre-WW II years)
1912 - Jacques Stehman, composer
1913 - Walter Kerr, NY drama critic (Sad Clowns)
1914 - Billy Eckstine, Pittsburgh PA, jazz singer (Tenderly, A Fool in Love)
1914 - Jyoti Basu, Indian politician
1915 - Charles Hard Townes, Greenville SC, physicist (developed lasers)
1917 - Faye Emerson, Elizabeth La, actress (I've Got a Secret)
1917 - Glenn Langan, Denver Colorado, actor (Amazing Colossal Man, Margie)
1917 - Pamela Brown, London England, actress (Cleopatra, Beckett)
1918 - Craig Stevens, Liberty Mo, actor (Craig-Dallas, Peter Gunn)
1919 - Walter Scheel, German Foreign minister/president
1920 - Dolph Sweet, NYC, actor (Gimme a Break, Which Way is Up)
1920 - Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, Danish industrialist (Lego Group) (d. 1995)
1923 - Harrison Dillard, Cleve, 100m runner (Oly-4 gold-1948, 52)
1924 - Johnnie Johnson, American blues musician (d. 2005)
1926 - Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, author/physician/educator
1926 - John D Dingell, (Rep-D-Michigan, 1955- )
1927 - Carlo Franci, composer
1927 - Maurice Hayes, Irish politician
1928 - Carol Henry, Newark NJ, choreographer (Garry Moore Show)
1928 - Norma Donaldson, singer/actress (Poetic Justice, 5 Heartbeats)
1929 - Shirley Ann Grau, author (Keepers of the House)
1930 - Valeri Aleksandrovich Yazdovsky, Russian cosmonaut
1931 - Jerry Vale, [Genaro Louis Vitaliano], NYC, singer (Arriverderci Roma)
1931 - Louis Ballard, composer
1931 - Roone Arledge, Forest Hills NY, head of sports broadcasting (ABC)
1933 - Antonio Lamer, French Canadian lawyer and chief justice
1934 - Marty Feldman, London England, comedian (Young Frankenstein)
1934 - Ed Lumley, Canadian corporate executive and former politician
1935 - John David Crow, football player (Heisman Trophy 1957)
1935 - Steve Lawrence, Bkln, singer/actor (Go Away Little Girl, Lonely Guy)
1935 - Vitali Ivanovich Sevastiyanov, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 9, 18B)
1936 - Rudolf W de Korte, Dutch Unilever-director/minister EA (L)
1937 - Barbara Ann Loden, actress (Ernie Kovac's Show)
1938 - Marian Ackerman, women's rights advocacy administrator
1940 - Marcia Rodd, actress (Little Murders, T R Baskins)
1941 - Dario Gradi, Italian-born football manager
1942 - Chuck Negron, Bronx NY, rock vocalist (3 Dog Night-Joy to the World)
1942 - Janice Pennington, Kansas, playmate (May 1971)/model (Price is Right)
1942 - Phil Gramm, (Sen-R Texas, 1985- )
1943 - Faye Wattleton, St Louis Mo, sociologist/pres (Planned Parenthood)
1944 - Jaimoe "Johnny" Johanson, US rock drummer (Allman Brothers)
1944 - Jeffrey Tambor, SF California, actor (Jeffrey-Ropers, Larry Sanders)
1945 - Micheline Calmy-Rey, Swiss politician
1946 - Cynthia Gregory, LA, ballerina (NY Ballet Co)
1947 - Kim Darby, American actress
1947 - Luis Fernando Figari, Peruvian founder of Sodalitium Christianae Vitae
1948 - Kim Darby, N Hollywood, actr (True Grit, Enola Gay, Rich Man Poor Man)
1948 - Raffi, children's singer (Baby Beluga)
1949 - Frank Delima, American comedian
1949 - Dale Hoganson, Canadian ice hockey player
1949 - Wolfgang Puck, Austrian-born celebrity chef
1951 - Anjelica Huston, Los Angeles California, actress (Prizzi&#039;s Honor, Alien)
1951 - Greg T Walker, rock bassist (Blackfoot)
1951 - Pleas Ned Sublette, composer
1952 - Ulrich Wehling, German DR, cross country (Olympic-gold-1972, 76, 80)
1952 - Jack Lambert, American football player
1952 - Anna Quindlen, American columnist
1953 - Jonathan Segal, NYC, actor (Jonathan-Paper Chase)
1955 - Mihaela Mitrache, Romanian actress
1956 - Millard Frank Hampton, Fresno Cal, 4x100m runner (Olympic-gold-1976)
1956 - Russell Christian, rocker (Christians-Harvest the World)
1957 - Clyde Butts, cricketer (West Indies off-spinner late eighties)
1958 - Carlos Cavazo, rocker (Quiet Riot - Metal Health)
1958 - Fred Young, Glasgow Ky, singer (Kentucky Headhunters-Davy Crockett)
1958 - Kevin Bacon, Phila Pa, actor (Diner, Footloose, She's Having a Baby)
1958 - Tzipi Livni, Israeli politician
1958 - Pauline Quirke, British actress
1958 - Andreas Carlgren, Swedish politician
1959 - Robert Knepper, American actor
1960 - Jeff Stork, Longview Wash, volleyball setter (Olympics-G-88,B-92, 96)
1960 - Valerie Pettiford, Queens, New York, American actress (One Life to Live, Half & Half)
1961 - Andy Fletcher, rocker (Depeche Mode-Just Can't Get Enough)
1961 - Graham Jones, rock guitarist (Haircut 100)
1961 - Toby Keith, American singer
1962 - Martin Pavlu, hockey forward (Team Italy 1998)
1962 - Rob Burnett, North Caldwell NJ, head writer (David Letterman)
1963 - Bob Ctvrtlik, Long Beach Cal, volleyball outsider (Oly-G-88,B-92, 96)
1963 - Mike Ridley, Winnipeg, NHL center (Vancouver Canucks)
1963 - Pablo Magallon, jockey
1964 - Alexei Gusarov, Moscow Russia, NHL defenseman (Colorado Avalanche)
1964 - Maryalice Demler, N Tonawanda NY, Miss NY-America (1991)
1965 - Corey Parker, NYC, actor (How I Got into College, Roger-Eddie Dodd)
1965 - Lee Tergesen, American actor
1967 - Mikhail Borodulin, hockey forward (Team Kazakhstan 1998)
1967 - Jordan Chan, Hong Kong actor and singer
1968 - C B Washington, NFLer (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1968 - Glen Featherstone, Toronto, NHL defenseman (Hartford Whalers)
1968 - Michael Weatherly, NYC, actor (Cooper Alden-The City/Loving)
1968 - Michel Langerak, soccer player (Dordrecht '90)
1968 - Akio Suyama, Japanese seiyu
1968 - Billy Crudup, American actor
1969 - Bobby Ayala, Oxnard CA, pitcher (Seattle Mariners)
1969 - Dana Hall, NFL safety (Cleveland Browns)
1969 - Ernie Young, Chicago IL, outfielder (Oakland A's)
1969 - Lisa Arce, Manhattan Beach CA, WPVA volleyballer (National-4th-1995)
1969 - Lori Hallier, Victoria BC Canada, actress (Shannon-Santa Barbara)
1969 - Sugizo Japanese guitarist and singer
1970 - Lisa Powell, Sydney NSW Australia, field hockey forward (Olympics-96)
1970 - Marlies Askamp, WNBA forward (Phoenix Mercury)
1970 - Todd Martin, Hinsdale Ill, tennis star (1988 USTA Boys' 18)
1970 - Beck, American singer
1971 - Jeff Kopp, NFL linebacker (Miami Dolphins)
1971 - John Achterberg, soccer player (NAC)
1971 - Wendy Benson, NYC, actress (Meredith-As the World Turns)
1972 - Brandon Rock, Las Vegas Nevada, 800m runner
1972 - Jay Bellamy, NFL safety (Seattle Seahawks)
1972 - Karl Dykhuis, Sept-iles, NHL defenseman (Phila Flyers)
1972 - Saurav Ganguly, cricketer (centuries in 1st two Tests for India 1996)
1972 - Tom Hutton, NFL punter/kicker (Philadelphia Eagles)
1972 - Shōsuke Tanihara, Japanese actor
1973 - Kathleen Robertson, actress (Beverly Hills 90210)
1974 - Demetrius Allen, NFL wide receiver (Atlanta Falcons)
1974 - Zhanna Friske, Russian actress and singer
1974 - Tami Erin, American actress and model
1975 - Elias Viljanen, Finnish Guitarist
1976 - Michael Renfurm, Surinam/Dutch soccer player (Sparta)
1976 - Staci Wilson, Livingston NJ, soccer defender (Olympics-96)
1976 - Talal El Karkouri, Moroccan footballer
1976 - David Kennedy, American guitarist (Angels & Airwaves)
1977 - Wang Zhizhi, Chinese basketball player
1977 - Milo Ventimiglia, American actor
1980 - Robbie Keane, Irish footballer
1981 - Anastasia Myskina, Russian tennis player
1982 - Hakim Warrick, American basketball player
1982 - Joshua Alba, American actor
1982 - Sophia Bush, American actress
1983 - Jaroslav Janiš, Czech racing car driver
1983 - Elizabeth Del Mar, American pornographic actress
1983 - John Bowker, American baseball player
1984 - Alexis Dziena, American actress
1985 - Jamie Cook, British musician (Arctic Monkeys)
1986 - Renata Costa, Brazilian footballer
1987 - Vlada Roslyakova, Russian model
1992 - Taylor Maine Pearl Brooks, daughter of country singer Garth Brooks
1992 - Benjamin Grosvenor, British pianist
1998 - Jaden Smith, American actor

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 08, 2013, 10:50:31 AM

This Day in History for 8th July


Famous Deaths

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Conquistador                                        US First Lady Betty Ford (2011)
Diego de Almagro (1538)


810 - Pepin, son of Charlemagne, King of Italy, dies (birth date unknown)
975 - Edgar, King of England (959-75), dies
1115 - Petrus van Amiens, French Crusades predictor, dies
1153 - Eugene III, [Bernardo], Italian Pope (1145-53), dies
1249 - Alexander II, King of Scots (1215-49), dies at 51
1253 - Thibaud IV, poet/count of Champagne/King of Navarra, dies
1496 - Benedetto Bonfiglio, Italian painter, dies
1531 - Tilman Riemenschneider, German sculptor, dies at 71
1538 - Diego de Almagro, Spanish conquistador (Chile/Peru), killed at Las Salinas at about 63
1623 - Gregory XV, [Alessandro Ludovisi], bishop of Bologna/Pope, dies at 69
1656 - Alexander van der Capellen, mister of Aartsbergen, dies at about 64
1679 - Samuel J Columbus, Swedish poet (Odae Sveticae), dies
1681 - Georg Neumark, composer, dies at 60
1689 - Edward Wooster, English Connecticut pioneer (b. 1622)
1695 - Christiaan Huygens, Dutch scientist (b. 1629)
1716 - Robert South, English churchman (b. 1634)
1721 - Elihu Yale, American benefactor of Yale University (b. 1649)
1726 - John Ker, Scottish spy (b. 1673)
1784 - Torbern Bergman, Swedish chemist (b. 1735)
1822 - Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet (Prometheus unbound), drowns at 29
1826 - Luther Martin, American statesman (b. 1748)
1850 - Prince Adolphus, 1st Duke of Cambridge (b. 1774)
1855 - Sir William Edward Parry, English Arctic explorer (b. 1790)
1859 - F J Oscar I, King of Sweden/Norway (1844-59), dies at 60
1863 - Francis P Kenrick, Irish/US archbishop of Baltimore, dies at 65
1870 - John D Zocher Jr, architect (Soestdijk Palace), dies at 79
1876 - Josef Dessauer, composer, dies at 78
1885 - Henry Waelput, Flemish composer/conductor (Blessing of Arms), dies
1894 - Vladimir Nikitich Kashperov, composer, dies
1895 - Johann Josef Loschmidt, Austrian scientist (b. 1821)
1898 - Soapy Smith, American con artist (b. 1860)
1905 - Walter Kittredge, American musician (b. 1834)
1909 - Gaston AA marquis de Gallifet, Fren min of War (1899-1900), dies at 79
1913 - Louis Hémon, French-born writer (b. 1880)
1917 - Tom Thomson, Canadian painter (b. 1877)
1932 - Florenz Ziegfeld, US theatre producer (Ziegfeld Follies), dies
1933 - Anthony Hope, British author (b. 1863)
1934 - Benjamin Baillaud, French astronomer (b. 1848)
1939 - [Henry] Havelock Ellis, English sexologist (Man & Woman), dies at 80
1941 - Philippe Gaubert, composer, dies at 62
1941 - Moses Schorr, Polish rabbi, senator, historian and orientalist (b. 1874)
1942 - Catherinus Elling, composer, dies at 83
1943 - Harry Oakes, Canadian ruler of Bahamas, murdered
1943 - Jean "Max" Moulin, French resistance fighter, executed
1946 - Aleksander V Aleksandrov, Russian composer/conductor, dies at 63
1948 - Dave Nourse, cricketer (45 Tests for South Africa 1902-24), dies
1949 - Antun Sa'ada, Syrian rightwing politician, executed in Lebanon
1949 - Riccadro Pick-Mangiagalli, composer, dies at 66
1950 - Othmar Spann, Austrian economist/sociologist (Wahre State), dies at 71
1956 - Gerrit Jan van Heuven Goedhart, dutch min of Justice (Nobel 54), dies
1956 - Giovanni Papini, Italian author/poet (Un Uomo Finito), dies at 75
1957 - Grace Goodhue Coolidge, 1st lady (1923-29), dies at 78
1957 - Henry Fevrier, composer, dies at 81
1957 - William Cadbury, chocolate maker, dies at 89
1959 - Dale Buisand & Chester Ovnand, 1st Americans killed in Vietnam War
1961 - Julian Bautista, composer, dies at 60
1962 - Georges Bataille, French writer and philosopher (b. 1897)
1967 - Fatima Jinnah, Pakistani political figure (b. 1893)
1971 - Charlie Shavers, American jazz trumpet player (b. 1920)
1973 - Wilfred Rhodes, cricketer (4187 1st-class wickets, most ever), dies
1979 - Michael Wilding, actor (Waterloo, Zarakm Naked Edge), dies
1979 - Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1906)
1979 - Robert B. Woodward, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1917)
1981 - Loring Smith, actor (Hartmans), dies at 86
1982 - Isa Miranda, model/actress (Summertime), dies of infected bone at 77
1984 - Christine McIntyre, actress (3 Stooges), dies at 73
1985 - Gardner Cowles Jr, US publisher (Look Magazine), dies at 82
1985 - Phil Foster, comedian (Frank De Fazio-Laverne & Shirley), dies at 72
1985 - Simon Kuznets, US economist (Nobel 1971), dies at 84
1986 - Skeeter Webb, American baseball player (b. 1909)
1987 - Gerardo Diego, Spanish poet (b. 1896)
1987 - Lionel Chevrier, Canadian politician (b. 1903)
1988 - Ray Barbuti, American athlete (b. 1905)
1990 - Howard Duff, actor (Heist, Knots Landing), dies of heart attack at 72
1990 - Malcolm Hilton, English cricket slow left-arm (4 Tests), dies
1991 - James Franciscus, actor (Mr Novak), dies at of emphysema 57
1991 - Lotte Palfi Andor, actress (Lovesick, All the Jazz), dies
1994 - Christian-Jaque, French director (Babette s'and va-t-and guerre), dies
1994 - Dick Sargent, actor (Darren-Bewitched), dies of cancer at 64
1994 - Dominic Lucero, dancer/singer, dies of lymphatic cancer
1994 - Kim Il Sung, president of North-Korea (1948-94), dies at 82
1994 - Robert E Lee, dies of cancer at 75
1994 - Lars-Eric Lindblad, Swedish-American entrepreneur and explorer (b. 1927)
1995 - Elizabeth Adams, madam, dies at 65
1996 - Amschel Rothschild, banker, dies at 41
1996 - Ernest Armstrong, miner/politician, dies at 81
1996 - James Woodie Alexander, songwriter/vocalist, dies at 80
1996 - Thomas Mitchell, architect/engineer, dies at 90
1997 - Charles Drake, geologist, dies of heart attack at 92
1999 - Pete Conrad, American astronaut (b. 1930)
2001 - John O'Shea, New Zealand film director (b. 1920)
2002 - Ward Kimball, American animator (b. 1914)
2004 - Paula Danziger, American author (b. 1944)
2004 - Jean Lefebvre, French actor (b. 1922)
2006 - June Allyson, American actress (b. 1917)
2006 - Peter Hawkins, British actor/voice actor (b. 1924)
2011 - Roberts Blossom, American actor and poet (b. 1924)
2011 - Mary Fenech Adami, First Lady of Malta (b. 1933)
2011 - Betty Ford, First Lady of the United States (b. 1918)
2012 - Ernest Borgnine, American actor, dies from renal failure at 95

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 09, 2013, 11:39:45 AM

This Day in History for 9th July


Historical Events

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Astronomer Johannes Kepler                Physician and Explorer                           Heart surgeon Daniel Williams
                                                                       David Livingstone

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Jewish Victim & Diarist of the                33rd US President Harry Truman            Pop Singer & Beatle
Holocaust Anne Frank                                                                                          Paul McCartney

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British Prime Minister                             Composer Georges Bizet                          Golfer Jack Nicklaus
Margaret Thatcher

455 - Roman military commander Avitus is proclaimed emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
711 - Berbers under Tarik-ibn Ziyad occupies North Spain
1357 - Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor assists laying the foundation stone of Charles Bridge in
           Prague.
1371 - Pope Gregory XI names Arnold II of Horne as bishop of Utrecht
1386 - Battle at Sempach: Swiss beat duke Leopold III of Austria
1401 - Mongol monarch Timur Lenk destroys Baghdad
1517 - Gelderse crowd robber murders population of Asperen
1536 - French navigator Jacques Cartier returns to Saint-Malo from Canada
1541 - Estevão da Gama departs Massawa, leaving behind 400 matchlock men and 150 slaves under
           his brother Christovão da Gama, with orders to help the Emperor of Ethiopia defeat Ahmad
           ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi who has invaded his Empire.
1553 - Battle at Sievershausen Solingen: van Saksen beats Alcibiades
1572 - 19 Catholic priests hanged in Gorcum
1595 - Johannes Kepler inscribes geometric solid construction of universe
1609 - Emperor Rudolf II grants Bohemian protestants freedom of religion
1672 - Prince Willem III inaugurated as viceroy of Holland/Zealand
1686 - Germany, Sweden & Spain signs anti-French League of Augsburg
1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlies "Elisabeth" battles with HMS Lion
1755 - Battle at Duquesne (Pittsburgh): French troops beat British
1755 - British General E Braddock mortally wounded during French & Indian War
1766 - English premier Rockingham resigns
1776 - Declaration of Independence is read to George Washington's troops (NY)
1780 - Denmark declares neutrality
1790 - Russo-Swedish War: Second Battle of Svensksund - in the Baltic Sea, the Swedish Navy
           captures one third of the Russian fleet.
1795 - James Swan pays off the $2,024,899 US national debt
1800 - Mt Vernon Gardens becomes site of 1st summer theater in US
1807 - Treaties of Tilsit signed by Napoleon I and Alexander I.
1810 - Napoleon annexes the Kingdom of Holland as part of the First French Empire.
1815 - 1st natural gas well in US is discovered
1815 - King Louis XVIII leaves Ghent for France
1815 - Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, Prince de Benevente becomes Prime Minister of
           France.
1816 - Argentina declares independence from Spain
1835 - St Etienne-Lyons railway opens in France
1842 - Notary Stamp Law passes
1846 - Capt Montgomery claims Yerba Buena (SF) for US
1846 - The territory of the District of Columbia south of the Potomac River (39 mi² or about 100
           km²) is returned to Virginia through an Act of Congress.
1852 - Fire destroys 1,100 construction sites in Montreal Canada & no one die
1853 - Adm Perry & US Navy visit Japan
1860 - Temperature hits 115°F in Ft Scott & 112°F in Topeka Kansas
1862 - Gen John Hunt Morgan captures Tompkinsville, Ky
1863 - R Morgan's: Indiana [->JUL 13]
1863 - Union troops enter Port Hudson
1864 - Battle of Monocacy, MD US1959 CS400
1867 - An unsuccessful expedition led by E.D Young sets out to search for Dr David Livingstone
          (Scottish missionary and explorer).
1868 - 1st black cabinet member in SC (Francis L Cardozo-sect of state)
1869 - Concord pipe, made from small corn kernels, invented
1872 - Doughnut cutter patents by John Blondel, Thomaston, Me
1876 - Black landowner murdered in Hamburg SC
1877 - 1st Wimbledon tennis championship is held
1878 - An improved corncob pipe patents by Henry Tibbe, Washington, Mo
1893 - Daniel Williams performs 1st successful open heart surgery without anesthesia
1900 - Australia accepts its constitution
1904 - 10th US Golf Open: Willie Anderson shoots a 303 at Glen View Club IL
1908 - CHU (Christian Historic Union) Dutch political party forms
1910 - Walter Brookins becomes 1st to pilot an airplane to 1 mile altitude
1914 - 1st US duplicate auction bridge championship held, Lake Placid, NY
1915 - Germany surrenders South West Africa to Union of South Africa
1916 - 1st cargo submarine to cross Atlantic arrives in US from Germany
1917 - British warship "Vanguard" explodes at Scapa Flow killing 804
1918 - 101 killed & 171 injured in worst US train wreck, Nashville, Tenn
1918 - Congress creates Distinguished Service Medal
1922 - Johnny Weissmuller swims 1st 100 m free style under 1 minute
1926 - Chiang Kai-shek appointed to national-revolutionary supreme commander
1926 - Coup under Gen Sinel de Cordes in Portugal
1927 - Atty William T Francis named minister to Liberia
1932 - Washington Redskins (then Boston Braves) forms
1932 - Yanks' Ben Chapman hits 2 inside-the-park HRs, tying record
1932 - The state of São Paulo revolts against the Brazilian Federal Government, starting the
           Constitutionalist Revolution
1933 - Frankford Yellowjackets sold, rechristened Philadelphia Eagles
1934 - SS-Reichs Fuhrer Himmler takes command of German Concentration Camps
1940 - 8th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-0 at Sportsman's Park, St Louis
1940 - German Evangelist Church protests against euthanasia pogroms
1940 - RAF bombs Germany
1942 - Anne Frank, 13, goes into hiding with her family & 4 other Jews
1943 - 5th day of battle at Kursk: Germans occupy Verchopenje
1943 - British air raid sinks U-435
1944 - In World War II, US troops secure Saipan as Japan fell
1944 - U-740 sinks
1944 - World's largest circus tent catches fire at Ringling Brother's - Barnum & Bailey 2nd
           performance, 168 die (Hartford Conn)
1946 - 13th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 12-0 at Fenway Park, Boston
1947 - Britain's Princess Elizabeth & Lt Philip Mountbatten's engagement
1947 - Spain votes for Franco monarchy
1948 - Satchel Paige, 42, debuts in majors pitching 2 scoreless inn for Cleve
1949 - Benjamin Britten's Jump Symphony, premieres
1950 - 13.15" (33.40 cm) of rainfall, York, Nebraska (state 24-hour record)
1951 - Pres Harry Truman asked Congress to formally end state of war with Germany
1953 - 1st helicopter passenger service (NYC)
1953 - Phillies Robin Roberts ends streak of 28 consecutive complete games
1955 - First black executive on White House staff (E Frederic Morrow)
1955 - Bill Haley & Comets' "Rock Around the Clock" tops billboards chart
1955 - Strike in Belgium for 5 day work week
1955 - The Russell-Einstein Manifesto is released by Bertrand Russell in London.
1956 - Dick Clark's 1st appearance as host of American Bandstand
1957 - 24th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 6-6 at Sportsman's Park, St Louis
1957 - Discovery of element 102 (Nobelium) announced
1958 - Giant splash caused by fall of 90 million tons of rock & ice into Lituya Bay, Alaska washes
           1,800 feet up the mountain
1959 - Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Hoosier Golf Open
1959 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Hoosier Celebrity Golf Tournament
1962 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
1963 - 34th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-3 at Municipal Stadium, Cleve
1963 - All star MVP: Willie Mays (SF Giants)
1963 - Crusher Lisowski beats Verne Gagne in Minneapolis, to become NWA champ
1963 - Federation of Malaysia forms
1965 - 94th British Golf Open: Peter Thomson shoots a 285 at Royal Birkdale
1965 - John Edrich completes 310* v NZ in 532 minutes, 52 fours 5 sixes
1965 - Senators Frank Howard ties record with 7 strikeouts in DH
1966 - 95th British Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots 282 at Muirfield Gullane
1967 - 13th LPGA Championship won by Kathy Whitworth
1967 - WRET TV channel 36 in Charlotte, NC (NBC/CBS) begins broadcasting
1968 - 15.68" (39.83 cm) of rainfall, Columbus, Miss (state 24-hour record)
1968 - 39th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 1-0 at Astrodome, Houston
1968 - All star MVP: Willie Mays (SF Giants)
1969 - Tom Seaver's no-hit bid against Cubs ends with 1 out in 9th
1970 - In Atlanta, Chief-No-ka-homa is joined by cousin Chief Round-the-Horn
1971 - Henry Kissinger visits China PR
1972 - 1st tour of Paul McCartney & Wings (France)
1972 - 86th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: S Smith beats I Nastase (46 63 63 46 75)
1972 - Kathy Ahern wins LPGA George Washington Golf Classic
1972 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1973 - 9th Maccabiah games opens in Tel Aviv, Israel
1974 - Trudeau's Liberal Party wins Canadian parliamentary election
1975 - The National Assembly of Senegal passes a law that paves way for a (albeit highly restricted)
           multi-party system.
1976 - England all out for 71 v WI at Old Trafford, Holding 14 5-7-17-5
1976 - Houston Astro Larry Dierker no-hits Montreal Expos, 6-0
1976 - Uganda asks UN to condemn Israeli hostage rescue raid on Entebbe
1977 - 106th British Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 268 at Turnberry Scotland
1978 - "Hello, Dolly!" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC after 152 perfs
1978 - American Nazi Party, holds a rally at Marquette Park, Chicago
1978 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Wheeling Golf Classic
1978 - Nearly 100,000 demonstrators march on Wash DC for ERA
1979 - Dr Walter Massey named director of Argonne national Lab
1979 - Voyager 2 flies past Jupiter
1979 - A car bomb destroys a Renault owned by famed "Nazi hunters" Serge and Beate Klarsfeld at
           their home in France. A note purportedly from ODESSA claims responsibility.
1980 - 7 die in a stampede to see Pope in Brazil
1980 - Dutch war criminal Pieter Menten sentenced to 10 years
1980 - Walt Disney's "Fox & The Hound," released
1981 - Jacksons begin a 36-city tour
1982 - Botham scores 208 in 225 balls, England v India at The Oval
1982 - Margaret Thatcher begins her 2nd term as British Prime Minster
1982 - Pan Am Boeing 727 crashes in Kenner La, killing 153
1984 - 12th minster of York destroyed in lightening storm
1984 - Yvonne Ryding, of Sweden, crowned 33rd Miss Universe
1985 - South Africa police arrested Dutch ANC'er Klaas de Jong
1986 - Atlanta's Dale Murphy doesn't play ending consecutive streak at 740
1986 - Attorney General's Commission on Pornography links hard-core porn to sex crimes
1986 - Padres trade pitcher Tim Stoddard to Yankees for pitcher Ed Whitson
1987 - 1 million South Koreans demonstrate against Chun Doo Hwan regime
1987 - Col Oliver North admits to shredding Iran-Contra evidence
1988 - Chris Speier hits for the cycle & Ernest Riles hits 10,000th Giant HR
1988 - Jessye Norman begins recording Bizets "Carmen"
1988 - Nolan Ryan is 7th to win 100 game on 2 teams, as Astro beat Mets 6-3
1989 - 103rd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: B Becker beats Stefan Edberg (60 76 64)
1989 - 96th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: S Graf beats M Navratilova (62 67 61)
1989 - Penny Hammel wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic
1989 - Two bombs explode in Mecca, killing one pilgrim and wounding 16 others.
1990 - 104th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: S Edberg beats B Becker (62 62 36 36 64)
1990 - Richard Hadlee takes 5-53 to end his Test Cricket career with 431 wkts
1991 - "Little Night Music" opens at New York State Theater NYC for 7 perfs
1991 - 62nd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 4-2 at SkyDome, Toronto
1991 - All star MVP: Cal Ripken Jr (Balt Orioles)
1991 - South Africa readmitted to Olympics
1992 - Kim Basinger gets 1,959th star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame
1992 - Space Shuttle STS 50 (Columbia 13) lands
1994 - 11,000th HR in NY Yankees history (Matt Nokes)
1994 - Sonia O'Sullivan runs world record 2k (5:25.36)
1994 - Soyuz TM-19 lands
1995 - "Play's the Thing" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 75 performances
1995 - 109th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats B Becker (67 62 64 62)
1995 - Jack Nicklaus wins Golf's British Open (4th to win all 4 majors)
1995 - Kathryn Marshall wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic
1995 - US international postage rates rise to 60 cents per ounce
1996 - 67th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-0 at Veterans Stadium, Phila
1996 - All star MVP: Mike Piazza (LA Dodgers)
1996 - US Senate approves 90 cent raise to $4.25 minimum wage
1997 - Baseball&#039;s triple A American Association (formed in 1902) votes to disband
1997 - Mike Tyson is banned from boxing, for biting Holyfield's ear
1999 - Days of student protests begin after Iranian police and hardliners attack a student dormitory
           at the University of Tehran.
2000 - Pete Sampras wins his 13th Grand Slam tennis title at Wimbledon
2002 - The African Union is established in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The first chairman is Thabo Mbeki,
           President of South Africa.
2006 - At least 122 people are killed after a Sibir Airlines Airbus A310 passenger jet, carrying 200
           passengers on board veers off the runway while landing at Irkutsk Airport in Siberia in wet
           conditions.
2011 - South Sudan gains independence and secedes from Sudan.

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 09, 2013, 11:47:23 AM

This Day in History for 9th July


Famous Weddings

1735 - Author,poet, critic and lexicographer and writer of the first English dictionary Dr. Samuel
           Johnson (25) marries the widow Elizabeth "Tetty" Porter, 21 years his senior.
1842 - American writer "The Scarlett Letter" Nathaniel Hawthorne (38) marries painter and illustrator
           Sophia Peabody (33) in the Peabody's home, Boston
1952 - American educator, Presbyterian minister and TV host Fred Rogers (24) weds Sara Joanne
           Byrd
1966 - Major League Baseball pitcher Tom Seaver (21) weds Nancy Lynn McIntyre
1988 - "Facts of Life," Lisa Whelchel weds Steve Cauble
2005 - "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" actress Diane Neal (28) weds Marcus Fitzgerald on a beach
           in the Dominican Republic
2005 - Former Beverly Hills 90210 actress Tiffani Thiessen (31) weds actor-artist Brady Smith (33) at
           a private estate in Montecito, California
2006 - Former Beverly Hills, 90210 mean girl actress Tiffani Thiessen (31) weds actor-artist Brady
           Smith (33) at a French-Italian estate in Montecito, California
2009 - "The Hot Chick" actress Anna Faris (32) weds actor Chris Pratt (30) in a small ceremony in
           Bali, Indonesia
2011 - NBA Charlotte Bobcats forward Tyrus Thomas (24) weds long-term girlfriend Jaime Collins at
           Louisiana

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 09, 2013, 12:00:19 PM

This Day in History for 9th July


Famous Divorces

1540 - English King Henry VIII annuls his 6 month marriage to his 4th wife Anne of Cleves, on the
           grounds of non-consummation and her pre-contract to Francis of Lorraine
2007 - Former contestant on "The Apprentice" and beauty queen Jennifer Murphy (28) divorces
           "Extreme Makeover" Bill Dorfman (48) due to irreconcilable differences after 1 year of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 09, 2013, 02:27:11 PM

This Day in History for 9th July


Famous Birthdays

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NFL Running Back and                            Actor Tom Hanks (1956)              Singer-Songwriter Courtney Love (1964)
Convicted Criminal
OJ Simpson (1947)

1511 - Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1571)
1513 - John van Hembyze, Flemish calvinist
1535 - Emanuel van Meteren, Southern Neth, merchant/historian
1577 - Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, English Jamestown colonist (d. 1618)
1578 - Ferdinand II, King of Bohemia/Hungary/German Emperor (1619-37)
1589 - Johannes a Sancto Thoma, [Poinset], Portuguese theologist
1654 - Emperor Reigen of Japan (d. 1732)
1686 - Philip Livingston, Albany, New York, American businessman and politician (d. 1749)
1689 - Alexis Piron, French writer (d. 1773)
1721 - Johann Nikolaus Götz, German poet (d. 1781)
1753 - William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock, Governor of Newfoundland (d. 1825)
1764 - Ann Ward Radcliffe, English Gothic novelist (Italian)
1766 - J Schopenhauer, writer
1775 - Matthew Lewis, English novelist (d. 1818)
1777 - Henry Hallam, British lawyer/historian
1786 - Sophie Hélène Béatrix, Princess of France (d. 1787)
1791 - Nicolas Ledesma, composer
1800 - Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, German physician (d. 1885)
1802 - Thomas Davenport, invented 1st coml electric motor
1805 - Henry John Gauntlett, composer
1808 - Alexander William Doniphan, American lawyer and soldier (d. 1887)
1809 - Frederick Henle, Germany, pathologist
1819 - Elias Howe, Spencer Mass, invented sewing machine
1825 - Jules Oppert, German Assyriologist (decodes characters)
1828 - Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano, Italian Catholic churchman (d. 1913)
1831 - Johan P van der Kellen, Dutch stamp cutter/lithographer/writer
1836 - Camille de Renesse, Belgian count (d. 1904)
1839 - Carl Baermann, composer
1841 - Carl Christian Lumbye, composer
1848 - Robert I, Duke of Parma, last ruling Duke of Parma (d. 1907)
1855 - Johann P Zilcher, German composer
1856 - Daniel Guggenheim, US (Guggenheim Museum)
1857 - Frederik II W, grandduke of Baden (1907-18)
1858 - Franz Boas, anthropologist/linguist (Mind of Primitive Man)
1864 - Franz Miller, becomes first Train Murderer
1879 - Friedrich Adler, Austria social-democrat/murderer of premier Storgkh
1879 - Ottorino Respighi, Bologna Italy, composer (Pines of Rome)
1879 - Carlos Chagas, Brazilian physician (d. 1934)
1882 - Richard Hageman, Dutch/US pianist/composer/conductor (Caponsacchi)
1887 - Samuel Eliot Morison, historian (Admiral of the Ocean Sea)
1889 - Leo Dandurand, American-born Canadian hockey executive (d. 1964)
1893 - George Geary, cricketer (sturdy pace bowler for England 1924-34)
1894 - Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
1895 - Cullen Landis, Nashville TN, actor (Soul of the Beast)
1898 - Gerard Walschap, Flemish writer/journalist (Mary, Revolt in Congo)
1898 - Marcel Delannoy, composer
1900 - Robert Oboussier, composer
1901 - Barbara Cartland, romance author (Camfield #69)
1901 - Jester Hairston, NC, actor (Thats My Mama, Rolly-Amen)
1902 - Gerhard Pohl, German writer (Crazy Ferdinand)
1905 - Clarence Campbell, Saskatchewan, 3rd NHL pres (1946-77)
1906 - Beene Dubbelboer, Dutch writer (Secret Resistance)
1906 - Walter Sande, Denver CO, actor (Navy vs Night Monsters)
1908 - Allama Rasheed Turabi, Pakistani scholar, orator and philosopher (d. 1973)
1910 - Harold C Fox, fashion designer/musician
1911 - Clan Fraser of Lovat, soldier/landowner
1911 - Lord Lovat, [Shimi], Scottish cattle breeder/leader of clan Fraser
1911 - Mervyn Peake, British writer and illustrator (d. 1968)
1911 - John A. Wheeler, American physicist (d. 2008)
1914 - Bill Tallon, cricketer (brother of Don, Queensland leggie)
1914 - Willi Stoph, president German DR
1915 - David Leo Diamond, Rochester NY, composer (Paderewski Prize-1943)
1916 - Edward Heath, (C) British PM (1970-74)
1916 - Joe Liggins, US composer (Pink Champagne)
1916 - Sir Dean Goffin, New Zealand composer (d. 1984)
1917 - Ted Steele, Hartford Ct, orchestra leader (Cavalcade of Stars)
1918 - Herbert Brun, composer
1918 - Rowley I Arenstein, South African attorney/communist/ANC'er
1919 - Peggy Braithwaite, lighthouse-keeper
1921 - Jacob J Hage, Dutch farmer/WW II resistance fighter
1922 - Rey Hassan, Morroco, King of Morocco (1961- )
1924 - Leonard Pennario, Buffalo NY, pianist (LA Philharmonic)
1924 - Pierre Cochereau, composer
1925 - Alan Dale, Bkln NY, singer (Alan Dale Show)
1925 - Peter Ludwig, businessman/art collector
1925 - Thomas A Luken, (Rep-D-OH, 1973-74, 77- )
1926 - Ben Roy Mottelson, American-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1927 - Ed Ames, Malden Mass, actor (Mingo-Daniel Boone)
1927 - Leonard Patrick "Red" Kelly, NHL hall of famer (Norris trophy)
1927 - Red Kelly, Canadian ice hockey player
1928 - Vince Edwards, Bkln NY, actor (Ben Casey, Matt Lincoln, Firehouse)
1928 - Federico Bahamontes, Spanish cyclist
1929 - Lee Hazelwood, Ok, country singer/songwriter (Summer Wine, Jackson)
1929 - Mawlai al-Hassan II, King of Morocco (1961- )
1929 - Jesse McReynolds, American singer and mandolinist
1930 - Buddy Bregman, Chicago, orchestra leader (Eddie Fisher Show)
1930 - Roy McLean, cricketer (prolific South African batsman played 40 Tests)
1932 - Donald Rumsfeld, politician (involved in Watergate)
1932 - John Paul Getty II, US/British oil magnate/billionaire (Getty Oil)
1933 - Nodar Kalistratovich Gabuniya, composer
1934 - Michael Graves, American architect
1935 - Mercedes Sosa, [La Negra], Argentina, singer
1935 - Ronnie Burns, Evanston Ill, adopted son of George Burns
1935 - Willem Duisenberg, minister of Finance (PvdA)/pres (Nethche Bank)
1936 - David Joel Zinman, NYC, composer/conductor (Balt Symphony-1983)
1936 - James Hampton, Oklahoma City OK, actor (Bugler Dobbs-F Troop, Teen Wolf)
1936 - June Jordan, US playwright/poet (His Own Where)
1937 - Clemon Daniels, AFL player of year 1963, halfback (Oak, Dallas SF)
1937 - David Hockney, Bradford England, artist (Pop Art)
1937 - Richard Roundtree, New Rochelle NY, actor (Getting Even, Shaft)
1937 - Marty Springstead, Nyack, New York, American Major League baseball umpire and umpire
           supervisor
1938 - Brian Dennehy, Ct, actor (Check is in the Mail, F/X, Cocoon, Ants)
1938 - Paul Seiko Chihara, Seattle Washington, US/Japanese composer
1940 - John Salvito, rocker (Duprees)
1941 - Don McPherson, rocker
1941 - James Scott, director (Strike it Rich)
1941 - Karin von Aroldingen, Germany, ballet dancer (NYC Ballet Co)
1941 - Scotty Baesler, (Rep-D-Kentucky)
1941 - Takehide Nakatani, Japan, lightweight (Olympic-gold-1964)
1942 - Edy Williams, Salt Lake City Utah, actress (Dr Minx)
1942 - Hermann Burger, writer
1942 - Paul B Henry, (Rep-R-Michigan, 1985- )
1942 - Robert Frankel, horse trainer
1943 - John H Casper, Greenville SC, USAF/astronaut (STS 36, 54, 62, 77)
1944 - Glen [Charles] Cook, US, sci-fi author (Shadowline, Star's End)
1945 - Dean R[ay] Koontz, US, sci-fi author (Star Quest, Beastchild)
1945 - Lewis F Payne Jr, (Rep-D-Virginia)
1945 - Root Boy Slim, American entertainer (d. 1993)
1946 - Bon Scott, [Ronald Belford], Kirriemuir Scotland, rocker (AC/DC)
1946 - Joe Micelli, rocker
1946 - Natasha Pyne, English actress
1947 - Mitch Mitchell, drummer (Jimi Hendrix Experience)
1947 - Jerney Kaagman, Dutch singer (Earth & Fire)
1947 - OJ Simpson [Orenthal James], Santa Fey California, NFL running back (Buf Bills)
1947 - Haruomi Hosono, Japanese musician
1948 - Hassan Wirajuda, Indonesian current foreign minister
1951 - Chris Cooper, Kansas City MO, actor (Thousand Pieces of Gold, Matewan)
1952 - John Tesh, Garden City NY, New age pianist/TV host (ET)
1952 - Rod Boll, Fillmore Saskatchwan, trap shooter (Olympics-96)
1953 - Dave Camp, (Rep-R-Michigan)
1953 - Irina D Latysheva, Russian cosmonaut
1953 - Thomas Ligotti, American author
1953 - Margie Gillis, Canadian dancer and choreographer
1954 - Debbie Sledge, Phila, vocalist (Sister Sledge-We are Family)
1955 - Fred Norris, comedy writer/singer (Howard Stern Show)
1955 - Jimmy Smits, Bkln, actor (Victor-LA Law, Running Scared, NYPD Blue)
1955 - Lisa Banes, Chagrin Falls OH, actress (Cocktail, Look Back in Anger)
1955 - Sergei Vladimirovich Krichevsky, Russia, lt-colonel/cosmonaut
1955 - Willie Wilson, American baseball player
1956 - Tom Hanks, Concord California, actor (Bossom Buddies, Forrest Gump, Phila)
1957 - [Peter] Marc Almond, Merseyside England, vocalist (Soft Cell)
1957 - Kelly McGillis, Newport Beach Ca, actress (Top Gun, Accused, Witness)
1957 - Tim Kring, American writer and producer
1957 - Paul Merton, British comedian
1958 - Bob Crudgington, Australian softball head coach (Olympics-bronze-96)
1959 - Jim Kerr, Glasgow Scotland, rock vocalist (Simple Minds)
1959 - Kevin Nash, American professional wrestler
1959 - Clive Stafford Smith, British human-rights lawyer
1960 - Christopher J "Gus" Loria, Newton Mass, Major USMC/astronaut
1960 - Marc Mero, American professional wrestler
1961 - Mohammad Aslam, UAE cricketer batsman (1996 World Cup)
1963 - Pamela Annette Sanders, Miami Florida, playmate (November, 1985)
1964 - Courtney Love, Santa Fey California, vocalist (Hole)/actress (People vs Larry Flynt)
1964 - Ronnie Grandison, NBA forward (NY Knicks)
1964 - Scott Rachal Verplank, Dallas TX, PGA golfer (1985 Western Open)
1965 - Bob Hess Jr, horse trainer
1965 - Frank Bello, American heavy metal musician (Anthrax)
1965 - David O'Hara, Irish-Scottish actor
1965 - Jason Rhoades, American installation artist (d. 2006)
1966 - Pamela Adlon, American voice actress
1967 - Gunnar Axén, Swedish politician
1968 - Shawn Harper, NFL tackle (Indianapolis Colts, Frankfurt Galaxy)
1968 - Vardis A Fisher, US writer (Darkness & Deep), dies at 73
1968 - Paolo Di Canio, Italian football player
1968 - Lars Gyllenhaal, Swedish author
1969 - Jerry Drake, NFL defensive linesman (Arizona Cardinals)
1969 - Robert Gordon, CFL receiver (Edmonton Eskimos)
1969 - Venkatapathy Raju, cricketer (Indian slow left-armer)
1970 - Steve Dubinsky, Montreal, NHL center (Chicago Blackhawks)
1970 - Trent Green, NFL quarterback (Washington Redskins)
1970 - Masami Tsuda, Japanese manga author
1971 - Anthony Fieldings, WLAF linebacker (Rhein Fire)
1971 - Bobby Leslie, TV rocker (Guys Next Door-I Was Made For You)
1971 - Chadrick Brown, NFL defensive end (Arizona Cardinals)
1971 - Danalee Bragado, Honolulu, WPVA volleyballer (Best of Beach-9th-1995)
1971 - Ger Senden, soccer player (Roda JC)
1971 - Jill Simon, Miss Iowa USA (1996)
1971 - Scott Grimes, Lowell Mass, actor (Together We Stand)
1971 - Marc Andreessen, American software developer
1971 - Dani Behr, Model & TV Presenter
1972 - Derek Mills, Wash DC, 400m runner
1972 - Pete Kendall, NFL guard (Seattle Seahawks)
1973 - Katasha Artis, WNBA forward (Charlotte Sting)
1973 - Kelly Holcomb, NFL/WLAF quarterback (Buccaneers, Barcelona Dragons)
1973 - Enrique Murciano, American actor
1974 - Nikola Sarcevic, Swedish bassist and singer (Millencolin)
1974 - Sian Berry, British politician
1975 - Jack White, American musician (The White Stripes}
1975 - Shelton Benjamin, American professional wrestler
1976 - Fred Aaron Savage, Ill, actor (Kevin-Wonder Years, Vice Versa)
1977 - Isaac Brock, American musician
1978 - Linda Park, Korean-born actress
1978 - Mark Medlock, German singer
1979 - Ella Koon, Hong Kong singer and actress
1979 - Suzanne Stokes American model, (Playmate of the Month February 2000)
1981 - Kimveer Gill, Canadian spree shooter (Dawson College shooting) (d. 2006)
1982 - Ashly DelGrosso, American ballroom dancer
1982 - Alecko Eskandarian, Armenian-American footballer
1982 - Maggie Ma, Canadian actress
1982 - Sakon Yamamoto, Japanese race-car driver
1983 - Lucia Micarelli, American musician
1984 - Jacob Hoggard, singer of Canadian band Hedley (band)
1985 - Paweł Korzeniowski, Polish swimmer
1985 - Ashley Young, English footballer
1986 - Dominic Cervi, American footballer
1986 - Kiely Williams, American singer and actress
1990 - Fábio and Rafael da Silva, Brazilian footballers
1991 - Mitchel Musso, American actor
1991 - Spencer Elden, Baby/Model on Nirvana (band)'s Nevermind album
1995 - Georgie Henley, English actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 09, 2013, 02:28:59 PM

This Day in History for 9th July


Famous Deaths

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Savant Amedeo Avogadro (1856)             Nazi Physician Eugen Fischer

1228 - Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury
1386 - Leopold III of Austria (b. 1351)
1441 - Jan/Johannes van Eyck, Flemish painter (Lamb Gods), dies
1553 - Maurice, Elector of Saxony (b. 1521)
1639 - Entonius Walaeus, calvinist theologist, dies at 65
1654 - Ferdinand IV, King of the Romans, Bohemia and Hungary of smallpox (b. 1633)
1677 - Angelus Silesius [Johann Scheffer], German medical/mystic poet, dies
1696 - Waclaw Potocki, Polish poet (Wojna Chocimska), dies
1706 - Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, French Canadian sailor and explorer (b. 1661)
1716 - Joseph Sauveur, French sound engineer, dies at 63
1737 - de' Medici, last Medici-grand duke of Toscane, dies
1742 - John Oldmixon, English historian (b. 1673)
1746 - Philip V, French King of Spain (1700-24, 24-46), dies at 62
1747 - Giovanni Battista Bononcini, Italian opera-composer, dies at 76
1755 - Edward Braddock, British General, mortally wounded at Fort Duquesne during French & Indian
           War. Dies 13th July.
1755 - Gottlob Harrer, composer, dies at 52
1756 - Pieter Langendijk, painter/etcher/playwright, dies at 72
1766 - Jonathan Mayhew, American minister (b. 1720)
1795 - Henry Seymour Conway, British general and statesman (b. 1721)
1797 - Edmund Burke, British author/parliament leader (Reflections), dies at 68
1805 - Georg W "Franz" Panzer, German vicar/librarian, dies at 76
1821 - Tommaso Sogner, composer, dies at 58
1843 - Washington Allston, US painter/author, dies at 63
1845 - Jacob earl of Rechteren/Appeltern, gov of Gelderland, dies at 57
1850 - Sajjid Ali Mohammed Bab, Persian founder of Babism
1850 - Zachary Taylor, 12th pres (1849-50), dies in White House at 65
1852 - Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan, American politician (b. 1794)
1855 - Lord Raglan Commander of the British forces during the Crimean War
1856 - Amedeo Avogadro, Italian chemist, dies at 79
1856 - James Strang, Mormon splinter group leader (b. 1813)
1875 - Francis Preston Blair Jr, famed St Louis lawyer, dies at 54
1880 - Paul Broca, French physician and anatomist (b. 1824)
1882 - Ignacio Carrera Pinto, Chilean war hero(b. 1848)
1883 - Adrien Louis Victor Boieldieu, composer, dies at 67
1893 - William Scotton, cricketer (wicket in 15 Tests for Eng), suicide
1903 - Alphonse François Renard, Belgian geologist (b. 1842)
1909 - Kasimir Felix Badeni, Premier of Polish/Austria (1895-97), dies at 62
1927 - John Drew Jr., American actor (b. 1853)
1932 - Henry Howell, English cricket fast bowler (5 Tests 1920-24), dies
1932 - King C. Gillette, American inventor (b. 1885)
1934 - Otakar Zich, composer, dies at 55
1937 - Oliver Law, first African-American commander of U.S. troops (b. 1899)
1938 - Benjamin Cardozo, American jurist (b. 1870)
1947 - Lucjan Żeligowski, Polish general (b. 1865)
1949 - Fritz Bennicke Hart, composer, dies at 75
1951 - Harry Heilmann, baseball hall of famer outfielder (Det), dies at 56
1951 - Jorgen Bentzon, composer, dies at 54
1955 - Don Beauman, British racing driver (b. 1928)
1957 - Alexander Fyodorovich Gedike, composer, dies at 80
1957 - Manfred Julius Susskind, South African cricketer (1924 Test series), dies
1960 - Edward Burlingame Hill, composer, dies at 86
1960 - Vallance Jupp, cricketer (28 wkts in 8 Tests for England 1921-28), dies
1961 - Alan Marshal, actor (Lydia, Irene, Exile Express), dies at 52
1962 - Louis A van Gasteren, Dutch actor (Willem van Oranje), dies at 74
1963 - Frank Mayo, actor (Santa Fe Trail), dies of heart attack at 74
1967 - Douglas MacLean, silent film comedian turned producer, dies at 77
1967 - Eugen Fischer, Nazi physician dies at 93
1968 - Allyn Edwards, host (One Minute Please, Mr Citizen), dies at 53
1968 - John Indrisano, actor (OK Crackerby), dies at 62
1968 - Vardis A Fisher, US writer (Passion Spin the Plot), dies at 73
1969 - Gertrude Dixon, compiler of Shunryu Suzuki's Zen Mind, dies
1969 - Pierre Capdevielle, composer, dies at 63
1969 - Rob de Vries, actor/director (Ciske de Rat, Silent Raid), dies at 51
1972 - Kwame Nkrumah, re-buried in Nkroful Ghana
1972 - Robert Weede, American baritone (b. 1903)
1974 - Sonia Gaskell, Russian/Neth choreographer (Diaghilev), dies at 70
1974 - Ted Bowley, cricketer (England batsman in 5 Tests 1929-30), dies
1977 - Loren C Eiseley, US anthropologist/writer (Animal Secrets), dies at 69
1978 - Abdul Razak al-Naif, premier of Iraq, murdered
1978 - Aladar Zoltan, composer, dies at 49
1979 - Betty Evans Grayson, softball pitcher (Hall of Fame 1959), dies at 53
1979 - Cornelia Otis Skinner, dies at 78
1979 - Janardhan Gnanoba Navle, cricketer (2 Tests for India), dies
1980 - Vinicius de Moraes, Brazilian poet and lyricist (b. 1913)
1981 - Allen Ludden, TV show host (Password), dies at 61
1981 - Oscar van Hemel, composer, dies at 88
1981 - Wilhelm H C Tenhaeff, para-psychologist, dies at 87
1983 - Keith Wickenden, British Politician (b. 1932)
1984 - Randall Thompson, US composer (Trip to Nahant), dies at 85
1985 - Rafael Campos, actor (Ramon-Rhoda, Sancho-V), dies of cancer at 49
1985 - Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (b. 1896)
1985 - Jimmy Kinnon, Scottish founder of Narcotics Anonymous (b. 1911)
1986 - Karl-Heinz Beckurts, West german Siemens manager, murdered
1986 - Le Duan, Vietnamese politician, dies at 78
1988 - Anthony Holland, AIDS sufferer committed suicide at 60
1988 - Barbara Woodhouse, dog trainer, dies at 78 of a stroke
1990 - Brigitte D'Ortschy, Zen teacher Sanbo Kyodan line, dies in Japan at 69
1990 - Howard Duff, actor (Kramer vs Kramer), dies at 76 of a heart attack
1992 - Eric Savareid, News correspondent (CBS), dies at 79
1992 - Kelvin Coe, Australian ballerina (A'sch Ballet/Bolshoi Ballet), dies
1992 - Eric Sevareid, American reporter (b. 1912)
1993 - Cut Meijer, [Saul Messel], historian/rabbi to Paramaribo, dies at 80
1993 - Will Rogers Jr, (Rep-D)/actor (Boy from Okla), commits suicide at 81
1994 - Cornelius Boyson, bassist, dies at 57
1994 - William "Sabby" Lewis, jazz Pianist/Arranger, dies at 79
1994 - Bill Mosienko, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1921)
1995 - Jacques Molicard, translator/Navigator, dies at 62
1995 - James Cameron Tudor, politician, dies at 66
1995 - John Eric Tieman, production Manager (Guardian), dies at 67
1995 - Julian Graham Theodore Hough, actor (Deathwatch, Shout), dies at 47
1995 - W Fenton Morley, preacher, dies at 83
1996 - Christopher Casson, actor (Educating Rita, Zardoz), dies at 84
1996 - Douglas G Chapman, biomathematical statistician, dies at 76
1996 - Melvin Mouron Belli, attorney/actor (Star Trek), dies at 88
1996 - Peter Martini, British journalist, dies at 31
1996 - Susan Cowdy, British ornithologist, dies at 81
1999 - Robert de Cotret, Canadian politician (b. 1944)
2000 - Doug Fisher, English actor (b. 1941)
2002 - Laurence Janifer, American writer (b. 1933)
2002 - Rod Steiger, American actor (b. 1925)
2004 - Chuck Cadman, Canadian politician (b. 1948)
2004 - Paul Klebnikov, American journalist (b. 1963)
2004 - Isabel Sanford, American actress (b. 1917)
2005 - Yevgenij Grishin, Russian speed skater (b. 1931)
2005 - Alex Shibicky, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1914)
2005 - Kevin Hagen, American actor (b.1928)
2006 - Milan Williams, American musician (The Commodores) (b. 1948)
2007 - Charles Lane, American actor (b. 1905)
2008 - Séamus Brennan, Irish politicain (b. 1948)
2010 - Jessica Anderson, Australian novelist (b. 1916)
2011 - Don Ackerman, American basketball player (b. 1930)
2011 - Facundo Cabral, Argentine musician (b. 1937)
2012 - Terepai Maoate, Prime Minister of the Cook Islands, dies from prostate cancer at 78

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 10, 2013, 10:48:38 AM

This Day in History for 10th July


Historical Events

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Composer                                           13th US President Millard Fillmore              Baseball Great Babe Ruth
George Friedrich Handel 

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Inventor Samuel Morse                        Russian President Boris Yeltsin


48 BC - Battle of Dyrrhachium: Julius Caesar barely avoids a catastrophic defeat to Pompey in
            Macedonia.
552 - Origin of Armenian calendar
988 - The city of Dublin is founded on the banks of the river Liffey.
1040 - Lady Godiva rides naked on horseback to force her husband, the Earl of Mercia, to lower
           taxes
1212 - The most severe of several early fires of London burns most of the city to the ground.
1460 - Wars of Roses: Richard of York defeats King Henry VI at Northampton
1520 - King Charles V & King Henry VIII signs treaty of Calais
1553 - Lady Jane Grey becomes queen of England
1568 - Battle on Eems: Dutch Water garrison beats Spanish
1584 - Spanish army leader Richebourg conquerors Liefkenshoek, Belgium
1584 - William I of Orange is assassinated in his home in Delft, Holland by Balthasar Gérard.
1598 - Spanish theater plays "Moros y Los Cristianos" in Rio Grande
1609 - Catholic German monarchy forms Catholic League
1627 - English fleet under George Villiers reach La Rochelle [NS=June 20]
1629 - 1st non-Separatist Congregational Church in US founded (Salem, MA)
1645 - Battle at Langport Somerset: Cromwell's New Model-army beats Royalists
1652 - England declares war on Netherlands
1690 - Battle of Beachy Head-French fleet defeat Anglo-Dutch fleet under Cornelis Evertsen
1746 - Bonnie Prince Charlie flees in disguise to Isle of Skye
1762 - Roubiliacs monument for Handel unveiled at Westminster Abbey
1775 - Horatio Gates, issues order excluding blacks from Continental Army
1778 - American Revolution: Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1796 - Carl Friedrich Gauss discovers that every positive integer is representable as a sum of at most
           three triangular numbers.
1797 - 1st US frigate, the "United States," is launched in Phila
1800 - The British Indian Government establishes the Fort William College to promote Urdu, Hindi
           and other vernaculars of sub continent.
1806 - The Vellore Mutiny is the first instance of a mutiny by Indian sepoys against the British East
           India Company.
1810 - Emperor Napoleon corpse leaves Netherlands for France
1832 - Pres Jackson vetoed legislation to re-charter 2nd Bank of US
1847 - Urbain J J Leverrier & John Couch Adams, codiscoverers of Neptune meet for 1st time at
           home of John Herschel
1850 - Millard Fillmore sworn-in as president of US (replacing Taylor)
1861 - Lincoln writes to Kentucky's militia & says Union troops will not enter that state
1862 - US begins construction of Central Pacific Railroad
1863 - Battle of Charleston, SC (Morris Island) [->SEP 06]
1863 - Battle of Jackson, MS - captured by federals [->JUL 16] US1000 CS1339
1866 - Indelible pencil patents by Edson P Clark, Northampton, Mass
1873 - French poet Paul Verlaine wounds Arthur Rimbaud with pistol
1877 - The then villa of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico formally receives its city charter from the Royal Crown 
           of Spain.
1884 - 1st Test Cricket to be played at Old Trafford 1st day washed out
1886 - George Goldie gets charter for Royal Niger Company
1886 - Eruption of Tarawera volcano destroys famous pink & white calcium carbonate hot-spring
           terraces (North Island, New Zealand)
1890 - Wyoming becomes 44th state of US (1st with female suffrage)
1892 - 1st concrete-paved street built (Bellefountaine, Ohio)
1898 - Jean-Baptiste Marchands expedition reaches Fashoda at White Hippo
1905 - Dutch Queen Wilhelmina opens Technical Hague court
1908 - H Kamerlingh Onnes makes helium liquid (-269°C)
1910 - Chicago White Sox Comiskey Park opens, visiting Browns win 2-0
1911 - 105°F (41°C) at North Bridgton, Maine (state record)
1912 - Hannes Kolehmainen runs world record 5000m (14:36.6)
1913 - 134&deg;F (57&deg;C), Greenland Ranch, California (US record)
1913 - Romania declares war on Bulgaria
1913 - Death Valley, California hits 134 °F (~56.7 °C), which is the highest temperature recorded in
           the United States.
1914 - Boston Red Sox purchase Babe Ruth from Baltimore Orioles
1915 - British/South African troops march into German SW-Africa
1917 - Emma Goldman imprisoned for obstructing draft
1918 - Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic forms
1919 - Dutch 1st Chamber approves woman suffrage
1919 - Pres Wilson personally delivers Treaty of Versailles to Senate
1920 - Tris Speaker is stopped at 11 consecutive hits by Tom Zachary
1923 - 2-pound hailstones kill 23 & many cattle (Rostov, Russia)
1923 - All non-fascist parties dissolved in Italy
1924 - Denmark takes Greenland as Norway ends claim
1924 - Railroad worker strike ends in Amsterdam
1925 - Jury selection took place in John T Scopes evolution trial
1925 - USSR's official news agency TASS forms
1925 - Meher Baba begins his silence of 44 years. His followers still observe Silence Day on this date
           in commemoration.
1926 - 30th US Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 293 at Scioto CC in Ohio
1926 - Lake Denmark, NJ arsenal explodes, kills 21, $75m damage
1928 - Senator Milt Gaston hurls record tying 14-hit shutout
1929 - In game between Pirates & Phillies 9 HRs hit 1 in each inning
1929 - US issues newer, smaller-sized paper currency
1932 - Jack Burnett gets 9 hits, Eddie Rommel relieves in 2nd 18-17 victory in 18 as his A's beats
           Indians in longest relief job
1933 - 1st police radio system operated, Eastchester Township, NY
1934 - 1st sitting US president to visit South America, FDR in Colombia
1934 - 2nd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 9-7 at Polo Grounds, New York
1934 - Carl Hubbell strikes out Ruth, Gehrig & Foxx in All star game
1936 - 109°F (43°C) Cumberland & Frederick, Maryland (state record)
1936 - 110°F (43°C) at Runyon, New Jersey (state record
1936 - 111°F (44°C) Phoenixville, Pennsylvania (state record)
1936 - 112°F (44°C) at Martinsburg, West Virginia (state record
1936 - New Straits Convention allows Turkish rearmament of Dardanelles
1936 - Phillies Chuck Klein becomes 4th to hit 4 HRs in a game
1937 - Dutch Django Reinhardts "Quintette, premieres in du Hot Club"
1938 - "Yankee Clipper" completes 1st passenger flight over Atlantic
1938 - Howard Hughes flies around the world in 91 hours
1940 - Battle of Britain began as Nazi forces attacked by air (114 days)
1940 - German planes attack British ships in the Canal
1941 - Jedwabne Pogrom is a massacre of Jewish people living in and near the village of Jedwabne in
           Poland.
1942 - Himmler orders sterilization of all Jewish woman in Ravensbruck Camp
1942 - Netherland's government in exile (London) recognizes Soviet Union
1943 - 6th day of battle at Kursk
1943 - US, British and Canadian forces invade Sicily in WW II (Operation Husky)
1944 - U-821 sinks
1945 - Lt-adm Marc Mitscher named chief of US Navy staff
1946 - Belgian government of Acker, resigns
1947 - 200 die when train derails & fell into a river in Canton, China
1947 - Cleveland Indian Don Black no-hits Phila A's, 3-0
1947 - Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor General of Pakistan
           by then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Clement Attlee.
1948 - "Allegro" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 318 performances
1948 - "Ballet Ballads" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 62 performances
1948 - "Look Ma, I'm Dancin'" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 188 perfs
1948 - Lydda Airfield captured by Israeli army
1949 - 1st practical rectangular TV tube announced-Toledo, Oh
1949 - WJAR TV channel 10 in Providence, RI (NBC) begins broadcasting
1950 - "Your Hit Parade" premieres on NBC (later CBS) TV
1951 - 18th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 8-3 at Briggs Stadium, Detroit
1951 - Armistice talks to end Korean conflict began at Kaesong
1953 - 82nd British Golf Open: Ben Hogan shoots a 282 at Carnoustie Dai Rees
1953 - Pravda reports arrest of Beria [affiliate of imperialist]
1956 - 23rd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-3 at Griffith Stadium, Wash DC
1956 - 650,000 US steel workers go on strike
1956 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island
1958 - 1st parking meter installed in England (625 installed)
1958 - Ex-king Norodom Sihanoek appointed premier of Cambodia
1960 - Belgium sends troops to Congo
1960 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Youngstown Kitchens (Trumball Golf Open)
1962 - 32nd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 3-1 at D.C. Stadium, Washington
1962 - All star MVP: Maury Wills (LA Dodgers)
1962 - Martin Luther King Jr arrested during demonstration in Georgia
1962 - Telstar, 1st geosynchronous communications satellite, launched
1962 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1964 - Jesus Alou is 1st Giant in 40 years to get 6 hits in a game
1964 - Moise Tsjombe becomes premier of Congo
1965 - Beatles' "Beatles' "VI," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 6 weeks
1965 - Rolling Stones score their 1st #1, "I Can't Get No Satisfaction"
1966 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Buckeye Savings Golf Invitational
1966 - US launches Orbiter 1 to the Moon
1967 - Bobbie Gentry records "Ode to Billie Joe"
1967 - Uruguay becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1968 - NL announces break into 2 divisions for 1969
1968 - NL votes to split into 2 divisions
1969 - Chilean Association of Librarians created
1971 - 100th British Golf Open: Lee Trevino shoots a 278 at Royal Birkdale
1971 - Failed attempt on King Hassan II Shirat Morocco, 101 killed
1972 - Democratic convention opens in Miami Beach Florida (McGovern)
1972 - Herd of stampeding elephants kills 24, Chandka Forest India
1973 - Bahamas declares Independence from UK & adopts constitution
1974 - OPEC ends oil boycott against Netherlands
1974 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1975 - Gladys Knight & Pips Summer Series premieres on NBC-TV
1975 - Test Cricket debut of Graham Gooch, v Australia, out for a pair
1976 - 105th British Golf Open: Johnny Miller shoots a 279 at Royal Birkdale
1976 - Chemical factory in Milan explodes (dioxane cloud)
1976 - The Seveso disaster occurs in Italy.
1976 - One American and three British mercenaries are executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial.
1977 - "Happy End" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 75 performances
1977 - Pat Bradley wins LPGA Bankers Trust Golf Classic
1978 - Bloodless military coup in Mauritania
1978 - Military coup in Mauritania, president Moktar flees
1978 - World News Tonight premieres on ABC.
1979 - Chuck Berry sentenced to 4 months for $200,000 in tax evasion
1980 - Ayatollah Khomeini releases Iran hostage Richard I Queen
1980 - Willie Jones hospitalized for heat stroke with record 46.5°C temp
1980 - Alexandra Palace burnt down for a second time.
1981 - CERN achieves 1st proton-antiproton beam collision (570 GeV)
1981 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1982 - Miguel Vasquez makes 1st public quadruple somersault on trapeze
1982 - Rangers Larry Parrish hits his 3rd grand slam of the week
1982 - Samuel Morse's "Gallery of the Louvre" sells for $3,250,000
1982 - Zimbabwe beats Bermuda by 5 wickets to win ICC Trophy
1985 - Coca-Cola Co announces it will resume selling old formula Coke
1985 - French agents sink Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior in NZ
1985 - Playboy publishes full frontal nude pictures of Madonna
1988 - Terry-Jo Myers wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
1989 - Paula Ivan runs female world record 1 mile (4:15.61)
1990 - 61st All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 2-0 at Wrigley Field, Chicago
1990 - All star MVP: Julio Franco (Texas Rangers)
1990 - Andrew Dice Clay cries on Arsenio Hall Show
1990 - Last day of Test Cricket for Richard Hadlee
1991 - Boris Yeltsin sworn in as 1st elected president of Russian Rep
1991 - L'Express Airlines Beechcraft C-99 crashes in Alabama, killing 13
1992 - John Ellis becomes CEO of Seattle Mariners
1992 - Spaceship Giotto (Halley 1986) approaches comet Grigg-Skjellerup
1992 - SuriPop VII, Suriname Popular Song Festival
1992 - US Major Soccer League folds after 14 seasons
1993 - Melchior Ndadaye becomes 1st Hutu Burundi pres/Sylvie Kinigi, PM
1993 - Yobes Ondieki runs world record 10km (26:58.38)
1994 - "Hedda Gabler" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 33 performances
1994 - Kelly Robbins wins Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic by Owens-Corning
1994 - Nepal premier Girija Prasadkoirala resigns
1994 - Sonia O'Sullivan runs female world record 2K (5:25.36)
1997 - Hideki Irabu makes his debut as a NY Yankee, he beats Tigers 10-3
1997 - Louise Woodward's trial begins in Mass, Nanny murder trial
1997 - RJR Nabisco announces it will replace Joe Camel in new ads
1997 - Spain, Partido Popular member Miguel Ángel Blanco is kidnapped in the Basque city of Ermua
           by ETA members, sparking widespread protests.
1998 - Roman Catholic sex abuse cases: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4 million to nine
           former altar boys who claimed they were sexually abused by former priest Rudolph Kos.
2000 - EADS, the world's second largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-
           Matra, DASA, and CASA.
2000 - A leaking southern Nigerian petroleum pipeline explodes, killing about 250 villagers scavenging
           gasoline.
2002 - At a Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul Rubens' painting The Massacre of the Innocents is sold for
           £49.5million (US$76.2 million) to Kenneth, Lord Thomson.
2003 - A Neoplan bus, owned by Kowloon Motor Bus, collides with a truck, falls off a bridge on Tuen
           Mun Road, Hong Kong, and plunges into the underlying valley, killing 21 people. This is the
           deadliest traffic accident to date in Hong Kong.
2005 - Hurricane Dennis slams into the Florida Panhandle causing billions of dollars in damage.
2006 - Pakistan International Flight PK-688 crashes in Multan, Pakistan shortly after takeoff, killing all
           45 people on board.
2008 - Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boškoski is acquitted of all charges by a UN
           Tribunal accusing him of war crimes.
2011 - British tabloid News of the World publishes its last edition after 168 years in the wake of a
           phone hacking scandal.
2012 - The American Episcopal Church becomes the first to approve a rite for blessing gay marriages

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 10, 2013, 10:50:41 AM

This Day in History for 10th July


Famous Weddings

1994 - The "Anthrax" heavy-metal guitarist Scott Ian (31) weds Debbie Leavitt (23) in Huntington
           Beach, California
1994 - Fred Norris (from the Howard Stern Show) marries Allison Furman
1999 - "It Could Happen To You" actress Rosie Perez (34) weds playwright and screenwriter Seth Zvi
           Rosenfeld (37) in Brooklyn, New York
2004 - "The West Wing" actor Dule Hill (29) weds actress Nicole Lyn (26) in Montego Bay, Jamaica
2010 - Actress and fourth season American Idol winner Carrie Underwood (29) weds Nashville
           Predators ice hockey player Mike Fisher (32) at Ritz Carlton Lodge in Greensboro, Georgia
2010 - Actress Emily Blunt (29) weds actor John Krasinski (32) at the luxurious Villa D'este hotel in
           Como, Italy
2010 - NBA star Carmelo Anthony (25) weds actress Lala Vasquez (30) at Cipriani 42nd St. in New
           York City
2010 - "Big Momma's House" actor Martin Lawrence (45) weds longtime girlfriend Shamicka Gibbs
           (35) on an intimate wedding in Beverly Hills

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 10, 2013, 10:52:05 AM

This Day in History for 10th July


Famous Divorces

1975 - Cher files for divorce from Gregg Allman, 10 days after they married

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 10, 2013, 11:24:01 AM

This Day in History for 10th July


Famous Birthdays

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Jurist William Blackstone (1723)        World Middleweight Boxing Champion       Popstar Jessica Simpson (1980)
                                                                    Jake LaMotta (1921)

1419 - Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan (d. 1471)
1452 - King James III of Scotland (d. 1488)
1509 - John Calvin, Protestant religious reformer/theologian
1517 - Odet de Coligny, Cardinal of Châtillon/bishop
1526 - Philip III van Croij, duke of Aarschot/earl of Porcien
1592 - Pierre d'Hozier, French historian (d. 1660)
1614 - Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey, English royalist statesman (d. 1686)
1625 - Jean Herauld Gourville, French adventurer (d. 1703)
1638 - David Teniers III, Flemish painter (carpet cartons)
1666 - John Ernest Grabe, German-born Anglican theologian (d. 1711)
1682 - Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg, German Lutheran missionary to India (d. 1719)
1682 - Roger Cotes, English mathematician (d. 1716)
1697 - Francois Hanot, composer
1711 - Princess Amelia Sophia of Great Britain (d. 1783)
1723 - William Blackstone, London England, jurist (Blackstone's Commentaries)
1736 - Maria, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh (d. 1807)
1759 - Eleanore Sophia Maria Westenholz, composer
1778 - Sigismund Ritter von Neukomm, Austrian composer/royal chaplain master
1779 - Alois Basil Nikolaus Tomasini, composer
1792 - George Mifflin Dallas, (D) 11th VP (1845-49)
1797 - Pieter L Uys, South African pioneer (Great Pull)
1804 - Emma Smith Inaugural President of the Women's Relief Society of The Church of Jesus Christ
           of Latter-day Saints (d. 1879)
1809 - Friedrich August von Quenstedt, German geologist (d. 1889)
1818 - John Stuart "Cerro Gordo" Williams, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1820 - Andrew Porter, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1872
1821 - Christopher Columbus Augur, Major General (Union volunteers)
1824 - Rudolf von Benningsen, German lawyer/politician
1826 - Theodore Edouard Dufaure de Lajarte, composer
1830 - Camille Pissarro, Danish Antillean/French painter (impressionism)
1832 - Alvan Graham Clark, American telescope maker and astronomer (d. 1897)
1833 - Lucius Eugene Polk, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1892
1834 - James A McNeill Whistler, US/British painter (Whistler's Mother)
1835 - Henryk Wieniawski, Lubin Poland, violinist/composer (Souv de Moscou)
1839 - Adolphus Busch, German-born brewer (d. 1913)
1852 - Alfred von Kiderlen-Waechter, German foreign minister
1856 - Nikola Tesla, Croatian physicist, electrical engineer and inventor, developed alternating current
           and the Tesla Coil
1858 - Karl Flodin, composer
1865 - Jan "Pa" van der Steur, Dutch philanthropist (Steurtjes)
1867 - Finley Peter Dunne, US, journalist/humorist (Mr Dooley)
1867 - Max Prinz von Baden, German chancellor (Oct-Nov 1918)
1870 - Maurice Lugeon, Swiss geologist (nappism)
1871 - Marcel Proust, France, novelist (Remembrance of Things Past)
1874 - Austin Diamond, cricket non-Test capt (NSW batsman 1899-1919, Aust)
1874 - Sergey Konenkov, Russian sculptor (d. 1971)
1875 - Mary McLeod Bethune, SC, educator (Bethune-Cookman College)
1879 - Harry Nicholls Holmes, Penn, Dr (crystallized vitamin A)
1882 - Ima Hogg, Texas art patron/founder of Houston Symphony
1882 - Riccadro Pick-Mangiagalli, composer
1883 - Johann Blaskowitz, German general
1883 - Sam Wood, US, communist fighter/director (For Whom the Bell Tolls)
1886 - John SSPV Gort, viscount of Limerick/fieldmarshal of Palestine
1887 - Alfred Ernest Whitehead, composer
1888 - Giorgio De Chirico, Greece, Metaphysical painter (Soothsayer)
1888 - Graham McNamee, sportscaster (1st Rose Bowl)
1888 - Toyohiko Kagawa, Kobe, Japan, Christian social reformer
1889 - Robert [Harriot] Barrat, NYC, actor (Go West, Distant Drums)
1890 - Andre Souris, composer
1892 - George "Slim" Summerville, US actor (Keystone Cops)
1894 - Jimmy Francis McHugh, composer
1895 - Carl Orff, Munich Germany, composer (Antigonae; Mozart prize 1969)
1895 - John Gilbert, [Pringle], Logan UT, actor (Heart o' the Hills)
1895 - Maarten P Vrij, Dutch lawyer/criminologist/member High Court
1895 - Nahum Goldmann, Switz, pres Zionist World Organization
1896 - Thérèse Casgrain, French Canadian politician and senator (d. 1981)
1897 - Lloyd Goodrich, American Arts Museum director
1897 - Karl Plagge, German officer (d. 1957)
1897 - Jack "Legs" Diamond", American bootlegger (d. 1931)
1899 - John Gilbert, American actor (d. 1936)
1899 - Heiri Suter, Swiss cyclist (d. 1978)
1900 - Bob Catterall, cricketer (dashing South African batsman of 20's)
1900 - Elsie Evelyn Laye, English singer/actress (Bitter Sweet, Merry Widow)
1900 - Sampson Sievers, Russian Orthodox Christian monk, priest and wonder-worker (d. 1979)
1900 - Mitchell Parish, American lyricist (d. 1993)
1902 - G Weisenborn, writer
1902 - Kurt Alder, German chemist (Nobel 1950)
1903 - John Wyndham P L B Harris, US, sci-fi author (Day of the Triffids)
1904 - Isa Krejci, composer
1905 - Thomas Gomez, NYC, actor (Force of Evil, Key Largo, Kim, Sellout)
1905 - Wolfram Sievers, Nazi physician (d. 1948)
1910 - Ronald Fletcher, broadcaster
1911 - Djuanda Kartawidjaja, premier of Indonesia
1912 - Francis Showering, brewer
1913 - Ljuba Welitsch, Borisovo, Bulgaria, opera soprano (Nedda-Pagliacci)
1913 - Salvador Espriu, Spanish poet (d. 1985)
1914 - Saul Bellow, Quebec, novelist (Nobel 1976-Mr Samler's Planet)
1914 - Joe Shuster, Canadian-born cartoonist (d. 1992)
1916 - Dick Cary, jazz Musician
1917 - Don Herbert, Waconia Minn, scientist/TV host (Watch Mr Wizard)
1917 - Reg Smyth, English cartoonist (Andy Capp)
1917 - Hugh Alexander, American baseball player (d. 2000)
1919 - Rusty Gill, St Louis Mo, singer (Polka Time)
1920 - David Brinkley, Wilmington NC, NBC news anchor (Huntley-Brinkley)
1920 - Owen Chamberlain, physicist/co-discoverer (antiproton, Nobel-1959)
1921 - Eunice Shriver, founder (Special Olympics)
1921 - Jake LaMotta, Bronx New York, middleweight boxing champ (1949-51) (Raging Bull)
1921 - Jeff Donnell, South Windham Maine, actor (Gidget Goes to Rome)
1921 - Revaz Il'yich Lagidze, composer
1921 - Harvey Ball, American inventor (d. 2001)
1922 - Derek Prouse, writer actor/film festival director (Le Scandale)
1922 - Herb McKenley, Jamaica, 4 X 400m relay runner (Olympic-gold-1952)
1923 - Jean Kerr, Scranton Pa, novelist (Please Don't Eat the Daisies)
1923 - G. A. Kulkarni, Indian (Marathi) writer (d. 1987)
1923 - John Bradley, United States Navy corpsman, one of six who raised flag on top of Mt.
           Suribachi(see Iwo Jima) (d. 1994)
1924 - Bobo Brazil, American professional wrestler (d. 1998)
1924 - Johnny Bach, American basketball coach
1925 - Dorothea Hochletiner, Austria, giant slalom (Olympic-bronze-1956)
1926 - Carleton Carpenter, Bennington Vt, actor (Up Periscope, Summer Stock)
1926 - Fred Gwynne, NYC, actor (Car 54 Where Are You, Munsters)
1927 - David Norman Dinkins, (1st black Mayor-D-NYC, 1990-93)
1927 - Don Revie, English soccer coach (Leeds, National team)
1927 - William Smithers, Richmond Va, actor (Witness, Peyton Place, Attack!)
1927 - Grigory Barenblatt, Russian mathematician
1927 - Suzanne Cloutier, Canadian film actor (d. 2003)
1928 - Jack Nel, cricketer (South African opening bat in 6 Tests 1949-57)
1928 - Moshe Greenberg, American-Israeli Bible scholar
1928 - Alejandro de Tomaso, Argentine-Italian racing driver and car manufacturer (d. 2003)
1928 - Bernard Buffet, French painter (d. 1999)
1929 - Moe Norman, Kitchener Ont, Canadian Tour golfer (1966 Quebec Open)
1929 - Winnie Ewing, Scottish politician
1930 - Jacques Klein, Brazilian pianist
1931 - Alice Munro, author (Dance of the Happy Shades)
1931 - Del Insko, harness racer (toothpick in mouth, 1969 money leader)
1931 - Julian May, US, sci-fi author (Golden Torc, Magnificat)
1931 - Nick Adams, Nanticoke Pa, actor (Johnny Yuma-Rebel)
1932 - Jorgen Becker, writer
1932 - Carlo Mario Abate, Italian racing driver
1933 - Chuan-Kwang Yang, Taiwan, decathlete (Olympic-silver-1960)
1933 - Jerry Herman, Broadway composer (Hello Dolly)
1934 - Munir Malik, Pakistani cricket pace bowler (3 Tests 1959-62)
1934 - Jerry Nelson, American puppeteer, (d. 2012)
1935 - Tura Satana, American actress
1935 - Wilson Whineray, Auckland, New Zealand, All Black (1957-65), (d. 2012)
1936 - Barbara B Kennelly, (Rep-D-Connecticut, 1982- )
1936 - Jan Wincenty Hawel, composer
1937 - Sandy Stewart, Phila Pa, singer (Sing Along With Mitch, Mr President)
1938 - Paul Andreu, French architect
1938 - Lee Morgan, American hard-bop trumpeter
1939 - Lawrence Pressman, Ky, actor (Man From Atlantis, Hellstrom Chronicle)
1939 - Ahmet Taner Kışlalı, Turkish politician, journalist, and educator (d. 1999)
1940 - Dawid J "Dawie" de Villiers, South African minister of energy (1989- )
1940 - Keith Stackpole, cricketer (aggressive Australian opener 1966-74)
1940 - Mills Watson, Oakland California, actor (Harper Valley PTA, BJ & Bear)
1940 - Helen Donath, American soprano
1940 - Tom Farmer, Scottish entrepreneur
1941 - Ian Whitcomb, England, rocker (You Turn Me On)
1941 - Pyotr Ilyich Klimuk, Poland, cosmonaut (Soyuz 13, 18B, 30)
1941 - Robert Pine, Scarsdale NY, actor (Joe Getraer-CHiPs)
1941 - David G. Hartwell, American editor and anthologist
1941 - Jake Eberts, Montreal, Quebec, film producer (Chariots of Fire, Dances with Wolves), (d.
           2012)
1942 - Ronnie James Dio, American musician (Dio-Holy Diver, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath)
1943 - Arthur Ashe, tennis pro (1968 US Open, 1975 Wimbledon)
1943 - Jerry Miller, Tacoma Wa, rock guitarist (Moby Grape)
1944 - Beaky, rocker
1945 - Ron Glass, Evansville IN, actor (Harris-Barney Miller, Frank's Place)
1945 - [Sarah] Virginia Wade, England, tennis star (Wimbledon 1977)
1945 - John Motson, British sports (football) commentator
1945 - Jean-Marie Poiré, French film director
1945 - Peter Michalica, Slovak violinist
1946 - Sue Lyon, Davenport Iowa, actress (Lolita, Night of the Iguana)
1947 - Arlo Guthrie, Bkln, singer (Alice's Restaurant, City of New Orleans)
1947 - Jeff Hanna, Detroit, country singer (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band) [or 8/11]
1947 - John Trevor Key, photographer
1949 - Dave Smally, rocker (Raspberries)
1949 - Mark Shera, Bayonne NJ, actor (SWAT, Barnaby Jones)
1949 - Sunil Gavaskar, Indian cricket player (opener, 10122 Test runs)
1949 - Wally Bryson, NC, rock guitarist/vocalist (Fotomaker, Raspberries)
1949 - Greg Kihn U.S. pop musician & radio personality.
1949 - John Whitehead, American singer and record producer
1950 - Willie Ford, US R&B-singer (Dramatics-Me & Mrs Jones)
1950 - Prokopis Pavlopoulos, Greek politician
1951 - Phyllis Smith, American actress
1951 - Cheryl Wheeler, American singer and songwriter
1952 - Ludmilla Tourischeva, Russian gymnast
1952 - Kim Mitchell, Canadian guitarist/singer
1952 - Peter van Heemst, Dutch politician
1953 - Rik "The Rocket" Emmett, Toronto, rock vocalist (Triumph)
1954 - Andre Dawson, Miami Fla, outfielder (Expos, Cubs, 1987 NL MVP)
1954 - Gene Holder, rocker
1954 - Neil Tennant, North Shields, Tyne-and-Wear, English singer/songwriter (Pet Shop Boy-West
           End Girl)
1955 - Pamela Theresa Jiles, NO LA, 4X400m relayer (Olympic-silver-1976)
1956 - Tom McClintock, American politician
1957 - Cindy Sheehan, American anti-war/political activist
1958 - Béla Fleck, American musician
1958 - Fiona Shaw, Irish actress
1960 - Roger Craig, NFL reciever (SF 49ers)
1961 - Jacky Cheung, Hong Kong singer and actor
1962 - Mike Saxon, NFL punter (Minnesota Vikings)
1964 - Felipe Martinez, jockey
1964 - Urban Meyer, American football coach
1964 - Wilfried Peeters, Belgian cyclist
1965 - Buddy Groom, Dallas TX, pitcher (Oakland A's)
1965 - Scott Michael McCarron, Sacramento CA, PGA golfer (1995 Las Vegas-3rd)
1965 - Alec Mapa, Filipino-American actor and comedian
1965 - Ken Mellons, American singer
1965 - Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark
1966 - Alvoid Mays, NFL cornerback (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1966 - Johnny Grunge, wrestler (d. 2006)
1967 - Alfred Jackson, NFL cornerback (Minnesota Vikings)
1967 - Virgil Breedveld, soccer player (Dordrecht '90)
1967 - Tom Meents, American monster truck driver
1968 - Hassisba Boulmerka, Algeria, 1500m (Olympics-gold-92)
1968 - Jonathan Gilbert, American actor
1969 - Marty Cordova, Las Vegas NV, outfielder (Minnesota Twins)
1969 - Gale Harold, American actor
1969 - Alexandra Hedison, American actress
1970 - Klaas Van Noortwijk, cricketer (Holland batsman 1996 World Cup)
1970 - Helen Sjöholm, Swedish singer and actress
1970 - Gary LeVox, American singer (Rascal Flatts)
1970 - John Simm, British actor
1971 - Adam Foote, Toronto, NHL defenseman (Colorado Avalanche, Team Canada)
1971 - Brent Alexander, NFL defensive back (Arizona Cardinals)
1971 - Gregory Goodridge, Barbadian footballer
1972 - Damon Sharpe, Cleveland Ohio, actor/musician (Guys Next Door)
1972 - Peter Serafinowicz, British comedian and actor
1972 - Sofia Vergara, Colombian actress
1972 - Tilo Wolff, German musician (Lacrimosa)
1973 - Claudius Wright, WLAF CB (London Monarchs)
1974 - Idalmis Marina Vidal, Miss Florida USA (1996)
1974 - Jennifer Montica Curry, Muscatine Iowa, Miss America-Iowa (1996)
1974 - Chiwetel Ejiofor, English actor
1975 - Alain Nasreddine, Canadian ice hockey player
1975 - Stefán Karl Stefánsson, Icelandic actor
1976 - Ludovic Giuly, French footballer
1976 - Elijah Blue Allman, American musician (Deadsy)
1976 - Adrian Grenier, American actor
1976 - Brendon Lade, Australian rules footballer
1976 - Edmílson Gomes, Brazilian footballer
1977 - Schapelle Corby, Australian convicted drug smuggler
1977 - Gwendoline Yeo, American actress
1978 - Jesse Lacey, American musician (Brand New)
1979 - Mvondo Atangana, Cameroon footballer
1980 - Thomas Ian Nicholas, actor (Radio Flyer, Rookie of the Year)
1980 - Jessica Simpson, Abilene, Texas, singer and popstar ("I Wanna Love You Forever," "I Think
           I'm In Love," and "Where You Are.")
1980 - Alejandro Millán, Mexican singer and songwriter
1980 - Adam Petty, American race car driver (d. 2000)
1982 - Alex Arrowsmith, American musician
1982 - Sebastian Mila, Polish footballer
1983 - Kim Heechul, Korean Singer
1984 - Maria Julia Mantilla Garcia, Miss World 2004
1985 - Mario Gómez, German footballer

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 10, 2013, 11:38:18 AM

This Day in History for 10th July


Famous Deaths

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King of France Henry II (1559)


138 - Publius A Hadrianus, Roman emperor (117-138), dies
518 - Anastasius I Dikoros, [Dyrrhachium/Durazzo], Byzantine emperor, dies
649 - Li Shimin, Emperor of China (b.599)
983 - Benedict VI, Italian Pope (974-83), dies
1086 - Knut IV, the Saint, king of Denmark (1080-86), murdered
1099 - El Cid, of Castile (b. 1044)
1103 - Erik I Ejegod, the good hearted, King of Denmark (1095-1103), dies
1290 - King Ladislaus IV of Hungary (b. 1262)
1460 - Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English military leader (b. 1402)
1480 - King René I of Naples (b. 1410) last heir of house of Anjou
1535 - Jacob Van Campen, Reconstruction bishop, beheaded
1559 - Henry II, King of France (1547-59), dies
1573 - Willem van Bronkhorst, Brattenburg/Stein/army leader, dies
1584 - William I "the Silent", [William of Orange], earl of Nassau, is assassinated at 51
1590 - Archduke Charles II of Austria (b. 1540)
1594 - Paulo Bellasio, composer, dies at 40
1621 - Karel Bonaventura Buquoy, French soldier (b. 1571)
1653 - Gabriel Naudé, French librarian and scholar (b. 1600)
1668 - Adam-Nicolas Gascon, composer, dies at 45
1680 - Louis Moréri, French encyclopedist (b. 1643)
1683 - François-Eudes de Mézeray, French historian (b. 1610)
1686 - Ercole Ferrata, Italian sculptor/restauranteur, dies at 76
1686 - John Fell, English churchman (b. 1625)
1690 - Domenico Gabrielli, composer, dies at 39
1690 - Jan van Brakel, Dutch vice admiral (Chatham), dies in battle at 48
1692 - Bridget Bishop, 1st Salem witch hanged
1762 - Johann F Gronovius, physician/botany, dies at 76
1776 - Richard Peters, English-born clergyman (b. 1704)
1806 - George Stubbs, British painter (b. 1724)
1838 - Willem earl van Hogendorp, Dutch colonial governor, dies at about 43
1839 - Fernando Joseph Maria Sor, composer, dies at 61
1851 - Louis-Jacques Daguerre, French inventor and photographer (b. 1787)
1863 - Clement Clarke Moore, ('Twas the Night Before Xmas), dies at 83
1863 - Paul Jones Semmes, US businessman/Confederate brig-general, dies at 48
1868 - Carlo Conti, composer, dies at 71
1881 - Georg Hermann Nicolai, German architect (b. 1812)
1884 - Paul Charles Morphy, US lawyer/chess wizard, dies at 47
1888 - Rafael Hernando, composer, dies at 66
1902 - Albert FA, king of Saxon (1873-1902), dies at 74
1908 - Eliza Laurillard, vicar/poet/writer, dies at 78
1908 - Phoebe Knapp, American hymn writer (b. 1839)
1909 - Flooi Du Toit, cricket leg-spinner (Test for South Africa 1892), dies
1910 - Johann G Galle, German discoverer of Neptune by telescope, dies
1915 - Hendrik W Mesdag, painter (Panorama Mesdag), dies
1920 - Eugenie M de Montijo y de Guzman, Emperor of France, dies at 94
1920 - John A "Jacky" Kilverston, adm/designer (dreadnought), dies at 79
1920 - Jackie Fisher, British admiral (b. 1841)
1924 - Johannes B van Heutsz, gov-gen of Dutch Indies (1904-09), dies at 73
1927 - Kevin O'Higgins, Irish Free State VP, assassinated
1937 - Attilio Brugnoli, composer, dies at 56
1937 - Johan[nes] B Schepers, Fries writer (Braga), dies at 71
1940 - Donald Francis Tovey, English musicologist/composer, dies at 64
1941 - Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton, pioneer jazz pianist, dies in LA at 56
1943 - Arthur Finlay Nevin, composer, dies at 72
1952 - Rued Immanuel Langgaard, composer, dies at 58
1953 - Sidney Homer, composer, dies at 88
1954 - Calogero Vizzini, Sicilian mafioso (b. 1877)
1955 - Henry W Methorst, Dutch director (Central Bureau of Statistic), dies
1956 - Joe Giard, American baseball player (b. 1898)
1957 - Sholem Asch, Polish/Israeli writer (East River), dies at 77
1963 - John Sutton, actor (Of Human Bondage), dies of heart attack at 54
1963 - Teddy Wakelam, English sports broadcaster and rugby union player (b. 1893)
1965 - Jacques Audiberti, French poet (Le cavalier seul), dies at 66
1971 - Harry M O'Connor, dies of pneumonia at 98
1971 - Mohamed Madbouh, Moroccan general/putschist, shot to death
1972 - Lovie Austin, American jazz pianist (b. 1887)
1975 - Achiel H van Acker, Belgian premier (1945-46, 1954-58), dies at 77
1977 - Norman Paris, orchestra leader (For Your Pleasure), dies at 41
1978 - Michel Gusikoff, composer, dies at 85
1978 - Joe Davis, English snooker player (b. 1901)
1979 - Arthur Fiedler, orchestra leader (Boston Pops), dies at 84
1981 - Ken Rex McElroy, American hog rustler (b. 1936)
1982 - Gustav MR von Koenigswald, German/Dutch paleontologist, dies at 79
1982 - Maria Jeritza, [Jedlicka], Aust/US, singer (Metropolitan Opera), dies
1983 - Werner Egk, German composer (Die Zaubergeige), dies at 82
1985 - Fernando Pereira, military activist, murdered
1987 - John Hammond, Jazz reviewer (Melody Maker), dies at 76
1988 - Errol John, playwright, dies at 63
1989 - Mel Blanc, cartoon voice (Warner Bros cartoons), dies at 81
1989 - Thomas E "Tommy" Trinder, English comic (Bitter Springs), dies at 80
1990 - Hans Faverey, poet, dies
1990 - Irene Champlin, dies after long illness at 59
1991 - Gerome Ragal, author (Hair), dies of cancer at 48
1993 - Masugi Ibuse, Japanese author (Kuroi ame (Black rain)), dies at 95
1993 - Ruth Krauss, author (Carrot Seed), dies at 91
1993 - Sam Rolfe, American screenwriter (b. 1924)
1994 - Earl Strum, referee (NBA), dies of brain cancer at 66
1994 - Otto Bonsema, soccer star/trainer (GVAV, Veendam), dies at 84
1995 - Hugh Dundas, fighter pilot/businessman, dies at 74
1996 - Eladio Rusconi, writer/publisher/businessman, dies at 79
2000 - Vakkom Majeed, Indian Freedom fighter, Travancore-Cochin Legislative member (b. 1909)
2000 - Justin Pierce, English-American actor and skateboarder (b. 1975)
2002 - Jean-Pierre Côté, French Canadian politician and Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b. 1926)
2003 - Winston Graham, English writer (b. 1908)
2003 - Hartley Shawcross, British prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials (b. 1902)
2003 - Bishnu Maden, Nepalese politician
2005 - A.J. Quinnell, English writer (b. 1940)
2005 - Freda Wright-Sorce, American radio performer (b. 1955)
2005 - Freddy Soto, American comedian and actor (b. 1970)
2005 - Jimmy Franklin and Bobby Younkin, airshow performers
2006 - Shamil Basayev, Chechen rebel (b. 1965)
2007 - Abdul Rashid Ghazi, radical Pakistani cleric (b. 1951)
2007 - Doug Marlette, American cartoonist (b. 1949)
2007 - Zheng Xiaoyu, director of the State Food and Drug Administration of the People's Republic of
           China (b. 1944)
2008 - Hiroaki Aoki, founder of Benihana (b. 1938)
2008 - Mike Souchak, professional golfer (b. 1927)
2011 - Pierrette Alarie, Canadian operatic soprano (b. 1921)
2011 - Roland Petit, French choreographer and dancer (b. 1924)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 11, 2013, 09:15:44 AM

This Day in History for 11th July


Historical Events

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Captain/Explorer James Cook                 Savant Amedeo Avogadro                       Inventor Thomas Edison

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Baseball Great Babe Ruth                        Baseball Player Ted Williams           32nd US President Franklin Roosevelt

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Country Singer Kenny Rogers


911 - Signing of the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte between Charles the Simple and Rollo of
         Normandy.
1156 - Siege of Shirakawa-den in Japan.
1244 - Chwarizneense Turken defeats Jerusalem
1302 - Battle of the Golden Spurs (Guldensporenslag in Dutch) near Kortrijk, Belgium. Flemish
           coalition defeat French army
1346 - Charles IV of Luxembourg is elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
1347 - Bohemia heir to the throne elected German anti-king Charles IV
1376 - English "Good Parliament" meets
1405 - Chinese fleet commander Zheng He sets sail to explore the world for the first time.
1423 - Arnold van Egmont becomes duke of Gelre
1476 - Giuliano della Rovere is appointed bishop of Coutances.
1525 - Trial against "heretic" John Pistorius at The Hague
1533 - Pope Clement VII excommunicated England's King Henry VIII
1576 - Martin Frobisher sights Greenland.
1588 - French king Henri III accept demands of Catholic League
1616 - Samuel de Champlain returns to Quebec.
1635 - Armies of Savoye/Mantua/Parma occupy Milan
1673 - Netherlands & Denmark signs defense treaty
1690 - Battle of Drogheda Boyne (Willem III (Neth-Engl) beat Jacobus II (Ire)
1708 - Battle at Oudenaarde: Great Alliance beats France
1735 - Mathematical calculations suggest that it was on this day that Pluto moved from the ninth to
           the eighth most distant planet from the Sun for the last time before 1979.
1740 - Jews are expelled from Little Russia by order of Czarina Anne
1750 - Halifax, Nova Scotia is almost completely destroyed by fire.
1776 - Captain James Cook begins his third voyage
1781 - Thomas Hutchins designated Geographer of US
1792 - Prussia army moves into French territory
1798 - US Marine Corps established by an act of Congress
1801 - French astronomer Jean-Louis Pons discovers his 1st comet
1804 - Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr mortally wounds former Secretary of the
           Treasury Alexander Hamilton in a duel.
1811 - Italian scientist Amedeo Avogadro publishes his memoir about molecular content of gases.
1812 - US invades Canada (Detroit frontier)
1818 - Keats writes "In the Cottage Where Burns is Born," "Lines Written in the Highlands," &
           "Gadfly"
1848 - Edmund Hickly gets 1st known 10 wicket innings (Kent v England)
1848 - London's Waterloo Station opens
1861 - Battle of Laurel Mountain VA - Gen Morris forces retreat of rebels
1861 - Battle of Rich Mountain, VA - Rosecrans forces rebels to surrender
1862 - Lincoln appoints General Halleck general-in-chief
1863 - Battle at Green River Ky (Morgan's Ohio Raid)
1863 - Japanese battle cruiser shoots at Dutch warship Medusa, kills 4
1864 - Battle of Fort Stevens, DC (Early's Raid, Tennallytown, MD)
1864 - Confederate forces led by Gen J Early begin invasion of Wash DC
1882 - British fleet bombs Alexandria
1888 - 118°F (48°C), Bennett, Colorado (state record)
1888 - Pennsylvania's Monongehela River rises 32' after 24 hour rainfall
1889 - Tijuana in Mexico becomes a city
1892 - US Patent Office says J W Swan, rather than Thomas Edison, invented the electric light
           carbon for the incandescent lamp
1893 - The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kokichi Mikimoto.
1893 - A revolution led by the liberal general and politician, José Santos Zelaya, takes over state
           power in Nicaragua.
1895 - Auguste & Louis Lumière show film for scientists
1897 - Solomon Andree leaves Spitsbergen by balloon towards North Pole
1900 - Boer general De la Rey captures Scots Greys & Lincolns
1902 - British premier Lord Salisbury resigns
1905 - Black intellectuals & activists organize Niagara movement
1905 - Niagara Movement founded by WEB Dubois
1906 - The Gillette-Brown murder inspires Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy.
1914 - Babe Ruth debuts as a pitcher for Boston Red Sox, he beats Cleve 4-3
1915 - Germany cruiser Königsberg sinks off Dar-es-Salam
1916 - 1st federal grant-in-aid for state roads enacted
1916 - Congress passes Federal Aid Road Act
1916 - Germany launches final offensive in the Battle of Verdun
1919 - Dutch 2nd chamber approves 8-hour day/No Sunday work
1921 - Mongolia gains independence from China (National Day)
1922 - The Hollywood Bowl opens.
1923 - Harry Frazee, sells Red Sox to Ohio businessmen for $1M
1924 - Moslem-Hindu rebellion in Delhi
1925 - Queen Wilhelmina names H Colijn head of government
1930 - Bradman scores 309 in a day vs England at Leeds, goes on to 334
1931 - NY Giants beat Phillies 23-8
1934 - FDR became 1st pres to travel through Panama Canal
1936 - Triborough Bridge linking Manhattan, Bronx & Queens opens
1939 - 7th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 3-1 at Yankee Stadium, New York NY Yankee/AL
           maanager Joe McCarthy starts 6 Yankees
1940 - British & German dogfight above Lyme Bay
1941 - German troops attack Dnjepr
1943 - 7th day of battle at Kursk
1943 - Counter attack by Hermann Goering Armour division in Sicily
1943 - US 45th Division occupies airport Comiso Sicily
1943 - US 82nd Airborne division shot at, by "friendly fire" in Sicily
1943 - Massacres of Poles in Volhynia.
1944 - 12th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-1 at Forbes Field, Pittsburgh
1944 - FDR says he would run for a 4th term
1944 - Franklin Roosevelt announces that he will run for a fourth term as President of the United
           States.
1946 - Kingman Douglass, ends term as deputy director of CIA
1948 - 1st air bombing of Jerusalem
1950 - 17th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-3 in 14 at Comiskey Park, Chic Ted Williams breaks his
           elbow; 1st extra inning All Star Game
1952 - Gen Eisenhower nominated as Republican presidential candidate
1954 - 1st White Citizens Council organizes in Indianola, Miss
1955 - Congress authorizes all US currency to say "In God We Trust"
1955 - New USAF Academy dedicated at Lowry AFB in Colo with 300 cadets
1960 - 28th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-3 at Municipal Stadium, KC
1960 - Czechoslovakia adopts Constitution
1960 - Ivory Coast, Dahomey, Upper Volta & Niger declare independence
1960 - Moise Tsjombe declares Congolese county Katanga independence
1961 - 30th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-4 in 10 at Candlestick Pk, SF
1961 - Gene Kiniski beats Verne Gagne in Minneapolis, to become NWA champ
1962 - 1st transatlantic TV transmission via satellite (Telstar I)
1962 - Brothers Hank & Tommie Aaron homer in same inning
1962 - Cosmonaut Micolaev set then record longest space flight - 4 days
1962 - Fred Baldasare is 1st to swim English Channel underwater (scuba)
1962 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 - South-African ANC Walter Sisulu/Andrew Mlangeni/Govan Mbeki arrested
1965 - Israeli Mapai-party nominates David Ben-Gurion
1965 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Carling Midwest Golf Open
1967 - 38th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 2-1 in 15 at Anaheim Stadium, CA
1967 - All star MVP: Tony Perez (Cin Reds)
1967 - Kenny Rogers forms 1st Edition
1968 - Earl Weaver replaces Hank Bauer as manager of Orioles
1968 - Start of Colin Cowdrey's 100th Test, 1st person to do so
1969 - David Bowie releases "Space Oddity"
1969 - Rolling Stones release "Honky Tonk Woman"
1971 - Chilean parliament nationalizes US copper mines
1971 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA George Washington Golf Classic
1971 - Phillies Deron Johnson 3 HRs caps his 4 in a row
1973 - Brazilian Boeing 707 crashes near Paris, 122 killed
1974 - House Judiciary Committee releases evidence on Watergate inquiry
1974 - World Football League plays 1st games
1975 - Chinese archeologists discover a 3-acre burial site with 6,000 clay statues of warriors dating
           as early as 221 BC
1976 - 1st US football club in Austria forms (FAAFC-1st Austrian American)
1976 - 31st US Women's Open Golf Championship won by JoAnne Carner
1976 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1976 - In pre-game promo at Atlanta County Stadium, 34 couples wed at home plate followed by
           Championship Wrestling "Headlocks & Wedlocks"
1977 - Medal of Freedom awarded posthumously to Rev Martin Luther King Jr
1978 - 49th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-3 at San Diego Stadium
1978 - All star MVP: Steve Garvey (LA Dodgers)
1978 - Auto with liquid gas crashes & explodes in Spain, 160 killed
1979 - US Skylab enters atmosphere over Australia & disintegrates
1980 - American hostage Richard I Queen freed by Iran
1981 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1981 - Neva Rockefeller is 1st woman ordered to pay her husband alimony
1981 - Sebastian Coe of UK sets record for 1K (2:12.18)
1982 - "7 Brides for 7 Brothers" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 5 perfs
1982 - 3rd US Seniors Golf Open: Miller Barber
1982 - Hollis Stacy wins West Virginia LPGA Golf Classic
1982 - Italy beats West Germany 3-1 for soccer's 12th World Cup in Madrid
1983 - Lorraine Elizabeth Downes, 19, of NZ, crowned 32nd Miss Universe
1984 - 55th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 3-1 at Candlestick Park, SF
1984 - All star MVP: Gary Carter (Mont Expos)
1984 - England's MusicBox begins satellite transmission to Europe
1984 - Government orders air bags or seat belts would be required in cars by 1989
1984 - Lucas Mangope re-elected president of Bophuthatswana
1985 - Astros' Nolan Ryan, 1st to strike out 4000 (Mets' Danny Heep)
1985 - Refurbished Columbia moves overland from Palmdale to Dryden
1985 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1986 - Ingrid Kristiansen of Norway runs 10,000 m in world record 30:13.74
1986 - Maricica Puica of Romania runs 2,000 m in 5:28.69 (record for women)
1986 - Mary Beth Whitehead christens surrogate Baby M, Sara
1987 - Heart's "Alone," single goes #1 for 3 weeks
1987 - Orioles Cal Ripkin becomes 1st to manage 2 sons, as Billy joins Cal
1988 - Mike Tyson hires Donald Trump as an advisor
1989 - 60th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 5-3 at Anaheim Stadium, Anaheim All star MVP: Bo
           Jackson (KC Royals)
1989 - President Ronald Reagan sportscasts All Star Game
1990 - NYC police arrest "Dartman" (stabbed over 50 women with darts)
1990 - Oka Crisis: First Nations land dispute in Quebec, Canada begins.
1991 - Calumet Farm, home to 8 Kentucky Derby winners, files bankruptcy
1991 - Nigerian DC-8 crashes near Djeddah, 261 die
1991 - Total solar eclipse is seen in Hawaii
1992 - Pres candidate Ross Perot at NAACP speech calls them "you people"
1993 - 14th US Seniors Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus
1993 - Nancy Lopez wins Youngstown-Warren LPGA Golf Classic
1994 - Suriname guilder devalued: NŸ1 = SŸ105
1995 - 66th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 3-2 at Ballpark at Arlington Tx
1995 - All star MVP: Jeff Conine (Fla Marlins)
1999 - 20th US Seniors Golf Open: at Des Moines GC, W Des Moines, Iowa
2006 - 209 people are killed in a series of bomb attacks in Mumbai, India.
2011 - Neptune completes its first orbit since its discovery on September 23, 1846.
2012 - POliciy academy suicide bombing kills 20 in Sana'a, Yemen
2012 - S/2012 P 1, the fifth moon of Pluto is discovered

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 11, 2013, 09:18:39 AM

This Day in History for 11th July


Famous Weddings

1895 - Dutch exotic dancer, courtesan, and accused spy Mata Hari (18) weds Dutch colonial army
           Captain Rudolph MacLeod in Amsterdam
1937 - Welsh poet and writer Dylan Thomas (22) marries dancer Caitlin McNamara (22) in Penzance,
           Cornwall
1955 - "Gone with the Wind" actor Clark Gable (54) weds former fashion model and actress Kay
           Spreckles
1976 - Singer Andy Gibb (18) weds Kim Reeder in Australia
2003 - "The Sopranos" actress Jamie-Lynn Sigler (22) weds her manager A.J. Discala at Brooklyn
           Botanical Garden in New York
2009 - "Step Up" actor Channing Tatum (32) weds actress Jenna Dewan (31) at Church Estate
            Vineyards in Malibu, California
2009 - "Rushmore" actor Jason Schwartzman (30) weds fashion designer Brady Cunningham in San
           Fernando Valley
2009 - WWE star John Cena (32) weds Liz Huberdeau in Boston, Massachusetts
2009 - Actor and film director Robert Redford (71) weds artist Sibylle Szaggars (51) at the luxurious
           Louis C. Jacob Hotel in Hamburg, Germany
2010 - Former "Las Vegas" actress Vanessa Marcil (42) weds "CSI: NY" actor Corey Feldman (39) in
           New York City

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 11, 2013, 09:27:18 AM

This Day in History for 11th July


Famous Birthdays

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Writer E. B. White (1899)                         Fashion Designer                                   Rock guitarist
                                                               Giorgio Armani (1934)                            Richie Sambora (1959)


154 - Bar Daisan, [Bardesanes], Syrian theologist
1274 - Robert Bruce, King of Scots (1306-29)
1366 - Anne of Bohemia, consort of Richard II of England (d. 1394)
1540 - Adolf van Nassau, German son of Willem the Rich/Juliana of Stolberg
1558 - Robert Greene, Elizabethan dramatist (Friar Bacon)
1561 - Luis de Góngora, Spanish poet (d. 1627)
1603 - Kenelm Digby, English privateer (d. 1665)
1628 - Tokugawa Mitsukuni, Japanese warlord (d. 1701)
1657 - Frederik I, King of Prussia (1701-13)
1662 - Maximilian II Emanuel, elect of Bayern
1694 - Charles-Antoine Coypel, French carpet designer
1697 - Jean-Baptiste-Bourguignon d'Anville, French geographer/cartographer
1709 - Johan Gottschalk Wallerius, Swedish chemist (d. 1785)
1723 - Jean-François Marmontel, French historian and writer (d. 1799)
1738 - Albert-Kasimir, duke of Saxon/viceroy of Hungary/Netherlands
1751 - Caroline Matilda of Wales, queen consort of Denmark and Norway (d. 1775)
1754 - Thomas Bowdler, famous prude, bowdlerized Shakespeare
1767 - John Quincy Adams, Braintree (Quincy) Mass, 6th Pres (D) (1825-1829)
1810 - Eugene L Simonis, Belgian sculptor
1811 - Joseph Lanman, Comm (Union Navy), died in 1874
1816 - French A Durlet, Belgian sculptor/architect
1824 - Adolphe-Abraham Samuel, composer
1825 - Edward Henry Hobson, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1901
1826 - Alexander Afanasyev, Russian folklorist (d. 1871)
1832 - Charilaos Trikoupis, Greek politician (d. 1896)
1836 - Carlos Gomez, composer
1837 - Paul Lacombe, composer
1838 - John Wanamaker, merchant (Wanamakers Dept Store)
1841 - Daniel de Lange, Dutch composer
1841 - William Paul Roberts, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1910
1844 - Peter I Karadjordjevic, King of Serbia/Yugoslavia
1846 - Leon Bloy, French writer (d. 1917)
1850 - Annie Armstrong, American missionary leader (d. 1938)
1851 - Millie & Christine, NC, siamese twins
1857 - Alfred Binet, French child psychologist
1857 - Iacob Moresianu, composer
1860 - Johannis J van Laar, Dutch chemist (thermodynamics)
1861 - Anton Stepanovich Arensky, composer
1861 - George William Norris, (Rep/Sen-Neb) (Lame duck-amendement)
1862 - Liza Nina Mary Frederica Lehmann, composer
1864 - Petar Danov, Bulgarian spiritual teacher (d. 1944)
1866 - R Beer-Hofmann, writer
1866 - Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine (d. 1953)
1871 - Stjepan Radic, founder/leader (Croatian Farmers' Party)
1885 - Roger de la Fresnaye, French sculptor/painter
1886 - Boris Grigoriev, Russian painter (d. 1939)
1888 - Carl Schmitt, German nazi-lawyer (Verfassungslehre)
1888 - Lyman Bryson, Valentine Nebr, educator (UN Casebook)
1889 - Alfred E Green, Perris CA, director (Copacabana, Jolson Story)
1890 - Arthur W Tedder of Glenguin, British air marshal (WW II)
1890 - Georg Annenkov, Russian/French painter
1892 - Giorgio Federico Ghedini, composer
1892 - Thomas Mitchell, NJ, academy award winning actor (Outlaw, Adventures)
1893 - Jack Durston, cricketer (England fast bowler against Australia 1921)
1894 - Walter Wanger, [Feuchtwanger], US producer (Stagecoach)
1895 - Dolly Wilde, English socialite (d. 1941)
1897 - Blind Lemon Jefferson, blues musician
1897 - Bull Connor, American law enforcement official (d. 1973)
1898 - Hendrik J Pos, Dutch philosopher/CEO (Committee of Watchfulness)
1898 - Herman de Man, [Salomon H Hamburger], Dutch writer/Radio Orange
1899 - E. B. White, writer (Charlotte&#039;s Web, Elements of Style), (d. 1985)
1902 - Leo Collard, Belgian minister of Education (1946/54-58)
1902 - Samuel Abraham Goldsmith, Dutch/US phycist
1903 - Sidney Franklin, American bullfighter (d. 1976)
1906 - Harry Von Zell, Indianapolis Ind, TV announcer (Burns & Allen)
1906 - Herbert Wehner, German communist/anti-communist politician (SPD)
1910 - Irene Hervey, Los Angeles California, actress (Aunt Meg-Honey West)
1910 - John Francis Boyd, journalist
1913 - Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger, US, sci-fi author (Space Lords)
1913 - Cordwainer Smith, American writer (d. 1966)
1914 - Ahti Sonninen, composer
1915 - Colin Purdie Kelly, US, 1st US air hero (during WW II)
1915 - George Ivan Smith, diplomat
1916 - Gough Whitlam, (ALP) Australia, PM (1972-75)
1916 - Howard Brubeck, composer
1916 - Reg Varney, English actor
1920 - Yul Brynner, Russian-born actor (d. 1985)
1921 - Ilse Werner, Dutch-born actress
1922 - Gene Evans, Hollbrook Az, actor (My Friend Flicka, Matt Helm, Alamo)
1924 - Claus Bremer, writer
1924 - César Lattes, Brazilian physicist (d. 2005)
1924 - Charlie Tully, Northern Irish footballer (d. 1971)
1925 - Mattiwilda Dobbs, Atlanta, Ga, soprano
1925 - Nicolai Gedda, Stockholm, Sweden, opera tenor (Opera Two to Six)
1926 - Patrick Wymark, Cleethorpes England, actor (Skull, Tomb of Ligeia)
1926 - Ralph D Abernathy, US, president (SCLC)
1926 - Rodolfo Arizaga, composer
1926 - Frederick Buechner, American author
1927 - Herbert Blomstedt, Springfield Mass, conductor (Oslo Phil 1954-61)
1928 - Nic Jonk, sculptor/painter (Jonas & the Whale)
1928 - Robert Washburn, composer
1929 - David Kelly, Dublin, actor (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Fawlty Towers), (d. 2012)
1929 - Hermann Prey, German baritone (d. 1998)
1930 - Gregory C Bell, Terre Haute Ind, long jumper (Olympic-gold-1956)
1930 - John Alabaster, cricketer (NZ most prolific leg-spinner with 49 wkts)
1930 - Harold Bloom, American literary critic
1931 - Hans Klein, politician
1931 - Herman de Vries, Dutch sculptor
1931 - Tab Hunter, actor (Damn Yankees, Lust in the Dust, Battle Cry)
1931 - Thurston Harris, Indianapolis, vocalist (Little Bitty Pretty One)
1931 - Tullio Regge, Italian physicist
1932 - Alex Hassilev, rocker (Limeliters)
1932 - Ron McAnally, horse trainer
1932 - Bob McGrath, American actor
1933 - Olga Havlova, political activist
1934 - Giorgio Armani, Milan Italy, fashion designer (American Gigolo)
1935 - Earlene Dennis Brown, Latero Tx, shot putter (Olympic-bronze-1960)
1935 - Oliver Napier, Northern Irish politician
1935 - Frederick Hemke, American saxophonist
1937 - Pai Hsien-yung, Taiwanese writer
1938 - Terry Garthwaite, US guitarist/singer (Joy of Cooking)
1939 - Larry Laoretti, Mahopac NJ, PGA golfer (US Seniors Open 1992)
1939 - Seth Gaaikema, Dutch night club performer
1940 - Rafael Martinez, horse trainer
1940 - Terry Patchett, politician
1940 - Yvon Charbonneau, French Canadian union leader and politician
1941 - Clive Puzey, Zimbabwean racing driver
1943 - Susan Seaforth Hayes, SF, actress (Days of our Life, Young & Restless)
1943 - Oscar D'León, Venezuelan musician
1944 - Bill Boggs, Phila, TV host/producer (Midday, Morton Downey Jr Show)
1944 - Peter de Savary, English financier/multi-millionaire
1944 - Myra Gale Brown, former wife of Jerry Lee Lewis
1945 - Adrienne Barbeau, Sacramento California, actress (Maude)
1945 - Robin Muyser, Dutch bassist (Les Baroques)
1945 - Patrick Joseph McGrath, Catholic bishop
1946 - Beverly Todd, Ohio, actress (Roots, Having Babies, Redd Foxx Show)
1946 - Edward J Markey, (Rep-D-MA, 1976- )
1946 - Cuthbert Johnson, Benedictine abbot.
1947 - Bo Lundgren, Swedish politician
1950 - Bonnie Pointer, singer (Pointer Sisters-Jump, I'm So Excited)
1950 - Jim Higgs, cricketer (Australian leg-spinner 1978-81)
1950 - Pervez Hoodbhoy, Pakistani nuclear physicist
1950 - Bruce McGill, American actor
1951 - Lawrence J Delucas, Syracuse NY, PhD/astronaut (STS 50)
1951 - Sridharan Jeganathan, cricketer (two Tests for Sri Lanka v NZ 1983)
1952 - Stephen Lang, NYC, actor (Another You, Death of a Salesman)
1952 - John Kettley, English weather forecaster
1953 - Leon Spinks, US, heavyweight boxing champ (1978, Olympic-gold-1976)
1953 - Peter Bergman, Guantanamo Bay Cuba, actor (Eat or Be Eaten)
1954 - Benny Defranco, rocker (Defrnco Family)
1954 - Butch Reed, American professional wrestler
1955 - Sergey Babinov, USSR, ice hockey star (Olympic-gold-1972)
1956 - Sela Ward, Meridian Miss, actress (Hilary-Emerald Point NAS, Sisters)
1957 - Michael Rose, Kingston Jamaica, rocker (Black Uhuru-Brutal, Positive)
1957 - Pete Murphy, rocker (Love Hysteria)
1957 - Vince Williams, actor (Hamp-Guiding Light)
1957 - Peter Murphy, British musician (Bauhaus)
1958 - Mark Lester, Oxford England, actor (Oliver, Prince & Pauper)
1958 - Ray Dodds, rocker (Fairground Attraction-You Send Me)
1958 - Hugo Sánchez, Mexican footballer
1959 - Richie Sambora, Perth Amboy, NJ, guitarist, (Bon Jovi), boyfriend of Cher & Heather Locklear
1959 - Suzanne Vega, rock vocalist (My Name is Luka, Tom's Diner)
1960 - David Baerwald American songwriter/composer
1962 - Dale Hellestrae, NFLer (Dallas Cowboys)
1962 - Pauline McLynn, Irish actress
1963 - Al MacInnis, Inverness NS, NHL defenseman (Team Canada, St Louis)
1963 - Lisa Rinna, Medford, Oregon, American actress (Days of Our Lives, Melrose Place)
1964 - Earl Jones, Inkster Mich, 800m runner (Olympic-bronze-1984)
1964 - Craig Charles, English actor
1964 - Kyrill, Prince of Preslav, titular Bulgarian royal family
1965 - Tony Cottee, English footballer
1965 - Ernesto Hoost, Dutch kickboxer
1965 - Scott Shriner, American musician (Weezer)
1966 - Butch Reid, horse trainer
1966 - Debbe Dunning, Burbank CA, actress (Tool Time Girl-Home Improvement)
1966 - Mel Appleby, rocker (Mel & Kim-Coming to America)
1966 - Rod Strickland, NBA guard (Portland Trail Blazers, Wash Wizards)
1966 - Greg Grunberg, American actor
1966 - Mick Molloy, Australian comedian
1967 - Andy Ashby, KC MO, pitcher (San Diego Padres)
1967 - Donne Wall, Potosi MO, pitcher (Houston Astros)
1967 - Jeff Corwin, American naturalist and TV personality
1968 - Esera Tuaolo, NFL defensive tackle (Minnesota Vikings)
1968 - Michael Geist, Canadian academic
1969 - David Tao, Taiwanese singer-songwriter
1970 - Billy Ashley, Taylor MI, outfielder (LA Dodgers)
1970 - Pubudu Dissanayake, Sri Lanka cricket wicket-keeper (1993)
1970 - Justin Chambers, American actor
1971 - Brett Hauer, Edina Minn, NHL defenseman (Edmonton Oilers)
1971 - Leisha Hailey, American actress and musician (Uh Huh Her)
1972 - Jerrott Willard, NFL linebacker (KC Chiefs)
1972 - Joe Johnson, NFL defensive end (NO Saints)
1972 - Ken Irvin, NFL cornerback (Buffalo Bills)
1972 - Jussi 69, Finnish musician (The 69 Eyes)
1972 - Steven Richards, Australian racing driver
1973 - Albert Guardado Jr, Redlands California, light flyweight boxer (Olymp-96)
1973 - Christine Monge, SF California, female pitcher (Colo Silver Bullets)
1973 - Konstantinos Kenteris, Greek athlete
1973 - Andrew Bird, American musician
1974 - Andre Ooyer, soccer player (Ajax/FC Volendam)
1974 - Hermann Hreiðarsson, Icelandic footballer
1974 - André Ooijer, Dutch footballer
1975 - Dawn Piepenbrink, wildrose Wis, pairs skater (& Nick Castaneda)
1975 - Samer el Nahhal, Finnish musician (Lordi)
1975 - Willie Anderson, American football player
1975 - Rubén Baraja, Spanish footballer
1975 - Riona Hazuki, Japanese actress
1975 - Lil' Kim, American rapper
1976 - Eduardo Nájera, Mexican-born basketball player
1977 - Brandy Gold, Northridge California, actress (Annie-Baby Makes 5)
1977 - Brandon Short, American football player
1979 - Éric Abidal, French footballer
1980 - T.J. Wilson, Canadian professional wrestler
1981 - Mary Beth Arnold, Reno Nevada, gymnast (World-bronze-95)
1981 - Carla Campbell, Jamaican model
1981 - Andre Johnson, American football player
1981 - Aaron Proctor, American professional wrestling promoter & politician
1982 - Chris Cooley, American football player
1983 - Peter Cincotti, American singer songwriter
1983 - Kelly Poon, Singaporean singer
1983 - Evan Roberts, American radio broadcaster
1983 - Marie Serneholt, Swedish musician (A*Teens)
1983 - Kellie Shirley, British actress
1984 - Yorman Bazardo, Venezuelan baseball player
1984 - Tanith Belbin, Canadian ice dancer
1984 - Hitomi Hyuga, Japanese actress
1984 - Rachael Taylor, Australian actress
1985 - Aki Maeda, Japanese actress
1986 - Yoann Gourcuff, French footballer
1986 - Ryan Jarvis, English footballer
1987 - Matej Gaspar, Yugoslavia, 5,000,000,000th person (UN)
1987 - Shigeaki Kato, Japanese idol singer (NEWS)
1989 - David Henrie, American actor
1990 - Connor Paolo, American actor
1990 - Caroline Wozniacki, Danish tennis player

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 11, 2013, 09:31:22 AM

This Day in History for 11th July


Famous Deaths

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Archaelogist                                       48th Shia Iman Aga Khan III (1957)
Gertrude Bell (1926)


155 - Pius I, bishop of Rome (approx 140-155)/saint/martyr, dies
472 - Anthemius, Emperor of the Western Roman Empire
937 - King Rudolph II of Burgundy
969 - Olga of Kiev
1174 - Amalrik I, [Morri], French King of Jerusalem, dies
1183 - Otto I Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria
1302 - Jacques de Châtillon, count of Saint-Pol/gov of Flaanders, dies
1302 - Pierre Flote, French 1st legist/chancellor of king Philip IV, dies
1302 - Robert II of Artois, French soldier (b. 1250)
1382 - Nicholas van Oresme, French philosopher/bishop of Lisieux, dies at 62
1535 - Joachim I Nestor, ruler (Brandenburg), dies at 51
1540 - Jan Szapolyai, anti-king of Hungarian, dies
1553 - Mauritius, duke/monarch of Saksen (1547-53), dies of injuries at 32
1581 - Peder Skram, Danish senator and naval hero
1593 - Giuseppe Arcimboldo, 1st surrealist painter, dies (birth date unkn)
1649 - Margaret Coventry, 1st English earl of Shaftesbury, dies
1667 - John Fox, Amsterdam writer, buried
1679 - William Chamberlayne, English poet (b. 1619)
1686 - Michel Anguier, French sculptor, dies at 75
1688 - King Narai of Siam (b. 1629)
1690 - Friedrich H duke van Schomberg, marshal, dies in battle at 75
1766 - Elizabeth Farnese, wife of Philip V of Spain (b. 1692)
1768 - Jose Melchior de Nebra Blascu, composer, dies at 66
1774 - Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet, Irish-born New York pioneer
1775 - Simon Boerum, American Continental Congressman (b. 1724)
1781 - Adolph Carl Kunzen, composer, dies at 60
1797 - Ienăchiţă Văcărescu, Wallachian writer (b. 1740)
1806 - James Smith, Irish/US attorney/signer (Decl of Ind), dies at 87
1825 - Thomas P. Grosvenor, American Revolutionary War soldier (b. 1744)
1826 - Carl Bernhard Wessely, composer, dies at 57
1844 - Evgeny Baratynsky, Russian poet (b. 1800)
1847 - Joachim G le Sage at Trousers, RC foreman/publicist, dies at 71
1874 - Xavier FMG earl Merode, Belgium pontifical defense minister, dies at 54
1876 - Ottho G Heldring, vicar (H-gestichten), dies at 72
1882 - Eugene L Simonis, Belgian sculptor, dies on 72nd birthday
1889 - Gyula Reviczky, Hungarian author/poet, dies at 34
1896 - Ernst Curtius, German archaeologist/historian (Olympia), dies at 81
1898 - Charles Chanoine, French lt/mass murderer in Senegal, dies
1909 - Simon Newcomb, celestial mechanics authority (Stars), dies at 74
1914 - Julius Rodenberg, [Levy], German writer (Die Deutsche Rundschau), dies
1916 - Rik Wouters, Belgian painter/sculptor (Doll Virgin), dies
1921 - Gabriel Lippmann, French physicist, dies at 75
1926 - Gertrude Bell, British archaeologist, dies at 57
1929 - Billy Mosforth, English footballer (b. 1857)
1936 - James Murray, American actor (b. 1901)
1937 - George Gershwin, composer (American in Paris), dies at 38
1942 - Simon de la Bella, Dutch president (NVV), dies in Dachau
1944 - Wolfgang Redlich, German major/pilot, dies in battle
1948 - Gerhard Kittel, German anti-semite theologist, dies
1948 - King Baggot, actor (Tish, San Francisco), dies at 68
1950 - Timotei Popovici, composer, dies at 79
1957 - Aga Khan III,Pakistani 48th Shia Iman, dies at 79
1958 - Karel Wellens, Flemish painter, dies at 69
1959 - C W L Parker, cricketer (3,776 1st-class wickets, 2nd best ever), dies
1964 - Maurice Thorez, sec-general French communist party, dies at 64
1965 - Ray Collins, actor (Halls of Ivy, Perry Mason), dies at 75
1966 - Delmore Schwartz, US poet/critic (Shenandoah), dies at 52
1967 - Guy Favreau, French Canadian lawyer, politician and judge (b. 1917)
1971 - Carleton Young, actor (Court of Last Resorts), dies at 64
1971 - John W Campbell, US, sci-fi writer (Space Beyond), dies at 61
1971 - Pedro Rodríguez, Mexican racing driver (b. 1940)
1973 - Alexander Vasilyevich Mosolov, Russian composer (Zavod), dies at 72
1973 - Isabel Randolph, actress (Mrs Nester-Our Miss Brooks), dies at 83
1973 - Robert Ryan, US actor (Dirty Dozens, Longest Day), dies at 63
1974 - Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1891)
1975 - Kurt Pinthus, writer, dies at 89
1979 - Claude Wagner, French Canadian judge and politician (b. 1925)
1980 - Boleslaw Woytowicz, composer, dies at 80
1980 - Peggy Knudson, actress (April-So This is Hollywood), dies at 57
1983 - Ross Macdonald, American-Canadian writer (b. 1915)
1984 - Karel Mengelberg, composer, dies at 81
1987 - Thomas F Waddell, founder (Gay Olympics), dies of AIDS at 50
1987 - Avi Ran, Israeli footballer (b. 1963)
1987 - Yaakov Yitzchak Ruderman, American Rosh Yeshiva (b. 1901)
1989 - Laurence Olivier, acting great (Hamlet), dies at 82
1990 - Onno Molenkamp, Dutch actor (Ciske the Rat, Lifespan), dies at 67
1991 - Hitoshi Igarashi, Japanese interpreter (Satanic Verses), murdered
1991 - James McCallion, actor (PT 109, Big Combo), dies at 72
1992 - Annette Fischer, Danish chairman Amnesty Intl, dies
1992 - Antoon J Hubben, mayor of Maasbree/President KVM/Unie BLHP, dies at 73
1993 - Deng Yingchao, high ranking communist China official, dies at 88
1993 - Denis Tomlinson, South African cricket leg-spinner, dies
1993 - Henri van Soede, sub commandant (WW II), dies at about 83
1993 - Kelly Ahrendt, 1st death by rabies in NY since 1954, dies
1993 - Mario Bauza, Cubans/US jazz musician, dies at 82
1993 - Sergey Vozovikov, cosmonaut, dies during underwater test at 34
1994 - Alan David Melville, polymath, dies at 82
1994 - Bart Scheepens, actor/director, dies of AIDS at 50
1994 - Charles "Lefty" Edwards, saxophonist, dies at 67
1994 - Gary Kildall, creator of CP/M, dies at 52
1994 - James Topping, author of CP/M, dies at 52
1994 - Lex P Humphries, drummer, dies at 57
1994 - Wim Jurg, corrector/chairman (Werelddambond FMJD), dies at 49
1995 - John Cruickshank, French scholar, dies at 70
1996 - Louis Gottlieb, musician, dies at 72
1996 - Martin Corbett, gay activist, dies at 51
1999 - Helen Forrest, American singer (b. 1917)
2000 - Pedro Mir, Dominican poet (b. 1913)
2000 - Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1921)
2001 - Herman Brood, Dutch singer and artist (b. 1946)
2004 - Laurance Rockefeller, American conservationist and philanthropist (b. 1910)
2005 - Gretchen Franklin, English actress (b. 1911)
2005 - Frances Langford, American actress and singer (b. 1914)
2005 - Jesús Iglesias, Argentine professional racing driver (b. 1922)
2006 - Barnard Hughes, American actor (b. 1915)
2006 - John Spencer, English snooker player (b. 1935)
2007 - Lady Bird Johnson, First Lady of the United States (b. 1912)
2007 - Alfonso López Michelsen, 32nd Colombian President (b. 1913)
2007 - Ed Mirvish, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1914)
2007 - Glenda Adams, Australian author (b. 1939)
2008 - Michael DeBakey, American surgeon and inventor (b. 1908)
2009 - Arturo Gatti, Italian-Canadian professional boxer (b. 1972)
2009 - Ji Xianlin, Chinese linguist and paleographer (b.1911)
2010 - Walter Hawkins, Gospel music singer
2010 - Bob Sheppard, New York Yankees and New York Giants announcer (b. 1910)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 12, 2013, 09:39:53 AM

This Day in History for 12th July


Historical Events

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Conquistador Diego de Almagro            Religious Leader Joseph Smith Jr             Baseball Great Babe Ruth

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Russian President Boris Yeltsin            Basketball Superstar Michael Jordan


526 - St Felix IV begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1109 - Crusaders capture Syria's harbor city of Tripoli
1191 - Richard Coeur de Lion & Crusaders defeat Saracens in Palestine
1191 - Saladin's garrison surrenders, ending the two-year siege of Acre. Conrad of Montferrat, who
           has negotiated the surrender, raises the banners of the Kingdom of Jerusalem and of the
           Third Crusade leaders Richard I of England, Philip II of France, and Leopold V of Austria on
           the city's walls and towers.
1290 - Jews are expelled from England by order of King Edward I
1442 - King Alfonso V of Aragon becomes king of Naples
1537 - Battle of Albancay: Diego de Almagro defeated by army led by Alonso de Alvarado on behalf
           of Francisco Pizarro
1542 - French troops under Maarten van Rossem occupies Flanders
1549 - English boer army occupies Norwich
1580 - Ostrog Bible, the first printed Bible in a Slavic language, is published.
1627 - English fleet under George Villiers lands on the Rhe [NS=June 22]
1630 - New Amsterdam's governor buys Gull Island from Indians for cargo, renames it Oyster Island,
           it is later known as Ellis Island
1679 - Britain's King Charles II ratified Habeas Corpus Act
1689 - Orangeman's Day-Battle of Boyne, Protestant victory in Ireland
1690 - Battle of Boyne-King William III defeats catholic king James II
1691 - Antonio Pignatelli elected as Pope Innocentius XII
1691 - Battle of Aughrim (Aghrim) England, William III beats James II
1700 - Gelderland accepts Gregorian calendar; yesterday is June 30, 1700
1704 - Stanislaw Leszcynski becomes king of part of Poland
1730 - Lorenzo Corsini chosen as Pope Clemens XII
1745 - Warship Elisabeth joins Bonnie Prince Charlies frigate Doutelle [NS]
1771 - James Cook sails Endeavour back to Downs England
1774 - Citizens of Carlisle Penn, pass a declaration of independence
1774 - Cossack leader Emilian Pugachevs army occupies Kazan
1776 - Capt Cook departs with Resolution for 3rd trip to Pacific Ocean
1785 - 1st manned flight by gas balloon in Netherlands
1801 - Battle at Algeciras: British fleet beats French & Spanish
1804 - Former United States Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton dies after being shot in a
           duel.
1812 - US forces led by Gen Hull invade Canada (War of 1812)
1817 - 1st flower show held (Dannybrook, County Cork, Ireland)
1817 - Karl Drais von Sauerbronn demonstrates bicycle course
1843 - Mormon leader Joseph Smith say God OKs polygamy
1850 - Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts establishment of Provincial States
1859 - Paper bag manufacturing machine patents by William Goodale, Mass
1862 - Congress authorizes Medal of Honor
1862 - Federal troops occupy Helena Arkansas
1874 - Ontario Agricultural College founded
1874 - Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure, "Gloria Scott" (BG)
1878 - Fever epidemic in New Orleans begin, it will kill 4,500
1882 - 1st ocean pier in US completed, Washington, DC
1898 - Jean-Baptiste Marchand hoists French flag in Fashoda Sudan
1900 - 114°F (46°C), Basin, Wyoming (state record)
1901 - Cy Young wins his 300th game
1902 - Australian parliament agrees to female suffrage
1906 - Alfred Dreyfus found innocent in France
1909 - 16th Amendment approved (power to tax incomes)
1912 - 1st foreign feature film exhibited in US-"Queen Elizabeth"-NYC
1914 - Babe Ruth makes his baseball debut, pitches for Red Sox
1917 - The Bisbee Deportation occurs as vigilantes kidnap and deport nearly 1,300 striking miners
           and others from Bisbee, Arizona.
1918 - Japanese battleship explodes in Bay of Tokayama, 500 killed
1918 - The Japanese Imperial Navy battle ship Kawachi blows up at Shunan, western Honshu, Japan,
           killing at least 621.
1920 - Lithuania & USSR sign peace treaty, Lithuania becomes independent rep
1920 - Panama Canal opens
1921 - Babe Ruth sets record of 137 career home runs
1921 - Indians (9) & Yankees (7) combine for an AL record 16 doubles
1926 - Guomindangleger draws against warlord Wu Peifu
1926 - Paavo Nurmi walks world record 4x1500m (16:26.2)
1927 - Babe Ruth hits 30th of 60 HRs
1928 - 1st televised tennis match
1930 - 34th US Golf Open: Robert T "Bobby" Jones wins
1930 - Bradman out for 334 in Test Cricket at Headingley, 383 mins, 46 fours
1931 - 45,715 fans in 35,000 seat Sportsman Park St Louis, help cause many ground ruled doubles,
           11 in 1st game & 21 in 2nd game for 32
1932 - Hedley Verity establishes a first-class cricket record by taking all ten wickets for only ten runs
           against Nottinghamshire on a pitch affected by a storm
1933 - Congress passes 1st minimum wage law (33 cents per hour)
1934 - US Disciplinary Barracks on Alcatraz Island abandoned
1934 - Willy de Supervise swims world record 400m (5:16.0)
1935 - Belgium recognizes Soviet Union
1937 - -13) Tupolev ANT-25 non-stop flight Moscow to San Jacinto Calif
1943 - Battle of Kolombangara (2nd battle of Gulf of Kula)
1943 - National Committee Freies Deutschland forms
1943 - Pope Pius XII receives German ambassador baron von Weizsacker
1943 - Russian offensive at Orel
1943 - Tank battle at Prochorowka - Russians beat Nazis, about 12,000 die
1944 - Theresienstadt Family camp disbands, with 4,000 people gased
1944 - US government recognizes authority of General De Gaulle
1945 - Cubs stop Braves Tommy Holmes modern-day NL hitting streak at 37 games
1946 - Benjamin Britten's "Rape of Lucretia," premieres in Glyndebourne
1946 - Vance Dinges hits only Phillie pinch hit inside-the-park HR
1948 - 1st jets to fly across Atlantic (6 RAF de Havilland Vampires)
1949 - 16th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 11-7 at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn
1949 - Baseball owners agree to erect warning paths before each fence
1949 - Dutch KLM Constellation crashes near Bombay, 45 die
1949 - LA Rams sign Norm Van Brocklin
1950 - ILTF re-admit Germany & Japan in Davis Cup, Poland & Hungary withdraws
1950 - Hague Council of Annulment convicts German war criminals W Lages, FH Van de Funten & F
           Fischer to death
1951 - Mob tries to keep black family from moving into all-white Cicero Ill
1951 - NY Yankees Allie Reynolds no-hits Cleve Indians, 8-0
1952 - East German SED decides to form German DR army
1953 - KTVB TV channel 7 in Boise, ID (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1954 - Major League Baseball Players Association founded
1954 - Pres Eisenhower put forward a plan for an interstate highway system
1955 - 22nd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-5 in 12 at County Stad, Milw
1955 - Christian Democratic Party forms in Argentina
1957 - 1st President to fly in helicopter-Dwight Eisenhower
1957 - US Surgeon Gen Leroy Burney connects smoking with lung cancer
1958 - "Li'l Abner" closes at St James Theater NYC after 693 performances
1958 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island
1959 - NBC uses cameras to show catchers signals during ankee-Red Sox game
1960 - Congo, Chad & Central African Republic declare independence
1960 - Echo I, 1st passive satellite launched
1960 - Joyce Ziske wins LPGA Hoosier Celebrity Golf Tournament
1960 - USSR's Sputnik 5 launched with 2 dogs
1960 - XEWT TV channel 12 in Tijuana-San Diego, CA (IND) begins broadcasting
1960 - Orlyonok, the main Young Pioneer camp of the Russian SFSR, is founded.
1962 - 1st time 2 manned crafts in space (USSR)
1962 - Rolling Stones 1st performance (Marquee Club, London)
1964 - 19th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Mickey Wright
1966 - 10.51" (26.70 cm) of rainfall, Sandusky Ohio (state record)
1966 - 37th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 2-1 in 10 at Busch Stad, St Louis
1966 - All star MVP: Brooks Robinson (Balt Orioles)
1966 - Race riot in Chicago
1966 - US Treasury announces it will buy mutilated silver coins at silver bullion price at Philadelphia &
           Denver mints
1967 - 23 die in Newark race riot
1967 - 5th Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 4-0
1967 - Blacks in Newark, riot, 26 killed, 1500 injured & over 1000 arrested
1967 - Greek regime deprives 480 Greeks of their citizenship
1968 - Couve de Murville forms government in France
1968 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1969 - 98th British Golf Open: Tony Jacklin shoots a 280 at Royal Lytham
1970 - 99th British Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 283 at St Andrews
1970 - Blues-Rock singer Janis Joplin debuts in Kentucky
1970 - Tanzania signs contract with China for building Tanzam-railway
1970 - Thor Heyerdahl crosses Atl Ocean in "Ra" docks in Barbados
1971 - Juan Corona, indicted for 25 murders
1972 - Democrats nominated George McGovern for president in Miami Fla
1973 - A fire destroys the entire 6th floor of the National Personnel Records Center of the United
           States.
1974 - John Ehrlichman convicted of violating Daniel Ellsberg's rights
1975 - 104th British Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 279 at Carnoustie
1975 - Bob Taylor catches 7 in an innings, Derbyshire v Yorkshire
1975 - Sao Tomé e Príncipe gains independence from Portugal (Natl Day)
1976 - Ian Dury & Kilburns disband
1977 - John Edrich scores his 100th 100, Surrey v Derbyshire at The Oval
1978 - Sun Bank Building opens
1978 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1979 - Ian Palce joins Whitesnake
1979 - Kiribati (formerly Gilbert Islands) declares independence from UK
1979 - "Disco Demolition Night" at Comiskey Park, causes fans to go wild & causes White Sox to
           forfeit 2nd game of a doubleheader to Tigers
1981 - Debbie Austin wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
1982 - Britain announces it is returning 593 Argentine POWs
1982 - FEMA promises survivors of a nuclear war will get their mail
1983 - Chad government troops reconquer Abéché
1984 - Geraldine Ferraro, NY becomes 1st woman major-party VP candidate
1985 - "Singin' in the Rain" opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 367 perfs
1985 - Doctors discover a cancerous growth in Pres Reagan's colon
1985 - STS 51-F launch scrubbed at T -3s because of main engine shutdown
1987 - 15th du Maurier Golf Classic: Jody Rosenthal
1987 - 1st time in 20 years a delegation from USSR lands in Israel
1987 - 50 white South Africans meets ANCers in Dakar
1987 - 8th US Seniors Golf Open: Gary Player
1987 - Phillies Kent Tekulve pitches his 900th game in relief
1988 - 59th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 2-1 at Riverfront Stadium, Cin
1988 - All star MVP: Terry Steinbach (Oakland A's)
1988 - Margo Adams alleges Red Sox Wade Bogg's had an affair with her
1988 - USSR launches Phobos II for Martian orbit
1989 - NY Yankee pitching great Ron Guidry retires (170-91 .651, 3.29 ERA)
1990 - "Les Miserables," opens at National Theatre, Washington
1990 - Boris Yeltsin quits Soviet Communist Party
1990 - Chicago White Sox Melido Perez no-hits Yankees 8-0 in a rain shortened 6 inning game at
           Yankee Stadium (7th no-hitter of 1990)
1992 - 13th US Seniors Golf Open: Larry Laoretti
1992 - Axl Rose arrested on riot charges in St Louis of Jul 2, 1991 concert
1992 - Betsy King wins LPGA Phar-Mor in Youngstown Golf Tournament
1993 - 7.8 earthquake hits Hokkaido Japan, 160 killed
1993 - Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical "Sunset Promenade" opens in London
1993 - Don Imus begins broadcasting to Boston on WEEI (590 AM)
1994 - 65th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 7-8 at 3 Rivers Stad, Pitts
1994 - All star MVP: Fred McGriff (Atlanta Braves)
1994 - Nomination hearings for Steven Breyer for supreme court justice begins
1996 - Kirby Puckett, retires from Minnesota Twins
1996 - Michael Jordan signs a NBA contract for 1 year for $25 million
1996 - Start of 1st "Super 8's" tournament in Kuala Lumpur
1997 - Cubs play in their 5,000th consecutive gane with out being no-hit
1997 - Pirates Francisco Cordova & Ricardo Rincon no-hit Astros 3-0 in 10 inn
1998 - 16th Seniors Players Golf Championship:
1998 - Jamie Farr Kroger Golf Classic
2006 - Hezbollah initiates Operation True Promise.
2012 - 200 people are killed by the Syrian army in Tremseh
2012 - 90-155 people are killed after an oil tanker crashes and explodes in Okogbe, Rivers State,
           Nigeria

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 12, 2013, 09:41:43 AM

This Day in History for 12th July


Famous Weddings

1472 - Richard Plantagenet, Duke of Gloucester and later King of England, marries Anne Neville,
           daughter of the Earl of Warwick, in Westminster Abbey.
1543 - England's King Henry VIII weds Catherine Parr (6th & last wife)
1933 - Fifth Greatest Male Star of All Time Fred Astaire (34) weds socialite Phyllis Livingston Potter
           (25)
1998 - "Dynasty" actress Catherine Oxenberg (36) weds "Chinatown" film producer Robert Evans
           (68) in Beverly Hills, California
2007 - World's tallest man who measures 7'9" Bao Xishun (56) weds Xia Shujian (28) in a traditional
           Mongolian ceremony at the tomb of Kublai Khan in Beijing, China
2008 - Black Eyed Peas rapper Taboo (32) weds fashion publicist Jaymie Dizon (29) at St. Andrews
           Catholic Church in Pasadena, California

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 12, 2013, 09:49:10 AM

This Day in History for 12th July


Famous Birthdays

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Naturalist/Pacifist                                   Actor/Comedian                              Rock vocalist Christine McVie (1943)
Henry David Thoreau (1817)                    Bill Cosby (1937)


1394 - Ashikaga Yoshinori, Japanese shogun (d. 1441)
1644 - Arnold Moonen, Dutch vicar/literature (David's holy saint graduals)
1675 - Evaristo E Felice dall' Abaco, Italian cellist/composer
1730 - Josiah Wedgwood, England, pottery designer/manufacturer (Wedgwood)
1757 - Christian Danner, composer
1794 - Heinrich Christian Pander, Russian zoologist
1801 - John Hill Hewitt, composer
1802 - Charles-Louis Hanssens, composer
1803 - Peter Chanel, French priest and saint (d. 1841)
1807 - Silas Casey, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1882
1817 - Henry David Thoreau, Concord Mass, naturalist/pacifist (Walden Pond), (d. 1862)
1821 - Cesare Dominiceti, composer
1821 - Daniel Harvey Hill, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1889
1824 - Eugène Boudin, French painter (d. 1898)
1828 - Nikolai Chernyshevsky, Russian philosopher (d. 1889)
1840 - Abraham Goldfaden, Eastern European Yiddish dramatist
1849 - William Osler, Canada, physician/author (circulatory system)
1850 - Otto Schoetensack, German anthropologist (d. 1912)
1852 - Hipólito Yrigoyen, President of Argentina (d. 1933)
1854 - George Eastman, Waterville NY, inventor (Kodak camera)
1861 - Anton Stepanovich Arensky, composer
1863 - Albert Calmette, French physician (d. 1933)
1863 - Paul Karl Ludwig Drude, German physicist (d. 1906)
1864 - George Washington Carver, botanist (studied the peanut) [or Jan 10]
1868 - Stefan George, Germany, lyric poet (Algabal)
1870 - Louis II of Monaco (d. 1949)
1876 - Max Jacob, French poet (d. 1944)
1880 - Tod Browning, American film director (d. 1962)
1881 - Ludwig Rubiner, writer [or June 12]
1884 - Louis B. Mayer, Dymer, Ukraine, American film producer and creator of the star system (MGM)
1884 - Amedeo Modigliani, Italy, painter/sculptor (Reclining Nude)
1884 - Joseph Crehan, Baltimore MD, actor (Charlie Chan-Meeting at Midnight)
1885 - George Sainton Kaye Butterworth, composer
1886 - Jean Hersholt, Copenhagen Denmark, actor (Men in White, Aryan)
1888 - Tojohiko Kagawa, Japan, Christian-social reformer (Grain of Wheat)
1892 - Bruno Schulz, Polish writer and painter (d. 1942)
1895 - Kirsten Flagstead, Norwegian soprano (Wagner)
1895 - Oscar Hammerstein II, NYC, lyricist who worked with Richard Rodgers
1895 - R Buckminster Fuller, architect/inventor (geodesic dome)
1900 - Fjodor Godunov-Tcherdynchev, Russian poet (Life of Tchernyshevsky)
1901 - Robert Allenby, Melbourne VIC, Australasia golfer
1902 - Gunther Anders, writer
1904 - Pablo Neruda, Chile, poet (Residence on Earth-Nobel 1971)
1905 - John C F, son of English King George V
1908 - Alain Cuny, actor (Detective, Weite Land, Emmanuelle)
1908 - Ernest Burnelle, Belgian politician
1908 - Johan Franco, composer
1908 - Milton Berle, Harlem NYC, comedian (Uncle Miltie, Mr Television)
1909 - 2nd viscount Camrose, British Conserv Lower house leader (1941-45)
1909 - Joey Faye, NYC, comedian (Joey Faye's Follies)
1909 - Souphanouvong, [Red Prince], president of Laos (1975-87)
1909 - Curly Joe DeRita, American actor and comedian (d. 1993)
1909 - Fritz Leonhardt, German civil engineer (d. 1999)
1911 - Johanna Moosdorf, writer
1912 - Broderick Vernon Chinnery-Haldane, photographer
1913 - Willis Lamb, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2008)
1915 - Michael Fenton Haddon, mining engineer
1917 - Andrew Wyeth, Chadds Ford Pa, painter (Christina's World)
1919 - Vera Hruba Ralston, Prague Czech, actress (Dajkota) [or 6/12/1921]
1920 - Honoré Desmond Sharrer, West Point New York, American artist
1920 - Keith Andes, Ocean City NJ, actor (Farmer's Daughter, Away All Boats)
1920 - Paul Foster, singer
1920 - Beah Richards, American actress (d. 2000)
1921 - Trevor Illtyd Williams, scientific writer
1921 - Bob Fillion, French Canadian ice hockey player
1922 - Clark MacGregor, politician (involved in Watergate)
1922 - James E[dwin] Gunn, US, sci-fi author (Station in Space, Immortal)
1922 - Mark O Hatfield, (Sen-R Oregon, 1967- )
1924 - Jaap Geraedts, composer
1925 - Roger Smith, CEO (General Motors)
1926 - Beah Richards, Vicksburg MS, actress/playwright (Big Shot, Generation)
1927 - Gualberto T Hernandez, perfect minister Neth Antilles
1928 - Elias James Corey, American chemist, Nobel laureate
1929 - Pavle Merku, composer
1930 - Gordon Pinsent, Canadian actor, director, and writer
1931 - Andre Laporte, Flemish composer
1931 - Bob Traxler, (Rep-D-MI, 1974- )
1931 - Lord Clinton, English large landowner/multi-millionaire
1932 - Harold William Woolhouse, plant scientist
1932 - Otis Crandell Davis, Ala, 400m/4X400m relayer (Olympic-gold-1960)
1933 - Donald E. Westlake, American author
1934 - Van Cliburn Jr, [Harvey Lavan], La, pianist (Tchaikovsky 1958)
1935 - Barrie Wilson, academic
1935 - Chris Burger, cricketer (South African batsman v Australia 1957-58)
1936 - Jan Nemec, Prague Czech, director (Diamonds of the Night)
1937 - Bill Cosby, Phila, actor/comedian (I Spy, Cosby, Leonard Part 6)
1937 - Mickey Edwards, (Rep-R-OK, 1977- )
1937 - Lionel Jospin, Prime Minister of France 1997-2002
1937 - Michel Louvain, French Canadian singer
1938 - Mickey Stratton, Meriden Ct, softball catcher (Hall of Fame 1969)
1938 - Ron Fairly, American baseball player
1938 - Wieger Mensonides, Dutch swimmer
1938 - Eiko Ishioka, Tokyo, Japan, Costume Designer (Academy Award, Bram Stoker’s Dracula), (d.
           2012)
1939 - Phillip Adams, Australian broadcaster and journalist
1941 - Joseph Whipp, American actor
1942 - Richard Stoltzman, Omaha Nebraska, clarinetist (Tashi)
1942 - Billy Smith, Australian rugby league footballer
1943 - Bruce Taylor, cricketer (big-hitting NZ all-rounder 1965-73)
1943 - Christine McVie, Lancashire, rock vocalist (Fleetwood Mac-Got A Hold on Me)
1943 - Ernie Anastos, Nashua NH, news anchor (WCBS, WABC)
1943 - Paul Silas, NBAer (Boston Celtic, Seattle SuperSonic)
1943 - Walter Murch, American film editor
1944 - Bill McCollum, (Rep-R-Florida, 1981- )
1944 - Denise Nicholas, Detroit Mich, actress (Room 222, Baby I'm Back)
1945 - Dimitar Penev, Bulgaria soccer player/union coach (Lokomotiv/CSKA)
1945 - Leopoldo Mastelloni, Italian actor
1946 - Graham Roope, cricketer (England batsman in 21 Tests 1972-78)
1946 - Sian Barbara Allen, Reading PA, actress (Scream Pretty Peggy)
1947 - Pollamani Krishnamurthy, Indian cricket wicket-keeper (1971 WI tour)
1947 - Richard C. McCarty, American professor of psychology
1948 - Richard Simmons, exercise guru (Deal-a-Meal)
1948 - Walter Egan, NYC, rock vocalist (Not Shy, Fundamental Roll)
1948 - Ben Burtt, American sound designer
1948 - Jay Thomas [Jon Thomas Terrell], Kermit, Texas, American actor and comedian (Cheers,
           Murphy Brown)
1949 - John Wetton, rock vocalist/bassist (Asia, King Crisom)
1949 - Rick Hendrick, American NASCAR team owner, and car dealer.
1950 - Eric Carr, rock drummer (Kiss-Beth)
1951 - Cheryl Ladd, Huron SD, actress (Charlie's Angels, Purple Hearts)
1951 - Jamey Sheridan, Pasadena California, actor (Another World)
1951 - Brian Grazer, American film producer
1951 - Sylvia Sass, Hungarian soprano
1952 - Liz Mitchell, Jamaica, rock vocalist (Boney M)
1952 - Phil Kramer, Youngtown Oh, rocker (Iron Butterfly)
1952 - Voja Antonić, Serbian inventor and writer
1952 - Philip Taylor Kramer, Bass Guitar Player (d. 1995)
1954 - Wolfgang Dremmler, German footballer
1956 - Mel Harris, [Mary Ellen], Bethlehem Pa, actress (Hope-30 Something)
1956 - Mario Soto, Dominican baseball player
1957 - Buddy Foster, actor (Hondo, Mayberry RFD)
1957 - Rick Douglas Husband, Amarillo Texas, USAF mjr/astronaut
1958 - Tonya Lee Williams, Canadian actress
1959 - Judi Adams, Phoenix Az, archer (Olympics-1980, 96)
1959 - Rolonda Watts, talk show hostess (Rolanda)
1960 - Corynne Charby, French model, actress and singer
1961 - Bruce Braman, Greene NY, canoe (alt-Olympics-96)
1962 - Grecia Colmenares, Venezuela, actress (Esmeralda, Los Crinimales)
1962 - Stein Jorgesen, Los Angeles California, sprint kayak (Olympics-96)
1962 - Julio César Chávez, Mexican boxer
1962 - Dean Wilkins, English football manager
1963 - Norman Alvis, Fair Oaks California, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1963 - Thierry Tulasne, France, tennis star
1964 - Judi Evans Luciano, Montebello, actress (Paulina Cory-Another World)
1964 - Gaby Roslin, English television presenter
1965 - Eric Cullen, actor (Huntington Tower)
1965 - Michael Stewart, NFL safety (Miami Dolphins)
1965 - Robin Wilson, rocker (Gin Blossoms)
1965 - Russ Bertram, Indianapolis Ind, diver (Olympics-96)
1965 - Sanjay Manjrekar, cricketer (son of Vijay Indian middle-order batsman)
1966 - Allegra Curtis, London, model/daughter of Christine Kaufmann
1966 - Annabel Croft, England, tennis star
1966 - Peter Shorts, CFL tackle (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1967 - Bruny Surin, Cap Haitien Haiti, Canadian 4X100m sprinter (Oly-gold-96)
1967 - Joan Pitcock, Fresno CA, LPGA golfer (1995 Standard Register PING-3rd)
1967 - Richard Herring, English comedian
1967 - John Petrucci, American guitar player (Dream Theater)
1968 - Catherine Plewinski, French swimmer
1969 - Alan Mullally, cricketer (England left-arm pace bowler 1996)
1969 - Sabine Hack, Ulm Germany, tennis star (1995 Jakarta)
1969 - Jesse Pintado, American guitarist (Napalm Death) (d. 2006)
1970 - Chad Brown, NFL linebacker (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1970 - Jaason Simmons, actor (Baywatch)
1970 - Jerry Ostroski, NFL guard (Buffalo Bills)
1970 - Markus Thomas, WLAF running back (Scottish Claymores)
1970 - Marsha Guialdo, San Juan Trinidad, 100m hurdler
1970 - Brian Lee Byung-Hun, South Korean actor
1970 - Juba Kalamka, American artist/activist
1971 - Kristi Tsuya Yamaguchi, Hayward California, figure skater (Olympic-Gold-92)
1972 - Colin Quiney, CFL tackle (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1972 - Travis Best, Springfield, Massachusetts, American basketball player (1995-2002 Indiana
           Pacers)
1972 - Brett Reed, American musician (Rancid)
1972 - Jake Wood, English actor
1973 - Christian Vieri, Italian footballer
1974 - Stelios Giannakopoulos, Greek footballer
1974 - Sharon den Adel, Dutch singer (Within Temptation)
1974 - Gregory Helms, American professional wrestler
1975 - Cheyenne Jackson, American actor and singer
1976 - Tracie Spencer, rocker
1976 - Anna Friel, British actress
1977 - Brock Lesnar, American mixed martial artist and professional wrestler
1977 - Neil Harris, English footballer
1977 - Steve Howey, American actor
1978 - Claire Chitham, New Zealand actress
1978 - Topher Grace, American actor
1978 - Michelle Rodriguez, American actress
1979 - Nikos Barlos, Greek basketball player
1980 - Tina Tharp, Jacksonville Fla, rhythmic gymnast (Olympics-96)
1980 - Johanna Klum, German TV presenter
1981 - Adrienne Camp, South African singer/songwriter
1982 - Antonio Cassano, Italian footballer
1983 - Megumi Kawamura, Japanese volleyballer
1983 - Munaf Patel, Indian cricketer
1984 - Michael McGovern, Northern Irish footballer
1984 - Gareth Gates, British singer
1985 - Luiz Ejlli, Albanian singer
1985 - Natasha Poly, Russian supermodel
1986 - JP Pietersen, South African rugby union footballer
1986 - Krystal Forscutt, Australian model/reality TV contestant
1988 - Melissa O'Neil, Canadian singer
1988 - Inbee Park, South Korean golfer
1991 - Erik Per Sullivan, American actor

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 12, 2013, 09:52:05 AM

This Day in History for 12th July


Famous Deaths

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1st US Secretary of Treasury
Alexander Hamilton (1804)


783 - Bertha "with the great feet", wife of French king Pippin III, dies
1073 - Johannes Gualbertus, Italian monk/saint, dies
1429 - John [Jean C] Gerson, Fren theologist (Theologica mystic), dies at 65
1441 - Ashikaga Yoshinori, Japanese shogun (b. 1394)
1450 - Jack Cade, slain in a revolt against British King Henry VI
1536 - Desiderius Erasmus, humanist/priest (Novum instrumentum omne), dies
1545 - Maria Manuela van Portugal, niece of Spanish king Philip II, dies
1575 - Renée/Renata de France, duchess of Ferara/daughter of Louis XII, dies
1584 - Steven Borough, English explorer (b. 1525)
1633 - Simon Besler, composer, dies at 49
1640 - Henry Casimir I, count of Nassau-Dietz, dies
1664 - Stefano della Bella, Italian printmaker (b. 1610)
1682 - Jean Picard, French astronomer (b. 1620)
1693 - John Ashby, English admiral
1712 - Richard Cromwell, English Lord Protector (1658-59), dies at 85
1742 - Evaristo EF dall' Abaco, Ital cellist/composer, dies on 67th birthday
1749 - Charles de la Boische, Marquis de Beauharnois, Governor of New France
1773 - Johann Joachim Quantz, German royal flautist/composer, dies at 76
1804 - Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of the Treasury, killed by Vice President Aaron Burr in pistol
           duel near Weehawken
1839 - Christian Traugott Tag, composer, dies at 62
1844 - Charles-Louis Panckoucke, French publisher, dies at 63
1845 - Henrik Wergeland, Norwegian author (b. 1808)
1849 - Dolley Madison, 4th First Lady Of The United States (b. 1768)
1874 - Fritz Reuter, writer, dies at 63
1882 - Alfred Humphreys Pease, composer, dies at 44
1883 - Hermann Zopff, composer, dies at 57
1897 - Felix Godefroid, composer, dies at 78
1898 - Paul Voulet, French captain/mass murderer in Senegal, dies
1899 - Esquire Mauritius A de Savornin Lohman, gov of Suriname, dies at 67
1902 - Pieter Caland, Dutch hydraulic engineer (New Waterway), dies at 74
1906 - Henrique Alves de Mesquita, composer, dies at 70
1910 - Charles Stewart Rolls, British engineer and aviator (b. 1887)
1916 - Aritius S Talma, Dutch minister of Agriculture, dies at 52
1917 - Fournier, Swiss/French postage stamp merchant/forger, dies
1918 - Dragutin Lerman, Croatian explorer (b. 1864)
1926 - Charles Wood, composer, dies at 40
1929 - Robert Henri, US painter (The Eight), dies at 63
1933 - Willem H Drucker, lawyer, dies at 45
1934 - Ole Evinrude, Norwegian-American inventor and industrialist (b. 1877)
1935 - Alfred Dreyfus, French officier (Dreyfus Affair), dies
1945 - Boris Galerkin, Russian mathematician (b. 1871)
1947 - Jimmie Lunceford, American saxophonist and bandleader (b. 1902)
1949 - Douglas Hyde, first President of Ireland (b. 1860)
1950 - Elsie de Wolfe, American socialite and interior decorator (b. 1865)
1953 - Joseph Jongen, Belgian composer, dies at 79
1953 - Marie-Alphonse-Nicolas-Joseph Jongen, composer, dies at 79
1956 - Maurice Lippens, Belgian governor of Congo (1921-23), dies at 80
1961 - Mazo de la Roche, Canadian author (b. 1879)
1962 - Roger Wolfe Kahn, American band leader (b. 1907)
1964 - William Solomon, South African cricketer (Test 1898-99), dies
1966 - D T Suzuki, Zen Buddhism scholar, dies in Tokyo Japan at 96
1971 - Yvon Robert, French Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1914)
1973 - Lon Chaney Jr, actor (Wolfman), dies after long illness at 66
1976 - Ted Mack, TV host (Original Amateur Hour), dies at 72
1977 - Ed Holmes, actor (Growing Paynes, Once Upon a Tune), dies at 66
1977 - Frantisek Suchy, composer, dies at 75
1979 - Kalervo Tuukkanen, composer, dies at 69
1979 - Minnie Ripperton, [Andrea Davis], singer (Lovin' You), dies at 30
1980 - John W Davis, Pres (WV State college), dies at 92
1981 - Ben Seijes, historian (WW II), dies at 73
1982 - Kenneth More, Brit actor (Genevieve), dies of Parkinson disease at 67
1983 - Chris Wood, rocker (Traffic), dies at 39
1988 - Joshua Logan, Broadway producer, dies at 79 of palsy
1988 - Raymond W Goldsmith, US economist, dies at 83
1990 - Richard R Briggs, dies after short illness at 71
1990 - João Saldanha, Brazilian journalist and football manager (b. 1917)
1992 - Albert Pierrepont, last British executioner (433 men/17 women), dies
1992 - Reginald Beck, English film editor (Robbery, Accident, Boom), dies
1993 - Gusti Huber, Mother of Bibi Besch, dies of heart failure at 78
1993 - Lily van Lugt Melsert, actress (Tomorrow will be better), dies at 91
1993 - Dan Eldon, British photojournalist (b. 1970)
1994 - David Malcolm Lewis, expert in Greek Epigraphy, dies at 56
1994 - Henk Terlingen, radio/TV-host (Sport in Image), dies at 52
1994 - James Bysse Joll, historian, dies at 76
1995 - Alan David Marks, pianist/composer, dies at 49
1995 - Earl Coleman, singer, dies at 69
1995 - Ernie Furtado, bassist, dies at 72
1995 - Michael Clegg, naturalist/broadcaster, dies at 62
1996 - Andrew Rodger Waterson, scholar Naturalist, dies at 84
1996 - Gottfried von Einem, composer, dies at 78
1996 - John Boon, publisher, dies at 79
1996 - John Chancellor, news anchor (VOA, NBC), dies at 68
1996 - John William Chancellor, journalist, dies at 68
1996 - Jonathan Melvoin, keyboardist (Smashing Pumpkins), dies of heorin OD
1996 - Nazar Mohammad, cricketer (Pakistan's 1st five Tests 1952-53), dies
1996 - William Darling, journalist, dies at 73
1997 - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, Hawaiian musician (b. 1959)
1998 - Serge Lemoyne, French Canadian artist (b. 1941)
1998 - Jimmy Driftwood, American folk songwriter and musician (b. 1907)
1999 - Bill Owen, British actor (b. 1914)
2000 - Charles Merritt, Canadian Army officer and recipient of the Victoria Cross during World War II
           (b. 1908)
2003 - Benny Carter, American musician (b. 1907)
2004 - Betty Oliphant, co-founder of National Ballet of Canada (b. 1918)
2005 - John King, Baron King of Wartnaby, Chief executive of British Airways since its privitisation
           (b. 1917)
2007 - Stan Zemanek, Australian radio personality (b.1947)
2007 - Mr. Butch, Iconic Boston street figure (b. 1951)
2007 - Robert Burås, Norwegian guitar player (b. 1975)
2008 - Tony Snow, former speechwriter for Presidents George H.W. Bush and press secretary for
           George W. Bush (b. 1955)
2008 - Bobby Murcer, center fielder for the New York Yankees,San Francisco Giants, and Chicago
           Cubs from 1965-1983(b. 1946)
2010 - Harvey Pekar, American comic book writer (b. 1939)
2010 - Paulo Moura, Brazilian clarinetist and saxophonist (b. 1932)
2011 - Sherwood Schwartz, American Television Writer (b. 1916)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 13, 2013, 09:14:17 AM

This Day in History for 13th July


Historical Events

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Captain/Explorer James Cook                 Chancellor Otto Von Bismarck                   Baseball Great Babe Ruth

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Singer/Actor Frank Sinatra                      US President John F. Kennedy       Hall of Fame rocker Eddie Van Halen

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NFL Running Back and Convicted Criminal
OJ Simpson


574 - John III ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1174 - William I of Scotland, key rebel in Revolt of 1173-1174, captured at Alnwick by forces loyal to
           Henry II of England.
1522 - Hunger appeal by women of Utrecht
1558 - Battle of Gravelines: In France, Spanish forces led by Count Lamoral of Egmont defeat the
           French forces of Marshal Paul des Thermes at Gravelines.
1568 - Dean of St Paul's Cathedral perfects a way to bottle beer
1573 - Haarlem surrenders after 7 months to Spanish army
1643 - Battle at Roundway Down: Royalists beat parliamentary armies
1645 - Aleksei Romanov succeeds his father Michael as czar of Russia
1657 - Oliver Cromwell constrains English army leader John Lambert
1668 - Van Marco Cesti's opera "Il Pomo d'Oro," premieres in Vienna
1700 - Russian-Turkish peace
1772 - Capt James Cook begins 2nd trip (Resolution) to South Seas
1787 - Congress establishes Northwest Territory (excludes slavery)
1787 - Ord of 1787-a territory can become 3 to 5 states at 60,000 pop
1794 - Battle of the Vosges between French forces and those of Prussia and Austria
1832 - Source of Mississippi River discovered (Henry R Schoolcraft)
1836 - US patent #1 (after 9,957 unnumbered patents), for locomotive wheels
1837 - Queen Victoria is 1st monarch to live in present Buckingham Palace
1851 - John F Loudon discovers tin on East Indian Island of Billiton
1854 - US forces shell & burn San Juan del Norte, Nicaragua
1854 - In the Battle of Guaymas, Mexico, General Jose Maria Yanez stops the French invasion led by
           Count Gaston de Raousset Boulbon.
1861 - Battle of Corrick's Ford, VA (Carrick's Ford) - Union army takes total control of western
           Virginia CS20 US53
1862 - Battle of Murfreesboro, TN (Forrest's Raid) US895 CS150
1863 - Anti-draft mobs lynch blacks in NYC; about 1,000 die
1863 - Battle of Bayou La Fourche, LA
1863 - Battle of Tupelo, MS (Harrisburg) [->JUL 15] US648 CS700
1863 - Rebellion at Morgan's, Ohio [->JUL 26]
1864 - Early retreats from Washington City back to Shenandoah Valley
1865 - Horace Greeley advises his readers to "Go west young man"
1865 - P T Barnum's museum burns down
1868 - Oscar J Dunn, former slave, installed as lt governor of Louisiana
1870 - King Wilhelm of Prussia sends "Emser Depeche" on Bismarck
1876 - 29th Postmaster General: James N Tyner of Ind takes office
1878 - Congress of Berlin discussing division of African colonies ends
1878 - Treaty of Berlin amended terms of Treaty of San Stefano
1882 - 200 die as train derails near Tcherny, Russia
1896 - Ed Delahanty, becomes 2nd major leaguer to hit 4 HRs in a game
1898 - SF Ferry Building at foot of Market St opens
1900 - Phillies beat Pittsburgh 23-8
1917 - Vision of Virgin Mary appeared to children of Fatima, Portugal
1919 - Race riots in Longview & Gregg counties Texas
1919 - Chicago White Sox pitcher Carl Mays walks off mound blaming teammates for lack of support
           afield
1923 - Draft law passes
1923 - The Hollywood Sign is officially dedicated in the hills above Hollywood, Los Angeles. It originally
           reads "Hollywoodland " but the four last letters are dropped after renovation in 1949.
1924 - Albin Stenroos wins Olympic marathon (2:41:22.6)
1925 - French occupation force begins evacuating country
1926 - Paavo Nurmi runs world record 3000m (8:20.4)
1930 - 1st-ever soccer World Cup competition began in Uruguay
1930 - Sarnoff reports in NY Times "TV would be a theater in every home"
1934 - Babe Ruth hits HR #700 (against Detroit)
1935 - Richard Strauss resigns as chairman of Reichskulturkammer
1935 - US-Russian commerce treaty takes effect
1936 - 112°F (44°C), Mio, Michigan (state record)
1936 - 114°F (46°C), Wisconsin Dells, Wisc (state record)
1938 - Kroller-Muller museum opens in Holland
1939 - Frank Sinatra made his recording debut
1941 - 24th PGA Championship: Vic Ghezzi at Cherry Hills CC Denver
1941 - Eddie Mayo (LA-Pacific Coast League), spits in face of ump Ray Snyder
1941 - World War II: Montenegrins start popular uprising against the Axis Powers (Trinaestojulski
           ustanak).
1942 - 5,000 Jews of Rovno Polish Ukraine, executed by nazis
1942 - German occupiers imprison 800 prominent Dutch as hostages
1942 - SS shoots 1,500 Jews in Josefov Poland
1943 - 11th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 5-3 at Shibe Park, Philadelphia
1943 - Greatest tank battle in history ends with Russia's defeat of Germany at Kursk, almost 6,000
           tanks take part, 2,900 were lost by Germany
1944 - Vilnius, Lithuania, liberated
1946 - "Tidbits of 1946" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 8 performances
1948 - 15th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 5-2 at Sportsman's Park, St Louis
1949 - Pope Pius XII excommunicates communist catholics
1950 - Doctors remove 7 bone fragments from Ted Williams elbow
1950 - René Pleven forms French government
1954 - 21st All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 11-9 at Municipal Stadium, Cleve
1954 - Dean Stone gets credit for AL win, although he didn't retire a batter, he threw out
           Shoendienst trying to steal home, AL-11 NL-9
1956 - WCBI TV channel 4 in Columbus, MS (CBS) begins broadcasting
1958 - 13th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Mickey Wright
1958 - 87th British Golf Open: Peter Thomson shoots a 278 at Royal Lytham
1958 - Patty Berg wins LPGA American Women's Golf Open
1960 - 29th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-0 at Yankee Stadium, New York
1960 - KDBQ-AM in San Francisco CA changes call letters to KYA
1960 - US Democratic convention nominates JFK as presidential candidate
1962 - 500 Indonesian parachutist land on New-Guinea
1962 - 91st British Golf Open: Arnold Palmer shoots a 276 at Royal Troon
1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 - Early Wynn, wins his 300th & last game at 43
1965 - 36th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-5 at Metropolitan Stadium, Minn
1965 - All star MVP: Juan Marichal (SF Giant)
1966 - Richard Speck, murders 8 nurses in Chicago
1967 - Race riots break out in Newark, 27 die
1968 - 97th British Golf Open: Gary Player shoots 289 at Carnoustie Scotland
1968 - French government-Couve de Murville forms
1969 - Russia launches unmanned Luna 15 to Moon
1969 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Ladies' Supertest Golf Open
1970 - Building begins of Amsterdam metro
1971 - 42nd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 6-4 at Tiger Stadium, Detroit
1971 - All star MVP: Frank Robinson (Baltimore Orioles)
1972 - LA Rams (Irsay) & Baltimore Colts (Rosenbloom) swap owners
1973 - Bobby Murcer's 3 homers accounted for all RBIs, beating KC 5-0
1973 - Hector de Campora resigns as pres of Argentina
1974 - 103rd British Golf Open: Gary Player shoots a 282 at Royal Lytham
1974 - India's 1st one-day international (v England, Headingley)
1975 - 8.5" (21.6 cm) of rainfall, Dover, Delaware (state record)
1975 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Borden Golf Classic
1976 - 47th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-1 at Veterans Stadium, Phila
1976 - All star MVP: George Foster (Cin Reds)
1976 - Court martial begins in USSR for Valeri Sablin (Hunt for Red Oct)
1976 - Last day of Test Cricket for Brian Close, aged 45
1977 - NYC experiences 25 hr black-out
1978 - Albania drops diplomatic relations with China PR
1978 - Alexander Ginzburg sentenced by Soviet court to 8 years
1978 - BBC bans Sex Pistols "No One is Innocent"
1978 - Lee Iacocca fired as Ford Motor Pres by chairman Henry Ford II
1978 - Russian dissident Ginsburg/Piatkus/Sjtsjaranki sentence to work camp
1978 - Walter Poenisch completes swim of 207 km from Cuba to Florida
1979 - Calif's Nolan Ryan & Boston's Steve Renko each lose no-hitters in 9th
1979 - George Harrison releases "Faster"
1980 - 35th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Amy Alcott
1980 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1982 - 53rd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-1 at Olympic Stadium, Montreal
1982 - All star MVP: Dave Conception (Cin Reds)
1982 - Train crash at Aalter Belgium, 5 killed
1984 - Eddie Van Halen joins in, in a Jacksons concert
1984 - Jeff Beck quits Rod Stewart's tour after 7 shows
1984 - Sergei Bubka of USSR pole vaults a record 5.89 m
1985 - "Live Aid" concert raises over $70 million for African famine relief
1985 - NY Yankees retire Roger Maris (9) & Elston Howard (32) uniforms
1987 - Federal judge throws out Bette Midler's $10 million suit against Ford Motor Co, who used a
           sound alike voice for their TV commercials
1988 - 9th Emmy Sports Award presentation
1988 - Red Sox replace manager John McNamara with Joe Morgan
1988 - Sting performs his 1st Rain Forest benefit concert
1991 - Bob Milacki & 3 other Balt Oriole pitchers no-hit A's 2-0
1993 - 64th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 9-3 at Camden Yards, Baltimore
1993 - All star MVP: Kirby Puckett (Minnesota Twins)
1994 - Jeff Gillooly sentenced to 2 years for attack on Nancy Kerrigan
1994 - OJ Simpson (charged with murder) gives hair samples for testing
1995 - Space shuttle STS-70 (Discovery 20), launches
1996 - Cigar wins record 16th straight win, (ties Citation in 1940)
1997 - 15th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Larry Gilbert
1997 - 52nd US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Alison Nicholas
1997 - David Toms wins Quad City Golf Classic at 265
1997 - Ford Senior Players Golf Championship
1997 - Indonesian ferry sinks, killing at least 77
2011 - Mumbai is rocked by three bomb blasts during the evening rush hour, killing 26 and injuring
          130.
2012 - China's economic growth drops to 7.6%, its lowest level for three years
2012 - 19-30 people are killed after a train collides with a truck in Malelane, South Africa
2012 - Financially troubled Scottish football club, Rangers, is voted into the third division

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 13, 2013, 11:03:41 AM

This Day in History for 13th July


Famous Weddings

1925 - Film producer and co-founder of Walt Disney Productions Walt Disney (23) weds Lillian 
           Bounds (26) at Lewiston's Episcopal Church of the Nativity in Lewiston, Idaho
1949 - Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Jones (30) weds "Rebecca" film producer David O. Selznick
           (47) in Beverly Hills, California
2008 - American Pie actor Jason Biggs (30) weds actress Jenny Mollen (28) at Honig Winery and
           Vineyard in Napa, California

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 13, 2013, 11:06:17 AM

This Day in History for 13th July


Famous Divorces

1914 - British poet and writer David Herbert (D. H.) Lawrence (28) marries Frieda Weekley (34) after
           obtaining Frieda's divorce from her 1st husband

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 13, 2013, 11:24:25 AM

This Day in History for 13th July


Famous Birthdays

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Confederate General/                                 Actor Harrison Ford (1942)
KKK Grand Wizard
Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821)


100 BC - Julius Caesar, Rome, Roman military and political leader, (d. 44 BC), (or July 12)
1396 - Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy
1527 - John Dee, London, alchemist/astrologer/mathematician (d. 1609)
1579 - Arthur Dee, English physician (d. 1651)
1590 - Clement X, [Emilio Altieri], Italy, Pope (1670-76)
1607 - Václav Hollar, Bohemian-born artist (d. 1677)
1608 - Ferdinand III, King of Hungary/Bohemia/German Emperor (1637-57)
1745 - Robert Calder, British naval officer (d. 1818)
1770 - Alexander Balashov, Russian general (d. 1837)
1773 - Wilhelm H Wackenroder, German writer (Fantasies about Art)
1776 - Caroline of Baden, queen of Bavaria (d. 1841)
1793 - John Clare, Northamptonshire peasant poet (Shepard's Calendar)
1798 - Alexandra Feodorovna (Charlotte of Prussia), Tsarina of Russia (d. 1860)
1815 - James Alexander Seddon, Secy War (Confederacy), died in 1880
1816 - Gustav Freytag, writer
1821 - Nathan Bedford Forrest, Chapel Hill Tennessee, slave trader/Confed lt-gen/KKK Grand
           Wizard, (d. 1877)
1826 - Stanislao Cannizzaro, Italian chemist (Reaction of Cannizzaro)
1841 - Otto Wagner, Austrian architect (d. 1918)
1850 - Hipolito Irigoyen, president Argentina (1916-22, 1928-30)
1858 - Stewart Culin, American ethnographer (d. 1929)
1859 - Sydney Webb, England, writer/husband of Beatrice Potter
1863 - Emma Mary Wooley, educator (Mary Anna Wells)
1864 - John Jacob Astor IV, American entrepreneur (d. 1912)
1872 - Alfons van de Perre, Flemish physician/MP
1877 - Karl Erb, German tenor
1883 - [Louis C] Marcel Berckmans, painter/actor (Potasch & Perlemoer)
1884 - Francis B Young, British physician/writer (White Ladies)
1884 - John Francis Larchet, composer
1888 - Fernando A N de Seabra Pessoa, Portuguese poet (Mensagem)
1888 - Jean Murat, Pergneux France, actor (Eternal Rain, Carnival Flanders)
1889 - Louise of Mountbatten, Queen of Sweden (d. 1965)
1891 - Franco Casavola, composer
1894 - Isaak Babel, Rus short-story writer/dramatist (Red Calvary) [or 6/13]
1895 - Sidney Blackmer, Salisbury NC, actor (Ted Roosevelt in 12 movies)
1896 - Mordecai Ardon, Israeli painter (d. 1992)
1898 - Martin David, German/Neth law historian
1898 - Julius Schreck, member of the Nazi party (d. 1936)
1900 - JH Scheps, Dutch 2nd-Member of parliament (social democratic)
1900 - George Lewis, American musician (d. 1969)
1901 - Mickey "Toy Bulldog" Walker, welterweight boxing champ (1922-26)
1901 - Tillie Ehrlich Lewin, leading industrialist (tomato queen)
1901 - Eric Portman, Yorkshire England, actor (Naked Edge, Canterbury Tale), (d. 1969)
1903 - Kenneth Clark, English art historian (d. 1983)
1905 - Alfredo M. Santos, First Four-star General of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, World War
           II hero (d. 1990)
1906 - Harry Sosnik, Chicago, orchestra leader (Jack Carter Show, Your Hit Parade)
1909 - David Branson, composer
1909 - Paul Constantinescu, composer
1909 - Washington Castro, composer
1913 - Carolina Gisolf, Holland, high jumper (Olympic-silver-1928)
1913 - Dave Garroway, Schnectady NY, TV host (Today Show)
1913 - Ladislav Holoubek, composer
1913 - Walter Landor, designer
1913 - Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, Hellerup Denmark, Danish shipping magnate, (d. 2012)
1920 - Hans Blumenberg, philosopher
1920 - Bill Towers, English footballer (d. 2000)
1921 - Charles Scribner Jr, music publisher (Scribner)
1921 - Ernest Gold, composer
1921 - Git Gay, Swedish actress and singer (d. 2007)
1921 - Friedrich Peter, Austrian poltitician (d. 2005)
1922 - Anchor Jorgenson, premier of Denmark (1972-82)
1922 - Lois Kibbee, actress (Edge of Night)
1922 - Ken Mosdell, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2006)
1923 - Sudie Bond, Louisville Ky, actress (Flo, Temperature Rising)
1924 - George Handy, horse trainer
1924 - Carlo Bergonzi, Italian singer
1925 - Hilary Grover Barratt Brown, conservationist
1926 - Meyer Kupferman, NYC, composer (In Fimi Tres)
1927 - Karl I Pelgrom, Dutch sculptor
1927 - Simone Veil, Pres European parliament (France)
1928 - Bob Crane, Waterbury Ct, actor (Col Hogan-Hogan's Heroes, Donna Reed)
1928 - Donal Michalsky, composer
1928 - Tommaso Buscetta, Sicilian mafioso and pentito (d. 2000)
1928 - Leroy Vinnegar, American jazz bassist
1929 - Red Terrill Jr, horse trainer
1931 - Bill Moor, Toledo Oh, actor (Hanky Panky)
1932 - Per Norgard, composer
1932 - Hubert Reeves, Canadian astrophysicist
1932 - Antonio Roma, Buenos Aires, Argentina, football goalkeeper (42 caps), (d. 2013)
1933 - David M Storey, British rugby player/playwright (Home)
1933 - Patsy Byrne, Ashford England, actress (Stealing Heaven)
1934 - Aleksei Stanislavovich Yeliseyev, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 5, 8, 10)
1934 - Ivor Mendonca, WI cricket wicket-keeper (2 Tests 1962)
1934 - Roger Reynolds, composer
1934 - Wole Soyinka, Nigeria, dramatist (Road, Kongi's Harvest-Nobel 1986)
1935 - Jack F Kemp, (Rep-R-NY)/right-wing/US Secretary of Housing (1989-93)
1936 - Albert Ayler, American musician (d. 1970)
1937 - Charles Coody, Stamford TX, PGA golfer (1971 Masters)
1940 - Patrick Stewart, England, actor (Picard-Star Trek Next Generation)
1940 - Paul Prudhomme, cajun chef (K-Paul)
1941 - Graeme Corling, Australian cricket fast bowler (1964 England tour)
1941 - Jacques Perrin, Paris France, actress (Cinema Paradiso, 317th Platoon)
1941 - Lut[guard] Tomsin, actress/director (Knock on the Door)
1941 - Robert Forster, Rochester NY, actor (Lady in Red, Alligator)
1942 - Giancarlo Giannini, Spezia Italy,actor (NY Stories, Sensual Man)
1942 - Harrison Ford, Chicago Illinois, actor (Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Frantic)
1942 - Jay Uzzell, rocker (Corsairs)
1942 - Jim McGuinn, rocker
1942 - Rod Chandler, (Rep-R-WA, 1983- )
1942 - Roger McGuinn, guitarist (Byrds-Turn Turn Turn, Mr Tambourine Man)
1942 - Stephen Jo Bladd, Boston Ma, rocker (J Geils Band-Centerfold)
1943 - Danny Lockin, Lanai, Hawaii, actor/dancer (Hello Dolly), (d. 1977)
1944 - Eric Freeman, Australian cricket pace bowler (late 60's)
1944 - Erno Rubik, Budapest, inventor (Rubik's cube)
1945 - Ashley "Rowdy" Mallett, Australian cricket off-spinner (1968-80)
1945 - Jean-Pierre E Plooij, Dutch writer (Duvelsmoer)
1946 - Cheech Marin, [Richard], comedian (Cheech & Chong-Up in Smoke)
1946 - Michael Shea, US, sci-fi author (Fat Face, Polyphemus)
1948 - Alf Hansen, Norway, double sculls (Olympic-gold-1976)
1948 - Daphne Maxwell Reid, actress (Frank's Place)
1948 - Don Sweet, Vancouver, CFL, NFL place kicker (Montreal, Green Bay)
1948 - Linda Ann Simon, airline capt
1948 - Robert Underwood, (Rep-D-Guam)
1948 - Ronald K Machtley, (Rep-R-Rhode Island)
1948 - Tony Kornheiser, American sports journalist
1949 - Helena Fibingerova, Czech, shot putter (Olympic-bronze-1976)
1950 - George D "Pinky" Nelson, Iowa, PhD/astro (STS 41C, STS 61-C, STS-26)
1950 - Ma Ying-jeou, President of the Republic of China, former mayor of Taipei, former chairman of the Kuomintang (KMT)
1951 - Didi Conn, [Bernstein], Bkln NY, actress (Denise-Benson, Grease)
1951 - Rob Bishop, American politician
1953 - Larry Gomes, dependable WI cricket left-handed batsman (1976-87)
1953 - Mila Mulroney, wife of former Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney
1954 - David Thompson, NBA guard (Phoenix Suns, Seattle Supersonics)
1954 - Louise Mandrell, Corpus Christi Tx, country singer (Mandrell Sisters)
1954 - Ray "Candles" Bright, Australian cricket slow-left armer (1977-86)
1954 - Sezen Aksu, Turkish singer
1954 - Rick Chartraw, American ice hockey player
1956 - Mark "The Animal' Mendoza [Glickman], Long Island, New York, American bassist (Twisted
           Sister-We're Not Gonna Take It)
1956 - Claude Giroux, Canadian midget wrestler
1957 - Cameron Crowe, director (Jerry Maguire, Fast Times at Ridgemont High)
1957 - Phil Margera, father of Bam Margera
1958 - Joy Scott, jockey
1959 - Danitra Vance, comedienne (SNL, Little Man Tate, Limit Up)
1960 - Ian Hislop, English writer, editor of Private Eye
1961 - Anders Jarryd, Lidkoping Sweden, tennis star
1961 - Lawrence Donegan, rock bassist
1961 - Stelios Manolas, Greek footballer and manager
1961 - Tim Watson, Australian rules footballer
1962 - Tom Kenny, American voice actor
1962 - Rhonda Vincent, American singer
1963 - Anthony Webb, NBA guard (Minnesota Timberwolves)
1963 - Bob Carpenter, Beverly, NHL left wing (NJ Devils)
1963 - Bobby Rock, Houston Texas, rock drummer (Nelson-Love & Affection)
1963 - Martin Meza, jockey
1963 - Spud Webb, NBA guard (Atlanta Hawks)
1964 - Utpal Chatterjee, cricketer (Bengal slow left-arm bowler)
1966 - Myong Hui Choe, North Korea, gymnist (Olympic-1980)
1966 - Gerald Levert, American singer (d. 2006)
1967 - Pat Rapp, Jennings LA, pitcher (Florida Marlins)
1967 - Tony Massenburg, NBA forward (Vancouver Grizzlies)
1967 - Benny Benassi, Italian disc jockey
1967 - Dean Barnett, American Conservative blogger
1968 - Kai Bjorn, CFL offensive linebacker (Montreal Alouettes)
1968 - Silke Meier, Wiesbaden Germany, tennis star (1994 Futures-Bad Gogging)
1968 - Robert Gant, American actor
1968 - Christian Taylor, British screenwriter
1969 - Ewan Beaton, Winnipeg Manitoba, 60 kg judoka (Olympics-9-92, 96)
1969 - Jamie Walter, actor (Pirate Island)
1969 - Kim Braatz, Santa Ana California, female outfielder (Colo Silver Bullets)
1969 - Richard Roelofsen, soccer player (Vitesse/MVV)
1969 - Kakhi Kakhiashvili, Georgian-born Greek weightlifter
1969 - Oleg Serebrian, Moldovan politician and political scientist
1970 - Steven J Brown, Hackensack NJ, guitarist (Trixter-Give It To Me Good)
1971 - Scott Brodie, St Catharines Ontario, rower (Olympics-96)
1972 - Clint Sodowsky, Ponca City OK, pitcher (Detroit Tigers)
1972 - Sean Waltman, American wrestler
1973 - Gavin Hassett, Saint John New Brunswick, rower (Olympics-96)
1973 - Ariel Silvio Zárate, Argentine footballer
1974 - Jean ..., Miss Suriname 1993
1974 - Deborah Cox, Canadian R&B singer
1974 - Jarno Trulli, Italian race car driver
1975 - Danni Boatwright, Tonganoxie, Kansas, American model/beauty queen (Miss Teen USA 1992
           2nd runner-up)
1976 - Al Santos, American model and actor
1976 - Sheldon Souray, Canadian ice hockey player
1977 - Ashley Scott, American actress
1978 - Ryan Ludwick, American baseball player
1979 - Craig Bellamy, Welsh footballer
1980 - Lori Fredrickson, Aurora Ill, rhythmic gymnast (US team-96)
1982 - Joost van den Broek, Dutch keyboard player (After Forever)
1982 - Shin-Soo Choo, South Korean baseball player
1982 - Simon Clist, English footballer
1982 - Yadier Molina, Puerto Rican baseball player
1982 - Christopher Bauman, American professional wrestler (d. 2005)
1983 - Liu Xiang, Chinese hurdling athlete
1983 - Kristof Beyens, Belgian athlete
1985 - Guillermo Ochoa, Mexican footballer
1988 - Steven R. McQueen, American Actor
1989 - Sayumi Michishige, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
1990 - Matt Weinberg, American actor
1992 - Elise Matthysen, Belgian swimmer
1992 - Dylan Patton, American actor
1994 - Ridge Canipe, American actor
2305 - Jean Loc Picard, fictional capt on Star Trek Next Generation

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 13, 2013, 11:28:03 AM

This Day in History for 13th July


Famous Deaths

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New York Yankees Owner
George Steinbrenner (2010)


574 - John III, Italian Pope (561-74), dies
939 - Leo VII, Italian Pope (936-39), dies
1024 - Henry II, the Monk, German King (1002-24), dies
1105 - Rashi, [Rabbi Shlomo Yitzaki], Jewish intellectual, dies
1205 - Hubert Walter, Archbishop of Canterbury and Justicier of England
1309 - Jan I van Nassau, bishop of Utrecht, dies
1357 - Bartolus de Saxoferrato Italian jurist (b. 1313)
1380 - Bertrand du Guesclin, French King of Granada, dies at about 60
1399 - Peter Parler, German architect (b. 1330)
1402 - Jianwen Emperor of China (b. 1377)
1551 - John Wallop, English soldier and diplomat (b. 1490)
1621 - Albrecht/Albertus, archduke of Austria, dies at 61
1626 - Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, English statesman (b. 1563)
1628 - Robert Shirley, English adventurer (b. 1581)
1629 - Caspar Bartholin the Elder, Swedish physician and theologian (b. 1585)
1683 - Arthur Capell, 1st Earl of Essex, English statesman (b. 1631)
1693 - Hendrik Trajectinus, Count of Solms, Dutch lieutenant-general (b. 1636)
1705 - Titus Oates, English Protestant conspirator (b. 1649)
1755 - Edward Braddock, British general, dies in battle at Pittsburgh
1760 - Conrad Weiser, Pennsylvania's ambassador to the Native Americans (b. 1696)
1761 - Tokugawa Ieshige, Japanese shogun (b. 1712)
1762 - James Bradley, 3rd Astronomer Royal, dies
1777 - Guillaume Coustou Jr, French sculptor (Apollo/Mars/Venus), dies at 61
1785 - Stephen Hopkins, US judge/signer (Decl of Independence), dies at 78
1789 - Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, French economist (b. 1715)
1793 - Jean Paul Marat, French revolutionary, murdered by Charlotte Corday
1807 - Henry Benedict Stuart, Jacobite claimant to the throne of England (b. 1725)
1813 - Johann Friedrich Peter, composer, dies at 67
1844 - Johann Gansbacher, composer, dies at 66
1860 - John Ackersdijk, Dutch state house builder, dies at 69
1861 - Robert Selden Garnett, US Confederate brig-general, dies at 41
1863 - John S Bowen, US architect/Confederate gen-major, dies at 32
1877 - Wilhelm E Freiherr von Ketteler, German bishop of Mainz, dies at 65
1882 - Johnny Ringo, American Gunfighter (b. 1850)
1889 - Carli Zoeller, composer, dies at 49
1889 - Robert Hamerling, Austrian poet (b. 1830)
1890 - John C. Frémont, American army officer, explorer and presidential candidate (b. 1813)
1894 - Juventino Rosas, composer, dies at 26
1896 - Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz, German chemist (b. 1829)
1903 - August Reissmann, composer, dies at 77
1922 - Martin Dies, American politician (b. 1870)
1923 - Asger Hamerik [Hammerich], German(?) composer, dies at 80
1925 - Gerben Postma [Ids], Fries writer (Lytse Fryske Spraekleare), dies
1927 - James E K Aggrey, Ghana/US theologist, dies
1936 - Izydor Lotto, composer, dies at 91
1936 - Jose Calvo Sotelo, Spanish minister of Finance, murdered at 43
1943 - Kurt Huber, German philosopher/resistance fighter, dies at 50
1946 - Alfred Stieglitz, US photographer/art dealer (Camera Work), dies at 82
1947 - Warwick Armstrong, cricketer (50 Tests 1901-21, 2863 runs), dies
1951 - Arnold Schoenberg, Austria/US composer (Verklärte Nacht), dies at 76
1954 - Irving Pichel, dies at 63
1954 - M C Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter/wife of Diego Rivera, dies at 47
1955 - Beulah Ecton Woodard, US sculptor, dies at 59
1955 - Ruth Ellis, last English woman (murderess), executed by hanging
1956 - Vladimir Grigor'yevich Zakharov, composer, dies at 54
1958 - Karl Erb, German tenor, dies on 81st birthday
1960 - Anna Blaman, Dutch writer (Life & Death), dies at 55
1960 - Joy Gresham, American writer (b. 1915)
1967 - Cornelis A Eman, chairman (State of Aruba Peoples Party), dies at 51
1967 - Tom Simpson, British cyclist (b. 1937)
1973 - Lon Chaney Jr, actor (Hawkeye, Pistols 'n' Petticoats), dies at 67
1973 - Martian Negrea, composer, dies at 80
1973 - Willy Fritsch, German actor (Spies, Women in the Moon), dies at 72
1974 - Patrick MS Blackett, British physicist (Nobel 1948), dies at 76
1975 - Owen Wynne, cricketer (6 Tests for South Africa 1948-50), lost at sea
1976 - Max Butting, composer, dies at 87
1976 - Frederick Hawksworth, GWR Chief mechanical engineer. (b. 1884)
1976 - Joachim Peiper, German military leader (SS, by assassination; b. 1915)
1978 - Antonio Veretti, composer, dies at 78
1979 - Corine Griffith, dies at 84
1980 - Seretse Khama, 1st president of Botswana, dies
1982 - Edith Heerdegen, dies at 69
1982 - John Alexander, actor (Alien PI), dies at 85
1983 - Gabrielle Roy, Canadian author (b. 1909)
1987 - Patience Collier, dies
1988 - Huub Bals, Dutch film promotor, dies at 51
1988 - Samuel L Mendel, oldest US war veteran, dies at 104
1989 - Abdul Rahman Qassemlu, Iran Kurds leader, murdered
1989 - Arnaldo Ochoa Sanchez, Cubans general, executed
1990 - Lois Moran Young, dies of cancer at 81
1991 - Cor Ria Leeman, Flemish (youth)writer, dies
1992 - Alex Wojciechowicz, NFLer (Philadelphia Eagles), dies at 76
1992 - Carla van Neste, Belgian violinist, dies at 78
1993 - Davey Allisson, race car drive, dies in a plane crash at 32
1993 - Edwin "Rick" Bakker, author (Rick's Report/AIDS Diary), dies at 31
1994 - Eddie Boyd, blues vocal/pianist, dies at 79
1994 - Robert Michael Payton, pizza magnate, dies at 50
1995 - Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, Danish toy manufacturer (Lego Group) (b. 1920)
1996 - Joyce Buck, actress/interior designer, dies at 71
1996 - Pandro S Berman, film producer, dies at 91
1996 - Walter Hassan, engineer, dies at 91
1997 - Alexandra Danilova, ballet great, dies at 92
1997 - Miguel Ángel Blanco, Spanish politician (b. 1968)
2002 - Yousuf Karsh, Turkish-born Armenian photographer (b. 1908)
2003 - Compay Segundo, Cuban musician (b. 1907)
2004 - Arthur Kane, American musician (b. 1949)
2004 - Carlos Kleiber, Austrian conductor (b. 1930)
2006 - Red Buttons, American comedian (b. 1919)
2008 - Bronisław Geremek, Polish social historian and politician (b. 1932)
2010 - Manohari Singh, Indian saxophonist and part of R.D. Burman's band (b. 1931)
2010 - George Steinbrenner, American businessman and owner of the New York Yankees, dies from
           heart attack at 80
2011 - Allan Jeans, Australian football player and coach (b. 1933)
2012 - Richard Darryl Zanuck, American Academy Award winning film producer, dies from a heart
           attack at 77
2012 - Jerzy Kulej, Polish light welterweight boxer and politician, dies from a heart attack at 71

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 14, 2013, 07:27:25 AM

This Day in History for 14th July


Historical Events

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Rocket Pioneer Robert H. Goddard        Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini             Baseball Player Ted Williams

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Iraqi President Saddam Hussein            Baseball Player Hank Aaron


1223 - Louis VIII becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Philip II
1420 - Battle at Vitkov Zizka's hill (Prague): Taboriets beat Bohemia
1520 - Battle of Otumba Mexico: Hernan Cortes & Tlascala's vs Aztecs
1535 - Emperor Charles V conquerors Tunis
1544 - English troops attack The Canal
1581 - English jesuit Edmund Campion arrested
1682 - Henry Purcell appointed organist of Chapel Royal, London
1698 - The Darien scheme begins with five ships, bearing about 1,200 people, departing Leith for the
           Isthmus of Panama.
1714 - Battle of Aland, Russian fleet overpowers larger Swedish fleet
1769 - The de Portolá Expedition establishes a base in California, and sets out to find the Port of
           Monterey (now Monterey, California).
1771 - Mission San Antonio de Padua founded in California
1789 - Bastille Day-French Revolution begins with the fall of Bastille
1791 - The Priestley Riots drive Joseph Priestley, a supporter of the French Revolution, out of
           Birmingham, England.
1798 - 1st direct federal tax on states-on dwellings, land & slaves
1798 - Sedition Act prohibits "false, scandalous & malicious" writing against US government
1822 - Slave revolt in SC under Denmark Vesey/Peter Poyas
1823 - Switzerland signs boundaries for fugitives
1832 - Opium exempted from federal tariff duty
1845 - 1st postmasters' provisional stamps issued, NYC
1845 - Fire in NYC destroys 1,000 homes & kills many
1850 - 1st public demonstration of ice made by refrigeration
1853 - 1st US World's fair opens (Crystal Palace NY)
1853 - Commodore Perry requests trade relations with Japan
1853 - Pres Franklin Pierce opens 1st industrial exposition (NY)
1861 - Gen McDowell advances toward Fairfax Courthouse, VA with 40,000 troops
1861 - Naval Engagement at Wilmington NC - USS Daylight establishes blockade
1863 - Battle of Falling Waters, MD (Beaver Creek)
1863 - Jews of Holstein Germany granted equality
1864 - Gold is discovered in Helena, Mont
1865 - Whymper, Hudson, Croz, Douglas & Hadow 1st to climb Matterhorn
1868 - Alvin J Fellows patents tape measure
1877 - General strike brings US railroad to a stand still
1891 - John T Smith patents corkboard
1902 - The Campanile in St Mark's Square, Venice collapses, also demolishing the loggetta.
1909 - Germany chancellor Bernhard von Bulow resigns
1911 - 46" of rain begins to fall in Baguio, Philippines
1912 - Kenneth McArthur runs Olympic record marathon (2:36:54.8 )
1914 - 1st patent for liquid-fueled rocket design granted (Robert Goddard)
1914 - NL's Boston Braves start climb from last place to world series sweep
1916 - 33.6 cm rainfall at Effingham SC (state record)
1916 - St Louis Brown Ernie Koob pitches all 17 inns in a 0-0 tie vs Boston
1918 - Dutch government reclaims South seas
1921 - Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti convicted in Dedham Mass, of killing their shoe company's
           paymaster
1927 - 1st commercial airplane flight in Hawaii
1932 - Belgian Chamber rules Dutch language for education of Flanders
1933 - Germany began mandatory sterilization of those with hereditary illness
1933 - NSDAP becomes only party in Germany
1933 - Verity bowls out Essex twice in a day, 8-47 & 9-44, at Leyton
1934 - 116°F (47°C), Orogrande NM (state record, broken on June 27, 1994)
1934 - NY Times erroneously declares Ruth 700 HR record to stand for all time
1934 - Phillies score 11 runs in an inning, beats Cincinnati 18-0
1934 - Ruth hits 700th career home run
1936 - 1 million demonstrate to support French People's Front government
1936 - 116°F (47°C), Collegeville, Indiana (state record)
1938 - Benito Mussolini publishes anti-Jewish/African manifest
1940 - Due to beanball wars, Spalding advertises batting helmet with earflaps
1940 - Lithuania becomes Lithuanian SSR
1941 - 6,000 Lithuanian Jews are exterminated at Viszalsyan Camp
1941 - Cease fire of Joan of Arc (ends combat in Lebanon & Syria)
1941 - Jam rationed in Holland
1942 - 1st transport of Amsterdam Jews to Westerbork
1942 - Riots against Jews in Amsterdam
1944 - Attempt to liberate prisoners in Amsterdam fails, John Post arrested
1944 - US assault on Coutances Cotentin
1945 - Battleship USS South Dakota is 1st US ship to bombard Japan
1946 - Dr Ben Spock's "Common Sense Book of Baby & Child Care" published
1946 - Mass murder on Jews in Kielce Poland
1946 - Cleve Lou Boudreau hits 4 doubles & HR but Red Sox win 11-10 on Ted Williams 3 HR with 8
           RBIs
1948 - Israel bombs Cairo
1948 - Palmiro Togliatti, leader of the Italian Communist Party, is shot near to the Italian Parliament.
1949 - USSR explodes their 1st atom bomb
1950 - RE Wayne awarded 1st Distinguished Flying Cross in Korea
1951 - "Courtin' Time" closes at National Theater NYC after 37 performances
1951 - "Make a Wish" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 102 perfs
1951 - 1st color telecast of a sporting event (CBS-horse race)
1951 - Citation becomes 1st horse to win $1,000,000 in races
1951 - George Washington Carver monument unveiled
1952 - SS United States crosses Atlantic in 84:12 (record westward)
1953 - 1st Natl monument dedicated to a Negro-George Washington Carver
1953 - 20th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-1 at Crosley Field, Cincinnati
1953 - Communist offensive in Korea
1954 - 117°F (47°C), East St Louis, Illinois (state record)
1954 - 118°F (48°C), Warsaw & Union, Missouri (state record)
1955 - 2 killed, many dazed when lightning strikes Ascott racetrack, England
1956 - Boston Red Sox Mel Parnell no-hits Chicago White Sox, 4-0
1957 - Soviet steamer "Eshghbad" sinks in Caspian Sea, drowning 270
1958 - General Abdul K Kassem forms a military government in Iraq
1958 - Pope Pius XII publishes his 39th & last encyclical Meminisse juvat
1958 - Col Saddam Hussein & Iraqi army overthrows the monarchy
1959 - 1st atomic powered cruiser, Long Beach, Quincy Mass
1960 - Barbara Romack wins LPGA Leesburg Pro-Am Golf Tournament
1960 - Fire raging through a Guatemala City, Guatemala insane asylum kills 225, severly injuring 300
1961 - Astro's Eddie Matthews hits HR #500
1961 - Finland's Miettunen government forms
1961 - Pope John XXIII publishes encyclical Mater et magistrate
1962 - Borehole for Mont Blanc-tunnel finished
1962 - US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1963 - Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Sight Golf Open
1964 - Jacques Anquetil wins his 5th Tour de France
1964 - Oriole Bob Johnson's 6th straight hit as a pinch hitter
1965 - Australian Ronald Clarke runs world record 10k (27:39.4)
1965 - Israeli/Jordanian border fights
1965 - US Mariner IV, 1st Mars probe, passes at 6,100 miles (9,800 km)
1966 - Richard Speck rapes & kills 8 nurses in a Chicago dormitory
1967 - Astro Eddie Matthews hits his 500th HR off SF Giant Juan Marichal
1967 - Surveyor 4 launched to Moon; explodes just before landing
1967 - The Who, opening for Herman's Hermits begin a US tour
1968 - Brave Hank Aaron hits his 500th HR off SF Giant Mike McCormick
1968 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Pabst Ladies' Golf Classic
1968 - Houston Astro Don Wilson strikes-out 18, beats Reds 6-1
1968 - WSWO TV channel 26 in Springfield, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
1969 - "Futbol War" between El Salvador & Honduras begins
1969 - Soccer war - Salvador-Honduras (1000 dead)
1969 - WMUL (now WPBY) TV channel 33 in Huntington, WV (PBS) 1st broadcast
1969 - The United States $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 bills are officially withdrawn from
           circulation.
1970 - 41st All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-4 at Riverfront Stadium, Cin
1970 - All star MVP: Carl Yastremski (Boston Red Sox)
1972 - Jean Westwood is 1st woman chosen to head Democratic Natl Committee
1972 - USSR performs underground nuclear Test
1972 - Plate ump & catcher in a game are brothers. Bill Haller is ump & Tom Haller is Tigers catcher,
           KC Royals win 1-0
1973 - 102nd British Golf Open: Tom Weiskopf shoots a 276 at Royal Troon
1973 - Phil Everly storms off stage declaring an end to Everly Brothers
1974 - Billy Martin is 1st AL manager ejected by ump from 2 games in 1 day
1974 - Bundy victims Janice Ott & Denise Naslund disappear, Lk Sammamish, WA
1974 - Sharon Miller wins LPGA Borden Golf Classic
1975 - EPCOT Center (Florida) plans announced
1976 - Jimmy Carter wins Democratic pres nomination in NYC
1976 - USSR banishes dissident Andrei Amalrik to Netherlands
1977 - North Korea shoots down US helicopter, killing 3
1977 - US House establishes permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
1978 - Anatoly Scharansky convicted of anti-Soviet agitation
1978 - Ump Doug Harvey ejects Don Sutton after discovering 3 scuffed balls
1978 - Allen Ginsburg completes "Plutonian Ode," blocks trainload of fissile material headed for
           Rockwell's nuclear bomb trigger factory, Colorado
1979 - USSR performs nuclear Test
1981 - Kevin Wade's "Key Exchange," premieres in London
1983 - Crane (Rep-R-Il) & Studds (Rep-D-Mas) admit to sex with pages
1984 - STS 41-D vehicle moves to Vandenberg AFB for remanifest of payloads
1984 - USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1985 - 40th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Kathy Baker
1985 - Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center via Offutt AFB, Neb
1985 - Last USFL game-Baltimore Stars defeats Oakland Invaders, 28-24
1986 - 10 killed & 60 injured at ETA-bomb attack in Madrid
1986 - 2nd government of Lubbers sworn in
1986 - 41st US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Jane Geddes
1986 - Motley Crue's Vince Neil begins 30 day sentence for vehicular homicide
1986 - NASA's plan to implement recommendations of Rogers commission
1986 - Paul McCartney releases "Press"
1986 - Richard W Miller became 1st FBI agent convicted of espionage
1986 - Shalamar's Howard Hewett acquitted in Miami of drug charges
1987 - 58th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 2-0 in 13 at Oakland-Alameda Stad
1987 - All star MVP: Tim Raines (Montreal Expos)
1987 - Greyhound Bus buys Trailways Bus for $80 million
1987 - Lt Col Oliver North concludes 6 days of Congressional testimony
1987 - Rookie of the Year Award is renamed to honor Jackie Robinson
1987 - Steve Miller's star is unveiled on Hollywood's Walk of Fame
1987 - Taiwan ends 37 years of martial law
1988 - 200,000 demonstrate in Soviet Armenia for incorporation of Nagorno-Karabak
1988 - Mike Schmidt passes Mickey Mantle with his 537th HR into 7th place
1988 - WYHY radio offers $1M to anyone who can prove Elvis is still alive
1989 - 16th James Bond movies "License to Kill" premieres
1990 - "Howard Stern's Summer Show" premieres on WWOR-TV (NYC)
1990 - Sara Martin, of Illinois, crowned America's Junior Miss
1991 - 46th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Meg Mallon
1991 - Failed military coup in Mali
1992 - 63rd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 13-6 at Jack Murphy Stadium, SD
1992 - Actress Nell Carter undergoes brain surgery
1992 - All star MVP: Ken Griffey Jr (Seattle Mariners)
1992 - 386BSD is released by Lynne Jolitz and William Jolitz beginning the Open Source Operating
           System Revolution. Linus Torvalds release his Linux soon afterwards.
1993 - Aeroflot starts non-stop flights between Moscow & NY
1994 - Gas explosion at old age home in Milan, 27 killed
1995 - LA Dodger Ramon Martinez no-hits the Florida Marlins 7-0
1995 - Ramon Martinez pitches a 7-0 no-hitter against the Marlins
1996 - "How To Succeed in Business..." closes at R Rodgers NYC after 548 perf
1996 - "Thousand Clowns" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 32 performances
1996 - 14th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Raymond Floyd
1996 - Michelle McGann wins Youngstown-Warren LPGA Golf Classic
1996 - NY Yankee John Weteland sets record of 24 consecutive saves
1996 - NY Yanks sweep complete season series in Baltimore for 1st time
1997 - Bomb in Algiers kills 21 & wounds 40
2002 - French President Jacques Chirac escapes an assassination attempt unscathed during Bastille
           Day celebrations.
2007 - Russia withdraws from the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe.
2012 - Suicide bomber attacks a wedding reception and kills 22 people and inures 22 in northern
           Afghanistan
2012 - Floods on the Japanese island of Kyushu kill 20 and displace 250,000

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 14, 2013, 07:30:15 AM

This Day in History for 14th July


Famous Weddings

1966 - Sex symbol of the 1960s Brigitte Bardot (31) weds German millionaire playboy Gunter Sachs
          (33) in Las Vegas
1994 - Princess Margaret's daughter Sarah Armstrong-Jones (30) weds ex-actor and fellow artist
           Daniel Chatto (37) in London, United Kingdon
1996 - "Green Bay Packer" quarterback Brett Favre (20) weds Deanna Tynes (28) at St. Agnes
           Catholic Church in Green Bay, Wisconsin
2007 - Actor Jerry O'Connell (33) weds Xmen's "Mystique" Rebecca Romijn (34) at Calabasas,
           California
2007 - Former "Full House" actress Jodie Sweetin (25) weds set designer Cody Herpin (30) at Little
           Church of the West in Las Vegas

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 14, 2013, 07:38:40 AM

This Day in History for 14th July


Famous Birthdays

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Archaelogist Gertrude Bell (1868)             Animator William Hanna (1910)            38th US President
                                                                                                                             Gerald R Ford (1913)


1454 - Poliziano, Florentine humanist (d. 1494)
1486 - Andrea del Sarto, Italy, painter (Recollets)
1602 - Jules Mazarin, France, cardinal, French 1st Minister (1642-61)
1608 - George Goring, Lord Goring, English royalist soldier (d. 1657)
1610 - Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1670)
1634 - Pasquier Quesnel, French Jansenist theologian (d. 1719)
1671 - Jacques D'Allonville, French astronomer and mathematician (d. 1732)
1675 - Claude Alexandre de Bonneval, French soldier (d. 1747)
1676 - Caspar Abel, German theologian, historian, and poet (d. 1763)
1696 - William Oldys, English antiquarian and bibliographer (d. 1761)
1707 - Jacques-Philippe Lamoninary, composer
1721 - John Douglas, Scottish Anglican bishop and man of letters (d. 1807)
1743 - Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin, Russian poet (d. 1816)
1756 - Thomas Rowlandson, English painter/cartoonist/etcher
1785 - Mordecai Manuel Noah, American writer, journalist (d. 1851)
1794 - John G Lockhart, [Scorpion], biographer (Life of Sir Walter Scott)
1801 - Johannes Peter Müller, German physiologist (d. 1858)
1804 - Ludwig A Benedek, Austrian general
1816 - Arthur de Gobineau, French philosopher (d. 1882)
1818 - Nathaniel Lyon, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1861
1830 - Richard Henry Jackson, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1831 - William Dwight, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1888
1834 - James Abbott McNeill Whistler, artist (Whistler's Mother)
1839 - Edward Sydney Smith, composer
1854 - Alexander Alexandrovich Kopilov, composer
1855 - Richard Samuel Hughes, composer
1857 - Maytag, inventor (washing machine)
1858 - Emmeline Pankhurst, England, found (Women's Social & Political Union)
1859 - Willy Hess, German violinist (d. 1928)
1862 - Florence Bascom, US, 1st American woman PhD
1862 - Gustav Klimt, Austria, Art Nouveau painter
1865 - Annie Jones, Virginia, bearded lady
1868 - Gertrude Bell, Durham, British archaeologist (Desert & The Sown), (d. 1926)
1869 - Owen Wister, US, novelist (Virginian)
1874 - 'Abbas Hilmi II, last khedive (Ottoman viceroy) of Egypt (1892-1914)
1874 - Andre Debierne, French chemist/physicist (Actinium)
1880 - Donald Meek, Glasgow Scotland, actor (Stage Fair, Stagecoach)
1883 - Alexandru Zirra, composer
1884 - Charles Meldrum Daniels, Dayton Oh, swimmer (Olympic-gold-1904, 08)
1885 - King Sisavang Vong of Laos (d. 1959)
1890 - Ossip Zadkine, [Zadkin], Russ/French sculptor (Destroyed City)
1891 - Henry Oscar, London England, actor (Saint in London)
1893 - John G Strijdom, premier of South-Africa (1954-58)
1893 - Spencer Williams, Vidalia La, actor (Andy-Amos 'n' Andy)
1893 - Clarence J. Brown, Newspaper publisher and politician (d. 1965)
1895 - Frank Raymond Leavis, British literary critic (Culture & Environment)
1896 - Buenaventura Durruti, Spanish anarchist (d. 1936)
1898 - Ivan Triesault, Estonia, actor (Cry of the Werewolf, Black Parachute)
1898 - A. B. "Happy" Chandler, American politician and baseball commissioner (d. 1991)
1901 - George Tobias, NYC, actor (Abner Kravitz-Bewitched)
1901 - Gerald Finzi, London, British composer (Dies natalis)
1902 - Paul Guilfoyle, Jersey City NJ, actor/director (Curiosity Kills)
1902 - Richard Clarkson, aerodynamicist
1902 - Truman J Hedding, US vice-admiral (WW II)
1903 - Irving Stone, US, author (Love is Eternal, Lust for Life)
1903 - Ken Murray, NYC, comedian (Ken Murray Show, Judy Garland Show)
1904 - Isaac Bashevis Singer, Poland, Yiddish novelist (Enemies-Nobel 1978)
1906 - Arthur James Bramwell Hutchings, composer
1906 - Tom Carvel, ice cream mogul (Carvels)
1908 - Chaim Raphael, writer
1909 - Annabella, [Suzanne G Charpentier], Paris, actress (Dinner at Ritz)
1910 - Peter Stadlen, pianist/critic
1910 - William Hanna, Melrose New Mexico, animator (Hanna-Barbera- Tom and Jerry, Scooby Doo),
           (d. 2001)
1911 - J de Graaf, Dutch ethicist/president (Church & Peace)
1911 - Terry-Thomas, England, actor (It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World)
1912 - Woodrow Wilson "Woodie" Guthrie, folk singer (This Land Is Your Land)
1912 - Northrop Frye, Canadian literary critic (d. 1991)
1913 - Fritz Erler, German politician (SDP)
1913 - Gerald R Ford, [Leslie King], Omaha Nebraska, 41st VP (1973-74)/38th pres (R-1974-77), (d.
           2006)
1913 - Nigel Thomas Loveridge Fisher, politician
1914 - Sidney George Gray, company secretary
1916 - Natalia Ginzburg, Italian author (Family dictionary)
1916 - Phyllis Stedman, politician
1917 - Arthur Leavins, violinist
1917 - Douglas Edwards, Alda Oklahoma, newscaster (CBS Evening News, FYI)
1918 - Arthur Laurents, NYC, playwright (West Side Story, Gypsy)
1918 - Ingmar Bergman, Uppsala Sweden, director (Cries & Whispers)
1918 - Jay Wright Forrester, invented random-access magnetic core memory
1919 - Lino Ventura, Parma Italy, actor (Happy New Year, Pain in the A--)
1921 - Geoffrey Wilkinson, chemist
1921 - Leon Garfield, English children's author (d. 1996)
1922 - Peter Andrew Tranchell, composer
1922 - Robin Olds, American World War II and Vietnam War ace fighter pilot (d. 2007)
1922 - Elfriede Rinkel, Nazi concentration camp guard
1923 - Dale Robertson, Harrah Ok, actor (Death Valley Days, Walter-Dynasty)
1923 - Frances Lear, Larchmont NY, Woman's magazine publisher (Lears)
1923 - Willie Steele, American Olympic gold medalist (d. 1989)
1924 - James W. Black, Scottish pharmacologist, Nobel laureate
1925 - Luis Antonio Escobar, composer
1926 - Harry Dean Stanton, West Irvine KY, actor (Alien, Cool Hand Luke)
1926 - Jan Krenz, composer
1927 - John William Chancellor, Chicago Ill, news anchor (NBC, VOA)
1928 - Elizabeth Jane Lloyd, artist/teacher
1928 - Nancy Olson, Milwaukee, actress (Absent-Minded Professor, Pollyanna)
1928 - Ole Schmidt, composer
1928 - Pierre Olaf, Cauderan France, actor (Kraft Music Hall)
1929 - George Alan Dawson, jazz drummer/teacher
1929 - Charles Anthony [Caruso], New Orleans, Louisiana, tenor (2,928 performances at
           Metropolitan Opera), (d. 2012)
1930 - Eric Norman Stokes, composer
1930 - Polly Bergen, Knoxville Tn, actress (Rhoda-Winds of War, Baby Talk)
1931 - Donald Eugene Webb, Oklahoma City, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
1931 - Robert Stephens, Bristol England, actor (Uncle Kurt-Holocaust)
1932 - Roosevelt Grier, Cuthbert Ga, NFLer (NY Giants)/actor (Movin' On)
1933 - Del Reeves, singer/guitarist
1933 - Robert Bourassa, Montreal, premier of Quebec (1970-76, 1985- )
1934 - Leo Joseph Koury, Pitts, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
1934 - [Robert] Lee Elder, Dallas TX, PGA golfer (1974 Monsanto Open)
1936 - Gloria Lambert, Worcester Mass, singer (Sing Along With Mitch)
1936 - Robert F Overmyer, Lorain Ohio, Col USMC/astronaut (STS 5, STS 51B)
1937 - Khalid Hassan, Pak cricket leg-spinner (took 2-116 at 16 in only Test)
1937 - Yoshiro Mori, Japanese politician
1938 - Bob Scholl, rocker (Mellow Kings)
1938 - Jerry Rubin, activist (Chicago 7)/stockbroker
1939 - Karel Gott, Czech singer
1939 - Sid Haig, American actor
1939 - George E. Slusser, American scholar and writer
1940 - Susan Howatch, English author
1941 - Tatyana Dmitryevna Kuznetsova, cosmonaut
1941 - Maulana Karenga, American author and activist
1941 - Andreas Khol, Austrian politician
1942 - Javier Solana, Spanish European Union foreign policy chief
1943 - Lynn Loring, NYC, actress (Patty-Fair Exchange, Barbara-FBI)
1944 - Billy McCool, American baseball player
1945 - Peter James Leonard Klatzow, composer
1946 - Maureen O'Connor, Mayor (San Diego)
1946 - John Wood, Australian actor
1947 - Nick Benedict, Los Angeles CA, actor (Pistol-Birth of a Legend)
1947 - Steve Stone, Cleveland Ohio, sportscaster (Monday Night Baseball)
1947 - Claudia Kennedy, U.S. Army officer
1948 - Tommy Matola, rock manager/CEO (CBS records)
1949 - Joyce Benson, LPGA golfer
1949 - Lukas D Barnard, head of South Africa secret service (NIS)
1950 - Bruce Oldfield, British mode-designer
1950 - Gwen Guthrie, American singer (d. 1999)
1951 - Esther Dyson, Zurich Switz, computer publisher (Release 1.0)
1951 - Judi Brown, E Lansing Mich, 400m hurdler (Olympic-silver-1984)
1951 - Erich Hallhuber, German actor (d. 2003)
1952 - Chris Cross, [St John], rock singer (Arthur)
1952 - Eric Laneuville, New Orleans La, actor (Larry-Room 222, St Elsewhere)
1952 - George Louis Francis Lewis, composer
1952 - Jerry Houser, Los Angeles California, actor (Slapshot, Summer of &#039;42, Class of     
           &#039;44)
1952 - Joel Silver, South Orange NJ, producer (Warriors, Xanadu, Die Hard)
1952 - Stan Shaw, Chicago Illinois, actor (Mississippi, Roots Next Generation)
1952 - Franklin Graham, American evangelist
1952 - Bob Casale, AKA Bob 2, American Musician (Devo)
1953 - Bebe Buell [Beverle Lorence], Portsmouth, Virginia, American model/singer (Nov 1974
           Playmate of the Month)
1954 - Jos Zoomer, Amsterdam Neth, rock drummer (Vandenberg)
1954 - Ralph D'Amico, jockey
1955 - L. Brent Bozell, American author and activist
1956 - Vladimir Kulich, Czech actor
1957 - Peter Webb, NZ cricketer (batsman against West Indies 1980)
1958 - Joe Keenan, American screenwriter, television producer and novelist.
1959 - Rodney Rash, horse trainer
1960 - Ray Herndon, Scottsdale Ar, singer (McBride & Ride-Can I Count on You)
1960 - Anna Bligh, Australian politician
1961 - Jackie Earle Haley, Northridge California, actor (Breaking Away)
1962 - Diane Ratnik, Toronto Ontario, volleyball setter (Olympics-8-92, 96)
1962 - Jeff Olson, American musician
1963 - Bel Le Harper, NFL tight end (Atlanta Falcons)
1963 - Phil Rosenthal, American newspaper columnist
1964 - Barbara Chiu, Canton China, Canada table tennis player (Oly-33-92, 96)
1964 - Brett J Ogle, Paddington Austral, PGA golfer (1993 AT&T Pebble Beach)
1964 - Jack Kay Jr, Montreal Que, Canadian Tour golfer (1991 Singapore Open)
1965 - Reina Olea, female jockey
1966 - D J Johnson, NFL cornerback (Atlanta Falcons)
1966 - Matthew Fox, Crowheart Wyo, actor (Party of 5, Fredhman Dorm)
1966 - Tayna Donelly, rocker (Belly)
1966 - Ellen Reid, Canadian musician (Crash Test Dummies)
1966 - Brian Selznick, American author and illustrator
1967 - Glen Scrivener, CFL defensive tackle (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1967 - Hashan Tillekeratne, cricketer (Sri Lanka wicket-keeper/batsman)
1967 - Leonardo Lavalle, Mexico, tennis star
1967 - Robin Ventura, Santa Maria CA, infielder (Chicago White Sox)
1967 - Patrick J. Kennedy, politician
1968 - John Maginnes, Atlanta GA, Nike golfer (1994 NIKE Texarkana Open-5th)
1968 - Mark Lenz, US, 3m spring diver (Olympic-gold-1992)
1968 - Kazushi Sakuraba, Japanese mixed martial artist/professional wrestler
1969 - Jose Hernandez, Hato Rey Puerto Rico, infielder (Chicago Cubs)
1970 - Mark Brandenburg, Houston Texas, pitcher (Texas Rangers)
1970 - Mark Strickland, NBA forward (Miami Heat)
1970 - Michelle Sawatzky, Steinbach Manitoba, volleyballer (Olympics-96)
1970 - Missy Gold, Great Falls Mont, actress (Katie-Benson)
1970 - Todd Rucci, NFL guard (NE Patriots)
1971 - Mark LoMonaco, American professional wrestler
1971 - Joey Styles, American wrestling commentator
1971 - Marie-Chantal Toupin, French Canadian singer
1972 - Ben Talley, NFL linebacker (NY Giants)
1972 - Joe Aska, NFL running back (Oakland Raiders)
1972 - Lou Roe, NBA forward (Detroit Pistons)
1972 - Matthew Campbell, NFL tight end (Carolina Panthers)
1972 - Deborah Mailman, Australian actress
1973 - Kieren Perkins, Brisbane QLD Aust, 1500m swimmer (Olymp-2 gold-92, 96)
1973 - Halil Mutlu, Bulgaria-born Turkish weightlifter
1973 - Adam Quinn, American bagpipe player
1973 - Candela Peña, Spanish actress
1974 - Erick Dampier, NBA center (SF Warriors)
1974 - David Mitchell, English comedian and actor
1975 - Matthew Kessinger, Louisville Ky, fig skater (1995 Gt Lakes Jr champ)
1975 - Taboo, American rapper
1975 - Tim Hudson, American baseball player
1976 - Yesim Cetin, Miss Turkey Universe (1997)
1976 - Geraint Jones, English cricketer
1976 - Kirsten Sheridan, Irish film director and screenwriter
1977 - Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden
1979 - Bernie Castro, Dominican baseball player
1979 - Axel Teichmann, German cross-country skier
1980 - George Smith, Australian Rugby player
1981 - Lee Mead, English actor
1981 - Yomi, Japanese vocalist (Nightmare)
1982 - Dmitry Chaplin, So You Think You Can Dance finalist
1983 - Wesley Dening, Australian TV personality
1984 - Chris Steele, Canadian musician, (Alexisonfire)
1987 - Adam Johnson, English footballer
1988 - James Vaughan, English footballer
1989 - Sean Flynn-Amir, American actor

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 14, 2013, 07:41:53 AM

This Day in History for 14th July


Famous Deaths

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Frontier Outlaw Billy the Kid (1881)


664 - Deusdedit of Canterbury, Archbishop of Canterbury
937 - Arnulf, Duke of Bavaria
1223 - King Philip II of France (1180-1223) dies at 57
1298 - Jacob de Voragine, Italian bishop/writer (Golden Legend), dies
1575 - Richard Taverner, English Bible translator
1614 - Camillus de Lellis, Ital soldier/monastery founder/saint, dies at 64
1671 - Méric Casaubon, English classical scholar (b. 1599)
1711 - Johan Willem Friso, Prince of Orange/(Nassau-Dietz), drowns at 23
1723 - Claude Fleury, French historian (b. 1640)
1742 - Richard Bentley, English classical scholar (b. 1662)
1744 - Immanuel J Pyra, German poet (Temple of True Poetry), dies at 28
1762 - Cornelis Hop, Amsterdams regent/diplomat, dies at 77
1766 - František Maxmilián Kaňka, Czech architect (b. 1674)
1770 - David 't Kindt, Flemish architect (Mammelokker, Ghent), dies at 71
1774 - James O'Hara, 2nd Baron Tyrawley and Kilmaine, British field marshal (b. 1682)
1779 - George Ross, US judge/signer (Declaration of Independence), dies at 49
1780 - Charles Batteux, French philosopher (b. 1713)
1788 - Johann Gottfried Muthel, composer, dies at 60
1789 - Jacques de Flesselles, French provost (assassinated) (b. 1721)
1789 - Bernard-René de Launay, governor of the Bastille, murdered during the Storming of the
           Bastille (b.1740)
1790 - Ernst Gideon Freiherr von Laudon, Austrian field marshal (b. 1717)
1793 - Jacques Cathelineau, French royalist, dies in battle at 44
1803 - Esteban Salas y Castro, composer, dies
1812 - Christian G Heyne, German archaeologist, dies at 82
1816 - Francisco AG de Miranda, Venezuela freedom fighter, dies at 66
1817 - Anne Louise Germaine de Staël, Swiss author (b. 1766)
1827 - Augustin-Jean Fresnel, French physicist (b. 1788)
1830 - Anthony FRE Haersolte, member of Executing Regime, dies at 73
1834 - Edmond Charles Genêt, French ambassador to the United States during the French
           Revolution (b. 1763)
1850 - August Neander, German theologian (b. 1789)
1873 - Ferdinand David, Dutch violinist/composer, dies at 63
1876 - Thomas Hazlehurst, English Methodist chapel builder (b. 1816)
1881 - Billy the Kid, American outlaw (b. 1859?)
1895 - Alexander Ewing, composer, dies at 65
1902 - Mark M Antokolski, Russian/French sculptor, dies at 58
1904 - S J Paul Kruger, general/pres South-Africa (1883-1904), dies at 78
1907 - William Henry Perkin, English chemist and inventor (b. 1838)
1908 - William Mason, composer, dies at 79
1917 - Octave Lapize, French cyclist (b. 1887)
1923 - Louis Ganne, composer, dies at 61
1925 - Pancho Villa, Filipino world boxing champion (b. 1901)
1930 - W H Ashley, cricketer (Test South Africa, 7 wkts), dies
1938 - Robert Poore, cricketer (3 Tests for South Africa in 1895-96 series), dies
1939 - Alphonse Mucha, Czech painter, decorative artist (b. 1860)
1940 - Bill Howell, cricketer (18 Tests for Aust 1898-1905), dies
1942 - Neel [Cornelia H] Doff, Neth/French/Belgian painter's model, dies
1943 - Johannes F "Frits" Bakker Sr, actor, dies at 74%
1948 - Palmiro Togliatti, Italy's CPI chairman, assassinated
1949 - Frank Hearne, cricketer (2 Tests for England, 4 Tests for S Afr), dies
1951 - Sammy Jones, cricketer (last survivor of the 1882 Oval Test), dies
1954 - Jacinto Benavente y Martinez, Spanish playwright, dies at 87
1954 - Jackie Saunders, American silent screen actress (b. 1892)
1956 - Jaroslav Ridky, composer, dies at 58
1958 - Abdoel Illah, crown prince of Iraq, murdered
1958 - Emil Barth, writer, dies at 58
1958 - Faisal II, King of Iraq (1939-58), assassinated at Baghdad
1958 - Franciscus J Feron, vicar-general of Roermond, dies at 62
1958 - Noeri el-Said, premier of Iraq, murdered
1959 - Grock, [Adrien Wettach], Swiss clown/circus director, dies at 79
1965 - Adlai Stevenson, US amb to UN/pres candidate (D, 1952, 56), dies
1966 - Julie Manet, French painter (b. 1878)
1967 - Tudor Arghezi, Romanian writer (b. 1880)
1968 - Konstatin G Paustovski, Russian sailor/author, dies at 76
1968 - Westbrook Van Voorhis, announcer (March of Time), dies at 64
1968 - Konstantin Georgiyevich Paustovsky, Russian writer (b. 1892)
1970 - Preston S Foster, actor (Waterfront, Gunslinger), dies at 69
1973 - Clarence White, guitarist (Byrds), killed by a car
1974 - Henri Smajda, Tunis/French publisher (Combat), commits suicide at 77
1974 - Carl Spaatz, American World War II general and 1st Chief of Staff of the United States Air
           Force, dies at 83
1975 - Zutty Singleton, US jazz drummer, dies at 77
1975 - Madan Mohan, Hindi Film's Melodious Music director (b. 1924)
1979 - George De Witt, TV host (Name that Tune), dies at 56
1982 - George Amadee Tremblay, composer, dies at 71
1983 - Jack MacBryan, cricketer (Test for England 1924), dies
1984 - Al Schacht, [Clown prince of baseball], baseball player, dies at 91
1984 - Kenny Delmar, comedian (School House), dies at 74
1984 - Philippe Wynne, US soul singer (I'll Be Around), dies at 43
1984 - Ernest Tidyman, American writer (b. 1928)
1986 - Raymond Loewy, US industrial designer, dies at 92
1989 - Frank Bell, British educator (b. 1916)
1990 - Dallas Alinder, dies
1990 - Philip Leacock, dies of collapsed lungs at 73
1991 - Nic van Bridges, Flemish poet, dies
1993 - Robert Strong
1994 - Patrick Crommelynck, Belgian pianist, commits suicide
1994 - Robert Jungk, German/French/Us/Austrian philosopher/historian, dies
1994 - Taeko Kuwata, Japanese/Belgian pianist, commits suicide
1995 - Michael Naylor, insurance broker, dies at 59
1996 - Frederick Angus Armstrong, journalist, dies at 82
1996 - Kenneth Tompkins Bainbridge, physicist, dies at 91
1996 - Kim Besly, activist, dies at 69
1996 - Jeff Krosnoff, CART driver (b. 1964)
1998 - Richard McDonald, American fast food pioneer (b. 1909)
2000 - William Roscoe Estep, American Baptist historian (b. 1920)
2000 - René Ríos Boettiger, Chilean cartoonist (b. 1911)
2000 - Meredith MacRae, American actress (b. 1944)
2002 - Joaquín Balaguer, President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1906)
2003 - Éva Janikovszky, Hungarian novelist (b. 1926)
2003 - François-Albert Angers, French Canadian economist (b. 1909)
2005 - Joe Harnell, American musician, composer and arranger (b. 1924)
2005 - Cicely Saunders, English Nurse, physician and writer (b. 1918)
2007 - John Ferguson Sr, former professional hockey player (b. 1938)
2008 - Henki Kolstad, Norwegian actor (b. 1915)
2009 - Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Polish actor (b. 1934)
2010 - Mădălina Manole, Romanian pop recording artist (b. 1967)
2010 - Gene Ludwig, American jazz organist (b. 1937)
2012 - Sixten Jernberg, Swedish skier, dies at 83

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 15, 2013, 09:09:34 AM

This Day in History for 15th July


Historical Events

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Key Figure of Medieval                          Pathologist and Nobel Laureate               264th Pope John Paul II
Rus Alexander Nevsky                               Howard Florey


1099 - 1st Crusaders capture, plunder Jerusalem
1205 - Pope Innocent III states Jews are doomed to perpetual servitudea and subjugation due to
           crucifixion of Jesus
1207 - John of England expels Canterbury monks for supporting Archbishop of Canterbury Stephen
           Langton.
1240 - A Novgorodian army led by Alexander Nevsky defeats the Swedes in the Battle of the Neva.
1307 - Duke Henrik van Karinthi chosen king of Bohemia
1381 - John Ball, a leader in the Peasants' Revolt, is hanged, drawn and quartered in the presence of
           Richard II of England.
1410 - Battle of Tannenburg-Teutonic Knights vs King Ladislas II of Poland
1500 - Duke Albrecht of Saxon beats Friese rebellion
1500 - Baglione family massacre at the "Blood Wedding" of Astorre Baglione & Lavinia Colonna in
           Perugia
1501 - Explorer Pedro Cabral back in Lisbon
1524 - Emperor Karel I bans German national synode
1538 - Peace talks between Karel & King Francois I
1662 - King Charles II charters Royal Society in London
1741 - Alexei Chirikov sights land in Southeast Alaska. He sends men ashore in a longboat, making
           them the first Europeans to visit Alaska.
1755 - French ambassador recalled from London
1779 - US troops under Gen A Wayne conquer Ft Stony Point, NY
1783 - 1st steamboat, Pyroscaphe, 1st run in France
1787 - Parliament of Paris banished to Troyes
1789 - Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette, is named by acclamation colonel-general of the new
           National Guard of Paris.
1795 - "Marseillaise" becomes French national anthem
1799 - The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-
           François Bouchard during Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign.
1806 - Zebulon Pike began his journey to explore the Southwest
1808 - French marshal Joachim Murat becomes king of Naples
1815 - Napoleon surrendered & is later exiled on St Helena
1815 - 1st flat horse race held on Nottingham Hill at Cheltenham, England (day and month TBC)
1823 - A fire destroys the ancient Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls in Rome.
1830 - 3 Indian tribes, Sioux, Sauk & Fox, signs a treaty giving the US most of Minnesota, Iowa &
           Missouri
1840 - England, Russia, Austria & Prussia signs Quadruple Alliance
1850 - John Wisden bowls all 10 South batsmen, North v South at Lord's
1856 - Natal forms as a British colony separate from Cape Colony
1862 - CSS Arkansas vs USS Cardondelet & Queen of the West engage at Yazoo R
1863 - Pres Davis orders service duty for confederate army
1864 - Troop train loaded with Confederate prisoners collided with a coal train killing 65 & injuring
           109 of 955 aboard
1867 - SF Merchant's Exchange opens
1869 - Margarine is patented by Hippolye Méga-Mouriès for use by French Navy
1870 - Georgia becomes last confederate to be readmitted to US
1870 - Manitoba becomes 5th Canadian province & NW Territories created
1870 - Hudson's Bay & Northwest Territories transferred to Canada
1876 - Baseball's 1st no-hitter, St Louis' George W Bradley no-hits Hartford
1888 - Bandai volcano (Japan) erupts for 1st time in 1,000 years
1893 - Commodore Perry arrives in Japan
1900 - President Steyn/General De Law escape Brandwater Basin
1901 - NY Giant Christy Mathewson no-hits St Louis, 5-0
1902 - Ranjitsinhji scores 180 before lunch, for Sussex v Surrey
1904 - 1st Buddhist temple in US forms, Los Angeles
1906 - Republic museum opens Rembrandt hall in Amsterdam
1909 - Ty Cobb hits 2 inside-the-park HRs
1911 - 46" of rain (begining 7/14) falls in Baguio, Philippines
1912 - British National Health Insurance Act goes into effect
1914 - Mexican president Huerta flees with 2 million pesos to Europe
1916 - 22.22" (56.4 cm) of rain falls in Altapass NC (state record)
1916 - Boeing Co (Pacific Aero) formed by William Boeing in Seattle Wash
1918 - 2nd Battle of Marne began during WW I
1920 - Ruth ties his record of 29 HRs in a season
1922 - 1st duck-billed platypus publicly exhibited in US, at NY zoo
1922 - 26th US Golf Open: Gene Sarazen shoots a 288 at Skokie CC in Ill
1923 - 27th US Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 296 at Inwood CC in NY
1923 - Italian parliament accepts new constitution
1926 - VPRO (Free thinking Protestant Radio Broadcast) forms
1927 - 62nd British Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 285 at St Andrews
1927 - Massacre of July 15, 1927: 89 protesters are killed by the Austrian police in Vienna.
1929 - 1st airport hotel opens-Oakland Ca
1932 - President Hoover cuts own salary 15%
1933 - Wiley Post began 1st solo flight around world
1934 - Continental Airlines commences operations.
1936 - Dutch 2nd Chamber agree to temporarily increase defense budget
1937 - Buchenwald Concentration Camp opens
1937 - Japanese attack Marco Polo Bridge, invade China
1938 - Arthur Fagg completes 244 & 202 in the same cricket game for Kent
1939 - Clara Adams (NYC) is 1st woman to complete round world flight
1940 - 1st betatron placed in operation, Urbana, Il
1940 - Nazi occupiers seize library of IISG Amsterdam
1941 - Florey & Heatley present freeze dried mold cultures (Penicillin)
1942 - 1st deportation camp at Westerbork, Jews sent to Auschwitz
1942 - Dutch Jews invoked for "Labor camps"
1944 - Greenwich Observatory damaged by WW II flying bomb
1945 - 27th PGA Championship: Byron Nelson at Morraine CC Dayton Ohio
1946 - British North Borneo Co transfers rights to British crown
1948 - Alcoholic Anonymous founded in Britain
1948 - Pres Harry Truman nominated for another term (Phila)
1949 - "Miss Liberty" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 308 performances
1949 - Czech tennis stars Jaroslav Drobny & Vladimir Cernik, defect to US
1949 - WBTV TV channel 3 in Charlotte, NC (CBS) begins broadcasting
1952 - 1st transatlantic helicopter flight begins
1954 - 110°F (43°C) at Balcony Falls, Virginia (state record)
1954 - 1st coml jet transport plane built in US tested (Boeing 707)
1954 - KOCO TV channel 5 in Oklahoma City, OK (ABC) begins broadcasting
1954 - WBOC TV channel 16 in Salisbury, MD (CBS/NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 - WNDU TV channel 16 in South Bend, IN (NBC) begins broadcasting
1955 - Eighteen Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed
           by thirty-four others.
1956 - Beverly Hanson/Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Hot Springs Golf Invitational
1956 - Iharos runs world record 10k (28:42.8 )
1957 - Dutch Super Constellation crashes near New Guinea, 56 die
1957 - US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1958 - Pres Eisenhower sends US troops to Lebanon; they stay 3 months
1958 - US marines deployed in Lebanon
1959 - The steel strike of 1959 begins, leading to significant importation of foreign steel for the first
           time in United States history.
1960 - Balt Orioles' Brooks Robinson goes 5 for 5 including the cycle
1961 - "Donnybrook!" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 68 performances
1961 - 90th British Golf Open: Arnold Palmer shoots a 284 at Royal Birkdale
1961 - Spain accept equal rights for men & women
1962 - Algeria becomes member of Arab League
1962 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Milwaukee Golf Open
1962 - Neth & Indonesia accord over New-Guinea
1963 - KAIT TV channel 8 in Jonesboro, AR (ABC) begins broadcasting
1963 - Paul McCartney is fined £17 for speeding
1964 - Barry M Goldwater (Sen-R-Az) nominated for president by Republicans
1965 - "Mariner IV" sends back 1st pictures of Mars
1965 - Athanassiades Novas succeeds Papandreo as premier of Greece
1967 - "Sweet Charity" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 608 performances
1967 - LA Wolves beat Wash Whips 6-5 in OT to be United Soccer Ass champs
1967 - Roberto DeVicenzo of Argentina wins golf's British Open
1967 - USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1968 - "One Life to Live" premieres on TV
1968 - Commercial air travel begins between US & USSR
1968 - France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
1968 - NJ Americans moved to Comack & become NY Nets (ABA)
1968 - Soap opera "One Life To Live" premieres
1969 - Cincinnati Red Lee May hits 4 HRs in a doubleheader
1969 - Rod Carew ties record with his 7th steal of home in a season
1970 - Denmark beats Italy 2-0 in 1st world female soccer championship
1971 - Pres Nixon announces he would visit People's Rep of China
1972 - 101st British Golf Open: Lee Trevino shoots 278 at Muirfield Gullane
1972 - Sandra Palmer/Jane Blalock wins Angelo's Four-Ball Golf Championship
1973 - California Angel Nolan Ryan 2nd no-hitter beats Detroit Tigers, 6-0
1973 - Carole Jo Skala wins LPGA George Washington Golf Classic
1973 - Paul Getty III kidnapped
1973 - Ray Davies, announces retirement from Kinks then attempts suicide
1973 - Willie McCovey becomes 15th to hit 400 HRs
1974 - Military coup on Cyprus: archbishop/president Makarios flees
1975 - 46th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-3 at County Stadium, Milwaukee
1975 - All star MVP: Bill Madlock (Pittsburgh Pirates) & John Matlock (NY Mets)
1975 - Apollo 18 launched (will rendezvous with Soyuz)
1975 - Soyuz 19 & Apollo 18 launched; rendezvous 2 days later
1976 - 36-hr kidnap of 26 school children & their bus driver in Calif
1978 - 107th British Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 281 at St Andrews
1979 - 34th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Jerilyn Britz
1979 - Morarji Desai resigns as premier of India
1980 - Johnny Bench hits his 314th HR as a catcher breaks Yogi Berra's record
1982 - Body of Wendy Caulfield, 1st Green River victim, found near Seattle
1982 - Columbia flies to Kennedy Space Center via Dyess AFB, Texas
1982 - Senate confirms George Shultz as 60th sec of state by vote of 97-0
1983 - 8 killed, 54 wounded, by Armenian extremists bomb at Orly, France
1983 - Linda Ronstadt debuts as Mabel in "Pirates of Penzance"
1984 - 39th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Hollis Stacy
1984 - John Lennon releases "I'm Stepping Out"
1985 - Deborah Carthy-Deu, of Puerto Rico, crowned 34th Miss Universe
1986 - 57th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 3-2 at Astrodome, Houston
1986 - All star MVP: Roger Clemens (Boston Red Sox)
1987 - Boy George barred from British TV show, he may be a bad influence
1987 - John Poindexter testifies at Iran-Contra hearings
1987 - State of siege ends in Taiwan
1990 - 45th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Betsy King
1991 - France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
1991 - US troops leave northern Iraq
1991 - Sandhi Ortiz-DelValle is 1st woman to officiate a men's pro basketball (USBL) game, game
           between New Haven Skyhawks & Phila Spirit
1992 - Pope John Paul II hospitalized for 3 weeks to have tumor removed
1994 - Gyula Horn sworn in as premier of Hungary
1994 - Israel & Jordan agree to talks in Wash DC on July 25th
1994 - NJ Nets Derrek Coleman accused of rape in Detroit
1994 - Sonia O'Sullivan runs 3K (8:21.64)
1995 - Birmingham Barracudas 1st CFL home game (vs Hamilton)
1995 - Jews take Jerusalem
1995 - Northern Virginia begins using new area code 540
1996 - After 2,216 consecutive games at shortstop, Cal Ripkin goes to 3rd
1996 - MSNBC begins Microsoft internet-NBC TV
1996 - Prince Charles & Princess Di sign divorce papers
1996 - Southern Mexico hit with 6.5 earthquake
1996 - A Belgian Air Force C-130 Hercules carrying the Royal Netherlands Army marching band
           crashes on landing at Eindhoven Airport.
1999 - The inaugural game at the Seattle Mariners' Safeco Field was held in Seattle, Washington.
2002 - "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh pleads guilty to supplying aid to the enemy and to
           possession of explosives during the commission of a felony.
2002 - Anti-Terrorism Court of Pakistan hands down the death sentence to British born Ahmed
           Omar Saeed Sheikh and life terms to three others suspected of murdering Wall Street Journal
           reporter Daniel Pearl.
2003 - AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape Communications Corporation. The Mozilla Foundation is
           established on the same day.
2009 - A 7.9 Magnitude earthquake registers 160km west of Invercargill, New Zealand, creating a
           small tsunami.
2012 - 39 pilgrims are killed in a bus crash in Parasi, Nepal
2012 - A Russian Soyuz rocket with an international team launches for a mission to the International
           Space Station

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 15, 2013, 09:11:14 AM

This Day in History for 15th July


Famous Weddings

1500 - "Blood Wedding" of Astorre Baglione & Lavinia Colonna in Perugia family Baglione massacre
1952 - Gerald D Lascelles (under English princess Mary) weds Angela Dowding
1999 - "Grateful Dead" guitarist Bob Weir (51) weds Natasha Muenter (31) in Mill Valley, California
2005 - Heavyweight boxing champion Lennox Lewis (39) weds former Miss Jamaica runner-up Violet
           Chang at William Knibb Memorial Baptist Church in Falmouth, Jamaica
2006 - Singer-songwriter Avril Lavigne (21) weds "Sum 41" lead singer and guitarist Deryck Whibley
          (26) at a private estate in Montecito, California
2006 - Soccer star player Ashley Cole (25) weds "Girls Aloud" member Cheryl Tweedy (23) at Holy
          Trinity Church in Wrotham Park, Hertfordshire
2011 - American TV personality and host Vanessa Minnillo (30) weds American singer-songwriter Nick
           Lachey (37) at Sir Richard Branson's private Necker Island in British Virgin Islands
2011 - Former Rhode Island Congressman Patrick Kennedy (44) weds Amy Petitgout in Hyannis Port,
           Massachusetts

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 15, 2013, 09:12:00 AM

This Day in History for 15th July


Famous Divorces

1996 - Prince Charles & Princess Di sign divorce papers

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 15, 2013, 09:18:49 AM

This Day in History for 15th July


Famous Birthdays

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Painter                                                     Author and creator of The                    Supermodel Kim Alexis (1960)
Rembrandt van Rijn (1606)                           Huffington Post
                                                               Arianna Huffington (1950)


1273 - Ewostatewos, Ethiopian monk and religious leader (d. 1352)
1353 - Vladimir the Bold, Russian prince (d. 1410)
1458 - Juan Ponce de Leon, Spanish Explorer (d. 1521)
1471 - Eskender, Emperor of Ethiopia (d. 1494)
1553 - Archduke Ernest of Austria (d. 1595)
1573 - Inigo Jones, London, architect (Old St Paul's Cathedral, Coven Garden)
1606 - Rembrandt van Rijn, Leiden Netherlands, painter (Night Watch), (d. 1669)
1631 - Jens Juel, Danish diplomat (d. 1700)
1638 - Giovanni Buonaventura Viviani, composer
1700 - Johann Christoph Richter, composer
1701 - Pierre Joubert, became oldest known Canadian (113 y 124 d at death)
1704 - August Gottlieb Spangenberg, founder of Moravian Church in North America
1737 - Princess Louise-Marie of France, daughter of king Louis XV (d. 1787)
1779 - Clement Clarke Moore, US, author ('Twas the Night Before Xmas)
1796 - Thomas Bulfinch, mythologist (Bulfinch's Mythology)
1798 - Charles H Bell, Comm (Union Navy), died in 1875
1802 - John Barnett, composer
1808 - Henry Cole, promotor (Great Exhibition of 1851)
1808 - Henry Edward Manning, cardinal/archbishop (Westminster)
1812 - Benno Adam, animal painter
1812 - James Hope-Scott, English barrister (d. 1873)
1817 - John Fowler, English engineer (London Metropolitan Railway)
1818 - Heinrich Esser, composer
1837 - Stephanie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, queen of Portugal (d. 1859)
1848 - Vilfredo F D Pareto, Italian economist/sociologist
1849 - Moritz Heuzenroeder, composer
1850 - Francesca Xavier Cabrini, [Mother Cabrini], 1st US saint
1851 - Eduardo Gutiérrez, Argentinian author (d. 1889)
1856 - Owen Dunell, cricketer (South Africa's 1st Test captain)
1864 - Marie Tempest, [Marie Susan Etherington], actress (Yellow Sands)
1865 - Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, 1st viscount Northcliffe
1865 - Wilhelm Wirtinger, Austrian mathematician (d. 1945)
1867 - Maggie Mitchell Walker, 1st woman bank director/philanthropist
1870 - Ernest Walker, composer
1871 - Kunikida Doppo, Japanese writer (d. 1908)
1875 - Frank "Pop" Morgenweck, basketball hall of famer (elected 1962)
1875 - Jean van den Eeckhoudt, Belgian painter
1878 - Willem Paerels, Neth/Belgian painter/graphic artist
1884 - Enrique Soro Barriga, composer
1889 - Marjorie Rambeau, SF California, actress (Primrose Path, Torch Song)
1892 - Walter Benjamin, German literature critic/writer
1893 - Enid Bennett, Australia, silent film actress (Skippy, Hairpins)
1894 - Tadeusz Sendzimir, Polish-American engineer and inventor (d. 1989)
1898 - Noel Gay, [Richard Moxon Armitage], composer
1898 - Norman Demuth, composer
1899 - Seán Lemass, Irish leader (d. 1971)
1901 - Pyke F C Koch, Dutch surrealistic painter (Dolores' Breakfast)
1902 - Jean Rey, Belgium, pres of European Commission (1967-70)
1902 - Raymond Hackett, NYC, husband of Blanche Sweet/actor (Faithless Lover)
1903 - Kumaraswami Kamaraj, Indian politician (d. 1975)
1904 - Rudolf Arnheim, German-born author (d. 2007)
1905 - Dorothy Fields, lyricist (I'm in the Mood for Love)
1906 - Edmund Davies, British lord of appeal
1906 - Rudolf "Rudi" Uhlenhaut, German automotive engineer and test driver (Mercedes Benz) (d.
          1989)
1907 - Paterson Fraser, British air marshal
1909 - Enid Kathleen Hutchinson, adult educationalist
1909 - Isabel Jewell, Shoshone WY, actress (Ceiling Zero, Arousers)
1909 - John Cochrane, South African cricket pace bowler (one Test 1931)
1910 - Ronald Binge, composer
1911 - Juliet Pannett, English portrait painter
1911 - Lord Shackelton, explorer/government minister
1911 - Edward Shackleton, English explorer (d. 1994)
1913 - Murvyn Vye, Quincy Mass, actor (Bob Cummings Show)
1913 - Ralph Hammond Innes, English author
1913 - Cowboy Copas, American country singer (d. 1963)
1913 - Dorothy Schwartz, American violinist (d. 2007)
1913 - Abraham Sutzkever, Yiddish language poet and memoirist.
1914 - Akhtar Hameed Khan, pioneer of Microcredit in developing countries (d. 1999)
1914 - Howard Vernon, Swiss actor (d. 1996)
1915 - Alexander Durie, vice president (British AA)
1915 - Ron Smith, union leader (British Postal Workers)
1916 - George Maduro, Antillian resistance fighter (Willemsorde/Madurodam)
1917 - Robert Conquest, English author (Back to Life)
1918 - Lord Buxton of Alsa, CEO (ITV)
1919 - Iris Murdoch, Dublin Ireland, novelist (Severed Head, Unicorn)
1920 - Eldon Rudd, (Rep-R-AZ, 1977- )
1920 - Ruthven Wade, British Air Chief marshal
1921 - Jack Hamilton Beeson, composer
1922 - Jef Houthuys, chairman Belgian labor union (ACV 1968-87)
1922 - Jeffrey Benson, CEO (600 group)
1922 - Jiri Lederer, Czechoslovakia, journalist/dissident
1924 - David Cox, warden (Nuffield College, Oxford)
1924 - Jeremiah A Denton, (Sen-R-AL, 1981-86)
1925 - Phil Carey, Hackensack NJ, actor (Asa Buchanan-One Life to Live)
1926 - John Arthur Neill Lambert, composer
1926 - John Graham, British ambassador to NATO
1926 - Driss Chraïbi, Moroccan author
1926 - Leopoldo Galtieri, Argentine dictator (d. 2003)
1927 - Ann Jellicoe, theater director/playwright (Knack)
1927 - Carmen Zapata, NYC, actress (Hagen, Viva Valdez, Man & the City)
1928 - Carl Woese, American microbiologist
1929 - Larry Lamb, newspaper editor
1929 - Charles Anthony, American tenor
1930 - Charles Kelly, chief constable (Staffordshire England)
1930 - Jacques Derrida, French philosopher (d. 2004)
1930 - Stephen Smale, American mathematician
1931 - Clive Cussler, Aurora Illinois, writer (Raise The Titantic, Sahara)
1931 - Eugene Louw, South African minister of Internal affairs
1932 - Nina Van Pallandt, Copenhagen Denmark, actress (American Gigolo)
1933 - Frederico Davia, opera singer
1933 - James Ball, economist
1933 - Julian Bream, guitarist
1934 - Harrison Birtwhistle, Accringto Lancashire, composer (Trombeau)
1934 - Simon Gournlay, president (British National Farmer's Union)
1934 - Harrison Birtwistle, English composer
1934 - Risto Jarva, Finnish filmmaker (d. 1977)
1935 - Alex Karras, Gary Ind, NFLer (Detroit Lions)/actor (George-Webster), (d. 2012)
1935 - Ken Kercheval, Wolcottville Ind, actor (Cliff Barnes-Dallas)
1935 - Donn Clendenon, baseball player (d. 2005)
1936 - Marion Roe, MP (C)
1938 - Carmen Callil, publisher
1938 - Enrique Figuerola Camue, Cuba, 100m runner (Olympic-silver-1964)
1939 - Haseeb Ahsan, Pakistani cricket off-spinner (12 Tests 1958-62)
1939 - Patrick Wayne, Los Angeles California, actor (Rounder, Shirley, Beyond Atlantis)
1939 - Ronald Hadfield, chief constable (West Midlands England)
1939 - William David Hellerman, composer
1941 - Geoffrey Burgon, composer
1942 - Henry McCubbin, MEP (Labour)
1942 - Philip R Sharp, (Rep-D-Indiana, 1975- )
1942 - Mil Mascaras, Mexican professional wrestler
1943 - Diligenti quintuplets, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1943 - Jocelyn Burnell, astronomer
1944 - Jan-Michael Vincent, Denver, actor (Hooper, Tribes, Buster & Billie)
1944 - Millie Jackson, Thompson Ga, model/singer (Get it out 'cha system)
1945 - Peter Lewis, Los Angeles California, rock guitarist/vocalist (Moby Grape)
1945 - Jürgen Möllemann, German politician (d. 2003)
1946 - Hassabal Bolkiah Mu'izzadin Waddaulah, sultan of Brunei
1946 - Linda Ronstadt, Tucson Az, singer (Dif Drum)/actress (Pir of Penzance)
1948 - Enrique Basilio, hurler, 1st lady to light Olympic flame (Mexico-1968)
1948 - Alicia Bridges, American singer
1949 - John Arthur Casken, composer
1949 - Kerry Short, Vineland Ont, Canad Tour golfer (Highland Amat-1981, 84)
1949 - Trevor Horn, rock producer (Buggles-Video Killed, Yes, Frankie)
1949 - WiIlliam Faure, producer
1949 - Carl Bildt, Swedish politician
1950 - Alan Hurst, cricketer (Australian pace bowler 1974-79)
1950 - Colin Barnett, Australian politician
1950 - Arianna Huffington, Athens, Greek-born author, syndicated columnist and creator of The
           Huffington Post
1951 - Jesse "The Body" Ventura, wrestler/actor (Predator, Running Man)
1952 - David Bell, horse trainer
1952 - David Pack, rocker (Ambrosia)
1952 - Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, (Rep-R-Florida)
1952 - Jeff Carlisi, rock guitarist (38 Special)
1952 - Jesse Ventura, [James Janos], wrestler/actor (mayor-Brooklyn Pk-MN)
1952 - Jill Long, (Rep-D-Indiana)
1952 - Larken Collins, rocker (Rossington-Collins Band)
1952 - Johnny Thunders, American musician (d. 1991)
1952 - Terry O'Quinn, American actor
1952 - Judy McGrath, American television executive
1953 - Cathy Larmouth Torrance California, playmate (Jun, 1981)
1953 - Franklyn Seales, St Vincent, actor (Dexter-Silver Spoons)
1953 - Jean-Bertrand Aristide, president of Haiti (1991, 1994- )
1953 - John Denham, MP (Labour)
1954 - Boris Polak, Israel, Men's 50M Free Rifle 3 Positions (Oly-20-1996)
1956 - Joe Satriani, rocker
1956 - Kathy Kreiner, Canada, giant slalom (Olympic-gold-1976)
1956 - Toshihiko Seko, Japanese runner (world record 25/30 km)
1956 - Ian Curtis, British musician (d. 1980)
1957 - Kate Kellaway, critic
1958 - Daniel Bruce Forsman, Rhinelander WI, PGA golfer (1992 Buick Open)
1958 - Mac Thornberry, American politician
1959 - Vincent Lindon, French actor
1959 - Shep Pettibone, American record producer
1960 - Alexander W Dunlap, Honolulu Hawaii, astronaut
1960 - Kim Alexis, Lockport NY, supermodel (Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover) and actress
1960 - Willie Aames, Newport Beach Ca, actor (8 is Enough, Paradise, Zapped)
1961 - Forest Whitaker, Longview TX, actor (Bloodsport, Platoon, Stakeout)
1961 - Lolita Davidovich, actress (Blaze, Jungle2Jungle)
1961 - Jean-Christophe Grangé, French writer and screenwriter
1961 - Scott Ritter, UN weapons inspector in Iraq
1963 - Brigitte Nielsen, Eisinore Denmark, actress (Red Sonja, Rocky IV)
1963 - Joe Phillips, NFL defensive tackle (KC Chiefs)
1963 - Steve Thomas, Stockport England, NHL left wing (NJ Devils)
1964 - Shari Headley, Queens, New York, American actress (All My Children, Coming to America)
1964 - Leonard Stabb, actor (Hunter Guthrie-One Life to Live, Guiding Light)
1965 - Kirt Manwaring, Elmira NY, catcher (SF Giants)
1965 - Scott Livingstone, Dallas TX, infielder (SD Padres, Det Tigers)
1965 - David Miliband, British politician
1966 - Irene Jacob, actress (Red, Othello)
1966 - Kristoff St John, NYC, actor (Adam-Generations, Young & Restless)
1966 - Rickey Foggie, CFL quarterback (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1967 - Carnell Lake, NFL strong safety (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1967 - Adam Savage, American actor
1968 - Eddie Griffin, American comedian
1968 - Stan Kirsch, American actor
1969 - Christina Novak, Miss Arizona USA (1996)
1969 - John Crotty, NBA guard (Cleveland Cavaliers, Portland Trailblazers)
1969 - Johnny Scott, CFL defensive tackle (BC Lions)
1969 - Lorenzo Williams, NBA center (Wash Wizards, Dallas Mavericks)
1969 - Peter Ciavaglia, Albany NY, US hockey forward (Olympics-1994)
1969 - Richard Fletcher Pride III, Tuscaloosa AL, PGA golfer (1994 Fed Exp)
1970 - Julian Paynter, Australian 5k runner (Olympics-96)
1970 - Stephen Howard, NBA forward (Seattle Supersonics)
1970 - Chi Cheng, American musician (Deftones), (d. 2013)
1971 - Dean Panaro, Knoxville Tenn, diver (Olympics-96)
1971 - Eric Lacroix, Montreal, NHL left wing (LA Kings)
1971 - Ernest Dye, NFL tackle (Arizona Cardinals)
1971 - James Baldwin Jr, Southern Pines NC, pitcher (Chicago White Sox)
1971 - Danijela, Croatian singer
1972 - Khalid Reeves, NBA guard (Dallas Mavericks, NJ Nets)
1972 - Michael Barnett, UK musician / producer
1972 - Scott Foley, American actor
1972 - Beth Ostrosky, American model
1973 - Brian Austin Green, Van Nuys Cal, actor (David-Beverly Hills 90210)
1973 - Donald Willis, WLAF corner (Amsterdam Admirals)
1973 - John Dolmayan, Lebanese-born drummer (System of a Down)
1973 - Chris Taylor, Australian comedian, member of The Chaser
1974 - Janice Bremner, Burlington Ontario, synchro swimmer (Olymp-silver-96)
1974 - Chot Ulep, Filipino musician
1975 - Kara Drew, An American professional wrestler better known as Cherry
1975 - Ben Pepper, Australian basketball player
1976 - Rebecca Snyder, Grand Junction Colo, air pistol (Olympics-1996)
1976 - Jim Jones, African Puerto Rican American rapper
1976 - Diane Kruger, German actress and former fashion model
1977 - Ray Toro, American musician (My Chemical Romance)
1977 - Faraz Anwar, Pakistani guitarist (Mizraab)
1977 - Kitana Baker, American model (Miller Light Catfight commercial)
1977 - Lana Parrilla, American actress
1977 - Andre Nel, South African Cricketer
1978 - Miguel Olivo, Dominican baseball player
1979 - Laura Benanti, American musical theatre actress
1979 - Alexander Frei, Swiss footballer
1980 - Jonathan Cheechoo, professional ice hockey player
1980 - Reggie Abercrombie, professional baseball player
1980 - Jasper Pääkkönen, Finnish actor and film producer
1981 - Alecia Ingram, Knoxville Tenn, gymnast (alt-Olympics-96)
1983 - Nelson Merlo, Brazilian racing driver
1984 - Vice Cooler, American musician
1989 - Tristan Wilds, American actor
1992 - Koharu Kusumi, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 15, 2013, 09:23:18 AM

This Day in History for 15th July


Famous Deaths

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Chemist and Nobel Laureate                          US WW1 Commander                      Fashion Designer
Hermann Emil Fischer (1919)                        John J. Pershing (1948)                     Gianni Versace (1997)


668 - Constantius II, emperor of Byzantium, dies at 37
1085 - Robert Guiscard, Duke of Apulia & Calabria, dies at 70
1262 - Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford, English soldier (b. 1222)
1274 - John F Bonaventura, Ital/French theologist/dominican/saint, dies
1291 - Rudolf I, King of Germany & Holy Roman Empire, dies
1381 - John Ball, English priest/ideologist of Boer uprising, hanged
1406 - Duke William of Austria (b. c.1370)
1410 - Ulrich von Jungingen, German Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights (killed in battle) (b. 1360)
1411 - Johannes Parvus, [Jean Petit], French theologist, dies
1416 - John, Duke of Berry, captain of Paris, dies
1417 - Willem J Eggert, financier (W E Center, Purmerend), dies
1521 - Juan Ponce de León, Spanish Explorer (b. 1458)
1571 - Shimazu Takahisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1514)
1609 - Annibale Carracci, painter, dies
1614 - Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme, French historian and biographer (b. c.1540)
1655 - Girolamo Rainaldi, Italian architect (b. 1570)
1685 - James Scott, Duke of Monmouth, illegitimate son of Charles 2, executed
1738 - Alexander Voznitsyn, Rus Naval officer converted to Judaism, executed
1738 - Antonio Maria Pacchioni, composer, dies at 84
1738 - Baruch Leibov, converted Russian Naval officer to Judaism, executed
1750 - Vasily Tatishchev, Russian statesman (b. 1686)
1751 - John Wilson, botanist, dies
1765 - Charles-André van Loo, French painter (b. 1705)
1767 - Michael Bruce, Scottish poet (b. 1746)
1782 - Farinelli, Italian singer, dies at 77
1782 - Robert Wainwright, composer, dies at 33
1784 - Johan B Straub, South German sculptor, dies
1789 - Jacques Duphly, composer, dies at 74
1798 - Gaetano Pugnani, composer, dies at 66
1810 - Jean-Baptiste Rey, composer, dies at 75
1828 - Jean Antoine Houdon, French sculptor (b. 1741)
1839 - Winthrop Mackworth Praed, politician/poet, dies
1844 - Claude Charles Fauriel, French historian (b. 1772)
1854 - Wincenty Studzinski, composer, dies at 39
1856 - Margaretha J de Neufville, author (The Kidnap), dies at 81
1857 - Carl Czerny, Austrian pianist/composer, dies at 66
1862 - David Emanuel Twiggs, US Confederate gen-mjr (Monterrey), dies at 72
1865 - Reinier C Bakhuizen van de Brink, Dutch historian, dies at 55
1868 - William Thomas Morton, dentist (1st to use ether), dies
1869 - A J Haynes, US army captain and civil war veteren, assassinated by KKK
1876 - Aleksander Fredro, Polish comedy writer (Zemstra), dies at 82
1881 - Billy the Kid [William H Bonney], shot by sheriff Pat Garrett at 21
1883 - Tom Thumb, famous small person (40"), dies of a stroke at 44
1885 - Rosalia de Castro, Spanish writer and poet (b. 1837)
1890 - Gottfried Keller, writer, dies at 70
1898 - Jean Baptiste Salpointe, second Archbishop of Santa Fe (d. 1825)
1904 - Anton Pavlovich Chechov, Russian writer (Uncle Vanya), dies at 44
1910 - Daniel Kinet, auto racer/1st Belgian flyer, dies
1912 - Francisco Lazaro, Portuguese marathon runner (Olympics), dies at 21
1915 - Ludwik Grossman, composer, dies at 80
1919 - Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist and Nobel Prize laureate, commits suicide at 66
1929 - Hugo Von Hofmannsthal, playwright/poet, dies
1930 - Leopold von Auer, Hungarian/US violinist, dies
1931 - Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Russian economist (b. 1868)
1933 - Irving Babbitt, US writer (Democracy & Leadership), dies at 67
1933 - Freddie Keppard, American musician (b. 1890)
1934 - Jules Renkin, Belgian PM (1931-32), dies
1935 - Alfred Archer, cricketer (England batsman in one Test 1899), dies
1935 - Pieter WA Cort van de Linden, Dutch premier (1913-18), dies at 89
1937 - Walter Gay, artist, dies
1939 - Johon Mellanby, physiologist, dies
1939 - Percy Scott Worthington, architect, dies
1940 - Donald Calthrop, dies at 52
1940 - Robert Wadlow, world's tallest man (8'11.1"), dies at 32
1942 - Denis Moloney, cricketer (during WW II 3 Tests for NZ 1937), dies
1946 - Razor Smith, English cricketer (b. 1877)
1947 - Henry Kolker, dies at 76
1947 - Walter Donaldson, American songwriter (b. 1893)
1948 - John J. Pershing, [Black Jack], US general (Mexico, WW I), dies at 87
1952 - Julia Lennon, John Lennon's mother dies in a car accident
1953 - Servant of God Archbishop Mar Ivanios (b.1882)
1957 - George Cleveland, actor (Grampa-Lassie), dies at 74
1957 - Marie C of Zeggelen, author (Dessajongen), dies at 87
1957 - James M. Cox, American politician (b. 1870)
1957 - Vasily Maklakov, Russian orator and liberal politician (b. 1869)
1958 - Julia Lennon, mother of Beatle John, dies in an auto accident
1958 - Nuries-Said, Iraqi soldier/statesman, assassinated, dies
1959 - Ernest Bloch, Swiss/US composer (Macbeth), dies at 78
1959 - Peter A Egge, Norwegian writer (The Dream), dies
1959 - Vance Palmer, Australian author (b. 1885)
1960 - Lawrence Mervil Tibbett, baritone, dies after surgery at 63
1960 - Set Persson, Swedish communist politician (b. 1897)
1961 - John E. Brownlee, Canadian politician (b. 1884)
1965 - Francis Cherry, American politician (b. 1908)
1968 - Lura Anson, dies in Woodland at 76
1969 - Peter Van Eyck, dies after long illness at 56
1971 - Guy Wilkerson, dies of cancer at 71
1974 - Christine Chubbuck, television news reporter (b.1944)
1975 - Charles Weidman, US dancer/choreographer (Fables for Our Time), dies
1976 - Paul William Gallico, writer, dies at 78
1977 - Konstantin Fedin, writer, dies
1979 - Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, President of Mexico (b. 1911)
1980 - Eddie Jackson, comedian (Jimmy Durante Show), dies at 84
1980 - Henri Martelli, composer, dies at 85
1982 - Donald Beard, cricketer (4 Tests for NZ 1952-56), dies
1982 - Wendy Caulfield, 1st Green River victim, found near Seattle
1982 - Bill Justis, American musician and producer (b. 1926)
1983 - Eddie Foy Jr, actor (Eddie-Fair Exchange), dies of cancer at 78
1986 - Benny Rubin, actor/comedian (Benny Rubin Show), dies at 87
1986 - Florence Halop, actress (Florence-Night Court), dies at 63
1986 - Billy Haughton, American harness driver and trainer (b. 1923)
1987 - Alfie Bass, actor (Moonraker, Are You Being Served), dies at 66
1987 - Jack O'Hagan, cricketer/composer (Our Don Bradman), dies
1988 - Eleanor Estes, author (Ginger Pye, Moffats), dies at 82
1989 - Laurie Cunningham, English footballer (b. 1956)
1990 - Alison Leggatt, actress (Day of Triffids, Cows), dies at 86
1990 - Margaret Mary Lockwood, actress (Man in Grey, Wicked Lady), dies at 73
1990 - Troy Dixon, rapper (Trouble T-Roy of Heavy D), dies at 22 of a fall
1991 - Bert Convy, actor (Snoop Sisters, Win Lose or Draw), dies at 57
1992 - Henk van der Molen, guitarist/composer/writer (Martine Bijl), dies
1992 - Chingiz Mustafayev, Azerbaijan's most noted journalist (b. 1960)
1992 - Hammer DeRoburt, first President of Nauru (b. 1922)
1993 - David Brian, US actor (Damned Don't Cry, Fort Worth), dies at 78
1993 - Bobby Kent, alleged Florida bully murdered by his friends (b. 1973)
1994 - Jeanne Bieruma Oosting, Dutch painter/illustrator, dies
1995 - Eddie J Bush, golf professional, dies at 83
1995 - Willie George "Bill" Woodruff Sr, vocalist, dies at 66
1996 - Dana Hill, actress (Vacation), dies at 32
1997 - Alan Chaig, paleontologist (Carl Sagan of BBC), dies at 70
1997 - Gianni Versace, fashion designer, shot to death by Andrew Cunanan at 50
2000 - Louis Quilico, Canadian baritone (b. 1925)
2003 - Roberto Bolaño, Chilean writer (b. 1953)
2003 - Tex Schramm, American football team president and general manager (b. 1920)
2006 - Robert H. Brooks, founder of Hooters of America (b. 1937)
2007 - Kelly Johnson, English guitarist, dies at 49
2008 - Gyorgy Kolonics, Hungarian canoeist, Olympics medalist. (b. 1972)
2010 - James E. Akins, American diplomat and advisor to Richard Nixon (b. 1926)
2011 - Googie Withers, British actress (b. 1917)
2012 - Celeste Holm, American actress, dies at 95

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 16, 2013, 08:36:15 AM

This Day in History for 16th July


Historical Events

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Founder of Protestanism                         US Civil War Admiral                             Yankee Clipper Joe DiMaggio
Martin Luther                                          David Farragut

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Baseball Player and Manager                         Novelist J. D. Salinger                  Spanish Dictator Francisco Franco
Leo Durocher

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US President & Actor                          Olympic Sprinter and Long jumper
Ronald Reagan                                                  Carl Lewis


463 - Start of Lunar Cycle of Hilarius
622 - Moslem Era begins-Mahomet begins flight from Mecca to Medina (Hejira)
622 - Origin of Islamic Era (Muharram 1, 1 AH)
1054 - Michael Caerularius excommunicated of Constantinople
1054 - Three Roman legates fracture relations between Western and Eastern Christian churches by
           placing invalid Papal Bull of Excommunication on altar of Hagia Sophia during Saturday
           afternoon divine liturgy. Often dated as start of the East-West Schism.
1099 - Crusaders herd Jews of Jerusalem into a synagogue & set it afire
1212 - Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa; end of Moslem power in Spain
1251 - The Virgin Mary gives Simon Stock a Brown Scapular (legend)
1338 - German monarch signs Treaty of Rense
1429 - Army entered Reims
1429 - Joan of Arc leads French army in Battle of Orleans
1439 - Kissing is banned in England (to stop germs from spreading)
1465 - Battle at Montlhéry
1519 - Public debate between Martin Luther & theologist John Eck
1548 - La Paz, Bolivia is founded
1573 - Alva demands submission of Zealand/Holland
1618 - Capt John Gilbert patents 1st dredger in Britain
1661 - 1st banknotes in Europe were issued by Bank of Stockholm
1683 - Turkish troops under Kara Mustafa attain Vienna
1683 - Manchu/Chinese Qing Dynasty naval forces under commander Shi Lang defeat the Kingdom of
           Tungning in the Battle of Penghu near the Pescadores Islands.
1755 - John Adams graduates Harvard
1769 - Father Junipero Serra founds Mission San Diego, 1st mission in Calif
1782 - Mozart's opera "Das Entfuhrung aus dem Serail," premieres in Vienna
1790 - US Congress establishes District of Columbia
1798 - US Public Health Service forms & US Marine Hospital authorized
1801 - Pope Pius VII & 1st consul Napoleon sign concord
1809 - The city of La Paz, in what is today Bolivia, declared its independence from Spanish Crown and
           formed the Junta Tuitiva, the first independent government in Spanish America, lead by Pedro
           Domingo Murillo.
1845 - NY Yacht Club holds its 1st regatta
1856 - Statue of Laurens Jansz Coster unveiled in Haarlem
1857 - Sir Henry Havelock arrives at Battle of Cawnpore
1861 - Battle of Bull Run, the 1st major battle of the Civil War, is fought
1861 - Manassas Campaign [->JUL 22]
1862 - David Farragut is 1st Rear Admiral in US Navy
1863 - Utrecht-Swells railway opens
1867 - Amstel Hotel, "the dignified old lady" opens in Amsterdam
1867 - D R Averill patents ready-mixed paint
1867 - Joseph Monier patents reinforced concrete
1880 - Dr. Emily Stowe becomes the first woman licenced to practice medicine in Canada.
1894 - Many negro miners in Alabama killed by striking white miners
1894 - Treaty of Aoki-Kimberley signed between Japan & England
1895 - Archie MacLaren completes cricket 424 for Lancs v Somerset at Taunton
1902 - John McGraw named manager of NY Giants
1902 - Test Cricket debut of K S Ranjitsinhji v Australia, at Old Trafford
1904 - Islands of Manu'a group (Samoa) ceded to US by their chiefs
1909 - Det & Wash play longest scoreless game in AL history-18 innings
1912 - Naval torpedo launched from an airplane patents by B A Fiske
1914 - Socialist conference in Brussel (Kautsky, Trotski & Rosa Luxemburg)
1920 - 15th Davis Cup: USA beats Australasia in Auckland (5-0)
1920 - China joins the League of Nations
1920 - Gen Amos Fries appointed 1st US army chemical warfare chief
1920 - Ruth sets season home run record with 30 en route to 54
1924 - Conference over German recovery payments begins in London
1924 - NY Giants George Kelly is 1st to hit HRs in 6 cons games
1926 - Jaspar government asks authority to save Belgian franc
1926 - National Geographic takes 1st natural-color undersea photos
1927 - Augusto Sandino begins 5½ year war against US occupation of Nicaragua
1934 - Bradman scores 140 Aust v Yorkshire, 120 mins, 22 fours 2 sixes
1935 - 1st automatic parking meter in US installed (Oklahoma City, Ok)
1936 - 1st x-ray photo of arterial circulation, Rochester, NY
1936 - NY Giants are 10½ games back in NL, & go on to win pennant
1938 - 21st PGA Championship: Paul Runyan at Shawnee CC Shawnee-on-Del Pa
1940 - NSB'er Woudenberg appointed as NVV-trustee
1941 - 100°F (38°C) highest temperature ever recorded in Seattle Wash
1941 - Joe Dimaggio goes 3 for 4, hitting in his 56th straight game
1942 - French police arrest 13,152 Jews in Paris
1942 - Jews transported from Holland to extermination camp
1944 - Dodgers score 8 unearned runs against Braves to win 8-5 & break their 16-game losing
           streak, they will lose another 5 in a row
1945 - 1st test detonation of an atomic bomb, Trinity Site, Alamogordo, New Mexico
1945 - Australian Services win 3rd Victory Test Cricket by 4 wickets
1945 - Cruiser Indianapolis leaves SF with atom bomb
1946 - Attempt made to recall Mayor Lapham (1st time in SF history)
1946 - US court martials 46 SS to death (Battle of Bulge crimes) in Dachau
1947 - Bobo Newsom wins 200th game, 1st as a Yankee & Yanks 18th straight In nightcap Vic Rashi
           extends streak to 19
1948 - Eddie Sawyer replaces Ben Chapman in Phila, NY Giants Leo Durocher replaces Mel Ott & Burt
           Shotton replaces Durocher as Dodger manager
1950 - Single day 16 team HR record set at 37 (NL-25, AL-12)
1950 - Uruguay beats Brazil 2-1 for soccer's 4th World Cup in Rio de Janeiro
1951 - 1st Dutchman to win Tour de France (Wim Van Est)
1951 - King Leopold III, of Belgium, abdicates
1951 - Len Hutton scores his 100th 100, Yorks v Surrey at The Oval
1951 - Novel &quot;Catcher in Rye&quot; by J. D. Salinger published
1953 - KROC (now KTTC) TV channel 10 in Rochester, MN (NBC) 1st broadcast
1955 - "Golden Horseshoe Revue" 1st of 50,000+ performances, Disneyland
1956 - Detroit Tigers & Briggs Stadium sold for then record $5.5 million
1956 - Karelo-Finnish SSR becomes part of Russian SFSR
1956 - King Faisal of Iraq begins visit to England
1956 - Last Ringling Bros, Barnum & Bailey Circus under a canvas tent
1957 - Marine Maj John Glenn sets transcontinental speed record (03:28:08)
1960 - 205,000 (record sports attend) see Brazil-Uruguay World Cup soccer
1960 - George Crowe sets record of 12 pinch hit HRs with a runner on
1961 - Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Tippecanoe Golf Open
1961 - Ralph Boston of US, sets then long jump record at 27' 2"
1962 - NASA civilian Test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 32,600 m
1963 - Amazon river carries 190,000 m3/sec of water (record)
1964 - Republicans convention selects Barry Goldwater as pres candidate
1965 - Mount Blanc Road tunnel between France & Italy opens
1966 - "Half a Sixpence" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 512 perfs
1967 - Mickey Wright wins Lady Carling Golf Open
1967 - Prison brawl ignites barracks, killing 37 (Jay, Florida)
1969 - Apollo 11, carrying 1st men to land on Moon, launched
1970 - Iraq's constitution goes into effect
1970 - Reds spoil Pirates debut in Pittsburgh's Three Rivers Stadium, 3-2
1971 - Franco points prince Juan Carlos as deputy in Spain
1972 - Dimitrios Papadopoulos becomes 269th patriarch of Constantinople
1972 - Smokey Robinson & Miracles final live performance
1973 - During Watergate hearings, Butterfield reveals existence of tapes
1975 - Commissioner Bowie Kuhn is reelected for a 7-year term
1976 - Rock duo Loggins & Messina break-up after 6 years
1977 - Janelle Commissiong, of Trinidad & Tobago, crowned 26th Miss Universe
1978 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Borden Golf Classic
1979 - Premier/pres al-Bakr of Iraq is succeeded by Saddam Hussein
1980 - Polish railway workers block railway to Russia
1980 - Ronald Reagan nominated for Pres by Republicans in Detroit
1981 - India performs nuclear Test
1981 - Shukuni Sasaki spins 72 plates simultaneously
1982 - George P Shultz sworn in as minister of Foreign affairs
1982 - NASA launches Landsat 4 to thematic map the Earth
1982 - Sun Myung Moon sentenced to 18 months for tax fraud
1983 - 20 killed in Britain's worst helicopter accident
1983 - Sikorsky S-61 disaster: A helicopter crashes off the Isles of Scilly, causing 20 fatalities.
1985 - 56th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-1 at Humphrey Metrodome, Minn
1985 - All star MVP: LaMarr Hoyt (SD Padres)
1985 - Bill to abolish Greater London Council receives royal assent
1985 - F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speed record of 1152 kph (716 mph)
1987 - Great Britain performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1987 - Said Aouita runs world record 2000m (4:50.81)
1987 - Don Mattingly hits his 4th grand slam of season & ties AL record of homers in 6 straight
           games (on way to tie major league record of 8 )
1988 - Carl Lewis runs a wind-assisted 100 m in 9.78 sec
1988 - Florence Joyner runs 100 m in women's world record 10.49 seconds
1988 - Jackie Joyner-Kersee sets women's heptathlete record of 7,215 pts
1988 - San Antonio (Texas League) beats Jackson 1-0 in 26 innings
1988 - Wayne Gretzky (NHL) & Janet Jones (Police Acad 5) wed in Edmonton
1989 - 44th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Betsy King
1990 - 400 die in a (7.7) earthquake in Philippines
1990 - Bridgette LeAnn Wilson, 17, of Oregon, 8th crowned Miss Teen USA
1990 - Civil trial by parents of Suicide victims against Judas Priest begins
1990 - NYC's Empire State Building catches fire-No fatalities
1990 - Rick Dee's "Into the Night," premieres on ABC-TV
1990 - Ukraine declares independence
1993 - President Lissouba calls emergency rule in Congo-Brazzaville
1993 - S van Ruysdael's "Winter Landscape" sold for £705,500 in London
1993 - SF outfielder Darren Lewis sets record of 267 consec errorless games
1994 - "Sisters Rosensweig" closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 556 perfs
1994 - 1st parts of Comet Shoemaker-Levy hits Jupiter (until July 22nd)
1994 - 3 tenors-Placid Domingo, Luciano Parvoti, Jose Carreras, perform in LA
1994 - Baseball Night in America premieres (no Saturday day games)
1994 - Comet Shoemaker-Levy collides with Jupiter
1994 - Shreveport Pirates 1st CFL home game (vs Toronto Argonauts)
1994 - Spanish fishing boats sink a French fishing boat over fishing rights
1994 - Sweden shuts out Bulgaria 4-0, to finish 3rd in the World Cup
1995 - "Buttons on Broadway" closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 40 perfs
1995 - "Chronicles of a Death Foretold" closes at Plymouth NYC after 55 perfs
1995 - 13th Seniors Players Golf Championship: J C Snead
1995 - 50th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Annika Sorenstam
1997 - Jerold Mackenzie awarded $266M for being fired from Miller Brewing for sexual harrassment
           for relaying a Seinfeld episode to a co worker
1999 - John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, and sister-in-law Lauren Bessette
           are killed in a plane crash off the coast of Martha's Vineyard. The Piper Saratoga aircraft was
           piloted by Kennedy.
2004 - Millennium Park, considered the first and most ambitious architectural project in the early 21st
           century for Chicago, is opened to the public by Mayor Richard M. Daley.
2007 - An earthquake of magnitude 6.8 and aftershock of 6.6 occurs off the Niigata coast, Japan,
           killing 8 people with at least 800 injured and damaging a nuclear power plant. See 2007
           Chūetsu offshore earthquake.

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 16, 2013, 08:38:56 AM

This Day in History for 16th July


Famous Weddings

1659 - Princess Henriette C of Orange-Nassau weds monarch Johan George II
1974 - "The Osmonds" singer Alan Osmond (25) weds Suzanne Pinegar at LDS Temple in Provo,
           Utah
1988 - "Back To The Future" actor Michael J. Fox (27) weds "Family Ties" actress Tracy Pollan (28) at
           West Mountain Inn in Arlington, Vermont
1994 - Anna Nicole Smith (26) weds ½ billionaire J Howard Marshall II (89)
2005 - Academy award winning actress Sandra Bullock (40) weds "Monster Garage" host Jesse James
           (36) at sunset on the grounds of The Folded Hills Ranch in Gaviota, California
2010 - Def Leppard lead guitarist Phil Collen (52) weds costume designer Helen L. Simmons (42) at
           Ritz-Carlton Palm Beach Resort in Florida

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 16, 2013, 08:40:51 AM

This Day in History for 16th July


Famous Divorces

2001 - "Kate & Leopold" actress Meg Ryan (38) divorces actor Dennis Quaid (46) after 9 years of
            marriage
2012 - Actor-comedian Russell Brand (36) divorces popstar Katy Perry (27) due to irreconcilable
          differences a year after the fairy-tale wedding in India

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 16, 2013, 08:51:08 AM

This Day in History for 16th July


Famous Birthdays

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Christian Science Founder                         The Lord of the Dance                              Olympic Gold Shooter
Mary Baker Eddy (1821)                                Michael Flatley (1958)                              Kim Rhode (1979)


1194 - Saint Clare of Assisi, Italian follower of Francis of Assisi (d. 1253)
1571 - Theodoor Galle, Flemish engraver, baptized
1611 - Archduchess Cecilia Renata of Austria, Queen of Poland (d. 1644)
1704 - John Kay, England, machinist, invented flying shuttle
1714 - Marc René, marquis de Montalembert, French military engineer (d. 1800)
1715 - Charles, Prince de Rohan-Soubise, marshal of France
1722 - Joseph Wilton, sculptor
1723 - Joshua Reynolds, England, portrait painter (Simplicity)
1725 - Georg Simon Lohlein, composer
1728 - Henri Moreau, composer
1746 - Giuseppe Piazzi, Italian monk/discoverer (1st asteroid-Ceres)
1796 - Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, painter
1821 - Mary Baker Eddy, Bow New Hampshire, founded Christian Science (Science & Health), (d.
           1910)
1822 - Luigi Arditi, violinist/composer
1823 - James Isham Gilbert, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1829 - Robert Brown Potter, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1887
1834 - Carlo Angeloni, composer
1834 - Peter Leyten, bishop of Breda (1885-1914)
1839 - Philipus J Hoedemaker, Dutch theologist
1848 - Henri[cus A] Viotta, Dutch conductor/composer (Lexicon of Music)
1855 - Charles Francis Abdy Williams, composer
1858 - Eugene Ysaye, composer
1860 - Jens Otto Harry Jespersen, linguist/philologist
1862 - Ida Bell Wells-Barnett [Iola], US civil rights activist
1865 - George A Birmingham, [Rev James Owen Hannay], novelist
1870 - Lambert McKenna, Irish scholar (d. 1956)
1872 - Roald Amundsen, Norway, explorer, discovered South Pole
1877 - Béla Schick, Hungarian/US children artist (Serum Krankheit)
1882 - Edward Earle, Toronto Ont, actor (Charlie Chan-Meeting at Midnight)
1882 - Felix Locher, Switzerland, actor (Frankenstein's Daughter)
1884 - Anna Vyrubova, Russian memoirist (d. 1964)
1887 - "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, black sox player (Say it aint so, Joe)
1888 - Frits Zernike, invented phase-contrast microscope (Nobel 1953)
1888 - Percy Kilbride, SF CA, actor (Egg & I, Ma & Pa Kettle)
1889 - Larry Semon, American comedian (d. 1928)
1896 - Mauritius R J Dekker [Boris Robazki], Dutch writer (Merkteken)
1896 - Trygve Halvdan Lie, Norway, 1st UN secretary general (1946-52)
1896 - Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer, German eugenicist and Nazi physician (d. 1969)
1899 - Eunice Hunton Carter, 1st black female district attorney (NY)
1901 - Fritz Mahler, composer
1902 - Alexander Luria, Russian psychologist (d. 1977)
1903 - Mary Philbin, Chicago IL, actress (Phantom of the Opera)
1903 - Carmen Lombardo, Canadian musician (d. 1971)
1904 - Goffredo Petrassi, Zagarolo Italy, composer (Beatitudines)
1904 - Leo Joseph Suenens, Cardinal (Belgium)
1906 - Vincent Sherman, American film director (d. 2006)
1907 - Barbara Stanwyck, Bkln, actress (Dynasty II, Big Valley, Thorn Birds)
1907 - Orville Redenbacher, popcorn King (Orville Redenbacher's Gourmet)
1907 - Frances Horwich, American educator and television personality (d. 2001)
1908 - Aruna Asaf Ali, politician
1908 - Maurice Adams, surgeon/British rear admiral
1909 - Geoffrey Bryan Bentley, moral theologian
1909 - John Edward "Teddy" Buckner, trumpeter
1910 - Stan McCabe, cricketer (exciting NSW & Australian batsman of 30's)
1911 - Ginger Rogers, [Virginia McMath], Independ Mo, dancer (Gay Divorcee)
1911 - Sonny Tufts, [Bowen Charleston Tufts II], Bost, actor (Variety Girl)
1912 - Ray Barr, NYC, pianist (Vincent Lopez Show)
1912 - Milt Bocek, American baseball player (d. 2007)
1913 - Hugh Ford, FRS mechanic engineer
1913 - Peter Van Eyck, Steinwehr Germany, actor (Brain, Wages of Fear)
1915 - Barnard Hughes, Bedford Hills NY, (Tron, Where's Poppa, Best Friends)
1915 - Baroness Llewelyn-Davies of Hastoe, deputy speaker (House of Lords)
1915 - Edward Miller, Master (Fitzwilliam College Cambridge)
1916 - Harold Locke, archdeacon of Loughborough
1917 - William Bishop, Oak Park Ill, actor (Steve-It's a Great Life)
1918 - Bayani Casimiro, Filipino dancer and actor (d. 1989)
1919 - Charles Graham, lord-lt of Cumbria UK
1919 - Choi Kyuha, President of South Korea (d. 2006)
1919 - Hermine Braunsteiner, Nazi war criminal (d. 1999)
1920 - Anwar Hussain, cricketer (four Tests for Pakistan v India 1952-53)
1921 - Bernard Rogers, supreme Allied commander Europe
1921 - Trevor Williams, scientific consultant
1923 - Reginald Prentice, British government minister
1923 - Chris Argyris, American educator
1924 - Bess Myerson, Bronx NY, 1st Jewish Miss America (1945)
1925 - Phillip Pine, Hartford Ct, actor (Set-Up, Under the Ground)
1925 - Cal Tjader, American musician (d. 1982)
1926 - Brian Howard, deputy chairman (Marks & Spencer)
1926 - Philip Randle, biochemist
1926 - Irwin Rose, American biologist, Nobel laureate
1927 - John Freeland, Legal advisor UK foreign office
1927 - John Warr, England, cricket bowler (avg 281)/president (MCC)
1927 - Shirley Hughes, author/illustrator
1928 - Bella Davidovich, Baku Russia, pianist (Chopin, Beethoven, Ravel)
1928 - James Kilfedder, MP (Ulster Popular Unionist)
1928 - Ray Thornton, (Rep-D-Arkansas)
1928 - Robert Sheckley, US, sci-fi author (10th Victim, Mindswap)
1928 - Anita Brookner, English novelist
1928 - Ticho Parly, Danish tenor (d. 1993)
1929 - Michael Morland, High court judge
1930 - John Everett Watts, composer
1930 - Michael Bilirakis, (Rep-R-Florida, 1983- )
1931 - Caroline Blackwood, writer
1932 - John Chilton, jazz trumpeter
1932 - Milly Vitale, Rome, actress (7 Little Foys, War & Peace, Juggler)
1932 - Oleg Protopopov, Russia, olympic pairs skater (Gold 1964, 68)
1932 - [Dick] Richard L Thornburgh, Penn, US Attorney General (1988-93)
1932 - Max McGee, American football player (d. 2007)
1933 - Sollie McElroy, R&B singer (Flamingos-Golden Teardrops)
1934 - Donald Payne, Newark, New Jersey, New Jersey Congressman (1989-2012), (d. 2012)
1935 - Tom Rosenthal, publisher/British broadcaster
1936 - Buddy Merrill, Torrey Utah, guitarist (Lawrence Welk Show)
1936 - V Subramanya, cricketer (Indian batsman in nine Tests mid-60's)
1937 - Richard Bryan, (Sen-D Nevada)
1938 - Anita Brookner, art historian/novelist
1938 - Thorkell Sigurbjornsson, composer
1938 - Tony Jackson, English bass player (The Searchers) (d. 2003)
1939 - Corin Redgrave, London, actor (Excalibur, Man For All Seasons)
1939 - Marion Pitt, social worker/writer
1939 - Mary Parkinson, British broadcaster
1939 - William Bell, [Yarborough], US singer (Tryin' to Love Two)
1939 - Mariele Ventre, Italian choir director (d. 1995)
1940 - Tony Jackson, Liverpool, rock bassist/vocalist (Searchers)
1941 - George Young, MP/British minister of housing & planning
1941 - Hans Wiegel, Dutch commissioner of the queen (Frisia)
1941 - Jan G H Krajenbrink, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (CDA)
1941 - Mišo Kovač, Croatian musician
1942 - Desmond Dekker, [Dacris], Jamaica, reggae pioneer (Aces-Israelites)
1942 - Frank Field, MP (Labour)
1942 - Margaret Smith Court, Australia, tennis pro (1970 Grand Slam)
1943 - Jimmy Johnson, NFL coach (Dallas Cowboys, Miami Dolphins)
1943 - Stanley Gebler Davies, journalist/drinker
1943 - Reinaldo Arenas, Cuban poet (d. 1990)
1945 - Barry Dudleston, cricket umpire
1945 - Diana Warwick, leader (Association of University Teachers)
1945 - Jos Stelling, director (Pointsman)
1945 - Kellie Everts, Kalv Germany, Miss nude Universe (1968)
1946 - Barbara Lee, American politician
1946 - Richard LeParmentier, American actor, (d. 2013)
1946 - Ron Yary, American football player
1947 - Roelof P Meyer, S Afr under minister of Law & Order etc
1947 - Tom Boggs, rock drummer (Box Tops)
1947 - Alexis Herman, 23rd U.S. Secretary of Labor
1947 - Assata Shakur, American activist
1948 - Pinchas Zukerman, Tel Aviv Israel, violinist/violist (Leventritt 1967)
1948 - Rubén Blades, Panamanian singer and actor
1949 - Alan "Fitz" Fitzgerald, rock keyboardist/vocalist (Night Ranger)
1949 - Cyndy Garvey, Detroit, wife of Steve Garvey, talk show host (AM LA)
1949 - Ray Major, rock guitarist (British Lions)
1950 - Camille Saviola, Bronx NY, actress (Nightlife)
1950 - Valery Yevgenyevich Maksimenko, Russian colonel/cosmonaut
1950 - Tom Terrell, musicologist, deejay
1950 - Pierre Paradis, Quebec politician
1950 - Dennis Priestley, English darts player
1951 - Esther M Friesner[-Stutzman], US, sci-fi author (Witchwood Cradle)
1951 - Lorraine Chase, actress/model (Lame Ducks, Love & Bullets)
1951 - Jean-Luc Mongrain, French-Canadian journalist
1952 - Phillip Carrick, cricketer
1952 - Stewart Copeland, Alexandria Egypt, drummer (Police-Roxanne)
1952 - Robert David Steele, American spy
1953 - Philece Sampler, San Angelo, Tx, actress (Donna Love-Another World)
1953 - Douglas J. Feith, American Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
1954 - Jeanette Mott Oxford, American politician
1956 - Ian Curtis, English rock vocalist (Joy Division-Transmission)
1956 - Tony Kushner, American playwright
1957 - Alan Donnelly, MP (Labour)
1957 - Wlodi Smolarek, soccer player (FC Utrecht)
1957 - Alexandra Marinina, Russian writer
1958 - Michael Flatley, Chicago Ill, Irish choreographer (Lord of Dance)
1958 - Pierre Roland Renoir, Canadian artist
1958 - Mike D. Rogers, American politician
1959 - Gary Anderson, NFL kickerk (Philadelphia Eagles)
1959 - Doug Herzog, American television executive
1960 - Eus van Someren, pop guitarist (Scene, Blaauw)
1960 - Gisela Beyer, German DR, discus thrower (Olympics-4th place-1980)
1960 - Terry Pendleton, Los Angeles California, infielder (Florida Marlins)
1960 - Leila Kenzle, Long Island, New York, American actress (Mad About You, Identity)
1963 - Mikael Pernfors, Sweden, tennis star
1963 - Phoebe Cates, Manhattan NY, actress (Fast Times at Ridgemount High)
1963 - Srečko Katanec, Slovenian footballer and coach
1964 - Miguel Indurain, Spanish bicyclist (Tour de France winner 1991-95)
1965 - Charles Smith, NBA forward (San Antonio Spurs)
1965 - Claude Lemieux, Buckingham Que, NHL forward (Team Canada, Colorado)
1966 - Bonnie Bright, Redondo Beach CA, WPVA volleyballer (Hermosa-17th-)
1966 - Chip Lohmiller, NFL kicker (NO Saints)
1966 - Jyrki Lumme, Tampere Fin, NHL defenseman (Canucks, Finland Oly-B-98)
1966 - Warren Sallenback, South Surrey BC, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1966 - Johnny Vaughan, English writer and broadcaster
1967 - Roger Duffy, NFL guard/center (NY Jets)
1967 - Will Ferrell, American comedian
1967 - Christopher Rocancourt, French con artist
1968 - Ariel Solomon, NFL center/guard (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1968 - Barry Sanders, NFL running back (Detroit Lions, 1988 Heisman Trophy)
1968 - Eric Jonassen, WLAF tackle (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1968 - Larry Sanger, American co-founder of Wikipedia
1969 - Rain Pryor, actress (Head of the Class)/daughter of Richard
1969 - Kathryn Harby-Williams, Australian netballer
1969 - Daryl Mitchell, American actor
1970 - Fabio Casartelli, cyclist
1970 - Phil Graham, Halifax Nova Scotia, rower (Olympics-96)
1970 - William Van Landingham, Columbia TN, pitcher (SF Giants)
1970 - Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thai film director
1971 - Chris Thomas, NFL wide receiver (SF 49ers)
1971 - Corey Feldman, Encino California, actor (License to Drive, Stand by Me)
1971 - Ed Kowalczyk, American singer (Live)
1972 - Aaron Glenn, NFL cornerback/kick returner (NY Jets)
1972 - Mindy Carson, NYC, vocalist (Club Embassy, Ford Star Revue)
1973 - Karla Beteta, Miss Universe-Guatemala (1996)
1973 - Shaun Pollock, cricketer (son of Peter South African Test quick 1995-)
1973 - Stefano Garzelli, Italian cyclist
1973 - Tim Ryan, American politician
1973 - Graham Robertson, American filmmaker and author
1974 - Michelle Chandler, Australian basketball point guard (Olymp-bronze-96)
1974 - Chris Pontius, American actor and Jackass cast member
1974 - Wendell Sailor, Australian rugby league and union footballer
1975 - Jonathan Zwinkel, hockey forward (Team France 1998)
1975 - Bas Leinders, Belgian racing car driver
1975 - Ana Paula Arósio, Brazilian actress
1975 - Jamie Oliver, Welsh keyboardist
1976 - Anna Smashnova, Minsk Russia, tennis star (1993 Futures-Erlangen GER)
1976 - Michael Petkovic, Australian soccer goalie (Olyroos, Olympics-96)
1976 - Tomasz Kuchar, Polish Rally driver
1976 - Bobby Lashley, American Professional Wrestler
1976 - Carlos Humberto Paredes, Paraguyan footballer
1977 - Bryan Budd, British soldier (VC recipient) (d. 2006)
1978 - Stephanie Lee Hamilton, Williston ND, Miss America-ND (1997)
1978 - Taj Anwar, model and activist
1979 - Kim Rhode [Kimberley], Whittier California, double trap (Olympics-gold-1996)
1979 - Jayma Mays, American actress
1979 - Chris Mihm, American basketball player
1980 - Adam Scott, Australian golfer
1982 - Michael Umaña, Costa Rican footballer
1984 - Hayanari Shimoda, Japanese racing driver
1984 - Katrina Kaif, Indian Actress
1986 - Calum Gittins, New Zealand actor
1989 - Gareth Bale, Welsh footballer
1991 - Randall Bentley, American actor
1994 - Mark Indelicato, American singer and actor

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 16, 2013, 08:54:38 AM

This Day in History for 16th July


Famous Deaths

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First Lady of the United States
Mary Todd Lincoln (1882)


276 - Mark Annius Florianus, emperor of Rome (276), murdered
599 - Monulphus, bishop of Tongeren-Maastricht (St Servaaskerk), dies
1099 - El Cid, [Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar], Spanish general strategist, dies at 59
1139 - Walram II, duke of Limburg/Neth-Lutherans, dies
1216 - Innocent III [Lotario de' Conti di Segni], Italian Pope (1198-1216), dies at 54 or 55
1324 - Emperor Go-Uda of Japan (b. 1267)
1342 - King Charles I of Hungary
1482 - John van Schaffelaar, Gelders knight, dies
1546 - Anne Askew, English Protestant (burned at the stake) (b. 1521)
1557 - Anne of Cleeves, queen of England/4th wife of Henry VIII, dies at 41
1590 - Bartholomaeus a Martyribus, [Fernandez], pontiff of Portugal, dies
1594 - Thomas Kyd, author of The Spanish Tragedy (b. 1558)
1647 - Masaniello, [Tommaso Aniello] Neapolitan rebel (b. 1622)
1664 - A Gryphius, writer, dies at 47
1686 - John Pearson, English theologian (b. 1612)
1691 - Francois-Michel Le Tellier, marquis de Louvois, statesman, dies
1698 - Cristoph Kaldenbach, composer, dies at 84
1729 - Johann David Heinichen, composer, dies at 46
1730 - Elijiah Fenton, poet, dies
1736 - Thomas Yalden, poet/fable writer, dies
1747 - Giuseppe Maria Crespi, painter/etcher, dies
1762 - Jacques Hotteterre, composer, dies at 87
1764 - Ivan VI, Emperor of Russia (1740-41), murdered at 23
1770 - Francis Cotes, English painter (b. 1726)
1782 - Louise Ulrike, queen of Sweden/wife of Adolf Frederik, dies at 61
1796 - George Howard, British field marshal (b. 1718)
1827 - Josiah Spode, potter, dies
1831 - Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron, Russian general (b. 1763)
1843 - Hubert MAJ van Asch van Wijck, politician, dies at 68
1857 - Pierre-Jean de Baranger, poet, dies
1864 - Victor JB Girardey, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 27
1868 - Louis-Francois Dauprat, composer, dies at 87
1871 - Tad Lincoln, son of U.S. president Abraham Lincoln
1879 - Edward Deas Thomson, Australian politician (b. 1800)
1882 - Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady of the United States (b. 1818)
1886 - Ned Buntline, [Edward Zane Carroll Judson], author, dies
1887 - Nicaise de Keyser, Flemish painter (Battle at Woeringen), dies at 73
1889 - Michele Amari, Italian historian/minister of Education, dies at 83
1890 - Gottfried Keller, novelist/poet, dies
1896 - Edmond-Louis-Antoine Huot de Goncourt, novelist, dies at 74
1896 - William Hamilton Gibson, illustrator/author/novelist, dies
1897 - Levin Goldschmidt, German business law expert, dies
1915 - Ellen White, American co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (b. 1827)
1916 - Ilja [Elias] Metsjnikov, Russ bacteriologist (Nobel 1908), dies
1916 - Ludwig P Scharwenka, German composer (Album Polonaise), dies at 70
1916 - Victor Alexander Haden Horsley, physician, dies
1916 - Ilya Mechnikov, Russian microbiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1845)
1917 - Ludwig Philipp Scharwenka, Ger composer (Album Polonaise), dies at 70
1923 - Louis M A Couperus, poet/writer (Books of Small Soles), dies at 60
1931 - Charles Studd, cricketer (5 Tests for England 1882-83), dies
1939 - Beatrice Erskine Lane Suzuki, Zen student, dies
1944 - John Post, Dutch farmer/resistance fighter (passage fight), executed
1949 - Vyacheslav Ivanov, Russian poet (b. 1866)
1953 - Joseph Hilaire Pierre Belloc, author (Path to Rome), dies at 82
1955 - Jean de Merode, [Marie-Louise Courtenay], Belgian princess, dies at 81
1960 - Albrecht von Kesselring, German fieldmarshal (Italy), dies at 74
1960 - John Phillips Marquand, novelist, dies at 66
1961 - [Louise] Sophie M E de Vries, actress (English Prof), dies at 88
1962 - Jan M Romein, historian (Breaking of Two Ages), dies
1971 - H T Tsiang, dies at 65
1972 - Giorgio Nataletti, composer, dies at 65
1972 - Max Zehnder, composer, dies at 70
1973 - Trijntje "Nine" van de Schaaf, author (Fries dorpsleven), dies at 91
1976 - Carmelo Soria, Spanish diplomat assassinated in 1976 by the Chilean DINA
1979 - James F Mcintyre, archbishop of Los Angeles, dies at 93
1979 - Alfred Deller, English countertenor (b. 1912)
1981 - Harry Chapin, folk vocalist (Taxi), dies in car crash at 38
1982 - Leendert Braat, sculptor/writer (White World), dies
1982 - Patrick Dewaere, actor (Catherine & Co), shoots self at 35
1984 - Billy Williams, singer (Your Show of Shows), dies at 73
1985 - Wayne King, orchestra leader (Wayne King Show), dies at 84
1985 - Heinrich Böll, German writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1917)
1989 - Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor, dies at 81
1990 - Robert Blackburn, Irish educationist (b. 1927)
1990 - Sidney Torch, English composer, conductor and organist (b. 1908)
1991 - Cornelis Z Forster, [Da Kuneisi], Suriname granman/gaanman, dies
1991 - Dwight Weist, Radio actor/film narrator (Radio Days), dies at 81
1991 - Frank Rizzo, (Mayor-D-Phila, 1972-80), dies of a heart attack at 70
1991 - Robert Motherwell, US painter (Elegies to Spanish Rep), dies at 76
1992 - "Gorgeous" George, [Arena], wrestler, dies at 84
1992 - Buck Buchanan, NFL defensive lineman (KC Chiefs), dies at 51
1992 - Johnny Martin, cricketer (NSW & Australian chinaman bowler), dies
1994 - M Vink, surgeon (1st Dutch kidney transplant), dies at 78
1994 - Madzy Rollin Couquerque, tennis star/international hockey, dies at 91
1995 - Charles Bruck, Hungarian/French/US conductor (Dutch Opera), dies at 83
1995 - Eleanore M "May" Sarton, Belg/US writer (Land of Silence), dies at 83
1995 - Juan Manuel Fangio, racing Driver, dies at 84
1995 - Max Factor Jr, makeup inventor, dies
1995 - Mordechai Gur, Israeli general, commits suicide at 65
1995 - Patsy Ruth Miller, actress (Wide Open, Sap, Twin Beds), dies at 91
1995 - Peter Francis de Sautoy, publisher, dies at 83
1995 - Stephen Harold Spender, writer, dies at 86
1995 - Travis Kemp, dancer/teacher, dies at 91
1996 - John Panozzo, drummer, dies at 48
1996 - Adolf von Thadden, German politician, (b. 1921)
1998 - John Henrik Clarke, American historian and scholar (b. 1915)
1999 - Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, wife of John F. Kennedy, Jr. (b. 1966)
1999 - John F. Kennedy, Jr., American publisher (b. 1960)
1999 - Hiromi Yanagihara, Japanese singer (b. 1979)
2001 - Maurice De Bevere, Belgian cartoonist (b. 1923)
2001 - Terry Gordy, American professional wrestler (b. 1961)
2002 - John Cocke, American computer scientist (b. 1925)
2003 - Celia Cruz, Cuban musician (b. 1924)
2003 - Carol Shields, Canadian author (b. 1935)
2004 - George Busbee, Governor of Georgia (b. 1927)
2005 - Pietro Consagra, Italian sculptor (b. 1920)
2005 - Prince Gu of Korea (b. 1931)
2005 - Camillo Felgen, Luxembourgish singer, lyricist, and entertainer (b. 1920)
2006 - Bob Orton, Sr., American professional wrestler (b. 1929)
2006 - Winthrop Paul Rockefeller, Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas (b. 1948)
2008 - Jo Stafford, American singer of traditional pop music (b. 1917)
2010 - James Gammon, American actor (b. 1940)
2011 - Forrest Blue, American football player (b. 1944)
2012 - Jon Lord, English musician, dies from a pulmonary embolism at 71
2012 - Kitty Wells, American country singer, dies from complications after a stroke at 92

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 17, 2013, 09:00:12 AM

This Day in History for 17th July


Historical Events

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English Monarch                                      Empress of Russia                                 Baseball Great Babe Ruth
Queen Elizabeth I                                     Catherine the Great

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Soviet Union Premier                                American Baseball Player                       Rocker/Beatle John Lennon
Joseph Stalin                                                  Roger Maris

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Beatles Drummer Ringo Starr                  US President & Actor                               Pop Singer & Beatle
                                                               Ronald Reagan                                           Paul McCartney

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Golfer Tiger Woods


180 - 6 inhabitants of Scillium in North Africa are executed for being Christians. Earliest record of
         Christianity in that part of the world.
561 - John III begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Pelagius I
855 - St Leo IV ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1054 - Emperor Henry III crowns his son Henry IV king
1070 - Arnulf III the Hapless becomes earl of Flanders
1203 - Venetianen conquer Constantinople, emperor Alexius III flees
1245 - Pope bans emperor Frederik II Hohenstaufen for 3rd time
1393 - Osmanen occupy Turnovo, Bulgaria
1429 - Dauphin crowned king of France
1453 - 1st battle at Castillon: French beat English troops
1473 - Charles the Stout conquerors Nijmegen
1509 - Venice recaptures Padua
1549 - Jews are expelled from Ghent Belgium
1552 - Siena drives Spanish troops out of Verdun
1583 - Spanish & Walloon troops conquer Dunkerk
1585 - English secret service discovers Anthony Babingtons murder plot against queen Elizabeth I
1596 - At 10:30AM Dutch explorer Willem Barents arrives at Novaya Zemlya
1603 - Sir Walter Ralegh arrested
1686 - A meeting takes place at Lüneburg between several Protestant powers in order to discuss the
           formation of an 'evangelical' league of defence, called the 'Confederatio Militiae Evangelicae',
           against the Catholic League.
1712 - England, Portugal & France sign ceasefire [or 19th]
1727 - Simon van Slingelandt appointed Dutch pension advisor
1740 - Prospero Lambertini chosen Pope Benedictus XIV
1762 - Catherine II becomes tsar of Russia upon the murder of Peter III
1774 - Capt Cook arrives at New Hebrides (Vanuata)
1775 - 1st military hospital approved
1788 - Russian fleet destroys Swedish
1791 - Members of the French National Guard under the command of General Lafayette open fire on
           a crowd of radical Jacobins at the Champ de Mars, Paris, during the French Revolution, killing
           as many as 50 people.
1794 - The African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas in Philadelphia, dedicated
1794 - Richard Allen organizes Philadelphia's Bethel African Meth Episcopal Church
1815 - Napoleonic Wars: In France, Napoleon surrenders at Rochefort, Charente-Maritime to British
           forces.
1821 - Spain cedes Florida to US
1841 - British humor magazine "Punch" 1st published
1850 - Harvard Observatory takes 1st photograph of a star (Vega)
1856 - The Great Train Wreck of 1856 between Camp Hill and Fort Washington, Pennsylvania kills
           over 60 people.
1861 - Congress authorizes paper money
1861 - Manassas, VA Gen Beauregard requests reinforcements for his 22,000 men, Gen Johnston is
           ordered to Manassas
1862 - Naval Engagement at Pascagoula River MS: USS Potomac Expedition
1862 - US army authorized to accept blacks as laborers
1862 - United army officially divides corps
1862 - R John Hunt Morgan:Cynthiana, KY CS24 US17 Skirmish at Columbia, TN
1863 - Battle of Honey Springs - largest battle in Indian Territory
1864 - CSA President Davis replaces Gen Joe Johnston with John Bell Hood
1866 - Italian fleet under adm Persano capture Austrian Fort Lissa
1867 - 1st US dental school, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, established
1879 - 1st railroad opens in Hawaii
1890 - Cecil Rhodes becomes premier of Cape colony
1893 - Arthur Shrewsbury is 1st to score 1,000 runs in Test Cricket
1897 - 1st ship arrives in Seattle carrying gold from Yukon
1898 - Spanish American War - Spaniards surrender to US at Santiago Cuba
1900 - NY Giant Christy Mathewson begins career losing to Bkln Superbas
1902 - Orioles forfeit to St Louis having only 5 players available to play they then forfeit their
           franchise back to the AL
1911 - Overthrown shah of Persia Mohammed Ali lands on Astrabad with army
1912 - IAF (Intl Amateur Athletic Federation) forms in Sweden
1914 - Giants outfielder Red Murray is knocked unconscious by lightning after catching a flyball,
           ending 21 inning game, Giants win 3-1
1915 - Italian offensive at Isonzo
1917 - British Royal family changes its name from Hanover to Windsor
1918 - Longest errorless game, Cubs beat Phillies 2-1 in 21 innings
1919 - Finland adopts constitution
1919 - Yanks 21 hits, Browns 17 hits Browns win 7-6 in 17, on squeeze play
1922 - Curacao harbor workers begin strike under Felix Chacuto
1922 - Ty Cobb gets 5 hits in a game for record 4th time in a year
1923 - Carl Mays gave up 13 runs & 20 hits in 13-0 lose to Indians
1924 - St Louis Card Jesse Haines no-hits Boston Braves, 5-0
1925 - Tris Speaker, is 5th to get 3,000 hits
1926 - Paavo Nurmi walks world record 4x1500m (16:11.4)
1929 - USSR drops diplomatic relations with China
1933 - After successfully crossing the Atlantic Ocean, the Lithuanian research aircraft Lituanica
           crashes in Europe under mysterious circumstances.
1934 - Babe Ruth draws his 2,000th base on balls at Cleveland
1935 - Variety's famous headline "Sticks Nix Hick Pix"
1936 - Carl Hubbell begins winning streak, beating Pittsburgh 6-0
1936 - Military uprising under Gen Franco/begins Spanish civil war
1938 - Douglas (Wrong Way) Corrigan leaves NY for LA, wound up in Ireland
1939 - 22nd PGA Championship: Henry Picard at Pomonok CC Flushing NY
1941 - NY Yankee Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak ends in Cleveland
1942 - 3' of rain falls on Pennsylvania, flooding kills 15
1942 - Estimated 34.5" (87.5 cm) of rainfall, Smethport, Pa (state record)
1942 - Transport nr 6 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1943 - RAF bombs Germany rocket base Peenemunde
1944 - 2 ammunition ships explodes at Port Chicago, California kills 322
1944 - Russian troops cross river Bug/march into Poland
1945 - Potsdam Conference (FDR, Stalin, Churchill) holds 1st meeting
1948 - Israeli army captures Nazareth
1948 - Proclamation of constitution of Republic of (South) Korea
1950 - Indonesian troops land on Buru, South-Molukka
1951 - King Leopold III of Belgium gives up throne to son Boudouin I
1951 - Western New England College in Springfield, Massachusetts is chartered.
1952 - Shah of Persia named Ghavam Sultaneh premier
1954 - 1st major league game where majority of team is black (Dodgers)
1954 - Construction begins on Disneyland. . .
1954 - Theodor Heuss re-elected president of West Germany
1955 - Disneyland opens its doors in rural Orange County
1955 - Arco Idaho becomes 1st US city lit by nuclear power
1955 - Disneyland televises its grand opening in Anaheim, California.
1958 - King Hussein declares himself head of Jordan/Iraqi federation
1958 - Peter Shaffer's "Five Finger Exercise," premieres in London
1958 - US performs atmospheric nuclear Test at Enwetak
1959 - 2,000 ft long by 1,300 foot wide section of ridge falls into Madis
1959 - Dr Leakey discovers oldest human skull (600,000 years old)
1959 - Tibet abolishes serfdom
1959 - River Canyon extending man-made Lake Hebgen by 5 miles. (Montana)
1961 - John Chancellor becomes news anchor of Today Show
1961 - Roger Maris loses a HR (of his 61) due to a rain-out in 5th
1962 - East Berliner Peter Fechter flees over Berlin Wall
1962 - Robert White in X-15 sets altitude record of 108 km (354,300 ft)
1962 - Senate rejects medicare for aged
1962 - US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1963 - Telstar soccer team forms in Ijmuiden
1964 - Don Campbell sets record for turbine vehicle, 690.91 kph (429.31 mph)
1964 - Great Britain performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1965 - WLCY (now WTSP) TV channel 10 in St Petersburg-Tampa, FL (ABC) begins
1966 - "It's a Bird... It's Superman" closes at Alvin NYC after 129 perfs
1966 - Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
1966 - Indians set club record by hitting 7 HR in 15-2 win over Detroit
1966 - Jim Ryun sets mile record (3m51s3)
1966 - Pioneer 7 launched
1967 - Monkees perform at Forest Hills NY, Jimi Hendrix is opening act
1967 - Race riots in Cairo Illinois
1968 - Beatle's animated film "Yellow Submarine" premieres in London
1968 - Revolt in Iraq
1970 - 30,000 attend Randall's Island Rock Festival, NYC
1971 - Kathy Whitworth/Judy Kimball wins LPGA Four-Ball Golf Championship
1972 - 1st 2 women begin training as FBI agents at Quantico
1973 - Military coup in Afghanistan; King Mohammad Zahir Shah flees
1974 - 1st quadrophonic studio in UK is open by Moody Blues
1974 - Bob Gibson becomes 2nd pitcher to strike-out 3,000 (Cesar Geronimo)
1974 - France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
1974 - John Lennon is ordered to leave US in 60 days
1975 - Apollo 18 & Soyuz 19 make 1st US/USSR linkup in space
1975 - Ringo Starr & Maureen Cox divorce
1976 - 21st modern Olympic games opens in Montreal
1976 - Indonesian president Suharto annexes East Timor
1976 - The opening of the Summer Olympics is marred by 25 African teams boycotting the New
           Zealand team.
1977 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Borden Golf Classic
1978 - NY Yank manager Billy Martin & Reggie Jackson fight in dug out
1978 - Reggie Jackson refusal to bunt causes mgr Billy Martin to suspend him
1979 - 50th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-6 at Kingdome, Seattle
1979 - All star MVP: Dave Parker (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1979 - David Gower 200* in England score of 5-633 v India at Edgbaston
1979 - Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza flees to Miami
1979 - Sebastian Coe runs world record 3:49 mile in Oslo
1979 - Simone Veil becomes chairman of European Parliament
1980 - Bolivian military coup; general Garcia Meza becomes president
1980 - Ronald Reagan formally accepts Republican nomination for president
1980 - Zenko Suzuki becomes premier of Japan
1981 - "This is Burlesque" closes at Princess Theater NYC after 28 perfs
1981 - Humbar Estuary Bridge, UK, world's longest span (1.4 km), opens
1981 - Israeli bombers destroy PLO/al-Fatah headquarters in Beirut
1981 - Lobby Walkways at KC's Hyatt Regency collapse 114 die, 200 injured
1981 - USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1981 - Fulton County (Atlanta) grand jury indicts Wayne B William 23 year old photographers, for
           murder of 2 of 28 blacks killed in Atlanta
1983 - 112th British Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 275 at Royal Birkdale
1983 - 1st USFL championship (Mich Panthers beats Phila Stars 24-22)
1983 - Beth Daniel wins LPGA McDonald's Kids Golf Classic
1984 - Pierre Mauroy resigns as premier of France
1984 - Soyuz T-12 carries 3 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 7
1986 - Emmy 13th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 7th time
1987 - "Les Miserables," opens at Imperial Theatre, Tokyo
1987 - 10 teens die in Guadalupe River flood (Comfort, Tx)
1987 - Don Mattingly is 2nd to hit HRs in 7 straight AL games (en route to 8 )
1987 - Dow Jones closes above 2,500 (2,510.04) for 1st time
1987 - Iran & France breaks diplomatic relations
1988 - 117th British Golf Open: Seve Ballesteros shoots 273 at Royal Lytham
1988 - 4 Billion tv-viewers watch Mandela's 70th Birthday Tribute
1988 - Colleen Walker wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
1988 - Florence Griffith Joyner of USA sets 100m woman's record (10.49)
1988 - Highest temperature ever recorded in San Francisco, 103°F (39°C)
1989 - 1st Test flight of US stealth-bomber
1989 - Paul McCartney releases "This One"
1989 - Reds reliever Kent Tekulve retires after 1,070 appearances
1990 - Hussein's Revolutionary Day speech claims Kuwait stole oil from Iraq
1990 - NY Yankee Deion Sanders hits an inside park homer
1990 - Minnesota Twins become 1st team to turn 2 triple plays in a game but lose to Boston Red
           Sox 1-0
1992 - Slovak parliament asks for self rule
1993 - Graeme Obree bicycles world record time, 51,596 km
1994 - 123rd British Golf Open: Nick Price shoots a 268 at Turnberry Scotland
1994 - Beth Daniel wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Golf Classic
1994 - Brazil beats Italy in a shoot out, for their 4th soccer world cup
1994 - French youngster (4) becomes Buddhist Lama Tulkou Kalou Rinpoche
1994 - Hulk Hogan beats Ric Flair to win WCW wrestling championship
1995 - Forbes Mag announces Bill Gates is the richest man in world ($12.9B)
1996 - 230 people die when TWA 800 crashes outside of NYC
1996 - Yank John Weteland blows save after record 24 consecutive saves
1996 - TWA Flight 800: Off the coast of Long Island, New York, a Paris-bound TWA Boeing 747
           explodes, killing all 230 on board.
1997 - STS 94 (Columbia 23), lands
1998 - Russia buries Tsar Nicholas II & family, 80 years after they died
2005 - Tiger Woods wins his 10th major winning The British Open Championship by 5 strokes.
           Woods becomes only the second golfer, after Jack Nicklaus, to win each major more than
           once
2007 - TAM Airlines (TAM Linhas Aéreas) Flight 3054 crashes upon landing during rain in São Paulo.
           This is Brazil's deadliest aviation accident to date with an estimated 199 deaths.
2009 - Jakarta double bombings at the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton Hotels killed 9 people including 4
           foreigners.
2012 - 17 people are wounded in a bar shooting in Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 17, 2013, 09:02:12 AM

This Day in History for 17th July


Famous Weddings

1954 - Master of quick wit and widely considered one of the best comedians of the modern era
           Groucho Marx (63) weds actress Eden Hartford (24)
1988 - NHL ice hockey star player Wayne Gretzky (27) weds actress Janet Jones (27) at St. Joseph's
           Basilica in Edmonton, Canada
1990 - PLO-leader Jasser Arrafat marries Soha Tawil in Tunis
1999 - Academy Award-winning actress Helen Hunt (36) weds "The Simpsons" voice actor Hank
           Azaria (35) in Los Angeles, California
2005 - Actor Ethan Embry (27) weds actress Sunny Mabrey (29)
2006 - "Wheel of Fortune" Original host Chuck Woolery (65) weds Kim Barnes at The Bellagio Hotel
           and Casino in Las Vegas
2010 - Actress Khadijah Haqq (29) weds New Orleans Saints defensive end Bobby McCray (29) at
           Vibiana in downtown Los Angeles
2010 - Boston Celtics star player Paul Pierce (32) weds interior-designer Julie Landrum (27) at Pelican
           Hill Resort in Newport Coast, California

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 17, 2013, 09:03:11 AM

This Day in History for 17th July


Famous Divorces

1975 - Ringo Starr & Maureen Cox divorce

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 17, 2013, 09:11:49 AM

This Day in History for 17th July


Famous Birthdays

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Detective Writer                                     Duchess of Cornwall                               Actor David Hasselhoff (1952)
Erle Stanley Gardner (1889)                     Camilla Parker Bowles (1947)


1487 - Ismail I, Shah of Persia, converted Iran from Sunni to Shi'ah (d. 1524)
1674 - Isaac Watts, England, writer/preacher/hymnist (Horae Lyrican)
1702 - Johann Schneider, composer
1744 - Elbridge Gerry, (DR) 5th VP (Mass-Gov), invented gerrymandering
1745 - Petr Alekseevich Pahlen, Russian general (d. 1826)
1763 - Johannes H van der Palm, Dutch theologist/minister of Education
1763 - John Jacob Astor, Germany, richest man in US, banker/fur trader
1775 - August Harder, composer
1797 - Hippolyte Delaroche, French painter (d. 1856)
1817 - Ignace Xavier Joseph Leybach, composer
1827 - Frederick A Able, English chemist/inventor (cordiet)
1830 - Eelco Refer, linguist (Dictionary for the Dutch translator)
1831 - Xianfeng, Emperor of China (d. 1861)
1832 - Johan August Soderman, composer
1839 - Friedrich Gernsheim, composer
1839 - Ephraim Shay, American inventor (d. 1916)
1853 - Francesco Fanciulli, composer
1859 - Luis Munoz Rivera, Puerto Rico, journalist (founded Federalist Party)
1871 - Lyonel C A Feininger, US cartoonist/painter
1873 - Antonina Neshdanova, Russian soprano (Rigoletto)
1875 - Donald Francis Tovey, Eton England, musicologist/composer
1876 - Maxim M Litvinov, [Meyer H Wallach], Russian diplomat
1876 - Rosa Jackson Lumpkin, Georgia, lived to be 115 (died in 1991)
1876 - Vittorio Gnecchi, composer
1878 - Henri Zagwijn, composer
1883 - Bart de Ligt, anti militarist theologist (Acting Peace)
1883 - Mauritz Stiller, Swedish actor/director (Erotikon)
1885 - Benjamin James Dale, composer
1888 - Shmuel Agnon, Israel, novelist (Day Before Yesterday-Nobel 1966)
1889 - Erle Stanley Gardner, Malden Mass., US detective writer (Perry Mason), (d. 1970)
1894 - Mary Clare, London England, actress (Evil Mind, Young & Innocent)
1897 - Elbert Parr Tuttle, lawyer/judge
1898 - Berenice Abbott, Springfield Oh, photographer (World of Atget)
1898 - Osmond Borradaile, Canadian cinematographer (d. 1999)
1899 - James Cagney, New York City, NY, American actor (Yankee Doodle Dandy)
1901 - Bruno Jasieński, Polish poet (d. 1938)
1902 - Christina Stead, Australia, novelist (Man Who Loved Children)
1903 - Valerian Mikhaylovich Bogdanov-Berezovsky, composer
1904 - Jef Alpaerts, Flemish pianist/conductor
1905 - Norman Waterhouse Lees, jazz fan
1905 - William Gargan, Bkln NY, actor (Dynamite, Ellery Queen)
1906 - John Carroll, [Julian LaFaye], New Orleans LA, actor (Wolf Call)
1908 - Rudolf Petzold, composer
1909 - Hardy Amies, London England, royal dressmaker (Queen Elizabeth II)
1911 - Ted Anderson, English footballer (d. 1979)
1912 - Art Linkletter, Saskatchewan Canada, TV host (People are Funny)
1913 - Everett Helm, composer
1913 - Roger Garaudy, French philosopher
1913 - Bertrand Goldberg, American architect (d. 1997)
1914 - Lucille Benson, Scottsboro Ala, actress (Lilly-Bosom Buddies)
1914 - James Purdy, Hicksville, Ohio, writer (The House of the Solitary Maggot), (disputed birthdate,
           1923), (d. 2009)
1915 - Cass Daley, Philadelphia PA, actress (Red Garters)
1915 - Dorothy Poynton-Hill, US, platform diver (Olympic-gold-1932)
1915 - Esther Williamson Ballou, composer
1916 - Eleanor Steber, Wheeling WV, soprano (Metropolitan Opera-1940)
1917 - Lou Bourdeau, baseball player/manager (1948 AP Athlete of Year)
1917 - Phyllis Diller, Lima Ohio, comedienne (Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number), (d. 2012)
1917 - Red Sovine, American country music singer (d. 1980)
1918 - Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio, President of Guatemala (d. 2003)
1919 - Alex Moir, cricketer (New Zealand leg-spinner in 17 Tests 1950-59)
1920 - Bill Monroe, New Orleans La, newscaster (NBC-TV, Congressional Report)
1920 - Helen Walker, Worcester MA, actress (Brewster's Million)
1920 - Juan Antonio Samaranch, chairman (International Olympic Committee)
1920 - Rudolf Karpati, Hungary, sabres (Olympic-gold-1956, 60)
1920 - Gordon Gould, inventor of the laser (d. 2005)
1921 - Acquanetta, [Mildred Davenport], Wyo, actress (Tarzan & Leopard Woman)
1921 - George Barnes, Chicago Hgts, guitarist (Skip Farrell Show)
1921 - František Zvarík, Slovakian actor
1922 - Donald Alfred Davie, poet/critic
1923 - John Cooper, English race car designer (d. 2000)
1926 - Édouard Carpentier, French-born professional wrestler
1926 - Charles Champlin, American film critic and writer
1928 - Jean Elizabeth Leuckert Muir, designer dressmaker
1928 - Vince Guaraldi, American musician and composer (d. 1976)
1929 - Sergei K. Godunov, Russian mathematician
1930 - Ryohei Hirose, composer
1932 - Niccolo Castiglioni, composer
1932 - Vince Guaraldi, jazz pianist (Charlie Brown TV specials)
1932 - Wojciech Kilar, composer
1932 - Hal Riney, American advertising executive (d. 2008)
1933 - Tony Pithey, cricketer (brother of David, South African batsman in 17 Tests)
1933 - Bruce Wells, British boxer & actor
1934 - Pat McCormick, comedian (Don Rickles Show)
1934 - Philippe Capdenat, composer
1934 - Rainer Kisch, writer
1935 - Donald Sutherland, St John New Brunswick, Canadian actor (M*A*S*H, Body Snatchers)
1935 - Diahann Carroll, Bronx, actress (Julia, Claudine, Dominique-Dynasty)
1935 - P D Q Bach, [Peter Schickele], Iowa, composer (5th of Beethoven)
1937 - Jose Ignacio Cabrujas, writer
1938 - Stan Bronstein, rocker
1939 - Spencer Davis, Wales, vocalist (Spencer Davis Group-Gimme Some Lovin)
1939 - Warwick Hutton, artist
1939 - Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran
1939 - Andrée Champagne, French Canadian actress and politician
1940 - Phyllis Davis, Port Arthur Tx, actress (Love American Style, Vega$)
1940 - Tim Brooke-Taylor, English comedian
1941 - Bob Taylor, cricketer wicket-keeper (too often in Knotty's shadow)
1941 - Daryle Lamonica, Oakland Raider QB (AFL leading passer 1967)
1942 - Connie Hawkins, Harlem Globetrotter/NBA (Phoenix Suns, ABA MVP 1968)
1942 - Gale Garnett, Auckland NZ, singer (We'll Sing in the Sunshine)
1942 - Don Kessinger, American baseball player
1942 - Peter Sissons, British newsreader
1944 - Mark Burgess, cricketer (NZ batsman of the 70's)
1945 - Fenneken Fockema Andreae, Dutch actress (Sea Gull)
1945 - Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia
1946 - Alun Armstrong, English actor
1947 - Camilla Parker Bowles (Duchess of Cornwall), London England, wife of Prince Charles
1947 - Wolfgang Flür, German musician (Kraftwerk)
1948 - Brian Glascock, rock drummer (Motels-Only the Lonely)
1948 - Cathy Ferguson, 100m backstroke swimmer (Olympic-gold-1964)
1948 - Luc Bondy, Zurich Switzerland
1948 - Phillip Harris, rocker
1949 - Geezer Butler, Birmingham, rocker (Black Sabbath)
1949 - Mick Tucker, London, rock drummer (Sweet Harlesden)
1949 - Mike Vale, rock bassist (Tommy James & The Shondells)
1949 - Terry "Geezer" Butler, Birmingham, rock bassist (Black Sabbath)
1949 - Charlie Steiner, American sports broadcaster
1950 - Derek de Lint, Dutch actor
1950 - P.J. Soles, German-born American actress
1951 - Lucie Arnaz, Los Angeles California, actress (Kim-Here&#039;s Lucy, Jazz Singer)
1952 - Chet McCracken, Seattle Wash, rocker (Doobie Brothers)
1952 - David Hasselhoff, Balt Md, actor (Night Rider, Mitch-Baywatch)
1952 - Nicolette Larson, KC MO, rock vocalist (Twins, Lotta Love)
1952 - Phoebe Snow, singer (Theme from "It's a Different World")
1952 - Robert R[ick] McCammon, US, sci-fi author (Baal, Mystery Walk)
1954 - Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany
1954 - J. Michael Straczynski, American author
1955 - Paul Stamets, American mycologist and environmentalist
1955 - Christopher Chappell, Former Canadian Cricketer
1956 - Bryan Trottier, Val Marie Sask, NHL Center (NY Islanders)
1956 - Robert Romanus, American actor
1957 - Bruce Crump, rock drummer (Molly Hatchet)
1958 - Wong Kar-wai, Chinese film director
1959 - Janet Lynn Kavandi, Springfield Mo, PhD/astronaut (sk:STS 91)
1960 - Jan Wouters, Dutch soccer star (Ajax, Bayern Munich, PSV)
1960 - Karen Elaine Price, Pasadena California, playmate (January, 1981)
1960 - Kim Barnett, cricketer (England batsman & occasional leggie 1988-89)
1960 - Nancy Giles, NYC, actress (Connie-Delta, Off Beat, Big, Angie)
1960 - Robin Shou, martial arts actor (Mortal Kombat, Beverly Hills Ninja)
1960 - Scott Norwood, NFL kicker (Buffalo Bills-Superbowl XXV goat)
1960 - Mark Burnett, English-born television producer
1960 - Dawn Upshaw, American soprano
1961 - Jonathan Potts, Canadian actor
1962 - Jay Barrs, Jacksonville Fla, archer (Olympics-gold-1988, 92, 96)
1962 - Bill Sage, American actor
1963 - Denise Miller, Bkln NY, actress (Billie-Archie Bunker's Place)
1963 - Matti Nykänen, Finnish ski jumper
1963 - Letsie III, King of Lesotho
1963 - John Ventimiglia, American actor
1964 - Heather Langenkamp, actress (Marie-Just the 10 of Us)
1965 - Alex Winter, London England, actor (Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure)
1965 - Ken Evraire, CFL slot back (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1965 - Craig Morgan, American singer
1965 - Santiago Segura, Spanish film director and actor
1966 - Michael John Bradley, Largo FL, PGA golfer (1993 Kemper Open-3rd)
1966 - Sten Tolgfors, Swedish politician
1967 - Kevin Pritchard, NBA guard (Washington Bullets)
1967 - Pearl Sinn, Seoul Korea, LPGA golfer (1995 LPGA Corning Classic-35th)
1968 - Beth Littleford, American comedian
1968 - Bitty Schram, American actress
1969 - Tommy Soderstrom, Stockholm SWE, NHL goalie (Sweden, NY Islanders)
1970 - Bronwyn Roye, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1970 - Mandy Smith, England, rocker (I Just Can't Wait)/wife of Bill Wyman
1971 - Calbert Cheaney, NBA forward/guard (Washington Bullets/Wizards)
1971 - Daniel Kunce, Sumperk GER, hockey defenseman (Team Germany 1998)
1971 - Cory Doctorow, Canadian author and activist
1971 - Nico Mattan, Belgian cyclist
1972 - Donny Marshall, NBA forward (Cleveland Cavaliers)
1972 - Eric Williams, NBA forward (Denver Nuggets, Boston Celtics)
1972 - Melissa "Missy" Schwen, Bloomington Ind, rower (Olympics-silver-96)
1972 - Michael Lampert, hockey defenseman (Team Austria 1998)
1972 - Jaap Stam, Dutch footballer
1973 - Horacio Llamas, NBA center (Phoenix Suns)
1973 - Tony Dovolani, Albanian ballroom dancer
1973 - Liam Kyle Sullivan, American comedian and actor
1974 - Laura Macdonald, Scottish jazz musician
1975 - Troy Amos Ross, Georgetown Guyana, Canadian boxer (Olympics-96)
1975 - Gino D'Acampo, Italian celebrity chef
1975 - Elena Anaya, Spanish actress
1975 - Cécile de France, Belgian actress
1975 - Paul Hinojos, American guitarist (At the Drive-In, The Mars Volta)
1975 - Konnie Huq, English television presenter
1975 - Terence Tao, Australian-Chinese mathematician
1975 - Andre Adams, Former New Zealand Cricketer
1976 - Dagmara Dominczyk, Polish actress
1976 - Eric Winter, American actor
1976 - Matthew Holmes, Australian actor
1977 - M.I.A., British rapper
1977 - Lehmber Hussainpuri, Famous Indian Singer
1977 - Marc Savard, Canadian hockey player
1978 - Ricardo Arona, Brazilian mixed martial artist
1978 - Mike Hettinga, American professional wrestler
1978 - Émilie Simon, French singer
1978 - Katharine Towne, American actress
1979 - Mike Vogel, American actor
1980 - Javier Camuñas, Spanish footballer
1980 - Ryan Miller, American hockey player
1981 - Elpida Romantzi, Greek archer
1982 - Natasha Hamilton, British singer (Atomic Kitten)
1982 - Omari Banks, West Indian Cricketer
1983 - Brooke Kinsella, British actress
1983 - Ryan Guettler, professional Australian BMX rider
1983 - Sarah Jones, American actress
1983 - Adam Lind, American baseball player
1984 - Sotiris Leontiou, Greek footballer
1984 - Asami Kimura, Japanese singer (Country Musume)
1985 - Neil McGregor, Scottish footballer
1985 - Tom Fletcher, British singer (McFly)
1986 - Dana, Korean singer and actress (TSZX)
1987 - Darius Boyd, Australian rugby player
1987 - Jan Charouz, Czech racing driver
1987 - Moussa Dembélé, Belgian footballer
1988 - Summer Bishil, American actress
1989 - Marko Todorović, Swiss swimmer
1989 - Josie Lopez, American actress
1998 - Felipe Juan Froilán de Marichalar y de Borbón, Spanish royal

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 17, 2013, 09:18:31 AM

This Day in History for 17th July


Famous Deaths

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Economist and Philosopher                     Last Tsar of Russia                               Jazz Singer Billie Holiday (1959)
Adam Smith (1790)                                  Nicholas II Aleksandrovitch (1918)

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Jazz Musician
John Coltrane (1967)


180 - Christenen Cittinus/Donatus/Natzalus/Secunda/Speratus/Vestia sentenced to death as
         Christians in Carthage
521 - Magnus Felix Ennodius, bishop and Latin poet (b. 474)
656 - Uthman ibn Affan, Third Caliph, assassinated.
924 - King Edward the Elder of England (899-924)
1025 - Boleslaw I Chobry, [the brave], duke/king of Poland, dies
1070 - Boudouin VI, count of Flanders/Henegouwen, dies
1345 - Jacob Van Artevelde, [Manner Man], Flemish broker, lynched
1453 - John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, English military leader
1510 - Tree of Commonwealth, beheaded at about 48
1531 - Hosokawa Takakuni, Japanese military commander (b. 1484)
1571 - Georg Fabricius, German poet and historian (b. 1516)
1588 - Sinan, Ottoman architect (b. 1489)
1627 - Lieven de Key, Flemish master builder (Vleeshal), dies at about 67
1645 - Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset, Scottish politician
1682 - Johann Heinrich Kittel, composer, dies at 29
1704 - Pierre-Charles Le Sueur, French fur trader and explorer
1709 - Pascal Collasse, composer, dies at 60
1709 - Robert Bolling, English settler in Virginia (b. 1646)
1746 - Anthonie van de Heim, Dutch pension advisor (1737-46), dies at 53
1753 - Andre-Joseph Panckoucke, French book publisher/merchant, dies
1762 - Peter III Fjodorovitsj, Emperor of Russia (1762), dies at 34
1763 - Wenzel Raimund Pirck, composer, dies at 45
1764 - Johann Mattheson, German composer, dies at 82
1790 - Adam Smith, Scottish economist and philosopher (b. 1723)
1791 - Martin Dobrizhoffer, Austrian Jesuit missionary (b. 1717)
1793 - Charlotte Corday, murderer (Jean-Paul Marat), is guillotined
1794 - Jean-Frederic Edelmann, composer, dies at 45
1794 - John Roebuck, British inventor (b. 1718)
1804 - Christian Ernst Graf, composer, dies at 80
1826 - Joseph Graetz, composer, dies at 65
1838 - John Whites, hydraulic engineer, dies at 82
1845 - Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1764)
1851 - Beni Egressy, composer, dies at 37
1863 - James Johnston Pettigrew, US attorney/Confederate, dies at 35
1864 - Daniel McCook Jr, US Union-brig-gen, dies at 29
1864 - Dirk Dark Curtius, attorney/liberal minister of Justice, dies at 71
1871 - Karl Tausig, composer, dies at 29
1875 - Gabor Matray, composer, dies at 77
1878 - Aleardo [Gaetano] Aleardi, Italian/Aust poet (Tre Fiumi), dies at 65
1879 - Maurycy Gottlieb, Ukrainian painter (b. 1856)
1881 - Jim Bridger, American mountain man, Indian fighter, and explorer (b. 1804)
1885 - Jean-Charles Chapais, Canadian politician (b. 1811)
1887 - Dorothea Dix, french social activist (b. 1802)
1893 - Frederick A. Johnson, American politician (b. 1833)
1894 - Josef Hyrtl, Austrian anatomist (b. 1810)
1901 - John Farmer, composer, dies at 64
1903 - James A McNeill Whistler, US/Brit writer (Bride Tomorrow), dies at 69
1912 - J-Henri Poincaré, French mine engineer/mathematician, dies at 58
1915 - Francesco Fanciulli, composer, dies on 62nd birthday
1918 - Aleksei N Romanov, son and heir of Russian Tsar Nicholas II, executed at 13
1918 - Alexandra Fjodorova, wife of Tsar Nicholas II, shot to death at 46
1918 - Anastasia N Romanova, daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, executed at 17
1918 - Botkin, personal physician of Tsar Nicholas II, shot to death
1918 - Charitonov, cook of Tsar Nicholas II, shot to death
1918 - Demidova, lady in waiting of Russian Tsar Nicholas II, shot to death
1918 - Maria Romanova, daughter of Russian Tsar Nicholas II, shot to death
1918 - Nicholas II Alexandrovich, last Tsar of Russia, executed at 50
1918 - Olga Romanova, daughter of Russian Tsar Nicholas II, shot to death
1918 - Tatyana Romanova, daughter of RussianTsar Nicholas II, shot to death
1918 - Trupp, lackey of Tsar Nicholas II, shot to death
1922 - Heinrich Rubens, German physicist, dies at 57
1928 - Alvaro Obregon, general/pres of Mexico, assassinated
1928 - Giovanni Giolitti, 5x premier of Italy (1892..1921), dies
1935 - George William Russell, Irish nationalist, poet and artist (b. 1867)
1937 - Henri-Constant-Gabriel Pierne, composer, dies at 73
1944 - Hugh Rigby, English portrait painter (King George V 1928-32), dies
1944 - William James Sidis, gifted mathematician and child prodigy (b. 1898)
1946 - Dragoljub "Draza" Mihailovic, Yugoslav gen (Nazi), executed at 53
1947 - Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish diplomat in WW II (saved Jews), dies at 34
1950 - Evangeline Booth, the 4th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1865)
1953 - Bernhard van den Sigtenhorst Meyer, composer, dies at 65
1953 - Maude K Adams, US actress (Little Minister), dies
1954 - Dirk B Nanninga, painter, dies at 85
1955 - Bronislaw Zygmunt Szulc, composer, dies at 73
1959 - Billie Holiday, jazz singer, dies at Metropolitan Hospital in New York of cirrhosis of the liver at
           44
1959 - Henri Pourrat, French writer (Le chasseur de la nuit), dies
1959 - Eugene Meyer, American businessman and newspaper publisher (b. 1875)
1961 - Ty Cobb, baseball great (Det Tigers), dies of cancer at 74
1965 - Luiz Cosme, composer, dies at 57
1966 - August Baeyens, Flemish composer (Piranesi-suite), dies at 71
1967 - Cyril Ring, actor (Duffy's Tavern, Red Hot & Blue), dies at 74
1967 - Gertrude McCoy, silent screen actress (Blue Bird), dies at 77
1967 - John Coltrane, US jazz sax/composer (Round Midnight), dies at 40
1970 - Juano Hernandez, actor (St Louis Blues, Two Loves), dies at 74
1971 - Cliff Edwards, "Ukulele Ike", singer (54th Street Revue), dies at 76
1974 - Jay Hanna "Dizzy" Dean, pitcher (St Louis Cards), dies at 63
1975 - Modoc, the elephant, dies at age 78 (oldest known nonhuman mammal)
1975 - Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian writer and public benefactor (b. 1893)
1978 - Thayer David, actor (Rocky, Roots, Savages), dies at 51
1979 - Doug Meintjes, South African cricket pace bowler (v England 1922-23), dies
1980 - Donald Barry, actor (Mr Gallo-Mr Novak), dies at 68
1980 - Boris Delaunay, Russian mathematician (b. 1890)
1984 - J Delos Jewkes, singer/actor (Stars & Stripes Forever), dies at 89
1985 - Czeslaw Josef Marek, composer, dies at 93
1985 - Margo, actress (Rumba, Viva Zapata), dies at 68 of a brain tumor
1987 - Yujiro Ishihara, Japanese actor (b. 1934)
1988 - Bruiser Brody [Frank Goodish], professional wrestler, stabbed to death at 42
1990 - Bernard Cowan, TV announcer, dies of kidney disease at 68
1993 - Ineke Shutter, choreography (Black Girl Goes to School), dies at 61
1993 - Scott Salmon, US choreographer (La Cage aux Folles), dies at 51
1993 - Vladimir Barmyn, Russian inventor (Stalinorgel), dies at 84
1994 - Jean Borotra, [Flying Basque], Fr tennis star (Davis Cup), dies at 95
1995 - Herbert Hippauf, baseball player, dies at 56
1995 - Joe Hutton, northumbrian piper/shepherd, dies at 71
1996 - Alan McGilvray, Australian cricketer (NSW 1933-37) and radio commentator (1935-85), dies
           at 85
1996 - Amancio D'Silva, musician, dies at 60
1996 - Bryan Chas Chandler, musician/manager, dies at 57
1996 - Chris Komar, dancer, dies at 48
1996 - Geoffrey Alan Jellicoe, landscape architect, dies at 95
1996 - John William Fozard, aircraft designer, dies at 68
1996 - Paul Touvier, French WW II criminal, dies at 81
1996 - Sid Sussman, beauty pageant organizer, dies of heart attack
2001 - Katharine Graham, American publisher (b. 1917)
2003 - David Kelly, Welsh UN weapons inspector (b. 1944)
2003 - Rosalyn Tureck, American pianist and harpsichordist (b. 1914)
2004 - Pat Roach, British professional wrestler and actor (b. 1937)
2005 - Laurel Aitken, Jamaican singer (b. 1927)
2005 - Geraldine Fitzgerald, Irish-born actress (b. 1913)
2005 - Edward Heath, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1916)
2005 - Gavin Lambert, British-born screenwriter (b. 1924)
2005 - Joe Vialls, Australian writer (b. 1944)
2006 - Sam Myers, American musician and songwriter (b. 1936)
2006 - Mickey Spillane, American author (b. 1918)
2007 - Júlio Redecker, Brazilian Politician (b. 1956)
2008 - Larry Haines, American actor (b. 1918)
2009 - Walter Cronkite, American broadcast journalist (b. 1916)
2009 - Leszek Kołakowski, Polish philosopher (b. 1927)
2011 - David Ngoombujarra, Australian actor (b. 1967)
2012 - William Raspberry, American journalist, dies at 76

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 18, 2013, 08:49:10 AM

This Day in History for 18th July


Historical Events

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Russian Tsar Peter the Great                   Spanish Dictator Francisco Franco            The Pianoman Billy Joel

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Golfer Greg Norman                             Heavyweight Boxing Champion
                                                                          Mike Tyson


390 BC - Roman-Gaulish Wars: Battle of the Allia - a Roman army is defeated by raiding Gauls,
              leading to the subsequent sacking of Rome.
64 - Great Fire of Rome begins (Nero didn't fiddle)
1290 - King Edward I of England orders expulsion of Jews
1330 - Battle of Velbuzd
1334 - The bishop of Florence blesses the first foundation stone for the new campanile (bell tower)
           of the Florence Cathedral, designed by the artist Giotto di Bondone.
1536 - Pope's authority declared void in England
1572 - Willem van Orange recognized as viceroy of Holland/Friesland/Utrecht
1588 - Admiral Howard beats Spanish Armada
1630 - Spanish troops occupy Mantua
1656 - -20] Battle at Warsaw: Swedish king Karel X Gustaafbeats Johan II Kasimir & occupies
           Warsaw
1696 - Czar Peter I's fleet occupies Azov at mouth of Don River
1716 - Decree orders all Jews expelled from Brussels
1737 - Battle at Banja Luka: Turkish army beats Austrians
1743 - 1st half-page newspaper ad is published (NY Weekly Journal)
1753 - Lemuel Haynes, escapes from slave holder in Framingham Mass
1766 - Society of the Dutch Literary forms
1768 - Boston Gazette publishes "Liberty Song," America's 1st patriotic song
1814 - British capture Prairie du Chien (Wisc)
1853 - Completion of Grand Trunk Line, trains begin running over 1st North American railroad
           between Portland, Maine & Montreal
1857 - Louis Faidherbe, French governor of Senegal, arrives to relieve French forces at Kayes,
           effectively ending El Hajj Umar Tall's war against the French.
1861 - Battle of Blackburn's Ford, VA US57 CS68 - Manassas -
1862 - Battle of Newburgh, IN - captured by Union forces
1863 - Battle of Fort Wagner, SC - Second assault US1500 CS174
1864 - President Lincoln asks for 500,000 volunteers for milt service
1870 - Pontifical infalliability proclaimed
1872 - Britain introduces secret ballot voting
1882 - Louisville Tony Mullane is 1st to pitch righty then lefty
1893 - Harry Graham scores 107 on cricket debut Australia v England, Lord's
1896 - 2nd US Golf Open: James Foulis shoots a 152 at Shinnecock Hills NY
1896 - George Giffen is 1st to complete 1000/100 double, in 30th Test Cricket
1896 - Ranjitsinhji completes 154* on Test Cricket debut v Aust, Old Trafford
1897 - Cap Anson, is 1st to get 3,000 hits
1907 - Florenz Ziegfeld's "Follies of 1907," premieres in NYC
1907 - French troops occupy Casablanca
1912 - Chicago Cubs get 21 hits but lose to Philadelphia Phillies in 11 innings
1913 - After 68 straight innings Christy Mathewson gives up a walk
1914 - US army air service 1st comes into being, in Signal Corps
1915 - 2nd Battle of Isonzo begins & ends with loss of 280,000 men
1915 - Boston Braves start move from last place to become world series champs
1918 - US & French forces launch Aisne-Marne offensive in WW I
1921 - Black Sox trial begins in Chicago
1923 - England's House of Lords accepts new divorce law
1924 - KPD points out Rote Frontkampferbund against Nazi
1925 - Hitler publishes Mein Kampf
1927 - Ty Cobb's 4,000th career hit
1930 - SHO soccer team forms in Old Beijerland
1931 - 1st air-conditioned ship (Mariposa) launched
1932 - Belgium, Luxembourg & Netherlands sign Unity treaty
1932 - US & Canada sign a treaty to develop St Lawrence Seaway
1935 - Amsterdam city council accept city growth plan through the year 2000
1936 - Spanish Civil War begins, Gen Francisco Franco led uprising
1938 - Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan arrives in Ireland-left NY for Calif
1940 - 1st successful helicopter flight, Stratford, Ct
1940 - British government signs Bruma law under Japanese pressure
1940 - Democratic Convention nominates FDR for a 3rd term
1941 - SS drowns 40 Jews in Dvina River, Belorussia
1942 - 1st legal NJ horse race in 50 years; Garden State Park track opens
1942 - Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe, 1st jet fighter, takes 1st flight
1942 - World War II: the Germans test fly the Messerschmitt Me-262 using only its jet engines for 
           the first time.
1943 - British assault on Catania Sicily
1943 - Giants & Phillies strand record 30 baserunners, NY wins, 10-6
1944 - 7:45 Operation-Goodwood: British assault east of Caen
1944 - Allies air raid railways at Vaires Paris
1944 - Arne Andersson runs world record 1 mile (4:01.6)
1944 - British Mosquito's attack Cologne & Berlin
1944 - British air raid on German convoy SW of Helgoland
1944 - British troops occupy Bourquebus hill range Normandy
1944 - Polish troops under gen Anders occupy Ancona Italy
1944 - US troop march into St-Lo
1947 - British seize "Exodus 1947" ship of Jewish immigrants to Palestine
1947 - King George VI signs Indian Independence Bill
1947 - President Harry Truman signs Presidential Succession Act
1947 - Tigers shut out Yanks 2-0, end 19 game win streak
1947 - US begins administering Trust Territory of Pacific Islands
1948 - "Marinka" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 168 performances
1948 - Pat Seerey of Chicago White Sox hits 4 HRs in a game
1948 - White Sox Fat Pat Seerey, hits 4 HRs in 11 inning game
1951 - Uruguay accepts its constitution
1951 - Jersey Joe Walcott at 37 becomes oldest to win heavyweight champion
1951 - Jersey Joe Walcott KOs Ezzard Charles in 7 for hw boxing title
1952 - KWGN TV channel 2 in Denver, CO (IND) begins broadcasting
1954 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Inverness Four-Ball Golf Tournament
1954 - Cards losing 8-1 to Phillies begin stalling in 5th, they forfeit game
1955 - 1st electric power generated from atomic energy sold commercially
1955 - 280 mm rain in Martinstown, Dorset (UK-record)
1956 - Erno Gero succeeds Matyas Rákosi as party leader of Hungary
1959 - 1st black to win a major golf tournament (William Wright)
1960 - 1st UN troops reach Congo
1960 - Baseball's NL votes to add Houston & NY franchises
1960 - Premier Kishi of Japan, resigns
1961 - Commissioner Ford Frick rules Babe Ruth's record of 60 HR in 154-game sched in 1927, must
           be broken in 1st 154 of 162 games
1962 - Minnesota Twins Bob Allison & Harmon Killebrew hit grand slams in 1st inn & Harmon Killebrew
           connect in a club-record, 11-run 1st inning
1962 - Minn is 1st AL team to hit 2 grand slams in an inning as Bob Allison
1963 - Failed military coup in Syria
1964 - Race riot in Harlem (NYC); riots spread to Bedford-Stuyvesant (Bkln)
1965 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Yankee Golf Open
1965 - Zond 3 launched to fly by Moon, enters solar orbit
1966 - Carl Sagan turns 1 billion seconds old
1966 - Gemini 10 launched (John Young & Michael Collins)
1967 - Silver hits record $1.87 an ounce in NY
1968 - Intel incorporates
1968 - The Intel Corporation is founded in Santa Clara, California
1969 - Joe Namath agrees to sell interest in Bachelors 3, to stay in NFL
1970 - "Boy Friend" closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 119 performances
1970 - Arthur Brown arrested for stripping on stage in Palemo Sicily
1970 - Ron Hunt gets hit by a pitch for a record 119th time
1970 - WJCL TV channel 22 in Savannah, GA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1970 - Willie Mays becomes 10th baseball player to get 3,000 hits
1971 - Eddy Merckx wins his 3rd Tour de France
1972 - 200,000 attend Mt Pocono rock festival in Penns
1972 - Egypt president Sadat throws 20,000 Russian military aids out
1972 - Mike Procter 8-73 with hat-trick, plus 51 & 102, Gloucs v Essex
1974 - US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1974 - World's tallest structure, 646-m Polish radio mast, completed
1975 - Jury can't decide on trial of Dave Forbes of Boston Bruins (1st athlete indicted for excessive
           violence during play)
1976 - "Something's Afoot" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 61 performances
1976 - Judy Rankin wins LPGA Borden Golf Classic
1976 - Lucien van Impe wins Tour de France
1976 - Stockhausens "Sirius," premieres in NYC
1976 - Thiokol conducts 2-min firing of space shuttle's SRB at Brigham, Ut
1976 - Nadia Comăneci became the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in
           gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
1977 - Hugh Leonard's "Da," premieres in London
1977 - Vietnam becomes member of UN
1978 - Billy Martin suspends Reggie Jackson for not bunting
1978 - Egyptian & Israeli officials begin 2 days of talks
1979 - Gold hits record $303.85 an ounce in London
1979 - USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1980 - Billy Joel's Glass Houses album tops charts
1980 - Failed attack on Iran ex-premier Bakhtiar in Neuilly France
1980 - Federal court voids Selective Service Act as it doesn't include women
1980 - Quett Masire installed as president of Botswana
1980 - Rohini 1, 1st Indian satellite, launches into orbit
1981 - Part of Hyatt Regency Hotel KC caves in (113 killed)
1981 - Poland communist party selects ex-party leader Edward Gierek
1982 - "Blues in the Night" closes at Rialto Theater NYC after 53 perfs
1982 - 111th British Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 284 at Royal Troon
1982 - Sally Little wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
1983 - Despite being in 1st place in NL East, Phils fire manager Pat Corrales
1984 - James Huberty kills 21 McDonald's patrons in San Ysidro Calif
1984 - Walter F Mondale wins Democratic presidential nomination in SF
1985 - USSR performs underground nuclear Test
1986 - 115th British Golf Open: Greg Norman shoots a 280 at Turnberry Scotld
1986 - Royals announce manager Dick Howser, 50, has a brain tumor
1986 - Videotapes released showing Titanic's sinksen remains
1987 - Molly Yard elected new pres of Natl Org for Women
1987 - NY Yanks Don Mattingly ties record of HRs in 8 cons games
1988 - Abu Nidal terrorists kill 9 on City of Poros cruise ship
1988 - Shooting begins on "License to Kill"
1989 - 48 cm rainfall at Rockport, West Virginia (state record)
1991 - Florida Marlins' logo unveiled
1991 - Mike Tyson meets Miss Black America contestants
1992 - Sharon Belden, of Fla, 25, crowned Miss World USA
1992 - The ten victims of the La Cantuta massacre disappear from their university in Lima.
1993 - 122nd British Golf Open: Greg Norman shoots a 267 at Royal St George
1993 - Afghanistan president Ishaq Khan & premier Nawaz Sharif resign
1993 - Graeme Obree bicycles world record time (51,596 K)
1993 - Hiromi Kobayash wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Golf Classic
1993 - Liberal-Democratic Party loses Japan's parliamentary election
1994 - Bomb attack on Jewish center AMIA in Buenos Aires, 86 killed
1994 - Comet Shoemaker-Levy collides with Jupiter
1994 - Court upholds NBA salary cap and draft rights
1994 - Crayola announces introduction of scented crayons
1994 - Houston Astros tie NL comeback record, trailing 10-0, beat Cards 15-12
1994 - NY Jets sign USA soccer goalkeeper Tony Miola as a place kicker
1995 - DC3 crashes at Antananarivo Madagaskar, 34 die
1996 - Storms provoke severe flooding on the Saguenay River, beginning one of Québec's costliest natural disasters ever.
1999 - 128th British Golf Open: at Carnoustie Scot Paul Lawrie wins after play off
2009 - Five members of one family are found murdered at Epping, New South Wales.
2012 - 6 Israeli tourists are killed and 30 injured after a bomb explodes on a tourist bus at Burgas
           Airport, Bulgaria
2012 - 14 people are killed after a bomb explosion at Pakistan's Orakzai Agency
2012 - Violence across Syria results in 97 deaths
2012 - Syrian suicide bombing kills three high profile government officials, including Syria's Minister of
           Defence
2012 - 24 people are killed after a ferry sinks off the coast of Zanzibar
2012 - Kim Jong-un is officially appointed Supreme Leader of North Korea and given the rank of
           Marshal in the Korean People's Army

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 18, 2013, 08:51:53 AM

This Day in History for 18th July


Famous Weddings

1922 - British naval officer Louis Mountbatten (22) weds Lord Mount Temple's daughter Edwina
           Cynthia Annette Ashley (20) at St. Margaret's in Westminster, London
1992 - Film critic Roger Ebert marries Chaz Hammel-Smith
1992 - Helen Windsor, daughter of British Duke and Duchess of Kent weds art dealer Timothy Taylor
           at Windsor Castle
1992 - Singers Whitney Houston & Bobby Brown marry
1994 - "The Cranberries" lead singer Dolores O'Riordan (22) weds Don Burton (32) in Ireland

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 18, 2013, 08:52:57 AM

This Day in History for 18th July


Famous Divorces

2012 - WWE wrestler John Cena (35) divorces Elizabeth Huberdeau (33) due to irretrievably broken
           marriage after 3 years of getting married

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 18, 2013, 09:03:05 AM

This Day in History for 18th July


Famous Birthdays

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Scientist Robert Hooke (1635)                        American Gangster                         Anti-apartheid activist/
                                                             George Machine Gun Kelly (1895)            South African President
                                                                                                                            Nelson Mandela (1918)

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Business Magnate
Richard Branson (1950)


1340 - Philip van Artevelde, wine salesman/lord lt of Flanders
1501 - Isabella of Burgundy, wife of Christian II of Denmark (d. 1526)
1504 - Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss religious reformer (d. 1575)
1534 - Zacharias Ursinus, German theologist (Heidelberger Catechism)
1552 - Rudolf II, of Habsburg, emperor of Germany (1576-1612)
1634 - Joannes Camphuys, governor-general of Dutch-Indies (1684-91)
1635 - Robert Hooke, Isle of Wight, Scientist (Micrographia)
1670 - Giovanni Battista Bononcini, Italian (opera)composer
1711 - Pierre-Joseph Le Blan, composer
1718 - Saverio Bettinelli, Italian writer (d. 1808)
1720 - Gilbert White, "father of British naturalists",,17660718::"Friedrich Fleischmann, composer
1796 - Feargus O'Connor, County Cork, leader of English Chartists
1797 - Immanuel Hermann Fichte, German philosopher (d. 1879)
1810 - Peter Singer, composer
1811 - William Makepeace Thackeray, England, Victorian novelist (Vanity Fair)
1818 - Louis De Geer, 1st Swedish Prime Minister (d. 1896)
1821 - Pauline Garcia-Viardot, French mezzo-soprano and composer (d. 1910)
1823 - Leonard Fulton Ross, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1901
1827 - Pierre L Goossens, archbishop of Mechelen/Cardinal
1837 - Vasil Levski, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1873)
1845 - Tristan Corbière, French poet (d. 1875)
1848 - William Gilbert Grace, Victorian England's greatest cricketer
1850 - Rose Hartwick Thorpe, American poet (d. 1939)
1853 - Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, Holland, physicist (Nobel 1902)
1862 - Victor, Prince Napoleon (Napoleon V), French pretender to throne
1862 - Nikolai Nikolayevich Yudenich, Russian WWI general (d. 1933)
1864 - Ricarda Huch, writer
1864 - Phillip Snowden, British politician (d. 1937)
1865 - Laurence Housman, England, author/playwright (Victoria Regina)
1870 - Emil Mlynarski, composer
1871 - Giacomo Balla, Italian painter (Dog at a Rope)
1871 - Sada Yacco, Japanese stage actress (d. 1946)
1872 - Julius Fucik, composer
1880 - Otto Vrieslander, composer
1881 - Larry McLean, baseball player (d. 1921)
1882 - Manuel Galvez, Argentina writer/poet/historian (Paraguay)
1884 - Alberto di Jorio, former head of the Vatican Bank and secretary of the 1958 conclave (d.
          1979)
1887 - Vidkun Al Quisling, Norwegian minister of Defense/premier (1942-45)
1888 - Alexander Rosemeier, Indonesian/Dutch painter
1888 - Sydney Horler, English detective writer
1890 - Charles Wilson, Pres of General Motors (1940-53)/Sec of Def (1953-57)
1890 - Frank Forde, 15th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1983)
1891 - Gene Lockhart, NYC, actor (Going My Way, Christmas Carol)
1892 - Arthur Friedenreich, Brazilian football player (d. 1969)
1893 - Josef Huttel, composer
1893 - Richard Dix, St Paul MN, actor (10 Commandments, Cimarron)
1894 - Bernard Wagenaar, Arnhem Holland, composer (3 Songs for Chinese)
1895 - Marie Ney, London England, actress (Brief Ecstasy, Simba, Witchcraft)
1895 - George Machine Gun Kelly [Georgio Barnes], Memphis Tennessee, American gangster, (d.
           1954)
1897 - E. A. D. Eldridge, British racing driver (d. 1935)
1898 - Herbert Marcuse, Berlin, communist philosopher (Eros & Civilization)
1898 - John Stuart, Edinburgh Scotland, actor (Number 17)
1899 - Willem Kernkamp, Dutch minister of Colonies (Islam & Woman)
1900 - Nathalie Sarraute [Tcherniak], Ivanovo, Russia, writer and lawyer (Portrait of a Man Unknown,
           The Golden Fruits)
1902 - Charles W J Mengelberg, Dutch composer/conductor
1903 - Bozidar Kunc, composer
1903 - Chill Wills, Seagoville Texas, actor (Fronteir Circus, Rounders)
1906 - Belle Stewart, singer
1906 - Clifford Odets, US, dramatist (1961 Award of Merit-Golden Boy)
1906 - S I Hayakawa, (Sen-R-CA), educator (Language in Action)
1907 - Yvonne Desportes, composer
1908 - Mildred Lisette Norman, American peace activist, earned the moniker Peace Pilgrim (d. 1981)
1909 - Andrei Gromyko, USSR, diplomat/USSR President (1985-89) [7/5 OS]
1909 - Harriet Hilliard Nelson, Des Moines, Iowa, American singer/actress (Ozzie & Harriet, Follow the
           Fleet)
1909 - Lupe Velez, [Guadelupe Velez de Villabos], actress (Joe Palooka)
1909 - Mohammed Daoud Khan, President of Afghanistan (d. 1978)
1911 - Alexander Hyatt-King, scholar (Mozart)
1911 - Hume Cronyn, London Ontario, actor (World According to Garp, Cocoon)
1912 - Harry Levin, literary Scholar
1912 - Henry L "Hank" Miller, US pilot/lt adm (WW II-Pacific)
1912 - Max Rousié, French rugby footballer (d. 1950)
1913 - Jan Slot, Dutch mayor (Eethen/Hardenberg/Ede)
1913 - Marvin Miller, St Louis Mo, actor (Space Patrol, Millionaire)
1913 - Red Skelton, [Richard], Vincennes Ind, comedian (Red Skelton Show)
1914 - Herbert Collum, composer
1914 - John G Bearer, writer (Metro, Drunken Canary, Fast Heartbeat)
1914 - Jozef MLT Cals, Dutch premier (KVP, Mammoth Law)
1914 - Mack Robinson, US, 200m dash (Olympic-silver-1932)
1914 - Gino Bartali, Italian cyclist (d. 2000)
1915 - Anthony Cox, English architect
1915 - Isaack Stouten, resistance fighter
1916 - Isaac [Ietje] A Diepenhorst, Dutch lawyer/minister of Education
1916 - Kenneth Armitage, English sculptor
1916 - Johnny Hopp, baseball player (d. 2003)
1917 - Henri Salvador, French singer (d. 2008)
1918 - Jane Frazee, Duluth Minn, actress/singer (Alice-Beulah)
1918 - Nelson Mandela, Qunu South Africa, political prisoner (ANC)/President (1994-1999)/ Nobel
          (1993)
1918 - Pamela Brown, England, actress (Alice in Wonderland, Dracula)
1920 - Dolph Sweet, actor (Gil McGowan-Another World)
1920 - Eric Brandon, British racing driver (d. 1982)
1921 - John H Glenn Jr, Cambridge OH, astronaut (Mer 7, sk:STS 95)/(Sen-D-Oh)
1922 - Thomas Kuhn, American philosopher (d. 1996)
1923 - Hector Tosar, composer
1923 - Jerome H. Lemelson, American inventor (d. 1997)
1924 - Howard Roberts, Burlington NJ, choral director (Leslie Uggams Show)
1924 - John Cruickshank, French scholar
1924 - Inge Sørensen, Danish swimmer
1925 - George Doggart, cricketer (2 Tests for England 1950)/MCC pres
1925 - Jaime de Mora y Aragon, actor/publicist (Last Judgement)
1925 - Shirley Strickland de la Hunty, Austria, 100m dash (Oly-bronze-1948)
1926 - Bryan Johnson, singer/actor
1926 - Jane Hylton, London England, actress (Adv of Sir Lancelot, Daybreak)
1926 - Richard Pasco, English actor (Gorgon, Arch of Triumph)
1926 - Robert Sloman, writer (d. 2005)
1926 - Margaret Laurence, Canadian writer (d. 1987)
1927 - Kurt Masur, German actor (Hotel Deutschland)
1927 - Ludwig Harig, writer
1927 - Zin Harris, cricketer (father of Chris NZ batsman in 50's & 60's)
1928 - Simon Vinkenoog, Dutch writer
1929 - "Screamin' Jay" Hawkins, Cleveland, rocker (I Put a Spell on You)
1929 - Dick Totten Button, Englewood NJ, figure skater (Olympic-gold-48, 52)
1929 - Michael Medwin, English actor (Four in a Jeep, Scrooge, Checkpoint)
1930 - Siegfried Kurz, composer
1930 - Burt Kwouk, English actor
1931 - "Papa" Dee Allen, Wilmington DE, percussionist (War-World is a Ghetto)
1932 - Robert Ellis Miller, American film director
1933 - Aad Nuis, Dutch writer/undersecretary of Education (D66)
1933 - Raymund Murray Schafer, Sarnia Ontario, Canada, composer (Patria)
1933 - Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Zima Russia, poet (Bratsk Station)
1934 - Edward Bond, English playwright/director (Blow-up)
1934 - Darlene Conley, American actress (d. 2007)
1935 - Tenley Albright, Boston Mass, figure skater (Olympic-gold-1952, 56)
1935 - Jayendra Saraswathi, Hindu religious leader
1936 - Ted Harris, Canadian ice hockey player
1937 - Roald Hoffman, Polish-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1937 - Hunter S. Thompson, American journalist and author (Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas) (d.
           2005)
1938 - Britt Leach, Gadsen Ala, actor (Mickey-Spencer's Pilots)
1938 - Dudu Pukwana, [Mtutuzel], South African/British saxophonist/composer
1938 - Paul Verhoeven, director (Basic Instinct, Total Recall)
1938 - Ian Stewart, Scottish pianist (d. 1985)
1938 - John Connelly, St Helens, Lancashire, footballer (20 English caps), (d. 2012)
1939 - Brian Auger, London, fusion keyboardist (Befour, Genesis)
1939 - Dion DiMucci, Bronx, rocker (Dion & Belmonts-Teenager in Love)
1939 - Edward Gramlich, American economics professor (d. 2007)
1939 - Jerry Moore, American football coach
1940 - James Brolin, Los Angeles California, actor (Dr Kiley-Marcus Welby, Peter-Hotel)
1940 - Joseph Torre, outfield/manager (Braves, Mets, 1971 NL MVP)
1941 - Jack Jersey, [de Nijs], Indonesian/Dutch singer/producer
1941 - Lonnie Mack, Aurora Indiana, rocker (Baby What's Wrong)
1941 - Marcia Jones Smoke, Oklahoma, 500m kayak (Olympic-bronze-1964)
1941 - Martha Reeves, Detroit Mich, singer (& Vandellas-Dancing in St)
1942 - Alexander EHAML, prince of the Belgians/son of Leopold III
1942 - Adolf Ogi, Swiss politician
1942 - Giacinto Facchetti, Italian footballer (d. 2006)
1943 - Bobby Sherman, Santa Monica California, singer (Shindig, Here Comes Brides)
1943 - Calvin Peete, Detroit MI, PGA golfer (1979 Greater Milwaukee Open)
1943 - Robin McDonald, Scotland, rock guitarist (Billy J Kramer & Dakotas)
1944 - David Hemery, English 400m-hurdler (Oly-gold-1968) [or 1948]
1944 - Jonelle Allen, NYC, actress (Bessie-Palmerstown USA, Berringers)
1945 - Danny McCullock, London, rocker (Animals)
1946 - Tim Lynch, rocker (Flaming Groovies)
1946 - Leo Madder, Belgian actor
1947 - Ayn Rumen, Bkln NY, actress (Janet-McLean Stevenson Show)
1947 - Kurt Mann, Roslyn NY, actor (Bad Penny)
1947 - Steven W. Mahoney, Canadian politician
1948 - Cesar Zuiderwijk, Dutch rock drummer (Golden Earring, Radar Love)
1948 - Phil Harris, rocker (Ace)
1948 - Hartmut Michel, German chemist, Nobel laureate
1948 - Carlos Colón, Sr., Puerto Rican professional wrestler
1949 - Dennis Lillee, Australian cricket fast bowler (1971-84)
1950 - Richard Branson, London, British music enterperneur (Virgin Atlantic)
1950 - Glenn Hughes, American singer (Village People) (d. 2001)
1950 - Jack Layton, Canadian politician
1950 - Kostas Eleftherakis, Greek footballer
1951 - Bruce Alan Lietzke, Kansas City KS, PGA golfer (1978 Canadian Open)
1951 - Elio Di Rupo, Belgian politician
1951 - Margo Martindale, American actress
1952 - James Forbes, basketball player (Olympic-silver-1972)
1953 - Peter Greenall, English brewer (Greenall Witley)
1954 - Imtiaz Ali, cricketer (brother of Inshan One Test WI v India 1976)
1954 - Ricky Skaggs, Cordell Ky, country singer (Heartbroke, Toy Hearts)
1954 - Robert Cameron, CFL punter (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1954 - Tobias Picker, composer
1955 - Teresa Ann Savoy, London England, actress (Caligula)
1955 - Vitali Viktorovich Savitsky, biologist/politician
1955 - Bernd Fasching, Austrian painter and sculptor
1956 - Audrey Landers [Hamburg], Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, American actress/singer (Dallas,
          Chorus Line)
1956 - Razor Shines, American baseball player, manager and coach
1957 - Nicholas Alexander Faldo, England, PGA golfer (1992 British Open)
1958 - Margo [AM] Vliegenthart, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (PvdA)
1958 - Nigel Twist, Manchester, rock drummer (Alarm-In the Summertime)
1960 - Anne-Marie Johnson, Los Angeles California, actress (In the Heat of the Night)
1961 - Elizabeth McGovern, Evanston Ill, actress (Once Upon a Time in Amer)
1962 - Engelbert Linder, hockey defenseman (Team Austria 1998)
1962 - Jensen Buchanan, Montgomery AL, actress (Vicky/Marley-Another World)
1962 - Lee Arenberg, American actor
1962 - Jack Irons, American drummer
1962 - Shaun Micallef, Australian comedian
1963 - Lonnie Young, NFL safety/cornerback (NY Jets)
1963 - Martín Torrijos Espino, President of Panama
1963 - Al Snow, American professional wrestler
1964 - Susan Marie Snyder, actress (Julie-As the World Turns)
1964 - Wendy Williams, radio host
1965 - Robert Holland, CFL defensive back (BC Lions)
1965 - Yugi Iga, hockey forward (Team Japan 1998)
1966 - Dan[iel Dion] O'Brien, Portland Oregon, decathelete (Olympic-gold-96)
1967 - Jeff Lageman, NFL defensive end (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1967 - Vin Diesel, American actor
1969 - Masanori Murakawa, Japanese professional wrestler
1970 - Dusty Imoo, hockey goaltender (Team Japan 1998)
1970 - John Kalin, CFL safety (Calgary Stampeders)
1970 - Margaret Langford, Vancouver BC, canoeist (Olympics-96)
1970 - Patrick Dancy, TV rocker (Guys Next Door-I Was Made For You)
1971 - Kristi Coats, LPGA golfer (1995 Ping/Welch-66th)
1971 - Sarah McLeod, New Zealand actress
1972 - Anfernee "Penny" Hardaway, Memphis, NBA guard (Orlando, Oly-gold-96)
1972 - Bernard Williams, NFL tackle (Philadelphia Eagles)
1972 - Bruce Walker, NFL nose tackle (NE Patriots)
1974 - Derek Anderson, NBA guard (Cleveland Cavaliers)
1974 - Alan Morrison, British poet
1975 - Torii Hunter, baseball player
1975 - Daron Malakian, American guitarist (System of a Down, Scars on Broadway)
1976 - Elsa Pataky, Spanish actress
1977 - Dylan Lane, American television host
1977 - Alfian bin Sa'at, Singaporean writer, poet and playwright
1978 - Shane Horgan, Irish rugby player
1978 - Ben Sheets, American baseball player
1978 - Mélissa Theuriau, French newscaster
1978 - Verónica Romeo, Spanish singer
1979 - Julie Gulbrandsen, Miss Arizona Teen USA (1997)
1979 - Rick Baxter, American politician
1979 - Jared Hess, American film director and screenwriter
1979 - Deion Branch, American football player
1979 - Joey Mercury, American professional wrestler
1979 - Jermaine Paul, American musician
1980 - Kristen Bell, American actress
1980 - Ryoko Hirosue, Japanese actress and singer
1982 - Panagiotis Lagos, Greek footballer
1982 - Priyanka Chopra, Indian actress and beauty queen
1982 - Ryan Cabrera, American musician and TV host
1983 - Carlos Diogo, Uruguayan footballer
1985 - Chace Crawford, American actor
1988 - César Villaluz, Mexican footballer
1991 - Karina Pasian, American singer and pianist
1994 - Ricardo Dela Corte, Italy, test tube baby born to oldest (62) mother

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 18, 2013, 09:06:29 AM

This Day in History for 18th July


Famous Deaths

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Novelist Jane Austen (1817)                    American Gangster
                                                               George Machine Gun Kelly (1954)


640 - Arnulf, bishop of Metz (614-640)/politician, dies at about 58
715 - Muhammad bin Qasim (b. 695)
1100 - Godfried IV van Bouillon, count of Antwerp, dies
1374 - Francesco Petrarch, Italian poet (Italia Mia), dies at 69
1488 - Alvise Cadamosto, Italian explorer (b. 1432)
1544 - René van Chalon, viceroy of Holland, dies in battle at 25
1591 - Jakob Handl, [Petelin], Austrian composer/bandmaster, dies at 40
1608 - Joachim III Frederik, ruler (Brandenburg), dies at 61
1610 - Michelangelo Merisi, Italian artist (b. 1573)
1639 - Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar, German prince and general (b. 1604)
1642 - Willem earl of Nassau-Siegen, gov of Ft Emmerik/Heusden, dies
1650 - Christoph Scheiner, German astronomer, dies at 74
1695 - Joannes Camphuys, gov-gen of Dutch-Indies, dies at 61
1698 - Johann Heinrich Heidegger, Swiss theologian (b. 1633)
1710 - Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Italian painter, dies at 36
1721 - Jean Antoine Watteau, French painter, dies
1730 - François de Neufville, duc de Villeroi, French soldier (b. 1644)
1735 - Johann Krieger, composer, dies at 83
1792 - John Paul Jones, American naval commander (b. 1747)
1817 - Jane Austen, English novelist, dies at 41
1831 - Thomas Greatorex, composer, dies at 72
1833 - Joseph Comb, missionary to Moluccas, dies at 63
1854 - Abbas Hilmi I, viceroy of Egypt, dies at about 41
1863 - William Dorsey Pender, US Confederate gen-mjr, dies of injuries at 29
1872 - Benito Juarez, Cuban justice/general (battle of Acapulco), dies at 66
1884 - Ferdinand von Hochstetter, Austrian geologist (b. 1829)
1892 - Thomas Cook, English tour director (Thomas Cook & Son), dies at 83
1894 - Leconte de Lisle, writer, dies at 75
1898 - Emil Hartmann, composer, dies at 62
1899 - Horatio Alger Jr, American clergyman/author (Disagreeeable Woman), dies
1901 - Alfredo Carlo Piatti, composer, dies at 79
1902 - John White, composer, dies at 47
1908 - Jaime Nuno, composer, dies at 83
1915 - George William Louis Marshall-Hall, composer, dies at 53
1916 - Benjamin C. Truman, American journalist and author
1918 - Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna (b. 1864)
1925 - Louis Nazaire Bégin, Roman Catholic cardinal and Archbishop of Quebec (b. 1840)
1937 - Julian Bell, British poet (b. 1908)
1938 - Vladimir M Kirshon, Russian playwright, executed at 35
1939 - Witold Maliszewski, composer, dies at 65
1941 - Dionyssios Lavrangas, composer, dies at 80
1944 - George A Hartland, English MP (Norwich 1931-35), dies at 60
1944 - Thomas Sturge Moore, English poet (Centaurs' Booty), dies at 74
1948 - Herman Gummerus, Finnish historian and politician (b. 1877)
1949 - Vítězslav Novák, Czech composer (b. 1870)
1950 - Carl Clinton Van Doren, US literary (The Nation), dies at 64
1952 - Paul Saintenoy, Belgian architect (b. 1862)
1952 - Jack Earle, American actor and sideshow performer (b. 1906)
1953 - Lucy Booth, Daughter of William and Catherine Booth (b. 1868)
1954 - George Machine Gun Kelly, American gangster, dies at 59
1956 - Willem J A Kerncamp, Dut overseas minister (Islam & Woman), dies at 57
1958 - Henry Farman, French aviation pioneer (double decker), dies at 84
1958 - John Gobau, Flem/Dutch actor (Death of Business Traveller), dies at 67
1961 - Kit Guard, dies of cancer at 67
1963 - A H C Cooper, South African cricketer (Test v England 1914), dies
1965 - Shalva Mikhailovich Taktakishvili, composer, dies at 64
1966 - Bobby Fuller, American rock singer and guitarist (I Fought the Law), found dead at 23
1966 - German Germanovich Galinin, composer, dies at 44
1967 - Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, Brazil pres (1964-87), dies at 66
1968 - Corneille Heymans, Belgian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
1969 - Barbara Pepper, actress (Doris Ziffel-Green Acres), dies at 57
1970 - Lucien H d'Azambuja, Fren astronomer (chromosphere of Sun), dies at 86
1973 - Jack Hawkins, actor (Ben Hur, Ben-Four Just Men), dies at 62
1975 - Federico Ghisi, composer, dies at 74
1980 - Naoomal Jeoomal, cricketer (3 Tests for India 1932-34, 108 runs), dies
1981 - Wilhelm HC Tenhaeff, Dutch para-psychologist, dies at 87
1982 - Lionel Daunais, French-Canadian singer and composer (b. 1902)
1984 - James Oliver Huberty, shot by police after killing 21 in McDonalds
1985 - Shahnawaz Bhutto, son of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto
1986 - Stanley Rous, British soccer official, dies at 91
1987 - Gilberto Freye, Brazilian sociologist/writer, dies at 87
1988 - Nico, US model/pop singer (Velvet Underground), dies at 43
1989 - Donnie Moore, pitcher (Angels), shoots himself at 35
1989 - Rebecca Schaeffer, actress (My Sister Sam), is shot by a fan at 21
1990 - Georges Dargaud, French publisher (Asterix, Kuifje), dies at 78
1990 - Karl Menninger, psychatrist (Menninger Clinic), dies at 96 of cancer
1990 - Yoon Boseon, President of South Korea (b. 1897)
1990 - Gerry Boulet, Quebec rock singer (b. 1946)
1991 - Andre Cools, Belgian budget minister, murdered at 63
1991 - Harold Butler, cricketer (2 Tests for England 1947-48, 12 wkts), dies
1992 - Jan Pelleboer, Dutch meteorologist, dies
1992 - Mollie Parnis, fashion designer (Mamie Eisenhower), dies
1992 - Rudolf Ising, cartoonist (Looney Tunes, Merrie Melodies), dies at 88
1992 - Viktor Louis, Russian journalist, dies
1993 - Jean Negulesco, director (3 Coins in a Fountain), dies at 93
1993 - John Beck, US producer (Harvey, Singing Nun), dies at 83
1993 - Robert Davis, dies of emphysema at 76
1993 - Sergei Y Vozovikov, Russian major/cosmonaut, dies in accident at 35
1993 - Vladimir Pavlovich Barmin, Chief designer of Soviet launch pads, dies
1994 - Gottfried Reinhardt, [Goldmann], German/US director, dies at 83
1995 - Fabio Casartelli, Italian olympian (Oly-gold-92), dies at 24
1996 - Hans Fellner, bookseller, dies at 71
1997 - Eugene Shoemaker, astronomer (Shoemaker-Levy comet), dies at 69
2001 - James Hatfield, American author (b. 1958)
2001 - Fabio Taglioni, Italian automotive engineer (b. 1920)
2002 - Victor Emery, British theoretical physicist (b. 1933)
2004 - Paul Foot, British journalist (b. 1937)
2004 - Émile Peynaud, French oenologist (b. 1912)
2005 - William Westmoreland, American military officer (b. 1914)
2005 - Bill Hicke, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1938)
2007 - George Caiazzo, American professional wrestler
2007 - Jerry Hadley, American opera singer, (b. 1952)
2007 - Kenji Miyamoto, Japanese politician (b. 1908)
2008 - Khosrow Shakibai, Iranian actor (b. 1944)
2009 - Henry Allingham, British supercentenarian and World War I veteran (b. 1896)
2012 - Rajesh Khanna, Indian actor, dies from kidney problems at 69

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 19, 2013, 11:11:41 AM

This Day in History for 19th July


Historical Events

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Philosopher Thomas Hobbes                  Naturalist Charles Darwin                     British war time Prime Minister
                                                                                                                            Winston Churchill

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Heavyweight Boxing Champion
Mike Tyson


64 - Circus Maximus in Rome catches fire
532 - Start of Dionysian Pascal Cycle
711 - Muslim forces under Tariq ibn Ziyad defeat the Visigoths led by their king Roderic.
1195 - Battle at Alarcos: Almohaden beats Alfons VIII of Castilia
1380 - Thomas of Buckingham's invasion army lands on Calais
1425 - Duke John VI van Brabant pledges Holland/Zealand to Philip the Good
1510 - 38 Jews are burned at stake in Berlin Prussia
1524 - Boer War begins in Germany's Black Forest
1525 - Catholic German monarchy form Union of Dessau
1544 - Italian War of 1542: The Siege of Boulogne began.
1545 - King Henry VIII's flagship Mary Rose sinks at Portsmouth; 73 die
1551 - Treaty of Karlsburg: arch duke Ferdinand of Austria recognized as king of
           Hungary/Transsylvania
1553 - 15-year-old Lady Jane Grey deposed as England's Queen after 9 days
1572 - Battle at Saint-Ghislain: Spanish army beats The Genlis' mercenaries
1575 - Spanish viceroy Gilles of Hierges attacks Oudewater
1590 - King Philip Ii's secretary Antonio Perez escapes jail
1599 - Jacob van Necks merchant fleet leaves Java
1639 - French troops occupy Salses, at Perpignan
1674 - Court of Holland bans books of Hobbes/Spinoza/Meyer
1688 - Soldiers killed governor of Aerssen in Paramaribo
1702 - Swedish troops under King Charles XII occupy Crackow
1760 - The formal request to found the later city of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico is filed by its founders.
1799 - A group of Napoleon Bonaparte's soldiers discover what is now known as The Rosetta Stone,
           enabling the translation of hieroglyphics for the first time.
1816 - Survivors of French frigate Medusa rescued off Senegal after 17 days
1836 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches Ascension
1843 - Brunel's steamship the SS Great Britain is launched, becoming the first ocean-going craft with
           an iron hull or screw propeller and also becoming the largest vessel afloat in the world.
1848 - 1st US women's rights convention (Seneca Falls NY)
1848 - German Parliament demands Dutch province of Limburg
1850 - Airship Elizabeth leaves in storm for Fire Island, crashes (42 die)
1860 - 1st railroad reaches Kansas
1862 - Forrest's 1st raid
1863 - Battle of Buffington's Island (St George Creek), Ohio
1864 - Battle of Winchester, VA (Stephenson's Depot) [->JUL 20]
1866 - Tennessee is 1st to ratify 14th Amendment, guaranteeing civil rights
1867 - Congress passed 3rd Reconstruction Act over Pres Andrew Johnson's veto
1867 - Dutch Red Cross forms
1870 - France declares war on Prussia; Franco-Prussian war begins
1875 - Emma Abbott, a floating hospital for sick kids, makes trial trip, NYC
1877 - 1st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Spencer W Gore beats Marshall (61 62 64)
1879 - Doc Holliday kills for the first time after a man shoots up his New Mexico saloon.
1880 - SF Public Library starts lending books
1899 - National Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, forms
1900 - Michel Théato wins 2nd olympics marathon (2:59:45.0-40,260k)
1902 - NY Giants lose their 1st game under new manager John McGraw
1904 - Cleveland Nap's Neal Ball makes 1st unassisted triple play
1904 - Dutch Premier Kuypers disbands 1st Chamber
1908 - Feyenoord soccer team forms in Rotterdam
1909 - Cleveland shortstop Neal Ball executes an unassisted triple play
1910 - Cleveland Indian baseball player Cy Young registers 500th career victory against Washington
           5-4 in 11 innings
1912 - A meteorite with an estimated mass of 190 kg explodes over the town of Holbrook in Navajo
           County, Arizona causing approximately 16,000 pieces of debris to rain down on the town.
1913 - Billboard publishes earliest known "Last Week's 10 Best Sellers among Popular Songs"
           Malinda's Wedding Day is #1
1914 - Boston Braves begin drive from last to 1st place in NL
1915 - Dutch accidents at sea law enforced
1915 - Naval accident
1915 - Wash Nationals steal record 8 bases vs Cleve Indians in the 1st inning
1918 - German armies retreat across Marne River in France (WW I)
1918 - Wash catcher Eddie Ainsmith applies for deferment from the draft Sec of War Newton D
           Baker rules baseball players are not draft exempt
1919 - Following Peace Day celebrations marking the end of World War I, ex-servicemen rioted and
           burnt down Luton Town Hall.
1923 - WRC-AM in Washington DC begins radio transmissions
1926 - 2nd French government of Herriot, forms
1927 - Ty Cobb gets his 4,000th hit
1928 - King Fuad of Egypt grabs power/disbands parliament
1933 - 1st time, brothers on opposite teams homer in the same game. Red Sox
1933 - Rick Ferrell homers off brother pitcher Wes of Cleve, who also homers
1936 - Indians' Bob Feller makes his major league debut in relief
1936 - Spanish premier Casares Quiroga succeeded by Jose Giral
1937 - Entartete Art Fair opens in Munich
1937 - Joris Ivens' "Spanish Earth" premieres in Hollywood
1939 - Dr Roy P Scholz is 1st surgeon to use fiberglass sutures
1940 - Hitler orders Great Britain to surrenders
1940 - Nazi occupiers imprison 231 prominent Dutch citizens in Buchenwald
1940 - Nazi occupiers in Neth forbid anti-nazi films
1941 - 1st US Army flying school for black cadets dedicated (Tuskegee Ala)
1941 - BBC World Service begins playing V(ictory) (...-) 5th of Beethoven
1941 - British PM Winston Churchill launched his "V for Victory" campaign
1941 - President Roosevelt appointed FEP Committee
1942 - Dmitri Shostakovitch' 7th Symphony, premieres in US
1942 - German occupiers confiscate bicycles in Rotterdam & Hague
1943 - 500 allied air forces raid Rome during WW II
1944 - 1,200+ 8th Air Force bombers bomb targets in SW Germany
1944 - 500 15th Air Force Liberators/Flying Fortresses bomb Munich vicinity
1944 - 500 15th Air Force-Liberators surround Munich
1944 - Allied troops occupy Faubourg de Vaucelles, at Caen
1944 - Danish resistance fails on assault on Taarbaek Fort near Copenhagen
1944 - Democratic convention opens in Chicago
1944 - Earl Claus von Stauffenberg visits RC church in Berlin-Dahlem
1944 - General Bradley flies to England
1944 - Japanese aircraft carriers Taiho/Shokaku sinks in Marianas
1944 - NY archbishop Spellman flies to Europe
1944 - Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg 1st meets Eichmann
1945 - Edwin Schlossberg, husband of Carolyn Kennedy
1945 - USS Cod saves 51 sailors from Dutch sub in only sub-to-sub rescue
1947 - Prime minister of shadow Burma government ,Bogyoke Aung San and 6 of his cabinet and 2
           non-cabinet members were assassinated by British , which resulted in the political chaos in
           the country lasting until now.
1948 - French government of Schuman, resigns
1949 - Laos becomes associated state within French Union
1950 - French/Vietnamese offensive against Viet Minh
1950 - NY Yanks obtain their 1st black players, Elston Howard & Frank Barnes
1950 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Summi maeroris
1951 - "2 in the Aisle" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 276 perfs
1952 - "Paint Your Wagon" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 289 perfs
1952 - 15th modern Olympic games opens in Helsinki, Finland
1952 - Freddie Trueman takes 8-31, India all out 58 at Old Trafford
1952 - India all out 82 in 2nd innings after making 52 earlier in the day
1953 - KIMA TV channel 29 in Yakima, WA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 - WAKR (now WAKC) TV channel 23 in Akron, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 - Balclutha ties up at Pier 43 & becomes a floating museum
1955 - Yarkon Water Project opens to supply water to Negev desert in Israel
1956 - US refuse to lend Egypt money to build Aswan Dam
1957 - 1st rocket with nuclear warhead fired, Yucca Flat, Nevada
1957 - Don Bowden becomes 1st American to break 4 minute mile (3m58s7)
1957 - US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1958 - "Oh, Captain!" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 192 performances
1958 - Charly Gaul wins Tour de France
1959 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Machine International Golf Open Alliance
1960 - Italian government Tambroni, resigns
1960 - SF Giants Juan Marichal debuts, with a 1 hitter against Phillies
1961 - 1st in-flight movie shown (TWA)
1962 - Hungarian communist party expels Rákosi & Gero
1963 - NASA civilian Test pilot Joe Walker in X-15 reaches 105 km
1963 - Philadelphia Phillies Roy Siever hits HR # 300
1964 - 46th PGA Championship: Bobby Nichols shoots a 271 at Columbus CC Ohio
1964 - Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Yankee Women's Golf Open
1964 - USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1965 - Shooting begins on Star Trek 2nd pilot "Where No Man Has Gone Before"
1966 - France performs nuclear Test at Fangataufa Island
1966 - Gov James Rhodes declares state of emergency in Cleveland (race riot)
1967 - 1st air conditioned NYC subway car (R-38 on the F line)
1967 - Race riots in Durham NC
1967 - US launches Explorer 35 for lunar orbit (800/7400 km)
1969 - Apollo 11 goes into Moon orbit
1970 - Judy Rankin wins LPGA Springfield Jaycee Golf Open
1971 - Sudan military coup under maj Hashem al-Atta, Numeiry flees
1973 - Willie Mays named to NL all star team for 24th time (ties Musial)
1974 - Cleve Indian Dick Bosman no-hits Oakland A's, 4-0
1974 - David Bowie's "Diamond Dog" tour ends in NYC
1974 - Soyuz 14 lands
1975 - Apollo & Soyuz linked in orbit for 2 days, separate
1975 - NY Yank catcher Thurman Munson's 1st-inning single & RBI are
1975 - Nullified because the tar on his bat handle exceeds 18" limit
1976 - Rock group Deep Purple disbands
1976 - Allman Brother's roadie Scooter Herring sentenced to 75 years for providing drugs for the
           group, based on Gregg Allman's testimony
1976 - Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal is created.
1977 - 48th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-5 at Yankee Stadium, NY
1977 - All star MVP: Don Sutton (LA Dodgers)
1977 - Floods in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, kills 76
1978 - France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
1978 - Yanks start 14 game comeback with 2-0 win
1979 - 2 supertankers collide off Tobago-260,000 TONS of oil spill
1979 - Maritza Sayalero, 18, of Venezuela, crowned 28th Miss Universe
1979 - Nicaragua Liberation Day; Sandinistas take over from Somoza
1979 - Patricia Harris, becomes sect of HEW
1980 - 22nd modern Olympic games opens in Moscow; US & others boycott
1980 - David Bowie appears in role of "Elephant Man" in Denver
1981 - 110th British Golf Open: Bill Rogers shoots a 276 at Royal St George
1981 - Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA WUI Golf Classic
1982 - 1st Old Timer's All star classic - AL wins 7-2 in Wash DC
1982 - Bolivian government resigns
1982 - David S Dodge becomes 1st American hostage in Lebanon
1982 - 1st annual Cracker Jack Oldtimers Classic 75-year-old Luke Appling hits a 250-foot HR off
           Warren Spahn, AL beats NL 7-2
1983 - The first three-dimensional reconstruction of a human head in a CT is published.
1984 - 1st female to captain a 747 across Atlantic (Lynn Rippelmeyer)
1984 - Geraldine A Ferraro, (Rep-D-NY), wins Democratic VP nomination
1985 - Christa McAuliffe chosen 1st school teacher to fly space shuttle
1985 - Dam in Fiemme Valley Italy bursts; 200-300 die
1985 - The Val di Stava Dam collapse killing 268 people in Val di Stava, Italy.
1986 - Indian pitcher Phil Niekro wins his 307th game tying him with
1986 - Tim Witherspoon KOs Frank Bruno in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
1987 - 116th British Golf Open: Nick Faldo shoots a 279 at Muirfield Gullane
1987 - Don Mattingly sets AL record of extra base hits in 10 cons games
1987 - Jane Geddes wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
1989 - Cleve Indian Joe Carter has his 4th 3 HR game
1989 - United Airlines DC-10 crashes at Sioux City Iowa, kills 112
1990 - BASF plant in Cincinnati explodes in flames, 1 dies
1990 - Cincinnati Red Pete Rose is sentence to 5 months for tax evasion
1990 - Richard Nixon library opens in Yorba Linda, Calif
1990 - Dave Raghetti pitches in his 499th game as a NY Yankee, passing Whitey Ford in most
           appearances as a NY Yankee
1991 - Cal Ripken plays in his 1,500th consecutive game
1991 - Mike Tyson rapes a Miss Black America contestant (Desiree Washington)
1991 - With NY Yankee victory, 10 of 14 AL teams are at .500 or better
1992 - "Price" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 47 performances
1992 - 30th Tennis Fed Cup: Germany beats Spain in Frankfurt Germany (2-1)
1992 - Ballet dancer Peter Martins charged with beating his wife
1992 - Ebony P Warren, crowned 24th Miss Black America
1992 - Juli Inkster wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Golf Classic
1992 - NYC Ballet star Peter Martins, arrested for beating his wife
1993 - Glen Chapple (Lancs) scores fastest F-C century, 21 minutes
1993 - Last day of 1st-class cricket for Ian Botham
1993 - Pres Clinton fires FBI director William Sessions
1994 - 1st game ever cancelled at Seattle Kingdome (falling tiles)
1994 - Bomb explosion in Alas Airlines at Colon Panama, 21 killed
1994 - Leonid Kvetjsma sworn in as Ukraine president
1996 - Ireland beats Netherlands in 1st European Championship Final
1996 - Jason Gallian scores 312 in 683 mins for Lancashire v Derbyshire
1996 - XXVI Olympic games open in Atlanta Georgia
1998 - 127th British Golf Open: at Royal Birkdale
1998 - JAL Big Apple Golf Classic

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 19, 2013, 11:13:56 AM

This Day in History for 19th July


Famous Weddings

1913 - Billboard publishes earliest known "Last Week's 10 Best Sellers among Popular Songs"
           Malinda's Wedding Day is #1
1932 - "Rebecca" author Daphne DuMaurier (25) weds commander of the I Airborne Corps Lt. Gen.
           Frederick Browning (35)
1966 - 50 year old Frank Sinatra marries 21 year old Mia Farrow in Las Vegas
1971 - "The Who" lead singer Roger Daltrey (27) weds model Heather Taylor
1986 - Caroline Kennedy (28) weds Edwin Schlossberg (41) at the Church of Our Lady of Victory in
           Centerville, Massachusetts
2003 - "King of Queens" actress Leah Remini (33) weds actor/salsa musician Angelo Pagan (45) at
            the Four Seasons Hotel in Las Vegas
2003 - "Sabrina, The Teenage Witch" actress Melissa Joan Hart (27) weds "Course of Nature" lead
            singer-guitarist Mark Wilkersonin (26) in Florence, Italy

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 19, 2013, 11:23:51 AM

This Day in History for 19th July


Famous Birthdays

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Inventor/Industrialist                              Murderer Lizzie Borden (1860)              Gymnast Sofia Muratova (1929)
Samuel Colt (1814)   


1592 - Erhard Buttner, composer
1670 - Richard Leveridge, English bass and composer (d. 1758)
1688 - Giuseppe Castiglione, Italian missionary to China (d. 1766)
1735 - Garret Wesley Mornington, composer
1742 - Jean-Baptiste Davaux, composer
1744 - Heinrich Christian Boie, German author (d. 1806)
1750 - Alessio Prati, composer
1759 - Seraphim of Sarov, Russian Orthodox Saint (d. 1833)
1782 - Jonathan Blewitt, composer
1789 - John Martin, English painter
1797 - Johann Gottlieb Schneider, composer
1800 - Juan José Flores, military and first president of Ecuador (d. 1864)
1811 - Vincenz Lachner, composer
1814 - Samuel Colt, Hartford Connecticut, US inventor/industrialist (Colt 6 shot revolver), (d. 1862)
1817 - Mary Ann Ball Bickerdyke, US, army nurse (union)
1819 - Gottfried Keller, writer
1822 - Augusta of Cambridge, Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1916)
1823 - George Henry Gordon, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1827 - Mangal Pandey, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1857)
1828 - Roger Atkinson Pryor, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1919
1833 - John Wesley Turner, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1899
1834 - Edgar Degas, France, impressionist painter (Bouquet)
1838 - Joel Asaph Allen, US zoologist (Rule of Allen)
1846 - Charles Edward Pickering, pioneered American spectroscopist
1848 - Cornelis A Pekelharing, artist (fabric seller)
1849 - F A Alphonse Aulard, French historian
1849 - Ferdinand Brunetière, French writer and critic (d. 1906)
1851 - Hendrik J Jut, Dutch murderer (head of Jut)
1854 - Daniel Josephus Jitta, Dutch High Court lawyer
1860 - Lizzie Borden, Fall River Massachusetts, acquitted of murder (gave her mother forty whacks),
           (d. 1927)
1863 - Hermann Bahr, Austria writer/director (New Men)
1865 - Charles Horace Mayo, surgeon/co-founder (Mayo Clinic)
1873 - Louis Zimmermann, violinist/1st concert master of Concert building
1876 - Joseph Fielding Smith, 10th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d.
           1972)
1876 - John Gunn, Former England cricketer (d. 1963)
1877 - Arthur Fielder, English cricketer (d. 1949)
1878 - Robert H Woltjer, classical/AR-1st-Member of parliament (About Plato)
1879 - Hendrik G Cannegieter, meteorology/director (KNMI)
1881 - Adriaan J Zoetmulder, Dutch writer/directer (Eindhovens Dagblad)
1881 - Friedrich J H Dessauer, German physicist (radiologist)
1883 - Max Fleischer, Austrian animator and film producer (d. 1972)
1888 - Eugene Jungers, Belgian governor of Rwanda Urundi
1892 - Dick Irvin, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1957)
1893 - Vladimir Mayakovsky, Soviet Georgia, poet (Ode to Revolution)[OS=7/7]
1894 - Joris [Georges] of Severen, Flemish fascist/Member of parliament
1894 - Khawaja Nazimuddin, 2nd Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 1965)
1894 - Aleksandr Yakovlevich Khinchin, Russian mathematician (d. 1959)
1895 - Xu Beihong, Chinese painter (d. 1953)
1896 - A. J. Cronin, Scottish writer (Citadel, Shining Victory) (d. 1981)
1898 - Juan Bautista Plaza-Alfonzo, composer
1899 - Paul de Groot, Dutch communist politician (CPN)/Editor (The Truth)
1900 - Arno Breker, German sculptor (3rd Reich sculptor
1900 - Charles Barnet "Roscoe" Harvey, soldier
1900 - Marc Turfkruijer, Flemish movie journalist/writer
1902 - Gerard[us M] Rutten, director (Miraculous Life of Willem Parel)
1905 - Boyd Neel, Blackheath, Kent England, conductor (Story of an Orch)
1905 - Edgar P Snow, US author/journalist: Red star over China
1905 - Louis Philip Kentner, composer
1906 - Klaus Egge, Gransherad, Telemark Norway, composer (Noregsonger)
1906 - Wim van Doorne, Dutch car manufacturer (DAF)
1907 - Gunter Bialas, composer
1907 - Isabel Jewell, American actress (d. 1972)
1909 - Jeno Vecsey, composer
1912 - Norman Carr, British conservationist (b. 1997)
1914 - Josef Palenicek, composer
1914 - Marius Russo, baseball player (d. 2005)
1916 - James D Ramage, US lt-Adm (WW II-Palau/Guam/Philippines)
1916 - Phillip Cavaretta, baseball player (NL MVP 1945)
1917 - Robert Aitken, Phila, Zen co-founder (Diamond Sangha)
1917 - William W Scranton, (Gov-R-Pa)
1919 - Patricia Medina, Liverpool England, actress (High-Low), (d. 2012)
1919 - Robert Pinget, novelist/playwright
1919 - Miltos Sachtouris, Greek poet (d. 2005)
1920 - Robert Christiani, cricketer (brother of Cyril WI batsman in 22 Tests)
1920 - Robert Mann, Portland Oregon, composer/violinist (String Quartet 1952)
1921 - Rosalyn Yalow, medical physicist
1922 - George McGovern, (Sen-D-SD)/pres candidate (D-1972), (d. 2012)
1922 - Rachel Robinson, social activist/humanitarian/Mrs Jackie Robinson
1922 - Harold Camping, American evangelist, founder of Family Radio
1923 - William A. Rusher, American columnist
1924 - Pat Hingle [Martin Patterson], Miami, Florida, American actor (Splendor in the Grass, Batman
           Returns)
1924 - Sybren Polet, [Sijbe Minnema], Dutch writer/poet (Mannekino)
1924 - Stanley K. Hathaway, American politician (d. 2005)
1925 - Sue Thompson, American pop and country music singer
1926 - Helen Gallagher, Bkln, actress (Ryan's Hope, Strangers When We Meet)
1926 - Max Sordam, Suriname warden/writer (Dictionary Sranantongo)
1926 - Sue Thompson, [Eva Sue Mckee], rocker
1927 - Jan Myrdal, Swedish writer/journalist (Albania Defiant)
1928 - John Bratby, painter/writer (Breakdown)
1929 - Sofia Muratova, USSR, gymnist,(Olympic-6 gold/3 silv/4 bronze-1952-60), (d. 2006)
1932 - Buster Benton, singer/guitarist
1934 - Willem Nijholt, actor (De Nietsnut, Respect, Op Afbetaling)
1934 - Francisco Sá Carneiro, Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1980)
1935 - Vasily Livanov, Russian and Soviet film actor
1937 - George Hamilton IV, NC, actor (Evel Knievel, Love at 1st Bite)
1937 - Larry Boxx, founder (Land B Computer Serv)
1937 - Richard Jordan [Robert Anson Jordan Jr.], New York City, New York, American actor (Dune,
           Gettysburg)
1938 - Jayant Narlikar, Indian astrophysicist
1938 - Nicholas Bethell, British historian (d. 2007)
1940 - Vikki Carr [Florencia Vicenta de Casillas Martinez Cardona)], El Paso Texas, singer (Let it Be
           Him)
1940 - Dennis Cole, Detroit, actor (Felony Squad, Brackens's World)
1941 - Jennifer Dunn, (Rep-R-Washington)
1941 - Jerry Huckaby, (Rep-D-LA, 1977- )
1941 - Natalya Bessmertnova, Moscow, dancer (Bolshoi, Lenin Prize 1970)
1941 - Neelie Smit-Kroes, Dutch politician (VVD)/minister of Traffic
1943 - Roy Dunbard Bridges Jr, Atlanta Ga, Col USAF/astro (STS 51-F, 61-F)
1944 - Commander Cody, singer/pianist (Commander Cody & Lost Planet Airmen)
1945 - George Dzunda, Rosenheim Germany, actor (Deer Hunter, Law & Order)
1946 - Alan Gorrie, Scotland, rock bassist/singer (Average White Band)
1946 - Ilie Nastase, Bucharest Romania, tennis player (US Open 1972)
1947 - Bernie Leadon, Minneapolis, guitarist/vocalist (Eagles-Take it Easy)
1947 - Brian May, London, rock guitarist (Queen-We are the Champions)
1947 - Gerard Schwarz, Weehawken NJ, trumpeter/conductor (LA Chamber Orch)
1947 - Mike Dutfield, documentary prodcuer
1947 - Hans-Jürgen Kreische, East German footballer
1948 - Beverly Archer, Oak Park Ill, actress (Iola-Mama's Family)
1948 - Keith Godchaux, rock keyboardist (Grateful Dead)
1949 - Ivar Kants, Australian actor
1950 - Simon Cadell, English actor (Hi-Di-Hi, Pride & Extreme Prejudice)
1950 - Per-Kristian Foss, Norwegian Minister of Finance
1950 - Freddy Moore, American songwriter
1951 - Abel Ferrara, American filmmake
1951 - Jayson Stark, American sportswriter
1952 - Alan Collins, rock guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
1952 - Dominic Muldowney, composer
1952 - Howard Donald Saunders, Danbury Ct, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
1952 - Robert A. Ficano, American politician
1952 - John Griesheimer, American politician
1954 - Srđa Trifković, Serbian-American journalist
1955 - Roger Binny, Indian cricket medium-pace all-rounder (early 80's)
1956 - Great [Yoshiaki] Yatsu, wrestler (NJPW/WCCW/WWF)
1956 - Peter Barton, Valley Stream LI, actor (Powers of Matthew Star)
1957 - Cathy Reynolds, Kansas City MO, LPGA golfer (1981 Golden Lights)
1958 - Robert Gibson, American professional wrestler
1958 - David Robertson, American symphony orchestra conductor
1959 - Terri Treas, KC Kansas, actress (Hannah-7 Brides for 7 Brothers)
1960 - Atom Egoyan, Cairo Egypt, director (Adjuster, Next of Kin)
1961 - Suzi Schott, Springfield Ill, playmate (August, 1984)
1961 - Campbell Scott, New York City, New York, American actor/director/producer (Saint Ralph, Big
           Night)
1961 - Maria Filatova, Soviet gymnast
1961 - Hideo Nakata, Japanese film director
1961 - Benoît Mariage, Belgian film director
1962 - Anthony Edwards, Santa Barbara Ca, actor (It Takes Two, Dr Greene-ER)
1962 - Brad Wilson, Pomona California, Canadian Tour golfer (1993 9 Pro-Am)
1962 - Craig Muni, Toronto, NHL defenseman (Winnipeg Jets)
1963 - Mark Carreon, Chicago IL, outfielder (SF Giants)
1963 - Marla Duncan, Fairfield California, Miss Northern California fitness (1990)
1963 - Sandor Wladar, Hungary, 200m backstroke swimmer (Olympic-gold-1980)
1963 - Garth Nix, Australian author
1964 - Alexandra Curtis, model/daughter of Christine Kaufmann
1964 - Gina Procaccio, Drexel Hills Pennsylvania, 5k runner
1964 - Teresa Edwards, Cairo GA, basketball forward (Oly-gold-1984, 88,92,96)
1964 - André A. Jackson, founder African Diamond Producers Association
1965 - Kathleen Raine, equestrian dressage (Olympics-96)
1965 - Evelyn Glennie, Scottish percussionist
1965 - Stuart Scott, American sportscaster
1966 - David Segui, KC KS, infielder (Montreal Expos)
1966 - Kate Rogerson, Pitts PA, LPGA golfer (1990 Circle K LPGA Tucson-2nd)
1966 - Nancy Walls, American actress
1967 - Christian Bergstrom, Sweden, tennis star
1967 - Dale Hurley Jr, Philadelphia, rower (Olympics-1996)
1968 - Carolie DeVonne Howe, Chugwater Wyoming, Miss Wyoming-America (1991)
1968 - Leroy Butler, NFL defensive back (Green Bay Packers - Superbowl 31)
1968 - Robert Flynn, American musician (Machine Head)
1969 - David Goldsmith, New Brunswick NJ, actor (Eric-Models Inc)
1969 - Matthew Libatique, American cinematographer
1970 - Brooks Thompson, NBA guard (NY Knicks, Orlando Magic)
1970 - Kengy Gardiner, Providence RI, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-5th-1994)
1970 - Rhona Susan Robertson, Auckland NZ, badminton player (Olympics-96)
1971 - Rick Walters, CFL slot back (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1971 - Urs Bühler, Swiss tenor (Il Divo)
1971 - Russell Allen, American musician (Symphony X)
1971 - Vitali Klitschko, Ukrainian boxer
1972 - Adriaan J Zoetmulder, author/director (Eindhovens Newspaper)
1972 - Andrew Kavovit, actor (Paul-As the World Turns)
1972 - John Paci, WLAF quarterback (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1972 - Tamarie Ivie, Ananheim CA, female infielder (Colo Silver Bullets)
1972 - Naohito Fujiki, Japanese actor and singer
1972 - Ebbe Sand, Danish footballer
1973 - Angeline Putt, Miss Universe-Singapore (1996)
1973 - Martin Powell, English musician (Cradle of Filth)
1973 - Saïd Taghmaoui, French actor
1974 - Vincent Spadea, Chicago Ill, tennis star
1974 - Rey Bucanero, Mexican professional wrestler
1974 - Preston Wilson, baseball player
1975 - Alexi Komarov, Yekaterinburg Russia, dance skater (& Carr-1995 Pac Champ)
1976 - R J Williams, actor (General Hospital, Full House)
1976 - Gonzalo de los Santos, Uruguayan footballer
1976 - Vinessa Shaw, American actress
1977 - Haitham Mustafa, Sudanese footballer
1977 - Ed Smith, English cricketer
1977 - Tony Mamaluke, American professional wrestler
1977 - Jean-Sébastien Aubin, Canadian ice hockey goaltender
1978 - Nené, Brazilian footballer
1979 - Luke Young, English footballer
1979 - Rick Ankiel, Baseball pitcher/ outfielder
1979 - Dilhara Fernando, Sri Lankan cricketer
1980 - Giorgio Mondini, Italian racing driver
1980 - Xavier Malisse, Belgian tennis player
1980 - Mark Webber, American actor
1981 - Naomi Grabow, lake Arrowhead California, pairs skater (& Benjamin Oberman)
1981 - Anderson Luiz de Carvalho, Brazilian footballer
1981 - Didz Hammond, bassist/backing vocalist (Dirty Pretty Things and The Cooper Temple Clause)
1981 - Jimmy Gobble, American baseball player
1981 - David Bernard, West Indian cricketer
1982 - Jess Vanstrattan, Australian footballer
1982 - Jared Padalecki, American actor
1982 - Stuart Parnaby, English footballer
1984 - Holly Roffey, Englnd, youngest heart transplant
1984 - Lasse Gjertsen, Norwegian animator
1984 - Lewis Price, Welsh footballer
1984 - Alessandra De Rossi, Filipino actress
1990 - Steven Anthony Lawrence, American actor

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 19, 2013, 11:27:04 AM

This Day in History for 19th July


Famous Deaths

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First President of South Korea
Syngman Rhee (1965)


514 - Symmachus, Italian Pope (498-514), dies
931 - Uda, Emperor of Japan (b. 867)
1054 - Bernold[us] Benno/Bernulphus, bishop of Utrecht (1027-54)/saint, dies
1234 - Floris IV, count of Holland, killed in tournament
1346 - Dirk IV, mister of Valkenburg (1332-46), dies in battle
1374 - Francesco Petrarca, [Petracco], Italian mountaineer/poet, dies at 69
1415 - Philippa of Lancaster, wife of John I of Portugal (plague) (b. 1359)
1534 - Willem van Enkenvoirt, cardinal/bishop of Utrecht, dies at about 70
1543 - Lady Mary Boleyn, mistress of King Henry VIII of England
1545 - George Carew, English admiral, drowns
1545 - Roger Grenville, English captain of Mary Rose, drowns
1625 - Samuel Besler, composer, dies at 50
1627 - Dirck R "Didericus" Camphuysen, poet/printer/vicar, dies at about 41
1631 - Cesare Cremonini, Italian philosopher (b. 1550)
1687 - Laura Martinozzi, Duchess of Modena (b. 1637)
1688 - Cornelis van Aerssen, governor of Suriname (1683-88), murdered at 50
1700 - Hieronymus Gradenthaler, composer, dies at 62
1730 - Jean-Baptiste Loeillet, composer, dies at 49
1740 - Francois van Aerssen, Dutch vice-admiral (Suriname), dies at 71
1742 - John-Baptist Xavery, Flemish sculptor, dies at 45
1742 - William Somervile, English poet (b. 1675)
1810 - Luise, queen of Prussia/wife of Frederik Willem III, dies at 34
1811 - Christian Gotthilf Tag, composer, dies at 76
1814 - Matthew Flinders, English cartographer (Australia coast), dies at 40
1824 - Agustín de Iturbide [crowned Agustin I], Mexican army general, politician and the 1st emperor
           of Mexico is executed by firing squad at 40
1838 - Frederic Nicolas Duvernoy, composer, dies at 72
1844 - Heinrich Domnich, composer, dies at 77
1847 - Johann Wilhelm Wilms, composer, dies at 75
1850 - Giovanni Ossoli, Italian marquis/revolutionary, drowned
1850 - [Sarah] Margaret Fuller Ossoli, US feminist/revolutionary, dies
1852 - Anne-Francois Mellinet, French/Belgian general (Antwerp), dies at 83
1857 - Stefano Franscini, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1796)
1868 - Soji Okita, Japanese samurai, 1st Captain of the Shinsengumi (b. 1842 or 1844)
1892 - Thomas Cook, CEO (Cook Travel Bureau), dies at 83
1895 - Charles T Stork, great industrialist (cotton mach factory), dies at 73
1895 - Ernest H Baillon, French botanist (History of Plants), dies at 67
1896 - Abraham H. Cannon, American Mormon apostle (b. 1859)
1906 - Ferdinand Brunetière, French writer and critic (b. 1849)
1907 - Hector H Malot, French lawyer/author (Alone in the World), dies at 77
1913 - Clímaco Calderón, President of Colombia (b. 1852)
1914 - Alexander Conze, German archaeologist, dies at 82
1918 - Joost van Vollenhoven, Neth, gov-gen (French West-Africa), dies
1922 - Cornelis A Pekelharing, Dutch histologist, dies on 74th birthday
1930 - Robert Stout, NZ prime minister (1884-87), dies at 85
1939 - Tom Hayward, cricketer (35 Tests for England, 1999 runs), dies
1939 - Rose Hartwick Thorpe, American poet (b. 1850)
1940 - Samuel H Chang, US newspaper magnate, murdered in Shanghai
1944 - Carl Bock, Danish Gestapo agent, liquidated
1944 - Harry CA Eyres, British diplomat (Constantinople, Albania), dies at 87
1944 - Will Marion Cook, composer, dies at 75
1945 - George Barbier, actor (Man Who Came to Dinner), dies at 80
1947 - Aung San, Burmese nationalist (assassinated) (b. 1915)
1947 - U Razak, Burmese politician (b. 1898)
1951 - Max Ettinger, composer, dies at 77
1954 - Jean Roger-Ducasse, composer, dies at 81
1955 - Koos [Jacobus J] Vorrink, Dutch soc-democrat (SDAP/AJC/PvdA), dies at 64
1957 - Curzio Malaparte, [Kurt E sorryert], Ital author (Kaputt), dies at 59
1958 - Robert Earl Hughes, weighed 1,041 lbs (473 kg), dies at 32
1964 - Carol Veazie, actress (Maude-Norby), dies at 69
1965 - Syngman Rhee, first President of South Korea (1948-60), dies at 90
1969 - Mary Jo Kopechne, in Ted Kennedy's car, drowns at 28
1969 - Pavel I Apostolov, Russian military bandmaster, dies
1970 - Barry Wood, singer (Your Hit Parade), dies at 61
1972 - Hezekiah M. Washburn, missionary (b. 1884)
1973 - Clarence White, rocker (Byrds), killed by drunken driver at 29
1973 - Vasily Dmiotriyevich Shcheglov, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 33
1974 - Earl Warren, gov of Calif/Supreme court justice (1953-68), dies at 83
1974 - Joe Flynn, actor (McHale's Navy), dies at 59
1974 - Erno Schwarz, Hungarian American soccer player (b. 1904)
1975 - Lefty Frizzell, American country music singer and songwriter (b. 1928)
1976 - Gene Roth, actor (Rosie, Tormented, Nightfall), dies at 73
1976 - Sal Tas, Dutch journalist, dies at 70
1977 - John R Powers, US director model bureau, dies at 80
1981 - Louis Cheslock, composer, dies at 81
1981 - Roger Doucet, French Canadian tenor (b. 1919)
1982 - John Harvey, stage and film actor (b. 1911)
1984 - Carol Eberts Veazie, actress (Maude Endles-Norby), dies at 89
1984 - Geert Lubberhuizen, Dutch publisher (Busy Bee), dies at 68
1984 - Faina Ranevskaya, Russian actress (b. 1896)
1985 - Janusz A. Zajdel, Polish writer (b. 1938)
1989 - Carl-Heinz Schroth, dir/actor (Strafverteidiger), dies at 87
1989 - Kazimierz Sabbat, Polish president (b. 1913)
1990 - Eddie Quillan, actor (Brigadoon, Summer Magic), dies of cancer at 83
1990 - Herbert Nelson, actor (Guilding Light), dies of a stroke at 76
1990 - Johnny Wayne, comedian (Wayne & Shuster), dies of cancer at 72
1992 - Bert Brugman, Dutch puppeteer (Dutch marionette theater), dies
1992 - Heinz Galinski, Pres (Central council for Jews in Germany), dies at 79
1992 - Paolo Borsellino, Italian anti-mafia judge, murdered by mafia
1993 - Elmar Klos, Czech director (Shop on Main Street), dies at 83
1993 - Szymon Goldberg, Polish violinist/conductor, dies at 84
1994 - Christian-Jaque, [Christian Maudet], French director (Nana), dies
1994 - Frederik "Frits" van der More, archaeologist/art historian, dies at 87
1994 - Gottfried Reinhardt, theatre Producer, dies at 81
1994 - Nathan Susskind, Slovak/US linguist (Yiddish), dies at 87
1994 - Nick Banton, founder of Body Positive, dies at 37
1995 - Dorothy McHugh, actress (I Fallen & I Can't Get Up), dies at 87
1995 - James Smiddy, high school basketball coach (1,216 wins), dies at 71
1995 - Michael Andrews, painter, dies at 66
1995 - Sydney Lipton, bandleader/violin, dies at 89
1995 - Yusef Bedri, educationist, dies at 82
1996 - David Nicolson, British businessman and politician, dies at 73
1996 - Emmanual Tettey Mensah, musician, dies at 77
1996 - Lawrence Martin Jenco, priest, dies at 61
1996 - Mervyn Hugh Cowie, willife conservationist, dies at 87
1996 - Owen Tudor Williams, civil engineer, dies at 79
1996 - Pran Nath Chhuttani, physician/teacher, dies at 81
1998 - Elmer Valo, baseball player (b. 1921)
2002 - Alan Lomax, American folksong collector (b. 1915)
2003 - Bill Bright, American evangelist (b. 1921)
2003 - Pierre Graber, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1908)
2004 - Reverend Francis Marzen, American Catholic prelate (b. 1924)
2004 - Zenko Suzuki, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1911)
2005 - John Tyndall, British politician (b. 1934)
2005 - Edward Bunker, American writer (b. 1933)
2006 - Jack Warden, American actor (b. 1920)
2007 - Roberto Fontanarrosa, Argentine cartoonist (b. 1944)
2007 - A. K. Faezul Huq, Lawyer, politician, and freelance journalist (b. 1945)
2008 - Dercy Gonçalves, Brazilian comedienne (b. 1907)
2009 - Frank McCourt, Irish-American author. (b. 1930)
2009 - Henry Surtees, British racing driver. (b. 1991)
2010 - Lorenzen Wright, American basketball player (b. 1975)
2012 - Omar Suleiman, Egyptian general and intelligence officer, dies from a heart attack at 76

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 20, 2013, 09:17:42 AM

This Day in History for 20th July


Historical Events

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Naturalist Charles Darwin                         Aviator Charles Lindbergh                     US Admiral Chester Nimitz

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First President of South Korea             Astronaut & 1st Man on the Moon             Baseball Player Hank Aaron
Syngman Rhee                                                 Neil Armstrong

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Heavyweight Boxing Champion              NFL Running Back and Convicted Criminal
Mike Tyson                                                OJ Simpson


514 - St Hormisdas elected as Pope succeeding Pope Sympowerus
1031 - Henry I succeeds father Robert II as King of France
1304 - Wars of Scottish Independence: Fall of Stirling Castle - King Edward I of England takes the
           last rebel stronghold of the war.
1495 - French viceroy of Naples Montpensier surrenders
1498 - Emperor Maximilian names Albrecht governor of Netherlands
1553 - PM John Dudley captured in Cambridge
1609 - Emperor Rudolf II grants Silezische protestants freedom of religion
1619 - Gerardus Vossius resigns as Dutch regent States college leader
1627 - English fleet under George Villiers reaches La Rochelle [OS=June 10]
1654 - Anglo-Portuguese treaty, Portugal comes under English control
1712 - The Riot Act takes effect in Great Britain.
1738 - North America: French explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la Vérendrye reaches the
           western shore of Lake Michigan.
1749 - Earl of Chesterfield says "Idleness is only refuge of weak minds"
1773 - Scottish settlers arrive at Pictou, Nova Scotia (Canada)
1801 - Elisha Brown Jr pressed a 1,235 pound cheese ball at his farm
1808 - Napoleon decrees all French Jews adopt family names
1810 - Citizens of Bogotá, New Granada (now Colombia), declare independence from Spain.
1836 - Charles Darwin climbs Green Hill on Ascension
1847 - German astronomer Theodor discovers Comet Brorsen-Metcalf
1849 - Start of 1st Lancashire-Yorkshire clash at Hyde Park, Sheffield
1855 - 1st train from Rotterdam to Utrecht in Netherlands
1858 - Fee 1st charged to see a baseball game (50 cents) (NY beats Bkln 22-18)
1858 - Gathering of Plombieres - Napoleon III meets Cavour
1861 - Confederate state's congress began holding sessions in Richmond, Va
1862 - Guerrilla campaign in GA (Porter's & Poindexter's) [->SEP 20] US580 CS2866
1864 - Battle at Stephenson's Depot Virginia: 200 killed or injured
1864 - Battle of Peachtree Creek-Atlanta Campaign
1866 - Sea battle of Lissa-Austria vs Italy
1868 - 1st use of tax stamps on cigarettes
1871 - British Columbia joins the confederation of Canada.
1876 - 1st US intercollegiate track meet held, Saratoga, NY; Princeton wins
1877 - Military shoots on stopped railroad workers in Balt, kills 9
1878 - 1st telephone introduced in Hawaii
1881 - Sioux Indian Chief Sitting Bull, surrenders to federal troops
1890 - "Gibbons Stamp Monthly" begins publishing
1890 - Snow & hail in Calais, ME
1894 - 2000 fed troops recalled from Chicago, having ended Pullman strike
1903 - Giuseppe Sarto elected Pope Pius X
1906 - Bkln Dodger Mal Eason no-hits St Louis Cards, 2-0
1907 - A train wreck on the Pere Marquette Railroad near Salem, Michigan kills thirty and injures
           seventy more.
1910 - Former Dutch premier Abraham Kuyper acquitted of corruption
1911 - Boston Red Sox Smokey Joe Wood no-hits St Louis Browns, 5-0
1911 - Generals Henry Wilson/Auguste Dubail sign plan for British Expeditionary army in case of war
           with Germany
1912 - Phillies Sherry Magee steals home twice in 1 game
1913 - Turkish troop take Adrianopel & Erdine from Bulgaria
1914 - Armed resistance against British rule begins in Ulster
1916 - Giants trade Christy Mathewson to Cin Reds
1917 - Pact of Corfu signed: Serbs, Croats & Slovenes form Yugoslavia
1917 - WW I draft lottery held; #258 is 1st drawn
1918 - World War I: German troops cross the Marne.
1920 - Heerenveen soccer team forms
1921 - Congresswoman Alice Mary Robertson became the first woman to preside over the US House
           of Representatives.
1922 - Togo made a mandate of League of Nations
1923 - Yanks hit into a triple-play but beat A's 9-2
1924 - Federation Internationale des Echecs (FIDE) forms in Paris
1924 - Teheran, Persia comes under martial law after the American vice consul, Robert Imbrie, is killed
           by a religious mob enraged by rumors he had poisoned a fountain and killed several people.
1925 - Beirut sultan Pasja al-Atrasj calls Druzen for holy war against France
1925 - Italian-Serbian/Croatian/Slav treaty about Dalmatie
1926 - A convention of the Methodist Church votes to allow women to become priests.
1927 - Charles Lindbergh begins NY flight (Spirit of St Louis)
1928 - The government of Hungary issues a decree ordering Gypsies to end their nomadic ways,
           settle permanently in one place, and subject themselves to the same laws and taxes as other
           Hungarians.
1930 - 106°F (41°C), Washington, DC (district record)
1932 - In Washington, D.C., police fire tear gas on World War I veterans part of the Bonus
           Expeditionary Force who attempt to march to the White House.
1933 - Vatican state secretary Pacelli (Pius XII) signs accord with Hitler
1933 - In London, 500,000 march against anti-Semitism.
1933 - Germany: Two-hundred Jewish merchants are arrested in Nuremberg and paraded through
           the streets.
1934 - 118°F (48°C), Keokuk, Iowa (state record)
1935 - 1st broadcast of "Gang Busters" on NBC-radio
1935 - Switzerland: A Royal Dutch Airlines plane en route from Milan to Frankfurt crashes into a
           Swiss mountain, killing thirteen.
1938 - Finland awarded 1940 Olympic games after Japan withdraws
1940 - Germany occupiers forbid Dutch Communist Party (CPN) in Netherlands
1940 - Nazi collaborator Rost of Tonningen appointed director of Marxist
1940 - Billboard publishes its 1st singles record chart (#1 is "I'll Never Smile Again" by Tommy
           Dorsey)
1941 - Yanks beat Tigers 12-6 in 17
1942 - 1st detachment of Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, begin basic training
1942 - Barbados dismiss Trinidad for 16 in 69 minutes, Derek Sealy 8-8
1942 - Legion of Merit Medal authorized by congress
1942 - Time puts Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovitch on its cover
1943 - Joint Chiefs of Staff question adm Nimitz (landing Gilbert Island)
1944 - Brit/Canadian troops occupy Hill 67/Ifs/Bras/Frenouville, Normandy
1944 - Browns Nelson Potter is 1st pitcher suspended for throwing spitballs
1944 - Canadian Cameroon Highlanders conquer St-Andre
1944 - Death March of 1,200 Jews from Lipcani Moldavia begins
1944 - Fieldmarshal von Kluge consults with German commandant at Caen
1944 - Flying Fortresses of US 8th Air Force attack Leipzig/Dessau
1944 - Gen Eisenhower visits Montgomery's headquarter in Normandy
1944 - Heavy storm hampers British offensive at Caen
1944 - Japanese aircraft carrier Hijo sinks by US air attack
1944 - July 20th Plot-Failed assassination attempt on Hitler
1944 - Liberators of US 8th Air Force attack Gotha Russelsheim/Eisenach
1944 - Pres FDR nominated for an unprecedented 4th term at Dem convention
1944 - US 15th Air Force attacks Friedrichshaven Memmingen
1944 - US 9th AF bombs railroad at Chaulnes Sable-sur-Sarthe/Dreux
1944 - US invades Japanese-occupied Guam in WW II
1944 - Violent battles in Verrieres-hill (Normandy)
1944 - Fifty are hurt in rioting in front of the presidential palace in Mexico City.
1947 - 1st political action of Neth Army on Java & Sumatra
1948 - Lou Thesz beats Bill Longson, to become NWA wrestling champ
1948 - Syngman Rhee elected President of South Korea
1948 - US Communist Party chairman William Forster arrested
1949 - Israel's 19 month war of independence ends
1949 - Vasil Kolarov elected premier of Bulgaria
1950 - "Arthur Murray Party" premieres on ABC TV (later DuMont, CBS, NBC)
1951 - King Abdullah I of Jordan is assassinated by a Palestinian while attending Friday prayers in
           Jerusalem.
1952 - Emile Zatopek runs Olympic Record 10K (29:17.0)
1952 - Fausto Coppi wins Tour de France
1953 - USSR/Israel recover diplomatic relations
1953 - The United Nations Economic and Social Council votes to make UNICEF a permanent agency.
1954 - Armistice for Indo-China signed, Vietnam separates into North & South
1954 - Tennis champ Maureen Connolly's right leg is crushed in an accident
1954 - West German secret service head Otto John defects to German DR
1956 - France recognizes Tunisia's independence
1956 - Great Britain refuses to lend Egypt money to build Aswan Dam
1956 - US performs atmospheric nuclear Test at Bikini Island
1956 - Yankee pitcher Whitey Ford ties AL record of 6 straight strike-outs
1958 - 40th PGA Championship: Dow Finsterwald shoots a 276 at Llanerch CC PA
1958 - Betty Jameson/Mary Lena Faulk wins Homestead 4-Ball Golf Tournament
1958 - King Hussein of Jordan breaks off diplomatic relations with UAR
1960 - 1st submerged submarine to fire Polaris missile (George Washington)
1960 - Sirima Bandaranaike becomes 1st female premier of Ceylon
1960 - USSR recovered 2 dogs; 1st living organisms to return from space
1960 - The head of the Physics Department at the Israel Institute of Technology, Kurt Sitte, is
           arrested for espionage.
1961 - French military forces break the Tunisian siege of Bizerte.
1962 - Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 13th Symphony
1962 - France & Tunisia recover diplomatic relations
1963 - 17 African states & Madagascar sign peace treaty with EC
1963 - 18th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Mary Mills
1963 - Verne Gagne beats Crusher Lisowski in Minneapolis, to become NWA champ
1964 - 1st surfin' record to go #1-Jan & Dean's "Surf City"
1964 - Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 10th String quartet
1965 - 18.18" (46.18 cm) of rainfall, Edgarton, Missouri (state 24-hr record)
1965 - NY Yankee pitcher Mel Stottlemyre hits an inside-the-park grand slam
1967 - Pablo Neruda receives 1st Viareggio-Versile prizes
1967 - Race riots in Memphis Tenn
1968 - Jane Asher breaks her engagement with Paul McCartney on live TV
1968 - Iron Butterfly's "In-a-gadda-da-vida" becomes 1st heavy metal song to hit charts, it comes in
           at #117
1969 - 1st men on the Moon, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin Jr. from Apollo 11
1969 - 1st men on the Moon, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin Jr. from Apollo 11
1969 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Danbury Lady Carling Golf Open
1969 - Eddy Merckx wins Tour de France
1970 - Dodgers Bill Singer no-hits the Phillies 5-0, giving up no walks
1972 - US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1973 - Jack Brisco beats Harley Race in Houston, to become NWA champ
1973 - Chic's Wilbur Wood starts & loses both games of a doubleheader with NY Yankees, 12-2, &
           7-0
1973 - The US Senate passes the War Powers Act.
1974 - Heng Yo & Heng Ju, completes 1,000 mile (SF-Seattle) pilgrimage
1974 - Turkey invades Cyprus
1975 - 30th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Sandra Palmer
1975 - India expels three reporters from The Times, The Daily Telegraph, and Newsweek because
           they refused to sign a pledge to abide by government censorship.
1976 - Hank Aaron hits 755th & last home run off Angels Dick Drago
1976 - Last US troops leave Thailand
1976 - US Viking 1 lands on Mars at Chryse Planitia, 1st Martian landing
1976 - Vietnam War: The US military completes its troop withdrawal from Thailand.
1977 - Flash flood hits Johnstown, Pa, kills 80 & causing $350 mil damage
1977 - The Central Intelligence Agency releases documents under the Freedom of Information Act
           revealing it had engaged in mind control experiments.
1979 - 44-kg Newfoundland dog pulls 2293-kg load, Bothell, Wash
1980 - 109th British Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 271 at Muirfield Gullane
1980 - Joop Zoetemelk wins Tour de France
1980 - Pat Bradley wins LPGA Greater Baltimore Golf Classic
1981 - England set for innings loss v Aust, Botham hits 100 in 87 balls
1981 - Irene Saez, of Venezuela, crowned 30th Miss Universe
1982 - Bombs planted by Irish Republican Army explode in 2 London parks
1982 - IRA bomb attacks in London
1982 - T Macauly & D Vosburghs musical "Windy City," premieres in London
1983 - France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
1984 - Uwe Hohn of East Germany throws javelin a record 104.8 m
1984 - Vanessa Williams is asked to resign as Miss America
1985 - Divers find wreck of Spanish galleon Atocha
1985 - The government of Aruba passes legislation to secede from the Netherlands Antilles.
1986 - Jane Geddes wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
1987 - Don Mattingly ties 1st base fielding record with 22 put-outs
1988 - Michael Dukakis selected Democratic presidential nominee
1989 - 93°F, highest overnight low ever recorded in Phoenix Arizona
1989 - Burma government puts author Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest
1989 - Photographer Robert Mapplethorpe's show opens at Washington, D.C.'s Project for the Arts
           after the Smithsonian Institution's Corcoran Gallery cancels it.
1990 - Justice William Brennan resigns from Supreme Court after 36 years
1991 - Mike Tyson is accused of raping a Miss Black America contestant
1992 - 121st British Golf Open: Nick Faldo shoots a 272 at Muirfield Gullane
1992 - Round World Air Race begins in Paris
1992 - Václav Havel resigns as president of Czechoslovakia.
1993 - Fire in the press box at Altanta Fulton County Stadium
1993 - Joe Petruzzi files for divorce from Annabella Sciorra (Jungle Fever)
1994 - Major parts of Comet Shoemaker-Levy hit Jupiter (July 16th-22nd)
1994 - OJ Simpson offers $500,000 reward for evidence of ex-wife's klller
1995 - The Regents of the University of California vote to end all affirmative action in the UC system
           by 1997.
1996 - 26th Olympic games open at Atlanta, Georgia (sched)
1996 - In Spain, an ETA bomb at an airport kills 35
1997 - 126th British Golf Open: Billy Ray Brown shoots a 271 at Royal Troon
1997 - American Justin Leonard wins the British Open shooting at 272
1997 - Burnet Senior Golf Classic
1997 - Michele Redman wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Classic
1998 - Two hundred aid workers from CARE International, Doctors Without Borders and other aid
           groups leave Afghanistan on orders of the Taliban.
1999 - Falun Gong is banned in the People's Republic of China, and a large scale crackdown of the
           practice is launched.
2000 - The leaders of Salt Lake City's bid to win the 2002 Winter Olympics are indicted by a federal
           grand jury for bribery, fraud, and racketeering
2000 - In Zimbabwe, Parliament opens its new session and seats opposition members for the first
           time in a decade.
2000 - Terrorist Carlos the Jackal sues France in the European Court of Human Rights for allegedly
           torturing him.
2001 - The London Stock Exchange goes public.
2001 - Italy: The 27th Annual G8 summit opens in Genoa. An Italian protester in Genoa, Carlo
           Giuliani, is shot by police.
2002 - South America: A fire in a discotheque in Lima, Peru kills over twenty-five.
2003 - France: Sixteen people are injured after two bombs explode outside a tax office in Nice.
2005 - Canada becomes the fourth country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage, after the bill
           C-38 receives its Royal Assent.
2012 - 12 people are killed and 59 injured after a gunman opens fire at a Dark Knight movie premier
           in Aurora, Colorado,
2012 - 21 people are killed and 29 injured in a bus accident in Nayarit, Mexico

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 20, 2013, 09:19:00 AM

This Day in History for 20th July


Famous Weddings

1608 - Reynier van Oldenbarnevelt marries Anna Weytzen in Delft
1991 - Kirk Cameron marries Growing Pains co-star Chelsea Noble in upstate NY
1996 - Tony Award-winning actress Bernadette Peters (48) weds investment adviser Michael
           Wittenberg (34) in Millbrook, New York
2002 - ABC's World News Tonight co-host Elizabeth Vargas (39) weds singer-songwriter Marc Cohn
          (43) at the Council on Foreign Relations

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 20, 2013, 09:20:07 AM

This Day in History for 20th July


Famous Divorces

1993 - Joe Petruzzi files for divorce from Annabella Sciorra (Jungle Fever)
2012 - "Game of Thrones" actress Lena Headey (38) divorces musician Peter Loughran due to
           irreconcilable differences

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 20, 2013, 09:27:57 AM

This Day in History for 20th July


Famous Birthdays

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Macedonian King and                               Monk/Geneticist                                    Mount Everest Conquerer
Conqueror of Persia                                  Gregor Mendel (1822)                               Edmund Hillary (1919)
Alexander the Great (356 BC)


356 BC - Alexander the Great, Pella Macedon, Macedonian king and military leader, (d. 323 BC)
810 - Imam Bukhari, Muslim scholar and compiler of Hadith (d. 870)
1304 - Francesco Petrarch, Italy, poet (Italia Mia)
1513 - Gaspar Schetz, Dutch treasurer-general
1519 - Innocent IX, [Giovanni A Facchinetti], 230th Catholic pope (1591)
1537 - Arnaud d'Ossat, French diplomat and writer (d. 1604)
1600 - Simon Ives, composer
1659 - Hyacinthe Rigaud, French painter (d. 1743)
1663 - Pierre Drevet, French engraver
1709 - James Harris, philosopher
1720 - Ignaz Vitzthumb, composer
1726 - William Jones, composer
1744 - Henri Hamal, composer
1754 - Destutt de Tracy, French philosopher (d. 1836)
1757 - Garsevan Chavchavadze, Georgian diplomat and politician (d. 1811)
1761 - Joseph Lefebvre, composer
1762 - Jakob Haibel, composer
1766 - Thomas Bruce, earl of Elgin & Kincardine, British diplomat
1774 - Auguste Marmont, French marshal (d. 1852)
1779 - Ignaz Schuster, composer
1785 - Mahmud II, sultan of Turkey (1808-39)/Westernizer/reformer
1793 - Aleksander Fredro, Polish comedy writer (Pan Jowiolski)
1796 - Edward Hodges, composer
1797 - Sir Paweł Edmund Strzelecki, Polish explorer and geologist (d. 1873)
1803 - Jakob Zeugheer, composer
1804 - Richard Owen, British zoologist
1806 - John Sterling, writer (Representative Victorian)
1811 - James Bruce, earl of Elgin & Kincardine, governor (Jamaica)
1814 - Ivan S Gagarin, Russian theologist
1816 - William Bowman, English anatomist
1819 - Paul Henrion, composer
1822 - Gregor Mendel, Austrian Empire, monk/geneticist (discoverer of laws of heredity), (d. 1884)
1824 - Alexander Schimmelfennig, Prussia, Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
1836 - Thomas C Allbutt, English physiologist (Diseases of the Heart)
1837 - Hans Sommer, composer
1838 - Augustin Daly, American playwright (d. 1899)
1838 - George Otto Trevelyan, British statesman and biographer (d. 1928)
1847 - Max Liebermann, German impressionist painter
1849 - Robert Anderson Van Wyck, Mayor of New York City (d. 1918)
1852 - Theodorus Heemskerk Jzn, lawyer/Dutch premier (AR, 1908-13) [or 1/20]=
1853 - Geo[rge] Poggenbeek, Dutch water colors painter
1858 - Ivan Vucetic, Croatian anthropologist (d. 1925)
1860 - Johannes Walter, German geologist (Denudation of the Wilderness)
1864 - Erik Karlfeldt, Sweden, poet (Nobel 1918-refused; 1931-posthumous)
1868 - Miron Cristea, 1st Patriarch of All Romania (d. 1939)
1870 - Vladimir D Nabokov, Russian jurist/minister of Justice (1918-19)
1872 - Alick Maclean, composer
1872 - Deodat de Severac, composer
1873 - Witold Maliszewski, composer
1873 - Alberto Santos-Dumont, Brazilian aviator (d. 1932)
1876 - Otto Blumenthal, German mathematician (d. 1944)
1880 - Hermann earl Keyserling, German philosopher/writer
1881 - Leon de Smet, Flemish painter
1885 - Gustave Charlier, Belgian literature historian/critic
1887 - Willem H Drucker, Dutch lawyer
1889 - John Charles Reith, 1st Baron Reith, 1st dir-gen BBC (1927-38)
1890 - Theda Bara, [Theodosia Goodman], Cincinnati, actress (Love Goddeses)
1890 - Verna Felton, Salinas California, actress (Hilda-December Bride)
1893 - Alexander, king of Greece (1917-20)
1893 - Richard Billinger, Austria poet/writer (From Where I Came)
1893 - George Llewelyn-Davies, English Peter Pan character model (d. 1915)
1895 - László Moholy-Nagy, Hungarian painter, photographer, and sculptor (d. 1946)
1897 - Tadeusz Reichstein, Swiss chemist (Nobel 1950)
1900 - Gottfried von Haberler, Austrian economist
1900 - Maurice Gilliams, Flemish writer/poet/essayist (Maria's Life)
1900 - Maurice Leyland, prolific cricket left-handed batsman (England)
1901 - Vehbi Koc, indistrialist/philanthropist
1901 - Heinie Manush, American baseball player (d. 1971)
1902 - Cesare Zavattini, Italian screenwriter (Bicycle Thiefs)
1902 - Dilys Powell, English writer (Descent from Parnassus)
1902 - Jimmy Kennedy, Irish composer (d. 1984)
1903 - Jef van de Wiele, Belgian politician
1905 - Molly Mary Nesta Keane, writer
1908 - Gunnar de Frumerie, composer
1909 - Eric Rowan, South African cricketer (prolific batsman pre- & post-WWII)
1909 - Jean Focas, Greco-French astronomer (d. 1969)
1910 - Cicely Veronica Wedgwood, British historian (William the Silent)
1910 - Vilém Tauský, Czech conductor and composer (d. 2004)
1911 - Baqa Jilani, Indian cricket fast bowler (Test 1936)
1911 - William Dillard, trumpeter/singer
1912 - Andrew Long, Scottish author (Blue Book of Fairy Tales)
1912 - Frederick Ferrari, crazy Gang Member
1912 - John Dacie, hematologist
1912 - Thijmen Kuijt, resistance fighter/co-found newspaper (The Typhoon)
1912 - George Johnston, Australian journalist and novelist (d. 1970)
1914 - William John Phillips, actor (Nothing but a Man)
1918 - Cindy Walker, American singer (d. 2006)
1919 - Edmund Hillary, Auckland NZ, Explorer and Mountaineer (1st to scale Mt Everest with Tenzing
           Norgay), (d. 2008)
1920 - Elliot L Richardson, Attorney General (1973)/Sec of Defense (1973)
1920 - Jack Harman, British general
1920 - Jeffrey Petersen, British diplomat
1920 - Lev Aronin, USSR, International Chess Grandmaster (1950)
1921 - Frederick Schroeder Jr, tennis champ (US Open-1942)
1922 - Miroslav "Standa" Bares, Czech/Dutch actor/director (Billy Budd)
1922 - Alan Stephenson Boyd, American politician
1923 - Stanisław Albinowski, Polish economist and journalist (d. 2005)
1924 - Hans Lodeizen, [Johannes A Frederik], Dutch poet (Inner Self)
1924 - Lola Albright, Akron Ohio, actress (Delta Country, Kid Galahad)
1924 - Thomas Berger, US, novelist (Vital Parts, Little Big Man)
1924 - Mort Garson, Canadian composer
1925 - Jacques Delors, French economist/chairman European Committee (1985-95)
1925 - Frantz Fanon, Martinique, France, psychiatrist and philosopher (The Wretched of the Earth),
           (d. 1961)
1926 - Lola Albright, American actress
1926 - Patricia Cutts, English actress (d. 1974)
1927 - Anthony Cavendish, British MI 6 agent/banker
1927 - Michael Gielen, Austrian conductor/composer
1928 - Jan Meyers, (Rep-R-Kansas, 1985- )
1928 - Pavel Kohout, writer
1928 - Peter Ind, jazz musician
1928 - Charles David Ganao, Djambala, French Equatorial Africa,Prime Minister of the Republic of the
           Congo (1996-1997), (d. 2012)
1929 - Mike Ilitch, American businessman and sports executive
1929 - Rajendra Kumar, Indian actor (d. 1999)
1930 - Arthur U Spronken, sculptor
1930 - Sally Ann Howes, London England, actress (Dead of Night)
1930 - Yuri Petrovich Artyukin, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 14)
1931 - Tony Marsh, English racing driver
1932 - Nam June Paik, Seoul Korea, video artist (Medium is the Medium)
1932 - Otto Schily, German politician
1933 - Aliki Vouyouklaki, actress (Madalena)
1933 - Jose Vicente Asuar, composer
1933 - Nelson Doubleday, publisher (Doubleday)/owner (NY Mets)
1933 - Cormac McCarthy, American author
1934 - Doug Padgett, cricketer (England batsman twice in 1960)
1934 - Ralph C RInzler, folklorist (Greenbriar Boys)
1934 - Uwe Johnson, German writer
1935 - Lord Peter Palumbo, English real estate developer/multi-millionaire
1935 - Ted Rogers, Kennington London, comedian (Aladdin, Cinderella)
1936 - Barbara A Mikulski, (Rep-D-MD, 1977-86/Sen-D-MD, 1986- )
1936 - Butch Baird, Chicago IL, PGA golfer (1961 Waco Turner Open)
1936 - Kaleria Fadicheva, ballerina
1937 - Ken Ogata, Japanese actor
1938 - Diana Rigg, Doncaster England, actress (Emma Peel-Avengers, Hospital)
1938 - Jo Ann Campbell, Jacksonville Fla, Lawrence Welk's champagne lady
1938 - Lord McGowan
1938 - Natalie Wood, [Natasha Gurdin], SF, (Gypsy, Rebel Without a Cause)
1938 - Roger Hunt, English footballer
1939 - Judy Chicago, [Cohen], Chicago, artist (Dinner Party)
1940 - Tony Oliva, ball player, batting champ (AL Rookie of Year 1964)
1941 - Vladimir Afanasiyevich Lyakhov, cosmonaut (Soyuz 32/34, T-9, TM-6)
1941 - Kurt Raab, German actor (d. 1988)
1942 - T G Sheppard, [William Browder], Humbolt Tn, singer (Devil in Bottle)
1942 - Ron Bowden, Australian politician
1943 - Dennis Yost, Detroit, Michigan, vocalist (The Classics IV), (d. 2008)
1943 - Chris Amon, Grand Prix racer
1943 - Wendy Richard, English actress
1944 - Wim Van Drimmelen, Dutch sect Science Council of Government policy
1945 - Betty Burfeindt, LPGA golfer
1945 - John Lodge, Birmingham, bassist (Moody Blues-Nights in White Satin)
1945 - Larry E Craig, (Rep-R-Idaho, 1981- )
1945 - Viscount Petersham, English large landowner
1945 - Kim Carnes, Pasadena Ca, rock vocalist (Bette Davis Eyes)
1945 - Johnny Loughrey, Irish singer (d. 2005)
1947 - Carlos Santana, Mexico, rock guitarist (Santana-Black Magic Woman)
1947 - Gerd Binnig, Frankfurt, physicist (tunneling microscope-Nobel 1986)
1947 - James Harris, Monroe La, NFL quarterback (Buffalo, LA, San Diego)
1948 - Mary Dwyer, LPGA golfer
1948 - Richard H Lehman, (Rep-D-CA, 1983- )
1950 - Tantoo Cardinal, Canadian actress
1950 - Naseeruddin Shah, Indian actor
1951 - Larry Black, Miami Fla, 4x100 runner (Olympic-gold-1972)
1951 - Jeff Rawle, English actor
1952 - Keiko Matsuzaka, Japanese actress
1953 - Thomas Friedman, American journalist
1953 - Marcia Hines, American-born Australian singer
1953 - Dan Shaughnessy, American sports writer
1954 - Jay Jay French, NYC, guitarist (Twisted Sister-Not Gonna Take It)
1954 - Moira Harris, American actress
1956 - Charlie Magri, world champ flyweight boxer (1983)
1956 - Mima Jausovec, Yugoslavia, tennis player (French Open-1977)
1956 - Paul Cook, London, rock drummer (Sex Pistols)
1956 - Jim Prentice, Canadian politician
1957 - Donna Dixon, Virginia, actress and wife of actor Dan Aykroyd (Couch Trip, Bossom Buddies)
1957 - Larry Rinker, Stuart FL, Nike golfer (1985 Bing Crosby Pro-Am-2nd)
1957 - Merlina Defranco, rocker (Defranco Family)
1958 - Michael McNeill, synthesizer (Simple Minds-Don't You Forget About Me)
1958 - Mike McNeil, rocker
1959 - Radney Foster, Del Rio Tx, singer (Foster & Lloyd-Crazy Over You)
1960 - Katie Rabbet, London England, Prince Andrew's former girlfriend
1960 - Lauren Gregg, Rochester Minn, US women's soccer coach (Olympics-96)
1962 - Carlos Alazraqui, American actor and comedian
1962 - Giovanna Amati, Italian racing driver
1963 - Jenny Spangler, Monroe Wisc, marathoner (Olympics-96)
1963 - Paula Ivan, Romanian runner (world record mile)
1963 - Frank Whaley, American actor
1964 - Murray Craven, Medicine Hat, NHL left wing (Chicago Blackhawks)
1964 - Chris Cornell, American musician (Soundgarden, Audioslave)
1964 - Terri Irwin, American naturalist; widow of Steve Irwin
1964 - Kool G Rap, American musician
1964 - Dean Winters, American actor
1965 - Stone Gossard, musician with Pearl Jam
1966 - Beth Coats, Albuquerque NM, biathelete (Olympics-1994)
1966 - Carlo L'Ami, soccer player (SC Heerenveen)
1966 - Mike Pero, Picton Ont, Canadian Tour golfer (1990 CPGA Winter)
1966 - Tracey Mcfarlane, US breaststroke swimmer (US record 100m)
1967 - Akihito Sugisawa, hockey forward (Team Japan 1998)
1967 - Ian Beckles, NFL guard (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1967 - Jon Normile, Cleve Oh, fencer (Olympics-96)
1967 - Reed Diamond, American actor
1968 - Chris Kennedy, actor (Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure)
1968 - Chris Tsangaris, CFL linebacker (BC Lions)
1968 - Robert Rodriguez, director (El Mariachi, Desperado)
1968 - Michael Park, American actor
1968 - Julian Rhind-Tutt, English actor
1969 - Josh Holloway, American actor
1969 - Giovanni Lombardi, Italian cyclist
1969 - Tobi Vail, American musician (Bikini Kill, The Go Team, The Frumpies)
1969 - Vitamin C, American singer
1970 - Dean Wells, NFL linebacker (Seattle Seahawks)
1970 - Shannon Baker, CFL receiver (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1970 - Tom Sherrer, Syracuse NY, Nike golfer (1994 NIKE Cleveland Open-2nd)
1971 - Bernard Whittington, NFL defensive end (Indianapolis Colts)
1971 - Charles Johnson, Fort Pierce Fla, catcher (US Olympics 1992, Marlins)
1971 - Ed Giddins, cricketer (promising Sussex pace bowler, England A 1995)
1971 - Ron Stone, NFLer (Dallas Cowboys)
1971 - Tom Tovo, WLAF defensive tackle (London Monarchs)
1971 - William Deering Jr, South Bend Indiana, pole vaulter
1971 - Sandra Oh, Korean Canadian actress
1971 - DJ Screw, American hiphop DJ (d. 2000)
1972 - Jay Barker, NFL quarterback (NE Patriots)
1972 - Jozef Stumpel, NHL forward (Team Kazakhstan 1998, LA Kings)
1972 - Erik Ullenhag, Swedish jurist and politician
1973 - Peter Forsberg, Ornskoldsvik Swe, NHL center (Colorado Avalanche)
1973 - Mads Rieper, Danish footballer
1973 - Haakon Magnus, Crown Prince of Norway
1974 - Kevin Meadows, gay rights activist
1974 - Bengie Molina, Puerto Rican baseball player
1974 - Simon Rex, American actor
1975 - Ray Allen, NBA guard (Milwaukee Bucks)
1975 - Birgitta Ohlsson, Swedish politician
1975 - Judy Greer, American actress
1975 - Erik Hagen, Norwegian footballer
1975 - El Zorro, Mexican professional wrestler
1976 - Erica Hill, American news anchor
1976 - Debashish Mohanty, Indian cricketer
1976 - Andrew Stockdale, Australian musician (Wolfmother)
1976 - Alex Yoong, Malaysian racing driver
1977 - Julia Syriani, Miss Universe-Lebanon (1996)
1977 - Shany Kedmy, Israel, Women's 470 yachter (Oly-14th-1996)
1977 - Kiki Musampa, Congolese footballer
1977 - Alessandro dos Santos, Brazilian-born Japanese footballer
1978 - Charlie Korsmo, actor (Dick Tracy, What About Bob)
1978 - Denny Mendez, Miss Italy Universe (1997)
1978 - Jen Grubb, Elk Hart Indiana, soccer defender (Olympics-96)
1978 - Elliott Yamin, American Idol contestant
1978 - Pavel Datsyuk, Russian ice hockey player
1978 - Tamsyn Lewis, Australian athlete
1978 - Will Solomon, American basketball player
1979 - Claudine Barretto, Filipino actress
1979 - Miklos Feher, Hungarian football player (d. 2004)
1979 - David Ortega, Spanish freestyle and backstroke swimmer
1980 - Gisele Bündchen, Brazilian model
1980 - Mike Kennerty, American guitarist (The All-American Rejects)
1981 - Damien Delaney, Irish footballer
1981 - Thorsten Engelmann, German rower
1982 - Percy Daggs III, American actor
1984 - Alexi Casilla, Dominican baseball player
1984 - Troy Smith, American football player
1985 - John Francis Daley, American actor
1987 - Brent Wilson, former bassist for Panic At The Disco
1988 - Julianne Hough, American ballroom dancer
1989 - Witwisit Hirunwongkul, Thai actor
1991 - Scout Larue Willis, daughter of Bruce Willis & Demi Moore
1991 - William Tomlin, British actor
1992 - Paige Hurd, American actress
1997 - Billi Bruno, American actress
1999 - Princess Alexandra of Hanover, daughter of Princess Caroline of Monaco

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 20, 2013, 09:30:22 AM

This Day in History for 20th July


Famous Deaths

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Karate Star/
Actor Bruce Lee (1973)


833 - Ansegis/Ansegius, French abbot of Fontenelle/author, dies at about 63
985 - Pope Boniface VII
1031 - Robert II de Vrome, King of France (996-1031), dies
1156 - Emperor Toba of Japan (b. 1103)
1160 - Peter Lombard, French theologian
1201 - Agnes of France, queen of France, dies [or 7/18]
1320 - King Oshin of Armenia (b. 1282)
1322 - Frederik II van Sierck, bishop of Utrecht (1317-22), dies
1351 - Margaretha Ebner, German visionary (b. 1291)
1387 - Robert IV of Artois, Count of Eu (poisoned) (b. 1356)
1398 - Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March, heir to the throne of England (b. 1374)
1453 - Enguerrand de Monstrelet, French chronicler
1454 - Johan II, King of Castile, dies at 49
1524 - Claude of France, wife of Louis XII of France (b. 1499)
1573 - Lancelot of Brederode, water beggar, beheaded
1597 - Franciscus Raphelengius [French of Ravelingen], Neth publisher, dies
1607 - Paulus Merula, Dutch lawyer/historian (Historia Belgica), dies at 48
1609 - Federico Zuccari, Italian Mannerist painter, dies at about 69
1616 - Hugh O'Neill, 3rd Earl of Tyrone, Irish soldier
1636 - John Oldham, trader in Mass, murdered by indians
1704 - Peregrine White, first English child born in the Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. 1620)
1732 - Francesco Bartolomeo Conti, composer, dies at 51
1752 - John C Pepusch, English composer (Beggar's Opera), dies at about 85
1762 - Christoph Nichelsmann, German klavecinist/composer, dies
1766 - Isabelle Farnese, queen of Spain, dies
1808 - Francois-Hippolyte Barthelemon, composer, dies at 66
1816 - Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin, Russian poet (b. 1743)
1819 - John Playfair, Scottish geologist/mathematician, dies
1824 - Joan M Kemper, lawyer (layed-out Civil Code), dies
1825 - Joseph-Denis Doche, composer, dies at 58
1859 - Hans E Schack, Danish politician/writer (Fantasy), dies
1866 - Faa di Bruno, Italian captain (Er d'italia, Lissa), commits suicide
1866 - G F Berhard Riemann, German mathematician (zeta-function), dies
1868 - Antoine Prumier, composer, dies at 75
1868 - Jan Bedrich Kittl, composer, dies at 62
1881 - Thomas Fermor-Hesketh, English 1st baron of Hesketh, dies
1888 - Henri Braekeleer, Flemish painter, dies
1893 - Tom Kelly, cricketer (two Tests for Australia 1977-79, 64 runs), dies
1897 - Jean Ingelow, English poet (b. 1820)
1898 - Yuri Arnold, composer, dies at 86
1901 - William Cosmo Monkhouse, English poet and critic (b. 1840)
1903 - Leo XIII, [Vincenzo G Pecci], Pope (1878-1903), dies at 93
1908 - Federico Chueca, composer, dies at 62
1908 - Demetrius Vikelas, Greek author, president of the International Olympic Committee (b. 1835)
1914 - Leo van Gheluwe, composer, dies at 76
1922 - Andrey Markov, Russian mathematician (b. 1856)
1923 - Pancho Villa, [Doroteo Arango], Mexican rebel, murdered at 55
1926 - Felix Dzerzhinsky [Iron Felix, Bloody Felix], Soviet statesman, established and developed
           Soviet secret police (Cheka, forerunner to the KGB), dies at 48
1927 - Ferdinand I VAM, King of Romania, dies at 61
1928 - Kostas Karyotakis, Greek poet (b. 1896)
1932 - René Bazin, French novelist (b. 1853)
1936 - Arthur Battelle Whiting, composer, dies at 75
1936 - Jose Sanjurjo y Sacanell, Spanish general/high director, dies
1937 - Guglielmo Marconi, Ital engineer/marquis (radio, Nobel 1909), dies
1939 - Joseph Mendes da Costa, sculptor, dies
1940 - Y G Van de Peat, Dutch director of employment, commits suicide
1941 - Lew Fields, American vaudeville performer (b. 1867)
1942 - Patric Cobb, British sea officer, dies in battle
1944 - Arthur J Treadwell, English mayor of Stoke Newington, dies at about 71
1944 - Brandt, col/German staff chief, dies in bombing
1944 - Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg, count/German antifascist colonel, dies
1944 - Friedrich Olbricht, German general (July 20th plotter), executed
1944 - Heinz Burns, German (Olympic-gold-1936), dies in bombing
1944 - Korten, chef gen of Germany Luftwaffe, dies in bomb explosion
1944 - Ludwig Beck, gen/chief Germany general staff (July 20th plot), dies
1944 - Mertz, German colonel (July 20th plotter), executed
1944 - Rudolf Schmundt, gen/Hitler's Army adjunct, dies from wounds
1944 - Werner von Haeffen, German lieutenant (July 20th plotter), executed
1944 - Mildred Harris, American actress (b. 1901)
1945 - Arthur Seccull, South African cricketer (Test v England 1896), dies
1945 - Paul Valéry, French author and poet (b. 1871)
1951 - Abdullah Ibn Hussein, Jordan's King (1946-51), killed in Jerusalem
1951 - Mustafa Shuqri Ashu, tailor/murderer of king Abdullah, shot to death
1951 - Friedrich Wilhelm Hohenzollern, Crown Prince of Germany (b. 1882)
1953 - Dumarsaid Estime, President of Haiti (b. 1900)
1953 - Jan Struther, British author (b. 1901)
1954 - Blair Moody, (Sen-Mich), dies at 52
1956 - Ken Burn, cricketer (Tasmanian rep on 1890 Ashes tour, 2 Tests), dies
1956 - James Alexander Calder, Canadian politician (b. 1868)
1957 - Phil Hanna, singer (Once Upon a Tune), dies at 46
1958 - Franklin Pangborn, dies at 69
1959 - Harry Fox II, dies at 77
1962 - Andre Renard, Belgium worker's union leader (MSU), dies at 51
1962 - George MacAulay Trevelyan, English royal historian, dies at 86
1966 - Julien Carette, dies of burns at 68
1968 - Joseph Keilberth, German conductor (Bayreuther Festival), dies
1969 - Roy Hamilton, American rocker, dies at 40 (b. 1929)
1970 - Iain Macleod, Conservative Party Politician and Chancellor of Exchequer at time of his death (b.
          1913)
1973 - Bruce Lee, [Lee Yuen Kam], actor (Enter the Dragon), dies at 32
1973 - Robert Smithson, American land artist (b. 1938)
1974 - Allen Jenkins, actor (Fugitive from a Chain Gang), dies at 74
1976 - Tom Lowry, cricketer (early New Zealand Test captain), dies
1977 - Carter De Haven, actor (Courage, Great Dictator), dies at 90
1977 - Gary Kellgren, American music producer (b. 1939)
1982 - Okot p'Bitek, Ugandan poet (b. 1931)
1983 - Frank Reynolds, news anchor (ABC Evening News), dies at 59
1984 - Gail Kubik, US composer (Gerald McBoing Boing), dies at 69
1984 - Jim [James] Fixx, jogger/writer (Jim Fixx on Running), dies at 52
1986 - Helen Craig, actress (Rich Man Poor Man), dies at 74
1987 - Richard Egan, actor (Big Cube, Amsterdam Kill), dies at 63
1989 - Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, commander (French resistance), dies
1989 - Mary Treen, actress (Career, Rock-a-bye Baby), dies at 71
1990 - Sara Heyblom, Dutch actress (Obsessions, Pygmalion), dies
1990 - Herbert Jenkins, Atlanta's longest serving police chief (b. 1907)
1991 - Henri Marius Rellys, dies at 86
1993 - Donald Alexander, System director/producer (East Valley), dies at 79
1994 - Kim II Sung, pres of North-Korea (1948-94), buried
1994 - Paul Delvaux, Belgian surrealistisch painter, dies at 96
1994 - Reginald Hall, endocrinologist, dies at 83
1995 - Helmut Erich Robert Gernsheim, photographer/collector, dies at 82
1995 - Natalia Dmitrevna Shpiller, singer, dies at 85
1996 - Colin Campbell Mitchell, soldier, dies at 70
1996 - Peter Malcolm Gordon Raleigh, journalist, dies at 77
1997 - Linda Stirling, college prof/B movie actress (Pretender), dies at 75
1998 - June Byers, American professional wrestler (b. 1922)
1999 - Sandra Gould, American actress (b. 1916)
2000 - Gregory Hill (also known as Malaclypse the Younger,) American writer (b. 1941)
2001 - Carlo Giuliani, Italian anarchist (b. 1978)
2003 - Nicolas Freeling, English writer (b. 1927)
2004 - Adi Lady Lala Mara, Fiji chieftainess, wife of Kamisese Mara (b. 1931)
2005 - James Doohan, Canadian-born actor (b. 1920)
2005 - Finn Gustavsen, Norwegian politician (b. 1926)
2005 - Kayo Hatta, American film director (b. 1958)
2006 - Ted Grant, British Trotskyist (b. 1913)
2006 - Gérard Oury, French filmmaker (b. 1919)
2007 - Tammy Faye Messner (Bakker), American televangelist (b. 1942)
2008 - Artie Traum, American guitarist (b. 1943)
2009 - Ria Brieffies, Dutch singer (b. 1957)
2012 - Simon Ward, English actor, dies at 70

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 21, 2013, 09:04:05 AM

This Day in History for 21st July


Historical Events

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French Emperor                                         Outlaw Jesse James                            British war time Prime Minister
Napoleon Bonaparte                                                                                                     Winston Churchill     

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Astronaut & 1st Man on the Moon          Baseball Player Hank Aaron                    Heavyweight Boxing Champion
Neil Armstrong                                                                                                      Mike Tyson


356 BC - Herostratus sets fire to the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of
              the World.
230 - St Pontianus begins his reign as Catholic Pope
285 - Diocletian appoints Maximian as Caesar, co-ruler.
365 - Alexandria hit by Earthquake; about 50,000 die
866 - John appointed bishop of the kingdom
905 - Holy Roman Catholic emperor Louis III captured
976 - Emperor Otto II gives earl Leopold I, East Bavaria
1542 - Pope Paul III begins inquisition against Protestants (Sactum Officium)
1545 - The first landing of French troops onto the coast of the Isle of Wight during the French
           invasion of the Isle of Wight occurs.
1568 - Battle at Jemmingen: Alva's troops beat Dutch rebellion
1579 - Mechelen surrenders to duke of Parma
1588 - English fleet defeats Spanish armada
1595 - Alvara Mendana discovers Marquesas Island
1669 - John Lockes Constitution of English colony Carolina approved
1718 - The Treaty of Passarowitz between the Ottoman Empire, Austria and the Republic of Venice is
           signed.
1730 - States of Holland put death penalty on "sodomy"
1749 - Pieter Steyn becomes pension advisor of Holland
1773 - Pope Clemens XIV bans Jesuits
1774 - Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774: Russia and the Ottoman Empire sign Treaty of Kuchuk-
           Kainarji ending the war.
1798 - Napoleon Bonaparte wins Battle of Pyramids in Egypt
1825 - Java princess Dipo Negoro/Mangkubumi declare war on all non-islamics
1831 - Belgium gains independence from Netherlands, Leopold I made king
1836 - 1st Canadian RR opens, between Laprairie & St John, Quebec
1846 - Mormons found 1st English settlement in California (San Joaquin Valley)
1861 - 1st major battle of Civil War ends (Bull Run), Va - South wins
1865 - In the market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots and kills Davis Tutt in
           what is regarded as the first true western showdown.
1866 - Cholera epidemic kills hundreds in London
1867 - City Gardens on Folsom opens
1873 - Jesse James & James Younger gang's 1st train robbery (Adair Iowa)
1877 - -27] US army breaks railroad strike
1880 - Compressed air accident kills 20 workers on Hudson River tunnel, NY
1884 - 1st Test Cricket match played at Lord's
1896 - National Federation of Afro-American Women & Colored Women's
1897 - Tate Gallery opens in England
1898 - Spain cedes Guam to US
1900 - Pope Leo XIII encyclical to Greek-Melkite rite
1904 - After 13 years, the 4,607-mile Trans-Siberian railway is completed
1904 - Camille Jenatzy sets world auto speed record at 65.79 MPH
1918 - U-156 shells Nauset Beach, in Orleans, Massachusetts.
1919 - Anthony Fokker's establishes airplane factory at Hamburg & Amsterdam
1919 - Dirigible crashes through bank skylight killing 13 (Chicago, Ill)
1921 - Indians (9) & Yankees (7) hit a record 16 doubles
1923 - Phillies score 12 in 6th & beat Cubs 17-4
1925 - Monkey Trial ends-John Scopes found guilty of teaching Darwinism
1930 - 110°F (43°C) at Millsboro, Delaware (state record)
1930 - US Veterans Administration forms
1931 - Reno race track, becomes 1st in US to use daily double wagering
1933 - Haifa Harbor in Palestine opens
1934 - 113°F (45°C), near Gallipolis, Ohio (state record)
1938 - Paul Hindemith & Leonide Massines ballet premieres in London
1940 - Soviet Union annexes Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania
1940 - VARA-management accepts Rost of Tonningens demands
1941 - 200 Jewish Torahs are burned in Ukraine
1941 - Himmler orders building of Majdanek concentration camp
1942 - 8 die as coal waste heap slides in river valley near Oakwood, Va
1944 - British premier Winston Churchill flies to France, meets Montgomery
1944 - General Koiso becomes premier of Japan
1944 - US forces land on Guam to get rid of Japanese invaders
1944 - Von Kluge warns Hitler of impending collapse of front in Normandy
1945 - Detroit Tigers & Phila A's play 24 inning 1-1 tie
1946 - Jesus T Pinerol becomes 1st native born Puerto Rican governor
1947 - Indonesia begins 1st political election
1948 - WSPD TV channel 13 in Toledo, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting
1949 - Senate ratifies North Atlantic Treaty by a vote of 82-13 (NATO)
1951 - Dalai Lama returns to Tibet
1952 - 7.8 earthquake shakes Kern County California, 14 killed
1952 - Premier Ghavam es-Sultaneh of Persia, resigns
1954 - At Geneva, France agrees to independence of North & South Vietnam
1955 - 1st sub powered by liquid metal cooled reactor launched-Seawolf
1956 - Cin Red pitcher Brooks Lawrence loses after 13 straight wins
1956 - US performs atmospheric nuclear Test at Enwetak
1957 - 1st black to win a major US tennis tournament (Althea Gibson)
1957 - 39th PGA Championship: Lionel Hebert at Miami Valley GC Dayton Ohio
1957 - Marilynn Smith/Fay Crocker wins Hot Springs 4-Ball Golf Tournament
1959 - 1st nuclear powered merchant ship, NS Savannah, christened, Camden NJ
1959 - Red Sox are last team to use a black player (Pumpsie Green)
1960 - Country of Katanga forms in Africa
1960 - In Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) Sirima Bandaranaike is world's 1st woman PM
1960 - Francis Chichester arrive in NY aboard Gypsy Moth II, setting record of 40 days for a solo
           Atlantic crossing
1961 - Launch of Mercury 4 (Liberty Bell) with Grissom
1962 - 160 civil right activists jailed after demonstration in Albany Ga
1962 - Battles on Chinese & Indies boundary
1963 - 45th PGA Championship: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 279 at Dallas AC Dallas
1964 - Arnold Long takes 11 catches in the match for Surrey v Sussex
1964 - Mildred Simpson runs female world record marathon (3:19:33)
1964 - Neth last whaling ship Willem Barents Sea sold to Japan
1965 - Pakistan, Iran & Turkey sign Regional Co-Operation pact
1966 - Gemini X returns to Earth
1966 - USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1968 - 50th PGA Championship: Julius Boros shoots a 281 at Pecan Valley TX
1968 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Buckeye Savings Golf Invitational
1968 - Jan Janssen wins Tour de France: 1st Dutchman
1969 - Neil Armstrong steps on Moon at 2:56:15 AM (GMT)
1969 - Russia's Luna 15 impacts moon after 52 lunar orbits
1970 - Huge Aswan Dam opens in Egypt
1970 - Libya orders confiscation of all Jewish property
1970 - USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1970 - Clay Kirby has a no-hitter going for 8 inn, but is lifted for a pinch hitter, Reliever Jack
           Baldschun gives up 3 hits & Padres lose, 3-0
1971 - US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1972 - 2 passenger trains collide head-on killing 76 (Seville, Spain)
1972 - 27.5 cm rainfall at Fort Ripley, Minnesota (state record)
1972 - Bloody Friday: 22 IRA-bombs explode in Belfast
1972 - Dodgers release & end career of pitcher Hoyt Wilhelm
1972 - In NY, 57 murders occur in 24 hours
1973 - Braves Hank Aaron hits Ken Brett's fastball for his 700th HR
1973 - France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Atoll un the Pacific
1973 - USSR launches Mars 4 for fly-by (2600 km) of red planet
1974 - 29th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Sandra Haynie
1974 - Eddy Merckx wins his 5th Tour de France
1974 - House Judiciary approves 2 Articles of Impeachment against Pres Nixon
1975 - Billy Martin fired as Texas Rangers manager
1975 - NY Met Félix Millán hits 4 singles; erased by Joe Torres 4 double plays
1976 - "Guys & Dolls" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 239 performances
1976 - 1st outbreak of "Legionnaire's Disease" kills 29 in Phila
1976 - Christopher Ewart-Biggs British ambassador to the Republic of Ireland is assassinated by the
           Provisional IRA.
1977 - Libyan-Egyptian border fights
1977 - Sri Lanka premier Bandaranaike loses election
1978 - Bolivia milt coup under general Juan Pereda, pres Hugo Banzer flees
1978 - US Postal Service & unions agree on a contract averting mail strike
1978 - World's strongest dog, 80-kg St Bernard, pulls 2909-kg load 27 m
1979 - 108th British Golf Open: Seve Ballesteros shoots a 283 at Royal Lytham
1979 - National Women's Hall of Fame (Seneca Falls, NY) dedicated
1980 - Jean-Claude Droyer climbs Eiffel Tower in 2 hrs 18 mins
1981 - Australia set 130 to win, all out 111 at Headingley Willis 8-43
1982 - France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
1983 - Polish government ends 19 months of martial law
1983 - Storm cuts short Diana Ross' free concert in NY's Central Park
1983 - US announces Lebanon freed American hostage David Dodge
1984 - 1st documented case of a robot killing a human in US
1984 - Marita Koch of E Germany sets world women's mark for 200m, 21.71s
1984 - USSR performs underground nuclear Test
1985 - "Leader of the Pack" closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 120 perfs
1985 - 114th British Golf Open: Sandy Lyle shoots a 282 at Royal St George
1985 - Amina Fakir (Detroit), 23, crowned 18th Miss Black America
1985 - Bernard Hinault wins his 5th & last Tour de France
1985 - Judy Clark wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
1986 - Barbara Palacios Teyde, 22, of Venezuela, crowned 35th Miss Universe
1986 - Pleasure Island plans unveiled
1987 - Kristi Addis, of Mississippi, crowned 5th Miss Teen USA
1988 - ESA's Ariane-3 launches 2 communications satellites (1 Indian)
1988 - Mass Gov Michael Dukakis accepts Democratic nomination for president
1989 - Eastern Airlines submits a reorganization plan to creditors
1989 - Greg LeMond (US) wins Tour de France in fastest time
1989 - Mike Tyson KOs Carl Williams in 1:33 for heavyweight boxing title
1990 - Goodwill Games opens in Seattle Wash
1990 - Pink Floyds' "Wall" is performed where Berlin Wall once stood
1991 - 120th British Golf Open: Ian Baker-Finch shoots 272 at Royal Birkdale
1991 - Betsy King wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Golf Classic
1991 - Sharmell Sullivan (Gary Indiana), 20, crowned 23rd Miss Black America
1991 - Ferguson Jenkins, Gaylord Perry, Rod Carew, Tony Lazzeri, & Bill Veeck are elected into the
           Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY
1993 - Angela Kennedy swims world record 50 m butterfly stroke (26.93)
1994 - Tony Blair is declared the winner of the leadership election of the British Labour Party, paving
           the way for him to become Prime Minister in 1997.
1995 - Brian Lara completes a pair for West Indians v Kent
1995 - KC Royals set club-record of 22 singles in 15 innings
1996 - 125th British Golf Open: Tom Lehman shoots a 271 at Royal Lytham
1996 - Dottie Pepper wins LPGA Friendly's Golf Classic
1996 - Wayne Gretzky signs a 2 year deal with NY Rangers
1997 - 200-year-old USS Constitution sails under its own power
1997 - NY Yank Mike Whiton held in Milwaukee on charges of sexual assault
1997 - The fully restored USS Constitution (aka "Old Ironsides") celebrates her 200th birthday by
           setting sail for the first time in 116 years.
2002 - Telecom giant WorldCom files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the largest such filing
           in United States history.
2004 - The United Kingdom government publishes Delivering Security in a Changing World, a paper
           detailing wide-ranging reform of the country's armed forces.
2005 - Four terrorist bombings, occurring exactly two weeks after the similar July 7 bombings, target
           London's public transportation system. All four bombs fail to detonate and all four suspected
           suicide bombers are captured and later convicted and imprisoned for long terms.
2007 - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the final book in the bestselling Harry Potter series is
           released.
2008 - Bosnian-Serb war criminal Radovan Karadžić is arrested in Serbia and is indicted by the UN's
           ICTY tribunal.
2011 - NASA's Space Shuttle program ends with the landing of Space Shuttle Atlantis on mission
           STS-135.

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 21, 2013, 09:05:36 AM

This Day in History for 21st July


Famous Weddings

1320 - Count Louis of Nevers marries 8-year old daughter of Philips V
1945 - Master of quick wit and widely considered one of the best comedians of the modern era
           Groucho Marx (54) weds Kay Marvis
2005 - Tennis star player Lleyton Hewitt (24) weds "Home and Away" TV actress Bec Cartwright (22)
           at the Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Australia
2010 - Victoria's Secret model Miranda Kerr (27) weds British actor Orlando Bloom (33) in a secret
           ceremony
2012 - 2010 American Idol winner Lee DeWyze (26) weds model-actress Jonna Walsh at Maravilla
           Gardens in Camarillo, California

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 21, 2013, 10:53:08 AM

This Day in History for 21st July


Famous Birthdays

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Nobel Laureate Author                           Rock Vocalist Cat Stevens (1948)              Comedian/Actor
Ernest Hemingway (1899)                                                                                       Robin Williams (1951)


810 - Imam Bukhari, Islamic scholar (d. 870)
1515 - St Philippus Nerius, [Philippo Neri], Italian merchant/priest
1620 - Jean Picard, French astronomer
1664 - Matthew Prior, English poet
1676 - Anthony Collins, English philosopher (A discourse on free-thinking)
1693 - Thomas Pelham-Holles 1st duke of Newcastle, Engl minister of finance
1706 - Pierre Lyonet, zoologist/cryptologist (Anatomy of Wilgehoutrups)
1710 - Paul Möhring, German physician (d. 1792)
1748 - Louis-Henry Paisible, composer
1758 - Elizabeth Hamilton, author (Cats: A Celebration)
1762 - Willem GF Bentinck, Dutch earl/politician/organist
1779 - Gottlob Wiedebein, composer
1797 - Franz Schoberlechner, composer
1802 - David Hunter, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1886
1804 - Victor Schoelcher, Guadeloupe, abolished french slavery
1808 - Simion Bărnuţiu, Romanian philosopher and politician (d. 1864)
1810 - Henri V Regnault, French physicist/chemist
1815 - Stewart Van Vliet, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1901
1816 - Paul Julius Baron von Reuter, founded Reuters news service
1817 - John Gilbert, painter/illustrator
1817 - Joseph K Barnes, Major General (Union Army), died in 1883
1821 - Vasile Alecsandri, Romania, poet/ Foreign Minister/diplomat
1822 - Ludwig Theodore Gouvy, composer
1826 - James Gillpatrick Blunt, Major General (Union volunteers)
1828 - John Rutter Brooke, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1832 - Henrietta Marie Morse King, cattlewoman
1856 - Harry A P Eyres, British diplomat (Constantinople, Albania)
1856 - Louise Blanchard Bethune, 1st US woman architect
1857 - A S C Wallis, [Adele SC von Antal-Opzoomer], Dutch writer
1858 - Lovis Corinth, German painter (d. 1925)
1858 - Maria Christina of Austria, queen of Spain (d. 1929)
1858 - Alfred Henry O'Keeffe, New Zealand artist (d. 1941)
1863 - C[harles] Aubrey Smith, London England, actor (Prisoner of Zenda)
1864 - Frances Folsom Cleveland, 1st lady (1885-89, 93-97)
1865 - Robert Kahn, composer
1870 - Emil Orlik, Czech painter (d. 1932)
1880 - Milan Rastislav Štefánik, Slovak politician, French general and astronomer (d. 1919)
1882 - David Burliuk, Ukrainian artist (d. 1967)
1885 - Frances Parkinson Keyes, novelist (Dinner at Antoine)
1892 - Anton Schnack, German writer/poet
1892 - Gijsbert Friedhoff, architect (tax office Wibautstraat, Amsterdam)
1892 - Lenore Ulric, US actress (Notorious, Better Woman) [or 1894]
1893 - Hans Fallada, writer
1895 - H G "Nummy" Deane, South African cricket Test captain (1927-31)
1895 - Ken Maynard, Texas, cowboy/actor/producer (Bigfoot)
1898 - Ernest Willem Mulder, composer
1898 - Sara Carter, Virginia, vocalist/guitarist (Carter Family)
1899 - Ernest Hemingway, Oak Park Illinois, author (&#039;for whom the bell tolled... &#039;, Nobel
           1954), (d. 1961
1899 - Hart Crane, US, poet (Bridge)
1901 - Allyn Joslyn, Milford Pa, actor (They Won't Forget, Cafe Society)
1903 - Theodore Karyotakis, composer
1903 - Roy Neuberger, American financier
1905 - Diana Trilling, writer
1906 - Daniel Ayala Perez, composer
1907 - Ross Alexander, Brooklyn NY, actor (Boulder Dam, Capt Blood)
1908 - Harold "Jug" McSpaden, American professional golfer (d. 1996)
1909 - Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen Edwards, Egyptologist
1911 - Jozef Cyrankiewicz, premier Poland (1947..70)
1911 - Marshall McLuhan, Canada, writer (Medium is the Massage)
1915 - Duke of Norfolk
1915 - Floyd McDaniel, blues singer/guitarist
1915 - Maurice Laing, English contractor/multi-millionaire
1920 - Constantly, [A Nieuwenhuys], painter (Uprising of Homo Ludens)
1920 - Isaac Stern, Kreminiecz Russia, violinist (debut SF Symph)
1920 - Manuel Valls Gorina, composer
1921 - Billy Taylor, Greenville NC, orchestra leader (David Frost Show)
1922 - Kay Starr, Dougherty Oklahoma, singer (Rock & Roll Waltz, Club Oasis)
1923 - Henny Alma, [Hendrika den Broek], Dutch actress (Soldier of Orange)
1924 - Don Knotts, Morgantown WV, actor (Amdy Griffth Show, 3's Company)
1925 - Al Checco, Pittsburgh PA, actor (Extreme Close-up)
1925 - Lovro Zupanovic, composer
1925 - Anne Meacham, American actress
1926 - Gerald Ian Lacey, architect/town planner
1926 - Karel Reisz, director (Everybody Wins, Isadora, Who'll Stop the Rain)
1926 - Norman Jewison, director (Moonstruck, ...and Justice For All)
1926 - Paul Burke, New Orleans, actor (Thomas Crown Affair) [or Jan 21]
1926 - Rahimuddin Khan, Pakistani general
1926 - Queenie Watts, English actress (d. 1980)
1927 - Stefan Niculescu, composer
1928 - Marcel Gauthier, Canadian wrestler (d. 1998)
1929 - Bob Orton, American wrestler (d. 2006)
1930 - Gene Alec Littler, San Diego CA, PGA golfer (1961 US Open)
1930 - Anand Bakshi, Indian lyricist (d. 2002)
1931 - Leon Schidlowsky, composer
1932 - Ernie Warlick, American football player
1933 - Brigitte Reimann, writer
1933 - John C Gardner, scholar/writer (Grendel, Sunlight Dialogues)
1934 - Chandu Borde, cricket batsman (55 Tests for India 1959-67)
1934 - Edolphus Towns, (Rep-D-New York, 1983- )
1935 - Julian Pettifer, English TV-host
1935 - Kaye Stevens, Pitts, singer/comedienne (Jerry Lewis Show)
1935 - Norbert Blüm, German politician
1935 - Moe Drabowsky, baseball player (d. 2006)
1938 - Anton Emil Kuerti, composer
1938 - Janet Reno, US attorney general (1993- )
1938 - Les Aspin, (Rep-D-Wisc, 1971-93)/Minister of Defense (1993-94)
1939 - John Negroponte, 1st United States Director of National Intelligence
1940 - James E Clyburn, (Rep-D-South Carolina)
1941 - Jim Bates, (Rep-D-CA, 1983- )
1942 - Fred Hetzel, NBA star (SF, Cincinnati, Milwaukee Bucks)
1942 - Kim Fowley, Philippines/US rock vocalist/producer/songwriter
1942 - Patricia Elliot, Gunnison Co, actress (Renee-Empire, One Life to Live)
1943 - David Downing, NYC, actor (Backstairs at the White House)
1943 - Edward Herrmann, Wash DC, actor (Day of the Dolphin, Reds)
1943 - Jerry McGee, New Lexingon OH, PGA golfer (1975 Pensacola Open)
1944 - Buchi Emecheta, Nigerian/English writer (Price of Bride)
1944 - Paul Wellstone, (Sen-D-Minnesota)
1944 - Tony Scott, director (Top Gun, Revenge, Days of Thunder), (d. 2012)
1944 - John Atta Mills, Tarkwa, Gold Coast (Ghana), President of Ghana (2009-2012), (d. 2012)
1945 - Alton Maddox, NY black activist/attorney (Tawana Brawley case)
1945 - Barry Richards, extraordinary cricket batsman (4 Tests for South Africa)
1945 - Geoff Dymock, Australian cricket left-arm pace bowler (1974-80)
1945 - Leigh Lawson, Atherston England, actress (Fire & Sword, Charlie Boy)
1945 - John Lowe, English darts player
1945 - Lydia Shum, Hong Kong comedian and actress (d. 2008)
1946 - Barry "Bean" Whitwam, rocker
1946 - Zbigniew Kaczmarek, Poland, lightweight (Olympic-gold-1976)
1946 - Kenneth Starr, American lawyer
1947 - Chetan Chauhan, Indian cricket opener (Gavaskar's partner for a while)
1947 - John J Duncan Jr, (Rep-R-Tennessee)
1947 - Wendell Burton, San Antonio Tx, actor (Lucas-New Dick Van Dyke Show)
1948 - Cat Stevens [Steven Demetre Georgiou; Yusaf Islam], London, rock vocalist (Peace Train)
1948 - Art Hindle, Halifax Nova Scotia, actor (Jeff-Dallas, Berrengers)
1948 - Garry Trudeau, political cartoonist (Doonesbury)
1948 - Ed Hinton, American sportswriter
1949 - Ludmila Smirnova, USSR, pairs figure skater (Olympic-silver-1972)
1949 - Al Hrabosky, baseball player
1950 - Larry Tolbert, rock drummer (Raydio)
1950 - Ubaldo Fillol, Argentinian footballer
1951 - Diana Dennis, Portland Oregon, body builder (Women Physique World)
1951 - Doug Collins, US, basketball player (Olympic-silver-1972)
1951 - Slick Watts, NBA (Seattle SuperSonic)
1951 - Robin Williams, Chicago, Illinois, American actor and comedian (Mork & Mindy, Good Will
           Hunting)
1952 - John Barrasso, [John Anthony Barrasso III], Reading Pennsylvania, American politician, junior
           senator from Wyoming
1953 - Brian Talbot, British footballer
1953 - Jeff Fatt, Chinese Australian actor
1955 - Henry Preistman, rocker (Christians-Harvest the World)
1955 - Tacho Ocheriski, singer (Putting on the Ritz)
1955 - Howie Epstein, American musician (d. 2003)
1955 - Taco Ockerse, Indonesian singer
1956 - Michael Connelly, American author
1957 - Jon Lovitz, Tarzana California, actor (SNL, League of their Own, Critic)
1959 - Stuart Young-Black, Cheshire England, Canadian equestrian (Oly-96)
1960 - Lance Guest, Saratoga California, actor (Lance-Lou Grant)
1960 - Matt Mulhern, Phila, actor (Biloxi Blues)
1960 - Fritz Walter, German footballer
1961 - Don Wilson, CFL linebacker (BC Lions)
1961 - Henry Ellard, NFL wide receiver (Washington Redskins)
1961 - Jim Martin, Oakland CA, rock guitarist (Faith No More-Real Thing)
1961 - Amar Singh Chamkila, Punjabi folk singer
1962 - Ike Eisenmann, Houston Texas, actor (Scott-Fantastic Journey)
1963 - Kevin Poole, English footballer
1963 - Paulo Silva, Brazilian mixed martial artist and professional wrestler
1964 - Susan Swift, Houston Texas, actress (Chisholms)
1965 - Mike Bordick, Marquette MI, infielder (Oakland A's)
1965 - Gudni Bergsson, Icelandic footballer
1965 - Jovy Marcelo, Filipino racing driver (d. 1992)
1966 - Larisa Neiland, Lvov Ukraine, tennis star (1996 Essen winner)
1966 - Arija Bareikis, American actress
1967 - Lance Painter, Bedford England, pitcher (Colorado Rockies)
1967 - Tore Meinecke, West Germany, tennis star
1968 - Brandi Chastain, San Jose California, soccer forward (Olympics-96)
1968 - Christian Perthaler, hockey forward (Team Austria 1998)
1968 - Dina Ammaccapane, Bayport NY, LPGA golfer (1994 Sara Lee Classic-4th)
1968 - Johnnie Barnes, NFL wide receiver (Pittsburgh Steelers, Amsterdam Admirals)
1968 - Lyle Odelein, Quill Lake Sask, NHL defenseman (Team Canada, Montreal)
1968 - Robert Anthony Gamez, Las Vegas NV, PGA golfer (1990 Nestle)
1969 - Emerson Hart, American musician (Tonic)
1970 - Bryce Florie, Charleston FLA, pitcher (San Diego Padres)
1970 - Steven "Scrappy" Segaloff, New Haven, Conn, rower (Olympics-5th-1996)
1970 - Shawn Stasiak, American professional wrestler
1971 - Nuno Markl, Portuguese comedian and radio host
1972 - Dennis Military man, soccer player (Sparta/Vitesse)
1972 - Joe Rudolph, NFL guard (Philadelphia Eagles)
1972 - Kimera Bartee, Omaha NE, outfielder (Detroit Tigers)
1972 - Lilach Parisky, Israel, Women's foil fencer (Oly-1996)
1972 - Martin Miller, CFL safety (BC Lions)
1972 - Shinjiro Otani, wrestler (NJPW)
1973 - Ali Landry, Louisiana, Miss Universe-USA (1996)
1973 - Stephen Clarke, Sutton Coldfield England, Canada swimmer (Oly-br-92, 96)
1973 - Steve Taneyhill, WLAF QB (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1974 - Andrea L'Huillier, Miss Universe-Chile (1996)
1974 - Geoff Jenkins, American baseball player
1975 - Mike Sellers, CFL defensive end (Edmonton Eskimos)
1975 - Ravindra Pushpakumara, Sri Lankan cricketer (Test pace bowler)
1977 - Allison Wagner, 200m/400m medley swimmer (Olympics-silver-96)
1977 - Sarah Biasini, daughter of actress Romy Schneider
1977 - Paul Casey, English golfer
1977 - Jaime Murray, British actress
1978 - Kyoko Iwosoki, Japan, 100m breaststroke swimmer (Oly-gold-92, 96)
1978 - Damian Marley, Jamaican musician
1978 - Justin Bartha, American actor
1978 - Gary Teale, Scottish football player
1979 - David Carr, American football player
1979 - Tamika Catchings, American basketball player
1980 - Tailor James, Canadian model
1980 - CC Sabathia, American baseball player
1981 - Stefan Schumacher, German cyclist
1981 - Joaquín Sánchez, Spanish footballer
1981 - Titus Bramble, English footballer
1981 - Chrishell Stause, American actress
1981 - Blake Lewis, American musician
1983 - Eivør Pálsdóttir, Faroese singer
1983 - Kellen Winslow II, American football player
1984 - Liam Ridgewell, English footballer
1984 - Paul Davis, American basketball player
1985 - Von Wafer, American basketball player
1987 - AnnaLynne McCord, American actress
1988 - Chris Mitchell, Scottish footballer
1989 - Chris Gunter, Welsh footballer
1989 - Jamie Waylett, British actor
1989 - Rory Culkin, American actor
1992 - Rachael Flatt, American figure skater

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 21, 2013, 10:55:50 AM

This Day in History for 21st July


Famous Deaths

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Poet Robert Burns (1796)


1160 - Peterus Lombardus, Italian theologist/bishop of Paris, dies
1425 - Manuel Paleologus, Byzantine Emperor (1391-1425)/writer, dies
1540 - John I Zapolyai, prince of Transsylvania/king of Hungary, dies
1544 - René of Chalon [Renatus of Nassau], prince of Orange, slain in battle
1683 - Lord William Russell, English plotter against Charles II, beheaded
1688 - James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, English statesman and soldier (b. 1610)
1717 - Niccolo Amenta, Italian poet (La Gostanza), dies
1782 - Placidus Cajetan von Camerloher, composer, dies at 63
1793 - Bruni d'Entrecasteaux, French explorer (b. 1739)
1796 - Robert Burns, Scottish poet (Auld Lang Syne), dies at 37
1798 - François Sebastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, Austrian field marshal (b.
          1733)
1821 - Maurice J M prince de Broglie, bishop of Ghent, dies at about 55
1831 - Emil Aarestrup, Danish physician/poet (Ritornellen), dies at 55
1861 - Francis Stebbins Bartow, Confederate colonel, dies in battle at 44
1870 - Josef Strauss, Austrian composer (Dynamids), dies at 42
1880 - Hiram Walden, American politician (b. 1800)
1888 - Matthias J Scheeben, German theologist (Natur und Gnade), dies at 53
1889 - Nelson Dewey, American politician, 1st Governor of Wisconsin (b. 1813)
1891 - Franco Faccio, Italian composer/conductor, dies at 51
1899 - Robert G. Ingersoll, American politician and military officer (b. 1833)
1910 - Johan Peter Selmer, composer, dies at 66
1917 - Christopher J Forster, British RAF-pilot/capt, dies in battle
1922 - Djemal Pasha, dictator of Turkey, murdered
1927 - J J Lyons, cricketer (14 Tests for Australia), dies
1928 - Ellen A Terry, Brits actress/dir (Imperial Theatre), dies at 81
1932 - Bill Gleason, late 19th century baseball player
1938 - Owen Wister, American author (b. 1860)
1941 - Bohdan Lepky, Ukrainian writer and poet (b. 1872)
1943 - Charles William Paddock, 100m runner (Olympic-gold-1920), dies at 42
1944 - Gerrit van den Bosch, led illegal Dutch CPN party, dies in Dachau
1944 - Henning von Tresckow, Gen-Maj, "July 20th plotter", commits suicide
1946 - Gualberto Villarroel, President of Bolivia (b. 1908)
1948 - Arshile Gorky, abstract expressionist, dies at 43
1948 - Donald Nichols Tweedy, composer, dies at 58
1950 - Albert Riemenschneider, composer, dies at 71
1957 - Bernard Spooner, US inventor (bulletproof jacket), dies
1957 - Rockley Wilson, cricketer (bro of Clem, Test for England 1921), dies
1966 - Eugeen Calleen, Flemish sculptor, dies at 83
1967 - Albert J Luthuli, president South Africa (ANC), dies
1967 - Basil Rathbone, actor (Sherlock Holmes), dies of heart attack at 75
1967 - Jimmy Foxx, baseball hall of famer (Det Tigers/534 HRs), dies at 59
1967 - Pierre Kemp, Dutch poet (English paint box), dies at 80
1968 - Ruth St Denis, US choreography, dies at about 90
1970 - Mikhail Gerasimov, Russian anthropologist and sculptor (b. 1907)
1970 - Bob Kalsu, American football player (b. 1945)
1972 - Jigme Dori Wangchuck, King of Bhutan, dies
1972 - Ralph Craig, American athlete (b. 1889)
1973 - Russell Hardie, dies after long illness at 69
1974 - Willem F K Hussem, painter/poet (Steltlopen on Sea), dies at 74
1975 - Billy West, actor (Jimmy the Gent, Jealousy), dies at 82
1975 - Fie Carelsen, actress (Malle Gevallen), dies at 85
1976 - Christopher Ewart-Biggs, British ambassador to Ireland, assassinated
1977 - Lee Miller, American Photographer aged 70
1979 - Ludwig Renn, writer, dies at 90
1982 - Dave Garroway, TV host (Today Show), dies at 69
1982 - Jean J A Girault, French director (Gendarme Saint-Tropez), dies at 58
1984 - Michael Osborne, rock guitarist/vocalist (Axe), dies at 34
1985 - Mickey Shaughnessy, actor (Chicago Teddy Bears), dies at 65
1985 - Vicki Vola, actress (Miss Miller-Mr District Attorney)
1986 - Paulo Correia, Guinee-Bissaus colonel/putschist, executed
1986 - Virginia Hewitt, actress (Carol-Space Patrol), dies at 60
1986 - Ernest Maas, American screenwriter (b. 1892)
1990 - Manuel Puig, Argentine writer (Buenos Aires Affair), dies at 57
1990 - Sacha Piteoff, dies of heart failure at 70
1990 - Stanley Shapiro, dies of leukemia at 65
1991 - Theodore Wilson, dies at 47
1991 - Paul Warwick, English racing driver (b. 1969)
1993 - Henk Kersting, bureau chef (Associated Press-WW II), dies at 88
1993 - Piet Wielinga, TV producer (Dutch Glory), dies at 56
1993 - Robert J Glass, film producer (ET), is killed at 53
1994 - Dorothy Collins, singer (Your Hit Parade), dies at 67
1994 - John Ernest, constructionist Artist, dies at 72
1994 - Marjorie Dorothy Chandler Collins, jazz singer, dies at 67
1995 - Edwin "Russell" House, saxophonist, dies at 65
1995 - Elleston Trevor, author, dies
1995 - Jon Boulle, motorcyclist, dies at 59
1996 - Francis James Claude Piggott, soldier, dies at 85
1996 - Gerald McArthur, detective, dies at 70
1996 - Herb Edelman, actor (Odd Couple, St Elsewhere), dies of emphysema 62
1996 - James Tye, safety expert, dies at 74
1996 - John Kevin Moorhouse, test pilot, dies at 50
1996 - Macha Louis Rosenthal, critic/poet, dies at 79
1996 - Wolf Morris, actor (Padmasambhava-Dr Who), dies at 71
1998 - Alan Shepard, astronaut (b. 1923)
1998 - Robert Young, American actor (b. 1907)
2001 - Steve Barton, American actor (b. 1954)
2001 - Sivaji Ganesan, South Indian Tamil actor (b. 1927)
2003 - John Davies, New Zealand Olympic Committee president (b. 1938)
2003 - Walter M. "Matt" Jefferies, American film art director (b. 1921)
2004 - Jerry Goldsmith, American composer (b. 1929)
2004 - Edward B. Lewis, American geneticist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (b. 1918)
2005 - Long John Baldry, British blues musician (b. 1941)
2005 - Lord Alfred Hayes, British Wrestling Announcer for WWE (b. 1928)
2006 - Mako, Japanese-born American actor (b. 1933)
2006 - Ta Mok, "The Khmer Rouge Butcher", war criminal in Democratic Kampuchea (b. 1926)
2010 - Luis Corvalán, Chilean communist leader (b. 1916)
2011 - Lucian Freud, Realist painter (b. 1922)
2012 - Alexander Cockburn, Scottish-born American journalist, dies from cancer at 72

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 22, 2013, 09:07:57 AM

This Day in History for 22nd July


Historical Events

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First US President                                    Baseball Player and Manager                 US General George S. Patton
George Washington                                  Leo Durocher

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Confederate General                               Colombian Drug Lord                  NFL Running Back & Convicted Criminal
Robert E. Lee                                           Pablo Escobar                                               OJ Simpson


259 - St Dionysius elected as Pope, succeeding Sixtus II
1099 - First Crusade: Godfrey of Bouillon is elected the first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre of The
           Kingdom of Jerusalem.
1298 - English defeat Scots at Battle of Falkirk
1306 - King Phillip the Fair, orders expulsion of Jews out of France
1456 - Battle at Nandorfehervar (Belgrade): Hungarian army under Janos Hunyadi beats sultan Murad
           II
1484 - Battle of Lochmaben Fair - a 500-man raiding party led by Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany
           and James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas are defeated by Scots forces loyal to Albany's
           brother James III of Scotland; Douglas is captured.
1489 - "Tractate Niddah" a talmudic edition, 1st printed
1489 - Treaty of Frankfurt signed between Maximilian of Austria and King Charles VIII of France
1515 - Congress of Vienna settles issues between Poland & Holy Roman Empire
1535 - Christians captured in Tunis in uprising against Adm Barbarossa
1582 - Willem van Orange moves from Antwerp to Delft
1587 - 2nd English colony forms on Roanoke Island off NC
1627 - English fleet under George Villiers lands on the Rhe [OS=June 12]
1632 - Foundation laid in Madrid for Buen Retiro-palace for king Philip IV
1648 - 10,000 Jews of Polannoe murdered in Chmielnick massacre
1686 - City of Albany, NY chartered
1691 - Battle at Aghrim: English/Dutch army beats France
1729 - Diamonds found in Minas Geras Brazil
1731 - Spain signs Treaty of Vienna
1739 - Turks defeats Holy Roman Emp at Crocyka Yugoslavia & threaten Belgrade
1775 - George Washington takes command of US troops
1793 - Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean becoming the first Euro-American to complete
           a transcontinental crossing of Canada.
1796 - Cleveland, Ohio, founded by Gen Moses Cleveland
1812 - Duke of Wellington defeats French at Battle of Salamanca, Spain
1859 - V E Walker takes 10-74 in an innings for England v Surrey
1864 - Battle of Atlanta-Hood attacks Sherman, 8449 conf, 3641 US die
1865 - V E Walker takes 10-104 in an innings for Middlesex v Lancs
1893 - Katharine Lee Bates writes "America the Beautiful," in Colorado
1898 - Belgica crew see 1st sunrise in 1600 hrs-1st to endure Antarct winter
1901 - Serbia reactivates diplomatic relations with Montenegro
1905 - Phila Athletic's Weldon Henley no-hits St Louis Browns, 6-0
1912 - 5th Olympic games in Stockholm, Sweden closes
1916 - A bomb went off during a Preparedness Day parade in SF killing 10
1917 - Alexander Kerensky becomes Russian PM
1917 - British bomb German lines at Ypres, 4,250,000 grenades
1918 - Lightning kills 504 sheep in Utah's Wasatch National Park
1919 - De Falla & Massine's "Three-cornered Hat," premieres in London
1921 - 25th US Golf Open: Jim Barnes shoots a 289 at Columbia CC in MD
1922 - Cards enter 1st place, marks 1st time both St Louis teams are on top
1923 - Walter Johnson becomes 1st to strikeout 3,000 (en route to 3,508)
1925 - Yankees purchase infielder Leo Durocher
1926 - 105°F (41°C), Waterbury, Connecticut (state record)
1926 - 108°F (42°C), Troy, NY (state record)
1926 - Cin Red Curt Walker ties record of 2 triples in an inning
1933 - 1st solo flight round the world 7d 19hrs (Wiley Post)
1933 - Caterina Jarboro sings "Aida," NYC-1st negro prima donna in US
1933 - Wiley Post completes 1st round-the-world solo flight
1934 - Outside Chicago's Biograph Theatre, "Public Enemy No. 1" John Dillinger is mortally wounded
           by FBI agents.
1935 - Lester Walton appointed minister to Liberia
1936 - Phillies John Moore hits 3 consecutive HRs
1937 - Irish premier Eamon de Valera wins elections
1937 - Senate rejects FDR proposal to enlarge Supreme Court
1939 - 1st black woman judge (Jane Matilda Bolin-NYC)
1940 - Dutch prime minister De Geer meets Hitler seeking peace talks
1940 - Jacqueline Kennedy's parents divorce
1942 - 4th Russian Pantser army forms with 80 tanks
1942 - Gasoline rationing using coupons begins
1942 - Warsaw Ghetto Jews (300,000) are sent to Treblinka extermination Camp
1943 - US forces led by Gen George Patton liberate Palermo Sicily
1944 - Soviets set up Polish Committee of National Liberation
1946 - Estelle Bennett, rocker (Ronettes)
1946 - Menachen Begin's opposition group surprise attack on King David hotel
1947 - -8°F (-13°C), Charlotte Pass, NSW (Australian record)
1950 - Frank Worrell completes 261 v England at Trent Bridge
1950 - King Leopold, after 6 years in exile, returns to Belgium
1951 - Gen Francisco Craveiro Lopes appointed pres of Portugal
1952 - Poland adopts Communist-imposed Constitution
1954 - Virgin Islands (US) adopts constitution (Revised Organic Act)
1954 - WTHI TV channel 10 in Terre Haute, IN (CBS) begins broadcasting
1955 - 1st VP to preside over cabinet meeting-R Nixon
1955 - Phillies longest win streak since 1892 hits 11
1958 - US performs atmospheric nuclear Test at Bikini Island
1959 - Benjamin Britten's "Missa Brevis" in D, premieres
1959 - Earth gas found at Kolham (Slochteren) Groningen
1960 - Cuba nationalizes all US owned sugar factories
1961 - WBNB TV channel 10 in Charlotte Amaile, VI (CBS) begins broadcasting
1962 - 1st US Venus probe, Mariner 1, fails at lift-off
1962 - 44th PGA Championship: Gary Player shoots a 278 at Aronimink GC PA
1962 - Chicago White Sox Floyd Robinson goes 6 for 6 (all singles)
1962 - Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Tournament
1963 - Beatles release "Introducing the Beatles"
1963 - Sonny Liston KOs Floyd Patterson in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
1965 - Edward Heath succeeds Alec Douglas-Hume as leader of Brit Cons party
1967 - 1st major appearance by Vanilla Fudge (Village Theater NYC)
1967 - Atlanta Braves use a record 5 pitchers in 9th inning
1967 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Supertest Ladies' Golf Open
1967 - Jimi Hendrix quits as opening act of the Monkees' tour
1968 - Sir John Newsome recommends public schools should take 50% of their intake from the state
           school system
1969 - Aretha Franklin arrested for disturbing peace in Detroit
1969 - USSR launches Sputnik 50 & Molniya 1-12 communications satellite
1971 - Sudan military counter coup under premier Numeiry
1972 - 10.84" (27.53 cm) of rainfall, Fort Ripley, Mn (state 24-hr record)
1972 - Venera 8 makes soft landing on Venus
1973 - 28th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Susie Maxwell Berning
1975 - House of Reps votes to restore citizenship to Gen Robert E. Lee
1976 - "Let My People Come" opens at Morosco Theater NYC for 106 performances
1979 - Pat Meyers wins LPGA Greater Baltimore Golf Classic
1981 - Turkish terrorist Mehmet Ali Agca sentenced in a Rome to life
1982 - Academic Text Processing Service forms in Seattle
1983 - -128.6°F (-89.2°C) recorded, Vostok, Antarctica (world record)
1983 - Angels OF Brian Downing error ends his record streak at 244 games
1983 - Dick Smith makes 1st solo helicopter flight around the world
1983 - Poland's PM Januzelski lifts martial law
1984 - 113th British Golf Open: Seve Ballesteros shoots a 276 at St Andrews
1984 - 22nd Tennis Fed Cup: Czech beats Australia in Sao Paulo Brazil (2-1)
1984 - Kathy Whitworth wins Rochester Golf International (her 85th win)
1984 - Laurent Fignon wins Tour de France
1986 - House of Reps impeaches Judge Harry E Claiborne on tax evasion
1987 - Said Aouita of Morocco sets 5k record (12:58.39) in Rome
1987 - Soyuz TM-3 launched with 3 cosmonauts (1 Syrian)
1987 - US began escorting re-flagged Kuwaiti tankers in Persian Gulf
1988 - 500 US scientists pledge to boycott Pentagon germ-warfare research
1989 - Kristin Huxhold, 18, of Missouri, crowned America's Junior Miss
1990 - 119th British Golf Open: Nick Faldo shoots 270 at St Andrews Scotland
1990 - 90th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Phil Mickelson
1990 - Beth Daniel wins LPGA Phar-Mor in Youngstown Golf Tournament
1990 - Greg LeMond of US wins his 3rd Tour de France
1991 - Jeffrey Dahmer confesses to killing 17 males in 1978
1992 - Colombia drug baron Pablo Escobar escapes prison
1992 - Soyuz TM-15 launches
1993 - NY Yankee Don Mattingly hits his 200th HR
1993 - Soyuz TM-17 lands
1994 - 23rd & last part of Comet Shoemaker-Levy hit Jupiter (since July 16th)
1994 - Doc Gooden admitted to Betty Ford Center
1994 - Mariners play Red Sox as home team at Fenway, as Kingdome is repaired
1994 - Military coup in Gambia: Pres Dawda Jawara flees
1994 - OJ Simpson pleads "Absolutely 100% Not Guilty" of murder
1994 - William Sigei runs world record 10k (26:52.53)
1995 - Space shuttle STS-70 (Discovery 20), lands
1995 - Susan Smith found guilty of drowning her 2 children in SC
1997 - Fire breaks out at Palais de Chaillot in Paris
1997 - The second Blue Water Bridge opens between Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario.
2002 - Israel assassinates Salah Shahade, the Commander-in-Chief of Hamas's military arm, the Izz
           ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, along with 14 civilians.
2003 - Members of 101st Airborne of the United States, aided by Special Forces, attack a compound
           in Iraq, killing Saddam Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay, along with Mustapha Hussein,
           Qusay's 14-year old son, and a bodyguard.
2005 - Jean Charles de Menezes is killed by police as the hunt begins for the London Bombers. See 7
           July 2005 London bombings and 21 July 2005 London bombings
2011 - Norway is the victim of twin terror attacks, the first being a bomb blast which targeted
           government buildings in central Oslo, the second being a massacre at a youth camp on the
           island of Utøya.
2012 - Car bombs kills 20 people and injures 80 in Madaen and Najaf, Iraq
2012 - Pranab Mukherjee is elected President of India
2012 - At least 77 people are killed by torrential rain in Beijing, China

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 22, 2013, 09:09:25 AM

This Day in History for 22nd July


Famous Weddings

1515 - Anna of Bohemia (12) marries Karel van Ferdinand of Austria
1515 - Louis of Hungary (9) marries Maria of Bohemia & succession to Hungarian throne
1929 - American Playwright and 1936 winner Nobel prize for literature Eugene O'Neill (40) marries 3rd
           wife actress Carlotta Monterey (40)
1982 - Biggest mass wedding, Rev Sun Myung Moon weds 2,200 couples in NYC
1995 - "True Lies" actor Tom Arnold (36) weds Julie Champnella (25) in Dearborn, Michigan
2006 - Spanish singer David Bustamante (24) weds Spanish TV star Paula Echevarria at Basilica de
           Santa Maria la Real de Covadonga in the Asturias
2006 - British TV presenter Ant McPartlin (30) weds former member of "Deuce" Lisa Armstrong (29)
           at St. Nicholas Church in Taplow, Buckinghamshire, England
2007 - Muhammad Ali's daughter Laila Ali (30) weds former NFL player Curtis Conway (36) in Marina
           del Rey, California

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 22, 2013, 09:10:33 AM

This Day in History for 22nd July


Famous Divorces

1940 - Jacqueline Kennedy's parents divorce
2010 - "The Princess Bride" actress Robin Wright (44) divorces actor-director Sean Penn (49) due to 
           irreconcilable differences after 14 years of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 22, 2013, 09:17:40 AM

This Day in History for 22nd July


Famous Birthdays

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Poet Emma Lazarus (1849)                        Kennedy Family Matriarch                    Actress Louise Fletcher (1934)
                                                             Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (1890)

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Disney Composer Alan Menken (1949)


1210 - Joan of England, Queen consort of Scotland, wife of Alexander II of Scotland (d. 1238)
1478 - Philip I, (the Handsome), 1st Habsburg King of Spain (1504-06)
1510 - Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence (d. 1537)
1535 - Katarina Stenbock, wife of Gustav I of Sweden (d. 1621)
1559 - Lawrence of Brindisi, Italian monk (d. 1619)
1597 - Virgilio Mazzocchi, composer
1621 - Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st earl of Shaftesbury/minister (1660-73)
1642 - Johann Quirsfeld, composer
1647 - Margaretha M Alacoque, French mystic/saint
1649 - Clement XI, [Giovanni F Albani], Italy, Pope (1700-21)
1651 - Ferdinand Tobias Richter, composer
1711 - Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Russian physicist (d. 1753)
1713 - Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect (d. 1780)
1721 - Francois-Joseph Krafft, composer
1722 - Jean-Noel/Joannes Natalis Paquot, Belgian priest/historian
1733 - Mikhail Shcherbatov, Russian philosopher and writer (d. 1790)
1755 - Gaspard de Prony, French mathematician (d. 1839)
1784 - Friedrich W Bessel, German astronomer (star parallax, Bessel Function)
1807 - Karolina Pawlowa, writer
1820 - Louis Powell Harvey, Governor (Union), died in 1862
1822 - Hamilton Prioleau Bee, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) died in 1897
1822 - John George Walker, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1893
1830 - Herbert Stanley Oakeley, composer
1830 - William Sooy Smith, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1916
1833 - Benjamin Hanby, composer
1834 - Daniel McCook Jr, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1864
1844 - William Archibald Spooner, London, reverend/inventor (spoonerisms)
1848 - Adolf Friedrich V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1914)
1849 - Emma Lazarus, New York NY, poet ("New Colossus" - on the base of Statue of Liberty)
1853 - Victor Roger, composer
1863 - Alec Hearne, cricketer (brother of George & Frank, Kent 1884-1910)
1871 - Akos Buttykai, composer
1872 - David D Salas, Antillian writer (Josefina)
1873 - Ettore Pozzoli, composer
1878 - Lucien Febvre, French historian (Un destin: Martin Luther)
1879 - Gustaf Heintze, composer
1882 - Edward Hopper, US painter (House by the Railroad)
1887 - Gustav Hertz, German quantum physicist (Nobel 1925)
1888 - Kirk Bryan, American geologist (d. 1950)
1889 - Frederick Preston Search, composer
1890 - Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, Boston Massachusetts, mom of JFK, RFK & Ted, (d. 1995)
1892 - Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Austrian chancellor (1930s)/war criminal
1892 - John MacBryan, cricketer (one Test Eng v South Africa 1924 DNBat, DNbowl)
1893 - Jesse Haines, American baseball player (d. 1978)
1894 - O M Graf, writer
1898 - Alexander Calder, sculptor (mobiles, stabiles)
1898 - Stephen Vincent Benét, American author (d. 1943)
1901 - Charles Weidman, Nebraska, modern dancer/choreographer (Candide)
1902 - Vladimir Nikolayevich Kryukov, composer
1905 - Boris Alexandrov, conductor (Red Army Song/Dance Ensemble)
1905 - Doc Cramer, American baseball player (d. 1990)
1907 - Zubir Said, Singaporean composer who composed Singapore's national anthem (d. 1987)
1908 - Amy Vanderbilt, New York City, New York, American authority on etiquette (Complete Book of
           Etiquette, Complete Cook Book)
1909 - Dorino Serafini, Italian racing driver (d. 2000)
1910 - Edith Abbo, daughter of Mien Wenneker/Dutch Prince Henry
1913 - Licia Albanese, Bari Italy, operatic soprano (NY Met Opera)
1913 - Gorni Kramer, Italian bandleader (d. 1995)
1914 - Cecil Effinger, composer
1915 - Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah, Pakistani politician, diplomat and author. (d. 2000)
1916 - Hipolito M Ocalia, Curacao, landscape painter
1916 - Gino Bianco, Brazilian racing driver (d. 1984)
1916 - Marcel Cerdan, French boxer (d. 1949)
1918 - Pim [Albrecht W] Lyre, Dutch lawyer/son of prince Henry
1920 - Hugh Dundas, fighter pilot/businessman
1921 - William V Roth Jr, (Sen-R-Delaware, 1971- )
1923 - Robert J Dole, (Sen-R Kansas, 1969-95)/presidential candidate (R-1996)
1923 - Bob Dole, American politician
1923 - Lillian Ellison, American professional wrestler (d. 2007)
1923 - Mukesh, Indian singer (d. 1976)
1924 - Margaret Whiting, Detroit, singer (Kreisler Bandstand, Strauss Family)
1926 - Bryan Forbes, director/producer (Endless Games, King Rat)
1926 - Peter Michael Grayson, showman
1927 - George Hunter, South Africa, light heavyweight boxer (Oly-gold-1948)
1928 - Georg Dreyfus, composer
1928 - Orson Bean, Burlington VT, actor/comedian (To Tell the Truth)
1929 - Vivien Merchant, Manchester England, actress (Under Milk Wood)
1929 - John Barber, British racing driver
1930 - Leoncjusz Ciuciura, composer
1930 - Marcia Henderson, Andover Mass, actress (Kathleen-Aldrich Family)
1931 - Charles Huxtable, General commander (English ground armies)
1931 - Perry Lopez, NYC, actor (Chinatown, Death Wish 4)
1932 - Oscar de la Renta, Dom Rep, designer (Coty Hall of Fame-1973)
1932 - William Wilkinson, businessman/conservationist
1933 - Chuck Cassey, Chicago, choral director (Jimmy Dean Show)
1934 - Louise Fletcher, Birmingham AL, actress (One Flew over Cuckoo's Nest)
1935 - Tom Cartwright, England cricket medium pacer (5 Tests 1964-65)
1936 - Harold "Dusty" Rhodes, England cricket pace bowler (1959)
1936 - Krasimir Kyurkchiiski, composer
1936 - Tom Robbins, American author
1937 - John Price, England cricket fast-medium bowler (1964-72)
1937 - V B Ranjane, Indian cricket fast bowler (early 1960's)
1937 - Yasuhiro Kojima, Japanese professional wrestler (d. 1999)
1938 - Terence Stamp, Stepney, London, English actor (The Collector, Billy Budd)
1939 - Gila Almagor, Israeli actress
1940 - Alex Trebek, Sudbury Ontario, TV game host (High Rollers, Jeopardy)
1940 - Stan Ross, NYC, actor
1940 - Yuriy Klimov, USSR, team handball (Olympic-gold-1976)
1940 - Judith Walzer Leavitt, American college professor
1941 - George Clinton, Kannapolis NC, rocker (Parliament-Funkadelic)
1941 - Susie M Berning, Pasadena CA, LPGA golfer (US Women's Open-1972, 73)
1941 - Thomas Wayne, rocker (Tragedy)
1941 - Ron Turcotte, Canadian jockey
1943 - Bobby Sherman, actor/singer (Seattle)
1943 - Jimmy Castor, rocker
1943 - Yoran Ben Ami, Israel, producer/president (Triumph Pictures)
1943 - Kay Bailey Hutchison, U.S. Senator from Texas
1944 - Estelle Bennett, NYC, vocalist (Ronettes-Be My Baby)
1944 - Guich Koock, Austin Tx, actor (Harley Puckett-Carter Country)
1944 - Rick Davies, London England, rock vocalist/keyboardist (Supertramp)
1944 - Sparky Lyle, relief pitcher (NY Yankees, Cy Young)
1944 - Dennis Firestone, Australian racing driver
1946 - Mirelle Mathieu, Acignon France, singer (So Ein Schone r Abend)
1946 - Paul Schrader, director (American Gigolo, Cat People, Hardcore)
1946 - Steve Friedman, TV news executive/actor (American Anthem)
1946 - Danny Glover, San Francisco CA, actor (Lethal Weapon, Operation Dumbo Drop)
1946 - Stephen M. Wolownik, Russian musician (d. 2000)
1947 - Albert Brooks, Los Angeles California, comedian (Broadcast News, Lost in America)
1947 - Curt Weldon, (Rep-R-Pennsylvania)
1947 - Don Henley, Linden Tx, rock drummer/vocalist (Eagles-Desparado)
1947 - Gilles Duceppe, Canadian politician
1948 - S. E. Hinton, American author
1948 - Otto Waalkes, German comedian
1949 - Dianne Dailey, LPGA golfer
1949 - Lasse Viren, Finland, 5K/10K runner (Olympic-gold-1972, 76)
1949 - Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Ruler of Dubai and PM of UAE
1949 - Alan Menken, New York, Disney composer (Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast - 8 Oscars)
1951 - Tisa Farrow, Los Angeles California, actress (Zombie, Fingers, Grim Reaper)
1951 - Steven Springer, Port of Spain, Trinidad, guitarist and songwriter ( Sir Lancelot Pinard), (d.
           2012)
1952 - Herbert Chang, West Indian cricket batsman (1979)
1952 - Madeleine Collinson, Malta, twin playmate (Oct, 1970)
1952 - Mary Collinson, Malta, twin playmate (Oct, 1970)
1953 - Jimmy Bruno, American jazz guitarist
1953 - Sylvia Chang, Taiwanese actress
1954 - Al Dimeola, rocker
1954 - Henriette Allais Jacksonville FL, playmate (Mar, 1980)
1954 - Pierre Lebeau, Canadian actor
1954 - Al Di Meola, American guitarist
1955 - Willem Dafoe, Wisc, actor (Platoon, Roadhouse 66, Mississippi Burning)
1956 - Michael Spinks, US, middleweight boxer (Olympic-gold-1976)
1956 - Mick Pointer, rock drummer (Marillion)
1957 - Dave Steib, pitcher (Toronto Blue Jays)
1958 - Sandra Elizabeth Greenberg, Spokane Wash, playmate (June, 1987)
1958 - David Von Erich, American professional wrestler (d. 1984)
1960 - Denyse Julien, Rouyn Quebec, badminton player (Olympics-9-92, 96)
1960 - Jon Oliva, American musician (Savatage)
1961 - Calvin Fish, English racing driver
1961 - Keith Sweat, American singer
1962 - Alvin Robertson, NBA guard (Toronto Raptors)
1962 - Steve Albini, American writer, recording engineer and musician (Big Black, Rapeman, Shellac)
1962 - Martine St. Clair, Canadian singer
1963 - Eddie Anderson, NFL safety (Oakland Raiders)
1963 - Joanna Going, actress (Lisa Grady-Another World)
1963 - Emilio Butragueno, Spanish footballer
1963 - Rob Estes, American actor
1963 - Emily Saliers, American singer (Indigo Girls)
1964 - Bonnie Langford, English actress (Wombling Free)
1964 - David Spade, comedian (SNL, Tommy Boy, Black Sheep)
1964 - Rafael Addison, NBA forward (Charlotte Hornets)
1964 - John Leguizamo, Bogotá, Colombia, Colombian American actor (Mambo Mouth, Whispers in
           the Dark)
1964 - Adam Godley, British actor
1964 - Don Van Natta, Jr., American journalist
1965 - Alondra Johnson, CFL linebacker (Calgary Stampeders)
1965 - Doug Riesenberg, NFL tackle (NY Giants)
1965 - Patrick Laborteaux, Los Angeles California, actor (Albert-Little House on Prairie)
1965 - Shawn Michaels, [Mike Hickenbottom], San Antonio, wrestler (WWF/AWA)
1965 - Patrick Labyorteaux, American actor
1966 - Anna Wood, Roeumond Neth, Dutch/Australian canoeist (Olympics-88, 96)
1966 - Daniel Nowak, Schwennigen GER, hockey defenseman (Team Germany 1998)
1966 - Tim Brown, NFL wide receiver (Oakland Raiders)
1967 - Andreas Motzkus, WLAF receiver (Rhein Fire)
1967 - Pat Badger, heavy metal bassist (Extreme-More Than Words)
1967 - Shawn Wilbourn, US decathlete
1967 - Lauren Booth, British journalist
1967 - Rhys Ifans [Rhys Evans], Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Welsh actor/musician (Notting Hill,
           Enduring Love)
1968 - Sean Vanhorse, NFL cornerback (Detroit Lions)
1969 - Despina Vandi, Greek singer
1970 - Dan Jones, NFL tackle (Cin Bengals)
1970 - Melvin Aldridge, CFL linebacker (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1970 - Sergei Zubov, Moscow Russia, NHL defenseman (Team Russia, Pittsburgh)
1970 - W R Tillman, NFLer (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1970 - Craig Baird, New Zealander racing driver
1971 - Charlotte Gainsbourg, London England, actress (Little Thief)
1971 - Kristine Marie Lilly, NYC, soccer midfielder (Olympics-96)
1971 - William Bell, NFL running back (Washington Redskins)
1972 - Colin Ferguson, Canadian actor
1972 - Seth Fisher, American comic book artist and penciller (d.2006)
1972 - Keyshawn Johnson, American football player
1973 - Ronald Ray Howard, American murderer (d. 2005)
1973 - Daniel Jones, Australian musician (Savage Garden)
1973 - Mike Sweeney, American baseball player
1973 - Rufus Wainwright, Canadian singer
1974 - Franka Potente, German actress
1977 - Maria Jose Lopez, Miss Ecuador Universe (1997)
1977 - Gustavo Nery, Brazilian footballer
1978 - Heather Noelle Jones, Miss Oregon Teen USA (1996)
1978 - Dennis Rommedahl, Danish footballer
1978 - A. J. Cook, Canadian actress
1978 - Martyn Lee, English radio presenter
1978 - Runako Morton, West Indian cricketer, (d. 2012)
1979 - Lucas Luhr, German racing driver
1979 - Yadel Martí, Cuban baseball player
1979 - James Mason, British professional wrestler
1980 - Scott Dixon, New Zealand racing driver
1980 - Dirk Kuyt, Dutch footballer
1980 - Kate Ryan, Belgian singer
1980 - Tablo, Korean hip-hop musician (Epik High)
1982 - Nuwan Kulasekara, Sri lankan cricketer
1983 - Arsenium, Moldovan singer (O-Zone)
1983 - Steven Jackson, American football player
1983 - Sharni Vinson, Australian actress and model
1984 - Stewart Downing, English footballer
1985 - Takudzwa Ngwenya, Zimbabwean/American rugby player
1985 - Akira Tozawa, Japanese professional wrestler
1989 - Caroline Giuliani, daughter of Rudy (Mayor-R-NYC, 1994- )
1992 - Selena Gomez, American actress
1993 - Patricia Quinn, 11th child of actor Anthony Quinn (78)
1997 - Field Cate, American actor
1998 - Madison Pettis, American actress
2002 - Prince Felix of Denmark

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 22, 2013, 09:21:14 AM

This Day in History for 22nd July


Famous Deaths

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Anatomist Marie                                        Actress Estelle Getty (2008)
Francois Xavier Bichat (1802)


1035 - Robert II/I, Duke of Normandy, dies
1362 - Louis of Durazzo, Italian soldier (b. 1324)
1387 - French Ackerman, Ghent rebel/leader of Reisers, murdered at about 57
1461 - Charles VII, King of France (1422-61), dies at 58
1477 - Adolf van Egmond, duke of Gelre/earl of Zutphen, dies in battle at 39
1497 - Francesco Botticini, Italian painter, dies at about 52
1499 - Neithart Fox, [Jonker Fox], German passage leader, slain in battle
1525 - Richard Wingfield, English diplomat
1619 - Lawrence of Brindisi, Italian monk (b. 1559)
1633 - Trijntje Keever, presumed to have been the tallest woman ever (b.1616)
1635 - Pietro Antonio Tamburini, composer, dies at 45
1645 - Gaspar de Guzman, premier of Spain (1621-43), dies at 58
1676 - Clement X, [Emilio Altieri], Italian Pope (1670-76), dies at 86
1726 - Hugh Drysdale, British Colonial Governor of Virginia
1734 - Peter King, 1st Baron King, Lord Chancellor of England
1786 - Vaclav Kalous, composer, dies at 71
1789 - Joseph-François Foulon, French administrator (b. 1715)
1794 - Jean-Benjamin de La Borde, composer, dies at 59
1802 - Marie Francois Xavier Bichat, a founder of histology, dies from falling down stairs at 30
1826 - Giuseppe Piazzi, monk/mathematician (found 1st asteroid), dies at 80
1832 - Napoleon II of France (b. 1811), son of Napoleon I dies of tuberculosis
1840 - Josef Jawurek, composer, dies at 83
1848 - Karl Guhr, composer, dies at 60
1852 - Auguste Marmont, French marshal (b. 1774)
1861 - Barnard Elliot Bee, US Confederate brig-general, dies at 37
1863 - Carl Schuberth, composer, dies at 52
1864 - James Birdseye Mcpherson, US Union gen-major, dies in battle at 35
1864 - William Henry Talbot Walker, Confederate gen-mjr, dies in battle at 47
1868 - Zikmund Michal Kolesovsky, composer, dies at 51
1869 - John A. Roebling, German-American civil engineer (Brooklyn Bridge), (b. 1806)
1870 - Josef Strauss, composer, dies at 42
1880 - Anna Caroline Oury, composer, dies at 72
1902 - Mieczysław Halka Ledóchowski, Polish Catholic Cardinal (b. 1822)
1903 - Cassius Marcellus Clay, American emancipationist (b. 1810)
1904 - Wilson Barrett, English actor (b. 1846)
1908 - William Randal Cremer, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1828)
1909 - D v Liliencron, writer, dies at 65
1915 - Sir Sandford Fleming, Canadian engineer and inventor (b. 1827)
1916 - James Whitcomb Riley, American author and poet (b. 1849)
1918 - Indra Lal Roy, Indian pilot (b. 1898)
1920 - William Kissam Vanderbilt, member of the Vanderbilt family (b. 1849)
1922 - Jokichi Takamine, Japanese chemist (b. 1854)
1929 - Bror Beckman, composer, dies at 63
1929 - Edouard baron Empain, Belgian builder (Heliopolis), dies at 76
1932 - Roosje Vos, Dutch trade union leader, dies at 71
1932 - Roses Fox, Trade union leader, dies at 71
1932 - Errico Malatesta, Italian anarchist (b. 1853)
1932 - Reginald Fessenden, Canadian inventor and radio pioneer (b. 1866)
1934 - John Dillinger, shot dead at Biograph Theater in Chicago, at 33
1937 - Ted McDonald, cricketer (43 wickets for Australia), dies in car crash
1950 - William LM King, premier of Canada (1921-30, 35-48), dies at 75
1952 - Antonio Maria Valencia, composer, dies at 49
1952 - August Balthazar, Belgian politician, dies at 58
1953 - Cy Kendall, actor (Mysteries of Chinatown), dies at 55
1955 - Joseph Foley, actor (Mr Peepers), dies at 45
1958 - Karl Nunes, cricketer (1st WI Test captain 1928), dies
1958 - Michail M Zosjtsjenko, Russian author, dies at 62
1958 - Mikhail Zoshchenko, Russian writer (b. 1895)
1967 - Carl Sandburg, poet (Abraham Lincoln: Prairie Years), dies at 89
1968 - Giovanni Guareschi, Italian author: Don Camillo/Peppone, dies at 60
1969 - Hammy Love, cricketer (NSW wicket-keeper, played for Australia), dies
1970 - George Johnston, Australian journalist and novelist (b. 1912)
1972 - Hugo Kauder, composer, dies at 84
1972 - Pavel Borkovek, composer, dies at 78
1974 - Edna Lewis Thomas, US actress (Streetcar Named Desire), dies at 88
1974 - Lili Darvas, Hungarian actress (Szerelem, Cimmaron), dies at 68
1974 - Wayne L Morse, (Sen-D-Oregon), dies at 73
1979 - Hope Summers, actress (Clara-Andy Griffith Show), dies at 78
1979 - Soschtschenko, writer, dies at 83
1979 - Tony "Two-Ton" Galento, boxer/actor (On the Waterfront), dies at 69
1979 - Sándor Kocsis, Hungarian footballer (b. 1929)
1980 - Fred Kaps [Abram PA Bongers], magician (world champ 1955), dies at 54
1987 - A G Kripal Singh, cricketer (14 Tests for India), dies
1988 - Duane Jones, dies of cardiopulmonary arrest at 51
1988 - Luigi Lucioni, Italian, landscape painter (opera stars), dies at 87
1989 - Martti Talvela, Finnish bass (b. 1935)
1990 - George Wood, dies of diabetes complications at 56
1990 - Preben Neergaard, Danish actor (Mordskab), dies of cancer at 70
1992 - David Wojuarowicz, artist (U2 album cover), dies of AIDs at 37
1992 - Souleiman Franjieh, president Lebanon (1970-76), dies
1992 - Wayne McLaren, model (Marlboro Man), dies of lung cancer at 51
1995 - Dave Clark, music promoter/songwriter, dies at 85
1995 - Harold Larwood, cricket (98 wkts bowling for Engl 1926-34), dies at 91
1995 - Percy Humphrey, musician, dies at 90
1996 - Courtney Alexandre Henriques Laws, community leader, dies at 65
1996 - Leon Shenandoah, native American leader, dies at 81
1996 - Peter Ludwig, businessman/art collector, dies at 71
1996 - Richard Day, engineer/development expert, dies at 48
1996 - Robert Collins, keyboard player, dies at 33
1996 - Tamara Danz, singer, dies at 43
1998 - Hermann Prey, German bass-baritone (b. 1929)
1999 - Gar Samuelson, American musician (Megadeth) (b. 1958)
2000 - Eric Christmas, British actor (b. 1916)
2000 - Carmen Martín Gaite, Spanish author (b. 1925)
2000 - Claude Sautet, French film director (b. 1924)
2001 - Indro Montanelli, Italian journalist and historian (b. 1909)
2003 - Qusay Hussein, son of Saddam Hussein (b. 1966)
2003 - Uday Hussein, son of Saddam Hussein (b. 1964)
2003 - Wahome Muthahi, Kenyan humourist (b. 1954)
2004 - Sacha Distel, French singer (b. 1933)
2004 - George Kidd, Canadian diplomat (b. 1917)
2004 - Illinois Jacquet, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1922)
2005 - Eugene Record American songwriter and singer (The Chi-Lites) (b. 1940)
2005 - Jean Charles de Menezes, Brazilian electrician killed by Scotland Yard (b. 1978)
2006 - José Antonio Delgado, Venezuelan mountain climber (b. 1965)
2006 - James E. West, mayor of Spokane, Washington (b. 1950)
2007 - Jarrod Cunningham New Zealand rugby player (b. 1968)
2007 - Mike Coolbaugh former baseball player and coach (b.1972)
2007 - Ulrich Mühe, German actor (b. 1953)
2007 - Rollie Stiles, American baseball player (b. 1906)
2007 - Laszlo Kovacs, Hungarian-born cinematographer (b. 1933)
2008 - Estelle Getty, American actress, dies of Lewy body disease at 84
2009 - Richard M. Givan Supreme court chief justice (b. 1921)
2009 - Peter Krieg, German documentary filmmaker, producer and writer (b. 1947)
2011 - Cees de Wolf, Dutch footballer (b. 1945)
2012 - George A. Miller, American psychologist, dies at 92

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 23, 2013, 10:17:26 AM

This Day in History for 23rd July


Historical Events

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United States founding father                       Israeli Prime Minister                                   37th US President
Benjamin Franklin                                              Menachem Begin                                       Richard Nixon
                                                                 

636 - Arabs gain control of most of Palestine from Byzantine Empire
685 - John V begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1148 - Crusaders attack Damascus
1215 - Frederik II crowns himself Roman Catholic king
1253 - Jews are expelled from Vienne France by order of Pope Innocent III
1298 - Rindfleisch Persecutions - Jewish community in Wurzburg Germany massacred
1403 - Battle of Shrewsbury fought by Percys against King Henry IV
1431 - Council of Basel opens
1431 - G Cesarini opens Counsel of Basel (Ferrara/Florence)
1453 - Battle at Gavere: Philip the Good beats Gentse rebellion
1532 - Karel I & evangelical monarchy signs Peace of Neurenberg
1540 - Turkey recognizes Janos Sigismund Zapolyai as vassal-king of Hungary
1558 - Battle at Grevelingen: Gen/earl Lamoraal van Egmont beat France
1572 - Willem van Oranges troops occupy Roermond on the Spanjaarden
1594 - Groningen surrenders to earl Mauritius/Willem Louis
1599 - Caravaggio's 1st public commission for paintings
1632 - Three hundred colonists bound for New France depart from Dieppe, France.
1645 - Aleksei Mihailovitch Romanov succeeds his father Michael as czar
1664 - 4 British ships to drive Dutch out of NY, arrive in Boston
1726 - Benjamin Franklin sails back to Philadelphia
1745 - Charles Stuart, the Younger, lands at Eriskay Island, Hebrides
1764 - James Otis publishes views on taxation without representation
1793 - The Prussians conquer Mayence.
1798 - Napoleon captures Alexandria, Egypt
1803 - Robert Emmett leads rebellion in Dublin
1812 - Battle of Mogilev Russia-Napolean fights Czar Alexander I
1827 - 1st US swim school opens (Boston Mass)
1829 - William Austin Burt patents "typographer" (typewriter)
1833 - Cornerstones are laid for the construction of the Kirtland Temple in Kirtland, Ohio.
1834 - HMS Beagle anchors in Bay of Valparaiso
1840 - Union Act passed by British Parliament, uniting Upper & Lower Canada
1848 - Battle of Custoza-Italian War of Independence, starts
1850 - 17th Postmaster General: Nathan K Hall of NY takes office
1851 - Treaty of Traverse des Sioux signed by Sioux Indians & US
1852 - 1st interment in US National Cemetery at Presidio
1858 - Jewish Disabilities Removal Act passed by British Parliament
1863 - Alexandra Park opens in North London
1864 - Battle of Woodstock, VA
1866 - Cincinnati Baseball club (Red Stockings) forms
1870 - Emperor Napoleon III appoints Empress Eugenie as Regent of France
1874 - Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos is appointed the Archbishop of the Portuguese colonial enclave
           of Goa.
1877 - 1st US municipal railroad, Cincinnati Southern, begins operations
1877 - 1st telephone & telegraph line in Hawaii completed
1880 - 1st commercial hydroelectric power planet begins, Grand Rapids, Mich
1886 - Steve Brodie supposedly survives plunge from Brooklyn Bridge
1888 - John Boyd Dunlop, applies to patent pneumatic tire
1890 - Jack Barrett carries his cricket bat for Australia at Lord's (67)
1900 - Pan-African Congress meets in London
1903 - Ford Motor Co sells 1st Model A car
1904 - Ice cream cone created by Charles E Menches during La Purchase Expo
1906 - Pogroms against Jews in Oddessa
1907 - 7th Davis Cup: Australasia beats British Isles in Wimbledon (3-2)
1913 - Arabs attack Jewish community of Rechovot Palestine
1914 - Austria-Hungary issues ultimatum to Serbia leading to WW I
1917 - Cleveland Metropolitan Park District establishes
1920 - British East Africa renamed Kenya & becomes a British crown colony
1921 - Chinese communist party forms under Henk Sneevliet
1921 - Edward Gourdin of US, sets then long jump record at 25' 2 3/4"
1925 - NY Yankee Lou Gehrig hits his 1st of 23 career grand slammers
1926 - Belgian NMBS/SNCFB forms
1926 - France government of Poincaré, forms
1929 - The Fascist government in Italy bans the use of foreign words.
1930 - Earthquake strikes Ariano Italy, 1,500 killed
1930 - Pitts Pie Traynor ends both games with HRs (1st in 9th, 2nd in 13th)
1931 - Ashmore & Cartier Is in Indian Ocean transferred to Australia
1931 - France announces they can't afford to send a team to 1932 LA olympics
1934 - Bradman completes 304 at Headingley, 430 mins, 43 fours 2 sixes
1935 - Airplane crashes into the Empire State Building
1936 - Anthony M Kennedy, Sacramento CA, Supreme Court Justice
1937 - Isolation of pituitary hormone announced (Yale University)
1938 - Bradman scores 103 in 178 mins on a Headingley sticky, 3rd Test
1940 - "Blitz" all-night air raid by German bombers on London begins
1942 - German troops conquer Rostow
1942 - Hitler's Directive #45: order to occupy Stalingrad
1942 - Treblinka Concentration Camp destroyed
1942 - World War II: Operation Edelweiss begins.
1943 - Battle of Koersk, USSR ends in Nazi defeat (6,000 tanks)
1943 - US 45th Infantry division occupies north coast of Termini
1944 - Chicago Cubs Bill Nicholson hits 4 HRs in a doubleheader
1944 - Conference of Bretton Woods signed; IMF operations begin
1944 - Soviet Army marches into Lublin Poland
1944 - US forces invade Japanese-held Tinian in WW II
1944 - US troops occupy Pisa Italy
1945 - Marshal Henri Pétain, leader Vichy-regime, goes on trial
1946 - Menachem Begins opposition group bombs King David Hotel
1947 - 1st (US Navy) air squadron of jets, Quonset Point, RI
1948 - Progressive party convention nominates Henry Wallace for President
1949 - Test Cricket debut of Brian Close aged 18 years 149 days
1952 - General Neguib seizes power, Monarchy overthrown in Egypt (Natl Day)
1955 - NY Yankees Bob Cerv & E Howard are 1st to hit consecutive pinch HRs
1956 - Bell X-2 rocket plane sets world aircraft speed record of 3,050 kph
1956 - Joe Cronin & Hank Greenberg inducted into Hall of Fame
1956 - The Loi Cadre is passed by the French Republic in order to order French overseas territory
           affairs.
1958 - 1st 4 women named to peerage in House of Lords
1959 - VP Richard Nixon begins visit on USSR
1960 - 15th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Betsy Rawls
1961 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Golf Open
1961 - Bricusse & Newley's musical "Stop the world I want to ...," premieres
1962 - The International Agreement on the Neutrality of Laos is signed.
1964 - A's Bert Campaneris HRs on 1st pitch, hits a 2nd HR on 2nd at bat
1964 - Egyptian munition ship "Star of Alexandria" explodes at dockside in Bone, Algeria. 100 die,
          160 injured, $20 million damage
1965 - Beatles "Help" is released in UK
1965 - Dick Stuart homers in a major league-record 23rd different park
1966 - Cavern Club in Liverpool reopens
1966 - John Pennel pole vaults record (5.34 m)
1966 - Napoleon XIV releases "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha! Ha!"
1967 - -27] 43 die in race riot in Detroit (2,000 injured, 442 fires)
1967 - Pirate Radio Swinging Scotland closes down for financial reasons
1968 - Fred Blasie wins 5th wrestling world championship belt
1968 - PLO's 1st hijacking of an El Al plane
1968 - Race riot in Cleveland, 11 including 3 cops killed
1969 - 40th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 9-3 at RFK Memorial, Wash DC
1969 - All star MVP: Willie McCovey (SF Giants)
1969 - USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1970 - Qaboos ibn Sa'id becomes Sultan of Oman after overthrowing his father, Sa'id ibn Taimur.
1972 - 1st Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS) is launched
1972 - Eddy Merckx (Belgium) wins his 4th consecutive Tour de France
1972 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Raleigh Golf Classic
1973 - Ozark AL plane knocked out of air by lightning, St Louis-36 die
1973 - Qaboos bin Said Al Said, becomes Sultan & Prime Minister of Oman
1973 - USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1973 - Pres Nixon refuses to release Watergate tapes of conversations in the White House relevant
           to the Watergate investigation
1974 - 45th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-2 at 3 Rivers Stadium, Pitts
1974 - All star MVP: Steve Garvey (LA Dodgers)
1974 - Greek military dictatorship collapses
1975 - Alan Ayckbourn's "Absent Friends," premieres in London
1975 - LA Dodgers W Crawford & Lee Lacy are 5th to hit consecutive pinch HRs
1976 - 42nd NFL Chicago All Star Game: Pittsburgh 24, All Stars 0 (52,895)
1976 - Balt Oriole Reggie Jackson homers in 6th straight game
1976 - France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
1976 - USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1976 - Wings release "Let 'em In"
1977 - Washington jury convicts 12 Hanafi Moslems on hostage charges
1978 - 33rd US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Hollis Stacy
1978 - Israeli government rejects Sadat's call for return of 2 Sinai areas
1978 - Phillies Steve Carlton becomes 78th pitcher to win 200
1978 - Reggie Jackson returns & helps Yankees win their 5th straight
1979 - George Brett gets his 1,000th hit
1980 - Billy Carter admits to being paid by Libya
1980 - River of No Return Wilderness Area designated by Jimmy Carter
1980 - Soyuz 37 ferries 2 cosmonauts (1 Vietnamese) to Salyut 6
1982 - FCC approves AM stereo radio, KTSA San Antonio goes stereo
1982 - Intl Whaling Comn votes for total ban on coml whaling (starting 1985)
1983 - Gimli Glider: Air Canada Flight 143 runs out of fuel and makes a deadstick landing at Gimli,
           Manitoba.
1984 - KC Royals Dan Quisenberry gets his 200th career save
1984 - Suzette Charles (NJ), 21, replaces Williams as 57th Miss America 1984
1984 - Vanessa Williams, 1st black Miss America, resigns due to posing nude
1986 - King Hassan II meets with Israeli premier Simon Peres
1987 - Petra Felke (E Ger) throws javelin 78.89 m (women's record)
1987 - RNI (Bkln NY pirate radio station) begins broadcasting on 1620 AM
1987 - Red Sox waive Bill Buckner, the goat of last years World Series
1987 - Said Aouita of Morocco runs world record 5,000 m (12:58.39)
1988 - Saskatchewan's Dave Ridgway kicks record 8 field goals vs Edmonton
1989 - 118th British Golf Open: Mark Calcavecchia shoots a 275 at Royal Troon
1989 - Amy Alcott wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
1989 - FOX-TV tops ABC, NBC & CBS for 1st time (America's Most Wanted)
1989 - Winds gust to 85 MPH at Fort Smith Arkansas
1990 - Rosie Jones, (St Louis), 26, crowned 22nd Miss Black America
1990 - South-Africa worker's union leader Billy Nair arrested
1991 - James Farentino of Dynasty arrested in Canada for cocaine possession
1991 - Rob Dibble back from 3-game suspension, is ejected for throwing at & hitting Cubs
           baserunner Doug Dascenzo Cubs win, 8-5
1992 - Bruce Springsteen begins a world tour
1992 - Emperor Haile Selassie, [Ras Tafari Makonnen] of Ethiopia's, funeral
1993 - Boon completes 17th Test Cricket century, 107 at Headingley
1993 - British Aerospace 147 crash at Yinchuan, 55 killed
1993 - Chinese B737 crash at Yinchuan, at least 66 killed
1993 - Chris Boardman bicycles world record 1 hour distance (52,270 km)
1993 - NY Yankee Mark Hutton is 1st Australian to be a starting pitcher, He beats Angels 5-2; Yanks,
           Red Sox, Blue Jays 3 way tie for 1st
1994 - All 40,000 ceiling tiles in Kingdome must be replaced
1994 - Amy Osmond, of Utah, 17, crowned America's Junior Miss
1994 - Dancer Gene Kelly suffers a mild stroke
1994 - Don Mattingly becomes 6th NY Yankee to get 2,000 hits
1994 - Goodwill Games open in St Petersburg
1994 - Longest baseball rain delay (3:39) as Giants beat Mets 4-2 in NYC
1994 - Space shuttle STS-65: Columbia 17, lands after record 14 days 55 mins
1995 - "Hamlet" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 121 performances
1995 - 124th British Golf Open: John Daly shoots a 282 at St Andrews Scotland
1995 - Miguel Indurains wins his 5th Tour de France
1995 - Tracy Kerdyk wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Golf Classic
1995 - Comet Hale-Bopp is discovered and becomes visible to the naked eye nearly a year later.
1997 - Dallas TV Station KXAS settle with Dallas Cowboys Michael Irvin & Erik Williams for reporting
           false sex assault allegations against them
1999 - Crown Prince Mohammed Ben Al-Hassan is crowned King Mohammed VI of Morocco on the
           death of his father.
1999 - ANA Flight 61 is hijacked in Tokyo, Japan.
2000 - 129th British Golf Open: at Royal Lytham
2000 - 55th US Women's Open Golf Championship
2005 - Three bombs explode in the Naama Bay area of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, killing 88 people.
2008 - Cape Verde joins the World Trade Organization, becoming its 153rd member.
2009 - Mark Buehrle of the Chicago White Sox becomes the 18th pitcher to throw a perfect game in
           Major League Baseball history, defeating the Tampa Bay Rays 5-0.
2012 - A series of attacks across Iraq kill 103 people

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 23, 2013, 10:18:54 AM

This Day in History for 23rd July


Famous Weddings

1986 - Britain's Prince Andrew (26) weds Sarah Ferguson (26) at Westminster Abbey in London,
           England
2006 - "The Young and The Restless" actor John Enos (44) weds Disney executive Jennie Lee on the
           patio of Hollywood hotspot The Cabana Club
2011 - "Pittsburgh Steelers" quarterback Ben Roethlisberger (29) weds Ashley Harlan at Christ
           Church of Grove Farm in Ohio Township

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 23, 2013, 10:28:46 AM

This Day in History for 23rd July


Famous Birthdays

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Actor Woody Harrelson (1961)                     White House Intern                                  Harry Potter Actor
                                                                Monica Lewinsky (1973)                            Daniel Radcliffe (1989)


645 - Yazid I, Sixth caliph of Islam (d. 683)
1301 - Duke Otto of Austria (d. 1339)
1339 - Louis I, Duke of Anjou/King of Naples (Battle at Poitiers)
1401 - Francesco Sfoza, soldier
1503 - Anna Jagello, Queen of the Romans (d. 1547)
1659 - Antonius Schultingh, [Schultingius], Dutch lawyer
1705 - Francis Blomefield, English topographer (d. 1752)
1734 - Antonio Maria Gasparo Sacchini, opera composer [or Jun 14 1730]
1735 - Johannes Herbst, composer
1769 - Alexey Nikolayevich Titov, composer
1773 - Karl Ludwig Hellwig, composer
1775 - Francois-Eugene Vidocq, British police detective
1775 - Etienne-Louis Malus, French physicist and mathematician (d. 1812)
1777 - Philipp Otto Runge, German painter (d. 1810)
1793 - Joseph Hartmann Stuntz, composer
1796 - Franz Adolf Berwald, Sweden, composer
1803 - Johann Vesque von Puttlingen, composer
1806 - Eduard Marxsen, composer
1816 - Charlotte Sanders Cushman, US, actress (Lady MacBeth)
1822 - Darius Nash Couch, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1897
1823 - Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore, English poet
1824 - Gabriel Colvin Wharton, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1906
1825 - Richard Hol, Dutch composer/organist/conductor
1827 - Pieter Caland, Dutch hydraulic engineer (New Waterway)
1828 - Jonathan Hutchinson, surgeon/scientist
1834 - James "Cardinal" Gibbons, archbishop of Baltimore
1838 - Edouard [Judas] Colonne, composer/violinist
1841 - Edward John Armstrong, poet
1849 - Geza Zichy, composer
1851 - Charles Bannerman, Aussie cricket batsman (1st centurion)
1853 - William H Gillette, actor (Sherlock Holmes on stage)
1856 - Arthur H Bird, composer
1856 - Bal Gangadhar Tilak, British-Indian Hindi leader
1857 - French [M J Francois] Erens, lawyer/literary (Pursue Years)
1861 - Alexander W F Idenburg, gov-gen of Neth Indies (1909-16)
1864 - Apolinario Mabini, Filipino political theoretician and Prime Minister (d. 1903)
1865 - Friedrich Aereboe, landhuishoudkundige
1865 - Max Heindel, Danish Christian occultist, astrologer, and mystic (d. 1919)
1866 - Francesco Cilea, composer
1876 - William Gillies Whittaker, composer
1883 - Alan Francis Brooke, 1st viscount Alanbrooke fieldmarshal [or Jul 4]
1884 - Albert Warner, US producer (Warner Bros)
1884 - Apolinary Szeluto, composer
1884 - Emil Jannings, Germany, actor (Faust, Passion, Blue Angel)
1886 - Arthur Whitten Brown, aviator
1886 - John C Poortenaar, painter/etcher/cartoonist
1886 - Salvador de Madariaga y Rojo, writer/diplomat
1886 - Walter H. Schottky, German physicist (d. 1976)
1888 - Raymond Chandler, Chic, mystery writer (Farewell My Lovely)
1888 - Gluyas Williams, SF, cartoonist (Fellows Citizen)
1888 - Milan Stoyadinovich, Serbia, fascist Yugoslavia PM (1935-39)
1891 - Maurus H Hulsman, Dutch priest/editor (Amigoe di Curacao)
1892 - Haile Selassie, [Ras Tafari Makonnen], emperor of Ethiopia (1930-74)
1892 - Petros John Petridis, composer
1893 - Karl Menninger, psychiatrist (Menninger Clinic)
1894 - Arthur Treacher, Brighton England, announcer (Merv Griffin Show)
1895 - Florence Vidor, [Arto], Houston Texas, actress (Jack Knife Man)
1895 - Aileen Pringle, American actress (d. 1989)
1898 - Mervyn "Red" Dutton, Manitoba, 2nd NHL pres (1943-46)
1898 - Jacob Marschak, American economist (d. 1977)
1899 - Gustav Heinemann, President of West Germany
1901 - Hank Worden, American actor and rodeo cowboy (d. 1992)
1902 - Walter Burle Marx, composer
1904 - Adone Zecchi, composer
1905 - Erich Itor Kahn, composer
1906 - Clancy Cooper, actress (Enchanted Forest, Girls in Chains)
1906 - Wolfgang Gentner, German nuclear physicist
1906 - Chandrasekhar Azad, Indian revolutionary (d. 1931)
1907 - Elspeth Josceline Huxley, English author
1908 - Karl Swenson, Bkln NY, actor (Lara-Little House on the Prairie)
1910 - Pimen, [Sergei Irzjekov], patriarch Russian-Orthodox Cathederal
1912 - Michael Wilding, England, actor (Courtney Affair, World of Suzie Wong)
1913 - Coral Browne, Melbourne Aust, actress (Margaret-Time Express)
1913 - Michael Foot, MP
1914 - Alastair Down, CEO (Burmah Oil)
1916 - Ben Weber, St Louis Missouri, composer (Thorne Music Award-1965)
1916 - Ronald Ridout, school textbook author
1917 - Charles Kerruish, president (Tyndwald Isle of Man)
1917 - John Stokes, MP
1917 - Kurt Kreuger, St Moritz Switz, actor (Fear, Unfaithfully Yours)
1918 - Bueno de Mesquita Dutch comedian and actor (d. 2005)
1918 - Pee Wee Reese, American baseball player (d. 1999)
1919 - [Harold] Pee Wee Reese, Hall of Fame shortstop (Dodgers)
1920 - Malcolm Hughes, artist
1920 - Marcel Maeyer, [de Maeyer], Belgian sculptor/graphic artist
1920 - Amalia Rodrigues, Portuguese fado singer (d. 1999)
1921 - Calvert DeForest, Brooklyn NY, comedian (Larry "Bud" Melman)
1921 - David Lawmn, CEO (Prestige Group)
1921 - Harry Hookway, pro-chancellor (Loughborough University)
1921 - Heinz Bennent, Aachen Germany, Actor (Possession)
1921 - Jerome Rosen, composer
1921 - Peter Twiss, test pilot
1922 - Moses Rosen, chief Rabbi of Romania
1923 - Luis Aloma, Cuban baseball player (d. 1997)
1923 - Cyril M. Kornbluth, American writer (d. 1958)
1923 - Amalia Mendoza, Mexican singer (d. 2001)
1924 - Betsy Haworth, deacon/minister
1924 - Gavin Lambert, British-born screenwriter (d. 2005)
1925 - Donna Anderson, Akiak AK, actress (On the Beach
1925 - Gloria De Haven, LA, actress (Bog, Yellow Cab Man, Irene-Nakia)
1925 - Pierre Baugniet, Belgium, pairs ice skater (Olympic-gold-1948)
1926 - Ludvik Vaculik, writer
1927 - Al[fred] A McCandless, (Rep-R-CA, 1983- )
1927 - Elliot McKay See Jr, Dallas Texas, astronaut
1928 - Leon Fleisher, SF California, pianist/conductor (Annapolis Symph 1973-77)
1928 - Hubert Selby Jr., American author (d. 2004)
1929 - Andrew Rutherford, warden (Goldsmith's College)
1931 - Jan Torell, Limhamm Sweden, director (New Land, Emigrants)
1931 - Richard Searby, deputy-chairman (News Corp Ltd-Australia)
1931 - Viktor Korchnoi, chess champ
1931 - Te Atairangi Kaahu, Māori Queen (d. 2006)
1931 - Guy Fournier, French Canadian author and screenwriter
1932 - Alistair Graham, headmaster (Mill Hill School)
1933 - Bert Convy, St Louis Mo, actor (Snoop Sisters, Win Lose or Draw)
1933 - Richard Rogers, English architect
1934 - Nicholas Barrington, high commissioner (Pakistan)
1935 - Cleveland Dunkin, rocker (Penguins)
1935 - Hein Heinsen, Danish artist
1936 - Anthony M Kennedy, California, 106th Supreme Court justice (1988- )
1936 - Don Drysdale [Donald Scott], Van Nuys, California, American MLB player (LA Dodgers-Cy
           Young 1962)
1937 - Dave Webster, Led his football team to a National Championship in 1958
1937 - Bruce Surtees, Los Angeles, California, cinematographer (Dirty Harry, Lenny), (d. 2012)
1938 - Ronny Cox, Cloudcroft Mass, actor (St Elsewhere)
1938 - Götz George, German actor
1940 - Don Imus, radio disc jockey (WNBC)
1940 - Gary Stites, rock vocalist (Lonely For You)
1941 - Richie Evans, 9 time NASCAR Modified Champion (died at Martinsville in 1985)
1942 - John de Hont, Dutch guitarist (ZZ & Masks)
1942 - Madeline Bell, US singer (Black Nativity)
1942 - Myra Hindley, English murderer (d. 2002)
1942 - Sallyanne Atkinson, Australian politician
1943 - Tony Joe White, rocker
1943 - Dr. Randall Forsberg, American nuclear freeze advocate (d. 2007)
1944 - Dino Danelli, Jersey City NJ, rock drummer (Fotomaker, Young Rascals)
1944 - Judith A Bosch, Dutch radio/TV-hostess (Tweekamp, Zeskamp)
1945 - Harold W Hennep, Arubians/Dutch dancer/actor (Plus Echo)
1946 - Andy MacKay, London, rock sax/oboe (Roxy Music-Dance Away)
1946 - Keith Ferguson, blues guy (Fabulous Thunderbirds)
1947 - David Essex, [Cook], London, rock vocalist/actor (That'll be the Day)
1947 - Spencer Christian, weatherman (Good Morning America)
1947 - Torsten Palm, Swedish racing driver
1948 - John Cushnahan, Northern Irish politician
1949 - Clive Rice, South African cricket all-rounder (WSC 1978-79, ODI 1991)
1950 - Alan Turner, Aussie cricket left-handed opener (World Cup ton 1975)
1950 - Belinda J Montgomery, Winnipeg, actress (Man From Atlantis)
1950 - Blair Thornton, rock guitarist (Bachman-Turner-Overdrive)
1950 - Ian Thomas, rocker
1950 - Kaity Tong, news anchor (WABC-TV NYC)
1950 - Alex Kozinski, Romanian-born American judge
1951 - Edie McClurg, Kansas City MO, actress (Cinderella-1985, Hogan Family)
1951 - Terry Davis, NYC, actress (Stacey Winthrop-Another World)
1952 - Janis Siegel, NYC, jazz singer (Manhattan Transfer-Tuxedo Junction)
1952 - Paul Hibbert, cricketer (one Test Aust v India 1977, scored 13 & 2)
1953 - Graham Gooch, cricketer (prolific England opener & captain)
1955 - Marisa DeFranco, rocker (DeFranco Family)
1957 - Harry Stefanki, Mento Park Cal, tennis star
1957 - Theo van Gogh, Dutch film director (d. 2004)
1958 - Kenneth J Green, Danbury CT, PGA golfer (1985 Buick Open)
1958 - Lydia Cornell, El Paso Tx, actress (Sara Rush-Too Close for Comfort)
1959 - Nancy Savoca, American filmmaker
1960 - Al Perez, American professional wrestler
1961 - Antoine Carr, NBA forward/center (Utah Jazz)
1961 - Martin Gore, rocker (Depeche Mode-Just Can't Get Enough)
1961 - Woody Harrelson, Midland Tx, actor (Woody Boyd-Cheers)
1961 - André Ducharme, Canadian (Québécois) humorist (Rock et Belles Oreilles) and author
1962 - Eriq La Salle, Hartford CT, actor (Dr Peter Benton-ER)
1962 - Terry-Jo Myers, Ft Myers FL, LPGA golfer (1988 Mayflower Classic)
1963 - Siobodan Zivojinovic, Yugoslavia, tennis star
1964 - Greg Best, Lynchburg VA, Equestrian athlete (Olympic-silver-88, 92)
1964 - Ed Forchion, American marijuana activist
1965 - Brett Faryniarz, NFL linebacker (Carolina Panthers)
1965 - Slash, [Saul Hudson], London England, rock guitarist & songwriter (Guns N' Roses-Sweet
           Child o' Mine)
1966 - Micheal Williams, NBA guard (Minnesota Timberwolves)
1967 - Nicole Jagerman, Netherlands, tennis star
1967 - Philip Seymour Hoffman, American actor
1968 - Amy Fruwirth, Cypress CA, LPGA golfer (1995 McCall's LPGA-4th)
1968 - Beth Ehlers, Queens NY, actress (Harley Cooper-Guiding Light, Hunger)
1968 - Christopher "Chris" Kerber, Collingswood NJ, rower (Olympics-1996)
1968 - Douglas Craft, CFL defensive back (Montreal Alouettes)
1968 - Elden Campbell, NBA forward/center (LA Lakers)
1968 - Gary Payton, NBA guard (Seattle Supersonics)
1968 - Stefan Figliuzzi, hockey forward (Team Italy 1998)
1968 - Stephane Seymour, model (Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Cover-1988)
1968 - Nick Menza, American musician, drummer
1969 - Andrew Cassels, Bramalea, NHL center (Hartford Whalers)
1969 - Dimitri Khristich, Kiev Ukr, NHL left wing (LA Kings)
1969 - Fernanda Ribeiro, Portugal, 10k runner (Olympics-gold-96)
1969 - Reyhan Agaoglu, WLAF safety (Amsterdam Admirals)
1970 - Sam Waters, Camp Springs Md, singer (Color Me Badd-Want to Sex You Up)
1970 - Charisma Carpenter, American actress
1970 - Thea Dorn, German writer
1971 - Aimee Rinehart, Miss Missouri USA (1996)
1971 - Alison Krauss, Decatur Ill, country singer (2 Highways)
1971 - Dalvin DeGrate, American singer
1971 - Christopher Lee, Singaporean actor and model
1972 - Marlon Wayans, comedian (Wayans Bros, In Living Color)
1972 - Oscar McBride, NFL tight end (Arizona Cardinals)
1972 - Seth Dittman, NFL offensive tackle (Indianapolis Colt, London Monarchs)
1972 - Trisha Fallon, Australian basketball forward (Olympics-bronze-96)
1973 - Darvin Ham, NBA forward (Wash Wizards)
1973 - Kyle Walters, CFL defensive back (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1973 - Nomar Garciaparra, American baseball player
1973 - Omar Epps, American actor
1973 - Francis Healy, Scottish rock musician (Travis)
1973 - Monica Lewinsky, San Francisco California, American White House intern (improper relationship
           with Bill Clinton)
1973 - Himesh Reshammiya, Indian Bollywood composer, singer and actor.
1974 - Maurice Greene, KC Kansas, 100m runner
1974 - Tara Williams, WNBA guard (Phoenix Mercury)
1974 - Terry Glenn, American football player
1974 - Sonny Siaki, Samoan-born professional wrestler
1974 - Rik Verbrugghe, Belgian cyclist
1974 - Kathryn Hahn, American actress
1975 - Seong Hyeon-ah, South Korean actress
1975 - Surya Sivakumar, Tamil actor
1976 - Inger Lise Ebeltoft, Miss Universe-Norway (1996)
1976 - Judit Polgár, Hungarian chess player
1976 - Jonathan Gallant, Canadian musician (Billy Talent)
1977 - Neicer Reasco, Ecuadorian footballer
1977 - Scott Clemmensen, American ice hockey player
1978 - Stuart Elliott, Northern Irish footballer
1978 - Stefanie Sun, Singaporean singer
1979 - Ricardo Sperafico, Brazilian racing driver
1979 - Perro Aguayo, Jr., Mexican professional wrestler
1979 - Richard Sims, Zimbabwean cricketer
1980 - Michelle Williams, American singer (Destiny's Child)
1981 - Steve Jocz, Canadian drummer (Sum 41)
1981 - Jarkko Nieminen, Finnish tennis player
1982 - Schottzie Schott, dog mascot of Cincinnati Reds
1982 - Gerald Wallace, American basketball player
1983 - Andrew Eiden, American actor
1983 - Bec Hewitt, Australian actress
1983 - Aaron Peirsol, American swimmer
1984 - Brandon Roy, American professional basketball player
1985 - Luis Ángel Landín, Mexican footballer
1985 - Matthew Murphy, English musician (The Wombats)
1986 - Ayaka Komatsu, Japanese model and actress
1986 - Nelson Philippe, French racing driver
1986 - Reece Ritchie, English actor
1988 - Pippa Bennett-Warner, English actress
1989 - Daniel Radcliffe, London, actor (Harry Pottter in the Harry Potter series of movies)
1996 - Rachel G. Fox, American actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 23, 2013, 10:33:44 AM

This Day in History for 23rd July


Famous Deaths

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US President                                           Singer Amy Winehouse (2011) 
Ulysses S. Grant (1885)


945 - Richarius, bishop of Luik (922-45), dies
1227 - Qiu Chuji, Chinese Taoist (b. 1148)
1373 - Birgitta van Sweden, Swedish saint, dies
1403 - Henry Percy, [Harry Hotspur], killed in battle at 39
1403 - Thomas Percy, 1st Earl of Worcester, English rebel (executed) (b. 1343)
1531 - Louis de Brézé, seigneur d'Anet, Marshal of Normandy and husband of Diane de Poitiers
1568 - Don Carlos, son of Spanish king Philip II, dies at about 23
1581 - Georges Lalaing, viceroy of Friesland, dies
1584 - John Day, English printer (b. 1522)
1645 - Michael Fjodorovitsj, tsar of Russia (1613-45)/1st Romanov, dies
1685 - Pietro Reggio, composer, dies at 53
1690 - Richard Gibson, minature painter, dies
1692 - Gilles Ménage, French scholar (b. 1613)
1727 - Simon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain
1757 - Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti, Italian composer (La Silvia), dies at 71
1764 - Gilbert Tennent, Irish-born religious leader (b. 1703)
1773 - George Edwards, English naturalist (b. 1693)
1781 - John Joachim Zubly, Swiss-born Continental Congressman (b. 1724)
1793 - Thomas Mckean, US attorney/signer (Decl of Independence), dies at 72
1803 - Arthur Wolfe, 1st viscount Kilwarden/Chief Justice of Ireld, murdered
1816 - Elizabeth Hamilton, author (Cats: A Celebration), dies at 68
1829 - Wojciech Boguslawski, composer, dies at 72
1840 - Frantisek Max Knize, composer, dies at 55
1844 - Christian Gobrecht, 4th US chief engraver (1840-44), dies in office
1853 - Andries Pretorius, Boer leader (b. 1798)
1866 - Thomas Forbes Walmisley, composer, dies at 83
1875 - Isaac Merritt Singer, inventor (sewing machine), dies at 63
1878 - Miguel Hilarion Eslava y Elizondo, composer, dies at 70
1878 - Carl Freiherr von Rokitansky, Bohemian physician (b. 1804)
1885 - Ulysses S. Grant, 18th US pres, dies in Mount McGregor NY, at 63
1904 - John Simon, public health pioneer, dies
1905 - Jean-Jacques, painter, dies
1909 - Ernest F Cambier, Bel colonial pioneer (1st Congo railway), dies at 65
1909 - Zygmunt Noskowski, composer, dies at 63
1916 - William Ramsey, chemist, dies
1920 - Conrad Kohrs, German-born rancher (b. 1835)
1924 - Frank Frost Abbott, American classical scholar (b. 1850)
1927 - Saad Zaghlul, Egyptian parliament chairman, dies at 74
1930 - Glenn Hammond Curtiss, aviation pioneer/airplane builder, dies at 52
1932 - Tenby Davies, Welsh half-mile world champion runner (b. 1884)
1933 - Max Schillings, German composer/conductor (Mona Lisa), dies at 65
1942 - Andrew Ducat, cricketer (England 1921), dies whilst batting at 56
1942 - Nikola J Vaptsarov, Bulgaria poet/communist, executed at 32
1942 - Adam Czerniakow, Polish engineer (suicide) (b. 1880)
1943 - Emanuel Querido, publisher (Sobibor), dies
1943 - Meijer de Hond, [Emanuel Querido], rabbi (Sobibor), dies
1944 - Bernard M Cohen, attorney, killed at Belsen concentration camp
1944 - Helmuth J von Moltke, German earl (July 20th plotter), executed
1944 - Max HHR Nettlau, Austrian historian (Der Anarchismus), dies at 79
1946 - James Maxton, politician, dies
1948 - D[avid] W[ark] Griffith, US director/producer, dies
1951 - Henri Philippe Pétain, French marshal (Verdun/Vichy regime), dies
1951 - Robert Joseph Flaherty, documentary film maker, dies
1955 - Betsy van Es, Flemish actress (Un soir de joie), dies at 55
1955 - Cordell Hull, statesman, dies
1955 - Harry Haden, actor (Harry-Stu Erwin Show), dies at 73
1957 - G Tomasi di Lampedusa, writer, dies at 61
1961 - Esther Dale, actress (Birdie-Ma & Pa Kettle), dies after surgery at 75
1964 - Jan PML de Vries, Dutch germanist/folklorist, dies at 74
1966 - Donald Novis, singer/actor (Pajama Game), dies at 60
1966 - Douglass Montgomery, actor (Forbidden, Daybreak), dies at 56
1966 - [Edward] Montgomery Clift, actor (From Here to Eternity), dies at 45
1968 - Don Lillis, NFL president (NY Jets)
1968 - Henry Hallett Dale, physiologist, dies
1969 - Deli Floyd, writer, dies
1971 - Van Heflin, actor (Great Adventure), dies at 60
1973 - Eddie Rickenbacker, WW I fighter pilot, dies at 82
1973 - Marius-Francois Gaillard, composer, dies at 72
1974 - Mary Forbes, actress (Nun-Les Miserables, Ivy), dies at 90
1976 - Wilhelmina Von Bremen, 4X100 relay sprinter (Oly-gold-32), dies at 64
1977 - René de Vos, Dutch actor/composer (Jij Bent Mijn Leven), dies at 79
1979 - Keith Godchaux, rocker (Grateful Dead), dies in a car accident at 31
1979 - Joseph Kessel, French journalist and novelist (b. 1898)
1980 - Sarto Fournier, Mayor of Montreal (b. 1908)
1980 - Mollie Steimer, anarchist agitator and American political prisoner (b. 1897)
1982 - Vic Morrow, actor (Cimmaron), killed during "Twilight Zone" at 53
1982 - Betty Parsons, American artist and art dealer (b. 1900)
1983 - Georges Auric, French composer (It Always Rains on Sunday), dies at 84
1984 - Lloyd Gough, actor (Black Bart, Tolsa), dies of aortic aneurism at 77
1985 - Kay Kyser, bandleader (Kay Kyser's Kollege), dies at 79
1985 - Johnny Wardle, English cricketer (b. 1923)
1986 - Jouko Paavo Kalervo Tolonen, composer, dies at 73
1988 - Jahangir Khan, cricketer (4 Tests for India 1932-36), dies
1989 - Donald Barthelme, American author (b. 1931)
1990 - Georges Flamant, actor (La Chienne), dies in Paris at 86
1990 - Joe Turner, jazz pianist, dies of cardiac arrest at 82
1990 - Robert Sommer, singer, dies of liver failure at 42
1990 - Kenjiro Takayanagi, Japanese development of television (b. 1899)
1992 - Arletty, French actress (Hotel, Longest Day), dies at 94
1992 - Maxine Audley, Brit actress (Vikings, Our Man in Havana), dies at 69
1993 - James Jordan, father of NBA star Michael Jordan, found dead near McColl SC
1994 - Aad Ivens, Dutch checkers player, dies at 80
1994 - Hans J Salter, Aust/US composer (Deanna-Durbin musicals), dies at 98
1994 - Henry William Collins, artist, dies at 84
1995 - Bob Rundick, poet/DJ, dies at 52
1995 - Floyd McDaniel, blues singer/guitarist, dies at 80
1996 - Aliki Vougiouklaki, actress (Madalena), dies at 63
1996 - Jessica Lucy Mitford, author, dies at 78
1996 - John Corner, scientist, dies at 80
1997 - Andrew Cunanan, serial killer (Gianni Versage), commits suicide
1997 - Chuhei Nambu, Japanese athlete (b. 1904)
1999 - King Hassan II of Morocco (b. 1929)
2001 - Eudora Welty, American author (b. 1909)
2002 - Leo McKern, Australian actor (b. 1920)
2002 - William Luther Pierce, American author and activist (b. 1933)
2002 - Chaim Potok, American novelist and rabbi (b. 1929)
2003 - James E. Davis, New York City councilman (murdered) (b. 1962)
2004 - Mehmood, Indian actor (b. 1932)
2004 - Carlos Paredes, Portuguese musician and composer (b. 1925)
2004 - Piero Piccioni, Italian musician, conductor and composer (b. 1921)
2004 - Serge Reggiani, French singer and actor (b. 1922)
2005 - Ted Greene, American jazz guitarist and teacher (b. 1946)
2006 - Jean-Paul Desbiens, Quebec writer and journalist (b. 1927)
2007 - Tor Kamata, American/Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1937)
2007 - Ron Miller, American songwriter and record producer (b. 1933)
2007 - Mohammed Zahir Shah, King of Afghanistan (b. 1914)
2008 - Kurt Furgler, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1924)
2010 - Daniel Schorr, American journalist (b. 1916)
2011 - Amy Winehouse, British singer songwriter, dies from a drug overdose at 27
2012 - Sally Kristen Ride, American astronaut, dies from pancreatic cancer at 61

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 24, 2013, 09:57:01 AM

This Day in History for 24th July


Historical Events

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First US President                                    US President & General                                  Last Tsar of Russia
George Washington                                 Andrew Jackson                                      Nicholas II Aleksandrovitch

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US Secretary of State                               Irish Poet and Playwright                          American Baseball Player
Frank Kellogg                                          Brendan Behan                                                   Roger Maris

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French President                                  Heavyweight Boxing Champion                    New York Yankees Owner
Charles de Gaulle                                            Muhammad Ali                                       George Steinbrenner

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Professional Road Cyclist and
Testicular Cancer Survivor
Lance Armstrong


1132 - Battle of Nocera between Ranulf II of Alife and Roger II of Sicily.
1148 - Louis VII of France lays siege to Damascus during the Second Crusade.
1411 - Battle of Harlaw, one of the bloodiest battles in Scotland, takes place.
1487 - Citizens of Leeuwarden Neth rebel against ban on foreign beer
1534 - Jacques Cartier, lands in Canada, claims it for France
1567 - Mary Queen of Scots is forced to abdicate & 1-year-old James VI becomes King of Scots
1577 - Spanish army/German mercenaries conquer Namur
1577 - Treason of Don Juan in Brussels
1581 - States of Holland/Zealand recognized by Willem van Orange
1651 - Anthony Johnson, a free black, receives grant of 250 acres in Va
1673 - Edmund Halley enters The Queen's College, Oxford, as an undergraduate
1683 - 1st settlers from Germany to US, leave aboard Concord
1692 - French defeat William III of England at Steinkirk (Enghein)
1701 - Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac found trading post at Ft Pontchartrain, which later becomes the
           city of Detroit
1704 - English & Dutch troops occupy Gibraltar
1712 - Battle at Denain: France under Villars beat Dutch army
1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlie becomes King James VIII
1758 - George Washington admitted to Virginia House of Burgess
1783 - Georgia becomes a protectorate of tsarist Russia
1793 - France passes 1st copyright law
1799 - William Clark (of Lewis & Clark) is willed the slave York
1823 - Slavery is abolished in Chile.
1824 - Harrisburg Pennsylvanian newspaper publishes results of 1st public opinion poll. Clear lead for
           Andrew Jackson
1832 - Benjamin Bonneville leads the first wagon train across the Rocky Mountains by using
           Wyoming's South Pass.
1833 - HMS Beagle departs Maldonado Uruguay
1847 - Brigham Young & his Mormon followers arrive at Salt Lake City, UT
1847 - Rotary-type printing press patents by Richard March Hoe, NYC
1851 - Window tax abolished in Britain
1861 - Skirmish at Taylor Mountain, (W)VA - CS Gen Wise retreats
1863 - Battle at Battle Mountain, Virginia
1864 - Battle of Winchester, VA US1200 CS600
1866 - Tennessee becomes 1st Confederate state readmitted to Union
1870 - 1st trans-US rail service begins
1877 - 1st time federal troops are used to combat strikers
1883 - Arabi Pasha declares a holy war in Egypt
1886 - China takes British protectorate of Burma
1893 - For only time in history of US Tennis championships, an event is held off the Eastern
           seaboard. Men's double championship in Chicago
1900 - Race riot in New Orleans, 2 white policemen killed
1901 - O. Henry is released from prison in Austin, Texas after serving three years for embezzlement
           from a bank.
1902 - Trumper a century before lunch 4th Test Cricket v England
1905 - Treaty of Bjorko: Emperor Wilhelm II/Tsar Nicholas II
1908 - John Hayes wins 4th olympics marathon (2:55:18.4 world record)
1909 - Bkln Dodger Nap Rucker strikes out 16 Pittsburgh Pirates
1910 - Matador Juan Belmonte (18) kills his 1st bull
1911 - Hiram Bingham discovers Lost City of the Incas
1911 - Cleve's League Park hosts 1st unofficial ML All Star game (benefit game for Addie Joss'
           family). Cleveland Naps lose to All Stars 5-3
1915 - Excursion ship Eastland capsizes in Lake Michigan, 852 die
1919 - Race Riot in Washington DC (6 killed, 100 wounded)
1921 - Belgium's Leon Scieur wins Tour de France
1923 - Allied Powers & Turkey sign peace treaty, Lausanne
1925 - Scopes guilty of teaching evolution in a Tn HS, fined $100 & costs
1927 - The Menin Gate war memorial is unveiled at Ypres.
1929 - NY to SF foot race ends (2½ months) winner is 60 year old Monteverde
1929 - Pres Hoover proclaims Kellogg-Briand Pact which renounces war
1931 - George Gunn gets 183 & son of a gunn George Vernon 100* same innings
1931 - Paavo Nurmi runs world record 2 mile (8:59.6)
1931 - A fire at a home for the elderly in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania kills 48 people.
1933 - German judge Vogt signs deed of accusation against Van der Lubbe
1933 - #1726 Hoffmeister, #2136 Jugta, #2158, #3957 Sugie & #4589 McDowell
1934 - 1st ptarmigan hatched & reared in captivity, Ithaca, NY
1935 - 1st greeting telegram sent in Britain
1935 - The world's first children's railway opens in Tbilisi, USSR.
1936 - 118°F (48°C), Minden, Nebraska (state record)
1936 - 121°F (49°C), near Alton, Kansas (state record)
1936 - Gen Mola & Cabanellas form Spanish anti-government
1937 - Alabama drops charges against 5 blacks accused of rape in Scottsboro
1938 - Instant coffee invented
1940 - 1st illegal "Newsletter of Pieter It Hen" publishes in Netherlands
1940 - Linthorst Homan, de Quay & Einthoven forms Dutch Union
1941 - FDR demands Japanese troops out of Indo-China
1941 - Nazi execute entire Jewish population of Grodz Lithuania
1941 - Red Sox Lefty Grove, 41, wins his 300th game
1942 - Irving Berlin's musical "This is the Army," premieres in NYC
1943 - RAF bombs Hamburg (20,000 dead)
1944 - 300 allied bombers drop fire bombs on Allied/German positions
1944 - Soviet forces liberate concentration camp Majdanek
1944 - US troops land on Tinian
1945 - US destroyer Underhill torpedoed West of Guam
1946 - 9 Spokane baseball players (Western League), die in a bus crash
1946 - US performs atmospheric nuclear Test at Bikini Island
1948 - 4 Duluth Minn Dukes (St Louis Cards Class C farm team) die in crash
1948 - Soviets blockades Berlin from west
1949 - Inidian pitcher Bob Lemon hits 2 HRs to beat Senators, 7-5
1950 - V-2/WAC Corporal rocket launch; 1st launch from Cape Canaveral
1952 - 112°F (44°C), Louisville, Georgia (state record)
1952 - Emile Zatopek runs Olympic record 5K (14:06.6)
1952 - Pres Harry Truman settles 53-day steel strike
1953 - KEYT TV channel 3 in Santa Barbara, CA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 - Ali Sastroamidjojo of government resigns in Indonesia
1955 - Betty Jameson/Mary Faulk wins Virg Hot Springs 4-Ball Golf Tournament
1956 - Brendan Behan's "Quare Fellow," premieres in London
1956 - Dodgers lose to the Reds, 2-1, playing in Jesey City
1957 - KTVC TV channel 6 in Ensign, KS (CBS) begins broadcasting
1957 - US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1958 - 14 people named 1st life peers in UK
1958 - Ted Williams is fined $250 for spitting at Boston fans again
1958 - Test Cricket debuts against NZ for Dexter, Illingworth & Subba Row
1959 - 500,000th Dutch TV set registered
1959 - VP Nixon argues with Khrushchev, known as "Kitchen Debate"
1960 - 42nd PGA Championship: Jay Hebert shoots a 281 at Firestone CC Akron
1961 - Beginning of a trend, a US commercial plane is hijacked to Cuba
1961 - Edwin Newman becomes news anchor of Today Show
1961 - Roger Maris hits 4 home runs, in a doubleheader
1963 - 124 Unification church couples wed in Korea
1963 - Dutch government of Marijnen forms
1964 - -27) race riot in Rochester, New York, 4 killed
1965 - "Flora, the Red Menace" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 87 perfs
1965 - Bob Dylan release "Like a Rolling Stone"
1965 - Casey Stengel resigns as manager of NY Mets
1965 - Rock group "Animals" 1st time on British charts
1966 - 48th PGA Championship: Al Geiberger shoots a 280 at Firestone CC Akron
1966 - Gloria Ehret/Judy Kimball wins LPGA Yankee Women's Golf Open
1967 - 49th PGA Championship: Don January shoots a 281 at Columbine CC Colo
1967 - Beatles sign a petition in Times to legalize marijuana
1967 - Charles de Gaulle says 'Vive le Quebec libre! Long live free Quebec!'
1967 - Chinese army/air force/fleet repress uprising in Wuhan City
1967 - Norway requests European Common Market membership
1967 - Race riots in Cambridge Maryland
1967 - Race riots in Detroit force postponement of Tigers-Orioles game
1968 - Hoyt Wilhelm's 907th breaks Cy Young's record for pitching appearances
1969 - Apollo 11 returns to Earth
1969 - Hoyt Wilhelm pitches in a record 907th major league game
1969 - Muhammad Ali is convicted for refusing induction in US Army on appeal
1970 - Intl Law Tennis Association institutes 9 point tie break rule
1970 - USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1971 - WUHQ TV channel 41 in Battle Creek, MI (ABC) begins broadcasting
1972 - Jigme Singye Wangchuk becomes king of Bhutan at 16
1972 - Bugojno group is caught by Yugoslav security forces.
1973 - 44th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-1 at Royals Stadium, KC
1973 - All star MVP: Bobby Bonds (SF Giants)
1974 - Supreme Court unanimously rules Nixon must turn over Watergate tapes
1975 - Apollo 18 returns to Earth
1976 - John Naber is 1st to swin 200m backstroke under 2 minutes
1977 - 32nd US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Hollis Stacy
1977 - Pete Rose passes Frankie Frisch as switch-hit leader with 2,881
1977 - Seattle's John Montague pitches 6 2/3 innings of perfect relief tying 2 game record of retiring
           33 consecutive batsmen
1978 - "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" premieres in NYC
1978 - Margaret Gardiner, of South Africa, crowned 27th Miss Universe
1978 - Pete Rose ties NL hitting streak of 37 games
1978 - Billy Martin resigns as Yankee manager after "one is a born liar the other a convicted one"
           comment about Steinbrenner & Jackson
1979 - Pres Carter names Paul Volcker, pres of Federal Reserves
1979 - Red Sox Carl Yastrzemski hits his 400th HR
1981 - Mohammed Ali Rajai elected president of Iran
1982 - "Best Little Whorehouse in Tx" closes at E O'Neill NYC after 63 perfs
1982 - KHJ (LA) & KFRC (SF) become 2nd & 3rd stereo AM stations
1982 - Heavy rain causes a mudslide that destroys a bridge at Nagasaki, Japan, killing 299.
1983 - "Mame" opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 41 performances
1983 - 21st Tennis Fed Cup: Czech beats Germany in Zurich Switz (2-1)
1983 - Lauren Howe wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
1983 - Laurent Fignon wins Tour de France
1983 - Pine Tar Game: Brett's HR disallowed against Yanks (overturned)
1983 - Sonya Robinson, (Milwaukee), 23, crowned 16th Miss Black America
1985 - Gandhi signs peace contract with Sikh leader Harchand Singh Longowai
1986 - SF Federal jury convicts navy radioman Jerry Whitworth of espionage
1987 - IBM-PC DOS Version 3.3 (updated) released
1987 - USSR performs underground nuclear Test
1988 - 43rd US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Liselotte Neumann
1988 - US & Jamacia play scoreless tie, in 2nd round of 1990 world soccer cup
1989 - Paula Gwynn, 22, crowned 21st Miss Black America
1990 - Ms. Magazine hits newstands again after an 8 month hiatus
1990 - US warships in Persian Gulf placed on alert after Iraq masses nearly 30,000 troops near its
           border with Kuwait
1991 - Ottawa Rough Riders Board of Directors resign
1991 - U of Manchester scientist announce finding a planet outside of solar system
1992 - Faye Vincent reinstates Yankee owner George Steinbrenner (eff 3/1/93)
1992 - Vickers Viscount crashes, 70 die
1993 - Met Vince Coleman injures 3 when he throws cherry bomb at Dodger fans
1993 - NY Met Anthony Young loses record 27th straight
1994 - 32nd Tennis Fed Cup: Spain beats USA in Frankfurt Germany (3-0)
1994 - 49th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Patty Sheehan
1994 - Asociación de Estados del Caribe (AEC) forms
1994 - Bodo kills 37 Moslems in Bashbari NE India
1994 - Miguel Indurain wins Tour de France
1998 - Russell Eugene Weston Jr. bursts into the United States Capitol and opens fire killing two
           police officers. He is later ruled to be incompetent to stand trial.
2001 - Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the last Tsar of Bulgaria when he was a child, is sworn in as
           Prime Minister of Bulgaria, becoming the first monarch in history to regain political power
           through democratic election to a different office.
2002 - James Traficant is expelled from the United States House of Representatives on a vote of 420
           to 1.
2005 - Lance Armstrong retires after winning a record seventh consecutive Tour de France victory
2007 - Libya frees all six of the Medics in the HIV trial in Libya.
2012 - John Dramani becomes President of Ghana after the death of President John Atta Mills
2012 - Four barrels containing 248 human fetuses are found in Sverdlovsk, Russia

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 24, 2013, 10:26:49 AM

This Day in History for 24th July


Famous Weddings

1554 - Queen Maria of England marries Philip, king of Naples/Jerusalem
1993 - Actor Richard Moll (Night Court) weds Susan Brown
1993 - Night Court actor Richard Moll (50) weds Susan Brown (32)
2004 - "The Calling" singer Alex Band (23) weds "Cleopatra 2525" actress Jennifer Sky (27) in West
           Palm Beach, Florida
2004 - Former MSNBC news anchor Ashleigh Banfield (36) weds real estate financier Howard Gould
          (31) in Kenora, Ontario
2010 - "The Real Housewives of Atlanta" actress and a well-known model Cynthia Bailey weds
           entrepreneur Peter Thomas at Fernback Museum of Natural History in Atlanta

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 24, 2013, 10:32:42 AM

This Day in History for 24th July


Famous Birthdays

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Historical Novelist                                    Recording Artist
Alexandre Dumas (1802)                           Jennifer Lopez (1969)


1380 - Johannes van Capestrano, Italian saint
1660 - Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury, English politician (d. 1718)
1686 - Benedetto Marcello, composer [or Aug 9]
1720 - Louise Ulrike, queen of Sweden/wife of Adolf Frederik
1725 - John Newton, English cleric and hymnist (d. 1807)
1738 - Elizabeth "Betje" Wolff-Bekker, Dutch author/poet (Sara Burgerhart)
1757 - Vladimir Borovikovsky, Russian painter (d. 1825)
1759 - Victor Emmanuel I, King of Sardinia (1802-21)
1783 - Simón Bolívar, Caracas, Venezuela, political and military leader (freed 6 Latin American
           republics from Spanish rule), (d. 1830)
1786 - Joseph Nicollet, French mathematician and explorer (d. 1843)
1794 - Johan Georg Forchhammer, Danish geologist (d. 1865)
1796 - Herman van Sonsbeeck, Dutch lawyer/statesman
1796 - John Middleton Clayton, Delaware, (Sen-Del)/US Sec of State (1849-50)
1798 - John Adams Dix, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1879
1802 - Alexandre Dumas, Aisne France, author (3 Musketeers, Count of Monte Cristo), (d. 1870)
1802 - Ira Aldridge, African American stage actor
1803 - Alexander Jackson Davis, US, architect (gothic revivalist)
1815 - Antoine T D'Abbadie, French explorer (Ethiopia) [or Jan 3, 1810]
1817 - Adolf WAKF, grand duke of Luxembourg (1890-1905)
1818 - Felix Godefroid, composer
1821 - William Poole, American gang member (New York City's Bowery Boys) (d. 1855)
1826 - Francisco S Lopez, [Tiran], president of Paraguay (1862-70)
1826 - Ivan Bloch, Polish military theorist and peace activist (d. 1902)
1827 - Julius Adolph de Lagnel, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1912
1832 - Johann Christoph Lauterbach, violinist
1841 - Raimundo Madrazo y Garretta, painter
1851 - Friedrich Schottky, German mathematician (d. 1935)
1856 - Charles Émile Picard, French mathematician (d. 1941)
1857 - Henrik Pontoppidan, Denmark, writer (Promised Country, Nobel 1917)
1858 - Wolfgang Kapp, German politician (Kapp Putsch 1920)
1860 - Alfons Mucha, Czech artist (d. 1939)
1862 - Johan A de Sleeve, [Adwaita], philosopher/classical/poet (Brahman)
1864 - Frank Wedekind, German playwright (The "Lulu" plays)
1864 - Michel Gaston Carraud, composer
1867 - Fred Tate, cricketer (father of Maurice, 1 Test, Eng v Aus 1902)
1867 - Frederic Benson, novelist
1867 - Vicente Acosta, Salvadoran poet (d. the same day 1908)
1870 - Fred Law Olmsted Jr, Staten Island NY, landscape architect
1874 - Oswald Chambers, Scottish minister and writer (d. 1917)
1877 - Calogero Vizzini, Sicilian mafioso (d. 1954)
1878 - Lord Dunsany, [Edward JMD Plunkett], Irish sci-fi writer (Time & Gods)
1880 - Ernest Bloch, Geneva Switzerland, composer (MacBeth)
1880 - Kristian Hellström, Swedish athlete (d. 1946)
1884 - Abraham Rutgers, Dutch governor (Suriname, 1928-33)
1885 - Desider Antalffy-Zsiross, Hungarian organist/composer
1886 - Junichiro Tanizaki, Japan, writer (Snow Dusting)
1888 - Arthur Richardson, Australian cricket batsman (20's)
1894 - Walter Schulthess, composer
1896 - Hermann Kasack, German writer (Die Stadt hinter dem Strom)
1897 - Elmar Berkovich, Hungarian/Dutch designer (Eindhoven Theatre)
1897 - Karl von Mechow, German writer (Auf Dem Wege, Vorsommer)
1897 - Amelia Earhart, US aviator (1st woman to solo Atlantic)
1898 - Frank Mortelmans, Belgian painter
1899 - Chief Dan George, actor (Little Big Man)
1900 - Zelda Fitzgerald, 1st wife of F Scott
1902 - Hans Chemin-Petit, composer
1902 - Nora Swinburne, England, actress (Quo Vardis, Dinner at Ritz, River)
1903 - Robert Mills Delaney, composer
1904 - James R Killian Jr, MIT pres (1948-59)
1904 - Leo Arnaud, French-American composer (d. 1991)
1907 - Hugh Charles, songwriter/impressario
1908 - Cootie Williams, American trumpeter (d. 1985)
1910 - Edward Ford, registrat Order of Merit
1910 - Harry Horner, stage/Film Designer
1913 - George H Brown, film producer
1913 - Johnny McAfee, Dallas Tx, singer (Sammy Kaye Show)
1914 - David Miles Bensuan-Butt, economist
1914 - Edwin Mirvish, owner (Old Vic)
1914 - Frank Silvera, Kingston Jamaica, actor (High Chaparral)
1914 - Kenneth B Clark, Canal Zone, civil rights activist (Dark Ghetto)
1914 - Riccardo Malipiero, composer
1914 - Robert Emhardt, actor (Mac-Another World, Underworld USA, Mooncussers)
1915 - Frank Thistlethwaite, vice chancellor (University of East Anglia)
1915 - Enrique Fernando, Philippino jurist (d. 2004)
1916 - Bob Eberly, Mechanicsville NY, singer (Jimmy Dorsey Band)
1916 - John D MacDonald, novelist (Deep Blue Goodbye)
1917 - John Hillaby, writer/traveller
1917 - Robert Farnon, composer/conductor/arranger
1917 - Simon Slattvik, Norway, cross country ski jumper (Olympic-gold-1952)
1917 - Jack Moroney, Australian cricketer (d. 1999)
1918 - Ruggiero Ricci, SF California, composer/violinist (Paganini), (d. 2012)
1919 - Robert Marsden Hope, Australian Justice (d. 1999)
1919 - Ferdinand Kübler, Swiss cyclist
1920 - Alexander H Cohen, NYC, Broadway producer (Beyond the Fringe)
1920 - Bella Abzug, (Rep-D-NY, 1970-74)
1921 - Giuseppe Di Stefano, Italian operatic tenor (d. 2008)
1922 - Charles Mathias Jr, (Sen-R-MD, 1969-86)
1922 - Leo Kraft, composer
1922 - Madeleine Ferron, French Canadian writer
1924 - David Loram, British vice-admiral (Supreme Allied Commander)
1924 - Glenn Loren Glasow, composer
1924 - Janine Charrat, French ballerina/choreographer
1924 - Lord Digby, lord-lt for Dorset
1925 - Ignacio Aldecoa, Spanish writer (Gran Sol, Caballo the Pica)
1926 - Hans-Gunther Winkler, Germany, equestrian jumper (Olympic-gold-1956)
1926 - James Hele, high master (St Paul's School)
1927 - James J Howard, (Rep-D-NJ, 1965- )
1927 - Wilfred Josephs, composer
1929 - Alfred Binns, West Indian cricket wicketkeeper (1953-56)
1929 - Hedda J Garza, writer/political activist
1929 - Peter Yates, director (Breaking Away, Bullitt)
1930 - Boris Nikolayevich Belousov, cosmonaut
1930 - Charles Hambro, English banker/multi-millionaire/CEO (Hambros)
1930 - Jacqueline Brookes, Montclair NJ, actress (Jack & Mike, Another World)
1931 - Ermanno Olmi, Italian director
1931 - Éric Tabarly, French sailor (d. 1998)
1932 - William D Ruckelshaus, headed Environmental Protection Agency
1933 - John Aniston, Crete, actor (Search for Tomorrow, Day of our Lives)
1933 - Doug Sanders, American golfer
1934 - Jimmy Holiday, US singer (How Can I Forget)
1934 - Thomas Ambler, CEO (Texaco)
1934 - Willie Davis, NFL defensive end (Cleveland Browns, Green Bay)
1934 - Sante Kimes, American convicted con artist and murderess
1935 - George Varnals, South African cricket batsman (England 1964-65)
1935 - Les Reed, songwriter (Heroin)
1935 - Pat Oliphant, Australia, cartoonist (7 Pres: The Art of Oliphant)
1935 - Trevor Chinn, CEO (Lex)
1936 - Mark Goddard, Lowell Mass, actor (Don West-Lost in Space)
1936 - Ruth Buzzi, Westerly RI, comedienne (Laugh-In, Margie-That Girl)
1937 - Baroness Blatch, British minister of state for Education
1937 - Barry Lloyd Vercoe, composer
1937 - Quinlan Terry, architect
1938 - Colin Southgate, CEO (Thorn EMI)
1938 - John Sparling, NZ cricket all-rounder (11 Tests 1958-64)
1938 - Mike Mainieri, rocker
1938 - Eugene J. Martin, American painter, artist
1939 - Barry [Norman] Malzberg, sci-fi author (Revelations, Beyond Apollo)
1939 - Bob Lilly, NFL defensive tackle (Dallas Cowboys)
1939 - Walter Bellamy, New Bern NC, NBA center (Knicks/Olympic-gold-1960)
1940 - Carroll A Campbell Jr, (Rep-R-SC, 1979-86)
1940 - Stanley Hauerwas, American theologian
1940 - Dan Hedaya, American actor
1941 - Barbara Love, rocker
1942 - Chris Sarandon, WV, actor (Child's Play, Dog Day Afternoon, Lipstick)
1942 - Heinz Burt, Hargin Germany, rock bassist (Tornados)
1943 - Henk Vos, chemical analyst/Dutch politician (PvdA) 2nd Chamber
1943 - Jim McCarty, rocker (Yardbirds)
1943 - Lyudmila Bragina, USSR, 1500m runner (Olympic-gold-1972)
1944 - Barbara Thompson, jazz musician/composer/bandleader
1944 - Jim Armstrong, rock guitarist (Them)
1945 - Azim Premji, Indian businessman
1946 - William "Junior" Campbell, singer/guitarist (Marmalade)
1947 - Geoffrey McQueen, TV Writer
1947 - M Jacques Fouroux, rugby player
1947 - Michael Coveney, drama critic
1947 - Neil McIntosh, CEO (VSO, Center for British Teaching)
1947 - Peter Serkin, NYC, pianist (Tashi)
1947 - Robert Hays, Bethesda Md, actor (Airplane!, Starman, Scandalous)
1947 - Zaheer Abbas, cricketer (probably Pakistan's finest batsman ever)
1949 - Marjanne Sint, Dutch MP (PvdA)
1949 - Michael Richards, Los Angeles California, comedian (Fridays, Kramer-Seinfeld)
1950 - Dan Hedaya, actor (Cheers, Marvin's Room, Clueless)
1950 - Goutam Ghose, director (Patang, Voyage Beyond, Paar)
1950 - Sam Behrens, actor (Jake Meyer-General Hospital, Sunset Beach, LA Law)
1951 - Chris Smith, MP (Labour)
1951 - Lynda Carter, Phoenix Az, Miss USA (1973)/actress (Wonder Woman)
1952 - Vin Weber, (Rep-R-MN, 1981- )
1952 - Gus Van Sant, American film director
1953 - Jon Faddis, jazz trumpeter
1953 - Julian Brazier, MP
1953 - Steve Grogan, NFL QB (New England Patriots)
1953 - Claire McCaskill, American politician, junior senator from Missouri
1954 - Philippe Alliot, race driver (grand prix)
1955 - Lubov Odinokova, USSR, team handball (Olympic-gold-1976, 80)
1956 - Charles Crist, Governor of Florida
1957 - Dorothy Mays, Baltimore MD, playmate (Jul, 1979)
1957 - Pam Tillis, Plant City Fla, country singer (Melancholy Child)
1957 - Robbie Grey, rocker
1958 - Mick Karn, rocker
1958 - Pam Tills, Country music artist
1959 - Brian Fogt, Dayton OH, Nike golfer (1992 Ft Wayne Open-7th)
1959 - Edward Liddie, Union Ga, Judo fighter (Olympic-bronze-1984)
1961 - Kerry Dixon, English footballer
1962 - Kevin Butler, NFL kicker (Chic Bears)
1963 - Julie Krone, Benton Harbor Mich, jockey (1st female to win Belmont-93)
1963 - Karl Malone, Summeerfield LA, NBA forward (Utah, Oly-2 gold-92, 96)
1963 - Paul Geary, Boston Mass, heavy metal drummer (Extreme-More Than Words)
1964 - Barry Bonds, Riverside CA, left fielder (Pirates, SF Giants, 3X MVP)
1964 - Erminia Russo, Kelowna BC, volleyball player (Olympics-96)
1964 - Teri Schroeder, Newport Beach Ca, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-13-1993)
1964 - Banana Yoshimoto, Japanese author
1965 - Andrew Gaze, Australian basketball player (Olympics-1984, 88, 92, 96)
1965 - Brian Blades, NFL wide receiver (Seattle Seahawks)
1965 - Joe Oliver, Memphis TN, catcher (Cin Reds)
1965 - Kadeem Hardison, New York, American actor (A Different World, The Sixth Man)
1965 - Doug Liman, American film director
1966 - Martin Keown, English footballer
1967 - Jasper Teule, Dutch rock singer/bassist (Pilgrims-Once to Everything)
1968 - John P Navin Jr, Phila, actor (Joey Elliot-Jennifer Slept Here)
1968 - Mark Gunn, NFL defensive end (Philadelphia Eagles)
1968 - Laura Leighton [Miller], Iowa City, Iowa, American actress (Melrose Place, Pretty Little Liars)
1968 - Kristin Chenoweth, American singer and actress
1968 - Colleen Doran, American comic book writer and artist
1968 - Malcolm Ingram, Canadian director
1969 - Chris King, NBA forward (Vancouver Grizzlies)
1969 - Rick Fox, NBA guard/forward (LA Lakers, Boston Celtics)
1969 - Steve Jennings, Wash DC, field hockey midfielder (Olympics-96)
1969 - Jennifer Lopez, Bronx New York, actress and pop singer (Selena)
1970 - Blaine Bishop, NFL safety (Houston Oilers)
1970 - Gerald Ressman, hockey forward (Team Austria 1998)
1970 - Philip Sykes, Tacoma Wash, field hockey defender (Olympics-96)
1970 - Stephanie Adams, NJ, playmate (Nov, 1992)
1971 - Dino Baggio, Italian footballer
1971 - John Partridge, English singer
1972 - Kaiō Hiroyuki, Japanese sumo wrestler
1972 - Rev. Jen Miller, American performance artist
1973 - Tasha Ebanks, Miss Universe-Cayman Islands (1996)
1974 - Steve Bornhoeft, LaGrange Ill, canoe (alt-Olympics-96)
1975 - Gloria Pizzichini, Italy, tennis star
1975 - Eric Szmanda, American actor
1975 - Torrie Wilson, American wrestler
1976 - Anita Nall, US, breaststroke swimmer (Olympics-gold-1992)
1976 - Chris[tian] Patrick Raymond Ahrens, Whitefish Bay Wis, rower (Oly-96)
1976 - Scott Logan, Brisbane QLD Australia, swimmer (Olympics-96)
1976 - Tiago Monteiro, Portuguese Formula One driver
1976 - Nate Bump, American baseball player
1977 - Arnold Bruggink, Dutch soccer player (FC Twente)
1977 - Lee EunHee, Miss Korea Universe (1997)
1977 - Danny Dyer, English actor and television presenter
1977 - Mehdi Mahdavikia, Iranian football player
1979 - Valerio Scassellati, Italian racing driver
1979 - Rose Byrne, Australian actress
1979 - Lee Si-yeon, South Korean actress
1979 - Stat Quo, American rapper
1979 - Anne-Gaëlle Sidot, French tennis player
1979 - José Valverde, American baseball player
1980 - Wilfred Bungei, Kenyan middle-distance runner
1981 - Summer Glau, American actress
1982 - Anna Paquin, oscar winning actress (Piano)
1982 - Elise Crombez, Belgian model
1982 - Thiago Medeiros, Brazilian racing driver
1983 - Daniele De Rossi, Italian footballer
1984 - John Dhani Lennevald, Swedish singer (A-Teens)
1985 - Patrice Bergeron, Canadian hockey player
1986 - Andrei Lutai, Russian figure skater
1986 - Megan Park, Canadian actress
1987 - Mara Wilson, actress (Mrs Doubtfire)
1988 - Luke Mitchell, Scottish murderer
1990 - Evan James Springsteen, Los Angeles California, rocker Bruce Springsteen&#039;s son
1990 - Daveigh Chase, American actress
1993 - Arissa Seagal, daughter of Kelly LeBrock & Steven Seagal
1998 - Bindi Irwin, Australian entertainer; daughter of Steve Irwin

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 24, 2013, 10:34:59 AM

This Day in History for 24th July


Famous Deaths

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Actor and Comedian
Peter Sellers (1980)


1115 - Matilda, Countess of Tuscany (b. 1046)
1240 - Konrad von Thüringen, fifth Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights
1345 - Jacob van Artevelde, statesman, murdered
1568 - Prince Don Carlos of Spain (b. 1545)
1594 - John Boste, Catholic saint and martyr (b. 1544)
1652 - Johann Weichmann, composer, dies at 32
1712 - Cornelis earl of Nassau, general-major/mister of Woudenberg, dies
1739 - Benedetto Marcello, composer, dies on 53rd birthday
1756 - George Vertue, engraver, dies
1758 - John Dyer, poet, dies
1768 - Nathanial Lardner, English theologian (b. 1684)
1809 - Johann Gottfried Eckard, composer, dies at 74
1812 - Joseph Schuster, composer, dies at 63
1819 - Sophie Gail, composer, dies at 43
1826 - Jacob Kimball, composer, dies at 65
1831 - Maria Agata Szymanowska, composer, dies at 41
1837 - Charles Hodges, English/Dutch portrait painter
1842 - John Sell Cotman, landscape painter, dies
1846 - Joseph Leopold Eybler, Austrian composer/choir master, dies at 81
1846 - Louis Napoleon, French king of the Netherlands (1806-10), dies at 67
1862 - Martin Van Buren, 8th pres (1837-41), dies in Kinderhook NY at 79
1865 - Johan Filip von Schantz, composer, dies at 30
1868 - George Cattermole, painter/illustrator, dies
1876 - Thomas Molleson Mudie, composer, dies at 66
1883 - Matthew Webb, English Channel swimmer, drowns above Niagara Falls
1900 - Ferdinand Hamet, Dutch missionary in Mongolia, murdered at 59
1908 - Vicente Acosta, Salvadoran poet (b. the same day 1867)
1910 - Arkhip Kuindzhi, Russian painter (b. 1841)
1927 - Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Japanese writer (b. 1892)
1931 - Marie WF Treub, Dutch economist/minister of finance, dies at 75
1933 - Max von Schillings, composer, dies at 65
1936 - James Philip Dunn, composer, dies at 52
1944 - Jan Postma, leader of illegal Dutch party (CPN), executed at 49
1947 - Ernest Austin, composer, dies at 72
1954 - Mary Church Terrell, educator/civil rights leader, dies at 90
1957 - Sacha Guitry, actor/playwright/director (Lovers & Thieves), dies at 72
1960 - Carl Deis, composer, dies at 77
1960 - Hans Albers, German actor (Blue Angel), dies at 68
1962 - Victor Moore, comedian, dies of heart attack at 86
1964 - Erwin F Finlay-Freundlich, British astronomer, dies
1965 - Constance Bennett, actress (Madame X, Topper), dies at 59
1965 - Irene Browne, actress (Peg O' My Heart), dies of cancer at 69
1966 - Tony Lema, US golfer, dies at 32
1967 - Little Billy Rhodes, dies of stroke at 72
1969 - Witold Gombrowicz, Polish author (Ferdydurke, Dziennik), dies at 64
1970 - Peter de Noronha, Indian businessman (b. 1897)
1971 - Alan Rawsthorne, composer, dies at 66
1972 - Bobby Ramirez, drummer (White Trash), killed at 23 in bar brawl
1973 - Mary Frasca, singer/actress, dies in NYC
1974 - Chris Chubbock, newscaster, shoots self on air
1974 - Ernest Milton, actor (Julius Caesar, Cat Girl), dies at 84
1974 - James Chadwick, English physicist (Nobel 1935), dies at 82
1979 - Archie Duncan, actor (Sherlock Holmes), dies at 65
1980 - Peter Sellers, actor (Pink Panther, Mouse that Roared), dies at 54
1980 - Uttam Kumar, Indian actor (b. 1926)
1986 - Fritz A Lipman, discoverer (co-enzymes, Nobel 1953), dies at 87
1986 - Laurie Nash, cricketer (two Tests for Australia 1932-36), dies
1989 - Ernest Morrison, actor (Peggy Does Her Darndest), dies
1990 - Alan Clarke, director (Elephant, Road, Scum, Firm), dies at 54
1991 - Freddie Brown, cricketer (English Test captain 1950-51), dies
1991 - Isaac B Singer, Polish/US writer (Yentl, Nobel 1978), dies at 87
1991 - Karl Ellis, dies at 41
1992 - Arlette-Leonie Arletty, dies at 94
1992 - Khaled Mahmoud Saeed, asst to Palestine terrorist Abu Nidal, murdered
1992 - Lillian Oppenheimer, orgamist, dies of a heart attack at 93
1992 - Sam Berger, Canadian football owner (b. 1900)
1993 - Ben[jamin S] Polak, Dutch physician/resistance fighter, dies
1993 - Francis Bouygues, French entrepreneur/billionaire, dies at 70
1993 - Lonnie D'Orsa, dies at 96
1993 - Rene Requiestas, Filipino comedian (b. 1957)
1994 - Grete Schickedanz, German head mistress, dies at 82
1994 - Wangila Napunyi, welterweight boxer (Olympic-gold-1988), dies at 26
1995 - Don Richard Carpenter, novelist, dies at 64
1995 - Jeremiah Jerry Patrick Lordam, songwriter/compser, dies at 61
1995 - Jerzy Bonawentura Toeplitz, film maker/teacher, dies at 94
1995 - Werner Grusch, film director, dies at 51
1996 - "Jock" John Wallace, soccer player/manager, dies at 60
1996 - Howard Vernon, actor (Faceless, Delicatessen), dies at 82
1996 - Jock Wallace, football player/manager, dies at 60
1996 - Virginia Christine, actress (Mrs Olson), dies at 76
1997 - Saw Maung, general/president of Myanmar (Burma) (1988-92), dies
1997 - William J Brennan, supreme court justice (1956-90), dies at 91
2000 - Ahmad Shamlou, Iranian poet (b. 1925)
2001 - Georges Dor, Canadian author, composer, singer and playwright (b. 1931)
2005 - Richard Doll, English epidemiologist (b. 1912)
2007 - Albert Ellis, American psychologist (b. 1913)
2007 - Chaney Kley, American Actor (b. 1972)
2008 - Norman Dello Joio, American composer (b. 1913)
2009 - E. Lynn Harris, American Author (b. 1955)
2010 - Alex Higgins, Northern Irish snooker player (b. 1949)
2011 - Frank Dietrich, German politician (b. 1966)
2012 - Chad Everett, American actor, dies from lung cancer at 75
2012 - Sherman Hemsley, American Actor, dies from natural causes at 74
2012 - John Atta Mills, Ghanaian President, dies at 68
2012 - Robert Ledley, American physiologist, biophysicist, and radiologist, dies at 86

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 25, 2013, 09:46:21 AM

This Day in History for 25th July


Historical Events

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King of Great Britain                               Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini                  Comedian Jerry Lewis
James I Stuart 

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US President                                           Singer-Songwriter Bob Dylan                  Comedienne and Actress
John F. Kennedy                                                                                                    Roseanne Barr

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Actor/Comedian Bill Cosby


306 - Constantine I is proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops.
841 - Battle at Fontenay: Louis & Charles beat their brother Lotharius I
864 - The Edict of Pistres of Charles the Bald orders defensive measures against the Vikings.
1139 - Count Alfonso I of Portugal proclaimed King
1215 - Frederick II (20) crowned king of the Romans
1261 - Constantinople recaptured by Nicaean forces under Alexios Strategopoulos for Emperor
           Michael VIII, re-establishing Byzantine Empire.
1360 - Jews are expelled from Breslau Silesia
1511 - Portugese assault on city Malakka attack
1519 - San Cristobal de la Habana forms in Cuba
1521 - About 300 heretics burned in Vrijdagmarkt Gent
1536 - Sebastián de Belalcázar on his search of El Dorado founds the City of Santiago de Cali.
1538 - The City of Guayaquil is founded by the Spanish Conquistador Francisco de Orellana and given
           the name Muy Noble y Muy Leal Ciudad de Santiago de Guayaquil.
1547 - Henry II of France is crowned.
1564 - Maximilian II succeeds his father Ferdinand I as Holy Roman Emperor
1567 - Don Diego de Losada founds the city of Santiago de Leon de Caracas, modern-day Caracas,
           the capital city of Venezuela.
1570 - Battle at Arnay-le-Duc Bourgundy: Huguenots-French government army
1585 - Amsterdam bans 45 roman catholics
1593 - France's Protestant King Henri IV converts to Roman Catholic faith
1603 - James VI of Scotland is crowned the first king of Great Britain.
1652 - Nikita Minin becomes patriarch of Russian-orthodox church
1670 - Austrian Emperor Leopold I expels 4,000 Jews from Vienna
1670 - Don Juan Domingo Zuniga y Fonseca becomes gov-gen of Southern Neth
1689 - France declares war on England
1693 - Ignacio de Maya founds the Real Santiago de las Sabinas, now known as Sabinas Hidalgo,
           Nuevo León, México.
1722 - The Three Years War begins along the Maine and Massachusetts border.
1729 - North Carolina becomes a royal colony
1758 - Seven Years' War: the island battery at Fortress Louisbourg in Nova Scotia is silenced and all
           French warships are destroyed or taken.
1759 - British capture Fort Niagara from French (7 Years' War)
1775 - Maryland issues currency depicting George III trampling Magna Carta
1792 - Dutch patriots exiles finds "Bataafs Legion"
1792 - The Brunswick Manifesto issued to population of Paris promising vengeance if French Royal
           Family harmed.
1795 - The first stone of the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is laid.
1797 - Horatio Nelson loses more than 300 men and his right arm during the failed conquest attempt
           of Tenerife (Spain).
1799 - French-Egyptian forces under Napolean I beat Turks at Battle of Abukir
1814 - Battle of Niagara Falls (Lundy's Lane); Americans defeat British
1814 - George Stephenson introduced the 1st steam locomotive
1822 - Gen Agustin de Iturbide crowned Agustin I, 1st emperor of Mexico
1824 - Costa Rica annexes Guanacaste from Nicaragua.
1832 - 1st railroad accident in US, Granite Railway, Quincy, Mass-1 dies
1835 - Ibrahim Pasha's army attacks Jewish settlers of Hebron Palestine
1837 - The first commercial use of an electric telegraph was successfully demonstrated by William
           Cooke and Charles Wheatstone on 25 July 1837 between Euston and Camden Town in
           London.
1848 - 1st battle at Custozza: Austrians under Radetzky beat Italian
1850 - Gold discovered in Oregon (Rogue River)
1853 - Joaquin Murietta, the famous Californio bandit known as "Robin Hood of El Dorado", is killed.
1860 - 1st US intercollegiate billiard match (Harvard vs Yales)
1861 - Washington DC - Crittenden resolution is passed stating that the war is to be fought to
           preserve union & uphold the Constitution, not to alter slavery
1861 - Skirmish at Fort Fillmore, NM Terr - Rebels attack Union troops
1863 - Skirmish at Barbee's Crossroads, Virginia
1866 - 25th Postmaster General: Alexander W Randall of Wis takes office
1866 - David Faragut appointed as 1st admiral of US Navy
1866 - US Grant named 1st general of Army
1868 - US Congress forms Wyoming Territory (Dakota, Utah & Idaho)
1871 - Carousel patents by Wilhelm Schneider, Davenport, Iowa
1897 - Writer Jack London sails to join the Klondike Gold Rush where he will write his first successful
           stories.
1898 - 1st US troops land & occupy Puerto Rice, at Guanica Bay
1900 - Gilbert Jessop hits his 2nd 100 before lunch in same cricket match
1902 - James J Jeffries KOs Bob Fitzsimmons in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
1903 - Castle on top of Telegraph Hill closes
1907 - Korea becomes a protectorate of Japan.
1908 - Ajinomoto is founded. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key
           ingredient in Konbu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG), and patents a process for
           manufacturing it.
1909 - France's Louis Bleriot, makes 1st airplane flight across Engl Channel
1912 - Comoros proclaimed a French colonies
1913 - Carl Weilman strikes out 6 times in a 15 inning game
1913 - Pirates Max Carey goes hitless, but scores 5 runs against Phillies
1914 - Germany soc-democrat "No German blood for Austrian tyrant"
1914 - Last day of club cricket for W G Grace at age 66 He made 69
1916 - Explosion at Lake Erie & Cleveland Waterworks
1917 - Sir Thomas Whyte introduces the first income tax in Canada as a "temporary" measure
           (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%).
1918 - Annette Adams sworn in as 1st woman district attorney of US, Calif
1918 - Race riot in Chester Pennsylvania (3 blacks & 2 whites killed)
1920 - Red Sox turn triple-play, but Ruth's 35th HR leads Yanks to 8-2 win
1922 - AT&T begins broadcasting on WBAY (NYC-later WEAF, WNBC, WRCA & WFAN)
1923 - German mark devalued to 600,000 Dmark=$1
1930 - Phila Athletics triple steal in 1st & 4th innings vs Cleveland
1933 - 1st Dutch live radio concert: Duke Ellington
1934 - Failed nazi coup in Austria
1936 - 115 acre Orchard Beach opens in the Bronx
1938 - Jewish artisans not allowed in Germany
1938 - Revolutionary offensive of Ebro Spain (Hollander Piet)
1939 - 5th & last Dutch government of Colijn, forms
1939 - NY Yankee Atley Donald sets AL rookie record with 12 consecutive win
1940 - John Sigmund begins swimming for 89 hrs 46 mins in the Mississippi R
1941 - FDR bans selling benzine/gasoline to Japan
1941 - Red Sox Lefty Grove becomes 12th to win 300 games (his last victory)
1942 - German troops occupy Rostov
1942 - German troops strike at Tsym Lyanskaja
1943 - 1st warship named for a Black person, SS Leonard Roy Harmon, launched
1943 - Benito Mussolini captured, dismissed as premier of Italy during WW II
1943 - Opposition group Zwaantje forms in Delfzijl
1943 - RAF bombs Fokker airplane factory in Amsterdam
1944 - -26] Japanse banzai-attack on Guam
1944 - 1st jet fighter used in combat (Messerschmitt 262)
1944 - Allied jailbreak at St-Lo (behind German lines)
1944 - US troop march into Guam
1944 - USAF kills 136, wounds 621 GI's at St-Lo
1944 - World War II: Operation Spring - one of the bloodiest days for Canadians during the war: 
           18,444 casualties, including 5,021 killed.
1946 - 1st bikini is shown at a Paris fashion show
1946 - US detonates underwater A-bomb at Bikini (5th atomic explosion)
1946 - At Club 500 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stage their first show as
           a comedy team.
1947 - US Air Force, Navy & War Dept form US Dept of Defense
1947 - US Department of Army created
1949 - St Louis Cardinal Stan Musial hits for the cycle beating Bkln 14-1
1952 - Commonwealth of Puerto Rico created (Constitution Day)
1952 - Puerto Rico becomes a self-governing US commonwealth
1953 - NYC transit fare rises from 10 cents to 15 cents, 1st use of subway tokens
1954 - Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Fort Wayne Golf Open
1956 - 38th PGA Championship: Jack Burke at Blue Hill CC Boston
1956 - Italian liner Andrea Doria sinks after colliding with the Stockholm
1956 - Jordan attacks UN Palestine force
1957 - Monarchy in Tunisia abolished in favor of a republic
1957 - Peter Loader takes a cricket hat-trick England v WI Headingley
1957 - US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1958 - The African Regroupment Party (PRA) holds its first congress in Cotonou.
1959 - SR-N1 hovercraft crosses the English Channel from Calais to Dover in just over 2 hours.
1960 - Company Industrielle et Forestere (Indufor) forms in Brussels
1961 - Maris hits home runs 37, 38, 39 & 40 in a doubleheader
1961 - In a speech John F. Kennedy emphasizes that any attack on Berlin is an attack on NATO.
1962 - House passes bill requiring equal pay for equal work regardless of sex
1963 - Belgian Senate accept Law on language regulations
1963 - US, Russia & England sign nuclear Test ban treaty
1964 - "Here's Love" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 338 performances
1964 - Beatles' "Hard Day's Night, A," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 14 weeks
1964 - Bob Simpson out for 311 at Old Trafford
1964 - Race riot in Rochester NY
1965 - Folk-rock begins, Dylan uses electricity at Newport Folk Festival
1965 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Buckeye Savings Golf Tournament
1966 - Brian Jones final perfomance as a Rolling Stone
1966 - Eric Clapton records guitar tracks for Harrison's "While My Guitar..."
1966 - Mao Tse Tung swims Yangtse River
1966 - Supremes release "You Can't Hurry Love"
1966 - Yankee manager Casey Stengel elected to Hall of Fame
1967 - Construction begins on SF MUNI METRO (Market Street subway)
1968 - Pope Paul VI encyclical against On regulation of birth
1969 - 1st performance of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (Fillmore East, NY)
1969 - 70,000 attend Seattle Pop Festival
1969 - Edward Kennedy pleads guilty to leaving scene of an accident a week after the Chappaquiddick
           car accident that killed Mary Jo Kopechne
1970 - "(They Long to Be) Close to You" reaches #1
1971 - Judy Kimball wins LPGA O'Sullivan Ladies Golf Open
1972 - 43rd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-3 at Atlanta-Fulton County Stad
1972 - All star MVP: Joe Morgan (Cin Reds)
1972 - US health officials concede blacks were used as guinea pigs in 40 year syphilis experiment
1973 - George Harrison pays £1,000,000 tax on his Bangladesh concert & album
1973 - USSR launches Mars 5
1975 - "A Chorus Line," longest-running Broadway show (6,137), premieres
1976 - Annegret Richter runs 100m (11.01)
1976 - Susie Berning wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
1978 - Bob Dylan booed off Newport Folk Festival for using electric guitar
1978 - Bob Lemon replaces Billy Martin as Yankee manager
1978 - Cin Red Pete Rose sets NL record hitting in 38 consecutive games
1978 - John Lydon forms rock group Public Ltd Image
1978 - The Cerro Maravilla Incident occurs.
1978 - Louise Brown, the world's first "test tube baby" is born.
1979 - 109 cm rainfall at Alvin Texas (state record)
1980 - Train crash at Winsum, 9 die
1980 - US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1981 - Voyager 2 encounters Saturn
1982 - 20th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats Germany in Santa Clara USA (3-0)
1982 - 37th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Janet Anderson
1982 - France performs nuclear Test
1983 - 1st non-human primate (baboon) conceived in a lab dish, San Antonio
1983 - Washington Public Power Supply System defaulted $2.25 billion
1984 - Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes 1st woman to walk in space
1985 - Spokeswoman for Rock Hudson confirmed he had AIDS
1985 - Steve Cram runs world record mile (3:46.32)
1985 - US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1985 - USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1985 - Uganda suspends constitution following coup
1986 - Sikhs extremist kill 16 hindus in Muhktsar India
1987 - Sherri Martel beats Fabulous Moolah for WWF Woman's Championship Belt
1987 - USSR launches Kosmos 1870, 15-ton Earth-study satellite
1988 - Mindy Duncan, 16, of Oregon, crowned 6th Miss Teen USA
1988 - Pedro Delgado wins Tour de France
1989 - Brandi Sherwood, of Idaho, crowned 7th Miss Teen USA
1990 - "Les Miserables," opens at Princess Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver
1990 - KC Royal George Brett hits for the cycle
1990 - Nadezhda Ryashkina of USSR sets 10K walk woman's record (41:56.23)
1990 - Roseanne Barr sings National Anthem at Cincinnati Reds-San Diego Padres game
1990 - US Ambassador tells Iraq, US won't take sides in Iraq-Kuwait dispute
1990 - US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1991 - Howard Stern adds a 4th radio market (KLSX FM-97.1 Los Angeles)
1991 - Seattle Jay Buhner hits a 479' HR in Yankee Stadium
1991 - Pittsburgh Steelers guard Terry Long treated for an apparent suicide attempt after he learned
           he tested positive for steroid use
1992 - 25th Olympic Summer games opens in Barcelona, Spain
1992 - Army refused to overturn 127 year old conviction against Dr Mudd
1993 - 31st Tennis Fed Cup: Spain beats Australia in Frankfurt Germany (3-0)
1993 - 48th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Lauri Merten
1993 - Israeli offensive against terrorist bases in South Lebanon
1993 - Miguel Indurain wins his 3rd Tour de France
1993 - The St James Church massacre occurs in Kenilworth, Cape Town, South Africa.
1994 - Jordan & Israeli end 46 year state of war (Wash DC)
1995 - A gas bottle explodes in Saint Michel station of line B of the RER (Paris regional train
           network). Eight are killed and 80 wounded.
1996 - Kim LaPlante of Washington state crowned Mrs United States
1997 - Autumn Jackson, found guilty of trying to extort $40M from Bill Cosby
1997 - Carroll O'Connor found not guilty of slandering Harry Perzigian
1997 - Howard Stern is fired from radio station, KEGL Dallas
1997 - QB Brett Favre, re-signs with Green Bay Packers for $50M for 7 yrs
1997 - Rocker Rick Danko gets suspended sentence in Japan for drug smuggling
1997 - Vincent "The Chin" Gigante found guilty of racketeering in NYC
1997 - K.R. Narayanan is sworn-in as India's 10th president and the first Dalit— formerly called
           "untouchable"— to hold this office.
1999 - 54th US Women's Open Golf Championship
2000 - Air France Flight 4590, a Concorde supersonic passenger jet, F-BTSC, crashes just after
           takeoff from Paris killing all 109 aboard and 4 on the ground.
2007 - Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India's first woman president
2012 - The 2012 Summer Olympics begin
2012 - Ivica Dačić is sworn in as Prime Minister of Serbia
2012 - Italy's credit rating is downgraded to CCC+ by Egan-Jones

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 25, 2013, 10:05:29 AM

This Day in History for 25th July


Famous Weddings

1993 - Designer Claude Montana (44) weds his model Wallis Franken (44)
2009 - "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" actor Marc Blucas (37) weds journalist Ryan Haddon (38) in Erie,
           Pennsylvania

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 25, 2013, 10:06:36 AM

This Day in History for 25th July


Famous Divorces

2012 - Actress Sunny Mabrey (36) divorces "Brotherhood" actor Ethan Embry (34) due to irreconcilable
          differences after almost 7 years marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 25, 2013, 10:19:55 AM

This Day in History for 25th July


Famous Birthdays

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Actor Woody Strode (1914)                    Actress Estelle Getty (1923)                  Murder Victim Emmett Till (1941)

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NFL Running Back                                    Actor Matt LeBlanc (1967)                 
Walter Payton (1954)


975 - Thietmar, bishop of Merseburg, German chronicler
1016 - Casimir I, Duke of Poland (d. c. 1058)
1109 - Afonso I, the Conqueror, king of Portugal (1143-85)
1336 - Albert, Count of Holland (d. 1404)
1404 - Philips van Saint-Pol, Duke of Brabant
1421 - Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, English politician (d. 1461)
1517 - Jacques Peletier (du Mans), French poet/scientist
1562 - Kiyomasa Kato, Japanese warlord (d. 1611)
1575 - Christoph Scheiner, Germany, astronomer
1579 - Valerius Otto, composer
1626 - Geeraerdt Brandt, Dutch theologist/poet/historian
1654 - Agostino Steffani, composer
1657 - Philipp Heinrich Erlebach, composer
1658 - Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll, Scottish privy councillor (d. 1703)
1683 - Pieter Langendijk, painter/etcher/playwright (Wiskunstenaars)
1691 - Alessandro Galilei, Italian architect (Cappella Corsini)
1715 - Immanuel J Pyra, German poet (Temple of Real Poetry)
1750 - Henry Knox, American general (d. 1806)
1761 - Charlotte von Kalb, German writer
1772 - Gottlob Benedikt Bierey, composer
1775 - Anna Symmes Harrison, Ohio, 9th 1st lady (1841)
1778 - Heinrich Gebhard, composer
1780 - Christian Theodor Weinlig, composer
1786 - Giacomo Cordella, composer
1795 - James Barry, female disguised as a man, surgeon general (British army)
1797 - Princess Augusta, Duchess of Cambridge (d. 1889)
1799 - David Douglas, Scottish botanist (d. 1834)
1804 - Carlo Boncompagni di Mombello, Italian minister of Education
1816 - Christian B Freiherr von Tauchnitz, German publisher (T Edition)
1822 - Schuyler Hamilton, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1903
1824 - Richard James Oglesby, Union (Union volunteers), died in 1899
1832 - Simon Hassler, composer
1839 - Francis Garnier, French explorer (d. 1873)
1840 - Flora Adams Darling, founded Daughters of American Revolution
1844 - Thomas Eakins, American artist (d. 1916)
1848 - Arthur Earl Balfour, (C), British PM (1902-05) (Balfour Declaration)
1855 - Edward Solomon, composer
1860 - Princess Louise Margaret, Duchess of Connaught (d. 1917)
1865 - Jac[obus] P Thijsse, Dutch biologist/educator (Contact with Plants)
1866 - Frederick Frost Blackman, English botanist
1867 - Max Dauthendy, German painter/author (Ewige Hochzeit)
1867 - Alexander Rummler, American painter (d. 1959)
1870 - Jan D Domela Nieuwenhuis Nyegaard, Dutch vicar (Young Flanders)
1870 - Maxfield Parrish, American illustrator (d. 1966)
1882 - George S. Rentz, Navy Chaplain, Navy Cross (d. 1942)
1883 - Alfredo Casella, Turin Italy, composer (La Giara)
1884 - Davidson Black, Canada, doctor of anatomy (identified Peking Man)
1885 - Benito Lynch, Irish/Argentine writer (Caranchos de la Florida)
1890 - Julian Rivero, SF CA, actor (Son of Oklahoma, Via Pony Express)
1890 - Tom O'Brien, San Diego CA, actor (Physical Evidence)
1893 - Dorothy Dickson, actress/dancer (Paying the Piper, Danny Boy)
1895 - Yvonne Printemps, Ermont France, singer/actress (Le Duel)
1896 - Richard N Gale, English general/airborne commander (Normandy)
1896 - Jack Perrin, American actor (d. 1967)
1897 - Hermann Ambrosius, composer
1899 - Arthur Lubin, film director
1899 - Ralph Dumke, Indiana, actor (Movieland Quiz)
1900 - Enrique Amorim, Uruguayan author (La victoria no viene sola)
1901 - Walter Breedveld/Reinier de Muntel, writer (Een ship vergaat)
1901 - Lila Lee, American actress (d. 1973)
1902 - Eric Hoffer, longshoreman/author (True Believer)
1903 - Andre Fleury, composer
1905 - Elias Canetti, Bulgarian/British novelist (Life-Terms, Nobel 1981)
1905 - Lila Lee, Union City NJ, actress (Midnight Girl, Blood & Sand)
1905 - Denys Watkins-Pitchford, writer and illustrator (d. 1990)
1907 - Jack Gilford, NYC, actor (Save the Tiger, Cocoon, Arthur 2)
1907 - Johnny Hodges, American saxophonist (d. 1970)
1908 - Joseph Mitchell, writer
1908 - Bill Bowes, English cricketer (d. 1987)
1908 - Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, Indian musician (d. 2003)
1913 - John Cairncross, linguist (5th Man)
1914 - Woody Strode, actor (Posse, Cotton Club, Vigilante, Scream)
1915 - David Napley, solicitor
1916 - Ko van Dijk Jr, Dutch actor (Zaak M P)
1916 - Lucien Saulnier, Quebec politician (d. 1989)
1917 - Whipper Billy Watson, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 1990)
1918 - Nan Grey, [Eschal Miller], actress (3 Grief Girl, Dracula's Daughters)
1918 - Jane Frank, American artist (d. 1986)
1919 - Hubert Booi, Bonairian poet (Golgotha/Muchila)
1920 - Rosalind Franklin, English scientist (d. 1958)
1921 - John Christopherson, artist/collector
1923 - Estelle Getty, New York City, New York, American actress (Golden Girls, The Golden Palace)
1923 - Maria Gripe, Swedish writer (d. 2007)
1924 - Frank Church, (Sen-D-Id, 1957-81)
1925 - Alistair Taylor, cricketer (one Test as opening bat for S Afr 1956)
1925 - Jerry Paris, SF California, director/actor (Jerry-Dick Van Dyke Show)
1926 - Teodor Grigoriu, composer
1926 - Whitey Lockman, American baseball player
1927 - Midge Decter, St Paul Minn, anti woman's lib (Liberated Woman...)
1927 - Stanley Dancer, harness racer (4 Hambletonians, 3 Trot Triple Crown)
1927 - Daniel Ceccaldi, French actor (d. 2003)
1927 - Sadiq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani politician (d. 2000)
1928 - Keter Betts, American jazz bassist (d. 2005)
1928 - Mario Montenegro, Filipino actor (d. 1988)
1929 - Somnath Chatterjee, Indian communist leader
1929 - Eddie Mazur, Canadian hockey player (d. 1995)
1930 - Maureen Forrester, Montreal Canada, contralto (Ressurection Symphony)
1930 - Murray Chapple, cricketer (NZ Test batsman through the 1950's)
1930 - Alice Parizeau, Polish-born Quebec writer and essayist (d. 1990)
1930 - Annie Ross, British jazz singer
1931 - Cornelis P van Dijk, Dutch minister of the Interior
1932 - Gibson N Kente, composer
1932 - Paul Joseph Weitz, Erie Pennsylvania, astronaut (Skylab 2, STS 6)
1934 - Claude Zidi, French film director and screenwriter
1935 - Adnan Khashoggi, Saudi businessman/billionaire/arms dealer
1935 - Barbara Harris, [Sandra Mankwitz], actress (Plaza Suite, Family Plot)
1935 - Larry Sherry, American baseball player (d. 2006)
1935 - Lars Werner, Swedish communist leader
1936 - Gerry Ashmore, British racing driver
1936 - Glenn Murcutt, Australian architect
1937 - Colin Renfrew, English archeologist
1939 - Richard Akre Trythall, composer
1940 - John Pennel, pole vaulter (James E Sullivan Award-1963)
1941 - Nate Thurmond, NBA star (Cleveland Cavaliers)
1941 - Raul Ruiz, Puerto Mott Chile, actor (Lexot, Capitolo 66)
1941 - Peter Suschitzky, Polish-British cinematographer
1941 - Emmett Till, American lynching victim (d. 1955)
1942 - Felix Ph Ingold, writer
1943 - Janet Margolin, NYC, actress (Take the Money & Run, David & Lisa)
1943 - Jim McCarty, Liverpool, rock drummer (Yardbirds-For Your Love)
1943 - Roy Acuff Jr, rocker
1944 - Helga I "Mijanou" van Baarzel, Dutch actress (Klaverweide-Alicia)
1944 - Molly Bennett Aiken, founder (riding for the handicapped)
1944 - Tom Dawes, rocker
1945 - Donna Theodore, Broadway singer (Hollywood Talent Scouts)
1946 - John Gibson, American media host
1948 - Brian M[ichael] Stableford, UK, sci-fi author (Day of Wrath)
1948 - Steve Goodman, Chicago, singer/songwriter (Somebody Elses Trouble)
1950 - Mark Clarke, rocker (Uriah Heep)
1951 - Vanessa, [Conny Witteman], Dutch model/singer
1951 - Verdine White, US bassist (Earth, Wind & Fire)
1952 - "Gorgeous" Jimmy Garvin, [Williams], NWA/WCW/AWA wrestler
1954 - Ken Greer, rock guitarist (Red Rider)
1954 - Lynn Frederick, Middlesex England, actress (Schizophrenia)
1954 - Walter Payton, Columbia Mississippi, NFL running back (Chicago Bears), (d. 1999)
1955 - Bantubonke Holomisa, minister of Defense of Transkei (1988- )
1955 - Iman, [Abdulmajid], Mogadishu Somalia, model/actress (Star Trek 6)
1955 - Kike Elomaa, Finnish bodybuilder
1957 - Bogdan Musiol, German DR, bobsled (Olympic-bronze-1980)
1957 - Daniel W Bursch, Bristol PA, Lt Cmdr USN/Astronaut (STS 51, 68, 77)
1957 - Ray Billingsley, comic strip cartoonist (Curtis)
1957 - Roger Clinton, singer, President Clinton's half-brother
1958 - Henk Wanders, Dutch bassist (Frank Boeijen Group)
1958 - Thurston Moore, US guitarist/songwriter (Sonic Youth)
1960 - Alain Robidoux, Canadian snooker player
1961 - Katherine Kelly Lang, Los Angeles California, actress (Brooke-Bold &amp; Beautiful)
1961 - Bobbie Eakes, American actress
1962 - Doug Drabek, Victoria TX, pitcher (Houston Astros, NY Yankees)
1962 - Mike Buncic, Patterson NJ, discus thrower
1963 - Denis Coderre, French Canadian politician
1963 - Julian Hodgson, English chess player
1964 - Jose Bautista, Bani Dom Rep, pitcher (SF Giants)
1964 - Tony Granato, Downers Grove, NHL left wing (LA Kings)
1965 - Illeana Douglas, Mass, actress (Picture Perfect, To Die For, Hacks)
1965 - Marty Brown, Owensboro Ky, country singer (Wildest Dreams)
1965 - Tom Dvorak, Braunschwieg GER, Canada equestrian dressage (Olympics-96)
1965 - Torey Lovullo, Santa Monica CA, infielder (Oakland A's)
1966 - Elke Jeinsen, Hanover Germany, playmate (May, 1993)
1966 - Maureen Herman, American bassist
1966 - Lynda Lemay, French Canadian singer
1966 - Christine C. Quinn, American politician
1967 - Dave Jareckie, Mexico City Mexico, US biathelete (Olympics-1994)
1967 - Ed Sprague, Castro Valley CA, infielder (Toronto Blue Jays)
1967 - Matt LeBlanc, Newton Massachusetts, actor (Joey Tribbiani-Friends)
1967 - Wendy Raquel Robinson, American actress
1967 - Tommy Skjerven, Norwegian football referee
1969 - Andrea Wieland, Atlanta GA, field hockey goaltender (Olympics-96)
1969 - Angela Melini, Saigon, Vietnam, playmate (Jun, 1992)
1969 - Jon Barry, NBA guard (LA Lakers, Golden State Warriors)
1969 - Kevin Smith, NFL tight end (Oakland Raiders)
1969 - Trevor Peres, US, metal guitarist (Obituary-The End Complete)
1970 - Nicholas CEJ Windsor, son of English prince Edward, duke of Kent
1971 - Billy Wagner, Marion VA, pitcher (Houston Astros)
1971 - Pedro Martinez, Manoguayabo Dom Rep, pitcher (Montreal Expos)
1971 - Stacy Dawn Cenedese, Miss USA-Wyoming (1997)
1971 - Tracy Murray, NBA forward (Toronto Raptors, Wash Wizards)
1971 - Roger Creager, American country music singer-songwriter
1972 - Craig Howard, Redding California, Canadian Tour golfer (1989 Rolex)
1972 - Kevin Roberts, cricketer (NSW middle-order batsman since 1994-95)
1973 - Dani Filth, British singer (Cradle of Filth)
1973 - David Denman, American actor
1973 - Kevin Phillips, English footballer
1973 - Mur Lafferty, American podcaster and writer
1974 - Lysa Jackson, Miss South Carolina USA (1996)
1974 - Todd Fuller, NBA center (SF Warriors)
1974 - Jay R Ferguson, Dallas, Texas, American actor (Evening Shade, Mad Men)
1974 - Kenzo Suzuki, Japanese professional wrestler
1975 - Jean-Claude Darcheville, French footballer
1976 - Jovica Tasevski-Eternijan, Macedonian poet
1976 - Javier Vázquez, Puerto Rican baseball player
1977 - Kenny Thomas, American basketball player
1978 - Caroline Nicole Brigman, Miss South Carolina Teen USA (1997)
1978 - Louise Joy Brown, Oldham England, world's 1st "test tube baby",,19820725::"Brad Renfro,
           actor (Client)
1978 - Gerard Warren, American football player
1978 - Louise Brown, Oldham, England, first test tube baby, (d. 2012)
1979 - Amy Adams, American singer
1979 - Allister Carter, English professional snooker player
1980 - Toni Vilander, Finnish racing driver
1980 - Diam's, French rapper
1980 - Shawn Riggans, American baseball player
1981 - Conor Casey, American soccer player
1981 - Jani Rita, Finnish ice hockey player
1982 - Brad Renfro, American actor (d. 2008)
1982 - Monde Zondeki, South African cricketer
1984 - Loukas Mavrokefalidis, Greek basketball player
1985 - James Lafferty, American actor
1985 - Jasmine Lennard, English model
1985 - Nelson Piquet Jr., Brazilian race car driver
1987 - Michael Welch, American actor
1988 - Heather Marks, Canadian model
1988 - Anthony Stokes, Irish footballer
1989 - Noel Callahan, Canadian actor

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 25, 2013, 10:22:30 AM

This Day in History for 25th July


Famous Deaths

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Poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1834)


306 - Gaius Flavius V Constantius, under-emperor of Rome 297-306, dies
1409 - King Martin I of Sicily
1471 - John Soreth, French general, dies
1492 - Innocent VII, [Giovanni B Cibo], Italian Pope (1484-92), dies
1539 - Lorenzo Campeggi(east), archbishop of Bologna/diplomat, dies at 65
1564 - Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor (1558-64), dies at 61
1570 - Ivan Viskovati, chancellor of Russia, executed
1580 - Baltazar Alvarez, Spanish jesuit/writer, dies at 47
1593 - Steven Haghen, navigator/governor of Ambon (1617-18), dies at 61
1616 - Andreas Libavius, German alchemist, dies
1624 - Steven van der Haghen, admiral/gov on Ambon 1617-8, dies at about 61
1643 - Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull, English statesman (b. 1584)
1675 - Nicolas Saboly, composer, dies at 61
1676 - François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac, French writer (b. 1604)
1681 - Urian Oakes, English-born President of Harvard University (b. 1631)
1721 - Geleyn Evertsen, lt-admiral of Zealand, dies at 66
1739 - Johannes van der Hagen, vicar/genealogy/chronologist, dies at 73
1759 - Johann C Altnikol, German organist/klavecinist/composer, dies at 39
1759 - Theodoor Verhaegen, Flemish sculptor, dies
1790 - Johann Bernhard Basedow, German education reformer (b. 1723)
1790 - William Livingston, Governor of New Jersey (b. 1723)
1791 - Isaac Low, American Continental Congressman (b. 1735)
1794 - Andrea-Marie Chenier, French poet (Avis aux Francais sur leurs), dies
1804 - William Forsyth, English gardening expert (Forsythia), dies
1814 - Charles Dibdin, composer, dies at 69
1826 - Pavel I Pestel, Russian officer, hanged at 33 [OS Jul 13]
1826 - Kondraty Fyodorovich Ryleyev, Russian poet and revolutionary (b. 1795)
1834 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, British poet, dies at 61
1842 - Dominique Jean Larrey, French surgeon (b. 1766)
1843 - Charles Macintosh, Scottish chemist and inventor (b. 1766)
1853 - Joaquin Murieta, Mexican born Californian outlaw
1857 - Joseph Napoleon Ney Moskova, composer, dies at 54
1861 - Jonas Furrer, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1805)
1864 - Clement Hoffman Stevens, Us banker/inventor/Confederate brigadier general, dies at 42
1865 - "James Barry", military surgeon, first female Briton to become a qualified medical doctor
1866 - Aloys Schmitt, German music theory/composer/royal pianist, dies
1887 - John Taylor, American religious leader (b. 1808)
1911 - Filippo Capocci, composer, dies at 71
1912 - Lawrence Alma Tadema, Dutch/British painter, dies at 76
1918 - Carlos Guido y Spano, Argentine poet (Mexico, canto epico), dies
1918 - Franiska zu Reventlow, writer, dies at 47
1922 - Jarolslaw Zielinski, composer, dies at 75
1927 - Matilde Serao, [Tuffolina], Italian writer (Land of Cockayne), dies
1932 - Cyriel Buysse, Flemish baron/writer (It Bolleken), dies [or 1936]
1934 - Engelbert Dollfuss, Austrian chancellor assassinated by nazis
1934 - Nestor Makhno, Ukrainian anarchist (b. 1889)
1934 - François Coty, French perfume manufacturer (b. 1874)
1944 - Lesley J McNair, US lt-general, killed by US bomb at St-Lo
1946 - Narziss Oh, German psychology, dies
1952 - Herbert Murrill, composer, dies at 43
1955 - Ilmari Hannikainen, composer, dies at 62
1955 - Isaak Iosifovich Dunayevsky, composer, dies at 55
1958 - "Sensational" Sherri Martel, woman's wrestling champ (WWF)
1958 - Harry Warner, US movie pionier (Warner Bros), dies at 81
1959 - Isaac Halevi Herzog, chief rabbi of Israel (1936-59), dies at 71
1962 - Thibaudeau Rinfret, Canadian jurist and Chief Justice (b. 1879)
1963 - Ugo Cerletti, Italian neurologist (b. 1877)
1966 - Frank O'Hara, writer, dies at 40
1966 - Montgomery Clift, movie actor (From Here to Eternity), dies
1967 - W Gombrowicz, writer, dies at 62
1969 - Douglas Stuart Moore, composer, dies at 75
1971 - Leroy Robertson, composer, dies at 74
1973 - Louis Stephen St. Laurent, 12th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1882)
1974 - Walter Brennan, actor (Real McCoys), dies at 79
1980 - Vladimir Vysotsky, Russian poet, singer, and actor (b. 1938)
1981 - Ian Martin, actor (Uncle Bill-O'Neills), dies at 69
1982 - Beene Dubbelboer, writer (Turfgasgenerator), dies at 76
1982 - Hal Foster, Canadian-American cartoonist (Prince Valiant) (b. 1892)
1983 - Jerome Moross, US composer (Frankie & Johnny), dies at 69
1984 - Bryan Hextall, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1913)
1984 - Big Mama Thornton, American singer (b. 1926)
1986 - Theodore H "Ted" Lyons, pitcher (Chicago White Sox), dies at 85
1986 - Vincente Minnelli, director (Gigi, Goodbye Charlie), dies in LA at 76
1987 - Malcolm Baldrige, Secretary of Commerce, dies of internal injuries
1989 - Steve Rubell, American night club owner (b. 1943)
1991 - Brian Haines, actor (Adv of Robin Hood, It), dies at 70
1991 - Kaganovitch, Russian minister of Transport for Stalin, dies
1991 - Toni Gerry, actress (Bullet for Joey, Lust for Life), dies at 61
1992 - Alfred Drake, Broadway actor (Oklahoma), dies of heart failure at 78
1992 - Hope Miller, actress (Bwana Devil), dies of breast cancer at 63
1993 - Nan Grey, actress (Invisible Man Returns), dies on 75th birthday
1994 - John M Dengler, jazz Bass Sax/Trumpet/Trombone, dies at 67
1995 - Charlie Rich, country singer (Lonely Weekends), dies at 62
1995 - Janice Elliott, novelist, dies at 63
1995 - Osvaldo Pugliese, musician/composer, dies at 89
1996 - Raymond O'Malley, teacher, dies at 87
1997 - Ben Hogan, golfer (Masters, Brit Open, US Open-1953), dies at 84
1997 - Dora Maar, Picasso model/companion, dies at 89
1997 - Margaret Farrer, midwife, dies at 83
1998 - Tal Farlow, American jazz guitarist (b. 1921)
2002 - Abdur Rahman Badawi, Egyptian existentialist philosopher (b. 1917)
2003 - Ludwig Bölkow, German aeronautical engineer (b. 1912)
2003 - Erik Brann, American musician (Iron Butterfly) (b. 1950)
2003 - John Schlesinger, British film director (b. 1926)
2005 - Albert Mangelsdorff, German jazz trombonist (b. 1928)
2006 - Carl Brashear, first African-American U.S Navy Master Diver (b. 1931)
2007 - Bernd Jakubowski, German goalkeeper (b. 1952)
2007 - Jesse Marunde, American strongman competitor (b. 1979)
2008 - Randy Pausch, American professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, known
           for his "Last Lecture" (b. 1960)
2008 - Tracy Hall, American inventor (b. 1919)
2008 - Jeff Fehring, Australian rules footballer (b. 1955)
2009 - Harry Patch, the last surviving soldier to have served in the Trenches in World War I, dies
           aged 111. (b. 1898)
2009 - Vernon Forrest, Professional boxer, 2-division world champion (b. 1971)
2009 - Alexis Cohen, American Idol contestant (unsuccessful), viral phenomenon (b. 1984)
2009 - Yasmin Ahmad, Malaysian film director, writer and scriptwriter (b. 1958)
2010 - Redford White, Filipino comedian (b. 1955)
2011 - Mihalis Kakogiannis, Cypriot filmmaker (b. 1922)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 26, 2013, 01:45:53 PM

This Day in History for 26th July


Historical Events

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British Army Officer                                Military and Political Leader                    Composer Richard Wagner
that Defeated the French in Canada         Simon Bolivar
James Wolfe

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Yankee Clipper Joe DiMaggio                     Baseball Great Babe Ruth                           Dictator Fidel Castro


657 - Battle of Siffin.
811 - Battle at Pliska: Bulgarian under monarch Krum beat Byzantine
920 - Rout of an alliance of Christian troops from Navarre and Léon against the Muslims at Pamplona.
1267 - Inquistion forms in Rome under pope Clement IV
1309 - Henry VII is recognized King of the Romans by Pope Clement V.
1469 - Wars of the Roses: Battle of Edgecote Moor - Pitting the forces of Richard Neville, 16th Earl
           of Warwick against those of King Edward IV.
1497 - "Edward IV's son" Perkin Warbecks army lands in Cork
1499 - Alonso dhe Ojeda discovers Curacao Island
1519 - Francisco Pizarro receives royal charter for the west coast of South America
1524 - James V declared by Scottish Parliament fit to govern
1529 - Francisco Pizarro appointed governor of Peru
1576 - Muitende Spanish troops conquer Aalst
1579 - Francis Drake leaves SF to cross Pacific Ocean
1588 - John Hawkins becomes a knight
1656 - Rembrandt declares he is insolvent
1663 - France annexes Venaissin
1678 - England & Netherlands signs treaty: sending ultimatum to France
1757 - Battle at Hastenbeck: French army beats duke of Cumberland
1758 - British battle fleet under gen James Wolfe conquerors Louisbourg
1759 - French troops vacate Ticonderoga NY
1760 - Austrian troops occupy Fort Glatz Silezie
1775 - United States Post Office (U.S.P.O.) created in Philadelphia under Benjamin Franklin
1788 - NY becomes 11th state to ratify constitution
1790 - US passes Assumption bill making US responsible for state debts
1803 - The Surrey Iron Railway, arguably the world's first public railway, opens in south London.
1805 - Naples/Calabria struck by Earthquake; about 26,000 die
1822 - Secret meeting of Simon Bolivar & Jose de San Martin
1826 - Vilnus Lithuanian riots cause death of many Jews
1832 - HMS Beagle anchors in Montevideo
1835 - 1st sugar cane plantation started in Hawaii
1847 - Liberia declares independence from American Colonization Society
1847 - Moses Garrish Farmer builds 1st miniature train for children to ride
1848 - 1st Woman's Rights Convention (Senecca Falls NY)
1858 - Baron Lionel de Rothschild is 1st Jew elected to British Parliament
1863 - Battle of Salineville OH, John Hunt Morgan & 364 troops surrender
1864 - -31] Riot at McCook's to Lovejoy Station GA, US600 CS---
1864 - -31] Riot at Stoneman's to Macon GA, US1000 CS---
1864 - Battle at Ezra Chapel (Church), Georgia [Hood's Third Sortie]
1865 - Patrick Francis Healy is 1st black awarded PhD (Louvain Belgium)
1866 - Canoe Club opens in England
1878 - In California, the poet and American West outlaw calling himself "Black Bart" makes his last
           clean getaway when he steals a safe box from a Wells Fargo stagecoach. The empty box will
           be found later with a taunting poem inside.
1881 - French marines occupy Tunisian harbor city Sfax
1882 - Richard Wagner's opera "Parsifal," premieres in Beirut
1887 - 1st Esperanto book published
1891 - Henry James' "American," premieres in London
1891 - France annexes Tahiti.
1897 - 37.5 cm rainfall at Jewell, Maryland (state record)
1902 - Australia beat England by 3 runs at Old Trafford
1908 - Predecessor of the FBI is created by the Department of Justice
1908 - United States Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte issues an order to immediately
           staff the Office of the Chief Examiner (later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation).
1914 - Austrian-Hungary condemns Serbian ultimatum
1914 - British Min of Navy Winston Churchill orders British fleet to remain
1914 - German chief of staff/gen von Moltke states ultimatum on Belgium
1915 - International School for Wijsbegeerte forms
1917 - J. Edgar Hoover gets job on ministry of Justice
1918 - Race riot in Philadelphia (3 whites & 1 black killed)
1926 - National Bar Association incorporates
1926 - Philippines government asks US to plebiscite for independence
1928 - Gene Tunney TKOs Tom Heeney in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
1928 - Yanks score 11 runs in 12th beating Tigers 12-1
1933 - Joe Dimaggio ends 61 game hitting streak in Pacific Coast League
1936 - The Axis Powers decide to intervene in the Spanish Civil War.
1937 - End of the Battle of Brunete in the Spanish Civil War.
1938 - 1st radio broadcast of "Young Widder Brown" on NBC
1939 - Yankee catcher Bill Dickey hits 3 consecutive HRs
1941 - 1st Dutch Austrians depart Hague
1941 - US embargo on oil-export to Japan
1942 - RAF bombs Hamburg
1942 - RC churches protest, Dutch bishops stand against spread of Judaism
1943 - 120°F (49°C), Tishmoningo, Oklahoma (state record)
1943 - Otto Skorzeny's commando group arrives in Rome
1944 - Japanese suicide attack on US lines in Guam
1944 - Russian troops arrive in Weichsel
1944 - US offensive at St-Lo/2nd Armour div occupies St Gilles
1944 - The first German V-2 rocket hits Great Britain.
1945 - After Labour landslide in general election, Clement Attlee becomes PM
1945 - Declaration of Potsdam: US/Brit/China demands Japanese surrender
1945 - Japanese government disregards US ultimatum
1945 - US cruiser Indianapolis reaches Tinian with atom bomb
1945 - Winston Churchill resigns as Britain's Prime Minister
1946 - President Harry Truman orders desegregation of all US forces
1946 - Aloha Airlines began service from Honolulu International Airport
1947 - Department of Defense forms
1947 - National Security Act establishes CIA
1948 - "Babe Ruth Story," premieres, Babe Ruth's last public appearance
1948 - 1st black host of a network show-CBS' Bob Howard Show
1948 - Leo Durocher returns to Ebbets Field as a NY Giant
1948 - Pres Harry Truman issues Executive Order No. 9981 directing "equality of treatment &
           opportunity" in armed forces
1949 - WCPO TV channel 9 in Cincinnati, OH (CBS) begins broadcasting
1950 - Dodgers' Jim Russell is 1st to switch-hits HRs twice in a game
1950 - KNIL (Royal Dutch East Indies Army) unites
1951 - Netherlands ends state of war with Germany
1952 - King Farouk I of Egypt abdicates [Black Saturday]
1952 - Mickey Mantle hits his 1st grand-slammer
1953 - Cuban pirate radio station's 1st transmission at Santiago de Cuba
1953 - Fidel Castro begins rebellion, the "26th of July Movement," against Fulgenico Batista's regime
1953 - Arizona Governor John Howard Pyle orders an anti-polygamy law enforcement crackdown on
           residents of Short Creek, Arizona, which becomes known as the Short Creek Raid.
1954 - WCET TV channel 48 in Cincinnati, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
1955 - 37th PGA Championship: Doug Ford at Meadowbrook CC Detroit
1955 - Last day as Test Cricket umpire for Frank Chester
1955 - Ted Allen throws a record 72 consecutive horseshoe ringers
1956 - Egypt seizes Suez Canal
1957 - Mickey Mantle hits career HR # 200
1957 - USSR launches 1st intercontinental multistage ballistic missile
1957 - Carlos Castillo Armas, dictator of Guatemala, is assassinated
1958 - Army launches 4th US successful satellite, Explorer IV
1959 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Western Golf Open
1960 - Italian government of Fanfani forms
1962 - Maria Oeljanov, 1st airship with nuclear missiles, arrives in Cuba
1962 - Milwaukee Brave Warren Spahn sets HR record of 31 by a pitcher
1963 - Skopje, Yugoslavia, destroyed by earthquake, kills 1,000+
1963 - US Syncom 2, 1st geosynchronous communications satellite, launched
1963 - The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development votes to admit Japan.
1964 - Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Women's Golf Open
1964 - Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa convicted of fraud & conspiracy
1964 - Train from Povoa de Varzin, Portugal derails near Oporto, 94 die
1964 - US union leader James Hoffa sentenced for fraud
1965 - Republic of Maldives gains independence from Britain (Natl Day)
1966 - WRLH TV channel 31 in Lebanon, NH (NBC) begins broadcasting
1966 - Lord Gardiner issues the Practice Statement in the House of Lords stating that the House is
           not bound to follow its own previous precedent.
1967 - Twins beat Yanks 3-2 in 18
1969 - Sharon Sites Adams, 39, becomes 1st lady to solo sail the Pacific
1970 - Reds Johnny Bench hits 3 consecutive HRs of Phillies Steve Carlton
1971 - Apollo 15 launched (Scott & Irwin) to 4th manned landing on Moon
1973 - Peter Shaffers "Equus," premieres in London
1974 - France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
1974 - USSR's Soyuz fails to dock with Salyut 3
1975 - Soyuz 18B returns to Earth
1977 - USSR performs underground nuclear Test
1978 - France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
1978 - Johnny Bench hits his 300th career home run
1979 - Estimated 109 cm (43") of rain falls in Alvin, TX (national record)
1981 - 2 climbers fall 550 m down cliff near Angel Falls, Venezuela
1981 - 36th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Pat Bradley
1981 - NY Mayor Ed Koch is given Heimlich maneuver in a Chinese restaurant
1982 - Canada's Anik D1 Comsat launched by US Delta rocket
1982 - Karen Dianne Baldwin, 18, of Canada, crowned 31st Miss Universe
1983 - Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating for STS-8
1983 - Jarmila Kratochvilova of Czech sets 800m woman's record (1:53.28)
1983 - Light flashes seen on Jupiter moon Io
1984 - Expos Pete Rose ties Ty Cobb with his 3,052nd single
1984 - Kuhn announces Vida Blue is suspended due to cocaine conviction
1984 - Pitcher Vida Blue suspended for rest of 1984 due to drug use
1986 - Lebanese kidnappers released Rev Lawrence Martin Jenco
1987 - Catfish Hunter Billy Williams & Ray Dandridge inducted in Baseball Hall of Fame
1987 - Stephen Roche wins Tour de France
1988 - Mike Schmidt sets NL record appearing in 2,155 games at 3rd base, as Phillies & NY Mets end
           that game at 2:13 AM
1990 - General Hospital tapes its 7,000th episode
1990 - President Bush signs Americans With Disabilities Act
1990 - US beats Soviet Union 17-0 in baseball at Goodwill Games
1991 - CFL assumes ownership of Ottawa Rough Riders
1991 - Expo's Mark Gardner no hits Dodgers for 9 innings, but loses in 10th
1991 - Paul Reubens (Pee Wee Herman) is arrested in Florida, for exposing himself at an adult movie
           theater
1992 - "Man of La Mancha" closes at Marquis Theater NYC after 108 perfs
1992 - 47th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Patty Sheehan
1992 - England honors her dead soldiers in the Falkland Is war
1992 - Nolan Ryan strikes out his 100th batter for 23rd consecutive seasons
1993 - Boeing 737-500 crashes in South Korea, 66 killed
1993 - Mars Observer takes 1st photo of Mars, from 5 billion km
1994 - Cambodia's Red Khmer surprise attack on train, kills 13
1994 - Turkish air force bombs Kurds, struggle in Iraq, 70 killed
1998 - 19th US Senior Golf Open ends at Riviera CC, Pacific Palisades, Calif
2005 - Space Shuttle program: STS-114 Mission - Launch of Discovery, NASA's first scheduled flight
           mission after the Columbia Disaster in 2003.
2005 - Mumbai, India receives 99.5cm of rain (39.17 inches) within 24 hours, bringing the city to a
           halt for over 2 days.
2005 - Samir Geagea, the Lebanese Forces (LF) leader, is released after spending 11 years in a
           solitary confinement. His release came after the end of the Syrian occupation to Lebanon.
2012 - At least 200 people are killed in a day of violence in Syria
2012 - Insurgent attack kills 19 people and destroys a helicopter at Baqubah, Iraq
2012 - North Korea is hit by Tropical Storm Khanun, killing 88 people and leaving 60,000 people
           homeless

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 26, 2013, 01:47:40 PM

This Day in History for 26th July


Famous Weddings

1942 - Science fiction author Isaac Asimov (22) weds Gertrude Blugerman in Brooklyn, New York
1969 - "The 5th Dimension" lead vocalist Marilyn McCoo (25) weds fellow bandmate Billy Davis, Jr.
            (31)
1992 - "Kiss" guitarist Paul Stanley weds model Pamela Bowen
2006 - "The Da Vinci Code" actor Jean Reno (58) weds Polish model Zofia Borucka (35) at the city
           hall in Baux-de-Provence
2008 - Actress Jennifer Siebel (34) weds San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom (40) at her parents
           horse ranch in Stevensville, Montana
2012 - NBA guard Rafer Alston (36) weds "Basketball Wives" star Ashley Walker at Walt Disney
           World in Orlando, Florida

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 26, 2013, 01:49:13 PM

This Day in History for 26th July


Famous Divorces

2006 - Former Baywatch actor David Hasselhoff (54) divorces actress and singer Pamela Bach (42) due
           to irreconcilable differences after 16 years of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 26, 2013, 02:00:43 PM

This Day in History for 26th July


Famous Birthdays

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Playwright                                       Psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung (1875)       Film Director Stanley Kubrick (1928)
George Bernard Shaw (1856)

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Actress Sandra Bullock (1964)


1030 - Stanislaus of Szczepanów, St. Stanislaw (d. 1079)
1467 - Ferdinand II, King of Naples
1678 - Joseph I Habsburg, German king/Roman catholic emperor (1705-11)
1694 - Johann Samuel Endler, composer
1739 - George Clinton, NY, (D-R) 4th VP (1805-12)
1782 - John Field, Dublin Ireland, pianist/composer (Nocturnes)
1791 - Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, 6th child of Austrian composer WAM
1796 - George Catlin, US, author/painter (American Indian scenes)
1799 - Isaac Babbitt, invented babbitt's metal for bearings
1801 - John Drake Sloat, Ret Major General Comm (Union Navy), died in 1867
1802 - Winthrop Mackworth Praed, London, poet/politician
1802 - Mariano Arista, President of Mexico (d. 1855)
1805 - Constantine Brumidi, artist (Myrtle Murdock)
1820 - John Marshall Jones, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
1829 - August Beernaert, Belgian premier (1884-94) (Nobel-1909)
1842 - Alfred Marshall, London, economist
1846 - Texas Jack Omohundro, American frontier scout, actor, and cowboy (d. 1880)
1855 - Ferdinand Tönnies, German sociologist (d. 1936)
1856 - George Bernard Shaw, Dublin Ireland, dramatist (Pygmalion-Nobel 1925), (d. 1950)
1858 - Tommy Garrett, cricketer (original Australian Test player)
1860 - Philippe J Bunau-Varilla, French engineer (Colombia-Panama)
1863 - Jazeps Witols, composer
1865 - Philipp Scheidemann, German Parliament (SPD)/mayor of Kassel
1866 - Francesco Cilea, composer
1872 - George Louis Beer, historian (authority on British colonies)
1874 - Serge Koussevitzky, Vishny-Volotchok, Russia conductor (Boston Symp)
1875 - Carl Gustav Jung, Switzerland, doctor (founded analytic psychology), (d. 1961)
1875 - Antonio Machado, Spanish poet (d. 1939)
1876 - Ernest Schelling, Belvidere NJ, composer/conductor (Victory Ball)
1877 - Hubert Ahaus, missionary (Harvest Fields)
1880 - Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Ukrainian statesman (d. 1951)
1881 - Alexander J Kropholler, architect
1885 - Andre Maurois, Elbeuf, France, novelist/biographer
1886 - Lars Hanson, Swedish actor (d. 1965)
1888 - M Jouhandeau, writer
1891 - Jacques Pirenne, Belgian historian
1892 - Philipp Jarnach, composer
1892 - Sam Jones, American baseball player (d. 1966)
1893 - George Grosz, German painter (Gott mit uns)
1894 - Aldous L Huxley, Surrey England, author (Brave New World)
1894 - Ludovicus J Rogier, Dutch historian (Henric van Veldeken)
1895 - Jerry Verno, London England, actor (River of Unrest, Sweeney Todd)
1895 - Robert Graves, London England, writer/poet (I Claudius) [or 6/26]
1895 - Jane Bunford, Britain's tallest-ever person (d. 1922)
1896 - Charles Butterworth, US, lawyer/actor (Mad Genius)
1896 - Evelyn Preer, US actress (Homesteader, Spider's Webs)
1896 - Henry Birkin, British racing driver (d. 1933)
1897 - Paul Gallico, NY, novelist
1899 - Carel C van Essen, Dutch archaeologist (Italian & Roman art)
1899 - Danton Walker, Mariette Ga, columnist (Broadway Spotlight)
1901 - John Bleifer, Zawiercie Poland, actor (Highway to Heaven)
1902 - Gracie Allen, SF California, Mrs George Burns/comedian (Burns & Allen)
1903 - Donald Voorhees, Allentown Pa, conductor (Bell Telephone Hour)
1904 - Jack Allan Westrup, composer
1906 - Armando Jose Fernandes, composer
1906 - Irena Iłłakowicz, Polish agent of Intelligence (d. 1943)
1907 - Gioconda de Vito, violinist
1907 - Istvan Pelle, Hungary, gymnist (Olympic-gold-1932)
1908 - Salvador Allende Gossens, Chile's last elected president (1970-73)
1909 - Gerardina I "Diny" van Amstel, Dutch actress (Dijntje & Trijntje)
1909 - Peter Thorneycroft, British politician (d. 1994)
1909 - Vivian Vance, Cherryvale Kansas, American actress (Ethel Mertz-I Love Lucy) (d. 1979)
1912 - Derek Riches, diplomat
1913 - Lou Salica, US, flyweight boxer (Olympic-bronze-1932)
1914 - Ralph Hunsecker Blane, songwriter
1914 - Erskine Hawkins, American musician and bandleader (d. 1993)
1914 - Ellis Kinder, American baseball player (d. 1968)
1917 - Bertil Nordahl, Sweden, soccer player (Olympic-gold-1948)
1917 - Richard Desborough Burnell, England, double sculls (Olympic-gold-1948)
1918 - Marjorie Lord [Wollenberg], San Francisco, California, American actress (Make Room for
           Daddy, Sherlock Holmes in Washington)
1919 - James Lovelock, scientist
1919 - Kenneth Snowman, antiquarian
1919 - Virginia Gilmore, American actress (d. 1986)
1920 - Bob Waterfield, NFL QB (Rams)
1921 - Jean Shepherd, American writer (d. 1999)
1922 - Andrzej Koszewski, composer
1922 - Blake Edwards, OK, writer/director (10, SOB, Breakfast at Tiffany's)
1922 - Frank Price, CEO (British Waterways Board)
1922 - Jason Robards Jr, Chicago, actor (A Thousand Clowns, Any Wednesday)
1923 - Peter Carey, permanent secretary (DTI)
1923 - [James] Hoyt Wilhelm, knuckleball pitcher (Orioles)
1923 - Jan Berenstain, American author, (d. 2012)
1924 - Elias Motsoaledi, South African Umkhonto we Sizwe-commandant
1924 - John Kilgour, director of prison medical services (Home Office)
1924 - Louis Bellson, Rock Falls Ill, orchestra leader (Pearl Bailey Show)
1925 - Jerzy Einhorn, Polish-Swedish doctor, researcher and politician (d. 2000)
1926 - Barbara Jefford, actress (Saint, Reunion, Ulysses)
1926 - Don Carter, bowling great (1st PBA president)
1926 - James Best [Jewel Franklin Guy], Powderly, Kentucky, American actor (The Dukes of Hazzard,
           Sounder)
1926 - Ana María Matute, Spanish author
1927 - G S Ramchand, cricketer (valuable all-rounder in 33 Tests for India)
1927 - M H W Wells, CEO (Charterhouse Japhet)
1928 - Hans Haselbock, composer
1928 - Stanley Kubrick, Bronx NY, director (2001, Dr Strangelove, Lolita)
1928 - Tadeusz Baird, Polish composer (Giocosa)
1928 - Don Beauman, British racing driver (d. 1955)
1928 - Ibn-e-Safi, Pakistani fiction writer and Urdu poet (d. 1980)
1928 - Peter Lougheed, Canadian politician
1929 - Alexis Weissenberg, Sofia Bulgaria, pianist (Levintritt-1948)
1929 - Jean Shepherd, humorist (Playboy satire Award 1966, 1967, 1969)
1929 - Marc Lalonde, French Canadian politician
1930 - Baroness Oppenheim-Barnes
1931 - A M F (Sandy) Ross, managing-director (Mary Quant)
1931 - Takashi Ono, Japan, gymnist (Olympic-gold-1956, 60)
1933 - Lance Percival, actor/singer (Darling Lili, Our Miss Fred)
1934 - Anthony Gilbert, composer
1936 - Antonio Mastrogiovanni, composer
1936 - Kathryn Hays, NYC, actress (Kim Hughes-As the World Turns)
1936 - Mary Millar, English actress (d. 1998)
1938 - Keith Peters, physician
1938 - Peter Hall, diplomat
1938 - Bobby Hebb, Nashville Tn, country singer/songwriter (Sunny)
1938 - Darlene Love, American singer
1939 - J W Howard, Prime Minister of Australia
1940 - Brian Mawhinney, chairman (British Conservative Party)
1940 - Mary Jo Kopechne, Ted Kennedy's d(r)iving buddy
1940 - Dobie Gray, American singer (Drift Away)
1940 - Tolis Voskopoulos, Greek singer
1941 - Brenton Wood, Shreveport La, rocker (Gimme Little Sign)
1941 - Darlene Love, singer/actress (Lethal Weapon)
1942 - Dobie Gray, Brookshire Tx, singer (In Crowd)
1942 - Vladimír Mečiar, Slovak prime minister
1942 - Teddy Pilette, Belgian racing driver
1943 - Mick Jagger, English, rock vocalist (Rolling Stones)
1943 - Peter Hyams, director (2010, Capricorn 1, Relic, Timecop)
1943 - Roger Smalley, composer
1944 - Kiel Martin, Pitts Pa, actor (Det LaRue-Hill Street Blues)
1944 - Micki J King, springboard diver (Olympic-gold-1972)
1944 - Rimantas Antanas-Antonovich Stankiavichus, Russian cosmonaut
1945 - Linda Harrison, Berlin Md, actress (Bracken's World, Planet of Apes)
1945 - Helen Mirren [Ilyena Lydia Vasilievna Mironoff], London, English actress (The Queen, The
           Madness of King George)
1946 - Anne Wright, Vice-Chancellor (Sunderland U)
1947 - Pauline Clare, Chief Constable (Lancashire)
1948 - Norair Nurikian, Bulgari, bantam weight (Olympic-gold-1972, 76)
1949 - Roger Taylor, British rock drummer (Queen-Bohemian Rhapsody)
1949 - William M Shepherd, Oak Ridge Tn, Capt USN/astronaut (STS 27, 41, 52)
1950 - Paul McHale, (Rep-D-Pennsylvania)
1950 - Susan George, London England, actress (Straw Dogs, Mandingo)
1950 - Nelinho, Brazilian footballer
1950 - Rich Vogler, American race car driver (d. 1990)
1951 - Robert Edwin Wadkins, Richmond VA, PGA golfer (1994 Kemper Open-2nd)
1951 - William Surles "Bill" McArthur Jr, NC, astro (STS 58, 74, sk: 92)
1952 - Ludmila Maslakova, USSR, relay runner (Olympic-silver-1980)
1952 - Scott David Cook, Glendale Ca, CEO (Intuit-Quicken)
1953 - Robert Phillips, classical guitarist
1954 - Lawrence Watt-Evans, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Sword of Bheleu)
1954 - Vitas Gerulaitis, Brooklyn NY, tennis star (Australia 1987)
1955 - Nicholas Walker, Bogota Col, actor (Capitol, Jimmy-General Hospital)
1956 - Dorothy Hamill, Riverside Ct, figure skater (Olympic-gold-1976)
1956 - Tommy Rich, American professional wrestler
1957 - Jeff Blatnick, Schenectady NY, wrestling (Oly-gold-1984)
1957 - Nana Visitor, [Tucker], actress (Deep Space 9)
1957 - Wayne Grady, Brisbane, Australia, PGA golfer (1990 PGA Champion)
1957 - Yuen Biao, Hong Kong actor
1957 - Hart Hanson, American television writer and producer
1958 - Ramona Neubert, German DR, long jumper/pentathlete (Oly-4th-80)
1958 - Angela Hewitt, Canadian classical pianist
1959 - Kevin Spacey, South Orange NJ, actor (Dad, Henry & June, Darrow)
1959 - Rick Bragg, American writer
1960 - LaTaunya Pollard, East Chic Ind, (Olympics-1980, 84)
1960 - Mitch Kahn, San Clemente California, kayak (alt-Olympics-96)
1961 - Andy Connel, rocker (Swingout Sister-Swingout)
1961 - Gary Cherone, Boston, heavy metal vocalist (Extreme-More Than Words)
1961 - Terri Nunn, rock vocalist (Berlin-Takes My Breath Away)
1961 - Yolanda Chen, Moscow Russia, triple jumper (indoor record)
1961 - Dimitris Saravakos, Greek footballer
1961 - Keiko Matsui, Japanese musician and composer
1962 - Galina Chistyakova, Russian jumper (world record 1988)
1962 - Jody Reed, Tampa FL, infielder (San Diego Padres)
1963 - Andrew C Timmons, Scottsdale Az, guitarist (Danger Danger-Screw It)
1963 - Marianne Berglund, Sweden, cyclist (1983 Ruffles Tour of Texas)
1964 - Sandra Bullock, Wash DC, actress (Speed, Net, Love & War)
1964 - Anne Provoost, Belgian author (In the Shadow of the Ark)
1964 - Ralf Metzenmacher, German painter and designer
1964 - Danny Woodburn, American actor
1965 - Jeremy Piven, New York City, New York, American actor and producer (Entourage,
           Serendipity)
1965 - Jennifer Ashe, actress (As the World Turns)
1965 - Jim Lindberg, American musician (Pennywise)
1967 - David McKenzie, Footscray VIC, Australasia golfer
1967 - Anthony Durante, American professional wrestler (d. 2003)
1967 - Tim Schafer, American computer game designer
1968 - Mike Mohler, Dayton OH, pitcher (Oakland A's)
1969 - Greg Colbrunn, Fontana CA, infielder (Florida Marlins)
1969 - Jonty Rhodes, South African cricket batsman (brilliant fielder)
1969 - Marc Boutte, NFL defensive tackle (Washington Redskins)
1969 - Patrick Alfred Bates, St Louis MO, PGA golfer (1994 NIKE Dakota Open)
1970 - Kenny Wilhite, CFL defensive back (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1970 - Phil Alley, cricketer (NSW left-arm pace bowler)
1971 - Neus Avila, Lerida Spain, tennis star (Futures-Valencia-ESP 1995)
1971 - Reggie Carthon, CFL defensive back (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1971 - Khaled Mahmud, Former Bangladeshi cricketer
1972 - Ryan Christopherson, NFL running back (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1972 - Sean Graham, CFL slot back (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1972 - Tydus Winans, NFL/CFL wide receiver (Washington Redskins, Roughriders)
1973 - Jean Francois Bergeron, St Jerome Quebec, boxer (Olympics-96)
1973 - Peter Heijsteek, soccer player (DFC/Dordrecht '90)
1973 - Kate Beckinsale, British actress
1973 - Lenka Šarounová, Czech astronomer
1974 - Bubba Wells, NBA forward (Dallas Mavericks)
1974 - Dean Sturridge, English Footballer
1974 - Dan Konopka, American musician (OK Go)
1975 - Joe Smith, NBA forward (Golden State Warriors)
1976 - Brad Wilkins, American architect
1977 - Martin Laursen, Danish footballer
1977 - Rebecca St. James, Australian-born singer
1979 - Peter Sarno, Canadian ice hockey player
1979 - Mageina Tovah, American actress
1979 - Erik Westrum, American ice hockey player
1980 - Dave Baksh, Canadian guitarist (Sum 41)
1980 - Lee Dong-gun, South Korean actor
1981 - Abe Forsythe, Australian actor/director
1982 - Chez Starbuck, American actor
1983 - Roderick Strong, American professional wrestler
1983 - Delonte West, American basketball player
1984 - Kyriakos Ioannou, Cypriot high jumper
1985 - Gaël Clichy, French footballer
1985 - Audrey De Montigny, Quebec singer
1987 - Miriam McDonald, Canadian actress
1993 - Taylor Momsen, American actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 26, 2013, 02:03:22 PM

This Day in History for 26th July


Famous Deaths

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Actress/First Lady Eva Peron-Duarte (1952)


796 - Offa, king of Mercia (75.-796)
811 - Nicephorus I, Byzantine Emperor (802-11), dies in battle
1342 - Charles I Robert van Anjou, King of Hungary (1307-42), dies
1380 - Emperor Komyo of Japan (b. 1322)
1471 - Paul II, [Pietro Barbo], Italian Pope (1464-71), dies at 54
1533 - Atahualpo, Inca ruler, dies
1592 - Armand de Gontaut, baron de Biron, French soldier (b. 1524)
1611 - Horio Yoshiharu, Japanese warlord (b. 1542)
1630 - Charles Emanuel I, the Great, Duke of Savoy (Peace of Lyon), dies
1677 - Michael Franck, composer, dies at 68
1680 - John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, poet/courtier, dies
1684 - Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Italian mathematician (b. 1646)
1712 - Thomas Osborne, English PM (1690-94), dies at 80
1719 - Johann Georg Christian Storl, composer, dies at 43
1723 - Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (b. 1660)
1728 - John Friend, physician/politician, dies
1770 - Michael Schevenstuhl, composer, dies at 65
1801 - Daniel Dal Barba, composer, dies at 86
1826 - Freidrich Wilhelm Weis, composer, dies at 82
1836 - Jose Melchor Gomiz y Colomer, composer, dies at 45
1863 - Samuel Houston, 1st Pres of Rep of Texas (1836-38, 41-44), dies at 70
1867 - King Otto of Greece (b. 1815)
1872 - Michele Carafa, composer, dies at 84
1881 - George Borrow, writer, dies
1910 - Philipus J Hoedemaker, theologist, dies at 71
1915 - James Murray, philologist, dies
1916 - Gellio Benevenuto Coronaro, composer, dies at 52
1918 - Eduard "Mick" Mannock, British WW I flyer (Victoria Cross), dies
1919 - Sir Edward Poynter, British painter (b. 1836)
1920 - Carlos Troyer, composer, dies at 83
1925 - William Jennings Bryan, lawyer (Scopes-monkey trial), dies at 65
1925 - Antonio Ascari, Italian racing driver (b. 1888)
1935 - Winsor McCay, American cartoonist (b. 1871)
1937 - Gerda Taro (Gerta Pohorylle), photojournalist dies covering Spanish Civil War aged 26
1941 - Benjamin Whorf, anthropologist, dies
1941 - Marx Dormoy, French socialist, killed by a time bomb
1942 - Titus Brandsma, [Anno Sjoerd], Dutch Roman Catholic priest and philosopher (Dachau), dies
1942 - Roberto Arlt, Argentinian writer (b. 1900)
1944 - Rezā Shāh Pahlavi [Rezā Khan], Shah of Iran (1925-41), dies at 66 of a heart ailment
1946 - Morris Hirshfield, Polish/US painter, dies
1948 - Charles Mills, South African cricketer (Test v England 1891-92), dies
1952 - Eva Peron-Duarte, Argentina's 1st lady, dies at 33
1953 - Nikolaos Plastiras, Greece premier (1945-50, 51-2), dies
1954 - Hans Lodeizen, [Johan Frederik], poet (Travel to Congo), dies at 26
1956 - Miguel Bernal Jiminez, composer, dies at 46
1957 - Carlos Castillo Armas, president of Guatemala, murdered
1959 - Manuel Altolaguirre, Spanish poet/publisher (Amor), dies at 54
1960 - Maud Menten, Canadian biochemist (b. 1879)
1960 - Cedric Gibbons, American art director (b. 1893)
1964 - Francis Curzon, 5th Earl Howe, British politician, naval officer and racing driver (b. 1884)
1967 - Matthijs Vermeulen, Dutch composer/critic, dies at 79
1968 - Lilian Harvey, British actress (Congress Dances), dies
1969 - Raymond Walburn, actor (Spoilers, Dixie), dies after illness at 81
1970 - Claud Allister, actor (Kiss Me Kate, Quartet), dies at 81
1970 - Robert Taschereau, French Canadian lawyer and Chief Justice of Canada (b. 1896)
1973 - Mike Burke, Pres (NY Yankees)/dir (Madison Sq Garden), dies
1974 - Arthur K Watson, US businessman (IBM), dies at 55
1974 - Charlotte MT "Lotte" Bartschart, actress (Dolle Lola), dies at 82
1975 - Leigh Whipper, actor (Hidden Eye, Jungle Queen), dies at 98
1977 - Gena Branscombe, composer, dies at 95
1977 - Hans-Otto Borgmann, composer, dies at 75
1977 - Karac Plant, son of Robert Plant, dies of respratory failure at 6
1980 - Alan Hoskins, dies
1980 - Ibn-e-Safi, Pakistani fiction writer and Urdu poet (b. 1928)
1981 - Donald Lybbert, composer, dies at 58
1982 - Betty Walker, actress (Steve Lawrence Show), dies at 54
1984 - Ed "Psycho" Gein, mass murderer (Psycho based on him), dies at 78
1984 - George Gallup, pioneer of public opinion polls, dies
1986 - Averell Harriman, statesman, dies in Yorktown Heights, NY at 94
1987 - Joe Liggins, US composer (I've a Right to Cry), dies at 71
1988 - Fazlur Rahman Malik, Pakistani scholar (b. 1919)
1990 - Brent Mydland, rock keyboardist/vocalist (Grass Roots), dies at 38
1992 - Mary Wells, US soul singer (My Guy), dies at 49
1992 - Ron Webber, dies of cancer at 60
1993 - Daniel Fuchs, US, screenwriter (Hard Way), dies at 84
1993 - Matthew B Ridgway, US Army Chief of Staff (1953-55), dies at 98
1994 - Marino Iandioro, canned tomato pioneer, dies at 64
1994 - Thomas Davis, US movie editor/son of MGM-chief Frank D, dies at 26
1994 - Terry (Owen John) Scott, English actor and comedian (Carry On Films) aged 67
1995 - Eleanore Griffin, screenwriter, dies
1995 - George Romney, politician, dead Heart attack, dies at 88
1995 - Jaime de Mora y Aragon, actor/publicist (Last Judgement), dies at 70
1995 - Laurindo Almeida, composer/guitarist, dies at 76
1995 - Raymond Mailloux, Quebec politician (b. 1918)
1996 - Arthur William Raynes McDonald, radar Pioneer/pilot, dies at 93
1996 - Evelyn Levine, composer, dies at 94
2000 - John Tukey, American statistician (b. 1915)
2001 - Rex Barber, American WWII aviator (b. 1917)
2001 - Peter von Zahn, German journalist (b. 1913)
2005 - Betty Astell, British actress (b. 1912)
2005 - Alexander Golitzen, American art director (b. 1908)
2005 - Jack Hirshleifer, American economist (b. 1925)
2005 - Gilles Marotte, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1945)
2007 - Lars Forssell, Swedish writer, member of the Swedish Academy (b. 1928)
2007 - John Normington, English actor (b. 1937)
2007 - Skip Prosser, American basketball coach (b. 1950)
2009 - Marcey Jacobson, American photographer (b. 1911)
2010 - Sivakant Tiwari, senior legal officer of the Singapore Legal Service (b. 1945)
2011 - Margaret Olley, Australian artist (b.1923)
2012 - Franz West, Austrian artist, dies at 65

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 27, 2013, 08:12:45 AM

This Day in History for 27th July


Historical Events

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Mathematician and Astronomer                   Aviator Orville Wright                 Clergyman and civil rights activist
Nicolaus Copernicus                                                                                                    Martin Luther King Jr.

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36th US President                                   Queen of the United Kingdom               
Lyndon B. Johnson                                            Elizabeth II


432 - St Celestine I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1214 - 1st battle of Bouvines - King Philips II vs Emperor Otto IV
1230 - Treaty of San-Germano between Emperor Frederik II & Pope Gregory IX
1280 - Sogen Mugaku, founder of Engakuji temple arrives in Japan from China
1298 - Albert (Albrecht) I, son of Rudolf of Habsburg, crowned King of the Germans
1360 - Danish King Waldemar IV destroys Visby Gotland
1501 - Copernicus formally installed as canon of Frauenberg Cathedral
1549 - Jesuit priest Francis Xavier's ship reached Japan.
1563 - French army recaptures Le Havre
1586 - Sir Walter Raleigh brings 1st tobacco to England from Virginia
1641 - Prince Frederik Henry captures castle of Gennep
1643 - Cromwell defeats Royalist at Battle of Gainsborough
1655 - Jews of New Amsterdam petition for a Jewish cemetery
1655 - Netherlands & Brandenburg sign military treaty
1661 - Parliament confirms Navigation Act
1663 - English parliament accepts Staple Act
1689 - Battle of Killicrankie Jacobite Scottish Highlanders under Viscount Dundee defeat royal force
           under General MacKay
1694 - Bank of England granted 12 year charter by Act of Parliament
1713 - Russia & Turkey sign peace treaty
1714 - Battle at Hango (Hangut): Russians beat Swedish fleet
1714 - English Queen Anne fires premier Robert Haley
1720 - The second important victory of the Russian Navy - the Battle of Grengam.
1789 - Congress establishes Dept of Foreign Affairs (State dept)
1794 - Coup of thermidor/fall of Robespierre in Paris
1795 - Spain & France sign peace treaty
1809 - Battle at Talavera: British/Spanish army vs French army
1816 - US troops destroy Ft Apalachicola, a Seminole fort, to punish Indians for harboring runaway
           slaves
1830 - Revolution breaks out in Paris, opposing laws of Charles X
1836 - Adelaide, South Australia founded
1837 - US Mint opens in Charlotte, NC
1839 - Chartist riots break out in Birmingham England
1844 - Fire destroys US mint at Charlotte, NC
1861 - Battle of Mathias Point, VA - Rebel forces repel a Federal landing
1861 - Battle of St Augustine Springs, NM Terr
1861 - Confederate troops occupy Fort Fillmore, New Mexico
1861 - Union General George McClellan takes command from McDowell of Potamic Army
1862 - Hurricane hits Canton; about 40,000 die
1862 - Steamer "Golden Gate" burns & sinks off west coast of Mexico
1864 - Battle of Darbytown, VA (Deep Bottom, Newmarket Road) (Strawberry Plains)
1865 - Welsh settlers arrive at Chubut in Argentina.
1866 - Atlantic telegraph cable successfully laid (1,686 miles long)
1880 - A P Abourne patents a process for refining coconut oil
1880 - Battle of Maiwand, at which Dr Watson is wounded, breaks out
1888 - Philip Pratt unveils 1st electric automobile
1891 - Titus van Wyck succeeds M de Savornin Lohman as gov of Suriname
1897 - 14.75" (37.5 cm) of rainfall, Jewell, Maryland (state 24-hr record)
1897 - Dutch government of Pierson/Goeman Borgesius resigns
1898 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Dancing Men" (BG)
1909 - Orville Wright tests 1st US Army airplane, flying 1h12m40s
1913 - Belgian Philippe Thys wins Tour de France
1914 - Roda JC soccer team forms in Kerkrade
1914 - Felix Manalo registers the Iglesia ni Cristo with the Filipino government.
1917 - The Allies reach the Yser Canal at the Battle of Passchendaele.
1918 - Socony 200, 1st concrete barge in US, launched to carry oil, NY
1919 - Chicago race riot (15 whites & 23 blacks killed, 500 injured)
1920 - Radio compass used for 1st time for aircraft navigation
1920 - Resolute beats Shamrock IV (England) in 14th running of America's Cup
1921 - 2nd government of Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms
1921 - Frederick Banting & Charles Best isolates insulin at U of Toronto
1922 - International Geographical Union forms in Brussels
1924 - 8th Olympic games closes in Paris
1927 - Mel Ott, 18, hits his 1st league home run (inside the park)
1928 - AVRO, General Vereniging Radio Omroep, forms
1928 - Tich Freeman becomes only bowler ever to take 200 first-class wickets before end of July.
1929 - Dike of Wieringermeerpolder finished
1930 - Andre Leducq wins Tour de France
1931 - Chilean president Carlos Ibáñez forced out
1931 - Grasshoppers in Iowa, Nebr & SD destroyed thousands of acres of crops
1932 - Paul Gorgoulov, French president Doumer's assassin, sentenced to death
1934 - French socialist/communist party of People's Front forms
1935 - Floods at Yangtzee Jiang & Hoangh, kills 200,000
1937 - 32nd Davis Cup: USA beats Great Britain in Wimbledon (4-1)
1940 - Billboard magazine starts publishing bestseller charts
1940 - Bugs Bunny debuts in "Wild Hare"
1941 - 103°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in July
1941 - German army enters Ukraine
1941 - Japanese forces land in Indo-China
1943 - 772 British bombers attack Hamburg
1944 - 1st British jet fighter used in combat (Gloster Meteor)
1944 - Soviet Army frees Majdanek concentration camp
1944 - US regains possession of Guam from Japanese
1944 - US troops occupy le Mesnil-Herman/Hill 183 Normandy
1945 - Cubs purchase pitcher Hank Borowy from NY Yankees
1945 - US Communist Party forms
1946 - Boston Red Sox Rudy York hits 2 grand slams in 1 game, gets 10 RBIs
1947 - Yogi Berri starts record 148 game errorless streak
1948 - Australia set 404 to win v England at Headingley
1948 - Bradman's 29th & last Test Cricket century, part of winning 3-404
1948 - Otto Skorzeny escapes anti-nazi camp at Darmstadt
1949 - 1st jet-propelled airline (De Havilland Comet) flies
1950 - Pres Harry Truman promises aid to Taiwan
1952 - Emile Zatopek runs Olympic record marathon (2:23:03.2)
1953 - 1st insulin isolated by F Banting & C Best in Toronto
1953 - North Korea & UN sign armistice
1953 - Vatican disallows priest holiday work in factory
1953 - Dizzy Dean, Al Simmons Chief Bender, Bobby Wallace, Harry Wright, Ed Barrow, & Bill Klem &
           Tom Connolly are inducted into Hall of Fame
1954 - 36th PGA Championship: Chick Herbert at Keller GC St Paul Minn
1954 - Armistice divides Vietnam into two countries
1955 - Austria regains full independence after 4-power occupation
1955 - Israeli passenger plane shot down above Bulgaria, 58 die
1956 - Jim Laker takes 9-37 in Australia's 1st innings at Manchester
1957 - St James' Theater in London closes
1958 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA French Lick Golf Open
1959 - Abbas Ali Baig scores 112 for India v England on debut
1959 - William Shea announces he plans to have a baseball team in NYC in 1961
1960 - VP Nixon nominated for presidential candidate at Republican convention in Chicago
1962 - Mariner 2 launched to Venus; flyby mission
1962 - Martin Luther King Jr jailed in Albany Georgia
1962 - USSR performs nuclear Test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1963 - Fritz Von Erich beats Verne Gagne in Omaha, to become NWA champ
1963 - General Amin al-Hafez becomes president of Syria
1965 - Pierre Harmel forms Belgium government
1965 - Pres Johnson signs a bill requiring cigarette makers to print health warnings on all cigarette
           packages about the effects of smoking
1967 - Arabs Federation premier Hoesein Al Bayoomi resigns
1967 - Helmond Sport soccer team forms
1967 - LBJ sets up commission to study cause of urban violence
1967 - US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1968 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Supertest Canadian Golf Open
1968 - Race Riot in Gary Indiana
1969 - 15th LPGA Championship won by Betsy Rawls
1969 - Pioneer 10 launched
1970 - Expos beat White Sox 10-6 in the annual Hall of Fame game
1970 - France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
1970 - L Boudreau, Earle Combs, Ford Frick, & Jesse Haines enter Hall of Fame
1972 - NHL star Maurice "Rocket" Richard signs with WHL Quebec Nordiques
1972 - The F-15 Eagle flies for the first time.
1973 - 40th NFL Chicago All Star Game: Miami 14, All Stars 3 (54,103)
1973 - Walter Blum becomes 6th jockey to ride 4,000 winners
1974 - House Judiciary Committee votes 27-11 recommends Nixon impeachment
1974 - Kanhai & Jameson add 465 for 2nd wicket, Warwickshire v Gloucs
1975 - Carol Mann wins LPGA George Washington Ladies Golf Classic
1976 - 8.2 Tangshan earthquake kills estimated 240,000 Chinese
1976 - Japanese ex-premier Tanaka arrested (Lockheed Affair)
1977 - John Lennon is granted a green card for permanent residence in US
1978 - Indians Duane Kuiper is 3rd to hit 2 bases-loaded triples (vs Yanks)
1978 - Portuguese pres Eanes fires premier Soares
1979 - "Broadway Opry '79" opens at St James Theater NYC for 6 performances
1979 - France performs nuclear Test
1980 - Palestinian throws hand grenade on Jewish children in Antwerp, 1 dead
1980 - Sally Little wins LPGA WUI Golf Classic
1982 - California catches A's Rickey Henderson stealing 3 times
1982 - Indian PM Indira Gandhi 1st visit to US in almost 11 years
1982 - Menken & Ashman's musical "Little Shop of Horrors," premieres in NYC
1983 - 104°F (40.3°C) in Garmersdorf (German record)
1983 - Gaylord Perry joins Nolan Ryan & Steve Carlton to reach 3,500 career strikeouts this season,
           he also wins his 1st game as a Royal
1984 - Reds' Pete Rose collects record 3,053rd career single (vs Phila)
1986 - 14th du Maurier Golf Classic: Pat Bradley
1986 - 24th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats Czechoslovakia in Prague Czech (3-0)
1986 - Greg Lemond is 1st American to win Tour de France
1987 - John Demjanjuk, accused Nazi "Ivan the Terrible" testifies in Israel
1987 - Salt Lake City Trappers lose 7-5 to Billings Mustangs, ending their professional-record
           winning streak at 29 consecutive
1987 - First expedited salvaging of Titanic wreckage begins by RMS Titanic, Inc.
1988 - Boston's worst traffic jam in 30 years
1988 - General Sein Lwin succeeds Ne Win as pres of Burma
1988 - Radio Shack announces Tandy 1000 SL computer
1988 - Tommy John commits rec 3 errors on 1 play as Yanks rout Brewers 16-3
1989 - Atlanta Brave Dale Murphy is 10th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (6th)
1990 - Graham Gooch scores 333 v India at Lord's
1990 - Tom Moody scores 100 in 26 mins in county cricket, world record
1990 - White-Russia declares independence
1990 - Zsa Zsa Gabor begins a 3 day jail sentence for slapping a cop
1991 - TV Guide publishes it's 2000th edition
1992 - Astros begins 26-game road trip to make room for Rep Natl Convention
1992 - Dimitri Lepikov, Vladimir Pychenko, Veniamin Taianovitch & Evgueni
1992 - Sadovyi swim world record 4x200m freestyle (7:11.95)
1993 - Detroit Tiger Fryman hits for cycle but loses 12-7 to Yankees
1993 - Javier Sotomayor jumps world record 2.45 m high
1993 - Mafia bombs historical buildings in Rome/Milan/Vatican City, 5 killed
1993 - NBC TV awarded 1996 Olympic coverage for $456 million
1993 - NY Met Anthony Young wins ending his losing streak at 27 games
1995 - In Washington, DC, the Korean War Veterans Memorial is dedicated.
1996 - Bomb explodes at Atlanta Olympic Park, 1 killed, 110 injured
1996 - David Sales makes 210 on 1st class cricket debut for Northants v Worcs
1997 - "Candide," closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 103 performances
1997 - "Victor/Victoria" closes at Marquis Theater NYC after 738 performances
1997 - Detroit Tigers retire pitching great Hal Newhouser's #16
1997 - Franklin Quest Senior Golf Championship
1997 - Stewart Cink wins golfs Greater Hartford Open (267)
1997 - Tammie Green wins Giant Eagle LPGA Classic
1997 - Si Zerrouk massacre in Algeria; about 50 people killed.
2002 - Ukraine airshow disaster: A Sukhoi Su-27 fighter crashes during an air show at Lviv, Ukraine
           killing 85 and injuring more than 100 others, the largest air show disaster in history.
2005 - STS-114: NASA grounds the Space shuttle, pending an investigation of the external tank's
           continued foam-shedding problem. During ascent, the external tank of the Space Shuttle
           Discovery sheds a piece of foam slightly smaller than the piece that caused the Space Shuttle
           Columbia disaster; this foam does not strike the spacecraft.
2006 - The Federal Republic of Germany is deemed guilty in the loss of Bashkirian 2937 and DHL
           Flight 611, because it is illegal to outsource flight surveillance.
2007 - Phoenix News Helicopter Collision: News helicopters from Phoenix, Arizona television stations
           KNXV and KTVK collide over Steele Indian School Park in central Phoenix while covering a
           police chase; there were no survivors. This was the first known incidence of two news
           helicopters colliding in mid-air, and the worst civil aviation incident in Phoenix history.
2012 - Queen Elizabeth II announces the opening of the London 2012 Olympics at the opening
           ceremony

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 27, 2013, 08:14:41 AM

This Day in History for 27th July


Famous Weddings

1365 - Isabella of England marries Enguerrand of Coucy at Windsor
1927 - Major Bernard Montgomery (29) marries widow Betty Carver
1981 - British television: On Coronation Street, Ken Barlow marries Deirdre Langton, proving to be a
           national event with massive viewer numbers
1986 - "Say Anything" director Cameron Crowe (29) weds "Heart" guitarist Nancy Wilson (32)
1991 - Rocker Jani Lane, (Warrant-Cherry Pie) marries model Bobbie Brown
2006 - NASCAR driver Kurt Busch (27) weds Eva Bryan in Eastville, Virginia

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 27, 2013, 08:24:02 AM

This Day in History for 27th July


Famous Birthdays

(http://i.historyorb.com/ludovico-sforza.jpg)                  (http://i.historyorb.com/hans-fischer.jpg)                 (http://i.historyorb.com/leo-durocher.jpg)
Duke of Milan                                         Physicist and Nobel Laureate                  Baseball Player and Manager
Ludovico Sforza (1452)                              Hans Fischer (1881)                                       Leo Durocher (1906)

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Singer Maureen McGovern (1949)


1452 - Ludovico Sforza [il Moro], Lombardy, Italian duke of Milan (1494-1508), (commissioned The
           Last Supper), (d. 1508)
1502 - Pier Francesco Corteccia, composer
1518 - Elizabeth Talbot, countess of Shrewsbury/builder of country houses
1609 - Heinrich Pape, composer
1612 - Murad IV, sultan of Turkey (1623-40)/conquered Baghdad
1625 - Edward Montagu, England
1667 - Jean Bernoulli, mathematician
1733 - Jeremiah Dixon, English surveyor and astronomer (d. 1779)
1734 - Jakob Zupan, composer
1740 - Jeanne Baré, French explorer (d. 1803)
1741 - Francois-Hippolyte Barthelemon, composer
1752 - Samuel Smith, American politician
1768 - Charlotte Corday d'Armont, murdered Jean-Paul Marat in bath
1773 - Jakob Aall, Norwegian journalist and statesman (d. 1844)
1777 - Thomas Campbell, poet (Hohenlinden, Battle of the Baltic)
1781 - Mauro Giuseppe Sergio Pantaleo Giuliani, composer
1784 - Andre-Georges-Louis Onslow, English/French composer (chamber music)
1784 - Denis Davydov, Russian general and poet (d. 1839)
1801 - George Biddle Airy, 7th Astronomer Royal
1802 - Benedikt Randhartinger, composer
1812 - Thomas Lanier Clingman, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1897
1820 - John Franklin Farnsworth, Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
1824 - Alexandre Dumas fils, France, playwright/novelist (Camille)
1833 - Thomas George Bonney, English geologist (d. 1923)
1835 - Giosuè Carducci, Italian writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1907)
1840 - Ranald Slidell Mackenzie, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1848 - Vladimir de Pachmann, painter
1848 - Loránd Eötvös, Hungarian physicist (d. 1919)
1853 - Vladimir Korolenko, Russian writer (d. 1921)
1857 - Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge, orientalist/museum curator
1857 - Jose Celso Barbosa, Puerto Rico, found Federalist Party in 1900
1870 - Joseph Hilaire Pierre Belloc, England, author (Path to Rome)
1872 - Stanislav Binicki, composer
1877 - Ernő Dohnányi, Hungarian composer and conductor (d. 1960)
1878 - Th to de Weeme, painter
1879 - Francesco Gaeta, Italian poet (Il Libro Della Giovinezza)
1879 - Jack Laviolette, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1960)
1880 - Donald Crisp, Scotland, actor (How Green Was My Valley, Pollyana)
1880 - Joseph Tinker, baseball Hall of Famer, 1/3 of fame double play combo
1881 - Hans Fischer, Munich Germany, physicist (Nobel 1930), (d. 1945)
1882 - Geoffrey de Havilland, British aircraft designer (d. 1965)
1886 - Ernst May, German architect (d. 1970)
1890 - Judith Lowry, Ft Sill OK, actress (Effect of Gamma Rays ...)
1894 - Gerald F Bogan, US vice-admiral (WW II-Pacific Ocean)
1896 - Henri Longchambon, French politician (d. 1969)
1898 - Audley Moore, civil rights activist, humanitarian [Queen Mother]
1899 - Perc Hornibrook, Australian cricket left-arm bowler (20's)
1900 - Charles Vidor, Budapest Hungary, direct (Rhapsody, Gilda, Cover Girl)
1900 - Hans Haug, composer
1903 - Clive Martin Douglas, composer
1903 - Nikolai Cherkasov, St Petersburg Russia, actor (Ivan the Terrible)
1903 - Michail Stasinopoulos, Greek politician (d. 2002)
1904 - Agnes Yarnall, sculptor, artist, author laa, 1987
1904 - Anton Dolin, [Patrick Healey-Kay], dancer (Girl From Petrovka)
1904 - Kenneth Tompkins Bainbridge, physicist
1906 - Leo Durocher, Mass, baseball player and manager (Brooklyn Dodgers, NY Giants)
1906 - Herbert Jasper, Canadian physiologist and neurologist (d. 1999)
1906 - Jerzy Giedroyc, Polish writer and activist (d. 2000)
1907 - Denis Rickett, private secretary to Clement Attlee
1907 - Mollie Doreen Phillips, British figure skater/judge (Olympics 1932,36)
1908 - Lord Jenkins of Putney, British MP of Arts (Labour)
1909 - Gianandrea Gavazzeni, conductor
1910 - Bea Marcia Anastasia verbrook Christoforides, writer
1910 - Julien Gracq, [Louis Poirier], French writer (Andre Breton)
1911 - Wilfrid Ewart Oulton, airman
1911 - Rayner Heppenstall, British novelist (d. 1981)
1912 - Hilde Domin, writer
1912 - Igor Markevitch, Kiev Ukraine, conductor (Le Paradis Perdu)
1912 - Vernon Elliott, musician/composer
1913 - Eva Jones, poet/novelist
1913 - Mary Green, headmistress (Kidbrooke School)
1913 - Vittorio Sereni, Italian poet (Diario d'Algeria)
1913 - George L. Street III American Navy Submariner (d. 2000)
1915 - Jack Iverson, Australian cricket mystery spinner (late 40's)
1916 - Asfa Wossen, Crown prince of Ethiopia/son of emperor Haile Selassi
1916 - Elbert "Skippy" Williams, tenor Sax player
1916 - Kennan Wynn, NYC, actor (Dr Strangelove, Absent Minded Professor)
1916 - Siegfried Reda, composer
1917 - John Cunningham, executive director (British Aerospace)
1917 - Moses Rascoe, blues Singer
1917 - Robert Cowans, executive director (British Aerospace)
1917 - Bourvil, French actor (d. 1970)
1918 - Eero Aukusti Sipila, composer
1918 - Leonard Rose, Washington DC, concert cellist (NY Phil 1943-51)
1920 - Beatrice Pearson, Dennison Texas, actress (Moving Finger)
1920 - James Munn, commissioner (British University)
1921 - Émile Genest, Quebec actor (d. 2003)
1922 - Adolfo Celi, Sicily Italy, director (Next Man, Murders in Rue Morgue)
1922 - Bob Thiele, record producer
1922 - Lillian Hayman, Balt Md, actress (Leslie Uggams Show)
1922 - Norman Lear, TV writer/producer (All in The Family)
1923 - Masutatsu Oyama, Japanese Kyokushin founder (d. 1994)
1924 - Otar Vasil'yevich Taktakishvili, composer
1924 - Vincent Canby, critic (NY Times)
1925 - Doc Pomus, rocker
1926 - Peter Coker, captain
1927 - Sat Mahajan, Indian politician
1928 - Sakari Mononen, composer
1928 - Karloff Lagarde, Mexican lucha libre wrestler (d. 2007)
1929 - Harvey Fuqua, rock vocalist (Moonglows-Sincerely)
1929 - Jack Higgins, [Harry Patterson], novelist
1929 - Marc Wilkinson, composer
1930 - Ronald Dearing, chairman (British Post Office)
1930 - Shirley Williams, co-founder (Social Democratic Party)/labour minister
1931 - Jerry Van Dyke, Danville Ill, actor (My Mother the Car, Coach)
1931 - Khieu Samphan, Cambodian politician
1932 - Beverly B Byron, (Rep-D-MD, 1979- )
1932 - Curnick M Ndlovu, Jailed South Africian worker's union leader
1932 - Robert Cowan, CEO (Highlands & Islands Enterprises)
1933 - Nick Reynolds, rocker (Kingston Trio-Scarlet Ribbons)
1933 - Roger Harris, cricketer (NZ opening batsman vs England 1959)
1933 - Ted Whitten, Australian rules footballer (d. 1995)
1934 - John Pardoe, CEO (Sight & Sound Education)/Liberal MP
1935 - Billy McCullough, Northern Irish footballer
1936 - J. Robert Hooper, American politician
1937 - Anna Dawson, British comedienne (Violet-Keeping Up Appearances)
1937 - Chuck Jackson, Latta SC, singer (Any Day Now, I Don't Want to Cry)
1937 - Don Galloway, Brooksville Ky, actor (Arrest & Trial, Ironside)
1937 - Robert Gibb, zoo/theme park creator
1938 - Shirley Anne Field, England, actress (Alfie, War Lover) [or Jun 27]
1938 - Isabelle Aubret, French singer
1938 - Gary Gygax, American role-playing game creator (d. 2008)
1939 - Irv Cross, NFL sportscaster (CBS-TV)
1939 - James McGee, pathologist/professor (Morbid Anatomy at Oxford)
1939 - James Victor, Puerto Rico, actor (Boulevard Night, Streets of LA)
1940 - Pina Bausch, German dancer
1941 - Johannes Fritsch, composer
1942 - Barbara Ferris, London England, actress (Nice Girl Like Me)
1942 - John Pleshette, NYC, actor (Richard-Knots Landing, 7th Avenue)
1942 - Robert Arthur Thornbury Campbell, journalist/musician
1942 - Dennis Ralston, American tennis player
1943 - Al Ramsey, NJ, rocker (Gary Lewis & the Playboys-This Diamond Ring)
1943 - Stu Gilliam, Detroit, actor/comedian (Roll Out, Harris & Company)
1944 - Aleksandr Ivanovich Dedkov, cosmonaut
1944 - Bobbie Gentry, Mississippi, singer/songwriter (Ode to Billy Joe)
1944 - Jean-Marie Leblanc, French cyclist
1946 - Gwynne Gilford, Los Angeles California, actress (Linda Harris-Waverly Wonders)
1946 - Ricardo Anasagasti, [Ricardo M Meul], Curacao, dancer/actor
1946 - Toktar Ongarbajewitch Aubakirov, Kazakhstan, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-13)
1946 - Rade Šerbedžija, Croatian actor
1947 - Betty Thomas, St Louis Mo, actress (Lucy Baines-Hill Street Blues)
1947 - Wayne Dowdy, (Rep-D-MS, 1981- )
1948 - Henny Vrienten, Dutch bassist/singer (Doe Maar)
1948 - Peggy Fleming Jenkins, San Jose California, figure skater (Olym-gold-1968)
1949 - David Muse, rocker (Firefall)
1949 - Jeremy Thomas, actor (Family Life)
1949 - Maureen McGovern, Youngstown Oh, singer (Got To Be a Morning After)
1949 - André Dupont, Quebec ice hockey player
1950 - Michael Vaughn, rocker (Paper Lace)
1950 - Simon Jones, Willshire England, comedian (News is the News)
1951 - Janet Eilber, Detroit Mich, actress (Hard to Hold, Romantic Comedy)
1952 - Hannu-Pekka Hänninen, Finnish sports commentator
1953 - Wim G J M van de Camp, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (CDA)
1953 - Yahoo Serious, Australian comedian
1954 - G. S. Bali, Indian politician
1955 - Allan Border, cricket captain (Australia)
1955 - Cat Bauer, American novelist
1956 - Carol Leifer, American actress
1957 - Gezina E "Liesbeth" van Apeldoorn, Dutch actress (Composer)
1957 - Hansi Muller, skier
1957 - Matt Osborne, American professional wrestler
1958 - Christopher Dean, Olympics skater (Torvill & Dean/Olympic-gold-1984)
1959 - David East, cricketer
1960 - Christina Singer, Geoppingen Germany, tennis star
1960 - Jo Durie, England, tennis player
1960 - Reinaldo de Carvalho, carnival King
1961 - Daniel C Burbank, Manchester Ct, Lt cmdr USCG/astronaut
1962 - Karl Mueller, American bassist (Soul Asylum) (d. 2005)
1963 - Jason Buck, WLAF defensive end (Scottish Claymores)
1964 - Rex Brown, American musician (Pantera)
1965 - José Luis Chilavert, Paraguayan footballer
1966 - Al Charron, Rugby Union forward (Canada)
1967 - Craig Wolanin, Grosse Pointe, NHL defenseman (Colorado Avalanche)
1967 - Emiel van Eijkeren, soccer player (FC The Hague/NEC)
1967 - Jeff Novak, NFL tackle (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1967 - Neil Smith, cricketer (Warwickshire & England A all-rounder)
1967 - Sasha Mitchell, Los Angeles California, actor (Spike of Bensonhurst)
1967 - Juliana Hatfield, American musician
1967 - Kellie Waymire, American actress (d. 2003)
1968 - Julian McMahon, Sydney, New South Wales, Australian actor (Nip/Tuck, Profiler)
1968 - Christina Singer, Goeppingen Germany, tennis star (1991 Futures GBR)
1968 - Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Messina Sicily, actress (Postman)
1968 - Tom Goodwin [Thomas Jones], Fresno, California, American MLB player (1994-1997 KC
           Royals)
1968 - Ricardo Rosset, Brazilian Formula One driver
1969 - Jason Woolley, Toronto, NHL defenseman (Florida Panthers)
1969 - Linda Burgess, WNBA forward (LA Sparks)
1969 - Triple H, American professional wrestler
1970 - Tom Europe, CFL defensive back (Montreal Alouettes)
1970 - Nikolaj Coster Waldau, Danish actor
1971 - Brennon James Dowric, Australian gymnast (Olympics-92, 96)
1972 - Alph Browning, NLF/WLAF receiver (Redskins, Barcelona Dragons)
1972 - Bryce Bevill, CFL defensive back (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1972 - Clint Robinson, Brisbane QLD Australia, K-1 1k canoeist (Oly-bron-96)
1972 - Jill Arrington, American sports reporter
1972 - Takako Fuji, Japanese actress
1972 - Maya Rudolph, American actress and comedian
1973 - Amy Linn Duncan, Oklahoma City Oklahoma, Miss America-Oklahoma (1997)
1973 - Niki Jenkins, Selkirk Manitoba, 72 kg judoka (Olympics-gold-96)
1973 - Sami Alalampi, WLAF receiver (Barcelona Dragons)
1973 - Abe Cunningham, American musician (Deftones)
1973 - Gorden Tallis, Australian rugby league footballer
1974 - Pete Yorn, American musician
1975 - Alex Rodriguez, NYC, shortstop (Seattle Mariners)
1975 - Alessandro Pistone, Italian footballer
1975 - Shea Hillenbrand, American baseball player
1975 - Fred Mascherino, American musician
1976 - Mwadi Mabika, WNBA guard/forward (LA Sparks)
1976 - Scott Mason, Australian cricketer (d. 2005)
1977 - Jason Michael Zimbler, Queens NY, actor (Clarissa Explains it All)
1977 - Foo Swee Chin, Singaporean comic book artist
1979 - Jorge Arce, Mexican boxer
1979 - Shannon Moore, American wrestler
1980 - Allan Davis, Australian cyclist
1980 - Nick Nemeth, American professional wrestler
1981 - Susan King Borchardt, American basketball player
1981 - Collins Obuya, Kenyan cricketer
1983 - Alsou, Russian pop-star and actress
1983 - Goran Pandev, Macedonian footballer
1985 - Benedita Pereira, Portuguese actress
1985 - Lou Taylor Pucci, American actor
1986 - Courtney Kupets, American gymnast
1986 - Ryan Griffen, Australian rules footballer
1988 - Adam Biddle, Australian footballer
1989 - Charlotte Arnold, Canadian actress
1990 - Cheyenne Kimball, American musician
1990 - Nick Hogan, American reality TV star
1990 - Indiana Evans, Australian actress
1994 - Spencer Achtymichuk, Canadian actor
1994 - Princess Mafalda-Ceceilia of Bulgaria
2000 - Kali Rodriguez, American actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 27, 2013, 08:26:48 AM

This Day in History for 27th July


Famous Deaths

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Last Shah of Iran
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1980)


82 - St Joseph of Arimathea, dies
432 - Celestine I, Italian Pope (422-32), dies
916 - Kliment/Clemens van Ohrid, Bulgaria bishop of Ohrid/saint, dies
1101 - Conrad II, King of Germany and Italy (b. 1074)
1128 - Willem van Normandia, earl of Flanders, dies in battle
1214 - Eustaes van Machelen, Flemish knight, dies in battle
1214 - Stefan van Longchamp, French knight, dies in battle
1227 - Otto II van Lippe, bishop of Utrecht (1216-27), dies
1233 - Ferrand of Portugal, earl of Flanders, dies at 45
1276 - King James I of Aragon (b. 1208)
1365 - Duke Rudolf IV of Austria (b. 1339)
1498 - Vespasiano da' Bisticci, Italian book seller/writer, dies at about 77
1638 - Johan VIII de Jongere, count of Nassau-Siegen, dies in battle at 54
1656 - Salomo Glassius, German theologian (b. 1593)
1675 - Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne Vicomte de Turenne, gen (France), dies
1689 - John Graham, of Claverhouse, 1st viscount Dundee/soldier, killed, dies
1720 - Johann Samuel Welter, composer, dies at 69
1759 - Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, biologist/astronomer, dies at 60
1770 - Robert Dinwiddie, British colonial governor of Virginia (b. 1693)
1777 - William Hayes, composer, dies at 69
1783 - Johann Philipp Kirnberger, German music theroist/violist, dies at 62
1811 - Miguel Hidalgo y Castilla, Mexican priest/freedom fighter, executed
1822 - Joseph Supries, composer, dies at 60
1828 - Gilbert Charles Stuart, painter, dies
1833 - Bartolommea Capitanio, Italian monastery founder/saint, dies at 26
1841 - Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov, poet/novelist, dies
1844 - John Dalton, Engl physicist/chemist (molecular theorist), dies at 77
1863 - William Lowndes Yancey, American Confederate leader (b. 1813)
1864 - Margaret E Breckinridge, US nurse/daughter of VP John, dies
1881 - Johann Christian Lobe, composer, dies at 84
1883 - Albert Franz Doppler, composer, dies at 61
1883 - Montgomery Blair, lawyer (Dred Scot V Sandford), dies at 70
1916 - Charles Fryatt, British capt of SS Brussels, executed by Germans, dies
1917 - Emil Theodor Kocher, Swiss surgeon, Nobel laureate (b. 1841)
1921 - Engelbert Humperdinck, composer, dies at 66
1924 - Ferruccio Benvenuto busoni, pianist/composer, dies
1924 - Ferruccio Dante Michelangelo Benvenuto Busoni, composer, dies at 58
1931 - Auguste-Henri Forel, Swiss entomologist (b. 1848)
1934 - Louis HG Lyautey, French minister of Defense (1916-17), dies at 79
1941 - Alfred Henry O'Keeffe, New Zealand artist (b. 1858)
1942 - William Matthew Finders Petrie, Egyptologist, dies
1943 - Godfrey Cripps, cricketer (1st Currie Cup-winning captain), dies
1943 - H B G Austin, cricketer (capt of 1923 WI team to England), dies
1944 - Victor Jean Leonard Vreuls, composer, dies at 68
1946 - Gertrude Stein, US/Fren author/poet (Ida, Tender Buttons), dies at 72
1948 - Francesco Spetrino, composer, dies at 91
1948 - Woolf Barnato, British racing driver (b. 1898)
1952 - Roland Pope, cricketer (Test for Australia 1885), dies
1952 - W de Basil, [US Voskresenski], Russia, ballet dancer, dies
1956 - J M M Commaille, cricketer (12 Tests for South Africa 1910-28), dies
1958 - Claire Chennault, American military leader (b. 1893)
1961 - Theodore Chanler, composer, dies at 59
1962 - Edward Godfrey Richard Aldington, novelist/biographer, dies
1962 - Richard Adlington, writer, dies at 70
1962 - James H. "Dutch" Kindelberger, American aerospace pioneer (b. 1895)
1965 - Henri Daniel-Rops, French writer and historian (b. 1901)
1968 - Anton van Duinkerken, [Willem J M A Asselbergs], literary, dies
1968 - Lillian Harvey, actress (Invitation to the Waltz), dies at 61
1968 - Babe Adams, baseball player (b. 1882)
1970 - Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, dictator of Portugal (1932-68), dies
1971 - Bernhard Paumgartner, Austrian conductor/composer, dies at 83
1974 - Lightning Slim, blues singer (Nothing But the Devil), dies at 61
1976 - Ray Brennan, becomes 1st to, die of "Legionnaire's Disease"
1978 - Aasan Ferit Alnar, composer, dies at 72
1978 - [John] Willem van Otterloo, conductor/composer (Symphonic), dies at 70
1979 - Ettore Manni, actor (Street People, Divine Nymph), dies at 52
1979 - Shirley Mason, actress (Let it Rain, Dark Skies), dies at 79
1980 - Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran (1941-79), dies in Cairo at 60
1981 - Billy [William] Wyler, US director (Ben Hur, Funny Girl), dies
1981 - Ray Harrison, dancer (American Song), dies at 64
1981 - William Wyler, US director (Ben Hur), dies
1982 - Dan Seymour, actor (We the People, Sing it Again), dies at 67
1982 - Vladimir Smirnov, Russian foil fencer (Olympic-gold-1980), dies at 28
1983 - Mufasir-ul-Haq, cricketer (Pakistani left-arm quick 1965), dies
1984 - James Mason, British actor (Lolita), dies of a heart attack at 75
1984 - Oswald Jacoby, US contract bridge champion, dies at 81
1985 - Joseph "Smoky Joe" Wood, pitcher (Boston Red Sox), dies at 95
1986 - Leroy Holmes, orchestra leader (Tonight Show, 1956-57), dies at 72
1987 - Travis Jackson, baseball player (NY Giants), dies at 83
1988 - Judith Barsi, child actress, shot dead with mother by her father at 11
1988 - Frank Zamboni, American inventor (b. 1901)
1990 - Bobby Day, rocker (Rockin' Robin), dies of cancer at 58
1990 - Elizabeth Allan, actress (Tale of 2 Cities, Camille, Java Head), dies
1990 - Kim Thomas-Friedland, news anchor (FNN), dies at 32
1990 - Nick Pippins, actor (Simon), dies of AIDS at 35
1990 - Bobby Day, American singer (b. 1928)
1991 - Carol Gillies, actress (Back Home, Baby Boom), dies at 50
1992 - Jenny Karezi, Greek actress (Red Lanterns), dies of cancer at 56
1992 - Max Dupain, Australian photographer (b. 1911)
1993 - Reggie Lewis, NBA star (Boston Celtics), dies of heart failure at 27
1994 - H Minderop, founder/chairman (TROS-radio/TV), dies
1994 - Rosa Chacel, Spanish author, dies at 96
1994 - Tatiana Tauer, harpist, dies at 48
1995 - Charles Hugh Shirley, publisher, dies at 56
1995 - Doris Mae Akers, gospel singer/songwriter, dies at 72
1995 - Miklos Rozsa, Hung movie composer (Atomic Cafe, Fedora), dies at 88
1995 - Rick Ferrell, Hall of Fame catcher, dies at 89
1996 - Beverly Drew, architect, dies at 85
1996 - Ivan V Lalic, poet, dies at 65
1996 - Jane Beverly Drew, architect, dies at 85
1996 - Peter James Frederick Green, CEO (LLoyd's of London), dies at 71
1997 - K'Tut Tantri, broadcaster/hotelier, dies at 99
1998 - Binnie Barnes, British actress (b. 1903)
1999 - Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Russian mathematician (b. 1912)
1999 - Sweets Edison, American jazz trumpet player (b. 1915)
2000 - Gordon Solie, American wrestling commentator (b. 1929)
2001 - Leon Wilkeson, American guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (b. 1952)
2001 - Rhonda Singh, professional wrestler (b. 1961)
2003 - Vance Hartke, American politician (b. 1919)
2003 - Bob Hope, English-born entertainer (b. 1903)
2005 - Swami Shantanand, Mahasamadhi Day, Indian Saint, Philosopher (b. 1934)
2005 - Marten Toonder, Dutch comic writer (b. 1912)
2006 - Maryann Mahaffey, American politician (b. 1925)
2007 - Lucky Grills, Australian actor (b. 1928)
2008 - Youssef Chahine, Egyptian film director (b. 1926)
2008 - Horst Stein, German conductor (b. 1928)
2008 - Isaac Saba Raffoul, Mexican Businessman (b. 1923)
2010 - Maury Chaykin, American-born Canadian actor (b. 1949)
2010 - Jack Tatum, American football player (b. 1948)
2011 - Bejaratana Rajasuda, Princess of Thailand (b. 1925)
2012 - Norman Alden, American actor, dies from natural causes at 87
2012 - R G Armstrong, American actor and playwright, dies at 95
2012 - Geoffrey Hughes, British actor, dies from prostate cancer at 68
2012 - Tony Martin, American singer, dies from natural causes at 98

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 28, 2013, 07:44:51 AM

This Day in History for 28th July


Historical Events

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English Monarch Queen                          Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini                 Animator Walt Disney
Elizabeth I

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36th US President                                   Baseball Player
Lyndon B. Johnson                                Darryl Strawberry


388 - Battle at Aquileja: Emperor Theodosius beats emperor Magnus Maximis
754 - Pope Stephen II, [III] makes Pippin de Korte, King of France
1148 - Crusaders attack Damascus
1402 - Battle at Ancyra/Angora/Ankara: Timur Lenk beats sultan Bajezid I
1434 - Navigator Gil Eanes leaves Cape Bojador for Lisbon
1579 - Cardinal Granvelle returns to Madrid
1586 - Sir Thomas Harriot introduces potatoes to Europe on return to Britain
1588 - Spanish Armada sails to overthrow England's Queen Elizabeth I
1609 - Admiral George Somers settles in Bermuda
1635 - Spanish marshal Piccolomini conquerors Schenkenschans
1696 - De Croissy succeeds Le Plectia as French minister of Finance
1708 - Monarch Amengkurat II [Sunan Mas] of Mataram gives himself up to VOC
1717 - Prussian king Frederik Willem I gives compulsory education to 5-12 yrs
1741 - Capt Bering discovers Mount St Elias, Alaska
1742 - Prussia & Austria sign peace treaty
1794 - Robespierre, & 22 other terrorists executed to thunderous cheers
1808 - Mahmud II succeeds Mustafa IV as sultan of Turkey
1821 - Peru declares independence from Spain (National Day)
1849 - Memmon is 1st clipper to reach SF, 120 days out of NY
1851 - Total solar eclipse captured on a daguerreotype photograph
1858 - 1st use of fingerprints as a means of identification is made by Sir William James Herschel of
           the Indian Civil Service in India
1858 - Nadar takes 1st airborne photo (in a balloon)
1858 - William Herschel of the Indian Civil Service in India
1862 - Confederate forces defeated at More's Hill, Mo
1864 - 2nd day of battle at Deep Bottom Run Virginia
1864 - Battle of Atlanta: GA (Ezra Church) - second sortie US700 CS4642
1866 - Metric system becomes a legal measurement system in US
1868 - 14th Amendment ratified, grants citizenship to ex-slaves
1882 - Opera "Parsifal" is produced (Beirut)
1883 - Shocks triggered by volcano Epomeo (Isle of Ischia, Italy) destroyed 1,200 houses at
           Casamicciola killing 2,000
1886 - English Salisbury government forms
1896 - City of Miami incorporated
1898 - Spanish troops in Ponce, Puerto Rico, surrender
1898 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Retired Colourman"(BG)
1900 - Hamburger created by Louis Lassing in Connecticut
1906 - Yankees turn triple-play, beat Cleveland 6-4
1911 - 96°F (35.6°C) in De Bilt Netherlands
1913 - 12th Davis Cup: USA beats British Isles in Wimbledon (3-2)
1914 - Foxtrot 1st danced at New Amsterdam Roof Garden (NYC, by Harry Fox)
1914 - Minister of Navy W Churchill routes British fleet to Scapa Flow
1914 - World War I began when Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia
1915 - 10,000 blacks march on 5th Ave (NYC) protesting lynchings
1915 - US forces invade Haiti, stays until 1924
1917 - Silent Parade in NYC to protest murders of blacks in race riots
1919 - Vrije Vakbewegings Internationale (VVI) forms in Amsterdam
1926 - US & Panamanian pact about safeguard of Panama Canal
1928 - 9th Olympic Games open in Amsterdam
1929 - Chicago Cardinals become 1st NFL team to train out of state (Mich)
1930 - 114°F (46°C), Greensburg, Kentucky (state record)
1931 - Congress makes "Star-Spangled Banner" our 2nd national anthem
1931 - White Sox score 11 in 8th to beat Yankees 14-12
1932 - Battle between unemployed war veterans & federal troops, 4 die
1932 - Pres Hoover evicts bonus marchers from their encampment
1933 - 1st singing telegram delivered (to Rudy Vallee), NYC
1933 - NFL divides into (2) 5 team divisions
1933 - Spain recognizes the USSR
1934 - 118°F (48°C), Orofino, Idaho (state record)
1935 - Belgium's Romain Maes, wins Tour de France
1937 - Eddie Paynter scores 322 for Lancashire against Sussex
1937 - Richard Moore scores 316 for Hampshire against Warwickshire
1938 - 34,000-ton Cunard-White Star liner Mauretania launched at Birkenhead
1938 - Bradman scores 202 Aust v Somerset, 225 mins, 32 fours
1939 - 5th Dutch government of Colijn falls
1940 - Radio Orange, London begins
1940 - Yankee Charlie Keller hits 3 HRs to beat White Sox 10-9
1942 - Nazis liquidate 10,000 Jews in Minsk Belorussia Ghetto
1942 - Zionists partisans ZOB forms in Poland
1943 - Italian Facist dictator Benito Mussolini resigns
1943 - Pres FDR announces end of coffee rationing in US
1943 - World War II: Operation Gomorrah: The British bomb Hamburg causing a firestorm that kills
           42,000 German civilians.
1944 - Hitler routes 4 division of South France to Normandy
1944 - US 8th Army corp occupies Coutances France
1945 - Japanese premier Suzuki disregards US ultimatum to surrender
1945 - US Army B-25 crashes into 79th floor of Empire State Bldg, 14 die
1945 - US Senate ratifies UN charter 89-2
1947 - Iuliu Maniu's Boer party becomes forbidden in Romania
1948 - I G Farben chemical plant explodes in Ludwigshafen, Germany, 182 die
1948 - The Metropolitan Police Flying Squad foils a bullion robbery in the "Battle of London Airport".
1951 - "Kiss Me, Kate" closes at New Century Theater NYC after 1077 perfs
1951 - Walt Disney's "Alice In Wonderland" released
1952 - Rogers Hornsby replaces Luke Sewell, as Cincinnati Reds manager
1954 - Ernest Blochs 4th string quartet, premieres
1955 - The Union Mundial pro Interlingua is founded at the first Interlingua congress in Tours,
           France.
1957 - Jerry Lee Lewis makes his 1st TV appearance (Steve Allen Show)
1957 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Wolverine Golf Open
1957 - White Sox' James Landis struck out 5 times in a game
1957 - Heavy rain and a mudslide in Isahaya, western Kyūshū, Japan, kill 992.
1958 - Baltimore Colts wins NFL-championship
1959 - Great-Britain starts using postal codes
1959 - Hawaii's 1st US election sends 1st Asian-Americans to Congress
1960 - Republican National convention selects Richard Nixon as candidate
1962 - 19 die in a train crash in Steelton Pa
1962 - Mariner I launched to Mars falls into Atlantic Ocean
1963 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Wolverine Golf Open
1964 - England all out 611 in reply to Australia's 8-656 Match a draw
1964 - Ranger 7 launched toward the Moon; sent back 4308 TV pictures
1965 - LBJ sends 50,000 more soldiers to Vietnam (total of 125,000)
1967 - Pirate Radio Station 390 (Radio Invicta) (England) closes down
1971 - 16 time gold glover Brook Robinson commits 3 errors in 6th inning
1971 - Dutch ends censorship of "Blue Movie"
1972 - 39th NFL Chicago All Star Game: Dallas 20, All Stars 7 (54,162)
1973 - France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
1973 - Jane Blalock/Sandra Palmer wins Lady Angelo's 4-Ball Golf Tournament
1973 - Skylab 3's astronauts (Bean, Garriott & Lousma) launched
1974 - 69 die when packed bus strikes heavy truck (Belem, Brazil)
1974 - Carole Jo Skala wins LPGA Wheeling Ladies Golf Classic
1976 - 242,000 die in Tientsin-Tangshan (China) 8.2 earthquake
1976 - 8.2 & 7.4 earthquake devastate Tangsha, China (240-750,000 die)
1976 - Eldon Joersz & Geo Morgan set world air speed record of 3,530 kph
1976 - White Sox John Odom (5 inn) & Francisco Barrios (4 inn) no-hits A's
1977 - 1st oil through the TransAlaska Pipeline System reach Valdez, Alaska
1977 - Roy Wilkins turn over NAACP leadership to Benjamin L Hooks
1977 - Test Cricket debut of Ian Botham v Aust Trent Bridge, 5-74 1st innings
1978 - 600,000 attend Watkins Glen Summer Jam in NY
1978 - At Old Timer's Game it's announced Martin will again manage Yankees
1978 - Price of gold tops $200-an-oz level for 1st time
1978 - USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1979 - Dave Kingman becomes 6th to have a 2nd 3 HR game
1979 - France performs nuclear Test
1980 - Peru adopts constitution, Fernando Belaúnde Terry becomes president
1983 - AL Pres Lee MacPhail threw out umpire's decision & allows
1983 - USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1983 - George Brett's 2 run HR against Yanks on July 24 (pine tar game)
1983 - NASA launches Telstar-3A
1984 - 23rd modern Olympic games opens in Los Angeles
1985 - 13th du Maurier Golf Classic: Pat Bradley
1985 - Alan Garcia sworn in as president of Peru
1985 - L Brock, Slaughter, A Vaughan, & H Wilhelm inducted into Hall of Fame
1986 - Bomb attack in East Beirut, 25 killed
1986 - NASA releases transcript from doomed Challenger, pilot Michael Smith could be heard saying,
           "Uh-oh!" as spacecraft disintegrated
1987 - 42nd US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Laura Davies
1987 - Angel Cordero Jr becomes 4th jockey to win 6,000 races
1988 - IBM announces price hike on older models
1988 - Israeli diplomats arrive in Moscow for 1st visit in 21 years
1988 - Jordan cancels $1.3 billion development plan in West Bank
1988 - Winnie Mandella's home in Soweto, South Africa destroyed by arson
1988 - Yanks' Tommy John makes 3 errors on 1 play yet beats Brewers 16-3
1989 - Braves Dale Murphy, hits 2 3-run HRs in an inning, 14th man to hit 2 HRs in an inning. Also
           ties record of 6 RBIs in an inning
1989 - Cards' Vince Coleman is caught stealing ends record streak at 50
1989 - NASA's Lewis Research Center, Cleve, announce new high-temperature superconductors able
           to operate at 33 to 37 Gigahertz
1990 - Alberto Fujimoro installed as president of Peru
1990 - Blackout hits Chicago
1991 - "Gypsy" closes at Marquis Theater NYC after 105 performances
1991 - 12th US Seniors Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus
1991 - 29th Tennis Fed Cup: Spain beats USA in Nottingham England (2-1)
1991 - Buffalo Bills beat Philadelphia Eagles, 17-13 in American Bowl in Wembley
1991 - Dennis Martinez pitches the 13th perfect game in baseball history
1991 - Juli Inkster wins LPGA Bay State Golf Classic
1991 - Miguel Indurain of Spain wins Tour de France bicycle race
1992 - Ground breaking of Fla Marlins 7,500 seat spring training stadium
1993 - Mariner Ken Griffey Jr is 3rd to hit HRs in 8 straight games
1994 - Baseball players decide to strike on Aug 12, 1994
1994 - Last steel beam is placed on Cleveland's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
1994 - Texas Ranger Kenny Rogers pitches baseball's 14th perfect game
1995 - Art Modell's rep begins secrets talks to move team to Baltimore
1996 - NY Yankee Darryl Strawberry hits his 300th HR
1996 - Vicki Fergon wins LPGA Micelob Light Heartland Golf Classic
1996 - Kennewick Man, the remains of a prehistoric man, is discovered near Kennewick, Washington.
1997 - NY Ranger center Mark Messier signs with Vancouver for $20M for 3 yrs
1997 - Peter Graf, father of Steffi, enters German jail for tax evasion
1997 - Guatemala becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
2002 - Nine coal miners trapped in the flooded Quecreek Mine in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, are
           rescued after 77 hours underground.
2005 - The Provisional Irish Republican Army call an end to their thirty year long armed campaign in
           Northern Ireland.
2005 - A tornado touches down in a residential area in south Birmingham, England, causing
          £4,000,000 worth of damages and injuring 39 people.
2008 - The historic Weston-super-Mare Grand Pier burns down for a second time in 80 years.
2012 - Ye Shiwen of China sets world record in the women's 400m individual medley in 4:28.43
2012 - 18 people are killed and 11 injured in ethnic clashes in Ethiopia
2061 - 31st recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 28, 2013, 07:46:56 AM

This Day in History for 28th July


Famous Weddings

1540 - English King Henry VIII marries Catharine Howard, his 5th wife
1683 - Anne Stuart marries prince Georges of Denmark
1957 - "Wuthering Heights" actress Merle Oberon (46) weds Italian industrialist Bruno Pagliai
1973 - "Charlie's Angels" actress Farah Fawcett (26) weds "The Six Million Dollar Man" actor Lee
           Majors (34) at the Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles, California
1997 - Two-time Grammy Award winner Sheena Easton (38) weds documentary director Timothy
           Delarm (35) in Las Vegas
1999 - "Sixteen Candles" actress Molly Ringwald (31) weds French writer Valery Lamerignere in
           Bordeaux, France
2007 - Comedian and actor Steve Martin (61) weds Anne Stringfield (35) at his Los Angeles home
2012 - "Franklin & Bash" actor Mark-Paul Gosselaar (38) weds advertising executive Catriona McGinn
           at the Sunstone winery in Santa Ynez, California

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 28, 2013, 07:47:59 AM

This Day in History for 28th July


Famous Divorces

1964 - Broadway musical actress-singer Ethel Merman (56) divorces academy award-winning actor
           Ernest Borgnine (47) after 32 days of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 28, 2013, 07:58:22 AM

This Day in History for 28th July


Famous Birthdays

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Children's Author                                   Painter and Sculptor                        Hall of Fame Basketball/US Senator
Beatrix Potter (1866)                              Marcel Duchamp (1887)                                  Bill Bradley (1943)

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Garfield Cartoonist Jim Davis (1945)


1165 - Ibn al-'Arabi, Muslim mystic/philosopher
1347 - Margherita of Durazzo, queen of Naples (d. 1412)
1456 - Jacopo Sannazaro, Italian poet (Arcadia)
1514 - Maximilian of Burgundy, viceroy of Holland
1609 - Judith J Leyster, Dutch house painter, baptised
1659 - Charles Ancillon, French Huguenot pastor (d. 1715)
1719 - Jan Nepveu, governor-general of Suriname (1769-79) [or Aug 27]
1745 - Piotr A von der Pahlen, milt governor (St Petersburg)
1746 - Thomas Heyward, soldier, signed Decl of Ind
1750 - Fabre d'Églantine French dramatist and politician, creator of the French Republican calendar
           (d. 1794)
1778 - Charles Stewart, Rear Admiral (Union Navy), died in 1869
1796 - Ignaz Bösendorfer, Austrian musician (d. 1859)
1804 - Ludwig A Feuerbach, German philosopher (Man is what he eats)
1808 - Charles Lucas, composer
1809 - Ormsby McKnight Mitchel, astronomer/Major General (Union volunteers)
1813 - Alberto Mazzucato, composer
1815 - Stefan Dunjov, Banat Bulgarian military figure (d. 1889)
1825 - William Duncan Smith, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1862
1833 - James Henry Lane, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) [or Jun 22 1814]
1835 - Jose Garcia Robles, composer
1837 - Christian Barnekow, composer
1844 - Gerard Manley Hopkins, England, poet (Windhover)
1857 - Ballington Booth, Brighouse, England, Officer in The Salvation Army and co-founder of
           Volunteers of America
1860 - Elias M. Ammons, governor of Colorado (d. 1925)
1860 - Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia (d. 1922)
1863 - Hussein Khan Nakhichevanski, Russian general (d. 1919)
1866 - Beatrix Potter, England, children's author (Tale of Peter Rabbit)
1867 - Charles Dillon Perrine, American-born astronomer (d. 1951)
1868 - George Morren, Flemish painter/sculptor
1868 - Thomas P Krag, Norwegian writer (Jon Graeff, Ulf Ran)
1870 - Henri Jaspar, premier of Belgium (1927-31)
1872 - Albert P Sarraut, Fren gov-gen of Indo-China (1911..19)/PM (1933/36)
1874 - Ernst Cassirer, Germany, philosopher/educator (Essay on Man)
1887 - Marcel Duchamp, Blainville-Crevon, French sculptor and painter (Nude Descending a Staircase)
1890 - Marie Lohr, Sydney Australia, actress (Pygmalion, Small Hotel)
1891 - Ron Oxenham, cricketer (Australian all-rounder 1928-32)
1892 - Joe E Brown, Holgate Ohio, comedian (Buck Circus Hour)
1892 - Petro Petridis, Greek composer (Isotope Suite)
1893 - Rued Immanuel Langgaard, composer
1896 - Barbara La Marr, American actress (d. 1926)
1897 - Emmy Arbous, [Emilia J Henke], Dutch actress (Little Rascal)
1898 - Lawrence Gray, American actor (d. 1970)
1900 - Maurice Johnstone, composer
1901 - Rudy Vallee, Vt, singer (Vagabond Dreams, My Time Is Your Time)
1901 - Sandor Vandor, composer
1901 - Freddie Fitzsimmons, American baseball player (d. 1979)
1902 - Karl Raimund Popper, Austrian/British philosopher (Logic of Forschung)
1902 - Kenneth F Fearing, US, poet (Dead Reckoning)
1903 - Catherine Dale Owen, actress (Behind Office Doors), Louisville KY
1904 - [John] Selwyn [Brooke] Lloyd, British statsman
1905 - Charles William Hutton, architect
1906 - Gottlob Frick, singer
1907 - Earl S Tupper, inventor (Tupperware)
1908 - Zbigniew Turski, composer
1909 - Malcolm Lowry, English novelist (Under the Volcano)
1910 - Bill Goodwin, SF California, announcer (Jolson Story, Burns & Allen)
1910 - Clive Robertson Caldwell, British fighter pilot
1911 - Ann Doran, Amarillo Tx, actress (Longstreet, Shirley)
1911 - Gerhard Stoeck, Germany, javelin thrower (Olympic-gold-1936)
1914 - Carmen Dragon, American composer (d. 1984)
1916 - David Brown, NYC, director (Jaws, Planet of the Apes)
1916 - Laird Cregar, Phila, actor (Charley's Aunt, Hangover Square)
1922 - Jacques Piccard, Switzerland, undersea explorer (bathyscaph Trieste)
1923 - Kent L Lee, US vice-admiral (WW II-Marianas/Palau)
1923 - Mary Jane Odell, Iowa, secretary of state
1923 - Michio Watanabe, politician
1924 - Fred Fisher, cricketer (one Test for NZ v SA 1953)
1924 - Peter James Frederick Green, CEO (LLoyd's of London)
1925 - Bruce Matthews, newspaper executive
1925 - Kenneth M Stewart, euro MP for Merseyside West
1925 - Larry Pruden, composer
1925 - Baruch S. Blumberg, American scientist, Nobel laureate
1926 - Charlie Biddle, American-born Quebec jazz bassist (d. 2003)
1927 - John Ashbery, American poet
1928 - Adrian Ratiu, composer
1929 - Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, NY, 1st lady (1961-63)
1929 - Remco [Wouter] Campert, Dutch literary/poet/son of Jan Campert
1930 - Jean Roba, Belgian comics author (d. 2006)
1930 - Junior Kimbrough, American bluesman (d. 1998)
1931 - Darryl Hickman, Hollywood, California, American actor (Human Comedy, Tea & Sympathy)
1931 - Johnny Martin, Australian cricket left-arm chinaman bowler (60's)
1933 - Charlie Hodge, French Canadian ice hockey goaltender
1934 - Jacques d'Amboise, Dedham Mass, ballet dancer (NYC Ballet Company)
1934 - Norman D Shumway, (Rep-R-California, 1979- )
1935 - Simon Dee, British television broadcaster
1936 - Russ Jackson, Canadian football player
1937 - Anthony Ward, writer
1937 - Peter Duchin, NYC, pianist/bandleader (Peter Duchin Orch)
1937 - Francis Veber, French film director and screenwriter
1938 - Alberto Fujimoro, president of Peru (1990- )
1938 - George Cummings, rocker (Dr Hook & Medicine Show)
1938 - Robert Hughes, [Studley Forrest], Australia, writer/critic (Barcelona)
1938 - Luis Aragonés, Spanish football manager
1939 - Clem Cattini, rock drummer (Tornados London)
1940 - Phil Proctor, comedian (Firesign Theater)
1941 - Riccardo Muti, Napoli Italy, conductor (Philadelphia Orch)
1942 - Marty Brennaman, American sportscaster
1943 - Bill Bradley, Crystal City Ms, Basketball player (NY Knicks), Democratic US Senator (1979-
           1997)
1943 - Lawrence Elkins, football player FL (Houston Oilers)
1943 - Mike Bloomfield, Chicago Ill, blues guitarist/singer (Analine)
1943 - Richard Wright, Hatch End, Middlesex, English singer/songwriter (Pink Floyd-Time, Echoes)
1944 - Daniel Morelon, France, 1K speed skater (Olympic-gold-1968, 72)
1944 - Mike Bloomfield, rocker
1945 - Jim Davis, Marion Indiana, cartoonist (Garfield)
1946 - Douglas H Bosco, (Rep-D-CA, 1983- )
1946 - Jonathan Edwards, rocker
1946 - Linda Kelsey, Minneapolis, actress (Billie-Lou Grant, Kate-Day by Day)
1946 - Fahmida Riaz, Pakistani writer and feminist
1947 - Alexei Sergeyevich Borodai, Russian colonel/cosmonaut
1947 - Barbara Ann Ferrell Edmondson, Miss, 4x100m runner (Olympic-gold-1968)
1947 - Elena Novikova-Belova, USSR, foils (Olympic-gold-1968)
1947 - Miguelina Cobian, Santiago Cuba, 4x100m runner (Olympic-silver-1968)
1947 - Sally Struther, Portland Oregon, actress (Gloria-All in the Family)
1948 - Andy Fraser, rocker
1948 - Georgia Engel, Wash DC, actress (Georgette-Mary Tyler Moore Show)
1948 - Sergei Bodrov, Khabarovsk Russia, director (Katala, Somebody to Love)
1948 - Gerald Casale, american musician and director (founding member of Devo)
1949 - Simon Kirke, rock drummer (Bad Company)
1949 - Steven Peregrine Took, rocker (T-Rex)
1949 - Vida Blue, major-league pitcher (Cy Young & AL MVP 1971)
1949 - Steve Peregrin Took, English singer (d. 1980)
1949 - Peter Doyle, Australian singer (The New Seekers) (d. 2001)
1949 - Randall Wallace, American screenwriter and film producer
1950 - Shahyar Ghanbari, Iranian poet
1951 - Greg Gluffria, Wash DC, rock keyboardist (House of Lords-Sahara)
1951 - Anthony A. Williams, Mayor of Washington, D.C.
1951 - Santiago Calatrava, Spanish architect
1952 - Monique Vajiralongkorn, Crown Prince/Heir Apparent to Thailand throne
1952 - Monique van de Ven, Dutch actress (Turkish Fruit)
1952 - Yoshitaka Amano, Japanese artist
1953 - Steve Duncan, Knoxville Tn, singer (Desert Rose Band-Love Reunited)
1954 - Ken Margolis, rocker (Mink DeVille)
1954 - Steve Morse, rocker
1954 - Mikey Sheehy, Gaelic footballer
1954 - Bruce Abbott, American actor
1954 - Hugo Chávez, President of Venezuela, (d. 2013)
1954 - Gerd Faltings, German mathematician
1958 - Terry Fox [Terrance Stanley], Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canadian one-legged marathoner (1980
           Marathon of Hope)
1958 - Michael Hitchcock, American actor
1960 - Luiz Fernando Carvalho, Brazilian film director
1960 - Yōichi Takahashi, Japanese mangaka of Captain Tsubasa and Hungry Heart Wild Striker
1961 - David Huff, rocker (Giant)
1961 - Scott E Parazynski, Little Rock Ark, MD/astronaut (STS 66, 86, sk:95)
1961 - Alexander Kurlovitch, Soviet weightlifter
1962 - Rachel Sweet, rocker
1963 - Patrizia Pellegrino, Naples Italy, (Italy's Miss Teenager 1980)
1964 - Bruce Wilkerson, NFL tackle (Jaguars, GB Packers-Superbowl 31)
1964 - Dave Alexander, NFL center (NY Jets)
1964 - Lori Loughlin, Queens, New York, American actress (Full House, Summerland)
1965 - Priscilla Chan, Hong Kong singer
1965 - Delfeayo Marsalis, American jazz musician
1966 - Shikao Suga, Japanese singer/songwriter
1967 - Alex Galtcheniouk, hockey forward (Team Belarus, Olympics-1998)
1969 - Corey Raymond, NFL cornerback (Detroit Lions)
1969 - Frank Lickliter, Middletown OH, Nike golfer (1993 White Rose-24th)
1969 - Garth Snow, Wrentham Mass, US hockey goalie (Olympics-1994, Flyers)
1969 - Jaimie Dawson, Geneva Switz, Canadian badminton player (Olympics-96)
1969 - Jarrod Hanks, Lafayette LA, US gymnist (Olympic-92, 96)
1969 - Wendi Simmons, Santa Rosa California, heptathlete
1969 - Alexis Arquette, American actor
1969 - Dana White, UFC President
1970 - Paul Strang, cricketer (Zimbabwe's 1st Test match leg-spinner, 1994-)
1970 - Michael Amott, Swedish guitarist (Arch Enemy)
1971 - Larry Kennedy, WLAF cornerback (Rhein Fire)
1971 - Stephen Lynch, American musician
1972 - Brenda Schultz, Netherlands, tennis star
1972 - Elizabeth Berkley, Mich, actress (Jessie-Saved by the Bell, Showgirl)
1972 - Manley Woods, NFL/WLAF receiver (Seattle Seahawks, Rhein Fire)
1972 - Stacy Evans, WLAF defensive end (Rhein Fire)
1972 - Ed Templeton, American skateboarder
1972 - Yeom Jeong-ah, South Korean actress
1973 - Nixon A McNamara McClean, West Indies cricket fast bowler (ODI 1996)
1973 - Scott Bloom, Manhasset NY, actor (Keys, Stuff)
1974 - Justin Lee Collins, British comedian
1975 - Leonor Watling, Spanish actress and singer
1976 - Jacoby Shaddix, American singer (Papa Roach)
1977 - Aki Berg, Turku Fin, NHL defenseman (LA Kings)
1977 - Manu Ginóbili, Argentine basketball player
1978 - Hitomi Yaida, Japanese singer/songwriter
1979 - Kimberly Whiting, Miss Idaho Teen USA (1997)
1979 - Henrik Hansen, Danish footballer
1979 - Lee Minwoo, Korean singer (Shinhwa)
1979 - Birgitta Haukdal, Icelandic singer
1980 - Stephen Christian, American singer (Anberlin)
1981 - Michael Carrick, English footballer
1981 - Billy Aaron Brown, American actor
1981 - Jo In Sung, South Korean actor
1982 - Ágústa Eva Erlendsdóttir, Icelandic singer and actress
1982 - Tom Pelphrey, American actor
1984 - DeMeco Ryans, American football player
1984 - Zach Parise, American ice hockey player
1985 - Dustin Milligan, Canadian actor
1985 - Tynisha Keli, American singer
1986 - Alexandra Chando, American actress
1988 - Ayla Brown, American singer
1988 - Casper Johansen, Danish footballer
1990 - Soulja Boy, American rapper
1990 - Shana Swash, English actress
1993 - Hannah Lochner, Canadian actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 28, 2013, 08:13:26 AM

This Day in History for 28th July


Famous Deaths

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Violin Virtuoso & Composer                          Composer Johann                         Nobel Prize Winning Chemist
Antonio Vivaldi (1741)                                 Sebastian Bach (1750)                 Archer John Porter Martin (2002)


450 - Theodosius II de Jongere, emperor Austrian Empire, dies
1057 - Victor II, [Gebhard], Pope (1055-57), dies
1101 - Su Tung-p'o, Chinese poet/essayist/painter/calligrapher, dies at 64
1128 - William Clito, Count of Flanders (b. 1102)
1230 - Duke Leopold VI of Austria (b. 1176)
1285 - Queen Keran of Armenia, consort of Leo III of Armenia
1330 - Michael III, Tsar of Bulgaria, dies in battle
1527 - Rodrigo de Bastidas, Spanish conquistador
1540 - Thomas Cromwell, King Henry VIII's chief minister, executed
1631 - Guillén de Castro y Bellvis, Spanish dramatist (b. 1569)
1641 - John Amner, composer, dies at 61
1655 - Cyrano de Bergerac, French dramatist/novelist, dies at 36 in Paris
1655 - Suzuki Shosan, Samurai/monk/propagator of Zen Buddhism, dies at 76
1667 - Abraham Cowley, English poet (Mistress/Sex libri plantarum), dies
1675 - Bulstrode Whitelocke, English lawyer (b. 1605)
1685 - Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington, English statesman (b. 1618)
1711 - Gerard Lairesse, painter, buried
1718 - Etienne Baluze, French scholar (b. 1630)
1723 - Mariana Alcoforado, nun (schreef no Lettres Portuguese), dies at 63
1741 - Antonio Lucio Vivaldi, Italian composer, dies at 63
1746 - John Peter Zenger, journalist, involved in 1st amendment fight, dies
1750 - Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer (Art of the Fugue), dies at 65
1762 - George Dodington, 1st Baron Melcombe, English politician (b. 1691)
1778 - Arvid Niclas Hopken, composer, dies at 68
1794 - Georges Couthon, French politician, beheaded at 39
1794 - Maximilien Robespierre, Fr revolutionary/avocat (1781), guillotined
1802 - Giuseppe Sarti, Italian composer (Il er pastore, Ifigenia), dies at 72
1811 - Heinrich J von Collin, Austria dramatist/poet (Coriolan), dies
1818 - Gaspard Monge, French mathematician (b. 1746)
1835 - Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier, French marshal (b. 1768)
1837 - John Ross, composer, dies at 73
1838 - Bernhard Henrik Crusell, composer, dies at 62
1842 - C Brentano, writer, dies at 63
1844 - Joseph Bonaparte, older brother of Napoleon I and King of Naples and Spain (b. 1768)
1849 - Charles Albert, King of Sardinia (1831-49), dies
1850 - Stefano Pavesi, composer, dies at 71
1863 - James Deshler, US Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 30
1864 - Johann Hermann Kufferath, composer, dies at 67
1864 - Samuel Benton, US Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at about 44
1869 - Carl G Carus, German arts/psychologist/philosopher, dies
1869 - Jan Evangelista Purkyně, Czech anatomist (b. 1787)
1872 - Friedrich Kaiser, astronomer (Kaiser-Compass), dies
1878 - George Law Curry, Newspaper publisher and Governor of Oregon (b. 1820)
1895 - Joannes Kappeyne van Coppello, Internal minister (1877-89), dies at 72
1904 - Plehve, Russian foreign minister (bomb under carriage), dies
1915 - Vilbrun G Sam, rebellion leader/president of Haiti, lynched
1934 - Louis Tancred, cricketer (fourteen Tests batting for South Africa 1905-14), dies
1934 - Marie Dressler, actress (Dinner at 8, Anna Christie), dies at 64
1937 - Abdul Muslim Mahomayev, composer, dies at 51
1937 - Joseph Lee, father of Playgrounds movement, dies
1939 - William J Mayo, US surgeon/co-founder Mayo Clinic, dies at 78
1940 - Johann Richard Ohlsson, composer, dies at 66
1956 - Ludwig Klages, German philosopher/graphologist, dies at 83
1957 - Edith Abbott, American social worker, educator, and author (b. 1876)
1965 - Maurice Yvain, composer, dies at 74
1965 - Minor Watson, actor (Woman of the Year, Viva Cisco Kid), dies at 75
1965 - Edogawa Ranpo, Japanese author (b. 1894)
1967 - Karl W. Richter, Lieutenant, USAF, American aviator (b. 1942)
1968 - Charles W Mayo, US surgeon, dies at 70
1968 - Otto Hahn, German physicist/chemist (Nobel 1944), dies at 89
1969 - Ernst Tittel, composer, dies at 59
1969 - Frank H Loesser, US songwriter/composer (Guys & Dolls), dies at 59
1969 - Gabriel von Wayditch, composer, dies at 80
1969 - Ramón Grau, Cuban president (b. 1882)
1970 - John Barbirolli, English conductor (NY Philharmonic Orch), dies at 70
1971 - Diane Arbus, [Nemerov], photographer (Vogue), commits suicide at 48
1971 - Myril Hoag, American baseball player (b. 1908)
1971 - Charles E. Pont, American artist (b. 1898)
1972 - Helen Traubel, American soprano (b. 1903)
1972 - Charu Majumdar, Indian revolutionary leader (b. 1918)
1973 - Royal Butler, actor, dies at 80
1974 - Jack Ellis, cricketer (Victorian WK, Ashes tourist 1926), dies
1974 - Truman Bradley, TV host (Science Fiction Theater), dies at 69
1976 - Jacob Soetendorp, rabbi, dies at 62
1976 - Lucie Mannheim, actress (39 Steps), dies at 77
1978 - Jan Willem van Otterloo, composer, dies at 70
1979 - Charles Shadwell, English conductor and bandleader (b. 1898)
1980 - Cecil Burleigh, composer, dies at 95
1981 - Fr. Stanley Rother, Roman Catholic Priest, Martyr and Missionary to Guatemala (b. 1935)
1982 - George Kleinsinger, US composer (Tubby the Tuba), dies at 68
1983 - Alec Marks, cricketer (good NSW batsman 1928-37), dies
1984 - Bess Flowers, actress (View from Pompey's Head), dies at 85
1985 - Grant Williams, actor (Shrinking Man), dies of toxic poisoning at 54
1986 - Charles Aubroeck, Belgian painter/sculptor (Iron Tower), dies at 91
1986 - Syd Curnow, South African cricketer (168 runs in 7 Tests), dies
1987 - James Burnham, philosopher (Coming Defeat of Communism), dies at 81
1989 - Jeff Richards, actor (Don't Go Near the Water), dies at 66
1990 - Armando Frid, of Argentina (Born May 24, 1866 Guin rec), dies at 124
1990 - Jill Esmond, actress (13 Women, My Pal Wolfe, FP 1), dies at 82
1990 - Maurice Braddell, actor (Things to Come), dies
1991 - Luis Aravena Munoz, Chilean singer/exiled to Netherlands, dies at 45
1993 - Herbert Joeks, [van Hugten], Dutch actor (Pipo the Clown), dies at 77
1994 - Bernard Delfont, Rus/Brit impresario (Thorn EMI), dies at 84
1994 - Colin Turnbull, anthropologist, dies at 69
1994 - Selwyn Powell, art Editor, dies at 82
1996 - Harold C Fox, Fashion designer/musician, dies at 86
1996 - Mickey Fenn, docker/socialist, dies at 58
1996 - Roger Tory Peterson, ornithologist/artist, dies at 87
1997 - Louis Cohen, physicist, dies at 71
1997 - Seni Pramoj, PM of Thailand (1945-46, 75, 76), dies
1998 - Lenny McLean, English bareknuckle fighter (b. 1949)
1999 - Trygve Haavelmo, Norwegian economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1911)
2000 - Abraham Pais, Dutch-born American physicist and historian (b. 1918)
2002 - Archer John Porter Martin, English chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1910)
2003 - Lady Valerie Goulding, Irish politician and activist (b. 1918)
2004 - Francis Crick, English molecular biologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1916)
2004 - Sam Edwards, American actor (b. 1915)
2004 - Eugene Roche, American actor (b. 1928)
2004 - Tiziano Terzani, Italian journalist (b. 1938)
2006 - David Gemmell, British writer (b. 1948)
2007 - Jim LeRoy, Airshow pilot (b. 1961)
2007 - Karl Gotch, Belgian professional wrestler (b. 1924)
2008 - Susan Tamim, Lebanese singer and actress, murdered (b. 1977)
2009 - Jim Johnson, NFL Assistant Coach, Eagles Defensive Coordinator from 1999-2009 (b.1941)
2010 - Ivy Bean, English internet celebrity (b. 1905)
2011 - Abdul Fatah Younis, Former Libyan Interior Minister, assassinated for pro-Gadaffi ties (b.
          1944)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 29, 2013, 11:31:27 AM

This Day in History for 29th July


Historical Events

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The Sun King Louis XIV                     Theoretical Physicist Albert Einstein                     Animator Walt Disney

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Singer-Songwriter Bob Dylan                Russian Tsar Ivan the Terrible


362 - Emperor Julianus of Constantinople ends education laws
626 - Avaren/Slaves under khagan Bajan begin siege of Constantinople
904 - Thessalonica is sacked by Saracen pirates led by renegade Leo of Tripoli
1014 - Battle of Strumitsa-valley: Byzantine destroys Bulgarian armies
1030 - Battle at Stiklestad (Trondheim)
1179 - Lando Sittino proclaimed (anti-)pope Innocent III
1560 - Turkish fleet recaptures Djerba on Spanjaarden
1563 - League of High Nobles routes King Philip II
1567 - James VI is crowned King of Scots at Stirling.
1579 - Antwerp request union with Utrecht
1579 - King Philip II arrests plotters Antonio Perez & princess van Eboli
1585 - Friese academy opens
1588 - Attacking Spanish Armada defeated & scattered by English defenders
1588 - Duke Farneses troops ready for invasion of England
1634 - Dutch fleet under Johannes van Walbeeck lands on Curacao
1655 - Biggest townhall in the world opens in Amsterdam
1676 - Nathaniel Bacon declared a rebel for assembling frontiersmen to protect settlers from Indians
1693 - War of the Grand Alliance: Battle of Landen/Neerwinden - France wins Pyrrhic victory over
           Allied forces in the Netherlands.
1696 - French king Louis XIV & Victor Amadeua van Savoye signs peace
1715 - 10 Spanish treasure galleons sinks off Florida coast by hurricane
1751 - 1st international world title prize fight-Jack Stack of England, beats challenger M Petit of
           France in 29 mins in England
1773 - 1st schoolhouse west of Allegheny Mtns completed, Schoenbrunn, OH
1783 - Skaptar Volcano on Iceland erupts killing about 9,000
1786 - 1st newspaper published west of Alleghanies, Pitts Gazette
1793 - John Graves Simcoe decides to build a fort and settlement at Toronto, having sailed into the
           bay there.
1835 - 1st sugar plantation in Hawaii begins
1836 - Inauguration of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.
1844 - NY Yacht Club forms
1847 - Cumberland School of Law founded in Lebanon, Tennessee, USA. At the end of 1847 only 15
           law schools exist in the United States.
1848 - Irish Potato Famine: Tipperary Revolt - in Tipperary, an unsuccessful nationalist revolt against
           British rule is put down by police.
1851 - Annibale de Gasparis discovers asteroid 15 Eunomia.
1858 - Treaty of Amity and Commerce/Harris Treaty signed between US & Japan opening Japanese
           ports to trade
1864 - 3rd & last day of battle at Deep Bottom Run, Virginia
1864 - Battle of Macon, GA (Stoneman's Raid)
1864 - American Civil War: Confederate spy Belle Boyd is arrested by Union troops and detained at
           the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, DC.
1874 - Major Walter Copton Wingfield patents a portable tennis court
1899 - 1st motorcycle race, Manhattan Beach, NY
1899 - Southern California Golf Association forms
1899 - The First Hague Convention is signed.
1900 - In Italy, King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by Italian-born anarchist Gaetano Bresci.
1902 - Union of Orthodox Rabbis of US & Canada forms
1907 - 1st helicopter ascent in Douai, France
1907 - Sir Robert Baden-Powell forms Boy Scouts in England
1908 - St Louis Browns Rube Waddell strikes out 16 Phila Athletics
1910 - JWEL Hilgers is 1st Dutchman to fly above Dutch territory
1911 - Boston Red Sox Joe Wood no-hits St Louis Browns, 5-0
1913 - Albania becomes sovereignty under prince Wilhelm von Wied
1914 - 1st transcontinental phone link made between NYC & SF
1914 - Austrian-Hungary bombs Belgrade
1914 - British fleet leaves Portland/passes Straits of Dover
1914 - Russia mobilize troops along Austrian boundary
1915 - Pirate Honus Wagner at 41, hits a grand slam HR
1916 - Postal check & Girodienst establishes
1920 - 1st transcontinental airmail flight from NY to SF
1920 - Mexican rebel Pancho Villa surrenders
1920 - Construction of the Link River Dam begins as part of the Klamath Reclamation Project.
1921 - Cleveland's 125th anniversary celebration: Cy Young, 54, pitches 2 inn
1921 - New rules of language assumed (equal rights Flemings/Walen Belgium)
1921 - Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party.
1923 - Albert Einstein speaks on pacifism in Berlin
1923 - KPD holds struggle day against fascism, in Germany
1924 - Paul Runyan wins PGA golf championship
1927 - 1st iron lung installed (Bellevue hospital, NY)
1927 - Phil Mead scores his 100th 100, Hampshire v Northants
1928 - Walt Disney's "Steamboat Willie" is released
1928 - Cleve Indians score 17 in 1st 2 inns to beat Yanks 24-6 at Dunn Field they also set a record
           with 24 singles in 1 game
1929 - Belgium Maurice Dewaele wins Tour de France
1930 - 115°F (46°C), Holly Springs, Mississippi (state record)
1930 - Airship R100, 1st passenger-carrying flight from England to Canada
1932 - Great Depression: in Washington, DC, U.S. troops disperse the last of the "Bonus Army" of
           World War I veterans.
1934 - 17th PGA Championship: Paul Runyan at Park CC Williamsville NY
1936 - RCA shows 1st real TV program (dancing, film on locomotives, Bonwit Teller fashion show &
           monologue from Tobacco Road & comedy)
1937 - Japanese troops occupies Peking & Tientsin
1937 - Tongzhou Incident
1938 - Comic strip "Dennis the Menace," 1st appears
1938 - Olympic National Park forms
1940 - Urk soccer team forms
1942 - Eastern Blvd in the Bronx renamed Bruckner Blvd
1943 - 1 million inhabitants flee Hamburg
1943 - Nazi's evacuate Hollandsche Theater in Amsterdam
1944 - Allied air force bomb Germany for 6 hours
1944 - Frank McCormick (Reds) HR off Ace Adams (Giants) in both games of DH
1944 - US 4th Armour division occupiers Avranches
1945 - After delivering the Atomic Bomb across the Pacific, the cruiser USS Indianapolis is torpedoed
           & sunk by a Japanese submarine
1947 - Gas leak explodes in a beauty parlor, 10 women die in Harrisonburg Va
1948 - King George VI opens 14th modern Olympic games in London
1949 - Airlift in West-Germany to West-Berlin ends
1949 - BBC radio begins broadcasting
1950 - Pee Wee Reese, hits the 3,000th Dodger home run
1952 - 1st nonstop transpacific flight by a jet
1953 - US bombers shot down at north of Wladiwostok
1955 - Smokey Burgess hits 3 HRS to help Pirates beat Reds 16-5
1955 - USSR performs nuclear Test
1956 - 11th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Kathy Cornelius
1956 - Jacques Cousteau's Calypso anchors in 7,500 m of water (record)
1956 - WCKT (now WSVN) TV channel 7 in Miami, FL (IND) begins broadcasting
1957 - Floyd Patterson TKOs Tommy Jackson in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
1957 - International Atomic Energy Agency forms by UN
1957 - Jack Paar's Tonight show premieres
1958 - US President Eisenhower signs into law National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958
1958 - Southern Pacific Bay ferries stop running
1959 - First United States Congress elections in Hawaii as a state of the Union.
1961 - Bob Dylan injured in car accident
1961 - Phillies lose 1st of 23 straight games
1961 - Wallis & Futuna Islands become a French overseas territory
1965 - Beatles movie "Help" premieres, Queen Elizabeth attends
1965 - Gemini 5 returned after 12d 7h 11m 53s
1965 - Major league record 26 strikeouts, Phillies (16), Pirates (10)
1965 - USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1966 - Bob Dylan hurt in motorcycle accident near Woodstock NY
1966 - Nigerians chief of staff Jakubu Gowon makes coup
1967 - Fire aboard carrier USS Forrestal in Gulf of Tonkin kills 134
1967 - Moderate quake (6.5) strikes Caracas Venezuela causing severe damage
1967 - U S S Forrestal explodes kills 134. $100 million damage
1968 - Cincinnati Red George Culver no hits Phillies, 6-1
1968 - Gram Parson refuses to play with the Byrds in South Africa
1968 - Mount Arenal, Costa Rica kills 80 in Pelee-type eruption
1968 - Pope Paul VI, in an encyclical entitled "Humanae Vitae" (Of Human Life), declares any artificial
           forms of birth control prohibited
1968 - Wash DC Ron Hansen makes unassisted triple play vs Cleve
1969 - Mariner 6 begins transmitting far-encounter photos of Mars
1970 - 6 days of race rioting in Hartford Ct
1972 - France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
1973 - $180,000 in Led Zeppelin receipts are robbed from NY Hilton
1973 - Greek plebiscite chooses republic over monarchy
1974 - 2nd impeachment vote against Nixon by House Judiciary Committee
1974 - Episcopal Church ordained female priests
1974 - France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
1974 - St Louis Card Lou Brock steals his 700th base
1975 - Ford became 1st US pres to visit Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz
1975 - Military coup by Gen Mohammed/Pres Jakubu Gowon fired
1976 - USSR performs underground nuclear Test
1976 - In New York City, the "Son of Sam" kills one person and seriously wounds another in the first
           of a series of attacks.
1978 - 600,000 attend "Summer Jam" rock festival, Watkins Glen, NY
1978 - Penny Dean swims English Channel in record 7h40m
1978 - Pioneer 11 transmits images of Saturn & its rings
1978 - On Old Timer's Day, NY Yankees announce that Billy Martin will return as NY Yankee manager
           in 1980 & Bob Lemon will become GM
1979 - 7th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Amy Alcott
1981 - Cleveland Metroparks Zoo Amphitheater is dedicated
1981 - Iran ex-president Bani Sadr flees to Paris
1983 - "Friday Night Videos" premieres on NBC TV
1983 - Steve Garvey ends his NL record 1,207 consecutive game streak
1984 - 12th du Maurier Golf Classic: Juli Inkster
1984 - 23rd Summer Olympics opens in LA
1985 - 19th Space Shuttle Mission (51-F)-Challenger 8-launched
1986 - Bomb attack in West-Beirut, 30 killed
1986 - Dennis Amiss scores his 100th 100, Warwickshire v Lancashire
1986 - NY jury rules NFL violated antitrust laws, awards USFL $1 in damages
1987 - Ben & Jerry's & Jerry Garcia agree on a new flavor Cherry Garcia
1988 - FDIC bails out 1st Republic Bank, Dallas, with $4 billion
1988 - Gorbachev pushes plan electing president & parliament in March, 1989
1988 - Judge orders NASA to release unedited tape from Challenger cockpit
1988 - Last US Playboy Club (Lansing Mich) closes
1988 - South African government bans anti-apartheid film "Cry Freedom"
1988 - Baltimore trades Mike Boddicker to the Red Sox for Brady Anderson & Curt Schilling
1988 - Rick Sutcliffe swipes home, 1st pitcher since Pascual Perez in 1984 to steal home
1989 - Javier Sotomayor of Cuba sets high jump record (8'0") in San Juan
1989 - Phillies retire Steve Carlton's # 32
1989 - Vince Coleman, record streak stopped at 50 straight stolen bases
1989 - White Sox trade Harold Baines to Rangers for Scott Fletcher & Sam Sosa
1990 - 26th Curtis Cup: US wins 14-4
1990 - 28th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats USSR in Atlanta Georgia (2-1)
1990 - 36th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Beth Daniel
1990 - Boston Red Sox set major league record with 12 doubles in a game
1990 - South Africa Communist Party begins 1st legal conference
1991 - 1st Sunday Night game at Shea Stadium (Mets beat Cubs 6-0)
1991 - Yankee Stadium fans throw cups & blowup dolls at Jose Canseco
1992 - "Chinese Coffee" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 18 perfs
1992 - Evgueni Sadovyi swims world record/OR 400m freestyle (3:45.00)
1992 - Ray Sharkey, actor (Wiseguys), arrested for narcotic possession
1993 - Cin Red pitcher Thomas Browning arrested for marijuana possession
1993 - Walter Koenig (Checkov-Star Trek) suffers a mild heart attack
1993 - Israeli Court of Appeal overturns (5-0) conviction of John Demjaujuk, saying not enough
           evidence he is Concentration Camp Ivan the Terrible
1994 - 200,000 Moslems demand death to feminist Taslima Nasrin
1994 - Corrupt Italian ex-premier Craxi gets 8½ year jail sentenced
1994 - H Emans Arubaanse Peoples Party wins parliamentary election
1994 - India army kills 27 Moslem militants
1994 - Jesse Timmedequas, rapes & murders Megan Kanka, 7 (Megan's Law)
1994 - Parliamentary election in Aruba
1995 - Monica Seles beats Martina Naratilova in her return to tennis
1995 - Carolina Panthers beat Jacksonville Jaguars in their 1st NFL exhibition game 20-14
1996 - The controversial child protection portion of the Communications Decency Act (1996) is
           struck down as too broad by a U.S. federal court.
1997 - US Senior Golf Open ends at Olympia Fields GC Ill
2005 - Astronomers announce their discovery of Eris.
2012 - Tropical Storm Khanun kills 88 people and leaves 60,000 homeless in North Korea

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 29, 2013, 11:35:13 AM

This Day in History for 29th July


Famous Weddings

1565 - Mary Queen of Scots marries her cousin, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley
1934 - "Titanic" actress Gloria Stuart (24) weds screenwriter Arthur Sheekman (33)
1981 - Prince Charles of England weds Lady Diane Spencer at St Pauls' Cathedral, London
1982 - Andy Taylor of rock group Duran Duran weds Tracie Wilson
2000 - American actress Jennifer Aniston (31) weds actor and film producer Brad Pitt (36) in a
           private ceremony at Malibu, California
2006 - "Baywatch" actress Pamela Anderson (39) weds singer Kid Rock (35) at Thunder Gulch yacht
           in Saint-Tropez, France
2006 - "Providence" actress Paula Cale (36) weds screenwriter Michael Lisbe at Sopris Mountain Ranch
            in Basalt, Colorado
2006 - "Primal Scream" lead singer Bobby Gillespie (44) weds stylist Katy England at St. Margaret's
            Church in Betley, Staffordshire

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 29, 2013, 11:36:25 AM

This Day in History for 29th July


Famous Divorces

2006 - Robyn Denise Moore divorces Oscar-winning actor Mel Gibson (55) due to irreconcilable
           differences after 31 years of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 29, 2013, 11:45:28 AM

This Day in History for 29th July


Famous Birthdays

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Italian Dictator                                            Silent Screen Actress                                Rush lead vocalist
Benito Mussolini (1883)                                Clara Bow (1905)                                       Geddy Lee (1953)


1166 - Henry II of Champagne (d. 1197)
1590 - Gilles Hayne, composer
1605 - Simon Dach, German poet
1620 - Nicolaas Heinsius, Dutch philologist/diplomat
1646 - Johann Theile, German composer (Adam & Eve)
1723 - Christleib Siegmund Binder, composer
1739 - Johannes Ritschel, composer
1755 - Franz Gotz, composer
1758 - Antonius van Gils, Dutch RC theologist (opposed Enlightenment)
1778 - Carl Borromaus Neuner, composer
1797 - Daniel Drew, American financier (d. 1879)
1801 - George Bradshaw, English publisher (d. 1853)
1805 - Alexis de Tocqueville, France, statesman/writer (Democracy in America)
1817 - James Blair Steedman, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1883
1820 - Clement Laird Vallandigham, MC (Union), died in 1871
1828 - Cuvier Grover, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1885
1830 - Alvan Cullem Gillem, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1875
1843 - Johannes Schmidt, German linguist (d. 1901)
1849 - Max Nordau, Austrian author and Zionist leader (d. 1923)
1853 - Esther de Boer-van Rijk, Dutch actress (Kniertje-Hope of Blessing)
1853 - Henry Morton Dunham, composer
1854 - Georg Kerschensteiner, German educator (Theory of Education)
1861 - Alica Hathaway Lee Roosevelt, 1st wife of Theodore Roosevelt
1861 - Sergei D Sazonov, Russian minister of Foreign Affairs (1910-16)
1865 - Nicola Spinelli, composer
1867 - Enrique Granados, Spain, composer
1869 - Booth Tarkington, US, novelist (17, Magnificent Ambersons)
1872 - Eric Alfred Knudsen, American folklorist (d. 1957)
1874 - August Stramm, writer
1874 - James Shaver Woodsworth, Canadian politician (d. 1942)
1876 - Maria Ouspenskaya, Tula Russia, actress (Waterloo Bridge)
1878 - Don Marquis, Ill, journalist/poet (archy & mehitabel) (d. 1937)
1883 - Benito Mussolini, [Il Duce], Forli Kingdom of Italy, Fascist Italian dictator (1922-43), (d. 1945)
1883 - Manuel Infante, Spanish composer/conductor
1883 - Porfirio Barba-Jacob, Colombian poet and writer (d. 1942)
1884 - Henri Liebrecht, Belgian playwright/journalist
1884 - Ralph A. Bard, U.S. Navy Undersecretary (d. 1975)
1885 - Theda Bara, American film actress (d. 1955)
1887 - Rudi Stephan, composer
1887 - Sigmund Romberg, Nagykanizsa Hungary, operetta composer (Blossom Time)
1888 - Niles Welch, Hartford CT, actor (Cornered)
1889 - Karl Otten, writer
1891 - Bernhard Zondek, German/Israeli gynaecologist
1892 - Charles L Bass, actor (Business in White Slavery)
1892 - Ernst van Raalte, lawyer (Seen, heard... wrote)
1892 - Karel L Baars, Dutch actor (White Slaves Trade)
1892 - William Powell, Pittsburgh PA, actor (Thin Man, My Man Godfrey)
1893 - Arre Merikanto, Finnish composer (12-tones music)
1895 - Michail M Zosjtsjenko, Russian author
1897 - Sir Neil Ritchie, British general (d. 1983)
1898 - Isidor Isaac Rabi, Poland, physicist (explored atom, Nobel 1944)
1899 - Walter Beall, American baseball player (d. 1959)
1900 - Alexander Vasil'yevich Mosolov, composer [OS]
1900 - Don Redman, Piedmont WV, orchestra leader (Sugar Hill Times)
1900 - Eyvind Johnson, Sweden, novelist (Return to Ithaca-Nobel 1974)
1900 - Don Redman, American musician (d. 1964)
1904 - J. R. D. Tata, Indian industrialist (d. 1993)
1905 - Clara Bow, Brooklyn New York, silent screen actress (It, Saturday Night Kid), (d. 1965)
1905 - Dag Hammarskjoeld, Sweden, 2nd UN Sect-General (1953-61) (Nobel 1961)
1905 - Thelma Todd, [Alison Loyd], Lawrence MA, actress (Dangerous Female)
1905 - Stanley Kunitz, American poet (d. 2006)
1906 - Diana Vreeland, French-born fashion editor (d. 1989)
1907 - Melvin Mouron Belli, Sonora California, lawyer (SF's "King of Torts")
1909 - Georgy Mushel, composer
1910 - Henry Brian Boyne, journalist
1911 - Jan Cikker, composer
1911 - Foster Furcolo, 60th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1995)
1911 - Iakovos, Archbishop of America (d. 2005)
1913 - Stephen McNally, NYC, actor (Split Second, 30 Seconds over Tokyo)
1913 - Erich Priebke, Nazi war criminal
1914 - "Professor" Irwin Corey, comedian (Car Wash)
1914 - Abram Games, graphic artist
1914 - Dovie Hudson, community activist in rural Mississippi
1915 - Bruce R. McConkie, LDS apostle and author (d. 1985)
1915 - Francis W. Sargent, 64th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1998)
1916 - Charlie Christian, American jazz guitarist (d. 1942)
1916 - Budd Boetticher, American film director (d. 2001)
1918 - Vladimir Dudentzev, Russian writer
1920 - Rodolfo Acosta, Chihuahua Mexico, actor (Passion, Littlest Outlaw)
1920 - Neville Jeffress, Australian founder of Media Monitors Australia (d. 2007)
1921 - Aled Eames, maritime historian
1921 - Richard Egan, SF California, actor (Empire, Redigo, Pollyanna)
1923 - Gordon Mitchell, American actor (d. 2003)
1924 - Arnold Weinstock, English industrial/multi-millionaire (GEC)
1924 - Robert Horton, Los Angeles California, actor (Kings Row, Wagon Train, Arena)
1924 - Lloyd Bochner, Canadian actor (d. 2005)
1924 - Elizabeth Short, victim in the Black Dahlia case (d. 1947)
1925 - Mikis Michael George Theodorakis, Chios Greece, composer (Raven)
1925 - Ted Lindsay, Canadian hockey player
1926 - Don Carter, bowler, 6-time Bowler of Year (1953-54, 57-58, 60-61)
1926 - Russel Firestone, polo great (Circle F-1959 champs)
1926 - Donald Carter, St Louis, Missouri, professional bowler, six-time bowler of the year, (d. 2012)
1927 - Harry K V Mulisch, writer (Message to King Rat)
1928 - Bidzina Alexandrovich Kvernadze, composer
1929 - Jean Baudrillard, French philosopher
1930 - Paul Taylor, dancer/choreographer (Paul Taylor Dance Company) [or 6/5]
1932 - Marguerite Empey, [Diane Webber], Los Angelas California, playmate (May 1955, Feb 1956)
1932 - Nancy Landon Kassebaum, (Sen-R-Kansas, 1979- )
1933 - Cammie Smith, WI cricket opening batsman (1960-62)
1933 - Robert Fuller, Troy NY, actor (Laramie, Wagon Train)
1933 - Lou Albano, American pro wrestling manager
1934 - Alfred Scott, WI cricket leg-spinner (son of O C, Test 0-140)
1935 - Leonard Lee, rocker (Shirley & Lee)
1935 - Peter Schreier, Meissen Germany, tenor (Dresden State Opera 1961)
1936 - Elizabeth Hanford Dole, US Secretary of Transportation (1983-87)
1937 - Daniel McFadden, American economist, Nobel Prize Laureate
1938 - Peter Jennings, Toronto Canada, news anchor (ABC Evening News)
1938 - Jean Rochon, Quebec politician
1939 - Annea Lockwood, composer
1941 - David Warner, Manchester NH, actor (Star Trek VI, Time Bandits)
1942 - Sharon Gans, actress (Slaughterhouse 5)
1942 - Tony Sirico, American actor
1943 - Charles Hallahan, actor (Hunter)
1943 - Ingrid Kramer, Dresden Germany, diver (Olympic-gold-1964)
1943 - Roz Kelly, Mt Vernon NY, actress (Owl & Pussycat, Happy Days)
1943 - David Taylor, English snooker player
1944 - Terry Jarvis, NZ cricket opener (387 partnership w/Turner v WI 1972)
1945 - Michelle Angelo, Kingsville Tx, actress (Funny Girl)
1946 - Bill Forsyth, director (Local Hero, Breaking In, Housekeeping)
1946 - Neal Doughty, Evantson Ill, rock keyboardist (Reo Speedwagon)
1947 - Janet LePera, LPGA golfer
1947 - Dick Harmon, American golf instructor (d. 2006)
1949 - Marilyn Tucker Quayle, novelist/wife of Vice President Dan Quayle (1989-93)
1949 - Stephen Burleigh, Wheeling WV, actor (Love & Betrayal, Afterburn)
1949 - Leslie Easterbrook, Los Angeles, California, American actress (The Devil's Rejects, Police
           Academy)
1950 - Maricica Puica, Romania, 2K runner (world record)
1950 - Radu Voina, Romania, team handball (Oly-silver/2 bronze-1972, 76, 80)
1951 - Dean Pitchford, rocker
1951 - Deborah Pryor, California, actress (The Godson)/(Rep-R-Ohio)
1951 - Dan Driessen, American baseball player
1953 - Geddy Lee, Toronto Canada, lead vocalist/bassist (Rush-Tom Sawyer)
1953 - Ken Burns [Kenneth Lauren], Brooklyn, New York, American director and documentary film
           producer (The Civil War, Baseball)
1953 - Tim Gunn, American television personality
1954 - Flo Hyman, Inglewood California, volleyball player (Olympic-silver-1984)
1955 - "Country" Jem Finer, English banjo player (Pogues-Straight to Hell)
1955 - Dave Stevens, American illustrator
1955 - Jean-Hugues Anglade, French actor
1956 - Brenda Hocott, LPGA golfer
1956 - Patti Scialfa, singer (As Long as I Can Be)/Mrs Bruce Springsteen
1956 - Teddy Atlas, American boxing trainer and commentator
1956 - Ronnie Musgrove, Former Governor of Mississippi
1957 - Nellie Kim, Shurab, Tajik SSR, Soviet gymnast (Olympic-3 golds-1976)
1957 - Alessandra Marc, American operatic soprano
1959 - Brian James Claar, Santa Monica CA, PGA golfer (1991 AT&T-2nd)
1959 - Gary Springer, NYC, actor (Bernice Bobs Her Hair)
1959 - John Sykes, Irish hard rock guitarist (Thin Lizzy-Blue Murder)
1959 - Sanjay Dutt, Indian actor
1959 - Ruud Janssen, Dutch writer and artist
1962 - Corinne Dibnah, Brisbane Australia, LPGA golfer (1988 Brit Open)
1962 - Steve Pelluer, WLAF quarterback (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1962 - Vincent Rousseau, Belgian athlete
1962 - Scott Steiner, American professional wrestler
1963 - Alexandra Paul, NYC, actress (Christine, American Flyers, Dragnet)
1963 - Azeem Hafeez, cricketer (fingerless Pakistani lefty quick)
1963 - Damon Allen, CFL quarterback (BC Lions)
1963 - Michel Boerebach, Dutch soccer player (FC Twente)
1963 - Patty Dodd, Bogota Columbia, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-2nd-1988)
1963 - Steve Frey, Meadowbrook PA, pitcher (Philadelphia Phillies)
1963 - Graham Poll, English football referee
1963 - Jim Beglin, Irish football commentator
1964 - Lisa Peluso, Phila, actress (Search for Tomorrow, Ava-Loving)
1965 - Doug Burden, Rutland Vt, rower (Olympics-5th-88, 92, 96)
1965 - Henry James, NBA forward (Cleveland Cavaliers)
1965 - Karen Doell, Winkler Manitoba, softball 2nd baseman (Olympics-96)
1965 - Luis Alicea, Santurce Puerto Rico, infielder (St Louis Cardinals)
1965 - Chang-Rae Lee, Korean-born author
1966 - Jeff Herrod, NFL linebacker (Indianapolis Colts)
1966 - Martina McBride, country singer
1966 - Sally Gunnell, 400m hurdler, (Olympic-gold-92)
1966 - Richard Steven Horvitz, American comic voiceactor
1968 - Kristen Babb-Sprague, California, US synchronized swimmer (Olympic-gold-92)
1968 - Mike Williams, Radford VA, pitcher (Philadelphia Phillies)
1968 - Paavo Lotjonen, Finnish Cellist (Apocalyptica)
1969 - Alison Dunlap, Denver Colorado, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1970 - John Rennie, cricketer (Zimbabwe pace bowler 1993)
1970 - Maria Checca, Bogota Colombia, playmate (Aug, 1994)
1970 - Sean LaChapelle, NFL/WLAF receiver (KC Chiefs, Scottish Claymores)
1970 - Steve Wojciechowski, Blue Island IL, pitcher (Oakland A's)
1971 - Bryan Dattilo, Kankakee IL, actor (California Dreaming, Days of Our Lives)
1971 - Jayne Fenner, Four Marks England, US sailing (Olympic-92)
1971 - Johnny Ruffin, Butler AL, pitcher (Cin Reds)
1971 - Monica Calhoun, American actress
1971 - Lisa Ekdahl, Swedish singer songwriter
1972 - Steven Branscombe, WLAF WR (Scotland Claymores)
1972 - Wil Wheaton, CA, actor (Star Trek Next Generation-Wesley, Stand By Me)
1973 - Stephen Dorff, Atlanta, actor (I Know My Name is Steven)
1973 - Wanya Morris, [Squirt], Phila Pa, rapper (Boyz II Men)
1974 - Derek Wilkinson, Lasalle, NHL goalie (Tampa Bay Lightning)
1975 - Seth Greisinger, Kansas City KS, baseball pitcher (Olympics-bronze-96)
1975 - Sheya Shipanga, Miss Namibia Universe (1997)
1975 - Corrado Grabbi, Italian footballer
1977 - Greg Burgess, US, 200m individual medley (Olympics-silver-92, 96)
1979 - Karim Essediri, Tunisian footballer
1979 - Ronald Murray, American basketball player
1980 - Ryan Braun, Kitchener, Onatrio, Canadian baseball player (Los Angeles Angels)
1980 - Fernando González, Chilean tennis player
1980 - Rachel Miner, American actress
1981 - Jennie Thompson, Wichita Falls TX, gymnast (Jr Natl-champ-93, Oly-96)
1981 - Fernando Alonso, Spanish Formula 1 Driver
1981 - Andrés Madrid, Argentine footballer
1981 - Troy Perkins, American soccer player
1982 - Janez Aljančič, Slovenian footballer
1982 - Jônatas Domingos, Brazilian footballer
1982 - Allison Mack, American actress
1983 - Alexei Kaigorodov, Russian hockey player
1984 - Chad Billingsley, American baseball player
1987 - Sabra Johnson, American dancer
1991 - Miki Ishikawa, American actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 29, 2013, 11:57:28 AM

This Day in History for 29th July


Famous Deaths

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King of France King Philip I (1108)


238 - Pupienus, Roman Emperor
238 - Balbinus, Roman Emperor
1030 - Olaf Haraldsson, King of Norway, dies in battle of Stiklestad
1095 - Ladislaus I Arpad de Heilige, King of Hungary, dies
1099 - Urban II, [Odo van Lagery], French Pope (1088-99), dies
1108 - King Philip I, King of the Franks 1059, 1060-1108), dies at 56
1164 - Olaf, King of Norway, dies
1507 - Martin Behaim, German-born navigator and geographer (b. 1459)
1573 - Spanish prince of Eboli, dies
1596 - Jacobus Latomus, Flemish poet (Psalms/Jeremias) dies at about 84
1612 - Jacques Bongars, French scholar and diplomat (b. 1554)
1632 - Samuel Ampzing, vicar/poet (Biblical Treasures), dies
1644 - Urban VIII, [Maffeo Barberini], Pope (1623-44), dies
1649 - David Teniers I, Flemish painter (altaar stukken), dies
1669 - Christopher Simpson, composer, dies
1752 - Peter Warren, British admiral
1781 - Johann Kies, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1713)
1786 - Franz Asplmayr, composer, dies at 58
1792 - René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou, Chancellor of France (b. 1714)
1797 - Christoph Rheineck, composer, dies at 48
1808 - Selam III, poet/composer/sultan of Turkey (1789-1808), dies
1813 - Jean-Andoche Junot, French general (b. 1771)
1825 - Micah Hawkins, composer, dies at 48
1833 - William Wilberforce, English abolitionist (b. 1759)
1838 - Jonathan Huntington, composer, dies at 66
1839 - Gaspard de Prony, French mathematician (b. 1755)
1844 - Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, composer, dies at 53
1856 - Robert A Schumann, German pianist/composer (Humoresque), dies at 46
1857 - Charles LJL Bonaparte, Corsican/French prince of Canino, dies at 54
1857 - Thomas Dick, Scottish scientific teacher and writer (b. 1774)
1859 - Auguste Mathieu Panseron, composer, dies at 63
1863 - Edward Needle Kirk, US Union brig-general, dies in battle at about 35
1886 - Adolf Muller, composer, dies at 84
1886 - Solomon Gazfried, rabbi/author (Kitzur Shulchan Aruch), dies
1887 - Agostino Depretis, Italian statesman (d. 1813)
1890 - Vincent Van Gogh, painter, dies in Auvers, France
1897 - Joost G Kist, lawyer/president of High Council (1885-97), dies at 74
1900 - Umberto I, Italian King (1878-1900) assassinated by Gaetano Bresci
1906 - Alexandre Luigini, composer, dies at 56
1913 - Tobias MC Asser, lawyer (Nobel 1911), dies
1918 - Ernest William Christmas, Australian painter (b. 1863)
1922 - Edward Gailliard, Flemish language/archaeologist, dies at 81
1930 - Alexander von Fielitz, composer, dies at 69
1933 - Gerhard Rusenkrone Schjelderup, composer, dies at 73
1934 - Didier Pitre, French Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1883)
1938 - Nikolai Krylenko, Russian/Soviet jurist and politician (b. 1885)
1941 - James Stephenson, actor (Sea Hawk, River's End), dies at 52
1950 - Joe Fry, British racing driver (b. 1915)
1954 - Coen de Koning, Dutch speed skater (b. 1879)
1956 - Ludwig Klages, German philosopher (Study of Graves), dies at 83
1958 - Charles O'Malley, actor in silent westerns (Iron Horse), dies at 61
1960 - Richard Simon, co-founder (Simon & Shuster), dies
1963 - Dave Smith, cricketer (2 Tests in 1912 Australian side), dies
1963 - Dorian Le Gallienne, composer, dies at 48
1964 - Vean Gregg, American baseball player (b. 1885)
1966 - Pal Jardanyi, composer, dies at 44
1970 - John G B Barbirolli, English conductor/composer, dies at 70
1970 - Jonel Perlea, composer, dies at 69
1973 - Eileen Percy, silent film actress (Wicked, Backstage), dies at 72
1973 - Norm Smith, Australian rules footballer and coach (b. 1915)
1973 - Roger Williamson, English racing driver (b. 1948)
1974 - Cass Elliot, singer (Mamas & Papas), dies from heart attack in London at 32
1974 - Erich Kästner, German author (b. 1899)
1975 - James [Benjamin] Blish, sci-fi author (Star Trek Reader), dies at 54
1976 - Mickey Cohen, American gangster (b. 1913)
1977 - Austin Matthews, cricketer (Test Eng v NZ 1937), dies
1978 - Wesley La Violette, composer, dies at 84
1979 - Herbert Marcuse, philosopher (Eros & Civilization), dies at 81
1979 - Bill Todman, American television producer (b. 1916)
1980 - Jan Tausinger, composer, dies at 58
1981 - Robert Moses, American urban planner (b. 1888)
1982 - Cor[nelis R J] Kieboom, resistor/President Feyenoord, dies at 81
1982 - Harold Sakata, actor (Kenji-Sarge), dies at 62
1982 - Richard N Gale, English general/paracommandant, dies at 86
1983 - David Niven, actor (Rugues), dies in Switzerland at 73
1983 - J B Charles, [Willem Nagel], Dutch criminologist/writer, dies at 83
1983 - Luis Buñuel, director (Monk), dies of cirrhosis of liver at 83
1983 - Raymond Massey, actor (Dr Kildare), dies of pneumonia at 86
1984 - Fred Waring, orchestra leader (Fred Waring Show), dies at 84
1984 - Woodrow Parfey, actor (Time Express), dies at 61 of a heart attack
1985 - James F Nolan, actor (Dante), dies of cancer at 69
1987 - Arthur Chipperfield, cricketer (14 Tests for Australia), dies
1987 - Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay, Bengali author (b. 1894)
1988 - Ellin Berlin, [MacKay], Mrs Irving Berlin, dies at 86
1990 - Bruno Kreisky, union chancellor Austria, dies
1992 - Tavio Amorin, Togolese politician, murdered
1993 - AJA Quintus Bosz, Indonesian/Suriname lawyer, dies at 78
1994 - Dorothy Crowfoot-Hodgkin, chemist (B-12, Nobel 1964), dies at 78
1994 - Francisco Veguillas, Spanish general, murdered at 68
1994 - John Bayard Britton, abortion doctor, killed by Paul Hill
1996 - Aruna Asaf Ali, politician, dies at 88
1996 - Ric Nordman, Canadian politician (b. 1919)
1996 - Jason Thirsk, American bassist (Pennywise) (b. 1967)
1998 - Jerome Robbins, American choreographer (b. 1918)
2001 - Edward Gierek, Polish politician (b. 1913)
2001 - Wau Holland, German computer hacker (b. 1951)
2003 - Foday Sankoh, Sierra Leonean rebel leader (b. 1937)
2004 - Rena Vlahopoulou, Greek actress and singer (b. 1923)
2007 - Mike Reid, English comedian and actor (b. 1940)
2007 - Michel Serrault, French actor (b. 1928)
2007 - Tom Snyder, American television personality (b. 1936)
2007 - Marvin Zindler, American television reporter (b. 1921)
2008 - Ishmeet Singh Sodhi, Indian Playback Singer (b. 1989)
2009 - Gayatri Devi, Ex-Maharani of Indian state Jaipur. (b. 1919)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 30, 2013, 11:46:30 AM

This Day in History for 30th July


Historical Events

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King of England King Charles I                  Actress Judy Garland                      Singer & Cultural Icon Elvis Presley

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36th US President                                    Singer & Actress Barbra Streisand             New York Yankees Owner
Lyndon B. Johnson                                                                                                     George Steinbrenner

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43rd US President George W. Bush


579 - Benedict I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
657 - St Vitalian begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Eugene I
1178 - Frederick I (Barbarossa), Holy Roman Emperor, crowned King of Burgundy
1419 - Anti-Catholic Hussites, followers of executed reformer Jan Hus, storm the Prague town hall
           and throw the judge, mayor and several city council members (either 7 or 13) out the
           windows. They all either died in the fall or were killed by the crowd outside.
1537 - Resistant of Bomy: French/Dutch cease fire
1601 - Spanish garrison of Rhine birch surrenders to Earl Mauritius
1618 - Prince Maurits' troops pull into Utrecht
1619 - House of Burgesses Virginia forms, 1st elective US governing body
1626 - Earthquake hits Naples; 10,000 die
1629 - An earthquake in Naples, Italy kills 10,000 people.
1646 - English parliament sets king Charles I Newcastle Propositions
1650 - Prince Willem II occupies Amsterdam
1653 - Johan de Witt sworn in as pension advisor of Holland
1655 - Dutch troops occupy Fort Assahudi Seram
1678 - English troops land in Flanders
1715 - Spanish gold & silver fleet disappears off St Lucie, Florida
1729 - City of Baltimore founded
1733 - Society of Freemasons opens 1st American lodge in Boston
1739 - Caspar Wistar begins glass manufacturing in Allowaystown, NJ
1756 - Bartolomeo Rastrelli presents the newly-built Catherine Palace to Empress Elizabeth and her
           courtiers.
1775 - Capt Cook with Resolution returns to England
1792 - 500 Marseillaisian men sing France's national anthem for 1st time
1809 - British armed force of 39,000 lands in Walcheren
1811 - Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, leader of the Mexican insurgency, is executed by the Spanish
           in Chihuahua, Mexico.
1822 - James Varick becomes 1st bishop of Afr Meth Episcopal Zion Church
1824 - Gioacchino Rossini becomes manager of Theatre Italian, Paris
1825 - Malden Island is discovered.
1826 - Java prince Dipo Negoro surprise attacks Dutch colony, 82 killed
1836 - 1st English newspaper published in Hawaii
1839 - Slave rebels, take over slaver Amistad
1844 - 1st US yacht club organized, NY Yacht Club
1863 - Pres Lincoln issues "eye-for-eye" order to shoot a rebel prisoner for every black prisoner shot
1863 - Indian Wars: Chief Pocatello of the Shoshone tribe signs the Treaty of Box Elder, promising
           to stop harassing the emigrant trails in southern Idaho and northern Utah.
1864 - Battle of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania - burned by Union forces under McCausland
1864 - Battle of the Crater: Gen Burnsides fails on attack of Petersburg
1865 - Pope Pius IX visits Suriname
1866 - New Orleans's Democratic government orders police to raid an integrated Republican Party
           meeting, killing 40 people and injuring 150.
1870 - Staten Island ferry "Westfield" burns, killing 100
1872 - Mahlon Loomis patents wireless telegraphy
1874 - 1st baseball teams to play outside US, Boston-Phila in British Isles
1878 - German anti-semitism begins during the Reichstag election
1878 - Russian assault on Plevna Turkey, 7,300 Russian casualties
1889 - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Naval Treaty" (BG)
1898 - Will Kellogg invents Corn Flakes
1902 - Anti-Jewish rioters attack funeral procession of Rabbi Joseph (NYC)
1905 - Dutch Covenant of Worker's union, NVV, forms
1908 - Around the World Automobile Race ends in Paris
1909 - John A Heyder becomes president of baseball's National League
1909 - Wright Brothers deliver 1st military plane to the army
1913 - Conclusion of 2nd Balkan War
1914 - Austrian-Hungary & Russia proclaim general mobilization
1914 - French troops withdraw 10 km from German border
1914 - John French appointed British supreme commander
1916 - German saboteurs blow up a munitions plant on Black Tom Island, NJ
1916 - Black Tom Island explosion in Jersey City, NJ.
1917 - Board of Commissioners of Cleveland Metroparks has its 1st meeting
1923 - New Zealand claims Ross Dependency
1926 - Albanian boundaries deduced
1928 - George Eastman shows 1st color motion pictures (US)
1930 - 1st broadcast of "Death Valley Days" on NBC-radio
1930 - Uruguay beats Argentina 4-2 for soccer's 1st World Cup in Montevideo
1932 - 10th modern Olympic games opens in Los Angeles
1933 - 28th Davis Cup: Great Britain beats France in Paris (3-2)
1935 - 1st Penguin book is published, starting the paperback revolution
1937 - Phillies Dolph Camilli, plays 1st base & registers no put outs
1938 - Gen Metaxas names himself premier of Greece
1939 - Belgium Sylvere Maes wins 33rd Tour de France
1941 - German occupiers forbid SDAP, VDB, ARP, RKSP, CHU & SGP in Netherlands
1942 - FDR signs bill creating women's Navy auxiliary agency (WAVES)
1942 - German SS kills 25,000 Jews in Minsk, Belorussia
1942 - German occupiers set night curfew on Jews in Netherlands
1943 - Last Judy Garland-Mickey Rooney movie released (Girl Crazy)
1943 - US 45th Infantry division occupies San Stefano
1944 - Heavy battles at Tessy-sur-Vire & Villebaudon Normandy
1944 - US 30th division reaches suburbs of St-Lo Normandy
1945 - Philippines Sea: US cruiser Indianapolis torpedoed/sinks, 880 die
1946 - 1st rocket attains 100 mi (167 km) altitude, White Sands, NM
1947 - Cin Reds 16 game win streak ends, losing to NY Giants 5-4
1948 - Emile Zatopek runs Olympic record (10K - 29:59.6)
1948 - Professional wrestling premieres on prime-time network TV (DuMont)
1949 - British warship HMS Amethyst escape down Yangtze River, having been refused a safe
           passage by Chinese Communists after 3-month standoff
1951 - Ty Cobb testifies before the Emanuel Celler committee, denying that the reserve clause makes
           peons of baseball players
1952 - Ford Frick sets waiver rule to bar inter-league deals until all clubs in same league get right to
           bid
1953 - Rikidōzan holds a ceremony announcing the establishment of the Japan Pro Wrestling Alliance.
1954 - Bob Kennedy hits the 1st grand slam for the new Baltimore Orioles
1954 - Elvis Presley joins Memphis Federation of Musicians, Local 71
1955 - Louison Bobet wins his 3rd Tour de France
1956 - US motto "In God We Trust" authorized
1959 - In his major league debut, SF Giant Willie McCovey goes 4-for-4
1960 - 1st AFL preseason game Boston Patriots defeat Bills in Buffalo (28-7)
1961 - 43rd PGA Championship: Jerry Barber shoots a 277 at Olympia Fields IL
1961 - Judy Kimball wins LPGA American Women's Golf Open
1962 - 33rd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 9-4 at Wrigley Field, Chicago
1962 - All star MVP: Leon Wagner (LA Angels)
1963 - British spy Kim Philby found in Moscow
1964 - US naval fire on Hon Ngu/Hon Mo, North Vietnam
1965 - Charles Ives' "From the Steeples & the Mountains," premieres
1965 - Duke Ellington's "Golden Brown & the Green Apple," premieres
1965 - LBJ signs Medicare bill, which goes into effect in 1966
1965 - Milwaukee manager Bobby Bragan says his pitchers threw 75 to 80 spitballs in a 9-2 loss to
           the Giants
1966 - Beatles' "Yesterday... & Today," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 5 weeks
1966 - England beats West Germany 4-2 for soccer's 8th World Cup in London
1966 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Supertest Ladies Golf Open
1966 - US airplanes bombs demilitarized zone in Vietnam
1967 - Clifford Ann Creed/Margie Masters wins Yankee Ladies' Team Golf Champ
1967 - Race riot in Milwaukee (4 killed)
1968 - Beatles' Apple Boutique closes, entire inventory is given away
1968 - Wash Senator Ron Hansen makes 1st unassisted triple-play in 41 years
1969 - Astros Denis Menke & Jim Wynn hit grandslams in 9th inn vs Mets
1969 - Barbra Streisand opens for Liberace at International Hotel, Las Vegas
1969 - KAEC TV channel 19 in Lufkin, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
1969 - Mariner 6 passes Venus on 3410 km (74 photos)
1970 - -Aug 5] Hurricane Celia, kills 31 in Cuba, Florida & Texas
1970 - 30,000 attend Powder Ridge Rock Festival, Middlefield Ct
1971 - 38th NFL Chicago All Star Game: Baltimore 24, All Stars 17 (52,289)
1971 - George Harrison releases "Bangladesh"
1971 - Japanese Boeing 727 collides with an F-86 fighter killing 162
1971 - US Apollo 15 (Scott & Irwin) lands on Mare Imbrium on the Moon
1972 - "Ain't Supposed to Die Death" closes at Barrymore NYC after 325 perfs
1972 - Jan Ferraris wins LPGA Lady Pepsi Golf Open
1973 - Texas Rangers Jim Bibby no-hits 1st-place Oakland, 6-0
1974 - House Judiciary Committee votes on 3rd & last charge of "high crimes & misdemeanors" to
           impeach President Nixon in the Watergate cover-up
1975 - Simon Gray's "Otherwise Engaged," premieres in London
1975 - Teamsters Pres Jimmy Hoffa disappears in suburban Detroit
1976 - Giulio Andreotti sworn in as premier of Italy
1976 - Japanese beat Russian for Olympic gold in woman's volleyball
1978 - Expos crush Braves, 19-0, collecting 28 hits & NL-record-tying 8 HRs
1978 - Pat Bradley wins LPGA Hoosier Golf Classic
1980 - Houston Astro pitcher J R Richard suffers a stroke
1980 - Vanuatu (New Hebrides) gains independence from Britain & France
1981 - Belgian Senate accept laws against racism
1981 - Simon Gray's "Quartermaine's Terms," premieres in London
1982 - Atlanta Braves remove Chief Noc-A-Homa to make room for more seats
1982 - USSR performs underground nuclear Test
1983 - Official speed record for a piston-driven aircraft, 832 kph, Calif
1983 - Weight lifter Sergei Didyk of USSR jerks a record 261 kg
1984 - Alvenus tanker at Cameron La, spills 2.8 million gallons of oil
1984 - Holly Roffey (11 days) gets heart transplant
1984 - Soap Opera "Santa Barbara" premieres on NBC TV
1985 - Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-I mission
1985 - Valerie Lowrance, of Texas, 18, crowned America's Junior Miss
1988 - Cin Red pitcher John Franco sets a record of 13 saves in 1 month
1988 - Harry Drake shoots arrow record 1873m
1988 - John Franco saves record 13th game of July
1988 - Jordanian King Hussein renounces sovereignity over West Bank to PLO
1988 - King Hussein dissolves Jordan's House of Representatives
1988 - Ronald J Dossenbach begins world record ride, pedaling across Canada from Vancouver BC,
           to Halifax, NS (13 days, 15 hr, 4 min)
1989 - Chile amends its constitution
1989 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Atlantic City Golf Classic
1990 - 5 Bank of Credit & Commerce members found guilty of money
1990 - Graham Gooch scores 123 v India to follow up 1st innings 333
1990 - Soldiers opens fire on worshippers in Monrovian church, 200-600 die
1990 - George Steinbrenner is forced by Commissioner Fay Vincent to resign as prinicipal partner of
           NY Yankees
1990 - The first Saturn automobile rolls off the assembly line.
1991 - MTV announces it will split into 3 channels in 1993
1991 - Red Sox Carlos Quintana is 11th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (3rd)
1992 - Lin Li swims female world record/OR 200m medley (2:11.65)
1994 - Record 103.8°F (39.9°C) in Preschen Lausitz Germany
1995 - Becky Iverson wins LPGA Friendly's Golf Classic
1995 - Dominic Cork takes hat-trick in England Test Cricket win v WI
1995 - Lara completes 5th Test Cricket century, 145 at Old Trafford
1995 - Richie Ashburn and Mike Schmidt enter basaeball's Hall of Fame
1996 - Tommy Lasoda retires as LA Dodger manager
1997 - Terrorist double suicide bombing in Jerusalem, kills 14
1997 - Eighteen lives are lost in the Thredbo Landslide in New South Wales, Australia.
2002 - The accounting law referred to as "The Sarbanes Oxley Act" is signed into law by President
           George W. Bush.
2003 - In Mexico, the last 'old style' Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line.
2006 - World's longest running music show Top of the Pops is broadcast for the last time on BBC
           Two. The show had aired for 42 years.
2009 - A bomb explodes in Palma Nova, Mallorca, killing 2 police officers. Basque separatist group
           ETA is believed to be responsible.
2012 - Train fire kills 32 and injures 27 people in Andhra Pradesh, India
2012 - Indian power grid failure leaves over 300 million without power

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 30, 2013, 11:49:12 AM

This Day in History for 30th July


Famous Weddings

1988 - James Ogilvy (under Engl princess Alexandra) marries Julia Rawlinson
1994 - Hollywood's highest-paid screenwriter Joe Eszterhas (49) weds Naomi Baka (35) in Maui,
           Hawaii
2004 - Actor Nicolas Cage (40) weds Alice Kim (20) at a private ranch in Northern California
2005 - Actress Sheryl Lee Ralph (49) weds Pennsylvania Senator Vincent Hughes (48) at the First
           African Methodist Episcopal Church in Los Angeles
2011 - Granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth II and British equestrian Zara Phillips (30) weds England
           rugby player Mike Tindall (32) at the Canongate Kirk in Edinburgh, Scotland

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 30, 2013, 11:50:16 AM

This Day in History for 30th July


Famous Divorces

2007 - Pop star Britney Spears (25) divorces rapper-dancer Kevin Federline (29) due to irreconcilable
           differences after over two years of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 30, 2013, 01:58:42 PM

This Day in History for 30th July


Famous Birthdays

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Novelist Emily Jane Bronte (1818)           Ford Motor Company Founder               Actor/Body Builder/Politician
                                                               Henry Ford (1863)                                   Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947)


1511 - Giorgio Vasari, Italy, painter/art historian (Vasari's Lives)
1549 - Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1609)
1641 - Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician and anatomist (d. 1673)
1747 - Antonio Benedetto Maria Puccini, composer
1751 - Maria A [Nannerl] Mozart, Austrian pianist/Wolfgang's sister
1763 - Samuel Rogers, English poet (Italy, a poem)
1793 - Josepf Francois Snel, composer
1809 - Charles Chiniquy, Quebec-born excommunicated Catholic priest (d. 1899)
1815 - Thomas Jackson Rodman, Bvt Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
1817 - Charles Radoux-Rogier, composer
1818 - Emily Jane Bronte, Thornton England, novelist (Wuthering Heights), (d. 1848)
1818 - John Heemskerk Azn, Dutch minister of Internal minister (1866..88)
1824 - Eugenio Terziani, composer
1825 - Chaim Aronson, inventor and academic (d. 1893)
1831 - Helene P Blavatsky, founder (Theosophist Cooperation)
1837 - Elon John Farnsworth, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
1838 - Eugen Richter, German parliament member (Liberal)
1855 - James Edward Kelly, US, sculptor "Sculptor of American History"
1856 - Richard B Haldane, British viscount/lord-chancellor (Life of A Smith)
1857 - Thorstein Veblen, US, economist (Theory of the Leisure Class-1899)
1859 - Henry Simpson Lunn, English humanitarian (d. 1939)
1863 - Henry Ford, Dearborn Township Michigan, industrialist and auto maker (Ford- model T), (d.
           1947)
1868 - Alfred Weber, German economist/sociologist
1872 - Clementine, Princess of Belgium, wife of Prince Napoleon Bonaparte
1875 - James William Tate, composer
1880 - Robert Rutherford McCormick, US, editor/publisher (Chicago Tribune)
1881 - Smedley Butler, American Marine general (d. 1940)
1882 - Holmes Herbert, Mansfield England, actor (The Kiss)
1882 - Leo van Puyfielde, Flemish art historian
1886 - Johan Algot Haquinius, composer
1887 - Felix A Vening Meinesz, Dutch geophysicist (gravity)
1887 - Timothy Mara, NFL owner (NY Giants)
1888 - Raden Sutomo, Indonesian freedom fighter
1889 - Vladimir K Zworykin, USSR, electronics engineer/inventor, father of TV
1890 - Casey Stengel, baseball manager (Yankees (1949-60)/NY Met's 1st)
1892 - Roy Park, cricketer (one Test Aust v Eng 1920, out 1st ball)
1893 - Fatima Jinnah, Pakistani Mother of the Nation (d. 1967)
1895 - Wanda Hawley, American actress (d. 1963)
1897 - Jacques de Kadt, Dutch politician/writer (Fascism is War!)
1898 - Henry Moore, England, sculptor (Vertebrae)
1899 - Gerald Moore, England, pianist (Am I Too Loud)
1899 - Henricus Moorman, Dutch vice-admiral (KVP)
1899 - John Woods Duke, composer
1901 - Alfred Lépine, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1955)
1904 - Salvador Novo, Mexican writer (d. 1974)
1906 - L'udovit Rajter, composer
1906 - Serafin Pro, composer
1909 - Cyril Northcote Parkinson, England, historian (Pursuit of Progress)
1910 - Edgar de Evia, American photographer (d. 2003)
1913 - Ivo Lhotka-Kalinski, composer
1913 - Karl Guttmann, Austrian/Neth playwright/director (Albee/Pinter)
1914 - Lord Killanin, Irish IOC president (d. 1999)
1916 - Robert van Spaendonk, Dutch resistance fighter
1916 - Dick Wilson, American actor (d. 2007)
1918 - Joe Daley, jazz tenor/clarinet/flute player
1919 - Berniece Baker Miracle, half-sister of Marilyn Monroe
1921 - Georg G Lampe, Dutch painter/director (Free Academy)
1921 - Jacques Vander Schueren, Belgium, minister of Economic Affairs
1921 - Grant Johannesen, American pianist (d. 2005)
1922 - Zbigniew Wiszniewski, composer
1922 - Henry W. Bloch, American co-founder of H&R Block
1923 - Dipa Nusantara Aidit, Indonesian communist/leader of PKI (1951-65)
1923 - John Richard Brinsley Norton, landowner
1924 - Christopher Shaw, composer
1924 - William Gass, Fargo ND, novelist/philosopher (Omensetter's Luck)
1925 - Antoine Duhamel, composer
1925 - Jacques Sernas, Lithuania, actor (La Dolce Vita, Helen of Troy)
1926 - Peter T Thwaites, British brig-gen/playwright (Love or money)
1927 - Richard Johnson, actor (Never So Few, Restless, Beyond the Door)
1927 - Victor Wong, American actor (d. 2001)
1928 - Eunice Muñoz, Portuguese actress
1929 - Christine McGuire, Middletown Oh singer (McGuire Sisters-Sugartime)
1929 - Sid Kroft, Athens Greece, puppeteer (Barbara Mandrell Show)
1930 - Thomas Sowell, author/activist
1930 - Tony Lip, Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, actor (Sopranos, Donnie Brasco, Good Fellas), (d. 2013)
1931 - Joan Vohs, St Albans NY, actress (Fort Ti, Vice Squad, Sabrina)
1933 - Edd "Kookie" Byrnes, LA, actor (77 Sunset Strip, Jack the Ripper)
1934 - Andre Prevost, composer
1934 - Ben Piazza, Little Rock Ark, actor (Blues Brothers, Ben Casey, Dallas)
1934 - Bud Selig, owner (Milwaukee Brewers)/acting baseball commissioner
1936 - Buddy Guy, rocker
1936 - George "Buddy" Guy, US blues guitarist (Stone Crazy)
1936 - Istvan Zelenka, composer
1936 - John Burton-Hall, Dorset England, captain (QE2)
1936 - Ralph Taeger, Richmond Hill NY, actor (Klondike, Acapulco, Hondo)
1936 - Yuri Alexandrovich Falik, composer
1936 - Infanta Pilar of Spain
1938 - Vayachselav Ivanenko, USSR, 50K walker (Olympic-gold-1988)
1938 - Hervé de Charette, French politician
1939 - Eleanor Smeal, leader (National Organization for Women)
1939 - Peter Bogdanovich, Kingston NY, director/producer (Last Picture Show)
1940 - Clive Sinclair, British computer inventor (ZX Spectrum)
1940 - Patricia Schroeder, (Rep-D-Colorado, 1973- )
1940 - Reva Rose, Chicago Ill, singer/actress (Temperature's Rising)
1940 - Pat Schroeder, American politician
1941 - Count Desmond, [Edward Benjamin], Binghamton NY, sword swallower
1941 - Paul Anka, Ottawa Ontario, singer (Put Your Head on My Shoulder)
1943 - Henri-François Gautrin, Quebec politician
1944 - Frances de la Tour, actress (Bejeweled, Wombling Free)
1944 - Teresa Cahill, opera singer
1945 - David Sanborn, jazz saxophonist (David Letterman Show)
1945 - Patrick Modiano, French novelist
1946 - Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond, rock bassist (Jethro Tull)
1946 - Neil Bonnett, American race car driver (d. 1994)
1947 - Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austria, body builder/actor/politician (Terminator, 38th Governor of
           California)
1947 - Margo Sappington, Baytown TX, actress (Oh Calcutta)
1947 - William Atherton, Ct, actor (Real Genius, Ghostbusters, Class of 44)
1947 - Jonathan Mann, AIDS activist (d. 1998)
1948 - Jean Reno, Moroccan-born French actor
1949 - Joyce Jones, US singer (1st Choice)
1949 - Duck Baker, American guitarist
1950 - Frank Stallone, NYC, Sylvestor's brother/actor (Barfly, Outlaw Force)
1950 - Wime de Craene, Flemish chansonnier/composer
1953 - Aleksandr Nikolayevich Balandin, Russian cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-9)
1954 - Ken Olin, Chicago Ill, actor (Hill St Blues, Michael-30 Something)
1956 - Anita Hill, professor of law, Clarence Thomas' nemesis
1956 - Delta Burke, Orlando Fla, actress (Suzanne-Designing Women)
1956 - Phil Fearon, rocker (Galaxy, Kandidate-I Don't Want to Lose You)
1956 - Soraida Martinez, American Painter, Creator of Verdadism.
1957 - Bert Oosterbosch, Dutch bicyclist
1957 - Bill Cartwright, basketball player (NY Knicks, Chicago Bulls)
1957 - Mark Tymchyshyn, Minneapolis, actor (Gavin-As The World Turns)
1957 - Rat Scabies, [Chris Miller], Surrey England, rock drummer (Damned)
1957 - Nery Pumpido, Argentine footballer
1957 - Clint Hurdle, American baseball player and manager
1958 - Daley Thompson, London, Decathalete (Olympic-gold-1980, 1984)
1958 - Kate Bush, Plumstead England, singer/songwriter (Wild Things)
1958 - Richard Burgi, Montclair NJ, actor (Chad Rollo-Another World)
1959 - Petra Felke, German DR, javelin thrower (world record 1988)
1960 - Richard Linklater, American filmmaker
1961 - Laurence Fishburne, Augusta GA, actor (Red Heat, School Daze)
1961 - Reggie Roby, NFL punter (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1962 - Andy Green, UK, 1st to break sound barrier on land
1962 - Monique Gabrielle, KC Mo, actress (Flashdance, Night Shift)
1962 - Tom Pagnozzi, Tucson AZ, catcher (St Louis Cardinals)
1962 - Vladimir Nikolayevich Dezhurov, Rus lt-colonel/cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-21)
1962 - Jay Feaster, American National Hockey League executive
1963 - Chris Mullin, Brooklyn New York, American NBA forward (Warriors, Pacers, Olympic-gold-92)
1963 - Ingrid Butts, Denver Colorado, cross country skier (Olympics-1994)
1963 - Lisa Kudrow, Encino California, actress (Phoebe-Friends, Romy & Michele)
1963 - Monique Gabrielle, LA Cal, actress (Bad Girls 4, Amazon Women on Moon)
1964 - Vivica A. Fox, American actress
1964 - Jürgen Klinsmann, German footballer and manager
1964 - Alek Keshishian, Lebanese-born American film director
1965 - Tex Axile, rocker (Transvision Vamp-Velveteen)
1965 - Tim Munton, cricketer (England pace bowler in two Tests 1992)
1968 - Charles Gordon, CFL defensive back (Montreal Alouettes)
1968 - Michael Brandon, NFL defensive end (SF 49ers)
1968 - Terry Crews, NFL linebacker (Washington Redskins)
1968 - Robert Korzeniowski, Polish athlete
1968 - Sean Moore, Welsh drummer (Manic Street Preachers)
1969 - Duane Bock, Southampton NY, golfer (1991 Low Amateur NY State Open)
1969 - Errol Stewart, South African cricket wicket-keeper (limited-over 1993)
1969 - Robert Porcher, NFL defensive end (Detroit Lions)
1969 - Simon Baker, Australian actor
1970 - Ed Hawthorne, NFL defensive tackle (Miami Dolphins)
1970 - Joe Montford, CFL linebacker (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1970 - Tom McManus, NFL linebacker (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1970 - Werner Hippler, WLAF TE (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1970 - Christopher Nolan, English film director
1971 - Ron Blazier, Altoona PA, pitcher (Philadelphia Phillies)
1971 - Carl Vaughn, NFL/CFL Defensive Back (Redskins and Argos)
1971 - Sagi Kalev, Bodybuilder
1971 - Tom Green, Canadian comedian and actor
1971 - Christine Taylor, American actress
1972 - Clif Groce, NFL running back (Indianapolis Colts)
1972 - Damon House, kayak (alt-Olympics-96)
1972 - Jim McIlvaine, NBA center (Washington Bullets, Seattle Supersonics)
1972 - Olga Chernyak, Kiev Ukraine, US fencer-foil (Olympics-96)
1973 - Andrea Gaudenzi, Faenza Italy, tennis star (1990 French Open junior)
1973 - Cara Jackson, Chandler Arizona, Miss America-Arizona (1996)
1973 - Markus Naslund, Bonassund Swe, NHL right wing (Vancouver Canucks)
1973 - Sonu Nigam, Indian singer/actor
1974 - Hilary Swank, Bellingham WA, actress (Karate Kid 4)
1974 - Radostin Kishishev, Bulgarian footballer
1974 - Jason Robinson, English dual-code rugby player
1975 - Tifini Hale, Palm Springs California, rocker (Party-Rodeo, That's Why)
1975 - Graham Nicholls, English artist
1975 - Annie Parisse [Anne Marie Cancelmi], Anchorage, Alaska, American actress (Law & Order, As
           the World Turns)
1976 - Julio Gonzalez, Baja California, Mexico, light heavyweight boxer (WBO Champion 2003-2004),
           (d. 2012)
1977 - Jayme Dickman, South Bend Ind, 3x20 rifle (Olympics-1996)
1977 - Suangsuda Rodprasert, Miss Thailand Universe (1997)
1977 - Jaime Pressly, American actress
1977 - Ian Watkins, Welsh singer (Lostprophets)
1978 - James Branaman, American model and reality show contestant
1979 - Graeme McDowell, Northern Irish golfer
1979 - Carlos Arroyo, Puerto Rican basketball player
1980 - Sara Anzanello, Italian volleyball player
1980 - Chuck Thomas, British TV producer / presenter
1980 - James Anderson, English cricketer
1980 - Justin Rose, British golfer
1981 - Nicky Hayden, American motorcycle racer
1981 - Juan Smith, South African rugby player
1982 - Yvonne Strahovski, Australian actress
1983 - Sean Dillon, Irish footballer
1984 - Gabrielle Christian, American actress
1984 - Kevin Pittsnogle, American basketball player
1985 - Daniel Fredheim Holm, Norwegian footballer
2002 - Prince Hridayendra of Nepal, Nepalese royal

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 30, 2013, 02:01:15 PM

This Day in History for 30th July


Famous Deaths

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English Philosopher                                 Poet Joyce Kilmer (1918)
and Founder of Pennsylvania
William Penn (1718)


578 - Jacob Baradaeus, Bishop of Edessa
579 - Benedict I, Italian Pope (575-79), dies
1516 - Johan V Nassau, earl of Nassau-Vianden/Dietz, dies
1528 - Jacopo d'antonio Negreti Palma, Italian painter, dies at about 48
1540 - Robert Barnes, English churchman (martyred) (b. 1495)
1540 - Thomas Abel, English priest (martyred)
1550 - Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton, English politician (b. 1505)
1652 - John Cloppenburg, vicar/theologist, dies at 68
1652 - Charles Amédée de Savoie, 6th Duc de Nemours, French soldier (b. 1624)
1655 - Sigmund Theophil Staden, composer, dies at 47
1680 - Thomas Butler, Earl of Ossory, Irish naval commander (b. 1634)
1683 - Maria Theresa of Spain, queen of Louis XIV of France, dies at 44
1691 - Daniel Georg Morhof, German writer and scholar (b. 1639)
1712 - Abraham Elsevier, publisher, dies
1718 - William Penn, English Philosopher, Quaker and founder of Pennsylvania (No cross, no crown),
           dies at 73
1727 - Franz Weichlein, composer, dies at 67
1741 - Wierich PL count von Daun, gov-gen of Austria & Netherlands, dies
1771 - Thomas Gray, English poet, dies at 54
1781 - Augustin Ullinger, composer, dies at 35
1796 - Nicolas the Pigage, French classical architect, dies
1832 - Jean-A-C Chaptal, French chemist/Internal minister, dies
1863 - George Crockett Strong, US Union gen-mjr, dies of injuries at 29
1865 - George Wright, US Union brig-general, dies at 61
1875 - George Pickett, American Confederate general (b. 1825)
1889 - Charles Absolom, cricketer (Test for Eng), dies in an accident
1898 - Otto von Bismarck, German "Iron" chancellor, dies at 83
1900 - Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b. 1844)
1903 - Servas Daems, [Peeter Klein], Flem writer (Wheelbarrows), dies at 65
1912 - Mutsuhito, 122nd emperor of Japan (1867-1912), dies at 60
1914 - Albert Trott, cricketer (3 Tests for Aus, 2 for Eng), commits suicide
1914 - Jean Jaurès, leading socialist, assassinated in Paris
1918 - Chaim Soloveitchik, Rabbi of Brisk, talmudic scholar, dies
1918 - Joyce Kilmer, American poet, dies at 31
1927 - Robert Marquies de Flers, French writer (Monsieur Bretonneau), dies
1930 - Joan Gamper, Swiss-Catalan businessman and founder of FC Barcelona (b. 1877)
1936 - Adolf Philipp, composer, dies at 72
1943 - Benjamin James Dale, composer, dies at 58
1947 - George Challenor, cricketer (played in 1st WI Test side 1928), dies
1947 - Joseph Cook, 6th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1860)
1957 - Sem Dresden, Dutch composer/conductor, dies at 76
1958 - Alexander Albrecht, composer, dies at 72
1962 - Myron McCormick, actor (China Girl, Jigsaw), dies of cancer at 54
1965 - Junichiro Tanizaki, Japanese writer (Key), dies at 79
1966 - Edward G Craig, English actor/dir (On Art of Theatre), dies at 94
1967 - Alfried Krupp, German industrialist, dies at 59
1967 - John Macchia, actor (Beach Blanket Bingo), dies of stroke at 35
1968 - Jon Leifs, composer, dies at 69
1970 - George Szell, Hungarian/US conductor (Cleveland Orch), dies at 73
1971 - Kenneth Slessor, Australian poet (b. 1901)
1973 - Erich Katz, composer, dies at 72
1973 - Guy Middleton, actor (Fur Collar, Now & Forever), dies at 65
1974 - Lev Konstantinovich Knipper, composer, dies at 75
1977 - Jorgen Ponto, West German banker, murdered
1979 - Beppie Nooij Jr, Dutch actress (Rooie Sien), dies at 67
1980 - Charles McGraw, actor (Michael-Falcon, Smith Family), dies at 66
1980 - Norman Lloyd, composer, dies at 70
1982 - Frank Nicholson, South African cricket wicket-keeper (1935-36), dies
1982 - Roberta Pedon, American glamour model (b. 1954)
1983 - Howard Deitz, MGM executive, dies at 86 of Parkinson's disease
1983 - Lynn Fontanne, Broadway's premier actress (Emmy 1965), dies at 95
1983 - Howard Dietz, American lyricist (b. 1896)
1984 - Maurice Tremlett, cricketer (England pace bowler 1948-49), dies
1985 - Julia Hall Bowman Robinson, American mathematician (b. 1919)
1987 - Mary Spinell, actress (Last Horror Film), dies
1989 - Lane Frost, American bull rider (b. 1963)
1990 - Ian Gow, British Conservative parliament leader, murdered
1990 - Karl Weber, dies of heart failure at 74
1991 - Leonardus S van Egerat, travel expert, dies at 68
1991 - William Ball, actor (Suburban Commando), dies at 60
1992 - Brenda Marshall, actress (Highway West, Smiling Ghost), dies at 76
1992 - Joe Shuster, co creator (Superman), dies at 78
1992 - Titti Sotto, latin songwriter, dies at 48 of aids
1993 - Edward B A M Raczynski, Polish pres-in-exile (1979-86), dies at 97
1993 - Jay Scott, [Jeffrey Scott Beaven], US/Canada movie critic, dies at 43
1993 - John Castrios, 1st murder in Washington NH in 200 years, killed at 45
1994 - Enid Balint-Edmonds, British psychoanalyst, dies at 90
1994 - Henry Mackie, designer of the Belfast Calorimeter, dies at 73
1994 - Theo van Scheltinga, skater, dies at 80
1995 - Biggie Rodwell Tembo Marasha, musician, dies at 36
1995 - Charles James Dunn, japanese scholar, dies at 80
1995 - Harry Shorto, linguist, dies at 75
1996 - Alan Cheales, dominican priest, dies at 83
1996 - Claudette Colbert, actress (Happened One Night), dies of stroke at 93
1996 - Magda Schneider, actress (Going Gay, Be Mine Tonight), dies at 87
1997 - Bảo Đại, Emperor of Vietnam (b. 1913)
1998 - Buffalo Bob Smith, American television host (Howdy Doody) (b. 1917)
2003 - Sam Phillips, American record producer (b. 1923)
2004 - Andre Noble, Canadian actor (b. 1979)
2005 - Ray Cunningham, American baseball player (b. 1905)
2005 - John Garang, Vice President of Sudan (b. 1945)
2005 - Anthony Walker, English hate crime murder victim (b. 1987)
2006 - Anthony Galla-Rini, American accordionist (b. 1904)
2006 - Al Balding, Canadian golfer (b. 1924)
2006 - Murray Bookchin, American libertarian socialist (b. 1921)
2007 - Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian film director (b. 1912)
2007 - Teoctist, Ex-Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church (b. 1915)
2007 - Ingmar Bergman, Swedish stage and film director (b. 1918)
2007 - Bill Walsh, American football coach (b. 1931)
2008 - Anne Armstrong U.S. ambassador to Britain (b. 1927)
2009 - Peter Zadek, German theatre director (b. 1926)
2012 - Maeve Binchy, Irish novelist, dies at 72

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 31, 2013, 08:01:23 AM

This Day in History for 31st July


Historical Events

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Novelist Daniel Defoe                             US President Ulysses S. Grant                  Rocker/Beatle John Lennon         


30 BC - Battle of Alexandria: Mark Antony achieves a minor victory over Octavian's forces, but most
            of his army subsequently deserts, leading to his suicide.
432 - St Sixtus III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
768 - [Philip] begins & ends his reign as Catholic Pope
781 - The oldest recorded eruption of Mt. Fuji (Traditional Japanese date: July 6, 781).
1291 - Egyptian Mamelukken occupies Akko, crusaders driven out of Palestine
1423 - Hundred Years' War: Battle of Cravant - the French army is defeated at Cravant on the banks
           of the river Yonne.
1451 - Jacques Cœur is arrested by order of Charles VII of France.
1498 - Christopher Columbus discovers island of Trinidad
1588 - English fleet beats Spanish Armada
1620 - Pilgrim Fathers depart (through England) to America
1653 - Fronde-leaders surrender in Bordeaux
1655 - Russo-Polish War (1654-1667): the Russian army enters the capital of the Grand Duchy of
           Lithuania, Vilnius, which it holds for six years.
1658 - Aurangzeb appoints himself Mongol emperor
1664 - Pierre Corneille's "Othon," premieres in Paris
1667 - Peace of Breda: 2nd English war-Suriname vs New-Netherlands ends
1703 - Daniel Defoe is placed in a pillory for the crime of seditious libel after publishing a politically
           satirical pamphlet, but is pelted with flowers.
1718 - Battle at Cape Passaro: English fleet destroys Spanish
1737 - Prince Frederick of Wales escapes English court
1741 - Charles Albert of Bavaria invades Upper Austria and Bohemia.
1751 - Fire in Stockholm destroys 1,000 houses
1771 - Paul Potters "Great ossendrift" sold for Ÿ9050 in Amsterdam
1777 - Marquis de Lafayette, 19, made major-general of Continental Army
1790 - 1st US patent granted, to Samuel Hopkins for a potash process
1792 - Cornerstone laid for 1st US government building: US Mint in Phila
1794 - All Jacobijnse clubs together in Haarlem
1809 - 1st practical US railroad track (wooden, for horse-drawn cars), Phila
1813 - British invade Plattsburgh NY
1849 - Benjamin Chambers patents breech loading cannon
1852 - Hottest July in Netherlands since at least 1783 (68.4°F (20.2°C) avg)
1855 - Hottest July in Stockholm since at least 1756 (21.4°C avg)
1856 - Christchurch, New Zealand is chartered as a city.
1861 - 9,300 mm rainfall in July in Cherrapunji, Assam: world record
1864 - Ulysses S. Grant is named General of Volunteers
1865 - The first narrow gauge mainline railway in the world opens at Grandchester, Australia.
1874 - Patrick Francis Healy, SJ, inaugurated as pres of Georgetown U
1876 - US Coast Guard officers' training school established (New Bedford MA)
1893 - Henry Perky patents shredded wheat
1899 - Albert Trott hits Monty Noble over the Pavilion at Lord's
1900 - Boer Generals Prinsloo & Roux surrenders in Brandwater Basin
1901 - Abraham Kuyper becomes premier of Netherlands
1905 - Matumbi rebellion at Samanga German East Africa
1909 - Bill Burns has no-hitter broken up with 2 outs in 9th
1910 - Chic Cub King Cole no-hits St Louis, 4-0 in a 7 inning game
1910 - Clement van Maasdijk gives flying demonstration
1911 - Hungarian education is only taught in German
1912 - RBC soccer team forms in Roosendaal
1912 - US government prohibits movies & photos of prize fights (censorship)
1914 - German Emperor Wilhelm II threatens war, orders Russia to demobilize
1914 - Oil discovered in Lake of Maracaibo
1917 - 3rd battle of Ypres begins
1919 - Germany accepts Weimar Constitution
1922 - 18-year-old Ralph Samuelson rides world's 1st water skis (Minn)
1922 - Italy's general strike against fascist violence
1923 - Belgian Chamber discusses bilinguality at Ghent University
1925 - Last allied occupying troops leave Ruhrgebied
1925 - Unemployment Insurance Act passed in England
1928 - 1st woman to win a track and field olympic gold medal, Halina Konopacka of Poland
1929 - Aristide Briand becomes premier of France
1930 - Lou Gehrig grand slams as Yanks beat Red Sox 14-13
1932 - 27th Davis Cup: France beats USA in Paris (3-2)
1932 - Cleveland Municipal Stadium opens-Phila A's beat Indians 1-0
1932 - George Washington quarter goes into circulation
1932 - German Election (NSDAP gets 37.3%)
1934 - 29th Davis Cup: Great Britain beats USA in Wimbledon (4-1)
1934 - St Louis Cards defeat Cin Reds 8-6 in 18 innings, pitchers Dizzy Dean & Tony Freitos go the
           distant
1935 - 3rd Dutch government of Colijn sworn in
1936 - Tokyo Japan is awarded the 1940 Olympics (later cancelled)
1937 - Politburo enables Operative Order 00447: execute 193,000 Russians
1938 - NY Yanks suspend Jake Powell, after he said on Chicago radio he'd "hit every colored person
           in Chicago over head with a club"
1938 - Archaeologists discover engraved gold and silver plates from King Darius in Persepolis.
1940 - 38 U boats sinks this month (196,000 ton)
1940 - Riech's commissar Seyss-Inquart bans homosexuals
1941 - U boats sink 21 allied ships this month: 94,000 ton
1942 - German SS gases 1,000 Jews in Minsk, Belorussia
1942 - U boats sank 96 allied ships this month: 476,000 ton
1943 - Transport nr 58 departs with French Jews to nazi Germany
1944 - Last deportation train out Mechelen departs to Auschwitz
1944 - Transport nr 77 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1944 - US troops occupy Sansapor New-Guinea
1945 - Pierre Laval, the fugitive former leader of Vichy France, surrenders to Allied soldiers in Austria.
1948 - "Brigadoon" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 581 performances
1948 - Pres Harry Truman dedicates Idlewild Field (Kennedy Airport), NY
1949 - Lightning strikes a baseball field in Fla, kills SS & 3rd baseman
1951 - Japan Airlines is established.
1953 - Dept of Health, Education & Welfare created
1954 - Mil Braves' Joe Adcock sets record of 18 total bases (4 hrs, 1 double)
1954 - First ascent of K2, by an Italian expedition led by Ardito Desio.
1955 - Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Battle Creek Golf Open
1955 - KRNT (now KCCI) TV channel 8 in Des Moines, IA (CBS) 1st broadcast
1955 - WHIS (now WVVA) TV channel 6 in Bluefield, WV (NBC) 1st broadcast
1956 - Laker takes 10-53 in Australia's 2nd innings, 19-90 for match
1958 - Anti-Chinese uprising in Tibet
1959 - 1st exhibit of bongos at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo opens
1960 - Elijah Muhammad, leader of Nation of Islam, calls for a black state
1960 - KSOO (now KSFY) TV channel 13 in Sioux Falls, SD (NBC) 1st broadcast
1960 - Patty Berg wins LPGA American Women's Golf Open
1961 - 31st All Star Baseball Game: 1-1 tie ends by rain at Fenway, Boston
1961 - Israel welcomes its 1,000,000th immigrant
1962 - Federation of Malaysia forms
1962 - Statham is Test crickets' leading wkt-taker (229), beating Lindwall
1963 - Arturo Illia elected president of Argentina
1963 - Cleve ties record of 4 consecutive HRS (Held, Ramos, Francona, Brown)
1963 - Indians' Woodie Held, Pedro Ramos, Tito Francona, & Larry Brown hit consecutive home runs
           in one inning (vs California Angels)
1964 - Al Parker glides 644 miles without any motor
1964 - Rolling Stone concert in Ireland halts after 12 minutes due to riot
1964 - US Ranger 7 takes 4,316 pictures before crashing on Moon
1965 - Cigarette Ads banned on British TV
1966 - Alabamans burn Beatle products due to John Lennon's anti-Jesus remark
1967 - Rolling Stone Mick Jagger & Keith Richards end 1 month jail sentence
1968 - Beatles close Apple Boutique, giving clothes away for free
1969 - KWIH TV channel 44 in Winona, MN (IND) begins broadcasting
1969 - Mariner 6 flies past Mars
1969 - National Guard mobilizes in racial disturbances in Baton Rouge, La
1970 - 37th NFL Chicago All Star Game: Kansas City 24, All Stars 3 (69,940)
1970 - Chet Huntley retires from NBC, ends "Huntley-Brinkley Report"
1970 - Black Tot Day: The last day of the officially sanctioned rum ration in the Royal Navy.
1971 - Apollo 15 astronauts take 6½ hour electric car ride on Moon
1971 - Deventer Soccer team Go Ahead Eagles forms
1972 - Dick Allen is 7th to hit 2 inside-the-park homers in a game
1972 - Thomas Eagleton withdraws as Democratic VP candidate
1973 - ABA Virginia Squires trade Julius Erving to NY Nets
1973 - Delta Airlines DC-9 crashes in fog at Logan Airport, Boston, killing all but one of 89 aboard.
           Lone survivor dies 6 months later
1973 - Frank Hayes scores 106 on Test Cricket debut v WI as England lose
1976 - Seychelles Independence (Independence day)
1976 - Waldemar Cierpinski runs Olympic marathon (2:09:55.0)
1977 - Debbie Austin wins LPGA Pocono Northeast Golf Classic
1977 - E Henry Knoche, ends term as deputy director of CIA
1977 - John F Blake promoted from acting to deputy director of CIA
1978 - Gunman shoots his way into Iraqi Embassy in Paris
1978 - NY Yanks now 7½ out of 1st, picked up 7 games in previous 2 weeks
1978 - Pete Rose ties NL record hitting streak at 44
1979 - "But Never Jam Today" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 7 performances
1980 - John Phillips of Mamas & Papas is arrested on drug charges
1980 - Rangers snap Orioles pitcher Steve Stone's 14-game winning streak
1980 - Soyuz 37 crew returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 36
1980 - USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1981 - 42 day old, 2nd major league baseball strike ends
1981 - Arnette Hubbard installed as 1st woman president of Natl Bar Association
1982 - 46 kids & 7 adults die as 2 buses & several cars collide in France
1982 - Car/bus collision near Beaune, France, 53 die
1982 - Finland, Italy, Germany, Austria & France form American European Football Federation (AEFF)
1982 - USSR performs nuclear Test
1983 - 38th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Jan Stephenson
1983 - B Robinson, J Marichal, G Kell, & W Alston inducted into Hall of Fame
1983 - Dutch July avg temp is 20.1°C; warmest July since 1852
1984 - Leeza Gibbon's 1st appearance on Entertainment Tonight
1984 - US men's gymnastics team won team gold medal at LA Summer Olympics
1984 - Venz commandos terminate hijacking of an aircraft, 2 killed
1987 - "Living Daylights" premieres in US
1987 - Battle between Iranian pilgrims & Saudi-Arabian troops, 402 killed
1987 - Eddie Murray hits his 300th HR
1987 - Guns & Roses song "Appetite for Destruction" is released
1987 - Oriole Eddie Murray hits his 299th & 300th career home runs
1987 - Rockwell International awarded contract to build a 5th shuttle
1987 - A rare, class F-4 tornado rips through Edmonton, Alberta, killing 27 people and causing $330
           million in damage.
1988 - Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Greater Washington Golf Open
1988 - Jose Canseco is 1st to hit 30 HRs in 1st 3 years
1988 - Last Playboy club closes (Lansing Michigan)
1988 - Miami Dolphins beat SF 49ers 27-21 in London
1988 - Willie Stargell became 200th man inducted in Baseball's Hall of Fame
1988 - 32 people are killed and 1,674 injured when a bridge at the Sultan Abdul Halim ferry terminal
           collapses in Butterworth, Malaysia.
1989 - Twins trade AL Cy Young Award winner Frank Viola to Mets
1990 - Bosnia-Hercegovina declares independence
1990 - Nolan Ryan becomes 20th major league pitcher to win 300 games
1991 - Russia & US sign long range nuclear weapons reduction pact
1991 - Senate votes to allow women to fly combat aircraft
1991 - The Medininkai Massacre in Lithuania. Soviet OMON attacks Lithuanian customs post in
           Medininkai, killing 7 officers and severely wounding one other.
1992 - Jeff Rouse swims world record/OR 100m backstroke (53.86 sec)
1992 - Kieren John Perkins swims world record/OR 1500m free style (14:43.4)
1992 - Tamas Darnyi swims world record/Olympics 200m backstroke (1:59.36)
1992 - Thai Airbus crashes into mountain at Kathmandu, 113 die
1992 - Yang Wenyi swims world record/OR 50m freestyle (24.79 sec)
1993 - A's trade Rickey Henderson to Blue Jays
1993 - Allman Bros guitarist Dickey Betts arrested for shoving 2 cops
1993 - Inkatha-arm forces killed 49 ANC-followers in Johannesburg
1993 - Prince Ronald "Ronnie" Mutebi crowned king of Uganda
1994 - 102.7°F (39.3°C) in Pleschen, East-Germany
1994 - 28th Curtis Cup: Draw, 9-9
1994 - Arcen Limburg averages 71.6°F (22.0°C) in July: record
1994 - Helen Alfredss wins LPGA Ping Welch's Golf Championship
1994 - Neth averages 21.4°C; their warmest July since 1783
1994 - Phil Rizzuto (Yanks) & Steve Carlton (Phils) enter the Hall of Fame
1994 - Sergei Bubka ploe vaults his 35th world record (6.14 m)
1994 - Stockholms avgs 21.5°C; their warmest July since 1855
1994 - UN votes 12-0 (2 abstentions) to authorize use of force against Haiti
1997 - A's trade Mark McGwire to St Louis Cards
1999 - Discovery Program: Lunar Prospector - NASA intentionally crashes the spacecraft into the
           Moon, thus ending its mission to detect frozen water on the moon's surface.
2006 - Fidel Castro hands over power temporarily to brother Raúl Castro. This leads to a celebration
           in Little Havana (La Pequeña Habana in Spanish), Miami, Florida, where many Cuban 
           Americans participated.
2007 - Operation Banner, the presence of the British Army in Northern Ireland, and longest-running
           British Army operation ever, comes to an end.
2012 - Two car bombs kill 21 people in Baghdad, Iraq
2012 - A second power grid failure in two days leaves 670 million people in India without power

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 31, 2013, 08:03:37 AM

This Day in History for 31st July


Famous Weddings

1940 - Actress Loretta Young (27) weds advertising executive Tom Lewis at the chapel of St. Paul's
           Church in Westwood
1954 - "Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts" guest host Steve Allen (32) weds actress Jayne Meadows
            (33)
1964 - George Lascelles marries Patricia Tuckwell
1985 - Bee Gees member Robin Gibb (35) weds author and artist Dwina Murphy
2004 - "Ed" actor Tom Cavanagh (35) weds "Sports Illustrated" photo editor Maureen Grise (33) at a
           19th-century, cedar-shingled Roman Catholic church in Nantucket, Massachusetts
2010 - R&B singer-songwriter Alicia Keys (31) weds Grammy Award winning rapper Swizz Beatz (33)
           at a private home on the French island of Corsica
2010 - Daughter of former US President Bill Clinton Chelsea Clinton (30) weds investment banker
           Marc Mezvinsky (32) at Astor Courts in Rhinebeck, New York

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 31, 2013, 08:16:52 AM

This Day in History for 31st July


Famous Birthdays

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Economist Milton Friedman (1912)            Actor Michael Biehn (1956)                   Harry Potter Novelist
                                                                                                                              J. K. Rowling (1965)


1143 - Emperor Nijo of Japan (d. 1165)
1396 - Philips, the Good, Duke of Burgundy//Brabant/Limburg/count
1443 - Albrecht III of Saxon-Meisen, duke of Saxon
1527 - Maximilian II, German King/Emperor (1564-76)
1550 - Jakob Handl, [Petelin], Austrian composer/bandmaster
1578 - Catharina Belgica of Nassau, daughter of Willem of Orange
1597 - Sebastian Stosskopf, Elzassisch painter, baptized
1598 - Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor and architect (d. 1654)
1629 - Johann Jakob Lowe von Eisenach, composer
1654 - Jacob Hop, Dutch politician/diplomat
1702 - Jean Denis Attiret, French Jesuit missionary and painter (d. 1768)
1704 - Gabriel Cramer, Swiss mathematician (paradox of Cramer)
1718 - John Canton, English physicist (d. 1772)
1724 - Noël François de Wailly, French lexicographer (d. 1801)
1737 - Princess Augusta Charlotte of Wales (d. 1813)
1743 - August R van Hekeren van Suideras, Dutch orangist
1748 - Isaac Ouwater, Amsterdam painter/cartoonist
1767 - Amelie Julia Candielle, composer
1803 - John Ericsson, US, inventor (screw propeller)/shipbuilder-USS Monitor
1808 - Frederick Nichols Crouch, composer
1816 - George Henry Thomas, Major General (Union Army), died in 1870
1817 - Philip Cook Jr, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1894
1818 - Heinrich Kiepert, German cartographer/geographer
1825 - Thomas Hart Taylor, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1901
1825 - William S. Clark, American senator and scholar (d. 1886)
1828 - Francois Auguste Gevaert, Belgian composer (Le diable au moulin)
1830 - Frantisek Zdenek Xavier Alois Skuhersky, composer
1834 - Peter H Hugenholtz, Dutch reformer/founder (Free Parish)
1835 - Henri Brisson, French statesman (d. 1912)
1835 - Paul du Chaillu, French explorer (d. 1903)
1837 - William Clarke Quantrill, Col (Confederate Army), died in 1865
1841 - George Melville, polar explorer, naval engineer
1843 - Peter Rosegger, Austrian poet (d. 1918)
1844 - Ignazio Guidi, Italian orientalist/archaeologist
1847 - Ignatio Cervantes, composer
1848 - Jean Robert Planquette, France, composer (Bells of Corneville)
1854 - Jose Canalejas contributes Mendez, premier of Spain (1910-12)
1858 - Richard Dixon Oldham, British geologist (d. 1936)
1860 - Mary Vaux Walcott, American artist and naturalist (d. 1940)
1867 - Sebastian S. Kresge, American merchant and philanthropist (d. 1966)
1875 - Harry Northrup, Paris France, actor (Who's That Knocking at My Door)
1880 - Munshi Premchand, Indian Author (d. 1936)
1882 - Grete Gulbransson, writer
1883 - Fred Quimby, American film producer (d. 1965)
1884 - Karl F Goerdeler, mayor (Leipzig), "July 20th Plot",,18860731::"Constant Permeke, Flemish
           painter/statues artist (Sow)
1886 - Salvatore Maranzano, Sicilian-born American organized crime figure (d. 1931)
1887 - Hans Freyer, German sociologist (d. 1969)
1889 - Donald Foster, PA, actor (Scaramouche)
1892 - Joseph Charbonneau, French-Canadian Roman Catholic archbishop (d. 1959)
1893 - Charles Wilfred Orr, composer
1894 - Roy Bargy, Mich, orchestra leader (Jimmy Durante Show)
1894 - Fred Keenor, Welsh footballer (d.1972)
1900 - Elmo Roper, pollster (Roper Poll)
1900 - Erich Katz, composer
1901 - Jean Debuffet, French painter/sculptor (Landscape with 2 Personages)
1902 - G O "Gubby" Allen, cricketer (in Sydney England non-bodyline quickie)
1904 - Arthur Daley, sportswriter (NY Times-Pulitzer 1956)
1904 - Brett Halliday, American writer (d. 1977)
1905 - Trenchard Cox, museum director
1911 - George Liberace, Menasha Wisc, violinist (Liberace Show)
1912 - Bill Brown, cricketer (Australian opener of the 30's & 40's)
1912 - Irv Kupcinet, Chicago Ill, TV host (Tonight! America After Dark)
1912 - Milton Friedman, Brooklyn New York, economist (Nobel 1976), (d. 2006)
1913 - Bryan Hextall, NHL hall of famer (NY Rangers)
1914 - Jose Ignacio Domecq, wine maker
1914 - Louis De Funes, Courbevoie France, actor (I Tartassati, Fantomas)
1914 - Raymond Aubrac, Paris, French resistance leader, (d. 2012)
1915 - Robert Steel, academic
1916 - Sydney Tafler, London England, actor (Too Many Crooks)
1916 - Verdun Scott, NZ cricketer/rugby player
1916 - Sibte Hassan, Pakistani activist
1918 - Paul D. Boyer, American chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate
1918 - Hank Jones, American pianist
1919 - Curt Gowdy, Green River Wyo, sportscaster (ABC)
1919 - Hemu Ramchandra Adhikari, cricketer (Indian righty batsman 1947-59)
1919 - Norman Del Mar, composer
1919 - Primo Levi, Italy, chemist/writer (Survival in Aushchwitz)
1920 - Rudolf Halaczinsky, composer
1920 - James Esdras Faust, American religious leader (d. 2007)
1921 - Whitney M Young Jr, civil rights leader, head of Urban League
1921 - Peter Benenson, British founder of Amnesty International (d. 2005)
1922 - Lucy Killea, (assemblywoman-California)
1923 - Ahmet Ertegun, CEO (Atlantic Records)
1923 - Jimmy Evert, American tennis coach and father of Chris Evert
1926 - Hilary Putnam, American philosopher
1927 - Walter Vogt, writer
1928 - Bill Frenzel, (Rep-R-MN, 1971- )
1929 - Don Murray, California, actor (Bus Stop, Advise & Consent, Endless Love)
1929 - Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist
1929 - Don Murray, American actor
1929 - José Santamaria, Uruguayan footballer
1929 - Lynne Reid Banks, British author
1930 - Oleg Popov, Russian clown
1931 - Kenny Burrell, American guitarist
1931 - Nick Bollettieri, American tennis coach
1932 - Morey Carr, rocker (Playmates)
1932 - Robert W Davis, (Rep-R-MI, 1979- )
1932 - Ted Cassidy, Pittsburgh PA, American actor (Lurch-Addams Family)
1932 - John Searle, American philosopher
1932 - Sam Coppola, Jersey City, New Jersey, actor (Saturday Night Fever), (d. 2012)
1933 - Cees Nooteboom, Dutch writer
1935 - Geoffrey Lewis, Plainsfield NJ, actor (Earl-Flo, Gun Shy)
1935 - Yvon Deschamps, French-Canadian author and humorist
1936 - Bonnie Brown, rocker (Browns)
1936 - Vic Davalillo, Venezuelan baseball player
1937 - Isabelle F Daniels, Jakin Georgia, 4X100m relayer (Olympic-bronze-56)
1939 - France Nuyen, Marseilles France, actress (St Elsewhere, Diamond Head)
1939 - John R West, rock guitarist (Gary Lewis & Playboys-This Diamond Ring)
1939 - Roger Prideaux, cricketer (England batsman in 3 Tests 1968-69)
1940 - Stanley Jaffe, producer (Fatal Attraction)
1941 - Amarsinh Chaudhary, Indian politician
1943 - Carla Glasgow, LPGA golfer
1943 - Lobo, [Kent Lavoie], rocker
1943 - Stephanie Forrester (Bold & the Beautiful)
1943 - Susan Flannery, NYC, actress (Leslie Stewart-Dallas)
1943 - William Bennett, US Secretary of Education (1985-88)/drug tsar
1943 - Sab Shimono, Japanese-American actor
1944 - Geraldine Chaplin, Santa Monica Ca, actress (Dr Zhivago, 3 Musketeers)
1944 - Sherry Lansing, Chicago Ill, actress (China Syndrome, Black Rain)
1944 - Robert C. Merton, American mathematician
1945 - Tomas Vackar, composer
1945 - William Floyd Weld, (Gov-R-Mass)
1945 - Bob Welch, rock vocalist/guitarist (Fleetwood Mac-Oh Well), (d. 2012)
1946 - Gary Lewis, Jerry's son, singer, (& The Playboys-This Diamond Ring)
1946 - Karen Zerby, American religious leader
1947 - Dennis Greenslade, rocker
1947 - Karl Greene, Manchester, rock bassist, (Herman's Hermits)
1948 - Leaveil Degree, rocker (Whispers)
1950 - Lane Davies, actor (Mason-Santa Barbara, Impure Thoughts)
1951 - Barry Van Dyke, Atlanta Ga, actor (Battlestar Galactica, Diag Murder)
1951 - Evonne Goolagong Cawley, NSW Aust, tennis player (Wimbledon 1971)
1951 - Gerald Anthony, actor (Marco Dane-General Hospital, One Life to Live)
1952 - Pritawi Sudarmo, Indonesia, astronaut
1952 - João Barreiros, Portuguese writer
1953 - Hugh McDowell, chelloist (ELO-Telephone Line)
1953 - Jimmy Cook, cricketer (South African opening batsman 1992)
1953 - Ted Baillieu, Australian Politician
1953 - James Read, American actor
1954 - Derek Smith, Canadian ice hockey player
1956 - Michael Biehn, Anniston AL, actor (Rampage, Hog Wild, Aliens, Abyss)
1956 - Deval Patrick, 71st Governor of Massachusetts
1956 - Bill Callahan, American football coach
1957 - Dirk Blocker, Los Angeles California, actor (Baa Baa Black Sheep, Ryan&#039;s Four)
1957 - Irina Nazariva, USSR, 4 X 400m relay (Olympic-gold-1980)
1957 - Victoria E Cooke, Hollywood Ca, playmate (Aug, 1980)
1957 - Daniel Ash, British musician (Bauhaus)
1957 - Leon Durham, American baseball player
1958 - Bill Berry, US pop drummer (REM-Sentimental Hygiene)
1958 - Wallace Kurth, actor (Days of Our Lives, Ned/Ed-General Hospital)
1958 - Mark Cuban, American businessman and basketball team owner
1959 - Mike Bielecki, Baltimore MD, pitcher (Atlanta Braves)
1959 - Peter Senior, Singapore, Australasia golfer
1959 - Stanley Jordan, American jazz guitarist
1960 - Dale Hunter, Petrolia, NHL center (Washington Capitals)
1960 - lva Budarova, Czechostovakia, tennis star
1961 - Chris Hinton, NFL guard (Minnesota Vikings)
1961 - Susan Sanders, LPGA golfer
1962 - Kevin Greene, NFL linebacker (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1962 - Kym Malin, Dallas Tx, playmate (May, 1982)
1962 - Rhonda Reilly, Indianapolis IN, LPGA golfer (1992 Oldsmobile-48th)
1962 - Sandra "Sweetness" Hodge, basketball player (Harlem Globetrotters)
1962 - Troy Murray, Calgary, NHL center (Colorado Avalanche)
1962 - Wesley Snipes, Orlando Florida, actor (Passenger 57, Money Train, Blade trilogy)
1962 - John Chiang, American politician
1963 - Brian Skrudland, Peace River, NHL center (Florida Panthers)
1963 - Norman Cook, rocker (Housemartins-Happy Hour, Over There)
1964 - Jim Corr, Irish singer and musician (The Corrs)
1965 - Scott Brooks, NBA guard (Cleveland Cavaliers, Dallas Mavericks)
1965 - Tom Stankowski, Paris France, Nike golfer
1965 - J. K. Rowling, Gloucestershire England, writer (Harry Potter)
1965 - Julian Richards, British film director
1966 - Dean Cain, Mt Clemens Michigan, actor (Clark-Lois & Clark)
1966 - Julie Forbes, Torphins Scotland, golfer (Aberdeenshire champ 1989)
1966 - Marina V A Mowatt, [Ogilvy], daughter of English princess Alexandra
1966 - Tylin John, Encino CA, playmate (Mar, 1992)
1967 - Elizabeth Wurtzel, NYC, actress (Prozac Nation)
1967 - Rodney Harvey, actor (Salsa)
1967 - Sean O'Neill, Toledo OH, US Olympic table tennis player (Olympic-92)
1967 - Tony Massenburg, NBA forward (Phila 76ers)
1967 - Mitsuo Iwata, Japanese seiyū
1967 - Minako Honda, Japanese singer and musical actress (d. 2005)
1968 - Andre Ware, CFL quarterback (Toronto Argonauts)
1968 - David Bradley Stockton Jr, Redlands CA, PGA golfer (1994 Canon-3rd)
1968 - Saeed Al-Saffar, cricketer (UAE batsman 1996 World Cup, later captain)
1969 - Langa Sibanda, Miss Universe-Zimbabwe (1996)
1969 - Loren Dean, Las Vegas NV, actor (Billy Bathgate, Say Anything)
1969 - Richard Griffith, NFL tight end (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1969 - Rudolf Martin, Germany, actor (Anton-All My Children)
1969 - David Cash, American professional wrestler
1969 - Kenneth D. Schisler, American politician
1970 - David Sacco, Malden MA, NHL left wing (Oly-94, Anaheim Mighty Ducks)
1970 - Knut Holmann, Norway, rower (Olympics-gold-96)
1970 - Ahmad Akbarpour, Iranian writer
1971 - Gus Frerotte, NFL quarterback (Washington Redskins)
1971 - John Lowery, American guitarist
1972 - Antonio Langham, NFL cornerback (Cleveland Browns)
1972 - Jason Gildon, NFL linebacker (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1972 - Ray McElroy, NFL center (Indianapolis Colts)
1972 - Tami Stronach, Teheran Iran, actress (Neverending Story)
1973 - Jerry Rivera, Puerto Rico, spanish singer
1973 - Chandra North, American supermodel
1974 - Emilia Fox, English actress
1974 - Jonathan Ogden, American football player
1975 - Sergei Gusev, Nizhny Tagil Russia, NHL defenseman (Dallas Stars)
1975 - Randy Flores, American baseball player
1975 - Simon Hirst, British radio DJ
1975 - Mike Lincoln, American baseball player
1975 - Allan von Schenkel, American musician
1976 - Joshua Cain, American musician (Motion City Soundtrack)
1976 - Paulo Wanchope, Costa Rican footballer
1977 - Tim Couch, American football player
1978 - Will Champion, English musician (Coldplay)
1978 - Zeta Makripoulia, Greek actress, model and TV presenter
1978 - Justin Wilson, English race car driver
1979 - Per Krøldrup, Danish footballer
1979 - Carlos Marchena, Spanish footballer
1979 - J. J. Furmaniak, American baseball player
1979 - Jade Kwan, Hong Kong singer
1979 - B. J. Novak, American actor
1980 - Mils Muliaina, New Zealand and Waikato rugby player
1981 - Eric Lively, American actor
1981 - J.Son Dinant, American comedian
1981 - Ira Losco, Maltese singer
1981 - Matthew Sanders, American singer (Avenged Sevenfold)
1982 - Blessing Mahwire, Zimbabwean cricketer
1984 - Glenn Holt, American football player
1986 - Evgeni Malkin, Russian hockey player
1987 - Michael Bradley, American soccer player
1987 - Brittany Byrnes, Australian Actress
1989 - Victoria Azarenka, Belarusian tennis player
1990 - Olga Galchenko, Russian juggler

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on July 31, 2013, 08:19:28 AM

This Day in History for 31st July


Famous Deaths

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Composer/Pianist Franz Liszt (1886)


855 - Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Muslim Jurisprudent (b. 780)
1358 - Etienne Marcel, French textile merchant/reformer/Boer leader, dies
1396 - William Courtenay, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1342)
1508 - Na'od, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1494)
1556 - Saint Ignatius of Loyola, Spanish knight from a Basque noble family, hermit, priest, theologian
           and founder of the Society of Jesus, dies in Rome at about 65
1566 - Bartholome de Casas, Spanish historian/bishop of Chiapa, dies at 92
1648 - Benedictus J van Haeften, poet (Regia thru Crucis), dies at about 60
1653 - Thomas Dudley, Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. 1576)
1693 - Willem Calf, Rotterdams still life painter, dies at 73
1726 - Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1695)
1750 - Johan V, King of Portugal, dies
1763 - James Kent, Fredericksburgh NY, legal scholar (Columbia), dies
1784 - Denis Diderot, French writer/philosopher, dies at 70
1790 - Johann Christian Frischmuth, composer, dies at 48
1795 - Jose B da Gama, Portuguese poet (East Uraguay), dies at 54
1811 - Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, Mexican hero priest, executed by Spanish
1864 - Louis Hachette, French publisher, dies at 64
1875 - Andrew Johnson, 17th pres, dies in Tennessee at 66
1886 - Franz Liszt [Ferencz], Hungarian pianist/composer, dies at 74
1891 - Jean-Baptist Capronnier, French/Belgian painter, dies at 77
1911 - Jack Edwards, cricketer (1888 Ashes tourist), dies
1914 - A J Jean Jaurès, French socialist (L'Humanité/Les Preuves), murdered=
1917 - Charlie Finlason, cricketer (South Africa's 1st Test), dies
1917 - Francis Ledwidge, Irish poet (b. 1881)
1917 - Hedd Wyn, Welsh poet (b. 1887)
1919 - R G Barlow, cricketer (591 runs/34 wickets/17 Tests for England), dies
1932 - Francesco Paolo Neglia, composer, dies at 58
1940 - Whitney Krakower, US gangster, murderrd by "Bugsy" Siegel
1942 - Francis E Younghusband, British journalist/explorer, dies at 79
1943 - Hedley Verity, cricketer (144 wickets in 40 Tests), dies in POW camp
1948 - Maria "Marie" Hens, Flemish actress (Female Revue), dies at 70
1951 - J of Oudshoorn, [John K Feylbrief], writer (Maze of Sentences), dies
1952 - N B F "Tufty" Mann, cricketer (South African slow lefty 1947-51), dies
1953 - Robert Taft, (Sen-R-Oh) "Mr Republican", dies in NY at 63
1954 - Onofre Marimón, Argentine racing driver (b. 1923)
1960 - Karl Hasse, composer, dies at 77
1964 - Jim Reeves, US country singer, dies in air crash at 39
1965 - James Rennie, actor (Wilson, Skylark, Illicit), dies at 75
1966 - Alex E von Falkenhausen, German general, dies at 87
1967 - Mario Varvoglis, composer, dies at 81
1967 - Richard Kuhn, German chemist, dies
1968 - Gertrude Short, actress (Stella Dallas, Blonde Venus), dies at 66
1970 - Walter Briggs, Jr., American sports executive (b. 1912)
1972 - Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgian premier/sect-gen (NATO, 1957-61), dies at 73
1977 - Stacy Moskowitz, shot to death by Son of Sam, at 20
1978 - Carleton Percy Hobbs, actor (I Claudius, Dark Places), dies at 80
1978 - Enoch Light, orchestra leader (Gulf Road Show with Bob Smith), dies at 70
1979 - Beatrix Lehmann, actress (Psyche '59, Rat, Staircase), dies at 76
1980 - Bobby Van, actor/TV host (Make Me Laugh), dies of cancer at 49
1980 - Mohd. Rafi, Indian playback singer (b. 1924)
1981 - Gen Omar Torrijos, leader of Panama, dies in plane crash
1984 - Bill Raisch, one armed actor (Fred Johnson-Fugitive), dies at 79
1984 - Paul Le Flem, composer, dies at 103
1985 - Eugene Carson Blake, sec-gen World Council of Churches, dies at 78
1985 - Murray Chapple, cricketer (14 Tests for NZ, 497 runs), dies
1986 - Theodore "Teddy" Wilson, US jazz pianist/arranger, dies at 73
1986 - Chiune Sugihara, Japanese diplomat (b. 1900)
1988 - Trinidad Silva, killed in auto accident at 38
1990 - Fernando Sancho, dies after operation for malignant tumor at 72
1990 - Albert Leduc, French Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1902)
1992 - G Harold Carswell, supreme court justice candidate 1970, dies at 72
1992 - Joseph L George, dies of cancer at 65
1992 - Ralph Strait, dies of heart attack at 56
1992 - Sjoerd de Free, reporter (Radio Herrijzend Netherland), dies
1993 - Baudouin, king of Belgium (1951-93), dies at 62 from heart problems
1993 - Elmar Klos, director (Obzalovany, Obchod na Korze), dies at 83
1993 - Paul Henry, US Republicans Congressional leader, dies at 51
1994 - Anne Shelton, British singer (Glenn Miller Band), dies at 66
1994 - Caitlin Thomas, dies
1994 - G de Ru, chairman of Dutch Reformed Synode, dies
1994 - Pieter C Buitendijk, co-founder (Free Netherlands), dies at 92
1995 - Genevieve Tobin Keighley, actress (Zaza, Great Gambini), dies at 83
1996 - Joan "Maudie" Warburton, painter, dies at 76
1996 - Michael Jinks, child care pioneer, dies at 59
1996 - Seagram Miller, American rapper (b. 1970)
1997 - Beam Dai, head of South Vietnam (1949-55), dies
1997 - Bo Dai, Last emporer of Vietnam, dies at 85
1997 - Edith Fore, pitchwoman (I've fallen and I can't get up!), dies at 81
1997 - Ulrich Ernst Simon, theologian, dies at 63
2001 - Poul Anderson, American author (b. 1926)
2001 - Francisco da Costa Gomes, 16th President of Portugal (b. 1914)
2001 - Friedrich Franz, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (b. 1910)
2003 - Guido Crepax, Italian comics artist (b. 1933)
2004 - Virginia Grey, American actress (b. 1917)
2004 - Laura Betti, Italian actress (b. 1927)
2005 - Wim Duisenberg, Dutch banker (b. 1935)
2006 - Paul Eells, American sportscaster (b. 1935)
2009 - Sir Bobby Robson, English professional football player and manager (b. 1933)
2009 - Harry Alan Towers, English film producer and screenwriter (b. 1920)
2012 - Gore Vidal, American author, dies from pneumonia at 86

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 01, 2013, 02:18:45 PM

This Day in History for 1 August


Historical Events

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Explorer of the New World                     Russian Tsar Peter the Great                     Naturalist Charles Darwin
Christopher Columbus 

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Last Tsar of Russia                                   Baseball Great Babe Ruth                       Dictator of Nazi Germany
Nicholas II Aleksandrovitch                                                                                             Adolph Hitler

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33rd US President                                   Dictator Fidel Castro                             Heavyweight Boxing Champion
Harry Truman                                                                                                          Mike Tyson

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Soccer Legend Diego Maradona


30 BC - Octavian (later known as Augustus) enters Alexandria, Egypt, bringing it under the control
            of the Roman Republic.
527 - Justinian I becomes the sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire
607 - Ono no Imoko is dispatched as envoy to the Sui court in China (Traditional Japanese date: July
         3, 607).
649 - Pope Martinus I chosen successor of Theodorus I [or 8/7]
860 - Peace of Koblenz: Charles the Bare, Louis the German & Lotharius II
902 - Aghlabidisch emir Ibrahim II destroys Taormina, Sicily
1021 - Synod of Pavia: emperor Henry II convicts married priest
1086 - Results of the Domesday inquiry presented to William the Conqueror in Salisbury (the date of
           compilation and the Great Domesday are historically contestable)
1177 - Peace Treaty of Venice: Emperor Frederik I & Pope Alexander III
1203 - Alexius IV Angelus appointed co-regent of Byzantium
1291 - Everlasting League forms, basis of Swiss Confederation (Independence)
1485 - Henry (VII) Tudors army sails to England
1498 - Christopher Columbus lands on "Isla Santa" (Venezuela)
1588 - English admiral Howard van Effingham beats Spanish Armada
1589 - Assination of French King Henry III by friar Jacques Clément
1619 - 1st black Americans (20) land at Jamestown, Virginia
1626 - Earl Earnest Casimir conquerors Oldenzaal
1628 - Emperor Ferdinand II demands Austria Protestant convert to Catholicism
1664 - Battle at St Gotthard: Earl Raimondo Montecucculi beats Ahmed Kiprulu
1690 - Battle at Staffarda: French army beats Victor Amadeus van Savoye
1711 - Surrounded Czar Peter the Great flees Azov
1714 - Monarch Georg Ludwig becomes king George I of England
1715 - 1st Doggett's Coat and Badge race (Waterman's race) held on Thames River (London Bridge
           to Chelsea)
1732 - Foundation laid for Bank of England
1759 - Battle at Minden, Westfalen: Ferdinand van Brunswick beats France
1774 - Joseph Priestley, English theologian and chemist author discovers oxygen
1780 - Sweden declares neutrality
1781 - English army under general Cornwallis occupies Yorktown, Virginia
1785 - Caroline Herschel becomes 1st woman discoverer of a comet
1789 - US Customs begins enforcing Tariff Act
1790 - 1st US census (population of 3,939,214; 697,624 are slaves)
1793 - France becomes 1st country to use the metric system
1794 - Whiskey Rebellion begins
1798 - Battle of Abukir on the Nile-Nelson defeats French fleet
1812 - Rare tornado hits Westchester County NY
1814 - Belgium King Willem I accept blame in Southern defeat
1820 - London's Regent's Canal opens.
1828 - Bolton and Leigh Railway opens to freight traffic.
1831 - London Bridge opens to traffic
1832 - The Black Hawk War ends.
1834 - Slavery abolished throughout the British Empire - Slavery Abolition Act 1833 comes into
           effect
1836 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin returns to Bahia Brazil
1838 - Apprenticeship system abolished in most of the British Empire. Former slaves no longer
           indentured to former owners.
1840 - Labourer slaves in most of the British Empire are emancipated.
1842 - Rotherhithe Thames Tunnel opens
1842 - Lombard Street Riot erupts
1852 - SF Methodists establish 1st black church, Zion Methodist
1855 - Castle Clinton in NYC opens as 1st US receiving station for immigrants
1861 - Brazil recognizes Confederacy
1863 - Battle of Little Rock, Arkansas; start of Chattanooga campaign
1863 - Cavalry action near Brandy Station-End of Gettysburg Campaign
1864 - Battle of Petersburg, VA
1867 - Blacks vote for 1st time in a US state election in the South (Tenn)
1869 - 1st voyage down Colorado River
1873 - SF's 1st cable car begins service
1876 - Colorado becomes 38th state
1881 - US Quarantine Station authorized for Angel Island, SF Bay
1883 - A papyrus offered to Brit Museum for £10,000 (forgery)
1883 - Amsterdam's Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky gets electric lights
1883 - Inland postal service begins in Great Britain
1886 - Great Britain annexes Kermadec-Island near New Zealand
1890 - Cecil Rhodes' colonies reach Lundi
1893 - Henry Perky & William Ford patent shredded wheat
1896 - George Samuelson completes rowing Atlantic (NY to England)
1901 - Burial within SF City limits prohibited
1902 - Building begins on Dutch public housing
1902 - Mine accident in Wollongong, Australia (100 die)
1903 - 1st coast-to-coast automobile trip (SF-NY) completed
1906 - Bkln Dodger Harry McIntire no-hits Pitts for 10 2/3 loses in 13th
1907 - Bank of Italy opens 1st branch at 3433 Mission Street, SF
1907 - Signal Corps of US army starts aircraft division
1907 - First Scout camp opens on Brownsea Island.
1909 - British SS Waratah disappears on Sydney to London, 300 killed
1911 - Omar N Bradley (18) begins education in West Point
1914 - British fleet reaches Scapa Flow
1914 - Emperor Wilhelm II declares war on his nephew Tsar Nicholas II (WW I)
1914 - France & Germany mobilize
1914 - Trois Vierges: German 69th infantry regiment enter Luxembourg Germany declares war on
           Russia in WW I
1916 - Hawaii National Park forms
1917 - Frank Little, IWW organizer, lynched in Butte, MT
1918 - British troops enter Vladivostok
1918 - Pittsburgh Pirates beat Boston Braves, 2-0, in 21 innings
1919 - Queen Wilhelmina opens 1st Air Fair in Amsterdam
1919 - Treffers soccer team forms in Groesbeek
1920 - Papendrecht soccer team forms
1920 - Peace of Riga-Independence of Latvia
1922 - Hendrikus Colijn becomes political editor-in-chief of The Standard
1925 - Shortwave-radio link between Kootwijk & Netherland East-Indies
1926 - Battles between Druzen & French in Damascus
1926 - Failed assassination on Gen Primo de Rivera in Barcelona
1927 - Earliest date for a film to be considered for the Academy Awards
1928 - Babe Ruth hits HR # 42 & is 4 weeks ahead of his 1927 pace
1933 - Carl Hubbell sets record of consecutive scoreless innings (45 1/3)
1933 - Death penality for anti fascists in Germany
1933 - Dutch colonial regime in Batavia arrest ir Sukarno
1933 - NRA (National Recovery Administration) forms
1936 - Adolph Hitler opens 11th Olympic Games in Berlin
1936 - Benjamin E Mays named president of Morehouse College
1941 - Luftwaffe bombs German 23rd division
1941 - NY Yankee Lefty Gomez walks most (11) in a shutout (Yanks 9, St L 0)
1941 - The first Jeep is produced.
1942 - Deurne soccer team forms
1942 - German occupier demands listing of all Dutch telephone subscribers
1942 - Race riots in Harlem, New York
1943 - Japan declares Burma Independence under U Ba Maw
1943 - Race riot in Harlem NYC
1943 - Sunderland seaplanes sink U-454 & U-383
1944 - Adam Clayton Powell elected 1st black congressman from East
1944 - Anne Frank's last diary entry; 3 days later she is arrested
1944 - General Montgomery takes command of 12th & 21st army
1944 - US 90th division occupies St Hilaire-du-Harcourt
1944 - US troops enter Tessy-sur-Vir
1944 - Uprising in Warsaw
1945 - Japanese city Toyama destroyed by B-29's
1945 - Mel Ott is 1st in NL to hit 500th HR (joins Babe Ruth & Jimmy Foxx)
1945 - SVBO soccer team forms in Barger-Oosterveld
1946 - Pres Harry Truman establishes Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)
1947 - "Medium & The Telephone" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 211 perfs
1947 - Valleivogels soccer team forms in Scherpenzeel
1948 - The U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations is founded.
1950 - 1st Major League baseball player to fight in Korea (Curt Simmons)
1950 - American Bowling Congress ends all-white-males rule
1950 - Guam adopts constitution (Organic Act)
1950 - King Leopold of Belgium abdicates, Baudouin becomes King
1950 - Territory of Guam created
1951 - David Ben-Gurion's Mapai-party wins Israeli parliamentary election
1953 - California introduces sales tax (for education)
1953 - Fidel Castro arrested in Cuba
1953 - KMBC TV channel 9 in Kansas City, MO (MET/ABC) begins broadcasting
1953 - KOBI TV channel 5 in Medford, OR (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 - Northern Rhodesia becomes part of Federation of Rhodesia & Nyasaland
1953 - Red Sox Ben Flowers sets then record of 8 consecutive games in relief
1954 - Louison Bobet wins his 2nd Tour de France
1954 - WKBT TV channel 8 in La Crosse, WI (CBS) begins broadcasting
1955 - 1st microgravity research begins
1955 - Tengku Abdul Rahman forms Malacca government
1955 - WILL TV channel 12 in Urbana-Champaign, IL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1956 - KRCR TV channel 7 in Redding-Chico, CA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1957 - 1st coml building heated by Sun (Albuquerque NM)
1957 - Gil Hodges hits his NL record 13th career grand slam (Last by Bkln)
1957 - Glen Gorbous throws a baseball a record 136 m (445'10")
1957 - US & Canada create North American Air Defense Command (NORAD)
1958 - 1st class postage up to 4 cents (had been 3 cents for 26 years)
1958 - US atomic sub USS Nautilus 1st begins transit of North Pole "operation Sunshine"
1959 - New Continental baseball league formed
1959 - Pope John XXIII publishes encyclical Sacerdotii nostri primordia
1959 - WAAY TV channel 31 in Huntsville, AL (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
1960 - Aretha Franklins 1st recording session
1960 - Benin (Dahomey) gains independence from France
1960 - Chubby Checker releases "The Twist"
1960 - Islamabad declared as the federal capital of the Government of Pakistan.
1961 - Benaud rips through England team for Aussie win at Old Trafford
1961 - German DR limits traffic to West Berlin
1961 - New SF Hall of Justice opens
1961 - Whitney Young Jr named executive director of National Urban League
1962 - Boston Red Sox Bill Monboquette no-hits Chicago White Sox, 1-0
1962 - Failed assassination on president Nkrumah of Ghana
1963 - Beatles Book is sold out on its 1st day of sale
1963 - Germany FR annexes Elten village
1963 - WQAD TV channel 8 in Moline, IL (ABC) begins broadcasting
1964 - ALM (Antillian Airlines) begins operation
1964 - Beatles' "Hard Day's Night, A," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks
1965 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open
1966 - Charles Whitman wounds 31 & kills 16 at University of Texas
1967 - Izaak Samkalden becomes mayor of Amsterdam
1967 - WBRA TV channel 15 in Roanoke, VA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 - Canada begins replacing silver with nickel in coins
1968 - Cleveland Metroparks begins operating Zoo
1968 - WXIX TV channel 19 in Cincinnati-Newport, OH (IND) begins broadcasting
1968 - The coronation is held of Hassanal Bolkiah, the 29th Sultan of Brunei.
1969 - 110,000 attend Atlantic City Pop Festival
1969 - 36th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: NY Jets 26, All-Stars 24 (74,208)
1969 - Mariner 6 sends close-up photo's of Mars
1970 - EAA Convention moves from Rockford Ill to Oshkosh, Wi
1970 - KTSD TV channel 10 in Pierre, SD (PBS) begins broadcasting
1970 - Willie Stargell (Pirates) ties record of 5 extra base hits in a game
1971 - Bangladesh refugee concert with George Harrison
1971 - CBS presents Masterpiece Theatre's 6 Wives of Henry VIII
1971 - George Harrison's concert for Bangladesh takes place in NYC
1971 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Bluegrass Golf Invitational
1972 - 1st article exposing Wategate scandal (Bernstein-Woodward)
1972 - Nate Colbert of SD Padres hits record tying 5 HRs in a double header
1973 - H J Witteveen appointed as director of IMF
1973 - Munson & Fisk get into a brawl at Fenway Park
1974 - Virginia Squires trade Julius "Dr J" Erving to NY Nets
1975 - 38 government leaders signs Helsinki accord
1975 - 41st NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Pittsburgh 21, All-Stars 14 (54,103)
1975 - Billy Martin replaces Bill Virdon as manager of NY Yankees
1975 - Helsinki Pact guaranteeing boundaries, rights signed by 35 nations
1975 - CSCE Final Act creates the Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe.
1976 - 21st Olympic games close at Montreal Canada
1976 - Flash flood in Big Thompson Canyon Colo on Route 34, kills 139
1976 - Liz Taylor's 6th divorce (re-divorces Richard Burton)
1976 - Seattle Seahawks play 1st (preseason) game (SF 27, Seattle 20)
1977 - SF Giant Willie McCovey hits NL record 18th grand slammer
1977 - Former Lockheed U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers crashes the news helicopter he was flying in
           Los Angeles
1978 - Braves stop Reds Pete Rose's hitting streak at 44 games
1978 - Commandos occupy Iraqi embassy in Paris, 1 dead
1978 - Pete Rose goes hitless, ends his 44 game hitting streak (ties NL)
1979 - Maria de Lurdes Pintasilgo forms government in Portugal
1980 - Gerd Wessig of East Germany set high jump record
1980 - Waldemar Cierpinski wins 19th olympics marathon (2:11:03
1980 - Buttevant Rail Disaster kills 18 and injures dozens of train passengers in Ireland.
1981 - MTV premieres at 12:01 AM
1981 - Poland premier Jagielski resigns
1982 - Beth Daniel wins LPGA Columbia Savings Golf Classic
1982 - Greg Louganis, US becomes 1st diver to score 700 (752.67) in 11 dives
1982 - H Aaron, F Robinson, T Jackson, & H Chandler inducted in Hall of Fame
1982 - Heavy Israeli air bombardment on Beirut
1982 - Petra Schneider swims world record 400m medley (4:36.10)
1983 - New Zealand score their 1st Test Cricket match victory in England
1985 - 15.4 cm rainfall at Cheyenne, Wyoming (state record)
1985 - Emmy 12th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 6th time
1985 - Vince Coleman steals 2 bases in 1st inning, for NL rookie record 74
1986 - Bert Blyleven becomes 10th pitcher to strike out 3,000
1986 - Cleveland sets AL attendance record for twi-night doubleheader, 65,934
1986 - Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia release from hospital after 3 week coma
1987 - Crossbow flight record (2,005 yds 1'9") set by Harry Drake in Nevada
1987 - Mike Tyson beat Tony Tucker in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1987 - Nurse Mary R Stout chosen chairperson of Vietnam Veterans of America
1988 - Deep Rover 1-man research submarine unveiled at Crater Lake, Oregon
1988 - Rush Limbaugh begins his national radio show.
1989 - Australia take 3-0 series lead over England to regain Cricket Ashes
1990 - "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" closes at Eugene O'Neill NYC after 149 perfs
1990 - Indians' Alex Cole sets club record with 5 stolen bases in one game
1990 - Iraq pulls out of talks with Kuwait
1990 - Soyuz TM-10 launches
1990 - Stanton Cook becomes CEO of Chicago Cubs
1991 - Actress Hedy Lamarr, 77, arrested for shoplifting in Florida
1991 - Italian/Argentine Soccer star Diego Maradona retires
1992 - "Salome" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 9 performances
1992 - NBC's "Saturday Today" premieres
1992 - USA/USSR Around World Air Race begins at Santa Monica
1993 - "In the Summer House" opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 25 perfs
1993 - "She Loves Me" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 61 performances
1993 - Missie Berteott wins LPGA Ping/Welch's Golf Championship
1993 - Reggie Jackson enshrined in Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY
1993 - Walter Koenig, Checkov of Star Trek, suffers a heart attack
1994 - 99.9°F (37.7°C) in Berlin-Dahlem: record
1994 - The Rolling Stones begin Voodoo Lounge world tour
1994 - Train crash in Havana Cuba, 6 killed
1995 - Westinghouse purchases CBS-TV network
1996 - M2, MTV's second TV channel is launched
1998 - -8] Gay & Lesbian Games #5 open in Amsterdam
2001 - An agreement is reached on the position of the minority Albanian language in the Republic of
           Macedonia.
2001 - Bulgaria, Cyprus, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia and Slovakia join the European Environment Agency.
2001 - Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore has a Ten Commandments monument
           installed in the judiciary building, leading to a lawsuit to have it removed and his own removal
           from office.
2004 - A supermarket fire kills 396 people and injures 500 in Asunción, Paraguay.
2007 - The I-35W Mississippi River Bridge spanning the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota,
           collapses during the evening rush hour.
2012 - Typhoon Saola kills elven people and displaces over 150,000 in the Philippines
2012 - 8 Women's badminton doubles players are disqualified from the 2012 summer Olympics for
           "not using one's best efforts to win a match"

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 01, 2013, 02:21:38 PM

This Day in History for 1 August


Famous Weddings

1404 - Earl Engelbert I of Nassau marries Johanna of Poland
1986 - Tennis ace John McEnroe marries actress Tatum O'Neal
1987 - Bananarama's Siobhan Fahey marries Eurythmics Dave Stewart
2009 - Fashion model Rhea Durham (34) weds actor and producer Mark Wahlberg (41) at Good
           Shepherd Catholic Church in Beverly Hills
2009 - "Heroes" actress Ali Larter (33) weds stand-up comedian and actor Hayes MacArthur (32) in
           Kennebunkport, Maine
2009 - Actress-comedian Mary Lynn Rajskub (38) weds personal trainer Matthew Rolph in an
           impromptu wedding in Las Vegas
2010 - "Dawson's Creek" actor James Van Der Beek (33) weds business consultant Kimberly Brook
            at the Kabbalah Center in Tel Aviv, Israel

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 01, 2013, 02:22:34 PM

This Day in History for 1 August


Famous Divorces

1976 - Liz Taylor's 6th divorce (re-divorces Richard Burton)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 01, 2013, 02:31:27 PM

This Day in History for 1 August


Famous Birthdays

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French Naturalist                                             Moby Dick Author                         Rapper Coolio (1963)
 Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744)                     Herman Melville (1819)


10 BC - Claudius, Roman Emperor (d. 54)
126 - Publius ,Helvius Pertinax, Roman emperor (d. 193 AD)
1313 - Emperor Kogon of Japan (d. 1364)
1322 - Peter van Herenthals, South Netherlands theologist/church historian
1377 - Emperor Go-Komatsu of Japan (d. 1433)
1495 - Jan Scorel, Dutch painter/architect
1520 - Sigismund II Augustus, King of Poland (1548-72)
1545 - Andrew Melville, Scottish theologian and religious reformer (d. 1622)
1555 - Edward Kelley, English spirit medium (d. 1597)
1579 - Luís Vélez de Guevara, Spanish writer (d. 1644)
1626 - Sabbatai Zevi, Montenegrin rabbi, kabbalist, and founder of the Jewish Sabbatean movement
           (d. 1676)
1630 - Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English statesman (d. 1673)
1642 - Ahmed II, 21st sultan of Turkey (1691-95) [or Feb 25, 1643]
1659 - Antoine Mouque, composer
1685 - Pietro Giuseppe Sandoni, composer
1686 - Benedetto Marcello, Italian author/composer (Lettera Famigliare)
1713 - Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1780)
1714 - Richard Wilson, Welsh landscape painter
1738 - Jacques François Dugommier, French general (d. 1794)
1744 - Jean-Baptiste-Pierre-Antoine Monnet de Lamarck, Paris, naturalist (Lamarckian evolution), (d.
           1829)
1753 - Charles, 3rd earl Stanhope, England, radical politician/scientist
1755 - Giuseppe Antonio Capuzzi, composer
1766 - Ignaz Anton Franz Xavier Ladurner, pianist/composer
1766 - Jeffrey Wyatville, architect
1770 - William Clark, Charlottsville VA, 2nd lt of Lewis & Clark Expedition
1779 - Francis Scott Key, composer (Star-Spangled Banner)
1779 - Lorenz Oken, German naturalist (d. 1851)
1786 - Louis C Luzac, judge/Dutch Internal minister
1814 - Maxcy Gregg, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1862
1815 - Richard Henry Dana, novelist/lawyer spent 2 years before mast
1818 - Maria Mitchell, 1st US woman astronomer on Nantucket Island
1819 - Herman Melville, New York, author (Moby Dick, Billy Budd), (d. 1891)
1824 - Edward Francis Fitzwilliam, composer
1837 - Mother Jones, American labor organizer (d. 1930)
1840 - Aldine Sillman Kieffer, composer
1843 - Robert Todd Lincoln, Capt (Union volunteers), died in 1926
1847 - Guido Papini, violinist/composer
1848 - František Kmoch, Czech composer and conductor
1856 - George Coulthard, Former Australian rules footballer and cricketer (d. 1883)
1858 - Hans Rott, composer
1858 - Paul Barth, German philosopher/sociologist
1858 - Gaston Doumergue, French President (d. 1937)
1861 - Sam Jones, cricketer (Australian batsman of 1880's)
1862 - Montague Rhodes James, scholar/author/editor
1863 - Gaston Doumergue, premier/pres of France (1913..34)
1867 - William Orlamond, Denmark, actor (Flesh & Devil, Wind)
1871 - Oskar Fried, composer
1871 - John Lester, American cricketer (d. 1969)
1877 - Charlotte Hughes, 1990 (oldest person in Great Britain)
1877 - Jan van den Tempel, Dutch MP (SDAP)
1881 - Emilie Rose Macaulay, English writer
1882 - Vaclav Klicka, composer
1885 - George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1966)
1886 - Isaac Keesing, Dutch publisher/founder (System Keesing)
1888 - Vito Frazzi, composer
1889 - John F Mahoney, developed pencillin treatment of syphillis
1890 - George II, king of Greece
1892 - Constantly Burniaux, Belg, art historian (Temps Inquiets)
1894 - Ottavio Bottecchia, Italian cyclist (d. 1927)
1895 - Benjamin E Mays, SC, black educator (Morehouse, Howard University)
1898 - Morris Stoloff, Phila, violinist (Picnic, Pal Joey)
1899 - William Steinberg, Cologne, conductor (Boston Symph-1969-71)
1900 - Otto Nothling, cricketer (Test for Australia 1928, 52 runs aver 26)
1901 - Pancho Villa, Filipino world boxing champion (d. 1925)
1902 - Hendrik J Kruls, Neth, general/chief military authority (1944-46)
1902 - Ruth Evelyn Mansfield, doctor
1903 - Paul George Vincent O'Shaughnessy Horgan, novelist
1906 - William Hayter, Oxford, Oxfordshire, British diplomat and Ambassador to the Soviet Union
           (1953-1957)
1908 - Miloslav Kabelac, composer
1909 - Nigel Henderson, admiral
1910 - Mahomed Nissar, cricketer (pioneer Indian opening bowler in Tests)
1910 - Walter Scharf, American composer (d. 2003)
1910 - Gerda Taro (Gerta Pohorylle), Stuttgart Germany, photojournalist
1911 - Kenneth Norman Joseph Loveless, priest folk musician
1911 - Ronald MacDonald, British major-general
1911 - Jackie Ormes, American cartoonist (d. 1985)
1912 - Brian Keith-Lucas, political scientist
1912 - Henry Jones, Phila Pa, actor (Phyllis, Falcon Crest, Gun Shy)
1912 - Masaya Hanai, businessamn
1913 - Jerome Moross, Brooklyn NY, composer (Frankie & Johnny)
1913 - Nigel Henderson, admiral
1914 - Jack Delano, composer
1915 - Ronald MacDonald, British major-general
1916 - Viscount Hanworth, barrister
1916 - Anne Hébert, French Canadian author and poet (d. 2000)
1917 - Benjamin Roberts, British industrial relations expert
1918 - Wyndraeth Morris-Jones, British political scientist
1919 - Stanley Middleton, Bulwell, Nottinghamshire, British novelist (Holiday, Three Wise Men)
1920 - Jeffrey Segal, actor (Traitors)/playwright
1920 - Maria Cole, Boston MA
1920 - Sammy Lee, Fresno California, platform diver (Oly-2 gold/bronze-1948, 52)
1920 - Viscount Hanworth, barrister
1921 - Benjamin Roberts, British industrial relations expert
1921 - Jack Kramer, Las Vegas, tennis star (Wimbledon 1947, US Open-1946)
1921 - Vic Marshall, chemist
1922 - Arthur Hill, Saskatchewan Canada, actor (Owen Marshall, Glitter)
1922 - Frank Hauser, British theatrical director
1922 - Wyndraeth Morris-Jones, British political scientist
1922 - Yvonne DeCarlo, actress (10 Commandments, Lily-Munsters)
1923 - Paul Lambert, El Paso Tx, actor (Tom-Executive Suite)
1923 - Yoshinao Nakada, composer
1924 - Frank Worrell, cricketer (one of the three W's, inspiring WI captain)
1924 - Jeffrey Segal, actor/playwright (Vanity Fair, Rest in Pieces)
1924 - Marcia Mae Jones, American actress (d. 2007)
1925 - Ernst Jandl, writer
1925 - Jack Kramer, actor (Kings of the Court)
1926 - Burton Stein, historian
1926 - Frank Hauser, British theatrical director
1926 - Karl Kohn, composer
1927 - Andre Cools, Belgium, minister of Budget/vice-premier
1929 - Ann Calvello, Roller Derby Queen (d. 2006)
1930 - Geoffrey Holder, Trinidad, dancer/actor (Annie, The Wiz)
1930 - Julie Bovasso, Brooklyn NY, actress (Willie & Phil, Just Me & You)
1930 - Karoly Grosz, politician
1930 - Lionel Bart [Begleiter], Stepney, London, English pop music composer and writer (Oliver!)
1930 - Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist (d. 2002)
1931 - Lucien E Blackwell, (Rep-D-Pennsylvania)
1931 - Monty Losowsky, prof of medicine (St James University England)
1931 - Ramblin' Jack Elliott, rocker
1931 - Sean O Riada, composer
1931 - Trevor Goddard, cricketer (South African opening batsman & opening bowler)
1932 - Meir Kahane, American founder of the Jewish Defense League (d. 1990)
1932 - Meena Kumari, Indian film actress (d. 1972)
1933 - Dom DeLuise, Brooklyn New York, American comedian (End, Cannonball Run, Fatso)
1933 - Erwin Nypels, Dutch economist/minister of Housing (D66)
1933 - Richard Lloyd Jones, secretary Welsh Office
1933 - Jesse Corti, Venezuelan-born actor and comedian
1933 - Masaichi Kaneda, Japanese baseball player
1934 - J E F "John" Beck, cricketer (lefty bat in 8 Tests for NZ 1953-56)
1935 - Geoff Pullar, cricketer (England opening batsman late 50's early 60's)
1936 - Laurie Taylor, Liverpool, English sociologist and broadcaster (BBC Radio 4)
1936 - Yves Saint-Laurent, Oran Algeria, fashion designer (Opium, Obsession)
1937 - Alfonse M D'Amato, Brooklyn NY, (Sen-R-NY 1981- )
1937 - Richard Lloyd Jones, secretary (Welsh Office)
1939 - Stephen Sykes, Bishop of Ely
1940 - Joan Joyce, Waterbury Ct, softball pitcher (Hall of Fame 1983)
1940 - Mervyn Kitchen, cricket umpire
1941 - Ronald Harmon Brown, chairman (Democratic Party)
1941 - Étienne Roda-Gil, French songwriter and screenwriter (d. 2004)
1942 - Giancarlo Giannini, La Spezia Italy, actor (Seduction of Mimi)
1942 - Jerry Garcia, SF, rocker (Grateful Dead-Uncle John's Band, Sugar Magnolia)
1942 - André Gagnon, French Canadian pianist and composer
1943 - Andy Roxburgh, Glasgow, Scotland, football player, coach and manager
1943 - Dennis Paxton, rocker (Dave Clark Five-Glad All Over)
1944 - Elske Terveld, Dutch undersecretary Social Affairs (PvdA)
1944 - Mervyn Kitchen, cricket umpire
1944 - Yuri Viktorovich Romanenko, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 26, 38, TM-2)
1945 - Douglas D. Osheroff, American physicist, Nobel laureate
1946 - Frederick C Boucher, (Rep-D-Virginia, 1983- )
1946 - J Guillermo, ex-husband of princess Christina of Netherlands
1946 - Richard O Covey, Fayetteville Ar, USAF/astro (STS 51I, 26, 38, 61)
1946 - Tom Loeffler, (Rep-R-TX, 1979- )
1946 - Fiona Stanley, Australian epidemiologist
1947 - Rick Anderson, rock bassist (Tubes)
1947 - Ricky Coonce, Los Angeles California, rock drummer (Grass Roots)
1947 - Chris L. Barnard, Welsh footballer
1947 - Dennis Zine, Los Angeles City Councilman
1948 - Robert Spink, British MP
1949 - Nigel Lucius Graeme Finch, TV director/film-maker
1949 - Primous, III Fountain, composer
1949 - Kurmanbek Bakiyev, President of Kyrgyzstan
1950 - Doug Tract, Bronx NY, radio DJ (Greaseman)
1951 - David Jasper, British principal (St Chad's College Durham England)
1951 - Robin Heifetz, composer
1952 - Brian Patrick Clarke, Gettysburg Pa, actor (Merle-Eight is Enough)
1952 - C L Whittington, WLAF defensive coach (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1952 - Nancy Lopez, professional golfer
1952 - Robert Spink, British MP
1952 - Yajurvindra Singh, cricketer (Indian batsman late 70's)
1952 - Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia (d. 2003)
1953 - Robert Cray, Columbus Ga, blues singer/songwriter (1987 Grammy)
1955 - Arun Lal, cricketer (Indian batsman mid-80's)
1955 - David Jasper, British principal (St Chad's College Durham England)
1955 - Trevor Berbick, Jamaican boxer (d. 2006)
1956 - Tom Leykis, American radio personality
1957 - Glen Gorbous, Canada, longest throw of a regulation baseball (445'10")
1957 - Laura Johnson, Burbank California, actress (Falcon Crest)
1957 - Taylor Negron [Brad Taylor], Glendale, California, American actor and writer (Fast Times at
           Ridgemont High, Easy Money)
1958 - Adrian Dunbar, Northern Irish actor
1958 - Rob Buck, American musician (10,000 Maniacs) (d. 2000)
1958 - Tor Håkon Holte, Norwegian cross country skier
1959 - Joe Elliott, Sheffield, England, heavy metal vocalist (Def Leppard-Hysteria, Rock of Ages)
1959 - Otomo Yoshihide, Japanese musician
1960 - Chuck D, [Chuck Ridenhour], US rapper (Public Enemy)
1960 - Richard Roeper, American columnist and film critic
1961 - Andrew Nicholson, UK, NZ equestrian 3 day event (Olympics-96)
1961 - Bart Conner, US, parallel bars gymnist (Olympic-gold-1984)
1961 - Bradford John Faxon Jr, Oceanport NJ, PGA golfer (1986 Provident)
1961 - Danny Blind, Dutch soccer star (Sparta/Ajax)
1961 - Mark "Red" Mitchell, actor (JFK, 8 Sceonds, I Want to Live)
1961 - Mike Watkinson, cricketer (England off-spinner all-rounder v WI 1995)
1962 - Gertjan Verbeek, soccer player (SC Heerenveen)
1962 - Joetta Clark, East Orange NJ, 800m runner (Olympic-1992)
1962 - Traci Phillips, Honolulu Hawaii, sprint kayak (Olympics-96)
1963 - Coolio [Artis Leon Ivey Jr.], Monessen Pennsylvania, rapper (Gangsta Paradise)
1963 - Koichi Wakata, Omiya Saitama Japan, astronaut (STS 72, sk: 92)
1963 - Demián Bichir, Mexican actor
1963 - John Carroll Lynch, American actor
1964 - Andrew Wilson, Sydney NSW Australia, canoeist (Olympics-16-92, 96)
1964 - Nick Christian Sayer, rocker (Transvision Vamp-Velveteen)
1964 - Rob Camilletti, Cher's boyfriend
1964 - Adam Duritz, American musician (Counting Crows)
1965 - Sam Mendes, British stage and film director
1966 - Darryl Hall, NFL cornerback (SF 49ers)
1966 - Ganesh Mylvaganam, cricketer (UAE batsman 1996 World Cup)
1966 - Horacia de la Pena, Argentina, tennis star
1966 - Pat Carter, NFL tight end (Arizona Cardinals)
1966 - James St. James, American author and nightlife personality
1967 - Gregg Jefferies, Burlingame CA, infielder (NY Mets, Royals, Phillies)
1967 - Lori Endicott, KC MO, volleyball setter (Olympics-bronze-92, 96)
1968 - Rob Carpenter, NFL wide receiver (Philadelphia Eagles)
1968 - Stacey Augmon, Pasadena, NBA guard (Portland Trailblazers, Hawks)
1968 - Dan Donegan, American musician (Disturbed)
1969 - Graham Thorpe, cricketer (England LHB Century on Test debut 1993)
1969 - Kevin Jarvis, Lexington KY, pitcher (Cin Reds)
1969 - David Wain, American actor
1970 - Quentin Coryatt, NFL linebacker (Indianapolis Colts)
1970 - David James, English footballer
1971 - Fred Lester (Atlanta Falcons)
1971 - Julia Chilicki, Somers CT, rower (Olympics-96)
1971 - Lisa Flood, Scarborough Ontario, 100m Breaststroker (Olympics-96)
1971 - Shae Sloan, Huntsville TX, female pitcher (Colo Silver Bullets)
1972 - Karen Dalton, Mt View California, diver (Olympics-96)
1972 - Martin Damm, Czech Republic, tennis star
1972 - Matt Dyson, NFL linebacker (Oakland Raiders)
1972 - Devon Hughes, American professional wrestler
1972 - Nicke Royale, Swedish musician (The Hellacopters)
1972 - Tanya Reid, Canadian actress
1973 - Ben Johnson, cricketer (promising South Australian opening batsman)
1973 - Gregg Berhalter, Englewood NJ, soccer defender (Olympics-gold-96)
1973 - Mario Bennett, NBA forward (LA Lakers, Phoenix Suns)
1973 - Tempestt Bledsoe, Chicago, actress (Vanessa Huxtable-Cosby Show)
1973 - Veerle Dejaeghere, Belgian athlete
1973 - Eduardo Noriega, Spanish actor
1973 - Les Hill,Australian Actor
1974 - Kerwin Waldroup, DL (Detroit Lions)
1974 - Beckie Scott, Canadian cross-country skiing athlete
1975 - Mandy Leigh, Greensburg Penn, actress (Bloodscent)
1976 - David Nemirovsky, Toronto, NHL right wing (Florida Panthers)
1976 - Eryn Bulmer, Edmonton Alberta, diver (Olympics-96)
1976 - Nwankwo Kanu, soccer player (Ajax)
1976 - Hasan Şaş, Turkish footballer
1976 - Søren Jochumsen, Danish footballer
1976 - Kevin Joseph, American baseball player
1977 - Damien Saez, French musician, songwriter, and author
1977 - Marc Denis, Canadian ice hockey player
1978 - Dhani Harrison, George Harrison's 1st child
1978 - Edgerrin James, American football player
1978 - Andy Blignaut, Former Zimbabwean cricketer
1979 - Junior Agogo, Ghanaian footballer
1979 - Jason Momoa, American actor
1979 - Honeysorryle Weeks, English actress
1980 - Mancini, Brazilian footballer
1981 - Stephen Hunt, Irish footballer
1981 - Ashley Parker Angel, North American singer and actor
1982 - Ai Tominaga, Japanese model and actress
1984 - Valery Ortiz, Puerto Rican actress
1984 - Bastian Schweinsteiger, German footballer
1986 - Andrew Taylor, English footballer
1986 - Anton Stralman, Swedish ice hockey player
1986 - Elena Vesnina, Russian tennis player
1987 - Sébastien Pocognoli, Belgian footballer
1990 - Landry Allbright, actress (Bridget Forrester-Bold & Beautiful)
1998 - Khamani Griffin, American actor

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 01, 2013, 02:33:47 PM

This Day in History for 1 August


  Famous Deaths

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Florentine Ruler and Arts Patron
Cosimo de Medici (1464)


371 - St Eusebius of Vercelli, Italian bishop (b. c. 283)
527 - Justin I, Byzantine emperor (518-27), dies (b. c. 450)
1137 - Louis VI, King of France, dies (1108-37)
1190 - Floris III, Count of Holland, dies
1227 - Shimazu Tadahisa, Japanese warlord (b. 1179)
1402 - Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, son of Edward III of England (b. 1341)
1457 - Laurentius Valla, Italian philosopher (Voluptate), dies at about 50
1464 - Cosimo de Medici, ruler of Florence, dies at 74
1541 - Simon Grynaeus, German theologian (b. 1493)
1546 - Peter Faber, French Jesuit theologian (b. 1506)
1557 - Olaus Magnus, Swedish writer (b. 1490)
1580 - Albrecht Giese, German politician and diplomat (b. 1524)
1589 - Jacques Clément, French assassin of Henry III of France (b. 1567)
1628 - Francesco Gonzaga, composer, dies at 37
1667 - Paul Foot, lawyer/historian, dies at 48
1714 - Anne Stuart, queen of England (1702-14), dies at about 49
1743 - Richard Savage, English poet/playwright, dies at about 46
1787 - Alfonsus M de' Liguori, Italian theologist/bishop/saint, dies at 90
1796 - Robert Pigot, British army officer (b. 1720)
1798 - François-Paul Brueys D'Aigalliers, French admiral (killed in battle) (b. 1753)
1805 - Friedrich Christoph Gebtewitz, composer, dies at 51
1812 - Yakov Kulnev, Russian general (killed in battle) (b. 1763)
1813 - Carl Stenborg, composer, dies at 60
1821 - Elizabeth Inchbald (Simpson), actress/author (Lady Abbess), dies at 68
1834 - Robert Morrison, missionary in China/translated bible, dies
1837 - Walter Geikie, painter, dies
1846 - Peter Ritter, composer, dies at 83
1851 - William Joseph Behr, German writer (b. 1775)
1857 - Charles Turner, engraver, dies
1866 - John Ross (aka. Kooweskoowe), Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation (b. 1790)
1882 - Henry Clarence Kendall, Australian poet, dies of tuberculosis at 43
1883 - Karl Wilhelm Dindorf, classic scholar, dies
1884 - Heinrich Laube, writer, dies
1902 - Ludwig Beckmann, painter, dies
1911 - Konrad Duden, German linguist (Das, grosse Duden Lexicon), dies
1916 - Claude Newberry, South African cricket All-rounder (v England 1913-14), dies
1917 - Frank Little, American labor organizer (lynched) (b. 1879)
1918 - John Riley Banister, American cowboy and Texas Ranger (b. 1854)
1920 - Bal Gangadhar Tilak, British-Indian hindu leader, dies
1922 - Vaclav Juda Novotny, composer, dies at 72
1925 - John Pieter Veth, painter/lithographer/etcher/writer, dies at 61
1926 - Israel Zangwill, British zionists writer (Ghetto tragedies), dies
1929 - Syd Gregory, cricketer (Australian captain pre-WWI), dies
1932 - Arnold Fothergill, cricketer (8 wickets in 2 Tests for Eng 1889), dies
1934 - Piotr Maszynski, composer, dies at 79
1943 - Ismar Elbogen, German/US learned/rabbi (Jewish Lexicon), dies at 68
1944 - Manuel Luis Quezón y Molina, pres of Philippines (1935-42), dies at 65
1946 - Andrei Vlasov, Russian general (Red Army, Wehrmacht) executed at 45
1954 - Charles-A Cingria, writer, dies
1957 - Harvey Glatmin, 1st bondage-photo victim, executed [or 8/18/59]
1962 - Leon Kruczkowski, Polish author (Niemcy), dies at 62
1963 - Theodore Roethke, US poet (Praise to the end!), dies
1965 - Kiyoshi Nobutoki, composer, dies at 77
1966 - Bud Powell, US jazz pianist/composer, dies
1966 - Charles Whitman, former marine, kills 16 at U of Texas, shot by cops
1970 - Frances Farmer, actress (Toast of NY, Come & Get It), dies at 55
1973 - Gian Francesco Malipiero, composer, dies at 91
1973 - Walter Ulbricht, pres German DR, dies at 80
1974 - Ildebrando Antoniutti, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1898)
1975 - Howard Joslin, actor (Quebec, Detective Story), dies at 68
1977 - Francis Gary Powers, US U-2 pilot, dies at 47
1980 - Strother Martin, actor (Slapshot), dies of heart attack at 61
1980 - Patrick Depailler, French Formula 1 driver (b. 1944)
1981 - Paddy Chayefsky, screenwriter (Network, Hospital) dies of cancer at 58
1981 - Seppo Antero Yrjonpoika Nummi, composer, dies at 49
1983 - Peter Arne, actor (Straw Dogs), bludgeoned to death in London at 62
1985 - Joseph Walker, cameraman, dies at 92
1986 - Willem Klein, variety artist, dies at about 73
1987 - Benson Fong, actress (Charlie Chan, Purple Heart), dies at 70
1987 - Pola Negri, actress (Forbidden Paradise), dies at 92
1988 - Florence Eldridge, Broadway actress (The Swan), dies at 86
1988 - John Cardinal Dearden, US cardinal, dies at 80
1988 - Trindad Silva, actor (Hill St Blues), dies at 38 in an auto accident
1989 - John Ogdon, English pianist/composer, dies at 52
1990 - Norbert Elias, German/English/Neth philosopher/sociologist, dies
1991 - Stuart Wilson, actor (The Girl Who Had Everything), dies at 87
1992 - Chico Alvarez, trumpeteer (Stan Kenton Orch), dies of cancer at 72
1992 - Kenny Sacha, actor (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), dies of AIDS at 39
1992 - Stanley Dudek, US platform diver (watershows), dies
1993 - Alfred Manessier, Fr painter (glass-in-lead), dies in car crash at 81
1993 - Anatoli Koretski, Russian major general, murdered
1993 - Ewing Kaufman, founder/owner (KC Royals), dies of lung cancer at 76
1993 - Lea Verschuuren-Smulders, Dut author (Kleutertje Luister), dies at 72
1993 - Viktor Polyanitshko, governor of Kaukasus, murdered
1994 - George Dixon, trumpet/sax, dies at 85
1994 - Gerard van de Groenekan, furniture maker/designer, dies at 90
1995 - Loudi Nijhoff, Dutch actress (Alicia, Van Geluk Gesproken), dies
1995 - Robert L "Bob" Talley, pianist, dies at 75
1996 - John Lanigan, tenor, dies at 75
1996 - Mohamed Farrah Aidid, Pres (ANS-CUS)/Somalia, dies
1996 - Pierre Lucien Claverie, bishop of Oran, dies at 58
1996 - Tadeusz Reichstein, Polish/Swiss chemist (Nobel 1950), dies at 99
1996 - Frida Boccara, French singer (b. 1940)
1996 - Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Canadian physician and international aid worker (b. 1929)
1997 - Ngiratkel Etpison, president of Palau (1989-92), dies
1997 - Svyatoslav Richter, Russian pianist, dies of heart attack at 82
1998 - Eva Bartok, Hungarian-born actress (b. 1927)
1999 - Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Indian-born writer (b. 1897)
2001 - Korey Stringer, American football player (b. 1974)
2003 - Guy Thys, Belgian football coach (b. 1922)
2003 - Marie Trintignant, French actress (b. 1962)
2004 - Philip Abelson American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1913)
2005 - Al Aronowitz, American music journalist (b. 1928)
2005 - King Fahd of Saudi Arabia (b. 1923)
2005 - Constant Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter (b. 1920)
2005 - Wibo, Dutch cartoonist (b. 1918)
2006 - Jason Rhoades, American installation artist (b. 1965)
2006 - Bob Thaves, American cartoonist (b. 1924)
2006 - Iris Marion Young, American feminist and political scientist (b. 1949)
2007 - Tommy Makem, Irish folk singer (b. 1932)
2008 - Harkishan Singh Surjeet, Indian politician (b. 1916)
2009 - Corazon Aquino, Former President of the Philippines (b. 1933)
2010 - Lolita Lebrón, Puerto Rican nationalist (b. 1919)
2010 - Eric Tindill, New Zealand rugby and cricket international player and referee/umpire (b. 1910)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 02, 2013, 04:31:09 PM

This Day in History for 2nd August


Historical Events

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First US President                                 Author of Alice in Wonderland              Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini
George Washington                                             Lewis Carroll

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French President                                      Soviet Union Premier                            Singer-Songwriter Bob Dylan
Charles de Gaulle                                       Joseph Stalin

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Musician Rick James                             Radio shock jock Howard Stern


338 BC - A Macedonian army led by Philip II defeated the combined forces of Athens and Thebes in
              the Battle of Chaeronea, securing Macedonian hegemony in Greece and the Aegean.
216 BC - Second Punic War: Battle of Cannae - Carthaginian army lead by Hannibal defeats
              numerically superior Roman army under command consuls Lucius Aemilius Paullus and
              Gaius Terentius Varro.
257 - St Stephen I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1057 - Frederik van Lotharingen elected as 1st Belgium Pope Stephen IX [X]
1492 - Jews are expelled from Spain by King Ferdinand & Queen Isabella
1542 - French troops leave Flanders
1552 - Treaty of Passau: Emperor Charles V accepts Lutheran religion
1578 - Battle of Rijmenam
1581 - Leiden University names Snellius math professor
1610 - Henry Hudson enters bay later named after him, the Hudson Bay
1665 - French expedition against Barbarians in Tunis/Algiers
1704 - Duke of Marlborough beats French & Bavarians at Blenheim
1718 - Austrian joins Triple Alliance
1738 - France offers emperor Karel VI mediation in war against Turkey
1776 - Formal signing of the US Declaration of Independence by 56 people
1782 - George Washington creates Honorary Badge of Distinction
1786 - Utrechtse Vroedschap flees
1787 - Horace the Saussure reaches top of Mont Blanc
1790 - The first US Census is conducted.
1791 - Samuel Briggs & his son, patent nail-making machine
1798 - British under Adm Horatio Nelson beat French at Battle of Nile
1802 - Napoleon declared "Counsel for Life"
1819 - 1st parachute jump in US
1830 - Charles X of France abdicates in favour of his grandson the Duc de Bordeaux
1831 - Ten day campaign begins, Dutch army occupies Belgium
1832 - Battle of Bad Axe, Wisconsin: 1,300 Illinois militia defeat Sauk & Fox Native Americans ending
           the Black Hawk War in the US
1858 - 1st mailboxes installed in Boston & NYC streets
1858 - Government of India transferred from East India Company to Crown
1861 - Skirmish at Dug Springs, MI
1864 - 2nd Saratoga Racetrack (NY) opens
1865 - Lewis Carroll publishes "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
1865 - Trans Atlantic Cable being laid by SS Great Eastern snaps & is lost
1870 - Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London.
1873 - 1st trial run of SF cable car, Clay Street between Kearny & Jones
1875 - 1st roller skating rink opens (London)
1877 - SF Public Library opens with 5,000 volumes
1884 - Dutch Queen Emma appointed regent
1887 - Rowell Hodge patents barbed wire
1892 - Charles A Wheeler patents a prototype of the escalator
1894 - Death duties 1st introduced in Britain
1894 - Dutch Society for Women Suffrage gets royal charter
1903 - Unsuccessful uprising of Macedonians against Turkey
1906 - Chicago White Sox begin AL record 19 game win streak
1907 - Walter Johnson, 19, debuts with Washington & loses 3-2 to Detroit
1909 - 1st Lincoln head pennies minted
1909 - Army Air Corps formed as Army takes 1st delivery from Wright Brothers
1911 - Haiti's dictator Simon flees on US warship near Jamaica
1912 - 18th US Golf Open: John McDermott shoots a 294 at CC of Buffalo NY
1914 - Belgian government receives German ultimatum
1914 - German press falsely reports that French bombed Nuremberg
1914 - German troops overthrows Luxembourg
1914 - Germany & Turkey signs secret treaty
1914 - Great Britain mobilizes
1914 - Postdam Conference ended
1914 - Russian troops invade Eastern Prussia
1914 - Sherlock Holmes Adventure "His Last Bow" takes place
1916 - World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of the Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci
           in Taranto.
1918 - Japan announces that it is deploying troops to Siberia in the aftermath of World War I.
1920 - Marcus Garvey presents his "Back To Africa" program in NYC
1921 - Chicago jury brings in not guilty verdict against the Black Sox
1922 - China, hit by a typhoon; about 60,000 die
1924 - Joe Hauser sets record of 14 total bases in a game
1928 - Benito Mussolini signs peace treaty with Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
1929 - Phillies Don Hurst sets NL record of 6 consecutive games with a HR
1931 - Spanish Catalonia agrees (99+%) for autonomous status
1932 - Charlie Grimm replaces Roger Hornsby as manager of Chicago Cubs
1932 - The positron (antiparticle of the electron) is discovered by Carl D. Anderson.
1934 - 1st airplane train, plane tows 3 mail gliders behind it
1934 - Adolph Hitler becomes commander-in-chief of Germany
1934 - William Franks twirls an indian club overhead 17,280 times in 1 hour
1937 - The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, essentially rendering marijuana and all
           its by-products illegal.
1938 - 1st test of a yellow baseball (Dodgers vs Cardinals)
1939 - Hatch Act prohibits political activity by federal workers
1940 - Clermont-Ferrand sentences Gen Charles de Gaulle to death
1940 - KL-House of saxon & commandos focus on Gross Rosen, Silesia
1941 - German 11st Army surrounds 20 Russian divisions at Oeman
1941 - Hungarian Ruthenia, expels Jews
1941 - Jews are expelled from Hungarian Ruthenia
1942 - 250 Dutch Catholic Jews arrested, transported to Amersfoort camp
1942 - Col-Gen Hoth' Pantser army reaches Kotelnikovo
1943 - Armed revolt breaks out in Treblinka
1943 - Lt John F Kennedy's PT-boat 109 sinks at Solomon islands
1943 - RAF bombs Hamburg
1943 - Sunderland seaplanes sinks U-706 & U-106
1943 - Uprising at Treblinka Concentration Camp (crematorium destroyed)
1944 - Amsterdam soccer team "The Volewijckers" plays in orange shirts
1944 - Jewish survivors of Kovono Ghetto emerge from their bunker
1944 - Turkey breaks diplomatic relationship with nazi-Germany
1945 - Potsdam Conference ended, with Stalin, Truman & Churchill
1953 - Betty Jack Davis, singer (w/Skeeter Davis), killed in car crash
1953 - KCPQ TV channel 13 in Tacoma-Seattle, WA (IND) begins broadcasting
1954 - Tahar Ben Ammar appointed premier of Tunisia
1955 - USSR performs nuclear test
1958 - Jordan & Iraq disolve their Arab Federation, after 3 months
1959 - 41st PGA Championship: Bob Rosburg shoots a 277 at Minneapolis GC
1959 - Milwaukee Brave Bill Bruton hits 2 bases loaded triples
1959 - SF Giants 1st baseman Willie McCovey hits 1st of his 521 HRs
1961 - Beatles 1st gig as house band of Liverpool's Cavern Club
1961 - Cyrille Adula becomes premier of Congo
1961 - St Louis Cards (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 36-7 in Toronto
1962 - NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 32,600 m
1963 - 30th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 20, Green Bay 17 (65,000)
1964 - Dutch government gives Indonesia export guarantees
1964 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Milwaukee Jaycee Golf Open
1964 - North Vietnam fires on a US destroyer in Gulf of Tonkin
1964 - Race riot in Jersey City NJ
1965 - Morley Safer's sends 1st Vietnam report indicating we are losing
1966 - Radio Vila (New Hebrides) begins transmitting
1967 - New Orleans Saints 1st pre-season game, they lose to LA Rams 16-77
1967 - US's Lunar Orbiter 5 launched; enters lunar orbit Aug 5
1967 - The second Blackwall Tunnel opens in Greenwich, London.
1968 - 35th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 34, All-Stars 17 (69,917)
1969 - Bob Dylan makes surprise appearance at Hibbing HS Minn 10th reunion
1969 - Pres Nixon visits Romania
1970 - Baltimore defeats KC 10-8, Orioles 23rd straight win over the Royals
1970 - France performs nuclear test at Fangataufa Island
1972 - Gold hits record $70 an ounce in London
1973 - George Brett gets his 1st hit
1975 - 104°F (40°C) at Providence, Rhode Island (state record)
1975 - 107°F (42°C) at Chester/New Bedford, Massachusetts (state record)
1979 - "Broadway Opry '79" closes at St James Theater NYC after 6 perfs
1979 - Gilda Radner Live From New York opens on Broadway
1980 - Fascist bomb attack on Bologna Italy train station, 86 killed
1980 - US swimmers set 3 world records at National championships
1981 - Australia set 151 to win, all out 121, Botham 5-11 in 14 overs
1981 - Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
1982 - Oakland's Rickey Henderson steals his 100th base of the season
1982 - Roger Ebert's Movie News premieres on ABC FM network
1983 - STS-8 vehicle moves to launch pad
1983 - US District Court begins trying Yonkers accuse of race discrimination
1984 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1985 - 5 die in a train crash in Westminster Colo
1985 - Delta Lockheed L-1011 crashes at Dallas-Fort Worth Airport, 137 die
1985 - NASA launches space vehicle S-209
1986 - Jackie Joyner-Kersee (US) sets record for heptathlon (7161 pts)
1986 - TODAY/PC born today
1987 - 25th Tennis Fed Cup: Germany beats USA in Vancouver Canada (2-1)
1987 - Chris Johnson wins Columbia Savings LPGA National Golf Pro-Am
1987 - Cin Red Eric Davis becomes 7th & earliest 30 HR 30 steal man
1987 - Don Brown sets flight record for handbow (1,336 yds 1'3")
1987 - Eric Davis is 7th to hit 30 HRs & steal 30 bases in one season
1987 - Kevin Seitzer (KC Royals), gets 6 hits in one baseball game
1987 - Michael Andretti runs fastest Indy car race in history (171.49 MPH)
1987 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1988 - Raymond Acevedo is retired from singing group Menudo
1988 - System Enhancement Association settles case with PKware (ARC vs PKARC)
1989 - NASA confirmed Voyager 2's discovery of 3 more moons of Neptune designated temporarily
           1989 N2, 1989 N3 & 1989 N24
1990 - Iraq invades & occupies Kuwait, Emir flees to Saudi Arabia
1990 - Yankees rookie Kevin Maas hits his 10th home run in just 77 at bats
1991 - Funk singer Rick James, arrested on sexual torture charges
1991 - Hedy Lamaar is arrested for shoplifting in LA
1991 - Mike Jeffcoat is 1st AL pitcher to get an RBI since 1972
1991 - Space shuttle STS 43 (Atlantis 9) launched
1992 - "Death & the Maiden" closes at Brooks Atkinson NYC after 159 perfs
1992 - Dottie Mochrie wins LPGA Welch's Golf Classic
1992 - Tom Seaver, R Fingers, Hal Newhouser, & B McGowan enter Hall of Fame
1993 - NYC radio (WFAN) personality Don Imus' lung collapes
1993 - Peter Angelos & William DeWitt purchase Orioles
1993 - Train crash in tunnel at Vega de Anzo Spain, 12 killed
1993 - Shamrock Broadcasting, a Disney company, officially takes ownership of Cleveland's WMMS-
           FM/100.7 & WHK-AM/1420
1994 - Congressional hearings begin on White Water
1994 - Explosion in lead/zinc mine in Guangxi China, 120+ killed
1994 - NY Supreme Court refuses Howard Stern's non financial disclosure
1994 - Noureddine Morceli runs world record 3000m (7:25.11)
1998 - 26th du Maurier Golf Classic
1998 - 30th Curtis Cup: US wins 10-8 at The Minikahda Club (Minneapolis, Minnesota, US)
2012 - 23 people are killed after two blasts in a fruit market in Lahore, Pakistan

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 02, 2013, 04:32:21 PM

This Day in History for 2nd August


Famous Weddings

1970 - Songwriter Sammy Cahn marries Tita Curtis in Calif
1978 - Canadian singer-songwriter Neil Young (32) weds Pegi Morton
1982 - "Dangerous Liaisons" actor John Malkovich (28) weds film and stage actress Glenne Headly
           (27)
1997 - "Frazier" actor-comedian Kelsey Grammer (43) weds Playboy model Camille Donatacci (29) at
           Saddlerock Ranch in Malibu

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 02, 2013, 04:39:31 PM

This Day in History for 2nd August


Famous Birthdays

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Washington D.C. Architect                           Actress Myrna Loy (1905)                 Author James Baldwin (1924)
Pierre Charles L'Enfant (1754)


1455 - Johan Cicero, elect of Brandenburg (1486-99)
1533 - Theodor Zwinger, Swiss scholar (d. 1588)
1627 - Samuel Dircksz van Hoogstraten, Dutch painter
1632 - Kaspar von Stieler, German poet (Teutsche Wolredner)
1672 - Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss scholar (d. 1733)
1674 - Philip II, Duke of Orléans, Regent of France (d. 1723)
1696 - Mahmud I, Sultan of Ottoman (Turkey) (1730-54)/fought Austria & Russia
1703 - Lorenzo Ricci, Italian Jesuit leader (d. 1775)
1723 - Nicolas de Pigage, French classical architect
1746 - Joan Lucaz, Dutch journalist/patriot
1754 - Pierre Charles L'Enfant, Anet France, architect laid out Wash DC, (d. 1825)
1775 - Jose Angel Lamas, composer
1788 - Leopold Gmelin, German chemist (d. 1853)
1802 - Nicholas Patrick Stephen Wiseman, 1st archbishop of Westminster
1815 - Adolf Friedrich von Schack, German writer (d. 1894)
1818 - [Willem] Alexander FCNM, prince of the Netherlands/general-major
1826 - William Denison Whipple, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1902
1828 - Manuel Pavía y Rodríguez de Alburquerque, Spanish general (d. 1895)
1832 - Henry Steel Olcott, co-founder (Theosophical Society)
1834 - Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, Colmar France, sculptor (Statue of Liberty)
1834 - Isaac Capadose, lawyer/evangelist
1835 - Elisha Grey, inventor (Telephone)
1854 - Francis Marion Crawford, British author
1858 - Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Queen consort of William and Regent of the Netherlands
1858 - Catherina van Rennes, composer
1858 - William Watson, British poet (Prince's Quest, Father of Forest)
1865 - Irving Babbitt, US writer (Rousseau & Romanticism)
1865 - John Radecki, Australian stained glass artist (d. 1955)
1867 - Ernest C Dowson, British poet
1868 - Constantine I, king of Greece
1871 - John French Sloan, American artist (d. 1951)
1872 - George E. Stewart, American Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1946)
1875 - Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Russian artist (d. 1957)
1878 - Aino J M Kallas, Finnish writer (White Ship, Estonian Tales)
1878 - Princess Ingeborg, of Sweden
1881 - Ethel Mary Dell, English author (Storm Drift)
1881 - Stanislaw Kazuro, composer
1882 - Johannes Tralow, writer
1882 - Nanny I Larsen-Todsen, Swedish opera singer
1882 - Rik Wouters, Belgian painter/sculptor (Virgin Doll)
1882 - Red Ames, baseball player (d. 1936)
1884 - Rómulo Gallegos, President of Venezuela (d. 1969)
1886 - John Alexander Douglas McCurdy Canadian Aviator ( d. 1961)
1887 - Tommy Ward, Former South African cricketer (d. 1936)
1888 - Oscar Rasbach, composer
1890 - Pauline Hall, composer
1890 - Marin Sais, American actress (d. 1971)
1891 - Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss, London, composer (Olympians)
1891 - Mihail Jora, composer
1891 - Viktor Maksimovich Zhirmunsky, Russian literary historian, linguist (d. 1971)
1892 - Jack Warner, US movie studio head (Warner Bros)
1892 - John Kieran, NYC, columnist/author (Natural History of NYC)
1895 - Matthew Henderson, cricketer (lefty pace bowler in NZ's 1st Test)
1896 - Lorenzo Herrera, Venezuelan singer and composer (d. 1960)
1897 - Karl Otto Koch, German SS-officer (d. 1945)
1897 - Max Weber, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1974)
1899 - Charles Bennett, screenwriter
1899 - George Malcolm Thomson, journalist
1900 - Helen Morgan [Riggins], Danville, Illinois, American singer/actress (Applause, Show Boat)
1900 - Marinus Adam, Dutch conductor/composer
1905 - Karl Amadeus Hartmann, composer
1905 - Myrna Loy, Helena Mont, actress (Jazz Singer, Thin Man, Vanity Fair), (d. 1993)
1906 - Albert Goodwin, historian
1907 - Mary Hamman, American writer (d. 1984)
1909 - Lord Benson [Henry Alexander], Johannesburg South Africa, British accountant (Coopers &
           Lybrand)
1910 - Gertruida EW "Truss" van Aalten, actress (Girl in Blue Hat)
1910 - Lawrence Josset, engraver
1910 - Lou Zara, NYC, writer (Stump the Authors)
1910 - Roger MacDougall, writer (d. 1993)
1912 - Ann Dvorak, [McKim], NYC, actress (G Men, Life of Her Own, Scarface)
1912 - Bela Szigeti, theoretical physicist
1912 - Vladimir Zerjavic, Croatian statistician (d. 2001)
1914 - Felix Leclerc, composer
1914 - Ismond Rosen, psychoanalyst/artist
1914 - Beatrice Straight, Old Westbury, New York, American actress (Network, Poltergeist)
1915 - Gary Merrill, Hartford, Connecticut, American actor (Young Dr Kildare, All About Eve)
1915 - Johan Limpers, sculptor/resistance fighter
1916 - Reginald Murley, surgeon
1919 - John Pinkerton, compuer scientist
1920 - Louis Pauwels, writer/editor
1920 - Phyllis James, mystery writer
1920 - Theo Marcuse, WA, actor (Mara of Wilderness)
1922 - Lord Murray of Epping Forest [Lionel], Hadley, Telford, British labour politician and union
           leader (General Secretary TUC)
1922 - Paul Laxalt, (Sen-R-NV, 1974- )
1923 - Shimon Peres, Israeli Labor Party leader/prime minister
1924 - Carroll O'Connor, NYC, actor (All in the Family, Heat of the Night), (d. 2001)
1924 - James Baldwin, New York, author (Go Tell it on Mountain, Another Country), (d. 1987)
1924 - Joe Harnell, American musician, composer and arranger (d. 2005)
1925 - Alan Wicker, British broadcaster
1925 - John McCormack, Canadian ice hockey player
1925 - Jorge Rafael Videla, Argentinian dictator, (d. 2013)
1926 - Betsy Bloomingdale, dept store mogul
1927 - Peter Swinnereton-Dyer, mathematician
1928 - Hugh Francis Lamprey, ecologist
1928 - Malcolm Hilton, Former England cricketer (d. 1990)
1929 - John Gale, theatrical producer
1929 - John Hannam, MP
1929 - Lord Waddington [David Charles], Burnley, United Kingdom, British politician (Governor of
           Bermuda)
1930 - Ron de Lugo, (Rep-D-Virgin Islands, 1973-79, 81- )
1930 - Vali Myers, Australian painter (d. 2003)
1931 - Eddie Fuller, cricketer (South African fast bowler in 7 Tests 1952-58)
1931 - Henryck Schiller, composer
1931 - Peter Swinnereton-Dyer, mathematician
1931 - Philippa Duke Schuyler, composer
1931 - Viliam Schrojf, Slovak footballer (d. 2007)
1931 - Pierre DuMaine, Catholic bishop
1932 - Lamar Hunt, NFL owner (KC Chiefs)
1932 - Marvin David Levy, composer
1932 - Peter O'Toole, Ireland, actor (Lord Jim, Beckett, Lawrence of Arabia)
1933 - Alan Tuffin, trade union leader
1933 - John Gale, theatrical producer
1933 - John Hannam, MP
1934 - Albert W Hall, actor (Apocalypse Now)
1934 - Carl Cecil Cain, Freeport Ill, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1956)
1934 - Valery Bykovsky, cosmonaut (Vostok 5, Soyuz 22, 31)
1935 - Brian Wolfson, CEO (Wembley Pic)
1935 - Derek Anthony Enright, politician
1935 - John MacIvor Perkins, composer
1936 - Anthony Edward Payne, composer
1936 - Christopher Hogg, CEO (Courtaulds & Reuters)
1937 - Alan Tuffin, trade union leader
1937 - Garth Hudson, Canada, pop musician (The Band-Life is a Carnival)
1937 - Ronald Brierley, company chairman
1937 - William Cannon, football player (Heisman-1959)
1938 - Brunhilde Hendrix, German FR, relay runner (Olympic-silver-1960)
1938 - Pierre de Bané, French Canadian politician
1939 - Brian Wolfson, CEO (Wembley Pic)
1939 - Edward Pattern, Atlanta Ga, singer (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
1939 - Wes Craven, Cleveland OH, director (Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream)
1939 - Benjamin Barber, American political theorist
1940 - Doris Kenner, Passaic NJ, singer (Shirelles-Soldier Boy)
1941 - Doris Coley, rocker
1941 - Homer Banks, US singer/songwriter (Be What You Are)
1942 - Leo Beenhakker, Dutch soccer trainer
1942 - Isabel Allende, Chilean author
1943 - Jeltje van Nieuwenhoven, Dutch MP (PvdA)
1943 - Kathy Lennon, singer (Lennon Sisters)
1943 - Max Wright, Detroit, actor (Buffalo Bill, Alf, Misfits of Science)
1943 - Rose Tremain, British novelist/playwright (Restoration)
1943 - Tom Burgmeier, American baseball player
1943 - Max Wright, American actor
1944 - Jim Capaldi, English singer/songwriter (Traffic-Something So Strong)
1945 - Joanna Cassidy [Joanna Virginia Caskey], Haddonfield, New Jersey, American actress (Blade
           Runner, Under Fire)
1945 - Jewell Jackson McCabe, pres (natl coaltion of 100 black women)
1945 - John Bowis, MP
1945 - Alex Jesaulenko, Australian rules footballer
1947 - Rose Tremain, novelist/playwright
1947 - Massiel, Spanish singer
1948 - Robert P Holdstock, UK, sci-fi author (Ghost Dance, Labyrinth)
1948 - Andy Fairweather Low, British guitarist
1949 - "Fat" Larry James, US drummer (Fat Larry's Band)
1949 - Bertalan Farkas, Bulgaria, cosmonaut (Soyuz 36/35)
1949 - John Bowis, MP
1949 - Madeleine Smith, Sussex England, actress (Vampire Lovers)
1949 - James Fallows, American journalist
1950 - Kathryn Harrold, Tazewell Va, actress (MacGruder & Loud)
1950 - Lance Ito, judge (OJ Simpson trial)
1950 - Mathieu Carriere, Hanover West Germany, actor (Bay Boy, Woman in Flames)
1950 - Sue Rodriguez, Canadian assisted suicide advocate (d. 1994)
1951 - Andrew Gold, Burbank, rocker (Lonely Boy)
1951 - Freddie Wadling, Swedish actor and musician (The Leather Nun, Fleshquartet)
1951 - Per Westerberg, Swedish politician
1952 - Angel Herrera, Cuba, FW/LW boxer (Olympic-gold-1976, 80)
1952 - Paul David Crews, SC, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
1953 - Anne Leuchars, British TV journalist
1953 - Butch Patrick, actor (Eddie Munster-Munster)
1954 - Lisa Brown, KC, Mo, actress (Guiding Light, Iva-As the World Turns)
1954 - Sammy McIlroy, Irish soccer star
1954 - James Charles Kopp, American citizen who murdered Barnett Slepian
1955 - Jimmy Lowe, Nashville Tenn, country singer (Pirates of Ms-Fred Jake)
1955 - Roberta Wallach, NYC, actress (Civil Wars)
1955 - Caleb Carr, American novelist and military historian
1955 - Tim Dunigan, American Actor
1956 - Bill Murchison Jr, Lake Charles LA, Nike golfer (1994 Boise Open-2nd)
1956 - Isabel Pantoja, Spain, spanish singer (Genio y Figura)
1956 - Fulvio Melia, Italian-American physicist/astrophysicist and author
1957 - Anne Leuchars, TV journalist
1957 - Stephen Kelly Petterson, Auckland NZ, Smallbore rifle (Olympics-96)
1957 - Mojo Nixon, American musician and actor
1958 - Arshad Ayub, cricketer (Indian off-spinner of the late 1980's)
1958 - Sammy McIlroy, soccer player
1959 - Britt Helfer, Clearfield Utah, actress (Lily-Loving, Alley Cat)
1960 - Apollonia, [Patricia Kotero], Santa Monica Ca, actress (Purple Rain)
1960 - Linda Fratianne, US, figure skater (Olympic-silver-1980)
1960 - Neal Morse, American musician (Spock's Beard, Transatlantic)
1960 - David Yow, American musician (Scratch Acid, The Jesus Lizard)
1961 - Ed West, NFL tight end (Philadelphia Eagles, Atlanta Falcons)
1961 - Pete de Freitas, Trinidad, rock drummer (Echo & the Bunnyman)
1961 - Cold 187um, American rapper (Above the Law)
1962 - Cynthia Stevenson, Oakland, California, American actress (Bob, Hope & Gloria)
1963 - Caroline Pierce, Cheshire England, golfer (1995 JAL Big Apple Classic-2nd)
1963 - Jeff Bloom, Seattle Wash, Canadian Tour golfer (1988 Montana Open)
1963 - Daniel Pelosi, American convicted murderer
1964 - John Cullen, Puslinch, NHL center (Tampa Bay Lightning)
1964 - Mary-Louise Parker, Ft Jackson SC, actress (Fried Green Tomatoes)
1965 - Takayuki Iizuka, wrestler (NJPW)
1966 - Joseph Wanag, Wilson Ct, US judoka (Olympic-92)
1966 - Tim Wakefield [Timothy Stephen], Melbourne, Florida, American baseball pitcher (Boston Red
           Sox-1995 AL Comeback Player of the Year)
1967 - Aaron Krickstein, Ann Arbor Mich, tennis player (Tel Aviv 1983)
1967 - Derek Wells, Los Angeles California, actor (Fitzpatricks)
1967 - Martin Laamers, soccer player (Vitesse)
1967 - Aline Brosh McKenna, American screenwriter
1968 - Sean Groom, Northford Conn, rower (Olympics-1996)
1968 - Stefan Effenberg, German footballer
1969 - Cedric Ceballos, NBA forward (LA Lakers, Phoenix Suns)
1969 - Erik Meijer, Dutch soccer player (PSV, Uerdingen)
1969 - Fernando Couto, Portuguese footballer
1969 - Jan Axel Blomberg Norwegian musician (Dimmu Borgir, Winds, Mayhem)
1969 - Richard Hallebeek, Dutch guitarist
1970 - Chainey Umphrey, Albuquerque NM, gymnast (Olympics-5th-96)
1970 - Elijah Alexander, NFL linebacker (Indianapolis Colts, Denver Broncos)
1970 - Jonathan Andrew Kaye, Denver CO, PGA golfer (1995 Quad City-2nd)
1970 - Kevin Smith, director (Chasing Amy, Mallrats, Clerks)
1970 - Philo Wallace, cricketer (WI ODI opening batsman 1991-92)
1970 - Tony Amonte, Hingham MA, NHL right wing (Chicago Blackhawks, USA)
1970 - Wes Bender, WLAF/NFL running back (Frankfurt Galaxy, NO Saints)
1971 - Dick Schreuder, Dutch soccer player (PSV/FC Groningen/RKC)
1971 - Fernando Smith, NFL defensive end (Minnesota Vikings)
1971 - Michael Hughes, Irish footballer
1972 - Lee McClinton, NFL running back (Miami Dolphins)
1972 - Nathan Thomas, Australian water polo player (Olympics-96)
1972 - Mohamed Al-Deayea, Saudi Arabian footballer
1972 - Jimmy Pop, American musician (The Bloodhound Gang)
1972 - Justyna Steczkowska, Polish singer
1973 - Fiona Mullally, Miss Ireland Universe (1997)
1973 - George Zidek, NBA center (Denver Nuggets, Charlotte Hornets)
1973 - Kari Anne Safford, Point Pleasant WV, Miss America-WV (1997)
1973 - Karina Habsudova, Bojnice Slovakia, tennis star (1995 Futures Czech)
1973 - Kia Goodwin, Livingston NJ, actress (Tiffany Holloway-227)
1973 - Nancy Drolet, ice hockey forward (Canada, Oly-98)
1973 - Susie O'Neill, Mackay Austral, butterfly swimmer (Oly-br/gold-92, 96)
1973 - Danie Keulder, Former Namibian cricketer
1974 - Nabil Bouchlal, soccer player (Willem II)
1974 - Paul Grasmanis, defensive tackle (Chicago Bears)
1974 - Jeremy Castle, Oklahoma country singer and songwriter
1974 - Angie Cepeda, Colombian actress
1975 - Mineiro, Brazilian footballer
1975 - Ingrid Rubio, Spanish actress
1976 - Michael Weiss, Washington DC, figure skater (1997 World Champ-7th)
1976 - Reyes Estévez, Spanish athlete
1976 - Sam Worthington, Australian actor
1977 - Edward Furlong, Pasedina California, actor (John Connor-Terminator 2)
1978 - Goran Gavrančić, Serbian footballer
1978 - Matt Guerrier, American baseball player
1979 - Reuben Kosgei, Kenyan athlete
1980 - Ivica Banović, Croatian footballer
1980 - Nadia Bjorlin, American actress
1982 - Hélder Postiga, Portuguese footballer
1982 - Grady Sizemore, American baseball player
1983 - Nick Diaz, American MMA fighter
1984 - Chiara Mastalli, Italian actress
1984 - Giampaolo Pazzini, Italian footballer
1985 - Harry Smith, Canadian professional wrestler
1986 - Mathieu Razanakolona, Malagasy skier
1988 - Brittany Hargest, American singer (Jump5)
1990 - Alice Connor, British actress
1991 - Gabriel Anthony Cohen, son of Meredith Viera & Richard Cohen
1992 - Hallie Kate Eisenberg, American actress
1993 - Cassidy Gifford, daughter of Frank & Kathy Lee

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 02, 2013, 04:43:13 PM

This Day in History for 2nd August


Famous Deaths

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Folk Hero of the American Old West       Inventor Alexander Graham Bell (1922)
Wild Bill Hickok (1876) 


257 - St Stephen I, bishop of Rome (Pope) (254-57)/heretic fighter, dies
640 - Severinus, Italian Pope (640), dies
686 - Pope John V, 1st Greek-Syrian Pope (685-86) dies
924 - Ælfweard of Wessex
1002 - Abu Amir Mohammed ibn Abd allah ibn Mohammed ibn Abi Amir, dies at 64
1075 - John VIII Xiphilinus, theologian/patriarch of Constantinople, dies
1100 - William II, [Rufus], king of England, shot in New Forest at 44
1222 - Count Raymond VI of Toulouse (b. 1156)
1511 - Andrew Barton, Scottish naval leader
1512 - Alessandro Achillini, Italian physician/philosopher, dies at 48
1589 - Henry III, king of Poland/France (1573-89), assassinated at 37
1600 - Arent van Dorp, Dutch governor of East-Zealand, dies at about 70
1611 - Kato Kiyomasa, Japanese warlord and samurai (b. 1562)
1649 - Elisabeth Bas, wife of Dutch Adm Swartenhondt, dies at about 78
1655 - Alfonso de la Cueva, Spanish marquis of Bedmar/diplomat, dies at 83
1696 - Robert Campbell of Glenlyon, Scottish military commander (b. 1630)
1769 - Daniel Finch, 8th Earl of Winchilsea, English politician (b. 1689)
1776 - Louis François I, Prince of Conti, French military leader (b. 1717)
1788 - Thomas Gainsborough, English painter (Blue Boy), dies at 61
1792 - Nathanael Gottfried Gruner, composer, dies at 60
1799 - Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier, French inventor, dies at 54
1811 - William Williams, US merchant/signer (Decl of Indep), dies at 80
1815 - Guillaume Marie Anne Brune, French marshal (b. 1763)
1823 - Lazare Carnot, French general, politician, and mathematician (b. 1753)
1827 - James Hewitt, composer, dies at 57
1849 - Governor Muhammad Ali of Egypt (b. 1769)
1858 - A Emma WT von Waldeck-Pyrmont, queen/regent, dies at 76
1859 - Horace Mann, American educator and abolitionist (b. 1796)
1869 - Alexandrine Tinne, Dutch explorer/photographer, murdered at 30+
1872 - Judocus Smits, Dutch RC newspaper publisher (De Tijd), dies at 59
1873 - Frank Mori, composer, dies at 53
1876 - Wild Bill Hickok, shot dead (from behind) by Jack McCall while playing poker. He held a pair of
           Aces & a pair of 8's
1881 - Marcus Andrews Hislop Clarke, author (His Natural Life) at 35
1889 - Eduardo Gutiérrez, Argentinian author (b. 1851)
1903 - Martha Jane Cannary, [Calamity Jane], US desperado, dies
1903 - Edmond Nocard, French veterinarian (b. 1850)
1914 - Gabriel Edouard Xavier Dupont, composer, dies at 36
1916 - Hamish MacCunn, composer, dies at 48
1920 - Ormer Locklear, American stunt pilot (b. 1891)
1921 - Enrico Caruso, Italian opera singer, dies at 48
1922 - Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish/US physicist (telephone), dies
1922 - [Wilhel]Mina JPR Kruseman, Dutch author/feminist, dies at 82
1923 - Warren Harding, 29th Pres (1921-23), dies at Palace Hotel SF at 57
1929 - Mae Costello, American actress (b. 1882)
1932 - Gheorghe Cucu, composer, dies at 50
1934 - Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Hindenburg, soldier/statesman, dies at 86
1938 - Bjarni Thorsteinsson, composer, dies at 76
1939 - Harvey Spencer Lewis, American Rosicrucian mystic (b. 1883)
1941 - Jose Juan Tablada, Mexican poet (La Feria), dies at 70
1942 - Friedrich Aereboe, Dutch landlord, dies at 77
1945 - Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek, composer (Donna Diana), dies at 85
1945 - Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer (Cavalleria Rusticana), dies at 81
1954 - Rene Amengual, composer, dies at 42
1955 - Ruprecht, crown prince of Bayern/general-fieldmarshal, dies
1955 - Wallace Stevens, US poet/writer (Owl's Clover), dies at 75
1955 - Alfred Lépine, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1901)
1956 - Albert Woolson, last veteran US Union army, dies at 109
1958 - Joseph Holbrooke, English pianist/composer (3 Blind Mice), dies at 80
1959 - Prospero Bisquertt, composer, dies at 78
1961 - Giovanni B Angioletti, Italian writer (I grandi ospiti), dies at 64
1963 - Oliver Hazzard Perry La Farge, US anthropologist/writer, dies at 61
1964 - Jack Kirkwood, actor (Fibber McGee & Molly), dies at 69
1964 - Jose Maria Castro, composer, dies at 71
1965 - Milton B Babbitt, US composer (Widow's Lament), dies at 49
1967 - Claude A Barnett, founder (Associated Negro Press), dies at 77
1969 - Clarence Dickinson, composer, dies at 96
1971 - Ludwig Marcuse, German philosopher, dies at 77
1972 - Brian Cole, vocalist/bassist (Association), dies of overdose at 29
1972 - Paul Goodman, US social critic/writer, dies at 60
1972 - Rudolf Ganz, composer, dies at 95
1972 - Helen Hoyt, American poet (b. 1887)
1973 - Jean-Pierre Melville, director (Bob Le Flambeur), dies at 57
1974 - W. Douglas Hawkes, British racing driver (b. 1893)
1976 - Fritz Lang, director (Cloak & Dagger, Metropolis), dies at 85
1978 - Carlos Chavez y Ramires, Mexican composer, dies at 79
1978 - Satomi Myodo, Zen nun/attendant of Hakuun Yasutani Roshi, dies at 82
1978 - Totie Fields, [Sophie Feldman], comedienne, dies at about 48
1979 - Thurmon Munson, NY Yankee, killed in a plane crash at Akron Oh at 32
1980 - Verdun John Scott, cricketer (ten Tests for NZ), dies
1982 - Cathleen Nesbitt, English actress (Separate Tables), dies at 93
1982 - Rudolf Maros, composer, dies at 65
1985 - Frank Faylen, vaudevillian, dies of pneumonia at 79
1985 - Sandy Bell, South African cricket pace bowler (16 Tests), dies
1986 - Roy Marcus Cohn, US lawyer (Joseph McCarthy), dies
1986 - Roy Cohn, American politician (b. 1927)
1987 - Myron Stout, US abstract artist, dies at 79
1988 - Raymond Carver, poet/short story writer (Furious Season), dies at 50
1988 - Roger Vuataz, composer, dies at 90
1988 - Joe Carcione, American consumer advocate (b. 1914)
1990 - Norman Mclean, American writer (b. 1902)
1990 - Edwin Richfield, British actor (b. 1921)
1991 - Gabriel Cohen, son of Meredith Viera & Richard Cohen
1991 - Helen Page Camp
1992 - Ephraim Katz, Israeli/US encyclopedist (film encyclopedia), dies
1992 - Jim Whaley, TV host (Cinema Showcase), dies of heart attack at 44
1992 - Julio C Fernandez, Cuban/US journalist (founder Alma Mater), dies
1992 - Michel Berges, French composer, dies of a heart attack at 44
1994 - Bhagwatpersad Ausan, commandant Suriname military police, dies at 38
1995 - Brian Smith, British sportscaster, dies
1995 - Colin Gray, airman, dies at 80
1996 - Humphrey Fisher, TV Producer, dies at 72
1996 - Michel Debre, PM of France in (1959-62), dies
1996 - U Hia Than, politician, dies at 52
1997 - William S Burroughs, author (Naked Lunch), dies at 83
1997 - Fela Anikulapo Kuti, Nigerian musician (b. 1938)
1998 - Shari Lewis, American puppeteer (b. 1933)
2001 - Ron Townson, American singer (The Fifth Dimension) (b. 1933)
2003 - Don Estelle, British actor (b. 1933)
2003 - Mike Levey, American television personality (b. 1948)
2003 - Peter Safar, Austrian physician (b. 1924)
2004 - Don Tosti, American musician (b. 1923)
2004 - François Craenhals, Belgian comics artist (b. 1926)
2005 - Steven Vincent, American journalist and writer (b. 1955)
2007 - Chauncey Bailey, American journalist and editor (b. 1950)
2007 - Holden Roberto, Angolan founder and leader of the FNLA (b. 1923)
2007 - Kay Dotrice, English repertory actress (b. 1929)
2008 - Fujio Akatsuka, Japanese cartoonist (b. 1935)
2011 - DeLois Barrett Campbell, American gospel singer (b. 1926)
2012 - Marguerite Piazza, American operatic soprano, dies at 86

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 03, 2013, 07:42:32 AM

This Day in History for 3rd August


Historical Events

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Tire Industrialist                                30th US President Calvin Coolidge               Yankee Clipper Joe DiMaggio
Harvey Firestone 

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US General George S. Patton              Pop Star & Beatle Paul McCartney


8 - Roman Empire general Tiberius defeats Dalmatians on the river Bathinus.
435 - Deposed Patriarch of Constantinople Nestorius, considered the originator of Nestorianism,
         exiled by Byzantine Emperor Theodosius II to a monastery in Egypt.
881 - Battle at Saucourt: French King Louis III beats the Vikings
1108 - Louis VI, "the Fat One," King of France, crowned
1312 - Power of Luik Patriarch murders over 200
1492 - All Jews are expelled from Spain
1492 - Columbus sets sail from Palos, Spain for the "Indies"
1527 - First known letter was sent from North America by John Rut while at St. John's,
           Newfoundland.
1529 - "Ladies' Peace" (treaty of Cambrai)-emperor Charles V & King French I
1557 - Dutch States-General meet at Valenciennes
1596 - David Fabricius discovers light variation of Mira (1st variable star)
1635 - The third of the Tokugawa shoguns, Iemitsu, establishes the system of alternate attendance
           (sankin kotai) by which the feudal daimyō are required to spend one year at Edo Castle in
           Tokyo and one year back home at their feudal manor, while their families remained in Tokyo
            as virtual political hostages. (Traditional Japanese Date: June 21, 1635).
1640 - 2,000 men VOC-army surrounds the city of Malakka
1640 - Zorilla's "Bire el Ojo," premieres in Toledo
1645 - Battle of Allersheim: French defeat Bavarians
1650 - Viceroy Willem II & Amsterdam reach accord about standing army
1676 - Nathaniel Bacon publishes "Declaration of People of Virginia"
1678 - Robert LaSalle builds 1st ship in America, Griffon
1692 - Battle at Steenkerke: French beat English/Dutch army
1704 - English/Dutch fleet under Rooke/Callenburgh occupy Gibraltar
1708 - Battle at Trencsén: Austria beats Hungarian rebellion army
1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlie lands on Eriskay, Hebrides
1778 - Teatro alla Scala opens in Milan
1797 - Emperor Francis I permits Jews who served in military in "Countries of Bohemian Crown" to
           marry non Jews
1829 - Gioacchino Rossini's "William Tell," premieres in Paris
1833 - HMS Beagle reaches river mouth of Rio Negro
1852 - 1st intercollegiate rowing race, Harvard beats Yale by 4 lengths
1855 - Rotterdam-Gouda railway opens
1860 - American Canoe Association founded at Lake George NY
1860 - The Second Maori War begins in New Zealand.
1861 - Federal fleet bombs Galveston Texas
1863 - Governor Seymour asks Lincoln to suspend draft in NY
1863 - Saratoga Racetrack (NY) opens
1864 - Battle of Mobile AL
1881 - Boers signs Convention of Pretoria: Transvaal semi-autonomous
1881 - US Nation Lawn Tennis Association removes "Nation" from name
1882 - Congress passes 1st law restricting immigration
1897 - John McNally's musical "Good Mr Best," premieres in NYC
1900 - Firestone Tire & Rubber Company founded.
1904 - British journalist Francis Younghusband visits forbidden city Lhasa
1906 - Wash Natl's pitcher Tom Hughes hits HR to win his own game 1-0 in 10th
1913 - Wheatland Hop Riot
1914 - 1st seaworthy ship through Panama Canal
1914 - Belgium rejects demand to allow free crossing for German army
1914 - French fleet sails to North-Africa
1914 - German battle cruiser Goeben leaves Messina
1914 - Germany invades Belgium & declares war on France in WW I
1914 - Great Britain declares war on Germany
1914 - Turkey signs military pact with Germany
1914 - World Alliance for Promoting Intl Friendship through Churches forms
1914 - Yankee catcher Nunamaker throws out 3 would be stealers in 1 inning
1921 - 1st aerial cropdusting (Troy Ohio to kill caterpillars)
1921 - Due to a technicality, 8 Chicago White Sox accused in Black Sox scandal are acquited,
           however Landis throws them out of baseball
1923 - Baseball games cancelled following the death of President Harding
1923 - VP Calvin Coolidge becomes 30th president
1924 - Cyclist Piet Moeskops regains world sprint championist
1925 - Last US troops leave Nicaragua (there since 1912)
1926 - Traffic lights installed on Piccadilly Circus
1928 - Ray Barbuti saves US team from defeat in Amsterdam Olympics track events by winning 400
           m (47.8 sec)
1930 - 2nd time in 1930, Chuck Klein of Phillies hits in 26 straight games
1933 - Yanks are shut out for 1st time after 308 games (since Aug 2, 1931)
1939 - Jean Genets "Ondine," premieres in Paris
1940 - German occupiers forbid ritual slaughters & English & French movies
1940 - Italian troops invade British Somalia
1940 - Lithuanian SSR is accepted into USSR
1940 - Seaplane Clare makes 1st British passagiersvlucht to the US
1941 - Benzine sales limited in US
1941 - Gas sales limited in US
1941 - German troops conquer Roslavl USSR
1941 - Browns pitcher Johnny Niggling gets Joe DiMaggio in 4 at bats to stop DiMaggio's streak of
           74 games in reaching base
1943 - Gen Patton slaps a US GI in the hospital accusing him of cowardice
1943 - Nazi occupiers attack city Orel, leave it in fire
1944 - Allied troops conquer Myitkyina Burma
1944 - Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp gases 4,000 gypsies
1944 - General Montgomery visits general Dempsey's headquarter
1944 - Lt-Gen Stilwells troops occupy Myitkyina Burma
1944 - Tommy Brown, just 16 years & 8 months old, plays shortstop for Dodgers
1946 - Belgian government of Huysmans, forms
1948 - Cleveland's Satchel Paige make his 1st start & goes 7 innings
1948 - FDR advisor Alger Hiss accused to be a "communist"
1949 - Republic Indonesia proclaims cease fire
1949 - Basketball Association of America & National Basketball League merge to form National
           Basketball Association
1951 - William H Jackson, ends term as deputy director of CIA
1952 - 15th Olympic games close in Helsinki Finland
1953 - Frank Blair becomes news anchor of Today Show
1954 - 1st VTOL (Vertical Take-off & Land) flown
1955 - Automobile Association of America ends support of auto racing
1955 - Hurricane Connie begins pounding US for 11 days
1955 - Roger Moens runs world record 800 m (1:45.7)
1956 - Willie Williams of US sets 100 meter record at 10.1
1957 - British offensive against imam Galeb Ben Ali of Oman
1958 - USS Nautilus reaches North Pole, 1st submarine to achieve submarine transit of North Pole
1958 - The Billboard Hot 100 is founded
1959 - 27th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 5-3 at Memorial Coliseum, LA
1959 - 50 killed in uprising in Guinea-Bissau
1959 - AL beats NL 5-3 in 27th All Star Game (Dodger Stadium)
1960 - Niger gains independence from France
1962 - 29th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 42, All-Stars 20 (65,000)
1962 - NY Met Frank Thomas hits his 6th HR in 3 games
1963 - "No Strings" closes at 84th St Theater NYC after 580 performances
1963 - Allan Sherman releases "Hello Mudda, Hello Fadda"
1963 - Beatles final performance at Cavern Club in Liverpool
1966 - South African government bans Beatle records
1967 - 45,000 US soldiers sent to Vietnam
1967 - James Law rides entire NYC subway in 22 hrs 12 minutes
1968 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1969 - Reds beats Phillies 19-17
1969 - Sandra Spuzich wins LPGA Buckeye Savings Golf Invitational
1970 - 4 day NFL strike ends
1970 - Christopher Hampton's "Philanthropist," premieres in London
1970 - Hurricane "Celia" becomes most expensive Gulf storm in history
1970 - Mairiam Hargrave of Yorkshire, passes her driving test on 40th try
1971 - Paul McCartney announces formation of his group Wings
1972 - British premier Heath proclaims emergency crisis due to harbor strike
1972 - Chozen-ji/Intl Zen Dojo founded by Omori Sogen Roshi, in Hawaii
1972 - U.S. Senate ratifies the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
1973 - Flash fire kills 51 at amusement park (Isle of Man, UK)
1973 - National People's party wins Dutch Antilles National elections
1974 - "Little Night Music" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 601 perfs
1974 - "Words & Music" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 127 perfs
1974 - Guitarist Jeff Baxter quits Steely Dan & joins Doobie Brothers
1975 - 500 drown when 2 river boats collide & sink in China's West River
1975 - Louisiana Superdome is dedicated
1975 - Poland & West germany reach accord about returning ethnic Germans
1975 - Susie Berning wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
1977 - Radio Shack issues a press release introducing TRS-80 computer 25 existed, within weeks
           thousands were ordered
1977 - United States Senate Hearing on MKULTRA.
1979 - Fastest jai-alai shot (188 mph), Jose Arieto at Newport Jai Alai, RI
1979 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1980 - 22nd Olympic games close at Moscow, USSR
1980 - Kaline, Snider, Klein, & Tom Yawkey inducted into Hall of Fame
1980 - Sandra Post wins West Virginia LPGA Golf Classic
1981 - 13,000 Air Traffic Controllers (PATCO) begin their strike
1981 - France performs nuclear test
1981 - Senegalese opposition parties, under the leadership of Mamadou Dia, launch the
           Antiimperialist Action Front-Suxxali Reew Mi.
1982 - Clyde King replaces Gene Michaels as NY Yankee manager
1983 - John Sain of South Bend, Ind builds 3.91 m house of cards
1983 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1984 - 365.7 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
1984 - Bomb attack on Madras India airport, 32 killed
1985 - "Nihilator" set harness pacing mile (1:49.6) in East Rutherford, NJ
1985 - Train crash at Flaujac, France: 35 killed
1986 - Amy Alcott wins LPGA National Golf Pro-Am
1986 - Willie McCovey, Bobby Doerr, & Ernie Lombardi inducted in Hall of Fame
1987 - Chicago Bears beat Dallas Cowboys 17-6 in London, England (NFL expo)
1987 - Discovery in Orbital Processing Facility is powered up for STS-26
1987 - Jack Morris ties AL record with 5 wild pitches in a 4-2 lose
1987 - Twins Joe Niekro is caught with a file on the mound & is ejected
1988 - Skip Storch swims 246 km of Hudson River from Albany to NYC
1989 - 5th jockey to win 6,000 races (Jorge Valesquez)
1989 - Lawrence Delisle drives his 4 kids into river
1989 - Rickey Henderson sets AL mark of 50 steals in 9 seasons
1989 - Cin Reds send record 20 men to bat with a record 16 hits in 1 inning as they score 14 runs in
           1st inning
1990 - "Little Night Music" opens at New York State Theater NYC for 11 perfs
1990 - 98.8°F (37.1°C) in Cheltenham, Glos. (UK record)
1990 - NY Yankee Kevin Mass sets record with 10th HR in 1st 72 at bats
1990 - Radio Kuwait resigns air, due to Iraqi invasion
1990 - US announces commitment of Naval forces to Gulf regions
1990 - For 3rd time in 1990 a no-hitter is broken up with 2 outs in 8th inning. Doug Drabek of Pitts
           still beats Phila 11-0
1991 - Giant Victory, driven by Jack Moiseyev, wins Hambletonian
1991 - Pan Am games open in Havana
1992 - Dodgers win 3,000th game since moving to Los Angeles (3,000-2,531)
1992 - Paramount inaugurates New York Street on TV/movie lot
1994 - 102.4°F (39.1°C) in Tokyo Japan: record
1994 - 1st Jordanian plane to fly over Israeli airspace (King Hussein pilot)
1995 - CNN en Espanol premieres
1996 - General William F. Garrison accepted responsibility for the outcome of the 1993 raid in
           Somalia, and he retired from military service.
1997 - 25th du Maurier Golf Classic: Colleen Walker wins
1997 - BankBoston Senior Golf Classic
1997 - Garth Brooks performs a free concert in Central Park NY for HBO
1997 - Phil Mickelson wins golf's Sprint International
1997 - Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre in Algeria; 40-76 villagers killed.
2001 - The Real IRA detonate a car bomb in Ealing, London, U.K injuring seven people. (See 3
           August 2001 Ealing bombing).
2004 - The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being closed since the September 11,
           2001 attacks.
2005 - President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya of Mauritania is overthrown in a military coup while
           attending the funeral of King Fahd in Saudi Arabia.
2012 - United Nations General Assembly c reproaches The United Nations Security Council over its
           lack of action in Syria

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Post by: MysteRy on August 03, 2013, 07:43:46 AM

This Day in History for 3rd August


Famous Weddings

1932 - Austro-Hungarian-American theatre and film director Otto Preminger (26) weds Marion Mill

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 03, 2013, 07:45:05 AM

This Day in History for 3rd August


Famous Divorces

2012 - Music legend Stevie Wonder (63) divorces fashion designer Kai Millard Morris due to
           irreconcilable differences after 11 years of marriage

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Post by: MysteRy on August 03, 2013, 07:52:44 AM

This Day in History for 3rd August


Famous Birthdays

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Actor Martin Sheen (1940)                Business Magnate and TV Personality              Metallica Rocker
                                                                     Martha Stewart (1941)                        James Hetfield (1963)


1509 - Étienne Dolet, French scholar (d. 1546)
1645 - August Kuhnel, composer
1692 - John Henley, English clergyman (d. 1759)
1748 - Carl Ludwig Junker, composer
1770 - Frederik Willem III, reactionary king of Prussia (1797-1840)
1801 - Joseph Paxton, English landscape architect (Crystal Palace)
1808 - Hamilton Fish, American politician (d. 1893)
1811 - Elisha Graves Otis, inventor (safe elevator)
1816 - John Eugene Smith, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1897
1817 - Albrecht FR, arch duke of Austria (Battle at Custozza)
1818 - HM Jozef Schadde, Flemish architect (New Stock exchange Antwerp)
1820 - Luther Orlando Emerson, composer
1820 - William Miller, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1909
1823 - Thomas Francis Meagher, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1867
1824 - William Burnham Woods, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1832 - Ivan Zajc, composer
1833 - Auguste Schmidt, German teacher/feminist
1847 - Jan de Louter, lawyer/tutor of Dutch Queen Wilhelmina
1850 - Paul A Daum, Dutch writer/founder/editor (Batavian Newspaper)
1850 - Reginald Heber Roe, 2nd Headmaster of Brisbane Grammar School (d. 1926)
1851 - Isabella Caroline Somerset, temperance leader
1854 - Fernand de La Tombelle, composer
1855 - Joe Hunter, Former Australian cricketer (d. 1891)
1856 - Alfred Deakin, 2nd Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1919)
1860 - W. K. Dickson, Scottish inventor (d. 1935)
1867 - Stanley Baldwin, (C) British PM (1923-24, 1924-29, 1935-37)
1871 - Vernon Louis Parrington, author (Romantic Revolution, Pulitzer 1928)
1872 - Haakon VII, Charlottenlund Denmark, King of Norway (1905-57)
1873 - Albert MLA de Bassompierre, Belgian ambassador to Tokyo (1921-39)
1874 - Eugene Baie, Belgian author (Sub rosa et sub umbra)
1878 - Constantino Gaito, composer
1882 - Charles O'Neill, composer
1882 - Segundo Luis Moreno Andrade, composer
1884 - Louis Gruenberg, near Brest Litovsk Poland, composer (Daniel Jazz)
1885 - Naphtali Siegfried Salomon, composer
1887 - Rupert Brooke, British WW I poet (1914)
1892 - Oscar van Hemel, composer
1894 - Harry Heilmann, SF Cal, baseball hall of famer outfielder (Detroit)
1894 - John H van Maarseveen, Dutch minister of Justice/Internal minister
1895 - Marguerite Nichols, American actress (d. 1941)
1898 - Brother Adam [Kehrle], benedictine monk/beekeeper
1899 - Sally Benson, novelist
1899 - Louis Chiron, Monegasque race car driver (d. 1979)
1900 - Arnoldus J N M Struycken, Dutch lawyer
1900 - Ernie Pyle, England, correspondent during WW II
1900 - John T Scopes, Tennessee teacher convicted for teaching evolution
1901 - Bernard Reichel, composer
1901 - John Stennis, (Sen-D-Miss)
1901 - Stefan Wyszynski, Polish cardinal
1902 - Habib Bourguiba, 1st president of Tunisia (1957-87)
1902 - Judson Laire, NYC, actor/singer (Papa-Mama, Adm Broadway Revue)
1902 - Ray Block, France, orchestra leader (Ed Sullivan, Jackie Gleason)
1902 - Regina Jonas, German first woman rabbi (d. 1944)
1904 - Clifford D[onald] Simak, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Empire, Way Station)
1905 - Maggie Kuhn, activist/co-founder (Gray Panthers)
1906 - Leonard Huizinga, Dutch journalist/writer (Adriaan & Olivier)
1907 - Adrienne Ames, Fort Worth TX, actress (Death Kiss, Panama Patrol)
1907 - Ernesto Geisel, politician
1907 - Irene Tedrow, Denver Colorado, actress (Lucy-Dennis the Menace, Mr Novak)
1907 - Lawrence Brown, US trombonist (Duke Ellington Orchestra)
1908 - Dolores del Rio, silent screen actress (Deseada, Bugambilia)
1911 - Karel G Bakker, Dutch actor (Lady Windermere's Fan)
1911 - Alex McCrindle, Scottish actor (d. 1990)
1913 - Mel Tolkin, Ukrainian-born television comedy writer (d. 2007)
1914 - Rick Slabbinck, Flemish painter
1915 - Sal Santen, Dutch writer
1916 - Shakeel Badayuni, Indian poet and lyricist (d. 1970)
1916 - José Manuel Moreno, Argentine footballer (d. 1978)
1917 - Jordan Whitfield, PA, actor (Swamp Fox)
1918 - James MacGregor Burns, political writer (The Lion & the Fox)
1918 - Sidney Gottlieb, American CIA official (d. 1999)
1918 - Larry Haines, American actor (d. 2008)
1920 - Maria Karnilova, Hartford Ct, actress (Olga-Ivan the Terrible)
1920 - P D James, mystery writer (Cover Her Face)
1920 - Phyllis D "P D" James, English thriller writer (Innocent Blood)
1920 - Charlie Shavers, American trumpet player (d. 1971)
1920 - Elmar Tampõld, Estonian-Canadian architect
1921 - Alec Wyton, composer
1921 - Hayden Carruth, Waterbury Ct, novelist (Crow & Heart)
1921 - Marilyn Maxwell, actress (East of Sumatra)
1921 - Richard Adler, NYC composer (Pajama Game, Damn Yankees)
1922 - Robert Sumner, American evangelist and author
1923 - Anne Klein, fashion designer (Anne Klein II)
1923 - Roger Foulon, French/Belgian poet
1923 - Shenouda III of Alexandria, Pope of the Coptic Christianity, (d. 2012)
1924 - Leon Uris, Baltimore, novelist (Exodus, QB VII, Battle Cry)
1924 - Max van der Stoel, Dutch Foreign minister (PvdA)
1926 - Tony Bennett, Queens NY, singer (Left a body part in SF)
1927 - Enrique Pinella, composer
1927 - Gordon Scott, Portland Oregon, actor (Tarzan & the Trappers)
1928 - Cécile Aubry, French actress
1929 - Bethel Leslie, NYC, entertainer (Capt Newman MD, Rabbit Trap)
1930 - James Komack, NYC, writer/director/actor (Courtship of Eddie's Father)
1931 - Alex Cord, [Viespi], NYC, actor (Brotherhood, Fire, Street Asylum)
1932 - Elsa Martinelli, Grosseto Italy, actress (Indian Fighter)
1932 - Mario Montes de Oca, Mexican poet
1933 - Pat Crawford, cricketer (Australian pace bowler 1956)
1933 - The Tjong King, Dutch illustrator of children books (Miep Diekman)
1934 - Haystacks Calhoun, American professional wrestler (d. 1989)
1935 - Georgi Stepanovich Shonin, Odessa USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 6)
1935 - Richard D Lamm, (Gov-D-Colo)
1935 - Vic Vogel, Canadian pianist, composer and bandleader
1936 - Edward Petherbridge, English actor
1937 - Duncan Sharpe, cricketer (3 Tests for Pakistan 1959-60)
1937 - Steven Berkoff, English actor
1937 - Diane Wakoski, Whittier, California, American poet (Motorcycle Betrayal)
1938 - George Memmoli, NYC, actor (Earl-Hello Larry)
1938 - Terry "5 Wigs" Wogan, British talk show host (Irish Days)
1939 - A K Sen Gupta, cricketer (Test India v WI 1959 without distinction)
1940 - John W Carlin, (Gov-D-KS)
1940 - Joseph Dorfman, composer
1940 - Lance Alworth, Houston Texas, NFL hall of famer (Charger, Cowboys)
1940 - Martin Sheen, [Ramon Estevez], NY, actor (Subject Was Roses, Wall St)
1941 - Beverly Lee, Passaic NJ, singer (Shirelles-Soldier Boy)
1941 - Martha Stewart, New Jersey, business magnate and TV personality, founder of Martha
           Stewart Living Omnimedia
1941 - Wayne Hussey, rocker
1945 - Ron Hendren, Pinehurst NC, TV host (Entertainment Tonight)
1945 - Eamon Dunphy, former Irish footballer
1946 - John Klemmer, rocker
1946 - Jack Straw, British politician
1948 - Pierre Lacroix, National Hockey League executive
1949 - Morris "B B" Dickerson, Torrence Ca, bassist (War, Low Rider, Outlaw)
1949 - Reed Waller, American comic book author
1949 - Valeri Vasiliev, Gorky Soviet Union, ice hockey defenceman (2x oly gold), (d. 2012)
1950 - JoMari Payton Noble, Albany GA, actress (Harriette-Family Matters)
1950 - Waldemar Cierpinski, German DR, marathoner (Olympic-gold-1976, 80)
1950 - John Landis, Chicago IL, director (Animal House, Michael Jackson's Thriller video)
1951 - Jon Graham, rock guitarist/vocalist (Earth Wind & Fire-Celebrate)
1951 - Marcel Dionne, Quebec, NHL center (LA Kings, NY Rangers)
1952 - Aleksandr A Volkov, Russian colonel/cosmonaut
1952 - Jay North, North Hollywood California, actor (Dennis the Menace, Maya)
1952 - Wojtek Fibak, Poland, tennis star
1952 - Osvaldo Ardiles, Argentine soccer player
1952 - Frank Schaeffer, American author
1952 - Loles León, Spanish actress
1954 - Denise Craig, WBL forward (Dayton Rockettes, NY Stars)
1954 - Gary Peters, English footballer
1955 - Corey Burton, American voice actor
1956 - Kirk Brandon, rocker (Theatre of Hate, Spear of Destiny-Outland)
1956 - Abhisit Vejjajiva, Thai politician
1957 - Mani Shankar, Indian film maker
1958 - Cindy Nixon, Nashville Tenn, singer (Girls Next Door-Don't Be Cruel)
1958 - Ana Kokkinos, Greek-Australian film director
1959 - Martin Atkins, rocker
1959 - Victoria Jackson, Miami Fla, actress (Casual Sex, Saturday Night Live, UHF)
1959 - Koichi Tanaka, Japanese scientist, Nobel laureate
1960 - Gopal Sharma, Indian cricket off-spinner (2 Tests 1984-85)
1960 - Tim Mayotte, Springfield Mass, tennis player (Olympic-silver-1988)
1961 - Ken Wark, Australian field hockey fullback (Oly-4th/silver-88, 92, 96)
1961 - Lee Rocker, [Leon Drucker], rock bassist (Stray Cats-Gonna Ball)
1961 - Molly Hagan, American actress
1962 - Alberto Tous, Spain, tennis star
1962 - Lucky Dube, South African reggae singer
1962 - Tina Lehtola, Finland, women's ski jumper (world's record holder)
1963 - Carlo Imperato, Bronx, actor (Fame)
1963 - James Hetfield, Downey California, heavy metal rocker (Metallica-Helpless)
1963 - Libor Pimek, Czech, tennis star
1963 - Kyoko Chan Cox, American musician, daughter of Yoko Ono
1963 - Isaiah Washington, American actor
1964 - Joan E Higginbotham, Chicago Il, astronaut
1964 - Johnny Thomas, NFL cornerback (Cleveland Browns, San Diego Chargers)
1964 - Kevin Elster, San Pedro CA, infielder (Texas Rangers)
1964 - Nate McMillan, NBA guard/forward (Seattle Supersonics)
1966 - Christine Richters, Fullerton Ca, playmate (May, 1986)
1966 - Eric Esch, American boxer
1967 - John Femia, Brooklyn New York, American actor (Square Pegs, Hello Larry)
1968 - Rod Beck [Rodney Roy], Burbank, California, American MLB relief pitcher (SF Giants-1994 NL
           Rolaids Relief Man of the Year)
1969 - Doug Overton, NBA guard (Phila 76ers, Denver Nuggets)
1970 - Darren Mickell, NFL defensive end (KC Chiefs, NO Saints)
1970 - Masahiro Sakurai, Japanese video game developer
1970 - Stephen Carpenter, American musician (Deftones)
1971 - Moira C Dunn, Utica NY, LPGA golfer (1995 SAFECO Classic-6th)
1971 - Forbes Johnston, Scottish footballer (d. 2007)
1972 - Alain Bolduc, Montreal Quebec, yachter (Olympics-96)
1972 - Jeff Nygaard, Madison Wisc, volleyball middle blocker (Olympics-96)
1972 - John Lilley, Wakefield Mass, US hockey forward (Olympics-1994)
1972 - Sandis Ozolinsh, Riga Lat, NHL defenseman (Colorado Avalanche)
1972 - Travis Hall, defensive tackle (Atlanta Falcons)
1973 - Kari Litton, Pontotoc Miss, Miss America (Mississippi-Top 10-1997)
1973 - Kurt Grote, US, 100m/200m breaststroke (Olympics-6th-96)
1973 - Nikos Dabizas, Greek footballer
1973 - Patrick Wilson, American actor
1973 - Jay Cutler, American bodybuilder
1974 - Blaine Wilson, Columbus Ohio, gymnast (Olympics-5th-96)
1974 - Jenny Beck, actress (Claire Carroll-Guns & Paradise)
1975 - Ndukwe Kalu, defensive end (Philadelphia Eagles)
1975 - Trevor Pryce, NFL defensive tackle (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1975 - Aryiro Strataki, Greek heptathlete
1975 - Chris Nevin, Former New Zealand cricketer
1976 - Sarybel Velila, Miss Universe-Puerto Rico (1996)
1976 - Troy Glaus, Tarzana CA, baseball infielder (Olympics-bronze-96)
1977 - Tom Brady, American football player
1977 - Tómas Lemarquis, Icelandic actor
1977 - Óscar Pereiro, Spanish cyclist
1978 - Mariusz Jop, Polish footballer
1979 - Kris Jenkins, American football player
1979 - Evangeline Lilly, Canadian model/actress
1980 - Brandan Schieppati, American singer (Bleeding Through)
1980 - Dominic Moore, Canadian ice hockey player
1983 - Mamie Gummer, American actress '
1984 - Jon Foster, American actor
1984 - Amanda Kimmel, American beauty queen
1984 - Yasin Avci, Danish footballer
1984 - Sunil Chetri, Indian Footballer
1984 - Ryan Lochte, American swimmer
1985 - Sonny Bill Williams, New Zealand rugby league footballer
1986 - Charlotte Casiraghi, daughter of Princess Caroline of Monaco
1987 - Brooklyn Decker, American fashion model
1993 - Yurina Kumai, Japanese singer

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Post by: MysteRy on August 03, 2013, 07:56:58 AM

This Day in History for 3rd August


Famous Deaths

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Novelist Joseph Conrad (1924)                          Photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson (2004)


808 - P'ang Yun, [Layman P'ang], Exemplary Zen practitioner, dies in China
1387 - Olaf V Haakonsson, King of Denmark (1376-87)/Norway (1380-87), dies
1460 - King James II of Scotland (b. 1430)
1527 - Scaramuccia Trivulzio, Italian cardinal
1530 - Philibert Chalon, prince of Orange/viceroy of Naples, dies
1546 - Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Italian architect (b. 1484)
1546 - Étienne Dolet, French scholar and printer (b. 1509)
1604 - Bernardino de Mendoza, Spanish military commander
1621 - Guillaume du Vair, French writer (b. 1556)
1667 - Francesco Borromini, Swiss sculptor and architect (b. 1599)
1712 - Joshua Barnes, English scholar (b. 1654)
1716 - Sebastian Duron, composer, dies at 56
1720 - Anthonie Heinsius, Dutch statesman (b. 1641)
1721 - Grinling Gibbons, Dutch-born woodcarver (b. 1648)
1761 - Johann Matthias Gesner, German classical scholar (b. 1691)
1773 - Stanisław Konarski, Polish writer (b. 1700)
1779 - Henry Kobell, Dutch painter/cartoonist, dies at 27
1780 - Etienne B de Condillac, French philosopher (sensualism), dies at 64
1784 - Giovanni Battista Martini, composer, dies at 78
1792 - Richard Arkwright, English industrialist and inventor (b. 1732)
1797 - Jeffrey Amherst, English gov-gen of America, dies at 80
1800 - Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch, composer, dies at 63
1802 - Henry DFL, prince of Prussia/general/diplomat, dies
1805 - Christopher Anstey, English writer (b. 1724)
1811 - Sebastiaan C Nederburgh, Dutch dir-gen of East Indies Co, dies at 49
1823 - Jacob A Uitenhage de Mist, Dutch politician/colonial dir, dies at 74
1825 - Ambrogio Minoja, composer, dies at 72
1833 - Stoffel Muller, Dutch sect leader, dies
1835 - Wenzel Muller, composer, dies at 67
1839 - Dorothea von Schlegel, German novelist (b. 1763)
1857 - Eugène Sue, French novelist (b. 1804)
1867 - Philipp August Böckh, German scholar and antiquarian (b. 1785)
1877 - Karl Georg Lickl, composer, dies at 75
1879 - Joseph Severn, English painter (b. 1793)
1886 - Per August Olander, composer, dies at 62
1890 - Louise Ackermann-Choquet, French author (Journal), dies at 76
1894 - George Inness, US landscape painter (Delaware Water Gap), dies at 69
1902 - August Friedrich Martin Klughardt, composer, dies at 54
1907 - August Saint-Gaudens, Irish/US sculptor (Mrs Henry Adams), dies at 59
1910 - Nicolas Kinet, Belgian pilot, dies
1916 - Roger Casement, Irish nationalist (Easter uprising 1916), executed 51
1918 - Albert P Hahn, Dutch political cartoonist (Het Volk), dies at 41
1924 - Joseph Conrad, Polish/British writer (Heart of Darkness), dies at 66
1925 - William Bruce, cricketer (drowns 14 Tests for Australia 1885-95), dies
1929 - Thorstein Veblen, American economist (b. 1857)
1929 - Emil Berliner, German-born telephone and recording pioneer (b. 1851)
1933 - Arthur Collins, singer/comedian (Peerless Quartet), dies at 69
1934 - Carl F baron von Langen-Parow, German equestrian (Olympic-gold-1928)
1938 - Alexander Malyschkin, writer, dies
1939 - Eugust Enna, composer, dies at 80
1940 - Willard Hershberger, catcher (Cin Reds), commits suicide
1944 - Felix Nussbaum, German painter (Widerstandskunst), dies in Auschwitz
1944 - Felka Platek, wife of painter Felix Nussbaum, dies in Auschwitz
1948 - Albert F Pollard, Brit historian (Evolution of parliament), dies at 78
1951 - Neville Tufnell, cricket wicket keeper (Test for England 1910), dies
1954 - Colette, [Sidonie-Gabrielle], French novelist (Vagabonde), dies at 81
1957 - "Black Jack" Bouvier, father of Jacqueline Kennedy, dies of cancer
1958 - Peter Collins, English race car driver (b. 1931)
1964 - Flannery O'Connor, writer (Good Man is Hard to Find), dies at 39
1966 - Lenny Bruce, comedian, dies of a morphine overdose at 39
1968 - Constantine Rokossovski, vice-premier of Poland (1952-56), dies at 71
1973 - Ariantje "Jeanne" Leg, actress (It Vijgeblaadje/It Hippie), dies at 84
1973 - Richard Marshall, U.S. Army general (b. 1895)
1974 - Almira Sessions, actress (Oklahoma Annie), dies at 85
1975 - Ruth Lee, actress (Middleton Family at 1939 World's Fair), dies at 79
1977 - Alfred Lunt, actor (Guardsman, Sally of Sawdust), dies at 83
1977 - Makarios III, [Michail Mouskos], archbishop/pres (Cyprus), dies at 63
1978 - Ezzedin Kalak, Palestinian PLO representative in Paris, murdered
1979 - Renato Fasano, composer, dies at 76
1979 - Bertil Ohlin, Swedish economist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1899)
1981 - Robert Peci, Italian brother of Red Brigade leader, murdered
1983 - Carolyn Jones, actress (Morticia-Addams Family), dies at 54 of cancer
1986 - Paul [Saul] de Groot, chairman Dutch Communist party, dies at 87
1986 - Rupert de Smidt, cricketer (Western Province 1911-13), dies at 102
1986 - Willem Ruis, Dutch TV host (Willem Ruis Show), dies at 41
1990 - Florida Edwards, dies of pneumonia at 79
1992 - Wang Hongwen, vice-President Chinese Comm Party (1973-76), dies
1993 - James Donald, actor (In Which We Serve, Way Ahead), dies at 76
1994 - Carel van Dillen, resistance fighter, dies at 77
1994 - Christy Henrich, US turnster, dies of anorexia nervosa at 22
1994 - Innokenti Smoktunovski, Russian actor (Hamlet), dies at 69
1994 - John Hidalgo Moya, architect, Designer of Skylon, dies at 74
1994 - John van Raay, [John Oradi], radio-imitator (Paul Flanders)
1995 - Carl Donnell "Kansas" Fields, drummer, dies at 79
1995 - Harry Craft, baseball manager, dies at 80
1995 - Ida Lupino, actress/director (Hard Way, High Sierra), dies at 77
1995 - Jose B M Barreto y Casanova, pianist vocalist bandleader, dies at 88
1995 - Marcus Chenault, killer of Martin Luther King Jr's mother, dies at 54
1995 - Edward Whittemore, American writer (b. 1933)
1996 - Guido Alberti, literary patron/businessman, dies at 87
1997 - Pietro Rizzuto, Canadian politician (b. 1934)
1998 - Alfred Schnittke, Russian composer (b. 1934)
2001 - Christopher Hewett, British actor (b. 1922)
2002 - Carmen Silvera, British actress (b. 1922)
2003 - Roger Voudouris, American singer and songwriter (b. 1954)
2004 - Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer, dies at 95
2005 - Françoise d'Eaubonne, French feminist (b. 1920)
2006 - Arthur Lee, American psychedelic rock musician (b. 1945)
2006 - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, singer (b. 1915)
2007 - John Gardner, British author (b. 1926)
2008 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer, dies at 89
2008 - Skip Caray, American TV and radio broadcaster (b. 1939)
2011 - Bubba Smith, American football player and actor (b. 1945)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 04, 2013, 10:33:19 AM

This Day in History for 4th August


Historical Events

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First US President                                      Murderer Lizzie Borden                        British war time Prime Minister
George Washington                                                                                                Winston Churchill

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Jewish Victim & Diarist of the                 Anti-apartheid activist/                         Rock Vocalist Robert Plant
Holocaust Anne Frank                              South African President
                                                                Nelson Mandela

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Olympic Sprinter and Long jumper       Radio shock jock Howard Stern             Baseball Player Darryl Strawberry
Carl Lewis


1181 - Supernova seen in Cassiopia
1265 - Battle at Evesham: English prince Edward beats Simon de Montfort the younger
1347 - English troops conquer Ft Calais
1351 - Sea battle at Zwartewaal: Willem V beats Hoeksen & English
1558 - 1st printing of Zohar (Jewish Kabbalah)
1578 - Battle of Alcazarquivir, Moroccans defeat Portuguese, 10,000 killed
1598 - London's head office of Hanze closed
1636 - Johan Mauritius appointed governor of Dutch Brazil
1666 - Hurricane hits Guadeloupe, Martinique & St Christopher; thousands die
1666 - Sea battle between Netherlands & England
1693 - Date traditionally ascribed to Dom Perignon's invention of Champagne
1695 - French garrison of surrenders to Willem III
1704 - War of Spanish Succession, English & Dutch troops occupy Gibraltar
1730 - Crown prince Frederick of Prussia escapes to England
1735 - Jury acquits John Zenger (NY Weekly Journal) charged with seditious libel by royal governor of
           NY (victory for Freedom of press)
1753 - George Washington becomes a master mason
1777 - Retired British cavalry officer Philip Astley establishes 1st circus
1789 - French National Meeting ending feudal system
1790 - US Coast Guard founded as Revenue Cutter Service
1791 - The Treaty of Sistova is signed, ending the Ottoman-Habsburg wars.
1821 - 1st edition of Saturday Evening Post (publishes until 1969)
1824 - Battle of Kos is fought between Turks and Greeks.
1830 - Plans for city of Chicago laid out
1854 - The Hinomaru is established as the official flag to be flown from Japanese ships.
1855 - John Bartlett publishes "Familiar Quotations"
1862 - US government collects its 1st income tax
1864 - Land & naval action new Brazos Santiago, Texas
1870 - British Red Cross Society forms
1873 - Indian Wars: whilst protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the United States 7th
           Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer, clashes for the first time with
           the Sioux (near the Tongue River; only one man on each side is killed).
1879 - Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Aeterni Patris
1881 - 122°F (50°C), Seville, Spain (European record)
1886 - Colombia adopts constitution
1892 - Queen Wilhelmina & Emma open Merwede Canal between Amsterdam-Rhine
1892 - Sunday school teacher Lizzie Borden arrested in Fall River, Mass
1897 - Henry A Rucker appointed Collector of Internal Revenue for Georgia
1902 - The Greenwich foot tunnel under the River Thames opens.
1903 - Cardinal Giuseppe Sarto of Venice elected Pope Pius X
1909 - Ump Tim Hurst instigates a riot by spitting at A's 2nd baseman Eddie Collins, who had
           questioned a call, this leads to Hurst's banishment
1910 - A's Jack Coombs & White Sox Ed Walsh pitch a 16 inn scoreless tie
1914 - German army shoots Belgian priests/burns down village of Battice
1914 - German fleet under admiral Souchon fire on Algerian coast
1914 - Germany declares war on Belgium; Britain declares war on Germany
1914 - King Albert I becomes supreme commander of Belgian army
1914 - Lord Kitchener becomes British minister of War
1914 - US declares neutrality in WW I
1916 - Denmark cedes Danish West Indies, including the Virgin Islands, to the US for $25 million
1917 - Pravda calls for killing all capitalists, priests & officers
1922 - Female 1st baseman Lizzie Murphy plays on AL all-star team
1925 - 1st Dutch Colijn government forms
1925 - US marines leave Nicaragua after 13-year occupation
1929 - 60,000 SA'ers/SS'ers march by Munich
1929 - Indians, in 9th with 2 outs score 9 to beat Yanks 14-6
1929 - Jones Beach in NY opens
1930 - Child labor laws estralished in Belgium
1934 - NY Giants Mel Ott sets record of 6 runs in game & beats Phillies 21-4
1936 - Ioannis Metaxas names himself dictator of Greece
1941 - Dodger Mickey Owens is 1st to catch 3 foul flies in an inning (3rd)
1941 - Winston Churchill departs on Prince of Wales to US
1942 - 1st train with Jews departs Mechelen Belgium to Auschwitz
1942 - British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Cairo
1942 - Col-gen Jeremenko arrives in Stalingrad/welcomed by Nikita Khrushchev
1942 - German occupier orders all Dutch homing pigeons killed
1943 - British premier Churchill travels on the Queen Mary to Canada
1943 - Russian units reach suburbs of Orel
1943 - USAF bombs Germans in Troina
1944 - Anne Frank arrested in Amsterdam by German Security Police (Grüne Polizei) following a tip-
           off from an informer who was never identified
1944 - British 8th army reaches suburbs of Florence Italy
1945 - Golfer Byron Nelson records most tournament wins (18) in a season
1945 - Red Sox Tom McBride is 3rd to get 6 RBIs in an inning (4th)
1946 - 1946 Dominican Republic earthquake: an earthquake of magnitude 8.0 hits northern
           Dominican Republic. 100 are killed and 20,000 are left homeless.
1947 - The Supreme Court of Japan is established.
1948 - 5 day Southern States filibuster succeeds in maintaining America's poll tax
1949 - NBL & NBAA merge into National Basketball Association
1953 - Black families move into Trumbull Park housing project in Chicago
1953 - Vic Raschi sets pitcher record by driving in 7 runs & wins 15-0
1954 - Boscombe Down 1st flight of supersonic P-1 Lightning
1954 - The Government of Pakistan approves the National Anthem, written by Hafeez Jullundhry and
           composed by Ahmed G. Chagla.
1955 - Eisenhower authorizes $46 million for construction of CIA headquarters
1956 - 1st motorcycle rode over 200 mph (Wilhelm Herz-210 mph/338 kph)
1956 - Elvis Presley releases "Hound Dog"
1956 - Indonesia says it will not pay debts to the Netherlands
1958 - Dumont TV Network crumbles
1959 - "Billy Barnes Revue" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 87 perfs
1960 - Rocket propelled USAAF research aircraft sets record at 2,150 MPH
1961 - 108°F, Spokane, WA
1961 - 28th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Philadelphia 28, All-Stars 14 (66,000)
1962 - Nelson Mandela captured by South African police
1963 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Milwaukee Jaycee Golf Open
1964 - Civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman & James E Chaney, bodies
           discovered in an earthen Mississippi dam
1964 - North Vietnamese torpedos US ships Gulf of Tonkin
1965 - Cook Islands enters into free association with New Zealand
1967 - 34th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 27, All-Stars 0 (70,934)
1967 - British pirate radio station Radio 355 resigns air
1967 - Shortwave group ANARC's 1st convention (Chicago)
1967 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1968 - 100,000 attend Newport Pop Festival, Costa Mesa, Calif
1968 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Gino Paoli Golf Open
1968 - WXTV TV channel 41 in New York-Paterson, NY (UNI) begins broadcasting
1969 - Willie Stargell is 1st to hit a HR outside of Dodger Stadium
1970 - Jim Morrison arrested for drunkenness
1971 - US launches 1st satellite into lunar orbit from manned spacecraft
1972 - Arthur Bremer jailed for 63 years for shooting Alabama Gov Wallace
1974 - Crawford-Butler Act allows Puerto Ricans to elect own governor
1974 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA George Washington Golf Classic
1975 - Robert Plant is involved in a car crash in Rhodes
1976 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1977 - Pres Carter establishes Dept of Energy
1977 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1979 - Italian government of Cossiga begins
1979 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1980 - -11] Hurricane Aline, kills 272 in Texas & Caribbean
1980 - John & Yoko begin recording "Double Fantasy"
1980 - Seattle Mariners replace manager Darrell Johnson with Maury Wills
1981 - Columbia mated with SRBs & external tank for STS-2 mission
1981 - Oliver North is assigned to White House duty
1982 - NY Met Joel Youngblood singles in Chicago day game, he is traded, then singles for Expos in
           Philadelphia night game
1983 - Bettino Craxi sworn in as premier of Italy
1983 - France performs nuclear test
1983 - Revolution in Burkina Faso
1983 - While warming up before 5th inning Yankee Dave Winfield accidentally kills a seagull
1984 - Carl Lewis wins gold medal in 100-meter dash at LA Summer Olympics
1984 - Cliff Johnson sets a record with his 19th pinch hit HR
1984 - Prince's "Purple Rain," album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 24 weeks
1984 - Republic of Upper Volta becomes Bourkina Faso (National Day)
1985 - "Dreamgirls" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 1522 performances
1985 - California Angel Rod Carew gets his 3,000th hit
1985 - Penny Hammel wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic
1985 - Phil Rizzuto Day, Yanks retire #10
1985 - Rod Carew, is 16th to get 3,000 hits
1985 - White Sox Tom Seaver is 17th to win #300, beating Yankees
1986 - OPEC lowers oil production 20%
1987 - At the Kingdome, Ruppert Jones hits a foul ball that sticks in speaker
1987 - FCC vote 4-0 to rescind fairness doctrine for broadcasters
1988 - Congress votes $20,000 to each Japanese-American interned in WW II
1988 - Hertz car rental will pay out $23 million in consumer fraud case
1989 - Blue Jays Dave Steib's perfect game broken up in 9th with 2 outs by NY Yankee Roberto Kelly
1990 - 95.5°F (35.3°C) in De Bilt Neth (highest Aug temp in Neth)
1990 - European community proposes a boycott of Iraq
1991 - 1st time Seattle Mariners are 9 games over .500
1991 - Deb Richard wins LPGA Phar-Mor in Youngstown Golf Tournament
1991 - The Greek cruise ship Oceanos sinks off the Wild Coast of South Africa.
1993 - Angolese air force bombs Huambo
1993 - Rwandian Hutu's & Tutsi's sign peace treaty in Arusha
1993 - Tony Gwynn gets 6 hits, 4th time in 1993 a Padre gets 5 or more hits
1994 - Dwingeloo 1, near milky way system, discovered
1994 - Howard Stern drops out of NY gubernatorial race
1994 - Truck carrying millions of bees overturns on NY parkway
1995 - Darryl Strawberry joins the NY Yankees
1995 - Operation Storm begins in Croatia.
1996 - 24th du Maurier Golf Classic: Laura Davies
1996 - 26th Olympic games close at Atlanta, Georgia (sched)
1996 - J Bunning, E Weaver, B Foster, & N Hanlon inducted in Hall of Fame
1997 - "Keenan Ivory Wayan Show," premieres on Fox TV
1997 - 185,000 Teamsters union United Parcel Service drivers walk off the job.
2002 - Soham murders: 10 year old school girls Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells go missing from
           the town of Soham, Cambridgeshire.
2005 - Prime Minister Paul Martin announces that Michaëlle Jean will be Canada's 27th — and first
           black — Governor General.
2006 - Dame Silvia Cartwright steps down as the Governor-General of New Zealand and is replaced
           by The Honourable Anand Satyanand, who is sworn in on 23 August.
2007 - NASA's Phoenix spaceship is launched.
2010 - California's Proposition 8, the ballot initiative prohibiting same-sex marriage passed by the
           state's voters in 2008, was overturned by Judge Vaughn Walker in the case Perry v.
           Schwarzenegger.
2012 - 45 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Abyan, Yemen
2012 - South African Oscar Pistorius becomes first amputee to compete at the Olympics

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 04, 2013, 10:34:56 AM

This Day in History for 4th August


Famous Weddings

1847 - Author of Moby Dick, American novelist Herman Melville (28) marries Elizabeth Shaw, daughter
           of Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
1964 - Jazz saxophonist and composer John Coltrane (35) weds Alice Macleod
1970 - "The Beach Boys" drummer Dennis Wilson (25) weds Barbara Charren (24)
1988 - Kevin Bacon marries Kyra Sedgwick
1994 - American rapper The Notorious B.I.G (22) weds Faith Evans
2001 - "James Bond" actor Pierce Brosnan (49) weds TV host and journalist Keely Shaye Smith (37)
           at the 785-year-old Ballintubber Abbey in County Mayo, Ireland
2001 - "Northern Exposure" actor Joshua Morrow (27) weds Tobe Keeney
2006 - Former Miss Ireland Andrea Roche (30) weds PJ Mansfield at Church of The Nativity of the
           Blessed Mary in Saggart Village, Dublin
2012 - Actress Natalie Portman (31) weds ballet dancer and choreographer Benjamin Millepied (35) in
           Big Sur, California

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 04, 2013, 10:51:01 AM

This Day in History for 4th August


Famous Birthdays

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Luggage Maker                                       Consort of George VI &                  Jazz Musician Louis Armstrong (1901)
Louis Vuitton (1821)                               mother of Queen Elizabeth II 
                                                                   Queen Elizabeth,
                                                               the Queen Mother (1900)

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44th US President Barack Obama (1961)


1222 - Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford, English soldier (d. 1262)
1290 - Duke Leopold I of Austria (d. 1326)
1502 - Pieter Coecke van Aelst, Flemish painter/carpet designer
1521 - Pope Urban VII (d. 1590)
1604 - François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac, French writer (d. 1676)
1664 - Louis Lully, composer
1687 - Johan Willem Friso, prince of Orange/monarch of Nassau-Dietz [OS]
1701 - Thomas Blackwell, Scottish classical scholar (d. 1757)
1705 - Vaclav Matyas Gurecky, composer
1719 - Johann Gottlob Lehmann, German minerologist and geologist (d. 1767)
1721 - Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford, English politician (d. 1803)
1731 - Giuseppe Colla, composer
1748 - Maximilian Stadler, composer
1755 - Nicolas-Jacque Conte, inventor (modern pencil)
1776 - Wenzel Sedlak, composer
1792 - Percy Bysshe Shelley, England, romantic poet (Adonais)
1799 - Olof Wilhelm Udden, composer
1805 - William Rowan Hamilton, Irish mathematician (d. 1865)
1816 - Israel Vogdes, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1889
1818 - Lovell Harrison Rosseau, Major General (Union volunteers)
1821 - James White, American theologian (d. 1881)
1821 - Louis Vuitton, Anchay France, Founder of the leather goods company
1823 - Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton, (Gov-Ind), died in 1877
1825 - Arthur Haygarth, cricketer (Middlesex & Surrey bat, famous biographer)
1834 - John Venn, English mathematician (d. 1923)
1839 - Walter Pater, London England, writer (Plato & Platoism)
1843 - Flor van Duyse, composer
1846 - Silas Gamaliel Pratt, composer
1848 - Vladimir Sukhomlinov, Russian general (d. 1926)
1859 - Knut Hamsun, Norway, writer/Nazi (Hunger-Nobel 1920)
1865 - Gus Kempis, South African cricketer (d. 1890)
1867 - Jake Beckley, American baseball player (d. 1918)
1870 - Harry Lauder, Scotland, comedian/singer (Roamin' in the Gloamin)
1873 - Damasco Berenguer y Fuste, Spanish general/minister of War
1877 - Dame Laura Knight, Long Eaton UK, Impressionist artist
1884 - Henri Cornet, French cyclist (d. 1941)
1888 - Philip Greeley Clapp, composer
1888 - Syedna Taher Saifuddin, Bohra spiritual leader (d. 1965)
1890 - Erich Weinert, writer
1890 - Dolf Luque, Cuban baseball player (d. 1957)
1892 - Johanna Bordewijk-Roepman, composer
1897 - Joseph Calleia, Malta, actor (Jungle Book, Gilda, Touch of Evil)
1899 - Ezra Taft Benson, 13th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d.
           1994)
1900 - Arturo Umberto Illia, pres of Argentina (1963-66)
1900 - Douglas L Mays, cartoonist (Punch)
1900 - Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, London or Hitchin, Queen Mother of England, King George VI&#039;s
           wife, (d. 2002)
1901 - Louis Armstrong, New Orleans Louisiana, jazz trumpeter (Hello Dolly), (d. 1971)
1901 - Clarence Passailaigue, Jamaican cricketer (d. 1972)
1902 - Wild Bill Hallahan, American baseball player (d. 1981)
1903 - Helen Kane, [Schroeder], Bronx NY, actress (Heads Up, Pointed Heels)
1904 - Theodore Newton, NJ, actor (Ace of Aces, Voltaire)
1904 - Witold Gombrowicz, Polish author (Ferdydurke, Pornography)
1904 - Joe Tate, English footballer (d. 1973)
1905 - Michael Scott Montague Fordham, Jungian analyst/educator
1906 - Marie-Jose von Saksen-Coburg, Belgian Princess
1908 - Kurt Eichhorn, conductor
1908 - Leslie Wilkinson, journalist
1908 - Osbert Lancaster, English cartoonist/author (Daily Express)
1909 - Glenn Cunningham, US middle distance runner (1930's)
1909 - Roberto Burle Marx, landscape gardener
1909 - Saunders Mac Lane, American mathematician (d. 2005)
1910 - William H Schuman, NYC, composer (Amer Festival Overture, Juilliard)
1910 - Anita Page, American actress (d.2008)
1910 - Hedda Sterne, Bucharest Romania, artist working in America
1912 - David Raksin, Phila Penns, composer (Modern Times)
1912 - Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish diplomat in WW II (saved 10,000s of Jews)
1912 - Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Russian mathematician, physicist, philosopher, and
           mountaineer (d. 1999)
1913 - Wesley Addy, Omaha Neb, actor (Bostonians, Loving)
1913 - Robert Hayden, American poet (d. 1980)
1914 - Rik Slabbinck, Flemish painter
1915 - Irving Fields, NYC, pianist (Ilona Massey Show)
1915 - Warren Avis, American entrepreneur (d. 2007)
1918 - Iceberg Slim (a.k.a. Robert Beck), American author (d. 1992)
1920 - Helen Thomas, UPI journalist (starts press conferences)
1921 - Maurice "Rocket" Richard, Montreal Canadien (MVP-1947)
1923 - Arthur Butterworth, composer
1923 - Reg Grundy, Australian media and television mogul
1923 - Mushtaq Ahmad Yusufi, Pakistani satirical and humor writer
1927 - Jess Thomas, American tenor (d. 1993)
1928 - Udham Singh, India, field hockey player (Olympic-gold-1952, 56, 64)
1928 - Christian Goethals, Belgian racing driver (d. 2003)
1929 - Kishore Kumar, Indian singer and actor (d. 1987)
1930 - David M G Curry, South African Labour Party parliament leader
1930 - John Gorman, printer/socialist historian
1930 - Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iranian shia cleric
1931 - Narendra Tamhane, dependable Indian cricket wicketkeeper (1950's)
1933 - Nathan Eugene Brooks, Cleve Oh, flyweight boxer (Olympic-gold-1952)
1933 - Rudi van Dantzig, Dutch choreographer/ballet dancer (Painted Birds)
1934 - Dallas Green, baseball manager (Phillies, Yankees)
1934 - Jonas Savimbi, Angolian leader of Unita
1934 - Rutger Kopland, [Rutger van den Hoofdakker], Dutch poet
1936 - Elsberry Hobbs, rocker (Drifters)
1936 - Assia Djebar, Algerian writer and filmmaker
1937 - David Vickerman Bedford, composer
1937 - Jacobus H "Koos" van de Merwe, S Afr attorney/CP parliament leader
1938 - Ellen Schrecker, American college professor
1939 - Frankie Ford, [Frank Guzzo], Gretna La, rock vocalist (Sea Cruise)
1939 - Frank Vincent, American actor
1940 - Karel Vachek, director (Moravska Hellas, Elective Affinities)
1940 - Rosemarie "Timi" Yuro, US singer (Hurt)
1940 - Abdurrahman Wahid, 4th President of Indonesia
1941 - Quincey Daniels, Biloxi Miss, boxer (Olympic-bronze-1960)
1941 - Ted Strickland, (Rep-D-Ohio)
1941 - Martin Jarvis, English actor
1942 - David Russell Lange, PM (L) NZ (1984-89)
1942 - Cleon Jones, American baseball player
1943 - David Carr, rock keyboardist (Fortunes Leyton, London
1943 - Michael J McCulley, San Diego California, Cmdr USN/astronaut (STS-34)
1943 - Rodney Stuart Pattison, British yachtsman (Olympics)
1943 - Tina Cole, Hollywood, singer (King Cousins)/actress (Katie-My 3 Sons)
1943 - Bjørn Wirkola, Norwegian ski jumper
1944 - Richard Belzer, KOed by Hulk Hogan/comedian (How to be a Stand Up)
1945 - Fred Hansen, US, pole vaulter (Olympic-gold-1964)
1945 - John Qace Hardbattle, political activist
1946 - Maureen Cox Starkey, 1st wife of Beatle Ringo Starr
1947 - Kenneth Dryden, NHL goalie (Montreal Canadiens, 6 Stanley Cups)
1947 - Paul Leyton, rocker (Seekers)
1947 - Klaus Schulze, German composer
1948 - James C Slattery, (Rep-D-Kansas, 1983- )
1949 - John Riggins, NFL running back (NY Jets, Wash Redskins)
1951 - Lane Evans, (Rep-D-IL, 1983- )
1952 - Bobby Buntrock, Denver Colorado, actor (Harold Baxter-Hazel)
1952 - Daniel Bautista, Mexico, 20k walker (Olympic-gold-1976)
1952 - Kristoffer Tabori, [Siegel], Los Angeles California, actor (Rappaccini&#039;s Daughter)
1952 - Gábor Demszky, Hungarian politician
1952 - Moya Brennan, Irish singer
1954 - Janet Coles, LPGA golfer
1955 - Andrew M Allen, Phila Pa, Captain USMC/astronaut (STS 46, 62, 75)
1955 - Billy Bob Thornton, actor (Sling Blade)
1955 - Charles D "Sam" Gemar, Yankton SD, army/astronaut (STS 38, 48, 62)
1955 - Alberto Gonzales, American U.S. Attorney General
1957 - Robert E Andrews, (Rep-D-New Jersey)
1957 - Brooks D. Simpson, American historian
1957 - John Wark, Scottish footballer
1958 - Greg Foster, Maywood Ill, 110m hurdler (Olympic-silver-1984)
1958 - Mary Decker Tabb Slaney, NJ, olympic track star (mile record 4:16.71)
1958 - Allison Hedge Coke, American poet and writer
1958 - Kym Karath, American actress
1959 - Deedee Lasker, LPGA golfer
1959 - John Gormley, Irish politician
1960 - Robbin Crosby, heavy metal rock guitarist/vocals (Ratt-Round & Round)
1960 - Dean Malenko, American professional wrestler
1960 - Bernard Rose, English director
1960 - Tim Winton, Australian author
1960 - José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Spanish politician
1961 - Barack Obama, Honolulu Hawaii,44th United States President (Democrat) and first African--
           American president
1961 - Lauren Tom, American actress
1962 - Paul Williams, rock guitarist (Flock of Seagulls)
1962 - Roger Clemens, Dayton OH, pitcher (Red Sox, Blue Jays, Cy Young, MVP)
1962 - Paul Reynolds, British musician
1963 - Andrew Bartlett, Australian politician
1964 - B J Surhoff, Bronx NY, infielder (Baltimore Orioles)
1964 - Clyde Simmons, NFL defensive end (Az Cardinals, Jacksonville Jaguars)
1964 - Gary King, British radio presenter
1965 - Crystal Chappell, Silver Spring Md, actress (Carly-Days of our Lives)
1965 - Trena Trice, WNBA forward/center (NY Liberty)
1965 - Dennis Lehane, American crime writer
1965 - Fredrik Reinfeldt, Swedish politician
1966 - Kensuke Sasaki, wrestler (WCW/NJPW/Calgary, Power Warrior)
1967 - Carrie Flemmer, Stettler Alberta, softball catcher (Olympics-96)
1967 - Kembra Pfahler, Hermosa Beach Ca, actress (Gotham Gold)
1967 - Marcelo Filippini, Uruguay, tennis star
1967 - Michael Lawrence Marsh, Los Angeles California, sprinter (Oly-2 gold/silver-92, 96)
1967 - Mike Marsh, US, 200m runner (Olympic-Gold-1992)
1968 - Darcy Arreola, La Mesa California, 1.5k runner
1968 - James Francis, linebacker (Cincinnati Bengals)
1968 - Marcus Schenkenberg, model (Calvin Klein)
1968 - Daniel Dae Kim, American actor
1969 - Lee O'Leary, Compton CA, outfielder (Boston Red Sox)
1969 - Max Cavalera, Brazilian rock vocalist/guitarist (Sepultura)
1969 - Norm Casola, CFL slot back (Toronto Argonauts)
1969 - Michael DeLuise, American actor
1970 - Orlando Trustfull, soccer player (Feyenoord)
1970 - Owen McMahon, Australian 470 class yachter (Olympics-96)
1970 - Steven Jack, cricketer (South African pace bowler 1994-95)
1970 - John August, American screenwriter
1971 - Greg Frers, CFL safety (BC Lions)
1971 - Jeff Gordon, American race car driver
1972 - Stefan Brogren, Canadian actor
1973 - Alex Molden, cornerback (New Orleans Saints)
1973 - Eddie Cade, NFL full safety (NE Patriots)
1973 - Peter Tsekenis, Australian soccer midfielder (Olyroos, Olympics-96)
1973 - Xavier Marchand, French swimmer
1974 - Canute Curtis, linebacker (Cincinnati Bengals)
1974 - Kily González, Argentine footballer
1974 - Keenan Milton, Professional Skater
1975 - Beau Morgan, running back (Dallas Cowboys)
1975 - Kaipo Spenser, Wailuku HI, baseball pitcher (Olympics-bronze-96)
1975 - Andy Hallett, American actor
1975 - Daniella van Graas, Dutch model and actress
1976 - Andrew McLeod, Australian footballer
1977 - Frankie Kazarian, American professional wrestler
1977 - Luís Boa Morte, Portuguese footballer
1978 - Kurt Busch, American race car driver
1979 - Brandi Siegel, Miami Fla, rhythmic gymnast (Olympics-96)
1979 - Robin Peterson, South African cricketer
1980 - Dingdong Dantes, Filipino actor
1980 - Richard Dawson, English cricketer
1981 - Frédérick Bousquet, French swimmer
1981 - Marques Houston, American singer and actor (IMx)
1981 - Ben Scott, English cricketer
1981 - Abigail Spencer, American actress
1985 - Mark Milligan, Australian footballer
1985 - Luis Antonio Valencia, Ecuadorean footballer
1985 - Ha Seung-Jin, Korean basketball player
1989 - Ashley Biggin, American actor
1989 - Jessica Mauboy, Australian singer (Young Divas)
1992 - Cole Sprouse, Arezzo Italy, actor (Patrick Kelly-Grace Under Fire)
1992 - Dylan Sprouse, Arezzo Italy, actor (Patrick Kelly-Grace Under Fire)
1992 - Tiffany Evans, American singer

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 04, 2013, 10:54:58 AM

This Day in History for 4th August


Famous Deaths

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Author                                                Heart surgeon Daniel Williams (1931)
Hans Christian Andersen (1875)


1060 - Henry I, King of France (1027-60), dies at 52
1113 - Gertrude of Saxony (b. 1030)
1204 - Boniface of Montferrat, margrave of Montferrat, murdered
1265 - Simon de Montfort the younger, English Earl of Leicester, dies in battle
1265 - Hugh le Despencer, 1st Baron le Despencer, killed in the Battle of Evesham (b. 1223)
1306 - Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (b. 1289)
1338 - Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk, son of Edward I of England (b. 1300)
1430 - Philip of Saint-Pol, duke of Brabant/Limburg, dies at 26
1476 - Jacob van Armagnac-Pardiac, French duke of Nemours, beheaded
1526 - Juan Sebastian Cano, Spanish explorer, dies
1566 - Girolamo della Robbia, Italian sculptor (Majolica relief), dies
1578 - Sebastiaan, King of Portugal (1557-78), dies in battle at about 24
1578 - Thomas Stucley, English adventurer
1584 - John van Hembyze, South Netherlands Calvinist, dies at 71
1598 - William Cecil 1st baron Burghley, English premier, dies at 77
1612 - Hugh Broughton, English scholar (b. 1549)
1633 - George Abbott, English theologist/archbishop of Canterbury, dies at 60
1639 - Juan R Alarcon y Mendoza, Mexican/Spanish playwright, dies at 58
1666 - Johan Evertsen, ltalian admiral of Zeeland, lynched in Brielle
1708 - Vincenzo De Grandis, composer, dies at 77
1712 - Johann Jacob de Neufville, composer, dies at 27
1718 - René Lepage de Ste-Claire, lord-founder of the town of Rimouski, in New France (b. 1656)
1727 - Victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie, French general (b. 1647)
1741 - Andrew Hamilton, American lawyer
1778 - Pierre de Rigaud, French colonial governor in North America (b. 1698)
1795 - Timothy Ruggles, American-born Tory politician (b. 1711)
1821 - William Floyd, US soldier/signer (Declar of Independence), dies at 86
1844 - Jakob Aall, Norwegian journalist and statesman (b. 1773)
1850 - Frantisek Tucek, composer, dies at 68
1856 - Johann Gottlieb Schneider, composer, dies at 59
1859 - Jean Vianney, French parish priest (b. 1786)
1873 - Viktor Hartmann, Russian painter (b. 1834)
1875 - Hans Christian Andersen, Danish fairy tale writer, dies at 70
1889 - Carl Ludwig Amand Mangold, composer, dies at 75
1891 - George Washington Williams, historian (History of Negro), dies at 41
1900 - Isaac Levitan, Russian painter (b. 1860)
1904 - Arnold Krug, composer, dies at 54
1914 - Jules Lemaître, French critic and dramatist (b. 1853)
1915 - Richard Kiepert, German cartographer (Africa), dies at 68
1919 - D[ave] W Gregory, cricketer (brother of Ned, uncle of Syd), dies
1920 - Vladimir Ivanovich Rebikov, composer, dies at 54
1922 - Enver Pasa, Turkish politician, dies at 40
1925 - Alfons Van de Perre, Flemish physician, dies
1927 - John Dillon, Irish nationalist/British Lower house leader, dies at 75
1930 - Siegfried Wagner, German opera composer, dies at 61
1931 - Daniel H Williams, doctor (pioneer in surgery), dies
1931 - Daniel Williams, American heart surgeon, dies at 73
1936 - Henry Schoenfeld, composer, dies at 78
1938 - L H Perquin, Dutch radio announcer, dies at 73
1938 - Pearl White, US actress/stunt woman (Perils of Pauline), dies at 49
1938 - Rudolf G Binding, German poet/writer, dies at 70
1940 - Vladimir Jabotinsky, founder of Revisionist Zionism, dies
1942 - Alberto Franchetti, composer, dies at 81
1957 - Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa, President of Brazil (b. 1869)
1958 - Ethel Anderson, Australian poet (b. 1883)
1967 - Peter Smith, cricketer (Essex leggie, 3 wickets for England), dies
1973 - Eddie Condon, jazz guitarist (Eddie Condon's Floor Show), dies at 68
1975 - John Baragrey, actor (Gamera), dies at 57
1976 - Enrique Angelelli, Argentine bishop
1976 - Roy Herbert Thomson, Canadian publisher (b. 1894)
1977 - Emil Bloch, German philosopher (Principle Hope, Traces), dies at 92
1981 - Melvyn Douglas, [Hesselberg], actor (Woman's Face, Hud), dies at 80
1982 - Bruce Goff, American Architect (b. 1904)
1984 - Edmond Ryan, actor (Human Monster), dies at 79 of a heart attack
1984 - Mary Miles Minter, actress (Drums of Fate), die at 82 of heart failure
1984 - Walter Burke, actor (Jack the Giant Killer), dies at 75 of emphysema
1985 - Zbynek Vostrak, composer, dies at 65
1987 - Kenny Price, comedian (Midwestern Hayride, Hee Haw), dies at 56
1991 - Nikiforos Vrettakos, Greek poet (Hodyne), dies at 80
1992 - Frantisek Tomasek, archbishop of Prague/cardinal, dies at 93
1992 - Ralph Cooper, creator (Amateur Night at the Apollo), dies of cancer
1993 - Bernard Barrow, actor (Louie-Loving, Johnny-Ryan's Hope), dies
1993 - Kenny Drew, US/Danish jazz pianist (Moonlight Desert), dies at 64
1994 - Giovanni Spadolini, Italian historian/journalist, dies at 69
1994 - Richard Du Cann, lawyer QC, dies at 65
1994 - Sol Adler, economist Sinophile, dies at 85
1995 - Dick Bartell, baseball player, dies at 87
1995 - J Howard Smith Oil Tycoon, dies
1996 - Geoff Hamilton, gardner/journalist, dies at 59
1997 - Jeanne Calment, world's oldest person (Feb 21 1875), dies at 122
1998 - Yuri Artyukhin, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1930)
1999 - Victor Mature, American actor (b. 1913)
2001 - Lorenzo Music, American actor (b. 1937)
2002 - Holly Wells & Jessica Chapman, Soham murder victims (b. 1991, 1991)
2003 - Frederick Chapman Robbins, American Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1916)
2005 - Anatoly Larkin, Russian-American physicist (b. 1932)
2007 - Lee Hazlewood, American country singer, songwriter and producer (b. 1929)
2008 - Craig Jones, English motorcycle racer. (b. 1985)
2009 - Blake Snyder, American screenwriter (b. 1957)
2011 - Naoki Matsuda, Japanese Soccer player (b. 1977)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 05, 2013, 08:40:14 AM

This Day in History for 5th August


Historical Events

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Scottish Patriot William Wallace                   US Civil War Admiral                          Anti-apartheid activist/
                                                                     David Farragut                                   South African President
                                                                                                                               Nelson Mandela

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Clergyman and civil rights activist        Singer-Songwriter Stevie Wonder              Victim of Police Violence
Martin Luther King Jr.                                                                                            Rodney King


135 - Betar last outpost of Bar Kochba falls to Rome
642 - Battle of Maserfield - Penda of Mercia defeats and kills Oswald of Bernicia.
910 - The last major Viking army to raid England is defeated at the Battle of Tettenhall by the allied
         forces of Mercia and Wessex, led by King Edward and Earl Aethelred.
1071 - Emperor Romanos IV Diogenes captured/Islam advances through Europe
1100 - Henry I is crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey.
1264 - Anti-Jewish riots break out in Arnstadt Germany
1305 - William Wallace, who led Scottish resistance to England, is captured by the English near
           Glasgow and transported to London for trial and execution.
1388 - Battle of Otterburn, a border skirmish between the Scottish and the English in Northern
           England.
1391 - Castilian sailors fire attack Jewish ghetto of Barcelona, 100's killed
1399 - Battle at Worskla: Tataren beat Russians & Litouwers
1420 - Duke John VI of Bavaria visits "Christ's bride"/virgin Liduina
1435 - Battle at Ponza: king Alfonso V of Aragon captured by Genuezen
1543 - French & Turkish troops occupy Nice
1583 - Gilbert claims Newfoundland (1st English colony in North America)
1587 - Spanish troops conquer Lock
1654 - French troops occupy Stenay
1666 - English fleet beats Dutch under Michiel the Ruyter
1667 - State of Holland obtain Eternal Edict
1689 - 1,500 Iroquois attack the village of Lachine, in New France.
1716 - Battle of Petrovaradin/Peterwardein: Habsburgs under Eugene of Savoy defeat the Turks
1745 - Skirmish at Laggan: Glengarry beats Royal Scots
1763 - Pontiac's War: Battle of Bushy Run - British forces led by Henry Bouquet defeat Chief
           Pontiac's Indians at Bushy Run.
1772 - 1st partition of Poland, between Austria, Prussia & Russia
1775 - 1st Spanish ship, San Carlos, enters SF Bay
1781 - Battle at Doggers Bank: Dutch fleet vs English fleet
1812 - War of 1812: Tecumseh's Native American force ambushes Thomas Van Horne's 200
           Americans at Brownstone Creek, causing them to flee and retreat.
1837 - 1st ascent of Mt Marcy (5,344') highest in Adirondack, NY
1846 - Oregon country divided between US & Britain at 49th parallel
1858 - Cyrus W Field completes 1st transatlantic telegraph cable
1860 - Carl IV of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Norway, in Trondheim.
1861 - Enlistment increases from 3 months to 2 years
1861 - Naval Engagement at Fernandina, FL-USS Vincennes ends rebel blockade
1861 - US Army abolishes flogging
1861 - US levies its 1st Income Tax (3% of incomes over $800)
1862 - Battle of Baton Rouge, LA
1864 - US Civil War Battle of Mobile Bay won by the Union led by Rear Admiral Farragut with the cry
           &quot;Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!&quot;
1864 - Spectrum of a comet observed for 1st time, by Giovanni Donati
1874 - Japan launches its postal savings system, modeled after a similar system in England.
1877 - Henry Morton Stanley's letter in order to aid reaches Boma at Congo
1882 - Martial law is imposed in Japan.
1882 - Standard Oil of New Jersey is established.
1884 - Cornerstone for Statue of Liberty laid on Bedloe's Island (NYC)
1890 - British & French accord to divide African colonization
1891 - 1st travelers checks issued (American Express)
1901 - Peter O'Connor of Ireland, sets then long jump record at 24' 11 3/4"
1912 - Japan's first taxicab service begins in Ginza, Tokyo.
1914 - 1st traffic light installed (Euclid Ave & E 105th St, Cleveland)
1914 - Cuba, Uruguay, Mexico & Argentina proclaim neutrality in WW I
1914 - Dutch Cort Van de Linden government issues silver bonds as money
1914 - Massive German assault on forts around Luik
1914 - Montenegro declares war against Austria-Hungary in World War I
1914 - US beats Australia, 3-2, to win Davis Cup
1914 - US, Nicaragua sign treaty granting canal rights to US
1914 - Westerschelde leaves due to German invasion in Belgium
1915 - German troops over run Warsaw
1915 - Warsaw, evacuated by the Russians, is occupied by Germans
1917 - British troops attack canal of Ypres in Boesinghe Belgium
1921 - 1st radio baseball broadcast Pirates-8, Phillies-0 (KDKA, Pitts)
1921 - Treaty of Berlin: US & Germany sign separate peace treaty
1923 - 1st American to swim English Channel (Henry Sullivan)
1924 - Comic strip "Little Orphan Annie," by Harold Gray, debuts
1925 - Plaid Cymru is formed with the aim of disseminating knowledge of the Welsh language, which
           is in danger of dying out.
1926 - 1st talkie movie "Don Juan" at Warner Theatre, NY
1926 - French & German trade agreement signed
1926 - Houdini stays in a coffin under water for 1½ hrs before escaping
1927 - Phillies Cy Williams hits for cycle in just 4 at bats
1931 - Det Tiger Tommy Bridges perfect game is broken up with 2 outs in 9th
1936 - At Berlin Olympics, Jesse Owens wins his 3rd Olympic medal
1937 - Ranger (US) beats Endeavour II (England) in 17th America's Cup
1938 - 33rd Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Philadelphia (3-2)
1940 - "Acquaintance" blows-up Zandvoortse synagouge
1940 - St Louis Brown John Whitehead no-hits Detroit Tigers, 4-0 in 6 innings
1942 - British government cancels agreement of Munich
1942 - German troops cross Kuban River
1943 - Sicily: 3 US A-36's bomb British headquarter
1943 - Soviet forces reconquer Orel & Bjelgorod
1943 - World War II: at around 11 A.M during the Battle of Troina, Mount Etna erupts sending ash
           and lava miles into the sky.
1944 - US 79th/90th division occupy Laval/Mayenne
1944 - US troops occupy Vannes Bretagne
1945 - Atom Bomb dropped on Hiroshima (Aug 6th in Japan)
1947 - Netherlands ceases political action in Indonesia, due to UN pressure
1948 - Cleveland Indians set club record for most double plays in a game (6)
1949 - 6.75 Earthquake hits Quito; about 6000 die
1950 - Ezzard Charles KOs Freddie Beshore to retain HW boxing title
1951 - Armed uprising in Ambonezen Camp Middelburg
1953 - Operation "Big Switch" Korean War prisoner exchanged at Panmunjom
1954 - Boxing Hall of Fame's 1st election selects 24 modern & 15 pioneers
1954 - Patty Berg wins LPGA World Golf Championshio
1955 - After playing 274 straight games at 2nd base, Nellie Fox is given a day off he comes back
           next 798 consecutive games
1956 - KUAM TV channel 8 in Agana, GU (CBS/ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
1956 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA All American Golf Open
1956 - WCYB TV channel 5 in Bristol-Kingsport, VA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1957 - "American Bandstand," begins network TV (ABC)
1957 - Comic strip "Andy Capp" made its debut
1957 - WJZ-TV in Baltimore MD begins radio transmissions
1957 - Bkln Sports Authority gets an engineering report on 50,000-seat stadium in downtown area
           for estimated $207 million
1958 - Philip Kapleau, Zen teacher, 1st awakening under Yasutani Roshi
1959 - 42.4 cm rainfall in Decatur Co, Iowa (state record)
1959 - Chic Cardinals (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 55-26 in Toronto
1960 - Burkina Faso (formerly Upper Volta) declares independence from France
1960 - Detroit trades mgr Jimmy Dykes for Cleve's mgr Joe Gordon
1961 - 118°F (48°C), Ice Harbor Dam, Washington (state record)
1961 - Chic Bears (NFL) beat Mont Alouettes (CFL) 34-16 in Montreal
1962 - 1st quasar located by radio
1962 - Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open
1962 - Nelson Mandela arrested for incitement & illeagally leaving S Afr
1962 - UN command forbids flights to Katangese airports
1963 - Britain, US & USSR sign nuclear test ban treaty
1963 - Craig Breedlove sets world auto speed record at 407.45 MPH
1963 - US, USSR & Great Britain agree to discuss banning nuclear testing
1964 - Beatles record "Leave My Kitten Alone"
1964 - Congo rebellion: Christopher Gbenye/Pierre Mulele conquer Stanleyville
1964 - Ford Frick says he will not run for another term as commissioner
1964 - US begins bombing North Vietnam
1965 - Dave Marr wins PGA title
1966 - 33rd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 38, All-Stars 0 (72,000)
1966 - Jose Torres beats Eddie Cotton to retain light-HW boxing title
1966 - Martin Luther King Jr stoned during Chicago march
1966 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1966 - Beatles release "Revolver" album in US
1966 - Beatles release "Yellow Submarine" & "Eleanor Rigby" in UK
1967 - 1st time an AFL team beats an NFL team, Broncos beats Detroit 13-7
1967 - Bobby Gentry releases her only hit "Ode to Billy Joe"
1967 - Pirate Radio Station 333 (Radio Britain) & Radio London close down
1968 - WMCV (now WZTV) TV channel 17 in Nashville, TN (IND) 1st broadcast
1969 - Mariner 7 flies past Mars
1969 - Pirate Willie Stargell is 1st to hit a ball out of Dodger Stadium
1970 - Robert Morley's "How the Other Half Loves," premieres in London
1970 - US Black Panther leader Huey Newton let out of jail
1971 - WNPE TV channel 16 in Watertown, NY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1972 - Moody Blues release "Nights in White Satin"
1972 - Uganda president Idi Amin throws out all 80,000 Asians
1972 - Detroit shortstop Ed Brinkman errors ends record streak of 72 games & 331 total chances
           without a miscue
1973 - Arab terrorists open fire at Athens airport, kills 3 injures 55
1973 - Atlanta Braves Phil Niekro no-hits SD Padres, 9-0
1973 - Judy Rankin wins LPGA Pabst Ladies Golf Classic
1973 - USSR launches Mars 6
1974 - Joan Jett forms her rock group Runaways
1974 - Pres Nixon admits he withheld information about Watergate break-in
1975 - Phillies 1st 8 batters get hits for a record, beat Cubs 13-5
1975 - Stevie Wonder signs $13M contract with Motown
1978 - New Orlean Saints beat Phil Eagles 14-7 in Mexico City (NFL expo)
1979 - "But Never Jam Today" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 7 perfs
1979 - Government of Mauretania signs peace treaty with Polisario
1979 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Colgate European Golf Open
1979 - Phillies Pete Rose collects NL record 2,427th career single
1979 - Varetta Shankle (Miss), crowned 12th Miss Black America
1979 - Willie Mays, Warren Giles, & Hack Wilson inducted in Hall of Fame
1980 - Expos Dick Williams wins his 1,000th career game as a manager
1980 - NY Met Doug Flynn ties record of 3 triples in a game
1981 - Federal government began firing striking air traffic controllers
1981 - Pres Regan fires 11,500 air traffic controllers who struck 2 days ago
1981 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1982 - Stephabue Hix, of Alabama, 18, crowned Miss National Teen-Ager
1982 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1984 - Alice Miller wins West Virginia LPGA Golf Classic
1984 - Joan Benoit (US) wins 1st Olympic marathon for women (2:24:52)
1984 - Lou Pinella Day at Yankee Stadium
1984 - Toronto's Cliff Johnson hits record 19th career pinch HR
1985 - Baseball players go on strike for 2 days
1985 - Establishment of a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is announced
1985 - Flexible-wing glider altitude record (214,250') set by Larry Tudor
1986 - Ingrid Kristiansen of Norway sets 5k woman's record (14:37.33)
1986 - Steve Carlton is 2nd to pitch 4,000 strikeout
1986 - US Senate votes for SDI-project (Star Wars)
1986 - It's revealed Andrew Wyeth had, secretly created 240 drawings & paintings of his neighbor
           Helga Testorf, in Chadds Ford, Pa
1988 - Mario Biaggi (Rep-D-NY) convicted of racketeering resigns seat
1989 - General elections are held in Nicaragua with the Sandinista Front winning a majority.
1990 - Barb Mucha wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
1990 - Jim Palmer & Joe Morgan inducted into hall of fame
1991 - Sergei Bubka of USSR sets pole vault world record (6.10m) in Malmö Sweden
1992 - 4 cops in Rodney King beating case indicted on civil rights charge
1994 - Antonov-12 crash down at Boda, East-Siberia, 47 killed
1994 - Rocker Billy Idol admitted to the hospital after drug overdose
1995 - The city of Knin, a significant Serb stronghold, is captured by Croatian forces during
           Operation Storm. The date is celebrated as the day of victory (Victory and Homeland
           Thanksgiving Day) in Croatia.
1996 - Dallas Cowboys play KC Chiefs in Monterrey Mexico
1997 - Korean Air 747 with 331 aboard crashes in Guam, 29 survive
1997 - Ramzi Yousef, mastermind of world trade center bombing goes on trial
1997 - Soyuz TM-26 crew of Anatoly Solovyov & Pavel Vinogradov, launched
2003 - A car bomb explodes in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta outside the Marriott Hotel killing 12
           and injuring 150.
2011 - Svalbard Polar Bear Attack (2011) - a rogue Polar Bear attacks and kills a British schoolboy.
2012 - Gunman opens fire on Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin killing six people and committing
           suicide
2012 - 19 people are killed by Kurdish rebels in Hakk
2012 - General Motors signs a record breaking $559 million marketing deal with Manchester United

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 05, 2013, 08:41:47 AM

This Day in History for 5th August


Famous Weddings

1956 - Actress-singer Shirley Jones (22) weds film and stage actor Jack Cassidy (29)
1964 - Film director Mel Brooks (38) weds actress Anne Bancroft (32) at the Manhattan Marriage
           Bureau
1972 - "The Addams Family" actor John Astin (42) weds actress Patty Duke (25)
1975 - Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry (25) weds Elissa Jerret
1977 - Actress Julie Newmar (43) weds lawyer J. Holt Smith
2005 - Bavaria's Prince Leopold's son Prince Manuel von Bayern (31) weds Prince Ludwig-Ferdinand's
          daughter Princess Anna of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg in Sweden

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 05, 2013, 08:50:36 AM

This Day in History for 5th August


Famous Birthdays

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Astronaut & 1st Man on the Moon      Actress Maureen McCormick (1956)               Hall of Fame NBA Centre
Neil Armstrong (1930)                                                                                               Patrick Ewing (1962)

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Rocker Adam Yauch (1964)


1301 - Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, English politician (d. 1330)
1397 - Guillaume Dufay, Franco-Flemish composer and theorist (d. 1474)
1461 - Alexander Jagiellon, Grand Duke of Lithuania (d. 1506)
1540 - Joseph Justice Scaliger, proposed Julian dating
1604 - John Eliot, "Apostle to Indians," Bible translator, baptized
1607 - Philipp Friedrich Boddecker, composer
1623 - Antonio Cesti, composer
1624 - William, Jamestown Va, 1st black child born in English America
1641 - John Hathorne, American magistrate (d. 1717)
1662 - James Anderson, Scottish historian (d. 1728)
1694 - Leonardo Ortensio Salvatore de Leo, composer
1711 - Johan Lulofs, Dutch physicist/philosopher/astronomer
1749 - Thomas Lynch, signer (Declaration of Independence)
1797 - Friedrich August Kummer, composer
1802 - Niels H Abel, Norwegian mathematician (Abel's Comparisons)
1811 - Ambroise Thomas, French opera composer (d. 1896)
1813 - Carnot Posey, Confederate brig-general
1813 - Ivar A Aasen, Norwegian linguistic/poet
1815 - Edward J Eyre, British explorer/governor (Jamaica)
1822 - Johann Georg Herzog, composer
1827 - Deodoro da Fonseca, first President of Brazil (d.1892)
1828 - Giovanni Rossi, composer
1828 - WFAA Louisa/Lovisa, queen of Sweden/Norway/princess of Netherlands
1829 - Heinrich Franz Daniel Stiehl, composer
1829 - Milo Smith Hascall, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1904
1830 - James A Healy, 1st black bishop in America
1833 - Carola of Vasa, Queen consort of Saxony (d. 1907)
1843 - James Scott Skinner, composer
1850 - Anton Simon, composer
1850 - Guy de Maupassant, France, author (Boule de Suif)
1862 - Joseph Merrick, the "Elephant Man" (d. 1890)
1864 - Resurreccion Maria de Azkue, composer
1866 - Alfred Holy, composer
1866 - Carl Harries, German chemist (d. 1923)
1866 - Harry Trott, Australian cricketer (d. 1917)
1868 - Oskar Merikanto, composer
1872 - Oswaldo Cruz, Brazilian physician (d. 1917)
1876 - Mary R Beard, Indianapolis, historian (Woman as a Force in History)
1877 - Tom Thomson, Canadian painter (d. 1917)
1880 - Gertrude E Durden Rush, US composer/playwright (Black Girls Burden)
1882 - Joe English, Irish/Flemish signaler (WW I)
1886 - Oscar Espla, composer
1887 - Reginald Owen, Wheathampstead England, actor (Dr Watson-Sherlock Holmes)
1888 - Victor Francen, Belgium, actor (J'Acusse, San Antonio)
1889 - Conrad P Aiken, US, Pulitzer poet/writer (Ushant/Conversation)
1890 - Erich Kleiber, Vienna Austria, conductor (NBC Symphony 1945-46)
1890 - Hans Gal, composer
1890 - Naum Gabo, [Pevsner], Russian/US sculptor (Stillife Flower)
1891 - Donald Kerr, Eagle Grove IA, actor (Carnival Lady, Devil Bat)
1897 - Aksel Larsen, Danish politician (d. 1972)
1900 - Bodi Rapp, [Johanna PAC Goetmakers], Dutch mezzo-soprano/teacher
1901 - Juan Carlos Paz, composer
1901 - Claude Autant-Lara, French film director (d. 2000)
1902 - Irene Rice Pereira, Chelsea, Massachusetts, American abstract artist
1904 - Kenneth Thimann, botanist
1906 - Francis Walder, [Francois Waldburger], Belgian author
1906 - John Huston, Nevada Mo, director/writer (African Queen, Chinatown)
1906 - Wassely Leontief, Russ/US economist (Nobel 1973)
1907 - Ernestine "Tiny" Davis, jazz vocalist/trumpeter
1908 - Harold Holt, PM of Australia (1966-67); supported US in Vietnam
1910 - Jacquetta Hawkes, English archaeologist/author (A Country), (d. 1996)
1910 - Nan Gindele, US javelin thrower (World Record 1932-38)
1910 - [Johan] Erik Lindegren, Swedish poet/librettist (Aniara)
1911 - Robert Taylor, Filley Neb, actor (Death Valley Days)
1912 - Abbé Pierre, French Catholic priest (d. 2007)
1913 - Nelly Aenders, [Petronella Meyer], Dutch actress (Spanish Fly)
1914 - Anita Colby, Wash DC, model/actress (Pepsi Cola Playhouse)
1914 - David Brian, NYC, actor (Accussed of Murder, Dawn at Sorocco)
1914 - Stjepan Sulek, Croatian violinist/composer (Coriolan)
1918 - Tom Drake, American actor (d. 1982)
1918 - Betty Oliphant, Canadian ballerina (d. 2004)
1920 - G V [Sonny] Montgomery, (Rep-D-Mississippi, 1967- )
1920 - Selma Diamond, London Ontario, comedienne (Selma-Night Court)
1921 - Nazar Mohammad, cricketer (Mudassar's pop, Pakistan's 1st centurion)
1922 - L. Tom Perry, LDS apostle
1923 - Richard Kleindienst, attorney general (1972)
1923 - Devan Nair, President of Singapore
1925 - Cor Witschge, Dutch actor (Pipo the Clown)
1926 - Betsy Jolas, composer
1927 - Gunnar Bucht, composer
1930 - Neil Armstrong, Wapakoneta Ohio, X-15 pilot, 1st Moonwalker (Gemini 8, Apollo 11), (d.
           2012)
1930 - Michal Kováč, President of Slovakia
1932 - Sister Vince Otto, mental health activist
1932 - Tera de Marez Oyens, composer
1933 - Joan Weldon, SF, actress (So This is Love, Them)
1934 - Vern Gosdin, Woodland Al, country singer (Set 'em Up Joe)
1934 - Wendell Berry, American poet, writer and farmer
1935 - John McCartan, St Paul Minn, ice hockey player (Oly-gold-60)
1935 - John Saxon, Bkln, actor (Bees, Nightmare on Elm St, Electric Horseman)
1935 - Zakes Mokae, Johannesburg South Africa, actor (Comedians)
1936 - John Dancy, Jackson Tx, newscaster (Prime Time Sunday)
1937 - Herb Brooks, American ice hockey coach (d. 2003)
1938 - Hayes Wendell Jones, Sturksville Mich, 110m hurdler (Oly-gold-1964)
1939 - Irene, Princess of Netherlands
1941 - Leonid Denissovich Kizim, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-3, T-10, T-15)
1942 - Rick Huxley, guitarist (Dave Clark 5-Glad All Over), (d. 2013)
1943 - Sammi Smith, singer
1945 - Ja&#039;net Dubois, Brooklyn, New York, American actress (Good Times, Beverly Hill 90210)
1945 - Jacob Reitsma, economist/Dutch MP (CDA)
1945 - Jo Collins, Oregon, Playboy playmate (Dec, 1964)
1946 - Loni Anderson, St Paul Minn, American actress (Jennifer-WKRP in Cincinnati)
1946 - Erika Slezak, Hollywood, California, actress (Viki-One Life to Live)
1946 - Rick van der Linden, Dutch keyboardist (Ekseption)
1946 - Ron Silliman, American poet
1947 - Greg Leskiw, rocker
1947 - Rick Derringer, rocker (I am the Real American (Hulk Hogan's theme)
1947 - Bernie Carbo, American baseball player
1948 - Tony DiCicco, Wethersfield Ct, US women's soccer coach (Olympics-96)
1948 - Ray Clemence, English footballer
1950 - Holly Palance, Los Angeles California, actress (Thorn Birds, Ripley&#039;s Believe It)
1950 - Rosi Mittermaier, German FR, slalom/downhill (Olympic-gold-1976)
1951 - John Jarratt, Australian actor
1953 - Samantha Sang, singer (Emotion)
1954 - Eddie "Fingers" Ojeda, Bx NY, (Twisted Sister-We're Not Gonna Take It)
1956 - Ferdi Bolland, Dutch singer/guitarist (Bolland & Bolland)
1956 - Maureen McCormick, Encino California, actress (Marcia-Brady Bunch)
1957 - Andrei Yevgeniyevich Zaitsev, cosmonaut
1957 - Pavel V Vinogradov, Russian cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-26)
1957 - Clayton Rohner, American actor
1959 - Pete Burns, rocker (Dead or Alive-Spin Me Round)
1960 - Calvin Hayes, rocker
1960 - Mike Nocito, rocker (Johnny Hates Jazz-Turn Back the Clock)
1960 - Seth Swirsky, American songwriter
1961 - Athula Samarasekera, cricketer (Sri Lankan batsman)
1961 - Tawny Kitaen, SD California, actress (Bachelor Party, Witchboard)
1961 - Mark O'Connor, American violinist
1962 - Otis Thorpe, NBA forward (Vancouver Grizzlies, Detroit Pistons)
1962 - Patrick Ewing, Kingston Jamaica, NBA center (NY Knicks/Olympic-gold-92)
1962 - Richard De Groen, cricketer (NZ medium pacer 1993-)
1962 - William Roberts, NFL guard (NY Jets, NE Patriots)
1963 - James Wilder, Cleveland OH, actor (Scorchers, Zombie High, Murder 1)
1964 - MCA [Adam Yauch], Brooklyn New York, rock vocalist (Beastie Boys-You Gotta Fight), (d.
           2012)
1965 - M V Sridhar, cricketer (score 366 for Hyderabad v Andhra Pradesh 1994)
1965 - Motoi Sakuraba, Japanese composer
1965 - Scott William Winters, American actor
1966 - Jonathan Silverman, LA Cal, actor (Brighton Beach Memoirs, Single Guy)
1967 - Mike Fox, NFL defensive end (Carolina Panthers)
1968 - Andreas Lupzig, Straubing GER, hockey forward (Team Germany 1998)
1968 - John Olerud, Seattle WA, infielder (Toronto Blue Jays)
1968 - Funkmaster Flex, American hip hop DJ
1968 - Oleg Luzhny, Ukrainian footballer
1968 - Terri Clark, Canadian country singer
1968 - Tokimitsu Ishizawa, Japanese professional wrestler
1969 - Halle Cioffi, Cleveland OH, tennis star
1969 - James Fuller, NFL/WLAF safety (N O Saints, Frankfurt Galaxy, Scotland)
1969 - Robert Scott, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1969 - Vasbert Conniel Drakes, cricketer (Barbados fast bowler, WI ODI 1995)
1969 - Venkatesh Prasad, cricketer (consistent Indian Test pace bowler 1996-)
1970 - Andy Antoine, CFL receiver (Montreal Alouettes)
1970 - Everett McIver, NFL guard (NY Jets, Miami Dolphins)
1970 - Travis Moore, CFL receiver (Calgary Stampeders)
1970 - James Gunn, American filmmaker
1971 - Perry Carter, cornerback (Oakland Raiders)
1971 - Valeri Karpov, Chelyabinsk Russia, NHL left wing (Anaheim Mighty Ducks)
1971 - Evil Jared Hasselhoff, American musician (The Bloodhound Gang)
1972 - Aaqib Javed, cricketer (Pakistani pace bowler 1989- )
1972 - Arthur Reid, Nashville Tenn, pairs skater (& Jennifer Darst)
1972 - Darryl Yung, Victoria BC, badminton player (Olympics-96)
1972 - John Wasdin, Ft Belvoir WA, pitcher (Oakland A's)
1972 - Christian Olde Wolbers, Belgian musician (Fear Factory)
1972 - Ikuto Hidaka, Japanese professional wrestler
1973 - Brendan Todd, Australian mistral yachter (Olympics-96)
1973 - Ed Burman, WLAF linebacker (London Monarchs)
1973 - Sean Sherk, American mixed martial artist
1973 - Sanwar Hossain, Bangladeshi cricketer
1974 - Frankie Hejduk, La Mesa California, soccer defender (Olympics-gold-96)
1974 - Jamie Lynn Bolding, Lakeland Florida, Miss America-Florida (1997)
1974 - Jason Shelley, WLAF wide receiver (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1974 - Antoine Sibierski, French footballer
1974 - Kajol Mukherjee, Mumbai, Maharashtra, Indian actress (Fanaa, My Name Is Khan)
1975 - Ami Foster, actress (Margaux-Punky Brewster)
1975 - Erin Gingrich, Yuma Arizona, Miss America-Arizona (1997)
1975 - Eicca Toppinen, Finnish cellist (Apocalyptica)
1975 - Antony Cotton, English actor
1976 - Germain Wattamaleo, soccer player (Sparta)
1976 - Marian Pahars, Latvian footballer
1976 - Kwon Sang-woo, South Korean actor
1977 - Eric Hinske, American baseball player
1977 - Michael Walsh, English footballer
1977 - Mark Mulder, American baseball player
1978 - Kristin Link, Fairfax Va, diver (Olympics-96)
1978 - Lorrie Fair, Los Altos CA, soccer defender (Olympics-96)
1978 - Kim Gevaert, Belgian sprinter
1978 - Nektaria Karantzi, Greek singer
1979 - David Healy, Northern Irish footballer
1980 - Wayne Bridge, English footballer
1980 - Ali Umar, Maldivian footballer
1980 - Sophie Winkleman, English actress
1980 - Jason Čulina, Australian soccer player
1981 - Carl Crawford, American baseball player
1981 - Rachel Scott, American murder victim (d. 1999)
1981 - Kō Shibasaki, Japanese singer
1981 - Erik Guay, Canadian alpine skier
1981 - Cory Williams, American internet celebrity
1981 - Alester Maregwede, Zimbabwean cricketer
1982 - LoLo Jones, American track and field athlete
1982 - Ryu Seung Min, Korean table tennis player
1982 - Tobias Regner, German singer
1983 - Dawn Richard, American singer (Danity Kane)
1985 - Laurent Ciman, Belgian footballer
1985 - Salomon Kalou, Ivorian footballer
1986 - Paula Creamer, American golfer
1987 - Genelia D'Souza, Indian actress
1987 - Xenia Tchoumitcheva, Swiss model
1988 - Federica Pellegrini, Italian swimmer
1993 - Suzuka Ōgo, Japanese actress
1993 - Corey J. Smith, English actor
1995 - Devo Keenan American cellist
2000 - Maya Bond, American singer and musician
2184 - Christine Lauren Chapel, Davenport Heights, Vermont (Star Trek)
2186 - Kevin Thomas Riley, Tasvennir, Tarsus IV (Star Trek)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 05, 2013, 08:59:09 AM

This Day in History for 5th August


Famous Deaths

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Actress Marilyn Monroe (1962)               Actor Alec Guinness (2000)


882 - King Louis III of France (b. 863)
1063 - Gruffydd ap Llywelyn, King of Gwynedd
1157 - Dirk VI, Count of Holland, dies
1364 - Emperor Kogon of Japan (b. 1313)
1572 - Isaac Luria, Palestinian-born Kabbalist (b. 1534)
1579 - Stanislaus Hosius, Polish Catholic cardinal (b. 1504)
1610 - Alonso García de Ramón, Spanish soldier and twice Royal Governor of Chile
1644 - J Henry Alting, theologist (Statenvertaling), dies at 61
1678 - Juan García de Zéspedes, Mexican musician and composer (b. 1619)
1743 - John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey, English statesman and writer (b. 1696)
1778 - Thomas Linley, composer, dies at 22
1778 - Charles Clémencet, French historian (b. 1703)
1792 - Frederick 7th baron North, English premier (1770-82), dies at 60
1799 - Richard Howe, British admiral (b. 1726)
1830 - Karl Friedrich Horn, composer, dies at 68
1834 - Gijsbert K van Hogendorp, Dutch min of Foreign affairs, dies at 71
1852 - Frantisek L Celakovsky, Czech slavist/poet, dies at 53
1856 - Rubert Lucas Pearsall, composer, dies at 61
1862 - Thomas Williams, US Union brig-general, dies in battle at 47
1863 - Adolf Friedrich Hesse, composer, dies at 53
1864 - Griffin A Stedman, Union-brig-gen (Fort Stedman), dies in battle at 26
1868 - Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, French archaeologist (b. 1788)
1877 - Gustavus, Crown Prince of Sweden (b. 1799)
1880 - Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra, Austrian physician (b. 1816)
1889 - Willem Ruys J Dz, ship owner, dies at 80
1891 - Henry Charles Litolff, French pianist/componist, dies at 73
1895 - Friedrich English, German textile manufacturer/marxist, dies
1900 - James Augustine Healy, black Roman Catholic bishop, dies at 80
1901 - Victoria, Emperor of Germany/Queen of Prussia, dies at 60
1907 - Gentil T Antheunis, Flemish poet/music/composer, dies at 66
1910 - Wojciech Gawronski, composer, dies at 42
1911 - Bob Caruthers, American baseball player (b. 1864)
1916 - George Sainton Kaye Butterworth, composer, dies at 31
1916 - Nikolay Ivanovich Kazanli, composer, dies at 46
1923 - Vatroslav Jagić, Croatian slavist (b. 1835)
1925 - Jennie Lee (actor), American actress (b. 1848)
1927 - Tom Groube, cricketer (Test for Australia 1880), dies
1929 - Millicent Fawcett, British suffragist (b. 1847)
1931 - Ullrich Haupt, actor (Morocco, Du Barry-Woman of Passion), dies at 43
1932 - Israel Querido, writer (Jordan), dies
1934 - Neville Quinn, cricketer (12 Tests for South Africa), dies at 26
1940 - Frederick A Cook, US, explorer (North Pole), dies at 75
1943 - Adam Kuckhoff, writer, dies at 55
1944 - Maurice Turnbull, cricketer (England)/rugby (Wales), dies
1946 - Wilhelm Marx, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1863)
1947 - Joannes D M Cornelissen, historian (Johann de White), dies
1950 - Emil Abderhalden, Swiss physiologist/bio-chemistry, dies at 73
1952 - Sameera Moussa, Egyptian nuclear scientist (b. 1917)
1955 - Carmen Miranda, singer/actress (Down Argentine Way), dies at 42
1955 - Suzan (Susan) Ball, American actress, of cancer aged 21
1957 - Heinrich O Wieland, German chemist (Nobel 1927), dies at 80
1958 - Joseph Holbrooke, English pianist/composer (3 Blind Mice), dies at 80
1959 - Edgar Guest, US poet/newspaperman, dies at 77
1960 - Arthur Meighen, 9th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1874)
1961 - Eva JC Beck, actress (Elckerlyc, Resurrection), dies at 63
1961 - Sidney Holland, PM of New Zealand (1949-57), dies at 67
1962 - Marilyn Monroe, found dead of apparent self-inflicted drug overdose at 36
1963 - Salvador Bacarisse, Spanish composer (b. 1898)
1964 - Moa Martinson, writer, dies
1964 - Art Ross, Canadian hockey player and executive (b. 1886)
1966 - Austin Diamond, cricketer (Australian capt to America 1913), dies
1968 - Luther Perkins American guitarist
1971 - Josef Stanislav, composer, dies at 74
1972 - Frederic Tozere, actor (Mr Phillips-Stanley), dies at 71
1972 - Harry Hylton-Foster, Speaker of the British House of Commons (b. 1905)
1976 - Adrian Roland Holst, poet (Past the Roads), dies at 88
1977 - Charles Carson, actor (Cry the Beloved Country), dies at 87
1978 - Queenie Smith, actress/dancer (Funny Side), dies at 79
1980 - Harold Runnels, American politician (b. 1924)
1982 - Wanda Rotha, actress (Mrs Fitzherbert), dies at 72
1983 - Judy Canova, singer/comedienne (Chatterbox), dies of cancer at 66
1984 - Howard Culver, actor (Howie-Gunsmoke), dies at 66
1984 - R Hagelstange, writer, dies
1984 - Richard Burton, actor (Cleopatra), dies of cerebral hemorrhage at 58
1985 - Theodore Sturgeon, sci-fi author (Hugo, It, Caviar), dies at 67
1987 - Zygmunt Mycielsky, composer, dies at 79
1989 - Ralph Meeker, actor (Kiss Me Deadly, Gentle Giant), dies at 68
1990 - Herman Gooding, Suriname police-inspector, dies
1991 - Paul Brown, NFL founder (Cleveland Browns, Cin Bengals), dies at 82
1991 - Soichiro Hondo, CEO & founder (Honda), dies of liver cancer at 84
1992 - Jeff Porcaro, drummer (Toto-Africa), dies of cardiac arrest at 38
1992 - Robert Muldoon, premier NZ (1975-84)/President IMF, dies
1994 - Amy Sacks, producer (ABC sports, Disney), dies of Lupus at 39
1994 - Audrey Langford, sInging teacher, dies at 82
1994 - Clive Robertson Caldwell, British fighter pilot, dies at 84
1994 - Terry Hibbitt, soccer star, dies at 47
1995 - Agha Hasan Abedi, banker, dies at 73
1995 - Anthony Barber Doncaster, bookseller, dies at 81
1996 - Abdulrahman Mohamed Babu, politician, dies at 72
1996 - Bruce Howard Lidington, actor (Sword of Valiant, Mosses), dies at 46
1996 - Frank Ulrich Marcus, playwright/critic, dies at 68
1997 - Don Steele, LA radio personality (KRTH), dies of cancer at 61
1998 - Todor Zhivkov, Bulgarian dictator (b. 1911)
1998 - Otto Kretschmer, German U-boat commander (b. 1912)
2000 - Sir Alec Guinness, British actor (b. 1914)
2000 - Otto Buchsbaum, writer and ecological activist (b. 1920)
2001 - Otema Allimadi, Prime Minister of Uganda (b. 1929)
2002 - Josh Ryan Evans, American actor (b. 1982)
2002 - Chick Hearn, American basketball announcer (b. 1916)
2002 - Franco Lucentini, Italian writer (b. 1920)
2005 - Polina Astakhova, Russian gymnast (b. 1936)
2005 - Jim O'Hora, American football coach (b. 1915)
2005 - Raul Roco, Philippine senator (b. 1941)
2006 - Susan Butcher, American sled dog champion (b. 1954)
2007 - Florian Pittiş, Romanian artist (b. 1943)
2007 - Jean-Marie Lustiger, Cardinal of France
2008 - Reg Lindsay, Australian country and western singer/songwriter (b. 1929)
2009 - Budd Schulberg, American screenwriter and novelist (b. 1914)
2011 - Andrzej Lepper, former Polish Deputy Prime Minister (b. 1954)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 06, 2013, 09:01:41 AM

This Day in History for 6th August


Historical Events

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Founder of the Shakers Ann Lee              Military and Political Leader               Nazi Politician Hermann Goering
                                                                           Simon Bolivar 

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Baseball Player Ted Williams                   36th US President                                     Singer-Songwriter
                                                               Lyndon B. Johnson                                      Stevie Wonder

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Olympic Sprinter and Long jumper         Pakistani Politican Benazir Bhutto              264th Pope John Paul II
Carl Lewis


258 - St Sixtus II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
523 - St Hormisdas ends his reign as Catholic Pope
768 - Antipope Constantine II deposed
939 - Battle at Simancas - Spain beats Moors
1181 - Supernova observed by Chinese & Japanese astronomers
1497 - John Cabot returns to Bristol from North-America
1538 - Bogotá, Colombia, is founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada.
1588 - Spanish Armada under Medina Sidonia anchors
1600 - Henry IV of France invades Savoy after negotiations break down over Saluzzo, controlled by
           Savoy since 1588
1601 - Spanish garrison of Meurs surrender to earl Mauritius
1623 - Maffeo Barberini elected Pope Urban VIII
1625 - Earl Earnest Casimir appointed as viceroy of Groningen
1661 - Holland sells Brazil to Portugal for 8 million guilders
1661 - The Treaty of The Hague is signed by Portugal and the Dutch Republic.
1675 - Russian Czar Aleksei bans foreign hairs cut
1726 - Emperor Karel VI & tsarina Catharina the Great sign military treaty
1774 - Founder of the Shaker Movement, Mother Ann Lee, arrives in NY
1787 - Constitutional Convention in Phila begans debate
1806 - Holy Roman Empire ends; it was neither holy, Roman, nor an empire
1815 - US flotilla ends piracy by Algiers, Tunis & Tripoli
1819 - Norwich University is founded in Vermont as the first private military school in the United
           States.
1821 - 1st edition of "Courrier of Pays-Bas" newspaper published in Brussels
1824 - Battle at Junan - Simon Bolívars army beats Spanish
1825 - Bolivia gains independence from Peru (National Day)
1845 - The Russian Geographical Society is founded in Saint Petersburg.
1854 - Congress passes Confiscation Act
1856 - The Great Bell is cast in the Great Clock of Westminster (Big Ben)
1861 - Lexington KY-Union milt camp forms in neutral state
1861 - The British annex Lagos, Nigeria.
1862 - Confederate Army ironclad "Arkansas" is badly damaged in Union attack
1864 - Rebels evacuate Ft Powell, Mobile Bayd
1870 - Battle at Spicheren: Prussia beats France
1870 - White conservatives suppresed black vote & captured Tenn legislature
1890 - Denton True "Cy" Young pitches and wins his 1st major league baseball game
1890 - At Auburn Prison, New York murderer William Kemmler becomes first person to be executed
           by electric chair.
1896 - France annexes Madagascar
1901 - Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous
           reservation.
1905 - 26.7 cm rainfall at Princeton, Indiana (state record)
1908 - St Louis Card John Lush's 2nd no-hitter, beats Dodgers, 2-0 in 6 inn
1909 - Alice Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto
           trip.
1910 - NYC Mayor Wm J Gaynor seriously wounded during assassination attempt
1914 - Austria-Hungary declares war on Russia & Serbia
1914 - French cavalry enter Belgium
1914 - German Zeppelin bombs Liege City, 9 killed
1914 - Serbia declares war against Germany
1914 - Denis Patrick Dowd Jr. enlists in the French Foreign Legion, becoming the first American to
           fight in World War I.
1917 - World War I: Battle of Mărăşeşti between the Romanian and German armies begins.
1918 - Ferdinand Foch becomes marshal of France
1918 - In WW I 2nd battle of the Marne ends
1919 - 1st air flight over a major body of water in Australia (Harry Butler)
1919 - Romanian forces destroys Bela Kun Republic in Budapest
1921 - Clason Point, Bronx to College Point, Queens muni ferry system begins
1926 - NY's Gertrude Ederle becomes 1st woman to swim English Channel
1926 - Warner Bros premieres Vitaphone sound-on-disc movie system (NY)
1926 - Don Juan with John Barrymore shown
1930 - Supreme Court Justice John Force Crater disappears in NYC
1930 - Remains of Solomon Andrees' balloon expedition to North Pole in 1897, found at Kvit oya
           Spitsbergen
1934 - US troops leave Haiti, which had been occupied since 1915
1936 - 1st time in 20th century, 1st 2 batters in a game-Roy Johnson & Rabbit Warstler of Boston
           Bees-lead off with HRs
1937 - Franco-artillery fire on Madrid
1937 - Indians overturn Yankees' 7-6 win by a protest
1937 - US & USSR sign trade treaty
1939 - 1st broadcast of "Dinah Shore Show" on NBC-radio
1940 - Estonia is annexed into Soviet empire
1941 - Detroit pitcher Al Benton is 1st to collect 2 sacrifices in an inning
1942 - -8] Riots by Dutch Jews
1942 - Assinibaine destroyer sinks U-210
1942 - Churchill fires Gen Auchinlek as Middle-East commandant
1942 - Hermann Goering proclaims occupied areas "thoroughly empty to plunder"
1943 - US 1st Infantry division occupies node Troina Sicily
1944 - All 1,200 Jewish death marchers from Lipcani Moldavia have died
1944 - Anti-German attack at Avranches fails
1944 - Deportation of 70,000 Jews from Lodz Poland to Auschwitz begins
1944 - US 20th Army corp under general Walker occupies Nantes
1945 - Hiroshima Peace Day-atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima by "Enola Gay"
1945 - Keith Miller scores 110 in the 4 Victory Test Cricket at Lord's
1946 - US officially submits to jurisdiction of World Court
1947 - 1st performance of Villa-Lobos' "Bachianas Brasilieras No 8"
1948 - Bob Mathias, US, wins decathlon at London Olympics
1948 - Dreesgovernment (KVP/Social Democratics/CHU/Liberal) forms
1948 - Fanny Blankers-Koen (Neth) is 1st women to win 3 golds at Olympics
1949 - Luke Appling record of 2,154 (en route to 2,218) games at shortstop
1951 - Typhoon floods kill 4,800 in Manchuria
1952 - Satchel Paige, 47, becomes oldest pitcher to win a complete shutout
1953 - Ted Williams returns to Red Sox from the military
1954 - WLAC (now WTVF) TV channel 5 in Nashville (CBS) begins broadcasting
1956 - After going bankrupt in 1955, the American broadcaster DuMont Television Network makes its
           final broadcast, a boxing match from St. Nicholas Arena.
1958 - Glenn Davis sets record of 49.2 in 400-meter hurdles
1958 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
1960 - Pitt Steelers (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 43-16 in Toronto
1961 - Gherman S Titov, 2nd Russian in space aboard Vostok 2 (17 orbits)
1961 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open
1961 - 1st case of motion sickness in space reported
1962 - Jamaica becomes independent after 300 years of British rule
1964 - Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical Ecclesiam Suam
1964 - Prometheus, the world's oldest tree, is cut down.
1965 - 32nd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Cleveland 24, All-Stars 16 (68,000)
1965 - Beatles release "Help" album in UK
1965 - Federal Voting Rights Act guarantees black voting rights
1965 - Indian troops invade Pakistan
1965 - LBJ signs Voting Rights Act, guaranteeing voting rights for blacks
1966 - Muhammad Ali KOs Brian London in 3 for heavyweight boxing title
1966 - Salazarbrug over Tag opens (longest suspension bridge of Europe)
1966 - US citizens demonstrate against war in Vietnam
1967 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
1967 - Minn Twin Dean Chance perfect games Boston Red Sox, 2-0 in 5 innings
1967 - Oriole Brooks Robinson hits into a record 4th triple play
1967 - Pope Paul VI publishes constitution Pro comperto sane
1969 - Balt Orioles pull their 3rd triple play (5-4-3 vs KC Royals)
1970 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1972 - Garry Player wins PGA golf tournament
1972 - Hank Aaron hits 660th & 661st HRs for Braves (record for 1 team)
1972 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Knoxville Ladies Golf Classic
1973 - Roberto Clemente & Warren Spahn inducted into National Baseball Hall of Fame
1973 - Stevie Wonder involved in car crash, goes into a 4 day coma
1974 - 6th time Phils get just 1 assist in game; no other team did it twice
1974 - Explosion & fire destory Great Northern RR yard in Wenatchee, Wash
1976 - Zulfikar Ali Bhutto lays the foundation stone of Port Qasim, Karachi.
1977 - Judy Rankin wins LPGA Colgate European Women's Golf Open
1978 - 60th PGA Championship: John Mahaffey shoots a 276 at Oakmont CC PA
1978 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Colgate Europea Golf Open
1979 - 61st PGA Championship: David Graham shoots a 272 at Oakland Hills Mich
1979 - Marcus Hooper, 12, is youngest person to swim English Channel
1980 - University adm declares 5 Pac-10 schools ineligible for conference titles & post-season play
           due to transcript & curriculum abuses
1981 - Argentina ex-president Isabel Peron freed
1981 - Due to strike, Yanks, A's, Philles & Dodgers declared 1st ½ champs
1981 - NASA launches Fltsatcom-5, it failed
1981 - crowned Miss National Teen-Ager
1982 - 22nd Curtis Cup: US, 14½-3½
1982 - California Doug DeCinces hits 3 HRs again in game (did it 5 days ago also)
1982 - WQXI (Atlanta) is 1st to use Harris Corp AM stereo system
1983 - Minnesota Vikings beat St Louis Cards 28-10 in London, England (NFL expo)
1983 - Supertanker Castillo de Bellvar crashes at South Africa
1984 - 203.05 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
1984 - Carl Lewis wins 2nd (long jump) of 4 gold medals in Summer Olympics
1985 - 19th space shuttle mission (51-F), Challenger 8, lands at Edwards AFB
1985 - Major League Baseball Players Association go on strike
1985 - Players' Association stages a midseason baseball strike (lasts 1 day)
1985 - STS 51-I vehicle moves to launch pad
1986 - Orioles (Dwyer & Sheets) & Rangers (Harrah) hit record 3 grand slams
1986 - Phil Katz releases PKARC version 1.0, for IBM
1986 - Record 3 grand slams hit in game Tx vs Balt (Harrah, Sheets & Dwyer)
1988 - Oakland A's Jose Canseco becomes 11th to hit 30 HRs & steal 30 bases
1988 - Rich Gossage 300th career save (beats Phillies)
1988 - The Tompkins Square Park Police Riot in New York City spurs reform of the NYPD, who were
           responsible for the melee that transpired the night of August 6-7.
1989 - "Oh! Calcutta!" closes at Edison Theater NYC after 5959 performances
1989 - Beth Daniel wins LPGA Greater Washington Golf Open
1989 - Boston Red Sox retire Carl Yastrezemski's #8
1989 - Jaime Paz Zamora inaugurated as president of Bolivia
1989 - Pilot Union tells pilots okay to cross Eastern picket lines
1990 - NY Yankee Kevin Mass sets record with 11th HR in 1st 86 at bats
1990 - President Ghulam Ishaq Kahn dismisses Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan
1990 - UN Security Council votes 13-0 (2 abstensions Cuba & Yemen) to place economic sanctions
           against Iraq
1991 - Debbie Doom (US) pitches 2nd consecutive perfect game in women's softball at the Pan
           American Games, beats Nicaragua, 8-0
1991 - Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a
           publicly available service on the Internet.
1992 - Harold Wilson's academy award is auctioned for $60,500
1993 - Japan Hosokawa government begins
1993 - Pope John Paul II publishes Veritatis splendor encyclical
1994 - Algerian Moslem fundamentalists threaten school/Universities
1995 - "Damn Yankees" closes at Marquis Theater NYC after 510 performances
1995 - Dottie Mochrie wins McCall's LPGA Golf Classic at Stratton Mountain
1995 - Indians & Browns play in Cleveland on same day for 1st time ever both lose - Chicago 5,
           Indians 1; Giants 19, Browns 13 (exhibition)
1995 - Thousands of people in Hiroshima tribute on 50th anniversary of bomb
1996 - NASA announces that life may have existed on Mars (ALH84001)
1997 - Microsoft announces it will invest $150 million in Apple Computer Inc
1997 - NHL Nashville Tenn names Barry Trotz as its 1st coach
2008 - Access 31 TV stops broadcasting in Perth, Western Australia.
2008 - A military junta led by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz stages a coup d'etat in Mauritania,
          overthrowing president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi
2011 - A helicopter containing members of Navy SEAL 6 is shot down in Afghanistan killing 38.
2012 - Mount Tongariro, New Zealand, erupts for the first time in a century

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 06, 2013, 09:03:15 AM

This Day in History for 6th August


Famous Weddings

1968 - Children's author Dr. Seuss (64) weds Audrey Geisel
2005 - Legendary Hollywood film producer Robert Evans (75) weds Lady Victoria White (42) at the
           One & Only Palmilla resort in Cabo San Lucas
2007 - NBA Houston Rockets center Yao Ming (27) weds Chinese women's national basketball team
           member Ye Li (26) at the Pudong Shangri-La hotel in Shanghai

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 06, 2013, 09:15:27 AM

This Day in History for 6th August


Famous Birthdays

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Poet Alfred Tennyson (1809)                          Penicillin Discoverer                             Comedienne/Actress
                                                                    Alexander Fleming (1881)                          Lucille Ball (1911)

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Pop Artist Andy Warhol (1928)


1180 - Emperor Go-Toba of Japan (d. 1239)
1504 - Matthew "Nosey" Parker, archbishop of Canterbury
1609 - Richard Bennett, British Colonial Governor of Virginia (d. 1675)
1619 - Barbara Strozzi, composer
1638 - Nicolas de Malebranche, French philosopher
1644 - Francoise L de la Baume Le Blanc, French mistress of Louis XIV
1651 - Francois Fenelon, France, writer (Playing for Time)
1651 - Johann Michael Zacher, composer
1656 - Claude de Forbin, French naval commander (d. 1733)
1664 - Johann Christoph Schmidt, composer
1665 - Jean-Baptiste Lully fils, composer
1666 - Maria Sofia of the Palatinate, queen of Portugal (d. 1699)
1697 - Charles VII, Holy Roman emperor (1742-45)
1715 - Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, French writer (d. 1747)
1748 - Bernhard Haltenberger, composer
1775 - Louis-Antoine the Bourbon, French duke of Angouleme/General of France
1775 - Daniel O'Connell, Irish politician (d. 1847)
1800 - Catherine Beecher, educator (championed higher education for women)
1804 - Justinus van der Brugghen, Dutch lawyer/minister of Justice (1856-58)
1809 - Alfred Lord Tennyson, Somersby, England, Poet Laureate of Great Britain
1811 - Judah Philip Benjamin, Secy War/Secy State (Confederacy) [or Aug 11]
1819 - Samuel Powhatan Carter, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1826 - Thomas Alexander Browne, Australian writer (d. 1915)
1844 - Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1900)
1845 - Anthonie A Vorsterman van Oyen, Dutch genealogist
1858 - Albert Fuchs, composer
1859 - J Arthur S Berson, Austria meteorologist (Balloon flights, Amazon)
1861 - Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, 2nd wife of Theodore Roosevelt
1866 - Chief Thundercloud, [Scott T Williams], MT, actor (Lone Ranger)
1868 - Paul Claudel, France, diplomat/poet (L'Otage-1909)
1871 - Emanuel Querido, [Joost Mendes], author/publisher
1873 - John Wesley Work, composer
1873 - Mary Carr Moore, composer
1874 - Charles Fort, American writer and researcher (d. 1932)
1875 - Marcel Labey, composer
1877 - Wallace H. White, Jr., American politician (d. 1952)
1879 - Joseph Wirth, German politician (Stalin Peace Prize)
1880 - Hans Moser, Austrian actor (d. 1964)
1881 - Alexander Fleming, London, bacteriologist (penicillin; Nobel 1954), (d. 1955)
1881 - Leo Carrillo, LA CA, actor (American Empire, Cisco Kid)
1881 - Louella Parsons, American gossip columnist (d. 1972)
1882 - Gerrit H Kersten, Dutch vicar/founder (Calvinist party)
1883 - Francesco Santoliquido, composer
1883 - Scott Nearing, US sociologist/pacifist/author (The Good Life)
1885 - Jozef M E Meeus, Belgian director H-Heart union
1886 - Edward Ballantine, composer
1887 - Dudley Benjafield, British racing driver (d. 1957)
1888 - Heinrich Schlusnus, German baritone (d. 1952)
1889 - George Kenney, American Air Force General (d. 1977)
1889 - John Middleton Murry, English poet (d. 1957)
1891 - William Slim, British general (d. 1970)
1892 - Hoot Gibson, Tekamah NE, western actor (Horse Soldier, Last Outlaw)
1893 - Guthrie McClintic, Seattle Wash, Broadway producer/dir (Winterset)
1893 - Wright Patman, American politician (d. 1976)
1896 - Cyril Mockridge, composer
1900 - Cecil H. Green, American geophysicist (d. 2003)
1902 - Michal Vilec, composer
1902 - Vladimir M Kirshon, Russian playwright (Ultimatum Factory) [OS]
1902 - Dutch Schultz, American bootlegger (d. 1935)
1904 - Henry Payne Iba, Easton Mo, US basketball coach (Olympic-gold-64, 68)
1904 - M Revis, [Willem Fisherman], author (Gelakte Brain)
1906 - Ken Strong, NFL, AFL halfback (Staten Island, NY Yanks, NY Giants)
1906 - Vic Dickenson, American trombonist (d. 1984)
1908 - George Singer, composer
1908 - Helen Hull Jacobs, Berkley California, US tennis champ (1932-35)
1908 - James Lees-Milne, architecural historian
1908 - Sol Adler, economist Sinophile
1908 - Svend Erik Tarp, composer
1908 - Will Lee, American actor (d. 1982)
1910 - Charles Crichton, British director (Battle of Sexes)
1910 - Friedrich Schroder, composer
1910 - William J Law, sailor
1911 - Lucille Ball, Jamestown NY, comedienne/actress (I Love Lucy, Mame), (d. 1989)
1911 - Norman Gordon, S Afri cricket pace bowler (against England 1938-39)
1914 - Susan Cowdy, ornithologist
1914 - Arthur Charles Dobson, British racing driver (d. 1980)
1916 - Dom Mintoff, Bormla, Malta, Maltese Prime Minister (1955-58, 1971-84), (d. 2012)
1916 - Michael Burke, sports executive (NY Yankees, NY Knicks)
1917 - Robert Mitchum, Bridgeport Ct, actor (Winds of War, North & South)
1918 - Norman Granz, American record producer (d. 2001)
1919 - Pauline Betz Addie, Dayton Ohio, tennis champ (Wimbledon 1946)
1921 - Ella Raines, Sinoqualmie Falls Wash, actress (Janice Dean RN)
1922 - Freddie Laker, CEO (Laker airlines)
1923 - Jack Parnell, London England, orchestra leader (Englebert Humperdick Show)
1923 - Jackie Kelk, Brooklyn NY, actor (Homer-Aldrich Family)
1923 - William B Williams, Babylon NY, DJ (WNEW, Sammy & Company)
1923 - Jess Collins, American artist (d. 2004)
1925 - Barbara Bates, Denver Colorado, actress (Kathy-It&#039;s a Great Life)
1925 - Leland Smith, composer
1926 - Christa Reinig, writer
1926 - Frank Finlay, Farnworth Lancashire England, actor (Robbery, Lifeforce)
1926 - J[anet] O[pal] Jeppson, [nee Janet Asimov], author (2nd Experiment)
1926 - Clem Labine, American baseball player (d. 2007)
1926 - Norman Wexler, American screenwriter (d. 1999)
1927 - William David Ford, (Rep-D-Michigan, 1965- )
1928 - Andy Warhol, McKeesport PA, pop artist &amp; film producer (Frankenstein, Bad), (d. 1987)
1928 - Janice-Lee York Romary, California, fencer (Olympics-1948-68)
1928 - Herb Moford, American baseball player (d. 2005)
1929 - Anneliese Kuppers, German FR, equestrian dressage (Oly-silver-1956)
1929 - Mike Elliot, rocker
1929 - Roch La Salle, Canadian politician (d. 2007)
1930 - Abbey Lincoln, Chicago IL, actress/singer (Nothing But a Man)
1932 - Anneli Sauli, [Savolainen], actress (Milkmaid)
1932 - Howard Hodgkin, British painter
1933 - A G Kripal Singh, cricketer (India, 100* on debut v NZ 1959)
1934 - John Storey Bonington, UK, mountain climber (Annapurna I in 1970)
1934 - Leopold M de Beer, Dutch MP (VVD)
1934 - Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob, UK, sci-fi author (Chthon, Phthor)
1934 - Billy Boston, Welsh rugby league footballer
1937 - Barbara Windsor, actress (Study in Terror)
1937 - Baden Powell de Aquino, Brazilian guitarist (d. 2000)
1938 - Carry Tefsen, Dutch actress (Say A)
1938 - Paul Bartel, Brooklyn NY, director/actor (Eating Raoul)
1938 - Peter Bonerz, Portsmouth NH, actor (Jerry-Bob Newhart Show, 9 to 5)
1939 - William "Sonny" Sanders, US singer (Rayber Voices)
1940 - Louise Sorel, Los Angeles California, actress (BS I Love You, Crimes of Passion)
1940 - Mukhu Aliyev, Russian politician, President of Dagestan
1941 - Doris Ernestine Hays, composer
1941 - Hubertus AGM "Bert" Andre, Dutch actor (Turkish Fruit-Come Back)
1941 - Lyle Berman, American poker player
1941 - Ray Culp, American baseball player
1942 - George Jung, American convicted drug felon
1943 - Michael Anderson Jr, London, actor (Clay-The Monroes)
1943 - Ray Buktenica, Greenwich Village NYC, actor (Rhoda, House Calls)
1943 - Jon Postel, American computer scientist (d. 1998)
1945 - Ron Jones, British TV director (d. 1995)
1945 - Andy Messersmith, American baseball player
1946 - Dusty Rhodes, Australian baseball coach (Olympics-1996)
1946 - Allan Holdsworth, British musician
1946 - Roh Moo-hyun, South Korean politician
1946 - Masaaki Sakai, Japanese comedian
1947 - Sally Eaton, Ill, Broadway actress (Jeanie-Hair)
1947 - Tony Dell, cricketer (Australian left-arm quick, 2 Tests 1971 & 74)
1948 - Michael Peters, choreographer (What's Love Got to Do with It)
1949 - Joyce McKinney, Avery County NC, Miss Wyoming (1972)
1949 - Dino Bravo, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 1993)
1949 - Alan Campbell, Northern Irish clergyman
1949 - Clarence Richard Silva, Catholic Bishop of Honolulu
1950 - Dorian Harewood, Dayton Ohio, actor (Earl-Glitter, Trauma Center)
1950 - Nathan Purdee, actor (Nathan-Young & Restless, Hank-1 Life to Live)
1950 - Winston E Scott, Miami Fla, USN Commander/astronaut (STS 72, 87)
1951 - Catherine Hicks, Scottsdale Az, actress (Star Trek IV, Child's Play)
1951 - Daryl Somers, Australian television personality
1952 - Barrel Scherpenzeel, rocker (Earth & Fire)
1952 - Ton Scherpenzeel, Dutch rock keyboardist (Earth & Fire)
1952 - Wojiech Fortuna, Poland, ski jumper (Olympic-gold-1972)
1952 - Vinnie Vincent, heavy metal rocker (Solo-Ashes to Ashes)
1953 - Iqbal Qasim, cricketer (Pakistani slow lefty in the 80's)
1953 - Pat MacDonald, rocker (Timbuk 3)
1954 - Carl C Perkins, (Rep-D-KY, 1984- )
1954 - Paul Steigerwald, American sports announcer
1955 - Tom Inskeep, Bluffton Ind, Canadian Tour golfer
1956 - Stepfanie Kramer, Los Angeles California, actress (Claudia-We Got it Made, Hunter)
1957 - Faith Prince, Augusta Ga, Broadway actress (Guys & Dolls, Carousel)
1957 - Bob Horner, American baseball player
1957 - Jim McGreevey, American politician
1958 - Randy DeBarge, Grand Rapids Mich, rock vocalist/bassist (Debarge)
1958 - Simon Francken, Dutch bassist (Ivy Green)
1959 - Grant Aleksander, Balt Md, actor (Guiding Light, All My Children)
1959 - Joyce Sims, rocker (All & All)
1960 - Dale Ellis, NBA guard/forward (Seattle Supersonics, Denver Nuggets)
1961 - Bruce Matthews, center/guard (Tennessee Oilers)
1961 - Carol Norman, Ardmore Oklahoma, bowler (LPBT Rookie of Year 1982)
1961 - Earl Winfield, CFL receiver (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1961 - Mary Lou, Daniels Chicago lL, tennis star
1962 - Thomas Jefferson, Cleve Ohio, 200m runner (Olympic-bronze-1984)
1962 - Michelle Yeoh, Chinese-Malaysian actress
1963 - Kimberley Conrad Hefner, Moulton Al, playmate of year (Jan, 1988)
1963 - Thomas Bohrer, US West Islip NY, rower (Olympic-92)
1963 - [Michael] Tony Dees, Pascagoula Miss, hurdler
1964 - John Mooney, Seattle Wash, sprint kayak (Olympics-96)
1964 - Lauren Cowan, Benalla Victoria, golfer (1994 66th English Womens Open)
1964 - Lisa Boyle, Chicago Ill, actress (Showgirls)
1964 - Moosie Drier, Chicago Illinois, actor (Laugh-in)
1964 - Robert Mimbs, CFL running back (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1965 - Brian Kinchen, NFL tight end (Cleveland Browns, Baltimore Ravens)
1965 - David Robinson, Fla, NBA center (San Antonio Spurs, Olympic-gold-92)
1965 - Yuki Kajiura, Japanese composer
1965 - Juliane Köhler, German actress
1965 - Mark Speight, British television presenter (d. 2008)
1965 - Vincent Wells, England cricketer
1966 - William Fred Mayfair, Phoenix AZ, PGA golfer (1993 Greater Milw Open)
1967 - Willie Williams, NFL/CFL tackle (Toronto Argonauts, NO Saints)
1967 - Archbishop Alexy (Bondarenko), Ukrainian-born theologian
1967 - Mike Greenberg, American sportscaster
1968 - Celena Mondie-Milner, Milledgeville Ga, 100m/200m runner
1968 - Chris Boardman, English cyclist (world 1 hour record)
1968 - Jack de Gier, soccer player (Cambuur L, Go Ahead Eagles)
1968 - Jeff Barlow, Jackson MS, Nike golfer (1994 NIKE Carolina Classic-5th)
1968 - Patricia Tarabini, La Plata Argentina, tennis star (1985 Futures ITA)
1968 - Siran Stacy, WLAF running back (Scottish Claymores)
1969 - Roberto Lanckohr, soccer player (MVV)
1969 - Simon Doull, cricket medium pacer (NZ)
1969 - Elliott Smith, American musician (d. 2003)
1970 - Mike Strange, Niagara Falls Ontario, boxer (Olympics-96)
1970 - M. Night Shyamalan, Indian/American film director
1970 - Erwin Thijs, Belgian cyclist
1971 - Curtis Shearer, WLAF receiver (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1971 - Mike Bales, Saskatoon, NHL goalie (Ottawa Senators)
1971 - Piyal Wijetunge, cricketer (Sri Lanka slow left-armer 1993)
1971 - Merrin Dungey, American actress
1971 - Scott Minto, English footballer
1972 - Geri Estelle Halliwell, "Ginger Spice" singer (Spice Girls)
1972 - Mike Frederick, NFL defensive end (Cleveland Browns, Baltimore Ravens)
1973 - Mike Sheldon, WLAF Guard (Rhein Fire)
1973 - Robert Lee, NFL cornerback (Atlanta Falcons)
1973 - Vera Farmiga, American actress
1973 - Max Kellerman, American sportscaster
1973 - Stuart O'Grady, Australian cyclist
1974 - Adrian Voinea, Focsani Romania, tennis star (1995 Malta)
1974 - Alvin Williams, NBA guard (Portland Trailblazers)
1974 - Bobby Petta, soccer player (Feyenoord, RKC)
1974 - Nelson Vargas, Holoyoke Mass, soccer forward (Olympics-gold-96)
1974 - Ever Carradine, American actress
1975 - Rik Platvoet, Dutch soccer player, (FC Twente, MVV)
1975 - Renate Götschl, Austrian alpine skier
1975 - Victor Zambrano, Venezuelan baseball player
1975 - Jamie McGonnigal, American actor
1976 - Parmeso Emekrasha, Buddhist Monk
1976 - Soleil Moon Frye, Glendora California, actress (Punky Brewster)
1977 - Luciano Zavagno, Argentine footballer
1977 - Leandro Amaral, Brazilian footballer
1977 - Jennifer Lyons, American actress
1977 - Jimmy Nielsen, Danish footballer
1978 - Marisa Miller, American model
1979 - Jennifer Exaltacion, Windsor Ontario, gymnist (Olympics-96)
1980 - Danny Collins, Welsh footballer
1980 - Wilber Pan, American/Taiwanese singer
1981 - Travis McCoy, American alternative hip-hop artist
1982 - Adrianne Curry, American model and reality television personality
1982 - Karl Davies, British actor
1982 - Justin Germano, American baseball player
1982 - Kevin van der Perren, Belgian figure skater
1982 - Ryan Sypek, American actor
1983 - Robin van Persie, Dutch footballer
1990 - Jon Benet Ramsey, little beauty queen (murdered in 1996)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 06, 2013, 09:21:00 AM

This Day in History for 6th August


Famous Deaths

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Playwright and Poet                             Cuban President and Dictator                 Journalist Harry Reasoner (1991)
Ben Jonson (1637)                                  Fulgencio Batista (1973) 

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Musician Rick James (2004)


258 - Saint Sixtus II, bishop of Rome (257-58), beheaded
523 - Hormisdas, Pope (514-23), dies
966 - Berengarius II, markgraaf of Ivrea/king of Italy (950-963)
1162 - Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona
1195 - Henry de Leeuw, duke of Saxon/Bayern, dies
1221 - Dominicus, Italian religious order founder (Dominicans)
1272 - Stefanus V, prince of Transylvania/king of Hungary (1270-72), dies
1414 - King Ladislas of Naples (b. 1377)
1458 - Callixtus III, [Alfonso the Borja], Pope (1455-58), dies at 79
1548 - Georg Rhau/Rhaw, German cantor/composer/music publisher, dies
1623 - Anne Hathaway, wife of William Shakespeare, dies
1628 - Johannes Junius, Mayor of Bamberg (b. 1573)
1637 - Ben Jonson, English playwright and poet, dies at 65
1637 - Ben Jonson, English playwright and poet, dies at 65
1645 - Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex, English merchant (b. 1575)
1657 - Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Polish-Lithuanian noble
1660 - Diego Rodriguez de Silva Valezquez, Spanish (court)painter, dies at 61
1661 - Jacqueline-M-A the Sainte Madeleine Arnauld, French abbess, dies
1666 - Tsjerk H de Vries, fleet guardian, dies in Battle at 43
1679 - John Snell, English royalist (b. 1629)
1686 - Paul Hainlein, composer, dies at 60
1695 - François de Harlay de Champvallon, French Catholic archbishop (b. 1625)
1718 - Jacob F Muller, [Sjako/Jaco], Germ/Neth crowd leader, beheaded at 28
1727 - Francois Valentijn, vicar/writer, dies at 61
1746 - Christian VI, king of Denmark/Norway, dies
1753 - Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Russian physicist (struck by lightning) (b. 1711)
1759 - Eugene Aram, English philologist (b. 1704)
1775 - Heinrich Nikolaus Gerber, composer, dies at 72
1783 - Willem Bachiene, vicar/theologist/geography/astronomer, dies at 70
1784 - Karl Kohaut, composer, dies at 57
1794 - Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst, British politician (b. 1714)
1799 - Joseph Friebert, composer, dies at 74
1815 - James A. Bayard (elder), United States Senator from Delaware (b. 1767)
1816 - Karl Frieberth, composer, dies at 80
1820 - Antonin Vranicky, composer, dies at 59
1820 - M A Elisa Bonaparte, Corsican monarch of Lucca, dies at 43, dies
1821 - Antonio Bartolomeo Bruni, composer, dies at 64
1828 - Konstantin von Benckendorff, Russian general and statesman
1848 - Nicola Vaccai, Italian composer, dies at 58
1850 - Edward Walsh, Irish poet (b. 1805)
1853 - Josif Josifovich Genishta, composer, dies at 57
1862 - Francisco Acuna de Figueroa, Uruguay national anthem, dies at 71
1866 - John Mason Neale, English divine, scholar and hymnwriter (b. 1818)
1881 - James White, co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (b. 1821)
1884 - Robert Spear Hudson, English businessman (b. 1812)
1886 - Wilhelm Scherer, German literature historian, dies at 45
1893 - Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1811)
1895 - George Frederick Root, composer, dies at 74
1900 - Wilhelm Liebknecht, German journalist/socialist, dies at 74
1904 - Eduard Hanslick, Austrian music critic (b. 1825)
1914 - Ellen Wilson, 1st lady (1913-14), dies at 54
1920 - Stefan Bastyr, Polish aviator, first flight in independent Poland (b. 1890)
1924 - John Henry Roberts, composer, dies at 76
1928 - William Henry Grattan Flood, composer, dies at 68
1931 - Bix Beiderbecke, American musician (b. 1903)
1935 - Alexander Gustav Adolfovich Winkler, composer, dies at 70
1937 - Annie E F Horniman, England, theater owner (Abbey Theatre), dies at 76
1937 - Ferdinand CS Schiller, British philosopher (Mind!), dies at 72
1938 - Warner Oland, actor (Werewolf of London, Jazz Singer), dies at 57
1943 - Tom Garrett, cricketer (last survivor of 1st Test in 1877), dies
1945 - Hiram Johnson, American politician (b. 1866)
1945 - Prince Wu of Korea (b. 1912)
1946 - Tony Lazzeri, American baseball player (b. 1903)
1954 - Theo[by] Van Reijn, sculptor/drawer/lithograph, dies at 70 [or 8/10]
1959 - Preston Sturges, [Edmund Biden], US director/screenwriter, dies at 60
1961 - Jozef E Van Roey, Flemish cardinal/archbishop of Mechelen, dies at 87
1963 - Tom Keene, actor (Our Daily Bread), dies of cancer at 68
1964 - Cedric Hardwicke, actor (Capt Hook-Peter Pan), dies at 71
1965 - Aksel Sandemose, writer, dies
1965 - Everett Sloane, dies of apparent suicide with bartiturates at 55
1965 - Nancy Carroll, actress (Alice-Aldrich Family), dies at 60
1965 - Peter Ronnefeld, composer, dies at 30
1966 - Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger, sci-fi author (Space Lords), dies at 53
1966 - Cordwainer Smith, American writer (b. 1913)
1968 - Ernest Burnelle, Belgian politician, dies at 60
1969 - Theodor Adorno, German philosopher/sociologist, dies at 65
1970 - Ingolf Dahl, German composer (Andante & Arioso), dies at 58
1973 - Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar, Cuban Dictator (1940-58), dies at 72
1974 - Gene Ammons, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1925)
1976 - Gregor Piatigorsky, Russian cellist, dies at 73
1978 - Edward Durrell Stone, US architect, dies at 76
1978 - Paul VI, [Giovanni Montini], Italian Pope (1963-78), dies at 80
1979 - Kurt Kasznar, actor (Cmdr Fitzhugh-Land of the Giants), dies at 65
1980 - Charles Urbanus, Dutch baseball player, dies at 66
1983 - Klaus Nomi, German singer (b. 1944)
1986 - Emilio Fernandez, director (La Choca, Flor Silvestre), dies at 82
1986 - Manfred Hausmann, writer, dies at 87
1986 - William J Schroeder, (longest-survivor with permanent artificial) heart, dies at 54, after 620
           days with Jarvik VII man-made pump)
1987 - Ira C Eaker, commandant USAF in Europe (WW II), dies at 91
1987 - Sherwood Bailey, actor (Spud-Our Gang), dies
1988 - Anatoli S Levchenko, cosmonaut (TM-4), dies of brain tumor at 47
1988 - J Skelly Wright, US judge (anti-segregationist), dies at 77
1990 - Charles Arnt, actor (Double Exposure), dies of pancreatic cancer at 82
1990 - Gordon Metcalfe, actor (Monster in the Closet), dies of AIDS at 43
1990 - Jacques Soustelle, Fren ethnology/minister of Information, dies at 78
1990 - Mario De Andrade, founder (Movimiento Popular of Lib of Angola), dies
1990 - Robert Alex, shot to death by robber at 31
1991 - Harry Reasoner, newscaster (60 Minutes), dies at 68
1991 - Shapour Bakhtiar, premier Iran (1979), dies in Paris
1991 - Roland Michener, Canadian politician and governor general (b. 1900)
1993 - Milton "Milt" Thompson, US NASA-test pilot/chief-engineer, dies at 67
1994 - Domenico Modugno, Italian singer (Volare), dies at 66
1995 - Paul James Nunn, mountaineer, dies at 52
1995 - Youly Algaroff, ballet dancer, dies at 77
1996 - Buland Al Haidary, poet, dies at 69
1996 - Hernan Siles Zuazo, Pres of Bolivia (1956-60, 1982-85), dies at 82
1996 - Leonard John Coldwell, cricketer, dies at 63
1996 - Muhammad al-Badr, magnate of Northern Yemen (1962), dies
1996 - Ossie Raymond Clark, fashion designer, dies at 54
1996 - Richard Murphey Goodwin, economist, dies at 83
1998 - Andre Weil, French mathematician (b. 1906)
2001 - Jorge Amado de Faria, Brazilian writer (b. 1912)
2001 - Dorothy Tutin, English actress (b. 1930)
2001 - Wilhelm Mohnke, one of the original 120 members of the Nazi SS-Staff Guard (b. 1911)
2002 - Edsger Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist (b. 1930)
2004 - Rick James, American funk musician ("Super Freak") dies aged 56
2005 - Ibrahim Ferrer, Cuban musician (Buena Vista Social Club) (b. 1927)
2005 - Keter Betts, American jazz bassist (b. 1928)
2005 - Robin Cook, British politician (b. 1946)
2007 - Zsolt Daczi, Hungarian rock guitarist (Bikini, Omen, Carpathia Project Tirana Rockers, solo) (b.
          1969)
2007 - Heinz Barth, German convicted war criminal (SS) (b. 1920)
2009 - John Hughes, American film director (b. 1950)
2011 - Fe del Mundo, Filipino pediatrician and National Scientist (b. 1911)
2012 - Marvin Hamlisch, American composer and conductor, diest at 68
2012 - Sir Bernard Lovell, English radio astronomer, dies at 98
2012 - Ruggiero Ricci, American composer/violinist, dies from heart failure at 94
2012 - Robert Hughes, Australian art critic, dies at 74

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 07, 2013, 09:33:55 AM

This Day in History for 7th August


Historical Events

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First US President                                   Macedonian King and                             26th US President   
George Washington                               Conqueror of Persia                                 Theodore Roosevelt
                                                              Alexander the Great

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Baseball Player and Manager                  Baseball Player Ted Williams                       First Secretary of the
Leo Durocher                                                                                                  Communist Party of the Soviet Union
                                                                                                                                      Nikita Khrushchev

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Singer & Actress Barbra Streisand


322 BC - Battle of Crannon between Athens and Macedon following the death of Alexander the
              Great.
626 - Battle at Constantinople: Slavic/Persians/Avarenvloot defeated
768 - Stephen III [IV] begins his reign as Catholic Pope
936 - Otto I the Great becomes King of Germany
1409 - Council of Pisa closes
1461 - the Ming Dynasty Chinese military general Cao Qin stages a coup against the Tianshun
           Emperor.
1479 - Battle of Guinegate: Emperor Maximilian I vs King Louis XI
1485 - Henry (VII) Tudors army lands in Milford Harbor, South Wales
1498 - Columbus arrives in Caribbean
1573 - Francis Drakes fleet returns to Plymouth
1575 - Spanish troops conquer Oudewater, almost all inhabitants died
1588 - -8] English assault on Spanish Armada
1606 - The first documented performance of Macbeth performed at the Great Hall at Hampton Court.
1620 - Kepler's mother arrested for witchcraft
1620 - Battle at Ponts-the-Ce, Poitou: French king Louis XIII beats his mother Marie de Medici
1710 - Earl van Godolphin resigns as English minister of Finance
1714 - The Battle of Gangut: the first important victory of the Russian Navy.
1750 - Slave uprising on Curacao
1760 - Ft Loudon, Tennessee surrenders to Cherokee Indians
1782 - George Washington creates Order of Purple Heart
1789 - Congress creates Dept of War & Lighthouse Service
1802 - Napoleon orders re-instatement of slavery on St Domingue (Haiti)
1814 - Pope Pius VII reinstates Jesuits
1819 - Battle of Boyacá; Bolívar defeats Spanish in Colombia
1820 - 1st potatoes planted in Hawaii
1864 - Battle of Moorefield, WV
1879 - The opening of the Poor Man's Palace in Manchester.
1882 - Hatfields of south WV & McCoys of east Ky feud, 100 wounded or die
1884 - Germany annexes Angra Pequena (Southwest-Africa)
1885 - 5 German warships anchor at Zanzibar
1888 - Theophilus Van Kannel of Phila patents revolving door
1893 - 53rd Congress (1893-95) convenes
1900 - Diamond workers in Amsterdam strike
1904 - Train derailed on bridge in Eden Colo during a flash flood, kills 96
1907 - Walter Johnson wins 1st of his 416 wins, 7-2 over Cleveland
1909 - US issues 1st Lincoln penny
1912 - Progressive (Bull Moose) Party nominates Theodore Roosevelt for pres
1914 - British Gloucester vs German Breslau/Goeben off Greece
1914 - French government awards king Albert of Belgium the Great Cross
1914 - French troops under Gen Bonneau occupy Altkitrch at Elzas
1914 - German army occupies city of Liege Belgium
1914 - Lord Kitchner says "Your country needs you," poster spreads over UK
1915 - Assault up Russell's Top at Gallipolis, 232 Australians die
1915 - St Louis 3rd base coach Miller Huggins, calls for ball Bkln rookie obliges, Huggins steps aside,
           & Card runner scores
1921 - Cyclist Piet Moeskops becomes world champ sprinter
1925 - League of Nation advises against Turk/Iraqi division of Mosoelgebied
1927 - Peace Bridge between US & Canada dedicated
1927 - US rum smuggler Horace Alderman kills 3
1929 - Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms Dutch government
1929 - Ruth ties record by hitting grand slams in consecutive games
1929 - Jo Baer (born Josephine Kleinberg), Seattle USA, American artist
1930 - A large mob estimated at 2,000 lynch two young black men, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith
           in Marion Indiana
1930 - Richard Bedford Bennet forms Canadian government
1933 - The Iraqi Government slaughters over 3,000 Assyrians in the village of Sumail. The day
           becomes known as Assyrian Martyrs Day.
1934 - US Court of Appeals upheld lower court ruling striking down government's attempt to ban
          controversial James Joyce novel &quot;Ulysses&quot;
1935 - 60% of voters agrees to nazism in Danzig (Gdansk)
1938 - Leo Durocher, hits 2,000th Dodger home run
1938 - Nazi's close theologic department of Innsbruck university
1940 - Churchill recognizes De Gaulle government in exile
1940 - Largest amount paid for a stamp ($45,000 for 1 1856 British Guiana)
1940 - Alsace Lorraine is annexed by the Third Reich (Germany) during World War II
1941 - 551 Jews are shot in Kishnev ghetto in Romania
1942 - 1st American offensive in Pacific in WW2, Guadalcanal, Solomon Is
1942 - Resistance bombs Rotterdam railway
1942 - Transport 16 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1943 - Red Army recaptures Bogodukov
1944 - Anton de Kom arrested by Surinam resistance fighter
1944 - Canada/Polish offensive direction Falaise: Total Cooperation
1944 - German counter attack at Avranches fails
1944 - July 20th Plot trial under Roland Freis in Berlin begins
1944 - US 3rd Army reaches suburbs of Brest Brittany
1944 - IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled
           Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I).
1946 - 1st coin bearing portrait of Negro authorized
1947 - Balsa raft Kon Tiki crashes into a Polynesian archipelago reef
1947 - The Bombay Municipal Corporation formally takes over the Bombay Electric Supply and
           Transport (BEST).
1948 - 1st Dutch government of Beel resigns
1948 - Delfo Cabrera wins 11th Olympic marathon (2:34:51.6)
1949 - "All after Love" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 121 perfs
1950 - Police bar white players-Lou Chirban, Stan Mierko, & Frank Dyle, from playing in Negro League
1951 - Douglas D-558-II Skyrocket reaches 1,992 kph
1951 - US viking rocket reaches 210 km height (record)
1953 - Eastern Airlines enters jet age, uses Electra prop-jet
1954 - "Golden Apple" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 125 performances
1954 - Charles Mahoney becomes 1st US black to serve as a full UN delegate
1955 - Bar-Ilan University founded in Israel
1955 - KSTF TV channel 10 in Scottsbluff-Gering, NB (CBS/NBC) begins
1955 - Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor to Sony, begins selling its first
           transistor radios in Japan.
1956 - Boston Red Sox fine Ted Williams $5,000 for spitting at Boston fans
1956 - British government sends 3 aircraft carriers to Egypt
1956 - Dynamite transport explodes in Colombia; about 1200 die
1957 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1959 - Explorer 6 transmits 1st TV photo of Earth from space
1959 - The Lincoln Memorial design on the U.S. penny goes into circulation. It replaces the "sheaves
           of wheat" design
1960 - Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire) gains independence from France
1960 - Students stage kneel-in demonstrations in Atlanta churches
1960 - Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open
1961 - Cosmonaut Gherman Titov circles Earth for a full day in Vostok 2
1961 - Soviet premier Khrushchev predicts USSR economy will surpass US
1962 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1963 - Jacqueline Kennedy becomes 1st, First Lady to give birth since Mrs Cleveland
1964 - 31st NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chicago 28, All-Stars 17 (65,000)
1964 - Turkey begins air attack on Greek-Cypriots
1964 - US Congress approves Gulf of Tonkin resolution
1966 - Race riot in Lansing Michigan
1970 - 1st computer chess tournament
1970 - Christine Perfect (McVie) joins Fleetwood Mac
1970 - WDHN TV channel 18 in Dothan, AL (ABC) begins broadcasting
1970 - 4, including presiding judge, killed in courthouse shootout in San Rafael, California (Police
           charge Angela Davis provided weapons)
1971 - Apollo 15 returns to Earth
1972 - Hall of Fame inducts Berra, Sandy Koufax, Lefty Gomez & Early Wynn
1974 - Philippe Petit walks tightrope strung between twin towers
1976 - Chako Higuchi wins LPGA Colgate-European Golf Open
1976 - US Viking 2 goes into Martian orbit after 11-month flight from Earth
1976 - Scientists in Pasadena, California, announce Viking I found strongest indications to date of
           possible life on Mars
1977 - "Shenandoah" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 1,050 performances
1978 - Eddie Mathews, Addie Joss, & Larry MacPhail inducted to Hall of Fame
1978 - Thousands of mourners file past body of Pope Paul VI
1980 - Hurricane Allen ravages Caribisch area, about 70 killed
1981 - The Washington Star ceases all operations after 128 years of publication.
1983 - "Merlin" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 199 performances
1983 - 1st World Track & Field Championships
1983 - 65th PGA Championship: Hal Sutton shoots a 274 at Riviera CC LA
1983 - Bobby Murcer Day at Yankee Stadium
1983 - Grete Waitz of Norway, wins 1st all-women Marathon (Helsinki Fin)
1983 - Patti Rizzo wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
1983 - Some 675,000 employees strike AT&T
1984 - David Rabe's "Hurlyburly," premieres in NYC
1984 - Japan beats US for olympic gold medal in baseball
1984 - Jim Deshales becomes 1,000th playing Yankee
1985 - Barbra Streisand records "Broadway Album"
1985 - Baseball players end a 2 day strike
1985 - Takao Doi, Mamoru Mohri and Chiaki Mukai are chosen to be Japan's first astronauts.
1986 - "Honky Tonk Nights" opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 4 performances
1986 - Daniel Buettner, Bret Anderson, Martin Engel & Anne Knabe begin cycling journey of 15,266
           miles from Prudhoe Bay Alaska to Argentina
1987 - 5 Central American presidents sign peace accord in Guatemala
1987 - Javed Miandad scores 260 v England at The Oval, 28 fours 1 six
1987 - Lynne Cox swims 4.3 km from US to USSR in 39°F (4°C) Bering Sea
1988 - Martha Nause wins Planters Pat Bradley International Golf Tournament
1988 - Writers guild end their 6 months strike
1988 - Rioting in New York City's Tompkins Square Park.
1989 - U.S. Congressman Mickey Leland (D-TX) and 15 others die in a plane crash in Ethiopia.
1990 - Desert Shield begins - US deploys troops to Saudi Arabia
1990 - NY Yankee Kevin Mass sets record with 12th HR in 1st 92 at bats & becomes 21st to hit a ball
           into 3rd deck of Seattle's Kingdome
1991 - Charles Austin breaks US high jump record at 7'10½"
1991 - Court rules Manuel Noriega, may access some secret US documents
1991 - Darrin Lewis hits his 1st major league HR
1991 - Manhattan Cable final day of amnesty to return illegal cable boxes
1991 - US sets 400m relay record at 37.67 seconds
1992 - Cleveland Indians turn a triple play
1992 - Tampa Bay group purchases SF Giants
1993 - "Camelot" closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 56 performances
1993 - Tropical storm Brett ravages Venezuela, 118 killed
1994 - "Hedda Gabler" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 33 performances
1994 - 1st telephone link between Israel & Jordan
1994 - Carolyn Hill wins McCall's LPGA Golf Classic at Stratton Mountain
1994 - Ernesto Samper sworn in as president of Colombia
1997 - STS 85 (Discovery 23) launches into orbit
1997 - Ung Huot appointed Cambodia's 1st premier
2007 - Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants breaks baseball great Hank Aaron's record by hitting
           his 756th home run.
2008 - Georgia launches a military offensive to surround and capture the capital of South Ossetia,
           Tskhinvali, from Russian control, starting the South Ossetia War.
2012 - 21 people are killed by a gun attack in a church in Okene, Nigeria
2012 - Heavy rain forces 20,000 people to flee their homes in Manila, Phillipines
2012 - 200,000 people are evacuated from Shanghai in anticipation of Typhoon Haikui

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 07, 2013, 10:20:49 AM

This Day in History for 7th August


Famous Weddings

1966 - Latin music king Xavier Cugat (60) weds singer Charo (20) at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas
1974 - Actress Faye Dunaway weds Peter Wolf of J Geils Band
1987 - "Magnum, P.I." actor Tom Selleck (42) weds actress and dancer Jillie Mack (29) in Incline
           Village, Nevada
2004 - "The Wonder Years" actor Fred Savage (28) weds commercial real estate agent Jennifer Stone
           (31) in Los Angeles
2008 - Singer-songwriter Jewel (38) weds rodeo champion Ty Murray (42) at The Cove Atlantis
           Resort in Paradise Island, Bahamas
2010 - British pop star Robbie Williams (36) weds actress Ayda Field (31) in an intimate ceremony at
           Beverly Hills mansion
2010 - "Dancing in the Dark" host Rossi Morreale (33) weds one half of identical twin country duo
           "Kate and Kacey" Kacey Coppola at the Grande Antigua Resort and Spa in Antigua

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 07, 2013, 10:52:39 AM

This Day in History for 7th August


Famous Birthdays

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Exotic Dancer and German Spy          Archaeologist Louis Leakey (1903)              Diplomat and Nobel Laureate
Mata Hari (1876)                                                                                                   Ralph Bunche (1904)

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Actress Charlize Theron (1975) 


317 - Flavius Julius Constantius II, Emperor Egypt/Byzantine/Rome (337-61)
1282 - Princess Elizabeth of Rhuddlan (d. 1316)
1533 - Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga, Basque soldier and poet (d. 1595)
1560 - Elizabeth Báthory, Hungarian countess and serial killer (d. 1614)
1574 - Robert Dudley, styled Earl of Warwick, English writer (d. 1649)
1598 - Georg Stiernhielm, "father of Swedish poetry" (Hercules)
1726 - James Bowdoin, American Revolutionary leader and politician (d. 1790)
1742 - Nathanael Greene, American Revoluntionary War General
1746 - Daniel W Wyttenbach, Dutch classical/historian
1751 - Wilhelmina FS, Princess of Prussia/Orange/wife of Willem V
1779 - Carl Ritter, cofounder of modern science of geography
1779 - Louis de Freycinet, French explorer (d. 1842)
1783 - John Heathcoat, inventor (lace-making machinery)
1783 - Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom (d. 1810)
1818 - Henry Charles Litolff, French composer/pianist
1823 - Faustina Hasse Hodges, composer
1826 - Carl AE Ahlqvist, [A Oksanen], Finnish poet (Suomalainen Runousoppi)
1829 - Thomas Ewing Jr, Major General, Bvt (Union volunteers), died in 1896
1833 - Powell Clayton, Brigadier General (Union volunteers)/(Gov-R-Ark)
1836 - Evander McIvor Law, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1920
1844 - Auguste Michel-Lévy, French geologist (d. 1911)
1860 - Alan Leo, British astrologer (d. 1917)
1862 - Victoria of Baden, Queen of Sweden (d. 1931)
1867 - Emil Nolde, [Hansen], German painter/graphic artist
1868 - Granville Bantock, English composer/conductor (Hebridean Symphony)
1868 - Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Russian mathematician (d. 1931)
1870 - 19 kittens, born to Tarawood Antigone (4 still born)
1870 - Jozef Brems, Flemish apostole (vicar of Denmark)
1872 - Andries C D de Graeff, governor-general of Neth Indies (1926-31)
1876 - Mata Hari, [Margaretha G Zelle], dancer/courtesan/spy (WW I)
1877 - Ulrich Salchow, Swedish figure skater (d. 1949)
1879 - J J Kotze, South African cricket fast bowler (1902-07)
1880 - Ernst Laqueur, chemist/pharmacology/psychology (sexual hormones)
1883 - J Ringelnatz, writer
1884 - Billie Burke [Mary William Ethelbert Appleton], Washington, DC, American actress (The Wizard
           of Oz, Merrily We Live)
1885 - Gordon Harker, London England, actor (Facts of Love, Champagne)
1886 - Louis Hazeltine, inventor (neutrodyne circuit, making radio possible)
1887 - Jan HA Eman, Aruban politician
1887 - Luckey Roberts, composer
1895 - Edward Gill, baseball player
1897 - Franz J Weinrich, [Heinrich Lerse], German writer (Himmlisches)
1899 - Ricci Riano, England
1900 - Taylor Caldwell, novelist
1901 - Ann Harding, American actress (d. 1981)
1903 - Louis Leakey, Kabete Kenya, anthropologist (1964 Richard Hooper Medal), (d. 1972)
1903 - Saburo Moroi, composer
1904 - Ralph Bunche, Detroit Michigan, founder/diplomat (UN) (Nobel 1950), (d. 1971)
1906 - Gerhard Frommel, composer
1907 - Ben Carter, NYC, actor (Dark Alibi, Dressed to Kill)
1907 - Albert Kotin, American abstract painter (d. 1980)
1911 - R Nicholas Ray, Galesville WI, director (Rebel Without a Cause)
1913 - George Van Eps, American guitarist (d. 1998)
1914 - Ted Moore, South Africa, cinematographer (James Bond)
1918 - Cees Buddingh', Dutch poet/writer/interpreter
1919 - John Hogan, Lowes, Kentucky, chemist (discovered methods of producing polypropylene), (d.
           2012)
1920 - Jan Walravens, Flemish writer (Motionless at Sea)
1921 - Karel Husa, Prague Czechoslovakia, composer (Trojan Women)
1921 - M J bin Gorion, writer
1921 - Manitas de Plata, Gypsy guitarist
1925 - Felice Bryant, Milwaukee, rock writer (Bye Bye Love)
1925 - Julian Orbon De Soto, composer
1925 - M. S. Swaminathan, Indian scientist
1926 - Amo Houghton, (Rep-R-New York)
1926 - Stan Freberg, Los Angeles California, satirist/ad executive/cartoon voice (Bertie)
1927 - Carl Switzer, IL, actor (Alfalfa-Our Gang)
1927 - Edwin W Edwards, (Gov-La)
1927 - Art Houtteman, American baseball player (d. 2003)
1928 - Amazing [James] Randi, Toronto Ontario, skeptic magician (Nova)
1928 - Herbert H Bateman, (Rep-R-Virginia)
1928 - Romeo Muller, American screenwriter (d. 1992)
1929 - Don Larsen, pitcher (NY Yankees), on what must have been a perfect day
1929 - James Pilditch, designer
1929 - Richard T Schulze, (Rep-R-PA, 1975- )
1929 - Ruth Carter-Stapleton, Plains Ga, 1st sister/evangelist
1929 - Don Larsen, American baseball player
1930 - Velio Tormis, composer
1931 - Charles E. Rice, American legal scholar and author
1932 - Ann Harding, US, actress (East is West, Janie)
1932 - Maria M L "Marijke" Bakker, Dutch actress (Mammaloe-Pipo the Clown)
1932 - Abebe Bikila, Ethiopian marathon runner (Olympic-gold-1960, 64)
1932 - Maurice Rabb, Jr., American ophthalmologist
1932 - Edward Hardwicke, British actor
1933 - Jerry [Eugene] Pournelle, US, sci-fi author (Mercenary, Red Dragon)
1936 - Charles Pope, US soul singer (Tams-Hey Girl Don't Bother Me)
1936 - Rahsaan Kirk, Roland rocker
1936 - Richard L[ouis] Tierney, US, sci-fi author (Winds of Zarr)
1937 - Don Wilson, cricketer (England slow left-armer between 1963-71)
1938 - Dewi Lorwerth Ellis Bebb, rugby international/journalist
1938 - Helen Caldicott, Melbourne Australia, physician/anti-war activist
1939 - Verna Bloom, Lynn MA, actress (After Hours, Badge 373)
1939 - Anjanette Comer, American actress
1940 - Marlyn Mason, San Fernando Cal, actress (Making It, Peyton Place)
1940 - Tom Barlow, (Rep-D-Kentucky)
1940 - Jean-Luc Dehaene, Belgian politician
1941 - Thomas F Hartnett, (Rep-R-SC, 1981-86)
1942 - Anjanette Comer, Dawson Tx, actress (Baby, Lepke)
1942 - B J Thomas, Hugo, Oklahoma, American singer (Raindrops, Growing Pains Theme)
1942 - Garrison Keillor, Minn, PBS radio personality (Prairie Home Companion)
1942 - Masa Saito, wrestler (AWA/WWF/NJPW/CWFI)
1942 - Tobin Bell, American actor
1942 - Carlos Monzón, Argentine boxer
1942 - Caetano Veloso, Brazilian musician
1943 - Alain Corneau, director (Choice of Arms)
1943 - Lana Cantrell, Sydney, Australia, singer (Those Were the Days)
1943 - Giorgio Alverà,Italy, bobsledder (WC 1975 gold), (d. 2013)
1944 - David Rasche, St Louis MO, actor (Sledge Hammer)
1944 - John Glover, Kingston NY, actor (52 Pick-Up, Something Special)
1944 - Robert Mueller, Director of the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation)
1945 - Alan Page, NFL defensive tackle (Minnesota Vikings)
1945 - Kerry Chater, rocker (Gary Puckett & Union Gap-Young Girl)
1945 - Patrice Mestral, composer
1946 - Ed Seykota, American commodities and futures trader
1947 - Ann Beattie, writer
1947 - Mosibudi Mangena, South African black leader (On Your Own)
1948 - Greg Chappell, cricketer (bro of Ian Elegant Aussie batsman 1970-84)
1948 - Marty Appel, American public relations executive and author
1949 - Carlo Novi, rocker
1949 - Walid Jumblatt, Lebanese political leader
1950 - David James Wottle, 800m runner (Olympic-gold-1972)
1950 - Rodney Crowell, Houston Texas, country singer (She&#039;s Crazy for Leavin&#039;)
1951 - Gary Hall, US swimmer (Olympics-bronze/2 silver-1968, 72)
1952 - Richard Joswick, rocker (Bo Donaldson & the Heywoods)
1952 - Alexei Sayle, British comedian
1953 - Anne Fadiman, American writer; daughter of Clifton Fadiman
1954 - Caroline Aaron, Richmond VA, actress (Crimes & Misdemeanors)
1955 - Vladimir Sorokin, Russian writer
1955 - Greg Nickels, mayor of Seattle
1955 - Wayne Knight, American actor
1955 - Gregoris Valtinos, Greek actor and director
1956 - Kent V Rominger, Del Norte Colo, US Navy /astronaut (STS 73, 80, 85)
1957 - Alexander Dityatin, Leningrad, Russia, Soviet gymnast (3-time Olympic Champion)
1958 - Alberto Salazar, marathoner (NYC Marathon Winner)
1958 - Bruce Dickinson, heavy metal rocker (Iron Maiden-Run to Hills)
1958 - Larisa Karlova, USSR, team handball player (Olympic-gold-1976, 80)
1959 - Ali Shah, cricketer (Zimbabwe all-rounder in two Tests 1992)
1960 - David Duchovny, NYC, actor (Fox Mulder-X Files)
1960 - Jacquie O'Sullivan, rocker (Bananarama-Venus)
1961 - Walter Swimburn, Irish jockey (Derby 1981)
1961 - Yelena Davydova, USSR, gymnist (Olympic-gold-1980)
1962 - Bruno Pelletier, Québécois singer
1963 - Marcus Lewis, Pontiac Mich, singer (Sing me a Song)
1963 - Patrick Kennedy, son of President Kennedy, lives only 3 days
1963 - Patrick Newman, St Catharines Ontario, rower (Olympics-10-88, 96)
1963 - Harold Perrineau Jr., American actor
1964 - Patti Liscio, Santa Maria CA, golfer (1994 Chicago Challenge-49th)
1964 - Michael Weishan, American TV host
1964 - John Birmingham, Australian author
1965 - Caroline S Keggi, El Paso TX, LPGA golfer (1994 Dinah Shore-19th)
1965 - Elizabeth Manley, Canada, figure skater (Olympics-Silver-88)
1966 - Kristin Hersch, US singer/songwriter (Throwing Muses)
1966 - Tony Stargell, NFL cornerback (Tampa Bay Bucs, Chicago Bears)
1966 - Jimmy Wales, American internet entrepreneur
1967 - Charlotte Lewis, Kensington London, actress (Golden Child, Pirates)
1967 - Jason Grimsley, Cleveland TX, pitcher (California Angels)
1968 - Leslie Lyness, Paoli PA, field hockey midfielder (Olympics-96)
1968 - Tomas Carbonell, Barcelona Spain, tennis star
1968 - Lynn Strait, American singer (Snot)
1969 - Dave Smits, soccer player (Willem II)
1969 - Jodi Figley, LPGA golfer
1969 - Keith Cash, NFL tight end (KC Chiefs, Oakland Raiders)
1969 - Ludovit Tatos, Lynnwood Wash, kayak (alt-Olympics-96)
1969 - Travis Brown, Durango Colo, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1970 - Eric Namesnik, US, 400m medley swimmer (Olympics-silver-1992, 96)
1970 - Joe Cocozzo, NFL guard (San Diego Chargers)
1971 - Chris T Jones, NFL tackle/wide receiver (Philadelphia Eagles)
1971 - Dominic Cork, cricketer (England all-rounder Hat-trick v WI 1995)
1971 - Kevin Gaines, WLAF DB (London Monarchs)
1971 - Sydney Penny, actress (Danni-New Gidget, Thorn Birds, All My Children)
1972 - Oscar Gray, NFL fullback (Seattle Seahawks)
1972 - Tony Bouie, NFL safety (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1972 - Willy Tate, NFL/WLAF tight end (KC Chiefs, Scottish Claymores)
1972 - Greg Serano, American actor
1973 - Bo Hanson, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1973 - Kevin Muscat, Australian soccer defender (Olyroos, Olympics-96)
1973 - Kimmo Rinatnen, hockey forward (Team Finland Oly-Bronze-1998)
1973 - Danny Graves, American baseball player
1974 - Jeff Buckey, tackle (Miami Dolphins)
1974 - Philippe De Rouville, Victoriaville, NHL goalie (Pitts Penguins)
1975 - Alshermond Singleton, linebacker (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1975 - Edgar Renteria, Barranquilla Colombia, infielder (Florida Marlins)
1975 - Jimmy van Fessem, soccer player (Willem II)
1975 - Gaahl (Kristian Eivind Espedal), Norwegian musician
1975 - Koray Candemir, Turkish singer
1975 - Charlize Theron, Transvaal, South Africa, actress (The Cider House Rules, Monster)
1976 - Dimitrios Eleftheropoulos, Greek footballer
1976 - Shane Lechler, American football player
1977 - Samantha Ronson, British DJ.
1978 - Alexandre Aja, French director
1978 - Jamey Jasta, American singer (Hatebreed)
1978 - Vanness Wu, Taiwanese singer
1978 - Cirroc Lofton, American actor
1979 - Eric Johnson, American actor
1980 - Aurélie Claudel, French model
1982 - Yana Klochkova, Ukrainian swimmer
1982 - Vasileios Spanoulis, Greek basketball player
1983 - Tina O'Brien, British actress
1987 - Sidney Crosby, Canadian hockey player
1988 - Melody Oliveria, American internet blogger
1994 - Jack Antonio, son of Virginia Madisen & Antonio Sabatto Jr
1994 - Sara Grayson, daughter of actress Katey Sagal
1996 - Tessa Allen, American actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 07, 2013, 10:54:55 AM

This Day in History for 7th August


Famous Deaths

461 - Majorian, Roman Emperor (assassinated) (b. 420)
479 - Emperor Yūryaku of Japan
1033 - Frederick II, duke of Upper Lorraine
1106 - Henry IV, Roman German king/emperor (1056/84-1105), dies at 54
1485 - Alexander Stewart, 1st Duke of Albany, Scottish prince
1547 - Cajetanus van Thiene, Italian saint, dies
1609 - Eustache du Caurroy, composer, dies at 60
1613 - Thomas Fleming, English judge (b. 1544)
1616 - Vincenzo Scamozzi, Ital architect (Procurazie Nuove, Venice), dies
1635 - Friedrich von Spee, German writer (b. 1591)
1639 - Martin van den Hove, Dutch scientist (b. 1605)
1657 - Robert Blake, English admiral (Dover, Dungeness), dies at about 57
1661 - Jin Shengtan, Chinese editor, writer and critic (b. 1608)
1712 - Friederich Wilhelm Zachow, composer, dies at 48
1786 - Friedrich Schwindl, composer, dies at 49
1798 - Johann Gottlieb Sollner, composer, dies at 65
1799 - John Bacon, English sculptor, dies at 58
1816 - Dionysius G van der Keessel, Dut lawyer (Theses selectae), dies at 77
1817 - Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, French industrialist (b. 1739)
1834 - Joseph Marie Jacquard, French weaver and inventor (b. 1752)
1846 - Johann Christian Heinrich Rinck, composer, dies at 76
1848 - Jöns Jakob Berzelius, Swedish chemist (b. 1779)
1855 - Mariano Arista, President of Mexico (b. 1802)
1864 - Li Xiucheng, late Taiping's Field Marshal and soul person.(b. 1823)
1867 - Ira F Aldridge, US actor (Othello/Shylock), dies in Lodes Poland at 63
1885 - Antony EJ Modderman, Dutch minister of Justice (1879-83), dies at 46
1893 - Alfredo Catalani, composer, dies at 39
1912 - François-Alphonse Forel, Swiss hydrologist (b. 1841)
1913 - David Popper, composer, dies at 70
1914 - B B (Bransby) Cooper, cricketer (Test for Australia), dies
1914 - Boleslaw Dembinski, composer, dies at 81
1916 - Charles E Manning, Australian judge/major, dies in battle at 36
1917 - Squadron Commander E.H. Dunning, first pilot to land his aircraft on a moving ship. (b. 1891)
1921 - Alexander A Block, Russian poet (Dvenatsat), dies at 40
1923 - Hendrik Pierson, Dutch theologist (H Pierson Foundation), dies at 89
1924 - Camille Zeckwer, composer, dies at 49
1928 - Alphonse MAJ Ariëns, Dutch RC pastor/social worker, dies at 68
1931 - Leon Bismarck "Bix" Beiderbecke, jazz cornetist (In Mist), dies at 29
1938 - Konstantin S Stanislavski, Russian director (S Method), dies at 75
1941 - Radindranath Tagore, Indian philosopher/poet/writer, dies at 80
1942 - Richard Gott, Brit gen/commandant of 8th Army, dies in battle at 43
1943 - Gustav Schmidt, German lt-general, dies in battle
1957 - Oliver Hardy, comedian of Laurel & Hardy, dies at 65
1959 - Armas Emmanuel Launis, composer, dies at 75
1960 - Vaino Hannikainen, composer, dies at 60
1962 - Morris Louis, US painter (post painterly abstraction), dies at 49
1967 - Max Branch, music/radio commentator, dies at 75
1967 - Max Tak, Dutch violinist/radio commentator, dies at 75
1969 - Joseph Kosma, composer, dies at 63
1969 - Russ Morgan, orchestra leader (Welcome Aboard), dies at 65
1970 - ... Haley, US judge, shot dead
1970 - James McClain, US black activist, shot dead
1970 - Jonathan P Jackson, US black activist, shot dead
1970 - William Christmas, US black activist, shot dead
1972 - Joi Lansing, actress (Bob Cummings Show), dies at 44 of cancer
1973 - Jack Gregory, cricketer (scorer of fastest ton Australia 1921), dies
1974 - Rosario Castellanos, Mexican poet (b. 1925)
1974 - Sylvio Mantha, professional ice hockey player (b. 1902)
1976 - Cecil Weston, actor (Dude Ranch, Huckleberry Finn), dies at 86
1976 - Murvyn Vye, actor (Bob Cummings Show), dies at 63
1978 - Franz Alphons Wolpert, composer, dies at 60
1984 - Esther Phillips, US singer (What a Difference a Day Makes), dies at 48
1985 - Grayson Hall, actor (Dark Shadows), dies of cancer at 58
1987 - Camille Chamoun, president of Lebanon, dies at 87
1987 - Nobusuke Kishi, premier of Japan (1957-60), dies at 90
1989 - Mickey Leland, (Rep-D-Tx), & 15 others dies in plane crash in Ethiopia
1990 - Eva Sully Block, actress (Kid Millions), dies of heart failure at 88
1991 - Billy James, comedian/singer (Women at Play, Lusty Business), dies
1991 - Shapur Bahktiar, PM of Iran (1979), assassinated
1991 - Shotzie, Cincinnati Red dog mascot, dies at 9
1992 - John Anderson, actor, dies of heart attack at 69
1992 - Titti Sotto, Cuban composer (La Esquina Habanera), dies
1993 - Kelly Ahrendt, 1st NYer to die of rabies in 40 years, dies at 14
1993 - Roy Budd, English jazz pianist/composer (Paper Tiger), dies at 46
1994 - Robert Hutton, [Winne], US actor (Rocket), dies at 74
1994 - Larry Martyn, comedy actor (b. 1934)
1995 - Brigid Brophy, novelist/campaigner, dies at 66
1995 - Tom Scott, poet/editor, dies at 77
1996 - Anne Kristen, actress (Truth or Dare, Rachel-Dr Finlay), dies at 59
1996 - Gerald Etheridge Gomez, cricketer, dies at 76
1996 - Peter Winter, naval commander, dies at 78
1996 - Christina Perri, Future Pressident
1997 - Douglas Gray, archivist, dies at 74
1997 - Vincent Gulliver, Britain's oldest man, dies at 109
1999 - Brion James, American actor (b. 1945)
2003 - Mickey McDermott, baseball player (b. 1929)
2004 - Red Adair, American oil field firefighter (b. 1915)
2004 - Colin Bibby, English ornithologist (b. 1948)
2005 - Peter Jennings, Canadian-born news anchor (b. 1938)
2006 - Mary Anderson Bain, American New Deal politician (b. 1911)
2007 - Hal Fishman, Los Angeles based local news anchor. (b. 1931)
2007 - Ernesto Alonso, Mexican actor, director and producer. (b. 1917)
2007 - Angus Tait, New Zealand electronics innovator and businessman (b. 1919)
2008 - Bernie Brillstein, American talent agent/manager and producer (b. 1931)
2008 - Andrea Pininfarina, CEO of Pininfarina S.p.A.
2009 - Louis E. Saavedra, American Mayor of Albuquerque, New Mexico (b. 1933)
2009 - Mike Seeger, American folk musician (b. 1933)
2011 - Nancy Wake, British war agent (b. 1912)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 08, 2013, 11:00:11 AM

This Day in History for 8th August


Historical Events

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Astronomer & Physicist                      French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte              Inventor Thomas Edison
Galileo Galilei

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Swimmer Florence Chadwick                      Dictator Fidel Castro                        Iraqi President Saddam Hussein

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Olympic Sprinter and Long jumper
 Carl Lewis


70 - Tower of Antonia destroyed by Romans
870 - Kings Charles the Bare & Louis the German divide Lutherans
936 - German king Otto I the Great, crowned
1220 - Sweden is defeated by Estonian tribes in the Battle of Lihula.
1322 - Emperor Godaigo, makes Sojiji monastery. chief monastery of Soto Sect
1509 - The Emperor Krishnadeva Raya is crowned, marking the beginning of the regeneration of the
           Vijayanagara Empire.
1549 - France declares war on England
1567 - Duke of Alva's army enters Brussels Belgium
1570 - Peace of Saint-Germain-and-Laye, more freedom for huguenots
1579 - Cornerstone is laid for Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg observatory
1585 - Pope Sixtus excommunicates Hendrik van Navarra (Henri IV)
1585 - John Davis enters Cumberland Sound in search of the Northwest Passage.
1588 - Sea battle at Grevelingen: English fleet battles Spanish armada
1605 - The city of Oulu, Finland, is founded by Charles IX of Sweden.
1609 - Venetian senate examines Galileo Galilei's telescope
1619 - Duke Maximilian I & Emperor Ferdinand II signs Treaty of Munchen
1647 - The Irish Confederate Wars and Wars of the Three Kingdoms: Battle of Dungans Hill - English
           Parliamentary forces defeat Irish forces.
1673 - Dutch battle fleet of 23 ships demands surrender of NYC
1700 - Denmark & Sweden sign peace treaty
1709 - 1st known ascent in hot-air balloon, Bartolomeu de Gusmao (indoors)
1758 - British troops occupy & plunder Cherbourg
1786 - Congress adopts silver dollar & decimal system of money
1786 - Jacques Balmat & Michel Paccard are 1st to climb to top of Mont Blanc
1788 - King Louis XVI calls French States & Generals together
1793 - The insurrection of Lyon occurs during the French Revolution.
1794 - Joseph Whidbey and George Vancouver lead an expedition to search for the Northwest
           Passage near Juneau, Alaska.
1796 - Boston African Society establishes with 44 members
1809 - 70 disciples of Gaon of Vilnus, arrive in Israel (Palestine)
1814 - Peace negotiations begin in Ghent, Belgium
1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte set sail for exile on St Helena
1816 - Bavarian joins Saint Alliance
1829 - French government of De Polignac forms
1831 - Battle of Hasselt - Dutch army drives out Belgian Army
1839 - Beta Theta Pi is founded in Oxford, Ohio.
1843 - Natal (in South Africa) is made a British colony
1844 - Brigham Young chosen Mormon Church head following Joseph Smith death
1853 - Russian fleet appears at Nagasaki Japan
1854 - Smith & Wesson patents metal bullet cartridges
1860 - Queen of Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) arrives in NYC
1863 - American Civil War: Tennessee's "military" Governor Andrew Johnson frees his personal
           slaves. During the early 20th century, the day was celebrated by blacks in Tennessee as a
           holiday.
1864 - Comet C/1864 N1 (Tempel) approaches within 0.0964 AUs of Earth
1864 - Red Cross forms in Geneva
1864 - Union troops/fleet occupy Fort Gaines, Alabama
1868 - Quake destroyes Arica Chile
1870 - Magic (US) defeats Cambria (England) in 2nd running of America's Cup
1870 - The Republic of Ploieşti, a failed Radical-Liberal rising against Domnitor Carol of Romania.
1876 - Dan O'Leacy completes 500 mile walk in 139h32m
1876 - Thomas Edison patents mimeograph
1882 - Snow falls on Lake Michigan
1900 - 1st Davis Cup tennis competition, named after Dwight Filley Davis, began at Longwood
           Cricket Club in Mass, & won by US 2 days later
1902 - 2nd Davis Cup: USA beats British Isles in New York (3-2)
1903 - 3rd Davis Cup: British Isles beats USA in Boston (4-1)
1903 - In 11th an old black ball is put into play against Cleve, Tigers' Nap Lajoie protests ignored, he
           hurls ball out of park & forfeits game
1910 - The US Army installs the first tricycle landing gear on the Army's Wright Flyer.
1911 - The millionth patent is filed in the United States Patent Office by Francis Holton for a tubeless
           vehicle tire.
1911 - Public Law 62-5 sets the number of representatives in the United States House of
           Representatives at 435. The law would come into effect in 1913.
1913 - Richard Corfields "Camel Corps" opens "Mad Mullah" in Burao Somalia
1914 - 3rd pole expedition Ernest Shackleton "Endurance"
1914 - French troops under Gen Bonneau occupy Mulhouse at Elzas
1914 - Montenegro declares war on Germany
1916 - A's set AL record with 19th consecutive loss on road
1918 - Canada/Australian/British breakthrough with 600 tanks at Amiens
1918 - 6 US soldiers are surrounded by Germans in France, Alvin York is given command & shoots
           20 Germans & captures 132 more
1919 - Treaty of Rawalpindi, British recognize Afghanistan's independence
1920 - Tigers beat Yanks 1-0 in shortest AL game, 73 minutes
1922 - Italian general strike broken by fascist terror
1922 - Pirates set record of 46 hits in a doubleheader (against Phillies)
1924 - British-Russian trade agreement signed
1925 - 1st national march of Ku Klux Klan (200,000) in Washington, DC
1929 - 1st airship flight around Earth flying eastward begins
1929 - German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight
1929 - Salem Oregon airport dedicated
1930 - St Louis Cards are 12 games back in NL, & go on to win pennant
1931 - Wash Senator Bob Burke no-hits Boston Red Sox, 5-0
1937 - Bonneville Dam on Columbia River begins producing power
1940 - 31 German aircrafts shot down over England
1940 - Battle of Britain began as Germany launches air attacks
1940 - The "Aufbau Ost" directive is signed by Wilhelm Keitel.
1941 - 20 divisions of Russian 6th/12th Army surrender at Oeman
1942 - "Monty" appointed commandant of British 8th Army at Alamein
1942 - 6 convicted Nazi saboteurs who landed in US executed in Wash DC
1942 - Dianthus sinks U-379
1942 - Russ anti-offensive of Voronezh under marshal Timosjenko
1943 - Common Chiefs of staff meet in Quebec
1943 - US amphibians land at St Agata on North coast of Sicily
1943 - Vegetables & fruit rationed in Holland
1944 - Canada/Polish troops occupy Cramesnil/Secqueville/Cintheaux/St-Aignan
1944 - US 15th Army corp occupies Le Mans
1945 - England & Aust Services draw 4th Victory Test
1945 - Pres Harry S Truman signs UN Charter
1945 - US, USSR, England & France sign Treaty of London
1945 - USSR declares war against Japan in WW II
1945 - USSR establishes a communist government in North Korea
1946 - India agrees to give Bhutan 32 sq miles
1946 - Dreyfuss family, owners of Pittsburgh Pirates since 1900, sells club to Frank McKinney & John
           Galbreath for $25 million
1946 - First flight of the Convair B-36.
1947 - Pakistan's National Flag is approved.
1948 - "Hold It!" opens at National Theater NYC for 46 performances
1949 - Bhutan, land of Dragon, becomes an independent monarchy
1950 - Florence Chadwick swims English Channel (13:23)
1950 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA All-American Golf Open
1952 - Syngman Ree re-elected president of South-Korea
1953 - Russia's Georgi Malenkov reports possession of hydrogen bomb
1953 - US & South Korea initial a mutual security pact
1955 - Fidel Castro forms "July 26th Movement"
1955 - Geneva conference held to discuss peaceful uses of atomic energy
1956 - Fire & explosion kill 263 miners at Marcinelle, Belgium
1956 - WDIQ (now KMCT) TV channel 2 in Dozier, AL (PBS) begins
1957 - USSR offers Syria economic/military aid
1960 - "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini" hits #1
1960 - Ivory Coast declares independence
1960 - South Kasai secedes from the Congo.
1961 - Ham Tigercats (CFL) beat Buff Bills (NFL) 38-21 in Hamilton, Ontario
1961 - Verne Gagne beats Gene Kiniski in Minneapolis, to become NWA champ
1963 - Great Train Robbery in England, £2.6 million ($7.3 million)
1963 - Kingsmen release "Louie, Louie," radio stations label it obscene
1963 - LA Dodgers F Howard & B Skowron are 3rd to hit consecutive pinch HRs
1963 - Verne Gagne beats Fritz Von Erich in Amarillo, to become NWA champ
1964 - "110 in the Shade" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 330 perfs
1964 - Dutch Opera forms in Amsterdam
1964 - Rolling Stones 1st Dutch concert
1965 - Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Milwaukee Golf Open
1965 - Singapore leaves Malaysian Federation
1966 - South Arican Broadcasting bans Beatles (Lennon's anti-Jesus remark)
1967 - Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore & Thailand meet to form Association of South East
           Asian Nations (ASEAN)
1968 - Jarry Park is approved by Mayor Jean Drapeau for interim use by Expos
1968 - Race riot in Miami Florida
1968 - Republican convention in Miami Beach nominates Nixon for pres
1970 - NY Yankees honor Casey Stengel, retiring his number 37 (BTG was there)
1971 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1971 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Lady Pepsi Golf Open
1972 - NY Yanks sign 30-year lease to play in remodeled Yankee Stadium
1973 - VP Spiro T Agnew says reports he took kickbacks are "damned lies" from government
           contracts in Maryland. He vowed not to resign (Right!)
1974 - Pres Richard M Nixon announces he'll resign his office 12PM Aug 9
1976 - Chicago White Sox suit up in shorts
1977 - Maurine Stuart, ordained as Zen priest by Eido Tai Shimano Roshi
1977 - Texas Rangers turn their 1st triple play (vs A's)
1978 - Pioneer-Venus 2 with 5 atmospheric probes launched toward Venus
1979 - Iraqi president Saddam Hussein executes 22 political opponents
1980 - LBV Conference Center & Club Lake Villas open
1982 - 64th PGA Championship: Ray Floyd shoots a 272 at Southern Hills Tulsa
1982 - Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
1983 - Brig Gen Efrain Rios Montt was deposed as president of Guatemela
1983 - Jury in KC, Mo, awards TV anchorwoman Christine Craft $500,000 in sex discrimination suit
           against KMBC-TV (later overturned)
1983 - Military coup in Guatemala, Pres Rios Montt flees
1984 - "Rink" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 204 performances
1984 - Carl Lewis wins 3rd (200m) of 4 gold medals in Summer
1984 - Milwaukee 10-game losing streak ends
1985 - Baseball's new agreement permits 2 new NL teams in 1993
1985 - Japan launches Planet A, a probe to Halley's comet
1986 - Record 3 grandslams in a game-(Harrah-Tex, Sheets & Dwyer-Orioles)
1986 - Altaf Hussain's address at Nishtar Park Karachi, announcing the establishment of the MQM
           political movement.
1987 - Brewers' Rob Deer struck-out 5 times in a game
1987 - Lynne Cox became 1st to swim from US to Russia across Bering Strait
1987 - Pakistan all out 708 v England at The Oval, Botham 3-217
1988 - -11] Army in Rangoon shoots on students, 5-10,000 killed
1988 - 9th US Seniors Golf Open: Gary Player
1988 - Angola, Cuba & South Africa sign cease fire treaty
1988 - Discovery of most distant galaxy (15 * 10 ^ 12 light yrs) announced
1988 - Duchess of York gives birth to 6 lb 12 oz baby girl
1988 - Goose Gossage registers career save #300
1988 - Jennifer Levin's parents file $25M suit against Dorrian Red Hand Bar
1988 - Jose Canseco becomes 11th to get 30 HRs & 30 steals in a season
1988 - Matt Biondi swims US record 200m freestyle (1:47.72)
1988 - Minnesota Twins pull 2nd triple-play of year & beat Cleve 6-2
1988 - Renovated Central Park Zoo reopens after 4 years
1988 - Russian troops begin pull out of Afghanistan after 9 year war
1988 - Sec of State Shultz narrowly escapes assassin attempt in Bolivia
1988 - South Africa declares cease-fire in Angola
1988 - Temperature hits high of 88 on 8/8/88 in NYC
1988 - Cubs & Phillies attempt to play 1st night game ever at Wrigley Field but are rained out in 4th
           inning with Chicago leading, 3-1
1988 - The "8888 Uprising" occurs in Burma.
1989 - US space shuttle STS-28 launched
1990 - Balt Orioles pull their 10th triple play (1-6-3 vs Oakland)
1990 - Carlton Fisk ties Johnny Bench hitting 327 HRs as a catcher
1990 - Iraq annexes Kuwait as its 19th province
1990 - Pete Rose begins 5-ms prison term at Marion (IL) Federal prison camp
1991 - Billy Preston charged with exhibiting porno to a minor
1991 - Carlos Santana pleads no contest to marijuana possession charge
1991 - Gary Oldman, actor (State of Grace), arrested for drunk driving
1991 - Shite Moslems release British hostage John McCarthy
1991 - With two months left, White Sox set new home attendance (2,150,951)
1991 - The Warsaw radio mast, at one time the tallest construction ever built, collapses.
1992 - Lou Whitaker hits his 200th career HR
1993 - Dana Lofland wins McCall's LPGA Golf Classic Dormann at Stratton Mt
1993 - Tropical storm Bret ravages Venezuela, about 100 killed
1995 - Jeff King of Pirates is 16th NL player to HR twice in one inning
1997 - Mariners Randy Johnson strikes out 19 Chicago White Sox
2000 - Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean
           floor.
2007 - An EF2 tornado touches down in Kings County and Richmond County, New York State, the
           most powerful tornado in New York to date and the first in Brooklyn since 1889.
2008 - Georgian invasion into South Ossetia. Begin of five-day war between Georgia and Russia.
2012 - China announces that it plans to close 23 rare earth mines and up to 50 smelting companies
2012 - 16 people are killed from flooding from heavy rain in Manilla, Philippines

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 08, 2013, 11:06:08 AM

This Day in History for 8th August


Famous Weddings

1502 - Jacobus IV of Scotland marries Margaretha Tudor
1810 - Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib marries Maaroof, daughter of Nawab Ilahi Baksh, and moves to Delhi.
1992 - Actress Barbara Hershey weds artist Stephen Douglas
1993 - California state senator Tom Hayden (54) weds actress Barbara Williams (40)
1995 - "Veronica's Closet" actress Kathy Najimy (38) weds actor Dan Finnerty (25)
2009 - International opera group Il Divo singer David Miller weds singer and theater actress Sarah
           Joy Kabanuck in New York City

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 08, 2013, 11:19:47 AM

This Day in History for 8th August


Famous Birthdays

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Theoretical Physicist and                        Actor Dustin Hoffman (1937)            Tennis Player Roger Federer (1981)
Nobel Laureat 
 Paul Dirac (1902)


1079 - Emperor Horikawa of Japan (d. 1107)
1518 - Conrad Lycosthenes, French-born German humanist and encyclopedist (d. 1561)
1571 - John Ward, composer
1586 - Adolf, earl of Nassau-Siegen
1605 - Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, British colonial Governor of Maryland (d. 1675)
1617 - Adriaan W "Joris" van Geel, Flemish missionary (Bantu Dictionary)
1646 - Godfrey Kneller, German-born painter (d. 1723)
1653 - Jacques Basnage, French/Neth historian/vicar
1673 - John Ker, Scottish spy (d. 1726)
1693 - Laurent Belissen, composer
1694 - Francis Hutcheson, Irish philosopher (d. 1746)
1705 - Gustaaf Imhoff, gov of Ceylon (1736-40)/gov of Neth-Indies (1743-50)
1720 - Carl Fredrik Pechlin, Swedish politician (d. 1796)
1732 - Johann C Adelung, German linguist/librarian
1746 - Hieronymus van Alphen, Dutch attorney/poet (church songs)
1755 - Luigi Marchesi, composer
1763 - Charles Bulfinch, Boston Mass, 1st US pro architect (Mass State House)
1805 - Antoon Jurgens, Dutch margarine manufacturer
1807 - Emilie Flygare-Carlén, Swedish novelist (d. 1892)
1812 - John Rodgers II, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1882
1814 - Esther Hobart Morris, suffragist/anti-slavery activist
1819 - Charles Anderson Dana, Asst Secy War, (Union) died in 1897
1820 - Winfield Scott "Old Swet" Featherston, Army Brigadier General (Confederate)
1823 - Theodule Augustin Ribot, painter
1824 - Maria Alexandrovna (Marie of Hesse), Tsarina of Russia (d. 1880)
1835 - James William Forsyth, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1906
1839 - Nelson Appleton Miles, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1925
1852 - Barend Barendse, actor/director (Wandering Jew)
1857 - Cecile Chaminade, composer
1857 - Henry Osborn, Conn, paleontologist/author (52 Years of Research)
1861 - William Bateson, English biologist (originator of term "genetics")
1864 - Henri de Vries, [Van Walterop], Dutch actor (Cleopatra, White Cargo)
1866 - Matthew A Henson, 1st Black to reach North Pole (Jun 4 1909)
1871 - William Henry Squire, composer
1875 - Artur da Silva Bernardes, President of Brazil (d. 1955)
1879 - Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary, peasant leader
1879 - Bob Smith, American founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (d. 1950)
1880 - Earle Page, Australian politician (d. 1961)
1881 - Paul L E von Kleist, German general-fieldmarshal (Eastern Front)
1881 - Albert Kesselring, German field marshal (d. 1960)
1882 - Ladislas Starevich, Polish animator (d. 1965)
1884 - Sara Teasdale, US, poet (1st Pulitzer Prize-1918-"Love Songs")
1886 - Daniel Ruyneman, composer
1886 - Pietro Alessandro Yon, composer
1887 - Esme Percy, London England, actor (Old Spanish Custom)
1887 - J C Heldring, Dutch businessman
1887 - Malcolm Keen, Bristol England, actor (Uncle Chris-Mama)
1887 - Ullrich Haupt, Prussia, actor (Morocco, Du Barry-Woman of Passion)
1889 - Jack Ryder, cricketer (athletic Australian all-rounder & captain)
1891 - Adolf Busch, German violinist (d. 1952)
1892 - Rafael Moreno Aranzadi, Spanish footballer (d. 1922)
1895 - Law Pendleton, US, wrestler/actor (Laughing Lady)
1896 - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Wash DC, writer (Yearling)
1898 - Paul Belmondo, French sculptor (Bathing Woman, Orleans)
1898 - Alexis Minotis, Greek actor (d. 1990)
1900 - Josephine Holt Bay, 1st woman to head a firm on NY stock exchange
1900 - Victor Young, Chicago Illinois, orchestra leader (Milton Berle Show, In Old California)
1901 - Ernest O Lawrence, Canton SC, inventor (Cyclotron-Nobel 1939)
1902 - Paul Dirac, Bristol, physicist (quantum mechanics, Nobel 1933), (d. 1984)
1903 - August Cool, Belgian union leader/minister of state
1904 - Istvan Szelenyi, composer
1904 - Achille Varzi, Italian race car driver (d. 1948)
1905 - Andre Jolivet, Paris France, composer (L'Eunuque)
1905 - Nino Martini, Verona Italy, actor (Here's to Romance)
1905 - Wachtang Ananjan, writer
1906 - Andre Demedts, Flemish writer (Rainfall of the Days)
1907 - Benny Carter, NYC, musician/composer (Easy Money, King Carter)
1908 - Arthur J Goldberg, Ill, UN ambassador/Supreme Court justice (1962-65)
1908 - Chivu Stoica, premier of Romania (1955-61)
1909 - Bill Voce, cricketer (England left-arm bodyline bowler)
1910 - Francisco Brochado Da Rocha, PM of Brazil (1962)
1910 - Sylvia Sidney, Bronx NY, actress (WKRP, Sabotage, Beetlejuice, Demon)
1911 - Rosetta LeNoire, NYC, actor (Grandma Winslow-Family Matters)
1912 - Daniel Mann, Brooklyn, director (Willard, Butterfield 8 )
1913 - Axel Stordahl, Staten Island NY, orchestra leader (Frank Sinatra Show )
1913 - Daan Wildschut, painter/glazenier/author
1913 - Robert T Stafford, (Sen-R-VT, 1971-88)
1914 - Arthur Holt, politician
1915 - Jumbo Elliott, American track coach (d. 1981)
1918 - Rory Calhoun, Los Angeles California, actor (Capitol, Motel Hell, Bill-Texan)
1919 - Dino De Laurentiis, Torre Annunziata Italy, producer (King Kong)
1920 - Don Cook, foreign Correspondent
1920 - Leo Chiosso, Italian lyricist (d. 2006)
1920 - Jimmy Witherspoon, American singer (d. 1997)
1921 - Roger Nixon, composer
1921 - John Herbert Chapman, British physicist (d. 1979)
1921 - Webb Pierce, American singer (d. 1991)
1921 - Vulimiri Ramalingaswami, Indian medical scientist (d. 2001)
1922 - Michael Parkin, journalist
1922 - Rory Calhoun, actor (Blue & Gray, Judson Tyler-Capitol)
1922 - Rudi Gernreich, designer (1st women's topless swimsuit, miniskirt)
1922 - Gertrude Himmelfarb, American historian
1923 - Esther Williams, Inglewood Cal, actress/swimmer (Dangerous when Wet)
1924 - Thomas Beversdorf, composer
1925 - Jack Stoddart, designer/socialist
1925 - Alija Izetbegović, Bosniak politician (d. 2003)
1926 - Richard Anderson, Long Beach NJ, actor (Oscar Goldman-6 Million $ Man)
1926 - Webb Pierce, West Monroe La, country singer (Ozark Jubilee)
1927 - Elis Juliana, Antillian writer/poet (Lady of the Night: A flower)
1927 - Jim Weaver, (Rep-D-OR, 1975- )
1927 - Juri Kasakow, writer
1927 - Johnny Temple, American baseball player (d. 1994)
1928 - Ken Scowcroft, English insurance magnate/multi-millionaire
1928 - Don Burrows, Australian musician
1929 - Josef Suk, Prague Czechoslovakia, violinist (Artist of Merit-1977)
1929 - Rose Nyland, writer
1929 - Larisa Bogoraz, Soviet dissident (d. 2004)
1930 - Jerry Tarkanian, basketball coach (California State, UNLV, 625-122)
1930 - Joan Mondale, wife of US vice-president Walter Mondale (1977-81)
1930 - Nita Talbot, NYC NY, actress (Supertrain, Here We Go Again)
1930 - Terry Nation, writer (Dr Who, Blake 7)
1931 - Jonathan Elkus, composer
1932 - Jimmy Witherspoon, singer
1932 - Mel Tillis, Pahokee Fl, country singer (Who's Julie, M-M-Mel)
1932 - Luis García Meza Tejada, Bolivian dictator
1933 - Joe Tex, singer/songwriter (Hold What You've Got), (d. 1982)
1934 - Julian C Dixon, (Rep-D-California, 1979- )
1935 - Ron Marlenee, (Rep-R-MT, 1977- )
1935 - Sandy Horn, lesbian activist
1935 - Donald P. Bellisario, American television producer
1935 - John Laws, Australia radio personality
1936 - Don Bowden, US, 1st American to run a sub 4 min mile
1936 - Frank Howard, baseball player (NL Rookie of the Year 1960)
1936 - Keith Barron, Mexborough England, actor (At Earth's Core, Baby Love)
1937 - Dustin Hoffman, LA, actor (Graduate, Tootsie, Kramer vs Kramer)
1937 - Louis Neefs, Belgian singer
1938 - Connie Stevens, Bkln, singer/actress (Hawaiian Eye, Back to Beach)
1938 - Jacques Hetu, composer
1939 - Philip E Baisley, Augusta Va, singer (Statler Bros-Class of '57)
1939 - Viorica Viscopoleanu, Romania, long jumper (Oly-gold-68)
1939 - William Alden Hibbard, composer
1939 - Alexander Watson, American ambassador and diplomat
1940 - Dilip Sardesai, cricketer (high scoring Indian batsman of 60's)
1942 - Jay David, rocker (Dr Hook & Medicine Show)
1944 - Hans van Eijk, Dutch rock guitarist (Jumping Jewels)
1944 - Michael Johnson, rocker
1944 - Brooke Bundy, American actress
1944 - John Renbourn, English musician
1946 - French W Weisglas, Dutch MP (VVD)
1946 - Robin M Tallon, (Rep-D-SC, 1983- )
1946 - James W. Lewis, American convicted extortionist
1947 - Jose Cruz, leftfielder (St Louis Cards, Houston Astros)
1947 - Larry Wilcox, SD California, actor (Lassie, Officer Jon Baker-CHiPs)
1948 - Svetlana Y Savitskaya, Russian cosmonaut (Soyuz T-7, T-12, T-15A)
1949 - Airrion Love, US singer (Stylistics-16 Bars)
1949 - Bela Magyari, Hungary, cosmonaut
1949 - Keith Carradine, San Mateo California, actor (Young Guns, Pretty Baby)
1949 - Ricardo Londoño, Colombian racing driver
1950 - Willie Hall, rocker
1951 - Martin Brest, Bronx NY, actor (Fast Times at Ridgemont High)
1951 - Phil Carlson, cricketer (Australian all-rounder 1979)
1951 - Mamoru Oshii, Japanese film director
1951 - Randy Shilts, American journalist and author (d. 1994)
1952 - Robin Quivers, radio/TV personality (Howard Stern's sidekick)
1952 - Jostein Gaarder, Norwegian author
1952 - Sudhakar Rao, Indian cricketer
1953 - "Sweet" Lou Dunbar, basketball player (Harlem Globetrotters)
1953 - Don Most, Brooklyn, New York, American actor and director (Ralph Malph-Happy Days)
1954 - Nigel Mansell, formula-1 racer (Portugal Grand Prix-1990)
1955 - Ali Score, rock drummer (Flock Of Seagulls)
1955 - Diddú, Icelandic soprano and songwriter
1955 - Herbert Prohaska, Austrian footballer
1955 - Branscombe Richmond, Los Angeles, California, American actor (Renegade, Commando)
1956 - Chris Foreman, guitarist (Madness-Burning Down the House)
1956 - David Grant, Jamaica, singer/songwriter (Stop & Go, Heaven Knows)
1956 - Wes Chandler, Florida, WLAF wide receiver coach (Rhein Fire)
1957 - Dieuwertje Blok, Dutch TV hostess
1957 - Nancy Glass, TV broadcaster (American Journal)
1958 - Chris[sie Boy] Foreman, rock guitarist (Madness)
1958 - Deborah Norville, news anchor (Today Show, Inside Edition)
1958 - Harry Crosby, Los Angeles California, actor (Friday the 13th)
1958 - Cecilia Roth, Argentine actress
1959 - Rikki Rockett, rocker (Poison-Every Rose Has a Thorn)
1959 - Ronald Weigel, German DR speed walker (5 km indoor)
1960 - Ulrich Maly, German politician
1961 - Bruce Matthews, NFL guard/center (Houston Oilers)
1961 - Charmaine Crooks, Jamaica, Canadian 4X400m relayer (Oly-silver-1984)
1961 - Paul Jackson, rocker
1961 - The Edge, [Dave Evans], London, rock guitarist (U2-I Will Follow)
1961 - Daniel House, American music executive
1961 - Rikki Rockett, American drummer (Poison)
1962 - Charmaine Crooks, Mandeville JAM, Can 800m runner (Oly-84, 88, 92, 96)
1962 - Jim Sweeney, NFL center/guard (Seattle Seahawks, Pittsburgh Steelers)
1962 - Suzee Pai, Toledo Ohio, actress (Big Trouble in Little China)
1963 - Carol Lewis, Willingboro NJ, high jumper (Olympic-9th-1984)
1963 - Ron Karkovice, Union NJ, catcher (Chicago White Sox)
1963 - Jon Turteltaub, American director
1963 - Stephen Walkom, Canadian ice hockey official and executive
1964 - Harry Lee "Butch" Reynolds, US, 400m runner (world record)
1964 - Paul Taylor, cricketer (England left-arm pace bowler in one Test 1993)
1964 - Anastasia Ashman, American writer
1965 - Akitoshi Saito, wrestler (NJPW)
1965 - Angus Fraser, cricketer (England right-arm pace bowler 1989- )
1965 - Kate Langbroek, Australian media personality
1965 - Aaron Abeyta, American musician
1966 - Chris Eubank, English boxer
1966 - John Hudek, American baseball player
1967 - Ben Fouchee, Kuruman South Africa, Canadian Tour golfer (1987 S Afr Amateur)
1967 - Howard Cross, NFL tight end (NY Giants)
1967 - Lorraine Pearson, Romford Essex, rock vocalist (5 Star-Silk & Steel)
1967 - Margo Malowney, Saint John New Brunswick, volleyball player (Oly-96)
1967 - Jessica Moore, Italian actress
1967 - Lee Unkrich, American director and film editor
1968 - Abey Kuruvila, cricketer (promising Bombay fast bowler)
1968 - Matthew Lane, Wellington NZ, Nike golfer (1991 S Australian Open-4th)
1968 - Patricia Arquette, NYC actress (Ed Wood, Pretty Smart)
1968 - Suzy Hamilton, US olympic 1500m runner
1969 - Divine Brown, [Estelle Marie Thompson], SF, prostitute (Hugh Grant)
1969 - Jerome Henderson, NFL cornerback (NY Jets, Philadelphia Eagles)
1969 - Dick Togo, Japanese professional wrestler
1970 - Amaia Arruti, LPGA golfer
1970 - Catriona Fallon, Burlingame California, rower (Olympics-4th-92, 96)
1970 - Trev Alberts, NFL linebacker (Indianapolis Colts)
1970 - Pascal Duquenne, Belgian actor
1971 - John Raposo, CFL defensive tackle (Toronto Argonauts)
1971 - Marcello Simmons, CFL defensive back (Toronto Argonauts)
1971 - Steve Hinton, Australian baseball infielder (Olympics-1996)
1972 - Axel Merckx, Belgian bicycle racer
1972 - Lüpüs Thünder, American musician (The Bloodhound Gang)
1973 - Shane Lee, cricket all-rounder (NSW & Somerset, Australian ODI 1995-)
1973 - Senta Moses, American actress
1973 - Scott Stapp, American singer (Creed)
1974 - Andrei Mezin, NHL goaltender (Team Belarus, Oly-98)
1974 - Scott D'Amore, Canadian professional wrestler and manager
1974 - Andy Priaulx, British race car driver
1976 - Liraz Mesilaty, Miss Universe-Israel (1996)
1976 - JC Chasez, American singer (*NSYNC)
1976 - Tawny Cypress, American actress
1976 - Drew Lachey, American singer
1976 - Seung-Yeop Lee, Korean baseball player
1976 - Jeff Simmons, American race car driver
1977 - Kurt Bernard, Costa Rican footballer
1977 - Szilard Nemeth, Slovak footballer
1977 - Lindsay Sloane, American actress
1977 - Rocky Thompson, Canadian ice hockey player
1977 - Mohammad Wasim, Pakistani cricketer
1978 - Alan Maybury, Irish footballer
1978 - Louis Saha, French footballer
1978 - Miho Shiraishi, Japanese actress
1978 - Countess Vaughn, American actress and singer
1979 - Paris Latsis, Greek shipping heir
1979 - Richard Harwood, British cellist
1979 - Rashard Lewis, American basketball player
1979 - Sam Totman, English musician (Dragonforce)
1980 - Mike Hindert, American musician
1980 - Pat Noonan, American footballer
1980 - Sabine Klaschka, German tennis player
1980 - Michael Urie, American actor and director
1981 - Vanessa Amorosi, Australian singer and songwriter
1981 - Roger Federer, Basel Switzerland, tennis player (16 grand slams)
1981 - Kaori Iida, Japanese singer and actress
1981 - Bradley McIntosh, British pop singer
1981 - Meagan Good, American actress
1982 - David Florence, British canoeist
1983 - Guy Burnet, British actor
1984 - Martrez Milner, American football player
1984 - Devon McTavish, American footballer
1985 - Brayan Ruiz, Costa Rican football player
1986 - Peyton List, American actress
1987 - Katie Leung, Scottish actress
1988 - Beatrice E M, Duchess of York gives birth to 6 lb 12 oz baby girl
1988 - Danilo Gallinari, Italian basketball player
1989 - Sesil Karatantcheva, Bulgarian tennis player
1995 - Malin Reitan, Norwegian singer

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 08, 2013, 11:25:03 AM

This Day in History for 8th August


Famous Deaths

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Writer Shirley Jackson (1965)                    Actress Patricia Neal (2010)


869 - Lothair II of Lotharingia (855-869) dies at about 34
1445 - Oswald von Wolkenstein, Austrian composer
1506 - Sesshu Toyo, Zen monk/painter, dies in Yamaguchi Japan at 86
1553 - Girolamo Fracastoro, Italian physician (b. 1478)
1555 - Oronce Finé, French mathematician (b. 1494)
1588 - Alonso Sánchez Coello, Spanish painter
1604 - Horio Tadauji, Japanese warlord (b. 1578)
1616 - Cornelis Ketel, Dutch portrait painter/poet, buried at 68
1631 - Konstantinas Sirvydas, Lithuanian lexicographer (b. 1579)
1684 - George Booth, 1st Baron Delamer (b. 1622)
1685 - Sassoferrato, [Giovanni B Salvi], Ital painter (Madonna), dies at 75
1694 - Antoine Arnauld [le grand Arnauld], French lawyer/theology, dies at 82
1700 - Matthias Henriksen Schacht, composer, dies at 40
1705 - Willem Roukens, mayor (Nimegen ort Nimeguen), beheaded
1747 - Madeleine de Verchères, New France heroine (b. 1678)
1759 - Karl Heinrich Graun, German composer, dies at 55
1788 - Louis FAD Duke the Richelieu, French marshal, dies at 92
1816 - Blas de Laserna, composer, dies at 65
1827 - George Canning, British minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 57
1828 - Carl Peter Thunberg, Swedish naturalist (b. 1743)
1834 - Silvestro Palma, composer, dies at 80
1863 - Angus MacAskill known as 'Giant MacAskill', circus performer (b.1825)
1879 - Immanuel Hermann Fichte, German philosopher (b. 1797)
1887 - Alexander William Doniphan, American lawyer and soldier (b. 1808)
1888 - Friedrich Wilhelm Jahns, composer, dies at 79
1897 - Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss cultural historian, dies at 79
1898 - Eugène Boudin, French painter (b. 1824)
1902 - Jean Y Y Tissot, French painter/illustrator, dies
1908 - Joseph [Maria] Olbrich, architect (Wiener Sezession), dies at 40
1911 - William P. Frye, American politician (b. 1830)
1918 - Gertrude E Durden Rush, US composer/playwright, dies at 38
1921 - Juhani Aho, Fins journalist/writer (Panu, Tuomio), dies at 59
1928 - Stjepan Radic, founder/leader (Croatian Boer party), dies
1934 - Wilbert Robinson, baseball manager (Bkln Dodgers), dies
1940 - Johnny Dodds, American musician (b. 1892)
1944 - Erwin von Witzleben, German fieldmarshal, hanged at 62
1947 - Anton Ivanovich Denikin, Russian general (b. 1872)
1950 - Ernest F E Douwes Dekker, founder National-India Party, dies
1950 - Nicolai Yakovlevich Miaskovsky, composer, dies at 69
1950 - Fergus McMaster, Australian businessman (b. 1879)
1954 - Gino Tagliapietra, composer, dies at 67
1960 - Danton Walker, columnist (Broadway Spotlight), dies at 61
1961 - Charlie Gemora, actor (who portrayed King Kong), dies at 58
1961 - Franc N D Buchman, US theology (Moral Rearms), dies at 83
1961 - Méi Lánfāng, Chinese opera performer (b. 1894)
1963 - Sandor Jemnitz, composer, dies at 72
1965 - Shirley Jackson, US author (Road Through the Wall), dies at 45
1966 - Pierre Charles, Belgian heavyweight boxer, dies at 63
1967 - Jaromir Weinberger, Czech/US composer (Czech Rhapsody), dies at 71
1968 - Orovida Camille Pissarro, British painter and etcher (b. 1893)
1969 - Sharon Tate, murdered by the Manson family at 26
1969 - Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer, German eugenicist and Nazi physician (b. 1896)
1972 - Andrea Feldman, American actor (b. 1948)
1973 - Vilhelm Moberg, Swedish author and historian (b. 1898)
1974 - Baldur von Schirach, German author/nazi politician, dies at 67
1975 - Julian "Cannonball" Alderly, saxophonist/bandleader, dies of a stroke at 46
1976 - John Roselli, hired by CIA to kill Castro, found murdered
1979 - Nicholas Monsarrat, British novelist (b. 1910)
1980 - Aga Yahya Khan, Pakistan military/politician, dies at 63
1980 - Jacqueline Cochrane, US pilot/1st female faster than sound, dies at 70
1980 - Paul Triquet, French Canadian army officer (b. 1910)
1982 - Ferre Grignard, Belgian pop singer/painter (Crucified Jesus), dies
1982 - Hermine Heijermans, author (Snikken en Smartlapjes), dies at 80
1982 - Kurt Edelhagen, West German jazz pianist, dies at 62
1982 - Valeer van Kerkhove, Flemish writer/producer (De Weerlozen), dies
1982 - Eric Brandon, British racing driver (b. 1920)
1984 - Richard Deacon, actor (Mel Cooley-Dick Van Dyke Show), dies at 62
1984 - Ellen Raskin, American author(b.1928)
1985 - Louise Brooks, actress (Pandora's Box), dies of a heart attack at 78
1987 - Danilo Blanuša, Croatian mathematician (b. 1903)
1988 - Alan Napier, actor (Alfred-Batman), dies at 85
1988 - Ramón Valdés, Mexican actor (b. 1923)
1991 - Brad Davis, actor (Sybil, Midnight Express), dies of AIDS at 41
1991 - James B Irwin, Col USAF/astronaut (Apollo 15), dies at 61
1991 - John Brasser, Zaans resistance fighter (White Ko), dies
1991 - Magdalena G Schenk, historical (Vorstenhuizen of our time), dies
1991 - Julissa Gomez, American gymnast (b. 1972)
1992 - Abul Qassim Khoei, Iraqi great-ayatollah/leader of Sjiieten, dies
1992 - Alison L Gertz, US aids-activist/Esquire women of year, dies of aids
1992 - Arthur Lang, US boxer/businessman, dies at 115
1992 - Eitan Berglas, Israeli banker/advisor, dies
1992 - Lou Krugman, actor (I Want to Live), dies of cancer at 78
1992 - Thomas J McIntyre, US, senator/writer (Fear Brokers), dies
1993 - Harry Bellaver, actor (Blue Collar, Old Man & the Sea), dies at 88
1993 - Lou van Raised, impresario, dies at 77
1993 - Roy London, US actor/director (Tiger Warsaw), dies of lymphoma at 50
1994 - Henriette Santer, clinical psychologist, dies at 62
1994 - Leonid Leonov, Russian playwright (Russky Lesson), dies at 95
1994 - Leonid Maksimovich Leonov, novelist/Playwright, dies at 94
1994 - Robin Cavendish, disabled Campaigner, dies at 64
1995 - David Begelman, film producer, dies at 73
1996 - Didi Duprat, French guitarist, dies at 69
1996 - Frank A Whittle, inventor of the Jet engine, dies at 89
1996 - George Richard Samways, children's writer, dies at 101
1996 - Herbert Huncke, writer, dies at 80
1996 - Julian Stryjkowski, writer, dies at 91
1996 - Nevill Francis Mott, physicist, dies at 90
1997 - Duncan Swift, jazz pianist, dies at 74
1998 - Mahmoud Saremi, Iranian journalist
2004 - Fay Wray, American actress (b. 1907)
2004 - Dimitris Papamichael, Greek actor (b. 1934)
2005 - Barbara Bel Geddes, American actress (b. 1922)
2005 - Ahmed Deedat, Islamic scholar (b. 1918)
2005 - John H. Johnson, African-American publisher (b. 1918)
2005 - Gene Mauch, American baseball player (b. 1925)
2005 - Monica Sjöö, Swedish artist (b. 1938)
2005 - Ilse Werner, German actress (b. 1921)
2007 - Joybubbles, A notable phone phreak. (b. 1949)
2007 - Ma Lik, Chinese politician (b. 1952)
2007 - Melville Shavelson, American film director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1917)
2008 - Orville Moody, American golfer (b. 1933)
2009 - Daniel Jarque, Spanish football player (b. 1983)
2010 - Patricia Neal, American actress, dies at 84

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 09, 2013, 11:58:56 AM

This Day in History for 9th August


Historical Events

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Roman Military and Political Leader         Naturalist/Pacifist                                   Baseball Great Babe Ruth
Julius Caesar                                             Henry David Thoreau

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Pacifist and Spiritual Leader                     37th US President                                 NHL all-time top scorer
Mahatma Gandhi                                           Richard Nixon                                        Wayne Gretzky

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Russian President Boris Yeltsin


48 BC - Caesar's civil war: Battle of Pharsalus - Julius Caesar decisively defeats Pompey at Pharsalus
            and Pompey flees to Egypt.
378 - Battle of Adrianople, Visigoth cavalry defeats Roman Army
681 - Bulgaria is founded as a Khanate on the south bank of the Danube, after defeating the
         Byzantine armies of Emperor Constantine IV south of the Danube delta.
1173 - Construction of the Tower of Pisa begins, and it takes two centuries to complete.
1253 - Clare of Assisi's rules confirmed by Pope Innocent IV for Clare's Order of Poor Ladies
1329 - Quilon the first Indian Diocese was erected by Pope John XXII and Jordanus was appointed
           the first Bishop
1378 - Cardinals declare pope Urbanus VI lawless (anti christian/devil)
1483 - Opening of the Sistine Chapel
1559 - Willem of Orange becomes viceroy of Holland/Zealand/Utrecht
1596 - Henry van Cuyk becomes bishop of Roermond
1638 - Jonas Bronck of Holland becomes 1st European settler in Bronx
1655 - Lord Protector Cromwell divides England into 11 districts
1666 - Rear Admiral Robert Holmes leads a raid on the Dutch island of Terschelling, destroying 150
           merchant ships in the Vlie estuary, and pillaging the town of West-Terschelling, an act later
           known as "Holmes's Bonfire".
1673 - Dutch under Admiral Cornelis Evertsen de Jonge recapture NY from English; regained by
           English in 1674
1726 - Netherlands signs Covenant of Hannover
1757 - English Ft William Henry, NY, surrenders to French & Indians troops
1778 - Captain Cook reaches Cape Prince of Wales, Bering straits
1790 - Columbia returns to Boston after 3 year journey, 1st ship to carry US flag around the world
1803 - 1st horses arrive in Hawaii
1810 - Napoleon annexes Westphalia as part of the First French Empire.
1829 - "Stourbridge Lion" locomotive goes into service
1830 - Louis-Philippe formally accepts crown of France, following abdication of Charles X
1831 - 1st US steam engine train run (Albany to Schenectady, NY)
1841 - Erie boat in Buffalo NY catches fire; 242 die
1842 - US-Canada border defined by Webster-Ashburton Treaty
1848 - Austria & Sardinia sign cease fire
1848 - Barnburners (anti-slavery) party merges with Free Soil Party nominateing Martin Van Buren
           for president
1849 - Hungarian Republic crushed by Austria & Russia
1854 - Henry David Thoreau publishes "Walden"
1855 - Battle of Acapulco during Mexican Liberal uprising
1859 - Elevator patented
1862 - Battle of Cedar Mountain VA during US Civil War (Slaughter Mountain, Southwest Mountain)
1862 - Berlioz' opera "Beatrice et Benedict," premieres in Baden-Baden
1862 - Charles S Winder, Confederate General killed at the Battle of Cedar Mountain VA aged 32
1864 - Battle of Ft Morgan AL
1890 - 1st 44 Javans arrive in Suriname, to work 5 year on sugar plantations
1893 - 1st US bowling magazine, Gut Holz, published in NY
1901 - 34-35°N/98-99°W open for US colonization
1902 - Edward VII of England crowned after death of his mother Victoria
1902 - Edward VII is crowned king of the United Kingdom.
1905 - Mistaking her husband for a burglar, Ty Cobb's mother kills him
1907 - The first Boy Scout encampment concludes at Brownsea Island in Southern England.
1910 - Alva Fisher patents electric washing machine
1914 - German submarine U-15 sinks British cruiser
1915 - British attack at Chanak Bair at Gallipolis
1918 - Reds manager Christy Mathewson suspects Hal Chase of taking bribes to fix games, &
           suspends him "for indifferent play"
1920 - Bulgarian & allied Peace of Neuilly-sur-Seine goes into effect
1923 - NY State Golf Association formed
1925 - Only time Babe Ruth pinch-hit for, Bobby Veach flies out
1930 - 113°F (45°C) at Perryville, Tennessee (state record)
1930 - Betty Boop debuts in Max Fleischer's animated cartoon Dizzy Dishes
1930 - Percy Williams runs world record 100m (10.3 sec)
1936 - Jesse Owens wins 4th gold medal at Berlin Olympics
1941 - Winston Churchill reaches Newfoundland for 1st talk with FDR
1942 - 200 Jews escape Mir Ghetto in Poland
1942 - Dmitri Shostakovitch's 7th Symphony performed in Leningrad
1942 - Vice-Adm Mikawa lands at Guadalcanal, Solomon Island
1942 - Mahatma Gandhi & 50 others arrested in Bombay after passing of a "quit India" campaign by
           the All-India Congress
1943 - Bertolt Brecht's "Leben des Galilei," premieres in Zurich
1944 - 12 workers of Dutch illegal paper "Trouw," executed at Camp Vught
1944 - Smokey Bear debuts as spokeman for fire prevention
1944 - US 79th/90th division enter Le Mans
1945 - US drops 2nd atomic bomb "Fat Man" on Japan destroys part of Nagasaki
1946 - 1st time all major-league baseball games ( 8 ) are played at night
1950 - Lusty Song wins Hambletonian
1951 - Dutch Korea volunteers win US Collective Unit Citation
1952 - General strike against overtime conscription in Belgium
1953 - Premier Mohammed Abdullah of Kashmir, fired
1956 - 1st state-wide, state-supported educational TV network, Alabama
1956 - South African women demonstrate against pass laws
1957 - 24th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: NY Giants 22, All-Stars 12 (75,000)
1960 - Race riot in Jacksonville Florida
1961 - James B Parsons is 1st black appointed to Federal District Court
1963 - Britains rock TV show, Ready Steady Go, premieres
1963 - NY Met Roger Craig's NL record-tying 18-game losing streak ends
1964 - 1st Rolling Stones concert in Netherlands
1964 - Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Waterloo Women's Golf Open Invitational
1964 - Bunning continues pitching perfectly to NY Mets until 2 outs in 5th, when Joe Christopher
           beats out a bunt. He totals 15 innings
1965 - Fire in Titan II silo in Searcy Arkansas, 53 die
1965 - Singapore gains independence from Malaysia (National Day)
1967 - Biafran offensive against Nigerian army
1967 - KYAY TV channel 39 in West Monroe, LA (IND) begins broadcasting
1968 - Yugoslav president Tito visits Prague
1969 - "Zorba" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 305 performances
1969 - Manson family commits Tate-LaBianca murders
1970 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
1970 - Peruvian Airlines jet carrying 45 US exchange students explodes
1971 - Le Roy (Satchel) Paige inducted into baseball's Hall of Fame
1972 - Rockwell receives NASA contract to construct Space Shuttle
1973 - Henry McCullough & Denny Seiwell quit Wings
1973 - USSR launches Mars 7
1974 - Richard Nixon resigns presidency, VP Gerald Ford becomes 38th pres
1975 - 1st NFL game in Louisiana Superdome, Houston beats Saints 13-7
1975 - Dodger Davey Lopes steals record 32nd consec base without being caught
1975 - Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Colgate European Ladies Golf Open
1976 - Clive Lloyd scores double-ton in 120 mins, WI v Glamorgan
1976 - Pitt Pirate John Candelaria no-hits LA Dodgers, 2-0
1976 - USSR launches Luna 24, last Lunar flight to date from Earth
1977 - Chris Old completes a century in 37 mins, Yorks v Warwicks
1977 - NHL refuses merger of 6 WHA clubs
1977 - The military-controlled Government of Uruguay announces that it will return the nation to
           civilian rule through general elections in 1981 for a President and Congress.
1978 - USSR performs (underground) nuclear test
1978 - Yanks score 5 in bottom of 9th beat Brewers 8-7
1979 - English seaside resort Brighton gets 1st British nude beach
1980 - Belgian constitution revised
1981 - 52nd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-4 at Municipal Stadium, Cleve
1981 - 6 English lifeguards set relay swim record English Channel (7:17)
1981 - 63rd PGA Championship: Larry Nelson shoots a 273 at Atlanta AC Ga
1981 - All star MVP: Gary Carter (Mont Expos)
1981 - Hollis Stacy wins LPGA West Virginia Bank Golf Classic
1981 - NL beats AL 5-4 in 52nd All Star Game (Cleveland Stadium)
1984 - Daley Thomas of Britain sets decathalon record (8,847) in LA Cal
1984 - STS 41-D vehicle again moves out to launch pad
1986 - "Honky Tonk Nights" closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 4 perfs
1987 - "Les Miserables," opens at Cameri Theatre, Tel Aviv
1987 - 69th PGA Championship: Larry Nelson shoots 287 at PGA Natl Palm Beach
1987 - LA Rams beat Dallas Cowboys 28-27 in London, England (NFL expo)
1987 - Mary Beth wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic
1988 - Cubs beat Mets 6-4 in their 1st official night game at Wrigley Field
1988 - Edmonton Oilers trade Wayne Gretzky to LA Kings for $15-$20 millions
1988 - Just 1 day after 8/8/88 NY's daily number is 888
1990 - 12 Arab leaders agree to send pan-Arab forces to protect Saudi Arabia
1990 - Soyuz TM-10 lands
1992 - "Streetcar Named Desire" closes at Ethel Barrymore NYC after 137 perf
1992 - 25th Olympic Summer games closes in Barcelona, Spain
1992 - Florence Descampe wins McCall's LPGA Golf Classic at Stratton Mt
1992 - Last day of Test Cricket for David Gower
1992 - Record temperature in Berlin-Dahlem 99.3°F (37.4°C)
1993 - King Albert II of Belgium, crowned
1994 - Phil Rizzuto Hall of Fame Night
1994 - Stanley Betrian put in charge of Curacao
1997 - Security guard Abner Louima, attacked by NYC police
1997 - Yanks break Minnesota Twins Brad Radke's string of 12 straight wins
1999 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin fires his Prime Minister, Sergei Stepashin, and for the fourth
           time fires his entire cabinet.
1999 - The Diet of Japan enacts a law establishing the Hinomaru and Kimi Ga Yo as the official
           national flag and national anthem.
2001 - US President George W. Bush announces his support for federal funding of limited research
           on embryonic stem cells.
2012 - The death toll from the Philippines' floods rise to 70
2012 - Usain Bolt becomes the first person to win the 100m and 200m sprint in back to back
           Olympics

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 09, 2013, 12:00:50 PM

This Day in History for 9th August


Famous Weddings

1832 - King Leopold I of Belgium marries Louisa Maria
1949 - Film and stage actor James Stewart (41) weds former model Gloria Hatrick McLean (31)
1958 - Actor Robert Redford (21) weds Lola Van Wagenen in Las Vegas, Nevada
2003 - Former "New Kids on the Block" singer Joey McIntyre (30) weds real estate agent Barrett
           Williams (25) in New York City's Plaza Hotel
2012 - "Martin" and "Everybody Hates Chris" actress Tichina Arnold (43) weds St. John's University's
            basketball assistant coach Rico Hines at Oasis Oceanfront Estate in Honolulu, Hawaii

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 09, 2013, 12:05:29 PM

This Day in History for 9th August


Famous Birthdays

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Savant Amedeo Avogadro (1776)         Singer Whitney Houston (1963)


1201 - Arnold Fitz Thedmar, English chronicler (d. 1274)
1593 - Izaak Walton, England, biographer/fisherman/writer (Compleat Angler)
1611 - Henry earl of Nassau-Siegen, colonel/governor of Hulst Neth
1631 - John Dryden, English poet/playwright (Heroic Stanzas) [NS=Aug 19]
1648 - Johann Michael Bach, Arnstadt Germany, composer (In Dulci Jubilo), (d. 1694)
1653 - John Oldham, English poet (d. 1683)
1669 - Eudoxia Lopukhina, Tsarina of Russia (d. 1731)
1674 - František Maxmilián Kaňka, Czech architect (d. 1766)
1677 - Jacob Campo Weyerman, South Neth's adventurer/painter/writer
1686 - Benedetto Marcello, Venice It, composer (Lettera Famigliare) [or 7/24]
1690 - Lorenzo Gaetano Zavateri, composer
1696 - Jozef Wenceslas, monarch of Liechtenstein/general
1718 - Placidus Cajetan von Camerloher, composer
1722 - Augustus William, Prince of Prussia (d. 1758)
1726 - Francesco Cetti, Italian Jesuit scientist (d. 1778)
1757 - Thomas Telford, Scottish civil engineer (d. 1834)
1758 - Bruno Dalberg/Anonymus Belga, [Petrus the Wacker van Zon], writer
1776 - Amedeo Avogadro, Tuin Italy, 6.022 x 10 ^ 23 (Avogadro's Law), (d. 1856)
1781 - Michael Umlauf, composer
1783 - Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia (d. 1801)
1797 - Charles Robert Malden, British naval officer (d. 1855)
1805 - Joseph Locke, English railway and civil engineer (d. 1860)
1808 - William Thomas Ward, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1809 - William Barret Travis, commander at Battle of the Alamo
1819 - William Thomas Green Morton, dentist, used ether (HOF 1920)
1823 - Daniel Marsh Frost, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1900
1824 - Simon Goodell Griffin, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1825 - Elisha Ferry, (Gov-R-Wash, 1872-80, 1889-93)
1834 - Elias Alvares Lobo, composer
1845 - Xavier Mellery, Belgian painter/illustrator
1845 - André Bessette, Canadian religious figure (d. 1937)
1847 - Maria Victoria al Pozzo della Cisterna, queen consort of Spain (d. 1876)
1861 - Wilhelm Berger, composer
1869 - Randle Ayrton, Chester England, actor (Manxman)
1872 - Archduke Joseph August of Austria, Austrian field marshal (d. 1962)
1875 - Albert William Ketelbey, Aston England, composer (Wonder Worker)
1875 - Reynaldo Hahn, French composer, conductor, music critic and diarist
1883 - George Hoyt, NBA hall of fame referee (elected 1961)
1884 - Maria "Mary" Beekman, actress (Genius against Violence)
1887 - Abraham Schierbeek, Dutch biologist (Swammerdam)
1888 - Hans Oster, German major general/spy/July 20th plotter
1890 - Cesar Cortinas, composer
1890 - Eino Kaila, Finnish psychologist/philosopher
1890 - Sandor Jemnitz, composer
1891 - Max Tak, Dutch violinist/radio commentator
1892 - Charles Delaney, NYC, actor (Air Police, Lonesome Trail)
1895 - Fred Badcock, cricketer (swing bowler in NZ's 1st Test matches)
1895 - Nat Pendleton, Davenport IA, Olympic wrestler/actor (Reckless)
1896 - Jean Piaget, Switz, pioneer developmental psychologist/zoologist
1896 - Leonide Massine, choreographer (Diaghilev Ballet Russe 1914-20)
1896 - Erich Hückel, German physicist (d. 1980)
1897 - Ralph Wyckoff, American pioneer in x-ray crystallography
1898 - David de Jong, Dutch writer (Mutiny on the Canal)
1899 - Armand Salacrou, French playwright
1899 - Pamela Lyndon Travers, Queensland, Australia, writer (Mary Poppins), (d. 1996)
1901 - Charles Farrell, Cape Cod Mass, actor (Vern-My Little Margie)
1902 - Zino Francescatti, Marseilles France, violinist (NY Phil-1939)
1903 - Tom Tyler, [Vincent Markowsky], Port Henry NY, actor (Mummy's Hand)
1905 - Elizabeth Lane, 1st female British supreme court justice
1905 - Leo Genn, London England, actor (Affair in Monte Carlo)
1907 - Berta Waterstradt, writer
1909 - John Baur, museum director/author (American Paintings in 19th Century)
1909 - Adam von Trott zu Solz, German diplomat (d. 1944)
1910 - Robert H van Gulik, Dutch diplomat/writer (Judge Ti)
1911 - Khurshed Meher-Homji, cricketer (Indian wicket-keeper 1936)
1911 - Robert McCormick, Danville Ky, NBC newscaster (Current Opinion)
1911 - William A Fowler, US, astrophysicist (Nobel 1983)
1911 - Eddie Futch, American boxing trainer (d. 2001)
1913 - Harry Mills, singer (Mills Brothers-Paper Moon)
1913 - Herman Talmadge, (Sen-D-Ga, Watergate Committee)
1914 - Ferenc Fricsay, Hungarian conductor
1914 - Gordon Cullen, architect
1914 - Tove Jansson, Finnish author (Moomins) (d. 2001)
1914 - Joe Mercer, English footballer (d. 1990)
1915 - Haim Alexander, composer
1918 - Robert Aldrich, US director/producer (Dirty Dozen)
1919 - Joop [Johannes] den Uyl, Dutch Premier (PVDA, 1973-77)
1919 - Ralph Houk, baseball manager (Yankees, Tigers)
1920 - Enzo Biagi, Italian journalist and writer
1921 - J James Exon, (Sen-D-Nebraska, 1979- )
1921 - Ernest Angley, televangelist
1922 - Philip Larkin, Coventry England, writer (North Ship, Jill)
1923 - Gerrit Kouwenaar, Dutch literary
1923 - Hillevi Lagerstam, Kurikka, Finnish actress
1925 - Robert Heppener, composer (Hymns & Conversations, Movie Music)
1925 - David A. Huffman, creator of Huffman coding (d. 1999)
1926 - Denis Atkinson, cricketer (WI all-rounder, 219 v Australia 1955)
1926 - Michiel de Ruyter, Dutch jazz historian (Mister Jazz)
1927 - Marvin Minsky, Artifical intelligence computer scientist (MIT)
1927 - Robert Shaw, England, actor (Deep, Jaws, Sting, Black Sunday)
1927 - Daniel Keyes, American author
1928 - Bob Cousy, NBA guard (Boston Celtics, 1957 MVP)
1930 - Betty Boop, animation
1930 - Milt Bolling, Mississippi City, Mississippi, MLB shortstop (Red Sox, 1952-7), (d. 2013)
1931 - Mark Weinberg, South African/British fiancier/multi-millionaire
1931 - Chuck Essegian, American baseball player
1932 - John Gomery, Canadian jurist
1933 - Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, Japanese television personality and children's author
1935 - George S Leotsakos, composer
1936 - Julián Javier, American baseball player
1938 - Dick Anthony Williams, Chicago Ill, actor (Our Family Honor)
1938 - Rod Laver, Australia, tennis ace (1962, 1969 Grand Slam)
1938 - Leonid Kuchma, Ukrainian politician
1938 - Otto Rehhagel, German football manager
1939 - Billy Henderson, rocker (Spinners-That's What Girls Are Made For)
1939 - Claude Osteen, baseball pitcher (Cin Reds)
1939 - Max Neuhaus, composer
1939 - Tony Budge, English contractor/tank maker/multi-millionaire
1939 - Brito, Brazilian footballer
1940 - Beverlee McKinsey, Oklahoma, actress (Iris-Another World, Guiding Light)
1942 - David Steinberg, Winnipeg Canada, comedian/director (End)
1942 - Miguel Littin, actor (Promised Land, Alsino & Condor)
1942 - Tommie Agee, American baseball player (d. 2001)
1943 - Ken Norton, American boxer
1944 - Smokey the Bear, named after NYC fireman Smokey Joe Martin
1944 - Gerrit Jan Wolffensperger, Dutch MP (D66)
1944 - Sam Elliott, Sacramento California, actor (Big Chill, Fatal Beauty)
1944 - Terry Jenner, cricketer (Australian leg-spinner 1971-75)
1944 - Viv Prince, rocker (Pretty Things)
1945 - Ken Norton, heavyweight boxing champ/TV panelist (Gong Show)
1945 - Posy Simmonds, English cartoonist
1946 - Rinus Gerritsen [Marinus], Dutch rock bassist/keyboardist (Golden Earring)
1946 - Jim Kiick, American football player
1947 - Barbara Mason, US singer (Yes, I'm Ready)
1948 - Bill Campbell, American baseball player
1949 - Jonathan Kellerman, American writer
1950 - Roelof S "Roel" Bakker, Dutch actor/director (Love Potion)
1952 - Vicki Morgan, Colo Springs Colo, mistress (Beautiful Bad Girl)
1952 - Prateep Ungsongtham Hata, Thai politician
1955 - Doug Williams, Louisiana, NFL QB (Tampa Bay Bucaneers, Wash Redskins)
1955 - John E. Sweeney, American politician
1955 - Peter Schmuck, American sportswriter
1957 - Melanie Griffith, actress (Working Girl, Milk Money, Now & Then)
1958 - Amanda Bearse, actress (Marcy Rhodes-Married With Children)
1958 - Greg Chaisson, heavy metal rocker (Badlands-Dreams in the Dark)
1959 - Diane Williams, Hahn AFB Ger, singer (Girls Next Door-Don't Be Cruel)
1959 - Kurtis Blow, NYC, rapper (Krushgroove-The Breaks)
1961 - Brad Gilbert, Oakland CA, tennis star
1961 - John Key, New Zealand politician
1961 - Amy Stiller, American actress
1962 - Jim Johnson, New Hope, NHL defenseman (Washington Capitals)
1962 - John Williams, NBA center/forward (Phoenix Suns)
1962 - Michael Colnroy, Modern English, rocker
1963 - Lonnie Quinn, Cheshire Conn, actor (Will Cooley-All My Children)
1963 - Whitney Houston, Newark NJ, singer (One Moment in Time, Bodyguard), (d. 2012)
1964 - Brett Hull, Belleville Ont, NHL right wing (St Louis Blues, USA)
1964 - Yuri Khmylev, Moscow Russia, NHL left wing (Buffalo Sabres)
1964 - Hoda Kotb, American television news anchor
1965 - Ezra Polley, Georgetown Kentucky, pitcher (NY Yankees)
1965 - John Smith, Del City Oklahoma, 62kg freestyle wrestler (Oly-2 gold-88, 92)
1965 - Kyle Kyle, Kensington Pa, rock bassist (Bang Tango-Dancin' on Coals)
1966 - Pat Petersen, Los Angeles California, actor (Michael-Knots Landing)
1966 - Vinny Del Negro, NBA guard (San Antonio Spurs)
1967 - Debbie Spence, San Jose Cal, tennis star
1967 - Deborah Lee, Hamilton Ontario, LPGA golfer (1989 National Amat France)
1967 - Deion Sanders, NFL cornerback/wide reciever (Dallas Cowboys and NY Yankees)
1967 - Elexa Wills/Orrange, Orange Texas, long jumper/triple jumper
1968 - Gillian Anderson, Chicago IL, actress (X-Files)
1968 - Jay Stacy, Aust field hockey midfielder (Oly-4th/silver-88, 92, 96)
1968 - Eric Bana, Australian actor
1968 - Sam Fogarino, American musician (Interpol)
1968 - Joseph McGinty Nichol, American film producer and director
1969 - Troy Percival, Fontana CA, pitcher (California Angels)
1970 - Chris Gedney, NFL tight end (Chic Bears, Arizona Cardinals)
1970 - Rod Brind'amour, Ottawa, NHL center (Phila Flyers, Team Canada 98)
1970 - Chris Cuomo, American TV journalist
1970 - Thomas Lennon, American actor
1970 - Arion Salazar, American musician (Third Eye Blind)
1971 - Alan Allen, NFL/WLAF wide receiver (NY Jets, London Monarchs)
1971 - David Merritt, WLAF linebacker (Rhein Fire)
1971 - Mary Joe Fernandez, Dom Rep, tennis player (US National 16s)
1971 - Nikki Schieler, Norwalk California, playmate (Sep, 1997)
1971 - Scott Karl, Fontana CA, pitcher (Milwaukee Brewers)
1971 - Davide Rebellin, Italian cyclist
1971 - James Kim, technology reporter (d. 2006)
1972 - Elizabeth Vassey, Raleigh NC, actress (Emily Martin-All My Children)
1972 - Eric Zomalt, NFL strong safety (Philadelphia Eagles)
1972 - Robert Peal, Chicago Ill, dance skater (& Margot Contois)
1972 - Silvia Ramon-Cortes, Barcelona Spain, tennis star (1994 Futures-Vigo)
1972 - Juanes, Colombian singer
1972 - A-Mei, Taiwanese singer
1973 - James McKeehan, tight end (Tennessee Oilers)
1973 - Jay Hagood, tackle (NY Jets)
1973 - Jimmy King, NBA guard (Toronto Raptors)
1973 - Jochen Molling, hockey defenseman (Team Germany 1998)
1973 - Larry Stallworth, WLAF wide receiver (London Monarchs)
1973 - Filippo Inzaghi, Italian footballer
1973 - Kevin McKidd, Scottish actor
1974 - Derek Fisher, NBA guard (LA Lakers)
1974 - Tremayne Allen, tight end (Chicago Bears)
1974 - Kirill Reznik, American politician
1974 - Nicola Stapleton, English actress
1975 - Mathew James Coad, Wellington NZ, 100m/200m runner (Olympics-96)
1975 - Mike Lamb, American baseball player
1976 - Jessica Capshaw, American actress
1976 - Rhona Mitra, English actress
1976 - Aled Haydn Jones, Radio 1's The Chris Moyles show Producer
1977 - Mikael Silvestre, French footballer
1977 - Jason Frasor, American baseball player
1977 - Chamique Holdsclaw, American basketball player
1977 - Adewale Ogunleye, American football player
1978 - Audrey Tautou, French actress
1979 - Alizah Allen, NYC NY, figure skater (1997 North Atlantic Sr champ)
1979 - Jessica Gregory, Miss Massachusetts Teen USA (1997)
1980 - Ryu Seung-beom, South Korean actor
1981 - Li Jiawei, Singaporean Olympic table tennis player
1982 - Tyson Gay, American sprinter
1982 - Danieal Manning, American football player
1983 - Ashley Johnson, actress (Chrissy-Growing Pains)
1983 - Shane O'Brien, Canadian hockey player
1984 - Paul Gallagher, Scottish footballer
1984 - Saori Horii, Japanese gravure idol
1985 - Luca Filippi, Italian racing driver
1985 - Hayley Peirsol, American swimmer
1985 - JaMarcus Russell, American football player
1986 - Vanessa Morley, American actress
1989 - Stefano Okaka Chuka, Italian footballer
1990 - Adelaide Kane, Australian actress
1991 - Hansika Motwani, Indian actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 09, 2013, 12:14:20 PM

This Day in History for 9th August


Famous Deaths

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Roman Emperor Trajan (117)                  Nobel Laureate Novelist (1962)                 Physicist and Nobel Laureate
                                                              Hermann Hesse (1962)                              Cecil Frank Powell (1969)


117 - Trajan, Roman Emperor, dies from edema at 63
378 - Flavius Valens, emperor of Byzantium (364-78), dies in battle at 50
803 - Irene, Byzantine empress/wife of emperor Leo IV, dies
1048 - Pope Damasus II [Poppo] dies in Rome, after reigning for only 23 days
1107 - Emperor Horikawa of Japan (b. 1079)
1173 - Najm ad-Din Ayyub, father of Saladin
1250 - King Eric IV of Denmark (b. 1216)
1420 - Pierre d'ailly/Peter de Alliaco, French theologist/cardinal, dies
1516 - Jeroen Bosch, painter (Garden of the Lusten), dies at 66
1534 - Cardinal Cajetan, Italian theologian (b. 1470)
1601 - Michael the Brave, Prince of Wallachia (b. 1558)
1612 - Ottavio M Frangipani, Pope elect, dies
1613 - Giovanni Righi, composer, dies at 36
1634 - Pieter I de Jode, Flemish publisher, dies
1634 - William Noy, English jurist (b. 1577)
1652 - John Both, landscape painter/etcher, dies at about 37
1668 - Francois Anguier, French sculptor, dies at about 64
1672 - Jose Ximenez, composer, dies at 70
1710 - Gabriel Schutz, composer, dies at 77
1720 - Simon Ockley, English orientalist (b. 1678)
1727 - Johann Philipp Treiber, composer, dies at 52
1738 - Pierre Drevet, French engraver, dies
1744 - James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos, English patron of the arts (b. 1673)
1763 - John Althuysen, Fries vicar/poet (Frysk Jierboek), dies at 47
1806 - Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia Christian, composer, dies at 33
1816 - Johann August Apel, German jurist and writer (b. 1771)
1835 - Claus Nielsen Schali, composer, dies at 78
1837 - Xavier Sigalon, French painter (b. 1787)
1848 - Frederick Marryat, English captain/author (Mr Midshipman Easy), dies
1854 - Frederik Augustus II, king of Saxon (1836-54), dies at 57
1862 - Joseph Bennett Plummer, US Union-brig-gen, dies at 42 or 46
1886 - Samuel Ferguson, Northern Irish poet and artist (b. 1810)
1888 - Charles Cros, French mathematician/chemist/poet, dies at 45
1888 - Isaac Strauss, composer, dies at 82
1892 - Matthias de Vries, linguistic (spelling), dies
1896 - Otto Lilenthal, aircraft pioneer, killed during a glider test at 48
1904 - Friedrich Ratzel, German social-geographer (Lebensraum), dies at 59
1915 - Henry Longbottom, English lieutenant, dies in battle
1919 - Ernst Haeckel, German philosopher (Social Darwinism), dies at 85
1919 - Ruggero Leoncavallo, Italian composer (Pagliacci), dies at 62
1924 - Jacob P Vis, Dutch founder (NV Royal Salt Industries), dies at 66
1928 - Frederik II W, grand duke of Baden (1907-18), dies at 71
1929 - Heinrich Zille, German cartoonist (Simplicissimus), dies at 71
1942 - Edith Stein, German philosopher, dies
1945 - Harry Hillman, American athlete (b. 1881)
1946 - A E E Vogler, cricketer (South Africa, 15 Tests, 64 wkts), dies
1949 - Harry Davenport, actor (Cowboy & Lady, Enchanted Forest), dies at 83
1955 - Marion Eugene Bauer, composer, dies at 57
1957 - Carl Clauberg, Nazi doctor (b. 1898)
1958 - Felipe Boero, composer, dies at 74
1959 - Emil Frantisek Burian, composer, dies at 55
1961 - Walter Bedell Smith, US general/WW II chief of staff, dies at 75
1962 - Hermann Hesse, German/Swiss poet/author (Nobel 1946), dies at 85
1965 - Creighton Hale, silent film actor (Cat & Canary), dies at 83
1966 - Gosta Nystroem, composer, dies at 75
1967 - Anton Walbrook, actor (Laura, I Accuse), dies of heart attack at 66
1967 - Joe Orton, English actor/playwright (Leaf, Murdered), dies at 34
1969 - Abigail Folger, US, coffee magnate (Folgers), murdered
1969 - George P Marshall, NFL president (Washington Redskins), dies at 72
1969 - Robert Lehman, US multi-millionaire/director (Met Museum of Art), dies
1969 - Sharon Tate, actress (Valley of Dolls), killed by Manson's gang at 26
1969 - Voyteck Freykowski, US director, murdered
1969 - Wojciech Frykowski, Polish writer (murdered) (b. 1936)
1969 - Jay Sebring, American hair stylist (murdered) (b. 1933)
1969 - Steven Parent, American student (murdered) (b. 1951)
1969 - Cecil Frank Powell, British physicist,dies at 65
1972 - Bill Berns, commentator (Television Screen Magazine), dies at 53
1972 - Richard Elsasser, composer, dies at 45
1973 - Charlie Daniels, US swimmer (Olympics-4 gold-1904, 08), dies at 88
1973 - Dean Corll, shot, he raped & killed 26 boys
1974 - Bill Chase, American trumpet player and bandleader (b. 1934)
1975 - Dimitri D Shostakovitch, composer (Sun Over Motherland), dies at 68
1975 - Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer (b. 1906)
1976 - Jose Lezama Lima, Cuban poet/novelist, dies at 65
1976 - Max Vredenburg, composer, dies at 72
1977 - Edward Chapman, actor (Promoter, Rembrandt), dies at 75
1978 - James G Cozzens, US writer (Guard of Honor, Pulitzer), dies at 74
1978 - Johan Daisne, [Thiery], Belgian writer (Lago Maggiore), dies at 66
1979 - Allan Frank, actor (Charade Quiz), dies at 64
1979 - Walter O'Malley, CEO (Dodgers), dies at 75
1979 - Raymond Washington, founder of Los Angeles, California gang, the Crips
1980 - Elliott Nugent, actor (Romance), dies
1980 - Oleg Grigoryevich Kononenko, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 41
1980 - P K "Perker" Lee, cricketer (Australian bowler 1931-33, 2 Tests), dies
1980 - Jacqueline Cochran, American aviatrix (b. 1906)
1982 - Aleksandr A Alekseyev, Russian director, dies
1985 - Clive Churchill, Australian rugby league footballer (b. 1927)
1986 - Joseph "Poeske" Scherens, Belgian cyclist, dies at 77
1987 - Kees de Galan, Dutch economist, dies at 55
1988 - Alan Napier, (Alfred the Butler-Batman), dies at 85
1988 - Giacinto Scelsi, Italian composer (b. 1905)
1990 - Dorothy Appleby, actress (Small Town Boy, Paradise Express), dies
1990 - Joe Mercer, English footballer (b. 1914)
1991 - Corrie Hartong, dance pioneer, dies
1992 - Christopher Todd, [Todd Wangberg], dies of AIDS at 30
1992 - Jan van Baal, antropologist/gov Dutch New-Guinea, dies
1992 - Patrick A Devlin, England, judge/lead house of Lords, dies
1992 - Thomas J McIntyre, (Sen-NH, 1963-79), dies at 77
1993 - Mohamed M Tabet, commissar of Casablanca, raped 518, executed at 54
1994 - Aartje W "Mien" van It Sant-van Bommel, author, dies at 93
1994 - Clarence Ford, sax player, dies at 64
1994 - Toby Rowland, theatrical manager, dies at 77
1995 - Jerry Garcia, rock vocalist (Grateful Dead), dies at 53
1995 - John Schofield, journalist, dies at 29
1995 - Willem Noordhoek, photographer, dies at 78
1996 - James Whitman McLamore, businessman, dies at 70
1996 - Kenneth Fleetwood, fashion Designer, dies at 65
1996 - Ruth Holland, journalist, dies at 54
1999 - Fouad Serageddin, Egyptian politician (b. 1910)
2000 - John Harsanyi, Hungarian-born economist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1920)
2000 - Nicholas Markowitz-kidnapped and murdered by Jesse James Hollywood (b. 1984)
2002 - Paul Samson, British guitarist (Samson) (b. 1953)
2002 - Peter Neville, anarchist, sociologist, and peace activist
2003 - Ray Harford, English footballer and manager (b. 1945)
2003 - Gregory Hines, American actor and dancer (b. 1946)
2003 - Jacques Deray, French film director (b. 1929)
2003 - Chester Ludgin, American baritone (b. 1925)
2004 - Robert Lecourt, French politician and president of the European Court of Justice (b. 1908)
2004 - Tony Mottola, American guitarist (b. 1918)
2004 - David Raksin, American film director (b. 1912)
2005 - Matthew McGrory, American actor (b. 1973)
2005 - Judith Rossner, American novelist (b. 1935)
2006 - James van Allen, American physicist (b. 1914)
2006 - Philip E. High, science fiction author (b. 1914)
2007 - Joe O'Donnell, American documentary photographer, photojournalist (b. 1922)
2008 - Bernie Mac, American comedian, actor.(b. 1957)
2008 - Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian prominent poet and writer of prose.(b. 1941)
2010 - Ted Stevens, American politician (b. 1923)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 10, 2013, 08:54:25 AM

This Day in History for 10th August


Historical Events

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English Monarch                                  Classical music prodigy Mozart                       32nd US President
Queen Elizabeth I                                                                                                       Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Dictator of Nazi Germany                        US General George S. Patton                  King of Pop Michael Jackson
Adolf Hitler


612 BC - Killing of Sinsharishkun, King of Assyrian Empire. Destruction of Nineveh.
70 - "2nd Temple" of Jews is set aflame (approx)
610 - In Islam, the traditional date of the Laylat al-Qadr, when Muhammad began to receive the
         Qur'an.
654 - Pope Eugene I elected to succeed Martinus I
843 - Treaty of Verdun: Brothers Lotharius I, Louis the German & Charles the Bare divide France
955 - Battle of Lechfeld: Otto I, King of the Germans defeats the Hungarian, ending 50 years of
         Magyar invasion of Western Europe.
991 - Battle of Maldon: English, led by Bryhtnoth, confront a band of inland-raiding Vikings near
         Maldon in Essex. The English are defeated and the story is immortalised in a well-known poem.
1304 - -11] Battle at Zierik Sea: Dutch & French fleet beat Flemish fleet
1316 - Second Battle of Athenry
1461 - Alfonso ed Espina, bishop of Osma urges for an Inquistion in Spain
1497 - John Cabot tells King Henry VII of his trip to "Asia"
1500 - Portuguese sea captain Diego Diaz is first European to sight Madagascar
1511 - Portugese troops occupy parts of Malacca
1512 - Battle at Brest: English fleet beats France
1519 - Magellan's 5 ship set sail to circumnavigate Earth
1557 - Battle at St Quentin: Lamoraal of Egmont & Philibert beat France
1566 - Iconoclasm begins
1585 - English Queen Elizabeth I signs Treaty of Nonsuch: Aid for Neth
1622 - County Maine appended on John Mason/Fernandino Gorges
1627 - Cardinal Richelieu begins siege of La Rochelle
1628 - Wasa sinks at Stockholm, 50 killed
1653 - Sea battle at Heijde, English fleet beats Dutch
1664 - Austria/Turkey signs Peace of Vásvár
1675 - King Charles II lays foundation stone of Royal Observatory, Greenwich
1675 - Portuguese-Jewish synagogue opens in Amsterdam
1678 - Netherlands & France signs peace treaty in Nijmegen
1680 - In New Mexico, Popé leads rebellion of Pueblo Indians against Spaniads
1743 - Earliest recorded prize fighting rules formulated
1759 - Carlos III becomes king of Spain
1774 - 1st Surinam newspaper (1st Wednesday Suriname) begins publishing
1776 - American Revolutionary War: word of the United States Declaration of Independence reaches
           London.
1787 - Mozart completes his "Eine small Nachtmusik"
1787 - Turkey declares war on Russia
1790 - Robert Gray's Columbia, completes 1st American around world voyage
1792 - Mobs in Paris attack palace of Louis XVI
1809 - Ecuador declares independence from Spain (National Day)
1821 - Missouri admitted as 24th US state
1822 - Antioch Syria, hit by Earthquake; about 20,000 die
1827 - Race riots in Cincinnati (1,000 blacks leave for Canada)
1831 - Former slave Nat Turner leads uprising against slavery
1831 - Hurricane hits Barbados; about 1,500 die
1833 - Chicago incorporates as a village of about 200
1835 - Mob of whites & oxen pulled black school to a swamp out of Canaan NH
1846 - Congress charters "nation's attic," Smithsonian Institution
1856 - Hurricane washes away 2-300 revelers at Last Island, Louisiana
1861 - Battle of Wilson's Creek MO (Springfield, Oak Hills)-Gen Lyon killed
1862 - Battle of Nueces River TX
1866 - Transatlantic cable laid-Pres Buchanan spoke to Queen Victoria
1869 - O B Brown patents moving picture projector
1876 - 1st phone call between Brantford & Paris, Canada
1877 - Big Hole River: Col John Gibbon murders Nez-Perce indians
1877 - Phillies & Expos play a doubleheader that ends at 3:23 AM
1885 - Leo Daft opens America's 1st coml operated electric streetcar (Balt)
1887 - Excursion train crashes killing 101. (Chatsworth, Illinois)
1888 - NY Giant pitcher Tim Keefe sets a 19 game win streak record
1889 - Dan Rylands patents screw cap
1893 - Chinese deported from SF under Exclusion Act
1895 - 1st Queen's Hall Promenade Concerto (Wagners "Rienzi")
1897 - Automobile Club of Great Britain established (now: Royal Auto Club)
1900 - 1st Davis Cup: USA beats British Isles in Boston (3-0)
1901 - Chicago White Sox Frank Isbell strands record 11 teammate base runners
1904 - Angelo G Roncalli (Pope John XXIII) becomes a priest
1904 - Dutch newspaper Volk fires gay journalist Jacob de Cock
1904 - Japanese fleet defeat Russians off Port Arthur
1904 - Yankees Jack Chesbro ends string of 30 consecutive complete games
1906 - Pope Pius X bans Associations cults
1907 - Prince Scipone Borchesi wins Beijing to Paris, 7,500 mile auto rally
1909 - Algemeene Netherland Toonkunstenars Ver (ANTV) begins
1911 - Parliament Act reduces power of House of Lords
1913 - 2nd Balkan War ends, Treaty of Bucharest, Bulgaria loses
1914 - At Luik, German 12"/16.5" guns reach Belgian boundary
1914 - German battle cruiser Goeben reaches Dardanellen/Turkey joins Germany
1914 - German troops reconquer Mulhouse in Elzas
1914 - Royal Nationally Steuncomite forms
1916 - Turks annex Persian city Hamadan from Russia
1919 - Ukrainian National Army massacres 25 Jews in Podolia Ukraine
1920 - Allies recognize Poland, Czechoslovakia & Romania
1920 - Treaty of Sèvres (Allies & Turkey)
1920 - Turkish government renounces its claim to Israel, recognizes British mandate
1921 - FDR stricken with polio at summer home on Canadian Is of Campobello
1925 - Hurricane strikes Borculo, 4 die
1926 - Italian-Spanish peace treaty signed
1929 - Grover Alexander beats Phils 7-1 for his 373rd & last NL win
1932 - A 5.1-kg (11.2-pound) chondrite-type meteorite breaks into at least seven pieces and lands
           near the town of Archie in Cass County, Missouri.
1934 - Babe Ruth announces this is his final season as full time player
1936 - 114°F (46°C) at Plain Dealing, Louisiana (state record)
1936 - 120°F (49°C) at Ozark, Arkansas (state record)
1938 - 119°F (48°C), Pendleton, Oregon (state record)
1939 - 2nd Dutch De Geer government forms (1st with Social Democrats)
1940 - Prince Bernhard Fund forms
1941 - FDR & Churchill's 2nd meeting at Placentia Newfoundland
1942 - Gen B Montgomery becomes commandant British 8th leader in N Africa
1943 - Dutch submarine attacks Island Hertenbeest in NW Bali
1943 - Gen Patton calls injured soldier "cowardly"
1943 - Hitler watches lynching of allied pilots
1944 - Braves Red Barrett throws only 58 pitches to shut out Cin Reds 2-0
1944 - Race riots in Athens Alabama
1944 - US recaptures Guam from Japanese
1944 - US/French offensive at Alencon
1945 - Japan announces willingness to surrender to Allies provided status of Emperor Hirohito
           remained unchanged
1948 - ABC enters network TV at 7 PM (WJZ, NY)
1948 - Allen Funt's "Candid Camera" TV debut on ABC
1948 - Bradman scores 133* Aust v Lancashire, 216 mins, 17 fours
1948 - WABC TV channel 7 in New York, NY (ABC) begins broadcasting
1949 - Ezzard Charles TKOs Gus Lesnevich in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
1949 - Natl Military Establishment renamed Dept of Defense
1952 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA All American Women Golf Tournament
1954 - Neth Indonesian Union breaks up
1954 - Sir Gordon Richards retires as a jockey with record 4,870 wins
1954 - At Massena, New York, the groundbreaking ceremony for the St. Lawrence Seaway is held.
1956 - 23rd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Cleveland 26, All-Stars 0 (75,000)
1957 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1958 - Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Macktown Golf Open
1960 - Discoverer 13 launched into orbit; returned 1st object from space
1960 - Nicolaas Jouwe forms PANA in New-Guinea
1961 - England applies for membership in European Common Market
1962 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1964 - WJSP TV channel 28 in Columbus, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1965 - Joe Engle in X-15 reaches 82 km
1966 - 1st lunar orbiter launched by US
1966 - Daylight meteor seen from Utah to Canada. Only known case of a meteor entering Earth's
           atmosphere & leaving it again
1968 - Race riot in Miami, Chicago & Little Rock
1968 - Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Concord Golf Open
1969 - Don Sutton breaks his 13-game losing streak to Cubs with a 4-2 win
1969 - Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Stroh's-WBLY Golf Open
1970 - Jim Morrison is tried in Miami on "lewd & lascivious behavior"
1971 - 16 baseball researchers form Society for American Baseball Research
1971 - Twins' Harmon Killebrew is 10th to amass 500 HRs, & adds his 501st
1972 - 1 million kg heavy meteorite grazes atmosphere above Canada
1972 - Paul & Linda McCartney are arrested in Sweden on drug possession
1973 - 1st BART train travels thru transbay tube to Montgomery St Station
1974 - Judy Rankin wins LPGA Colgate-European American Golf Open
1975 - 57th PGA Championship: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 276 at Firestone Akron
1975 - David Frost purchases exclusive rights to interview Nixon
1977 - US & Panamana sign Panama Canal Zone accord
1977 - USSR performs (underground) nuclear test
1977 - Postal employee David Berkowitz arrested in Yonkers NY, accused of being "Son of Sam" 44
           caliber killer
1978 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1979 - Ecuador adopts its constitution
1979 - Wings release "Getting Closer" & "Baby's Request"
1980 - 62nd PGA Championship: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 274 at Oak Hill NY
1980 - 8th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Pat Bradley
1980 - Allen, most powerful hurricane in Caribbean hits Brownsville, Tx
1981 - Coca-Cola Bottling Co agrees to pump $34 million into black business
1981 - Pete Rose, 3,631 career hit, breaks Stan Musial's NL hit record
1981 - Richard Nixon Museum in San Clemente closes
1984 - Mary Decker trips on heel of Zola Budd during 3,000m Olympic run
1985 - Oakland A's Dave Kingman is 21st to hit 400 HRs (off Matt Young at Seattle)
1985 - Michael Jackson buys ATV Music (every Beatle song) for $47 million
1985 - Uno Lindstron of Sweden, juggles a soccer ball 13.11 miles
1986 - "Me & My Girl" opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 1420 performances
1986 - Betsy King wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic
1986 - Billy Martin Day, his uniform number 1 retired
1986 - Marquis Theater opens at 1535 Broadway NYC
1986 - Pitcher Bob Forsch grand slams to lead Cards to a 5-4 win over Pirates
1987 - Flight Readiness Firing of Discovery's main engines is successfully
1987 - Kevin Gross is 2nd pitcher in 8 days to be ejected for scuffing ball
1988 - Matt Biondi swims world record 100m free style (48.42 sec)
1988 - Rodrigo Borja installed as president of Ecuador
1988 - UN estimates Asia's population hits 3 billion
1989 - A's bat out of order against White Sox in 3rd inning
1989 - Australia 0-301 at end of day one, 5th Test Cricket at Trent Bridge
1990 - US's Magellan spacecraft lands on Venus
1990 - The Massacre of more than 127 Muslims in North East Sri Lanka by paramilitaries.
1991 - "Little Night Music" closes at New York State NYC after 7 perfs
1991 - NFL sportscaster Paul Maquire suffers a heart attack at 53
1992 - Satellite TOPEX/Poseidon launched
1992 - Soyuz TM-15 lands
1993 - Charlotte Anne Lopez, 16, of Vermont, crowned 11th Miss Teen USA
1993 - An earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter Scale hits the South Island of New Zealand.
1994 - Last British troops leave Hong Kong (been there since Sept 1841)
1995 - Dodgers leading 2-1 in 9th forfeit game to Cards, fans become unruly
1996 - Bob Dole picks Jack Kemp as his Republican VP running mate
1996 - Dare & Go ends Cigars record tying victory streak at 16
1996 - Parlisha Williams (Louisiana) crowned Ms Black USA Metroplex
1996 - Yanks lose ending 3rd best home series victory streak at 24
1997 - 36th Walker Cup: US, 18-6
1997 - Anaheim Angels Tony Phillips arrested for purchasing cocaine
1997 - Atlanta Braves sign Greg Maddux to record 5 year, $575 Million deal
1997 - Deb Richard wins LPGA Friendly's Classic
1997 - Northville Long Island Senior Golf Classic
1997 - Vijay Singh of Fiji wins Buick Open at the Warwick Hills Golf
1998 - The Royal Proclamation of HRH Prince Al-Muhtadee Billah as the Crown Prince of Brunei.
2003 - The highest temperature ever recorded in the UK - 38.5°C (101.3°F) in Kent . It is the first
           time the UK has recorded a temperature over 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
2006 - Scotland Yard disrupts major terrorist plot to destroy aircraft travelling from the United
           Kingdom to the United States. All toiletries are banned from commercial airplanes.

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 10, 2013, 08:56:51 AM

This Day in History for 10th August


Famous Weddings

1912 - British literary figure (author of "To the Lighthouse") Virginia Woolf (30) weds political theorist
           Leonard Woolf (31)
1933 - Actress Hedy Lamarr (19) weds Hirtenberger Patronen-Fabrik chairman Friedrich Mandl (33)
1946 - Pulp fiction author and Church of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard (35) weds Sara
           Northrup Hollister
2001 - "Dixie Chick's" Martie Maguire (31) weds actor Gareth Maguire in Kailua, Hawaii
2002 - Academy Award-winning actor Nicolas Cage (38) weds "Princess of Rock and Roll" Lisa Marie
           Presley (34) at the Mauna Lani Bay Hotel on the Big Island of Hawaii
2002 - "Baywatch" actress Angelica Bridges (28) weds Canadian hockey player Sheldon Souray (26)
           at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada
2003 - Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko becomes the first person to marry in space, marrying Ekaterina
           Dmitriev (on earth)
2003 - Fox News correspondent Geraldo Rivera (60) weds former Rivera Live producer Erica Levy
          (28) at Manhattan's Central Synagogue

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 10, 2013, 08:58:14 AM

This Day in History for 10th August


Famous Divorces

2007 - Actor Johnathon Schaech (37) divorces actress Christina Applegate (35) due to irreconcilable
          differences after 4 years of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 10, 2013, 09:04:25 AM

This Day in History for 10th August


Famous Birthdays

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31st US President                                    Actor Jack Haley (1898)                       Actress Rosanna Arquette (1959)
Herbert Hoover (1874)


1267 - King James II of Aragon (d. 1327)
1296 - John the Blind, King of Bohemia/Count of Luxembourg
1360 - Francesco Zabarella, Italian jurist (d. 1417)
1397 - Albert II of Germany, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1439)
1489 - Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck, German statesman and reformer (d. 1553)
1520 - Madeleine de Valois, wife of James V of Scotland (d. 1537)
1556 - Philipp Nicolai, Germany, theologist/poet/composer
1560 - Hieronymus Praetorius, composer
1567 - Girolamo Giacobbi, composer
1589 - Pietro Antonio Tamburini, composer
1602 - Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician (d. 1675)
1645 - Eusebio Kino, Italian Catholic missionary (d. 1711)
1652 - Peterus I Scheemaeckers, Flemish sculptor (tomb stones)
1654 - Bernard Nieuwentyt, Dutch physician/theologist
1657 - Cornelis Chastelein, Dutch colonial director
1699 - Christoph Gottlieb Schroter, composer
1708 - John Stinstra, baptist vicar
1720 - Franz Joseph Leonti Meyer von Schavensee, composer
1737 - Anton Losenko, Russian painter (d. 1773)
1740 - Samuel Arnold, composer
1744 - Alexandrine-Jeanne d'Étiolles (nicknamed "Fanfan"), daughter of the courtesan Madame de
           Pompadour (d. 1754)
1750 - Daniel Gottlob Turk, composer
1762 - Santiago Ferrer, composer
1782 - Charles Napier, London, soldier
1793 - Heinrich August Neithardt, composer
1794 - Leopold Zunz, German scientist (Synagogical Poetry)
1801 - Robert Woodward Barnwell, MC (Confederacy), died in 1882
1808 - Carl Friedrich Weitzmann, composer
1810 - Camilio Benso di Cavour, Turin Italy, PM
1810 - Cornelis Outshoorn, Dutch architect
1814 - Jacob Edvard Gille, composer
1814 - John Clifford Pemberton, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1881
1814 - William Lowndes Yancey, MC (Confederacy), died in 1863
1814 - Henri Nestlé, Swiss industrialist (d. 1890)
1821 - Jay Cooke, American financier (d. 1905)
1823 - Charles Keene, Hornsey, artist
1823 - Charles Thomas Campbell, Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
1823 - Hugh Stowell Brown, Manx preacher (d.1886)
1835 - Gyula Beliczay, composer
1836 - Jose Teodor Vilar, composer
1839 - Aleksandr Grigorievich Stoletov, Russian physicist (d. 1896)
1845 - Abai Qunanbaiuli, Kazakh poet, composer and philosopher (d. 1904)
1854 - J Scott Lidgett, London, theologist
1856 - Paul Geisler, composer
1860 - Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, Indian musician (d. 1936)
1861 - Almroth Wright, Yorkshire England, bacteriologist
1865 - Alexander K Glazunov, St Petersburg Russia, composer (Chopiniana)
1869 - Lawrence Binyon, Vienna Austria, poet (Symbolic Wounds)
1874 - Herbert Hoover, West Branch Iowa, (R) 31st Pres (1929-1933), (d. 1964)
1874 - James (Tod) Sloan, jockey, created monkey crouch riding style
1874 - Bill Johnson, American musician (d. 1972)
1877 - Rudolf Hilferding, German economist/SPD-minister of Finance
1877 - Frank Marshall, American chess player (d. 1944)
1878 - Alfred Döblin, German writer (d. 1957)
1880 - Clarence Cameron White, composer
1880 - Robert L. Thornton, American businessman, philanthropist, and Mayor of Dallas, Texas (d.
           1964)
1881 - Albrecht M Sprenger, landbuilder
1882 - Max Kowalski, composer
1883 - Carlos Lavin, composer
1884 - Panait Istrati, Romanian writer (d. 1935)
1886 - Hilda Doolittle, poet/prominent member of imagist movement
1888 - Johanna E F G (Bachigaloupi) Tourniaire, actress (Saint Joan)
1889 - Cecil Armstrong Gibbs, composer
1889 - Irene Steer, England, 4 X 100m relay swimmers (Olympic-gold-1912)
1889 - Charles Darrow, Inventor (d. 1967)
1890 - Angus L. MacDonald, Canadian politician (d. 1954)
1891 - Henry O'Neill, Orange NJ, actor (Lady Killer, Nothing But Trouble)
1893 - Douglas Stuart Moore, Cutchogue NY, composer (Good Night Harvard)
1893 - Viscount Dunrossil, Scotland, Gov Gen of Australia (1959-61)
1893 - Voranc Prezikov, [Lovro Kuhar], Slovenian author (Samorastniki)
1894 - Varahagiri Venkata Giri, Fourth President of India (d. 1980)
1895 - Michail M Soschtschenko, Russian author
1895 - Hammy Love, Former Australian cricketer (d. 1969)
1897 - Edward Orval Gourdin, Jacksonville, long jumper (Olympic-silver-1924)
1897 - Piet[er O] Bakker, Dutch novelist (Ciske the Rat)
1897 - John Galbreath, American businessman (d. 1988)
1898 - Jack Haley [John Joseph], Boston, Massachusetts, American actor (The Wizard of Oz, Ford
           Star Revue)
1900 - Arthur Porritt, NZ, 100m sprinter (Olympic-bronze-1924)
1902 - Norma Shearer, Canadian actress (d. 1983)
1902 - Curt Siodmak, German-born author (d. 2000)
1902 - Arne Tiselius, Swedish chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1971)
1903 - Lisle, British lord
1905 - Bernard Benjamin Gillis, British judge
1905 - Richard F Kahn, baron of Hampstead/British economist
1906 - Era Bell Thompson, [Dakota Dick], US actress (Ebony)
1908 - Gabrielle Keiller, collector/golfer
1908 - Adelino ("Billy") Gonsalves, American soccer player (d. 1977)
1909 - Brian Easdale, composer
1909 - Claude Thornhill, composer
1909 - Frank Bowden, industrialist/landowner
1909 - George W Crockett Jr, (Rep-D-MI, 1980- )
1909 - Julio A Abraham, president (Democratic Party Bonaire)
1909 - Leo Fender, Anaheim California, rocker (Fender guitars)
1909 - Mohammed V ibn Yusuf, King of Morocco (1953, 1955-61)
1910 - Angus Campbell, US, psychologist (Elections & Political Order)
1911 - A. N. Sherwin-White, English historian (d. 1993)
1912 - Herman Strategier, Dutch organist/composer/conductor
1912 - Izaak Samkalden, Dutch Minister of Justice (PvdA)/mayor of Amsterdam
1912 - Jorge Amado, Brazilian writer (O Pais do Carnaval)
1912 - Richard Reeves, NYC, actor (Murph-Date With an Angel)
1912 - Romain Maes, Belgian bicylist (Tour de France 1935)
1913 - Noah Beery Jr, NYC, actor (Rockford Files, Quest, Doc Elliot)
1913 - Steven Nagy, bowler, 1st to bowl 300 on TV (1954)
1914 - Jeff Corey, NYC, actor (Getting Straight, Superman & Mole Men)
1914 - Carlos Menditeguy, Argentine racing driver (d. 1973)
1916 - John Clark, Hampton IA, actor (Graveyard of Horror)
1919 - Elizabeth Thomas, literary consultant
1919 - Sacha Vierny, French cinematographer (d. 2001)
1920 - William "Red" Holzman, NBA coach (NY Knickerbockers, 754 wins)
1921 - Leonard Lickorish, dir-gen (British Tourist Authority)
1923 - Fred Ridgway, England cricket pace bowler (1951-52 Indian tour)
1923 - Gillian Brown, diplomat
1923 - Rhonda Fleming, [Marilyn Louis], Hollywood California, actress (Spellbound)
1924 - Martha Hyer, TX, actress (Day of the Wolves, Night of the Grizzly)
1925 - Alastair Webster Mackie, poet/teacher
1925 - George Cooper, general
1925 - Lawrence Byford, HM Chief Inspector of Constabulary
1926 - Edwin James Nairn Carr, composer
1926 - Marie-Claire Alain, French organist/composer
1927 - Vernon Washington, American actor (d. 1988)
1928 - Eddie Fisher, Phila Pa, singer (Oh My Papa, Lady of Spain)
1928 - Jimmy Dean, Tx, actor/singer (Jimmy Dean Show, Diamonds are Forever)
1928 - Gus Mercurio, American-born Australian actor
1929 - John Alldis, composer/conductor
1930 - Barry Unsworth, novelist (Pascali's Island), (d. 2012)
1930 - Saeedi Sirjani, poet
1932 - Alexander Goehr, composer
1933 - Alan Hardcastle, chairman (Lloyds Regulatory Board)
1933 - Bill Nieder, shot putter, (Olympic-gold-1960)
1933 - Butler-Sloss, British Lady Justice
1933 - David Rowland, chairman (Lloyd's)
1933 - Rocky Colavito, Bronx, baseball player (Hit 4 HRs in a game)
1933 - Doyle Brunson, American poker player
1933 - Keith Duckworth, English mechanical engineer (Cosworth; d. 2005)
1934 - James Carl Tenney, composer
1935 - Giya Alexandrovich Kancheli, Georgian composer (Night Prayers)
1935 - Jerrie Anthony Hulme, British major-general
1935 - Lord Stewartby
1936 - Leendert-John Schalm, Dutch banker on Curacao
1937 - Lucinda Williams, US sprinter (Olympic-gold-1960)
1937 - Anatoly Sobchak, Russian politician
1939 - Charles Rose, (Rep-D-North Carolina, 1973- )
1939 - Kate O'Mara, Leicaster England, actress (Caress Morell-Dynasty, AbFab)
1940 - Barbara Mills, QC, British Director of Public Prosecutions
1940 - Bobby Hatfield, Wisc, rocker (Righteous Bros-Unchained Melody)
1940 - Richard Wells, Chief Constable (South Yorkshire)
1940 - Sid Waddell, Darts Commentator for the PDC
1941 - Anita Lonsbrough, England, 200m backstroke swimmer (Oly-gold-1960)
1941 - Kees van Kooten, Dutch TV host/founder (Simplistic Union)
1942 - Betsy Johnson, fashion designer (1971 Winnie Award)
1943 - Ronnie Spector, [Veronica Bennett], NYC, singer (Be My Little Baby)
1943 - Shafqat Rana, Pakistani cricket batsman (5 Tests 1964-69)
1943 - Veronica Bennett, rocker
1943 - Michael Mantler, American trumpeter and composer
1945 - Harry Thomas, Dutch founder (Schlager Festival Gay Party)
1945 - Larry Larden, rocker (Every Mother's Son)
1945 - Harriet Miers, White House counsel
1947 - Alan Ward, England cricket pace bowler (1969-76)
1947 - Ian Anderson, Scotland, rocker (Jethro Tull-Bungle in the Jungle)
1948 - Pal Gerevich, Hungary, fencer (Olympic-bronze-1972, 80)
1948 - Patti Austin, soul singer/actress (Real Me)
1949 - Gene Johnson, Sugar Grove Pa, singer (Diamond Rio-Meet in the Middle)
1950 - A L Harris, clinicaloncologist
1950 - James Reynolds, Oskaloosa Ks, actor (Abe Carver-Days of our Lives)
1950 - Rémy Girard, Canadian actor
1951 - Maria Combs, LPGA golfer
1952 - Ashley Putnam, NYC, soprano (NY City Opera 1978)
1952 - Nikolai Alekseyevich Pushenko, Russian lt-colonel/cosmonaut
1952 - Pepsi Nunes, marine biologist
1952 - Daniel Hugh Kelly, American actor
1952 - Diane Venora, American actress
1953 - Mark Doty, American poet and prose writer
1955 - Marja-Liisa Hamalainen, Finnish cross country skier (Oly-gold-1984)
1956 - Dianne Fromhottz, Balestrat Australia, tennis star
1956 - Tugboat, [Fred Ottman], WWF wrestler
1958 - Jack Richards, English cricket wicket-keeper (mid-80's)
1959 - Mark Price, bass/vocals (All About Eve, Tin Huey-Contents Dislodged)
1959 - Rosanna Arquette, NYC, actress (Desperately Seeking Susan, After Hour)
1959 - Florent Vollant, Innu-Canadian musician (Kashtin)
1960 - Antonio Banderas, Malaga Spain, actor (Phila, Evita, Mambo Kings)
1960 - [James] Kenneth Perry, Elizabethtown KY, PGA golfer (1991 Memorial)
1960 - Nicoletta Braschi, Italian actress
1960 - Todd David Hess, First USAF Member inducted into Army's Order of Military Medical Merit.
1961 - Beatrice Alda, daughter of Alan Alda, actress (Lisa-Four Seasons)
1961 - Jon Farriss, Australian rock vocalist/drummer (INXS-Kiss the Dirt)
1962 - Dan Donovan, rocker (Bad)
1963 - Andrew Sullivan, English-born journalist
1963 - Phoolan Devi, Indian bandit and revolutionary (d. 2001)
1964 - Andy Stankiewicz, Inglewood CA, infielder (NY Yankees, Montreal Expos)
1964 - Aaron Hall, American songwriter
1965 - Carolyn Schuwalow, Australian distance runner (Olympics-96)
1965 - John Starks, NBA guard (NY Knicks)
1965 - Patricia Spurgin, US scherpschutser (Olympics-gold-1984)
1965 - Claudia Christian, American actress
1965 - Mike E. Smith, American jockey
1966 - Gerald Williams, New Orleans LA, outfielder (NY Yankees)
1966 - Hansi Kürsch, German singer
1967 - Carlos Briceno, Fountain Valley, CA, beach volleyball (Oly-br-92, 96)
1967 - Lori Tatum, LPGA golfer
1967 - Lorraine Pearson, rocker
1967 - Peter Murphy, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1967 - Reinout Scholte, cricketer (Netherlands batsman 1996 World Cup)
1967 - Riddick Bowe, Brooklyn NY, HW boxing champ (Olympic-silver-1988)
1967 - Philippe Albert, Belgian former footballer
1967 - Mart Sander, Estonian singer and actor
1968 - Alex Andrievski, NHL forward (Team Belarus, Oly-98)
1968 - Jennifer Horton, Dover NJ, team handball goalie (Olympics-92, 96)
1968 - Michael Bivins, Boston, rock vocalist (New Edition, Bell Biv Devoe)
1968 - Michel Doesburg, soccer player (SC Heerenveen)
1968 - Miroslav Mosner, hockey defenseman (Team Slovakia 1998)
1968 - Moe Gardner, NFL nose tackle (Atlanta Falcons)
1968 - Peter Docter, American film director
1969 - Earl of Iveagh
1969 - Iain Fraser, Scarborough, NHL center (Winnipeg Jets)
1970 - Brendon Julian, cricketer (in NZ Australian left-arm quickie 1993-)
1970 - Bret Hedican, St-paul, NHL defenseman (Vancouver Canucks)
1970 - Gino Torretta, quarterback (Heisman Trophy 1992, Seattle Seahawks)
1970 - Jeff Mangum, American musician
1971 - Craig Newsome, NFL defensive back (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1971 - Martin Quinney, Quesnel BC, Canada Tour golfer (1994 Glen Meadows-2nd)
1971 - Mike Morreale, CFL slot back (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1971 - Paul Newlove, rugby league player
1971 - Roy Keane, soccer player
1971 - Sal Fasano, Chicago IL, catcher (KC Royals)
1971 - Mario César Kindelán Mesa, Cuban boxer
1971 - Justin Theroux, American actor
1971 - Kevin Randleman, American mixed martial artist
1971 - Stephan Groth, Norwegian musician
1972 - Julann Vadnais, Miss Maine USA (1996)
1972 - Lawrence Dallaglio, English rugby union footballer
1972 - Christofer Johnsson, Swedish musician
1973 - Jessica Grieco, Englewood NJ, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1973 - Keisha Delancy, Miss Turks & Caicos islands Universe (1997)
1973 - Lisa Raymond, Norristown Penn, tennis star (1995 Indian Wells doubles)
1973 - Mark Doubleday, Australian baseball infielder (Olympics-1996)
1973 - Sherriden May, NFL fullback (NY Jets)
1973 - Javier Zanetti, Argentinian footballer
1974 - Dave Fiore, tackle (San Francisco 49ers)
1974 - Miro Simonovic, hockey goaltender (Team Slovakia 1998)
1974 - Walt Harris, cornerback (Chicago Bears)
1974 - David Sommeil, French footballer
1974 - Luis Marín, Costa Rican footballer
1975 - Lise Mackie, Te Kuiti NZ, Australian swimmer (Olympics-96)
1976 - Michael Depoli, American wrestler
1977 - Danny Griffin, Northern Irish footballer
1977 - Aaron Kamin, American musician (The Calling)
1977 - Matt Morgan, British comedian
1978 - Daniel Allsopp, Australian footballer
1978 - Chris Read, English cricketer
1979 - Yannick Schroeder, French racing driver
1979 - Ted Geoghegan, American filmmaker and author
1979 - Joanna Garcia, Cuban actress
1979 - Dinusha Fernando, Sri Lankan cricketer
1980 - Kaysar Ridha, Iraqi-American reality TV contestant
1981 - Natsumi Abe, Japanese singer
1981 - Taufik Hidayat, Indonesian Badminton Player
1982 - Devon Aoki, American supermodel and actress
1983 - Alexander Perezhogin, Russian ice hockey player
1983 - Mathieu Roy, Canadian ice hockey player
1984 - Mariel Rodriguez, Filipino TV host
1985 - Roy O'Donovan, Irish footballer
1989 - Ben Sahar, Israeli footballer
1989 - Sam Gagner, Canadian ice hockey player
1992 - Ko Ah-seong, South Korean actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 10, 2013, 09:07:50 AM

This Day in History for 10th August


Famous Deaths

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Rocket Pioneer                                      Guitarist Michael Houser (2002) 
Robert H. Goddard (1945)


612 BC - Sinsharishkun, Assyrian king
258 - Saint Lawrence, martyr
794 - Fastrada, 3rd wife of French king Charles the Great, dies at 30
955 - Conrad the Red, Duke of Lotharingen, dies in battle
1002 - Al-Mansur, Arabic general strategist/regent of Cordoba, dies
1250 - Erik IV Plovpenning, king of Denmark, murdered
1535 - Ippolito de' Medici, ruler of Florence (poisoned) (b. 1509)
1589 - Maarten Schenck Nideggen, Dutch army leader, drowned at about 49
1628 - Hans Jonsson, Swedish fleet commander, drowned
1637 - Johann Gerhard, German Lutheran leader (b. 1582)
1653 - Maarten Harpertsz Tromp, [Bestevaer], lt-adm, dies in battle at 55
1655 - Louis de Vadder, Flemish painter, dies at 50
1717 - Nicolaas Witsen, etcher/mayor (Amsterdam), dies
1723 - Guillaume Dubois, French cardinal and statesman (b. 1656)
1730 - Sebastien de Brossard, composer, dies at 74
1759 - Ferdinand VI, the wise, king of Spain, dies at 46
1784 - Allan Ramsay, Scottish painter and artist (b. 1713)
1802 - Aepinus, [Franz UT Hoch], German physician/physicist, dies at 77
1806 - Johann Michael Haydn, composer, dies at 68
1821 - Salvatore Vigano, composer, dies at 52
1839 - John St Aubyn, British fossil collector (b. 1758)
1841 - Hippolyte Monpou, composer, dies at 37
1843 - Jakob F Fries, German philosopher, dies
1857 - John Wilson Croker, politician
1859 - George Staunton, writer
1861 - Nathaniel Lyon, US Union brig-gen, dies in battle at 43
1862 - Shusaku Honinbo, Japanese Go player (b. 1829)
1867 - Ira Aldridge, famed Shakespearean actor (Othello, Shylock), dies 1867
1875 - Karl (Theodor) Andree, German journalist (Globus), dies at 66
1886 - Eduard Grell, composer, dies at 85
1896 - Otto Lilienthal, German aircraft pioneer, dies
1902 - George Vernon, cricketer (scored 11* & 3 in only England Test), dies
1904 - Pierre M Waldeck-Rousseau, French foreign minister (Dreyfus), dies
1905 - Kinjikitile "Bokero" Ngwale, E African prophet/rebel leader, hanged
1911 - Carl Christian Lumbye, composer, dies at 70
1915 - Henry Moseley, English physicist (b. 1887)
1918 - Erich Lowenhardt, Germany flying ace of World War I (b. 1897)
1920 - Ádám Politzer, Austrian physician (b. 1835)
1921 - John M Martin, last confederate congress member, dies
1928 - Rex Cherryman, American actor (b. 1897)
1929 - Aletta Henriette Jacobs, 1st Dutch female doctor/feminist, dies at 75
1929 - Pierre Fatou, French mathematician (b. 1878)
1930 - William H Taft, US president (1909-13), dies
1932 - Slang, writer, dies
1932 - Rin Tin Tin, German shepherd dog (b. 1918)
1934 - John Kane, Scotish/US miner/painter, dies at 73
1938 - Joseph Moorat, composer, dies at 73
1943 - C Bergsma, Dutch resistance fighter (Waalsdorpervlakte), dies
1943 - J Janzen, Dutch resistance fighter (Waalsdorpervlakte), dies
1943 - J Posthuma, Dutch resistance fighter (Waalsdorpervlakte), dies
1944 - Berthold Schenk von Stauffenberg, attempt Hitler assassination, dies
1945 - Robert H. Goddard, American rocket pioneer, dies at 62
1948 - E Ball-Hennings, writer, dies at 63
1948 - Kwan-Ichi Asakawa, Japanese historian(b. 1873)
1948 - Andrew Brown, Scottish football coach (b. 1870)
1948 - Montague Summers, English writer (b. 1880)
1958 - Frank Demaree, baseball player (b. 1910)
1960 - Emil Strauss, German writer (Vaterland), dies
1960 - Frank Lloyd, director (Berkeley Square, Blood on the Sun), dies at 72
1960 - Oswald Veblin, mathematician
1962 - Ted Husing, sportscaster (Monday Night Fights), dies at 60
1963 - Estes Kefauver, (Sen-D-Tn), dies at 60
1963 - Patrick Kennedy, son of President Kennedy, dies at only 3 days
1963 - Ernst Wetter, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1877)
1965 - Rayford Robinson, cricketer (Test Aust v England 1937), dies
1966 - Felix A Vening Meinesz, geophysicist (black force), dies at 79
1966 - Jacobus C Bloem, poet (Cinders), dies
1967 - John Francis Larchet, composer, dies at 83
1969 - Leno LaBianca, American businessman (murdered) (b. 1925)
1969 - Rosemary LaBianca, American housewife (murdered) (b. 1930)
1970 - Bernd-Alois Zimmermann, Germ composer (Requiem), commits suicide at 52
1973 - Douglas Kennedy, actor (Lone Ranger & Lost City of Gold), dies at 57
1974 - Ilona Massey, actress/singer (Ilona Massey Show), dies at 64
1974 - Ivor Dean, British actor (Theatre of Death), dies at 57
1976 - Bert Oldfield, cricketer (54 Tests, 52 stumpings), dies
1976 - Ray "Crash" Corrigan, cowboy (Crash Corrigan's Ranch), dies at 74
1977 - Vince Barnett, actor (Star is Born, Human Jungle), dies at 75
1979 - Dick Foran, actor (OK Crackerby), dies at 69
1985 - Kenny Backer, comedian (Time Bandits), dies of a heart attack at 72
1987 - Calvin Culver, actor (Score), dies
1987 - Clara Peller, actress (Where's the Beef), dies at 86
1987 - I W Able, CEO (United Steel Workers of America, 1965-77), dies at 87
1987 - Raquel Torres, actress (Duck Soup, Sea Bat), dies
1988 - Adela Rogers St John, journalist (Free Soul, Honeycomb), dies at 94
1988 - Arias Arnulfo, 3 time president of Panama, dies at 86
1990 - Richard Haines, director (Splatter University), dies
1991 - Josef Lipski, Polish politician, dies
1993 - Ken England, US screenwriter (Good Girls Go to Paris), dies at 82
1993 - Øystein Aarseth, Norwegian musician (Mayhem) (b. 1968)
1994 - Bill Baker, singer, dies at 58
1994 - Kay Petre, early racing driver, dies at 91
1994 - Leendert-John Schalm, Dutch banker on Curacao, murdered at 58
1995 - Fay Honey Knopp, activist, dies at 76
1995 - Peter Lancelot Williams, dance journalist, dies at 81
1996 - Adriano Mandarino Hypolito, priest, dies at 78
1996 - Rex Tucker, TV writer/director, dies at 83
1997 - Jean-Claude Lauzon, director/writer (Leola), dies in air crash at 43
1997 - Conlon Nancarrow, American composer (b. 1912)
1999 - Padma Bhushan Acharya Baldev Upadhyaya, Eminent Sanskrit Scholar in India (b. 1899)
2000 - Gilbert Parkhouse, Former England cricketer (b. 1925)
2001 - Lou Boudreau, American baseball player and manager (b. 1917)
2002 - Michael Houser, American guitarist (Widespread Panic) (b. 1962)
2002 - Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian computer scientist (b. 1926)
2003 - Carmita Jiménez, Puerto Rican singer
2007 - Henry Cabot Lodge Bohler, American member of Tuskegee Airmen and civil rights activist (b.
           1925)
2007 - James E. Faust, Second Councilor of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (b.
           1920)
2007 - Tony Wilson, British music personality and broadcaster (b. 1950)
2008 - Isaac Hayes, American musician and actor (b. 1942)
2010 - Adam Stansfield, Professional footballer who played for Exeter City F.C. (b. 1978)
2012 - Carlo Rambaldi, Italian Special effects artist, dies at 86
2012 - Al Freeman Jr, American actor, dies at 78

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 11, 2013, 07:55:46 AM

This Day in History for 11th August


Historical Events

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Baseball Great Babe Ruth                      British war time Prime Minister               Yankee Clipper Joe DiMaggio
                                                                       Winston Churchill

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Singer & Cultural Icon                                 Rocker Keith Moon                         Olympic Sprinter and Long jumper
Elvis Presley                                                                                                               Carl Lewis

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264th Pope John Paul II


3114 BC - The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, used by several pre-Columbian Mesoamerican
                civilizations, notably the Mayans, begins.
2492 BC - Traditional date of the defeat of Bel by Hayk, progenitor and founder of the Armenian
                nation.
480 BC - Greco-Persian Wars: Battle of Artemisium - Persian naval victory over the Greeks in an
              engagement fought near promontory on the north coast of Euboea. Greek fleet holds its
              own against the Persians in three days of fighting but withdraws upon news of the defeat
               at Thermopylae.
355 - Claudius Silvanus, accused of treason, proclaims himself Roman Emperor against Constantius
         II.
1304 - Sea battle of Zierikzee
1492 - Rodrigo de Borja becomes Pope Alexander VI
1522 - Uprising of adel/burgerij in Austria fails
1597 - Germany throws out English sales people
1611 - Emperor Rudolf forces out king of Bohemia
1674 - 1st Battle of at Seneffe (Louis II Condé vs Willem III)
1695 - English & Dutch fleet capture Dunkerk
1718 - Battle at Cape Passaro: English fleet destroys Spanish
1772 - Explosive eruption blows 4,000' off Papandayan Java, kills 3,000
1780 - Barbados hurricane begins
1786 - Captain Francis Light establishes the British colony of Penang in Malaysia
1804 - Francis II assumes the title of first Emperor of Austria
1835 - George B Airy begins 46-year reign as England's Astronomer Royal
1858 - First ascent of the Eiger.
1860 - US's 1st successful silver mill (Virginia City, Nev)
1863 - Cambodia becomes French protectorate
1866 - World's 1st roller rink opens (Newport RI)
1874 - Harry S Parmelee patents sprinkler head
1877 - Asaph Hall discovers Mars's moon Deimos
1884 - 1st double-century stand in Test cricket, McDonnell/Murdoch 207 Aust
1885 - $100,000 raised in US for pedestal for Statue of Liberty
1888 - California Theatre closed (now a Pac Tel Phone Store)
1896 - Harvey Hubbell patents electric light bulb socket with a pull chain
1904 - German-ltalian General Von Trotha defeats Herero in SW Africa
1907 - St Louis Card Ed Karger pitches perfect game vs Braves, 4-0 in 7 inn
1909 - SOS 1st used by an American ship, Arapahoe, off Cape Hatteras, NC
1909 - Warren Bardsley (136 & 130) 1st to get twin tons in a Test
1914 - France declares war on Austria-Hungary
1914 - Jews are expelled from Mitchenick Poland
1914 - John Wray patents animation
1914 - Mitchenick Poland, expels Jews
1918 - Battle of Amiens ends in WW I, Allieds beat Germans
1919 - Green Bay Packers football club founded
1919 - Weimar Republic begins in Germany
1920 - 1st peace of Riga-Soviet Union recognizes Independence of Latvia
1923 - Dutch Premier de Geer resigns
1924 - 1st newsreel pictures of presidential candidates were taken
1924 - US presidential candidates make 1st film for bio-scoop news
1926 - Cleve Indian Tris Speaker hits his 700th double
1928 - Carl Hubbell's 1st major league victory is a 4-0 shutout of Phils
1928 - Georges Ronsse becomes world champion cyclists
1929 - Babe Ruth becomes 1st to hit 500 homers (off Willis Hudlin of Cleve)
1929 - Persia & Iraq sign friendship treaty
1929 - Russian-Chinese border fights
1933 - Temp reaches 136°F (57.8°C) at San Luis Potosi, Mex (world record)
1934 - 1st federal prisoners arrive at Alcatraz in SF Bay
1935 - Nazi mass demonstration against German Jews
1936 - Chaing Kai-shek's troops conquers Kanton
1939 - Sergei Rachmaninovs last appearance in Europe
1940 - 38 German aircrafts shot down above England
1940 - German air raid on British harbors Portland/Weymouth
1942 - - Sept 30] SS begins exterminating 3,500 Jews in Zelov Lodz Poland
1942 - 999 Jews are taken from Mechelen transit camp in Belgium
1942 - British aircraft carrier Eagle torpedoed & sinks
1942 - Lt-gen Montgomery makes landing on Gibraltar
1943 - Red Army recaptures Tchukujev, at Kharkov
1943 - Richard Strauss' 2nd Horn Concert, premieres
1943 - US amphibians land at Brolo on north coast of Sicily
1944 - British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Italy
1944 - French 5th Armour division recaptures Sées
1944 - Klaus Barbie, Gestapo head of Lyon France leaves for Auschwitz
1944 - US air raid on Palembang
1945 - Allies refuse Japan's surrender offer to retain Emperor Hirohito
1948 - Summer Olympics opens in London
1949 - 1st Naples-Capri swim, 17 miles (27 km) (Giovanni Gambi)
1949 - Gaston Eyskens forms Belgiangovernment
1950 - 17th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 17, Philadelphia 7 (88,885)
1950 - Boston Brave Vern Bickford no-hits Bkln Dodger, 7-0
1950 - Hitting just .279, Yank great Joe DiMaggio is benched for 1st time
1950 - King Boudouin I takes oath as royal prince of Belgium
1951 - 100,000 acres flooded from Mississippi R in Ks, Oklahoma, Mo & Ill
1951 - 1st color baseball game (Braves vs Dodgers) telecast (WCBS-NYC)
1951 - NY Giants (NFL) beat Ottawa Roughriders (CFL) 38-6 in Ottawa
1951 - NY Giants lose to go 13½ games behind Bkln Dodgers, later win pennant
1952 - Hussein Ibn Talal I, proclaimed King of Jordan
1954 - BC Lions plays its 1st CF game, they lose to Montreal Alouettes, 22-0
1954 - Formal peace takes place, ending 7+ yrs of fighting in Indochina between French &
           Communist Vietminh
1955 - Indonesia government of Harahap forms
1956 - 1st flight 4-motor Cessna 620
1956 - Elvis Presley releases "Don't Be Cruel"
1957 - Patty Berg wins LPGA All-American Golf Open
1957 - Paul Hindemith' opera "Harmonie der Welt," premieres in Munich
1960 - Chad declares Independence from France
1960 - French colony of Chad became independent
1961 - Warren Spahn records victory #300, beats Cubs 2-1
1962 - Andrian G Nikolayev, becomes 3rd Russian in space aboard Vostok 3
1962 - Beach Boys release "Surfin' Safari"
1962 - Bolotnikov runs world record 10km (28:18.2)
1962 - Dodgers protest wetting down of Candlestick to slow Maury Wills down
1963 - Kingston Trio are mystery guest on "What's My Line?"
1963 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Waterloo Women's Golf Open Invitational
1964 - Beatles' "A Hard Days Night" opens in NYC
1964 - Race riot in Paterson NJ
1965 - 6 day insurrection starts in Watts section of Los Angeles
1965 - Beatles movie "Help" opens in NYC
1965 - Watts riots begin in Southeast LA, lasts 6 days
1966 - Last Beatle concert tour of US begins
1967 - Al Downing becomes 12th to strike-out side on 9 pitches
1968 - Beatles launch "Apple Records" label
1968 - Satchel Paige, 62, & needing 158 days on a major league payroll to qualify for a pension, is
           signed by Braves
1968 - The last steam passenger train service runs in Britain. A selection of British Rail steam
           locomotives make the 120-mile journey from Liverpool to Carlisle and returns to Liverpool
           before having their fires dropped for the last time - this working was known as the Fifteen
           Guinea Special.
1969 - Don Drysdale retires because of damage to his right shoulder
1969 - Pittsburgh Steelers beat NY Giants 17-13 in Montreal (NFL expo)
1970 - Jim Bunning becomes 2nd (Cy Young) to win 100 games in both leagues
1970 - Tony Perez becomes 1st to hit a HR in red seats at Riverfront
1971 - Construction begins on Louisiana Superdome
1971 - Harmon Killebrew hits HRs #500 & 501
1972 - "Cheech & Chong Day" in San Antonio Texas
1974 - 56th PGA Championship: Lee Trevino shoots a 276 at Tanglewood NC
1974 - Coup in East-Timor under UDT
1974 - Head-on collision between two buses kills 21 (Ankara, Turkey)
1975 - Expos' Jose Mangual struck out 5 times in a game
1975 - US vetoes proposed admission of North & South Vietnam to UN
1976 - Keith Moon, drummer for Who, collapses & is hospitalized in Miami
1976 - Race riot in Cape Town, South Africa; 17 die
1977 - Geoff Boycott scores his 100th FC hundred, v Aust at Headingley
1978 - Funeral of Pope Paul VI
1978 - Legionnaire's disease bacteria isolated in Atlanta
1979 - 28°F in Embarrass Minnesota
1979 - Phillies Tug McGraw gives up record 4th grand slam of year
1980 - Angola revises its constitution
1980 - Mohammed Ali Radjai appointed premier of Iran
1980 - Yanks Reggie Jackson hits his 400th HR off Chicago's Britt Burns
1982 - Twins Terry Felton loses & runs career to 0-14 (en route to 0-16)
1982 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1984 - 101,799 fans at soccer match Brazil vs France
1984 - Carl Lewis duplicates Jesse Owens' 1936 feat, wins 4 Olym track golds
1984 - Cincinnati Reds retire Johnny Bench's #5 uniform
1984 - During a radio voice test Pres Reagan joked he "signed legislation that would outlaw Russia
           forever. We begin bombing in 5 minutes"
1984 - Men's choir Maranatha Netherlands forms
1984 - USSR performs (underground) nuclear test
1985 - "Tap Dance Kid" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 669 perfs
1985 - 67th PGA Championship: Hubert Green shoots 278 at Cherry Hills Denver
1985 - Challenger flies to Kennedy Space Center via Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz
1985 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic
1985 - Rudolf Povarnitsin of USSR sets new high jump world record (7'10"12)
1986 - 68th PGA Championship: Bob Tway shoots a 276 at Inverness Club Toledo
1987 - France & Great-Britain send minesweepers to Persian Gulf
1988 - 225 at bats after #299, Met Gary Carter is 59th to hit 300th HR
1988 - Charlotte Colisieum in Charlotte NC opens
1988 - Meir Kahane renounced US citizenship to stay in Israeli Parliament
1988 - Al-Qaeda formed
1989 - "Nightmare on Elm Street 5: Dream Child" premieres
1989 - Geoff Marsh & Mark Taylor complete 329 opening stand v England
1989 - Voyager 2 discovers 2 partial rings of Neptune
1990 - Egypt & Morocco troops land in Saudi Arabia to prevent Iraqi invasion
1990 - NY Yankee Kevin Maas is fastest to get 13 HRs (110 at bats)
1991 - 400,000 demonstrate for democracy in Madagascar, 31 killed
1991 - 73rd PGA Championship: John Daly shoots a 276 at Crooked Stick Ind
1991 - Melissa Mcnamara wins Stratton Mountain LPGA Golf Classic
1991 - Shite Moslems release US hostage Edward Tracy
1991 - Space shuttle STS 43 (Atlantis 9) lands
1991 - Wilson Alvarez hurls a no-hitter in his 1st big league start
1992 - Oakland A's rip Jose Canseco for leaving stadium before end of game
1993 - Director Oliver Stone files for divorce from Elizabeth
1993 - NY Islander Brian Mullen, 31, suffers a mild stroke
1993 - Pope John Paul II visits Mexico
1993 - Red Sox Roger Clemens pitches 2,000th strike out (Danny Tartabul-NY)
1994 - Joao B "Nino" Vieira elected pres of Guinee-Bissau
1996 - "Thousand Clowns," closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 32 performs
1996 - 78th PGA Championship: Mark Brooks shoots a 277 at Vallhalla GC KY
1996 - Emilee Klein wins LPGA Ping Welch's Golf Championship
1997 - Benin legalizes Jan 10th as a voodoo holiday
1999 - Total solar eclipse in India-North -France (2m23s)
1999 - The Salt Lake City Tornado tears through the downtown district of the city, killing one.
2003 - Jemaah Islamiyah leader Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, is arrested in Bangkok,
           Thailand.
2003 - A heat wave in Paris results in temperatures rising to 112°F (44° C), leaving about 144
           people dead.
2003 - NATO takes over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, marking its first major
           operation outside Europe in its 54-year-history.
2012 - 153 people are killed and 1300 injured in Tabriz and Ahar, Iran after two earthquakes of up to
           6.4 magnitude
2012 - 13 people are killed and 15 injured by a lightning strike at a Mosque in Bangladesh

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 11, 2013, 07:57:20 AM

This Day in History for 11th August


Famous Weddings

1990 - "General Hospital" actor Maurice Benard (27) weds Paula Smith
2007 - U.S. Women's Olympic ice hockey team member Krissy Wendell (25) weds NHL player John
           Pohl (28) at the Rose Hill Alliance Church in West Roseville, Minnesota
2012 - "The Hangover" actor-comedian Zach Galifianakis (42) weds co-founder of the Growing Voices
           charity Quinn Lundberg at the UBC Farm in Vancouver, Canada

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 11, 2013, 07:58:21 AM

This Day in History for 11th August


Famous Divorces

1993 - Director Oliver Stone files for divorce from Elizabeth

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 11, 2013, 08:06:39 AM

This Day in History for 11th August


Famous Birthdays

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Bacteriologist                                          Writer Alex Haley (1921)                    WWF Wrestler Hulk Hogan (1953)
Christiaan Eijkman (1858)


1467 - Mary of York, English princess (d. 1482)
1600 - Paul Hallman, composer
1613 - Cristoph Kaldenbach, composer
1635 - Thomas Betterton, London, actor/dramatist (Coriolanus)
1667 - Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, last of the Medicis (d. 1743)
1673 - Richard Mead, London, physician
1718 - Sir Frederick Haldimand, Swiss-born British colonial governor (d. 1791)
1720 - Martin Gerbert, composer
1722 - Richard Brocklesby, English physician (d. 1797)
1737 - Joseph Nollekins, London, sculptor
1744 - Johann Gottlieb Schwencke, composer
1748 - Joseph Schuster, composer
1772 - Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount/general
1778 - Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, founder of turnverein (gymnastics) movement
1794 - James Barton Longacre, American engraver (d. 1869)
1799 - Joachim de Barrande, French paleontologist/geologist
1805 - Pieter J Elout van Soeterwoude, Dutch judge/member of parliament
1807 - David R Atchison, pres of USA on March 3rd 1849
1811 - Judah P Benjamin, US lawyer/minister of Confederacy navy [or Aug 6]
1823 - Charlotte Mary Yonge, England, writer (Heir of Redclyffe)
1828 - Edward Saloman, Gov (Union), died in 1909
1832 - Thomas Ogden Osbord, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1833 - Robert Green Ingersoll, NY, author/politician/agnostic (Att Gen-R-Ill)
1833 - Kido Takayoshi, Japanese politician (d. 1877)
1836 - Cato M Guldberg, Norwegian mathematician
1836 - Warren Brown, American politician (d. 1919)
1837 - Marie Francois Carnot, engineer/French pres (1887-94); assassinated
1855 - John Hodges, Australian cricketer (d. 1933)
1858 - Christiaan Eijkman, Nijkerk Netherlands, bacteriologist (avitaminos, Nobel 1929), (d. 1930)
1860 - Alfred Coville, French historian (Lesson etats de Normandie)
1862 - Carrie Jacobs Bond, Janesville Wisc, songwriter (I Love You Truly)
1863 - Arpad Szendy, composer
1867 - Hobart Bosworth, Marietta OH, actor (Woman of Affairs, Big Parade)
1867 - Joseph M Weber, comedian/singer (Weber & Lewis Fields)
1870 - Tom Richardson, legendary England cricket fast bowler (1893-98)
1870 - Walter Bowman, Canadian soccer player (d. ?)
1872 - Shidehara Kijuro, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1951)
1873 - John Rosamond Johnson, Fla, co-composer (Lift Every Voice & Sing)
1877 - Adolph M. Christianson, justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court (d.1954)
1880 - Frederick Jerome Work, composer
1882 - Rodolfo Graziani, Italian marschal/viceroy of Ethiopia
1883 - Ernst Stadler, writer
1888 - Owen Nares, actor-manager (Maiden Erleigh)
1890 - Erich Wichman, Dutch fascist painter/sculptor
1892 - Hugh MacDiarmid (Christopher Murray Grieve), Scotland, poet (Scots Unbound)
1892 - Wladyslaw Anders, Polish general
1892 - Eiji Yoshikawa, Japanese novelist (d. 1962)
1892 - Archie Wiles, West Indian cricketer (d. 1957)
1894 - Wilhelm Grosz, composer
1897 - Louise Bogan, Maine, writer (Sleeping Fury)
1897 - Enid Blyton, children's writer and fifth most popular author in the world (Famous Five, Secret
           Seven, The Adventure)
1898 - Arthur Leslie Noel Douglas Houghton, politician/trade unionist
1900 - Alexander Mosolov, Kiev Russia, composer (Zavod) [NS]
1900 - Charles William Paddock, Texas, American athlete and 100m record breaker (Olympic-2 gold-
           1920) (d. 1943)
1900 - Philip Phillips, American archaeologist (d. 1994)
1902 - Christian Castries, French general (Dien Bien Phu)
1902 - Lloyd Nolan, SF California, actor (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Peyton Place)
1902 - Alfredo Binda, Italian cyclist (d. 1986)
1903 - Michael Whalley Wickham, artist
1904 - Jess Stacy, pianist
1905 - Erwin Chargaff, Austrian biochemist (d. 2002)
1907 - Ted a'Beckett, cricketer (Australian Test player)
1909 - Gaston Gilbert Litaize, composer
1909 - Hugo Buchthal, art historian
1909 - Jean Lancaster, director (WRNS)
1910 - Denis Moloney, NZ cricket all-rounder (1937 England tour)
1911 - Alphonse de Waelhens, Flemish philosopher (Psychosis)
1911 - Benny Lee, entertainer
1911 - Henry Kulky, Hastings-on-Hudson NY, actor (Otto-Life of Riley)
1911 - Prem Bhatia, journalist
1911 - Ronald Batty, bookseller
1911 - Thanom Kittikachorn, general/premier Thailand (1958..73)
1912 - Jean Parker, Butte Mont, actress (Beyond Tomorrow, Little Women)
1912 - Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs, German astronomer (d. 1954)
1913 - Angus Wilson, England, writer (Mulberry Bush-1955)
1913 - Paul Dupuis, French Canadian actor (d. 1976)
1913 - Bob Scheffing, American professional baseball player and manager (d. 1985)
1914 - José Silva, American parapsychologist (d. 1999)
1915 - Kunio Toda, composer
1916 - Johnny Claes, Belgian racing driver (d. 1956)
1917 - Dik Browne, cartoonist (Hi & Lois, Hagar the Horrible)
1919 - Ginette Neveu, French violinist (d. 1949)
1920 - Derry Jeffares, Honorary Prof of English Studies (Stirling U)
1920 - William Masselos, Niagara Falls NY, pianist/prof (Juilliard 1976)
1921 - Alex Haley, Ithaca New York, writer (Autobiography of Malcolm X, Roots), (d. 1992)
1923 - Stan Chambers, American television reporter
1924 - Arlene Dahl, Minneapolis Minnesota, actress/TV panelist (Ambush)
1925 - Carl Rowan, gun-toting newspaper columnist (Wash Post)
1925 - Mike Douglas, Chicago Ill, talk show host (Mike Douglas Show)
1925 - Robert Linn, composer
1925 - Floyd Curry, National Hockey League player (d. 2006)
1926 - Aaron Klug, OM/PRS/biochemist
1926 - Bernard Ashley, English fashion designer/pres (Laura Ashley)
1926 - Claus Von Bulow, accused of murdering his wife
1926 - J R S Fincham, geneticist
1926 - Johnny Van Derrick, jazz violinist
1927 - James Eaton, Lord-Lieutenant of the City of Londonderry
1927 - Kenneth Eastham, MP
1927 - Len Rempt-Halmmans de Jongh, Dutch MP (VVD)
1927 - Raymond Leppard, London England, conductor (St Louis Symphony Orch)
1928 - Richard Barratt, former Chief Inspector of Constabulary
1928 - Arlene Dahl, American actress
1929 - Alun Hoddinott, Bargoed Wales, composer (Floriture)
1929 - Cora de Man-Canne Meyer, mezzo-soprano (Figaro, Carmen)
1930 - Heinz Werner Zimmermann, composer
1930 - Michael Quinlan, civil servant
1930 - William A O'Neal, (Gov-D-Ct)
1932 - Angela Rumbold, MP
1932 - Fernando Arrabal, Spanish song/romance writer (Baal Babilonia)
1932 - Geoffrey Cass, CEO (Cambridge U Press)
1932 - Lord Varley
1932 - Sam McCluskie, trade unionist
1932 - Wilson "Papa" Godett, Curacaos worker's union leader/boxer
1932 - Israel Asper, Canadian tax lawyer (d. 2003)
1932 - John Gorrie, English director
1933 - Jerry Falwell, US, TV evangelist (Moral Majority)
1933 - Julian Oswald, British Admiral of the Fleet
1933 - Justin Connolly, composer
1933 - Tamas Vasary, pianist/conductor
1934 - Bob Hepple, master (Clare College Cambridge)
1936 - D V Day, Principal (St John's College, Durham U)
1936 - J L Thompson, Bishop (Bath & Wells)
1937 - Allegra Kent, US actress (Addams Family)
1937 - Anna Massey, actress (De Sade, Doll's House)
1937 - Taki Theodoracopoulos, Greek/British journalist/multi-millionaire
1938 - Charles Hugh Shirley, publisher
1938 - Allegra Kent, Santa Monica, California, ballerina
1938 - Rainer Boesch, composer
1938 - Branko Stanovnik, Slovenian chemist
1939 - Attila Bozay, composer
1939 - Ronnie Dawson, American rockabilly performer (d. 2003)
1940 - Kip King, Chicago Ill, actor (Charlie & Company)
1941 - Elizabeth Holtzman, Bkln DA (D-Rep-NY, Watergate Committee)
1941 - Patricio Guzman, director/actor (Cruz del Sur, Moon over Parador)
1942 - Mike Huggs, rock drummer (Manfred Mann) [or 3/11/40]
1943 - Denis Payton, London, English rocker (Dave Clarke Five - Glad All Over)
1943 - James Kale, rocker (Guess Who)
1943 - Kenny Gamble, US songwriter (Me & Mrs Jones)
1943 - Krzysztof Meyer, composer
1943 - Abigail Folger, American heiress and Manson murder victim (d. 1969)
1944 - David Pearl, British judge
1944 - Ian McDiarmid, Scottish actor
1946 - John Conlee, Versailles Ky, country singer (Common Man)
1946 - Marilyn Vos Savant, St Louis Mo, writer/world's highest IQ (228)
1947 - Catherine Collard, French pianist (Schumann/Brahms)
1947 - Sergey Kovalneko, USSR, basketball (Olympic-bronze-1968)
1947 - Georgios Karatzaferis, Greek politician
1948 - Don Boyd, director (Goldeneye, 21, East of Elephant Rock)
1948 - Jan Palach, Czechoslovakian student protester (d. 1969)
1949 - Eric Carmen, Cleveland Ohio, rocker (All by Myself)
1949 - Ian Charleson, Edinburgh Scotland, actor (Gandhi, Chariots of Fire)
1949 - Tim Hutchinson, (Rep-R-Arkansas)
1950 - Erik Brann, Boston Mass, rock guitarist (Iron Butterfly) (d. 2003)
1950 - Steve Wozniak, co-founder (Apple Computers)
1950 - Gennidy Nikonov, Russian weapons inventor
1951 - Donald DeCicco, Brockton Mass, fictional ID of Beldar in Coneheads
1951 - Vincent Bilodeau, Quebec actor and comedian
1952 - Ann Michelle, England, actress (Virigin Witch, Mistress Pamela)
1952 - Bob Mothersbaugh, AKA Bob 1, American Musician (DEVO)
1953 - Hulk Hogan, [Terry Bollea], Augusta Ga, WWF heavyweight champion (1984-89)
1953 - Sanford Jensen, South Haven Mich, actor (Foley Square)
1954 - Joe Jackson, English singer/pianist/composer (The Harder they Come)
1954 - Lina Polito, Naples Italy, actress (Love & Anarchy)
1954 - M V Narasimha Rao, cricketer (Indian leg-spin all-rounder 1978-79)
1954 - Yashpal Sharma, cricketer (Indian right-handed batsman early 80')
1954 - Juan Maria Solare, Argentine composer
1955 - Norio Honaga, wrestler (NJPW)
1955 - Sylvia Hermon, British politician
1955 - Marc Bureau, French Canadian politician
1956 - Pierre-Louis Lions, French mathematician
1957 - Richie Ramone, [Richie Beau], rock drummer (Ramones-Pet Semtary)
1958 - Cordelia Gonzalez, San Juan PR, actor (La Gran Fiesta)
1958 - Lori Garbacz, South Bend IN, LPGA golfer (1989 Circle K Tucson Open)
1959 - Linda Rhys Vaughn, Grossmont Ca, playmate (Apr, 1982)
1959 - Yoshiaki Murakami, Japanese investor
1959 - Gustavo Cerati, Argentinian musician (Soda Stereo)
1960 - Leora "Sam" Jones, Mt Olive NC, US team handball player (Olympic-92)
1961 - Craig Ehlo, NBA guard (Atlanta Hawks)
1961 - Frederick W Sturckow, La Mesa California, USMC capt/astronaut (sk: STS 88)
1962 - Jonathan Hayes, NFL tight end (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1962 - Uvais Karnain, cricketer (Sri Lankan ODI bowler in mid 1980's)
1963 - Mike Huff, Honolulu HI, outfielder (Toronto Blue Jays)
1964 - Grant Osten Waite, Palmerston NZ, PGA golfer (1993 Kemper Open)
1964 - Hamish, rocker (The Pasedenas-Riding on the Train)
1964 - Jim Lee, Korean-born comic book artist
1964 - Miguel A. Núñez Jr., American actor
1965 - Marc Bergevin, Canadian professional ice hockey player
1965 - Shinji Mikami, Japanese video game designer (Resident Evil)
1965 - Viola Davis, American actress
1965 - Embeth Davidtz, Lafayette, Indiana, American actress (Bicentennial Man, Schindler's List)
1966 - Antonio Goss, NFL linebacker (SF 49ers)
1966 - Nigel Martyn, English footballer
1967 - Brad Dalgarno, Vancouver, NHL right wing (NY Islanders)
1967 - Mike Lodish, NFL nose tackle (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1967 - Enrique Bunbury, Spanish singer
1967 - Eric Maleson, Brazilian Bobsleigh 2002 Olympian
1967 - Collin Chou, Taiwanese actor
1967 - Joe Rogan, American television host
1968 - Charlie Sexton, rocker (Arc Angels)
1968 - Alan Kelly, England-born Irish footballer
1968 - Veda Hille, Canadian singer
1968 - Anna Gunn, American actress
1969 - Dave Pashko, Toronto, Canadian Tour golfer (1992 CPGA Winter Tour)
1969 - Eddie Garcia, LA, actor/musician (Guys Next Door-I Was Made For You)
1969 - Wilfried Elzinga, soccer player (FC Twente)
1969 - Jonah Matranga, American singer
1970 - Andy Bell, English musician (Ride, Hurricane #1, Oasis)
1971 - Aaron Miller, Buffalo, NHL defenseman (Colorado Avalanche)
1971 - Julie Anne Clark, Tucson Az, playmate (Mar, 1991)
1971 - Tommy Mooney, English football player
1971 - Alejandra Barros, Mexican actress
1972 - Curtis Ceaser, NFL wide receiver (NY Jets)
1972 - Jonathon Prandi, American model
1973 - Edgardo Alfonzo, Sta Teresa Venezuela, infielder (NY Mets)
1973 - Thomas Haskins, CFL running back (Montreal Alouettes)
1973 - Nigel Harman, British actor
1974 - Audrey Mestre, French diver
1974 - Will Friedle, American actor
1974 - Hadiqa Kiyani, Pakistani pop star
1974 - Anju Jain, Indian cricketer(women's team)
1975 - Chris Kelly, [Mack Daddy], Teaneck NJ, rapper (Kris Kross-Warm it Up)
1975 - Natasha Bell, Miss Michigan USA (1996)
1975 - Davey von Bohlen, American musician, (The Promise Ring, Maritime)
1975 - Ronald Clarke, American musician and founder of aliennetwork Records
1976 - Lubomir Visnovsky, Topolcany CZE, hockey defenseman (Team Slovakia)
1976 - Will Friedle, Hartford Ct, actor (Eric-Boy Meets World, Gift of Love)
1976 - Ben Gibbard, American musician (Death Cab for Cutie, The Postal Service)
1976 - Bubba Crosby, American baseball player
1976 - Erick Lindgren, American poker player
1977 - Gemma Hayes, Irish born singer
1978 - Jermain Taylor, American boxer
1978 - Amber Brkich, American reality television personality
1980 - Lee Suggs, American football player
1981 - Fiona Sit, Hong Kong singer and actress
1981 - Sandi Thom, Scottish born singer
1982 - Alan Halsall, British actor
1983 - Chris Hemsworth, Australian Actor
1984 - Melky Cabrera, Dominican baseball player
1984 - Katie Rees, American beauty pageant contestant
1984 - Lucas Di Grassi, Brazilian racing driver
1985 - Grace Adams-Short, British reality television contestant
1986 - Kaori Fukuhara, Japanese voice actress
1987 - Nkem Ojougboh, American basketball player
1988 - Patrick Mills, Australian basketball player
1992 - Allison Lozano, Mexican actress
1993 - Alyson Stoner, American actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 11, 2013, 08:10:55 AM

This Day in History for 11th August


Famous Deaths

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Pulitzer prize winning novelist                Actor Peter Cushing (1994)
Edith Wharton (1937) 


480 BC - Leonidas, King of Sparta (b. circa 540 BC)
353 - Magnentius, Roman usurper (b. 303)
449 - Flavian, Patriarch of Constantinople
897 - Wilfred the Hairy, Count of Barcelona
1171 - Louis I, Earl of Wage/Rieneck, dies
1180 - Guillaume de/Willem van Sens, Fren master builder (Canterbury), dies
1183 - Christian I, archbishop of Mainz, dies
1204 - King Guttorm of Norway (b. 1199)
1253 - Clare of Assisi, Italian follower of Francis of Assisi (b. 1194) and founder of the Order of Poor
           Ladies (the Poor Clares)
1394 - Jan III, mister of Polanen, dies
1456 - Janos Hunyadi, Hungarian general strategist, dies at about 49
1464 - Nicholas van Cusa, philosopher/bishop of Brixen, dies
1490 - French van Brederode, leader of Hoeksen, dies at about 25
1494 - Hans Memling, [John Memlinc], Flemish painter (Passietaferelen), dies
1519 - Johann Tetzel, Dominican monk, dies at about 79
1522 - Martin Siebenborger, mayor of Vienna, beheaded
1563 - Bartolomé de Escobedo, Spanish composer (b. circa 1500)
1578 - Pedro Nunes, [Nonius], Port mathematician/astronomer (nonius), dies
1589 - Maarten Schenck van Nideggen, lt col (80 year war), dies at about 49
1596 - Hamnet Shakespeare, son of William Shakespeare (b. 1585)
1614 - Lavinia Fontana, Italian painter (b. 1552)
1656 - Prince Octavio Piccolomini, Duke of Amalfi, Austrian field marshal (b. 1599)
1729 - Nicola Francesco Haym, composer, dies at 51
1757 - Jose Pradas Gallen, composer, dies at 67
1774 - Tiphaigne de la Roche, French writer (b. 1722)
1794 - Jakob Friedrich Kleinknecht, composer, dies at 72
1813 - Henry James Pye, English poet (b. 1745)
1820 - Janos Lavotta, composer, dies at 56
1844 - Jernej Kopitar, filmologist/censor (Slavic Grammatica), dies at 63
1851 - Lorenz Oken, German naturalist (b. 1779)
1852 - Nicolaas Plomp, Dutch architect (Strugle), dies at 70
1854 - Macedonio Melloni, Italian physicist (b. 1798)
1860 - James Wilson, politician
1868 - Halfdan Kierulf, composer, dies at 52
1868 - Thaddeus Stevens, architect of Radical Reconstruction, dies at 76
1872 - Lowell Mason, US organist/composer (Zebulo), dies at 80
1886 - Lydia Koidula, Estonian poet (b. 1843)
1890 - John Henry Newman, English cardinal, dies at 89
1892 - Enrico Betti, Italian mathematician (b. 1813)
1901 - Francesco Crispi, Italian minister of War/premier, dies at about 82
1903 - Eugenio Maria de Hostos, Puerto Rican educator and nationalist (b. 1839)
1908 - Khudiram Bose, Indian freedom fighter (b. 1889)
1919 - Andrew Carnegie, US steel industrialist/philanthropist, dies at 83
1935 - William Watson, British poet (Purple East), dies
1936 - Blas Infante, Spanish writer and politician (b. 1885)
1937 - Bakr Sidqi, general/dictator of Iraq, dies
1937 - Edith Wharton [-Jones], US Pulitzer prize-winning author (House of Mirth), dies at 75
1939 - Jean Bugatti, Italian automobile designer (b. 1909)
1942 - Richard Heinrich Stein, composer, dies at 60
1949 - Karl Weigl, composer, dies at 68
1951 - Ebbe Hamerik, composer, dies at 52
1952 - Riccardo Martin, composer, dies at 77
1953 - Ludwig Strauss, German/Israeli writer (Heimliche Gegenwart), dies
1954 - Santo Trafficante, Sr., Sicilian-born American mobster (b. 1886)
1956 - Jackson Pollock, abstract artist, dies in auto accident (East Hampton)
1961 - Antanas Škėma, Lithuanian writer actor and director (b. 1910)
1965 - Bill Woodfull, cricketer (35 Tests for Australia), dies
1968 - Lucien Cerfaux, Belgian biblical scholar, dies
1972 - Max Theiler, S Afr/US microbiologist (vaccin-Nobel 1951), dies at 73
1973 - Peggy Castle, actress (Lily Merrill-Lawman), dies of cirrhosis at 46
1974 - Jack Hill, cricketer (3 Tests for Australia 1953-55, 8 wickets), dies
1974 - Vicente Emilio Sojo, composer, dies at 86
1975 - Anthony C McAuliffe, US gen/commandant 101st div (Nuts!), dies at 77
1975 - Howard Wendell, actor (Black Dakotas), dies at 81
1980 - Paul Robert, French lexicographer and publisher (b. 1910)
1982 - Tom Drake, actor (Green Years, Warkill), dies of lung cancer at 63
1984 - Alfred A Knopf, US publisher, dies at 91
1984 - Percy Mayfield, US singer (Hit the Road Jack), dies at 63
1984 - Paul Felix Schmidt, Estonian-German chess player (b. 1916)
1987 - Clara Peller, commercial spokesperson (Wendy's), dies at 86
1988 - Anne Ramsey, actress (Throw Mama From Train), dies of cancer at 59
1988 - Jean-Pierre Ponnele, opera director (Carmina Burana), dies at 56
1988 - Pauline Lafont, daughter of Bernadette, dies in hiking accident at 25
1989 - John Meillon, actor (Wild Duck, Crocodile Dundee), dies
1991 - Jef Contryn, Flemish pioneer puppet theatre, dies at 89
1991 - J. D. McDuffie, American NASCAR driver (b. 1939)
1994 - Dorothy Lousie Grenfell Williams, broadcaster, dies at 60
1994 - Gordon Cullen, architect, dies at 80
1994 - Mark "Red" Mitchell, actor (JFK, 8 Seconds, Want to Live), dies at 33
1994 - Peter Cushing, actor (Star Wars, Dr Who), dies of cancer at 81
1995 - Douglas John Gorman, businessman, dies at 58
1995 - Herbert Whitton John Sumsion, organist/composer, dies at 96
1995 - Kenneth Lo, cookery writer/restaurateur, dies at 81
1995 - Phil Harris, American actor/singer, dies of heart failure at 91
1995 - Wilbur Stark, tV/film producer, dies at 83
1996 - Mel Taylor, drummer, dies at 63
1996 - Rafael Jeronym Kubelik, conductor, dies at 82
1996 - Sigmund Koch, psychologist/philosopher, dies at 79
2000 - Jean Papineau-Couture, Canadian composer (b. 1916)
2001 - Percy Stallard, English racing cyclist (b. 1909)
2002 - Galen Rowell, American photographer and mountain climber (b. 1940)
2003 - Armand Borel, Swiss mathematician (b. 1923)
2003 - Herb Brooks, American ice hockey coach (b. 1937)
2005 - James Booth, English actor (b. 1927)
2006 - Mike Douglas, American singer and talk show host (b. 1925)
2009 - Eunice Kennedy Shriver, founder of Special Olympics, sister of John F. Kennedy (b. 1921)
2010 - Markus Liebherr, German born Swiss owner of Southampton Football Club (b. 1948)
2011 - Jani Lane, American singer (Warrant) (b. 1964)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 12, 2013, 08:41:03 AM

This Day in History for 12th August


Historical Events

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Explorer of the New World                       Inventor Thomas Edison                       Artist/Cubist Co-founder
Christopher Columbus                                                                                          Pablo Picasso

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Baseball Great Babe Ruth                         Soviet Union Premier                             Anti-apartheid activist/
                                                               Joseph Stalin                                           South African President
                                                                                                                              Nelson Mandela

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Iraqi President Saddam Hussein


3 - Venus-Jupiter in conjunction-Star of Bethlehem
1071 - Alp Arslan beat Byzantines, emperor Romanos IV Diogenes
1099 - Battle at Ascalon: Godfried of Broth leading the Crusaders beats Egyptians Fatimid army
1121 - Battle of Didgori: the Georgian army under King David the Builder wins a decisive victory over
           the famous Seljuk commander Ilghazi.
1164 - Battle of Harim: Nur ad-Din defeats the Crusader armies of the County of Tripoli and the
           Principality of Antioch.
1323 - Treaty of Nöteborg between Sweden and Novgorod (Russia) regulates the border for the first
           time.
1332 - Battle of Dupplin Moor; Scottish dynastic battle
1336 - English King Edward III endswool export to Flanders
1480 - Battle of Otranto - Ottoman troops behead 800 Christians for refusing to convert to Islam.
1492 - Christopher Columbus arrives in the Canary Islands on his first voyage to the New World
1499 - First engagement of the Battle of Zonchio between Venetian and Ottoman fleets.
1508 - Juan Ponce de Leon arrives in Puerto Rico
1530 - Florence surrenders for emperor Karel I
1549 - French troops occupy Ambleteuse England
1553 - Pope Julius III orders confiscation & burning of Jewish Talmud
1588 - Medemblik surrenders to Spanish army
1658 - 1st US police corps forms (New Amsterdam)
1665 - English fleet beat Dutch fleet
1676 - 1st war between American colonists & Indians ends in New England
1687 - Charles of Lotharingen defeats Turkish leaders
1687 - Battle of Mohacs: Ottoman invaders of Hungary routed by forces of Holy Roman Emperor
           under Charles of Lorraine
1759 - Battle of Kunersdorf - Russian-Austrian army overpowers Prussians
1793 - The Rhône départment is created when the former département of Rhône-et-Loire was split
           into two: Rhône and Loire (Lêre).
1812 - Duke of Wellington's troops enter Madrid
1831 - Dutch troops conquer Leuven
1831 - Netherlands & Belgium sign peace treaty
1833 - Chicago is founded.
1851 - 1st America's Cup-US schooner America beats British yacht Aurora
1851 - Isaac Singer patents sewing machine
1856 - Anthony Fass patents accordion
1861 - Skirmish at Texas - rebels are attacked by Apache Indians
1862 - Gen John Hunt Morgan & his raiders capture Gallatin, TX
1863 - 1st cargo of lumber leaves Burrard Inlet (Vancouver, BC area)
1865 - Joseph Lister performs 1st antiseptic surgery
1867 - Pres A Johnson defies Congress suspending Sec of War Edwin Stanton
1876 - Madeline (US) beats Countess Dufferin (Canada) in 4th America's Cup
1877 - Thomas Edison invents Edisonphone, a sound recording device
1879 - 1st National Archery Association tournament (Chicago)
1883 - The last quagga dies at the Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam.
1884 - Bill Murdoch scores 1st Test Cricket double-century, 211 at The Oval
1886 - W G Grace made his highest Test Cricket score, v Aust, The Oval
1888 - Bertha, wife of inventor Karl Benz, makes 1st motor tour
1896 - Gold discovered at Klondike River at Dawson
1896 - Willem II soccer team forms in Tilburg
1898 - Hawaii formally annexed to US
1898 - Peace protocol ends Spanish-American War, signed
1901 - Boer general Kritzinger driven out of Cape colony
1905 - King Leopold II opens Central Station Antwerp
1908 - Ford builds the first Model T.
1914 - Cavalery battle at Halen, Belgium ("Battle der Zilveren Helmen")
1914 - German 16.5"/12" guns fires on forts round Luik
1914 - Great Britain declares war on Austria-Hungary
1914 - Russian troops take East-Prussia & occupy Marggrabowa
1915 - "Of Human Bondage," by William Somerset Maugham, published
1916 - Picasso, Max Jacob, Kisling, Ortiz & Paquerette photographed in Paris
1920 - Battle of Warsaw (Vistula) between Poland and Russia begins
1922 - Dedication of Frederick Douglas' home in Wash DC as national shrine
1923 - Dutch AR-leader Coair replaces De Geer as minister of finances
1923 - Enrico Tiraboschi is 1st to swim English Channel westward
1925 - KMA-AM in Shenandoah IA begins radio transmissions
1925 - The first cast of Alpha Psi Omega, drawn from The Masquers of Fairmont College, West
           Virginia, is initiated.
1927 - "Wings," the only silent film to win an Oscar for best picture, opens
1928 - 9th Olympic Games close in Amsterdam
1931 - Yangtzee River floods after heavy rain crumbles dikes in China
1933 - Cuban dictator Machado y Morales flees after military coup
1935 - Babe Ruth's final game at Fenway Park, 41,766 on hand
1936 - 120°F (49°C), Seymour, Texas (state record)
1936 - Demo baseball game at 1936 Olympics in Berlin, world beats US, 6-5
1936 - Diver Marjorie Gestring is youngest Olympic gold medalist (13y 268d)
1940 - Luftwaffe bombs British radar stations, loses 31 aircrafts
1940 - Netherlands starts rationing textile
1941 - French Marshal Henri Petain gave full support to Nazi Germany
1942 - British premier Churchill arrives in Moscow, meets Stalin
1942 - German 1st tank leader captures Elista, Kalmukkensteppe
1942 - Lt-gen Montgomery arrives in Cairo
1943 - Alleged date of the first Philadelphia Experiment test on United States Navy ship USS
           Eldridge.
1944 - Churchill & Tito meet in Naples
1944 - Pipeline under ocean (Pluto) begins operating
1944 - Waffen SS troops massacre 560 people in Sant'Anna di Stazzema.
1948 - Cleveland Indians get 29 hits in a 9 inning game
1948 - Court of justice sentences Gen Fr Christiansen to 12 years
1949 - 16th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Philadelphia 38, All-Stars 0 (93,780)
1950 - NY Giants (NFL) beat Ottawa Roughriders (CFL) 20-6 in Ottawa
1950 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Humani generis
1951 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA World Golf Championship
1952 - Hussain ibn Talal proclaimed King of Jordan
1953 - Ann Davison arrives in Miami, becoming the 1st woman to sail solo across the Atlantic
1953 - Heavy earthquake strikes the Ionian islands, 435 killed
1953 - Soviet Union conducts secret test of its 1st hydrogen bomb
1954 - Senator Eddie Yost draws his 100th walk for 5th year in a row
1955 - 22nd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 30, Cleveland 27 (75,000)
1955 - Pres Eisenhower raises minimum wage from 75 cents to $1 an hour
1955 - WPBT TV channel 2 in Miami, FL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1956 - KOTI TV channel 2 in Klamath Falls, OR (NBC/CBS) begins broadcasting
1956 - Marlene Bauer Hagge wins LPGA World Golf Championship
1959 - 1st ship firing of a Polaris missile, Observation Island
1959 - Progressive Party under John Steytler forms in South Africa
1960 - 27th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Baltimore 32, All-Stars 7 (70,000)
1960 - Echo 1, 1st communications satellite, is launched
1960 - Ralph Boston of US, sets then long jump record at 8.21m
1960 - USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 41,600 m
1962 - 1st time 2 people in space
1962 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Heart of America Golf Tournament
1962 - Russia launches Vostok 4, Pavel Popovich, who lands safely Aug 15
1963 - Portuguese dictator Salazar firm on African colonization
1963 - Stan Musial announces he will retire at end of year
1964 - 10th time Mantle switch-hits HR in a game, one goes 502 feet
1964 - Mickey Mantle switch-hits HR record 10th & final time in a game
1964 - Race riot in Elizabeth NJ
1965 - Elizabeth Lane becomes 1st female British supreme court justice
1965 - Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club, Inc applies for a NL franchise
1965 - Race riot in West Side of Chicago
1967 - New Orleans Saints 1st pre-season victory, beat St Louis 23-14
1969 - Boston Celtics sold for an NBA record $6 million
1970 - Curt Flood loses his $41 million antitrust suit against baseball
1971 - Syriam Pres Assad drops diplomatic relations with Jordan
1972 - "Funny Thing Happened..." closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 156 perfs
1972 - "Oh! Calcutta!" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 1316 performances
1972 - Ian & Greg Chappell both scores centuries in same Test Cricket innings
1972 - Last American combat ground troops leave Vietnam
1973 - 55th PGA Championship: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 277 at Canterbury Cleve
1973 - Betty Burfeindt wins LPGA Child & Family Service Golf Opens
1973 - WPBA National Championship won by Betty Morris
1974 - Nolan Ryan strikes out 19 & walks only 2 as Angels top Red Sox, 4-2
1974 - Yankees Mickey Mantle & Whitey Ford become 1st teammates elected to hall of fame on same
           day
1976 - 1st approach & lands test (ALT) of orbiter Enterprise
1976 - Christian militia conquer Palestinian camp Tell al-Za'tar, 2000 killed
1977 - For 2nd straight day, Oakland's Manny Sanguillen foils a no-hit bid
1977 - High Energy Astronomy Observatory 1 launched into Earth orbit
1977 - Space shuttle Enterprise makes 1st atmospheric flight
1978 - Arron Marshall completes a record shower of 336 hours
1978 - China & Japan sign peace treaty
1978 - ICE is launched
1979 - "Whoopee!" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 204 performances
1979 - Iran press censors start massive book burnings
1979 - Judy wins LPGA WUI Golf Classic Rankin
1980 - Signature of the Montevideo Treaty establishing the Latin American Integration Association.
1981 - IBM introduces PC & PC-DOS version 1.0
1981 - Jon Erikson (US) becomes 1st to triple cross English Channel (38:27)
1981 - The IBM Personal Computer is released.
1983 - General Manuel A Noriega becomes commander of Panamanian army
1984 - 23rd Olympic games close at Los Angeles, Calif
1984 - Braves beat Padres 5-3, features 2 brawls & 19 ejections
1984 - Harmon Killebrew, Rick Ferrell, Don Drysdale, Pee Wee Reese, & Luis Aparicio inducted into
           Hall of Fame
1984 - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic
1985 - 7th Emmy Sports Award presentation
1985 - Balt Orioles W Gross & L Sheets are 6th to hit consecutive pinch HRs
1985 - Japanese Boeing 747SR crashes, 520 die (worst in-flight toll)
1986 - Don Baylor gets hits by a pitch for a record 25th time in a season
1986 - Red Sox pitcher Tim Lollar gets a pinch-hit single
1987 - Charles Cole climbs 870'Tyrolean Traverse from top of Elephant Rock
1988 - Boston Red Sox set AL consecutive home victories at 23
1988 - Movie "Last Temptation of Christ" is released
1988 - Nelson Mandela is treated for tuberculosis at hospital
1988 - Red Sox beat Tigers 9-4 for AL record 23rd consecutive win at home
1988 - Richard Thornburgh becomes US Attorney General
1990 - 12th annual Macy's Tap-o-mania
1990 - 72nd PGA Championship: Wayne Grady shoots a 282 at Shoal Creek Ala
1990 - Cathy Gerring wins Stratton Mountain LPGA Golf Classic
1990 - Iraq President Saddam Hussein says he is ready to resolve Gulf crisis if Israel withdraws from
           occupied territories
1991 - Creditors vote to support Greyhound Bus reorganization plan
1991 - Last day in Test Cricket for Viv Richards, Dujon & Marshall
1992 - Canada, Mexico, and the United States announce completion of negotiations for the North
           American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
1993 - Pope John Paul II begins visit of US
1994 - 1st NFL game on Fox network (exhibition - SF vs Denver)
1994 - Members of the Major League Baseball Players Association strike
1994 - Panic in church of Brazzaville: 142 killed
1994 - Stephen G Breyer, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice
1995 - Lara completes 6th Test Cricket century, 152 at Trent Bridge
1996 - "Breakfast on Fox" premieres
2000 - The Oscar class submarine K-141 Kursk of the Russian Navy explodes and sinks in the
           Barents Sea during a military exercise.
2004 - New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey comes out publicly as a gay man.
2005 - Sri Lanka's foreign minister, Lakshman Kadirgamar, is fatally shot by an LTTE sniper at his
           home.
2005 - An F2 tornado strikes the coal mining town of Wright, Wyoming, destroying nearly 100
           homes and killing two people.
2005 - Civil unrest provoked in the Maldives
2005 - An F1 tornado strikes Glen Cove, New York, a rare event on Long Island
2007 - Bulk carrier M/V New Flame collides with oil tanker Torm Gertrud at the southernmost tip of
           Gibraltar, ending up partially submerged.
2012 - The 2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony completes the games

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 12, 2013, 08:42:39 AM

This Day in History for 12th August


Famous Weddings

1941 - "I Love Lucy" actress Vivan Vance (32) weds actor Philip Ober (39)
1949 - Multi-Tony award-winning actress Angela Lansbury (23) weds actor and producer Peter Shaw
           (31) at St. Columba's Presbyterian Church of Scotland in London, England
1956 - Canadain actor William Shatner (Star Trek) marries Gloria Rand
2000 - "Saturday Night Live" actor-comedian Will Ferrell (33) weds Swedish actress Viveca Paulin (31)
2006 - "Syfy" actor Sam Huntington (24) weds actress Rachel Klein in Hancock, New Hampshire
2006 - Phil McGraw's son and "Renovate My Family" host Jay McGraw (27) weds former Playboy
           Playmates Erica Dahm (28) in Beverly Hills, California
2011 - Actress and model Brooke Burke (40) weds singer/actor David Charvet (39) in St.
           Barthelemy, Guadeloupe

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 12, 2013, 08:43:39 AM

This Day in History for 12th August


Famous Divorces

2011 - Rock singer John Mellencamp (59) divorces model Elaine Irwin Mellencamp (41) after 18 years of
           marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 12, 2013, 08:50:03 AM

This Day in History for 12th August


Famous Birthdays

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Physicist and Nobel Laureate                   Actress Jane Wyatt (1910)                 Tennis Player Pete Sampras (1971)
Erwin Schrodinger (1887)


1503 - Christian III, king of Denmark/Norway (1534-59)
1566 - Isabella CE, infante of Spain/governess of the Netherlands
1592 - Willem earl of Nassau-Siegen, Dutch gov (Fort Emmerik/Heusden)
1604 - Tokugawa Iemitsu, Japanese shogun (d. 1651)
1620 - Pieter Cuypers, S Neth lawyer
1626 - Giovanni Legrenzi, composer
1629 - Tsar Alexei I of Russia (d. 1676)
1644 - Georg Christoph Leuttner, composer
1644 - Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, composer
1647 - Johann Heinrich Acker, German writer (d. 1719)
1686 - John Balguy, English philosopher (d. 1748)
1696 - Maurice Greene, composer
1720 - Martin Gerbert, [von Hornau], prince-abbot/music historian
1720 - Konrad Ekhof, German actor (d. 1778)
1744 - Rowland Hill, preacher
1751 - Johann Baptist Lasser, composer
1753 - Thomas Bewick, England, artist (British Birds, Aesop's Fables)
1757 - ALF, alien life form (ALF)
1762 - King George IV of the United Kingdom (1820-30)
1774 - Robert Southey, English poet laureate/biographer of Nelson
1778 - Francis Horner, politician
1781 - Robert Mills, US, architect (Washington Monument)
1819 - Daniel Davidson Bidwell, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1864
1820 - Oliver Mowat, a founder of the Canadian Confederation
1825 - Frederick Arthur Gore Ouseley, composer
1829 - John Horace Forney, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1902
1832 - Hely Hutchinson Almond, politician/doctor
1833 - William Price Sanders, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
1838 - Joseph Barnby, conductor/academic principal
1848 - Macellus Emants, Dutch writer/poet (Along the Nile)
1849 - Abbott Handerson Thayer, painter/naturalist
1853 - Jean Louis Nicode, composer
1854 - Alfred Gilbert, sculptor/goldsmith
1854 - Johannes P Kelly, Dutch [Kellij], actor/operetta writer
1856 - "Diamond Jim" Brady, American financier (d. 1917)
1859 - Katharine Lee Bates, US, author (America the Beautiful)
1866 - Jacinto Benavente y Martínez, Spanish playwright (Nobel 1922)
1867 - Edith Hamilton, US, writer (Mythology)
1868 - Frederick JNT lord Chelmsford, viceroy of British-India (1916-21)
1872 - Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein (d. 1956)
1875 - Ettore Panizza, composer
1875 - Mezio Agostini, composer
1876 - Mary Roberts Rinehart, mystery writer (Miss Pinkerton)
1880 - Christy Mathewson, HOF baseball pitcher (Won 37 in 1908)
1880 - Marguerite "John" Radclyffe-Hall, author
1881 - Cecil B deMille, Mass, directed God (10 Commandments, Cleopatra)
1881 - Vaclav Vackar, composer
1883 - Jan Schouten, Dutch co-founder (Daily Trouw)/chairman (ARP)
1883 - Pauline Frederick, American actress (d. 1938)
1884 - Frank Arthur Swinnerton, England, novelist (Summer Storm, Sanctuary)
1885 - Alexander Albrecht, composer
1885 - Jean Cabannes, French physicist (d. 1959)
1885 - Marion Lorne, American actress (d. 1968)
1886 - Sir Keith Murdoch, Australian journalist and newspaper owner (d. 1952)
1887 - Erwin Schrodinger, Vienna Austria, physicist and Nobel Prize Laureate, (d. 1961)
1888 - Marion Lorne, Phila, actress (Strangers on a Train, Girl Rush)
1888 - Willem Vogt, Dutch radio pioneer/founder (AVRO)
1889 - Zerna Sharp, American writer and educator (Dick and Jane) (d. 1981)
1890 - Al Goodman, Nikopol Russia, orchestra leader (NBC Comedy Hour)
1893 - Howard Smith, Attleboro Mass, actor (Harvey Griffin-Hazel)
1897 - Manuel Blancafort, composer
1897 - Otto (von) Struve, German/US dir (Yerkes/MacDonald observatory)
1897 - Ramon Gonzalez Barron, composer
1898 - Oscar Homolka, Vienna Austria, actor (I Remember Mama)
1899 - Alfred Kantorowicz, German historian (Spanish Diary)
1899 - Ben Sealey, West Indian cricketer (d. 1963)
1900 - Jose Ignacio Prieto Arrizubieta, composer
1903 - Frances Clode, CEO (WRVS)
1904 - Aleksei N Romanov, son of Tsar Nicholas II [OS=July 30]
1904 - Frank Ervin, harness racer (Hambletonian 1959, 66)
1904 - Kay Campbell, [Catherine Hibben], actress (All My Children)
1905 - Joan [Jacobus J] Remmelts, Dutch actor (Jantjes, Twee Vorstinnen)
1906 - Harry Hopman, Australian-born tennis player and coach (d. 1985)
1906 - Tedd Pierce, American animator (d. 1972)
1907 - James Herbert Lloyd Morrell, bishop
1907 - Joe Besser, American actor and comedian (d. 1988)
1908 - Lord Renton, QC/British government minister
1909 - Maurice Heath, air marshal
1909 - Richard Bare, American director
1910 - Baroness Phillips, pres/general secretary (Natl Association of Women)
1910 - Heinrich Sutermeister, Swiss composer (Romeo & Juliet)
1910 - Jane Wyatt, Mahwah, New Jersey, American actress (Father Knows Best, Star Trek), (d.
           2006)
1910 - Yusof bin Ishak, first President of Singapore (d. 1970)
1911 - Cantinflas, [Mario Moreno], Mexico, actor (Around World in 80 Days)
1912 - Samuel Fuller, Worchester Mass, actor (Return to Salem's Lot)
1913 - Kurt Kaszner, Vienna Austria, actor (Cmdr Fitzhugh-Land of the Giants)
1914 - [Hendrik] Jan Bakker, Dutch resistance fighter/journalist (Parool)
1914 - Gerd Buchdahl, German philosopher (d. 2001)
1914 - Ruth Lowe, Canadian pianist and composer (I'll Never Smile Again) (d. 1981)
1915 - Alex Wojciechowicz, NFL center (Lions, Eagles)
1915 - Michael Kidd, American choreographer (d. 2007)
1917 - Douglas Gunsekera, banker
1918 - Guy Gibson, British aviator, awarded Victoria Cross (d. 1944)
1919 - Michael Kidd, [Milton Greenwald] choreographer (7 Brides for 7 Bros)
1919 - Peter Ambrose Cyprian Luke, playwright
1919 - Vikram Sarabhai, Indian physicist (d. 1971)
1920 - Percy Mayfield, US singer (Please Send Me Someone to Love)
1920 - Peter West, British sports commentator
1921 - Marjorie Reynolds, [Goodspeed], Buhl Id, actress (Peggy-Life of Riley)
1921 - Patrick Howard-Dobson, president (Royal British Legion)
1922 - Andre Kloos, Dutch trade union leader (NVV/VARA)
1922 - Lord Colinbrook, British government minister
1923 - John Holt Jr, cricketer (WI batsman in 17 Tests, 1066 runs at 36 75)
1924 - Derek Shackleton, England cricket pace bowler (50's)
1924 - Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, leader of Pakistan (d. 1988)
1925 - Dale L Bumpers, (Sen-D Arkansas, 1975- )
1925 - Earl Coleman, singer
1925 - Norris McWhirter, author (Guinness Book of World Records)
1925 - Robin Nicholson, metallurgist
1925 - Ross McWhirter, author (Guinness Book of World Records)
1925 - George Wetherill, American scientist (d. 2006)
1926 - John Derek, Los Angeles California, actor/director (10, Annapolis Story)
1926 - Joe Jones, American R&B singer (d. 2005)
1926 - Wallace Markfield, American writer (d. 2002)
1927 - Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich, cellist/conductor
1927 - Ralph Waite, White Plains NY, actor (John-Waltons, Roots)
1927 - Porter Wagoner, country singer, discovered Dolly Parton (Y'All Come), (d. 2007)
1928 - Charles Blackman, Australian artist
1928 - Bob Buhl, American baseball player (d. 2001)
1929 - Buck Owens, [Alvis Edgar], Sherman Texas, country singer (Hee Haw)
1929 - Charles Moore, Coatsville Pa, 400m hurdler (Oly-gold/silver-52)
1929 - Joji Yuasa, composer
1930 - Ronald James Herron, architect
1930 - Jacques Tits, Belgian mathematician
1931 - William Goldman, author
1932 - Queen Ferekit, of Thailand (Queens Day)
1932 - Sergey Mikhaylovich Slonimsky, composer
1932 - Charlie O'Donnell, American game show announcer
1934 - Kenneth Eaton, Controller (British Navy)
1935 - Karl Mickel, writer
1935 - John Cazale, Italian-American actor (d. 1978)
1936 - Geoff Hamilton, gardner/journalist
1936 - Gerard Masson, composer
1936 - Hans Haacke, Cologne Germany, artist (Right to Life, Dripper Boxes)
1936 - John Poindexter, US Chief of Staff
1937 - Walter Dean Myers, African-American author
1938 - Anthony Joliffe, mayor of London
1938 - Jean-Paul L'Allier, Canadian Mayor of Quebec
1939 - George Hamilton, Memphis Tn, (Love at 1st Bite, Where the Boys Are)
1939 - Pam Ryan-Kilborn, Australia, hurdler (Olympic-silver-1968)
1939 - Roy Romanow, Canadian politician
1940 - Alexander Yossifov, composer
1940 - Eddie Barlow, cricketer (Great South African all-rounder)
1940 - Michael Brunson, TV reporter/newscaster/actor (Never Say Die)
1941 - Deborah Walley, Bridgeport Ct, actress (Mothers-in-Law, Beach Blanket)
1941 - Jennifer Warren, NYC, actress (Slap Shot, Fatal Beauty, Mutant)
1941 - Réjean Ducharme, Quebec novelist and playwright
1942 - Elizabeth Appleby, QC
1943 - William Mac Lance "Tiny" McCloud, musician/songwriter
1944 - Donna Michele, playmate (Dec, 1963)/actress (Beach Blanket Bingo)
1944 - Peter Hofmann, German tenor
1947 - Sam Rosen, American sportscaster
1948 - Cliff Fish, rocker (Paper Lace)
1948 - Graham Zellick, principal (Queen Mary & Westfield College London)
1948 - Ron Mael, [J Ronald Day], Culver City Ca, rock keyboardist (Sparks)
1949 - Anthony Akerman, South Africa, director
1949 - Fernando Collor de Mello, president of Brazil (1990-92)
1949 - Mark Knopfler, guitar/vocals (Dire Straits-Sultans of Swing)
1949 - Panagiotis Chinofotis, Greek politician
1950 - Kid Creole, [August Darnell], rocker/actor (Obsession A Taste of Fear)
1950 - Jim Beaver, American actor and writer
1951 - Charles E Brady Jr, Pinehurst NC, Cmdr USN/astronaut (STS 78)
1951 - Hector Rodriguez, Cuba, lightweight judo (Olympic-gold-1976)
1951 - Willie Horton, American murderer and rapist
1952 - Chen Kaige, Chinese film director
1954 - Sam J. Jones [Samuel Gerald], Chicago, Illinois, American actor (Flash Gordon, Code Red)
1954 - Pat Metheny, jazz guitarist (As Wichita Falls)
1955 - Heintje, [Hendrik Simons], Dutch singer (Mama)
1955 - Ann M. Martin, American author
1956 - Bruce Greenwood, actor (Spy, Another Chance, Malibu Bikini Shop)
1956 - Sidath Wettimuny, Sri Lanka cricket opener (190 v England Lords 1984)
1956 - Terry Taylor, [Paul Klause], wrestler (WCW/WWF/NWA, Red Rooster)
1959 - Lynette Woodard, Wichita Ks, (Olympic-gold-1984, Harlem Globetrotter)
1960 - Lonny Chin, Liverpool England, playmate (Jan, 1983)
1960 - Morty Black, heavy metal rocker (TNT-7 Seas)
1960 - Laurent Fignon, French cyclist
1961 - Pete De Freitas, rocker (Echo & the Bunnymen-Heaven Up Here)
1961 - Roy Hay, guitarist (Culture Club-Do You Really Want to Hurt Me)
1961 - Lawrence Hayward, English musician (Felt, Denim, Go Kart Mozart)
1961 - Mark Priest, New Zealand cricketer
1962 - Miss Cleo, American psychic
1963 - Sir Mix A Lot, American rapper
1965 - Angeliki Kanellopoulou, Greece, tennis star
1965 - Barry Manuel, Mamou LA, pitcher (Montreal Expos)
1965 - Peter Krause, American actor
1966 - Bruce Covernton, CFL defensive tackle (Calgary Stampeders)
1966 - Dean Hartgraves, Bakersfield CA, pitcher (Houston Astros)
1966 - Gordy Morgan, Minneapolis MN, 163 lbs greco-roman wrestler (Oly-96)
1966 - Greg Manusky, NFL linebacker (KC Chiefs)
1966 - Les Ferdinand, English footballer
1967 - Andrew Glover, NFL tight end (Oakland Raiders, Minnesota Vikings)
1967 - Tom Holkenborg, drummer (Weekend at Waikiki)
1967 - Regilio Tuur, Dutch boxer
1967 - Andrey Plotnikov, Russian race walker
1967 - Andy Hui, Hong Kong actor and singer
1968 - Viktor Karatchoun, NHL forward (Team Belarus, Oly-98)
1968 - Andras Jones, American actor
1969 - Kitty G, [Katia Geiger], Leningrad Russia, cable tv actress
1969 - Lincoln Coleman, NFL running back (Atlanta Falcons)
1969 - Nate Gwynne, Davis California, kayak (alt-Olympics-96)
1969 - Stuart Williams, cricketer (West Indian opening batsman 1994- )
1969 - Aga Muhlach, Filipino actor
1970 - Alison Inverarity, Australian high jumper (Olympics-8th-92, 96)
1970 - Anthony Swofford, American novelist
1970 - Jim Schlossnagle, baseball coach
1970 - Charles Mesure, British actor
1971 - Jim Walker, Sydney NSW Australia, canoeist (Olympics-96)
1971 - Pete Sampras, Washington, D.C., tennis champ (14 grand slam titles)
1972 - Allison Cook, Australian basketballl player (Olympics-bronze-96)
1972 - Del "The Funkee Homosapian", rapper
1972 - John Jones, WLAF guard (Rhein Fire)
1972 - Rebecca Gayheart, actress (Hannah Mayberry-Loving)
1972 - Takanohana, Sumo yokozuna
1972 - Mark Kinsella, Irish footballer
1972 - Gyanendra Pandey, Indian cricketer
1973 - Latasha Byears, WNBA guard (Sacramento Monarchs)
1973 - Moses Ware, NFL wide receiver (Minnesota Vikings)
1973 - Todd Marchant, Buffalo NY, NHL center (Edmonton Oilers)
1973 - Sayyed Muqtada al-Sadr - son of Ayatollah Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr
1973 - Joseba Beloki, Spanish cyclist
1973 - Jonathan Coachman, American professional wrestler and executive
1973 - Richard Reid, British terrorist, referred to as the "shoe bomber".
1973 - Grey DeLisle, American voice actress
1974 - Peter Pucher, hockey forward (Team Slovakia 1998)
1974 - Wendy Palmer, WNBA forward (Utah Starzz)
1975 - Anders Myrvold, Lorenskog Nor, NHL defenseman (Colorado Avalanche)
1975 - Paul Gaudoin, Australian field hockey halfback (Olympics-96)
1975 - Raegan Scott, WNBA forward/center (Utah Starzz)
1975 - Regan Upshaw, defensive end (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1975 - Robyn Hancock, Grand Rapids Ohio, Miss America-Ohio (1997)
1975 - Casey Affleck, American actor
1976 - Antoine Walker, NBA forward (Boston Celtics)
1976 - Mikko Viljami "Linde" Lindström, Finnish guitarist
1976 - Wednesday 13, American musician (Wednesday 13, Murderdolls)
1976 - Richard McCourt, English children's television presenter
1976 - Henry Tuilagi, Samoan rugby player
1976 - Pedro Collins, West Indian cricketer
1977 - Iva Majoli, Zagreb Croatia, tennis star (1996 Pan Pacific)
1977 - Jesper Grønkjær, Danish footballer
1977 - Plaxico Burress, American football player
1977 - Park Yong-ha, South Korean actor and singer
1978 - Hayley Wickenheiser, ice hockey forward (Canada, Oly-98)
1978 - Chris Chambers, American football player
1979 - D.J. Houlton, American baseball player
1979 - Cindy Klassen, Canadian speed skater
1980 - Maggie Lawson, American actress
1980 - Matt Thiessen, Canadian/American musician (Relient K)
1980 - Dominique Swain, American actress
1980 - Jade Villalon, American singer/songwriter
1981 - Tony Capaldi, Northern Ireland footballer
1981 - Djibril Cissé, French footballer
1982 - Alexandros Tzorvas, Greek footballer
1983 - Klaas-Jan Huntelaar, Dutch footballer
1984 - Marian Rivera, Philippine actress
1990 - Mario Balotelli, Italian footballer

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 12, 2013, 08:55:51 AM

This Day in History for 12th August


Famous Deaths

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Poet/Artist William Blake (1827)           Father of the Modern Submarine              Novelist Thomas Mann (1955)
                                                                John Philip Holland (1914)

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Chemist/Nobel Laureate Karl Ziegler (1973)


30 BC - Cleopatra VII Philopator, the last ruler of the Egyptian Ptolemaic dynasty, commits suicide
            allegedly by inducing an asp (Egyptian cobra) to bite her
875 - Louis II, king of Italy/emperor of France, dies at about 50
1158 - Anselmus van Havelberg, Brandenburg bshp of Havelberg (1129-55), dies
1350 - Philip VI, king of France, dies
1424 - Yongle, Emperor of China (b. 1360)
1484 - Sixtus IV, [Francesco della Rovere], Pope (1471-84), dies
1484 - George of Trebizond, Greek philosopher (b. 1395)
1546 - Francisco de Vitoria, Spanish theology/lawyer, dies
1577 - Thomas Smith, English diplomat and scholar (b. 1513)
1588 - Alfonso Ferrabosco, composer, dies at 45
1612 - Giovanni Gabrieli, Italian composer (Madrigali), dies at about 60
1633 - Jacopo Peri, Itallian opera composer, dies at 71
1638 - Johannes Althusius, [Althaut], German lawyer, dies at about 81
1648 - Ibrahim I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1615)
1654 - Cornelis Haga, ambassador to Constantinople (1611-39), dies at 76
1660 - Gilbertus van Zinnik, Flemish architect, dies at about 33
1674 - Philippe de Champaigne, painter, dies
1675 - Karl Rabenhaupt, German/Neth baron of Sucha/army leader, dies at 73
1676 - King Philip, [Metacomet], leader Wampanoag-indians, shot to death
1689 - Innocent XI, [Benedetto Odescalchi], Pope (1676-89), dies at 78
1715 - Nahum Tate, English poet/playwright/poet laureate, dies
1728 - Henricus Zwaardecroon, gov-gen of Neth-Indies, dies at 61
1750 - Rachel Ruysch, royal painter of soverign Johan von de Pfalz, dies
1778 - Peregrine Bertie, 3rd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, British general and politician (b. 1714)
1797 - Ignaz Franz Xaver Kurzinger, composer, dies at 73
1809 - Mikhail Kamensky, Russian field marshal (b. 1738)
1810 - Etienne Louis Geoffroy, French pharmacist and entomologist (b. 1725)
1811 - John FE Acton, cruel premier of Naples, dies at 77
1812 - Jean Joseph Rodolphe, composer, dies at 81
1822 - Robert Stewart, 2nd marguess of Londonderry, commits suicide, dies
1827 - William Blake, English poet/painter, dies at 69
1830 - Franz de Paula Roser, composer, dies at 50
1848 - George Stephenson, locomotive engineer, dies
1849 - Abraham AA "Albert" Gallatin, Min of Finance (1801-14), dies at 88
1857 - William Daniel Conybeare, geologist, dies
1861 - Eliphalet Remington, American inventor, designer of the Remington rifle (b. 1793)
1864 - Sakuma Shōzan, Japanese reformer (b. 1811)
1865 - William Jackson Hooker, botanist, dies
1877 - James Drummond, historical painter, dies
1883 - Last Quagga, (zebra with less slashes), dies in Amsterdam zoo
1885 - Georg Curtius, German classical/linguist/philologist, dies at 65
1891 - James Russell Lowell, poet/critic/diplomat, dies
1896 - Thomas Chamberlain, officer of the 20th Maine at the Battle of Gettysburg
1900 - James E Keeler, US astronomer (rings of Saturn), dies at 42
1900 - Wilhelm Steinitz, Austrian chess player (b. 1836)
1901 - Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Finnish-Swedish explorer (b. 1832)
1911 - Jozef Israels, painter, dies
1911 - Petrus H Hugenholtz, Dutch reformist vicar (Levenslicht), dies at 79
1914 - John Philip Holland, submarine designer, dies at 74
1918 - Anna Held, Polish-born actress and singer (b. 1872)
1922 - Arthur Griffith, Irish nationalist/president (Sinn Fein), dies
1928 - Leoš Janáček, Czech composer (b. 1854)
1934 - Hendrik P Berlage, architect (Stock exchange Amsterdam), dies at 78
1935 - Friedrich Schottky, German mathematician (b. 1851)
1938 - Ludwig Borchardt, German egyptologist, dies at 74
1941 - Bobby Peel, cricketer (took 102 wickets for England), dies
1943 - Georges Martin Witkowski, composer, dies at 76
1944 - Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., brother of President John F. Kennedy (b. 1915)
1948 - Harry Brearley, English inventor (b. 1871)
1952 - David Bergelson, Yiddish language writer (b. 1884)
1955 - Thomas Mann, German writer (Dr Faustus, Nobel 1929), dies at 80
1955 - James B. Sumner, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1887)
1959 - Mike O'Neill, Irish-born American baseball player (b. 1877)
1964 - Ian L Fleming, British journalist/writer (James Bond), dies at 56
1968 - Pieter J Auld, mayor of Rotterdam (1945-52), dies at 81
1968 - Esther Forbes, American novelist (b. 1891)
1969 - Dick Ryan, actor (For Heaven's Sake), dies after long illness at 72
1973 - John Clay, cricketer (Glamorgan offie in only Test 1935), dies
1973 - Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss physiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1881)
1973 - Karl Ziegler, German chemist and Nobel Laureate, dies at 74
1976 - Thomas Edward Driberg, 1st baron Bradwell, journalist, dies
1982 - Helvi Lemmikke Leiviska, composer, dies at 80
1982 - Henry Fonda, actor (On Golden Pond), dies of heart disease at 77
1982 - Joe Tex, rocker, dies at 49
1982 - Salvador Sanchez, Mexican boxer (b. 1959)
1982 - Varlam Shalamov, Russian writer (b. 1907)
1983 - Henry Gifford Vivian, cricketer (7 Tests for NZ, 17 wkts), dies
1985 - Marcel Mihalovici, composer, dies at 86
1985 - Manfred Winkelhock, German race car driver (b. 1951)
1988 - Jean-Michel Basquiat, US musician/graffiti painter (Gray, SAMO), dies
1989 - William Shockley, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1910)
1989 - Samuel Okwaraji, Nigerian footballer (b. 1964)
1990 - Dorothy Mackaill, actress (Love Affair), dies of kidney failure at 87
1990 - Sara Seegar, [Stone], actor (Mystery of Room 13), dies at 76
1990 - B. Kliban, American cartoonist (b. 1935)
1991 - Irene Campbell, British actress/dancer (Wicker Man, St Justice), dies
1991 - William Gordon, screenwriter (Back to Bataan), dies
1992 - Beverley Brooks, dies of a stroke at 63
1992 - John Cage, avante-garde composer, dies of a stroke at 79
1992 - Lady Rothermere, [Bubbles], wife of British newspaper magnate, dies
1992 - Queen Mother of Oman, dies
1993 - Jerome Thor, actor (Riot in Juvenile Prison), dies of cardiac at 69
1994 - Gene Cherico, bassist, dies at 59
1994 - Manfred Salzgeber, German film distributor/publicist, dies at about 51
1995 - Frank Cvitanovich, film maker, dies at 68
1996 - Anthony Derrick Parsons, diplomat, dies at 73
1996 - Victor Ambartsumian, astrophysicist, dies at 87
1997 - Luther Allison, blues performer (Motown), dies of cancer at 57
1999 - Jean Drapeau, Quebec politician, mayor of Montreal (b. 1916)
2000 - Loretta Young, American actress (b. 1913)
2002 - Enos Slaughter, American baseball player (b. 1916)
2004 - Sir Godfrey Hounsfield, English electrical engineer and inventor, Nobel laureate (b. 1919)
2004 - Peter Woodthorpe, British actor (b. 1931)
2005 - John Loder, co-founder of the anarcho-punk band CRASS (b. 1946)
2007 - Merv Griffin, American television host and game show creator (b. 1925)
2007 - Mike Wieringo, American comic book artist (b. 1963)
2008 - Christie Allen, British-Australian pop singer (b. 1954)
2009 - Les Paul, American musician (b. 1915)
2009 - Les Paul (Lester William Polsfuss) American musician and inventor aged 94
2010 - Richie Hayward, American musician (Little Feat) (b. 1946)
2010 - Isaac Bonewits, founder of U.S. Druid organization Ar Ndraiocht Fein (b. 1949)
2010 - Guido de Marco, 6th president of Malta, 45th President of the United Nations General
           Assembly (b. 1931)
2011 - Robert Robinson, British television presenter (Ask The Family, Call My Bluff) (b. 1927)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 13, 2013, 07:30:12 AM

This Day in History for 13th August


Historical Events

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French Enlightenment Philosopher                    Queen of France                          Dictator of Nazi Germany
Voltaire                                                            Marie Antoinette                                           Adolf Hitler

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Nazi Politician                                         33rd US President Harry Truman
Hermann Goering


3114 BC - According to the Lounsbury correlation, the start of the Maya calendar.
523 - St John I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1099 - Raniero elected as Pope Paschal II
1326 - Aradia de Toscano, according to legend/folklore, is initiated into a Dianic witchcraft cult and
           subsequently founds the tradition of Stregheria, later known as the Malandanti.
1415 - King Henry V of England army lands on mouth of Seine River
1516 - The Treaty of Noyon between France and Spain is signed. Francis recognises Charles's claim
           to Naples, and Charles recognises Francis's claim to Milan.
1521 - Spanish conquerors Tenochtitlan (Mexico City) from Aztecs
1536 - Buddhist monks from Kyōto's Enryaku Temple set fire to 21 Nichiren temples throughout
           Kyoto in the Tenbun Hokke Disturbance. (Traditional Japanese date: July 27, 1536).
1553 - Michael Servetus is arrested by John Calvin in Geneva as a heretic.
1578 - Duke French van Anjou recognized as protector of Netherlands
1608 - John Smith's story of Jamestown's 1st days submitted for publication
1624 - Cardinal Richelieu appointed Chief Minister of France by Louis XIII
1630 - Ferdinand II fires supreme commander Albrecht von Wallenstein
1642 - Christiaan Huygens discovers Martian south polar cap
1645 - Sweden & Denmark sign Peace of Brömsebro
1651 - Litchfield, CT founded
1695 - -15] French troops under Villeroi shoot in Brussels
1696 - State of Drenthe accredits Willem III as mayor
1704 - French & Bavarian forces were routed by a combined British, German & Dutch army at
           Blenheim, Germany
1713 - King Frederik Willem declares war on Brandenburg-Prussia
1732 - Voltaire's "Zaire," premieres in Paris
1740 - Hunger strike in Rotterdam
1784 - English parliament accept India Act
1788 - Prussia joins Anglo-Dutch alliance to form Triple Alliance to prevent spread of Russo-Swedish
           War of 1788-90
1792 - Revolutionaries imprison French royals including Marie Antoinette
1799 - English fleet under lord Seymour overthrows Suriname
1814 - Cape of Good Hope formally ceded to British by the Dutch
1814 - Treaty of London-Netherland stops transporting slaves
1864 - Battle of Deep Bottom VA (Strawberry Plains) & Fussell's Mill VA
1868 - Earthquakes kill 25,000 & causes $300 million damages (Peru & Ecuador)
1876 - Wagner's "Of the Ring," premieres
1881 - Henry Morton Stanley signs contract with Congolese monarch
1889 - William Gray patents coin-operated telephone
1892 - US black newspaper "Afro-American" begins publishing from Baltimore
1898 - US forces under George Dewey captures Manila during Spanish-Amer war
1902 - England beat Australia by one wicket at The Oval Famous victory
1906 - Black soldiers raid Brownsville Texas
1906 - Cub's Pitcher Jack Taylor ends a string of completing 202 games (187 complete, 15 relief) by
           Dodgers in 3rd inning
1907 - 1st taxicab (NYC)
1908 - Cy Young Day in Boston, he pitches briefly against an All-Star team
1910 - Dodgers & Pirates play to 8-8 tie, both have 38 at bats, 13 hits, 12 assists, 2 errors, 5
           strikeouts, 3 walks, 1 pass ball & 1 hit by pitch
1913 - Otto Witte, an acrobat, is purportedly crowned King of Albania.
1913 - Invention of stainless steel by Harry Brearley.
1914 - -14] German army occupies forts at Luik
1914 - Carl Wickman begins Greyhound, the 1st US bus line, in Minnesota
1914 - France declares war on Austria-Hungary, leading to WW I
1917 - Phillies steal 5 bases in an inning against Braves
1918 - Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW) established as a public company in Germany.
1919 - British troops fire on Amritsar India demonstrators; killing 350
1919 - Man o'War's only defeat (Upset wins at Saratoga)
1920 - 24th US Golf Open: Ted Ray shoots a 295 at Inverness Club in Ohio
1921 - Simon Kaufman & Marc Connelly's "Dulcy," premieres in NYC
1923 - Germany: Gustav Stresemann becomes premier of coalition government
1923 - Turkish National Congress selects Moestafa Kemal Pasja as president
1923 - US Steel Corp initiates 8th-hour work day
1928 - Soviet Union Spartacan Games begins
1931 - Cin Red Tony Cuccinello goes 6 for 6
1932 - Hitler refuses Von Hindenburg's proposal to become vice-chancellor
1932 - Yankee pitcher Red Ruffing homers & wins game 1-0 in 10 tying
1933 - 16th PGA Championship: Gene Sarazen at Blue Mound CC Milwaukee
1933 - Jacques van Egmond becomes world champion amateur cyclist
1935 - Transcontinental Roller Derby begins (Chicago Coliseum)
1937 - Japanese attack Shanghai
1937 - Battle of Shanghai begins.
1939 - Yankees set AL shutout margin with 21-0 victory over A's
1939 - Sabotage suspected in crash of 'City of San Francisco'
1940 - Germany air attack on South England (Battle of Britain begins)
1940 - Hermann Goering&#039;s &quot;Adler Tag&quot; 45-48 German aircrafts shotdown over
           South-England
1941 - Red army evacuates Smolensk
1943 - Red army recaptures Spas-Demensk
1944 - British 8th army occupies Florence
1944 - Generals Montgomery/Dempsey/Bradley discuss naderende breakthrough
1944 - Jackie Gleason-Les Tremayne show premieres on NBC radio
1946 - Britain transfers illegal immigrants bound to Palestine, to Cyprus
1948 - Satchel Paige at 42, pitches his 1st major league complete game
1950 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA World Golf Championship
1950 - Pres Harry Truman gives military aid to Vietnamese regime Bao-Dai
1951 - Great-Britain & Iraq sign new oil contract
1953 - 4-5 million French go on strike against economizations
1953 - Pres Eisenhower establishes Government Contract Compliance Committee
1953 - US Gen Omar Bradley's becomes chief of staff
1954 - 21st NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Detroit 31, All-Stars 6 (93,470)
1955 - Larry Doby's ends AL record of 167 errorless games in outfield
1956 - WBIR TV channel 10 in Knoxville, TN (CBS) begins broadcasting
1958 - Indians' right fielder Rocky Colavito makes his pitching debut, hurling 3 hitless innings, Detroit
           3, Cleveland 2
1959 - Milt satellite Discoverer 5 launched (into polar orbit)
1960 - Central African Republic & Chad proclaim independence from France
1960 - USSR draws adviseors out of China
1960 - The first two-way conversation via satellite is undertaken using Echo 1
1961 - Construction of the Berlin Wall begins in East Germany
1961 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Kansas City Golf Open
1962 - Bert Campaneris of Daytona Beach (FSL) pitches ambidextrously
1963 - Custom agents confiscate 21 gold coins from Witte Museum
1963 - Warren Spahn sets left-hander strike out mark at 2,382
1964 - 1st broadcast by Trans World Radio on Bonaire
1967 - WQLN TV channel 54 in Erie, PA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1969 - Balt Oriole Jim Palmer no-hits Oakland A's, 8-0
1969 - Temp Commissioner Bowie Kuhn elected for 7-year term by unanimous vote
1971 - Paul & Linda McCartney release "Back Seat of My Car"
1972 - Dutch KRO-TV transmits 440th & last "Bonanza"
1972 - Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Pabst Ladies Golf Classic
1975 - Viv Richards out for 291 v England at Cricket Oval
1977 - 1st test glide of shuttle
1977 - Randy Bachman quits BTO, they disband
1978 - Bomb attack in Beirut, 175 killed
1978 - Judy wins LPGA WUI Golf Classic Rankin
1978 - Yanks score 5 runs in top of 7th. but rain causes game to be halted & thus score goes back
           to previous inning, Balt wins 3-0
1979 - Lou Brock, is 14th to get 3,000 hits
1980 - Suriname president Johan Ferrier ousted
1980 - Tatyana Kazankina of USSR sets 1.5k woman's record (3:52.47) in USSR
1981 - Last broadcast of "Waltons" on CBS-TV
1981 - Mary Terstegge Meagher swims world record 200m butterfly (2:05.96)
1984 - Morocco & Libya sign "Arabic-African Union" treaty
1986 - KRE-AM in Berkeley CA changes call letters to KBLX (now KBFN)
1987 - Cards outfield sets record of no putouts in a 4-2 in 13 inning
1987 - Jackie Joyner-Kersee ties world record with 24'5½" jump
1988 - Boston Red Sox win AL record 24 straight home games
1988 - Palace of Auburn Hills in Detroit Opens
1988 - US beats Jamacia 5-1, in 2nd round of 1990 world soccer cup
1988 - Ronald J Dossenbach sets world record for pedaling across Canada from Vancouver, BC to
           Halifax, NS in 13 days, 15 hr, 4 min
1989 - 2 hot-air balloon crash at Alice Springs Australia, 13 killed
1989 - 71st PGA Championship: Payne Stewart shoots 276 at Kemper Lakes GC Ill
1989 - US space shuttle STS-28 lands
1991 - Michael Ray Barrowman swims world record 200m breaststroke (2:10.60)
1991 - Test Cricket debut of Mike Whitney versus England at Old Trafford
1991 - VP Quayle makes a speech attacking lawyers
1993 - Blue Jay Rickey Henderson pays Turner Ward $25,000 for his #24
1993 - Hotel in Nakhon Ratchasima Thailand, collapses, 114 killed
1993 - US Court of Appeals rules congress must save all E-Mail
1994 - Train crash in Tbilisi Georgia, 24 killed
1995 - 77th PGA Championship: Steve Elkington shoots a 267 at Riviera Calif
1995 - Beth Daniels wins LPGA PING Welch's Golf Championship
1996 - Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 3.0
1997 - Boston Red Sox trade Mike Stanley back to the NY Yankees
1997 - SD Padres trade Rickey Henderson to Anaheim Angels
1997 - South Park's first episode is aired.
2004 - 156 Congolese Tutsi refugees massacred at the Gatumba refugee camp in Burundi.
2004 - Black Friday crackdown by NSS on a peaceful protest in the capital city of Maldives, Malé.
2004 - Hurricane Charley, a Category 4 storm, strikes Punta Gorda, Florida and devastates the
           surrounding area.
2012 - Nadzeya Ostapchuk of Belarus is stripped of her shot-put gold medal after failing a doping
           test

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 13, 2013, 07:31:51 AM

This Day in History for 13th August


Famous Weddings

1994 - Former "Growing Pains" patriarch actor Alan Thicke (48) weds former Miss World Gina Marie
           Tolleson (25) at his rolling Santa Barbara ranch
2011 - "The View" co-host Sherri Shepherd (44) weds TV writer Lamar Sally at the Fairmont Hotel in
           Chicago, Illinois

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 13, 2013, 07:38:20 AM

This Day in History for 13th August


Famous Birthdays

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Sharp Shooter Annie Oakley (1860)         Director Alfred Hitchcock (1899)               Dictator Fidel Castro (1926)


582 - Arnulf of Metz, French bishop and saint (d. 640)
1311 - King Alfonso XI of Castile and Leon (d. 1350)
1422 - William Caxton, 1st English printer (Histories of Troy)
1584 - Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, English politician (d. 1640)
1617 - Johann A Quenstedt, German Lutherian theologist
1625 - Rasmus Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and physicist (d. 1698)
1655 - Johann Christoph Denner, inventor (clarinet)
1662 - Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, English politician (d. 1748)
1666 - William Wotton, English scholar (d. 1727)
1692 - Anton Simon Ignaz Praelisauer, composer
1700 - Heinrich, count von Brühl, German statesman (d. 1763)
1704 - Lorenzo Fago, composer
1717 - Christoph Nichelsmann, German composer
1717 - Louis François I, Prince of Conti, French military leader (d. 1776)
1721 - Francis Ireland, composer
1747 - Adrien-Joseph van Helmont, composer
1748 - Pieter L van de Kasteele, Dutch politician/patriot
1752 - Marie Caroline of Austria, queen of the Two Sicilies (d. 1814)
1764 - Louis Baraguey d'Hilliers, French general (d. 1816)
1790 - William Wentworth, Australian explorer and politician (d. 1872)
1792 - Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, Queen consort of William IV of the United Kingdom (d. 1849)
1802 - Nikolaus Lenau, Hungary, German poet (Faust, Die Albigenser)
1803 - Vladimir Odoevsky, Russian philosopher and writer (d. 1869)
1814 - Anders Jonas Ångström, Swedish physicist (d. 1874)
1817 - Karoly Thern, composer
1818 - Lucy Blackwell-Stone, US abolitionist (US Woman's Suffrage Association)
1819 - George Gabriel Stokes, physicist/mathematician (spectroscope)
1820 - George Grove, London, England, biblical scholar/misicographer
1820 - Joseph Alberdingk Thijm, [Pauwels Foreestier], poet (Dietsche Warande)
1823 - Goldwin Smith, English-born historian and journalist (d. 1910)
1826 - William Thomas Best, composer
1831 - Salomon Jaoassohn, composer
1840 - Giovanni Verga, Italian writer (Eros)
1841 - Unaarrimin, cricketer (played cricket as Johnny Mullagh)
1851 - John Lincoln Clem, Drummer (Union volunteers), died in 1937
1851 - Felix Adler, German-born educator (d. 1933)
1860 - Annie Oakley [Phoebe Ann Moses], North Star Ohio, sharp shooter (Buffalo Bill's Wild West),
           (d. 1926)
1866 - Giovanni Agnelli, Italian industrialist (d. 1945)
1867 - Rudolf Georg Binding, German songwriter/writer (Legenden Der Zeit)
1867 - William A Craigie, Scottish lexicographer (Skotlands Rimur)
1871 - Karl Liebknecht, German revolutionary marxist (Sparta Party)
1872 - Richard Willstätter, German chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1942)
1878 - Leonid Vladimirovich Nikolayev, composer
1878 - Salomon "Sam" de Wolff, Dutch zionist/socialist theorist
1879 - John N Ireland, English composer/pianist (Mai-Dun)
1881 - Jacqueline [Pierrette] R van Stuwe, [Eline v S], Dutch author
1884 - Harry Dean, England cricketer (d. 1957)
1886 - Jacob Pierneef, South Africa, painter
1887 - Julius Freed, American inventor and banker (d. 1952)
1888 - John Logie Baird, Scotland, inventor (father of TV)
1888 - Gleb W. Derujinsky, Russian-American sculptor (d. 1975)
1889 - Camillien Houde, Quebec politician, mayor of Montreal (d. 1958)
1890 - [Lavinia] Marian Fleming Poe, black US advocate in Virginia
1894 - Ferdinand Sassen, Dutch philosopher/director
1894 - Leonid Alexeyevich Polovinkin, composer
1895 - Bert Lahr, [Irving Lahrheim], US comic/actor (Lion-Wizard of Oz)
1895 - Robert Burton, actor (Dr Gordon-Kings Row)
1896 - Leo[nhard] Pappenheim, conductor
1898 - Jean Borota, France, tennis champ (35 Wimbledons between 1922-64)
1899 - Alfred Hitchcock, London, director (Psycho, Birds, Rear Window), (d.1980)
1901 - Ian Whyte, composer
1902 - Bartoes, [Albertus J Wijstma], cabaret performer/comic
1902 - Felix Wankel, Germany, inventor (Wankel rotary-piston engine)
1902 - Lord Sainsbury of Drury Lane, president (J Sansbury Pics)
1902 - Regis Toomey, Pitts Pa, actor (Burke's Law, Petticoat Junction)
1903 - Wilton Graff, St Louis MO, actor (Bloodlust, Just Before Dawn)
1904 - Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Olathe KS, actor (Wings)
1907 - Alfred Alwin Felix Krupp, Essen Germany, arms manufacturer
1907 - Sir Basil Spence, Scottish architect (d. 1976)
1908 - Gene Raymond, NYC, actor (Paris 7000, Fireside Theater)
1909 - John Beal, Joplin MO, actor (10 Who Dare, I Am the Law, Amityville 3D)
1909 - Wilhelmina Von Bremen, US 4X100 relay sprinter (Olympic-gold-1932)
1911 - William Bernbach, Famous Advertiser (d. 1982)
1912 - Ben Hogan, Dublin Tx, PGA golfer (US Open 1950, 51, 53)
1912 - Jan Peeters, Dutch water colors painter/monumental artist
1912 - Max Croiset, playwright/director/actor (Dog of Flanders, Little Ark)
1912 - Metten Koornstra, Dutch painter/graphic artist
1912 - Rita Johnson, Worcester Mass, actress (Honolulu, All Mine to Give)
1912 - Salvador E Luria, Italian/US biologist (Nobel prize 1969)
1913 - Anatoly Vasilyevich Bogatiryov, composer
1913 - Francisco Escudero, composer
1913 - Liesbeth Askonas, concert agent
1913 - Lord Oram, British MP (Labour)
1913 - Makarios III, [Michail Moeskos], archbishop/president Cyprus
1914 - Luis Mariano, Basque operetta singer (d. 1970)
1917 - Sid Gordon, American baseball player (d. 1975)
1918 - Denis Smallwood, British air chief marshal
1918 - Frederick Sanger, England, biochemist (Nobel 1958, 1980)
1918 - John Bunting, senior civil servant
1919 - Rex Humbard, televanglist
1920 - Charlie Alfred Galbraith, jazz trombonist
1920 - George Shearing, London, blind pianist/composer (Lullabye of Byrdland)
1920 - Neville Brand, Griswold, Iowa, American actor (DOA, Eaten Alive)
1921 - Jimmy McCracklin, St. Louis, Missouri,blues musician, (d. 2012)
1924 - John Milne, CEO (Blue Circles Industries)
1925 - Benny Bailey, jazz trumpeter
1925 - Leslie Joseph, QC
1926 - Fidel Castro, Mayari, Oriente, Cuba, dictator/prime minister/president (1959-2008)
1929 - Augustyn Bloch, composer
1929 - Charles Lyon, gen-sect (Transport Salaried Staffs Association)
1929 - Michael Beavis, deputy cmdr-in-chief (Allied Forces Central Europe)
1929 - Pat Harrington Jr, NYC, actor (Danny Thomas Show, 1 Day at a Time)
1930 - Don Ho, Hawaii, ukulele player (Tiny Bubbles)
1930 - Heino Jurisalu, composer
1930 - Marquess Camden
1930 - Don Ho, American musician (d. 2007)
1930 - Wilmer David Mizell, American baseball player (d. 1999)
1931 - Bernard Manning, British comedian
1931 - Norman Read, NZ, 50K walker (Olympic-gold-1956)
1931 - Roy Evans, general sect (British Iron & Steel Trade Confederation)
1933 - Jocelyn Elders, US Surgeon General (-1994)
1933 - Madhur Jaffrey, cookbook writer/actress (Shakespeare Wallah)
1934 - Gary Davidson, US sports league founder (ABA, WHA, WFL)
1934 - Leifur Thorarinsson, composer
1935 - Rod Hull, entertainer
1935 - Mudcat Grant, American baseball player
1938 - Dave "Baby" Cortez, American pop keyboardist
1939 - Saul Steinberg, artist (The Art of Living)
1940 - Ann Armstrong Dailey, founder (Children's Hospice Intl)
1940 - Timothy Wood, British government asst whip
1941 - Jim Barnes, Tuckerton Ark, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1964)
1941 - Erin Fleming, Canadian actress (d. 2003)
1942 - Robert Lee Stewart, Wash DC, Brig Gen US Army/astronaut (STS 41B, 51J)
1942 - Sheila Armstrong, soprano
1943 - Gary Ilman, US, 100m freestyle (Olympic-4th-1964)
1943 - Susan Jameson, actress (Secret World of Polly Flint)
1943 - Yuri Fedorovich Isaulov, Russia, cosmonaut
1944 - David Mahler, composer
1944 - Kevin Tighe, LA CA, actor (Newsie, Another 48 Hours, K-9)
1944 - Divina Galica, British athlete and racing driver
1945 - Robin Jackman, cricketer (England medium-pacer early eighties)
1945 - Lars Engqvist, Swedish politician
1947 - Gretchen Corbett, Camp Sherman Ore, actress (Beth-Rockford Files)
1947 - John Stocker, Canadian actor
1947 - Margareta Winberg, Swedish politician
1948 - Kathleen Battle, Portsmouth Ohio, soprano (Shephard-Tannhäuser)
1948 - Mosiuoa Patrick "Terror" Lekota, South African UDF/ANC-leader
1948 - Tony Santini, rocker (Sha Na Na)
1949 - Bobby Clarke, Manitoba, NHL player/coach (Phila Flyer)
1949 - Peter J Visclosky, (Rep-D-Indiana, 1985- )
1949 - Sheralee, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, vocalist (Your Hit Parade)
1950 - Andre van de Berg, actor/director (Transport)
1951 - Dan Fogelberg, Peoria Ill, rocker (Same Auld Lang Syne)
1951 - Gwen Cheeseman, Harrisburg Pa, field hockey goalie (Oly-bronze-1984)
1951 - Jeff Altman, comedian/actor (Nurses, Pink Lady, Soul Man)
1952 - Marie Helvin, model/actress (Children)
1952 - Herb Ritts, American photographer (d. 2004)
1952 - Hughie Thomasson, American musician (d. 2007)
1953 - Jimmy McCulloch, rocker (Wings)
1954 - Lincoln Diaz-Balart, (Rep-R-Florida)
1954 - Nico Assumpção, Brazilian bass player (d. 2001)
1955 - Betsy King, Reading PA, LPGA golfer (1990 US Women's Open)
1955 - Keith Ahlers, British racing driver
1955 - Hideo Fukuyama, Japanese racing driver
1955 - Paul Greengrass, English film director
1958 - David W Feherty, Bangor N Ireland, PGA golfer (1994 New England-2nd)
1958 - Feargal Sharkey, rocker (Undertones-Never Never, Good Heart)
1958 - Scott Hamilton, Toledo Ohio, figure skater (Oly-gold-1984)
1958 - Randall Shughart, American Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1993)
1959 - Bruce French, cricketer (England wicketkeeper in 16 Tests 1986-88)
1959 - Danny Bonaduce, actor (Danny-Partridge Family)/Chicago DJ (WLUP)
1959 - Mark Nevin, rocker (Fairground Attraction-Find My Love)
1959 - Tom Niedenfuer, American baseball player
1960 - Koji Kondo, Japanese composer
1960 - Phil Taylor, English darts player
1961 - Bettine Vriesekoop, Dutch table tennis star
1961 - Dawnn Lewis, actress (Jaleesa-Different World)
1961 - Neil Mallender, cricketer (England pace bowler in two Tests 1992)
1961 - Stuart Maconie, English music writer and broadcaster
1961 - Tom Perrotta, American novelist
1961 - Sunil Shetty, Indian Actor, Producer
1962 - Adam Kase, Socorro NM, Canadian Tour golfer (1989 Alberta Open-3rd)
1962 - John Slattery, Boston, Massachusetts, American actor (Mad Men, The Adjustment Bureau)
1963 - Elizabeth Bourland, Costa Rica, US 3x20 rifle (Olympics-7th-1996)
1963 - Pamela Jean Stein, Syracuse NY, playmate (Nov, 1987)
1963 - Tigg Ketler, Chula Vista Ca, drummer (Bang Tango-Dancin' on Coals)
1963 - Sridevi, Indian actress
1964 - Ian Haughland, heavy metal rocker (Europe-The Final Countdown)
1964 - Jay Buhner, Nassau TX, outfielder (Seattle Mariners, NY Yankees)
1964 - Tom Prince, Kankakee IL, catcher (LA Dodgers)
1964 - Hank Cheyne, American actor
1965 - Cris Dishman, NFL cornerback (Houston Oilers, Wash Redskins)
1965 - Leo Groenewegen, CFL guard (Edmonton Eskimos)
1965 - Mark Lemke, Utica NY, infielder (Atlanta Braves)
1965 - Hayato Matsuo, Japanese composer
1966 - Glenn Donald Hamilton, NZ, beach volleyball player (Olympics-96)
1966 - Shayne Corson, NHL forward (Team Canada Oly-1998, Montreal)
1967 - Quinn Cummings, Los Angeles California, actress (Annie-Family, Goodbye Girl)
1967 - Taro Tan, Montreal Quebec, 65 kg judoka (Olympics-96)
1967 - Tracy Rogers, NFL linebacker (KC Chiefs)
1967 - Amélie Nothomb, Belgian writer
1968 - Joe Garten, WLAF corner/guard (Barcelona Dragons)
1968 - William Thomas, NFL linebacker (Philadelphia Eagles)
1969 - Alex Fernandez, Miami Beach FL, pitcher (Chicago White Sox)
1969 - Midori Ito, Tokyo Japan, ice skater (Oly-silver-92)
1970 - Elvis Grbac, NFL quarterback (SF 49ers, KC Chiefs)
1970 - Tim Watson, NFL/WLAF safety (Raiders, Barcelona Dragons)
1970 - Will Clarke, American novelist
1970 - Matt Hyson, American professional wrestler
1970 - Alan Shearer, English footballer
1971 - Camille Thompson, Salmon Arm BC, basketball center (Olympics-96)
1971 - Chad Cota, NFL safety (Carolina Panthers)
1971 - Marcus Ragnarsson, Ostervala SWE, NHL defenseman (SJ Sharks, Sweden)
1971 - Ron Dickerson, WLAF running back (Scottish Claymores, London Monarchs)
1971 - Moritz Bleibtreu, German actor
1971 - Patrick Carpentier, Quebec race car driver
1971 - Rolando Molina, Salvadoran-born actor
1972 - Lisa Kiggens, Salinas CA, LPGA golfer (1994 Rochester International)
1972 - Kevin Plank, American entrepreneur (Under Armour)
1973 - Armon Williams, safety/linebacker (Tennessee Oilers)
1973 - Sherman Williams, NFL running back (Dallas Cowboys)
1973 - Molly Henneberg, American journalist
1973 - Eric Medlen, American drag racer and rodeo star (d. 2007)
1974 - Jarrod Washburn, American baseball player
1975 - Jason Gleasman, Wilmington DE, 220 lbs greco-roman wrestler (Oly-1996)
1975 - James Carpinello, American actor
1975 - Joe Perry, English snooker player
1977 - Michael Klim, Poland, Australian swimmer (Olympics-96)
1978 - Kristiina Heinmets, Miss Estonia Universe (1997)
1978 - Benjani Mwaruwari, Zimbabwean footballer
1979 - Taizō Sugimura, Japanese politician
1979 - Román Colón, Dominican baseball player
1979 - Corey Patterson, American baseball player
1982 - Shani Davis, American speed skater
1983 - Ľubomír Michalík, Slovakian footballer
1983 - Ales Hemsky, Czech ice hockey player
1983 - Sebastian Stan, Romanian-born actor
1984 - Niko Kranjčar, Croatian footballer
1984 - Boone Logan, American baseball player
1984 - Heath Pearce, American soccer player
1984 - Baby Blue, American rapper (Pretty Ricky)
1986 - Joseph Lapira, American soccer player
1992 - Katharine Close, Scripps National Spelling Bee champion

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 13, 2013, 07:41:34 AM

This Day in History for 13th August


Famous Deaths

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Nurse Florence Nightingale (1910)          Sci-Fi Author H. G. Wells (1946)


586 - St. Radegund, Frankish princess, wife of Clotaire I and founder of the Convent of Our Lady of
         Poitiers.
662 - Maximus Confessor, Greek theologist/crusader, dies
900 - Zwentibold, king of Lutherans (895-900), dies in battle at 29
1134 - Irene of Hungary [Piroska], Byzantine empress, dies at 46
1191 - Philips van Heinsberg, archbishop of Cologne, dies
1278 - Daikaku, Zen teacher Rinzai line/head of Kenchoji, dies in Japan at 65
1382 - Eleanor of Aragon, wife of John I of Castile (b. 1358)
1523 - Gerard David, Flemish painter
1617 - Johann Jakob Grynaeus, Swiss Protestant clergyman (b. 1540)
1637 - Dirck J Bas, Dutch merchant/regent/government leader (OIC), dies
1667 - Jeremy Taylor, Irish author and bishop (b. 1613)
1674 - Lars Johnstown, [Lasse Lucidor], Swedish poet, dies at 35
1686 - Louis Maimbourg, French-born historian (b. 1610)
1721 - Jacques Lelong, French bibliographer (b. 1665)
1744 - John Cruger, Dutch-born Mayor of New York (b. 1678)
1749 - J E Schlegel, writer, dies
1762 - John Alberti, theologist/philological, dies at 64
1787 - Isaac de Pinto, merchant/lender/Dutch States-general, dies
1808 - Henri Hardouin, composer, dies at 81
1826 - René Laënnec, French physician (b. 1781)
1841 - Bernhard Romberg, German cellist/composer, dies
1860 - Danillo II, ruler of Montenegro, dies
1863 - Eugène Delacroix, French painter (b. 1798)
1865 - Ignaz Semmelweis, gynecologist, dies at 47
1886 - Adolf von Doss, composer, dies at 62
1895 - Christian B Freiherr von Tauchnitz, German publisher (T Edition), dies
1896 - John Everett Millais, English painter, dies at 67
1897 - Antonius von der Linde, Neth/German librarian, dies at 63
1908 - Ira D Sankey, US evangelist/composer/singer (Gospel Hymns), dies at 67
1910 - Florence Nightingale, English nurse, dies at 90
1912 - Jules EF Massenet, French opera composer (Werther, Manon), dies at 70
1913 - F August Bebel, German social-democrat, dies
1916 - Fritz Steinbach, composer, dies at 61
1924 - Julian Aguirre, composer, dies at 56
1927 - James Curwood, US journalist/writer (Valley of Silent Men), dies at 49
1928 - Fernand de La Tombelle, composer, dies at 74
1933 - Paul Joseph Guillaume Hillemacher, composer, dies at 80
1937 - Arthur Plunkett, English civil engineer (b. 1890)
1940 - George C Pearce, actor (Hold tat Lion, British Agent), dies at 75
1946 - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, sci-fi author (Time Machine), dies at 79
1946 - Valery Viktorovich Zhelobinsky, composer, dies at 33
1946 - H. G. Wells, English writer, dies at 79
1947 - Johan H T Norlind, Swedish musicologist, dies
1948 - Edwin Maxwell, actor (Taming of the Shrew), dies at 62
1948 - Elaine Hammerstein, American actress (b. 1897)
1953 - Dmitri Arakishvili, composer, dies at 80
1954 - Hermann W S Waltershausen, German musicologist/composer, dies at 71
1956 - Harry Donnan, cricketer (5 Tests for Australia 1891-96), dies
1958 - Otto Witte, acrobat and, purportedly, King of Albania (b. 1868)
1959 - Henry Garat, actor (Congress Dances), dies at 57
1961 - Adeline De Walt Reynolds, actress (Son of Dracula), dies at 78
1965 - Ikeda Hayato, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1899)
1967 - Jane Darwell, actress (Girls in Prison), dies of heart attack at 87
1970 - Viktor Nikolayevich Trambitsky, composer, dies at 75
1971 - King Curtis, [Curtis Ousley], US musician, murdered at 37
1972 - George Wiess, General Manager (NY Yankees), dies at 78
1973 - Ben van Eysselsteijn, Dutch playwright (Arid Earth), dies at 75
1974 - Hugo Yarnold, cricketer (Umpire in 3 Tests for England), dies
1974 - Kate O'Brien, Irish writer (Pray for the Wanderer), dies at 76
1977 - Henry Williamson, English author (Tarka the Otter), dies
1982 - Charles Walters, US actor/choreographer/dir (High Society), dies at 70
1982 - Joe E Ross, comedian (Toody-Car 54, Phil Silvers Show), dies at 77
1982 - Joe Tex, [Joseph Arrington Jr], singer (Getting Scarce), dies at 49
1982 - Joe Tex, American singer and songwriter (b. 1933)
1984 - Clyde Cook, actor (Dawn Patrol, Jazz Heaven), dies in his sleep at 92
1985 - Marion Martin, actress (Dakota Lil, Queen of Burlesque), dies at 67
1986 - Helen Mack, actress (Son of Kong, Milky Way), dies
1987 - Vincent Persichetti, US composer (Sibyl), dies at 72
1988 - Otto E Passman, (Rep-D-La, 1947-77), dies at 88
1989 - Tim Richmond, race car driver (won 13 NASCAR races), dies of AIDS
1989 - Larkin Smith, U.S. Representative from Mississippi (b. 1944)
1990 - Jimmy Starr, actor (Hot Flashes), dies at 86
1991 - Jack Ryan, inventor (Barbie Doll, Hot Wheels), dies at 65
1992 - Bill Elverman, playwright/actor (After Hours), dies at 40
1992 - Clifford Allison, US stock-car racer, dies in an accident
1992 - David Kaplan, news director (ABC), killed in Sarajevo Yugoslavia
1992 - Jan Elburg, [Joannes G], poet (Geen letterheren), dies
1994 - Manfred Worner, German general/sec-gen of NATO (1988-94), dies at 59
1995 - Alison Hargreaves, mountaineer, dies at 33
1995 - Jesse Thomas, blues singer, dies at 84
1995 - Mickey Mantle, baseball great (NY Yankees), dies of cancer at 63
1995 - Per-Jakez Helias, Writer/teacher, dies at 81
1995 - Jan Křesadlo, Czech-born writer (b. 1926)
1996 - Antonio Sebastiao Ribiero de Spinola, soldier/polititican, dies at 86
1996 - Antonio de Spinola, general of Portugal, dies
1996 - Christopher John Gray, priest, dies at 42
1996 - David Randall, priest, dies at 49
1996 - David Tudor, composer, dies at 70
1996 - Tom Mees, ESPN sports anchors (NHL), drowns at 46
1996 - W Gordon Smith, playwright, dies at 67
1998 - Julien Green, American novelist (b. 1900)
1998 - Nino Ferrer, French-Italian singer and composer (b. 1934)
1999 - Jaime Garzón, Colombian journalist and comedian, murdered (b. 1960)
2000 - Nazia Hassan, Pakistani pop singer (b. 1965)
2001 - Otto Stuppacher, Austrian racing driver (b. 1947)
2003 - Ed Townsend, American songwriter and producer (b. 1929)
2004 - Julia Child, American chef and television personality (b. 1912)
2005 - David Lange, 32nd Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1942)
2006 - Tony Jay, English actor (b. 1933)
2006 - Payao Poontarat, Thai Olympic boxer (b. 1957)
2007 - Brian Adams, aka Demolition Crush, American professional wrestler (b. 1964)
2007 - Brooke Astor, American philanthropist (b. 1902)
2007 - Yone Minagawa, Japanese woman, oldest person (114) (b. 1893)
2007 - Phil Rizzuto, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1917)
2008 - Bill Gwatney, American political figure (b. 1959)
2008 - Dino Toso, American Formula-1 engineer (b. 1969)
2008 - Jack Weil, American oldest working CEO (b. 1901)
2008 - Sandy Allen, American second-tallest woman in the world (b. 1955)
2008 - Henri Cartan,French Mathematician
2010 - Lance Cade, American professional wrestler (b. 1981)
2010 - Edwin Newman, American broadcast journalist (b. 1919)
2011 - Topi Sorsakoski, Finnish musician (b. 1952)
2012 - Helen Gurley Brown, American author/publisher, dies at 90
2012 - Johnny Pesky, American baseball player and manager, dies at 92

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 14, 2013, 09:26:54 AM

This Day in History for 14th August


Historical Events

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English Monarch Queen Elizabeth I          Naturalist/Pacifist                                32nd US President
                                                                Henry David Thoreau                           Franklin D. Roosevelt

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British war time Prime Minister         Pakistani Politican Benazir Bhutto
Winston Churchill


554 - Ravenna becomes seat of Byzantines milt governor in Italy
1183 - Taira no Munemori and the Taira clan take the young Emperor Antoku and the three sacred
           treasures and flee to western Japan to escape pursuit by the Minamoto clan. (Traditional
           Japanese date: Twenty-fifth Day of the Seventh Month of the Second Year of Juei).
1248 - Construction of Cologne Cathedral begun
1281 - Kublai Khans invading fleet disappears in typhoon near Japan
1385 - Portuguese defeat Castilians at Aljubarrota, retain independence
1395 - Utrecht bishop Frederik of Blankenheim occupies Coevorden
1457 - Oldest known exactly dated printed book (c 3 years after Gutenberg)
1498 - Columbus landed at the mouth of the Orinoco River in Venezuela
1551 - Turkish fleet under Dragut occupies Tripoli
1559 - Spanish explorer de Luna lands in Pensacola Bay,Fla
1585 - Queen Elizabeth I refuses sovereignty of Netherlands
1597 - Cornelis de Houtmans fleet is 1st Dutch visit to Java
1624 - Dutch fleet ceases Callao the Lima in Peru
1636 - Spanish troops occupy Corbie at Amiens
1642 - Able Tasmans ships Heemskerck/Zeehaen depart out of Batavia
1678 - Battle of Mons-French repulse William of Orange
1743 - Prussian army occupies Saksen, beginning 2nd Silezian War
1756 - French capture Fort Oswego, NY
1758 - Battle at Zorndorf: Prussia beats Russia, 1000s killed
1762 - English fleet occupies Havana
1765 - Mass colonists challenge British rule by an Elm (Liberty Tree)
1782 - Suriname forbids selling slave mothers without their babies
1790 - Sweden & Russia sign Peace of Verela
1813 - British warship Pelican attacks & captures US war brigantine Argus
1816 - Great Britain annexes Tristan da Cunha
1820 - 1st US eye hospital, the NY Eye Infirmary, opens in NYC
1824 - General Lafayette returns to US
1825 - Dutch King Willem I throws foreign students out
1842 - Seminole War ends; Indians removed from Florida to Oklahoma
1846 - Henry David Thoreau jailed for tax resistance
1846 - The Cape Girardeau meteorite, a 2.3 kg chondrite-type meteorite strikes near the town of
           Cape Girardeau in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri.
1848 - Oregon Territory created
1861 - 79th NY troops mutinies
1861 - Martial Law is declared at St Louis, Missouri due to pro-secession sentiment which surged
           throughout Missouri after the Battle of Wilson's Creek
1862 - Lincoln receives 1st group of blacks to confer with US president
1864 - -16] Confederate General Joe Wheeler besieges Dalton, Georgia
1864 - 2nd day of battle at Deep Bottom Run Virginia: Federal assault
1873 - "Field & Stream" begins publishing
1875 - Society of Regte Afrikaanders establishes in Paarl
1876 - Prairie View State University forms
1880 - Construction of Cologne Cathedral completed (began in 1248)
1882 - Queen Victoria recieves Zulu chief Cetewayo
1885 - Japan's first patent is issued to the inventor of a rust-proof paint.
1890 - Cecil Rhodes' colonies reach Mashonaland (Fort Victoria)
1893 - France issues 1st driving licenses, included required test
1893 - France introduces motor vehicle registration.
1897 - The town of Anosimena is captured by French troops from Menabe defenders in Madagascar.
1900 - 1st electric tram in Netherland (Leidseplein-Brouwersgracht)
1900 - 2,000 marines land to capture Beijing, ending Boxer rebellion
1901 - SS Islander hits iceberg near Alaska & sinks killing 70
1901 - The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
1903 - James J Jeffries KOs James J Corbett in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
1905 - Ngindo-rebellion killed 5 RC German clergymen in East-Africa
1907 - "Ha-Tikva" adopted as official Zionist hymn
1908 - Race riot in Springfield Illinois
1908 - The first beauty contest is held in Folkestone, England.
1910 - 6th International Congress of Esperantists held in Washington, DC
1911 - General Leconte appointed temporary pres of Haiti
1911 - United States Senate leaders agree to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the
           Senate among leading candidates to fill the vacancy left by William P. Frye's death.
1912 - 2,500 US marines invade Nicaragua; US remains until 1925
1914 - British field marshal John French & Gen Wilson land in France
1915 - British transport Royal Edward sank by German U boat kills 1000
1917 - China declares war on Germany & Austria at start of WW I
1917 - Leeuwen soccer team forms
1919 - White Sox Happy Felsch ties record of 4 outfield assists in a game
1919 - Yankee Muddy Ruel hits into a triple-play
1920 - Little Entente formed by Czechoslovakia & Yugoslavia
1920 - Olympic Games open in Antwerp
1921 - Tannu Tuva, later Tuvinian People's Republic is established as a completely independent
           country (which is supported by Russia).
1922 - 1st "old time" musicians broadcasted on radio (Jenkins-WSB Atlanta)
1925 - Mount Rushmore 1st proposed
1925 - The original Hetch Hetchy Moccasin Powerhouse is completed and goes on line.
1928 - Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur's "Front Page," premieres in NYC
1929 - Jewish Agency for Palestine forms
1932 - 10th Olympic Games at Los Angeles closes
1932 - Dodger John Quinn, 49, is oldest pitcher to win a major league game
1932 - Philips makes 1 millionth radio
1933 - Jimmie Foxx hits for cycle & sets AL record with 9 RBIs
1935 - Social Security Act becomes law
1936 - 1st Olympic basketball game (Berlin)
1936 - Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last public execution in the United
           States.
1937 - China declares war on Japan
1937 - Detroit Tigers score 36 runs in double header vs St Louis Browns
1938 - BBC's 1st feature film on TV (Student of Prague)
1939 - 1st night games at Comiskey Park (White Sox 5, Browns 2)
1940 - Dutch Premier De Geer vacations in Switzerland
1941 - US President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill issue the joint
           declaration that later becomes known as the Atlantic Charter
1942 - Dwight D Eisenhower named commander for invasion of North Africa
1943 - -Aug 24th: Quadrant conference over strike in Pacific Ocean
1943 - 1st allied air raid on Borneo
1943 - US 45th Division occupies Falcone 40 km outside of Messina
1944 - British premier Winston Churchill arrives at Corsica
1944 - Operation Tractable: new Canadian offensive
1944 - Russian offensive at Weichsel
1945 - V-J Day; Japan surrenders unconditionally to end WW II (also August 15 depending on time
           zone)
1947 - India granted independence within British Commonwealth
1947 - Mildred Babe Didrikson Zaharias gives up amateur status for $300,000
1947 - Pakistan gains independence from Britain
1948 - 14th Olympic games close at London, Great Britain
1948 - Bradman's last Test Cricket innings
1948 - England all out for 52 v Australia at Cricket Oval
1949 - Military coup under colonel Sami Hinnawi in Syria
1952 - Mátyás Rákosi appointed premier of Hungary
1953 - 20th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Detroit 24, All-Stars 10 (93,818)
1953 - KXLF TV channel 4 in Butte, MT (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting
1954 - WGR TV (now WGRZ) TV channel 2 in Buffalo, NY (NBC) begins
1958 - Canadian Football League plays 1st game (Winnipeg 29, Edmonton 21)
1958 - Cleve Indian, Vic Power steals home twice in 1 game
1958 - KLM Superconstellation crashes west of Ireland, killing 99
1959 - 26th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Baltimore 29, All-Stars 0 (70,000)
1959 - AFL organized with NY, Dallas, LA, Minneapolis, Denver & Houston
1961 - Philadelphia Phillies lose 17th straight game
1962 - French & Italian workers break through at Mount Blanc Vehicular Tunnel
1962 - NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 60,000 m
1962 - US mail truck in Plymouth, Mass robbed of more than $1.5 million
1964 - Bo Belinsky is suspended after attacking sportswriter Braven Dyer
1964 - Egypt/Iraq/Jordan/Kuwait/Syria form common market
1965 - Beatles tape an appearance for Ed Sullivan Show
1965 - Continental Football League plays 1st games
1965 - Sonny & Cher's "I Got You Babe" hits #1
1966 - 1st US lunar orbiter begins orbiting Moon
1966 - Cleveland Stadium's 1st rock concert is held, featuring Beatles
1966 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
1967 - Belgian embassy in Kinshasa, Congo, plundered
1967 - Pirate radio stations Radio 270, Radio London, Radio Ireland
1967 - Radio Scotland & Radio Swinging Holland go off the air
1968 - Montreal Expos officially become a member of NL
1969 - British troops intervene militarily in Northern Ireland
1969 - NY Mets fall 9½ games back, later to win pennant
1970 - City University of NY inaugurates open admissions
1970 - Steven Stills arrested for drug possession
1971 - Bahrain proclaims independence after 110 years of British rule
1971 - British begin internment without trial in Northern Ireland
1971 - Cards Bob Gibson, 35, no-hits Pirates, 11-0
1971 - France performs nuclear test
1972 - East German Aeroflot Illyushin 62 crashes near Moscow, killing 156
1973 - Johnny Unitas files $725,000 suit against Balt Colts
1973 - US ends secret bombing of Cambodia
1974 - Congress authorizes US citizens to own gold
1974 - Turkish army attacks Nicosia Cyprus
1974 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1974 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1975 - -15] Pakistani military coup against president Mujib ur-Rahman
1975 - Dmitri Shotakovitch, buried at the Novodevitshi-convent
1975 - Norwegian King Olav V opens Longyearbyen Airport on Spitsbergen
1976 - 10,000 Northern Ireland women demonstrate for peace in Belfast
1977 - 59th PGA Championship: Lanny Wadkins shoots a 282 at Pebble Beach Cal
1977 - 77,691 see NY Cosmos beat Fort Lauderdale Strikers 8-3 at Giant Stad
1977 - Debbie Austin wins LPGA Long Island Charity Golf Classic
1978 - French TV announced a rating of "0" for a program about an Armenian's woman's 40th
           birthday, (comp: Napoleanic drama-67%, Knockout-33%)
1979 - Rainbow seen in Northern Wales for a 3 hours duration
1980 - 17,000 workers strike in Gdansk, Poland
1980 - Democratic Convention in NYC nominates Jimmy Carter & Walter Mondale
1980 - In Lenin Shipyard Gdansk Poland, 17,000 workers go on strike
1981 - George Foster hits his 8th HR into red seats at Riverfront
1981 - Phils Mike Schmidt hits his 300th career HR off NY Met Mike Scott
1982 - Atlanta snaps an 11-game losing streak with a 6-5 win over Padres
1982 - Iran "Ramadan-offensive" in Iraq
1982 - Pete Rose (Phillies) 12,365 at bat sets record (passes Aaron)
1983 - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic
1983 - Robert de Castella wins Helsinki marathon (2:10:03
1984 - IBM releases PC DOS version 3.0
1984 - West Indies complete 5-0 series annihilation of England
1986 - Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto arrested
1986 - Phillies & Pirates play a 6 game series in 4 days
1987 - "Les Miserables," opens at Rock Theatre, Szeged Hungary
1987 - Oakland's Mark McGwire sets rookie HR record at 39, en route to 49
1988 - 70th PGA Championship: Jeff Sluman shoots a 272 at Oak Tree GC Edmond
1988 - Detroit beats Sox, 18-6, at Fenway, ends Boston winning streak at 24
1989 - President Pieter W Botha of South Africa, resigns
1990 - Angel's Louis Palonia is 74th to hit an inside park grandslam
1990 - Denver vote for a 1% sales tax to pay for a baseball franchise
1991 - Twins Dave Winfield is 23rd to hit 400 HR
1993 - Nigerian presidential election
1993 - Reggie Jackson Day - NY Yanks retire 13th # (#44)
1993 - St Louis reliever Lee Smith is fastest to get 40 saves
1994 - 76th PGA Championship: Nick Price shoots a 269 at Southern Hills Tulsa
1994 - Doc Gooden leaves Betty Ford Center
1994 - Liselotte Neumann wins LPGA Weetabix Women's British Golf Open
1994 - Maggie Will wins Children's Medical Center LPGA Golf Classic
1994 - Space telescope Hubble photographs Uranus with rings
1994 - Terrorist "Carlos" arrested in Khartoum Sudan
1995 - Shannon Faulkner becomes 1st woman to attend the Citadel
1997 - "1776," opens at Criterion Theater NYC
1997 - Convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh formally sentenced to death
1997 - Karrie Webb wins LPGA Weetabix Women's British Open
1997 - Oklahoma Court of Appeals upholds death sentence of Timothy McVeigh
1997 - Soyuz TM-25 lands
2003 - Widescale power blackout in the northeast United States and Canada.
2007 - The 2007 Kahtaniya bombings kills at least 400 people.
2010 - 2010 Summer Youth Olympic Games, first ever Youth Olympics, officially starts in Singapore.
2012 - 46 people are killed and 80 injured after a series of suicide bombings in Afghanistan
2126 - Comet Swift-Tuttle approaches close to Earth

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 14, 2013, 09:29:05 AM

This Day in History for 14th August


Famous Weddings

1939 - "A Star Is Born" actress Janet Gaynor (32) weds MGM costume designer Adrian (36)
1964 - World Heavyweight Champion Muhammad Ali (22) weds cocktail waitress Sonja Roi
1965 - Former fashion model and fitness guru Jane Fonda (27) weds director/producer Roger Vadim
           (37) in Las Vegas
1991 - Comedian Jackie Mason marries his manager Jyll Rosenfeld (37)
1993 - Dr William Masters (78) weds college sweetheart Geraldine Oliver (76)
1993 - Shari Beadley weds Christopher Martin (Kid 'n Play)
2004 - Actor Josh Brolin (36) weds actress Diane Lane (39) at his ninety-seven acre spread in San
           Luis Obispo, California
2004 - "Dancing With The Stars" contestant and "Seinfeld" actor John O'Hurley (49) weds Lisa
           Mesloh at the Bacara Resort and Spa in Santa Barbara, California
2010 - Actress and singer Hilary Duff (24) weds retired Canadian professional ice hockey centre Mike
           Comrie (31) at La Quinta Estate in Montecito, California

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 14, 2013, 09:30:23 AM

This Day in History for 14th August


Famous Divorces

2012 - "Basketball Wives" TV personality Evelyn Lozada divorces NFL wide receiver Chad Johnson (34)
           due to irretrievably broken marriage only 41 days after getting married

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 14, 2013, 09:39:30 AM

This Day in History for 14th August


Famous Birthdays

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Physicist/Chemist                                    Novelist Danielle Steel (1947)                Cartoonist Gary Larson (1950)
 Hans Oersted (1777)


1297 - Emperor Hanazono, Emperor of Japan (d. 1348)
1473 - Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury, daughter of George, Duke of Clarence (d. 1541)
1479 - Princess Catherine of York (d. 1527)
1552 - Fra Paolo Sarpi, [Paulus Venetus], expert/philosopher
1575 - Robert Hayman, English-born poet (d. 1629)
1586 - William Hutchinson, Rhode Island colonist (d. 1642)
1599 - Méric Casaubon, English classical scholar (d. 1671)
1625 - François de Harlay de Champvallon, Archbishop of Paris (d. 1695)
1626 - Daniel Elsevier, book publisher/publisher
1642 - Cosimo III de' Medici, monarch of Florence (1670-1723)
1653 - Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle, English statesman (d. 1688)
1675 - Johann Georg Christian Storl, composer
1687 - Johan Willem Friso, prince of Orange/ruler (Nassau-Dietz) [NS]
1688 - Frederik Willem I, king of Prussia (bodyguard of giants)
1714 - Claude-Joseph Vernet, French painter
1727 - Henriette-Anne of France, daughter of king Louis XV (d.1752)
1727 - Louise-Elisabeth of France, daughter of king Louis XV (d. 1759)
1737 - Charles Hutton, mathematician
1740 - Pius VII, [Luigi B Chiaramonti], bishop of Imola/Pope (1800-23)
1742 - Marie Allard, French ballerina (Auguste Vestris)
1758 - Carle [Antoine CH] Vernet, French painter/lithographer
1769 - Friedrich Ludwig Dulon, flautist/composer
1777 - Hans Christian Oersted, Rudkøbing, Denmark, physicist/chemist (View of Chemical Law), (d.   
           1951)
1777 - Francis I of the Two Sicilies (d. 1830)
1784 - Francesco Capaccini, Italian cardinal/diplomat
1802 - Letitia Elizabeth Landon, England, poet (Heath's Book of Beauty)
1810 - Samuel Sebastian Wesley, composer
1814 - Henry Hayes Lockwood, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1899
1817 - Alexander H. Bailey, American politician (d. 1874)
1821 - Clement Hoffman "Rock" Stevens, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1823 - Karel Miry, composer
1824 - William Terry, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1888
1836 - Walter Besant, writer/philanthropist (Rebel Queen)
1840 - Baron Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing, psychiatrist
1842 - Henry Duff Trail, journalist/author
1847 - Robert Comtesse, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1922)
1850 - Earnest YY [Bachigaloupi] Tourniaire, actor (Kloris & Roses)
1851 - Doc Holliday, American gambler and dentist (d. 1887)
1857 - Max Wagenknecht, German composer (d. 1922)
1860 - Ernest T Seton, naturalist/painter/author (Buffalo Wind-1938)
1863 - Ernest Thayer, American poet (d. 1940)
1865 - Guido Castelnuovo, Italian mathematician (d. 1952)
1866 - Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin, Belgian mathematician (d. 1962)
1867 - John Galsworthy, England, author (Forsyte Saga-Nobel 1932)
1867 - Cupid Childs, American baseball player (d. 1912)
1868 - Leone Sinigaglia, composer
1869 - Edvard Armas Jornefelt, Vyborg Finland, composer (Berceuse)
1876 - Alexander I Obrenovic, King of Serbia/Yugoslavia (1922-34)
1876 - Sibilla Aleramo, [Rina Faccio], Italian feminist/poet (Una Donna)
1878 - Harald Kidde, Danish writer (Aage og Else)
1881 - Francis Ford, American actor (d. 1953)
1882 - Gisela Richter, English art historian (d. 1972)
1883 - Ernest E Just, biologist (pioneered cell division)
1887 - Marija Leiko, Latvian film actress (d.1937)
1891 - Marinus de Jong, composer
1892 - Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, composer
1893 - Alfred Alessandrescu, composer
1893 - Carl Benton Reid, Lansing MI, actor (Pressure Point)
1895 - Jack Gregory, cricketer (Australian all-rounder of post-WWI years)
1899 - Jaroslav Jeremias, composer
1900 - Shalva Mikhailovich Taktakishvili, composer
1901 - James Pitman, Bath England, educator/publisher/phonetic speller
1903 - John Ringling North, circus director (Ringling Bros)
1903 - Millard Mitchell, Havana Cuba, actor (12 O'Clock High, Gunfighter)
1903 - Ronald Stewart, CEO (London Brick Co)
1905 - Nicolas Cotoner y Cotoner, spanish courtier
1907 - Stanley Adams, songwriter
1908 - Lady Jean Swaythling, chief controller (ATS)
1908 - Manos Katrakis, Greek actor (d. 1984)
1909 - Len Darling, cricketer (South Australian & Test batsman of 30's)
1910 - Pierre Schaeffer, French engineer/composer
1911 - Ethel Lois Payne, journalist (Chic Defender)/1st Lady of Black Press
1911 - Jan Koetsier, composer
1911 - Pieter Platteel, last governor Neth New-Guinea
1912 - Eva Strittmatter, writer
1913 - Fred Davis, English world champ snooker player (1948-49, 51)
1913 - Paul Dean, American baseball player (d. 1981)
1914 - Sydney Wooderson, miler (world record 1937)
1915 - Lord Mishcon, economist
1915 - B.A. Santamaria, Australian political activist and journalist (d. 1998)
1916 - Andrew Kay, surgeon/professor of surgery (U of Glasgow)
1916 - Wellington Mara, Co-Owner of the New York Giants (d. 2005)
1920 - Nehemiah Persoff, Jerusalem Palestine, actor (Al Capone, Yentl)
1921 - Giorgio Strehler, theatre director
1923 - William Flanagan, composer
1924 - Georges Prêtre, French conductor
1925 - Russell Baker, Loudoun County, Va, columnist/humorist (NY Times)
1926 - Alice Adams, US author
1926 - Alice Ghostley, Eve Montana, actress (Bewitched, Designing Women)
1926 - Buddy Greco, Phila Pa, jazz singer (Away We Go, Broadway Open House)
1926 - René Goscinny, French song/cartoon text writer (Asterix)
1927 - Frank Cvitanovich, film maker
1927 - Lord Whaddon, CEO (Daltrade & Skorimpex-Rind)
1928 - Laurentius L M [Laurens] van Deenen, (pathed)physiologist
1928 - Lina Wertmueller, [Arcanguela von Elgg], Rome, actress (7 Beauties)
1929 - Hewlett Thompson, Bishop of Exeter
1929 - Louise M Slaughter, (Rep-D-New York)
1929 - Oliver Neville, principal (Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts)
1929 - Dick Tiger, Nigerian boxer (d. 1971)
1930 - Earl Weaver, St Louis Mo, manager (Balt Orioles 1968-82, 85-86), (d. 2013)
1930 - Gerald B H Solomon, (Rep-R-New York, 1979- )
1930 - Lord Chorley, mountaineering enthusiast
1931 - Frederic Raphael, writer (After the War, California Time)
1931 - Marylyn Roberts, librarian/founding member (WIC)
1932 - Dom Philip Jebb, headmaster (Downside School Great Britain)
1932 - James V Hansen, (Rep-R-Utah, 1981- )
1932 - Lee Hoffman, American author (d. 2007)
1933 - Richard R. Ernst, Swiss chemist and Nobel Prize Laureate
1933 - Bryce Courtenay, Johannesburg, South Africa, Australian novelist (The Power of One), (d.
           2012)
1934 - Robin McLaren, British ambassador (China)
1936 - Trevor Bannister, British actor
1937 - Brian Fenelly, composer
1937 - Brian Curvis, Swansea, Wales, boxer, British welterweight champion (1960-1964), (d. 2012)
1938 - Betsy Cullen, LPGA golfer
1938 - Niara Sudarkasa, [Gloria M Clark], educator/pres (Lincoln College)
1938 - Stuart McKinnon, high court judge
1940 - Dash Crofts, Cisco Tx, singer (Seals & Crofts-Summer Breeze)
1940 - Galen Hall, WLAF Head Coach (Orlando Thunder, Rhein Fire)
1941 - Connie Smith, Elkhart, Indiana, singer (Dream Painter, New Horizons)
1941 - David Crosby, Los Angeles California, rocker (Crosby, Stills &amp; Nash-Southern Cross)
1941 - Peter Truscott, cricketer (one Test NZ v Pakistan 1965, 3 & 26)
1942 - Sandy Gilmour, Montclair NJ, newscaster (Prime Time Sunday)
1943 - Barrie Leadbeater, cricket umpire
1943 - Jon Andrew McBride, Charleston WV, Capt USN/astronaut (STS 41G)
1943 - Keith Hampson, MP
1943 - Ronald Campbell, MP
1944 - Robyn Smith Astaire, jockey/wife of Fred Astaire
1944 - Tim Bogert, Richfiled NJ, rock bassist (Vanilla Fudge) [or 8/27]
1945 - Brenda Benet, Hollywood, actress (Lee-Days of Our Lives, Beach Ball)
1945 - Cheryl Waltz, author/film producer
1945 - Jennifer d'Abo, CEO (Ryman, Moyses Stevens)
1945 - Steve Martin, comedian (Parenthood, Jerk, Roxanne)
1945 - Tony Scannel, actor (Bill, Blue Money) [or 1932]
1945 - Wim Wenders, West German director (American Friend, Hammett)
1946 - Alexander Curly, [Harm Breemer], Dutch artist
1946 - Antonio Fargas, Bronx NY, actor (Huggy Bear-Starsky & Hutch)
1946 - Larry Graham Jr, rocker (Graham Central Station-One in a Million You)
1946 - Marga van Praag, Dutch radio hostess
1946 - Susan Saint James, [Miller], LA CA, actress (McMillian & Wife)
1947 - Daniele Steel, NYC, author (Rememberance, Zoya, Star, Daddy)
1947 - George Newsome, rocker
1947 - Peter Christian, English actor
1947 - Danielle Steel, New York, American novelist (Wanderlust, The House)
1947 - Maddy Prior, English folk singer
1948 - Terry Adams, American musician (NRBQ)
1949 - John Tarrant, Tasmania, 1st Australian born Zen teacher
1949 - Bob Backlund, American wrestler
1950 - Gary Larson, Tacoma, Washington, cartoonist (Far Side)
1951 - Peter Blegvad, American musician (Slapp Happy)
1951 - Carl Lumbly, Minneapolis, Minnesota, American actor (Cagney & Lacey, Alias)
1952 - Debbie Meyer, Annapolis Md, 200m/400m/800m swimmer (Oly-3 gold-68)
1952 - Mark C Lee, Viroqua WI, Mjr USAF/astronaut (STS 30, 47, 64, 82,sk: 98)
1953 - James Horner, actor (Titanic, Apollo 13, Balto, Jade, Casper)
1953 - Cliff Johnson, American computer game author
1954 - Mark Fidrych, American baseball player
1956 - Sharon Bryant, vocalist (Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover)
1956 - Johnny Lever, Indian actor
1956 - Rusty Wallace, American race car driver
1957 - Jackee [Harry], Winston-Salem NC, actress (Sandra-227)
1957 - Gino Hernandez, American wrestler (d. 1986)
1958 - "Beautiful" Bobby Eaton, wrestler (SMW/ECW/NJPW/WCW, Midnight Express)
1959 - Earvin "Magic" Johnson, Mich, NBA Forward (LA Lakers/Olympic-gold-92)
1959 - Frank Brickowski, NBA forward/center (Seattle Supersonics)
1959 - Marcia Gay Harden, American actress
1960 - Broderick Thompson, NFL tackle/guard (Denver Broncos)
1960 - Fred Roberts, NBA forward (LA Lakers)
1960 - Sarah Brightman, actress/singer (Phantom of the Opera)
1960 - Cecilia Gasdia, Italian soprano
1961 - Susan Olson, Santa Monica California, actress (Cindy-Brady Bunch)
1961 - "Hot Stuff" Eddie Gilbert, American wrestler (d. 1995)
1962 - Jerry Foltz, Las Vegas NV, Nike golfer (1991 Pensacola Open-2nd)
1962 - Mark Gubicza, Philadelphia PA, pitcher (KC Royals)
1962 - Mark Robert Isfeld, combat engineer
1962 - Rameez Raja, cricketer (prolific Pakistani batsman)
1964 - Brannon Braga, American scriptwriter
1965 - Emmanuelle Seigner, Paris France, actress (The Smile)
1965 - Lynette Falls, Ridgewood NJ, Miss NJ-America-1991
1966 - David Hallyday, Boulougne France, actor (He's My Girl)
1966 - Halle Berry, American actress
1966 - Karl Petter Løken, Norwegian footballer
1968 - Glenn Leroy McLeay, Invercargill NZ, points race cyclist (Olympics-96)
1968 - Halle Berry, Cleve Ohio, Miss World USA (1986)/actress (Boomerang)
1968 - Praveen Amre, cricketer (Indian batsman, century on Test debut 1992)
1968 - Adrian Lester, English actor
1968 - Billy Mavreas, Greek-Canadian cartoonist
1969 - Stig Tøfting, Danish footballer
1969 - DJ Uncle Al, American hip-hop DJ (d. 2001)
1970 - Arno Doornernik, soccer player (Roda JC)
1970 - Slava Dosedel, Czech, tennis star
1970 - Susan Veasey, Wilmington DE, LPGA golfer (U of S Fla)
1970 - Trise Jackson, WNBA guard (LA Sparks)
1971 - Adam Timmerman, NFL guard (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1971 - Christopher R Nelloms, Dayton Ohio, sprinter
1971 - James Folston, NFL defensive end (Oakland Raiders)
1971 - Mark Loretta, Santa Monica CA, infielder (Milwaukee Brewers)
1971 - Pramodaya Wickremasinhghe, cricketer (Sri Lankan fast-medium bowler)
1971 - Sean Hill, NFL cornerback (Miami Dolphins)
1971 - Stan White, NFL/WLAF quarterback (NY Giants, London Monarchs)
1971 - Raoul Bova, Italian actor
1972 - Brian Gragert, WLAF punter (Amsterdam Admirals)
1972 - Ed O'Bannon, NBA forward (NJ Nets)
1972 - Evan Pilgrim, NFL guard (Chic Bears)
1972 - Katja Maaria Lehtd, ice hockey defenseman (Finland, Oly-98)
1972 - Ross Schulte, NFL/WLAF kicker/punter (Buffalo Bills, Frankfurt Galaxy)
1972 - Jay Manuel, Canadian make-up artist
1973 - Kieren Perkins, Australian free-style 1500m swimmer (world record)
1973 - Mike Mamula, NFL linebacker/defensive end (Philadelphia Eagles)
1973 - Nancy Sweetnam, Lindsay Ontario, 400m swimmer (Olympics-7-92, 96)
1973 - Romane Bohringer, Pont-Sainte-Maxene France, actress (Savage Nights)
1973 - Wayne Chrebet, NFL wide receiver (NY Jets)
1973 - Jay-Jay Okocha, Nigerian footballer
1973 - Jared Borgetti, Mexican footballer
1973 - Daisuke Ishiwatari, Japanese game developer and composer
1974 - Chucky Atkins, American basketball player
1974 - Martin Bulloch, Scottish musician (Mogwai)
1974 - Christopher Gorham, American actor
1974 - Ana Matronic, American singer (Scissor Sisters)
1975 - Mike Vrabel, defensive end (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1975 - Viaceslav Ivanovski, Israel, Men's Weightlifting 99kg
1976 - Alex Albrecht, American actor
1976 - Maya Nasri, Lebanese actress and singer
1976 - Steve Braun, Canadian actor
1977 - Juan Pierre, American baseball player
1978 - Anastasios Kyriakos, Greek footballer
1978 - Kate Ritchie, Australian actress
1979 - Yoichiro Morikawa, Japanese film director
1979 - Paul Burgess, Australian athlete
1980 - Estrella Morente, Spanish flamenco singer
1980 - Roy Williams, American football player
1981 - Matthew Etherington, English footballer
1981 - Julius Jones, American football player
1983 - Elena Baltacha, Ukrainian/British tennis player
1983 - Mila Kunis, Ukrainian/American actress
1983 - Leo Núñez, Dominican baseball player
1984 - Clay Buchholz, American baseball player
1984 - Josh Gorges, Canadian ice hockey player
1984 - Nick Grimshaw, English DJ/Television presenter
1985 - Christian Gentner, German footballer
1986 - Terin Humphrey, American gymnast
1987 - Tim Tebow, American football player
1988 - Shahd Barmada, Syrian singer
1989 - Kyle Turris, Canadian ice hockey player
1990 - Jaydee Bixby, Canadian singer

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 14, 2013, 09:43:44 AM

This Day in History for 14th August


Famous Deaths

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US Civil War Admiral                                   Newspaper Publisher
David Farragut (1870)                            William Randolph Hearst (1951)


582 - Tiberius II Constantine, Byzantine Emperor
1167 - Raynald van Dassel, archbishop of Cologne, dies
1204 - Minamoto no Yoriie, Japanese shogun (b. 1182)
1390 - John FitzAlan, 2nd Baron Arundel, English soldier (b. 1364)
1433 - Johan I, king of Portugal (1383-1433), dies at 76
1573 - Saitō Tatsuoki, Japanese warlord (b. 1548)
1587 - Gugliemo Gonzaga, composer, dies at 49
1652 - Abraham Elsevier, book publisher/publisher, dies at 60
1691 - Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnel, Irish rebel (b. 1630)
1704 - Roland Laporte, French Protestant leader (b. 1675)
1727 - William Croft, composer, dies at 48
1763 - Giovanni Battista Somis, composer, dies at 76
1774 - Johann Jakob Reiske, German physician (b. 1716)
1778 - Augustus Montague Toplady, hymn writer (Rock of Ages), dies
1784 - Nathaniel Hone, Irish-born painter (b. 1718)
1785 - John William Fletcher, evangelist, dies
1788 - Thomas Sheridan, actor/biographer/lexicographer (Intelligencer), dies
1794 - George Colman, the Elder, playwright, dies
1833 - Luigi Cagnola, architect, dies
1834 - Friedrich Christian Ruppe, composer, dies at 63
1844 - Henry Francis Cary, translator (Dante), dies
1856 - William Buckland, dean (Westminster)/geologist, dies
1856 - Constant Prévost, French geologist (b. 1787)
1858 - George Combe, phrenologist, dies
1860 - André Marie Constant Duméril, French zoologist (b. 1774)
1863 - Colin Campbell, British officer (Cawnpore), dies at 70
1867 - Niccola Benvenuti, composer, dies at 84
1870 - David Farragut, American Admiral (&quot;Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!&quot;), dies
           at 69
1874 - Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, American politician (b. 1821)
1884 - Arnoldus Pannevis, South African shipping agent/linguist, dies at 46
1887 - Richard Jeffries, naturalist/essayist, dies
1891 - Johnny Mullagh, cricketer (Aboriginal tourist 1868), dies
1905 - Mohammed Abdoe, Egyptian writing expert (Al'Oerwah al-Woethka), dies
1905 - Simeon Solomon, British artist (b. 1840)
1922 - Alfred CW Harmsworth, 1st viscount Northcliffe/newspaper magnate, dies
1923 - Jacob T Cremer, pres (Dutch Handel-Mij), dies at 76
1926 - John H. Moffitt, American politician (b. 1843)
1928 - Klabund, [Alfred Henschke], German writer (Spuk/Rasputin), dies at 37
1932 - Rin Tin Tin, US Hollywood-dog, dies
1936 - Rainey Bethea, hanged, last US public execution
1937 - Sapper, British soldier/novelist (Bull-Dog Drummond), dies at 48
1938 - Hugh Trumble, cricketer (32 Tests for Australia, 141 wickets), dies
1938 - J J Kelly, cricketer (36 Tests for Aust 1896-1905, stumped 20), dies
1938 - Landon Ronald, composer/pianist, dies at 65
1941 - Josef Jakobs, German spy, executed in Tower of London
1941 - Saint Maximilian Kolbe, Polish martyr (b. 1894)
1943 - Joe Kelley, American baseball player (b. 1871)
1946 - Susan St James, [Susan Jane Miller], Los Angeles California, actress (Kate &amp; Allie)
1949 - Husni al-Barazi, premier of Syria, shot to death
1949 - Husni el-Zaim, president/dictator of Syria, shot to death
1951 - William Randolph Hearst, newspaper publisher, dies in Beverly Hills aged 88
1955 - Fiske Kimball, US architect/art historian, dies at 66
1955 - Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress (b. 1861)
1956 - Bertold Brecht, German writer (Mother Courage), dies at 58
1956 - Freiherr Constantine von Neurath, German foreign min (1932-38), dies
1958 - Big Bill Broonzy, rocker, dies of cancer at 65
1958 - Frederic Joliot-Curie, French nuclear physicist (Nobel 1936), dies
1958 - Gladys L Presley, mom of Elvis, dies at 46
1958 - Mary Ritter Beard, American historian, dies at 82
1958 - Konstantin von Neurath, German diplomat (b.1873)
1961 - Clarke Ashton Smith, sci-fi author (Lost Worlds), dies at 68
1961 - Guido Alberto Fano, composer, dies at 86
1961 - Henri-Edouard-Prosper Breuil, priest/archaeologist, dies
1963 - Clifford Odets, US playwright (Golden Boy), dies at 57
1964 - Johnny Burnette, rocker, drowns at 30
1965 - Jan van Nijlen, Flemish poet/writer (Walk at Dawn), dies
1966 - S J "Tip" Snooke, South African cricket all-rounder (26 Tests 1905-23), dies
1967 - Bob Anderson, British racing driver (b. 1931)
1969 - Leonard Sidney Woolf, English publisher/writer, dies at 88
1969 - Sigrid Gurie, actor (3 Faces West, Algiers), dies at 58
1970 - Vano Il'ich Muradeli, composer, dies at 62
1971 - Georg von Opel, German auto manufacturer, dies at 59
1972 - Jules Romains, French novelist (Death of Nobody), dies at 86
1972 - Oscar Levant, actor (American in Paris, Dance of Life), dies at 65
1972 - Pierre Brasseur, French actor (Quai des Brumes), dies at 66
1975 - Joris Baers, Flemish bibliographer (founder Boekengids), dies at 87
1978 - Nicolas Bentley, British writer (b. 1907)
1980 - Dorothy Stratten, Playmate, murdered by boyfriend Paul Snider
1981 - Dudley Nourse, cricketer (34 Tests for South Africa, 2960 runs), dies
1981 - Karl Böhm, Austrian conductor (b. 1894)
1982 - Patrick Magee, Irish actor (Clockwork Orange, King Lear), dies at 60
1984 - John Boynton Priestley, English, stagewriter (Magicians), dies at 89
1984 - Peter Charles Arthur Wishart, composer, dies at 63
1984 - Tigran Petroshan, Russian chess grand master, dies at 55
1985 - Gale Sondergaard, actress (Letter), dies of cerebral thrombosis at 86
1988 - Enzo Ferrari, Italy, sportscar manufacturer (Ferrari), dies at 90
1988 - Roy Buchanan, American guitarist (b. 1939)
1991 - Douglas Kiker, newscaster (NBC-TV), dies of a heart attack at 61
1991 - Alberto Crespo, Argentine racing driver (b. 1920)
1992 - Alexander Rosemeier, Indonesian/Dutch painter, dies at 104
1992 - Flora SA Benson, US, wife of pres Ezra Taft B of mormon church, dies
1992 - John J Sirica, US, judge (Watergate), dies at 88
1992 - Marion P Ames, US, advocate/activist, dies
1992 - Tony Williams, US, singer (Platters-Great Pretender), dies at 64
1994 - Bill Cowley, creator (Lyke Wake Walk), dies at 78
1994 - Elias Canetti, Bulgaria/British author (Nobel 1981), dies at 89
1994 - Joan Harrison, English producer/Alfred Hitchcock's sect, dies at 83
1994 - Patrick Meehan, petty Criminal, dies at 67
1994 - Tom Greenshields, sculptor, dies at 79
1995 - Joseph Fattorini, businessman, dies at 82
1996 - Camilla Horn, actress (Rebus, Vertigine, Matinee Idol), dies at 93
1996 - Sergiu Celibidache, conductor, dies at 84
1996 - Uzo Egonu, painter/print maker, dies at 64
1999 - Pee Wee Reese, American baseball player (b. 1918)
2000 - Alain Fournier, French-born computer graphics researcher (b. 1943)
2000 - Cuan McCarthy, South African cricketer (b. 1929)
2002 - Dave Williams, American singer (Drowning Pool) (b. 1972)
2003 - Helmut Rahn, German footballer (b. 1929)
2004 - Trevor Skeet, New Zealand-born British politician (b. 1918)
2004 - Czesław Miłosz, Polish-born writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1911)
2005 - Coo Coo Marlin, American race car driver (b. 1932)
2006 - Bruno Kirby, American actor (b. 1949)
2007 - Tikhon Khrennikov, Russian composer (b. 1913)
2010 - Herman Leonard, American photographer (b. 1923)
2010 - Tahar Wattar, Algerian novelist (b. 1936)
2011 - Shammi Kapoor, Indian actor and director (b. 1931)
2012 - Ron Palillo, American actor, dies from a heart attack at 63
2012 - Phyllis Thaxter, American actress, dies from Alzheimer's disease at 92

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 15, 2013, 09:50:52 AM

This Day in History for 15th August


Historical Events

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Roman Emperor Charlemagne             French President Charles de Gaulle            Hall of Fame MLB shortstop
                                                                                                                             Ernie Banks

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Anti-apartheid activist/
South African President
 Nelson Mandela


778 - Battle of Roncevaux Pass: Roland, commander of the rear guard of Charlemagne's army is
         defeated by the Basques
927 - The Saracens conquer and destroy Taranto.
1040 - King Duncan I is killed in battle against his first cousin and rival Macbeth. The latter succeeds
           him as King of Scots.
1057 - King Macbeth is killed at the Battle of Lumphanan by the forces of Máel Coluim mac
           Donnchada.
1185 - The cave city of Vardzia is consecrated by Queen Tamar of Georgia.
1308 - Johannieter knights conquer Rhodos on the Greece
1457 - Earliest dated book, "Mainz Psalter," completed
1461 - The Empire of Trebizond surrenders to the forces of Sultan Mehmet II. This is regarded by
           some historians as the real end of the Byzantine Empire. Emperor David is exiled and later
           murdered.
1517 - Seven Portuguese armed vessels led by Fernão Pires de Andrade meet Chinese officials at the
           Pearl River estuary.
1519 - Panama City founded
1534 - Ignatius of Loyola forms society of Jesus/Jesuits
1537 - Asunción, Paraguay, is founded.
1540 - Arequipa, Peru, is founded.
1548 - Mary queen of Scotland (6) arrives in France
1549 - Jesuit priest Saint Francis Xavier comes ashore at Kagoshima (Traditional Japanese date: July
           22, 1549).
1599 - Nine Years War: Battle of Curlew Pass - Irish forces led by Hugh Roe O'Donnell successfully
           ambush English forces, led by Sir Conyers Clifford, sent to relieve Collooney Castle.
1620 - Mayflower sets sail from Southampton with 102 Pilgrims
1635 - 1st recorded US hurricane hit the Plymouth Colony
1653 - -16] Dutch ship "Sperwer" stranded at Tsjedzjoe Korea
1658 - France/Sweden/Bavarian/Brunswick/Munster/Hessen-Kassel form Rijnbond
1668 - Rijnbond disbands
1684 - Spain & Germany sign cease fire with France
1741 - French troops attack the Rhine
1748 - United Lutheran Church of US organized
1760 - Battle at Leignitz: Prussia beats Austria & Russia
1785 - French cardinal De Rohan arrested
1795 - Joseph Haydn leaves England forever
1824 - Freed American slaves forms country of Liberia
1832 - Gregory XVI encyclical On liberalism & religious indifferentism
1843 - National black convention meets (Buffalo NY)
1843 - Tivoli Park in Copenhagen opens
1848 - M Waldo Hanchett patents dental chair
1858 - Regular mail to Pacific coast begins
1861 - Lincoln directs reinforcements to be sent to MO
1863 - Submarine "HL Hunley" arrives in Charleston on railroad cars
1863 - The Anglo-Satsuma War begins between the Satsuma Domain of Japan and the United
           Kingdom (Traditional Japanese date: July 2, 1863).
1864 - Off New England coast, CSS Tallahassee captures 6 yankee schooners
1867 - 2nd Reform Bill extends suffrage in England
1869 - The Meiji government in Japan establishes six new ministries, including one for Shinto.
1870 - Transcontinental Railway actually completed in Colorado
1876 - US law removes Indians from Black Hills after gold find
1886 - Guy Hecker scores 7 runs in 1 game
1891 - San Sebastian Church in Manila, the first all-steel church in Asia, is officially inaugurated and
           blessed.
1892 - 4th & last British government of Gladstone forms
1893 - US no longer allowed exclusive rights in Bering Sea
1899 - Louisville's Henry Dowling struck out 5 times in a game
1901 - Arch Rock, danger to Bay shipping, blasted with 30 tons of nitro
1905 - Phila A's Rube Waddell no-hits St Louis Browns, 2-0 in 5 innings
1906 - 1st freight delivery tunnel system begins, underneath Chicago
1911 - Procter & Gamble unveils its Crisco shortening
1912 - Yankee Guy Zinn sets record by stealing home twice in a game
1914 - 13th Davis Cup: Australasia beats USA in New York (3-2)
1914 - Dinant Belgium destroyed by German bombs
1914 - German assault at Dinant: Lt Charles de Gaulle (24), injured
1914 - Japan joins side of allies
1914 - Panama Canal opens (under cost)
1914 - A male servant of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright sets fire to the living quarters of the
           architect's Wisconsin home, Taliesin, murders seven people and burns the living quarters to
           the ground.
1915 - Journalist Albert Siegfried Bettelheim, convicted of murder in Georgia
1918 - 1st full length cartoon (Sinking of Lusitania)
1918 - Russia severs diplomatic ties with US
1923 - Eamon de Valera arrested in Irish Free State
1923 - Mexico & US reaches accord over oil concession of 1917
1925 - Norway annexes Spitsbergen
1925 - White Sox Dickie Kerr, 1st appearance since winning 2 world series games in 1919
1931 - Ernest Lassy completes longest canoe journey without port (6,102 mi)
1931 - Roy Wilkins joined NAACP as asst secretary
1931 - Spakenburg soccer team forms
1939 - "Wizard of Oz" premieres at Grauman's Chinese Theater, Hollywood
1939 - In 1st night game at Comiskey Park, Sox beat Browns 5-2
1939 - 13 Stukas dive into the ground during a disastrous air-practice at Neuhammer. No survivors.
1940 - 1st edition of Jewish Weekly newspaper in Amsterdam (under Nazi)
1940 - Heavy dogfights above England: 75 German aircrafts damaged
1941 - Kovono Lithuanian Jews are herded into Slobodka ghetto
1942 - 5 hostages executed by Nazis in St-Michielsgestel
1943 - Allies land on Kiska Aleutians
1944 - Allied air raid on train in North Netherlands, 32 killed
1944 - German field marshal von Kluge vanishes for one day
1944 - Operation Anvil: Allies land on French Mediterranean sea coast
1944 - Operation Dragoon: Allied troops land in Provence
1944 - US 12 Army corp enters Le Mans through Orleans
1944 - US 7th Armour division reaches Chartres
1945 - A riot ensued in SF while the city was celebrating the end of WW II
1945 - South Korea liberated from Japanese rule
1945 - US wartime rationing of gasoline & fuel oil ends
1945 - Chandler sells World Series radio rights for $150,000 to Gillette, Ford had been World Series 
           sponsor since 1934, pay $100,000 annually
1945 - World War II: Korean Liberation Day.
1947 - India declares independence from UK, Islamic part becomes Pakistan
1947 - Pakistan (formerly West Pakistan) declares independence from UK
1948 - 3rd US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Babe Didrikson-Zaharias
1948 - Republic of Korea (South Korea) proclaimed (National Day)
1949 - WOTV TV channel 8 in Grand Rapids, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting
1950 - 8.6 earthquake in India kills 20,000 to 30,000
1950 - Ezzard Charles TKOs Freddie Beshore in 14 for heavyweight boxing title
1950 - Indians make their 1st triple play at Cleveland Stadium
1950 - Indies Constitution goes into effect
1950 - Joseph Pholien becomes Belgian premier
1950 - Pres Sukarno proclaims unity of Indonesia
1950 - Rotterdam harbor strike begins
1950 - Srikakulam district is formed in Andhra Pradesh, India.
1952 - 19th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Los Angeles 10, All-Stars 7 (88,316)
1952 - 9" of rain fall creates a 20' wave in Lynmouth, England killing 34
1954 - Alfredo Stroessner names himself president of Paraguay
1954 - WCHS TV channel 8 in Charleston-Huntington, WV (ABC) begins
1955 - WXEX TV channel 8 in Richmond-Petersburg, VA (ABC) begins
1955 - Hurricane Connie dissipates after killing 43 in NC, SC, Virginia & Maryland
1957 - David Simons reaches 30,942 m in Man High 2 balloon
1957 - USAF Capt Joe B Jordan reaches 31,513 m in F-104 jet fighter
1958 - 25th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 35, Detroit 19 (70,000)
1958 - Marshal Boelganin resigns as director of Staatsbank
1958 - Soviet Marshal Bulganin resigns as director of State Bank
1960 - CFL's Calgary Stampeders move into McMahon Stadium
1960 - Chic Bears beat NY Giants 16-7 in Toronto (NFL expo)
1960 - Congo (formerly Congo/Brazzaville) declares Independence from France
1960 - Mil Brave Lew Burdette no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 1-0
1960 - UFO is sighted by 3 California patrolmen
1961 - Keiyo Road is specified as the first driveway in Japan.
1962 - Netherlands & Indonesia signs accord about New Guinea
1962 - Shady Grove Baptist Church burned in Leesburg Georgia
1963 - Fulbert Youlou, resigns as Pres of Congo-Brazzaville
1964 - Fred Trueman takes 300th Test Cricket wicket (Neil Hawke)
1964 - Mayor Daley declares "Ernie Banks Day" in Chicago
1964 - Phillies triple-play NY Mets
1964 - Race riot in Dixmoor (Chicago suburb) Ill
1964 - Ralph Boston of US, sets then long jump record at 27' 3½"
1965 - 47th PGA Championship: Dave Marr shoots a 280 at Laurel Valley GC PA
1965 - Beatles play to 55,000 at Shea Stadium
1965 - Mary Mills wins LPGA St Louis Golf Open
1965 - Japanese community of SF holds Masanori Murakami Day at Candlestick Park to honor 1st
           Japanese player to play in major leagues
1966 - Radio Free Asia (South Korea) begins radio transmission
1967 - Pope Paul VI publishes constitution Regimini Ecclesiae Universae
1967 - England's Marine Offense Bill makies pirate radio stations a crime goes into effect, pirate
           station Radio 355 closes down
1968 - Pirate Radio Free London, begins transmitting
1968 - Romanian president Ceausescu visits Prague
1968 - USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR
1969 - Woodstock Music & Art Fair opens in NY State (Max Yasgur's Dairy Farm)
1970 - Patricia Palinkas becomes 1st woman pro football player (Orlando)
1971 - Bahrain gains independence from Britain
1971 - Charles Lismont wins Helsinki marathon (2:13:09.0)
1971 - KVRL (now KRIV) TV ch 26 in Shreveport-Texarkana, LA (NBC) begins
1971 - Pres Nixon announces 90-day freeze on wages, prices & rents
1971 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Len Immke Buick Golf Open
1973 - Black September kills 3 wounds 55 Athens
1973 - David Storey's "Cromwell," premieres in London
1973 - USSR performs nuclear test
1974 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1974 - Hurricane/floods ravage Bangladesh, 4,000 killed
1974 - Longest team (6) trampoline bouncing marathon (1,248 hours (52 days))
1974 - South Korean President Park Chung-Hee escapes assassination
1975 - Bangladesh military coup under Khondakar Moustaque Ahmed
1975 - Joanne Little acquitted of murder charges
1975 - Miki Takeo makes the first official pilgrimage to Yasukuni Shrine by an incumbent prime
           minister on the anniversary of the end of World War II.
1976 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Wheeling Golf Classic
1977 - England regain cricket Ashes by taking a 3-0 series lead over Aust
1977 - SS chief Kappler escapes from prison hospital in Rome
1978 - House of Reps approves (233-169), 39-month extension for ERA
1979 - Andrew Young resigns as UN ambassador
1981 - Botham scores a century in 86 balls v Australia at Old Trafford
1981 - Robin Leamy of US swims record 7.98 kph for 50 m
1982 - Beth Daniel wins LPGA WUI Golf Classic
1982 - Equatorial Guinea adopts constitution
1983 - Ramones guitarist Joey Ramone, beaten in fight-undergoes brain surgery
1984 - The PKK in Turkey starts a campaign of armed attacks upon the Turkish military
1985 - Iraqi air raid on Iran oil-island Kharg
1986 - Pres Reagan decides to support a replacement for Challenger
1987 - US beats Cuba in Pan-Am baseball
1987 - At Pan Am games in Indianapolis, USA & Cuba are tied with 2 outs in 9th, Ty Griffin HR, Cuba
           1st loss in 20 years of Pan Am competition
1988 - "Ain't Misbehavin'" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 176 perfs
1988 - At 4PM LILCO consumers used a record 3,813 megawatts
1988 - NYC begins $70 million program to rebuild 900 Bronx apartments
1989 - Cancer sufferer/SF Giant pitcher Dave Dravecky breaks arm on mound
1989 - Frederik de Klerk becomes president of South Africa
1989 - Giorgio Lamberti swims world record 200m free style (1:46.69)
1989 - US Venus probe Magellan launched from Space shuttle
1989 - In 2nd start since after cancer treatment, Giants Dave Dravecky breaks his pitching arm while
           throwing to Tim Raines
1990 - 51st PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Gary Player
1990 - Mark McGwire is 1st to hit 30 HRs in each of his 1st 4 seasons
1990 - Phils Terry Mulholland no-hits Giants 6-0 (8th no hitter of 1990)
1991 - 750,000 attend Paul Simon's free concert in Central Park
1991 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1992 - Colombo '92 closes in Genoa Italy
1993 - "Goodbye Girl" closes at Marquis Theater NYC after 188 performances
1993 - 75th PGA Championship: Paul Azinger shoots a 272 at Inverness Club Oh
1993 - Cindy Schreyer wins LPGA Sun-Time Challenge Golf Tournament
1993 - NYC radio (WFAN) personality Don Imus' lung collapes for 2nd time
1993 - Nolan Ryan, 324th & final victory, Rangers 4, Indians 1
1993 - Televangelist Robert Tilton announces he is divorcing Marte
1994 - South African President Nelson Mandela receives Anne Frank Penning
1994 - Terrorist Carlos the Jackal, captured in Khartoum Sudan
1995 - Keylee Sue Sanders, 18, of Kansas, crowned 13th Miss Teen USA
1997 - Dan Wilson hits Seattle Mariners 3,000th HR
1997 - Dow Jones drops 247.37 pts
1997 - LA Dodgers retire Tommy Lasorda's #2
1998 - Omagh bomb in Northern Ireland, the worst terrorist incident of The Troubles
1999 - Beni Ounif massacre in Algeria; some 29 people are killed at a false roadblock near the
           Moroccan border, leading to temporary tensions with Morocco.
2004 - Bay of Plenty win Rugby Union's Ranfurly shield for the first time in the shield's 102 year
           history and after 28 unsuccessful challenges. They defeated Auckland. 33-26
2007 - An 8.0-magnitude earthquake off the Pacific coast devastates Ica and various regions of Peru
           killing 514 and injuring 1,090.

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 15, 2013, 12:03:28 PM

This Day in History for 15th August


Famous Weddings

1958 - Buddy Holly weds Maria Santiago
1985 - Anti-apartheid lawyer Bulelani Ngcuka marries in South Africa
1992 - Actress Susan Anton marries actor Jeff Lester
2004 - Fashion designer and socialite Nicky Hilton (21) weds businessman Todd Andrew Meister (33)
           at The Vegas Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas, Nevada
2009 - Charmed actress Alyssa Milano (39) weds CAA agent David Bugliari in Bernardsville, New
           Jersey

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 15, 2013, 12:15:15 PM

This Day in History for 15th August


Famous Birthdays

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French Emperor                                       Eagle Forum President                           Actor Ben Affleck (1972)
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769)                      Phyllis Schlafly (1924)


1171 - King Alfonso IX of Leon (d. 1230)
1195 - Anthony of Padua, Portuguese saint (d. 1231)
1432 - Luigi Pulci, Italy, poet (Morgante)
1575 - Bartol Kašić, Croatian writer and linguist (d. 1650)
1613 - Gilles Ménage, French scholar (d. 1692)
1619 - Hubertus Quellinus, [Quellien], Flemish cartoonist/copper plate
1688 - Frederick-William I, king of Prussia (1713-1740)
1702 - Francesco Zuccarelli, Italian rococo painter/etcher
1717 - Blind Jack, English roadbuilder (d. 1810)
1725 - Ferdinando Bertoni, composer
1727 - Johann Georg Holzbogen, composer
1736 - Johann Christoph Kellner, composer
1740 - Matthias Claudius, German poet (d. 1815)
1741 - Thomas Norris, composer
1769 - Napoleon Bonaparte, Corsica, resident of Elba (emperor of France 1804-13, 1814-15), (d.
           1821)
1771 - Walter Scott, Scotland, novelist/poet (Lady of Lake)
1776 - Gottlieb Schick, German painter (Apollo under the Hirten)
1776 - Ignaz Xaver von Seyfried, composer
1782 - Henri MG earl the Merode, Belgian revolutionary (Souvenirs)
1785 - Thomas De Quincey, England, writer (Confessions of English Opium Eater)
1787 - Alexander Aliabiev, composer
1788 - Carel SW van Hogendorp, Dutch colonial director
1794 - Elias M Fries, Swedish botanist (System mycologicum)
1803 - James Douglas, father of British Columbia
1813 - Jules Grévy, 2nd President of the French Third Republic (d. 1891)
1822 - Wilhelm Rust, composer
1823 - Orris Sanford Ferry, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1829 - Eduard de Hartog, composer
1839 - Hugh Archibald Clarke, composer
1845 - Walter Crane, England, painter/illustrator (Beauty & Beast)
1851 - [Georgette A] Helena Amelung, Dutch actress (Scapegoat)
1856 - J Keir Hardie, 1st Labour representative in British Parliament
1857 - Albert Ballin, German shipping tycoon (d. 1918)
1860 - Florence Kling DeWolfe Harding, 1st lady (1921-23)
1860 - Roosje Vos, Dutch union organizer
1860 - Henrietta Vinton Davis, American elocutionist (d. 1941)
1863 - Alexei Krylov, Russian engineer and mathematician (d. 1945)
1865 - Johan[nes] B Schepers, Frisian writer (Braga)
1865 - Usui Mikao, Japanese founder of Reiki (d. 1926)
1872 - Harold Fraser-Simson, composer
1872 - Rubin Goldmark, composer
1874 - Joseph Klausner, Polish/Israeli new testament expert
1875 - Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, London, composer (Hiawatha's Wedding Feast)
1876 - Aleksandar Belic, Serb linguist
1878 - Pjotr N Wrangel, Russian baron/general (White Armies, WW II)
1879 - Ethel Barrymore, Phila, actress (Constant Wife, Corn is Green)
1881 - Alfred Wagenknecht, German-born American activist (d. 1956)
1883 - Ivan Meštrović, Croatian sculptor (d. 1962)
1885 - Andrey Filippovich Pashchenko, composer
1885 - Edna Ferber, American author & playwright (American Beauty, Cimarron) (d. 1968)
1885 - Mary Nash, Troy NY, actress (Phila Story, Till the Clouds Roll By)
1886 - Bill Whitty, cricketer (Australian left-arm bowler 1909-12)
1888 - Albert Spalding, composer
1888 - T E Lawrence Tremadoc, [Lawrence of Arabia], Wales, soldier/writer
1890 - Jacques Ibert, Paris France, composer (Escales)
1890 - Elizabeth Bolden, American Supercentenarian (d. 2006)
1892 - Knud Christian Jeppesen, composer
1892 - Louis-Victor prince of Broglie, France, physicist (Nobel 1929)
1893 - Alexander Vasil'yevich Gauk, composer
1893 - Harlow H Curtice, pres of General Motors (1953-8)
1893 - Leslie Comrie, New Zealand astronomer and computing pioneer (d. 1950)
1896 - Catherine Doherty, Russian-born Canadian activist (d. 1985)
1897 - Marion Eugene Bauer, composer
1898 - Lillian Carter, Pres Carter's (1977-1981) mom
1898 - Jan Brzechwa, Polish poet (d. 1966)
1900 - Estelle Brody, NYC, actress (Safari, Kitty, Plaything)
1901 - Arias Arnulfo, 3 time president of Panama (1940-41, 49-51, 68)
1901 - Byron Arnold, composer
1901 - Hans Lorbeer, writer
1901 - Sulho Ranta, composer
1901 - Pyotr Sergeyevich Novikov, Russian mathematician (d. 1975)
1902 - Jan RT Campert, writer (Song the 18 dead)
1904 - Bill Baird, Grand Is Nebr, puppeteer (Kukla Fran & Ollie, Muppet Show)
1906 - Finn Videro, composer
1907 - Paul Vincze, medallist
1909 - Raymond O'Malley, teacher
1910 - Hugo Winterhalter, composer
1910 - Josef Klaus, Chancellor of Austria (1966-70)
1910 - Signe Hasso, actress (QB VII, Taxi 13, Black Bird, Crisis)
1912 - Julia Child, Pasadena California, chef (French Chef)
1912 - Wendy Hiller, England, actress (Major Barbara, David Copperfield)
1912 - Wijnanda M C "Nan" Aberson, friend of Gerard Reve Sr
1914 - Peter Nicholson Gunn, writer
1915 - Alma Gardeslan, Surinamese/Dutch folklorist
1915 - Kamiel van Baelen, Flemish author/resistance fighter (Mensch op Weg)
1915 - Signe Hasso, Stockholm Sweden, actress (Johnny Angel, Double Life)
1916 - Aleks Çaçi, Albanian writer
1917 - Jack Lynch, Irish politician, fourth Taoiseach (d. 1999)
1917 - Oscar Romero, El Salvador Roman catholic priest (d. 1980)
1918 - Florian Zabach, Chicago, American musician and TV personality (Hot Canary, Club Embassy)
1918 - Fay Honey Knopp, activist
1918 - Raymond Gallois-Montbrun, composer
1919 - Huntz Hall, NYC, actor (Cyclone, Gas Pump Girls, The Rating Game)
1919 - Benedict Kiely, Irish author
1922 - Lukas Foss, [Fuchs], Berlin Germany, composer (Prairie)
1923 - Rose Marie, NYC, actress (Sally Rogers-Dick Van Dyke Show)
1923 - Simon Peres, [Persky], premier of Israel
1924 - Phyllis Schlafly, St Louis, right-winger/Eagle Forum president
1924 - Robert Oxton Bolt, playwright (Man for All Seasons, Dr Zhivago)
1925 - Billy Pinkney, Sumter NC, rock bassist/vocalist (Drifters)
1925 - Gertrude Shope, South African head (ANC female section)
1925 - Mike Connors, [Krekor Ohanian], Fresno, California, actor (Mannix)
1925 - Rose Marie, actress/comedienne (Sally Rogers-Dick Van Dyke Show)
1926 - Georgiann Johnson, Decorah Iowa, actress (Marge-Mr Peepers)
1926 - Lewis T Preston, banker
1926 - Lyutsian Abramovich Prigozhn, composer
1926 - Costis Stephanopoulos, Greek politician
1927 - Eddie Leadbeater, cricketer (England leg-spinner with an avg of 109)
1928 - Nicolas Roeg, London England, cinematographer/director (Aria, Eureka)
1930 - Ageeda Paavel, Estonian freedom fighter
1931 - Janice Rule, Norwood Ohio, actress (Alvarez Kelly, Doctor's Wife)
1931 - Mario Kuri-Aldana, composer
1932 - Robert L[ull] Forward, US, sci-fi author (Dragon's Egg, Starquake)
1933 - Bobby Helms, rock vocalist (Jingle Bell Rock)
1933 - Floyd Ashton, US singer (Tams-What Child of Fool)
1933 - Lori Nelson, Santa Fe NM, actress (Greta-How to Marry a Millionaire)
1934 - Reg Scarlett, WI cricket off-spinner (3 Tests 1960)
1934 - Valentin Stepanovich Varlamov, Russian cosmonaut
1934 - Nino Ferrer, French-Italian singer (d. 1998)
1935 - Abby Dalton, Las Vegas NV, actress (Joey Bishop Show)
1935 - Jim Dale, Rothwell England, Broadway actor (Barnum, My One & Only)
1935 - Vernon Eulion Jordan Jr, civil rights activist (National Urban League)
1937 - Ronnie G Flippo, (Rep-D-NY, 1977- )
1938 - Maxine Waters, (Rep-D-California)
1938 - Stephen Breyer, Supreme Court justice
1938 - Janusz A. Zajdel, Polish writer
1939 - H Onno C R Ruding, director (Amrobank)/Dutch Financial minister (CDA)
1939 - Herman van Keeken, Dutch singer (Daddy don't run so fast)
1940 - Gudrun Ensslin, German terrorist
1940 - Rita Shane, American soprano
1941 - Don Rich, Olympia Wash, guitarist/country singer (Hee Haw)
1941 - Viktor Mikhailovich Pisarev, Russian cosmonaut
1942 - Peter York, Cleve, rock drummer (Spencer Davis Group)
1942 - Larry Hartsell, American martial arts instructor (d. 2007)
1943 - Barbara Bouchet, Reichenberg Czech, actress (Casino Royale)
1943 - Eni F H Faleomavaega, (Rep-D-American Samoa)
1943 - María Rojo, Mexican actress and politician
1944 - Frederick Knight, US singer (I've been lonely so long)
1944 - Linda Ellerbee, Bryan Texas, newscaster (Weekend, NBC Overnight)
1944 - Tom Murphy, American politician
1944 - Sylvie Vartan, Bulgarian pop singer
1945 - Charlemagne Palestine, composer
1945 - Gene Upshaw, NFL guard (Oakland Radiers), NFLPA leader
1945 - Thomas C Sawyer, (Rep-D-Ohio)
1945 - Begum Khaleda Zia, Bangladeshi politician
1946 - Jimmy Webb, Elk City Oklahoma, songwriter (MacArthur Park, Up Up & Away)
1946 - Kathryn Jean Whitmire, Houston Texas, (4 time Mayor-Houston)
1946 - Tony Robinson, English actor and television presenter
1947 - Brian Hulls, British TV news cameraman
1947 - Geraldo Velez, jazz congas (Spyro Gyra-Morning Dance)
1947 - Manley Lanier "Sonny" Carter Jr, Macon Ga, USN/astro (STS 33)
1947 - Raakhee Gulzar, Indian actress
1948 - Patsy Gallant, Canadian pop singer
1948 - George Ryton, British engineer
1949 - Ann Ryerson, Wisc, actress (Pvt Carol Winter-Pvt Benjamin)
1949 - Carlien Brouwer, translator/missing since Jan 6, 1994
1949 - Kate Taylor, rocker
1949 - Beverly Lynn Burns, Americna pilot, first woman captain in the world on the Boeing 747
1949 - Richard Deacon, Welsh sculptor
1950 - Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise Windsor, Engl, Princess/olympic equestrian
1950 - Tess Harper, Mammoth Sp AR, actress (Amityville 3D, Tender Mercies)
1950 - Thomas Aldrich, country drummer (Black Oak Arkansas)
1950 - Billy Griffin [William], US singer (Miracles-Love Machine)
1950 - Tom Kelly, American baseball manager
1951 - Bobby Caldwell, NYC, rocker
1951 - John Childs, cricketer (England left-arm spinner, two Tests v WI 1988)
1951 - Daba Diawara, Malian politician
1951 - Ann Biderman, American film and television writer
1952 - Ger Hoeymakers, Dutch rock guitarist (Franc Boeijen Group)
1954 - Mary Jo Salter, American poet
1955 - Kenneth Carr, Clearwater Fla, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1976)
1955 - Larry Mathews, Burbank California, actor (Ritchie-Dick Van Dyke Show)
1956 - Gordon Bruks, England, Dr/cosmonaut
1956 - Vinny Denunzio, rocker
1956 - Lorraine Desmarais, French-Canadian jazz pianist and composer
1957 - Zeljko Ivanek, Lujubljana Yugoslavia, actor (Mass Appeal)
1958 - Victor Shenderovich, Russian satirist
1958 - Rondell Sheridan, American actor and comedian
1959 - Scott D Altman, Lincoln Ill, Lt Cmdr USN/astronaut (sk: STS 90)
1960 - Maureen "Peanut" Louie Harper, SF, tennis player (Denver-1985)
1960 - Ron van de Berg, soccer player (Sparta)
1960 - Tommy Aldridge, heavy metal rocker (Ozzy-Diary of a Mad Man)
1961 - Joan Delk, Tampa FL, LPGA golfer (1995 First Bank Edina Realty-66th)
1961 - Matt Johnson, rocker (The The-Infected Soul Mining)
1961 - Ed Gillespie, American White House counsel to George W. Bush
1961 - Gary Kubiak, American football coach
1962 - Bubby Brister, NFL quarterback (NY Jets, Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1962 - Igor Dorokhin, hockey forward (Team Kazakhstan Oly-1998)
1962 - Tom Colicchio, American chef
1963 - Greg Adams, Nelson, NHL left wing (Dallas Stars)
1963 - Jack Russell, superb England cricket wicket-keeper (36 Tests 1988-94)
1963 - Lydia Czuckermann-Hatuel, Israel, Women's foil fencer (Oly-1996)
1963 - Alejandro González Iñárritu, Mexican film director
1964 - Debi Mazar, Queens NY, actress (Civil Wars, Little Man Tate, LA Law)
1964 - Melinda French Gates, American wife of Bill Gates
1965 - Jon Evans, Nottimgham England, Australasia golfer
1965 - Rob Thomas, American writer
1966 - Fred Strickland, linebacker (Dallas Cowboys)
1966 - Leo Goeas, guard (Baltimore Ravens)
1966 - Shirley Kwan, Hong Kong singer
1967 - Mike James, Ft Walton FL, pitcher (California Angels)
1967 - Moulay Brahim Boutaib, Morocco, 10k runner (Olympic-gold-1988)
1967 - Neil Wilkinson, Selkirk, NHL defenseman (Pitts Penguins)
1967 - Peter Hermann American actor
1968 - Luciana Bemvenuti, Porto Alegre Brazil, golfer (1994 Jamie Farr-36th)
1968 - Vassili Pankov, NHL forward (Team Belarus, Oly-98)
1968 - Debra Messing, American actress
1969 - Eric Bieniemy, NFL running back (Cin Bengals)
1969 - James Black, Regina, NHL center (Chicago Blackhawks)
1969 - Mark Heese, Toronto Ontario, beach volleyballer (Olympics-bronze-96)
1969 - Pavel Kamentsev, hockey forward (Team Kazakhstan Oly-1998)
1969 - Yancey Thigpen, NFL wide receiver (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1969 - Cris Judd, American actor/choreographer
1970 - Dawn Ponte, Kent RI, dance skater (& Frey-1995 Eastern Jr champ)
1970 - Anthony Anderson, American comedian and actor
1970 - Maddie Corman, American actress
1970 - Ben Silverman, American TV executive
1971 - Perry Carter, NFL cornerback (KC Chiefs)
1971 - Priscilla Taylor, Miami FLA, playmate (Mar, 1996)
1972 - Ben Affleck, Berkeley California, actor (Armageddon, Pearl Harbor)
1972 - Freddie Solomon, NFL wide receiver (Philadelphia Eagles)
1972 - Jason Maniecki, defensive tackle (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1972 - Ken Walter, punter (Carolina Panthers)
1972 - Mikey Graham, Dublin Ireland, Irish singer (Boyzone)
1972 - Chris Morrissey, American film director/actor
1972 - Matthew Wood, American actor and sound editor
1973 - Marcus Jones, defensive tackle (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1974 - Ramon Morel, Villa Gonzalez Dom Rep, pitcher (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1974 - Natasha Henstridge, Canadian actress
1975 - Bert Berry, linebacker (Indianapolis Colts)
1975 - Jurgen Dirkx, soccer player (PSV)
1975 - Bertrand Berry, American football player
1975 - Vijay Bharadwaj, Indian cricketer
1976 - Boudewijn Send, soccer player (PSV)
1976 - Ger Unterluggauer, hockey defenseman (Team Austria 1998)
1977 - Martin Biron, Canadian ice hockey goaltender
1977 - Igor Cassina, Italian gymnast
1977 - Nicole Paggi, American actress
1978 - Tim Foreman, American bassist (Switchfoot)
1978 - Stavros Tziortziopoulos, Greek footballer
1978 - Lilia Podkopayeva, Ukrainian gymnast
1978 - Kerri Walsh, American beach volleyball player
1979 - Carl Edwards, American NASCAR driver
1980 - Nathalie Press, English actress
1981 - Brendan Hansen, American swimmer
1981 - Song Ji-hyo, South Korean actress
1981 - Oliver Perez, American baseball player
1982 - Casey Burgener, American weightlifter
1989 - Belinda [Belinda Peregrín Schüll], Madrid, Spain, Mexican singer, songwriter and actress
1989 - Tiffanie Anderson, American singer, dancer
1989 - Joe Jonas, American singer (Jonas Brothers)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 15, 2013, 12:17:24 PM

This Day in History for 15th August


Famous Deaths 

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Humorist Will Rogers (1935)


69 - Servius Sulpicius Galba, 6th emperor of Rome (68-69), murdered
423 - Flavius Honorius, emperor East Roman Republic (395-423), dies
778 - Roland, Frankish commander
1038 - Stefanus I, [Arpad], 1st king of Hungary, dies
1040 - King Duncan I of Scotland
1057 - Macbeth, King of Scots, slain by son of King Duncan
1118 - Alexius I Comnenus, Emperor of Byzantium (1081-1118), dies
1196 - Conrad II, Duke of Swabia (b. 1173)
1274 - Robert de Sorbon, French theologian and founder of the Sorbonne (b. 1201)
1369 - Philippa of Hainault, Queen consort of Edward III of England
1464 - Pius II, [Aenea S Piccolomini], Italian Pope (1458-64), dies at 58
1528 - Odet de Foix, Vicomte de Lautrec, French military leader (b. 1485)
1552 - Hermann of Wied, German Catholic archbishop (b. 1477)
1576 - Baliny Valentin Bakfark, composer, dies
1600 - Johann Baptista Serranus, composer, dies at 60
1615 - Cornelis C Vrancx, Flemish poet/writer (Comfort of Soles), dies
1619 - Miriam Bella, head of Jewish community of Cracow, dies
1621 - John Barclay, Scottish writer (b. 1582)
1666 - Johann A Schall von Bell, German missionary/astronomer, dies
1714 - Constantin Brâncoveanu, Prince of Wallachia (b. 1654)
1725 - Gerard Noodt, lawyer, dies at 77
1728 - Marin Marias, composer, dies at 72
1729 - Benjamin Neukirch, German poet (Herrn von Hofmannswaldau), dies at 64
1758 - Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician (fotometrie), dies at 60
1798 - Felice Alessandri, composer, dies at 50
1799 - Giuseppe Parini, Italian poet (b. 1729)
1807 - Johann N Tetens, German/Danish philosopher/mathematician, dies at 70
1848 - Timothy Olmstead, composer, dies at 88
1852 - Johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist (discovered yttrium), dies at 92
1853 - Giovanni Battista Polledro, composer, dies at 72
1864 - Daniel Phineas Woodbury, US engineer/Union general-major, dies
1880 - Adelaide Neilson, English Actress (b. 1848)
1901 - Karl Weinhold, Germany, sociologist, dies at 77
1907 - Joseph Joachim, German violinist/composer, dies at 76
1909 - Euclides da Cunha, Brazilian writer and sociologist (b. 1866)
1914 - Anatol K Liadov, Russian composer (Baba yaga), dies at 59 [NS=Aug 28]
1915 - Albert Siegfried Bettelheim, Jew convicted of murder, lynched
1917 - Thomas J. Higgins, decorated Union Army soldier (b. 1831)
1918 - Peter Gast, composer, dies at 64
1925 - Konrad Mägi, Estonian artist (b. 1878)
1935 - Gerard Brucken Fock, composer, dies at 75
1935 - Wiley Post, aviation pioneer, killed in plane crash in Alaska at 36
1935 - Will Rogers, humorist, killed in plane crash in Alaska at 55
1936 - Grazia Deledda, Sardina/Italian author (Nobel 1926), dies at 64
1936 - Stanislaw Niewiadomski, composer, dies at 76
1945 - Korechika Anami, Japanese War Minister (b. 1887)
1951 - Artur Schnabel, Austria/US pianist (Reflections on Music), dies at 69
1953 - Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist (b. 1875)
1956 - Constantine Freiherr von Neurath, German foreign minister, dies at 83
1958 - William L C "Big Bill" Broonzy, US blues singer/guitarist, dies at 65
1959 - Blind Willie McTell, American ragtime singer and guitarist (b. 1901)
1962 - Lei Feng, Chinese revolutionary (b. 1940)
1963 - John Powell, composer, dies at 80
1966 - Gerhard/Gerhart Pohl, German writer (Battle of Kolbenau), dies at 64
1966 - Jan Kiepura, actor (Give Us this Night), dies of heart attack at 64
1966 - Seena Owen, actress/writer (Queen Kelly), dies at 71
1967 - René Magritte, Belgian surrealist painter, dies at 68
1968 - Edward Kilenyi, composer, dies at 84
1969 - Stijn Streuvels, [F Lateur], Flemish writer (Vlaschard), dies at 97
1970 - Karl August Andersen, composer, dies at 66
1971 - Paul Lukas, actor (Kim, Berlin Express), dies of heart failure at 76
1972 - Alf Thorbald Hurum, composer, dies at 89
1974 - Edmund Cobb, actor (Motorcycle Gang), dies at 82
1974 - Mrs Park Chung Hi, wife of South Korean president, murdered
1975 - Mujibur Rahiman, Pakistani sheik, killed in a military coup at 53
1975 - Clay Shaw, alleged John F. Kennedy assassination conspiracist & businessman (b. 1913)
1976 - Jean P J C Haesaert, Flemish lawyer/sociologist, dies at 84
1978 - Harrison Kerr, composer, dies at 80
1982 - Hugo Theorell, Swedish scientist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1903)
1983 - Anthony Costello, actor (Blue), dies at 42
1983 - Benjamin V Cohen, US author of New Deal-legislation, dies at 88
1985 - Richard Yardumian, US composer (Creator Spirit), dies at 68
1988 - Barry Bingham Sr, US daily newspaper publisher, dies at 82
1988 - Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, President of Pakistan, killed in plane crash
1988 - Ray Buchanan, US blues gitarist, dies at about 48
1989 - F de Jong Edz, Dutch historian/director (IISG), dies
1990 - Nina Bara, actress (Missile to the Moon), dies of cancer at 66
1990 - Viktor Tsoi, Russian musician (b. 1962)
1991 - Marietta Tree, ambassador (UN Comm of Human Rights), dies at 74
1992 - Evelyn Wesler Zemel, US author (American Glass Animals), dies
1992 - Giorgio Perlasca, Italian anti-fascist (saved 5,200 Jews), dies
1992 - Marie Paxton, entertainer, dies after brief illness
1992 - Martha Blackburn, Canada newspaper publisher (London Free Press), dies
1992 - Osamu Inaba, Japanese min of justice, dies
1993 - Robert W Kempner, German officer of justice in Prussia, dies at 93
1994 - Shepherd Mead, London England, dies of stroke at 80
1994 - Simon R Naoli, Tanzanian marathoner, dies in an accident at 28
1994 - Wout Wagtmans, cyclist (Rome-Naples-Rome 1957), dies at 64
1995 - Erbie Bowser, pianist, dies at 77
1995 - Humphrey Sims Moore, pacifist/journalist, dies at 86
1995 - Ismay Thomas, teacher, dies at 74
1996 - Agnes Beatrice Read, medical social worker, dies at 86
1996 - Ernest Leslie Bouts, motor-racing driver, dies at 93
1996 - Masao Maruyama, social scientist, dies at 82
1999 - Sir Hugh Casson, British architect and artist (b. 1910)
2001 - Richard Chelimo, Kenyan athlete (b. 1972)
2003 - Gösta Sundqvist, Finnish songwriter and singer (heart attack) (b. 1957)
2004 - Semiha Berksoy, first Turkish opera singer (b. 1910)
2004 - Amarsinh Chaudhary, Indian politician (b. 1941)
2004 - Sune Bergström, Swedish biochemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1916)
2006 - Te Atairangi Kaahu, Māori queen (b. 1931)
2006 - Rick Bourke, Australian rugby league player
2006 - Doug White, American news anchor
2006 - Faas Wilkes, Dutch international footballer
2007 - Richard Bradshaw, British opera conductor, (b. 1944)
2007 - John Gofman, American Manhattan Project scientist and advocate (b. 1918)
2007 - Geoffrey Orbell, New Zealand bush walker (b. 1908)
2007 - Sam Pollock, Canadian sports executive (b. 1925)
2008 - Jerry Wexler, music producer and coiner of the term "Rhythm & Blues"
2008 - James Orthwein, American businessman
2008 - Leroy Sievers, American journalist
2008 - Vic Toweel, South African boxer, bantamweight world champion
2011 - Rick Rypien, Canadian hockey player (b. 1984)
2012 - Harry [Maxwell] Harrison, American author, dies at 87

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 16, 2013, 08:35:05 AM

This Day in History for 16th August


Historical Events

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US President                                            Baseball Great Babe Ruth                       Dictator of Nazi Germany
James Buchanan                                                                                                    Adolf Hitler

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Beatles Drummer Ringo Starr                     Pop Star Madonna                              Anti-apartheid activist/
                                                                                                                             South African President   
                                                                                                                             Nelson Mandela

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Wikileaks founder Julian Assange


1384 - The Hongwu Emperor of Ming China, Emperor Dong, hears a case of a couple who tore paper
           money bills while fighting over them—a case considered equal to the act of destroying 
           stamped government documents, which by law necessitated one hundred floggings by a
           bamboo rod. However, the Hongwu Emperor decided to pardon them, seeing as how their
           intention was not to tear up the money.
1513 - Battle at Eguinegatte/Guinegate: Maximilian & Henry VIII beat France
1570 - King Janos Sigismund Zapolyai signs secret treaty with Maximilian II
1625 - Earnest Casimir of Nassau-Dietz appointed viceroy of Drenthe
1691 - Yorktown Va founded
1717 - Prince Eugenius of Savoye occupies Belgrade
1743 - Earliest boxing code of rules formulated in England (Jack Broughton)
1745 - Skirmish at Laggan: Glengarry beats Royal Scots
1748 - "Geldermalsen" sails to East-Indies
1777 - Americans defeat British in Battle of Bennington, Vt
1780 - British decisively defeat Americans in Battle of Camden, SC
1794 - Hungarian revolutionary Ignác Martinovics arrested in Vienna
1797 - Comet C/1797 P1 (Bouvard-Herschel) approaches 0.0879 AUs of Earth
1812 - Gen Hull surrenders Detroit & Michigan territory to England
1819 - Manchester Massacre: English police charge unemployed demonstrators
1829 - Siamese twins Chang & Eng Bunker arrive in Boston to be exhibited
1834 - Charles Darwin climbs Mt Campana in Chile
1858 - Britain's Queen Victoria telegraphs President James Buchanan
1861 - Pres Lincoln prohibits Union states from trading with Confederacy
1861 - Skirmishes at Fredericktown/Kirkville, Missouri
1863 - Chickamauga campaign GA
1863 - Emancipation Proclamation signed
1864 - 4th day of battle at Deep Bottom Run Virginia, Federal assault
1864 - Palace for People's industry official opens in Amsterdam
1865 - Restoration Day in the Dominican Republic: The Dominican Republic regains its independence
           after 4 years of fighting against the Spanish Annexation.
1869 - Battle of Acosta Ñu: A Paraguay battalion made up of children is massacred by the Brazilian
           Army during the War of the Triple Alliance.
1870 - Fred Goldsmith demonstrates curve ball isn't an optical illusion
1876 - Opera "Siegfried" premieres in Bayreuth
1882 - British under General Wolseley land in Alexandria
1890 - Alexander Clark, journalist/lawyer, named minister to Liberia
1894 - Indian chiefs from the Sioux & Onondaga tribes met to urge their people to renounce
           Christianity & return to their old Indian faith
1896 - Gold discovered in Klondike, found at Bonanza Creek, Ala
1898 - Edwin Prescott patents roller coaster
1903 - Tigers play a home game in Toledo Ohio, Yanks win 12-8
1904 - NYC begins building Grand Central Station
1905 - Mbunga-rebellion occupy German post Ifakara East-Africa
1906 - -17] 8.6 earthquake destroys Valparaiso Chile, fire kills 20,000
1907 - Abd al-Hafid proclaims himself sultan of Morocco
1913 - Tōhoku Imperial University of Japan (modern day Tōhoku University) admits its first female
           students.
1914 - German army occupies last fort at Luik, Belgian general Leman caught
1914 - Zapata & Pancho Villa over run Mexico
1914 - World War I: Battle of Cer begins.
1915 - KC's Alex Main no-hits Buffalo (Federal League), 5-0
1918 - US troops overthrows Archangelsk
1920 - Ray Chapman, of Indians is hit in head by Yanks' Carl Mays pitch; he dies next day, only
           major league fatality
1922 - AT&T radio station WBAY becomes WEAF (NYC)
1924 - 38th US Womens Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats Molla B Mallory (61 63)
1924 - Conference about German recovery payments opens in London
1924 - Dutch-Turkish peace treaty signed
1927 - 1st HR hit out of Comiskey Park Chicago (NY Yankee Babe Ruth)
1930 - The first color sound cartoon, called Fiddlesticks, is made by Ub Iwerks.
1934 - US ends occupation of Haiti (been there since 1915)
1934 - US explorer William Beebe descends 3,028' (923 m) in Bathysphere
1936 - 11th Olympic games closes in Berlin
1940 - 45 German aircrafts shot down over England
1941 - HMS Mercury, Royal Navy Signals School and Combined Signals School opens at Leydene,
           near Petersfield, Hampshire, England.
1942 - Premier Churchill travels back to Cairo from Moscow
1943 - 1st Long Tom bombs on Italian mainland (from Sicily)
1943 - Bulgarian czar Boris III visits Adolf Hitler
1944 - 2nd Canadian Division occupies Falaise Normandy
1944 - Chartres freed
1944 - Dutch begin diplomatic contact with Vatican in London
1944 - US 15th Army corp reaches Eure, surrounds Dreux
1944 - First flight of the Junkers Ju 287.
1945 - Puyi, the last Chinese emperor and ruler of Manchukuo, was captured by Soviet troops.
1946 - Great Calcutta blood bath - Moslem/Hindu riot (3-4,000 die)
1947 - Ralph Kiner becomes 1st Pirate to hit 3 consecutive HRs
1948 - Arabs blow up Latrun pumping station in Jerusalem
1948 - Israeli pound becomes legal tender
1950 - West Indies complete historic 3-1 series win against England
1953 - KTAL TV channel 6 in Shreveport-Texarkana, LA (NBC) begins
1953 - Shah of Persia & princess Soraya flee to Baghdad & Rome
1954 - "Sports Illustrated" magazine begins publishing
1954 - 200 pilgrims drown in Farahzad Iran rain storm flood
1955 - Fiat Motors orders 1st private atomic reactor
1956 - Adlai E Stevenson nominated as Democratic presidential candidate
1956 - Indians' Rocky Colavito hits his 1st grand slam, Cleveland 5, Tigers 4
1959 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Seattle Golf Open
1959 - USSR introduces installment buying
1960 - Britain grants independence to crown colony of Cyprus
1960 - Joseph Kittinger parachutes from balloon at 31,330 m (84,700')
1960 - Republic of Congo (Zaire, Dem Rep of Congo) forms
1961 - 250,000 West Berliners demonstrate against East Berlin
1961 - Martin L King protests for black voting right in Miami
1962 - Ringo Starr replaces Pete Best as Beatle drummer
1963 - Independence is restored to Dominican Republic
1964 - Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Omaha Jaycee Golf Open Invitational
1964 - St Louis Card Curt Flood gets 8 straight hits in a doubleheader
1965 - AFL awards its 1st expansion franchise (Miami Dolphins)
1967 - Cin Red Jim Maloney retires 19 Pirates, then gets injured & leaves
1967 - WFIQ TV channel 36 in Florence, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1969 - WATL TV channel 36 in Atlanta, GA begins broadcasting
1969 - Woodstock rock festival begins in NY
1970 - 52nd PGA Championship: Dave Stockton shoots 279 at Southern Hills OK
1970 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Cincinnati Golf Open
1972 - 54th PGA Championship: Gary Player shoots a 281 at Oakland Hills Mich
1972 - Morocco King Hassan II's B727 shot at
1972 - Philip Potter appointed sect-gen of World council of Churches
1972 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1974 - Ramones concert debut (NY's CBGBs)
1975 - "Rodgers & Hart" closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 108 perfs
1975 - Peter Gabriel quits Genesis
1976 - 58th PGA Championship: Dave Stockton shoots a 281 at Congressional MD
1976 - St Louis Cards beat San Diego Chargers 20-10 in Tokyo (NFL expo)
1977 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1977 - Yanks blow 9-4 lead in 9th but beat Chicago 11-10 in bottom of 9th
1980 - Bill Ward quits Black Sabbath
1980 - Cozy Powell quits Rainbow
1980 - Jools Holland quits Squeeze
1981 - Highest score in World Cup soccer match (New Zealand-13, Fiji-0)
1981 - Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Mary Kay Golf Classic
1981 - Mary Terstegge Meagher swims world record 100m butterfly (57.93)
1984 - Andrea Doria's safe opened
1984 - LA federal jury acquits auto maker John Z DeLorean on cocaine charges
1984 - Largest harness racing purse ($2,161,000-Nihilator wins $1,080,500)
1984 - NASA launches Ampte
1986 - Sudan rebels shoot a Fokker's F-27 down, 57 killed
1986 - "Papa Don't Preach," goes #1 for 2 weeks
1986 - Madonna's "True Blue," album goes #1 for 5 weeks & her single
1987 - Astrological Harmonic Convergence-Dawn of New Age
1987 - NY Mets beat Chicago Cubs, 23-9
1987 - Northwest Airlines 255 plane crashes in Detroit, 156 die (1 lives)
1987 - Val Skinner wins LPGA MasterCard International Golf Pro-Am
1988 - Butch Reynolds runs world record 400 m (43.29)
1988 - IBM introduces software for artificial intelligence
1988 - Jailed black nationalist Nelson Mandela struck with tuberculosis
1988 - Mayor Koch says he plans to wipe out street-corner windshield washers
1989 - Roger Kingdom of USA sets 110m hurdle record (12.92) in Zurich
1989 - A solar flare from the Sun creates a geomagnetic storm that affects micro chips, leading to a
           halt of all trading on Toronto's stock market.
1990 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1990 - Iraq orders 4000 Britons & 2500 Americans in Kuwait to Iraq
1991 - Belgium census is 10,000,963 inhabitants
1991 - Pres Bush declares recession is near an end
1992 - 20th du Maurier Golf Classic: Sherri Steinhaur
1992 - 74th PGA Championship: Nick Price shoots a 278 at Bellerive St Louis
1992 - Moses Kiptanui runs world record 3k (7:28.96)
1993 - The Debian distribution was first announced by Ian Murdock, then a student at Purdue
           University. Murdock initially called his system the "Debian Linux Release"
1994 - Chandrika Kumaratungo's party wins Sri Lanka elections
1994 - Shauna Gambill, 17, of California, crowned 12th Miss Teen USA
1997 - For only 2nd time Stanley Cup leaves North America (heads to Russia)
1998 - 80th PGA Championship at Sahalee CC, Seattle WA
1998 - Weetabix Women's British Golf Open
2003 - U.S. Representative from South Dakota Bill Janklow hits and kills a motorcyclist with his car at
           a rural intersection near Trent, South Dakota; he will eventually be convicted of manslaughter
           and will resign from Congress.
2005 - West Caribbean Airways Flight 708 crashes near Machiques, Venezuela, killing the 160 aboard.
2008 - Usain Bolt sets a new 100 metres dash world record of 9.69 seconds at the Beijing 2008
           summer olympics.
2011 - Beginning of World Youth Day 2011 in Madrid
2012 - Julian Assange, Wikileaks founder, is granted political asylum by Ecuador
2012 - 113 people are killed and over 200 wounded in a series of attacks across Iraq
2012 - South African police open fire on striking mine workers and kill at least 34 people

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 16, 2013, 08:36:45 AM

This Day in History for 16th August


Famous Weddings

1290 - Charles van Valois weds Margaretha van Anjou
1477 - Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, weds Mary of Burgundy, the heiress to the Duchy of
           Burgundy in Ghent, Belgium
1846 - Opera Composer (The Barber of Seville) Gioacchino Rossini marries 2nd wife Olympe Pélissier
           in Paris
1983 - Paul Simon weds Carrie Fisher
1985 - Madonna weds Sean Penn on her 27th birthday
2008 - "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" talk show host Ellen DeGeneres (54) weds actress Portia de
           Rossi (39) in Beverly Hills, California
2011 - Fashion designer Michael Kors (51) weds Lance LePere in Southampton, New York

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 16, 2013, 08:45:39 AM

This Day in History for 16th August


Famous Birthdays

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Israeli Prime Minister                             Aviator Charles Lindbergh (1932)                       Writer/Director
Menachem Begin (1913)                                                                                               James Cameron (1954)
 
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Pop Star Madonna (1958)


1355 - Philippa Plantagenet, Countess of Ulster
1378 - Hongxi Emperor of China (d. 1425)
1397 - Albrecht II von Habsburg, king of Bohemia/Hungary/Germany
1401 - Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut, dauphine of France (d. 1436)
1550 - Carolus Gallus, [Karel de Haan], Dutch lawyer/pastor/vicar
1557 - Agostino Carracci, Italian artist (d. 1602)
1573 - Anna of Austria, queen of Poland (d. 1598)
1596 - Frederick V, Elector Palatine (d. 1632)
1622 - Tsjerk H de Vries, fleet guardian
1637 - Emilie Juliane of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, German countess and poet (d. 1706)
1645 - Jean de La Bruyère, French writer (d. 1696)
1650 - Vincenzo Coronelli, Italian cartographer and encylopedist (d. 1718)
1666 - Henriette Amalia, monarch of Nassau-Dietz
1682 - Louis, duc de Bourgogne, heir-apparent to the French throne (d. 1712)
1761 - Yevstigney Fomin, Russian composer (d. 1800)
1769 - Jean Aime Vernier, composer
1776 - Philipp Jakob Riotte, composer
1795 - Heinrich August Marschner, composer
1815 - John Bosco, Italian priest and educator (d. 1888)
1816 - Joseph Robinson, composer
1817 - Henry Winter Davis, MC (Union), died in 1865
1820 - Andrew Rainsford Wetmore, Canadian politician (d. 1892)
1828 - Joseph Bradford Carr, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1831 - Edward Payson Chapin, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
1831 - John Jones Ross, Quebec politician (d. 1901)
1832 - Wilhelm Wundt, German physiologist/psychologist/philosopher
1836 - John Farmer, composer
1837 - Emile A H Seipgens, Dutch priest/beer brewer
1842 - Jakob Rosanes, German mathematician (d. 1922)
1845 - Gabriel Lippmann, French physicist
1846 - Justus van Maurik, Dutch cigar manufacturer/writer/editor (Groene)
1858 - Arthur Achleitner, German writer (d. 1927)
1860 - Jules Laforgue, Uruguay, French poet (Les Complaintas)
1860 - Lord Hawke, cricketer (England batsman 1890's, many official posts)
1862 - Amos Alonzo Stagg, football pioneer, inventor (tackling dummy)
1864 - Ferdinand C S Schiller, British philosopher (Riddles of the Sphinx)
1867 - Antonio Nobre, Portuguese poet (Lonely)
1868 - Charles Sanford Skilton, composer
1868 - Bernarr McFadden, American physical culture advocate and (d. 1955)
1871 - Zakhary Petrovich Paliashvili, composer
1874 - Arthur Meighen, Canada, PM of Canada (1920, 21, 26)
1876 - Ivan Bilibin, Russian illustrator (d. 1942)
1877 - Karl L Hoschna, composer
1879 - Ethel Barrymore, classic film & stage actress (Pinky, Moonrise)
1882 - Pierre H Ritter Jr, Dutch literary/head (Utrecht Newspaper)
1884 - Adrian S Oppenheim, Dutch lawyer/adviser (British Petroleum/Shell)
1884 - Hugo Gernsback, sci-fi writer (1960 Hugo)
1884 - Walther von Reichenau, German field marshal (d. 1942)
1885 - Charles Carson, London England, actor (Cry the Beloved Country)
1887 - Nadia Boulanger, conductor (1st woman to conduct Boston Symphony)
1888 - Armand J. Piron, American musician (d. 1943)
1892 - Harold Foster, cartoonist (created "Prince Valiant")
1892 - Otto Messmer, American cartoonist (d. 1983)
1894 - George Meany, NYC, labor leader (headed AFL-CIO)
1895 - Jacinto Guerrero, composer
1895 - Lucien Littlefield, San Antonia Tx, actor (Mr Beasley-Blondie)
1895 - Albert Cohen, Swiss novelist (d. 1981)
1895 - Liane Haid, Austrian actress (d. 2000)
1896 - (or the 17th) Tina Modotti, Udine Italy, Italian artist and activist
1897 - Robert Ringling, circus master
1897 - Vicente Ascone, composer
1899 - Glenn Strange, Weed NM, actor (Sam the Bartender-Gunsmoke)
1902 - Georgette Heyer, England, novelist (Friday's Child)
1902 - Stefan Boleslaw Poradowski, composer
1904 - Wendell Stanley, biochemist, 1st to crystallize a virus (Nobel 1946)
1906 - Franz Josef II, prince of Liechtenstein (1938-89)
1907 - Alexander Uriah Boskovich, composer
1907 - Mae Clarke, [Klotz], Phila, actress (Frankenstein, Waterloo Bridge)
1908 - William Maxwell, American novelist and editor (d. 2000)
1909 - Paul Smith Callaway, composer
1910 - Mae Clarke, Phila, actress (Frankenstein, Nana, Parole Girl)[or 1907]
1912 - Marga AM Klompe, 1st Netherland woman elected minister
1912 - Ted Drake, English footballer (d. 1995)
1913 - Menachem Begin, Brest Russian Empire, Israeli PM (1977-83, Nobel 1978), (d. 1992)
1914 - Tullio Pandolfini, Italy, water polo (Olympic-gold-1948)
1915 - Al Hibbler, singer (Unchained Melody)
1916 - Iggy Katona, American race car driver (d. 2003)
1917 - Roque Cordero, Panama, composer (Sonata Breve)
1920 - Charles Bukowski, Andernach Germany, US writer (Hollywood: A Novel)
1922 - Louis E Lomax, author
1923 - Joe Hutton, northumbrian piper/shepherd
1923 - Millôr Fernandes, Brazilian playwright
1925 - Fess Parker, Fort Worth Texas, actor (Davy Crockett, Old Yeller)
1925 - Willie Jones, American baseball player (d. 1983)
1928 - Ann Blyth, Mt Kisko NY, actress (Kismet, Mildred Pierce)
1928 - Eddie Kirkland, Jamaican/US blues guitarist (Have Mercy)
1929 - Bill Evans, US jazz pianist
1929 - Helmut Rahn, German footballer (d. 2003)
1929 - Fritz Von Erich, American professional wrestler (d. 1997)
1930 - Frank Gifford, California, NFL halfback (NY Giants)/ABC sportscaster
1930 - Marion A Trabert, tennis champ (US Open-1953)
1930 - Robert Culp, Berkley California, actor (I Spy, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice)
1930 - Tony Trabert, tennis pro (1955 Wimbledon)
1932 - Eydie Gorme, [Edithe Gormezano], Bronx NY, singer (Bossa Nova)
1932 - Jon Lindbergh, 2nd son of aviator Charles Lindbergh
1933 - Jan van Ginkel, graphic artist/publisher (Perscombinatie)
1933 - Reiner Kunze, writer
1933 - Stuart A "Smokey" Roosa, Durango Colo, Col USAF/astronaut (Apollo 14)
1934 - Diana Wynne Jones, UK, sci-fi author (Drowned Ammet, Witch Week)
1934 - Ed van Thijn, (Jewish) Dutch foreign min/mayor (Amsterdam, 1983-94)
1934 - John Standing, London England, actor (Edward-Lime Street)
1934 - Ketty Lester, [Revoyda Frierson], US singer/actress (Love Letters)
1934 - Sam Trimble, cricketer (Queensland bat, 12th man for Aust, no Test)
1934 - Pierre Richard, French actor
1935 - Betsy von Furstenberg, Nelheim Ger, actress (Machine Calls it Murder)
1935 - Julie Newmar, Hollywood California, actress (Catwoman-Batman, Living Doll)
1935 - Andreas Stamatiadis, Greek footballer and coach
1936 - Anita Gillette, Balt Md, actress (Quincy ME, Marathon, Moonstruck)
1936 - Gary Clarke, Los Angeles California, actor (Hondo, Virginian, Michael Shayne)
1937 - David Behrman, composer
1937 - Lorraine Gary, NYC, actress (Jaws, Jaws 2, Jaws 4)
1937 - Andrew J[efferson V] Offutt, US, sci-fi author (Undying Wizard)
1937 - David Anderson, Canadian politician
1938 - Oleg Grigoryevich Kononenko, Russia, cosmonaut
1939 - Carol Shelley, London, actress (Gwendolyn Pidgeon-Odd Couple)
1939 - Valeri V Ryumin, cosmonaut (Soyuz 25, 32)
1939 - Wim Meijer, Dutch MP (PvdA)
1939 - Sir Trevor Mcdonald, Trinidadian-born British television newsreader
1940 - Bruce Beresford, Austral director (Driving Miss Daisy, Tender Mercies)
1942 - John Meulendijks, Dutch cryptogram maker (People's Daily)
1944 - Dick Zimmer, (Rep-R-New Jersey)
1944 - Mufasir-ul-Haq, cricketer (Pakistan left-arm quick, 1 Test)
1945 - Bob Balaban, Chicago IL, actor/director (2010, Girlfriends)
1945 - Gary Loizzo, Chicago IL, rock guitarist (American Breed)
1945 - Gordon "Snowy" Fleet, Merseyside, rock drummer (Easybeats)
1945 - Kevin Ayers, England, progressive rocker (Joy of a Toy), (d. 2013)
1945 - Robert Balaban, Chicago, actor (Absence of Malice, Altered States)
1945 - Suzanne Farrell, Cincinnati, ballerina (Don Quioxote)
1946 - Lesley Ann Warren, NYC, actress (Cinderella, Mission Impossible)
1946 - Massoud Barzani, Iraqi Kurdish politician
1946 - Dick Murdoch, American professional wrestler (d. 1996)
1947 - Carol Moseley-Braun, (Sen-D Illinois)
1947 - John Howard, (US), speed record (152.284 mph at Bonneville Flats, UT)
1948 - Barry Hay, singer/fluitist/saxophonist/guitarist (Golden Earring)
1948 - Mike Jorgensen, American baseball player
1948 - Pierre Reid, Canadian politician and teacher
1949 - Bill Spooner, rock guitarist/vocalist (Tubes)
1949 - Scott Asheton, American musician (The Stooges)
1950 - Hasely Crawford, Trinidad, 100m runner (Olympic-gold-1976)
1950 - Jeff[rey R] Thomson, cricketer (great Aussie fast bowler 1972-85)
1950 - Marshall Manesh, Iranian-born American actor
1950 - Stockwell Day, Canadian politician
1951 - Richard Hunt, American puppeteer (d. 1992)
1952 - Gianna Rolandi, NYC, soprano (Der Rosenkavalier)
1952 - Mahes Goonatillake, cricketer (Sri Lankan keeper in their 1st 5 Tests)
1952 - Reginald Veljohnson, actor (Carl Winslow-Family Matters, Die Hard)
1953 - Catlin O'Heaney, Whitefish Bay Wisc, actress (Snow White-Charmings)
1953 - James Taylor, SC, rocker (Kool & The Gang-Joanna)
1953 - Kathie Lee Gifford, Paris Fla, hostess (Live with Regis & Kathie Lee)
1953 - Nick Leyva, baseball manager (Phillies 1988-91)
1954 - James Cameron, Kapuskasing Ontario, writer/director (True Lies, Titanic)
1956 - Colleen Walker, Jacksonville FL, LPGA golfer (1988 Mazda Champions)
1956 - Dominic Erban, French rugby international player
1956 - Daniel Willems, Belgian cyclist
1957 - Tim Farriss, Australian pop guitarist (INXS-Kiss the Dirt)
1957 - Laura Innes, Pontiac, Michigan, American actress and director (ER, The Event)
1958 - Angela Bassett, NYC, actress (What's Love Got to Do With It)
1958 - Jonathan Prince, Beverly Hills Pa, actor (Danny-Alice, Pray TV)
1958 - Jose Luis, Clerc Argentina, tennis star
1958 - Peter "Jeff" K Wisoff, Norfolk VA, PhD/Astronaut (STS 57, 68, 81/84)
1958 - Madonna, [Ciccone], Bay City Michigan, singer/actress (Like a Virgin)
1959 - Marc Sergeant, Belgian cyclist
1960 - Timothy Hutton, Malibu California, actor (Turk 182, Ordinary People)
1961 - Christian Okoye, American football player
1962 - Steve Carell, American actor and comedian
1963 - Scott Dunlap, Pittsburgh PA, Canadian Tour golfer (1995 S Afr Masters)
1964 - Jimmy Arias, Buffalo NY, tennis player (US Davis Cup team)
1964 - Nigel Redman, English rugby international player
1965 - Brian McDonough, Long Beach California, points cyclist (Olympics-19th-96)
1965 - Eric van der Luer, soccer player (Roda JC)
1965 - Todd McNair, NFL running back/kick returner (Houston Oilers)
1965 - Xavier Hernandez, Port Arthur TX, pitcher (Houston Astros)
1966 - Ed Olczyk, Chicago, NHL center (Winnipeg Jets)
1966 - Rosey Edeh, London England, Canadian 400m hurdler (Olympics-4-92, 96)
1966 - Terry Shumpert, Paducah KY, infielder (Chicago Cubs)
1967 - Bret Barberie, Long Beach CA, infielder (Chicago Cubs)
1967 - Matt Vanderbeek, NFL linebacker (Washington Redskins)
1967 - Ulrika Jonsson, Swedish television personality
1967 - Pamela Smart, American convicted murderess
1968 - Donovan Leitch Jr, actor/musician (I Shot Andy Warhol)
1968 - Eric Jonassen, offensive linesman (Arizona Cardinals)
1969 - Becky Delos Santos, Boston Mass, playmate (April, 1994)
1969 - Ben Coates, NFL tight end (NE Patriots)
1969 - Carl Henkel, Torrance California, beach volleyballer (Olympics-96)
1969 - Andy Milder, American voice actor
1970 - Adrian Hardy, NFL cornerback (Cin Bengals)
1970 - Dena Head, WNBA guard (Utah Starzz)
1970 - Eric Swann, NFL defensive tackle (Arizona Cardinals)
1970 - Lester Smith, CFL safety (Toronto Argonauts)
1970 - Quinton McCracken, Wilmington NC, outfielder (Colorado Rockies)
1970 - Wilco Hellinga, soccer player (SC Heerenveen)
1970 - Bonnie Bernstein, American sportscaster
1970 - Killah Priest, American rapper
1970 - Manisha Koirala, Indian actress
1970 - Saif Ali Khan, Indian actor
1971 - Nigel Williams, CFL receiver (Montreal Alouettes)
1971 - Troy Alexander, CFL defensive tackle (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1971 - Willie Jackson, NFL wide receiver (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1971 - Stefan Klos, German footballer
1972 - Eddie Goines, NFL wide receiver (Seattle Seahawks)
1972 - Michael Reed, NFL cornerback (Carolina Panthers)
1972 - Michael Thornberry, Virginia Beach Va, team handball circle (Oly-1996)
1972 - Zach Wiegert, tackle (St Louis Rams)
1972 - Stan Lazaridis, Australian footballer
1972 - Emily Robison, American country singer, instrumentalist and songwriter (Dixie Chicks)
1972 - Frankie Boyle, Scottish comedian
1973 - Damian Jackson, American baseball player
1974 - Bryan Chiu, CFL defensive tackle (Montreal Alouettes)
1974 - Krizstina Egerszegi, Hungarian backstroke swimmer (100/200m WR)
1974 - Roger Cedeno, Valencia Edo Venezuela, outfielder (LA Dodgers)
1974 - Ryan Longwell, NFL kicker (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1974 - Iván Hurtado, Ecuadorian footballer
1975 - Felicia Zimmermann, Rochester NY, fencer-foil (Olympics-96)
1975 - Didier Agathe, French footballer
1975 - George Stults, American actor
1976 - Jonatan Johansson, Finnish footballer
1976 - Dave Ockun, American concert producer
1977 - Tamer Hosny, Egyptian singer/actor
1978 - Eddie Gill, American basketball player
1978 - Fu Mingxia, Chinese female diver
1979 - Monder Rizki, Belgian athlete
1979 - Michael Stahlman, American rower and coach
1980 - Vanessa Carlton, American singer/songwriter
1980 - Robert Hardy, English musician (Franz Ferdinand)
1981 - Roque Santa Cruz, Paraguayan footballer
1982 - Cam Gigandet, American actor
1982 - Joleon Lescott, English footballer
1983 - Colin Griffiths, English TV presenter and DJ
1983 - Colt Brennan, NFL Quarterback, Washington Redskins
1983 - Nikos Zisis, Greek basketball player
1985 - Agnes Bruckner, American actress
1986 - Shawn Pyfrom, American actor
1987 - Kyal Marsh, Australian actor
1988 - Rumer Willis, child of Bruce Willis & Demi Moore
1988 - Kevin Schmidt, American actor
1991 - Evanna Lynch, Irish actress
1991 - Sarah-Jeanne Labrosse, Canadian actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 16, 2013, 08:50:13 AM

This Day in History for 16th August


Famous Deaths

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Baseball Great Babe Ruth (1948)                   Actor Bela Lugosi (1956)                    Singer & Cultural Icon
                                                                                                                              Elvis Presley (1977)


1027 - Giorgi I, King of Georgia (b. 998)
1297 - John II of Trebizond (b. 1262)
1327 - Roch, French saint (b. 1295)
1358 - Duke Albert II of Austria (b. 1298)
1419 - Wenceslaus, King of the Romans, King of Bohemia (b. 1361)
1443 - Ashikaga Yoshikatsu, Japanese shogun (b. 1434)
1445 - Margaret of Scotland (Dauphine of France), wife of the future King Louis XI (b. 1424)
1508 - Henry van Stolberg & Wernigerode, Ger viceroy of Friesland, dies at 41
1518 - Loyset Compère, French composer
1532 - John the Steadfast, Elector of Saxony (b. 1468)
1603 - Silvio Antoniano, Italian cardinal/theologist (Tre libri), dies at 62
1661 - Thomas Fuller, English prime minister, dies at 53
1675 - Bogdan Chmilnicki, cosack leader/murderer of 300,000 Jews, dies
1678 - Andrew Marvell, English poet (Definition of Love), ODs at 57
1705 - Jean/Jacobus Bernouilli, Swiss mathematician, dies at 50
1733 - Matthew Tindal, English deist (b. 1657)
1738 - Joe Miller, English comic, dies
1748 - Pietro Giuseppe Sandoni, composer, dies at 63
1786 - Henri-Jacques de Croes, Flemish composer/bandmaster, dies at 80
1791 - Charles-François de Broglie, marquis de Ruffec, French soldier and diplomat (b. 1719)
1799 - Vincenzo Manfredini, composer, dies at 61
1807 - Claude C Saunier, French furniture maker, dies at about 72
1831 - Eduard Brendler, composer, dies at 30
1836 - Marc-Antoine Parseval, French mathematician (b. 1755)
1854 - Duncan Phyfe, furniture maker, dies
1855 - Henry Colburn, British publisher (b. ?)
1864 - John Randolph Chambliss Jr, planter/Confederate, dies in battle at 31
1870 - Ludvig Anton Edmund Passy, composer, dies at 80
1886 - Swami Ramakrishna, Indies philosopher, dies at 50
1888 - John Pemberton, American druggist and inventor of Coca-Cola (b. 1831)
1893 - Jean-Martin Charcot, French neurologist (b. 1825)
1894 - Herman van der Tuuk, Dutch linguist (Toba Batak grammar), dies at 70
1899 - Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, German chemist (b. 1811)
1900 - Eca de Queiroz, writer, dies
1907 - James Hector, Scottish geologist (b. 1834)
1910 - Charles Ferdinand Lenepveu, composer, dies at 69
1911 - Karl Munzinger, composer, dies at 68
1920 - J Norman Lockyer, English physicist (discovered helium in Sun), dies
1921 - Peter I Karadjordjevic, king of Serbia/Yugoslavia, dies [or 8/26]
1929 - Frank Valentine Van der Stucken, composer, dies at 70
1938 - Robert Johnson, US Delta-blues singer/guitarist, poisoned at 27
1938 - Andrej Hlinka, Slovak politician and priest (b. 1864)
1939 - Ron Oxenham, cricketer (7 Tests for Australia, 14 wickets), dies
1940 - Billy Fiske, US RAF-pilot/2nd lieutenant, dies of injuries
1940 - Henri Desgrange, French cyclist/founder (Tour de France), dies at 75
1944 - Roman Padlewski, composer, dies at 28
1945 - Nico Richter, composer, dies at 29
1945 - Takijiro Ohnishi, led Japanese kamikaze pilots (harakiri), dies
1946 - Herman Harrell Horne, philosopher (idealism)
1948 - Babe Ruth, Baseball legend (NY Yankees), dies in NY at 53
1949 - Margaret Mitchell, US writer (Gone With the Wind), dies at 48
1951 - Louis Jouvet, actor (Volpone, Topaze, La Marseillaise), dies at 63
1952 - Lydia Field Emmet, American painter (b. 1866)
1956 - Bela Lugosi, actor (Dracula), dies of heart attack at 73
1957 - Irving Langmuir, American chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1881)
1958 - Paul Panzer, actor (Cat's Paw, Mildred Pierce), dies at 85
1959 - Pedro Humberto Allende Saron, Chilean composer (Tonados), dies at 74
1959 - William "Bull" F Halsey, US vice-admiral (WW II Pacific), dies
1959 - Wanda Landowska, Polish harpsichordist (b. 1879)
1960 - Errol Holmes, cricketer (batted in 5 Tests for England 1935), dies
1961 - Maulvi Abdul Haq, Father of Modern Urdu (b. 1870)
1964 - Jack Pennick, actor (Lady From Louisiana), dies at 68
1965 - Vasily Petrovich Shirinsky, composer, dies at 64
1966 - Jack Mather, actor (Cisco Kid), dies of heart attack at 58
1968 - Luis Gianneo, composer, dies at 71
1969 - Russ Bender, actor/writer (Air Patrol, Strangler), dies at 59
1971 - Elsie Baker, actress (Ghosts of Hanley House), dies at 78
1972 - John Barnes Chance, composer, dies at 39
1973 - Selman A Waksman, Russian/US microbiology (Nobel 1952), dies at 85
1973 - Veda Ann Borg, actress (Kid Galahad), dies at 54
1974 - Karl E Mundt, (Rep/Sen), dies
1976 - Beppie Nooij Jr, Dutch actress (Rooie Sien), dies at 83
1977 - Elvis Presley, American musician, dies at Graceland at 42. Official cause of death is cardiac
           arrhythmia
1978 - Alidius WL Tjarda van Stachouwer, gov-gen of Neth Indies, dies at 90
1979 - John Diefenbaker, 13th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1895)
1983 - Earl Averill, American baseball player (b. 1902)
1984 - Gyorgy Kosa, composer, dies at 87
1986 - John Hurley, song writer (Son of a Preacher Man), dies at 45
1986 - Jaime Saenz, Bolivian poet, novelist, and short story writer (b. 1921)
1988 - Milton Adolphus, composer, dies at 75
1989 - Amanda Blake, actress (Gunsmoke), dies at 58
1990 - Pat O'Connor, New Zealand professional wrestler (b. 1925)
1991 - Robert DiMatte Jr, stage director/actor, dies at 43
1991 - Shamu the Whale, dies of respiratory failure at 16
1991 - Stuart Karl, CEO (Karl Home Video), dies at 38 of skin cancer
1992 - Mark Heard, Christian musician, dies at 41 of a heart attack
1993 - Irene Sharaff, US costume designer (Cleopatra, Can-can), dies at 83
1993 - Joseph Towers, US pilot, dies
1993 - Stewart Granger, actor (Scaramouche), dies of cancer at 80
1993 - Tom Fuccella, actor (Paul-One Life to Live), dies of AIDs at 56
1994 - Earnest Pawel, Polish/US author (Nightmare of Reason), dies at 74
1994 - Frits de Knight, photographer, dies of AIDS at 40
1994 - Henry Geldzahler, US critic, dies
1994 - John Doucette, actor (Fighting Mad, Gang War), dies of cancer at 73
1995 - John Cameron Swayze, news anchor (NBC), dies at 89
1995 - John Priestly McCartjy, detroit DJ, dies at 62
1995 - Robert "Robby" Debarge, r&B Musician, dies at 36
1996 - Eric Cullen, actor (Huntington Tower), dies at 31
1996 - Robert Lynn, anarchist, dies at 72
1997 - Gerard McLarnon, actor/writer, dies at 82
1997 - Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Pakistani musician (b. 1948)
1999 - Pee Wee King, American country musician and songwriter (b. 1914)
2002 - Jeff Corey, American actor (b. 1914)
2002 - Abu Nidal, Palestinian political leader (b. 1937)
2002 - John Roseboro, American baseball player and coach (b. 1933)
2003 - Idi Amin, Ugandan dictator (b. 1928)
2004 - Ivan Hlinka, Czech ice hockey coach (b. 1950)
2004 - Carl Mydans, American photographer (b. 1907)
2004 - Robert Quiroga, American boxer (b. 1969)
2005 - Joe Ranft, American animator (b. 1960)
2005 - Frère Roger, Swiss monk and mystic (b. 1915)
2005 - Vassar Clements, American musician (b. 1928)
2005 - William Corlett, English children's writer(b. 1938)
2005 - Vicky Moscholiou, Greek singer (b. 1943)
2006 - Alex Buzo, Australian playwright and author (b. 1944)
2006 - Herschel Green, American pilot (b. 1920)
2006 - Jon Nödtveidt, Swedish musician (b. 1975)
2006 - Alfredo Stroessner, President of Paraguay (b. 1912)
2007 - Max Roach, American percussionist, drummer, and composer (b. 1924)
2007 - Bahaedin Adab, Iranian MP (b. 1945)
2007 - The Missing Link, professional wrestler (b. 1939)
2008 - Ronnie Drew, Ex-Singer of The Dubliners & Solo Artist (b. 1934)
2008 - Dorival Caymmi, Brazilian singer and songwriter (b. 1914)
2008 - Elena Leuṣtean, Romanian gymnast and Olympic medalist (b. 1935)
2010 - Bobby Thomson, American baseball player
2012 - William Windom, American actor, dies from heart failure at 88

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 17, 2013, 09:35:31 AM

This Day in History for 17th August


Historical Events

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Naturalist Charles Darwin                        32nd US President                                  US General George S. Patton
                                                               Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Beatles Drummer Ringo Starr                   US President                                       Heavyweight Boxing Champion
                                                                George H. W. Bush                                         Mike Tyson


682 - St Leo II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1180 - Yoritomo Minamoto leads uprising against Kiyomori Taira who installed his grandson, Emperor
           Antoku, to the throne
1544 - Imperial/English armies occupy Saint-Dizier France
1563 - King Charles IX of France (13) declared an adult
1577 - Peace of Bergerac: Political rights for Huguenots
1579 - Francois van Anjou visits English queen Elizabeth I
1585 - Antwerp surrenders after 8 months siege by duke of Parma
1590 - John White returns to Roanoke, Virginia to find no trace of colonist's he had left there 3 yrs
           earlier [or Aug 18, 1591]
1648 - -20] Battle at Preston, Lancashire: Henry Ireton beats Scottish
1717 - France, Russia & Prussia sign agreement
1743 - Sweden & Russia sign peace treaty
1787 - Jews are granted permission in Budapest Hungary to pray in groups
1788 - Losantville, OH (now Cincinnati) founded
1795 - Slave revolt at Knip plantation, Curacao
1796 - English beat Bataafs navy in Saldanha Bay
1807 - Robert Fulton's steamboat Clermont begins 1st trip up Hudson River
1808 - Napoleon asks King Louis for Holland brigade towards Spain
1827 - Dutch King Willem I/Pope Leo XII sign concord
1834 - Charles Darwins reaches top of Campana Chile
1835 - Solymon Merrick patents wrench
1836 - British parliament accept registration of birth/marriage/death
1836 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin leave South-America for last time
1846 - US fleet officer Robert F Stockton annexes California
1858 - 1st bank in Hawaii opens
1859 - 1st air mail (in a balloon) took off from Lafayette Ind
1862 - Confederate troops under Kirby Smith enter Kentucky
1863 - Federal batteries & ships attacked Fort Sumter in SC
1863 - Skirmish at Calfkiller Creek (Sparta), Tennessee
1866 - Bathe & Prussia signs peace treaty
1869 - 1st international boat race (Thames River, Oxford beats Harvard)
1870 - 1st ascent of Mt Rainier, Washington
1870 - Mrs Esther Morris becomes 1st woman magistrate (South Pass, Wyoming)
1876 - Opera "Götterdämmerung" premieres in Bayreuth
1877 - Asaph Hall discovers Mars' moon Phobos
1879 - Ferdinand de Lesseps forms French Panama Canal Company
1883 - The first public performance of the Dominican Republic's national anthem, Himno Nacional.
1891 - 1st public bathhouse with showers opens in NYC (People's Bath)
1891 - Electric self-starter for automobile patented
1892 - Russian/French generals Obruchev/Boisdeffre signs Duple Alliance
1894 - Phils get 36 hits, Sam Thompson hits for cycle beating Louisville 29-4
1896 - George Washington Carmack discoveres gold in Klondike region of Yukon
1897 - W B Purvis patents electric railway switch
1903 - Joe Pulitzer donated $1 million to Columbia U & begins Pulitzer Prizes
1904 - Boston's Jesse Tannehell no-hits Chicago White Sox, 6-0
1905 - Dutch government of De Master begins
1907 - Bishop forbids Christian membership in Dutch Textile Union
1908 - B Tarkington & HL Wilson's "Man from Home," premieres in NYC
1908 - Bank of Italy opens new HQ at Clay & Montgomery
1908 - Projection in Paris of the very first cartoon, Fantasmagorie realized by Émile Cohl.
1914 - French troops under gen de Castelnau occupy Chateau Salins
1914 - Lithuiana surrenders to Germans
1915 - German troops over run Kovno Lithuiana
1915 - Hurricane strikes Galveston, TX (275 killed)
1915 - Mob lynches Jewish businessman Leo Frank in Cobb County, Ga after death sentence for
           murder of 13-year-old girl commuted to life
1916 - Bulgarian offensive in Macedonia
1917 - Italy declares war on Germany & Turkey
1918 - British troops attack Baku Azerbaijan
1918 - Samuel Riddle buys Man o'War for $5,000
1918 - Turkish troops overthrow Caukasus
1918 - Bolshevik revolutionary leader Moisei Uritsky is assassinated.
1920 - In memory of Ray Chapman (died Aug 16), Yanks cancel game with Indians
1924 - French-German trade agreement signed
1926 - Greek-Serbian/Croatian/Slavs peace treaty signed
1933 - Lou Gehrig breaks record by playing in his 1,308th straight game
1933 - Lou Gehrig plays record 1,308th consecutive game
1933 - Soviet Union test GIRD-R1 rocket ("Object 09")
1938 - 1st aircraft owned by Forest Service in service (Oakland)
1938 - Henry Armstrong won his 3rd concurrent boxing championship
1939 - "Wizard of Oz" opens at Loew's Capitol Theater in NY
1940 - FDR & Canadian PM William M King agree to joint defense commission
1940 - Greece mobilizes
1940 - Hitler orders total blockade of Great-Britain
1941 - German raider attacks Dutch SS Kota Nopan
1942 - 1st European bombing run undertaken by US forces
1942 - 1st US/8th Air Force bombs Europe
1942 - Task Force 17 leaves Pearl Harbor under adm George Murray on Hornet
1942 - Transport nr 20 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1942 - US bombers staged 1st independent raid on Europe attack Rouen, France
1943 - 498 British bombers attack Peenemunde
1943 - Gen Patton enters Messina, completing conquest of Sicily by Allies
1943 - US 8th Air Force loses 60 B-17O at attack on Regensburg/Schweinfurt
1944 - 4th Canadian Armour division occupiers Trun Normandy
1944 - Canadian 2nd division conquerors Falaise Normandy
1944 - German fieldmarshal Model replaces von Kluge in Normandy
1944 - Russian troops arrive at Austria-Prussia border
1944 - US 12 Army corp occupies Orleans
1944 - US 320th regiment infantry occupies Châteaudun
1944 - Yanks Johnny Lindell ties record with 4 consecutive doubles in a game
1945 - Indonesia (Dutch E Indies) declares independence from Netherlands
1945 - Koreas divided on 38th parallel with US occupying the southern area
1945 - Indonesian Declaration of Independence.
1946 - Arthur Honegger's 3rd Symphony "Liturgique," premieres
1947 - The Radcliffe Line, the border between Union of India and Dominion of Pakistan is revealed.
1948 - Alger Hiss denies ever being a Communist agent
1948 - Phillies commit 8 errors in a game
1948 - Tom Henrich hits his then record tying 4th grand slam of season
1950 - Indonesia gains independence from Netherlands
1950 - Pee Wee Reese (Dodgers) & Sam Calderone (Giants) hit inside park HRs
1951 - 18th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Cleveland 33, All-Stars 0 (92,180)
1951 - Hurricane winds drive 6 ships ashore, Kingston, Jamaica
1952 - "Fallout" 1st used (NY Times)
1952 - Betty Jameson wins LPGA World Golf Championship
1953 - Addiction: First meeting of Narcotics Anonymous in Southern California.
1955 - Hurricane Diane, following hurricane Connie floods Connecticut River killing 190 & doing $1.8   
           billion damage
1956 - Bundesverfassungsgericht bans KPD in West Germany
1957 - Richie Ashburn, fouls hit fan Alice Roth twice in same at bat 1st one breaks her nose, 2nd one
           hits her while she is on the stretcher
1958 - Bonnie Hoffman wins LPGA Kansas City Golf Open
1958 - World's 1st Moon probe, US's Thor-Able, explodes at T +77 sec
1959 - 7.1 quake strikes Yellowstone National Park
1959 - USSR & Iraq signs contract for building Iraqi nuclear reactor
1960 - Francis Gary Powers U-2 spy trial opens in Moscow
1960 - Gabon gains independence from France (National Day)
1960 - Indonesia drops diplomatic relations with Netherlands
1961 - Kennedy administration establishes Alliance for Progress
1962 - Beatles replaces Pete Best with Ringo Starr
1962 - E German border guards shot & kill Peter Fechter, 18, attempting to cross Berlin Wall into
           western sector
1963 - Jim Hickman becomes 1st NY Met to hit for cycle
1963 - Oriole's Dick Hall retires his 28th consecutive player in relief
1964 - Boycott scores his 1st Test Cricket century, 113 v Aust at the Oval
1966 - Pioneer 7 launched into solar orbit
1966 - Willie Mays takes 2nd place on all-time HR list
1968 - Dick Beyers (Dr X) beats Verne Gagne, to become NWA champ
1969 - -18] Hurricane Camille, kills 256 in Miss & Louisiana
1969 - 51st PGA Championship: Ray Floyd shoots a 276 at NCR GC Dayton Ohio
1969 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Southgate Ladies' Golf Open
1969 - NY Jets beat NY Giants 37-14 in their 1st meeting (pre season)
1970 - Venera 7 (US), 1st softlanding on Venus, launched
1972 - Phillies Steve Carlton wins his 15th straight game
1973 - Lee Trevino's 1st hole-in-one
1973 - Willie Mays hits 660th & last HR (off Don Gullett of Cincinnati)
1975 - Jo Ann Washam wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic
1976 - An earthquake & tidal wave in the Philippines kills up to 8,000
1976 - Big win for WI at The Oval Michael Holding 14-149 for match
1977 - Russian nuclear sub "Artika" is 1st to North Pole
1977 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1977 - Thomas Wessinghage/Harald Hudak/Michael Lederer/Karl Fleschen walk world record 4x1500m
           (14:38.8 )
1978 - 1st successful crossing of the Atlantic by balloon (3 Americans)
1979 - 2 Russian passenger planes collide above Ukraine, 173 killed
1979 - Monty Python's "Life of Brian" premieres
1980 - "Blackstone" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 104 performances
1980 - Beth Daniel wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic
1980 - George Brett goes 4-for-4, raising his batting average to .401
1980 - Azaria Chamberlain disappears, likely taken by a dingo, leading to what was then the most
           publicised trial in Australian history
1982 - LA Dodgers beat Chicago Cubs, 6-5, in 21 innings (game completed 8/18)
1982 - South Bend, Ind jury acquits self-avowed racist Joseph Paul Franklin
1982 - The first Compact Discs (CDs) were released to the public in Germany.
1983 - -19] Hurricane Alicia, kills 17 in Texas
1984 - Pete Rose returns to Cin Reds as player-manager (gets 2 hits)
1985 - 1,400 meatpackers walk off the job at a Geo A Hormel & Co plant
1985 - Rajiv Gandhi announces Punjab state elections in India
1985 - Sara Trollinger forms House of Hope in Orlando
1986 - Bronze pig statue unveiled at Seattle's Pike Place Market
1986 - Cindy Mackey wins LPGA MasterCard International Golf Pro-Am
1986 - Pat Bradley wins LPGA Nestle World Golf Championship
1986 - Rioting at DMC concert, 40 injured
1986 - Red Sox trade shortstop Rey Quinones & pitcher Mike Trujillo to Mariners for shortstop Spike
           Owen & outfielder Dave Henderson
1987 - Bunt single gives Paul Molitor longest hit streak of 1980s at 32 games
1987 - Dow Jones Industrial Avg closes above 2,700 for 1st time (2,700.57)
1987 - Mohammad Ali elected to "Ring" magazine's Boxing Hall of Fame
1988 - Butch Reynolds runs world record 400m (43.29)
1988 - LIRR says Penn station will get air conditioning in 1991
1988 - NYC 1st case of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (9 year old Bronx boy)
1988 - Republicans nominate George Bush for president
1988 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1988 - Pakistani President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq and U.S. Ambassador Arnold Raphel are killed in a
           plane crash.
1989 - 32nd Walker Cup: Britain-Ireland, 12½-11½
1989 - Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken moves into 3rd place (1,208th cons game)
1990 - "Exorcist 3" premieres
1990 - Carlton Fisk hits White Sox record 187th HR
1990 - Phyllis Polander sues Mike Tyson for sexual harassment
1991 - Royals Warren Cromartie's 1st major league HR since 1983
1992 - Kevin Gross of Dodgers tosses only 9-inning no-hitter of season, a 2-0
1994 - Lesotho king Letsie II fires premier Ntsu Mokhehle
1994 - NY Central park reservior officially named after Jackie Kennedy Onasis
1995 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1996 - Soyuz TM-24, launched into orbit
1997 - 79th PGA Championship: Davis Love III shoots a 269 at Winged Foot GC
1997 - First of America Senior Golf Classic
1997 - Macy's Tap-o-mania
1997 - Weetabix Women's British LPGA Open
1998 - Monica Lewinsky scandal: US President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony that he had an
           "improper physical relationship" with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. On the same day
           he admits before the nation that he "misled people" about his relationship.
1999 - A 7.4-magnitude earthquake strikes İzmit, Turkey, killing more than 17,000 and injuring
          44,000.
2004 - MD5 collision found by Chinese researchers.
2004 - The National Assembly of Serbia unanimously adopts new state symbols for Serbia: Boze
           Pravde becomes the new anthem and the coat of arms is adopted for the whole country.
2005 - The first forced evacuation of settlers, as part of the Israel unilateral disengagement plan,
           starts.
2012 - Three members of Russian punk band Pussy Riot are jailed for two years
2012 - Gay pride events are banned for a century in Moscow

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 17, 2013, 09:48:35 AM

This Day in History for 17th August


Famous Weddings

1498 - Cesare Borgia, son of Pope Alexander IV, 1st man to resign the cardinalate marries Charlotte
           d'Albret of Navarre

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 17, 2013, 09:50:05 AM

This Day in History for 17th August


Famous Divorces

2008 - "Genesis" drummer and vocalist Phil Collins (57) divorces Swiss-born Orianne Cevey (35) after
           six years of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 17, 2013, 10:01:17 AM

This Day in History for 17th August


Famous Birthdays

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Frontiersman/Soldier                               Actress Mae West (1893)                          Poet Ted Hughes (1930)
Davy Crockett (1786)

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Actor Robert De Niro (1943)


1473 - Richard, Duke of York (d. 1483?)
1578 - Francesco Albani, Italian painter (d. 1660)
1586 - Johann V Andreae, German vicar/writer (Christenburg)
1607 - Pierre de Fermat, mathematician who needed wider margins (Fermat's Last Theorem) [or
           1608]
1629 - King John III of Poland (d. 1696)
1686 - Nicola Antonio Porpora, composer
1720 - Charles D J Eisen, French engraver/painter (Contes de La Fontaine)
1753 - Josef Dobrovský, Czech linguist (d. 1828)
1768 - Louis Charles Antoine Desaix, French general (d. 1800)
1775 - Philippe Libon, composer
1779 - Franz de Paula Roser, composer
1786 - Davy Crockett, Greene County, Tennessee, frontiersman/adventurer/politician (Alamo), (d.
           1836)
1786 - Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, mother of Queen Victoria (d. 1861)
1794 - Prince Alexander of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst, German priest (d. 1849)
1811 - Johannes H Scholten, Dutch theologist (Free Will)
1817 - Joseph baron Kervyn de Lettenhove, Belgian Internal minister (1870-71)
1819 - James Henry Van Alen, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1886
1828 - George William Warren, composer
1828 - Jules Bernard Luys, French neurologist (d. 1897)
1834 - Peter Benoit, Flemish composer/conductor (Leie/Rubens Cantata)
1839 - Hubert Platt Main, composer
1839 - Thijs [Matthijs] Maris, Dutch painter/etcher
1840 - Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, England, writer (Irish Land League)
1841 - Luis NF Varela, Brazilian romantic poet
1844 - Menelik II, King of Ethiopia (1896-1913)
1851 - Henry Drummond, Scottish geologist/evangelist
1856 - Violet Paget, [Vernon Lee], British author (Satan the master)
1863 - Gene Stratton-Porter, American author and naturalist (d. 1924)
1866 - Mir Mahboob Ali Khan, 6th Nizam of Hyderabad (d. 1911)
1866 - Julia Marlowe, English actress (d. 1950)
1870 - Frederick Russell, developed 1st successful typhoid fever vaccine
1873 - John A. Sampson, American gynecologist (d. 1946)
1876 - Eric Drummond, 1st Secretary-General of League of Nations (1919-33)
1876 - Henri G Winkelman, Dutch general/supreme commander/navy 1940
1878 - Reg Duff, cricketer (Australian bat, century on debut 1902)
1880 - Leo Ascher, composer
1880 - Percy Sherwell, cricketer (great South African batsman-keeper-captain)
1882 - Samuel Goldwyn, [Goldfish], movie producer (MGM)
1885 - Clara [G Meijer-]Wichmann, German anarchists/feminist (Wife & society)
1885 - Kurt Hiller, writer
1887 - Charles I, last emperor of Austria-Hungary (1916-18)
1887 - Marcus Garvey, began back-to-Africa movement among US blacks
1888 - Monty Wooley, NYC, actor (Pied Piper, Man Who Came to Dinner)
1890 - Harry L Hopkins, US politician (Loan & Lease law)
1890 - Stefan Bastyr, Polish aviator (d. 1920)
1893 - Mae West, New York, actress (She Dine him Wrong), (d. 1980)
1894 - Erik A Blomberg, Swedish art historian/poet/author (Jorden)
1894 - Johan Polet, Dutch sculptor
1896 - Henry P de Vries, Dutch painter/poet (Laws of the Americas)
1896 - Leslie Groves, American military engineer (d. 1970)
1898 - Gerard Schmook, Flemish librarian/historian/custodian
1900 - Quincy Howe, Boston Mass, newscaster (CBS Weekend News)
1903 - Abram Chasins, composer
1904 - Leopold Nowak, Austrian musicologist (d. 1991)
1904 - Mary Cain, American newspaper editor and politician (d. 1984)
1905 - John Hay Whitney, publisher (NY Herald Trib 1961-67)
1906 - Hazel Bishop, chemist/cosmetics manufacturer
1906 - Marcello J das Neves Alves Caetano, premier of Portugal (1968-74)
1907 - Marian Viktorovich Koval, composer
1908 - Kurt Hessenberg, composer
1909 - Larry Clinton, American trumpeter and bandleader (d. 1985)
1910 - Eric Aaltonen, composer
1910 - J A Manusama, Moluccan politician
1910 - R Peyrefitte, writer
1911 - Frederik de Merode, Belgian prince
1911 - Jan Lode Cantens, Flemish dramatist (God's Murderer)
1912 - Edgar Fernhout, Dutch painter/son of Charley Toorop
1913 - W. Mark Felt, American Watergate informant
1913 - Rudy York, American baseball player (d. 1970)
1913 - Oscar Alfredo Gálvez, Argentine racing driver (d. 1989)
1914 - Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr, son of FDR/(Rep-D-NY, 1949-55)
1916 - John de Young, resistance fighter
1917 - P Roger Peyrefitte, French writer (Singular Love)
1917 - Safa Khulusi, writer
1918 - Mort Marshall, NYC, actor (Cully-Dumplings)
1920 - Georgia Gibbs, Worcester Mass, singer (Ballin the Jack, Kiss of Fire)
1921 - Geoffery Rudolph Elton, historiographer
1921 - Maureen O'Hara [Fitzsimmons], Ranelagh, County Dublin, Irish actress and singer (Miracle on
           34th St, The Quiet Man)
1922 - Paul Wiens, writer
1922 - Ralph Roberts, Salisbury NC, actor (Tradition, Gone are the Days)
1922 - Roy Tattersall, cricketer (brilliant England off-spinner early 50's)
1923 - Anton Kersjes, violinist/conductor (Amsterdam Philharmonic Orch)
1923 - Larry Rivers, [Grossberg], NYC, painter (Wash crossing Delaware-1953)
1923 - Chaleo Yoovidhya, Phichit, Thailand, co-creator of Red Bull, (d. 2012)
1924 - Evan S Connell, US writer
1924 - Helen Wallis, cartographer/librarian
1924 - John A Emmens, art historian/poet (Kunst & Vliegwerk)
1924 - Laurence Richard Deniz, jazz guitarist
1924 - Evan Connell, Kansas City, Missouri, author (The Patriot), (d. 2013)
1925 - John Hawkes, US writer (2nd Skin)
1925 - John Howard Purnell, scientist
1926 - Haakon Barfod, Norway, yachting (Olympic-gold-1948, 52)
1926 - Jean Poiret, French actor/writer (Le Dernier Metro)
1926 - Jiang Zemin, Chinese politician
1926 - George Melly, British singer (d. 2007)
1927 - Bernard "Bernie" Cornfeld, Romanian/US financier (Fund of Funds)
1927 - Robert Moore, Detroit Mich, actor (Marshall-Diana)
1928 - Jean R Adams, entomologist
1928 - Thomas Jefferson Anderson, composer
1928 - Willem Duys, Dutch radio/TV host
1929 - Francis Gary Powers, US spy (USSR captures him in 1959 U-2 incident)
1930 - James Gulliver, businessman
1930 - Ted Hughes, Mytholmroyd Yorkshire, British Poet Laureate (1984-1998)
1931 - Alain Mimoun O'Kacha, Fran, marathoner (Olympic-gold-1956) [or 1/1/21]
1932 - Chet Allen, Chickasha Oklahoma, actor (Jerry-Bonino, Slats-Troubleshooter)
1932 - Vidiadhar S Naipaul, Trinidad, novelist (Middle Passage)
1933 - Glenn Corbett [Glen Edwin Rothenburg], El Monte, California, American actor (Route 66,
           Shenandoah)
1933 - Eugene F. Kranz, American NASA executive
1933 - Mark Dinning, American singer (d. 1986)
1934 - Maureen Connally, champion tennis player (Wimbledon)
1935 - Oleg Tabakov, Russian actor
1936 - Ivan Parik, composer
1936 - Floyd Red Crow Westerman, Native American musician-actor (d. 2007)
1937 - Yevgeni Aleksandrovich Illyin, Russia, cosmonaut
1938 - Abu Bakar Bashir, Indonesian Muslim cleric
1938 - Theodoros Pangalos, Greek politician
1939 - Luther Allison, Mayflower Ark, rock guitarist (Bad News is Coming)
1939 - Anthony Valentine, British actor
1940 - David E Price, (Rep-D-North Carolina)
1940 - Thomas Williams, US, ice hockey play (Olympic-gold-1960)
1941 - Boog Powell, baseball player (AL MVP 1970)
1941 - Ibrahim Babangida, president of Nigeria (1985- )
1943 - Edward Cowie, composer
1943 - Koos Postema, editor-in-chief (Vrije Volk)/Dutch TV host
1943 - Robert De Niro, NYC, actor (Bang the Drum Slowly, Taxi Driver)
1943 - Yukio Kasaya, Japan, 70m ski jumper (Olympic-gold-1972)
1943 - Dave "Snaker" Ray, American musician (d. 2002)
1944 - Lawrence Joseph Ellison, CEO of Oracle Corporation, Billionaire
1945 - Katri Helena, Finnish singer
1946 - Hans Vandenburg, Dutch singer/guitarist (Gruppo Sportivo)
1947 - Gary Talley, Memphis Tn, rock guitarist (Box Tops)
1948 - Bo Rucker, Tampa FL, actor (Superman, Soup for One, Lock Up)
1948 - Rod MacDonald, American musician
1949 - Sib Hashian, Boston Mass, rock drummer (Boston)
1949 - Norm Coleman, American politician
1951 - Alan Minter, England, light-middleweight boxer (Olympic-bronze-1972)
1951 - Robert Joy, Montreal Quebec, actor (Big Shots, Suicide Club)
1952 - Guillermo Vilas, Argentina, tennis champ (US Open-1977)
1952 - Kathryn C Thornton, Montgomery Ala, PhD/astronaut (STS 33, 49, 61, 73)
1952 - Nelson Piquet, auto racer, 3-time Formula One champ (1981, '83, '87)
1952 - Thomas J Hennen, Albany GA, astronaut (STS 44)
1952 - Dr. Mario Theissen, German F1 team principal (BMW Sauber)
1953 - Kevin Rowlands, rock vocalist (Dexy's Midnight Runners-Come on Eileen)
1953 - Robert Brent Thirsk, BC Canada, astronaut (STS 78)
1953 - Judith Regan, American book publisher
1954 - Eric Johnson, American guitarist
1955 - Colin Moulding, English pop guitarist (XTC)
1955 - Janet Quist Austin TX, playmate (Dec, 1978)
1955 - Kevin Welch, California, country songwriter/actor (Thing Called Love)
1955 - Richard Hilton, American heir
1956 - Gail Berman, American film executive
1956 - Álvaro Pino, Spanish cyclist
1958 - Belinda Carlisle, Hollywood Ca, (GoGos lead singer, Heaven on Earth)
1959 - David Koresh, American cult leader (d. 1993)
1959 - Jonathan Franzen, American author
1960 - Bruce Penhall, Balboa CA, actor (Savage Beach)
1960 - Sean Penn, Santa Monica California, actor (Fast Times at Ridgemont High)
1960 - Stephan Eicher, Swiss singer
1961 - Jamie Macoun, Newmarket, NHL defenseman (Toronto Maple Leafs)
1962 - Gilby Clarke, US pop guitarist (Guns n' Roses-Civil War)
1962 - Buddy Landel, American professional wrestler
1963 - Carmen Berg, Bismark ND, playmate (July, 1987)
1963 - S. Shankar, Indian film director.
1964 - Pete McCutcheon, Boston Mass, Canadian Tour golfer (1993 Quebec Open)
1964 - Colin James, Canadian musician
1965 - Dottie Mochrie Pepper, Saratoga Springs NY, golfer (1992 Dinah Shore)
1965 - Fred Grim, soccer player (Cambuur L, Ajax)
1965 - Glen Goldsmith, rocker (What You See is What You Get)
1965 - Robert Manry, Cleve newspaper editor/sailed the Atlantic (in craft)
1965 - Steve Gorman, Hopkinsville Ky, rock drummer (Black Crowes)
1966 - Cedric Figaro, WLAF linebacker (Amsterdam Admirals)
1966 - Zefross Moss, NFL tackle (Detroit Lions, NE Patriots)
1966 - Maysa Leak, American Jazz Singer
1966 - Rodney Mullen, American skateboarder
1966 - Don Sweeney, Canadian ice hockey player
1967 - James Jenkins, NFL tight end (Washington Redskins)
1967 - Kenny Davidson, NFL defensive end (Houston Oilers)
1967 - Nelson Emerson, Hamilton, NHL right wing (Hartford Whalers)
1967 - Kevin Max, American singer (dc talk)
1968 - Ed McCaffrey, NFL wide reciever (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1968 - Vince Marrow, WLAF TE (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1968 - Helen McCrory, English actress
1969 - Christian Laettner, NBA forward/center (Atlanta Hawks, Oly-gold-92)
1969 - Donald E Wahlberg Jr, Boston, rocker (New Kids-Hangin' Tough)
1969 - Ed Cunningham, NFL center (Arizona Cardinals)
1969 - Maria Strandlund, Akersberga Sweden, tennis star (1987 Futures NOR)
1970 - Bernard Wilson, NFL defensive tackle (Arizona Cardinals)
1970 - Brad Bretz, WLAF quarterback (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1970 - Jim Courier, Sanford Florida, tennis champ (1990, 91 French)
1970 - Oyvind Leonhardsen, Norwegian footballer
1970 - Rupert Degas, English actor and voice artist
1971 - Uhm Jung-hwa, South Korean singer and actress
1971 - Jorge Posada, Puerto Rican baseball player
1971 - Shaun Rehn, Australian Rules footballer
1972 - Ernie Conwell, tight end (St Louis Rams)
1972 - Habibul Bashar, Bangladeshi cricketer
1973 - A J Wood, Pittsburgh, soccer forward (Olympics-gold-96)
1973 - Kerry Mock, WLAF linebacker (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1973 - Paul Wiggins, offensive linebacker (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1973 - Tim Forsyth, Australian high jumper (Olympics-bronze-92, 96)
1974 - Tony Hajjar, Lebanese musician (At the Drive-In, Sparta)
1974 - Nicola Kraus, American novelist
1975 - İlhan Mansız, Turkish footballer
1975 - Giuliana DePandi, Italian-born American television personality
1976 - Scott Halberstadt, American actor
1977 - Jake Patellis, actor (Paul Bowman-Good Life)
1977 - William Gallas, French footballer
1977 - Nathan Deakes, Australian race walker
1977 - Thierry Henry, French footballer
1977 - Tarja Turunen, Finnish singer
1978 - Vibeke Stene, Norwegian singer (Tristania)
1979 - Antwaan Randle El, American football player
1979 - Marcus Patric, British actor
1980 - Jan Kromkamp, Dutch footballer
1980 - Keith Dabengwa, Zimbabwean cricketer
1980 - Shannon Lucio, American actress
1980 - Lene Marlin, Norwegian singer
1981 - Kristin Holt, American television personality
1982 - Phil Jagielka, English footballer
1982 - Melissa Anderson, American professional wrestler
1983 - Dustin Pedroia, American baseball player
1984 - Garrett Wolfe, American professional footbal player
1984 - Dee Brown, American basketball player
1985 - Yū Aoi, Japanese actress
1986 - Bryton McClure, Lakewood California, actor (Richie-Family Matters)
1986 - Rudy Gay, American basketball player
1986 - Tyrus Thomas, American basketball player
1988 - Brady Corbet, American actor
1988 - Erika Toda, Japanese actress
1990 - Colin Bates, American actor
1990 - Rachel Hurd-Wood, British actress
1996 - Ella Cruz, Filipina actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 17, 2013, 10:53:15 AM

This Day in History for 17th August


Famous Deaths

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King of Prussia                                           Revolutionary Leader
Frederik the Great (1786)                          Jose de San Martin (1850)   


754 - Karloman, abbot of Monte Cassino, dies at 39
1153 - Eustace IV of Boulogne, son of Stephen of England (b. 1130)
1304 - Emperor Go-Fukakusa of Japan (b. 1243)
1464 - Nikolaus von Cusa, German theologist/mathematician/philosopher, dies
1510 - Edmund Dudley, English treasurer, beheaded
1510 - Richard Empson, English treasurer, beheaded
1536 - Pietersz, book publisher (Kersten Knight - on Index), dies
1553 - Charles III, Duke of Savoy, dies
1635 - Francisco de Moncada, Spanish earl of Osuna, dies at 48
1673 - Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician and anatomist (b. 1641)
1676 - Grimmelshausen, writer, dies
1681 - Nikon, [Nikita Minin], patriarch of Rus-orthodox church, dies at 76
1720 - Anne Lefèvre, French scholar (b. 1654)
1723 - Joseph Bingham, English scholar (b. 1668)
1730 - Mauritius Vogt, composer, dies at 61
1731 - Johann Augustin Kobelius, composer, dies at 57
1768 - Vasily Kirillovich Trediakovsky, Russian poet (b. 1703)
1777 - Giuseppe Scarlotti, composer, dies at 54
1785 - Jonathan Trumbull, US patriot, dies
1786 - Frederick II (the Great), King of Prussia (1740-86)/composer, dies at 74
1792 - Jan Jachym Kopriva, composer, dies at 38
1804 - Barbara Hec, organized 1st methodist church in US, dies
1834 - Husein Gradaščević, Bosnian rebel leader (b. 1802)
1850 - Jose de San Martin, South American revolutionary hero and general, dies at 72
1861 - Alcée Louis la Branche, American Politician (b. 1806)
1865 - Johann Nepomuk Poissl, composer, dies at 82
1865 - Mosby Munroe Parsons, US Confederate gen-maj, dies in battle
1875 - Wilhelm Bleek, German linguist (b. 1827)
1878 - Richard Upjohn, US architect, died
1880 - Ole Bull, Norwegian violinist and composer (b. 1810)
1887 - Franz Commer, composer, dies at 74
1888 - James Jameson, British nature investigator (Congo), dies
1889 - Ernst Franck, German composer/conductor, dies at 42
1893 - Aleksei N Apuchtin, Russian poet (Stichotvorenia), dies at 52[NS=8/29]
1896 - Bridget Driscoll, 1st Brit to die in an auto-accident
1898 - Carl Johann Adam Zeller, composer, dies at 56
1901 - Edmond Audran, composer, dies at 61
1909 - Richard Hoffman, composer, dies at 78
1914 - James Grierson, British general
1915 - Leo Frank, lynched for raping 12 year old in Georgia
1920 - Ray Chapman, hit in the head by Yanks' Carl Mays pitch, dies
1920 - Ray Chapman, American baseball player (b. 1891)
1924 - Pavel S "Paul" Urysohn, Russian mathematician, drowns at 26
1924 - Tom Kendall, cricketer (14 wickets in Australia's 1st two Tests), dies
1925 - Ioan Slavici, Transylvanian writer of Romanian origin (b. 1848)
1927 - Horace Alderman, US, murderer, hanged
1936 - Pierre-Octave Ferroud, French composer (Surgery & Foules), dies at 36
1944 - John Trumble, cricketer (brother of Hugh 7 Tests 1885-86), dies
1945 - Gino Marinuzzi, composer, dies at 61
1945 - Pater Bleijs, [Louis], resistance fighter, dies in car accident
1948 - Nico J Polak, Dutch economist, dies at 60
1949 - Gregorio Perfecto, Filipino jurist & politician (b. 1891)
1953 - Johannes B Tielrooy, literature (French Living Lesson), dies at 66
1954 - Billy Murray, singer (Denver Nightengale), dies at 77
1958 - Florent Schmitt, French composer/critic (Jardin Secret), dies at 87
1961 - Carlos Leon Salzedo, composer, dies at 76
1962 - Peter Fechter trying to cross the Berlin Wall (b. 1944)
1963 - Richard Barthelmess, actor (Heroes for Sales), dies of cancer at 68
1966 - Archibald Palm, cricketer (Test South Africa v England 1927-28), dies
1966 - Michael Garrison, producer (Crowded Sky), dies after a fall at 43
1969 - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, architect (November Group), dies at 83
1969 - Philip Blaiberg, after 19 days with artificial heart, dies
1970 - Rattana Pestonji, Thai filmmaker (b. 1908)
1971 - Horace McMahon, actor (Martin Kane Private Eye), dies at 64
1971 - Wilhelm List, German field marshal (b. 1880)
1972 - Raymond Brulez, Flemish author (Schoone slaapster), dies at 76
1972 - Wampilow, writer, dies
1973 - Conrad Aiken, US poet (Pulitzer), dies at 74
1973 - Paul Williams, rocker (Temptations), commits suicide at 32
1973 - Jean Barraqué, French composer (b. 1928)
1974 - Aldo Palazzeschi, [Giurlani], Italian writer, dies at 89
1974 - Edgar Dearing, actor (Free & Easy, Abraham Lincoln), dies at 81
1975 - Sig Arno, Hamburg Germany, actor (My Friend Irma), dies at 80
1975 - Vladimir Kutz, Russian distance runner (Olympic-gold-56) dies at 48
1976 - Murvyn Vye, actor (Road to Bali, Escape to Burma), dies at 63
1976 - William Redfield, actor (Jimmy Hughes Rookie Cop), dies at 48
1979 - Vivian Vance, actress (Ethel Mertz-I Love Lucy), dies of cancer at 67
1981 - Robert Russell Bennett, US composer/arranger (Oklahoma!), dies at 87
1982 - Barney Phillips, actor (Dragnet, Felony Squad), dies at 68
1982 - Ruth Voorst, South African (A World Apart), killed by letter bomb
1983 - Ira Gershwin, lyricist, dies in Beverly Hills at 86
1984 - Holly Roffey, youngest heart transplant, dies at 4 weeks
1987 - Charles Drummond de Andrade, Brazilian poet, dies at 84
1987 - Rudolph Hess, Nazi (46 years in Spandau Prison), commits suicide at 93
1987 - Shaike Ophir, Israeli actor (b. 1929)
1988 - Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr, (Rep-D-NY, 1949-55), dies on 74th birthday
1988 - Mohammad Zia Ul-Haq, pres of Pakistan (1978-88), dies in plane crash at 64
1988 - Victoria Shaw, actress (Alvarez Kelly, Westworld), dies
1990 - Pearl Bailey, actress (Landlord)/singer, dies of heart attack at 72
1990 - Roderick Cook, actor (Rockabye), dies of apparent heart attack at 58
1991 - Don Dubbins, actor (Enchanted Island, DI), dies at 63
1991 - Leo Geerts, [Marcel van der Linden], Belgian writer/critic, dies
1991 - Mervyn Nelson, director (Some of My Best Friends Are...), dies at 76
1992 - Andre de Villiers, South African, murdered
1992 - Barbara Morgan, photographer (Martha Graham), dies at 92
1992 - Tommy Nutter, fashion designer (bell bottom pants), dies of AIDs at 49
1993 - Max de Metz, Dutch publisher/translator/interpreter, dies at 72
1993 - Max de Metz, Dutch publisher/translator, dies at 72
1993 - Robert C Maynard, CEO (Oakland Tribune), dies at 56
1993 - Feng Kang, Chinese mathematician (b. 1920)
1994 - Elias Canetti, buried next to James Joyce
1994 - Joseph Paul Jack Sharkey Zukauskas, boxer, dies at 91
1995 - David Warrilow, actor (Simon, Radio Days, Barton Fink), dies at 60
1995 - Howard Koch, screenwriter, dies at 92
1995 - Marjorie Sykes, peace campaigner, dies at 90
1995 - William Strethan "Wild Bill" Davis, musician, dies at 76
1995 - Ted Whitten, Australian rules footballer (b. 1933)
1996 - Edward Digby Baltzell, Ivy League sociologist, dies at 80
1998 - Wladyslaw Komar, Polish track and field athlete (b. 1940)
1998 - Tadeusz Slusarski, Polish track and field athlete (b. 1950)
2004 - Thea Astley, Australian writer (b. 1925)
2004 - Gérard Souzay, French baritone (b. 1918)
2005 - John Bahcall, American astrophysicist (b. 1934)
2007 - Bill Deedes, British journalist and politician (b. 1913)
2007 - Eddie Griffin, American basketball player (b. 1982)
2008 - Franco Sensi, Italian oil tycoon and president of A.S. Roma
2010 - Francesco Cossiga, Italian politician and eighth President of the Italian Republic (b. 1928)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 18, 2013, 11:16:28 AM

This Day in History for 18th August


Historical Events

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Russian Tsar Peter the Great                             32nd US President                 Singer & Cultural Icon Elvis Presley
                                                                      Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Cuban President Fidel Castro                    Baseball Player Hank Aaron                  Rock Guitarist Jimi Hendrix

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Comedian Jerry Lewis


293 BC - The oldest known Roman temple to Venus is founded, starting the institution of Vinalia 
              Rustica.
410 - King Alarik I's Visigoten occupies & plunders Rome
1201 - The city of Riga is founded.
1289 - Pope Nicolaus IV publishes degree "Supra montem"
1541 - A Portuguese ship drifts ashore in the ancient Japanese province of Higo (modern day 
           Kumamoto Prefecture). (Traditional Japanese date: July 27, 1541)
1564 - Spanish king Philip II joins Council of Trente
1587 - Saul Wahl is elected King of Poland, according to legend.
1591 - Governor of Roanoke Island colony returns from England & found everyone in the colony had
           disappeared [or Aug 17, 1590]
1605 - Spanish army under of general Spinola conquerors Lingen
1634 - Urbain Grandier, accused and convicted of sorcery, is burned alive in Loudun, France.
1636 - The Covenant of the Town of Dedham, Massachusetts is first signed.
1674 - Jean Racine's "Iphigénie," premieres in Versailles
1686 - Cassini reports seeing a satellite orbiting Venus
1698 - Russian czar Peter the Great arrives in Zaandam
1700 - Swedish, English & Dutch army lands on Seeland, Denmark
1735 - Evening Post begins publishing (Boston Mass)
1759 - -19] 2nd sea battle of Lagos: England vs France
1769 - Gunpowder in Brescia Italy church explodes, killing 3,000
1795 - Curacao governor De Veer sends miltia to stop rebellious slaves
1817 - Gloucester, Mass, newspapers tells of wild sea serpent seen offshore
1834 - Mt Vesuvius erupts
1835 - Last Pottawatomie Indians leave Chicago
1838 - 1st US marine expedition
1840 - Organization of American Society of Dental Surgeons founded (NY)
1846 - Gen Stephen W Kearney's US forces captures Santa Fe NM
1848 - Camila O'Gorman and Ladislao Gutierrez are executed on the orders of Argentine dictator
           Juan Manuel de Rosas.
1858 - Netherlands & Japan sign trade agreement
1862 - General Lee's adjutant major Stuart captured
1862 - Sioux Indians begin uprising in Minnesota (it is later crushed)
1864 - 6th day of battle at Deep Bottom Run, Virginia: Confederate assault
1864 - Petersburg Campaign-Battle of Weldon Railroad day 1 of 3 days
1868 - Pierre Janssan discovers helium in solar spectrum during eclipse
1870 - Battle at Gravelotte Privat: Prussia beat France, 32,000 casualties
1872 - 1st mail-order catalog issued by A M Ward
1873 - 1st ascent of Mount Whitney, California (14,494')
1886 - Carr Baker Neel & Samuel Neel win US Lawn Tennis Association doubles
1891 - Hurricane hits Martinique, about 700 die
1894 - Congress creates Bureau of Immigration
1896 - Adolph Ochs (39) buys NY Times
1904 - Chris Watson resigns as Prime Minister of Australia and is succeeded by George Reid.
1909 - Mayor of Tokyo Yukio Ozaki presents Washington, D.C. with 2,000 cherry trees, which
           President Taft decides to plant near the Potomac River.
1914 - Oscar Egg sets new cycling hour record (44,247 km)
1914 - -20] Belgian army withdraws to Antwerp
1914 - French troops under general Dubail occupy Sarrebourg
1914 - Pres Wilson issues "Proclamation of Neutrality"
1915 - Braves Field opens in Boston to see Braves beat Cards 3-1
1917 - Dutch Naval Air Force forms (MLD)
1917 - A Great Fire in Thessaloniki, Greece destroys 32% of the city leaving 70,000 individuals
           homeless.
1919 - Anti-Cigarette League of America forms in Chicago Illinois
1920 - 1st class debut of Walter Hammond
1920 - 19th Amendment on women's suffrage ratified
1923 - 37th US Womens Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats Molla B Mallory (62 61)
1924 - France begins retracting troops out of Ruhrgebied
1924 - France begins withdrawing troops from the Ruhr
1925 - Belgian & US sign treaty about war debts
1925 - Cardinal Mercier warns Belgians against socialism/liberalism
1926 - England regain Ashes with 5th Test Cricket win, to take series 1-0
1926 - Weather map televised for 1st time
1930 - Eastern Airlines begins passenger service
1931 - Lou Gehrig hitless in Detroit, his 1,000th consecutively played game
1932 - Auguste Piccard/Max Cosijns reach 16,201m in a balloon
1932 - Englishman James Mollisson is 1st to fly east to west over Atlantic
1934 - 48th US Womens Tennis: Helen Jacobs beats Sarah H Cooke (61 64)
1934 - Bradman scores 244 in 5th Test Cricket, 316 mins, 32 fours 1 six
1934 - Ponsford & Bradman make 451 partnership in 316 minutes v Eng
1936 - 106.5°F-Hottest afternoon ever in Iowa
1937 - 1st FM radio construction permit issued (W1X0J (WGTR) in Boston MA)
1938 - FDR dedicates Thousand Islands Bridge connecting US & Canada
1940 - 71 German aircrafts shot down above England
1941 - German concentration camp Amersfoort opens
1941 - Phillies commit 8 errors in a game
1942 - Carlson's Raiders land on Makin, Gilbert islands, kill 350 Japs
1943 - Carl Hubbell wins his 253rd & final game, all with Giants
1943 - Final convoy of Jews from Salonika Greece arrive at Auschwitz
1943 - Otto Skorzeny's Heinkel-111 shot down at Sardinia
1944 - Paris railroad workers strike against nazi occupiers
1944 - US 15th Army corp reaches Mantes-Gassicourt near Paris
1944 - US 20th Army corp conquers Chartres
1945 - Scheduled demonstrations at Polo Grounds & Ebbets Field to end segregation in organized
           baseball are called off
1946 - Golf Writers Associaton of America forms
1947 - Naval torpedo & mine factory explodes at Cadiz, Spain killing 300
1949 - Hungary adopts constitution
1949 - Ralph Flanagan & his orchestra records "You're Breaking My Heart"
1950 - Julien Lahaut, the chairman of the Communist Party of Belgium is assassinated by far-right
           elements.
1951 - Cricket 1st-class debut of Raymond Illingworth
1954 - James E Wilkins is 1st black to attend a US cabinet meeting
1955 - -19] Hurricane Diane, kills 400 in US
1955 - 46.1 cm rainfall at Westfield, Massachusetts (state record)
1955 - Sjukri al-Quwatli re-elected president of Syria
1956 - Cin Reds (8 ) & Cubs (2) combine to hit 10 HRs in a 9 inning game
1956 - Elvis Presley's "Hound Dog/Don't Be Cruel" reaches #1
1957 - Amelia Wershoven sets record of female throwing a baseball (252'4½")
1957 - Betty Dodd wins LPGA Colonial Golf Open
1957 - Juan-Manuel Fangio, wins his last auto World Championship at 46
1957 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1958 - "Lolita," by Vladimir Nabokov, published
1958 - Betsy Palmer joins Today Show panel
1958 - Fidel Castro makes a speech on Cuban pirate radio Rebelde
1958 - Floyd Patterson TKOs Roy Harris in 13 for heavyweight boxing title
1958 - Great Britain issues regional stamps (N Ireland, Scotland & Wales)
1958 - Perez Prado "Mambo King," receives one of the 1st gold records
1958 - TV game show scandal investigation starts
1958 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
1958 - Verne Gagne beats Edouard Carpentier in Omaha, to become NWA champ
1959 - Branch Rickey resigns as Pirates' CEO to be pres of Continental League
1960 - 1st commercial oral contraceptive, Enovid 10 debuts in Skokie Ill
1960 - 1st photograph bounced off a satellite, Cedar Rapids, Iowa and Richardson, Texas
1960 - Beatles give their 1st public performance (Kaiserkeller in Hamburg)
1960 - Lew Burdette pitches to just 27 for a 1-0 no-hitter against Phillies
1962 - Peter, Paul & Mary release their 1st hit "If I Had a Hammer"
1963 - James Meredith becomes 1st black graduate from U of Mississippi
1963 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Albuquerque Swing Parade Golf Tournament
1964 - Beatles arrive in SF, 2nd US visit
1964 - Charles Helu elected president of Lebanon
1964 - South Africa banned from Olympic Games because of apartheid policies
1964 - USSR launch 3 Kosmos satellites
1965 - Hank Aaron loses a HR, because he hit it out of batter's box
1965 - Orioles' Brooks Robinson hits into his record tying (George Sisler)
1967 - Red Sox Tony Conigliaro is beaned by Angels Jack Hamilton
1967 - Rolling Stones release "We Love You"
1967 - WCBS radio in NYC goes all-news
1968 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Holiday Inn Golf Classic
1969 - Mick Jagger accidentally shot while filming "Ned Kelly"
1969 - Woodstock Music & Art Fair closes with Jimi Hendrix / Band of Gypsys as the final act
1972 - Police fine Paul & Linda McCartney ś800 in Sweden cannabis possession
1973 - Gene Krupa, drummer, plays for final time with Benny Goodman Quartet
1973 - Hank Aaron's record 1,378 extra base hit surpasses Stan Musial record
1974 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA St Paul Keller Golf Open
1976 - USSR's Luna 24 soft-lands on Moon
1976 - In the Korean Demilitarized Zone at Panmunjeom, the Axe Murder Incident results in the
           death of two US soldiers.
1977 - 2 girls are killed by a runaway car outside of Graceland
1977 - Dodgers pitcher Don Sutton throws his NL record tying 5th one-hitter
1978 - Memphis Tenn settles with striking police officers & firefighters
1979 - Iran Ayatollah Khomeini demands Saint War against Kurds
1979 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1980 - KC Royals' George Brett, batting avg reach .400
1981 - "My Fair Lady" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 119 performances
1981 - Jerry Lewis appears on "Donahue" to defend Telethons
1981 - Football running back, Herschel Walker, of U of Georgia, takes out a Lloyd's of London 
           insurance policy for $1 million
1982 - 1st time NYSE tops 100 M figure, 132.69 M shares traded
1982 - LA Dodgers beat Chicago Cubs, 6-5, in 21 innings (game started 8/17)
1982 - NYSE sets trading record of 132,690,000 shares traded
1982 - Pete Rose sets record with his 13,941st plate appearance
1982 - Longest baseball game at Wrigley Field in Chicago IL, ends after 22 innings - before LA
           Dodgers beat Cubs 2-1 (game started Aug 17th)
1982 - Japanese election law is amended to allow for proportional representation.
1983 - Hurricane Alicia battered Houston & Galveston, Texas
1983 - Samantha Druce, age 12y 119d is youngest woman to swim English Channel
1983 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1983 - Royals defeat Yanks, 5-4, completing "pine-tar" game (12 minutes). Hal McRae strikes out &
           Dan Quisenberry retires Yankees in order
1984 - Triangle Oil Corp, above-ground storage tank at Jacksonville Fla, spills 2.5 m gallons of oil
           burned after lightning sparked a fire
1985 - Amy Alcott wins LPGA Nestle World Championship of Women's Golf
1985 - Muffin Spencer-Devlin wins MasterCard International Pro-Am Golf Tourn
1985 - Suisei Launch (Halley's Comet Flyby)
1986 - Crockett's Tavern opens in Fort Wilderness
1986 - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Philadelphia PA on WYSP 94.1 FM
1986 - Jim Kelly signs with NFL Buffalo Bills ($75 million for 5 years)
1986 - John Tesh's 1st appearance on Entertainment Tonight
1986 - WYSP-FM Philadelphia begins simulcasting Howard Stern Show
1987 - Houston Oiler Earl Campbell, retires from NFL
1987 - Ohio nurse Donald Harvey sentence to triple life (poisoned 24)
1987 - Philip Rush of NZ, set record for triple crossing English Channel his time 28:21, 10 hours
           faster than 1st man to do it
1987 - Straatsburg: Manuela Stellmach/Astrid Strauss/Anke Mohring/ Heike Friedrich swims female
           world record 4x200m freestyle (7:55.47)
1988 - FDA approves Minoxidil as a hair loss treatment
1988 - Largest house (130 rooms) on Long Island sold for $22 million
1988 - Republican Convention in New Orleans select Bush-Quayle ticket
1989 - Arturo Barrios of Mexico sets 10K record (27:08.23) in Berlin
1989 - Bucky Dent replaces Dallas Green as NY Yankee manager
1989 - Leading presidential hopeful Luis Carlos Galán is assassinated near Bogotá in Colombia.
1991 - Cindy Rarick wins LPGA Northgate Computer Golf Classic
1991 - Hurricane Bob hits NC with 115 MPH wind
1991 - Pan Am games closes in Havana
1992 - "Real Inspector Hound" opens at Criterion NYC for 61 perfs
1993 - Historical Kapelbrug in Luzern Switz, destroyed by fire
1994 - 5.6 earthquake in Algeria, kills 171
1995 - Cards reliever Tom Henke earns his 300th career save
1996 - Emilee Klein wins LPGA Weetabix Women's British Golf Open
1996 - Record 6,654 tap at Macy's Tap-o-mania in NYC
2000 - A Federal jury finds the US EPA guilty of discrimination against Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo,
           under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, later inspiring passage of the No FEAR Act.
2005 - Dennis Rader is sentenced to 175 years in prison for the BTK serial killings.
2005 - Massive power blackout hits the Indonesian island of Java, affecting almost 100 million people.
2008 - President Of Pakistan Pervez Musharaf resigned due to pressure from opposition.
2011 - The West Memphis Three are released from prison after 18 years in imprisonment
2012 - Al-Qaeda militants kill 14 people in an attack in Aden, Yemen
2012 - NATO air strikes kill at least 13 militants in Afghanistan

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 18, 2013, 11:21:53 AM

This Day in History for 18th August


Famous Weddings

1572 - King Navarra Henri de Bourbon marries Margaretha van Valois
1782 - Romantic Age poet and artist William Blake (24) marries Catherine Boucher, 5 years his
           junior, in St. Mary's Church, Battersea, London.
1918 - Italian tenor Enrico Caruso (45) weds socialite Dorothy Benjamin (25)
1979 - Nick Lowe marries singer Carlene Carter
1984 - Duran Duran keyboardist Nick Rhodes (22) weds Des Moines department store heiress Julie
           Anne Friedman (25) at London registrar's office
2000 - Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (57) weds former congressional aide Calista Bisek (34)
           in Alexandria, Virginia
2005 - Model and former Playboy Playmate Kylie Bax (30) weds photographer Spiros Poros in Delos,
           Greece
2011 - American Idol's first-ever blind finalist Scott MacIntyre (26) weds Christina Teich in Scottsdale,
           Arizona
2012 - "Melrose Place" actor Grant Show (50) weds "The Campaign" actress and former ballet dancer
           Katherine LaNasa (45) at The Oak Grove at Ribbit Tree & Plant Nursery in Topanga, California
2012 - Former "Martin and Everybody Hates Chris" actress Tichina Arnold (43) weds Rico Hines in
           Honolulu, Hawaii

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 18, 2013, 11:33:55 AM

This Day in History for 18th August


Famous Birthdays

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Soldier/Public Administrator                 Indian Politician and Diplomat               Actress Shelley Winters (1920)
 Meriwether Lewis (1774)                        Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (1900)

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Baseball Player                                        Actor Robert Redford (1936)
Roberto Clemente (1934)


472 - Flavius Ricimer, general of the Western Roman Empire, kingmaker
1414 - Jami, Persian poet (d. 1492)
1450 - Marko Marulic/Marulus/Splichanin/Pechinich, Croatian poet
1579 - Charlotte Flandrina van Nassau, daughter of Willem I of Orange
1587 - 1st English child born in New World (Virginia Dare)
1596 - Jean Bolland, Flemish Jesuit writer (d. 1665)
1605 - Henry Hammond, English churchman (d. 1660)
1606 - Maria Anna of Spain, Holy Roman Empire Empress and Queen of Hungary (d. 1646)
1611 - Ludwika Maria Gonzaga, queen of Poland (d. 1650)
1657 - Ferdinando Galli Bibiena, Italian architect/designer (d. 1743)
1685 - Brook Taylor, England, mathematician, discoverer of Taylor's Theorem
1692 - Louis Henri, Duc de Bourbon, Prime Minister of France (d. 1740)
1720 - Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers, English murderer (d. 1760)
1745 - Vaclav Josef Bartolomej Praupner, composer
1750 - Antonio Salieri, Italy, composer (Tatare)
1754 - François, marquis de Chasseloup-Laubat, French general (d. 1833)
1769 - Alexandre Stievenard, composer
1774 - Meriwether Lewis, Charlottsville VA, solider and public administrator (Lewis & Clark
           Expedition), (d. 1809)
1778 - Fabian Gottlieb von Bellinghausen, 1st to circumnavigate Antarctica
1792 - John, 1st Earl Russell, British Whig PM (1846-52, 1865-66)
1803 - Nathan Clifford, American statesman, diplomat, and Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d.
           1881)
1805 - Josef Danhauser, Austrian painter (Mutterliebe)
1807 - Charles Francis Adams, (Union), died in 1886
1813 - Benjamin Alvord, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1884
1818 - William Farquhar Barry, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1879
1819 - Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaievna, Duchess of Leuchtenberg (d. 1876)
1823 - Willem J F Nuyens, Dutch physician/RC historian
1830 - Emperor Franz Josef I of Austria (d. 1916)
1834 - Marshall Field, Conway Massachusetts, owner (Field Dept Store)
1849 - Benjamin Louis Paul Godard, composer
1855 - Alfred Wallis, English artist and mariner (d. 1942)
1856 - Charles Hutchison Gabriel, composer
1856 - Jan Karol Gali, composer
1857 - Libert H. Boeynaems, Belgian Catholic prelate (d. 1926)
1870 - Hugh Bromley-Davenport, England cricketer (d. 1954)
1871 - Johan J Arch, graphic artist (wood cutter)
1873 - Leo Slezak, Austria tenor/actor (Othello)
1873 - Otto Harbach, songwriter (Smoke Gets in Your Eyes)
1875 - Johan E Elias, historian (Amsterdam)
1878 - Fritz Brun, composer
1879 - Aleksandr Rodzyanko, Russian general (d. 1970)
1881 - Hermann Karl Josef Zilcher, composer
1882 - Eugeen Calleen, Flemish sculptor
1882 - Marcel Louis Auguste Samuel-Rousseau, composer
1883 - Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, French fashion designer (Chanel)
1885 - Nettie Palmer, Australian poet and essayist (d. 1964)
1887 - Nico J Polak, Dutch economist
1890 - Walther Funk, German Nazi politician (d. 1960)
1893 - Ernest MacMillan, composer
1893 - Burleigh Grimes, American baseball player (d. 1985)
1896 - Alan Mowbray, London England, actor (Dante, Colonel Flack)
1896 - Jack Pickford, Canadian-born actor (d. 1933)
1900 - Walter O'Keefe, Hartford Ct, songwriter/TV host (Mayor of Hollywood)
1900 - Glenn Albert Black, American archaeologist (d. 1964)
1900 - Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Allahabad Oudh, Indian diplomat and politician
1902 - Julius Kalas, composer
1902 - Adamson-Eric, Estonian painter (d. 1968)
1903 - Ake Olof Sebastian Udden, composer
1903 - Lucienne Boyer, French singer (d. 1983)
1904 - Max Factor Jr, CEO (Max Factor Cosmetics)
1904 - Sterling W Cole, (Rep-R-NY)
1904 - [Francis] Max Factor, cosmetics manufacturer (Max Factor)
1905 - Peter Paul Kreuder, composer
1906 - Andre Van Gyseghem, England, actor (Search for the Nile)
1907 - Cecilia Grace Hunt Reeves Gillie, Executive (BBC)
1907 - Enoch Light, Canton Ohio, orchestra leader (Gulf Road Show with Bob Smith)
1907 - Howard Swanson, composer
1907 - Otto Mortensen, composer
1908 - Armijn Pane, Indonesian writer (Belenggu)
1908 - Bill Merritt, cricketer (early NZ Test leg-spinner, also Northants)
1908 - Edgar Faure, thriller writer/PM of France (1952, 52-56)
1908 - Milan Ristic, composer
1909 - Miliza Korjus, Warsaw Poland, actress (Great Waltz)
1910 - Charles Wegg-Prosser, solicitor
1910 - Herman Berlinski, composer
1915 - Max Lanier, baseball player
1916 - Elsa Morante, Italy, writer (L'isola di Arturo)
1916 - Moura Lympany, Saltash England, pianist (OBE-1979)
1917 - Casper Weinberger, US Secretary of Defense (1981-87)
1918 - Elsa Morante, writer
1919 - Walter J Hickel, (Gov-R-Alaska)/US Secretary of Interior (1969-71)
1920 - Bob Kennedy, baseball player
1920 - [Thomas] Godfrey Evans, English cricket keeper (1950's)
1920 - Shelley Winters, St Louis Missouri, actress (A Place in the Sun, A Patch of Blue & Poseidon
           Adventure), (d. 2006)
1921 - Zdzisław Żygulski, Jr., Polish art historian
1922 - Alain Robbe-Grillet, France, novelist (Voyeur)
1922 - Eric William Hunter Christie, barrister
1923 - Jahangir Khan Irani, cricket wicketkeeper for India (1947-8 Aust tour)
1923 - Sadu Shinde, cricketer (Indian leg-spinner late 1940's/early 1950's)
1923 - Jenni Irani, Indian cricketer (d. 1982)
1924 - Mohammad Zia Ul-Haq, pres of Pakistan (1977-88)[or Aug 12]
1925 - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss, UK, sci-fi author (Helliconia Trilogy)
1925 - Tonny Til, rocker
1925 - Pierre Grondin, French Canadian cardiac surgeon (d. 2006)
1927 - Rosalynn Smith Carter, Georgia, 1st lady (1977-1981), Jimmy's lust
1928 - Marge Schott, CEO (Cincinnati Reds)
1929 - Hugues Aufray, French singer
1930 - Carl Barger, Lewistown Pa, baseball pres (Pittsburgh Pirates, Fla Marlins)
1930 - Grant Williams, NYC, actor (Hawaiian Eye, Incredible Shrinking Man)
1930 - Johnny Preston, Port Arthur, Tx, rocker (Feel So Fine)
1930 - Liviu Librescu, Israeli professor, killed in the Virginia Tech massacre
1931 - Henricus AFMO "Hans" van Mierlo, Dutch minister of Defense (D66)
1931 - Bramwell Tillsley, Canadian Salvation Army general
1931 - Dick White, English footballer
1932 - William R. Bennett, Premier of British Columbia
1933 - Roman Polanski, Poland, director (Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown, Pirates)
1933 - Just Fontaine, French footballer
1934 - Rafer Lewis Johnson, Hillsboro Tx, decathlete (Olympic-gold-1960)
1934 - Roberto Clemente, US baseball outfielder (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1934 - Vincent Bugliosi, attorney/author (Helter-Skelter)
1934 - Ronnie Carroll, British singer
1935 - Gail Fisher, Orange NJ, actress (Peggy-Mannix)
1935 - Lajos Papp, composer
1935 - Rafer Johnson, Hillsboro Texas, decathlete (Olympics-gold-60)
1935 - Howard Morrison, New Zealand entertainer
1936 - Robert Redford, Santa Monica California, American actor (Sting, Candidate, Natural, Great
           Gatsby)
1937 - William George Rushton, London, actor/author/cartoonist (TW3)
1938 - Joe Frank, American radio personality
1939 - Joe Azcue, baseball player
1939 - Johnny Preston singer (Running Bear, Cradle of Love)
1939 - Molly Bee, Oklahoma City OK, actress (Pinky Lee Show)
1939 - Harald Heide-Steen Jr., Norwegian actor and comedian (d. 2008)
1939 - Robert Horton, British businessman
1940 - Frankie Avalon, rocker (Venus, Beach Blanket Bingo)
1940 - Joan Joyce, Waterbury CT, LPGA golfer (1984 S&H Golf Classic-6th)
1941 - Christopher Jones, Jackson TN, actor (Wild in the Streets)
1941 - Matt Snell, NFL running back (NY Jets, Super Bowl III)
1943 - Martin Mull, Chicago Illinois, actor/comedian (Bad Manners, Flick, Serial)
1943 - Sarah Dash, Trenton NJ, rock vocalist (Patti LaBelle & Bluebirds)
1943 - Gianni Rivera, Italian footballer and politician
1944 - Carl Wayne, rocker (Move)
1945 - Barbara Harris, US singer (Toys-A Lover's Concerto)
1945 - Nona Hendryx, Trenton NJ, rocker (LaBelle-Lady Marmalade)
1948 - Carol O'Neal, playmate (July, 1972)
1948 - Rudy Hartono Kurniawan, Indonesia, All-England tennis champ
1948 - Joseph Marcell, British actor
1949 - Nigel Griggs, rocker (Split Enz)
1950 - Candice Earley, Ft Hood TX, actress (Donna Tyler-All My Children)
1950 - Dennis Elliot, London, rock drummer (Foreigner)
1950 - Lynn Adams, Kingsville TX, LPGA golfer
1951 - Greg Pruitt, NFL running back (LA Raiders, Super Bowl XVIII)
1952 - Elayne Boosler, Brooklyn NY, comedienne (Broadway Baby, Party of One)
1952 - Nicholas John, dramaturge
1952 - Patrick Swayze, Houston Texas, actor/dancer (Dirty Dancing, Ghost)
1952 - Ricky Villa, Argentine former footballer
1953 - Louie Gohmert, American politician
1954 - Umberto Guidoni, Rome Italy, PhD/astronaut (STS 75)
1955 - Taher ElGamal, Egyptian scientist
1956 - Sandeep Patil, cricketer (Indian batsman Great 174 v Adelaide 1981)
1956 - John Debney, American composer
1956 - Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz, American musician
1957 - Carole Bouquest, Paris, actress (On Her Majesty's Secret Service)
1957 - Dennis Leary, actor/comic (MTV)
1957 - Ron Strykert, Australia, rock guitarist (Men At Work-Who Can it Be)
1958 - Madeleine Stowe, Los Angeles California, actress (Tropical Snow, Bad Girls)
1959 - Tom Prichard, American wrestler
1960 - Sonny Skinner, Porstmouth VA, Nike golfer (1993 NIKE Shreveport Open)
1961 - John Viscardi, NYC, actor (Father Tony-One Life to Live)
1961 - Bob Woodruff, American journalist, anchor
1962 - Sandra Marie Miller Farmer-Patrick, Kingston Jamaica, 400m hurdler
1962 - Felipe Calderón, President of Mexico
1963 - Luiz Mattar, Brazil, tennis star
1964 - Edith Frost, American singer/songwriter
1964 - Craig Bierko, American actor
1964 - Kenny Walker, American basketball player
1965 - Koji Kikkawa, Japanese singer
1965 - Jim Florentine, American comedian
1966 - Cees Lock of hair, soccer player (NEC)
1966 - Steve Avery, NFL fullback (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1966 - Gustavo Charif, Argentine artist
1966 - Kang Soo-yeon, South Korean actress
1967 - Blas Elias Gomez, Kennedy TX, rock drummer (Slaughter-Stick it Live)
1967 - John Jurkovic, defensive tackle (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1967 - Julie Kristen Smith, Nuhremburg Germany, choreographer (Showgirls)
1967 - Tracy Tracy, rocker (Primitives-Lovely, Lump of Coal)
1967 - Brian Michael Bendis, American comic book writer
1967 - Dan Peters, American musician
1967 - Daler Mehndi, Indian bhangra/pop singer
1968 - Brian Mitchell, NFL running back (Washington Redskins)
1968 - Carolyn Crudgington, Australian softball pitcher (Olympics-bronze-96)
1968 - Greta Lind, Goshen NY, actress (Katie Kennicott-All My Children)
1968 - Griffin Drew, Hazelhurst Georgia, actress (Dinosaur Island)
1968 - John Coyle, West Bloomfield Mich, short track skater (Olympics-1994)
1968 - Justin Strzelczyk, NFL guard/offensive tackle (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1968 - Lee Seung-yeon, South Korean actress
1969 - Christian Slater, actor (Robin Hood, Untamed Heart, Heathers)
1969 - Isaac Austin, NBA center (Miami Heat)
1969 - Masta Killa, American rapper
1969 - Everlast, American musician
1969 - Edward Norton, American actor
1970 - Malcolm Jamal Warner, Jersey City NJ, actor (Theodore-Cosby Show)
1970 - Richie Cunningham, kicker (Dallas Cowboys)
1970 - Robert Higginson, Philadelphia PA, outfielder (Detroit Tigers)
1970 - Greg Dean Schmitz, American online film journalist
1971 - Jada Pinkett, actress (Set it Off, Nutty Professor, Menace II Society)
1971 - Jonathan David Winter, Wellington NZ, 100m backstroker (Olympics-96)
1971 - Kevin Bouie, NFL running back (Philadelphia Eagles, Ariz Cardinals)
1971 - Mindy Czuleger, Inglewood Ca, WPVA volleyballer (Myrtle Bch-17th-1994)
1971 - Trey Ames, Canton Oh, actor (David-A Year in the Life)
1971 - Richard D James, Irish-born musician (Aphex Twin)
1971 - Jacob Vargas, American actor
1972 - Derrick Harris, running back (St Louis Rams)
1972 - Loraine Lambert, Ipswich Queensland, golfer (NZ champ 1991, 92)
1972 - Nate Jones, Chicago Ill, heavyweight boxer (Olympics-bronze-96)
1972 - Ray Jacobs, NFL linebacker (Denver Broncos)
1972 - Keiko Yamada, Japanese singer
1972 - Leo Ku, Hong Kong singer
1972 - Shaun Wilson, Australian artist
1973 - Alex Pijper, Dutch soccer player (FC Groningen)
1973 - Clarence Benford, NFL tight end (Seattle Seahawks)
1973 - Luke Fickell, defensive tackle (New Orleans Saints)
1974 - Sekou Soumah, soccer player (Willem II)
1974 - Shivnarine Chanderpaul, cricketer (WI left-handed batsman 1994-)
1976 - Daphnee Lynn Duplaix, Manhattan NY, playmate (July 1997)
1976 - Tom Malchow, US, 200m butterfly/free (Olympics-silver-96)
1976 - Bryan Volpenhein, American rower
1977 - Régine Chassagne, Canadian musician Arcade Fire
1978 - Andy Samberg, American comedian
1980 - Esteban Cambiasso, Argentine footballer
1980 - Athina Papayianni, Greek race walker
1980 - Preeti Jhangiani, Indian actress
1980 - Rob Nguyen, Australian racing driver
1980 - Jeremy Shockey, American football Tight End
1981 - César Delgado, Argentine footballer
1981 - Dimitris Salpigidis, Greek footballer
1981 - Jonathan Schneck, American musician (Relient K)
1983 - Kris Boyd, Scottish footballer
1983 - Michael Montgomery, American football player
1983 - Mica Penniman (Mika), Lebanese-born musician
1983 - Daniel Keith Swain (Danny!), American record producer/hip-hop artist
1984 - Robert Huth, German footballer
1987 - Mika Boorem, American actress
1992 - Frances Bean Cobain, daughter of Kurt Cobain & Courtney Love
1992 - Riko Narumi, Japanese actress
1994 - Jessie Flower, American actress
1995 - Parker McKenna Posey, American actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 18, 2013, 11:36:47 AM

This Day in History for 18th August


Famous Deaths

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Choreographer Frederick Ashton (1988)


353 - Decentius, Roman usurper
849 - Walafrid Strabo, German monk and theologian
1227 - Genghis Khan, Mongol conqueror, dies
1236 - Theodorus Van Celles, monastery founder (Kruisheren), dies
1258 - Theodore II Lascaris, Emperor of the Empire of Nicaea
1276 - Adrian V, [Ottobono Fieschi], Italian Pope (7/11-8/18/1276), dies
1318 - Clare of Montefalco, Italian Abbess and religious leader (born c. 1268)
1430 - Thomas de Ros, 9th Baron de Ros, English soldier and politician (drowned) (b. 1406)
1503 - Alexander VI, [Rodrigo de Borja], Spanish Pope (1492-1503), dies
1559 - Paul IV, [Giampietro Caraffa], Pope (1555-59), dies at 83
1563 - Étienne de La Boétie, French judge and writer (b. 1530)
1613 - Giovanni Artusi, Italian composer
1620 - Wanli, Emperor of China (b. 1563)
1634 - Urbain Grandier, French priest (b. 1590)
1642 - Guido Reni, Italian painter (b. 1575)
1645 - Eudoxia Streshneva, Tsarina of Mikhail I of Russia (b. 1608)
1652 - Benjamin G Cuyp, historical painter, dies at about 40
1683 - Charles Hart, English actor (b. 1625)
1707 - William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire, English soldier and statesman (b. 1640)
1712 - Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers, English soldier
1765 - Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (1745-65) dies at 56
1803 - James Beattie, Scottish poet/philosopher (Essay on Truth), dies at 67
1809 - Matthew Boulton, English manufacturer and engineer (b. 1728)
1811 - Johann Heinrich Zang, composer, dies at 78
1815 - Chauncey Goodrich, American politician (b. 1759)
1840 - Antony CW Staring, Dutch patriot/poet (Jaromir), dies at 73
1842 - Louis de Freycinet, French explorer (b. 1779)
1850 - H de Balzac, writer, dies at 51
1853 - Peter Lichtenthal, composer, dies at 73
1863 - Thomas Welsh, US Union brig-general (Antietam), dies at 39
1870 - Felix Salm-Salm, Prussian/US prince/brig-general, dies in battle
1894 - William Charles Levey, composer, dies at 57
1896 - Frederick Nichols Crouch, composer, dies at 88
1901 - Richard Kleinmichel, composer, dies at 54
1907 - John Kerr, physicist (magneto-optic Kerr-effect), dies at 82
1916 - Edward D Pain, English journalist (NY World), dies in battle at 36
1919 - Joseph E. Seagram, Canadian distillery founder (b. 1841)
1934 - Delilah L Beasley, US author/columnist (Oakland Tribune), dies at 61
1940 - Walter P. Chrysler, American automobile executive (b. 1875)
1942 - Erwin Schulhoff, Czech/Russian composer/pianist, dies at 48
1943 - Hans Jeschonnek, German air force general/chief-staff, commits suicide
1943 - Ali-Agha Shikhlinski, Russian-Azerbaijani general (b. 1865)
1944 - Ernst "Teddy" Thalmann, leader of German KPD, dies
1949 - Paul J Mares, US jazz trumpetist/composer (Tin Roof Blues), dies at 49
1950 - Julien Lahaut, chairman Belgian Communist Party, murdered
1952 - Ralph Byrd, actor (Dick Tracy TV Show), dies at 43
1952 - Alberto Hurtado Cruchaga, Chilean Jesuit saint (b. 1901)
1957 - Wawrzyniec Jerzy Zulawski, composer, dies at 41
1961 - Learned Hand, Chief judge of US court of Appeals, dies at 89
1961 - Leonhard Frank, writer, dies at 78
1962 - Cleo Ridgely, silent screen actress (I Remember Mama), dies at 68
1966 - Isaac Keesing, Dutch founder (System Keesing), dies at 80
1966 - Watze Cuperus, Frisian author (Struggle & Blessing), dies at 75
1968 - Cy Walter, pianist (3's Company), dies at 52
1969 - Laci Boldemann, composer, dies at 48
1969 - Mildred Davis, actress (Haunted Spooks), dies of coronary at 68
1969 - Otto Stern, German/US physicist (Nobel 1943), dies at 81
1980 - Norman Cazden, composer, dies at 65
1981 - Anita Loos, US (stage)author (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes), dies at 88
1982 - Beverly Bayne, actress (Romeo & Juliet, Passionate Youth), dies at 87
1983 - Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born art historian (b. 1902)
1988 - Alexandr V Shchukin, Russian cosmonaut, dies in SU-26 crash at 42
1988 - Frederick Ashton, British choreographer (Cinderella), dies at 83
1989 - Bert Oosterbosch, cyclist, dies
1989 - Luis Carlos Galan, Colombian presidential candidate, murdered
1990 - B F Skinner, psychologist (Skinner Box), dies of Leukemia at 86
1990 - Raf Reymen, Flemish actor, dies
1990 - Grethe Ingmann, Danish singer (b. 1938)
1991 - Vaughn Shoemaker, US cartoonist (John Q Public, Pulitzer), dies
1992 - Gerard Sonder, Dutch radio host (AVRO), dies
1992 - John Stuges, director (Gunfight at OK Corral), dies of emphysema at 82
1992 - Christopher McCandless, subject of the book Into the Wild (b. 1968)
1993 - Alf Bold, German festival programmer, dies of AIDS at 47
1994 - Gottlob Frick, singer, dies at 88
1994 - John Beavan, newspaper Editor, dies at 84
1994 - Judy Ann Scott-Fox, agent, dies at 56
1994 - Richard Lawrence Millington Synge, chromatographer, dies at 79
1995 - James Ackley Maxwell, actor/director (Traitors, Otley), dies at 66
1995 - Sylvester Louis Adams, murderer, dies at 39
1996 - Geoffrey Dearmer, poet, dies at 103
1996 - Hugo Gabriel Gryn, rabbi, dies at 66
1996 - Thoams Eric Evans, dean of St Paul's, dies at 68
1998 - Persis Khambatta, Indian actress (Star Trek), dies of a heart attack at 49
2001 - David Peakall, British scientist (b. 1931)
2002 - Dean Riesner, American film and television writer (b. 1918)
2003 - Tony Jackson, English musician (The Searchers) (b. 1938)
2004 - Elmer Bernstein, American composer (b. 1922)
2004 - Hiram Fong, former U.S. Senator from Hawaii (b. 1906)
2005 - Christopher Bauman, American wrestler (b. 1982)
2005 - Gao Xiumin, Chinese comedy actress (b. 1959)
2006 - Fernand Gignac, Canadian singer and actor (b. 1934)
2006 - Jamie Astaphan, Caribbean-born physician (b. 1946)
2007 - Michael Deaver, Reagan Administration Deputy White House Chief of Staff (b. 1938)
2009 - Kim Dae-jung,15th President of South Korea (b. 1925)
2009 - Robert Novak, American journalist and commentator (b. 1931)
2010 - Hal Connolly, American Athlete and hammer thrower (b.1931)
2010 - Scott Davis, American Announcer of Track and Field (b.1943)
2010 - Benjamin Kaplan, copyright scholar
2012 - Scott McKenzie, American singer, dies at 73

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 19, 2013, 09:39:39 AM

This Day in History for 19th August


Historical Events

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Roman Emperor                                     Photographer and Inventor                      36th US President
Augustus Caesar                                     Louis-Jacques Daguerre                           Lyndon B. Johnson

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38th US President                                     US President & Actor                     General Secretary of the Communist
Gerald R. Ford                                          Ronald Reagan                                        Party of the Soviet Union
                                                                                                                                     Mikhail Gorbachev

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Heavyweight Boxing Champion
Mike Tyson


43 BC - Octavian, later known as Augustus, compels the Roman Senate to elect him Consul.
440 - St Sixtus III ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1071 - Battle at Manzikert: Seldjuken sultan Alp Arslan beats Byzantine King
1099 - Crusaders beat Saracens in Battle of Ascalon
1263 - King James I of Argon censors Hebrew writing
1399 - King Richard II of England surrenders to his cousin Henry
1458 - Aenea Silvio Piccolomini chosen Pope Pius II
1477 - Burgundy & acquires Burgundian possessions in the Netherlands & France
1493 - Maximilian I of Austria becomes Roman Catholic German emperor
1504 - Battle of Knockdoe.
1524 - Emperor Charles V's troops besiege Marseille, Italy
1561 - Mary Queen of Scots arrives in Leith Scotland to assume throne after spending 13 years in
           France
1587 - Sigismund III becomes king of Poland
1591 - French king Henri IV occupies Rouen
1627 - Prince Frederik Henry conquerors fort Groenlo
1691 - Battle at Szalankemen: Austrians beat Turks
1692 - 5 women executed for witchcraft in Salem Mass
1698 - Russian czar Peter the Great begins term
1702 - -24] Battle at Santa Marta Venz: English fleet beat French
1757 - Battle at Gross Jagerndorf: Russian army beats Prussia [NS=Aug 30]
1768 - Saint Isaac's Cathedral is founded in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
1772 - Gustav III seizes effective control of Swedish government & restores full power of monarchy,
           which had been subordinate to parliament since 1720
1787 - W Herschel discovers Enceladus, a moon of Saturn
1791 - Benjamin Banneker published his 1st Almanac
1796 - Spain & France sign anti-English alliance
1812 - US warship Constitution defeats British warship Guerriere
1813 - Gervasio Antonio de Posadas joins Argentina's second triumvirate.
1816 - Java again in Dutch hands
1821 - Failed liberal coup against French King Louis XVIII
1826 - Canada Co chartered to colonize Upper Canada (Ontario)
1836 - HMS Beagle anchors at Angra Azores
1839 - Details of Louis Daguerre's 1st practical photographic process are released in Paris
1849 - NY Herald reports gold discovery in California
1861 - Confederacy Congress allies with government of MO
1864 - 2nd day of battle at Globe Tavern, Virginia
1888 - 1st beauty contest (Spa, Belgium), 18 yr old West Indian wins
1891 - William Huggins describes astronomical application of spectrum
1895 - American frontier murderer and outlaw, John Wesley Hardin, is killed by an off-duty policeman
           in a saloon in El Paso, Texas.
1897 - 1st electric taxi's drive in London
1900 - Start of the one & only olympic cricket match, in Paris
1903 - Phillies suffer record 9th straight posponed game
1905 - Russian Tsar installs "Imperial Duma," without legislative powers
1909 - Indianapolis 500 race track opens
1911 - NY Giant Christy Mathewson loses after beating Reds 22 straight times
1912 - Percy Aldridge Grainger's "Shepherd's Key," premieres
1913 - Frenchman Pégoud makes 1st parachute jump in Europe
1914 - Elmer Rice' "On Trial," premieres in NYC
1914 - German army executed 150 Belgians by firing squad
1914 - German fleet bombs English coast
1914 - Harris Theater (Candler, Coan & Harris) opens at 226 W 42nd St NYC
1915 - Rationing laws go into effect in Netherlands
1915 - World War I: the Battle of Van begins
1917 - Sunday benefit baseball game at Polo Grounds results in John McGraw & Christy Mathewson's
           arrest for violating Blue laws
1918 - Irving Berlin's musical "Yip Yip Yaphank," premieres in NYC
1919 - Afghanistan declares independence from UK
1921 - Ty Cobb, is 4th to get 3,000 hits
1922 - 36th US Womens Tennis: Molla B Mallory beats Helen Wills Moody (63 61)
1927 - Metropolitan Sergius proclaims the declaration of loyalty of the Russian Orthodox Church to
           the Soviet state.
1931 - Lefty Grove wins AL record tying 16th consecutive game
1932 - 46th US Womens Tennis: Helen Jacobs beats Carolin A Babcock (62 62)
1933 - 47th US Womens Tennis: Helen Jacobs beats Helen Moody (86 36 30 ret)
1934 - 48th US Womens Tennis: Helen Jacobs beats Sarah H P Fabyan (61 64)
1934 - Paul Runyan wins PGA golf tournament
1934 - The first All-American Soap Box Derby is held in Dayton, Ohio.
1936 - Trial against Ljev Kamenev & Grigori Zinovjev because of "Trotskyism" opens in Moscow
1939 - 37.6 cm rainfall at Tuckerton, NJ (state record)
1941 - Ump Jocko Conlan ejects Pirate manager Frankie Frisch for coming out on field holding an
           umbrella to get a rainout
1942 - -20] Churchill visits Montgomery's headquarter in Burg-al-Arab
1942 - Over 4,000 Canadian & British soldiers killed, wounded or captured raiding Dieppe, France
1942 - Gen Paulus orders German 6th Army to conquer Stalingrad
1943 - Belgian church excommunicates nazi Leon Degrelle
1943 - US air raid on German bases at Gilze-Rijen/Vlissingen
1944 - Allied air raid on Maastricht, 80+ killed
1944 - Gen Bradley visits Montgomery
1944 - Last Japanese troops driven out of India
1944 - Nazi's give parts of Paris to Resistance
1944 - Paris police strike against nazi occupiers
1944 - Polish 1st Division occupies Hill 262 (Mont Ormel), Normandy
1944 - US 15th Army corp occupies Mantes-Gassicourt at Paris
1944 - US 90th/Polish 1st Division occupy Chambois Normandy
1945 - Phillies Jimmie Foxx, 37, pitches 1st 7 innings vs Reds & wins
1947 - J Arens & D van Dorpen synthetise vitamin A
1950 - ABC begins Saturday morning kid shows (Animal Clinic & Acrobat Ranch)
1951 - Bill Veeck (Cleveland Indians) sends Eddie Gaedel, a 3'7" midget, to pinch-hit
1953 - England regained cricket Ashes after winning series 1-0
1954 - Ralph J Bunche named undersecretary of UN
1955 - 32.4 cm precipitation at Burlington, Connecticut (state record)
1955 - Hurricane Diane kills 200 & 1st billion $ damage storm (N.E. US)
1955 - US raises import duty on bicycles 50%
1955 - WINS radio, announces it will not play "copy" white cover versions of R&B (DJs must play Fats
           Domino's "Ain't It A Shame," not Pat Boone's)
1956 - Fay Crocker wins LPGA St Louis Golf Open
1957 - NY Giants vote 8-1 to move their franchise to SF in 1958
1957 - US Major David Simons reaches 30,933m in a balloon
1958 - NAACP Youth Council begin sit-ins at Oklahoma City Lunch counters
1959 - Doctor X beats Wilber Snyder in Omaha, to become NWA wrestling champ
1959 - Honolulu seeks a franchise in Continental League
1959 - Satellite Discoverer 6 launched into polar orbit
1960 - Francis Gary Powers convicted of spying by USSR (U-2 incident)
1960 - Sputnik 5 carries 2 dogs, 3 mice into orbit (later recovered alive)
1961 - US vice-president Lyndon B Johnson visits West Berlin
1962 - Homer Blancos plays finest round in golf, shooting a 55
1962 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Albuquerque Swing Parade Golf Tournament
1963 - NAACP Youth Council begins sit-ins at lunch counters, Oklahoma City
1964 - Communication satellite Syncom 3 launched
1965 - Auschwitz trials end with 6 life sentences
1965 - Cincinnati Red Jim Maloney 2nd no-hitter of year beats Chicago Cubs, 1-0
1966 - Earthquake strikes Varko Turkey: 2,400 killed
1967 - Beatles' "All You Need is Love," single goes #1
1969 - Chicago Cub Ken Holtzman no-hits Atlanta Braves, 3-0
1973 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1973 - Pirate World Music Radio (Holland) closes down after 10 years
1973 - Sandra Palmer wins LPGA St Paul Golf Open
1975 - Astros hire Bill Virdon to replace Preston Gomez as manager
1976 - Pres Gerald R Ford won Republican pres nomination at KC convention
1977 - USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR
1978 - 422 die in an arson fire at a movie theater in Iran
1979 - "My Sharonna" by the Knack hits #1 (stays for 42 days)
1979 - Crew of Soyuz 32 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 34 aft 175 d flight
1979 - Sally wins LPGA Barth Golf Classic Little
1979 - Soviet Cosmonauts Vladimir Lyakov & Valery Ryumin returned to Earth aboard Soyuz 34 after
           a record 175 days in space
1980 - George Brett ends hitting streak at 30
1980 - Saudi Arabian Lockhead Tristar crashes on landing at Riyadh, 301 die
1980 - Willy Russell's "Educating Rita," premieres in London
1981 - 2 US Navy F-14 jet fighters shoot down 2 Soviet-built Libyan SU-22
1982 - Renaldo Nehemiah of US sets record for 110 m hurdles, 12.93 sec
1982 - Soyuz T-7 launched, Svetlana Savtiskaya 2nd woman in space
1983 - LSU footballer Billy Cannon sentenced to 5 yrs for counterfeiting
1983 - Dodgers trade Dave Stewart & Ricky Wright to Texas for Rick Honeycut
1984 - 66th PGA Championship: Lee Trevino shoots a 273 at Shoal Creek Ala
1984 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Chevrolet World Championship of Women's Golf
1984 - Republican convention in Houston nominates Ronald Reagan for pres
1984 - Sally Quinlan wins LPGA MasterCard Golf International Pro-Am
1985 - Japan launches its 2nd probe of Halley's Comet, Suisei
1986 - Car bomb kills 20 in Tehran Iran
1987 - Hungerford Massacre: in the United Kingdom, Michael Ryan kills sixteen people with an assault
           rifle and then commits suicide.
1988 - Iran-Iraq begin a cease-fire in their 8-year-old war (11 PM EDT)
1988 - Muang Muang succeeds Gen Sein Lwin as pres of Burma
1988 - NY Rangers sign ex-Canadien great Guy LaFluer
1989 - Tadeusz Mazowiecki, elected 1st non-communist president of Poland
1990 - Betsy King wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Golf Classic
1990 - Dodger Jose Offerman hits HR in his 1st at bat
1990 - NY Yankee Kevin Mass is quickest to reach 14 HRs (approx 128 at bat)
1991 - -20] Hurricane Bob hits US
1991 - Janajev & KGB coup in Russia deposes Mikhail Gorbachev
1991 - Janel Bishop, 17, of New Hampshire, crowned 9th Miss Teen USA
1992 - Romesh Kaluwitharana scores 132 on Test Cricket debut (SL v Australia)
1992 - Sri Lanka make their highest cricket score ever 8-547 v Australia
1993 - 34th Walker Cup: US, 19-5
1993 - Dow Jones hits record high of 3612.13
1993 - George Tiller, abortion doctor, shot in his arms by Rachelle Shannon
1993 - Mattel & Fisher Price toys merge
1993 - Sally Gunnell runs lady world record 400m hurdles (52.74")
1995 - After 5 days Shannon Faulkner quits as 1st woman at the Citadel
1995 - Bruce Seldon TKOs Joe Hipp in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
1995 - Mike Tyson returns to the ring & DQs Peter McNeeley in 38 seconds
1997 - NY Yank 3rd baseman Wade Boggs pitches a scoreless inning vs Anaheim
1997 - STS 85 (Discovery 23) lands
1999 - In Belgrade, tens of thousands of Serbians rally to demand the resignation of Federal
           Republic of Yugoslavia President Slobodan Milošević.
2002 - A Russian Mi-26 helicopter carrying troops is hit by a Chechen missile outside of Grozny,
           killing 118 soldiers.
2003 - A Hamas planned suicide attack on a bus in Jerusalem kills 23 Israelis, 7 of them children in the Jerusalem bus 2 massacre.
2003 - A car-bomb attack on United Nations headquarters in Iraq kills the agency's top envoy Sergio
           Vieira de Mello and 21 other employees.
2005 - The first-ever joint military exercise between Russia and China, called Peace Mission 2005
           begins.
2005 - A series of strong storms lashes Southern Ontario spawning several tornadoes as well as
           creating extreme flash flooding within the city of Toronto and its surrounding communities. In
           Toronto, it is also dubbed as the Toronto Supercell.
2009 - A series of bombings in Baghdad, Iraq, kills 101 and injures 565 others.
2010 - Operation Iraqi Freedom ends, with the last of the United States brigade combat teams
           crossing the border to Kuwait.
2012 - 32 people are killed after a plane crash in Talodi, Sudan

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 19, 2013, 09:40:55 AM

This Day in History for 19th August


Famous Weddings

1935 - French singer Edith Piaf (19) weds Andrew Johnseppe in Belleville, Paris
1973 - Kris Kristofferson weds Rita Coolidge
1993 - Actress Kim Basinger weds actor Alec Baldwin
2006 - Brazilian model Luciana Morad (36) weds Brazilian TV producer Marcelo de Carvalho at Ponta
           das Canas near the coast of Sao Paulo

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 19, 2013, 09:42:12 AM

This Day in History for 19th August


Famous Divorces

2008 - Actor-comedian Tom Arnold (48) divorces Shelby Roos (35) after six years of marriage
2011 - "My Fair Brady" actress Adrianne Curry (28) divorces "The Brady Bunch" actor Christopher
           Knight (53) due to irreconcilable differences after 5 years of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 19, 2013, 09:49:38 AM

This Day in History for 19th August


Famous Birthdays

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Aviator Orville Wright (1871)                 Publisher Malcolm Forbes (1919)       42nd US President Bill Clinton (1946)


1342 - Katharine of Bohemia, Duchess of Bavaria (d. 1395)
1398 - Marqués de Santillana, Spanish poet (d. 1458)
1521 - Lodovico Guicciardini, Italian historian (Descrittione di Tutti)
1557 - Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1608)
1558 - Paulus Merula, Dutch lawyer/historian
1590 - Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland, English soldier (d. 1649)
1596 - Elizabeth Stuart, Electress Palatine, Queen of Bohemia and daughter of James IV and I of
           England and Scotland (d. 1662)
1621 - Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Dutch painter (d. 1674)
1631 - John Dryden, 1st poet laureate of England (All for Love)
1646 - John Flamsteed, 1st astronomer royal of England
1686 - Antonio Tonelli, composer
1686 - Eustace Budgell, English writer (d. 1737)
1689 - Samuel Richardson, English novelist (Pamela) (baptized)
1711 - Edward Boscawen, British admiral (d. 1761)
1737 - Johann Georg Christoph Schetky, composer
1743 - Marie Jeanne Becu Comtesse du Barry, last mistress of Louis XV (d. 1793)
1756 - Anthony FRE Haersolte, member of Executing Regime
1780 - Baranger, writer
1785 - Seth Thomas, pioneer in mass production of clocks
1813 - William Henry Fry, composer
1815 - John Porter McCown, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1879
1816 - Julius PJA van Zuylen van Nyevelt, Dutch minister of Foreign affairs
1824 - Georg Goltermann, composer
1831 - Stephen Gano Burbridge, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1839 - Oskar Brefeld, German botanist
1846 - Luis Martín, Spanish Superior-General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1906)
1848 - Gustave Caillebotte, French shipbuilding design/painter (Rue de Paris)
1851 - Frans Schollaert, Belgian premier (1908-11)
1853 - Aleksei Brusilov, Russian general (d. 1926)
1858 - Edith Nesbit, England, children books author (Railway Children)
1859 - Charles Comiskey, 1st basemen/manager (Chicago White Sox)
1859 - Hippolyte Delehaye, Flemish historian/hagiographer
1860 - John Kane, Scottish-born US primitivist painter (Self-Portrait)
1870 - Bernard Baruch, financier/presidential adviser (Cold War)
1871 - Orville Wright, Dayton OH, aviator (Wright Brothers), (d. 1912)
1873 - Fred Stone, Longmont CO, acrobat/Broadway actor (Alice Adams)
1875 - Stjepan Seljan, Croatian explorer (d. 1936)
1878 - Manuel Luis Quezón y Molina, 1st president of Philippines (1935-42)
1881 - Georges Enesco, [or Enescu], Romania, composer (Romanian Dances)
1883 - José Mendes Cabeçadas, 95th Prime Minister of Portugal and 9th President of Portugal (d.
           1965)
1883 - Elsie Ferguson, New York City, New York, American film actress (Footlights, Scarlet Pages)
1885 - Werner Elert, German luthers theologist
1886 - Robert Heger, composer
1889 - Arthur Waley, sinologist, translator from Chinese & Japanese
1890 - Yves Alix, French painter/graphic artist
1893 - Alfred Lunt, Milwaukee WI, Broadway actor (Emmy 1965)
1895 - Andrzejewski, writer
1895 - Arnoldt Bronnen, writer
1896 - Eino Mauno Aleksanteri Linnala, composer
1896 - Walter Lang, composer
1899 - Kenneth MacKenna, Canterbury NH, actor/director (Those We Love)
1899 - Olga Baclanova, Moscow Russia, actress (Freaks, Docks of NY)
1899 - Charlie Hall, English comedian actor (d. 1959)
1900 - Colleen Moore, Port Huron MI, actress (Scarlet Letter)
1900 - Gilbert Ryle, British philosopher (d. 1976)
1902 - Ogden Nash, Rye NY, humorous poet (I'm a Stranger Here Myself)
1902 - Vladimir M Kirshon, Russian playwright (Ultimatum Factory) [NS]
1902 - J. B. L. Reyes, Filipino jurist (d. 1994)
1903 - Claude Dauphin, Corbell France, actor (April in Paris, Deported)
1903 - James Gould Cozzens, US, novelist (1949 Pulitzer-Guard of Honor)
1903 - Muriel Kirkland, Yonkers NY, actress (Fast Workers, Hold Your Man)
1904 - Ted Nightingale, former colonial governor
1905 - Fitzhugh Lee, US pilot/vice-admiral (WW II, Navy Cross)
1905 - Jacques de Menasce, composer
1906 - June Collyer, NYC, actress (Before Midnight, Charley's Aunt)
1906 - Philo T Farnsworth, Beaver Utah, inventor (electronic TV)
1907 - Thurston Morton, (Sen-Ky, 1957-1969)
1907 - Zygmunt Mycielsky, composer
1907 - Thruston B. Morton, American politician (d. 1982)
1909 - Jerzy Andrzejewski, Warsaw Poland, writer (Ashes & Diamonds)
1910 - Quentin Bell, artist author/teacher
1913 - Walter B Jones, (Rep-D-NC, 1966-92)
1913 - Richard Simmons, American actor (d. 2003)
1913 - John Argyris, Greek aeronautical engineer, one of the creators of the Finite Element Method
           (d. 2004)
1914 - Fumio Hayasaka, composer
1914 - Lajos Baróti, Hungarian footballer (d. 2005)
1915 - Ring Lardner Jr, Chicago, Illinois, American journalist and screenwriter (Woman of the Year, M
           A S H)
1915 - Alfred Rouleau, French Canadian businessman and administrator (Desjardins Group) (d.
          1985)
1916 - Marie Wilson, Anaheim California, actress (My Friend Irma)
1918 - James George "Jimmy" Rowles, jazz pianist
1919 - Malcolm Forbes, Brooklyn New York, publisher (Forbes Magazine), (d. 1990)
1920 - Lucila Engels-Boskaljon, Curacao painter
1920 - Paul Kont, composer
1921 - Gene Roddenberry, El Paso Texas, executive producer (Star Trek)
1921 - Philip A Potter, Dominica sec-gen World council of Churches
1922 - Douglas MacKenzie Davey, psychometrist
1924 - William Marshall, Gary Ind, actor (Blacula, Something of Value)
1925 - Claude Gauvreau, Canadian playwright (d. 1971)
1926 - Arthur Rock, American venture capitalist
1927 - James T Broyhill, (Sen-R-NC, 1986)
1930 - D[avid] G[uy] Compton, UK, sci-fi author (Synthajoy, Radio Plays)
1931 - Willie Shoemaker, jockey (won 8,833 of 40,350 starts)
1932 - John James Fenwick, English warehouse owner/multi-millionaire
1932 - Thomas P. Salmon, 75th Governor of Vermont
1933 - Debra Paget, [Griffin], Denver, actress (Love Me Tender)
1933 - Vladimir Borisovich Alekseyev, Russia, cosmonaut
1934 - Bill Cleary, US, ice hockey player (Olympic-gold-1960)
1934 - David F Durenberger, Minn, (Sen-R-MN, 1978- )
1934 - Renee Richards, [Richard Rankind], trans-sexual tennis player
1934 - William Cleary, Cambridge Massachusetts, hockey center, (Oly-gold/silv-56, 60)
1935 - Bobby Richardson, SC, 2nd baseman (NY Yankees)
1935 - F Story Musgrave, Boston, MD/astronaut (STS 6, 51-F, 33, 44, 61, 80)
1938 - Diana Muldaur, NYC, actress (McCloud, Star Trek Next Gen, LA Law)
1938 - Valentin Mankin, USSR, finn class yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1968)
1939 - Ginger [Peter] Baker, England, drummer (Cream-White Room)
1940 - Jan Claire, actor (American Anthem)
1940 - Jill St John, [Oppenheim], Los Angeles California, actress (Diamonds are Forever)
1940 - Johnny Nash, Houston, Tx, rocker (I Can See Clearly Now)
1942 - Fred Thompson, senator (R-Tenn)/actor (In the Line of Fire)
1942 - Michiel Patijn, Dutch asst sect of state of Foreign affairs (1994- )
1943 - Billy J Kramer, Liverpool, rock vocalist (The Dakotas-Bad to Me)
1944 - Eddy Raven, Lafayette La, country singer (Right Hand Man)
1944 - Samuel J de Beer, South Africa vicar/underminister of Education
1944 - Buzz Kilman, Chicago radio personality
1944 - Bodil Malmsten, Swedish writer
1944 - Charles Wang, Chinese-born philanthropist
1945 - Ian Gillian, heavy metal rocker (Deep Purple-Knocking at Backdoor)
1945 - Jane Blalock, champion golfer
1946 - Charles F Bolden Jr, Columbia SC, astronaut (STS 61C, 31, 45, 60)
1946 - Dawn Steel, film maker
1946 - Bill Clinton [William Jefferson], Hope Arkansas, 42nd United States President (Democrat,
           1993-01)
1946 - Beat Raaflaub, Swiss conductor
1947 - Gerald McRaney, Collins Miss, actor (Simon & Simon, Major Dad)
1947 - Dave Dutton, English actor
1947 - Terry Hoeppner, American football coach (d. 2007)
1948 - Susan Jacks (Susan Pesklevits) Saskatoon Canada, singer and songwriter
1948 - Tipper Gore, wife of vice president Al Gore (1993-01)
1950 - Graeme Beard, cricketer (NSW medium-pace all-rounder 3 Tests 1980)
1950 - Jennie Bond, British journalist
1951 - John Deacon, British pop guitarist (Queen-Somebody to Love)
1951 - Lillian Muller, Grimstad Norway, playmate of year (Aug, 1975)
1951 - Randi Oakes, Randalia Iowa, actress (Officer Bonnie Clark-CHiPs)
1951 - Gustavo Santaolalla, Argentine film composer
1952 - Jonathan Frakes, actor (Commander William T Riker-Star Trek Next Gen)
1953 - Debra Paget, Denver Co, actress (Love Me Tender)
1953 - Johan F de Leeuw, Dutch MP (CDA)
1953 - Nanni Moretti, Italian film actor, director and producer
1953 - Mary Matalin, American political consultant
1954 - Oscar Larrauri, Argentine racing driver
1955 - Peter Gallagher, Armonk NY, actor (Player, Summer Lovers, Dreamchild)
1955 - Ned Yost, American baseball player and manager
1956 - Adam Arkin, Bkln, actor (Busting Loose, Pearl, Northern Exposure)
1956 - Cindy Nelson, US, skier (Olympic-bronze-1976)
1957 - Darby Hinton, Santa Monica California, actor (Israel-Daniel Boone)
1957 - Paul-Jan Bakker, cricketer (Hampshire & Netherlands pace bowler)
1957 - Li-Young Lee, Indonesia-born American poet
1957 - Ian Gould, England cricketer
1958 - Gary Gaetti, Centralia IL, infielder (St Louis Cardinals)
1958 - Brendan Nelson, Australian politician
1959 - Ricky Pierce, NBA guard/forward (Indiana Pacers, Milwaukee Bucks)
1959 - Steve Grimmett, heavy metal rocker
1959 - Susan Cummings, Monegasque-born American heiress and convicted murderer
1960 - Bobby Hebert, NFL quarterback (Atlanta Falcons)
1960 - Dan "Woody" Woodgate, rocker
1960 - Morten Andersen, NFL kicker (Atlanta Falcons)
1960 - Ron Darling, Hawaii, baseball pitcher (NY Mets)
1961 - Danuta Bartoszek, Pyrzyce Poland, Canadian marathoner (Olympics-96)
1962 - Eric Lutes, Charlestown RI, actor (Del-Caroline in the City)
1962 - Kim Shipman, Athens PA, LPGA golfer (1995 LPGA Corning Classic-25th)
1962 - Michael J Massimino, Oceanside NY, PhD/astronaut
1962 - Nancy Ramsbottom, Birmingham AL, LPGA golfer (1994 McCall's-2nd)
1962 - Valerie Kaprisky, Paris France, actress (Breathless, Public Woman)
1962 - Tammy Bruce, American political commentator
1963 - Joey Tempest, rocker (Europe-The Final Countdown)
1963 - John Stamos, Cypress California, actor (General Hospital, Full House)
1965 - James Tomkins, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1965 - Kevin Dillon, NY, actor (Heaven Help Us, Remote Control, Platoon)
1965 - Kyra Sedgwick, actress (Phenomenon, Singles, Julia-Another World)
1965 - Maria de Medeiros, Portuguese actress and director
1966 - Lilian Garcia, wrestling announcer
1966 - Lee Ann Womack, American musician
1967 - Jason Starkey, son of Beatle Ringo
1967 - Randy Baldwin, NFL running back (Carolina Panthers)
1967 - Tabitha Soren, San Antonio Texas, MTV reporter (This Week in Rock)
1968 - Nikolaos Kaklamanakis, Greek windsurfer
1968 - Mark McGuinn, country music singer
1969 - Matthew Perry, Williamstown Mass, actor (Sydney, Chandler-Friends)
1969 - Scott Ford, Norbrooke Germany, golfer (1994 Trafalgar CPGA-2nd)
1969 - Nate Dogg, American rapper
1969 - Kirk Herbstreit, American football analyst (College GameDay)
1969 - Emigdio Preciado, Hispanic fugitive on FBI's Most Wanted list
1969 - Kazuyoshi Tatsunami, Japanese baseball player
1969 - Patrick Van Horn, American actor
1969 - Clay Walker, American singer
1970 - Scott Brumfield, NFL guard (Cin Bengals)
1970 - Fat Joe, American rapper
1971 - Mary Joe Fernandez, Dom Rep, US tennis star (Olympics-gold-96)
1971 - Tricia Ann Luedtke, Oostburg Wisc, Miss Wisc-America-1991
1971 - João Vieira Pinto, Portuguese football player
1972 - Colleen Thornburn, Toronto Ontario, softball catcher (Olympics-96)
1972 - Elizabeth Wolfgramm, rocker (Jets)
1972 - Pierre Allard, hockey forward (Team France 1998)
1972 - Roberto Abbondanzieri, Argentine footballer
1972 - Sammi Cheng Sau Man, Hong Kong singer and actress
1972 - Chihiro Yonekura, Japanese singer
1973 - Roy Rogers, NBA forward (Boston Celtics)
1973 - Mette-Marit, Crown Princess of Norway
1973 - Marco Materazzi, Italian footballer
1975 - Chynna Clugston, American comic book creator
1975 - Tracie Thoms, American actress
1977 - Callum Blue, London, England, actor (Dead Like Me, The Tudors)
1977 - Iban Mayo, Spanish cyclist
1978 - Chris Capuano, American baseball player
1979 - Oumar Kondé, Swiss footballer
1979 - Dave Douglas, American musician (Relient K)
1980 - Paul Parry, Welsh footballer
1980 - Jun Jin, Korean rapper (Shinhwa)
1980 - Darius Danesh, Scottish singer-songwriter & actor
1980 - Michael Todd, American musician (Coheed and Cambria)
1982 - Erika Christensen, American actress
1982 - J. J. Hardy, American baseball player
1982 - Kevin Rans, Belgian pole vaulter
1983 - Missy Higgins, Australian singer-songwriter
1983 - John McCargo, American football player
1983 - Tammin Sursok, Australian actress & singer
1983 - Mike Conway, British racing driver
1984 - Micah Alberti, American actor
1984 - Alessandro Matri, Italian footballer
1984 - Ryan Taylor, English footballer
1985 - Megan Rochell, American singer
1986 - Saori Kimura, Japanese volleyball player
1987 - Anaïs Lameche, Swedish singer (Play)
1987 - Ileana D'Cruz, Indian actress
1987 - Richard Stearman, English footballer
1988 - Travis Tedford, American actor
1989 - Romeo, American rapper
1998 - Ella Guevara, Filipino actress
2335 - William T Riker, Valdez Alaska, character on Star Trek Next Generation

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 19, 2013, 09:56:07 AM

This Day in History for 19th August


Famous Deaths

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Roman Emperor                                     Mathematician/Astronomer                    Comedian Groucho Marx (1977)
Augustus Caesar (14)                       Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre (1822)

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Chemist & Peace Activist
Linus Pauling (1994)


14 - Augustus Caesar, first Roman Emperor (b. 63 BC)
440 - Sixtus III, Italian Pope (432-40), dies
472 - Ricimer, Barbaars general, dies
1186 - Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1158)
1245 - Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Provence (b. 1195)
1284 - Alphonso, Earl of Chester, son of Edward I of England (b. 1273)
1297 - Saint Louis of Toulouse, French Catholic bishop (b. 1274)
1493 - Frederick III of Innsbruck, German Emperor (1440-1493), dies at 77
1580 - Andrea Palladio, architect/writer (Il Redentore, Venice), dies at 71
1601 - Michael the Brave, ruler of Turkey, dies
1646 - Alexander Henderson, Scottish theologian
1650 - Abraham de Verwer, painter, buried at about 55
1654 - Yom Tov Lipmann Heller, rabbi/author (Tosefot Yom Tov), dies
1662 - Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (b. 1623)
1680 - Jean Eudes, French catholic priest, founder of the Eudists (b. 1601)
1691 - Mustafa Koprulu, Turkish grand vizer, dies in battle
1699 - Jose Saenz d'aguirre, Spanish cardinal, dies at 69
1719 - Karl H Freiherr von Canstein, German lawyer, dies at 52
1744 - Carlo Arrigoni, composer, dies at 46
1753 - [Johann] Balthasar Neumann, German architect, dies at 66
1780 - Bernhard Haltenberger, composer, dies at 32
1795 - Friedrich Hartmann Graf, composer, dies at 67
1812 - Vincenzo Righini, composer, dies at 56
1813 - Johann Carl Friedrich Rellstab, composer, dies at 54
1813 - Josef Blazej Smrcek, composer, dies at 61
1819 - James Watt, Scottish inventor (b. 1736)
1822 - Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, French mathematician and astronomer, dies at 72
1822 - Melchor Lopez Jimenez, composer, dies at 62
1851 - Gioseffo Catrufo, composer, dies at 80
1872 - Eugene-Prosper Prevost, composer, dies at 63
1876 - George Smith, English assyriologist (script), dies at 36
1881 - Joseph Labitzky, composer, dies at 79
1883 - Jeremiah S. Black, American statesman (b. 1810)
1888 - Spencer F Baird, US biologist (Wood's Hole Station), dies at 65
1889 - Jean MMPA de Villiers de l'isle-Adam, French writer (Axel), dies at 60
1892 - Frantisek Zdenek Xavier Alois Skuhersky, composer, dies at 62
1895 - John Wesley Hardin, American gunfighter (b. 1853)
1900 - Jean-Baptiste Accolay, Belgian composer (b. 1833)
1909 - Rembt THPLA of Boneval Faure, lawyer/1st-Member of parliament, dies
1912 - Alfonse Hasselmans, composer, dies at 67
1914 - Franz Xavier Wernz, German Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1844)
1922 - Felipe Pedrell, composer, dies at 81
1923 - Vilfredo Pareto, Italian sociologist and economist (b. 1845)
1929 - Sergei P Diaghilev, Russia, dance master (Imperial Ballet), dies at 57
1936 - Federico Garcia Lorca, Spanish poet/composer, murdered at 37 or 38
1944 - Gunther von Kluge, German field marshal, commits suicide, dies at 62
1944 - Henry J Wood, English conductor (My Life of Music, Proms), dies at 75
1945 - Tomas Burgos, Chilean philanthropist (b.1875)
1947 - Ernst Laqueur, Dut chemist/psychologist (sexual hormones), dies at 67
1950 - Giovanni Giorgi, Italian physicist (b. 1871)
1954 - Alcide de Gasperi, Italian premier (1945..53), dies at 73
1957 - David Bomberg, English painter (b. 1890)
1957 - Carl-Gustaf Rossby, Swedish meteorologist (b. 1898)
1958 - Antonius "Toon" Verhey, violin cellist/conductor, dies at 63
1959 - Jacob Epstein, US/English sculptor/painter, dies at 78
1962 - Kerstin Hesselgren, 1st woman in Swedish parliament, dies at 90
1963 - Kathleen Parlow, Canadian violinist (b. 1890)
1967 - Carl W de Vries, Dutch (Great-granddad King William III), dies at 84
1967 - Isaac Deutscher, Polish/Eng historian (Stalin-biography), dies at 60
1967 - Hugo Gernsback, Luxembourg-born editor and publisher (b. 1884)
1968 - Sara Jane Roberts, child actress (Our Gang), dies after surgery at 44
1968 - George Gamow, Ukrainian-born physicist (b. 1904)
1970 - Paweł Jasienica, Polish historian (b. 1909)
1971 - Walther Victor, writer, dies
1974 - ... Davies, US ambassador on Cyprus, murdered
1975 - Jim Londos, wrestler (b. 1897)
1976 - Alastair Sim, actor (Christmas Carol, Green for Danger), dies at 75
1976 - Jeno Kenessey, composer, dies at 70
1976 - Ken Wadsworth, cricketer (Exciting NZ keeper), dies of cancer at 29
1977 - Groucho Marx, NYC, comedian (Marx Bros), dies in LA at 86
1979 - Dorsey Burnette, rocker, dies at 46 of a heart attack
1981 - Jessie Matthews, actress (Gangway, First a Girl), dies at 74
1982 - August Neo, Estonian wrestler (b. 1908)
1986 - Hermione Baddeley, actress (Camp Runamuck, Maude), dies at 79
1986 - Jacob A W Burger, chairman (Dutch soc-dem party), dies at 81
1986 - Lorenzo Tucker, actor (Black King), dies
1987 - Hayden Rorke, Brooklyn, actor (I Dream of Jeannie, Night Walker), dies
1990 - Ben Rutgers Van de Loeff-Basenau, children's book writer, dies at 80
1992 - Feliks Arons, Dutch director/actor (A Bridge Too Far), dies at 48
1993 - Jean King, actress (Night Hasa a Thousand Eyes), dies at 76
1993 - Lucinda Ballard, US costume designer/wife of Howard Dietz, dies at 90
1994 - John George Hughes, bishop of Kensington, dies at 59
1994 - Linus Pauling, Nobel prize scientist (Vitamin C advocate), dies at 93
1994 - Nancy Keene Lancaster, US/British architect (Binnen House), dies at 96
1994 - Robert Ivanovich Rozhdestvensky, poet, dies at 64
1994 - Walter Bartley, biochemist, dies at 78
1995 - Danny Arnold, British TV producer, dies at 70
1995 - Pierre Schaeffer, composer/radio innovator, dies at 85
2000 - Antonio Pugliese, Italian professional wrestler (b. 1941)
2000 - Bineshwar Brahma, Bodo littérateur and religious figure (birth date unknown)
2001 - Donald Woods, South African journalist and anti-apartheid activist (b. 1933)
2001 - Betty Everett, American singer and pianist (b. 1939)
2003 - Carlos Roberto Reina, President of Honduras (b. 1926)
2003 - Sérgio Vieira de Mello, Brazilian diplomat (b. 1948)
2005 - Bueno de Mesquita, Dutch comedian and actor (b. 1918)
2008 - Levy Mwanawasa, Zambian politician
2008 - LeRoi Moore, American musician (Dave Matthews Band) (b.1961)
2009 - Don Hewitt, television news producer & director; creator of 60 Minutes (b. 1922)
2011 - Gun Hägglund, Swedish news presenter (b. 1932)
2011 - Raúl Ruiz, Chilean filmmaker (b. 1941)
2012 - Tony Scott, American director, commits suicide at 68

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 20, 2013, 09:41:33 AM

This Day in History for 20th August


Historical Events

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First US President                                    Composer Tchaikovsky                     Soviet Union Premier Joseph Stalin
George Washington                                                                                               

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36th US President                                   Baseball Player Hank Aaron                     37th US President
Lyndon B. Johnson                                                                                                 Richard Nixon

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New York Yankees Owner                       Catholic Missionary
George Steinbrenner                                Mother Teresa


2 - Venus-Jupiter in conjunction-Star of Bethlehem
573 - Gregory of Tours selected bishop of Tours
636 - Battle at Yarmuk: Moslems beat Byzantines [or August 15]
917 - Battle at Anchialus: Bulgaria army counter attacks Byzantines
1000 - The foundation of the Hungarian state, Hungary is established as a Christian kingdom by
           Stephen I of Hungary.
1191 - Crusader King Richard I kills 3,000 muslim prisoners in Akko
1391 - Konrad von Wallenrode becomes the 24th Hochmeister of the Teutonic Order.
1534 - Turkish admiral Chaireddin"Barbarossa" occupies Tunis
1566 - Iconoclasm reaches Antwerp Belgium
1585 - English queen Elizabeth I signs Treaty of Nonsuch: aid to Netherland
1597 - 1st Dutch East India Company ships returned from Far East
1604 - Spanish garrison of Sluis surrenders to count Maurice
1619 - 1st Black slaves brought by Dutch to colony of Jamestown Virginia
1641 - Britain & Scotland sign Treaty of Pacification
1648 - Battle of Lens: French duke d'Enghien defeats Spaniards
1672 - Former Grand Pensionary Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis are brutally murdered by an
           angry mob in The Hague.
1741 - Alaska discovered by Danish explorer Vitus Bering
1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlie reaches Blair Castle Scotland
1781 - George Washington begins to move his troops south to fight Cornwallis
1794 - Gen Mad Anthony Wayne defeated the Indians at Fallen Timbers Ohio
1795 - Joseph Haydn returns to Vienna from England
1828 - Gioacchino Rossini's opera "Le Comte Ory," premieres in Paris
1852 - Steamer "Atlantic" collided with fishing boat, sinks with 250 aboard
1856 - Wilberforce University forms in Ohio
1861 - Skirmish at Jonesboro MO
1864 - 8th/last day of battle at Deep Bottom Run Va (about 3900 casualties)
1865 - Pres Johnson proclaims an end to "insurrection" in Tx
1866 - Pres Andrew Johnson formally declares Civil War over
1879 - Government Kappeijne of Coppello resigns
1882 - Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" opens in Moscow
1888 - Longest US men's single tournament match Palmer Presbrey defeats T S Tailer, 19-21, 8-6,
           6-1, 6-4, an 80-game 1st-round contest
1893 - Shechita (ritual slaughtering) prohibited in Switzerland
1895 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Norwood Builder" (BG)
1896 - Dial telephone patented
1900 - Great Britain beats France in cricket in Olympic Games
1900 - Japan's primary school law is amended to provide for four years of mandatory schooling.
1901 - Fawcett committee visits Mafeking concentration camp in Cape Colony
1908 - Congo Free State becomes Belgian Congo
1910 - US supported opposition brings down Madriz in Nicaragua
1912 - Plant Quarantine Act goes into effect
1912 - Wash Senator Carl Cushion no-hits Cleve Indians, 2-0 in 6 innings
1913 - 1st pilot to parachute from an aircraft (Adolphe Pégoud-France)
1913 - Piotr Nesterow 1st flight (Kiev Ukraine)
1914 - German General von Bulow executes 211 Belgians
1914 - -24] Battle of Bounderies: Lorraine, Ardennen, Sambre & Meuse, Mons
1914 - Battle at Gumbinnen, East-Prussia: Russian beat Germans
1914 - Battle at Morhange: German troops chase French, killing 1000s
1914 - Bavarian troops kill 50 inhabitants of Nomeny France
1914 - German army captured Brussels as the Belgian army retreated to Antwerp
1915 - White Sox obtain Joe Jackson from Cleve in exchange for Robert Roth, Larry Chappell, Ed
           Klepfer, & $31,500
1918 - Britain opens offensive on Western front during WW I
1919 - Wichita outfielder Joe Wilhoit (Western League) fails to get a hit, ending a 69-game streak
           (155 hits in 299 at bats for a .505 avg)
1920 - 1st US commercial radio station, 8MK (WWJ), Detroit begins daily broadcasting
1920 - Allen Woodring wins Oympic 200 m dash wearing borrowed shoes
1920 - Israel publishes it's 1st medical journal "Ha-Refuah"
1920 - Preliminary meeting in Akron to form American Pro Football League
1920 - Red Sox-Indians game postponed in Boston to allow Indian players to attend Ray Chapman's
           funeral in Cleveland
1921 - 35th US Womens Tennis: Molla B Mallory beats M Browne (46 64 62)
1922 - 1st world championship athletics for women, held in Paris
1923 - London harbor strike ends
1925 - WJR-AM in Detroit MI begins radio transmissions
1926 - Uprising against Rezā Shāh Pahlavi in Iran
1926 - Japan's public broadcasting company, Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai(NHK) is established.
1929 - 1st airship flight around Earth flying eastward completed
1930 - Bradman scores 232 in 5th Test Cricket at The Oval
1930 - Dumont's 1st TV broadcast for home reception (NYC)
1931 - 45th US Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats Eileen Whitingstall (64 61)
1934 - Ponsford out for 266 in his final Test Cricket match
1935 - Milt coup by General Pons & president Ibarra in Ecuador
1938 - Lou Gehrig hits record 23rd & last grand slam
1939 - 1st black bowling league formed (National Bowling Assoc)
1939 - Russian offensive under General Zjoekov against Japanese invasion in Mongolia
1940 - 1st Polish squadrons fight along in the Battle of Britain
1940 - British PM Churchill says of Royal Air Force, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much
           owed by so many to so few"
1941 - Police raid 11th district of Paris, takes 4,000+ Jewish males
1942 - Dim-out regulations implemented in SF
1944 - "Anna Lucasta," opens on Broadway
1944 - 26th PGA Championship: Bob Hamilton at Manito G & CC Spokane Wash
1944 - Gen de Gaulle returns to France
1944 - Russian offensive at Jassy & Kisjinev
1944 - US & British forces destroy German 7th Army at Falaise-Argentan Gap
1945 - Dodgers Tommy Brown, 17, is youngest player to hit a HR
1945 - Robert Hamilton wins PGA golf tournament
1945 - Russian troops occupy Harbin & Mukden
1945 - Tommy Brown, Bkln Dodger becomes youngest HR hitter (17)
1947 - Boston Braves hit a million attendance for 1st time
1947 - Turner Caldwell in D-558-I sets aircraft speed record, 1131 kph
1948 - 15th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chi Cards 28, All-Stars 0 (101,220)
1948 - US expels Soviet Consul General in New York, Jacob Lomakin
1949 - 78,382 watch White Sox play Indians at Cleveland
1949 - Hungary (Magyar People's Republic) accepts constitution
1952 - Stalin meets Chou Enlai
1953 - General Fazlollah Zahedi arrests premier Mossadeq of Persia
1953 - Russia publicly acknowledges hydrogen bomb test detonation
1955 - 1st airplane to exceed 1800 mph (2897 kph)-HA Hanes, Palmdale Ca
1955 - Hundreds killed in anti-French rioting in Morocco & Algeria
1956 - Republicans convene at Cow Palace
1957 - "Simply Heavenly" opens at Playhouse Theater NYC for 62 performances
1957 - Chicago White Sox Bob Keegan no-hits Wash Senators, 6-0
1957 - USAAF balloon breaks an altitude record at 102,000' (310,896 m)
1957 - White Sox Bob Keegan no-hits Senators 6-0
1958 - Cubs use 1st baseman Dale Long as their 1st lefty catcher since 1906
1958 - Dale Long becomes 1st major league lefty catcher in 52 years
1958 - Detroit Tiger Jim Bunning no-hits Boston Red Sox, 3-0
1959 - Belgium shortens conscription to 12 months
1960 - Senegal breaks from Mali federation, declaring independence
1960 - USSR recovers 2 dogs, 1st living organisms to return from space
1961 - Phillies set then dubious record of 23 straight loses, beat Braves
1961 - East Germany begins erecting 5' high wall along the border with the west to replace the
           barbed wire put up Aug 13
1962 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1964 - LBJ signs anti-poverty measure totaling nearly $1 billion
1964 - President Johnson signs Economic Opportunity Act
1964 - Rex Sellers bowls 5-1-17-0 v India in only Test Cricket innings
1964 - Yankee Phil Linz plays harmonica on bus despite Yogi Berra's orders
1965 - Rolling Stones release "Satisfaction" (their 1st #1 US hit)
1965 - Eddie Mathews & Hank Aaron (1954-65) pass Babe Ruth-Lou Gehrig hitting 772 HRs while
           playing together on the same team
1966 - Beatles pelted with rotten fruit during Memphis concert
1967 - Alvin Dark (52-69) is fired, rehired, & fired again as manager of A's
1967 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open
1968 - 650,000 Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia
1968 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1969 - 69 cm rainfall in Nelson Co., Virginia (state record)
1970 - -21] Hurricane Dorothy, kills 42 in Martinique
1971 - FBI begins covert investigation of journalist Daniel Schorr
1972 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Southgate Ladies Golf Open
1972 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1974 - Brooklyn pitcher Dan Bankhead is 1st black to homer in his 1st at bat
1974 - Nelson Rockefeller becomes VP
1974 - Nolan Ryan pitch measured at record 161.6 kph (100.4 mph)
1974 - Pres Gerald Ford, assumes office after Richard Nixon's resignation
1975 - Il-62 crashes south of Damascus, Syria, killing 126
1975 - Viking 1 launched to orbit around Mars, soft landing
1977 - NASA launches Voyager 2 towards Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus & Neptune
1978 - Gunmen open fire on an Israeli El Al Airline bus in London
1978 - Mark Vinchesi of Amherst Mass keeps a frisbee aloft 15.2 seconds
1978 - Sandra Post wins LPGA Lady Stroh's Golf Open
1978 - Tatyana Providokhina runs female world record 1k (2:30.6)
1979 - India premier Charan Singh resigns
1979 - Singer Vikki Carr & Michael Nilsson wed
1979 - The East Coast Main Line rail route between England and Scotland is restored when the
           Penmanshiel Diversion opens.
1980 - Mt Everest climbed by Italian Reinhold Messner, alone
1980 - NY Yankee Bob Watson hits Seattle Kingdome speaker, 2nd straight day
1980 - Pitts Omar Moreno steals record 70 bases for 3rd consecutive season
1980 - Reinhold Messner of Italy is 1st to solo ascent Mt Everest
1980 - Cleve Dan Spillner, 545 ERA, is 2 outs from a no-hitter when White Sox rookie Leo
           Sutherland singles
1980 - UN Security Council condemns (14-0, US abstains) Israeli declaration that all of Jersualem is
           it's capital
1982 - Don Lever becomes 1st captain of NJ Devils
1982 - US marines land in Beirut Lebanon
1983 - Miss National Teen-Ager
1985 - 1st NL pitcher to strike out 200+ in 1st 2 seasons (Dwight Gooden)
1985 - Israel ships 96 TOWs to Iran on behalf of US
1985 - Libya throws out 1000s Tunisian/Egyptian gas workers
1985 - Met Dwight Gooden strikes out 16 on way to his 13th consecutive win
1985 - Hanspeter Beck of South Australia, finishes a 3,875 mile, 51 day trip from Western Australia
           to Melbourne on a unicycle
1986 - Mail carrier Patrick Sherrill, Edmond Ok, shot 14 fellow workers dead
1986 - Phils Don Carmen perfect game bid is broken in 9th
1988 - 6.5 earthquake strikes India/Nepal, 1,000s killed
1988 - Yordanka Donkova of Bulgaria sets 100m hurdle woman's record (12.21)
1988 - "Black Saturday" of the Yellowstone fire in Yellowstone National Park
1988 - Peru becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1989 - Aak crashes into pleasure boat The Margin on the Thames, 51 killed
1989 - Howard Johnson joins B Bonds & W Mays to hit 30 HRs & steal 30 bases
1989 - Janet B Evans swims female world record 800m freestyle (8:16.22)
1989 - Said Aouita runs world record 3000 m (7:29.45)
1990 - Gene Michael names NY Yankee VP/GM replacing Harding Peterson
1990 - George Steinbrenner steps down as NY Yankee owner
1990 - Iraq moves Western hostages to military installations (human shields)
1990 - NY Yankee Kevin Mass is quickest to reach 15 HRs (approx 132 at bat)
1991 - After the attempted coup in the Soviet Union, Estonia declares
1991 - Norbert Rosza swims world record 100m breast stroke (1:01.29)
1991 - Dolphin Dan Marino surpasses Joe Montana as the highest paid NFL player with a 5-year
           extension for $25 million
1991 - Estonia declares it's independence from USSR itself independent
1992 - England get 7-363 in 55 overs vs Pakistan, then world ODI record
1993 - Colin Jackson runs world record 110m hurdles (12.91)
1993 - Howard Stern is fired from WLUP-AM, Chicago
1993 - Mother Teresa hospitalized with malaria
1993 - After rounds of secret negotiations in Norway, the Oslo Peace Accords are signed, followed by
           a public ceremony in Washington, D.C. the following month.
1994 - 109.8°F (43.2°C) in Cordoba Spain
1994 - Archbishop Quarracino wants all homosexuals to leave Argentina
1994 - Ferry boat sinks at Chandpur Bangladesh, 300-350 killed
1995 - "Play's the Thing" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 75 perfs
1995 - Indians' Jose Mesa sets record with his 37th consecutive save
1995 - Kerrie Webb wins LPGA Weetabix Women's British Golf Open
1996 - India defeat Pakistan in Under-15 World Challenge Final at Lord's
1997 - Shelly Moore, 18, of Tenn, crowned 15th Miss Teen USA
1997 - Souhane massacre in Algeria; over 60 people are killed and 15 kidnapped.
1998 - The Supreme Court of Canada rules that Quebec cannot legally secede from Canada without
           the federal government's approval.
1998 - U.S. embassy bombings: the United States military launches cruise missile attacks against
           alleged al-Qaida camps in Afghanistan and a suspected chemical plant in Sudan in retaliation
           for the August 7 bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. The al-Shifa
           pharmaceutical factory in Khartoum is destroyed in the attack.
2002 - A group of Iraqis opposed to the regime of Saddam Hussein take over the Iraqi Embassy in
           Berlin for five hours before releasing their hostages and surrendering.
2008 - Spanair Flight 5022, from Madrid to Gran Canaria, skids off the runway and crashes at
           Barajas Airport. 146 people are killed in the crash, 8 more die afterwards. Only 18 people
           survive.
2012 - 20 people are killed in a riot in Caracas, Venezuela
2012 - South Africa become the top-ranked test cricket nation after defeating England

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 20, 2013, 09:44:50 AM

This Day in History for 20th August


Famous Weddings

1836 - English novelist (Vanity Fair) William Makepeace Thackeray (25) marries Isabella Gethin Shawe
           (20)
1939 - "Rebecca" actress Joan Fontaine (21) weds actor Brian Aherne (37)
1992 - Rocker Sting weds Trudie Styler at an 11th century chapel in Wiltshire, England
2005 - "24" actress Sarah Wynter (32) weds "Details" magazine editor-in-chief Dan Peres in Sydney,
           Australia
2005 - Award-winning American news anchor Lauren Sanchez (35) weds prominent talent agent
           Patrick Whitesell at The Bacara Resort and Spa in Santa Barbara, California
2011 - Socialite and model Kim Kardashian (30) weds basketball player Kris Humphries (26) at a
           private estate in Montecito, California

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 20, 2013, 09:46:07 AM

This Day in History for 20th August


Famous Divorces

2012 - The man known primarily for gatecrashing the White House, Tareq Salahi (42) divorces socialite
           Michaele Salahi (46) due to adultery, desertion and construction desertion

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 20, 2013, 09:55:04 AM

This Day in History for 20th August


Famous Birthdays

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Author/Poet                                         Author Jacqueline Susann (1918)            Rock Vocalist Robert Plant (1948)
Salvatore Quasimodo (1901)


1517 - Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, cardinal/viceroy of Naples (1571-75)
1526 - Peter Opmeer, church historian/humanist (Historia Martyrum)
1561 - Jacopo Peri, composer
1625 - Thomas Corneille, French playwright
1632 - Louis Bourdaloue, French Jesuit preacher (d. 1704)
1637 - Cornelis Van Aerssen, Dutch governor/co-owner of Surinam
1665 - Bernardus Smijtegelt, vicar (Gekrookte Reed)
1666 - Alphonse d' Eve, composer
1702 - Stepan F graaf Apraksin, Russian general-fieldmarshal
1710 - Thomas Simpson, English mathematician (rules of Simpson)
1719 - Charles-François de Broglie, marquis de Ruffec, French soldier and diplomat (d. 1791)
1719 - Christian Mayer, Czech astronomer (d. 1783)
1720 - Bernard de Bury, composer
1756 - Bernardo Bittoni, composer
1764 - Charles F Bentinck, Dutch minister of Colonies
1778 - Bernardo O'Higgins, Chillán, Chile, South American independence leader who freed Chile from
           Spanish rule (1817-1823 Supreme Director of Chile)
1779 - Jöns Jakob Berzelius, Swedish chemist (d. 1848)
1785 - Oliver Hazard Perry, US Naval hero ("We have met the enemy")
1788 - Jose Bernardo Alcedo, composer
1799 - Heinrich WA Freiherr von Gagern, German liberal politician
1802 - Cadwalader Ringgold, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1867
1811 - Gilman Marston, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1890
1820 - Adolfe Louis Eugene Fetis, composer
1824 - Absalom Baird, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1905
1832 - Thaddeus Sobieski Constantine Lowe, inventor, died in 1913
1833 - Benjamin Harrison, North Bend Ohio, (R) 23rd Pres (1889-1893)
1842 - Juliaan de Vriendt, Flemish painter
1845 - St. Albert Chmielowski, Polish Catholic Saint (d. 1916)
1847 - Bolesław Prus, Polish writer (d. 1912)
1847 - Andrew Greenwood, England cricketer (d. 1889)
1856 - Innokenti F Annenski, Russian poet/interpreter (Laodania) [NS Sept 1]
1856 - Jakub Bart-Ćišinski, Sorbian writer (d. 1909)
1860 - Raymond Poincaré, France, president/PM (1912)
1865 - Bernard Tancred, South African cricketer (d. 1911)
1868 - Ellen Roosevelt, American tennis player (d. 1954)
1873 - Eliel Saarinen, Finland, architect (GM Tech Institute, Mich)
1873 - William Henry Bell, composer
1881 - Edgar Albert Guest, Detroit Mich, poet/newspaperman
1881 - Nikolay Yakovlevich Myaskovsky, composer
1885 - Dino Campana, Italian poet (Canti orfici)
1886 - Paul Tillich, German/US theologist (Die sozial Entscheidung)
1888 - George Sklavos, composer
1889 - Witold Friemann, composer
1890 - H. P. Lovecraft, Providence, Rhode Island, American horror writer (At the Mountains of
           Madness, Weird Tales)
1897 - Tarjei Vesaas, Norwegian author (Det Store Spelet)
1898 - G Kraus, director Santpoort (Insanity in Netherlands)
1898 - Leopold Infeld, Polish nuclear physicist (Whom the God's Love)
1898 - Vilhelm Moberg, Swedish author and historian (d. 1973)
1899 - Hanns Lilje, German Lutherian bishop/antifascist (Church und Welt)
1900 - Edward J "Murt" O'Donoghue, snooker player, 1st witnessed 147 break
1901 - Salvatore Quasimodo, Naples Italy, poet/critic/translator (Nobel 1959), (d. 1968)
1902 - Ernest Charles Melvin Patrick Ekundio Marke, club owner
1904 - Jaap [Jacob AW] Burger, chairman (PvdA)
1905 - Duncan Macrae, Glasgow Scotland, actor (Casino Royale, Kidnapped)
1905 - Jack [Weldon J] Teagarden, US trombonist/actor (Meet Band Leaders)
1905 - Jean Gebser, German-born author, linguist, and poet (d. 1973)
1907 - Alan Reed, NYC, actor (Mr Adams & Eve)/voice (Fred Flintstone), (d. 1977)
1907 - Anatole Fistoulari, conductor
1907 - Stanley Devon, photographer
1908 - Alfonso Lopez, baseball player (AL Manager of the year 1959)
1908 - Jeanne Stern, writer
1908 - John Reginald Bevins, politician
1908 - Kingsley Davis, sociologist/demographer, coined (population explosion)
1909 - Albert Roberts, cricketer (NZ pace bowler in 5 Tests 1932-37)
1909 - Andre Morell, London England, actor (Hound of the Baskervilles)
1910 - Eero Saarinen, Finnish/US architect (IBM Building, MIT Chapel)
1911 - Ronald Udell, England, production designer (Pinewood Studios)
1912 - Philip Kapleau, founder (Rochester Zen Center in New Haven)
1913 - Conrad Hermann Hubertius Maria Apollinaris Josten, jazz guitarist
1914 - Kitei Sohn, Korean marathon runner/coach (Olympic-gold-1936)
1916 - Paul Felix Schmidt, Estonian-German chess player (d. 1984)
1918 - Jacqueline Susann, Phila Pa, author (Valley of the Dolls), (d. 1974)
1921 - Jack Wilson, cricket slow left-armer (Test for Australia 1956)
1924 - Jim Reeves, US country singer/actor (Gun Fury, Kimberley Jim)
1926 - Nobby Wirkowski, American and Canadian football player and coach
1927 - Geriatric1927, English video blogger
1927 - Yootha Joyce, English actress (d. 1980)
1929 - Norma Connolly, Boston, Mass, actress (Ruby Anderson-General Hospital)
1930 - Mario Bernardi, Canadian conductor
1931 - Bernhard "Bernd" Becher, photographer (industrialist builder 19th/20th)
1931 - Don King, boxing promoter best known for his association with Mike Tyson and for his
           unusual hairstyles
1932 - Anthony Ainley, British actor (d. 2004)
1932 - Vasily Aksyonov, Russian novelist
1933 - Don Fuqua, (Rep-D-FL, 1963-86)
1933 - George John Mitchell, (Sen-D-ME, 1980-94/Senate Whip 1989- )
1933 - Larry Robideaux, horse trainer
1934 - Armi Kuusela, Finnish beauty queen
1935 - Charles Shere, composer
1935 - J J Malone, US soul singer (It's a shame)
1935 - Justin Tubb, San Antonio Tx, country singer (Grand Ole Opry)
1935 - Ron Paul, US Congressman, 1988 and 2008 presidential candidate
1936 - Carla Fracci, Milan Italy, ballerina
1936 - Hideki Shirakawa, Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1937 - Corrie E Moret-de Jong, Dutch MP (CDA)
1937 - George Thoma, German FR, cross country ski jumper (Olympic-gold-1960)
1937 - Jim "Bullseye" Bowen, British TV game show host and commedienne
1937 - El Fary, Spanish singer and actor (d. 2007)
1938 - Jean-Loup Jaques Marie Chretien, France, cosmonaut (T-6, TM-7, STS 86)
1938 - Alain Vivien, French politician
1939 - Fernando Poe Jr., Filipino actor and politician (d. 2004)
1940 - John Lantree, rocker
1940 - Rex Sellers, Aust cricketer leg-spinner (bowled 5 overs in Tests)
1940 - Sam Melville, Utah, actor (Mike Danko-Rookies, Roughnecks)
1940 - Rubén Hinojosa, American politician
1941 - Slobodan Milocevic, premier Serbia
1941 - William H Gray III, Baton Rouge La, (Rep-D-PA, 1978- )
1941 - Dave Brock, British musician and founder of Hawkwind
1941 - Rich Brooks, American football coach
1941 - Robin Oakley, British journalist
1941 - Jo Ramirez, Mexican motor racing team manager and author
1942 - Hans-Joachim Klein, German FR, 100m swimmer (Olympic-bronze-1964)
1942 - Isaac Hayes, Covington TN, composer (Shaft)
1942 - Fred Norman, American baseball player
1943 - Sylvester McCoy, Scottish actor
1944 - Graig Nettles, 3rd baseman (NY Yankees, SD Padres, Cleve Indians)
1944 - John Povey, rocker
1944 - Rajiv Gandhi, PM of India (1984-89)
1946 - Connie Chung, TV news anchor (NBC, CBS)
1946 - Ralf Hütter, German musician (Kraftwerk)
1946 - N.R. Narayana Murthy, Indian businessman
1947 - James Pankow, Chicago IL, rocker (Chicago)
1948 - Robert Plant, West Bromwich England, rock vocalist (Led Zeppelin-Whole Lotta Love)
1948 - John Noble, Australian actor
1949 - Nikolas Asimos, Greek composer and singer (d. 1988)
1949 - Norman Featherstone, South African cricketer
1949 - Alan Hardwick, English TV presenter
1949 - Phil Lynott, Irish musician (d. 1986)
1951 - Greg[ory Dale] Bear, US, sci-fi author (2 Hugos, Eon, Eternity)
1951 - Phil Lynott, Dublin Ireland, rock bassist (Thin Lizzy)
1951 - Svetlana Oktyabrevna Omelchenko, Russia, cosmonaut
1952 - John Emburey, England cricket off-spinner (1978-95, captain 1988)
1952 - John Hiatt, US singer/songwriter (Have a Little Faith in Me)
1952 - Rudy Gatlin, Olney Tx, country singer (Gatlin Bros-Broken Lady)
1953 - Peter Horton, Bellevue Wash, actor (Gary-30 Something)
1954 - Al Roker, Queens NY, weatherman (NBC, Today)
1954 - Theresa Saldana, Brooklyn New York, American actress (Rachel Scali-Commish)
1954 - William Quinn Buckner, Phoenix Ill, basketballer (Olympic-gold-1976)
1954 - Tawn Mastrey, American disc jockey (d. 2007)
1954 - Don Stark, American actor
1955 - Jay Acovone, Mahopac NY, actor (Det Rado-Hollywood Beat)
1955 - Ned Overend, Taipei Taiwan, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1955 - Rob Wiedijk, Dutch rock vocalist (Bob Color)
1956 - Alvin Greenidge, cricketer (WI opener, no relation to Gordon or Geoff)
1956 - Joan Allen, Ill, actress (Peggy Sue Got Married, Tucker, In Country)
1956 - Rick Olsen, rock guitarist (Berlin-Take My Breath Away)
1957 - Cindy Nicholas, Canada, swimmer (swam English Channel 19 times)
1957 - Doug Fleger, rocker
1957 - Mike Dodd, Manhattan Beach CA beach volleyballer (Olympics-silver-96)
1957 - Scott Ayakatubby, beach volleyball champ
1958 - Lenny Henry, British comedian (3 of a Kind)
1958 - Patricia Rozema, Canadian film director and screenwriter
1959 - Missie McGeorge, Pueblo CO, LPGA golfer (1994 PING-Cellular One)
1959 - Richard DeStasio, horse trainer
1960 - Elizabeth Alda, daughter of Alan Alda, actress (Beth-Four Seasons)
1960 - Mark Langston, San Diego CA, pitcher (California Angels)
1960 - Troy Young, horse trainer
1961 - Linda Mantz, NYC, actress (Frankie-Dorothy)
1961 - Rick Rael, heavy metal rocker
1961 - Greg Egan, Australian author
1961 - Joe Pasquale, English comedian
1962 - Duffy James Joseph Waldorf Jr, LA CA, PGA golfer (1995 LaCantera Tx)
1962 - Loretta Alderete, LA CA, LPGA golfer (1992 Oldsmobile-14th)
1962 - Robert Meyer, Sacramento Cal, Canadian Tour golfer (1994 Morningstar)
1962 - James Marsters, American actor
1962 - Dong-Wook Song, South Korean tennis player
1963 - Bruce Hick, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1964 - Giuseppe Giannini, Rome Italy, soccer player (Rome A Team)
1965 - Joe Durigon, jockey
1965 - KRS-One, American rapper
1966 - Courtney Gibbs, Miss USA (1988)/actress (Baywatch)
1966 - Greg Jackson, NFL strong safety (Philadelphia Eagles, San Diego Chargers)
1966 - Steven Finn, Laval, NHL defenseman (LA Kings)
1966 - Dimebag Darrell, heavy metal guitarist (Pantera)
1966 - Colin Cunningham, Los Angeles, California, American actor (Centigrade, Falling Skies)
1967 - Andy Benes, Evansville IN, pitcher (St Louis Cardinals)
1967 - Michael "Sean" Hall, Williamsburg Va, rower (Olympics-1996)
1967 - Terri Poch, American yogini and former professional wrestler
1968 - Sandy Brondello, Australian basketball guard (Olympics-bronze-96)
1968 - Klas Ingesson, Swedish footballer
1968 - Yuri Shiratori, Japanese voice actress and singer
1969 - Bart Spark, soccer player (Veendam, SC Heerenveen)
1969 - Francisco Torres, jockey
1969 - Duke Droese, American professional wrestler
1970 - Els Callens, Antwerp Belgium, tennis star (1996 quarterfinalist Essen)
1970 - Jay McNeil, CFL guard (Calgary Stampeders)
1970 - Fred Durst, American singer (Limp Bizkit)
1971 - Bernard Whittington, defensive end (Indianapolis Colts)
1971 - Brett Bech, wide receiver (New Orleans Saints)
1971 - Ke Huy Quan, Saigon Vietnam, actor (Sam-Together We Stand)
1971 - Kevin Hickman, NFL tight end (Detroit Lions)
1971 - Oronde Gadsden, NFL wide receiver (Dallas Cowboys)
1971 - Brad Avery, American musician (former guitarist for Third Day)
1971 - Steve Stone, English footballer
1971 - David Walliams, British comedian
1972 - Derrick Alston, NBA forward (Phila 76ers)
1973 - Todd Helton, American baseball player
1974 - Denesha Reid, Miss USA-Georgia (1997)
1974 - Maxim Vengerov, Russian violinist
1974 - Amy Adams, American actress
1974 - Big Moe, American rapper (d. 2007)
1974 - Szabolcs Sáfár, Hungarian footballer
1974 - Andy Strachan, Australian musician (The Living End)
1975 - Marianne Garvey, American reporter
1975 - Marcus Mastin, American author
1976 - Chris Drury, American hockey player
1977 - Ivar Ingimarsson, Icelandic footballer
1977 - Felipe Contepomi, Argentine rugby player
1977 - Manuel Contepomi, Argentine rugby player
1977 - Mayra Veronica, Cuban model and actress
1977 - James Ormond, England cricketer
1978 - Sanna Lankosaari, ice hockey right wing (Finland, Oly-98)
1979 - Tara Shaffer, Miss Ohio Teen USA (1996)
1979 - Cory Sullivan, American baseball player
1980 - Corey Carrier, actor (Young Indiana Jones)
1980 - Rochelle Gadd, British actress
1981 - Lauri Illy, Virginia Beach Va, rhythmic gymnast (Olympics-96)
1981 - Bernard Mendy, French footballer
1981 - Benjamin Barnes, English actor (Prince Caspian)
1982 - Cléber Luis Alberti, Brazilian footballer
1982 - Youssouf Hersi, Ethiopian footballer
1982 - Joshua Kennedy, Australian footballer
1982 - Barney Rogers, Zimbabwean cricketer
1984 - Mirai Moriyama, Japanese actor
1984 - Golan Yosef, Dutch actor
1986 - Robert Clark, Canadian actor
1987 - Cătălina Ponor, Romanian gymnast
1990 - Ranomi Kromowidjojo, Dutch swimmer
1991 - Marko Đoković, Serbian tennis player
1992 - Demi Lovato, American Actress
1994 - White buffalo, Janesville Wisconsin
2003 - Prince Gabriel of Belgium

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 20, 2013, 09:59:44 AM

This Day in History for 20th August


Famous Deaths

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Philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm                  Comedienne and Actress
 Joseph Schelling (1854)                               Phyllis Diller (2012)


535 - Mochta of Louth, disciple of St. Patrick
984 - John XIV, [Petrus Canepanova], Italian Pope (983-84), dies
1153 - Bernard[us] van Clairvaux, French saint, dies
1384 - Geert Groote, Dutch founder of the Brethren of the Common Life, dies at 43
1538 - Aefgen Listinck, Dutch anabaptist, burned at stake
1572 - Miguel López de Legazpi, Spanish conquistador (b. 1502)
1580 - Jeronymo Osorio, Portuguese historian (b. 1506)
1632 - Valentin de Boulogne, French painter, buried at 38
1639 - Martin Opitz, German poet/historian (Troerinnen), dies at 41
1643 - Anne Hutchinson, English Puritan preacher (b. 1591)
1648 - Edward Herbert of Cherbury, English military/philosopher, dies at 65
1672 - Cornelis de Witt, Dutch, statesman, lynched at 49
1672 - Johan de Witt, advisor of Holland, lynched
1679 - Jacob Alting, Dutch theologist, dies at 60
1680 - William Bedloe, English informer (b. 1650)
1701 - Charles Sedley, English playwright (b. 1639)
1707 - Nicolas Gigault, French organist and composer (b. 1627)
1773 - Enrique Florez, Spanish historian (b. 1701)
1799 - Johann Christian Gottlob Eidenbenz, composer, dies at 37
1804 - Charles Floyd, only fatality of the Lewis & Clark Expedition
1811 - Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French explorer (b. 1729)
1813 - Jan Krtitel Vanhal, composer, dies at 74
1823 - Pius VII, [Luigi B Chiaramonti], Pope (1800-23), dies at 83
1825 - Richard Wainwright, composer, dies at 68
1825 - William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock, Governor of Newfoundland (b. 1753)
1854 - Friedrich WJ von Schelling, German philosopher, dies at 79
1856 - Philipp Jakob Riotte, composer, dies at 80
1864 - Daniel Chaplin, US Union brig-general, dies
1864 - John H Kelly, US Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 24
1885 - Edouard J A Agneessens, Flemish painter (Slave Market), dies at 42
1887 - Jules Laforgue, French poet (b. 1860)
1908 - Louis Varney, composer, dies at 64
1910 - Arthur Coquard, composer, dies at 64
1912 - William Booth, English minister/founder (Leader des Heils), dies
1914 - Pius X, [Giuseppe M Sarto], Pope (1903-14), dies
1915 - Paul Ehrlich, Germ geneologist (Chemotherapy, Nobel 1908), dies in 61
1917 - JFW Adolf Ritter von Baeyer, German chemist (Nobel 1905), dies
1919 - Gregor MacGregor, English cricket wicketkeeper (8 Tests 1890-93), dies
1919 - Greg MacGregor, England cricketer (b. 1869)
1930 - Charles Bannerman, cricketer (1st three Tests for Australia), dies
1931 - Waldemar von Baussnern, composer, dies at 64
1932 - Emille-Louis-Victor Mathieu, composer, dies at 87
1932 - Paul Keller, German writer (Vergrabenes Gut), dies at 59
1932 - Tadeusz Joteyko, composer, dies at 60
1935 - Otakar Ostrcil, composer, dies at 56
1945 - A Roda Roda, writer, dies at 73
1947 - Franz VM Cumont, Belgian religious historian, dies at 79
1948 - David John de Lloyd, composer, dies at 65
1952 - Kurt Schumacher, German politician/chairman (SPD), dies
1959 - Alfred Kubin, writer, dies at 82
1960 - Rudolf Moser, composer, dies at 68
1961 - Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Arctic explorer, dies at 82
1963 - Joan Voûte, Dutch astronomer (b. 1879)
1968 - Earl Sande, US jockey (Kentucky Derby), dies at 69
1970 - Hildo Krop, modernistic sculptor, dies at 86
1971 - Rashid Minhas, Pakistani Air Force pilot (b. 1951)
1974 - Ilona Massey, actress (Love HAppy, Holiday in Mexico), dies at 62
1976 - Phyllis Konstam, actress (Murder, Skin Game), dies at 69
1978 - Ivan Jirko, composer, dies at 51
1978 - Petros John Petridis, composer, dies at 86
1980 - Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank, dies at 91
1980 - Joe Dassin, American singer (b. 1938)
1982 - Ulla Jacobsson, Swedish actress (Zulu), dies of bone cancer at 53
1983 - Kerwin Duinmeijer, Antillean boy, murdered by racist at 15
1985 - Harchand Singh Longowai, Sikh leader, shot by Sikh extremists
1986 - Donn Bennett, TV host (The Big Idea), dies at 76
1986 - Thad Jones, jazz trumpeter, dies of cancer at 63
1986 - Walter Brooke, actor (DA Scanlon-Green Hornet), dies at 71
1986 - Milton Acorn, Canadian poet (b. 1923)
1990 - Marc Turfkruijer, Flemish movie journalist/writer, dies
1991 - Betty Bowden, British dancer/actress (Vote for Nigel), dies at 86
1991 - Lenore Strunsky Gershwin, widow of Ira Gershwin, dies at 90
1992 - Ivan Nikolayevich Anikeyev, cosmonaut, dies at 59
1992 - William Taylor, chairman (FDIC), dies at 53
1993 - Bernard Delfgaauw, philosopher (Johnson murderer!), dies at 80
1994 - Aleksander Petrovic, film Director, dies at 65
1994 - Kalman Kahana, Polish co-founder of state Israel, dies at 81
1995 - Hugo Pratt, graphic artist, dies at 68
1995 - John E Gilmore, tenor Saxophonist, dies at 63
1995 - Paul Foster, singer, dies at 75
1995 - Vladimir Skutina, writer playwright/journalist, dies at 64
1995 - Von McDaniel, baseball player, dies at 56
1995 - William Kennedy, baseball player, dies at 76
1996 - George Brian Snape, businessman/rugby league entrepreneur, dies at 81
1996 - Rio Reiser, rock singer, dies at 46
1997 - Norris Bradbury, American physicist (b. 1909)
1998 - Raquel Rastenni, Danish singer (b. 1915)
2001 - Sir Fred Hoyle, English astronomer and science fiction writer (b. 1915)
2001 - Kim Stanley, American actress (b. 1925)
2005 - Thomas Herrion, American football player (b. 1981)
2005 - Krzysztof Raczkowski, Polish drummer (b. 1970)
2006 - Claude Blanchard, French-Canadian singer, comedian and actor (b. 1932)
2006 - Joe Rosenthal, American photographer (b. 1911)
2006 - Cpl Bryan Budd VC, British soldier (Afghanistan) (b. 1977)
2007 - Leona Helmsley, American hotel operator and real estate investor (b. 1920)
2007 - Larry Hartsell, American martial artist, bodyguard, trainer, student of Bruce Lee and Dan
           Inosanto (b. 1942)
2008 - Hua Guofeng, former Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, succeeding Mao Zedong in
           1976 and being replaced by Hu Yaobang in 1981 (b. 1921)
2008 - Stephanie Tubbs Jones, American politician (b. 1949)
2008 - Gene Upshaw, American football player and union leader (b. 1945)
2009 - Larry Knechtel, American keyboard player and bassist (b. 1940)
2012 - Phyllis Diller, American comedienne and actress, dies from natural causes at 95
2012 - Meles Zenawi, Ethiopian Prime Minister, dies from liver cancer at 57
2012 - Dom Mintoff, Maltese Prime Minister, dies at 96

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 21, 2013, 09:20:10 AM

This Day in History for 21st August


Historical Events

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1st Duke of Wellington &                        Baseball Great Babe Ruth               Kenyan Prime Minister and President
British Prime Minister                                                                                                      Jomo Kenyatta
Arthur Wellesley

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Golfer Tiger Woods


959 - Erachus becomes bishop of Luik
1192 - Minamoto Yoritomo becomes Seii Tai Shōgun and the de facto ruler of Japan. (Traditional
           Japanese date: July 12, 1192)
1321 - 160 Jews of Chincon France, burned at stake
1560 - Tycho Brahe becomes interested in astronomy
1598 - -22] Deed of Transfers proclaims Netherlands independence
1673 - Sea battle at Kijkduin: De Ruyter defeats English & French fleet
1680 - Pueblo Indians takes possession of Santa Fé from Spanish
1689 - The Battle of Dunkeld in Scotland.
1703 - Turkish army removes sultan Mustafa II
1718 - Emperor Karel VI, Turkey & Venice sign peace treaty
1760 - The church (later cathedral) of "Our Lady of Candlemas of Mayagüez (Puerto Rico)" is
           founded, establishing the basis for the founding of the city.
1772 - King Gustav III completes his coup d'etat by adopting a new Constitution, ending half a
           century of parliamentary rule in Sweden and installing himself as an enlightened despot.
1808 - Battle of Vimeiro: British and Portuguese forces led by General Arthur Wellesley defeat French
           force under Major-General Jean-Andoche Junot near the village of Vimeiro, Portugal, the first
           Anglo-Portuguese victory of the Peninsular War.
1810 - Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, Marshal of France, is elected Crown Prince of Sweden by the
           Swedish Riksdag of the Estates.
1821 - Jarvis Island is discovered by the crew of the ship, Eliza Frances.
1831 - Nat Turner slave revolt kills 55 (Southampton County, Virginia)
1841 - John Hampton patents venetian blind
1842 - The city of Hobart, Tasmania, is founded.
1852 - Tlingit Indians destroy Fort Selkirk, Yukon Territory.
1856 - America's first consul to Japan, Townsend Harris, arrives in Shimoda. (Traditional Japanese
           date: July 21, 1856)
1858 - 1st Lincoln-Douglas debate (Illinois)
1862 - The Vienna Stadtpark opens its gates.
1863 - Raid at Lawrence KS by William Quantrill
1864 - BBT Charleston, SC [->DEC 31]
1864 - Battle at Globe Tavern, Virginia, ends after 2500 casualties
1864 - Battle of Grubbs Crossroads, KY
1864 - Battle of Summit Point, VA
1864 - Gen-major Nathan B Forrests assault on Memphis, Tennessee
1878 - American Bar Association organizes at Sarasota, NY
1878 - Edward Pooley completes record 8 stumpings in a cricket match
1879 - The Virgin Mary, along with St. Joseph and St. John the Evangelist, reportedly appears to the
           people of Knock, County Mayo, Ireland.
1883 - Providence shuts out Phillies 28-0
1887 - Mighty (Dan) Casey struck-out in a game with NY Giants!
1888 - William Seward Burroughs patents adding machine
1891 - Dutch Mackay government resigns
1897 - Oldsmobile begins operation as a General Motors Corp division
1901 - 21st US Mens Tennis: William Larned beats Beals C Wright (62 68 64 64)
1901 - Joe McGinnity, suspended from NL for punching & spitting on an ump
1912 - Mr Carter-Cotton chosen 1st chancellor of Univ of British Columbia
1914 - 20th US Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 290 at Midlothian CC Ill
1914 - Belgium: German troops occupy Tamines
1914 - French offensive in the Ardennen/Sambre
1915 - Italy declares war on Turkey in World War One
1920 - 3rd PGA Championship: Jock Hutchison at Flossmoor CC Flossmoor Ill
1922 - Curly Lambeau & Green Bay Football Club granted NFL franchise
1925 - BV Emmen soccer team forms
1926 - -22] Uprising against Greek president/dictator Pangalos
1926 - White Sox Ted Lyons no hits Red Sox 6-0 in just 67 minutes at Fenway
1927 - 4th Pan-African Congress meets (NYC)
1929 - Chicago Cardinals become 1st pro football team to train out of town
1930 - Prohibition of Wieringermeer finished
1931 - Babe Ruth hits his 600th HR, off George Blaeholder of Browns
1932 - Wes Ferrell is 1st to win 20 games in each of his 1st 4 seasons
1933 - Ruth's homer leads AL to a 4-2 win in 1st All Star Game
1936 - Red Sox Wes Ferrell, walks off mound when he feels he did no get good feilding, Sox
           suspend him
1938 - Italy bars all Jewish teachers in Public & High School
1942 - Alpine hunters plant German flag on Elbroezgebergte, Kaukasus
1942 - Transport nr 22 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1942 - World War II: a Nazi flag is installed atop the Mount Elbrus.
1943 - Gromyko named USSR-ambassador in Washington
1943 - Japan leaves Aleutian Islands
1944 - Germans storm up Hill 262 (Mont Ormel) Normandy
1944 - Grieg/Work/Forest's musical "Song of Norway," premieres in NYC
1944 - Raid on Jewish childrens house in Secrétan/St-Mandé
1944 - US 12nd Army corp occupies Sens
1945 - Pres Harry Truman ends Lend-Lease program
1947 - 1st Little League World Series Maynard Midgets of Williamsport PA win
1948 - Indians 47-inning scoreless streak broken by White Sox Aaron Robinson
1949 - Phila fans cause A's to forfeit game when they riot over a trapped line drive by Rich Ashburn,
           Giants leading 4-2 in 9th declared winners
1953 - Baseball player reps Ralph Kiner (NL) & Allie Reynolds (AL) hire John Norman Lewis at $15,000
           to give legal advice to players in negotiation
1953 - Marion Carl in Douglas Skyrocket reaches record 25,370 m
1953 - Sultan Sidi Mohammed Am Joessoef V of Morocco deposed
1956 - WTVW TV channel 7 in Evansville, IN (ABC) begins broadcasting
1957 - 1st launching in Baikonur, Kazachstan (R7 "Semiorka"-rocket)
1958 - KUT-FM in Austin Texas begins radio transmissions
1959 - Hawaii becomes 50th US state
1961 - Jomo Kenyatta freed from prison in Kenya
1962 - Verne Gagne beats Mister M (doctor X) in Minn, to become NWA champ
1963 - Jerry Lynch's record 15th pinch-hit HR gives Pirates a 7-6 win
1963 - Martial law declared in S Vietnam, following raids on Buddhist pagodas
1965 - Gemini 5 launched into Earth orbit (2 astronauts)
1965 - Romania adopts constitution
1965 - The Crusher beats Mad Dog Vachon in St Paul, to become NWA champ
1966 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open
1967 - China reports downing of 2 US bombers
1967 - Ken Harrelson becomes baseball's 1st free agent
1967 - Liquid gas tanker explodes in Martelange Belgium, 22 killed
1967 - Mikis Theodorakis arrested in Greece
1968 - After 5 years Russia once again jams Voice of America radio
1968 - Democratic Convention opens in Chicago
1968 - Marine James Anderson Jr is 1st black Medal of Honor winner
1968 - Radio Prague (Czech) at 12:50 AM announces a soviet led invasion
1968 - Warsaw Pact forces enter Czechoslovakia to end reform movement
1968 - William Dana reaches 80 km (last high-altitude X-15 flight)
1969 - Fire in Al-Aksa-mosque in Jerusalem
1972 - 1st hot air balloon flight over Alps
1972 - British harbor strike ends
1972 - Grace Slick maced by police when a band official called cops, pigs
1972 - Republican convention opens in Miami Beach
1972 - US orbiting astronomy observatory Copernicus launched
1975 - 3 truck pile up kills 10, injures 26 on French highway
1975 - Rick & Paul Reuschel become 1st brothers to pitch a combined shut out
1975 - US lightens trade embargo against Cuba
1976 - Al Bumbry hits 17th inside-the-park HR in Oriole history
1976 - Battle East Sussex: Mary Langdon becomes 1st British firewoman
1976 - Operation Paul Bunyan at Panmunjeom, Korea.
1977 - Debbie Austin wins LPGA Wheeling Golf Classic
1977 - Donna Patterson Brice sets high speed water skiing rec (111.11 mph)
1978 - 1st gay theme telefilm - Matlovich vs US Air Force
1979 - Mets win a protested game against Astros, 5-0
1980 - Linda Ronstadt opens in "Pirates of Penzance" on Broadway
1982 - Palestinian terrorists are dispersed from Beirut
1982 - Rollie Fingers (Brewers) becomes 1st pitcher to get save #300
1983 - "La Cage aux Folles" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 1761 performances
1983 - 110°F (43°C) at Fayetteville, North Carolina (state record)
1983 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Chevrolet World Championship of Women's Golf
1985 - Mary Decker Slaney runs mile in world record 4:16.71
1985 - NY Lotto pays $41 million to three winner (#s are 14-17-22-23-30-47)
1986 - "Rags" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 4 performances
1986 - Ian Botham takes world-record 356th Test Cricket wkt (v NZ, The Oval)
1986 - Lake Nios Volcano in Cameroon kills 1,746
1986 - Red Sox Spike Owens scores 6 runs in a 24-5 rout of Cleve Indians
1986 - Surinames Ronnie Brunswijks Jungle commandos kill 2 government officials
1986 - Volcanic eruption in Cameroon releases poison gas, killing 2,000
1986 - With 2 outs in 6th inning, Red Sox score 11 runs
1987 - "Mack Lobell" set harness racing's trotting mil (1:52)
1987 - Clayton Lonetree, 1st marine court-martialed for spying, convicted
1987 - Silke Horneer swims female world record 100m breaststroke (1:07.91)
1988 - Cease fire between Iran & Iraq takes effect after 8 years of war
1988 - Juli Inkster wins LPGA Atlantic City Golf Classic
1989 - Voyager 2 begins a flyby of planet Neptune
1991 - Communist coup is crushed in USSR in 2 days
1991 - Latvia declares it's independence from USSR
1993 - NASA loses contact with Mars Observer
1994 - -23] Typhoon Fred ravages Chinese county Zhejiang, 700+ killed
1994 - Ernesto Zedillo wins Mexican presidential election
1994 - Jane Geddes wins LPGA Chicago Golf Challenge
1994 - Royal Air Maroc ATR-42 crash down at Agadir, 44 killed
1995 - US marshals move in on Randy Weaver's cabin in Idaho
1996 - "Hughie," opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC
1996 - Christie Lee Woods, 18, of Texas, crowned 14th Miss Teen USA
1996 - Netscape Browser 3.0 is released
1997 - Typhoon Winnie kills 140, injures 3,000 in East China
1997 - US government forces closure of Hudson Foods due to E Coli break out
2000 - Tiger Woods wins golf's PGA Championship to become the first golfer since Ben Hogan in
           1953 to win 3 majors in a calendar year. He ties the to-par record for the PGA (-18) with Bob 
           May, and wins in a playoff
2001 - NATO decides to send a peace-keeping force to the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
2001 - The Red Cross announces that a famine is striking Tajikistan, and calls for international
           financial aid for Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
2007 - Hurricane Dean makes its first landfall in Costa Maya, Mexico with winds at 165 mph. Dean is
           the first storm since Hurricane Andrew to make landfall as a Category 5.
2012 - 20 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo die from the Ebola virus
2017 - Next total solar eclipse visible from North America

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 21, 2013, 09:27:03 AM

This Day in History for 21st August


Famous Weddings

1745 - Future Russian Czar Peter III marries Ekaterina Alexeievna later Catherine II (Catherine the
           Great)
1993 - Lyricist Bernie Taupin weds Strephanie Haymes
2005 - "Strictly Come Dancing" hostess Natasha Kaplinsky (32) weds investment banker Justin
           Bower at St. Margaret's Church in Somerset, England
2010 - Actor and director Stephen Moyer (41) weds actress Anna Paquin (28) at a private estate in
           Malibu

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 21, 2013, 09:33:24 AM

This Day in History for 21st August


Famous Birthdays

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Country Singer                                        Actress Kim Cattrall (1956)
Kenny Rogers (1938)


1165 - Philip II Augustus, 1st great Capetian king of France (1179-1223)
1535 - Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1619)
1567 - Francois de Sales, French bishop of Geneva/writer/saint
1597 - Roger Twysden, English antiquarian and royalist (d. 1672)
1642 - Johann Friedrich Treiber, composer
1643 - Afonso VI, king of Portugal (1656-67) (mentally ill)
1660 - Hubert Gautier, engineer, wrote 1st book on bridge building
1665 - Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer (d. 1729)
1670 - James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, French military leader (d. 1734)
1689 - Jose Pradas Gallen, composer
1721 - Lucretia W van Winter-van Merken, Dutch poet
1725 - Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter
1751 - Johann Georg Witthauer, composer
1754 - William Murdoch, Scottish inventor (d. 1839)
1754 - Banastre Tarleton, British soldier and politician (d. 1833)
1765 - William IV of the United Kingdom (1830-37)
1780 - Jernej Kopitar, Slovenian censor (Slovenian Grammar)
1789 - Augustin-Louis, Baron Cauchy, French mathematician
1798 - Jules Michelet, French historian (History of France, L'Amour)
1800 - Hiram Walden, American politician (d. 1880)
1801 - Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, WW II Dutch statesman/historian
1806 - Johannes Frederick Frohlich, composer
1809 - Francesco Schira, composer
1810 - Thomas Jefferson McKean, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1813 - Jean Stas, Belgian chemist (d. 1891)
1816 - Charles Frédéric Gerhardt, French chemist (d. 1856)
1821 - William Barksdale, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1863
1824 - John Sanford Mason, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1897
1825 - Kate Fanny Loder, composer
1826 - Karl Gegenbaur, German anatomist (d. 1903)
1829 - Otto Goldschmidt, composer
1847 - Arthur T Verhaegen, Belgian worker's union leader
1852 - Benedetto Junck, composer
1871 - Leonid N Andrejev, Russian journalist/writer (Red Laugh)
1872 - Aubrey Beardsley, England, artist (Salome)
1874 - Herman A van Karnebeek, Dutch minister of Foreign affairs (1918-27)
1875 - Maurice Lippens, Belgian earl/minister/governor of Congo
1879 - Henry Ainley, Leeds England, actor (As You Like It)
1880 - Johan H Westerveld, Dutch WW II resistance fighter/leader (OD)
1891 - Emiliano Mercado del Toro, World's oldest living man 2004-2007 (d. 2007)
1892 - Charles Vanel, Rennes France, actor (Wages of Fear)
1893 - Juliette Marie Olga Lili Boulanger, composer
1896 - Blossom Rock, actress, (Grandmamma-Addams Family)
1896 - Raymond Herreman, Flemish writer (Rose of Jericho)
1896 - Roark Bradford, writer/humorist (Ol' Man Adan an' His Chillun)
1900 - Eileen Percy, Belfast Ireland, silent film actress (Let's Go)
1902 - Renato Fasano, composer
1903 - Yannis Constantinidis, composer
1904 - [William] Count Basie, Red Bank NJ, jazz musician (Blazing Saddles)
1905 - Isadore I Friz Freleng, KC MO, animator (Warner Bros cartoons)
1906 - Joachim Homs, composer
1906 - Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet, advertising magnate
1907 - Miguel Torga, [Adolfo Correia da Rocha], Portuguese author
1907 - Roy K Marshall, Glen Carbon Ill, TV scientist (Nature of Things)
1908 - David Farrar, Forest Gate England, actor (Beat Girl, I Accuse)
1908 - M. M. Kaye, British writer (d. 2004)
1908 - Oversight (nom de plume), American philosopher
1909 - C Dillon Douglas, Geneva Switz, US Secretary of Treasury (1961-65)
1909 - Jon William Jr Haussermann, composer
1909 - Nikolay Bogolyubov, Russian mathematician (d. 1992)
1912 - Bruce Trent, singer
1912 - Toe Blake, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1995)
1913 - Cornelius Johnson, Los Angeles California, high jumper (Olympic-gold-1936)
1913 - Diana Churchill, actress (Spider, Sally Bishop, Housemaster)
1913 - Victor Rosow, writer
1914 - Dallas Pratt, collector
1914 - Doug Wright, cricketer (England's leg-spinning genius of 30's & 40's)
1915 - Jack Weston, [Morris Weinstein], Cleveland, actor (4 Seasons, Rad)
1915 - Raquel Rastenni, Danish singer (d. 1998)
1916 - William John Raff Hooper, cartoonist
1918 - Billy Reay, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2004)
1920 - Christopher R Milne, son of Alan A Milne (Winnie the Pooh)
1923 - Chris Schenkel, Biuppus Ind, sportscaster (Monday Night Fights)
1924 - Gerald D Lascelles, son of English princess Mary
1924 - Jack Buck, American sports announcer (d. 2002)
1924 - Jack Weston, American actor (d. 1996)
1925 - Judy Grable, American professional wrestler (d. 2008)
1925 - Maurice Pialat, French actor and director (d. 2003)
1926 - Ben-Zion Orgad, composer
1927 - Wilhelm Jr Killmayer, composer
1927 - Thomas S. Monson, 16th president of the (Mormon) Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
           Saints
1928 - Gillian Sheen, England, foils (Olympic-gold-1956)
1928 - Zdenek Lukas, composer
1928 - Art Farmer, American trumpet player (d. 1999)
1929 - Ahmed "Kathy" Kathrada, leader of S Afr Communist Party
1929 - X. J. Kennedy, American poet
1930 - Frank Perry, film director
1930 - Margaret Rose Countess of Snowdon, London UK, Sister of Queen Elizabeth II
1931 - Gregg Smith, composer
1931 - Nancy Hadley, Los Angeles California, actress (Love That Jill, Joey Bishop Show)
1932 - Melvin Van Peebles, Chicago IL, actor/director (Sophisticated Gent)
1933 - Barry Norman, Britain, film critic (Film Greats)
1933 - Janet Baker, York England, mezzo-soprano (Owen Wingrave)
1934 - Paul Panhuysen, Dutch composer, visual and sound artist
1935 - Ken Taylor, cricketer (England opening batsman three times 1959-64)
1936 - Mart Crowley, playwright (Boys in the Band)
1936 - Wilt Chamberlain, NBA great center (LA Laker, 5 time MVP)
1936 - Radish Tordia, painter of Figurative Art from Georgia
1937 - Robert Stone, US writer (Who'll Stop the Rain, WUSA)
1938 - Kenny Rogers, Houston Texas, singer (Through the Years)
1939 - Clarence Williams III, NYC, actor (Mod Squad, 52 Pick Up, Purple Rain)
1939 - Harold W Reid, Augusta County Va, singer (Statler Bros-Class of '57)
1939 - James Burton, American guitarist
1939 - Festus Mogae, president of Botswana
1940 - Ana Isabel Anderson-Imbert, physician, rheumatologist
1940 - Robert Camac, horse trainer
1943 - Hugh Wilson, American director, writer and actor
1944 - Jackie DeShannon, Hazel Kentucky, singer (What the World Needs Now)
1944 - Peter Weir, Sydney Aust, director/writer (Witness, Dead Poets Society)
1944 - Perry Christie, former prime minister of the Bahamas
1945 - Patty McCormack, Brooklyn New York, American actress (Mama, Peck's Bad Girl, Ropers)
1945 - Jerry DaVanon, baseball player
1945 - Basil Poledouris, American film score composer (d. 2006)
1946 - Lev Alburt, USSR, International Chess Master (1976)
1947 - Carl Giammarese, Chicago Ill, rock guitarist (Buckinghams)
1948 - Taurean Blacque, actor (Hill Street Blues)
1949 - Loretta Devine, American actress
1950 - Patrick Juvet, Swiss singer
1950 - Arthur Bremer, American criminal, who shot George C Wallace in May 1972.
1951 - Bernhard Germeshausen, German DR, bobsled (Olympic-gold-1976, 80)
1951 - Harry Smith, Hammond Ind, TV co-anchor (CBS Morning Show)
1951 - Eric Goles, Chilean mathematician and computer scientist
1951 - Char Margolis, American medium
1951 - Margo Kane, Canadian playwright.
1952 - Joe Strummer, lead singer of the British punk band The Clash (Rock the Casbah)
1952 - Keith Hart, Canadian professional wrestler
1952 - Glenn Hughes, British bassist and vocalist (Finders Keepers/Trapeze/Deep Purple)
1952 - Jiří Paroubek, former Czech prime minister
1953 - Ivan Stang, American writer
1954 - Archie Griffin, NFL runningback (won 2 Heisman Trophies, Ohio State)
1954 - Steve Smith, Los Angeles California, rock drummer (Journey)
1956 - Carol Charbonnier, LPGA golfer
1956 - Kim Cattrall, Liverpool England, actress (Mannequin, Star Trek VI)
1957 - Budgie, rock drummer (Slits, Siouxsie & the Banshees-Wild Thing)
1957 - Janice Thomas, WBL guard (NY Stars)
1957 - Kim Sledge, Phila, vocalist (Sister Sledge-We are Family)
1958 - Dom Mamzi, horse trainer
1959 - Anne Hobbs, England, tennis star
1959 - Bud Schultz, Meriden Conn, tennis star
1959 - Jim McMahon, NFL QB (Chicago Bears, San Diego Chargers, Philadelphia Eagles)
1959 - Richard Zokol, Kitimat BC, Canadian Tour golfer (1982 BC Open)
1961 - Danny Sheaffer, Jacksonville FL, catcher (St Louis Cardinals)
1961 - Lance Earl Deal, Riverton Wyoming, hammer thrower (Olympics-silver-96)
1961 - Stephen Hillenburg, American animator and cartoonist
1961 - V. B. Chandrasekhar, Indian cricketer
1962 - Jeff Stryker, American actor
1963 - Melvin Douglas, Topeka KS, 198 lbs/90 kg freestyle wrestler (Oly-96)
1963 - King Mohammed VI of Morocco
1963 - Richmond Arquette, American actor
1964 - Trinity Loren, American actress and model (d. 1998)
1965 - Jim Bullinger, New Orleans LA, pitcher (Chicago Cubs)
1965 - Caryn Mower, American actress, stuntwoman and former professional wrestler
1966 - John Wetteland, San Mateo CA, pitcher (NY Yanks, Rangers, Expos)
1967 - Michael Bendetti, actor (Officer Tony McCann-21 Jump Street)
1967 - Tuineau Alipate, NLF/WLAF linebacker (Frankfurt Galaxy, Minnesota Vikings)
1967 - Carrie-Anne Moss, Canadian actress
1967 - Serj Tankian, Armenian-born singer (System of a Down)
1967 - Darren Bewick, AFL footballer
1968 - Barbara Ann Moore, Spokane WA, playmate (Dec, 1992)
1968 - Shinichi Iwasaki, hockey goaltender (Team Japan 1998)
1969 - Andujar Cedeno, La Romana Dom Rep, infielder (Detroit Tigers)
1969 - Josee Chouinard, Rosemont Quebec, figure skater (Olymp-9th-1994)
1969 - Nathan Jones, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australian professional wrestler and actor
1970 - Bill Roth, Yonkers NY, gymnast (Pan Am-gold-1995, Olympics-96)
1970 - Mark Hatfield, CFL guard (BC Lions)
1970 - Paulo Barrancos Guerra, Portugal, 10k runner
1970 - Steve Everitt, NFL center (Cleveland Browns, Philadelphia Eagles)
1971 - Shayne Edge, NFL/WLAF punter (Steelers, Barcelona Dragons)
1971 - Liam Howlett, British musician (The Prodigy)
1971 - Matthew Noonan, American Concert Organist
1971 - Robert Harvey, Australian Rules Footballer (St Kilda Football Club)
1972 - Johnnie Harris, CFL linebacker (Toronto Argonauts)
1973 - Ben Mann, Australian baseball pitcher (Olympics-1996)
1973 - Ismael Valdes, Ciudad Victoria Mexico, pitcher (LA Dodgers)
1973 - Sergey Brin, Co-founder of Google
1974 - Amy Fisher, Long Island NY, shot Mary Jo Buttafucco
1974 - Pietra Gay, WNBA guard/forward (Houston Comets)
1975 - Alicia Witt, Worcester, Massachusetts, American actress (Cybill, Fun)
1975 - Simon Katich, Australian cricketer
1976 - Jeff Cunningham, Jamaican American soccer player
1978 - Reuben Droughns, American football player
1978 - Jason Marquis, American baseball player
1978 - Alan Lee, Irish footballer
1978 - Lee Gronkiewicz, American baseball player
1978 - Peter Buxton, English rugby union player
1979 - Aiesha Lee Hendrick, Miss New York Teen USA (1996)
1979 - Ashley Whitney, Nashville TN, 800m freestyle relay (Olympics-96)
1979 - Kelis Rogers-Jones, American singer
1980 - Paul Menard, NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Driver
1980 - Burney Lamar, American race car driver
1981 - Andreas Glyniadakis, Greek basketball player
1981 - Collie Buddz, (Colin Harper) Reggae & Dancehall artist
1981 - Jarrod Lyle, Australian Golfer
1983 - Josh Harrington, American professional BMX rider
1983 - Chantelle Houghton, British TV personality
1983 - Brody Jenner, American actor
1983 - Scott McDonald, Australian footballer
1984 - Neil Dexter, South African cricketer
1984 - Alizée Jacotey, French singer
1984 - Melissa Schuman, American actress
1984 - B.J. Upton, American baseball player
1986 - Usain Bolt, Trelawny Jamaica, sprinter (3x Olympic Gold 2008)
1987 - Kim Kibum, one of the member of Korean boy band Super junior. actor and singer
1988 - Louise Setara, English singer-songwriter
1988 - Paris Bennett, American singer and finalist on American Idol (season 5)
1989 - Hayden Panettiere, actress (One Life to Live)
1992 - Brad Kavanagh,English songwriter and actor
1996 - Jamia Simone Nash, American singer and actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 21, 2013, 10:47:22 AM

This Day in History for 21st August


Famous Deaths

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Russian Revolutionary Leon Trotsky (1940)


1131 - Boudouin II van Bourg, king of Jerusalem, dies
1157 - King Alfonso VII of Castile (b. 1104/1105)
1190 - Godfried III, duke of Brabant (Grimbergse war), dies
1245 - Alexander van Hales, English scholar, dies
1271 - Alphonse of Toulouse, son of Louis VIII of France (b. 1220)
1516 - John III van Egmont, [Manke John], viceroy of Holland, dies at 78
1581 - Sakuma Nobumori, Japanese retainer and samurai (b. 1527)
1614 - Elizabeth Báthory, the world's most prolific female serial killer (b. 1560)
1627 - Jacques Mauduit, composer, dies at 69
1629 - Camillo Procaccini, Italian painter/etcher, dies
1673 - Isaac Sweers, Dutch fleet admiral/Civil rights activist, dies at 51
1673 - John de Love I, vice-admiral, dies in sea battle at about 54
1689 - William Cleland, Scottish poet and soldier
1723 - Dimitrie Cantemir, philosopher/monarch of Moldova 1710-11, dies at 49
1762 - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English writer (b. 1689)
1763 - Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont, British statesman (b. 1710)
1772 - Alessandro Felici, composer, dies at 29
1772 - Johann Andreas Joseph Giulini, composer, dies at 48
1785 - Jean B Pigalle, French sculptor (Child with Pigeon), dies
1796 - John McKinly, American physician and President of Delaware (b. 1721)
1798 - Corneille F de Nelis, Flemish scholar/bishop of Antwerp, dies at 62
1812 - Silverius Muller, composer, dies at 67
1814 - Benjamin Thompson, American physicist and inventor (b. 1753)
1824 - John Taylor, philosopher (Jeffersonian Democracy), dies at 70
1824 - Santiago Ferrer, composer, dies at 62
1836 - Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist (b. 1785)
1838 - A v Chamisso, writer, dies at 57
1856 - Peter Joseph von Lindpaintner, composer, dies at 64
1864 - John Calhoun Sanders, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 24
1870 - Ma Xinyi Viceroy of Liangjiang of the late Qing Dynasty in China,(b. 1821)
1888 - Simon Vissering, Dutch minister of Finance (1879-81), dies at 70
1898 - Nicola van Westerhout, composer, dies at 40
1905 - Jules Oppert, German Assyriologist (decodes characters), dies at 80
1911 - W R Wister, cricketer (USA v Canada 1859), dies
1932 - Frederick Corder, composer, dies at 80
1935 - Josef Cyril Sychra, composer, dies at 76
1935 - John Hartley, English tennis player, double winner of Wimbledon (b. 1849)
1940 - Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary, icepicked by Ramón Mercader at 62
1940 - Paul Juon, Russian/Swiss violinist/composer, dies at 68
1940 - Ernest Lawrence Thayer, American poet (b. 1863)
1940 - Hermann Obrecht, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1882)
1942 - Kiyoano Ichiki, Japanese colonel (WW II), dies
1943 - Henrik Pontoppidan, writer (Peter Gelukkige, Nobel 1917), dies at 86
1947 - Ettore Bugatti, Italian/French car manufacturer, dies
1949 - Gerhard von Keussler, composer, dies at 75
1951 - (Leonard) Constant Lambert, English composer (Rio Grande), dies at 45
1952 - Isaac Sadeh, leader of Jewish commando forces, dies
1957 - Harald Ulrik Sverdrup, Norwegian meteorologist and oceanographer (b. 1888)
1957 - Nels Stewart, professional ice hockey player (b. 1902)
1958 - Stevan Hristic, composer, dies at 73
1958 - Walter Schumann, choral director (Ford Show), dies at 44
1960 - David Barnard Steinman, American civil engineer and bridge designer (b. 1886)
1963 - John Gunn, cricketer (England all-rounder in 6 Tests 1901-05), dies
1964 - Palmiro Togliatti, founder (Communist Italian Party)/min of Just, dies
1968 - Vladimir Boudnik, Czech sculptor, commits suicide at about 45
1970 - Timothy Mather Spelman, composer, dies at 79
1971 - George Jackson, US prisoner, shot to death at 29
1976 - Ken James, cricketer (kept wicket for NZ in 11 Tests), dies
1977 - Octavus L "Octave" van Aerschot, actor (Scandal in Paris), dies at 87
1977 - Danny Lockin, American actor/dancer, dies from bleeding to death after being stabbed 100
           times
1978 - Charles Eames, US chair manufacturer, dies at 71
1978 - Vinoo Mankad, cricketer (44 Tests for India, 2,109 runs), dies
1979 - Giuseppe Meazza, Italian footballer (b. 1910)
1980 - Jack Cheetham, cricketer (15 Tests as S Afr capt, won 7 lost 5), dies
1981 - Hermann Schey, German/Neth singer, dies at 85
1982 - Sobhuza II, king of Swaziland/Ngwane (1921-82), dies
1983 - Benigno S Aquino Jr, Philippines opposition leader, killed at 50
1987 - Karl Bruck, entertainer, dies
1988 - Hans Gunther Adler, German writer, dies at 78
1988 - Ray Eames, American designer, artist and architect (b. 1912)
1989 - Raul Seixas, Brazilian singer (b. 1945)
1990 - George Adamson, British conservationist (Born Free), murdered in Kenya
1991 - Oswald von Nell-Breuning, German theologist/philosopher, dies at 101
1991 - Richard Wilson, producer/writer/actor (Pay or Die), dies at 75
1991 - Wolfgang Hildesheimer, German/Swiss architect, dies
1992 - Lucille Brown, actress (Farina-Our Gang), dies after illness at 74
1992 - Theo van Tijn, Marxist/social-historian, dies at 65
1992 - Dai Vernon, Canadian magician (b. 1894)
1994 - Danitra Vance, comedienne (SNL), dies of breast cancer at 35
1994 - Hein Fentener van Vlissingen, eccentric millionaire, dies at 73
1995 - Anatole Fistoulari, conductor, dies at 88
1995 - Hilda Beatritz Guevara, daughter of Che Guevara, dies at 39
1995 - James Truitte, dancer, dies at 72
1995 - Ken Rickards, cricketer (104 runs at 34 66 for WI 1948-52), dies
1995 - Len Martin, sports broadcaster, dies at 76
1995 - Manfred Donike, chemist Drug Test pioneer, dies at 61
1995 - Nanni Loy, film Director, dies at 69
1995 - Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, physicist (Nobel-1983), dies at 84
1996 - Rosa Joyce Plesters Brommelie, conservation scientist, dies at 69
1996 - Sidney George Gray, company secretary, dies at 82
1997 - Misael Pastrana Borrero, Pres of Colombia (1970-74), dies
1997 - Yuri Nikulin, Russian clown and actor (b. 1921)
2000 - Daniel Lisulo, Prime Minister of Zambia (b. 1930)
2001 - Calum MacKay, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1927)
2003 - Kathy Wilkes, English philosopher and aid worker (b. 1946)
2003 - Wesley Willis, American musician (b. 1963)
2005 - Marcus Schmuck, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1925)
2005 - Robert Moog, American pioneer of electronic music (b. 1934)
2005 - Dahlia Ravikovitch, Israeli poet (b. 1936)
2005 - Martin Dillon, tenor, American opera singer (b. 1957)
2006 - Paul Fentener van Vlissingen, Dutch businessman and philanthropist (b. 1941)
2006 - Ustad Bismillah Khan, Indian musician (b. 1916)
2007 - Siobhan Dowd, British/Irish writer (b. 1960)
2007 - Elizabeth P. Hoisington, American Brigadier General (b. 1918)
2008 - Jerry Finn, American record producer (b. 1969)
2009 - Rex Shelley, Singaporean author (b. 1930)
2009 - Dean Turner, Australian musician (b. 1972)
2010 - Rodolfo Enrique Fogwill, Argentinean writer (b. 1941)
2010 - Nancy Dolman, Canadian actress and comedienne (b. 1950)
2012 - Georg Leber, German politician, dies at 91
2012 - William Thurston, American mathematician, dies from melanoma at 65

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 22, 2013, 09:14:01 AM

This Day in History for 22nd August


Historical Events

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Composer George Friedrich Handel        Captain/Explorer James Cook           Photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson

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First Director of the FBI                            Baseball Great Babe Ruth                       Dictator of Nazi Germany
J. Edgar Hoover                                                                                                      Adolf Hitler

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Singer & Cultural Icon                          Musician and Beatle John Lennon                  Pop Star Madonna
Elvis Presley 

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NFL Running Back and
Convicted Criminal
OJ Simpson


392 - Arbogast has Eugenius elected Western Roman Emperor.
476 - Odoacer is named Rex italiae by his troop.
565 - St Columba reported seeing monster in Loch Ness
851 - Erispoe defeats Charles the Bald near the Breton town of Jengland.
1138 - English defeated Scots at Cowton Moor Banners of various saints were carried into battle
           which led to being called Battle of the Standard
1454 - Jews are expelled from Brunn Moravia by order of King Ladislaus
1485 - Battle of Bosworth Field - Henry VII's forces defeat Richard III
1543 - Emperor Charles V's army occupies Duren
1559 - Spanish archbishop Bartholome de Carranza arrested as heretic
1572 - Failed assassination on admiral De Coligny
1582 - King James IV of Scotland captured
1603 - 1st stones layed in Zuiderkerk Amsterdam
1614 - Trades people under Vincent Fettmilch chase & plunder Jews out of ghetto in Frankfurt
1632 - Prince Frederik Hendrik occupies Maastricht
1639 - Madras (now Chennai), India, is founded by the British East India Company on a sliver of land
           bought from local Nayak rulers.
1642 - Civil War in England began between Royalists & Parliament
1654 - Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam (modern day Manhattan) aboard the Peartree,
           one ot the first Jewish colonists
1707 - Prince Eugenius van Savoye siege of Toulon
1707 - Sweden & Prussia sign military treaty
1715 - Handel's "Watermusic" premieres on Thames
1717 - Spanish troops lands on Sardinia
1762 - 1st female (Ann Franklin) US newspaper editor, Newport RI, Mercury
1770 - James Cook's expedition lands on the east coast of Australia.
1775 - King George III proclaims colonies to be in open rebellion
1780 - Resolution, without Capt Cook, returns to England
1787 - John Fitch's steamboat completes its tests, years before Fulton
1788 - Sierra Leone, settled by British as a former haven for slaves
1791 - Haitian Slave Revolution begins under voodoo priest Boukman
1798 - French troops land in Kilcummin harbour, County Mayo, Ireland to aid Wolfe Tone's United
           Irishmen's Irish Rebellion.
1818 - Grand duchy of Bathe forms
1826 - Colonies under Jedediah Strong Smith move near Salt Lake Utah
1827 - José de La Mar becomes President of Peru.
1848 - The United States annexes New Mexico
1849 - The first air raid in history. Austria launches pilotless balloons against the Italian city of
           Venice.
1851 - Gold fields discovered in Australia
1851 - Yacht "America" wins 1st Royal Yacht Squadron Cup (America's Cup)
1862 - Battle of Catlett's Station VA
1862 - Santee Sioux indian attack Fort Ridgely
1864 - Geneva Convention signed by 12 nations
1864 - International Red Cross forms
1867 - Fisk University forms, 1867
1875 - The Treaty of Saint Petersburg between Japan and Russia is ratified, providing for the
           exchange of Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands.
1877 - Nez Perce-indians flee into to Yellowstone National Park
1900 - Gabriel Faures opera "Prométhée," premieres in Beziers
1901 - Cadillac Motor Company is founded.
1902 - Pres Teddy Roosevelt became 1st US chief executive to ride in a car
1906 - 1st Victor Victrola manufactured
1907 - Colin Buchanan, town planner
1907 - Cyril Astley Clarke, British geneticist
1908 - Henri Cartier-Bresson, Montjustin France, photographer (Decisive Moment), (d. 2004)
1910 - Japan annexes Korea after 5 years as a protectorate
1911 - Mona Lisa stolen from Louvre (Recovered in 1913)
1911 - Vincenzo Perugia steals Mona Lisa from Louvre, Paris
1912 - England defeat Australia to win the Triangular Tournament
1912 - Richard Catling, commissioner of police (Kenya)
1913 - Robert Martineau, bishop of Blackburn
1914 - Battle at Charleroi begins: Gen von Bulows troops beat French
1914 - 1st encounter between British & German troops (in Belgium)
1914 - Battle in Ardennen: Neufchateau, Rossignal, Tintigny & Virton
1914 - Canada's Finance Act, 1914, receives assent
1914 - General Martos' troops occupy Soldau/Neidenburg East Prussia
1914 - German troops execute 384 inhabitants of Tamines Belgium
1914 - Von Ludendorff & von Hindenburg move into E Prussia enroute to Russia
1917 - Pittsburgh Pirates play 4th straight extra inning game, Carson Bigbee sets record of 11 at-
           bats, they lose in 22 innings to Dodgers
1921 - J. Edgar Hoover becomes asst director of FBI
1923 - Paavo Nurmi runs world record mile (4:10.4)
1926 - Gold discovered in Johannesburg, South Africa
1926 - Greek dictator Gen Pangulos driven out
1927 - Babe Ruth hits 40th of 60 homers
1930 - Australia regain Ashes on 6th day of 5th Cricket Test
1932 - BBS begins experimental regular TV broadcasts
1932 - The BBC first experiments with television broadcasting. (See also Timeline of the BBC.)
1933 - Bill Veeck, urges midsummer inter-league games & a split season
1933 - International Zionists Congress opens in Prague
1934 - Australia beat England by 562 runs to regain Cricket Ashes
1934 - Red Sox pitcher Wes Ferrell hits 2 HRs to beat White Sox 3-2 in 12
1939 - Dutch border guards take positions for German invasion
1939 - Premier De Geer recalls Dutch vacationers in Black Forest
1941 - Nazi troops reach Lenningrad
1942 - Brazil declares war on Germany, Japan & Italy
1943 - Soviet troops free Karkov
1944 - Hitler orders Paris to be destroyed [or 23rd]
1944 - Last transport of French Jews to nazi-Germany
1945 - Bob Cristofani scores 110 for Aust Services at Old Trafford
1945 - England defeat Aust Services by 6 wkts in 5th Victory Test Cricket
1945 - Noel Coward's revue "Sigh no More," premieres in London
1945 - Vietnam conflict begins as Ho Chi Minh leads a successful coup
1946 - Baseball approves a 168-game schedule, but later rescinds it
1946 - Mikko Hietanen wins Oslo marathon (2:24:55)
1947 - 14th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 16, Chi Bears 0 (105,840)
1950 - Abdel Rehim swims English Channel (10:50)
1950 - Althea Gibson becomes 1st black competetor in natl tennis competition
1950 - Rotterdam harbor strike end
1951 - Harlem Globetrotters play in Olympic Stadium, Berlin before 75,052
1952 - The penal colony on Devil's Island is permanently closed.
1953 - John Norman Lewis contends players have no desire to form a union
1953 - Shah of Persia returns to Teheran
1954 - WPTV TV channel 5 in Palm Beach, FL (NBC) begins broadcasting
1956 - Elvis Presley begins filming "The Reno Brothers" (Love Me Tender)
1956 - Pres Eisenhower & VP Nixon renominated by Rep convention in SF
1957 - Floyd Patterson KOs Pete Rademacher in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
1958 - Argos' Boyd Carter, Dave Mann combine for record 131-yd punt return
1958 - Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1959 - Cin Red Frank Robinson hits 3 consecutive HRs
1960 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Asheville Golf Open
1960 - Gil Hodges set NL righty HR record with #352
1961 - Maris hits his 50th of 61 homers
1962 - Failed assassination on president De Gaulle
1962 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1962 - Savannah, world's 1st nuclear-powered ship, completes maiden voyage from Yorktown, Va,
           to Savannah, Ga
1963 - NASA civilian test pilot Joe Walker in X-15 reaches 67 miles (106 km)
1964 - Guinee, Liberia & Ivory Coast form joint market
1964 - Supreme's "Where Did Our Love Go," reaches #1
1965 - Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Omaha Jaycee Golf Open
1965 - San Francisco Giants pitcher Juan Marachal hits LA Dodger catcher John Roseboro on the
           head with his bat causing a 14 minute brawl
1966 - Beatles arrive in NYC
1968 - 1st papal visit to Latin America (Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogota)
1968 - Cynthia Lennon sues John Lennon for divorce on grounds of adultry
1968 - Pope Paul VI opens Eucharistic congress in Bogota
1969 - Beatles record a video for "Long & Winding Road"
1969 - Gloria O Smith, (NY), crowned 2nd Miss Black America
1969 - Hurricane Camille strikes US Gulf Coast kills 255
1971 - Bolivian military coup under col Hugo Banzer, pres Torres driven out
1971 - Pam Barnett wins LPGA Southgate Golf Open
1971 - J. Edgar Hoover and John Mitchell announce the arrest of 20 of the Camden 28.
1972 - International Olympic Committee exspells Rhodesia
1972 - Rhodesia is expelled by the IOC for its racist policies.
1973 - Chilean parliament accuses pres Allende violating laws
1973 - Henry Kissinger succeeds William Rogers as min of Foreign affairs
1975 - Assassination attempt on president Gerald Ford
1975 - McNichols Sports Arena in Denver opens
1976 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic
1978 - Sandinistas occupy National Palace in Managua Nicaragua
1979 - 200 black leaders, meet in NY, to support Andrew Young
1980 - Bill Veeck agrees to sell Chicago White Sox to Eddie DeBartolo Sr for $20,000,000, AL
           owners block the sale
1982 - Gen Ariel Sharon urges Palestinians to discuss peaceful coexistence
1982 - Israeli General Ariel Sharon urges Palestinians to discuss peace
1982 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Chevrolet World Championship of Women's Golf
1984 - Evelyn Ashford of US ties world women's mark for 100 m, 10.76 sec
1984 - Last Volkswagen Rabbit produced
1984 - Met pitcher Dwight Gooden becomes 11th rookie to strikeout 200
1984 - Rep convention in Dallas renominates Pres Reagan & VP Bush
1984 - South African election for parliament boycvotted
1985 - 30th Walker Cup: US wins 13-11
1985 - Airtours Boeing-737 crashes at airport of Manchester, 55 killed
1986 - Gas from Volcano Chamberoen kills 1,734 (Cameroon)
1986 - NASA announces tests designed to verify ignition pressure dynamics
1987 - Madonna's "Who's That Girl," single goes #1
1988 - Australia unveils 1st platinum coin (Koala)
1988 - NBC premieres "Later" with Bob Costas (1st guest Linda Ellerbee)
1988 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1989 - 1st complete ring around Neptune discovered
1989 - Nolan Ryan strikes out his 5,000th batter (Rickey Henderson)
1990 - Pres Bush calls up military reserves
1991 - Krizstina Egerszegi swims world record 100 m backstroke (1:00.31)
1992 - Matthews & Warne spin Australia to a famous win v Sri Lanka
1992 - FBI HRT sniper Lon Horiuchi shoots and kills Vicki Weaver during an 11-day siege at her home
           at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.
1993 - "In the Summer House" closes at Beaumont Theater NYC after 25 perfs
1993 - Hiromi Kobayash wins Minnesota LPGA Golf Classic
1994 - DNA testing links OJ Simpson to murder of Nicole Simpson & Ron Goldman
1994 - Wim Cook government forms in Neth
1995 - FBI agent Lon Horiuchi shoots at Randy Weaver's cabin in Idaho
2003 - Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is suspended after refusing to comply with a federal court
           order to remove a rock inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the lobby of the Alabama
           Supreme Court building.
2004 - A version of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at
           gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway.
2007 - The Texas Rangers rout the Baltimore Orioles 30-3, the most runs scored by a team in
           modern MLB history.
2007 - The Storm botnet, a botnet created by the Storm Worm, sends out a record 57 million e-
           mails in one day
2012 - 47 people are killed in the Syrian civil war
2012 - 48 people are killed in Kenyan tribal wars between the Pokomo and Orma
2012 - Russia and Vanuatu become members of the World Trade Organization

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 22, 2013, 09:24:40 AM

This Day in History for 22nd August


Famous Weddings

1998 - FOX News Channel correspondent and Robert F. Kennedy's youngest son Douglas Kennedy
          (32) weds Molly Stark (29) in Nantucket, Massachusetts
2009 - Actress and model Milla Jovovich (36) weds film director Paul W. S. Anderson (47) in Beverly   
           Hills, California

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 22, 2013, 09:25:59 AM

This Day in History for 22nd August


Famous Divorces

1968 - Cynthia Lennon sues Beatle member John Lennon for divorce on grounds of adultry
2011 - Actress Melissa Gilbert (47) divorces actor Bruce Boxleitner (61) due to irreconcilable
           differences after 16 long years of marriage
2012 - "General Hospital" actress Vanessa Marcil (39) divorces actor Carmine Giovinazzo (44) due to
           irreconcilable differences after 2 years of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 22, 2013, 09:33:27 AM

This Day in History for 22nd August


Famous Birthdays

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Composer Claude Debussy (1862)            Short Story Writer                           Photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson
                                                                Dorothy Parker (1893)

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Chinese Communist Party Leader
 Deng Xiaoping (1904)


1530 - Bartolomeo Spontone, composer
1601 - Georges de Scudéry, French writer (d. 1667)
1615 - Christopher Gibbons, composer
1624 - Jean Renaud de Segrais, French writer (d. 1701)
1647 - Denis Papin, French physicist (Papiniaanse pot, steam machine)
1679 - Pierre Guérin de Tencin, French cardinal (d. 1758)
1681 - Pierre Danican Philidor, composer
1753 - Christian Friedrich Ruppe, composer
1760 - Leo XII, [Annibale Sermattei], Italy, Pope (1823-29)
1764 - Charles Percier, French architect (d. 1838)
1766 - Joseph-Denis Doche, composer
1771 - Jan Joseph Rosler, composer
1771 - Henry Maudslay, English inventor (d. 1831)
1773 - Aimé Bonpland, French explorer (d. 1858)
1779 - James Kirke Paulding, American author (d. 1860)
1788 - Thomas Tredgold, engineer/carpenter
1795 - Abraham Capadose, physician/missionary
1800 - William S. Harney, U.S. general (d. 1889)
1800 - Samuel David Luzzatto, Italian-Jewish scholar (d. 1865)
1811 - William Kelly, American inventor (d. 1888)
1822 - George Stoneman, US Union general-major/(Gov-California, 1883-87)
1822 - Virginia Clemm Poe, wife of Edgar Allan Poe (d. 1847)
1827 - Edouard Silas, composer
1827 - Josef Strauss, Austria, composer (Dorfschwalben aus Austria)
1827 - Joseph Anthony Mower, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1870
1827 - Ezra Butler Eddy, Canadian businessman, industrialist and politician (d. 1906)
1834 - Nathaniel Harrison Harris, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1834 - Samuel Pierpont Langley, American astronomer (d. 1906)
1836 - Archibald M Willard, US, artist (Spirit of '76)
1845 - William Lewis Douglas, 42nd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1924)
1846 - B Amalie Skram-Alver, Norway, writer (Hellemyrsfolket)
1847 - Alexander Campbell Mackenzie, composer
1848 - Melville E. Stone, American newspaper publisher (d. 1929)
1852 - Alfredo Oriani, Italian writer (Political Struggle in Italy)
1854 - Milan I, King of Serbia
1857 - Ned Hanlon, American baseball player and manager (d. 1937)
1860 - Paul G Nipkow, German TV pioneer (Nipkow Award)
1860 - Eleonore of Reuss-Köstritz, tsaritsa of Bulgaria (d. 1917)
1862 - Claude Debussy, St Germain-en-Laye, composer (La Mer, Clair de lune), (d. 1918)
1865 - Piet A W Hopmans, bishop of Breda (Eucharistic Crusade)
1867 - Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician and nutritionist (d. 1939)
1873 - Karl Nef, Swiss musicologist
1873 - Alexander Bogdanov, Russian physician and philosopher (d. 1928)
1874 - Edward Cuthbert Bairstow, composer
1874 - Max Scheler, German philosopher (Vom Umsturz der Werte)
1880 - George Herriman, American cartoonist (d. 1944)
1880 - Gorch Fock, German author and poet (d. 1916)
1882 - Harry Makepeace, cricketer (4 Tests for England v Australia 1920-21)
1888 - Violet Farebrother, Grimsby England, actress (Downhill, Easy Virtue)
1890 - Floyd Henri Allport, US psychologist/sociologist
1891 - Francis McDonald, Bowling Green Ky, actor (Will-Adv of Champion)
1891 - Jacques Lipchitz, Polish/French/US painter/cubist sculptor
1892 - Percy Fender, cricketer (legendary Surrey & England all-rounder)
1893 - Dorothy Parker, NJ, short story writer (1958 Marjorie Peabody Award), (d. 1967)
1894 - Cecil Kellaway, South Africa, actor (Mr Earnshaw-Wuthering Heights)
1895 - Paul White, Bangor Maine, composer (Adante & Rondo for Cello)
1895 - Paul Comtois, French Canadian politician (d. 1966)
1897 - Bill Woodfull, cricketer (Australian captain in the Bodyline series)
1898 - Francine Larrimore, Verdun France, actress (John Meade's Woman)
1900 - Elizabeth Bergner, Vienna Austria, actress (Catherine the Great)
1900 - Sergei Ozhegov, Russian lexicographer (d. 1964)
1902 - Leni Riefenstahl, [Helene Bertha Amalie], Germany, film director (Triumph of the Will) and
           actress (Tiefland)
1902 - Roy Armstrong, English historian (History of Sussex)
1902 - Thomas Pelly, American politician (d. 1973)
1903 - René Wellek, Vienna Austria, writer (Concepts of Criticism)
1904 - Deng Xiaoping, Chinese party leader (1976-1983)
1905 - Wade Crosby, IA, actor (Sign of Wolf, Tales of Robin Hood)
1907 - Oliver F McGowan, Kipling AL, actor (Banning, Stagecoach)
1908 - Henri Cartier-Bresson, Chanteloup, France, photographer
1909 - Mel Hein, NFL center (NY Giants)
1909 - Sergius Kagen, composer
1909 - Stojan T Daskalov, Bulgaria, writer (A Farm)
1909 - Julius J. Epstein, American screenwriter (d. 2000)
1911 - Edith Atwater, Chic, actress (Phyllis-Love on a Rooftop)
1911 - Somerset de Chair, MP
1912 - Edith Porada, art historian/archaeologist
1913 - Robert Schollum, composer
1913 - Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian physicist (d. 1993)
1915 - David Dellinger, American social rights and peace movement leader (d. 2004)
1915 - Hugh Paddick, British actor (d. 2000)
1915 - James Hillier, Co-inventor of the electron microscope (d. 2007)
1916 - John Slater, London England, actor (Deadlock, Cartel, Devil's Pass)
1917 - John Lee Hooker, Clarksdale Mississippi, blues guitarist (Boogie Chillen)
1918 - Mary McGrory, American journalist (d. 2004)
1919 - Earl Cathcart, British major-general
1919 - Leo Pliatzky, senior civil servant
1920 - Anthony Tuke, CEO (Savoy Hotel Groups)
1920 - Denton Cooley, Houston, heart surgeon (1st artifical heart transplant)
1920 - Pierre A Lauffer, Antillian poet (Patria)
1920 - Ray[mond Douglas] Bradbury, Ill, sci-fi author (Fahrenheit 451), (d. 2012)
1920 - W Schnurre, writer
1921 - James Menter, principal (Queen Mary College)
1922 - Micheline Presle, Paris, actress (Nea, Donkey Skin)
1923 - Gerald Long, journalist/CEO (Reuters)
1924 - Andrzej Markowski, composer
1924 - James Kirkwood, LA CA, actor/writer (Hired Wife)
1924 - Peter Allsop, publisher
1925 - Honor Blackman, Plaistow, London, English actress (Goldfinger, The Avengers)
1926 - Bob Flannigan, rocker (Four Freshmen)
1926 - Marc Bohan, dress designer
1927 - Aleksandar Obradovic, composer
1928 - John Lupton, Highland Park Ill, actor (Tom-Broken Arrow)
1928 - Tinga Seisay, Sierra Leonean diplomat and pro-democracy advocate
1929 - Baroness Ewart-Biggs, British (Lab) spokesperson on Home Affairs
1929 - Harry McPherson, Tyler, Texas, presidential counsel (Lyndon Johnson) and lobbyist, (d. 2012)
1930 - Gilmar, Brazilian football player
1932 - Gerald P Carr, Denver Colorado, Col USMC/astronaut (Skylab 4)
1932 - Theoni Vachliotis aldredge, award winning costume designer
1933 - Irmtraud Morgner, writer
1933 - Sylva Koscina, Zagreb Yugo, actress (Jessica, Hercules)
1934 - Diana Sands, NYC, actress (Raisin in the Sun, Doctor's Wife)
1934 - H Norman Schwarzkopf, Trenton NJ, 4-star Army general (Gulf War), (d. 2012)
1934 - John M Chowning, composer
1934 - Margaret Douglas, chief political adviser (BBC)
1935 - Morton Dean, Fall River Mass, TV newscaster (CBS, ABC)
1935 - Richard W Howard, Oklahoma City Ok, 400m hurdler (Olympic-bronze-1960)
1935 - E. Annie Proulx, American author
1936 - Anne Downey, British circuit judge
1936 - Lex P Humphries, drummer
1937 - Donald MacLeary, dancer
1937 - Max Hebditch, director (Museum of London)
1938 - Dale Hawkins, music writer (Suzy Q)
1938 - Paul Maguire, American football commentator
1939 - Candido Lima, composer
1939 - Carl Yastrzemski, NY, Boston Red Sox great (1967 AL MVP, Hall of Fame)
1939 - Fred Milano, Bronx NY, rocker (Dion & The Belmonts) [or 8/26/40]
1939 - Valerie Harper, Suffern, New York, American actress (Mary Tyler Moore Show, Rhoda)
1940 - Antony Crosthwaite-Eyre, English publisher/multi-millionaire
1940 - David Vance, horse trainer
1940 - George Reinholt, Phila, actor (Steve-Another World, One Life to Live)
1940 - John Banham, director-general (CBI)
1941 - Bill Parcells, NFL coach (NY Giants, NY Jets, NE Patriots)
1941 - Hannspeter Winter, Austrian plasma physicist
1942 - Kathy Lennon, Santa Monica California, singer (Lennon Sisters)
1942 - Uğur Mumcu, Turkish journalist and writer (d. 1993)
1943 - Alun Michael, MP (Labour)
1943 - Masatoshi Shima, Japanese computer scientist
1944 - Henk Veldhoen, biochemist/Dutch MP (PvdA)
1945 - Derek Fatchett, MP (Labour)
1945 - James G Richardson, Gainesville Fla, actor (Tim Cassidy-Sierra)
1945 - Ron Dante, Staten Island NY, rock vocalist (Archies-Sugar, Sugar)
1945 - Steve Kroft, Kokomo Ind, co-editor (60 Minutes)
1945 - Erol Gelenbe, Turkish computer scientist and mathematician
1946 - Felix Meurders, Dutch radio host
1947 - Bud Cramer, (Rep-D-Alabama)
1947 - Cindy Williams, Van Nuys California, actress (Shirley- Laverne & Shirley)
1947 - Donna Godchaux, rocker (Grateful Dead)
1948 - Rob Buckman, British broadcaster/actor (Pink Medicine Show)
1948 - Eleonora Brown, Italian actress
1949 - Diana Nyad, swimmer (1st to swim Bahamas to Fla-1979)
1949 - Doug Bair, baseball player
1949 - Þórarinn Eldjárn, Icelandic writer
1949 - Alfred Musema, Rwandan genocidaire
1950 - Teresa Davis, rocker
1950 - Ray Burris, baseball player
1950 - I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, White House Chief of Staff
1951 - Chandra Prakash Mainali, Nepalese politician
1952 - Peter Laughner, American musician (Rocket From the Tombs, Pere Ubu) (d. 1977)
1953 - Paul Ellering, American wrestling manager
1954 - John Colwell, Kingston Ont, Canadian Tour golfer (1978 Simon Fraser)
1955 - Will Shetterly, writer
1955 - Chiranjeevi, Telugu film actor
1956 - Jeff Lloyd, jockey
1956 - Paul Molitor, St Paul MN, infielder (Mn Twins, 1993 World Series MVP)
1956 - Peter Taylor, cricketer (Australian off-spinner 1987-92)
1957 - Holly Dunn, San Antonio Tx, country singer (Daddy's Hands)
1957 - Randy Romero, Garden City NY, jockey (Breeder's Cup 1987-89)
1957 - Steve Davis, snooker player
1958 - Elhadjdia Ba, Dakar Senegal, hurdler (Olympic-silver-1988)
1958 - Ian Mitchell, Edinburgh, rocker (Bay City Rollers)
1958 - Colm Feore, American actor
1958 - Lane Huffman, American professional wrestler
1958 - Vernon Reid, American musician (Living Colour)
1959 - Denise Curry, Daivs California, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1984)
1959 - Juan Croucier, heavy metal rocker (Ratt-Round & Round)
1959 - Pia Gjellerup, Danish politician
1961 - Debbi Peterson, Los Angeles California, rock drummer (Bangles-Eternal Flame)
1961 - Jay Ashton, rocker (Gene Loves Jezebel)
1961 - John Kidd, NFL punter (Miami Dolphins)
1961 - Roland Orzabal, rock vocalist (Tears for Fears-Shout, Head over Heels)
1962 - Gene Craig Sauers, Savannah GA, PGA golfer (1986 Bank of Boston)
1962 - James Debarge, Grand Rapids Mi, rock vocalist/keyboardist (Debarge)
1962 - Marie Laurie Mahabir, Guadeloupe, North American Bodybuilding Champ (1985-87)
1963 - Lily Yip, Canton China, US table tennis player (Olympics-92, 96)
1963 - Terry Catledge, NBA star (Orlando Magic)
1963 - Thomas Ansberry, Okinawa Japan, US 10K runner
1963 - Tori Amos, [Myra Ellen Amos], NC, pianist/vocalist (Under The Pink,)
1964 - Dean Evason, Flin Flon, NHL center (Calgary Flames)
1964 - Mats Wilander, Vaxjo Sweden, tennis star (1988-US, Aust, French)
1965 - Patricia Hy-Boulais, Cambodia, tennis star (1994 Auckland doubles)
1965 - Tom Gibis, American voice actor
1966 - Mark Michaels, heavy metal guitarist (Teach Yourself Rhythm Guitar)
1966 - Rob Witschge, Dutch soccer star (Ajax/Feyenoord)
1966 - GZA, American rapper
1967 - Curt Bourque, jockey
1967 - Layne Staley, US rock singer/guitarist (Alice in Chains-Dirt), (d. 2002)
1967 - Wale', Lagos Nigeria, model
1967 - Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, British actor
1967 - Ant, American comedian
1967 - Ty Burrell, American actor
1967 - Alfred Gough, American screenwriter
1967 - Yukiko Okada, Japanese singer (d. 1986)
1968 - Henrik Holm, Sweden, tennis star
1968 - Horst Skoff, Austria, tennis star
1968 - Michael Curry, NBA guard (Detroit Pistons, Milwaukee Bucks)
1968 - Paul Ereng, Kenya, 800m runner (Olympic-gold-1988)
1968 - Paul Colman, Australian guitarist (Newsboys)
1968 - Casper Christensen, Danish comedian
1968 - Rich Lowry, American magazine editor
1968 - Alexander Mostovoi, Russian footballer
1969 - Hipolito Pichardo, Esperanza Dom Rep, pitcher (KC Royals)
1969 - Maurice Graef, soccer player (VVW, Roda JC)
1970 - Jean-Michel Bombardier, Brantford Ont Canada, ice pairs (1995, 96 Can)
1970 - Charlie Connelly, English writer
1970 - Giada De Laurentiis, Italian/American chef and television host
1971 - Bernard Carter, NFL/WLAF linebacker (Jaguars, Frankfurt Galaxy)
1971 - Richard Armitage, English actor
1971 - Rick Yune, American actor
1972 - Marliece Andrada, Manteca California, playmate (March 1998)
1972 - Stephen Boyd, NFL linebacker (Detroit Lions)
1972 - Max Wilson, Brazilian racing driver
1973 - Jennifer Makris, Miss USA-New Jersey (1997, top 10)
1973 - Kristen Wiig, American comedian
1973 - Howie Dorough, American singer (Backstreet Boys)
1974 - Brimstone, American professional wrestler
1974 - Agustín Pichot, Argentine rugby player
1974 - Stefano Verderi, Italian guitarist
1975 - Charles C Smith, NBA guard (Miami Heat)
1975 - Mbali Gasa, Miss South Africa Universe (1997)
1975 - Robert Enes, Australian soccer midfielder (Olyroos, Olympics-96)
1975 - Clint Bolton, Australian footballer
1975 - Sheree Murphy, British actress
1975 - Rodrigo Santoro, Brazilian actor
1976 - Jim Weaver, Northridge California, baseball pitcher (Olympics-bronze-96)
1976 - Lia Victoria Borrero, Miss Panama Universe (1997)
1977 - Heiðar Helguson, Icelandic footballer
1978 - Jeff Stinco, Canadian musician (Simple Plan)
1979 - Brandon Quintin Adams, American actor
1980 - Roland Benschneider, German footballer
1980 - Christi Shake, American model and actress
1980 - Nicolas Macrozonaris, French-Canadian track-and-field athlete
1981 - Alex Holmes, American football player
1983 - Theo Bos, Dutch cyclist
1983 - Laura Breckenridge, American actress
1984 - Lee Camp, English footballer
1986 - Keiko Kitagawa, Japanese actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 22, 2013, 09:36:56 AM

This Day in History for 22nd August


Famous Deaths

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Irish Nationalist Leader                     Kenyan Prime Minister and President
Michael Collins (1922)                                Jomo Kenyatta (1978) 


408 - Flavius Stilicho, West Roman field leader (395-408), dies at 48
634 - Abd Allah Abu Bekr, Arabic merchant/1st kalief of Islam, dies
1155 - Konoe, Emperor of Japan (b. 1139)
1188 - Ferdinand II, King of Leon (b. 1137)
1241 - Gregory IX, [Ugolino di Segni], Italian Pope, dies
1280 - Nicholas III, [Giovanni Gaetano Orsini], Italian Pope (1277-80), dies
1286 - Erik V Klipping, king of Denmark, murdered
1304 - John II, Count of Hainaut (b. 1247)
1350 - Philips VI, of Valois, King of France (1328-50), dies
1358 - Isabella, Queen of England (b. circa 1295)
1367 - Egidius AC Albornor, Spanish archbishop of Toledo, dies at about 57
1485 - Richard III, king of England (1483-85), killed in battle at 32
1532 - William Warham, English archbishop of Canterbury (1502-32), dies at 82
1553 - John Dudley, English Lord Admiral/premier (1551-53), beheaded
1572 - Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland (b. 1528)
1584 - Jan Kochanowski, Polish writer (b. 1530)
1599 - Beatrice Cenci, Italian noblewoman (b. 1577)
1599 - Luca Marenzio, Italian composer (b. c. 1553)
1607 - Bartholomew Gosnold, English explorer and privateer (b. 1572)
1609 - Maharal of Prague, Jewish mystic and philosopher (b. 1525)
1652 - Jacob De la Gardie, Swedish soldier and statesman (b. 1583)
1680 - Johann Georg II, Elector of Saxony (1656-80), dies at 67
1701 - John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (b. 1628)
1711 - Louis François, duc de Boufflers, French marshal (b. 1644)
1752 - William Whiston, English mathematician (b. 1667)
1755 - Caspar Burman, historian/mayor (Utrecht), dies
1773 - George Lyttelton, English writer and politician (b. 1709)
1793 - Louis Duke de Noailles, marshal of France, dies at 80
1797 - Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser, Alsatian-born Austrian general (b. 1724)
1801 - Pieter G van Overstraten, gov-gen of Neth-Indies, dies at 46
1806 - Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French artist (b. 1732)
1818 - Warren Hastings, 1st governor-general of India (1773-84), dies at 85
1828 - Franz Joseph Gall, German/French physician (phrenology), dies at 70
1831 - John White, composer, dies at 52
1850 - Nikolaus Lenau, writer, dies at 48
1861 - Xianfeng, Emperor of China (b. 1831)
1862 - Henry Bohlen, German/US brig-general (Union), dies in battle at 51
1866 - George Shillibeer, pioneer of London's 1st bus service, dies
1874 - Sydney Thompson Dobell, poet, dies
1879 - Friedrich August Kummer, composer, dies at 82
1886 - Jose da Silva Mendes Leal, Portuguese author (Indiana), dies at 67
1889 - John Sanger, circus entrepreneur, dies
1890 - Vasile Alecsandri, Romania poet/Foreign minister, dies at 69
1891 - Jan Neruda, Czech author (b. 1834)
1893 - Ernst II, duke of Saxony-Coburg-Gotha (1844-93)/composer, dies at 75
1901 - Gunnar Wennerberg, composer, dies at 83
1903 - Robert A T G C Salisbury, British premier (1885..1902), dies at 73
1910 - George Palmer, cricketer (17 Tests for Aust 1880-86, 78 wickets), dies
1914 - Raffenel, French general (3rd Colonial Div, WW I), dies in battle
1914 - Rondoney, French general (3rd Colonial Div, WW I), dies in battle
1914 - Giacomo Radini-Tedeschi Italian religious figure
1918 - Korbinian Brodmann, German neurologist (b. 1868)
1920 - Anders Zorn, Swedish painter (Gustavus Vasa), dies at 60
1922 - Michael Collins, Irish nationalist leader, killed in ambush
1926 - Charles William Eliot, American University president (Harvard, 1869-1909), dies at 92
1929 - Otto Liman von Sanders, German general in Turkey (WW I), dies at 74
1933 - Adolf Loos, Austria architect (building of houses), dies at 62
1936 - Juliette Adam-Lamber, French author (Salon/Nouvelle Revue), dies at 99
1937 - David C Salas, Antillian writer (Josephina), dies
1940 - Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, English physicist (b. 1851)
1942 - Henry Eichheim, composer, dies at 72
1942 - Mikhailmichel Fokine, Russian ballet dancer/choreographer, dies
1944 - Raymond Aimos, actor (Golem, Mayerling, La Bandera), dies at 55
1950 - Kirk Bryan, American geologist (b. 1888)
1951 - J. P. Bickell, Canadian businessman and sports team owner (b. 1884)
1953 - Jim Tabor, American baseball player (b. 1916)
1958 - Roger Martin du Gard, novelist/playwright, dies
1960 - Eduard Pütsep, Estonian wrestler (b. 1898)
1963 - William Richard Morris, 1st viscount Nuffield motor manufacturer, dies
1965 - Henriette de Vreker-Verschuur, actress (Revolt in Mental Home), dies
1965 - Ellen Church, American airline stewardess (b. 1904)
1966 - Apolinary Szeluto, composer, dies at 82
1967 - Tom Conway, actor (Mrs Minerva), dies of liver ailment at 63
1967 - Gregory Goodwin Pincus, American endocrinologist (b. 1903)
1970 - Richard Frank Donovan, composer, dies at 78
1970 - Vladimir Propp, Russian structuralist scholar (b. 1895)
1973 - Louise Huff, actress (Sea Waif, Caprice, Disraeli), dies at 77
1974 - Jacob Bronowsky, British mathematician/cultural historian, dies at 66
1976 - Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, pres of Brazil (1955-60), dies at 73
1976 - Oskar Brusewitz, East German vicar, sets self on fire
1976 - Gina Bachauer, Greek pianist (b. 1913)
1977 - Sebastian Cabot, actor (Mr French-Family Affair), dies at 59
1978 - Ignazio Silone, Italian author (Fontamara, Pane e vino), dies at 78
1978 - Jomo Kenyatta, 1st premier of Kenya (1963-78), dies at 83
1979 - Henry Beernink, politician, dies at 69
1979 - James T Farrell, US writer (French Girls are Vicious), dies
1980 - James Smith McDonnell, American aircraft manufacturer (b. 1899)
1980 - Alfred Neubauer, German racing team manager (b. 1891)
1984 - Charles Whittenberg, composer, dies at 57
1985 - Ginty Lush, cricketer (NSW quickie of 30's), dies
1989 - Robert Grondelaers, Belgian cyclist (b. 1933)
1990 - Merlin Marston, actor (Blue Sky), dies of non-Hodgkins lymphoma at 45
1991 - Boris Pugo, USSR minister of Interior (1990), commits suicide
1991 - Colleen Dewhurst, actress (Murphy Brown), dies of cancer at 67
1993 - Don Getz, US filmer (Playpoint)
1993 - Kasdi Merbah, PM of Algeria (1988-89), assassinated
1994 - Leo Lerman, actor/manager/critic (Dance Magazine), dies at 80
1994 - Tom Quirke, journalist, dies at 42
1995 - Jose Antonio Giron de Velasco, politician, dies at 83
1996 - David Donaldson, painter, dies at 80
1996 - Robert Lewis Campbell Lorimer, publisher, dies at 77
1996 - William James Millar Mackenzie, political scientist, dies at 87
1997 - Mary Louise Smith, chairman (Rep), dies at 82
2003 - Arnold Gerschwiler, Swiss figure skating trainer (b. 1914)
2003 - Generosa Ammon, American widow of Ted Ammon (b. 1956)
2003 - Imperio Argentina, Argentinian singer and actress (b. 1906)
2004 - Konstantin Aseev, Russian chess player (b. 1960)
2004 - Daniel Petrie, Canadian television and movie director (b. 1920)
2004 - Al Dvorin, American Elvis Presley concert announcer (b. 1922)
2005 - Luc Ferrari, French composer (b. 1929)
2006 - Bruce Gary, American rock drummer (The Knack) (b. 1951)
2008 - Gladys Powers, Canadian World War I veteran (b. 1899)
2009 - Elmer Kelton, American Western novelist (b. 1926)
2010 - Stjepan Bobek, Yugoslav football player (b. 1923)
2011 - Jack Layton, Canadian politician (b. 1950)
2011 - Jerry Leiber, American songwriter (b. 1933)
2011 - Nick Ashford, American songwriter (b. 1942)
2012 - Nina Bawden, English author, dies at 87

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 23, 2013, 09:21:57 AM

This Day in History for 23rd August


Historical Events

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Scottish Patriot William Wallace             Soviet Union Premier                     Soldier, author, journalist, politician
                                                                       Joseph Stalin                                          Winston Churchill

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President and Dictator of Brazil          Baseball Player Roberto Clemente            Baseball Player Hank Greenberg
Getulio Vargas

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Heavyweight Boxing Champion              Islamic Militant & Terrorist
Mike Tyson                                                    Osama bin Laden


79 - Mount Vesuvius begins stirring, on the feast day of Vulcan, the Roman god of fire.
406 - Battle at Florence: Stilicho's Roman army beats Radagaisus' Barbarians
476 - Odoacer proclaimed King of of Italy, 1st barbarian King of Italy
1046 - King Henry III gives money to Utrecht Deventer diocese
1305 - William Wallace, Scottish patriot, is executed for high treason by Edward I of England.
1328 - Battle at Kassel: French troops stop uprising of Flemish farmers
1328 - King Philip VI of France, crowned
1441 - Holland & Hanzesteden sign cease fire treaty
1514 - Battle of Chaldiran ended with a decisive victory for the Sultan Selim I, Ottoman Empire, over
           the Shah Ismail I, Safavids founder.
1541 - French explorer Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec City in his third voyage to Canada.
1542 - Rabbi Joseph Caro completes his commentary of Tur Code
1553 - Bishop Stephen Gardiner appointed English Lord Chancellor
1555 - Calvinists are granted rights in the Netherlands.
1566 - Beeldenstorm reaches Amsterdam
1566 - Land guardian Margaretha van Parma grants Calvinists rights
1582 - French van Valois pays tribute to earl of Flanders
1595 - Michael the Brave confronts the Ottoman army in the Battle of Calugareni.
1614 - University of Groningen opens
1617 - 1st one-way streets open (London)
1708 - Meidingnu Pamheiba is crowned King of Manipur.
1711 - Admiral Hovenden Walkers fleet reach St Lawrence
1784 - Eastern Tennessee settlers declare their area an independent state & name it Franklin; a year
           later the Continental Congress rejects it
1796 - African Methodist Episcopal Church incorporated
1799 - Napoleon leaves Egypt for France en route to seize power.
1813 - Battle of Grossbeeren - Prussians under Von Bulow repulse French
1821 - Mexico declares independence
1838 - Mt Holyoke Female Seminary (South Hadley, Mass) 1st graduating class
1839 - British capture Hong Kong from China
1850 - 1st national women's rights convention convenes in Worcester Mass
1862 - Skirmish at Big Hill, Kentucky (2 Federal regiments)
1864 - Union troops/fleet occupy Fort Morgan, Alabama
1866 - Treaty of Prague ends Austro-Prussian war
1869 - 1st carload of freight (boots & shoes) arrives in SF, from Boston
1872 - 1st Japanese coml ship visits SF, carrying tea
1873 - Albert Bridge creossing Thames opens
1879 - Governor-general Charles Gordon of Sudan returns to Cairo
1883 - Phillies make 27 errors against Providence (wild pitches, walks & & passballs count as errors
           prior to 1888)
1889 - 1st ship-to-shore wireless message received in US (SF)
1896 - First Cry of the Philippine Revolution is made in Pugad Lawin (Quezon City), in the province of
           Manila.
1898 - 18th US Mens Tennis: Malcolm Whitman beats Dwight Davis (36 62 62 61)
1900 - National Negro Business League organizes (Boston)
1903 - 6th Zionist Congres, Theodor Herzl declares Jewish state
1904 - Automobile tire chain patented
1906 - Chicago White Sox win 19th straight, beating Wash Senators
1906 - Cuba's 1st president Tomés Estrada Palma asks for US intervention
1907 - Pitts Howie Camnitz no-hits NY Giants, 1-0 in 5 inning game
1910 - Fred Clarke makes a record 4 outfield assists for Pittsburgh
1911 - British premier Asquith holds secret meeting about British strategy in case of war with
           Germany
1914 - -24] German troops plunder Belgium
1914 - Battle at Mons: general von Klucks troops beat Britten
1914 - Gen von Hausen executes 612 inhabitants of Dinant Belgium
1914 - Japan declares war on Germany in World War I
1915 - Czar Nicolaas II takes control of Russian Army
1916 - Military court of Berlin sentences Karl Liebknecht to 4 years
1917 - Race riot in Houston Texas (2 blacks & 11 whites killed)
1919 - "Gasoline Alley" cartoon strip premieres in Chicago Tribune
1920 - M R Rinehart & A Hopwood's "Bat," premieres in NYC
1923 - Capt. Lowell Smith and Lt. John P. Richter performed the first mid-air refueling on De
           Havilland DH-4B, setting an endurance flight record of 37 hours.
1924 - Mars' closest approach to Earth since 10th century
1926 - 40th US Womens Tennis: Molla B Mallory beats Elizabeth Ryan (46 64 97)
1929 - Arabs attack Jews in Israel
1930 - 44th US Womens Tennis: Betty Nuthall beats Anna McCune Harper (61 64)
1931 - 45th US Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats Eileen B Whitingstall (64 61)
1931 - Count Gyula Károlyi becomes premier of Hungary
1931 - Phila A's Lefty Grove, loses 1-0 (Browns) after winning 16 straight
1933 - 1st TV boxing match - Archie Sexton & Laurie Raiteri in London
1936 - 17 year old Bob Feller's 1st game, he strikes out 15 St Louis Browns
1938 - England score 7-903 decl v Australia Hutton 364
1939 - John Cobb (Britain) drives 365.85 MPH (593.48 KPH) at Bonneville Flats
1939 - Molotov-Ribbentrop pact: East Europe divided between Hitler & Stalin
1939 - USSR & Germany sign a non-agression pact
1939 - Molotov-Ribbentrop-pact (Soviet Union neutral/Poland divided)
1940 - German Luftwaffe begins night bombing on London
1940 - Queen Wilhelmina fires premier De Geer
1942 - 1st US flights to land on Guadalcanal
1942 - Battle of Stalingrad: 600 Luftwaffers bomb Stalingrad (40,000 die)
1942 - British Premier Winston Churchill flies back to London from Cairo
1942 - Walter Johnson pitches to Babe Ruth in pregame attraction that draws 69,000 for NY-Wash
           game (raises $80,000 for Army-Navy relief
1942 - World War II: The last cavalry charge in history takes place at Izbushensky.
1943 - Red army recaptures Charkow
1943 - World War II: Kharkov liberated.
1944 - 94.5°F (34.7°C) in De Bilt Netherlands & 101.5°F (38.6°C) in Warnsvelt
1944 - Allied troops capture Marseilles France
1944 - General George Leclercs troops advance towards Paris
1944 - General Montgomery consults with Generals Bradley/Eisenhower
1944 - King Michael of Romania ordered his forces to cease fire against Allies & dismissed the pro-
           Axis premier, Marshal Ion Antonescu
1944 - Romania liberated from Nazi occupation
1944 - Sammellager Drancy freed
1944 - US 20th Army corp enter Fontainebleau/Melun de Seine
1944 - US B-24 crashes into school in Freckelton England, 76 killed
1944 - World War II: Marseille liberated.
1946 - 13th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 16, Los Angeles 0 (97,380)
1946 - Ordinance No. 46 of the British Military Government constitutes the German Land (state) of
           Schleswig-Holstein.
1947 - Pres Truman's daughter, Margaret's 1st public singing concert
1948 - Earl Bernadotte asks aid for fugitives to Palestine
1948 - World Council of Churches formed by 147 churches from 44 countries
1950 - Jack Holden wins marathon (2:32:12)
1950 - West Germany & Japan readmitted to Intl Amateur Athletic Federation
1952 - Arab League security pact goes into effect
1952 - Giants Bob Elliot is ejected for arguing a strike, Bobby Hoffman complete his at bat, he strikes
           out & is also ejected for arguing
1953 - Braves Phil Paine is 1st former major leaguer to play in Japan
1953 - Cyclist Arie Van Vliet becomes world champion sprinter
1953 - Dutch DC-6 crashes near Ymuiden in North Sea, 21 die
1953 - KBAK TV channel 29 in Bakersfield, CA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1953 - Phil Grate sets record for throwing a baseball (443'3")
1953 - USSR performs nuclear test
1954 - President Getulio Vargas of Brazil resigns temporarily
1954 - First flight of the C-130 Hercules transport aircraft.
1955 - Betty Jameson wins LPGA White Mountain Golf Open
1957 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1958 - China PR resumes fire on Quemoi & Matsoe
1958 - Marie Ashton completes playing piano a female record 133 hours
1958 - Chinese Civil War: The Second Taiwan Strait crisis begins with the People's Liberation Army's
           bombardment of Quemoy.
1959 - Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Spokane Golf Open
1960 - World's largest frog (3.3 kg) caught (Equatorial Guinea)
1961 - Belgium sends troops to Rwanda-Urundi
1961 - East Germany imposed new curbs on travel between West & East Berlin
1961 - US lunar probe Ranger 1 reaches 190 km from Earth, falls back
1962 - 1st Europe-US live TV program (via Telstar)
1963 - Beatles release "She Loves You" in UK
1963 - Ringo admits he wrote a song "Don't Pass Me By"
1963 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1964 - Marilynn Smith wins Albuquerque Professional Amateur Golf Tournament
1964 - St Louis Cards are 11 games back in NL, & win World Series
1966 - Lunar Orbiter 1 takes 1st photograph of Earth from Moon
1968 - Ringo quits Beatles over a disagreement, temporarily
1968 - Yanks & Tigers play 3-3 tie in 19 due to 1 AM curfew
1969 - Audrey McElmory (US) wins World Cycling Championships, Brno
1969 - France's Une De Mai wins International Trot at Roosevelt Raceway Czechoslovakia (1st
           American to win cycling race title since 1912)
1970 - Kathy Ahern wins LPGA Southgate Ladies Golf Open
1970 - Roberto Clemente compiles his record 2nd straight 5-hit game
1971 - WGTU TV channel 29 in Traverse City, MI (ABC) begins broadcasting
1972 - Republican convention (Miami Beach, Fla) renominates VP Agnew but not unanimous-1 vote
           went to NBC newsman David Brinkley)
1972 - Chicago's Dick Allen is 4th (Jimmie Foxx, Hank Greenberg, & Alex Johnson) to homer into
           Comiskey Park's center field bleachers
1973 - Intelsat communications satellite launched
1974 - John Lennon reports seeing a UFO in NYC
1974 - Zaheer Abbas scores 240 Pakistan v England at The Cricket Oval
1975 - Classical Way wins Championship Cup at Roosevelt Raceway
1975 - Communists take over Laos
1975 - Ethiopian junta under Mengistu Haile
1975 - Free guitarist Paul Kossoff revived from dead after heart attack
1975 - Philip Kapleau conducts 1st jukai ceremony in Poland
1975 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1976 - Heavy earthquake strikes China, 1,000s die
1977 - 1st man-powered flight of a mile (Bryan Allen in Gossamer Condor)
1977 - Marxist philosopher Rudolf Bahro imprisoned in German DR
1978 - Iranian students occupies Iranian embassy at Wassenaar
1979 - Bolshoi Ballet dancer Alexander Godunov defects in NYC
1979 - Iran army opens offensive against Kurds
1979 - UN's Vienna office opens
1980 - Charlie Finley sells A's for $127M to Haas (owners of Levi Strauss)
1981 - Beth Daniel wins LPGA World Championship of Women's Golf
1982 - Lebanese falangist leader Bechir Gemayel elected as president
1982 - Seattle Mariner pitcher Gaylord Perry ejected for throwing a spitter
1982 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1985 - Said Aouita of Morocco sets 1.5k record (3:29.46) in Berlin
1985 - South African attorney/UDF leader "Dulah" Omar arrested
1985 - West German top counter espionage Hans Tiedge moves to German DR
1985 - Paul Hornung awarded $1,160,000 by a Louisville court against NCAA who barred him as a
           college football analyst for betting on games
1986 - "Rags" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 4 performances
1986 - Vrijkomend vulkaangas kills 1500 people in Nyos-more, Cameroon
1987 - 15-years old boy hijacks KLM B737, demands $1 billion
1987 - Betsy King wins Atlantic City LPGA Golf Classic
1987 - Violent rainfall/floods in Bangladesh, kills 100s
1988 - Mike Tyson & Mitch Green brawl at 4 A.M. in Harlem
1989 - LA Dodgers beat Montreal Expos, 1-0, in 22 innings (Rick Dempsey HR)
1989 - Lewis/Everett/Burrell/Heard run world record 4x200 m (1:19.38)
1990 - Armenia declares independence
1990 - East & West Germany announced that they would unite on Oct 3
1990 - US begins call up of 46,000 reservists to the Persian Gulf
1992 - Kris Tschetter wins LPGA Northgate Computer Golf Classic
1992 - Dennis Eckersley, who previously set record for most consecutive saves (40), is 1st pitcher to
           record 40 saves in 4 different seasons
1993 - NY Dow Jones index reaches record high of 3,638.96 points
1993 - Fred McGriff & David Justice are 6th to hit back-to-back HRs twice in same game
1995 - Indians' Jose Mesa sets record with his 38th consecutive save
1995 - Larry Hagman receives a liver transplant
1996 - Osama bin Laden issues message entitled 'A declaration of war against the Americans
           occupying the land of the two holy places.'
2000 - A Gulf Air Airbus A320 crashes into the Persian Gulf near Manama, Bahrain, killing 143.
2000 - Nicaragua becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty. This essentially
           deprecated the Buenos Aires Convention treaty, because as of this date, all members of the
           BA Convention were also signatories to Berne.
2005 - Hurricane Katrina forms over the Bahamas, later becomes a category 5 hurricane
2005 - TANS Peru Flight 204 crashes near Pucallpa, Peru, killing 41.
2006 - Natascha Kampusch, who was abducted at the age of 10, managed to escape from her captor
           Wolfgang Priklopil, after 8 years of captivity.
2010 - Manila hostage crisis, which occurred at the Quirino Grandstand in Manila, where a dismissed
           police officer took hostage a tour bus full of Chinese nationals.
2011 - Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi is overthrown after the National Transitional Council forces
           take control of Bab al-Azizia compound during the 2011 Libyan Civil War.
2011 - 5.8 earthquake occurrs in Mineral, Virginia felt as far north as Ontario and as far south as
           Atlanta, Georgia
2012 - Four people are killed and 28 injured in a hot air ballooning accident in Slovenia
2012 - At least 30 are killed as a result of monsoon rain in Rajasthan, India

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 23, 2013, 09:23:24 AM

This Day in History for 23rd August


Famous Weddings

1942 - "King Kong" actress Fay Wray (34) weds screenwriter and playwright Robert Riskin (45)
1962 - Musician and member of the Beatles, John Lennon weds Cynthia Powell
1989 - "The Cars" lead singer and guitarist Ric Ocasek (40) weds model Paulina Porizkova (24)
2000 - "7th Heaven" actor Ed Begley Jr. (51) weds actress Rachelle Carson (40) in Las Vegas
2003 - "The Hours" actress Julianne Moore (42) weds "The Myth of Fingerprints" director Bart
           Freundlich (33) in New York
2005 - Olympic gold medalist swimmer Pieter van den Hoogenband (27) weds fellow Olympic swimmer
           Minouche Smit at Henkenshage Castle in Sint-Oedenrode, North Brabant, The Netherlands
2010 - Spanish singer Julio Iglesias (66) weds Dutch model Miranda Rijnsburger (44) at Virgen del
           Carmen Church in Marbella, Spain

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 23, 2013, 09:24:41 AM

This Day in History for 23rd August


Famous Divorces

2010 - Former Swedish model Elin Nordegren (30) divorces professional golfer Tiger Woods (34) after 6
           years of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 23, 2013, 09:34:13 AM

This Day in History for 23rd August


Famous Birthdays

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Actress Vera Miles (1930)                        Actress Barbara Eden (1934)                     Rocker Keith Moon (1946)

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Actor River Phoenix (1970)                     NBA Guard Kobe Bryant (1978)


686 - Charles Martel, grandfather of Charlemagne (d. 741)
1486 - Siegmund Freiherr von Herberstein, Austrian diplomat
1524 - Francois Hotman/Hotomanus, French lawyer/diplomat (Anti-Tribonien)
1593 - Fulvio Testi, Italian poet (Pianto d'Italia)
1623 - Stanisław Lubieniecki, Polish astronomer (d. 1675)
1724 - Abraham Yates, American Continental Congressman (d. 1796)
1727 - Friedrich Hartmann Graf, composer
1740 - Ivan VI, Emperor of Russia 1740-41)
1741 - Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse, French explorer (d. 1788)
1751 - Louis-Francois Beffara, lexicographer
1754 - Louis XVI, Versailles, king of France (1774-93) eventually guillotined
1769 - Georges Cuvier, French biologist and statesman (d. 1832)
1773 - Jakob F Fries, German philosopher
1783 - William Tierney Clark, English civil engineer (d. 1852)
1805 - Anton von Schmerling, Austrian statesman (d. 1893)
1809 - Juliusz Slowacki, Polish poet (Trip to H Land)
1814 - James Roosevelt Bayley, first Bishop of Newark, New Jersey, and the eighth Archbishop of
           Baltimore (d. 1877)
1818 - Rufus Ingalls, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1893
1829 - Moritz B Cantor, German math historian
1832 - Alexander Chambers, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1888
1836 - Marie Henriette of Austria, Queen of the Belgians (d. 1902)
1843 - William Southam, Canadian newspaper publisher (d. 1932)
1846 - Alexander Milne Calder, American sculptor (d. 1923)
1847 - Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer (d. 1927)
1849 - William Ernest Henley, British poet, critic, and editor (d. 1903)
1852 - Arnold Toynbee, English economist and social reformer (d. 1883)
1852 - Clímaco Calderón, President of Colombia. (d. 1913)
1854 - Moritz Moszkowski, composer
1864 - Eleftherios K Venizalos, premier of Greece (1910-15, 28-32)
1867 - Marcel Schwob, Frans writer/journalist (Le Croisade des Enfants)
1869 - Edgar Lee Masters, poet/novelist (Spoon River Anthology)
1869 - James (Sunny Jim) Rolph, SF mayor (1912-31), MUNI backer
1875 - William Eccles, English radio pioneer (d. 1966)
1875 - Eugene Lanceray, Russian artist (d. 1946)
1879 - Alfreds Kalnins, composer
1880 - Alexander Grin, Russian writer (d. 1932)
1881 - Louis Schelfhout, Dutch painter/graphic artist
1883 - Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV, U.S. general (d. 1953)
1884 - Will Cuppy, American humorist (d. 1949)
1884 - Ogden L. Mills, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, 1927-1932 (d. 1937)
1885 - Henry Thomas Tizard, scientist
1886 - Gottfried Rudinger, composer
1887 - Jo Sternheim, Dutch actor/playwright (Fatherland)
1889 - A Lichtenstein, writer
1893 - Roy Agnew, composer
1894 - Gareth Hughes, Llanelly Wales, actor (Midnight Girl)
1900 - Ernst Krenek, Vienna Austria, composer (Johnny Spielt Auf)
1900 - Malvina Reynolds, American folk singer/songwriter (d. 1978)
1901 - Cecil Rolph Hewitt, journalist/policeman
1901 - John Sherman Cooper, (Sen-Ky)
1903 - Mauritius van Haegendoren, Flemish historian/senator
1903 - William Primrose, Glasgow Scot, violist (Method for Violin & Viola)
1905 - Leonard Constant Lambert, London England, composer (King Pest)
1908 - Arthur Adamov, Kislovodsk Russia, playwright (Paolo Paoli)
1908 - Ben Barnett, Australian cricket wicket-keeper (1938 England tour)
1908 - Cornelis van Dis, Dutch MP
1908 - Hannah Frank, Scottish Artist and Sculptor
1909 - Syd Buller, England First Class Cricketer and English test umpire (d. 1970)
1910 - Giuseppe Meazza, Italian footballer (d. 1979)
1911 - Albert Alberts, writer/journalist (French battle)
1911 - Birger Ruud, Norway, 90m ski jumper (Olympic-gold-1932, 36)
1911 - Carl Dolmetsch, director (Haslemere Festival)
1911 - Elizabeth "Betty" Robinson, US 100m sprinter (Olympic-gold-1928)
1912 - Gene Kelly, Pitts, dancer/actor (An American in Paris, Going My Way)
1912 - Jara Ribnikar, writer
1912 - Lord Kissin, president (GPG)
1913 - Bob Crosby, Spokane Wa, Bing's brother, orchestra leader (Bob Crosby Show)
1913 - Luis-Felipe Ramon y Rivera, composer
1913 - Stanley Kitchen, British chartered accountant
1917 - Tex Williams, American singer (d. 1985)
1918 - Guus [August CM] Hermus, Dutch actor (Jantjes, Soldaat van Oranje)
1919 - James Quinn, film producer/actor (Joey, Hammett, Overlord)
1919 - Robert Crichton-Brown, CEO (Rothmans International)
1920 - Aart Verstegen, ballet dancers/choreographer (Jolly Joker's Last Joke)
1921 - Sam Cook, cricketer (England slow left-armer in only Test)
1921 - Kenneth Arrow, American economist, Bank of Sweden Prize winner
1922 - Brian Young, Chairman (Christian Aid)
1922 - Jack Boddy, British trade union leader
1922 - George Kell, baseball player
1922 - Jean Darling, American child actress
1922 - Pierre Gauvreau, Quebec painter, television writer and producer
1923 - Humphrey Fisher, TV producer
1923 - Kenneth Rickards, cricketer (WI batsman two Tests 104 runs)
1923 - Richard Adler, composer/songwriter (Damn Yankees, Pajama Game)
1923 - Wolfgang Sawallisch, Munich Ger, conductor (Vienna Symph 1960-70)
1923 - Edgar F. Codd, English computer scientist (d. 2003)
1924 - Denis Sargan, econometrician
1924 - Edvard Fliflet Braein, composer
1924 - Ephraim Kishon, writer
1924 - Siti Hartinah Suharto, wife of President Suharto of Indonesia
1925 - Sulkhan Fyodorovich Tsintsadze, composer
1925 - Wlodzimierz Kotonski, composer
1926 - Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist, (d. 2006)
1927 - Dick Bruna, Dutch illustrator
1927 - Houari Boumedienne, president of Algeria (1965-78)
1927 - John Hoskyns, director-general (Institute of Directors)
1927 - Martial Solal, composer
1928 - Gerd Natschinski, composer
1928 - Marian Seldes, American actress
1929 - Peter Thompson, golfer
1930 - Andy Ireland, (Rep-R-FL, 1977- )
1930 - Jack Bannister, cricketer (Warwickshire stalwart)/commentator (BBC)
1930 - John Fairclough, British scientific adviser
1930 - Michel Rocard, Courbevoie France, Prime Minister of France
1930 - Vera Miles, [Ralston], Boise City ID, actress (Psycho)
1931 - Richard Vincent, British chief of Defense
1932 - Mark Russell, Buffalo NY, political satirist/pianist (Real People)
1932 - Houari Boumedienne, President of Algeria (d. 1978)
1933 - Manfred Donike, chemist drug test pioneer
1933 - Pete Wilson, (Sen-R-CA, 1983-88/Gov-R-Ca 1991- )
1933 - Robert Curl, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1934 - Barbara Eden, [Huffman], Tucson Az, actress (Dream of Jeannie)
1934 - Christian "Sonny" Jurgensen, NFL QB (Eagles, Redskins)
1934 - Lojze Lebic, composer
1934 - Sonny Jurgensen, NFL quarterback (Wash Redskins)/sportscaster
1935 - Brendan Jackson, British air marshal
1935 - Loren Rush, composer
1935 - Roy Strong, writer/art historian/director (Victoria & Albert Museum)
1936 - Rudy Lewis, rocker (Drifters)
1936 - Henry Lee Lucas, American serial killer (d. 2001)
1938 - Roger Greenaway, composer
1938 - Ronny Cox, actor/singer (Robocop, Dr John Gideon-St Elsewhere)
1939 - Charles Wardle, MP/under sect of state British home office
1939 - Ronald [Ronny] A Casseres, minister of Dutch Antilles
1940 - Lee Majors, Wyandotte, actor ($6,000,000 Man, The Fall Guy)
1940 - Richard Sanders, Harrisburg Pa, actor (Les-WKRP, Spencer, Berrengers)
1940 - Tony Bill, SD Cal, actor (What Really Happened to the Class of '65)
1941 - Gloria Ehret, LPGA golfer
1942 - Nancy Richey Gunther, San Ant Tx, tennis player (US Doubles 1965, 66)
1942 - Patricia McBride, Teaneck, NJ, ballerina (NYC Ballet Co)
1943 - Bobby Diamond, Los Angeles California, actor (Duncan Gillis-Dobie Gillis)
1943 - Dale Campbell-Savours, MP (Lab)
1943 - Peter Lilley, MP/sect of state for British social security
1943 - Nelson DeMille, American novelist
1944 - Antonia Novello, 14th US Surgeon General (1990-92)
1944 - Lena Tabori, Stockholm Sweden, model/daughter of Viveca Lindfors
1945 - Rayfield Wright, American football player
1946 - Keith Moon, English rock drummer (Who-I'm A Boy)
1947 - Rex Allen Jr, Chicago, country singer (Nashville on the Road)
1947 - Terje Rypdal, composer
1947 - Willy Russell, author/playwright (Shirley Valentine, Educating Rita)
1947 - David Robb, British actor
1948 - Ernst Jansz, Dutch keyboardist/singer (Doe Maar)
1948 - Ron Blomberg, 1st baseman (NY Yankees)/1st designated hitter
1948 - Andrei Pleşu, Romanian writer, essayist
1948 - Daniel Ruettiger "Rudy", University of Notre Dame football legend
1949 - Christopher Blake, actor (Alexa)
1949 - Geoff Capes, shot putter
1949 - John Bauldie, music journalist/dylanologist
1949 - Norah Ellen O'Neill, airline pilot (Flying Tigers)
1949 - Pieter J Biesheuvel, lawyer/Dutch MP (CDA)
1949 - Rick Springfield, Australia, (General Hospital, Jessie's Girl)
1949 - Shelley Long, Fort Wayne Indiana, actress (Diane-Cheers, Money Pit)
1949 - Woody Paul, [Paul Chrisman], Nashville, singer (Riders in the Sky)
1949 - Katiana Balanika, Greek actress and singer
1951 - Barbra Mizrahie, LPGA golfer
1951 - Jimi Jamison, rocker (Survivor)
1951 - Mark Hudson, Portland Ore, comedian (Bonkers, Hudson Brothers Show)
1951 - Queen Noor, of Jordan
1951 - Akhmad Kadyrov, President of Chechnya (d. 2004)
1952 - Cathy St George, Norfolk Va, playmate (Aug, 1982)
1952 - Dalton Reed, singer
1952 - Mac Cone, Memphis Tenn, Canadian equestrian jumper (Olympics-96)
1952 - Vicky Leandros, Greek singer and politician
1953 - Bobby Gubby, rocker (Bucks Fizz-My Camera Never Lies)
1953 - Klaus-Dietrich Flade, German FR, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-14)
1956 - David A Wolf, Indianapolis Ind, MD/astronaut (STS 58, sk: 89/91)
1956 - Andreas Floer, German mathematician (d. 1991)
1956 - Valgerd Svarstad Haugland, Norwegian politician
1956 - Skipp Sudduth, American actor
1957 - Tasos Mitropoulos, Greek footballer and politician
1958 - Julio Franco, Atlanta Braves, oldest regular position player in MLB history
1959 - George Kalovelonis, Greek tennis player
1960 - Helen Rees, director (Design Museum)
1960 - Rodney Alan Greenblat, American graphic artist
1960 - Chris Potter, Canadian actor
1961 - Julio Franco, Sp de Macrois Dom Rep, infielder (Cleveland Indians)
1961 - Dean DeLeo, American musician (Stone Temple Pilots)
1962 - Glenn Healy, Pickering, NHL goalie (NY Rangers)
1962 - Kyle Clifton, NFL linebacker (NY Jets)
1962 - Martin Cauchon, Canadian politician
1963 - Blaine Schmidt, CFL offensive linebacker (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1963 - Richard Illingworth, cricketer (England slow-left-armer 1991- )
1964 - Cam Emerson, Hamilton Ont, Canadian golfer (1989 Canadian Long Drive)
1964 - Johan Bruyneel, Belgian cyclist
1964 - Kong Hee, Singaporean, Founder and Senior Pastor of the City Harvest movement in Asia
1964 - Yoshikazu Taru, Japanese professional wrestler
1965 - Anne Minter, Austratia, tennis star
1965 - Roger Avary, Canadian-born screenwriter, director, and producer
1966 - Laura Richmond, Fort Dix NJ, playmate (Sep, 1988)
1966 - Rhonda Cator, Australia, badminton player (Olympics-96)
1966 - Rik Smits, NBA center (Indiana Pacers)
1967 - Karen Noble, Morristown NJ, LPGA golfer (1995 Dinah Shore-32nd)
1967 - Markus Ketterer, Helsinki FIN, hockey goalie (Team Finland)
1967 - Nancy Jane Cox, Campbellsville Kentucky, Miss Kentucky-America-1991
1968 - Christian Dean DiMarco, Huntington NY, PGA golfer (1994 Deposit-3rd)
1968 - Cortez Kennedy, NFL defensive tackle (Seattle Seahawks)
1968 - Scott Kowalkowski, NFL linebacker (Detroit Lions)
1969 - Amanda Hope, Austin Texas, playmate (Jul, 1992)
1969 - Clayton Holmes, NFL cornerback (Dallas Cowboys)
1969 - Keith Tyson, English artist
1969 - Jeremy Schaap, American sportswriter
1970 - Andrew Henry, CFL safety (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1970 - Fabian Wilnis, Dutch soccer player (NAC, De Graafschap)
1970 - LaMark Carter, Shreveport Louisiana, triple jumper
1970 - River Phoenix, Madras Oregon, actor (Little Nikta, Stand By Me)
1970 - Jay Mohr, American actor and comedian
1970 - Lawrence Frank, American head coach
1970 - Brad Mehldau, American pianist
1971 - Hugh Douglas, NFL defensive end (NY Jets)
1971 - Demetrio Albertini, Italian footballer
1972 - Anthony Calvillo, CFL quarterback (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1972 - Sheldon Benoit, CFL linebacker (BC Lions)
1972 - Tony Carter, NFL running back (Chicago Bears)
1972 - Martin Grainger, English footballer
1972 - Raul Casanova, Puerto Rican baseball player
1973 - James Roe, wide receiver (Baltimore Ravens)
1973 - Jason Clemett, CFL linebacker (Calgary Stampeders)
1973 - Casey Blake, American baseball player
1973 - Malaika Arora Khan, Indian actress and model
1974 - Paula Gaye Montgomery, Cabot Ark, Miss America (Arkansas-3rd-1996)
1974 - Ray Park, Scottish actor
1974 - Shifty, American musician (Crazy Town)
1974 - Benjamin Limo, Kenyan runner
1974 - Christian Beranek, American graphic novelist and actor
1975 - Joe Andruzzi, NFL guard (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1975 - Eliza Carthy, English singer and fiddler
1976 - Kate Sobrero, soccer defender (Olympics-96)
1976 - Linette Smith, Miss Universe-British Virgin Islands (1996)
1976 - Scott Caan, American actor
1977 - Nicole Bobeck, Chic, figure skater (US Champ 1995)
1977 - Douglas Sequeira, Costa Rican footballer
1978 - Kobe Bryant, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, NBA guard (LA Lakers)
1978 - Julian Casablancas, American musician
1979 - Edgar Sosa, Mexican boxer
1979 - Ritchie Neville, British musician
1980 - Denny Bautista, Dominican baseball player
1980 - Rex Grossman, American football player
1981 - Stephan Loboué, Ivorian footballer
1981 - Carlos Cuéllar, Spanish footballer
1981 - Ozzy Lusth, American Survivor contestant
1982 - Natalie Coughlin, American swimmer
1982 - YTCracker, American musician
1982 - Scott Palguta, professional soccer player
1983 - Sun Ming Ming, Chinese basketball player
1984 - Glen Johnson, English footballer
1986 - Neil Cicierega, American cartoonist and musician
1986 - Josh Morris, Australian rugby league player for St. George Illawarra Dragons
1986 - Brett Morris, Australian rugby league player for St. George Illawarra Dragons
1987 - Nikki Gil, Filipina actress, host and singer
1988 - Daniel Schwaab, German footballer

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 23, 2013, 09:38:08 AM

This Day in History for 23rd August


Famous Deaths

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Scottish Patriot                                                        Silent Film Star   
William Wallace (1305)                                 Rudolph Valentino (1926)


93 - Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman Governor of Britain (b. 40)
634 - Aboe Bekr Abd Allah, [al-Siddik], friend/successor of Mohammed and Caliph, dies
1106 - Magnus, Duke of Saxony
1176 - Emperor Rokujo of Japan (b. 1164)
1305 - William Wallace, Scottish patriot, hanged, disemboweled & beheaded at Smithfield London
1328 - Nicolaas Zannekin, leader of rebel Flemish farmers, dies in battle
1387 - King Olav IV of Norway (b. 1370)
1507 - Jean Molinet, Burgundy historian (Chroniques), dies at about 72
1519 - Philibert Berthelier, Swiss patriot
1540 - Guillaume Budé, French scholar
1591 - Luis de Leon, scholar/poet, dies
1618 - Gerbrant A Bredero, poet/playwright (Moortje), dies at 33
1628 - George Viliers, 1st duke of Buckingham, assassinated by Felton at 36
1652 - John Byron, 1st Baron Byron, English royalist politician (b. 1600)
1668 - Artus Quellinus, Flemish sculptor (Amsterdam townhall), dies
1706 - Colonel Edward Nott, Esq., British Crown Governor of Virginia (b. 1654)
1723 - Antoine Mouque, composer, dies at 64
1723 - Increase Mather, New England Puritan minister (b. 1639)
1777 - Giuseppe Sellitto, composer, dies at 77
1802 - Corona Elizabeth Wilhelmine Schroter, composer, dies at 51
1806 - Charles Augustin de Coulomb, Fren physicist (coulometrie), dies at 70
1813 - Alexander Wilson, Scottish-born ornithologist (b. 1766)
1819 - Oliver Hazard Perry, naval hero, dies on 34th birthday
1825 - Amos Bull, composer, dies at 81
1831 - August WA Grave von Gneisenau, Prussian fieldmarshal, dies at 70
1839 - Charles Philippe Lafont, composer, dies at 57
1853 - Alexander Calder, first mayor of Beaumont, Texas (b. 1806)
1867 - Auguste-Marseille Barthélemy, French poet (b. 1796)
1878 - Adolf Fredrik Lindblad, composer, dies at 77
1892 - Deodoro da Fonseca, 1st President of Brazil (b. 1827)
1898 - Joseph Robinson, composer, dies at 82
1903 - Paul J C Gabriel, Dutch water colors painter/etcher, dies at 75
1914 - Felix Fivet, Belgian baby, executed by German troops at 3 weeks
1914 - George A Pogson, British consul in Puerto Rico, dies
1926 - Rudolph Valentino, silent movie idol (Sheik), dies in NY at 31
1927 - Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti, executed in Mass
1929 - Charles Van de Woestijne, Flemish writer/poet (God on Sea), dies
1933 - Adolph Loos, Austrian architect, dies at 62
1937 - Albert Charles Paul Marie Roussel, composer, dies at 68
1939 - Sidney Coe Howard, playwright (Silver Cord, Pulitzer 1925), dies at 48
1941 - Jack O'Connor, cricketer (four Tests for Aust 1908-09, 13 wkts), dies
1943 - Johann P Zilcher, German composer, dies at 88
1944 - Nikolay Andreyevich Roslavets, composer, dies at 63
1955 - Reginald Tate, British actor (b. 1896)
1956 - ... Kennedy, daughter of future Pres Kennedy, dies same day
1958 - Martin du Gard, writer, dies
1960 - Oscar Hammerstein II, Broadway librettist, dies at 65
1962 - Hoot Gibson, silent screen cowboy actor (Last Outlaw), dies at 70
1962 - Irving Fine, composer (Toccata), dies at 47
1962 - Walter Anderson, German folklorist (b. 1885)
1963 - Glen Gray, American jazz musician and leader of the Casa Loma Orchestra (b. 1900)
1965 - John Bata, Czech shoe manufacturer, dies at 67
1966 - Francis Xavier Bushman, actor (Ben-Hur), dies at 83
1967 - Georges Berger, Belgian racing driver (b. 1918)
1970 - Nel Rose, dancer, dies at 55
1971 - Gisela Hernandez Gonzalo, composer, dies at 58
1971 - Oliver F McGowan, actor (Banning, Stagecoach), dies at 64
1971 - The original Shamu, Sea World orca
1972 - Balis Dvarionas, composer, dies at 68
1974 - Roberto Assagioli, Italian psychiatrist (b. 1888)
1975 - Hank Patterson, actor (Fred Ziffel-Green Acres), dies at 87
1977 - Sebastian Cabot, actor (Giles French-Family Affair), dies at 59
1979 - Mian Mohammad Saeed, cricketer (1st Pakistan capt 1948-49), dies
1979 - Richard Hearne, actor (Capt Horatio Hornblower), dies at 70
1980 - Norman Shelley, English radio actor (Churchill's Speech), dies at 77
1982 - Alberto Cavalcanti, Brazilian director (Herr Puntila), dies at 85
1982 - Stanford Moore, US biochemist (Nobel 1977), dies
1986 - Charles Janssens, Belgian actor (Mira, Malpertuis), dies at 80
1987 - Siegfried Borris, composer, dies at 80
1987 - Didier Pironi, French racing car driver (b. 1952)
1989 - Helen le Clerq, Dutch dancer, dies
1989 - R. D. Laing, Scottish psychiatrist (anti-psychiatry), dies of a heart attack at 61
1989 - Yusef Hawkins, shot by 30 whites in Bensonhurst because he's black
1989 - Mohammed Abed Elhai, Sudanese writer and academic (b. 1944)
1990 - David Rose, composer (Holiday for Strings, Stripper), dies at 80
1991 - Florence B Seibert, bio-chemist (TB), dies at 93
1992 - Malcolm Atterbury, actor (7 Days in May, Wild River), dies at 85
1992 - Virginia Sale-Wren, entertainer, dies of heart failure at 92
1992 - Wayne McLaren, Marlboro Man, dies of lung cancer at 51
1993 - Charles Scorsese, actor (Cape Fear, Goodfellas, Wise Guys), dies at 80
1993 - Edwina Lewis, actress (Boy Who Cried Bitch), dies of heart attack 42
1993 - Victorine Hefting, historian/wife of Bert Baker, dies at 88
1994 - Henri Rousselot, admiral, dies at 82
1994 - Paolo Volponi, Italian communist/author (Machina Mondiale), dies at 70
1994 - Rabah Stambouli, Algerian sociologist/politician, murdered at 65
1994 - Richard Jock Kinneir, graphic designer, dies at 77
1995 - Alfred Eisenstaedt, photojournalist, dies at 96
1995 - Arthur Holt, politician, dies at 81
1995 - Dwayne Rudolph Goettel, musician, dies at 31
1995 - Hedda J Garza, writer/political activist, dies at 66
1995 - James Pilditch, designer, dies at 66
1995 - Johnny Carey, soccer star, dies at 76
1995 - Vincent Gordon Lindsay White, tycoon, dies at 72
1997 - Eric Gairy, first PM of Grenada (1974-79), dies at 75
1999 - Norman Wexler, American screenwriter (b.1926)
1999 - James White, Northern Irish writer (b. 1928)
2000 - John Anthony Kaiser, Roman Catholic priest (b. 1932)
2001 - Kathleen Freeman, American actress (b. 1919)
2001 - Peter Maas, American novelist (b. 1929)
2002 - Hoyt Wilhelm, American baseball player (b. 1922)
2003 - Jack Dyer, Australian rules footballer (b. 1913)
2003 - John Geoghan, American Catholic priest (b. 1935)
2003 - Bobby Bonds, American baseball player and manager (b. 1946)
2005 - Brock Peters, American actor (b. 1927)
2005 - Ninjalicious, Canadian author and urban explorer (b. 1973)
2006 - Maynard Ferguson, Canadian jazz trumpeter and bandleader (b. 1928)
2007 - Robert Symonds, American actor (b. 1926)
2008 - John Russell, British-born American art critic and author
2012 - Steve Van Buren, American Hall of Fame NFL halfback, dies from pneumonia at 91
2012 - Jerry Nelson, American puppeteer, dies from prostate cancer and chronic obstructive
           pulmonary disease at 78

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 24, 2013, 09:26:55 AM

This Day in History for 24th August


Historical Events

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English Philosopher                                  Naturalist Charles Darwin                     Versatile Athlete Jim Thorpe
and Founder of Pennsylvania
William Penn

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32nd US President                                   Baseball Player Ted Williams                 Baseball Player and Manager
Franklin D. Roosevelt                                                                                             Leo Durocher

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Golfer Greg Norman


49 BC - Julius Caesar's general Gaius Scribonius Curio is defeated in the Second Battle of the
            Bagradas River by the Numidians under Publius Attius Varus and King Juba of Numidia. Curio
            commits suicide to avoid capture.
79 - Mt Vesuvius erupts, buries Pompeii & Herculaneum, 15,000 die
410 - Rome overrun by Visigoths, symbolized fall of Western Roman Empire
1215 - Pope Innocent III declares Magna Carta invalid
1217 - Battle at South Foreland: English fleet beats France
1349 - 6,000 Jews, blamed for the Plague, are killed in Mainz
1349 - Jews of Cologne Germany set themselves on fire to avoid baptism
1391 - Jews of Palma Majorca massacred
1456 - The printing of the Gutenberg Bible is completed.
1511 - Alfonso de Albuquerque of Portugal conquers Malacca, the capital of the Sultanate of Malacca.
1516 - Battle at Aleppo: Turks beat Syria
1542 - Conquistador Francisco de Orellana returns to Spain
1572 - St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre of Protestants by Roman Catholics begins in Paris and later
           spreads to the French provinces
1608 - 1st English convoy lands at Surat India
1654 - Louis II Condé disbands ends of Atrecht
1658 - Battle at Grevelingen: English fleet beats Spanish
1662 - Act of Uniformity requires English to accept book of Common Prayer
1682 - Duke James of York gives Delaware to William Penn
1690 - Job Charnock founds Calcutta India
1704 - Sea battle at Malaga
1751 - Thomas Colley executed in England for drowning supposed witch
1787 - Wolfgang A Mozart completes his viola sonata in A, K526
1814 - British forces captured Washington, DC, & burned down many landmarks
1816 - The Treaty of St. Louis is signed in St. Louis, Missouri.
1820 - Constitutionalist insurrection at Oporto, Portugal; see Portugal's crises of the Nineteenth
           Century.
1826 - Netherland's South Willems Port (Bosch-Luik) opens
1828 - Dutch army takes Fort Du Bus in New Guinea
1831 - John Henslow asks Charles Darwin to travel with him on HMS Beagle
1833 - HMS Beagle reaches Bahia Blanca, Argentina
1847 - Charlotte Bronte finishes manuscript of "Jane Eyre"
1853 - 1st potato chips prepared by Chef George Crum (Saratoga Springs NY)
1854 - National emigration convention meets in Cleveland
1857 - The Panic of 1857 begins, setting off one of the most severe economic crises in U.S. history.
1858 - Richmond "Daily Dispatch" reports 90 blacks arrested for learning
1869 - Cornelius Swarthout patents waffle iron
1870 - The Wolseley Expedition reaches Manitoba to end the Red River Rebellion.
1876 - Riot abolishes fairs in Amsterdam, 2 killed
1891 - Thomas Edison patents motion picture camera
1893 - Tornado destroys coast of Savannah & Charleston, about 1000 die
1904 - 24th US Mens Tennis: Holcombe Ward beats William Clothier (108 64 97)
1904 - Field battle at Liao-Yang-200,000 Japanese against 150,000 Russian
1905 - Chicago Cubs beat Phillies 2-1 in 20 innings
1906 - Cincinnati Red John Weimer no-hits Dodgers, 1-0 in 7 inning game
1908 - Tommy Burns KOs Bill Squires in 13 for heavyweight boxing title
1908 - NY Giants scores shown on electric diamonds known as "Compton's Baseball Bulletin" at
           Madison Square Garden
1909 - Workers start pouring concrete for Panama Canal
1911 - Manuel d'Arriaga elected 1st president of Portugal
1912 - NYC ticker tape parade for Jim Thorpe & victorious US olympians
1912 - District Alaska becomes an organized incorporated territory of the United States
1912 - US passes Anti-gag law, federal employees right to petition government
1914 - Battle at Bergen: Germans defeat Belgian/British troops
1914 - German troops occupy Namur Belgium
1914 - Jerome Kern & Michael E Rourles musical premieres in NYC
1918 - Chicago Cubs, win earliest pennent ever (season ended Sept 2)
1918 - Sect Baker grants extended exemption to World Series players
1919 - Cleveland pitcher Ray Caldwell is flattened by a bolt of lightning
1921 - Battle of Sakaray Valley begins between Turkey & Greece
1921 - British airship R-38 crashes in Humber, 44 die
1922 - 1st Phillie to hit for cycle (Cy Williams)
1923 - Paavo Nurmi runs world record 3 mile (14:11.2)
1925 - 39th US Womens Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats K McKane (36 60 62)
1929 - 43rd US Womens Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats Phoebe H Watson (64 62)
1929 - Palestinians attack orthodox Jews in Jerusalem
1929 - Turkey & Persia signs friendship treaty
1931 - France & USSR sign neutrality/no attack treaty
1932 - 1st transcontinental non-stop flight by a woman, Amelia Earhart
1936 - Australian Antarctic Territory created
1936 - FDR gives FBI authority to pursuit fascists & communists
1937 - Republican offensive near Belchite Spain
1937 - In the Spanish Civil War, the Basque Army surrenders to the Italian Corpo Truppe Volontarie
           following the Santoña Agreement.
1938 - England beat Australia by an innings & 579 runs at The Oval
1938 - Virgil Trucks strikes out his 418th batter, highest season total in organized ball-for Andalusia
           in an Alabama-Florida League game
1939 - Germany & USSR sign 10-year non-aggression pact
1940 - Luftwaffe bombs London
1940 - Red Sox left fielder Ted Williams pitches the last 2 innings in a 12-1 loss to Detroit Tigers,
           Williams allows 3 hits & 1 run
1942 - Sea battle off Eastern Solomon Islands
1942 - Transport nr 23 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1943 - Phila A's drop AL record tying 20th game in a row, win the 2nd game
1944 - Gen LeClercs troops open assault on Paris
1945 - Cleveland ace Bob Feller returns from Navy & strike out 12
1949 - North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) goes into effect
1950 - 1st US Negro delegate to UN appointed-ES Sampson
1950 - Edith Sampson named 1st black US delegate to UN
1950 - Operation Magic Carpet concludes transporting 45,000 Yemenite Jews
1951 - Bill Veeck's "Fans Managers' Night," Browns defeat A's 5-3; Browns coaches hold up placards
           for fans to vote on
1954 - Communist Control Act passed, at height of McCarthyism
1954 - Eisenhower signs Communist Control Act, outlawing the Communist Party
1954 - International Amateur Athletic Federation recognizes Red China
1954 - William Heatherton's "Reluctant Debutante," premieres in London
1956 - 1st non-stop transcontinental helicopter flight arrived Wash DC
1957 - British soccer player Jimmy Greaves' (17) 1st game for Chelsea
1958 - Fay Crocker wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open
1958 - Sergei Popov wins Stockholm marathon (2:15:17.0) (WR)
1959 - England complete 5-0 series drubbing of India
1959 - Hiram L Fong sworn in as 1st Chinese-American senator while Daniel K Inouye sworn in as 1st
           Japanese-American Rep (Both from Hawaii)
1960 - -127°F (-88°C), Vostok, Antarctica (world record)
1960 - 60 people die when bus plunges off bridge into Turvo River, Brazil
1961 - Windward Islands' Airways International (Winair) forms
1961 - Former nazi leader Johannes Vorster becomes South Africa's minister of justice (if the shoe
           fits...)
1962 - Dodger coach Leo Durocher suffers a near-fatal allergic reaction to a penicillin injection while in
           the clubhouse at the Polo Grounds
1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 - 1st 200 meter freestyle swum under 2 minutes (Don Schollander 1:58)
1963 - John Pennel is 1st to pole-vault 17'
1964 - 2nd Mayor's Trophy Game, Yanks beat Mets 6-4
1966 - USSR launches Luna 11 for orbit around Moon
1967 - Liberian flag designed
1968 - France became world's 5th thermonuclear power, explodes on Mururoa
1969 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Tournament of Champs Golf Tournament
1969 - Peru nationalizes US oil interests
1970 - Bomb kills 1 at U of Wisconsin's Army Math Research Center in Madison
1971 - India beat England by 4 wickets, their win against the Poms
1972 - 8th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yanks beat Mets 2-1
1972 - Dennis Amiss scores 1st one-day int century, 103 v Australia
1972 - Gordie Howe & Jean Beliveau inducted in Hockey Hall of Fame
1973 - Garry Sobers scores 26th & last Test Cricket ton 150 v Eng Lord's
1973 - John Adams & his drum - become a right-field fixture in Cleve Stadium
1974 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open
1975 - Davey Lopes steals his 38th consecutive base, then thrown out stealing
1975 - Judy Rankin wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open
1975 - Papadopoulos/Pattakos/Makarezos sentenced to death in Athens
1975 - SF Giant Ed Halick no-hits NY Giants, 6-0
1975 - Tampa Bay Rowdies beat Portland 2-0 for NASL cup
1976 - Soyuz 21 returns to Earth
1978 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1979 - Cars play concert in NY Central Park
1979 - NFL fans (60,916) choose old Patriots logo over new
1979 - UN's Vienna office begins issuing postage stamps
1980 - Beth Daniel wins Columbia Savings LPGA Golf Classic
1980 - Jozef Pinkovski replaces Poland premier Babiuch
1981 - American Charles Chapman is 1st black to swim English Channel
1981 - Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 yrs to life for Lennon's murder
1982 - KC's John Wathan steals 31st en route to 36 base for catcher's record
1983 - Cin Red Pete Rose ends consecutive games played streak at 745
1984 - Pat Bradley set LPGA record for 9 holes with a 28 at Denver
1985 - STS 51-I mission scrubbed at T -5m because of bad weather
1986 - Juli Inkster wins Atlantic City LPGA Golf Classic
1987 - Announcement of possible Martian tornadoes
1989 - British brewery Bass buys Holiday Inn hotel chain
1989 - Pete Rose is suspended from baseball for life for gambling
1989 - Voyager 2 flies past Neptune
1990 - 3,500 peacekeepers arrive in Liberia
1990 - Iraqi troops surround US & other embassies in Kuwait City
1991 - Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation
1991 - Gorbachev resigns as head of USSR Communist Party
1991 - Silky Stallone, wins the Cane Pace at Yonkers Raceway
1991 - Taiwan captures its 15th Little League World Series, 11-0
1991 - Ukraine declares independence from USSR
1992 - 1st structural steel beams are erected at Gateway (Jacobs Field)
1992 - Cleveland Browns suffer their worst preseason loss, 56-3, to Vikings
1992 - Hurricane Andrew hits South Florida; 35 die
1992 - Screw magazine superimposed a gunsight over a picture of Larry Flint
1992 - Diplomatic relations are established between the People's Republic of China and South Korea.
1993 - Mars Observer comes closest to Mars
1993 - Padres scores 14 in 1st vs Cardinals
1994 - Kieren Perkins swims world record 1500m free style (14:41.66)
1994 - Kieren Perkins swims world record 800m free style (7:46.00)
1994 - Israel & PLO initialed accord giving autonomy to Palestinians in West Bank in education,
           health, taxation, social welfare & tourism
1995 - Fire that wipes 6,000 acres begins in Hamptons on Long Island
1995 - Windows 95 debuts
1997 - 97th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Joel Kribel
1997 - Colleen Wakjer wins Star Bank LPGA Classic
1997 - Gordon Spence discovers 2^2976221 - 1 (36th known Mersenne prime)
1997 - Greg Norman wins World Series of Golf shooting 273
1997 - Mark Calcavecchia wins Greater Vancouver Golf Open shooting 265
1997 - Saint Luke's Senior Golf Classic
1998 - The Netherlands is selected as the site for the trial of the two Libyan suspects of the 1988
           Pan Am bombing.
1998 - First RFID human implantation tested in the United Kingdom.
2000 - Argon fluorohydride, the first Argon compound ever known, is discovered at the University of
           Helsinki by Finnish scientists.
2001 - Air Transat Flight 236 runs out of fuel over the Atlantic Ocean (en route to Lisbon from
           Toronto) and makes an emergency landing in the Azores.
2004 - 89 passengers die after two airliners explode after flying out of Domodedovo International
           Airport, near Moscow. The explosions were caused by suicide bombers (reportedly female)
           from the Russian Republic of Chechnya.
2006 - The International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefines the term "planet" such that Pluto is
           considered a Dwarf Planet.
2012 - Monsoon rains and floods kill 26 people in Pakistan
2012 - Yangmingtan Bridge collapses in China killing three people
2012 - Both Apple and Samsung are found guilty of patent infringement in a South Korean court
2012 - A US jury in California finds that Samsung is guilty of patent infringement and awards over
           US$1 billion in damages to Apple

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 24, 2013, 09:28:18 AM

This Day in History for 24th August


Famous Weddings

1561 - Willem of Orange marries duchess Anna of Saxon
1996 - Actress-model Vendela (30) weds Norwegian politician Olaf Thommessen (30) in Stockholm,
           Sweden
2002 - Journalist Bryant Gumbel weds model Hilary Quinlan at Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach, Florida

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 24, 2013, 09:29:34 AM

This Day in History for 24th August


Famous Divorces

2009 - American actor Eddie Cibrian (36) divorces TV personality Brandi Glanville (35) due to
           irreconcilable differences

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 24, 2013, 09:38:32 AM

This Day in History for 24th August


Famous Birthdays

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Writer                                                             Palestinian Leader                     Deaf Actress Marlee Matlin (1965)
Jorge Luis Borges (1899)                              Yasser Arafat (1933)

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Actor Rupert Grint (1988)


1113 - Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou, France, conquered Normandy (d. 1151)
1198 - King Alexander II of Scotland (d. 1249)
1210 - Floris IV, Count of Holland
1358 - King John I of Castile (d. 1390)
1393 - Arthur III, Duke of Brittany (d. 1458)
1420 - Albrecht van Eyb, German humanist/parson (Bamberg & Eichstattt)
1531 - Ercole Bottrigari, composer
1552 - Lavinia Fontana, Italian painter (d. 1614)
1579 - John Amner, composer
1580 - John Taylor, English poet (d. 1654)
1591 - Robert Herrick, England, poet (Gather ye rosebuds) (baptized)
1635 - Peder Griffenfeld, Danish statesman (d. 1699)
1669 - Alessandro Marcello, composer
1683 - Meinrad Spiess, composer
1694 - Theodor A Freiherr von Neuhoff, German adventurer/king [or 8/25]
1707 - Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon, English Evangelical Revivalist (d. 1791)
1712 - Cornelis Douwes, Dutch mathematician/astronomer
1725 - Johann Balthasar Kehl, composer
1733 - David Traugott Nicolai, composer
1750 - Letizia Ramolino, mother of Napoleon Bonaparte (d. 1836)
1758 - Sophia Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1794)
1759 - William Wilberforce, British politician, philanthropist and leader of the movement to abolish the
           slave trade
1772 - William I Frederick, Grand Duke of Luxembourg and King of the Netherlands (1814-40)
1787 - James Weddell, Ostend England, Antarctic explorer (Weddell Sea)
1808 - Benjamin Grubb Humphreys, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1808 - Thomas Fenwick Drayton, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1891
1816 - Daniel Gooch, laid 1st successful transatlantic cables
1817 - Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian poet, writer and playwright (d. 1875)
1820 - Jacopo Tomadini, composer
1821 - Emmanuele Muzio, composer
1827 - Walter Husted Stevens, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1867
1828 - George Hume "Maryland" Steuart, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1837 - Theodore Dubois, composer
1839 - Eduard Napravnik, composer
1842 - Edouard J A Agneessens, Flemish painter (Slave Market)
1845 - James C. Calhoun, American soldier, brother-in-law of George Armstrong Custer (d. 1876)
1851 - Tom Kendall, Australian cricketer (d. 1924)
1852 - Deacon White, American baseball player (d. 1919)
1854 - Nikolay Vladimirovich Scherbachov, composer
1856 - Felix Mottl, composer
1863 - Dragutin Lerman, Croatian explorer (d. 1918)
1865 - Ferdinand I VAM, king of Romania
1872 - Max Beerbohm, England, caricaturist/writer/wit (Saturday Review)
1879 - Rentaro Taki, composer
1880 - Miles W L Killearn of Killearn, Scotish baron/diplomat
1886 - William Francis Gibbs, naval architect, designed Liberty ships
1887 - Harry Hooper, American baseball player (d. 1974)
1889 - Simon Kimbangu/Kibangu, Congo prophet
1890 - Duke Kahanamoku, Hawaii, swimmer (Olympics-3 gold/2 silver-12, 20, 24)
1890 - Franz Philipp, composer
1890 - Jean Rhys, British writer (d. 1979)
1891 - Alexander Mikhaylovich Dzegelyonok, composer
1891 - Germaine Loosveldt, Flemish actress (Kniertje in On hope)
1894 - Jean Rhys, [Ella Williams], Dominica, writer (Voyage in the Dark)
1895 - Richard Cardinal Cushing, archbishop of Boston (d. 1970)
1896 - Phil Baker, Phila, comedian (Who's Whose)
1897 - Fred Rose, American songwriter and publishing executive (d. 1954)
1898 - Albert Claude, Belgium, biologist/physician (Nobel 1974)
1898 - Malcolm Cowley, Belsano Penn, author (Flowering of New England)
1898 - Marie J Hugenholtz, [Doctor Grandi], surgeon on Curacao
1899 - Johan J Fabricius, Dutch novelist (Island of Demons)
1899 - Jorge Luis Borges, Argentina, writer of fiction, essays (Labyrinths)
1899 - Ruth Schaumann, German painter/writer (Rose, Black King)
1900 - Preston Foster, Ocean City NJ, actor (Waterfront, Gunslinger)
1902 - Fernand Braudel, French historian (Civililization & Capitalism)
1902 - Carlo Gambino, Sicilian-born American mafioso (d. 1976)
1903 - Karl Hanke, Nazi official (d. 1945)
1904 - Rod Redwing, NY, actor (Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory)
1905 - Donald Douglas, Scotland, actor (I Love You Again)
1905 - Arthur Crudup, American singer and guitarist (d. 1974)
1905 - Siaka Stevens, President of Sierra Leone (d. 1988)
1909 - Ronnie Grieveson, South African cricket keeper/batsman (2 Tests v Eng 1939)
1910 - Bernhard Heiden, composer
1911 - Karl AF Schiller, West German economist/SPD-minister
1912 - Durward Kirby, Indianapolis Ind, TV announcer (Garry Moore Show)
1913 - Dorothy Comingore, [Linda Winters], LA CA, actress (Citizen Kane)
1915 - Alice B[radley] Sheldon, US, sci-fi author (Byte Beautiful)
1915 - Wynonie Harris, rocker
1915 - James Tiptree, Jr., American writer (d. 1987)
1915 - Ronald Ibbs, Irish actor (No Hiding Place, The Saint) (d. 1990)
1916 - Anita V Figueredo, physician/humanitarian
1916 - Peter Crichton Kirkpatrick, oarsman
1916 - Léo Ferré, French composer and singer (d. 1993)
1916 - Hal Smith, American actor (d. 1994)
1917 - Dennis James, Jersey City NJ, wrestling announcer/TV host (PDQ)
1918 - Ray McIntire, chemical engineer
1918 - Sikander Bakht, Governor of Kerala (d. 2004)
1919 - "Drs P" [Heinz H Polzer], Swiss/Dutch songwriter/singer
1919 - Nils Viggo Bentzon, composer
1919 - Enrique Llanes, Mexican professional wrestler (d. 2004)
1921 - Sam Tingle, Zimbabwean racing driver
1922 - René Lévesque, Premier of Quebec (d. 1987)
1922 - Howard Zinn, American historian and activist
1923 - Helena Carter, [Helen Rickerts], US model/actress (River Lady)
1923 - Arthur Jensen, American psychologist, (d. 2012)
1924 - Louis Teicher, pianist (Ferante & Teicher-Exodus)
1926 - Nancy Spero, Cleveland USA, American feminist artist
1927 - Roger Danneels, Flemish accordionist
1927 - William V Shannon, journalist/ambassador to Ireland (1977-81)
1927 - David Ireland, Australian author
1927 - Harry Markowitz, American economist, Nobel laureate
1929 - William Winfield, rocker (Harptones)
1932 - Richard Graham Meale, composer
1932 - Robert D. Hales, LDS apostle
1933 - Yasser Arafat, Paris France, PLO-leader (Achille Lauro, Nobel 1994)
1934 - Kenny Baker, actor (R2D2-Star Wars)
1934 - Roger Donald Dickerson, composer
1936 - William J Coyne, (Rep-D-Pennsylvania, 1981- )
1936 - A. S. Byatt, English novelist
1936 - Kenny Guinn, American Governor, Nevada
1937 - Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola, Nigerian politician (d. 1998)
1938 - David Freiberg, Boston MA, rock bassist (Quicksilver Messenger)
1938 - Mason Williams, Abilene Tx, writer (Smother Brothers Hour)
1938 - Halldór Blöndal, Icelandic politician
1940 - Don Cormier Sr, horse trainer
1940 - Tony Secunda, rock band manager
1940 - Francine Lalonde, Quebec politician
1941 - Ernest Wright Jr, US rock vocalist (Imperials-So Much)
1942 - Joe Chambers, Los Angeles California, rock guitarist/vocalist (Chambers Brothers)
1942 - Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck, mathemetician/educator
1942 - Max Cleland, American politician
1942 - Howard Jacobson, British novelist and newspaper columnist
1943 - John Cipollina, SF Cal, rock guitarist (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
1943 - Pini Zahavi, Israeli football agent
1944 - Gregory Bruce Jarvis, Detroit Mich, astronaut (STS 25)
1944 - Bill Goldsworthy, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1996)
1944 - Rocky Johnson, Canadian professional wrestler
1945 - Ken Hensley, rock keyboardist (Blackfoot, Uriah Heep)
1945 - Malcolm "Mollie" Duncan, Scotland, saxophonist (Average White Band)
1945 - Vince McMahon, American professional wrestling promoter
1946 - Richard "Dick" N Richards, Key West, USN/astr (STS 28, 41, 50, 64)
1947 - Paulo Coelho, Brazilian author
1947 - Roger De Vlaeminck, Belgian cyclist
1947 - Vladimir Masorin, Russian admiral
1948 - Jean-Michel Jarre, French musician
1948 - Kim Sung-Il, Chief of Staff of Republic of Korea Air Force
1949 - Anna Lee Fisher, St Albans NY, MD/astronaut (STS 51-A)
1949 - Joe Regalbuto, Brooklyn New York, American actor (Knots Landing, Frank-Murphy Brown)
1949 - Stephen Harrison Paulus, composer
1949 - Charles Rocket, American actor (d. 2005)
1950 - Frank Murray, Australian field hockey national coach (Oly-sil-92, 96)
1950 - Tim White, American anthropologist
1951 - Jimmy Farrar, Jacksonville Fl, rock vocalist (Molly Hatchet)
1951 - Orson Scott Card, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Nebula, Ender's War)
1951 - Oscar Hijuelos, American author
1952 - Bob Corker, American politician
1952 - Mike Shanahan, American football coach
1953 - Ron Holloway, American tenor saxophonist
1954 - Alain Daigle, French Canadian ice hockey player
1955 - Jeffrey Daniel, LA CA, rock vocalist (Shalamar)
1955 - Mike Huckabee, American politician, Governor/Presidential candidate
1956 - Gerry Cooney, heavyweight boxer (US Olympics team 1980)
1956 - John Culberson, American politician
1957 - Jeffrey Daniel, American dancer and singer (Shalamar)
1957 - Stephen Fry, English comedian and actor
1958 - Steve Guttenberg, Brooklyn New York, American actor (Police Academy, Short Circuit)
1958 - Tracy Harris, American artist
1958 - Chris Offutt, American author
1959 - Adrian Kuiper, cricketer (South African all-rounder)
1959 - Michel Valke, Dutch soccer player (Sparta, Dordrecht '90)
1960 - Cal Ripken, Havre de Grace Maryland, shortstop (Balt Orioles, game streak)
1960 - David Guillory, jockey
1960 - Franz Vienboeck, Austria, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-13)
1960 - Kris Monaghan, Spokane WA, golfer (1990 Red Robin Kyocera Inamori)
1960 - Steven W Lindsey, Arcadia California, Major USAF/astronaut (STS 87, sk:95)
1960 - Kim Christofte, Danish footballer
1960 - Takashi Miike, Japanese filmmaker
1961 - Colin Angus, Scottish pop musician (Shamen, Ebeneezer Goode)
1961 - Mark "Bedders" Bedfored, London, rock bassist (Madness)
1961 - Ingrid Berghmans, Belgian judoka
1961 - Jared Harris, English actor
1962 - Mary Ellen Weber, Cleveland Ohio, PhD/astronaut (STS 70)
1962 - David Koechner, American actor
1963 - John Bush, US heavy metal singer (Anthrax-Armed & Dangerous)
1963 - Hideo Kojima, Japanese video game director
1964 - Pebbles, rock vocalist (Girlfriend)
1964 - Salizhan Sharkirovich Sharipov, Kirhizia, astronaut (STS-89)
1964 - Dana Gould, American comedian and writer
1965 - Casey Lambert, jockey
1965 - Marlee Matlin, Morton Grove Illinois, deaf actress (Children of Lesser God-Acad Award)
1965 - Reggie Miller, Riverside California, NBA guard (Ind Pacers, Oly-gold-96)
1965 - Vince Alcalde, WLAF offensive assistant (Scottish Claymores)
1967 - Michael Thomas, English footballer
1968 - Andreas Kisser, Brazilian heavy metal guitarist (Sepultura)
1968 - Arnold Galesloot, WLAF tight end (Amsterdam Admirals)
1968 - Benoit Brunet, Pointe Claire, NHL left wing (Montreal Canadiens)
1968 - Tim Salmon, Long Beach CA, outfielder (California Angels)
1968 - Shoichi Funaki, Japanese professional wrestler
1970 - Sandra Whyte, ice hockey forward (USA, Oly-98)
1970 - Tugay Kerimoğlu, Turkish footballer
1970 - Dan Henderson, American Mixed martial artist
1971 - Pierfrancesco Favino, Italian actor
1972 - Chris Right, CFL receiver (Montreal Alouettes)
1972 - Christian Ruud, Oslo Norway, tennis star (1989 Norwegian)
1972 - Ian Moran, Cleveland Ohio, US hockey defenseman (Olympics-1994, Pitts)
1972 - Kurt Miller, Tucson AZ, pitcher (Florida Marlins)
1972 - Lee DeRamus, (NO Saints)
1973 - Andrew Brunette, Sudbury, NHL left wing (Washington Capitals)
1973 - Barret Oliver, actor (Never Ending Story, Secret Garden)
1973 - Dave Chappelle, American actor and Comedian
1973 - Inge de Bruijn, Dutch swimmer
1973 - Carmine Giovinazzo, American actor
1974 - Archie Amerson, CFL running back (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1974 - Tony McCombs, linebacker (Arizona Cardinals)
1974 - Orla Fallon, Irish Vocalist for Celtic Woman
1975 - Mark de Vries, Surinamese-Dutch footballer
1976 - Bjorn van der Doelen, Dutch soccer player (PSV)
1976 - Nordin Wooter, Dutch soccer player (Ajax)
1977 - Per Gade, Danish footballer
1977 - Jürgen Macho, Austrian footballer
1977 - Denílson, Brazilian footballer
1977 - Robert Enke, German footballer
1977 - John Green, American author/Nerdfighter
1978 - Melissa McElroy, Houston Texas, rhythmic gymnast (US team-96)
1978 - Rafael Furcal, Dominican baseball player
1979 - Orlando Engelaar, Dutch International Footballer
1979 - Elva Hsiao, Taiwanese singer
1979 - Michael Redd, American basketball player
1980 - Sonja Bennett, Canadian actress
1981 - Jiro Wang Dong Cheng, Taiwanese singer, actor
1981 - Chad Michael Murray, American actor
1981 - Mercedes Scelba - Shorte, American model
1982 - Kim Kallstrom, Swedish footballer
1983 - Marcel Goc, German ice hockey player
1983 - Christopher Parker, British actor
1984 - Kyle Schmid, Canadian actor
1985 - Destiny Davis, American model and Playboy Playmate
1986 - Nick Adenhart, American baseball player
1987 - Anže Kopitar, Slovenian ice hockey player
1987 - Jon Scheyer, American basketball player
1988 - Rupert Grint, Hertfordshire England, English actor ( Harry Potter)
1995 - Runa Tsukishima, Japanese child model
2003 - Alexandre Coste, son of Albert II, Prince of Monaco

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 24, 2013, 09:44:17 AM

This Day in History for 24th August


Famous Deaths

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President and Dictator of Brazil            Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser (1967)
Getulio Vargas (1954)


1103 - Magnus III Berbein, [Blootbeen], King of Norway (1093-1103), dies
1217 - Eustace "the Monk", French buccaneer, dies in battle
1313 - Henry VII, Roman Catholic German King/emperor (1308/12-13), dies
1371 - Eduard, duke of Gelre (1361-71), assasinated
1540 - Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, Italian painter (b. 1503)
1542 - Gasparo Contarini, Italian diplomat and cardinal (b. 1483)
1572 - Gaspard de Châtillon, Count the Coligny, French gen/admiral and Huguenot leader, beheaded
1572 - Death of thousands of French Protestants by Roman Catholics in the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, beginning in Paris
1572 - Pierre de la Ramée, French humanist (b. 1515)
1572 - Charles de Téligny, French Huguenot soldier (bc. 1535)
1595 - Thomas Digges, English astronomer (Universe Infinite), dies
1647 - Nicholas Stone "Elder", English sculptor/architect, dies at about 61
1664 - Maria Cunitz, Silesian astronomer (bc. 1610)
1666 - Francisco M the Melo, Portuguese author (Obras Morales), dies at 57
1679 - Jean François Paul de Gondi, cardinal de Retz, French churchman and agitator (b. 1614)
1680 - Ferdinand Bulb, Dutch painter/etcher, buried
1680 - Thomas Blood, Irish-born thief of the British crown jewels (b. 1618)
1683 - John Owen, English non-conformist theologian (b. 1616)
1712 - Thomas Bullis, composer, dies at 54
1724 - Andreas Kneller, composer, dies at 75
1759 - Ewald C von Kleist, German poet, dies at 44
1770 - Thomas Chatterton, English poet (Revenge), dies
1779 - Saint Cosmas of Aetolia, Greek Orthodox martyr (b. 1714)
1798 - Thomas Alcock, English clergyman (b. 1709)
1801 - Jacques-Denis Antoine, French builder (La Monnaie Paris), dies at 68
1832 - Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, French mathematician (b. 1796)
1833 - Adrian H Haworth, English entomologist/botanist, dies at 65
1840 - Joseph Waast Aubert Nonot, composer, dies at 89
1841 - Karl Friedrich Curschmann, composer, dies at 36
1841 - Theodore Edward Hook, English author (b. 1788)
1888 - Rudolph J E Clausius, German physicist (thermodynamics), dies
1889 - Jan E Matzeliger, Suriname inventor (shoe lacing machine), dies
1895 - John F Loudon, entrepreneur/colonial director, dies at 74
1906 - Alfred Stevens, Belgian painter, dies
1907 - Pieter Louis Tak, writer (Chronicle), dies at 58
1921 - Nikolay Gumilyov, Russian poet (b. 1886)
1923 - Kate Douglas Wiggin, author (US kindergarten movement), dies at 66
1939 - W H Moule, cricketer (Australia v England 1880)/High Court judge, dies
1940 - Paul G Nipkow, German TV pioneer (Nipkow disk), dies at 80
1943 - Ernst Ottwalt, writer, dies
1943 - Simone Weil, French philosopher and social activist (b. 1909)
1950 - Ernst Wiechert, writer, dies at 63
1954 - Getulio D Vargas, President and dictator of Brazil: 1930-45, 51-54, suicide at 71
1956 - Kenji Mizoguchi, Japanese film director (b. 1898)
1957 - Albert Edward Sammons, composer, dies at 71
1958 - John G Strijdom, premier of South Africa (1954-58), dies at 65
1958 - Kenneth Leighton, composer, dies at 28
1958 - Leo Blech, composer, dies at 87
1958 - Paul Henry, Northern Irish artist (b. 1876)
1962 - Henry George Ley, composer, dies at 74
1964 - Maurice Schoemaker, composer, dies at 73
1967 - Amanda Randolph, actress (Danny Thomas, Amos n Andy), dies at 65
1967 - Henry J. Kaiser, industrialist (Boulder Dam, Liberty ship), dies at 85
1968 - Cyril Vincent, cricketer (84 wkts slow lefty for S Af 1927-35), dies
1972 - Carlos Wesley "Don" Byas, US jazz saxophonist, dies at 59
1973 - Billy Greene, actor (Burton-One Man's Family), dies at 76
1973 - Slava Vorlova, composer, dies at 79
1974 - Alexander de Seversky, Russian-American aviation pioneer (b. 1894)
1975 - Charles H Revson, US cosmetic magnate, dies at 69
1976 - Michael Dewar Head, composer, dies at 76
1977 - Buddy O'Connor, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1916)
1978 - Louis Prima, American singer, dies at 67
1979 - Hanna Reitsch, German test pilot (b. 1912)
1979 - Sampson Sievers, Russian Orthodox Christian monk and wonder-worker (b. 1898)
1980 - Yootha Joyce, British actress (b. 1927)
1982 - Jack Siedle, cricketer (batted in 18 Tests for South Africa), dies
1983 - Jack Somack, actor (Ball Four, Stockard Channing Show), dies at 64
1983 - Shawn Lewis, 5th wife of Jerry Lee Lewis, dies of methadone OD
1985 - Paul Creston [Giuseppe/Joseph Guttoveggio], US composer, dies at 78
1987 - Bayard Rustin, US civil rights activist, dies at 77
1987 - Malcolm Kirk, English wrestler (b. 1936)
1988 - Leonard Frey, actor (Tattoo, Magic Christian), dies of AIDS at 49
1988 - Max Shulman, author (Dobie Gillis, Tender Trap), dies at 69
1990 - Sergei Dovlatov, Russian writer (b. 1941)
1990 - Gailli AbedElrhman, Sudanese writer (b. 1931)
1991 - Abel Kivlat, US 1500m runner (Olympic-silver-1912), dies at 99
1991 - Beb [Elizabeth] Vuyk, Neth/Indon writer (Camp Diary), dies at 86
1991 - Bernard Castro, patented convertible couch, dies at 87
1991 - Mike Sokoll, cowboy actor, dies at 97
1992 - Andreas M Donner, Dutch state leader/jurist (Constitution), dies at 74
1992 - Larrie Londin, jazz drummer, dies at 48
1993 - Professor D B Deodhar, cricketer (Ind non-Test bat o 30s), dies at 101
1994 - Jason McRoy, downhill MTB racer, dies at 23
1994 - Wijnanda MC "Nan" Aberson, friend of Gerard Van de Reve Sr, dies at 82
1995 - Erich Geiringer, general Practitioner campaigner, dies at 78
1995 - Gary Crosby, singer/actor (Operation Bikini, Mardi Gras), dies at 61
1996 - Ahmed Bahauddin, journalist, dies at 69
1996 - Emile Noel, international civil servant, dies at 73
1996 - John Christopherson, artist/collector, dies at 75
1996 - Robert Louis Tewdwr Moss, journalist/travel writer, dies at 42
1997 - Phillip Humphrey Vellacott, classicist, dies at 90
1998 - E.G. Marshall, American actor (b. 1910)
1999 - Alexandre Lagoya, Greek-Italian classical guitarist (b. 1929)
2001 - Jane Greer, American actress (b. 1924)
2002 - Nikolay Guryanov Russian Orthodox Christian mystic and priest (b. 1909)
2003 - Sir Wilfred Thesiger, British explorer (b. 1910)
2004 - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Swiss-born psychiatrist (b. 1926)
2005 - Kaleth Morales, Colombian Vallenato singer (b. 1984)
2006 - Léopold Simoneau, French Canadian tenor (b. 1916)
2006 - Cristian Nemescu, Romanian film director (b.1979)
2007 - Andrée P. Boucher, Mayor of Quebec City (b. 1937)
2007 - Aaron Russo, American film producer and director (b.1943)
2010 - Satoshi Kon, Japanese anime film director (b. 1963)
2011 - Mike Flanagan, American baseball pitcher (b. 1951)
2012 - Pauli Ellefsen, Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands, dies at 76

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 25, 2013, 08:47:12 AM

This Day in History for 25th August


Historical Events

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Captain/Explorer James Cook                 Russian Tsar Peter the Great                    Middle/welterweight
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                                                                                                                              Sugar Ray Robinson

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Pop Star & Beatle                                              Singer Elton John                              Pop Star Madonna
Paul McCartney

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Olympic Sprinter and Long jumper
Carl Lewis


325 - Council of Nicaea ends with adoption of the Nicene Creed establishing the doctrine of the Holy
         Trinity
357 - Battle at Straatsburg: Julianus beats Alamannen, Chonodomarius caught
1212 - Children's cruisaders under Nicolas (10) reach Genoa
1248 - The Dutch city of Ommen receives city rights and fortification rights from Otto III, the
           Archbishop of Utrecht.
1330 - AntiPope Nicolaas V overthrows himself
1425 - Countess Jacoba of Bavaria escapes from jail
1485 - Battle at Bosworth Fields: Henry Tudor beats king Richard III
1499 - Battle at Sapienza: Turkish fleet beats Venetians
1537 - The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the
           second most senior, is formed.
1540 - Explorer Hernando de Alarcon travels up Colorado River
1566 - Iconoclastic fury begins in Dutch province Utrecht
1580 - Battle of Alcantara, Spain defeats Portugal
1609 - Galileo demonstrates his 1st telescope to Venetian lawmakers
1628 - Assault on sultan of Mantarams of Batavia
1689 - Battle at Charleroi: Spanish & English armies chase French
1689 - Montreal taken by Iroquois
1698 - Czar Peter the Great returns to Moscow after trip through West-Europe
1704 - Battle at Malaga: French vs English & Dutch fleet
1718 - Hundreds of French colonists arrive in Louisiana; New Orleans, found
1768 - Captain James Cook departs from Plymouth, England on his 1st voyage onboard the
           Endeavour bound for the Pacific Ocean
1795 - Curacao slaves opponents returns to St Christopher
1802 - Toussaint L'Ouverture imprisoned in Fort de Joux, Jura, France
1804 - Alice Meynell becomes 1st woman jockey (England)
1814 - British forces destroy Library of Congress, containing 3,000 books
1825 - Uruguay declares independence from Brazil (National Day)
1829 - Pres Jackson makes an offer to buy Texas, but Mexican government refuses
1830 - Belgium revolts against Netherlands and begins The Belgian Revolution
1835 - NY Sun publishes Moon hoax story about John Herschel
1862 - Secretary of War authorizes Gen Rufus Saxton to arm 5,000 slaves
1864 - Combination rail & ferry service available from SF to Alameda
1864 - Petersburg Campaign-Battle of Ream's Station
1875 - Matthew Webb becomes 1st to swim English Channel (21h 45m)
1886 - 1st intl polo meet (US vs England)
1888 - 8th US Mens Tennis: Henry W Slocum Jr beats Howard A Taylor (64 61 60)
1890 - Would be start of Eng/Aust Test Cricket at Old Trafford Washout
1894 - -26] Balinese troops assault Dutch army, 97 killed
1894 - Shibasaburo Kitasato discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his
           findings in The Lancet.
1898 - 700 Greeks and 15 Englishmen are slaughtered by the Turks in Heraklion, Greece.
1904 - James J Jeffries TKOs Jack Munroe in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
1908 - Allen Winter wins US 1st $50,000 trotting race
1908 - National Association of Colored Nurses, forms
1910 - 30th US Mens Tennis: Wm Larned beats Thomas Bundy (61 57 60 68 61)
1910 - Yellow Cab is founded.
1912 - 1st time an aircraft recovers from a spin
1912 - Different nationalities battle with each other in Macedonia
1912 - The Kuomintang, the Chinese nationalist party, is founded.
1914 - -26] Belgian offensive at Antwerp
1914 - Belgium: German army begins 6 week plundering of Leuven Belgium
1914 - German Zeppelins bomb Antwerp Belgium, 10 die
1914 - German troops march into France pushes French army to the Sedan
1915 - Hurricane kills 275 in Galveston, Texas with $50 million damage
1916 - Dept of Interior forms National Park Service
1917 - 37th US Mens Tennis: R Lindley Murray beats N W Niles (57 86 63 63)
1919 - 1st scheduled passenger service by airplane (Paris-London)
1920 - 1st US woman to win in Olympics (Ethelda Bleibtrey)
1920 - Russia suffers a decisive defeat in the battle of Warsaw against Poland
1921 - US signs peace treaty with Germany
1921 - Yankee pitcher Harry Harper hits 3 batters in an inning tying record
1921 - The first skirmishes of the Battle of Blair Mountain occur.
1922 - Cubs beat Phillies 26-23 in highest scoring major-league game
1924 - International maritime treaty drawn
1924 - Wash Senator Walter Johnson 2nd no-hitter beats Browns, 2-0 in 7 inn
1925 - Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters organizes (Harlem NY)
1925 - Last Belgian troops vacate Duisburg
1926 - Pavlos Koundouris becomes president of Greece
1928 - Tri-City Rugby Football Union forms consisting of Moose Jaw, Regina & Winnipeg
1929 - Graf Zeppelin passes over SF for LA after trans-Pacific voyage
1932 - Amelia Earhart completes transcontinental flight
1936 - 3 Braves hit twice in an inning getting 2 hits each
1937 - Japanese fleet blockades Chinese coast
1940 - 1st (British) night bombing of Germany (Berlin)
1940 - Lithuania, Latvia & Estonia incorporated into Soviet Union
1941 - English & Russian troops attack pro-German Iran
1941 - German troops conquer Nowgorod, Leningrad
1942 - SS begins transporting Jews of Maastricht Neth
1943 - 10th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 27, Washington 7 (48,471)
1943 - German occupiers impose 72-hour work week
1943 - Lord Mountbatten appointed Supreme Allied Commander in SE Asia
1943 - Red Army under Gen Vatutin recaptures Achtyrka
1943 - US forces overrun New Georgia in Solomon Islands during WW II
1944 - France 2nd Tank division under General Leclerc reaches Notre Dame
1944 - Gen De Gaulle returns to Paris/walks Champs Elysees Paris
1944 - Paris liberated from Nazi occupation (Freedom Tuesday)
1944 - US 12nd Army corp reaches Troyes
1945 - Jewish immigrants are permitted to leave Mauritius for Palestine
1946 - 28th PGA Championship: Ben Hogan at Portland GC Portland Ore
1947 - Marion Carl in D-558-I sets world aircraft speech record, 1,047 kph
1948 - Bradman scores 150 in 212 minutes in his last innings at Lord's
1950 - Pres Harry Truman orders army to seize control of RR to avert a strike
1950 - Sugar Ray Robinson KOs Jose Basora to win middleweight boxing title
1951 - Cleveland Indians win 16th straight home game
1952 - Det Tiger Virgil Trucks 2nd no-hitter of yr, beats Yankees, 1-0
1952 - Puerto Rico becomes a US commonwealth
1954 - Ivan Filin wins Berne marathon (2:25:26.6) (260m)
1955 - Last Soviet forces leave Austria
1956 - To make room for Enos Slaughter, NY Yanks release Phil Rizzuto
1957 - Prince Suvanna Phuma forms government in LAOS, with Pathet Lao
1960 - 17th summer olympics opens in Rome
1960 - AFL begins placing players names on back of their jersies
1960 - Demonstrations against premier Lumumba
1961 - Brazilian president Janio Quadros, resigns
1962 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1962 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1963 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Ogden Ladies' Golf Open
1963 - Paul McCartney is fined 31 pounds & given a 1 yr suspended license for speeding
1964 - Singapore limits imports from Neth due to Indonesian aggression
1967 - Beatles go to Wales to study TM with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
1967 - Minn Twin Dean Chance 2nd no-hitter of month beats Cleveland, 2-1
1967 - Paraguay accepts its constitution
1967 - Train crash at Beesd, 2 die
1968 - Arthur Ashe becomes 1st black to win US singles championship
1968 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Ladies World Series of Golf
1968 - NY Yankee outfield Rocky Colavito pitches 2 2/3 innings & beats Tigers 6-5; he played right
           field in 2nd game & homered
1969 - Det Lions beat Boston Patriots 22-9 in Montreal (NFL expo)
1970 - Elton John's 1st US appearance (Los Angeles)
1973 - Butch Trucks drummer of Allman Brothers, breaks leg in a car crash
1973 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1973 - Guitarist Henry McCullough quits Wings
1973 - Zambia adopts constitution
1974 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1974 - LA Aztecs defeat Miami Toros to win NASL cup
1976 - Harm Wiersma becomes world checker champion
1976 - Yanks beat Twins 5-4 in 19 innings
1978 - Baseball umps stage a 1 day strike
1979 - "Madwoman of Central Park West" closes at 22 Steps NYC after 86 perfs
1979 - California Angels trounce Toronto Blue Jays, 24-2
1979 - Somali adopts constitution
1980 - "42nd Street" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 3486 performances
1980 - Gower Champion's musical "42nd Street," premieres in NYC
1980 - Rangers pitcher Ferguson Jenkins arrested for possession of drugs
1981 - Jeff Schwartz, sets solo record for trampoline bouncing (266:09)
1981 - Voyager 2's closest approach to Saturn (63,000 miles/100,000 km)
1983 - Triple A baseball's Louisville Redbirds breaks 1 million fan mark
1983 - US & USSR sign $10 billion grain pact
1984 - French airship capsizes
1984 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1985 - Met Dwight Gooden becomes youngest pitcher to win 20 games (20y 9m 9d)
1985 - Pat Bradley wins LPGA National Pro-Am Golf Tournament
1985 - STS 51-I scrubbed at T -9m because of an onboard computer problem
1986 - A's Mark McGwire hits his 1st major league home run
1987 - Dow Jones industrial stock avg reaches record 2722.42
1987 - Madonna sings in Rotterdam
1988 - Challenger Center opens its classroom doors in Houston
1988 - Heavy fire destroys historic center of Lisbon
1988 - Iran & Iraq begin talks to end their 8 year war
1988 - NASA launches space vehicle S-214
1989 - After 12-year, 4-billion-mile journey, Voyager 2 flies over cloudtops of Neptune & its moon
           Triton, sending back photographs of swamps
1989 - Mayumi Moriyama becomes Japan's first female cabinet secretary.
1990 - Li Hui Rong of China sets triple jump woman's record (47'8½")
1990 - UN security council authorizes military action against Iraq
1991 - "Getting Married" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 70 perfs
1991 - 43rd Emmy Awards: LA Law, Cheers, Kirstie Alley & Patricia Wettig
1991 - 91st US Golf Amateur Championship won by Mitch Voges
1991 - Carl Lewis rus 100m in 9.86 seconds
1991 - Cubs Doug Dascenzo commits his 1st career error after 242 games
1991 - Krizstina Egerszegi swims world record 200m backstroke (2:06.62)
1991 - Martha Nause wins LPGA Chicago Sun-Times Shoot-Out Golf Tournament
1991 - Norway & Denmark recognize independence of former USSR Baltic reps
1991 - Wanda Panfil wins 3rd female world champion marathon (2:29:53)
1991 - White-Russia declares it's independence
1991 - Linux was born when Linus Torvalds sent off the email announcing his project to create a new
           operating system.
1992 - Jamie Solinger, of Iowa, crowned 10th Miss Teen USA
1995 - Andrew Symonds scores 254 Gloucs v Glam, world record 16 x 6
1995 - Indians' Jose Mesa fails in save attempt after 38th consecutive saves
1996 - 96th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Tiger Woods
1996 - Laura Davies wins Star Bank LPGA Golf Classic
1997 - Egon Krenz, the former East German leader, is convicted of a shoot-to-kill Berlin Wall policy.
2003 - The Tli Cho land claims agreement is signed between the Dogrib First Nations and the
           Canadian federal government in Rae-Edzo (now called Behchoko).
2012 - 330 people are killed as a result of conflict in the Syrian civil war
2012 - 39 people are killed and 80 are injured after a gas leak in North Venezuelan refinery
2012 - 85,000 people are displaced by severe floods in Myanmar

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 25, 2013, 08:49:59 AM

This Day in History for 25th August


Famous Weddings

1870 - German composer Richard Wagner (57) weds Franz Liszt's daughter Cosima Liszt (32) at a
           Protestant church in Lucerne, Switzerland
1885 - "Little House On The Prairie" author Laura Ingalls Wilder (18) weds Almonzo James Wilder
           (28)
1940 - 1st parachute wedding
1955 - "Dracula" actor Bela Lugosi (72) weds Hope Lininger (36)
1968 - "The Outlaw" actress Jane Russell (47) weds actor Roger Barrett (47) at the Community
           Presbyterian Church in Beverly Hills, California
2000 - "Star Trek: The Next Generation" actor Patrick Stewart (60) weds film producer Wendy Neuss
           (39) in Los Angeles
2001 - Crown Prince Haakon of Norway, eldest son of King Harald V & heir married commoner Mette-
           Marit Tjessem H
2002 - "Baywatch" actress Yasmine Bleeth (34) weds strip club owner Paul Cerrito at Bacara Resort
           and Spa in Santa Barbara, California
2007 - Dallas Stars hockey player Mike Modano (37) weds "Dancing with the Stars" season 3 alumna
           Willa Ford (26) in Athens, Texas

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 25, 2013, 08:58:50 AM

This Day in History for 25th August


Famous Birthdays

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Russian Tsar                                      Jazz Musician Oscar Peterson (1925)               Actor Sean Connery (1930)
 Ivan the Terrible (1530)

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Film Director Tim Burton (1958)


1530 - Ivan IV [Ivan the Terrible], 1st tsar of Russia (1533-84)
1561 - Philippe van Lansberge, Dutch astronomer (d. 1632)
1624 - François de la Chaise, French confessor of Louis XIV of France (d. 1709)
1662 - John Leverett the Younger, American educator (d. 1724)
1664 - Johan van de Bergh, Leids regent
1718 - Johann Jacob Rowalt, composer
1724 - George Stubbs, England, animal painter (Horse Frightened by Lion)
1741 - Karl Friedrich Bahrdt, German theologian (d. 1792)
1744 - Johann G von Herder, German philosopher/theologist/poet
1758 - Franz Teyber, composer
1767 - Antoine Louis Léon de Richebourg de Saint-Just, French revolutionary and writer (d. 1794)
1775 - Charlotte J T, infant of Portugal (Court in Rio de Janeiro)
1786 - [Charles] Louis I, (Augustus), King of Bavaria (Lola Montez)
1788 - Cornelis J van Assen, Dutch jurist (Language of the Constitution)
1796 - James Lick, American land baron (d. 1876)
1803 - Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, the Duque de Caxias, Brazilian military leader
1811 - Joseph Dana Webster, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1812 - Percival Drayton, Capt (Union Navy), died in 1865
1819 - Allan Pinkerton, founded Chicago detective agency
1823 - John Newton, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1895
1825 - Henry Warner Birge, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1836 - Bret Harte, US, author (Outcasts of Poker Flat)
1841 - Theodor Kocher, Swiss surgeon, thyroid specialist (Nobel 1909)
1845 - Ludwig II, mad king of Bavaria (1864-86)
1846 - Louise J Gautier, French poetess
1851 - [Willem] Alexander KHF, prince of Orange/Netherlands
1860 - George Fawcett, US actor (Intolerance)
1867 - James W. Gerard, American jurist and diplomat (d. 1951)
1868 - Nikolaos Levidis, Greek shooter
1877 - Joshua L Cowen, inventor (electric train)
1880 - Robert E Stolz, Austrian composer/conductor (...smaller guard)
1882 - Seán T. O'Kelly, Irish politician (d. 1966)
1887 - Olav Fartein Valen, composer
1891 - Alberto Savinio, [Andrea de Chirico], Italian writer/composer
1891 - Luis Iruarrizaga Aguirre, composer
1891 - Samuel Gardner, composer
1893 - Henry Trendley Dean, American dental researcher (d. 1962)
1896 - Dick Ryan, CT, actor (For Heaven's Sake, Born to be Bad)
1897 - Jaroslav Ridky, composer
1898 - Helmut Hasse, German mathematician (d. 1975)
1898 - Arthur Wood, England cricketer (d. 1973)
1900 - Mary Bruce, dance Teacher
1901 - Kjeld Abell, Danish playwright/director (Tivoli)
1902 - Stefan Wolpe, Berlin Germany, composer (Zeus & Elidco)
1903 - Bruno Bettelheim, Austrian/US psycho-analyst (Uses of Enchantment)
1903 - Arpad Elo, American chess writer (d. 1992)
1905 - Undine Smith Moore, composer
1905 - Faustina Kowalska, Polish mystic (d. 1938)
1906 - Eugen Gerstenmaier, German politician (CDU)
1906 - Mollie Panter-Downes, writer
1906 - William J Brennan, Newark, supreme court justice (1957-90) [or 4/25]
1906 - Jim Smith, England cricketer (d. 1979)
1907 - Desmond Flower, publisher
1908 - Esther Waterhouse, doctor/methodist
1908 - Philip Coolidge, Concord MA, actor (I Want to Live, Tingler)
1909 - Arwel Hughes, composer
1909 - Michael Rennie, England, actor (Robe, Klatuu-Day the Earth Stood Still)
1910 - Ruby Keeler, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canadian actress, singer, and dancer (Dames, 42nd
           Street)
1910 - J B Charles, [Willem H Nagel], criminologist/writer
1910 - Pierre Musy, Switzerland, 4-man bobsled (Olympic-gold-1936)
1910 - Dorothea Tanning, Galesburg, Illinios, artist (Nachtmusik,1943, Night Shadow, 1945), (d.
           2012)
1911 - Jacopo Napoli, composer
1911 - Vo Nguyen Giap (Võ Nguyên Giáp), Vietnamese general and statesman
1912 - Erich Honecker, Germany, Pres (East Germany)
1913 - Walt Kelly, cartoonist, creator (Pogo)
1913 - Don DeFore, American actor (d. 1993)
1914 - Alexei Haieff, Blagovestchensk Siberia, composer (Princess Zondilda)
1915 - Walter Trampler, Munich Germany, violist (Beaux Arts Trio)
1916 - Erich Von Stroheim Jr, actor/director (Napoleon, Sunset Blvd)
1916 - Frederic Robbins, US bacteriologist
1916 - Van Johnson, Newport RI, actor (Brigadoon) always wore red socks
1916 - Frederick Chapman Robbins, American pediatrician and virologist; Nobel Prize laureate (d.
           2003)
1916 - Saburo Sakai, Japanese aviator (d. 2000)
1917 - Don Defore, Cedar Rapids Iowa, actor (George-Hazel, Ozzie & Harriet)
1917 - Mel Ferrer, Elberon New Jersey, American actor (Longest Day, Eaten Alive, 5th Floor)
1918 - Leonard Bernstein, Lawrence MA, conductor/composer (West Side Story)
1918 - Richard Greene, Plymouth England, composer/actor (Adv of Robin Hood)
1919 - George C Wallace, Clio Ala, (gov-D-Ala)/pres candidate
1920 - Jef Diederen, Dutch painter
1921 - Brian Moore, Ireland, novelist (Catholics, Doctor's Wife)
1921 - Bryce Mackasey, Canadian politician (d. 1999)
1922 - Ronnie Potsdammer, Dutch singer/song writer/programmer
1923 - Monty Hall, Winnipeg Canada, TV game show host (Lets Make a Deal)
1925 - Thea Astley, Australian writer, (d. 2004)
1925 - Oscar Peterson, Montreal Quebec, Canadian jazz pianist and composer
1927 - Althea Gibson, Silver SC, 1st black tennis champion in a major event
1928 - Karl Korte, composer
1928 - Darrell Johnson, American baseball player (d. 2004)
1930 - Ariana CE Amsberg, Dutch publicist/actress (Aside, Sekstant)
1930 - Page Johnson, WV, actress (Passages from Finnegan's Wake)
1930 - Sean Connery, Edinburgh Scotland, actor (James Bond)
1930 - Graham Jarvis, Toronto, Ontario, Canadian actor (Mary Hartman, Misery)
1930 - Bruce Allpress, New Zealand actor
1931 - Regis Philbin, Bronx, New York, American talk & game show host (Joey Bishop Show, Live
           with Regis & Kathie Lee)
1932 - Anatoli Yakovlevich Kartashov, Russia, cosmonaut
1933 - Tom Skerritt, Detroit Mich, actor (Ryan's Four, Alien, Big Bad Mama)
1933 - Wayne Shorter, rocker (Weather Report)
1934 - John Stears, Middlesex England, special effects expert (Dr No)
1934 - Valery F Bykovsky, USSR, cosmonaut (Vostok V, Soyuz 22, 31/39)
1934 - Lise Bacon, French Canadian politician
1934 - Eddie Ilarde, Filipino disk jockey, television host, and Senator
1935 - David Canary, Elwood Ind, actor (Peyton Place, Candy-Bonanza)
1935 - Lones Wigger, Great Falls Mont, shooter (Oly-gold/silver-1964, 72)
1935 - Charles Wright, American poet
1938 - Frederick Forsyth, author (Day of the Jackal, Deceiver, Odessa File)
1938 - David Canary, American actor
1939 - John Badham, Luton England, director (Dracula, Short Circuit)
1939 - Liselot[te JM] Beekmeyer, actress (Issue Blum)
1940 - Jose Van Dam, Brussels Belgium, bass-baritone (Francois d'Assisif)
1941 - Shirley Carter Burden, patrician
1942 - Imogen Hassall, Surrey England, Countess of Cleavage (Carry on Lovng)
1942 - Margaret L Thompson Murdock, US, small bore rifle (Olympic-silver-76)
1942 - Nathen Deal, (Rep-D-Georgia)
1942 - Walter Williams, US, rock vocalist (O'Jays-Use to Be My Girl)
1944 - Anthony Heald, New Rochelle NY, actor (Orphans, Silence of Lambs)
1944 - Sherley Anne Williams, US literary (Dessa Rose)
1944 - Conrad Black, newspaper magnate
1946 - Larry LaRocco, (Rep-D-Idaho)
1946 - Rollie Fingers, relief pitcher (Oakland Athletics, MVP/Cy Young-1981)
1946 - Charles Ghigna (Father Goose), American poet and Children's Author
1946 - Charlie Sanders, American football player
1947 - Anne Archer, LA Cal, actress (Fatal Attraction, Patriot Games)
1947 - Wim J van Gelder, Dutch MP (PvdA)
1949 - Gene Simmons, [Chaim Witz], Haifa Israel, rock guitarist (KISS-Beth)
1949 - John Savage, Old Bethpage NY, actor (Deer Hunter, Maria's Lovers)
1949 - Martin Amis, English novelist
1949 - Fariborz Lachini, Canadian-Iranian composer
1950 - Willy Deville, NYC, rock vocalist/guitarist (Mink Deville)
1950 - Charles Fambrough, American jazz musician
1951 - Rob Halford, heavy metal (Judas Priest-Got Another Thing) [or Oct 25]
1952 - Duleep Mendis, cricketer (big-hitting Sri Lankan batsman of 80's)
1952 - Geoff Downes, English keyboardist (Buggles, Yes, Asia)
1954 - Elvis Costello, [Declan Patrick McManus], Lon, rock vocalist (Allison)
1954 - Gilbert "Gibus" Duclos-Lassalle, French cyclist
1954 - Martin Jourard, keyboardist/vocalist (Motels-Only the Lonely)
1955 - Vijayakanth, Tamil actor and politician
1956 - Matt Aitken, rocker (Stock Aitken & Waterman-Road Block)
1956 - Henri Toivonen, Finnish rally driver (d.1986)
1957 - Sikander Bakht, cricketer (Pakistani change bowler late 70's)
1958 - Christian LeBlanc, NC, actor (Michael Baldwin-Young & Restless)
1958 - Saskia van Orly, Dutch singer (Tambourine)
1958 - Tim Burton, Burbank California, American film director (Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands)
1960 - Ashley Crow, American actress
1961 - Billy Ray Cyrus, Flatwoods Ky, country singer (Achy Breaky Heart)
1961 - Joanne Whalley-Kilmer, Manchester England, actress (Kill Me Again)
1962 - Dan Turk, NFL center (Oakland Raiders)
1962 - Mazzi Rawd, heavy metal rocker
1962 - Ron Heller, NFL tackle (Miami Dolphins)
1962 - Shahid Mahboob, cricketer (batted in one Test for Pakistan 1989)
1962 - Vivian Campbell, heavy metal rocker (White Snake-Here I Go Again)
1962 - David Packer, American actor
1963 - James Backhouse, British artist
1964 - Blair Underwood, Tacomma Wash, actor (Jonathan-LA Law, High Incident)
1964 - Morgan Englund, actor (Dylan Lewis-Guiding Light)
1964 - Timothy Nicholson, journalist
1964 - Maxim Kontsevich, Russian mathematician
1964 - Vassilios Kotronias, Greek chess grandmaster
1964 - Marti Noxon, American television writer and producer
1965 - Cornelius Bennett, NFL linebacker (Atlanta Falcons, Buffalo Bills)
1965 - Kathleen Horvath, Chicago Illinois, tennis player (French Open Jr 1980)
1965 - Nate Odomes, NFL cornerback (Seattle Seahawks)
1965 - Sanjeev Sharma, cricketer (Indian pace bowler 1988-89)
1965 - Mia Zapata, American singer (The Gits) (d. 1993)
1966 - Albert Belle, Shreveport LA, outfielder (Indians, White Sox)
1966 - Derek Sherinian, American keyboardist
1966 - Robert Maschio, American Actor ("The Todd" in Scrubs)
1967 - Jeff Tweedy, American singer (Wilco)
1968 - Dave Thomas, NFL cornerback (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1968 - Rafet El Roman, Turkish singer and composer
1968 - Stuart Murdoch, Scottish musician (Belle & Sebastian)
1968 - Takeshi Ueda, Japanese singer and composer
1968 - Spider One, American musician (Powerman 5000)
1969 - Catriona Matthew, Edinburgh Scotland, golfer (1995 British Open-12th)
1969 - Derek Fung, Hong Kong, Canadian Tour golfer
1969 - Elly Hakami, San Francisco CA, tennis star
1969 - Mike Gisler, corner (New England Patriots)
1969 - Mike Jones, NFL defensive end (NE Patriots)
1969 - Vivek Razdan, cricket pace bowler (Indian Test 1989-90)
1970 - Claudia Schiffer, Rheinbach Germany, super model (Elle, Rolling Stone)
1970 - Debbie Graham, Walnut Creek California, tennis star (1993 Taranto doubles)
1970 - Doug Glanville, Hackensack NJ, outfielder (Chicago Cubs)
1970 - Katherine "Katie" Scanlon, Fairfield Ct, rower (Olympics-96)
1970 - Robert Horry, NBA forward (LA Lakers, Houston Rockets)
1970 - Ronald Waterreus, soccer player (Roda JC, PSV)
1970 - Jo Dee Messina, American country music singer
1971 - Makoto Kawahira, hockey forward (Team Japan 1998)
1971 - Michael Chack, Toms River NJ, figure skater (1997 Pac Coast Sr champ)
1971 - Quintis "Chico" Ristie, Suriname radio host
1971 - Mike Lockwood, professional wrestler (d. 2003)
1971 - Thalia Sodi, Mexican actress and singer
1972 - Bryan Stoltenberg, corner (NY Giants)
1972 - Marlo Perry, NFL linebacker (Buffalo Bills)
1972 - Marvin Harrison, wide receiver (Indianapolis Colts)
1972 - Tony Dumas, NBA guard (Dallas Mavericks)
1973 - Fatih Akin, Turkish-German film director
1974 - Chris Mantilla, West Palm Beach Fla, diver (Olympics-96)
1974 - Darren Benson, NFL defensive tackle (Dallas Cowboys)
1974 - Mike Jenkins, wide receiver (Cincinnati Bengals)
1974 - Eric Millegan, American actor
1974 - Dave Luza, Dutch comedian
1975 - Molly Tuter, WNBA guard (Phoenix Mercury)
1975 - Petria Thomas, Lismore NSW Australia, swimmer (Olympics-silver-96)
1975 - Jeremy Horn, American MMA Fighter
1976 - Philippe Comtois, Montreal Quebec, Canadian 3m springboard diver (Olympics-96)
1976 - Sam Mackinnon, Melbourne VIC Australia, basketball forward (Oly-96)
1976 - Sarah Nadeau, Portland Maine, Miss America-Maine (1997)
1976 - Alexander Skarsgård, Swedish actor
1977 - Sophie Cadieux, Quebec actress
1977 - Diego Corrales, American boxer (d. 2007)
1977 - Jonathan Togo, American actor
1978 - Kel Mitchell, American actor
1979 - Marlon Harewood, English footballer
1980 - Neal Musser, American baseball player
1981 - Rachel Bilson, American actress
1981 - Clare Oliver, Australian cancer activist (d. 2007)
1983 - James Righton, English musician (Klaxons)
1983 - James Rossiter, British racing driver
1983 - Janet Chow, Canadian/Chinese beauty pageant contestant
1987 - Stacey Farber, Canadian actress
1987 - Blake Lively, American actress
1987 - James Wesolowski, Australian footballer
1987 - Liu Yifei, Chinese actress and singer
1987 - Justin Upton, American baseball player
1988 - Angela Park, Brazilian/American golfer
1988 - Raymond Quinn, English singer
1992 - Miyabi Natsuyaki, Japanese singer
1994 - Josh Flitter, American actor
1997 - Holly Gibbs, English actress
1998 - China Anne McClain, American actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 25, 2013, 09:06:17 AM

This Day in History for 25th August


Famous Deaths

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Philosopher David Hume (1776)        Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1900)        Physicist/Nobel Laureate
                                                                                                                              Henri Becquerel (1908)

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Astronaut & 1st Man on the Moon
Neil Armstrong (2012)


79 - Gaius Plinius Secundus, [Pliny the Elder], Roman admiral/writer, dies during eruption of Mount
       Vesuvius
383 - Gratian (Flavius Gratianus), Emperor of Rome (375-383), murdered at 25
471 - Gennadius I, Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 458)
882 - Louis III, King of France (879-82), dies at 19
1192 - Hugh III, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1142)
1227 - Ghengis Khan, [Temudjin], founded Mongolia, dies
1270 - Louis IX, the Saint, King of France (1226-70), dies from plague at 56
1282 - Thomas Cantilupe, English saint (b. ca 1218)
1330 - Sir James Douglas, Scottish soldier (b. 1286)
1346 - Louis of Nevers, Count of Flanders, dies in battle
1554 - Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, English great admiral, dies
1556 - David Jorisz, Flemish glass blower/sect leader, dies at about 54
1580 - Frederick Schenk van Toutenburg, last archbishop of Utrecht, dies
1632 - Thomas Dekker, English dramatist (b. ca. 1572)
1649 - Richard Crashaw, English clergyman/poet, dies at about 36
1688 - Henry Morgan, Welsh lt-governor of Jamaica
1699 - King Christian V of Denmark (b. 1646)
1711 - Edward Villiers, 1st Earl of Jersey, English politician
1742 - Jose Antonio Carlos de Seixas, composer, dies at 38
1773 - Franz Nikolaus Novotny, composer, dies at 29
1774 - Nicolo Jommelli, composer, dies at 59
1776 - David Hume, Scottish philosopher and historian (b. 1711)
1789 - Mary Ball Washington, mother of George, dies
1791 - Pietro Domenico Paradisi, composer, dies
1792 - Jacques Cazotte, French writer (b. 1719)
1822 - F William Herschel, German astronomer (discovered Uranus), dies at 85
1835 - Ann Rutledge, said to be Lincoln's true love, dies in Ill at 22
1840 - K L Immermann, writer, dies at 44
1842 - Jerome-Joseph de Momigny, composer, dies at 80
1846 - Giuseppe Acerbi, Italian nature investigator/diplomat, dies at 73
1867 - Michael Faraday, English scientist (b. 1791)
1868 - Costache Negruzzi, Romanian author/poet, dies at about 60
1868 - Henry P Scholte, Dutch/US vicar (Iowa), dies at 62
1868 - Jacob van Lennep, Dutch 2nd member of parliament, dies at 66
1900 - Friedrich Nietschze, philosopher (Also sprach Zarathustra), dies at 55
1900 - Kuroda Kiyotaka, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1840)
1900 - Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher, dies at 55
1901 - Clara Maass, army nurse sacrificied her life at 25 to prove that the mosquito carries yellow
           fever
1904 - William Hall, Canadian Royal Naval sailor (b. 1827)
1908 - Henri Becquerel [Antoine ], French physicist, dies at 55
1924 - Mariano Álvarez, Filipino general (b. 1818)
1925 - Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Austro-Hungarian field marshal (b. 1852)
1929 - Frederick Burton, cricketer (Australian wicketkeeper 1886-87), dies
1930 - Siegfried Wagner, composer, dies at 61
1936 - Grogorij J Zinovjev, Russian revolutionary, dies
1938 - Aleksander Kuprin, Russian author (Jama), dies at 67
1939 - Babe Siebert, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1904)
1942 - George EAE, English prince/earl of St Andrews, dies in battle at 39
1942 - Panayot Pipkov, composer, dies at 70
1942 - W van Daalen, opposition leader on Celebes, beheaded
1942 - George Edward Alexander Windsor, Duke of Kent (b. 1902)
1944 - Krijn van den Helm, resistance fighter (KP Leeuwarden), shot to death
1944 - Mussa Dshalil, writer, dies
1945 - John Birch, American intelligence officer and missionary (b. 1918)
1947 - Clark Wissler, US cultural anthropologist, dies at 76
1950 - Earl Caddock, professional wrestler (b. 1888)
1956 - Alfred C Kinsey, American biologist, zoologist and sexologist (Kinsey Report), dies at 62 from
           a heart ailment and pneumonia
1965 - Moonlight Graham, American baseball player
1967 - George Lincoln Rockwell, head of American Nazi Party, assassinated
1967 - Paul Muni, actor (Good Earth), dies after lengthy illness at 71
1967 - Stanley Bruce, eighth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1883)
1968 - John George, actor (Kolb-Adventures of Fu Manchu), dies at 70
1968 - Stan McCabe, cricketer (39 Tests for Australia 1930-38), dies
1971 - Ted Lewis, [Theodore L Friedman], bandleader, dies at 80
1971 - Ted Lewis, American musician and entertainer (b. 1890)
1972 - Juan Carlos Paz, composer, dies at 71
1972 - Robert Denzler, composer, dies at 80
1975 - Frans van Amelsvoort, choir conductor, dies at 75
1975 - John R Dunning, US physicist, dies at 67
1976 - Eyvind Johnson, Swedish author (Nobel-1974), dies at 76
1976 - Perc Hornibrook, cricketer (6 Tests 1928-30, 17 wickets), dies
1979 - Stan Kenton, orchestra leader (Music 55), dies at 67
1980 - Gower Champion, dancer (Marge & Gower Champion Show), dies at 60
1982 - John AM "Hans" van Tongeren, actor (Hunk), commits suicide at 27
1984 - Truman Capote, author (In Cold Blood), dies at 59
1984 - Waite Hoyte, knuckleball pitcher, dies at 84
1984 - Viktor Chukarin, Soviet gymnast (b. 1921)
1985 - Samantha Smith, actress (Elizabeth-Lime Street), dies in plane at 13
1986 - Allen Case, actor (Deputy, Legend of Jesse James), dies at 51
1988 - Price Daniel, (Gov/Sen-D-Texas), dies at 77
1989 - Gunnar Johnsen Berg, composer, dies at 80
1990 - Morley Callaghan, Canadian writer (b. 1903)
1991 - Don Nute, entertainer, dies of AIDS at 56
1991 - Niven Busch, US writer (Duel in the Sun), dies
1991 - Sergei Ajromeiev, soviet general, commits suicide
1992 - Alma Graciela Haro Esmerelda, singer, dies of diabetes at 65
1992 - Frederick O'Neal, actor (Anna Lucasta, Free White & 21), dies at 86
1992 - Jan G Toonder, writer (Castle in Ireland), dies at 78
1993 - Amy Biehl, US activist in South-Africa, murdered at 26
1994 - Ramdas Nayak, Indies hindu leader/politician, murdered at about 52
1995 - John Killan Houston Brunner, British sci-fi writer, dies at 60
1995 - R B Hudmon, R&B/Soul Singer, dies at 41
1996 - Alexander Colleridge Vanderpuiye Baka Tetteh, actor/lawyer, dies at 64
1996 - Dai Houying, writer, dies at 58
1996 - Erskine Childers, UN official/civil servant, dies at 67
1996 - Les Burns, local councillor, dies at 53
1996 - Sylvia Fisher, opera Singer, dies at 86
1997 - Clodomiro Almeyda Medina, Chilean external minister (1970-73), dies
1997 - James Dewar, journalist/documentary film-maker, dies at 70
1997 - Robert Pinget, novelist/Playwright, dies at 78
1999 - Rob Fisher, English musician (b. 1956)
2000 - Carl Barks, American cartoonist (b. 1901)
2000 - Jack Nitzsche, American record producer (b. 1937)
2001 - Aaliyah, American singer and actress (b. 1979)
2001 - Carl Brewer, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1938)
2001 - Ken Tyrrell, former race driver and founder of Tyrrell Racing (b. 1924)
2001 - Philippe Léotard, French actor and singer (b. 1940)
2002 - Dorothy Hewett, Australian writer (b. 1923)
2005 - Peter Glotz, German politician (b. 1939)
2007 - Ray Jones, English footballer (b. 1988)
2008 - Kevin Duckworth, American basketball player (b. 1964)
2008 - Pavle Kozjek, Slovenian mountaineer (b. 1959)
2009 - Edward M. Kennedy, United States Senator from Massachusetts (b. 1932)
2012 - Neil Armstrong, American astronaut, dies from heart surgery complications at 82

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 26, 2013, 08:47:42 AM

This Day in History for 26th August


Historical Events

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Painter Michelangelo                                    Writer George Orwell                       36th US President
                                                                                                                             Lyndon B. Johnson

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Baseball Player and Manager                 42nd US President Bill Clinton
Leo Durocher 


580 - Chinese invents toilet paper
1071 - Battle of Manzikert, Byzantine Armenia (modern Malazgirt, Turkey). Fought between
           Byzantine Empire and Seljuq Turks.
1278 - Battle of Marchfeld: Rudolf van Habsburg defeats Ottokar II
1303 - Ala ud din Khilji captures Chittorgarh.
1346 - Battle at Crécy-England's longbows defeat France, cannons used for 1st time in battle
1466 - A conspiracy against Piero di Cosimo de Medici in Florence, led by Luca Pitti, is discovered.
1498 - Michelangelo is commissioned to carve the Pietà.
1541 - Turkish sultan Suleiman occupies Buda/annexes Hungary
1545 - Pope Paul III names his son Pierluigi Farnese, duke of Parma
1549 - Battle at Dussingdale: John Dudley beats rebels
1629 - Cambridge Agreement, Mass Bay Co stockholders agree to emigrate
1634 - Battle at Nordlingen Bavarian: emperor Ferdinand II & Spain beat Sweden & German
           protestants
1641 - West India Company conquerors Sao Paulo de Loanda, Angola
1648 - People's uprising against Anna of Austria & Cardinal Mazarin
1652 - Sea battle at Plymouth: Ayscue vs De Ruyter
1745 - England, Prussia & Hannover sign treaty
1748 - The first Lutheran denomination in North America, the Pennsylvania Ministerium, is founded in
           Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1778 - The first recorded ascent of Triglav, the highest mountain in Slovenia.
1791 - John Fitch grants US patent for his working steamboat
1794 - French troops occupy Lock
1839 - The ship Amistad is captured off Long Island.
1843 - Charles Thurber patents a typewriter
1846 - Felix Mendelssohn's "Elijah," premieres
1846 - W A Bartlett appointed 1st US mayor of Yerba Buena (SF)
1858 - First news dispatch by telegraph.
1863 - Battle of Rocky Gap WV (White Sulphur Springs)
1873 - 1st free kindergarten in the U.S. started by Susan Blow in Carondelet, a suburb of St. Louis,
           Missouri
1874 - 16 blacks lynched in Tennessee
1894 - Netherlands Social-Democratic Worker's party (SDAP) forms
1895 - Electric central at Niagara Falls gives 1st steam
1896 - Armenian revolutionairy assault on Ottoman Bank Constantinople
1903 - Phillies walk 17 Dodgers in a game
1907 - Houdini escapes from chains underwater at Aquatic Park in 57 sec
1909 - Frank Tarrant scores cricket 145 & 13-67 for Middlesex v Gloucs
1909 - Middlesex beat Gloucs (Bristol) by Inn & 31 in a single day
1912 - 32nd US Mens Tennis: M E McLoughlin beats W F Johnson (36 26 62 64 62)
1912 - Walter Johnson's 16-game winning streak ends
1913 - 33rd US Mens Tennis: M E McLoughlin beats R N Williams (64 57 63 61)
1914 - -9/10] Russian army attacks Austrian army in Galicia
1914 - Battle of Tannenberg - 8th German army defeats Russian Narev army
1915 - German troops over run Brest-Litovsk, Russia
1916 - Phila A's Bullet Joe Bush no-hits Cleve, 5-0
1916 - Yanks turn triple-play beating Browns 10-6
1918 - W Smith & F Bacons "Lightnin'," premieres in NYC
1920 - Percy Fender (Surrey v Northants) scores 100 in 35 mins
1922 - Japanese cruiser Niitaka leaves in storm at Kamchatka, 300 killed
1924 - (August 13 Old Style) The Catastrophe of Smyrna, known as the Asia Minor Catastrophe to
           Greeks, occurs. The Ottoman army expels Greeks and other non-Turks from Asia Minor.
1929 - 1st US roller coaster built
1930 - Hack Wilson hits his 44th HR, breaks Chuck Klein's NL record
1933 - Jan van Houten bicycles world record time (44,588 km)
1935 - CCC camp opens in Brecksville Reservation of Cleveland Metroparks
1937 - Franco's troops conquer Santander
1937 - Pumping to build Treasure Island in SF Bay is finished
1938 - British leaders & Arabians fight in Palestine
1938 - Montreal Maroons dropped from NHL
1939 - 1st major league baseball telecast-Reds beat Bkln Dodgers (W2XBS NY)
1939 - Belgium mobilizes
1939 - Kroatia gets autonomous status
1940 - RKC soccer team forms in Waalwijk
1940 - Chad is the first French colony to join the Allies under the administration of Félix Éboué,
           France's first black colonial governor.
1942 - 7,000 Jews are rounded up in Vichy-France
1942 - Japanse troops lands on New-Guinea, Milne Bay
1942 - Russian counter offensive begins in Moscow
1942 - Transport nr 24 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1944 - Bulgaria announces withdrawal & German troops are to be disarmed
1944 - De Gaulle marches to Champs-Elysees
1944 - US 12nd Army Corps crosses river Seine East of Paris
1945 - Japanese diplomats board Missouri to receive instructions on Japan's surrender at the end of
           WW II
1946 - George Orwell published "Animal Farm"
1947 - 1st black baseball pitcher Don Bankhead (Hit a HR on 1st at bat)
1950 - 39th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in New York (4-1)
1951 - Jongbloed in Paris demonstrates artificial heart
1952 - Fluoridation of SF water begins
1955 - 1st color telecast (NBC) of a tennis match (Davis Cup)
1956 - KREY TV channel 10 in Montrose, CO (CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting
1956 - Marlene Bauer wins LPGA Denver Golf Open
1956 - Yankees announce purchase of outfielder Enos Slaughter from KC
1957 - USSR announces successful test of intercontinental ballistic missile
1961 - Official Intl Hockey Hall of Fame opens in Toronto
1962 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Salt Lake City Golf Open
1962 - Minnesota Twins Jack Kralick no-hits KC A's, 1-0
1963 - W I beat England 2-1 in series, 1st holders of Wisden Cricket Trophy
1964 - Italians CP selects Luigi Longo as chairman
1964 - LBJ nominated at Democratic convention in Atlantic City, NJ
1966 - Balt Orioles Roznovsky & B Powell are 4th to hit consecutive pinch HRs
1966 - KLOC (now KCSO) channel 42 in Charlotte, NC (PBS) begins broadcasting
1967 - Beatles, Mick Jagger & Marienne Faithful meet Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
1967 - Dean Chance pitches a 2-1 no-hitter, & Twins sweep Cleveland
1967 - Dutch 2nd Chamber demands US stop bombing North Vietnam
1971 - Dutch Queen Juliana & Prince Bernhard visit Indonesia
1971 - NY Giant football team announces they're leaving Bronx for NJ in 1975
1971 - Orioles' Don Buford struck out 5 times in a game
1972 - 20th Olympic games open at Munich German FR
1972 - Leo Durocher replaces Harry Walker as manager of Astros
1972 - NY Cosmos beat St Louis Stars, 2-1 to win NASL championship
1972 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1973 - David Eisenhower writes his last sports column
1973 - Sandra Palmer wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open
1973 - U of Tx (Arlington) is 1st accredited school to offer belly dancing
1973 - 10-year-old Mary Boitano is 1st woman to win 6.8-mile Dipsea Race in Marin County, CA,
           beating a field of 1,500 runners
1974 - Guinee-Bissau becomes independent of Portugal
1974 - Soyuz 15 carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 3
1977 - Frank Martinus Arion forms Surinamese Writers group 77
1978 - Cardinal Albino Luciani of Venice becomes Pope John Paul I
1978 - Soyuz 31 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 East German) to Salyut 6
1979 - Beth Daniel wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic
1980 - Pete Comita replaces Tom Peterson as bassist of Cheap Trick
1980 - John Birges plants a bomb at Harvey's Resort Hotel in Stateline, Nevada.
1981 - Space Shuttle vehicle moves to Launch Complex 39A for STS-2 mission
1981 - Voyager 2 takes photo's of Saturn's moon Titan
1982 - NASA launches Telesat-F
1983 - Flooding destroys most of the old town of Bilbao, Spain.
1984 - Betsy King wins LPGA Columbia Savings Golf Classic
1984 - Tatyana Kazankina of USSR sets 3k woman record (8:22.62) in Leningrad
1984 - Zdena Silvaha (Cz) throws discus 74.55 m (women's world record)
1985 - Balt Oriole Eddie Murray knocks in 9 RBIs in a game vs California Angels
1985 - French government claims no knowledge of assault on Rainbow Warrior
1986 - Rosa Mota wins Stuttgart female marathon (2:28:38)
1987 - Paul Molitor goes 0-for-4 ends hitting streak at 39 consecutive games
1988 - Mehran Karimi Nasseri arrives at Charles de Gaulle International Airport.
1989 - Trumbull Conn, is 1st US team since 1983 to win Little League WS
1990 - 2 slain college students found in Gainesville Florida
1990 - Beth Daniel wins LPGA Northgate Golf Classic
1990 - Bo Jackson hits 4th of 4 consecutive HRs
1991 - Royal Brett Saberegen no-hits White Sox 7-0
1992 - "Anna Karenina" opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 46 performances
1995 - Andrew Symonds hits 20 sixes in match for Gloucs v Glamorgan
1995 - Lara completes 7th Test Cricket century, 179 at The Oval
1996 - President Bill Clinton signs welfare reform into law, representing major shift in US welfare
           policy
1997 - Beni-Ali massacre in Algeria; 60-100 people killed.
1999 - Michael Johnson breaks the 400 metres world record with a time of 43.18 seconds.
2002 - Earth Summit 2002 begins in Johannesburg, South Africa.
2003 - The Columbia Accident Investigation Board releases its final reports on Space Shuttle
           Columbia disaster.
2008 - Russia unilaterally recognizes the independence of the former Georgian breakaway republics
           Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
2011 - The Boeing 787 Dreamliner, Boeing's all-new composite airliner, receives certification from the
           EASA and the FAA
2012 - 15 year-old New Zealand golfer, Lydia Ko, becomes the youngest LPGA Tour event winner
           and the first amateur winner since 1969
2012 - 36 people are killed in a bus crash in Yan'an,China
2012 - 17 villagers in Afghanistan's Kajaki district are beheaded by an unknown organization
2012 - A Legionellosis outbreak in Quebec City, Canada, kills 8 and infects 104

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 26, 2013, 08:49:21 AM

This Day in History for 26th August


Famous Weddings

2006 - "Days of our Lives" actor Billy Warlock (45) weds actress Julie Pinson in Las Vegas, Nevada
2006 - 2004 X-Factor winner Steve Brookstein (37) weds jazz musician Eileen Hunter at King's
           College Chapel in Aberdeen, Scotland
2012 - "The Campaign" actress Kate Lang Johnson (28) weds musician Justin Miner at La Venta Inn
           in Palos Verdes, California
2012 - "Bridesmaids" actor Chris O'Dowd (32) weds British TV presenter Dawn Porter (33) at an
            intimate ceremony with family and friends in London

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 26, 2013, 08:57:43 AM

This Day in History for 26th August


Famous Birthdays

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First Victim of Jack the Ripper                      Catholic Missionary                          Journalist Ben Bradlee (1921)
 Mary Ann Nichols (1845)                             Mother Teresa (1910)

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Actor Macaulay Culkin (1980)


1469 - Ferdinand II of Naples (d. 1496)
1540 - King Magnus of Livonia (d. 1583)
1596 - Frederik V, king of Bohemia (White Mountain)
1627 - Thomas Bullis, composer
1676 - Robert Walpole, (Whig) British PM (1721-42) [NS=Sept 5]
1687 - Willem the Fesch, Dutch violinist/composer (Joseph)
1694 - Elisha Williams, American rector of Yale College (d. 1755)
1726 - Karl Kohaut, composer
1728 - Johann Heinrich Lambert, German scientist (d. 1777)
1736 - Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l'Isle, French chemist (d. 1790)
1740 - Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, France, aeronaut (ballooning)
1743 - Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, Paris, father of mod chemistry (Oxygen)
1745 - Francois Guichard, composer
1749 - Johann Ernst Rembt, composer
1775 - William Joseph Behr, German writer (d. 1851)
1788 - Aloys Schmitt, German music theory/composer/royal pianist
1789 - Abbas Mirza, Prince of Persia (d. 1833)
1792 - Manuel Oribe, Uruguayan political figure (d. 1857)
1811 - Danville Leadbetter, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1866
1813 - Nicaise de Keyser, Flemish painter (Battle of Guilder Tracks)
1819 - Albert "Bertie" von Saksen-Coburg-Gotha, husband of queen Victoria
1820 - James Harlan, (Rep-Iowa)/US Secretary of Interior (1865-66)
1823 - Wilhelm Troszel, composer
1825 - Jacobus J Backer, German sea historian
1826 - Princess Alexandra of Bavaria (d. 1875)
1828 - Erik Anthon Valdemar Siboni, composer
1833 - Charles Jackson Paine, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1835 - Theodore Washington Brevard, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1842 - Heinrich I Quincke, German internist (Lumbaalpunctie)
1843 - George August Lumbye, composer
1845 - Mary Ann Nichols, English victim of Jack the Ripper (d. 1888)
1850 - Charles Richet, French physiologist (anaphylaxis-Nobel 1913)
1854 - Arnold Fothergill, England cricketer (d. 1932)
1862 - Herbert Booth, American son of William and Catherine Booth (d. 1926)
1870 - Aleksander Kuprin, Russian author (Pojedinok) [NS=Sept 7]
1873 - Lee De Forest, Council Bluffs, inventor (Audion vacuum (radio) tube)
1874 - Zona Gale, American novelist (d. 1938)
1875 - John Buchan, Scotland, Gov-Gen of Canada/writer (Battle of Somme)
1880 - Guillaume Apollinaire, France, poet/movie critic (Alcoola)
1882 - James Franck, German naturalist (Nobel 1925)
1882 - Johannes Lindeboom, vicar/church historian (Neth Archives)
1884 - Earl Biggers, author ("Charlie Chan" detective series)
1885 - Jules Romains, France, novelist/playwright/poet (Men of Good Will)
1887 - Luis Abraham Delgadillo, composer
1890 - Tommy Andrews, cricketer (NSW & Aussie player of the 1920's)
1891 - Emmy van Lokhorst, Dutch author
1891 - Ferdinand Bruckner, [Theodor Tagger], Austrian playwright (Races)
1894 - Sparky Adams, Baseball player (d. 1989)
1896 - Richard Hammond, composer
1896 - Ivan Mihailov, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1990)
1897 - Yoon Boseon, President of South Korea (d. 1990)
1898 - Peggy Guggenheim, art patron & collector
1899 - Rufino Tamayo, Mexican painter
1900 - Hellmuth Walter, German engineer and inventor (d. 1980)
1901 - Gen Maxwell D Taylor, former US Army chief of staff
1901 - Jan de Quay, Dutch minister of war/premier (KVP, 1959-63)
1901 - Tullio Campagnolo, Italy, bicycle manufacturer (Fiat)
1901 - Chen Yi, Chinese communist military commander and politician (d. 1972)
1903 - Jimmy Rushing, US blues singer
1904 - Christopher W Bradshaw-Isherwood, Brit/US writer (Goodbye to Berlin)
1906 - Albert B Sabin, Russia, US microbiologist (oral polio vaccine)
1908 - Bill Hunt, cricketer (NSW slow left-armer, Test for Australia 1933)
1908 - W. B. Henning, Prussian-born Iranist (d. 1967)
1909 - Eric Quail Davies, cricket pace bowler (5 Tests for South Africa 1935-39)
1909 - Frank Gasparro, Phila Pa, US chief engraver (1965-81)
1909 - Jim Davis, American actor (d. 1981)
1909 - Gene Moore, baseball player (d. 1978)
1910 - Mother Teresa, [Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu], Yugoslavia (Nobel Peace Prize 1979)
1911 - Lester Lanin, orchestra leader (40 Beatle Hits)
1913 - Cees de Lange, Dutch conferencier
1913 - Robertson William Davies, novellist essayist/dramatist
1913 - Tschakowski, writer
1914 - Julio Cortázar, Argentine writer (d. 1984)
1915 - Humphrey Searle, England, writer (20th Century counterpoint)
1915 - William Bardwell, composer
1916 - Allan Leslie Merson, historian
1917 - Jan Clayton, Tularosa NM, actress (Ellen Miller-Lassie)
1917 - William French Smith, Attorney General (1981-85)
1918 - Louis W "Louis" Stotijn, bassoonist/conductor (Residence Orchestra)
1919 - Ronny Graham, Phila Pa, actor (Bob Crane Show, Chico & the Man)
1920 - Brant Parker, American cartoonist (d. 2007)
1921 - Ben Bradlee, Boston, editor/journalist/executive (Washington Post)
1921 - David Begelman, film producer
1921 - William Preston, Columbia Penn, actor (Fisher King, Waterworld)
1922 - Lazar Nikolov, composer
1922 - Irving R. Levine, American journalist
1924 - Alex Kellner, baseball player (d. 1996)
1925 - Jack Hirshleifer, American economist (d. 2005)
1925 - Alain Peyrefitte, French politician and writer (d. 1999)
1925 - Sangharakshita, Buddhist Philosopher, Founder of the Western Buddhist Order
1927 - Francois Leydet, sierra club (Last Redwoods)
1927 - Sam Massell, (Mayor-Atlanta)
1927 - B. V. Doshi, Indian architect
1928 - Peter Appleyard, Canadian jazz vibraphonist
1928 - Naïm Kattan, Canadian novelist and essayist
1930 - Joe Solomon, cricketer (WI batsman of 50's Cap fell on wkt v Aust)
1931 - Dane Skerl, composer
1931 - Gordon Greig, journalist
1931 - Guy Vander Jagt, (Rep-R-MI, 1966- )
1932 - Joe H Engle, Abilene Ks, Brig Gen USAF/astro (STS T-2, T-4, 2, 51I)
1934 - Arthur Gordon Clough, journalist
1935 - Cornelis B Vaandrager, [Cor Vaan], Dut poet (Long Live Joop Massaker)
1935 - Geraldine Ferraro, (Rep-D-NY) 1st female dem VP candidate (1984)
1936 - Yvette Vickers, KC, playmate (Jul 1959)/actress (Attack of 50' Woman)
1937 - Tom Heinsohn, NBA star/coach (Boston Celtic)
1938 - Francine York, Aurora Minn, actress (Slattery's People)
1938 - Maurice Williams, rocker
1938 - Jet Black, English drummer, one of the founding members of The Stranglers
1940 - Don LaFontaine, American voice actor (d. 2008)
1941 - Barbet Schroeder, director (Barfly, Single White Female, More)
1941 - Chris Curtis, [Chris Crummy], rock drummer/vocalist (Deep Purple)
1941 - Akiko Wakabayashi, Japanese actress
1942 - John E Blaha, San Antonio, USAF/astronaut (STS 29, 33, 43, 58, 79/81)
1942 - Vic Dana, Buffalo, singer/dancer (Talent Scouts)
1943 - Ulf Sundelin, Sweden, yachtsmen (Olympic-gold-1968)
1944 - Cornelia J "Corry" Arends, Dutch actress (Fool's Hat)
1944 - Richard A W G, English prince/duke of Gloucester
1944 - Stephen Greif, English actor
1945 - Melvin Watt, (Rep-D-North Carolina)
1945 - Tom Ridge, first United States Secretary of Homeland Security (Rep-R-Pennsylvania)
1946 - Alison Steadman, Liverpool England, actress (Life is Sweet)
1946 - Valerie Simpson, American singer
1946 - Mark Snow, American composer
1946 - Chantal Renaud, Quebec singer and actress
1947 - Candy Moore, Maplewood NJ, actress (Lunch Wagon, Tomboy & Champ)
1947 - Emiliano Díez, Cuban actor
1948 - Valerie Simpson, Bronx, singer, Ashford's partner (Like a Rock)
1949 - John Baldwin, Detroit, light middleweight boxer (Olympic-bronze-1968)
1950 - Richard Cowsill, Newport RI, rocker (Cowsills-Hair, We Can Fly)
1950 - Benjamin Hendrickson, American actor (d. 2006)
1951 - Robert G Torricelli, (Rep-D-New Jersey, 1983- )
1952 - Billy Rush, rocker (Asbury Jukes)
1952 - John Kinsella, USA, swimmer (Olympic-gold-1972)
1952 - Michael Jeter, Lawrenceburg TN, actor (Fisher King)
1952 - Will Shortz, American crossword editor
1953 - Pat Sharkey, Irish footballer
1954 - Michael Chetwood, rocker
1954 - Sarah Lundy, horse trainer
1954 - Steve Wright, Britain's wacky DJ/actor (Funny Man)
1954 - Wally Murphy, rocker
1954 - Efren Reyes, Filipino pool player
1956 - Mark Mangino, American football coach
1957 - Alex Trevino, catcher (LA Dodgers)
1957 - Dr. Alban, Nigerian-Swedish singer
1957 - Rick Hansen, Canadian paraplegic athlete
1958 - Jan Nevens, Belgian cyclist
1959 - Jim Rutledge, Victoria, Canadian Tour golfer (1995 Indian Open)
1959 - Joanne Gail Abbott, executive (MTV)
1959 - Kathryn P Hire, Mobile Alabama, Lt Cmdr USN/astronaut (sk: STS 90)
1960 - Branford Marsalis, jazz saxophonist (Bring on the Night, Tonight Show)
1960 - Nancy Martinez, rocker
1960 - Ola Ray, St Louis Mo, playmate (Jun, 1980)/actress (Thriller)
1961 - Jeff Parrett, Indianapolis IN, pitcher (St Louis Cardinals)
1961 - Jimmy Olander, Palos Verdes Cal, singer (Diamond Rio-Meet in Middle)
1962 - Roger Kingdom, US 60m hurdler (world record)
1962 - Bob Mionske, American cyclist and attorney
1962 - Tariq Ramadan, Geneva, Switzerland, Islamic scholar
1963 - David Byas, cricketer (left-handed Yorkshire batsman)
1964 - Bobby Jurasin, CFL defensive end (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1964 - Chad Kreuter, Marin County CA, catcher (Chicago White Sox)
1964 - Dave Boyes, St Catharines Ontario, rower (Olympics-96)
1964 - Karla Karch-Gailus, Vancouver BC, basketball guard (Olympics-96)
1965 - Chris Burke, actor with down syndrome (Corky-Life Goes On)
1965 - Jon Hensley, Doylestown PA, actor (Holden Snyder-As the World Turns)
1965 - Bobby Duncum, Jr., wrestler (d. 2000)
1966 - Jacques Brinkman, Dutch field hockey player
1966 - Shirley Manson, Scottish singer
1967 - Myron Guyton, NFL full safety (NE Patriots)
1968 - Courtney Hall, NFL center (San Diego Chargers)
1968 - Gavin Stratfold, Darwin NT, Australasia golfer
1968 - Byron Lawson, Canadian actor
1969 - Elaine Irwin Mellencamp, Allentown Penn, wife of John Cougar
1969 - Mike Gisler, NFL guard/center (NE Patriots)
1969 - Nicole Arendt, Somerville NJ, tennis star (1996 Aust doubles finalist)
1969 - Ricky Bottalico, New Britain CT, pitcher (Philadelphia Phillies)
1970 - Brett Schultz, cricket pace bowler (South African Test)
1970 - Jacco Eltingh, Heerde Neth, tennis star (1993 ATP World Doubles)
1970 - Olimpiada Ivanova, Russian athlete
1971 - Jocelyn Borgella, NFL cornerback (Detroit Lions)
1971 - Sharon Tina Jenkins, Auckland NZ, badminton player (Olympics-96)
1971 - Thalía, Mexican singer
1972 - Sherell Ford, NBA forward (Seattle Supersonics)
1973 - Barret Robbins, NFL center (Oakland Raiders)
1974 - Freddie Scott, NFL wide receiver (Atlanta Falcons)
1974 - Kelvin Cato, NBA center (Portland Trailblazers)
1974 - Eric D. Snider, American humor columnist / movie reviewer
1975 - Shea Seals, NBA guard (LA Lakers)
1975 - Morgan Ensberg, American baseball player
1976 - Carey Tally, Memphis Tenn, soccer midfielder (Olympics-gold-96)
1976 - Amaia Montero, Spanish singer (La Oreja de Van Gogh)
1976 - Zemfira, Russian singer
1977 - Liam Botham, cricketer (son of Ian Hampshire all-rounder 1996)
1977 - Saeko Chiba, Japanese seiyū
1977 - Morris Peterson, American basketball player
1978 - Raja Kashif, Pakistani singer
1979 - Cristian Mora, Ecuadorian footballer
1979 - Rubén Pazos, Spanish footballer
1979 - Jamal Lewis, American football player
1980 - Macaulay Culkin, NYC, actor (Home Alone, My Girl, Richie Rich)
1980 - Brendan Harris, American baseball player
1980 - Chris Pine, American actor
1981 - Jesse Martin, Australian yachtsman
1981 - Petey Williams, Canadian professional wrestler
1981 - Demetria McKinney, American actress
1981 - Tino Best, West Indian cricketer
1982 - David Long, New Zealand musician
1983 - Félix Porteiro, Spanish racing driver
1986 - Cassie, American singer
1988 - Princess Maria Laura of Belgium, Archduchess of Austria-Este
1988 - Danielle Savre, American actress
1988 - Evan Ross, American actor
1990 - Lil' Chris, British singer
1992 - Yang Yilin, Chinese gymnast
1993 - Keke Palmer, American actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 26, 2013, 09:02:37 AM

This Day in History for 26th August


Famous Deaths

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Banker, Industrialist and                      Aviator Charles Lindbergh (1974)           
Secretary of the US Treasury
Andrew W Mellon (1937)


1278 - Ottokar II, King of Bohemia (1253-78), dies in battle
1346 - Jan de Blinde, King of Bohemia/count of Luxemburg, dies in battle
1346 - Charles II of Alençon, killed in the Battle of Crécy (b. 1297)
1346 - Rudolph, Duke of Lorraine, killed in the Battle of Crécy (b. 1320)
1349 - Thomas Bradwardine, Archbishop of Canterbury
1368 - Engelbrecht van der Mark, prince-Bishop of Luik (1345-64), dies
1486 - Ernst I, ruler of Saxon (1464-86), dies at 45
1518 - Giberto X, Italian mister of Correggio/husband of Veronica Gambara
1551 - Margareta Leijonhufvud, queen of Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1516)
1572 - Petrus Ramus, French philosopher (b. 1515)
1595 - Antonio, Prior of Crato, claimant to the throne of Portugal (b. 1531)
1616 - Johan van de Veeken, merchant/co-founder (VOC), dies at 66
1661 - Louis Couperin, composer, dies
1666 - Frans Hals, Dutch painter (b. circa 1580)
1683 - Christoph Schultze, composer, dies at 76
1712 - Sebastian Anton Scherer, composer, dies at 80
1714 - Edward Fowler, English Bishop of Gloucester (b. 1632)
1723 - Thonis van Leeuwenhoek, biologist/inventor (microscope), dies at 90
1770 - Domingos dos Reis Quita, Portuguese playwright/poet, dies at 42
1785 - George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, British soldier and politician (b. 1716)
1813 - Daniel Gottlob Turk, composer, dies at 63
1813 - Karl Theodor Korner, German poet (Vetter aus Bremen), dies at 21
1832 - Henryk Klein, composer, dies at 96
1849 - Jacques-Fereol Mazas, composer, dies at 66
1850 - Louis-Philippe of France (b. 1773)
1860 - Philipp Friedrich Silcher, German composer, dies at 71
1863 - John Buchanan Floyd, US min of War (1857-60)/Confederate general, dies
1865 - Johann F Encke, German astronomer (Comet Encke), dies at 73
1865 - Marcellus Monroe Crocker, US attorney/Union brig-general, dies at 35
1869 - Henri Leys, Flemish painter, dies at 54
1873 - Carl Wilhelm, composer, dies at 57
1894 - PPH van Ham, general-major, dies in battle on Lombok
1908 - Tony Pastor, American vaudeville performer (b. 1837)
1910 - William James, American psychologist and philosopher (b. 1842)
1915 - John Bunny American comedian (b. 1863)
1921 - Ludwig Thoma, writer, dies
1921 - Matthias Erzberger, German min of Finance, murdered at 45
1921 - Peter I Karadjordjevic, King of Serbia/Yugoslavia (1903-21), dies
1930 - Lon Chaney, actor (Thunder, Big City, Unholy 3), dies at 47
1937 - Andrew W. Mellon, American banker, industrialist and Secretary of the Treasury (1921-32),
           dies at 82
1944 - Adam von Trott zu Solz, German diplomat (b. 1909)
1945 - Franz Werfel, Czech/German/US poet/writer (Mirror Man), dies at 54
1946 - Jeanie MacPherson, American actress and screenwriter (b. 1887)
1948 - Oscar L Fernandez, Brazilian conductor/composer (Imbapara), dies at 50
1949 - Nico van Suchtelen, publisher, dies at 70
1956 - Alfred Wagenknecht, German-born American activist (b. 1881)
1958 - Ralph Vaughan Williams, English composer, dies at 85
1960 - Mark Hambourg, composer, dies at 81
1963 - Larry Keating, actor (George Burns Show, Roger-Mr Ed), dies at 67
1966 - Art Baker, TV host (You Asked For It), dies at 67
1967 - Andres Sas, composer, dies at 67
1967 - Dilawar Hussain, cricketer (Indian wicketkeeper in the 1930's), dies
1968 - Kay Francis, actress (Charley's Aunt, Play Girl), dies of cancer at 65
1968 - Kay Francis, American actress (b. 1899)
1971 - Francesco Santoliquido, composer, dies at 88
1972 - Jacques Gans, Dutch author/journalist, dies at 63
1974 - Charles Lindbergh, US aviator, dies at 72
1975 - Cullen Landis, entertainer, dies at 80
1976 - Lotte (Krause-)Lehmann, German soprano (More than singing), dies at 88
1976 - Warner Anderson, actor (Doctor, Lineup, Peyton Place), dies at 65
1977 - HA Rey, author of popular constellation book, dies at 78
1977 - Heinz Rottger, composer, dies at 67
1977 - Willis Bouchey, actor (Battle Cry, From Here to Eternity), dies at 34
1978 - Charles Boyer, actor (Gaslight, Rogues), dies at 78
1978 - Charles Trowbridge Haubiel, composer, dies at 86
1978 - José Manuel Moreno, Argentine footballer (b. 1916)
1979 - Mika Waltari, Finnish author (b. 1908)
1980 - Miliza Korjus, actress (Great Waltz), dies at 71
1980 - Rosa Albach-Retty, German actress (b. 1874)
1980 - Tex Avery, American cartoonist (b. 1908)
1981 - Lee Hays, rocker, dies of a heart attack
1981 - Roger Nash Baldwin, founder (ACLU), dies at 97
1983 - Mike Kellin, actor (Honestly Celeste), dies at 61 of cancer
1984 - Julie Stevens, actress (Lorelei-Big Town), dies at 67
1985 - Pieter Jongeling, Dutch MP/editor (GPV, Netherlands Daily), dies at 76
1986 - Jennifer Levin, strangled by Robert Chambers in Central Park
1986 - Ted Knight, [Tadeus Konopka], actor (Mary Tyler Moore), dies at 62
1987 - John Goddard, cricketer (West Indian captain 1948-53), dies
1988 - Paul Francis Lloyd, entertainer, dies
1988 - Carlos Paião, Portuguese singer (b. 1957)
1989 - Henk Heidweiller, ambassador of Suriname, dies
1989 - Irving Stone, US writer (Love is Eternal, Lust for Life), dies
1990 - Minoru Honda, Japanese astronomer (b. 1913)
1992 - Bob the Moor, Flemish comic strip artist (Kuifje), dies
1992 - Arthur Leigh Allen, American suspected murderer (b. 1933)
1993 - Rockin Dopsie Sr, Jazz-Fusion singer (Zydeco), dies at 61
1994 - Tariq Yunus, actor (Bollywood, Ashanti, Deceivers), dies at 54
1995 - David James Moore, educationalist, dies at 62
1995 - Evelyn Wood, speed reading guru, dies at 86
1995 - John Costello, historian, dies at 52
1995 - Omukama Patrick D Matthew Olimi Kaboyo II, king of Toro, dies at 49
1995 - Ronald Anthony White Jr, singer, dies at 57
1996 - Alejandro Lanusse, army officer/politician, dies at 77
1996 - Baron Baker, activist, dies at 71
1996 - Catherine Mary Hall, nurse, dies at 73
1998 - Frederick Reines, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
2000 - Akbar Adibi, Iranian scientist (b. 1939)
2001 - Louis Muhlstock, Canadian painter (b. 1904)
2003 - Jim Wacker, American football coach (b. 1937)
2004 - Laura Branigan, American singer (b. 1957)
2005 - Denis D'Amour, Canadian guitarist (Voivod) (b. 1960)
2005 - Robert Denning, American interior designer (b. 1927)
2005 - Ed White, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1949)
2006 - Rainer Barzel, German politician (b. 1924)
2006 - Clyde Walcott, Barbadian West Indies cricketer (b. 1926)
2007 - Gaston Thorn, Luxembourger politician (b. 1928)
2007 - Ramon Zamora, Filipino martial arts actor (b. 1935)
2009 - Dominick Dunne, American writer, Vanity Fair correspondent (b. 1925)
2011 - George Band, British mountaineer (b. 1929)
2011 - John McAleese, British SAS Trooper, Team leader during 1980 Iranian Embassy Siege (b.
          1949)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 27, 2013, 09:01:25 AM

This Day in History for 27th August


Historical Events

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US Secretary of State                                     Last Shah of Iran                                   Golfer Tiger Woods
Frank Kellogg                                            Mohammad Reza Pahlavi


479 BC - Greco-Persian Wars: Persian forces led by Mardonius are routed by Pausanias, the Spartan
              commander of the Greek army in the Battle of Plataea. Along the with the Greek victory on
              the same day in the Battle of Mycale, the Persian invasion of Greece is halted.
663 - Remnants of the Korean Baekje Kingdom and their Yamato Japanese allies engage the
         combined naval forces of the Tang Chinese and Silla Koreans on the Geum River in Korea; the
         outcome is a significant Tang-Silla victory, while the Japanese would not attempt another
         invasion of Korea until the Japanese invasions of Korea of the late 16th century.
1232 - The Formulary of Adjudications is promulgated by Regent Hōjō Yasutoki. (Traditional
           Japanese date: August 10, 1232)
1549 - Battle at Dussindale: John Dudley destroys Kett's army
1569 - Pope Pius names Cosimo I de Medici, grand duke of Toscane
1585 - Duke van Parma's troops occupy Antwerp
1601 - Olivier van Noort completes 1st Dutch exploration of new world
1610 - Polish King Wladyslaw crowned king of Russia
1619 - Monarch Frederik van Palts chosen king of Bohemia
1626 - Battle at Lutter: Catholic League beats Danish king Christian IV
1628 - Java sultan Agung van Mataram attacks Batavia
1634 - Battle of Nordingen-Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar, loses Duchy of Francomia
1665 - "Ye Bare & Ye Cubb" is 1st play, performed in North America (Acomac, Va)
1667 - Earliest recorded hurricane in US (Jamestown Virginia)
1689 - The Treaty of Nerchinsk is signed by Russia and the Qing empire.
1776 - British defeat Americans in Battle of Long Island
1783 - 1st hydrogen balloon flight (unmanned); reaches 900 m altitude
1788 - Jacques Neeker names French minister of Finance
1789 - French Natl Assembly issues "Decl of Rights of Man & Citizen"
1798 - Battle at Castelbar, Ireland: French army hunts The English
1799 - English invasion army lands in North-Holland
1813 - Battle of Dresden-Napoleon defeats Austrians
1816 - Lord Exmouth bombs Algiers, a refuge for Barbary pirates
1828 - Uruguay gains independence during Brazil-Argentina peace talk
1828 - The Russians defeat the Turks at the Battle of Akhalzic.
1832 - Black Hawk, leader of Sauk-indians, gives himself up
1859 - 1st successful oil well drilled, near Titusville, Penn by Edwin Drake
1861 - Battle of Cape Hatteras SC-Union troops take Ft Clark
1862 - Battle of Cub Run, VA
1881 - Hurricane hits Florida & Carolinas; about 700 die
1883 - Krakatoa, west of Java, explodes with a force of 1,300 megatons and kills approximately
           40,000 people
1892 - NYC Metropolitan Opera House catches fire
1894 - Congress passes Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act, which includes a graduated income tax later
           struck down by the Supreme Court
1895 - 15th US Mens Tennis: Fred H Hovey beats Robert D Wrenn (63 62 64)
1896 - England defeated Zanzibar in a 38-minute war (9:02 AM-9:40 AM)
1897 - Roger Bresnahan debuts as Wash Senator pitcher (later HOF catcher)
1900 - Battle at Bergendal: Gen Buller beats Boer general Botha
1903 - 23rd US Mens Tennis: Hugh L Doherty beats William A Larned (60 63 108)
1908 - Calgary City Rugby Foot-ball Club re-organizes as the Tigers
1909 - Jack Chesbro's final Yankee game
1910 - Using 20, 137,000 candlepower arc lights, 2 amateur baseball teams play a night game at
           White Sox Park
1910 - Wash Red Killefer sacrifices record 4 times against Detroit
1911 - Chicago White Sox Ed Walsh no-hits Boston, 5-0
1912 - Edgar Rice Burroughs' publishes "Tarzan of the Apes"
1913 - Lt Peter Nestrov, of Imperial Russian Air Service, performs a loop in a monoplane at Kiev (1st
           aerobatic maneuver in an airplane)
1914 - 2nd day of battle at Tannenberg: German bombs Usdau
1914 - US war reporter Richard H Davis visits Leuven
1916 - Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary
1917 - Indians set club record by stealing eight bases in a game
1918 - Christy Mathewson resigns as Reds manager to accept a commission as a captain in chemical
           warfare branch of Army
1918 - Dr Joseph L Johnson named minister to Liberia
1921 - J E Clair of Acme Packing Co of Green Bay granted an NFL franchise
1922 - Paavo Nurmi runs world record 3000m (8:28.6)
1927 - Parks College, America's oldest aviation school, opens
1928 - 16 die in a NYC subway's 2nd worst accident
1928 - 42nd US Womens Tennis: Helen W Moody beats Helen Hull Jacobs (62 61)
1928 - Kellogg-Briand Pact, where 60 nations agree to outlaw war
1932 - 200,000 English textile workers strike
1932 - Intl anti-war congress opens in Amsterdam
1933 - Earl Averill becomes 2nd Cleveland ballplayer to hit for cycle Moody defaults in 3rd set, trailing
           3-0
1934 - Arlen, Ira Gershwin & Harburgs musical premieres in NYC
1937 - Bkln Dodger Fred Frankhouse no-hits Cin, 5-0 in 7 2/3 inn game
1937 - George E T Eyston sets world auto speed record at 345.49 MPH
1938 - Two NYC subway trains collide at 116th Street killing 2 and injuring 51
1938 - Yanks Monte Pearson no-hits Indians 13-0, DiMaggio hits 3 triples
1939 - Erich Warsitz makes 1st jet-propelled flight (in a Heinkel He-178)
1939 - Heinkel He-178 makes 1st manned flight with rocket/jet propulsion
1939 - Nazi Germany demands Danzig & Polish corridor
1939 - Queen Wilhelmina receives German ambassador Grave Zech
1940 - Caproni-Campini CC-2, experimental jet plane, maiden flight (Milan)
1941 - Shah of Iran abdicates throne to his son Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
1942 - Cuba declares war on Germany, Japan & Italy
1944 - 200 Halifax bombers attack oil-installations in Homburg
1945 - US troops land in Japan after Japanese surrender
1948 - 102°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in August
1950 - 1st transmission of a TV program from continental Europe shown on BBC
1950 - General Foods blacklists Jean Muir of Aldrich Family as a communist
1952 - Emil Zatopek wins 12th olympics marathon (2:23:03.2)
1955 - "Guinness Book of World Records" 1st published
1955 - Sandy Koufax fans 14 Reds, both teams combine for record 23 strikeouts
1956 - Curt Robert of Columbus (Intl League) hits 4 HRs in 7 inning game
1957 - Hickory Smoke wins Hambletonian Stakes
1957 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1957 - The Constitution of Malaysia comes into force.
1958 - Clark Griffith says Senators will prob accept offer to move to Minn
1958 - US performs nuclear test at S Atlantic Ocean
1958 - USSR launches Sputnik 3 with 2 dogs aboard
1960 - Anita Lonsbrough swims world/olympic record 200m (2:49.5)
1960 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Grossinger Golf Open
1961 - Francis the Talking Mule is mystery guest on "What's My Line"
1961 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Spokane Women's Golf Open
1962 - Mariner 2 launched; 1st probe to fly by Venus
1962 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1965 - Beatles spend an evening with Elvis Presley
1965 - WTVI TV channel 42 in Charlotte, NC (PBS) begins broadcasting
1966 - Francis Chichester begins 1st solo sail around world
1966 - Oakland Pitcher Paul Lindblad begins a 385 cons errorless streak
1966 - Race riot in Waukegan Illinois
1966 - Sir Francis Chichester begins 1st solo ocean voyage around the world
1967 - Naomi Sims is 1st black model on US cover (Fashion of the Times)
1967 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Amarillo Ladies' Golf Open
1969 - Lindy's Pride win Hambletonian Stakes
1969 - Mike Procter hits six consecutive sixes (across two overs)
1972 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open
1972 - US bombs Haiphong North Vietnam
1974 - NY Met Benny Ayala hits a HR in his 1st at bat
1975 - 1st night match at US Tennis Open (Parun defeats Smith)
1975 - Veronica & Colin Scargill (England) complete tandem bicycle ride, a record 18,020 miles around
           the world
1976 - Transsexual Renee Richards barred from competing in US Tennis Open
1977 - "Chicago" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 947 performances
1977 - Army shoots on market vendor women in Conakry Guinee
1977 - Toby Harrah & Bump Wills hit back-to-back inside-the-park-homers off Yankee Ken Clay at
           Yankee Stadium, Rangers won 8-2
1978 - Gerrie Knetemann becomes world cyclist champion
1978 - Reds Joe Morgan is 1st to hit 200 HRs & have 500 stolen bases
1978 - Shelley Hamlin wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic
1978 - Yankee Catfish Hunter's 6-2 win gives him a perfect 6-0 in Aug 1978
1979 - 18 British militia die in ambush/bomb attack in Northern Ireland
1980 - Chon Doo Hwan elected pres of South Korea
1981 - Divers begin to recover a safe found aboard Andrea Doria
1981 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1982 - Rickey Henderson steals 119th base of season breaks Lou Brock's mark
1982 - Soyuz T-7 returns to Earth
1983 - Haiti adopts constitution
1983 - US performs nuclear test
1984 - President Reagan announces Teacher in Space project
1984 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1985 - 20th Space Shuttle Mission (51-I)-Discovery 6-launched
1985 - Mary Joe Fernandez, 14 years & 8 days old is youngest to win a US Tennis Open match
           (beats Sara Gomer in 1st round)
1986 - Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation
1988 - Dodger Tommy Lasorda wins 1,000th game as manager tops Phila, 4-2
1989 - 100 march through Bensonhurst protesting racial killings
1989 - 89th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Chris Patton
1989 - Betsy King wins LPGA Nestle World Golf Championship
1989 - Tina Barrett wins LPGA Mitsubishi Motors Ocean State Golf Open
1990 - 52 Americans arrive in Turkey from Iraq
1990 - Brewers-Blue Jays game is delayed 35 minutes due to gnats
1990 - Rosa Mota wins female marathon (2:31:27)
1990 - WWF Summer Slam-Ultimate Warrior beats Rick Rude
1991 - Moldavia declares independence from USSR
1992 - CFL revokes BC Lions franchise
1992 - Mets trade David Cone to Toronto for Jeff Kent & Ryan Thompson
1993 - Yak-40 crashes in Tadzjikistan, 79 killed/1 lives
1993 - The Rainbow Bridge, connecting Tokyo's Shibaura and the island of Odaiba, is completed.
1994 - "Laughter on the 23rd Floor" closes at R Rodgers NYC after 320 perfs
1995 - "Arcadia" closes at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC after 204 performances
1995 - 23rd du Maurier Golf Classic: Jenny Lidback
1995 - 95th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Tiger Woods
1995 - Worst fire in NY in 80 years ends after 4 days
2000 - 540-metre (1,772 ft)-tall Ostankino Tower in Moscow catches fire, three people are killed.
2003 - Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing 34,646,418 miles
           (55,758,005 km) distant.
2006 - Comair Flight 5191 crashes on takeoff from Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky bound
           for Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia. Of the passengers and crew,
           49 of 50 are confirmed dead in the hours following the crash.
2008 - Barack Obama becomes the first African-American to be nominated by a major political party
           for President of the United States
2012 - First interplanetary human voice recording is broadcast from the Mars Rover Curiosity

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 27, 2013, 09:03:49 AM

This Day in History for 27th August


Famous Weddings

1956 - Socialite Gloria Vanderbilt (32) weds "12 Angry Men" director Sidney Lumet (32)
1977 - "Coral Reefer Band" singer Jimmy Buffett (30) weds Jane Slagsvol
1994 - TV executive Anthony Radziwill (35) weds Emmy Award-winning journalist Carole Di Falco (31)
           in East Hampton, New York
2005 - Actor Robert Downey, Jr. (40) weds film producer Susan Levin (31) at the Windy Dune Estate
           in Amagansett, New York
2011 - Oscar winner Sofia Coppola (41) weds vocalist of French indie rock band "Phoenix" Thomas
           Mars at the family villa, Palazzo Margherita in Bernalda, Italy
2011 - British heiress Petra Ecclestone (22) weds entrepreneur James Stunt at Orsini Odescalchi
           Castle near City of Rome
2011 - Lisa Vanderpump's daughter Pandora Vanderpump (24) weds Jason Sabo in Beverly Hills

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 27, 2013, 09:17:36 AM

This Day in History for 27th August


Famous Birthdays

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36th US President                                    Actress Barbara Bach (1947)                   Actor Pee-wee Herman (1952)
Lyndon B. Johnson (1908)


1407 - Ashikaga Yoshikazu, Japanese shogun (d. 1425)
1471 - George the Bearded, Meissen, Germany, Duke of Saxony (1500-39) (d. 1539)
1487 - Anna of Brandenburg, queen of Denmark (d. 1514)
1545 - Alessandro Farnese, Duke of Parma/general/diplomat
1562 - Hans Leo Hassler, composer
1583 - Simon Besler, composer
1630 - Maria van Oosterwijck, Dutch flower painter
1637 - Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, Governor of the Province of Maryland (d. 1715)
1650 - Johann Samuel Welter, composer
1665 - John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, English politician (d. 1751)
1666 - Ivan V, co-tsar of Russia (1682-89)
1669 - Anne Marie of Orléans, queen of Italy (d. 1728)
1677 - Otto Ferdinand von Abensberg und Traun, Austrian field marshal (d. 1748)
1698 - Baal Shem Tov, Founder of the Chasiddic movement {d. 1760)
1719 - John/Jean Nepveu, Dutch governor of Suriname (1768-79)
1724 - John Joachim Zubly, Swiss-born Continental Congressman (d. 1781)
1730 - Hamann, writer
1739 - Michel Delalande, composer
1752 - Herman Muntinghe, Dutch theologist (History of Mankind)
1768 - Anne-Francois Mellinet, French/Belgian general (Maastricht)
1770 - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher/inventor (dialectic)
1803 - Edward Beecher, American theologian (d. 1895)
1809 - Hannibal Hamlin, (R) 15th VP (1861-65)
1824 - Hiram Gregory Berry, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
1826 - Frank Stillman Nickerson, Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
1826 - Hermann Kipper, music teacher/critic/composer
1832 - James Alexander Walker, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1901
1835 - Albijn van de Abeele, Flemish author/mayor/painter
1837 - Heinrich Urban, composer
1839 - Emory Upton, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1881
1847 - Gustave J Waffelaert, Flemish theologist/bishop of Bridge
1849 - Manuel Acuna, Mexican poet (Nocturno)
1856 - Iwan Franko, writer
1858 - Giuseppe Peanoin Cuneo, Piemonte Italy, mathematician
1865 - Charles Gates Dawes, (R) 30th VP (1925-29, Nobel 1925)
1865 - Emmuska Orczy, British writer (Scarlet Pimpernel)
1865 - James Henry Breasted, American Egyptologist (d. 1935)
1867 - Umberto Giordano, composer
1869 - Karl Haushofer, soldier/geographer
1870 - Amado Nervo, [Juan C Ruiz de Nervo], Mexican writer/poet
1871 - Theodore Dreiser, US, novelist (Sister Carie, American Tragedy)
1874 - Karl Bosch, German chemist (BASF, Nobel 1931)
1875 - Katharine McCormick, American women's rights activist (d. 1967)
1877 - Charles Stewart Rolls, British auto manufacturer (Rolls-Royce Ltd)
1877 - Lloyd Cassel Douglas, novelist
1877 - Ernst Wetter, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1963)
1878 - Joseph John Richards, composer
1882 - Jaroslav Kricka, composer
1882 - Samuel Goldwyn, [Gelbfisch], film magnate (MGM)
1884 - Harry Antrim, Chicago IL, actor (Miracle on 34th St, Devil's Doorway)
1884 - Vincent Auriol, president of France (1947-53)
1886 - Eric Coates, Hucknall Nottinghamshire England, viola player/composer
1886 - Rebecca Clarke, composer
1890 - Man Ray, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, American artist and photographe (Dada)
1894 - Charles Meredith, Knoxville Pa, actor (Court of Last Resort)
1896 - Leon Theremin, electronic musical instruments inventor [o.s. 15-08]
1896 - Faina Ranevskaya, Russian actress (d. 1984)
1897 - Ad van Emmenes, Dutch soccer reporter
1898 - Enny de Leeuwe, [Engelina], actress (Anatevka)/wife of Pierre Mols
1899 - Byron Foulger, Ogden UT, actor (River's Edge, Up in Smoke)
1899 - C.S. (Cecil Scott )Forester, England, historical novelist (Horatio Hornblower). Died. 1966
1901 - Al Ritz, [Joaquim], Newark NJ, actor (Ritz Brothers, Hi Ya Chum)
1901 - Roger Pryor, NYC, actor (Belle of the Nineties, Identity Unknown)
1902 - Herbert Menges, composer
1903 - Xavier Villaurrutia, Mexican poet (Nocturno de los Angeles)
1904 - Norah Lofts, British author (d. 1983)
1904 - John Hay Whitney, American financier (d. 1982)
1905 - Alexander Johnston, CEO (Board of Inland Revenue)
1905 - Frederick O'Neal, Brooksville Miss, actor (Car 54 Where Are You)
1906 - Ed Gein, American serial killer (d. 1984)
1908 - Donald [George] Bradman, Australian cricketer (6,996 runs)
1908 - Frank Leahy, O'Neill Nebraska, football coach (Notre Dame)
1908 - Lyndon B Johnson, Stonewall Tx, (D) 36th Pres (1963-1969), (d. 1973)
1908 - Kurt Wegner, German artist (d. 1985)
1909 - Lester W "Pres" Young, US jazz saxophonist
1909 - Sidney R Yates, (Rep-D-IL, 1949-62, 65- )
1909 - Sylveer Maes, Belgian bicylist
1911 - Patience Edney, nurse/communist
1911 - Kay Walsh, British actress (d. 2005)
1912 - Peter Gretton, British vice admiral
1913 - Arthur Benfield, head of Cheshire CID
1913 - Donald McKenzie MacKinnon, philosopher
1913 - Stewart Crawford, British diplomat
1914 - Catherine Marshall, editor/writer
1915 - Walter W Heller, economist (Old Myths & New Realities)
1916 - Martha Raye, [Margaret Reed], Butte Mont, actress (Martha Raye Show)
1916 - Tony Harris, cricketer (Springbok 5/8th, Test batsman))
1917 - Peanuts Lowrey, American baseball player (d. 1986)
1918 - Lord Winstanley, physician/British MP (Labour)
1919 - John Cox, Flemish/US painter/dir (Museum of Fine Physician, Boston)
1919 - Lord Dormand, of Eastington, British MP (Labour)
1920 - James Molyneaux, MP (Ulster unionist)
1921 - Georg Alexander, Duke of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1996)
1921 - Leo Penn, American film director (d. 1998)
1924 - David Rowbotham, Australian poet
1925 - Ken Grieves, cricketer (NSW leg-spin all-rounder)
1925 - Richard Rutt, bishop of Leicester
1925 - Tony Crombie, drummer/bandleader
1925 - Viscount Rothermere, newspaper owner
1925 - Darry Cowl, French actor (d. 2006)
1926 - Pat Coombs, English actress (d. 2002)
1926 - Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian mathematician (d. 2002)
1927 - Hugh Byatt, British diplomat
1927 - Liselott Linsenhoff, German FR, equestrian (Olympic-gold-1972)
1928 - Jack Thompson, MP (Labour)
1928 - Joan Kroc, wife of Ray Korc/owner (McDonalds & San Diego Padres)
1928 - Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi, premier of Kwazulu (Shaka Zulu)
1928 - Peter Richard Tahourdin, composer
1928 - Othmar Schneider, Lech am, Arlberg, skier (Oly Gld 1952), (d. 2012)
1929 - Ad J Hermes, Dutch MP (KVP/CDA)
1929 - Elizabeta Bagrintseve, USSR, discus thrower (Olympic-silver-1952)
1929 - Ira Levin, author (Rosemary Baby, Boys From Brazil, This Perfect Day)
1930 - John Daly, British trade union leader
1930 - John Watts, chief of defense (Omani Armed Forces)
1931 - Sri Chinmoy, Indian guru (d. 2007)
1931 - Joe Cunningham, American baseball player
1932 - Antonia Fraser, biographer (Mary Queen of Scots)
1932 - Francois Glorieux, composer
1932 - M N Burdayev, cosmonaut
1932 - Mikhail Nikolayevich Burdayev, cosmonaut
1933 - Joke Smit, Dutch feminist
1935 - Frank Yablans, NYC, writer (North Dallas Forty)
1935 - Michael Holroyd, author
1935 - Ernie Broglio, American baseball player
1936 - Joel Kovel, American politician
1937 - Alice Coltrane, jazz musician
1937 - Mark Potter, British court judge
1937 - Phil Shulmon, rocker (Gentle Giant)
1937 - Tommy Sands, Chicago IL, singer/actor (Teenage Rock, Dream With Me)
1940 - David Hart, gen-sect (National Association of Head Teachers)
1940 - Warren Harding "Sonny" Sharrock, American jazz guitarist
1941 - Yuri Vassilyevich Malyshev, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-2, T-11)
1941 - Harrison Page, American actor
1942 - Daryl Dragon, Pasadena California, keyboardist (Capt & Tennille)
1942 - Brian Peckford, Canadian politician
1943 - Bob Kerrey, (Sen-D Nebraska)
1943 - [Susan] Tuesday Weld, NYC, actress (Dobie Gillis, Wild in Country)
1944 - Barry Conyngham, composer
1944 - Tim Bogert, rocker
1944 - Wim Jurg, corrector/chairman (Werelddambond FMJD)
1944 - G W Bailey, Port Arthur, Texas, American actor (Police Academy, The Closer)
1946 - Tony Howard, cricketer (WI off-spinner one Test v NZ 1972)
1947 - Jacques Arnold, MP (Conservative)
1947 - John Morrison, cricketer ("Mystery" NZ batsman 1973-82)
1947 - Susie McAllister, LPGA golfer
1947 - Barbara Bach [Goldbach], Queens, New York, American actress (The Spy Who Loved Me,
           Force 10 from Navarone)
1947 - Harry Reems, American actor, (d. 2013)
1948 - Andy Turnell, horse trainer
1948 - Pavlos Sidiropoulos, Greek musician (d. 1990)
1949 - Andrew McKay, conservative MP
1949 - Douglas Fred Tewell, Baton Rouge LA, PGA golfer (1980 Sea Pines)
1949 - Edith Valckaert, Belgian violinist
1949 - Edmund Weiner, lexicographer
1949 - Jeff Cook, Fort Payne Ala, country guitar/vocalist (Alabama-Mt Music)
1949 - Simon Kirke, rocker (Bad Company)
1950 - Charles Fleischer, Wash DC, comedian (Roger Rabbit)
1950 - Cynthia Potter, US, springboard diver (Olympic-bronze-1976)
1951 - Don [Sheldon George] Pooley Jr, Phoenix AZ, PGA golfer (1980 BC Open)
1952 - Pee-wee Herman, [Paul Reubens], NY, actor (Pee-wee's Big Adventure)
1953 - Alex Lifeson, Toronto Canada, rock guitarist (Rush)
1953 - Peter Stormare, Swedish-born actor
1954 - Derek Warwick, race car driver
1954 - John Lloyd, England, tennis star (former husband of Chris Everet)
1954 - Mike Kelley, Wayne, Michigan, artist (More Love Hours Than Can Ever Be Repaid), (d. 2012)
1955 - Diana Scarwid, Savannah GA, actress (Extermites, Psycho 3, Heat)
1955 - Roderick Hopkins Davis, Auckland NZ, yachting Star class (Olympics-96)
1955 - Laura Fygi, Dutch singer
1955 - Robert Richardson, American cinematographer
1956 - Glen Matlock, rock bassist (Sex Pistols)
1957 - Bernhard Langer, golfer
1958 - Sergei Konstantinovich Krikalev, Russia, cosmonaut (TM-7, TM-12, STS 60)
1958 - Yoshinori Mizumaki, Tokyo Japan, PGA golfer (1994 Byron Nelson-2nd)
1958 - Normand Brathwaite, Canadian comedian and television and radio host
1958 - Tom Lanoye, Belgian author
1958 - Stalking Cat [Dennis Avner], Flint, Michigan,body modifier (world record holder in body
           modification), (d. 2012)
1959 - Gerhard Berger, formula-1 racer (Italian Grand Prix-1988)
1959 - Juan Fernando Cobo, Colombian artist
1960 - Damon Keeve, SF California, heavyweight (209+ lbs) judoka (Olympics-92, 96)
1961 - "Downtown" Julie Brown, TV host (Club MTV, Inside Edition)
1961 - Tom Ford, American fashion designer
1962 - Scott Davis, Santa Monica CA, tennis star
1962 - Vic Mignogna, American voice actor
1963 - Patty Duffek, Woodland Hills California, playmate (May, 1984)
1963 - Downtown Julie Brown, Welsh TV personality and MTV VJ
1964 - Frankie Thorn, American actress
1965 - Michael Perry, NFL defensive tackle (Denver Broncos)
1965 - Patricia Hy-Boulais, Phnom Penh Kampuchea, Canada tennis (Oly-92, 96)
1965 - Wayne James, cricketer (Zimbabwe Test wicketkeeper v Pakistan 1993)
1966 - Deena Wigger, Colorado Springs CO, US shooter (Olympic-92)
1966 - Juhan Parts, Prime Minister of Estonia
1967 - Brian McRae, Bradenton FL, outfielder (Chicago Cubs)
1967 - Rob Burnett, NFL defensive end (Cleveland Browns/Baltimore Ravens)
1967 - Bob Nastanovich, American musician (Pavement, Silver Jews)
1968 - Christine Schaefer, Florence Ky, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-5th-1994)
1968 - Emanual Davis, NBA guard (Houston Rockets)
1968 - Martin Lowenfish, canoe (alt-Olympics-96)
1968 - Michael Long, Cromwell NZ, Australasia golfer
1969 - Kipp Vickers, NFL guard (Indianapolis Colts)
1969 - Mark Ealham, cricketer (Kent & England Test all-rounder 1996)
1969 - Steven Van Randwijck, Wash DC, field hockey player (Olympics-96)
1969 - Cesar Millan, Culiacan Mexico, professional dog trainer
1969 - Chandra Wilson, American actress
1970 - Andy Bichel, cricketer (Australian pace bowler v WI 1997)
1970 - Dene Hills, cricketer (prolific Tasmanian batsman)
1970 - Greg Woodcroft, Hamilton Ontario, 52 kg freestyle wrestler (Oly-96)
1970 - Jim Thome, Peoria IL, infielder (Cleveland Indians)
1970 - Mark Ilott, cricketer (England left-arm pace bowler 1993-)
1970 - Reggie Slater, NBA forward (Toronto Raptors)
1970 - Peter Ebdon, English snooker player
1970 - Tony Kanal, English-born musician (No Doubt)
1970 - Jeff Kenna, Irish footballer
1971 - Ernest Faber, soccer player (PSV)
1971 - Jim Flanigan, NFL defensive tackle (Chic Bears)
1971 - Julian Cheung, Hong Kong actor and singer
1972 - Chris Imes, South Paris Maine, US hockey defenseman (Olympics-1994)
1972 - Donta Jones, NFL linebacker (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1972 - Denise Lewis, English heptathlete
1972 - Dalip Singh, Indian professional wrestler
1972 - Mike Smith, Canadian actor
1973 - Carlene Begnaud, American professional wrestler
1973 - Cory Bowles, Canadian actor
1973 - Danny Coyne, Welsh footballer
1973 - Dietmar Hamann, German footballer
1974 - Sean Woodson, safety (Buffalo Bills)
1974 - José Vidro, Puerto Rican baseball player
1974 - Michael Mason, New Zealand cricketer
1975 - Jonny Moseley, American skier
1975 - Mark Rudan, Australian footballer
1976 - Cartos Moya, Spain, tennis star
1976 - Craig Mills, Toronto, NHL right wing (Winnipeg Jets)
1976 - Milano Collection Akihito Terui, Japanese professional wrestler
1977 - Michelle Kathlene Cardamon, California, Miss Teen USA (1996-3rd)
1977 - Sarah Chalke, Ottawa, actress (Becky-Roseanne, Ernest Goes to School)
1977 - Trisha Williams, Hobbs New Mexico, Miss America-New Mexico (1997)
1977 - Deco, Portuguese footballer
1977 - Mase, American rapper
1979 - Ara Francis, Miss Colorado Teen USA (1996)
1979 - Giovanni Capitello, American filmmaker/actor
1979 - Tian Liang, Chinese diver
1979 - Sarah Neufeld, Canadian musician (Arcade Fire)
1980 - Stephanie Michelle Steele, Abilene TX, country singer
1980 - Kyle Lowder, American actor
1983 - Wilson Chen, Taiwanese actor
1984 - David Bentley, English footballer
1984 - Sulley Muntari, Ghanaian footballer
1985 - Alexandra Nechita, Romanian/American artist
1986 - Mario, American R&B singer
1987 - Darren McFadden, American football player
1988 - Alexa Vega, American actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 27, 2013, 09:20:27 AM

This Day in History for 27th August


Famous Deaths

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Architect/ City Planner
Le Corbusier (1965)


542 - Saint Caesarius of Arles
827 - Pope Eugene II
1208 - Irene Angelina, daughter of Isaac II Angeles, dies
1312 - Arthur II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1262)
1394 - Chokei, Emperor of Japan (b. 1343)
1450 - Reginald West, 6th Baron De La Warr, English politician (b. 1395)
1521 - Josquin Des Prez, composer, dies
1522 - Giovanni A Amadei/Amadeo, Italian sculptor/architect, dies at about 75
1545 - Piotr Gamrat, Polish Catholic archbishop (b. 1487)
1572 - Claude Goudimel, French composer
1576 - Titian, [Tiziano Vecelli], Italian painter, dies of plague
1590 - Sixtus V, [Felice Peretti/"Montalto"], Pope (1585-90), dies at 68
1608 - Hendrik van Kinschot, [Henricus Kinschotus], lawyer, dies at 66
1611 - Tomés L de Victoria, Spanish composer/singer/organist, dies
1635 - Lope Felix de Vega, playwright/poet (Angelica, Arcadia), dies at 72
1651 - Jacob A Backer, painter, dies at about 43
1664 - Francisco Zurbarán, Spanish painter (b. 1598)
1667 - Adriaen Melar, Flemish engraver, buried at 33
1746 - Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, composer, dies
1748 - James Thomson, dies
1773 - Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz, Prussian general (b. 1721)
1827 - Ferdinand Trauttmansdorff, Austrian earl/prince/diplomat, dies
1828 - Eise J Eisinga, constructed planetarium at Franeker, dies at 84
1830 - Louis H J Condé, French prince, commits suicide at 74
1840 - William Kneass, 3rd US chief engraver (1824-40), dies in office
1841 - Ignaz Xaver von Seyfried, composer, dies at 65
1846 - Frantiszek Scigalski, composer, dies at 64
1846 - Gottfied Wilhelm Fink, composer, dies at 63
1855 - Francisco Eduardo da Costa, composer, dies at 36
1857 - Rufus Wilmot Griswold, American literary critic and editor (b. 1812)
1865 - Jozef Nowakowski, composer, dies at 64
1867 - Karol Katski, composer, dies at 51
1868 - Franz Xaver Schnyder von Wartensee, composer, dies at 82
1871 - William Whiting Boardman, American politician (b. 1794)
1874 - Johan George Schwartze, painter, dies
1874 - John Henry Foley, sculptor, dies
1875 - William Chapman Ralston, American banker (b. 1826)
1879 - Rowland Hill, introduced postage stamps, dies at 84
1883 - August Friedrich Pott, composer, dies at 76
1887 - Wilhelm Volkmar, composer, dies at 74
1910 - Clement of Maasdijk, 1st Dutch aircraft death
1914 - John Weiss, German new testament, dies
1919 - Louis Botha, South African soldier/statesman, dies at 56
1922 - Carl Fuchs, composer, dies at 83
1929 - Herman Potočnik Noordung, Slovenian rocket scientist (b. 1892)
1930 - Didericus G van Epen, genealogist/Dutch Patriarch, dies at 62
1931 - Willem H Nolens, priest/2nd Chamber member, dies
1931 - Frank Harris, Irish author and editor (b. 1856)
1931 - Francis Marion Smith, American borax magnate (b. 1846)
1943 - Otto Selz, German psychologist (In Auschwitz), dies
1944 - Georg von Boeselager, German nobleman (b. 1915)
1948 - Oley Speaks, composer, dies at 74
1948 - Oscar Lorenzo Fernandez, composer, dies at 50
1948 - Charles Evans Hughes, U.S. Supreme Court justice (b. 1862)
1949 - Arthur Chesney, actor (Lodger, Chelsea Life), dies at 67
1950 - Cesare Pavese, Italian writer (Fuoco Grande), dies at 41
1953 - Nicolai Berezowsky, composer, dies at 53
1955 - Joachim Wach, philosopher/sociologist (Sociology of Religion), dies
1958 - Ernest O Lawrence, inventor (Cyclotron-Nobel 1939), dies at 57
1962 - Carlos Lavin, composer, dies at 79
1963 - W E B Du Bois, scholar/founder (NAACP), dies at 95 in Accra Ghana
1963 - William Edward Burghardt du Bois, educational editor/author, dies
1963 - Garrett Morgan, American inventor (b. 1877)
1963 - Allama Mashriqi, Pakistani scholar and politician (b. 1888)
1964 - Alexey Semyonovich Zhivotov, composer, dies at 59
1964 - Gracie Allen, actress (Burns & Allen), dies at 62
1965 - Edmond of Dooren, Flemish painter, dies at 68
1965 - Gerald Bond, cricketer (South Africa 1938-39), dies
1965 - Le Corbusier, [Charles Jeanneret], Swiss/French architect, dies at 77
1965 - Otto Reinhold, composer, dies at 66
1967 - Brian Epstein, rock manager (Beatles), dies of drug overdose at 32
1967 - Henri-Georges Adam, French painter/cartoonist/sculptor, dies at 63
1968 - Marina, princess of Greece/Denmark/Dutchess of Kent, dies at 61
1968 - William E B Dubois, US founder NAACP (Souls of black people), dies
1969 - Claire Whitney, silent film actress (Blind Fools), dies at 79
1969 - Erika Mann, German/US author/daughter of Thomas Mann, dies
1969 - Henri EJA de Page, Belgian lawyer, dies
1969 - Ivy Compton-Burnett, novelist, dies
1971 - Bennett Cerf, (Random House)/panelist (What's My Line), dies at 73
1971 - Margaret Bourke-White, US photographer, dies at 67
1975 - Emperor Haile Selassie, depossed Ethiopian emperor, strangled at 83
1976 - Mukesh, Indian playback singer (b. 1923)
1977 - George Merritt, actor (I Monster, Canterbury Tale), dies at 86
1977 - Steve Dunne, actor (Professional Father), dies at 59
1978 - Robert Shaw, actor (Dan-Buccaneers), dies of heart attack at 51
1979 - Boleslaw Szabelski, composer, dies at 82
1979 - Louis Mountbatten, British adm of the Fleet, assassinated by IRA
1979 - Nicholas Mountbatten, Lord Mountbatten's grandson, murdered at 14
1980 - Sam Levenson, humorist (Sam Levenson Show), dies at 68
1980 - Douglas Kenney, American humorist (b. 1947)
1981 - Joan Edwards, singer (Joan Edwards Show), dies at 62
1981 - Valery Kharlamov, Soviet ice hockey player (b. 1948)
1984 - Bernard Youens, British actor (Coronation Street), dies at 69
1984 - Billy Sands, actor (Phil Silvers Show, McHale's Navy), dies at 73
1987 - Scott La Rock, American DJ (Boogie Down Productions) (b. 1962)
1988 - Mario Montenegro, Filipino actor (b. 1928)
1990 - Raymond St Jacques, actor/dir (Falcon Crest), dies of cancer at 60
1990 - Stevie Ray Vaughan, blues guitarist, dies in a helicopter crash at 35
1991 - Gordon Heath, actor (Sapphire, Staircase, Animal Farm), dies
1991 - Vince Taylor, [Brian Holden], Brit singer (Brand new Cadillac), dies
1993 - Bob Verstraete, Dutch actor/screenwriter/director (Alicia), dies at 71
1994 - Roberto Goyeneche, [El Polaco], Argentine tango singer (Maria), dies
1995 - Carl Ronald Giles, cartoonist, dies at 78
1995 - Dick Bentley, entertainer, dies at 88
1995 - Martin Louis "Marty" Paich, jazz arranger, dies at 70
1996 - Abram Games, graphic artist, dies at 82
1996 - Alexander Lanusse, military president of Argentina (1971-73), dies
1996 - Greg Morris, actor (Mission Impossible), dies at 61
1997 - Brandon Tartikoff, TV exec (NBC), dies at 48
1997 - Jeep Swenson, actor (Batman & Robin), dies of heart failure at 40
1999 - Hélder Câmara, Brazilian Roman Catholic archbishop (b. 1909)
2001 - Abu Ali Mustafa, leader of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (assassinated) (b.
          1938)
2001 - Michael Dertouzos, Greek internet pioneer, Director of the M.I.T. Laboratory for Computer
           Science (b. 1936)
2002 - Dr. Edwin Louis Cole, "Father of the Modern Day Men's Movement," Founder of the Christian
           Men's Network (CMN)
2003 - Pierre Poujade, French politician (b. 1920)
2004 - Willie Crawford, American baseball player (b. 1946)
2005 - Seán Purcell, Gaelic footballer (b. 1929)
2006 - Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Indian film director (b. 1922)
2006 - Maria Capovilla, oldest woman alive from 2004-2006 (b. 1889)
2006 - Jesse Pintado, Mexican-born guitarist (Napalm Death) (b. 1969)
2007 - Emma Penella, Spanish actress (b. 1930)
2008 - Mark Priestley, Australian actor (b. 1976)
2009 - Sergey Mikhalkov, Russian writer and poet (b. 1913)
2010 - Luna Vachon, Professional Wrestler (b. 1962)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 28, 2013, 09:05:06 AM

This Day in History for 28th August


Historical Events

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King of England                                     Composer Richard Wagner                      Baseball Great Babe Ruth
King Charles I 

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Italian Dictator                                   Singer-songwriter Tony Sheridan                 Singer-Songwriter Bob Dylan
Benito Mussolini

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Israeli Prime Minister                             Baseball Player Ted Williams                      Golfer Tiger Woods
Menachem Begin


475 - The Roman general Orestes forces western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos to flee his capital city,
         Ravenna.
476 - German ruler Odoacer captures Pavia
476 - West Roman Empire formally disbands/emperor Romulus August ousted
489 - Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths defeats Odoacer at the Battle of Isonzo, forcing his way into
         Italy.
1189 - Third Crusade: the Crusaders begin the Siege of Acre under Guy of Lusignan
1521 - Turkish sultan Suleiman I's troops occupy Belgrade
1542 - Turkish-Portuguese War (1538-1557) - Battle of Wofla: the Portuguese are scattered, their
           leader Christovão da Gama is captured and afterwards executed.
1565 - Oldest city in the US, St Augustine Fla, established
1609 - Henry Hudson, discovers & explores Delaware Bay
1619 - Ferdinand II elected Holy Roman Emperor
1632 - Henry Casimir I appointed viceroy of Drenthe
1637 - WIC-colonel Hans Koin conquerors Fort Elmina, West Africa
1640 - Second Bishop's War: King Charles I's English army loses to a Scottish Covenanter force at
           the Battle of Newburn
1655 - New Amsterdam & Peter Stuyvesant bars Jews from military service
1777 - American Revolutionary War - Battle of Cooch's Bridge takes place near Newark, Delaware.
1789 - Sir William Herschel discovers Saturn's moon Enceladus
1830 - 1st locomotive in US, "Tom Thumb," runs from Baltimore to Ellicotts Mill
1837 - Pharmacists John Lea & William Perrins manufactures Worcester Sauce
1840 - 9 Jewish prisoners are released from Damascus jails
1845 - Scientific American magazine publishes its first issue.
1849 - Venice under Daniele Manin surrenders to Austrians under Radetsky, after been under siege
           since July 20 after proclaiming independence
1850 - Richard Wagner's opera "Lohengrin" premieres at Weimar Germany
1859 - A geomagnetic storm causes the Aurora Borealis to shine so brightly that it is seen clearly
           over parts of USA, Europe, and even as far afield as Japan.
1861 - Battle of Fort Hatteras NC
1862 - Battle of Thoroughfare Gap VA
1862 - Battle of Groveton, VA (Manassas Plains) [->AUG 19] US7000 CS7000
1862 - Belle Boyd released from Old Capital Prison in Washington, DC
1867 - US occupies Midway Islands in Pacific
1879 - Battle at Ulundi: Lord Chelmsford beats king Cetshwayo's Zuluz
1884 - 1st known photograph of a tornado is made near Howard SD
1884 - Mickey Welsh strikes-out 1st 9 men he faces
1898 - Caleb Bradham renames his carbonated soft drink "Pepsi-Cola".
1907 - United Parcel Service begins service, in Seattle
1907 - UPS is founded by James E. Casey in Seattle, Washington.
1908 - 14th US Golf Open: Fred McLeod shoots a 322 at Myopia Hunt Club Mass
1911 - 45.7 cm rainfall at St George, Georgia (state record)
1913 - Queen Wilhelmina opens Peace Palace (The Hague)
1914 - 3rd day of battle at Tannenberg: violent German/Russian battles
1914 - Battle at Helgoland: British fleet beats German, 1100 killed
1914 - John French evacuate Amiens
1916 - Germany declares war on Romania
1916 - Italy declares war against Germany during WW I
1917 - 10 suffragists arrested as they picket White House
1918 - Tris Speaker suspended for season due to assault on ump Tom Connolly
1919 - General John Smuts becomes premier of South Africa
1921 - 2nd Pan-African Congress meets (London, Brussels & Paris)
1921 - Babe Ruth starts streak of an extra-base hit in 9 straight games
1922 - 1st Walker Cup: US beats England 8-4
1922 - Albert von Tilzer & Neville Fleesons musical premieres in NYC
1922 - WEAF in NYC airs 1st radio coml (Queensboro Realty-$100 for 10 mins)
1924 - Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union.
1925 - Meteorite falls on Ellemeet, Schouwen, Devil Island
1926 - Indian Emil Levsen pitches complete doubleheader victory (Red Sox)
1929 - Frank Woolley scores his 100th first-class hundred
1937 - Toyota Motors becomes an independent company.
1938 - Mauthausen concentration camp opens in Austria
1938 - Northwestern U awards honorary degree to dummy Charlie McCarthy
1938 - On Connie Mack Day at Shibe Park, the A's win a doubleheader
1939 - "Monty" becomes commandant of 3rd "Iron" Infantry division
1939 - Netherland mobilizes
1939 - Sammy Fain/Jack Yellen's musical "George White's Scandals" premieres
1940 - French colonies Cameroon/Congo-Brazzaville support Gen De Gaulle
1941 - 8th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chi Bears 37, All-Stars 13 (98,203)
1941 - Last meeting of resistance fighter Comte d'Estienne d'Orves
1942 - 9th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chi Bears 21, All-Stars 0 (101,100)
1942 - Gunther Hagg (Sweden) sets world record for 3,000m (8:01.2)
1942 - Transport nr 25 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1943 - Denmark, declares a universal strike against Nazi occupiers
1943 - Benito Mussolini transfered from La Maddalena Sardinia to Gran Sasso
1944 - Last German troops in Marseille surrendered & Toulon cleared
1944 - US air raid on Ambon
1949 - 38th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in New York (4-1)
1949 - Riot prevents Paul Robeson from singing near Peekskill NY
1950 - Earle & Roy Mack, purchase 54% of A's from Connie Mack Jr
1951 - Braves sell pitcher Johnny Sain to the Yankees for $50,000
1951 - Pirates snap NY Giants 16 game win streak
1952 - German & Israeli reach accord about recovery payments
1952 - Jakob Malik succeeds Zorine as Foreign minister
1953 - "Me & Juliet" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 358 performances
1955 - 1st NFL preseason sudden death football, Rams beats Giants 23-17
1955 - Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Heart of America Golf Tournament
1956 - England retain cricket Ashes, Jim Laker 46 wickets in the series
1957 - Sen Thurmond begins 24-hr filibuster against civil rights bill
1958 - Nellie Fox sets record for consecutive games without striking out (98)
1960 - White Sox Ted Kluzewski's 3-run HR is disallowed as ump called time
1962 - 55.9 cm rainfall at Hackberry, Louisiana (state record)
1962 - Dr Geza DeKaplany tortures wife with acid
1962 - Tony Sheridan & Beat Brothers record "Ya Ya (Parts 1 + 2)"
1963 - 200,000 demonstrate for equal rights in Washington, DC
1963 - Evergreen Point Floating Bridge connecting Seattle & Bellevue opens
1963 - Martin Luther King Jr's "I have a dream speech" at Lincoln Memorial
1964 - Race riot in Philadelphia
1964 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1964 - US weather satellite Nimbus 1 launched
1964 - WEWS-TV Channel 5's "Upbeat" debuts in Cleveland
1965 - Bob Dylan booed for playing electric guiter at a concert in New York's Forest Hills
1966 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Glass City Golf Classic
1967 - Asif Iqbal & Intikhab Alam make 190 stand for 9th wkt v Eng
1967 - Boston signs 1st free-agent outfielder Ken Harrelson for $75,000 bonus
1968 - Police & anti-war demonstrators clash at Chicago's Dem Natl Conven
1970 - Phillies Larry Bowa steals home for 2nd time in 1970
1971 - The dollar is allowed to float against the yen for the first time.
1972 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1973 - "Monster Mash" goes gold
1973 - "Smoke on the Water" by Deep Purple goes gold
1973 - 6.8 quake centered in Oaxaca State in Mexico kills 527
1973 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1973 - India & Pakistan sign POW accord
1973 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1974 - Soyuz 15 returns to Earth
1976 - NY Cosmos beat Seattle Sounders 2-1 for NASL cup
1976 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1977 - Bonnie Lauer wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic
1977 - NY Yankee Ron Guidry faces just 28 men & beats Texas Rangers 1-0
1977 - Nolan Ryan strikes out 300 batters for 5th straight year
1977 - NY Cosmos defeat Seattle Sounders, 2-1, at Civic Stadium in Portland Ore, winning their 2nd
           North American Soccer League championship
1978 - Donald Vesco rode 21'-long Kawasaki motorcycle at 318.598 mph
1978 - Ja'afar Sharif-Emami appointed premier of Iran
1979 - IRA bomb explodes on Brussels Great Market
1979 - Train crash at Nijmegen, 7 die
1981 - John Hinckley Jr pleads innocent in attempt to kill Pres Reagan
1981 - Sebastian Coe of UK sets 1-mi record of 3:47.33 (since broken)
1981 - National Centers for Disease Control announces high incidence of Pneumocystis & Kaposi's
           sarcoma in gay men
1982 - "Sugar Babies" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 1208 perfs
1982 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1982 - The first Gay Games are held in San Francisco.
1983 - "Mame" closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 41 performances
1983 - Greg Luzinski is 1st player to put 3 HRs onto roof at Comiskey Park
1983 - Israeli PM Menachem Begin announces resignation
1983 - Joseph Kreckman sets record of 2,215 clay pigeons shot in an hour
1983 - Pat Bradley wins Columbia Savings Golf Classic
1984 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1986 - Bolivia president Victor Paz Estensoro calls state of siege
1986 - Largest wrestling crowd in Canada (69,300) at Toronto Stadium
1986 - Tina Turner's star unveiled in Hollywood
1986 - US Navy officer Jerry A Whitworth sentenced to 365 years for spying
1987 - Mike Schmidt passes Ted Williams & Willie McCovey with 522 HRs
1988 - 40th Emmy Awards: 30something, Wonder Years & Richard Kiley
1988 - 70 killed in crash of 3 Italian AF fighters at air show in Germany
1988 - 88th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Eric Meeks
1988 - Italian stunt flyers crashes in flames in West Germany, killing 50
1988 - Patty Jordan wins LPGA Ocean State Golf Open
1988 - Rosie Jones wins LPGA Nestle World Golf Championship
1989 - 1st regular-season matchup of defending Cy Young Award winners
1989 - Frank Viola & Mets outduel Orel Hershiser & Dodgers 1-0
1990 - Cub's Ryne Sandberg is 1st 2nd baseman to hit 30 HRs, consecutively
1990 - Stefan Edberg (#1 seeded player) loses in 1st round to Alex Volkov
1991 - Lexington Ave IRT subway train derails at Union Square, 5 die
1991 - Red Tom Browning vs Expo Dennis Martinez both perfect game pitcher
1992 - Test Cricket debut of Muttiah Muralitharan, vs Australia at Colombo
1993 - Dam breaks in Qinghai West China, 223 killed
1993 - Jakovlev-42 crashes in Tadzjikistan, 76 killed
1993 - Long Beach California beats Panama for little league world championship
1993 - Singapore vice-premier Teng Cheong elected president
1994 - 1st Japanese gay pride parade
1994 - 22nd du Maurier Golf Classic: Martha Nause
1994 - 94th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Tiger Woods
1995 - Last day of Test Cricket for Richie Richardson
1995 - Northants 7-781 decl defeat Nottinghamshire 527 & 157
1996 - Liam Botham takes 5-67 on 1st-class debut Hants v Middlesex
1997 - Belgian amusement park riders were stuck upside down for 90 minutes
1998 - Pakistan's National Assembly passes a constitutional amendment to make the "Qur'an and
           Sunnah" the "supreme law" but the bill is defeated in the Senate.
2003 - An electricity blackout cuts off power to around 500,000 people living in south east England
           and brings 60% of London's underground rail network to a halt.
2005 - Hurricane Katrina hammers the south eastern United States, especially New Orleans,
           Louisiana, and coastal Mississippi
2012 - Mitt Romney is officially nominated as the United States Republican Party's candidate

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 28, 2013, 09:45:35 AM

This Day in History for 28th August


Famous Weddings

1811 - English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (19) elopes to Scotland with 1st wife Harriet
           Westbrook (16)
1924 - British children's writer Enid Blyton (27) marries editor Major Hugh Alexander Pollock, DSO
           (36)
1968 - 1 day marriage of character Murphy Brown
1997 - British-Indian novelist and essayist Salman Rushdie (50) weds Elizabeth West
2004 - "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" actress Mariska Hargitay (40) weds actor-writer Peter
           Hermann (37) at the Unitarian Society in Santa Barbara, California
2007 - "Diff'rent Strokes" actor Gary Coleman (40) weds Shannon Price (22) at Valley of Fire State
            Park in Nevada
2010 - "Pretty Little Liars" actor Chad Lowe (42) weds film producer Kim Painter at Terranea Resort in
           Los Angeles

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 28, 2013, 09:47:02 AM

This Day in History for 28th August


Famous Divorces

2009 - Blake Fielder-Civil (27) divorces Grammy award-winning singer Amy Winehouse (25) due to
           adultery after 2 years of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 28, 2013, 09:57:15 AM

This Day in History for 28th August


Famous Birthdays

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1st American-born Saint                          Comic Book Artist and Writer                  Singer Shania Twain (1965)
 Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton (1774)                    Jack Kirby (1917)


865 - Rhazes, [Abu Bakr Mohammed ibn Zakarijja al-Razi], Persian physician
1025 - Emperor Go-Reizei of Japan (d. 1068)
1476 - Motonoboe, Japanese painter (Kano-school)
1582 - Taichang Emperor, of the Ming dynasty of China (d. 1620)
1592 - George Villiers, 1st duke of Buckingham/PM (1625-28)
1612 - Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn, Dutch scholar (d. 1653)
1667 - Louise of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1721)
1673 - Conrad Michael Schneider, composer
1691 - Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Holy Roman Empire Empress (d. 1750)
1700 - Carolomannus Pachschmidt, composer
1713 - Louis A A Count d'Affry, French general/ambassador to Netherland
1714 - Anthony Ulrich II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1774)
1749 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Frankfurt, social philosopher (Faust), (d. 1832)
1754 - Peter Winter, composer
1774 - Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton, 1st American Catholic saint (1975), (d. 1821)
1775 - Sophie Gail, composer
1789 - Stéphanie de Beauharnais, Grand Duchess of Baden (d. 1860)
1794 - Johannes Zwijsen, archbishop (Utrecht Netherlands)
1795 - Joannes A Paredis, Belgian Bishop of Roermond
1798 - Gershom Jaques Van Brunt, Comm (Union Navy), died in 1863
1801 - Antoine A Cournot, French philosopher/mathematician (rule of Cournot)
1814 - Sheridan le Fanu, Irish writer (d. 1873)
1824 - Carel JCH van Nispen of Sevenaer, Dutch Catholic politician
1826 - Walter Cecil Macfarren, composer
1827 - Teresa Milanollo, composer
1827 - Grand Duchess Catherine Mikhailovna of Russia (d. 1894)
1828 - William Alexander Hammond, Brigadier General (Union Army), died in 1900
1829 - Albert Dietrich, composer
1831 - Fredrick Vilhelm Ludvig Norman, composer
1831 - Lucy Ware Webb Hayes, 1st lady (1877-81)
1833 - Edward Burne-Jones, England, Pre-Raphaelite painter/designer
1840 - Ira D Sankey, US evangelist/composer/singer (Gospel hymns)
1840 - Alexander Cameron Sim, Scottish merchant (d. 1900)
1842 - Willem Linnig jr, Flemish painter/graphic artist
1853 - Vladimir Shukhov, Russian engineer and inventor (d. 1939)
1860 - Marianne V von Werefkin, Russian/German/Swiss painter [OS]
1872 - Alfred Baldwin Sloan, composer
1878 - George Hoyt Whipple, US, astrophysicist (Nobel-1934)
1881 - Arne Eggen, composer
1882 - Carl W de Vries, Dutch jurist (Unknown Thorbecke)
1883 - E E Clive, Monmouthshire Wales, actor (Night Must Fall, Dark Hour)
1885 - Armas Toivo Valdemar Maasalo, composer
1885 - Vance Palmer, Australian author (d. 1959)
1887 - Daniel Zamudio, composer
1889 - Charles Boyer, France, actor (Algiers, Fanny, Barefoot in the Park)
1890 - Ivor Gurney, composer
1891 - Stanley Andrews, Chicago IL, actor (Shine on Harvest Moon)
1894 - Charles Aubroeck, Belgian painter/sculptor (Iron Tower)
1894 - Karl Böhm, Austrian conductor (d. 1981)
1897 - Morris Ankrum, IL, actor (Kronos, Half Human, Earth vs Flying Saucers)
1898 - Ludwig Turek, writer
1899 - Charles Boyer, French actor (d. 1978)
1901 - Cornelis J Kelk, Dutch writer (Dance of Young Feet)
1901 - Paul Henry Lang, Budapest, critic/musicologist (NY Herald Tribune)
1903 - Rudolph Wagner-Regeny, composer
1904 - Secondo Campini, Italian jet engine pioneer (d. 1980)
1905 - Cyril Walters, cricketer (solid England batsman of 30's)
1905 - Sam Levene, Russia, actor (Demon, Gung Ho, Boomerang)
1906 - John Betjeman, poet laureate of England (Mt Zion)
1907 - Philip A Edwards, Brit Guiana, runner (Olympic-bronze-1928, 32, 36)
1908 - Roger Tory Peterson, NY, ornithologist/writer (How to Know Birds)
1910 - Tjalling Koopmans, Dutch-born economist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1985)
1911 - Jose Antonio Giron de Velasco, politician
1911 - Joseph MAH Luns, foreign minister/secr-general (NATO)
1912 - Ruurd Faber, mayor of Aalten (1971-75)
1913 - John Terence Reese, bridge master
1913 - Lindsay Hassett, cricketer (great Australian bat & capt after Bradman)
1913 - Richard Tucker, [Reuben Ticker], Brooklyn NY, Tenor (NY Met Opera)
1914 - Glenn Osser, Munising Mich, orchestra leader (Paul Whiteman Goodyear Revue)
1915 - Max Robertson, British sports commentator
1915 - Tasha Tudor, American illustrator (d. 2008)
1916 - C Wright Mills, sociologist, writer (The Power Elite) [or May 28]
1916 - Jack [Holbrook] Vance, US, sci-fi author (2 Hugo, Dirdir, Pnume), (d. 2013)
1916 - Hélène Baillargeon, Quebec singer and folklorist (d. 1997)
1917 - Jack Kirby, cartoonist (X-Men, Spiderman, Hulk, Capt America)
1918 - Alejandro Lanusse, army officer/politician
1919 - Ernest H Martin, [Markowitz], producer (Feuer & Martin-Chorus Line)
1920 - Frits Bernard, pedophile activist (d. 2006)
1921 - Joop Doderer, Velsen Netherlands, actor (Swiebertje)
1921 - Nancy Kulp, Harrisburg PA, actress (Miss Hathaway-Beverly Hillbillies)
1921 - Fernando Fernán Gómez, Spanish actor, director, academic and playwright (d. 2007)
1924 - Janet Frame, NZ, novelist (Intensive Care, Owls Do Cry)
1924 - Peggy Ryan, Long Beach California, actress (Jenny-Hawaii Five-0)
1924 - Tony MacGibbon, NZ cricket fast bowler (took 70 wickets in 1950's)
1924 - Vilayat Khan, composer
1925 - Arkadi N Strugazki, USSR, sci-fi author (Tale of the Troika)
1925 - John Gillett, film researcher
1925 - Marvin Davis, Newark NJ, CEO (Davis Oil Company)
1925 - Billy Grammer, American country music singer and guitarist
1928 - James Wild, music teacher
1928 - F. William Free, American advertising executive (d. 2003)
1929 - Rokie Roker, Miami Fla, actress (Helen-Jeffersons)
1930 - Ben Gazzara, NYC, actor (Run for Your Life, QB VII), (d. 2012)
1930 - Windsor Davies, British actor
1931 - John Perkins, rocker (Crew Cuts)
1931 - John Shirley-Quirk, Liverpool England, baritone (Death in Venice)
1931 - Tito Capobianco, Argentinian stage impresario
1932 - Andy Bathgate, Canada, NY Ranger (1958 NHL MVP)
1932 - Carlene Polite, US dancer/activist/author (Sister X)
1932 - [Moriyuki] Pat Morita, Isleton CA, actor (Hiroshima, Karate Kid)
1935 - Gilles Rocheleau, French Canadian politician (d. 1998)
1936 - Harry McLevy, trade Unionist
1936 - Don Denkinger, American baseball umpire
1937 - 12th duke of Argyll, Scottish Campbell-captain/large landowner
1938 - Paul Martin, Canadian politician
1938 - Maurizio Costanzo, Italian television journalist
1939 - Cassie Mackin, newswoman (NBC TV)
1939 - Clem Cattini, rocker
1939 - Edward Patten, US soul singer (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
1940 - Richard Sanders, actor (Les Nessman-WKRP)
1940 - William S Cohen, (Sen-R Maine, 1979- )
1940 - Ken Jenkins, American actor
1940 - Roger Pingeon, French cylist
1940 - Nik Turner, English musician (Hawkwind)
1941 - Paul Peter Plishka, Old Forge Penn, bass (Bronx Botanical Gardens)
1941 - Sybille de Selys Longchamps, Belgian aristocrat
1943 - Anne "Honey" Lantree, rocker
1943 - David Soul, [Solberg] Chicago, actor (Starsky & Hutch)
1943 - Lou Pinella, Yankee manager (1969 AL rookie of the year)
1943 - Surayud Chulanont, Thai 24th Prime Minister (former)
1944 - Marianne Heemskerk, Dutch swimmer
1944 - Melvin Dummar, American claimant to the Howard Hughes estate
1945 - Bruno Nuytten, director (Camille Claudel)
1945 - Bob Segarini, Musician and radio personality
1947 - Alice Playton, NYC, actress (Who Killed Mary Whats 'er Name)
1947 - Shoto Tanemura, Japanese martial artist
1948 - Daniel Seraphine, Chicago, rock drummer (Chicago-If You Leave Me Now)
1948 - Murray Parker, cricketer (brother of John Three Tests for NZ 1976)
1948 - Vonda N[eel] McIntyre, US, sci-fi author (Star Trek II, III, IV)
1949 - Hugh Cornwell, rocker (The Stranglers-Dreamtime)
1950 - Ron "Louisiana Lightning" Guidry, Yankee pitcher (Cy Young 1978)
1951 - Dave Hlubek, rock guitarist (Molly Hatchet)
1951 - Wayne Osmond, Ogden Utah, singer (Osmond Brothers, Donnie & Marie)
1951 - Keiichi Suzuki, Japanese composer
1952 - Rita Dove, American poet
1952 - Wendelin Wiedeking, German businessman
1952 - Guy Nadon, Canadian actor
1952 - Jacques Chagnon, Canadian politician
1953 - Gates McFadden, Columbus Ohio, actress (Star Trek Next Generation)
1954 - George Church, American geneticist
1956 - Beverley Goddard-Callender, Barbados, 4x100m (Olympic-bronze-1980, 84)
1956 - Luis Guzmán, Puerto Rican actor
1957 - Daniel Stern, Stamford Ct, actor (City Slickers, Wonder Years)
1957 - Rick Rossovich, Palo Alto CA, actor (Top Gun, Roxanne, ER)
1958 - Scott Scovell Hamilton, Toledo Oh, ice skater (Olympic-gold-1984)
1959 - Mary Murphy, Birmingham MI, LPGA golfer (1990 US Women's Open-5th)
1960 - Cunningham T Ngcukana, South African worker's union leader
1960 - Emma Samms, [Samuels], London, actress (Colby's, General Hospital)
1960 - Leroy Chiao, Milwaukee Wisc, astronaut (STS 65, 72, sk: 92)
1961 - Kim Appleby, Stoke Newington, London, English singer (Mel & Kim-Coming to America)
1962 - Richard Elliott Fehr, Seattle WA, PGA golfer (1986 BC Open)
1962 - Paul Allen, English footballer
1962 - David Fincher, American music video and film director
1963 - Abe Button, soccer player (Vitesse)
1963 - Regina Marie Jacobs, LA CA, 800m/1500m runner (Olympics-10th-1996)
1963 - Reyna Thompson, NFL cornerback (NY Giants)
1964 - Lee MacLeod Janzen, Austin MN, PGA golfer (1993 US Open)
1965 - James Jagger, son of Mick Jagger & Jerry Hall
1965 - Shania Twain, Windsor Ontario, Canadian singer (You're Still the One)
1966 - Jerry Fehily, rocker (Hothouse Flowers-Don't Go)
1966 - Teresa Zarzeczny Bell, Washington Crossing NJ, rower (Oly-silver-1996)
1966 - Priya Dutt, Indian social worker and politician
1967 - Chris Armstrong, CFL slot back (Montreal Alouettes)
1967 - Darren Lewis, Berkeley CA, outfielder (Chicago White Sox)
1967 - Frederick Kesner, Philippine-born Australian poet
1968 - Scarlet Annette Morgan, Pfafftown NC, Miss NC-America-1991
1968 - Tom Fitzgerald, Melrose, NHL right wing (Florida Panthers)
1968 - Billy Boyd, Scottish actor
1969 - Jason Priestley, Vancouver BC, actor (Brandon-Beverly Hills 90210)
1969 - Mary McCartney, daughter of Beatle Paul McCartney
1969 - Pierre Turgeon, Rouyn, NHL center (NY Islanders, Montreal Canadiens)
1969 - Jack Black, American actor
1970 - Gavin Maxwell, Mississauga Ontario, canoeist (Olympics-96)
1970 - Jaime Fields, NFL/WLAF linebacker (KC Chiefs, Scotland Claymores)
1970 - Rick Recht, Jewish singer
1971 - Janet Evans, Fullerton CA, 400m/800m swimmer (Oly-4 gold-88, 92, 96)
1971 - Olaf Sheep, soccer player (Dordrecht '90, NAC)
1971 - Raul Marquez, Mexico, US boxer (Olympic-92)
1971 - Scott Eldredge, Chatham Mass, 1996 World Mens' Champion
1971 - Shane Andrews, Dallas TX, infielder (Montreal Expos)
1971 - Todd Eldredge, Chatham Mass, figure skater (1997 National Sr champ)
1972 - Darby Hendrickson, Richfield Minn, US hockey forward (Olympics-1994)
1972 - Mike Cawley, CFL quarterback (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1972 - Jay Witasick, American baseball player
1973 - Matthew John Armstrong, American actor
1973 - DJ Assault, American musician
1974 - Mark Smith, defensive end (Arizona Cardinals)
1974 - Takahito Eguchi, Japanese composer
1974 - Johan Andersson, Swedish game programmer
1974 - Carsten Jancker, German footballer
1975 - Jamie Cureton, English footballer
1975 - Gareth Farrelly, Irish footballer
1975 - Vera Jordanova, Finnish actress and model
1976 - Federico Magallanes, Uruguayan footballer
1978 - Jess Margera, American drummer (CKY)
1978 - Shaniqua, American wrestling valet
1979 - Markus Pröll, German footballer
1979 - Robert Hoyzer, German football referee
1979 - Shaila Durcal, Spanish singer
1979 - Kristen Hughes, Australian netballer
1979 - Ruth Riley, American basketball player
1980 - T.J. Beam, American baseball player
1981 - Daniel Gygax, Swiss footballer
1981 - Vaggelis Moras, Greek footballer
1981 - Agata Wróbel, Polish weightlifter
1981 - Raphael Matos, Brazilian racing driver
1981 - Martin Erat, Czech hockey player
1982 - Le Ann Rimes, country singer (Blue, Holiday in Your Heart)
1982 - Anderson Silva de França, Brazilian footballer
1982 - Thiago Motta, Brazilian footballer
1982 - Kevin McNaughton, Scottish footballer
1983 - Lasith Malinga, Sri Lankan cricketer
1983 - Alfonso Herrera, Actor, and singer in the Latin pop group RBD
1985 - Ralph Woolfolk IV, American actor
1986 - Gilad Shalit, Israeli corporal
1988 - Ray Jones, English footballer (d. 2007)
1990 - Bojan Krkić, Serbian-Spanish footballer
1991 - Kyle Massey, American actor
1991 - Sarah Jane Santos, Filipino singer
1999 - Prince Nikolai of Denmark

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 28, 2013, 10:01:20 AM

This Day in History for 28th August


Famous Deaths

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Landscape Architect and Writer             Murder Victim Emmett Till (1955)
Frederick Law Olmsted (1903)


388 - Magnus Maximus, Spanish West Roman Emperor (383-88), executed
430 - Augustine of Hippo, North African saint and theologian (Belijdenissen), dies at 75
876 - Louis the German, King of East France Empire (833-76), dies
1065 - Frederik van Luxembourg, duke of Neth-Lutherans (1046-65)
1341 - King Leo V of Armenia (b. 1309)
1481 - Afonso V, King of Portugal, dies
1484 - Diogo, duke of Viseu, murdered
1539 - Lieven Pain, Flemish, beheaded at about 75
1544 - Alardus Aemstelredamus, priest/humanist, dies at about 53
1550 - Nicolas Perrenot de Granvelle, Charles V's asst sec of state, dies
1645 - Hugo Grotius, Dutch philosopher and writer (b. 1583)
1646 - Fulvio Testi, Italian poet (Poesie liriche), dies at 53
1647 - Johann Dilliger, composer, dies at 53
1654 - Axel Gustafson Oxenstierna, Swedish earl/chancellor/regent, dies at 71
1676 - Joan Cererols, composer, dies at 57
1677 - Wallerand Vaillant, painter/engraver/etcher/cartoonist, dies at 54
1678 - John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton, English soldier (b. 1602)
1757 - David Hartley, English philosopher (b. 1705)
1767 - Johann Schobert, composer, dies
1778 - Jacob Wallenberg, Swedish writer/shipminister, dies
1784 - Junípero Serra, Spanish missionary (b. 1713)
1793 - Adam-Philippe Custine, French earl/general/parliament member, dies
1798 - James Wilson, Scot/US judge/signer (Decl of Ind), dies at 55
1803 - Charles L Fournier, Flemish writer/painter, dies
1805 - Alexander Carlyle, Scottish church leader (Moderator of the General Assembly 1770), dies at
           83
1818 - Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable, trader, founder of Chicago, dies
1820 - Andrew Ellicott, American surveyor (b. 1754)
1839 - William Smith, English geologist (b. 1769)
1885 - Julius Hopp, composer, dies at 66
1900 - Henry Sidgwick, English philosopher (Women on University), dies
1903 - August Labitzky, composer, dies at 70
1903 - Frederick Law Olmsted, American writer and landscape architect (designed Central Park) dies
           aged 81
1914 - Anatol Konstantinovich Lyadov, composer (Baba Yaga), dies at 59 [NS]
1914 - Anatoli Liadov, composer, dies at 59
1916 - Francis W Warre-Cornish, Engl vice-provost of Eton (1893-1916), dies
1922 - Louis PMFG of Orleans, earl of Eu/Brazil, dies at 80
1930 - Alvar Gullstrand, Swedish optician (Nobel 1911), dies
1933 - Helen Dunbar, American actress (b. 1863)
1934 - Doris Ulmann, American photographer dies aged 52
1943 - Boris III, of Saksen-Coburg, King of Bulgaria (1918-43), dies
1944 - Ernst Thalmann, German communist, dies in Buchenwald
1947 - Manolete, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1917)
1951 - Robert Walker, actor/writer (Bataan, Madame Curie), dies at 32
1955 - Emmett Till, kidnapped & lynched at 14, in Money Mississippi
1958 - Nikolay Semyonovich Golovanov, composer, dies at 67
1959 - Bohuslav Jan Martinu, Czech composer (Hry o Marti), dies at 68
1960 - Anton Lajovic, composer, dies at 81
1961 - Thomas Connolly, 1st baseball umpire elected to hall of fame, dies
1964 - Gracie Allen, Mrs George Burns/comedian (Burns & Allen), dies at 62
1964 - Lumsden Hare, actor (Oregon Trail, Desert Fox), dies at 89
1965 - Giulio Racah, Israeli physicist (b. 1909)
1967 - Charles Darrow, US inventor of Monopoly, dies
1968 - John Gordon Mein, US ambassador in Guatemala, dies
1968 - Nick Castle, choreographer (Dinah Shore, Judy Garland), dies at 58
1969 - Clarence R Hennecke, actor (Keystone Kops), dies at 74
1971 - Nathan Leopold, US kidnapper/murderer of Bobby Franks (1924), dies
1972 - William HAF, Engl prince/grandson of George V, dies in accident at 29
1975 - Fritz Wotruba, Austrian sculptor (b. 1907)
1978 - Bruce Catton, US historian/writer (Civil War), dies at 78
1979 - Simonow, writer, dies
1981 - Béla Guttman, Hungarian footballer (b. 1900)
1982 - G W A Chubb, cricketer (5 Tests for South Africa, 21 wickets), dies
1982 - Nini de Boel, Flemish operetta singer (White Horse), dies at 84
1983 - Jan Clayton, actress (Ellen Miller-Lassie), dies at 66
1985 - Ruth Gordon, actress (Big Bus), dies of a stroke in her sleep at 88
1987 - John Huston, US/Irish actor/director (Maltese Falcon), dies at 81
1988 - Hazel Dawn, US singer/actress (Under Clover, Margie), dies at 98
1988 - Paul Whitelaw, cricketer (2 Tests NZ v England 1933), dies
1990 - Willy Vandersteen, Flemish cartoonist (Suske & Wiske), dies
1991 - Christian Anders, actor/composer (Death Stone, Love Cult), dies
1991 - Eleanor Berry, actress (Death Valley Days), dies
1993 - René Ray, English countess/actress (Farewell again), dies at 80
1993 - William Stafford, American poet (b. 1914)
1994 - David Wright, poet, dies at 74
1994 - Jean-Marie Vincent, Haitian pater, murdered
1994 - Pieter de Cort, Belgian rock guitarist (Betty Goes Green), dies at 25
1995 - Agnes Patrick, campaigner, dies at 85
1995 - Michael Ende, German writer (Neverending Story), dies at 65
1995 - Michael VerMeulen, journalist, dies at 38
1995 - Earl Bascom, American rodeo pioneer (b. 1906)
1996 - Lynda Carr, educationist, dies at 50
1996 - Phyllis Pearsall, painter/writer, dies at 89
2003 - Brian Douglas Wells, American criminal (failed) (b. 1956)
2005 - Jacques Dufilho, French actor (b. 1914)
2005 - Esther Szekeres, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1910)
2005 - George Szekeres, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1911)
2006 - Benoît Sauvageau, French Canadian politician (b. 1963)
2006 - Melvin Schwartz, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1932)
2007 - Arthur Jones, American inventor of the Nautilus exercise machines (b. 1926)
2007 - Hilly Kristal, American Founder of CBGB/Punk rock legend (b. 1932)
2007 - Paul B. MacCready, Jr., American aeronautical engineer (b. 1925)
2007 - Antonio Puerta, Spanish footballer (b. 1984)
2007 - Francisco Umbral, Spanish journalist, novelist, biographer and essayist (b. 1935)
2007 - Miyoshi Umeki, Japanese-born American actress (b. 1929)
2007 - Nikola Nobilo, New Zealand winemaker (b. 1913)
2008 - Phil Hill, American race car driver and one-time F1 world champion (b. 1927)
2009 - Adam Goldstein, American DJ also known as DJ AM (b. 1973)
2010 - William P. Foster, notable band director and founder of the Marching 100 of Florida A&M
           University
2011 - Bernie Gallacher, British footballer (Aston Villa) (b. 1967)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 29, 2013, 08:49:03 AM

This Day in History for 29th August


Historical Events

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King of England                                           Baseball Great Babe Ruth                  Animator Walt Disney
King Charles I

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Iraqi President                                         Professional Road Cyclist and
Saddam Hussein                                      Testicular Cancer Survivor
                                                                Lance Armstrong


708 - Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time (Traditional Japanese date: August 10,
         708).
1178 - Anti-Pope Callistus III gives pope title to Alexander III
1261 - Jacques Pantaleon elected as Pope Urban IV
1350 - Battle of Winchelsea (or Les Espagnols sur Mer): The English naval fleet under King Edward III
           defeats a Castilian fleet of 40 ships.
1475 - Treaty of Picquigny] king Louis XI buys English contacts
1484 - Giovanni B Cibo elected as Pope Innocent VIII
1521 - The Ottoman Turks capture Nándorfehérvár, now known as Belgrade.
1526 - Hungary conquered by Turks in Battle of Mohács
1533 - Francisco Pizarro orders death of last Incan King of Peru, Atahualpa
1540 - Emperor Karel deprives city Gent definitive rights/privileges
1541 - The Ottoman Turks capture Buda, the capital of the Hungarian Kingdom.
1612 - Battle at Surat India: English fleet beats Portuguese
1640 - English King Charles I signed a peace treaty with Scotland
1655 - Warsaw falls without resistance to a small force under the command of Charles X Gustav of
           Sweden during The Deluge.
1664 - Adriaen Pieck/Gerrit de Ferry patent wooden firespout in Amsterdam
1708 - English troops occupy Menorca & Sardinia
1708 - Haverhill, Mass destroyed by French & Indians
1742 - Edmond Hoyle published his "Short Treatise" on the card game whist
1756 - England & France meet in war
1756 - Prussian Libya occupies Saxson: beginning 7 years War
1758 - New Jersey Legislature forms 1st Indian reservation
1776 - Americans withdraw from Manhattan to Westchester
1786 - Shay's Rebellion in Springfield, Mass
1792 - English warship Royal George capsizes in Spithead; kills 900
1793 - Slaves in French colony of St Domingue (Haiti) freed
1825 - Portugal recognizes the Independence of Brazil.
1831 - Michael Faraday demonstrates 1st electric transformer
1833 - Britain's Slavery Abolition Act becomes law
1842 - Gr Britain & China sign Treaty of Nanking, ends Opium war
1844 - 1st white-indian lacrosse game in Montreal, Indians win
1854 - Self-governing windmill patented (Daniel Halladay)
1861 - American Civil War: US Navy squadron captures forts at Hatteras Inlet, North Carolina.
1862 - 2nd Battle of Bull Run Va (Manassas) during US Civil War
1862 - Battle of Aspromonte-Italian royal forces defeat rebels
1862 - US Bureau of Engraving & Printing begins operation
1864 - William Huggins discovers chemical composition of nebulae
1871 - Emperor Meiji orders the Abolition of the han system and the establishment of prefectures as
           local centers of administration. (Traditional Japanese date: July 14, 1871).
1882 - Australia beat England by 7 runs "Death of English cricket"
1882 - Fred Spofforth completes 14-90 for match v England (7-46 & 7-44)
1883 - Seismic sea waves created by Krakatoa eruption create a rise in English Channel 32 hrs after
           explosion
1885 - Gottlieb Daimler receives German patent for a motorcycle
1885 - Phillies Charlie Ferguson no-hits Providence 1-0
1885 - Boxing's 1st heavyweight title fight with 3-oz gloves & 3-minute rounds fought between John
           L Sullivan & Dominick McCaffrey
1889 - 1st American Intl pro lawn tennis contest (Newport RI)
1895 - The formation of the Northern Rugby Union at the George Hotel, Huddersfield, England.
1896 - Chop suey invented in NYC by chef of visiting Chinese Ambassador
1898 - The Goodyear tire company is founded.
1904 - 1st Olympics in US are held (St Louis)
1904 - 3rd modern Olympic Games opens in St Louis
1905 - Pierre de Brazza leaves Brazzaville
1906 - Bridge in St Lawrence Canada caves in; 70 die
1906 - William J Clothier wins the US Tennis Open
1907 - The Quebec Bridge collapses during construction, killing 75 workers.
1908 - NY gives a ticker tape parade to returning US Olympians from London
1909 - AH Latham of France sets world airplane altitude record of 155 m
1909 - World's 1st air race held in Rheims France. Glenn Curtiss (USA) wins
1910 - Japan changes Korea's name to Chōsen and appoints a governor-general to rule its new
           colony.
1911 - Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges
           from the wilderness of northeastern California.
1913 - Pieter Cort Van de Linden forms Dutch government
1914 - 4th day of Tannenberg: Russian Narev-army panics, Gen Martos caught
1914 - Arizonian is 1st vessel to arrive in SF via Panama Canal
1914 - Battle at St Quentin: French counter attack under General Lanrezac
1916 - Congress creates US Naval reserve
1916 - Gen Von Hindenburg becomes German Chief of Staff
1916 - Transportship Hsin-Yu & cruiser Hai-Yung collide; 1000 die
1916 - US Congress accept Jones Act: Philippines independence
1916 - Von Hindenburg replaces Von Falkenhayn as German chief of staff
1918 - Bapaume taken by Australian Corps and Canadian Corps in the Hundred Days Offensive
1924 - German Republic day accepts Dawes plan
1925 - After a night on the town, Babe Ruth shows up late for batting practice Miller Huggins
           suspends Ruth & slaps a $5,000 fine on him
1929 - German airship Graf Zeppelin ends a round-the-world flight
1930 - The last 36 remaining inhabitants of St Kilda are voluntarily evacuated to other parts of
           Scotland.
1932 - International Anti-War Committee forms in Amsterdam
1932 - United Cigar Stores shuts 800 shops
1935 - 2nd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chi Bears 5, All-Stars 0 (77,450)
1937 - Phila A's Bob Johnson is 2nd to get 6 RBIs in an inning (1st)
1939 - Chaim Weizmann informs England that Palestine Jews will fight in WW II
1940 - 7th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 45, All-Stars 28 (84,567)
1941 - German Einsatzkommando in Russia kills 1,469 Jewish children
1943 - Denmark scuttles their warships so as not to be taken by Germany
1944 - 15,000 American troops liberating Paris march down Champs Elysees
1944 - Anti German rebellion in Slovakia
1945 - British liberate Hong Kong from Japan
1945 - Gen MacArthur named Supreme Commander of Allied Powers in Japan
1947 - Constantine Tsaldaris follows Maximos as Greece premier
1949 - USSR performs first nuclear test
1949 - USSR explodes its 1st atomic bomb
1950 - Intl Olympic Committee votes admission to West Germany & Japan in '52
1953 - KHSL TV channel 12 in Chico, CA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 - USSR explodes its 1st hydrogen bomb
1954 - SF International Airport (SFO) opens
1956 - French government routes troops to Cyprus near Suez crisis
1957 - Congress passes Civil Rights Act of 1957
1957 - Strom Thurmond (Sen-D-SC) ends 24 hr filibuster against civil rights
1958 - Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colo
1958 - George Harrison joins Quarrymen (Lennon-McCartney-Best-Sutcliffe)
1960 - Jordan premier Hazza-el-Madjali deadly injured at bomb attack
1962 - Some provisions of Kuwaiti constitution are suspended
1962 - US U-2 flight sees SAM launch pads in Cuba
1963 - Harmon Killebrew (Twins) HRs off Pete Burnside (Senators) in DH
1964 - "Funny Thing Happened" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 965 perfs
1964 - Walt Disney's "Mary Poppins" released
1964 - On Elston Howard Night, Mickey Mantle ties Babe Ruth's career strikeout record (1,330)
1965 - Astronauts Cooper & Conrad complete 120 Earth orbits in Gemini 5
1965 - Willie Mays sets NL record for HRs in a month with his 17th of August
1966 - Beatles last public concert (Candlestick Park, SF)
1966 - Dutch Internal minister Smallenbroek resigns after driving drunk
1967 - Final TV episode of "Fugitive"
1967 - Yanks longest day, Red Sox take 1st game 2-1 in 9, Yanks win 2nd game in 20, 4-3 a total of
           8 hours & 19 minutes
1968 - 1st US Open tennis match (Billie Jean King beats Dr Vija Vuskains)
1968 - Democratics nominate Hubert H Humphrey for president (Chicago)
1969 - Joe Pepitone quits Yanks after being fined $500 for leaving the bench
1969 - KYUS TV channel 3 in Miles City, MT (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
1970 - Black Panthers confront cops in Phila (1 cop killed)
1972 - SF Giant Jim Barr retires 1st 20 batters he faces added to last 21 he retired 6 days earlier for
           record 41 in a row
1974 - USSR performs underground nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1975 - Star in Cygnus goes nova becoming 4th brightest in sky
1976 - Sandra Palmer wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open
1977 - St Louis Cardinal Lou Brock eclipses Ty Cobb's 49-year-old career stolen bases record at 893
           as Padres win 4-3
1978 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1978 - USTA National Tennis Center opens in Flushing NY
1979 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1979 - Sheridan Broadcasting Corp purchases Mutual Black Network
1981 - 28th Walker Cup: US wins 15-9
1981 - Phillies minor leaguer Jeff Stone steals pro baseball record 121st base en route to 122
           (Spartanburg (South Atlantic League))
1982 - 38°F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in August
1982 - George Brett gets his 1,500th hit
1982 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic
1982 - Steve Miller's "Abracadabra" hits #1
1982 - The synthetic chemical element Meitnerium, atomic number 109, is first synthesized at the
           Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany.
1985 - Atlantis moves to launch pad for 51-J mission
1985 - Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation
1985 - NY Yank Don Baylor is hit by a pitch for a record 190th time
1986 - Heike Drechsler of E Germany ties world women's 200 m mark (21.71s)
1986 - Morocco king Hassan II signs unity treaty with Libya
1987 - Nolan Ryan passes the 200-strikeout barrier for record 11th time
1987 - Rosa Mota becomes wins female Rome marathon (2:25:17)
1988 - Macy's Tap-o-Mania sets Guiness record
1988 - USSR launches 3 cosmonauts (Valery Polyakav, 1 Afghan) to station Mir
1990 - C-5 transport plane crashes at Ramstein AFB, Germany, killing 13
1990 - Saddam Hussein declares America can't beat Iraq
1991 - JFK Jr wins his 1st battle as an attorney
1991 - USSR suspends Communist Party activities
1992 - Largest wrestling crowd out side of US (75,000) at Wembley Stadium
1992 - Randy Myers blows his 6th save of the season & it marks the 5th time he's blown a potential
           win for Greg Harris
1992 - Brave's Charlie Leibrandt 1,000th strikeout & decides to keep the ball He rolls it to the
           dugout, allows Ricky Jordan to take 2nd on error
1993 - 21st du Maurier Golf Classic: Brandie Burton
1993 - 93rd US Golf Amateur Championship won by John Harris
1995 - NATO launches Operation Deliberate Force against Bosnian Serb forces.
1996 - Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801, a Vnukovo Airlines Tupolev Tu-154, crashes into a mountain on
           the Arctic island of Spitsbergen, killing all 141 aboard.
1997 - At least 98 villagers are killed by the GIA in the Rais massacre, Algeria.
2003 - Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, the Shia Muslim leader in Iraq, is assassinated in
           a terrorist bombing, along with nearly 100 worshippers as they leave a mosque in Najaf.
2005 - Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida
           Panhandle, killing more than 1,836 and causing over $115 billion in damage.
2007 - A United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident takes place at Minot Air Force Base and
           Barksdale Air Force Base.
2012 - Georgian hostage crisis results in 3 police officers and 10 militants being killed
2012 - Operation Eagle, undertaken by the Egyptian Army, results in the deaths of 11 suspected
           terrorists and the arrest of another 23
2012 - Banana Spider venom is found to be effective in relieving erectile dysfunction
2012 - The USADA claims to have stripped Lance Armstrong of his seven Tour de France titles

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 29, 2013, 08:54:57 AM

This Day in History for 29th August


Famous Weddings

1885 - Pulitzer Prize-winning American author ('Age of Innocence') Edith Jones (23), marries Edward
           "Teddy" Wharton (36)
1955 - "Untamed Youth" actress Mamie Van Doren (24) weds trumpeter and actor Ray Anthony (33)
1968 - Norwegian Crown Prince Harald (later Harald V) marries Sonja Haraldsen at Oslo Cathedral
1993 - Actress Elke Sommer (52) weds Wolf Walther (46)
1993 - Actress Marlee Matlin (28) weds Kevin Grandalski (28) in New York City
1998 - "Baywatch" actress Traci Bingham (30) weds Robb Vallier at First United Methodist Church in
           Ames, Iowa

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 29, 2013, 09:04:55 AM

This Day in History for 29th August


Famous Birthdays

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Philosopher John Locke (1632)                Author and Nobel Laureate                   Actress Ingrid Bergman (1915)
                                                                 Maurice Maeterlinck (1862)

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King of Pop Michael Jackson (1958)


1387 - Henry V, king of England (1413-22)/France (1416-19)
1434 - Janus Pannonius, Hungarian poet/translator
1476 - Kano Motonobu, Kyoto Japan, co-founder (Kano school of painting)
1561 - Bartholomeus Pitiscus, German mathematician (Trigonometry)
1609 - Sassoferrato, [Giovanni B Salvi], Italian painter (Madonna)
1619 - Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of Naval/baron
1628 - John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (d. 1701)
1632 - John Locke, Wrington England, empiricist philosopher; disproved substance
1686 - Wilhelm Hieronymus Pachelbel, composer
1694 - Charlotte Christine of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1715)
1725 - Charles Townshend, English politician (d. 1767)
1728 - Maria Anna Sophia of Saxony, Electress of Bavaria (d. 1797)
1756 - Heinrich Graf von Bellegarde, Austrian field marshal and statesman (d. 1845)
1756 - Jan Śniadecki, Polish mathematician (d. 1830)
1773 - Raphael G Kiesewetter, Austria musicologist (Arab Music)
1777 - Nikita Yakovlevich Bichurin, founder of Sinology (d. 1853)
1780 - Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French painter (Valpincon Bather)
1805 - Frederick Maurice, English theologian (d. 1872)
1808 - Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch, German politician/reformer
1809 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Cambridge MA, physician/author (Old Ironsides)
1811 - Henry Bergh, 1st president of SPCA
1815 - Anna Ella Carroll, US, civil war writer (Reconstruction)
1842 - Alfred Shaw, cricketer (pioneering England Test bowler)
1843 - David B. Hill, Governor of New York (d. 1910)
1844 - Edward Carpenter, English poet (d. 1929)
1849 - Titus A J van Asch van Wijck, Dutch governor Suriname (1891-97)
1851 - Willem M d'Ablaing, Dutch lawyer
1855 - Emil Pauer, composer
1857 - Sandford Schultz, English cricketer (d. 1937)
1862 - Maurice Maeterlinck, Ghent Belgium, poet (Blue Bird, Nobel 1911), (d. 1949)
1862 - Andrew Fisher, 5th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1928)
1871 - Albert Lebrun, French politician (d. 1950)
1874 - Walter Field
1876 - Charles F Kettering, Ohio, inventor (auto self-starter)
1876 - Kim Gu, President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (d. 1949)
1877 - Alfred DPR Pound, British admiral/1st Sealord (Jutland, WW II)
1879 - Han Yong-woon, Hongsung County Korea, Zen teacher
1880 - Marie-Louise Meilleur, Canada, lived past 117
1881 - Edvin Kallstenius, composer
1881 - Valery Nicolas Larbaud, France, novelist/translator (Enfantines)
1884 - Ehm Welk, writer
1891 - Michael Chekhov, Russia, actor (Abie's Irish Rose, Rhapsody)
1894 - E Franklin Frazier, sociologist, died in 1962
1898 - Preston Sturges, [Edmund P Biden], Chic, director (Sullivan's Travels)
1899 - George Macready, Providence RI, actor (Martin Peyton-Peyton Place)
1899 - Lyman L Lemnitzer, Marine Corps general (WW II)
1900 - Oscar Nitzchke, German architect (Alcoa building/Centre Pompidou)
1901 - Aurel Joliat, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1986)
1903 - Ernst Kreuder, writer
1903 - Olive Ann Beech, aircraft industry executive
1904 - Werner Forssman, German urologist (Nobel 1956)
1905 - Lan Adomian, composer
1905 - Martinus A Jansen, Bishop of Rotterdam (1956-70)
1906 - Lurene Tuttle, Pleasant Lake Ind, actress (Father of Bride, Julia)
1907 - Joseph Wechsberg, Austria/US writer (Looking For a Bluebird)
1909 - Francis Henry Smith, librarian
1909 - Roy Reuther, Wheeling WV, labor leader
1910 - Robert Pineda-Duque, composer
1912 - Barry Sullivan, NYC, actor (Duffy's Tavern, Man Called X, Tall Man)
1912 - Emil Schumacher, German painter (Tangible Objects)
1912 - Wolfgang Suschitzky, Austrian/Polish cinematographer
1912 - Sohn Kee-chung, Korean runner (d. 2002)
1913 - Len Butterfield, cricketer (NZ all-rounder, Test)
1915 - Denys Hay, historian
1915 - Ingrid Bergman, Stockholm, actress (Casablanca, Cactus Flower), (d. 1982)
1915 - Nathan Pritikin, American nutritionist (d. 1985)
1916 - George Montgomery, Brady Mont, actor (Battle of Bulge, Hallucination)
1916 - Leo Horn, Dutch soccer referee/columnist/businessman
1917 - Isabel Sanford, NYC, actress (Louise-Jeffersons/All in the Family)
1918 - Jelle Zijlstra, economist/minister/pres Netherlands Bank
1920 - Charles White, Perth Amboy NJ, actor (Airpot 95, Serpico)
1920 - Charlie "Bird" Parker, US jazz saxophonist
1920 - Susan Damante Shaw, London England, actress (Wilderness Family)
1920 - Joseph Lesniewski, Erie, Pennsylvania, Easy Company soldier in 101st Airborne, (d. 2012)
1922 - Emile Habibi, writer
1922 - Yorgos Sicilianos, composer
1922 - Mr. Blackwell, American fashion critic
1923 - Hirulal Gaekwad, cricket all-rounder (Test for India 1952-53)
1923 - Lester Albert Trimble, composer
1923 - Reinier Braams, Dutch biophysicist/MP (VVD)
1923 - Richard Attenborough, England, actor/director (Gandhi, Young Winston)
1923 - Marmaduke Hussey, BBC Chairman (d. 2006)
1924 - Dinah Washington, Chicago, singer (What a Difference a Day Makes)
1924 - James W Wood, USAF/astronaut (Dynasoar)
1924 - Consuelo Velázquez, Mexican songwriter (d. 2005)
1925 - Donald O'Connor, Chicago Ill, dancer/actor (Singing in the Rain)
1926 - Betty Lynn, American actress
1926 - María Dolores Pradera, Spanish melodic singer
1927 - Marion Williams, US gospel singers (Stars of Faith)
1928 - Charles Gray, Bournemouth England, actor (Clay-Rawhide)
1928 - Thomas Stewart, San Saba Texas, baritone (La Roche Capriccio)
1929 - Thom Gunn, Kent England, poet (The Wound)
1930 - Marius J J van Amelsvoort, Dutch undersecretary (CDA)
1930 - Jacques Bouchard, Canadian advertising executive (d. 2006)
1931 - Stelios Kazantzidis, Greek singer (d. 2001)
1931 - Lise Payette, Quebec politician, writer and columnist
1933 - Jehan Sadat, 1st lady of Egypt
1933 - Ramses Shaffy, Dutch cabaret actor (Zaak MP, Liefdesbekentenissen)
1933 - Arnold Koller, Swiss Federal Councilor
1934 - David H Pryor, (Sen-D Arkansas, 1979- )
1934 - Gene Allison, US R&B-singer (You Can Make It If You Try)
1934 - Jean-Pierre Guezek, composer
1934 - John Guy, cricketer (solid left-handed batsman for NZ in late 1950's)
1935 - Hugo Brandt Corstius, Dutch essayist/mathematician
1935 - William Friedkin, Chicago, Illinois, American director/producer/writer (The Exorcist, The French
           Connection)
1936 - John McCain, (Rep-R-Arizona, 1983-86)
1937 - James J Florio, (Rep-D-NJ, 1975-90/Gov-D-NJ, 1990-94)
1938 - Elliott Gould, Queens NY, actor (M*A*S*H, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice)
1938 - Robert Rubin, United States Secretary of the Treasury
1940 - James Brady, press secretary (wounded during Reagan assassin attempt)
1940 - Wilhelm Ruska, Holland, judo champ (Olympic-gold-1972)
1941 - Robin Leach, London England, TV host (Life Styles of Rich & Famous)
1942 - Holmes Sterling Morrison, musician
1942 - James Glennon, American cinematographer (d. 2006)
1942 - John Heuser, Electron microscopist
1943 - Mohamed Amin, cameraman
1943 - Richard Halligan, Troy NY, rock vocalist (Blood Sweat & Tears)
1945 - Chris Copping, Essex England, rock bassist (Procol Harum)
1945 - Wyomia Tyus, Griffin Ga, 100m runner (Olympic-gold-1964, 68)
1946 - Bob Beamon, Jamaica NY, high jumper (Olympics-gold-68, 29' 2½" 8.9m)
1947 - Temple Grandin, American animal welfare and autism expert
1947 - James Hunt, English race car driver (d. 1993)
1948 - Charles David Walker, astronaut (STS 12 STS 16 STS 23)
1949 - Peter John Wiegold, composer
1950 - Mark McHale, WLAF offensive line coach (Amsterdam Admirals)
1950 - Dave Reichert, American politician and sheriff
1952 - Karen Hesse, American children's writer
1953 - Rick Downey, rocker drummer/vocalist (Blue Oyster Cult)
1953 - James Quesada, Nicaraguan/American anthropologist
1954 - Chet Catallo, guitarist (Spyro Gyra-Morning Dance)
1954 - Julio Fernandez, jazz guitarist (Spyro Gyra-Morning Dance)
1954 - Michael P[aul] Kube-McDowell, US, sci-fi author (Enigma, Empery)
1955 - Diamanda Galas, composer
1955 - Frank Hoste, Belgian cyclist
1956 - Edddie Murray, NFL kicker (Washington Redskins, Minnesota Vikings)
1956 - Kelly Murray, Vancouver, Canadian Tour golfer (985 Alberta Open)
1956 - GG Allin, American rock singer (d. 1993)
1957 - Pim Kops, rock musician (Dike, Bloedend Heart)
1957 - Therese Hession, LPGA golfer
1957 - Jerry D. Bailey, American racing jockey
1958 - Michael Jackson, Gary Indiana, recording artist and King of Pop (Thriller, Bad), (d. 2009)
1959 - Chris Hadfield, Sarnia Ontario Canada, RCAF/astronaut (STS 74, sk: 99)
1959 - Eddi Reader, rocker (Fairground Attraction-Find My Love)
1959 - Ernesto Rodrigues, Portuguese composer
1959 - Akkineni Nagarjuna, Indian Telugu actor
1959 - Timothy Perry Shriver, member of the Kennedy Family
1959 - Rebecca De Mornay, Santa Rose Cal, actress (Hand that Rocks Cradle)
1961 - Tony MacAlpine, heavy metal rocker (Solo-Edge of Insanity)
1962 - Carl Banks, NFL linebacker (Cleveland Browns, NY Giants)
1962 - Hiroki Kikuta, Japanese composer
1963 - Elizabeth Brown, minister healer/writer
1963 - Greg Holmes, Covina Cal, tennis star
1963 - Greg Steele, rocker (Faster Pussycat-Wake Me When It's Over)
1963 - Elizabeth Fraser, Scottish singer
1964 - Jordi Arrese, Spain, tennis star
1965 - Alphons Arts, Dutch soccer player (Go Ahead Eagles)
1965 - Will Perdue, NBA center (San Antonio Spurs)
1965 - Dina Spybey, American actress
1966 - Dan Truman, St George Utah, singer (Diamond Rio-Meet in the Middle)
1967 - Shaun Van Allen, Shaunavon, NHL center (Anaheim Mighty Ducks)
1967 - Anton Newcombe, American musician (The Brian Jonestown Massacre)
1968 - Darren Joseph, CFL fullback (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1969 - Brady Katytman, Greece NY, kayak (alt-Olympics-96)
1969 - Jerry Simons, soccer player (Dordrecht '90, Vitesse)
1969 - Me'Shell NdegéOcello, American singer
1969 - Joe Swail, Northern Irish snooker player
1970 - Jacco Elringh, Netherlands, tennis star
1971 - Dennis de Brown, soccer player (Sparta)
1971 - Henry Blanco, Venezuelan baseball player
1971 - Carla Gugino, American actress
1972 - Michael Roan, NFL tight end/halfback (Houston/Tennessee Oilers)
1972 - Bae Yong Joon, South Korean actor
1973 - Devin Wyman, defensive tackle (New England Patriots)
1973 - Jermane Mayberry, guard/tackle (Philadelphia Eagles)
1973 - Joe Carollo, WLAF G (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1973 - Leigh Sherer, Jasper Alabama, Miss America (Alabama-Top 10-1996)
1973 - Olivier Jacque, motorcyclist
1973 - Adam Sessler, American TV show host
1974 - Brad Boston, Sarnia Ontario, soling yachter (Olympics-96)
1974 - Kumi Tanioka, Japanese composer
1975 - Dante Basco, Filipino/American actor
1976 - Chris Renaud, Fredericton New Brunswick, swimmer (Olympics-96)
1976 - Kasia Kulesza, Warsaw Poland, Canadian synchro swimmer (Oly-silver-96)
1976 - Stephanie Worcester, Miss USA-Maine (1997)
1976 - Jon Dahl Tomasson, Danish footballer
1976 - Kevin Kaesviharn, American football player
1976 - Pablo Mastroeni, American soccer player
1977 - John Patrick O'Brien, American footballer
1977 - Aaron Rowand, American baseball player
1977 - Devean George, American basketball player
1977 - Roy Oswalt, American baseball player
1977 - Charlie Pickering, Australian comedian
1977 - Jo Weil, German actor
1978 - Larissa Meek, Miss Missouri Teen USA (1997)
1978 - Celestine Babayaro, Nigerian footballer
1979 - Natasha Fisher, Miss Nebraska Teen USA (1997)
1979 - Chieu Luu, Canadian journalist
1979 - Ryan Shealy, American baseball player
1980 - David Desrosiers, Canadian musician(Simple Plan)
1980 - Chris Simms, American football player
1980 - David West, American basketball player
1980 - Nicholas Tse, Hong Kong singer and actor
1980 - Mohammad Sheikh, Kenyan cricketer
1981 - Geneviève Jeanson, French Canadian cyclist
1981 - Jay Ryan (Jay Bunyan), Australian actor
1982 - Carlos Delfino, Argentinean basketball player
1982 - A+, American rapper
1985 - Jeffrey Licon, American actor
1986 - Lauren Collins, Canadian actress
1987 - Tony Kane, Irish footballer
1990 - Sam Stern, British chef and author
1992 - Mallu Magalhães, Brazilian singer-songwriter

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Post by: MysteRy on August 29, 2013, 09:08:37 AM

This Day in History for 29th August


Famous Deaths

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Actress Ingrid Bergman (1982)                Actor Lee Marvin (1987)


29 - John the Baptist, beheaded
886 - Basilius I, the Macedonier, Byzantine emperor (867-886), dies
1093 - Hugh I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1057)
1123 - King Eystein I of Norway (b. ca. 1088)
1395 - Duke Albert III of Austria (b. 1349)
1442 - John VI, Duke of Brittany (b. 1389)
1523 - Ulrich von Hutten, German poet/humanist/patriot, dies at 35
1526 - Louis II, King of Hungary/Bohemia, dies in accident at 20
1533 - Atahualpa, last Inca King of Peru, murdered by Spanish conquerors
1542 - Cristovão da Gama, Portuguese soldier (born c. 1516)
1653 - Gillesz de Hondecoeter, painter/Hostage rights, buried at about 49
1657 - John Lilburne, English dissenter
1712 - Gregory King, English statistician (law of King), dies at 63
1738 - Georg Reuter, composer, dies at 81
1758 - Gerard Van Wage, historian, dies at 75
1758 - Stepan F graaf Apraksin, Russian general-fieldmarshal, dies at 56
1769 - Edmond Hoyle, games expert, dies (birth date unknown)
1780 - Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect (b. 1713)
1782 - Richard Kempenfelt, Royal Navy Admiral drowns (b. 1718)
1799 - Pius VI, [Giovanni A Braschi], Italian Pope (1775-99), dies at 71
1821 - Horace Coignet, composer, dies at 86
1844 - Edmund Ignatius Rice, Irish founder of the Christian Brothers and Presentation Brothers (b.
          1762)
1856 - Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, British Christian writer (b. 1778)
1861 - Franz Joseph Glaser, composer, dies at 63
1865 - John Brough, US publisher/(gov-R-Ohio), dies at about 54
1877 - Brigham Young, 2nd president of Mormon Church, dies
1889 - Stefan Dunjov, Banat Bulgarian military figure (b. 1815)
1891 - Pierre Lallement, inventor of the bicycle (b. 1843 or 1844)
1893 - Aleksei N Apuchtin, Rus poet (Stichotvorenia), dies at 52 [OS=8/17]
1904 - Murad V, sultan of Turkey (1876), dies
1909 - Emil C Hansen, Danish physiologist, dies
1910 - Allen Hill, cricket bowler (England, 2 Tests), dies
1910 - Johann O Backlund, Swedish astronomer, dies at 64
1910 - John YWJ Eilerts de Cock, sea officer (Suriname), dies at 44
1914 - ... Machagovsky, Russian general (Tannenberg), dies in battle
1918 - Max Dauthendey, writer, dies at 51
1921 - Joel Asaph Allen, US zoologist (rule of Allen), dies at 83
1928 - Richard B Haldane, British viscount/lord-chancellor, dies at 72
1930 - William Archibald Spooner, English writer (b. 1844)
1931 - David Abercrombie, Abercrombie & Fitch founder
1933 - Georgy Eduardovich Konyus, composer, dies at 70
1935 - Astrid S L T Bernadotte, Queen of Belgium/Princess of Sweden, dies
1935 - Charles Lee Williams, composer, dies at 82
1940 - Arthur De Greef, composer, dies at 77
1941 - Henri Louis, French officer/resistance fighter, executed at 40
1941 - Jan L G "Yvan" Doornik, Dutch resist fighter in France, executed at 36
1946 - J E Feenstra, Nazi military police commandant, executed
1946 - Milan Harasta, composer, dies at 26
1960 - Alexander Gauge, actor (Adv of Robin Hood), dies at 46
1960 - Hazza el-Majali, PM of Jordan is assassinated
1960 - Vicki Baum, writer, dies
1966 - Sayyid Qutb, Egyptian theoretician (b. 1906)
1968 - Victor Sutherland, dies at 79
1968 - Ulysses S. Grant III, American soldier and planner (b. 1881)
1970 - Mary Clare, dies at 76
1972 - Lale [Liselotte H] Anderson, Ger night club performer/singer, dies
1972 - Rene Leibowitz, composer, dies at 59
1973 - Michael Dunn, short actor (Justine, Boom, Madigan), dies at 38
1973 - Stringer Davis, actress (Mouse on the Moon, Miranda), dies at about 77
1975 - Eamon de Valera, Irish president (1937..59), dies at 92
1975 - Leland T Weed
1976 - Anissa Jones, actress (Buffy-Family Affair), ODs at 18
1976 - Jimmy Reed, rocker, dies of epileptic seizure at 50
1976 - Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bengali poet, musician, revolutionary and philosopher (b. 1899)
1977 - Jean Hagen, actress (Dead Ringer, Shaggy Dog, Arena), dies at 54
1977 - Brian McGuire, Australian racing driver (b. 1945)
1979 - Mary Marquet, actress (Landru, Paris Canaille), dies at 84
1981 - Lowell Thomas, newscaster (High Adventure), dies in Pawling NY at 89
1982 - Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (Anastasia, Gaslight), dies on 67th birthday
1982 - Lehman Engel, US composer (Streetcar Named Desire), dies at 71
1982 - Nahum Goldmann, pres Zionist World Organization, dies at 87
1983 - Simon Oakland, actor (Toma, Kolchak, Baa Baa Black Sheep), dies at 61
1983 - William Goyen, writer, dies at 68
1984 - Muhammad Naguib, Egyptian statesman (b. 1901)
1985 - Alexander Abramsky, composer, dies at 87
1985 - Evelyn Ankers, actress (Black Beauty, Jungle Woman), dies at 67
1985 - Patrick Barr, actor (Black Orchid, On the Run), dies at 77
1986 - Ellis Achong, cricketer (West Indies 1933-35, "chinaman"), dies
1987 - Lee Marvin, actor (Cat Ballou, Gorky Park), dies in Tucson Ariz at 63
1987 - Archie Campbell, American country music comedian (b. 1914)
1989 - Peter Scott, English explorer, naturalist, and painter (b. 1909)
1990 - Sandy, dog in the play Annie, dies at 16
1991 - Dallas Adams, British painter/writer/actor (Terror from Within), dies
1991 - Daniel Ocko, dies of respiratory condition at 78
1991 - Dixie Dunbar, [Charlotte King], dies of heart attack at 72
1991 - Kathryn Cravens, news correspondent, dies at 92
1991 - Libero Grassi, Italian underwear manufacturer/anti mafia, dies
1992 - Mary Norton, children book author (Borrowers), dies at 88
1992 - Teddy Turner, comedian, dies at 75
1993 - Dorian Corey, actor (Paris is Burning), dies of AIDs at 56
1993 - Henry J "Harry" Smeets, dealer of Volkskrant, dies at 56
1994 - Arthur Ernest Mourant, haematologist, dies at 90
1994 - Gladys Marea Hartman, athletics Administrator, dies at 74
1994 - Jean-Marie Vincent, Haitian Catholic priest, shot dead
1994 - Michael Peters, dies of complications due to AIDS at 46
1994 - Phillip Gilmore, actress (Malcolm X), dies at 38
1994 - Tushar Kanti Ghosh, longest serving newspaper editor, dies at 93
1995 - Frank Perry, US dir (Diary of Mad Housewife, David & Lisa), dies at 65
1995 - Harry Broadhurst, British airman, dies at 89
1995 - Jack Stoddart, designer/socialist, dies at 70
1995 - Thomas Strittmatter, writer, dies at 33
2000 - Willie Maddren, English footballer (b. 1951)
2001 - Graeme "Shirley" Strachan, Australian singer (Skyhooks), TV and radio star (b. 1952)
2001 - Francisco Rabal, Spanish actor (b. 1926)
2002 - Alan MacNaughtan, Scottish actor (b. 1920)
2003 - Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, Iraqi political leader (b.1939)
2003 - Patrick Procktor, English artist (b. 1936)
2003 - Michel Constantin, French film actor (b. 1924)
2004 - Hans Vonk, Dutch conductor (b. 1942)
2007 - Richard Jewell, central figure in the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing (b. 1962)
2007 - Pierre Messmer, French politician and Prime Minister (b. 1916)
2007 - Alfred Peet, Dutch-American entrepreneur and the founder of Peet's Coffee & Tea (b. 1920)
2007 - James Muir Cameron Fletcher, New Zealand industrialist (b. 1914)
2008 - Geoffrey Perkins, British comedy producer (b. 1953)

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Post by: MysteRy on August 30, 2013, 08:47:07 AM

This Day in History for 30th August


Historical Events

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Composer George Friedrich Handel         Naturalist Charles Darwin                Marxist Revolutionary Vladimir Lenin

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Nazi Politician                                   First Black Supreme Court Justice                 Artist & Musician Yoko Ono
Hermann Goering                                      Thurgood Marshall

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Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat


257 - St Sixtus II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1125 - Duke Lotharius of Supplinburg elected king of Germany
1146 - European leaders outlaw crossbow intending to end war for all time
1363 - Beginning date of the Battle of Lake Poyang; the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders— Chen
           Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang—are pitted against each other in what was one of the largest
           naval battles in history, during the last decade of the ailing, Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty.
1464 - Pietro Barbo elected to succeed Pope Pius II (Paul II)
1481 - 2 Latvian monarchs executed for conspiracy to Polish king Kazimierz IV
1563 - Jewish community of Neutitschlin Moravia expelled
1574 - Guru Ram Das became the Fourth Sikh Guru/Master.
1590 - Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle. (Traditional Japanese date: August 1, 1590)
1645 - Dutch & Indians sign peace treaty (New Amsterdam (NY))
1673 - Leopold I, Spain, Netherlands & Lutherans form anti-French covenant
1682 - William Penn left England to sail to New World
1721 - Russian/Swedish Peace of Nystad, ends North Sea War
1751 - Georg Friedrich Handel completes oratorio "Jephtha"
1757 - Battle at Gross Jagerndorf: Russian army beats Prussia [OS=Aug 19]
1776 - US army evacuates Long Island/falls back to Manhattan, NYC
1781 - French fleet of 24 ships under Comte de Grasse defeat British under Admiral Graves at battle
           of Chesapeake Capes in Revolutionary War
1791 - The HMS Pandora sank after running aground on a reef the previous day.
1799 - Bataafse fleet surrender to English
1800 - Gabriel Prosser leads a slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia
1813 - Battle of Kulm: French forces defeated by Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance.
1831 - Charles Darwin refuses to travel with HMS Beagle
1835 - Melbourne, Australia is founded.
1836 - The city of Houston is founded by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen
1843 - 1st blacks participation in natl political convention (Liberty Party)
1850 - Honolulu, Hawaii becomes a city
1854 - John Fremont issues proclamation freeing slaves of Missouri rebels
1860 - 1st British tram opens (Birkenhead)
1862 - last day of 2nd Battle of Bull Run Va - Confederates beat Union forces
1862 - Battle of 2nd Manassas-Pope defeated by Lee-Battle of Richmond, KY
1862 - Battle of Altamont-Confederates beat Union forces in Tennessee
1873 - Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz
           Joseph Land in the Arctic Sea.
1884 - Jack "Nonpareil" Dempsey wins middleweight title in 1st fight with boxing gloves
1885 - 13,000 meteors seen in 1 hour near Andromeda
1888 - Lord Walsingham kills 1070 grouse in a single day
1893 - 13rd US Mens Tennis: Robert D Wrenn beats Fred H Hovey (64 36 64 64)
1894 - Frederick Lugards expedition to Niger
1895 - Belgium begins compulsory Roman Catholic education
1896 - Eight provinces in the Philippines were declared under martial law by the Spanish Governor
           General Ramon Blanco. This included the provinces of Batangas, Rizal, Cavite, Nueva Ecija as
           well as the nearby areas.
1897 - The town of Ambiky is captured by France from Menabe in Madagascar.
1900 - Last 2000 British prisoners in Nooitgedagt South Africa freed
1901 - Hubert Cecil Booth patents vacuum cleaner
1904 - Thomas Hicks wins 3rd Olympics marathon (3:28:53.0) (40 km)
1905 - Pogoro/Ngindo attack Fort Mahenge German East-Africa
1905 - Tiger Ty Cobb makes his debut, doubling off Yank Jack Chesbro
1906 - Hal Chase became 1st Yank to hit 3 triples in a game
1906 - NY Highlander Joe Doyle debuts pitching back-to-back shut-outs
1909 - Burgess Shale fossils discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
1910 - Yank Tom Hughes pitches 9 no-hit innings but loses to Cleve 5-0 in 11
1912 - St Louis Brown Earl Hamilton no-hits Detroit Tigers, 5-1
1913 - Phillies lead Giants 8-6 in top of 9th, fans in bleachers try to distract Giants, Umpire forefeits
           game to Giants, later overruled
1914 - 1st German plane bombs above Paris, 2 killed
1914 - Battle at Tannenberg ends in destruction of Russian 2nd Narev army
1916 - Boston's Dutch Leonard no-hits St Louis Browns, 4-0
1916 - Paul Von Hindenburg becomes chief-of-General-Staff in Germany
1918 - Czechoslovakia forms independence republic
1918 - Fanya Kaplan shoots at Lenin
1918 - Lenin, new leader of Soviet Russia, shot & wounded after speech
1919 - Ernst Toller's "Die Wandlung," premieres in Berlin
1922 - Babe Ruth is thrown out of a game for 5th time in 1922
1925 - 6th Iron pilgrim at Diksmuide Belgium
1926 - Jack Hobbs scores 316* at Lord's (Surrey v Middlesex)
1927 - 41st US Womens Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats Betty Nuthall (61 64)
1928 - Jawaharlal Nehru requests independence of India
1932 - Hermann Goering elected chairman (Reichstag)
1933 - Air France forms
1933 - Portuguese dictator Salazar forms secret police (PIDE)
1937 - Joe Louis beats Tommy Farr in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1939 - 6th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: NY Giants 9, All-Stars 0 (81,456)
1939 - General Reijnders appointed supreme commander of Dutch army
1939 - Isoroku Yamamoto appointed supreme commander of Japanese fleet
1939 - NY Yankee Atley Donald pitches a baseball a record 94.7 mph (152 kph)
1939 - Poland mobilizes
1941 - Siege of Leningrad by Nazi troops began during WW II
1941 - St Louis Card Lon Warneke no-hits Cin Reds, 2-0
1942 - Nazi-Germany annexes Luxembourg
1944 - 11th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chi Bears 24, All-Stars 21 (48,769)
1944 - Philip Yordan's "Anna Lucasta," premieres in NYC
1944 - Soviet troops enter Bucharest Romania
1945 - 12th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 19, All-Stars 7 (92,753)
1945 - Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 9th Symphony
1945 - Gen MacArthur lands in Japan
1945 - Hong Kong liberated from Japan
1949 - Roly Jenkins (Worcs v Surrey) takes his 2nd hat-trick of the game
1949 - WTVN (now WSYX) TV channel 6 in Columbus, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
1951 - US & Philippines sign mutual defense pact
1954 - Hurricane Carol, kills 68
1956 - USSR performs nuclear test (atmospheric tests)
1956 - White mob prevents enrollment of blacks at Mansfield HS, Texas
1956 - Lake Pontchartrain Causeway opens.
1957 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1957 - US senator Strom Thurmond speaks 24hrs 27m against civil rights
1958 - US performs nuclear test at S Atlantic Ocean
1960 - Boston 2nd baseman Pete Runnels goes 6-for-7
1960 - East Germany imposes a partial blockade on West Berlin
1961 - 1st Negro judge of a US District Court confirmed-JB Parsons
1961 - J B Parsons is 1st African American judge of a US District Court
1961 - Last Spanish troops leave Morocco
1961 - Oriole Jack Fisher walks 12 LA Angels in a 9 inning game
1961 - USSR says it will resume nuclear testing
1962 - Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11, its first aircraft since the war and its only
           successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war.
1963 - Hot Line communications link between Moscow and Washington, DC installed
1963 - Hotline between U.S. and Soviet leaders goes into operation.
1964 - Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Riverside Ladies Golf Open
1965 - Casey Stengel announces his retirement after 55 years in baseball
1965 - Section of Allalin glacier wipes out construction site at Mattmark Dam near Saas-Fee,
           Switzerland
1967 - US Senate confirm Thurgood Marshall as 1st black justice
1968 - 1st record under Apple label (Beatle's Hey Jude)
1968 - John & Yoko's "One on One" benefit for children at Madison Square Garden
1969 - 120,000 attend Texas Intl Pop Festival
1969 - 25,000 attend 2nd Annual Sky River Rock Festival, Tenino Wash
1969 - 69th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Steve Melnyk
1969 - Racial disturbances in Fort Lauderdale Florida
1971 - WNPI TV channel 18 in Norwood, NY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1972 - John Lennon & Yoko Ono perform at Madison Square Garden
1973 - Danny Seiwell quits Wings
1974 - Express train runs full speed into Zagreb, Yugo rail yard killing 153
1974 - Launching of 1st Dutch satellite, ANS, from Vandenberg
1974 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1975 - KTW-AM in Seattle Wash changes call letters to KYAC (now KKFX)
1976 - Tom Brokaw becomes news anchor of Today Show
1976 - Turks & Caicos Islands adopts constitution
1979 - -Sept 13] Hurricane David, kills 1200 in Florida, Domincana & Dom Rep
1979 - 1st recorded occurrance-comet hits sun (energy=1 mil hydrogen bombs)
1979 - Ian Botham makes 1000 runs/100 wkts in Tests in his 21st match
1979 - Kathy Horvath (14y5d) is youngest to play in US Tennis Open, she loses
1979 - Pres Carter attacked by a rabbit on a canoe trip in Plains Ga
1979 - Wildest US Tennis Open match, McEnroe defeats Ilie Nastase 6-4, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2. Nastase was
           defaulted by the umpire then reinstated
1980 - Polish government recognizes Solidarity
1981 - Joanne Carner wins Columbia Savings LPGA Golf Classic
1982 - PLO leader Yasser Arafat leaves Beirut
1983 - 8th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 3-launched (6 days)
1983 - Elizabeth R Zakarian (Devon Pierce), 17, NY, crowned 1st Miss Teen USA
1983 - WKBC-TV (channel 48) ends broadcasting in Phila
1983 - Guion Bluford becomes 1st African-American astronaut in space
1984 - 12th Space Shuttle Mission (41-D)-Discovery 1-launched (6 days)
1984 - Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation
1984 - Red Sox Jim Rice grounds into record 33rd double play en route to 36
1984 - Sotherby's in London begins 2 day auction of rock memorabilla
1986 - Gelindo Bordin wins Stuttgart marathon (2:10:54)
1986 - Soviet authorities arrested Nicholas Daniloff (US News World Report)
1987 - 87th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Billy Mayfair
1987 - Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Nestle World Golf Championship
1987 - Ben Johnson of Canada runs 100 m in world record 9.83 sec
1987 - Kirby Puckett goes 6-for-6 with 2 HRs in Minn 10-6 win over Milwaukee
1987 - Stefka Kostadinova of Bulgaria sets high jump woman's record (6'10½")
1987 - Yves Pol of France runs complete marathon backwards (3:57:57)
1987 - Knuckleballer Charlie Hough on the mound, Rangers catcher Geno Petralli ties the major
           league record by allowing 6 passed balls
1988 - France performs nuclear test
1988 - Julianne Philips files for divorce from Bruce Springsteen
1988 - Kent Tekulve is 2nd pitcher in majors to appear in 1,000 games
1990 - Ken Griffey & Ken Griffey Jr become 1st father & son to play on same team (Seattle Mariners),
           both single in 1st inning
1990 - Tatarstan declares independence from the RSFSR.
1991 - Dan O'Brien sets US decathalon record with 8,812 points
1991 - Mike Powell of US, sets then long jump record at 29' 4½" (8.95m)
1991 - Tamil Tigers capture Sri Lanka poet Selvi
1992 - "2 Trains Running" closes at Walter Kerr Theater NYC after 160 perfs
1992 - "Most Happy Fella" closes at Booth Theater NYC after 229 performances
1992 - 92nd US Golf Amateur Championship won by Justin Leonard
1992 - David Lewett & Jane Luu discovers comet: "1992 QB1" 64 mil km from Sun
1992 - Dottie Mochrie wins LPGA Sun-Times Golf Challenge
1993 - 150,000,000 millionth visitor to Eiffel Tower
1993 - Hassan II mosque opens in Casablanca, 2nd largest mosque in the world
1994 - Gund Arena in Cleve opens
1994 - Largest US Tennis Open single session (total) 23,618
1995 - Cable News Network joins internet
1995 - Tigers teammates Lou Whitaker & Alan Trammell play in 1,914 game together tying AL record
1997 - 1st WNBA Championshion: Houston Comets beat NY Liberty
1997 - Greg Rudaski is 1st to serve (2) 141 MPH serves in a match (US Open)
1998 - State Farm Rail Golf Classic
1999 - East Timorese vote for independence in a referendum.
2012 - Cholera outbreak kills 229 people in Sierra Leone
2012 - A blast in the in the Xiaojiawan coal mine, China, kills 26 miners with 21 missing

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 30, 2013, 08:48:43 AM

This Day in History for 30th August


Famous Weddings

1953 - Future NYC mayor David Dinkins marries Joyce Burrows in NYC
1988 - Tennis star Chris Everett weds skier Andy Mills
1989 - Roman Polanski marries actress Emmanuelle Seigner
2003 - Daughter of Paul McCartney and fashion designer Stella McCartney (31) weds British publisher
           Alasdhair Willis on the 300-acre Gothic Estate in Scotland's Isle of Bute
2005 - "Squeeze" band founder Jools Holland (47) weds sculptor Christabel McEwen at St. James
           Church in Cooling, Kent, England
2006 - Billionaire Warren Buffett (76) weds longtime companion Astrid Menks (60) in Omaha
2008 - "The Sopranos" actor James Gandolfini (46) weds former model Deborah Lin (40) at Central
           Union Church in Honolulu, Hawaii

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 30, 2013, 08:49:30 AM

This Day in History for 30th August


Famous Divorces

1988 - Julianne Philips files for divorce from Bruce Springsteen

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 30, 2013, 09:22:34 AM

This Day in History for 30th August


Famous Birthdays

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Frankenstein Author                                Father of Nuclear Physics                 Baseball Player Ted Williams (1918)
Mary Shelley (1797)                                 Ernest Rutherford (1871) 

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Investor Warren Buffett (1930)


580 - Mohammed, Arabic prophet/founder (Islam)
1334 - Pedro, the Cruel, King of Castilia & Leon
1377 - Shah Rukh, ruler of Persia and Transoxonia (d. 1447)
1609 - Artus I Quellinus "the Old", Flemish sculptor, baptised
1687 - Francesco Maria Vallara, composer
1693 - Jacobus Nozeman, Dutch composer/organist
1705 - David Hartley, English philosopher (d. 1757)
1720 - Samuel Whitbread, English brewer (d. 1796)
1748 - Jacques-Louis David, France, Neoclassical painter (Death of Marat)
1767 - Christian Frederich Gottlieb Schwencke, composer
1769 - Bonifacio Asioli, composer/music writer
1772 - Henri D Count de Larochejacquelin, French royalist leader
1797 - Mary Shelley, London England, author (Frankenstein), (d. 1851)
1804 - Aleksandr I Polezjajev, Russian poet (Sasjka) [OS]
1805 - Michael Sars, Norwegian zoologist
1808 - Princess Ludovika of Bavaria (d. 1892)
1809 - Adolf Friedrich Hesse, composer
1811 - Thomas Gautier, writer
1813 - Princess Mathilde of Bavaria d. 1862
1818 - Alexander H. Rice, 30th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1895)
1820 - George Frederick Root, composer
1821 - Anita Garibaldi, Brazilian warrior; Garibaldi's wife (War of Tatters) (d. 1849)
1837 - Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur, 1st lady (1881-85)
1839 - Gulstan Ropert, French Catholic prelate (d. 1903)
1842 - Victor Alphonse Duvernoy, composer
1842 - Grand Duchess Alexandra Alexandrovna of Russia (d. 1849)
1844 - Friedrich Ratzel, German social-geographer (Lebensraum)
1848 - Andrew Onderdonk, Canadian railway contractor (d. 1905)
1849 - Joseph Mallaby Dent, Dutch publisher
1852 - Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Neth, physical chemist (Nobel 1901)
1856 - Carle David Tolmé Runge, German physicist (d. 1927)
1860 - Isaac Levitan, Russian artist (d. 1900)
1866 - Georges Minne, Flemish sculptor
1870 - Grand Duchess Alexandra Georgievna of Russia (d. 1891)
1871 - Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, New Zealand physicist and father of
           nuclear physics (Nobel 1908), (d. 1937)
1878 - Paul Hazard, French literature historian
1882 - Meijer de Hond, Dutch rabbi/writer
1883 - Theo Van Doesburg, [Christian EM Kupper], painter/architect (Style)
1884 - Theodor Svedberg, Sweden, chemist, worked with colloids (Nobel 1926)
1887 - Adam Kuckhoff, writer
1889 - Edward Ciannelli, Ischia Italy, actor (You Can't Escape Forever)
1893 - Huey P Long, Winn Parish La, (gov/sen-D-La)
1896 - Raymond Massey, Toronto Canada, actor (Dr Gillespie-Dr Kildare)
1898 - Shirley Booth, NYC, American actress (Hazel)
1900 - Franklin C Fry, US minister (Lutheran World Relief)
1901 - John C Stennis, (Sen-D-MS, 1947-88)
1901 - John Gunther, Chicago Ill, author/host (John Gunther's High Road)
1901 - Roy Wilkins, civil rights director (NAACP)
1902 - Arnold Maria Walter, composer
1906 - Countess of Longford, biographer/historian
1906 - [Rose] Joan Blondell, New York City, New York, American actress (Grease, The Blue Veil)
1908 - Fred MacMurray, Kankakee, Illinois, American actor (Double Indemnity, My Three Sons)
1908 - Leonor Fini, painter
1908 - Willie Bryant, New Orleans La, singer (Sugar Hill Times)
1909 - Barry Appleby, cartoonist
1910 - Donald Bisset, Dutch children book writer/actor (Battle of the Sexes)
1912 - Edward M Purcell, US physicist (Nobel 1952)
1912 - Nancy Wake AC GM, New Zealand-born World War II secret agent
1913 - Allan David, actor/director/producer (Cry of the Children)
1913 - Thomas Torrance, theologist
1914 - Julie Bishop, Denver CO, actress (My Hero, Northern Pursuit, Threat)
1914 - Rafael Jose Luis Fernandez de la Calzada y Ferrer, restaurateur
1915 - Liesbeth Saijers, Dutch sculptor
1915 - Robert Strassburg, American composer (d. 2003)
1916 - John Thoday, geneticist
1916 - Kornelis M R van der Beek, reformed vicar (Arnhem)
1916 - Lord Keith of Castleacre, English banker
1917 - Denis Healey, English politician
1918 - Ted Williams, American baseball player, last player in MLB to bat over .400 in a single season
           (Red Sox, AL MVP '46, '49; Trip Crown '42, '47)
1918 - Billy Johnson, American baseball player (d. 2006)
1919 - Kitty Wells, Nashville Tn, country singer (Grand Ole Opry), (d. 2012)
1920 - Ben Cami, Flemish writer/poet (Rose from Mud)
1921 - Angelo Dundee [Angelo Mirena], Philadelphia, boxing trainer and cornerman (Muhammad Ali,
           Sugar Ray Leonard, George Foreman), (d. 2012)
1922 - Regina Resnik, NYC, mezzo-soprano (Sieglinde-Bayreuth)
1922 - Lionel Murphy, Australian politician (d. 1986)
1923 - Elias Victor Seixas, US, mixed double tennis player (Wimbeld 1953-56)
1923 - Gerhard Wimberger, Austria composer (Glove)
1923 - Barbara Mary Ansell, UK founder of paediatric rheumatology (d. 2001)
1923 - Charmian Clift, Australian writer and essayist (d. 1969)
1924 - Kenny Dorham [McKinley], Fairfield, Texas, jazz trumpeter, (d. 1972)
1925 - Julien Schoenaerts, Flemish actor (Daens/Medea)
1925 - Laurent de Brunhoff, French writer and illustrator
1926 - Olgerts Gravitis, composer
1927 - Geoffrey Beene, Louisiana, dress designer (8 Coty Awards)
1927 - Pieter Willem Kee, composer
1927 - Bill Daily, Des Moines, Iowa, American actor and comedian (I Dream of Jeannie, The Bob
           Newhart Show)
1928 - Johnny Mann, Balt Md, music director (Johnny Mann Stand Up & Cheer)
1928 - Ruth Westerheimer, sex therapist (Dr Ruth)
1928 - Lloyd Casner, American racecar driver and owner (d. 1965)
1930 - Noel Harford, cricketer (brother of Roy NZ Test batsman in 1950's)
1930 - Warren Burger, US, author (The Midas Touch)
1930 - Warren Buffett, American business magnate (world's wealthiest person in 2008)
1931 - Carrie Saxon Perry, 1st black mayor of a major US city (Hartford CT)
1931 - John Leonard Swigert Jr, Denver Colorado, astronaut (Apollo 13)
1933 - Arne Mellnas, composer
1934 - B P "Baloo" Gupte, cricketer (brother of Fergie, Indian leggie)
1934 - Eric Schneider, Dutch actor (Drop Out, Family, Flanagan)
1935 - John Phillips, singer/guitarist (Mama & Papas-California Dreaming)
1936 - Fabrizia Ramondino, writer
1937 - Bruce McLaren, New Zealand car racer and founder of eponymous race team (d. 1970)
1938 - Steve Delaney, Dobbs Ferry NY, newscaster (Monitor)
1939 - Elizabeth Ashley, [Cole], Ocala Florida, actress (Coma, Evening Shade)
1941 - John McNally, Liverpool, rock guitarist/vocalist (Searchers)
1941 - Sue MacGregor, BBC-radio hostess
1941 - Ben Jones, American actor and politician
1942 - Jonathan Aitken, English MP
1942 - Pervez Sajjad, Pakistani cricket left-arm spinner (19 Tests 1964-73)
1943 - David Henry Maslanka, composer
1943 - Jean Claude Killy, Paris France, alpine skier (Olympic-3 golds-1968)
1943 - Robert Crumb, US, cartoonist (Father Time, Fritz Cat)
1944 - Charles Colbert, Chicago Ill, rocker (American Breed)
1944 - Freek de Jonge, Dutch comedian (Neerlands Hoop)
1944 - John Surman, jazz musician
1944 - Molly Ivins, American political humorist (d. 2007)
1944 - Tug McGraw, American baseball player (d. 2004)
1945 - David Schiff, composer
1946 - Anne-Marie, Danish princess/daughter of Frederik IX
1946 - Peggy Lipton [Margaret Ann], New York City, New York, American actress (The Mod Squad,
           Twin Peaks)
1947 - Allan Rock, Canadian politician and diplomat
1948 - Lewis Black, American comedian
1948 - Donnacha O'Dea, Irish poker player and swimmer
1949 - Peter Maffay, German musician
1949 - Ted Ammon, American financier (d. 2001)
1949 - Christopher Collins, American actor and comedian (d. 1994)
1949 - Don Boudria, Canadian politician
1950 - Antony Gormley, London England, British sculptor (Angel of the North)
1951 - Dana, singer/actress (Flight of the Doves)
1951 - Timothy Bottoms, Santa Barbara CA, actor (Paper Chase, East of Eden)
1953 - Robert Parish, NBA center (Boston Celtics, Charlotte Hornets)
1953 - Ron George, American politician
1954 - David Paymer, actor (Love Mary, Mr Saturday Night)
1954 - Gerard Hadders, Dutch postage stamp designer (1991 children stamp)
1954 - Alexander Lukashenko, President of Belarus
1955 - Martin Jackson, rocker (Swing Out Sister-Swing Out)
1955 - Richard "Butch" Johnson, Worcester Mass, archer (Olymp-gold-1992, 96)
1956 - Jayne Irving, English TV hostess (Live at 3)
1958 - Anna Politkovskaya, Russian journalist (d. 2006)
1959 - Mark 'Jacko' Jackson, Australian rules footballer and actor
1960 - Vic Wilk, Los Angeles CA, Nike golfer (1994 NIKE Knoxville Open)
1960 - Chalino Sanchez, Mexican musician (d. 1992)
1960 - Hassan Nasrallah, leader of the Lebanese terrorist group Hizbollah
1960 - Master Sgt. Gary Gordon, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1993)
1960 - Guy A. Lepage, Quebec humorist, television host and producer
1962 - Ricky Sanders, NFL wide receiver (Miami Dolphins)
1962 - Alexander Litvinenko, Russian KGB officer (d. 2006)
1963 - Michael Chiklis, Lowell, Massachusetts, American actor (Commish, The Shield)
1963 - Paul Oakenfold, British disc jockey
1964 - Joan Bennett, Chicago Ill, playmate (January, 1985)
1964 - Stephen Baker, NFL receiver (NY Giants)
1964 - Steve Smith, NFL fullback (Seattle Seahawks)
1964 - Gavin Fisher, British engineer
1966 - John Terry, CFL tackle (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1966 - Michael Michele, Evansville In, actress (Nikki-Central Park West)
1966 - Simon Wheeldon, hockey forward (Team Austria 1998)
1967 - Barbara Anne Kendall, Auckland NZ, mistral yachter (Oly-g/s-92, 96)
1967 - Catrin Nilsmark, Goteborg Sweden, LPGA golfer (1995 PING Welch's-14th)
1967 - Frederique [Van derWal], Netherlands, model (Victoria Secrets)
1967 - Justin Vaughan, cricketer (New Zealand all-rounder 1992-)
1968 - Vladimir Malakhov, Sverdlovsk Russia, NHL defenseman (Montreal Canadiens)
1969 - Jerold Jeffcoat, WLAF defensive tackle (Scottish Claymores)
1969 - Dimitris Sgouros, Greek pianist
1970 - Michael Wong Guang Liang, Chinese Malaysian singer
1971 - Aubrey Beavers, NFL/WLAF linebacker (Miami Dolphins, Rhein Fire)
1971 - Joseph Fitzgerald, Brooklyn New York, American team handball center back (Olympics-1996)
1971 - Tre Johnson, NFL guard (Washington Redskins)
1971 - Lars Frederiksen, American guitarist (Rancid and UK Subs)
1972 - Cameron Diaz, Long Beach Ca, actress (Mask, My Best Friend's Wedding)
1972 - Jose Herrera, Santo Domingo Dom Rep, outfielder (Oakland A's)
1972 - Ryan Leahy, WLAF OL (Amsterdam Admirals)
1972 - Shonte Peoples, CFL linebacker (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1973 - Jimmy Herndon, offensive tackle (Chicago Bears)
1973 - Lisa Ling, American journalist
1974 - Matt Bongiovi, heavy metal rocker (cousin of Jon Bon Jovi)
1974 - Javier Otxoa, Spanish cyclist
1974 - Aaron Barrett, Lead singer/guitarist of Reel Big Fish
1975 - Natalia Nadtochey, Miss Ukraine Universe (1997)
1975 - Radhi Jaidi, Tunisian footballer
1976 - Mike Koplove, American baseball player
1976 - Sarah-Jane Potts, English actress
1977 - Kamil Kosowski, Polish footballer
1977 - Jens Ludwig, German guitarist
1977 - Shaun Alexander, American football player
1977 - Marlon Byrd, American baseball player
1977 - Elden Henson, American actor
1978 - Swizz Beatz, American rapper/producer
1978 - Cliff Lee, American baseball player
1979 - Juan Ignacio Chela, Argentine tennis player
1979 - Leon Lopez, British actor
1979 - Niki Chow, Hong Kong actress and singer
1979 - Tavia Yeung, Hong Kong actress
1982 - Will Davison, Australian racing driver
1982 - Andy Roddick, American tennis player
1983 - Jun Matsumoto, Japanese singer and actor
1983 - Jonne Aaron, Vocalist of the Finnish Band Negative
1983 - Gustavo Eberto, Argentine footballer (d. 2007)
1984 - Anthony Ireland, Zimbabwean cricketer
1985 - Richard Duffy, Welsh footballer
1985 - Leisel Jones, Australian swimmer
1985 - Eamon Sullivan, Australian swimmer
1985 - Steven Smith, Scottish footballer
1986 - Ryan Ross, American guitarist and lyricist (Panic at the Disco)
1988 - Ernests Gulbis, Latvian tennis player

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 30, 2013, 09:26:00 AM

This Day in History for 30th August


Famous Deaths

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Actress Vera-Ellen (1981)                         Actor Charles Bronson (2003)


524 - Chlodomer, Frankish King of Orléans dies at about 29
526 - Theodorik the Great, King of Ostrogoten (b. 454)
1181 - Alexander III, [Orlando Bandinelli], Italian Pope (1159-81), dies
1428 - Emperor Shōkō (b. 1401)
1482 - Louis van Bourbon, prince-Bishop of Luik (Cluppelslagers), dies
1483 - Louis XI, King of France (1461-83), dies at 60
1529 - Juan del Encina, composer, dies at 61
1580 - Emanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy/governor of Netherlands, dies
1617 - Rose of Lima, Peruvian saint (b. 1586)
1619 - Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1535)
1666 - Benedictus Carpzovius, [Benedikt Carpzov], German lawyer, dies
1723 - Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch tradesman and scientist (b. 1632)
1745 - Jean-Baptiste Maurice Quinault, composer, dies at 57
1751 - Christopher Polhem, Swedish scientist and inventor (b. 1661)
1808 - Joseph Anton Bauer, composer, dies at 83
1809 - Ignacy Potocki, Polish Foreign Minister (constitution), dies
1826 - Theodor Zwetler, composer, dies at 67
1844 - Francis Baily, English astronomer/mathematician (Baily's Beads), dies
1856 - Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, English writer (b. 1811)
1879 - John B Hood, confederate general (lost Atlanta), dies at 48
1886 - Ferris Jacobs, Jr., American politician (b. 1836)
1896 - Alexei Lobanov-Rostovsky, Russian statesman (b. 1824)
1903 - Vincente F Lopez, historian (Historia the Chile), dies at 87
1904 - Kate Fanny Loder, composer, dies at 79
1906 - Hans Auer, Swiss architect (b. 1847)
1907 - Richard Mansfield, American actor and manager (b. 1857)
1910 - Albert Vandal, French earl/historian (Napoleon), dies at 57
1914 - Adrian H Stewart, British lieutenant, dies in battle in Cameroon at 26
1914 - Aleksandr Samsonov, Russian general, commits suicide
1917 - Uritsky, leader of Petrogradse Czech, dies
1919 - Johann Sigurjonsson, Icelandic writer (Dr Rung), dies
1928 - Wilhelm Wien, Ger physicist (laws of motion, Nobel 1911), dies at 64
1930 - William H Taft, 27th US President (1909-13), dies
1932 - Willem M van Rossum, cardinal/prefect of Propaganda Fide, dies at 77
1934 - Earnest L Wolzogen, German writer (That tolle Komtess), dies at 79
1935 - Henri Barbusse, French writer (Le feu), dies at 62
1938 - Max Factor, make-up artist and cosmetic manufacturer (b. 1877)
1940 - J.J. Thomson, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)
1941 - Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish engineer and physicist (b. 1874)
1943 - A[braham] [P] Merritt, author (Moon Pool, Creep Shadow!), dies at 58
1944 - Morten Nielsen, Danish resistance fighter, dies
1946 - Grigory Semyonov, Russian counter-revolutionary (executed) (b. 1890)
1949 - Arthur Fielder, England cricket fast bowler (6 Tests 1903-08), dies
1952 - Arky Vaughn, infielder (Pirates & Dodgers), drowns
1953 - Dimiter Nenov, composer, dies at 51
1956 - Jose Antonio de Donostia, composer, dies at 70
1961 - Charles Coburn, actor (Heaven Can Wait, Idiot's Delight), dies at 84
1963 - Axel Stordahl, orchestra leader (Frank Sinatra Show), dies at 50
1963 - Guy Burgess, English-born Soviet spy (b. 1911)
1964 - Wesley Lau, actor (Lt Anderson-Perry Mason), dies at 43
1968 - William Talman, actor (Hamilton-Perry Mason), dies at 53
1970 - Anna Casati, Italian marchesa, murdered at 41
1970 - Del Moore, actor/announcer (Cal-Bachelor Father), dies at 53
1970 - Del Moore, American comedian (b. 1916)
1974 - Abraham Schierbeek, Dutch biologist (Leeuwenhoek), dies at 87
1981 - Mohammad Ali Rajai, president of Iran, assassinated by a bomb
1981 - Mohammad Javad Bahonar, prime minister of Iran, assassinated by a bomb
1981 - Vera-Ellen, actress (Big Leaguer, On the Town), dies of cancer at 55
1982 - Leo[nhard] Pappenheim, conductor, dies at 86
1985 - Taylor Caldwell, English-born author (b. 1900)
1986 - Otto Mortensen, composer, dies at 79
1989 - Joe De Santis, dies at 80
1989 - Seymour Krim, American journalist, essayist, and literary critic (b. 1922)
1991 - Alan Wheatley
1991 - Hans Koetsier, sculptor artist (KLM-Schiphol), dies
1991 - Jean Tinguely, Swiss sculptor artist (moving objects), dies
1993 - Richard Jordan, US actor (Hunt for Red October, Posse), dies at 55
1994 - Lindsay Anderson, British director/critic (If ...), dies at 71
1994 - Michael Gribble, film animator (Mike & Spike Festival), dies at 42
1995 - Dame Pattie Maie Menzies, Australian, dies at 96
1995 - Fischer S Black Jr, financial Theorist, dies at 57
1995 - Frank Perry, film director, dies at 65
1995 - Holmes Sterling Morrison, musician, dies at 53
1995 - Thomas Chalmers, broadcaster, dies at 82
1996 - Christine Pascal, actress/director (Smile, Elsa), dies at 43
1996 - Jose Toribio Merino, admiral/milt junta of Chile (1973-80), dies at 80
1996 - Louise Brown, dancer/teacher, dies at 89
1999 - Raymond Poïvet, French comics artist (b. 1910)
2001 - Ivor Spencer-Thomas, English farmer, entrepreneur and inventor (b. 1907)
2002 - J. Lee Thompson, English film director (b. 1914)
2003 - Charles Bronson, American actor, dies at 81
2003 - Donald Davidson, American philosopher (b. 1917)
2004 - Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer (b. 1906)
2004 - Indian Larry, American motorcycle builder and stuntman (b. 1949)
2006 - Glenn Ford, Canadian-born American actor (b. 1916)
2006 - Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
2006 - Robin Cooke, Baron Cooke of Thorndon, New Zealand jurist and member of the British House
           of Lords (b. 1926)
2007 - Michael Jackson, British beer and whiskey author/expert. (b. 1942)
2007 - Charles Vanik, American politician (b. 1918)
2008 - Killer Kowalski, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1926)
2010 - Alain Corneau, French filmmaker (b. 1943)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 31, 2013, 09:04:55 AM

This Day in History for 31st August


Historical Events

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Inventor Thomas Edison                       Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini                        32nd US President
                                                                                                                                    Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Artist & Musician Yoko Ono


1056 - Byzantine Empress Theodora becomes ill, dying suddenly a few days later, without children to
           succeed the throne, ending the Macedonian dynasty.
1142 - With the aid of Hiawatha and Deganawidah, The Great Peacemaker, the Iroquois tribes
           establish the Confederation of the Haudenosaunee.
1230 - Utrecht bishop Willebrand grants Swells state justice
1310 - German king Heinrich VII makes his son Johan king of Bohemia
1422 - Henry VI, becomes King of England at the age of 9 months.
1535 - Pope Paul II deposed & excommunicated King Henry VIII
1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlie reaches Blair Castle Scotland
1751 - English troops under sir Robert Clive occupy Arcot India
1772 - Hurricane destroy ships off Dominica
1778 - British kill 17 Stockbridge indians in Bronx during Revolution
1829 - Opera "Guillaume Tell" is produced (Paris)
1836 - HMS Beagle anchors in Postage Praia, Cape Verde Islands
1842 - Micah Rugg patents a nuts & bolts machine
1842 - US Naval Observatory authorized by an act of Congress
1843 - Liberty Party nominates James Birneyas presidential candidate
1850 - California pioneers organized at Montgomery & Clay Streets
1864 - Atlanta Campaign: Battle of Jonesboro Georgia, 1900 casualties
1876 - Ottoman sultan Murat V is deposed and succeeded by his brother Abd-ul-Hamid II.
1881 - 1st US men's single tennis championships (Newport, RI)
1886 - 1st major earthquake recorded in eastern US, at Charleston SC, 110 die
1886 - Crocker-Woolworth National Bank organized
1887 - Thomas A Edison patents Kinetoscope, (produces moving pictures)
1889 - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Cardboard Box" (BG)
1894 - Phillies Billy Hamilton steals 7 bases
1895 - 1st pro football game (QB John Brallier paid $10 & won 12-0)
1896 - Louis Napoleon Parker's "Rosemary," premieres in NYC
1897 - General Kitchener occupies Berber, North of Khartoum
1897 - Thomas Edison patented his movie camera (Kinetograph)
1900 - British troops over run Johannesburg
1900 - Dodgers' Brickyard Kennedy walks 6 straight Phillies
1902 - Split skirt 1st worn by Mrs Adolph Landeburg (horse rider)
1903 - Joe McGinnity wins his 3rd doubleheader of month
1905 - 25th US Mens Tennis: Beals C Wright beats Holcombe Ward (62 61 119)
1905 - Mbunga-rebellion takes German Fort Mahenge East-Africa
1907 - Britain & Russia sign treaty with Afghanistan, Persia & Tibet
1907 - England, Russia & France form Triple Entente
1909 - A J Reach Co patents cork-centered baseball
1909 - Thure Johnstown wins Stockholm marathon (2:40:34.2)
1911 - Anthony Fokker's demonstrates aircraft "Snip"
1913 - Soccer club PSV forms in Eindhoven Netherlands
1914 - 24.8 cm rainfall at Bloomingdale, Michigan (state record)
1914 - General von Kluck decides not to attack Paris
1914 - German troops reconquer Soldau/Neidenburg East-Prussia
1914 - Germany defeats Russia (battle at Tannenberg/30,000 Russians die)
1914 - Ecuador becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1915 - Chicago White Sox Jimmy Lavender no-hits NY Giants, 2-0
1915 - Brazil becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1916 - Oscar Asche's musical "Chu Chin Chow," premieres in London
1918 - Boston Red Sox, win earliest AL pennent ever (season ended Sept 2)
1919 - John Reed forms American Communist Labor Party in Chicago
1919 - Petlyura's Ukrainian Army kills 35 members of a Jewish defense group
1919 - Ukranian (Petlyura) Army recaptures Kiev
1920 - Belgium starts paying old age pensions
1920 - Detroit radio station is 1st to broadcast a news program on the air
1923 - League of Nations gives Belgium mandate of Ruanda-Urundi (was German)
1923 - Mussolini's troops occupy Korfu
1924 - Paavo Nurmi runs world record 10,000m (30:06.2)
1928 - Brecht & Weils "Dreigroschenoper" premieres
1934 - 1st NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chi Bears 0, All-Stars 0 (79,432)
1935 - 1st national skeet championship (Indianapolis)
1935 - Chicago White Sox Vern Kennedy no-hits Cleve Indians, 5-0
1935 - FDR signs an act prohibiting export of US arms to belligerents
1935 - Russian Aleksei Stachanov digs 6 hours, 105 tons of cabbages
1935 - White Sox Vern Kennedy no-hits Indians 5-0
1937 - Det's rookie Rudy York sets record for HRs of 18 HRs in August
1938 - 5th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 28, Washington 16 (74,250)
1939 - Japanese invasion army driven out of Mongolia
1939 - Staged "Polish" assault on radio station in Gleiwitz
1940 - 1st edition pf illegal opposition newspaper Free Netherlands
1940 - 56 U-boats sunk this month (268,000 ton)
1940 - Fighter Command loses 39/Luftwaffe 41 airplanes
1940 - German occupiers in Netherlands begin soap ration
1940 - US National Guard assembles
1941 - 23 U-boats sunk this month (80,000 ton)
1941 - Great Gildersleeve, a spin-off of Fibber McGee & Molly debuts on NBC
1942 - Battle at Alam Halfa: German & Italians assault
1942 - U boats sunk this month 108 ships (544,000 ton)
1943 - 1st battle of Essex/new Yorktown: US assault on Marcus Island
1943 - Japanse occupiers intern Jewish Congregation of Sorabajo
1944 - Allied offensive at "Gothen-linie," Italy
1944 - French provisional government moves from Algiers to Paris
1944 - French troops liberate Bordeaux
1944 - Russian-Romanian troops march into Bucharest
1945 - The Liberal Party of Australia is founded by Robert Menzies.
1947 - Hungarian communist party wins election
1947 - NY Giants set season record for HRs by a club 183 (en route to 221)
1948 - Queen Wilhelmina celebrates 50th jubilee
1950 - Dodger Gil Hodges hits 4 HRs & a single in a game vs Braves
1951 - 1st 33 1/3 album introduced in Dusseldorf
1953 - KRBC TV channel 9 in Abilene, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 - WKBG (now WLVI) TV channel 56 in Cambridge-Boston, MA (IND) begins
1954 - Census Bureau forms
1954 - Hurricane Carol (1st major named storm) hits New England, 70 die
1954 - Indians beat Yanks 6-1 for record tying 26 wins in August (1931 A's)
1954 - WMTW TV channel 8 in Portland-Poland Spring, ME (ABC) begins
1955 - 1st microwave TV station operated (Lufkin, Tx)
1955 - 1st sun-powered automobile demonstrated, Chicago, Ill
1955 - KTRE TV channel 9 in Lufkin, TX (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
1957 - Malaysia (formerly Malaya) gains independence from Britain
1959 - 48th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in New York (3-2)
1959 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open
1959 - Sandy Koufax breaks Dizzy Dean's NL mark of 18 strikeouts in a game
1960 - Agricultural Hall of Fame forms
1961 - Amsterdam National Ballet forms
1962 - Trinidad & Tobago gain independence from Britain (National Day)
1964 - Ground is broken for Anaheim Stadium, future home of Angels
1965 - House of Reps joins Senate establish Dept of Housing & Urban Develop
1965 - The Aero Spacelines Super Guppy Aircraft makes its first flight.
1966 - Referee Leo Horn whistles his last soccer match (Ajax-Bulgaria)
1968 - 12,000 die in 7.8 quake destroys 60,000 buildings in NE Iran
1968 - 68th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Bruce Fleisher
1968 - Private Eye magazine reports a John Lennon & Yoko Ono album will have a picture of them
           nude on cover
1968 - Roy Face ties W Johnson's record of 802 pitching appearances with club
1968 - Verne Gagne beats Dick Beyers (Dr X) in Minn, to become NWA champ
1968 - Garfield Sobers becomes the first cricketer to hit 6 sixes in one over.
1969 - 25,000 attend New Orleans Pop Festival
1970 - 59th Davis Cup: USA beats Germany in Cleveland (5-0)
1970 - Lonnie McLucas, a Black Panther activist, convicted
1970 - Molukkers occupy Indonesian ambassador's home in Wassenaar
1970 - Peter Yarrow arrested for taking "immoral liberties" with girl, 14
1970 - WKMJ TV channel 68 in Louisville, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1971 - Adrienne Beames runs female world record marathon (2:46:30)
1972 - Lasse Viren runs Olympic/world record 10,000m (27:38.4)
1972 - Olga Korbut, USSR, wins olympic gold medal in gymnastics
1973 - 1st heavyweight championship fight in Japan (Foreman beats Roman)
1973 - PBA National Championship Won by Earl Anthony
1974 - Pirate Radio Veronica moves into Scheveningen harbor
1975 - Former Teamsters' president James Hoffa reported missing
1976 - George Harrison found guilty of plagurizing "My Sweet Lord"
1976 - Mexican peso devalued
1976 - Trinidad & Tobago adopts constitution
1976 - Waldemar Cierpinski wins 18th Olympics Marathon (2:09:55.0)
1977 - Aleksandr Fedotov sets aircraft alt rec of 38.26 km (125,524')
1977 - Spyros Kyprianou appointed president of Cyprus
1977 - Ian Smith, espousing racial segregation, wins Rhodesian general election with 80% of
           overwhelmingly white electorate's vote
1978 - Constitution adopted by Sri Lanka
1978 - Emily & William Harris plead guilty to 1974 kidnapping of Patty Hearst
1978 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1979 - 16 yr old Tracy Austin defeats 14 yr old Andrea Jaeger at US Open
1979 - Comet Howard-Koomur-Michels collides with Sun
1979 - Donald McHenry named to succeed Andrew Young as UN ambassador
1979 - Phillies replaces manager Danny Ozark with Dallas Green
1980 - "Oklahoma!" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 301 performances
1980 - 80th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Hal Sutton
1980 - Poland's Solidarity labor union forms
1980 - The Gdańsk Agreement is signed.
1981 - Dirk Wellham scores 103 on Test Cricket debut, v England at Lord's
1981 - Royals manager Jim Frey is fired & replaced by Dick Howser
1982 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1983 - Edwin Moses of USA sets 400m hurdle record (47.02) in Koblenz
1984 - Pinklon Thomas beats Tim Witherspoon in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1985 - "Prakas" sets trotting mile record of 1:53.4 at Du Quoin, Ill
1985 - Angel Cordero becomes 3rd jockey to ride horses earning over $100 M
1985 - Night Stalker suspect that terrorized S California captured in East LA
1986 - Aeromexico DC-9 & small plane collide in LA, killing 82
1986 - Russian cargo ship crashes into cruise ship Admiral Nakhimov; 398 die
1987 - Curtis Strange sets golf's earning for year record ($697,385)
1987 - Michael Jacskon's "Bad" video premieres on CBS TV
1987 - South Africa longest mine strike in history ends
1988 - 5-day power blackout of downtown Seattle begins
1988 - Arbitrator George Nicolau rules owners conspired against free agents
1988 - Bomb attack on office of South Africa Council of Churches
1989 - Aeromexico DC-9 collides over LA, 82 die (15 on the ground)
1989 - Arbitrator T Roberts orders owners to pay $105 million for collusion
1990 - Dennis Eckersley saves his 40th game of the season
1990 - East & West Germany sign a treaty to join legal & political systems
1990 - Ken Griffey Sr & Jr are 1st father & son to play on same team each goes 1 for 4 for Seattle
           Mariners
1991 - Houston QB David Klingler sets NCAA record with 6 touchdown passes in the 2nd quarter as
           the Cougars clobbered Louisiana Tech 73-3
1991 - Richard J Kerr, ends term as deputy director of CIA
1991 - Rockies bat out of order against Expos in 1st inning
1991 - William H Webster, ends term as 14th director of CIA
1992 - 44th Emmy Awards: Northern Exposure, Christopher Lloyd & Dana Delane
1992 - Dynamite explosion in Philipines mine; 500 die
1992 - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Cleveland OH on WNCX 98.5 FM
1993 - Minnesota Twins beat Cleve Indians 5-4 in 22 innings
1993 - Venezuela president Carlos Perez flees
1993 - HMS Mercury closes after 52 years in commission.
1994 - Last Russian soldiers leave Estonia & Latvia
1994 - Northern Ireland Sinn Fein proclaims ceases-fire
1994 - Pentium computer beats world chess champ Gari Kasparov
1994 - The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares a ceasefire.
1997 - "Gin Game," closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 144 performances
1997 - Don Mattingly's #23 is retired by NY Yankees
1997 - Last episode of Rolanda airs
1997 - Pittsburgh Senior Golf Classic
1997 - Scott Hoch wins Greater Milwaukee Golf Open with a 268
1998 - North Korea reportedly launches Kwangmyongsong, its first satellite.
1999 - The first of a series of Russian Apartment Bombings in Moscow, killing one person and
           wounding 40 others.
1999 - A LAPA Boeing 737-200 crashes during takeoff from Jorge Newbury Airport in Buenos Aires,
           killing 65, including 2 on the ground.
2005 - A stampede on Al-Aaimmah bridge in Baghdad kills 1,199 people.
2006 - Stolen on August 22, 2004, Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream was recovered from
           a raid by Norwegian police. The paintings were said to be in a better-than-expected condition.
2012 - Apple loses its patent dispute with Samsung in Tokyo, Japan

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 31, 2013, 09:05:59 AM

This Day in History for 31st August


Famous Weddings

1940 - "Wuthering Heights" actor Laurence Olivier (33) weds "Gone With The Wind" actress Vivien
           Leigh (26)
1991 - Musician Jan Berry (Jan & Dean) weds Gertie Filip

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 31, 2013, 09:15:55 AM

This Day in History for 31st August


Famous Birthdays

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3rd Roman Emperor Caligula (12)        Educator Maria Montessori (1870)                  Actor Richard Gere (1949)


12 - Caligula, [Gaius Caesar], 3rd Roman emperor (37-41 AD)
161 - Commodus, Roman Emperor (180-92)
1569 - Djehangir/Jahangir, great mogol of India
1602 - Amalia, countess of Solms-Braunfels, wife of Gov Frederik Hendrik
1663 - Guillaume Amontons, French physicist
1696 - Johann Paul Kunzen, composer
1721 - George Hervey, 2nd Earl of Bristol, British statesman (d. 1775)
1741 - Johann Paul Aegidius Martini, composer
1741 - Husein Gradaščević, Bosniak general (d. 1834)
1748 - Jean-Etienne Despreaux, composer
1749 - Radistschew, writer
1755 - Johann Ignaz Walter, composer
1775 - Francois de Paule Jacques Raymond de Fossa, composer
1811 - Goode Bryan, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1885
1811 - Theophile Gautier, Tarbas France, writer/poet (Albertus)
1821 - Vaclav Hugo Zavrtal, composer
1822 - Fitz John Porter, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1901
1823 - Galusha Aaron Grow, MC (Union), died in 1907
1828 - George Leonard Andrews, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1834 - Amilcare Ponchielli, Paderno Italy, composer (I Lituani)
1843 - Georg von Hertling, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1919)
1852 - Georges/Joris Helleputte, Belgian Catholic minister
1855 - Stefan Surzynski, composer
1856 - Nikoghayos Fadeyi Tigranyan, composer
1864 - Max Wilhelm Zach, composer
1870 - Maria Montessori, Italy, educator (spontaneous response), (d. 1952)
1871 - James E. Ferguson, Texan governor (d. 1944)
1878 - Albert Riemenschneider, composer
1878 - Frank Jarvis, American athlete (d. 1933)
1879 - Joshihito, emperor of Japan (1912-26)
1879 - Viktor Alexandrovich Uspensky, composer
1879 - Alma Mahler, wife of Gustav Mahler, Walter Gropius and Franz Werfel (d. 1964)
1880 - Wilhelmina HPM, queen of the Netherlands (1898-1948)
1884 - George Al Sarton, Belgian/US historian
1885 - DuBose Heyward, US novelist (Porgy)
1887 - Friedrich A Paneth, Austrian/British chemist
1888 - Ramon de Basterra, Spanish writer/diplomat (La Obra de Trajano)
1889 - A Provost Idell, father of modern volleyball
1892 - Claire DuBrey, Bonner's Ferry ID, actress (Lightnin' in the Forest)
1893 - Lily Laskine, French harpist (d. 1988)
1894 - Albert Facey, Australian writer (d. 1982)
1895 - Joseph Moiseyevich Schillinger, composer
1896 - Félix-Antoine Savard, French-Canadian priest and novelist (d. 1982)
1897 - Frederic March [Ernest Frederick McIntyre Bickel], Racine, Wisconsin, American actor (Dr. Jekyll
           and Mr. Hyde, The Best Years of Our Lives)
1897 - Marianne Bruns, writer
1899 - Paul E Garber, US founder/1st curator of National Air & Space Museum
1899 - Walter Muller von Kulm, composer
1900 - Roland Culver, London England, actor (Thunderball, Encore)
1900 - Gino Lucetti, Italian anarchist (d. 1943)
1903 - Arthur Godfrey, NYC, radio/TV host (Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scout)
1903 - Vladimir Jankélévitch, French philosopher (d. 1985)
1905 - Dore Schary, producer/writer/director (Act 1, Boys Town, Big City)
1905 - Sal Tas, Dutch journalist & CIA agent (Het Parool) [or 1897]
1905 - Sanford Meisner, American actor and teacher (d. 1997)
1906 - Vivienne Byerley, publicist
1907 - August F Hawkins, (Rep-D-CA, 1963- )
1907 - Ramon Magsaysay, Philippines, statesman (US Legion of Merit-1952)
1907 - Augustus F. Hawkins, American politician and civil rights lawmaker (d. 2007)
1907 - William Shawn, American editor (d. 1992)
1907 - Altiero Spinelli, Italian citizen and advocate of European federalism (d. 1986)
1908 - Lab Rachel Katherine Hamilton-Russell ouchere, local historian
1908 - Peter Conrad Baden, composer
1908 - William Saroyan, US, novelist/playwright (Time of Your Life)
1911 - Hilde Jarecki, educationist
1912 - Ramon Vinay, operatic tenor/baritone
1912 - Reinoud Anders, [Lady Blits], Dutch actor (Hamlet)
1913 - Michiel P Gorsira, 1st Dutch Antillean in charge of Curacao (1951-67)
1913 - Sir Bernard Lovell, Bristol England, radio astronomer, founded Jodrell Bank Observatory, (d.
           2012)
1914 - Richard Basehart, Zanesville Oh, actor (Voyage to Bottom of Sea)
1916 - Daniel Schorr, broadcast journalist (CBS)
1918 - Alan Jay Lerner, lyricist composer (Lerner & Loewe-My Fair Lady)
1918 - Lucrecia Roces Kasilag, composer
1919 - Amrita Preetam, Indian poet and author (d. 2005)
1920 - James Lanphier, NY, actor (Flight of Lost Balloon)
1921 - Raymond Williams, Welsh academic (d. 1988)
1923 - Larry White Grayson, British comedian (Generation Game)
1923 - Serafina K "Sera" Anstadt, Polish/Dutch actress/author
1924 - Buddy [Leonard] Hackett, Bkln, comedian (God's Little Acre, Music Man)
1924 - Klaus Hashagen, composer
1926 - Georgiy Petrovich Katys, Russia, cosmonaut (Voskhod 1 backup)
1926 - Jan de Koning, minister of Agriculture/Social Businesses (CDA)
1928 - James Coburn, Laurel Nebr, actor (Our Man Flint, Magnificent Seven)
1928 - Jeremy Stephen Maas, writer/art dealer
1929 - Julio Ramon Ribeyro, writer
1930 - Owen B Pickett, (Rep-D-Virginia)
1930 - Tiny Little Jr, Worthington Minn, pianist (Lawrence Welk Show)
1931 - Dan Rather, news anchor (CBS-TV)
1931 - Jean Marc Beliveau, NHL center (Montreal Canadiens, 10 Stanley Cups)
1931 - Noble [Henry] Willingham, Mineola, Texas, American actor (Walker, Texas Ranger, The
           Corndog Man)
1932 - Benito Wogatzki, writer
1932 - Robert [Franklin] Adams, US, sci-fi author (Castaways in Time)
1932 - Roy Castle, entertainer
1934 - Nikos Xanthopoulos, Greek actor
1935 - Eldridge Cleaver, Black Panther turned Republican
1935 - Frank Robinson, baseball player/manager (MVP 1961-NL 1966-AL)
1936 - Marva Nettles Collins, educator (west side preparatory school)
1937 - Guido de Moor, Dutch actor (Apart, Because the Cats)
1937 - Warren Berlinger, Bkln, actor (Larry-Joey Bishop Shop, Take Two)
1938 - Martin Bell, British journalist
1939 - Jerry Allison, Hillsboro Tx, rock drummer (Buddy Holly & Crickets)
1940 - Alain Calmat, France, figure skater (Olympic-silver-1964)
1940 - Jack Thompson [John Payne], Sydney, New South Wales, Australian actor (Breaker Morant,
          The Man from Snowy River)
1941 - Emanuel Nunes, composer
1941 - Henk Terlingen, Dutch radio/TV-host (Paul Meier Show)
1941 - William DeWitt, Jr., American businessman
1942 - Carole Wells, Shreveport La, actress (Pistols 'n' Petticoats)
1942 - Isao Aoki, Abiko Chiba Japan, PGA golfer (1983 Hawaiian Open)
1942 - Eugenio Trias, Barcelona, Spain, philosopher, (d. 2013)
1943 - Leonid Ivashov, Russian general
1944 - Clive Hubert Lloyd, cricketer ("Supercat", 110 Tests 1966-85)
1944 - Jos LeDuc, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 1999)
1945 - Bob Welch, rock vocalist/guitarist (Fleetwood Mac-Oh Well), (d. 2012)
1945 - Itzhak Perlman, Tel Aviv Israel, violinist/polio victim (14 Grammys)
1945 - Leonid Ivanovich Popov, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 35/37, 40, T-7)
1945 - [George I] Van Morrison, Belfast, singer (Here Comes the Night)
1945 - Van Morrison, Northern Irish musician
1946 - Jerome Corsi, American writer
1947 - Mona Marshall, American voice actress
1947 - Luca di Montezemolo, Italian businessman
1947 - Yumiko Ōshima, Japanese manga artist
1948 - Harald Ertl, Austrian racing driver (d. 1982)
1948 - Lowell Ganz, American screenwriter
1948 - Holger Osieck, German footballer and coach
1948 - Rudolf Schenker, German guitarist (Scorpions)
1949 - Richard Gere, Phila Pa, actor (Breathless, Cotton Club, Pretty Woman)
1949 - Rick Roberts, rocker (Firefall)
1952 - Bruce Soboroff, Chic Il, rocker (Buckinghams)
1952 - Rudolf Schenker, German rock guitarist (Scorpions-Virgin Killer)
1952 - Herbert Reul, German politician
1953 - Marcia Clark, [Kleks], Berkeley CA, LA DA (OJ Simpson Case)
1953 - Miguel Ángel Guerra, Argentine racing driver
1953 - György Károly, Hungarian author
1954 - Tula, [Barry Kenneth Cossey], England, transsexual (For Your Eyes Only)
1955 - Edwin Corley Moses, Dayton, 400m hurdler (Oly-2 gold/br-76, 84, 88)
1956 - Masashi Tashiro, Japanese television performer
1957 - Gina Schock, rocker (Gogos-Our Lips Are Sealed)
1957 - Glenn Tilbrook, London, rock vocalist/guitarist (Squeeze-Tempted)
1957 - Tom Candiotti, Walnut creek CA, pitcher (LA Dodgers)
1957 - Colm O'Rourke, Former Gaelic footballer and Current panelist
1958 - David H Mattheisen, Blue Island Ill, PhD/astronaut (STS 73 alt)
1958 - Serge Blanco, French rugby union footballer
1959 - Rachel Dennison, Knoxville Tn, actress (Doralee Rhodes-9 to 5)
1959 - Tony DeFranco, rocker (DeFranco Family)
1960 - Vali Ionescu, Romanian long jumper
1960 - Chris Whitley, American musician (d. 2005)
1961 - David Chastain, heavy metal rocker (Chastain-Rule of Wasteland)
1962 - Wanda Guenette, Winnipeg Manitoba, volleyballer (Olympics-96)
1962 - Dee Bradley Baker, American voice actor
1963 - Reb Beach, heavy metal rocker (Winger-17)
1963 - Sonny Silooy, soccer player (Ajax)
1963 - Todd Carty, Irish actor
1964 - Raymond P. Hammond, American poet and editor
1965 - Willie Watson, cricket pace bowler (NZ)
1965 - Daniel Bernhardt, Swiss actor
1965 - Céline Bonnier, French Canadian actress
1966 - Jeff Frye, Oakland CA, infielder (Boston Red Sox)
1966 - Jan Einar Thorsen, Norwegian Alpine skier
1967 - Diane Madl, Mountain Top PA, field hockey forward/midfielder (Oly-96)
1967 - Melanie Sullivan, Branford Ct, WPVA volleyballer (National-13th-1994)
1968 - Glenroy Gilbert, Trinidad, Canadian 4X100m sprinter (Olympics-gold-96)
1968 - Hideo Nomo, Osaka Japan, pitcher (LA Dodgers)
1968 - Jennifer Azzi, Oak Ridge Tenn, basketball guard (Olympics-gold-96)
1968 - Jim Bob Howard, Wichita Falls Texas, actor (Flash & Bone)
1968 - Jolene Watanabe, Los Angeles California, tennis star (1994 Futures-Evansville)
1969 - Andrei Trefilov, Kirovo Russia, NHL goalie (Buffalo Sabres, Oly-S-98)
1969 - Andrew Phillip Cunanan, serial killer (Gianni Versache)
1969 - Javagal Srinath, cricketer (Indian right-arm pace bowler since 1991)
1969 - Nathan Minchey, pitcher (Boston Red Sox)
1969 - Victor Alexander, NBA forward/center (NY Knicks)
1969 - Jonathan LaPaglia, Australian actor
1970 - Deborah (Debbie) Gibson, Brooklyn NY, singer (Only in My Dreams)
1970 - James Robinson, NBA guard (LA Clippers, Portland Trail Blazers)
1970 - Steve Nikataras, cricketer (left-arm pace bowler for NSW 1996-97)
1970 - Queen Rania of Jordan
1970 - Arie van Lent, Dutch-German footballer
1970 - Zack Ward, Canadian actor
1971 - Greg Jefferson, NFL defensive end (Philadelphia Eagles)
1971 - Mike Caldwell, NFL linebacker (Cleveland Browns, Arizona Cardinals)
1971 - Pádraig Harrington, Irish golfer
1972 - Chris Tucker, American actor
1973 - Earl Scott, WLAF OL (Amsterdam Admirals)
1973 - Priest Lauderdale, NBA center (Denver Nuggets)
1973 - Reggie Geary, NBA guard (San Antonio Spurs)
1973 - Scott Niedermayer, Edmonton, NHL defenseman (NJ Devils)
1974 - Andrei Medvedev, Kiev Ukraine, tennis star (1991 French Open junior)
1974 - Jeremy O'day, CFL offensive linebacker (Toronto Argonauts)
1974 - Jessy Viceisza, Miss Universe-Bonaire (1996)
1975 - Raleigh Roundtree, tackle (San Diego Chargers)
1975 - Daniel Harding, British conductor
1975 - Takahiro Suwa, Japanese professional wrestler
1976 - Vincent Delerm, French singer-songwriter, pianist and composer
1976 - Roque Júnior, Brazilian footballer
1977 - Jeff Hardy, American professional wrestler
1977 - Ian Harte, Irish footballer
1977 - Craig Nicholls, Australian musician (The Vines)
1978 - Philippe Christanval, French footballer
1978 - Phina Oruche, British actress
1979 - Clay Hensley, American baseball player
1979 - Mickie James, American professional wrestler
1979 - Mark Johnston, Canadian swimmer
1979 - Simon Neil, Scottish musician (Biffy Clyro)
1979 - Ramón Santiago, Dominican baseball player
1980 - Joe Budden, American rapper
1981 - Dwayne Peel, Welsh rugby union footballer
1981 - 40 Cal, American rapper
1981 - Steve Saviano, American ice hockey player
1981 - Joe Swanberg, American filmmaker
1982 - Lien Huyghebaert, Belgian athlete
1982 - José Reina, Spanish footballer
1982 - Michele Rugolo, Italian racing driver
1982 - Ian Crocker, American swimmer
1982 - Chris Duhon, American basketball player
1982 - Josh Kroeger, American baseball player
1982 - Alexei Mikhnov, Ukrainian-born ice hockey player
1982 - Patrick Nuo, Swiss singer
1982 - G. Willow Wilson, American journalist and comic book writer
1983 - Larry Fitzgerald, American football player
1984 - Matti Breschel, Danish road bicycle racer
1984 - Ted Ligety, American alpine skier
1984 - Charl Schwartzel, South African golfer
1986 - Feng Tianwei, Singaporean table tennis player
1987 - Petros Kravaritis, Greek footballer

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on August 31, 2013, 09:21:05 AM

This Day in History for 31st August


Famous Deaths

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First Victim of Jack the Ripper              Heavyweight Boxing Champion          Princess of Wales Diana Spencer (1997)
Mary Ann Nichols (1888)                              Rocky Marciano (1969)


651 - Saint Aidan of Lindisfarne, Irish bishop and missionary
683 - Pacal II ruler of the Maya polity of Palenque
1056 - Theodora, Byzantine Empress (b. 981)
1057 - Leofric, count of Mercia/husband of Lady Godiva, dies
1158 - Sancho III, King of Castile, dies
1218 - Al-Malik ab-Adil/Saphadin/Saif al-Din), brother of Saladin, dies
1234 - Emperor Go-Horikawa of Japan (b. 1212)
1372 - Ralph Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford, English soldier (b. 1301)
1422 - Henry V, King of England (1413-22)/France (1416-19), dies
1590 - Floris Thin, politician/land advocate of Utrecht, dies
1604 - Giovanale Ancina, composer, dies at 58
1616 - Gemignano Capilupi, composer, dies at 43
1631 - Nicolaus Erich, composer, dies at 43
1638 - John Ward, composer, dies at 67
1645 - Francesco Bracciolini, Italian poet (b. 1566)
1654 - Ole Worm, Danish physician (b. 1588)
1667 - Johann Rist, composer, dies at 60
1688 - John Bunyan, preacher/novelist/author (Pilgrim's Progress), dies
1730 - Gottfried Finger, Czech composer (b. 1660?)
1741 - Johann Gottlieb Heineccius, German jurist (b. 1681)
1772 - William Borlase, English naturalist (b. 1695)
1795 - Francois-Andre Danican Philidor, composer, dies at 68
1799 - Nicolas-Henri Jardin, French architect (b. 1720)
1805 - Joseph Marie Clement dall' Abaco, composer, dies at 95
1814 - Arthur Phillip, British admiral, first Governor of New South Wales (b. 1738)
1832 - Jean Nicolas Auguste Kreutzer, composer, dies at 53
1862 - George William Taylor, US Union brig-general, dies in battle
1862 - Ignaz Assmayer, composer, dies at 72
1864 - Ferdinand Lassalle, French politician (ADA), dies at 39
1867 - [Pierre-]Charles Baudelaire, Fren poet (Journaux Intimes), dies at 46
1869 - Mary Ward, Irish scientist, first automobile accident victim (b. 1827)
1873 - Charles F Pahud de Montagnes, gov-gen (Dutch East Indies), dies at 70
1875 - Oskar Peschel, German geographer (Physicist Erdkunde), dies at 49
1879 - William Barber, 6th US chief engraver (1844-79), dies
1888 - Mary Ann Nichols, a 42-year-old prostitute, was found stabbed to death in London, 1st of at
           least five murders by Jack the Ripper
1902 - Mathilde Wesendonk, German author/poetess, dies at 73
1910 - Emils Darzins, composer, dies at 34
1918 - Joe English, Irish/Flemish signaler (WW I), dies at 36
1920 - Wilhelm Wundt, German physiologist/psychologist/philosopher, dies
1931 - Marcel Planiol, French private law scholar, dies
1934 - Johan H A Schaper, Dutch MP (SDAP), dies
1935 - Abraham Isaac Kook, rabbi/author (Hokhmat Ha-kodesh), dies
1940 - Johanna "Annie" Bakker, revue-artists/singer/actress, dies at 58
1940 - Georges Gauthier, French Canadian Roman Catholic archbishop of Montreal (b. 1871)
1941 - Marian Zwetajewa, writer, dies
1941 - Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet (b. 1892)
1942 - Von Bismarck, German major general, (Africa Corps), dies in battle
1944 - Killinger, German ambassador to Romania, commits suicide
1946 - Paul August von Klenau, Danish opera composer/conductor, dies at 63
1948 - Andrei A Zjdanov, Rus politician (against kosmopolitism), dies at 52
1948 - Billy Laughlin, American actor (b. 1932)
1949 - Andre Debierne, French chemist/physicist (actinium), dies
1949 - Paul Hoffer, composer, dies at 53
1952 - Henri Bourassa, French Canadian political leader (b. 1868)
1959 - Charles Delaney, dies at 67
1963 - George F Broque, cubist painter, dies at 81 in Paris
1963 - Georges Braque, French painter (b. 1882)
1964 - Carole Coleman, singer (Make Mine Music), dies at 42
1966 - Kasimir Edschmid, [Karl E Schmidt], German writer, dies at 75
1967 - Ilja G Ehrenburg, Russian poet/writer (9th wave), dies at 76
1967 - Michael Fitzmaurice, dies of lymphoma at 59
1968 - Dennis O'Keefe, actor (Suspicion), dies of lung cancer at 60
1968 - George P Gooch, English historian/House of Commons leader, dies
1969 - Ottmar Gerster, composer, dies at 72
1969 - Rocky Marciano, former heavyweight champ, dies in a plane crash at 45
1973 - John Ford, US director (Mary of Scotland, Stagecoach), dies at 78
1973 - Raymond Keane, dies at 66
1973 - Stan Worthington, English cricket pace bowler (9 Tests 1930-36), dies
1974 - William Pershing Benedict, American pilot
1974 - Norman Kirk, New Zealand prime minister (b. 1923
1975 - Pierre Blaise, French actor (Lacombe Lucien), dies at 24
1976 - Kornelis H Miskotte, theologist (If the Gods Keep Silent), dies at 81
1978 - John Wrathall, President of Rhodesia (b. 1913)
1979 - E J "Tiger" Smith, England cricket wicket-keeper 1911-14), dies
1979 - Sally Rand, stripper, dies at 75
1981 - Joseph H Hirschhorn, US art collector/founder H Museum, dies at 82
1981 - Victor Trumper Jr, cricketer (7 games for NSW, 74 runs 12 wkts), dies
1985 - Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Australian biologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1899)
1986 - Henry Moore, English sculptor/cartoonist, dies at 88
1986 - Urho K Kekkonen, premier/president of Finland, dies at 85
1990 - Johnny Lindsay, cricketer (South African wicket-keeper 1947), dies
1990 - Nat (Sweetwater) Clifton, NY Knick, dies at 65 of a heart attack
1991 - Leigh Watson, US aviation pioneer/air force general, dies at 93
1993 - Gerben Wagenaar, Dutch resistance fighter (communist), dies at 80
1994 - Artur Balsam, Polish/US pianist, dies at 88
1994 - Barbara Hammer Avedon, scriptwriter, dies at 69
1994 - Norman "Doc" Jones, bassist, dies at 68
1995 - Beant Singh, PM of Punjab province of India, assassinated at 73
1995 - David Farrar, actor (Beat Girl, I Accuse, Watusi), dies at 87
1995 - David Richard Holloway, literary Editor, dies at 71
1995 - Hajime Miterai, industrialist, dies at 56
1995 - Horst Janssen, graphic Artist, dies at 65
1995 - John Erik Jonsson, businessman/Mayor of Dallas, dies at 93
1996 - David Scott, priest, dies at 72
1996 - Harald James Penrose, pilot, dies at 92
1996 - Ljuba Welitsch, opera singer, dies at 83
1996 - Milton "Tippy" Larkin, band leader, dies at 85
1997 - Diana Spencer, Princess of Wales, dies in car crash in Paris at 36
2000 - Patricia Owens, Canadian actress (b. 1925)
2002 - Lionel Hampton, American vibraphone player (b. 1908)
2002 - George Porter, English chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1920)
2004 - Carl Wayne, English singer (b. 1943)
2005 - Michael Sheard, British actor (b. 1940)
2005 - Joseph Rotblat, Polish-British physicist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1908)
2006 - Tom Delaney, British racing driver (b. 1911)
2006 - Derrick Wayne Frazier, American convicted murderer (b. 1977)
2006 - Mohamed Abdelwahab, Egyptian footballer (b. 1983)
2007 - Gay Brewer, American golfer (b. 1932)
2007 - Karloff Lagarde, Mexican professional wrestler (b. 1928)
2008 - Jerry Reed, American country music singer and actor (b. 1937)
2008 - Ike Pappas, American news correspondent (b. 1933)
2009 - Eraño Manalo, Filipino religious figure (b. 1925)
2010 - Laurent Fignon, French bicycle racer (b. 1960)
2011 - Wade Belak, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1976)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 01, 2013, 08:58:01 AM

This Day in History for 1st September


Historical Events

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The Sun King Louis XIV                           Naturalist Charles Darwin                    Playwright George Bernard Shaw

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Italian Dictator                                             Military Leader                                     Comedian Jerry Lewis
Benito Mussolini                                          George Marshall

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Boxing Champ George Foreman             Pop Star & Beatle Paul McCartney


69 - Traditional date of destruction of Jerusalem
462 - Possible start of first Byzantine indiction cycle.
891 - Northmen defeated near Louvaine, France
1067 - Baldwin VI becomes Count of Flanders
1181 - Ubaldo Allucingoli replaces Alexander III as Pope Lucius III
1267 - Rabbi Moses Ben Nachman establishes a Jewish community in Jerusalem
1355 - Tvrtko I writes in castro nostro Vizoka vocatum from old town Visoki.
1482 - Krim-Tataren plunders Kiev
1511 - Council to Pisa opens
1535 - French navigator Jacques Cartier reaches Hochelaga (Montreal)
1547 - Charles demands creation of Imperial League (German state)
1598 - Spanish king Philip II receives sacraments
1609 - Pieter Both sworn in as 1st gov-gen of East Indies
1614 - Vincent Fettmich expels Jews from Frankfurt-on-Main, Germany
1632 - Battle at Castelnaudary: Henri de Montmorency's rebellion army loses
1638 - -4] French queen-mother Maria de' Medici visits Amsterdam
1647 - French cardinal Mazarin & duke of Modena sign treaty against Milan
1661 - 1st Yacht race, England's King Charles vs his brother James
1689 - Russia began taxing men's beards
1695 - Dutch/English army under king Willem III occupies Names
1715 - King Louis XIV of France dies after a reign of 72 years—the longest of any major European monarch.
1739 - 35 Jews sentenced to life in prison in Lisbon Portugal
1752 - Liberty Bell arrives in Phila
1763 - Catherine II of Russia endorses Ivan Betskoy's plans for a Foundling Home in Moscow
1772 - Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa forms in California
1785 - Mozart publishes 6 string quartet opus 10 in Vienna
1797 - 2nd National Meeting in Hague
1798 - England signs treaty with nizam of Hyderabad, India
1799 - Bank of Manhattan Company opens in NYC (forerunner to Chase Manhattan)
1804 - Juno, one of the largest main belt asteroids, was discovered by German astronomer Karl
           Ludwig Harding.
1807 - Aaron Burr acquitted of charges of plotting to set up an empire
1821 - 1st colonies along Santa Fe Trail
1831 - Charles Darwin travels aboard HMS Beagle
1836 - Reconstruction begins on Synagogue of Rabbi Judah Hasid in Jerusalem
1836 - Narcissa Whitman, one of the first white women to settle west of the Rocky Mountains,
           arrives at Walla Walla, Washington.
1849 - California Constitutional Convention held in Monterey
1858 - 1st transatlantic cable fails after less than 1 month
1859 - 1st Pullman sleeping car in service
1859 - R C Carrington & R Hodgson make 1st observation of solar flare
1859 - A solar superstorm affects electrical telegraph service.
1861 - Grant assumes command of Federal forces at Cape Girardeau MI
1861 - Skirmish at Boone Court House WV & Blue Creek WV
1862 - Battle at Chantilly (Ox Hill) Virginia (2100 casualties)
1862 - Federal tax levied on tobacco
1863 - 6th Ohio Cavalry ambush at Barbees Crossroads Virginia
1863 - Federal troops reconquer Fort Smith Arkansas
1863 - RR & ferry connection between SF & Oakland inaugurated
1864 - 2nd day of battle at Jonesboro Georgia, about 3,000 casualties
1864 - Battle of Petersburg VA
1864 - Skirmish at Hood evacuated confederates from Atlanta GA
1866 - Last Navaho chief Manuelito, turns self in at Fort Wingate
1867 - Robert T Freeman is 1st black to graduate from Harvard Dental School
1870 - Napoleon III captured at Sedan
1873 - Cetshwayo ascends to the throne as king of the Zulu nation following the death of his father
           Mpande.
1874 - 28th Postmaster General: Marshall Jewell of Conn takes office
1874 - Sydney General Post Office opens in Australia
1875 - A murder conviction effectively forces the violent Irish anti-owner coal miners, the "Molly
           Maguires", to disband.
1878 - 1st female telephone operator starts work (Emma Nutt in Boston)
1886 - Neth's New Code of Criminal law enforced
1887 - Dutch Amateur Photography Cooperation established
1888 - Dutch Railway Deventer-Almelo opens
1890 - 1st baseball tripleheader-Boston vs Pittsburgh
1897 - The Boston subway opens, becoming the first underground rapid transit system in North
           America.
1898 - Dutch soccer team Receiver forms
1898 - Lord Kitcheners army bombs Omdurman Sudan
1901 - Construction begins on NY Stock Exchange
1902 - Tinker, Evers, & Chance appear together for 1st time
1905 - Alberta & Saskatchewan become 8th & 9th Canadian provinces
1906 - Alberta adopts Mountain Standard Time
1906 - British New Guinea becomes Australian Papua New Guinea
1906 - Joseph Harris (Boston) & Jack Coombs (A's) pitch complete 24 inn game
1906 - NY Highlanders win 6th game in 3 days from Wash (3 straight DHs)
1906 - Papua placed under Australian administration
1906 - The International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys (FICPI) is established.
1911 - M Fourny sets world aircraft distance record of 720 km
1913 - George Bernard Shaws "Androcles & the Lion," premieres in London
1913 - Yuan Shikai captures Nanjing "2nd Chinese revolution"
1914 - 34th US Mens Tennis: R Norris W III beats M E McLoughlin (63 86 10-8)
1914 - Lord Kitchener arrives in Paris
1914 - St Petersburg, Russia changes name to Petrograd
1914 - Von Glucks army meets up with British expeditionary army
1914 - The last passenger pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo.
1916 - Bulgaria declares war on Romania
1916 - Keating-Owen Act (child labor banned from interstate commerce)
1918 - Baseball season ends due to WW I
1918 - Ty Cobb pitches 2 innings against Browns
1918 - US troops land in Vladivostok, Siberia, stay until 1920
1919 - Frank Wedekind's "Herakles," premieres in Munich
1920 - France creates Lebanon
1920 - New townhall of Rotterdam opens
1921 - Nederlander Theater opens at 208 W 41 St NYC (Billy Rose, Trafalgar)
1922 - NYC law requires all "pool" rooms to change name to "billiards"
1923 - 18th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in New York (4-1)
1923 - 7.9 earthquake strikes Tokyo & Yokohama, kills 142,000
1923 - US beats Australia in tennis, for their 4th straight Davis Cup
1924 - Kenchoji Rinzai temple in Kamakur Japan, heavily damaged by earthquake
1925 - Pierre de Coubertin steps down as chairman of Intl Olympic Committee
1926 - British Columbia Rugby Football Union forms
1926 - Turkey allows civil marriage
1928 - Albania becomes a kingdom, with Zogu I as king
1930 - NY World reports disappearance of supreme court justice Joseph Crater
1931 - Gehrig hits his 3rd grand slam in 4 days & his 6th HR in consec games
1932 - NYC Mayor James J "Gentleman Jimmy" Walker resigns (graft charges)
1933 - Soccer team DVS '33 forms
1934 - Spelling-Marchand Laws enforced
1934 - SMJK Sam Tet was founded by Father Fourgs from the St. Michael Church, Ipoh, Perak,
           Malaysia.
1936 - Middleweight Staff Roth KOs Heinz Lazek
1937 - 4th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 6, Green Bay 0 (84,560)
1937 - Battle of Gijon in Spain begins
1938 - Benito Mussolini cancels civil rights of Italian Jews
1939 - Hitler orders extermination of mentally ill
1939 - Last day of 1st-class cricket in England for 6 years
1939 - Physical Review publishes 1st paper to deal with "black holes"
1939 - Switzerland proclaims neutrality
1939 - WW II starts, Germany invades Poland, takes Danzig
1939 - The Wound Badge for Wehrmacht, SS, Kriegsmarine, and Luftwaffe soldiers is instituted. The
           final version of the Iron Cross was also instituted on this date.
1939 - Switzerland mobilizes its forces and the Swiss Parliament elects Henri Guisan to head the
           Swiss Army (an event that can happen only during war or mobilization).
1940 - Gen George Marshall sworn in as chief of staff of US army
1941 - Jews living in Germany are required to wear a yellow Jewish star
1942 - Fed judge upholds detention of Japanese-Americans
1942 - German troops land on Taman peninsula
1944 - Bulgaria government of Bagrjanow, resigns
1944 - King George VI promotes Montgomery to field marshal
1945 - Japan surrenders ending WW II (US date, 9/2 in Japan)
1945 - Phillies Vince DiMaggio ties NL record with 4th grand slam of season
1946 - 1st US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Patty Berg
1946 - Greece votes for monarchy
1947 - NY Giants 183-185 HR of year breaks Yankee mark of 182 in 1936
1948 - Bradman scores 143 Aust v South of England, 17 fours 1 six
1948 - Communist form North China People's Republic
1948 - UN's World Health Organization forms
1949 - 1st network detective series-Private Eyes-premieres
1949 - KMTV TV channel 3 in Omaha, NB (CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting
1949 - Viljo Heino runs world record 10k (29:27.2)
1950 - 13 North Korean divisions open assault on UN lines
1950 - West Berlin granted a constitution
1951 - PM Ben-Gurion orders establishment of Israeli secret service Mossad
1951 - US, Australia & New Zealand sign ANZUS treaty
1952 - Sutro Baths, SF purchased by George Whitney
1952 - Willem Drees forms new Dutch government
1953 - 101°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in Sept
1953 - Fokker begins building F-27 Fokker Friendship
1953 - WNOK (now WLTX) TV channel 19 in Columbia, SC (CBS) 1st broadcast
1953 - WTCN (now KARE) TV channel 11 in Minneapolis-St Paul, MN (MET) begins
1954 - Hurricane Carol strikes Long Island/New England, kills 68
1954 - Ted Kluszewski is 1st Cin Red to hit 40 HRs en route to 49
1955 - 2 Egyptian fighters shot down over Israel
1955 - KARD (now KSNW) TV channel 3 in Wichita, KS (NBC) begins broadcasting
1956 - Indian state of Tripura becomes a territory
1956 - KELP (now KCOS) TV channel 13 in El Paso, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting
1957 - Excursion train crashed into a ravine killing 175, injuring 400
1957 - WAVY TV channel 10 in Portsmouth-Norfolk, VA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1957 - WHC (now WPXI) TV channel 11 in Pittsburgh, PA (NBC) 1st broadcast
1957 - WTLV TV channel 12 in Jacksonville, FL (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
1958 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Opie Turner Golf Open
1958 - St Louis Card Vinegar Bend Mizell walks a record 9 men in a shutout
1960 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Eastern Golf Open
1960 - Robert Bolt's "Man For All Seasons," premieres in London
1961 - 1st conference of neutral countries held in Belgrade
1961 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1961 - The Eritrean War of Independence officially begins with the shooting of the Ethiopian police by
           Hamid Idris Awate
1962 - 12,000 die in an earthquake in western Iran
1962 - KATC TV channel 3 in Lafayette, LA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1962 - UN announces Earth population has hit 3 billion
1962 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1962 - Channel Television launches to 54,000 households in the Channel Islands.
1963 - Language laws in Belgium goes into effect causing a riot
1963 - St Louis Cards pitcher Curt Simmons steals home plate
1963 - WCTI TV channel 12 in New Bern, NC (ABC) begins broadcasting
1964 - Masanori Murakami is 1st Japanese player in majors (NY Mets)
1965 - India & Pakistan border fights
1966 - KIFW (now KTNL) TV channel 13 in Sitka, AK (CBS) begins broadcasting
1967 - KMNE TV channel 7 in Bassett, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting
1967 - SF Giants beat Cincinnati Reds, 1-0, in 21 innings
1967 - WIRT TV channel 13 in Hibbing, MN (ABC) begins broadcasting
1967 - WJRJ (WTCG, WTBS) TV channel 17 in Atlanta, GA (IND) begins
1968 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Willow Park Ladies Golf Invitational
1968 - Earthquake destroys Ferdows Persia, 2,000 killed
1968 - Pirate Radio Marina (Netherlands) begins transmitting
1969 - Jerry Lewis' 4th Muscular Dystrophy telethon
1969 - Libyan revolution, Col Moammar Gadhafi deposes King Idris
1969 - A revolution in Libya brings Col. Muammar al-Gaddafi to power, which was later transferred to
           the People's Committees.
1970 - Failed assassination attempt on Jordanian king Hussain
1970 - Jose Velasco Ibarra re-elected president of Ecuador
1971 - John Newcombe is 1st top-seed man to lose in 1st round of US Open
1971 - Qatar declares independence from Britain
1971 - Rolling Stones sue manager Allen Klein
1972 - Bobby Fischer (US) defeats Boris Spassky (USSR) for world chess title
1972 - Egypt & Libya form federation
1973 - 74-year-old Hafnia Hotel burns, killing 35 (Copenhagen, Denmark)
1973 - George Foreman KOs Jose "King" Roman in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
1974 - Dutch law against pirate radio goes into effect
1974 - Jane Blalock/Sue Roberts wins LPGA Southgate Ladies Golf Open
1974 - Train accident at Zagreb Yugoslavia, 121 killed
1974 - The SR-71 Blackbird sets (and holds) the record for flying from New York to London: 1 hour
           54 minutes and 56.4 seconds.
1975 - All political parties forbidden in Bangladesh
1975 - Gunsmoke resigns the air
1975 - Jerry Lewis' 10th Muscular Dystrophy telethon
1975 - KOL-AM in Seattle Wash changes call letters to KMPS
1975 - NY Met Tom Seaver is 1st to strike out 200 in 8 consecutive seasons
1975 - NYC transit fare rises from 35 cents to 50 cents
1976 - NASA launches space vehicle S-197
1976 - NJ Meadowlands racetrack opens
1976 - Wayne L Hays, (Rep-D-Oh), resigns (scandal with Elizabeth Ray)
1977 - 1st TRS-80 Model I computer sold
1977 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1978 - Indians' Sammy Stewart tosses 7 consecutive strikeouts (vs Balt)
1978 - Last broadcast of "Columbo" on NBC TV
1978 - Jacqueline Smith of Great Britain scores 10 straight dead center strikes on a 4" disk in World
           Parachute Championships in Yugoslavia
1978 - #4655 Marjoriika, #4814 Casacci, #5344 Ryabov, #6262 Javid & #8064
1979 - Debbie Boone & Gabriel Ferrer wed in LA
1979 - LA Court orders Clayton Moore to stop wearing Lone Ranger mask
1979 - Pioneer 11 makes 1st fly-by of Saturn, discovers new moon, rings
1980 - Dutch embassy in Israel moves from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv
1980 - Jerry Lewis' 15th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $31,103,787
1980 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
1980 - Terry Fox's Marathon of Hope ends in Thunder Bay, Ontario.
1981 - Fiona Brothers sets women's propeller boat speed record (116.279 MPH)
1981 - Milt coup under general Kolingba in Cent Afr Rep, Pres Dacko flees
1981 - RKO radio network is 1st to offer 2 separate overnight services
1981 - RKO radio network premieres America Overnight talk show
1982 - Caryl Churchill's "Top Girls," premieres in London
1982 - Max speedometer reading mandated at 85 MPH
1982 - Mexico President Lopez Portillo nationalizes banks
1982 - Palestinian Liberation Organization leaves Lebanon
1982 - The United States Air Force Space Command is founded.
1983 - Korean Airlines flight 007 shot down by Soviets in Russian airspace
1983 - Korean Boeing 747 strays into Siberia & is shot down by a Soviet jet
1983 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1983 - WGH-AM in Newport News VA changes call letters to WNSY
1985 - Cyclist Joop Zoetemelk becomes world champion
1985 - US-French expedition locates wreckage of Titanic off Newfoundland
1986 - Betsy King wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
1986 - Jerry Lewis' 21st Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $34,096,733
1986 - Paul McCartney releases "Press to Play" album
1986 - Texas Rangers O McDowell & Porter are 7th to hit consecutive pinch HRs
1987 - 15 yr old Michael Chang is youngest man to win US Tennis Open match
1987 - Smoking forbidden in public buildings in Belgium
1988 - Timberlake Westenbaker's "Our Country's Good," premieres in London
1989 - "Anything Goes" closes at Beaumont Theater NYC after 804 performances
1989 - Princess Anne & Mark Phillips announce their separation
1990 - "Heidi Chronicles" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 621 perfs
1990 - "Jerome Robbins' Broadway" closes at Imperial NYC after 634 perfs
1990 - Gelindo Bordin sets European marathon record (2:14:02)
1990 - Highest combined CFL score (111), Toronto Argonauts beat BC 68-43
1991 - Hiromi Taniguchi wins 3rd world championship marathon (2:14:57)
1991 - Richard J Kerr, serves as acting director of CIA
1992 - NYC police commisioner Brown resigns
1992 - Tommy Smothers undergoes arthroscopic surgery
1993 - "White Liars/Black Comedy" opens at Criterion NYC for 38 perfs
1993 - Goran Ivanisevic & Daniel Nestor play longest tie-break in US Tennis
1995 - Infinity Radio agrees to voluntarily pay $1.7 million to US Treasury
1995 - NYC reinstates the death penalty
1995 - Rock & Roll Hall of Fame opens in Cleveland Ohio
1996 - Balt Ravens (Cleveland Browns) 1st NFL game, beat Oakland Raiders, 17-14
1997 - "Doll's House," closes at Belasco Theater
1997 - Cartoon Channel premieres in Japan
1997 - Cindy Figg-Currier wins LPGA State Farm Rail Classic
1997 - Jerry Lewis' 32nd Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $50,500,000
2004 - The Beslan school hostage crisis begins when armed terrorists take hundreds of school
           children and adults hostage in the Russian town of Beslan in North Ossetia.
2005 - Seven members and former members of the AFL-CIO form a new trade union organization,
           the Change to Win Federation.
2006 - Luxembourg became the first country to complete the move to all digital television
           broadcasting.
2012 - Islamist rebels seize Douentza, Mali
2012 - Grenade injures 41 festival celebrants in Paquibato, Philippines
2012 - Two suicide bombings kill 12 people and wound 50 in a NATo base in Afghanistan's Sayed
           Abad district
2012 - US drone strike kills 5 people in North Waristan, Pakistan

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 01, 2013, 09:00:46 AM

This Day in History for 1st September


Famous Weddings

1730 - US Founding Father Benjamin Franklin establishes a common-law marriage with Deborah Read
1970 - "The Bee Gees" singer Barry Gibb (24) weds former Miss Edinburgh Linda Ann Gray
1996 - Presidential daughter Amy Carter (29), the only child of former U.S President Jimmy Carter
           weds computer consultant Jim Wentzel (28) in Plains, Georgia
2001 - "The Accidental Tourist" actress Geena Davis (45) weds Iranian American plastic surgeon Dr. 
           Reza Jarrahy
2001 - "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" actor Nicholas Brendon (30) weds Tressa Di Figlia in Carlsbad
2001 - "Six Days Seven Nights" actress Anne Heche (32) weds cameraman Coleman Laffoon in Los
           Angeles, California
2002 - Actress Sarah Michelle Gellar (35) weds actor Freddie Prinze Jr. (36) at El Careyes Resort in
           Mexico
2002 - "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" actress Terry Farrell (38) weds actor Brian Baker (35) at Paris
           Las Vegas in in Paradise, Nevada
2007 - Singer-songwriter Usher (28) weds hair stylist and wardrobe stylist Tameka Foster (37) at
           Chateau Elan Winery and Resort in Georgia
2007 - The first Apprentice winner Bill Rancic (36) weds E! News anchor Giuliana DePandi (32) at the
           Church of Santa Sofia in Capri, Italy
2007 - "Grey's Anatomy" actress Kate Walsh (39) weds movie executive Alex Young (35) at the Ojai
           Presbyterian Church in Ojai, California
2007 - "Dancing with the Stars" tv personality Alec Mazo (29) weds fellow dancer Edyta Sliwinska
           (28) in San Francisco, California
2012 - "Grey's Anatomy" actor Jesse Williams (31) weds real estate broker Aryn Drake-Lee (32) in
           Los Angeles

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 01, 2013, 09:08:48 AM

This Day in History for 1st September


Famous Birthdays

(http://i.historyorb.com/johann-pachelbel.jpg)                  (http://i.historyorb.com/rocky-marciano.jpg)                 (http://i.historyorb.com/gloria-estefan.jpg)
Composer                                             Heavyweight Boxing Champion                 Singer Gloria Estefan (1957)
Johann Pachelbel (1653)                              Rocky Marciano (1923) 


1286 - Elisabeth Richeza of Poland, Queen of Poland (d. 1335)
1453 - Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, Spanish general (d. 1515)
1529 - Taddeo Zuccari, Italian painter
1549 - Charles Philip of Croij, marquis of Havre/earl of Fontenoy, etc
1566 - Edward Alleyn, English actor (d. 1626)
1588 - Henry II, Prince of Condé, French nobleman (d. 1646)
1608 - Giacomo Torelli, Fano, Italy, stage designer, engineer and architect
1651 - Nataliya Kyrillovna Naryshkina, Tsaritsa of Russia (d. 1694)
1653 - Johann Pachelbel, Nuremberg, composer (Canon in D), (d. 1706)
1689 - Kilian I von Dientzenhofer, Bavarian master builder (Prague)
1711 - Willem IV KH Friso, Dutch prince of Orange-Nassau
1712 - Simon Fokke, Dutch book illustrator
1724 - John Nieuwenhuijzen, theologist/co-founder (Society of It General)
1732 - Johann Gottlieb Sollner, composer
1732 - Thomas Alexander Erskine Kelly, composer
1751 - Emmanuel Johann Joseph Schikaneder, composer [or Apr 9]
1758 - Wilhelmus Kist, writer/director of Dutch Staatscourant
1768 - Carl Bernhard Wessely, composer
1787 - John Bake, classical composer
1789 - Franz Anton Adam Stockhausen, composer
1791 - Lydia Sigourney, US, religious author (How to Be Happy)
1795 - James Gordon Bennett, Sr., American newspaper publisher (d. 1872)
1798 - Richard Delafield, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1873
1803 - Jacobus T Abels, Dutch painter
1816 - Gustav Schmidt, composer
1824 - Isaac Hardin Duval, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1902
1827 - Jacobus J Cremer, painter/author (Overbetuwsche Novellen)
1829 - James Conner, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1883
1845 - Paul S Methuen, English fieldmarshal/governor of Natal/Malta
1848 - Auguste-Henri Forel, Swiss entomologist (d. 1931)
1849 - Elizabeth Harrison, US, educator (Natl Congress of Parents & Teachers)
1854 - Engelbert Humperdinck, Germany, opera composer (Parisfal)
1855 - Innokenty Annensky, Omsk, Russian Empire, poet, critic and interpreter (poètes maudits)
1856 - Sergei Winogradsky, Russian scientist (d. 1953)
1862 - Adolphe Appia, Swiss set designer/theorist
1862 - Alphons Diepenbrock, Dutch composer [or Sept 2]
1864 - Roger David Casement, Irish nationalist (Easter uprising 1916)
1866 - James "Gentleman Jim" Corbett, heavyweight champion boxer (1892-97)
1868 - Henri Bourassa, French Canadian politician and publisher (d. 1952)
1870 - Timotei Popovici, composer
1871 - J. Reuben Clark, Jr., American Undersecretary of State (d. 1961)
1873 - Guy Standing, English actor (Cradle Song)
1874 - Heinrich Otto Ludwig, composer
1874 - Ismar Elbogen, German/US rabbi (Encyclopedia Judaica)
1875 - Edgar Rice Burroughs, US, sci-fi author (Tarzan of Apes, Mars Saga)
1876 - Harriet Shaw Weaver, English political activist (d. 1961)
1877 - Francis William Aston, Nobel laureate (d. 1945)
1878 - Princess Alexandra of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1942)
1883 - Didier Pitre, French Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1934)
1884 - Sigurd Wallén, Swedish actor and filmdirector (d. 1947)
1886 - Othmar Schoeck, composer
1887 - Blaise Cendrars, [Frederic Sauser-Hall], Swiss poet/writer
1887 - Otto Eissfeldt, German old testament scholar
1888 - Andrija Štampar, Croatian physician (d. 1958)
1889 - Richard Arlen, American actor (d. 1976)
1892 - Leverett Saltonstall, 55th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1979)
1893 - Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Japans/US painter/etcher/lithographer
1895 - Edit Angold, Germany, actor (Suspense, Molly, Blue Angel)
1895 - Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar, Indian musician (d. 1974)
1896 - A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Indian theologian (d. 1977)
1897 - Andy Kennedy, Irish footballer (d. 1963)
1898 - Marilyn Miller, [Renolds], US actress (Sunny)/wife of Jack Pickford
1900 - Andrei Vlasov, Russian general (Red Army, Wehrmacht)
1900 - Kazimierz Wilkomirski, composer
1900 - Richard Arlen, Virginia, actor (Alice in Wonderland, Crawling Hand)
1904 - Johnny Mack Brown, Dothan AL, actor (Lawman is Born, Back Trail)
1904 - Ray Flaherty, AFL/NFL/AAFC coach (NY Giants)
1905 - Gervase Hughes, composer
1905 - Elvera Sanchez, Puerto Rican dancer (d. 2000)
1906 - Franz Biebl, German composer (d. 2001)
1907 - Joaquin Balaguer, president Dominican Republic
1907 - Walter Reuther, labor leader/president (UAW & CIO)
1908 - Jean Crepin, soldier/industrialist
1908 - Amir Elahi, Pakistani cricketer (d. 1980)
1909 - E. Herbert Norman, Canadian diplomat (d. 1957)
1910 - Jack Hawkins, London, actor (Ben-Four Just Men, Zulu, Malta Story)
1911 - Komei Abe, composer
1911 - Marinus Ruppert, Dutch chairman (CNV)/trade union leader
1913 - Christian Nyby, American director and film editor (d. 1993)
1916 - Sydney Dawson Bailey, pacifist/campaigner
1919 - Roy John Britten, Washington, molecular biologist (repeated DNA sequences in eukaryotic
           genomes), (d. 2012)
1920 - Hubert Lampo, Flemish writer/essayist (Coming of Joachim Stiller)
1920 - Richard Farnsworth, Los Angeles California, actor (Misery, Havana, Sylvester)
1921 - Matt Higgins Doran, composer
1921 - Willem Frederik Hermans, Dutch writer (Mandarins on Sulfuric Acid)
1922 - Melvin R Laird, (Rep-R-Mich), US Secretary of Defense (1969-73)
1922 - Vittorio Gassman, Genoa Italy, actor (War & Peace)
1922 - Yvonne De Carlo, Vancouver BC, actress (10 Commandments, Munsters)
1922 - Joe Astroth, East Alton, Illinois, MLB player (Philadelphia/Kansas City Athletics), (d. 2013)
1923 - Rocky Marciano, Brockton, Massachusetts, heavyweight champion boxer (1952-56), (d. 1969)
1923 - Theo H Joekes, journalist/Dutch MP (VVD)
1925 - Art[hur E] Pepper, US, alto saxophonist
1925 - Ruth S White, composer
1925 - Art Pepper, American musician (d. 1982)
1926 - Abdur Rahman Biswas, President of Bangladesh
1927 - Tommy Evans, rocker (Drifters)
1928 - George Maharis, actor (Rich Man, Poor Man, Route 66)
1928 - Clifford Lincoln, Canadian politician
1929 - Anne Ramsey, American actress (d. 1988)
1931 - "Boxcar" Willie, singer
1931 - Matthew J Rinaldo, (Rep-R-NJ, 1973- )
1933 - Ann Richards, (Gov-D-Tx)
1933 - Conway Twitty, [Harold Jenkins], Miss, country singer (Hello Darlin')
1933 - Tom Vreugdenhil, Dutch MP (CDA)
1933 - Ann W. Richards, American politician (d. 2006)
1933 - Marshall Lytle, Old Fort, North Carolina, Hall of Fame rock bassist (Comets), (d. 2013)
1934 - Terepai Maoate, Rarotonga, Cook Islands, Prime Minister of the Cook Islands (1999-2002),
          (d. 2012)
1935 - Seiji Ozawa, Hoten Manchuria, conductor (Boston Symphony Orchestra)
1937 - Al Geiberger, Red Bluff CA, PGA golfer (1962 Ontario Open)
1937 - Ron O'Neal, Utica NY, actor (Superfly)
1938 - Alan Dershowitz, NYC, attorney (Claus Von Bulow, OJ Simpson)
1938 - Art Agnos, US, politician(?)
1938 - George Maharis, Astoria NY, actor (Buz-Route 66, Most Deadly Game)
1939 - Heinrich Messner, Austria, downhill skier (Olympic-bronze-1972)
1939 - Katie Webster, [Swamp-Boogie Queen]/US R&B pianist/singer
1939 - Lily Tomlin, Detroit, comedienne/actress (9 to 5, Laugh-in, All of Me)
1941 - Sid Pye, drummer
1942 - C[arolyn] J[anice] Cherry, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Faded Sun Trilogy)
1942 - C. J. Cherryh, American writer
1943 - Pat Connolly-Daniels-Winslow-Banks, US pentathlete (Olympics-7th-1968)
1943 - Don Stroud, Honolulu, Hawaii, American actor (Coogan's Bluff, Buddy Holly Story)
1944 - Archie Bell, US singer (& the Drells-Tighten up)
1944 - Leonard Slatkin, Los Angeles California, conductor (Concert Orch, Neth)
1945 - Mustafa Balel, Turkish writer
1946 - Barry Gibb, Manchester England, guitarist/singer (Bee Gees)
1946 - Greg Errico, San Francisco, California, American drummer (Sly & Family Stone-Stand!)
1946 - Roh Moo-Hyun, President of South Korea
1947 - Al Green, American politician
1948 - Józef Życiński, Polish archbishop and philosopher
1949 - P.A. Sangma, Indian politician
1950 - Phillip Fulmer, American football coach
1951 - Timothy Zahn, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Cobra Strike)
1951 - David Bairstow, England cricketer (d. 1998)
1953 - Chuck Orton, US sysop, (Emerald BBS, Oregon)
1953 - Beau Billingslea, American voice actor
1953 - Ted Petty, American professional wrestler (d. 2002)
1954 - Gabor Ormai, viola Player
1954 - Dave Lumley, Canadian ice hockey player
1955 - Bruce Foxton, rock guitarist (Jam)
1955 - Billy Blanks, American martial artist
1957 - Gloria Estefan, [Fajardo], Havana, singer (Miami Sound Machine-Conga)
1957 - Duško Ivanović, Montenegrin basketball coach
1958 - Armi Aavikko, Finnish singer (d. 2002)
1959 - Keith Allen Clearwater, Long Beach CA, PGA golfer (1987 Colonial Natl)
1959 - Kenny Mayne, American sports journalist
1961 - Bam Bam Bigelow, Secaucus NJ, WWF wrestler (Wrestlemania XI)
1962 - Robert L Haller, coon Dog Trainer
1962 - Ruud Gullit, Suriname/Dutch soccer star (Feyenoord, PSV, AC Milan)
1962 - Tony Cascarino, Irish footballer
1963 - Carola Smit, Dutch singer (BZN-Bad bad woman)
1963 - David Zhuang, China, US table tennis player (Olympics-96)
1963 - Stephen Kernahan, Australian rules footballer
1964 - Brian Bellows, Canadian ice hockey player
1964 - Cécilia Rhode, Swedish model
1964 - Ray D'Arcy, Irish DJ and TV presenter
1965 - Aldo Swager, soccer player (SC Heerenveen)
1965 - Hardy Nickerson, NFL linebacker (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1966 - Katja Bienert, Berlin Germany, actress (Praxis Bulowbogen)
1966 - Stephane Talbot, Greenfield Park Que, golfer (1992 Quebec PGA)
1966 - Tim Hardaway, NBA guard (Miami Heat)
1967 - David Whissell, Quebec politician
1968 - Mardi Lunn, Liverpool Australia, LPGA golfer (1994 McDonald's-17th)
1968 - Michelle Buckingham, Los Angeles California, Canadian 61 kg judoka (Olymp-20-92, 96)
1968 - Mohammed Atta, Egyptian terrorist (d. 2001)
1969 - Florence Descampe, Brussels Belgium, LPGA golfer (1992 McCall)
1969 - Henning Berg, Norwegian footballer
1970 - Barbara Paulus, Vienna Austria, tennis star
1970 - Flora Perfetti, Faenza Italy, tennis star
1970 - Jodi Lambert, Australian 100m/200m sprinter (Olympics-96)
1970 - Hwang Jung-min, South Korean actor
1970 - Padma Lakshmi, Indian actress
1970 - Vanna, Croatian singer
1971 - Gabe Wilkins, NFL defensive end (GB Packers-Super Bowl 31)
1971 - Moses Kiptanui, Kenyan 3K runner (world record)
1971 - Hakan Şükür, Turkish footballer
1971 - Ricardo Antonio Chavira, American actor
1971 - Yoshitaka Hirota, Japanese composer
1971 - Lââm, French singer
1971 - Jimmy Snuka, Jr., American professional wrestler
1972 - Eiman Thakeb, Miss Egypt Universe (1997)
1972 - Josh Davis, US, 800m freestyle swimmer (Olympics-gold-96)
1972 - Louise Dobson, Shepparton Aust, field hockey fullback (Olympics-96)
1972 - Matt O'Dwyer, NFL guard (NY Jets)
1972 - Doug Williams, British professional wrestler
1973 - Gillian Boxx, Fontana CA, softball catcher (Olympics-gold-96)
1973 - Trent Bray, NZ, 100m/200m swimmer (Olympics-96)
1973 - Ram Kapoor, Indian actor
1973 - J. D. Fortune, Canadian singer (INXS)
1973 - Zach Thomas, American football player
1973 - Polly Shannon, Canadian actress
1974 - Jason Taylor, American football player
1974 - Jhonen Vasquez, American comic book artist
1975 - Scott Speedman, English-born actor
1975 - Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, Puerto Rican guitarist
1975 - Cuttino Mobley, American basketball player
1976 - Sebastián Rozental, Chilean footballer
1976 - Marcos Ambrose, Australian racing driver
1976 - Erik Morales, Mexican boxer
1976 - Clare Connor, England Woman cricketer
1977 - Raffaele Giammaria, Italian racing driver
1977 - Aaron Schobel, American football player
1977 - Shoshana Bean, American stage actress
1977 - Aamir Ali, Indian television actor
1977 - David Albelda, Spanish footballer
1978 - Max Vieri, Australian soccer player
1978 - Lucie Blackman, English murder victim (d. 2000)
1979 - James O'Connor, Irish footballer
1980 - Sammy Adjei, Ghanaian footballer
1980 - Chris Riggott, English footballer
1981 - Clinton Portis, American football player
1981 - Adam Quick, Australian basketball player
1982 - Paul Dumbrell, Australian racing driver
1982 - Ryan Gomes, American basketball player
1982 - Jeffrey Buttle, Canadian figure skater
1983 - José Antonio Reyes, Spanish footballer
1984 - Joseph Trohman, American musician (Fall Out Boy)
1984 - Nick Noble, American soccer player
1985 - Camile Velasco, Filipino-American singer
1986 - H Debehogne discovers asteroid #8265 La Silla
1986 - Gaël Monfils, French tennis player
1986 - Anthony Allen, English rugby union player
1987 - Dann Hume, New Zealand musician (Evermore)
1988 - Gabriel Ferrari, American soccer player
1988 - Mushfiqur Rahim, Bangladeshi cricketer
1989 - Juliana Lohmann, Brazilian actress
1993 - Ilona Mitrecey, French singer
1994 - Bianca Ryan, American singer

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 01, 2013, 09:10:38 AM

This Day in History for 1st September


Famous Deaths

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The Sun King Louis XIV (1715)


1067 - Baldwin V, Count of Flanders/guardian of King of France, dies
1159 - Adrian IV, [Nicole Breakspear], only English pope (1154-59), dies
1215 - Otto van Gelre, son of Otto I/earl-elect of Utrecht
1256 - Kujo Yoritsune, Japanese shogun (b. 1218)
1406 - Johanna, duchess of Brabant/Limburg (Joyful Entry), dies at 84
1414 - William de Ros, 7th Baron de Ros, Lord Treasurer of England (b. 1369)
1557 - Jacques Cartier, French explorer, dies (birth date unknown)
1581 - Guru Ram Das, fourth Sikh Guru (b. 1534)
1600 - Tadeáš Hájek, Czech physician (b. 1525)
1615 - Étienne Pasquier, French lawyer (b. 1529)
1648 - Marin Mersenne, French mathematician (Number of Mersenne), dies at 59
1666 - French Neck, portrait painter (Women Portrait), dies at about 86
1671 - Hugues de Lionne marquis de Berny, French ambassador to Rome, dies
1685 - Leoline Jenkins, Welsh lawyer (b. 1625)
1687 - Henry More, English philosopher (b. 1614)
1715 - Louis XIV, the sun king of France (1643-1715), dies at 76
1715 - François Girardon, French sculptor (b. 1628)
1731 - Pierre Danican Philidor, composer, dies at 50
1777 - Johann Ernst Bach, composer, dies at 55
1780 - Reynier de Klerk, gov-gen of Dutch-Indies (1777-1800), dies at 69
1801 - Robert Bage, English writer (Hermsprong), dies
1814 - Erik Eriksson Tulindberg, composer, dies at 53
1838 - William Clark, 2nd lt of Lewis & Clark Expedition, dies at 68
1862 - Isaac Ingalls Stevens, US Union general-major, dies in battle at 44
1862 - Oliver Tilden, of the Bronx, killed in Civil War in Virginia
1862 - Philip "Phil" Kearny, US Union general-major, dies in battle at 48
1867 - Edward Hodges, composer, dies at 71
1880 - Antoon Jurgens, margarine maker, dies at 75
1896 - Johannes Habert, composer, dies at 62
1903 - Charles Renouvier, French philosopher (neo criticism), dies
1912 - Sam[uel E] van Beem, actor (Dollar Princess), dies at 62
1912 - Samuel Coleridge Taylor, African-British composer, dies at 37
1914 - Martha, last known passenger pigeon, dies at Cincinnati Zoo
1941 - Benjamin Dwight, US tennis championship umpire, dies
1943 - Charles Atangana, Cameroonian chief (b. 1880)
1945 - Jacobus W G Balfoort, Dutch actor (Heimwee, Head On), dies at 57
1947 - Frederick Russell Burnham, father of the international Scouting movement (b. 1861)
1951 - Wolfgang Schulze, [Wols], German drawer/painter, dies at 38
1953 - Bernard O'Dowd, Australian poet (b. 1866)
1955 - Philip Loeb, actor (Jake-Goldbergs), dies at 61
1957 - Helen Haye, actress (Girl in the Taxi, Spy in Black), dies at 83
1957 - Dennis Brain, English musician (b. 1921)
1961 - Eero Saarinen, Finnish/US architect (Dulles Airport), dies at 51
1961 - William S Foster, chairman (US Communist Party, 1945-57), dies at 80
1963 - Guy Burgess, British spy for the USSR
1963 - Jean Canneel, Flemish sculptor, dies at 73
1964 - George Georgescu, composer, dies at 76
1967 - Ilja Ehrenburg, writer, dies at 76
1967 - Siegfried L Sassoon, English poet/writer (Counterattack), dies at 80
1967 - James Dunn, actor (Tree Grows in Brooklyn, 6 Gun Law), dies at 61
1967 - Ilse Koch, Nazi war criminal (b. 1906)
1968 - Granville English, composer, dies at 69
1969 - Drew Pearson, newscaster (Drew Pearson), dies at 71
1969 - William Flanagan, composer, dies at 46
1970 - Francois Mauriac, writer, dies
1972 - May Aufderheide, composer, dies at 84
1977 - Ethel Waters, actress (Beulah)/singer (Stormy Weather), dies at 76
1978 - Olga de Haas, Dutch ballerina, dies at 33
1979 - Doris Kenyon, silent screen actress (Alexander Hamilton), dies at 81
1981 - Albert Speer, German NSDAP-architect/minister of Army at 76
1981 - Ann Harding, actress (When Ladies Meet, Devotion), dies
1981 - Bui Thanh Liem, Vietnam, cosmonaut, dies in Mig-21 crash at 32
1982 - Clifford M Curzon, England, pianist, dies at 75
1982 - Wladislaw Gomulka, Polish partisan/party leader, dies at 76
1982 - Haskell Curry, American mathematician (b. 1900)
1983 - Henry "Scoop" Jackson, (Sen-D-Wash), dies at 71
1983 - Lennox Brown, cricket leg spinner (3 wickets at 63 for South Africa), dies
1983 - Larry McDonald, American congressman (b. 1935)
1984 - Howland Chamberlin, actor (Force of Evil, Pickup), dies at 73
1985 - Stefan Bellof, German race car driver (b. 1957)
1985 - Jay Youngblood, American wrestler (b. 1955)
1986 - Murray Hamilton, actor (Rich Man Poor Man), dies at 63
1988 - Leonor Sullivan, (Rep-D-Missouri, 1955-77), dies at 86
1989 - A Bartlett Giamatti, baseball commissioner, dies of heart attack at 51
1989 - Tadeusz Sendzimir, American inventor (b. 1894)
1991 - Mark Robinson, British actor (The Girl), dies at 30
1991 - Steve Kemp, British light enterpeneur, dies
1992 - Morris Carnovsky, US actor (Dead Reckoning), dies at 94
1993 - Gerben Wagenaar, resistance fighter/communist, dies at 80
1993 - Hew Lorimer, British sculptor, dies at 86
1993 - Jacqueline Wijchers, film publicist (Havenloods, Sextant), dies at 89
1994 - Clifford Leofric Purdy Bishop, bishop, dies at 88
1994 - Pieter C "Piet" Author, sailor/corrector, dies at 71
1994 - Wallis Mathias, cricketer (scored 783 in 21 Tests for Pakistan), dies
1994 - Boris Malenko, American professional wrestler (b. 1933)
1995 - Elizabeth Brown, minister healer/writer, dies at 32
1995 - Ernest Charles Melvin Patrick Ekundio Marke, club Owner, dies at 93
1996 - Brother Adam Kehrle, benedictine monk/beekeeper, dies at 98
1996 - Charles Daniels, archaeologist, dies at 63
1996 - George Levy, antique dealer/heritage campaigner, dies at 69
1996 - Vagn Holmboe, composer, dies at 86
1998 - Józef Krupiński, Polish poet (b. 1930)
1998 - Cary Middlecoff, American golfer (b. 1921)
1999 - W. Richard Stevens, Zambian computer scientist (b. 1951)
2001 - Brian Moore British sports commentator (b. 1932)
2003 - Sir Terry Frost, British artist (b. 1915)
2004 - Ahmed Kuftaro, Grand Mufti of Syria (b. 1915)
2005 - R. L. Burnside, American musician (b. 1926)
2005 - Thanos Leivaditis, Greek actor (b. 1934)
2006 - Sir Kyffin Williams, Welsh landscape painter (b. 1918)
2006 - Bob O'Connor, mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (b. 1944)
2006 - Nellie Connally, wife of Texas governor John Connally (b. 1919)
2006 - Warren Mitofsky, American pollster (b. 1934)
2007 - Roy McKenzie, New Zealand philanthropist (b. 1922)
2008 - Don LaFontaine, American voice actor (b. 1940)
2009 - Jang Jin-young, South Korean actress (b. 1974)
2010 - Wakanohana Kanji I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 45th Yokozuna (b. 1928)
2012 - Smarck Michel, Haitian Prime Minister, dies from a brain tumour
2012 - Hal David, American Lyricist, dies at 91

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 02, 2013, 08:50:22 AM

This Day in History for 2nd September


Historical Events

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Roman Emperor Augustus Caesar            26th US President                                 US President George H. W. Bush
                                                               Theodore Roosevelt

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Jewish Victim & Diarist of the                Hall of Fame MLB shortstop                         Singer Rod Stewart
Holocaust Anne Frank                                     Ernie Banks

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Comedian Jerry Lewis                          Minister and Civil Rights Activist
                                                                        Al Sharpton


44 BC - Pharaoh Cleopatra VII of Egypt declares her son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV Caesarion.
44 BC - The first of Cicero's Philippics (oratorical attacks) on Mark Antony. He will make 14 of them
            over the next several months.
31 BC - Final war of the Roman Republic: Battle of Actium - off the western coast of Greece, forces
            of Octavian defeat troops under Mark Antony and Cleopatra.
911 - Viking-monarch Oleg of Kiev-Russia signs treaty with Byzantines
1192 - Sultan Saladin & King Richard the lion hearted sign cease fire
1519 - 1st Battle of Tehuacingo, San Salvador vs Mexico
1537 - King Christian III publishes "Ordinance on the Danish Church"
1644 - Battle at Lostwithiel: Robert Devereux' infantry surrenders
1649 - The Italian city of Castro is completely destroyed by the forces of Pope Innocent X, ending
           the Wars of Castro.
1666 - Great Fire of London begins at 2am in Pudding Lane, 80% of London is destroyed
1686 - Habsburgse armies occupy Buda on Turks
1732 - Pope Clement XII renews anti-Jewish laws of Rome
1743 - England/Austria/Savoye-Sardinia sign Treaty of Worms
1752 - Last Julian calendar day in US & Britian/British colonies (no Sept 3-Sept 13th)
1789 - US Treasury Department established by Congress
1792 - September Massacres of the French Revolution: In Paris rampaging mobs slaughter 3 Roman
           Catholic bishops, more than two hundred priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist
           sympathizers.
1796 - Jews of the Netherlands are emancipated
1806 - A side of Rossberg Peak collapses into Goldau Valley Switz, kills 500
1807 - The Royal Navy bombards Copenhagen with fire bombs and phosphorus rockets to prevent
           Denmark from surrendering its fleet to Napoleon.
1839 - Salon of Varietes opens in Amsterdam
1856 - Tianjing's struggle Incident in Nanjing, China.
1859 - Gas lighting introduced to Hawaii
1859 - A solar super storm affects electrical telegraph service.
1864 - Union General William T Sherman captures and burns Atlanta
1867 - 1st Girl School opens in Haarlem Neth
1870 - Napoleon III surrenders to Prussian armies
1885 - In Rock Springs, Wyoming, 150 white miners, who were struggling to unionize so they could
           strike for better wages and work conditions, attack their Chinese fellow workers, killing 28,
           wounding 15, and forcing several hundred more out of town.
1894 - -3] Amsterdam Municipal theater opens
1894 - Forest fires destroy Hinckley Minnesota: about 600 die
1897 - "McCall-magazine 1st published
1898 - Battle of Omdurman: Lord Kitchener retakes Sudan for Britain
1898 - Machine gun 1st used in battle
1900 - Telegraph use between Germany & US begins
1901 - VP Theodore Roosevelt advises, "Speak softly & carry a big stick"
1902 - "A Trip To The Moon," the 1st science fiction film released
1908 - Tommy Burns KOs Bill Lang in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
1909 - English King Edward VII signs South Africa Bill
1911 - Joao Chagas forms Portuguese government
1913 - Amsterdam reroutes sewage of canals to South Seas
1914 - -3] Gen von Hausen & countess of France regime flees to Bordeaux
1917 - Deutsche Vaterlands Party forms (by admiral Tirpitz)
1919 - Communist Party of America organizes in Chicago
1919 - Italy agress to general voting right/proportional representation
1919 - National Commission recommends a best-of-9 World Series
1920 - W Somerset Maugham's "East of Suez," premieres in London
1922 - Pres Ebert declares "Deutschland uber alas" as German national anthem
1924 - 44th US Mens Tennis: William Tilden beats William Johnston (61 97 62)
1924 - Rudolf Friml's "Rose Marie" opens to rave reviews in NYC
1925 - The U.S. Zeppelin the USS Shenandoah crashes, killing 14.
1926 - Italy signs treaty with Yemen
1927 - Rumour starts that Yankee Lou Gehrig will be traded to Tigers
1929 - Unilever forms by merger of Margarine Union & Lever Bros
1929 - WOR (NYC) ends affiliation with CBS radio network
1930 - 1st non-stop airplane flight from Europe to US (37 hrs)
1935 - A hurricane slams Florida Keys killing 423
1936 - 1st transatlantic round-trip air flight
1937 - US Housing Authority created by National Housing Act
1940 - 23rd PGA Championship: Byron Nelson at Hershey CC Hershey Pa
1940 - Great Smoky Mountains National Park dedicated
1941 - Academy copyrights Oscar statuette
1942 - German troops enter Stalingrad
1944 - Belgium's Emissie bank closes
1944 - During WW II, George Bush ejects from a burning plane
1944 - Holocaust diarist Anne Frank was sent to Auschwitz
1944 - US leaders meet in Belgium
1945 - 59th US Womens Tennis: Sarah P Cooke beats Pauline Betz (36 86 64)
1945 - Ho Chi Minh declares Vietnam independence from France (National Day)
1945 - V-J Day; formal surrender of Japan aboard USS Missouri (WW II ends)
1946 - Johnny Neun replaces Bill Dickey as Yankee manager
1946 - Nehru forms government in India
1949 - Fire in riverfront area kills 1,700 (Chungking China)
1951 - Australia, NZ & US sign ANZUS-pact
1952 - Dr Floyd J Lewis 1st uses deep freeze technique in heart surgery
1954 - Hurricane Edna batters NE US, killing 20
1954 - WTVD TV channel 11 in Raleigh-Durham, NC (ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 - KCRA TV channel 3 in Sacramento, CA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1956 - Collapse of a RR bridge under a train kills 120 (India)
1956 - Orioles trailing Red Sox 8-0 come back to win 11-10 in 9 innings
1956 - Washington-Jackson cable line replaced by bus service
1957 - 1st edition newspaper the Ware Time (in Suriname), 1,700 die
1957 - Milwaukee Braves' Frank Torre scores 6 runs in 1 game
1957 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1958 - Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1958 - Henry Verwoerd appointed PM of South Africa
1958 - KAYS TV channel 7 in Hays, KS (CBS) begins broadcasting
1958 - Minn announces $9 million bond issue to improve Metropolitan Stadium
1958 - National Defense Education Act was signed
1958 - U.S. Air Force C-130A-II is shot down by fighters over Yerevan, Armenia when it strays into
           Soviet airspace while conducting a sigint mission. All crew lost.
1959 - US President Eisenhower arrives in Paris
1960 - Tamara & Irina Press (USSR) become 1st sisters to win olympic gold
1960 - William Walton's 2nd Symphony, premieres
1960 - The first election of the Parliament of the Central Tibetan Administration, in history of Tibet.
           The Tibetan community observes this date as the Democracy Day.
1962 - Stan Musial's 3,516th hit moves over Tris Speaker into 2nd place
1962 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1963 - Alabama Gov George C Wallace prevents integration of Tuskegee HS
1963 - CBS & NBC expand network news from 15 to 30 minutes
1963 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Idaho Centennia Golf Tournament
1964 - Indonesian paratroopers lands in Malaysia
1964 - Norman Manley scores 2-consecutive holes-in-one at Del Valley, Cal
1965 - Cubs slugger Ernie Banks hits his 400th HR (off Curt Simmons)
1965 - Treblinka trial in Dusseldorf ends
1966 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Ladies' World Series of Golf
1967 - KUHI (now KSNF) TV channel 16 in Joplin, MO (CBS) begins broadcasting
1967 - The Principality of Sealand is established, ruled by Prince Paddy Roy Bates.
1968 - Jerry Lewis' 3rd Muscular Dystrophy telethon
1969 - NY Yankee Joe Pepitone is reinstated
1969 - Ralph Houk signs 3-year contract to manage Yankees at $65,000 a season
1969 - The first automatic teller machine in the United States is installed in Rockville Center, New
           York.
1970 - 1st tennis tie break at a Grand Slam (US Open) (9 pt sudden death)
1971 - Cesar Cedeno hits an inside-the-park grand slammer
1971 - Chris Evert & Jimmy Connors win their 1st US Open tennis matches
1971 - NY's Electric Circus Club goes out of business
1972 - Chicago White Sox Milt Pappas no-hits SD Padres, 1-0
1972 - Renate Stecher runs 100m European female record (11.07 sec)
1972 - Rod Stewart's 1st #1 hit (You Wear it Well)
1972 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1973 - Billy Martin fired as manager of Tigers
1973 - Netherlands wins hockey world's championship
1973 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Charity Golf Classic
1974 - Jerry Lewis' 9th Muscular Dystrophy telethon
1974 - Prest Gerald Ford signs Employee Retirement Income Security Act
1978 - Graham Salmon set worlds record for 100 meters by a blind man
1978 - John McClain performs 180 outside loops in an airplane over Houston
1978 - Reggie Jackson is 19th player to hit 20 HR in 11 straight years
1979 - "I Remember Mama" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 108 perfs
1979 - 79th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Mark O'Meara
1980 - John Arlott calls his last game, England v Australia at Lord's
1981 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1982 - Rolling Stone Keith Richard's house burns down
1983 - Yitzhak Shamir (Herut) endorsed by Menachem Begin for Israeli PM
1984 - "Zorba" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 362 performances
1985 - Betsy King wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
1985 - Jerry Lewis' 20th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $33,100,000
1986 - Cathy Evelyn Smith sentenced to 3 years for death of John Belushi
1987 - Donald Trump takes out a full page NY Times ad lambasting Japan
1987 - Kevin Bass is 1st NLer to switch hit HRs in a game twice in 1 season
1987 - Philips introduces CD-video
1987 - West German pilot Mathias Rust, who flew a private plane from Helsinki Finland, to Moscow's
           Red Square, forms trial in Russia
1988 - Amnesty International's Human Rights Now! tour begins in Wembley
1989 - Rev Al Sharpton leads a civil rights march through Bensonhurst
1990 - "Grapes of Wrath" closes at Cort Theater NYC after 188 performances
1990 - Steve Allen, installed as a new abbot of Hartford St Zen Center, SF
1991 - Jerry Lewis' 26th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $45,071,657
1991 - Pat Bradley wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
1991 - US officially recognizes independence of Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania
1992 - Nicaragua struck by earthquake/floodings; 118 die
1992 - US dollar valued at 156.50 guilder (record)
1993 - 10th MTV Awards: Pearl Jam, En Vogue wins
1993 - Central African Republic ex-emperor Bokassa freed
1993 - Day of Peace in South Africa
1994 - Miguel Indurain bicycles world record time (53,040 km)
1995 - Frank Bruno beats Oliver McCall in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1995 - Southern California begins using new area code 562
1996 - Jerry Lewis' 31st Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $49,200,000
1996 - Michelle McGann wins LPGA State Farm Rail Golf Classic
1996 - Soyuz TM-24, lands
1996 - A peace agreement is signed between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines and
           the Moro National Liberation Front in Malacañang Palace.
1997 - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Montreal Canada on CHOM 97.7 FM
1997 - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Toronto Canada on CILQ 107.1 FM
1998 - Swissair Flight 111 crashes near Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia. All 229 people on board are killed.
1998 - The UN's International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda finds Jean-Paul Akayesu, the former
           mayor of a small town in Rwanda, guilty of nine counts of genocide.
2012 - A decades-long ban on veiled female news presenters is lifted from State television in Egypt
2012 - 15 people are killed by a car bomb attack at a refugee camp in Sbeineh, Palestine

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 02, 2013, 08:55:31 AM

This Day in History for 2nd September


Famous Weddings

1922 - "Gone With The Wind" author Margaret Mitchell (21) weds Red Berrien Upshaw
1978 - George Harrison marries Olivia
1978 - Gloria Fajardo (21) marries Emilio Estefan (25) (Miami Sound Machine)
1989 - NBA basketball star Michael Jordan (26) weds Juanita Vanoy (30) at the Little White Chapel in
           Las Vegas
1995 - Actor Charlie Sheen (30) weds model Donna Peele (25) in Malibu, California
2000 - "The Backstreet Boys" lead vocalist Brian Littrell (25) weds actress Leighanne Wallace (31) at
           Peachtree Christian Church in Atlanta, Georgia
2005 - "Single White Female" actress Jennifer Jason Leigh (43) weds director and writer Noah
           Baumbach (36) in Los Angeles
2006 - Former "EastEnders" actress Hannah Waterman (31) weds actor Ricky Groves (38) at a
           country church in Inwardleigh, England
2006 - "Color Me Badd" singer Sam Watters (36) weds American Idol first season finalist Tamyra
           Gray (27) on a cliff on the island of Capri
2006 - "7th Heaven" actor Jeremy London (33) weds actress Melissa Cunningham at Hidden Chateau
           and Garden in West Hills, California
2006 - "Rodney" actress Jennifer Aspen (32) weds actor David O'Donnell in Los Angeles

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 02, 2013, 09:11:19 AM

This Day in History for 2nd September


Famous Birthdays

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Nobel Laureate Chemist                         Heavyweight Boxing Champion                Actress Salma Hayek (1966)
Frederick Soddy (1877)                                 Lennox Lewis (1965)


1243 - Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Hertford, English politician (d. 1295)
1548 - Vincenzo Scamozzi, Italian architect (d. 1616)
1661 - Georg Bohm, German organist/composer
1675 - William Somervile, English poet (d. 1742)
1716 - Johann Trier, composer
1731 - Johann F von Cronegk, German playwright (Olint und Sophronia)
1750 - Pehr Frigel, composer
1753 - Marie Josephine Louise of Savoy, queen of France (d. 1810)
1763 - Caroline von Schelling, [Michaelis], German author
1778 - Leopold FJJJ van Sassen Ysselt, Dutch politician
1778 - Louis Bonaparte, King of Holland (d. 1846)
1798 - Thomas Holliday Hicks, (Union Gov) died in 1865
1805 - Esteban Echeverría, Argentine writer (d. 1851)
1810 - William Seymour Tyler, American educator and historian (d. 1897)
1814 - Ernst Curtius, German archaeologist/historian
1830 - William P. Frye, American politician (d. 1911)
1837 - James Harrison Wilson, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1925
1838 - Liliuokalani, [Lydia Paki], last queen of Hawaii (1891-93)
1839 - Henry George, land reformer/writer (Progress & Poverty)
1847 - Roger Wolcott, 39th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1900)
1850 - Albert Spaulding, baseball player/founded Spaulding sports company
1850 - Eugene Field, author/journalist (Little Boy Blue)
1850 - Woldemar Voigt, German physicist (d. 1919)
1852 - Paul Bourget, French novelist and critic (d. 1935)
1853 - Wilhelm Ostwald, Germany, physical chemist (Nobel 1909)
1854 - Hans Jæger, Norwegian writer and political activist (d. 1910)
1856 - Yang Hsiu-ch'ing, commander in chief of Taiping Rebellion
1857 - Thomas Groube, Australian cricketer (d. 1927)
1862 - Franjo Krežma, Croatian violinist (d. 1881)
1866 - Hiram Johnson, (Gov-Progressive-Cal)
1870 - Marie Ault, [Mary Cragg], Wigan England
1870 - Archduchess Luise of Austria, Princess of Tuscany (d. 1947)
1877 - Frederick Soddy, Eastbourne, England, chemist, Nobel laureate, (d. 1956)
1878 - Werner von Blomberg, German minister of Reichswehr
1879 - An Jung-geun, Korean assassin of Ito Hirobumi (d. 1910)
1883 - Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria, "The Red Archduchess" (d. 1963)
1884 - Frank Laubach, Benton Pa, educator, taught reading through phonetics
1892 - Felix Wolfes, composer
1894 - Joseph Roth, Austria, journalist/writer (Hotel Savoy)
1901 - Andreas Embirikos, Greek surrealist poet (d. 1975)
1901 - Adolph Rupp, American college basketball coach (d. 1977)
1904 - Vera Vague, [Barbara Jo Allen], NYC, actress (Follow the Leader)
1908 - Barbara Jo Allen, NYC, actress (Ice Capades Revue, Rosie the Riveter)
1910 - Bruce Boyce, singer/teacher
1911 - Eileen Way, actress (Les Miserables, Rainbow, Vikings, Assassin)
1911 - Rene Amengual, composer
1911 - Romare Bearden, African American painter (d. 1988)
1912 - Johan Daisne, [Herman Thiery], Belgian writer (magic realism)
1912 - Ernest Bromley, Australian cricketer (d. 1967)
1913 - Bill Shankly, English Football Manager (d. 1981)
1914 - Booker T Laury, blues pianist/vocalist
1914 - Tom Glazer, American folk singer and songwriter (d. 2003)
1915 - Dai-Keong Lee, composer
1915 - Hans Joachim Koellreutter, composer
1915 - Meinhardt Raabe, actor, notable as Munchkin Coroner on The Wizard of Oz
1915 - Benjamin Aaron, American labor law expert (d. 2007)
1916 - Dorothy May Bundy-Cheney, winner of more than 141 US tennis titles
1916 - Penny Santon, Greenwich Village NY, actress (Roll Out, Matt Houston)
1917 - Cleveland Amory, Nahant Mass, conservationist/TV reviewer (TV Guide)
1917 - Laurindo Almeida, Brazilian guitarist (developed bossa nova)
1918 - Allen Drury, author (Advise & Consent-1960 Pulitzer Prize)
1918 - Laurindo Almeida, composer/guitarist
1918 - Martha Mitchell, wife of Attorney General John Mitchell
1919 - Gideon William Waldrop, composer
1919 - Marge Champion, Los Angeles California, dancer (Marge &amp; Gower Champion Show)
1923 - Rene Thom, French mathematician (d. 2002)
1924 - Daniel arap Moi, President of Kenya
1925 - Ronnie Stevens, London England, actor (Rodney-Dick & Duchess)
1925 - Hugo Montenegro, American composer and bandleader (d. 1981)
1927 - Francis Matthews, British actor (On the Bowery, Paul Temple)
1927 - Leonard Katzman, TV producer
1927 - Trudi Jochum-Beiser, Austria, downhill skier (Olympic-gold-1952)
1927 - Tzvi Avni, composer
1928 - Miloslav Istvan, composer
1928 - Peter Mansfield, writer
1929 - Hal Ashby, American film director (d. 1988)
1930 - Andrey Pavlovich Petrov, composer
1931 - Alan K Simpson, minority whip (Sen-R-WY, 1979- )
1931 - Pierre Huyskens, Dutch radio host
1933 - Victor Spinetti, Welsh actor, (d. 2012)
1934 - Michael Sahl, composer
1934 - Hilla Becher (née Wobeser), Potsdam Germany, German artist, worked collaboratively with
           Bernd Becher her husband
1935 - Jim Moody, (Rep-D-WI, 1983- )
1936 - David Leonard Blake, composer
1936 - Joan Kennedy, 1st wife of Mass Senator, Ted
1936 - Andrew Grove, American computer chip manufacturer
1937 - Peter Ueberroth, organized LA Olympics (1984)/baseball commissioner
1937 - Derek Fowlds, British actor
1938 - Glyn Worsnip, broadcaster
1939 - Bobby Purify, rocker
1939 - Robert Lee Dickey, US singer (I'm your puppet)
1939 - Sam Gooden, Chattanooga Tenn, rock vocalist (Impressions-Gypsy Woman)
1940 - Beverly Sanders, Hollywood California, actress (Lotsa Luck, CPO Sharkey)
1940 - Jimmy Clanton, Baton Rogue, La, rock vocalist (Just a Dream)
1940 - Mike Pyne, jazz Pianist
1941 - Tommy Aycock, Edinburg TX, PGA golfer (1994 Las Vegas Senior-5th)
1943 - Glenn Sather, NHL coach (Edmonton Oiler)
1943 - Joe Simon, US singer (Power of Love)
1943 - Rosalind Ashford, Detroit, rock vocalist (Martha Reeve & Vandellas)
1944 - Claude Nicollier, Vevey Switzerland, astronaut (STS 61-K, 46, 61, 75)
1946 - Luis Avalos, Havana Cuba, actor (Condo, E/R, I Had 3 Wives)
1946 - Marty Grebb, Chicago, rocker (Buckinghams)
1946 - Billy Preston, Houston, Texas, American soul musician/singer and pianist, 5th Beatle (David
           Brenner Show)
1947 - Richard Coughlan, English drummer and percussionist (Caravan)
1948 - Sharon Christa Corrigan McAuliffe, teacher/astronaut (STS 25)
1948 - Terry Bradshaw, NFL QB (Pittsburgh Steelers)/announcer (CBS, FOX)
1949 - Albert West[laken], Dutch singer (Dumb Willie)
1950 - Rosanna DeSoto, American actress
1950 - Michael Rother, German musician (Neu!, Kraftwerk, Harmonia, Cluster)
1950 - Yuen Wah, Chinese actor and stuntman
1951 - Mark Harmon, Burbank California, actor (Dr Caldwell-St Elsewhere)
1951 - Michael Gray, Chicago Ill, actor (Ronnie-Brian Keith Show)
1951 - Mike Kaminsky, rocker
1951 - Jim DeMint, American politician
1952 - Earl Pomeroy, (Rep-D-North Dakota)
1952 - Jimmy Connors, tennis brat (US Open-78, 82, 83 Wimbledon-74, 82)
1953 - Gerhard P J Thiele, Brenz Germany, astronaut
1953 - Ahmad Shah Massoud, Afghan commander and a war hero (d. 2001)
1953 - John Zorn, American musician
1955 - Linda Purl, Greenwich Ct, actress (Gloria-Happy Days, Matlock)
1956 - Mario Tremblay, Canadian hockey player and coach
1956 - Angelo Fusco, Provisional Irish Republican Army member
1957 - Steve Porcaro, LA Cal, rock keyboards/vocalist (Toto-Roseanna, Africa)
1957 - Tony Alva, American skateboarder
1958 - Marlene Janssen, Rock Island Ill, playmate (Nov, 1982)
1959 - Esther Oosterbeek, Dutch singer (Dolly Dots)
1959 - Guy Laliberté, founder of Cirque du Soleil
1960 - Eric Dickerson, Texas, NFL halfback (LA Rams, Colts/2,105 yds in 1984)
1960 - Rex Hudler, Tempe AZ, outfielder (NY Yankees, California Angels)
1960 - Kristin Halvorsen, Norwegian politician
1960 - John S. Hall, American poet and spoken-word artist
1961 - Jeff Russell, Cincinnatti OH, pitcher (Texas Rangers)
1961 - Carlos Valderrama, Colombian footballer
1962 - Prachya Pinkaew, Thai film director
1962 - Eugenio Derbez, Mexican comedian and actor
1962 - Jon Berkeley, author and illustrator
1963 - Sam Mitchell, NBA forward (Minn Timberwolves)
1964 - Keanu Reeves, Beirut, actor (Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Speed)
1965 - Doug Linton, Santa Ana CA, pitcher (KC Royals)
1965 - Lennox Lewis, London England, heavyweight boxer (Olympic-gold-1988, WBC boxing champ)
1965 - Partho Sen-Gupta, Indian filmmaker
1966 - Salma Hayek, Veracruz, Mexico, actress (Desparado)
1966 - Dino Cazares, American musician
1966 - Olivier Panis, French race car driver
1966 - Tuc Watkins, American actor
1967 - Andreas Möller, German footballer
1968 - Ricardo de Jongh, soccer player (Dordrecht '90)
1968 - Cynthia Watros, American actress
1969 - Mark Brettschneider, Cincinnati Oh, actor (Jason-One Life to Live)
1969 - Russell Freeman, NFL tackle (Oakland Raiders)
1969 - Shani Waugh, Bunbury Aust, LPGA golfer (Aust sub-jr champ-1986, 87)
1969 - Cedric "K-Ci" Hailey, American singer
1969 - Chris Kuzneski, American bestselling author
1969 - Stephen Peall, Zimbabwean cricketer
1971 - Rich Aurilia, Brooklyn NY, infielder (SF Giants)
1971 - Shauna Sand, San Diego California, actress (Renegade)
1971 - Tommy Maddox, NFL quarterback (NY Giants)
1971 - Kjetil André Aamodt, Norwegian skier
1971 - Pawan Kalyan, Indian actor
1971 - Tom Steels, Belgian cyclist
1972 - James Willis, NFL linebacker (Philadelphia Eagles)
1972 - Katarina Studenikova, Bratislava Slovak Rep, tennis star
1973 - Matthew Dunn, Leeton NSW Australia, swimmer (Olympics-96)
1973 - Jason Blake, American hockey player
1974 - Jason Lawson, NBA center (Orlando Magic)
1974 - Karina Wieland, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1974 - Daniel Southworth, American actor and stunt performer
1976 - Phil Lipscomb, American musician (Taproot)
1976 - Erin Hershey, American actress.
1977 - Ramiro Muñoz, Colombian musician
1977 - Frédéric Kanouté, Malian footballer
1979 - Tomer Ben Yosef, Israeli footballer
1979 - Ron Ng, Hong Kong actor
1980 - Ashley Witmer, Miss Pennsylvania Teen USA (1997)
1980 - Hiroki Yoshimoto, Japanese racing driver
1980 - Dany Sabourin, French Canadian Goaltender in the National Hockey League
1981 - Katie Teft, Grand Rapids Mich, gymnast (Olympics-96)
1981 - Fariborz Kamkari, Iranian film director/producer
1981 - Chris Tremlett, English cricketer
1981 - Bracha van Doesburgh, Dutch actress
1982 - Joey Barton, English footballer
1982 - Mandy Cho, Hong Kong actress
1982 - Jason Hammel, American baseball player
1983 - Mark Foster, English rugby player
1984 - Jack Peñate, English/Spanish singer
1987 - Spencer Smith, American musician (Panic at the Disco)
1988 - Ishant Sharma, Indian Cricketer
1989 - Alexandre Pato, Brazilian footballer
1989 - Ishmeet Singh Sodhi, Indian Playback Singer (d. 2008)
1990 - Marcus Ericsson, Swedish Racing Driver

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 02, 2013, 09:14:45 AM

This Day in History for 2nd September


Famous Deaths

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Writer and Academic
 J. R. R. Tolkien (1973)


490 BC - Pheidippides, Greek hero and inspiration for the modern marathon
421 - Flavius Constantine III, Emperor of Western Roman Empire, dies at about 51
1031 - Saint Emeric of Hungary
1274 - Prince Munetaka, Japanese shogun (b. 1242)
1384 - Louis I, duke of Anjou/king of Naples (Battle of Poitiers), dies
1397 - Francesco Landini, Italian composer
1418 - Jan III Chalon, prince of Orange/gov of Burgundy, dies
1540 - Lebna Dengel, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1501)
1547 - Hernan Cortes, Spanish general defeated Aztec Indians
1566 - Taddeo Zuccari, Italian painter, dies at 37
1606 - Carel van Mander, Flemish painter/art historian, dies at 58
1645 - lady Alice Lisle, English widow of John Lisle, beheaded
1680 - Per Brahe, Swedish soldier and statesman (b. 1602)
1688 - Robert Viner, Lord Mayor of London (b. 1631)
1690 - Philipp Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (b. 1615)
1698 - Justus Vingboons, Architect, buried
1715 - Constantin Christian Dedekind, composer, dies at 87
1764 - Nathaniel Bliss, English Astronomer Royal (b. 1700)
1765 - Henry Bouquet, Swiss-born British army officer (b. 1719)
1768 - Antoine Deparcieux, French mathematician (b. 1703)
1779 - Onno Zwier van Hairs, Fries poet (Agon), dies at 66
1790 - Johann N von Hontheim, German religious historian/Bishop, dies
1813 - Jean Victor Marie Moreau, French general (mortally wounded in battle) (b. 1763)
1820 - Jiaqing, Emperor of China (b. 1760)
1832 - Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach, Austrian astronomer (b. 1754)
1834 - Thomas Telford, Scottish civil engineer (b. 1757)
1862 - Thornton F Brodhead, US lawyer/politician/brig-general, dies at 40
1870 - Charles Victor Arthur Saint-Leon, composer, dies at 48
1872 - Nicolai Grundtvig, Danish writer and philosopher (b. 1783)
1877 - Constantine Kanaris, Greek admiral, freedom fighter and politician (b. 1793)
1891 - Ferdinand Christian Wilhelm Praeger, composer, dies at 76
1896 - Nat Thomson, Australian cricketer (b. 1839)
1898 - Hubert Howard, British journalist (Times), dies through friendly fire
1898 - Wilford Woodruff, fourth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b.
           1807)
1905 - Walter Cecil Macfarren, composer, dies at 79
1906 - Guiseppe Giacosa, Ital screenwriter (libretti opera Puccini), dies
1910 - Henri "le Douanier" Rousseau, French ambassador/painter, dies
1915 - August Stramm, writer, dies at 41
1921 - Henry Austin Dobson, English poet (b. 1840)
1921 - Anthony Francis Lucas Croatian-born oil pioneer (b. 1855)
1934 - Ruggiero de Rudolpho "Russ" Columbo, US singer/violist, dies at 26
1934 - Alcide Nunez, American musician (b. 1884)
1934 - James Allan, New Zealand rugby union player, All Black (b. 1860)
1937 - Esther de Farmer-of Rich, actress (Kniertje-On hope of blessing), dies
1937 - Pierre de Coubertin, baron/revivor of Olympics, dies at 74
1942 - Tom Williams, Irish republican (b. 1924)
1944 - George W Norris, US senator (lame duck-amendement), dies
1944 - Bella Rosenfeld, subject of many of Marc Chagall paintings (b. 1895)
1948 - Sylvanus Morley, American archaeologist and spy (b. 1883)
1953 - Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV, U.S. general (b. 1883)
1955 - Rudolf Kattnigg, composer, dies at 60
1957 - William A Craigie, Scottish lexicographer, dies at 90
1961 - Greet Koeman, Dutch singer, dies at 54
1962 - William Wilkerson, Founder of the Hollywood Reporter, The Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas and
           nightclubs such as Ciro's (b. 1890)
1964 - Francisco H Craveiro Lopes, Portuguese gen/pres (1951-58), dies at 70
1964 - Morris Ankrum, actor (Kronos, Earth vs Flying Saucers), dies at 67
1964 - Glenn Albert Black, American archaeologist (b. 1900)
1964 - Alvin York, American soldier (b. 1887)
1965 - Johannes Bobrowski, writer, dies at 48
1968 - Ernest Claes, Belgium, author (The White), dies at 82
1969 - Harry Williams Millard, producer, dies of cancer at 41
1970 - Allan Walker, actor/writer (Red Buttons Show), dies at 64
1970 - Cornelis L "Kees" van Baaren, Dutch composer (Hollow Men), dies at 63
1973 - John R R Tolkien, British story writer (Hobbit), dies of an ulcer at 81
1973 - Carl Dudley, American film director (b. 1910)
1976 - Stanisław Grochowiak, Polish writer (b. 1934)
1979 - Felix Aylmer, actor (Quartet, Hamlet, Dreaming Lips), dies at 90
1979 - Otto P. Weyland, American military figure (b. 1903)
1980 - William Douglas Denny, composer, dies at 70
1982 - Jay Novello, actor (Harum Scarum, Rebel Breed), dies of cancer at 78
1982 - Tom Bakker, actor (Golden Voyage of Sinbad), dies of a drug overdose at 42
1984 - Manos Katrakis, Greek actor (b. 1908)
1985 - Abe Lenstra, Dutch soccer star, dies at 64
1985 - Jay Youngblood, American professional wrestler
1989 - A Bartlett Giamatti, baseball commisioner, dies at 51
1991 - Alfonso Garcia Robles, Mexican foreign minister (Nobel 1982), dies
1991 - Concetto Lo Bello, Italian intl soccer judge, dies
1992 - Barbara McClintock, US, geneticist (Nobel 1983), dies at 90
1992 - Piotr Jaroszewicz, premier of Poland (1970-80), dies
1993 - Eric Berry, English/US actor (Pippin, 49th Parallel), dies at 80
1993 - John/Eoin Higgins, N Ire supreme court justice (1984-93), dies at 66
1994 - Detlef Macha, German DR cyclist (5x world champ), dies at 35
1994 - Harry Vincent Kemp, poet, dies at 82
1994 - Mildred Mcafee Horton, US 1st head mistress of WAVES, dies
1994 - Richard M Major, US anti-terror specialist (CIA Red Book), dies at 72
1994 - Roy Castle, entertainer, dies at 62
1995 - Vaclav Neummann, conductor, dies at 74
1996 - Cyril Reuben, violinist, dies at 69
1996 - Emily Kngwarreye, artist, dies at 86
1996 - Kenneth M Stewart, euro MP for Merseyside West, dies at 71
1996 - Otto Luening, composer, dies at 96
1996 - Paddy Clift, cricketer (Rhod & Leicester all-rounder 1970-88), dies
1997 - Rudolf Bing, opera manager (NY Met Opera), dies at 95
1997 - Viktor Frankl, psychotherapist (Man's Search for Meaning), dies at 92
1998 - Allen Drury, American author (b. 1918)
1998 - Jackie Blanchflower, Irish footballer (b. 1933)
2000 - Elvera Sanchez, Puerto Rican dancer (b. 1905)
2000 - Curt Siodmak, German-born author (b. 1907)
2001 - Christiaan Barnard, South African heart surgeon (b. 1922)
2001 - Troy Donahue, American actor (b. 1936)
2002 - Dick Reynolds, Australian rules footballer and coach (b. 1915)
2004 - Joan Oró, Catalan scientist (b. 1923)
2004 - Eleni Zafeiriou, Greek actress (b. 1916)
2005 - Bob Denver, American actor (Gilligan's Island), dies of complications from treatment for
           cancer at 70
2006 - Bob Mathias, American athlete and congressman, dies of cancer at 75
2006 - Willi Ninja, dancer and choreographer (b. 1961)
2007 - Max McNab, National Hockey League executive (b. 1924)
2007 - Franz-Benno Delonge, German game designer (b. 1957)
2007 - Rajae Belmlih, Morrocan singer (b. 1962 in Casablanca)
2008 - Bill Meléndez, American character animator (b. 1916)
2009 - Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, India (b. 1949)
2011 - Felipe Camiroaga, Chilean character animator, Chile (b. 1966)
2011 - Roberto Bruce, Chilean journalist (b. 1979)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 03, 2013, 09:14:18 AM

This Day in History for 3rd September


Historical Events

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Roman Emperor Augustus Caesar            Abolitionist Frederick Douglass               Dictator of Nazi Germany
                                                                                                                                   Adolf Hitler

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Jewish Victim & Diarist of the                US Attorney General                               Vietnamese Politican 
Holocaust Anne Frank                             Robert Francis Kennedy                          Nguyen Van Thieu

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NBA Player Oscar Robertson                     Actress Mary Tyler Moore


36 BC - In the Battle of Naulochus, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, admiral of Octavian, defeats Sextus
            Pompeius, son of Pompey, thus ending Pompeian resistance to the Second Triumvirate.
301 - San Marino, one of the smallest nations in the world and the world's oldest republic still in
         existence, is founded by Saint Marinus.
590 - St Gregory I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1189 - 30 Jews are massacred at King Richard I (lion hearted) coronation
1189 - England's King Richard I (the Lion-Hearted) crowned in Westminster
1260 - Battle of Ain Djaloet, Palestine defeats Mongols army
1483 - Utrecht surrenders to Habsburgs army
1543 - Cardinal Beaton replaces earl Arran as regent for Mary of Scotland
1632 - Battle at Nurnberg: Duke wallenstein beats Sweden
1650 - Battle at Dunbar: England vs Scotland
1651 - Battle at Worcester-Oliver Cromwell destroys English royalists
1658 - Richard Cromwell succeeds his father as English Lord Protector
1683 - Turkish troops break through defense of Vienna
1697 - King William's War in America ends with Treaty of Ryswick
1709 - 1st major group of Swiss/German colonists reaches NC/SC
1725 - England, France, Hannover & Prussia sign Covenant of Hannover
1731 - Willem KH Friso installed as viceroy of Friesland
1752 - This day never happened nor next 10 as England adopts Gregorian Calendar. People riot
           thinking the government stole 11 days of their lives
1752 - US adopts Gregorian calender (becomes Sept 14)
1777 - Cooch's Bridge - Skirmish of American Revolutionary war in New Castle County, Delaware
           where the Flag of the United States was flown in battle for the first time.
1779 - Earl d'orvilliers (French/Spanish Armada) sails back to Brest
1783 - Treaty of Paris signed (ending US Revolutionary War)
1791 - French Constitution passed by French National Assembly
1798 - Weeklong battle of St. George's Caye begun between Spanish and British off the coast of
           Belize.
1803 - English scientist John Dalton started using symbols to represent the atoms of different
           elements.
1826 - USS Vincennes leaves NY to become 1st warship to circumnavigate globe
1832 - Rebellious slaves set fire to Paramaribo Suriname
1833 - NY Sun begins publishing (1st daily newspaper)
1838 - Frederick Douglass escapes from slavery disguised as a sailor
1849 - California State Constitutional Convention convenes in Monterey
1852 - Anti Jewish riots break out in Stockholm
1855 - Indian Wars: In Nebraska, 700 soldiers under American General William S. Harney avenge the
          Grattan Massacre by attacking a Sioux village, killing 100 men, women, and children.
1861 - Confederate forces enter Kentucky, thus ending its neutrality
1864 - Battle of Berryville, VA
1864 - US, British, French & Dutch naval officer sails Staits of Simonoseki
1865 - Army commander in SC orders Freedmen's Bureau to stop seizing land
1874 - The congress of the state of México elevates Naucalpan to the category of Villa, with the title
           of "Villa de Juárez".
1878 - England's Princess Alice sinks; 645 die
1881 - 1st US Mens Tennis: Richard D Sears beats William E Glyn (60 63 62)
1881 - Anton Bruckner completes his 6th Symphony
1882 - French/Vietnamese/Chinese battle at Hanoi, 100s die
1888 - East Africa Company political & commercial rights
1888 - Queen Victoria grants William Mackinnons Imperial British
1890 - Oliver S Campbell wins US Tennis Open
1891 - 11th US Mens Tennis: Oliver S Campbell beats C Hobart (26 75 79 61 62)
1891 - Cotton pickers organize union & staged strike in Texas
1891 - John Stephens Durham, named minister to Haiti
1895 - 1st pro football game played, Latrobe beats Jeanette 12-0 (Penn)
1900 - British annex Natal (South Africa)
1901 - Boer General Smuts enters Kiba Drift in Cape Colony
1902 - Pittsburgh Pirates, win earliest pennent (full season)
1902 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Illustrious Client"
1903 - Resolute beats Shamrock III (England) in 13th America's Cup
1904 - St Louis Olympics closes
1906 - Phila Giants win Negro Championship Cup in Phila before 10,000 fans
1906 - Yanks win 2nd game on a forfeit over A's; 2nd forfeit win
1908 - James Barries "What Every Woman Knows," premieres in London
1911 - 31st US Mens Tennis: Wm A Larned beats Maurice E McLoughlin (64 64 62)
1912 - Arnold Schoenberg's "Funf Orchesterstucke," premieres
1912 - World's 1st cannery opens in England to supply food to the navy
1914 - British expeditionary army/general Lanrezacs army attacks the Marne
1914 - Cardinal Giacome della Chiesa becomes Pope Benedict XV
1914 - French troops vacate Reims
1914 - Prince Wilhelm von Wied leaves Albania
1916 - Allies turned back Germans in WW I's Battle of Verdun
1917 - 1st night bombing of London by German fighter planes
1917 - German troops over run Riga Latvia
1917 - Grover Cleveland Alexander pitches complete wins in a doubleheader
1917 - Utrecht soccer team Holland forms
1918 - 38th US Mens Tennis: R L Murray beats William T Tilden (63 61 75)
1918 - 5 soldiers hanged for alleged participation in Houston riot of 1917
1918 - Allies forced Germans back across Hindenburg Line
1921 - 16th Davis Cup: USA beats Japan in New York (5-0)
1921 - KPB, Communist Party of Belgium forms
1923 - Dorothys Donelly's "Poppy," premieres in NYC
1924 - Civil war breaks out in China (Gen Tsi moves to Shanghai)
1924 - L Stallings & M Anderson's "What Price Glory?," premieres in NYC
1925 - 1st international handball match held
1925 - Dirigible "Shenandoah" crashed near Caldwell Ohio, 13 die
1928 - Baseball Hall of Famer Ty Cobb got his 4,191th & final career hit
1929 - Dow Jones hits a record peak of 381.17
1929 - Dow Jones Industrial Average reached all time high at the time (381.17), which was shortly
           followed by the Crash of 1929.
1930 - Hurricane kills 2,000, injures 4,000 (Dominican Republic)
1932 - Ellsworth Vines beats Henri Cochet for US Tennis title
1932 - Jimmie Foxx of A's hits 50th & 51st HRs to become 3rd to hit 50
1933 - Yevgeniy Abalakov reaches the highest point of the Soviet Union - Communism Peak (7495
           m).
1934 - Tunisia began its move for independence
1935 - 1st automobile to exceed 300 mph, Sir Malcolm Campbell (301.337 mph)
1935 - Andrew Varipapa sets bowling record of 2,652 points in 10 games
1936 - 3rd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 7, Detroit 7 (76,000)
1938 - 1940 Olympic site changed from Tokyo Japan to Helsinki Finland
1939 - German U-boat sinks British passenger ship Athenia
1939 - Great Britain & France declare war on Germany after invasion of Poland
1939 - Yanks beat Red Sox on a forfeit, their 4th forfeit win
1939 - Britain declares war on Germany. France follows 6 hours later quickly joined by Australia, NZ,
           South Africa & Canada
1940 - 1st showing of high definition color TV
1940 - 39.4 CM rainfall at Sapulpa Oklahoma (state record)
1940 - Hitler orders invasion in England on Sept 21 (Operation Seelöwe/Sealion)
1940 - Neth government in exile of Gerbrandy forms London
1940 - Sicherheits police bans Free masons, Rotary & Red Cross
1940 - US gives Britain 50 destroyers in exchange for Newfoundland base lease
1941 - 1st use of Zyclon-B gas in Auschwitz (on Russian prisoners of war)
1941 - KYW TV channel 3 in Philadelphia, PA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1943 - British 8th army lands in South Italy (Messina)
1943 - General Castellano signs cease fire treaty in Sicily
1944 - 58th US Womens Tennis: P Betz beats Margaret Osborne duPont (63 86)
1944 - 68th & last transport of Dutch Jews (including Anne Frank) leaves for Auschwitz
           concentration camp
1944 - Canadian troops liberate Abbeville, France
1944 - Frank Parker beats Bill Talbert for US Tennis title
1944 - French troops liberate Lyon
1944 - Last transport from Westerbork to Auschwitz
1944 - Prince Bernhard appointed supreme commander of Neth Domestic Arm Force
1944 - Tank division of British Guards free Brussels
1945 - 65th US Mens Tennis: Sgt Frank A Parker beats Wm Talbert (14-12 61 62)
1945 - Japanese forces in Philippines surrender to Allies
1947 - Phila A's Bill McCahan no-hits Wash Senators, 3-0
1947 - Yanks get 18 singles to beat Red Soxs 11-2
1948 - W Gomulka deposed as general secretary of Polish Worker's party
1949 - Fire in Chiang-king, China, destroys 7,000 lives
1950 - "Nino" Farina becomes the first Formula One Drivers' champion after winning the 1950 Italian
           Grand Prix.
1951 - TV soap opera "Search for Tomorrow" debuts on CBS
1953 - European Convention on Human Rights goes into effect
1953 - French minister Francois Mitterrand, resigns due to colonial policy
1954 - China begins artillery bombing on Quemoy & Amoy
1954 - Espionage & Sabotage Act of 1954 signed
1954 - Pope Pius X canonized a saint
1954 - The People's Liberation Army begin shelling the ROC-controlled islands of Quemoy.
1954 - The German U-Boat U-505 began its move from a specially constructed dock to its final site
           at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry.
1955 - KTBS TV channel 3 in Shreveport, LA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1956 - Tanks are deployed against racist demonstrators in Clinton, Tennessee
1957 - Dodgers play last game in Jersey City (11-4 in NJ)
1957 - KTCA TV channel 2 in St Paul-Minneapolis, MN (PBS) begins broadcasting
1957 - Warren Spahn sets record for a lefty pitcher with 41st shut-out
1962 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Spokane Golf Open
1964 - US attorney general Robert Kennedy resigns
1964 - Wilderness Act signed into law by President Lyndon B Johnson
1965 - Curt Flood's record of 568 straight chances without an error begins
1965 - Garcia Godoy forms government in Dominican Republic
1965 - Jim Hickman becomes 1st NY Met to hit 3 HRs in a game
1965 - Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical Mysterium Fidei
1965 - Preparing a move to Anaheim, Angels change their name from LA to Calif
1966 - 24th World SF Convention honors Gene Roddenberry
1966 - Donovan hits #1 with "Sunshine Superman"
1967 - Final episode of "What's My Line?," hosted by John Charles Daly
1967 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Ladies' World Series of Golf
1967 - Last broadcast of "What's My Line" on CBS TV
1967 - Nguyen Van Thieu elected President of South Vietnam under a new constitution
1967 - Sweden begins driving on right-hand side of road
1967 - WJPM TV channel 33 in Florence, SC (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 - Chicago White Sox set AL record of 39 loses by 1 run
1970 - After NL record 1,117 consec games, Billy Williams asks to sit out
1970 - Bill Halley & Comets reject $30,000 for 15 date tour of Australia
1970 - Indonesian president Suharto visits Netherlands
1971 - John Lennon leaves UK for NYC, never to return
1971 - Manlio Brosio resigns as sect-gen of NATO
1971 - Qatar regains complete independence from Britain
1971 - Watergate team breaks into Daniel Ellsberg's doctor's office
1973 - General Walters, ends term as acting director of CIA
1973 - Jerry Lewis' 8th Muscular Dystrophy telethon
1974 - Giants John Montefusco makes his major league debut
1974 - NBA guard Oscar Robertson retires
1974 - US & German DR establish diplomatic relations
1975 - Chartered 707 crashes in Atlas Mts of Morocco, 188 die
1975 - Steve Garvey begins his NL record 1,207 consecutive game streak
1976 - Viking 2 soft lands on Mars (Utopia), returns photos
1977 - Japan's Sadaharu Oh hits 756th HR to surpass Hank Aaron's total
1977 - Last broadcast of "Mary Tyler Moore Show" on NBC-TV
1978 - Crew of Soyuz 31 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 29
1978 - Leonid Mossejev becomes European marathon champ (2:11:57.5)
1978 - Pope John Paul I officially installed as 264th supreme pontiff
1979 - Hurricane David, a strong Atlantic storm kills over 1,000
1979 - Iran army conquerors Mahabad
1979 - Jerry Lewis' 14th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $30,000,000
1979 - Jo Ann Washam wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
1981 - Gerald P Remy of Boston gets 6 hits in a baseball game
1981 - Longest game in Fenway Park, suspended in 19, Mariners-7, Red Sox-7
1982 - Jorgensen government in Denmark resigns
1984 - 28 year old Chicagoan wins $40 million in Illinois state lottery
1984 - Bruce Sutter breaks NL record for saves in a season with his 38th
1984 - Cindy Hill wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
1984 - Jerry Lewis' 19th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $32,074,566
1984 - South Africa adopts constitution
1985 - 20th Space Shuttle Mission (51-I)-Discovery 6-returns to Earth
1985 - England regain Cricket Ashes by beating Australia at The Oval
1985 - NY Met Gary Carter hits 3 consecutive HRs in a game
1986 - Alan Ayckbourn's "Woman in Mind," premieres in London
1986 - Astros & Cubs use a record 53 players in an 18 inning game
1987 - Coup in Burundi suspends constitution
1988 - Dennis Eckersley sets A's record with his 37th save en route to 45
1989 - "Into the Woods" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 764 perfs
1989 - Iljushin-62 crashes down on residential area of Havana, 170 die
1989 - Chris Evert defeats 15-year-old Monica Seles for her 101st & last US Tennis Open singles
           victory
1990 - 9th no-hitter of 1990: Blue Jay Dave Steib beats Cleve 3-0
1990 - Beth Daniel wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
1990 - Helen Hudson sings national anthem in 26th park of year (San Diego)
1990 - Jerry Lewis' 25th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $44,172,186
1990 - White Sox reliever Bobby Thigpen sets save record at 47 en route to 57
1992 - Jerry Lewis' 27th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $45,759,368
1994 - Circulation of Neth Telegraph/News of the Day reaches 800,000
1995 - Carolina Panthers lose their 1st NFL game (Atlanta-23 Carolina-20 OT)
1995 - Jacksonville Jaguars lose their 1st NFL game (Houston-10, Jaguars-3)
1995 - NY Yankee Tony Fernandez hits for the cycle
1995 - Soyuz TM-22, launched into orbit
1995 - eBay founded.
1996 - Slowinski & Gage discovers 2^1257787-1 (34th known Mersenne prime)
1997 - A Vietnam Airlines Tupolev TU-134 crashes on approach into Phnom Penh airport, killing 64.
2004 - The Beslan school massacre ends in the deaths of approximately 344 people, mostly teachers
           and children.
2012 - 3 people are killed and 19 wounded by a car bombing in Peshawar, Pakistan
2012 - Typhoon Bolaven kills 48 people in North Korea
2012 - New Zealand announces its withdrawal of forces from Afghanistan

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 03, 2013, 09:15:59 AM

This Day in History for 3rd September


Famous Weddings

1921 - American author and journalist Ernest Hemingway (22) marries 1st wife Hadley Richardson
           (29)
1977 - "I Dream of Jeannie" actress Barbara Eden (43) weds Charles Donald Fegert
1999 - "The Steve Harvey Show" actor Cedric The Entertainer (35) weds Lorna Wells (33)
2000 - "Will & Grace" actress Debra Messing (32) weds actor-screenwriter Daniel Zelman (33) at a
           private estate in Santa Barbara, California
2000 - American feminist and journalist Gloria Steinem (66) weds environmentalist David Bale (59) in
           Adair County, Oklahoma
2004 - "Baywatch" actress Gena Lee Nolin (32) weds NHL hockey player Cale Hulse (30) at the Royal
           Palms Resort in Phoenix, Arizona
2005 - Former "Saturday Night Live" cast member Kevin Nealon (51) weds actress Susan Yeagley
           (33) inside the town hall in Bellagio, Italy
2007 - Oscar winning actor Ben Kingsley (63) weds Brazilian actress Daniela Lavender (33) in North
           Leigh, Oxfordshire
2011 - English DJ and musician Mark Ronson (36) weds french actress Josephine De La Baume (27)
           in Aix-en-Provence, France

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 03, 2013, 09:17:09 AM

This Day in History for 3rd September


Famous Divorces

2010 - Pop singer Cheryl Cole (27) divorces England soccer player Ashley Cole (29) due to
           unreasonable behavior after 3 and a half years of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 03, 2013, 09:22:55 AM

This Day in History for 3rd September


Famous Birthdays

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Nobel Laureat Physicist                          Actor Charlie Sheen (1965)
Carl David Anderson (1905)


1034 - Emperor Go-Sanjō of Japan (d. 1073)
1499 - Diane de Poitiers, mistress of Henry II of France (d. 1566)
1568 - Adriano Banchieri, composer
1596 - Nicolo Amati, Italy, violin maker (Stradivari & Guarneri)
1600 - Dirck Graswinckel, Dutch States-General court clerk
1608 - Pieter Stockmans, Flemish chairman of military
1675 - Paul Dudley, Attorney-General of Massachusetts (d. 1751)
1693 - Charles Radclyffe, British politician (d. 1746)
1695 - Pietro Antonio Locatelli, Italian violinist/composer
1703 - Johan-Theodoor van Bayern, prince-bishop of Luik/cardinal
1710 - Abraham Trembley, Swiss naturalist (d. 1784)
1719 - Ferdinand Zellbell, composer
1724 - Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, British soldier and Governor of Quebec (d. 1808)
1757 - Charles X, Versailles France, Duke of Prussia
1778 - Jean Nicolas Auguste Kreutzer, composer
1781 - Eugène de Beauharnais, son of Josephine de Beauharnais (d. 1824)
1789 - Ludvig Anton Edmund Passy, composer
1803 - Alexander L'vovich Gurilyov, composer
1803 - Prudence Crandall, founder (School for "young ladies of colour")
1810 - Paul Kane, Canadian painter (d. 1871)
1811 - John Humphrey Noyes, Vt, found Oneida Community (Perfectionists)
1820 - George Hearst, American businessman and father of William Randolph Hearst (d. 1891)
1825 - Armistead Lindsay Long, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1891
1825 - William Wallace Burns, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1892
1835 - William Gaston Lewis, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1901
1840 - Jacob Fabricius, composer
1841 - Tom Emmett, England cricketer (d. 1904)
1849 - Sarah Orne Jewett, Maine, author (Country of the Pointed Firs)
1851 - Olga Konstantinovna of Russia, Queen of Greece (d. 1926)
1856 - Louis Henri Sullivan, Boston Mass, father of modern US architecture
1859 - AAJ Jean Jaurès, French socialist (L'Humanité, Les Preuves)
1860 - Edward Albert Filene, merchant, established US credit union movement
1864 - Hale Ascher VanderCook, composer
1865 - Wilhelm Bousset, German theologist/historian
1875 - Ferdinand Porsche, German car inventor (Porsche, Volkswagen)
1882 - Johnny Douglas, England cricketer and boxer (d. 1930)
1887 - Frank Christian, American musician (d. 1973)
1889 - Cecil Weston, South Africa, actor (Dude Ranch, Huckleberry Finn)
1890 - J Patrick O'Malley, Forest City PA, actress (Courage of Black Beauty)
1891 - Bessie Annie Elizabeth Delany, dentist writer
1893 - Florrie Rodrigo, Dutch dancer/choreography/teacher (Schepelingen)
1897 - Cecil Parker, Hastings England, actor (Indiscreet, Tale of 2 Cities)
1897 - Francisco Paolo Mignone, composer
1897 - Sally Benson, American writer (d. 1972)
1900 - Urho K Kekkonen, premier/president Finland (1956-81)
1901 - Eduard A van Beinum, Dutch musician/conductor
1902 - Mantan Moreland, Monroe LA, comedian (Charlie Chan, Spirit of Youth)
1903 - Willem Kooiman, Dutch theologist/church historian
1905 - Carl David Anderson, NYC, physicist (1936 Nobel Prize for physics), (d. 1991)
1905 - Robert Ruthenfranz, composer
1907 - Andrew Brewin, Canada, lawyer/cofound New Democratic Party
1907 - Loren Eiseley, professor of Anthropology (Animal Secrets)
1908 - Lev Semenovich Pontryagin, Russian mathematician (d. 1988)
1910 - Dorothy Maynor, Norfolk Va, soprano/founder (Harlem School of Arts)
1910 - Kitty Carlisle, American actress and television personality (d. 2007)
1911 - Bernard Mammes, American cyclist (d. 2000)
1913 - Alan Ladd, Hot Springs AR, actor (Shane, Carpetbaggers)
1914 - Kitty Carlisle Hart, New Orleans La, actress (Animal Crackers)
1914 - Dixy Lee Ray, American politician (d. 1994)
1915 - Abel Ehrlich, composer
1915 - Knut Nystedt, composer
1916 - Memphis Slim, [Peter Chatman], rocker
1917 - Eddie "Brat" Stanky, Phil Rizzuto's nemisis/2nd baseman (Dodgers)
1917 - Peter Winter, naval commander
1918 - Helen Wagner, Lubbock Tx, actress (Nancy-As The World Turns)
1921 - Marguerite Higgins, American reporter and war correspondent, Pulitzer prize winner (d. 1966)
1921 - Thurston Dart, English harpsichordist and conductor (d. 1971)
1922 - Rosendo Ejercito Santos, composer
1923 - Mort Walker, cartoonist (Beetle Bailey, Hi & Lois)
1923 - Terry Wilson, California, actor (Bill-Wagon Train)
1925 - Bengt Lindström, Swedish artist (d. 2008)
1925 - Shoista Mullodzhanova, Shashmakom singer
1925 - Hank Thompson, American singer (d. 2007)
1926 - Alison Lurie, US, novelist (War Between the Tates)
1926 - Anne Jackson, Penn, actress (Dirty Dingus Magee, Angel Levine)
1926 - Bill Flemming, sportscaster (ABC's Wide World of Sports)
1926 - Irene Papas, Corinth Greece, Greek actress (Zorba the Greek, Attila The Hun)
1926 - Joe Kolter, (Rep-D-PA, 1983- )
1926 - John R[obert] Jones, US, sci-fi author (White Regiment, Lizard War)
1928 - Gaston Thorn, President of the European Commission(d. 2007)
1929 - Carlo Clerici, Swiss cyclist (d. 2007)
1930 - Cherry Barbara Grimm, [Lockett], NZ, sci-fi author (Nearest Fire)
1930 - Haty Tegelaar-Boonacker, Dutch 2nd chamber member (CDA)
1931 - Dick Motta, NBA coach (856 wins, Its not over 'til the fat lady sings)
1931 - Mitzi Gaynor, Chicago IL, actress/vocalist (Les Girls, South Pacific)
1931 - Rudolf Kelterborn, composer
1931 - Albert DeSalvo, The Boston Strangler (d. 1973)
1932 - Richard Tyler, NYC, actor (Henry Aldrich-Aldrich Family)
1932 - Eileen Brennan, Los Angeles, California, American actress (Laugh-In, Pvt Benjamin)
1933 - Roland Kayn, composer
1933 - Tompall Glaser, Spalding Neb, singer (Glaser Bros-Getting to Me Again)
1934 - Xavier Darasse, composer
1934 - Freddie King, Gilmer Tx, blues singer (Hideaway)
1935 - Otto Ketting, trumpeter/composer (Passacaglia)
1936 - John W Olver, (Rep-D-Massachusetts)
1936 - Zine al-Abidine Ben Ami, general/president of Tunisia (1987- )
1938 - Eileen Brennan, American actress
1938 - Caryl Churchill, English playwright
1938 - Ryoji Noyori, Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1940 - Pauline Collins, London England, actress (Shirley Valentine)
1940 - Eduardo Galeano, Uruguayan journalist
1941 - Sergei Dovlatov, Russian writer (d. 1990)
1942 - Al Jardine, Lima Oh, guitarist/singer (Beach Boys-Surfin, In My Room)
1942 - John Shrapnel, English actor
1943 - Dave Eichelberger, Waco TX, PGA golfer (1971 Greater Milwaukee Open)
1943 - Don Brewer, rocker
1943 - Michael D Barnes, (Rep-D-MD, 1979-86)
1943 - Mick Farren, UK, sci-fi author (Synaptic Manhunt, Citizen Phaid)
1943 - Valerie Perrine, Galveston, Texas, American actress and model (Steam Bath, Superman,
           Lenny)
1943 - Frank Lister, English footballer
1944 - Gary Leeds, Glendale Ca, rocker (Walker Brothers)
1944 - Sherwood C "Woody" Spring, Hartford Ct, Col USA/astronaut (STS 61B)
1945 - George Biondo, rocker (Steppenwolf)
1945 - Mike Harrison, keyboardist (Spooky Tooth-It's All About)
1946 - Peter Morris, historian of France
1947 - Eric Bell, rock guitarist (Thin Lizzy Belfast, N Ireland
1947 - Michael Huffington, US oil millionaire (Rep-R-California, 1992-94)
1947 - Kjell Magne Bondevik, Norwegian politician
1948 - Donald Brewer, Flint Mich, rock drummer (Grand Funk Railroad)
1948 - Minouche Janmaat-Abee, Dutch MP (CDA)
1948 - Ronald W Harris, Canton Oh, lightweight boxer (Olympic-gold-1968)
1948 - Tara Oedayraj Singh Varma, 1st black woman in Dutch 2nd Chamber
1948 - Levy Mwanawasa - Zambian Politician (d. 2008)
1949 - Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria (d. 2004)
1949 - José Pekerman, Argentine football manager
1950 - Aaron Smith, rocker (Romeo Void)
1950 - Doug Pinnick, American bassist and singer (King's X)
1953 - Khabib Munir, Syria, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-3 backup)
1953 - M H Habib, Syria, cosmonaut
1953 - Jean-Pierre Jeunet, French film director
1955 - Steve Jones, London, rock guitarist (Sex Pistols)
1956 - Hans-Georg Beyer, German DR, team handball player (Olympic-gold-1980)
1956 - Patrick McGeown, politician
1957 - Garth Ancier, American television executive
1959 - Merritt Butrick, American actor (d. 1989)
1961 - Brian Thomas Kamm, Rochester NY, PGA golfer (1994 Bell Canadian-6th)
1961 - Greg Petersen, Iowa City IA, Canadian Tour golfer (1993 Klondike-6th)
1961 - Rene Gonzales, Austin TX, infielder (Texas Rangers)
1962 - Dave Clark, Tupelo MS, outfielder (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1962 - Costas Mandylor, Australian-born actor
1963 - Eric Plunk, Wilmington CA, pitcher (Oakland A's, NY Yankees, Indians)
1963 - Mubarak Ghanim, UAE footballer
1964 - Ernest Givins, NFL wide receiver (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1964 - Glenn Joyner, Ferntree Gully VIC, Australasia golfer
1964 - Toshiyuki Sakai, hockey forward (Team Japan 1998)
1964 - Adam Curry, Internet entrepreneur
1964 - Spike Feresten, American television writer
1964 - Junaid Jamshed, Pakistani singer
1964 - Holt McCallany, American actor
1965 - Charlie Sheen, [Carlos Estavez], NYC, actor (Wall St, Platoon)
1965 - Maurizio Mansi, hockey forward (Team Italy 1998)
1965 - Todd Lewis, musician (Toadies)
1966 - Bennie Blades, NFL safety (Detroit Lions)
1966 - Pat Eilers, NFL safety (Chic Bears)
1966 - Shawn Daniels, CFL fullback (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1966 - Vladimir Ryzhkov, Russian politician
1967 - Chris Gatling, NBA forward (NJ Nets)
1967 - Luis Gonzalez, Tampa Fla, outfielder (Chicago Cubs)
1968 - David Pichler, Butler Pa, diver (Olympics-6th-96)
1968 - Dawn Allinger, Salt Lake City UT, team handball back court (Oly-1996)
1968 - Matt Hamon, SF California, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1968 - Robert Bailey, NFL cornerback (Dallas Cowboys)
1969 - Noah Baumbach, Brooklyn, New York, writer, director and independent film maker (The Squid
           and the Whale)
1969 - Keith Traylor, NFL defensive tackle (KC Chiefs, Broncos-Super Bowl 32)
1969 - John Fugelsang, American actor
1970 - George Lynch, NBA forward (Vancouver Grizzlies)
1970 - Uzooma Okeke, CFL guard (Montreal Alouettes)
1970 - Jeremy Glick, American United Airlines Flight 93 passenger (d. 2001)
1970 - Gareth Southgate, English footballer
1971 - Chabeli Iglesias, Madrid Spain, daughter of Julio Iglesias
1971 - Glen Housman, Rockhampton QLD Aust, swimmer (Olympics-silv-92, 96)
1971 - Tonja Marie Christensen, Salt Lake City Utah, playmate (Nov, 1991)
1971 - Trevor St. John, American actor
1972 - Antonius Bonner, CFL defensive back (Toronto Argonauts)
1972 - Martin Straka, Pizen CZE, NHL forward (Team Czech Rep, Florida)
1972 - Roland Ramoser, hockey forward (Team Italy 1998)
1972 - Shim Eun-ha, South Korean actress
1973 - Brian Thure, NFL tackle (Washington Redskins)
1973 - Chen Hsiao-Fen, Miss Universe-Taiwan ROC (1996)
1973 - Damon Stoudamire, NBA guard (Toronto Raptors)
1973 - Joanette Kruger, Johannesburg South Africa, tennis star
1973 - Norihiko Hibino, Japanese composer
1974 - Rebecca Bailey, Christchurch NZ, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1974 - Sergei Yerkovich, hockey defenseman (Team Belarus 1998)
1974 - Clare Kramer, American actress
1975 - Ava Lovell, Miss Universe-Belize (1996)
1975 - Christobal Huet, hockey goalie (Team France 1998)
1976 - Ashley Jones, American actress
1976 - Jevon Kearse, American football player
1976 - Vivek Oberoi, Indian actor
1977 - Tami Tyler, Santa Clara California, dance skater (& Jonathan Nichols)
1977 - Rui Marques, Angolan footballer
1977 - Olof Mellberg, Swedish footballer
1977 - Nate Robertson, American baseball player
1978 - John Curtis, English footballer
1978 - Paul Moor, English ten-pin bowler
1978 - Michal Rozsival, Czech ice hockey player
1978 - Nick Wechsler, American actor
1978 - Valfar, Norwegian heavy metal vocalist/musician (Windir) (d. 2004)
1979 - Tomo Miličević, Croatian-born American musician (30 Seconds to Mars)
1980 - The B.G., American rapper
1980 - Daniel Ruben Bilos, Argentinian footballer
1980 - Cone McCaslin, Canadian bassist (Sum 41)
1980 - Jennie Finch, American softball player
1981 - Fearne Cotton, British television presenter
1982 - Andrew McMahon, American singer and songwriter
1982 - Kaori Natori, Japanese singer and model
1983 - Augusto Farfus, Brazilian racing driver
1983 - Nicky Hunt, English footballer
1983 - Marcus McCauley, American football player
1983 - Valdas Vasylius, Lithuanian basketball player
1984 - Garrett Hedlund, American actor
1985 - Scott Carson, English footballer
1985 - Kelvin Wilson, English footballer
1986 - Shaun White, San Diego, California, snowboarder (Olympic gold - 2006, 2010)
1987 - Chris Fountain, English actor
1993 - Rina Koike, Japanese junior idol

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 03, 2013, 09:27:45 AM

This Day in History for 3rd September


Famous Deaths

1189 - Jacob of Orleans, Rabbi, killed in anti Jewish riot in London England
1205 - Petrus van Poitiers, French theologist (Sententiarum libri V), dies
1402 - Gian Galeazzo Visconti, duke/tyrant of Milan (1395-1402), dies at 51
1420 - Robert Stewart, 1st Duke of Albany, regent of Scotland
1592 - Robert Greene, English writer (b. 1558)
1634 - Edward Coke, English Chief Justice/politician, dies
1642 - Elisabeth of Nassau, daughter of Willem I/Charlotte, dies at 65
1653 - Claudius Salmasius, [Claude Saumaise], French linguistic, dies at 65
1655 - Jan W van Brederode, Dutch governor/field marshal, dies at 56
1658 - Oliver Cromwell, British general (1653-58)/Lord Protector, dies at 59
1662 - William Lenthall, English politician (b. 1591)
1667 - Alonso Cano, Spanish painter/sculptor/architect, dies at 66
1675 - Pieter Boel, Flemish painter/etcher, dies
1708 - Christian Liebe, composer, dies at 53
1720 - Henri de Massue, French soldier and diplomat (b. 1648)
1722 - Ivan Skoropadsky, Hetman of Ukraine (b. 1646)
1729 - Jean Hardouin, French scholar (b. 1646)
1739 - George Lillo, English dramatist (Fatal Curiosity), dies at 46
1766 - Archibald Bower, Scottish historian (b. 1686)
1790 - Thomas Norris, composer, dies at 49
1808 - John Montgomery, American Continental Congressman (b. 1722)
1811 - Ignaz Franzl, composer, dies at 75
1843 - Cornelis PJ Elout, military/pres of West Sumatra, dies at 47
1849 - Earnest Freiherr von Feuchtersleben, Austria writer/physician, dies
1857 - M Heinrich C Lichtenstein, German zoologist/explorer, dies at 77
1857 - John McLoughlin, Canadian trapper (b. 1784)
1860 - Aleksey Khomyakov, Russian poet (b. 1804)
1866 - Konstantin Flavitsky, Russian painter (b. 1830)
1871 - Vaclav Horak, composer, dies at 71
1876 - Felix, cricketer (legendary All-England player), dies
1877 - Adolphe Thiers, 1st president of 3rd French Rep (1871-77), dies at 80
1883 - Iwan Turgenjew, writer, dies at 64
1886 - William W. Snow, American politician (b. 1812)
1890 - Charles-A Chatrian, French writer (Waterloo), dies at 63
1890 - Willem Linnig Jr, Flemish painter/graphic artist, dies
1893 - James Harrison, Scottish-born inventor (b. 1816)
1903 - Joseph Skipsey, British poet (b. 1832)
1908 - Cornelis Pijnacker Hordijk, gov-gen (Dutch East-Indies), dies
1914 - Ferdinand AR Cabrera, Spanish/German of emperor Wilhelm II, dies at 58
1914 - Lucien-Denis-Gabriel-Alberic Magnard, composer, dies at 49
1917 - Fanya Kaplan, Russian who shot at Lenin on Aug 30th, executed
1935 - Johannes Aengenent, bishop of Haarlem (1928-35), dies at 62
1936 - Nikita Balieff, Armenian vaudevillian and impressario (b. 1876 or 1877)
1938 - Bart de Ligt, anti military theologist, dies at 77
1940 - Otto V Ekelund, Swedish poet/writer (Hafvets Stjorna), dies at 59
1944 - Frantisek Alois Drdla, composer, dies at 75
1946 - Carl Emil Paul Lincke, composer, dies at 79
1948 - Eduard Benesj, president Czechoslovakia (1921-22, 35-48), dies
1951 - Arnold Warren, cricketer (only Test for England), dies
1951 - Robert Franz Richard Hernried, composer, dies at 67
1954 - Eugene Pallette, actor (It's a Date, My Man Godfrey), dies at 65
1960 - Joseph Lamb, composer, dies at 72
1961 - Robert E. Gross, American businessman (b. 1897)
1962 - Anton Mauve, Dutch painter, dies at 63
1962 - e[dward] e cummings, US poet (Tulips & Chimneys), dies at 67
1963 - Cruys Voorbergh, actor/director (Vliegende Hollander), dies at 64
1963 - Frico Kafenda, composer, dies at 79
1964 - Joseph Marx, Austrian composer, dies at 82
1964 - Stewart Holbrook, American author (b. 1893)
1965 - Otto Lederer, actor (Jazz Singer), dies at 79
1967 - David Cohen, historian/chairman (Jewish Council), dies at 84
1968 - Isabel Withers, American actress (b. 1896)
1969 - Ho Chi Minh [Nguyễn Sinh Cung], Vietnamese communist revolutionary and President of North
           Vietnam (1946-69), dies at 79 of heart failure
1969 - John Lester, American cricketer (b. 1871)
1970 - Al Wilson, "Blind Owl", guitarist/vocalist (Canned Heat), dies at 27
1970 - Jochen Rindt, German race car driver, dies at 28
1970 - Vince Lombardi, football coach (Packers), dies in Washington DC at 57
1971 - Percy Holmes, cricketer (Yorks opener, 7 Tests for Eng 1921-32), dies
1971 - Veronica Turleigh, actress (Promoter), dies at 68
1974 - Harry Partch, American composer (b. 1901)
1980 - Barbara O'Neil, actress (Tower of London, Stella Dallas)
1980 - Duncan Renaldo, actor (Cisco Kid, Guns of Fury), dies at 76
1980 - Fabian von Schlabendorff, German resistance fighter/judge, dies at 73
1980 - Dirch Passer, Danish actor (b. 1926
1981 - Alec Waugh, English writer (b. 1898)
1982 - Della Chiesa, Italian general/mafia fighter, murdered
1982 - Michael Thoma, actor (8 is Enough, Fame), dies at 55
1983 - Ellie Lambeti, Greek actress (b. 1926)
1984 - Arthur Schwartz, producer (Inside USA with Chevrolet), dies at 83
1984 - Duncan Renaldo, actor (Cisco Kid), dies at 80
1985 - Joe Jones, drummer, dies at 73
1985 - John Herbert McDowell, composer, dies at 58
1987 - Morton Feldman, US composer, dies at 61
1987 - Viktor P Nekrasov, Ukraine architect/author (Soldiers), dies at 76
1987 - Vokopach Stalingrada/Kira Georgijevna, dies at 76
1990 - David Acer, Florida dentist, dies of AIDs after infecting 5 patients
1991 - Frank Capra, director (It's a Wonderful Life), dies at 94
1991 - Henri de Lubac, French theologist/antifascist, dies
1992 - Johannes van Capel, oldest man in Netherlands (Born 4/22/1884), dies
1993 - Leon Liebgold, Pol/US actor/chairman (Hebrew Actors Union), dies at 83
1994 - Billy Wright, English soccer player (World Champion 1950), dies at 70
1994 - James Aubrey, actor (Riders of the Storm), dies of heart attack at 75
1994 - Major Lance, soul singer, dies at 55
1994 - Marijke Vetter, Dutch journalist, dies at 82
1994 - Nikos Ghika, artist, dies at 88
1994 - Roswell Gilbert, who mercy killed his ailing wife, dies at 85
1994 - William Ambrose Right, footballer, dies at 70
1995 - Alex Brown, snooker player, dies at 87
1995 - Alfred Earle Birney, poet, dies at 91
1995 - Donald Cuthbert Coleman, economic historian, dies at 75
1995 - Mary Adshead, muralist/painter, dies at 91
1995 - Peter Michalke, journalist, dies at 40
1995 - Roye England, modeller/museum curator, dies at 88
1996 - John Cheek, Falkland Islands advocate, dies at 56
1996 - Julian Amery, politician, dies at 77
1996 - Robert Croften Brown, politician, dies at 75
2000 - Edward Anhalt, American screenwriter (b. 1914)
2001 - Pauline Kael, American film critic (b. 1919)
2001 - Thuy Trang, American actress (b. 1973)
2002 - W. Clement Stone, American entrepreneur (b. 1902)
2003 - Paul Jennings Hill, American anti-abortion murderer (b. 1954)
2005 - Richard S.R. Fitter, British ornithologist and botanist (b. 1913)
2005 - William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1924)
2007 - Jane Tomlinson, British charity fund raiser (b. 1964)
2007 - Steve Ryan, American actor (b. 1947)
2007 - Syd Jackson, Māori activist and trade unionist (b. 1939)
2007 - Carter Albrecht, Musician (b. 1973)
2008 - Donald Blakeslee, American aviator, led 4th Fighter Group during World War II. (b.1918)
2010 - Robert Schimmel, American stand-up comedian (b. 1950)
2012 - Michael Clarke Duncan, American actor, dies from respiratory failure at 54
2012 - Sun Myung Moon, Korean evangelist, dies at 92

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 04, 2013, 09:22:19 AM

This Day in History for 4th September


Historical Events

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Commercial Steamboat Inventor           Children's Author Beatrix Potter               Aviator Charles Lindbergh
Robert Fulton

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Spanish Dictator                                     Dictator of Nazi Germany                        33rd US President                                         
Francisco Franco                                     Adolf Hitler                                             Harry Truman

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Comedian Jerry Lewis                            American Baseball Player Roger Maris


422 - St Boniface I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
476 - Romulus Augustulus, last Roman emperor in west, is deposed
1024 - Conrad II the Sailor chosen German king
1260 - Battle at Montaperti-Guelfen vs Ghibellijnen
1282 - King Pedro III of Aragonorth annexes Sicily
1414 - Peace of Atrecht: John the fearless & Armagnacs
1479 - King Alfonso I of Portugal recognizes Isabella as queen of Castile
1571 - Catholic coup in Scotland
1609 - Navigator Henry Hudson discovers island of Manhattan [or Sep 11]
1618 - "Rodi" avalanche destroys Plurs Switzerland, 1,500 killed
1682 - English astronomer Edmund Halley sees his namesake comet
1695 - French garrison of castle Names surrenders for Willem III
1778 - City of Amsterdam signs trade agreement with US rebels
1781 - Los Angeles founded by 44 in Bahia de las Fumas, (Valley of Smokes)
1786 - -5] Orange troops plunder Hattem/Elburg
1805 - 1st edition of Batavian State-Current published
1807 - Robert Fulton begins operating his steamboat
1813 - 1st US relig newspaper (Religious Remembrancer (Christian Observer))
1833 - 1st newsboy hired (Barney Flaherty, 10 years old-NY Sun)
1842 - Work on Koln cathedral recommences after 284-year hiatus
1854 - English/French assault on Petropavlovsk Kamchatka
1862 - General Lee invades North with 50,000 Confederate troops
1862 - North Beach & Mission Railway Company organized in SF
1862 - Maryland Campaign (Antietam Campaign)
1864 - Bread riots in Mobile, Alabama
1866 - 1st Hawaiian daily newspaper published
1870 - 3rd French republic proclaimed as French overthrow their king
1882 - 1st district lit by electricity (NY's Pearl Street Station)
1884 - Britain ends its policy of penal transportation to New South Wales in Australia.
1885 - 1st cafeteria opens (NYC)
1886 - Apache Chief Geronimo surrenders ending last major US-Indian war
1888 - George Eastman patents 1st roll-film camera & registers "Kodak"
1893 - English author Beatrix Potter 1st tells the story of Peter Rabbit
1894 - In NYC, 12,000 tailors went on strike protesting sweat shops
1894 - Soccer team Veendam 1894 forms
1899 - 8.3 earthquake shakes Yakutat Bay Alaska
1904 - Dali Lama signs treaty allowing British commerce in Tibet
1906 - NY Highlanders win 5th straight doubleheader
1908 - Caledonia & Hillhurst Football Clubs play for Central Alberta Rugby Football League
          championship
1911 - Garros sets world altitude record of 4,250 m (13,944 ft)
1912 - 1st accident (collision) in Londoner Underground: 22 injured person
1914 - British, French & Russian government sign Pact of London, against Germany
1914 - General von Moltke ceases German advance in France
1916 - Christy Mathewson & Mordecai Brown final baseball game
1918 - Jhr Ch Ruys de Beerenbrouck becomes 1st Dutch Catholic premier
1918 - US troops land in Archangel, Russia, stay 10 months
1919 - 39th US Mens Tennis: William M Johnston beats Wm T Tilden (64 64 63)
1919 - British intervene in Petrograd
1919 - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who founded the Republic of Turkey, gathers a congress in Sivas to
           make decisions as to the future of Anatolia and Thrace.
1920 - Last day of Julian civil calendar (in parts of Bulgaria)
1922 - Paavo Nurmi runs world record 2000m (5:26.3)
1923 - A Charlot & N Cowards revue "London Calling," premieres in London
1923 - NY Yankee Sad Sam Jones no-hits Phila A's, 2-0
1923 - Maiden flight of the first U.S. airship, the USS Shenandoah.
1927 - Charles Lindbergh visits Boise, Idaho, on his cross-country tour
1930 - Cambridge Theater opens in London
1932 - 15th PGA Championship: Olin Dutra at Keller GC St Paul Minn
1933 - 1st airplane to exceed 300 mph (483 kph), JR Wendell, Glenview, Il
1933 - Coup on Cuban president De Cespedes by Fulgencio Batista
1934 - Bradman scores 149* Aust v Eng XI, 104 mins, 17 fours 4 sixes
1936 - Franco troops conquer Irun & Talavera de la Reina Spain
1936 - Largo Caballero becomes Spanish premier
1937 - Doris Kopsky, becomes 1st NABA woman cycling champion (4:22.4)
1938 - Vainio Muinonen wins 2nd European marathoner (2:37:28.8 )
1939 - Dutch 2nd Chamber affirms Neth's in a State of War
1939 - German submarine U-30 sinks British passenger ship Athenia
1939 - German troops move into Danzig
1939 - Netherlands & Belgium declare neutrality
1939 - Polish ghetto of Mir is exterminated
1939 - RAF bombs Wilhelmshafen
1940 - CBS begins broadcasting TV as station W2XAB
1940 - Gerbrandy becomes premier of Dutch government in exile
1940 - Nazi collaborator Mussert puts the fate of Neth in Hitler's hands
1941 - NY Yankees, win earliest AL pennent (full season)
1941 - US destroyer Greer fires on German submarine U-652
1941 - Yanks beat Red Sox 6-3 & clinch their 12th & earliest pennant
1942 - Transport nr 28 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1943 - British 8th army lands at Taranto South Italy
1944 - 2,087 Jews transported for Westerbork to KZ-Lower Theresienstadt
1944 - 64th US Mens Tennis: Frank Parker beats Wm F Talbert (64 36 63 63)
1944 - British 11th Armoured Division frees Antwerp during WWII
1944 - Finland breaks diplomatic contact with nazi-Germany
1944 - US 1st Army frees Namen
1945 - Ruben Fine wins 4 simultaneous rapid chess games blindfolded
1945 - US regains possession of Wake Island from Japan
1948 - "Angel in the Wings" closes at Coronet Theater NYC after 308 perfs
1948 - Queen Wilhelmina abdicates Dutch throne
1949 - Marie Robie sinks 393 yd hole-in-one (1st hole in Furnace Brook)
1950 - 1st helicopter rescue of American pilot behind enemy lines
1950 - D McI Hodgson of St Ann Bay, Nova Scotia catches a 997 lb tuna
1950 - Heavy typhoon strikes Japan, kills about 250
1950 - Darlington Raceway is the site of the inaugural Southern 500, the first 500-mile NASCAR
           race.
1951 - 1st transcontinental TV broadcast, by Pres Harry Truman
1951 - 71st US Mens Tennis: F A Sedgman beats Elias V Seixas Jr (64 61 61)
1951 - NBC extends to become a 61 station coast-to-coast network
1951 - Pres Harry Truman addresses opening of Japanese Peace Treaty Conference
1953 - WATR (now WTXX) TV channel 20 in Waterbury, CT (NBC) begins
1953 - WGEM TV channel 10 in Quincy-Hannibal, IL (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 - Yanks become 1st team to win 5 consecutive championship
1954 - 1st passage of McClure Strait, fabled Northwest Passage completed
1954 - Peter B Cortese of US achieves a one-arm deadlift of 370 lbs; 22 lbs over triple his body
           weight, at York, Pennsylvania
1956 - The IBM RAMAC 305 is introduced, the first commercial computer that used magnetic disk
           storage.
1957 - Ford Motor Co introduces Edsel
1957 - Governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus, calls out National Guard to stop 9 black students from
           entering a Little Rock high school
1960 - -12] Hurricane Donna, kills 148 in Caribbean & US
1961 - Carol Burnette-Richard Hayes Show premieres on CBS radio
1961 - US authorizes Agency for International Development
1962 - Beatles record "How Do You Do It" at EMI
1962 - French president De Gaulle visits German FR
1963 - Swissair Flight 306 crashes near Dürrenäsch, Switzerland, killing all 80 people on board.
1964 - Eduardo Frei elected president of Chile
1964 - Longest bridge in Europe opens (Scottish Forth Road Bridge)
1964 - NASA launches its 1st Orbital Geophysical Observatory (OGO-1)
1965 - Beatles' "Help!," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 3 weeks
1965 - KREZ TV channel 6 in Durango, CO (CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting
1965 - Rock group Who's wan is vandalized with $10,000 in equipment stolen
1966 - Houston Oilers holds Denver Broncos to no 1st downs winning 45-7
1966 - Jim Hogan wins Europe marathon (2:20:04.6)
1967 - 6.5 earthquake of Kolya Dam India, kills 200
1967 - Jerry Lewis' 2nd Muscular Dystrophy telethon
1967 - Train crash at Arnhem Neth, kills 5
1968 - Nigerian troops conquer Aba Biafra
1970 - -5) 29.0 cm rainfall at Workman Creek, Arizona (state record)
1970 - George Harrison releases "My Sweet Lord" single
1970 - Russian ballerina Natalia Makarova gets political asylum
1970 - Salvador Allende wins presidential election in Chile
1971 - Alaskan 727 crashes into Chilkoot Mountain, kills 109 (Alaska)
1972 - US swimmer Mark Spitz becomes 1st athlete to win 7 olympic gold medals
1972 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1972 - Thieves steal 18 paintings from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in what was at the time the
           largest art theft in North America.
1973 - William E Colby, becomes 10th director of CIA
1974 - Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation
1975 - The Sinai Interim Agreement relating to the Arab-Israeli conflict is signed.
1976 - Palestinians hijack KLM DC-9 to Cyprus
1977 - "Godspell" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 527 performances
1977 - Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Rail Muscular Dystrophy Golf Classic
1978 - Jerry Lewis' 13th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $29,074,405
1978 - NY Yankee pitcher Ron Guidry wins his 20th (on way to 25-3 season)
1978 - Pat Bradley wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
1979 - India need 438 to win v England, game ends at 8-429
1979 - Iran army conquerors Baneh
1980 - Yes performs its last concert (Madison Square Garden)
1981 - Longest game at Fenway Park completed in 20, Mariners-8, Red Sox-7
1981 - Newscaster David Brinkley is released by NBC
1981 - Seattle Mariners beat Boston Red Sox, 8-7, in 20 inn (started 9/3)
1981 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1982 - Arson fire engulfs apt-hotel in LA, 25 die
1982 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1983 - "Joseph & the Amazing Dreamcoat" closes at Royale NYC after 747 perfs
1983 - 83rd US Golf Amateur Championship won by Jay Sigel
1983 - Greg LeMond becomes only American to win cycling's Road Championship
1983 - Scott Michael Pellaton sets barefoot waterski speed rec (119.36 mph)
1984 - Nigerian singer Fela Kuti sentenced to 2 years
1985 - Igor Paklin of USSR set a new high jump world record at 7-11 12
1985 - NY Mets Gary Carter's 2 HRs ties record of 5 HRs in 2 games
1986 - 189.42 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
1986 - Claude Brochu becomes CEO of Montreal Expos
1988 - Mike Tyson crashes a silver BMW into a tree near Catskills NY
1988 - Phoenix Cardinals play 1st regular-season NFL game
1989 - Beth Daniel wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
1989 - Jerry Lewis' 24th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $42,737,219
1991 - "Most Happy Fella" opens at NY State Theater NYC
1991 - Rte 35 Theater in Hazlit, last drive-in in NJ, closes
1991 - Panel of 8 baseball experts vote to drop asterisk next to Roger Maris HR record & determine
           an official no hitter must go at least 9 innings
1992 - "Scared Silent" is 1st non news program to be seen on 3 networks simultaneously. (CBS,
           NBC & PBS), about child abuse hosted by Oprah
1993 - Jim Abbott pitches 4-0, no-hit win over Indians at Yankee Stadium
1993 - Miklos Horthy appointed Hungarian admiral
1993 - Mats Wilander defeats Mikael Pernfors 7-6 (7-3), 3-6, 1-6, 7-6 (8-6), 6-4 in 4 hrs 1 min US
           Open Tennis match concluding at 2:26 AM
1994 - Bulgarian government of Berov falls
1994 - Cleveland Browns is 1st team in NFL to score a 2-point conversion
1994 - Kansai International airport officially opens
1995 - Jerry Lewis' 30th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $47,800,000
1995 - Mary Beth Zimmerman wins LPGA State Farm Rail Golf Classic
1995 - The Fourth World Conference on Women opens in Beijing with over 4,750 delegates from 181
           countries in attendance.
1996 - 13th MTV Awards: Alanis Morrisett & Smashing Pumpkins wins
1997 - 14th MTV Awards
1997 - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Louisville KY on WTFX 100.5 FM
2010 - Canterbury earthquake: a 7.1 magnitude earthquake which struck the South Island of New
           Zealand at 4:35 am causing widespread damage and several power outages.
2012 - 42 people are killed and 25 injured as a passenger bus falls down a ravine in Morocco
2012 - 25 people are killed at a funeral suicide bombing in Nangarhar, Pakistan
2012 - Pauline Marois becomes the first female premier of Quebec
2012 - Carpet that can help prevent falls in elderly by warning them after detecting unusual footsteps
           is developed

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 04, 2013, 09:24:14 AM

This Day in History for 4th September


Famous Weddings

1993 - Five-time U.S. national champion figure pair skater Jerod Swallow (26) weds his partner
           Elizabeth Punsalen
1996 - Judy Garland's daughter Lorna Luft (44) weds musician and musical director Colin Freeman
          (30) at Highclere Castle in Hampshire, United Kingdom
1998 - "Sex and The City" actress Kim Cattrall (42) weds audio designer Mark Levinson
2004 - Rap singer Juvenile (29) weds Shadonna Jones at The Victory Fellowship Church in Metairie,
           Louisiana
2006 - Television presenter Sally Meen (41) weds show business agent Russ Lindsay at Great
           Fosters Hotel in Egham, Surrey
2009 - Singer and actress Christina Milian (27) weds singer-songwriter The-Dream (31) at the Little
           White Chapel in Las Vegas, Nevada
2011 - Fashion model and designer Lauren Bush (28) weds David Lauren (40), son of fashion
           designer Ralph Lauren at the 17,000 acre farm in Colorado

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 04, 2013, 09:40:02 AM

This Day in History for 4th September


Famous Birthdays

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Mr Jaguar William Lyons (1901)           Nazi Physician Eduard Wirths (1909)         Singer Beyonce Knowles (1981)


1241 - Alexander III of Scotland (d. 1286)
1249 - Amadeus V de Great, count of Flanders/Savoy
1383 - Amadeus VIII, duke of Savoye/last antipope (Felix V (1439-48)
1454 - Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English politician (d. 1483)
1557 - Sofie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin , queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1631)
1563 - Wanli, Emperor of China (d. 1620)
1596 - Constantine Huygens, Dutch poet/diplomat (Delightful Folly)
1622 - Jacob Hintze, composer
1647 - Gerard Noodt, Dutch lawyer
1717 - Job Orton, English minister (d. 1783)
1736 - Robert Raikes, England, Sunday school pioneer
1746 - Bernardus Bosch, Dutch Patriot/poet/writer, baptised
1755 - Count Axel von Fersen the Younger, Swedish Army officer, diplomat and statesman. (d.
          1810)
1761 - Friedrich Ludwig Emilius Kunzen, composer
1768 - Francois René de Chateaubriand, France, poet/novelist (Atala)
1778 - Louis Napoleon, French king of Netherlands (1806-10)
1793 - Edward Bates, Atty Gen (Union), died in 1869
1795 - Friedrich [August] von Alberti, German geologist (Triasic Age)
1802 - Marcus Whitman, missionary, led to US securing Oregon
1803 - Sarah Childress Polk, 1st lady (1845-1849)
1810 - Donald McKay, US naval architect, built fastest clipper ships
1815 - Andreas I Schaepman, archbishop of Utrecht 1868-82
1815 - Mihaly Mosonyi, composer
1816 - Francois-Emmanuel-Joseph Bazin, composer
1824 - Anton Bruckner, Ansfelden, Austria, Wagner disciple and "monumental bore"/composer
1824 - Phoebe Cary, Cincinnati, American poet (Poems of Alice & Phoebe Cary)
1825 - Dadabhai Naoroji, 1st Indian in British parliament
1826 - Martin Wiberg, Swedish computer pioneer (d. 1905)
1832 - Antonio Agliardi, Italian diplomat (d. 1915)
1843 - Charles Wentworth Dilke, English under minister of Foreign affairs
1843 - Jan Levoslav Bella, composer
1846 - Daniel Burnham, US, architect/built skyscrapers
1848 - Lewis H Latimer, inventor/engineer
1848 - Jennie Lee, American actress (d. 1925)
1850 - Luigi Cadorna, Italian fieldmarshal/earl (WW I-Caporetto)
1851 - John Dillon, Irish nationalist/British Lower house member
1853 - Hermann von Wissmann, German Africa explorer/governor East-Africa
1859 - Edoardo Mascheroni, composer
1869 - Geert A D Wumkes, Frisian theologist/writer (Frision Movement)
1870 - Friedrich Panzer, German germanist (Das Nibelungenlied)
1872 - [Rosalie] Julia Cuypers, Flemish actress/wife of Joseph of Lyre
1874 - Johanna M "Lena" Bakker, Dutch actress/wife of Bruno Gerlach
1880 - Leo Bittermieux, Flemish missionary (Congo)
1885 - Dimitrios Loundras, Greek gymnast (d. 1971)
1885 - Antonio Bacci, Italian cardinal (d. 1971)
1886 - Albert Orsborn, General of The Salvation Army (d. 1967)
1888 - Oskar Schlemmer, German painter/sculptor
1892 - Darius Milhaud, Aix-en-Provence France, composer (Maximilien)
1893 - Henry Schultz, US, farm commune leader
1895 - Nigel Bruce, British/US actor (Dr Watson-Sherlock Holmes)
1896 - Agnes Ayres, [Hinkle], US, actress (Sheik, Souls at Sea)
1896 - Antonin Artaud, Marseilles France, songwriter/dir (Theatre Seraphin)
1900 - Cornelis Verolme, Dutch ship builder
1901 - Paul Osborn, playwright (Mornings at 7)
1901 - William Lyons, Blackpool, British industrialist (Jaguar cars), (d. 1985)
1902 - Lorna Johnstone, England, equestrian dressage (Olympic-13th-1968)
1902 - Thomas Mitchell, England cricketer (d. 1996)
1904 - Julian Hill, research chemist
1904 - Maudet Christian-Jacques, film director
1905 - Mary Renault, [Mary Challens], writer (King Must Die, Funeral Games)
1906 - Alexander Moyzes, composer
1906 - Antanas Raciunas, composer
1906 - Hendrikus G "Han" Hoekstra, poet (Ongerijmde life)
1907 - Leo Castelli, Trieste, American art dealer
1907 - Maurice Ashley, historian
1908 - Edward Dmytryk, director (Carpetbaggers, Young Lions, Caine Mutiny)
1908 - Richard Wright, US, author (Native Son, Uncle Tom's Children)
1909 - Karel Horky, composer
1909 - Eduard Wirths, Geroldshausen, German Empire, Nazi physician (Auschwitz), (d. 1945)
1912 - Alexander Liberman, editor/painter/photographer (639)
1913 - Stanford Moore, US biochemist (Nobel 1977)
1913 - Mickey Cohen, American gangster (d. 1976)
1914 - Rudolf Leiding, German auto executive, third postwar chairman of Volkswagen (d. 2003)
1915 - Dick Thomas, Phila Pa, TV host (Village Barn)
1915 - Rudolf Schock, German opera/operette singer
1916 - Robert [Augustine] W[ard] Lowndes, US, sci-fi author (Puzzle Planet)
1917 - Henry Ford II, automaker (Ford Motor Co)
1918 - Gerald Wilson, Shelby Miss, orchestra leader (Redd Foxx)
1918 - Paul Harvey, Tulsa Oklahoma, news commentator (Rest of the story)
1918 - William Talbert, tennis doubles champ (US 1942, 45, 46, 48)
1919 - Howard Morris, NYC, comedic actor (High Anxiety)
1920 - Craig Claiborne, food columnist (NY Times Cookbook)
1920 - Teddy Johnson, British singer
1920 - Clemar Bucci, Argentine racing driver
1922 - Per Olof Sundman, Swedish writer and politician (d. 1992)
1924 - Joan Aiken, Romania, writer of children's songs
1925 - Forrest Carter, American author (d. 1979)
1926 - Robert J Lagomarsino, (Rep-R-CA, 1974- )
1926 - Bert Olmstead, Canadian ice hockey player
1927 - Aleksandr Nikolayevich Matinchenko, Russia, cosmonaut
1928 - Dick York, Fort Wayne Ind, actor (Darrin-Bewitched, Inherit the Wind)
1928 - Donald E Petersen, Minn, exec (Ford Motors)
1929 - Thomas F Eagleton, (Sen-D-MO, 1968-86/VP candidate-D-1972)
1930 - Jerry Ragavoy, US songwriter/producer (Wonderful Dream)
1930 - Mitzi Gaynor, actress (Bird & Vees, Anything Goes, South Pacific)
1932 - Carlos Romero-Barcel, (Rep-D-Puerto Rico)
1932 - Dinsdale Landen, English actor (d. 2003)
1933 - Richard Castellano, Bronx, actor (Godfather, Lovers & Other Stranger)
1934 - Clive Granger, Welsh-born economist, Nobel laureate
1937 - Dawn Fraser, NSW Australia, 100m freestyle (Olympic-gold-1956, 60, 64)
1937 - Mikk Mikiver, Estonian actor and director (d. 2006)
1938 - Leonard Frey, Brooklyn New York, American actor (Best of West, Mr Smith)
1941 - Marilena Chaui, Brazilian philosopher
1941 - Sushilkumar Shinde, Indian politician
1941 - Joanna Van Gyseghem, English actress
1941 - Ramesh Sethi, East African cricketer
1942 - Bob Filner, (Rep-D-California)
1942 - Merald "Bubba" Knight, Atlanta Ga, singer (Gladys Knights & Pips)
1942 - Raymond Floyd, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, American PGA golfer (1986 US Open)
1942 - Jerry Jarrett, American professional wrestling promoter
1943 - Giuseppi Gentile, Italy, triple jumper (Olympic-bronze-1968)
1944 - Gene Parsons, rock drummer (Byrds, Gene Clark Group)
1944 - Christopher Needler, English sand industrialist (TCG Materials)
1944 - Jennifer Salt, Los Angeles California, actress (Sisters, Soap, Wedding Party)
1944 - Ron Ward, Canadian ice hockey player
1945 - Daniel Wood Gatton, guitarist
1946 - David Liebman, rocker
1946 - Gary Duncan, [Grubb], San Diego Ca, rock guitarist (Quicksilver)
1946 - Greg Elmore, San Diego Ca, rock drummer (Quicksilver)
1947 - Alan Greisman, Sally Field's husband/producer (Fletch, Surrender)
1948 - Marian H J Soutendijk, Dutch MP (CDA)
1948 - Samuel Hui, Hong Kong singer
1949 - Thomas Sturges Watson, KC MO, PGA golfer (1975 Byron Nelson)
1949 - Tom Watson, KC Mo, golfer (British Open 1975, 77, 80, 82, 83)
1949 - Dean Pees, National Football League defensive coordinator
1950 - Doyle Alexander, American baseball player
1950 - Ehteshamuddin, Pakistani cricketer
1951 - Judith Ivey, El Paso Texas, actress (Lady in Red, Hello Again)
1951 - Martin Chambers, rock drummer (Pretenders)
1951 - Nicu Ceausescu, playboy
1951 - Marita Ulvskog, Swedish politician
1952 - Rishi Kapoor, Indian actor
1953 - Kengo Kimura, [Takashi Kimura], wrestler (NJPW)
1953 - Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs, NYC, actor (Freddie-Welcome Back Kotter)
1953 - Michael Stean, chess player
1954 - José Castro, Swedish actor.
1955 - Brian Schweitzer, American politician, governor of Montana
1956 - Candy Loving Oswego KS, playmate (Jan, 1979)
1956 - Shane Gould, freestyle swimmer (Olympics-3 Gold-1972)
1956 - Blackie Lawless, American musician, lead singer in W.A.S.P.
1957 - Khandi Alexander, American actress
1957 - Patricia Tallman, American actress
1958 - Ray Freeman, Greensboro NC, Canadian Tour golfer (1992 Coast Carolina)
1958 - Shiro Koshinaka, wrestler (WAR/NJPW)
1958 - George Hurley, American drummer (Minutemen)
1959 - Armin Kogler, Austria, skier (2-time winner of jumping World Cup)
1959 - William Kennedy Smith, Kennedy accused of rape in Florida (1991)
1959 - Kevin Harrington, Australian actor
1960 - Damon Wayans, actor/comedian (In Living Color, Major Payne, Blankman)
1960 - Peter Virgile, soap actor (Hostage, Popeye Doyle)
1960 - Kim Thayil, American guitarist (Soundgarden, Probot)
1961 - Kevin Kennedy, English actor
1961 - Rizwan-uz-Zaman, Pakistani cricketer
1962 - Kiran More, Indian cricketer
1962 - Ulla Tørnæs, Danish politician
1963 - Donna Wilkins, Miami FL, LPGA golfer (1987 S&H Golf Classic-5th)
1963 - John Vanbiesbrouck, Detroit MI, NHL goalie (Team USA, Florida)
1963 - Sam Yaffa, Finnish musician (Hanoi Rocks, New York Dolls)
1964 - Guy Donald Boros, Ft Laud FL, PGA golfer (1994 Deposit Guaranty-3rd)
1964 - Tomas Sandstrom, NHL forward (Anaheim, Team Sweden 1998)
1964 - René Pape, German bass
1965 - Terri Lynn Doss, Chicago Ill, playmate (Jul, 1988)
1966 - Debra Lewin, South Burlington Vermont, Miss Vermont-America (1991)
1966 - Jearl A Miles, Gainesville FL, 400m/long jumper (Olympics-gold-96)
1967 - Darrin Murray, New Zealand cricketer
1968 - Carlette Guidry-White, 100m/long jumper
1968 - John Preston, Utah, actor (Greg-General Hospital)
1968 - Mike Piazza, Norristown PA, catcher (LA Dodgers)
1968 - Rick McNair, Berkeley California, water polo 2m defender (Olympics-96)
1968 - Phill Lewis, American actor
1968 - John DiMaggio, American actor
1969 - Alexander Coe, Welsh DJ and record producer
1969 - Noah Taylor, English-born actor
1970 - Cari Read, Edmonton Alberta, synchro swimmer (Olympics-silver-96)
1970 - Igor Cavalera, Brazilian pop drummer (Sepultura)
1970 - Ione Skye, [Leitch], Hertfordshire England, actress (Say Anything)
1970 - Janae Lautenschlager, Canoga Park California, diver (Olympics-96)
1970 - Jennifer Nakken, Cedar City Utah, Miss Utah-America (1991)
1970 - Luis Lopez, infielder (San Diego Padres)
1970 - Dave Buchwald, American hacker and film maker
1971 - Brian Storey, Richmond BC, 470 yachter (Olympics-96)
1971 - John Thierry, NFL defensive end (Chic Bears)
1971 - Monty Grow, NFL safety (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1971 - Tyrone Johnson, NFL wide receiver (Atlanta Falcons)
1971 - Maik Taylor, Northern Irish footballer
1971 - Anita Yuen, Hong Kong actress
1972 - Daniel Nestor, Belgrade Yugo, Canadian tennis player (Olympics-96)
1972 - Danny Ponce, Waltham Mass, actor (Willie-Valerie/Hogan Family)
1972 - Jason Fisk, NFL defensive tackle (Minnesota Vikings)
1972 - Myra Katherine Hale, Lincoln Nebraska, Miss America-Nebraska (1996)
1972 - Norman Hand, NFL defensive tackle (Miami Dolphins)
1972 - Françoise Yip, Canadian actress
1973 - Robert Couch, NFL tackle (Atlanta Falcons)
1973 - Stacy Sanches, Dallas TX, playmate (Mar, 1995)
1974 - Jean Lavertue, Montreal Quebec, weightlifter (Olympics-96)
1974 - Nona Gaye, daughter of Marvin Gaye/singer
1974 - Carmit Bachar, American musician (Pussycat Dolls)
1974 - Lincoln Roberts, West Indian cricketer
1975 - Nikolaos Lyberopoulos, Greek footballer
1976 - Diana Maria Urdareanu, Miss Romania Universe (1997)
1976 - Helen Denman, Perth Australia, swimmer (Olympics-96)
1976 - Katreeya English, Thai singer, actress, model
1976 - Clinton R. Nixon, American game designer
1977 - Sun-Woo Kim, Korean Major League Baseball player
1977 - Mark Ronson, English DJ/Producer and co-founder of Allido Records
1977 - Lucie Silvas, English musician
1978 - Christian Walz, svensk soulartist.
1978 - Wes Bentley, American actor
1979 - Suzan Dandeneau, Miss Idaho Teen USA (1996)
1979 - Pedro Camacho, Portuguese composer
1979 - Kosuke Matsuura, Japanese racing driver
1979 - Maxim Afinogenov, Russian ice hockey player
1979 - Kristina Krepela, Croatian actress
1980 - Hitomi Shimatani, Japanese singer
1980 - Pat Neshek, American baseball player
1981 - Richard Garcia, Australian footballer
1981 - Beyoncé Knowles, Houston Texas, singer (Destiny's Child)
1981 - Lacey Mosley, American singer (Flyleaf)
1983 - Yuichi Nakamaru, Japanese idol, (member of KAT-TUN)
1983 - Tareq Aziz, Bangladeshi cricketer
1984 - Hamish McIntosh, Australian football player
1984 - Camila Bordonaba, Argentine actress, singer and composer
1986 - James Younghusband, Philippine footballer
1988 - John Tyler Hammons, American politician
1991 - Carter Jenkins, American actor
2179 - Nyota Uhura, Nairobi Kenya, communications officer (Star Trek)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 04, 2013, 09:43:38 AM

This Day in History for 4th September


Famous Deaths

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Baseball Player                                           Naturalist and TV Star
Hank Greenberg (1986)                                    Steve Irwin (2006)


422 - St Boniface I, Italian Bishop of Rome, dies
454 - Dioscorus van Alexandria, patriarch (council of Efeze), dies
799 - Musa al-Kazim, Shia Imam (b. 745)
1037 - King Bermudo III of Leon (b. 1010)
1063 - Toghrül, Turkish conqueror of Persia and Baghdad
1085 - Irmgarde van Keulen, German countress of Aspel/saint, dies
1199 - Joan of England, Queen consort of Sicily, wife of William II of Sicily (b. 1165)
1537 - Johann Dietenberger, German theologian (b. c. 1475)
1553 - Cornelia da Nomatalcino, monk converted to Judaism, burned at stake
1571 - Earl of Lennox, regent of Scotland, murdered
1588 - Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester, dies at 87
1644 - John Wtenbogaert, theologist (Kerckelicke history), dies at 87
1709 - Jean-Francois Regnard, French comedic poet/slave in Algeria, dies
1759 - Girolamo Chiti, composer, dies at 80
1767 - Charles Townshend, English politician (b. 1725)
1780 - John Fielding, English magistrate and social reformer (b. 1721)
1784 - Cesar F Cassini "the Thury", French astronomer (geodesic labor), dies
1794 - John Hely-Hutchinson, Irish statesman (b. 1724)
1804 - Richard Somers, American naval officer
1828 - Cornelis Stevens, Belgian RC foreman/polemist, dies at 80
1845 - Pierre P Royer-Collard, French attorney/philosopher, dies at 82
1852 - William MacGillivray, Scottish naturalist and ornithologist (b. 1796)
1853 - Jonathan Blewitt, composer, dies at 71
1864 - John Hunt Morgan, American Confederate military leader (b. 1825)
1903 - Herman Zumpe, composer, dies at 53
1905 - Pierre de Braza, founder (French Congo), dies
1907 - Edvard Grieg, composer, dies at 64
1907 - Edvard Hagerup Grieg, Norwegian composer (Peer Gynt Suite), dies at 64
1916 - José Echegaray y Eizaguirre, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1832)
1918 - Max Dauthendy, German painter/author (Raubmenschen), dies at 51)
1922 - Georges Sorel, French social philosopher, dies at 74
1937 - Giovanni Salviucci, composer, dies at 29
1938 - Clifford Dempsey, actor (Salute), dies at 73
1944 - Izaak van der Horst, Dutch resistance fighter, executed
1946 - Paul Lincke, German composer/conductor (Lysistrata), dies at 79
1960 - Alfred E Green, director (Copacabana), dies after long illness at 71
1963 - Robert Schuman, French premier/chair (European Parliament), dies at 77
1964 - W Bergengruen, writer, dies at 71
1965 - Albert Schweitzer, German/French missionary (Nobel 1954), dies at 90
1970 - James M Taylor, USAF/astronaut, dies at 39
1972 - Alan Kippax, cricketer (1st-class batting average 67), dies
1974 - Creighton W Abrams, US general/army staff chief (Vietnam), dies at 59
1974 - Marcel Achard, French dramatist (La forges the Paris), dies at 75
1974 - Lewi Pethrus, Swedish politician (b. 1884)
1975 - Walter Tetley, cartoon voice (Sherman-Bullwinkle Show), dies at 60
1977 - Stelios Perpiniadis, Greek musician (b. 1899)
1977 - E. F. Schumacher, German economist and statistician (b. 1911)
1977 - Jean Rostand, French biologist (b. 1894)
1979 - Jef van de Wiele, Belgian politician, dies at 76
1979 - Canuplin, Filipino magician and bodabil entertainer (b. 1904)
1980 - Wolfgang Gentner, German nuclear physicist, dies at 74
1981 - Verne Rowe, actor (Verne-Fernwood 2 Night), dies at 59
1985 - George O'Brien, actor (Daniel Boone, Salute), dies of a stroke at 85
1985 - Isabel Jeans, actress (Suspicion, Easy Virtue, Tovarich), dies at 93
1986 - Hank Greenberg, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers) dies aged 75
1989 - Georges Simenon, Belgian/French writer/director (Maigret), dies at 86
1989 - Ronald Syme, New Zealand-born classicist and historian (b. 1903)
1990 - Henry Faas, [Wandelganger], Dutch journalist (Volkskrant), dies
1990 - Irene Dunne, actress (5 oscars), dies of heart failure at 91
1991 - Charlie Barnet, saxophonist (Cherokee), dies of pneumonia at 77
1991 - Dottie West, country singer (Here Comes my Baby), dies at 58 in a car
1991 - Margaret Ramsay, vocalist, dies
1991 - Thomas Tryon, actor (Cardinal)/writer (Other), dies at 65
1992 - John van Dreelen, [Jacques T van Drielen Gimberg], actor (Topaz), dies
1993 - Clyde Adler, voice (White Fang/Black Tooth-Soupy Sales), dies
1993 - Herve Villechaize, actor (Fantasy Island), shoots self to death at 50
1993 - Mehmet Sincar, Turkish/Kurd MP, murdered
1994 - Laurentius LM "Laurens" van Deenen, (pathed)physiologist, dies at 66
1994 - Louis Myers, blues guitarist /harmonica player, dies at 64
1995 - Chuck Greenberg, new age musician (Shadowfax), dies at 45
1995 - Edmond Jouhaud, general, dies at 90
1995 - John Megna, actor (To Kill a Mocking Bird), dies at 42
1995 - William Moses Kunstler, UCLA attorney (Chicago 7), dies at 78
1996 - Sam Cook, cricketer (Gloucestershire slow bowler with one Test for England), dies
1997 - Belle Stewart, singer, dies at 91
1997 - Aldo Rossi, Italian architect (b. 1931)
1998 - Elizabeth Kata, Australian writer, A Patch of Blue (b. 1912)
2001 - Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf, American radio personality (b. 1962)
2002 - Vlado Perlemuter, Lithuanian pianist (b. 1904)
2003 - Tibor Varga, Hungarian violinist and conductor (b. 1921)
2003 - Lola Bobesco, Romanian-born violinist (b. 1921)
2004 - Alphonso Ford, American basketball player (b. 1971)
2004 - Moe Norman, Canadian golfer (b. 1929)
2004 - James O. Page, American paramedic (b. 1936)
2006 - Colin Thiele, Australian author and educator (b. 1920)
2006 - Steve Irwin, Australian naturalist and television personality attacked and killed by a stingray
           (b. 1962)
2006 - Astrid Varnay, Swedish-born soprano (b. 1918)
2006 - Giacinto Facchetti, Italian footballer (b. 1942)
2011 - Lee Roy Selmon, American football player (b. 1954)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 05, 2013, 10:11:58 AM

This Day in History for 5th September


Historical Events

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Russian Tsar Peter the Great                    32nd US President                                  Cuban President and Dictator
                                                                Franklin D. Roosevelt                                     Fulgencio Batista

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Comedian Jerry Lewis                             US President John F. Kennedy                    Singer Whitney Houston

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Anti-apartheid activist/                          Tennis Player Pete Sampras
South African President
Nelson Mandela


1198 - Philips van Zwaben Hohenstaufen crowned king of Roman Catholic Germany
1519 - 2nd Battle of Tehuacingo, Mexico: Hernan Cortes vs Tlascala Aztecs
1550 - William Cecil appoints himself English minister of foreign affairs
1590 - Alexander Farnese's army forces Henry IV of France to raise the siege of Paris.
1596 - Dutch fleet commander Cornelis de Houtman taken hostage in Java
1622 - Richelieu becomes cardinal
1634 - -6] Battle at Nordlingen: King Ferdinand III & Spain beat Sweden & German protestants
1644 - Prince Frederik Henry conquerors Sas of Gent
1661 - French superintendant of Finance Nicolas Fouquet arrested
1666 - Great Fire of London ends, leaving 13,200 houses destroyed and 8 dead
1698 - Russia's Peter the Great imposes a tax on beards
1750 - Decree issued in Paderborn Prussia allows for annual search of all Jewish homes for stolen or
           "doubtful" goods
1774 - 1st Continental Congress assembles, in Philadelphia
1781 - Battle of Virginia Capes, French defeat British, traps Cornwallis
1786 - Montplaisir Ceramic factory opens in Schaarbeek Belgium
1793 - In the French Revolution, the "Reign of Terror" begins
1795 - US-Algiers sign peace treaty
1796 - General Salicetti orders equal rights for Jews of Bologna Italy
1798 - New conscription law goes into effect in France
1800 - Malta surrenders to British after they blockade French troops
1814 - -15] Battle at Masurische Meren: Germans chase Russ out of E Prussia
1816 - Louis XVIII has to dissolve the Chambre introuvable ("Unobtainable Chamber").
1836 - Sam Houston elected president of Republic of Texas
1838 - Central Museum opens in Utrecht Netherlands
1839 - The First Opium War begins in China.
1844 - Iron ore discovered in Minnesota's Mesabi Mountains
1862 - Lee crosses Potomac & enters Maryland
1863 - Bread revolt in Mobile Alabama
1864 - British, French & Dutch fleets attacked Japan in Shimonoseki Straits
1864 - Achille François Bazaine becomes Marshall of France.
1877 - Southern blacks led by Pap Singleton settle in Kansas
1882 - 10,000 workers march in 1st Labor Day parade in NYC
1885 - 1st gasoline pump is delivered to a gasoline dealer (Ft Wayne, Ind)
1887 - Gas lamp at Theater Royal in Exeter catches fire killing about 200
1895 - George Washington Murray elected to Congress from SC
1900 - France proclaims a protectorate over Chad
1901 - National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues forms
1905 - Lillian Mortimer's "No Mother to Guide," premieres in Detroit
1905 - Treaty of Portsmouth USA, ends Russo-Japanese War
1906 - 1st legal forward pass (Brandbury Robinson to Jack Schneider)
1908 - Dodger Nap Rucker no-hits Boston Braves, 6-0
1910 - Jack Coombs begins a record streak of 53 shutout innings
1913 - Phillies & Braves tie record of only 1 run in a double header, Phillies win 1st game 1-0, then a
           scoreless tie into 10th
1914 - Battle of Marne (WW I) begins: Germans chase out Russians
1914 - French headquarters move to Chatillon-sur-Seine
1914 - Gr Britain/France/Belgium/Russia sign pact of London
1914 - Proclamation prohibits Canadian mint from issuing gold coins
1915 - 35th US Mens Tennis: William Johnston beats McLoughlin (16 60 75 108)
1915 - Anti-war conference in Zimmerwald, Switzerland
1916 - 36th US Mens Tennis: R N Williams III beats Johnston (46 64 06 62 64)
1918 - Due to WW I, 15th World Series begins a month early
1918 - Decree "On Red Terror" is published in Russia
1920 - Iron monument unveiled at Stone churches, Flanders
1921 - Walter Johnson sets strikeout mark at 2,287
1922 - 17th Davis Cup: USA beats Australasia in New York (4-1)
1922 - Yankees final game at Polo Grounds (played there 7 years)
1923 - Flyweights Gene LaRue & Kid Pancho KO each other simultaneously
1925 - 112 F (44°C), Centerville, Alabama (state record)
1925 - 29th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Bobby Jones
1927 - Red Sox beat Yankees 12-11 in 18 innings
1929 - French premier A Briand requests a US of Europe
1932 - The French Upper Volta is broken apart between Ivory Coast, French Sudan, and Niger.
1936 - Red Sox turn a triple-play on Yankees
1937 - Spanish Civil War: Llanes falls.
1939 - 34th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in Haverford (3-2)
1939 - FDR declares US neutrality at start of WW II in Europe
1939 - US declare itself neutral
1942 - Battle at Alam Halfa ends
1942 - British & US bomb Le Havre & Bremen
1943 - 57th US Womens Tennis: Pauline Betz beats A Louise Brough (63 57 63)
1943 - US airland at Nadzab, New-Guinea
1944 - "Mad Tuesday" 65,000 Dutch nazi collaborators flee to Germany
1944 - 5 resistance fighter executed in Terneuzen
1944 - Allies liberate Brussels
1944 - Belgium, Luxembourg & Netherlands sign unity treaty
1944 - British premier Churchill travels to Scotland
1944 - Dutch Armed Forces forms, under prince Bernhard
1946 - "Yours Is My Heart" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 36 performances
1946 - Joe Garagiola plays his 1st major league baseball game
1948 - In France, Robert Schuman becomes President of the Council while being Foreign minister, As
           such, he is the negotiator of the major treaties of the end of World War II.
1949 - 63rd US Womens Tennis: M Osborne duPont beats Doris Hart (64 61)
1949 - 69th US Mens Tennis: Pancho Gonzales beat Schroeder (1618 26 61 62 64)
1950 - 64th US Womens Tennis: Margaret Osborne duPont beats D Hart (63 63)
1950 - 70th US Mens Tennis: Art Larsen beats Herbert Flam (63 46 57 64 63)
1950 - 98.3 cm rainfall at Yankeetown, Florida (state record)
1951 - 65th US Womens Tennis: Mo Connolly beats Shirley J Fry (63 16 64)
1951 - 71st US Mens Tennis: Frank A Sedgman beats Elias Seixas Jr (64 61 61)
1952 - General Carlos Ibáñez elected president of Chile
1953 - 1st privately operated atomic reactor-Raleigh NC
1953 - US give Persian premier Zahedi $45 million aid
1954 - Dutch Super Constellation crashes at Shannon, 28 die
1955 - Fred Kaps becomes world champion magician
1955 - Dodger Don Newcombe hits NL pitcher record 7th HR of season
1955 - WKRG TV channel 5 in Mobile, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting
1955 - WTTW TV channel 11 in Chicago, IL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1956 - 20 die in a train crash in Springer NM
1957 - Cuban dictator Batista bombs Cienfuegos uprising
1957 - Yugoslavia bans Milovan Djilas' book "new class marine officers"
1958 - "Doctor Zhivago" by Boris Pasternak published in US
1958 - 1st color video recording on magnetic tape presented, Charlotte NC
1958 - WKPC TV channel 15 in Louisville, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1959 - Wash Senator Jim Lemon is 7th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (3rd)
1960 - Cassius Clay captures Olympic light heavyweight gold medal
1960 - President Kasavubu fires premier Lumumba of Congo
1960 - Wilma Rudolph wins her 2nd gold medal
1960 - The poet Léopold Sédar Senghor is elected as the first President of Senegal.
1961 - JFK begins underground nuclear testing
1961 - President Kennedy signs law against hijacking (death penalty)
1961 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1962 - Atletico Madrid wins 2nd Europe Cup II
1962 - Cubs Ken Hubbs sets 2nd base record for consecutive errorless games at 78 & consecutive
           errorless chances (418), he errors in the 4th
1966 - Jerry Lewis' 1st Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $15,000
1966 - WRLK TV channel 35 in Columbia, SC (PBS) begins broadcasting
1967 - -23] Hurricane Beuleah, kills 54 in Caribbean, Mexico & Texas
1967 - KMEG TV channel 14 in Sioux City, IA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1967 - WEBA TV channel 14 in Allendale, SC (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 - 21 killed by hijackers aboard a Pan Am jet in Karachi Pakistan
1968 - 82nd US Womens Tennis: Virginia Wade beats Billie Jean King (64 64)
1968 - 88th US Mens Tennis: Arthur Ashe beats Tom Okker (1412 57 63 36 63)
1968 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1969 - Frente Obrero wins Dutch Antilles national elections
1970 - Estimated 15 cm (6") of rainfall, Bug Point, Utah (state record)
1971 - Astros pitcher J R Richard debut, strikes out 15 Giants in a 5-3 win
1971 - NY Mets Don Hahn hits 1st inside the park homer at Phillies Vet
1972 - 11 Israeli athletes are slain at Munich Olympics by Black Sept
1972 - Chemical spill with fog sickens hundreds in Meuse Valley Belgium
1972 - Jerry Lewis' 7th Muscular Dystrophy telethon, John & Yoko appear
1972 - Palestinian terrorists kill 11 Israelis at 1972 Munich Olympics
1973 - "Desert Song" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 15 performances
1973 - 1st one-day Cricket international for WI (v Eng) - lose by 1 wicket
1975 - Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme attempts to assassinate Ford in Sacramento
1975 - Portugal premier Goncalvez resigns
1975 - Wings release "Letting Go"
1976 - "Rex" closes at Lunt-Fontaine Theater NYC after 48 performances
1976 - "Very Good Eddie" closes at Booth Theater NYC after 307 performances
1976 - Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Golf Classic
1977 - Cleveland Indians stage 1st "I hate the Yankee Hanky Night"
1977 - Jerry Lewis' 12th Muscular Dystrophy telethon
1977 - RAF kidnap West German work chairman Schleyer
1977 - Voyager 1 (US) launched toward fly-by of Jupiter, Saturn
1978 - Sadat, Begin & Carter began peace conference at Camp David, Md
1979 - A's Matt Keough A's beats Brewers 6-1 for 1st win after 14 straight losses, ended 1978 with
           4 loses (1 shy of the record 19)
1979 - Canada puts its 1st gold bullion coin on sale
1979 - Earl of Mountbatten funeral held in London
1979 - Iran army occupies Piranshahr
1979 - Roscoe Tanner fires 11 aces, breaks the net with his bullet serve & upsets top-seeded Bjorn
           Borg in US Tennis Open quarterfinals
1980 - Poland party leader Edward Gierek resigns
1980 - World's longest auto tunnel, St Gotthard in Swiss Alps, opens
1982 - 82nd US Golf Amateur Championship won by Jay Sigel
1982 - Eddie Hill sets propeller-driven boat water speed record of 229 mph
1983 - 8th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 3-lands at Edwards AFB
1983 - Elmer Trettr sets record for highest terminal velocity at 201.34 mph
1983 - Jerry Lewis' 18th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $30,691,627
1983 - Lauri Peterson wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
1984 - 12th Space Shuttle Mission (41-D) -Discovery 1- lands at Edwards AFB
1986 - 3rd MTV Awards: Whitney Houston wins
1986 - Karachi Pakistan army storms hijacked US B-747, 19 killed
1986 - MTV Music Awards - Dire Straits "Money For Nothing" wins
1986 - NASA awards study contracts to 5 aerospace firms
1986 - NASA launches DOD-1
1987 - Carlton Fisk clubs his 300th career HR off Danny Jackson
1987 - John McEnroe is fined $17,500 for tirades at US Tennis Open
1988 - Betsy King wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
1988 - Jerry Lewis' 23rd Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $41,132,113
1988 - CFL's Earl Winfield (Ham) scores TDs on 101-yd punt return, 100-yd kickoff return & 58-yd
           pass reception
1989 - Chris Evert last US Open match, she is defeated by Zina Garrison
1989 - Deborah Norville becomes news anchor of Today Show
1990 - Iraqi Pres Saddam Hussein urges Arabs to rise against the West
1990 - Pete Sampras ends Ivan Lendl's bid for 9th straight US Open final
1991 - 8th MTV Awards: REM
1991 - Nelson Mandela chosen president of South African ANC
1991 - US trial of former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega begins
1992 - Dan O'Brien sets world record decathlon (8891 pts)
1993 - "Fool Moon" closes at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC after 207 perfs
1993 - "Jelly's Last Jam" closes at Virginia Theater NYC after 569 perfs
1993 - "Will Rogers Follies" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 983 perfs
1993 - F Murray Abraham released from hospital after car accident
1993 - Largest US Tennis Open 2 sessions (total) daily gate (43,502)
1993 - Noureddine Morceli runs world record mile (3:44,39)
1994 - Barb Mucha wins LPGA State Farm Rail Golf Classic
1994 - Jerry Lewis' 29th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $47,100,000
1994 - Jingyi Le swims world record 100m women's freestyle (54.01 sec)
1994 - Kirgizia government resigns
1994 - SF 49'er Jerry Rice catches NFL record 127th touchdown pass
1995 - Cal Ripken Jr ties Gehrig's record of playing in 2,130 straight games
1996 - "Summer & Smoke" opens at Criterion Theater NYC
1996 - MTV Video Music Awards
1997 - Athen's Greece selected for 2004 Olympics
1997 - Orioles beat Yankes 13-9 in longest 9 inning game
1998 - Women's championship at US Tennis Open
2000 - The Haverstraw-Ossining Ferry makes its maiden voyage.
2005 - Mandala Airlines Flight 091 crashes into a heavily-populated residential of Sumatra, Indonesia,
           killing 104 people on board and at least 39 persons on ground.
2007 - Three terrorists suspected to be a part of Al-Qaeda are arrested in Germany after allegedly
           planning attacks on both the Frankfurt International airport and US military installations.
2009 - Denmark celebrates the first national flagday, in memory of the fallen Danes in international
           operations since 1948.
2012 - 54 people are killed and 50 injured after a firecracker factory explodes in Nadu
2012 - Austerity measure requires Greece to increase its maximum working days to six per week
2012 - 25 are killed and 4 wounded after an ammunition store exploded in Afyon, Turkey

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 05, 2013, 11:31:47 AM

This Day in History for 5th September


Famous Weddings

1725 - French King Louis XV marries Polish princess Mary Lesczynski
1991 - Actor John Travolta weds Kelly Preston
1992 - Andrew "Dice" Clay marries his long time partner Trinie
1992 - Rock singer John Mellencamp (40) weds model Elaine Irwin Mellencamp (23) in Indiana
1993 - Robocop Richard Eden (36) weds actress Shannon Hile (30)
1993 - "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" actress Nia Vardalos (30) weds "Felicity" actor Ian Gomez (28)
1997 - TV and radio host Larry King (64) weds singer Shawn Southwick (38) at the hospital room in
           Los Angeles, California

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 05, 2013, 01:21:49 PM

This Day in History for 5th September


Famous Birthdays 

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The Sun King Louis XIV (1638)                 Outlaw Jesse James (1847)                      Actress Raquel Welch (1940)

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Actor Michael Keaton (1951)


1187 - Louis VIII, [Coeur-de-Lion] king of France (1223-26)
1319 - Pedro IV, king of Aragon
1567 - Date Masamune, Renowned Samurai and Daimyo in Japan (d. 1636)
1568 - Tommaso Campanella, Italian theologian, philosopher, and poet (d. 1639)
1600 - Loreto Vittori, composer
1621 - Juan Andrés Coloma, Spanish noble (d. 1694)
1638 - Louis XIV, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, King of France (1643-1715), (Sun King), (d. 1715)
1644 - Gillis Schey, Dutch admiral (battle at Lowestoft)
1666 - Gottfried Arnold, German theologist/historian/songwriter
1667 - Giovanni Gerolamo Saccheri, Italian mathematician (d. 1733)
1688 - Lukas Fencer, Dutch poet (Fight of Kings & Mice)
1694 - Frantisek Antonin Mica, composer
1695 - Carl Gustaf Tessin, Swedish politician (d. 1770)
1722 - Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony (d. 1763)
1725 - Jean-Étienne Montucla, French mathematician (d. 1799)
1734 - Jean-Benjamin de La Borde, composer
1735 - Johann Christian Bach, composer, son of JS Bach (English Bach)
1737 - Johann Friedrich Gottlieb Beckmann, composer
1750 - Robert Fergusson, Scottish poet (Scots poems)
1767 - August Wilhelm Schlegel, German poet/translator/critic
1771 - Charles L J, archduke of Austria/Gov (Austria Netherland)
1775 - Juan Martín Díez, el Empecinado (the undaunted), Spanish guerrillero (d. 1825)
1787 - François Sulpice Beudant, French mineralogist and geologist (d. 1850)
1791 - Giacomo Meyerbeer, Vogelsdorf Germany, composer (Golt Und Die Natur)
1792 - Alexis-Charles-Maximilien Thibault, composer
1792 - Pierre-Armand Dufrénoy, French geologist and mineralogist (d. 1857).
1806 - Christophe Léon Louis Juchault de Lamoricière, French general (d. 1865)
1807 - Richard Chenevix Trench, Irish Anglican clergyman and philologist (d. 1886)
1809 - Manuel Montt Torres, President of Chile (d. 1880)
1815 - Carl Wilhelm, composer
1815 - Tyree Harris Bell, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1902
1817 - Aleksei K Tolstoi, [Kozjma Prutkov], Russian poet/writer [NS]
1826 - John Wisden, England cricketer (d. 1884)
1827 - Goffredo Mameli, Italian poet and writer (d. 1849)
1836 - Justiniano Borgoño, President of Peru (d. 1921)
1842 - Louis F J Bouwmeester, Dutch actor (Shakespeare)
1846 - John W Cromwell, Secy (American Negro Academy)
1847 - Jesse James, Missouri, outlaw, son of a clergyman, (d. 1882)
1848 - Manuel Giro, composer
1856 - Jacobus C J Hermans, actor (7th Command)
1867 - Amy Marcy Cheney Beach, American composer and pianist (d. 1944)
1874 - Nap Lajoie, American baseball player (d. 1959)
1875 - Napoleon "Larry" Lajoie, RI, hall of fame shortstop (.426 in 1901)
1876 - Abdelaziz Thâalbi, Tunisian politician. (d. 1944)
1876 - Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, German field marshal (d. 1956)
1877 - O W Albert Roelofs, Dutch painter/etcher
1881 - Otto Bauer, Austrian social-democrat
1883 - Otto E Deutsch, Austrian musicologist (Schubert-Brevier)
1885 - John Raedecker, Dutch sculptor (National monument on the Dam)
1888 - Sarvepalli Radhakrishan, president (India)/philosopher
1890 - Albert H Edelkoort, theologist (Zondebesef)
1892 - Joseph Szigeti, Budapest Hungary, violinist (Violinist Notebook 1933)
1897 - Doris Kenyon, Syracuse NY, silent screen actress (Alexander Hamilton)
1897 - Luella Gear, NYC, actress (Joe & Mabel)
1897 - Morris Carnovsky, St Louis MO, actor (Dead Reckoning)
1898 - Ebbe Hamerik, composer
1901 - Florence Elridge, Brooklyn New York, American actress (Long Days Journey into the Night)
1901 - Mieczyslaw Kolinski, composer
1902 - Darryl F Zanuck, film magnate/president (20th Century Fox)
1905 - Arthur Koestler, Hungary, British writer (Arrow in Blue)
1905 - Justiniano Montano, Filipino politician (d. 2005)
1906 - Peter Mieg, composer
1906 - Semjon I Kirsanov, Ukrainian poet (Semj Dnej Nedeli) [NS=Sept 18]
1907 - Sunnyland Albert Luandrew Slim, blues pianist
1908 - Joaquin Maria Nin-Culmell, Berlin Germany, Cuban/Spanish composer
1908 - Gloria Holden, British actress (d. 1991)
1909 - Archie Jackson, Australian cricketer (d. 1933)
1912 - John Cage, Los Angeles California, composer (Imaginary Landscape No 1/O&#039;O)
1912 - Kristina Söderbaum, German actress and photographer (d. 2001)
1912 - Frank Thomas, American animator (d. 2004)
1913 - Connie Stuart, [Cornelia van Meygard], Dutch cabaret performer
1914 - Gail Kubik, South Coffeyville, Oklahoma, composer (Gerald McBoing Boing)
1914 - Nicanor Parra, Chilean poet (Defense of Violeta Parra)
1914 - Stuart Freeborn, London, England, motion picture make-up artist (Star Wars: Yoda, Jabba
           the Hut), (d. 2013)
1916 - Frank Yerby American novelist (d. 1991)
1916 - Frank Shuster, Canadian comedian (Wayne and Shuster) (d. 2002)
1917 - Jack Buetel, Dallas Tx, actress (Outlaw, Half Breed)
1918 - Luis Alcoriza, Mexican screenwriter, film director, and actor (d. 1992)
1920 - Fons Rademakers, director (Assault)/actor (Daughter of Darkness)
1920 - Margaretha D Ferguson-Wigerink, Dutch author (Anna & her Father)
1920 - Peter Racine Fricker, British composer
1921 - Jack Valenti, Pres (Motion Picture Association of America)
1923 - Arthur C Nielsen, market researcher (TV's Nielsen's Ratings)
1923 - Ken Meuleman, Australian cricketer (d. 2004)
1924 - Krystyna Moszumanska-Nazar, composer
1925 - Jos Vandeloo, Flemish journalist/playwright (Cola Drinkers)
1925 - Justin Kaplan, US
1927 - Paul Volcker, Federal Reserve chairman
1929 - Andrian Grigoryevich Nikolayev, USSR, cosmonaut (Vostok III, Soyuz 9)
1929 - Bob Newhart, Oak Park Ill, comedian (Bob Newhart Show, Newhart)
1933 - Vincent McDermott, composer
1933 - Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa, Chilian catholic archbishop
1934 - Carol Lawrence, Illinois, dancer/actress (West Side Story)
1935 - Helen Gifford, composer
1935 - Mikhail Ivanovich Lisun, Russia, cosmonaut
1935 - Werner Erhard, Phila, founded EST
1936 - Alcee Hastings, (Rep-D-Florida)
1936 - Bill Mazeroski, MLB 2nd baseman (won 1960 World Series for Pitts)
1936 - Cornelius Boyson, bassist
1936 - John C Danforth, (Sen-R-Missouri, 1977- )
1936 - Jonathan Kozol, American writer, sociologist
1937 - William Devane, Albany NY, actor (Family Plot, Missles of October)
1937 - Antonio Valentin Angelillo, Argentinian footballer
1939 - George Lazenby, Goulburn Australia, actor (OHMSS-James Bond)
1939 - John Stewart, San Diego Ca, rocker (Kingston Trio-Fire in the Wind)
1939 - Clay Regazzoni, Swiss racing driver (d. 2006)
1940 - Lewis Spratlan, composer
1940 - Raquel Welch, Chicago Illinois, (Myra Breckenridge, 1,000,000 BC, 100 Rifles)
1942 - Eduardo Mata, Mexico City Mexico, conductor (Improvisaciones)
1942 - Werner Herzog, director (Burden of Dreams, Stroszek, Woyzeck)
1942 - Denise Fabre French television presenter.
1943 - Joe "Speedo" Frazier, rocker (Impalas)
1943 - Dulce Saguisag, Filipino politician and former DSWD Secretary. (d. 2007)
1944 - Dario Bellezza, poet
1944 - Rod Arrants, LA CA, actor (Vamping, Ape, Young & Restless)
1945 - Al Stewart, Glasgow Scotland, rocker (Year of the Cat)
1946 - Buddy Miles, rocker
1946 - Dennis Dugan, Wheaton IL, actor/director (Can't Buy Me Love, Howling)
1946 - Freddie Mercury, [Bulsara], British vocalist (Queen-We are Champions)
1946 - Loudon Wainwright III, vocalist (April Fool's Day Morn)
1948 - Benita Ferrero-Waldner, Austrian diplomat and politician
1949 - David "Clem" Clempson, rocker (Humble Pie)
1950 - Cathy Guisewite, US cartoonist (Cathy)
1950 - Kathy Cronkite, actress (Annie-Hizzonner)
1950 - Paul William Roberts, Canadian writer
1951 - Michael Keaton, Pitts Pa, actor (Gung Ho, Batman, Beetlejuice)
1951 - Paul Breitner, German footballer
1951 - Patti McGuire, American model and television producer
1952 - Graham Salmon, blind runner (fastest 100m by a blind man)
1953 - Paulie Carmen, Champaign Ill, rock vocalist
1954 - Hans-Jorgen Gerhardt, German DR, bobsled (Olympic-gold-1980)
1954 - Frederick Kempe, American author, journalist, and executive
1955 - Bruno Zarrillo, hockey forward (Team Italy 1998)
1956 - Sandra Guiboard, US AFB German FR, actress (Donna-One Life to Live)
1956 - Steve Denton, tennis player (world's fastest tennis serve-138 mph)
1956 - Roine Stolt, Swedish guitarist (The Flower Kings)
1957 - Peter Winnen, Dutch bicycle road athlete
1959 - Tom Pernice Jr, KC MO, Nike golfer (1989 Centel Classic-4th)
1960 - Rob Stull, Damascus Md, US pentathlete (Olympic-92)
1960 - Willie Gault, bob sledder/NFL receiver (Chicago Bears, LA Raiders)
1961 - Marc-André Hamelin, Canadian pianist
1962 - Beth Underhill, Guelph Ontario, equestrian jumper (Olympics-26-92, 96)
1962 - Peter Wingfield, Welsh actor
1963 - Brandon Krovoza, Newport Beach California, canoe (alt-Olympics-96)
1963 - Dave Brantley, Florence Alabama, pitcher (Cin Reds)
1963 - John Elliot, Bristol CT, Nike golfer (1994 NIKE Miss Gulf Coast)
1963 - Tim McKyer, NFL defensive back (Denver Broncos-Super Bowl 32)
1963 - Kristian Alfonso, Brockton, Massachusetts, American actress (Days of Lives, Falcon Crest)
1964 - Frank Farina, Australian footballer
1965 - Barbara Lufthansa Herzog, born during Lufthansa Frankfurt-NY flight
1965 - Christopher Nolan, Ireland, handicapped writer (Under Eye of Clock)
1965 - Tony Martin, NFL wide receiver (San Diego Chargers)
1965 - César Rincón, colombian matador
1965 - Chris Gore, American filmmaker
1966 - Simone Jacobs, England, 4X100m relayer (Olympic-bronze-1984)
1966 - Achero Mañas, Spanish actor and film director
1966 - Milinko Pantić, retired Serbian footballer
1967 - Michele Ebadi, Omaha Nebraska, Miss Nebraska-America (1991)
1967 - Rein van Duynhoven, soccer player (Helmond Sport, MVV)
1967 - India Hicks, English model
1968 - Dennis Scott, NBA forward (Dallas Mavericks)
1968 - Yuki Ishikawa, wrestler (NJPW)
1968 - Brad Wilk, American musician (Audioslave, Rage Against the Machine)
1969 - Dweezil Zappa, Hollywood CA, rock guitarist/son of Frank/VJ (MTV)
1969 - Maurice Miller, CFL linebacker (Edmonton Eskimos)
1969 - Leonardo Nascimento de Araujo, Brazilian footballer
1969 - Mark Ramprakash, English cricketer
1970 - Brad Hopkins, NFL tackle (Houston Oilers)
1970 - Lori Harrigan, Anaheim California, softball pitcher (Olympics-gold-96)
1970 - Michael Potts, Langdale AL, pitcher (Milwaukee Brewers)
1970 - Willie Clay, NFL safety (Detroit Lions)
1970 - Liam Lynch, American musician (Sifl and Olly)
1970 - Mohammad Rafique, Bangladeshi cricketer
1971 - Carlester Crumpler, NFL tight end (Seattle Seahawks)
1971 - Kim Maher, Saigon Vietnam, US softball infielder (Olympics-gold-96)
1971 - Adam Hollioake, England cricketer
1972 - Cari Shayne, Penn, actress (Karen Cates-General Hospital)
1972 - Dirk Copeland, Los Angeles California, pursuit cyclist (Olympics-92, 96)
1972 - Jimmy Haynes, La Grange GA, pitcher (Baltimore Orioles)
1972 - Tom Carter, NFL cornerback (Washington Redskins)
1973 - Jenny Whittle, Australian basketball center (Olympics-bronze-96)
1973 - Tina Yothers, actress (Family Ties)
1973 - Paddy Considine, English actor
1974 - Rawl Lewis, West Indian cricketer
1975 - Rod Barajas, American baseball player
1975 - George Boateng, Dutch footballer
1975 - Matt Geyer, Australian rugby league footballer
1975 - Jamie Spaniolo, American horrorcore rapper
1976 - Tatyana Gutsu, Ukrainian gymnast
1976 - Carice van Houten, Dutch actress
1977 - Minoru Fujita, Japanese professional wrestler
1977 - Alexey Harkov, Russian bassist (Kipelov, Sergey Mavrin)
1977 - Rosevelt Colvin, American football player
1977 - Joseba Etxeberria, Spanish football winger
1977 - Nazr Mohammed, American Basketball player
1978 - Laura Bertram, Canadian actress
1978 - Chris Jack, New Zealand rugby union footballer
1978 - Zhang Zhong, Chinese chess player
1978 - Sylvester Joseph, West Indian cricketer
1979 - John Carew, Norwegian footballer
1979 - Stacey Dales, Canadian basketball player and sportscaster
1979 - George O'Callaghan, Irish footballer
1980 - Franco Costanzo, Argentinian football goalkeeper
1981 - Drew Carter, American football player
1981 - Filippo Volandri, Italian tennis player
1982 - Alexandre Geijo, Spanish/Swiss footballer
1982 - Sondre Lerche, Norwegian musician
1983 - Eugen Bopp, Ukrainian-German footballer
1983 - Pablo Granoche, Uruguayan footballer
1983 - Xavier Susai, Australian comedian
1984 - Trey Hill, Grammy-nominated musician
1985 - Ryan Guy, American soccer player
1987 - Pierre Casiraghi, son of Princess Caroline of Monaco
1990 - Jeremy Snider, US actor (Eric Jr-Bold & Beautiful)
1990 - Kim Yu-Na, Korean figure skater
1991 - Skandar Keynes, English actor
1993 - Gage Golightly, American actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 05, 2013, 01:25:57 PM

This Day in History for 5th September


Famous Deaths

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Anthropologist/Pathologist                 Catholic Missionary Mother Teresa (1997)
Rudolf Virchow (1902)


1165 - Emperor Nijo of Japan (b. 1143)
1201 - Constance, Duchess of Brittany (b. 1161)
1235 - Henry I, duke of Brabant, dies
1548 - Catharine Parr, queen of England/wife of Henry VIII, dies at about 36
1566 - Suleiman I, Great Law Giver, sultan of Turkey (1520-66), dies at 71
1569 - Pieter Bruegel, South Netherlands painter, dies at about 44
1572 - Pieter Tichelmann, Flemish Franciscan, dies at about 71
1607 - Pomponne de Bellièvre, chancellor of France (b. 1529)
1629 - Domenico Allegri, Italian composer (b. c. 1585)
1659 - Pieter de Carpentier, Flemish gov-gen of Neth East-Indies, dies at 71
1683 - Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French Minister of Navy, dies at 64
1684 - John Uytenhage van Lacks, lawyer/author, drowned at 48
1786 - Jonas Hanway, English merchant, traveler, and philanthropist (b. 1712)
1803 - Francois Devienne, composer, dies at 44
1808 - John Home, Scottish writer (b. 1722)
1836 - Ferdinand Raimund, Austrian playwright (b. 1790)
1838 - Charles Percier, French architect (b. 1764)
1857 - Auguste Comte, French sociologist (b. 1798)
1858 - Moritz G, [Moses] Saphir, Hungarian journalist, dies at 63
1859 - W Friedrich Olivier, German landscape painter, dies at 68
1867 - Santiago Derqui, Argentinian politician (b. 1809)
1876 - Manuel Blanco Encalada, first president of Chile (b. 1790)
1877 - Crazy Horse, [Tashunka Witko], last great Sioux war chief, dies at 27
1890 - Ludwig Deppe, composer, dies at 61
1898 - Sarah Emma Evelyn Edmonds, disguised as man fought for union, dies
1901 - Ignacij Klemenčič, Slovenian physicist (b. 1853)
1902 - Rudolf Virchow, German pathologist and politician, dies at 80
1906 - Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist (b. 1844)
1910 - Franz Xaver Haberl, German priest/musicologist, dies at 70
1910 - Julian Edwards, composer, dies at 54
1912 - Arthur MacArthur, Jr., U.S. Army general (b. 1845)
1914 - Charles Péguy, French poet, essayist and editor (b. 1873)
1917 - Marian Smoluchowski, Polish physicist (b. 1872)
1920 - Robert Harron, actor (Intolerance), accidental shot to death at 27
1922 - Georgette Agutte, French painter (b. 1867)
1926 - Karl Harrer, German journalist and politician, founding member of the "DAP", which would
           become the Nazi Party (b. 1890)
1930 - Robert Means Thompson, American naval officer (b. 1849)
1931 - John Thomson, football player who died in an accidental collision during a match (b. 1909)
1932 - Paul Bern, husband of Jean Harlow, dies
1932 - Francisco Acebal, Spanish novelist, playwright and journalist (b. 1866)
1936 - Gustave Kahn, French Symbolist poet and art critic (b. 1859)
1939 - Cornelis J "Cor" van Ast, Dutch actor/director (Two Boys), dies at 67
1942 - François de Labouchère, French aviator of World War II, compagnon de la Libération. (b.
           1917)
1944 - Willem M Groenewegen, resistance fighter, executed
1948 - Richard C. Tolman, American mathematical physicist (b. 1881)
1953 - Richard Walther Darré, Nazi politician, one of the leading 'blood and soil' ideologists (b. 1895)
1954 - Eugen Schiffer, German politician (b. 1860)
1961 - Ernest Bock, cricketer (Test for South Africa, 1935), dies
1965 - Thomas Johnston, Scottish-born politician (b. 1882)
1966 - Dezső Lauber, Hungarian athlete (b. 1879)
1968 - Juan Jose Castro, composer, dies at 73
1969 - Henk Bijvanck, composer, dies at 59
1969 - Mitchell Ayres, orchestra leader (Hollywood Palace), dies at 58
1972 - Josef Romano, Israeli olympian, murdered
1972 - Mosje Weinberg, Israeli olympic wrestling coach, murdered
1973 - Jack Fournier, American baseball player (b. 1889)
1975 - Georg Ots, Estonian singer (b. 1920)
1976 - A E R Gilligan, cricketer (11 Tests for England 1922-25), dies
1977 - Marcel Thiry, Belgian writer and wallon militant (b. 1897)
1979 - Alberto di Jorio, former head of the Vatican Bank and secretary of the 1958 conclave (b.
           1884)
1980 - Barbara Loden, actress (Ernie Kovacs Show), dies at 48
1981 - Ayatollah Ali Qoddusi, prosecutor-general of Iran, assassinated
1982 - Maurice Naessens, Belgian banker, dies at 73
1982 - Douglas Bader, RAF fighter pilot in World War II (b. 1910)
1983 - Antonio Mairena, flamenco singer (b. 1909)
1987 - Bill Bowes, cricketer (Bodyline bowler, 68 wkts for England), dies
1988 - Gert Froebe, actor (Lover's Wood, Upper Hand), dies at 75
1990 - Beppo Brem, actor (Frontgockel), dies of heart failure at 84
1990 - Ivan Mihailov, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1896)
1992 - Billy Herman, 2nd baseman/manager (Dodgers, Cubs), dies at 83
1992 - Dorothy MacKaye, marital advisor (Ladies Home Journal), dies at 88
1992 - Irving Allen Lee, actor (Newspaper Boys), dies of AIDS at 43
1993 - Claude Renoir, French cinematographer (Spy Who Loved Me), dies at 78
1993 - John Truscott, Australian set designer (Camelot), dies at 57
1993 - René Klijn, [Dorian], singer (Mr Blue), dies of AIDS at 30)
1993 - Willem Wagter, actor (Ghetto, Medic Center West), dies at 60
1994 - Billy Usselton, saxophonist, dies at 68
1994 - Edgar Louis Vanderstegen Millington Drake, painter, dies at 62
1994 - John Newman, Australian parlement member (Lab), murdered at 47
1994 - William Usselton, US tenor saxophonist, dies at 68
1995 - Francis Showering, brewer, dies at 83
1995 - James "Pigmeat" Jarrett, pianist, dies at 95
1995 - John Britten, motorcycle Designer, dies at 45
1996 - Leonard Katzman, TV producer, dies at 69
1996 - Richard Clement Charles Thomas, rugby intl/journalist, dies at 67
1996 - Rose Isabel Williams, sister of Tennessee Williams, dies at 86
1997 - Georg Solti, conductor, dead, dies at 84
1997 - Leon Edel, biographer, dies at 89
1997 - Mother Teresa, Nobel (1979), dies of cardiac arrest at 87
1998 - Verner Panton, Danish designer (b. 1926)
1998 - Leo Penn, American film director (b. 1921)
1999 - Allen Funt, American radio and television personality (b. 1914)
1999 - Bryce Mackasey, Canadian politician (b. 1921)
2001 - Vladimir Žerjavić, Croatian UN statistician (b. 1912)
2001 - Justin Wilson, American Cajun chef and humorist (b. 1914)
2002 - David Todd Wilkinson, American astronomer, author of the first study of the Cosmic
           microwave background radiation (b. 1935)
2003 - Gisele MacKenzie, Canadian-born singer (b. 1927)
2005 - Roberto Viaux, Chilean Army General and the primary planner in two failed coup d'état
           attempt in Chile (b. 1917)
2007 - Jennifer Dunn, American politician (b. 1941)
2007 - Paul Gillmor, American politician (b. 1939)
2007 - D. James Kennedy, American televangelist (b. 1930)
2007 - Thomas Hansen (musician) (b. 1976)
2010 - Shoya Tomizawa Japanese MotoGP Racer (b. 1990)
2012 - Joe South, American singer-songwriter and guitarist, dies from heart failure at 72

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 06, 2013, 10:27:08 AM

This Day in History for 6th September


Historical Events

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Classical musician and composer            Abolitionist Frederick Douglass                      25th US President
Mozart                                                                                                                           William McKinley

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Heavyweight Boxing Champion              US Secretary of State                              Country Singer Jerry Lee Lewis
Jack Dempsey                                              Frank Kellogg

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Comedian Jerry Lewis                          Tennis Player Martina Navratilova              Pop Star & Beatle
                                                                                                                               Paul McCartney

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Singer-Songwriter                                Actor Jean-Claude Van Damme
 Sinead O'Connor


3114 BC - According to the proleptic Julian calendar the current era in the Maya Long Count Calendar
                started.
394 - Battle of Frigidus North-Italy
1492 - Columbus' fleet leaves Gomera, Canary islands
1522 - Magellen with Vittoria returns to Spain, after 1st round world trip
1543 - French & Turkish fleet occupies Nice
1620 - 1st stones layed in Western Tower
1622 - Spanish silver fleet disappears off Florida Keys; 1,000s die
1628 - Puritans land at Salem, from Mass Bay Colony, witches soon to settle
1634 - Battle at Nordlingen ends in Swedish/protestant German defeat
1669 - The siege of Candia ends with the Venetian fortress surrendering to the Ottomans.
1672 - Willem III's troops reconquer Naarden on France
1675 - Swedish admiral Stenbock sails out with fleet of 66 ships
1683 - Le Plecta appointed French minister of Finance
1688 - Austrian armies occupy Belgrade
1690 - King Willem III escapes back to England
1715 - Pro-James III-uprising in Scotland
1716 - 1st US lighthouse built (Boston)
1732 - VOC fires Neth-Dutch east indies governor-general Diederik Dare
1776 - Hurricane hits Martinique; 100 French & Dutch ships sinks; 600 die
1776 - 1st (failed) submarine attack (David Bushnell's "Turtle" attacks British sailboat "Eagle" in Bay
           of NY)
1776 - Hurricane hits Guadeloupe, killing more than 6000.
1781 - The Battle of Groton Heights takes place, resulting a British victory.
1791 - Mozarts opera "La Clemenza di Tito," premieres in Prague
1819 - Thomas Blanchard patents lathe
1837 - Oberlin Collegiate Institute of Ohio goes co-ed (4 women, 30 men)
1839 - Cherokee Nation forms
1839 - Great fire in NY
1848 - National Black Convention meets (Cleveland)
1853 - Women's Right's Convention met (NYC)
1861 - General Grant occupies Paducah Kentucky
1862 - Stonewall Jackson occupies Frederick, Maryland
1863 - -7] After 59 day siege Confederate troops vacate Fort Wagner SC (1700 casualties)
1866 - Frederick Douglass is 1st US black delegate to a national convention
1869 - 1st westbound train arrives in SF
1869 - Mine fire kills 179 at Avondale Pennsylvania
1870 - Ship sinks in Gulf of Biskaje; 483 die
1873 - Regular Cable Car service begins on Clay Street
1876 - Race riot in Charleston SC
1876 - Southern Pacific line from LA to SF completed
1880 - Commencement of 1st Test Cricket in England, v Australia at The Oval
1880 - W G Grace scores 152 in debut Test Cricket innings, v Aust The Oval
1883 - Cub's Burns (extra bases), Williamson & Pfeiffer get 3 hits in 1 inn
1885 - Eastern Rumelia declares its union with Bulgaria. The Unification of Bulgaria is accomplished.
1886 - Queen Victoria establishes Distinguished Service Order (DSO) award
1888 - Charles Turner becomes the first bowler to take 250 wickets in an English season - a feat
           since accomplished only by Tom Richardson (twice), J.T. Hearne, Wilfred Rhodes (twice) and
           Tich Freeman (six times).
1889 - King Kabaka Mwanga of Buganda resigns
1898 - Lord Kitchener destroys Mahdi's tomb in Omdurman
1899 - Carnation processes its 1st can of evaporated milk
1899 - US min of Foreign affairs John Hay publishes his "Open Through Note"
1900 - British General Buller occupies Lydenburg South Africa
1901 - Pres William McKinley, shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at Pan American Exposition in Buffalo
           NY, he dies 8th days later
1903 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Creeping Man" (BG)
1904 - Soccer team Rheden forms
1905 - Atlanta Life Insurance Company forms
1905 - Chicago White Sox Frank Smith no-hits Detroit Tigers, 15-0
1905 - General Trade journal publishes 1st Dutch photo (train accident)
1909 - Word received, Adm Peary discovers North Pole 5 months earlier
1910 - Saskatchewan (then Regina) Roughrider football club formed
1912 - NY Giant Jeff Tesreau no-hits Phila, 3-0
1913 - 19th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Jerry Travers
1913 - 1st aircraft to loop the loop (Adolphe Pégoud-France)
1913 - Hamilton Alerts apply for ORFU reinstatement, taking the name Hamilton Rowing Club
1914 - Battle of Marne; Germans prevented from occupying Paris
1917 - French pilot Georges Guynemer shoots down 54th German aircraft
1920 - 40th US Mens Tennis: Wm Tilden beats Wm M Johnston (61 16 75 57 63)
1920 - Jack Dempsey KOs Billy Miske in 3 for heavyweight boxing title 1st radio broadcast of a
           prizefight
1922 - 42nd US Mens Tennis: Wm T Tilden beats Wm M Johnston 46 36 62 63 64)
1923 - Queen Wilhelmina celebrates 25 year jubilee
1924 - Assassination attempt on Benito Mussolini fails
1924 - Charles Paddock captures 100 & 200 yd AAU national senior outdoor track & field
           championships
1927 - Buddy DeSylva & Lew Brown's musical "Good News" premieres in NYC
1927 - Red Sox beat NY Yankees 12-11 in 18 innings at Fenway Park
1928 - USSR signs Briand-Kellogg-pact
1930 - Brooklyn Dodgers beat Phillies 22-8
1930 - Democratically elected Argentine president Hipólito Yrigoyen is deposed in a military coup.
1937 - Spanish Civil War: The start of the Battle of El Mazuco.
1938 - Wilhelmina celebrates 40th anniversary jubilee as Dutch queen
1939 - 1st German air attack on Great-Britain in WW II
1939 - South Africa declares war on nazi-Germany
1939 - World War II: The Battle of Barking Creek.
1940 - Crown prince Michael succeeds Carol II as king of Romania
1940 - Generalissimo Gamelin arrested in France
1941 - 55th US Womens Tennis: Sarah H Cooke beats Pauline Betz Addie (75 62)
1941 - 61st US Mens Tennis: Robert L Riggs beats F Kovacs (2d 57 61 63 63)
1941 - All Jews over age 6 in German territories ordered to wear a star
1941 - Jews of Vilna Poland confined to their ghetto
1942 - 56th US Womens Tennis: Pauline Betz beats A Louise Brough (46 61 64)
1942 - Czech marathon runner Oskar Hêks transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau
1943 - "Congressional Limited" train derails near Frankfort Pa, kills 79
1943 - 63rd US Mens Tennis: J R Hunt Seaman beats Jack Kramer (63 68 108 60)
1943 - Carl Scheib becomes youngest pitcher in AL (16y 8 ms) of the A's
1944 - Gen Von Zangens 15th army escape from Zealand
1945 - A's catcher George George punches ump Joe Rue gets suspended
1946 - All-American Football Conference plays 1st game (Clev 44, Miami 0)
1946 - Terence Rattigan's "Winslow Boy," premieres in London
1948 - "Mr Strauss Goes to Boston" opens at Century Theater NYC for 12 perfs
1948 - 37th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in New York (5-0)
1948 - Juliana becomes queen of Netherlands
1949 - Howard Unruh kills 13 neighbors in 12 minutes
1952 - Canadian TV begins in Montreal
1953 - Adenauers CDU wins elections in German FR
1953 - Roy Campanella sets record for HRs by a catcher at 38
1954 - 68th US Womens Tennis: Doris Hart beats A Louise Brough (68 61 86)
1954 - 74th US Mens Tennis: E V Seixas Jr beats Rex Hartwig (36 62 64 64)
1954 - US plane shot down above Siberia
1954 - WINS NYC begins playing rock n roll with Alan Freed Show
1954 - Yankees use a record 10 pinch hitters
1955 - "Catch a Star" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 23 performances
1955 - J van Tilburg appointed governor of Suriname
1957 - Elvis records "White Xmas," "Silent Night" & "Here Comes Santa Claus"
1958 - Mary Ann Mobley (Miss), 21, crowned 31st Miss America 1959
1958 - US performs nuclear test at S Atlantic Ocean
1959 - Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Golf Open
1961 - USSR performs nuclear test at Kapustin Yar USSR
1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 - Historian Lee Allen says Indians-Senators game is 100,000th in history
1963 - Jerry Lee Lewis quits Sun Records
1963 - Major league baseballs 100,000th game
1963 - The Centre for International Industrial Property Studies (CEIPI) is founded.
1965 - India invades West Pakistan
1965 - KLNE TV channel 3 in Lexington, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting
1966 - Race riot in Atlanta Georgia
1968 - Swaziland gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1968 - Swaziland becomes independent.
1969 - "Cabaret" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 1166 performances
1970 - NY Met Tommy Agee hits for the cycle
1970 - Palestinians seize 3 jetliners
1970 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1971 - Jerry Lewis' 6th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises
1972 - John & Yoko appear on Jerry Lewis' Muscular Dystrophy Telethon
1972 - Summer Olympics resume in Munich Germany after massacre
1973 - NY Times reports almost all Superfectas run at Yonkers, Roosevelt & Monticello from Jan-Mar
           of 1973 were fixed
1975 - 6.8 quake along Anatolian Fault kills over 2,000 in Lice Turkey
1975 - 89th US Womens Tennis: Chris E L Mills beats E G Cawley (57 64 62)
1975 - Heavy earthquake at Lice Turkey; 3,000 killed
1975 - Tawny Elaine Godin (NY), 18, crowned 48th Miss America 1976
1975 - Czech tennis star Martina Navratilova asks for US political asylum in New York City during the
           US Open
1975 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1976 - Jerry Lewis' 11th Muscular Dystrophy telethon, Dean Martin appears
1976 - Russian pilot Belenko defects to Japan in a Mig 25 jet
1977 - Angels acquire Dave Kingman from Padres for cash 9 days later Yankees buy Kingman
          (started with Mets) who plays in all 4 divisions in 1977
1978 - Begin & Sadat meet at Camp David to discuss peace
1978 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1979 - "Peter Pan" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 578 performances
1980 - 94th US Womens Tennis: Chris E L Mills beats H Mandlikova (57 61 61)
1980 - Chantal Langlace sets women's record for fastest 100K run (7h27m22s)
1980 - College football longest losing streak of 50 games ends for
1980 - Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation
1980 - Susan Powell (Okla), 21, crowned 53rd Miss America 1981
1980 - Macalaster U of St Paul, Minn beating Mount Senario 17-14
1981 - "They're Playing Our Song" closes at Imperial NYC after 1082 perfs
1981 - Bob Lemon named NY Yankee manager for 2nd time
1982 - Dutch Internal minister Mr M Red assigns BVD to spy on communists
1982 - Jerry Lewis' 17th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $28,400,000
1982 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
1982 - Paul McCartney releases "Tug of War"
1982 - Pittsburgh Pirates retire Willie Stargell's #
1982 - Polish dissidents seize Polish Embassy in Bern, Switzerland
1983 - USSR admits to shooting down KAL 007 on 9/2
1984 - Lanford Wilson's "Balm in Gilead," premieres in NYC
1984 - Today Show begins live remote telecasts from Moscow
1985 - Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105, a Douglas DC-9 crashes just after takeoff from
           Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killing 31.
1986 - 300 invitees pay $5,000 to hear Barbra Striesand's benefit concert
1986 - Attack on synagogue in Istanbul, 23 killed
1986 - Jozef Pribilinec speed walking world record time (15,447k)
1986 - Michael Spinks TKOs Steffen Tangstad in 4 for heavyweight boxing title
1986 - USSR charges correspondent Nicholas Daniloff with spying
1987 - Benjamin & Patrick Binder separated at John Hopkins Hospital
1987 - Douglas Wakiihuri wins marathon (2:11:48)
1987 - Saskatchewan's Dave Ridgway kicks a CFL-record 60-yard field goal
1988 - Crippled soviet Soyuz TM-5 lands safely with 2 cosmonauts aboard
1988 - Thomas Gregory (11) swims English Canal
1988 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1989 - 6th MTV Awards: Living Colour wins
1989 - Amateur Athletic Fed strips Ben Johnson of all track records
1989 - Police computer accuses 41,000 Parisians of murder/prostitution
1990 - 7th MTV Awards: Sinead O'Connor wins
1991 - 33rd Walker Cup: US, 14-10
1991 - Ronald Venetiaan chosen president of Suriname
1991 - Soviet Union recognizes Estonian independence
1991 - USSR recognizes independence of the 3 Baltic republics
1991 - The name Saint Petersburg is restored to Russia's second largest city, which had been
           renamed Leningrad in 1924.
1992 - Noureddine Morceli runs world record 1500m (3:28.86)
1993 - Helen Dobson wins LPGA State Farm Rail Golf Classic
1993 - Jerry Lewis' 28th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $46,014,922
1994 - 11th MTV Awards: Aerosmith, Lisa Marie & Michael Jackson win
1994 - Actor Jackson Pinckney awarded $487,000 for being partially blinded by Jean-Claude Van
           Damme during filming of "Cyborg"
1994 - Franziska van Almsick swims female record 200m freestyle (1:56.78)
1994 - Tom Dolan swims world record 400m medley (4:12.30)
1995 - Cal Ripken Jr breaks Gehrig's record, plays in 2,131 straight games
1995 - Senate Ethics committee votes 6-0 to ask for expulsion of Bob Packwood
1996 - Balt Orioles' Eddie Murray's 500th career HR
1997 - Princess Diana's funeral
1997 - Women's championship at US Tennis Open
1998 - Men's championship at US Tennis Open
2012 - 61 illegal immigrants die after a fishing boat capsizes off the coast of Turkey
2012 - Barack Obama accepts the Democratic nomination for President

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 06, 2013, 11:41:15 AM

This Day in History for 6th September


Famous Weddings

1997 - "Desperate Housewives" actress Felicity Huffman (34) weds "Fargo" actor William H. Macy (47)
           in Woody Creek, Colorado
2008 - Singer KT Tunstall (33) weds drummer Luke Bullen in a marquee overlooking the Atlantic
           Ocean on the Isle of Skye

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 06, 2013, 11:55:43 AM

This Day in History for 6th September


Famous Birthdays

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Social Worker and Nobel Laureate           Rock Bassist/Vocalist                            Actress Jane Curtin (1947)
Jane Addams (1860)                                George Roger Waters (1943)


1577 - Pietro Tacca, Italian sculptor/architect (Aanbidding of the Point)
1620 - Isabella Leonarda, composer
1627 - Pierre Verdier, composer
1633 - Sebastian Knupfer, composer
1644 - Juan Bautista Jose Cabanilles, composer
1648 - Johann Schelle, composer
1656 - Guillaume Dubois, French cardinal and statesman (d. 1723)
1697 - Willem Gideon Deutz, Amsterdam regent/banker/merchant
1702 - Heinrich Nikolaus Gerber, composer
1711 - Henry Muhlenberg, German-born founder of the U.S. Lutheran Church (d. 1787)
1729 - Mozes Mendelssohn, German englightened philosopher (Haksalah)
1732 - Johan Wilcke, Swedish physicist (d. 1796)
1757 - Marquis de Lafayette, American patriot, French revolutionary
1762 - Theodorus F van Capellen, vice-admiral
1766 - John Dalton, English physicist, developed atomic theory of matter
1781 - Anton Diabelli, Austria publisher/composer
1788 - F Wilhelm von Schadow, German painter (Modern Vasari)
1795 - Frances Wright, English writer and lecturer (d. 1852)
1797 - Wililam "Extra Billy" Smith, Confederacy (Confederate Army)
1802 - Alcide d'Orbigny, French naturalist (d. 1857)
1805 - Horatio Greenough, US, neo-classical sculptor/writer (Form & Function)
1808 - Abd al-Qadir, Algerian political and military leader (d. 1883)
1811 - James Melville Gilliss, founder (Naval Observatory in Washington)
1811 - Johanna D Courtmans-Berchmans, Flemish author (Rozeken Pot)
1814 - George Cartier, (C) Canadian co-PM (1858-62)
1815 - John Richardson Liddell, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1815 - Karol Katski, composer
1816 - Francis Stebbins Bartow, Col (Confederate Army), died in 1861
1817 - Alexander Tilloch Galt, a Canadian founding father
1819 - Carl Ferdinand Pohl, composer
1819 - Nicolae Filimon, Romania, writer/critic (Ciocoii Vechi Si Noi)
1819 - William Starke Rosecrans, Mjr General (Union volunteers)
1827 - John Morrison Oliver, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1829 - Marie Zakrzewska, Polish physician (d. 1902)
1838 - Samuel Arnold, Lincoln conspirator (d. 1906)
1850 - Louis F H "Louis" Apol, painter/etcher/literary
1855 - Ferdinand B Hummel, composer
1857 - Zelia Nuttall, American archeologist and historian (d. 1933)
1860 - Jane Addams, Cedarville, Illinois, pacifist/social worker/feminist (Nobel 1931), (d. 1935)
1863 - Rodolfo Lenz, German/Chilian linguist (El Papiamento)
1868 - Heinrich Häberlin, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1947)
1869 - Felix Salten, [Siegmund Salzmann], Austria journalist (Bambi)
1869 - Walford Davies, composer
1876 - John J R Macleod, Scottish/Canadian physiologist (Nobel 1923)
1876 - Willem A Bonger, Dutch sociologist/criminologist (Race & Crime)
1877 - Petar Stojanovic, composer
1877 - Buddy Bolden, American musician (d. 1930)
1879 - Neal Rev Dodd, Iowa, actor (You Belong to Me)
1879 - Max Schreck, German actor (d. 1936)
1880 - Jean-Louis Pisuisse, Dutch night club performer (French governess)
1881 - Charlie Dell, NYC, actor (Pickle in the Middle)
1881 - Leo Carrillo, Los Angeles California, actor (Pancho-Cisco Kid)
1882 - John Powell, composer
1884 - Emerson Whithorne, composer
1885 - Franz T Csokor, Austrian author (Writings on the Wall)
1885 - Otto Kruger, Toledo Ohio, actor (Lux Video Theater, High Noon)
1888 - Joseph P Kennedy, Boston Mass, diplomat, father of JFK, RFK & Teddy
1890 - Clara Kimball Young, Illinois, actress (Return of Chandu)
1890 - Manfred Gurlitt, composer
1892 - Edward V Appleton, English physicist (Appleton-layer)
1893 - Irving Bacon, St Joseph MO, actor (Branded Men, Fort Ti)
1893 - Claire Chennault, American pilot (d. 1958)
1896 - Frutuoso de Lima Viana, composer
1896 - Mario Praz, Italian literary critic and scholar (La carne, la morte, e il diavolo)
1896 - Vladimir Nikitich Kashperov, composer
1899 - Billy Rose, theatrical producer (Diamond Horse Show)
1900 - Julien Green, US/French writer (Frere Francois)
1900 - W.A.C. Bennett, Canadian politician (d. 1979)
1901 - John Erik Jonsson, businessman/Mayor of Dallas
1902 - Morgan Beatty, Little Rock Ark, news anchor (Du Mont Evening News)
1904 - Karlo Arvi Kivimaa, Finnish writer (Groenende Cross)
1904 - Lyubomir Pipkov, composer
1904 - Maxie Rosenbloom, NYC, light heavyweight boxing champ (1930-34)
1906 - Alexander Bodon, Hungarian/Dutch architect (RAI building)
1906 - John Meulenhoff, Dutch publisher
1906 - Raymond Keane, Denver CO, actor (Midnight Sun, Love Eagle)
1907 - Elizabeth Morna MacTaggart Ferrars, crime writer
1907 - John A Kelly, US marathon runner (Berlin 1936, Boston 1935..1991)
1908 - Anthony Wagner, genealogist
1908 - Paul Lavalle, Beacon NY, bandleader (Cities Service Band of America)
1909 - John Ridgely, Chicago IL, actor (Northern Pursuit, Air Force)
1910 - Frank Fidler, artist
1911 - Bentley Bridgewater, British Museum secretary
1911 - Harry Danning, American baseball player (d. 2004)
1912 - Stephen Murray, Partney England, actor (Alice in Wonderland)
1912 - Vincent DiMaggio, baseball player (Giants, Phils, Reds, Braves)
1912 - Wayne Barlow, composer
1915 - Franz Josef Strauss, Germany, nazi/minister of defense (1956-62)
1916 - Anne Cavendish-Bentinck, English landowner
1917 - George Mann, captain English cricket team
1917 - Philipp von Boeselager, German Wehrmacht officer, failed assassin of Adolf Hitler (d. 2008)
1919 - Wilson Greatbatch, American Inventor
1921 - Robert Millar, journalist
1921 - Carmen Laforet, Spanish author (d. 2004)
1921 - Norman Joseph Woodland, Atlantic City, New Jersey, inventor (barcode), (d. 2012)
1923 - Peter II Karadjordjevic, King of Yugoslavia (1934-45)
1923 - William Kraft, Chicago, Ill, composer/percussionist
1924 - John Melcher, (Sen-D-MO)
1925 - Jimmy Reed, Mississippi, blues singer (Soulin', Big Boss Man)
1926 - Arthur William Oldham, composer
1926 - Claus von Amsberg, prince of Netherlands
1927 - Keith Humble, composer
1928 - Evgeny Svetlanov, Moscow Russia, conductor (Siberian Fantasy)
1928 - Rudolph Plukfelder, USSR, light heavyweight (Olympic-gold-1964)
1928 - Robert M. Pirsig, American author
1929 - Tsang-houe' Hsu, composer
1930 - Andre Beullens, Flemish painter
1931 - Sander M Levin, (Rep-D-Michigan, 1983- )
1932 - Earl of Cawdor, British large landowner
1932 - Gilles Tremblay, composer
1934 - Jody McCrea, Los Angeles California, actor (Ben Matheson-Wichita Town)
1935 - Bob Bouber, [Boris Blom], Dutch singer (ZZ & Masks)/actor
1935 - Jock Wallace, soccer star/manager
1937 - Irina Bayanovna Solovyova, Russian cosmonaut
1937 - Jo Anne Worley, Lowell Indiana, comedienne (Laugh-in)
1937 - John Bernard, Dutch TV weatherman
1937 - Sergio Aragonés, Spanish-born illustrator
1937 - Brigid Berlin, American actor
1938 - Alan Charles Downes, cameraman
1938 - Joan Tower, New Rochelle NY, composer (Breakfast Rhythms)
1939 - David Allan Coe, country musician (Mysterious Rhinestone Cowboy)
1939 - Susumu Tonegawa, Japanese molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or
           Medicine
1939 - Dan Cragg, American soldier and author
1940 - Jackie Trent, singer
1941 - Monica Mason, England, ballerina
1941 - Willibrord Frequin, Dutch TV reporter
1942 - Dave Bargeron, NYC, rocker (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
1942 - Harry Jack Max, rocker
1942 - Les Burns, local councillor
1942 - Mel McDaniel, Checotah Oklahoma, singer (Baby's got her Blue Jeans On)
1943 - George Roger Waters, Cambridge England, rock bassist and vocalist (Pink Floyd-Brick in the
           Wall)
1943 - Richard J. Roberts, English biochemist and molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in
           Physiology or Medicine
1944 - Gordon DeMarco, writer/activist
1944 - Linda Kaye Henning, Cal, actress (Betty Joe-Petticoat Junction)
1944 - M N Aubrey Mokoape, S Afr's VP (Azanian People Org)
1944 - Swoosie Kurtz, Omaha Nebraska, actress (Slap Shot, Garp, Sisters)
1946 - Bryan D O'Connor, Orange Cal, Col USMC/astronaut (STS 61B, STS 40)
1946 - Buizen Beernd, [Bennie Jolink], singer/guitarist/pianist (Normal)
1947 - Jane Curtin, Cambridge Massachusetts, actress (SNL, Allie Lowell-Kate & Allie)
1947 - Sylvester, rocker (Do Ya Wanna Funk)
1947 - Bruce Rioch, Scottish footballer and coach
1948 - Charles "Claydes" Smith, Jersey City NJ, guitarist (Kool & The Gang)
1949 - Jimmy Litherland, rocker (Mitarbeit)
1949 - Mhlabunzima Maphumulo, S Afr Kwazulu politician
1950 - Ria Oomen-Ruijten, Dutch MP (CDA)
1951 - Barry Troyna, teacher/educational sociologist
1953 - Katherine Cannon, Hartford Ct, actress (Father Murphy, Survivors)
1953 - Mohammed Kedir, Ethiopia, 10k runner (Olympic-bronze-1980)
1954 - Banner Thomas, rocker (Molly Hatchet)
1954 - Jon Erikson, US, 1st to triple cross English Channel (1981)
1954 - Patrick O'Hearn, rock bassist (Missing Persons)
1954 - Carly Fiorina, Former CEO of Hewlett-Packard
1955 - Anne Henning, US, 500m speed skater (Olympic-gold-1972)
1955 - Carl Erwin Walz, Cleve Ohio, Mjr USAF/Astronaut (STS 51, 65, 79)
1956 - Pam Allen, Billings MT, LPGA golfer (1988 Planters Pat Bradley-12th)
1956 - Bill Ritter, American politician
1957 - "Curley" Joe Smyth, Westbrook Me, country singer (Betty's Bein' Bad)
1957 - Gwyn Evans, Welsh rugby player
1957 - Paul Lewis Harrhy, actor/opera singer (Intelligence Park)
1957 - Michaëlle Jean, 27th Governor-General of Canada
1957 - José Sócrates, Prime Minister of Portugal
1957 - Tim Whitnall, English actor and narrator
1958 - Jeff Foxworthy, comedian (Jeff Foxworthy-The Jeff Foxworthy Show)
1958 - Michael Winslow, American actor and comedian
1958 - Buster Bloodvessel, British singer
1958 - Nigel Westlake, Australian musician and composer
1960 - Michael Winslow, Spokane WA, actor/comedian (Police Academy)
1961 - Pal Waaktaar, Oslo Norway, rock guitarist/vocalist (A-ha)
1961 - Peggy MacIntaggart, Midland Ontario, playmate (January, 1990)
1961 - Scott Travis, American musician (Judas Priest)
1961 - Simon Reeve, Australian journalist
1962 - Kevin Willis, NBA center (Houston Rockets)
1962 - Elizabeth Vargas, American journalist
1963 - Jozsef Kiprich, soccer player (Feyenoord)
1963 - Mark Chesnutt, Beaumont Tx, country singer (Too Cold at Home)
1963 - Alice Sebold, American novelist
1963 - Geert Wilders, Dutch politician
1963 - Bryan Simonaire, American politician
1963 - Pat Nevin, Scottish footballer
1964 - Rosie Perez, Bkln, actress (Do the Right Thing, White Men Can't Jump)
1965 - Johan Garrels, soccer player (Alphense Boys, RKC)
1965 - John Polson, Australian actor and film director
1966 - Joan Guetschow, Akron Ohio, biathelete (Olympics-1994)
1967 - Amy Lynn Baxter, model (Penthouse Pet 1990)
1968 - Gene Patrick, Phila, actor (Gemini: Twin Stars)
1968 - Pat Meares, Salina KS, infielder (Minnesota Twins)
1968 - Tommy Snider, American actor
1968 - Paul Rea, American television journalist
1968 - Christopher Brookmyre, Scottish writer
1969 - Aaron Pierce, NFL halfback (NY Giants)
1969 - Cece Peniston, Phoenix AZ, Miss Black AZ/singer (Finally)
1969 - Douglas Pirini, Auckland NZ, decathlete (Olympics-96)
1969 - Helen Labdan, Bracknell England, model (page 3)
1969 - Ben Finegold, American chess player
1969 - Michellie Jones, Australian triathlete
1969 - Michael Davis, American softball player (Solvents, et al)
1970 - Igor Korolev, Moscow Russia, NHLer (Team Russia, Winnipeg)
1970 - Shane Heal, Box Hill Melbourne VIC Austral, basketball guard (Oly-96)
1970 - Torrance Small, NFL wide receiver (NO Saints)
1970 - Paul Miller, American composer and author
1971 - Anthony Goldwire, NBA guard (Denver Nuggets)
1971 - Holli Rene Hyche, Indianapolis Indiana, runner
1971 - Kathy Wolfgramm, rocker (Jets)
1971 - Pavel Patera, Kladno CZE, hockey forward (Team Czech Rep, Oly-gild-98)
1971 - Sandra Natasha Abreu, Miss Universe-Dominican Republic (1996)
1971 - Devang Gandhi, Indian Cricketer
1972 - Eric Zeier, NFL quarterback (Cleveland Browns)
1972 - Frank Rocca, CFL corner (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1972 - China Miéville, English writer
1972 - Justina Machado, Puerto Rican actress
1972 - Anika Noni Rose, American actress and singer
1972 - Idris Elba, English/American actor
1972 - Dylan Bruno, American actor (Numb3rs)
1973 - Greg Rusedski, Montreal Quebec, tennis star (1995 Seoul)
1973 - Carlo Cudicini, Italian footballer
1974 - Justin Whalin, SF California, actor (Jimmy-Lois & Clark, Charles in Charge)
1974 - Tim Henman, English tennis player
1974 - Nina Persson, Swedish musician (The Cardigans)
1975 - Derrek Lee, American baseball player
1976 - Danny Blankers, soccer player (PSV/Willem II)
1976 - Michael Nakamura, Australian baseball pitcher (Olympics-1996)
1976 - N.O.R.E., American rapper
1976 - Hyun Young, South Korean actress and pop singer
1976 - Naomie Harris, American actress
1977 - Kiyoshi Hikawa, Japanese enka singer
1978 - Natalia Cigliuti, NY, actress (Lindsay-Saved By Bell: New Class)
1978 - Cisco Adler, American singer
1978 - Alex Escobar, Venezuelan baseball player
1978 - Mathew Horne, English Actor
1978 - Tony Thaxton, drummer (Motion City Soundtrack)
1979 - Massimo Maccarone, Italian footballer
1979 - Carlos Adrián Morales, Mexican footballer
1979 - Foxy Brown, American rapper
1979 - Brandon Silvestry, American professional wrestler
1980 - Samuel Peter, Nigerian heavyweight boxer
1980 - Joseph Yobo, Nigerian footballer
1980 - Yuji Hamano, Japanese archer
1980 - Jillian Hall, American professional wrestler
1981 - Yumiko Cheng, Hong Kong singer
1981 - Mark Teahen, American baseball player
1985 - Webbie, American rapper
1985 - Ali Ashfaq, Maldivian footballer
1985 - Alberto Valerio, Brazilian racing driver
1987 - Ramiele Malubay, American singer
1989 - Nikos Boutzikos, Greek footballer
2000 - Breanna Lynn Bartlett-Stewart, first Kleihauer-Betke stillbirth (d. 2000)
2006 - Prince Hisahito of Akishino, Japan Imperial Family member

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 06, 2013, 12:06:31 PM

This Day in History for 6th September


Famous Deaths

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Rocker Tom Fogerty (1990)          Operatic Tenor Luciano Pavarotti (2007)


394 - Eugenius, linguistic/anti emperor of Rome (392-94), dies in battle
957 - Liudolf, Duke of Swabia
972 - John XIII Crescentii, pope (965-72), dies
1276 - Vicedomino de Vicedominis, Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina and dean of the Sacred College of
           Cardinals (b. ca. 1215)
1511 - Ashikaga Yoshizumi, Japanese shogun (b. 1481)
1536 - William Tyndale, Protestant bible translator (b. c. 1494)
1625 - Thomas Dempster, Scottish historian (b. 1579)
1635 - Adrian A Metius, mathematician/fort architect, dies at 63
1649 - Famiano Strada, Ital jesuit (bello belgico decades duae), dies at 77
1649 - Robert Dudley, English navigator/writer (Arcano del Mare), dies
1701 - James II [Stuart], king of England (1685-88), dies at 68
1708 - Sir John Morden, English merchant and philanthropist (b. 1623)
1748 - Edmund Gibson, English jurist (b. 1669)
1782 - Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson, wife of Thomas Jefferson (b. 1748)
1783 - Bertinazzi, Italian actor and writer (b. 1710)
1808 - Louis-Pierre Anquetil, French historian (b. 1723)
1811 - Julien-Amable Mathieu, composer, dies at 77
1819 - Georg Druschetzky, composer, dies at 74
1831 - Johann Ernst Friedrich Wollank, composer, dies at 49
1863 - Lucius March Walker, Confederate brig-general (in duel), dies at 33
1868 - Pierre Adolphe Rost, Louisiana judge, Confederate commissioner (b. 1797)
1902 - Frederick A Able, English chemist/inventor (cordiet), dies at 75
1902 - Philip James Bailey, English poet (Universal hymn), dies at 86
1903 - Charles Ammi Cutter, US bibliographer, dies at 66
1919 - Worm Pander, sculptor
1937 - Henry Kimball Hadley, composer, dies at 65
1938 - John Stuart Hindmarsh, British racing driver and aviator (b. 1907)
1939 - Arthur Rackham, artist/illustrator (Grimm's Fairy Tales), dies at 71
1941 - Hugo Loudon, president-director (Royal Oil), dies at 81
1944 - Robert Lejour, Belgian lawyer/resistance fighter, murdered
1945 - John S Mccain, US admiral, (WW II-Pacific Ocean), dies
1947 - Paul Guthnick, German astronomer, dies at 76
1948 - Gerrit H Kersten, vicar/founder (Calvinist Party), dies at 66
1950 - Arthur Hill, cricketer (3 Tests), dies
1950 - Olaf Stapledon, British writer and philosopher (b. 1886)
1951 - James W. Gerard, American jurist and diplomat (b. 1867)
1952 - Jose Forns y Cuadras, composer, dies at 54
1952 - Gertrude Lawrence, English actress (b. 1898)
1956 - Felix Borowski, composer, dies at 84
1959 - Edmund Gwenn, actor (Them, Java Head, Miracle on 34th St), dies at 83
1959 - Kay Kendall, British actress (Genevieve), dies of leukemia at 32
1960 - Jimmy Savo, comedian (Through the Crystal Ball), dies at 65
1962 - Hanns Eisler, composer (N Vietnam/E German Natl Anthem), dies at 64
1962 - Seiichiro Kashio, Japanese tennis player (b. 1892)
1963 - Margarita Sierra, actress (Surfside 6), dies after heart surgery at 26
1965 - Konstantin Mostras, composer, dies at 79
1966 - Hendrik F Verwoerd, South African PM (1958-66), assassinated at 64
1966 - Luigi Perrachio, composer, dies at 83
1966 - Margaret Sanger, US feminist/birth control pioneer, dies at 86
1968 - Karl Ranki, composer, dies at 69
1969 - Arthur Friedenreich, Brazilian football player (b. 1892)
1970 - Gerard Smithson, cricketer (Eng batsman against W Indies 1948), dies
1973 - William H Harris, composer, dies at 90
1974 - Olga Baclanova, actress (Freaks, Docks of NY), dies at 75
1974 - Otto Kruger, actor (Lux Video Theater), dies on 89th birthday
1975 - Rien van Nunen, Dutch actor (Spuit Elf), dies at 62
1977 - Guido Pannain, composer, dies at 85
1977 - Paul Burkhard, composer, dies at 65
1978 - Jan Berger, Dutch politician, dies at 59
1978 - Tom Wilson, American record producer (b. 1931)
1979 - Ronald Binge, composer, dies at 69
1981 - Joseph Yasser, composer, dies at 88
1981 - Maria Palmer, actress (Days of Glory, Web), dies
1981 - Christy Brown, Irish author (b. 1932)
1984 - E J Andre, actor (Eugene Bullock-Dallas), dies at 74
1984 - Ernest Tubb, singer (Grand Ole Opry), dies at 70
1985 - Jane Frazee, singer/actress (Alice-Beulah), dies at 67 of pneumonia
1985 - Johnny Desmond, singer (Your Hit Parade), dies of cancer at 65
1985 - Leon Orthel, composer, dies at 79
1986 - Blanche Sweet, US actress (DW Griffith movies), dies at 90
1987 - Quinn Martin, American television producer (b. 1922)
1988 - Leroy Brown, professional wrestler (b. 1950)
1990 - Leonard Hutton, cricketer (79 Tests for England, 6971 runs), dies
1990 - T Issan Dorsey, founder (Hartford St Zen Center SF), dies
1990 - Tom Fogerty, rocker (Creedence Clearwater), dies of tuberculosis at 48
1991 - Bob Goldham, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1922)
1993 - Josephine Rich Corday, vaudevillian, dies of kidney failure at 79
1994 - Duccio Tessari, Italian director, dies of cancer at 67
1994 - James Clavell, author/director (King Rat, Shogun), dies at 69
1994 - Max Kaminsky, trumpeter, dies at 85
1994 - Nicky Hopkins, rock pianist (Rolling Stones), dies at 50
1994 - Wolf Donner, Austrian movie historian/festival director, dies at 55
1995 - Buster Mathis, heavyweight boxer, dies at 52
1995 - Joanne Gail Abbott, exec (MTV), dies at 36
1996 - William James Moyce, armaments scientist, dies at 82
1997 - Philippe Rossillon, administrator, dies at 66
1997 - P. H. Newby, British author and BBC radio director (b. 1918)
1998 - Akira Kurosawa, Japanese film director (b. 1910)
1999 - René Lecavalier, French Canadian sportscaster (b. 1918)
2000 - Breanna Lynn Bartlett-Stewart, first Kleihauer-Betke stillbirth (b. 2000)
2001 - Carl Crack, German musician (Atari Teenage Riot) (b. 1971)
2003 - Harry Goz, American actor (b. 1932)
2003 - Mohammad Oraz, Iranian mountain climber (b. 1969)
2005 - Hasan Abidi, Pakistani journalist and Urdu poet (b. 1929)
2007 - Madeleine L'Engle, American author (b. 1918)
2007 - Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor, dies at 71
2007 - Alex, African Grey parrot "student" of Dr. Irene Pepperberg (b. 1976)
2008 - Sören Nordin, Swedish harness racing driver and trainer (b. 1917)
2008 - Anita Page, silent film vixen, last living attendee of the 1st Annual Academy Awards, (b. 1910)
2012 - Art Modell [Arthur], American businessman, dies from heart failure at 87
2012 - Jake Eberts, Canadian film producer, dies from cancer at 71

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 07, 2013, 09:07:33 AM

This Day in History for 7th September


Historical Events

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Comedian Jerry Lewis                              Tennis Player John McEnroe              Tennis Player Martina Navratilova

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Tennis Player Martina Hingis


1251 BC - A solar eclipse on this date might mark the birth of legendary Heracles at Thebes, Greece.
70 - Roman army under Titus occupies & plunders Jerusalem
1159 - Ottaviano de Montecello elected as anti-Pope
1191 - Third Crusade: Battle of Arsuf - Richard I of England defeats Saladin at Arsuf.
1497 - Sailor Perkin Warbeck becomes English King Richard IV
1525 - Trial against "heretic" John Pistorius ends in the Hague
1543 - Duke Willem of Gulik surrenders to emperor Charles V
1596 - Dutch fleet bombs Banten Java
1599 - Earl van Essex & Irish rebel Tyrone signs treaty
1652 - Battle of Monte Christo: Dutch fleet under J van Galen beat English
1701 - Germany, England & Netherlands sign anti-French covenant
1714 - Treaty of Baden: Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI & France, ends War of Spanish Succession,
           French retain Alsace, Austria gets bank of Rhine
1800 - Zion AME Church dedicated (NYC)
1812 - Battle at Borodino: Napoleon-Kutuzov
1813 - "Uncle Sam" was 1st used to refer to US (Troy Post of NY)
1818 - Carl III of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Norway, in Trondheim.
1822 - Pedro I, son of King Joao VI declares Brazil's independence from Portugal (National Day)
1860 - Excursion steamer "Lady Elgin" drowns 340 in Lake Michigan
1863 - Federal naval expedition arrives off Sabine Pass
1871 - Bay of Biskaje: English warship HMS Captain fired on, 500 killed
1876 - Bank robbery by James/Younger fails (Cole/Bob/Jim Younger arrested)
1880 - Geo Ligowsky patents device to throw clay pigeons for trapshooters
1888 - Edith Eleanor McLean is 1st baby place in an incubator
1889 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Engineer's Thumb" (BG)
1891 - Captain Frederick Lugards army reaches Kavalli Equatoria
1892 - James Corbett KOs John Sullivan in 21 for heavyweight boxing title
1896 - A H Whiting wins 1st automobile race held on a closed-circuit track in Cranston, RI
1897 - George Davis (Giants) HR off Sport McAllister (Spiders) in DH
1901 - Peace of Peking - Ends Boxer Rebellion in China
1903 - Federation of American Motorcyclists organized in NY
1906 - Alberto Santos-Dumont flies his 14-bis aircraft at Bagatelle, France for the first time
           successfully.
1907 - Sutro's ornate Cliff House in SF destroyed by fire
1909 - Eugene Lefebvre (1878-1909), while test piloting a new French-built Wright biplane, crashes
           at Juvisy France when his controls jam. Lefebvre dies, becoming the first 'pilot' in the world to
           lose his life in a powered heavier-than-air craft.
1912 - Eddie Collins steals record 6 bases in 9-7 Athletics win over Detroit
1914 - NY Post Office Building opens to public
1915 - 35th US Mens Tennis: Wm Johnston beats M E McLoughlin (16 60 75 108)
1915 - John Gruelle patents his Raggedy Ann doll
1915 - St Louis Dave Davenport no-hits Chicago (Federal League), 3-0
1916 - Giants beat Brooklyn 4-1, to launch NY's record 26-game winning streak
1916 - Workmen's Compensation Act passed by Congress
1921 - In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the first Miss America Pageant, a two-day event, is held.
1922 - In Aydin, Turkey, independence of Aydin, from Greek occupation.
1923 - Boston Red Sox Howard Ehmke no-hits Phila A's, 4-0
1923 - Interpol forms in Vienna
1923 - Mary Katherine Campbell (Ohio), 16, crowned 2nd Miss America 1922-23
1927 - Philo Farnsworth demonstrates 1st use of TV in SF
1927 - The University of Minas Gerais is founded in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, by GovernorAntônio
           Carlos.
1928 - Sophie Treadwell's "Machinal," premieres in NYC
1932 - Earl Grace, ends NL catcher record streak of 110 cons errorless games
1934 - Luxury liner "Morro Castle" burns off NJ, killing 134
1936 - Boulder Dam (now Hoover Dam) begins operation
1936 - The last surviving member of the thylacine species, Benjamin, dies alone in her cage at the
           Hobart Zoo in Tasmania.
1939 - Radio NY Worldwide-WRUL begins radio transmission
1940 - 54th US Womens Tennis: Alice Marble beats Helen Hull Jacobs (62 63)
1940 - 60th US Mens Tennis: McNeill beats Robert Riggs (46 68 63 63 75)
1940 - German Air Force blitz London for 1st of 57 consecutive nights
1940 - Luftwaffe loses 41 bombers above England
1940 - Treaty of Craiova: Romania loses Southern Dobrudja to Bulgaria.
1941 - 61st US Mens Tennis: R L Riggs beats Francis Kovacs (2d 57 61 63 63)
1942 - 62nd US Mens Tennis: F Schroeder Jr beats F Parker (86 75 36 46 62)
1942 - German occupiers take silver anniversary coins in battle
1942 - Transport nr 29 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1942 - First flight of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator.
1943 - 987 Dutch Jewish transported to Auschwitz Concentration Camp
1943 - Fire in decrepit old Gulf Hotel kills 45 (Houston Texas)
1944 - SS-general Kurt Meyer takes Durnal Belgium
1944 - Strongest Hurricane of century in Netherlands (wind force 12)
1945 - Japanese at Rioekioe-islands surrender
1945 - Joe Kuhel hits inside-the-park HR, only HR hit by a Senator all season at Washington's
           Griffith Stadium
1947 - Battles between Hindus & Moslems in New Delhi
1948 - 1st use of synthetic rubber in asphaltic concrete, Akron Oh
1950 - Monasteries shut down in Hungary
1952 - 66th US Womens Tennis: Maureen Connolly beats Doris Hart (63 75)
1952 - 72nd US Mens Tennis: Frank Sedgman beats Gardnar Mulloy (61 62 63)
1952 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Carrollton Golf Tournament
1952 - General Naguib forms Egyptian government/becomes premier
1952 - Outfielder Don Grate throws a baseball a record 434'1" (Tenn)
1952 - Whitey Ford becomes 5th pitcher to hurl consecutive 1 hitters
1952 - NY Yankees Johnny Mize's pinch-hit grand slam gives Yanks a 5-1 win at Washington He has
           now HRed in all 15 major league parks
1953 - 67th US Womens Tennis: Maureen Connolly beats Doris Hart (62 64)
1953 - 73rd US Mens Tennis: Tony Trabert beats Elias V Seixas Jr (63 62 63)
1953 - Roy Campanella sets catcher record of 125 (en route to 142) RBIs
1954 - Integration begins in Wash DC & Balt MD public schools
1955 - Yankees Whitey Ford is 5th to throw consecutive 1-hitters, beats A's
1956 - Bell X-2 sets Unofficial manned aircraft altitude record 126,000'+
1957 - 71st US Womens Tennis: Althea Gibson beats A Louise Brough (63 62)
1957 - WWL TV channel 4 in New Orleans, LA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1958 - 72nd US Womens Tennis: Althea Gibson beats Darlene R Hard (36 61 62)
1958 - 78th US Mens Tennis: A J Cooper beats M J Anderson (62 36 46 108 86)
1960 - Ljudmila Shevcova runs female olympic record 800m (2:04.3)
1963 - American Bandstand moves to California, & airs once a week on Saturday
1963 - Pro Football Hall of Fame dedicated in Canton Ohio
1964 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Valhalla Golf Open
1965 - -10] Hurricane Betsy, kills 74 in Florida, Miss & La
1965 - China announces that it will reinforce its troops in the Indian border.
1966 - KTNE TV channel 13 in Alliance, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting
1966 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1969 - 83rd US Womens Tennis: Margaret Smith Court beats Nancy Richey (62 62)
1969 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Molson's Canadian Golf Open
1969 - Rod Laver completes his 2nd grand slam winning US Tennis Open
1969 - US amateur Womens Tennis: Margaret Court beat Virginia Wade (46 63 60)
1970 - Jerry Lewis' 5th Muscular Dystrophy telethon
1970 - PLO hijacks 4 planes
1970 - White Sox use record 41 players in doubleheader & lose both games
1970 - Donald Boyles sets record for highest parachute jump from a bridge, by leaping off of 1,053'
           Royal George Bridge in Colorado
1970 - Fighting between Arabic guerillas and government forces in Amman, Jordan.
1973 - Jackie Stewart becomes Formula 1 world champion
1973 - Mike Storen becomes American Basketball Association's 4th commissioner
1974 - "Irene" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 605 performances
1974 - Shirley Cothran (Texas), 21, crowned 47th Miss America 1975
1975 - 95th US Mens Tennis: Manuel Orantes beats Jimmy Connors (64 63 63)
1975 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
1975 - Cincinnati Reds, win earliest NL division title
1975 - Last day of 1st-class cricket for Hanif Mohammad
1975 - Manuel Orantes upsets #1 seed Jimmy Connors to win US Open
1976 - US courts find George Harrison guilty of plagiarism (He's So Fine)
1977 - Ethiopia drops diplomatic relations with Somalia
1977 - Pres Carter & Gen Herrera sign Panama Canal treaties
1978 - 1st game of Boston Massacre, Yanks beat Red Sox 15-3
1979 - 5 day MUSE concert against nuclear energy opens at Madison Square Garden, NY
1979 - The Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (ESPN) makes its debut.
1980 - 32nd Emmy Awards shown despite boycott
1980 - 32nd Emmy Awards: Taxi, Lou Grant, Ed Asner & Barbara Bel Geddes
1980 - Beth Daniel wins LPGA World Series of Women's Golf
1980 - Cape Verde adopts its constitution
1980 - Earnest Gray becomes 2nd NY Giant to score 4 TDs (vs St Louis)
1980 - Oakland A's pitch record 78th complete game of season
1980 - Sandra Spuzich wins LPGA Barth Golf Classic
1980 - John McEnroe & Bjorn Borg stage one of the greatest US Open finals as 21 year old McEnroe
           fends off Borg to win his 2nd straight title (76 61 67 57 64)
1981 - Cleveland Browns' Brian Sipe sets club record with 57 pass attempts
1981 - Jerry Lewis' 16th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $31,500,000
1981 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
1981 - Judge Wapner & People's Court premier on TV
1981 - West Tampa Fl defeats Rich Va, 6-4 to win American Legion World Series
1983 - Drury Gallagher sets fastest swim around Manhattan (6h41m35s)
1984 - Met Dwight Gooden's 11 strikeouts gives him NL rookie record 236
1985 - 99th US Womens Tennis: Hana Mandlikova beats M Navratilova (76 16 76)
1985 - Mary Decker Tabb Slaney runs US 3K female record (8:25.83)
1986 - 100th US Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Helena Sukova (63 62)
1986 - 106th US Mens Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats Miloslav Mecir (64 62 60)
1986 - Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Cellular One-Ping Golf Championship
1986 - Desmond Tutu becomes Anglican archbishop of Capetown
1986 - Failed assassination attempt on Chilean dictator Pinochet, 5 killed
1986 - Ivan Lendl defeats Miloslav Mecir for US Tennis open title
1986 - Cleveland Browns becomes 1st team in NFL history to have a play reviewed by instant replay,
           Chicago 41, Browns 31
1987 - Jerry Lewis' 22nd Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $39,021,723
1987 - Netherlands routes 2 minesweepers to Persian Gulf
1987 - Rosie Jones wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
1987 - South Africa frees Dutch anthropologist/Anc'er Klaas de Young
1988 - 5th MTV Awards
1988 - Guy Lafleur, Tony Esposito & Brad Park inducted in NHL Hall of Fame
1988 - NY Daily News reports boxer Mike Tyson is seeing a psychiatrist
1988 - Security & Exchange Comm accuses Drexel of violating security laws
1990 - "Street Scene" opens at NY State Theater NYC for 6 performances
1990 - Marjorie Judith Vincent (Ill), 25, crowned 64th Miss America 1991
1991 - 1st South African international competition in 25 years, gymnastics
1991 - Die Laughing wins Messenger Stakes
1991 - 105th US Womens Tennis Open: Monica Seles (17) defeats Martina Navratilova (34) (76 61)
1991 - Ty Detmer of Brigham Young passes NCAA record 11,606 yards
1992 - Army of Ciskei homeland kills 28 ANC demonstrators
1992 - Baseball commissioner Faye Vincent resigns
1992 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
1993 - Brazil votes over importing monarchy
1993 - Cards Mark Whiten, hits 4 HRs & 12 RBIs in 2nd game of doubleheader
1994 - Jingyi Le/Ying Shan/Ying Le/Bin Lu swimming 4x100 freestyle (3:37.91)
1995 - 12th MTV Awards
1995 - STS 69 (Endeavour 9), launches into orbit
1995 - Sen Bob Packwoord (R-Ore) resigns rather than face expulsion
1996 - Women's championship at US Tennis Open
1997 - 111th US Womens Tennis: Martina Hingis beats Venus Williams (60 64)
1997 - 117th US Mens Tennis: Patrick Rafter beats Greg Rusedski (63 62 46 75)
1997 - Boone Valley Senior Golf Classic
1997 - Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation
1997 - Karrie Webb wins Safeway LPGA Golf Championship
1997 - Men's championship at US Tennis Open
1997 - Steve Jones wins Canadian Golf Open with a 275
1997 - The first test flight of the F-22 Raptor takes place.
1998 - Jerry Lewis' 33rd Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises
1998 - Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University
1999 - A 5.9 magnitude earthquake rocks Athens, rupturing a previously unknown fault, killing 143,
           injuring more than 500, and leaving 50,000 people homeless.
2004 - Hurricane Ivan, a Category 5 hurricane hitting Grenada, killing 39 and damaging 90% of its
           buildings.
2005 - First presidential election was held in Egypt.
2008 - The US Government takes control of the two largest largest mortgage financing companies in
           the US, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
2011 - Plane crash in Russia kills 43 people, including nearly the entire roster of the Lokomotiv
           Yaroslavl Kontinental Hockey League team
2012 - US drone attack kills 8 people in Kismayo, south Somalia
2012 - 64 people are killed and 715 injured after a series of earthquakes in south-west China
2012 - Canada closes its Iranian embassy and expels Iranian diplomatic staff out of Canada

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 07, 2013, 09:09:00 AM

This Day in History for 7th September


Famous Weddings

1943 - "Gilda" actress Rita Hayworth (24) weds actor-director Orson Welles (28)
1945 - "Star Trek" actor DeForest Kelley (25) weds Carolyn Dowling
1984 - Actress-singer Janet Jackson (18) weds fellow R&B singer James DeBarge (21)
1991 - Harry Hamlin weds Nicollette Sheridan
1996 - Five-foot-eleven model-actress Eva Herzigova (23) weds Bon Jovi drummer Tico Torres (43)
           in Sea Bright, New Jersey

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 07, 2013, 09:16:55 AM

This Day in History for 7th September


Famous Birthdays

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English Monarch                                     Primitive Painter                                    Singer Buddy Holly (1936)                                       
Queen Elizabeth I (1533)                          Grandma Moses (1860)


786 - Emperor Saga, 52nd Emperor of Japan (d. 842)
1438 - Louis II, Landgrave of Hesse (d. 1471)
1471 - Frederik I, king of Denmark/Norway (1523-33)
1524 - Thomas Erastus, Swiss theologian (d. 1583)
1533 - Queen Elizabeth I, Greenwich, England, (1558-1603) daughter of Henry VIII and Anna Boleyn
           (d. 1603)
1631 - Clemens Thieme, composer
1635 - Pal Esterhazy, composer
1674 - Ernest Augustus (d. 1728)
1683 - Mary Anne of Austria, Archduchess of Austria and Queen consort of Portugal (d. 1754)
1694 - Johan Ludvig, Danish policitian (d. 1763)
1703 - Jean Monnet, composer
1705 - Matthäus Günther, German painter (d. 1788)
1707 - George-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon, writer on natural history
1726 - Francois-Andre Danican Philidor, France, composer/chess champion
1731 - Damasus Brosmann, composer
1731 - Elisabetta de Gambarini, composer
1735 - Thomas Coutts, Scottish banker
1737 - Luigi Galvani, Italian anatomist/physicist
1739 - Joseph Legros, composer
1740 - Johan Tobias Sergel, Swedish sculptor (d. 1814)
1756 - Willem Bilderdijk, Dutch poet/literature (Disease of Scientists)
1777 - Heinrich Stölzel, German musician and composer (d. 1844)
1782 - Bernardus JC Dibbets, Dutch baron/general-major (Maastricht)
1784 - Frantisek Max Knize, composer
1810 - Hermann Heinrich Gossen, Prussian economist (d. 1858)
1811 - William Hamsley Emory, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1887
1815 - Howell Cobb II, Major General/Secy of Treas (Union), died in 1868
1815 - John McDouall Stuart, Australian explorer (d. 1866)
1817 - Louise of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel), queen of Denmark (d. 1898)
1818 - Thomas Talbot, 31st Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1886)
1819 - Jean E "Adriaan" van Bevervoorde, journalist (History of Holland)
1829 - August Kekule von Stradonitz, discovered structure of benzene ring
1829 - Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, US, geologist (Geograph Survey 1859-86)
1831 - Alexandre Falguière, French sculptor and painter (d. 1900)
1836 - Henry Campbell-Bannerman, British PM (L) (1905-08)
1836 - August Toepler, German physicist (d. 1912)
1842 - John H Zuckertort, German chess player
1851 - Edward Ashael Birge, American pioneer in limnology (d. 1950)
1855 - William Friese-Greene, British photographer (d. 1921)
1860 - Grandma Moses [Anna Maria], NY, primitive painter (Old Oaken Bucket), (d. 1961)
1860 - Willem H Nolens, priest/Dutch ambassador to Vatican
1864 - Giovanni Tebaldini, composer
1866 - Tristan Bernard, French playwright and novelist (d. 1947)
1867 - Albert Basserman, Mannheim Germany, actor (Foreign Correspondant) Dies 1952
1867 - Camilod d'Almeida Pessanha, Portuguese poet (China)
1869 - Margot SE Scharten-Antink, Dutch author (Catherina, Sprotje)
1870 - Aleksander Kuprin, Russian author (Pojedinok) [OS=Aug 26]
1870 - Thomas Curtis, American athlete (d. 1944)
1876 - C.J. Dennis, Australian poet and writer (d. 1938)
1877 - Mike O'Neill, Irish baseball player (d. 1959)
1879 - Nachman N "Neddy" Bamberg, Dutch actor (Haddock Mary)
1880 - Attilio Brugnoli, composer
1880 - Kurt von Wolfurt, composer
1881 - Constantly WL Scheurleer, Dutch archaeologist/banker/art expert
1882 - Johanna F Zandstra-Giezen, oldest person in Netherland (died at 111)
1885 - Harry Sinclair Lewis, US, writer (Babbitt, Nobel 1930)
1887 - Edith L Sitwell, English poetess/author (Wheels)
1889 - Albert Plesman, aviation pioneer/founder/director (KLM)
1889 - Bruce F Cummings, English author (Journal of a Disappointed Man)
1891 - Roscoe Karns, San Bernadino California, actor (Capt Shafer-Hennesey)
1893 - Leslie Hore-Belisha, British Minister of Transport
1899 - Leendert A Donker, Dutch Minister of Justice (PvdA)
1900 - "Janet" Taylor Caldwell, England, novelist (Melissa)
1900 - Emerson Treacy, Phila, actor (California Straight Ahead)
1902 - Roy Barcroft, [Howard Ravenscroft], Crab Orchard NE, actor (Freckles)
1905 - John Whitley, British air-marshal
1906 - Filip Gershkovich, composer
1907 - Ahmet Adnan Saygun, composer
1908 - Max Kaminsky, trumpeter
1908 - Michael E DeBakey, artificial heart pioneer
1908 - Paul Brown, Norwalk Ohio, NFL hall of famer (Browns, Bengals)
1909 - Elia Kazan, Constaninople Turkey, director (Streetcar Named Desire)
1909 - Jo Juda, Dutch musician
1909 - Natalia Dmitrevna Shpiller, singer
1910 - John Shea, US, 500m/1500m speed skater (Olympic-gold-1932)
1911 - Todor C Zjivkov, Bulgaria partizan/premier/president
1912 - David Packard, electronic engineer/businessman
1913 - Anthony Quayle, England, actor (Anne of 1000 Days, Lawrence of Arabia)
1913 - Oswald Szemerenyi, philologist
1913 - Willem C L "Wim" van der Grinten, Dutch lawyer/undersec of Economy
1914 - Herbert Delauney Bill Hughes, educationist
1914 - Hugo Pfister, composer
1914 - Ian Ball, photographer
1914 - James Van Allen, US physicist (discovered Van Allen radiation belts)
1914 - Graeme Bell, Australian pianist and composer
1917 - John Cornforth, Australian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1918 - Robert Lewis Campbell Lorimer, publisher
1919 - Alberic Schotte, Belgian cyclist (d. 2004)
1920 - Harri Webb, poet
1920 - Al Caiola, American guitarist
1921 - Josep Lluís Núñez, Spanish President of FC Barcelona (1978 - 2000)
1922 - Arthur Ferrante, pianist/composer (Ferrante & Tachere-Exodus)
1922 - Kirill Vladimirovich Molchanov, composer
1922 - Lucien Jarraud, Canadian radio host (d. 2007)
1923 - Louise Suggs, Atlanta GA, LPGA golfer (US Women's Open-1949, 52)
1923 - Peter Lawford, London England, actor (Mrs Miniver, Thin Man)
1924 - Charles Braswell, McKinney TX, entertainer
1924 - Daniel K. Inouye, Honolulu, Hawaii, politician (US Senator, 1963-2012), (d. 2012)
1924 - Hugh Aitken, composer
1924 - Leonard Rosenman, Brooklyn New York, American TV composer (Marcus Welby MD)
1924 - Bridie Gallagher, Donegal, Ireland, singer (A Mother's Love's A Blessing, The Boys from
           County Armagh), (d. 2012)
1925 - Allan Blakeney, Canadian politician
1926 - Erich Juskowiak, German footballer (d. 1983)
1927 - Don Messick, cartoon voice (Bam-bam, Astro, Scooby-Doo)
1927 - Graham Dudley Whettam, composer
1927 - Eric Hill, British children's Author
1929 - Gil Wolman, situationist
1929 - John Milford, Johnstown NY, actor (Lieutenant, Legend of Jesse James)
1929 - T[homas] P[atrick] McKenna, Ireland, actor (Rivals, Holocaust)
1930 - Baudouin I, king of Belgium (1951-93)
1930 - Sonny Rollins, NYC, jazz saxophonist (Blue Room)
1930 - Thijs van Vlijmen, Dutch MP (CDA)
1931 - Al McGuire, US, basketball coach (Marquette)
1931 - Charles Camilleri, composer
1931 - Cornelis de Wine, graphic artist
1934 - Bill Giles, Rochester NY, baseball owner (Philadelphia Phillies)
1934 - Little Milton, American musician (d. 2005)
1934 - Omar Karami, Prime Minister of Lebanon
1934 - Mary Bauermeister, German artist
1935 - Abdou Diouf, president of Senegal (1981- )
1935 - Don Messick, Buffalo NY, cartoon voice (Astro-Jetsons, Bamm Bamm)
1936 - Buddy Holly, Lubbock Tx, singer (Peggy Sue, That'll Be the Day), (d. 1959)
1936 - Romualds Kalsons, composer
1936 - Apostolos Kaklamanis, Greek politician
1937 - George Patrick Reid, schoolkeeper
1937 - John Phillip Law, Hollywood, actor (Barbarella, Love Machine)
1937 - Olly Wilson, composer
1937 - Cüneyt Arkın, Turkish film actor
1939 - Stanley David Griggs, Portland Oregon, astronaut (STS 51-D), STS 33)
1939 - [Benjamin] Latimore, US singer (Let's Straighten It Out)
1940 - Dario Argento, director (Creepers, Deep Red, Tenebrae)
1941 - Mogoboya NN Ramadike, South African politician in Lebowa
1942 - Garrison Keillor, humorist (Praire Home Companion)
1942 - Richard Roundtree, actor (Shaft, Earthquake)
1942 - Alan Oakes, British Footballer
1943 - Lena Valaitis, Lithuanian-German Schlager singer
1943 - Beverley McLachlin, Chief Justice of Canada
1944 - Bertel Haarder, Danish politician
1945 - Luis Aravena Munoz, Chilean singer/exiled in Netherlands
1946 - Alfa Anderson, Bronx NY, rock vocalist (Chicago)
1946 - Willie Crawford, American baseball player (d. 2004)
1948 - Susan Blakely, Frankfurt Germany, actress (Rich Man Poor Man)
1949 - Gloria Gaynor, Newark NJ, disco singer (I Will Survive)
1949 - Barry Siegel, American journalist
1950 - Adriano Panatta, Rome, tennis star (French 1976, Italian 1976)
1950 - Peggy Noonan, author (What I Saw at the Revolution)
1950 - Julie Kavner, Los Angeles, California, American actress and voice artist (Brenda-Rhoda,
           Marge-Simpsons)
1951 - Chrissie Hynde, Akron Oh, rocker (Pretenders-Mystery Achievement)
1951 - Mark R McCumber, Jacksonville FL, PGA golfer (1979 Doral-Eastern)
1951 - William Katt, US, actor (Butch & Sundance Kid, Carrie)
1951 - Morris Albert, Brazilian singer
1951 - Mark Isham, American composer
1952 - Ricardo Tormo, Spanish motocyclist (d. 1998)
1953 - Ben Bossi, rocker (Romeo Void)
1953 - Michael Byron, composer
1954 - Benmont Tench, Gainesville Fl, rock keyboardist (Heartbreakers)
1954 - Corbin Bernsen, North Hollywood California, actor (Arnie Becker-LA Law)
1954 - Michael Emerson, American actor
1955 - Efim Zelmanov, Russian mathematician
1955 - Mira Furlan, Croatian actress
1956 - Michael J Feinstein, pianist (Isn't It Romantic)
1956 - Byron Stevenson, British footballer (d. 2007)
1956 - Diane Warren, American song writer
1957 - Margot Chapman, Hawaii, vocals (Starland Vocal Band-Afternoon Delight)
1957 - Melvin Edward Mays, one of FBI's most wanted
1958 - D Elmina Davies, filmmaker
1958 - Nadieh, Dutch singer/guitarist/composer (Haifa Blue)
1959 - Jermaine Stewart, rocker
1960 - David Steele, Birmingham, rock keyboardist (Fine Young Cannibals)
1960 - Carlos Martinez, American bowler
1960 - Andrew Voss, Australian television personality
1961 - LeRoi Moore, American Saxophonist (Dave Matthews Band) {d. 2008)
1961 - Jean-Yves Thibaudet, French Pianist
1962 - Jennifer Egan, American novelist
1963 - Eric Eazy-E Wright, rapper
1965 - Bruce Armstrong, NFL tackle (NE Patriots)
1965 - Danny Harris, Torrance California, 400m hurdler (Olympic-silver-1984)
1965 - Darko Pančev, Macedonian footballer
1965 - Andreas Thom, German footballer
1965 - Uta Pippig, German athlete
1966 - Christopher Acland, musician
1967 - Kathaleen K Cutone, Olenoridge NJ, fig skater (1994 Collegiate champ)
1967 - Toby Jones, British actor
1968 - Erik Williams, NFL tackle (Dallas Cowboys)
1968 - Kyle Stevens, NJ, rock guitarist (Bang Tango-Dancin' on Coals)
1969 - Angie Everhart, Akron Ohio, model/actress (Jade, Last Action Hero)
1969 - Darren Bragg, Waterbury CT, outfielder (Seattle Mariners)
1969 - Rudy Galindo, San Jose California, 1996 US Mens' Champion
1969 - Diane Farr, American actress (Numb3rs)
1969 - Little Jimmy Urine, American singer (Mindless Self Indulgence)
1970 - Tom Everett Scott, American actor
1971 - Briana Scurry, Minneapolis MN, soccer goalkeeper (Olympics-96)
1971 - John Burke, NFL tight end (NE Patriots)>>
1971 - Tonny Jensen, Australian basketball guard (Olympics-96)
1971 - Wesley Leasy, NFL linebacker (Arizona Cardinals)
1972 - Andreas Pusnik, hockey forward (Team Austria 1998)
1972 - Cedric Davis, NFL cornerback (Arizona Cardinals)
1972 - Jason Isringhausen, Alton IL, pitcher (NY Mets)
1972 - Willy Tate, NFL tight end (KC Chiefs)
1973 - Sam Couch, Newport Beach California, kayak (alt-Olympics-96)
1973 - Shannon Elizabeth, American actress
1974 - Antonio McDyess, NBA forward (Phoenix Suns)
1974 - Mario Frick, Liechtensteiner footballer
1975 - Norifumi Abe, Japanese motorcycle road racer (d. 2007)
1975 - Harold Wallace, Costa Rican footballer
1976 - Marja de Graaf, Miss Universe-Netherlands (1996)
1976 - Oliver Hudson, American actor
1977 - Nora Greenwald, American professional wrestler
1977 - Gianluca Grava, Italian footballer
1977 - Jon Macken, British Footballer
1978 - G[eneral] A[ustin], Columbus Ga, rapper (Another Bad Creation)
1978 - Erwin Koen, Dutch footballer
1979 - Pavol Hochschorner and Peter Hochschorner - Slovak slalom canoers
1979 - Brian Stokes, American baseball player
1980 - Gabriel Milito, Argentine footballer
1980 - Javad Nekounam, Iranian footballer
1980 - Mark Prior, American baseball player
1980 - Sara Carrigan, Australian cyclist
1981 - Gökhan Zan, Turkish footballer
1981 - Paul McCoy, American musician (lead singer of 12 Stones)
1982 - Andre Dirrell, American boxer
1983 - Philip Deignan, Irish cyclist
1983 - Mehmet Topuz, Turkisher footballer
1983 - Pops Mensah-Bonsu, British basketball player for the Dallas Mavericks
1983 - Annette Dytrt, German skater figure
1984 - Vera Zvonareva, Russian tennis player
1985 - Tatia Jayne Starkey, Ringo's 1st grandchild
1985 - Rafinha, Brazilian footballer
1986 - Colin Delaney, American Professional Wrestler
1986 - Spectacular Blue Smith, American musician (Pretty Ricky)
1987 - Aleksandra Wozniak, Canadian tennis player
1987 - Evan Rachel Wood, American actress
1988 - Kevin Love, American basketball player
1990 - Tanja Kolbe, German ice dancer
1993 - Joshua Wilkinson, prince of self proclaimed principality sealand

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 07, 2013, 09:19:58 AM

This Day in History for 7th September


Famous Deaths

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Rocker Keith Moon (1978)                  President of Zaire Mobutu Sese Seko (1997)


355 - Claudius Silvanus, Roman usurper
1134 - Alfonso I de Strijdvaardige, king of Aragon (1104-34), dies
1151 - Geoffrey Plantagenet, earl of Anjou/duke of Normandy, dies at 38
1552 - Guru Angad Dev, second Sikh Guru (b. 1504)
1559 - Robert Estienne, French printer (b. 1503)
1625 - Rombout Hogerbeets, lawyer/pension executive of Lead, dies at 64
1632 - Emperor Susenyos of Ethiopia
1644 - Guido Bentivoglio, Italian statesman (b. 1579)
1655 - Tristan l'Hermite, French dramatist/poet, dies (birth date unknown)
1657 - Arvid Wittenberg, Swedish count, field marshal and privy councilor (b. 1606)
1708 - Tekle Haymanot I of Ethiopia
1719 - John Harris, English writer
1721 - Bernhard Albinus, [Weiss], German artist (Frederik of Prussia), dies
1729 - William Burnet, British-born American statesman (b. 1688)
1775 - Johann Georg Holzbogen, composer, dies at 48
1783 - Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician, dies
1799 - John Ingen Housz, Dutch/English physician/nature investigator, dies at 68
1799 - Louis Guillaume Lemonnier, French botanist (b. 1717)
1809 - Caroline Schelling, [Michaelis], German author and academic dies at 46
1809 - Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke, King of Thailand (b. 1737)
1819 - Jean-Louis Duport, composer, dies at 69
1820 - Coert L van Beyma thoe Kingma, Fries regent/patriot, dies at 67
1838 - Joseph Panny, composer, dies at 43
1845 - Isabella Colbran, wife of Italian composer Gioacchino Rossini, dies
1871 - Cowper Phipps Coles, English inventor (Steel warships), drowns
1871 - Mehmed E Ali Pasja, Turkish statesman, dies
1872 - Antoni Stolpe, composer, dies at 21
1881 - Sidney Clopton Lanier, composer, dies at 39
1891 - Lorenzo Sawyer, 9th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California (b. 1820)
1892 - John G Whittier, US poet/secretary Anti-Slavery Society, dies
1902 - Franz Wullner, composer, dies at 70
1907 - R F Armand Sully-Prudhomme, French poet (Poesies, Nobel 1901), dies
1909 - Eugene Lefebvre, dies test piloting a Wright A aircraft
1910 - William Holman Hunt, English painter, dies at 83
1914 - Lord O'Brien, British nobleman, dies at 73
1920 - Simon-Napoléon Parent, politician, premier of the province of Quebec (b. 1855)
1921 - Alfred William Rich, watercolor painter (b. 1856)
1925 - John Wesley Work, composer, dies at 52
1925 - René [Raphael] Viviani, French premier (1914-15), dies
1933 - Edward Grey, English viscount of Fallodon/Foreign minister, dies
1939 - Kyoka Izumi, Japanese novelist (b. 1873)
1940 - Edmund Rumpler, Austria auto/airplane builder, dies
1942 - Cecilia Beaux, American portrait painter dies aged 87
1943 - J. P. Morgan, Jr., American financier (b. 1867)
1944 - Eduardo Sanchez de Fuentes, composer, dies at 70
1946 - Paul Zech, writer, dies at 65
1948 - Henricus A Poels, Dutch RC theologist/social foreman, dies at 80
1949 - José Clemente Orozco, Mexican painter (b. 1883)
1951 - Maria Montez, actress (Arabian Nights, Sudan), dies at 31
1954 - Bud Fisher, American cartoonist (b. 1885)
1955 - Earnest Rabel, Austrian/US civil rights activist, dies at 81
1955 - Ham Fisher, American cartoonist (b. 1900)
1956 - Charles Burgess Fry, English athlete/cricketer/journalist, dies at 84
1959 - Maurice Duplessis, Québec Prime Minister (b. 1890)
1960 - Wilhelm Pieck, president of German DR (1949-60), dies at 84
1961 - Pieter S Gerbrandy, lawyer/premier to London 1940-5, dies at 76
1962 - Karen Blixen-Finecke, baroness/writer (Out of Africa), dies at 77
1962 - Eiji Yoshikawa, Japanese novelist (b. 1892)
1962 - Isak Dinesen, Danish author (b. 1885)
1965 - Catherine Dale Owen, actress (Behind Office Doors), dies at 62
1966 - Al Kelly, double talk comedian (Ernie Kovacs Show), dies at 67
1969 - Everett McKinley Dirksen, (Sen-R), dies at 73
1971 - Spring Byington, actress (Lily Ruskin-December Bride), dies at 84
1972 - Jacques Pirenne, Belgian historian, dies at 81
1973 - Hans Lorbeer, writer, dies at 72
1977 - Gustave Reese, composer, dies at 77
1978 - Keith Moon, rock drummer (Who), dies of drug overdose at 31
1982 - Ken Boyer, American baseball player (b. 1931)
1983 - Hans Munch, composer, dies at 90
1983 - Henry Promnitz, cricketer (5-58 on debut for South Africa 1927-28), dies
1984 - Don Tallon, cricketer (great Queensland & Australian keeper), dies
1984 - Joe Cronin, shortstop/American League Pres, dies at 77
1986 - Ruth Polsky, record promoter, dies after being run over by a cab at 30
1986 - Vladimir Alexandrovich Vlasov, composer, dies at 83
1990 - Alan J P Taylor, British historian (Origins of WW II), dies
1991 - Archie N Menzies, playwright/composer (Under Your Hat), dies at 87
1991 - Ben Piazza, actor (Consenting Adults), dies of cancer at 58
1991 - John Crosby, US columnist/detective writer dies at 79
1991 - John Lawrence, examined effect of neutron radiation on fabric, dies
1992 - Henry Ephron, US screenwriter (Daddy Long Legs), dies at 81
1992 - Indra Kamadjojo, [Broekveld], Indon/Dutch dancer (Stille Kracht), dies
1992 - Leo van der Kar, masseur/businessman/founder (Sports Fund), dies at 79
1994 - Dennis Morgan, [Stanley], US actor (21 Beacon Street), dies at 83
1994 - Eric John Crozier, producer/librettist, dies at 79
1994 - Godfrey Quigley, actor (Barry Lyndon, Educating Rita), dies at 71
1994 - James Clavell, author (Shogun, Tai-Pan), dies at 69
1994 - Terence Young, British director (Thunderball), dies of at 79
1995 - Gordon DeMarco, writer/activist, dies at 51
1996 - Niccolo Castiglioni, composer, dies at 64
1997 - Alex Macintosh, broadcaster/actor (Hell Fight), dies at 72
1997 - Derek Taylor, Beatles publicist, dies of cancer at 65
1997 - Mobutu Sese Seko, President of Zaire (1965-97), dies at 66
1999 - Jim Keith, American conspiracy theorist (b. 1949)
2001 - Spede Pasanen, Finnish television personality (b. 1930)
2001 - Billie Lou Watt, American actress (b. 1924)
2002 - Katrin Cartlidge, British actress (b. 1961)
2002 - Erma Franklin, American singer (b. 1938)
2002 - Uziel Gal, Israeli firearm designer (b. 1923)
2003 - The Great Antonio, Canadian eccentric (b. 1925)
2003 - Warren Zevon, American musician (b. 1947)
2004 - Bob Boyd, American baseball player (b. 1925)
2005 - Sergio Endrigo, Italian singer (b. 1933)
2005 - Hope Garber, Canadian actress (b. ca. 1924)
2008 - Dino Dvornik, Croatian singer (b. 1964)
2008 - Don Haskins, American College Basketball coach (b. 1930)
2008 - Nagi Noda, Japanese pop artist and director (b. 1973)
2008 - Ilarion Ciobanu, Romanian actor (b. 1931)
2010 - Amar Garibović, Serbian Cross Country Skier (b. 1991)
2010 - Barbara Holland, American writer (b. 1933)
2010 - John Kluge, American Businessman (b. 1914)
2010 - Glenn Shadix, American Actor (b. 1952)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 08, 2013, 11:08:21 AM

This Day in History for 8th September


Historical Events

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Painter Michelangelo                               Naturalist Charles Darwin                        Baseball Great Babe Ruth

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32nd US President                                  Baseball Player Hank Aaron                    Tennis Player John McEnroe
Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Tennis Player Steffi Graf                            Princess of Rock and Roll                     Tennis Player Pete Sampras
                                                                      Lisa Marie Presley


1024 - Duke Koenraad II chosen German king
1141 - -9] Battle of Samarkand: Yelutashi defeats Islams
1156 - Henry II Jasormigott leaves Bavaria
1264 - The Statute of Kalisz, guaranteeing Jews safety and personal liberties and giving battei din
           jurisdiction over Jewish matters, is promulgated by Boleslaus the Pious, Duke of Greater
           Poland.
1276 - John XXI elected Pope
1303 - Anagni: French king Philip IV captures Pope Boniface VIII
1331 - Stefan Dušan declares himself king of Serbia
1380 - Battle on Kulikovo: Moscow's great monarch Dimitri beats Mongols beginning the decline of
           the Tatars
1449 - Battle of Tumu Fortress - Mongolians capture the Chinese emperor.
1504 - Michelangelo's David is unveiled in Florence.
1514 - Battle of Orsha: Polish/Lithuania army defeat the Russian army
1522 - Spanish navigator Juan de Elcano returns to Spain, completes 1st circumnavigation of globe,
           expedition begins under Ferdinand Magellan
1536 - Earl of Nassau disbands siege of Peronne
1545 - English earl Hertford leads retaliatory mission against Scotland
1553 - City of Lichfield, England forms
1563 - Maximilian chosen king of Hungary
1565 - 1st permanent settlement in US forms (St Augustine, Florida)
1565 - Turkish siege of Malta broken by Maltese & Knights of St John
1628 - Bay of Matanzas Cuba: Piet Heyn captures Spanish silver fleet
1664 - Dutch surrender New Amsterdam (NY) to 300 English soldiers
1689 - China & Russia signs Treaty of Nertsjinsk (Nierchul)
1713 - Pope Clemens XI publishes degree "Unigenitus" against Jansenism"
1727 - A barn fire during a puppet show in the village of Burwell in Cambridgeshire, England kills 78
           people, many of whom are children.
1755 - Battle at Lake George: English army beats France
1756 - French and Indian War: Kittanning Expedition.
1760 - French army gives Montreal to Gen Jeffrey Amherst
1771 - Mission San Gabriel Archangel forms in California
1796 - Battle of Bassano-French beat Austrians
1831 - William IV is crowned King of Great Britain.
1833 - Charles Darwin departs to Buenos Aires
1847 - US under Gen Scott defeat Mexicans at Battle of Molino del Rey
1855 - Crimean war - assault of Malakof Tower under Mac-Mahon)
1858 - Lincoln makes a speech about when you can fool people
1860 - Loss of steamer, "Lady Elgin"
1863 - -10] Federal troops reconquer the Cumperland Gap, Tennessee
1863 - Battle of Sabine Pass TX: 47 Texas volunteers repel Federal forces
1863 - Battle of Telford's Depot TN
1868 - NY Athletic Club forms
1870 - Neth & Engl sign "Koelietraktaat" Br-Indian contract work in Suriname
1883 - NY Giants score 13 runs in an inning against Phillies
1883 - Northern Pacific RR's last spike driven at Independence Creek, Mont
1888 - In England the first six Football League matches ever are played.
1892 - 1st appearance of "Pledge of Allegiance" (Youth's Companion)
1899 - British government sends an additional 10,000 troops to Natal South Africa
1900 - 6,000 killed when a hurricane & tidal wave strikes Galveston, Texas
1905 - Pittsburgh Pirates strand NL record 18 men on base & lose to Reds 8-3
1907 - Pius X publishes encyclical Pasceni dominici gregis (anti-modernism)
1914 - British trader Oceanic sinks off Scotland
1914 - World War I: Private Thomas Highgate becomes the first British soldier to be executed for
           desertion during the war.
1915 - Association of Negro Life & History founded
1919 - Babe Ruth hits his 26th HR off Jack Quinn in NY, breaking Buck Freeman's 1899 HR mark of
           25
1920 - US Air Mail service begins (NYC to SF)
1921 - 1st Miss America crowned (Margaret Gorman of Washington DC)
1921 - Mary Gorman (Wash DC), 16, crowned 1st Miss America [or 9/14]
1923 - Honda Point Disaster: nine US Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast. Seven
           are lost.
1924 - Alexandra Kollontai of Russia becomes 1st woman ambassador
1926 - League of Nations Assembly voted unanimously to admit Germany
1930 - 1st appearance of comic strip "Blondie"
1930 - NYC public schools begin teaching Hebrew
1930 - Richard Drew creates Scotch tape
1933 - Spain's 2nd government of Azaña forms
1934 - 54th US Mens Tennis: Fred Perry beats Wilmer L Allison (64 63 16 86)
1934 - Bradman scores 132 v Leveson-Gower XI, 90 mins, 24 fours 1 six
1934 - Luxury passenger ship Morro Castle for NJ catches fire, 133 die
1935 - Willy de Supervise swims runs world record 200 m freestyle (2:25.2)
1936 - Princess Juliana & German prince Bernard Lippe-Biesterfeld get engaged
1937 - Pan Arab conference about Palestine opens
1937 - Yankees trailing 6-1 in 9th, score 8 to beat Boston 9-6
1939 - FDR declares "limited national emergency" due to war in Europe
1939 - Gen Von Reichenaus pantzer division reaches suburbs of Warsaw
1939 - Indians Bob Feller, 20, is youngest pitcher to win 20 games
1939 - Yanks beat Red Sox 4-1 in 7, game called because of lightning
1941 - Blockade of Leningrad (St Petersburg) by Germany begins
1941 - Entire Jewish community of Meretsch, Lithuania is exterminated
1943 - Gen Eisenhower announce unconditional surrender of Italy in WW II
1943 - Italy surrenders to Allies in WWII
1943 - Lt-Gen Bradley flies to Carthago/Algiers Sicily
1943 - NY Giants' pitcher Ace Adams sets record by working in his 62nd game
1944 - 1st V-2 rockets land in London & Antwerp
1944 - Russians march into Bulgaria; Bulgaria declares war on Germany
1944 - World War II: London is hit by a V2 rocket for the first time.
1945 - US invades Japanese-held Korea
1945 - Hideki Tojo, Japanese PM during most of WW II, attempts suicide rather than face war crimes
           tribunal attempt fails, later he is hanged
1946 - 60th US Womens Tennis: Pauline Betz beats Patricia Canning (119 63)
1946 - 66th US Mens Tennis: Jack Kramer beats Tom Brown Jr (97 63 60)
1946 - Bill Kennedy of Rocky Mount (CPL) strikes out minors record 456
1946 - Bulgaria ends monarchy
1946 - Jack Kramer wins US Tennis Open
1946 - SF 49ers play 1st AAFC game, lose to NY Yankees 21-7
1947 - British government sails "Exodus" with fugitives from Nazis
1948 - British De Havilland 08-fighter flies faster than sound
1951 - Japan signs peace treaty with 48 countries (SF)
1951 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Sempiternus Rex
1952 - 72nd US Mens Tennis: Frank A Sedgman beats Gardnar Mulloy (61 62 63)
1952 - Ernest Hemmingway's "Old Man & Sea" published
1953 - "Carnival in Flanders" opens at New Century Theater NY for 6 perfs
1953 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Fulgeno corona
1954 - With a 3-2 count, Phillies Richie Ashburn fouls next 14, then walks
1954 - Alan Freed leaves Cleveland to NYC for WINS radio
1954 - SE Asia Treaty Org (SEATO) forms to stop communist spread in SE Asia
1955 - Earliest clinching of an NL pennant (Brooklyn Dodgers)
1956 - Harry Belafonte's album "Calypso," goes to #1 & stays #1 for 31 weeks
1957 - 77th US Mens Tennis: M J Anderson beats Ashley J Cooper (108 75 64)
1957 - Jackie Wilson, releases his 1st solo single "Reet Petite"
1957 - Pope Pius XII encyclical On motion pictures, radio, TV
1958 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Dallas Golf Open
1958 - Oman turns over Gwadur (on Baluchistan coast) to Pakistan
1958 - Paul Anka opens Asian tour in Tokyo
1959 - The Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) is established.
1960 - German DR limits access to East-Berlin for West Berliners
1962 - Chinese troops exceed Mac-Mahon-line (Tibet-India boundary)
1962 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1962 - Last run of the famous Pines Express over the Somerset and Dorset Railway line (UK) fittingly
           using the last steam locomotive built by British Railways, 9F locomotive 92220 'Evening Star'
1963 - 77th US Womens Tennis: Maria Fraser beats Margaret Smith Court (75 64)
1963 - 83rd US Mens Tennis: R H Osuna beats Frank Froehling III (75 64 62)
1963 - Algerian population accepts constitution
1963 - Braves Warren Spahn ties Christy Mathewson with 13 20-win seasons
1963 - Ines Cuervo de Priete, 34, gives birth to quintuplets, all boys
1963 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Spokane Women's Golf Open
1965 - Hurricane Betsy kills 75 in Louisiana & Florida
1965 - KC A's Bert Campaneris plays all 9 positions in a game
1966 - "Star Trek" premieres on NBC-TV
1966 - "That Girl" starring Marlo Thomas premieres on ABC-TV
1966 - The Severn Bridge is officially opened by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
1967 - Surveyor 5 launched; makes soft landing on Moon Sept 10
1967 - Uganda abolishes traditional tribal kingdoms, becomes a republic
1967 - The formal end of steam traction in the North East of England by British Railways.
1968 - "Funny Girl" with Barbra Striesand premieres
1968 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1968 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Pacific Ladies Golf Classic
1968 - Saundra Williams wins 1st Miss Black America pageant
1969 - 2nd US Tennis Open smallest session - 3708 (men's singles final-rain)
1969 - 89th US Mens Tennis: Rodney G Laver beats Tony Roche (79 61 62 62)
1969 - Suleiman Maghrabi appointed premier of Libya
1969 - US amateur Mens Tennis: Stan Smith beats Bob Lutz (97 63 61)
1970 - Hijacking (and subsequent destruction) of three airliners to Jordan by Palestinians; the events
           to follow would later become known as Black September
1971 - John F Kennedy Center for Performing Arts opens in Washington DC
1972 - Chic Cub Ferguson Jenkins wins his 20th game for 6th straight year
1972 - Jim Ryan (US) & Billy Fordjour (Ghana) collide & fall in qualifying competitions for 1,500m
           finals, ending Ryan's chances for gold
1973 - 87th US Womens Tennis: M S Court beats E Goolagong Cawley (76 57 62)
1973 - Billy Martin named manager of Texas Rangers
1973 - Hank Aaron sets record of most HRs in 1 league (709)
1973 - Rebecca Ann King (Colo), 23, crowned 46th Miss America 1974
1973 - "Star Trek - Animated Series" premieres on TV
1974 - 88th US Womens Tennis: Billie J King beats Evonne Goolagong (36 63 75)
1974 - 94th US Mens Tennis: Jimmy Connors beats Ken Rosewall (61 60 61)
1974 - Ian Thompson wins marathon (2:13:18.8 )
1974 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
1974 - Pres Gerald Ford pardons former Pres R Nixon of all federal crimes
1975 - Boston begins court ordered busing of public schools
1975 - Guinee-Bissau declares independence from Portugal
1976 - Fons Rademakers' film "Max Havelaar" premieres in Amsterdam
1977 - Interpol sends a resolution concerning video piracy
1977 - Jimmy McCullough quits Wings
1978 - 2nd game of Boston Massacre; Yanks beat Red Sox 13-2
1978 - Irani army shoots on Khomeini followers in Teheran, 100s killed
1979 - Cheryl Prewitt (Miss), 22, crowned 52nd Miss America 1980
1979 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1980 - Bowie Kuhn suspends Ferguson Jenkins indefinitely due to drug arrest
1982 - Dutch social dem party wins elections, fascist enters Dutch parliament
1983 - NASA launches RCA-6
1984 - 98th US Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Chris E L Mills (46 64 64)
1984 - Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 41G mission
1985 - "USA Weekend's" 1st issue, appears in 255 newspapers
1985 - 105th US Mens Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats John McEnroe (76 63 64)
1985 - 7 die in a car & train crash in San Jose Calif
1985 - Alayson Gibbons sets 24 hr women swim record of 42.05 mi in 25 m pool
1985 - Discovery flies back to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB
1985 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Portland Ping Golf Championship
1985 - Pete Rose ties Ty Cobb with 4,191 hits
1986 - Westinghouse sells Muzak
1987 - Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation
1988 - Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation
1988 - Javier Sotomayer of Cuba high jumps world record 2.43m
1988 - NL pres Bart Giamatti is unanimously elected baseball's 7th commish
1989 - George Brett gets his 2,500th hit
1989 - Mausoleum of Beatrice of Brabant (1288) discovered in Kortrijk Belgium
1989 - Norwegian Convair 580 crashes at Jutland in sea (55 murder)
1990 - 104th US Womens Tennis: Gabriela Sabatini beats Steffi Graf (62 76)
1990 - Ellis Island Historical Site opens on Ellis Island NYC
1991 - 111th US Mens Tennis: Stefan Edberg beats Jim Courier (62 64 60)
1991 - Buffalo Bill Jim Kelly passes for 6 touchdowns vs Pitts (52-34)
1991 - Macedonia votes for independence from Yugoslavia
1991 - Michelle Estill wins Ping-Cellular One LPGA Golf Championship
1991 - Republic of Macedonia becomes independent.
1992 - Danny Tartabull has 9 RBIs as Yanks beat Orioles 16-4
1992 - Howard Stern Radio Show begins broadcasting in Dallas (KGEL-FM 97.1)
1993 - Baseball's proposed switch to a three-division format OKed in AL
1993 - Cheek Junxia wins world record ladies 10 km (29:31.78)
1993 - Houston's Darryl Kile throws 3rd no-hitter of season in 7-1 over Mets
1994 - "Philadelphia, Here I Come" opens at Criterion NYC for 52 perfs
1994 - Last US, British & French troops leave West-Berlin
1994 - MTV awards feature newlyweds Michael Jackson & Lisa Marie Presley
1994 - Man shoots another man on IRT #4 train at Grand Central Station
1994 - USAir Boeing 737 crashes at Pitts Airport, killing all 132 on board
1995 - Cleveland Indians clinch 1st AL Central Division title
1996 - "7 Guitars" closes at Walter Kerr Theater NYC
1996 - 110th US Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Monica Seles (75 64)
1996 - 116th US Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Michael Chang (61 64 76)
1996 - 48th Emmy Awards: ER, Dennis Franz & Kathy Baker wins
1996 - Dottie Pepper wins Safeway LPGA title
1996 - Men's championship at US Tennis Open
1996 - Ping-Cellular One LPGA Golf Championship
1996 - Sri Lanka defeat Australia to win Singer World Series at Colombo
1999 - United States Attorney General Janet Reno names former Senator John Danforth to head an
           independent investigation of the 1993 fire at the Branch Davidian church near Waco, Texas in
           response to revelations in the film Waco: The Rules of Engagement contradicting the official
           government stories.
2002 - Texas Rangers set a major league record by homering in their 26th consecutive game as
           Texas falls to the Tampa Bay
2004 - The NASA unmanned spacecraft Genesis crash-lands when its parachute fails to open.
2005 - Two EMERCOM Il-76 aircraft land at a disaster aid staging area at Little Rock Air Force Base;
           the first time Russia has flown such a mission to North America.
2012 - 6 people are killed by a Taliban suicide bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan
2012 - 8 people are killed after a tractor is hut by a train in Romania

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 08, 2013, 11:11:01 AM

This Day in History for 8th September


Famous Weddings

1761 - Marriage of George III of the United Kingdom to Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (Queen
           Charlotte).
1953 - Actress Lana Turner (32) weds "Tarzan of the Apes" actor Lex Barker (34)
1969 - Polish politician and trade-union organizer Lech Walesa (25) weds Danuta Golos (20)
2012 - "How I Met Your Mother" actress Cobie Smulders (30) weds "Saturday Night Live" actor Taran
            Killam (30) at the Alisal Guest Ranch and Resort in Solvang, California
2012 - "Big Brother" TV personality winner Rachel Reilly (27) weds fellow Big Brother player Brendon
            Villegas (32) at the top of AT&T Center in downtown Los Angeles

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 08, 2013, 11:15:06 AM

This Day in History for 8th September


Famous Weddings

2009 - '90s pop sensation singer Peter Andre (36) divorces glamour model Katie Price (31) due to
           unreasonable behaviour after 3 years of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 08, 2013, 11:31:48 AM

This Day in History for 8th September


Famous Birthdays

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Provencal Poet                                            Country Singer                                            Actor and Comedian
Frederic Mistral (1830)                                 Jimmie Rodgers (1897)                                   Peter Sellers (1925)

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Singer Pink (1979)


801 - Ansgar, German Catholic archbishop (d. 865)
828 - Ali al-Hadi, Shia Imam (d. 868)
1157 - Richard I, [Richard the Lion Hearted], King of England (1189-99)
1207 - Sancho II, king of Portugal
1271 - Charles Martel d'Anjou, son of Charles II of Naples (d. 1295)
1380 - Bernardinus of Siena, Italian saint
1474 - Ludovico Ariosto, Italy, poet (Orlando Furioso)
1515 - Alfonso Salmeron, Spanish Jesuit biblical scholar (d. 1585)
1588 - Marin Mersenne, France, mathematician/musician/philosopher (Cartesian)
1591 - Jacqueline M A de Sainte Madeleine Arnauld, French abbess
1611 - Johann Friedrich Gronovius, German classical scholar (d. 1671)
1621 - Louis II Condé, [Great Condé], duke of Bourbon (Rocroy)
1633 - Ferdinand IV of Germany (d. 1654)
1672 - Nicolas de Grigny, composer
1718 - Francois-Thomas the Baculard d'Arnaud, sentimental writer
1736 - Bernardo Ottani, composer
1749 - Gabrielle de Polastron, duchesse de Polignac, French aristocrat (d. 1793)
1749 - Marie-Louise, Princesse de Lamballe, French aristocrat (d. 1792)
1756 - Anton Teyber, composer
1767 - Karl August von Lichtenstein, composer
1774 - Anna K Emmerick/Emmerich, German poet
1778 - Clemens Brentano, German poet (d. 1842)
1779 - Johann Philipp Samuel Schmidt, composer
1779 - Mustafa IV, sultan of Turkey (1807-08)
1783 - Nicolai Grundtvig, Danish writer and philosopher (d. 1872)
1792 - Joseph Netherclift, composer
1804 - Eduard Mörike, German poet (d. 1875)
1814 - Charles-Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, French writer and historian (d. 1874)
1815 - Alexander Ramsey, Gov (Union), died in 1903
1821 - Henry Baxter, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1873
1824 - Jaime Nuno, composer
1826 - Disma Fumagalli, composer
1827 - Emil Naumann, composer
1828 - Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1829 - George Crook, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1890
1829 - Seth Maxwell Barton, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1900
1830 - Frederic Mistral, Maillane, France, Provencal poet (Nobel 1904), (d. 1914)
1831 - Wilhelm Raabe, [Jakob Corvinus], German author (Der Hungerpastor)
1841 - Antonín Dvořák, Nelahozeves Czech, composer (New World Symphony). Dies 1940
1841 - Charles J. Guiteau, American assassin of James A. Garfield (d. 1882)
1852 - Emperor Gwangmu of Korea (d. 1919)
1854 - Willem M van Rossum, Dutch cardinal/prefect of Propaganda File
1857 - Georg Michaelis, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1936)
1863 - Gustavo Emilio Campa, composer
1865 - Adolfo Albertazzi, Italian writer (Amore & Amore, Top)
1870 - Hermann Hans Wetzler, composer
1873 - David O McKay, Huntsville, Utah, 9th pres of Mormon church
1873 - Max Reinhardt, Austria, theatrical director (Oedipus Rex)
1873 - Alfred Jarry, French absurdist playwright (d. 1907)
1880 - Roelof Kranenburg, Dutch social democratic chairman (1st Chamber)
1881 - Harry Hillman, American athlete (d. 1945)
1884 - Théodore Pilette, Belgian racing driver (d. 1921)
1886 - Siegfried L Sassoon, English poet/writer (Counterattack)
1887 - Prince George of Yugoslavia (d. 1972)
1888 - Louis Zimmer, Flemish clock maker (Jubelklok/Wonder Clock)
1889 - Robert A Taft, (Sen-R-Ohio, Taft-Hartley Act)
1894 - Willem FJ Pijper, Dutch composer/critic
1895 - Sara García, Mexican actress (d. 1980)
1896 - Howard Dietz, American lyricist and librettist (d. 1983)
1897 - [James Charles] Jimmie Rodgers, Mendoza Miss, country singer/singing brakeman
1898 - Queenie Smith, NYC, actress/dancer (Funny Side)
1900 - Claude D Pepper, (Rep-D-FL, 1963- ), old people's advocate
1901 - Hendrik F Verwoerd, premier South Africa (1958-66) (assassinated)
1902 - Anthonie Donker, [Prof N Donkersloot], Dutch literary
1904 - Carlos Sanchez Malaga, composer
1905 - Henry Wilcoxon, actor (Cleopatra, Jericho, 10 Commandments)
1906 - Andrei P Kirilenko, Russian member of Central Committee of CP
1907 - Buck O'Neil, Old Negro League Baseball player
1907 - Gavin Muir, Chicago Illinois, actor (Hollister-Betty Hutton Show)
1907 - Leon Askin, Vienna Austria, actor (Pierre-Charlie Farrell Show)
1907 - Sid Tomack, actor (Life of Riley)
1908 - Geoffrey Hodges, bomb disposal expert
1910 - Gella Allaert, Flemish actress (La Round)
1910 - Jean-Louis Barrault, Vesinet France, actor (Les Enfants du Paradis)
1912 - Alexander Mackendrick, Boston, director (Man in the White Suit, Mandy)
1912 - Leo Cherne, NYC, economist/commentator (All Star News)
1914 - Dimitrios I, patriarch (primus interparis orthodox Christians)
1914 - Hillary Brooke, Abbott & Costello's neighbor (Hillary)
1915 - Frank Cady, actor (Mr Drucker-Green Acres), (d. 2012)
1915 - Frank Pullen, English business person and racehorse owner (d.1992)
1918 - Derek Barton, British chemist (Nobel 1969)
1918 - John F Seiberling, (Rep-D-OH, 1971-86)
1919 - David Johan Kvandal, composer
1919 - Richard Pool, naval Officer
1919 - Gianni Brera, (Giovanni Luigi Brera), Italian journalist and writer (d. 1992)
1921 - Hans Ulrich Engelmann, German composer (Ophelia)
1921 - Harry Secombe, Swansea Wales, actor (Down Among the "Z" Men)
1922 - Lyndon LaRouche, American presidental candidate (1980)
1922 - Sid Caesar, Yonkers NY, comedian (Your Show of Shows)
1923 - Alan Weeks, sports commentator
1923 - Francois Chaumette, actor (They Never Slept, Christine)
1924 - Wendell H Ford, (Sen-D-Kentucky, 1974- )
1924 - Mimi Parent, Canadian painter (d. 2005)
1924 - Marie-Claire Kirkland, Quebec politician
1925 - Alexander Nikolayevich Kholminov, composer
1925 - Denise Darcel, Paris France, actress (Dangerous When Wet)
1925 - Heinz Lau, composer
1925 - Magnus Blondal Johansson, composer
1925 - Peter Sellers, England, actor (Kato, Bobo, Pink Panther), (d. 1980)
1927 - Harlan Howard, American country music songwriter (d. 2002)
1929 - Severn Darden, actor (Popesco-Mary Hartman)
1929 - Christoph von Dohnanyi, German conductor
1929 - Roger Byrne, English footballer (d. 1958
1930 - Emilio Azcarraga Milmo, media tycoon
1930 - Jeanette Altwegg, England, figure skater (Olympic-gold-1952)
1930 - Mario Adorf, Zurich Switzerland, actor (Bachelor, Abyssinia)
1930 - Nguyen Cao Ky, Premier of South Vietnam
1930 - Robert W. Firestone, Author, Artist, Clinical Psychologist
1931 - John Garrett, British politician (d. 2007)
1932 - Patsy Cline, Winchester Va, country singer (Crazy)
1933 - Eric Salzman, composer
1933 - Asha Bhonsle, Indian singer
1933 - Paul M. Fleiss, American pediatrician; father of Heidi Fleiss
1933 - Michael Frayn, British playwright
1934 - Peter Maxwell Davies, Manchester England, composer (Prolation, Taverner)
1934 - Rodrigue Biron, Canadian politician
1935 - James Clay, saxophonist
1937 - Virna Lisi, Italy, actress (Assault on a Queen, Bluebeard)
1938 - Sam Nunn, American politician (Sen-D-Georgia, 1972 - 1997)
1938 - Kenichi Horie, Japanese adventurer
1939 - Carsten Keller, German field hockey player
1939 - Guitar Shorty, American musician
1940 - Willie Tyler, Red Level Ala, ventriloquist (Lester)
1940 - Quentin L. Cook, LDS apostle
1941 - Alan Feinstein, NYC, actor (Max-Berrengers, Family Tree)
1941 - Bernard Sanders, (Rep-R-Vermont)
1941 - Dante Drowty, rocker
1941 - Bernie Sanders, American politician
1942 - Brian Cole, Tacoma Wash, rock vocalist/bassist (Association)
1942 - Nancy Ann Dibble, Netherlands, sci-fi author (Summerfair)
1942 - Sal Valentino, rocker
1943 - Adelaide C. Eckardt, American politician
1945 - Kelly Groucutt, rocker
1945 - Rogie Vachon, Quebec, NHL goalie (Canadiens, Kings, Vezina-1968)
1945 - Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, California, rocker (Grateful Dead, Grass Roots)
1946 - Dean Daughtry, rock keyboardist (Atlanta Rhythm Section)
1946 - L.C. Greenwood, American football player
1947 - Amos Biwott, Uasin Gishee Kenya, 3K steeplechaser (Oly-gold-1968)
1947 - Ann Beattie, Wash DC, short story writer (NYer Magazine)
1947 - Valery Afanassiev, Russian pianist
1948 - Great Kabuki, [Akihisa Yone Yoshi Mera], wrestler (NWA/NJPW/WAR/SWS)
1948 - Kathy Hite-James, LPGA golfer
1948 - Lynn/Marilyn [Lorraine] Abbey, US, sci-fi author (Black Flame)
1950 - Daniel Victor Starr, composer
1950 - Will Lee, bassist (Late Show with David Letterman)
1950 - Mike Simpson, American politician
1951 - Mark McCumber, golfer
1951 - Randy T Odle, Port Arthur Texas, astronaut
1951 - Timothy Gullikson, tennis player/coach (Pete Sampras)
1951 - Tom Gullikson, Wisc, tennis player (US mixed Doubles 1984)
1951 - Nikos Karvelas, Greek composer
1954 - Clayton Norcross, actor (Bold & Beautiful, Colbys, Santa Barbara)
1954 - Mark Foley, American politician
1956 - Maurice Cheeks, NBA guard (NY Knicks, Phila '76ers)
1956 - Frank Tovey, British musician (d. 2002)
1957 - Heather Thomas, Greenwich Ct, actress (Jody-Fall Guy, Coed Fever)
1957 - Melissa Whitmire, LPGA golfer
1958 - David Lewis, guitarist (Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover)
1958 - Michael Lardie, American musician
1958 - Mitsuru Miyamoto, Japanese voice actor
1959 - Daler Nazarov, Tajik composer and actor
1960 - Stefano Casiraghi, husband of princess Caroline of Monaco
1960 - Aimee Mann, American musician
1961 - Franny Michel, Brooklyn New York, American actress (Patricia-Apple's Way)
1961 - Paul Zanetti, Australian political cartoonist
1962 - René Klijn, [Dorian], singer (Mr Blue)
1962 - Sergio Casal, Spanish tennis player
1962 - Christopher Klim, American novelist
1962 - Thomas Kretschmann, German actor
1963 - Gerald Williams, NFL defensive end (Carolina Panthers)
1963 - Li Ning, Chinese gymnast
1963 - Brad Silberling, American television and film director
1963 - Hitoshi Matsumoto, Japanese comedian
1964 - Steffan Peters, equestrian dressage (Olympics-bronze-96)
1964 - Michael Johns, American business executive
1964 - Scott Levy, American professional wrestler
1964 - Joachim Nielsen, Norwegian musician (d. 2000)
1965 - Barbra Fontana Harris, Manhattan Beach CA, volleyballer (Oly-4th-96)
1966 - Mike Dyer, Upland California, pitcher (Montreal Expos)
1966 - Raymond Atteveld, Belgian soccer player (Waregem, Roda JC)
1966 - Carola, Swedish singer
1966 - Peter Furler, musician (Newsboys)
1967 - Brett Winslow, Santa Barbara California, volleyball middle blocker (Oly-96)
1967 - Kimberly Peirce, American film director
1969 - Oswaldo Ibarra, Ecuadorian footballer
1969 - Lars Bohinen, Norwegian footballer
1969 - Gary Speed, Welsh footballer
1970 - Clarence Weatherspoon, NBA forward (Phila 76ers)
1970 - Tomur Barnes, NFL cornerback (Houston Oilers)
1970 - Neko Case, American musician
1971 - Cristy Thom, LA Ca, playmate (Feb, 1991)
1971 - David Merritt, NFL outside linebacker (Arizona Cardinals)
1971 - Greg Minor, NBA guard (Boston Celtics)
1971 - Henry Thomas, San Antonio TX, actor (ET)
1971 - Jan Pardavy, hockey forward (Team Slovakia)
1971 - David Arquette, Winchester, Virginia, American actor, director and producer (Scream, Kiss &
           Tell)
1971 - Brooke Burke, American model
1971 - Martin Freeman, English actor
1972 - Markus Babbel, German footballer
1972 - Giovanni Frezza, Italian actor
1972 - Lisa Kennedy, American television personality
1972 - Tomokazu Seki, Japanese voice actor
1972 - Phil Laak, Ireland-born professional poker player
1973 - Bob Wolcott, Huntington Beach Ca, pitcher (Seattle Mariners)
1973 - Jason Downs, actor (Bobby-Hairspray)
1973 - Khamis Al-Owairan, Saudi Arabian footballer
1974 - Braulio Luna, Mexican footballer
1974 - Tanaz Eshaghian, Iranian-born American documentarian
1975 - Elena Likhovtseva, Alma-Ata Kazakhstan, tennis star
1975 - John Thomas, NBA forward (Boston Celtics)
1975 - Richard Hughes, English musician (Keane)
1975 - Larenz Tate, American Actor
1975 - Lee Eul-Yong, South Korean footballer
1976 - Sjeng Schalken, Weert Neth, tennis star
1976 - Gerald Drummond, Costa Rican footballer
1976 - Jervis Drummond, Costa Rican footballer
1976 - Brendan Kelly, American musician (The Lawrence Arms)
1976 - Sarah Kucserka, American screenwriter
1977 - Maria Helena Selin, ice hockey right wing (Finland, Oly-98)
1978 - Marco Sturm, Dingolfing GER, NHL forward (Sharks, Team Germany 1998)
1978 - Gerard Autet, Spanish footballer
1978 - Gil Meche, American baseball player
1979 - Pink [Alecia Beth Moore], Doylestown, Pennsylvania, singer (Get the Party Started, Just Like a
           Pill)
1980 - Teruyuki Moniwa, Japanese footballer
1981 - Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Bethlehem PA, actor (Randy-Home Improvement)
1981 - Morten Gamst Pedersen, Norwegian footballer
1983 - Wali Lundy, American football player
1983 - Diego Benaglio, Swiss-Italian footballer
1983 - Chris Judd, Australian football player
1983 - Lewis Roberts-Thompson, Australian football player
1983 - Will Blalock, American basketball player
1984 - Vitaly Petrov, Russian racing driver
1984 - Peter Whittingham, English footballer
1985 - Yendi Phillips, Jamaican beauty pageant contestant
1986 - João Moutinho, Sporting Lisbon midfielder
1986 - Matt Grothe, American football player
1988 - Arrelious Benn, American football player
1988 - Chantal Jones, American fashion model
1988 - Caitlin Hill, Australian internet personality
1990 - Matt Barkley, American football player
1996 - Krystal Reyes, Filipina actress
1997 - Kimberlea Berg, English actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 08, 2013, 11:51:17 AM

This Day in History for 8th September


Famous Deaths

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Founder of the Shakers
Ann Lee (1784)


394 - Arbogast, French general, commits suicide
701 - Sergius I, Syrian/Italian Pope (687-701), dies
780 - Leo IV de Chazaar, Byzantine Emperor (775-80), dies
876 - Lodewijk de Duitser, king of East French Republic (833-76), dies at 72
1100 - Clement III, [Wibert van Ravenna], 1st anti-pope (1084-1100), dies
1397 - Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester.
1425 - King Charles III of Navarre (b. 1361)
1539 - John Stokesley, English churchman
1550 - Hans [Johann] Vischer, German count of Johann Cicero, dies
1555 - Thomas Villanova, Spanish saint/archbishop of Valencia, dies
1560 - Amy Robsart, wife of English premier Robert Dudley, dies by accident
1603 - George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon, English politician (b. 1547)
1613 - Don Carlo Gesauldo, composer, dies
1633 - Carlo Caraffa, Ital jesuit/religious order founder, dies at about 72
1637 - Robert Fludd, composer, dies at 63
1644 - Francis Quarles, English poet (Enchiridion), dies
1645 - Francisco Gomez Quevedo y Villegas, Spanish author/poet, dies at 64
1645 - John Coke, English politician (b. 1563)
1654 - Peter Claver, Spanish saint (baptized 300,000 slaves), dies
1656 - Joseph Hall, English bishop and writer (b. 1574)
1660 - Daniel von Czepko, German poet, dies at 54
1675 - Amalia, countess of Solms-Braunfels, dies at 73
1682 - Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish writer (b. 1606)
1706 - Romanus Weichlein, composer, dies at 53
1721 - Michael Brokoff, Czech sculptor (b. 1686)
1739 - Yuri Troubetzkoy, Governor of Belgorod (b. 1668)
1755 - Ephraim Williams, American philanthropist (b. 1715)
1761 - Bernard Forest de Bélidor, French engineer (b. 1698)
1780 - Enoch Poor, American Continental Army general (b. 1736)
1784 - Ann Lee, American religious leader (b. 1736)
1811 - Peter S Pallas, German geologist/zoologist, dies at 69
1819 - Franz Stanislaus Spindler, composer, dies at 56
1831 - John Aitken, Scottish-born music publisher (b. 1745)
1838 - Pietro Rovelli, composer, dies at 45
1840 - John H van de Palm, theologist/literature/speaker, dies at 77
1853 - Frédéric Ozanam, founder of the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul (b. 1813)
1871 - Etienne-Joseph Soubre, composer, dies at 57
1879 - Nikolay Ivanovich Zaremba, composer, dies at 58
1881 - W Frederik K, prince of Netherlands/general/admiral, dies at 84
1882 - Joseph Liouville, French mathematician (surface of Liouville), dies
1894 - Hermann von Helmholtz, German physician (b. 1821)
1895 - Adam Opel, German manufacturer (motorcars), dies at 58
1899 - Vaclav Hugo Zavrtal, composer, dies at 78
1914 - William E Darwin, British son of Charles Darwin, dies at 74
1917 - Charles Edouard Lefebvre, composer, dies at 74
1933 - Faisal I ibn Hussein ibn Ali, 1st king of Iraq/Syria, dies at 50
1935 - Carl Austin Weiss, murderer of Sen Huey Long, shot down
1935 - Huey P Long, (Sen-La) assassinated at Baton Rouge Capitol building
1944 - Jan van Gilse, composer/Dutch resistance fighter, dies at 63
1948 - Thomas Mofolo, Lesotho writer (b. 1876)
1949 - Richard Strauss, German composer (Also sprach Zarathustra), dies at 85
1951 - Jurgen Stroop, Nazi commander of Warsaw Ghetto, executed
1951 - Maria Montez, actress (Arabian Nights), dies of heart seizure at 33
1955 - John de Young, cardinal/archbishop of Utrecht, dies at 69
1956 - Gerrit Bolkestein, Dutch minister of Education (1939-4.), dies at 84
1956 - Vital Celen, Flemish writer ('t Pastoorke van Vossendonck), dies at 69
1962 - Hermann Standiger, German chemist (Nobel 1953), dies at 84
1965 - Dorothy Dandridge, American actress (Island in the Sun), dies of accidental overdose at 42
1969 - Bud Collyer, TV emcee (Beat the Clock, To Tell the Truth), dies at 61
1969 - Alexandra David-Néel, French explorer and writer (b. 1868)
1970 - Percy Spencer, inventor of the microwave oven, (b. 1894)
1974 - Robert Cox, last surviving member of Keystone Kops, dies at 79
1975 - John Mylong, actor (Robot Monster), dies at 82
1976 - Assen Karastoyanov, composer, dies at 83
1976 - Joaquin Zamacois Soler, composer, dies at 81
1977 - Zero [Samuel J] Mostel, US actor (Fiddler on the Roof), dies at 62
1978 - Pancho Vladigerov, composer, dies at 79
1979 - Jean Seberg, actress (Breathless, Airport), commits suicide at 40
1980 - Bruce Dooland, cricketer (prolific leggie for Notts), dies
1980 - Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist/theory/educator, dies at 84
1981 - Hediki Joekawa, Japans physicist (Nobel 1949) at 74
1981 - Roy Wilkins, longtime executive director of NAACP, dies at 80
1981 - Roy Wilkins, American civil rights activist (b. 1901)
1983 - Antonin Magne, French bicylist (won Tour de France 1931, 34), dies
1983 - Willem C "Wim" Kan, Dutch cabaret performer, dies at 72
1984 - Frank Lowson, cricketer (England opener 1951-55), dies
1984 - Rene Bernier, composer, dies at 79
1985 - John Franklin Enders, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
           (b. 1887)
1991 - Alex North, music composer (Spartacus), dies at 80 of cancer
1991 - Brad Davis, US, actor (Midnight Express, Chariots of Fire), dies at 41
1991 - Jan J Lipski, chairman (Polish Socialist Party)/writer, dies
1991 - Jo Budie, Dutch orchestra leader (KRO), dies
1992 - Quentin N Burdick, (Sen-D-ND, 1960-91), dies at 84
1993 - Hall Bartlett, US director (Jonathan Livingston Seagull), dies at 70
1993 - Lorin "Whitey" Harrison, surfer, dies at 80 of a heart attack
1993 - Zaki Naguib Mahmoud, Egyptian philosopher/author/diplomat, dies at 88
1994 - Arthur Rex Alston, British sports commentator, dies at 93
1994 - Deborah Bear, Engl still photographer (Pasolini/Fellini), dies at 44
1994 - Dennis Morgan, actor (Cattle Town, Canyon Pass), dies at 83
1994 - Edna Manilow, mother of singer Barry Manilow, dies at 70 of cancer
1994 - Michael Peters, choreographer, dies
1994 - Rex Alston, cricketer (distinguished BBC commentator), dies
1995 - Eileen Zhang Ailing Chang, writer, dies at 73
1995 - Olga Ivinskaya, mistress of Boris Pasternak, dies of cancer at 83
1995 - Safa Khulusi, writer, dies at 78
1996 - Elizabeth Eyre de Lanaux, designer artist/writer, dies at 102
1999 - Moondog, American composer, musician and poet (b. 1916)
2002 - Laurie Williams, West Indian cricketer (b. 1968)
2003 - Jaclyn Linetsky, Canadian voice actress (b. 1986)
2003 - Leni Riefenstahl, German film director (b. 1902)
2004 - Frank Thomas, American animator (b. 1913)
2005 - Noel Cantwell, Irish cricketer and footballer (b. 1932)
2006 - Hilda Bernstein, English-born South African author, artist, and activist (b. 1915)
2006 - Peter Brock, Australian racecar driver (b. 1945)
2006 - Frank Middlemass, actor (b. 1919)
2006 - Erk Russell, American football coach (b. 1923)
2007 - Ramón Cardemil, Chilean huaso (b. 1917)
2008 - Evan Tanner, UFC Champion
2009 - Mike Bongiorno, Italian television host (b. 1924)
2009 - Aage Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1922)
2012 - Bill Moggridge [William], British designer, dies from cancer at 69

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 09, 2013, 01:34:31 PM

This Day in History for 9th September


Historical Events

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Queen of Scotland Mary Stuart                Aviator Orville Wright                     Singer & Cultural Icon Elvis Presley

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Baseball Player                                        36th US President                                    Musician and Beatle                                 
Roberto Clemente                                    Lyndon B. Johnson                                   John Lennon 

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Tennis Player John McEnroe                    NBA Legend Larry Bird                           Radio shock jock Howard Stern


701 - St Sergius I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1000 - Battle of Svolder, Viking Age.
1379 - Treaty of Neuberg, splitting the Austrian Habsburg lands between the Habsburg Dukes Albert
           III and Leopold III.
1493 - Battle of Krbava field, a decisive defeat of Croats in Croatian struggle against the Ottoman
           Empire invasion.
1513 - Battle of Flodden Fields; English defeat James IV of Scotland
1543 - Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is crowned "Queen of Scots" in the central Scottish town of
           Stirling.
1556 - Pope Paul IV refuses to crown Ferdinand of Austria emperor
1561 - Sermon of Poissy
1567 - Lomaraal van Egmond & Philip van Hoorne captured
1591 - -10] Battle at Flores Azores: Spanish beat English
1675 - New England colonies declare war on Wampanoag indians
1683 - Expelled Polish & Lotharings reach Wienerwald
1739 - Slave revolt in Stono SC led by Jemmy (25 whites killed)
1753 - 1st steam engine arrives in US colonies
1776 - Congress officially renames the country as the United States of America (Was the United
           Colonies)
1817 - Alexander Lucius Twilight, probably 1st black to graduate from US college, receives BA degree
           at Middlebury College
1830 - Charles Durant, 1st US aeronaut, flies a balloon from Castle Garden, NYC to Perth Amboy, NJ
1839 - John Herschel takes 1st glass plate photograph
1841 - Great Lakes steamer "Erie" sinks off Silver Creek NY, kills 300
1850 - Territories of New Mexico & Utah created
1850 - California is admitted as the thirty-first U.S. state
1861 - Sally Tompkins is only Confederate Army female commissioned officer
1862 - Lee splits his army & sends Jackson to capture Harpers Ferry
1863 - Battle of Cumberland Gap, TN
1867 - Luxembourg gains independence
1875 - Lotta's Fountain (Kearny & Market) dedicated
1880 - President Hayes visits SF
1881 - Egyptian military coup under colonel Arab "El Wahid"
1886 - The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works is finalized.
1892 - E E Barnard at Lick discovers Amalthea, 5th Jupiter moon
1895 - American Bowling Congress forms (NYC)
1898 - Ottawa Football Club re-organizes into the Rough Riders
1899 - French Capt Alfred Dreyfus sentenced on unjust grounds
1903 - 6 km long Engadin-railroad tunnel of Switzerland inaugurated
1904 - Mounted police 1st used in NYC
1904 - Boston Herald again refers to NY baseball club as Yankees, when it reports "Yankees take 2,"
           Yankee name not official till 1913
1908 - Orville Wright makes 1st 1-hr airplane flight, Fort Myer, Va
1908 - Russia takes part of Poland
1909 - Jack Johnson fights Al Kaufman to no decision in 10 for boxing title
1911 - 1st European airpost (Hendon to Windsor, England)
1912 - J Verdrines becomes 1st to fly over 100 mph (107 mph/172 kph)
1913 - Association for Study of Negro Life & History organizes in Chicago
1914 - -12] Belgian offensive from Antwerp
1914 - Battle of Marne (German advance stalls, Paris saved)
1914 - Boston Brave George Davis no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 7-0
1914 - World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully
           mechanized unit in the British Army.
1915 - Association for study of Negro Life & History forms by Carter G Woodson
1918 - Dutch government of Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms
1919 - Boston's police force forms strike
1922 - St Louis Brown "Baby Doll" Jacobson hits 3 triples beating Tigers 16-0
1922 - Turkish troops conquer Smyrna/murder Greek citizens
1922 - William T Cosgrave replaces Irish premier Collins
1923 - Albin Stenroos runs world record 20 km (1:07:11.2)
1924 - Hanapepe Massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii.
1926 - National Broadcasting Co created by Radio Corporation of America
1926 - Train disaster at Wassenaar Neth, 4 die
1926 - The U.S. National Broadcasting Company formed.
1927 - Tony Lazzeri Day at Yankee Stadium
1928 - Silvio Cator of Haiti, sets then long jump record at 26' ½"
1932 - Frank Crosetti ties record, striking out twice in 1 inning
1932 - Mine strikes at Belgian Borinage ended
1932 - Spanish Cortes grants Catalonia autonomy
1932 - Steamboat SS Observation explodes in NYC East River (71 killed)
1933 - 53rd US Mens Tennis: Fred Perry beats Jack Crawford (63 1113 46 60 61)
1934 - Armas Toivonen becomes 1st European marathoner (2:52:29.0)
1934 - G Kaufman & M Hart's "Merrily We Roll Along," premieres in NYC
1936 - Yankees sweep Indians, NY clinches pennant on earliest date in history
1939 - Nazi army reaches Warsaw
1940 - 28 German aircraft shot down above England
1940 - 60th US Mens Tennis: W D McNeill beats Robert L Riggs (46 68 63 63 75)
1942 - 1st bombing on continental US soil, Mount Emily Oregon (WW II)
1942 - Compulsory work for women, children & old males in Batavia
1942 - Japanese planes drop incendiary bombs on Oregon
1943 - 15 German JU-88's sink Italian flag ship Rome
1943 - Lt-Gen Bradley flies from Algiers to to Marrakech/Prestwick
1943 - Red Army occupies Bachmatsj
1943 - US, British & French troops land in Salerno (operation Avalanche)
1944 - Allied forces liberate Luxembourg
1944 - Bulgaria liberated from Nazi control (National Day)
1944 - Resistance fighter Jaap Musch arrested in Nijverdal Neth
1944 - US 113th cavalry passes Belg-Dutch borders
1944 - Very strong hurricane hits Netherland
1945 - Japanese in S Korea, Taiwan, China, Indochina surrender to Allies
1945 - Jimmie Foxx hits his 534th & final HR
1945 - Phila A's Dick Fowler no-hits St Louis Brown, 1-0
1945 - 1st "bug" in a computer program discovered by Grace Hopper, a moth was removed with
           tweasers from a relay & taped into the log
1948 - "Hilarities (of 1949)" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 14 perfs
1948 - Bkln Dodger Rex Barney no-hits NY Giants, 2-0
1948 - People's Democratic Republic of Korea proclaimed
1950 - "Texas, Li'l Darlin'" closes at Mark Hellinger NYC after 293 perfs
1950 - "Where's Chartev?" closes at St James Theater NYC after 792 perfs
1950 - 1st use of TV laugh track-Hank McCune
1950 - Mass arrests of communists in France
1951 - 1st broadcast of "Love of Life" on CBS-TV
1951 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Carrollton Georgia Golf Open
1953 - KGTV TV channel 10 in San Diego, CA (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 - WFIE TV channel 14 in Evansville, IN (NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 - Earthquake strikes Orleansville Algeria: 1,400 killed
1954 - Indians becomes 1st Cleveland team to win 100 games in a season
1955 - Don Zimmer, hits 4,000th Dodger home run
1955 - Elvis Presley's 1st appearance on Ed Sullivan's Show
1955 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA St Louis Golf Open
1956 - 70th US Womens Tennis: Shirley J Fry beats Althea Gibson (63 64)
1956 - 76th US Mens Tennis: Ken Rosewall beats Lewis Hoad (46 62 63 63)
1956 - African Party for Liberation of Guinea-Bissau & Cape Verde forms
1956 - Elvis Presley appears on the Ed Sullivan Show for the 1st time
1957 - "Diana" by Paul Anka reaches #1
1957 - Nashville's new Hattie Cotton Elementary School dynamited
1957 - Pres Eisenhower signs 1st civil rights bill since Reconstruction
1958 - Pirate Roberto Clemente ties record of 3 triples in a game
1958 - Race riots in Notting Hill Gate, London
1960 - 4th American Football League plays 1st game (Denver 13, Boston 10)
1961 - Maria Beale Fletcher (NC), 19, crowned 34th Miss America 1962
1962 - 76th US Womens Tennis: Margaret Smith Court beats Darlene Hard (97 64)
1962 - 82nd US Mens Tennis: Rodney G Laver beats Roy Emerson (62 64 57 64)
1962 - Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Eugene Golf Open
1962 - Soviet economist Liberman plead for autonomous businesses
1962 - WNYS (now WIXT) TV channel 9 in Syracuse, NY (ABC) begins broadcasting
1963 - Alabama Gov George Wallace served a federal injunction to stop orders of state police to bar
           black students from enrolling in white schools
1964 - German DR government allows short visits to West Germany
1964 - John Osborne's "Inadmissable Evidence," premieres in London
1965 - Francois Mitterrand nominated for French presidency
1965 - Sandy Koufax pitches his 4th no-hitter, a perfect game vs Cubs (1-0)
1965 - Tibet is made an autonomous region of China
1966 - The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act is signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon
           B. Johnson.
1967 - 1st successful Test flight of a Saturn V
1967 - Debra Dene Barnes (Kansas), 20, crowned 40th Miss America 1968
1967 - Uganda declares independence from Great Britain
1968 - 1st US Open, held as an "open" (Arthur Ashe-wins)
1968 - Arthur Ashe defeats Tom Okker to win US Tennis Open
1968 - WGIQ TV channel 43 in Louisville, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 - WVPT TV channel 51 in Staunton, VA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1969 - Allegheny 853 collides with Piper Cherokee above Indiana, kills 82
1969 - Seaplane crashes at Indianapolis, kills 83
1969 - Smallest US Tennis Open single session-131 (men's doubles final only)
1969 - WCVN TV channel 54 in Covington, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1970 - Bowie Kuhn suspends Denny McLain for carrying a gun
1970 - Feyenoord wins soccer's World Cup
1971 - 1,000 convicts riot & seize Attica, NY prison
1971 - John Lennon & Yoko Ono appear on Dick Cavett Show (ABC-TV)
1971 - John Lennon releases "Imagine" album
1971 - NHL great Gordie Howe retires
1972 - 86th US Womens Tennis: Billie Jean M King beats K Melville (63 75)
1972 - Terry Anne Meeuwsen (Wisc), 23, crowned 45th Miss America 1973
1973 - 93rd US Mens Tennis: John Newcombe beats Jan Kodes (64 16 46 62 62)
1973 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
1974 - 88th US Womens Tennis: B J M King beats E Goolagong Cawley (36 63 75)
1975 - Viking 2 Mars probe launch
1977 - 1st TRS-80 computer sold
1977 - Tiger rookies Lou Whitaker & Allan Trammell debut together & will play together for 19 years
1978 - 3rd game of Boston Massacre; Yanks beat Red Sox 7-0
1978 - 92nd US Womens Tennis: Chris E L Mills beats Pam Shriver (75 64)
1978 - Balt Orioles pull their 7th triple play (5-4-3 vs Toronto)
1978 - Iraqi Ayatollah Khomeini calls for uprising in Irani army
1978 - Kylene Barker (Virginia), crowned 51st Miss America 1979
1979 - 31st Emmy Awards: Taxi, Lou Grant, Ron Leibman & Ruth Gordon
1979 - 93rd US Womens Tennis: Tracy Austin beats C E Lloyd Mills (64 63)
1979 - 99th US Mens Tennis: John McEnroe beats Vitas Gerulaitis (75 63 63)
1979 - Sally Little wins LPGA Columbia Savings Golf Classic
1979 - Sid Bernstein offers $½ billion for a Beatle reunion
1981 - Vernon E Jordan resigns as president of National Urban League
1982 - "Your Arms are Too Short..." opens at Alvin NYC for 69 performances
1982 - Columbia mated with SRBs & external tank in preparation for STS-5
1982 - Conestoga 1, 1st private commercial rocket, makes suborbital flight
1983 - Challenger returns to Kennedy Space Center via Sheppard AFB, Texas
1983 - Radio Shack announces their color computer 2 (Coco2)
1983 - Vitas Gerulatis bets his house that Martina Navratilova can't beat 100th ranked male tennis
           player
1984 - 104th US Mens Tennis: John McEnroe beats Ivan Lendl (63 64 61)
1984 - Amy Alcott wins LPGA Portland Ping Golf Championship
1985 - President Reagan orders sanctions against South Africa
1985 - Race riot in Birmingham, England
1986 - Minn Tommy Krammer passes for 6 touchdowns vs Green Bay (42-7)
1986 - NYC jury indicts Gennadly Zakharov (Soviet UN employee) of spying
1987 - Gary Hart admits on "Nightline," to cheating on his wife
1987 - Largest US Tennis Open single night session (total) 21,016
1987 - Larry Bird (Celtics), begins NBA free throw streak of 59
1987 - Nolan Ryan strikes out his 4,500th batter
1988 - Braves Bruce Sutter joins Fingers & Gossage to save 300 games
1988 - Chris Evert defaults at US Open due to a stomach flu
1988 - US swamps NZ at 27th America`s Cup: NZ set to appeal
1989 - 103rd US Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats M Navratilova (36 75 61)
1990 - 110th US Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Andre Agassi (64 63 62)
1990 - Liberia president Samuel K Doe is captured by Mr Johnson's forces
1990 - Oakland beats NY 7-3 to complete a 12-game sweep of Yankees this year
1990 - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Ping-Cellular One Golf Championship
1990 - George Bush & Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Helsinki & urge Iraq to leave Kuwait
1991 - Mike Tyson indicted for rape of Desiree Washington
1991 - Only 1,695 fans watch Boston Red Sox play Cleveland
1992 - 1st time Baltimore Orioles draw 3 million fans at home
1992 - 9th MTV Awards: Howard Stern appears as Fartman
1992 - Robin Yount, is 17th to get 3,000 hits
1993 - Croupier of casino in Bristol ,England, shoots a 4 a record eight times
1993 - PLO recognizes state of Israel
1993 - Ukraine premier Leonid Koetsjma, (Kuchma) resigns
1994 - Space shuttle STS 64 (Discovery 20), launches into orbit
1994 - Tu-22 crashes into Aeroflot Tu-134a at Zhukovsky, 7 killed
1995 - "Broadway Limited" last train ride (began in 1902)
1995 - 109th US Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Monica Seles (76 06 63)
1995 - Dean St Station in Brooklyn, is 6th MTA station to close since 1904
1997 - Sinn Fein accepts Mitchell Principles on para-military disarmament
2001 - Ahmed Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance, is assassinated in Afghanistan.
2002 - Pitcher Randy Johnson reaches 300 strikeouts for the fifth consecutive season, extending his
           major league record
2004 - 2004 A bomb explodes outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta, killing 10 people.
2012 - 17 people are killed and at least 40 injured after two car bombs explode in Aleppo, Syria
2012 - 100 people are killed and 350 injured after a wave of attacks across Iraq
2012 - Armenia wins the 40th FIDE Chess Olympiad
2012 - Serena Williams wins her fourth women's tennis singles at the US Open

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 09, 2013, 01:36:03 PM

This Day in History for 9th September


Famous Weddings

1979 - Yusef Islam (Cat Stevens) weds Fouzia Ali at Kensington Mosque
1995 - Chynna Phillips weds William Baldwin
1995 - Ice Skater Nancy Kerrigan (25) weds her agent Jerry Solomon (41)
2004 - 'N Sync singer Joey Fatone (27) weds Kelly Baldwin (27) at Oheka Castle in Huntington, New
           York
2007 - Country music artist Joe Nichols (30) weds Heather Singleton (30) at Whitfield Chapel in
           Savannah, Georgia
2012 - "Gossip Girl" actress Blake Lively (25) weds "Green Lantern" actor Ryan Reynolds (35) at
            Boone Hall in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 09, 2013, 01:43:24 PM

This Day in History for 9th September


Famous Birthdays

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Kentucky Fried Chicken Founder              Actor Adam Sandler (1966)                   Actress Michelle Williams (1980)
Colonel Sanders (1890) 


214 - Aurelian, Roman Emperor (d. 275)
384 - Flavius Honorius, emperor East Roman Republic (395-423)
1349 - Duke Albert III of Austria (d. 1395)
1427 - Thomas de Ros, 10th Baron de Ros, English politician (d. 1464)
1466 - Ashikaga Yoshitane, Japanese shogun (d. 1523)
1558 - Philippe Emmanuel, Duke of Mercoeur, French soldier (d. 1602)
1583 - Girolamo Frescobaldi, composer
1585 - Armand-Jean du Plessicide de Richelieu, premier of France (1624-42)
1618 - Joan Cererols, composer
1629 - Cornelis Tromp, Dutch lt-adm-gen/son of Maarten Tromp
1646 - Zeger B van Espen, Flemish theologist
1664 - Johann Christoph Pez, composer
1687 - Jean-Baptiste Maurice Quinault, composer
1700 - Princess Anna Sophie of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (d. 1780)
1711 - Thomas Hutchinson, American politician (d. 1780)
1731 - Francisco Javier Clavijero, Mexican writer (d. 1787)
1752 - Johann Friedrich Christmann, composer
1754 - William Bligh, nasty ship's captain (HMS Bounty)
1755 - Benjamin Bourne, American politician (d. 1808)
1769 - Cornelis F van Maanen, Dutch minister of Justice (1807..42)
1789 - William Cranch Bond, US, astronomer (codiscovered Hyperion)
1809 - William Radford, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1890
1817 - Speed Smith Fry, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1892
1819 - Martin Luther Smith, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1866
1822 - Napoleon J K P Bonaparte, French prince/member National Convention
1826 - Frederich I W L, Grand Duke of Baden (1856-1907)
1826 - Thomas John Lucas, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1908
1828 - Leo Tolstoi, Russian writer (War & Peace, Anna Karenina) [OS]
1834 - Joseph H Shorthouse, English writer (John Inglesant)
1834 - William MacRae, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1882
1840 - Gentil T Antheunis, Flemish poet/music/composer
1850 - Harishchandra, India, poet/dramatist/father of modern Hindi
1850 - Leopoldo Miguez, composer
1853 - Frederick R Spofforth, Australia, cricketer (Demon)
1855 - Houston S Chamberlain, British/German race theorist
1855 - Anthony Francis Lucas Croatian-born oil exploration pioneer (d. 1921)
1858 - Benjamin Kidel, English Sudan (Control of the Tropics)
1865 - Edwin Lehare, composer
1868 - Mary Austin, Ill, feminist/nature writer (Land of Little Rain)
1872 - Delilah L Beasley, US author/columnist (Negro trail-blazers)
1872 - Josef Stransky, composer
1873 - Edward Burlingame Hill, composer
1877 - Frank Chance, baseball player/manager, Tinkers to Evers to Chance
1878 - Adelaide Crapsey, American poet (d. 1914)
1878 - Sergio Osmeña, 4th President of the Philippines (d. 1961)
1880 - Viking Eggeling, Sweden, artist/film maker (Diagonal Symphony)
1882 - Clem McCarthy, American sportscaster (d. 1962)
1887 - Alf (Alfred) Landon, (R-Ks) American politician and Presidential candidate (1932, 1936). Dies
          1987
1887 - Raymond Walburn, Plymouth In, actor (Christmas in July)
1890 - Harland Sanders, Henryville Ind, colonel/CEO (Kentucky Fried Chicken), (d. 1980)
1892 - Bruno Sturmer, composer
1892 - Tsuru Aoki, Japanese-born American actress (d. 1961)
1894 - Arthur Freed, American songwriter and film producer (d. 1973)
1894 - Bert Oldfield, Australian cricketer (d. 1976)
1896 - Fritz Reuter, composer
1898 - Frank "Fordham Flash" Frisch, NYC, baseball player (NL MVP 1931)
1899 - Louis Cheslock, composer
1899 - Neil Hamilton, Lynn Mass, actor (Commisioner Gordon-Batman)
1899 - Waite Hoyt, American baseball player (d. 1984)
1900 - James Hilton, English novelist (Goodbye Mr Chips)
1903 - Phyllis Whitney, American writer (d. 2008)
1904 - Feroze Khan, Pakistani field hockey player (d. 2005)
1905 - Hussain Sha - Indian Saint, Philosopher ,Pithapuram
1907 - Leon Edel, biographer
1907 - Pinky Tomlin, Eureka Springs Ark, singer/actor (Tip-Waterfront)
1908 - Cesare Pavese, Italian writer (La belle estate)
1908 - John Haeton, US, bobsled (Olympic-silver-1928, 48)
1909 - Jane Baxter, [Feodora Forde], Bremen Germany, actress (We Live Again)
1909 - Kwame Nkrumah, communist/premier Gold Coast/president Ghana (1960-66)
1911 - John Gorton, Australian politician (d. 2002)
1911 - Paul Goodman, American poet and writer (d. 1972)
1912 - Kurt Sanderling, Arys Germany, conductor (E Berlin Symph 1960-77)
1917 - Rolf Wenkhaus, German actor (d. 1942)
1918 - Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, Novara, Italy, politician (Italian President, 1992-1999), (d. 2012)
1919 - Jacques Marin, Paris, actor (Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo)
1919 - Jimmy "the Greek" Snyder, gambler/sportscaster (lay you 5 to 1)
1919 - Richard Webb, Bloomington IL, actor (Invisible Monster, Git)
1919 - Gottfried Dienst, Swiss football referee (d. 1998)
1920 - Michael Aldridge, Glastonbury England, actor (Murder in Cathedral)
1920 - Robert Wood Johnson III, American philanthropist (d. 1970)
1920 - Feng Kang, Chinese mathematician (d. 1993)
1921 - Andrzej Dobrowolski, composer
1922 - Anthony Derrick Parsons, diplomat
1922 - MacKenzie John, pipe major
1922 - Manolis Glezos, Greek politician and writer
1922 - Hoyt Curtin, American songwriter (d. 2000)
1923 - Cliff Robertson, La Jolla, California, American actor (Charly) and spokesman for AT&T
1923 - Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, American virologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or
           Medicine
1924 - Jane Greer, Wash DC, actress (Prisoner of Zenda, Clown)
1924 - Nino Bibbia, Italy, bobsled (Olympic-gold-1948)
1924 - Rik Van Steenbergen, Belgian cyclist (d. 2003)
1926 - Annie nee Becker Kriegel, historian
1926 - Jake Carey, US R&B-singer (Flamingos-I Know Better)
1926 - Yusuf al-Qaradawi, prominent Egypt Muslim cleric
1927 - Elvin Jones, rocker
1928 - Julian E "Cannonball" Adderley, US, jazz musician (Black Messiah)
1929 - Stan Parris, (Rep-R-VA, 1973-74, 81- )
1929 - Claude Nougaro, French singer (d. 2004)
1930 - Paolo Castaldi, composer
1930 - Frank Lucas, Drug Lord
1932 - Ali Doelman-Pel, Dutch MP (PvdA)
1932 - Sylvia Miles, NYC, actress (Midnight Cowboy, Farewell My Lovely)
1934 - Sonia Sanchez, US playwright/poet (The Bronx is Next)
1935 - [Chaim] Topol, Tel Aviv Israel, actor (Fiddler on the Roof)
1935 - Gopal Baratham, Singaporean author
1936 - Augustinius Franz Kropfreiter, composer
1937 - Mikhail N Tai, Latvia, World chess champion (1960-61)
1938 - Richard Sharpe, English rugby player
1939 - Howard P McKeon, (Rep-R-California)
1939 - Carlos Ortiz, Puerto Rican boxer
1940 - Joe Negroni, rock vocalist (Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers)
1941 - Curtis Otto Bismark Curtis-Smith, composer
1941 - Les Braid, England, bass (Swinging Blue Jeans-You're No Good)
1941 - Otis Redding, Dawson Ga, rock bassist (Sitting on the Dock of the Bay)
1941 - Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist
1942 - Inez Foxx, Greensboro NC, rocker (Mockingbird, Hi Diddle Diddle)
1942 - John Linder, (Rep-R-Georgia)
1942 - Luther Simmons, rocker (Main Ingredient
1943 - Art LaFleur, American actor
1944 - Olga de Haas, Dutch ballerina
1945 - Omukama Patrick David Matthew Olimi Kaboyo II, king of Toro
1945 - Dee Dee Sharp [Dione Larue], Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, American R&B singer (I Love You
           Anyway)
1946 - Christopher Francis Palmer, orchestrator/Author
1946 - Doug Ingle, Omaha Nebraska, rock vocalist/keyboards (Iron Butterfly)
1946 - Pete Gavin, rocker
1946 - Hayato Tani, Japanese actor
1947 - David Rosenboom, composer
1947 - Freddy Weller, Georgia, rocker (Paul Revers & The Raiders)
1947 - Lynn Fitzgerald, marathoner (ran 133 miles 939 yards in 24 hrs)
1949 - Joe Theismann, NFL QB (Redskins)/sportscaster
1949 - John Curry, England, figure skater (Olympic-gold-1976)
1949 - Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Indonesian politician
1951 - Corry Konings, Dutch singer
1951 - Robert Desiderio, Bronx NY, actor (Det Kennedy-Heart of the City)
1951 - Tom Wopat, Lodi, Wisconsin, American actor and singer (The Dukes of Hazzard, One Life to
           Live)
1951 - Alexander Downer, Australian politician
1952 - Angela Cartwright, England (Make Room for Daddy, Lost in Space)
1952 - Bonnie Large, Glendale CA, playmate (March 1973)
1952 - David Stewart, rock guitarist (Eurtyhmics-Here Comes the Rain Again)
1952 - Lee M Morin, Manchester NH, cmdr USN/astronaut
1952 - Manuel Göttsching, German musician (Ash Ra Tempel)
1954 - Walter Paul Davis, Pineville NC, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1976)
1954 - Jeffrey Combs, American actor
1955 - John Kricfalusi, Canadian animator
1956 - Anatoli Pavlovich Artsebarsky, Russia, colonel/cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-12)
1957 - Pierre-Laurent Aimard, French pianist
1957 - Gabriele Tredozi, Italian engineer
1959 - Eric Serra, French composer
1960 - Christopher Sherratt White, Hamilton NZ, rower (Olympics-96)
1960 - Hugh Grant, London England (4 Weddings & a Funeral, 9 Months)
1960 - Mario Batali, American chef and restaurateur
1960 - Bob Stoops, American football coach
1961 - Jim Corsi, Newtonville MA, pitcher (Oakland A's)
1962 - Aleta Rzepecki Sill, Detroit Mich, bowler (1983 WIBC single)
1962 - Derek Kennard, NFL guard (Dallas Cowboys)
1962 - Jack Trudeau, NFL quarterback (Carolina Panthers)
1963 - Leslie Thompson, Burlington Vt, cross country skier (Olympics-1994)
1964 - Brett Hull, NHL right wing (MVP 1991, 86 goals)
1964 - Skip [Jules I] Kendall, Milwaukee WI, PGA golfer (1993 Intl-8th)
1964 - Willie Broughton, NFL defensive tackle (NO Saints)
1965 - Brenda Epperson, actress (Ashley Abbott-Young & Restless)
1965 - Dan Majerle, NBA guard (Miami Heat)
1965 - Marc Dunn, Kingston Ontario, volleyball player (Olympics-96)
1965 - Todd Zeile, Van Nuys CA, infielder (Philadelphia Phillies)
1966 - Adam Sandler, Brooklyn New York, actor/comedian (Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, Saturday
           Night Live)
1966 - Alison Sydor, Edmonton Alberta, x-ctry cyclist (Olympics-silver-96)
1966 - David Bennent, Lausanne, actor (Tin Drum, Legend)
1966 - Kevin Hatcher, Detroit MI, NHL defenseman (Team USA, Dallas, Pitts)
1966 - Georg Hackl, German luger
1967 - B J Armstrong, NBA guard (Charlotte Hornets)
1967 - Laurence Tremolet, Rodez France, actress (Cyclo, Metisse,)
1967 - Akshay Kumar, Indian Actor
1968 - Jonathan A Drummond Jr, Phila, 4X400m runner (Olympics-silver-96)
1968 - Julia Sawalha, actress (Saffron-Abfab, Chrissy-Buddy's Song)
1968 - Thomas P Auth, Orange NJ, rower (Olympics-1996)
1968 - Jon Drummond, American former sprinter
1968 - Clive Mendonca, English Footballer
1969 - Divine Brown, [Estelle Marie Thompson], SF, prostitute (Hugh Grant)
1969 - Christine Smith, Darien Conn, rower (Olympics-96)
1969 - Scott DeFreitas, Newton Mass, actor (Andy Dixon-As the World Turns)
1969 - Sean Rooks, NBA center (LA Lakers)
1969 - Constance Marie, American actress
1970 - Dan Miceli, Newark NJ, pitcher (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1970 - Joey Hamilton, Statesboro GA, pitcher (San Diego Padres)
1970 - Mike Faulkerson, NFL fullback (Chic Bears)
1970 - Natalia Streignard, Venezuelan actress
1971 - Jill Sudduth, Balt MD, synchronized swimmer (Olympics-gold-96)
1972 - Ben Bronson, NFL wide receiver (Detroit Lions)
1972 - Mike Hampton, Brooksville FL, pitcher (Houston Astros)
1972 - Miriam Oremans, Berlicum Neth, tennis star
1972 - James Farmer, American educator and artist
1972 - Natasha Kaplinsky, British newsreader
1972 - Goran Višnjić, Croatian actor
1973 - Mike Schlegel, NFL defensive tackle (Atlanta Falcons)
1973 - Peter Scott, Newcastle Australia, canoeist (Olympics-96)
1973 - Todd McMillon, CFL cornerback (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1973 - Troy Rudolph, production asst (Suburbanators, Viper)
1973 - Kazuhisa Ishii, Japanese baseball player
1974 - Jennie Kwan, Glendale California, actress (Samantha Woo-California Dreams)
1974 - Leah O'Brien, Garden Grove California, softball infielder (Olympic-gold-96)
1974 - Mathias Färm, Swedish guitarist (Millencolin)
1974 - Vikram Batra, Officer of the Indian Army
1974 - Ana Carolina, Brazilian singer, composer and musician
1975 - Michael Bublé, Canadian singer and actor
1976 - Mattias Ohlund, NHL goaltender (Vancouver Canucks, Team Sweden 1998)
1976 - Kristoffer Rygg, Norwegian musician (Ulver, ex-Borknagar)
1976 - Aki Riihilahti, Finnish footballer
1976 - Emma de Caunes, French film actress
1976 - Chace Ambrose, American actor and writer
1976 - Juan A. Baptista, Venezuelan actor
1977 - Chae Jung-an, South Korean actress and singer
1977 - Soulja Slim, American rapper (d. 2003)
1977 - Kyle Snyder, Major League Baseball pitcher
1978 - Jhane Landwier, Miss Bonaire Universe (1997)
1978 - Kurt Ainsworth, Major League Baseball pitcher
1978 - Shane Battier, American basketball player
1978 - Mariano Puerta, Argentine tennis player
1980 - Todd Coffey, American baseball player
1980 - Michelle Williams, Kalispell, Montana, actress (Dawson's Creek)
1981 - Julie Gonzalo, Argentinian actress
1982 - Ai Otsuka, Japanese singer and songwriter
1983 - Kyle Davies, American baseball player
1983 - Edwin Jackson, Major League Baseball pitcher
1983 - Sam Hollenbach, National Football League quarterback
1983 - Cleveland Taylor, International footballer
1984 - James Hildreth, English Cricketer
1985 - Luka Modrić, Croatian footballer
1985 - J.R. Smith, American basketball player
1986 - Justice Chibhabha, Zimbabwean cricketer
1986 - Luc Richard Mbah a Moute, Cameroonian basketball player
1986 - Michael Bowden, American baseball player
1987 - Alexandre Song, Cameroonian footballer
1987 - Joshua Herdman, English actor
1990 - Melody Klaver, Dutch actress
2000 - Victoria Federica de Marichalar y de Borbón, granddaughter of king Juan Carlos I of Spain

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 09, 2013, 01:47:57 PM

This Day in History for 9th September


Famous Deaths

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Chinese Communist Revolutionary               Father of the H-bomb
and Politician                                                Edward Teller (2003)
Mao Tse-Tung (1976)


546 - St. Ciarán of Clonmacnoise, Irish bishop
1000 - Olaf I of Norway
1087 - William I, The Conqueror, King of England/Duke of Normandy, dies
1398 - King James I of Cyprus (b. 1334)
1438 - Eduard [Dom Duarte], King of Portugal (1433-38)/writer, dies
1487 - Chenghua, Emperor of China (b. 1447)
1488 - Francis II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1433)
1513 - James IV, King of Scots (1488-1513), dies in battle at 40
1573 - Andre de Resende, Portuguese dominican/humanist, dies
1596 - Anna Jagiellon, Polish Queen
1612 - Nakagawa Hidenari, Japanese warlord (b. 1570)
1676 - Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve, French army officer (b. 1612)
1680 - Henry Marten, English regicide (b. 1602)
1683 - Algernon Sidney, English Whig politician/plotter, beheaded
1713 - Giovanni A di Bartlommeo Viscardi, Swiss architect, dies
1755 - Johann Lorenz von Mosheim, German historian (b. 1694)
1770 - Bernard S Albinus, [Weiss], German surgeon/anatomist, dies at 73
1770 - Georg D Ehret, German/English cartoonist, dies at 62
1803 - Armand-Emmanuel Trial, composer, dies at 32
1806 - William Paterson, American jurist and statesman (b. 1745)
1810 - Johann Baptiste Hagenauer, Austrian sculptor, dies at 78
1815 - John Singleton Copley, British painter, dies at 77
1817 - Paul Cuffe, civil rights activist (Sierre Leone), dies at 58
1832 - Bernhard Joseph Klein, composer, dies at 39
1841 - Augustin P de Candolle, Swiss botanist, dies at 63
1866 - Gergely Czuczor, Hungarian/Czech poet/translator, dies at 65
1876 - American Horse, Sioux chief, dies in battle
1878 - Jacobo Ficher, composer, dies at 18
1888 - John van Swieten, Dutch governor of West-Sumatra, dies at 71
1891 - Jules Grévy, President of France (b. 1813)
1898 - Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet (b. 1842)
1901 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter, dies at 36
1901 - Willem baron of Goltstein of Oldenaller, minister of Cologne dies
1902 - Titus AJ van Asch van Wijck, gov of Suriname (1891-97), dies at 53
1907 - Ernest Roland Wilberforce, English bishop (b. 1840)
1909 - Edward Henry Harriman, American railroad entrepreneur (b. 1848)
1913 - Count Paul J Smet de Naeyer, Belgian politician, dies
1915 - Albert Spalding, American baseball player and sporting goods manufacturer (b. 1850)
1926 - David Lobo, Dutch actor, dies in railway accident
1926 - Greta Lobo-Braakensiek, Dutch actress in railway accident
1931 - Lujo [Ludwig J von] Brentano, German economist dies at 86
1939 - S M Tretjakow, writer, dies at 47 [or Aug 9]
1941 - Gustav Ehrismann, German germanist, dies at 85
1946 - Mynona, writer, dies at 74
1948 - James Baskett, dies
1951 - Cecil Gray, composer, dies at 56
1951 - Gibson Gowland, actor (Greed), dies at 74
1952 - Joseph Allen Sr, dies
1954 - Alfred Gradstein, composer, dies at 49
1957 - Ettore Pozzoli, composer, dies at 84
1958 - Charles Macartney, cricket (35 Tests 1907-26, 2131 runs 45 wkts), dies
1959 - Max d' Ollone, composer, dies at 84
1959 - O'Neil Gordon Collie Smith, WI cricket all-rounder, dies in car crash
1960 - Armas Toivo Valdemar Maasalo, composer, dies at 75
1960 - Jussi Björling, Swedish tenor (b. 1911)
1962 - Pat Rooney, vaudevillian (Night club), dies at 82
1963 - Ernst Kantorowicz, German/US historian, dies at 68
1963 - Jan Schouten, Dutch founder (illegal Trouw)/chairman (ARP), dies
1964 - Charles O'Neill, composer, dies at 82
1965 - Julian Antonio Carillo-Trujillo, composer, dies at 90
1966 - Antonio Massana, composer, dies at 76
1966 - Leon de Smet, Flemish painter, dies at 85
1966 - Nestor Paiva, actor (3 Stooges in Orbit), dies of cancer at 61
1967 - Helen Flint, actress (Sea Devils), dies after being hit by a car at 69
1969 - Cecil Dixon, cricketer (S Afr 1913-14, dismissed Hobbs twice), dies
1969 - Katherine Singleton, actress/Miss Universe (1926), dies at 65
1969 - Willy Mairesse, Belgian racing driver (b. 1928)
1971 - Billy Gilbert, US actor (Great Dictator, His Gal Friday), dies at 76
1973 - Samuel N Behrman, US stage/screenwriter (Quo Vardis), dies at 80
1974 - Sultan Ismail Hajibeyov, composer, dies at 55
1975 - Ethel Griffies, actress (Billy Liar, Birds), dies at 97
1975 - John McGiver, actor (Patty Duke Show, Jimmy Stewart Show), dies at 61
1975 - Minta Durfee, actress (Keystone Comedies, Mickey), dies at 85
1976 - Mao Tse-Tung, Chinese communist party chairman (1949-76), dies at 82
1977 - John Breeden, actor (Madame Racketeer, Salute), dies at 73
1978 - Jack L Warner, US movie production (Warner Bros), dies at 86)
1978 - Hugh MacDiarmid, Scottish poet (b. 1892)
1979 - Solon Michaelides, composer, dies at 73
1980 - John Howard Griffin, American writer (b. 1920)
1981 - Phiroz Edulji Palia, cricket (2 Tests for India, 29 runs & 0-13), dies
1982 - Frederic Dannay, [Ellery Queen], US, detective writer, dies at 76
1984 - Walter Kaufmann, composer, dies at 77
1984 - Yilmaz Gueney, director (Yol, Arkadas, Baba, Agit), dies at 47
1985 - Paul Flory, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
1987 - Gerrit John Heijn, senior executive (Ahold), kidnapped/murdered
1989 - Tim Hovey, actor (Slim Carter, Man Afraid), dies of a drug overdose
1990 - Rimantas Antanas Stankiavichus, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 46
1990 - Samuel Doe, Liberian politician (b. 1951)
1991 - Edwin M McMillan, US, chemist (neptunium, plutonium, Nobel 1951), dies
1991 - John Lawrence, doctor, dies
1991 - Joop H Zwart, Spanish fighter/publicist (Black Widow), dies
1991 - Paul Michael Lombardi, actor, dies of AIDS at 31
1993 - David Tendlar, animator (Betty Boop), dies
1993 - Helen O'Connell, singer (Green Eyes), dies of cancer at 74
1994 - Keith Davis, voice Tutor/Author, dies at 85
1994 - Patrick O'Neal, US actor (King Rat, Night of the Iguana), dies at 66
1994 - Roy Castle, actor (Dr Who & the Daleks), dies of lung Cancer
1995 - Ida Carroll, musician, dies at 89
1996 - Bill Monroe, bluegrass vocalist (created bluegrass music), dies at 84
1996 - Edward Greenall, businessman/sportsman, dies at 67
1996 - Jack Pepys, immunologist, dies at 82
1996 - Ruggero Mastroianni, film editor, dies at 66
1996 - William Smith Monroe, bluegrass musician, dies at 84
1997 - Myra McCulloch, teacher academic/administrator, dies at 48
1997 - Richie Ashburn, HOF baseball player (Phillies, Mets), dies at 70
1998 - Bill Cratty, American modern dancer and choreographer (b. 1951)
1999 - Catfish Hunter, American baseball player (b. 1946)
1999 - Ruth Roman, American actress (b. 1922)
1999 - Chan Parker, American author; wife of Charlie Parker and Phil Woods (b. 1925)
2000 - Julian Critchley, British politician (b. 1930)
2001 - Ahmed Shah Massoud, Afghani military leader (b. 1953)
2003 - Larry Hovis, American actor (b. 1936)
2003 - Edward Teller, Hungarian-American physicist, dies at 95
2004 - Roland Sherwood "Ernie" Ball, American businessman (b. 1930)
2005 - John Wayne Glover, English serial killer (b. 1932)
2006 - Gérard Brach, French screenwriter (b. 1927)
2006 - Richard Burmer, American composer and musician (b. 1955)
2006 - William B. Ziff, Jr., American publishing executive (b. 1930)
2006 - Matt Gadsby, English footballer (b. 1979)
2007 - Hughie Thomasson, American musician (b. 1952)
2008 - Warith Deen Muhammad, American religious leader (b. 1933)
2012 - Ron Taylor, Australian shark expert and cinematographer, dies from myeloid leukemia at 78
2012 - Verghese Kurien, Indian engineer, dies from kidney failure at 90

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 10, 2013, 08:58:14 AM

This Day in History for 10th September


Historical Events

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Military and Political Leader                   Communist Philosopher                         US WW1 Commander
Simon Bolivar                                                   Karl Marx                                      John J. Pershing

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Yankee Clipper Joe DiMaggio               Heavyweight Boxing Champion                    Tennis Player Steffi Graf
                                                                      Muhammad Ali

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Tennis Player Pete Sampras


422 - St Celestine I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
506 - The bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde.
918 - Arnulf I the Old becomes landsheer of Flanders
1349 - Jews who survived a massacre in Constance Germany are burned to death
1510 - Bishop Frederik of Bathe recaptures Oldenzaal
1547 - Battle at Pinkie, Midlothian: English beat the Scots
1547 - English demand Edward VI, 10, wed Mary Queen of Scots, 5
1608 - John Smith elected president of Jamestown colony council, Va
1776 - George Washington asks for a spy volunteer, Nathan Hale volunteers
1785 - Prussia signs trade agreement with US
1798 - British Honduras beats Spain in battle of St George
1813 - Comm Oliver H Perry defeats British in Battle of Lake Erie
1823 - Simon Bolivar named president of Peru
1838 - Hector Berlioz' opera "Benvenuto Cellini," premieres in Paris
1845 - King Willem II opens Amsterdam Stock exchange
1846 - Elias Howe patents sewing machine
1847 - 1st theater opens in Hawaii
1849 - 1st performance by US actor Edwin Booth (Richard III)
1858 - John Holden hits 1st recorded HR (Bkln vs NY)
1858 - George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora.
1861 - -15] Battle at Cheat Mountain, Elkwater West Virginia
1861 - Battle of Carnifex Ferry VA, 170 casualities
1863 - George Bizet's opera "Les Pêcheurs de Perles," premieres in Paris
1869 - Baptist minister supposedly invents rickshaw in Yokohama, Japan
1870 - Dutch Jurist Cooperation forms
1872 - Karl Marx speaks in Amsterdam
1880 - Pierre de Brazza signs treaty with King Makoko of Congo
1882 - 1st international conference to promote anti-semitism meets Dresden Germany (Congress for
           Safeguarding of Non-Jewish Interests)
1884 - Congressman John R Lynch presides over Republican National Convention
1894 - London taxi driver George Smith is first fined for drunk driving
1897 - Lattimer Massacre - a sheriff's posse kills twenty unarmed immigrant miners in Pennsylvania,
           United States.
1898 - Lord Kitchener's ships sails from Kartoum to Fashoda
1898 - Empress Elizabeth of Austria is assassinated by Luigi Lucheni.
1899 - 2nd quake in 7 days (8.6) hits Yakutat Bay Alaska
1900 - 20.3 cm rainfall at Elk Point, South Dakota (state record)
1902 - Utrecht soccer team UVV forms
1905 - Japanese battleship Mikasa explodes
1910 - Great Idaho Fire destroys 3 million acres of timber
1913 - Cleveland Call & Post forms
1913 - George W Buckner, named minister to Liberia
1913 - Lincoln Highway opens as 1st paved coast-to-coast highway
1918 - Players on both sides threaten to strike the World Series unless they are guaranteed $2,500
           to the winners & $1,000 each for the losers
1919 - Indian's Ray Caldwell no-hits Yankees 3-0
1919 - NYC welcomes home Gen John J Pershing & 25,000 WW I soldiers
1919 - Treaty of St Germain: Austria ends incorporation with Germany
1922 - Largest Polo Grounds crowd see Meusel, Ruth & Gehrig consecutive HRs
1923 - Irish Free state joins League of Nations
1924 - Giants rip Braves 22-1, Frisch goes 6-for-6 before grounding out
1924 - Leopold & Loeb found guilty of murder
1926 - Allies-German treaty of Koblenz drawn
1926 - Germany joins League of Nations
1927 - 22nd Davis Cup: France beats USA in Philadelphia (3-2)
1927 - France had its first Davis Cup win, though it had competed since 1905.
1930 - Charles E Mitchell, named minister to Liberia
1931 - Lord Cecil of British government says War was never so improbable
1932 - 52nd US Mens Tennis: Henry E Vines beats Henri Cochet (64 64 64)
1932 - Dodgers Johnny Frederick hits record 6th pinch-hit HR of the season
1932 - Independent City Owned Rapid Transit Railroad (IND) opens in NYC
1933 - 1st Negro League All-Star Game, West beats East 11-7 (Comiskey Park)
1933 - 53rd US Mens Tennis: Fred Perry beats J H Crawford (63 11-13 46 60 61)
1937 - 2nd American Football League plays 1st game (LA 21, Pittsburgh 0)
1937 - Cleveland (Los Angeles) Rams plays their 1st NFL game, lose 28-0
1939 - Canada declares war on Germany
1940 - Buckingham Palace hit by German bomb
1942 - British troops lands on Madagascar
1942 - RAF drops 100,000 bombs on Dusseldorf
1943 - British 8th army occupies Tarente
1943 - German troops occupied Rome & took over the protection of Vatican City
1943 - Italian fleet anchors at Malta
1943 - Lt-Gen Bradley arrives in Prestwick/London
1944 - Lt-gen Frederick Browning against Montgomery "But, sir, I think we might be going a bridge
           too far"
1945 - KLS-AM in Oakland Ca changes call letters to KWBR (now KDIA)
1945 - Vidkun Quisling sentenced to death for collaborating with Nazis
1945 - Mike the Headless Chicken is decapitated; he survives for another 18 months before choking
           to death.
1948 - Bijz Criminal division sentences war criminal Jacob Folks to life
1948 - Bradman scores 153 in his last 1st-class cricket innings in England
1949 - "Cabatgata (A Night in Spain)" closes at Broadway NYC after 76 perfs
1950 - Joe DiMaggio becomes 1st to hit 3 HR in a game at Griffith Stadium
1951 - British begin economic boycott of Iran
1952 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Thomasville Golf Open
1953 - Swanson sells it's 1st "TV dinner"
1954 - 12 second shock kills 1,460 in Orleansville Algeria
1954 - WLUK TV channel 11 in Green Bay, WI (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1954 - Attempting to handle Hoyt Wilhelm's knuckleball catcher Ray Katt of Giants sets a major
           league record with 4 passed balls
1955 - "Gunsmoke" premieres on CBS TV
1956 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga, Australia
1956 - Louisville Ky public schools integrates
1956 - WSYE (now WETM) TV chan 18 in Elmira-Corning, NY (NBC) 1st broadcast
1957 - "Mask & Gown" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 39 performances
1958 - WJCT TV channel 7 in Jacksonville, FL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1960 - Abebe Bikila runs Olympic/World record marathon (2:15:16.2)
1960 - NY Yankee Mickey Mantle hits 643' HR over right field roof in Detroit
1961 - 75th US Womens Tennis: Darlene R Hard beats Ann Haydon Jones (63 64)
1961 - 81st US Mens Tennis: Roy Emerson beats Rodney G Laver (75 63 62)
1961 - Mickey Mantle becomes 7th to hit HR # 400
1961 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1961 - Italian Grand Prix, a crash causes the death of German driver Wolfgang von Trips and 13
           spectators hit by his Ferrari.
1962 - 82nd US Mens Tennis: Rodney G Laver beats Roy Emerson (62 64 57 64)
1962 - KLRN TV channel 9 in San Antonio, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting
1962 - WDCN TV channel 8 in Nashville, TN (PBS) begins broadcasting
1963 - 20 black students entered public schools in Alabama
1963 - Phillies beat Houston Colt .45s, 16-0
1963 - Stan Musial hits a HR in his 1st at bat as a grandfather
1964 - Palestinian Liberation Army (PLA) forms
1964 - Rod Steward records his 1st single "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl"
1965 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1965 - Phillies 10,000th game to a decision since 1900, Phils beat Cards
1965 - WUND TV channel 2 in Columbia, NC (PBS) begins broadcasting
1966 - Beatles' "Revolver," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 6 weeks
1966 - Muhammad Ali TKOs Karl Mildenberger in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1966 - Neal Diamond's 1st chart song (Cherry Cherry)
1967 - 81st US Womens Tennis: Billie Jean M King beats Ann H Jones (119 64)
1967 - 87th US Mens Tennis: John Newcombe beats Clark Graebner (64 64 86)
1967 - Chicago White Sox Joel Horlen no-hits Det Tigers, 6-0
1967 - Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Pacific Golf Classic
1967 - Gibraltar votes 12,138 to 44 to remain British & not Spanish
1967 - Joel Horlen revives Chicago's pennant hopes with a 5-0 no-hit win
1967 - KVVU TV channel 5 in Henderson-Las Vegas, NV (IND) begins broadcasting
1969 - NY Mets sweep Montreal Expos putting them in 1st place for 1st time
1969 - US performs nuclear test at Grand Valley Colorado
1971 - KVUE TV channel 24 in Austin, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
1972 - 20th Olympic games close at Munich, German FR
1972 - 92nd US Mens Tennis: Ilie Nastase beats Arthur Ashe (36 63 67 64 63)
1972 - Emerson Fittipaldi is youngest to win an auto race World Championship
1972 - Frank Shorter wins 17th Olympic marathon (2:12:19.8 )
1972 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
1972 - US Men's olympic basketball teams 1st lose, 51-50 to USSR (disputed)
1972 - WKAR TV channel 23 in East Lansing, MI (PBS) begins broadcasting
1973 - Muhammad Ali defeats Ken Norton
1973 - NY Jets trade pro footballs leading receiver Don Maynard to St Louis
1974 - Lou Brock ties (104) & then sets (105) baseball stolen base mark
1974 - NY Dolls disband
1974 - Portugal recognizes independence of Rep of Guinea-Bissau
1974 - Teuvo Louhivouri sets cycling distance record of 515.8 mi in 24 hrs
1976 - 2 airliners collide over Yugoslavia, kills all 176 aboard
1976 - 5 Croatian terrorists capture TWA-plane at La Guardia Airport, NY
1977 - 91st US Womens Tennis: Chris Evert L Mills beats W Turnbull (76 62)
1977 - Blue Jays beat Yankees 19-3 with 20 hits
1977 - Christa Vahlensieck runs female world record marathon (2:34:47.5)
1977 - Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation
1977 - Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation
1977 - Susan Perkins (Ohio), crowned 50th Miss America 1978
1977 - Hamida Djandoubi, convicted for torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by
           Guillotine in France.
1978 - "Timbuktu!" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 243 perfs
1978 - 98th US Mens Tennis: Jimmy Connors beats Bjorn Borg (64 62 62)
1978 - Arlyne Rhode sets female footbow distance record (1,113 yds & 30")
1978 - Jimmy Connors is 1st player to win US Open on 3 different surfaces
1978 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open
1978 - 4th game of Boston Massacre; Yanks beat Red Sox 7-4. This ties them for 1st place. Yanks
           out hit 'em 67-21; score 42-9
1979 - 3 Puerto Rican nationalists who attempted to kill Truman are freed
1980 - Expos Bill Gullickson, sets rookie record of striking out 18
1980 - Peter Comita replaces Tom Peterson of Cheap Trick
1981 - "Guernica" by Pablo Picasso returns to Spain
1982 - Decca releases Beatle audition "Complete Silver Beatles" album
1983 - 97th US Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Chris Evert L Mills (61 63)
1983 - Larry Holmes TKOs Scott Frank in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
1984 - Discovery returns to Kennedy Space Center via Altus AFB, Okla
1984 - Sean O'Keefe (11) is youngest to cycle across US (24 days)
1986 - Bryan O'Connor named chairman of Space Flight Safety Panel
1988 - -18] Hurricane Gilbert, kills 300 in Jamaica, Texas & Yucatan
1988 - 102nd US Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Gabriela Sabatini (63 36 61)
1988 - Gretchen Elizabeth Carlson (Minn), 22, crowned 62nd Miss America 1989
1989 - 109th US Mens Tennis: Boris Becker beats Ivan Lendl (76 16 63 76)
1989 - 5 days after hitting a HR for Yankees in a 12-2 win over the Mariners
1989 - Browns allow Pittsburgh only 53 net yards, a team defensive record
1989 - East Germans begin their flight to west (via Hungary & Czechoslovakia)
1989 - Muffin Spencer-Devlin wins LPGA Cellular One-Ping Golf Championship
1989 - Deion Sanders returns a punt 68 yards for a touchdown
1990 - 19 year old Pete Sampras beats Andre Agassi to win US Open
1990 - 1st time since 1966 that all 8 grand slam tennis champs are different
1990 - Ellis Island reopens as a museum
1990 - Hard Rock Cafe opens in Las Vegas Nevada
1990 - Iran agrees to resume diplomatic ties with Iraq
1990 - Mariner Matt Young becomes 21st AL'er to strike out 4 in 1 inning
1990 - 1st time in NY Yankee history they are completely swept season series, Oakland A's beat
           them 12 games to 0
1991 - Senate Committee begins hearings on Clarence Thomas' nomination
1991 - Yolanda Gail Devers runs US female record 100m hurdles (12.48 secs)
1992 - Bud Selig becomes interm commissioner of baseball
1992 - Lucy in Peanuts comics raises her Pyschiatric Help from 5 cents to 47 cents
1993 - 1,000 Boeing 747 jumbo plane produced
1993 - Israel & PLO sign joint recognition statements
1994 - 108th US Womens Tennis: Aranxta S Vicario beats Steffi Graf (16 76 64)
1994 - Chong Hey swims female record 400m medley (4:01.67)/100m backstroke
1995 - 115th US Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Andre Agassi (64 63 46 75)
1995 - 35th Walker Cup: Britain-Ireland beats US, 14-10
1995 - 47th Emmy Awards: NYPD Blue, ER, Fraiser & Candice Bergen wins
1995 - Alison Nicholas wins PING-Cellular One LPGA Golf Championship
1995 - Browns & Indians, play simultaneous regular season games in Cleve for only time, Browns 22-
           6 over Tampa, Indians 5-3 over Orioles
1997 - Discovery buys Travel Channel for $20 million
1997 - Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation
1997 - Mark McGwire joins Babe as only players to hit 50 HRs in 2 consec yrs
2000 - The musical Cats closes on Broadway.
2002 - Switzerland, traditionally a neutral country, joins the United Nations.
2007 - Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan after seven years in exile,
           following a military coup in October 1999.
2008 - The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in the
           history of mankind is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.
2012 - 16 people are killed by a suicide bombing n Kunduz, Afghanistan
2012 - Teachers in Chicago strike effecting 350,000 students
2012 - 10,000 miners demonstrate at Lonmin mines in Marikana, South Africa
2012 - 29 people are killed by floods and heavy rain in Vietnam
2012 - A left over bazooka grenade in Cambodia explodes and kills three children

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 10, 2013, 09:01:24 AM

This Day in History for 10th September


Famous Weddings

1961 - Nigerian novelist,critic and academic ('Things Fall Apart') Chinua Achebe marries Christie Okoli
1966 - Actor John Lithgow (20) weds Jean Taynton
1993 - Actress Loretta Young, 80, weds costume designer Jean Louis, 85
2005 - Glamour model Katie Price (27) weds '90s pop sensation singer Peter Andre (32) in Highclere
           Castle, Hampshire
2005 - Fashion model Jodie Kidd (26) weds entrepreneur Aidan Butler at St. Peter's Church in
           Twineham, West Sussex, England
2005 - "The Yardbirds" rock guitarist Jeff Beck (61) weds Sandra Cash in Tunbridge Wells, England
2005 - "Coronation Street" actress Samia Ghadie (23) weds property developer Matthew Smith at St
           Philip's Church in Alderley Edge, Cheshire
2005 - British television presenter Kate Garraway (38) weds former political lobbyist Derek Draper
           (38) at St. Mary The Virgin parish church in London, England
2005 - Camilla Parker-Bowles's son Tom Parker Bowles (30) weds "Harpers & Queen" fashion
           features editor Sara Buys at St. Nicholas' Church in Rotherfield Greys, Oxfordshire, England
2011 - Actress Amy Smart (36) weds TV personality and model Carter Oosterhouse (35) in Traverse
           City, Michigan

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 10, 2013, 09:10:14 AM

This Day in History for 10th September


Famous Birthdays 

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Queen of Louis XIV                                 American Baseball Player                       Actor Colin Firth (1960)
 Maria Theresa of Spain (1638)                Roger Maris (1934)


1169 - Alexios II Komnenos, Byzantine emperor (d. 1183)
1487 - Julius III, Counter-Reformation pope (1550-55)
1550 - Alonso de Guzmán El Bueno, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia, Spanish Armada commander (d.
           1615)
1561 - Hernando Arias de Saavedra, Spanish colonial governor (d. 1634)
1585 - Ercole Porta, composer
1588 - Nicholas Lanier, composer
1624 - Thomas Sydenham, English physician (d. 1689)
1638 - Maria Theresa of Spain, El Escorial, Spain, queen of Louis XIV of France (d. 1683)
1645 - Romeyn de Hooghe, Haarlem Neth, painter/goldsmith
1714 - Niccolo Jommelli, Italy, composer
1736 - Carter Braxton, US farmer/signer (Declaration of Independence)
1751 - Bartolomeo Campagnoli, Italian violinist/composer/conductor
1753 - John Soane, English architect (Bank of England, Soane Museum)
1758 - Hannah Webster Foster, American author (d. 1840)
1779 - Louis Alexandre Piccinni, composer
1786 - Nicolás Bravo, Mexican politician and soldier (d. 1854)
1786 - William Mason, American politician (d. 1860)
1787 - John Jordan Crittenden, MC (Union), died in 1863
1788 - Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, French archaeologist (d. 1868)
1801 - Marie Laveau, American Voodoo practitioner (d. 1881)
1810 - Albert Gallatin Blanchard, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1815 - Eleazer Arthur Paine, Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
1823 - Adolf von Doss, composer
1832 - Randall Lee Gibson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1892
1836 - Joseph Wheeler II, Maj Gen (Confederacy/Cavalry/Army of Tennessee)
1836 - Karl Merz, composer
1839 - Isaac Kauffman Funk, US, publisher (Funk & Wagnalls)
1839 - Charles Peirce, American philosopher (d. 1914)
1844 - Abel Hoadley, Australian confectioner (d. 1918)
1848 - William M Harnett, US painter (Old Violin)
1852 - Alice Brown Davis, Seminole chief (d. 1935)
1854 - Anton CR Dreesmann, German/Neth manufacturer (Vroom & Dreesman)
1857 - James E Keeler, US, astronomer (rings of Saturn)
1861 - Niels Hansen Jacobsen, Danish sculptor and ceramist (d. 1941)
1866 - Tor Bernhard Vilhelm Aulin, composer
1866 - Jeppe Aakjær, Danish writer (d. 1930)
1869 - Caro Roma, composer
1871 - Charles Collett, British mechanical engineer (d. 1952)
1872 - Josephina "Frieda" Herberich, actress (Verdoold Sheep)
1872 - Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji, India, cricketer/politician
1875 - Paul Scheinpflug, composer
1877 - Georgia B D Camp Johnson, US, poet/playwright (Autumn Love Cycle)
1882 - Paul Harvey, IL, actor (Calamity Jane, Heldorado, Jamboree)
1883 - Euphemia "Phemia" Molkenboer, Dutch author/poster artist
1885 - Berthold Altaner, German church historian (Patrologie)
1885 - Carl Clinton Van Doren, US literary (9th Wave)
1885 - Johannes de Jong, cardinal/archbishop of Utrecht (Handbook)
1886 - Hilda Doolittle, US, poetess (imagisten)
1887 - Giovanni Gronchi, president of Italy
1889 - Vilem Petrzelka, composer
1890 - Franz Werfel, Austria, author (40 Days of Musa Dagh)
1890 - Elsa Schiaparelli, French couturiere (d. 1973)
1892 - Arthur H Compton, US physicist (X-rays)
1893 - Al "Fuzzy" St John, Santa Ana California, actor (Lash of the West)
1893 - Maria de Jesus, Portuguese supercentenarian
1895 - Kavi Samrat Viswanatha Satyanarayana, Telugu writer (d. 1976).
1896 - Ye Ting, Chinese military leader (d. 1946)
1896 - Adele Astaire, American dancer and entertainer (d. 1981)
1896 - Robert Taschereau, Canadian judge and politician (d. 1970)
1897 - Nancy Keene Lancaster, designer/Collector
1897 - Georges Bataille, French writer (d. 1962)
1897 - Hilde Hildebrand, German actress (d. 1976)
1898 - Adele Marie Astaire, Omaha NE, sister of Fred Astaire, entertainer
1898 - Bessie Love, Midland TX, actress (Broadway Melody, Children of Damned)
1898 - Waldo Semon, American inventor (d. 1999)
1902 - Toivo R Pekkanen, Finnish writer (Wegwerkers)
1904 - Max Shachtman, American politician (d. 1972)
1906 - Lambertus "Bertus" van Lyre, composer/conductor (Hooglied)
1907 - Alva R. Fitch, American army officer (d. 1989)
1908 - Raymond Harry Warnow Scott, Brooklyn New York, American orchestra leader (Your Hit
           Parade)
1908 - Waldo Wedel, American Archaeologist (d. 1996)
1912 - Brother William Oliver Antoninus Everson, poet
1912 - Mary Walter, Filipina actress (d. 1993)
1913 - Zeph[ania L] Mothopeng, pres South Afr Pan-African Congress (1986- )
1914 - Robert Wise, director (Day the Earth Stood Still, West Side Story)
1915 - Edmond O'Brien, NYC, actor (Sam Benedict, Johnny Midnight)
1916 - Niall MacDermott, lawyer/politician
1917 - Franfo Fortini, poet
1917 - Miguel Serrano, Chilean author and diplomat
1918 - Rin Tin Tin, German shepherd dog (d. 1932)
1919 - John Noorda, resistance fighter
1919 - Lex van Delden, Dutch composer/writer
1920 - Egbert van Paridon, Dutch actor/director (Assault)
1920 - Fabio Taglioni, Italian motorcycle engineer (d. 2001)
1921 - Cornelis A H Wagtho, student/resistance fighter
1924 - Boyd K. Packer, LDS apostle
1924 - Ted Kluszewski, American baseball player (d. 1988)
1925 - Roy James Brown, New Orleans, boxer/soul singer (Good Rockin' Tonight)
1926 - Beryl Cook, British painter
1927 - Gwen Watford, British actress (Body in the Library, Ghoul)
1928 - Leo P[atrick] Kelley, US, sci-fi author (Dead Moon, Vacation in Space)
1928 - Jean Vanier, Canadian disabilities advocate
1928 - Walter Martin, American Christian apologist (d. 1989)
1929 - Akio Yashiro, composer
1929 - Arnold Daniel Palmer, Latrobe PA, PGA golfer (1964 Masters)
1929 - Pentti Siimes, [Pentti Kalevi Siimes], Helsinki Finland
1930 - Kenneth Kweku Sinaman Dadzie, diplomat
1931 - Philip Baker Hall, American actor
1932 - Bo Goldman, American screenwriter
1933 - David Rowland, English real estate developer/broker/multi-millionaire
1933 - Yevgeny Vassilyevich Khrunov, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 5)
1933 - Karl Lagerfeld, Hamburg Germany, German fashion designer (Chanel)
1934 - Charles Kuralt, Wilmington NC, newscaster (On the Road)
1934 - James L Oberstar, (Rep-D-Minnesota, 1975- )
1934 - Larry Sitsky, composer
1934 - Roger Maris, Hibbing, Minnesota, Yankee, HR champ (61 in 1961, AL MVP 1960, 1961), (d.
          1985)
1934 - Vasil Kazandzhiev, composer
1935 - John Palmer, Kingsport Tenn, news anchor (NBC Weekend News)
1935 - Paul van Vliet, Dutch cabaret performer
1935 - Mary Oliver, American poet
1937 - Alun Edward Islwyn Pask, rugby International
1937 - Paul Martin Palombo, composer
1937 - Jared Diamond, American biologist and author
1939 - Artie Tripp, rocker (Mothers Of Invention)
1939 - Greg Mullavey, Buffalo NY, actor (Tom-Mary Hartman, Rituals)
1939 - Topham Brinton, English carpet magnate/multi-millionaire
1940 - Roy Ayers, LA, disco jazz artist (Fever, You Send Me)
1940 - Yevgeni Nikolayevich Khludeyev, Russia, cosmonaut
1941 - Pyotr I Klimuk, Poland, cosmonaut (Soyuz 13, 18B, 30)
1941 - Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist (d. 2002)
1941 - Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese inventor and video game designer (d. 1997)
1942 - Danny Hutton, Ireland, rock vocalist (Three Dog Night)
1943 - Garrett List, composer
1943 - Eldridge Coleman ("Superstar" Billy Graham), American professional wrestler
1943 - Daniel Truhitte, American actor
1943 - Neale Donald Walsch, American author
1944 - Thomas Allen, British opera singer
1945 - Jose Feliciano, Lares, Puerto Rican singer/songwriter (Light my Fire)
1945 - Rein van den Broek, Dutch trumpeteer (Ekseption)
1945 - Richard M Mullane, Tx, USAF/astro (STS 41-D, STS-27, STS-36)
1945 - Tom Ligon, New Orleans, actor (Joyride)
1946 - James R Hines, Dumas Ark, 4X100m relayer (Olympic-gold-1968)
1946 - Jim Hines, American athlete
1946 - Michèle Alliot-Marie, French politician
1947 - Larry Gene Nelson, Ft Payne AL, PGA golfer (1980 Atlanta Classic)
1948 - Bob Lanier, NBA center (Detroit Pistons, Milwaukee Bucks)
1948 - Judy Geeson, Arundei Sussex England, actress (To Sir With Love, Berserk)
1948 - Margaret Trudeau, Vancouver BC, former Canadian 1st lady
1948 - Tony Gatlif, Algerian-born director
1948 - Bob Lanier, American basketball player
1948 - Zhang Chengzhi, Chinese writer
1948 - Charlie Waters, American football player
1949 - Barriemore Barlow, rocker (Jethro Tull)
1949 - Don Muraco, professional wrestler
1949 - Bill O'Reilly, American journalist and commentator
1950 - Don Powell, England, rock drummer (Slade)
1950 - Joe Perry, Lawrence, Massachusetts, American rock guitarist (Aerosmith-Walk this Way)
1951 - Albert R Wynn, (Rep-D-Maryland)
1951 - Alder Taylor, rocker
1951 - Peter Tolson, rocker
1952 - Gerry Conway, Marvel comics writer (Punisher)
1952 - Vic Toews, Canadian politician
1953 - Amy Irving, Palo Alto, Cal, actress (Yentl, Carrie, Crossing Delancy)
1954 - Martha Nause, Sheboygan WI, LPGA golfer (1994 du Maurier Ltd Classic)
1955 - Charlotte Lewis, Chicago Illinois, basketball player (Olympic-silver-1976)
1955 - Giannina Facio Franco, San Jose Costa Rica, Mrs Phillipe Junot
1955 - Pat Mastelotto, rock drummer (Mr Mister, King Crimson)
1956 - Johnny Fingers, rocker (Boomtown Rats)
1956 - Johnny Hickman, American musician
1957 - Brian Fitzpatrick, Upper Darby Pa, actor (Rick Alden-Loving)
1957 - Kate Burton, Geneva Switzerland, actress (Ice Storm, August)
1957 - Siobhan Fahey, Dublin, rocker (Bananarama-Venus, Shakespear's Sister)
1957 - Carol Decker, UK singer (T'Pau-Heart & Soul)
1958 - Chris Columbus, writer/director (Mrs Doubtfire, Nine Months)
1959 - Peter Nelson, American actor
1960 - Colin Firth, Hampshire England, actor (Femme Fatale, Hostages)
1960 - Miranda Wilson, Nebraska, actress (Sandra-Santa Barbara)
1960 - Alison Bechdel, American cartoonist
1960 - David Lowery, American musician
1962 - Esteban Toledo, Mexicali Mexico, Nike golfer (1991 Ben Hogan Reno-2nd)
1963 - David Titlow, rocker (Blue Mercedes-Rich & Famous)
1963 - Susan Gautier-Smith, TV producer
1963 - Bill Stevenson, American music producer and musician
1964 - Karl Wilson, NFL defensive end (Buffalo Bills)
1964 - Peter Vogler, Australian baseball outfielder (Olympics-1996)
1964 - Tim Harris, NFL defensive end (SF 49ers)
1964 - John E. Sununu, American politician
1965 - Allison Daughtry, actress (Guilding Light)
1965 - Brian Washington, NFL safety (KC Chiefs)
1966 - Joe Nieuwendyk, NHL forward (Dallas Stars, Team Canada 1998)
1966 - Kimble Anders, NFL fullback (KC Chiefs)
1966 - Ted Popson, NFL tight end (SF 49ers)
1968 - Yvo Joordens, soccer player (MVV)
1968 - Big Daddy Kane, American rapper
1968 - Guy Ritchie, British film director
1969 - Bob Spitulski, NFL linebacker (Seattle Seahawks)
1969 - Matt Geiger, NBA center (Charlotte Hornets)
1969 - Jonathon Schaech, American actor
1970 - Julie Halard, Versailles France, tennis star (1995 Prague)
1970 - Robert Green, NFL running back (Chic Bears)
1970 - Paula Kelley, musician
1971 - Brandon Harrison, NFL wide receiver (San Diego Chargers)
1971 - Brian Earley, Fresno California, diver (Olympics-96)
1971 - Chris Oeding, Santa Ana California, water polo driver (Olympics-96)
1972 - James Duval, American actor
1973 - Ghada Shouaa, Syria, heptatlete (Olympics-gold-96)
1973 - Ferdinand Coly, Senegalese footballer
1974 - Ben Wallace, NBA forward (Wash Wizards)
1974 - Jill Chartier, Miss Oregon USA (1996)
1974 - Sandra Cacic, Joliet Ill, tennis star
1974 - Ryan Phillippe, American actor
1975 - Temple Taggart, Miss USA-Utah (1997, top 6)
1975 - Jonathan Hoenig, American investment advisor
1976 - Gregory Robert Henderson, Dunedin NZ, 4k pursuit cyclist (Olympics-96)
1979 - Jacob Young, American actor and singer
1980 - Timothy Goebel, Evanston Ill, figure skater (1996 National Jr champ)
1986 - Hiroki Uchi, Japanese Idol
1988 - Jordan Staal, Canadian ice hockey player

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 10, 2013, 09:12:40 AM

This Day in History for 10th September


Famous Deaths

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Actor Burgess Meredith (1997)


210 BC - Qin Shi Huang, first emperor of China.
918 - Baldwin II, Count of Flanders, dies at about 53
954 - Louis IV, of overseas, King of France, dies
1167 - Empress Matilda, wife of Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1102)
1197 - Henry II of Champagne (b. 1166)
1217 - William de Reviers, 5th Earl of Devon
1279 - Robert Kilwardby/Anglicus, English philosopher/Cardinal, dies
1305 - Nicholas van Tolentino, Italian saint, dies
1308 - Emperor Go-Nijō of Japan (b. 1285)
1382 - Louis I, the Great, King of Hungary/Poland, dies
1419 - John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy is assassinated by adherents of the Dauphin, the future
           Charles VII of France
1482 - Federico da Montefeltro, Italian Renaissance condottiero and arts patron
1519 - John Colet, English churchman and educator
1547 - Pierlugi Faraese, Italian son of Pope Paul III, murdered
1559 - Anthony Denny, confidant of King Henry VIII of England (b. 1501)
1600 - John Bruhesius, [Bruhesen], bishop of Groningen, dies
1604 - William Morgan, Welsh Bible translator (b. 1545)
1607 - Luzzasco Luzzaschi, Italian composer and organist (b. 1545)
1623 - John I Van de Velde, calligrapher (Mirror of Write-Konste), dies
1669 - Henrietta Maria, queen of Charles I of England (b. 1609)
1676 - Gerrard Winstanley, English religious reformer (b. 1609)
1680 - Marco Uccellini, composer, dies
1680 - Baldassare Ferri, Italian castrato (b. 1610)
1748 - Mother Ignacia del Espiritu Santo, foundress of the Congregation of the Religious of the
           Virgin Mary (b. 1663)
1749 - Émilie du Châtelet, French mathematician and physicist (b. 1706)
1759 - Ferdinand Konščak, Croatian explorer (b. 1703)
1765 - Jacob Gilles, pension advisor, dies at about 74
1797 - Mary Wollstonecraft, English author (b. 1759)
1801 - Jason Fairbanks, American murderer (b. 1780)
1806 - Johann C Adelung, German translator/librarian, dies at 74
1828 - Count d'Andreossi, French general/parliament leader, dies at 67
1831 - George Guest, composer, dies at 60
1839 - Pieter Fontijn, Dutch painter, dies at 66
1842 - Letitia Tyler, US President Tyler's (1841-45) wife, dies at 51
1845 - Karl August von Lichtenstein, composer, dies at 78
1851 - Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, American educator (b. 1787)
1858 - Henry Wellington Greatorex, composer, dies at 44
1862 - Carlos A Lopez, president of Paraguay (1844-62), dies at 71
1867 - Simon Sechter, composer, dies at 78
1868 - Franz Anton Adam Stockhausen, composer, dies at 79
1895 - Harrison Millard, composer, dies at 64
1898 - Elisabeth AE, empress of Austria/wife of Franz Joseph I, dies at 60
1905 - Pete Browning, American baseball player (b. 1861)
1915 - Charles Boucher de Boucherville, Premier of Quebec (b. 1822)
1916 - Friedrich Gernsheim, composer, dies at 77
1922 - Arpad Szendy, composer, dies at 59
1924 - Walter Lees, cricketer (26 wkts on 5 Tests Eng v SA 1905-06), dies
1930 - G A Faulkner, cricketer (S Afr googly all-rounder), commits suicide
1931 - Alfonso Randano, composer, dies at 78
1931 - Dmitri Egorov, Russian mathematician (b. 1869)
1932 - Percy Fletcher, composer, dies at 52
1934 - George Henschel, composer, dies at 84
1937 - Sergei Tretyakov, Russian writer (b. 1892)
1942 - Nachman N "Neddy" Bamberg, actor, dies in Auschwitz at 63
1944 - Jaap P Musch, Dutch resistance fighter, murdered by Nazis
1945 - Vaino Raitio, composer, dies at 54
1951 - Giuseppe Mule, composer, dies at 66
1952 - Youssef Aftimus, Lebanese civil engineer and architect (b. 1866)
1954 - Peter Anders, German opera singer, dies
1955 - Robert Blackburn, British aviation pioneer, dies at 70
1960 - Fjodor I Panfjorov, Russian author (Volga - matushka-reka), dies at 63
1961 - Leo Carrillo, actor (Pancho-Cisco Kid), dies at 81
1961 - Wolfgang von Trips, German racing driver (b. 1928)
1965 - Bobby Jordan, actor (Dead End Kids), dies of sclerosis of liver at 42
1965 - Father Divine, American religious leader (b. 1880)
1966 - James Langridge, cricketer (242 runs & 19 wkts for England), dies
1966 - Emil Gumbel, German mathematician and pacifist (b. 1891)
1971 - Bella Darvi, actress (Racers), commits suicide at 42
1971 - Pier Angeli, actress (Octaman), dies of barbiturate overdose at 39
1972 - Sidney Pegler, cricket leg spinner (leading S Afr prior to WWI), dies
1976 - Dalton Trumbo, US writer/director (Johnny Got His Gun), dies at 70
1976 - Dorothy Devore, actress (Newscast, Senor Daredevil), dies at 77
1976 - George Baxter, actor (Flying Saucer, Lili, Caged), dies at 71
1976 - Mordecai Johnson, 1st black president of Howard U, dies at 86
1977 - Hamida Djandoubi, convicted murderer last to, die by guillotine
1978 - Ronnie Peterson, Swedish race car driver (b. 1944)
1979 - Agostinho Neto, poet/1st pres of Angola, dies at 56
1979 - Stanislav Pylypovych Lyudkevych, composer, dies at 99
1982 - Max Winders Maximilien, brought Belgium gold reserve to England, dies
1983 - Balthasar J "John" Vorster, South African premier (1966-78), dies at 67
1983 - Felix Bloch, Swiss-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
1985 - Alexa Kenin, actress (Mousie-Coed Fever), dies at 23
1989 - Jeff Stollmeyer, cricketer (32 Tests for WI), murdered
1990 - Samuel Kanyon Doe, president of Liberia (1980-90), assassinated
1991 - Sarah Sally Lawrence, entertainer, dies at 61
1991 - Yves Montand, actor (Lets Make Love, Z), dies at 70
1991 - Jack Crawford, Australian tennis player (b. 1908)
1993 - Janice Carroll, actress (End, April Fools), dies of cancer at 61
1993 - Rita Karin, Polish-Latvia/US actress (Sophie's Choice), dies at 73
1994 - Amy Clampitt, British poet (Silence Opens), dies at 74
1995 - Charles Denner, actor (Mado, Stella, Z, Landru), dies at 69
1995 - Derek Meddings, special Effects technician, dies at 64
1995 - Molly Mary Hyde, cricketer, dies at 81
1996 - Ray Coleman, journalist, dies at 59
1996 - Hans List, Austrian scientist and inventor (b. 1896)
1997 - Burgess Meredith, actor (Penguin-Batman, Rocky), dies at 88
1997 - Jack Adkisson, professional wrestler (b. 1929)
1998 - Carl Forgione, British actor (b. 1944)
1999 - Alfredo Kraus, Spanish tenor (b. 1927)
2000 - Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah, Pakistani journalist and writer. (b. 1921)
2001 - DJ Uncle Al (b.1969)
2004 - Brock Adams, American politician (b. 1927)
2005 - Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, American musician (b. 1924)
2006 - Patty Berg, American golf player (b. 1918)
2006 - King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV of Tonga (b. 1918)
2007 - Jane Wyman, American actress (b.1917)
2007 - Anita Roddick, British businesswoman (b.1942)
2007 - Ted Stepien, former basketball team owner (b. 1925)
2011 - Cliff Robertson, American actor (Charly), dies at 88
2012 - Steven Springer, American guitarist, dies from lung cancer at 60
2012 - Lance LeGault, American actor, dies at 75

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 11, 2013, 10:18:12 AM

This Day in History for 11th September


Historical Events

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Scottish Patriot                                        Naturalist Charles Darwin                      Pacifist and Spiritual Leader
William Wallace                                                                                                      Mahatma Gandhi

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Baseball Great Babe Ruth                         32nd US President                                    Aviator Charles Lindbergh
William Wallace                                       Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Swimmer Florence Chadwick                   Beatles Drummer Ringo Starr                      Actress Mary Tyler Moore

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Tennis Player Steffi Graf                        42nd US President Bill Clinton


9 - The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest ends.
506 - The bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde.
813 - Charles the Great crowns Louis I emperor
1185 - Isaac II Angelus kills Stephanus Hagiochristophorites and then appeals to the people,
           resulting in the revolt that deposes Andronicus I Comnenus and places Isaac on the throne
           of the Byzantine Empire.
1226 - The Roman Catholic practice of public adoration of the Blessed Sacrament outside of Mass
           spreads from monasteries to parishes.
1297 - Battle at Stirling Bridge, Scottish rebel William Wallace beats English
1304 - Willem III becomes earl of Holland
1390 - Lithuanian Civil War (1389-1392): the Teutonic Knights begin a five-week siege of Vilnius.
1541 - Santiago, Chile, is destroyed by indigenous warriors, lead by Michimalonko.
1557 - Catholic & Lutheran theology debated in Worm
1609 - Expulsion order announced against the Moriscos of Valencia; beginning of the expulsion of all
           Spain's Moriscos.
1645 - Thomas Fairfax's 'New Model Army' occupies Bristol
1648 - -13] Battle at Pilawce: Bohdan Chmielricki's beats John Casimir [OS]
1649 - Massacre of Drogheda, Ireland - Oliver Cromwell kills 3,000 royalists
1697 - Battle at Zenta: Prince Eugen van Savoye beats Turkish superior power
1708 - Charles XII of Sweden stops his march to conquer Moscow outside Smolensk, marking the
           turning point in the Great Northern War. The army is defeated nine months later in the Battle
           of Poltava, and the Swedish empire is no longer a major power.
1709 - Battle at Malplaquet during War of the Spanish Succession: Engl/Aust/Dutch Great Alliance
           beat France
1714 - French & Spanish troops under duke of Berwick occupy Barcelona
1741 - Queen Maria Theresa addresses Hungarian Parliament
1758 - Battle of Saint Cast France repels British invasion during the Seven Year's War.
1773 - Benjamin Franklin writes "There never was a good war or bad peace"
1777 - Battle of Brandywine, Pa; Americans lose to British
1786 - Annapolis Convention to determine interstate commerce
1789 - Alexander Hamilton appointed 1st Secretary of Treasury
1792 - The Hope Diamond is stolen with other crown jewels when six men break into house used to
           store the jewels.
1802 - France annexes the Kingdom of Piedmont.
1814 - Battle of Lake Champlain, NY; American Navy defeats British
1831 - Charles Darwin meets with capt Fitzroy at Plymouth
1839 - 1st Canadian track & field meet held (Caer Howell Grounds)
1847 - 1st singing of Stephen Fosters "Susanna" (in Pittsburgh)
1850 - "Swedish Nightingale" Jenny Lind gives 1st US concert
1852 - Olympia Columbian is 1st newspaper published north of Columbia R
1853 - 1st electric telegraph used (Merchant's Exchange to Pt Lobos)
1857 - Mountain Meadows Massacre, Mormons dressed as Indians murder 120 colonists in Utah
1875 - 1st newspaper cartoon strip
1877 - Rijkslandbouwhoge school opens in Wageningen
1881 - Triple landslides bury Elm Switz
1883 - James Cutler patents postal mail chute
1885 - Moses Hopkins, named minister to Liberia
1886 - Mayflower (US) beats Galatea (England) in 7th America's Cup
1888 - Death of the Argentine politician Domingo Sarmiento, after whom the Latin American
           Teacher's Day is chosen.
1889 - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Crooked Man" (BG)
1891 - The Jewish Colonization Association is established by Baron Maurice de Hirsch.
1893 - Bronx Gas & Electric Company opens on Frisby & Tremont Ave
1893 - Shaku Soen is 1st Zen teacher to visit the West (Chicago)
1893 - First conference of the World Parliament of Religions is held.
1895 - FA Cup stolen in Birmingham
1897 - After months of pursuit, generals of Menelik II of Ethiopia capture Gaki Sherocho, the last
           king of Kaffa, bringing an end to that ancient kingdom.
1900 - President Kruger crosses border with Mozambique
1903 - The first race at The Milwaukee Mile in West Allis, Wisconsin is held. It is the oldest major
           speedway in the world.
1906 - Mahatma Gandhi coins the term "Satyagraha" to characterize the Non-Violence movement in
           South Africa.
1909 - Max Wolf rediscovers Halley's comet
1910 - 1st commercially successful electric bus line opens (Hollywood)
1912 - Netherland Olympic Committee forms
1912 - Phila A's Eddie Collins steals 6 bases in 1 game
1914 - William Christopher Handy publishes "St Louis Blues"
1914 - Australia invades New Britain, defeating a German contingent there.
1916 - German troops conquer Kavalla Greece
1916 - The Quebec Bridge's central span collapses, killing 11 men. The bridge initially collapsed in
           toto on August 29, 1907.
1918 - Boston Red Sox beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 2 in 15th World Series
1919 - US marines invade Honduras
1921 - Nahalal, the first moshav in Israel, is settled.
1922 - British mandate of Palestine begins
1922 - Yankees play their farewell home game in Polo Grounds win doubleheader
1922 - The Treaty of Kars is ratified in Yerevan, Armenia.
1922 - One of the Herald Sun of Melbourne, Australia's predecessor papers The Sun News-Pictorial is
           founded.
1923 - After a single, Red Sox Howard Ehmke retires next 27 Yanks
1923 - Bernie Neis, hits the 1,000th Dodger home run
1923 - ZR-1 (biggest active dirigible) flies over NY's tallest skyscraper, Woolworth Tower
1926 - 21st Davis Cup: USA beats France in Philadelphia (4-1)
1926 - Aloha Tower dedicated in Honolulu
1926 - Spain leaves League of Nation due to Germany joining
1926 - US defeats France for their 7th straight Davis Cup championship
1926 - Yanks' Bob Meusel ties record with 3 sacrifice flies
1927 - After losing 21 in a row to NY, the Browns win their last meeting, 6-2
1927 - Babe Ruth hits 50th of 60 homers
1928 - 1st TV drama-WGY's Queens Messenger
1928 - Ty Cobb last hitting appearance, pops out against Yankees
1929 - SF Mayor Rolph inaugurates new pedestrian traffic light system
1930 - Stomboli volcano (Sicily) throws 2-ton basaltic rocks 2 miles
1931 - Salvatore Maranzano is murdered by Charles Luciano's hitmen.
1932 - Franciszek Żwirko and Stanisław Wigura, Polish Challenge 1932 winners, are killed in a plane
           crash when their RWD 6 crashes into the ground during a storm.
1933 - Britain's Fred Perry thwarts Australian Jack Crawford's bid for a Grand Slam by defeating him
           at US Tennis championship
1935 - 49th US Womens Tennis: H H Jacobs beats Sarah H Palfrey Fabyan (62 64)
1935 - US captures Davis Cup for 7th straight year
1936 - A's pitcher Horace Lisenbee gives up 26 hits in a game
1936 - FDR dedicates Boulder Dam, now known as Hoover Dam
1937 - 51st US Womens Tennis: Anita Lizana beats Jadwiga Jedrzejowska (64 62)
1937 - 57th US Mens Tennis: J D Budge beats G v Cramm (61 79 61 36 61)
1939 - Battle of Kutno-pocket: Germans advance to Warsaw
1939 - British submarine Triton torpedoes British submarine Oxley
1939 - Iraq & Saudi Arabia declare war on nazi-Germany
1940 - -12] Buckingham Palace destroyed by German bombs
1940 - 54th Postmaster General: Frank C Walker of Pa takes office
1940 - Anton Mussert establishes Dutch SS
1940 - Buckingham Palace in London destroyed by German bombs
1940 - Hitler begins operation-Seelöwe (aborted invasion England)
1940 - George Stibitz pioneers the first remote operation of a computer.
1941 - FDR orders any Axis ship found in American waters be shot on sight
1941 - Charles Lindbergh, charges "British, Jewish & Roosevelt administration" are trying to get US
           into WW II
1941 - World War II: The U.S. Navy is ordered to attack German U-boats.
1941 - Construction of the Pentagon begins (completed 15 Jan 1943)
1942 - Transport nr 31 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1943 - Allied arm forces conquerors Salerno
1943 - Jewish ghettos of Minsk & Lida Belorussia liquidated
1943 - Last German Q/pirate ship sinks near Easter Island
1943 - US & Australian troops join in Salamaua, New Guinea
1944 - FDR & Churchill meet in Canada at 2nd Quebec Conference
1944 - US 5th Armored Division is 1st allied force to enter nazi-Germany
1946 - 1st mobile long-distance car-to-car telephone conversation
1950 - "Beetle Bailey" comic strip debuts
1950 - 1st typesetting machine to dispense with metal type exhibited
1950 - 33 die in a train crash in Coshocton Ohio
1950 - Dick Tracy TV show sparks uproar concerning violence
1951 - Stravinsky's opera "Rake's Progress," premieres in Venice
1951 - Florence Chadwick becomes 1st woman to swim English Channel from England to France. It 
           takes 16 hours & 19 minutes
1952 - West German Chancellor Adenauer signs a reparation pact for Jews
1953 - KSBW TV channel 8 in Salinas-Monterey, CA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 - WEHT TV channel 25 in Evansville, IN (CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 - 1st Miss America TV broadcast
1954 - 20.4 cm rainfall at Brunswick, Maine (state record)
1954 - KXJB TV channel 4 in Valley City (Fargo) (NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 - Lee Meriwether (California), 19, crowned 27th Miss America 1955 (1st on TV)
1955 - 69th US Womens Tennis: Doris Hart beats Patricia Ward (64 62)
1955 - 75th US Mens Tennis: Tony Trabert beats Ken Rosewall beats (97 63 63)
1955 - KTVT TV channel 11 in Fort Worth-Dallas, TX (IND) begins broadcasting
1955 - Dedication of the first Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Europe,
           the Bern Switzerland Temple.
1956 - Cin Red Frank Robinson ties rookie record with his 38th HR
1956 - Vladimir Kuts runs world record 10k (28:42.8 )
1956 - Yanks Yogi Berra ties career record for HRs (236) by a catcher
1958 - Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1959 - "Duke" Ellington wins Springarn Medal for his musical achievements
1959 - Congress passes a bill authorizing food stamps for poor Americans
1959 - Elroy Face's 22 game win streak ends as Dodgers beat Pirates 5-4
1959 - Oriole Jerry Walker pitches 16 inn beating White Sox 1-0
1960 - 17th Olympic games close in Rome Italy
1960 - 74th US Womens Tennis: Darlene R Hard beats Maria Fraser (64 1012 64)
1960 - 80th US Mens Tennis: Neale A Fraser beats Rodney G Laver (64 64 97)
1960 - The Young Americans for Freedom, meeting at home of William F. Buckley, Jr., promulgate the
           Sharon Statement.
1961 - Foundation of the World Wildlife Fund.
1962 - Beatles cut "Love Me Do" & "PS I Love You" with Andy White on drums
1962 - Drummer Ringo Starr replaces Pete Best of the Beatles
1962 - KVCR TV channel 24 in San Bernardino, CA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1963 - Typhoon Gloria strikes Taiwan killing 330, with $17.5 million damage
1964 - George Harrison forms Mornyork Ltd music publishing company
1964 - Gillette's 20 year contract with Madison Square Garden & ABC to televise fights for free ends
           as Dick Tiger defeats Don Fullmer at Cleve Auditorium
1965 - Beatles' "Help!," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 9 weeks
1965 - Braves 2nd straight one-hitter against the Mets
1965 - The 1st Cavalry Division of the United States Army arrives in Vietnam.
1966 - 80th US Womens Tennis: M Esther Bueno-Fraiser beats N Richey (63 61)
1966 - 86th US Mens Tennis: Fred Stolle beats John Newcombe (46 12-10 63 64)
1966 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1966 - Johnny Miller becomes 1st Yank to hit a HR on his 1st at bat
1966 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Pacific Ladies' Golf Classic
1966 - Rolling Stones perform on Ed Sullivan Show
1967 - A's drop grievance filed with Natl Labor Relations against C Finley
1967 - Beatles' Magical Mystery Bus driven around England
1967 - French president De Gaulle visits Poland
1967 - Indian/Chinese border fights
1967 - US Surveyor 5 makes 1st chemical analysis of lunar material
1967 - WSRE TV channel 23 in Pensacola, FL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1967 - WUNE TV channel 17 in Linville, NC (PBS) begins broadcasting
1967 - WUNF TV channel 33 in Asheville, NC (PBS) begins broadcasting
1967 - WUNG TV channel 58 in Concord, NC (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 - Air France Flight 1611 crashes off Nice, France, killing 89 passengers and 6 crew.
1969 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1970 - 88 of the hostages from the Dawson's Field hijackings are released. The remaining hostages,
           mostly Jews and Israeli citizens, are held until September 25.
1970 - The Ford Pinto is introduced.
1971 - "2 by 2" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 343 performances
1971 - Egypt adopts its constitution
1971 - Laurel Lea Schaefer (Ohio), 22, crowned 44th Miss America 1972
1971 - The Egyptian Constitution becomes official.
1972 - BART begins service with a 26-mi (42-km) line from Oakland to Fremont
1973 - Chile's President, Salvador Allende, deposed in a military coup
1974 - Cards beat Mets, 4-3, in 25 (7h4m), record 202 plate appearances, Félix Millán & John Milner
           come to bat 12 times each
1976 - Dorothy Kathleen Benham (Minn), 20, crowned 49th Miss America 1977
1976 - Minnie Minoso bats for White Sox after a 12-year hiatus (hitless)
1976 - 90th US Womens Tennis: C E L Mills beats E Goolagong Cawley (63 60) Evonne Goolagong
           loses her 4th straight US Open Final (Evert wins)
1977 - 29th Emmy Awards: Mary Tyler Moore Show, Carroll O'Conner & Bea Arthur
1977 - 97th US Mens Tennis: Guillermo Vilas beats Jimmy Connors (26 63 75 60)
1977 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open
1977 - TV's Rhoda gets divorced
1980 - Chile adopts its constitution
1980 - Ron LeFlore (91st) & Rodney Scott (58th), set teammate steal record
1981 - 2nd government of Agt forms
1982 - 96th US Womens Tennis: C E L Mills beats Hana Mandlikova (63 61)
1982 - Debbie Maffett (California), 25, crowned 55th Miss America 1983
1982 - Chris Evert wins her 6th & final US Open Tennis match at West Side Tennis Club in Forest
           Hills NY
1983 - 103rd US Mens Tennis: Jimmy Connors beats Ivan Lendl (63 67 75 60)
1983 - Franco Harris becomes 3rd NFL to rush 11,000 yards
1983 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Portland Ping Golf Championship
1983 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1985 - Flyby of Comet Giacobini-Zinner
1985 - Intl Cometary Explorer (ISEE 3) passes Giacobini-Zinner by 7900 km
1985 - Sri Lanka score their 1st Test Cricket victory, by 149 runs v India
1985 - Pete Rose of Cin Reds gets career hit 4,192 off Eric Show of San Diego Padres, eclipsing Ty
           Cobb's record
1986 - Pres Mubarak receives Israeli premier Peres
1986 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1986 - Dow Jones Industrial Avg suffered biggest 1-day decline ever, plummeting 86.61 points to
           1,792.89. 237.57 million shares traded
1987 - 4th MTV Awards: Peter Gabriel wins
1987 - Shoot out at Jean-Bertrand Aristides' church in Haiti, 12 die
1988 - 1/3 of population argues for Estonia autonomy
1988 - Betsy King wins LPGA Cellular One-Ping Golf Championship
1988 - Sports Aid-jogging to feed the world
1988 - 108th US Mens Tennis: Mats Wilander beats Ivan Lendl (64 46 63 57 64) in 4hrs 55 min -
           longest men's final in US Open history
1989 - Drexel formally pleads guilty to security fraud
1989 - KSO-AM in Des Moines Iowa changes call letters to KGGO
1991 - "La Toya: Growing Up in The Jackson Family" goes on sale
1991 - 14 die in a Continental Express commuter plane crash near Houston
1991 - Air crash at Djeddah, Saudi-Arabia, 263 die
1991 - Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation
1991 - NY Yankees final game at Baltimore Oriole's Memorial Stadium
1991 - Atlanta Braves Kent Mercker, Mark Wohlers & Alejandro Pena pitched 1st combined no-hitter
           in NL, beating San Diego Padres, 1-0
1992 - Hurricane Iniki hits Kauai Hawaii; 3 die & 8,000 injured
1993 - 107th US Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Helena Sukova (63 63)
1993 - Junxia Qu runs 1500m ladies world record (3:50.46)
1994 - 114th US Mens Tennis: Andre Agassi beats Michael Stich (61 76 75)
1994 - 46th Emmy Awards: Fraiser, Picket Fences & Kelsey Grammer wins
1994 - Jingyi Le swims female world record 50m freestyle
1994 - Missie McGeorge wins Ping-Cellular One LPGA Golf Championship
1995 - Eastern Tennessee begins using new area code 423
1995 - Ohio's Governor Voinovich proclaims "Cleveland Indians Day"
1995 - Soyuz TM-22, lands
1996 - Union Pacific Railroad purchases Southern Pacific Railroad.
1997 - After a nationwide referendum, Scotland votes to establish a devolved parliament, within the
           United Kingdom.
1998 - Independent counsel Kenneth Starr sends a report to the U.S. Congress accusing President
           Bill Clinton of 11 possible impeachable offenses.
1998 - Opening ceremony for the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Malaysia is
           the first Asian country to host the games.
2000 - Activists protest against the World Economic Forum meeting in Melbourne, Australia.
2001 - Two passenger planes hijacked by terrorists crashes into New York's World Trade Towers
           causing the collapse of both & death of 2,752 people
2001 - Terrorists hijack a passenger plane and crash it into the Pentagon causing the death of 125
           people
2001 - Attempt by passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93 to retake control of their hijacked
           plane from terrorists causes plane to crash in Pennsylvania field killing all 64 people onboard
2002 - Through extreme and coordinated effort, The Pentagon is rededicated after repairs are
           completed, exactly one year after the attack on the building.
2003 - Swedish foreign minister Anna Lindh dies after being assaulted and fatally wounded on
           September 10.
2003 - The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety enters into effect.
2004 - All passengers are killed when a helicopter crashes in the Aegean Sea. Passengers include
           Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria and 16 others (including journalists and bishops of the Greek
           Orthodox Church of Alexandria).
2005 - The State of Israel completes its unilateral disengagement from the Gaza Strip.
2007 - Russia tests the largest conventional weapon ever, the Father of all bombs.
2012 - 50 Al-Shabaab fighters are killed in conflict with the Somali National Army
2012 - The US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, is stormed, looted and burned down, killing five people,
           including the US ambassador
2012 - The US is warned by Moody&#039;s that its AAA credit rating is at risk if lawmakers fail to
           produce a long-term debt reduction plan
2012 - 29 people are killed and 11 injured after a bus runs off a mountain highway in Nepal
2012 - Japan nationalizes three of the disputed Senkaku Islands

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Post by: MysteRy on September 11, 2013, 10:19:21 AM

This Day in History for 11th September


Famous Weddings

1930 - Mystery writer Agatha Christie (39) weds archaeologist Max Mallowan (26)
1941 - Belgium King Leopold secretly marries Lilian Baels
1983 - Fashion designer Donna Karen marries Stephan Weiss
1999 - Actress Jenny McCarthy (26) weds actor-director John Mallory Asher (28) in the Crystal
           Gardens at the Beverly Hills Hotel

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Post by: MysteRy on September 11, 2013, 10:20:07 AM

This Day in History for 11th September


Famous Divorces

1977 - TV's Rhoda gets divorced

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Post by: MysteRy on September 11, 2013, 10:42:51 AM

This Day in History for 11th September


Famous Birthdays

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Writer D. H. Lawrence (1885)                  Comedian Tom Dreesen (1942)               Singer Harry Connick Jr (1967)


1182 - Minamoto no Yoriie, Japanese shogun (d. 1204)
1458 - Bernardo Accolti, [Unico Aretino], Italian writer (Virginia)
1476 - Louise of Savoye, French mother/regentes of king Francois I
1522 - Ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian biologist/medical
1523 - Pierre de Ronsard, poet
1525 - Johan Georg, elector of Brandenburg (1571-91)
1584 - Thomas Erpenius, [van Erpe], Dutch orientalist/arabist (grammar)
1611 - Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne, Marshal of France (d. 1675)
1614 - Philipp Buchner, composer
1681 - Johann Gottlieb Heineccius, German jurist (d. 1741)
1700 - James Thomson, songwriter (Rule Britannia)
1723 - Johann Bernhard Basedow, German educational reformer (d. 1790)
1741 - Johann J Angel, German author (Herr Lorenz Stark)
1753 - Friedrich August Baumbach, composer
1764 - Valentino Fioravanti, composer
1786 - Friedrich Kuhlau, composer
1798 - Franz E Neumann, German mineralogist/mathematician/physicist
1800 - Daniel S. Dickinson, New York senator (d. 1866)
1804 - Aleksandr I Polezjajev, Russian poet (Sasjka) [NS]
1806 - Joshua Blackwood Howell, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1864
1807 - Ignaz Lachner, composer
1813 - Conrad Feger Jackson, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
1816 - Carl Zeiss, German lens maker (d. 1888)
1825 - Eduard Hanslick, German music critic (d. 1904)
1835 - William Wirt Allen, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1894
1836 - Fitz Hugh Ludlow, American author (d. 1870)
1838 - John Ireland, Irish/US archbishop of St Paul
1844 - George Clement Martin, composer
1859 - Vjenceslav Novak, Croatian writer (d. 1905)
1860 - Marianne V von Werefkin, Russian/German/Swiss painter [NS]
1860 - James Allan, former All Black (d. 1934)
1861 - Juhani Aho, Fins journalist/writer (Panu, Tuomio)
1862 - O Henry, [William Sydney Porter], American short story writer (d. 1910)
1862 - Julian Byng, British army officer (d. 1935)
1865 - Rainis, Latvian poet and playwright (d. 1929)
1874 - Heinrich Kaspar Schmid, composer
1876 - Alfonso Broqua, composer
1877 - Felix Dzerzhinsky [Iron Felix, Bloody Felix], Ivyanets, Lithuania, Soviet statesman, established
           and developed Soviet secret police (Cheka, forerunner to the KGB)
1877 - James Jeans, England, physicist/mathematician/astronomer
1881 - Asta Nielsen, Copenhagen Denmark, actress (Joyless Street)
1883 - Grogorij J Zinovjev, [Gerson Radomyslski], Russian
1885 - David Herbert Lawrence (DH), Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, writer (Lady Chatterley's Lover)
          (d. 1930)
1885 - Eratstus Flaval Beadle, publisher (Beadle's Dime Novels)
1885 - Herbert Stothart, composer
1890 - Marius Moaritz Ulfrstad, composer
1891 - Noel Gallon, composer
1891 - William Thomas Walsh, American author (d. 1949)
1892 - Pinto Colvig, OR, animation voice (Goofy, Pluto)
1892 - Lucien Buysse, Belgian cyclist (d. 1980)
1893 - W. Douglas Hawkes, British racing driver (d. 1974)
1895 - Harry Tobias, songwriter
1899 - Nelly A "Nell" Knoop, Dutch actress (Driestuivers Opera)
1899 - Jimmie Davis, Quitman, Louisiana, American singer and songwriter (You Are My Sunshine)
1900 - D. W. Brooks, American farmer and businessman (d. 1999)
1902 - Alice Tully, Corning, NY, singer/patroness (Carnegie Hall)
1903 - Theodor Adorno, German philosopher/sociologist
1906 - Roye England, modeller/museum curator
1908 - Everhardus J van Romondt, physician/Dutch Antillean minister of Eco
1909 - Anne Seymour, England, actress (Gemini Affair, Empire, Tim Conway Show)
1909 - William H Natcher, (Rep-D-Kentucky, 1953- )
1911 - Bola de Nieve, Cuban pianist (d. 1971)
1913 - Paul "Bear" Bryant, US football coach (Alabama Crimson Tide)
1915 - Athena Lorde, NY, actress (Fuzz, Skin Game, Firecreek)
1915 - Jack Fascinato, Bevier Mo, pianist/orchestra leader (Kukla Fran & Ollie)
1917 - Ferdinand Marcos, Philippines Pres (1965-86)
1917 - Henderson Forsythe, Macon MO, actor (Crisis at Central High)
1917 - Jessica Lucy Mitford, author (American Way of Death)
1917 - Daniel Wildenstein, French art dealer and racehorse owner (d. 2001)
1918 - Donald Blakeslee, American aviator (d. 2008)
1921 - Edwin Richfield, British Actor (d. 1990)
1922 - Charles Evers, civil rights leader (Amazing Grace)
1923 - Alan Badel, Manchester England, actor (Shogun)
1923 - Betsy Drake, fitness expert/actress (Every Girl Should be Married)
1924 - Daniel Kahikina Akaka, (Rep-D-HI, 1977- /Sen-D Hawaii)
1924 - Tom Landry, NFL player (NY Giants)/coach (Dallas Cowboys)
1924 - Rudolf Vrba, Jewish Canadian professor, Holocaust survivor (d. 2006)
1925 - Ashley Heenan, composer
1925 - Harry Stuart Somers, composer
1926 - Alfred Slote, author (Love & Tennis, Omega Station)
1926 - Gerrit van Niekerk Viljoen, South African minister of Legislation
1926 - Lee Richardson, Chicago, actor (Sweet Lorraine, Fly 2, Tiger Warsaw)
1926 - Eddie Miksis, baseball player (d. 2005)
1927 - David Schine, businessman
1927 - Vernon Corea, Sri Lankan broadcaster (d. 2002)
1928 - Earl Holliman, Delhi La, actor (Police Woman, Tribes, Cry Panic)
1928 - Reubin Askew, (Gov-Fla)
1929 - David S Broder, Chicago Hgts Ill, journalist (Pulitzer 1973)
1930 - Cathryn Damon, Seattle Wash, actress (Mary-Soap, She's Having a Baby)
1930 - Saleh Selim, Egyptian football player (d. 2002)
1931 - Hans-Ulrich Wehler, German historian
1932 - Herbert "Sonny" Leon Callahan, (Rep-R-Alabama, 1985- )
1932 - Robert W "Bob" Packwood, (Sen-R-OR, 1969- )
1932 - Peter Anderson, English footballer
1933 - William Luther Pierce, American author and activist (d. 2002)
1934 - Oliver Jones, Canadian jazz pianist
1934 - Norma Croker, Australian sprinter
1934 - Ian Abercrombie, Grays, Essex, English actor (Birds of Prey, Desperate Housewives)
1935 - Arvo Part, composer
1935 - Gherman Stepanovich Titov, USSR, cosmonaut (Vostok II)
1936 - Charles Dierkop, LaCrosse Wisc, actor (Det Pete Royster-Police Woman)
1937 - Paola Ruffo di Calabria, Ital princess/queen of Belgium (1993- )
1937 - Robert L Crippen, Beaumont Tx, Capt USN/astronaut (STS 1, 7, 41C, 41G)
1937 - Iosif Kobzon, Soviet singer and Russian businessman
1938 - Charles Patrick, rocker (Monotones)
1939 - Charles Geschke, American inventor and businessman
1940 - Bernie Dwyer, rock drummer (Freddie & The Dreamers)
1940 - Brian DePalma, Newark NJ, film director (Body Double, Dressed to Kill)
1940 - Theodore Olson, U.S. Solicitor General
1940 - Robert Palmer, last CEO of Digital Equipment Corporation
1942 - Tom Dreesen, Harvey, Illinois, comedian (Tim Ried's partner)
1942 - Lola Falana [Loletha Elayne], Camden, New Jersey, American singer and actress (Golden Boy,
           A Man Called Adam)
1942 - Gerome Ragni American Playwright
1943 - Mickey Hart, drummer (Grateful Dead)
1943 - Raymond Villeneuve, Canadian terrorist
1944 - Everaldo, Brazilian footballer
1944 - Freddy Thielemans, mayor of Brussels
1945 - Leo Kottke, Athens Ga, guitarist (Ice Water, Greenhouse)
1945 - Franz Beckenbauer, German footballer
1946 - Dennis Tufano, Chicago, rock guitarist/vocalist (Buckinghams)
1948 - John Martyn, English musician
1949 - Marty Liquori, US, runner (AAU 3 mile-1979 (13:14.7))
1949 - Roger Uttley, English rugby player
1949 - Bill Whittington, race car driver
1950 - Amy Madigan, Chicago Ill, actress (Uncle Buck, Twice in a Lifetime)
1950 - Barry Sheene, British auto maker
1951 - Richard D. Gill, British-Dutch mathematician
1951 - Miroslav Dvořák, Czechoslovak ice hockey player (d. 2008)
1953 - Tommy Shaw, American musician and singer (Styx)
1953 - Jani Allan, South African journalist and media personality
1954 - Reed Birney, Alexandria Va, actor (Greatest Man in the World)
1956 - Tony Gilroy, American screenwriter and director
1957 - Jeffrey George Sluman, Rochester NY, PGA golfer (1988 PGA Champ)
1957 - Jon Moss, rock drummerer (Culture Club-Do You Really Want to Hurt Me)
1957 - Brad Bird, American director and animator
1958 - Don Slaught, Long Beach CA, catcher (California Angels, NY Yankees)
1958 - Mick Talbot, rock keyboardist (Style Council-You're the Best Thing)
1958 - Scott Patterson, American actor
1958 - Roxann Dawson, American actress
1958 - Phoef Sutton, American television writer and producer
1959 - David Laurence Frost, Cape Town South Africa, PGA golfer (1988 Southern Open)
1959 - Robert Wrenn, Richmond VA, Nike golfer (1987 Buick Open)
1960 - Neal X, rocker (Sigue Sigue Sputnik-Love Missile F-111)
1961 - Virginia Madsen, Chicago Ill, actress (Dune, Hot Spot, Class)
1961 - Elizabeth Daily, Los Angeles, California, American actress and singer (Buttercup-The
           Powerpuff Girls)
1961 - Philip Ardagh, British writer
1962 - Kristy McNichol, Los Angeles California, actress (Buddy-Family, Barbara-Empty Nest)
1962 - Filip Dewinter Belgian politician
1962 - Julio Salinas, Spanish footballer
1963 - Bonnie Gadusek, Pittsburgh, tennis player (French Juniors 1981)
1963 - Gerald Wilkins, NBA guard (Orlando Magic)
1963 - Dr Patrick McWilliams, Irish author
1963 - Colin Wells, English actor
1964 - Ellis Burks, Vicksburg MS, outfielder (Colorado Rockies)
1964 - Eric Thomas, NFL cornerback (Denver Broncos)
1964 - Jean-Phil LeMoine, hockey defenseman (Team France 1998)
1964 - Roxanne Biggs-Dawson, actress (B'Elanna Torres-Star Trek Voyager)
1964 - Victor Wooten, American musician
1965 - John Schofield, journalist
1965 - Tony Woods, NFL defensive end (Washington Redskins)
1965 - Bashar al-Assad, President of Syria
1965 - Paul Heyman, American wrestling manager
1965 - Moby, American musician
1966 - Richard Harvey, NFL linebacker (NO Saints)
1966 - Stewart Carr, Indianapolis Ind, canoe (alt-Olympics-96)
1966 - Princess Akishino, Japanese Imperial Family
1967 - Kendra Lee Ruwe, Madison Idaho, Miss Idaho-America (1991)
1967 - Simon Burgess, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1967 - Harry Connick Jr, New Orleans Louisiana, singer (We Are in Love)
1967 - Maria Bartiromo, financial broadcast journalist
1968 - Konstantin Shafranov, hockey forward (Team Kazkhstan 1998)
1968 - Kay Hanley, American musician
1968 - Paul Mayeda Berges, American film writer and director
1969 - Laura Sisk, Maryland, actress (Allison Rescott-Loving)
1969 - Tracy Scroggins, NFLer (Detroit Lions)
1969 - Eduardo Perez, American baseball player
1969 - Gidget Gein, American musician
1970 - Berry Richter, Madison Wis, US hockey defenseman (Olympics-1994)
1970 - Dan Hackett, Syracuse NY, water polo goalkeeper (Olympics-96)
1970 - Chris Garver, tattoo artist
1970 - Taraji P. Henson, American actress and singer
1970 - William Joppy, American boxer
1970 - Ted Leo, American musician
1971 - Mack Strong, NFL fullback (Seattle Seahawks)
1971 - Todd Norman, NFL guard (Seattle Seahawks)
1971 - Richard Ashcroft, British singer
1971 - Markos Moulitsas, American blogger and author
1971 - Johnny Vegas, English comedian
1971 - Shelton Quarles, American football player
1972 - Kip Simons, Media Pa, gymnast (Olympics-5th-96)
1972 - Mark Pope, NBA forward (Indiana Pacers)
1972 - Matthew Gilmore, Belgian cyclist
1973 - Fred Thomas, NFL cornerback (Seattle Seahawks)
1974 - Lucian Sahetapy, soccer player (FC Groningen)
1975 - Juliette Spier, Miss North Dakota USA (1996)
1975 - Tiffany Parks, Miss Arkansas USA (1996)
1975 - Juan Cobián, former Argentine footballer
1975 - Mark Klepaski, American musician
1976 - Elephant Man, Jamaican musician
1976 - Flora Redoumi, Greek hurdler
1976 - Tomáš Enge, Czech racing driver
1977 - Ludacris, American rapper
1977 - Matthew Stevens, Welsh snooker player
1977 - Jon Buckland, British guitarist (Coldplay)
1978 - Dejan Stanković, Serbian footballer
1978 - Ed Reed, American football player
1978 - Ben Lee, Australian musician and singer
1979 - Ariana Richards, Healdsburg CA, actress (Spaced Invaders, Prancer)
1979 - Nathan Gale, American murderer (d. 2004)
1979 - Frank Francisco, Major League Baseball pitcher
1979 - Steve Hofstetter, comedian & radio personality
1979 - David Pizarro, Chilean footballer
1980 - Antônio Pizzonia, Brazilian race car driver
1980 - Mike Comrie, Canadian ice hockey player
1981 - Andrea Dossena, Italian footballer
1981 - Dylan Klebold, Columbine High School Massacre co-perpetrator (d. 1999)
1982 - Shriya Saran, South Indian actress
1983 - Jacoby Ellsbury, American baseball player
1983 - Ike Diogu, American basketball player
1985 - Shaun Livingston, American basketball player
1985 - Zack Stortini, Canadian ice hockey player
1986 - Chiliboy Ralepelle, South African rugby player
1986 - Dwayne Jarrett, American football player
1987 - Tyler Hoechlin, American actor

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 11, 2013, 10:45:23 AM

This Day in History for 11th September


Famous Deaths

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First Secretary of the Communist Party
of the Soviet Union
Nikita Khrushchev (1971)


1161 - Queen Melisende of Jerusalem (b. 1105)
1185 - Stephanus Hagiochristophorites, Byzantine courtier
1297 - Hugh de Cressingham, English treasurer, dies in battle
1298 - Philip of Artois, French soldier (b. 1269)
1349 - Bonne of Luxembourg, wife of John II of France (b. 1315)
1599 - Cornelis de Houtman, navigator (1st Dutch trip to Java), murder at 35
1599 - Beatrice Cenci, Italian noblewoman executed for planned fratricide (b. 1577)
1630 - John de White, calvinist/banker to Prague, commits suicide
1646 - Johann Stobaeus, composer, dies at 66
1677 - James Harrington, English political philosopher (b. 1611)
1680 - Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (b. 1596)
1680 - Roger Crab, English Puritan political writer (b. 1621)
1709 - Oxenstiern, Dutch general, dies in the Battle of Malplaquet
1709 - Spaar, Dutch General, dies in the Battle of Malplaquet
1712 - Giovanni D Cassini, French astronomer, dies
1713 - John Foot, lawyer, dies at 65
1721 - Rudolph J Camerarius, German physician (sexuality plans), dies
1733 - Francois Couperin, French composer (Le Grand), dies at 64
1760 - Louis Godin, French astronomer (b. 1704)
1789 - Luca Sorkocevic, composer, dies at 55
1822 - Fortunat Alojzy Gonzaga Żółkowski, Polish actor (b. 1777)
1823 - David Ricardo, economist (b. 1772)
1843 - Joseph Nicollet, mathematician and explorer (b. 1786)
1848 - Henri-Philippe Gerard, composer, dies at 87
1851 - Sylvester Graham, American nutritionist (b. 1794)
1858 - Alexander L'vovich Gurilyov, composer, dies at 55
1865 - Christophe Léon Louis Juchault de Lamoricière, French general (b. 1806)
1870 - Eugenio Lucas y Padilla, Spanish poet, dies at about 46
1888 - Domingo F Sarmiento, president of Argentina (1868-74), dies at 77
1892 - Charles-Louis-Adolphe Vogel, composer, dies at 84
1896 - Anton Joseph Bruckner, Austrian composer, dies at 72
1896 - Francis James Child, American ballad collector (b. 1825)
1898 - Adolphe-Abraham Samuel, composer, dies at 74
1911 - Louis Henri Boussenard, French novelist (b. 1847)
1915 - William Sprague IV, American politician (b. 1830)
1915 - William Cornelius Van Horne, American railway executive (b. 1843)
1917 - Georges Guynemer, French WW I pilot, dies at 22
1921 - Subramanya Bharathy, Tamil poet (b. 1882)
1922 - Louis Coerne, composer, dies at 52
1924 - Mieczyslaw Surzynski, composer, dies at 57
1926 - Matsunosuke Onoe, Japanese actor (b. 1875)
1931 - Salvatore Maranzano, American crime boss (b. 1868)
1932 - Franciszek Zwirko and Stanislaw Wigura, Polish pilots (Żwirko b. 1895 Wigura b. 1901)
1946 - Arthur van Schendel, writer (Holland Drama), dies at 72)
1948 - Albert Powell, cricketer (one Test South Africa v England 1898-99), dies
1948 - Mohammed Ali Jinnah, 1st governor of Pakistan (1947-48), dies at 71
1949 - Henri Rabaud, French composer/conductor (L'ete), dies at 75
1950 - John C Smuts, co-found British RAF/South African PM (1919..48), dies at 80
1950 - S M H Colah, cricketer (69 runs in India's 1st 2 tests 1932-33), dies
1954 - Licinio Refice, composer, dies at 69
1956 - Billy Bishop, Canadian pilot in World War I (b. 1894)
1957 - Petar Stojanovic, composer, dies at 80
1958 - Robert Lach, composer, dies at 84
1958 - Robert W. Service, Scottish-born Canadian poet (b. 1874)
1958 - Camillien Houde, French Canadian politician (b. 1889)
1959 - Paul Douglas, actor (Adventure Theater), dies at 52
1965 - Ralph C. Smedley, Founder of Toastmasters International (b. 1878)
1966 - Charlie Cantor, actor (Artie-Ray Bolger Show), dies at 68
1966 - C. E. Woolman, American airline magnate (b. 1889)
1967 - Tadeusz Żyliński, Polish technician and textilist (b. 1904)
1968 - René Cogny, French General (b. 1904)
1970 - Chester Morris, actor (Diagnosis: Unknown), dies at 69
1971 - Nikita Khrushchev, dies of a heart attack at 77
1971 - Percy Helton, actor (Homer-Beverly Hillbillies), dies at 77
1972 - Max Fleischer, American animator (b. 1883)
1973 - Salvador Allende Gossens, president Chile (1970-73), dies at 65
1973 - Neem Karoli Baba, Indian guru
1974 - Víctor Olea Alegría, Chilean Socialist Party member
1976 - Jan Kunc, composer, dies at 93
1977 - Don Blackman, actor (Old Man & Sea, Desert Legion), dies at 65
1977 - Leonard Carey, actor (Laughter), dies at 90
1978 - Mike Gazella, American baseball player (b. 1895)
1978 - Georgi Markov, Bulgarian dissident (b. 1929)
1978 - Janet Parker, medical photographer (b. c. 1938)
1978 - Ronnie Peterson, Swedish F1 driver (b. 1944)
1980 - Jose Antonio Calcano, composer, dies at 80
1981 - Frank McHugh, actor (Dawn Patrol, Going My Way), dies at 83
1982 - Albert Soboult, French historian, dies at 68
1984 - Hilding Hallnas, composer, dies at 81
1984 - Jerry Voorhis, American politician (b. 1901)
1985 - William Alwyn, composer, dies at 79
1985 - Andrew C. Thornton II, American drug smuggler (b. 1945)
1987 - Lorne Greene, actor (Bonanza, Battlestar Galactica), dies at 72
1987 - Peter Tosh, reggae singer shot dead in Jamacia at 42
1988 - George Alpert, railroad executive, dies at 90
1988 - Luis W Alvarez, physicist (Nobel-1968), dies at 77
1988 - John Sylvester White, American actor (b. 1919)
1990 - Ben Frank, actor (Don't Answer the Phone), dies of heart attack at 56
1990 - Myrna Mack, Guatemalan anthropologist (b. 1949)
1991 - Ernst Herbeck, German Poet (b. 1920)
1992 - Erik Terpstra, director (Versier de leegte, De ander, Daniel), dies
1992 - Frank Singuineau, actor (Firepower, Pressure, Mummy), dies
1992 - Paul Storken, Dutch priest (Away Backing), dies
1993 - Antoine Izmery, Haitian businessman/advisor to pres Aristide, murdered
1993 - Erich Leinsdorf, Austria/US conductor/author (Cadenza), dies at 81
1994 - Frederick Rand Weissman, philanthropist, dies at 82
1994 - Jessica Tandy, actress (Driving Miss Daisy), dies of cancer at 85
1994 - Sara Taylor, mother of Elizabeth, dies at 62
1994 - William Obanheim, actor (Officer Obie-Alice's Restaurant), dies at 69
1995 - Charles William Hutton, architect, dies at 90
1995 - Jerome Theisen, benedioctine, dies at 64
1995 - Keith Odor, racing Driver, dies at 33
1995 - Anita Harding, neurologist (b. 1952)
1996 - Guido Aristarco, film critic, dies at 77
1996 - JoAnne Dru, actress (Sylvia, Drango), dies of lymphedema at 73
1996 - Peter Phillips, printer, dies at 61
1997 - Camille Henry, National Hockey League player (b. 1933)
1997 - Hannah Weiner American experimental poet (b. 1928)
1998 - Dane Clark, American actor (b. 1913)
1999 - Belkis Ayón, Cuban artist (b. 1967)
1999 - Gonzalo Rodriguez, Uruguayan auto racing driver (b. 1972)
2001 - Alice Stewart Trillin, American author (b. 1938)
2001 - Marwan Al-Shehhi, 9/11 terrorist (b. 1978)
2001 - David Angell, American sitcom creator (b. 1946)
2001 - Mohamed Atta, 9/11 terrorist (b. 1968)
2001 - Garnet Bailey, Canadian hockey player and scout (b. 1948)
2001 - Todd Beamer, passenger on United Airlines Flight 93 (b. 1968)
2001 - Berry Berenson, widow of Anthony Perkins (b. 1948)
2001 - Mark Bingham, passenger on United Airlines Flight 93 (b. 1970)
2001 - Tom Burnett, American businessman (b. 1963)
2001 - Peter J. Ganci, Jr., Chief of Department, FDNY (b. 1946)
2001 - Hani Hanjour, 9/11 terrorist (b. 1972)
2001 - Ziad Jarrah, 9/11 terrorist (b. 1975)
2001 - Father Mychal F. Judge, Chaplain, FDNY (b. 1933)
2001 - Angel L. Juarbe, Jr., American firefighter (b. 1966)
2001 - John P. O'Neill, American anti-terrorism FBI agent (b. 1952)
2001 - John Ogonowski, pilot for American Airlines Flight 11 (b. 1951)
2001 - Barbara Olson, American political commentator (b. 1955)
2001 - Daniel M. Lewin, founder of Akamai Technologies (b. 1970)
2002 - Kim Hunter, American actress (b. 1922)
2002 - Johnny Unitas, American football player (b. 1933)
2003 - Anna Lindh, Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs (b. 1957)
2003 - John Ritter, American actor (b. 1948)
2004 - Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria (b. 1949)
2004 - Fred Ebb, American lyricist (b. 1933)
2004 - David Mann, U.S. artist (b. 1939)
2005 - Chris Schenkel, American sportscaster (b. 1923)
2006 - William Auld, Scottish poet, writer and supporter of Esperanto (b. 1924)
2006 - Pat Corley, American actor (b. 1930)
2006 - Joachim Fest, German journalist and author (b. 1926)
2006 - Johannes Bob van Benthem, Dutch lawyer (b. 1921)
2007 - Ian Porterfield, Manager of Armenia National Football Club (b. 1946)
2007 - Gene Savoy, American author and cleric (b. 1927)
2007 - Joe Zawinul, Austrian musician (b. 1932)
2009 - Gertrude Baines, world's oldest living person (b. 1894)
2011 - Andy Whitfield, Welsh actor (b. 1972)
2011 - Christian Bakkerud, Danish racing driver (b. 1984)
2011 - Ralph Gubbins, English footballer (b. 1932)
2011 - Anjali Gupta, Indian Air Force officer (b. 1975)
2012 - Sergio Livingstone, Chilean football player and journalist, dies from natural causes at 92

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 12, 2013, 08:55:08 AM

This Day in History for 12th September


Historical Events

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Dictator of Nazi Germany                      Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini             US President John F. Kennedy
Adolf Hitler

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Cuban President Fidel Castro               Tennis Player Martina Navratilova             Tennis Player Pete Sampras

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INXS rocker
 Michael Hutchence


1015 - Henry I becomes Count of Leuven
1213 - Battle at Muret: Crusade of Simon de Montfort beat Pedro II of Aragon
1217 - French prince Louis & English king Henry III sign peace treaty
1229 - The Aragonese army under the command of James I of Aragon disembarks at Santa Ponça,
           Majorca, with the purpose of conquering the island.
1396 - Crusaders under earl of Nevers reaches Nicopolis
1543 - Treaty of Venlo: Duke Willem of Gulik & Emperor Charles V
1556 - Emperor Charles resigns, his brother Ferdinand van Austria takes over
1624 - 1st submarine tested (London)
1635 - Sweden & Poland sign ceasefire Treaty of Stuhmsdorf
1639 - Viceroy Thomas Wentworth sails back to England
1673 - Prince Willem III occupies Naarden
1683 - Austro-Ottoman War: Battle of Vienna - several European armies join forces to defeat the
           Ottoman Empire.
1695 - NY Jews petition governor Dongan for religious liberties
1703 - Emperor Leopold I ends contacts on Spanish heritage
1703 - English army under arch duke Charles of Austria lands in Portugal
1720 - Isaak of Hoornbeek elected Dutch pension advisor
1722 - Russian troops occupy Baku & Derbent on Persia
1733 - Polish Landowners select Stanislaw Lesczynski king
1745 - Duke of Toscane chosen German emperor Frans I Stefanus
1751 - Amsterdam refuses establishment of Jewish ghetto
1758 - Charles Messier observes Crab Nebula & begins catalog
1759 - British soldiers capture the town of Quebec.
1776 - Nathan Hale leaves Harlem Heights Camp (127th St) for spy mission
1787 - Black Masons form 1st lodge
1814 - Battle of North Point fought near Baltimore during War of 1812
1847 - Mexican-American War: the Battle of Chapultepec begins.
1848 - Switzerland becomes a Federal state.
1857 - 423 die when "Central America" sinks off Cape Romain SC
1862 - Battle of Harpers Ferry VA
1867 - 2nd synagogue in Curacao, Emanu-El of Willemstad, inaugurated
1874 - 1874 The District of Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada is founded.
1876 - King Leopold II opens Congo-conference
1878 - Cleopatra Needle installed in London
1882 - Belgian King Leopold II receives Pierre de Brazza
1885 - Highest score (35) recorded in any 1st-class soccer match is set
1888 - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Greek Interpreter" (BG)
1890 - Cecil Rhodes' colonies reach Mashonaland and found Fort Salisbury (now Harare, Zimbabwe).
1895 - Defender (US) beats Valkyrie III (England) in 10th America's Cup
1897 - Tirah Campaign: Battle of Saragarhi
1901 - Arabs attack Gedara Palestine
1906 - The Newport Transporter Bridge is opened in Newport, South Wales by Viscount Tredegar.
1907 - Lusitania arrives in NYC after 5 day crossing of Atlantic (record)
1910 - Gustav Mahler's 8th Symphony premieres in Munich with 1028 musicians
1910 - World's 1st female cop, Alice Stebbins Wells, appointed (LAPD)
1911 - Boston's Cy Young vs Christy Mathewson of Giants, Giants win 9-0
1912 - Dutch Olympian Committee forms (NOC)
1914 - Yankee shortstop Roger Peckinpaugh, 23, becomes youngest manager
1918 - During WW I, US forces launch an attack on German-occupied St Mihiel
1920 - 7th Olympic games close in Antwerp Belgium
1922 - Paavo Nurmi runs world record 5000m (14:35.4)
1923 - Britain takes over Southern Rhodesia from British South Africa Co
1925 - 20th Davis Cup: USA beats France in Philadelphia (5-0)
1927 - Sigmund Romberg's musical "My Maryland," premieres in NYC
1928 - -17] Hurricane in Florida, kills 6,000
1928 - Katharine Hepburn's NY stage debut in "Night Hostess"
1930 - Brooklyn catcher Al Lopez hits major league's last recorded bounce HR
1931 - 51st US Mens Tennis: H E Vines beats George M Lott Jr (79 63 97 75)
1932 - Bkln Dodger Johnny Frederick hits his record 6th pinch hit HR
1932 - German government of Papen falls/Reichstag dissolved
1933 - Alejandro Lerroux forms new Spanish government
1933 - Dutch parliament accepts ban on uniforms
1933 - Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of
           the nuclear chain reaction.
1934 - Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania signs Baltic Entente, against USSR
1935 - 55th US Mens Tennis: Wilmer L Allison beats Sidney B Wood (62 62 63)
1935 - Millionaire Howard Hughes flies his own designed plane at 352.46 mph
1936 - 50th US Womens Tennis: Alice Marble beats Helen Hull Jacobs (46 63 62)
1936 - 56th US Mens Tennis: Fred Perry beats J Donald Budge (26 62 86 16 108)
1938 - Adolf Hitler demands self-determination for Sudeten Germans in Czech
1940 - 49 die & 200 injured when Hercules Powder Co plant explodes (NJ)
1940 - Italian troops enter Egypt
1940 - 4 teens, following their dog down a hole near Lascaux France discover 17,000-year-old
           drawings now known as Lascaux Cave Paintings
1941 - 1st German ship in WW II captured by US ship (Busko)
1942 - Battle of Edson's Ridge begins at Guadalcanal
1942 - Free-Poland & Belgium asks pope to condemn nazi-war crimes
1943 - Free French lands on Corsica
1943 - Waffen-SS (Skorzeny) frees Benito Mussolini at Gran Sasso
1944 - -16] Hurricane, kills 389 in NC
1944 - Noorbeek & Mheer freed
1944 - US Army troops entered Germany for 1st time
1946 - Court martial convicts Henry de Man to 20 years, in Brussels
1947 - Pirate Ralph Kiner hits his record 8th HR in 4 games
1948 - Invasion of the State of Hyderabad by the Indian Army on the day after the Pakistani leader
           Jinnah's death.
1949 - Theodor Heuss elected 1st pres/Conrad Adenauer 1st PM of German FR
1950 - Belgian government dismisses all communist civil servants
1952 - Noel Coward's "Quadrille," premieres in London
1953 - "Carnival in Flanders" closes at New Century Theater NYC after 6 perfs
1953 - Brooklyn Dodgers, clinch NL pennant earlier than any other team
1954 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA St Louis Golf Open
1954 - Indians sweep Yanks at Municipal Stadium; largest AL crowd (86,563)
1954 - WLBZ TV channel 2 in Bangor, ME (NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 - White Sox win 90th game, 1st time they win this many since 1920
1955 - KNTV TV channel 11 in San Jose, CA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1956 - Black students enter & are barred from Clay Ky elementary school
1957 - Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus visits US
1958 - US Supreme Court orders Little Rock Ark high school to integrate
1958 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1959 - "Bonanza" premieres on NBC-TV
1959 - Janos Kádár becomes premier of Hungary
1959 - Luna 2 launched by USSR; 1st spacecraft to impact on Moon
1960 - "Vintage '60" opens at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC for 8 performances
1960 - John F. Kennedy avers he does not speak for the Roman Catholic Church, and neither does
           the Church speak for him.
1961 - NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 34,840 m
1961 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1962 - Wash Senator Tom Cheney strikes out record 21 Orioles in 16 inn game
1963 - WHYY TV channel 12 in Wilmington, DE (PBS) begins broadcasting
1964 - 1st football game at Shea Stadium, Jets defeat Denver 30-6
1964 - Ralph Boston of US, sets then long jump record at 27' 4½"
1964 - Canyonlands National Park is designated as a National Park.
1965 - 79th US Womens Tennis: Margaret Smith beats Billie Jean King (86 75)
1965 - 85th US Mens Tennis: Manuel Santana beats Cliff Drysdale (62 79 75 61)
1965 - Hurricane Betsy strikes Florida & Louisiana kills 75
1965 - Manuel Santana wins US Tennis Open
1965 - Mary Mills wins LPGA Eugene Golf Open
1965 - WCEE TV channel 23 in Rockford, IL (CBS) begins broadcasting
1966 - "Monkees" premieres on NBC-TV
1966 - Gemini XI (Charles Conrad & R Gordon) launched for 71-hour flight
1966 - KPNE TV channel 9 in North Platte, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting
1966 - WCES TV channel 20 in Wrens, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1966 - WUSF TV channel 16 in Tampa-St Petersburg, FL (PBS) 1st broadcast
1966 - Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor Mich begins teaching
1968 - Albania announces it is withdrawing from the Warsaw Pact
1970 - 1st Concorde lands at Heathrow airport
1970 - Luna 16 Launch (Moon Sample Return)
1970 - Phyllis Ann George (Texas), 21, crowned 43rd Miss America 1971
1970 - Supersonic airliner Concorde lands for 1st time at Heathrow airport
1970 - US LSD professor Timothy Leary escapes from California jail
1970 - USSR launches Luna 16; returns samples from lunar Sea of Fertility
1970 - Palestinian terrorists blow up three hijacked airliners in Jordan, continuing to hold the
           passengers hostage in various undisclosed locations in Amman.
1971 - 85th US Womens Tennis: Billie Jean King beats Rosemary Casals (64 76)
1971 - 91st US Mens Tennis: Stan Smith beats Jan Kodes (36 63 62 76)
1972 - Lord Michael Killanin succeeds Avery Brundage as head of Olympics
1973 - 2 bettors win largest US Daily Double ($19,909.60 in Detroit)
1973 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1974 - Coup overthrows Emperor Haile Selassie in Ethiopia (National Day)
1974 - Jeff "Skunk" Baxter joins Doobie Brothers
1976 - 96th US Mens Tennis: Jimmy Connors beats Bjorn Borg (64 36 76 64)
1976 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
1976 - Seattle Seahawks play 1st regular-season game (St L 30, Sea 24)
1976 - White Sox Minnie Minoso, 53, is oldest to get a hit in majors
1978 - Fidel Castro visits Addis Abba
1978 - Situation comedy "Taxi" premieres on ABC television
1979 - Carl Yastrzemski, is 15th to get 3,000 hits
1979 - Hurricane Frederick hits Mobile Alabama; 5 die & $23 million damage
1979 - Indiana Pacers cut Ann Meyers, 1st woman on an NBA club
1979 - Red Carl Yastrzemski gets his 3,000th hit off Yankee Jim Beattie
1979 - Indonesia is hit with an earthquake that measures 8.1 on the Richter scale.
1980 - Military coup under General Kenan Evren in Turkey
1981 - 95th US Womens Tennis: Tracy Austin beats M Navratilova (16 76 76)
1981 - Elizabeth Ward (Arkansas), 20, crowned 54th Miss America 1982
1981 - Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation
1981 - Red Sox rookie Bob Ojeda no-hits Yanks for 8 innings before Rick Cerone & Dave Winfield
           lead off 9th with back-to-back doubles
1982 - 102nd US Mens Tennis: Jimmy Connors beats Ivan Lendl (63 62 46 64)
1982 - Gerard Nijboer (2:15:16) & Rosa Mota (2:36:04) win marathon
1982 - Sandra Spuzich wins LPGA Mary Kay Golf Classic
1983 - Albert Rizzo trod water at sea for 108 hours 9 minutes
1983 - Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation
1983 - Security guard Victor Gerena robs West Hartford company of $7 million
1983 - USSR vetoes UN resolution deploring its shooting down of Korean plane
1984 - Country singer Barbara Mandrell is badly injured in a car accident
1984 - Cyndi Lauper sings "She-Bop" on Tonight Show
1984 - Ethiopia forms socialist republic
1984 - NY Met Dwight Gooden sets rookie strike out record at 251
1985 - Flight readiness firing of Atlantis' main engines; 20 seconds
1986 - 240.49 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
1986 - Twins fire manager Ray Miller & replace him with coach Tom Kelly
1986 - US professor Joseph Cicippio is kidnapped & held hostage in Beirut
1987 - 101st US Womens Tennis: Martina Navratilova beats Steffi Graf (76 61)
1987 - Ethiopia adopts constitution
1987 - Vince Coleman steals his 100th base for 3rd straight year
1988 - 1st NFL regular-season game played in Phoenix; Cowboys beat Card
1988 - Gilbert, strongest hurricane ever (160 mph), devastates Jamaica
1989 - Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation
1990 - "Les Miserables," opens at Cirkus Theater, Stockholm
1990 - Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation
1990 - US, England, France, USSR, East & West Germanys sign agreements allowing 2 Germanys to
           merge
1991 - Nolan Ryan's 4-3 victory over Twins is his 312th career win
1991 - Space shuttle STS 48 (Discovery 14) launched
1992 - 106th US Womens Tennis: Monica Seles beats A Sanchez Vicario (63 63)
1992 - Hurricane Inuki pounds Hawaii
1992 - STS-47 (Endeavour 2) launches
1992 - Stefan Edberg beats Michael Chang in what is believed to be the longest match in US Open
           history (5hr 26min)
1993 - 113rd US Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Cedric Pioline (64 64 63)
1993 - Donna Andrews wins Ping-Cellular One LPGA Golf Championship
1993 - Junxia Cheek runs 3000 m ladies world record (8:12.29)
1993 - Paul Molitor at 37 is oldest to reach 100 RBIs for 1st time in career
1993 - STS-51 (Discovery) launches into orbit
1994 - Cessna crashes in White House front yard
1994 - Country singer George Jones undergoes triple bypass surgery
1994 - Parti Québécois wins parliamentary election
1995 - INXS' Michael Hutchence pleads guilty to punching a photographer
1995 - Belarus military shoots down a hydrogen balloon, killing its two American pilots.
1997 - NY Met John Olerud hits for the cycle
1999 - Indonesia announces it will allow international peace-keepers into East Timor.
2000 - Holland (the Netherlands) passes law allowing same-gender marriage, adoption and divorce.
2001 - Article V of the NATO agreement is invoked for only the second time (the other being in
           Bosnia) in response to the September 11, 2001 attacks against the United States of America.
2001 - Ansett Australia, Australia's first commercial interstate airline, collapses due to increased
           strain on the international airline industry leaving 10000 people unemployed.
2003 - In Fallujah, US forces mistakenly shoot and kill eight Iraqi police officers.
2003 - The United Nations lifts sanctions against Libya after that country agreed to accept
           responsibility and recompense the families of victims in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight
           103.
2005 - The red-green coalition, led by Jens Stoltenberg, wins the Norwegian parliamentary election,
           taking 87 of 169 seats in the parliament.
2005 - Israel completes its withdrawal of all troops and settlers from the Gaza Strip.
2005 - The bodies of more than 40 patients discovered in a flooded hospital in New Orleans.
2005 - Hong Kong Disneyland opens in Penny's Bay, Lantau Island, Hong Kong.
2007 - Shinzo Abe announces his intention to resign as Prime Minister of Japan.
2007 - Former Philippine President Joseph Estrada is convicted of the crime of plunder.
2009 - The 9-12 Project organized multiple marches and demonstrations across the USA to protest
           government spending.
2012 - 18 soldiers are killed by a rebel car bomb in Syria
2012 - 314 people are killed in factory fire in Karachi and Lahore, Pakistan
2012 - Apple unveils its iPhone 5 and iOS 6

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 12, 2013, 08:56:45 AM

This Day in History for 12th September


Famous Weddings

1840 - Composer Robert Schumann marries Clara Wieck
1908 - Winston Churchill marries Clementine Hozier
1936 - "first Irish movie star" actress Maureen O'Sullivan (25) weds film director John Farrow (32)
1953 - Senator John F. Kennedy (36) weds Jacqueline Bouvier (24) in Newport, Rhode Island
2006 - NBA basketball star Tracy McGrady (27) weds CleRenda Harris at the sandy beach in Los
           Cabos, Mexico
2009 - Platinum-selling rock band "3 Doors Down" lead singer Brad Arnold weds horseback rider
           Jennifer Sanderford in Escatawpa, Mississippi

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 12, 2013, 09:03:29 AM

This Day in History for 12th September


Famous Birthdays

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Physicist/Chemist                                   Singer Barry White (1944)                        Actress and Singer
Irene Joliot-Curie (1897)                                                                                         Jennifer Hudson (1981)


1492 - Lorenzo II de' Medici, Duke of Urbino (d. 1519)
1494 - King Francis I of France (1515-47), (d. 1547)
1559 - Lodovico Cardi da Cigoli, Italian painter/architect
1575 - Henry Hudson, England, navigator/explorer (Hudson River)
1605 - William Dugdale, English antiquarian (d. 1686)
1655 - Sebastien de Brossard, composer
1688 - Ferdinand Brokoff, Czech sculptor (d. 1731)
1690 - Peter Dens, Belgian Catholic theologian (d. 1775)
1720 - Frederick Philipse III, NYC, land owner (Bronx, Westchester & Putnam)
1725 - Guillaume Le Gentil, French astronomer (d. 1792)
1740 - Johann Heinrich Jung, German author (d. 1817)
1761 - Georg Friedrich Theodor Wolf, composer
1768 - Bemnjamin Carr, composer
1788 - Alexander Campbell, Irish/US founder (Disciples of Christ)
1801 - Giuseppe Concone, Italian singing-teacher
1803 - Frantisek Matej Hilmar, composer
1806 - Andrew Hull Foote, Rear Admiral (Union Navy), died in 1863
1811 - James Hall, US geologist (Natural history of NY)
1812 - Richard Hoe, American inventor and industrialist (d. 1886)
1818 - Richard Jordan Gatling, US, inventor (hand-cranked machine gun)
1829 - Anselm Feuerbach, German painter
1829 - Charles Dudley Warner, Mass, newspaperman/author (Being a Boy)
1830 - William Sprague, governor of Rhode Island (1859-63)
1852 - Hubert H Asquith, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (L, 1908-16), (d. 1928)
1855 - Simon-Napoléon Parent, Canadian politician (d. 1920)
1856 - Johann Heinrich Beck, composer
1857 - George H Breitner, Dutch impressionist painter/water colors painter
1858 - Fernand Khnopff, Belgian painter/sculptor
1871 - Friedrich, Prince of Liechtenstein, Romania
1873 - Sul-To-Wan, [Nellie Conley], US actress (Uncle Tom's Cabin)
1875 - Matsunosuke Onoe, Japanese actor (d. 1926)
1876 - Flor Alpaerts, Flemish composer (Tyl Uilenspiegel, Pallieter)
1877 - Maria "Marie" Hens, Flemish actress (Jane Eyre)
1879 - Fausto Agnelli, Swiss painter
1879 - H de Bie, Dutch lawyer (children's law)
1880 - Henry L Mencken, Baltimore, Md, newspaperman/critic (Prejudices)
1881 - Daniel Jones, England phoneticist (English pronouncing dictionary)
1887 - George Georgescu, composer
1888 - Maurice Chevalier, Paris, thanked heaven for little girls (Gigi)
1890 - Guido Guerrini, composer
1891 - Adolph Weiss, composer
1891 - Pedro Albizu Campos, advocate for Puerto Rican independence (d. 1965)
1892 - Alfred A Knopf, US, publisher (1966 Alexander Hamilton Medal)
1894 - Billy Gilbert, Louisville KY, actor (Great Dictator, His Gal Friday)
1895 - Alice Lake, Brooklyn NY, silent screen actress (Glamour, Wicked)
1896 - Giuseppe Zoppi, Swiss writer (Il Libro Dell'Alpe)
1897 - Irene Joliot-Curie, Paris, physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, (d. 1956)
1898 - Ben Shahn, painter (1964 Arts & Letters)
1898 - Salvador Bacarisse, Spanish composer (d. 1963)
1899 - Gerard Hordijk, Dutch architect/painter
1900 - Eric Harding Thiman, composer
1901 - Ben Blue, Montreal, Quebec, Canadian actor and comedian (Accidental Family, Frank Sinatra
           Show)
1901 - Ernst Pepping, German composer
1902 - Juscelino Kubitschek, president Brazil (1955-60)
1904 - Gavril Nikolayevich Popov, composer
1905 - Boris Arapov, composer
1906 - Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich, St Petersburg Russia, composer [OS]
1906 - Ruvim Pergament, composer
1907 - Joe Lederer, Austrian actress/writer (Drei Tage Liebe)
1907 - Louis MacNeice, Irish poet (d. 1963)
1909 - Spud Chandler, baseball player (AL MVP 1943)
1909 - Donald MacDonald, O.C., LL.D. former president of the Canadian Labour Congress and
           politician (d.1986)
1913 - Ben[jamin S] Polak, Neth, physician/communist/resistance fighter
1913 - Jesse Owens, track star, spoiled Hitler's 1936 Olympics with 4 gold
1913 - Kenneth Lo, cookery writer/restaurateur
1914 - Rais Amrohvi, Pakistani poet and psychoanalyst (d. 1988)
1914 - Desmond Llewelyn, Welsh actor (d. 1999)
1915 - Billy Daniels, Jacksonville Fla, singer (Billy Daniels Show)
1915 - Frank McGee, American journalist (d. 1974)
1916 - Tony Bettenhausen, American race car driver (d. 1961)
1917 - Christian Geel, Dutch poet/sculptor/artist
1917 - Seamas NacNeill, piper
1917 - Pierre Sévigny, Canadian politician (d. 2004)
1920 - Irene Dailey, NYC, actress (Liz-Another World, Grissom Gang)
1920 - Jan W Schulte Nordholt, Dutch poet/historian (Blossoming Stone)
1921 - Frank McGee, Monroe La, news anchor (NBC Evening News)
1921 - Stanislaw Lem, Lwów, Poland, sci-fi author (Solaris, Invincible)
1922 - Jackson Mac Low, composer
1922 - Viscount Allendale, English large landowner/multi-millionaire
1922 - Ellen Demming, American actress (d. 2002)
1924 - Howard Curtis Nielson, (Rep-R-UT, 1983- )
1924 - Jean Le Poulain, Marseille, France, actor (Divine)
1925 - Dickie Moore, Los Angeles California, actor (Expert, Oliver Twist, Little Men)
1925 - Stan Lopata, American baseball player, (d. 2013)
1927 - Gianna Maria Canale, Reggio Calabria Italy, actress (Go For Broke)
1927 - Ina Muller-van Ast, Dutch MP (PvdA)
1929 - Harvey Lester Schmidt, composer
1930 - Larry Austin, composer
1931 - George Jones, Saratoga Tx, singer (Golden Rings, Oh Lonesome Me), (d. 2013)
1931 - Ian Holm, Ilford Essex England, actor (Himmler-Holocaust)
1931 - Kristin Hunter, [Eggleston], US author (God Bless the Child)
1933 - Stafford Heginbotham, toymaker/Football Club Chairman
1933 - Tatiana Doronina, Russian actress
1934 - Gunther Gebel-Williams, lion tamer (Ringling Bros Circus)
1934 - Glenn Davis, American athlete
1934 - Jaegwon Kim, Korean-born American philosopher
1935 - Allan B Swift, (Rep-D-Washington, 1979- )
1935 - Richard H Hunt, Chicago, sculptor (Pyramidal Construction)
1937 - Daniela Rocca, Sicily, actress (Battle of Austerlitz, Empty Canvas)
1937 - Wesley Hall, West indian/British politician
1937 - George Chuvalo, Canadian boxer
1938 - Tatiana Troyanos, NYC, mezzo-soprano (Octavian-Der Rosenleavalier)
1939 - Henry A Waxman, (Rep-D-California, 1975-86)
1939 - Phillip Ramey, composer
1940 - Linda Gray, Santa Monica California, actress (Sue Ellen Ewing-Dallas)
1940 - Mickey Lolich, pitcher (Detroit Tiger, won 25 in 1971)
1940 - Roger K Crouch, Jamestown Tenn, astronauts (STS 83, 94)
1940 - Stephen J Solarz, (Rep-D-NY, 1975-93)
1940 - Susan Sennett, Santa Monica California, actress (Big Bad Mama)
1940 - Patrick Mower, English actor
1941 - Hans-Karsten Raecke, composer
1942 - Tomés Marco, Basque/Spanish composer
1943 - Maria Muldaur, Greenwich Village, NY, singer (Midnight at the Oasis)
1943 - Michael Ondaatje, Sri Lankan-born writer
1944 - Barry White, Galveston Tx, singer (Love's Theme), (d. 2003)
1944 - Leonard Peltier, American activist
1945 - John Mauceri, NYC, conductor (Wash DC Opera)
1945 - Maria Aitken, actress (Fish Called Wanda)
1945 - Vern M Lindblad, Seattle WA, Turkologist
1948 - Max Walker, Australian cricket player
1948 - Luis Lima, Argentinian tenor
1949 - Irina Rodnina, USSR, pairs figure skater (Olympic-gold-1972, 76, 80)
1949 - Tony Stevens, rocker
1950 - Cynthia Meyers, playmate (Dec 1968)/actress (Beyond Valley of Dolls)
1950 - Gustav Brunner, Austrian engineer
1951 - Berty Ahern, Drumcondra, Dublin, PM of Ireland (1997-2008)
1951 - Joe Pantoliano, Jersey City NJ, actor (Finelli Boys, Fugitive)
1951 - Gerald Stano, American serial killer
1952 - Gerry Beckley, rock vocalist/guitarist (America-Daisy Jane)
1952 - Neil Peart, Canada, musician and drummer (Rush-A Farewell to Kings)
1953 - John Williams, US, archer (Olympic-gold-1972)
1953 - Nancy "Nan" Goldin, Washington D.C., Photographer
1954 - Russell G. Alexander, creator of Today In History v1.2
1954 - Adrian Adonis, American professional wrestler (d. 1988)
1954 - Jeff Jarvis, American journalist
1955 - Peter Scolari, New Rochelle New York, American actor (Newhart, Bosom Buddies)
1955 - Nina Blackwood, Mass, actress/VJ (MTV, Solid Gold, Vice Squad)
1956 - Brian Robertson, Glasgow Scotland, rock guitarist (Thin Lizzy)
1956 - Charles Henry Beck, Fayetteville NC, PGA golfer (1990 Buick Open 1992)
1956 - Barry Andrews, British musician
1956 - Sam Brownback, American politician
1956 - Ricky Rudd, American race car driver
1957 - Hawk, [Michael Hegstrand], wrestler (ECW/WCW/WWF/AWA, Legion of Doom)
1957 - Rachel Ward, Cornwell Manor England, actress (Thorn Birds)
1957 - Hans Zimmer, German composer
1958 - Gregg Edelman, Chicago IL, actor (Green Card)
1958 - Wilfredo Benitez, PR, boxer (world champ at 17y176d)
1959 - Cindy Rarick, Glenwood MN, LPGA golfer (1991 Northgate Computer)
1960 - Lynn Connelly, Washington DC, LPGA golfer (1988 USX Golf Classic-6th)
1961 - Mylene Farmer, Montreal Canada, french singer (Cendres de Lune)
1961 - Kathem Al Saher, Iraqi singer
1962 - Amy Yasbeck, Blue Ash, Ohio, American actress (Casey Davenport-Wings, Mask)
1962 - Dino Merlin, Bosnian singer
1964 - Dieter Hecking, German footballer
1965 - Silke Horner, German DR, swimmer (world record 100m-breast stroke)
1965 - Vernon Maxwell, NBA guard (Charlotte Hornets)
1965 - Einstein Kristiansen, Norwegian cartoonist, designer and TV host
1965 - John Norwood Fisher, American musician
1966 - Darren E Burrows, Kansas, actor (Ed Chigliak-Northern Exposure)
1966 - Ben Folds, American musician
1967 - Pat Listach, Natchitoches LA, infielder (Milwaukee Brewers)
1968 - [Reid Laurence] Larry LaLonde, Richmond, California, American guitarist (Primus-Frizzle Fry)
1968 - Paul F. Tompkins, American comedian
1969 - Ángel Cabrera, Argentine golfer
1969 - James Frey, American writer
1969 - Shigeki Maruyama, Japanese golfer
1969 - André Heinz, American environmentalist; son of Teresa Heinz
1970 - Rebecca Joyce, Australia, rower (Olympics-96)
1970 - Nathan Larson, American guitarist and composer (Shudder To Think, Hot One)
1971 - Terry Dehere, NBA guard (Sacramento Kings)
1972 - Amy Locane, NJ, actress (Sandy Harling-Melrose Place)
1972 - Cady Cantrell, Lanett AL, playmate (Apr, 1992)
1973 - Darren Campbell, British athlete
1973 - Martin Lapointe, Canadian hockey player
1973 - Paul Walker, American actor
1974 - Nuno Valente, Portuguese footballer
1974 - Caroline Aigle, First female French fighter pilot (d. 2007)
1974 - Jennifer Nettles, American country singer, part of Sugarland
1975 - Tom Carroll, actor (J T Adams-Swan's Crossing)
1976 - Maciej Żurawski, Polish footballer
1976 - Bizzy Bone (Bryon Anthony McCane), American rapper, (Bone Thugs-N-Harmony)
1977 - James Louis McCartney, son of Paul & Linda McCartney
1977 - Idan Raichel, Israeli musician
1977 - Nathan Bracken, Australian cricketer
1977 - Grant Denyer, Australian television personality and TV Host
1977 - Jeff Irwin, American musician
1977 - David Thompson, English footballer
1978 - Elisabetta Canalis, Italian model and actress
1978 - Benjamin McKenzie, American actor
1978 - Michael Paget, Welsh guitarist (Bullet for My Valentine)
1978 - Ruben Studdard, American singer
1980 - Fernando Cesar de Souza, Brazilian footballer
1980 - Gus G., Greek guitarist (Firewind, Dream Evil)
1980 - Sean Burroughs, American baseball player
1980 - Josef Vašíček, Czech ice hockey player
1980 - Yao Ming, Chinese basketball player
1981 - Jered Guzman, Garden Grove California, pairs skater (& Natalie Vlandis)
1981 - Jennifer Hudson, Chicago, Illinois, American actress and singer (Dreamgirls, Jennifer Hudson)
1982 - Nana Ozaki, Japanese model
1983 - Carly Smithson, Irish singer
1983 - Daniel Muir, football player
1985 - Jack Wilkinson, English footballer
1986 - Emmy Rossum, American actress and singer
1986 - Yang Mi, Chinese actress
1988 - Aaron Sidwell, English actor

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 12, 2013, 09:05:32 AM

This Day in History for 12th September


Famous Deaths

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Country Singer Johnny Cash (2003)


352 - Maximinus van Trier, bishop of Trier/saint, dies
413 - Marcellinus of Carthage, Christian saint
1012 - Guido van Anderlecht, Flemish pilgrim/saint, dies
1015 - Lambert I with the Beard, Count of Leuven, dies in battle at about 65
1185 - Andronicus I Comnenus, Byzantine emperor (1183-85), lynched
1213 - Pedro II, [el Catolico], king of Aragon, dies in battle
1362 - Innocent VI, [Etienne Aubert], Pope (1352-62), dies
1369 - Blanche of Lancaster, wife of John of Gaunt (b. 1345)
1500 - Albrecht III van Saxon-Meisen, duke of Saxon, dies at 57
1591 - Richard Grenville, vice-admiral (Roanoke) dies in battle at 49
1604 - Louis Gunther, earl of Nassau, dies in battle at about 29
1612 - Tsar Vasili IV of Russia (b. 1552)
1642 - Cinq Mars, French plotter, executed
1647 - Joos Banckert, Swiss admiral (Spanish silver fleet), dies at 48
1660 - Jacob Cats, [Father Cats], pension advisor of Holland, dies at 82
1661 - Jacobus de la Torra, RC apostole vicar of Holland, dies at about 53
1665 - Jean Bolland, Flemish Jesuit writer (b. 1596)
1672 - Tanneguy Lefebvre, French classical scholar (b. 1615)
1674 - Claes P "Nicolas" Tulip, mayor of Amsterdam, dies at 80
1683 - Afonso VI, mentally ill king of Portugal (1656-67), dies at 40
1691 - Johann Georg III, Elector of Saxony (1680-91), dies at 44
1695 - Jacob Abendana, Spanish scholar (b. 1630)
1732 - Eugene JP earl the Merode, Belgian marquis of Westerloo, dies at 58
1733 - Francois Couperin "Le Grand", French composer, dies at 64
1739 - Reinhard Keiser, Germ conductor/composer (Markus-Passion), dies at 65
1764 - Jean Philippe Rameau, French composer (Castor en Pollux), dies at 80
1779 - Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple, English politician (b. 1711)
1789 - Franz Xaver Richter, composer, dies at 79
1806 - Christian Gottfried Thomas, composer, dies at 58
1807 - Edward Miller, composer, dies at 71
1812 - Pyotr I Bagration, Georgian/Russian ruler/general, dies in battle
1815 - Jose Mauricio, composer, dies at 63
1819 - Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Prussian general (b. 1742)
1824 - Louis AG baron de Bacler d'Albe, French cartographer, dies at 62
1836 - Grabbe, writer, dies at 34
1870 - Fitz Hugh Ludlow, American author (b. 1836)
1871 - Karl Collan, Finnish composer, dies at 43
1874 - François Guizot, French historian and statesman (b. 1787)
1877 - Julius Reitz, composer, dies at 64
1878 - Friedrich August von Alberti, geologist (Triasic Age), dies at 83
1879 - Peter Arnold Heise, composer, dies at 49
1912 - Pierre-Hector Cardinal Coullie, Cardinal-Archbishop of Lyon
1913 - Major R B Stewart, cricketer (scored 4 & 9 in S Afr's 1st Test), dies
1917 - Eric Lundie, cricketer (WWI Test South Africa v England 1914), dies
1918 - George Reid, fourth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1845)
1919 - Leonid N Andrejev, Russ journalist/writer (Seven Hangs), dies at 48
1923 - Jules Violle, French physicist and inventor (b. 1841)
1927 - Walther Amelung, German archaeologist, dies at 61
1927 - Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer (b. 1847)
1929 - Rainis, Latvian poet and playwright (b. 1865)
1934 - Catherine Kunstantino Breshkovsky, mother of Russian revolution, dies
1936 - Hermann Hirt, German linguist (Indo-European Grammar), dies at 70
1947 - Harry Rowe Shelley, composer, dies at 89
1953 - Frederick Kuys, cricketer (one Test South Africa v England 1898), dies
1953 - Lewis Stone, actor (Prisoner of Zenda), dies of heart attack at 73
1953 - Hugo Schmeisser, German weapons designer (b. 1884)
1955 - Gustave Vanzype, Belgian literary (La Gazette), dies at 86
1956 - Hans Carossa, German writer (b. 1878)
1956 - Sándor Graf Festetics, Hungarian politician (b. 1882)
1961 - Carl Hermann, German physicist (b. 1898)
1963 - Ben Sealey, cricketer (one Test WI v England 1933), dies
1963 - Mervyn A Ellison, British astronomer (spectrohelioscope), dies at 63
1968 - Tommy Armour, Scottish golfer (b. 1894)
1971 - Lin Piau, Chinese minister of Defense, dies at 63
1972 - William Boyd, cowboy (Hopalong Cassidy), dies at 77
1973 - Eduard Flipse, Dutch conductor/composer, dies at 77
1973 - Marjorie Post, US philanthropic/multi-millionaire ($200m), dies at 86
1977 - Robert Lowell, US poet/pacifist (Near the Ocean), dies at 60)
1977 - Steven Biko, South African black student leader, dies in police custody
1978 - Frank Ferguson, actor (Wagons West, Dynamite, My Gal Sal), dies at 69
1979 - Denis Smith, cricketer (England left-handed batsman 1935), dies
1980 - Lillian Randolph, actress (Roots, Amos n Andy), dies at 65
1981 - Eugenio Montale, Italian poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1896)
1982 - Kommer Kleijn, Dutch actor/director (Paul Vlaanderen), dies at 89
1986 - Frank Nelson, actor (Ralph-I Love Lucy, Jack Benny Show), dies at 75
1986 - Jacques-Henri Lartigue, French photographer, dies at 92
1987 - John Qualen, actor (Patch of Blue, Jungle Book), dies
1988 - Alan Bible, (Sen-D-Nev, 1954-74), dies at 78
1988 - Lauris Morstad, NATO commander/CEO Corning Fiberglass, dies at 71
1989 - Anton Lubowski, Namibian attorney/SWAPO, murdered at 37
1990 - Athene Seyler, actress (Make Mine Mink), dies at 101
1991 - Jacques Benoit, [JJM Bayer], poet, dies
1991 - Regis Toomey, actor (You're in the Army Now, Burke's Law), dies at 93
1992 - Anthony Perkins, actor (Psycho), dies from AIDs at 60
1992 - Ed Peck, actor (Zoot Suit, Bullitt), dies of heart attack at 75
1992 - Ruth Nelson, actress (Awakenings, 3 Women), dies at 87
1993 - Charles Lamont, actor/director (Abbott & Costello movies), dies at 95
1993 - Harold Innocent, actor (Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves), dies at 60
1993 - Herman Nieland, organist/pianist/composer, dies at 82
1993 - Raymond Burr, actor (Perry Mason), dies of liver cancer at 76
1994 - Boris B Yegorov, Russian doctor/cosmonaut (Voskhod I), dies at 56
1994 - Douglas MacKenzie Davey, psychometrist, dies at 72
1994 - Major Bill Smith, record producer, dies at 72
1994 - Tom Ewell, [S Yewell Tompkins], US actor (7 Year Itch), dies at 85
1995 - Geoffrey Stokes, rock & roll writer, dies at 55
1995 - Jeremy Brett, [Peter Huggins], English actor (Sherlock Holmes), dies at 61
1995 - John Stuart-Jervis, balloonist, dies
1995 - Lawrence Bernard "Larry" Gales, bassist, dies at 59
1996 - Ernesto Geisel, milt president of Brazil (1974-79), dies at 89
1996 - Geoffrey Bryan Bentley, moral theologian, dies at 87
1996 - George Patrick Reid, schoolkeeper, dies at 59
1996 - James Gulliver, businessman, dies at 66
1996 - Lloyd Turner, journalist, dies at 57
1996 - Oscar Michael Moore, journalist, dies at 36
1996 - Richard Maling Barrer, chemist, dies at 86
1997 - Janet Leach, potter, dies at 79
1997 - Judith Merril [Grossman], science fiction writer, dies at 74
1997 - Stikkan Stig Anderson, music entrepreneur (Polar), dies at 66
2000 - Stanley Turrentine, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1934)
2001 - Victor Wong, Chinese-American actor (b. 1927)
2003 - Johnny Cash, American singer and guitarist (b. 1932)
2008 - Bob Quinn, Australian rules footballer (b. 1915)
2008 - David Foster Wallace, American author and essayist (b. 1962)
2009 - Norman Borlaug, American agronomist (b. 1914)
2009 - Willy Ronis, French photographer (b. 1910)
2010 - Claude Chabrol, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1930)
2010 - Giulio Zignoli, Italian footballer (b. 1946)
2011 - Alexander Galimov, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1985)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 13, 2013, 09:29:26 AM

This Day in History for 13th September


Historical Events

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Pope Leo X                                                Aviator Igor Sikorsky                           Tennis Player John McEnroe

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Tennis Player Pete Sampras


509 BC - The temple of Jupiter on Rome's Capitoline Hill is dedicated on the ides of September.
122 - Building begins on Hadrian's Wall
533 - General Belisarius of the Byzantine Empire defeats Gelimer and the Vandals at the Battle of Ad
         Decimium, near Carthage, North Africa.
604 - Sabinian begins his reign as Pope replacing Pope Gregory the Great
1125 - Duke Lotharius of Supplinburg crowned as German king Lotharius III
1224 - Francis of Assisi is afflicted with stigmata.
1440 - Gilles de Rais is finally taken into custody upon an accusation brought against him by the
           Bishop of Nantes.
1503 - Michelangelo begins work on his statue of David.
1504 - Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand issue a Royal Warrant for the construction of a Royal
           Chapel (Capilla Real) to be built.
1515 - -14] Battle at Marignano: France beats Habsburgers & Pope Leo X
1549 - Pope Paul III signs Council of Bologna
1553 - English bishop Hugh Latimer arrested
1556 - Charles V & Maria of Hungary march into Spain
1574 - Turkish fleet recaptures Tunis
1579 - Breda forms Union of Utrecht
1625 - 16 Rabbis (including Isiah Horowitz) are imprisoned in Jerusalem
1631 - Admiral Tholen conquerors 30+ Spanish frigates
1663 - 1st serious slave conspiracy in colonial America (Virginia)
1743 - Britain, Austria & Savoye-Sardinia sign Treaty of Worms
1751 - Britain signs Austrian & Russian alliance
1759 - British beat French forces at Plains of Abrahams (Quebec)
1775 - Gotthold Lessing's "Die Juden," premieres in Frankfurt-am-Main
1787 - Prussian army moves into Netherlands
1788 - NY City becomes 1st capital of US
1789 - 1st loan to US government (from NYC banks)
1791 - France's King Louis XVI accepts constitution
1800 - Curacao in British hands (until Jan 1803)
1808 - Finnish War: In the Battle of Jutas, Swedish forces under Lieutenant General Georg Carl von
           Döbeln beat the Russians, making von Döbeln a Swedish war hero.
1847 - American-Mexican war: US Gen Winfield Scott captures Mexico City
1849 - 1st US prize fight fatality (Tom McCoy)
1858 - Hamburg-US ship Austria catches fire & sinks, 471 die
1861 - 1st naval battle of Civil War, Union frigate "Colorado" sinks privateer "Judah" off Pensacola, Fla
1867 - Gen E R S Canby orders SC courts to impanel blacks jurors
1869 - Jay Gould & James Fisk attempt to control US gold market
1881 - Lewis Latimer invents & patents electric lamp with a carbon filament
1882 - Battle at Count el-Kebir: British troops invade Egypt
1883 - Hugh Daily, a one-armed pitcher for Cleveland (Forest City), tosses 1-0 no-hitter against
           Philadelphia
1890 - Cecil Rhodes' colonies hoist Union Jack in Mashonaland & Salisbury
1898 - 20,000 Paris construction workers go on strike
1898 - Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film
1899 - Mackinder, Ollier and Brocherel make the first ascent of Batian (5,199m - 17,058 ft), the
           highest peak of Mount Kenya.
1900 - Filipino resistance fighters defeat a small American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa, during
           the Philippine-American War.
1906 - 1st airplane flight in Europe
1907 - Canadian Interprovincial Rugby Football union (Big Four) forms with Hamilton Tigers, Toronto
          Argonauts, Ottawa Rough Riders & Montreal Foot Ball
1909 - Ty Cobb clinches AL HR title with his 9th HR (all inside-the-park)
1910 - Regina Rugby Club forms
1918 - Train accident at Weesp Neth, kills 42
1919 - Guy Bolton & George Middleton's "Adam & Eve," premieres in NYC
1922 - 136.4°F (58°C), El Aziziyah, Libya in shade (world record)
1923 - With Spain's king Alfonso XIII assist, army coup under de Rivera
1924 - 19th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Philadelphia (5-0)
1925 - 1st US University for Blacks, Xavier University, opens in New Orleans
1925 - Bkln Dodger Dazzy Vance no-hits Phillies, 10-1
1927 - Yanks clinch pennant, Ruth hits 2 HRs (52 en route to 60)
1927 - Waite Hoyt became only 20 game winner of 1927 Yankees
1928 - KOH-AM in Reno NV begins radio transmissions
1930 - 50th US Mens Tennis: J H Doeg beats Francis Shields (10-8 16 64 16-14)
1930 - Paavo Nurmi runs world record 20,000m (1:04:38.4)
1930 - Tommy Armour wins PGA golf tournament
1930 - Winnipeg Rugby Football Club 1st game, loses to St John's Rugby, 7-3
1931 - Capt G H Stainworth flies world speed record (655 kph)
1931 - Right-radical coup of Dr Pfrimer fails in Austria
1932 - NY Yankees clinch their 7th AL pennant
1934 - Judge Landis sells World Series broadcast rights to Ford for $100,000
1935 - Rockslide near Whirlpool Rapids Bridge ends the Great Gorge and International Railway.
1936 - Cleve Bob Feller strikes out then record 17 in a game (vs Phila A's)
1938 - Alexander Cartwright selects to Baseball's Hall of Fame
1939 - First (tethered) flight of the Vought-Sikorsky VS-300, one of the first viable American
           helicopters, flown by Igor Sikorsky
1940 - Buckingham Palace damaged by German bombs
1940 - Italian troops under Marshal Graziani attack Egypt
1942 - Battle of Edson's Ridge (2nd Japanese assault) at Guadalcanal
1942 - Cubs shortstop Leonard Merullo makes 4 errors in 1 inning
1942 - German forces attack Stalingrad
1943 - Chiang Kai-shek became president of China
1943 - German counter attack at Salerno
1943 - Having been Generalissimo since 1928, Chiang Kai-shek elected pres
1943 - The Municipal Theatre of Corfu is destroyed during an aerial bombardment by Luftwaffe.
1944 - 30th Infantry division of US 1st Army frees Margraten
1944 - Last transport out camp Westerbork to Bergen Belsen
1944 - US 28th Infantry division opens assault on Siegfried line/Westwall
1946 - Boston Red Sox clinch AL pennant
1947 - WPVI TV channel 6 in Philadelphia, PA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1948 - Margaret Chase Smith (R-Me) elected senator, 1st woman to serve in both houses of
           Congress
1949 - Ladies Pro Golf Association of America formed in NYC
1951 - St Louis Cards beat NY Giants 6-4 (rescheduled from 9/12) then at night lose to Boston
           Braves 2-0
1952 - Adolfo Ruiz Cortinez elected president of Mexico
1953 - Pitcher Bob Trice is 1st black to play on Phila A's
1954 - Reds Ted Kluszewski scores a run in record 17 consecutive games
1954 - WPBN TV channel 7 in Traverse City, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting
1956 - Dike around Dutch polder Eastern Flevoland closes
1956 - Stravinsky's "Canticum Sacrum," premieres in Venice
1956 - IBM introduces the first computer disk storage unit, the RAMAC 305.
1958 - Braves Warren Spahn is 1st lefty to win 20 or more games 9 times
1958 - Queen Juliana christens passenger ship Rotterdam
1959 - 73rd US Womens Tennis: Maria Fraser beats Christine Truman (61 64)
1959 - 79th US Mens Tennis: Neale Fraser beats Alejandro Olmedo (63 57 62 64)
1959 - Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Memphis Golf Open
1959 - USSR's Luna 2 becomes 1st probe to contact another celestial body
1960 - Dutch 1st Chamber condemns soccer-law
1961 - "Car 54 Where are You?" premieres on TV
1961 - Battles between UN & Katanga troops in Congo
1961 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1961 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1961 - Unmanned Mercury-Atlas 4 launched into Earth orbit
1963 - "Outer Limits" premieres on ABC TV
1963 - Jim Bouton's 20th win clinches Yanks 28th pennant
1963 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1964 - 3rd sitting of 2nd Vatican council opens in Rome
1964 - 78th US Womens Tennis: Maria Fraser beats Carole Graebner (61 60)
1964 - 84th US Mens Tennis: Roy Emerson beats Frederick S Stolle (64 62 64)
1964 - Mary Mills wins LPGA Eugene Ladies' Golf Open
1964 - St Louis is 1st NL to score runs in every game since 1923, win 15-2
1964 - WKEF TV channel 22 in Dayton, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting
1965 - Beatles release "Yesterday"
1965 - Beatles win 1st Grammy, for Best Group of 1964
1965 - Today Show's 1st totally color broadcast
1965 - Willie Mays's 500th HR (off Don Nottebart), Giants 11th straight win
1966 - Johannes Balthazar Vorster sworn in as premier of South Africa
1968 - Albania leaves Warsaw pact
1969 - Baltimore Orioles, win earliest AL Eastern division title
1969 - Bobby Bonds is baseballs 4th 30-HR, 30-steal player
1969 - Plastic Ono Band's (John, Yoko & Eric Clapton) 1st live performance
1970 - 1st NYC Marathon won by Gary Muhrcke in 2:31:38
1970 - 84th US Womens Tennis: M Smith Court beats Rosemary Casals (62 26 61)
1970 - 90th US Mens Tennis: Ken Rosewall beats Tony Roche (26 64 76 63)
1970 - IBM announces System 370 computer
1970 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Wendell-West Golf Open
1970 - Palestine guerillas conquer Irbid Jordania
1971 - 11 guards & 31 prisoners die in take over at Attica State Prison
1971 - Frank Robinson hits his 500th HR
1971 - Nikita Krushchev, Soviet premier, buried in Moscow
1971 - WIIQ TV channel 41 in Demopolis, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1971 - World Hockey Association forms
1972 - 1st TV broadcast of "Waltons" on CBS
1973 - ABC announces it obtained TV rights for 1976 Olympics
1973 - Congress passes & sends a bill to Nixon to lift football's blackout
1973 - Syrian/Israeli dogfight over Mediterranean Sea
1974 - -17] 3 Japanese kidnap French ambassador in Hague
1974 - 1st broadcast of "Rockford Files" on NBC-TV
1974 - Phillies set NL record, using 27 players in a game, St Louis uses 24, tying record of 51. Phils
           win 7-3 in 17
1974 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1975 - -27] Hurricane Eloise, kills 71 in Caribbean & US
1976 - 2nd Enterprise, approach & lands Test Cricket (ALT) flight (5m28s)
1977 - 1st TV viewer discretion warning-Soap
1977 - 2nd Test Cricket of Space Shuttle Enterprise
1977 - General Motors introduces 1st US diesel auto (Oldsmobile 88)
1978 - 1st flight of McDonnell Douglas F-18A Hornet
1978 - NY Yanks win to gain sole possession of 1st place from 14 games back
1979 - China PR performs nuclear test
1979 - South Africa grants Venda independence (Not recognized out of S Afr)
1980 - 1st United Negro College Fund
1981 - 101st US Mens Tennis: John McEnroe beats Bjorn Borg (46 62 64 63)
1981 - 33rd Emmy Awards: Taxi, Hill St Blue, Judd Hirsh & Isabel Sanford wins
1981 - April Moon sets women's handbow distance record of 1,039 yds & 13"
1981 - Atlanta Falcons tie record of 31 points in 4th quarter (vs Green Bay)
1981 - Jan Stephenson wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic
1981 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1982 - 50 die in Spantax Airlines DC-10 on takeoff from Malaga, Spain
1982 - Joe Lefevre gets 6 hits in one baseball game
1983 - Dan Quisenberry record 39th season save
1983 - Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation
1983 - Oakland's Rickey Henderson 3rd straight 100 steals for season
1983 - Steve O'Shaughnessy scores 100 in 35 mins, Lancs v Leics
1983 - US mint strikes 1st gold coin in 50 years (Olympic Eagle)
1984 - STS 41-G launch vehicle moves to launch pad
1984 - Simon Peres forms Israeli government with Likoed
1985 - 2nd MTV Awards: Bruce Springsteen
1985 - John Williams introduces new Today Show theme
1986 - Bert Blyleven gives up a record 44 HRs in a season
1986 - Kellye Cash (Tenn), 21, crowned 60th Miss America 1987
1987 - Cesium-137 stolen from abandoned hospital in Rio de Janeiro
1987 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Cellular One-Ping Golf Championship
1987 - Paul Lynch of Great Britain does 32,573 push-ups in 24 hours
1988 - 10th time, 4 players hit baseball major-league record grand slams
1988 - 9 hard/software manufacturers announce EISA computer bus in NY
1988 - Gilbert is strongest (26.13 barometer) hurricane in Western Hemisphere
1989 - "Les Miserables" opens at Fisher Theatre, Detroit
1989 - Desmond Tutu leads biggest anti-apartheid protest march in South Africa
1989 - Fay Vincent elected baseball's 8th commissioner
1990 - Commuter train at Johannesburg South Africa attacked, 36 die
1990 - Iraqi troops storm residence of French ambassador in Kuwait
1990 - Robert E Nederlander appointed NY Yankee managing general partner
1990 - Senate Judiciary Com opens hearing on confirmation of David Souter
1991 - 55 ton concrete beam falls in Montreal's Olympic Stadium
1991 - Joe Carter is 1st to have 3 consec 100-RBI seasons with 3 differ teams
1991 - Joe Coleman 3rd 100 RBI season in a row 3 teams (Cleve, SD & Toronto)
1991 - Kim Zmeskal is 1st American to win a medal at World Gymnastics Championships, she wins
           the gold with 39.848 pts
1992 - 112th US Mens Tennis: Stefan Edberg beats Pete Sampras (36 64 76 62)
1992 - NY Giants trailing Dallas Cowboys 34-0 in 3rd, lose 34-28
1992 - Nancy Lopez wins Ping-Cellular One LPGA Golf Championship
1992 - Steffan Edberg beats Pete Sampress to win US Open
1993 - Israeli min of Foreign affairs Peres & PLO-Abu Mazen sign peace accord
1993 - Junxia Cheek runs ladies world record 3000m (8:06.11)
1993 - Queens NY begins required recycling
1993 - Public unveiling of the Oslo Accords, an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement initiated by
           Norway.
1994 - George Burns, undergoes surgery to drain fluid from his brain
1994 - Space probe Ulyssus passes south pole of Sun
1996 - Phil Simmons scores 171 & takes 6-14 for Leics v Durham
1997 - Carolina Hurricane's 1st exhibition game beat NY Islanders 4-1
1997 - Katherine Shindle (Ill), 24, crowned 71st Miss America 1998
1998 - 112th US Womens Tennis
1998 - 118th US Mens Tennis
1998 - SAFECO Golf Classic
1999 - Bomb explodes in Moscow, Russia. At least 119 people are killed.
2001 - Civilian aircraft traffic resumes in the U.S. after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
2006 - At Dawson College (Montreal), Kimveer Gill kills one student and wounds 19 others before
           committing suicide.
2008 - Hurricane Ike makes landfall on the Texas Gulf Coast of the United States, causing heavy
           damage to Galveston Island, Houston and surrounding areas.
2012 - 19 people are killed after a freight elevator crashes from 100 meters in Wuhan, China
2012 - 33,000 people are evacuated after Guatemala's Volcano of Fire erupts
2012 - Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev calls for Russian punk band Pussy Riot to be freed
2012 - Dr Mustafa Abushagur is elected as Prime Minister of Libya

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 13, 2013, 09:31:11 AM

This Day in History for 13th September


Famous Weddings

1963 - Singer Barbra Striesand & actor Elliot Gould marry
1998 - "Spice Girls" pop singer Melanie Brown (23) weds Jimmy Gulzar in Little Marlow,
           Buckinghamshire
2000 - Wrestler "Stone Cold" Steve Austin (35) weds WWE Diva Debra Marshall (40) at the Little
           White Chapel in Las Vegas
2008 - "Curb Your Enthusiasm" comedian actress Susie Essman (53) weds real-estate broker Jim
           Harder (51) at the Friars Club in Manhattan

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 13, 2013, 09:40:37 AM

This Day in History for 13th September


Famous Birthdays

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Novelist Daniel Defoe (1660)                     Chocolate Tycoon                                      US WW1 Commander
                                                              Milton S. Hershey (1857)                             John J. Pershing (1860)

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Author Roald Dahl (1916)


1087 - John II Komnenos, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1143)
1157 - Alexander Neckum/de Sancto Albano, English theologist/encyclopedist
1475 - Cesare Borgia, Italian aristocrat (d. 1507)
1502 - John Leland, English antiquarian (d. 1552)
1520 - William Cecil 1st baron Burghley, English premier
1551 - Pandolfo Zallamella, composer
1594 - Francesco Manelli, composer
1604 - William Brereton, English soldier and politician (d. 1661)
1660 - Daniel Defoe, London, English novelist (Robinson Crusoe)
1673 - Hercule Brehy, composer
1676 - Élisabeth Charlotte of Orléans, Duchess of Lorraine (d. 1741)
1682 - Theodor Christleib Reinhold, composer
1688 - Luca Antonio Praedieri, composer
1694 - Yeongjo of Joseon, ruler of Korea (d. 1776)
1739 - Giuseppe Sigismondo, composer
1739 - Grigory Potemkin, army officer, statesman, Catherine II's lover, OS
1751 - Henry Kobell, Dutch painter/cartoonist
1755 - Oliver Evans, pioneered high-pressure steam engine
1766 - Samuel Wilson, possible namesake of Uncle Sam (d. 1854)
1775 - Laura Secord, Canadian war heroine (d. 1868)
1802 - Arnold Ruge, German philosopher and writer (d. 1880)
1806 - Joseph Lewis Hogg, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), die in 1862
1806 - Moritz Ganz, composer
1813 - John Sedgwick, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1864
1814 - Nicolas Beets, [Hildebrand], Dutch writer (Camera Obscura=
1817 - John McAuley Palmer, US Union msj-gen/(Gov-Ill, 1868-72)
1818 - Olivier Gloux, [Aimard], Fren world explorer/writer (Grande Flibuste)
1819 - Clara Schumann, German pianist and composer (d. 1896)
1830 - Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian writer (d. 1916)
1836 - John McCausland, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1927
1841 - Johannes de Koo, Dutch journalist/stage writer
1842 - Odon Peter Jozsef de Mihalovich, composer
1842 - John H. Bankhead, U.S. Senator (d. 1920)
1846 - Richard Kiepert, German cartographer (Africa)
1847 - Charles Dupee Blake, composer
1851 - Walter Reed, US Army Surgeon, proved mosquitoes transmit yellow fever
1857 - Milton S. Hershey, Derry Township, Pennsylvania, American chocolate tycoon (The Hershey
          Chocolate Company) and philanthropist, (d. 1945)
1857 - Michał Drzymała, Polish peasant rebel (d. 1937)
1858 - Catherinus Elling, composer
1860 - John J. Pershing (Blackjack), Laclede, Missouri, US commander (WW I), (d. 1948)
1862 - Dirk Bos, Dutch liberal 2nd Member of parliament
1863 - Arthur Henderson, Britain, socialist/disarmament worker (Nobel 1934)
1866 - Adolf Meyer, US, psychiatrist/neurologist (pioneered mental hygiene)
1871 - Alma Kruger, Pittsburgh PA, actress (Made For Each Other)
1874 - Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg, Vienna Austria, composer (2nd Quartet). Died 1951.
1874 - Henry Fountain Ashurst, American politician (d. 1962)
1876 - Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio, author/publisher (Winesburg)
1877 - Wilhelm Filchner, German explorer (d. 1957)
1877 - Stanley Lord, captain of the SS Californian the night of the Titanic disaster (d. 1962)
1882 - Henri Potiron, composer
1882 - Ramón Grau, Cuban president (d. 1969)
1885 - Wilhelm Blaschke, Austrian geometer (d. 1962)
1886 - Alain LeRoy Locke, African American writer and philosopher “Father of the Harlem
           Renaissance”
1887 - Lavoslav Ruzicka, Croatian chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1976)
1893 - Larry Shields, American musician (d. 1953)
1894 - Anton Roosjen, Dutch politician/NCRV-chairman
1894 - John B[oynton] Priestly, author (Good Companions)/wed Jessica Hawkes
1894 - Julian Tuwim, Polish poet (d. 1953)
1895 - Ruth McDevitt, Coldwater Mich, actress (Jo-All in the Family)
1896 - Morris Kirksey, US, 4 X 100m (Olympic-gold-1920)
1897 - Gaspar Cassado Moreu, composer
1899 - Anton Constandse, Dutch anarchist/writer
1899 - Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, leader of the Iron Guard (d. 1938)
1901 - Philip Dorn, Scheveningen Netherlands, actor (I Remember Mama)
1902 - Hermine Heijermans, Dutch actress/author
1902 - Leland Hayward, US producer (Spirit of St Louis)
1903 - Claudette Colbert, [Lily Chauchoin], Paris, actress (Texas Lady)
1904 - Gladys George, Patten Maine, actress (Roaring Twenties)
1907 - Victor Reinganum, artist
1908 - Ray Burns Green, composer
1909 - Herbert Berghof, Vienna Austria, actor (Belarus File)
1911 - Bill Monroe, Rosine Ky, country singer (Blue Moon of Kentucky)
1912 - Reta Shaw, South Paris Maine, actress (Ghost & Mrs Muir)
1913 - Roy Engle, Mo, actor (Police Chief-My Favorite Martian)
1914 - Leonard Geoffrey Feather, jazz critic/musician
1915 - Peter Guy Wykeham-Barnes, fighter Pilot
1916 - Roald Dahl, Llandaff, Cardiff, author (Over to You, Taste, 2 Fables), (d. 1990).
1916 - Dick Haymes, Argentine vocalist (d. 1980)
1917 - Jon Thorarinsson, composer
1917 - Robert Eugene Ward, Cleveland Ohio, composer (Pantaloon)
1918 - Ray Charles, Chicago, orchestra leader (Perry Como)
1919 - Mary Midgley, American philosopher
1920 - Carole Mathews, Montgomery Ill, actress (Wilma-Californians)
1922 - Yma Sumac, [Chavarri], Ichocan Peru, 5 octave soprano (Omar Khayyam)
1922 - Charles Brown, American singer and pianist (d. 1999)
1923 - Reninca, [Renée Lauwers], Flemish author (Seed in the Wind)
1923 - Edouard Boubat, French photographer (d. 1999)
1924 - Maurice Jarre, Lyons France, composer (Dr Zhivago-Acad Award 1966)
1924 - Norman Alden, Fort Worth Tx, actor (Pilaski-Hennesey, Al-Fay), (d. 2012)
1924 - Scott Brady, Brooklyn New York, American actor (China Syndrome, Gremlins, Johnny Guitar)
1924 - Harold Blair, Australian tenor, Aboriginal activist (d. 1976)
1925 - Gabriel Charpentier, composer
1925 - Mel Tormé, American singer (d. 1999)
1926 - Emile Francis, NHL player/coach/GM (Rangers, Blues, Whalers)
1928 - Ernest L Boyer, educator/chancellor (NY's State Universities-SUNY)
1929 - Nicolai Ghiaurov, Bulgarian opera singer (d. 2004)
1930 - James McLane, US, 1500m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-gold-1948)
1930 - Robert Gavron, English publisher/multi-millionaire (St Ives)
1931 - Barbara Bain, Chic, actress (Cinnamon-Mission Impossible, Space 1999)
1931 - Marjorie Jackson, Australia, sprinter (Olympic-gold-1952) [or Feb 13]
1932 - Bengt Hallberg, composer
1933 - Arif Melikov, composer
1933 - Eileen Fulton, Asheville NC, actress (Our Private World)
1936 - Stefano Delle Chiaie, Italian neo-Nazi
1937 - Fred Silverman, broadcasting exec (ABC/NBC/CBS)
1937 - Don Bluth, American animator
1938 - Judith Martin, author/journalist/columnist (Miss Manners)
1939 - Larry Speakes, presidential press secretary
1939 - Richard Kiel, Detroit Mich, actor (So Fine, Jaws-Moonraker, Skidoo)
1940 - Joyce Schouten, Dutch singer (Fouryo's)
1940 - Óscar Arias, Costa Rican politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1941 - Tadao Ando, Japanese architect
1941 - Ahmet Necdet Sezer, 10th President of Turkey
1943 - Ray Elliott, rock pianist/saxophonist (Them)
1944 - Peter Cetera, Chicago, lead singer (Chicago-25 or 6 to 4, Old Days)
1944 - [Winifred] Jacqueline Bisset, England, actress (Class, Deep, Secrets)
1945 - Alain Louvier, composer
1945 - Noël Godin, Belgian humorist
1945 - Andres Küng, Swedish-Estonian politician, journalist (d. 2002)
1948 - Clyde Kusatsu, Honolulu Hawaii, actor (Ali-Bring 'em Back Alive)
1948 - Nell Carter, Birmingham Ala, actress (Nell-Gimme a Break, Lobo)
1948 - Dimitri Nanopoulos, Greek physicist
1950 - Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz, Polish politician
1951 - David Clayton-Thomas, singer (Blood Sweat & Tears - Joy to the World)
1951 - Jean Smart, American actress
1952 - Johanna Klier-Schaller, German DR, 100m hurdler (Olympic-gold-1976)
1952 - Karen Wyman, Bronx NY, singer (Long & Winding Road)
1952 - Randy Jones, American musician (The Village People)
1952 - Raymond O'Connor, American actor
1952 - Don Was, American singer
1953 - Taryn Power, LA CA, daughter of Tyrone Power/actress (Maria)
1954 - Ted Mueller, rock drummer (Axe)
1955 - Joe Morris, American musician
1956 - [Joan] Joni Sledge, Phila, vocalist (Sister Sledge-We are Family)
1957 - Mark Charles Wiebe, Seaside OR, PGA golfer (1985 Anheuser-Busch)
1957 - John G. Trueschler, American politician
1958 - Ann Dusenberry, Tucson Az, actress (Jaws 2, Lies, Basic Training)
1959 - Jean Smart, Seattle Wash, actress (Charlene-Designing Women)
1960 - Greg Baldwin, American voiceover actor (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
1961 - Dave Mustaine, American musician (ex-Metallica, Megadeth)
1961 - KK Null, Japanese musician
1961 - Peter Roskam, Republican Congressman from Illinois
1962 - Brian Andrew Fowler, Christchurch NZ, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1962 - Grady Neal Lancaster, Smithfield NC, PGA golfer (1994 Byron Nelson)
1962 - Tõnu Õnnepalu, Estonian poet and author
1963 - Theodoros Roussopoulos, Greek politician
1964 - Peter Remie, soccer player (NAC)
1965 - Zak Starkey, London, English rock drummer, son of Beatle Ringo
1965 - Annie Duke, American poker player
1965 - Jeffrey Ross, American Comedian
1966 - Igor Kravchuk, Ufa Russia, NHL defenseman (Team Russia, St Louis)
1966 - Maria Furtwängler, German physician
1966 - Louis Mandylor, Australian actor
1967 - Michael Johnson, Dallas Tx, 200m/400m runner (Olympic-2 gold-96)
1967 - Tim 'Ripper' Owens, American singer (Iced Earth, ex-Judas Priest)
1968 - Bernie Williams, San Juan Puerto Rico, outfielder (NY Yankees)
1968 - Brad Johnson, NFL quarterback (Minnesota Vikings)
1968 - Chris Morris, CFL tackle (Edmonton Eskimos)
1968 - Denny Neagle, Prince Georges Cnty, pitcher (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1968 - Emma Sjöberg, Swedish model
1969 - Igor Kravchuk, NHL defenseman (Ottawa Senators, Russia Oly-Sil-98)
1969 - Ilka Knickenberg, German actress
1970 - Marc Latupeirissa, soccer player (Willem II)
1970 - Martín Herrera, former Argentine footballer
1970 - Louise Lombard, British actress
1970 - Yuki Matsuoka, Japanese voice actress
1971 - Goran Ivanisevic, Croatia, tennis star (1991, 1994, 1998 Wimbledon finalist; 2001 wildcard
           Wimbledon winner)
1971 - Nancy Anne Roberts, Miss Vermont USA (1996)
1971 - Richie Anderson, NFL running back (NY Jets)
1971 - Stella Nina McCartney, fashion designer and daughter of Paul & Linda McCartney
1971 - Ted Drury, Boston Mass, US hockey forward (Olympics-1994)
1971 - Manabu Namiki, Japanese composer
1973 - Brian Evans, NBA forward (Orlando Magic)
1973 - Philip Dulebohn, Washington DC, figure skater (1997 Eastern Sr - 3rd)
1973 - Fabio Cannavaro, Italian footballer
1973 - Marcelinho Paulista, Brazilian footballer
1973 - Christine Arron, French runner
1973 - Kelly Chen, Chinese singer
1974 - Travis Knight, NBA center (Boston Celtics)
1974 - Keith Murray, American rapper
1975 - Patricia Spehar, Miss France Universe (1997)
1975 - Sean McClain, Dayton Ohio, fencer-foil (Olympics-96)
1975 - Joe Don Rooney, American musician (Rascal Flatts)
1975 - Akihiro Asai, Japanese racing driver
1976 - Giorgos Koltzos, Greek footballer
1976 - Craig McMillan, New Zealand cricketer
1976 - José Théodore, Canadian ice hockey player
1977 - Fiona Apple, American singer
1977 - Ivan De Battista, Maltese Actor, singer and composer
1977 - Daisuke Tsuda, Japanese singer (Maximum the Hormone)
1978 - Megan Henning, American actress
1978 - Darren Kenton, English footballer
1979 - Geike Arnaert, Belgian singer (Hooverphonic)
1979 - Ivan Miljković, Serbian volleyball player
1980 - Ben Savage, actor (Little Monsters, Wild Palms)
1980 - Evangelos Nastos, Greek footballer
1980 - Han Chae Young, South Korean actress
1980 - Daisuke Matsuzaka, Japanese baseball player
1980 - Michelle Nolan, American musician (Straylight Run)
1980 - Teppei Teranishi, American guitarist (Thrice)
1981 - Koldo Fernández, Spanish cyclist
1981 - Antonio Lopez Spanish footballer
1981 - Angel Williams, Canadian wrestler
1982 - Nenê, Brazilian basketball player
1982 - Rickie Weeks, American baseball player
1982 - Miha Zupan, Slovenian basketball player
1983 - Sean Brosnan II, American actor and son of actor Pierce Brosnan
1983 - James Bourne, English musician
1984 - Nabil Abou-Harb, Arab-American filmmaker
1985 - Keyunta Dawson, National Football League player
1986 - Kamui Kobayashi, Japanese racing driver
1986 - Sean Williams, American basketball player
1987 - Luke Fitzgerald, Irish rugby union footballer
1988 - Keith Treacy, Irish footballer

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 13, 2013, 09:46:00 AM

This Day in History for 13th September


Famous Deaths

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British Army Officer                          Zoophysiologist and Nobel Laureate             Rapper Tupac Shakur (1996)
James Wolfe (1759)                                    August Krogh (1949)


81 - Titus Flavius Vespasianus, emperor of Rome (69-81), dies at about 42
867 - Nicholas I, the Great, Italian Pope (858-67), dies
1321 - Dante Alighieri, author (Divine Comedy), dies
1506 - Andrea Mantegna, Italian painter
1557 - John Cheke, English classical scholar and statesman (b. 1514)
1592 - Michel de Montaigne, French writer (b. 1533)
1596 - Pieter D Keyzer/Keyser, astronomer/navigator (Java)
1598 - Philip II, King of Spain (1556-98), dies at 71
1632 - Leopold V, regent of the Tyrol (b. 1586)
1650 - Ferdinand, of Bayern, prince-bishop of Luik/archbishop, dies at 72
1657 - Jacob van Campen, painter/architect (Amsterdam Townhall), dies at 62
1759 - James Wolfe, British general (Plains of Abraham), dies in battle at 32
1766 - Benjamin Heath, English classical scholar (b. 1704)
1803 - John Barry, 1st American commodore, dies
1806 - Charles James Fox, English politician (b. 1749)
1808 - Saverio Bettinelli, Italian writer (b. 1718)
1813 - Hezqeyas of Ethiopia, deposed Emperor of Ethiopia
1847 - Nicolas Oudinot, French marshal (b. 1767)
1859 - Cornelis J van Axes, lawyer, dies at 71
1872 - Ludwig A Feuerbach, German philosopher (Man what he eats), dies at 68
1881 - Ambrose Everett Burnside, US Union general, dies at 57
1885 - Friedrich Kiel, Austrian composer (b. 1821)
1894 - Emmanuel Chabrier, French composer (b. 1841)
1904 - Raden Ayu Kartini, Indonesian national heroine (b. 1879)
1905 - René Goblet, French politician (b. 1828)
1906 - Georg Jacobi, composer, dies at 66
1912 - Maresuke Nogi, Japanese general (b. 1849)
1913 - Alfred Gaul, composer, dies at 76
1915 - Andrew L. Harris, American Civil War hero and Governor of Ohio (b. 1835)
1921 - Italo Svevo, writer, dies at 59
1921 - Ludwig-Alexander von Battenberg [Mountbatten], adm (WW I), dies at 67
1924 - Pekka Hannikainen, composer, dies at 69
1928 - Italo Svevo, [Ettore Schmitz], Italian writer (Una Vita), dies at 66
1932 - Julius Rontgen, composer, dies at 77
1932 - Paul Gorguloff, murderer of French pres Doumer, beheaded
1938 - Samuel Alexander, Engl philosopher (Space, time & deity), dies at 79
1946 - Eugene Lanceray, Russian painter (b. 1875)
1948 - Paul Wegener, German actor/director (Golem, Svengali), dies at 73
1949 - August Krogh, Danish zoophysiologist, dies at 75
1950 - Sara Allgood, Irish actress (Jane Eyre, Spiral Staircase), dies at 56
1953 - Lewis Stone, actor (Just This Once, Key to the City), dies at 73
1959 - Gilbert Adrian, costume designer, dies of heart attack at 56
1960 - Leo Weiner, Hungarian composer (Toldi), dies at 75
1965 - Jean B. Fletcher, American architect (b. 1915)
1967 - Russell L Rogers, USAF/astronaut (X-20), dies in explosion at 38
1969 - Charles Foulkes, Canada gen/honorary citizen of Wageningen, dies at 66
1971 - Lin Piao, Chinese party leader, dies in air crash at 63 [or Sept 13]
1971 - Nelly A "Nell" Knoop, Dutch actress (Silent Waters), dies at 72
1971 - Nikita Krushchev, Soviet premier, buried in Moscow
1973 - Betty Field, actress (Kings Row), dies of cerebral hemorrhage at 60
1976 - Albert Tessier, French Canadian priest, historian and film maker (b. 1895)
1976 - Armand Mondou, French Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1905)
1977 - Arthur Fagg, cricketer (5 Tests for England 1936-39/umpire), dies
1977 - Leopold Stokowski, symphonic conductors, dies in England, at 95
1981 - William Loeb, publisher of Manchester Union Leader, NH, dies at 75
1982 - Philip Ober, actor (Gen Stone-I Dream of Jeannie), dies at 80
1985 - Dane Rudhyar, composer, dies at 90
1987 - Mervyn Leroy, actor/screenwriter/director (Quo Vadis), dies at 86
1989 - Yamada Koun, Zen teacher Sanbo Kyodan line, dies at 82
1991 - Ferry Barendse, trumpeter/composer/arranger (Ramblers), dies
1991 - Joe Pasternak, producer (Spinout, Big City), dies of Parkinson's at 73
1991 - Metin Oktay, Turkish football player (b. 1936)
1992 - Lou Jacobs, US clown (1966 US postage stamp), dies at 89
1994 - John William Stevens, jazz drummer, dies at 54
1994 - Kaleria Fadicheva, ballerina, dies at 58
1994 - Pieter Zaanen, architect (Musical Trade scholarship, Amsterdam), dies
1995 - Francesco Messina, sculptor, dies at 94
1995 - Harold Sheperdson, soccer Trainer, dies at 76
1995 - Walter Goetz, illustrator cartoonist/painter, dies at 83
1996 - Anthony Nicholas Maria Wahl, historian, dies at 68
1996 - Cesar Mendoza, general of Military junta of Chile (1973-85), dies
1996 - Jane Baxter, actress (We Live Again, Blossom Time), dies at 87
1996 - Silas Roy Crain, singer/songwriter, dies at 85
1996 - Tupac Shakur, rap star/actor (Juice, Bullet), killed in drive by at 25
1998 - Harry Lumley, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1926)
1998 - George Wallace, American politician (b. 1919)
1999 - Benjamin Bloom, American educational theorist (b. 1913)
2001 - Dorothy McGuire, American actress, dies of cardiac arrest following a short illness at 85
2003 - Frank O'Bannon, Governor of Indiana (b. 1930)
2004 - Luis E. Miramontes, Mexican chemist, co-inventor of the combined oral contraceptive pill (b.
          1925)
2005 - Toni Fritsch, Austrian football and American football player (b. 1945)
2005 - Julio César Turbay Ayala, Colombian politician (b. 1916)
2006 - Ann Richards, 46th Governor of Texas (b. 1933)
2007 - Whakahuihui Vercoe, New Zealand clergyman (b. 1928)
2011 - DJ Mehdi, French hip hop and electro producer (b. 1977)
2011 - Walter Bonatti, Italian climber (b. 1930)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 14, 2013, 09:19:58 AM

This Day in History for 14th September


Historical Events

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Naturalist Charles Darwin                     Heavyweight Boxing Champion         Soldier, author, journalist, politician
                                                                        Jack Dempsey                                          Winston Churchill

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38th US President                           First Secretary of the Communist Party               Animator Walt Disney
Gerald Ford                                                of the Soviet Union
                                                                  Nikita Khrushchev

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1st American-born Saint                           Actress/Singer Bette Midler                  265th Pope Benedict XVI
Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton


81 - Domitian becomes Emperor of the Roman Empire upon the death of his brother Titus.
786 - Harun al-Rashid becomes the Abbasid caliph upon the death of his brother Al-Hadi.
891 - Stephen V ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1163 - Pastor Frederik forms convent at Mariengaarde Friesland
1180 - Battle of Ishibashiyama in Japan.
1515 - Battle at Marignano ends in French/Venetian victory
1607 - Flight of the Earls from Lough Swilly, Donegal, Ireland.
1629 - Spanish garrison surrenders to prince Frederik Henry
1662 - Netherlands & England sign peace treaty
1682 - Bishop Gore School, one of the oldest schools in Wales, founded.
1716 - 1st lighthouse in American colonies lit (Boston Harbor)
1741 - George Frederick Handel finishes "Messiah" oratorio, after working on it non-stop for 23 days
1752 - Britain (and American colonies) adopt Gregorian calendar (no Sept 3-Sept 13th)
1759 - Austrian troops occupy Dresden
1807 - Aaron Burr acquitted of a misdemeanor charge
1812 - Napoleon occupies Moscow & fires start (fire extinguished on the 19th)
1814 - Francis Scott Key inspired to write "Star-Spangled Banner"
1829 - Peace of Adrianopel: ends Russian-Turkish war
1834 - Charles Darwin's company passes Tagua-tagua-more Chile
1847 - US Marines under General Scott enter Mexico City (halls of Montezuma)
1848 - Alexander Stewart opens 1st US dept store
1852 - 18th US Postmaster General: Samuel D Hubbard of Conn takes office
1854 - Allied armies, including those of Britain & France, land in Crimea
1856 - Battle of San Jacinto, Nicaragua defeats invaders
1862 - Battle at Crampton's Gap: Union troops chases away Confederates
1862 - Battle at South Mountain: Union troops chases away Confederates
1862 - Battle of Munfordsville KY
1862 - Federal troops escape from beleaguered Harpers Ferry West Virginia
1862 - Skirmish at Fox's Gap, American Civil War
1868 - Golf's 1st recorded hole-in-one (Tom Morris at Prestwick's 8th hole)
1872 - Britain pays US$15½m for damages during Civil War
1876 - Henry Morton Stanley's expedition leaves Rwanda
1876 - Leopold II closes Congo-conference
1882 - British General Wolseley reaches Cairo
1886 - George K Anderson of Memphis, Tennessee patents typewriter ribbon
1891 - "Empire State Express" train goes from NYC to East Buffalo, a distance of 436 miles, in a
           record 7H6M
1894 - Hottentotten uprising in Southwest-Africa fails
1899 - Henry Bliss becomes 1st automobile fatality in the US (NY)
1903 - NY Giant Red Ames no-hits St Louis, 5-0 in a 5 inning game
1905 - Albert Cuypstrat street market in Amsterdam inaugurated
1905 - Dutch AR-politician AWF Idenburg named governor of Suriname
1905 - RAC Tourist Trophy first run on Isle of Man
1913 - 27th US Womens Tennis: Mary K Browne beats Dorothy Green (62 75)
1913 - Cubs Larry Cheney hurls record 14-hit shutout against Giants (7-0)
1914 - German staff-of-chief Helmut von Moltke replaced by Erich von Falkenhayn
1914 - German troops withdraw from Aisne/invent trenches
1916 - Christy Mathewson pitches & wins his final game
1917 - Kerenski regime declares Russian republic
1917 - Provisional government of Russia forms, Republic proclaimed
1919 - British regime forbids Sinn Fein Dáil
1923 - Jack Dempsey KOs Luis Firpo in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
1923 - Miguel Primo de Rivera becomes dictator of Spain
1923 - Red Sox 1st baseman George Burns pulls off an unassisted triple play
1924 - Walter Johnson elected AL MVP
1926 - Guido Companions birthplace as a museum opens
1929 - 49th US Men's Tennis: Bill Tilden beats Francis Hunter (36 63 46 62 64)
1929 - A's clinch AL pennant with a 5-0 win over White Sox
1930 - Detroit Lions (as Portsmouth Spartans) play 1st NFL game, win 13-6
1930 - Nazis gain 107 seats in German election
1932 - Military coup in Chile under Arturo Alessandri
1933 - 2 billion board feet of lumber destroyed in Tillamook Oregon fire
1933 - Schaduwproces-Rijksdagbrand opens in London
1936 - Paul Waner ties Rogers Hornsby's NL record of 200 hits for 7 times
1938 - Graf Zeppelin II, world's largest airship, makes maiden flight
1939 - British fleet attacks German U-39 boat
1939 - First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill visits Scapa Flow, Orkney
1940 - Congress passes 1st peace-time conscription bill (draft law)
1940 - German bomb hits shelter in Chelsea; hundreds die
1942 - Battle of Edson's Ridge (Japanese assault) at Guadalcanal
1942 - German troops occupy train station Stalingrad-1
1942 - Yanks clinch pennant #13
1943 - Yanks clinch pennant #14
1944 - 6,500 Dutch/Indonesian captives sent to Junyo Maru
1944 - Gulpen, Meerssen & Maastricht freed
1944 - Hurricane hits New England: 389 die
1944 - US 28th Infantry division occupies 1.5 km of Roscheid
1944 - US 4th Ivy League Inf division pushes through Westwall
1947 - 61st US Women's Tennis: A Louise Brough beats M O duPont (86 46 61)
1947 - 67th US Men's Tennis: Jack Kramer beats Frank A Parker (46 26 61 60 63)
1948 - Gerald Ford upsets Rep Bartel J Jonkman in Mich 5th Dist Rep primary
1948 - Ground breaking ceremony for UN world headquarters
1948 - Milton Berle starts his TV career on Texaco Star Theater
1950 - Western allies rearm West Germany
1951 - Giant's Bob Niemans homers on his 1st 2 at bats
1953 - Nikita Khrushchev appointed First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
1953 - Yanks clinch 5th straight pennant with 8-5 win over Indians
1954 - Benjamin Britten's opera 'Turn of the Screw' premieres in Venice
1954 - Giants' Willie Mays gets 82nd extra-base hit, breaks Mel Ott's record
1954 - Hurricane Edna (2nd of 1954) hits NYC, $50 million damage
1954 - USSR performs nuclear test
1955 - Herb Score sets rookie record of 235 strikeouts (en route 245)
1956 - 1st prefrontal lobotomy performed, Washington DC
1957 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga, Australia
1957 - UN resolution deplores & condemns USSR invasion of Hungary
1957 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1958 - Jackie Pung wins LPGA Jackson Golf Open
1958 - WTAE TV channel 4 in Pittsburgh, PA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1958 - Yankees win 24th pennant, & 9th under Casey Stengel
1958 - Two rockets designed by the German engineer Ernst Mohr, the first German post-war
           rockets, reach the upper atmosphere.
1959 - Soviet Union's Luna-2 is 1st spacecraft to land on the Moon
1959 - WQEX TV channel 16 in Pittsburgh, PA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1960 - Chubby Checker's "Twist" hits #1
1960 - Coup under Col Joseph-Desire Mobutu in Congo
1960 - Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Saudi-Arabia & Venezuela form OPEC
1960 - KERA TV channel 13 in Dallas, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting
1960 - Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) forms
1961 - Dmitri Shostakovitch becomes member of CP of USSR
1961 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 - Mary Ann Fischer, Aberdeen, SD, gave birth to America's 1st surviving quintuplets, 4 girls & a
           boy
1964 - WCVE TV channel 23 in Richmond, VA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1964 - Walt Disney awarded Medal of Freedom at White House
1965 - "F-Troop" premieres
1965 - 4th meeting of 2nd Vatican council opened
1967 - Melville Abrams Ball Field in Bronx named
1967 - Thomas Pell Wildlife Refuge & Sanctuary opens in Bronx
1968 - Jimmy Ellis beats Floyd Patterson in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1968 - 1st broadcast of "60 Minutes" on CBS-TV
1968 - Detroit Tigers' Denny McLain's 30th victory of season
1968 - Dmitri Shostakovitch' 12th string quartet, premieres in Moscow
1968 - USSR's Zond 5 is launched on 1st circumlunar flight
1969 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Wendell-West Golf Open
1969 - Male voters of Swiss kanton Schaffhausen rejects female suffrage
1971 - Cleve Indians & Wash Senators, play 20 innings
1972 - "Waltons" TV program premieres
1972 - Jason Miller's "That Championship Season," premieres in NYC
1972 - West Germany & Poland establish diplomatic relations
1973 - Indianapolis is awarded a WHA franchise
1973 - Israel shoots down 13 Syrian MIG-21s
1973 - Pres Nixon signed into law a measure lifting pro football's blackout
1974 - Charles Kowal discovers Leda, 13th satellite of Jupiter
1975 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Southgate Golf Open
1975 - Mother Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton canonized as 1st US-born saint by Pope Paul VI
1975 - Rembrandts "Nightwatch" slashed & damaged in Amsterdam
1975 - Robin Yount breaks Mel Ott's record, playing in 242 games as a teen
1977 - Christmas Tinto sentenced to 7 years in Robben Island, South Africa
1978 - Braves' Jim Bouton, 38, beats Giants, his 1st win since 1970
1978 - Portugal government of Da Costa falls
1979 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1979 - Theodore Coombs completes 5,193 mile roller skate from LA to NYC & back to Yates Center,
           Ks
1980 - "Charlie & Algernon" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 17 perfs
1980 - Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic
1980 - Dwight Clark begins NFL streak of 105 consecutive game receptions
1981 - Entertainment Tonight premieres on TV
1982 - 36" snow (Red Lodge, MT)
1982 - Cindy Nicholas of Canada makes her 19th swim of English Channel
1982 - Trevor Baxter sets skateboard high jump record of 5' 5.7"
1983 - US House of Representatives votes, 416 to 0, in favor of a resolution condemning Russia for
           shooting down a Korean jetliner
1984 - 1st MTV awards-Bette Midler & Dan Aykroyd host
1985 - Susan Akin (Miss), 21, crowned 59th Miss America 1986
1986 - Bo Jackson's 1st HR-a 475-foot blast (longest at Royal Stadium)
1986 - Bomb attack in Paris, 2 killed
1986 - Bomb explosion on airport Kimpo at Seoul, 5 killed
1986 - Judy Dickinson wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
1986 - Saskatchewan & Hamilton play 1st CFL regular-season overtime game
1987 - 'Les Miserables' opens at Rock Theatre, Vigzinhaz Budapest
1987 - 107th US Mens Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats Mats Wilander (67 60 76 64)
1987 - Cal Ripken's streak of 8,243 consecutive innings (908 games) is broken
1987 - Toronto Blue Jays hit a record 10 HRs vs Baltimore Orioles
1988 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1989 - Calgary Flames become 1st NHL team to play in USSR, win 4-2
1989 - Jeff Reardon is 1st to record 30 saves in 5 consecutive seasons
1989 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1990 - Ken Griffey, Sr & Jr, hit back-to-back HRs in 1st inning
1991 - Carolyn Suzanne Sapp (Hawaii), 24, crowned 65th Miss America 1992
1991 - Freshman Marshall Faulk of San Diego State rushed for NCAA record
1991 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1991 - 386 yards & scored 7 touchdowns as the Aztecs beat Pacific 55-34
1992 - 1st subway car completed to be exported from US (to Taiwan)
1994 - All 28 baseball owners vote to cancel rest of 1994 season
1995 - Body Worlds opens in Tokyo, Japan
1996 - As' Mark McGwire is 13th player to hit 50-HRs in a season
1996 - Dean Headley takes 3rd cricket hat-trick of season, Kent v Hampshire
1996 - NY Met Todd Huntley sets record of 41 HRs by a catcher
1996 - Tara Dawn Holland (Kansas), 23, crowned 70th Miss America 1997
1997 - 49th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards
1997 - Bank One Senior Golf Classic
1997 - Chicago Whites Sox retire Carlton Fisk's #72
1997 - Karrie Webb wins LPGA SAFECO Classic
1997 - Loren Roberts wins CVS Charity Golf Classic with a 266
1998 - Week of Fed Cup
1998 - Telecommunications companies MCI Communications and WorldCom complete their $37 billion
           merger to form MCI WorldCom.
1999 - Kiribati, Nauru and Tonga join the United Nations.
2001 - Historic National Prayer Service held at Washington National Cathedral for victims of the
           September 11 attacks. A similar service is held in Canada on Parliament Hill, the largest vigil 
           ever held in the nation's capital.
2003 - In a referendum Sweden rejects adopting the Euro.
2003 - Estonia approves joining the European Union in a referendum.
2007 - Restrictions on the traditional Latin Mass are officially removed in the Roman Catholic Church
           as Pope Benedict XVI's motu proprio Summorum Pontificum takes effect.
2012 - 21 people are killed after a ferry sank in Indonesia

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 14, 2013, 09:21:48 AM

This Day in History for 14th September


Famous Weddings

1830 - Princess WFLC Marianne marries Albrecht of Prussia
1835 - American leading transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson (33) marries 2nd wife Lydia (Lidian)
           Jackson in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
1892 - AP Giannini marries Clorinda Cuneo
1954 - Comedians Jerry Stiller & Anne Meara marry
1956 - British playwright (Nobel prize for literature 2005) Harold Pinter (26) marries 1st wife actress
           Vivien Merchant (27)
1970 - Stevie Miracle marries Rita Wright, [Syreeta]
1984 - Figure skater Marina Klimova (18) weds her partner Sergei Ponomarenko (23)
1984 - Stage and screen actor Gene Wilder (51) weds "Saturday Night Live" actress-comedian Gilda
           Radner (38) in France
1996 - Actress Liz Keifer (33) weds Robert Convertino (41) at Rihga Royal Hotel in New York City
2002 - No Doubt lead vocalist Gwen Stefani (42) weds lead singer and rhythm guitarist "Bush" Gavin
           Rossdale (46) at St. Paul's Church in London, England
2006 - Former B*Witched member Lindsay Armaou weds former "911" member Lee Brennan at St.
           Mary's Parish Church in County Wicklow, Ireland
2007 - "Fantastic Four" actor Ioan Gruffudd (33) weds actress Alice Evans (36) in a small ceremony
           at the One and Only Palmilla Hotel in Los Cabos, Mexico
2008 - Former Star Trek actor (71) weds his partner of two decades Brad Altman (54) in a Buddhist
           ceremony

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 14, 2013, 09:28:05 AM

This Day in History for 14th September


Famous Birthdays

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Naturalist                                               Actor Sam Neill (1947)                            Singer Amy Winehouse (1983)
Alexander von Humboldt (1769)


1388 - Claudius Clavus, Danish geographer
1486 - Agrippa von Nettesheim, German occultist/alchemist/royal astrologer
1531 - Philipp Apianus, [Bennewitz/Bienewitz], German geography/cartographer
1543 - Claudio Aquaviva, Italian Jesuit (d. 1615)
1547 - Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Dutch Grand Pensionary
1580 - Francisco de Quevedo, Spanish writer (d. 1645)
1644 - Gijsbert Cuper, Dutch classicist/regent
1656 - Thomas Baker, British antiquarian (d. 1746)
1713 - Johann Kies, German mathematician (d. 1781)
1721 - Eliphalet Dyer, American statesman and judge (d. 1807)
1722 - Joseph Paul Ziegler, composer
1737 - Johann Michael Haydn, composer
1742 - James Wilson, Scot/US judge/signer (Declaration of Independence)
1748 - Johann Paul Schulthesius, composer
1760 - M Luigi CZS Cherubini, Italian prodigy/composer
1761 - Pavel Lambert Masek, composer
1768 - Georg Johann Schinn, composer
1769 - Alexander von Humboldt, Berlin, German naturalist and explorer ( Kosmos), (d. 1859)
1771 - Nikolay Raevsky, Russian general and statesman (d. 1829)
1792 - Gino Capponi, Italian marquis/literary/premier of Toscane
1804 - John Gould, British ornithologist (d. 1881)
1804 - Louis Desiré Maigret, French Catholic prelate (d. 1882)
1817 - Theodor Storm, German judge/author (Imense China)
1819 - Henry Jackson Hunt, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1889
1835 - J A de Smit-Rog, oldest citizen of Netherlands (Died 1940)
1835 - Joseph Hayes, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1912
1835 - YES de Smit-Rog, oldest citizen of Netherlands (Died 5/30/1940)
1836 - Abraham PC Van Karnebeek, Dutch Foreign Minister (Liberal, 1918-27)
1837 - Nikolai Bugaev, Russian mathematician (d. 1903)
1838 - John Pelham, Major (Confederate Army), died in 1863
1840 - George Elbridge Whiting, composer
1849 - Ivan Pavlov, Russia, physiologist/pioneer in psychology (Nobel 1904)
1860 - Hamlin Garland, American writer (d. 1940)
1864 - Lord Robert Cecil, Viscount of Chelwood, UK, helps form League of Nations (Nobel 1937)
1867 - Charles Dana Gibson, illustrator, drew "Gibson Girl"
1869 - Kid Nichols, American baseball player (d. 1953)
1879 - Margaret Sanger, feminist/nurse/birth control proponent
1880 - Paul Fechter, German writer (Der Zauberer Gottes)
1880 - Metropolitan Benjamin (Fedchenkov), Orthodox missionary and writer (d. 1961)
1880 - Archie Hahn, American athlete (d. 1955)
1882 - Harald Fryklof, composer
1883 - Martin Dibelius, German theologist (Die Lade Jahwes)
1885 - Vittorio Gui, Italian conductor/composer (Batture d'aspetto)
1886 - Jan Garrique Masaryk, Czech, statesman/minister to London (1918-35)
1887 - Karl Taylor Compton, physicist/atomic bomb scientist
1887 - Stanley "Midnight Assassin" Ketchel, HW boxing champ (1908-10)
1891 - Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov, Russian mathematician (d. 1983)
1898 - Ernest Nash, German-born archaeologist (d. 1974)
1899 - Hal Wallis, movie producer (Maltese Falcon, Barefoot in the Park)
1900 - Sidney Marion, MA, entertainer
1902 - Giorgos Papasideris Greek musician (d. 1977)
1904 - Anton Zischka, Austrian writer (Lebendiges Europa)
1904 - Gaston Vandermeulen, Flemish actor (Heilig Experiment)
1904 - Richard Mohaupt, Breslau Germany, composer (Bucolica)
1907 - A Cecil Snyder, Chief Justice of Puerto Rico
1907 - Cecil Brown, news correspondent (CBS)
1908 - Bernie Green, NYC, orchestra leader (Arthur Godfrey Show, Garry Moore Show)
1909 - Peter Scott, British naturalist and explorer (d. 1989)
1910 - Jack Hawkins, London UK, actor (Ben-Four Just Men, Zulu, Malta Story)
1910 - Gaston Deferre, French politician
1910 - Lehman Engel, Jackson Miss, conductor/comp (Streetcar Named Desire)
1910 - Yiannis Latsis, Greek shipping tycoon (d. 2003)
1913 - Jacobo Arbenz, president of Guatemala (1951-54); overthrown by CIA
1914 - Kay Medford, NYC, actress (Dean Martin Show, To Rome With Love)
1914 - Michael Spisak, composer
1914 - Pietro Germi, Genoa Italy, actor/director (Divorce Italian Style)
1914 - Lída Baarová, Czech actress (d. 2000)
1914 - Clayton Moore, Chicago Illinois, American actor (d. 1999)
1914 - Robert McCloskey, American author (d. 2003)
1915 - Douglas Kennedy, NY, actor (Lone Ranger & Lost City of Gold)
1916 - Eric Bentley, England, critic/writer (In Search of Theater)
1918 - Jack Somack, Chicago Illinois, actor (Ball Four, Stockard Channing Show)
1918 - Georges Berger, Belgian racing driver (d. 1967)
1919 - Deryck Victor Cooke, composer
1920 - Bud Palmer, Hollywood California, NBAer (NY Knicks)/sportscaster
1920 - Alberto Calderón, Argentine mathematician (d. 1998)
1921 - Hughes Rudd, TV newscaster (CBS/ABC)
1922 - Michel Auclair, [Vujovic], Germany, actor (Story of a Love Story)
1924 - Jerry Coleman, 2nd baseman/sportscaster (NY Yankees, SD Padres)
1924 - John Michael Grimes, set Designer
1924 - Abioseh Nicol, Sierra Leonean diplomat and author (d. 1994)
1925 - M L de Braauw, Dutch minister (DS'70)
1925 - Ruth Mompati, S Afr sec of Nelson Mandela/W Sisulu
1926 - Hovhannes Gorgeni Ter-T'at'evosyan, composer
1926 - Richard Elsasser, composer
1927 - Martin Caidin, American aviation writer (d. 1997)
1928 - Albert Shanker, American labor leader (Amer Fed of Teachers)
1928 - Sir Angus Ogilvy, London, United Kingdom, husband of English princess Alexandra
1928 - John Reginald "Nat" Allen, planning enforcement officer/climber
1929 - John Gutfreund, American investment banker and former CEO of Salomon Brothers Inc (King
           of Wall Street)
1929 - Mel Hancock, (Rep-R-Missouri)
1929 - Larry Collins, American writer (d. 2005)
1929 - Maurice Vachon, French Canadian professional wrestler
1930 - Allan Bloom, American academic (d. 1992)
1932 - Harry Sinden, NHL player/coach (Team Canada)
1932 - Joshua Culbreath, Penn, 400m hurdler (Olympic-bronze-1956)
1932 - John Tembo, Malawian politician
1933 - Harve Presnell, Modesto California, actor (Unsinkable Molly Brown)
1933 - Zoe Caldwell, Australia, actress (Prime of Miss Jean Brodie)
1934 - Hans Faverey, Dutch poet
1934 - Kate Millett, St Paul Minn, feminist/author (Sexual Politics)
1934 - Sarah Kofman, philosopher
1935 - Fujio Akatsuka, Japanese cartoonist (d. 2008)
1936 - Stan Williams, baseball pitcher (NY Yankees, LA Dodgers)
1936 - Terence Daniel Donovan, photographer
1936 - Nicol Williamson, Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Scottish actor (Excalibur, Spawn)
1936 - Walter Koenig, Chicago Ill, actor (Checkov-Star Trek)
1936 - Ferid Murad, American physician and pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology
           or Medicine
1936 - Harry Danielsen, Norwegian politician
1937 - Renzo Piano, Italian architect
1939 - DeWitt T Weaver Jr, Danville KY, PGA golfer (1972 Southern Open)
1939 - Piet R Stoffelen, Dutch ambassador/MP (PvdA)
1940 - Larry Brown, NBA player/NBA coach (NY Knicks)
1940 - Leo H Ferrier, Suriname writer (Atman)
1941 - Alberto Naranjo, Venezuelan musician
1942 - Kuldar Sink, composer
1942 - Oliver Eugene Lake, composer
1942 - Bernard MacLaverty, Northern Irish writer
1944 - Joey Heatherton, Rockville Center NY, dancer/actress (Bluebeard)
1945 - Martin Tyler, British sports broadcaster
1946 - Jim Angle, American television reporter
1947 - Joan Thirkettle, journalist
1947 - Jon "Bowser" Bauman, Queens NY, singer (Sha Na Na)
1947 - Sam Neill, Northern Ireland, actor (Jurassic Park, Dead Calm, Piano)
1947 - Wolfgang Schwartz, Austria, figure skater (Olympic-gold-1968)
1948 - Fred "Sonic" Smith, guitarist
1949 - Steve Gaines, Seneca Mo, rock vocalist (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
1949 - Tommy Seebach, Danish musician (d. 2003)
1949 - Eikichi Yazawa, Japanese singer
1950 - Paul Kossoff, London England, rock guitarist (Free)
1950 - Masami Kuwashima, Japanese race car driver
1950 - Michael Nifong, American attorney
1951 - Eugene H Trinh, Saigon Vietnam, PhD/astronaut (STS 50)
1952 - Margit Schumann, German DR, luge (Olympic-gold-1976)
1953 - Tom Cora, American cellist and composer (d. 1998)
1953 - Judy Playfair, Australian swimmer
1954 - Barry Cowsill, Newport RI, rock bassist (Cowsills-We Can Fly)
1956 - Joe Penny, London, actor (Gangster Wars, Riptide, Jake & the Fatman)
1956 - Kostas Karamanlis, Greek prime-minister
1956 - Ray Wilkins, English former footballer
1956 - Lefteris Zagoritis, Greek politician
1957 - Jerry Don Gleaton, baseball player
1957 - Tim Wallach, Huntington Park, California, American MLB player (Montreal Expos 1980-1992)
1958 - John Bennett Herrington, Wetumka OK, Lt Cmdr USN/astronaut
1959 - Mary Crosby, Los Angeles California, actress (Kristin-Dallas, Ice Pirates)
1959 - Morten Harket, Konigsberg Norway, rocker (Aha-Take on Me)
1960 - Anthony Addabbo, actor (Jason-Generations)
1960 - Melissa Leo, American actress
1960 - Callum Keith Rennie, Canadian actor
1961 - Antonia De Sancha, London England, lover of Brit MP David Mellor
1963 - Antonia Real, Spain, 400m freestyle (Olympic-1976)
1963 - Jaromir Dragan, Liptovsky CZE, hockey goalie (Team Slovakia 1998)
1964 - Faith Ford, Louisiana, actress (Another World, Corky-Murphy Brown)
1964 - Kurt Gouveia, NFL linebacker (Philadelphia Eagles)
1965 - Troy Neel, baseball player
1965 - Dmitry Medvedev, President of Russia
1966 - Mike Cooley, American guitarist
1967 - John Smit, soccer player (NAC)
1968 - Dan Cortese, actor/TV host (Jess Hanson-Melrose Place)
1968 - Ginger Helgeson Nielson, St Cloud Minn, tennis star
1968 - Pete Chilcutt, NBA forward (Vancouver Grizzlies)
1970 - Satoshi Kojima, wrestler (NJPW)
1970 - Ben Garant, American actor
1970 - Craig Montoya, American musician (Everclear)
1970 - Francesco Casagrande, Italian cyclist
1971 - Jonathan "Adam" Holland, Philadelphia, rower (Olympics-1996)
1971 - Kimberly Williams, actress (Father of the Bride)
1971 - Mario Henry, NFL wide receiver (Buffalo Bills, Atlanta Falcons)
1971 - Jeff Loomis, American guitarist (Nevermore)
1971 - Andre Matos, Brazilian musician
1972 - David Bell, Cincinnati Ohio, infielder (St Louis Cardinals)
1972 - Donnell Bennett, NFL fullback (KC Chiefs)
1973 - Terrell Fletcher, NFL running back (San Diego Chargers)
1973 - Tony Bui, Vietnamese film director
1973 - Linvoy Primus, English footballer
1973 - Mike Ward, Canadian comedian
1974 - Hicham El Guerrouj, Moroccan athlete
1976 - Jeremy Dunham, video game journalist
1976 - Agustín Calleri, Argentine tennis player
1978 - Carmen Kass, Estonian model
1978 - Danielle Peck, country music singer
1978 - Ben Cohen, English rugby union footballer
1979 - Jesse Marunde, American Strongman/Athlete (d. 2007)
1981 - Miyavi, Japanese singer and actor
1982 - Hiroki Narimiya, Japanese actor
1983 - Frostee Rucker, National Football League defensive end
1983 - Amy Winehouse, Southgate, London, singer ("Stronger Than Me, Rehab), (d. 2011)
1984 - Adam Lamberg, American actor
1984 - Melissa McGhee, American singer
1985 - Paolo Gregoletto, American bassist (Trivium)
1985 - Aya Ueto, Japanese actress and singer
1985 - Delmon Young, American baseball player
1986 - Ai Takahashi, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
1986 - A.J. Trauth, American actor
1986 - Alan Sheehan, Irish footballer
1988 - Kirsten Haglund, American Beauty Queen
1989 - Jesse James, American actor

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 14, 2013, 09:33:03 AM

This Day in History for 14th September


Famous Deaths

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1st Duke of Wellington &                       25th US President                                  Actress Grace Kelly (1982)
British Prime Minister                             William McKinley (1901)
Arthur Wellesley (185 2)


258 - Thascius C Cyprian, Saint/Bishop of Carthage, dies at 58
407 - Johannes Chrysostomus, patriarch, dies
585 - Emperor Bidatsu of Japan (b. 538)
775 - Constantine V, Byzantine Emperor (b. 718)
786 - Al-Hadi, Abbasid caliph
891 - Stephen V, [VI], Italian Pope (885-91), dies
1146 - Imad ad-Din Zengi, gov of Basra, murdered
1164 - Emperor Sutoku of Japan (b. 1119)
1214 - Albert Avogadro, Italian patriarch of Jerusalem (b. 1149)
1321 - Dante Alighieri, Italian poet (Divine Commedy), dies at 56
1404 - Albert IV of Austria (b. 1377)
1435 - John, Duke of Bedford, regent of England (b. 1389)
1523 - Adrian VI, [Adriaan F Bieyens], only Dutch Pope (1522-23), dies at 64
1538 - Henry of Nassau-Dillenburg & Dietz, viceroy of Holland, dies
1605 - Jan Tarnowski, Archbishop of Krakow (b. 1550)
1637 - Pierre Vernier [Peter Werner], French mathematician, dies
1638 - John Harvard, American clergyman (b. 1607)
1645 - Heinrich Steuccius, composer, dies at 65
1646 - Robert Devereux, 3rd earl of Essex, dies
1646 - Thomas H Earl of Arundel, English art collector (Marbles), dies
1693 - Aert Jansz van Nes, [Young boer Jaep], lt-admiral, dies at 67
1712 - Jean [Giovanni] D Cassini, Italian/French astronomer, dies
1743 - Johann Michael Muller, composer, dies at 59
1743 - Nicolas Lancret, French painter (b. 1690)
1749 - Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, English soldier and politician (b. 1675)
1750 - Carl T Pachelbel, US organist/composer
1759 - Louis Joseph Montcalm, French general (Plains of Abraham), dies at 47
1763 - Johann Philipp Sack, composer, dies at 40
1788 - John Penn, US attorney, signed (Decl of Independence), dies at 47
1788 - Theodore-Jean Tarade, composer, dies at 56
1807 - George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend, British field marshal (b. 1724)
1819 - Erik Acharius, Swedish botanist, dies
1836 - Aaron Burr, 3rd VP, dies
1836 - Vincenzo Lavigna, composer, dies at 60
1844 - Oliver Holden, composer, dies at 78
1851 - James Fenimore Cooper, American author (b. 1789)
1852 - Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington and British Prime Minister (Tory) (1828-30) dies at 83
1852 - James F Cooper, writer, dies at 62
1852 - Augustus Pugin, English architect (b. 1812)
1861 - Fortunato Santini, composer, dies at 83
1862 - Jesse Lee Reno, Union general-major (Reno Nevada), dies at 39
1862 - Samuel Garland Jr, US Confederate brig-gen, dies in battle
1872 - Yury Nikolayevich Golitsin, composer, dies at 48
1879 - Bernhard von Cotta, German geologist (b. 1808)
1886 - Hubert Reis, composer, dies at 84
1887 - Friedrich T Vischer, German philosopher/writer (Auch einer), dies
1895 - Alfred J Verwee, Flemish painter, dies at 57
1898 - Paul A Daum, writer/founder/editor (Batavian Newspaper), dies
1898 - William Seward Burroughs, American inventor (b. 1857)
1899 - Henry Bliss, 1st auto death (NYC)
1901 - Pres William McKinley, dies in Buffalo, of gunshot wounds inflicted at 58
1902 - Reinhold Finsterbusch, composer, dies at 76
1905 - Pietro/Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, 1st French Congo gov (1890-98), die
1910 - Huo Yuan Jia, Chinese martial artist
1916 - Josiah Royce, US philosopher (Conception of Immortality), dies
1926 - Johan LE Dreyer, Danish astronomer (Catalog of Nebulae), dies at 74
1927 - Isadora Duncan, dies at 50 due to her scarf becoming entangled in her car's wheel
1932 - Jean Emile Paul Cras, composer, dies at 53
1936 - Ossip Gabrilovich, composer, dies at 58
1937 - Tomés G Masaryk, philosopher/pres of Czech (1918-35), dies at 87)
1937 - Tomáš Masaryk, 1st President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1850)
1942 - E.S. Gosney, American eugenicist (b. 1855)
1951 - Fritz Busch, German conductor (b. 1890)
1955 - F C Weiskopf, writer, dies
1959 - Wayne Morris, actor (Kid Galahad), dies of heart attack at 45
1960 - M. Karagatsis, Greek author (b. 1908)
1962 - Marcel Delannoy, composer, dies at 64
1964 - Mary Howe, composer, dies at 82
1965 - Jack Hearne, cricketer (806 runs in 24 Tests for England), dies
1966 - Gertrude Berg, actress (Molly Goldberg-Goldbergs), dies at 66
1966 - Nikolai Cherkasov, actor (Ivan the Terrible), dies at 63
1967 - Mohammed Abdul Hakim Amer, Egyptian vice-PM, commits suicide at 47
1969 - James Anderson, actor (Connection, Five), dies at 48
1970 - Rudolph Carnap, German philosopher/mathematician, dies at 79
1971 - Bill Copson, cricketer (England pace bowler before & after WW2), dies
1972 - Kornelis Posthumus, chemist, dies at 70
1974 - Barbara Jo Allen, actress (Girl Rush, Melody Ranch), dies at 66
1974 - Pieter Y Adriani, Dutch tax lawyer, dies at 95
1974 - Vera Vague, [Barbara Jo Allen], actr (Follow the Leader), dies at 70
1974 - Warren Hull, actor (Strike it Rich, Who in the World), dies at 71
1975 - Walter Herbert, German conductor and impresario (b. 1902)
1979 - Raymond Loucheur, composer, dies at 80
1981 - Yasuji Kiyose, composer, dies at 81
1981 - [Walter] Furry Lewis, father of blues, dies at 88 of a heart attack
1982 - Bashir Gemayel, falangist Lebanon's president-elect, killed by a bomb
1982 - Grace Kelly, princess of Monaco, dies in a car crash at 52
1982 - John C Gardner, US, writer (Life & Times of Chaucer High), dies at 49
1982 - Christian Ferras, French violinist (b. 1933)
1984 - Janet Gaynor, actress (Sunrise), dies at 77 from a traffic accident
1988 - Louis Quinn, actor (Unholy Rollers), dies at 73 of cancer
1989 - Edwin McLeod, cricketer (one Test for NZ), dies
1989 - Dámaso Pérez Prado, Cuban musician (b. 1916)
1990 - Wime de Craene, Flemish chansonnier/composer, dies
1991 - Julie Bovasso, actress (Saturday Night Fever), dies at 61 of cancer
1991 - Russell Lynes, American art historian and magazine editor (b. 1910)
1992 - David Jones, actor, commits suicide (had terminal cancer) at 76
1992 - S A Banerjee, cricketer (1 Test for India 1948, no runs, 5 wkts), dies
1992 - Ted Weiss, (Rep-NY, 1977-92), dies at 64
1992 - Paul Joseph James Martin, Canadian politician (b. 1903)
1994 - David van Cup, sculptor/painter, dies at 57
1995 - Eiji Okada, actor (Traffic Jam, Yakuza, Ugly American), dies at 75
1995 - Maurice K. Goddard, American state government official (b. 1912)
1996 - Clive Beadon, airman, dies at 77
1996 - Joe Elsby Martin, boxing coach, dies at 80
1996 - Juliet Prowse, actress/dancer (Mona McCluskey), dies at 59
1999 - Charles Crichton, English film director (b. 1910)
2000 - Beah Richards, American actress (b. 1920)
2000 - Jerzy Giedroyc, Polish writer and activist (b. 1906)
2001 - Stelios Kazantzidis, Greek singer (b. 1931)
2003 - Yetunde Price, half-sister of Venus and Serena Williams (b. 1972)
2003 - John Serry, Sr., American musician, (b. 1915)
2005 - William Berenberg, American physician (b. 1915)
2005 - Robert Wise, American filmmaker (b. 1914)
2005 - Vladimir Volkoff, French writer (b. 1932)
2006 - Mickey Hargitay, Hungarian actor and bodybuilder (b. 1926)
2006 - Esme Melville, Australian actress (b. 1918)
2008 - Ştefan Iordache, Romanian actor (b. 1941)
2008 - Domagoj Kapeć, Croatian hockeyplayer (b. 1989)
2009 - Keith Floyd, British TV chef (b. 1943)
2009 - Jody Powell, American press secretary to Jimmy Carter (b. 1943)
2009 - Darren Sutherland, Irish boxer (b. 1982)
2009 - Patrick Swayze, American actor, dancer, and songwriter (b. 1952)
2009 - Henry Gibson, American actor and songwriter (b. 1935)
2012 - Louis Simpson, Jamaican poet, dies from Alzheimer's disease at 89

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 15, 2013, 09:01:21 AM

This Day in History for 15th September


Historical Events

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Russian Tsar Peter the Great                    Naturalist Charles Darwin                    Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini

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Dictator of Nazi Germany                 Soldier, author, journalist, politician                   First Secretary of the
Adolf Hitler                                                Winston Churchill                         Communist Party of the Soviet Union
                                                                                                                                    Nikita Khrushchev

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36th US President                                   Singer and Actor Bing Crosby                Heavyweight Boxing Champion
Lyndon B. Johnson                                                                                                     Muhammad Ali

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264th Pope John Paul II                          Talk show host Oprah Winfrey


608 - St Boniface IV begins his reign as Catholic Pope
668 - Eastern Roman Emperor Constans II is assassinated in his bath at Syracuse, Italy.
921 - Saint Ludmila is murdered at the command of her daughter-in-law at Tetin.
1514 - Thomas Wolsey appointed Archbishop of York
1556 - Vlissingen ex-emperor Charles V returns to Spain
1584 - San Lorenzo del Escorial Palace in Madrid finished
1590 - Giambattista Catagna elected as Pope Urban VII
1600 - Battle of Sekigahara.
1616 - The first non-aristocratic, free public school in Europe is opened in Frascati, Italy.
1619 - Prince Bethlen Gabors troops occupy Pozsony (Pressburg) Hungary
1620 - Mayflower departs from Plymouth England with 102 pilgrims [OS May 8]
1621 - Swedish troops occupy Riga
1644 - Giambattista Pamfili replaces Pope Urban VII as Innocent X
1656 - England & France sign peace treaty
1683 - Germantown Pa founded by 13 immigrant families
1707 - Rákóczi II & Czar Peter the Great sign social security agreement
1733 - King Frederik Willem I divides Prussia-Brandenburg in Cantons
1762 - Battle of Signal Hill.
1774 - Cossack Emilian Pugachev captured
1776 - British forces capture Kip's Bay Manhattan during Revolution
1787 - -16] Utrecht patriots flee to Amsterdam
1789 - US Department of Foreign Affairs, renamed Department of State
1795 - Cape Colony surrenders to Britain
1812 - French army under Napoleon reaches Kremlin, Moscow
1820 - Constitutionalist revolution in Lisbon, Portugal; (see Portugal's crises of the Nineteenth
           Century).
1821 - Costa Rica El Salvador Guatemala Honduras & Nicaragua gain independ
1830 - 1st National Negro Convention begins in Phila
1830 - 1st person to be run over by a railroad train (William Huskisson, England)
1830 - Duke of Wellington opens Liverpool & Manchester Railway
1831 - The locomotive John Bull operates for the first time in New Jersey on the Camden and Amboy
           Railroad.
1835 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches Galapagos Islands
1846 - Jung Bahadur Rana grabs power in Nepal
1851 - Saint Joseph's University is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1853 - 1st US woman ordained a minister, Antoinette Blackwell
1857 - Timothy Alder patents typesetting machine
1862 - Confederates conquer Union-weapon arsenal at Harpers Ferry WV
1870 - Dutch 1st Chamber abolishes Capital punishment (20-18)
1873 - Last German troops leave France
1879 - Pim Mulier forms "Haarlem Football Club"
1882 - British general Wolseley occupies Cairo
1887 - Phila celebrates 100th anniversary of US Constitution
1894 - Japan defeats China in Battle of Ping Yang
1898 - National Afro-American Council forms in Rochester NY
1899 - 5th US Golf Open: Willie Smith shoots a 315 at Baltimore CC MD
1903 - Queen Wilhelmina calls railroad strikers "criminals"
1904 - Wilbur Wright makes his 1st airplane flight
1910 - Boers & Afrikaners win 1st general elections in Union of South-Africa
1912 - Red Sox pitcher Joe Wood ties then record of 16 straight wins
1912 - War between Turkey & Montenegro breaks out in Albania
1913 - 1st US milch goat show held, Rochester, NY
1914 - Battle of Aisne begins between Germans & French during WW I
1914 - US Marines march out of Vera Cruz, Mexico
1916 - Debut of tanks in war, "Little Willies" at Battle of Flers-Courcelette (part of the Battle of the
           Somme)
1917 - Russia proclaimed a republic by Alexander Kerensky
1918 - CH Chubb gives Stonehenge to English state
1921 - Pope Benedictus XV publishes encyclical Alcohol Paraclitus
1921 - WBZ-AM in Boston MA begins radio transmissions
1922 - Catcher Butch Henline is 1st NLer to hit 3 HRs in a game since 1897
1923 - 43rd US Mens Tennis: William T Tilden beats W M Johnston (64 61 64)
1923 - Bill Tilden wins US Lawn Tennis Open
1923 - Gov Walton of Oklahoma declares state of siege because of KKK terror
1926 - Failed attempt on Benito Mussolini
1928 - 400 kg Fournier-albums (forged postage stamps) burn in Geneva
1928 - Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
1928 - Cards set NL record of 18 men left on base beating Phillies 8-6
1928 - Stothard, Kalmar & Ruby's musical "Good Boy," premieres in NYC
1928 - Tich Freeman becomes the only bowler to take 300 wickets in an English cricket season.
1930 - 1st intl bridge match is held in London. US team defeats England
1931 - British naval fleet mutinies at Invergordon over pay cuts
1931 - Phila A's clinch pennant, beating Cleveland
1935 - Nuremberg Laws deprives German Jews of citizenship & makes swastika official symbol of Nazi
           Germany
1937 - WPA extends L-Taraval streetcar to SF Zoo (at Sloat Blvd)
1938 - British PM Chamberlain visits Hitler at Berchtesgarden
1938 - John Cobb sets world auto speed record at 350.2 MPH (lasts 1 day)
1938 - Only time brothers hit back-to-back HRs (Lloyd & Paul Waner, Pitts)
1940 - 3rd American Football League plays 1st game (Milw 14, Columbus 2)
1940 - Chicago Tribune sponsors Ted Lyons Day (White Sox pitcher)
1940 - Luftwaffe bombs Bristol Aeroplane Company
1940 - PM Winston Churchill visits 11 Fighter Group
1940 - Tide turns in Battle of Britain in WW II, RAF beats Luftwaffe
1941 - Nazis kill 800 Jewish women at Shkudvil Lithuania
1942 - US aircraft carrier Wasp torpedoed at Guadalcanal
1943 - Benito Mussolini forms a rival fascist government in Italy
1943 - Concentration Camp Vaivara in Estonia opens
1943 - Concentration Camp Kauwen in Lithuania opens
1944 - British bombers hit Tirpitz with Tallboy bombs
1944 - Russian troops free Sofia Bulgaria
1944 - US 1st Infantry division pushes through to Westwall
1944 - US 28th Infantry division occupies Hill 555 at Roscheid
1944 - US troops lands on Palau & Morotai
1945 - A hurricane in southern Florida and the Bahamas destroys 366 planes and 25 blimps at NAS
           Richmond.
1946 - Dodgers beat Cubs 2-0 in 5 inns, games called because of gnats
1947 - First 4 engine jet propelled fighter plane tested, Columbus, Oh
1947 - Yanks clinch pennant #15
1947 - RCA releases the 12AX7 vacuum tube.
1947 - Typhoon Kathleen hit Tone River, Saitama and Tokyo area, killing at least 1,930 and injuring
           1,750..
1948 - "Small Wonder" opens at Coronet Theater NYC for 134 performances
1948 - F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speech record of 1080 kph
1948 - WHN-AM in NY City changes call letters to WMGM
1949 - "Lone Ranger" premieres on ABC-TV
1949 - WJAC TV channel 6 in Johnstown, PA (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1949 - WJXT TV channel 4 in Jacksonville, FL (CBS) begins broadcasting
1950 - During Korean conflict, UN forces land at Inchon in South Korea
1950 - East German premier Grotewohl pleads for German reunification
1950 - For a record 6th time, NY Yankee Johnny Mize hits 3 HRs in one game
1950 - Longest game in Phila's Shribe Park, Phils beat Reds 8-7 in 19
1950 - UN lands at Inchon to drive North Korean troops out of the south
1950 - US troop land on Wolmi-Do island off of Seoul
1951 - "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" closes at Ziegfeld NYC after 740 perfs
1951 - Emile Zatopek runs world record 20k (1:01:15.8 )
1951 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Ingruentium Malorum
1952 - Braves last game in Boston's Braves Field before move to Milwaukee
1952 - European Parliament forms in Strasbourg
1952 - UN turns over Eritrea to Ethiopia
1953 - Boxing's NBA adopts 10-pt-must-scoring-system (10 pts to round winner)
1953 - KVOA TV channel 4 in Tucson, AZ (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 - WVEC TV channel 13 in Hampton-Norfolk, VA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 - WCTV TV channel 6 in Tallahassee-Thomasville, FL (CBS) begins
1957 - "Bachelor Father" with John Forsythe premieres
1957 - Adenauers CDU wins parliamentary election in West Germany
1957 - SF Seals (Pacific Coast League) play their last game
1958 - 48 die in a train crash in Elizabethport NJ
1958 - Commuter train crashes through drawbridge, killing 48 (Newark NJ)
1959 - Soviet Premier Khrushchev arrives in US to begin a 13-day visit
1960 - France spends 9 billion guilders on atomic experiments
1961 - 61st US Golf Amateur Championship won by Jack Nicklaus
1961 - Hurricane Carla strikes Texas with winds of 175 mph
1962 - "Bravo, Giovanni" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 76 perfs
1962 - Australia's 1st entry in America's Cup yacht race (US wins)
1962 - KC A's Bill Fischer sets record of 69 1/3 innings without a walk
1962 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1962 - WOKR TV channel 13 in Rochester, NY (ABC) begins broadcasting
1963 - Church bombed in Birmingham AL, kills 4 African-American girls
1963 - Alou brothers-Felipe, Matty, & Jesus-appear in SF outfield for 1 inn
1963 - Ben Bella elected 1st president of Algeria
1963 - Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Eugene Ladies' Golf Open
1963 - WNTV TV channel 29 in Greenville, SC (PBS) begins broadcasting
1964 - Beatles play at Public Auditorium in Cleveland
1964 - Final edition of socialist British newspaper "Daily Herald"
1965 - "Lost in Space" premieres
1966 - 1st British nuclear sub HMS Resolution launched
1966 - Dutch political party (D'66) forms
1966 - Gemini XI (Conrad/Gordon) returns to Earth
1966 - U.S. President Lyndon B Johnson, responding to a sniper attack at the University of Texas at
           Austin, writes a letter to the United States Congress urging the enactment of gun control
           legislation.
1967 - KPOB TV channel 15 in Poplar Bluff, MO (ABC) begins broadcasting
1968 - "Barbra Streisand: A Happening in Central Park" Show on CBS TV
1968 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Shirley Englehorn Golf Invitational
1968 - Launch of Zond 5, 1st lunar fly-around with Earth reentry
1968 - NY Zendo (Shoboji) was opened by S Nakagawa & D S Harada
1968 - WUAB TV channel 43 in Lorain-Cleveland, OH (IND) begins broadcasting
1968 - WXON TV channel 20 in Detroit, MI (IND) begins broadcasting
1968 - Probable Test flight for a manned fly-around (scooped by Apollo 8 )
1969 - Cards Steve Carlton sets record by striking out 19 NY Mets in a game
1970 - Decca awards Bing Crosby a 2nd platinum disc for selling 300 million
1970 - PLO leader Arafat threatens to make a cemetery of Jordan
1970 - Rotterdam dock strikes end
1971 - 1st broadcast of "Columbo" on NBC-TV
1972 - WMAO TV channel 23 in Greenwood, MS (PBS) begins broadcasting
1972 - A magnitude 4.5 earthquake shakes Northern Illinois.
1972 - An SAS domestic flight from Gothenburg to Stockholm was hijacked and flown to Malmö-
           Bulltofta Airport.
1973 - Dutch Guilder devalued 5%
1973 - Ohio State's Archie Griffith begins record 31 cons 100 yd rushing
1973 - Secretariat wins Marlboro Cup in world record 1:45 2/5 for 1¼ miles
1974 - Market Square Arena in Indianapolis opens
1974 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Charity Golf Classic
1974 - Air Vietnam flight 727 is hijacked, then crashes while attempting to land with 75 on board.
1975 - Mike Vail extends hitting streak ton rookie-record 23 straight game
1975 - The French département of Corse (the entire island of Corsica) is divided into two: Haute-
           Corse and Corse-du-Sud.
1976 - Ntozake Shange's "For Colored Girls Who ...," premieres in NYC
1976 - Soyuz 22 carries 2 cosmonauts into Earth orbit for 8 days
1977 - "Man of La Mancha" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 124 performances
1977 - Orioles forfeit to Blue Jays when mgr Earl Weaver pulls team off field in 5th citing hazardous
           condition (small tarpaulin on bullpen mound)
1977 - Pres Carter meets with 15 record company execs
1977 - Rock Music Award
1977 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1978 - Dodgers become 1st major league team to draw 3 million fans
1978 - Muhammad Ali beats Leon Spinks in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1978 - Yanks beat Boston 4-0, Guidry wins # 22, Yanks lead 2½ games
1979 - Red Sox Bob Watson is 1st to hit for cycle in AL & NL (Astros)
1979 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1980 - Paul McCartney releases "Temporary Secretary"
1981 - US Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves Sandra Day O'Connor
1981 - Pope John Paul II publishes encyclical "Laborem exercens" against capitalism/marxism
1981 - The John Bull becomes the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world when the
           Smithsonian Institution operates it under its own power outside Washington, DC.
1981 - Vanuatu becomes a member of the United Nations.
1982 - 1st issue of "USA Today" published by Gannett Co Inc
1982 - Israeli forces began pouring into west Beirut
1982 - Pope John Paul II receives PLO leader Yasser Arafat
1983 - Cops beat to death Michael Stewart for graffiting NYC subway
1983 - Israel premier Begin resigns
1984 - Morocco Showcase opens
1984 - Sharlene Wells (Utah), 20, crowned 58th Miss America 1985
1984 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1985 - 26th Ryder Cup: Europe beat US, 16½-11½ at The Belfry, England
1985 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
1985 - Olof Palme forms Sweden minority government
1985 - Senate judiciary committee begins Robert Bork confirmation hearings
1985 - Willie Nelson's Farm Aid concert
1985 - Yanks trade Jim Deshaies to Astros for 40-year-old Joe Niekro
1986 - 1st broadcast of "LA Law" on NBC-TV
1986 - Bomb attack in Paris, 1 dead
1988 - "Les Miserables," opens at Raimund Theatre, Vienna
1988 - Lillehammer, Norway upsets Anchorage to host 1994 Winter olympics
1988 - Museum of Moving Image in London opens
1988 - Test Cricket debut of Ian Healy, vs Pakistan at Karachi
1989 - The U.S. Congress recognizes Terry Anderson's continued captivity in Beirut.
1990 - 42nd Emmy Awards - LA Law & Murphy Brown win
1990 - Chicago White Sox Bobby Thigpen is 1st to record 50 saves
1990 - Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation
1990 - Florida lottery goes over $100,000,000
1990 - France announce it will send 4,000 troops to Persian Gulf
1991 - "Party Machine with Nia Peeples" final show
1991 - 19th du Maurier Golf Classic: Nancy Scranton
1991 - SD State freshman Marshall Faulk sets NCAA rushing record of 386 yds
1991 - US women's gymnastics team win 1st World Championships medal (silver)
1992 - Ted Weiss, despite dying on 14th, wins congressional NYC seat
1993 - Liechtenstein prince Hans-Adam II disbands parliament
1994 - "Sound of Motown," premieres in Rotterdam
1994 - Dennis Richardson sworn in as head of St Maarten
1994 - Moslem fundamentalists kidnap & behead 16 citizens in Algeria
1995 - Cards shortstop Ozzie Smith sets record of 1,554 double plays
1996 - 2nd Presidents Golf Cup: US beats Intl team 16½-15½ at Robert Jones Va
1996 - Bangladesh beat UAE by 104 runs to win the ACC Trophy Final
1996 - Karrie Webb wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
1996 - Texas Rangers retire their 1st number, Nolan Ryan's #34
1997 - Edison Intl purchases Anaheim Stadium naming rights for $50M
1997 - Oprah Winfrey announces she will continue her show through 2000
1998 - With the landmark merger of WorldCom and MCI Communications completed the day prior,
           the new MCI WorldCom opens its doors for business.
2000 - Opening ceremony of the XXVII Olympics in Sydney, Australia
2004 - NHL commissioner Gary Bettman announces a lockout of the players union and cessation of
           operations by the NHL head office.
2012 - Japan announces that it will phase out nuclear energy by the 2030s

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 15, 2013, 09:02:44 AM

This Day in History for 15th September


Famous Weddings

1949 - Figure skater and actress Sonja Henie (36) weds Winthrop Gardner Jr
1957 - Country music legend Patsy Cline (25) weds linotype operator Charles Dick (23) in
           Winchester, England
1991 - NBA star Magic Johnson marries Earletha "Cookie" Kelly
2012 - "The Black Keys" drummer Patrick Carney (32) weds Emily Ward in Nashville, Tennessee
2012 - Singer Annie Lennox (57) weds Harvard-educated gynecologist Mitch Besser (57) on a private
           boat on the Thames River in London

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 15, 2013, 09:09:18 AM

This Day in History for 15th September


Famous Birthdays

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Italian Explorer Marco Polo (1254)          Novelist Agatha Christie (1890)              Hall of Fame NFL Quarterback
                                                                                                                                 Dan Marino (1961)


973 - Al-Biruni, mathematician (d. 1048)
1254 - Marco Polo, Venice, Italian explorer (Il Milione), (d. 1324)
1505 - Maria, queen of Hungary/wife of Louis II/governess of Neth (1531-55)
1533 - Catherine of Austria, queen consort of Poland and Lithuania (d. 1572)
1572 - Erasmus Widmann, composer
1580 - Charles Annibal Fabrot, French lawyer (d. 1659)
1586 - Cristobal de Isla Diego, composer
1613 - François de La Rochefoucauld, French writer (d. 1680)
1649 - Titus Oates, English minister and plotter (d. 1705)
1666 - Princess Sophia Dorothea of Celle (d. 1726)
1685 - Gottfried Kirkhoff, composer
1690 - Ignazio Prota, composer
1736 - Jean-Sylvain, French historian (History of France)
1744 - Georg Ritschel, composer
1760 - Bogislav Friedrich Emanuel von Tauentzien, Prussian general of the Napoleonic Wars (d. 1824)
1764 - Friedrich Heine, composer
1764 - Paolo Francesco Parenti, composer
1789 - James Fenimore Cooper, 1st major US novelist (Last of Mohicans)
1808 - Louis Clapisson, composer
1811 - Jan Nepomuk Skroup, composer
1811 - Willem J van Zeggelen, Dutch author
1816 - Edward Wolff, composer
1828 - Aleksandr Mikhailovich Butlerov, Russian chemist (d. 1886)
1830 - Jose de la Cruz Porfirio Diaz, president of Mexico (1877-1911)
1834 - Heinrich von Treitschke, German historian/parliament member
1837 - Leo van Gheluwe, composer
1843 - Willem F Mauritius HK, prince of Orange/son of king Willem III
1851 - Emilia Pardo Bazan, Spanish countess/writer (Sirena Negra)
1851 - Josif Marinkovic, composer
1852 - Jan E Matzeliger, Surinamese inventor (shoe lacing machine)
1852 - Edward Bouchet, American physicist (d. 1918)
1857 - William Howard Taft, Cin, (R) 27th pres (1909-13), chief justice
1858 - Charles E Vicomte de Foucauld, French explorer/hermit
1858 - Jeno Hubay, composer
1860 - Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya, Indian engineer (d. 1962)
1863 - Horatio William Parker, composer
1865 - Henri [Lucien] Capitant, French lawyer (Loi Falcidie)
1865 - Nicolaus Adriani, linguist (Middle-Celebes languages)
1868 - Dirk B Nanninga, Dutch painter
1876 - Bruno Walter, [B W Schlesinger], Berlin Germany, conductor (NY Phil)
1876 - Frank E Gannett, Rochester, newspaper publisher (Gannett)
1876 - Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Indian novelist (d. 1938)
1877 - Jakob Ehrlich, Austrian politician and zionist (d. 1938)
1879 - Joseph Lyons, 10th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1939)
1881 - Ettore Arco Isidoro Bugatti, Milan, race car builder (Amaz Bugattis)
1883 - Esteban Terradas i Illa, Spanish mathematician and engineer (d. 1950)
1884 - Floro Manuel Ugarte, composer
1887 - Jean/Hans Arp, French/Swiss sculptor, artist and poet
1887 - Carlos Dávila, former President of Chile (d. 1955)
1888 - Antonio Ascari, Italian racing driver (d. 1925)
1889 - Robert Benchley, Worcester MA, humorist (My 10 Years in a Quandary)
1890 - Agatha Christie, Torquay, Devon, mystery writer (Murder on Orient Express), (d. 1976)
1890 - Claude McKaye, Jamaica/US author (Songs of Jamaica, Banjo)
1890 - Frank Martin, Geneva Switzerland, composer (In Terra Fax)
1892 - Silpa Bhirasri, Italian sculptor (d. 1962)
1894 - Jean Renoir, French director (Madame Bovary, Nana, Grand Illusion)
1894 - Oskar Klein, Swedish physicist (d. 1977)
1895 - Magda Lupescu, consort of King Carol II of Romania (d. 1977)
1895 - Charles "Chic" Harley, American football player (d. 1974)
1896 - Tadeusz Szeligowski, composer
1898 - John J Slauerhoff, Dutch ship's doctor/writer/poet (El Dorado)
1899 - Milton S Eisenhower, Dwight's brother/pres (Pennsylvania State)
1900 - Larry Kent, CA, director (High Stakes)
1901 - Sir Donald Bailey, British engineer (d. 1985)
1902 - Magda [Helena] Lupescu, wife of King Carol II of Romania
1903 - Roy Acuff, Maynardville Tenn, country musician (Hee Haw)
1904 - Tom Conway, Russia, actor (Mark Saber, Betty Hutton Show)
1904 - Umberto II, van Piemonte, king of Italy (1946)
1906 - Kathryn Murray, Jersey City NJ, dancer (Arthur Murray Dance Party)
1906 - Penny Singleton, Phila Pa, voice (Jane Jetsons)/actress (Blondie)
1907 - Fay Wray, Alberta Canada, actress-King Kong's main squeeze
1907 - Jack Bailey, Hampton Iowa, TV host (Queen for a Day)
1908 - Gerd Gaiser, German writer (Ship in the Mountain)
1908 - Penny Singleton, American actress (d. 2003)
1909 - Carlos Estrada, composer
1909 - Jean Batten, NZ air pioneer (1st woman to fly solo Australia-
1909 - Phil Arnold, NJ, actor (Errand Boy, Stud Lonigan, Damn Yankees)
1909 - C.N.Annadurai, Former Chief Minister of Tamilnadu
1910 - George D Kilpatrick, Canadian/British bible scholar
1910 - Richard Baerlein, racing writer
1911 - Silas Hogan, blues singer/guitarist
1911 - Karsten Solheim, Norwegian-born American golf entrepreneur (d. 2000)
1912 - Gisela Hernandez Gonzalo, composer
1913 - Hans Filbinger, German politician (CDU)
1913 - Henry Dreyfus Brant, Montreal Canada, composer (Great American Goot)
1913 - John Mitchell, Nixon's attorney general who went to jail
1913 - Roger "Ram" Ramirez, jazz pianist/composer
1914 - Creighton Abrams, US, army general (Vietnam War)
1914 - Jens Otto Krag, premier of Denmark (1962-68, 71-72)
1914 - Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentine writer (d. 1999)
1915 - Helmut Schoen, football coach
1915 - John Conte, Plamer Mass, actor (Mantovani)
1915 - Ismail Yasin, Egyptian comedian and actor (d. 1972)
1916 - Margaret Lockwood, Karachi India, actress (Lady Vanishes)
1917 - Richard Arnell, composer
1918 - Nipsey Russell, American comedian (d. 2005)
1919 - Fausto Coppi, Italian bicylist (world record 45,798 km)
1919 - Nelson Gidding, American screenwriter (d. 2004)
1921 - Jan Frank Fischer, composer
1921 - Norma MacMillan, Canadian actress (d. 2001)
1922 - Jackie Cooper, Los Angeles, California, American actor and director (Skippy, Superman)
1922 - Bob Anderson, English Olympic Fencer, renowned film fight choreographer (Star Wars, Lord
           of the Rings) (d.2012)
1923 - Anton Heiller, composer
1924 - Bobby Short, Danville Ill, singer/pianist (Carlisle Hotel)
1924 - Lucebert, Dutch poet/painter/cartoonist (Boozz, PC Hooft prize 1967)
1925 - Forrest Compton, Reading Pa, actor (Gomer Pyle USMC, Edge of Night)
1925 - Carlo Rambaldi, Vigarano Mainarda, Italy, Special effects artist (Alien, E.T.), (d. 2012)
1926 - Jean-Pierre Serre, French mathematician
1926 - Shohei Imamura, Japanese film director (d. 2006)
1926 - Edward Derwinski, Chicago, Illinois, American congressman for Chicago 1959-83, first
           Secretary of Veteran Affairs 1989-1992
1927 - Norm Crosby, Boston Mass, comedian/double talker (Liar's Club)
1927 - David Stove, Australian philosopher, (d. 1994)
1928 - Rod Robbie, Poole, England, Canadian architect and planner (Roger's Centre/ Sky Dome,
           Toronto), (d. 2012)
1929 - Murray Gell-Mann, physicist who predicted quarks
1929 - Eva Burrows, the 13th General of The Salvation Army
1933 - Henry Darrow, NYC, actor (Harry O, New Dick Van Dyke Show)
1933 - Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Spanish conductor
1934 - Fred Nile, Australian politician
1935 - Jacques d'Ancona, journalist/TV host (Sound-Mix Show)
1936 - Ashley J Cooper, tennis champ (US Open-1957)
1937 - Cynthia Anzolut, Harrisburg PA, LPGA golfer
1937 - Robert Lucas, Jr., American economist, Nobel laureate
1937 - Fernando de la Rúa, 51st President of Argentina
1938 - Gaylord Perry, baseball player (1972 AL Cy Young winner)
1938 - Rafael H Osuna, tennis champ (US Open - 1963)
1939 - Breyten Breytenbach, South African poet/painter
1940 - Frank Linzy, baseball player
1940 - Merlin Olsen, UT, NFL tackle (Rams)/sportscaster/actor (Father Murphy)
1940 - Norman [Richard] Spinrad, US, sci-fi author (Child of Fortune)
1941 - Miroslav Hermazewski, Poland, cosmonaut (Soyuz 30)
1941 - Flórián Albert, Hungarian footballer
1941 - Mirosław Hermaszewski, Polish cosmonaut
1941 - Yuri Norstein, Russian animator
1942 - Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, US, sci-fi author (Hotel Transylvania)
1942 - Phil Harris, English carpet manufacturer/multi-millionaire
1942 - Lee Dorman, American Bassist
1944 - Sotirios Hatzigakis, Greek politician
1945 - Jessye Norman, US, opera singer (Carmen)
1945 - Carmen Maura, Spanish actress
1945 - Ron Shelton, American film director
1946 - Fighting Mack, [Edwin Alberto], Antillian welterweight boxer
1946 - Oliver Stone, NYC, director (Wall St, Good Morning Vietnam, Platoon)
1946 - Tommy Lee Jones, actor (Executioner's Song, Bloody Monday, Fugitive)
1946 - Howard Waldrop, American science fiction author
1948 - Suzyn Waldman, American Sportscaster
1949 - Joe Barton, Waco, Texas, American politician (U.S. House of Representatives since 1985)
1951 - Johan Neeskens, Dutch footballer
1952 - Kelly Keagy, rock vocalist (Night Ranger)
1953 - Bruce Heuchan, Kingston Ont, Canadian Tour golfer (1992 Alberta-7th)
1953 - Jerry Page, golfer (largest PGA victory margin)
1953 - Pat Barrett, rocker (Crew Cuts)
1954 - 7th marquess of Bristol, English large landowner/multi-millionaire
1954 - Hrant Dink, Turkish-Armenian newspaper editor (d. 2007)
1955 - Mac Sweeney, (Rep-R-TX, 1985- )
1955 - Željka Antunović, Croatian politician
1955 - Renzo Rosso, Italian clothing designer
1956 - Jaki Graham, British personality
1956 - Ned Rothenberg, composer
1956 - Tawny Elaine Godin Schneider, Maine, Miss America (76)/(Eye on Hollywood)
1956 - Maggie Reilly, Scottish folk singer
1957 - Fulton Peter Allem, Kroonstad South Africa, PGA golfer (1993 SW Bell)
1958 - Lesley Player, Redhill England, Sarah Fergusson's father's lover
1958 - Wendie Jo Sperber, Hollywood, California, American actress (Wanna Hold Your Hand, Bossom
           Buddies)
1958 - Dr. Know, American guitarist (Bad Brains)
1960 - Scott Thompson Baker, Minneapolis, actor (Gen Hosp, All My Children)
1960 - Kevin Allen, Welsh actor
1961 - Dan Marino, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, NFL quarterback (Miami Dolphins)
1962 - Aubrey Matthews, NFL wide receiver (Detroit Lions)
1962 - Earnest Byner, NFL running back (Cleveland Browns)
1962 - Patricia "Patty" Shea, Belmont NY, field hockey goalie (Olympics-96)
1962 - Dina Lohan, American actress and reality television star, mother of Lindsay Lohan
1964 - Andrew Landenberger, Australian tornado yachter (Oly-bronze-92, 96)
1964 - Robert Farley, Ndola Zambia, Australasia golfer
1964 - Ryoko Kikuchi, Zama City, Kanagawa, Japanese cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-11) and reporter
1964 - Róbert Fico, Slovak Prime minister
1964 - Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein, former guitarist for horror punk band The Misfits
1965 - Rob Whitlock, Newcastle NSW, Australasia golfer
1966 - Sherman Douglas, NBA guard (NJ Nets)
1967 - Dexter Carter, NFL running back (SF 49ers)
1967 - Jerry Dixon, heavy metal bassist (Warrant-Cherry Pie)
1968 - Danny Nucci, actor (Gabriel Ortega-Falcon Crest)
1968 - Michael Puschacher, hockey goalie (Team Austria 1998)
1968 - Rich Robertson, Nacogdoches TX, pitcher (Minnesota Twins)
1969 - KG, rocker (Naughty by Nature)
1969 - Jim Curtiss, American writer
1969 - Jeffrey Schwarz, American film director/producer
1970 - Danny Ellis, Orlando Fla, golfer (All-American-1990, 92, 93)
1971 - Chad Bratzke, NFL defensive end (NY Giants)
1971 - Crystal McLaurin-Coney, Miss USA-North Carolina (1997)
1971 - Josh Charles, actor (Crossing the Bridge, Cooperstown)
1971 - Myron Bell, NFL safety (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1971 - Wayne Ferreira, Johannesburg South Africa, tennis star (Munich 1995)
1971 - Will Shields, NFL guard (KC Chiefs)
1971 - Ben Wallers, English musician and songwriter (Country Teasers)
1972 - Amanda Lynn Granrud, Great Falls Montana, Miss America-Montana (1996)
1972 - Jimmy Carr, English comedian
1972 - Kit Chan, Singaporean singer
1972 - Princess Letizia of Spain
1973 - Julie Cox, English actress
1974 - Jamie Stevens, German singer
1975 - Tom Dolan, US, 400m freestyle/200m/400m medley swimmer (Oly-gold-96)
1975 - Tsutsumi Otomo, hockey forward (Team Japan 1998)
1976 - Paul Thomson, Scottish drummer (Franz Ferdinand)
1976 - Matt Thornton, American baseball player
1977 - Angela Aki, Japanese singer-songwriter
1977 - Sophie Dahl, English model
1977 - Leander Jordan, National Football League offensive lineman
1977 - Marisa Ramirez, American actress
1977 - Jason Terry, American basketball player
1977 - Tom Hardy, British actor
1978 - Amanda Rochelle Penix, Miss Oklahoma Teen USA (1997)
1978 - Eiður Guðjohnsen, Icelandic footballer
1979 - Dave Annable, American actor
1979 - Amy Davidson, American actress
1979 - Carlos Ruiz, Guatemalan soccer player
1979 - Patrick Marleau, Canadian ice hockey player
1980 - David Diehl, American football player
1980 - Jolin Tsai, Taiwanese pop singer
1980 - Mike Dunleavy, Jr., American basketball player
1983 - Luke Hochevar, American baseball player
1984 - Henry Charles Albert David, Prince of Wales, 3rd in British succession
1986 - Heidi Montag, American reality television star
1987 - Aly Cissokho, French football (soccer) player
1988 - Chelsea Staub, American actress
1989 - Chetan Ramlu, New Zealand musician

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 15, 2013, 09:12:27 AM

This Day in History for 15th September


Famous Deaths

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Novelist Thomas Wolfe (1938)                Guitarist Johnny Ramone (2004)


9 - Publius Quinctilius Varus, Roman viceroy of Syria, suicide at 59
668 - Constans II, Byzantine emperor (b. 630)
866 - Robert the Strong, Margrave of Neustria
921 - Ludmilla, wife of 1st christian Bohemian king Borijov I/saint, dies
928 - Louis III, the Blind Proveneaals king of Lombardije/Germany, dies at 48
1231 - Louis I, Duke of Wittelsbach, dies
1352 - Ewostatewos, Ethiopian monk and religious leader (b. 1273)
1500 - John Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury
1525 - John Pistorius, church reformer, burned at the stake
1596 - Leonhard Rauwolf, German physician and botanist (b. 1535 or 1540)
1598 - Hidejoshi, [Hijoshi], Japanese general strategist/kampaku, dies
1613 - Thomas Overbury, English writer (b. 1581)
1643 - Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork, Irish politician (b. 1566)
1649 - John Floyd, English Jesuit preacher (b. 1572)
1654 - Cornelis Bicker, merchant/mayor of Amsterdam, dies at 61
1700 - André Le Nôtre, French landscape architect (b. 1613)
1701 - Edmé Boursault, French writer (b. 1638)
1707 - George Stepney, English poet and diplomat (b. 1663)
1747 - Johann Gotthilf Ziegler, composer, dies at 59
1750 - Charles Theodore Pachelbel, composer, dies at 59
1794 - Abraham Clark, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1725)
1803 - Gian Francesco Albani, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1719)
1830 - William Huskisson, first rail fatality (b. 1770)
1835 - Sarah Knox Taylor, wife of Jefferson Davis (b. 1814)
1840 - Franz Xaver Pechacek, composer, dies at 47
1841 - Alessandro Rolla, composer, dies at 84
1842 - Pierre MF de Sales Baillot, French violinist/composer, dies at 70
1842 - José Francisco Morazán Quezada, President of The Federal Republic of Central America (b.
           1792)
1859 - John LA Luyten, Catholic Member of Dutch 2nd parliament, dies at 72
1859 - Isambard Kingdom Brunel, British engineer (b. 1806)
1864 - John Hanning Speke, British explorer (b. 1827)
1875 - Jeanne-Louise Farrenc, composer, dies at 71
1880 - William Hauser, composer, dies at 67
1883 - Joseph AF Plateau, Belgium physicist (Blue Moon), dies
1885 - Juliusz Zarebski, composer, dies at 31
1885 - Jumbo, P. T. Barnum's circus elephant (hit by a train)
1893 - Thomas Hawksley, English civil engineer (b. 1807)
1895 - Jan Kleczynski, composer, dies at 58
1914 - Jacobus Herculas de la Rey, [Uncle Chose], Boer general, dies at 66
1916 - Isidore Edouard Legouix, composer, dies at 82
1921 - Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, Russ baron/general, dies
1923 - Sayed Darwish, composer, dies at 31
1924 - Anthony Johnson Showalter, composer, dies at 66
1927 - Herman Gorter, socialist/poet (Mai, Pan), dies at 62
1929 - Sara Amsel, Indon/Dutch actress/wife of Carel van Hoisted, dies at 58
1930 - Milton Sills, American actor (b. 1882)
1932 - Charles Hutchison Gabriel, composer, dies at 76
1934 - David Vaughan Thomas, composer, dies at 61
1936 - Bela Anton Szabados, composer, dies at 69
1937 - Clifford Heatherley, actress (For Love or Money, Cash), dies at 48
1938 - Thomas Wolfe, US writer (Enigma), dies at 37
1940 - Dick Ket, painter/cartoonist, dies at 37
1942 - Jack Singer, US war reporter (Wasp), dies
1942 - Joe Travers, cricketer (Australian SLA, in only Test innings), dies
1943 - Hans Ulrich Humpert, composer, dies at 2
1945 - Anton Friedrich Wilhelm von Webern, Austrian composer, dies at 61
1945 - André Tardieu, Prime Minister of France (b. 1876)
1950 - Vojtech Rihovsky, composer, dies at 79
1951 - Jacinto Guerrero, composer, dies at 56
1953 - Jacques Thibaud, French violinist, dies
1956 - Henry Clough-Leiter, composer, dies at 82
1963 - Fred Hillebrand, actor (Martin Kane), dies at 69
1964 - Robert Dower, cricketer (Test for South Africa), dies
1965 - Steve Brown, American musician (b. 1890)
1967 - Eva McKenzie, sister of Ida Mae/actress (Virtuous Husband), dies at 78
1967 - Hans Haug, composer, dies at 67
1972 - Ulvi Cemal Erkin, composer, dies at 66
1972 - Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1887)
1973 - Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden (b. 1882)
1973 - Victor Jara, Chilean musician (b. 1941)
1978 - Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft builder, dies at 80
1978 - Robert Cliche, French Canadian politician and judge (b. 1921)
1979 - Tommy Leonetti, singer/actor (Gomer Pyle USMC), dies at 50
1980 - Bill Evans, US jazz pianist, dies of a bleeding ulcer at 51
1981 - Sara Haden, actress (A Family Affair), dies at 83
1981 - Harold Bennett, English actor (b. 1899)
1982 - Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, Iran's former foreign minister, executed in Iran
1983 - LeRoy Prinz, choreographer, dies at 88
1983 - Willie Bobo, jazz drummer (Cos), dies at 49
1983 - Prince Far I, reggae deejay, producer and Rastafarian
1984 - Jack Ikin, cricketer (England opener 1946-55), dies
1986 - Virginia Gregg, actress (Little Women), dies at 69
1987 - Bob Tadema Sporry, author, dies at 75
1987 - Steven Tuomi, murder victim of Jeffery Dahmer (b. 1963)
1989 - Harry Cave, cricketer (New Zealand captain 1955-56), dies
1989 - Robert Penn Warren, American writer (b. 1905)
1990 - G M J Veldkamp, Dutch politician (CDA), dies
1990 - Valentin Ignatyevich Filatyev, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 60
1991 - Allan Sobek, dancer, dies
1991 - Andre Baruch, Radio/TV announcer dies at 83
1991 - John Hoyt, actor (My Favorite Brunette), dies of lung cancer at 87
1992 - Walter B Jones, (Rep-D-NC, 1966-92), dies at 79
1993 - Frits Noske, musicologist (Tie Musikwerk), dies at 72
1993 - Herman Meyer, Germanist (Deutsche Dichtung), dies at 82
1994 - Alain Berdarin, founder/owner of "Crazy Horse Saloon," suicide at 78
1994 - Haywood Frank Henry, sax player, dies at 81
1994 - Michael Joyce, stage Manager, dies at 48
1995 - Marguerite Fawdry, museum curator, dies at 83
1995 - Michio Watanabe, politician, dies at 72
1995 - Sam McCluskie, trade unionist, dies at 63
1996 - Brother Eugene Gerard Salois, teacher, dies at 76
1996 - George Scheuer, writer/journalist, dies at 80
1996 - Hilary Preston, editor, dies at 88
1996 - Joan Perry Cohn Harvey, actress (Hands of a Stranger), dies at 85
1996 - Peter Michael Grayson, showman, dies at 70
2000 - Vincent Canby, American movie critic (b. 1924)
2003 - Jack Brymer, English clarinetist (b. 1915)
2003 - Josef Hirsal, Czech novelist (b. 1920)
2004 - Johnny Ramone, American lead guitarist of the punk rock band The Ramones
2004 - Walter Stewart, Canadian journalist (b. 1931)
2005 - Sidney Luft, American film director (b. 1915)
2006 - Raymond Baxter, British television presenter (b. 1922)
2006 - Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist and writer (b. 1929)
2006 - Pablo Santos, Mexican actor (b. 1987)
2007 - Colin McRae, Scottish rally driver (b. 1968)
2007 - Aldemaro Romero, Venezuelan musician (b. 1928)
2007 - Brett Somers, Canadian-born American actress and Match Game panelist (b. 1924)
2008 - Richard Wright, English singer/songwriter (Pink Floyd), dies of cancer at 65
2010 - Arrow, Montserratian soca musician (b. 1949)
2011 - Frances Bay, Canadian actress (b. 1919)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 16, 2013, 09:22:21 AM

This Day in History for 16th September


Historical Events

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Physician and Explorer                            Absolute monarch Nicholas II                32nd US President
David Livingstone                                                                                                 Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Dictator of Nazi Germany                             NFL Running Back and                     Singer-Songwriter Bob Dylan
Adolf Hitler                                           Convicted Criminal OJ Simpson

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Actor/Body Builder/Politician                US President George H. W. Bush                       Actress Meg Ryan
Arnold Schwarzenegger 


1400 - Owain Glyndŵr is declared Prince of Wales by his followers.
1575 - King Johan Casimir of Palts promises military aid to hugenots
1597 - French troops chase away Albrecht of Austria
1630 - Mass village of Shawmut changes name to Boston
1652 - Spanish troops occupy Dunkerk
1654 - Russian troops occupy Smolensk on Poland
1662 - Flamsteed sees solar eclipse, 1st known astronomical observation
1666 - "Messiah" Sjabtai Tswi becomes Islamiet
1668 - King John II Casimir of Poland resigns, flees to France
1701 - James Francis Edward Stuart, sometimes called the "Old Pretender", becomes the Jacobite
           claimant to the thrones of England and Scotland.
1702 - Emperor Leopold I declares war on France, Cologne & Bavaria
1729 - Willem KH Friso installed as viceroy of Groningen
1747 - French troops occupy Bergen on Zoom
1782 - Great Seal of US used for 1st time
1795 - British capture Capetown South Africa
1810 - Mexico issues Grito de Dolores, which called for the end of Spanish rule Mexican
           Independence Day celebrates this event
1812 - Fire of Moscow
1830 - Oliver Wendell Holmes writes "Old Ironsides"
1847 - Shakespeare Birthplace Trust buys bard's birthplace in Stratford-upon-Avon
1848 - Slavery abolished in all French territories
1857 - Mexican constitution of force (fiercely attacked by Pope Pius IX)
1857 - Typesetting machine patent
1858 - 1st overland mail for California
1859 - Lake Nyasa, which forms Malawi's boundary with Tanzania & Mozambique discovered by
           British explorer David Livingstone
1861 - Battle of Princeton WV
1861 - British Post Office Savings Banks opens
1862 - Gen Bragg's army surrounds 4,000 federals at Munfordville, KY
1863 - Robert College of Istanbul-Turkey, the first American educational institution outside the
           United States, is founded by Christopher Robert, an American philanthropist.
1864 - Battle of Coggin's Point, Virginia (Hampton-Rosser Cattle Raid)
1867 - Ottawa Rough Riders & Senators play Canadian Football game
1873 - German troops leave France
1885 - Puritan (US) beats Genesta (England) in 6th running of America's Cup
1890 - Newswriter George Whitney Calhoun names Green Bay team Packers
1892 - Amsterdam swim club renamed "The Y"
1893 - Cherokee Strip, Oklahoma opens white settlement homesteaders
1901 - Alturas, California, is incorporated as the only city in Modoc County.
1906 - Kaarlo Nieminen wins 1st Finnish marathon
1906 - Roald Amundsen discovers Magnetic South Pole
1908 - Carriage-maker, William Durant, founded General Motors Corp
1908 - William Crapo Durant incorporates General Motors in Janesville Wisc
1913 - 1000s of women demonstrate for Dutch female suffrage
1915 - Czar Nicolas II adjourns 4th Duma
1915 - US takes control of customs & finances of Haiti for 10 years
1919 - American Legion incorporated by an act of Congress
1919 - Dutch Ruether beats Giants 4-3 to clinch Cincinnati 1st NL pennant
1920 - Bomb explosion in Wall Street, kills 30
1922 - 42nd US Mens Tennis: Bill Tilden beats W M Johnston (46 36 62 63 64)
1922 - Turkish troops chase Greeks out of Asia
1924 - Cardinal Jim Bottomley bats in 12 RBIs in 1 game
1926 - -22] Hurricane in Florida & Alabama, kills 372
1926 - Italian-Romanian peace treaty signed
1926 - Philip Dunning & George Abbott's "Broadway," premieres in NYC
1926 - St Louis Cards beat Phillies 23-3
1927 - Rene Lacoste beats Bill Tilden for US Lawn Tennis Association title
1928 - Hurricane hits West Palm Beach-Lake Okeechobee Florida; 3,000 die
1929 - Police shoots at strikers at Maastricht, 2 killed
1930 - Phillies trailing 10-5, score 5 in 9th, then Pirates score 4 in top of 10th, so Phillies score 5 in
           bottom of 10th to win 15-14
1931 - Blimp is moored to Empire State Building (NYC)
1931 - St Louis Cards repeat as NL champions with a 6-3 win over Phillies
1932 - 30.8 cm rainfall at Westerly, Rhode Island (state record)
1938 - George E T Eyston sets world auto speed record at 357.5 MPH
1939 - 53rd US Womens Tennis: Alice Marble beats Helen Hull Jacobs (60 810 64)
1939 - 59th US Mens Tennis: Robert L Riggs beats S Welby van Horn (64 62 64)
1939 - NY Yankees clinch their 11th & 4th successive pennant
1940 - Dutch SS forms
1940 - FDR signs Selective Training & Service Act (1st peacetime draft)
1940 - Leo Durocher suspended from Ebbetts Field for "inciting a riot"
1940 - Luftwaffe attacks center of London
1940 - Samuel T Rayburn of Tx elected speaker of House
1940 - St Louis Browns Johnny Lucadello is 2nd to HR from each side of plate
1941 - German armour troops surround Kiev Ukraine
1941 - Hitler orders for every dead German 100 Yugoslavians to be killed
1941 - Jews of Vilna Poland confined to Ghetto
1942 - Japanese attack on Port Moresby repelled
1943 - Montgomery's 8th army contacts invasion - arm forces at Salerno
1943 - Soviet army under general Vatutin reconquer Romny
1945 - Barometric pressure at 856 mb (25.55") off Okinawa (record low)
1947 - John Cobb sets world auto speed record at 394.2 MPH
1947 - Typhoon Kathleen hit Saitama, Tokyo and Tone River erea, at least 1,930 killed.
1948 - "Heaven on Earth" opens at Century Theater NYC for 12 performances
1948 - "Mr Strauss Goes to Boston" closes at Century NYC after 12 perfs
1949 - KABC TV channel 7 in Los Angeles, CA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1950 - Cleveland Browns (formerly AAFC) play 1st NFL game, beat Phila 35-10)
1950 - Viet Minh-offensive against French bases in Vietnam
1951 - 6th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Betsy Rawls
1951 - NL umpire Frank Dascoli clears the Dogers bench ejecting 15 players
1953 - AL approves St Louis Browns move to become Baltimore Orioles
1954 - CKLW TV channel 9 in Windsor, ON (CBC) begins broadcasting
1955 - Bauer & Berra homer in 9th beating Red Sox 5-4 taking over 1st
1955 - US Auto Club forms to oversee 4 major auto reacing categories
1955 - Yankee Mickey Mantle pulls a hamstring muscle running out a bunt
1956 - Marlene Bauer wins LPGA Clock Golf Open
1957 - Coup in Thailand (Premier Songgram deposed)
1957 - LA City Council approves 300-acre site in Chavez Ravine for Dodgers
1959 - French President Charles de Gaulle recognizes Algerian right of self determination
1960 - Amos Alonzo Stagg retires as a football coach at 98
1960 - Mil Brave Warren Spahn no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 4-0
1961 - CDU loses West German election
1961 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1961 - WLKY TV channel 32 in Louisville, KY (ABC) begins broadcasting
1962 - Brian Kilby wins marathon: (2:23:18.8 )
1962 - Gerda Kroon runs European record 800 m in 2:02.8
1962 - Public TV channel 13 begins in NYC
1962 - Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Sacramento Golf Open
1962 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1963 - "Outer Limits" premieres on ABC-TV
1963 - Malaysia formed from Malaya, Singapore, Br No Borneo & Sarawak
1963 - WVAN TV channel 9 in Savannah, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1964 - "Shindig" premieres on ABC-TV
1965 - Boston Red Sox Dave Morehead no-hits Cleve Indians, 2-0
1965 - Sobibor trial opens in Hagen West Germany
1966 - Metropolitan Opera opens at NY's Lincoln Center
1967 - Anni Pede runs female world record marathon (3:07:26)
1967 - KPAZ TV channel 21 in Phoenix, AZ (IND) begins broadcasting
1967 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1968 - KLNI (now KADN) TV channel 15 in Lafayette, LA (IND) begins
1968 - Richard Nixon appears on "Laugh-in"
1970 - King Hussein of Jordan forms military government
1971 - 6 Ku Klux Klansmen arrested in connection with bombing of 10 school buses
1971 - West German chancellor Willy Brandt meets with Soviet president Brezhnev
1972 - 1st TV series about mixed marriage-Bridgit Loves Bernie
1972 - Penny Marshall appears on Bob Newhart Show in "Fly Unfriendly Skies"
1973 - "Desert Song" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 15 performances
1973 - Buff Bill OJ Simpson rushes 250 yards (2 TDs), beating NE Pats 31-13
1973 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Southgate Ladies Golf Open
1974 - BART begins regular transbay service
1974 - Bob Dylan records Blood on the Tracks
1974 - Pres Ford announces conditional amnesty for US Vietnam War deserters
1974 - US General Haig becomes NATO supreme commander in Europe
1975 - Papua New Guinea gains independence from Australia (National Day)
1975 - Pirates beat Cubs 22-0, Rennie Stennett is 3rd to go 7 for 7
1975 - Rennie Stennett is 2nd to hit 7-for-7 in a 9-inning game
1975 - The first prototype of the MiG-31 interceptor makes its maiden flight.
1976 - Egypt president Sadat re-elected
1976 - American Episcopal Church approves ordination of women as priests & bishop
1976 - Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20 people from the trolleybus that had fallen into Erevan
           reservoir.
1977 - 90 minute pilot of "Logan's Run" premieres on TV
1977 - Ringo releases "Drowning in Sea of Love"
1977 - Seattle beats Royals, 4-1, to end KC's winning streak at 16 games
1978 - 25,000 die in 7.7 earthquake in Tabar Iran
1978 - Filming on Monty Python's Life of Brian, begins
1978 - Grateful Dead perform in Cairo Egypt
1978 - Yanks beat Red Sox for 6th time in 2 weeks, 3-2
1979 - 23rd Ryder Cup: US wins, 17-11 at The Greenbrier (White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia,
           US)
1979 - Catfish Hunter Day at Yankee Stadium
1979 - Coup in Afghanistan under Hafizullah Amin
1979 - KC's Willie Wilson hits 5th inside-the-park HR (most since 1925)
1979 - Nancy Lopez/JoAnn Washam wins Portland- Ping Team Golf Championship
1979 - USSR performs nuclear test
1981 - 1st broadcast of "Miami Vice" on NBC-TV
1982 - Massacre of 1000+ Palestinian refugees at Chatila & Sabra begins
1983 - Arnold Schwarzenegger becomes a US citizen
1984 - "Miami Vice" premieres
1984 - Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation
1984 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
1986 - Fire in Kinross gold mine, Transvaal South Africa, 177 killed
1987 - Calif's Bob Boone catches record 1,919th major league game
1987 - NASA launches space vehicle S-209
1987 - NY's WNET-TV channel 13 begins round clock broadcasting
1987 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1988 - Cin Reds Tom Browning pitches a perfect game, beats Dodgers, 1-0
1988 - Fish leaves rock group Marillion
1988 - Javed Miandad completes 211, his 5th Test Cricket double, v Australia
1988 - Jury awards Valerie Harper $1.6 M in dispute over TV series
1988 - Tom Browning of Cincinnati Reds pitches a perfect game against LA
1989 - Debbye Turner (Mont), 23, crowned 63rd Miss America 1990
1990 - 42nd Emmy Awards: LA Law, Murphy Brown, Peter Falk & Patricia Wettig
1990 - Dennis Quaid & Meg Ryan wed
1990 - Iraq televises an 8 minute uncensored speech from George Bush
1990 - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
1990 - Pirate Radio NY International begins transmissions on WWCR
1991 - Atlanta's Otis Nixon suspended for rest of 1991 due to cocaine
1991 - US trial of Panamanian leader Noriega begins
1991 - Norm Charlton suspended for 7 days for intentionally hitting Steve Scioscia with a pitch
1992 - "Les Miserables," opens at Nuevo Apolo, Madrid
1992 - 900 die in flood in Pakistan
1992 - FCC votes to allow competition for local phone service
1993 - Minnesota Twins Dave Winfield, is 19th to get 3,000 hits
1994 - Fire Dept puts out smokey electrical fire in White House
1995 - Greg Maddux of Braves sets record of 17 consecutive road victory
1995 - Shawntel Smith (Okla), 24, crowned 69th Miss America 1996
1996 - 1st one-day international in Canada, India v Pakistan at Toronto
1996 - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Panama City FL on WTBB 97.7 FM
1996 - Paul Molitor of Twins is 21st player to reach 3,000 hits
1996 - Space Shuttle STS 79 (Atlantis 17), launches into space
1997 - ABL MVP Nikki McCray signs with WNBA
1997 - Apple Computer Inc names co-founder Steve Jobs temporary CEO
1997 - Mark McGwire signs with the St Louis Cards for $26M
2000 - Sammy Sosa's becomes the second player to hit 50 or more home runs in three consecutive
           years, joining Mark McGwire
2005 - Camorra boss Paolo Di Lauro is arrested in Naples.
2007 - One-Two-GO Airlines Flight 269 carrying 128 crew and passengers crashes in Thailand killing
           89 people.
2008 - Rentrer en soi announces that they would be breaking up.
2012 - 8 female civilians are killed by a NATO airstrike in Laghman, Afghanistan
2012 - 8 police officers are killed by a roadside bombing by Kurdistan Workers' Party militants in
           Turkey
2012 - 14 people are killed and 7 wounded by a roadside bomb Jandol, Turkey
2012 - Anti-Japanese protesters set fire to Panasonic plant in Qingdao, China
2012 - Mayor of Chicago, Rahm Emanuel, seeks a court order to resolve a week long teachers strike
2012 - NHL locks out its players after the expiry of the collective bargaining agreement

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 16, 2013, 09:23:38 AM

This Day in History for 16th September


Famous Weddings

1862 - Liliuokalani, queen of Hawaii (1891-93) marries John Owen Dominis
1989 - Singer Natalie Cole marries record producer Andre Fisher
1990 - 101 year old Sam Ackerman weds 95 year old Eva in New Rochelle NY
1993 - Singer Karen Akers (48) weds businessman Kevin Powers (41)
1995 - Stephen Hawkins (53) weds Elaine Mason
2006 - Aga Khan's son Prince Hussain weds Kristin White on the grounds of Chateau de Chantilly in
           France
2006 - Blues guitarist Kenny Wayne Shepherd (29) weds Mel Gibson's daughter Hannah Gibson at
           the altar of The Holy Family Church in Malibu

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 16, 2013, 09:28:29 AM

This Day in History for 16th September


Famous Birthdays

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Department Store Founder                    Magician David Copperfield (1956)
James Cash Penney (1875)


16 - Drusilla, daughter of Germanicus and Agrippina the Elder (d. 38)
1098 - Hildegard of Bingen, German magistra and the first composer whose biography is known (d.
           1179)
1386 - Traversari Ambrosius, Italian humanist//sciencist/general
1387 - Henry V, king of England (1413-22)
1507 - Jiajing, Emperor of China (d. 1567)
1547 - Abu al-Faiz ibn Mubarak Faizi, Persian-Dutch East Indies poet
1557 - Jacques Mauduit, composer
1574 - Samuel Coster, Dutch physician/playwright (Polyxena)
1584 - Matthias Gallas, Austria earl of Campo/duke of Lucerna/general-major
1651 - Engelbert Kaempfer, German physician and traveler (d. 1716)
1666 - Antoine Parent, French mathematician (d. 1716)
1678 - Henry St John, English statesman and philosopher (d. 1751)
1685 - John Gay, English poet (Beggar's Opera)
1722 - Gabriel Christie, British general (d. 1799)
1725 - Nicolas Desmarest, French geologist (d. 1815)
1736 - Johann N Tetens, German/Danish philosopher/mathematician
1745 - Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov, Russian field marshal (d. 1813)
1762 - Charles G G, earl of Merode/mayor of Brussels/French senator
1782 - Daoguang, Emperor of China (d. 1850)
1797 - Anthony Panizzi, Librarian at British Museum
1800 - Jozef Nowakowski, composer
1818 - Francis Seymour Haden, English surgeon/graphic artist
1822 - Charles S Crocker, Pres of Central & South Pacific Railroad
1823 - Francis Parkman, American historian/author (Oregon Trail)
1823 - Michael Obrenovic, ruler of Serbia
1827 - Jean Albert Gaudry, French geologist (d. 1908)
1832 - George Washington Custis Lee, Major General (Confederate Army)
1837 - Pedro V van Alcantara, king of Portugal (1853-61)
1838 - James J Hill, Canada, RR entrepreneur (Great Northern Railroad)
1847 - Albert Ross Parsons, composer
1853 - Albrecht Kossel, German physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1927)
1858 - Andrew Bonar Law, British PM (C, 1922-23)
1872 - Henriette de Vreker-Verschuur, Dutch/Flemish actress (Rose Kate)
1875 - James Cash Penney, Hamilton Missouri, department store founder (J C Penney), (d. 1971)
1877 - James J Jeans, cosmologist/astrophysicist (Mysterious Universe)
1877 - Willem H Rassers, Dutch cultural anthropologist (Panji)
1878 - Karl Albiker, German sculptor (German Art, female nudes)
1880 - Alfred Noyes, British poet/essayist (Loom of Years, Highwayman)
1881 - Clive Bell, English art critic (d. 1964)
1882 - Mart Saar, composer
1883 - T. E. Hulme, English writer (d. 1917)
1885 - Karen Horney, German/US, neo-freudian psychoanalyst
1887 - Hans/Jean Arp, French/Swiss painter/poet/sculptor
1888 - Almira Sessions, Washington DC, actress (Oklahoma Annie)
1889 - Claude A Barnett, founder (Associated Negro Press)
1890 - Ernst Deutsch, [Dorian], Prague Czech, actor (Moon is Down, 3rd Man)
1891 - Czeslaw Josef Marek, composer
1891 - Isabel Jeans, London England, actress (Easy Virtue, Heavens Above)
1891 - Stephanie von Hohenlohe, Austrian-born German spy (d. 1972)
1891 - Karl Dönitz, German naval leader (d. 1980)
1893 - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Hungary, biochemist (Vitamin C, Nobel 1937)
1893 - Alexander Korda, British movie producer (3rd man)
1894 - Clarence R Hennecke, Omaha NE, actor (Keystone Kops)
1895 - Charles W Bidwill Sr, Chicago, NFL hall of famer (Chicago Cardinals)
1895 - Karol Rathaus, composer
1896 - Andre Cheron, French chess/bridge theorist
1898 - H.A. Rey, American children's author, creator of "Curious George" (d. 1977)
1899 - Hans Swarowsky, Budapest Hungary, conductor (Graz Opera 1947-50)
1901 - Andree Joly Bunet, France, figure skater pair (Olympic-gold-1928, 32)
1901 - CFH "Freddie" Gough, British major scout (WW II, Arnhem)
1903 - Richard Hall, composer
1905 - Vladimír Holan, Czech poet (d. 1980)
1906 - Annie Hermes, Dutch singer
1906 - Jack Malcolm Thorpe Fleming Churchill, commando
1908 - Beecher Moore, sailor
1908 - Jacobus "Ko" van de Bosch, actor/cabaret performer/director (Nemo)
1908 - James "Jimmy" Johnson, English Labor MP (1950-59, 64-83)
1909 - John Megaw, British Lord Justice of Appeal
1909 - [Hans JM] Fernand Lodewick, literature historian
1910 - Joan Alice Chetwode Ramsey nee Hamilton, lady Ramsey of Canterbury
1910 - Karl Kling, German race car driver (d. 2003)
1910 - Erich Kempka, Adolf Hitler's chauffeur (d. 1975)
1911 - Wilfred Burchett, Australia, communist/writer (Catapult to Freedom)
1912 - Jerry Wald, NYC, producer (Mildred Pierce, Johnny Belinda)
1914 - Allen Funt, Brooklyn New York, American TV host & creator (Candid Camera)
1915 - Cy Walter, Minneapolis Mn, pianist (3's Company)
1916 - Lord Ryder of Eaton hastings, CEO (Intl Publishing House)
1916 - Willem Noordhoek, photographer
1916 - M.S. Subbulakshmi, Indian singer (d. 2004)
1916 - Frank Leslie Walcott, Barbadian labour leader (d. 1999)
1918 - Baroness Pike, MP
1919 - Andy Russell, Los Angeles California, singer (Andy &amp; Della Russell Show)
1919 - Milan Harasta, composer
1919 - Laurence J. Peter, Canadian born educator and writer (d. 1990)
1920 - Franco Pandolfini, Italy, water polo (Olympic-gold-1948)
1920 - Hannie [Jannetje J] Schaft, "Girl with red hair"
1920 - Sheila Quinn, adviser (British Red Cross)
1921 - Dusty Hughers, playwright
1921 - Fritz Geissler, composer
1921 - John Hendricks, lyricist singer (Lambert, Hendricks & Ross)
1921 - William Johnston, Chaplain to Queen of Scotland
1922 - Janis Paige, Tacoma Wash, actress (Lanigan's Rabbi, Trapper John MD)
1922 - Marcel Mouloudji, singer
1923 - Lee Kuan Yew, Prime Minister, Senior Minister and Minister Mentor of Singapore
1924 - Lauren Bacall, Staten Island, actress (Dark Passage, Key Largo)
1924 - Paddy Stone, Winnipeg Manitoba, choreographer (Piccadilly Palace)
1925 - B[lues] B[oy] King, Itta Bena Miss, blues singer (Thrill is Gone)
1925 - Charles Haughey, Irish president (1979-81, 82, 87-92)
1925 - Charlie Byrd, guitarist (Desfinado)
1926 - John Knowles, US writer (Morning in Antibes)
1926 - Robert Schuller, televangelist (Glass Cathedral, Hour of Power)
1926 - Tommy "Butch" Bond, actor (Butch-Our Gang)
1927 - Jack Kelly, Astoria Queens, actor (Bart-Maverick, Get Christie Love)
1927 - Peter Falk, Ossining NY, actor (Colombo, Scared Straight)
1929 - Dale E Kildee, (Rep-D-Michigan, 1977- )
1930 - Ken Coates, MEP (Labour)
1930 - Anne Francis, Ossining NY, actress (Honey West, Pancho Villa)
1931 - Jan Johansson, composer
1932 - Mickey Stewart, manager (England Cricket Team)
1933 - George Chakiris, Norwood Ohio, actor (West Side Story)
1933 - Jim Gilbert, artist
1934 - Elgin Baylor, NBA star (1958-59 Rookie of Year-Lakers)
1934 - Eva Clayton, (Rep-D-North Carolina)
1934 - Ronnie Drew, Ex-Singer of The Dubliners and Solo Artist (d.2008)
1935 - Carl Andre, US sculptor (minimal/conceptual art)
1935 - Bob Kiley, American public transit specialist
1936 - Frits Niessen, Dutch MP (PvdA)
1937 - Aleksandr Medved, USSR, super heavyweight (Olympic-gold-1964 68, 72)
1937 - Vincent J Naimoli, Paterson NJ, owner (SF Giants)
1941 - Jim McBride, NYC, director/actor (Hot Times, Breathless, Big Easy)
1941 - Joe Butler, Glen Cove NY, rock vocalist/drummer (Lovin' Spoonful)
1941 - Tommy Carberry, jockey
1941 - Richard Perle, American political advisor
1942 - Amos Tom Wargo, Marlette MI, PGA golfer (1993 PGA Seniors Champion)
1942 - Bernie Calvert, rock bassist (Hollies)
1942 - Linda G Miller, NYC, actress (Night of the Juggler, Mississippi)
1943 - David Wilshire, British MP (C)
1943 - Dennis W Conner, yachting pro (4-time America's Cup-winning skipper)
1943 - James Alan McPherson, American writer
1944 - Ard Schenk, Holland 1500m, 5K, 10K speed skater (Olympic-gold-1972)
1944 - Betty Kelly, Detroit, rocker (Martha Reeves & Vandellas)
1946 - Lord Walton of Detchant, physician (Warden of Green College Oxford)
1946 - Cathee Dahmen, American fashion model
1946 - Mike Reynolds, Australian politician
1946 - Camilo Sesto, Spanish singer
1947 - Aleksandr V Rutskoi, Ukrainian Hero of USSR/VP (1991- )
1947 - Andy Irvine, rugby player
1947 - Ilona Gusenbauer, Austria, high jumper (Olympic-bronze-1972)
1947 - Lucius Allen, NBA star (Milwaukee Bucks)
1947 - Michael R McNulty, (Rep-D-NY)
1947 - Russ Abbott, British TV comedian (September Song)
1947 - Enrique Krauze, Mexican historian and writer
1948 - Kenny Jones, London, rock drummer/vocalist (Small Faces)
1948 - Rosemary Casals, tennis star (US Open doubles 1967,71,74) [or Oct 10]
1948 - Ron Blair, San Diego, California, American rock bassist (Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers)
1949 - Ed Begley Jr, LA Cal, actor (Eating Raoul, St Elsewhere, Parenthood)
1949 - Susan Ruttan, Oregon City Ore, actress (Roxanne Melman-LA Law)
1950 - David Bellamy, Darby Fla, singer (Bellamy Bros-Let Your Love Flow))
1950 - Loyd Grossman, American television presenter
1953 - Earl Klugh, Jazz pianist/guitarist
1953 - Gene Taylor, (Rep-D-Mississippi)
1953 - Jerry Pate, Macon Ga, PGA golfer (US Open 1976, Canadian Open 1976)
1953 - Lenny Clarke, Boston, actor (Officer Hampton-John Larroquette Show)
1953 - Alan Barton, English musician (Black Lace, Smokie) (d. 1995)
1953 - Nancy Huston, Canadian-born novelist and essayist
1954 - Colin Newman, English musician (Wire)
1954 - Frank Reed, American singer (Chi-Lites)
1955 - Liz Knights, publisher
1955 - Robin Yount, baseballer (Milwaukee Brewers, MVP 1982, 1989, 3,142 hits)
1955 - Vicki Tabor, LPGA golfer
1955 - Yolandita Monge, Puerto Rican singer
1956 - Anatoly Beloglazov, USSR, 52 kg freestyle wrestler (Olympic-gold-1980)
1956 - Charles Fearing, rock guitarist (Raydio)
1956 - David Copperfield, [Kotkin], Metuchen, New Jersey, magician
1956 - Kevin R Kregel, NYC NY, Pilot/astronaut (STS 70, 78, 87)
1956 - Mark Daniel Gearan, Gardner Mass, campaign manager (Al Gore)
1956 - Nick Banton, founder (Body Positive)
1956 - Peter Zaremba, rocker (Fleshtones)
1956 - Sergei Beloglazov, USSR, 57 kg freestyle wrestler (Olympic-gold-1980)
1956 - Mickey Rourke, American boxer/actor (Wild Orchid, Barfly)
1957 - Keith Connor, Anguilla, British triple jumper (Olympic-bronze-1984)
1957 - David McCreery, Irish footballer
1958 - Jennifer Tilly, Los Angeles California, actress (Let it Ride, Off Beat, Psycho II)
1958 - Orel Hershiser, pitcher (LA Dodgers, Cleveland Indians)
1958 - Terry McBride, Austin Tx, singer (McBride & Ride-Can I Count on You)
1958 - Neville Southall, Welsh footballer
1959 - Tim Raines, American baseball player
1960 - Mickey Tettleton, Oklahoma City OK, catcher (Texas Rangers)
1960 - Kurt Busiek, American comic book writer
1961 - Alessandro Cecchi Paone, Italian entertainer
1961 - Mark Parent, Ashland OR, catcher (Detroit Tigers)
1961 - William M "Bill" Hicks, comedian
1961 - Bilinda Butcher, British singer (My Bloody Valentine)
1962 - Julie Larsen Piers, Westchester NY, LPGA golfer (1995 Edina Realty)
1962 - Kimberly McArthur, Fort Worth Texas, playmate (January, 1982)
1963 - Garth Jax, NFL middle linebacker (Arizona Cardinals)
1963 - Richard Marx, Chicago Ill, rocker (Hold on to the Night)
1964 - David Michael Sabo, Perth Amboy NJ, rocker (Skid Row-Psycho Love)
1964 - Molly Shannon, American actress
1964 - Mary Coustas, Austalian entertainer
1964 - Rossy de Palma, Spanish actress
1965 - Katy Kurtzman, Wash DC, actress (Lindsay-Dynasty)
1966 - Kevin Curtis Young, Los Angeles California, 400m hurdler
1967 - Bernie Parmalee, NFL running back (Miami Dolphins)
1967 - Dana Dormann, Oxnard CA, LPGA golfer (1993 McCall's LPGA Classic
1967 - Michael Smith, Kenora Ontario, decathlete (Olympics-96)
1967 - Hiroya Oku, Japanese Manga-ka
1968 - Charles McRae, NFL guard/tackle (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1968 - Tara Cross-Battle, Houston Texas, volleyball hitter (Oly-br-92, 96)
1968 - Marc Anthony, American singer
1968 - Walt Becker, American director and writer
1969 - Andrew Borodow, Montreal, 130 kg freestyle wrestler (Oly-5-92, 96)
1969 - Chester McGlockton, NFL defensive tackle (Oakland Raiders)
1969 - Kathi Wolfgram, Minneapolis, rocker (Jets-You Got it All)
1969 - Marthijn Pothoven, soccer player (Go Ahead Eagles)
1969 - Justine Frischmann, English musician (Elastica)
1970 - Anthony Marshall, NFL safety (Chic Bears)
1970 - Paul Shuey, Lima OH, pitcher (Cleveland Indians)
1970 - Mark Schultz, American musician
1971 - Charlie Fields, Brooklyn New York, American actor (Shannon)
1971 - Derrell Mitchell, NFL/CFL wide receiver (Atlanta Falcons, Argonauts)
1971 - Shawntel Smith, Oklahoma, Miss America (1996)
1971 - Amy Poehler, American comedian (Saturday Night Live)
1972 - Don Sasa, NFL defensive tackle (San Diego Chargers)
1972 - Mark Bruener, NFL tight end (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1972 - Ramon van Haaren, soccer player (RKC)
1972 - Shalane McCall, actor (Charlie Wade-Dallas)
1972 - Steve Russ, NFL linebacker (Denver Broncos-Super Bowl 32)
1973 - Clint Peay, Columbia Md, soccer defender (Olympics-gold-96)
1973 - Alexander Vinokourov, Kazakh cyclist
1973 - Justin Haythe, American writer
1973 - George Corrie, English Footballer
1974 - Justin Whalin, SF California, actor (Jimmy Olsen-Lois & Clark)
1975 - Kip Harkrider, Carthage TX, baseball infielder (Olympics-bronze-96)
1976 - Andres Javier Blazquez, PR, singer (Menudo-Cannonball)
1976 - Tina Barrett, British singer (S Club)
1977 - Greg Ball, American politician
1978 - Dan Dickau, American basketball player
1978 - Matthew Rogers, American singer
1979 - Bobby Korecky, American baseball player
1980 - Patrik Stefan, Czech hockey player
1981 - Fan Bingbing, Chinese actress
1981 - Alexis Bledel, American actress (Gilmore Girls)
1982 - Leon Knight, English footballer
1982 - Michael McCall, Irish chemist
1983 - Kirsty Coventry, Zimbabwean Olympic swimmer
1984 - Sabrina Bryan, American actress and singer
1984 - Katie Melua, Georgian-British singer
1985 - Madeline Zima, New Haven, Connecticut, American actress (The Nanny, Californication)
1986 - Kyla Pratt, American actress
1987 - Louis Clement Ngwat-Mahop, Cameroonian football player
1987 - Travis Wall, American Dancer/Dance Instructor
1987 - Daren Kagasoff, American actor
1988 - Teddy Geiger, American singer
1988 - Sarah Steele, American actress
1992 - Nick Jonas, American singer, member of The Jonas Brothers
2005 - Princess Jalilah bint Ali, of Jordan

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 16, 2013, 09:30:16 AM

This Day in History for 16th September


Famous Deaths

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Folk Singer Mary Travers (2009)


96 - Titus Flavius Domitianus, emperor of Rome (81-96), murdered at 45
655 - Martinus I, bannished Pope (649-53), dies
827 - Pope Valentine
1087 - Victor III, [Dauferio/Desiderius], Italian Pope (1086-87), dies
1100 - Bernold of Constance, German chronicler (b. 1054)
1345 - John IV, Duke of Brittany (b. 1295)
1380 - Charles V, the Wise, King of France (1364-80), dies
1394 - Clement VII, [Robert de Geneve], Pope (1378-94), dies
1406 - Cyprian, Metropolitan of Moscow (b. 1336)
1498 - Tomas de Torquemada, inquisitor who burned 10,000 people, dies
1542 - Diego de Almagro, Spanish captain-general of Peru, beheaded
1589 - Michael Baius, Flemish theologian (b. 1513)
1652 - Dirck Janszoon Sweelinck, Dutch composer, dies at 61
1672 - Anne Bradstreet, New England's first published poet, dies (birth date unknown)
1696 - Lambert Pietkin, composer, dies at 83
1701 - James II of England and VII of Scotland (b. 1633)
1736 - Daniel G Fahrenheit, Prussian/Neth physicist (thermometer), dies at 50
1775 - Allen Bathurst, 1st Earl Bathurst, English privy councillor (b. 1684)
1798 - Damasus Brosmann, composer, dies at 67
1803 - Nicolas Baudin, French explorer (b. 1754)
1824 - Louis XVIII SX, earl of Province/king of France (1814-24), dies
1829 - Nikolay Raevsky, Russian general and statesman (b. 1771)
1834 - Antoine-Vincent Arnault, French writer (Guillaume the Nassau), dies
1837 - Pedro V van Alcantara, king of Portugal (1853-61), dies
1845 - John Kinker, translator/philosopher/poet, dies at 81
1864 - John Hanning Speke, English explorer (b. 1827)
1865 - Christian Julius De Meza, Danish general (b. 1792)
1896 - Carlos Gomez, composer, dies at 60
1898 - Ramón Emeterio Betances, Puerto Rican politician, medical doctor and diplomat (b. 1827)
1911 - Edward Whymper, English mountaineer (Ascent of Matterhorn), dies
1920 - Daniel Andersson, Swedish poet/writer (Polar History), dies at 32
1925 - Leo Fall, Austria operetta composer (That Pink von Stambul), dies
1925 - Leopold Fall, composer, dies at 52
1925 - Alexander Alexandrovich Friedman, Russian physicist (b. 1888)
1926 - Rudolf C Eucken, German philosopher (Nobel 1908), dies at 80
1932 - Ronald Ross, English physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1857)
1933 - George Gore, baseball player (b. 1857)
1936 - Irving Thalberg, US producer (MGM), dies
1936 - Karl Buresch, Austrian politician, dies
1944 - Gustav Bauer, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1870)
1945 - John "Pa" van de Steur, philanthropist (Java), dies at 80
1945 - John McCormack, Irish singer (Irish national anthem/folk songs), dies
1946 - James Jeans, English physicist/mathematician/astronomer, dies at 69
1948 - Ferdinand I MKLM, prince of Saxony-Coburg/tsar of Bulgaria, dies
1950 - Pedro De Cordoba, actor (Club Havana, Swamp Fire), dies at 68
1953 - Colin G Fink, US chemist (electro-chemistry), dies
1955 - Leopold C M S Amery, Brit minister of Colonies (India), dies at 81
1957 - Ch'i Pai-shih, traditional Chinese painter, dies at 93
1961 - A P F Chapman, cricketer (26 Tests for England), dies
1961 - Yme C Schuitmaker, potato farmer/dramatist, dies
1962 - Saif al-Islam Achmad, monarch of Yemen, dies at about 71
1964 - Leo Weismantel, German writer (Das Totenliebespar), dies at 76
1965 - Ahn Eak-tai, Korean musician, composer, and conductor (b. 1906)
1971 - Ferdinand LR Sassen, priest/philosopher (Descartes), dies at 77
1973 - Frederic Meyer, actor (Faraway Hill), dies at 63
1975 - Irene Hayes, Ziegfeld girl and businesswoman (b. 1896)
1977 - Marc Bolan, rock vocalist/guitarist (T Rex), dies in a car crash at 29
1977 - Maria Callas, American-born prima donna, dies in Paris at 53
1979 - Nur Mohammed Taraki, president of Afghanistan (1978-79), killed
1982 - Rolfe Sedan, actor (Mr Beasley-Burns & Allen Show), dies at 86
1987 - Howard Moss, American poet, dramatist, and critic (b. 1922)
1990 - Loretta Tupper, radio/TV entertainer, dies of cancer at 84
1990 - Steve Condos, tap dancer, dies of heart attack at 71
1991 - Carol White, actress (Prehistoric Women, Dulcima), dies at 47
1992 - Duke Robbins, entertainer, dies of pneumonia at 71
1992 - Lee Tully, entertainer, dies
1992 - Millicent Fenwick, (Rep-R-NJ 1975-82), dies at 82
1993 - Johanna F Zandstra-Giezen, oldest person in Netherland, dies at 111
1993 - Willie Mosconi, world billiards champ, dies of heart attack at 80
1994 - Alain Bernardin, impressario of the Crazy Horse Saloon, dies at 78
1994 - Albert de Courtray, French archbishop of Lyon/cardinal, dies at 71
1994 - Bernie Lazaroff Leighton, pianist, dies at 73
1994 - Dolly Hare, German/British actress (Broken Blossom), dies at 84
1994 - Jack Dodson, actor (Howard Sprague-Andy Griffith Show), dies at 63
1995 - Michael Balfour, historian, dies at 86
1995 - Pierre Olaf, cabaret artist/clown, dies at 67
1996 - Andrew MacElhone, bar owner, dies at 73
1996 - Gene Nelson, actor/dancer (SOB, Purple Hills, Starlift), dies at 76
1996 - McGeorge Bundy, US national security advisor (1961-66), dies at 77
1997 - Antony Kearey, television producer, dies at 77
2000 - Georgiy Gongadze, Ukrainian journalist (b. 1969)
2001 - Samuel Z. Arkoff, American film producer (b. 1918)
2002 - James Gregory, American actor (b. 1911)
2003 - Sheb Wooley, singer and actor (b. 1921)
2005 - Gordon Gould, inventor of the laser (b. 1920)
2006 - Rob Levin, creator of Freenode (b. 1955)
2006 - Floyd Curry, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1925)
2007 - Robert Jordan, author of the Wheel of Time series (b. 1948)
2008 - Norman Whitfield, associated with the Temptations (b. 1940)
2009 - Myles Brand, NCAA President (b. 1942)
2009 - Mary Travers, American singer (Peter, Paul, and Mary) (b. 1936)
2012 - John Ingle, American actor, dies from cancer at 84

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 17, 2013, 08:52:35 AM

This Day in History for 17th September


Historical Events

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Naturalist Charles Darwin                       Abolitionist Harriet Tubman                   Pilot The Red Baron

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Aviator Charles Lindbergh                       Politician Neville Chamberlain       Soldier, author, journalist, politician
                                                                                                                                    Winston Churchill

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Heavyweight Boxing Champion                     Actress Sophia Loren                        Actress/Singer Bette Midler
Rocky Marciano 

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Wikileaks founder Julian Assange


335 - Church of Holy Sepulchre initiated in Jerusalem
642 - Arabs conquer Alexandria, library destroyed
1156 - Markgraafschap Austria becomes a temple (Privilegium minus)
1176 - The Battle of Myriokephalon is fought.
1394 - Jews are expelled from France by order of King Charles VI
1462 - The Battle of Świecino (or Battle of Żarnowiec) is fought during Thirteen Years' War.
1562 - Council of Trente takes ecclesiastical canon
1584 - Gent surrenders to Duke of Parma
1595 - Pope Clemens VIII recognizes Henri IV as king of France
1598 - Netherland sailors discover Mauritius
1630 - The city of Boston, Massachusetts is founded.
1631 - Battle of Breitenfeld: King Gustaaf Adolf defeats Gen Tilly
1644 - French troops occupy Mainz
1678 - France & Spain signs peace treaty
1683 - Antonie van Leeuwenhoek reports existence of bacteria
1691 - Massachusetts Bay Colony granted new charter
1697 - Battle at Zenta: Prince Eugen of Savoye beats Turks
1730 - Turkish coup under Mahmud I; Sultan Ahmed III flees
1737 - Georg-August University opens in Göttingen
1745 - Edinburgh occupied by Jacobites under Young Pretender
1776 - The Presidio of San Francisco is founded in New Spain.
1778 - 1st treaty between the US & Indian tribes signed (Fort Pitt)
1787 - Prussian troops conquer Gorinchem
1787 - US constitution adopted by Philadelphia convention
1789 - William Herschel discovers Mimas, satellite of Saturn
1809 - Peace between Sweden and Russia in the Finnish War. The territory to become Finland is
           ceded to Russia by the Treaty of Fredrikshamn.
1819 - First whaling ship arrives in Hawaii
1835 - Charles Darwins lands on Chatham Galapagos-archipelago
1849 - Harriet Tubman 1st escapes slavery in Maryland with two of her brothers
1850 - Great fire in San Francisco
1859 - Man in SF claims himself Norton I, emperor of America
1861 - First class for escaped slaves taught by Mary Peake at Fortress Monroe Virginia (now
           Hampton University).
1862 - Battle of Antietam, bloodiest day in Civil War (Sharpsburg Md), 23, 110 die
1862 - Battle of Cumberland Gap, TN-evacuted by Federals
1862 - Battle of Mumfordville, KY-US Col J Wilder surrenders city
1862 - American Civil War: The Allegheny Arsenal explosion results in the single largest civilian
           disaster during the war.
1863 - Pope Pius IX encyclical On persecution in New Grenada
1864 - Grant approves Sheridan's plan for Shenandoah Valley Campaign
1871 - Mont Cenis railway tunnel Switzerland opens
1872 - Phillip W Pratt patents his sprinkler system for extinguishing fires
1873 - 19 students attend opening class at Ohio State University
1876 - Race riots in SC
1897 - 3rd US Golf Open: Joe Lloyd shoots a 162 at Chicago GC in Wheaton Ill
1899 - 1st British troops leave Bombay for South Africa
1900 - Commonwealth of Australia proclaimed
1900 - Philippine-American War: Filipinos under Juan Cailles defeat Americans under Colonel Benjamin
           F. Cheatham at Mabitac.
1901 - Battle at Blood River Port: Boer Gen Botha beats mjr Goughs cavalry
1901 - Battle at Elands River Port: Boer Gen Smuts destroys unit 17th Lancers
1902 - US protests anti-semitism in Romania
1903 - Boston Pilgrims clinch AL pennant, beating Cleveland, 14-3
1906 - Playing as "Sullivan," Columbia U jr Eddie Collins debuts with A's
1908 - Thomas Selfridge becomes first fatality of powered flight
1911 - 1st transcontinental airplane flight, NY-Pasadena in 82 hrs 4 min
1911 - 25th US Women's Tennis: Hazel H Wightman beats F Sutton (8-10 61 97)
1912 - Center fielder Casey Stengel breaks in with Brooklyn & hits 4 singles
1914 - Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
1916 - 40,000 Amsterdam demonstrators demand general voting right
1916 - World War I: Manfred von Richthofen [The Red Baron], a flying ace of the German
           Luftstreitkräfte, wins his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France.
1920 - Cards set a record of 12 consecutive hits in 4th (10) & 5th (2) innings
1920 - National Football League organizes in Canton Ohio 12 teams pay $100 each to join American
           Prof Football Association
1922 - Bicyclist Piet Moeskops becomes world sprint champ
1922 - Radio Moscow begins transmitting (12 KWs-most powerful station)
1923 - Sutton Vane's "Outward Bound," premieres in London
1924 - Italy signs treaty of Rapallo
1926 - Hurricane hits Miami & Palm Beach Florida; about 450 die
1927 - 47th US Mens Tennis: Rene Lacoste beats William T Tilden (119 63 119)
1927 - Charles Lindbergh visits San Francisco
1928 - 48th US Mens Tennis: Henri Cochet beats F T Hunter (46 64 36 75 63)
1928 - Henri Cochet wins US Tennis Open
1928 - Hurricane hits Lake Okeechobee Florida drowning 1,800-2500
1928 - Pitcher Ray Boggs hits 3 batters in 1 inning
1929 - British troops begin evacuating
1931 - 1st LP record demonstrated (RCA Victor, NYC), venture failed
1931 - Operetta "Victoria & Her Husband," premieres in London
1931 - Red Sox Earl Webb sets record with 65 en route to 67 doubles
1934 - RCA Victor re leases 1st 33 1/3 rpm recording (Beethoven's 5th)
1934 - USSR joins League of Nations (Netherland, Switz & Portugal vote no)
1935 - Manuel Luis Quezón y Molina chosen 1st president of Philippines
1937 - 1st NFL game in Washington, DC; Redskins beat NY Giants 13-3
1938 - 52nd US Womens Tennis: Alice Marble beats Nancye Wynne Bolton (60 63)
1938 - 58th US Mens Tennis: J Donald Budge beats C Gene Mako (63 68 62 61)
1938 - British premier Neville Chamberlain leaves Munich
1938 - Don Budge wins US Tennis open & completes Grand Slam
1939 - German U-29 sinks British aircraft carrier Courageous, 519 die
1939 - Poland's president Moscicki & PM Slawoj-Skladkowski flee to Romania
1939 - Russia invades Eastern Poland, takes 217,000 Poles prisoner
1939 - Soviet Union invades Poland during WW II
1939 - Taisto Mäki becomes the first man to run the 10,000 metres in under 30 minutes, in a time of
           29:52.6
1940 - Nazis deprive Jews of possessions
1941 - Cards' Stan Musial makes his major league debut, going 2-for-4
1941 - World War II: A decree of the Soviet State Committee of Defense, restoring Vsevobuch in the
           face of the Great Patriotic War, is issued
1943 - Load of "ammunition in transit" explodes at Norfolk Naval Air Station
1943 - Red Army recaptures Brjansk
1943 - World War II: The Russian city of Bryansk is liberated from Nazis.
1944 - British Premier Winston Churchill travels to US
1944 - Dutch begin railroad strike against German occupiers
1944 - Operation Market Garden: British airborne division lands Arnhem Neth
1946 - "Gypsy Lady," opens at Century Theater NYC for 79 performances
1946 - "If the Shoe Fits," opens at Century Theater NYC for 20 performances
1947 - Jackie Robinson is named Rookie of Year by Sporting News
1947 - James Forrestal sworn in as 1st US secretary of defense
1947 - US Department of Defense forms
1948 - KCOP TV channel 13 in Los Angeles/Hollywood, CA (IND) begins
1948 - WLS TV channel 7 in Chicago, IL (ABC) begins broadcasting
1949 - 128 die as fire guts Canadian passenger steamer Noronic in Toronto
1949 - 8th Ryder Cup: US beats Europe, 7-5 at Ganton GC, England
1949 - North Atlantic Treaty Council meets for 1st time
1949 - WFAA TV channel 8 in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
1950 - San Francisco 49ers (formerly AAFC) play 1st NFL game, lose 21-17
1951 - "Borscht Capades" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 90 performances
1951 - Romanian bishop A Pacha of Timisoara sentenced to 18 years
1952 - "I am an American Day" & "Constitution Day" renamed "Citizenship Day"
1953 - 1st successful separation of Siamese twins
1953 - Ernie Banks becomes Chicago Cubs 1st black player
1954 - Rocky Marciano KOs Ezzard Charles in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
1955 - "Ankles Aweigh" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 176 perfs
1955 - Future Hall of Famer Oriole Brooks Robinson goes 2-4 in his 1st game
1956 - Black students enter Clay Ky elementary school
1956 - Yanks clinch pennant #22 on Mantle's 50th homer of year
1956 - Television is first broadcast in Australia.
1957 - KETV TV channel 7 in Omaha, NB (ABC) begins broadcasting
1957 - Scott Crossfield takes X-15 up for 1st powered flight
1957 - Thailand military coup under marshal Sarit Thanarat
1957 - Two male attorneys "stand in" as actress Sophia Loren & producer Carlo Ponti wed by proxy
           in Juarez, Mexico
1957 - The North East Humanists group is founded in Newcastle upon Tyne.
1958 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1959 - 59th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Jack Nicklaus
1959 - Transit 1A, 1st navigational satellite launched; failed to orbit
1959 - Typhoon kills 2,000 in Japan & Korea
1960 - "Vintage '60" closes at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC after 8 perfs
1960 - Cuba nationalizes US banks
1961 - Minnesota Vikings' 1st NFL game (beat Chicago Bears 37-13)
1961 - Samuel Beckett's "Happy Days," premieres in NYC
1961 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1962 - Justice Dept files 1st suit to end segregation in public schools
1962 - US space officials announce selection of 9 new astronauts
1963 - "Fugitive" premieres on ABC TV
1963 - Train struck makeshift bus full of migrant workers, killing 32
1964 - "Bewitched" premieres on ABC TV
1964 - Beatles are paid a then record $150,000 for a concert (Kansas)
1964 - Mickey Mantle gets hits #1999, 2000 & 2001 & his 450th HR
1964 - Supremes release "Baby Love"
1965 - WPHL TV channel 17 in Philadelphia, PA (IND) begins broadcasting
1966 - Cleve pitchers set AL record striking out 19 batters in 1st 9 innings
1967 - "Mission Impossible" premieres on CBS-TV
1967 - Mount Washington cog railway train derails, kills 8 (NH)
1967 - New Orleans Saints 1st NFL game, they lose to LA Rams 27-13
1967 - Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Shirley Englehorn Golf Invitational
1968 - Gaylord Perry (Giants) no-hits St Louis Cardinals, 1-0
1968 - Zond 5 completes circumnavigation of Moon
1970 - Jordan launches offensive against guerrilla army
1970 - WSWP TV channel 9 in Grandview, WV (PBS) begins broadcasting
1972 - "M*A*S*H," premieres on NBC TV
1972 - BART begins passenger service in SF
1972 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Quality First Golf Classic
1972 - Tanzania troops march in to Uganda
1974 - Courageous (US) beats Southern Cross (Aust) in 23rd America's Cup
1975 - Rollout of 1st space shuttle orbiter Enterprise (OV-101)
1976 - Amnesty International receives Erasmus-prize
1976 - NASA publicly unveils space shuttle Enterprise in Palmdale, Calif
1976 - Ringo Starr releases "Ringo's Rotogravure" album
1977 - 22nd Ryder Cup: US, 12½-13½ at Royal Lytham & St Annes England
1977 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1977 - Dave Kingman hits his 1st Yankee homer, Reggie hits 2 more
1977 - Fleetwood Mac's "Rumors" is #1 for 19th straight week
1978 - 30th Emmy Awards: All in the Family, Ed Asner & Sada Thompson win
1978 - Begin, Sadat & Carter sign Camp David accord
1978 - Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Sarah Coventry Golf Tournament
1978 - Red Sox finally beat Yanks in Sept 1978, 7-3
1979 - Pietro Mennea runs world record 200 m (19.72")
1979 - Royals' George Brett is 6th to have 20 doubles/triples/HRs in a season
1980 - "Divine Madness" starring Bette Midler, premieres
1980 - Iraq under Saddam Hussein signs accord with Algeria
1980 - Solidarity labor union in Poland forms
1980 - South Korea opposition leader Kim Dae Jung sentenced to death
1980 - Oak A's Rick Langford is removed with 2 outs in 9th inning ending his consecutive complete-
           game streak at 22
1981 - Fernando Valenzuela sets NL rookie record with 8th shutout of season
1982 - NJ Devils 1st exhibition game, beating Caps 3-1 in Hershey Pa
1983 - Chicago White Sox clinch their 1st-ever AL West championship
1983 - Vanessa Williams (NY), 20, crowned 56th Miss America 1984, 1st black
1984 - Brian Mulroney sworn in as Canada's 18th PM succeeding John Turner
1984 - Dwight Gooden ties record of 32 strikeouts in consecutive games
1984 - Reggie Jackson is 13th to hit 500 HRs
1984 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1985 - Soyuz T-14 carries 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station
1986 - Bomb attack in Paris, 6 killed
1986 - Marina Stepanova of USSR sets 400m hurdle woman's record (52.94)
1986 - Mets clinch NL East Championship
1986 - US Senate confirms William Rehnquist as 16th chief justice
1987 - Phila celebrates 200th anniversary of Constitution
1988 - 24th Olympic games open at Seoul, Korea
1988 - Jeff Reardon becomes 1st to record 40 or more saves in both AL & NL
1988 - Military coup in Haiti: Lt Gen Avril takes control, Henri Namphy flees
1989 - -21] Hurricane Hugo, kills 85 in Charleston SC
1989 - 41st Emmy Awards: LA Law, Cheers, Dana Delany & Candice Bergen win
1989 - Beth Daniel wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
1989 - Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation
1989 - Hurricane Hugo begins 4 day sweep through Caribbean, killing 62
1989 - NYC court of appeals overturns lower court decision & returns America's Cup back to US
           (from NZ)
1990 - Newspaper Guild votes 242-35 to keep NY Post publishing
1990 - Soviet Union & Saudi Arabia restore diplomatic ties
1991 - 4,355 turn out to see Expos play NY Mets at Shea Stadium
1991 - UN admits Estonia, Latvia, Lithuiania, North & South Korea, Marshall Islands & Micronesia
1991 - The first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) is released to the Internet.
1992 - Amsterdam stock exchange hits record Ÿ8.8 billion
1992 - House votes 280 to 128 to give FCC control of cable TV rates
1992 - NFL decides to suspend World League Football
1993 - Last Russian troops leave Poland.
1994 - Andy Waller out handled the ball for Mashonaland CD v Mash U24
1994 - Heather Whitestone, 21, (Ala), crowned 68th Miss America 1995
1995 - "Love! Valor! Compassion!" closes at Walter Kerr NYC after 276 perfs
1995 - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
1996 - Dodger Hideo Nomo no-hits Colo Rockies, 9-0 at Coors Field
1997 - Dr Sam Sheppard's body (Fugitive) is exhumed for DNA test
2004 - Tamil is declared the first classical language in India.
2007 - AOL, once the largest ISP in the U.S., officially announces plans to refocus the company as an
           advertising business and to relocate its corporate headquarters from Dulles, Virginia to New
           York, New York.
2008 - The IAU named another dwarf planet, Haumea
2010 - The 54 year run of the soap opera As the World Turns ends as its final episode is broadcast.
2011 - Occupy Wall Street movement began in Zucotti Park, New York City.
2012 - Panasonic suspends operations at its three factories in China
2012 - China dispatches 1,000 fishing boats to Senkaku Islands
2012 - 13 people are killed in a bus accident in Jubail, Saudi Arabia
2012 - Swedish forensic scientists find no conclusive evidence of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange's
           DNA in a torn condom
2012 - United States and Japanese government officials agree to put a second missile defence
           system in Japan

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 17, 2013, 08:53:55 AM

This Day in History for 17th September


Famous Weddings

1918 - Abbott and Costello's Bud Abbott (22) weds Betty Smith
1954 - Film and theater actress Shirley MacLaine (20) weds Steve Parker in New York City
1957 - Italian actress Sophia Loren (22) weds Carlo Ponti
1973 - "The Osmonds" lead singer and bassist Merrill Osmond (20) weds Mary Carlson
1994 - "L.A. Law" actor Blair Underwood (30) weds freelance talent coordinator Desiree DaCosta (29)
           at his outdoor Southern California
1994 - "Stone Temple Pilots" lead singer Scott Weiland 26) weds Janina Castenada
2005 - Fashion designer Cynthia Rowley (47) weds Bill Powers in Montauk, New York
2005 - Country music singer Terri Clark (37) weds her tour manager Greg Kaczor at a resort on Lake
           Louise in Calgary, Canada
2011 - Actor and film producer David Clayton Rogers (34) weds actress/dancer Sally Pressman (31)
           at Bacara Resort and Spa in Santa Barbara, California
2011 - Actress Sally Pressman (30) weds actor David Clayton Rogers (33) at Bacara Resort and Spa
           in Santa Barbara, California

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 17, 2013, 08:55:03 AM

This Day in History for 17th September


Famous Divorces

1994 - Princess Christina separates

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 17, 2013, 09:01:24 AM

This Day in History for 17th September


Famous Birthdays

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Enlightenment Philosopher             Choreographer Frederick Ashton (1904)         Actress Anne Bancroft (1931)
Marquis de Condorcet (1743) 


64 - Julia Flavia, daughter of Roman Emperor Titus; lover of Domitian.
879 - Charles III, [The Simple], king of France (893-923)
1192 - Minamoto no Sanetomo, Japanese shogun (d. 1219)
1271 - Wenceslas II, king of Bohemia & Poland (1278-1305)
1550 - Pope Paul V (d. 1621)
1552 - Paul V, [Camillo Borghese], Italy, Pope (1605-21)
1580 - Charlotte Brabantia, countess of Nassau/daughter of Willem of Orange
1605 - Francesco Sacrati, composer
1619 - John Lambert, English general-major/parliament leader
1630 - Ranuccio II Farnese, Duke of Parma (d. 1694)
1639 - Hans Herr, Mennonite bishop (d. 1725)
1643 - Gilbert Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury/author
1677 - Stephen Hales, English physiologist, chemist, and inventor (d. 1761)
1687 - Durastante Natalucci, Italian historian (d. 1772)
1688 - Maria Luisa of Savoy, first queen of Philip V of Spain (d. 1714)
1711 - Ignaz Jakob Holzbauer, composer
1714 - Gottlieb W Rabener, German author (Vom Misbrauch of the Satire)
1730 - Friedrich WLGA von Steuben, Prus/US inspector-gen of Washington's army
1739 - John Rutledge, 2nd (appointed) Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1800)
1743 - Jean-Marie Caritat, France, mathematician
1743 - Marquis de Condorcet, Aisn France, enlightenment philosopher (Condorcet Method), (d. 1794)
1748 - Robert Wainwright, composer
1764 - John Goodricke, English astronomer/member Royal Society
1765 - Gregory XVI, [Bartolomeo A Cappellari/Mauro], Italy, Pope
1767 - Henri-Montan Berton, composer
1771 - Johann August Apel, German jurist and writer (d. 1816)
1774 - Joseph Caspar Mezzofanti, Cardinal/linguist (understood 70 languages)
1783 - Samuel Prout, water-color painter
1795 - Giuseppi Saverio Rafaele Mercadante, composer
1798 - Antonia M B Antonucci, Italian cardinal/diplomat
1800 - Franklin Buchanan, Admiral (Confederate Navy), died in 1874
1801 - Edward William Lane, translator (Thousand & 1 Nights)
1814 - Stefano Ronchetti-Molnteviti, composer
1818 - Halfdan Kjeruif, composer (Kjerulf)
1819 - Jean-Bernard-Leon Foucault, physicist (pendulum proved Earth rotates)
1819 - Marthinus Wessels Pretorius, 1st president (Republic South Africa)
1819 - Thomas Andrews Hendricks, (D) 21st US VP; died in office
1820 - Earle Van Dorn, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1863
1820 - Émile Augier, French dramatist (d. 1889)
1821 - Charles Victor Arthur Saint-Leon, composer
1825 - Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, MC (Confederacy), died in 1893
1826 - G F Berhard Riemann, German mathematician (zeta-function)
1834 - Edouard Pailleron, French attorney/stage writer
1849 - Vaclav Juda Novotny, composer
1853 - Clemens Baeumker, German historian (Patristischen Philosophie)
1854 - Hans Muller, music historian
1854 - David Dunbar Buick, American automobile pioneer (d.1929)
1857 - Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, pioneer in rocket & space research
1859 - Frank D Adams, Canada geologist/educator
1859 - Richard Henry Warren, composer
1861 - Owen Seaman, poet/editor (Punch)
1868 - James Alexander Calder, Canadian politician (d. 1956)
1869 - Christian Lange, Norway, pacifist/internationalist (Nobel 1921)
1874 - Ben[jamin] Turpin, US, comic (Uncle Tom Without the Cabin)
1875 - Vyacheslav Gavrilovich Karatigin, composer
1877 - Jean Hure, composer
1878 - Vincenzo Tommasini, composer
1879 - Rube Foster, American baseball player, manager and executive (d. 1930)
1879 - Periyar E. V. Ramasamy, Indian Social Reformer (d. 1973)
1881 - Alfred Francis Blakeney Carpenter, English soldier (d. 1955)
1882 - Anton H Blaauw, Dutch botanist (Perception of Light)
1883 - Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson Berners, 14th baron/composer
1883 - William Carlos Williams, American poet
1884 - Bastiaan de Gaay Fortman, Dutch historian/Justice of Curacao
1884 - Charles Tomlinson Griffes, Elmira NY, composer (White Peacock)
1885 - George Cleveland, Sydney Nova Scotia, actor (Courage of Lassie)
1885 - Uzeir Abdul Huseyn Hajibeyov, composer
1890 - Lubov Tchernicheva, Russian ballerina
1891 - Leslie Lincoln Henson, actor (Lady Luck, Funny Face, Harvey)
1892 - Hendrik F Andriessen, Dutch organist/composer (Ballade of Merel)
1893 - Abel J Herzberg, Russ/Dutch writer (Persecution of Jews)
1894 - Fay Compton, [Virginia Lillian Emeline Compton], actress (Haunting)
1896 - Denise Grey, [Edouardine Verthuy], Turin Italy, actress (Julietta)
1899 - Winnie Lightner, Greenport NY, comedienne (Sit Tight, Side Show)
1900 - John Willard Marriott, American hotelier (d. 1985)
1900 - Hughie Critz, baseball player (d. 1980)
1901 - Francis Chichester, Barnstaple, Devon, English aviator and sailor (Knight Commander of the
           Order of the British Empire)
1902 - Esther Ralston, Bar Harbor ME, American Venus/actress (Old Ironsides)
1903 - Karel Miljon, Dutch boxer (d. 1984)
1904 - Frederick Ashton, Ecuador, British choreographer (Cinderella), (d. 1988)
1904 - Jerry Colonna, Boston MA, actor (Road to Morocco, Road to Singapore)
1905 - Dolores Costello, Pittsburgh PA, actress (Little Lord Fauntleroy)
1905 - Hans Freudenthal, Dutch mathematician/director (OW&OC)
1905 - Jorge Urrutia Blondel, composer
1906 - Junius Richard Jayawardene, president (Sri Lanka, 1978-89)
1906 - Edgar Wayburn, American environmentalist
1907 - Desmond Heap, authority on British planning law
1907 - Helen Vinson, TX, actress (Transatlantic Tunnel, In Name Only)
1907 - Warren E Burger, Minn, Supreme Court chief justice (1969-86)
1908 - Franz J A Grothe, German composer
1909 - Elizabeth Wilkinson, professor German University College London
1909 - Kenneth Darling, Commander-in-chief Allied Forces, Northern Europe
1910 - Vernon Thompson, thoracic surgeon
1912 - Pauline Parsons, matron in chief (PMRAFNS)
1912 - Irena Kwiatkowska, Polish actress and comedian
1913 - Jorgen Jersild, composer
1914 - Shin Kanemaru, politician
1916 - Mary [Florence Elinor] Stewart, UK, sci-fi author (Crystal Cave)
1916 - Ove J Abildgaard, Danish poet (Uglegylp)
1917 - Isang Yun, composer
1917 - Lawrence Jacob, Atlantic City NJ, artist (Sanitarium)
1917 - Peter Bennett, London, actor (Leonides-Adv of Sir Lancelot)
1918 - Chaim Herzog, Israeli president (1983-93), (d. 1997)
1920 - Dinah Sheridan, actress (Genevieve, Railway Children), (d. 2012)
1920 - Marjorie S Holt, (Rep-R-MD, 1973- )
1921 - Virgilio Barco Vargas, president of Colombia (1986-90)
1922 - Agostinho Neto, poet/president Angola [or Dec 27]
1922 - Naomi Datta, geneticist
1922 - Ursula Howells, London, actress (Girly, Murder is Announced)
1923 - Hank Williams, country singer (Cold, Cold Heart, Hey Good Lookin')
1923 - John Hale, linguist
1925 - Dorothy Loudon, Boston, Massachusetts, American actress and singer (Garry Moore Show,
           Annie)
1926 - Bill Black, rocker
1926 - Donald Acheson, England's chief medical officer
1926 - Reginald Marsh, actor (Sicilians, It Happened Here)
1927 - George Blanda, Penn, NFL kicker/quarterback (Bears, Oilers, Raiders)
1927 - Ted Weiss, (Rep-D-NY, 1977-92)
1928 - Brian Matthew, British disc jockey
1928 - Roddy McDowall, London England, actor (Planet of Apes, Lord Love a Duck)
1929 - John Stewart-Clark, MEP (C)
1929 - Lord Craig of Radley, marshal (RAF)
1929 - Stirling Moss, London England, race car driver
1929 - Pat Crowley, American actress
1930 - David Huddleston, Vinton Va, actor (How the West Was Won)
1930 - Edgar Dean Mitchell, Hereford Texas, Capt USN/astronaut (Apollo 14)
1930 - Gwyn Francis, British Forestry commissioner
1930 - Thomas P Stafford, Weatherford Ok, USAF/astronaut (Gem 6 9, Ap 10 18)
1930 - Jim Rohn, American business philosopher
1930 - Lalgudi Jayaraman, Indian violinist
1931 - Anne Bancroft, Bronx, actr (Graduate, Miracle Worker), (d. 2005)
1933 - Charles E Grassley, (Sen-R-Iowa, 1981- )
1933 - D A Fenner, British headmaster (Alleyn's School)
1933 - Desmond Fennell, British high court judge
1933 - Patricia Crowley, Olyphant Pa, actress (Please Don't Eat the Daisies)
1934 - Little Milton [Campbell], rocker
1934 - Maureen "Little Mo" Connolly, Ca, tennis, 1st woman grand slam (1953)
1934 - Orlando Cepeda, Giants player (NL MVP 1967)
1935 - Ken Kesey, author (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
1935 - Timothy Bavin, Bishop of Portsmouth
1936 - Jennifer Dickson, artist/photographer
1936 - Mischa de Vreede, poetess (Our Eternal Hunger)
1936 - Richard Gaskell, solicitor/president (Law Society)
1937 - Albertine Sarrazin, French author (L'astragale, La Cavale)
1937 - Orlando Cepeda, Puerto Rican Major League Baseball player
1938 - Alec Broers, master (Churchill College Cambridge)
1938 - Paul Benedict, Silver City NM, actor (Harry-Jeffersons)
1939 - David H Souter, Weir NH, 107th Supreme Court Justice (1990- )
1939 - Joseph Mosikili, South African actor/singer
1939 - Lamonte McLemore, St Louis Mo, rock vocalist (5th Dimension)
1939 - Shelby Flint, American singer
1940 - Jan Eliasson, Swedish diplomat
1940 - Sotiris Moustakas, Greek actor (d. 2007)
1941 - Robert T Matsui, (Rep-D-California, 1979- )
1941 - William Grut, Sweden, penthalete (Olympic-gold-1948), (d. 2012)
1942 - Beverly Aadland, Hollywood Cal, Errol Flynns last girlfriend
1942 - Desmond Lynam, British sportscaster
1942 - Doris Brown-Heritage, US, 800m track star (Olympic-gold-1968)
1942 - Robert Graysmith, Zodiac killer researcher
1943 - Samuel T Durrance, Tallahassee Fl, PhD/astronaut (STS 35, STS 67)
1943 - Sarah Lucas, theatre administrator
1944 - Mary Lou Crocker, LPGA golfer
1944 - Reinhold Messner, Italian mountain climber (Mount Everest)
1945 - Phil Jackson, Deer Lodge Montana, NBA star (Knicks)/coach (Bulls)
1945 - Bruce Spence, New Zealand actor
1946 - Billy Bonds, British soccer player
1946 - Michael Jack, British minister of state-home office
1947 - Jeff MacNelly, Puliter Prize-winning cartoonist (Shoe)
1947 - Robert Kidd, marine geoscientist
1947 - Tessa Jowell, British MP
1948 - John Ritter, Burbank California, actor (Jack-3's Company, Hearts Afire)
1948 - Patricia Kluge, Baghdad Iraq, wife of Billionaire John Kluge
1950 - Fee Waybill, Ohaha Neb, rocker (Tubes)
1950 - Narendra Modi, Indian politician
1950 - Chris Heister, Swedish politician
1950 - Lawrence Anthony, Johannesberg, South Africa, conservationist and author, (d. 2012)
1951 - Cassandra Peterson, [Elvira], KS, actress (Echo Park, Elvira)
1952 - Steve Sanders, Richland Ga, country singer (Oak Ridge Boys-Elvira)
1953 - Altaf Hussain, Pakistani politician and founder of MQM
1954 - Joël-François Durand, French composer
1955 - Rita Rudner, comedienne (Funny People)
1955 - Scott William Simpson, San Diego CA, PGA golfer (1987 US Open)
1955 - Koralia Karanti, Greek actress
1955 - Charles Martinet, American actor
1956 - Thad Bosley. American major league baseball player
1956 - Brian Andreas, American writer, sculptor, painter and publisher
1957 - David Bintley, choreographer
1958 - Daniel Nunez, Cuba, weightlifter (Olympic-gold-1980)
1959 - Hank Ilesic, Edmonton, CFL punter, place kicker (Edmonton, Toronto)
1960 - Hank Baran, San Diego California, Canadian Tour golfer (1988 Won Mexican)
1960 - John Franco, Brooklyn NY, pitcher (NY Mets)
1960 - Terry Nihen, Concord Mass, playmate (December, 1983)
1961 - Pamela Ann Melroy, Palo Alto California, Major USAF/astronaut (sk:STS 92)
1961 - Ty Tabor, American guitarist and singer (King's X)
1962 - Dustin Nguyen, Saigon Vietnam, actor (Harry-21 Jump Street)
1962 - Wayne Riley, Sydney NSW, Australasia golfer
1962 - Baz Luhrmann, Australian film director
1963 - Masahiro Chono, wrestler (NJPW)
1963 - Rami Saari, Israeli poet and translator
1963 - Michael Adler, American businessman
1963 - Steven Dye, English musician (Scarlet Party), (The Alan Parsons Project)
1963 - Wendy Northcutt, Author of the Darwin Awards
1963 - Amy Roloff, American reality star
1963 - James Urbaniak, American actor
1964 - Christian Conrad, actor (Charley Hannah, High Mountain Rangers)
1964 - Karen Straker, horse show jumper
1965 - Yuji Naka, Japanese video game programmer
1965 - Guy Picciotto, American musician (Rites of Spring, Fugazi)
1965 - Bryan Singer, American director
1966 - Fred Childress, CFL guard (Calgary Stampeders)
1967 - Dan Dupuis, Ashcroft BC, Canadian Tour golfer (1994 Canadian Golf)
1967 - Derek Ware, NFL tight end (Cin Bengals)
1967 - Malik Yoba, actor (NY Undercover-Det JC Williams)
1967 - Maurice Hurst, NFL cornerback (NE Patriots)
1968 - Lord Jammer, rocker (Brand Nubian)
1968 - Stacey Dillard, NFL defensive tackle (NY Giants)
1968 - Suzy Cote, Santa Barbara California, actress (Samantha-Guiding Light)
1968 - Valeri Zelepukin, NHL forward (NJ Devils, Team Russia Oly-Sil-98)
1968 - Anastacia, American singer
1968 - Marie-Chantal, Crown Princess of Greece
1969 - Keith Flint, singer/musician (Prodigy)
1969 - Rob Zamuner, NHL forward (Tampa Bay Lightning, Team Canada 1998)
1969 - Ken Doherty, Irish snooker player
1970 - Al Fontenot, NFL defensive end (Chic Bears)
1970 - Ashley Ambrose, NFL cornerback (Indianapolis Colts)
1970 - Mark Brunell, NFL quarterback (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1970 - Wolfgang Kromp, hockey forward (Team Austria 1998)
1971 - Annika Duckmark, Miss Universe-Sweden (1996)
1971 - David Hynes, Australian baseball outfielder (Olympics-1996)
1971 - Octus Polk, NFL guard (Chic Bears)
1971 - Paul Janssen, soccer player (Fortuna S, NAC)
1972 - Allen Williams, NFL running back (Detroit Lions)
1972 - Darrius Johnson, NFL defensive back (Denver Broncos-Super Bowl 32)
1972 - Bobby Lee, American comedian
1973 - David Reid, Phila, light middleweight boxer (Olympics-gold-96)
1973 - Demis Nikolaidis, Greek footballer
1973 - Ada Choi, Hong Kong actress
1974 - Bas Leferink, soccer player (Go Ahead Eagles)
1974 - Jason Hewitt, Australian baseball infielder (Olympics-1996)
1974 - Rasheed Wallace, NBA forward (Portland Trailblazers)
1974 - Tormod Granheim, Norwegian adventurer
1974 - Mirah, American musician
1975 - Jimmie Johnson, American race car driver
1975 - Austin St. John, American actor
1975 - Constantine Maroulis, American singer
1976 - Jonathan Nichols, Wilmington Del, dance skater (& Tami Tyler)
1976 - Trincy Low, Miss Malaysia Universe (1997)
1977 - Becky Turner, Marietta Ga, rhythmic gymnast (Olympics-96)
1977 - Latoya Warning, Suriname 4th Miss Teenager (1993)
1977 - Tony Goskowicz, Wauwautosa Wis, short track skater (Olympics-1994)
1977 - Simone Perrotta, Italian football player
1978 - Shawn Horcoff, Canadian ice hockey player
1979 - Steffen Algreen, Danish footballer
1979 - Akin Ayodele, American football player
1979 - Chuck Comeau, Canadian musician (Simple Plan)
1980 - Asashoryu Akinori, Mongolian sumo wrestler (born as Dolgorsuren Dagvador)
1980 - Danny Haren, American baseball player
1981 - Bakari Koné, Ivorian footballer
1981 - Casey Janssen, American baseball player
1981 - Francis Manioru, Solomon Islander sprinter
1981 - Jonathan Radtke, American musician (Kill Hannah)
1982 - Hope Larson, American illustrator and cartoonist
1982 - Garth Murray, Canadian ice hockey player
1983 - Jennifer Peña, American singer
1984 - Eugenia Volodina, Russian supermodel
1985 - Alexander Ovechkin, Russian hockey player
1985 - Brendan Clarke, Irish Soccer Player with St. Patrick's Athletic
1985 - Jon Walker, American musician (Panic at the Disco)
1985 - Tomáš Berdych, Czech tennis player
1985 - Mason Raymond, Canadian ice hockey player
1986 - Landry Mulemo, Belgian footballer
1986 - Dimitrios Regas, Greek sprinter
1987 - Paul Huntington, English footballer
1991 - Jordan McCoy, American entertainer
1994 - Taylor Ware, American yodeler

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 17, 2013, 09:08:57 AM

This Day in History for 17th September


Famous Deaths

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US Slave Dred Scott (1858)                      Photography Pioneer
                                                               William Henry Fox Talbot (1877)


1179 - Hildegard van Bingen, mystic/composer (Ordo Virtutum), dies at 81
1312 - Ferdinand V, king of Castile/Leon, dies at 26
1322 - Robert III of Flanders (b. 1249)
1422 - Constantine II of Bulgaria
1563 - Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland, English soldier
1574 - Pedro Menendez de Aviles, soldier/navigator, dies
1575 - Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss religious reformer (b. 1504)
1604 - Lucas Osiander, composer, dies at 69
1621 - Roberto Bellarmino, Italian saint (Doctor of the Church), dies at 78
1630 - Thomas Lake, English statesman (b. 1567)
1652 - Bonaventura Elsevier, book publisher/merchant, dies at about 69
1665 - Philip IV, King of Spain (1621-55), dies
1676 - Sabbatai Zevi, Montenegrin rabbi, kabbalist, and founder of the Jewish Sabbatean movement
           (b. 1626)
1679 - Juan Jose of Austrian, Spanish general/govenor of Netherlands, dies at 50
1702 - Olof Rudbeck, composer, dies at 71
1727 - Glückel of Hameln, German businesswoman (b. 1647)
1732 - Josef Antonin Planicky, composer, dies at 40
1762 - Francesco Xaverio Geminiani, composer, dies at 74
1771 - Tobias George Smollett, novelist (Adv of Roderick Random), dies at 50
1803 - Franz Xaver Sussmayr, composer, dies
1808 - Benjamin Bourne, American politician (b. 1755)
1820 - Henri Hamal, composer, dies at 76
1823 - Abraham L Breguet, French clock maker, dies at 76
1824 - Giacomo Tritto, composer, dies at 91
1836 - Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist (b. 1748)
1839 - Ethel Mary Dell, [Mrs G T Savage], romantic novelist, dies
1846 - Francesco Giuseppi Pollini, composer, dies at 84
1858 - Dred Scott, US slave (REV-decision Supreme court), dies
1862 - Lawrence O'Bryan Branch, (Rep-D)/Confederate brig-general, dies at 41
1862 - William Edwin Starke, Confederate brigadier general, dies in battle at about 48
1863 - Albartus Telting, Fries poet/2nd-Member of parliament, dies
1863 - Alfred Victor Comte de Vigny, poet, dies
1864 - Walter Savage Landor, author, dies
1868 - Roman Nose (Wiquini), Cheyenne indian leader, dies
1869 - Peter M Roget, England, lexographer (Roget's Thesaurus), dies
1873 - Alexander Berry, Scottish adventurer (b. 1781)
1877 - William Henry Fox Talbot, photographic pioneer, dies at 77
1879 - Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, French architect (b. 1814)
1884 - Louis Schubert, composer, dies at 56
1892 - Ignaz V Zingerle Edler von Simmersberg, Austrian, dies
1894 - Deng Shichang, Chinese admiral (b. 1849)
1895 - Auguste Toulet, Belgian balloonist, dies
1899 - Charles Alfred Pillsbury, American industrialist (b. 1842)
1907 - Ignaz Brull, composer, dies at 60
1908 - Thomas E Selfridge, earlier US aviator, 1st to die in an air crash
1926 - August Sauer, Austria literature historian, dies at 70
1933 - Joseph De Piro, Maltese missionary (b. 1877)
1934 - Edmund van der Straeten, composer, dies at 79
1936 - Ettie Annie Rout, New Zealand activist (b. 1877)
1938 - Bruno Jasieński, Polish poet (b. 1901)
1943 - Dick Tyldesley, cricketer (7 Tests for England), dies
1944 - ... Kussin, German gen-maj/commanding Arnhem, dies in battle
1946 - Frank Burke, American baseball player (b. 1880)
1948 - Count Folke Bernadotte, UN mediator for Palestine, assassinated
1948 - Lillian Brainthwaite, Brit actress (Man About the House), dies at 75
1948 - Ruth Benedict, anthropoligst, dies
1951 - Jimmy Yancey, American pianist (b. 1898)
1953 - Emil Ermatinger, Switz, literature critic, dies at 80
1953 - Henry Holden Huss, composer, dies at 91
1956 - Mildred E "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias, (Olympic-gold-1932), dies at 42
1957 - John W "John" Eisenloeffel, goldsmith, dies at 81
1958 - Eugene Jungers, Belgian governor of Rwanda Urundi, dies at 70
1958 - Friedrich Adolf Paneth, Austrian/British chemist, dies at 71
1959 - Bert Leysen, Belgian TV director, dies at 39
1960 - Jose Sancho Marraco, composer, dies at 81
1961 - Adnan Menderes, PM of Turkey (1950-60), dies at 62
1961 - Simon Delmonte, actor/director (Bleke Bet), dies at 68
1966 - Fritz Wunderlich, German tenor (Stuttgart 1955-58), dies at 35
1972 - Akim Tamiroff, actor (Hotel Paradisio, Lord Jim), dies at 72
1973 - Hugo Winterhalter, composer, dies at 63
1979 - Miloslav Kabelac, composer, dies at 71
1980 - Anastasio Somoza, former Nicaraguan Pres, assassinated in Paraguay
1980 - Katherine A Porter, US author (Ship of Fools, Pulit-66), dies at 90
1982 - Manos Loïzos, Greek composer (b. 1937)
1983 - Humberto Madeiros, US cardinal to Boston, dies at 67
1984 - Richard Basehart, actor (Rage), dies following several strokes at 70
1985 - Laura Ashley, Welsh fashion designer, dies by accident
1986 - Patricia Phoenix, English actress (Coronation Street), dies at 62
1987 - Harry Locke, British character actor (b. 1913)
1989 - Jay Stewart, annoucer on Lets Make a Deal, commits suicide
1991 - Zino Francescatti, French violinist (b. 1902)
1992 - Feodor Chaliapin Jr, actor (King's Whore), dies after illness at 87
1992 - William A Swanberg, biographer (Henry Luce, Pulitzer 1973), dies at 84
1993 - Christian Nyby, US director (Big Sleep, Thing), dies at 80
1994 - Henk Figee, author/publisher (Shoes of the Sea), dies at 46
1994 - John DeLaFose, zydeco musician, dies at 55
1994 - Karl R Popper, philosopher (Poverty of Historianism), dies at 92
1994 - Paul Nicholas Young, architect, dies at 47
1995 - Grady Sutton, actor (Come Blow Your Horn, Flying Blind), dies at 87
1995 - Yehuda Meir Getz, rabbi/soldier/religious leader, dies at 71
1995 - Lucien Victor, Belgian cyclist (b. 1931)
1996 - Jessie "Ooh Poo Pah Doo" Hill, jazz musician, dies at 63
1997 - Jan Peder Syse, PM of Norway (1989-90), dies
1997 - John Seldon Whale, theologian, dies at 100
1997 - Red Skelton, comedian (Red Skelton Show), dies at 84
1998 - Ted Binion, Las Vegas casino heir (b. 1943)
1999 - Frankie Vaughan, British singer (b. 1928)
2000 - Nicole Reinhart, American cyclist (b. 1976)
2000 - Paula Yates, English TV personality (b. 1960)
2001 - Lou Dog, Sublime mascot.
2003 - Erich Hallhuber, German actor (b. 1951)
2005 - Alfred Reed, American composer (b. 1921)
2006 - Patricia Kennedy Lawford, American socialite (b. 1924)
2009 - Noordin Mohammad Top, Malaysian Islamist terrorist (b. 1968)
2011 - Colin Madigan, Australian architect (b. 1921)
2012 - Russell E. Train, American environmentalist, dies at 92

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 18, 2013, 09:23:15 AM

This Day in History for 18th September


Historical Events

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Explorer of the New World                      Education Pioneer                                 Dictator of Nazi Germany
Christopher Columbus                             Booker T. Washington                                     Adolf Hitler

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Chinese Communist Revolutionary
and Politician Mao Tse-Tung


96 - Nerva is proclaimed Roman Emperor after Domitian is assassinated.
324 - Chrysopolis Emperor Constantine beats Emperor Licinius
1180 - Philip Augustus becomes king of France.
1437 - Peasant uprising in Transsylvania
1454 - In the Battle of Chojnice, the Polish army is defeated by the Teutonic army during the
          Thirteen Years' War.
1502 - Christopher Columbus lands at Costa Rica on his 4th & last voyage
1544 - English King Henry VIII's troops occupy Boulogne
1544 - Peace of Crépy: Holy Roman Emperor Charles V & French King Francis I
1573 - Spain attacks Alkmaar
1635 - Emperor Ferdinand II declares war on France
1679 - New Hampshire becomes a county in Massachusetts Bay Colony
1739 - Turkey & Austria sign peace treaty-Austria cedes Belgrade to Turks
1755 - Fort Ticonderoga, New York opens
1759 - Battle of Quebec ends, French surrender to British who capture Quebec City
1769 - John Harris builds 1st spinet piano (US)
1789 - 1st loan is made to pay salaries of the presidents & Congress
1793 - President George Washington lays cornerstone of Capitol building
1809 - Royal Opera House in London opens
1810 - Chile declares independence from Spain (National Day)
1811 - British expeditionary army conquerors Dutch Indies
1812 - Fire in Moscow destroys 90% of houses & 1,000 churchs
1838 - Anti-Corn Law League established by Richard Cobden
1842 - 1st edition of Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, published
1846 - Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning exchange last letters before eloping
1848 - Baseball rules 1st baseman can tag base for out instead of runner
1849 - De Kempenae's Dutch government resigns
1850 - Congress passes Fugitive Slave Law as part of Compromise of 1850
1851 - New York Times starts publishing (2 cents a copy)
1862 - Confederate armies officially divide into corps
1862 - General Read army pulls out of Antietam Creek Virginia
1864 - Battle of Martinsburg WV
1864 - Hood's Tennessee campaign begins (also called The Franklin–Nashville Campaign), American
           Civil War
1872 - King Oscar II accedes to the throne of Sweden-Norway.
1873 - Government bond agent Jay Cooke & Co collapses, causing panic on Wall St, the start of the
           panic of 1873
1879 - The Blackpool Illuminations are switched on for the first time.
1881 - Chicago Tribune reports on a televideo experiment
1882 - Pacific Stock Exchange opens (as Local Security Board)
1885 - Riots break out in Montreal to protest against compulsory smallpox vaccination.
1888 - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Sign of Four" (BG)
1891 - Harriet Maxwell Converse is 1st white woman to become an Indian chief
1895 - Booker T. Washington delivers 'Atlanta Compromise' address
1895 - Daniel David Palmer of Davenport, Iowa gives the first chiropractic adjustment
1897 - Gustave Kecker/Hugh Martin's musical "Belle of NYC," premieres in NYC
1898 - Lord Kitchener's ships reach Fashoda, Sudan
1903 - Phillies' Chick Fraser no-hits Chicago Cubs, 10-0
1905 - Electric tramline opens in Rotterdam
1906 - A typhoon with tsunami kills an estimated 10,000 people in Hong Kong.
1908 - Cleve Indian Bob "Dusty" Rhoades no-hits Boston, 2-1
1909 - Largest paid baseball attendance (35,409), A's beat Tigers, 2-0 in Det
1910 - 25,000 demonstrate in Amsterdam for general male/female suffrage
1911 - Britain's 1st twin-engine airplane (Short S.39) test flown
1911 - Louis Napoleon Parker's "Disraeli," premieres in NYC
1914 - Battle of Aisne ends with Germans beating French during WW I
1914 - Gen von Hindenburgs named commander of German armies on Eastern Front
1914 - Irish Home Rule bill receives Royal assent
1914 - South African troops land in German South West Africa
1915 - Boston Braves trounce St Louis Cardinals 20-1
1918 - Battle of Megiddo (Palestine) starts
1919 - Dutch second chamber accepts female suffrage
1919 - Hurricane tides 16 feet above normal drown 280 along Gulf Coast
1922 - 2nd government of Ruys de Beerenbrouck installed in Netherlands
1922 - Browns George Sisler's 41-game hit streak is stopped by NY's Joe Bush
1922 - Hungary admitted to League of Nations
1924 - Government routes 7 Provinces to Peking
1925 - Bill Tilden wins 6th straight US tennis championship
1926 - 46th US Men's Tennis: Rene Lacoste beats Jean Borotra (64 60 64)
1926 - Hurricane hits Miami, kills 250
1926 - Jean Rene Lacoste wins US Tennis Open
1927 - The Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air. with 18 stations (and WOR as NYC
           affiliate)
1928 - Cards beat Phillies for 20th of 22 games in 1928
1928 - Juan de la Cierva flies 1st helicopter above Channel
1929 - Pirates loss to Braves & clinch NL pennant for the Cubs
1929 - Preston Sturges' "Strictly Dishonorable," premieres in NYC
1930 - Enterprise (US) beats Shamrock V (England) in 15th America's Cup
1930 - NY Yankee pitcher Red Ruffing hits 2 HRs to beat St Louis Browns, 7-6
1930 - Phila A's win AL championship for 2nd year in a row
1931 - Japan takes Manchuria, renames it Manchukuo
1932 - Actress Peg Entwistle commits suicide by jumping from the letter "H" in the Hollywood sign.
1934 - St Louis Brown Bobo Newsom loses no-hitter to Boston in 10, 2-1
1934 - USSR admitted to League of Nations
1938 - Chicago Bears beat Green Bay Packers 2-0
1938 - Despite losing a double header, Yanks clinch pennant #10
1939 - Polish government of Moscicki flees to Romania
1939 - William Joyce's first Nazi propaganda broadcast.
1940 - 19 German aircraft shot down above England
1940 - Elmer Harris' "Johnny Belinda," premieres in NYC
1940 - Italian troops conquer Sidi Barrani
1942 - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation authorized for radio service
1943 - Cardinals clinch NL pennant
1943 - Hitler orders deportation of Danish Jews (unsuccessful)
1944 - British submarine Tradewind torpedoes Junyo Maru: 5,600 killed
1944 - Eindhoven free (Lightly Day)
1944 - US 266th division occupiers Brest Bretagne
1945 - 1000 whites walk out of Gary Ind schools to protest integration
1946 - Joe Louis KOs Tami Mauriello in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
1947 - National Security Act passes
1947 - US Air Force forms
1948 - "Hilarities (of 1949)" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 14 perfs
1948 - Communist Madiun-uprising in Dutch Indies (Muso/Sjarifudin)
1948 - Ralph J Bunche confirmed as acting UN mediator in Palestine
1949 - Baseball major league record 4 grand slams hit
1950 - Nakagawa Soen, Zen teacher, receives dharma transmission
1954 - Cleveland Indians clinch AL pennant, beat Tigers (3-2)
1954 - KTUL TV channel 8 in Tulsa, OK (ABC) begins broadcasting
1954 - WLOS TV channel 13 in G'ville-Spartanburg, SC (ABC) 1st broadcast
1955 - Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Mile High Golf Open
1955 - Willie Mays hits record tying 9th HR at Ebbets Field (ties Joe Adcock)
1956 - Mickey Mantle is 8th to hit 50 HRs in a seaon
1957 - "Wagon Train" premieres
1957 - Electric train joining in Amsterdam-Brussels
1959 - Vanguard 3 launched into Earth orbit
1960 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Memphis Golf Open
1961 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1962 - Bob Aspromonte sets NL 3rd baseman record of 57 cons errorless games
1962 - Charlie Finley is denied permission to move As to Dallas-Fort Worth
1962 - Rwanda, Burundi, Jamaica & Trinidad admitted (105th-108th) to UN
1962 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1963 - Final game at Polo Grounds, 1,752 see Phillies beat Mets 5-1
1963 - USSR orders 58.5 million barrels of cereal from Australia
1964 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1965 - "Get Smart" premieres
1965 - Mickey Mantle Day at Yankee Stadium: Mantle play his 2,000th game
1966 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Shirley Englehorn Golf Invitational
1967 - Intrepid (US) beats Dame Pattie (Aust) in 21st America's Cup
1968 - Ray Washburn (Cards) no-hits SF Giants 2-0
1969 - Tiny Tim & Miss Vicky get engaged
1971 - 19th Ryder Cup: US beats Europe, 18½-13½ at Old Warson Country Club (St. Louis,
           Missouri, US)
1972 - 1st black NL umpire (Art Williams-Los Angeles vs San Diego)
1973 - German FR & German DR admitted to UN
1974 - Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110 mph winds, 5,000 die
1975 - Heiress/bank robber Patricia Campbell Hearst captured by FBI in SF
1976 - Cleve manager Frank Robinson last game as a player
1976 - Dom Mintoff's Labour Party wins Malta election
1976 - Rev Sun Myung Moon holds "God Bless America" convention
1976 - Rock Music Award
1976 - Mao Zedong's funeral takes place in Beijing.
1977 - Brooks Robinson Night in Baltimore
1977 - Courageous (US) sweeps Australia (Aust) in 24th America's Cup
1977 - Joanne Carner/Judy Rankin wins LPGA National Team Golf Championship
1977 - US Voyager I takes 1st space photograph of Earth & Moon together
1978 - All 4 Kiss members release solo albums
1979 - Bolshoi Ballet dancers Leonid & Valentina Kozlov defect
1979 - Steven Lachs, appointed Calif's 1st admittedly gay judge
1979 - The Who opens NYC concerts at Madison Square Garden
1980 - "Les Miserables" opens at Palais des Sports, Paris
1980 - Royals Willie Wilson steals AL-record 28 consecutive base
1980 - Soyuz 38 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Cuban) to Salyut 6 space station
1981 - Assemblée Nationale votes to abolish capital punishment in France.
1982 - Christian militia begin massacre of 600 Palestinians in Lebanon
1983 - George Meegen completes 2,426d (19K mi) walk across Western Hemisphere
1983 - Juli Inkster wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
1983 - Lebanese & Syrian army battle
1983 - New Orleans Saints 1st OT victory; beating Chic Bears 34-31
1984 - Joe Kittinger completes 1st solo balloon crossing of Atlantic
1984 - Tigers clinch AL East championship (spent all year in 1st place)
1984 - Tim Raines is 1st player with 4 consecutive 70-stolen-base seasons
1985 - "Song & Dance" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 474 performances
1985 - BBC Radio reports prime # 2^216091-1 found in Houston
1986 - David Boon's 3rd Test cricket century, 122 v India at Madras
1987 - Detroit Tiger Darrell Evans is 1st 40 year old to hit 30 HRs
1987 - US & Russia sign accord to remove mid range missiles
1987 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1988 - Burma suspends its constitution
1988 - Coup in Haiti
1988 - Juli Inkster wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
1989 - Hurricane Hugo causes extensive damage in Puerto Rico
1990 - 500 lb 6' Hershey Kiss is displayed at 1 Times Square, NYC
1990 - Atlanta is chosen to host 1996 (centennial) Summer Olympics
1990 - Liechtenstein becomes a member of the United Nations.
1991 - John Hart becomes general manager of Cleveland Indians
1991 - NCAA places Tenn on 2 yrs probation for football recruting violations
1991 - Robert Helmick resigns as pres of US Olympic Committee
1991 - Space shuttle STS 48 (Discovery 14) lands
1991 - Yugoslavia begins a naval blockade of 7 Adriatic port cities.
1993 - Kimberly Clarice Aiken (SC), 18, crowned 67th Miss America 1994
1993 - LA Mighty Ducks play their 1st NHL pre-season game against Penguins
1993 - Trailing 3-1 with 2 outs in 9th, time is called prior to Mike Stanley pop out, gets a 2nd chance,
           & Yanks rally to beat Boston 4-3
1994 - 1st Presidents Golf Cup: US beats Intl team 20-12 at Robert Jones Va
1994 - Austrian conservative FVP wins election; extreme right gets 18.5%
1994 - Deb Richard wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
1994 - Ken Burn's "Baseball" premieres on PBS
1994 - Sweden social-democratic SPD wins parliamentary election
1995 - Art Modell 1st meets (he claims) with Balt to move Browns
1995 - Space shuttle STS-69 (Endeavour 9), lands
1996 - Roger Clemens ties his own major league record with 20 strikeouts
1997 - Seve Ballesteros & Nick Faldo elected to World Golf Hall of Fame
1997 - Ted Turner gives $1 billion to UN
1997 - Voters in Wales vote yes (50.3%) in a referendum on Welsh autonomy.
1998 - ICANN is formed.
2001 - First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
2003 - The United Kingdom's Local Government Act 2003, repealing controversial Section 28 of the
           Local Government Act 1988, receives Royal Assent.
2006 - Right wing protesters riot the building of the Hungarian Television in Budapest, Hungary, one
           day after an audio tape was made public, in which Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány admitted
           he and his party lied during the 2006 general elections.
2007 - Pervez Musharraf announces that he will step down as army chief and restore civilian rule to
           Pakistan, but only after he is re-elected president.
2007 - Buddhist monks join anti-government protesters in Myanmar, starting what some called the
           Saffron Revolution.
2009 - The 72 year run of the soap opera The Guiding Light ends as its final episode is broadcast.
2012 - 10 soliders are killed and 70 injured by a missile attack by Kurdish militants in Bingol, Turkey
2012 - 26 people are killed in a fire in a Pemex gas facility in Reynosa, Mexico
2012 - The Chicago Teachers Union and Chicago Public Schools reach a deal that ends an 8-day
           strike.
2012 - World's first mother-to-daughter uterus transplant undertaken at the University of
          Gothenburg

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 18, 2013, 10:35:40 AM

This Day in History for 18th September


Famous Weddings

1955 - Actress-singer Debbie Reynolds (23) weds singer Eddie Fisher (27)
1955 - Argentine Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara (27) weds Peruvian economist Hilda Gadea (34)
           in Mexico
1964 - Greek king Constantine II marries Danish princess Anne-Marie
1985 - Comedian Jeff Foxworthy (27) weds Pamela Gregg at New York City's Central Park
2004 - Pop star Britney Spears (22) weds rapper-dancer Kevin Federline (26) in Studio City,
          California
2006 - Chinese movie actor Nicholas Tse (26) weds HK actress and cantopop singer Cecilia Cheung
           (26) at Palawan island in the Philippines
2009 - Grammy-winning rock-folk singer Lucinda Williams (56) weds manager Tom Overby at First
           Avenue in Minneapolis
2010 - Pearl Jam singer Eddie Vedder (45) weds model Jill McCormick (32) in Hawaii

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 18, 2013, 10:44:58 AM

This Day in History for 18th September


Famous Birthdays

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Roman Emperor Trajan (53)                     Actress Greta Garbo (1905)                     Professional Road Cyclist and
                                                                                                                             Testicular Cancer Survivor 
                                                                                                                             Lance Armstrong (1971)                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                       


53 - Trajan, ancient Hispania, XIII Roman Emperor, (Trajan's Forum), (d. 117)
1344 - Marie Valois, Princess of France (d. 1404)
1434 - Eleanor of Portugal, Holy Roman Empress (d. 1467)
1574 - Claudio Achillini, Italian lawyer/poet
1587 - Francesca Caccini, Italian composer (d. circa 1640)
1636 - Pietro Sanmartini, composer
1676 - Eberhard Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1733)
1684 - Johann Gottfried Walther, Erfurt Germany, composer/Musicographer
1709 - Samuel Johnson, Lichfield Staffordshire, England, lexicographer/writer (Boswell's Tour Guide)
1713 - Jean Allamand, French theologist/natural philosopher
1733 - George Read, US judge/signer (Declaration of Independence)
1750 - Tomas de Iriarte, Spanish writer (Fabulas Literarias)
1752 - Adrien-Marie Lagendre, mathematician, worked on elliptic integrals
1752 - Johann Anton Sulzer, composer
1765 - Oliver Holden, composer
1772 - Martin-Pierre Dalvimare, composer
1779 - Joseph Story, Mass, 19th Supreme Court justice (1812-45)
1786 - Justinus AC Kerner, German family doctor/poet/writer
1787 - Johann D Passavant, German historian/painter/graphic artist
1805 - Robert Cowdin, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1874
1812 - Herschel Vespasian Johnson, American politician (d. 1880)
1815 - Henry Constantine Wayne, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1818 - Marcellus Augustus Stovall, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1837 - Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos, (Portuguese) Archbishop of Goa (d. 1880)
1838 - Anton Mauve, painter/graphic artist/cousin of Vincent Van Gogh
1859 - John L. Bates, 41st Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1946)
1859 - Lincoln Loy McCandless, American cattle rancher (d. 1940)
1860 - Alberto Franchetti, composer
1863 - Hermann Kutter, Swiss Christ-social theologist
1870 - Clark Wissler, anthropologist (American Indian)
1874 - Johannes Anker Larsen, Danish writer (Vises Sten)
1875 - Tomas Burgos, Chilean philanthropist (d.1945)
1876 - Milan Rakic, Serbian poet (Pesme)
1876 - James Scullin, 9th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1953)
1877 - Jozef de Voght, Flemish priest/songwriter (Under the Snow)
1883 - Lord Berners, [Gerald Tyrwhitt], England, composer (1st Childhood)
1885 - Abdul Muslim Mahomayev, composer
1889 - Doris Blackburn, Australian politician (d. 1970)
1890 - Vladimir Ambros, composer
1893 - Arthur Benjamin, Sydney Australia, composer (Jamaican Rumba)
1893 - William March, [Campbell], US, writer (Company K)
1895 - John G Diefenbaker, Neustadt Ontario, 13th Canadian PM (C) (1957-63)
1895 - Tomoji Tanabe, the oldest man in the world as of June 2007
1897 - John Mens, writer (People Without Money)
1897 - Pablo Sorozabal Marialcurrena, composer
1901 - Harold Clurman, producer/director (Deadline at Dawn)
1905 - Agnes De Mille, NYC, choreographer (Oklahoma)
1905 - Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Oakland California, actor (Jack Benny Show)
1905 - Greta Garbo, Stockholm Sweden, actress (Ninotchka, Grand Hotel, Camille), (d. 1990)
1906 - Semjon I Kirsanov, Ukrainian poet (Semj Dnej Nedeli) [OS=Sept 5]
1907 - Edwin M McMillan, US, physicist/discoverer plutonium (Nobel prize)
1908 - Viktor A Ambartsoemjan, Russian astronomer (Stalin Prize 1946, 50)
1910 - Henri A Cornelis, gov-general Belgian Congo/Rwanda-Urundi
1910 - Josef Tal, composer
1910 - Leon Stein, composer
1911 - Syd Howe, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1976)
1912 - Kurt Lotz, German business executive, second postwar CEO of Volkswagen (d. 2005)
1914 - Jack Cardiff, British film director
1915 - Hetta Empson, artist
1915 - Ronald Ogden, engineer
1916 - John J Rhodes, (Rep-R-Az)
1916 - Rossano Brazzi, Bolognia Italy, actor/director (Antaeus-Survivors)
1916 - Frank Bell, British educator (d. 1989)
1917 - Alan Ande Anderson, opera director
1917 - Gerrit Borgers, literature
1918 - John Berger, politician
1920 - Jack Warden, Newark NJ, actor (NYPD, Crazy Like a Fox, Norby)
1922 - Grayson Hall, American actress (d. 1985)
1922 - Ray Steadman-Allen, English composer
1923 - J T Mellema, Boer politician (CHU)
1923 - Peter Smithson, English architect (d. 2003)
1923 - Queen Anne of Romania
1924 - Zelda Fichandler, Boston, theater director/producer (Raisin, K2)
1925 - Harvey Haddix, baseball pitcher (pitched perfect game into 12th)
1926 - Bud Greenspan, documentary maker (Olympic Games)
1926 - Bob Toski, American golfer
1927 - Gerlando Alberti, Palermo, Italy, Sicilian Mafioso (Ciaculli massacre, 1963, 'Mafia! What is that?
           A kind of cheese'), (d. 2012)
1928 - Adam Walacinski, composer
1928 - Phyllis Kirk, Syracuse NY, actress (Thin Man, Red Button's Show)
1929 - June Rosemary Fisher, teacher/trade unionist
1929 - Louis Myers, blues guitarist /harmonica player
1932 - Jack Mullaney, Pitts Pa, actor (My Living Doll, It's About Time)
1932 - Nikolai N Rukavishnikov, Siberia, cosmonaut (Soyuz 10, 16, 33)
1932 - Valery Viktorovich Ryumin, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 25, 32/34, 35/37)
1933 - Jimmie Rodgers, WA, singer/guitarist (Jimmie Rodgers Show, Honey Comb)
1933 - Manfred Niehaus, composer
1933 - Robert Blake, Nutley NJ, (Baretta, Little Rascals, Coast to Coast)
1933 - Robert F Bennett, (Sen-R Utah)
1933 - Scotty Bowman, NHL player/coach (Mont Canadians)
1933 - Valentina Ponomaryova, Moscow, Soviet cosmonaut (Vostok 6 backup)
1937 - Norman Dinnerstein, composer
1939 - Bob Whittaker, (Rep-R-KS, 1979- )
1939 - Fred Willard, Ohio, comedian (Fernwood 2 Night, Real People)
1939 - Naresh Kumar Sohal, composer
1939 - Jorge Sampaio, President of Portugal
1940 - Frankie Avalon, Phila, actor (Beach movies)/singer (Venus)
1941 - Clive Burton, neuropathologist
1941 - Haflidi Magnus Hallgrimmson, composer
1941 - Mariangela Melato, Milan Italy, actress (Flash Gordon, Summer Night)
1942 - Koos van den Berg, Dutch MP (SGP)
1942 - Alex Stepney, English football goalkeeper
1943 - Michael Vetter, composer
1944 - Charles Lacy Veach, Chicago Illinois, astronaut (STS 39, STS 52)
1944 - Michael Franks, rocker
1944 - Rocío Jurado, Spanish singer and actress (d. 2006)
1946 - Alan "Bam" King, rocker
1946 - Nicholas Clay, English actor (d. 2000)
1946 - Otis Sistrunk, American football player
1947 - Hans Vermeulen, singer/guitarist (Sandy Coast)
1947 - Giancarlo Minardi, Italian motor racing team boss
1948 - Ken Brett, American baseball player (d. 2003)
1949 - Jim McCrery, (Rep-R-Louisiana)
1949 - Kerry Livgren, Kansas, rock guitarist (Kansas)
1949 - Mo Mowlam, British politician (d. 2005)
1949 - Peter Shilton, English footballer
1949 - Billy Drago, American actor
1950 - Helene Weijel, author (In the Street Without a Coat)
1950 - Mike Hossack, Patterson NJ, rock drummer (Doobie Brothers), (d. 2012)
1950 - Shabana Azmi, Indian actress
1950 - Darryl Sittler, Canadian ice hockey player
1951 - Dee Dee Ramone, Virg, [Douglas Colvin], rock bassist (Ramones)
1951 - Benjamin Carson, American neurosurgeon
1951 - Marc Surer, Swiss motor racing driver
1952 - Rick Pitino, American basketball coach
1953 - Betsy Boze née: Vogel, American academic
1954 - Murtaza Bhutto, politician
1954 - Takao Doi, Tokyo Japan, astronaut (STS 87)
1954 - Tommy Tuberville, American football coach
1955 - Jeana Tomasino, Milwaukee Wis, playmate (Nov, 1980)
1955 - Bob Papenbrook, American voice actor (d. 2006)
1956 - Peter Šťastný, Slovak ice hockey player
1956 - Chris Hedges, American journalist and author
1958 - John Aldridge, Irish footballer
1958 - Don Geronimo, American radio personality
1959 - Ryne Sandberg, Spokane WA, infielder (Chicago Cubs)
1959 - Ian Arkwright, English footballer
1959 - Mark Romanek, American filmmaker
1960 - Karim Rashid, Egyptian/English industrial designer
1961 - Jensen Buchanan, Montgomery Ala, actress (Vicky/Marley-Another World)
1961 - Sharon Barrett, San Diego, LPGA golfer (1993 Nabisco Dinah Shore-22nd)
1961 - James Gandolfini, American actor, (d. 2013)
1962 - Joanne Catherall, Sheffield England, rock vocalist (Human League)
1962 - John Fashanu, English footballer
1963 - Rich Weiss, Munich Germany, US slalom single kayak (Olympics-6th-96)
1963 - Rob Brettle, British historian
1963 - Jim Pocklington, British racing driver
1964 - Holly Robinson, Phila, actress (21 Jump Street)
1964 - Marco Masini, Italian entertainer
1966 - Isabelle Demongeot, Gassin France, tennis star
1966 - Spike, guitarist (Ian Spice Breathe, Flash Cadillac) [or Feb 4]
1967 - Ricky Bell, Boston Mass, rock vocalist (New Edition, Bell Biv Devoe)
1967 - Tara Fitzgerald, Sussex England, actress (Siren)
1968 - Toni Kukoc, NBA forward (Chicago Bulls)
1968 - Cappadonna, American rapper
1969 - Robert Coons, NFL tight end (Buffalo Bills)
1970 - Everett Lindsay, NFL guard/center (Minnesota Vikings)
1970 - Gary Rogers, CFL linebacker (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1970 - Michela Rocco, Udine Italy, Miss Italy (1987)
1970 - Mike Compton, NFL center/guard (Detroit Lions)
1970 - Dan Eldon, British photojournalist (d. 1993)
1970 - Aisha Tyler, American actress and comedian
1971 - Jada Pinkett, actress (Jason's Lyric, Menace II Society)
1971 - Kate Starre, Armadale Australia, field hockey utility (Olympics-96)
1971 - Lance Armstrong, Plano Texas, American road cyclist (7 Tour de France wins) barred from
           sport for using banned drugs
1971 - Oleg Ladik, Kiev Ukraine, Canadian 100 kg freestyle wrestler (Oly-96)
1971 - Ron Childs, NFL linebacker (NO Saints)
1971 - Anna Netrebko, Russian opera singer
1972 - Francois Gesthuizen, soccer player (PSV, NAC)
1972 - Michael Landes, actor (American Summer)
1972 - Richard Huntley, NFL running back (Atlanta Falcons)
1972 - Brigitte Becue, Belgian swimmer
1972 - David Jefferies, British motorcycle racer (d. 2003)
1973 - Paul Brousseau, Canadian ice hockey player
1973 - James Marsden, American actor
1973 - Ami Onuki, Japanese singer (Puffy AmiYumi)
1973 - Mark Shuttleworth, South African entrepreneur
1974 - Sol Campbell, English footballer
1974 - Ticha Penicheiro, Portuguese basketball player
1974 - Xzibit, American rapper
1975 - Kanstantsin Lukashyk, Belarusian pistol shooter
1975 - Jason Sudeikis, American actor and comedian
1975 - "Habacuc" Guillermo Vargas, Costa Rican artist
1976 - Gabriel Gervais, Canadian football player
1977 - Li Tie, Chinese footballer
1977 - Kieran West, British oarsman
1978 - Shelly Moore, Miss Teen USA (Tennessee, 1997)
1978 - Augustine Simo, Cameroonian footballer
1978 - Pilar López de Ayala, Spanish actress
1979 - Alison Lohman, American actress
1979 - Daniel Aranzubia, Spanish footballer
1980 - Avi Strool, Israeli footballer
1980 - Charles Hedger - British musician (Cradle of Filth)
1980 - Chris Tarrant, Australian football player
1981 - Jennifer Tisdale, American actress and model
1983 - Kevin Doyle, Irish footballer
1984 - Anthony Gonzalez, American football player
1986 - Keeley Hazell, British model
1988 - Annette Obrestad, Norwegian poker player

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 18, 2013, 10:47:29 AM

This Day in History for 18th September


Famous Deaths

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Rock Guitarist Jimi Hendrix (1970)


31 - Sejanus, Roman head of praetorian guard, executed
96 - Domitian, Roman emperor, dies
887 - Pietro I Candiano, Doge of Venice (killed in battle)
993 - Arnulf vanf Gent, Westfries earl (988-93), dies in battle
1137 - Erik II Eimune, [Onvergetelijke], king of Denmark (1134-37), murdered
1180 - Louis VII, King of France, dies
1261 - Koenraad van Hochstaden, archbishop of Cologne, dies
1426 - Hubert [Huybrecht] van Eyck, painter, dies
1598 - Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Japanese warlord (b. 1536)
1630 - Melchior Klesl, Austrian cardinal and statesman (b. 1552)
1663 - St Joseph of Cupertino, Italian saint (b. 1603)
1675 - Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1604)
1684 - Jan A "Joannes" Antonides van der Goes, poet (Ystroom), dies at 37
1721 - Matthew Prior, poet/diplomat, dies
1722 - André Dacier, French classical scholar (b. 1651)
1735 - Justus van Effen, writer/founder (Holland Spectator), dies at 51
1775 - Andrew Foulis, bookseller/printer, dies
1783 - Leonhard Euler, mathematician, dies
1783 - Benjamin Kennicott, English churchman and Hebrew scholar (b. 1718)
1792 - Gottlieb August Spangenberg, founder (Moravian Church in Amer), dies
1797 - Louis-Lazare Hoche, French revolutionary general, dies
1806 - Patrick Cotter O'Brien, first known eight-foot-tall person (b. 1760)
1818 - Olaf Swaertz, botanist, dies
1827 - Robert Pollok, poet, dies
1830 - William Hazlitt, critic/essayist, dies
1831 - Peter Hansel, composer, dies at 60
1857 - Karol Kazimierz Kurpinski, composer, dies at 72
1860 - Casimiro de Abreu, Brazilians poet (Primaveras), dies
1860 - Joseph Locke, railway engineer, dies
1872 - Charles XV Louis E, king of Sweden/Norway (1859-72), dies
1890 - Dion Boucicault, Irish/US actor/playwright (Octoroon), dies at 67
1891 - William Ferrel, American mathematician (b. 1817)
1896 - Armand-Hippolyte-Louis Fizeau, physicist, dies
1903 - Isidor Vorobchievici, composer, dies at 67
1903 - Theodore Furchtegott Kirchner, composer, dies at 79
1904 - Herbert von Bismarck, German politician/son of Otto, dies
1905 - George MacDonald, sci-fi author (Princess & Curdie), dies at 80
1911 - Russian Premier Peter Stolypin (1906-11), shot and murdered at the Kiev Opera House aged
           49
1918 - Ernest Bristow Farrar, composer, dies at 33
1924 - Francis Herbert Bradley, British philosopher (neo-idealism), dies
1929 - Hermann Gradener, composer, dies at 85
1931 - Hazrat Babajan, a Baloch Muslim saint (b. c. 1806)
1934 - Marie Shotwell, actress (Sally of the Sawdust), dies at 54
1939 - Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Polish writer, painter, and photographer (b. 1885)
1939 - Gwen John, Welsh painter, dies aged 63
1944 - Anthony Stefanich, British boxer/captain, killed in Arnhem
1944 - Hendrikus Colijn, Dutch premier (1933-39), dies at 75
1944 - Hubert Ahaus, chaplin (Godsrijk), dies at 67
1944 - Peter Waddy, British major 1st Para Brigade, dies in battle in Arnhem
1944 - Robert Cole, US lt-colonel, dies in battle at Best
1945 - Blind Willie Johnson American blues/spiritual singer and guitarist (b. 1897)
1949 - Frank Morgan, actor (Wizard of Oz), dies at 59
1951 - John Douglas Cockcroft, physicist, dies
1952 - Hippoliet Daeye, Flemish painter (Dreamy), dies
1953 - Charles de Tornaco, Belgian racing driver (b. 1927)
1956 - Adélard Godbout, premier of Quebec (b. 1892)
1960 - A J Evans, cricketer (only England Test v Aus 1921), dies
1961 - Dag Hammarskjoeld, UN Sect Gen, dies in an air crash over Congo at 56
1962 - Therese Neumann, German stigma, dies at 64
1964 - Sean O'Casey, Irish playwright (The Plough and the Stars), dies at 84
1964 - Clive Bell, English art critic (b. 1881)
1966 - Fernand Lamy, composer, dies at 85
1966 - Jeno Vecsey, composer, dies at 57
1967 - John Cockcroft, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
1968 - Franchot Tone, actor (Advise & Consent, Dark Waters), dies at 63
1968 - Francis McDonald, actor (Will-Adv of Champion), dies at 77
1968 - Willem Kooiman, Dutch theologist/church historian, dies at 65
1969 - Rudolph Wagner-Regeny, composer, dies at 66
1970 - Jimi Hendrix, rock guitarist (Purple Haze), dies of a drug overdose at 27
1973 - Nora Nicholson, actress (Blue Lagoon, Crow Hollow), dies at 80
1974 - Edna Best, actress (Key, Calendar, Escape), dies at 74
1975 - Pamela Brown, actress (Cleopatra, Beckett, Night Digger), dies at 58
1977 - Paul Bernays, Swiss mathematician (b. 1888)
1979 - Gene Kelly, sportscaster (Sportsreel), dies at 60
1980 - K A Porter, writer, dies at 90
1994 - Franco Moschino, Italian fashion designer, dies at 44
1994 - Vitas Gerulaitis, tennis star (Davis Cup 1979), dies at 40
1995 - Donald Alfred Davie, poet/critic, dies at 73
1995 - Doreen Cannon, teacher of acting (London), dies at 64
1995 - Lesley Sunderland, decorative artist, dies at 47
1995 - Oleg Tverdokhleb, Ukrainian athlete (b. 1969)
1996 - Spiro Theodore Agnew, US VP (1969-73), dies at 77
1997 - Harry Brian Boyne, journalist, dies at 87
1997 - Jimmy Witherspoon, singer, dies at 65
2001 - Ernie Coombs, Canadian entertainer (b. 1927)
2002 - Bob Hayes, American athlete (b. 1942)
2002 - Mauro Ramos, Brazilian football player (b. 1930)
2003 - Emil Fackenheim, German Holocaust survivor and philosopher (b. 1916)
2003 - Bob Mitchell, British politician (b. 1927)
2004 - Norman Cantor, Canadian historian (b. 1929)
2004 - Russ Meyer, American film director (b. 1922)
2005 - Michael Park, British Rally co-driver (b. 1966)
2006 - Edward J. King, 66th Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1925)
2007 - Pepsi Tate Bassist from the glam-rock band, tigertailz (b. 1965)
2012 - Jack Kralick, American MLB pitcher, dies from complications from strokes at 77
2012 - Steve Sabol, American filmmaker, dies from brain cancer at 69

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 19, 2013, 11:06:17 AM

This Day in History for 19th September


Historical Events

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Naturalist Charles Darwin                        Comedian Charlie Chaplin                  First Secretary of the Communist
                                                                                                                               Party of the Soviet Union
                                                                                                                                     Nikita Khrushchev

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Actress Mary Tyler Moore                       Comedian Jerry Seinfeld


335 - Dalmatius is raised to the rank of Caesar by his uncle Constantine I.
1356 - English defeat French at Battle of Poitiers
1523 - Emperor Charles I & England sign anti-French covenant
1559 - 5 Spanish ships sinks in storm off Tampa, about 600 die
1580 - Treaty of Plessis-lez-Tours (Anjou/Dutch States-General)
1602 - Grave surrenders to earl Mauritius
1642 - Perpignan surrenders to French troops
1656 - Treaty of Labiau: Sweden gives Prussia, Brandenburg
1657 - Brandenburg & Poland sign Treaty of Wehlau
1668 - Polish king John II Kazimierz resigns/goes to France
1676 - Rebels under Nathaniel Bacon set Jamestown Va on fire
1755 - Great Britain & Russia sign military agreement
1777 - Battle of Freeman's Farm (Bemis Heights) or 1st Battle of Saratoga
1778 - The Continental Congress passes the first budget of the United States.
1795 - Tula, leader of Curacao slave opposition, imprisoned
1796 - George Washington's farewell address as president
1799 - English & Russian invasion army conquerors Receiver
1833 - Charles Darwin visits Guardia del Monte, Argentina
1838 - Ephraim Morris patents railroad brake
1848 - Hyperion, moon of Saturn, discovered by Bond (US) & Lassell (England)
1849 - 1st commercial laundry established, in Oaklan, California
1854 - Henry Meyer patents sleeping rail car
1862 - -20] Battle at Blackford's Ford Virginia
1862 - Battle at Iuka Mississippi (1,700 casualties)
1863 - Battle of Chickamauga GA (near Chattanooga) begins; Union retreat
1864 - 3rd Battle of Winchester Virginia (Opequon, 3rd Winchester)
1865 - Atlanta University forms
1870 - Siege of Paris begins
1873 - Black Friday: Jay Cooke & Co fails, causing a securities panic
1876 - 1st carpet sweeper patented (Melville Bissell of Grand Rapids, Mich)
1876 - Talks begin to set up a football club in Ottawa
1879 - Thomas Ray becomes youngest to break a world track & field record pole-vaulting 11' 2½" at
           age 17 years & 198 days
1888 - World's 1st beauty contest (Spa Belgium)
1890 - Turkish frigate "Ertogrul" burns off of Japan, kills 540
1893 - New Zealand is first country to grant all its women the right to vote
1901 - 11 baseball games canceled due to funeral of Pres William McKinley
1903 - King Leopold II denies Belgian cruelty in Congo
1904 - Gen Nogi's assault on Port Arthur: 16,000 Japanese casualties
1908 - Gustav Mahler's 7th Symphony premieres in Prague
1910 - George Cohan's "Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford" premieres in NYC
1911 - Red Tuesday-20,000 protest for universal rights
1912 - Pius X encyclical Singular quadam, against interconfess unions
1912 - Soccer team NAC (Noad Advendo Combination) forms in Breda
1914 - Brooklyn's Ed Lafitte no-hits KC (Federal League), 6-2
1916 - First landing at Schiphol Airport, Netherlands (Farman F-22 of Soesterberg)
1916 - Belgian troops conquer Tabora, German East Africa
1921 - 41st US Men's Tennis: William T Tilden beats Wm M Johnston (61 63 61)
1922 - Queen Wilhelmina assumes Dutch throne with 119 word speech
1923 - Ernst Tollers "Hinkemann," premieres in Leipzig
1925 - 45th US Men's Tennis: Wm T Tilden beats Wm M Johnston (46 119 63 46 63)
1926 - 80,000 demonstrate for democratic peace in Hague
1926 - The San Siro is inaugurated with a match between AC Milan and Inter.
1928 - Mickey Mouse's screen debut (Steamboat Willie at Colony Theater NYC)
1929 - Latvia dictator A Woldemaras chased out
1931 - 14th PGA Championship: Tom Creavy at Wannamoisett CC Rumford RI
1931 - Japanese troops conquer Mukden, South Manchuria
1931 - Lefty Grove wins his 30th game of season over White Sox, 2-1
1933 - NY Giants clinch the pennant
1934 - Bruno Haptmann arrested for kidnapping Lindbergh baby
1939 - British Expeditionary Force reaches France
1939 - Lord Haw-Haw (William Joyce) becomes radio host of Reichsrundfunk Berlin
1939 - Wehrmacht (German regular army) murders 100 Jews in Lukov Poland
1940 - Nazi decree forbids gentile woman to work in Jewish homes
1940 - Witold Pilecki is voluntarily captured and sent to Auschwitz in order to smuggle out
           information and start a resistance.
1941 - 1st meeting of partisan leaders Tito & Draza Mihailovic in Yugoslavia
1941 - German army conquerors Kiev
1941 - Nazis force German Jews, 6 & over to wear Jewish stars
1943 - Fanny Whiteers-Koen breaks jumping world record
1943 - Liberator bombers sinks U-341
1944 - Finland & Russia agree to cease fire
1944 - Luftwaffe bombs Eindhoven: 200 killed
1944 - Armistice between Finland and Soviet Union is signed. (End of the Continuation War).
1945 - Kim Il Sung arrives in harbor of Wonsan, Korea
1945 - Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce) sentenced to death in London
1947 - Jackie Robinson is named 1947 "Rookie of Year"
1948 - 62nd US Women's Tennis: M Osborne duPont beats A L Brough (46 64 15-13)
1948 - 68th US Men's Tennis: "Pancho" Gonzales beats E Sturgess (62 63 14-12)
1948 - Richard A Gonzales wins US Tennis Open
1950 - European Payment Union forms in Paris
1950 - Great Three acknowledge Bond government as only German government
1950 - UN reject membership of China's People Republic
1951 - 1st broadcast of "Search for Tomorrow" on CBS-TV
1951 - Italian civil servants strike for pay increase
1952 - The United States bars Charlie Chaplin from re-entering the country after a trip to England.
1953 - "Hazel Flagg" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 190 perfs
1954 - Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Wichita Golf Open
1955 - Argentine president Juan Peron, resigns & flees
1955 - Cubs slugger Ernie Banks hits record 5th grand slam of season
1955 - Hurricane Hilda, kills 200 in Mexico
1956 - 1st international conference of black writers & artists meets (Sorbonne)
1957 - 1st underground nuclear explosion at Las Vegas Nevada
1957 - Dalida is the first artist to be awarded a gold record in France for 300,000 sales of "Bambino".
1959 - Nikita Khrushchev is denied access to Disneyland
1960 - Chubby Checkers' "Twist" reaches #1
1961 - Betty and Barney Hill claim that they saw a mysterious craft in the sky and that it tried to
           abduct them.
1962 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1963 - Iota Phi Theta Fraternity, Inc. is founded at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland.
1965 - Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Visalia Golf Open
1965 - Erhards CDU wins West German parliament elections
1966 - Mike Burke named Yankees pres
1967 - Nigeria begins offensive against Biafra
1968 - Denny McLain's 31st win & Mickey Mantle's 535th HR
1970 - "Mary Tyler Moore" show premieres
1971 - 1st NYC Women's Marathon won by Beth Bonner in 2:55:22
1971 - 2nd NYC Marathon won by Norman Higgins in 2:22:54
1972 - A parcel bomb sent to Israeli Embassy in London kills one diplomat.
1973 - Carl XVI Gustaf, becomes King of Sweden
1973 - Frank Robinson homers in record 32nd ML park (Arlington Tx)
1973 - NL refuses to allow San Diego Padres move to Washington DC
1973 - Pirate Radio Free America (off Cape May NJ) forms
1973 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1974 - -20] Hurricane Fifi hits coast of Honduras; about 5,000 die
1975 - Indonesia sends troops to Portuguese East Timor
1976 - "Going Up" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 49 performances
1976 - Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Portland Golf Classic
1979 - No Nukes Concert at Madison Square Garden includes Springsteen & Crosby, Stills & Nash
1980 - Titan II missile explosion (Damascus, AR)
1981 - Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel perform a reunion concert in Central Park
1981 - Satellites China 10 & 11 launched into Earth orbit by B-1 rocket
1981 - Simon & Garfunkel reunite for a NYC Central Park concert
1982 - 34th Emmy Awards: Hill St Blue, Barney Miller, Alan Alda & Carol Kane
1982 - New Orleans Saints 1st road shutout victory beating Chic Bears 10-0
1982 - Sandra Haynie/Kathy McMullen wins Portland Ping Team Golf Championship
1982 - Streetcars stop running on Market St after 122 years of service
1983 - David Slowinski on 2 CRAY-1 comp's find 2^132049-1 prime #
1983 - St Kitts & Nevis declares independence from UK
1984 - Britain & China complete a proposed agreement to transfer Hong Kong to China by 1997
1985 - 12,000 die & 40,000 injured in Mexico's earthquake (8.1)
1986 - "Captain EO" with Michael Jackson premieres
1986 - Chicago White Sox Joe Crowley no-hits California Angels, 7-1
1986 - Dean Jones scores 210 v India at Madras
1986 - Fed health officials announce AZT will be available to AIDS patients
1987 - Kaye Lani Rae Rafko (Mich), 24, crowned 61st Miss America
1988 - Israel launches 1st satellite, for secret military reconnaissance
1988 - US Olympic diver Greg Louganis hits his head on diving board
1989 - Chase Manhattan Discovery Center at Brooklyn Botanic Garden opens
1989 - French DC-10 crashes near Niger, 171 die
1989 - Appeals court restores America's Cup to US after NY Supreme Court gave it to NZ (NZ
           protested US's use of a catamaran)
1991 - Precious Bunny wins the 46th Little Brown Jug
1991 - Ötzi the Iceman is discovered by German tourists.
1992 - Sergei Boebka pole vaults world record (6.13m)
1992 - UN Security Council votes 12-0 (3 abstentions) to dump Yugoslavia
1992 - Barry Bonds joins Willie Mays, Howard Johnson & Ron Gant as having (2) 30-HR/30-steal
           seasons
1993 - 45th Emmy Awards: Seinfeld, Picket Fences & Ted Danson wins
1993 - Actress Michele Phillips (Knots Landing) is robbed at gunpoint
1993 - Brandie Burton wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
1993 - Kimberly Clarice Aiken, 18, Miss SC wins 67th Miss America
1993 - Parliamentary election in Poland
1993 - Tom Glavine wins 20 games in 3 straight years
1994 - 3,000 US militia lands on Haiti
1994 - Swedish government of Bildt resigns
1995 - Andres Galarraga is 4th to hit 30 HRs for Rockies in 1995
1995 - Padres Ken Caminiti switch hits HRs in 3rd of 4 games
1995 - The Washington Post and The New York Times publish the Unabomber's manifesto.
1996 - "Skylight" opens at Royale Theater NYC
1997 - Guelb El-Kebir massacre in Algeria; 53 killed.
2000 - Ken Griffey, Jr. pinch-hits his 400th home run. The first major leaguer to reach the mark as a
           pinch-hitter
2006 - The Thai military stages a coup in Bangkok. The Constitution is revoked and martial law is
           declared.
2012 - 9 people are killed and 20 wounded by a car bombing in Peshawar, Afghanistan

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 19, 2013, 11:27:32 AM

This Day in History for 19th September


Famous Weddings

1945 - Actress Shirley Temple (17) weds actor John Agar (24) in an Episcopal ceremony at Wilshire
           Methodist Church
1964 - Author Peter Benchley (24) weds Winifred B. Wesson
1998 - "Full House" actor John Stamos (35) weds supermodel Rebecca Romijn (25) at The Beverly
           Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills, California
1999 - Chinese martial artist Jet Li (36) weds actress Nina Li Chi (37) in Los Angeles
2008 - NBC's The Biggest Loser contestant Matt Hoover (30) weds Suzy Preston (30) at the Grand
           Lido Negril resort in Jamaica
2009 - "500 Days of Summer" actress Zooey Deschanel (29) weds "Death Cab for Cutie" singer Ben
           Gibbard (33) in Seattle, Washington

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 19, 2013, 11:56:11 AM

This Day in History for 19th September


Famous Birthdays

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Mathematician/Astronomer                        Nobel Laureate and Novelist                  Actor Jeremy Irons (1948)
Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre (1749)            William Golding (1911)         


86 - Antoninus Pius, 15th Roman emperor (138-161)
866 - Leo VI Sophos, Byzantine Emperor (886-912)/writer (Problematica)
1377 - Albert IV, Duke of Austria (d. 1404)
1551 - Henry III, duke of Anjou/king of Poland/France (1573/4-89)
1655 - Jan Luyts, Netherlands, scholar/physicist/mathematician/astronomer
1705 - Henri-Jacques de Croes, Flemish composer/band master
1714 - Charles Humphreys, American delegate to the Continental Congress (d. 1786)
1737 - Charles Carroll, signed Decl of Ind
1749 - Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, French mathematician and astronomer (The History of
           Astronomy), (d. 1822)
1754 - John Ross Key, commissioned officer in the Continental Army, judge, lawyer and the father of
           Francis Scott Key (d. 1821)
1759 - William Kirby, English entomologist (d. 1850)
1769 - Joseph Comb, missionary to Molukkas
1770 - Johann G Repsold, German instrument maker
1778 - Henry Peter Brougham, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (d. 1868)
1796 - Hartley Coleridge, English poet (d. 1849)
1799 - René Caillé, French explorer (d. 1838)
1800 - William Wister McKean, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1865
1802 - Louis Kossuth, Hungary, President of Hungary (1849)
1803 - Maria Anna of Savoy, Empress of Austria and queen of Hungary and Bohemia (d. 1884)
1811 - Orson Pratt, American religious leader (d. 1881)
1822 - Joseph Rodman West, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1824 - Carl Ignaz Franz Umlauf, composer
1828 - Fridolin Anderwert, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1880)
1837 - Adolf Gustaw Sonnenfeld, composer
1862 - Adeline De Walt Reynolds, Benton County IA, actress (Son of Dracula)
1867 - Arthur Rackham, England, artist/illustrator (Grimm's Fairy Tales)
1871 - Fritz Schaudinn, German animal expert (examined syphilis)
1882 - Paul-Marie Masson, composer
1882 - Christopher Stone, first disc jockey in the United Kingdom (d. 1965)
1887 - Lovie Austin, American jazz pianist (d. 1972)
1887 - Lynne Overman, American actor (d. 1943)
1888 - Porter Hall, Cincinnati OH, actor (Half-Breed, Double Indenity)
1888 - J. W. Alexander, American mathematician (d. 1971)
1889 - Ernest Truex, KC Mo, actor (Pop-Pete & Gladys, Mr Peepers)
1889 - Sarah Delany, author/teacher
1894 - Cornelis Rijnsdorp, writer (Kings Children)
1898 - Giuseppe Saragat, president of Italy (1964-71)
1900 - Ricardo Cortez [Jacob Krantz], New York City, New York, American actor and director (The
           Maltese Falcon)
1900 - Solomon Pimsleur, composer
1901 - Joseph Pasternak, film producer (Anchors Aweigh, Date With Judy)
1902 - James Van Alen, created Simplified Scoring System for tennis
1902 - Pieter John Bouman, sociologist/historian
1904 - Bergen Evans, Ohio, English professor ($64,000 Question)
1904 - Karen Aabye, Danish author (Less bedstemor there jomfru)
1905 - Betty Garde, Phila, actress (Aggie-Real McCoys)
1905 - James Holland, artist/exhibition organiser
1905 - Leon Jaworski, American Watergate scandal special prosecutor (d. 1982)
1906 - Dalibor Cyril Vackar, composer
1906 - Massimo Freccia, composer
1907 - Lewis F Powell Jr, Va, Supreme Court justice (1972-87)
1908 - Mika Waltari, novelist (Egyptian)
1908 - Tatsuo Shimabuku, founder of Isshinryu Karate (d. 1975)
1909 - Ferry Porsche, Austrian automobile pioneer (d. 1998)
1910 - Margaret Lindsay, Dubuque Iowa, actress (Take a Guess)
1911 - Gustaf Allan Pettersson, composer
1911 - Weldon Hart, composer
1911 - William Golding, Cornwall England, novelist (Lord of the Flies-Nobel 1983), (d. 1993)
1912 - Emma "Nono" Batenburg, actress (Noah)
1914 - Frances Farmer, Seattle WA, actress (Son of Fury, Among the Living)
1914 - Rogers Morton, Louisville Ky, US Secretary of Interior (1968-75)
1915 - Germán Valdés, Mexican actor, singer and comedian (d. 1973)
1917 - Joe Pasternak, Transylvania Hungary, producer (Spinout, Big City)
1919 - Blanche Thebom, Monessen Penn, mezzo-soprano (Amneris-Aida)
1919 - Harry Shorto, linguist
1920 - Karen Khachiturian, composer
1921 - Billy Ward, US songwriter/singer/pianist/arranger (Dominoes)
1921 - Paulo Freire, Brazilian educator & writer (d. 1997)
1922 - Catherine Mary Hall, nurse
1922 - Damon [Francis] Knight, US, sci-fi author (CV, Beyond the Barrier)
1922 - Dana Zatopek, Czechoslavakia, javelin thrower (Olympic-gold-1952)
1922 - Emil Zatopek, Czechoslavakia, 5K/10K/marathon (Olympic-gold-1952)
1924 - Ernest Tomlinson, composer
1926 - Arthur Wills, composer
1926 - Edwin "Duke" Snider, Bkln Dodger centerfielder (406 HRs)
1926 - Lurieen Wallace, (Gov-D-Ala, 1966-68)
1926 - Pierre Janssen, art museum director
1926 - James Lipton, American actor, writer and host of Inside the Actors Studio
1927 - William Hickey, Brooklyn, New York, American actor (Prizzi's Honor, The Nightmare Before
           Christmas)
1927 - Rosemary Harris, English actress
1928 - Adam West, Walla Walla Wash, actor (Batman, Last Precinct)
1929 - 10th duke of Richmond, English large landowner/art collector
1929 - Margaret S Roukema, (Rep-R-New Jersey, 1981- )
1929 - Timothy Colman, Engl manufacturer/multi-millionaire (Reckitt & Colman)
1930 - Muhal Richard Abrams, composer
1930 - Rosemary Harris, Ashby Suffolk England, actress (Holocaust)
1930 - Antonio Margheriti, Italian filmmaker (d. 2002)
1930 - Bullett Bob Turley, Troy, Illinois, MLB pitcher (World Series MVP, 1958), (d. 2013)
1931 - Brook Benton, soul vocalist (Rainy Night in Georgia)
1931 - Ray Danton, NYC, actor/director (Longest Day, Psychic Killer)
1931 - Jean-Claude Carrière, French screenwriter and actor
1932 - Mike Royko, Chicago, journalist (Chic Daily News)/author (Boss)
1933 - David McCallum, Glasgow Scot, actor (Ilyla Kuryakin-Man From UNCLE)
1934 - Brian Epstein, rock manager (Beatles)
1935 - Esmond Bulmer, English cider brewer/Conservative Lower house leader
1935 - Nick Massi, Newark NJ, rocker (4 Seasons-Sherry)
1935 - Robert Kruger, (Sen-D Texas)
1935 - Thomas W Ewing, (Rep-R-Illinois)
1935 - Benjamin Hacker, American naval aviator (d. 2003)
1936 - Al Oerter, Astoria NY, discus thrower (Olympics-gold-56, 60, 64, 68)
1937 - Abner Haynes, American football player
1938 - Zygmunt Krauze, composer
1940 - Bill Medley, Santa Ana Cal, rocker (Righteous Bros-Up Where We Belong)
1940 - Paul Williams, Omaha NE, singer/composer/actor (Planet of the Apes)
1940 - Sylvia Tyson, rocker
1941 - "Mama" Cass Elliot, Balt Maryland, rock vocalist (Mamas & The Papas)
1941 - Jim Fox, England, pentathlete (Olympics-1972)
1941 - Umberto Bossi, Italian politician
1942 - Freda Payne, American singer and actress
1943 - Chris Joyce, photographer
1943 - Christi Haas, Austria, downhill skier (Olympic-gold-1964)
1943 - Joe Morgan, Bonham, Texas, American MLB 2nd baseman (Reds)/commentator (ESPN)
1944 - Ard Schenk, 500, 1500, 5000k speed skater (Olympics-gold-1972)
1944 - Anders Björck, Swedish politician
1944 - Jean Succar Kuri, Lebanese-born Mexican businessman
1945 - David Bromberg, Phila, musician (Demon in Disguise)
1945 - Freda Payne, Detroit Mich, vocalist (Band of Gold)
1945 - Jane Blalock, Portsmouth NH, LPGA golfer (1972 Colgate-Dinah Shore
1945 - Lee Dorman, St Louis Mo, rock bassist (Iron Butterfly)
1945 - Randolph Mantooth, Sacramento California, actor (Emergency, Loving)
1946 - Hans van de Berg, actor (Ciske the Rat)
1946 - John Coghlan, London, rock drummer (Status Quo)
1946 - Brian Henton, English racing driver
1947 - Gerard Schwarz, Weehawken NJ, trumpeter/conductor (LA Chamber Orch)
1947 - Lol Creme, [Lawrence Creme], England, rock vocalist/guitarist (10cc)
1947 - Larry Brown, NFL runningback (3rd to rush over 4,000 yards)
1947 - Steve Bartlett, (Rep-R-TX, 1983- )
1947 - Tanith Lee, UK, sci-fi author (Don't Bite the Sun)
1948 - Jeremy Irons, Isle of Wight, England, actor (Reversal of Fortune, The Lion KIng)
1948 - Michael Cooper, SF California, sodomizer (FBI Most Wanted List)
1948 - Nadezhda Tkachenko, USSR, pentathlete (Olympic-gold-1980)
1948 - Mihai Timofti, Director, actor, musician from Moldova-Chisinau
1949 - Twiggy Lawson, [Leslie Hornby], England, model/actress (Boyfriend, W)
1949 - Barry Scheck, American lawyer, co-founder Innocence Project
1950 - Joan Lunden, Fair Oaks California, news host (Good Morning America)
1950 - Rudy Ramos, Lawton Oklahoma, actor (Wind-High Chaparral)
1951 - Daniel Lanois, Canadian record producer
1952 - Nile Rodgers, Bronx NY, rock guitarist (Honeydrippers)
1952 - Rhys Chatham, composer
1952 - Scott Colomby, Bkln, actor (Stash-Sons & Daughters, Szysznyk)
1952 - Bernard de Dryver, Belgian racing driver
1952 - Gunnar Hökmark, Swedish politician
1955 - Rex Smith, Jacksonville, Florida, American actor and singer (Pirates of Penzance, You Take My
           Breath Away)
1955 - Richard Burmer, American composer and musician (d. 2006)
1956 - Juan Manuel Fangio II, Argentine racing driver
1957 - Richard M Linnehan, Lowell Mass, astronaut (STS 78, sk: 90)
1958 - Lita Ford, London England, vocalist (Kiss Me Deadly, Runaways)
1958 - Kevin Hooks, Phila, actor (Sounder, Aaron Loves Angela)
1958 - Azumah Nelson, Ghanaian boxer
1960 - Julianna Young, Ft Campbell KY, playmate (Nov, 1993)
1960 - Loïc Bigois, French engineer
1962 - Randy Myers, Vancouver WA, pitcher (Chicago Cubs, Baltimore Orioles)
1962 - Tonja Walker, Huntington WV, actress (Alex-One Life to Live)
1962 - Cheri Oteri, American actress and comedian
1962 - Ken Rosenthal, American sportswriter
1963 - Alessandra Martines, Italian entertainer
1963 - Jarvis Cocker, English musician (Pulp)
1963 - David Seaman, English footballer
1964 - Kim Richards, LI NY, actress (Nanny & Prof, James at 15)
1964 - Trisha Yearwood, Monticello GA, country singer (Sweetest Gift)
1964 - Patrick Marber, British playwright
1964 - Bob Papa, American sportscaster
1965 - Debbye Turner, Miss America (1990)
1965 - Katrina McClain, Charleston SC, basketball forward (Olympics-gold-96)
1965 - Alexandra Vandernoot, Belgian actress
1965 - Sabine Paturel, French singer
1966 - El Samurai, [Osamu Matsuda], wrestler (WAR/NJPW)
1966 - Michael Campbell, CFL defensive tackle (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1966 - Soledad O'Brien, American journalist
1966 - Eric Robert Rudolph, American criminal
1966 - Yoshihiro Takayama, Japanese professional wrestler
1967 - Jim Abbott, Flint, Michigan, American MLB pitcher (California Angels, NY Yankees)
1967 - Alexander Karelin, Russian wrestler
1969 - Candy Dulfer, Amsterdam Holland, saxophonist (Lily Was Here)
1969 - Matthew L Perry, actor (Friends)
1969 - Alkinoos Ioannidis, Greek-Cypriot singer and composer
1969 - Tapio Wilska, Finnish singer
1970 - Antii Tormenen, Espoo FIN, NHL forward (Finland Oly-B-98, Ottawa)
1970 - Takanori Nishikawa, Japanese pop/rock singer
1970 - Victor Williams, American actor
1971 - Colleen Coyne, ice hockey defenseman (USA, Oly-98)
1971 - Jeremy Nunley, NFL defensive tackle/defensive end (Houston Oilers)
1971 - Sanaa Lathan, American actress
1972 - Amy Frazier, St Louis Mo, tennis star
1972 - David Tamburrino, Saratoga Springs NY, speed skater (Olympics-1994)
1972 - Eric van de Merwe, soccer player (Dordrecht '90)
1972 - Fred McCrary, NFL fullback (Philadelphia Eagles)
1973 - Jeremy Jordan, singer
1973 - Nick Colgan, Irish footballer
1973 - Cristiano da Matta, Brazilian racing car driver
1974 - Victoria Silverstedt, Skelleftehamn, Västerbottens län, Swedish model (1997 Playmate of the
           Year)
1974 - Jimmy Fallon, American actor and comedian
1976 - La Chanda Jenkins, Miss District of Columbia USA (1996)
1976 - Alison Sweeney, American actress
1976 - Jim Ward, American musician (At the Drive-In, Sparta)
1976 - Jessica York, television personality
1977 - Ryan Dusick, American drummer (Maroon 5)
1977 - Akash Chopra, Indian cricketer
1978 - Michelle Alves, Brazilian supermodel
1978 - Nick Johnson, baseball player
1978 - Nigel Mitchell, Quizmania and Capital Disney presenter
1978 - Jorge López Montaña, Spanish footballer
1979 - Dannielle Brent, British actress
1979 - Noémie Lenoir, French supermodel and actress
1980 - Sara Quin, Canadian singer/songwriter (Tegan and Sara)
1980 - Tegan Quin, Canadian singer/songwriter (Tegan and Sara)
1981 - Damiano Cunego, Italian cyclist
1981 - Scott Baker, American baseball player
1981 - Rick DiPietro, American ice hockey player
1982 - Eleni Daniilidou, Greek tennis player
1982 - Columbus Short, American actor and choreographer
1982 - Jordan Parise, American ice hockey player
1982 - Nicole Voss, American model
1983 - Matt Wiman, American mixed martial artist
1983 - Joey Devine, American baseball player
1983 - Charlie Haeger, American baseball player
1984 - Eamon, American pop singer
1984 - Kevin Zegers, Canadian actor
1986 - Gerald Ciolek, German cyclist
1986 - Ken Gushi, Japanese racing driver
1986 - Peter Vack, American voice actor
1987 - Danielle Panabaker, American actress
1990 - Saki Fukuda, Japanese actress
1991 - Demelza Reveley, Australian model
1994 - Alex Etel, British actor

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 19, 2013, 11:59:50 AM

This Day in History for 19th September


Famous Deaths

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US President                                     Businessman Orville Redenbacher (1995)
James Garfield (1881)


690 - Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 602)
1180 - Louis VII, the Younger, King of France (1137-80), dies at 59
1339 - Emperor Go-Daigo of Japan (b. 1288)
1356 - Gautier de Brienne, duke of Athens/French supreme commander, dies
1356 - Geoffroy de Charny, French nobleman, dies in battle
1356 - Jean de Clermont, French marshal, dies in battle
1356 - Peter I, Duke of Bourbon, killed at the Battle of Poitiers (b. 1311)
1668 - William Waller, English soldier
1693 - Janez Vajkard Valvasor, Slovenian polymath (b. 1641)
1710 - Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer (b. 1644)
1719 - Frans Anneessens, Belgian merchant/lord of the manor, executed at 59
1719 - Jan Weenix, Dutch painter, buried
1756 - Josef Antonin Sehling, composer, dies at 46
1761 - Peter Musschenbroek, physician/physicist (Leidse Bottle), dies at 69
1830 - Stanislas Champein, composer, dies at 76
1836 - Carl Friedrich Ebers, composer, dies at 66
1843 - Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, French scientist (b. 1792)
1862 - [Lewis] Henry Little, US Confederate brig-gen, dies in battle at 45
1863 - Preston Smith, US Confederate brig-gen, dies in battle at 39
1864 - Archibald Campbell Godwin, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle
1864 - David Allen Russell, US Union general-major, dies in battle at 43
1864 - Robert Emmet Rodes, US Confederate gen-major, dies in battle at 35
1868 - William Sprague, American minister and politician from (b. 1809)
1881 - James A Garfield, 20th President (1881), dies of gunshot wound at 49
1882 - Andreas I Schaepman, archbishop of Utrecht (1868-82), dies at 67
1893 - Alexander Tilloch Galt, Canadian politician, a father of Canadian Confederation (b. 1817)
1902 - Maria Hendrika, Queen of the Belgians, dies
1905 - Thomas John Barnardo, Irish philanthropist (b. 1845)
1906 - Maria Georgina Grey, British writer and founder of the Girls' Day School Trust (b. 1816)
1918 - Liza Nina Mary Frederica Lehmann, composer, dies at 56
1924 - Alick Bannerman, cricketer (28 Tests for Australia, 1108 runs), dies
1927 - Michael Peter Ancher, Danish painter (b. 1849)
1935 - Jules M Cambron, French gov-gen to Algeria/ambassador, dies
1935 - Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky, Russian rocket scientist (b. 1857)
1936 - Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, Indian musician (b. 1860)
1938 - Pauline Frederick, American actress (b. 1883)
1942 - Condé Nast, American publisher (b. 1873)
1944 - David Lord, British lieutenant/Dakota-pilot DFC/VC, dies in battle
1944 - Hilary Barlow, British colonel, dies
1944 - John AC Fitch, British lt-colonel, dies in battle in Arnhem
1949 - Will Cuppy, American humorist (b. 1884)
1949 - George Shiels, Irish dramatist (b. 1886)
1952 - Giuseppe Zoppi, Swiss writer (Presento il mio Ticino), dies
1954 - Tibor Harsanyi, composer, dies at 56
1955 - John D. Dingell, Sr., U.S. Congressman from Michigan (b. 1894)
1961 - Helen Kimble, fictional wife of Dr Richard Kimble (Fugitive)
1961 - Pieter Tesch, mine engineer/geology (Pedestal of Netherlands), dies
1962 - Pogodin, writer, dies
1967 - Martin Block, TV announcer (Chesterfield Supper Club), dies at 64
1967 - Zinaida Serebriakova, Russian painter (b. 1884)
1967 - Monica Proietti, Canadian criminal (b. 1940)
1968 - Chester F Carlson, inventor (photocopying), dies at 62
1968 - Red Foley, country singer (Mr Smith Goes to Washington), dies at 58
1969 - Bert [Lambertus] Bakker, director Free Netherland/inventor, dies
1969 - Rex Ingram, actor/director (Elmer Gantry), dies of heart attack at 73
1970 - Greville Stevens, cricketer (10 Tests for England 1922-29), dies
1972 - Robert Casadesus, French pianist (b. 1899)
1973 - Bob Gilbert, actor (Never the Twain Shall Meet), dies of hepatitis 75
1973 - Gram Parsons, rocker (Byrds), dies of OD at 26
1974 - Eve March, actress (Adam's Rib, Danny Boy), dies at 63
1978 - Rolf Gunther, East German priest, self imolation
1978 - Étienne Gilson, French philosopher and historian (b. 1884)
1981 - Joke Kool-Smit, Dutch feminist, dies
1982 - Fred Badcock, cricketer (7 Tests for NZ 1930-33, 16 wkts), dies
1982 - Samuel L M Barlow, composer, dies at 90
1984 - June Preisser, dancer/actress (Babes in Arms), dies in car crash at 61
1985 - Italo Calvino, sci-fi author (T-Zero, Mr Palomar), dies at 61
1986 - Vivian Duncan, entertainer (Duncan Sisters), dies
1987 - Einar Gerhardsen, Prime Minister of Norway (b. 1897)
1988 - Oren Lee Staley, 1st pres of Natl Farmers Org (1955-79), dies at 65
1989 - Guido de Moor, actor (Flanagan, Because of the Cats), dies
1989 - Willie Steele, American Olympic gold medalist (b. 1923)
1990 - Werner Janssen, US composer (New Years Eve in NY), dies at 91
1992 - Frederick Combs, playwright/director, dies of AIDS at 57
1992 - Jacques Pic, french restaurant owner, dies
1993 - Bruce Ferden, US conductor (NY, Washington, Amsterdam), dies at 44
1993 - Richard Landau, US screenwriter (Back to Bataan), dies at 79
1994 - Frankie Kennedy, flute player, dies at 38
1994 - Sandra Fisher, painter, dies at 47
1995 - Louis "Mr Bo" Collins, blues SInger, dies at 63
1995 - Orville Reddenbacher, popcorn magnate, drowns in bathtub at 88
1995 - Walter Shlomo Gross, journalist, dies at 83
1995 - Yevgeni Nikolayevich Khludeyev, Russia, cosmonaut, dies at 55
1995 - Orville Redenbacher, American businessman (Orville Redenbacher's Gourmet Popcorn) dies
           aged 88
1996 - Douglas Hyde, socialist/Christian, dies at 85
1996 - Timothy Nicholson, journalist, dies at 32
1997 - Clive Brain, educationalist, dies at 57
1997 - Kathy Keeton Guccione, CEO (General Media Intl), dies at 58
1997 - Malcolm Hughes, artist, dies at 77
1997 - Rich Mullins, American singer (b. 1955)
2000 - Anthony Robert Klitz, British artist (b. 1917)
2002 - Robert Guéï, ruler of Côte d'Ivoire (b. 1941)
2003 - Slim Dusty, Australian singer (b. 1927)
2004 - Eddie Adams, American photographer (b. 1933)
2004 - Árpád Bogsch, Hungarian-born American civil servant (b. 1919)
2004 - Skeeter Davis, American singer (b. 1931)
2004 - Ellis Marsalis, Sr., American businessman, musician, and activist
2006 - Elizabeth Allen, American actress (b. 1929)
2006 - Roy Schuiten, Dutch cyclist (b. 1950)
2006 - Chuck Rio, American singer and saxophonist (The Champs) (b. 1929)
2006 - Hugh Kawharu, New Zealander Ngāti Whātua Māori chief (b. 1927)
2006 - Martha Holmes, American photographer (b. 1923)
2009 - Eduard Zimmermann, German broadcaster (b. 1929)
2011 - Thomas Capano, attorney, criminal (b. 1949)
2011 - Johnny Răducanu, Romanian jazz pianist (b. 1931)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 20, 2013, 09:24:37 AM

This Day in History for 20th September


Historical Events

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King of England King Charles I                  Naturalist Charles Darwin                     King of Sardinia and Italy
                                                                                                                                  Victor Emmanuel II

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Baseball Great Babe Ruth                         Pacifist and Spiritual Leader                    Hall of Fame MLB shortstop
                                                                   Mahatma Gandhi                                           Ernie Banks

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American Baseball Player                        US President John F. Kennedy                 Actor Bruce Willis
Roger Maris                                 

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NFL Running Back Walter Payton


368 - Emperor Valentinianus visits Nijmegen
451 - General Aetius defeats Attila the Hun at Chalons-sur-Marne
622 - Prophet Mohammed/Abu Bakr arrives in Jathrib (Medina)
1066 - Battle of Fulford, Yorkshire: Harald III Hardrada of Norway defeats Northern Saxon Earls
           Edwin and Morcar
1187 - Saladin begins the Siege of Jerusalem.
1258 - Salisbury Cathedral inaugurated
1378 - Robert de Geneve, "butcher of Cesena" crowned anti-pope Clemens VII
1519 - Ferdinand Magellan starts 1st successful circumnavigation of world
1530 - Luther advises protestant monarch compromise
1565 - Spaniards capture Fort Caroline Fla & massacre the French
1596 - Diego de Montemayor founded the city of Monterrey in New Spain.
1604 - Spanish army under Spinola recaptures Oostende
1620 - Battle at Jassy: Turks beat king Sigismund III of Poland
1643 - 1st battle at Newbury: King Charles I vs Robert Devereux' armies
1664 - Maryland passes 1st anti-amalgamation law to stop intermarriage of English women & black
           men
1674 - 2nd West Indies Company forms
1688 - French troops occupies Palts
1697 - Peace of Saki (ends 9 years war)
1737 - Runner Edward Marshall completes his journey in the Walking Purchase forcing the cession of
           1.2 million acres (4,860 km²) of Lenape-Delaware tribal land to the Pennsylvania Colony.
1746 - Bonnie Prince Charlie flees to France from Scotland
1777 - Paoli massacre
1787 - Prince Willem V returns to Hague
1792 - French defeat Prussians at Valmy
1793 - British troops under Major-general Williamson lands on (French) Haiti
1797 - US frigate Constitution (Old Ironsides) launched in Boston
1830 - 1st Negro Convention of Free Men agree to boycott slave-produced goods
1833 - Charles Darwin rides horse to Buenos Aires
1835 - Farroupilha's Revolution begins in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
1839 - 1st railroad in Netherland opens (Amsterdam-Haarlem)
1848 - The American Association for the Advancement of Science is created.
1850 - Slave trade abolished in DC, but slavery allowed to continue
1854 - Battle of the Alma: first major battle of Crimean War. British and French alliance defeat the
           Russians
1859 - George Simpson patents electric range
1860 - First British royalty to visit US, Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII)
1861 - Battle of Lexington, MI-captured by Union
1863 - Battle of Shepardstown VA
1863 - Civil War Battle of Chickamauga, near Chattanooga Tenn, ends
1870 - Italian army under Victor Emmanuel II seizes Rome from the French
1870 - Mayor William Tweed accused of robbing NY treasury
1870 - Pope Pius IX surrenders to King Victor Emmanuel
1871 - Bishop John Coleridge Patteson martyred on the island of Nukapu, a Polynesian outlier island
           now in the Temotu province of the Solomon Islands. He was the first bishop of Melanesia.
1873 - Panic sweeps NY Stock Exchange (railroad bond default/bank failure) NY shut banks for 10
           days due to a bank scandal
1876 - Ottawa Football Club forms
1877 - Chase National Bank opens in NYC (later merges into Chase Manhattan)
1879 - US Grants come to SF for elaborate extended visit
1881 - Chester A Arthur sworn in as 21st president
1884 - 6.2 mile Arlberg railroad tunnel completed in Austria
1884 - Equal Rights Party nominates female candidates for Pres & VP
1891 - The first gasoline-powered car debuts in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States.
1902 - Chicago White Sox Jim Callahan no-hits Detroit Tigers, 3-0
1904 - George Ade's "College Widow," premieres in NYC
1904 - Orville & Wilbur Wright fly a circle in their Flyer II
1905 - Cleveland makes AL record 7 errors in an inning
1906 - Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania is launched at the Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson shipyard
           in Newcastle, England.
1907 - Pitts Nick Maddox no-hits Bkln Dodgers, 2-1
1908 - Chicago White Sox Frank Smith 2nd no-hitter, beats Phila 1-0
1911 - Yanks set team record 12 errors in a double header
1913 - 19th US Golf Open: Francis Ouimet shoots a 304 at The Country Club MA
1917 - British assault on Polygon Forest, France
1917 - Paraguay becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1918 - Royal Dutch Blast furnace & Steel factory opens in Hague
1919 - 2nd PGA Championship: Jim Barnes at Engineers CC Roslyn NY
1919 - Babe Ruth ties Ned Williamson's major league mark of 27 HRs
1919 - Booth Tarkington's "Clarence," premieres in NYC
1920 - Foundation of the Spanish Legion.
1922 - Goodman & Atteridge's musical "Passing Show," premieres in NYC
1922 - Rogers Hornsby ends hitting streak of 33 games
1922 - Franco Ventriglia, Fairfield, Connecticut,opera singer, (d. 2012)
1924 - Carl Mays is 1st pitcher to win 20 games seasons for 3 different teams
1924 - Cub's Grover Cleveland Alexander beats NY Giants to win 300th game
1927 - NY Yankee Babe Ruth hits record 60th HR of season off Tom Zachry
1930 - Syro-Malankara Catholic Church is formed by Archbishop Mar Ivanios.
1931 - Lou Gehrig's 4 RBIs break his old RBI mark of 175 en route to 184
1932 - Chicago Cubs clinch the NL pennant
1932 - Dutch South Seas rebaptized in IJsselmeer
1932 - Gandhi begins hunger strike against treatment of untouchables
1933 - Pittsburgh Steelers (as Pirates) play 1st NFL game, lose 23-2
1935 - Pitts Crawfords beat NY Cubans to win Negro NL Championship, 3-0
1938 - Dmitri Shostakovitch's Suite for jazz orchestra, premieres
1938 - Emlyn Williams' "Corn is Green," premieres in London
1939 - British navy captures German U-27 boat
1939 - Joe Louis KOs Bob Pastor in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
1942 - Gunther Hagg becomes world champ of all records from 1500m to 5000m
1943 - Liberator bomber sinks U-338
1944 - Nijmegen is liberated from German occupation
1944 - Polish forces free Terneuzen Neth
1945 - German rocket engineers begin work in US
1946 - Churchill argues for a 'United States of Europe'
1946 - The first Cannes Film Festival is held.
1948 - "Magdalena" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 48 performances
1948 - Mexican Baseball league disbanded
1949 - Dutch Guilder devalued 30.3%
1949 - Tennis player Pancho Gonzales turns professional
1951 - 1st North Pole jet crossing
1951 - NL President Ford Frick elected 3rd commissioner of baseball
1951 - Swiss males votes against female suffrage
1952 - KPTV TV channel 12 in Portland, OR (IND) begins broadcasting
1953 - Cubs Ernie Banks hits his 1st major league HR
1954 - 1st FORTRAN computer program run
1954 - 1st National People's Congress adopts Chinese constitution
1954 - KETC TV channel 9 in Saint Louis, MO (PBS) begins broadcasting
1954 - Los Stravinsky's "In Memoriam Dylan Thomas," premieres in Angeles
1954 - Roger Bannister awarded Britain's Silver Pears Trophy
1954 - New Zealand's Special Committee on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents reports
           just ten days after concluding hearings.
1955 - Willie Mays (Giants) homers off Vern Law (Pirates) in both ends of DH
1955 - Willie Mays is 7th player to reach 50 HRS in a season
1958 - Baltimore Oriole knuckler Hoyt Wilhelm no-hits NY Yankees 1-0
1958 - Ferhat Abbas forms Algerian government in exile (Cairo)
1958 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1959 - Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Links Golf Invitation Open
1960 - UN General Assembly admit 13 African countries & Cyprus (96 nations)
1960 - WFSU TV channel 11 in Tallahassee, FL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1961 - After 84 1/3 innings Bill Fischer gives up a base on balls
1961 - James Meredith refused access as a student in Mississippi
1961 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1961 - Roger Maris hits home run # 59 & barely misses # 60 in game 154 of the season. Yanks
           clinch pennant #26
1962 - Ben Bella wins 1st elections in independent Algeria
1962 - Gov R Barnett refuses to admit a black to Miss Univ (James Meredith)
1963 - JFK proposes a joint US-Soviet voyage to the moon
1964 - Gunter Grass' "Die Plebejern proben den Aufstand," premieres in Berlin
1964 - Paramount Theater (NYC) presented the Beatles with Steve & Eydie
1965 - WXXW (now WYCC) TV channel 20 in Chicago, IL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1966 - US Surveyor B launched toward Moon; crashed Sept 23
1967 - Benin separates from Nigeria
1967 - British liner Queen Elizabeth II launched at Clydebank Scotland
1967 - Hurricane Beulah hits Texas-Mexican border, kills 38
1967 - WCAE TV channel 50 in St John, IN (PBS) begins broadcasting
1967 - WCIX TV channel 6 in Miami, FL (CBS) begins broadcasting
1968 - Mickey Mantle hits final career homer # 536
1969 - 18th Ryder Cup: Draw, 16-16 at Royal Birkdale, England
1969 - Archies' "Sugar Sugar" hits #1
1969 - Pitts Pirate Bob Moose no-hits NY Mets, 4-0
1970 - Jim Morrison found not guilty of "lewd" behavior
1970 - Luna 16 lands on Moon's Mare Fecunditatis, drills core sample
1972 - Police find cannabis growing on Paul & Linda McCartney's farm
1973 - Billy Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in battle-of-sexes tennis match
1973 - Willie Mays announces retirement at end of 1973 season
1975 - 21st Ryder Cup: US, 21-11 at Laurel Valley Golf Club (Ligonier, Pennsylvania, US)
1975 - David Bowie's "Fame," single goes #1 for 2 weeks
1975 - Gary Sentman draws a record 176 lb longbow to a maximum 28½" draw
1976 - Metroliner official opens in Brussels
1976 - Playboy releases Jimmy Carter's interview that he lusts for women
1976 - Sid Berstein offers $230 million charity concert for Beatle reunion
1977 - "Estrada" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 7 performances
1977 - Vietnam & Djibouti ask for membership in UN
1978 - "Eubie!" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 439 performances
1978 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1978 - Yamada Mumon Roshi visits Benedictine Abbey of Maria Laach Germany
1979 - Coup in Central African Rep: David Dacko overthrows emperor Bokassa I
1979 - Jose E dod Santos becomes president of Angola
1979 - NASA launches HEAO
1979 - Lee Iacocca is elected president of the Chrysler Corporation.
1979 - The Punjab wing of the Unity Centre of Communist Revolutionaries of India (Marxist-Leninist)
           formally splits and constitutes a parallel UCCRI(ML).
1979 - Assassination of French left-wing militant Pierre Goldman.
1980 - Bronze plaque dedicated to memory of Thurman Munson at Yankee Stadium
1980 - George Brett goes 0-for-4 dropping his avg below .400 for good
1980 - Plaque dedicated in Thurman Munson's memory at Yankee Stadium
1980 - Spectacular Bid runs in Belmont alone as 3 horses drop out
1981 - 24th Ryder Cup: US, 18½-9½ at Walton Heath Golf Club (Walton-on-the-Hill, Surrey,
           England)
1981 - Joe Danelo kicks then NY Giant record 55 yard field goal
1981 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic
1982 - Jalaluddin takes a one-day hat-trick Pakistan v Australia
1982 - NFL players begin a 57 day strike
1983 - 3,112 turn out to see Pirates play NY Mets at Shea Stadium
1983 - Cryptographic Communications System & Method (RSA) patented
1984 - "Cosby Show" premieres on NBC-TV
1984 - Cubs break 2 million in home attendance for 1st time
1984 - Suicide car bomb attacks US Embassy annex in Beirut, kills 23
1985 - Curtis Strong is convicted for selling cocaine to pro baseball players
1985 - Walt Disney World's 200-millionth guest
1986 - Wichita State Shockers blow a 35-3 lead; lose 36-35 to Morehead State
1987 - "Big River" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 1005 perfs
1987 - 39th Emmy Awards: LA Law, Bruce Willis & Sharon Gless wins
1987 - Alain Prost wins record 28th Formula one auto race
1987 - Dwight Clark ends NFL streak of 105 consecutive game receptions
1987 - Jan Stephenson wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
1987 - Walter Payton scores NFL record 107th rushing touchdown
1988 - Darrell Evans hits his 400th career home run
1988 - Greg Louganis wins Olympic gold medal in springboard diving
1988 - Wade Boggs is 1st player to get 200 hits for 6 consecutive seasons
1989 - FW De Klerk sworn in as president of South Africa
1989 - Musical "Miss Saigon," premieres in London
1989 - USAir overshoots runway at LaGuardia Airport in NYC, 2 people die
1990 - Both Germanys ratify reunification
1990 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1990 - South Ossetia declares its independence from Georgia.
1991 - Lion's Terry Taylor reinstated after 1 year drug related suspension
1992 - Colleen Walker wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
1992 - France votes in favor of Maastricht treaty
1992 - Leanza Cornett (Florida), 21, crowned 66th Miss America 1993
1992 - Phils' Mickey Moradini makes an unassisted triple play
1992 - Space shuttle STS-47 (Endeavour 2) lands
1994 - Space shuttle STS-64 (Discovery 20), lands
1995 - Cincinnati Reds becomes 1st team to clinch NL Central
1997 - Yanks clinch 37th appearance in post season, 3rd consecutive
1998 - Solheim Cup
2000 - Patent on RSA cryptograph algorithm ends
2000 - The British MI6 Secret Intelligence Service building is attacked by a Russian-built Mark 22 anti-
           tank missile.
2001 - In an address to a joint session of Congress and the American people, U.S. President George
           W. Bush declares a "war on terror".
2002 - The Kolka-Karmadon rock/ice slide started.
2003 - Maldives civil unrest: the death of prisoner Hassan Evan Naseem sparks a day of rioting in
           Malé.
2003 - A referendum is held in Latvia to decide the country's accession to the European Union.
2011 - The United States ends its "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, allowing gay men and women to
           serve openly for the first time.
2012 - 50 people are killed and dozens injured after a gas station is bombed by the Syrian Army in
           Ain Issa
2012 - 14 people are killed in a cafe suicide bominbg in Somalia
2012 - AU Optronics fined $500 million for a LCD screen price-fixing

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 20, 2013, 10:37:16 AM

This Day in History for 20th September


Famous Weddings

1997 - "CHIPs" actor Erik Estrada (48) weds Nanette Mirkovich
2002 - "Matrix" actor Laurence Fishburne (41) weds actress Gina Torres (33) at The Cloisters
            museum in New York City
2002 - "The Monkees" lead vocalist Micky Dolenz (57) weds Donna Quinter in Calabasas, California
2003 - "Will & Grace" actress Megan Mullally (44) weds actor Nick Offerman (32) in Los Angeles
2012 - Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah's daughter Princess Hajah Hafizah Sururul Bolkiah (32) weds Pengiran
           Haji Muhammad Ruzaini (29) at the Throne Hall of Istana Nurul Iman palace in Brunei

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 20, 2013, 10:43:51 AM

This Day in History for 20th September


Famous Birthdays

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Italian Pacifist                                     Author Upton Beall Sinclair (1878)               Actress Sophia Loren (1934)
 Ernesto Teodoro Moneta (1833)


1486 - Arthur, Prince of Wales, son of King Henry VII of England (d. 1502)
1593 - Gottfried Scheidt, composer
1599 - Christian the Younger, German Protestant military leader (d. 1623)
1653 - Benedict Schultheiss, composer
1663 - Pirro Conte d' Albergati Capacelli, composer
1665 - Johannes van der Hagen, vicar/genealogist/chronologer
1706 - Franz Habermann, composer
1744 - Giacomo Quarenghi, Ital/Russian master builder (Hermitage Theater)
1744 - Thomas Grosvenor, American Revolutionary War hero (d. 1825)
1746 - Móric Beňovský, Slovak officer and explorer, King of Madagascar (d. 1786)
1767 - Jose Mauricio Nunes Garcia, composer
1771 - Mungo Park, Scotish explorer (Africa)
1777 - Ramon Felix Cuellar y Altarriba, composer
1790 - Francisco Acuna the Figueroa, Uruguayan poet (Toraidas)
1791 - Sergei T Aksakov, Russian writer (Semejnaja chronika)
1795 - Charles Heinrich Christoph Zeuner, composer
1795 - Peter of Limburg Brouwer, physician/classical/author
1809 - Sterline "Old Pap" Price, Major General (Confederate Army)
1810 - Alpheus Starkey Williams, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1820 - George Washington Morgan, Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
1820 - John Fulton Reynolds, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
1832 - Johann Joseph Abert, composer
1833 - Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Milan, Italy, journalist/soldier/pacifist (Nobel Peace Prize 1907), (d.
           1918)
1842 - James Dewar, Scottish chemist/physicist (Dewarfles/cordiet)
1844 - William H. Illingworth, American photographer (d. 1893)
1846 - Agnes Tyrrell, composer
1847 - Sergei G Netsjajev, Russian nihilist (Catechism Revolutionary)
1852 - Edouard baron Empain, Belgian railway builder (Paris Metro)
1853 - Rama V, King of Thailand (d. 1910)
1859 - Yuan She-k'ai, Chinese general/president/dictator
1861 - Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress (d. 1955)
1865 - Lubor Niederle, Czech archaeologist/slavist
1866 - Gustave Doret, composer
1869 - George Robey, [George Edward Wade], comic
1869 - Marcel Cachin, co-founder (French Communistic Party)
1872 - Maurice Gamelin, French generalissimo
1873 - Robert D Wrenn, tennis champ (US Open - 1893)
1873 - Sidney Olcott, Canadian film director (d. 1949)
1873 - Ferenc Szisz, Hungarian race car driver (d. 1944)
1877 - Armand Louis Joseph Marsick, composer
1878 - Upton Beall Sinclair, Baltimore, Maryland, US writer (Jungle), (d. 1968)
1879 - Jacobo Conrad, [Coco Lepol/Elias Martinus], Curacaos composer
1879 - Victor Seastrom, Silbodal Sweden, director (Wind, Under the Red Robe)
1880 - Ildebrando Pizzetti, composer
1880 - Louise Peete, American murderess (d. 1947)
1881 - Walter Kingsford, Redhill England, actor (My Favorite Blonde)
1883 - John G van Dillen, historian (Of Wealth & Oligarchists)
1883 - Maria Baers, Flemish social female worker/senator
1884 - Piotr Rytel, composer
1884 - Maxwell Perkins, American editor and publisher (d. 1947)
1886 - Charles Walter Stansby Williams, songwriter
1889 - Charles Reidpath, American athlete (d. 1975)
1892 - Patricia Collinge, Dublin Ireland, actress (Tender Comrade)
1893 - Hans H B Scharoun, German architect (Berlin Philharmonic)
1896 - Fjodor I Panfjorov, Russian author (Volga) [NS=Oct 2]
1897 - Efim Golishev, composer
1899 - Elliot Nugent, director (And so They were Married)
1899 - Leo Strauss, German-born philosopher (d. 1973)
1900 - Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, Brazil general/pres (1964-67)
1900 - Uuno Kalervo Klami, composer
1900 - Wilhelm Weismann, composer
1901 - Leo Justinus Kauffmann, composer
1902 - Cesare Zavattini, Italian screenwriter (Ladri di Biciclette)
1902 - Kermit Maynard, Vevey Ind, cowboy actor (Saturday Roundup)
1902 - Stevie [Florence Margaret] Smith, Kingston upon Hull, English poet and novelist (Not Waving
           but Drowning)
1906 - David Sheinfeld, composer
1908 - Alexander Mitscherlich, German psychotherapist
1908 - Levon-Karapet His Holiness Vasken Baidjian, patriach of Etchmiadzin
1910 - Jacques-Baptise LeBrun, France, finn yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1932)
1911 - Frank Devol, Moundsville WV, orchestra leader (I'm Dickens He's Fenster)
1911 - Jan Mul, composer
1911 - Shriram Sharma Acharya, Indian spiritual leader (d. 1991)
1912 - Marianne Kunvari, writer
1914 - Kenneth More, England, actor (39 Steps, Doctor in the House)
1917 - Arnold "Red" Auerbach, NBA coach/GM (Boston Celtic)
1917 - Fernando Rey, [Arambillet], La Coruna Spain, actor (Matter of Time)
1918 - Peg Phillips, actress (Ruth Ann-Northern Exposure)
1921 - Melvin "Slappy" White, comedian
1922 - David Nicolson, British businessman and politician (Chairman of BTR Industries-1969)
1922 - Frank Comstock, SD California, orchestra leader (Jimmie Rodgers Show)
1922 - William Kapell, American pianist (d. 1953)
1923 - Frances Heflin, Oklahoma City OK, actress (Mona Tyler-All My Children)
1923 - Geraldine Clinton Little, Irish-born poet (d. 1997)
1924 - Gogi Grant, [Audrey Brown], rock vocalist
1924 - James Galanos, Phila, fashion designer (Coty Hall of Fame-1959)
1924 - John Vassall, spy/civil servant
1925 - Ananda Mahidol, King of Thailand (d. 1946)
1925 - Bobby Nunn, American singer (The Coasters) (d. 1986)
1927 - Clarice Taylor, Va, actress (Nurse Bailey-Nurse)
1927 - Rachel Roberts, Llanelly Wales, actress (Foul Play, Doctor's Wife)
1927 - Johnny Dankworth, English musician and composer
1928 - Kirsten Rolffes, Danish actress (d. 2000)
1928 - Donald Hall, American poet and US Poet Laureate
1929 - Anne Meara, Brooklyn New York comedian/actress (Stiller & Meara, Archie's Place)
1931 - Cherd Songsri, Thai filmmaker (d. 2006)
1933 - Bob Banas, NYC, choreographer (Malibu U, Jonathan Winters Show)
1933 - Dennis Viollet, English former footballer (d. 1999)
1934 - Sophia Loren, Rome, actress (Desire Under the Elms, Black Orchid)
1935 - Keith J Roberts, England, writer (Irish Encounter, Ladies from Hell)
1935 - Lubos Fiser, composer
1935 - David Pegg, English footballer (d. 1958)
1936 - Dany Carrel, Touraine Indo-china, actress (Passionate Summer)
1937 - Birgitta Dahl, Swedish politician
1937 - Monica Zetterlund, Swedish actress and singer (d. 2005)
1938 - Eric Gale, US funk guitarist (Blue Horizon)
1938 - George J Hochbrueckner, (Rep-D-NY)
1938 - Jane Manning, soprano
1938 - Pia Lindstrom, critic (WNBC-TV)/journalist (From Russia With Love)
1938 - Tom Tresh, NY Yankee (1962 AL Rookie of Year)
1939 - Robert L. Gerry III, American businessman
1940 - Joseph J DioGuardi, (Rep-R-NY, 1985- )
1941 - Dale Chihuly, Tacoma Wash, artist in glass (Louis Tiffany Award 1967)
1941 - John A Wismont Jr, California, watercolor painter (over 50,000)
1942 - Robbe De Hert, Flemish director/producer (Fugitive Cinema, Bomb)
1942 - Gérald Tremblay, Québec politician
1943 - Roek Williams, [Willemze], Dutch singer
1944 - Jeremy Child, actor (Privilege, Taffin)
1945 - Laurie Spiegel, composer
1947 - Chuck Panozzo [John], Chicago, rocker (Styx)
1947 - Mia Martini, Italian singer (d. 1995)
1947 - Bruce Pasternack, American CEO
1948 - George R. R. Martin, Bayonne, New Jersey, American fantasy and sci-fi author (A Song of Ice
           and Fire)
1949 - Jan Hendriks, guitarist (Doe Maar)
1949 - Anthony Denison, American actor
1949 - John W. Henry, American MLB team owner
1950 - Debi Morgan, Dunn NC, actress (Angie-All My Children, Cry Uncle)
1950 - James P[aul] Blaylock, US, sci-fi author (Elfin Ship, Homunculus)
1950 - Loredana Berte, Milan Italy, singer/2nd ex wife of Bjorn Borg
1951 - Guy LaFleur, Quebec, NHL right wing (Montreal, NY Rangers)
1951 - JoAnna Cameron, Colo, actress (I Love My Wife, Isis)
1951 - Javier Marías, Spanish author, translator and academic
1953 - Jeff Jones, Red Rider, rock bassist/vocalist (Red Rider)
1954 - Anne Mcintosh, British member European parliament
1954 - Brinke Stevens, [Charlene Brinkman] Ca, actr (Slumber Party Massacre)
1954 - Silvio Leonard, Cienguegos Cuba, 100m runner (Olympic-silver-1980)
1954 - Henry Samueli, American NHL team owner
1955 - Christine Oddy, British member European parliament
1956 - Gary Cole, Park Ridge, Illinois, American actor (Pineapple Express, Midnight Caller)
1957 - Arn Anderson, [Marty Lunde], wrestler (ECW/SMW/WCW/NWA/WWF)
1957 - Vladmir Tkachenko, USSR, basketball (Olympic-bronze-1980)
1957 - Rich DiSilvio, American new media developer & artist
1958 - Marty Schiene, Chicago Ill, Canadian Tour golfer (1992 Illinois Open)
1959 - Lesley Thompson, Toronto Ontario, rower (Olympics-gold-92, 96)
1960 - Alice Regina Brown, Jackson MS, 4X100 runner (Olympic-gold-1984, 88)
1960 - James A Pawelczyk, Buffalo NY, PhD/astronaut (sk STS 90)
1960 - Deborah Roberts, American journalist and TV reporter
1961 - Becky Larson, LPGA golfer
1961 - Erwin Koeman, soccer player (PSV, FC Groningen)
1961 - Lisa Bloom, American lawyer and television personality
1964 - Crispin Glover, actor (Back to the Future)
1965 - Robert Rusler, actor (Game of Love, Vamp, Thrashin')
1966 - Nuno Bettencourt, Azores, rock guitarist (Extreme-More Than Words)
1967 - Catherine Bond-Mills, Woodstock Ontario, heptathlete (Olympics-96)
1967 - Gunnar Nelson, rock vocalist (Nelsons-Love & Affection)
1967 - Kristen Johnston, actress (Sally Solomon-Third Rock From the Sun)
1967 - Martin Harrison, NFL defensive end (Minnesota Vikings)
1967 - Matthew Nelson, rock vocalist (Nelsons-Love & Affection)
1968 - Chris Waller, Evanston Ill, gymnast (Olympics-96)
1968 - Eric Turner, NFL safety (Cleveland Browns)
1968 - Leah Pinsent, Canadian actress
1968 - Tim Rogers, Australian singer / songwriter
1969 - Tommy Jeter, NFL defensive tackle (Philadelphia Eagles)
1969 - Victoria Dillard, American actress
1969 - Megumi Kudo, Japanese pro-wrestler
1969 - Richard Witschge, former Dutch footballer
1970 - John Copeland, NFL defensive end (Cin Bengals)
1971 - Andrew Lane, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1971 - Henryk Larsson, soccer player (Feyenoord)
1971 - Jenny Murdock, LPGA golfer
1971 - Ryan Terry, NFL running back/kick returner (Arizona Cardinals)
1971 - Masashi Hamauzu, Japanese composer
1972 - Jenny Morris, Maryborough Australia, field hockey fullback (Oly-96)
1972 - Vance Joseph, NFL cornerback/safety (NY Jets)
1973 - Ronald McKinnon, National Football League linebacker
1974 - Michael Waddington, American defense lawyer
1975 - Asia Argento, Italian actress
1975 - Juan Pablo Montoya, Colombian race car driver
1976 - Markus Wieland, Tegernsee GER, hockey player (Team Germany 1998)
1976 - Yui Horie, Japanese seiyuu
1976 - Yo Hitoto, Japanese pop singer
1976 - Enuka Okuma, Canadian actress
1976 - Reuben Singh, British entrepreneur
1977 - Ruth Moniz, NSW Australia, gymnast (Olympics-96)
1977 - Namie Amuro, Japanese pop singer
1978 - Sophie Simard, Lars Germany, swimmer (Olympics-96)
1978 - Patrizio Buanne, Italian singer
1978 - Sarit Hadad, Israeli singer
1978 - T.J. Tucker, American baseball player
1978 - Dante Hall, American football player
1979 - Sean Davis, English footballer
1980 - Vladimir Karpets, Russian cyclist
1980 - Mariacarla Boscono, Italian fashion model
1980 - Jonathan Le Billon, British actor
1981 - Joanie Dodds, America's Next Top Model contestant
1981 - Feliciano López, Spanish tennis player
1981 - Jordan Tata, American baseball player
1983 - Yuna Ito, Japanese singer and actress
1983 - Ángel Sánchez, Puerto Rican baseball player
1985 - David Allen, American composer and writer
1987 - Jack Lawless, American drummer for the Jonas Brothers
1990 - John Tavares, Canadian ice hockey player
1990 - Marilou, Quebec pop singer
1991 - Spencer Locke, American actress
1993 - Taylor Parks, American actress
1995 - Sammi Hanratty, American actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 20, 2013, 10:46:08 AM

This Day in History for 20th September


Famous Deaths

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Nazi Physician Eduard Wirths (1945)


1168 - Paschal III, [Guido di Crema], Italian anti-Pope, dies
1246 - Mikhail of Chernigov, ruler of Kiev
1384 - Louis, duke of Anjou/wife of Marie of Bretagne
1460 - Gilles Binchois, Flemish composer
1493 - Philippe Pot, governor/viceroy of Burgundy, dies
1586 - Anthony Babington, page/conspirator to Mary Stuart, executed at 24
1590 - Lodovico Agostini, Italian composer (b. 1534)
1613 - Willem H van Est (Estius), theologist, dies
1624 - Isaac Le Maire, Amsterdam ship owner, dies at about 66
1625 - Heinrich Meibom, German historian and critic (b. 1555)
1627 - Jan Gruter, Dutch critic (b. 1560)
1630 - Claudio Saracini, Italian composer (b. 1586)
1639 - John Meursius, [van Meurs], historian, dies at 60
1643 - Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland, English politician and writer
1647 - Giovanni Del Turco, composer, dies at 70
1648 - Marco Ivan Lukacic, composer, dies at 61
1679 - Cornelis Evertsen the Young, vice-admiral of Zealand, dies at 51
1703 - Archibald Campbell, Scot milt man (blood bath of Glencoe), dies at 52
1706 - Pierre Verdier, composer, dies at 79
1721 - Thomas Doggett, Irish actor
1731 - Sicco van Goslinga, Fries diplomat/sect of High Council, dies at 67
1773 - Pieter de Swart, architect (Delfts Port Rotterdam), dies at 63
1803 - Robert Emmet, Irish nationalist, executed
1806 - Utamaro Kitagawa, painter, dies
1810 - Wouter J van Troostwijk, painter, dies at 28
1823 - Daniel Steibelt, composer, dies at 57
1839 - Jose Gaspar de Francia, dictator of Paraguay (1816-39), dies at 74
1852 - Philander Chase, American university founder (b. 1775)
1863 - Benjamin Hardin Helm, US attorney/Confederate brig-general, dies at 33
1863 - Jakob Grimm, writer, dies at 78
1865 - William H Revere Jr, US Union brig-general, dies
1873 - Lulu Strauss und Torney, German poetess/writer, dies
1884 - Leopold Fitzinger, Austrian zoologist (b.1802)
1886 - John Liptrot Hatton, composer, dies at 77
1896 - Gottfried Conradi, composer, dies at 76
1897 - Karel Bendl, composer, dies at 59
1898 - Theodor Fontane, German author (Der Stechlin), dies at 78
1906 - Robert R. Hitt, American politician (b. 1834)
1908 - Pablo Martin Melitou de Sarasate y Navascuez, composer, dies at 64
1917 - Herbert Morris, Jamaican deserter in France, executed at 17
1927 - George Nichols, actor (His Favorite Pastime, Star Boarder), dies at 62
1931 - Sam Morris, cricketer (one Test Aust v Eng 1884), dies
1932 - Max Slevogt, German painter, dies at 63
1932 - Wovoka, Paiute visionary
1933 - Annie Besant, English theosophy (Esoteric Christianity), dies
1939 - Paul Bruchési, French Canadian Catholic archbishop of Montreal (b. 1855)
1944 - John Grayburn, English (Victoria Cross), dies in battle in Arnhem
1945 - William Buehler Seabrook, Writer, journalist, occultist and explorer (b. 1884)
1945 - Augusto Tasso Fragoso, Brazilian president (b. 1869)
1945 - Eduard Wirths, Nazi physician at Auschwitz, commits suicide at 36
1946 - Raimu, French actor (b. 1883)
1947 - Fiorello H La Guardia, (Mayor-R-NYC, 1933-45), dies
1949 - Nikolaos Skalkottas, composer, dies at 45
1949 - Richard Dix, actor (Tombstone, Ghost Ship, 13th Hour), dies at 56
1957 - Jean Julius Christian Sibelius, Fin composer (Finlandia), dies at 91
1959 - Olin Howlin, actor (Swifty-Circus Boy), dies at 63
1960 - Lee Duncan, owner/trainer (Rin Tin Tin), dies of heart attack at 67
1960 - Michel Brusselmans, composer, dies at 74
1967 - Henri Mulet, composer, dies at 88
1968 - Frank Pelleg, composer, dies at 57
1971 - James Westerfield, actor (Travels of Jaime McPheeters), dies at 59
1971 - William F Albright, US archaeologist, dies at 80
1973 - Ben[jamin F] Webster, US tenor saxophonist, dies
1973 - Glenn Strange, actor (Sam the Bartender-Gunsmoke), dies at 74
1973 - Jim Croce, vocalist (Time in a Bottle), dies in a plane crash at 30
1974 - Carlyle Blackwell Jr, entertainer, dies at 61
1974 - Robert Herberigs, Flemish composer (La Chanson d'Eve), dies at 88
1975 - Saint-John Perse, French diplomat/poet (Nobel 1960), dies at 78
1976 - Johan Boskamp, opera singer/actor, dies at 83
1979 - Ludvik Svoboda, Czech general/politician, dies at 83
1980 - Sanpei Hayashiya, Japanese comedian (b. 1925)
1984 - Steve Goodman, folk singer/guitarist, dies at 36
1987 - Michael Stewart
1988 - Roy Kinnear, actor (Casanova, Pirates, Scrooge, Help!), dies at 54
1989 - Richie Ginther, American racing driver (b. 1930)
1990 - Jackie Moran, actor (Janie, Barefoot Boy), dies of cancer at 65
1992 - K W Stackpole, cricketer (good Victorian batsman), dies
1993 - Leonard Parkin, British TV host (ITN), dies at 64
1993 - Loan Volkerijk, Dutch baseball coach (ADO), dies at 65
1994 - Jimmy Hamilton, saxophonist, dies at 77
1994 - Jule Styne, Broadway composer (Gypsy, Funny Girl), dies at 88
1995 - Monica Maurice, industrialist, dies at 87
1996 - Max Manus, resistance fighter, dies at 82
1996 - Murtaza Bhutto, politician, dies at 42
1996 - Paul Draper, dancer, dies at 87
1996 - Paul Erdos, mathematician, dies of heart attack at 83
1996 - Paul Weston, bandleader, dies at 84
1997 - Edmund Falkiner, jazz saxophinist/probation officer, dies at 59
1999 - Raisa Gorbachyova, wife of Mikhail Gorbachev (b. 1932)
1999 - Robert Lebel, Quebec ice hockey administrator (b. 1905)
2000 - Gherman Titov, cosmonaut (b. 1935)
2003 - Lord Williams of Mostyn, British politician (b. 1941)
2003 - Gordon Mitchell, American actor (b. 1923)
2003 - Simon Muzenda, Zimbabwe politician (b. 1922)
2004 - Townsend Hoopes, American politician (b. 1922)
2004 - Brian Clough, English footballer and football manager (b. 1935)
2005 - Simon Wiesenthal, Austrian-Polish Nazi hunter (b. 1908)
2005 - Tobias Schneebaum, American writer, anthropologist and explorer dies at 83
2006 - Armin Jordan, Swiss conductor (b. 1932)
2006 - John W. Peterson, American songwriter (b. 1921)
2007 - Johnny Gavin, Irish footballer (b. 1928)
2010 - Kenny McKinley, American football player (b. 1987)
2010 - Leonard Skinner, American high school gym teacher; namesake of rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd
           (b. 1933)
2011 - Burhanuddin Rabbani, President of Afghanistan from 1992 to 1996. (b. 1940)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 21, 2013, 09:02:27 AM

This Day in History for 21st September


Historical Events

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US Defector General                             Religious Leader Joseph Smith Jr          Spanish Dictator Francisco Franco
Benedict Arnold

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Soldier, author, journalist, politician        Boxing Champ Archie Moore                 Artist & Musician Yoko Ono
Winston Churchill

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Actor Michael J. Fox                           Hall of Fame NFL Quarterback
                                                                          Dan Marino


1192 - English king Richard I the Lion hearted, captured by by Leopold V, Duke of Austria
1217 - The Estonian tribal leader Lembitu of Lehola was killed in a battle against Teutonic Knights.
1348 - Jews in Zurich Switzerland are accused of poisoning wells
1435 - Treaty of Atrecht: Philip of Bourgondy vs French king Charles II
1451 - Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa orders Jews of Holland to wear a badge
1589 - Battle at Arques: French king Henri IV beats Catholic League
1591 - French bishops recognize Henri IV as king of France
1621 - King James of England gives Canada to Sir Alexander Sterling
1648 - -23] Battle at Pilawce: Bohdan Chmielricki's beats John Casimir [NS]
1676 - Benedetto Odescalchi elected as Pope Innocent XI
1677 - John & Nicolaas van der Heyden patents fire extinguisher
1745 - Battle of Preston Pans: Bonnie Prince Charles beats English army
1746 - French expeditionary army occupies Labourdonnais & Dupleix Madras
1765 - Antoine de Beauterne announces he had killed the Beast of Gévaudan, but was later proved
           wrong by more attacks.
1776 - 5 days after British take NY, a ¼ of city burns down
1776 - Nathan Hale, spied on British for American rebels, arrested
1780 - Benedict Arnold gives British Major Andre plans to West Point
1784 - 1st daily newspaper in America (Pennsylvania Packet & General Advertiser)
1792 - Collot D'Herbois, first man to propose to abolish the monarchy in France at National
           Convention
1814 - "Star Spangled Banner" published as a poem
1815 - King Willem I takes oath in Brussels
1823 - Moroni 1st appears to Joseph Smith, according to Smith
1827 - According to Joseph Smith, Jr., the angel Moroni gave him a record of gold plates, one-third
           of which Joseph translated into The Book of Mormon.
1837 - Charles Tiffany founded his jewelry & china stores
1860 - In the Second Opium War, an Anglo-French force defeats Chinese troops at the Battle of
           Baliqiao.
1863 - Union forces retreat to Chattanooga after defeat at Chickamauga
1872 - John Henry Conyers of SC becomes 1st black student at Annapolis
1883 - 1st direct US-Brazil telegraph connection
1885 - Dutch demonstrate for general voting right
1893 - Frank Duryea drives 1st US made gas propelled vehicle (car)
1895 - 1st auto manufacturer opens-Duryea Motor Wagon Company
1896 - General Kitchener's army occupies Dongola Sudan
1897 - NY Sun runs famous "Yes, Virginia there is a Santa Claus," editorial
1898 - China's empress-mother Ci Xi & emperor De Zong arrested
1898 - Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days' Reform in China.
1903 - 1st cowboy film "Kit Carson" premieres in US
1905 - Atlanta Life Insurance Co forms
1906 - Yankee 1st baseman Hal Chase's 22 put-outs ties record
1913 - 1st aerobatic maneuver, sustained inverted flight, performed in France
1913 - Turkey & Bulgaria sign peace treaty in Constantinople
1915 - CH Chubb buys Stonehenge for £6,600
1915 - Emanuel Querido ("Kerido") begins publishing Querido
1919 - 33rd US Womens Tennis: Hazel H Wightman beats M Zinderstein (61 62)
1921 - Gas explodes at Bradishe Aniline chemical works in Germany, 565 die
1921 - Pope Benedictus XV donates 1 million lire to feed Russians
1921 - Oppau explosion, a storage silo at a fertilizer producing plant exploded in Oppau, Germany,
           500—600 killed.
1922 - Pres Warren G Harding signs a joint resolution of approval to establish a Jewish homeland in
           Palestine
1928 - "My Weekly Reader" magazine made its debut
1929 - 1st legal pass in Canada was thrown by Gerry Seiberling & 1st reception by Ralph Losie of
           Calgary Altomah-Tigers against Edmonton
1930 - Johann Ostermeyer patents flashbulb
1931 - Britain abandons gold standard; pound devalues 20%
1933 - Trial against Marinus der Lubbe opens
1934 - St Louis Card Paul Dean no-hits Bkln Dodgers, 3-0
1934 - Typhoon strikes Honshu Island Japan, kills 4,000
1936 - Spanish fascist junta names Franco to generalissimo/supreme commander
1937 - J. R. R. Tolkien's 'The Hobbit' is published
1938 - Hurricane (183 MPH winds) in New England kills 700
1938 - Winston Churchill condemns Hitler's annexation of Czechoslovakia
1938 - The Great Hurricane of 1938 makes landfall on Long Island in New York. The death toll is
           estimated at 500-700 people.
1939 - Reinhard Heydrich meets in Berlin to discuss final solution of Jews
1941 - US launches its 1st Liberty-ship, "Patrick Henry"
1942 - 116 hostages executed by Nazis in Paris
1942 - Transport nr 35 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1943 - Arundel (Solomon Island) in US hands
1943 - Lynch Triangle (Square) in Bronx named
1943 - Russian 13th/61st Army reconquer Chyernigov
1943 - Soviet forces reach Dnjepr
1944 - Last British paratroopers at bridge of Arnhem surrenders
1946 - Indians play their final game in League Park, ending a 55-year stay
1948 - "Texaco Star Theater" with Milton Berle premieres on NBC-TV
1949 - Chinese Communist leaders proclaim People's Republic of China
1949 - Federal Republic of [West] Germany created under 3-power occupation
1950 - George Marshall sworn in as the 3rd Secretary of Defense of United States.
1951 - Emil Zatopek runs 15,000m in record 44 min, 54.6 sec
1953 - Allied forces form West Germany
1953 - KRDO TV channel 13 in Colorado Spgs-Pueblo, CO (ABC) 1st broadcast
1954 - 1st nuclear submarine, USS Nautilus, commissioned under Commander Eugene P. Wilkinson
1954 - Kleffens appointed chairman of General Meeting UN
1955 - Last allied occupying troops leave Austria
1955 - Rocky Marciano KOs Archie Moore in 9 for heavyweight boxing title
1955 - USSR performs nuclear test
1955 - Heavyweight champ Rocky Mariano KOs Archie Moore in round 9
1956 - Yanks set dubious record, stranding 20 men on base Mantle hits a 500' plus homer but Red
           Sox win 13-9 in Fenway
1957 - "Perry Mason" with Raymond Burr premieres on CBS-TV
1957 - German sail training ship Pamir sails Atlantic Ocean
1957 - Olav V becomes king of Norway
1957 - Pote Sarasin forms government in Thailand
1958 - 1st airplane flight exceeding 1200 hours, lands, Dallas Tx
1958 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1959 - 600 Indian Dutch emigrate to US
1961 - Antonio Abertondo swims English Channel round trip (44 miles)
1961 - Maiden flight of the CH-47 Chinook transportation helicopter.
1964 - Constellation (US) beats Sovereign (England) in 20th America's Cup
1964 - Reds Chico Ruiz steals home, beats Phillies 1-0. Phillies start a 10 game losing streak that
           gives Cards the pennant
1964 - Malta becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
1964 - The North American XB-70 Valkyrie, the world's first Mach 3 bomber, made its maiden flight
           from Palmdale, California.
1965 - O Kommissarova (USSR) sets women's longest parachute jump (46,250')
1965 - Singapore admitted as a part of the United Nations.
1966 - 5inches of rain falls on NYC
1966 - Jimmy Hendrix changes spelling of his name to Jimi
1967 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1969 - 58th Davis Cup: USA beats Romania in Cleveland (5-0)
1969 - Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Lincoln-Mercury Golf Open
1969 - NY Jet Steve O'Neal punts 98 yards against Denver Broncos
1969 - Ron Hill wins European marathon (2:16:47.8 )
1970 - "Monday Night Football" premieres on ABC - Browns 31, Jets 21
1970 - KAPP TV channel 35 in Yakima, WA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1970 - Luna 16 leaves Moon
1970 - Oakland A's Vida Blue no-hits Minnesota Twins, 6-0
1970 - New York Times starts first modern op-ed page.
1971 - AL OKs Washington Senator move to Arlington (Texas Rangers)
1971 - John Lennon & Yoko Ono are Dick Cavett's only guest
1972 - Marcos declares martial law in Philippines
1972 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1973 - Jackson Pollocks painting "Blue Poles" sold for $2,000,000
1973 - NY Mets go into 1st place (at .500) after trailing 12½ games
1973 - Nate Archibald signs 7 yr contract with NBA KC Kings for $450,000
1974 - US Mariner 10 makes 2nd fly-by of Mercury
1975 - Jo Ann Washam wins LPGA Portland Ladies Golf Classic
1976 - Wings performs in Zagreb Yugoslavia
1976 - Orlando Letelier is assassinated in Washington, D.C. He was a member of the Chilean socialist
           government of Salvador Allende, overthrown in 1973 by Augusto Pinochet.
1977 - US minister of Foreign affairs Cyrus Vance dismissed
1979 - Two RAF Hawker Siddeley Harrier jump-jets from RAF Wittering collide over the UK. Both
           pilots ejected safely. One of the jets broke up in midair and fell harmlessly into a field but the
           other dropped onto the centre of Wisbech in Cambridgeshire, destroying two houses and a
           bungalow. Several people were injured in the accident and three people were killed.
1980 - Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA ERA Real Estate Golf Classic
1980 - LA Ram Johnnie Johnson scores a 99 yard interception
1980 - Richard Todd of NY Jets completes 42 passes in a game (NFL record)
1980 - Kerry GAA beat Roscommon GAA in Croke Park during the All-Ireland Football Final by 1-9 to
           1-6 thus winning the championship and a three-in-a-row.
1981 - Belize (British Honduras) gains independence from UK
1981 - Sandra Day O'Conner becomes 1st female Supreme Court Justice
1981 - Steve Carlton strikes out NL record 3,118th (Andre Dawson)
1982 - 2,251 turn out to see Expos play NY Mets at Shea Stadium
1982 - Devils beat Rangers 3-2 in exhibition; 1st hockey in Meadowlands (NJ)
1982 - NFL players begin a 57 day strike
1982 - SF cable cars cease operations for 2 years of repairs
1982 - STS-5 vehicle moves to launch pad
1983 - 11 killed in anti Marcos demonstrations in Manila
1983 - David Mamet's "Glengarry Glen Ross," premieres in London
1983 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1984 - NASA launches Galaxy-C
1985 - Michael Spinks beats Larry Holmes in 15 to become Heavyweight Boxing Champion
1986 - 38th Emmy Awards: Golden Girls, Cagney & Lacey & Michael J Fox win
1986 - Miami Dan Marino passes for 6 touchdowns vs NY Jets (51-45)
1986 - NY Jets beat Miami Dolphins 51-45 in OT; record 884 passing yards
1986 - New Orleans Saints Mel Gray returns kickoff 101 yards for a touchdown
1986 - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Konica San Jose Golf Classic
1986 - SD Padre Jimmy Jones pitchs 1-hitter in his major league debut
1986 - Kerry GAA beat Tyrone GAA in Croke Park during the All-Ireland Football Final by 2-15 to 1-
           10 thus winning the championship and a three-in-a-row.
1987 - 3 Belgian minesweepers depart to Persians Gulf
1988 - Mike Tyson smashes TV camera outside his Bernardsville NJ home
1989 - Poland's Sejm (National Assembly) approves prime minister Mazowiecki
1990 - Oakland A's Bob Welch becomes 1st 25 game winner in 10 years
1990 - Pirate Bobby Bond is 2nd to hit 30 HRs & steal 50 bases in a season (so he can play in 6
           decades) because it is a publicity stunt
1990 - Faye Vincent turns down White Sox bid to reinstate Minnie Minoso, 68
1991 - Armenia votes on whether to remain in Soviet Union
1991 - USA Basketball announces "Dream Team" for the 1992 Olympics
1993 - Ukraine government of Kutshma resigns
1994 - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Ft Laud/Miami Fl (WBGG 105.9 FM)
1995 - The Hindu milk miracle occurs, in which statues of the Hindu God Ganesh began drinking milk
           when spoonfuls were placed near their mouths.
1997 - Brickyard Crossing Senior Golf Championhsip
1997 - Liselotte Neumann wins LPGA PING Welch's Championship
1997 - Mike Piazza is 2nd to hit a HR out of Dodger Stadium
1997 - NY Yankee Cecil Fielder hits his 300th HR
1997 - Tim Herron wins Texas Golf Open shooting a 271
1999 - Chi-Chi earthquake occurs in central Taiwan, leaving about 2,400 people dead.
2001 - Deep Space 1 flies within 2,200 km of Comet Borrelly.
2001 - University of Roorkee, becomes India's 7th Indian Institute of Technology, rechristened as IIT
           Roorkee
2001 - AZF chemical plant explodes in Toulouse, France, killing 29 people
2003 - Galileo mission terminated by sending the probe into Jupiter's atmosphere, where it is
           crushed by the pressure at the lower altitudes.
2004 - The Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) People's War and the Maoist Communist
           Centre of India merge to form the Communist Party of India (Maoist).
2004 - Construction of the Burj Dubai starts.
2008 - Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, the two last remaining independent investment banks on
           Wall Street, become bank holding companies as a result of the subprime mortgage crisis.
2008 - President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa resigns from office, effective September 25.
2008 - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel formally resigns from office, effective as soon as his
           successor Tzipi Livni has successfully assembled a new government.
2008 - The final home game is played at Yankee Stadium against the Baltimore Orioles.
2012 - Japanese Prime Minister, Yoshihiko Noda, wins a leadership ballot

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 21, 2013, 09:03:47 AM

This Day in History for 21st September


Famous Weddings

1996 - Supermodel Christie Brinkey marries for 4th time to Peter Cook
1996 - Elder son of U.S. President John F. Kennedy and magazine publisher John F. Kennedy Jr. (35)
           weds Caroline Bisset (30) at the wood-frame Brack Chapel of the First African Baptist Church
           in Cumberland Island, Georgia

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 21, 2013, 09:11:34 AM

This Day in History for 21st September


Famous Birthdays

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Author H. G. Wells (1866)                   Horror Author Stephen King (1947)         Actor/Comedian Bill Murray (1950)


1051 - Bertha of Savoy, German queen and Holy Roman Empire Empress (d. 1087)
1328 - Hongwu Emperor of China (d. 1398)
1372 - Frederik I van Hohenzollern, monarch of Brandenburg (1417-40)
1411 - Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, claimant to the English throne (d. 1460)
1415 - Frederick III, Innsbruck Austria, German Emperor (1440-1493)
1428 - Jingtai Emperor of China (d. 1457)
1452 - Girolamo Savonarola, monk/reformer/dictator of Florence (1494-98)
1527 - Matthaus Ludecus, composer
1629 - Philip Cardinal Howard, English Catholic cardinal (d. 1694)
1645 - Louis Joliet, Canadian explorer (d. 1700)
1706 - Jacob Wilhelm Lustig, composer
1706 - Polyxena Christina of Hesse-Rotenburg, queen of Sardinia (d. 1735)
1728 - Louis Emmanuel Eadin, composer
1737 - Francis Hopkinson, US, writer/lawyer (helped design Stars & Stripes)
1752 - Louise MC, countess of Albany
1756 - John Loudon McAdam, created macadam road surface (asphalt)
1758 - Christopher Gore, 8th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1827)
1760 - Gaetano Valeri, composer
1760 - Ivan Dmitriev, Russian statesman (d. 1837)
1788 - Margaret Smith Taylor, 1st lady (1849-50)
1817 - Carter Littlepage Stevenson, Major General (Confederate Army)
1817 - Charles Balmer, composer
1819 - Princess Louise Marie Thérèse of France (d. 1864)
1820 - Williams Carter Wickham, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1824 - Joseph Andrew Jackson Lightburn, Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
1827 - Michael Corcoran, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
1832 - Friedrich Wilhelm Langhans, composer
1832 - Samuel Sprigg Carroll, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1893
1833 - Josef Richard Rozkosny, composer
1840 - Murad V, sultan of Turkey (1876)
1842 - Abd-ul-Hamid II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1918)
1843 - David Emlyn Evans, composer
1849 - Edmund Gosse, London, translator/critic (Father & Son)
1849 - Maurice Barrymore, Indian-born patriarch of the Barrymore family (d. 1905)
1853 - Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist (liquid helium, Nobel 1913)
1859 - Cyriel Buysse, Flemish baron/writer (Sursum Corda, Ace Knave)
1862 - James E. Talmage, LDS apostle and author (d. 1933)
1863 - John Bunny, American film comedian (d. 1915)
1866 - Charles Jean Henri Nicolle France, bacteriologist (Nobel-1928)
1866 - H. G. Wells, Bromley, Kent, , English writer (War of the Worlds, Kipps), (d. 1946)
1867 - Henry Lewis Stimson, US minister of War (1911-13)
1869 - Henryk Melcer-Szczawinski, composer
1871 - Ernst Heldring, Dutch merchant/ship owner/financier
1873 - Papa Jack Laine, American musician (d. 1966)
1874 - Gustav Theodore Holst, Cheltenham, England, composer (Planets)
1880 - Henry Louis Mencken, US essayist/critic (American Mercury)
1882 - Alf Thorbald Hurum, composer
1884 - Hugh "Shorty" Ray, supervisor of NFL officials, HOF member
1885 - Thomas Alexandrovich de Hartmann, composer
1886 - Teiichi Igarashi, Japan, climed Mt Fuji at age 99
1887 - Lodewijk de Vocht, composer
1889 - Otto Forst de Battaglia, Austrian diplomat/genealogist
1893 - Moses Pergament, composer
1894 - Tullio Carminati, Zara Dalmatia Italy, actor (Roman Holiday)
1895 - Sergei Yesenin, Russian poet (d. 1925)
1898 - Tushar Kanti Ghosh, world's oldest/longest serving newspaper Editor
1899 - Luc Haesaerts, Flemish art critic (Flandre)
1899 - Frederick Coutts, the 8th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1986)
1901 - Adele Bochner
1902 - Allen Lane, English publisher/founder (Penguin Books)
1902 - Learie [Nicholas] Constantine, Trinidad cricket player
1902 - Limari Salminen, Finland, 10K run (Olympic-gold-1936)
1904 - Hans Hartung, German/French painter
1905 - Robert Lebel, French Canadian ice hockey executive (d. 1999)
1906 - Derrick De Marney, London England, actor (Inheritance)
1906 - Henry Beachell, American plant breeder (d. 2006)
1907 - Helen Foster Snow, writer
1907 - Lloyd Gough, actor (Mike Axford-Green Hornet)
1912 - Chuck Jones, animator (Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck)
1912 - György Sándor, Hungarian pianist (d. 2005)
1913 - Ulrich Ernst Simon, theologian
1914 - John Kluge, Chemnitz Germany, media CEO (Metromedia)/billionaire
1916 - Jagernath Lachmon, premier Suriname
1916 - Françoise Giroud, French journalist and politician (d. 2003)
1917 - Phyllis Nicolson, British mathematician (d. 1968)
1918 - Rand Brooks, Los Angeles California, actor (Cpl Boone-Rin Tin Tin)
1919 - Aya Zikken, author (Atlasvlinder, Rameh)
1919 - Mario Bunge, Argentine philosopher and physicist
1919 - Fazlur Rahman, Pakistani scholar (d. 1988)
1920 - Jay Ward, cartoonist (Rocky & his Friends, Bullwinkle)
1922 - Lode Backx, Flemish pianist
1923 - Harry JN Vane 11th Lord Barnard, English large landowner
1924 - Gail Russell, Chicago IL, actress (Uninvited, Moonrise, Unseen)
1926 - Donald A Glaser, physicist (Nobel-1960)
1926 - Noor Jehan, Pakistani singer and actress (d. 2000)
1929 - Bernard Williams, English philosopher (d. 2003)
1929 - Sándor Kocsis, Hungarian footballer (d. 1979)
1930 - Dawn Addams, Felixstown Engl, actress (Alan Young Show, Star Maidens)
1931 - Larry Hagman, Fort Worth Tx, TV actor (I Dream of Jeannie, JR-Dallas), (d. 2012)
1932 - Don Preston, rocker (Mothers Of Invention)
1932 - Melvin Van Peebles, US, playwright/director (Watermelon Man)
1934 - Leonard Cohen, Montreal, singer/songwriter (Death of Ladies Man)
1935 - Henry Gibson, Germantown Pa, comedian (Nashville, Laugh-In's poet)
1935 - Jimmy Armfield, Former English Footballer and Manager
1936 - Yuriy Luzhkov, Russian politician, mayor of Moscow
1936 - Dickey Lee, American singer and songwriter
1938 - Atli Heimir Sveinsson, composer
1938 - Yuji Takahashi, composer
1940 - Bill Kurtis, Pensacola Fla, newscaster (American Parade)
1940 - Hermann Knoflacher, Austrian civil engineer
1941 - Tony Moon, rocker
1941 - R. James Woolsey, Jr., Central Intelligence Agency director
1941 - Jack Brisco, American professional wrestler
1942 - Ann Elder, Cleve Oh, comedienne (Smothers Brothers Show, Laugh-In)
1944 - Fannie Flagg, Birmingham Ala, actress/comediene (Candid Camera)
1944 - Hamilton Jordan, political advisor (Crisis, Last Year of Carter Pres)
1944 - Susan Maureen Fleetwood, Scotland, actress (Krays, Sacrifice)
1944 - Steve Beshear, Democratic Governor of Kentucky.
1945 - Bjarni V Tryggvason, Reykjavik Iceland, astronaut (STS 85)
1945 - Ombrettqa Colli, Italian entertainer
1945 - Richard Childress, NASCAR team owner
1945 - Shaw Clifton, the 18th General of The Salvation Army
1946 - Moritz Leuenberger, Swiss Federal Councilor
1947 - Don Felder, Gainesville Florida, American rocker (Eagles)
1947 - Stephen King, Portland, Maine, sci-fi/horror author (Carrie, Shining, Kujo)
1947 - Marsha Norman, American playwright
1948 - Artis Gilmore, ABA all star (Kentucky Colonels)
1948 - Michael Finneran, diver (1st perfect 10 on 10m platform)
1950 - Bill Murray, Evanston Ill, Wilmette, Illinois, actor/comedian (Saturday Night Live,
           Ghostbusters)
1950 - Charles Clarke, British politician
1951 - Bob Franks, (Rep-R-NJ)
1951 - Bruce Arena, Brooklyn New York, American soccer coach (Olympics-gold-96)
1951 - Henk Hofstede, Dutch singer/guitarist/keyboardist (Nits)
1951 - Aslan Maskhadov, Chechen rebel leader (d. 2005)
1952 - Anneliese Michel, German exorcism victim (d. 1976)
1953 - Betty Wright, rocker
1953 - John Mengatti, NYC, actor (Nick-White Shadow, For Love & Honor)
1954 - Philthy Animal, [Philip Taylor], rock drummer (Motorhead)
1954 - Shinzo Abe, Japanese politician
1955 - Rebecca Balding, Little Rock Ark, actress (Carla-Lou Grant, Soap)
1955 - Richard J Hieb, Jamestown ND, astronaut (STS 39, 49, 65)
1955 - Mika Kaurismäki, Finnish director
1956 - Jack Givens, American basketball player
1956 - Marta Kauffman, American television producer
1957 - Ethan Coen, Minneapolis Mn, producer (Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink)
1957 - Lynette Love, US tai kwan do champ 1987/(Olympics 1988)
1957 - Kevin Rudd, Australian politician
1958 - Rick Mahorn, NBA forward (Detroit Pistons)
1958 - Bruno Fitoussi, French poker player
1959 - Corrinne Drewery, rocker (Swing Out Sister-Swing Out)
1959 - David Coulier, Detroit, actor (Joey Gladstone-Full House)
1960 - David James Elliott, Toronto, actor (Seinfeld, Lt Harmon Rabb-Jag)
1961 - Michel R Vassallucci, French/Neth publisher (Arena)
1961 - Nancy Travis, NYC, actress (Kim-Almost Perfect, Chaplin, 8 Men Out)
1962 - Grant Fuhr, Edmonton Alberta, NHL goalie (Oilers)
1962 - Rob Morrow, New Rochelle NY, actor (Dr Fleishman-Northern Exposure)
1963 - Cecil Fielder, Los Angeles California, infielder (Detroit Tigers, NY Yankees)
1963 - Curtly Ambrose, Antiguan West Indies cricketer
1963 - Angus Macfadyen, Scottish actor
1964 - Danny Hoekman, soccer player (NEC)
1964 - Danny Villa, NFL guard (KC Chiefs)
1964 - Jorge Drexler, Uruguayan singer and composer
1965 - Richard Brown, NFL linebacker (Minnesota Vikings)
1966 - Ronna Reeves, Big Spring TX
1967 - Andrea Thies, Irvington NY, rower (Olympics-92, 96)
1967 - Romeo van Aerde, soccer player (RKC)
1967 - Faith Hill, American singer
1967 - Tyler Stewart, Canadian drummer (Barenaked Ladies)
1968 - Ricki Lake, NYC, actress (Hairspray)/talk show host (Ricki)
1968 - Trugoy, rocker (De La Soul)
1969 - Jason Christiansen, Omaha NE, pitcher (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1969 - Lia Biehl, LPGA golfer
1969 - Randal Hill, NFL wide receiver (Miami Dolphins)
1970 - Michael O'shea, CFL linebacker (Toronto Argonauts)
1970 - John Cudia, American actor
1971 - Alfonso Ribeiro, NYC, actor/pianist (Alfonso-Silver Spoons)
1971 - John Crawley, English cricketer
1971 - Luke Wilson, American actor
1972 - Alicia Rickter, Long Beach CA, playmate (Oct, 1995)
1972 - Brooke Bushnell, Los Angeles California, rhythmic gymnast (US team-96)
1972 - Jon Kitna, NFL quarterback (Seattle Seahawks)
1972 - Liam Gallagher, English singer (Oasis)
1972 - David Silveria, American drummer (KoЯn)
1973 - Virginia Ruano-Pascual, Madrid Spain, tennis star
1973 - Oswaldo Sanchez, Mexican footballer
1973 - Vanessa Grigoriadis, American journalist
1974 - Taral Hicks, American musician
1974 - Andy Todd, English footballer
1975 - Doug Davis, American baseball player
1976 - Adrian Olivo, Arlington Va, canoe (alt-Olympics-96)
1976 - Jana Kandarr, tennis star
1976 - Poul Hübertz, Danish footballer
1976 - Jonas Bjerre, Danish singer and guitarist (Mew)
1977 - Brian Tallet, American baseball player
1978 - Doug Howlett, New Zealand rugby union footballer
1979 - Richard Dunne, Irish footballer
1979 - Chris Gayle, Jamaican West Indies cricketer
1979 - Julian Gray, English footballer
1979 - Jaymee Ong, Chinese-Australian model
1980 - Raegan Tomaster, East Patgchogue NY, gymnast (alt-Olympics-96)
1980 - Robert Hoffman, American actor
1980 - Kareena Kapoor, Indian actress
1980 - Nyree Lewis, British Paralympic swimmer
1980 - Aleksa Palladino, American actress
1980 - Autumn Reeser, American actress
1980 - Tomas Scheckter, South African racing driver
1981 - Nicole Richie, American socialite
1981 - Rimi Sen, Indian actress
1981 - Meilinda Soerjoko, Indonesian-Australian actress
1982 - Eduardo Azevedo, Brazilian racing driver
1982 - Danny Kass, American snowboarder
1982 - Marat Izmailov, Russian footballer
1982 - Rowan Vine, English footballer
1983 - Joseph Mazzello, actor (Internal Affairs)
1983 - Fernando Cavenaghi, Argentinian footballer
1983 - Maggie Grace, American actress
1983 - Anna Meares, Australian cyclist
1984 - Benjamin Wildman-Tobriner, American swimmer
1985 - Maryam Hassouni, Dutch actor
1986 - Faris Rotter, English vocalist (The Horrors)
1987 - Jimmy Clausen, American football player
1987 - Courtney Paris, American basketball player
1987 - Ashley Paris, American basketball player
1988 - Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Pakistani politician
1989 - Lyn-Z Adams Hawkins, American skateboarder
1990 - Allison Scagliotti, American actress
1990 - Christian Serratos, American actress
1991 - Jordan Hasay, American track and field athlete
1998 - Brino quadruplets, American actor/actresses

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 21, 2013, 09:14:37 AM

This Day in History for 21st September


Famous Deaths

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Roman Poet Virgil (19 BC)                    Author Jacqueline Susann (1974)


19 BC - Virgil, Roman poet, dies at 50
454 - Aëtius, Roman general (bc. 396)
687 - Conon, Sicilian Pope (686-87), dies
1217 - Lembitu of Lehola, Estonian soldier
1327 - Edward II, king of England (1307-1327), assassinated at 43
1397 - Richard FitzAlan, 11th Earl of Arundel, English military leader (executed) (b. 1346)
1433 - Zweder van Kuilenberg, bishop of Utrecht
1440 - Frederik I van Hohenzollern, ruler Brandenburg (1417-40), dies at 68
1481 - Bartholomeus Platinum, Italian humanist/pontifical librarian, dies
1519 - Hans Backofen/Backoffen, German sculptor, dies at about 49
1520 - Selam I Jawuz, the Barse, poet/cruel sultan of Turkey, dies
1542 - Juan Boscán Almogáver, Spanish poet
1558 - Charles V, King of Spain (Carlos I)/Holy Roman Emperor, dies at 58
1576 - Girolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician, dies at 74
1586 - Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, viceroy of Naples (1571-75), dies at 69
1590 - Ascanio Trombeti, composer, dies at 45
1626 - François de Bonne, duc de Lesdiguières, Constable of France (b. 1543)
1629 - John Pieterszoon Coen, merchant/gov-gen of East-Indies, dies at 42
1705 - Willem Hadriaan of Nassau, corrupt mister of Odijck, dies
1719 - Johann Heinrich Acker, German writer (b. 1647)
1743 - Jai Singh II, King of Amber-Juiper (b. 1688)
1748 - John Balguy, English philosopher (b. 1686)
1796 - François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers, French general (b. 1769)
1798 - George Read, US judge/signer (Decl of Independence), dies at 65
1809 - Alexander Reinagle, composer, dies at 53
1812 - Emmanuel Johann Joseph Schikaneder, composer, dies at 61
1820 - Joseph R Drake, US poet (American Flag), dies at 25)
1832 - Walter Scott, Scottish attorney/poet/writer (Ivanhoe), dies
1836 - John Stafford Smith, composer, dies at 86
1839 - Jacob Gottfried Weber, German composer, dies at 60
1860 - Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (b. 1788)
1874 - JBAL Leonce Elie the Beaumont, French geologist, dies at 75
1883 - Johannes van Vloten, Dutch man of letters/theologist, dies at 65
1897 - Wilhelm Wattenbach, German historian (b. 1819)
1904 - Chief Joseph, US indian chief (Nez Perces), dies
1905 - Rudolf Baumbach, writer of German student drinking songs, dies at 64
1906 - Samuel Arnold, Lincoln conspirator (b. 1838)
1908 - Pablo de Sarasate, Spanish violinist/composer (Spanish Dancer), dies
1911 - Arab Pasha, "al-Misri" [Pasha Ahmad Arab), Egyptian minister, dies
1915 - Anthony Comstock, anti-vice crusader, dies at 71 in NYC
1922 - Tom Armitage, cricketer (England lob bowler v Australia 1877), dies
1926 - Leon Charles Thevenin, French telegraph engineer (b. 1857)
1937 - Henri [Lucien] Capitant, French lawyer, dies at 72
1938 - Ivana Brlic-Mazuranic Croatian writer (b. 1874)
1939 - Armand Calinescu, premier of Romania, murdered
1946 - Leo Bittermieux, Flemish missionary (Congo), dies at 66
1946 - Olga Engl, Austrian actress (b. 1971)
1947 - Harry Carey Sr, actor/director (Red River, Sundown), dies at 69
1953 - Roger Quilter, British composer, dies at 75
1954 - Kokichi Mikimoto, Japanese inventor (b. 1858)
1956 - Anastasio Somoza, Nicaraguan dictator, assassinated by Roliberto Lopez
1956 - Robert Mills Delaney, composer, dies at 53
1957 - Haakon VII (CF Charles WA), Danish king of Norway (1905-57), dies
1961 - Earle Dickson, inventor (band-aid), dies at 68
1961 - Maurice Delage, composer, dies at 81
1963 - Paulino Masip, Spanish playwright (b. 1899)
1964 - Jim Koethe, Dallas Times Herald reporter, killed by karate chop
1966 - Paul Reynaud, premier France (1940), dies
1970 - Gijsbert Friedhoff, architect (Wibautstrat tax office), dies
1971 - Bernardo Houssay, Argentine physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
1972 - Henry M de Montherlant, French author (Port Royal), dies at 76
1973 - Diana Sands, actress (Landlord, Raisin in the Sun), dies at 39
1973 - William CF Plomer, S Afr libretto writer (Curlew River), dies at 69
1974 - Jacqueline Susann, author (Valley of the Dolls), dies of cancer at 53
1974 - Walter Brennan, actor (Real McCoys), dies at 80
1976 - Orlando Letelier, minister Chile, dies
1979 - John McQuade, actor (Charlie Wild Private Detective), dies at 73
1980 - Ernest White, composer, dies at 80
1981 - Nigel Patrick, actor/director (Sapphire, Prize of Gold), dies at 68
1981 - Tony Aubin, composer, dies at 73
1982 - Hovhannes Bagramyan, Soviet general (b. 1897)
1985 - Gu Long, Taiwanese writer of wuxia novels (b. 1937)
1986 - Pierre Wigny, Belgium minister of Foreign affairs (1958-61), dies at 81
1987 - Ruth Attaway, actress (Porgy & Bess, Conrack, Being There), dies
1987 - Jaco Pastorious, jazz bassist and composer (Weather Report) dies at 36
1988 - Christine Norden, actress (Little Shop of Horroers, Night Beat), dies
1988 - Henry Koster, director, dies
1988 - Robert Gwathmey, artist, dies at 85
1988 - Glenn Robert Davis, member of United States Congress (b. 1914
1989 - F Fischer, German war criminal (4, Two of Breda), dies
1991 - Angelo "Little Moe" Rossitto, dwarf actor (Carousel), dies at 83
1991 - Angelo Rossitto, dwarf known as "Little Moe"/actor (Dark), dies at 83
1991 - JA Mommersteeg, Dutch state sect of Defense (KVP), dies
1992 - Billy Williams, actor (Adv of Kit Carson), dies at 76 of brain tumor
1992 - Hans Rosenberg, astronomer/alderman of Utrecht, dies
1993 - Fernand Ledoux, Belgian/French actor (L'Homme de Londres), dies at 96
1993 - Kamaran Abdalla, Iraq/Engl/Neth actor (Best Thing in Life), dies at 34
1994 - Arthur Krim, US director (United Artists, Orion Pictures), dies
1994 - Oswald "Ossie" Stevens Nock, railway Writer, dies at 69
1995 - Irven Spence, animator, dies at 86
1995 - Peter Shankland, film maker/writer, dies at 94
1995 - Vernell Townsend, blues/gospel singer, dies at 64
1995 - William Murray, teacher/educationalist, dies at 83
1995 - Rudy Perpich, American politician (b. 1928)
1996 - John Stachniewski, scholar/teacher, dies at 42
1996 - Julius Silverman, politician, dies at 90
1996 - Sabine Zlatin, nurse, dies at 89
1997 - Tommy Cecil, ferryman, dies at 51
1997 - Jennifer Holt, American actress (b. 1920)
1998 - Florence Griffith Joyner, American athlete (b. 1959)
2000 - Bryan Smith, Man who ran over Stephen King (b. 1957)
2002 - Robert L. Forward, American physicist and writer (b. 1932)
2004 - Barry Noble Wakeman, American naturalist and educator (b. 1939)
2004 - Bob Mason, British actor (b. 1952)
2006 - Boz Burrell, English rock musician (b. 1946)
2007 - Hallgeir Brenden, Norwegian Olympic gold medalist (b. 1929)
2007 - Alice Ghostley, American actress (b. 1926)
2007 - Rex Humbard, American television evangelist (b. 1919)
2011 - Pamela Ann Rymer, American federal appellate judge (b. 1941)
2011 - Troy Anthony Davis, American high-profile death row inmate and human rights activist
           (executed) (b. 1968)
2011 - Jun Henmi, Japanese writer and poet (b. 1939)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 22, 2013, 08:57:34 AM

This Day in History for 22nd September


Historical Events

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Playwright and Poet                                Composer Richard Wagner                    Heavyweight Boxing Champion
Ben Jonson                                                                                                                Jack Dempsey

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Singer-Songwriter Bob Dylan                38th US President Gerald Ford                   Israeli Prime Minister
                                                                                                                             Menachem Begin

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Russian President Boris Yeltsin


66 - Emperor Nero creates the Legion I Italica.
530 - Boniface II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
530 - St Felix IV reign as Catholic Pope ends
530 - Discorus begins his reign as Catholic anti-Pope
1236 - The Lithuanians and Semigallians defeat the Livonian Brothers of the Sword in Battle of
          Šiauliai.
1499 - Switzerland became an independent state.
1504 - Settled engagement of Karel of Luxembourg & Claudia the Beaujeu
1504 - Treaty of Blois: Philip van Bourgondie & Maximilian I & Louis XII
1529 - Cardinal Thomas Wolsey stripped of office as Lord Chancellor of England
1586 - Battle at Zutphen: English vs Dutch army
1598 - Playwright and poet Ben Jonson is indicted for manslaughter as the result of a duel.
1598 - Playwright and poet Ben Jonson is indicted for manslaughter as the result of a duel.
1656 - All female jury hears case of woman who killed her child (acquit her)
1665 - Molieres "L'amour Medecin," premieres in Paris
1692 - Last (8 ) person hanged for witchcraft in US (Salem Mass)
1699 - People of Rotterdam strike over high cost of butter
1711 - French troops occupy Rio de Janeiro
1733 - Polish King Lesczynski flees to Danzig
1735 - Robert Walpole is 1st British PM to live at 10 Downing Street
1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlie's army returns to Edinburgh
1753 - Pangeran Gusti installed as sultan of Banten
1756 - Nassau Hall opens at Princeton University
1761 - Coronation of George III of the United Kingdom and Queen Charlotte.
1784 - Russian trappers established a colony on Kodiak Island, AK
1789 - US Office of Postmaster General is created under the Treasury Department
1792 - 1st First French Republic forms
1817 - John Quincy Adams becomes secretary of State
1851 - The city of Des Moines, Iowa was incorporated as Fort Des Moines.
1861 - Fort Fauntleroy (Wingate), rapes Navaho Indians
1862 - President Lincoln, says he will free slaves in all states on Jan 1
1864 - Battle of Fisher's Hill VA-Gen Early Retreats to Brown's Gap
1864 - Sheridan sets up camp in Harrisonburg VA
1866 - Decisive battle of Curupaity in the War of the Triple Alliance.
1868 - Race riots in New Orleans La
1869 - Richard Wagner's opera "Rhine Gold," premieres in Munich
1885 - Lord Randolph Churchill makes a speech in Ulster in opposition to Home Rule e.g. "Ulster will
           fight and Ulster will be right".
1893 - 1st auto built in US (by Duryea brothers) runs in Springfield
1896 - Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in
           British history.
1903 - Italo Marchiony granted patent for ice cream cone
1905 - 11th US Golf Open: Willie Anderson shoots a 314 at Myopia Club Mass
1905 - Race riot in Atlanta Georgia (10 blacks & 2 whites killed)
1906 - Race riot in Atlanta Georgia, kills 21
1908 - Bulgaria declares independence from Ottoman Empire (Turkey)
1910 - Saskatchewan Rugby Football Union forms
1910 - The Duke of York's Cinema opened in Brighton. It is still operating today, making it the oldest
           continually operating cinema in Britain.
1911 - Cy Young beats Pitts 1-0 for his final career victory, number 511
1912 - Eddie Collins repeats record of stealing 6 bases in a game (9/7/12)
1913 - Coal mine explosion kills 263 at Dawson New Mexico
1913 - George Cohan's "7 Keys to Baldpate," premieres in NYC
1914 - 1 German submarine sinks 3 British ironclads, 1,459 die
1915 - Red Sox ask Braves for use of their larger park for World Series
1915 - Southern Methodist University (Dallas Texas) holds its 1st class
1915 - Xavier University, 1st Black Catholic College in US, opens in NO LA
1919 - -Jan 20] Steel strike in the US
1920 - Chicago grand jury convenes to investigate charges that 8 White Sox players conspired to fix
           the 1919 World Series
1921 - Estonia & Lithuania admitted to League of Nations
1921 - Music Box Theater opens at 239 W 45th St NYC
1925 - Yank Ben Paschal hits 2 inside-the-park-homers
1926 - Belgian crown prince Leopold & Swedish princess Astrid get engaged
1927 - Famous "Long count" fight (Dempsey loses to Tunney)
1927 - Gene Tunney beats Jack Dempsey in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
1927 - Yanks Earle Coombs hits 3 triples
1932 - Hungarian government of Károlyi falls
1934 - An explosion takes place at Gresford Colliery in Wales, leading to the deaths of 266 miners
           and rescuers.
1935 - Boston Braves lose NL record 110th game of year en route to 115
1937 - Forest fire kills 14 & injures 50 in Cody Wyoming
1937 - Spanish Civil War: Peña Blanca is taken; the end of the Battle of El Mazuco.
1941 - British signal officer Bill Hudson lands in Montenegro
1942 - Meulenberg robs of church bells
1943 - British dwarf submarines attack Tirpitz
1943 - Destroyer HMS Itchen torpedoed & sinks
1943 - Destroyer HMS Keppel sinks U-229
1944 - Boulogne reoccupied by Allies
1944 - Operation Market Garden: Polish paratroopers land at Driel
1944 - US troops land on Ulithi
1946 - Evelyn Dick charged with butchering husband
1947 - Dodgers clinch NL pennant
1949 - USSR detonates its 1st atomic bomb
1949 - WFMY TV channel 2 in Greensboro-High Point, NC (CBS) 1st broadcast
1950 - Nobel peace prize awarded to Ralph J Bunche (1st black winner)
1950 - Omar N Bradley promoted to rank of 5-star general
1953 - Islamic uprising in Atjeh at Indonesia
1954 - Bkln Dodger Karl Spooner strikes out 15 NY Giants in his 1st game
1955 - (ITV) Commercial TV begins in England
1955 - -28] Hurricane Janet, kills 500 in Caribbean
1957 - "Maverick" premieres
1957 - Duke Snider's 39th & 40th home runs are last hit at Ebbets Field
1958 - KTVK TV channel 3 in Phoenix, AZ (ABC) begins broadcasting
1958 - US nuclear sub USS Skate remains 31 days under Pole (record)
1959 - Chicago White Sox clinch AL pennant
1960 - Mali (formerly French Sudan) declares independence from France
1961 - Antonio Albertondo (Argentina) at 42, completes 1st "double" crossing swim of English
           Channel in 43 hrs 10 min
1961 - Jim Gentile's ties record of 5 grand slams in a year
1962 - Bob Dylan plays NYC Carnegie Hall
1963 - Czechoslovakian premier Široký deposed by Josef Lenart
1963 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Visalia Ladies' Golf Open
1964 - "Fiddler on the Roof" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 3242 perfs
1964 - "Man from U.N.C.L.E," premieres on NBC-TV
1965 - India & Pakistan ceases-fire goes into effect
1966 - Edward Albee's "Delicate Balance," premieres in NYC
1966 - KMEB TV channel 10 in Wailuku, HI (PBS) begins broadcasting
1966 - Only 413 show up at a Yankee Stadium game
1966 - Orioles beat A's 6-1 to clinch their 1st AL pennant
1966 - Surveyor 2 crashes on Moon
1967 - Phillies release pitcher Dallas Green, their future manager
1967 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1968 - Iraq adopts constitution
1968 - KMTC (now KDEB) TV channel 27 in Springfield, MO (IND) 1st broadcast
1968 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Kings River Golf Open
1968 - Twins' Cesar Tovar pitched a hitless inning & plays all 9 positions
1968 - Zond 5 completes flight
1969 - "Music Scene" debuts on ABC-TV
1969 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1969 - SF Giant Willie Mays, becomes second player to hit 600 home runs
1970 - Pres Nixon requests 1,000 new FBI agents for college campuses
1971 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1972 - Dictator Idi Amin expels 8,000 Asians from Uganda
1973 - "Little Night Music" opens at Majestic Theater on Broadway
1973 - 20th Ryder Cup: US, 19-13 at Muirfield, Scotland
1973 - Balt Oriole Al Bumbry hits 3 triples vs Milwaukee Brewers
1973 - Henry Kissinger, sworn in as America's 1st Jewish Secretary of State
1975 - Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate President Ford in SF Calif
1975 - World Football League folds
1975 - 2nd assassination attempt on US President Gerald Ford by Sara Jane Moore fails in San
           Francisco
1977 - Minn Twin Bert Blyleven no-hits California Angels, 9-0
1977 - Preston Jones' "Texas Trilogy," premieres in NYC
1977 - West German Red Army Faction terrorist kills policeman in Utrecht
1978 - Israeli PM Menachem Begin returns home after Camp David summit
1979 - Israel performs nuclear test at Indian Ocean
1979 - Larry Parrish (Expos) HRs off Rawly Eastwick (Phillies) in DH
1980 - Iraq invades Iran in an attempt to control the Shatt al-Arab waterway
1980 - Iraqi troops seize part of Iran in a border dispute; war begins
1980 - John & Yoko sign a recording contract with Geffin Records
1981 - Sandra Day O'Connor appointed to Supreme Court
1982 - Duleep Mendis completes twin cricket tons for Sri Lanka v India
1982 - SF's cable cars made a final run before closing down for 20-month
1983 - Everly Brothers reunite after 10 years (Royal Albert Hall)
1983 - NASA launches Galaxy-B
1983 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1983 - Zhu Jianhau (China) sets high jump record at 7'9 3/4"
1985 - 37th Emmy Awards: Cagney & Lacey, Cosby Show & Tyne Daly win
1985 - Billy Martin's right arm is broken by pitcher Ed Whitson
1985 - Earthquake strikes Mexico, 2,000 killed
1985 - France premier confesses on attack of Rainbow Warrior
1985 - Rock and country musicians participate in FarmAid in Champaign, Illinois
1985 - Val Skinner wins LPGA Konica San Jose Golf Classic
1985 - St Louis Cardinals set an unusual streak record by winning 9 of 10 games, each pitched by a
           different man
1985 - The Plaza Accord was signed in New York City.
1986 - 35 countries signs disarmament accord in Stockholm
1986 - India v Australia Test Cricket at Madras finishes in a tie
1986 - LA Dodger Fernando Valenzuela is 1st Mexican to win 20 games
1987 - 2nd regular-season National Football League player strike begins
1987 - Dow-Jones index rises record 75.23 points
1987 - Janet B Evans swims female world record 400m freestyle (4:03.85)
1987 - NFL players go on strike for 24 days
1987 - Red Sox Wade Boggs ties AL record of 200 hits for 5 straight seasons
1988 - Canada begins production of a $5 silver Maple Leaf bullion coin
1988 - South Korean coaches attack NZ referee after disputing his decision, Olympic Korean boxer
           stages a 67 minute sit-in
1989 - Cards outfielder Leon Durham suspended for 60 days due to drugs
1989 - IRA-bomb kills 10 British marines in Kent
1990 - Saudi Arabia expels many Jordanian & Yemeni envoys
1990 - Andre Dawson steals his 300th base & is only player other than Willie Mays to have 300 HRs,
           300 steals & 2,000 hits
1991 - ABN & AMRO Dutch banks merge
1991 - California University makes Dead Sea Scrolls public
1991 - Harry Gant wins NSACAR Goody's 500
1991 - Miami Dolphins coach Don Shula records his 300th career NFL victory
1991 - NY MTA yanks 6,000 ads for "Dr Tusch" (Dr Jeffrey Lavigne)
1991 - Pat Bradley wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
1992 - Heavy storm in South France, 34 die
1993 - Nolan Ryan, 46, pitches his last game
1993 - STS-51 (Discovery) lands
1993 - Supreme Soviet dismisses president Boris Yeltsin
1993 - A Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-154 is shot down by a missile in Sukhumi, Georgia.
1994 - Rasmussen government in Denmark, resigns
1995 - E-3B AWACS crashed outside of Elmendorf AFB, Alaska after multiple bird strikes to two of
           the four engines soon after takeoff; all 24 on board killed
1996 - 4th Solheim Cup: US beats Europe 17-11 at St Pierre Wales
1997 - Elton John releases Diana tribute "Candle in the Wind 1997"
1997 - Marv Albert pleads not guilty to sexual charges
1997 - Bentalha massacre in Algeria; over 200 villagers killed.
2003 - David Hempleman-Adams becomes the first person to cross the Atlantic Ocean in an open-air,
           wicker-basket hot air balloon.
2006 - A German maglev train crashes, killing 23.
2006 - The F-14 Tomcat retires from the United States Navy.
2006 - Hezbollah claims "Divine Victory" over Israel in a massive demonstration in Beirut.
2011 - CERN scientists announce their discovery of neutrinos breaking the speed of light
2012 - 7 pedestrians are killed by a drunk driver who hit a bus stop at 200km an hour in Moscow

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 22, 2013, 08:58:50 AM

This Day in History for 22nd September


Famous Weddings

1984 - Brussels Princess Astrid marries Archduke Lorenz of Austrian-Este at Church of Our Lady of
           "De Zavel
1991 - American Jewish playwright and screenwriter David Mamet marries 2nd wife, English actress
           Rebecca Pidgeon   
2007 - "Desperate Housewives" actor Ricardo Chavira (36) weds longtime girlfriend Marcea Dietzel in
           San Antonio, Texas
2008 - TV personality and glamour model Kendra Wilkinson (24) weds Philadelphia Eagles NFL player
           Hank Baskett (26) at Playboy mansion in Los Angeles, California

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 22, 2013, 08:59:39 AM

This Day in History for 22nd September


Famous Divorces

2000 - Actress Patsy Kensit (32) divorces Oasis singer Liam Gallagher (28) due to unreasonable
           behaviour after 3 years of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 22, 2013, 09:09:31 AM

This Day in History for 22nd September


Famous Birthdays

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Baseball Manager                               Singer/Songwriter Nick Cave (1957)        Italian Tenor Andrea Bocelli (1958)
Tom Lasorda (1927)


130 - Claudius Galenus, Italian physician/scholar
1290 - Bilbo Baggins, (in Shire Reconning)
1515 - Anne of Cleves, Düsseldorf, Queen of England/4th wife of Henry VIII
1547 - Philipp Nikodemus Frischlin, German philologist and poet (d. 1590)
1601 - Anna van Oostenrijk, queen of France/daughter of Philip III
1606 - Li Zicheng, Chinese rebel (d. 1645)
1680 - Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet (d. 1747)
1694 - Lord Chesterfield, letter writer; introduced Gregorian calendar (1752)
1715 - Jean-Étienne Guettard, French physician and scientist (d. 1786)
1717 - Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin, Swedish astronomer (d. 1783)
1720 - Adolph Carl Kunzen, composer
1722 - John Home, Scottish writer (d. 1808)
1729 - George Wilhelm Gruber, composer
1733 - Anton Filtz, composer
1738 - Dionysius G Van de Keessel, lawyer (Theses Selectae)
1741 - Peter S Pallas, German geologist/zoologist (Siberia/Krim)
1743 - Quintin Craufurd, British author (d. 1819)
1757 - Herman H Vitringa, politician (National Meetings)
1765 - Paolo Ruffini, Italian mathematician (d. 1822)
1788 - Theodore Edward Hook, English author (d. 1841)
1791 - Michael Faraday, discovered principle of electric motor
1796 - Ret Cornelius Kinchiloe Stribling, Comm (Union Navy), died in 1880
1819 - Wilhelm Wattenbach, German historian (d. 1897)
1822 - Brig Gen Eppa Hunton, fought in most ANV campaigns
1827 - John Grubb Parke, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1900
1829 - William Worth Belknap, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1829 - Tự Đức, Emperor of Vietnam (d. 1883)
1833 - Stephen Dill Lee, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1908
1849 - John Godden, English explorer (Curacao)
1860 - Heinrich Reitsch, composer
1864 - Louis Van Deyssel, writer (Small Republic, One Love)
1870 - Arthur Willard Pryor, composer
1872 - Luis Villalba Munoz, composer
1875 - Mikolajus Konstantinas Ciurlionis, composer
1876 - André Tardieu, Prime Minister of France (d. 1945)
1878 - Shigeru Yoshida, Japanese PM (most of 1946-54)
1880 - Asser B Kleerekoper, journalist/2nd-Member of parliament (SDAP)
1880 - Dame Christabel Pankhurst, English suffragist (d. 1958)
1882 - Emil Abranyi, composer
1882 - Wilhelm Keitel, German fieldmarshal
1883 - Robert Franz Richard Hernried, composer
1884 - Minerva Urecal, CA, actress (Accent on Love, Crazy Knights)
1885 - Erich von Stroheim, early film director/actor (Grand Illusion)
1885 - Gunnar Asplund, Swedish architect (d. 1940)
1885 - Ben Chifley, Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1951)
1887 - Hobart Cavanaugh, US, actor (Border Town, Black Angel)
1888 - Sophia J W "Sophie" Hermse, actress (Vorstenschool)
1889 - Hooks Dauss, American baseball player (d. 1963)
1890 - Ferdinand Gonseth, Swiss mathematician/philosopher
1891 - Jacob H "Jaap" Stotijn, oboist/conductor (Residence Orch)
1892 - Billy West, Russia, actor (Further Perils of Laurel & Hardy)
1892 - Frank Sullivan, humorist (NYer Magazine)
1892 - Hans Albers, Hamburg Germany, actor (Blue Angel)
1894 - Hieronim Feicht, composer
1894 - Johnnie Gough, Boston MA, actor (Smooth as Satin, Circus Kid)
1895 - Babette Deutsch, US poet (Animal vegetable mineral)
1895 - Paul Muni, actor (Acad Award 1936-Angel on My Shoulder, Juarez)
1896 - Henry Segrave, British racing driver (d. 1930)
1898 - Katherine Alexander, American actress (d. 1981)
1900 - William Spratling, American silversmith (d. 1967)
1900 - Paul H. Emmett, American chemical engineer (d. 1985)
1901 - Allan "Rocky" Lane, Mishawaka Ind, actor (voice of Mr Ed, Red Ryder)
1901 - Charles Huggins, surgeon/medical researcher
1902 - F R Boschvogel, [French LJ Ramon], Flemish writer (War of Worlds)
1902 - John Houseman, Bucharest Romania, actor (Kingsfield-Paper Chase)
1903 - Joseph Valachi, American gangster (d. 1971)
1904 - Ellen Church, American stewardess (d. 1965)
1905 - Eugen Sänger, Austrian aerospace engineer (d. 1964)
1906 - Phyllis Hartnoll, writer/editor
1907 - Philip Fotheringham-Parker, British racing driver (d. 1981)
1909 - David Riesman, US sociologist (Lonely Crowd)
1910 - Klement Slavicky, composer
1912 - Alfred G Vanderbilt, thoroughbred horse owner (Native Dancer)
1912 - Martha Scott, Jamesport, Missouri, American actress (Our Town, Ben-Hur)
1913 - Leroy Holmes, Pittsburgh Pa, orchestra leader (Tonight Show, 1956-57)
1915 - Arthur Lowe, Hayfield England, actor (Captain Mainwaring-Dad's Army)
1917 - Peter Adams, LA CA, actor (Alternative)
1918 - Archibald James Potter, composer
1918 - Hans Scholl, German resistance fighter (Die Weisse Rose)
1918 - Henryk Szeryng, Zelazowa Wola Poland, violinist (Brahms Concerto)
1919 - Jack Russell, Saratoga Springs NY, singer (Your Show of Shows)
1920 - Bob Lemon, San Bernardino, California, American MLB pitcher (Cleveland Indians)/manager
           (NY Yankees, 1978)
1920 - Ismay Thomas, teacher
1920 - Anders Lassen, Danish military officer (d. 1945)
1922 - Chen Ning Yang, China, US physicist/disproved parity (Nobel 1957)
1923 - Dannie Abse, Welsh poet and writer
1924 - Abdulrahman Mohamed Babu, politician
1924 - Norvel la Follette Ray Lee, lt-HW boxer (Olympic-gold-1952)
1924 - Sieto Hoving, actor (Holiday in Havana, Palm Beach Story)
1924 - Charles Keeping, British illustrator (d. 1988)
1924 - Rosamunde Pilcher, English novelist
1925 - Virginia Capers, Sumter SC, actress (White Mama, Original Intent)
1926 - William O Smith, composer
1927 - Eligio [Kika] De La Garza, (Rep-D-Texas, 1965- )
1927 - Tom Lasorda [Thomas], Norristown, Pennsylvania, baseball manager (LA Dodgers)
1927 - Gordon Astall, English footballer
1928 - Eugene Roche, Boston MA, actor (Foul Play, Slaughterhouse Five)
1928 - Eric Broadley, MBE, British automotive engineer (Lola Cars)
1929 - Serge Garant, composer
1929 - William E Dannemeyer, (Rep-R-CA, 1979- )
1930 - Antonio Saura, Spanish painter
1930 - Roger Durham Hannay, composer
1931 - Fay Weldon, British feminist
1931 - George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie, British politician (d. 2003)
1931 - Manzoor Ahmad, Pakistani philosopher
1932 - Ingemar Johansson, Sweden, world heavyweight boxing champ (1952)
1933 - Leonardo Balada, composer
1934 - Lute Olson, American basketball coach
1935 - Harriet King, US, fencing (Olympic-1972)
1936 - Art Metrano, Brooklyn New York, American comedian (Amy Prentiss, Joanie Loves Chachi)
1936 - Maurice Evans, English footballer and manager (d. 2000)
1938 - Gene Mingo, American football player
1939 - Junko Tabei, Japan, 1st woman to climb Mount Everest
1939 - Mike Sullivan, (Gov-Wyoming)
1939 - Timothy E Wirth, (Rep-D-CO, 1975- )
1939 - Gilbert E. Patterson, American minister and presiding bishop of the Church of God in Christ
           (d. 2007)
1940 - Anna Karina, Copenhagen Denmark, actress (Alphaville)
1940 - Edward Boguslawski, composer
1941 - Jeremiah Wright, American pastor
1942 - David J Stern, NBA commissioner (1984- )
1942 - Dick Pickering, trade unionist
1942 - William C Nelson, rep/astronaut (STS 24)
1943 - Toni Basil, American singer
1944 - John Tanner, (Rep-D-Tennessee)
1945 - Paul LeMat, Rahway, New Jersey, American actor (American Graffiti, Melvin and Howard)
1946 - Daniel E "Dan" Lungren, (Rep-R-California, 1979-88)
1946 - King Sunny Ade, Nigerian singer
1946 - Dan Baker, American public address announcer
1947 - Robert Morace, American writer
1948 - Bill Orton, (Rep-D-Utah)
1948 - Mark A P Phillips, British ex of princess Anne
1948 - Denis Burke, Australian politician
1948 - Jim Byrnes, American actor and musician
1949 - David Coverdale, England, rock vocalist (Whitesnake, Deep Purple)
1949 - Harold Carmichael, NFL wide receiver (Philadelphia Eagles)
1949 - Jim Keith, American conspiracy theorist and author (d. 1999)
1949 - Jim McGinty, Australian politician
1950 - Kirka, Finnish singer (d. 2007)
1951 - David Coverdale, English singer
1952 - Robert W Goodlatte, (Rep-R-Virginia)
1952 - Gary Holton, English actor and musician (d. 1985)
1953 - Ségolène Royal, French politician
1953 - Geoff Gilpin, American author
1954 - Shari Belafonte Harper, NYC, actress (Julie-Hotel)
1954 - Randy Lanier, American racing driver
1955 - Jerry Anderson, Montreal, Canadian Tour golfer (Quebec Open-1982, 83)
1955 - Jeffrey Leonard, Major League baseball player
1956 - Debby Boone, Hackensack NJ, singer (You Light Up My Life)
1956 - Masayuki Suzuki, Japanese singer (Rats & Star)
1957 - Johnette Napolitano, rocker (Concrete Blonde)
1957 - Lynn Herring, Enid Oklahoma, actress (Lucy Coe-General Hospital)
1957 - Mark Johnson, Madison WI, NHL forward (Olympic-gold-1980, Pitts, NJ)
1957 - Nick Cave, Warracknabeal, Victoria, Australian singer/songwriter (Bad Seeds-Murder Ballads)
1957 - Pete Jones, rocker
1957 - Philip Arnold Blackmar, San Diego CA, PGA golfer (1988 Provident)
1957 - Giuseppe Saronni, Italian cyclist
1958 - Vasili Yuriyevich Lukiyanyuk, Russian cosmonaut
1958 - Andrea Bocelli, Pisa, Italian tenor (The Prayer)
1958 - Neil Cavuto, American television commentator
1959 - Greg Bruckner, Inglewood CA, Nike golfer (1992 New England Classic)
1959 - Pope Michael, American anti-pope
1960 - Joan Jett, Phila, singer (Blackhearts-I Love Rock 'n Roll)
1960 - Scott Baio, Bkln, (Joanie Loves Chachi, Charles in Charge, Zapped)
1960 - Victor Stevenson, CFL tackle (Edmonton Eskimos)
1961 - Catherine Oxenberg, NYC, princess/actress (Dynasty, Overexposed)
1961 - Dot Richardson, Orlando Fla, softball infielder (Olympics-gold-96)
1961 - Vince Coleman, American baseball player
1961 - Dr. Liam Fox, British Conservative politician
1961 - Bonnie Hunt, American actress
1962 - Rob Stone, Chicago Ill, actor (Kevin-Mr Belvedere)
1962 - Diogo Mainardi, Brazilian writer
1963 - Michele Berteotti, LPGA golfer
1963 - Missie Berteotti, Pittsburgh PA, LPGA golfer (1993 PING/Welch's Champ)
1964 - Marq Torien, rocker (Bullet Boys-For Love of Money)
1965 - Mark Guthrie, Buffalo NY, pitcher (LA Dodgers)
1965 - Andy Cairns, Irish musician
1966 - Mike Richter, Abington PA, NHL goalie (NY Rangers, Team USA 1998)
1966 - Moustafa Amar, Egyptian singer
1966 - Stefan Rehn, Swedish footballer
1967 - Elfrid Payton, CFL linebacker (Montreal Alouettes)
1967 - Harald Hasselbach, NFL defensive end (Denver Broncos-Super Bowl 32)
1967 - Matt Howard, Fall River MA, infielder (NY Yankees)
1967 - Matt Besser, American comedian
1967 - Félix Savón, Cuban boxer
1967 - Kim Watkins, Australian television presenter
1968 - Godfrey Myles, NFL linebacker (Dallas Cowboys)
1968 - Lisa Alexander, Toronto Ontario, synchro swimmer (Olympics-silver-96)
1969 - Marian Chlad, soccer player (FC Groningen)
1969 - Melissa Lynn Costello, Shenandoah WV, Miss WV-America (1991)
1969 - Nicole Bradtke, Melbourne Australia, tennis star (1995 Auckland)
1969 - Matt Sharp, American musician (Weezer, The Rentals)
1970 - Eric L Blount, CFL running back (Edmonton Eskimos)
1970 - Greg Huntington, NFL guard (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1970 - Mike Matheny, Columbus OH, catcher (Milwaukee Brewers)
1970 - Prince Wimbley, CFL slot back (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1970 - Mystikal, American rapper
1970 - Rupert Penry-Jones, English actor
1970 - Emmanuel Petit, French footballer
1971 - Chesney Lee Haskes, England, singer (Feels So Alive)
1971 - Christian Fauria, NFL tight end (Seattle Seahawks)
1971 - Ian Van Der Wal, Darwin Australia, swimmer (Olympics-96)
1971 - Princess Märtha Louise of Norway
1972 - Nate Dingle, NFL linebacker (Philadelphia Eagles)
1974 - Gary Trent, NBA forward (Portland Trailblazers)
1974 - Yoo Chae-yeong, South Korean singer and actress
1975 - Ethan Moreau, Canadian ice hockey player
1975 - Svilen Noev, Bulgarian singer-songwriter
1976 - "Ronaldo" de Lima, Brazilian soccer player (Cruzeiros/PSV)
1976 - Karita Tuomola, Miss Finland Universe (1997)
1977 - Paul Sculthorpe, English rugby league footballer
1978 - Ed Joyce, Irish-English cricketer
1978 - Harry Kewell, Australian soccer player
1979 - Emilie Autumn, American singer, violinist, and harpsichordist
1979 - Michael Graziadei, American actor
1980 - Fernanda Tavares, Brazilian supermodel
1981 - Ashley Drane, American actress
1981 - Adam Lazzara, American singer (Taking Back Sunday)
1981 - Subaru Shibutani, Japanese singer, dancer, actor (Kanjani8)
1982 - Mandy Chiang, Hong Kong singer and actress
1982 - Kosuke Kitajima, Japanese swimmer
1982 - Billie Piper, English singer and actress
1984 - Eduardo Rubio, Mexican pilot and pianist
1984 - Theresa Fu, Hong Kong singer and actress
1984 - Ross Jarman, Drummer The Cribs
1984 - Laura Vandervoort, Canadian actress
1985 - Faris Haroun, Belgian footballer
1987 - Tom Felton, English Actor
1988 - Bethany Dillon, American musician
1995 - Juliette Goglia, American actress
2007 - Albert Windsor, descendant of British monarch

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 22, 2013, 09:11:51 AM

This Day in History for 22nd September


Famous Deaths

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Nobel Laureate Chemist
Frederick Soddy (1956)


1072 - Ouyang Xiu, Chinese historian and scholar-official (b. 1007)
1197 - Petrus Cantor, French theologist (Verbum Abbreviatum), dies
1253 - Dogen Kigen, 1st Zen patriarch of Japanese Soto line, dies at 53
1286 - Mugaku Sogen, Zen Rinzai line founder of Engakuji temple, dies at 60
1345 - Henry Plantagenet, 3rd Earl of Leicester (b. 1281)
1392 - Aleid van Poelgeest, lover of earl Albrecht of Bavaria, murdered at 22
1392 - Willem Cuser, earl Albrecht of Beierens, murdered
1399 - Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, English politician (b. 1366)
1408 - Johannes VII Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor (1376-77, 90/1404-8), dies
1520 - Selim I, captured Baghdad/Sultan of Turkey (1512-20), dies at 53
1531 - Louise Van Savoye, French regent of king Francois I, dies at 55
1539 - Guru Nanak Dev, founder of Sikhism (b. 1469
1554 - Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, Spanish explorer
1566 - John Agricola, [Schneider], German theologist/prime minister, dies
1607 - Alessandro Agnolo Allori, Italian painter/carpet designer, dies at 72
1658 - Georg Philipp Harsdorffer, German poet (b. 1607)
1662 - John Biddle, English theologian (b. 1615)
1702 - Hoessein Koprulu, Turkish great vizer (peace of Karlowitz), dies
1703 - Vincenzo Viviani, Italian mathematician and scientist (b. 1622)
1712 - Jose Solana, composer, dies at 69
1737 - Francesco Mancini, composer, dies at 65
1737 - Michel Pignolet de Monteclair, composer, dies at 69
1774 - Clement XIV, [Giovanni Ganganelli], Pope (1769-74), dies
1776 - Nathan Hale, US captain/patriot/spy, hanged by British at 21
1796 - George Wilhelm Gruber, composer, dies on 67th birthday
1796 - Joseph Lederer, composer, dies at 63
1814 - A W Iffland, writer, dies
1826 - J P Hebel, writer, dies at 66
1828 - Shaka, South African Zulu king, dies
1852 - William Tierney Clark, English civil engineer (b. 1783)
1865 - Heinrich Christian Pander, Russian zoologist, dies at 71
1872 - Vladimir Dal, Russian lexicographer (b. 1801)
1873 - Friedrich Frey-Herosé, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1801)
1880 - G F Grace, cricketer (one Test v Australia), dies
1881 - Solomon L. Spink, U.S. Congressman from Illinois (b. 1831)
1890 - Johanna D Courtmans-Berchmans, Flemish author, dies at 79
1914 - Alain-Fournier, French writer (Grand Meaulnes), dies in battle at 27
1923 - Marquess of Ripon, game hunter, dies, after shooting 52nd grouse
1927 - Giannotto Bastianelli, composer, dies at 44
1935 - Karl Schroder, composer, dies at 86
1944 - "Cab" Calloway, British scout, dies in battle of Oosterbeek
1949 - Sam Wood, US communist fighter/director (Night at Opera), dies at 66
1952 - Cor Ruys, actor (Princess Stage), dies at 62
1952 - Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg, first President of Finland (b. 1865)
1953 - William Brann, cricketer (3 Tests for South Africa), dies
1956 - Frederick Soddy, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate, dies at 79
1957 - Toyoda Soemu, Japanese admiral (b. 1885)
1959 - Benjamin Peret, French writer/poet (Le grand jeu), dies at 60
1959 - Jane Winton, actress (Hell's Angel, Patsy, Don Juan), dies at 53
1959 - Josef Matthias Hauer, composer, dies at 76
1960 - Melanie Klein, Austria/British psycho analyst, dies at 78
1961 - Marion Davies, actress (Not So Dumb, 5 & 10), dies of cancer at 64
1963 - Fred Le Roux, cricketer (S Afr all-rounder in only Test), dies
1969 - Adolfo Lopez Mateos, president of Mexico, dies at 59
1971 - Joseph Ford McGuinn, director, dies of heart attack at 67
1971 - Yvonne St Clair, dancer, dies at 57
1972 - Robert KJE Antonissen, South African literary, dies at 53
1975 - Franz Salmhofer, composer, dies at 75
1975 - Patricia Doyle, actress (Wuthering Heights), dies at 60
1978 - Lina Carstens, actress (Homeland, Broken Jug), dies at 85
1981 - Harry Warren, American composer and lyricist (b. 1893)
1985 - Axel Springer, German newspaper magnate (Bild Zeitung), dies at 73
1987 - Christopher Stryker, entertainer, dies at 27
1987 - Dan Rowan, actor (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-in), dies at 65
1987 - John F "Jaco" Pastorius, rock guitarist (Weather Report), dies at 35
1987 - Louis Philip Kentner, composer, dies at 82
1988 - Rais Amrohvi, Pakistani poet and psychoanalyst (b. 1914)
1989 - Irving Berlin, composer (God Bless America), dies at 101
1989 - Jan Teulings, Dutch actor/director (Dorp aan de Rivier), dies
1991 - Pandit Rambharos Gangaram Panday, Suriname religious leader, dies
1991 - Reynold Abel Dorris, (Broken Cord), dies at 23 in car crash
1992 - Aurelio López, Mexican baseball player (b. 1948)
1993 - Margaret MacDonald, maid to Queen Elizabeth, dies at 89
1994 - Forest Cowles Bud Forrest Sagendorf, cartoonist, dies at 79
1994 - John Edward Teddy Buckner, trumpeter, dies at 85
1994 - Leonard Geoffrey Feather, jazz critic/musician, dies at 80
1994 - Mattie Moss Clark, gospel Singer, dies at 69
1995 - Albert Goodwin, historian, dies at 89
1995 - Arthur Benfield, formed head of Cheshire CID, dies at 82
1995 - Dorothy "Dolly" Ann Collins, folk musician/composer, dies at 62
1996 - Dorothy Lamour, actress (Road to Bali, Road to Rio), dies at 81
1996 - Ludmilla Chiraeff, ballet dancer, dies at 72
1996 - Mohammed Ben Amhed Abdelghani, PM of Algeria (1979-84), dies
1997 - Bryan Woods, soldier/clerk, dies at 76
1997 - Eric William Hunter Christie, barrister, dies at 77
1997 - George Bryan Ingham, artist, dies at 61
1997 - Ruth Picardie, journalist, dies at 33
1997 - Shoichi Yokoi, Jap WW II fighter (surrendered in 1972), dies at 82
1999 - George C. Scott, American actor (Dr. Strangelove), dies of a ruptured abdominal aortic
           aneurysm at 71
2000 - Rodney Anoa'i (Yokozuna), American professional wrestler (b. 1966)
2000 - Saburo Sakai, Japanese aviator, (b. 1916)
2001 - Isaac Stern, Ukrainian violinist (b. 1920)
2002 - Jan de Hartog, Dutch-born writer (b. 1914)
2003 - Gordon Jump, American television actor (b. 1932)
2003 - Hugo Young, British journalist (b. 1938)
2004 - Ray Traylor (The Big Boss Man), American professional wrestler (b. 1962)
2006 - Edward Albert, American actor (b. 1951)
2006 - Carla Benschop, Dutch basketball player (b. 1950)
2007 - Bodinho, Brazilian footballer (b. 1928)
2007 - Marcel Marceau, French mime artist (b. 1923)
2008 - Thomas Doerflein, German Zookeeper (b. 1963)
2010 - Eddie Fisher, American singer (b. 1928)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 23, 2013, 08:56:40 AM

This Day in History for 23rd September


Historical Events

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US Defector General                              Heavyweight Boxing Champion                Dictator of Nazi Germany
Benedict Arnold                                     Jack Dempsey                                                Adolf Hitler

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Singer Buddy Holly                                  Hall of Fame MLB shortstop                    Actress Jane Fonda
                                                                Ernie Banks


951 - Otto I the Great becomes king of Italy
1122 - Concord of Worms
1408 - Battle of Othee
1459 - Battle of Blore Heath, the first major battle of the English Wars of the Roses, is fought at
           Blore Heath in Staffordshire.
1513 - King Henry III & Emperor Maximilian conquer Doornik
1561 - King Philip II of Spain forbids Spanish settlements in Florida
1642 - Harvard College in Cambridge, Mass, 1st commencement
1719 - Liechtenstein declares independence from German empire
1739 - Russia & Turkey sign Peace of Belgrade
1746 - Jacob Gilles appointed Dutch pension advisor
1779 - John Paul Jones' "Bon Homme Richard" defeats HMS Serepis
1780 - Brit Maj John Andre reveals Benedict Arnold's plot to betray West Pt
1795 - Conseil of the Cinq-Cents (Council of 500), forms in Paris
1803 - Battle of Assaye-British-Indian forces beat Maratha Army
1806 - Lewis & Clark return to St Louis from Pacific Northwest
1818 - Border demarcation markers for Moresnet formally installed.
1821 - Fall of Tripolitsa, Greece, massacre of 30.000 Turks.
1830 - Dutch troops occupy Brussels
1835 - HMS Beagle sails to Charles Island in Galapagos archipelago
1845 - 1st baseball team, NY Knickerbockers organize, adopt rule code
1845 - Hunger strike in Hague
1846 - Johann Gottfried Galle & Heinrich d'Arrest find Neptune
1857 - Russian warship Leffort disappears in Finland Gulf in storm; 826 die
1862 - Lincoln's Emancipation is published in Northern Newspapers
1863 - Confederate siege of Chattanooga begins
1864 - Battle of Athens VA
1868 - Grito de Lares proclaims Puerto Rico's independence (crushed by Spain)
1873 - Tom Allen beats Mike McCale for Heavyweight Boxing title
1876 - Ottawa Rough Riders play their 1st game
1877 - Hurricane strikes Curacao & Bonaire kills 200
1879 - Baldwin steam motors tram 1st tried in Sydney Australia
1879 - Richard Rhodes invented a hearing aid called the Audiophone
1880 - Jules Ferry forms French government
1884 - Herman Hollerith patents his mechanical tabulating machine.
1889 - Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to
           produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda.
1890 - Ed Cartwright bats in 7 RBIs in 1 inning
1895 - French labor union CGT (Confederation Generale du Travail) forms
1897 - 1st frontier days rodeo celebration (Cheyene Wyoming)
1904 - Francis Younghusbands leaves Lhasa Tibet
1905 - Mbunga-siege of Fort Mahenge German East-Africa broken
1907 - Proclamation sets fineness & weight of silver & bronze coins of Canada
1908 - Giant Fred (Bonehead) Merkle fails to touch 2nd, causes 3rd out in 9th & disallows winning
           run (game ends tied, Cubs win replay & pennant)
1908 - University of Alberta opens
1911 - Earl Ovington becomes 1st air mail pilot
1912 - 1st Mack Sennett "Keystone Comedy" movie released
1912 - Mark Sennet presents 1st Keystone Cops film (Cohen Collects a Debt)
1913 - Roland Garros is 1st to fly over Mediterranean Sea
1913 - Serbian troops march into Albania
1914 - Reds drop their 19th straight game, then beat Boston Braves
1920 - Alexander Millerand elected president of France
1922 - B Brechts "Drum in the Night," premieres in Germany
1922 - Gdynia Seaport Construction Act passed by the Polish parliament.
1923 - 80,000 demonstrate in Amsterdam against Fleet law
1925 - George Kaufman's "Butter & Egg Man," premieres in NYC
1925 - Washington shortstop Roger Peckinpaugh is named AL MVP
1926 - Gene Tunney beats Jack Dempsey in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
1932 - Kingdom of Hejaz & Nejd merge into Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
1933 - Yanks commit 7 errors in 1 game but beat Boston 16-12
1936 - Giants Carl Hubbell notches his 16th en route to 24 consecutive wins
1937 - Yankees lose 9-5 but clinch pennant when Red Sox beat Detroit
1938 - British premier Neville Chamberlain flies to Munich
1938 - Time capsule, to be opened in 6939, buried at World's Fair in NYC (capsule contained a
           woman's hat, man's pipe & 1,100' of microfilm)
1939 - Cookie Lavagetto goes 6 for 6-Dodgers get 27 hits & beat Phillies 22-4
1940 - -27] French/British assault on French fleet in Dakar, flees
1940 - Dutch nazi collaborator Mussert's 1st meeting with Hitler
1941 - General de Gaulle forms government in exile in London
1941 - German air raid on Russ naval base Kronstadt (battleship Marat sinks)
1941 - The first gas murder experiments are conducted at Auschwitz.
1942 - Auschwitz begins experimental gassing executions
1942 - Russian counter offensive at Stalingrad
1942 - Transport nr 36 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1948 - Braves clinch NL pennant
1949 - Indian owner Bill Veeck holds funeral services to bury 1948 pennant
1949 - Harry Truman announces evidence of USSR's 1st nuclear device detonation
1950 - Patty Berg wins LPGA Sunset Hills Golf Open
1950 - Phila A's Joe Astroth is 4th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (6th)
1950 - US Mustangs accidentally bombs British on Hill 282 Korea, 17 killed
1952 - 1st closed circuit pay-TV telecast of a sports event
1952 - Dodgers clinch NL pennant
1952 - Richard Nixon makes his "Checker's" speech
1952 - Rocky Marciano KOs Jersey Joe Walcott in 13 for heavyweight boxing title
1953 - KHQA TV channel 7 in Hannibal-Quincy, MO (CBS) begins broadcasting
1955 - Pakistan signs Pact of Baghdad
1955 - Yanks clinch pennant by beating Red Sox, 3-2
1957 - "That'll Be Day" by Buddy Holly & Crickets reaches #1
1957 - Milwaukee Braves clinch NL pennant by beating Cards 4-2
1957 - WTIC TV channel 61 in Hartford, CT (CBS/FOX) begins broadcasting
1957 - White mob forces 9 black students who had entered a Little Rock high school in Arkansas to
           withdraw
1958 - Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1958 - Stravinsky's "Thieni," premieres in Venetië
1958 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1959 - 1959 The M/S Princess of Tasmania Australia's first passenger RO/RO diesel ferry makes
           maiden voyage across Bass Strait.
1961 - 1st movie to become a TV series-How to Marry a Millionaire
1961 - Ernie Banks ends 717 consecutive-games-played streak
1962 - ABC's 1st color TV series-Jetsons
1962 - LA Dodger Maury Wills steals record setting #97 on his way to 104
1962 - Martin Walser's "Esche und Angora," premieres in Berlin
1962 - Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Visalia Golf Open
1962 - NY's Philharmonic Hall (since renamed Avery Fisher Hall) opens as 1st unit of Lincoln Center
           for Performing Arts
1963 - Georgette Ciselet is 1st woman on Belgian Council of State
1963 - WMEB TV channel 12 in Orono, ME (PBS) begins broadcasting
1964 - "Fiddler on the Roof" with Zero Mostel premieres in NYC
1967 - Greek Colonels regime frees ex-premier Georgios Papandreou
1967 - Radio Malta stops testing
1968 - WKAS TV channel 25 in Ashland, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 - WKGB TV channel 53 in Bowling Green, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 - WKLE TV channel 46 in Lexington, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 - WKMA TV channel 35 in Madisonville, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 - WKMR TV channel 38 in Morehead, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 - WKON TV channel 52 in Owenton, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 - WKSO TV channel 29 in Somerset, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 - WKZT TV channel 23 in Elizabethtown, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1969 - 1st broadcast of "Marcus Welby MD" on ABC-TV
1969 - Northern Star and Illinois Univ newspaper start rumors that Paul McCartney is dead
1970 - Abdul Razak bin Hussain becomes premier of Malaysia
1970 - Gary Muhrcke wins 1st NY Marathon
1971 - John Vermeers painting "The liefdesbrief" stolen
1972 - Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos declares martial law
1972 - President Marcos ends emergency crisis in Philippines
1973 - Former Argentine President Juan Peron returns to power
1973 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Portland Ladies Golf Open
1973 - Largest known prime, 2 ^ 132,049-1, is discovered
1974 - "Gypsy" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 120 performances
1974 - BBC Ceefax begins 1st teletext service
1976 - Ford-Carter TV debate
1976 - South Africa decides to allow multi-racial teams to represent them
1976 - Soyuz 22 returns to Earth
1977 - 3rd test of Space Shuttle Enterprise
1977 - Cheryl Ladd replaces Farrah Fawcett on Charlie's Angels
1978 - 100,000 cheering Egyptians welcome Sadat home from Camp David summit
1979 - Jane Fonda & 200,000 attend anti-nuke rally in Battery Park, NYC
1979 - Sandra Post wins LPGA ERA Real Estate Golf Classic
1979 - Somali constitution approved by president
1979 - St Louis legend Lou Brock steals 938th & final base of his career
1980 - Big Thunder Mountain Railroad opens
1982 - "Doll's Life" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 5 performances
1982 - Amin Gemayel sworn in as president of Lebanon
1982 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1983 - Argentina milt regime gives amnesty to military/political assassins
1983 - Columbia moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating in preparation of STS-9
1983 - Gerrie Coetzee KOs Michael Dokes in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
1983 - Heavyweight Gerrie Coetzee KOs Michael Dokes in Ohio
1983 - Phillies Steve Carlton is 16th to wins 300 game (beating Cards)
1984 - 36th Emmy Awards: Hill St Blue, Cheers, John Ritter & Tyne Daly
1984 - Amy Alcott wins LPGA San Jose Golf Classic
1984 - SF 49er Joe Montana misses his 1st start in 49 games
1984 - Sparky Anderson is 1st manager to win 100 games in both leagues
1986 - Astro Jim Deshaies strikes out 1st 8 Dodger of game (ends with 10)
1986 - Congress selects the rose as US national flower
1988 - Fiji's new constitution is proposed
1988 - Jose Canseco is baseball's 1st to steal 40 bases & hit 40 HRs
1988 - Rosa Mota wins 2nd female olympic marathon (2:25:39)
1989 - Blue Jays bat out of order against Brewers in 6th inning
1990 - Nancy Lopez wins MBS LPGA Golf Classic
1990 - PBS begins an 11 hour miniseries on Civil War
1990 - Saddam says he will destroy Israel
1992 - Bill Comrie purchases BC Lions from CFL
1992 - Bradlees announces it will take over Alexander's dept stores in NYC
1992 - Jackson Browne reportedly beats girlfriend Daryl Hannah
1992 - Mud storm kills 30 in South France
1992 - 1st female to play in a NHL exhibition game (Manon Rheaume, goalie) for Tampa Bay Lightning
           - gives up 2 goals on 9 attempts in 1 period
1993 - "Les Miserables," opens at Playhouse, Edinburgh
1993 - Paul Chu group reports super conduction at -123°C (record high)
1996 - Howard Stern radio show premieres in Wilkes-Barre PA (WZMT 97.9 FM)
1996 - Howard Stern radio show premieres in West Palm Beach FL (WCLB 95.5 FM)
1997 - Seattle Mariners break record for most HRs in a year (258)
1999 - NASA announces that it has lost contact with the Mars Climate Orbiter.
1999 - Qantas Flight 1 overruns the runway in Bangkok during a storm. While some passengers only
           received minor injuries, it is still the worst crash in Qantas's history to date.
2002 - The first public version of the web browser Mozilla Firefox ("Phoenix 0.1") is released.
2004 - At least 1,070 in Haiti reported killed by floods due to Hurricane Jeanne
2005 - FBI killing of Filiberto Ojeda on Plan Bonito Hormigueros, Puerto Rico.
2012 - Iran blocks the use of Google as a search engine
2012 - 20 Iranian US Visas are denied, including diplomats and two ministers, ahead of the UN
           general assembly meeting in New York
2012 - Scientists discover four genetically distinct types of breast cancer

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Post by: MysteRy on September 23, 2013, 08:57:56 AM

This Day in History for 23rd September


Famous Weddings

1666 - Princess Maria of Orange-Nassau marries Mauritius earl of Simmeren
1862 - Russian writer ("War and peace") Leo Tolstoy (34) marries Sophia Andreevna Behrs (18)
           daughter of a physician
1996 - Actor-comedian Jim Carrey (35) weds "Dumb and Dumber" actress Lauren Holly (33) in Malibu
1996 - Oscar-nominated actor of "The Buddy Holly Story" Gary Busey (52) weds former stuntwoman
           from Dallas Tiani Warden (29) at Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas
2012 - Actor Antonio Sabato Jr. (40) weds singer-songwriter Cheryl Moana Marie at a private Anini
           Beach estate on the island of Kauai

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 23, 2013, 08:58:46 AM

This Day in History for 23rd September


Famous Divorces

2011 - Actress Lisa Linde (39) divorces "Xmen" actor James Marsden (38) due to irreconcilable
           differences after 11 years of marriage

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Post by: MysteRy on September 23, 2013, 09:05:14 AM

This Day in History for 23rd September


Famous Birthdays

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Roman Emperor                                      Italian Prime Minister                             Musician Ray Charles (1930)
Augustus Caesar (63 BC)                           Aldo Moro (1916)

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Jazz Musician John Coltrane (1926)


480 BC - Euripides, Salamís, Greek playwright (Medea), (d. 406 BC)
63 BC - Augustus Caesar, Roman Emperor (d. 14)
1158 - Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany (d. 1186)
1161 - Emperor Takakura of Japan (d. 1181)
1215 - Kublai Khan of the Mongol Empire (d. 1294)
1434 - Yolande of Valois, Duchess of Savoy (d. 1478)
1555 - Louise de Coligny, French 4th wife of Willem of Orange
1591 - Michael Lohr, composer
1596 - Joan Blaeu, cartographer/publisher
1598 - Eleonore Gonzaga, wife of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1655)
1605 - Daniel von Czepko, German poet
1641 - Adrian "Aart" van Wijck, theologist (against jansenisme)
1642 - Giovanni Maria Bononcini, composer
1647 - Joseph Dudley, American statesman (d. 1720)
1650 - Jeremy Collier, English bishop (d. 1726)
1684 - Johann Theodor Romhild, composer
1703 - Jean-Marie Leclair, composer
1712 - Ferdinand VI, the wise, King of Spain (1746-59)
1740 - Empress Go-Sakuramachi of Japan (d. 1813)
1745 - John Sevier, Tennessee, indian fighter (Gov/Rep-Tn)
1768 - William Wallace, Scottish mathematician (Rights of Wallace)
1771 - Emperor Kokaku of Japan (d. 1840)
1781 - Princess Juliane of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (d. 1860)
1782 - Jacques-Fereol Mazas, composer
1791 - Johann F Encke, German astronomer (Encke Comet)
1791 - Karl T Korner, German poet (Zriny, Leyer und Schwerdt)
1800 - William H McGuffey, educator (McGuffey Readers)
1804 - David Van de Kellen, coin engraver
1805 - Matthew Adams Stickney, Rowley Mass, numismatist
1816 - Elihu Benjamin Washburne, MC (Union), died in 1887
1816 - Julius White, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1890
1817 - Leon Charles Francois Kreutzer, composer
1819 - Hippolyte Fizeau, French physicist (d. 1896)
1820 - Thomas Kilby Smith, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1838 - Victoria Chaflin Woodhull, Ohio US, feminist/reformer
1842 - Karl Munzinger, composer
1849 - Mikhail Mikhaylovich Ivanov, composer
1852 - William Stewart Halsted, established 1st US surgical school
1853 - Marcel Planiol, French private law scholar
1854 - Cornelis W Lely, Dutch engineer/gov of Suriname (1902-05)
1856 - William Archer, Scotland, writer (Green Goddess)
1861 - Edmond H H Allenby, English fieldmarshal/high director (Egypt)
1861 - Robert Bosch, German inventor and industrialist (d. 1942)
1863 - Alexandre EJ Yersin, Swiss/French bacteriologist (bacteria plague)
1863 - Mary Church Terrell, civil rights activist
1864 - Draga Mašin, Queen of Serbia (d. 1903)
1865 - Emmuska Orczy, Tarnaörs Hungary, Hungarian-born British writer (Scarlet Pimpernel)
1866 - Edouard Combe, composer
1870 - John Lomax, Miss, folk song collector/ethnomusicologist
1871 - Frantisek Kupka, Czech writer
1880 - John Boyd Orr, nutritionist, UN's FAO (Nobel 1949)
1888 - Gerhard Kittel, German anti-semitic theologist (Die Oden Salomons)
1889 - Walter Lippmann, NYC, journalist/political writer (Men of Dystany)
1890 - Arthur Walter Kramer, composer
1890 - Friedrich Paulus, German Generalfieldmarshal (Stalingrad). Dies 1957.
1894 - Kornelis H Miskotte, theologist (Edda & Thora)
1895 - Miron Merzhanov, Soviet architect (d. 1975)
1895 - Johnny Mokan, American baseball player (d. 1985)
1897 - Paul Delvaux, Belgian painter (surrealist)
1897 - Walter Pidgeon, New Brunswick Can, actor (Mrs Miniver, Madame Curie)
1899 - Louise Nevelson, Kiev, Russia, sculptor (Sky Cathedral)
1899 - Marcel Dalio, [Israel Blauschild], Paris France, actor (China Gate)
1899 - William Levi Dawson, composer
1900 - Bill Stone, British serviceman; one of the last surviving veterans of World War I
1901 - Adrian Pitlo, lawyer
1901 - Jaroslav Seifert, Czech poet (Nobel 1984)
1902 - Su Buqing, Chinese mathematician and educator (d. 2003)
1904 - Meyer Schapiro, art historian
1904 - Wallace "Scotty" Scott, rock vocalist (Whispers)
1905 - Jeno Kenessey, composer
1906 - Willard F McMurry, musician
1907 - Jarmila Novotna, soprano (Met Opera)/pres of Czechoslovakia (1957-68)
1907 - Dominique Aury, French novelist (d. 1998)
1907 - Duarte Nuno, Duke of Braganza, heir to the throne of Portugal (d. 1976)
1909 - Marianne Straub, weaver
1910 - Elliot Roosevelt, son of FDR/writer (Murder in the Oval Office)
1910 - Soulima Stravinsky, Lausanne Switz, Russian pianist (Igor's son)
1911 - Frank Moss, United States Senator from Utah (d. 2003)
1912 - Ghulam Mustafa Khan, Pakistani researcher, critic and linguist (d. 2005)
1912 - Tony Smith, American sculptor (d. 1980)
1913 - Alexey Davidovich Machavariani, composer
1914 - Norman Cazden, composer
1914 - Omar Ali Saifuddin III, Sultan of Brunei (d. 1986)
1915 - Finn Arnestad, composer
1915 - Ian Dawson-Shepherd, campaigner
1916 - Aldo Moro, Maglie Italy, Italian politician (d. 1978)
1917 - Imry Nemeth, Hungary, hammer thrower (Olympic-gold-1948)
1920 - Alexander Arutiunian, composer, (d. 2012)
1920 - Gerard W Taylor, South African/British surgeon
1920 - Jiri Jaroch, composer
1920 - Mickey Rooney, American actor
1922 - Philip Owen Arnould Sherrard, scholar theologian poet/translator
1925 - Barry Linehan, actor (Bullseye, Dark Places, Witchcraft)
1925 - Denis Twitchett, Cambridge scholar, and Chinese historian (d. 2006)
1925 - Eleonora Rossi Drago, Italian actress
1926 - John Coltrane, jazz saxophonist (Round Midnight)
1928 - Robert Helps, composer
1929 - Wally Whyton, musician/broadcaster
1930 - Colin Blakely, Bangor N Ireland, actor (Shattered, Equus, King Lear)
1930 - Pyotr Ivanovich Kolodin, cosmonaut (Soyuyz 7, 10, 11 backup)
1930 - Ray Charles [Robinson], Albany Ga, singer/pianist (Georgia), (Georgia on My Mind, Mess
           Around) (d. 2004)
1930 - Sehba Akhtar,poet of Pakistan (d.1996)
1931 - Ruud van den Hende, sports reporter
1931 - Gerald Stairs Merrithew, Canadian educator (d. 2004)
1934 - Per Olov Enquist, Swedish writer (Hour of the Lynx)
1935 - Pierre Marietan, composer
1936 - Valentín Paniagua, Peruvian politician
1938 - Clifford Ann Creed, LPGA golfer
1938 - Romy Schneider, Vienna Austria, actress (Bloodline, Death Watch)
1938 - Tom Lester, American actor
1939 - Roy Buchanan, Ozark Ark, rocker
1939 - Henry Blofeld, English cricket commentator
1939 - Roy Buchanan, American guitarist (d. 1988)
1939 - Janusz Gajos, Polish actor
1940 - Tim Rose, rocker
1941 - Simon Nolet, French-Canadian ice hockey player
1942 - Sila María Calderón, Puerto Rican politician
1943 - Bob Clement, (Rep-D-Tennessee)
1943 - Julio Iglesias, Spain, singer (Of All the Girls I Loved Before)
1943 - Walter Scott, rock vocalist (Whispers)
1943 - Marty Schottenheimer, American football coach
1944 - Loren J Shriver, Iowa, Col USAF/astronaut (STS 51-C, STS 31, STS 46)
1945 - Paul Petersen, Glendale California, actor (Jeff Stone-Donna Reed Show)
1945 - Ronald Bushy, Washington DC, rock drummer (Iron Butterfly)
1945 - Igor Ivanov, Russian politician
1946 - Franz Fischler, Austrian politician
1947 - Don Grolnick, jazz musician
1947 - Mary Kay Place, Tulsa Oklahoma, actress/country singer (Mary Hartman!)
1948 - Rob van Koningsbruggen, sculptor
1949 - Bruce Springsteen, [Boss], Asbury NJ, rock musician (Born in the USA)
1951 - Ron Klink, (Rep-D-Pennsylvania)
1954 - Charlie Barnett, American actor (d. 1996)
1955 - Patti Weaver, WV, actress (Days of our Life, Gina-Young & Restless)
1956 - June Forester, Chattanooga Tn, country singer (Forester Sister-Men)
1956 - Lili Carati, Varese Italy, Miss Italy (1975)/actress (Alcove)
1956 - Maren Jensen, Arcadia California, actress (Athena-Battlestar Galactica)
1956 - Paolo Rossi, Italian footballer
1956 - Peter David, American writer
1957 - Sylvie Garant, Montmagny Quebec, playmate (Nov, 1979)
1957 - Tony Fossas, Cuba, pitcher (St Louis Cardinals)
1957 - Rosalind Chao, American actress
1957 - Kumar Sanu, Indian playback singer
1958 - Larry Hogan Mize, Augusta GA, PGA golfer (1987 Masters)
1958 - Danielle Dax, British musician
1958 - Marvin Lewis, American football coach
1959 - Heather Drew, St Louis MO, LPGA golfer (1987 Henredon Classic-5th)
1959 - Jason Alexander, [Greenspan], Newark NJ, actor (George-Seinfeld)
1960 - John Rocca, English funk singer (Southern Freeze)
1961 - Elizabeth Peña, Elizabeth, New Jersey, American actress (La Bamba, Jacob's Ladder)
1961 - Phyllis Hines, Nashville TN, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1961 - William C McCool, San Diego California, Lt Cmdr USN/astronaut
1961 - Chi McBride, American actor
1962 - Jack Warren Pierce, Cherry Hill NJ, hurdler
1963 - Gabriele Reinsch, German DR, discus thrower (world record 1988)
1964 - Diane Dixon, Brooklyn New York, American 4x400m runner (Olympic-silver-1988)
1964 - Leon Meijs, soccer player (Willem II)
1964 - Clayton Blackmore, Welsh footballer
1964 - Koshi Inaba, Japanese singer (B'z)
1965 - Ian Leggatt, Cambridge Ont, Canadian Tour golfer (1990 Canadian Tour)
1965 - Mark Woodforde, Adelaide Australia, tennis star (1993 Wimbledon mixed)
1966 - Doug Widell, NFL guard (Detroit Lions)
1966 - Pete Harnisch, Commack NY, pitcher (NY Mets)
1966 - LisaRaye, American actress
1968 - Yvette Fielding, English television presenter
1969 - Jeff Cirillo, Pasadena CA, infielder (Milwaukee Brewers)
1969 - Patrick Fiori, French singer
1969 - Tapio Laukkanen, Finnish rally driver
1970 - Brian Wells, Carmel California, pairs skater (& Lyons-1995 Midwest champ)
1970 - Georgios Koltsidas, Greek footballer
1970 - Ani DiFranco, American musician
1971 - Eric Montross, NBA center (Detroit Pistons)
1971 - Marcel Boudesteyn, soccer player (Excelsior/FC Groningen)
1971 - Osamu Nishimura, wrestler (NJPW)
1971 - Taunya Harris, Miss USA-New Mexico (1997)
1971 - Willie Greene, Milledgville GA, infielder (Cin Reds)
1972 - Karl Pilkington, British radio personality
1973 - Grant McDonald, Australian baseball outfielder (Olympics-1996)
1973 - Michelle Tolson, Manchester NH, Miss America-NH (1997)
1973 - Ingrid Fliter, Argentinian pianist
1974 - Doris Glenn Easterly, Richmond Va, diver (Olympics-96)
1974 - Matt Hardy, American professional wrestler
1974 - Harumi Inoue, Japanese actress and model
1975 - Vitaliy Yeremeyev, hockey goalie (Team Kazkhstan 1998)
1975 - Jaime Bergman, American model and actress
1975 - Layzie Bone, American rapper (Bone Thugs-N-Harmony)
1975 - Chris Hawkins, British radio personality
1976 - Faune A. Chambers, American actress
1976 - Kip Pardue, American actor and model
1977 - Rachael Yamagata, American singer and songwriter
1977 - Matthieu Descoteaux, Canadian ice hockey player
1977 - Susan Tamim, Lebanese singer and actress (d. 2008)
1978 - Worm Miller, American filmmaker
1978 - Keri Lynn Pratt, American actress
1979 - Red, Los Angeles California, rapper (Another Bad Creation)
1979 - Ricky Davis, American basketball player
1980 - Cameron Litvack, American television producer
1981 - Robert Doornbos, Dutch race car driver
1981 - Natalie Horler, German singer (Cascada)
1981 - Misti Traya, American actress
1984 - Anneliese van der Pol, American actress
1984 - Louie Stephens, American musician (Rooney)
1984 - Nathan Jendrick, American author
1984 - Matt Kemp, American baseball player
1985 - Maki Goto, Japanese pop singer
1985 - Jared High, American victim of bullying (d. 1998)
1985 - Brian Brohm, American football player
1985 - Lukáš Kašpar, Czech ice hockey player
1985 - Hossein Ka'abi, Iranian footballer
1985 - Joba Chamberlain, American baseball player
1986 - Martin Cranie, English footballer
1989 - Brandon Jennings, American basketball player

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 23, 2013, 09:07:34 AM

This Day in History for 23rd September


Famous Deaths

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Father of Psychology
Sigmund Freud (1939)


79 - Pope Linus
775 - Constantine V Copronymus, Emperor of Byzantium (720-75), dies
918 - Koenraad I, German duke/king (911-18), dies at 42
965 - Aboe a-Taia-H al-Moetanabbi, Arabic royal poet (Diwan), murdered
1241 - Snorri Sturluson, Icelandic historian, poet, and politician (b. 1178)
1390 - John I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1346)
1535 - Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg, queen of Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1513)
1571 - John Jewel, English bishop (b. 1522)
1573 - Azai Hisamasa, Japanese warlord (b. 1524)
1605 - Pontus de Tyard, French poet
1624 - Willem Pietersz Buytewech, painter/etcher, dies at about 32
1675 - Valentin Conrart, founder of the Académie Française (b. 1603)
1694 - Francesco Passarini, composer, dies at 57
1700 - Nicolaus Adam Strungk, composer, dies at 59
1728 - Christian Thomasius, German jurist (b. 1655)
1738 - Hermannus Boerhaave, medical/botanist, dies at 69
1764 - Robert Dodsley, English writer (b. 1703)
1773 - Johann Ernst Gunnerus, Norwegian bishop and botanist (b. 1718)
1778 - Balthazar Huydecoper, translator/historian, dies at 83
1780 - John Andre, hanged as a British spy at 29
1789 - John Rogers, American Continental Congressman (b. 1723)
1797 - Johann Georg Roser, composer, dies at 57
1835 - Vincenzo Bellini, Italian opera composer (Norma), dies at 33
1837 - Richard John Samuel Stevens, composer, dies at 80
1844 - Alexander von Benckendorff, Russian general and statesman (b. 1783)
1846 - John Ainsworth Horrocks, English-born explorer of South Australia (b. 1818)
1847 - Henri MG earl the Merode, Belgium revolutionary (Souvenirs), dies at 65)
1850 - José Gervasio Artigas, Uruguayan hero (b. 1764)
1870 - Prosper Mérimée, French author (b. 1803)
1871 - Alexander N Afanasjev, Russian story teller, dies at 45
1873 - Jean Chacornac, French astronomer (b. 1823)
1877 - Urbain JJ Leverrier, codiscoverer of Neptune, dies
1889 - Wilkie (William) Collins, English writer (Moonstone), dies (b. 1824)
1896 - Ivar A Aasen, Norwegian linguistic/poet, dies at 83
1896 - Louis-Gilbert Duprez, composer, dies at 89
1900 - William Marsh Rice, American philanthropist and university founder (b. 1816)
1902 - John Wesley Powell, US geologist (Grand Canyon), dies at 68
1906 - Jan van Rijswijck, Flemish journalist/mayor of Antwerp, dies
1910 - H J H "Tup" Scott, cricketer (Australian Test captain 1886), dies
1917 - Werner Voss, German World War I pilot (b. 1897)
1929 - Richard A Zsigmondy, Austria chemist (Nobel 1925), dies at 64
1930 - Jonkvrouw Catharina AM de Savornin Lohman, author, dies at 62
1937 - Caro Roma, composer, dies at 68
1939 - Sigmund Freud, Austrian neurologist and creator of psychoanalysis, dies at 83
1943 - Elinor Glyn, English author (b. 1864)
1944 - Colijn, Neth PM, buried
1947 - Nikola Petkov, leader of Bulgaria Boer party, hanged
1950 - Sam Barry, American basketball player and coach (b. 1892)
1956 - Earl Godwin, newscaster (Meet the Veep), dies at 75
1960 - Kathlyn Williams, actress (Single Man), dies of heart attack at 72
1961 - Billy House, actor (Imitation of Life, Bedlam, Egg & I), dies at 71
1961 - Elmer R Diktonius, Finnish musicologist/author (Stenkol), dies at 65
1968 - Francesco Forgione, "Padre Pio", Catholic saint (b. 1887)
1970 - Bourvil, French actor and singer (b. 1917)
1971 - Billy Gilbert, actor (Paradise Alley, Safari, Rio), dies at 77
1971 - J. W. Alexander, American mathematician (b. 1888)
1972 - Carl Frank, actor (Uncle Gunnar-Mama), dies at 63
1973 - A S Neill, British headmaster, dies at at 89
1973 - Manuel Borguno, composer, dies at 87
1973 - Pablo Neruda, [N R R Basoalto], poet (100 Love Sonnets), dies at 69
1974 - Cliff Arquette, comedian (Charlie Weaver), dies at 68
1974 - Gerhard Nebel, writer, dies at 70
1974 - Robbie Mcintosh, drummer (Average White Band), overdoses at 24
1975 - Ian Hunter, actor/writer (Rockets Galore, Ziegfield Girl), dies at 75
1978 - Jay Adler, actor (Macon County Line, Illegal, Big Combo), dies at 79
1978 - Lyman Bostock, outfielder (Angels), shot & killed at 27
1979 - Catherine Lacey, actress (October Man, Carnival), dies at 75
1981 - Chief Dan George, actor (Harry & Tonto, Little Big Man), dies at 82
1982 - Jimmy Wakely, country western singer, dies of heart failure at 68
1984 - Anatoly Grigor'yevich Novikov, composer, dies at 87
1985 - Mickey Simpson, actor (Wagonmaster), dies of a heart attack at 72
1987 - Bob Fosse, choreographer (All the Jazz), dies at 62
1987 - O B McClinton, US country singer (Man needs a woman), dies at 47
1988 - Arwel Hughes, composer, dies at 79
1988 - Tibor Sekelj, Croatian explorer (b. 1912)
1991 - Chuck Vincent, Adult film director, dies of heart attack at 51
1991 - Ernestine McClendon, director/actress (Homer & Eddie), dies
1992 - Bernice Gera, 1st female basball ump (1969 NY-Penn League) dies at 61
1992 - James A Van Fleet, US general (D-Day, Battle of Bulge), dies at 100
1992 - Martin Arsenault, actor (Guilty by Suspicion), dies of an ulcer
1992 - Paul E Garber, 1st curator (Natl Air & Space Museum), dies at 93
1993 - William Cort, actor/producer (Ghost, Dear Heart), dies of cancer at 53
1994 - Alec Dickson, founder of VSO, dies at 80
1994 - Ali Kouider Benyahia, [sheik Boualem], Alg Moslem leader, shot at 26
1994 - Cherif Gousmi, [kalief Abu Abdallah Ahmed], Alger Moslem leader, shot
1994 - Dalton Reed, singer, dies at 42
1994 - Georgi, Tsar Nicholas II's brother, buried
1994 - John van Damme, businessman, hanged in Singapore at 59
1994 - Madeleine Renaud, French actress (Longest Day)/director, dies at 94
1994 - Robert Bloch, screenwriter (Psycho), dies of cancer at 77
1994 - Jerry Barber, American golfer (b. 1916)
1995 - Booker T Laury, blues pianist/vocalist, dies at 81
1995 - Odut Joseph Olutola Oluola Oguntala, soho club owner, dies at 74
1996 - Denis Dowling, baritone, dies at 86
1996 - Jack Newman, cricketer (NZ left-arm pacer 1932-33), dies at 94
1996 - Stuart Pigott, archaeologist, dies at 86
1996 - Fujiko F. Fujio, Japanese cartoonist (b. 1933)
1997 - Abe Gibron, head coach (Chicago Bears), dies at 72
1997 - Murray Burnett, writer (Everybody Goes to Rick-Casablanca), dies at 86
1997 - Shirley Clarke, actress (Cool World), dies at 78
1998 - Mary Frann, American actress (b. 1943)
1999 - Ivan Goff, Australian screenwriter (b. 1910)
2000 - Aurelio Rodríguez, Mexican Major League Baseball player (b. 1947)
2000 - Carl Rowan, American journalist (b. 1925)
2001 - Ron Hewitt, Welsh footballer (b. 1928)
2002 - Veteran BBC/Radio Ceylon Broadcaster, Vernon Corea died in New Malden, Surrey, UK at 75
2002 - Lord Abinger [James Richard Scarlett], English Conservative peer, campaigned for reform of
          the ancient law on treasure trove, dies at 87
2003 - Ronnie Dawson, American rockabilly musician (b. 1939)
2003 - Yuri Senkevich, Russian TV anchorman (b. 1937)
2004 - André Hazes, Dutch singer (b. 1951)
2004 - Billy Reay, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1918)
2005 - Roger Brierley, English actor (b. 1935)
2005 - Filiberto Ojeda, Puerto Rican revolutionary (b. 1933)
2006 - Sir Malcolm Arnold, English composer and professional trumpeter (b. 1921)
2006 - Etta Baker, American blues guitarist (b.1913)
2008 - Peter Leonard, Australian journalist (b. 1942)
2009 - Paul B. Fay, American businessman and cabinet member in the Kennedy administration (b.
           1918)
2010 - Malcolm Douglas, Australian conservationist (b. 1941)
2010 - Teresa Lewis, American murderer (b. 1969)
2012 - Corrie Sanders, South African boxer, shot dead at 46

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 24, 2013, 09:02:01 AM

This Day in History for 24th September


Historical Events

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Ist US Chief Justice John Jay                     Baseball Great Babe Ruth                        32nd US President
                                                                                                                               Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Heavyweight Boxing Champion          Musician & member of the Beatles        Olympic Sprinter and Long jumper
Rocky Marciano                                             Paul McCartney                                            Carl Lewis

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King of Cambodia Norodom Sihanouk


312 - Start of Imperial Indication
366 - Liberius ends his reign as Catholic Pope
673 - Synod of Hertford opens; canons made for English Church
787 - 2nd Council of Nicaea (7th ecumenical council) opens in Asia Minor
1180 - Manuel I Komnenos, last Emperor of the Komnenian restoration dies. The Byzantine Empire
           slips into terminal decline.
1493 - Columbus' 2nd expedition to New World
1537 - Uprising in Lubeck fails
1625 - Dutch attack San Juan, Puerto Rico
1629 - Jacques Specx appointed governor-general of Dutch-Indies
1657 - 1st autopsy & coroner's jury verdict is recorded in state of Maryland
1664 - Dutch Fort Orange (New Netherland) in present day Albany NY surrenders to the English
1683 - King Louis XIV expels all Jews from French possessions in America
1688 - France declares war on German
1706 - Treaty of Altranstädt: Charles XII of Sweden & August II of Saksen
1742 - Faneuil Hall opens to public
1776 - 1st St Leger horesrace held at Doncaster
1789 - US Congress creates Post Office
1789 - US Federal Judiciary Act is passed & creates a six-person Supreme Court
1789 - President George Washington nominates John Jay the 1st Chief Justice
1789 - US Attorney General Office is created
1829 - Russia & Ottoman Empire sign Peace Treaty of Adrianople
1838 - Anti-Corn-Law League forms to repeal English Corn Law
1841 - Britain obtains Sarawak from Brunei (James Brooke appointed Rajah)
1850 - Papal Bull issued, establishes Roman Catholic hierarchy in England
1852 - Henri Giffard, a French engineer, makes 1st engine powered dirigible/airship flight with steam
           power
1853 - 1st round-the-world trip by yacht (Cornelius Vanderbilt)
1853 - France annexes Caledonia
1853 - Northern Daily Times, 1st provincial daily newspaper, starts in London
1862 - Confederate Congress adopts confederacy seal
1865 - James Cooke walks tightrope from Cliff House to Seal Rocks, SF
1869 - Black Friday; Wall St panic after Gould & Fisk attempt to corner gold
1872 - Franz Grillparzer's "Ein Bruderzwist in Habsburg," premieres in Vienna
1877 - Battle of Shiroyama, decisive victory of the Imperial Japanese Army over the Satsuma
           Rebellion
1881 - Henry Morton Stanley signs contract with Congo monarch
1883 - National black convention meets in Louisville, Kentucky
1884 - Dixey, Rice & Gill's musical "Adonis," premieres in NYC
1885 - 5 German warships depart to Zanzibar
1889 - Alexander Dey patents dial time recorder
1890 - Pres of Mormon Church in Salt Lake City issues a manifesto advising members that teaching &
           practice of polygamy should be abandoned
1895 - 1st round-the-world trip by a woman on a bicycle (took 15 months)
1902 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Red Circle" (BG)
1903 - Alfred Deakin succeeds Edmund Baston as Australia premier
1903 - Bill Bradley becomes 1st Cleveland baseball player (Cleveland Naps) to hit for cycle
1906 - St Louis Card Stony McGlynn no-hits Dodgers, 1-1 in 7 inning game
1906 - V Herbert & H Blossom's musical "Red Mill," premieres in NYC
1908 - Robert B Rhoads becomes 1st Cleveland pitcher (Cleveland Naps) to toss a no-hit game,
           Cleveland 2, Boston 1
1916 - Indians Marty Kavanaugh, hits AL's 1st pinch-hit grand slam
1919 - Babe Ruth sets season homer mark at 28 off of Yankee Bob Shawkey
1922 - Neurenberg fusion congress USDP-SPD; picks Karl Kautsky
1922 - Roger Hornsby sets NL HR mark at 42
1923 - Premiere of 1st celluloid film "Das Leben auf dem Dorfe" (Berlin)
1924 - Boston, Massachusetts opens its airport
1926 - Cardinals clinch NL pennant by beating Giants 6-4
1927 - NHL's Toronto St Patricks become Maple Leafs
1927 - Yanks set record of 106 victories
1928 - Cohan/Lardner's musical "Elmer the Great," premieres in NYC
1929 - Lt James H Doolittle guides a Consolidated N-Y-2 Biplane over Mitchell Field in NY in 1st all-
           instrument flight
1929 - Yanks Tom Zachary ends season 12-0
1930 - G Kaufman & M Hart's "Once in a Lifetime," premieres in NY
1930 - Noel Coward's "Private Lives," premieres in London
1930 - Portsmouth beats Brooklyn in 1st NFL game played under floodlights
1931 - Round-robin playoff among NYC's 3 major league teams, to raise money for unemployed,
           concludes with Brooklyn losing to both Giants & Yanks
1932 - NY Gov Franklin D. Roosevelt visits LA
1934 - 2500 fans see Babe Ruth's farewell Yankee appearance at Yankee Stadium
1934 - Idle Detroit wins pennant, as Red Sox beat Yankees 5-0
1935 - Earl Bascom and Weldon Bascom produce the first rodeo ever held outdoors under electric
           lights at Columbia, Mississippi
1938 - Alice Marble wins her 2nd singles US tennis title
1938 - Don Budge becomes 1st tennis player to grand slam
1940 - Jimmy Foxx hits his 500th career HR
1940 - Luftwaffe bombs Spitfire-factory in Southampton
1941 - Nine Allied governments pledge adherence to the common principles of policy set forth in the
           Atlantic Charter
1941 - Bomb explosion in German headquarter in Hotel Continental in Kiev
1943 - Soviet forces reconquer Smolensk
1946 - Yanks set season attendance record of 2,309,029 besting 1929 Cubs
1948 - Mildred Gillars (Axis Sally) pleads innocent in Wash DC
1948 - Yanks, Boston & Cleveland are tied for 1st place in AL (91-56)
1948 - The Honda Motor Company is founded.
1950 - "Operation Magic Carpet"-All Jews from Yemen move to Israel
1951 - Industrial estate at Harlow New Town UK opens
1951 - USSR performs nuclear test
1952 - Dutch minister Dark sentences war criminal W Lages to death
1952 - Underwater volcano explodes under research vessel Kaiyo-maru-5
1953 - "Take a Giant Step," opens on Broadway
1953 - Rocky Marciano TKOs Roland LaStarza in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
1954 - Tonight Show premieres on NBC (Johnny takes over 8 years later)
1954 - Yanks tie a record, 3 of their pinch hitters strike out in 1 inning
1955 - "Catch a Star" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 23 performances
1955 - Pres Eisenhower suffers a heart attack on vacation in Denver
1955 - Washington Senators lose their 99th & 100th games of season
1956 - 1st trans atlantic telephone cable in use (Newfoundland-Scotland)
1957 - Bkln Dodgers play last game at Ebbets Field, defeat Pirates 2-0
1957 - Eisenhower orders US troops to desegregate Little Rock schools
1957 - Camp Nou, the largest stadium in Europe, is opened in Barcelona.
1958 - 1st welded aluminum girder highway bridge completed, Urbandale, Ia
1960 - 1st nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, launches (USS Enterprise)
1960 - International Development Association (UN agency) comes into existence
1960 - USS Enterprise, 1st nuclear power aircraft carrier, launches
1961 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Sacramento Valley Golf Open
1962 - KWSU TV channel 10 in Pullman, WA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1962 - US Circuit Court of Appeals orders Meredith admitted to U of Miss
1963 - Idle Dodgers clinch their 2nd LA pennant as Cubs beat Cards
1963 - Senate ratifies treaty with Britain & USSR limit nuclear testing
1964 - "Munsters" premieres on TV
1964 - 1st Minuteman II ICBM was tested
1964 - Ringo forms Brikley Building Company Ltd
1964 - Willi Stoph succeeds Otto Great as premier of German DR
1965 - Belgium Victor Leemans elected chairman of European Parliament
1965 - Saudi-Arabian & Egyptian accord about Yemen
1965 - Stefan Stefanopoulos forms Greek government
1966 - -30] Hurricane Inez, kills 293 in Caribbean, Florida & Mexico
1966 - France performs nuclear test at Fangataufa Island
1967 - Cards Jim Bakken kicks 7 field goals vs Steelers
1967 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Invitational
1968 - "60 Minutes" premieres on CBS-TV
1968 - "That's Life" premieres-A Broadway musical type TV show
1968 - NY Met manager Gil Hodges suffers a heart attack
1968 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1969 - 1st Elvis convention, 2500 fans attend in Cincinnati
1969 - NY Mets clinch NL East pennant
1969 - Ton Duc Thang elected president of North Vietnam
1969 - Trial of "Chicago 8" (protesters at Dem Natl Conv) begins
1970 - 1st Automated return of lunar sample by Luna 16
1970 - Soviet Luna 16 lands on earth after 1st unmanned round trip to moon
1971 - 90 Russian diplomats expelled from Britain for spying
1971 - Eyskens-Cools disbands Belgium parliament
1971 - Houston Astros beat SD Padres, 2-1, in 21 innings
1972 - Antique F86 Sabrejet fails to takeoff at air show, kills 22
1972 - Jack Tatum, Oakland, returns a fumble 104 yds vs Green Bay (rec)
1972 - NY Jet Joe Namath passes for 6 touchdowns vs Balt Colt (44-34)
1973 - Guinea-Bissau declares independence
1973 - St Louis Cards Jim Bakken sets NFL record kicking 7 field goals
1974 - Al Kaline, Detroit Tiger, is 12th to get 3,000 hits
1974 - Clarence Jones of Kintetsu Buffaloes hits his 38th HR, 1st American to win a Japanese HR title
1976 - "Oh! Calcutta!" opens at Edison Theater NYC for 5959 performances
1976 - Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst sentenced to 7 years for her part in a 1974 bank robbery.
           Released after 22 months by Pres Carter
1977 - "Estrada" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 7 performances
1977 - 1st broadcast of "Love Boat" on ABC-TV
1977 - Ken Hinton of CFL British Columbia Lions returns a punt 130 yards
1978 - Donna Caponi Young/Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Ping Team Golf Classic
1978 - Dutch women hockey team wins world championship
1978 - Ron Guidry beats Cleveland 4-0, raising his record to 23-3 ERA 1.74
1978 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1979 - CompuServe began operation as 1st computer information service
1979 - Ghana adopts constitution
1979 - Pete Rose reaches 200 hits in a season for 10th time
1979 - Russian ice skaters Protopopov & Beloussova ask for asylum in Switz
1979 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1980 - Braves join every NL team with 1,000,000+ attendance for this season
1980 - Iraqi troops cross Iran's border, encircling Abadan
1981 - Enterprise Radio (all sports) resigns air
1981 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1982 - Tennis great Bjorn Borg retires at 26
1982 - US, Italian & French peacekeeping troops begin arriving in Lebanon
1983 - Braves Dale Murphy is 6th to hit 30 HRs & steal 30 bases in season
1983 - Test cricket debut of Shoaib Mohammad, son of Hanif, v India Jullundur
1983 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1984 - Cubs clinch NL East title
1984 - Paul McCartney release "No More Lonely Nights"
1985 - Apollo Computer Inc lays off 300 employees
1985 - Fastest English Channel crossing by a relay team set (15h 30m)
1985 - Expos Andre Dawson joins Willey McCovey to hit 2 HRs in an inn twice
1985 - Montreal Expo Andre Dawson is 9th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (5th)
1987 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1988 - Barbara C Harris of Mass, elected 1st woman Episcopal bishop
1988 - Canada's Ben Johnson runs drug-assisted 100 m in 9.79 sec
1988 - Carl Lewis runs world record 100m (9.92 sec)
1988 - Dave Stieb has no-hitter broken up with 2 outs in the 9th
1988 - Jackie Joyner-Kersee of USA sets heptathlon woman's record (7,291)
1989 - 28th Ryder Cup: US & Europe draw, 14-14 at The Belfry, England
1989 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Nippon Travel-MBS Golf Classic
1990 - East Germany leaves Warsaw Pact
1990 - South African president F W de Klerk meets Pres Bush in Wash DC
1990 - Supreme Soviet gives approval to switch to free market
1990 - West German Pres Richard von Weizsaecker signs reunification treaty
1990 - Periodic Great White Spot observed on Saturn
1991 - "Good & Evil" & "Sibs" premieres on ABC TV
1991 - After 3 year reign as AL champs, A's are eliminated from AL West
1991 - Deion Sanders, left Braves July 31 to report to NFL Falcons, returns
1991 - Doogie Howser loses his virginity
1991 - Robin Yount is 37th to hit 2,000 singles
1992 - John Jaha ties record of 11 teammates to steal 10 bases (Brewers)
1992 - Scott Stevens is named 5th Captain in NJ Devils history
1992 - Toronto's Dave Winfield, 40, is oldest player to reach 100-RBI
1993 - 1st Israeli killed by Islamics after PLO signs peace accord
1993 - Norodom Sihanouk again installed as King of Cambodia
1994 - Parliamentary election in Ukraine
1994 - National League for Democracy is formed by Aung San Suu Kyi and various others to help
           fight against dictatorship in Myanmar.
1995 - 31st Ryder Cup: Europe beats US, 14½-13½ at Oak Hill County Club (Rochester, New York,
           US)
1995 - Annika Sorenstam wins LPGA GHP Heartland Golf Classic
1995 - Emillio & Gloria Estefan's boat hits & kills a jet skiier
1995 - Mt Ruapehu Volcano (North Island, NZ) erupts
1996 - U.S. President Bill Clinton signed the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty at the United
           Nations.
1997 - 31st Country Music Association Award:
1997 - Drug kingpin Ramon Arellano Felix placed on FBI's 10 most-wanted
2005 - Hurricane Rita makes landfall in the United States, devastating Beaumont, Texas and portions
           of southwestern Louisiana.
2007 - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gives a controversial speech on the campus of
           Columbia University.
2012 - Books by Japanese authors or about Japan are suspended by Chinese bookstores

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Post by: MysteRy on September 24, 2013, 09:04:01 AM

This Day in History for 24th September


Famous Weddings

1948 - American Major League Baseball outfielder Ty Cobb (61) weds Frances Cass (40)
1953 - Singer Dick Haymes (35) weds Hollywood actress Rita Hayworth (34) at The Sands hotel-
           casino in Las Vegas
1964 - Actress Jayne Mansfield (31) weds film producer and director Matt Cimber in Mulege, Baja
           California Sur, Mexico
1993 - Beverly Hills 90210 star Shannen Doherty (Brenda) weds Ashley Hamilton
2004 - Former "Baywatch" actor Michael Bergin (35) weds makeup artist Joy Tilk (34) at Hanalei Bay
           Resort in Kauai, Hawaii
2005 - Actor Ashton Kutcher (34) weds actress Demi Moore (49) in Beverly Hills, California
2005 - "30 Minute Meals" TV host Rachael Ray (37) weds "The Cringe" lead singer John Cusimano in
            Montalcino, Italy
2005 - "King of Queens" actor-comedian Patton Oswalt (36) weds writer Michelle McNamara in Los
            Angeles
2011 - Model and actress Molly Sims (38) weds film producer Scott Stuber at Frank Caferatta
           Vineyards in Napa, California
2012 - "Sugar Ray" singer Mark McGrath (44) weds longtime love Carin Kingsland (39) at San Ysidro
            Ranch in Santa Barbara, California

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 24, 2013, 09:09:55 AM

This Day in History for 24th September


Famous Birthdays

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Author F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896)             Pathologist and Nobel Laureate            Muppeteer Jim Henson (1936)
                                                               Howard Florey (1898)


15 - Vitellius, Roman Emperor (d. 69)
1301 - Ralph Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford, English soldier (d. 1372)
1501 - Girolamo Cardano, Italy, mathematician/astrologer (Ars Magna-1545)
1513 - Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg, Queen of Sweden (d. 1535)
1534 - Guru Ram Das, fourth Sikh Guru (d. 1581)
1564 - William Adams, British navigator (d. 1620)
1583 - Albrecht Eusebius Wenzel von Wallenstein, German general
1625 - Johan de Witt, statesman/advisor of Holland
1667 - Jean-Louis Lully, composer
1705 - Leopold Josef Graf Daun, Austrian field marshal (d. 1766)
1717 - Horace Walpole, England, British horror writer (Castle of Otranto)
1725 - Sir Arthur Guinness, Irish brewer (d. 1803)
1739 - Grigorij A Potemkin, Monarch of Tauris/friend of Catherine II
1748 - Philipp Meissner, composer
1755 - John Marshall, Va, 4th Supreme Court Chief Justice (1801-35)
1762 - William Lisle Bowles, English poet (14 Sonnets)
1773 - Johann Philipp Christian Schulz, composer
1801 - Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky, Ukrainian scientist (d. 1862)
1802 - Adolphe d'Archiac, French paleontologist and geologist (d. 1868)
1806 - George Alexander Osborne, composer
1817 - Ramon de Campoamor Campoosorio, Spanish poet (Doloras)
1821 - Cyprian K Norwid, Polish painter/poet/playwright (Wanda)
1824 - Truman Seymour, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1891
1825 - Frances E W Harper, famous African
1827 - Henry Warner Slocum, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1894
1829 - James St Clair Morton, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1864
1829 - Charles S. West, Texas jurist and politician (d. 1885)
1833 - Henry Alanson Barnum, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1848 - Pieter Louis Tak, literary (The Chronicle)
1858 - Eugene Foss, 45th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1939)
1859 - Julius Klengel, cellist/composer
1860 - Samuel Rutherford Crockett, novelist
1870 - Georges Claude, inventor (neon light)
1871 - Lottie Dod, English athlete (d. 1960)
1878 - C. F. Ramuz, Swiss writer (d. 1947)
1884 - Gustave Garrigou, French cyclist (d. 1963)
1884 - Hugo Schmeisser, German weapons designer (d. 1953)
1885 - Herman Bouber, Dutch actor/playwright (Sailor's Wives)
1886 - James Burke, NYC, actor (Mystery Theater, Great Guy)
1890 - Alan Herbert, England, journalist/writer (Punch, Helen)
1890 - Mike González, baseball player (d. 1977)
1892 - Sam[uel] de Vries, actor (Wandering Jew)
1892 - Adélard Godbout, premier of Québec (d. 1956)
1893 - Blind Lemon Jefferson, Coutchman, Texas, blues singer and guitarist, (d. 1929)
1893 - Julia Faye, Richmond VA, actress (10 Commandments, Samson & Delilah)
1894 - Tommy Armour, Anglo-American golfer (d. 1968)
1895 - Andre Cournand, physician
1896 - F Scott Fitzgerald, St Paul Minn, author (Great Gatsby), (d. 1940)
1898 - Charlotte D baroness of Pallandt, Dutch sculptress
1898 - Howard Florey, Adelaide Aust, pathologist/phamacologist; purified penicillin (Nobel '45), (d.
           1968)
1899 - Eduardo Hernandez Moncada, composer
1899 - Sir William Dobell, Australian portrait artist (d. 1970)
1900 - Ham Fisher, American cartoonist (d. 1955)
1902 - Cheryl Crawford, producer (Touch of Venus, Brigadoon)
1902 - Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian politician, religious figure, and political leader of the 1979 Iranian
           Revolution (d. 1989)
1904 - Cemal Resit Rey, composer
1904 - Owen Saunders, mechanical engineer
1905 - Severo Ochoa, Nobel Laureate (d. 1993)
1906 - Victor Wong, LA Cal, actor (Mission to Moscow, Son of Kong, King Kong)
1907 - Pierre Moulaert, composer
1909 - Gerard Ciołek, Polish architect (d. 1966)
1910 - Cao Yu, dramatist
1910 - Frank Pelleg, composer
1910 - Jean Servais, Angers Belgium, actor (Every Man is My Enemy)
1910 - Leonarda da Vinci MacLaren, founder (LSE)
1911 - Konstantin Chernenko, USSR leader
1912 - Don Porter, Miami Oklahoma, actor (Russ Lawrence-Gidget, Ann Sothern Show)
1912 - Ian Serraillier, children author
1914 - Andrzej Panufnik, Warsaw Poland, composer (Tragic Overture)
1914 - Hein J M Jordans, Dutch conductor
1914 - Herb Jeffries, Detroit Mich, actor (Where's Huddles)
1914 - Sir John Kerr, 18th Governor-General of Australia (d. 1991)
1915 - Larry Gates, St Paul Minn, actor (Guiding Light, Body Snatchers)
1915 - Margarita J Aliger, Russian poetess (Zoja) [OS]
1915 - Seymour Egerton, CEO (Coutis Bank)
1916 - John Lapsley, British air marshal
1917 - Colin Cowe, senior bursar (Magdalen College Oxford)
1917 - William Putnam Bundy, London, editor (Lvaggerier & Vagaries)
1918 - Audra Lindley, Los Angeles California, actress (Helen Roper-3&#039;s Company, Ropers)
1918 - Richard Hoggart, author/warden (Goldsmith's College London)
1919 - Dayton Allen, NYC, comedian (Steve Allen Show)
1919 - Vaclav Nelhybel, Polanka Czechoslovakia, composer (Everyman)
1921 - Jim McKay, Phila Pa, sportscaster (ABC's Wide World of Sports)
1921 - Leonard Overton, British glider pilot (Arnhem 1944)
1921 - Leonardo Lopez Salzedo, composer
1922 - Cornell MacNeil, US, singer/actor (La Traviata)
1922 - David Lane, CEO (Commission for Racial Equality)
1922 - Theresa Merritt, Newport News Va, actress (Mama-That's My Mama)
1923 - Ladislav Fuks, writer
1923 - Mervyn Brown, diplomat
1923 - Fats Navarro, American jazz trumpet player (d. 1950)
1924 - Jean-Pierre Warner, British high court judge
1924 - Sheila MacRae, London England, actress (Jackie Gleason Show)
1924 - Simpson Guillen, cricketer (wicket-keeper for West Indies & NZ)
1924 - Walter Fufido, Bronx NY, Iwo Jima casualty (WW II)
1924 - Nina Bocharova, Soviet gymnast
1924 - Theresa Merritt, American actress (d. 1998)
1925 - Autar Singh Paintal, Indian medical scientist (d. 2004)
1927 - Richard Swift, composer
1929 - George McNicol, principal (Aberdeen University)
1929 - Edward M. Lawson, Canadian politician
1930 - John Watts Young, SF California, astronaut (Gem 3 10, Apol 10 16, STS 1 9)
1930 - Józef Krupiński, Polish poet (d. 1998)
1930 - Angelo Muscat, Maltese actor (d. 1977)
1931 - Anthony Newley, England, actor (Dr Doolitte, Garbage Pail Kids)/composer
1931 - Brian Glanville, author/journalist
1931 - Cardiss Collins, (Rep-D-Illinois, 1973-97), (d. 2013)
1932 - Svetlana Beriozova, ballerina
1932 - Dominique Michel, French Canadian comedian
1933 - Catherine Pestell, principal (Somerville College Oxford)
1934 - Bernard Nevill, textile designer
1934 - John Brunner, [Kilian Houston], UK, sci-fi author (100th Millennium)
1934 - Manfred Worner, German general/sect-gen (NATO, 1988-94)
1934 - Robert Lang, actor (Night Watch)/director
1934 - Tommy Anderson, Scottish footballer
1935 - Barbara Brilliant, TV host/producer
1935 - Lawrence Urquhart, CEO (Burmah Castrol)
1935 - Sean McCann, Canadian actor
1936 - Jim Henson, Greenville Miss, muppeteer (Sesame Street, Muppet Show), (d. 1990)
1937 - Alan Grose, British vice-admiral
1940 - Barbara Allbut, Orange NJ, rock vocalist (Angels)
1940 - Yves Navarre, French writer (d. 1994)
1941 - John Mackey, NFL tight end (Baltimore Colts, San Diego Chargers)
1941 - Linda Eastman McCartney, NYC, photographer and musician (Wings-Ram) and wife of Paul
           McCartney
1942 - Gerry Marsden, rock vocalist (Gerry & Pacemakers-Ferry crossed Mersey)
1942 - Phyllis "Jiggs" Allbut Meister, Orange NJ, rocker (Angels)
1943 - Lee Aaker, Los Angeles California, actor (Rusty-Rin Tin Tin)
1944 - Diana Körner, German actress
1945 - Catherine Burns, NYC, actress (Last Summer, One Life to Live, Catcher)
1945 - David A[llen] Drake, US, sci-fi author (Cross the Stars, Rolling Hot)
1945 - Lou Dobbs, American journalist
1946 - "Mean" Joe Greene, NFL tackle (Pittsburgh Steelers), Coke spokesman
1946 - Carson Van Osten, rocker
1946 - Jacqueline Courtney, NJ, actress (Another World, One Life to Live)
1946 - Jerry Donahue, rocker (Fairport Convention)
1946 - Marc Edward Neikrug, composer
1946 - Pat Pocock, cricketer (intermittent England off-spinner 1968-85)
1946 - Richard Spring, British MP
1946 - Robert Jackson, MP/minister of British Civil Service
1947 - Erik Hivju, Norwegian actor
1948 - Bernadette Hingley, British priest
1948 - Gordon Clapp, North Conway NH, actor (Greg Medavoy-NYPD Blue)
1948 - Phil Hartman, Brantford Ontario, actor (SNL, Peewee's Playhouse)
1948 - Heinz Chur, German composer
1950 - Mohinder Amarnath, cricketer (son of Lala Indian batsman of 70's/80's)
1950 - Kristina Wayborn, Swedish actress
1951 - Terry Metcalf, Seattle, NFL, CFL running back (St Louis, Toronto)
1951 - Douglas Kmiec, American legal scholar
1952 - Joseph P Kennedy II, (Rep-D-Massachusetts)
1952 - Mark Sandman, American musician (Morphine), (d. 1999)
1954 - Stephen Jones, art historian
1955 - Riccardo Illy, Italian politician
1956 - Ilona Briesenick-Slupianek, German DR, shot-putter (Olympic-gold-1980)
1958 - Kevin Sorbo, actor (Hercules Legendary Journeys, Kull The Conquerer)
1959 - Steve Whitmire, American voice actor
1961 - Dillard Pruitt, Greenville SC, PGA golfer (1991 Chattanooga Classic)
1961 - Allen Bestwick, Nascar broadcaster
1961 - John Logan, American screenwriter
1962 - Arden Knoll, Saskatoon Sask, Canadian Tour golfer (1994 Klondike-2nd)
1962 - Jack Dee, British comedian
1962 - Mike Phelan, English former footballer
1962 - Nia Vardalos, Canadian actress
1964 - Gene Watkins, Waco Tx, actor (James Walsh-As the World Turns)
1964 - Rafael Palmeiro, Havana Cuba, 1st baseman (Baltimore Orioles)
1965 - Sean McNabb, American bassist (Quiet Riot, Great White, Rough Cutt, House of Lords)
1966 - Atul Bedade, cricketer (Indian ODI batsman 1994- )
1966 - Bernard Gilkey, St Louis MO, outfielder (NY Mets)
1966 - Kevin Koslofski, Decatur Ill, outfielder (Milwaukee Brewers)
1966 - Paul Michael Valley, actor (Ryan Harrison-Another World)
1966 - Michael J. Varhola, American author
1967 - Chris Swan, rower (Olympics-1996)
1967 - Frank Cornish, NFL center/guard (Jacksonville Jaguars, Philadelphia Eagles)
1967 - Roland Jansen, soccer player (Willem II)
1969 - Andrew Greene, NFL guard (Miami Dolphins, Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1969 - Gene Hunt, R&B musician (Acid Man)
1969 - John Morton, WLAF WR (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1969 - Lisa Matthews, Peoria Ill, playmate (Apr, 1990)
1969 - Megan Ward, Los Angeles California, actress (Kimberly Sayers-Dark Skies)
1969 - Shawn "Clown" Crahan, American musician (Slipknot)
1969 - Donald DeGrate, Jr., American music producer
1969 - Goya Toledo, Spanish actress and model
1970 - Jeanette Kollasch, Evanston Ill, WPVA volleyballer (Pismo-17th-1995)
1970 - Kristin Talbot, Schuylerville NY, speed skater (Olympics-1994)
1970 - Mario Cristobal, WLAF guard (Amsterdam Admirals)
1970 - Paul Spoljaric, pitcher (Toronto Blue Jays)
1970 - Winfred Tubbs, NFL linebacker (NO Saints)
1971 - Shane Conrad, actress (Cody-High Mountain Rangers)
1971 - Peter Salisbury, English drummer (The Verve)
1972 - Jeff Hill, NFL wide receiver (Cin Bengals)
1973 - Rodrick Rhodes, NBA forward (Houston Rockets)
1973 - Eddie George, American football player
1974 - Kiwane Garris, NBA guard (Denver Nuggets)
1974 - Matt McKeon, Florissant MO, soccer midfielder (Olympics-gold-96)
1975 - Kyle Turley, former National Football League offensive lineman
1976 - Carlos Almeida, Angolan basketball player
1976 - Stephanie McMahon-Levesque, American professional wrestler
1977 - Frank Fahrenhorst, German footballer
1978 - Tarek Saab, American TV show contestant
1978 - Wietse van Alten, Dutch archer
1979 - Fábio Aurélio, Brazilian footballer
1979 - Ross Mathews, American television personality and comedian
1979 - Justin Bruening, American actor
1980 - Petri Pasanen, Finnish footballer
1980 - John Arne Riise, Norwegian footballer
1980 - Daniele Bennati, Italian professional road racing cyclist
1980 - Dean Canto, Australian racing driver
1981 - Drew Gooden, National Basketball Association player
1981 - Ryan Briscoe, Australian racing driver
1982 - Morgan Hamm, American gymnast
1982 - Paul Hamm, American gymnast
1982 - Jeff Karstens, American baseball player
1983 - Randy Foye, American basketball player
1984 - Szilvia Molnar, Swedish writer
1986 - Leah Dizon, model, singer and Japanese television
1987 - Spencer Treat Clark, American actor
1987 - Matthew Connolly, English footballer
1988 - Karl Alzner, Canadian hockey player
1988 - Kyle Sullivan, American actor
1988 - Lisa Wang, American gymnast

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 24, 2013, 09:13:14 AM

This Day in History for 24th September


Famous Deaths

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Physician/Alchemist                             Children's Author Dr. Seuss (1991)
Paracelsus (1541)


366 - Liberius, Italian Pope (352-66), dies
768 - Pippin III, the short, King of France, dies at 53
786 - Al-Hadi, Arabic kalief of Islam (185-86), dies
911 - Ludwig III, the child, last Carolingian German King (899-911), dies
1054 - Hermannus Contractus, scholar (b. 1013)
1118 - Robert of Knaresborough, hermit (b. 1160)
1120 - Welf II, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1072)
1143 - Innocent II, [Gregorio de' Papareschi], Ital Pope (1130-43), dies
1143 - Agnes of Germany, daughter of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1072)
1180 - Manuel I Comnenus, Byzantine emperor (1143-80), dies
1213 - Gertrude of Merania, wife of Andrew II of Hungary (murdered) (b. 1185)
1228 - Stefanus I Nemanjic de Eerstgekroonde, king of Serbia (1217-28), dies
1230 - Alfonso IX, king of Leon/Castile, dies
1275 - Humphrey de Bohun, 2nd Earl of Hereford, Constable of England (b. 1208)
1435 - Isabeau of Bavaria, Queen and wife of Charles VI of France (bc. 1370)
1494 - Poliziano, Italian humanist (b. 1454)
1517 - Frederik IV, of Baden, bishop of Utrecht, dies
1536 - Janus Secundus, neo latin poet (Basia), dies at 24
1541 - Philippus A Paracelsus, Swiss physician/alchemist, dies at 47
1545 - Albrecht von Brandenburg, archbishop/monarch of Mainz, dies at 55
1568 - Antoon van Stralen, Flemish mayor of Antwerp, beheaded at about 47
1605 - Manuel Mendes, Portuguese composer (bc. 1547)
1621 - Jan Karol Chodkiewicz, Polish military commander (b. 1560)
1646 - Duarte Lobo, Portuguese composer (bc. 1565)
1707 - Vincenzo da Filicaja, Italian poet (b. 1642)
1732 - Emperor Reigen of Japan (b. 1654)
1742 - Johann Matthias Hase, German scientist (b. 1684)
1755 - Georg Gebel, composer, dies at 45
1790 - John Keyse Sherwin, engraver/painter, dies
1802 - Alexander Radishchev, Russian writer (b. 1749)
1813 - Andre-Ernest-Modeste Gretry, composer, dies at 72
1815 - John Sevier, indian fighter (Gov/Rep-Tn), dies at 70
1834 - A J Pedro I van Alcantara, Emperor of Brazil (1822-31), dies
1855 - Alexandre Stievenard, composer, dies at 86
1856 - Henry, 1st viscount Hardinge of Lahore, gov-gen of India, dies
1865 - Frantiszek Soltyk, composer, dies at 81
1875 - William Walker, composer, dies at 66
1881 - Luigi Ferdinando Casamorata, composer, dies at 74
1892 - Cornelis A van Sypesteyn, Dutch governor of Suriname, dies at 69
1892 - Patrick S Gilmore, composer, dies at 62
1894 - Martinus Nijhoff, founder Nijhoff's book publisher (Van Dale), dies
1896 - Percy McDonnell, cricketer (19 Tests 1880-88, 3 centuries), dies
1896 - Louis De Geer, 1st Swedish Prime Minister (b. 1818)
1898 - Bartel Wilton, ship builder, dies at 70
1910 - Rudolf Dellinger, composer, dies at 53
1919 - Frank Laver, cricketer (15 Tests for Aust 1899-1909), dies
1930 - William A. MacCorkle, Governor of West Virginia (b. 1857)
1933 - Mike Donlin, baseball player (b. 1878)
1933 - Alice Muriel Williamson, British novelist (b. 1869)
1934 - Edwin Lehare, composer, dies at 69
1938 - Lev Schnirelmann, Russian mathematician (b. 1900)
1939 - Carl Laenmie, film producer, dies
1948 - Warren William, actor (Fear, Wolf Man, Madame X), dies at 53
1949 - Pierre Breville, composer, dies at 88
1951 - Georges Rency, Belgian poet/literature, dies at 75
1953 - Berthold Viertel, writer, dies at 68
1954 - Edward Pilgrim, British suicide hastened by bureaucracy (b. 1904)
1960 - Matyas Seiber, composer, dies at 55
1960 - Melanie Klein, [Reizes], child psycho-analyst, dies
1961 - Sumner Welles, US diplomat (Good Neighbor Policy), dies at 68
1967 - Orville Caldwell, Deputy Major (LA-1940), dies at 71
1967 - Robert H van Gulik, diplomat/writer (Judge Tie), dies
1968 - Harry Robert Wilson, composer, dies at 67
1968 - Robert Arthur Ley, sci-fi author (Telepath, Power of X), dies at 47
1975 - Clive Morton, actor (Goodbye Mr Chips, Moonraker), dies at 71
1975 - Ian Hunter, actor (Sir Richard-Robin Hood), dies at 75
1975 - Earle Cabell, Texas politician (b. 1906)
1976 - Bruno VeSota, actor/director (Chopper, Teenage Doll), dies at 54
1976 - Romney Brent, actor/writer (Dinner at the Ritz), dies at 74
1978 - Ruth Etting, US dancer/singer (Ziegfeld Follies), dies at 80
1981 - Patsy Kelly, actress (Brigid Murphy-Cop & the Kid), dies at 71
1982 - Sarah Churchill, actress (Royal Wedding, Spring Meeting), dies at 67
1983 - Isobel Baillie, oratorio singer, dies
1984 - Neil Hamilton, actor (Com Gordon-Batman), dies of asthma at 85
1990 - Jay Currin, stuntman/actor (Back to the Beach, Serial), dies at 34
1991 - Mary Lawrence, actress (Best Man), dies of respiratory failure at 73
1991 - Theodore Geisel, children&#039;s author (Dr. Seuss), dies of cancer at 87
1991 - Peter Bellamy, folk singer (b. 1944)
1993 - Zita Johann, Hungarian/US actress (Mummy), dies at 89
1993 - Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian physicist (b. 1913)
1993 - Ian Stuart Donaldson, British musician (b. 1957)
1994 - Colin Berry Haycraft, publisher, dies at 65
1994 - David Napley, solicitor, dies at 79
1994 - Otto F Walther, Swiss publisher/author (Der Stumme), dies at 66
1996 - Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen Edwards, egyptologist, dies at 87
1996 - Mark Frankel, actor (Solitaire for 2, Simon-Sisters), dies at 34
1996 - Pavel Anatolievich Sudoplatov, spy, dies at 89
1997 - Jonathon Silver, entrepreneur/arts patron, dies at 47
2002 - Youssouf Togoïmi, Chadian rebel (b. 1953)
2002 - Mike Webster, National Football League player (b. 1952)
2003 - Rosalie Allen, American singer and disc jockey (b. 1924)
2003 - Lyle Bettger, American actor (b. 1915)
2004 - Françoise Sagan, French writer (b. 1935)
2005 - Tommy Bond, American actor (b. 1926)
2008 - Mickey Vernon, American baseball player (b. 1918)
2009 - Susan Atkins, American murderer (b. 1948)
2010 - Gennady Yanayev, Soviet politician (b. 1937)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 25, 2013, 09:09:50 AM

This Day in History for 25th September


Historical Events

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Explorer of the New World                      Military and Political Leader                 US President Woodrow Wilson
Christopher Columbus                             Simon Bolivar

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Ford Motor Company Founder                 Iraqi President                                     Heavyweight Boxing Champion
Henry Ford                                               Saddam Hussein                                            Lennox Lewis


303 - On a voyage preaching the gospel, Saint Fermin of Pamplona is beheaded in Amiens, France.
953 - Ratherius becomes bishop of Luik
955 - Bishop Ratherius of Luik flees
1066 - The Battle of Stamford Bridge; an English army under King Harold Godwinson beat the
           invading Norwegians led by King Harald Hardrada and Harold's brother Tostig, who were both
           killed. Three weeks later Harold died fighting the Normans at Hastings.
1212 - Emperor Frederik II ends Golden Degree (Bohemia)
1340 - England & France sign disarmament treaty
1396 - Battle of Nicopolis: Sultan Bajezid I defeats Crusades armies
1492 - Crewman on Pinta sights "land"-a few weeks early
1493 - Columbus sails with 17 ships on 2nd voyage to the Americas
1513 - Vasco Nunez de Balboa is first European to see Pacific Ocean
1555 - Freedom of Religion in Augsburg
1560 - Spanish king Philip II names Frederik Schenck of Toutenburg, 1st archbishop of Utrecht
1597 - Amiens surrenders to French King Henri IV
1639 - First printing press in America
1639 - Suzuki Shosan, Samurai monk of Zen Buddhism, found awakening
1654 - England & Denmark sign trade agreement
1663 - Austrian Fort Neuhausl surrenders to invading Turkish army
1690 - Publick Occurrences, first newspaper in the American colonies (Boston), publishes first & last
           edition
1775 - American Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen captured
1777 - British general William Howe conquers Philadelphia
1780 - Benedict Arnold joins the British
1781 - -26] Joan Derks scatters "On the People of Netherlands" pamphlets
1789 - US Congress proposes Bill of Rights (10 of 12 will ratify)
1804 - 12th amendment to US constitution, regulating judicial power
1829 - Failed assassination attempt on Simon Bolívar
1836 - HMS Beagle anchors at St Michael
1844 - Canada defeats USA by 23 runs in the 1st cricket international
1846 - US troops under Gen Taylor occupies Monterey Mexico
1857 - Relief of Lucknow by Havelock & Outram begins
1861 - Secretary of US Navy authorizes enlistment of slaves
1862 - Skirmish at Davis' Bridge, Tennessee
1866 - (Leonard W) Jerome Park opens in Bronx for horse racing
1867 - Congress creates 1st all-black university, Howard U in Wash DC
1868 - The Imperial Russian steam frigate Alexander Neuski shipwrecks off Jutland while carrying
           Grand Duke Alexei of Russia.
1882 - 1st baseball doubleheader (Providence & Worcester)
1886 - Comedy opera "Dorothy," 1st produced in London
1888 - Royal Court Theatre, London, opens
1888 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Hound of Baskervilles" (BG)
1890 - Congress establishes Yosemite National Park (California)
1890 - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Silver Blaze" (BG)
1897 - 1st British bus service opens
1904 - Charles Follis is 1st black to play pro football
1906 - John Galsworthy's "Silver Box," premieres in London
1906 - In the presence of the king and before a great crowd, Leonardo Torres Quevedo successfully
           demonstrates the invention of the Telekino in the port of Bilbao, guiding a boat from the
           shore, in what is considered the birth of the Remote control.
1907 - Jean Sibelius' 3rd Symphony, premieres
1908 - Cubs' Ed Reulbach becomes only pitcher to throw doubleheader shutout
1909 - Hudson-Fulton Celebration opens in NY
1911 - French battleship Liberte explodes at Toulon Harbor, 285 killed
1911 - Ground breaking begins in Boston for Fenway Park
1912 - Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York, New York.
1915 - -26] Battle at Loos: 8,246 British & 0 German casualties
1915 - The Second Battle of Champagne begins.
1919 - President Woodrow Wilson is paralyzed by a stroke
1920 - 34th US Womens Tennis: M B Mallory beats M Zinderstein (63 61)
1920 - Vern Bradburn of Winnipeg Victorias kicks 9 singles in a game
1922 - Giants beat St Louis, to clinch John McGraw's 8th pennant
1924 - Malcolm Campbell sets world auto speed record at 146.16 MPH
1926 - 9th PGA Championship: Walter Hagen at Salisbury GC Westbury NY
1926 - Canadian government of MacKenzie King forms
1926 - Henry Ford announces 8 hour, 5-day work week
1926 - International slavery convention signed by 20 states
1926 - NHL grants franchises to Chicago Black Hawks & Detroit Red Wings
1926 - Walter Hagen wins PGA golf tournament
1926 - Yankees take a doubleheader from Browns to clinch AL pennant
1929 - Queen-mother Emma opens Antonie van Leeuwenhoek House in Amsterdam
1930 - Austrian government of Vaugoin forms
1930 - Roger Hornsby replaces Joe McCarthy as Cubs manager
1930 - Zoe Akins' "Greeks Had a Word for it," premieres in NYC
1932 - Jimmie Foxx hits his 58th HR in last game of season
1933 - 1st state poorhouse opens in Smyrna, Georgia
1933 - 5th "extermination campaign" against communists in Nanjing China
1934 - John Van Druten's "Distaff Side," premieres in NYC
1934 - Lou Gehrig plays in his 1,500th consecutive game
1934 - Rainbow (US) beats Endeavour (England) in 16th America's Cup
1935 - Maxwell Anderson's "Winterset," premieres in NYC
1936 - Joe Medwick sets a still-standing NL record with his 64th double
1937 - "il duce" visits Berlin/named "the Fuhrer" to corporal 1st class
1937 - Battle of of P'ing-hsin-kuan Wutai Mountain
1939 - German Luftwaffe strikes Warsaw with (fire)bombs
1939 - Versailles Peace Treaty forgot to include Andorra, so Andorra & Germany finally sign an official
           treaty ending WW I
1940 - German High Commissioner in Norway sets up Vidkun Quisling government
1940 - Luftwaffe bombs Spitfire factory in Southampton
1941 - Brooklyn Dodgers win their 1st pennant in 21 years
1943 - Russian troops liberate Smolensk
1948 - "Heaven on Earth" closes at Century Theater NYC after 12 performances
1949 - 4th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Louise Suggs
1949 - Despite 71 injuries, Yankees have been in 1st place all season until Red Sox move into a tie
           for 1st place
1952 - Hal Newhouser of Tigers wins his 200th game
1954 - Francois "Doc" Duvalier wins Haitian presidential election
1954 - Indians win AL record 111 games
1954 - WCBD TV channel 2 in Charleston, SC (ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 - Detroit outfielder Al Kaline, 20, is youngest batting champ
1955 - Patty Berg wins LPGA Clock Golf Open
1955 - The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded.
1956 - First transatlantic telephone cable goes into operation (Newfoundland-Oban)
1956 - Brooklyn Dodger Sal Maglie no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 5-0
1957 - 300 US Army troops guard 9 black kids return to Central HS in Ark
1957 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia
1957 - Soviet 7 year plan (1959-1965) announced
1959 - Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley (37) & David Brown (43) wed
1960 - First nuclear powered aircraft carrier (Enterprise) launched (US)
1960 - Chubby Checker's "Twist," hits #1
1960 - For 1st time since 1927, Pirates clinch NL pennant
1960 - NY Yankees clinch AL pennant
1960 - Phillies beat Reds 7-1, ending 16 consecutive Sunday loses
1961 - KTPS TV channel 62 in Tacoma, WA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1962 - Black church is destroyed by fire in Macon Georgia
1962 - Sonny Liston KOs Floyd Patterson in 1st round for heavyweight title
1962 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1962 - Weatherly (US) beats Gretel (Aust) in 19th running of America's Cup
1962 - Yankees clinch AL pennant
1964 - Jens Otto Krag forms minority government in Denmark
1965 - "Do I Hear a Waltz?" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 220 perfs
1965 - 60 year old Satchel Paige of KC A's pitches 3 scoreless innings
1965 - Beatle cartoon show begins in US
1965 - Children find trunk with corpse in Amsterdam canal
1966 - 12th LPGA Championship won by Gloria Ehret
1966 - Dmitri Shostakovitch's 2nd Cello Concert premieres in Moscow
1966 - Smallest Yankee stadium crowd, 413 see White Sox win 4-1
1967 - WGBX TV channel 44 in Boston, MA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1970 - Ringo Starr releases his album "Beaucoups of Blues"
1972 - Dutch air force drives away Russian Tupolev-bomber
1972 - KAVT (now KSMQ) TV channel 15 in Austin, MN (PBS) begins broadcasting
1972 - Norway votes to join European common market
1972 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Lincoln-Mercury Golf Open
1973 - 3-man crew of Skylab 3 make safe splashdown in Pacific after 59 days
1973 - Mets beat Expos 2-1 on Willie Mays Night at Shea Stadium
1974 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1975 - Jackie Wilson, suffers heart attack & lapse into a 9 yr terminal coma
1976 - "Porgy & Bess" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 122 performances
1976 - Expo's last game at Montreal's Jarry Park
1977 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Sarah Coventry Golf Tournament
1978 - PSA Boeing 727 & a Cessna private plane collide by San Diego, 144 die
1979 - "Evita" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 1568 performances
1979 - California Angels win their 1st NL West pennant
1980 - Chevy Chase calls Cary Grant a homo on Tomorrow show (suit follows)
1980 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1980 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1980 - Jerry Mumphrey joins Ozzie Smith, & Gene Richards to steal 50 bases this year for Padres
1980 - The first congress of the Democratic Youth Organization of Afghanistan held in Kabul.
1981 - Nolan Ryan's 5th career no-hitter as Astros beat Dodgers 5-0
1981 - Rolling Stones begin their 6th US tour (JFK Stadium, Phila)
1981 - Sandra Day O'Connor sworn in as 1st female supreme court justice
1982 - Northwestern ends 34 football game losing streak, beats No Ill 31-6
1982 - Penn prison guard George Banks kills 13 (5 were his own children)
1982 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1983 - 35th Emmy Awards: Hill St Blue, Cheers, Ed Flanders & Shelley Long
1983 - Bob Forsch pitches 2nd career no-hitter, Cards beat Expos 3-0
1983 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1984 - "Quilters" opens at Jack Lawrence Theater NYC for 24 performances
1984 - 1st London performance of musical "Stepping Out" presented
1984 - Egypt & Jordan regain diplomatic relations
1984 - NY Met Rusty Staub joins Ty Cobb, who hit HRs as a teen & in 40s
1985 - Akali Dal wins Punjab State election in India
1985 - Palestinian terrorists kill 3 Israeli sailors at Lanaca Cyprus
1985 - Rickey Henderson steals Yankee record 75th base of season
1986 - Antonin Scalia appointed to Supreme Court
1986 - Houston Astro Mike Scott no-hits SF Giants, 2-0
1987 - 2nd coup on Fiji led by Major General Sitiveni Rabuka
1988 - Florence Griffith Joyner runs Olympic record 100m in 10.54s
1988 - Kathy Guadagnino wins LPGA Konica San Jose Golf Classic
1988 - Christopher Jacobs, Troy Dalbey, Tom Hunter & Matt Biondi, swim world record 4x100 m
           freestyle (3:16.53)
1989 - Archaeologists open Titus of Rhine grave in Amsterdam
1989 - Ronald Harwood's "Another Time," premieres in London
1989 - Wade Boggs is 1st to get 200 hits & 100 walks in 4 consecutive seasons
1990 - "Les Miserables," opens at Forrest Theatre, Phila
1990 - 1st 8 NY Yankees hit safely vs Balt Orioles to tie record
1990 - Oakland A's clinch 3rd straight AL West title
1990 - Saddam Hussein warns that US will repeat Vietnam experience
1990 - UN Security Council vote 14-1 to impose air embargo against Iraq
1991 - "Good & Evil" premieres on ABC TV
1991 - Paramount at Madison Square Garden in NYC opens
1992 - "Barry Manilow's Showstoppers" opens at Paramount NYC
1992 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1992 - Opening Main-Donau canal (North Sea-Black Sea)
1992 - Sparky Anderson ties Hughie Jennings as Detroit's winningest manager
1992 - US Mars Observer launched from Space shuttle
1992 - Gregory Kingsley, 12, wins right to divorce his parents & live with his foster parents, he takes
           name Shawn Russ
1994 - Oliver McCall TKOs Lennox Lewis in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
1996 - The last of the Magdalen Asylums closes in Ireland.
1997 - "ER" is performed live on TV
1997 - Britain's Andy Green sets jet-powered car record (714 mph)
1997 - Marv Albert plea bargains in assault case
1997 - STS 86 (Atlantis 20) launches into orbit
1997 - WNBA announces it will add Detroit & Wash DC franchises
2002 - The Vitim event, a possible bolide impact in Siberia, Russia.
2003 - A magnitude-8.0 earthquake strikes just offshore of Hokkaidō, Japan.
2005 - E1 Train Disaster
2008 - China launches the spacecraft Shenzhou 7.
2012 - 50 Taiwanese ships clash with the Japan Coast Guard in waters off the Senkaku Islands
2012 - Anouchka van Miltenburg is elected President of the House of Representatives in the
           Netherlands

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 25, 2013, 09:13:39 AM

This Day in History for 25th September


Famous Weddings

1940 - "Sullivan's Travels" actress Veronica Lake (18) weds American motion picture art director and
           set designer John S. Detlie (31)
1954 - "Roman Holiday" actress Audrey Hepburn (25) weds actor Mel Ferrer (37) in Burgenstock
1959 - Cosmopolitan founder Helen Gurley Brown and film (37) weds theatre producer David Brown
           (43)
2003 - Prince of Venice and Piedmont Emanuele Filiberto (31) weds French actress Clotilde Courau
           (34) at the Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Rome
2004 - Academy Award winning actor Kevin Costner (49) weds model and handbag designer
           Christine Baumgartner (30) at his 165-acre ranch in Aspen, Colorado
2005 - "Gremlins" actor Zach Galligan (41) weds Ling-Ling Hu Ingerick at New York City's Yale Club in
           New York City
2010 - Actress Emily Deschanel (33) weds writer-actor David Hornsby (34) in the Pacific Palisades
           area of Los Angeles
2010 - PayPal founder Elon Musk (39) weds actress Talulah Riley (24) at Dornoch Cathedral in
           Scotland
2010 - Charlie Sheen's daughter Cassandra Estevez (25) weds Casey Huffman (27) in Santa Barbara,
           California

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 25, 2013, 09:20:08 AM

This Day in History for 25th September


Famous Birthdays

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Author and Nobel Laureate                     Actor Michael Douglas (1944)                Actor Will Smith (1968)
William Faulkner (1897)


1358 - Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Japanese shogun (d. 1408)
1525 - Steven Borough, English explorer (d. 1584)
1593 - Matthew Merian, the Elder, engraver/bookseller
1599 - Francesco Borromini, Italian architect (d. 1667)
1612 - Mark Zuesius Boxhorn, Dutch historian
1644 - Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer (d. 1710)
1683 - Jean-Philippe Rameau, Dijon France, composer (Traite) (baptized)
1711 - Qianlong Emperor of China (d. 1799)
1714 - Jean-Benoit Leclair, composer
1725 - Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, designed & built 1st automobile
1729 - Christian G Heyne, German archaeologist
1738 - Nicholas Van Dyke, American lawyer and President of Delaware (d. 1789)
1741 - Vaclav Pichl, composer
1744 - Frederick Willem II, king of Prussia (1786-97)
1752 - Carl Stenborg, composer
1764 - Fletcher Christian, English Bounty mutineer (d. 1793)
1766 - Armand-Emmanuel, duc de Richelieu, French PM (1815-18, 1820-21)
1773 - Agostino Bassi, Italian entomologist (d. 1856)
1780 - Jason Fairbanks, American murderer (d. 1801)
1782 - Charles Robert Maturin, Irish playwright and novelist (d. 1824)
1785 - George Frederic Pinto, composer
1793 - Felicia Dorothea Hermans, poet
1796 - Antoine-Louis Barye, French sculptor (d. 1875)
1798 - Henri Scheffer, painter
1798 - JBAL Leonce Elie de Beaumont, French mine engineer/geologist
1805 - Henry P Scholte, Dutch/US vicar/founder (Pella colony in Iowa)
1822 - Adolph Wilhelm August Friedrich von Steinwehr, Brig Gen (Union vol)
1823 - Thomas John Wood, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1906
1829 - William Michael Rossetti, civil servant
1830 - Karl Klindworth, pianist/conductor
1832 - William Le Baron Jenney, US, architect/"father of skyscraper"
1839 - Karl A von Zittel, German geologist/paleontologist (Libya)
1839 - [Wilhel]Mina JPR Kruseman, writer/feminist
1852 - Cornelis J Snijders, supreme commander of Dutch Navy (1910-18)
1852 - Hans Vaihinger, German philosopher (Nietzsche Philosophy)
1862 - Leon Boellmann, French organist/composer (Variations Symphoniques)
1862 - Billy Hughes, seventh Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1952)
1866 - Thomas Hunt Morgan, US, biologist (Nobel-1933)
1867 - Evgenii Miller, Russian counter-revolutionary (d. 1938)
1872 - Charles Blake Cochran, impresario
1877 - Plutarco Elias Calles, Mexican revolutionary, president (1924-28)
1879 - Luis da Costa, composer
1879 - Lope K. Santos, Filipino writer and labor leader, Father of the Philippine National Language and
           Grammar (d. 1963)
1881 - Lu Xun, Chinese writer (d. 1936)
1884 - Cornelis "Kees" Boeke, Dutch educationalist
1886 - Jesus Guridi, composer
1886 - John Howard Lawson, scriptwriter/playwright
1887 - May Sutton Bundy, US, 1st US woman to win Wimbledon (US 1904)
1889 - George Douglas Howard Cole, socialist/novelist
1889 - C. K. Scott-Moncrieff, Scottish writer and translator (d. 1930)
1896 - Elsa Triolet, writer
1896 - Roberto Gerhard, composer
1896 - Sandro Pertini, president Italy
1897 - Teddy Hart, NYC, actor (3 Men on a Horse)
1897 - William Faulkner, New Albany Mississippi, author (Sound & Fury-Nobel 1949), (d. 1962)
1898 - Robert Brackman American artist (d. 1980)
1901 - Robert Bresson, French film director (d. 1999)
1902 - Ernst von Salomon, German writer (Kette Der Tausend Kraniche)
1902 - Jeno Takacs, composer
1903 - John Everett Allen, US businessman
1903 - Mark Rothko, [Marcus Rothkovich], US, painter (Green on Blue)
1905 - Nahman Avigad, Israeli archaeologist (Discovering Jerusalem)
1905 - Red Smith, Green Bay Wisc, sportscaster/columnist (Fight Talk)
1906 - Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich, St Petersburg Russia, composer [NS]
1906 - Jaroslav Jezek, composer
1906 - Madeleine Bourdouxhe, writer
1906 - Phyllis Pearsall, East Dulwich, London, British painter and writer (A to Z Map Company)
1907 - Jan Felderhof, composer
1907 - Robert Bresson, France, director (Pickpocket, Mouchette)
1908 - Eugen Suchon, composer
1909 - Florizel A Glasspole, governor-gen of Jamaica (1973-91)
1911 - Lionel Henry Nowak, composer
1911 - Eric Williams, first Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (d. 1981)
1913 - David Hunt, British diplomat/quiz winner
1914 - Frederick William Sternfield, musicologist
1915 - Ethel Rosenberg, American Communist (d. 1953)
1916 - Tolia Nikiprowetzsy, composer
1917 - Johnny Sain, American baseball player (d. 2006)
1918 - Phil Rizzuto, Brooklyn New York, American sportscaster/shortstop (NY Yankees-MVP 1950)
1920 - Sergey Bondarchuk, Belozerka Ukraine, director (War & Peace)
1921 - Remy C, de Kerckhove, Flemish poet
1921 - Robert Muldoon, premier NZ (1975-84)/chairman (IMF)
1922 - John Farr, British MP
1922 - Hammer DeRoburt, first President of Nauru (d. 1992)
1924 - Norman Ayrton, opera director (Royal Shakespearean Acad - UK)
1925 - Silvana Pampanini, Rome Italy, actress (Day in Court, Island Sinner)
1925 - William Edgar Mitchell, physicist
1925 - Paul MacCready, engineer/inventor (1st man-powered aircraft)
1926 - Aldo Ray, Pen Argyl PA, actor (God's Little Acre, Green Beret)
1926 - John Ericson, Dusseldorf Germany, actor (Sam Bolt-Honey West)
1926 - Sergei Filatov, USSR, equestrian dressage (Olympic-gold-1960)
1926 - Jack Hyles, Baptist pastor (d. 2001)
1927 - Carl Braun, basketball player (NY Knicks)
1927 - Colin Rex Davis, Weybridge England, conductor (NY Met 1967-71)
1928 - Hendrika G "Tine" de Vries, actress (Seaman's Wife)
1929 - John Rutherford, cricketer (one Test for Australia 1956)
1929 - Ronnie Barker, British comedian (the Two Ronnies)
1929 - Barbara Walters, American broadcaster
1929 - Kevin White, Boston, Massachusetts, American politicians (Mayor of Boston, 1968-1984), (d.
           2012)
1930 - H Heckmann, writer
1930 - Shel Silverstein, American humorist and author (d. 1999)
1931 - Barbara Walters, Boston Mass, newscaster (Today, 20/20, ABC-TV)
1931 - Patrick WIlliam Walker, British astrologer
1931 - Manouchehr Atashi, Iranian poet (d. 2005)
1932 - Andrew Gardner, British broadcaster
1932 - Daphne Swallow, commandant/director (WRNS)
1932 - Glenn Herbert Gould, Toronto Canada, pianist (sued Steinway Piano)
1932 - Terry Medwin, Welsh retired footballer
1933 - Adolfo Suarez Gonzalez, premier of Spain (1976-81)
1933 - Erik Darling, Baltimore MD, rocker (Rooftop Singers)
1933 - Ian Tyson, rocker
1933 - Hubie Brown, American basketball coach and broadcaster
1934 - John S Bull, Memphis Tennessee, astronaut
1934 - Struther Arnott, professor (St Andrew University)
1934 - Jean Sorel, French actor
1936 - Edward Jones, UK military rep to NATO
1936 - Juliet Prowse, Bombay India, actress/dancer (Who Killed Teddy Bear)
1936 - Roosevelt "Booba" Barnes, bluesman
1937 - Michael Gibbs, jazz composer
1937 - Thomas Kessler, composer
1939 - David Mann, (Rep-D-Ohio)
1939 - Joseph "Jesse" Russell, US singer (Slip Sliding Away)
1939 - Leon Britain, British politician, vice president (Commission of European Communities)
1939 - Feroz Khan, Indian actor
1940 - Timothy Severin, author/explorer
1941 - Vivian Stern, director (Nacros)
1942 - John Taylor, jazz pianist
1942 - Michael Stephen, MP
1942 - Peter Petherick, cricketer (NZ slow lefty 1976-77, hat-trick on debut)
1943 - Gary Alexander, TN, rock vocalist/guitarist (Association)
1943 - John Locke, LA Clif, rock keyboardist (Spirit-I Got A Line on You)
1943 - Robert Walden, NYC, actor (Joe Rossi-Lou Grant, New Doctors)
1943 - Robert Gates, American Secretary of Defense
1944 - Eugenia Zukerman, Cambridge Ms, flutist/novelist (Deceptive Cadence)
1944 - Grayson Shillingford, cricket bowler (WI 1969-71, 7 Tests 15 wickets)
1944 - Michael Douglas, NJ, actor (Coma, Wall St, Jewel of the Nile)
1944 - Doris Matsui, American politician
1945 - Kathleen Brown, state treasurer (D-California, 1991- )
1945 - Owen "Onnie" McIntyre, Scotland, guitarist (Average White Band)
1945 - Reynold Henry Weidenaar, composer
1946 - Bishan Bedi, cricketer (mighty Indian slow left-armer 1966-79)
1946 - Felicity Kendal, Indies/British actress (Shakespeare Wallah)
1946 - Gilmer Bryan Morgan, Wewoka OK, PGA golfer (1977 BC Open)
1947 - Cheryl Tiegs, Minnesota, model (Sports Illustrated)
1947 - John Fiddler, England, rock vocalist/guitarist (British Lions)
1949 - Anson Williams, Los Angeles California, actor (Potsie-Happy Days)
1949 - Inshan Ali, cricketer (big-spinning WI chinaman bowler 1971-77)
1949 - Jerry F Costello, (Rep-D-Illinois)
1949 - Mimi Kennedy, Rochester NY, actress (Spencer, 3 girls 3, Under 1 Roof)
1951 - Bob McAdoo, NBA forward/center (Buffalo Braves, LA Lakers)
1951 - Burleigh Drummond, rocker (Ambrosia)
1951 - Mark Hamill, Oakland California, actor (Luke Skywalker-Star Wars)
1951 - Pedro Almodovar, Spain, director/screenwriter (Kika, Matador)
1952 - Christopher Reeve, NYC, actor (Superman, Somewhere in Time)
1952 - Tommy Norden, NYC, actor (Flipper)
1952 - Gloria Jean Watkins, American scholar
1953 - Richard Harvey, British musician and composer (Gryphon)
1954 - Sylvester Croom, American college football coach
1954 - Juande Ramos, Spanish Football Manager
1955 - Adelmo "Zucchero" Fornaciari, Italian R&B-singer (Senza una Donna)
1955 - Steven Severin, British pop bassist (Siouxsie & Banshees-Wild Thing)
1955 - Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, German footballer
1955 - Ludo Coeck, Belgian footballer (d. 1985)
1956 - Jamie Hyneman, American visual effects technician
1957 - Rupert Haselden, journalist/Screenwriter
1957 - Ian Reddington, English actor
1958 - Michael Madsen, Chicago, actor (Reservoir Dogs, Straight Talk)
1958 - Eamonn Healy, Irish chemist
1959 - Andy Waller, cricketer (big-hitting Zimbabwe batsman-1992 World Cup)
1960 - John Hills, horse trainer
1960 - Igor Belanov, Ukrainian footballer
1960 - Sonia Benezra, Canadian television host
1961 - Heather Locklear, LA Ca, actress (Stacy-T J Hooker, Sammy Jo-Dynasty)
1961 - Tim Zoehrer, cricketer (Aussie keeper, & occasional WA leggie)
1962 - Rajiv Kulkarni, cricketer (Indian Test pace bowler 1986-87)
1963 - Keely Shaye Smith, correspondent (Unsolved Mysteries)
1964 - Bryan Tooley, Eugene Ore, kayak (alt-Olympics-96)
1964 - Anita Barone, American actress
1964 - Joey Saputo, Canadian businessman and sports executive
1964 - Gary Ayles, British racing driver
1964 - Maria Doyle Kennedy, Irish actress and singer
1965 - Scottie Pippen, Hamburg, Arkansas, American NBA forward (Bulls, Oly-2 gold-92, 96)
1966 - Elizabeth "Liz" Tchou, Medford NJ, field hockey defender (Olympics-96)
1966 - Todd Philcox, NFL quarterback (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1967 - Lezlie Lund, Tolna ND, Miss ND-America (1991)
1967 - Kim Issel, Canadian ice hockey player
1968 - Will Smith [The Fresh Prince], actor/rapper (Men in Black, Independence Day, Fresh Prince)
1968 - Johan Friso, prince of Orange-Nassau, Netherlands
1968 - Reggie Jefferson, Tallahassee FL, 1st baseman (Cin, Cleve, Sea, Bos)
1968 - John Worsfold, Australian rules football coach
1969 - Catherine Zeta Jones, Swansea Wales, actress (Christopher Columbus)
1969 - David Weathers, Lawrencburg TN, pitcher (Florida Marlins, NY Yankees)
1969 - Hansie Cronje, cricket captain (solid South African batsman)
1969 - Michae Wright, WLAF cornerback (Barcelona Dragons)
1969 - Hal Sparks, American actor
1970 - Curtis Buckley, NFL safety (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1970 - Damon Pieri, NFL safety (Carolina Panthers)
1970 - Doug Pelfrey, NFL kicker (Cin Bengals)
1970 - Kerri Kendall, San Diego Ca, playmate (Sep, 1990)
1970 - Shannon Jones, WLAF linebacker (Scottish Claymores)
1970 - Dean Ween, American musician (Ween)
1971 - John Lynch, NFL safety (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1971 - Tony Harrison, WLAF receiver (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1971 - Brian Dunkleman, American actor
1972 - Kevin Mason, CFL quarterback (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1972 - Nikole Viola, Miss USA-Louisiana (1997)
1973 - Melonie McGarrah, Rogers Arkansas, Miss America-Arkansas (1997)
1973 - Tijani Babangida, soccer player (Roda JC)
1973 - Bridgette Wilson, Gold Beach, Oregon, American actress (Mortal Kombat, Billy Madison)
1973 - Bridget Marquardt, American model
1974 - Daniel Kessler, American musician (Interpol)
1975 - Declan Donnelly, English television presenter (Ant and Dec)
1975 - Matt Hasselbeck, American football player
1975 - Daniel Hyde, British actor
1976 - Chauncey Billups, NBA guard (Boston Celtics)
1977 - Clea DuVall, American actress
1977 - Mike Krahulik, Illustrator
1977 - Wil Nieves, Puerto Rican baseball player
1978 - Laura Nicholls, Kitchener Ontario, 50m swimmer (Olympics-96)
1978 - Roudolphe Douala, Cameroonian footballer
1978 - Ricardo Gardner, Jamaican footballer
1978 - Jodie Kidd, English model
1978 - Joel Pineiro, Puerto Rican baseball player
1980 - T.I., American rapper
1981 - Rocco Baldelli, American baseball player
1981 - Jason Bergmann, American baseball player
1981 - Shane Tutmarc, American songwriter and musician
1981 - Van Hansis, American actor
1982 - Hyun Bin, South Korean actor
1983 - Terrance Pennington, National Football League guard
1984 - Matt Carle, American ice hockey player
1990 - Mao Asada, Japanese figure skater
1994 - Jansen Panettiere, American actor

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 25, 2013, 09:22:11 AM

This Day in History for 25th September


Famous Deaths

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Gymnast Sofia Muratova (2006)


813 - al-Amin, Arabic kalief of Islam (809-813), murdered
1066 - Harald III Hardrada, King of Norway (1047-66), dies in battle at 51
1066 - Tostig Godwinson, Earl of Northumbria, killed at the Battle of Stamford Bridge
1086 - William VIII, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 1025)
1333 - Prince Morikuni, Japanese shogun (b. 1301)
1392 - Sergius van Radonesj, Russian saint, dies at 78
1396 - Jean de Vienne, French admiral/crusader, dies in battle
1396 - Odard de Chasseron, French knight/crusader, dies in battle
1396 - Philip of Bar, French knight/crusader, dies in battle
1496 - Piero Capponi, Italian soldier and statesman (b. 1447)
1501 - Dzore Drzic, Croatish poet, dies
1506 - Felipe I, the handsome, King of Castile (Spain) (1504-06), dies
1525 - Johannes Pistorius, [Bakker], RC pastor/church reformer, burned at 26
1534 - Clement VII, [Giulio de' Medici], Italian Pope (1523-34), dies at 56
1602 - Caspar Peucer, German reformer (b. 1525)
1617 - Emperor Go-Yozei of Japan (b. 1617)
1617 - Francisco Suarez, Spanish Jesuit theologian (b. 1548)
1619 - Francesco Soto de Langa, composer, dies
1630 - Ambrogio Spinola, Spanish marquis of Balbases, dies at about 61
1665 - Maria Anna of Austria, Electress of Bavaria (b. 1610)
1680 - Samuel Butler, poet/satirist, dies
1716 - Johann Christoph Pez, composer, dies at 52
1727 - Jacques Abbadie, French theologist, dies at about 73
1733 - Georg Motz, composer, dies at 79
1774 - John Bradstreet, Canadian-born soldier (b. 1714)
1777 - Johann Heinrich Lambert, mathematician, dies at 49
1791 - William Bradford, American printer (b. 1719)
1792 - Adam Gottlob Moltke, Danish statesman (b. 1710)
1794 - Paul Rabaut, French Huguenot pastor (b. 1718)
1808 - Richard Porson, scholar, dies
1813 - Braz Francisco de Lima, composer, dies at 61
1825 - Joachim Heer, Swiss politician (b. 1879)
1840 - Jacques-Etienne-Joseph-Alexandre Macdonald, Duc de Tarente, soldier
1849 - Johann Baptist Strauss, elder, composer (Radetzky-Marsch), dies at 45
1860 - Carl Friedrich Zollner, composer, dies at 60
1867 - Oliver Loving, American pioneer rancher (b. 1812)
1871 - Arvir A Afzelius, Swedish story teller, dies
1876 - A Glabbrenner, writer, dies at 66
1900 - Félix-Gabriel Marchand, premier of Québec (b. 1832)
1901 - Arthur Fremantle, British general and American Civil War observer (b. 1835)
1905 - Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac, French politician (b. 1853)
1914 - A Lichtenstein, writer, dies at 25
1914 - Jan B Stobbaerts, Flemish painter, dies at 76
1916 - Julius Fucik, composer, dies at 44
1917 - Thomas Ashe, Irish revolutionary (b. 1885)
1918 - John Ireland, Irish/US archbishop of St Paul, dies at 80
1918 - Mikhail Alekseev, Russian general (b. 1857)
1920 - William F Sudds, composer, dies at 77
1926 - Herbert Booth, son of William and Catherine Booth (b. 1862)
1928 - Karl Schneider, cricketer (South Aust bat), dies of leukaemia at 23
1929 - Miller Huggins, manager (NY Yankees), dies from blood poisoning at 49
1933 - Paul Ehrenfest, Austria/Neth physicist, dies at 53
1933 - Ring Lardner, American writer (b. 1885)
1944 - Jakob Schaffner, Swiss writer (Irrfahrten), dies at 68
1944 - Leo Justinus Kauffmann, composer, dies at 43
1945 - Bela Bartok, composer, dies at 64
1945 - Charles A Ellwood, US sociologist/psychologist, dies at 72
1953 - Dimitur Poljanov, [Popov], Bulgaria poet (Iron Verses), dies
1954 - Eugenio d' Ors y Rovira, Spanish essayist/philosopher, dies at 71
1958 - John B Watson, US psychologist/behaviorist, dies
1959 - Ennio Porrino, composer, dies at 49
1959 - Helen Broderick, comedienne/actress (Swing Time, Top Hat), dies
1959 - S W R D Bandaranaike, Ceylon's PM, assassinated by a Buddhist monk
1960 - Emily Post, etiquette expert, dies at 86
1961 - Frank Fay, American actor (God's Gift to Women), dies at 69
1970 - Efim Golishev, composer, dies at 73
1970 - Erich M Remarque, German writer (Im West Nichts Neues), dies at 72
1971 - TC Jones, female impersonator, dies of cancer at 50
1974 - Coco the Clown, [Nikolai Poliakov], dies
1974 - William Sloane, publisher/writer ("Edge of Running Water"), dies
1975 - Bob Considine, newscaster (Tonight! America After Dark), dies at 68
1977 - Sidney van den Bergh, Dutch businessman/politician, dies at 78
1978 - Claire Adams, actress (Legally Dead, End of the Road), dies at 80
1979 - Tapio Rautavaara, Finnish athlete and actor (b. 1915)
1980 - John Bonham, English pop drummer (Led Zeppelin), overdoses at 32
1980 - Lewis Milestone, Moldovan film director (b. 1895)
1980 - Marie Under, Estonian author and poet (b. 1883)
1980 - Earl Curry, American religious author (b. 1890)
1983 - Leopold III, king of Belgium (1934-51), dies
1984 - Walter Pidgeon, actor (Forbidden Planet, Mrs Miniver), dies at 87
1985 - Albert Moeschinger, composer, dies at 88
1986 - Ben Sajet, physician/politician, dies at 99
1986 - Hans Vogt, Norwegian linguist (b. 1909)
1986 - Donald MacDonald, Canadian politician (b.1909)
1987 - Emlyn Williams, actor/director (I Accuse, Ivanhoe, Scarf), dies at 81
1987 - Mary Astor, actress (Cynthia, Meet Me in St Louis, Fiesta), dies at 81
1988 - Billy Carter, Pres Carter's brother Billy, dies of cancer at 51
1991 - Klaus Barbie, Gestapo chief of Lyon, dies of cancer at 77
1991 - Max Koot, royal photographer, dies
1991 - Viviane Romance, French actress (b. 1912)
1994 - John Richard Ravensdale, historian, dies at 73
1994 - Kitty Masters, actress, dies at 92
1994 - Ludwig Ferdinand von Hohenzollern, Germ prince of Prussia, dies at 86
1994 - Mark Alexander Abrams, market Researcher, dies at 88
1995 - Bessie Annie Elizabeth Delany, dentist writer, dies at 104
1995 - Dave Bowen, footballer, dies at 67
1995 - Dorothy Dickson, actress/dancer (Paying the Piper), dies at 102
1996 - Betty Phyllis Gathergood, curator, dies at 80
1996 - Nicu Ceausescu, playboy, dies at 45
1997 - Sayed Mutawli ad Imam scholar/broadcaster-Darsh, dies at 66
1997 - Jean Françaix, French composer (b. 1912)
1997 - Hélène Baillargeon, Quebec singer and folklorist (b. 1916)
1999 - Marion Zimmer Bradley, American writer (b. 1930)
2000 - R. S. Thomas, Welsh poet (b. 1913)
2003 - Aquila al-Hashimi, Iraqi politician (b. 1953)
2003 - Herb Gardner, American playwright (b. 1934)
2003 - George Plimpton, American writer and actor (b. 1927)
2003 - Edward Said, Palestinian-born literary critic (b. 1935)
2003 - Franco Modigliani, Italian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
2005 - Don Adams, American actor and comedian (b. 1923)
2005 - George Archer, American golfer (b. 1939)
2005 - Ghulam Mustafa Khan, Pakistani critic and linguist (b. 1912)
2005 - Urie Bronfenbrenner, American psychologist (b. 1917)
2005 - M. Scott Peck, American psychiatrist and writer (b. 1936)
2005 - Friedrich Peter, Austrian politician (b. 1921)
2006 - Jeff Cooper, American firearms expert (b. 1920)
2006 - John M. Ford, American author and poet (b. 1957)
2006 - Sofia Muratova, Russian Olympic gold winning Gymnast, dies at 77
2007 - Haidar Abdel-Shafi, Palestinian negotiator (b. 1919)
2009 - Alicia de Larrocha, Catalan pianist (b. 1923)
2010 - Art Gilmore, American actor (b. 1912)
2011 - Wangari Maathai, Kenyan environmentalist and Nobel Peace Prize recipient, dies from ovarian
           cancer at 71
2012 - Andy Williams, American singer, dies from bladder cancer at 84

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 26, 2013, 09:45:44 AM

This Day in History for 26th September


Historical Events

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Ist US Chief Justice John Jay                     Composer John Philip Sousa               Dictator of Nazi Germany
                                                                                                                            Adolf Hitler

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Cuban President Fidel Castro                    Ex-soldier, drifter                                 US President & Actor
                                                                Lee Harvey Oswald                                      Ronald Reagan

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Tennis Player                                                Publisher and Lawyer 
Martina Navratilova                                       John F. Kennedy Jr.


46 BC - Julius Caesar dedicates a temple to his mythical ancestor Venus Genetrix in accordance with
            a vow he made at the battle of Pharsalus.
715 - Ragenfrid defeats Theudoald at the Battle of Compiègne.
1212 - Golden Bull of Sicily certified hereditary royal title in Bohemia for Přemyslid dynasty.
1371 - Battle of Maritsa: Serbia-Turkey
1396 - Sultan Bajezid I beheads 100s of crusaders
1404 - Brussels Brabants/Limburgse audit-office established
1580 - Frances Drake completes circumnavigation of the world, sailing into Plymouth aboard the
           Golden Hind
1629 - Sweden & Poland signs Peace of Altmark
1655 - Peter Stuyvesant recaptures Dutch Ft Casimir from Swedish in Delaware
1680 - Tax revolt in Gorinchem due to tax on cereal
1687 - Acropolis in Athens attacked by Venetian army trying to eject Turks Parthenon damaged in
           war between Turks & Venetians
1687 - The city council of Amsterdam votes to support William of Orange's invasion of England,
           which became the Glorious Revolution.
1733 - France, Spain & Sardinia sign anti-German covenant
1771 - Denis Diderot's "Le Fils Naturel," premieres in Paris
1772 - New Jersey passes bill requiring a license to practice medicine
1783 - Fayette County, Pennsylvania created
1786 - England & France sign trade agreement
1789 - 4th US Postmaster General: Samuel Osgood of Mass takes office
1789 - Jefferson appointed 1st US Sec of State; John Jay becomes 1st US Chief Justice;
1789 - Edmund J Randolph becomes 1st US Attorney General
1792 - Marc-David Lasource begins accusing Maximilien Robespierre of wanting a dictatorship for
           France.
1810 - A new Act of Succession is adopted by the Riksdag of the Estates and Jean Baptiste
           Bernadotte becomes heir to the Swedish throne.
1815 - Russia, Prussia & Austria sign Holy Alliance
1824 - Kapiolani defies Pele (Hawaiian volcano goddess) & lives
1831 - Robert Montgomery Bird's "Gladiator," premieres in NYC
1835 - Gaetano Donizetti's opera "Lucia di Lammermoor," premieres in Naples
1861 - 2nd British Golf Open: Tom Morris Sr shoots a 163 at Prestwick Club
1872 - The first Shriners Temple (called Mecca) was established in New York City.
1874 - 1st Grand International Rifle match held
1876 - 1st Belgian parachute jump (Glorieux)
1884 - Suriname army shoots on British-Indian contract workers, 7 killed
1887 - Emile Berliner patents the Gramophone
1890 - US stops minting $1 & $3 gold coin & 3 cent piece
1892 - 1st public appearance of John Philip Sousa's band (NJ)
1892 - Diamond Match Co patented book matches
1895 - Italian general Oreste Baratieri lands in Massawa, Eritrea
1898 - Victor Herbert/Harry Smith' musical premieres in NYC
1901 - Boer General Botha fails to capture Fort Itala in Natal
1901 - Great Britain annexes Gold Coast (Ghana)
1904 - Charles Kleins "Music Master," premieres in NYC
1904 - Earl Grey is named British governor-general of Canada
1904 - GB Shaw's "How He Lied to Her Husband," premieres in NYC
1906 - Pitts Lefty Leifield no-hits Phillies, 8-0 in 6 inning game
1907 - NZ declares independence from UK
1907 - New Zealand and Newfoundland each become dominions within the British Empire.
1908 - Ed Ruelbach shuts-out Dodgers in a doubleheader
1914 - Federal Trade Commission formed to regulate interstate commerce
1914 - Germans arrest A Max, mayor of Brussels
1916 - Bishop speak against Catholics in trade unions
1917 - British assault on Menin-street, France
1918 - Battle of the Argonne, final major battle of WW I
1918 - World War I: Battle of Meuse.
1919 - US President Wilson hit by a heart attack
1921 - Yankee Ruth hits HRs 57 & 58 to beat Indians 8-7
1923 - Stresemann government ends resistance against occupiers in Ruhrgebied
1925 - 8th PGA Championship: Walter Hagen at Olympia Fields CC Matteson Ill
1925 - Italian sub "Sebastiano Veniero" lost off Sicily with 54 dead
1926 - JB Fagan's "And So to Bed," premieres in London
1926 - Shortest double header, Yanks lose 6-1 in 72 minutes & lose again 6-2 in 55 minutes to
           Browns. Yanks had already clinched pennant
1927 - St James Theater (Erlanger) opens at 246 W 44th St NYC
1929 - John Schrober becomes chancellor of Austria
1933 - Sidney Kingsley's "Men in White," premieres in NYC
1934 - British liner Queen Mary is launched
1938 - Hitler issues ultimatum to Czech government, demanding Sudenten Land
1939 - German seaplane shoots KLM-aircraft (1 killed)
1940 - Airplane manufacturer in Woolston bombed, 30 killed
1940 - Japanese troops attack French Indo-China
1941 - Nazi's slaughter about 34,000 Jews of Kiev
1944 - British & Polish paratroopers evacuate Oosterbeek (Arnhem)
1944 - Soviet forces occupy Estonia
1945 - All old Dutch banknotes declared invalid
1946 - 1st edition of Tintin (Kuifje), publishes until June 1993
1947 - Happy Chandler announces Ford & Gillette to sponsor World Series
1948 - Boston Braves win 1st NL championship since 1914
1950 - Australia wins Davis Cup tennis tournament
1950 - Because of forest fire in Br Columbia, blue moon appears in England
1950 - Phils pitcher Jim Konstanty makes record 71st appearance of year
1950 - UN troops in Korean War recapture South Korean capital of Seoul
1951 - Prof Youngblood demonstrates artificial heart in Paris
1952 - Yanks clinch 4th straight & 19th AL pennant, beating A's 5-2
1953 - Billy Hunter is last St Louis Browns player to homer in a game
1953 - KERO TV channel 23 in Bakersfield, CA (CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 - Polish government fires/imprisons Cardinal Wyszynski
1953 - US & Spain sign defense treaty (4 US bases in Spain)
1954 - Japanese ferry boat Toya Maru sinks in Strait of Tsugaru, 1172 die
1954 - KODE TV channel 12 in Joplin, MO (ABC) begins broadcasting
1954 - KUTV TV channel 2 in Salt Lake City, UT (NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 - Patty Berg wins LPGA Ardmore Golf Open
1954 - Typhoon hits Japan - 5 ferryboats sink killing about 1,600
1954 - WANE TV channel 15 in Fort Wayne, IN (CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 - WCAX TV channel 3 in Burlington, VT (CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 - A's defeats Yanks 8-6 in last game franchise will play in Phila
1954 - Yogi Berra plays his only game at 3rd & Mickey Mantle plays shortstop
1955 - NY Stock Exchange worst price decline since 1929
1957 - "West Side Story" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 734 perfs
1957 - Bernstein & Sondheim's musical "West Side Story," premieres in NYC
1957 - Dag Hammarskjoeld re-elected secretary-general of UN
1957 - Musical "West Side Story," opens on Broadway
1957 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1958 - Columbia (US) beats Sceptre (England) in 18th America's Cup
1958 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1959 - Milwaukee Braves Warren Spahn becomes winningest NL lefty
1959 - SF Giants Sam Jones 2nd no-hitter, beats St Louis Cards, 4-0
1959 - Typhoon Vera, hits Japanese island of Honshu, causing the deaths of 4,580 people with 658
           missing
1960 - 1st of 4 TV debates Nixon & Kennedy took place (Chicago)
1960 - Longest speech in UN history (4 hrs, 29 mins, by Fidel Castro)
1961 - "From the Second City" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 87 performances
1961 - Roger Maris hits HR #60 off Jack Fisher, tying Babe Ruth's record
1962 - LA Dodger Maury Wills becomes 1st to steal 100 bases (en route to 104)
1962 - TV comedy series "Beverly Hillbillies" premieres on CBS
1962 - Yemen Arab Republic proclaimed (National Day)
1963 - 1st edition of NYC Review of Books
1963 - Lee Harvey Oswald travels on Continental Trailways bus to Mexico
1964 - Braves (25) & Phillies (18) set record by using 43 players in 9 inn
1965 - 11th LPGA Championship won by Sandra Haynie
1965 - Minnesota gains its 1st AL pennant by defeating Washington, 2-1
1965 - Queen Elizabeth decorates Beatles with Order of the British Empire
1966 - "Staten Island," 1st icebreaker to enter SF bay
1967 - Dmitri Shostakovitch's 2nd Violin concert, premieres in Moscow
1968 - 1st broadcast of "Hawaii Five-O" on CBS-TV
1968 - Marcelo Caetano elected premier of Portugal
1968 - St Louis Cards' Bob Gibson's 13th shutout, ends with 1.12 ERA
1968 - Theatre censorship ends in Britain
1969 - Beatles release "Abbey Road" album
1969 - Bolivia military coup under general Ovando Candia
1969 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1970 - Judy Rankin wins LPGA Lincoln-Mercury Golf Open
1970 - The Laguna Fire starts in San Diego County, California, burning 175,425 acres (710 km²).
1971 - Jim Palmer is 4th Oriole to win at least 20 games this season
1971 - Pam Higgins wins LPGA Lincoln-Mercury Golf Open
1971 - WGBY TV channel 57 in Springfield, MA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1972 - American Museum of Immigration dedicated
1972 - Norway rejects membership in European Common Market
1973 - Concorde flies from Washington DC to Paris in 3h33m
1973 - Turkey's state of siege ends (after 2½ years)
1973 - Wilt Chamberlain signs with ABA San Diego Conquistadors
1973 - Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in record-breaking time.
1974 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1975 - Phillies & NY Mets play a doubleheader that ends at 3:15 AM
1976 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1976 - Denver's Rick Upchurch returns 2 punts for TDs against Cleveland
1976 - Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Carlton Golf
1976 - Phillies clinch their 1st NL East Division title
1977 - Cleveland Browns play their 1st overtime game, beat Patriots 30-27
1977 - Sir Freddie Laker begins cut-rate "Skytrain" service, London to NY
1978 - RR clerks go on strike, halting more than 2/3s of rail service
1978 - NY District Court Judge Constance Baker Motley rules that women sportswriters cannot be
           banned from locker rooms
1979 - 1984 summer LA Olympic coverage sold to ABC for $225 million
1979 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1980 - Bomb attack on Octoberfest in Munich, 12 killed
1980 - Cuban government closes Mariel Harbor ending "freedom flotilla"
1980 - Soyuz 38 returns to Earth
1981 - Houston Astro Nolan Ryan 5th no-hitter beats LA Dodgers, 5-0
1981 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1982 - "Doll's Life" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 5 perfs
1982 - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
1983 - Ali Haji-Sheikh kicks NY Giant record 56 yard field goal
1983 - Australia II wins America's Cup yacht race (1st non-US winner)
1983 - Cosmonauts Titov & Strekalov are saved from exploding Soyuz T-10
1983 - Lebanon premier Chafiq Wazzan offers to resigns
1983 - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Inamori Golf Classic
1983 - St Louis Card Bob Forsch 2nd no-hitter beats Montreal Expos, 3-0
1983 - Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov averts a worldwide nuclear war.
1984 - 5,251 turn out to see Phillies play NY Mets at Shea Stadium
1984 - Berlin appeals court clears Paul McCartney in a paternity suit
1984 - Britain & China initial agreement return Hong Kong to China in 1997
1984 - Dutch Queen Beatrice opens University
1984 - Phila's Juan Samuel sets record for steals by a rookie with his 72nd
1984 - President Reagan vetoes sanctions against South Africa
1985 - Tunisia drops diplomatic relations with Libya
1986 - Antonin Scalia, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice
1986 - RUN-DMC is 1st rap group to hit top 10 (Raisin' Hell)
1986 - William Hubbs Rehnquist, sworn in as Chief Justice of Supreme Court
1986 - Bobby (Patrick Duffy) returns to Dallas, his death is attributed to his wife Pam's bad dream
           (erases all of last season)
1987 - Padres Benito Santiago sets rookie hitting streak to 28 games
1988 - Canada`s Ben Johnson stripped of his 100-m gold failing drug test
1988 - NYC's Rockefeller Center declared a national landmark
1988 - Polish communist party picks propaganda chief Rakowski as new PM
1988 - US space shuttle STS-26 launched
1989 - Last Vietnamese soldiers leave Cambodia
1989 - MPAA creates NC-17 rating for movies with adult themes
1989 - Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze calls for total destruction of Soviet & US
           chemical weapons
1990 - Motion Picture Association of America creates new NC-17 rating
1991 - 2 year experimental Biosphere 2 in Oracle Arizona begins
1992 - Jimmy Connors beats Martina Navratilova, 7-5, 6-3
1992 - Nigerian Hercules C-130 crashes at Lagos, 163 die
1992 - Roseanne Barr Arnold gets a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame
1992 - Tsuruhiko Kiuchi discovers comet Swift-Tuttle
1992 - 1st time a positional player pitches for NY Mets, Phil Pecota, in 19-2 lose to Pirates
1993 - 30th Ryder Cup: US beats Europe, 15-13 at The Belfry, England
1993 - Cubs bat out of order against Pirates in 2nd inning
1993 - Indians win their last game at Cleveland Stadium, beating Brewers 6-4
1993 - Kris Monaghan wins LPGA Kyocera Inamori Golf Classic
1993 - Seattle's Randy Johnson joins 300-strikeout club
1994 - Estonia government of Laar flees
1994 - Switzerland bans racist propaganda
1995 - "George" magazine premieres, published by John F Kennedy Jr
1995 - Earliest 1st-class cricket in Aust season (Qld v Western Prov)
1995 - Sri Lanka complete 2-1 Test Cricket series win in Pakistan from 0-1
           Publisher and Lawyer John F. Kennedy Jr.Publisher and Lawyer John F. Kennedy Jr. 1996 - SF
           Giant Bobby Bonds is 2nd player to hit 40 HRs & steal 40 bases
1996 - Space Shuttle STS 79 (Atlantis 17), lands
1997 - Seattle Mariner Ken Griffey Jr hits his 56th HR of 1997
1997 - An earthquake strikes the Italian regions of Umbria and the Marche, causing part of the
           Basilica of St. Francis at Assisi to collapse.
2000 - Anti-globalization protests in Prague (some 20,000 protesters) turned violent during the IMF
           and World Bank summits.
2000 - M/S Express Samina sinks off Paros in the Agean sea killing 80 passengers.
2002 - The overcrowded Senegalese ferry MV Joola capsizes off the coast of Gambia killing more than
           1,000.
2007 - Shinzo Abe formally ends his term as Prime Minister of Japan.
2008 - Swiss pilot and inventor Yves Rossy becomes first person to fly a jet engine-powered wing
           across the English Channel.
2009 - Typhoon Ketsana (2009) hit the Philippines, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand,
           causing 700 fatalities.
2012 - Syrian army massacres 40 civilians in Thiabieh, Damascus
2012 - Greek trade unions call a general strike to protest austerity measures
2012 - Japanese automakers suspend operations in China

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 26, 2013, 10:47:14 AM

This Day in History for 26th September


Famous Weddings

1931 - Earl Claus von Stauffenberg marries Freiin Nina von Lerchenfeld
1986 - Fashion designer Calvin Klein (43) weds socialite Kelly Rector on a civil ceremony in Italy
1999 - Actress-singer and former beauty queen Vanessa L Williams (36) weds Los Angeles Lakers'
           basketball player Rick Fox (30) at Church of the Holy Trinity in New York
2005 - Country music singer-songwriter Billy Joe Shaver (66) weds Wanda Lynn Canady in
           Corsicana, Texas
2009 - Actress and model Jaime Pressly (35) weds entertainment lawyer Simran Singh (33) at Dick
           Clark estate in Malibu
2009 - "Half and Half" actress Essence Atkins (37) weds football free safety Jaime Mendez (38) at
            Ambassador Mansion and Gardens in Pasadena, California
2009 - "American Idol" runner-up Justin Guarini (30) weds Reina Capodici (27) at a private estate in
            Doylestown, Pennsylvania

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 26, 2013, 11:00:20 AM

This Day in History for 26th September


Famous Birthdays

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Poet, Author and Nobel Laureate           Singer Olivia Newton-John (1948)
T. S. Eliot (1888) 


1181 - Saint Francis of Assisi, Italian founder of the Franciscan Order (d. 1226)
1329 - Anna of Bavaria, Queen of the Romans (d. 1353)
1406 - Thomas de Ros, 9th Baron de Ros, English soldier and politician (d. 1430)
1688 - Willem J 's-Gravesande, Dutch physicist
1711 - Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple, English politician (d. 1779)
1729 - Moses Mendelssohn, philosopher/critic/Bible translator
1750 - Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, British admiral (d. 1810)
1758 - Cosme Argerich, Argentine physician, founder of the Medicine School of Buenos Aires.
1759 - Hans D L earl Yorck von Wartenburg, Prussian fieldmarshal/gov-gen
1767 - Wenzel Muller, composer
1774 - John Chapman, [Johnny Appleseed], frontier nurseryman
1791 - Théodore Géricault, French painter (d. 1824)
1820 - Isvar Chandra Vidyasagar, father of Bengali prose (Exile of Sita)
1821 - Alvin Peterson Hovey, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1823 - Ivan S Aksakov, Russian journalist (Denj, Moskvitsh)
1832 - Pyotr Petrovich Sokal'sky, composer
1840 - Louis-Olivier Taillon, French Canadian politician (d. 1923)
1841 - Pavel Ivanovich Blaramberg, composer
1865 - Mary Russell, Duchess of Bedford, English pilot and ornithologist (d. 1937)
1867 - Maggie L Walker, black business & civic leader
1868 - Henry Franklin Belknap Gilbert, composer
1869 - Komitas, Armenian composer (d. 1935)
1870 - Christian X, king of Denmark (1912-47)
1871 - Winsor McCay, American cartoonist (d. 1934)
1872 - Ottokar T Czernin von und zu Chudenitz, Austrian Foreign min (1916-18)
1873 - Amilcare Zanella, composer
1873 - Aleksey Shchusev, Russian architect (d. 1949)
1875 - Edmund Gwenn, Wales, actor (Miracle on 34th Street)
1876 - C B "Buck" Llewellyn, cricketer (S Afr lefty all-rounder 1896-1912)
1876 - Edith Abbott, dean (U of Chic Social Sciences)
1877 - Alfred Cortot, French pianist
1877 - Ugo Cerletti, Italian neurologist (d. 1963)
1879 - Petko J Todorov, Bulgaria, writer (Fairy, Samodiva Fee)
1881 - Hiram Wesley Evans, American member of the Ku Klux Klan (d. 1966)
1884 - J. P. Bickell, Canadian businessman and sports team owner (d. 1951)
1885 - Anna M F "Annie" Wageningen-Salomons, author (Girl Student) [or 6/26]
1887 - Antonio Moreno, Madrid Spain, actor/director (It, Careers)
1887 - Edwin Keppel Bennett, English writer (d. 1958)
1887 - Sir Barnes Wallis, English scientist, engineer and inventor (d. 1979)
1888 - T. S. Eliot, St Louis Missouri, poet/dramatist/critic (Waste Land-Nobel 1948), (d. 1965)
1888 - J. Frank Dobie, American folklorist and newspaper columnist (d. 1964)
1889 - Martin Heidegger, Germany, Existentialist (Being & Time)
1891 - Alfred Plane, US sharp shooter (Olympic-gold-1912, 20)
1893 - Milos Crnjanski, Serbian poet (Seobe)
1894 - Gladys Brockwell, Brooklyn NY, actress (Long Pants, Oliver Twist)
1895 - Fay Holden, Birmingham England, actress (Mother-Andy Hardy films)
1897 - Pope Paul VI, [Giovanni Montini], 262nd Roman Catholic pope (1963-78)
1897 - Victor O Stomps, writer
1897 - Wilhelmina J "Willy" Haak, Dutch actress/act teacher (Goethe/Brecht)
1897 - Arthur Rhys Davids, English pilot (d. 1917)
1898 - George Gershwin, [Jacob Gershvin], Bkln, composer (Rhapsody in Blue)
1901 - Donald Cook, Portland Ore, actor (Too Young To Go Steady)
1901 - George Raft, NYC, American actor (Each Dawn I Die, Scarface, Some Like It Hot)
1902 - Umberto "Albert" Anastasia, US gangster (Murder Inc)
1903 - Gerhard Nebel, writer
1905 - Emilio Navarro, Puerto Rican baseball player
1907 - Anthony F Blunt, British historian/spy for USSR
1907 - Bep [Lambertus] van Klaveren, European Boxing Champ (Oly-silver-1928)
1907 - Ralph Michael, London England, actor (Quest, Doctor in the House)
1908 - Maurice Naessens, Belgian banker
1909 - Helen Giuliani, mother of Rudy (Mayor-R-NYC, 1994-2002)
1909 - Bill France, Sr., American car racing executive (d. 1992)
1911 - Jan F Hampe, pathologist-anatomy (Fabric & Stoflongen)
1913 - Ernst Schnabel, German sailor/dramatist (Anne Frank)
1914 - Jack LaLanne, exercise mogul (Juice Tiger)
1917 - Réal Caouette, French Canadian politician (d. 1976)
1918 - Humphrey van Loo, Dutch news director (ANP/Reuter)
1919 - Barbara Britton, Long Beach, California, actress (Young & Willing)
1919 - Matilde Camus, Spanish poet and researcher
1922 - Nicholas Romanov, French-born pretender to the Russian throne
1923 - Dev Anand, Indian actor and film producer
1925 - Bobby Shantz, baseball player (1952 AL MVP)
1925 - Marty Robbins, Glendale Az, singer (Devil Woman, I Walk Alone)
1925 - Norm Dussault, American ice hockey player
1926 - Buland Al Haidary, poet
1926 - Giuseppi Chiari, composer
1926 - Imre Vincze, composer
1926 - Julie London, Santa Rosa California, actress (Nurse McCall-Emergency)
1926 - Manfred Mayrhofer, Austrian Indo-European Philologist
1927 - Patrick O'Neal, Ocala Fla, actor (Kaz, Alvarez Kelly, King Rat)
1927 - Robert Blackburn, Irish educationist (d. 1990)
1927 - Robert Cade, American physician and beverage inventor (d. 2007)
1928 - Bob Van der Veken, Belgian actor
1929 - Meredith C Gourdine, Newark NJ, long jumper (Olympic-silver-1952)
1930 - Fritz Wunderlich, Kusel Germany, tenor (Stuttgart 1955-58)
1930 - Philip Bosco, Jersey City, actor (Trading Places)
1931 - Donald J Pease, (Rep-D-OH, 1977- )
1931 - George Chambers, MS, rock bassist/vocalist (Chambers Brothers)
1931 - Vijay Manjrekar, cricketer (father of Sanjay, reliable Indian batsman)
1932 - Clifton C Williams Jr, Mobile Alabama, Major USMC/astronaut
1932 - Giuacomo Manzoni, composer
1932 - Joyce Jameson, Chicago Ill, comedienne (Spike Jones Show)
1932 - Richard Herd, American actor
1933 - Clari Baruch, [Clara C de Lieme], actress (Man With White Flower)
1933 - Donna Douglas, [Dot Smith], Pride La, actress (Beverly Hillbillies)
1934 - Dick Heckstall-Smith, rocker (Alexis Korner Band)
1934 - Raphael Samuel, historian
1935 - Bob Barber, cricketer (dashing England lefty bat in 28 Tests 1960-68)
1935 - Joe Sherlock, Irish Labour Party politician (d. 2007)
1936 - Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, South African anti-apartheid activist and politician
1937 - Joop Admiral, Dutch actor/director (You Are My Mother)
1937 - Valentin Pavlov, Soviet politician (d. 2003)
1938 - Andrei Lukanov, politician
1938 - Michael V Love, US test pilot (X-24)
1939 - Judith P Appelbaum, magazine & newspaper editor, educator
1939 - Ricky Tomlinson, English actor
1941 - Joe Bauer, Memphis Tn, rock drummer (Youngbloods)
1941 - Martine Beswicke, Jamacia, actress (Dr Jekyll & Sister Hyde)
1941 - Salvatore Accardo, Italian violinist and conductor
1942 - Ingrid Mickler-Becker, German FR, long jumper/relayer (Oly-gold-72)
1942 - Kent McCord, Los Angeles California, actor (Officer Jim Reed-Adam 12)
1943 - Georgie Fame, [Clive Powell], rocker (Georgie Fame & Blue Flames)
1943 - Ian Chappell, Australian cricket player (batsman 1964-80)
1943 - Tim Schenken, Australian racing driver
1944 - Angela Dorian, (Victoria Vetri), SF, playmate (Sep 1967, Year-1968)
1944 - Anne Robinson, English television host
1945 - Brian Ferry, England, rocker (Roxy Music-Let's Stick Together)
1945 - Louise Beaudoin, French Canadian politician
1945 - Gal Costa, Brazilian singer
1946 - Mary Beth Hurt, [Mary Supinger], Iowa, actress (Garp, Interiors)
1946 - Andrea Dworkin, American feminist (d. 2005)
1946 - Christine Todd Whitman, American politician
1946 - Radha Krishna Mainali, Nepalese politician
1947 - Dick Roth, US swimmer (Olympics-gold-1964)
1947 - Graham Faulkner, London, actor (Brother Sun Sister Moon)
1947 - Lynn Anderson, ND, country singer (I Never Promised you a Rose Garden)
1947 - Richard Roth, US, 400m swim medley (Olympic-gold-1964)
1948 - Olivia Newton-John, Cambridge England, singer (Lets Get Physical)
1948 - Vladimir Remek, Czechoslovakia, cosmonaut (Soyuz 28)
1949 - Leonide F M "Leonie" Triesschijn, Dutch actress/mime
1949 - Martin Delray, Texarkana Ar, country singer (Get Rhythm))
1949 - Jane Smiley, American novelist
1949 - Minette Walters, English novelist
1951 - Tom Quirke, journalist
1951 - Stuart Tosh, Scottish musician
1952 - James Keane, Buffalo NY, actor (Willis Bell-Paper Chase)
1952 - Predrag Miletić, Serbian actor
1953 - Dolores Keane, Irish folk singer
1953 - Aivars Lembergs, Latvian politician
1954 - Craig Chaquico, rock guitarist (Jefferson Starship)
1955 - Carlene Carter, Nashville Tn, country singer (I Fell in Love)
1956 - Linda Hamilton, Salisbury Md, actress (Catherine-Beauty & the Beast)
1956 - Steve Butler, American racing driver
1958 - Richard B. Weldon, Jr., American politician
1959 - Rich Gedman, American baseball player
1960 - Bret Erickson, Bennington Nebraska, US trap (Olympics-1996)
1961 - Will Self, English author
1962 - Melissa Sue Anderson, Cal, actress (Little House on the Prairie)
1962 - Steve Moneghetti, Australian marathoner (Olympics-5th-88, 92, 96)
1962 - Tracey Thorn, rock vocalist (Everything But The Girl)
1962 - Peter Foster, Australian con-man
1963 - Douglas Wakiihuri, Kenyan marathon runner (Olympic-silver-1988)
1963 - Lysette Anthony, London, actress (Angelique-Dark Shadows, Switch)
1964 - Bobby Joe Edmonds, NFL running back (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1964 - Dave Martinez, Manhattan NY, outfielder (Chicago White Sox)
1964 - Gerrie Slagboom, Dutch soccer player: Dordrecht '90
1964 - Robin Hood, Mishawaka IN, LPGA golfer (1989 Planters Pat Bradley)
1964 - Ty Miller, Granada Hills California, actor (The Kid-Young Riders)
1964 - Nicki French, English singer
1965 - Alexandra Lencastre, Portuguese actress
1966 - Craig Heyward, NFL running back (Atlanta Falcons)
1966 - Francisco Andreu, Dearborn Mich, road cyclist (Olympics-4th-88, 96)
1966 - Christos Dantis, Greek composer and singer
1967 - Craig Janney, Hartford, NHL center (Winnipeg Jets)
1967 - Martha Nix, Orange County California, actress (Serena-Waltons)
1967 - Shannon Hoon, American singer (Blind Melon) (d. 1995)
1968 - Scott Schorer, Burke, Va, rower (Olympics-1996)
1968 - James Caviezel, American actor
1968 - Anthony Shadid, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, New York Times foreign correspondent and two
           time Pulitzer winner, (d. 2012)
1969 - Anthony Kavanagh, French-Canadian comedian, actor and singer
1969 - Andy Petterson, Australian footballer
1969 - Paul Warhurst, English footballer
1969 - David Ferguson, British murderer
1970 - Paul Laus, Beamsville, NHL defenseman (Florida Panthers)
1970 - Rachel Jacobs, Ririe Idaho, actress (It's Not Easy)
1970 - Trevor Ruffin, NBA guard (Phila 76ers)
1970 - Sheri Moon Zombie, American actress
1971 - Elva Dryer, Durango Colorado, 1.5K/5K runner
1971 - Patterson Thompson, cricketer (WI Test fast bowler v New Zealand 1996)
1972 - Mark Haslam, cricketer (New Zealand slow left-armer 1992)
1972 - Shawn Stockman, [Slim], Phila Pa, rapper (Boyz II Men)
1973 - David Richie, NFL nost tackle (Denver Broncos-Super Bowl 32)
1973 - Marty Casey, American singer (Lovehammers)
1973 - Chris Small, Scottish snooker player
1973 - Olga Vasdeki, Greek triple jumper
1974 - Alison Davies, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1974 - Gary Hall Jr, US, 50m/100m/400m free relay (Oly-gold/2 silver-96)
1974 - Katie Kauffman, West Lawn Pa, field hockey midfielder (Olympics-96)
1974 - Martin Muursepp, NBA forward (Dallas Mavericks)
1974 - Boris Cepeda,German-Ecuadorian pianist and diplomat
1975 - Emma Härdelin, Swedish singer (Garmarna and Triakel)
1975 - Jake Paltrow, American film director, brother of Gwyneth Paltrow
1976 - Michael Ballack, German footballer
1976 - Tyler Denk, American model and reality show contestant
1978 - Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot, Kenyan long-distance runner
1979 - Jaycie Phelps, Indianapolis Ind, gymnast (World-brz-95/Oly-gold-96)
1979 - Fuifui Moimoi, New Zealand (Tongan) rugby league footballer
1979 - Jon Harley, English footballer
1980 - Patrick Friesacher, Austrian race car driver
1980 - Henrik and Daniel Sedin, Swedish ice hockey players
1981 - Collien Fernandes, German TV host and actress
1981 - Christina Milian, American actress and singer
1981 - Serena Williams, Saginaw, Michigan, tennis player (13 grand slams)
1982 - Miguel Alfredo Portillo, Argentine footballer
1982 - Rob Burrow, English rugby league player
1983 - Ricardo Quaresma, Portuguese footballer
1983 - Samantha Hammel, American record producer and actress
1984 - Keisha Buchanan, English singer (Sugababes)
1984 - Thore Schölermann, German actor
1985 - Lenna Kuurmaa, Estonian singer (Vanilla Ninja)
1986 - Ashley Leggat, Canadian actress
1987 - Rosie Munter, Swedish singer (Play)
1988 - Kiira Korpi, Finnish figure skater
1988 - Mark Simpson, English clarinetist and composer
1989 - Emma Rigby, English actress
2000 - Princess Salma bint Al Abdullah II of Jordan

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 26, 2013, 11:15:08 AM

This Day in History for 26th September


Famous Deaths

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Frontiersman Daniel Boone (1820)         Fashion Designer Levi Strauss (1902)         Actress Gloria Stuart (2010)


1023 - Godfried I, duke of Neth-Lutherans, dies
1342 - John I, ruler of Poland, dies
1345 - Willem IV, earl of Henegouwen/Holland/Zealand, dies at about 27
1371 - Vlkasin, Hungarian general/co-king of Serbia, dies
1417 - Francesco Zabarella, Italian jurist (b. 1360)
1468 - Juan de Torquemada, Spanish Catholic cardinal (b. 1388)
1614 - Felice Anerio, Italian composer (pontifical royal chapel), dies
1620 - Taichang Emperor of China (b. 1582)
1626 - Lancelot Andrewes, English theologist/bishop of Winchester, dies at 71
1626 - Wakisaka Yasuharu, Japanese warrior (b. 1554)
1657 - Hadji Chalfa/Katib Tsjelebi, Turkish geographer, dies at 48
1716 - Antoine Parent, French mathematician (b. 1666)
1763 - John Byron, English poet (b. 1692)
1764 - Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro, Spanish scholar (b. 1767)
1788 - Francois Bainville, composer, dies at 63
1802 - Baron Jurij Vega, Slovenian mathematician and military officer (b. 1754)
1808 - Pavel Vranicky, composer, dies at 51
1820 - Daniel Boone, frontiersman, dies in Missouri at 85
1866 - Carl Almqvist, Swedish author (Amorina), dies at 72
1868 - August Ferdinand Möbius, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1790)
1871 - Philip Cipriani Hambly Potter, composer, dies at 78
1877 - Hermann Grassmann, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1809)
1902 - Levi Strauss, American clothing manufacturer (b. 1829)
1904 - Lafcadio Hearn, author (Soul of the Great Ball), dies at 54
1904 - John F. Stairs, Canadian businessman and statesman (b. 1848)
1917 - Edgar H G Degas, French painter (ballerina), dies
1935 - Andy Adams, US writer (Cattle fire), dies at 76
1936 - Harriet Monroe, US poet (Poet's Life), dies at 75
1937 - Bessie Smith, singer, dies of injuries sustained in car crash at 43
1940 - Walter Benjamin, writer, dies at 48
1944 - Ernst Isler, composer, dies at 64
1944 - Julien Cahn, cricketer (private cricket promoter during 30's), dies
1945 - Béla V J Bartok, Hungarian pianist/composer dies at 64
1945 - R Beer-Hofmann, writer, dies at 78
1947 - Hugh Lofting, writer (Gub Gub Book), dies at 61
1951 - Hans Cloos, German geologist (b. 1885)
1952 - George Santayana, US philosopher/poet (Last Puritan), dies at 88
1953 - Xu Beihong, Chinese painter (b. 1895)
1954 - Ellen Roosevelt, American tennis player (b. 1868)
1956 - Lucien Febvre, French historian (Un Destin, Martin Luther), dies at 78
1958 - Carl Brisson, actor (Ship Cafe, Ring, Song of Soho), dies at 64
1959 - Solomon Bandaranaike, PM of Ceylon (1956-59), assassinated at 60
1960 - William Ling, cricketer (South African batsman in 6 Tests 1921-23), dies
1961 - Eily Malyon, actress (Jane Eyre, I Married a Witch), dies at 81
1961 - Juanita Hansen, actress (Fast Company), dies of heart ailment at 67
1964 - Calvin Thomas, actor (Judge Hunter-One Man's Family), dies at 79
1964 - Ida Moore, actress (Mr Music, Johnny Belinda), dies at 82
1965 - Otto Nothling, cricketer (did next to nothling in Aust), dies
1965 - James Fitzmaurice, Irish aviation pioneer (b. 1898)
1966 - Helen Kane, actress (Heads Up, Pointed Heels), dies of cancer at 62
1968 - Daniel Johnson, Sr., French-Canadian politician (b. 1915)
1971 - Muriel Kirkland, actress (Nana, Fast Workers), dies of emphysema at 68
1972 - Charles J Correll, actor/voice (Calvin & the Colonel), dies at 82
1973 - Anton Schnack, German writer/poet, dies at 81
1976 - Lavoslav Ružička, Croatian chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1887)
1978 - Manne Siegbahn, Swedish physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1886)
1979 - Arthur Hunnicutt, actor (Big Sky, Apache Uprising), dies at 68
1979 - John Cromwell, actor/director (Of Human Bondage), dies at 91
1979 - Seymour Shifrin, composer, dies at 53
1982 - Alec Hurwood, cricketer (Australian off-spinner v WI 1930-31), dies
1983 - Tino Rossi, French singer, dies
1984 - Walter Pidgeon, actor (Forbidden Planet), dies of strokes at 87
1984 - Paquirri, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1948)
1986 - Hugh Franklin, American soap opera actor (b. 1916)
1989 - Pavlos Bakoyannis, Greek parliament leader, murdered in Rome
1990 - Alberto Moravia, Italian writer (Woman in Red), dies at 82
1991 - Billy Vaughn, American bandleader (b. 1919)
1992 - Ralph Manheim, translator (Mein Kampf), dies at 85
1993 - James Boyden, British Labour MP (1959-79), dies at 82
1994 - Jessie Kesson, author, dies at 77
1994 - Maurice Ashley, historian, dies at 87
1994 - Miguel Angel Martinez Soto, mariachi, dies at 22
1996 - Geoffrey Wilkinson, chemist, dies at 75
1996 - George Henderson, priest/politician, dies at 74
1996 - Mark Frankel, actor (Leon the Pig Farmer), dies on motorcycle at 34
1998 - Betty Carter, American singer (b. 1930)
1999 - Oseola McCarty, American philanthropist (b. 1908)
2000 - Richard Mulligan, American actor (b. 1932)
2000 - Baden Powell, Brazilian guitarist (b. 1937)
2003 - Robert Palmer, English singer (b. 1949)
2003 - Shawn Lane, American guitarist (b. 1963)
2004 - Marianna Komlos, professional wrestling valet (b. 1969)
2005 - Helen Cresswell, British author
2006 - Byron Nelson, American golfer (b. 1912)
2006 - Iva Toguri D'Aquino, alleged Tokyo Rose (b. 1916)
2007 - Dorothy Schwartz, American violinist (b. 1913)
2007 - Bill Wirtz, American sports team owner (b. 1929)
2008 - Paul Newman, American actor (b. 1925)
2008 - Marc Moulin, Belgian musician and journalist (b. 1942)
2010 - Gloria Stuart, American actress dies from respiratory failure at 100
2011 - Bob Cassilly, American Artist and Founder of the St. Louis City Museum (b. 1949)
2012 - Johnny Lewis, American actor, dies from injuries from a fall at 28

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 27, 2013, 11:11:58 AM

This Day in History for 27th September


Historical Events

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Naturalist Charles Darwin                        Outlaw Jesse James                        Theoretical Physicist Albert Einstein

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Baseball Great Babe Ruth                     Spanish Dictator Francisco Franco             Diplomat and Nobel Laureate
                                                                                                                                  Ralph Bunche

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TV Personality, Comedian                      Ex-soldier, drifter Lee                               Singer Elton John
and Composer   Steve Allen                      Harvey Oswald 

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US President George H. W. Bush


70 - Walls of upper city of Jerusalem battered down by Romans
489 - Odoacer attacks Theodoric at the Battle of Verona, and is defeated again.
1066 - William the Conqueror's troops set sail for England
1290 - Earthquake in Gulf of Chili China, reportedly kills 100,000
1312 - Duke John II of Brabant ends Charter of Kortenberg
1331 - The Battle of Płowce between the Kingdom of Poland and the Teutonic Order is fought.
1509 - Storm ravages Flemish/Dutch/Friese coast, 1000s killed
1540 - Society of Jesus (Jesuits) founded by Ignatius Loyola
1590 - Pope Urban VII dies 13 days after being chosen as the Pope, making his reign the shortest
           papacy in history.
1605 - The armies of Sweden are utterly defeated by the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the
           Battle of Kircholm.
1694 - Hurricane hits Carlisle Bay Barbados; 27 Brit ships sink & 3,000 die
1777 - English General William Howe occupies Philadelphia during American Revolution
1779 - John Adams negotiates Revolutionary War peace terms with Britain
1787 - Constitution submitted to states for ratification
1794 - French troops conquer Crèvecoeur
1821 - Mexican Empire declares its independence
1821 - Revolutionary forces occupy Mexico City as Spanish withdraw
1822 - Jean-François Champollion announces that he has deciphered the Rosetta stone.
1825 - Railroad transportation is born with 1st track (Stockton-Darlington)
1830 - Dutch army leaves Brussels, after 100s killed
1833 - Charles Darwin rides horse to Santa Fe
1834 - Charles Darwin returns to Valparaiso
1852 - George L Aiken's "Uncle Tom's Cabin," premieres in Troy, NY
1854 - Steamship "Arctic" sinks with 300 people on board
1855 - George F Bristow's "Rip Van Winkle," 2nd American opera, opens in NYC
1863 - Jo Shelby's cavalry in action at Moffat's Station, Arkansas
1864 - Battle at Pilot Knob (Ft Davidson) American Civil War, Missouri: 1700 killed/injured
1864 - Centralia Massacre (Missouri): 24 unarmed Union soldiers captured and executed by "Bloody
           Bill" Anderson/Frank
1864 - Jesse James' gang surprise attack train: 150 killed
1877 - John Mercer Langston named minister of Haiti
1881 - Chicago Cubs beat Troy 10-8 before record small "crowd" of 12
1892 - Book matches are patented by Diamond Match Company
1894 - Aqueduct racetrack opens in NY
1900 - Victory Theater (Republic, Belasco) opens at 207 W 42nd St NYC
1903 - Wreck of the Old 97, a train crash made famous by the song of the same name.
1905 - 1st published blues composition forms sale, WC Handy Memphis Blues
1905 - Boston's Bill Dinneen no-hits Chicago White Sox, 2-0
1905 - The physics journal Annalen der Physik publishes Albert Einstein's paper "Does the Inertia of
           a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?", introducing the equation E=mc².
1908 - The first production of the Ford Model T automobile was built at the Piquette Plant in Detroit,
           Michigan.
1909 - 29th US Mens Tennis: W A Larned beats W J Clothier (61 62 57 16 61)
1910 - 1st test flight of a twin-engined airplane (France)
1912 - W C Handy publishes "Memphis Blues" 1st Blues Song, 1912
1914 - Cleveland 2nd baseman Nap Lajoie collects his 3,000th hit
1916 - 1st Native American Day celebrated, honoring American Indians
1916 - Emperor Lidj Jasu of Ethiopia flees
1916 - Iyasu is proclaimed deposed as ruler of Ethiopia in a palace coup in favor of his aunt Zauditu.
1917 - Broadhurst Theater opens at 235 W 44th St NYC
1917 - EHC soccer team forms in Hoensbroek Neth
1919 - British troops withdraw from Archangelsk
1919 - Democratic National Committee voted to allow female members
1919 - Pitcher Bob Shawkey sets then Yank record with 15 strike-outs
1919 - Babe Ruth's 29th HR is 1st of year in Wash (1st in every park in league in one season)
1921 - Yanks beat Indians 21-7 in Polo Grounds
1922 - King Constantine I of Greece abdicates
1923 - Italian troops leave occupied Korfu
1923 - NY Yankee Lou Gehrig hits 1st of his 493 HRs
1924 - Giants clinch their 4th straight pennant, beating Phils 5-1
1928 - US recognizes Nationalist Chinese government
1928 - The Republic of China is recognised by the United States.
1930 - 34th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Bobby Jones
1930 - Cub's Hack Wilson's 2 HRs give him NL record 56 HRs
1930 - White Sox 1st baseman Bud Clancy didn't handle ball at all in a 9 inning game vs St Louis
           Browns
1931 - Lou Gehrig completes his 6th straight season, playing in every game (.3486) Jim Bottomley
           (.3481)
1931 - Closest NL batting race ends Chick Hafey (.3488) beats Bill Terry's
1935 - Chicago Cubs win 21st consecutive game & clinch NL pennant
1936 - 1st baseman Walter Alston plays in his only major league game
1936 - Franco troops conquer Toledo
1936 - Netherlands leave Gold Standard/devaluate guilder
1937 - 1st Santa Claus Training School opens (Albion NY)
1937 - Balinese Tiger declared extinct.
1938 - British ocean liner "Queen Elizabeth," launches at Clydebank Scotland
1938 - Jewish lawyers forbidden to practice in Germany
1938 - League of Nations declares Japan the aggressor against China
1939 - Warsaw Poland, surrenders to Germans after 19 days of resistance
1939 - White Sox host 1st "day-night" doubleheader, lose to Cleve, 5-2 & 7-5
1940 - 55 German aircrafts shot down above England
1940 - Black leaders protest discrimination in US armed forces
1940 - Floyd Giebells, 1st game, 2-0 pennant clinching beating Bob Feller
1940 - Nazi-Germany, Italy & Japan sign 10 year formal alliance (Axis)
1940 - Yankees, lose to A's & eliminated from pennant for 1st time since 1935
1941 - 1st WW II liberty ship, freighter Patrick Henry, launched
1942 - Heavy German assault in Stalingrad
1942 - NY Giants beat Wash Redskins 14-7 without making a 1st down
1942 - Reinhard Heydrich, "butcher of Prague," appointed SS-general
1942 - St Louis Cards win NL pennant on last day of season
1943 - Anti-fascism opposition begins in Naples
1943 - Dutch opposition newspaper "The Slogan" publishes KZ-Lower letter
1944 - Helmond & Oss Neth liberated
1946 - King George II of Greece returns from exile
1947 - "Sweethearts" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 288 performances
1948 - "Carib Song" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 36 performances
1950 - Dr Ralph Bunche receives Nobel Peace Prize
1950 - Ezzard Charles beats Joe Louis in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1950 - Heavyweight champ Ezzard Charles defeats Joe Louis in 15 in Yankee Stadium, Bronx NY.
1951 - Persian troops occupies oil refinery at Abadan
1953 - Bert Bechichar, Baltimore Colts, kicks a 56-yard field goal
1953 - KCMO (now KCTV) TV channel 5 in Kansas City, MO (CBS) begins
1953 - KNOE TV channel 8 in Monroe-West Monroe, LA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 - KOLO TV channel 8 in Reno, NV (ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 - KQTV TV channel 2 in Saint Joseph, MO (ABC) begins broadcasting
1953 - St Louis Browns play last game in Sportsman's Park, losing 100th game
1953 - Typhoon destroys 1/3 of Nagoya Japan
1953 - WHBQ TV channel 13 in Memphis, TN (ABC) begins broadcasting
1953 - WMAZ TV channel 13 in Macon, GA (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting
1953 - WTOK TV channel 11 in Meridian, MS (ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 - 1st African American Supreme Court page is CV Bush
1954 - School integration begins in Wash DC & Baltimore Md public schools
1954 - Steve Allen's "Tonight Show" premieres
1957 - Giants rent Seals Stadium until Candlestick is built
1959 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Opie Turner Golf Open
1959 - Braves & Dodgers finish in a tie (86-68)
1959 - Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev concludes his US visit
1960 - Europe's 1st "moving pavement," (travelator), opens at Bank station
1961 - Sandy Koufax sets NL strikeout season record at 269
1961 - Sierre Leone becomes 100th member of UN
1962 - Military uprising under Col Abdullah as-Sallal North Yemen
1962 - US sells Israel, Hawk anti-aircraft missiles
1963 - At 10:59 AM census clock, records US population at 190,000,000
1963 - Lee Harvey Oswald visits Cubans consulate in Mexico
1964 - Despite 3 HRs by Johnny Callison, Phils are 14-8 losers to Braves
1964 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Visalia Ladies' Golf Open
1964 - Phillies 7th straight loses sends them into 2nd place
1964 - Warren Commission released, finds Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone
1967 - Phillies Jim Bunning ties NL record of 5, 1-0 losses in a year
1967 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1968 - "Hair" opens in London
1968 - Cardinal's super pitcher Bob Gibson's 13th shutout of year
1968 - France refuses UK entry into common market
1970 - Ken Boswell sets 2nd baseman record of 85 games without an error
1971 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1972 - 1st game at Nassau Coliseum, Rangers beat Islanders 6-4 (exhibition)
1973 - Nolan Ryan strikes out 16 in 11 innings, for record 383 of season
1973 - Soyuz 12 carries 2 cosmonauts into Earth orbit (2 days)
1973 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1974 - -10/26] Rome: 4th bishop synod
1974 - Austr National Gallery buys W de Kooning's "Woman V" for $850,000
1975 - Government De Uyl recalls Dutch ambassador from Spain
1977 - Phillies clinch 2nd straight NL East Division title
1978 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1978 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1979 - Congress' final approval to create Dept of Education
1979 - Elton John, sick with flu, collapse on Hollywood Universal Ampitheater
1979 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1980 - WHOT (Brooklyn New York pirate radio station) begins on 1620 AM & 92.5 FM
1980 - Marvin Hagler defeats Alan Minter to claim boxing's world Middleweight championship in
           London. They have to be escorted away by police after a riot forms.
1981 - "Day in Hollywood, A Night..," closes at John Golden NY after 588 perf
1982 - Cards clinching NL East title
1982 - Filming begins on "Never Say Never Again"
1982 - Jan Wolkers awarded but refuses Constantine Huygens-prize
1982 - John Palmer becomes news anchor of Today Show
1983 - South Africa worker's union leader Curnick Ndlovu freed after 19 years
1983 - Tim Raines is 1st since Ty Cobb to steal 70 & drive in 70 runs
1985 - 8 killed as roof collapses in Brussel's supermarket
1985 - Hurricane Gloria's 130 MPH wind hits Atlantic coast
1986 - Senate joins House of Reps voting for sweeping tax reforms
1987 - 27th Ryder Cup: Europe beats US, 15-13 at Muirfield Village GC (Ohio)
1987 - Jan Stephens wins LPGA Konica San Jose Golf Classic
1987 - NFL players' strike
1987 - Phil Niekro final appearance & is pounded for 5 runs in 3 innings
1988 - Grand jury evidence shows Tawana Brawley fabricated rape story
1988 - Senate votes for major federal tax code changes
1988 - The National League for Democracy, led by Aung San Suu Kyi is founded.
1989 - Oakland wins AL West & SF wins NL West title
1989 - Sony purchases Columbia Pictures for $3.4 billion cash
1990 - Dee Dee Ramone arrested on marijuana possession
1990 - Deposed emir of Kuwait address UN General Assembly
1990 - Gunman holds 33 people (killing 1) hostage in Berkeley Calif
1990 - Senate Judiciary committee approves Souter's Supreme Court
1990 - Tour de France champion Greg LeMond visits White House
1990 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1991 - "Princesses" premieres on CBS TV
1991 - President Bush decides to end full-time B-52 bombers alert
1991 - 1st scheduled NHL exhibition game in St Petersburg Fla, is cancelled due to poor ice
           conditions (NY Islanders vs Boston Bruins)
1992 - ASPCA stops Santeria ceremony in Bronx halts sacrifice of 42 animals
1992 - LA Dodgers for 1st time in history clinch last place
1992 - Military transport plane crashes in Lagos, Nigeria killing 163
1992 - Nancy Scranton wins Los Coyotes LPGA Golf Classic
1992 - Pittsburgh Pirates win their 3rd straight NL East title
1992 - Seattle's Randy Johnson ties AL record for lefties with 18 strike outs
1993 - Actor Daniel Day Lewis pleads guilty to speeding charges
1993 - The Sukhumi massacre takes place in Abkhazia.
1996 - Balt Oriole Roberto Alomar spits in face of umpire John Hirschbeck
1996 - In Afghanistan, the Taliban capture the capital city Kabul after driving out President
           Burhanuddin Rabbani and executing former leader Mohammad Najibullah.
1996 - The Julie N. tanker skip crashes into the Million Dollar Bridge in Portland, Maine spilling
           thousands of gallons of oil.
1998 - Core States Betsy King Golf Classic
1998 - Google is launched.
2002 - Timor-Leste (East Timor) joins the United Nations.
2003 - Actress Halle Berry announces her separation from second husband, R&B singer Eric Benet
2003 - Smart 1 satellite is launched.
2005 - Atlanta Braves clinch their 14th straight division title thanks to Philadelphia's loss to the New
           York Mets
2008 - CNSA astronaut Zhai Zhigang becomes the first Chinese person to perform a spacewalk while
           flying on Shenzhou 7.
2012 - UN publicly releases documents from China and Japan detailing their contesting claims for the
           Senkoku Islands
2012 - The Mars Curiosity rover discovers what evidence of a fast-moving streambed-in Mars
2012 - The 2004 Japanese discovery of the 133th element has been confirmed

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 27, 2013, 11:15:37 AM

This Day in History for 27th September


Famous Weddings

1945 - Actor Richard Cromwell (35) weds actress Angela Lansbury (19) in Independence, California
1947 - Fantasy and sci-fiction writer Ray Bradbury (27) weds Marguerite McClure (25)
1997 - Grammy Award winning singer-rapper Coolio (34) weds Los Angeles DJ Josefa Salinas (37) in
           Las Vegas
1997 - "The Cosby Show" actress Erika Alexander (28) weds screenwriter Tony Puryear (40) on
           outdoor ceremony in Malibu
1998 - "The Mummy" actor Brendan Fraser (30) weds actress Afton Smith (32) at Hotel Bel-Air in
           Los Angeles, California
2008 - Actress and singer Scarlett Johansson (23) weds film actor Ryan Reynolds (31) at Clayoquot
           Wilderness Retreat in Tofino, British Columbia
2008 - "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" actress Kaitlin Olson (33) weds actor Rob McElhenney (31)
           at the Saddlerock Ranch in Malibu, California
2009 - Businesswoman and TV personality Khloe Kardashian (28) weds NBA basketball forward
           Lamar Odom (32) in Beverly Hills, California

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 27, 2013, 11:32:47 AM

This Day in History for 27th September


Famous Birthdays

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US Revolutionary                                     Political Cartoonist                              Actress Gwyneth Paltrow (1972)
Samuel Adams (1722)                              Thomas Nast (1840)


1275 - John II of Brabant (d. 1312)
1389 - Cosimo de Medici, ruler of Florence and patron of the arts (d. 1464)
1600 - John Galle, Flemish engraver/printer, baptised
1601 - Louis XIII, king of France (1610-43)
1627 - Jacques-Benigne Bossuet, French bishop and writer (Louis XIV court preacher), (d. 1704)
1637 - Hieronymus Gradenthaler, composer
1643 - Solomon Stoddard, American Puritan clergyman
1657 - Sophia, regent of Russia (1682-89)
1677 - Giovanni Carlo Maria Clari, composer
1696 - Alfonsus M de' Liguori, Ital theologist/bishop/religious order founder
1719 - Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, German mathematician (d. 1800)
1722 - Samuel Adams, US revolutionary and politican (Lt Gov-Mass, 1789-94)
1729 - Michael Denis, Austrian poet, bibliographer and lepidopterist (d. 1800)
1772 - Martha Jefferson Randolph, daughter of Thomas Jefferson (d. 1836)
1776 - Maria E J Versfelt, actress/mistress (General Moreau & Marshal Ney)
1783 - Agustin I de Iturbide, Valladolid Michoacán, General and 1st Emperor of Mexico (1822-23)
1786 - Jose Mariano Elizaga, composer
1792 - George Cruikshank, London, caricaturist (Oliver Twist)
1803 - Samuel Francis DuPont, Rear Admiral (Union Navy), died in 1865
1805 - George Müller, Prussian orphanage builder (d. 1898)
1809 - Raphael Semmes, Rear Admiral (Confederate Navy), died in 1877
1817 - Hiram R Revels, Fayetteville NC, 1st black US senator
1821 - Henri-Frederic Amiel, Swiss/French writer (Grains de Mil)
1824 - William Nelson, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
1830 - William Babcock Hazen, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1887
1835 - John Murray Corse, Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1893 [or 4/27]
1838 - Antony E J Modderman, Dutch minister of Justice (1879-83)
1840 - Alfred Thayer Mahan, US, naval officer (Influence of Sea Power)
1840 - Thomas Nast, Landau Germany, political cartoonist of late 1800s America
1842 - Alphonse Francois Renard, Belgian geologist (d. 1903)
1843 - Gaston Tarry, French mathematician (d. 1913)
1858 - Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician, founder of symbolic logic
1858 - Porsteinn Erlingsson, Iceland, poet (Pyrnar)
1862 - Louis Botha, Greytown South Africa, 1st PM of South Africa (1910-19)
1864 - Alexander Cohen, Dutch anarchist/author
1864 - Andrej Hlinka, Slovak politician and Catholic Priest (d. 1938)
1866 - Tryggve Andersen, Norwegian writer (Fra Cancelliraadens Dage)
1866 - Eurosia Fabris, Italian Catholic Blessed (d. 1932)
1867 - Rosa Lewis, society caterer/owner (Cavandish Hotel-England)
1871 - Grazia Deledda, Italian writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1936)
1879 - Cyril M Scott, English pianist/composer/author (Heroic Suite)
1879 - Hans Hahn, Austrian mathematician (d. 1934)
1881 - Ernest Samuel Williams, composer
1881 - Johanna "Annie" Bakker, Dutch revue-artist/singer/actress
1881 - William J Clothier, 1st pres of tennis hall of fame/(US Open-1906)
1885 - Harry Blackstone, Sr., American magician (d. 1965)
1887 - Anton Roemer, Dutch actor (Potasch & Perlemoer, Boefje)
1892 - John Mylong, Austria, actor (Robot Monsters)
1893 - Joannes DM Cornelissen, Dutch historian (Hooft & Tacitus)
1894 - Olive Tell, American actress (d. 1951)
1894 - Lothar von Richthofen German pilot (d. 1922)
1895 - Woolf Barnato, British racing driver (d. 1948)
1896 - George Bender, Cleveland, (Rep/Sen-R-Oh)
1896 - Sam Ervin, (Sen-D-NC), Watergate committee chairman (d. 1985)
1898 - Vincent (Miller) Youmans, US composer/songwriter (Tea for Two)
1902 - Miguel Aleman Valdes, Mexican attorney/president (1946-52)
1905 - Ernest Baier, Germany, figure skater (Olympic-gold-1936)
1905 - Vjekoslav Kaleb, Yugoslavia, writer (Splendor of the Fabric)
1906 - William Empson, English poet/critic (Milton's God)
1906 - Jim Thompson, American author (d. 1977)
1907 - Bernard Miles, British actor (In Which We Serve, Mermaid Theatre)
1907 - Bhagat Singh, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1931)
1908 - Shiv Verma, soldier
1909 - Jean Berger, composer
1910 - Donald Lindsay, headmaster (Malvern College)
1910 - Eve March, CA, actress (Curse of the Cat People)
1910 - Giles William Playfair, writer
1911 - Peter Muir Doig, politician
1912 - Gerben Wagenaar, resistance fighter/Dutch Communist MP
1912 - Tauno Marttinen, composer
1912 - Mary Grierson, Bangor, Wales, botanical artist, (d. 2012)
1913 - Albert Ellis, American psychologist (d. 2007)
1916 - Samuel S Stratton, (Rep-D-NY, 1959- )
1916 - Frank Handlen, American artist
1917 - Louis Auchincloss, Lawrence NY, lawyer/novelist (Watchfires)
1917 - William T. Orr, American television producer (d. 2002)
1918 - Jame McCallion, Glasgow Scotland, actor (Mi Taylor-National Velvet)
1918 - Lord Shepherd
1918 - Martin Ryle, Britain, radio astronomer/astronomer royal (1972-82)
1919 - Charles H Percy, (Sen-R-Ill)
1919 - Earl of Clanwilliam
1919 - James H. Wilkinson, American mathematician (d. 1986)
1919 - Johnny Pesky, American baseball player, (d. 2012)
1920 - J K Gill, president (Saatchi & Saatchi)
1920 - William Conrad, Louisville Ky, actor (Bullwinkle Show, Cannon)
1920 - Jayne Meadows, American actress
1921 - D E Nineham, theologian
1922 - Arthur Penn, Phila, director (Miracle Worker, Bonnie & Clyde)
1922 - Carl Ballantine, actor (McHale's Navy)
1922 - James Wilson, composer
1923 - Mary McCarty, Winfield Ks, actress/singer (Starch-Trapper John MD)
1924 - Bud Powell, US jazz pianist/composer
1924 - Bernard Waber, American author, (d. 2013)
1924 - Fred Singer, American scientist
1924 - Josef Skvorecky, Czechoslovakia, writer and publisher (End of the Nylon Age, The Cowards)
           (d. 2012)
1925 - Viscount Rothermere, English press magnate (Daily Mail, Evening News)
1925 - Robert Edwards, Batley, Yorkshire, physiologist (IVF pioneer, Nobel 2010), (d. 2013)
1926 - Jayne Meadows, Wu Chang China, Mrs Steve Allen, actr (Dark Delusion)
1927 - Boris Porena, composer
1927 - Eli van der Merwe Louw, S Afr minister of Transport/Manpower
1927 - Patrick O'Neal, actor (King Rat, Night of the Iguana)
1927 - Red Robert Chudnick Rodney, jazz trumpeter
1927 - Steve Stavro, Canadian businessman (d. 2006)
1928 - Earring George Mayweather, blues Harmonica Player
1928 - G H Martin, British keeper of Public Records
1928 - Margaret Rule, consultant (Mary Rose Trust)
1929 - Sada Thompson, Des Moines Ia, actress (Family, Pursuit of Happiness)
1930 - Igor Kipnis, Berlin Germany, harpsichordist/professor (Fairfield)
1930 - Roger Birch, Chief Constable (Sussex)
1931 - Gerald Warner, deputy secretary (Cabinet Office)
1931 - Freddy Quinn, Austrian singer
1932 - Mario Bertoncini, composer
1932 - Michael Colvin, MP
1932 - Peter Holmes, CEO (Shell Transport & Trading Company
1932 - Roger C Carmel, actor (Harry Mudd-Star Trek, In-Laws)
1932 - Oliver E. Williamson, American economist
1932 - Yash Chopra, Indian director, (d. 2012)
1932 - Geoff Bent, English footballer (d. 1958)
1933 - Kathleen Nolan, St Louis Mo, actress (Real McCoys, Janie, Broadside)
1933 - Will Sampson, American actor (d. 1987)
1933 - Rodney Cotterill, Danish-English physicist (d. 2007)
1934 - Barbara Howar, Nashville, reporter (Wash Post, Entertainment Tonight)
1934 - Claude Jarman Jr, Nashville Tn, actor (Rio Grande, Inside Straight)
1934 - DAER Peake, CEO (Kleinwort Benson Group)
1934 - Dick Schaap, sportscaster/author (Bo Knows Bo, Instant Replay)
1934 - Greg Morris, Cleveland Ohio, actor (Mission Impossible, Vega$)
1934 - Wilford Brimley, Salt Lake City Utah, actor (Gus-Our House, Cocoon)
1935 - Jerome Shipp, US, basketball (Olympic-gold-1964)
1936 - Gordon Honeycombe, broadcaster/author
1936 - Yuri Nikolayevich Stepanov, Russian cosmonaut
1936 - Don Cornelius, American television host (Soul Train), (d. 2012)
1938 - Alexander Graham, Lord Mayor of London
1939 - Jim Ross Lightfoot, (Rep-R-Iowa, 1985- )
1939 - Kathy Whitworth, Monahans Tx, golfer (7 time LPGA Player of Year)
1939 - Nicholas Haslam, interior designer
1939 - Carol Lynn Pearson, American poet and writer
1940 - Josephine Barstow, opera singer
1940 - Benoni Beheyt, Belgian cyclist
1941 - Roger J J Claessen, Belgian soccer star
1941 - Serge Ménard, Québécois politician
1941 - Peter Bonetti, English footballer
1942 - Baroness Blackstone
1942 - Dith Pran, Cambodian-born photojournalist
1942 - Alvin Stardust, English singer
1943 - Anna Gael, [Gyarmarthy], Budapest Hungary, Lady Weymouth
1943 - Bob Curiano, rock bassist (Mink Deville)
1943 - Randy Bachman, Winnipeg, rocker (Bachman-Turner Overdrive-Roll On)
1943 - Steve Boone, NC, rock vocalist/bassist (Lovin' Spoonful)
1943 - Amedeo, 5th Duke of Aosta, Italian aristocrat
1944 - IDG Garnett, British Vice-Admiral
1945 - Misha Dichter, Shanghai China, pianist (Tchaikowsy 2nd prize-1966)
1945 - Jack Goldstein, Canadian-born artist (d. 2003)
1945 - Kay Ryan, American poet
1946 - Peter H Kostmayer, (Rep-D-PA, 1977-81, 83- )
1946 - Ronald Fox, senior partner (Fox Williams)
1946 - Robin Nedwell, English comedy actor (d. 1999)
1946 - T.C. Cannon, Kiowa/Caddo artist (d. 1978)
1947 - Denis Lawson, actor (Return of Jedi, Born Kicking, Chain)
1947 - Jacques Wallage, sociologist/Dutch undersecretary of Education
1947 - Liz Torres, Bronx NY, actress (Mahalia Sanchez-John Larroquette Show)
1947 - Meat Loaf, [Marvin Lee Aday], Dallas, rocker (Bat Out of Hell)
1948 - A Martinez, Glendale, California, American actor (L.A. Law, Santa Barbara)
1948 - Barbara Dickson, singer
1948 - Michael Houlihan, director (Horniman Museum & Gardens)
1948 - Michele Dotrice, English actor
1948 - Tom Braidwood, Canadian actor
1948 - John K. Reed, American coral biologist
1949 - Mike Schmidt, 3rd baseman & HR hitter (Phillies)
1949 - Robb Weller, TV host (Entertainment Tonight, Home Show)
1949 - Graham Richardson, Australian politician
1949 - Jahn Teigen, Norwegian singer
1950 - Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Japan, actor (Lt A J Shimamura-Nash Bridges)
1951 - Jim Shooter, American comic book writer
1951 - Paul Craig, British law professor
1951 - Michel Rivard, Québécois singer and composer (Beau Dommage)
1952 - Del Russel, Pasadena California, actor (Richard-Arnie)
1952 - Doemitri Dorin Prunariu, Romania, cosmonaut (Soyuz 40)
1952 - Didier Dubois, French mathematician
1952 - André Viger, French Canadian marathoner
1953 - Benjamin Gene Brown, SF California, 4X400 runner (Olympic-gold-1976)
1953 - Diane Abbott, MP
1953 - Greg Ham, Australia, rock saxophonist/flutist (Men At Work)
1953 - Heather Watts, Los Angeles California, ballerina (Dancing on My Grave)
1953 - Robbie Shakespeare, Jamaica, reggae bassist (Sly & Robbie-DJ Riot)
1953 - Mata Amritanandamayi, Indian religious leader
1953 - Claudio Gentile, Italian footballer
1954 - Ray Hadley, Australian radio broadcaster
1957 - Bill Athey, cricketer (England batsman in 23 Tests 1980-88)
1957 - Richard Vagg, Australian baseball infielder (Olympics-1996)
1958 - Shaun Cassidy, Los Angeles California, American actor/singer (Hardy Boys, Breaking Away)
1959 - Beth Heiden, Madison Wisc, 3000m speed skater (Olympic-bronze-1980)
1960 - Nick della Casa, British/Brazillian/Argentine cameraman (Emmy Award)
1960 - Barron Lerner, American physician and historian
1961 - Christopher J Perry, Edenton NC, PGA golfer (1987 Kemper Open-2nd)
1961 - Irvine Welsh, Scottish writer
1961 - Andy Lau, Hong Kong actor and singer
1962 - Dennis Paulson, San Gabriel CA, PGA golfer (1994 Freeport-McMoRan-4th)
1962 - Gavin Larsen, cricketer (NZ medium-pace all-rounder)
1963 - Caren Metschuck, German DR, 100m butterfly swimmer (Olympic-gold-1980)
1964 - Stephan Jenkins, American singer (Third Eye Blind)
1965 - Steve Kerr, NBA guard (Chicago Bulls)
1965 - Ricky Fuji, Japanese professional wrestler
1965 - Alexis Stewart, American radio personality
1965 - Bernard Lord, Premier of New Brunswick
1966 - Stephanie D Wilson, Boston Mass, astronaut
1966 - Lorenzo Cherubini, Italian singer (Jovanotti)
1967 - Jason Dungjen, Detroit Mich, pairs skater (& Kyoko Ina)
1967 - Uche Okechukwu, Nigerian international soccer player
1968 - Mark Bradtke, Adelaide SA Aus, basketball center (Olympics-88, 92, 96)
1968 - Rob Moore, NFL wide receiver (NY Jets, Arizona Cardinals)
1968 - Scott Conover, NFL tackle (Detroit Lions)
1969 - Laura Wilson, Utica NY, cross country skier (Olympics-1994)
1969 - Lester Holmes, NFL guard (Philadelphia Eagles)
1969 - Robert Jones, NFL linebacker (Dallas Cowboys)
1970 - Dwayne Davis, WLAF safety (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1970 - Mark Caldero, Oklahoma City, vocalist (Color Me Badd-I Want to Sex You Up)
1970 - Yoshiharu Habu, Japanese professional shogi player
1971 - Alonzo Spellman, NFL defensive end (Chic Bears)
1971 - Erik Smit, Dutch soccer player (FC Utrecht)
1971 - Patrick Muldoon, CA, actor (Austin-Days of Our Lives, Melrose Place)
1971 - Ron Florine, NFL/WLAF tackle (KC Chiefs, Scotland Claymores)
1971 - Li Yapeng, Chinese actor
1972 - Clara Hughes, Winnipeg Manitoba, cyclist (Olympics-2 bronze-96)
1972 - Gwyneth Paltrow, Los Angeles California, actress (Pallbearer, Emma, Hard Eight)
1972 - Laurie Shepard, Cordele, GA, female pitcher (Colo Silver Bullets)
1972 - Malachy Loye, cricketer (Northamptonshire & England "A" batsman)
1972 - Sylvia Crawley, American basketball player
1972 - Craig L. Rice, American Politician
1973 - Larry McSeed, CFL linebacker (Montreal Alouettes)
1973 - Tina Nicholson, WNBA guard (Cleveland Rockers)
1973 - Chris Demakes, American singer/guitarist (Less Than Jake)
1974 - Edward Thomas, CFL linebacker (Montreal Alouettes)
1974 - Lina Gaviria, Miss Universe-Colombia (1996)
1975 - Ed Gray, NBA guard (Atlanta Hawks)
1975 - Tajama Abraham, WNBA center (Sacramento Monarchs)
1976 - Francesco Totti, Italian footballer
1976 - Dean Butterworth, English musician
1976 - Matt Harding, American video game developer
1976 - Jason Phillips, American baseball player
1977 - Andrus Värnik, Estonian javelin thrower
1978 - Brad Arnold, American singer (3 Doors Down)
1978 - Jon Rauch, American baseball player
1979 - Jon Garland, American baseball player
1979 - Zita Görög, Hungarian actress and model
1979 - Christian Jones, Australian racing driver
1979 - Steve Simpson, Australian rugby league footballer
1981 - Lakshmipathy Balaji, Indian cricketer
1981 - Sophie Crumb, American comics artist
1981 - Brendon McCullum, New Zealand cricketer
1982 - Darrent Williams, American football player (d. 2007)
1982 - Lil Wayne, American rapper
1983 - Travis MacRae, Canadian singer-songwriter
1983 - Shermon Tang, Hong Kong actress
1983 - Jeon Hye Bin, Korean actress
1984 - Paul Bevan, Australian rules footballer
1984 - John Lannan, American baseball player
1984 - Avril Lavigne, Canadian singer-songwriter
1986 - Ricardo Risatti, Argentine racing driver
1989 - Park Tae-Hwan, South Korean swimmer
1990 - Kylee Lin, American beauty pageant winner
1991 - Adam Chicksen, English Football Player
1992 - Jake Burbage, American actor
1996 - Iman bint Al Abdullah II, princess of Jordan
1996 - Daeg Faerch, Danish-born Canadian actor

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 27, 2013, 11:39:24 AM

This Day in History for 27th September


Famous Deaths

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Silent Screen Actress                              American Political Columnist &
 Clara Bow (1965)                                         Presidential Speechwriter
                                                                          William Safire (2009)


1249 - Count Raymond VII of Toulouse (b. 1197)
1259 - Ezzeline III da Romano, gentleman of Verona/"cruel monster", dies
1304 - John de Warenne, 7th Earl of Surrey, English soldier
1404 - William of Wykeham, chancellor/Bishop of Winchester, dies
1557 - Emperor Go-Nara of Japan (b. 1497)
1566 - Marcus A Vida, [Marcus Hieronymus], Italian humanist/poet/bishop, dies
1590 - Urban VII, [Giambattista Castagna], Italian Pope (1590), dies
1612 - Piotr Skarga, Polish theology/PM (Sanctity of Life), dies at 76
1615 - Arbella Stuart, English noblewoman (b. 1575)
1617 - Johan Earnest count of Nassau-Siegen, dies
1641 - Francois van d'aerssen, mister of Sommelsdijk/diplomat, dies at 69
1651 - Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria, dies at 78
1660 - St Vincent de Paul, Vincentian Cong founder, dies
1674 - Robert Arnauld d'andilly, French literary/financier/translator, dies
1674 - Thomas Traherne, English poet/mystic (Roman Forgeries), dies
1700 - Innocent XII, [Antonio Pignatelli], Pope (1691-1700), dies at 85
1719 - George Smalridge, English Bishop of Bristol (b. 1662)
1730 - Laurence Eusden, English poet (b. 1688)
1735 - Peter Artedi, Swedish naturalist (b. 1705)
1737 - John Sidney, 6th Earl of Leicester, English privy councillor (b. 1680)
1742 - Hugh Boulter, Irish Archbishop of Armagh (b. 1672)
1783 - Étienne Bézout, French mathematician (b. 1730)
1784 - Boniface Stoecki, composer, dies at 38
1808 - Gaetano B Vestris, ballerina, dies at 79
1821 - Luis (Philippus) Brion, Curacaos admiral/supreme commander, dies at 39
1831 - Henry van Wine, archivist/founder General Rijksarchief, dies at 91
1831 - Joannis Capodistrias, Greek governor of Troezen, murdered at 55
1844 - Charles Nodier, French writer (History du chien the Brisquet), dies
1868 - Alexander Walewski, French earl/duke/diplomat/Foreign minister, dies
1870 - Henry TP Comstock, Canadian silver prospector, dies at 50
1876 - Braxton Bragg, American Confederate general (b. 1817)
1891 - Ivan Goncharov, Russian author (b. 1812)
1911 - Auguste Michel-Lévy, French geologist (b. 1844)
1915 - Conrad T van Deventer, Dutch jurist/MP (liberal), dies at 57
1915 - Kaspar C E Ritter von Zumbusch, German/Austrian sculptor, dies at 84
1915 - Remy de Gourmont, French poet (b. 1858)
1916 - Emile A G Verhaeren, Belgian writer (Les Heures du Soir), dies at 61
1919 - Adelina [Adela JM] Patti, Italian soprano (Lucio), dies at 76
1919 - Robert Gleeson, cricketer (one Test for South Africa 1895-96), dies
1921 - Engelbert Humperdinck, Ger opera composer (Schneewittchen), dies at 67
1935 - Alan Gray, composer, dies at 79
1940 - Walter Benjamin, German/French literature critic/writer, dies at 48
1940 - Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian neuroscientist, Nobel laureate (b. 1857)
1942 - Douglas Munro, only US Coast Guard with WW II-Med of Honor, dies
1943 - Waclaw Gieburowski, composer, dies at 65
1944 - Aimee Semple McPherson, Canada/US evangelist/faith healer, dies at 53
1944 - Aristide Maillol, Fr sculptor/graphic artist, dies in car crash at 82
1948 - Frank Cellier, actor (Spider, Quiet Wedding, Big Blockade), dies at 64
1953 - Jules-Marie Canneel, Flemish painter/caricaturist, dies at 72
1955 - Henri Liebrecht, Belgian stagewriter/journalist, dies at 71
1956 - Gerald Finzi, British composer (Dies natalis), dies at 55 of disseminated shingles, complicated
           by encephalitis
1956 - Milburn Apt, in X-2 rocket plane reaches 3370 kph, but, dies in crash
1956 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias, American Hall of Fame athlete, dies of colon cancer at 45
1960 - Sylvia Pankhurst, English feminist/daughter of Emmeline, dies at 78
1961 - Hilda Doolittle, US poetess (Bid Me to Live), dies at 75
1962 - Francisco Brochado da Rocha, PM of Brazil (1962), dies at 52
1965 - Clara Bow, US actress, dies at 60
1965 - Harry Reser, orchestra leader (Sammy Kaye Show), dies at 69
1967 - Felix F Yussupov, Russian monarch, dies at 80
1969 - Violet Farebrother, actress (Downhill, Easy Virtue), dies at 81
1972 - Rory Storm, lead singer (Rory Storm & Hurricane), commits suicide
1972 - S. R. Ranganathan, Indian mathematician (b. 1892)
1974 - Silvio Frondizi, Argentine lawyer, assassinated by the Triple A(b. 1907)
1975 - Mark Frechette, actor (Zabriskie Point, Uomini Contro), dies at 27
1975 - Jack Lang, Australian politician (b. 1876)
1979 - Gracie Fields, actress (Queen of Hearts), dies at 81
1979 - Jimmy McCullough, musician (Wings), dies of a drug overdose
1981 - Coenraad van Emde Boas, Dutch sexologist, dies at 77
1981 - Robert Montgomery, actor/dir (Robert Montgomery Presents), dies at 77
1982 - Saad Sayd, [Abu Walid], Palestinian commandant in Lebanon, dies
1983 - Tino Rossi, singer/actor (Destins, Belle Menuniere), dies at 76
1984 - John Facenda, sportscaster (NFL Action), dies at 72
1985 - Lloyd Nolan, actor (Dr Chegley-Julia), dies of lung cancer at 83
1986 - Cliff Burton, rock bassist (Metallica), dies in bus crash at 24
1988 - William V Shannon, US ambassador to Ireland (1977-81), dies at 61
1991 - Huib Orizand, Dutch actor (Paul Vlanderen), dies
1991 - Jan Hart, director (Friends of Curacao), dies
1991 - Oona Chaplin, daughter of Eugene O'Neill/wife of Charles, dies at 66
1992 - Keith Prentice, US actor (Boys in the Band), dies
1992 - Keith Prentice, US actor (Boys in the Band), dies of cancer at 52
1992 - Ray Gill, actor (Prelude to a Kiss), dies of AIDS at 42
1992 - Wim Van Exter, founder Unity Profession Central (1944), dies
1993 - Andrei Solovyiov, Russian photographer, dies in battle at 38
1993 - James H Doolittle, US air force general (Tokyo 1942), dies at 96
1994 - Gerald Bledsoe, DJ (Soul Alive, WWRL), dies of heart attack at 51
1994 - Guiseppe Martelli, physicist, dies at 71
1994 - Ruth Niehaus, dies
1995 - Alison "Night Bird" Steele, DJ (WNEW-FM, WXRK-FM), dies of cancer
1995 - Christopher Shaw, composer pianist/critic, dies at 71
1996 - Mohammed Najibullah, politician, dies at 55
1996 - Najibullah, Pres of Afghanistan Democratic Party (1986-90), executed
1997 - Walter Trampler, American violist (b. 1915)
1998 - Doak Walker, American football player (b. 1927)
1998 - Narita Bryan, Japanese racehorse (b. 1991)
2003 - Donald O'Connor, American actor (b. 1925)
2004 - John E. Mack, American psychiatrist and author (b. 1929)
2005 - Ronald Golias, Brazilian comedian (b. 1929)
2007 - Kenji Nagai, Japanese photojournalist (b. 1957)
2008 - Mahendra Kapoor, Indian singer (b. 1934)
2009 - Ivan Dykhovichnyy, Russian film director and screenwriter (b. 1947)
2009 - William Safire, American Columnist, dies at 79
2010 - George Blanda, American football player (b. 1927)
2010 - Balaji Sadasivan, Singaporean politician and neurosurgeon (b. 1955)
2011 - Johnny "Country" Mathis, American country singer (b. 1933)
2012 - R. B. Greaves, American singer, dies from prostate cancer at 68
2012 - Eddie Bert, American bebop jazz trombonist, dies at 90

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 28, 2013, 01:31:32 PM

This Day in History for 28th September


Historical Events

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Roman Military and Political Leader                French Emperor                           Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini
Pompey the Great                                       Napoleon Bonaparte

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Dictator of Nazi Germany                             32nd US President                                 Comedian Jerry Lewis
Adolf Hitler                                               Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Singer & Cultural Icon                          Godfather of Soul James Brown                Singer Marvin Gaye
Elvis Presley

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Actress Mary Tyler Moore


48 BC - Pompey the Great is assassinated on orders of King Ptolemy of Egypt after landing in Egypt.
235 - Bishop of Rome Pontianus steps down
351 - Battle at Mursa: emperor Constantine II beats emperor Magnentius
365 - Roman usurper Procopius bribes two legions passing by Constantinople, and proclaims himself
         Roman emperor.
935 - Saint Wenceslas is murdered by his brother, Boleslaus I of Bohemia.
995 - Members of Slavník's dynasty - Spytimír, Pobraslav, Pořej and Čáslav are murdered by
         Boleslaus's son, Boleslaus II the Pious.
1066 - William the Conqueror invades England landing at Pevensey Bay, Sussex
1106 - Battle at Tinchebrai: English King Henry I beats his brother Robert
1322 - Battle of Muhldorf
1362 - Guillaum de Grimoard elected as Pope Urban V
1394 - Cardinal Pedro de Luna of Aragon chosen (anti)pope Benedictus XIII
1448 - Christian I is crowned king of Denmark.
1521 - Turkish sultan Suleiman I's troops occupy Belgrade
1528 - Spanish fleet sinks in Florida hurricane; about 380 die
1538 - Battle at Preveza: Turkish fleet under Barbarossa beats Spanish
1542 - Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo discovers California, at San Diego Bay
1621 - Battle at Chocim Dniester: King Sigismund II beats Turks
1652 - English-Dutch sea battle at Kentish Knock
1687 - Venetians take Athens from the Turks
1701 - Divorce legalized in Maryland, USA
1704 - Maryland allows divorce if wife mispleases clergyman/preacher
1708 - Battle at Lesnaya: Russian army captures Swedish convoy
1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlie becomes king of Scotland
1760 - Russian & Austrian army occupies Berlin
1767 - Gentlemen 17 forbid private slave transport India to Cape of Good Hope
1779 - American Revolution: Samuel Huntington is elected President of the Continental Congress,
           succeeding John Jay.
1781 - 9,000 American forces & 7,000 French forces begin siege of Yorktown
1785 - Napoleon Bonaparte (16) graduates from the military academy in Paris (42nd in a class of 51)
1787 - Congress sends Constitution to state legislatures for their approval
1815 - Joachim Murats fleet sails from Corsica to Naples
1829 - Walker's Appeal, racial antislavery pamphlet, published in Boston
1844 - Oscar I of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden.
1850 - US Navy abolishes flogging as punishment
1858 - Donati's comet becomes 1st to be photographed
1864 - -30) Battle of Fort Harrison VA (Chaffin's Farm New Market Heights)
1867 - Toronto becomes capital of Ontario
1867 - The United States takes control of Midway Island.
1868 - Battle of Alcolea, causes Queen Isabella II of Spain to flee to France
1868 - Opelousas Massacre at St Landry Parish Louisiana (200 blacks killed)
1879 - Sydney Australia inaugurates steam motor tram route
1887 - Gele River (Huang Ho) in China floods, kills about 1.5 million
1889 - The first General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) defines the length of a meter
           as the distance between two lines on a standard bar of an alloy of platinum with ten percent
           iridium, measured at the melting point of ice.
1892 - 1st night football game played (Mansfield Pa)
1894 - Simon Marks & Tom Spencer open Penny Bazaar in Manchester
1899 - Transvaal mobilizes
1901 - Guerrilla's assault unarmed US soldiers in Balangiga Phil, 38 killed
1904 - Woman arrested for smoking a cigarette in a car on 5th Avenue, NYC
1906 - US troops reoccupy Cuba, stay until 1909
1912 - "Kiche Maru" sinks off Japan, killing 1,000
1912 - SS Kichemaru disappears in storm off Japanese coast, 1,000 die
1914 - German forces move into Antwerp Belgium (WW I)
1915 - Battle of Kut-el-Amara: Brits defeat Turks in Mesopotamia
1919 - Fastest major league game (51 mins), Giants beat Phillies 6-1
1920 - 8 White Sox indicted, threw 1919 World Series (Black Sox scandal)
1920 - Dirk Fock appointed as gov-gen of Neth Indies
1921 - 4th PGA Championship: Walter Hagen at Inwood CC Far Rockaway NY
1922 - Benito Mussolini marches on Rome
1923 - Abyssinia (Ethiopia) leaves League of Nations
1923 - Radio Times 1st published
1923 - Yanks slaughter Red Sox 24-4
1924 - 2 US Army planes end around-world flight, Seattle to Seattle, 57 stops
1924 - French government names Gen Serrail gov-gen of Syria
1924 - Gen Plutarco Calles elected president of Mexico
1926 - Russia & Latvia treaty of neutrality signed
1928 - 1st recording session in Nashville (Warmack's Gully Jumpers)
1928 - Juan de la Cierva makes 1st helicopter flight over English Channel
1928 - NY Yanks clinch pennant #6
1928 - Prussia forbids speech from Adolf Hitler
1928 - US acknowledge Chinese government of Chiang Kai-shek
1928 - Valentin Katayev's "Kvadratura Kruga," premieres in Moscow
1928 - UK passes the Dangerous Drugs Act outlawing cannabis.
1929 - 1st CF interception return for a touchdown (Joe Hess-U of Alberta)
1930 - Lou Gehrig's errorless streak ends at 885 consecutive games
1931 - Peking (200,000 demonstrators demand declaration of war on Japan)
1932 - 1932 Baseball World Series opens with the Chicago Cubs vs. NY Yankees (6-12)
1933 - Greer Garson wed Edward Snelson
1936 - Bachelor's Children debuts on CBS radio (at 9:45 am)
1936 - Brooklyn & Boston play a penalty free NFL game
1937 - FDR dedicates Bonneville Dam on Columbia River (Oregon)
1937 - Martha Raye divorces Bud Westmore
1938 - Clare Boothe's "Boys Goodbye," premieres in NYC
1938 - Dutch Premier Colijn sends radio message "No war coming"
1939 - Estonia accepts Soviet military bases
1939 - Final broadcast of The Fleischmann Hour was heard on radio
1939 - Soviet-German treaty agree on 4th partition of Poland (WW II) & gives Lithuania to USSR,
           last Polish troops surrender
1940 - Michigan's Tom Harmon runs 72, 86 & 94 yard touchdowns
1940 - Nazi occupiers present "New Dutch Culture" in German
1940 - Bud Brennan, a fan at Memorial Stadium, races out of stands & attempts to tackle Tom
           Harmon at 3-yard line, Harmon easily evades Brennan
1941 - Phillies lose club record 111th game
1941 - Ted Williams ended the baseball season with .406 batting avg
1942 - Luftwaffe bombs Stalingrad
1942 - NY Americans NHL team folded
1944 - 1st TV Musical comedy (The Boys from Boise)
1944 - Battle of Arnhem, Germans defeat British airborne in Netherlands
1944 - Nazi murders in Marzabotto, Italy (SS-major Reder)
1945 - "Mildred Price" starring Joan Crawford opens at Strand
1945 - Canadian football's Calgary Bronks changes its name to Stampeders
1945 - Robert T Duncan appears as Tonio in "I Pagliacci"
1946 - Greek king George II back in Athens
1948 - WBAP-TV, (NBC affiliate) Fort Worth Texas, begins broadcasting
1949 - "My Friend Irma" is 1st of 12 films starring Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis
1950 - Indonesia becomes 60th member of UN
1951 - Allie Reynolds' 2nd no-hitter of 1951; Yanks clinch pennant #18
1951 - Franchot Tone wed Barbara Payton
1951 - Norm Van Brocklin of Rams passes for NFL-record 554 yards
1953 - "Bob & Ray Show," TV Variety; last air on NBC
1953 - "Juvenile Jury," TV Childrens, last airs on NBC, moved to CBS
1953 - "Racket Squad," TV Crime Drama, last airs on CBS
1953 - Dutch government proclaims 5% general pay increase on Jan 1, 1954
1953 - KOAT TV channel 7 in Albuquerque, NM (ABC/PBS) begins broadcasting
1955 - 1st World Series color TV broadcast on NBC-TV (Yanks beat Dodgers)
1955 - WITN TV channel 7 in Washington, NC (NBC) begins broadcasting
1956 - "Johnny Carson Show," TV Variety; last airs on CBS-TV
1956 - RCA Records reports Elvis Presley sold over 10 million records
1957 - "Dollar A Second," last airs on NBC-TV
1957 - "Gisele MacKenzie Show," debuts on NBC-TV
1957 - "Honeycomb," by Jimmie Rodgers hits #1
1957 - Dutch Queen Juliana opens Velser Tunnels
1958 - France adopts constitution
1958 - Guinea votes for independence from France
1958 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1958 - USAF selects Thor over Jupiter rocket for mass production as ICBM's
1959 - "Hennesey," debuts on CBS-TV
1959 - Edward Franklin Albee's "zoo story," premieres in Berlin
1959 - Explorer VI reveals an intense radiation belt around Earth
1960 - "Millionaire," last airs on CBS-TV
1960 - "My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own," by Connie Francis hits #1
1960 - "Queen For A Day," moves to ABC-TV
1960 - "Sunrise at Campobello" premiered at Palace theater
1960 - Ted Williams hits his final homer #521 (off Jack Fisher)
1961 - "Doctor Kildare," debuts on NBC-TV
1961 - "Hazel," starring Shirley Booth debuts on NBC-TV
1961 - "Purlie Victorious," a farce by Ossie Davis, opens on Broadway
1961 - Syria withdraws from United Arab Republic
1961 - USN Comdr Forrest S Petersen takes X-15 to 30,720 m
1961 - Walt Disney's movie "Grey Friars Bobby" premieres
1962 - "Brighter Day," last airs on CBS-TV daytime
1962 - "I'm Dickens, He's Fenster," debuts on ABC-TV
1962 - "Jan Murray Show," last airs on NBC-TV
1962 - "Tonight Show," last airs on NBC-TV
1962 - "Verdict Is Yours," last airs on CBS-TV
1962 - Alouette (Canada), 1st Canadian satellite, launched
1962 - Paddington tram depot fire destroys 65 trams in Brisbane, Australia.
1963 - "King Leonardo," cartoon last airs on NBC-TV
1963 - "Little Deuce Coupe" by The Beach Boys peaks at #15
1963 - "Martian Hop" by The Ran-Dells peaks at #1
1963 - "New Phil Silvers Show," debuts on CBS-TV
1963 - "Nick Teen & Al K Hall" by Rolf Harris peaks at #95
1963 - "Sally, Go 'Round The Roses" by Jaynetts peaks at #2
1963 - "Shari Lewis Show," last airs on NBC-TV
1963 - "Surfer Joe" by Surfaris peaks at #62
1963 - "Tennessee Tuxedo," cartoon debuts on CBS-TV
1963 - Giuseppe Cantarella roller-skates record 25.78 mph (415 k) for 440 yds
1963 - Murray The K, a NY DJ plays "She Loves You" on the radio
1964 - 53rd Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in Cleveland (3-2)
1964 - Suriname governor A Currie resigns
1965 - Jack McKay in X-15 reaches 90 km
1965 - Lava flows kill at least 350 (Taal Philippines)
1965 - Volcano explodes on Luzon Philippines; 500 killed
1967 - Walter Washington elected 1st mayor of Washington, DC
1968 - "Happy Time" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 286 performances
1968 - "Noel Coward's Sweet Potato" opens at Barrymore NYC for 17 perfs
1968 - Alberto Giolani of Italy roller skates record 23.133 miles in 1 hr
1968 - Atlanta Chiefs beat San Diego Toros 3-0 for NASL championship
1968 - Beatles "Hey Jude," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 9 weeks
1968 - Chuck Hixson (Southern Methodist) completes 37 of record 69 passes
1968 - Janis Joplin announces she's leaving "Big Brother & Holding Co"
1968 - Marisa Danisi of West Germany roller skates record 21.995 miles in 1 hr
1969 - Joe Kapp (Minnesota Vikings) passes for 7 touchdowns vs Balt Colts (52-14)
1969 - Minnesota vs Baltimore, gains 530 yards passing!
1969 - SPD wins West German Parliament elections
1970 - "Words & Music," debuts on NBC-TV
1970 - Anwar Sadat replaces Egyptian President Nassar
1970 - Intrepid (US) beats Gretel II (Aust) in 22nd America's Cup
1971 - Cardinal Josef Mindszenty of Hungary took refuge in US Embassy in
1971 - NY Times reports growing interest of white youth in black gospel music
1971 - Budapest in 1956 to escape treason charges, ends exile & flies to Rome
1971 - UK passes the Misuse of Drugs Act banning the medicinal use of cannabis.
1972 - David Bowie sells out his 1st show in NY Carnegie Hall
1972 - Japan & Communist China agree to re-establish diplomatic relations
1972 - Canada defeats the USSR in the eigth and final game of the ice hockey Summit Series.
1973 - Palestinian Terrorists hijack Austrian train
1973 - ITT Building in New York City bombed to protest ITT's involvement in the September 11 1973
           coup d'état in Chile.
1974 - "Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing" by Aretha Franklin peaks at #47
1974 - "I'm A Ramblin' Man" by Waylon Jennings peaks at #75
1974 - "Live It Up Part 1" by Isley Brothers peaks at #52
1974 - "Papa Don't Take No Mess Part 1" by James Brown peaks at #31
1974 - "Rock Me Gently" by Andy Kim peaks at #1
1974 - "Surfin' USA" by Beach Boys reenters chart & peaks at #36
1974 - 1st Lady Betty Ford undergoes a radical mastectomy
1974 - California Angel Nolan Ryan 3rd no-hitter beats Minn Twin, 4-0
1974 - John Lennon appears as guest dj on WNEW-FM (NYC)
1974 - Mick Ronson joins Mott the Hoople
1975 - 5th NYC Women's Marathon won by Kim Merritt in 2:46:14
1975 - 6th NYC Marathon won by Tom Fleming in 2:19:27
1975 - Bill authorizes admission of women to military academies
1975 - Oakland A's Vida Blue, Glenn Abbott, Paul Linblad & Rollie Fingers, no-hits California Angels 5-
           0
1975 - The Spaghetti House siege, in which nine people were taken as hostages, takes place in
           London.
1976 - A&M sues George Harrison who fails to meet deadline for LP completion
1976 - Congress passes Toxic Substances Control Act
1976 - Muhammad Ali beats Ken Norton in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1978 - Israeli Knesset endorses Camp David accord
1978 - Pieter Botha succeeds Vorster as premier of South Africa
1978 - Syrians & Lebanese engage in heavy fighting in Lebanon
1979 - Larry Holmes TKOs Earnie Shavers in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
1980 - "Charlie & Algernon" closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 17 perfs
1980 - Carl Sagan's 13 part "Cosmos" premieres on PBS
1980 - Jaromir Wagner is 1st to fly Atlantic standing on wing
1980 - Jerilyn Britz wins LPGA Mary Kay Golf Classic
1981 - Joseph Paul Franklin, avowed racist, sentenced to life imprisonment for killing 2 black joggers
           in Salt Lake City
1982 - 1st reports appear of death from cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules
1982 - NASA launches Intelsat V satellite, no. 505
1983 - STS-9 vehicle moves to launch pad
1984 - 1st floodlit ODI outside of Australia (India v Aust, New Delhi)
1984 - Cleve Indians down 0-10 to Minnesota Twins, win 11-10
1985 - "Don't Lose My Number" by Phil Collins peaks at #4
1985 - "Every Step Of The Way" by John Waite peaks at #25
1985 - "Freedom" by Wham! peaks at #3
1985 - "Janet" by Commodores peaks at #87
1985 - NASA launches Intelsat VA
1985 - Race riot in London area of Brixton
1986 - Record 23,000 start in a marathon (Mexico City)
1986 - Tight end Brian Foster of RI catches NCAA record 18 passes for 327 yds
1986 - Cleveland Browns' Gerald McNeil sets the team record for the longest punt return with an 84-
           yard run (and TD), Browns 24, Detroit 21
1987 - "Star Trek: The Next Generation," debuts on syndicated TV
1987 - Gladys Knight & Smokey Robinson on "$10,000 Pyramid"
1988 - Bronx Museum for Arts opens
1988 - Javed Miandad scores his 19th Test Cricket century (v Aus, Faisalabad)
1988 - LA Dodger Orel Hershiser sets record for consecutive scoreless inns
1990 - Exiled emir of Kuwait visits White House
1990 - Marvin Gaye gets a star on Hollywood's walk of fame
1991 - "Commish," debuts on ABC-TV
1991 - "Good Time" by Ziggy Marley & Melody Makers peaks at #85
1991 - "Love Of A Lifetime" by Firehouse peaks at #5
1991 - "Shiny Happy People" by REM peaks to #10
1991 - NY Yankees set record of 75 games without a complete pitched game
1991 - UN weapons inspectors ends 5-day standoff with Iraq
1992 - "Barry Manilow's Showstoppers" closes at Paramount Theater NYC
1992 - "Dog City," cartoon debuts on Fox-TV
1992 - Oakland A's win AL West title
1992 - Pakistani Airbus A-300 crashes into mountain at Kathmandu, 167 dies
1993 - Dennis Martinez is 7th to win 100 games in AL & NL
1993 - Gas field in Caracas explodes, 53 killed
1993 - Ron Wood releases "Slide On Live"
1994 - "Baseball" TV Miniseries last airs on PBS
1994 - "Cats" 5,000th Broadway performance (joins Chorus Line & Oh! Calcutta!)
1994 - "Ed Wood" premieres
1994 - 909 people died when an Estonian ferry capsized & sank in Baltic sea
1994 - Ferry boat Estonia capsize & sinks in East Sea, 909 killed
1995 - "Batman Forever" released Czech Republic
1995 - Dennis Martinez pitch breaks Kirby Puckett's jaw in Indians 12-4 win
1995 - Mary Tyler Moore returns to series TV in "NY News," on CBS
1995 - Singer Bobby Brown escapes injury in gun battle
1995 - Troy Dixon scores cricket century on 1st-class debut for Qld v W Prov
1995 - Yitzhak Rabin & Yasir Arafat, sign accord to transfer West Bank
1995 - Bob Denard and a group of mercenaries take the islands of Comoros in a coup.
1996 - 1st ODI played in Kenya between home team & Sri Lanka
1996 - Joyce Giraud, crowned 8th Ms Venus Swimwear
1996 - NY Yankee Jim Leyitz is 2nd catcher to wear a hockey mask
1996 - Nebraska & Penn State are 5th & 6th major colleges to win 700
1996 - Orioles' Roberto Alomar suspended 5 games for spitting at ump
1996 - Troy Davis of Iowa State ran for 378 yards, 3rd highest in college football games (others:
           Michigan, Notre Dame, Texas & Alabama)
1997 - 32nd Ryder Cup: Europe wins 14½-13½ to retain the Cup at Sotogrande Spain
1997 - Emerald Coast Senior Golf Classic
1997 - Newscaster David Brinkley, 74, retires after 54 years in broadcasting
1997 - St Louis Card Mark McGwire hits his 58th HR of 1997 (34 with Oak A's)
1997 - Wendy Ward wins LPGA Fieldcrest Cannon Classic
2000 - Al-Aqsa Intifada: Ariel Sharon visits the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
2008 - SpaceX launches the first ever private spacecraft, the Falcon 1 into orbit.
2009 - The military junta leading Guinea, headed by Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, sexually
           assaulted, killed and wounded protesters during a protest rally in a stadium called Stade du
           28 Septembre.
2012 - Aircraft crash kills 16 people in Kathmandu, Nepal
2012 - Nigeria suspends flights to Saudi Arabia after hundreds of Nigerian women travelled without a
           male escort

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 28, 2013, 01:33:24 PM

This Day in History for 28th September


Famous Weddings

1922 - Stage and film actor James Cagney (23) weds dancer Frances Vernon
1933 - Sally Eilers weds Harry Joe Brown
1936 - "Marx Brothers" comedian Harpo Marx (47) weds "Million Dollar Legs" actress Susan Fleming
           (28)
1997 - Actor Chad Lowe (29) weds actress Hilary Swank (23)
2008 - American tennis player Mardy Fish (26) weds "Deal or No Deal" model Stacey Gardner at the
           Four Seasons in Beverly Hills, California

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 28, 2013, 01:34:58 PM

This Day in History for 28th September


Famous Divorces

1937 - Martha Raye divorces Bud Westmore

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 28, 2013, 01:46:34 PM

This Day in History for 28th September


Famous Birthdays

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Philosopher Confucius (551 BC)              Chemist and Nobel Laureate                       Singer Hilary Duff (1987)
                                                                     Henri Moissan (1852)


551 BC - Confucius, Chinese philosopher (founder of Confucianism), (d. 479 BC)
58 BC - Livia Drusilla, wife of the Roman emperor Caesar Augustus (d. 29)
1330 - Nicolas Flamel, French alchemist (d. 1417?)
1493 - Agnolo Firenzuola, [Giovannini], Italian monk (Golden Donkey)
1565 - Alessandro Tassoni, Modena Italy, political writer (Rape of Bucket)
1596 - Vredius, [Olivier de Wree], Flemish historian/poet/mayor
1605 - Ismaël Bullialdus, French astronomer (d. 1694)
1612 - Michel Anguier, French sculptor
1667 - Asano Naganori, Japanese warlord (d. 1701)
1679 - Mihael Omerza, composer
1681 - Johann Mattheson, Hamburg Germany, composer
1698 - Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, France, mathematician/astronomer
1705 - Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, England, corrupt politician (Chiswick)
1705 - Johann Peter Kellner, composer
1735 - August Henry Fitzroy, 3rd duke of Grafton/English premier
1746 - Sir William Jones, London England, British Orientalist/jurist (d. 1794)
1748 - Johann Michael Demmler, composer
1761 - Budan de Boislaurent, mathematician
1780 - Elie Decazes, France, Bourbon Restoration political figure
1785 - David Walker, Wilmington NC, abolitionist (Appeal to Colored Citizens)
1789 - Richard Bright, England, physician (Bright's Disease/nephritis)
1793 - Denis-Auguste Affre, Franc, archbishop of Paris (1840-48) and opponent of King Louis-
           Philippe
1803 - Prosper Mérimée, French author (d. 1870)
1807 - Arnold Henry Guyot, Switzerland, US geologist/geographer/meteorologist
1811 - Friedrich Hecker, Baden, German revolutionary republican politician
1813 - Anton Wallerstein, composer
1819 - Jacob G de Hoop Scheffer, Dutch vicar/theologist
1820 - Freidrich Engels, German social philosopher
1821 - Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, American politician (d. 1874)
1823 - Alexandre Cabanel, French painter (d. 1889)
1824 - Alfred Gilpin Jones, Weymouth NS, lt-gov of Nova Scotia (1900-06)
1824 - Francis Turner Palgrave, England, poet (Golden Treasury)/prof (Oxford)
1828 - Friedrich A Lange, Prussia, philosopher/socialist (Neo-Kantianism)
1833 - James Deering Fessenden, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1839 - Frances E C Willard, NY, founder (Woman's Christian Temperance Union)
1840 - Alexander Swift "Sandie" Pendleton, Lt-Col (Confederate Army)
1840 - Rudolf Baumbach, Thuringia [Germany], writer of student drinking songs
1841 - Georges Clemenceau, France, PM (1906-09, 17-20, defended Dreyfuss)
1844 - Michael Hertz, composer
1844 - Robert Stout, Shetland Islands Scotland, NZ prime minister (1884-87)
1849 - Dudley Allen Sargent, US, physician/educator (Harvard U gymnasium)
1851 - Henry Arthur Jones, English playwright (Judah)
1852 - John [Denton Pinkstone] French, Earl of Ypres/British field marshall
1852 - Henri Moissan [Ferdinand-Frederic-], Paris France, chemist (Nobel 1906), (d. 1907)
1854 - Adam Sedgwick, Norwich England, English zoologist (Peripatus)
1855 - Thomas F Tout, London, historian (Manchester school of historiography)
1856 - Edward Herbert Thompson, Mass, archaeologist (Mayan civilization)
1856 - Kate Douglas Wiggins, author (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm)
1861 - Pedro De Cordoba, NYC, actor (Club Havana, Swamp Fire, Saboteur)
1861 - Amélie of Orléans, queen of Portugal (d. 1951)
1863 - Charles, Lisbon Portugal, king (1889-1908)
1864 - Barry E Odell Pain, English writer (Punch)
1867 - Hiranuma Kiichirō, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1952)
1871 - Pietro Badoglio, Grazzano Monferrato, Italy, General/Libyan Governor (1928-33) and Prime
           Minister of Italy (1943-44)
1872 - Lena Ashwell, England, actress/theatrical manager (Kingsway)
1872 - Tom Terriss, London England, director (His Buddy's Wife, Sumuru)
1873 - Julian Lowell Coolidge, Mass, mathematician (Study-Segre school)
1873 - Waclaw Rawicz, [Berent], Warsaw Poland, biologist/writer
1877 - Stanner E V Taylor, St Louis MO, director/writer (Lucky Jim, Ramona)
1879 - Benjamin Christensen, Viborg Denmark, actor (Barnet, Mockery)
1880 - Ralph Edward Flanders, Barnet VT, (Sen-VT)
1881 - Henry Geehl, composer
1881 - Pedro De Cordoba, NYC, actor (Mexican Hayride, Before I Hang)
1882 - Eugenio d' Ors y Rovira, Barcelona Spain, essayist/philosopher
1882 - Jack Fournier, 2nd baseman (1917-18 NY Yankees)
1885 - Wilbur 'Lefty' Good, pitcher (NY Yankees, 1905)
1887 - Avery Brundage, Detroit Mich, CEO (Intl Olympic Committee, 1952-72)
1888 - Herman McNeile, Cornwall England, soldier/novelist (Bull-Dog Drummond)
1889 - Carlos I King of Portugal, Lisbon (1889-1908)
1889 - D P "Dad" Carter, baritone (Chuck Wagon Gang)
1889 - Octavus L "Octave" van Aerschot, Dutch violinist/actor (Hippie)
1889 - Jack Fournier, American baseball player (d. 1973)
1891 - Myrtle Gonzalez, American actress (d. 1918)
1892 - Edmond Thieffry, Belgian WW I pilot/air pioneer
1892 - Elmer Rice, NYC, playwright/director/novelist (Pulitzer-Street Scene)
1892 - Ruth Stonehouse
1893 - Marie V Felix, prince of Luxemburg/Bourbon-Parma
1895 - Charles Petrie, Liverpool, historian
1895 - Dave Franklin, NYC, composer (Hop-a-long Cassidy)
1895 - Lawton Whitey Witt, outfielder (NY Yankees, 1922-25)
1895 - Wallace K Harrison, Worcester Mass, US architect (UN, Lincoln Center)
1897 - Muchtar Auesow, writer
1898 - Carl Clauberg, Nazi concentration camp doctor (d. 1957)
1901 - Friedrichs, mathematician
1901 - Lily Bouwmeester, Dutch actress/comedienne (Pygmalion)
1901 - William Samuel Paley, Chicago Ill, pres/CEO of CBS (1928-90)
1901 - Ed Sullivan, New York NY, TV variety show host/gossip columnist (Ed Sullivan Show)
1904 - Hendrik J Hofstra, Dutch minister of Finance (PvdA)
1905 - Max Schmeling, Klein Luckow, Province of Pomerania, German world heavyweight boxing
           champ (1930-32)
1905 - William Northam, Austria, yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1964)
1907 - Glen "Turk" Edwards, NFL tackle (Boston/Washington Redskins)
1907 - Heikki Savolainen, Finland, pommel horse gymnist (Olympic-gold-1948)
1907 - Ida Turay, Budapest, actress (Deryne, Ida Regenye)
1907 - John Prickett, teacher/ecumenist
1907 - Bhagat Singh, Indian activist (d. 1931)
1908 - Marin Goleminov, composer
1909 - Al Capp, [Alfred Gerald Caplin], New Haven Ct, cartoonist (Li'l Abner)
1909 - Stephen Spender, poet [or Feb 28]
1909 - Wiesje Bouwmeester, Dutch actress (Doodzonde)
1910 - Diosdado Macapagal, Philippines president (1961-65)
1910 - Fran Lee, NYC, actress (Ms Wong-Major Dell Conway)
1911 - Henry Ellsworth Vines Jr, tennis (US Open 1931, 32)/golfer
1913 - Alice Marble, Beckworth California, tennis player (US Open 1936, 1938-40)
1913 - Edith Mary Ellis Peters Pargeter, author
1913 - Vivian Fine, Chicago Ill, composer (Women in the Garden)
1913 - Warja Honegger-Lavater, Swiss artist and illustrator
1914 - Harold Taylor, Canada, educator (Art & the Future)
1914 - Jim Boyd, country/western performer
1914 - Lord Abinger [James Richard Scarlett], Datchet, Berkshire, English Conservative peer,
           campaigned for reform of the ancient law on treasure trove
1915 - Julius Rosenberg, NYC, 1st US civilian executed for espionage
1916 - Lord Cockfield, Horsham, United Kingdom, British politician (European Commissioner)
1916 - Peter Finch, London, actor (Network, Windom's Way, Raid on Entebbe)
1917 - Michael [George] Somes, England, dancer (Royal Ballet)
1917 - Vaclav Kaslik, Czechoslovakia, opera composer/conductor
1919 - Lenn Hjortzberg, Karlskrona Sweden, director (Persona, Devil's Eye)
1919 - Tom Harmon, Rensselaer Indiana, sportscaster/NFL tailback (Heisman)
1921 - Ilhan Usmanbas, composer
1922 - Joe Silver, Chicago Ill, actor (Mr I Magination, Fay)
1922 - Phyllis Friend, chief nursing officer (DHSS)
1923 - Duke of Buccleuch, British large landowner/art collector
1923 - Fred Robbins, Balt Md, DJ (Coke Time with Eddie Fisher, Robbins Nest)
1923 - William Windom, NYC, actor (Farmer's Daughter, Murder She Wrote), (d. 2012)
1924 - Antonio Jacinto, Portuguese West Africa, Angolan poet
1924 - Marcello Mastroianni, Italian actor (d. 1996)
1925 - Arnold Stang, Mass, comedian/actor (Broadside, Milton Berle, Top Cat)
1925 - Frank Latimore, [Kline], Darien Ct, actor (Patton, Breakin Up)
1925 - Seymour Cray, inventor (Cray I computer)
1926 - Jerry Clower, Amite County Miss, country comedian (Nashville on Road)
1927 - Thomas J J Altizer, Mass, US Radical theologian (God is Dead)
1928 - Naphtali Kupferberg, singer (Fugs)
1929 - Marilyn Clark, Spokane WA, actress (House of Party Beach)
1929 - Nigel Althaus, British government broker
1929 - Nikolay Ryzhkov, Premier of USSR (1985-1991)
1929 - Lata Mangeshkar, Indian playback singer
1930 - Robin Buchanan, CEO (NHS Supplies Auth, Wessex Regional Health Auth)
1930 - Tommy Collins, [Leonard Sipes], country singer (Don't Growl)
1930 - Ugo Gregoretti, Rome Italy, actor (Rogopag, Common Sense of Modesty)
1931 - John E Gilmore, tenor Saxophonist
1932 - Michael G[reatrex] Coney, Canada, sci-fi author (Cat Karina)
1932 - Víctor Jara, Chilean folk singer and activist (d. 1973)
1933 - Madeleine M Kunin, Switzerland (Gov-D-Vt), 1st Jewish gov of Vermont
1933 - Miguel Berrocal, Sculptor (d. 2006)
1934 - Brigitte Bardot, Paris France, sex kitten (And God Created Women)
1934 - Janet Munro, British actress (d. 1972)
1935 - Bruce Crampton, Sydney Australia, PGA golfer (1961 Milwaukee Open)
1935 - Heather Sears, London England, actress (Room at the Top)
1935 - Koko Taylor, [Cora Walton], US vocalist (Queen of the Blues)
1936 - Robert Hogan, NYC, actor (Peyton Place, Operation Petticoat)
1936 - Robert Wolders, Rotterdam Holland, actor (Erik Hunter-Laredo)
1936 - Sherwood L Boehlert, (Rep-R-NY, 1983- )
1937 - Colin Berry, professor (morbid anatomist)
1937 - Edward Applebaum, composer
1937 - Rod Roddy, American television announcer (d. 2003)
1938 - Ben E. King [Benjamin Earl Nelson], New York City, American soul singer (Stand by Me)
1938 - Charlie Thomas, singer (Drifters) [or Apr 7, 1937]
1939 - Stuart Kauffman, American biologist
1939 - Rudolph Walker, Trinidadian-born British actor
1940 - Alekander Sergeyevich Ivanchenkov, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 29/31, T-6)
1940 - Aleksandr Y Kalery, Russian cosmonaut
1940 - George Greenstein, author (Secret of a Jewish Baker)
1941 - Charley Taylor, NFL wide receiver/running back (Wash Redskin)
1941 - Lady Braye
1941 - Edmund Stoiber, German politician
1942 - Grant "Mudcat" Jackson, pitcher (1972 NY Yankees, Phillies)
1942 - Marshall Bell, American actor
1942 - Pierre Clémenti, French actor (d. 1999)
1942 - Tim Maia, Brazilian Singer (d. 1998)
1943 - Gertrud "Traudl" Hecher, Austria, downhill skier (Olympic-bronze-1960)
1943 - J T Walsh, actor (Col Frank Bach-Dark Skies)
1943 - Joel Higgins, Bloomington Ill, actor (Salvage 1, Silver Spoons)
1943 - Lou Piniella, outfielder/manager (NY Yankees, Seattle Mariners)
1943 - Mike Kreidler, (Rep-D-Washington)
1943 - Nick St Nicholas, Hamburg Germany, rock bassist (Steppenwolf)
1943 - Susanne Jagd, Denmark, actress (Between the Sheets, Tinderbox)
1943 - Warren Lieberfarb, American media executive
1944 - Matthew Cowles, soap actor (Eban Japes-Loving, Billy-All My Children)
1945 - Conny Van Dyke, Nassawadox Va, actress (Framed, Hell's Angels '69)
1945 - Marielle Goitschel, Ste Maxime France, alpine skier (Olympic-gold-64)
1946 - Fiona Lewis, Westcliff England, actress (Stunts, Lisztomania)
1946 - Helen Shapiro, Bethnal Green London, rock vocalist (Culture Club)
1946 - Herbert Jefferson Jr, Jersey City NJ, actor (Battlestar Galactica)
1946 - Majid Khan, cricketer (great Pakistani batsman 1964-82)
1946 - Peter Egan, actor (Bean, Chariots of Fire)
1946 - Jeffrey Jones, Buffalo, New York, American actor (Beetlejuice, Ferris Bueller's Day Off)
1947 - Gillian Rose, philosopher/writer
1947 - Harold Dow, Hackensack NJ, news correspondent (CBS, 48 Hours)
1947 - Peter Hope-Evans, British singer/harmonicaist (Family)
1947 - Bob Carr, Australian politician
1947 - Sheikh Hasina, Bangladeshi politician
1948 - Marielle Goitschel, France, slalom (Olympic-gold-1968) [or 1945]
1950 - John Sayles, Schenetady NY, actor (Brother from Another Planet)
1950 - Paul Burgess, British drummer (10cc-Not Alone)
1950 - Laurie Lewis, American musician
1951 - Christian Marlowe, Los Angeles California, actor (Bram-Highcliffe Manor)
1951 - Dave Rajsich, pitcher (NY Yankees)
1951 - Silvia Dionisio, Rome Italy, actress (Riavanti Marsh!, Amici Miei)
1951 - Wei Chen, Canadian journalist
1952 - Anthony Davis, footballer
1952 - Sylvia Kristel, Neth, actress (Emmanuelle, Priv School for Girls), (d. 2012)
1953 - Jim Diamond, Scotish singer/songwriter (I Should Have Known Better)
1954 - George Lynch, rock guitarist (Lynch Mob-Wicked Sensations)
1954 - Steve Largent, NFL wide receiver (Seattle Seahawks)
1955 - Stéphane Dion, Canadian politician
1957 - Alannah Currie, Auckland NZ, rock xylophone/vocalist (Thompson Twins)
1957 - Marc Duret, actor (Dobermann, Hatred, Big Blue)
1958 - Angella Issajenko, Jamaica, 4X100m relayer (Olympic-silver-1984)
1958 - Lory Del Santo, Verona Italy, Miss Italy (1980)
1958 - Med Lucart, rock musician (Wall of Voodoo)
1959 - Angela Groothuizen, Dutch singer (Dolly Dots)
1959 - Billy Montana, Country/Western performer (No Yesterday, Angelia)
1959 - Todd Worrell, Arcadia CA, pitcher (LA Dodgers)
1959 - Ron Fellows, Canadian race car driver
1959 - Steve Hytner, American actor
1960 - Derek James, Durban South Africa, Canadian Tour golfer (1994 Infiniti)
1960 - Gus Logie, cricketer (WI batsman 1983-91, great fielder)
1960 - Jennifer Rush, singer/songwriter (Destiny, Ring of Ice)
1960 - Tom Byrum, Onida SD, Nike golfer (1994 NIKE Panama City Beach-4th)
1961 - Anne White, Charleston WV, tennis (Wore spandex in '85 Wimbledon)
1961 - Ed Vosberg, Tucson AZ, pitcher (Texas Rangers)
1961 - Michael-James Wixted, Santa Monica California, actor (Smith Family)
1961 - Yordanka Donkova, Bulgaria, 100 m hurdler (world record)
1961 - Quentin Kawananakoa, pretender to the throne of the Kingdom of Hawaii
1962 - Anne-Marie Fox, LA CA, playmate (Feb, 1982)
1962 - Irving Fryar, NFL wide receiver (Miami Dolphins)
1962 - Laurie Rinker-Graham, Stuart FL, LPGA golfer (1986 LPGA Corning)
1962 - Luis Enrique, spanish singer (Luces del Alma)
1962 - S C Grant, British Lt-General
1962 - Thomas Mork, Denmark, actor (Krystalbarnet, Bryggeren)
1963 - Johnny Earl Dawkins Jr, NBA guard (Spurs, Charlotte Hornets)
1963 - Steve Blackman, American professional wrestler
1964 - Janeane Garofalo, NJ, comedienne (SNL, Truth about Cats & Dogs)
1964 - Susan Walters, Georgia, actress (Lorna-Loving, Mary Beth-Dear John)
1964 - Paul Jewell, English football manager
1965 - Joel Rane, author (Step on Up)
1965 - Ginger Fish, American drummer (Marilyn Manson)
1966 - Erno Das, lighting tech/gaffer (Spiegels, Lovely Liza)
1966 - Kevin Baker, Montreal, Canadian Tour golfer (Manitoba Amateur-1988)
1966 - Scott Adams, NFL offensive linesman (Chic Bears)
1966 - Puri Jagannadh, Indian film director
1967 - Darion Conner, NFL linebacker (Carolina Panthers)
1967 - Jake Reed, NFL wide receiver (Minnesota Vikings)
1967 - Jason Dungjen, Detroit Mich, pairs skaters (Olympics-1994)
1967 - Moon Unit Zappa, rocker (Valley Girl), Frank's daughter
1967 - Oswald Drawdy, Hampton SC, Canadian Tour golfer (1987 SC Amateur)
1967 - Mira Sorvino, American actress
1968 - Bess Singh, [Lennart Bes], Dutch pop drummer (Burma Shop-Hippies)
1968 - Jerry Evans, NFL tight end (Denver Broncos)
1968 - Jock Climie, CFL slot back (Montreal Alouettes)
1968 - Vanessa Vadim, Paris, daughter of Jane Fonda/actress (Last Party)
1969 - Jack O'Keffe, Waterbury CT, Australasia golfer
1969 - L Janusz Hooker, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1969 - Mark Everett, American fugitive
1969 - Ben Greenman, American author
1969 - Nico Vaesen, Belgian footballer
1970 - Kimiko Date, Kyoto Japan, tennis star (1996 Japan Open)
1970 - Mira Sorvino, Tenafly NJ, actress (Quiz Show, Norma Jean & Marilyn)
1970 - Gualter Salles, Brazilian racing driver
1971 - Chad May, NFL/WLAF quarterback (Minnesota Vikings, Frankfurt Galaxy)
1971 - David Weightman, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1971 - Janet Evans, swimmer (Olympics)
1971 - Marcus Spears, NFL/WLAF guard/tackle (Chic Bears, Amsterdam Admirals)
1971 - Matthew Elliott, cricketer (Australian Test opening batsman v WI 1996)
1971 - Alan Wright, English footballer
1971 - Joseph Arthur, American singer-songwriter
1972 - Cathy Caverzasio, Switzerland, tennis star
1972 - Dena Querubin, Waterford NJ, Miss America-NJ (1996)
1972 - Greg Ivy, NFL punter (Atlanta Falcons)
1972 - Dita Von Teese, American burlesque artist
1973 - Jori Hulkkonen, Finnish electronic musician
1973 - Brian Rafalski, American ice hockey player
1974 - Joonas Kolkka, Finnish footballer
1974 - Mariya Kiselyova, Russian swimmer
1974 - John Light, English actor
1975 - Karan Ashley Jackson, Odessa Tx, actress (Aisha-Mighty Power Rangers)
1975 - Mandy Barnett, country singer (Maybe, Rainy Days)
1975 - Lenny Krayzelburg, American swimmer
1976 - Fedor Emelianenko, Russian mixed martial artist
1977 - Young Jeezy, American Rapper
1977 - Se Ri Pak, Korean golfer
1978 - Marzena Godecki, actress (Ocean Girl)
1978 - Nestaea Sealy, Miss Bahamas Universe (1997)
1978 - Bushido, German rapper
1979 - Anndi Lynn McAfee, actress (Ice Cream Man, Conagher)
1979 - Bam Margera, American skateboarder
1981 - Vincent Kartheiser, actor (Hairy Bird, Alaska, Untamed Heart)
1981 - José Calderón, Spanish basketball player
1981 - Jorge Guagua, Ecuadorian footballer
1981 - Gül Gölge, Turkish model and actress
1981 - Iracema Trevisan, Brazilian musician (CSS)
1982 - Anderson Varejão, Brazilian basketball player
1982 - Abhinav Bindra, Indian shooter
1982 - Ray Emery, Canadian hockey player
1982 - Ranbir Kapoor, Indian Actor
1982 - Nolwenn Leroy, French Singer
1982 - Emeka Okafor, American basketball player
1982 - Dustin Penner, Canadian hockey player
1983 - Stefan Moore, English footballer
1984 - Melody Thornton, American singer and dancer
1984 - Ryan Zimmerman, American baseball player
1986 - Andrés Guardado, Mexican footballer
1987 - Hilary Duff, Houston Texas, actress and singer (Lizzie McGuire)
1988 - Aleks Vrteski, Australian footballer
1988 - Esmée Denters, Dutch singer
1989 - Mark Randall, English footballer
1991 - Saffron LeBon, London, daughter of Simon & Yasmon
1992 - Skye McCole Bartusiak, American actress
1996 - Celeste & Johnny Edison, Assyria & Pele's twins, boy & girl

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 28, 2013, 01:57:51 PM

This Day in History for 28th September


Famous Deaths

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Roman Military and Political Leader           Moby Dick Author                          Bacteriologist Louis Pasteur (1895)
Pompey the Great (48 BC)                        Herman Melville (1891)

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Astronomer Edwin Hubble (1953)


48 BC - Pompey the Great [Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus], Roman general and politician, dies at 59
235 - Saint Pontianus, Pope
876 - Louis the German, King of Eastern Francia (b. 804)
929 - Wenceslaus I, duke of Bohemia, murdered
935 - Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia (b. 907)
1104 - Pedro I, king of Navarra & Aragon, dies
1197 - Henry VI von Hohenstaufen, Roman Catholic German King (1169-97), dies
1296 - Adolf VII, earl of Mountain (1259-96), dies
1429 - Cymburgis of Masovia, wife of Duke Ernest of Austria
1509 - Siwara/Sjoerd Aylva, Fries army leader (siege of Franeker)
1582 - George Buchanan, Scottish historian (b. 1506)
1618 - Gilles van Ledenberg, sec of Utrecht States (1588-1618), suicide at 68
1618 - Joshua Sylvester, English poet (b. 1563)
1649 - Ottavio Vernizzi, composer, dies at 79
1652 - John Asselijn, landscape painter/etcher, dies at about 42
1657 - Emilia Secunda Antwerpiana, daugher of Willem of Orange, dies at 75
1667 - Jacobus Golius, mathematician/founder (Leidse observ), dies at 71
1687 - Francis Turretin, Swiss theologian (b. 1623)
1694 - Mouton, mathematician, dies
1702 - Robert Spencer 2nd earl of Sunderland, Engl PM (1687-88), dies at 61
1742 - Jean Baptiste Massillon, French churchman (b. 1663)
1757 - Andrea Zani, composer, dies at 60
1759 - Cornelis Pronk, portrait painter/cartoonist, dies at 67
1781 - William Henry Nassau de Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford, British diplomat and statesman (b.
           1717)
1789 - Thomas Day, author, killed by fall from a horse at Wargrave Berkshire
1815 - Nicolas Desmarest, French geographer (Volcanos), dies at 90
1819 - Karl Haack, composer, dies at 68
1833 - Lemuel Haynes, Revolutionary War veteran, dies at 88
1844 - Pyotr Aleksandrovich Tolstoy, Russian general and statesman (b. 1769)
1852 - Johann Friedrich Schwencke, composer, dies at 60
1859 - Rinse Posthumus, Fries writer, dies
1868 - Thomas Carmichael Hindman, attorney/Confederate gen-mjr, shot at 40
1869 - Libri, mathematician, dies
1873 - Emile Gaboriau, detective writer (Monsieur Lecoq), dies at 37
1875 - Aleksei K Tolstoi, [Kozjma Prutkov], Russian poet, dies at 58 [OS]
1879 - Nathan C Meeker, US, poet/writer, murdered
1884 - Fred Morley, cricket lefty quick (16 wkts in 4 Tests for Eng), dies
1891 - Herman Melville, writer (Billy Budd, Moby Dick), dies at 72
1895 - Louis Pasteur, French bacteriologist (Pasteurization), dies at 72
1899 - Giovanni Segantini, Italian painter (Become his fare), dies
1902 - Emile Zola, French writer (Nana/Germinal/J'accuse), dies at 62
1903 - Jesus Monasterio, composer, dies at 67
1907 - Frederich I W L, Grand Duke of Baden (1856-1907), dies at 81
1911 - Louis Pincoffs, businessman/Dutch politician 1st-Chamber, dies
1914 - Stevan Mokranjac, composer, dies at 58
1914 - Richard Sears, businessman (Sears, Roebuck and Company) (b. 1863)
1915 - Saitou Hajime, 3rd squad leader of the Shinsengumi died under name of Goro Fujita (b. 1844)
1918 - Georg Simmel, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1858)
1918 - Freddie Stowers, American soldier (b. 1896)
1922 - Andrejs Jurjans, composer, dies at 65
1928 - Con Conrad, dies
1935 - W.K. Dickson, Scottish inventor (b. 1860)
1939 - Felicjan Szopski, composer, dies at 74
1942 - Evelyn Thatcher, dies
1943 - Charles Vintcent, cricketer (played in South Africa's 1st 3 tests), dies
1943 - Fritzi Brunette, dies
1946 - Jean Van de Eeckhoudt, Belgian painter, dies
1947 - Francisco Santiago, composer, dies at 58
1947 - William B Davidson, dies
1948 - EJ Ratcliffe, dies
1948 - Gregg Toland, cinematographer, dies at 44
1952 - Paul Hastings Allen, composer, dies at 68
1953 - Edwin Hubble, American astronomer, designer of telescopes, dies at 63
1954 - Bert Lytell, actor (Henry-One Man's Family), dies at 69
1954 - Morten Korch, dies
1955 - Arthur Donaldson, dies
1957 - Albert Ascoli, Italian developed anti-tuberculosis vaccine, dies
1957 - Luis Cluzeau-Mortet, composer, dies at 67
1959 - Gerard Hoffnung, artist/humorist/musician, dies
1959 - Rudolf Caracciola, German race car driver (b. 1901)
1961 - Michael Shepley, actor (Dick & the Duchess), dies at 54
1964 - George Dyson, composer, dies at 81
1964 - Harpo [Arthur] Marx, comedian (Marx Bros), dies at 75
1964 - Nacio Herb Brown, dies
1965 - Eddie Gribbon, actor (Keystone Kops), dies after long illness
1966 - Eric Fleming, actor (Gil-Rawhide), dies at 41
1966 - Lucky Millinder, bandleader/singer, dies
1968 - Corry Lievens, Flemish actress/playwright/dir (Blue Bird), dies at 64
1970 - Gamal' Abd al-Nassar, Egypt Pres (1953-70), dies of heart attack at 52
1970 - John Roderigo Dos Passos, US writer (Manhattan Transfer), dies at 74
1972 - Maurice Thiriet, composer, dies at 66
1973 - Mantan Moreland, comedian (Watermelon Man), dies at 71
1973 - Norma Crane, actress (Rayola-Mr Peepers), dies of cancer at 44
1973 - Wystan H Auden, British/US writer (Spain/Platonic Blow), dies at 66
1974 - Raymond Largay, actor (April in Paris, Variety Girl), dies at 88
1975 - Agnes Windeck, dies
1975 - Sidney Fields, comedian (Abbott & Costello), dies at 77
1978 - John Paul I, [Albino Luciano], Pope (1978), dies after 33 days as pope
1978 - Pope John Paul I (Albino Luciani), 263rd Catholic Pope, died
1979 - Jimmy McCulloch, guitarist (Wings), dies at 26
1981 - Rómulo Betancourt, President of Venezuela (b. 1908)
1982 - Larry Breeding, actor (Who's Watching the Kids), dies on 36th birthday
1982 - Mabel Albertson, actress (Gazebo, Bewitched), dies of Alzheimer at 81
1986 - Carmen DeRue, entertainer, dies
1986 - Robert Helpmann, actor (Second Time Lucky, Patrick), dies at 77
1987 - Mehdi Hashemi, Iranian aid of Ayatollah Khomeini, shot for treason
1988 - Ethel Grandin, silent screen actress (Deserter), dies at 94
1988 - Marjorie Bonner Lowry, actress (Reno, Poor Girls), dies at 83
1989 - Ferdinand E Marcos, president of Philippines (1965-86), dies at 72
1991 - Miles Davis, jazz trumpeter, dies of pneumonia at 65
1992 - Leech, mathematician, dies
1993 - Alfonso Balcazar, dies
1993 - Gustavo Brillembourg, Venez/US advocate, dies in an accident at 35
1993 - Peter De Vries, cartoonist (New Yorker), dies at 83
1993 - Fraser MacPherson, Canadian jazz saxophonist (b. 1928)
1993 - Alexander A. Drabik, American soldier (b. 1910)
1994 - Harry Saltzman, producer (Dr No, Nijinski), dies at 78
1994 - Jose Francisco Ruiz Massieu, Mexican PRI-politician, murdered at 48
1994 - Juliette Lady Huxley Baillot, author, dies at 96
1994 - Warwick Hutton, artist, dies at 55
1994 - Urmas Alender, Estonian singer and musician (b. 1953)
1995 - Eddy Grove, dies
1995 - Lynette Roberts, poet, dies at 86
1995 - Olive Gibbs, peace campaigner, dies at 77
1996 - Bob Gibson, folk singer, dies at 64
2000 - Pierre Trudeau, 15th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1919)
2002 - Patsy Mink, U.S. Congresswoman (b. 1927)
2002 - Hartland Molson, Canadian businessman (Molson family), senator and sports executive
           (Montreal Canadiens) (b. 1907)
2003 - Althea Gibson, American tennis player (b. 1927)
2003 - Elia Kazan, Greek-born American film director (b. 1909)
2003 - George Odlum, Saint Lucian politician (b. 1934)
2004 - Geoffrey Beene, American fashion designer (b. 1924)
2004 - Scott Muni, American disc jockey (b. 1930)
2005 - Constance Baker Motley, American judge (b. 1921)
2007 - Wally Parks, Founder of the NHRA (b. 1913)
2008 - Andrzej Badeński, Polish athlete (400 metres)
2009 - Ulf Larsson, Swedish actor (b. 1956)
2009 - Guillermo Endara, former President of Panama (b. 1936)
2010 - Dolores Wilson, American opera singer (b. 1928)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 29, 2013, 10:51:05 AM

This Day in History for 29th September


Historical Events

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Roman Military and Political Leader         Oil Industrialist                                      Baseball Great Babe Ruth
Pompey the Great                                    John D. Rockefeller     

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Dictator of Nazi Germany                         Education Pioneer Booker                          Actress Judy Garland
Adolf Hitler                                              T. Washington

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Singer Buddy Holly                                 Singer-Songwriter Bob Dylan                 US President John F. Kennedy

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Country Singer Jerry Lee Lewis                 Singer Maureen McGovern                    264th Pope John Paul II

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Director Steven Spielberg                       Singer Whitney Houston                          US First Lady Barbara Bush

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NFL Running Back and                       Singer-Songwriter Alanis Morissette
Convicted Criminal
OJ Simpson


522 BC - Darius I of Persia kills the Magian usurper Gaumâta, securing his hold as king of the Persian
              Empire.
480 BC - Battle of Salamis: The Greek fleet under Themistocles defeats the Persian fleet under
              Xerxes I.
61 BC - Pompey the Great celebrates his third triumph for victories over the pirates and the end of
            the Mithridatic Wars on his 45th birthday.
219 - Batavian soldiers consecrate altar on Hercules Magusanus Rome
235 - St Pontianus ends his reign as Catholic Pope
440 - Pope Leo I the Great, installed
855 - Benedict III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1187 - Saladins army marches into Jerusalem
1227 - Pope Gregory IX excommunicate German emperor Frederik II
1349 - People of Krems Austria accuse Jews of poisoning wells
1364 - Battle of Auray, English forces defeat French at Brittany
1521 - Turkish troops occupy Belgrade
1564 - Robert Dudley becomes earl of Leicester
1567 - War of Religion breaks out in France - Huguenots try to kidnap king Charles IX
1567 - At a dinner, the Duke of Alba arrests the Count of Egmont and the Count of Hoorn for
           treason.
1608 - Captain Newport arrives from England with supplies for colonists
1650 - 2nd Fronde-uprising ends
1650 - Henry Robinson opens 1st marriage bureau (England)
1678 - France & Brandenburg signs peace treaty
1785 - Chasidic sect is excommunicated in Cracow Poland
1789 - 1st congress adjourns
1789 - US War Dept established a regular army
1793 - Tennis is 1st mentioned in an English sporting magazine
1815 - King Willem I forms Order of Dutch Lion
1829 - London's Metropolitan Police Force goes on duty (Scotland Yard)
1848 - Battle of Pákozd: Hungarian forces defeat Croats at Pákozd; the first battle of the War of
           Independence.
1849 - 1st passenger train service to Peekskill NY (New Haven Railroad)
1853 - Emigrant ship "Annie Jane" sinks off Scotland, drowning 348
1859 - Great auroral display in US
1863 - Opera "Pescatori di Perle" is produced (Paris)
1864 - Battle of Battle of Chaffin's Farm & New Market Heights VA
1872 - "3 Fingers" Mackenzie destroys Kwahadi-Commanche village
1872 - Kiowa-chief Lone Wolf captures Satanta & Big Tree
1875 - US-Spanish relations decline in wake of Cuban rebellion
1879 - NL owners meeting in Buffalo adopt reserve clause, giving each team exclusive rights to their
           players
1885 - The first practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool, England.
1890 - 1st pro baseball game, NY Metropolitans beat Washington Nationals 4-2 in 5 innings at Polo
           Grounds in NYC
1892 - 1st night football game played (Mansfield, Penn)
1898 - French troops reach Guinea & Sudan, Samori caught
1902 - Impresario David Belasco opens his 1st Broadway theater
1904 - 1st monument honoring Spanish American War erected (Monroeville Ohio)
1906 - US intervenes in Cuba ousts dictator Estrada Palma
1907 - Construction begins on Washington National Cathedral
1908 - Calgary Rugby Football Union forms
1911 - Gun magazine of French battleship Liberte explode
1911 - Italy declares war on Turkey, starting the Italo-Turkish War
1911 - Yanks steal 15 bases & get 13 walks, beating Browns 16-12; with a major-league record 6
           stolen bases in 1 inning
1911 - Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
1912 - French/British troops lands on Samoa
1913 - Sam S Shubert Theater opens at 225 W 44th St NYC
1913 - Wash Senator Walter Johnson wins his 36th game
1914 - Boston Braves, who were in last place in mid-July, clinch NL pennant
1915 - 1st transcontinental radio telephone message is sent
1915 - British army conquerors Chilly al Imara, Mesopotamia
1915 - Dutch Opera's 1st performance
1915 - Herbert/Blossoms musical "Princess Pat," premieres in NYC
1915 - Hurricane claims 275 in Mississippi Delta
1915 - Philadelphia Phillies clinch their 1st pennant
1916 - John D Rockefeller becomes the first billionaire.
1918 - Allied forces scored a decisive breakthrough of Hindenburg Line
1920 - Babe Ruth sets then home run season record at 54
1920 - Belgium annexes Eupen/Malmö dy
1920 - Joseph Horne Company in Pittsburgh sells radios for $10
1921 - Pirates drop doubleheader to Cards to allow idle Giants to clinch NL
1922 - Benito Mussolini ask Vatican for support of fascist party program
1923 - 6th PGA Championship: Gene Sarazen at Pelham CC Pelham NY
1923 - Steinhart Aquarium in Golden Gate Park opens to public
1924 - Santo Domingo joins League of Nations
1924 - Senators clinch pennant, finishing 2 games in front of Yankees
1925 - French Gen of Morocco, marshal Lyautey, is dismissed
1925 - Greek republican constitution enforced
1926 - Norma Shearer wed Irving Thalberg
1927 - Babe Ruth ties record by hitting grand slams in consecutive games
1927 - Telephone service begins between US & Mexico
1927 - Tornado strikes St Louis Missouri, 85 die
1928 - Cardinals win NL pennant with a 3-1 win at Boston
1928 - Yanks (17) Tigers (28) set 9 inning hit record (45)-Tigers win 19-10
1930 - 1st Canadian football game played under lights, Hamilton-UBC
1930 - Boquerón battle ends Paraguay border dispute
1930 - Lowell Thomas made debuts on CBS Radio replacing Floyd Gibbons
1930 - NYC College offers 1st course in radio advertising
1932 - "Bill of Divorcement" premieres at the Mayfair
1933 - Little King, Cartoon Character, by Von Beuren, debut
1935 - 5th Ryder Cup: US wins, 9-3 at Ridgewood Country Club (Ridgewood, New Jersey, US)
1936 - Radio used for 1st time for a presidential campaign
1937 - Frans Slaats bicycles world record time (45,563 km)
1938 - 1st archival course is offered at Columbia University in NYC
1938 - Treaty of Munich signed by Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Daladier & Chamberlain
1940 - "Double or Nothing," a radio quiz show, 1st heard on Mutual Radio Net
1940 - "Strike Up Band," opens
1940 - 1st US merchant ship "Booker T. Washington" commanded by a black captain (Hugh Mulzac),
           launched at Wilmington Delaware
1941 - Joe Louis TKOs Lou Nova in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
1941 - Million jam downtown Brooklyn to cheer NL champ Dodgers in a parade
1941 - Nazi mass murder at Babi Jar, Soviet Union
1942 - 32°F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in Sept
1942 - Government of De Gaulle cancels agreement of Munich
1943 - 1st Silbertanne-murder by German occupiers in Meppel
1943 - Eisenhower & Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio sign an armistice
1943 - German riots at Amsterdam Jews
1943 - Zjadovs 5th Gardeleger/Managarovs 53rd Army reconquer Kremenchug
1944 - Browns last in AL attendance,only 6,172 watch them sweep Yanks in DH
1944 - Soviet troops invade Yugoslavia
1945 - Cubs clinch NL pennant
1946 - "Adventures of Sam Spade" debuts on CBS Radio
1946 - 1st time NL pennant ends in a tie (Cards & Dodgers)
1946 - Al Couture knockouts Ralph Walton in Lewiston Maine in 10 secs
1946 - Los Angeles (previously Cleveland) Rams play 1st NFL game in LA
1946 - NPS, Nationale Party Suriname, forms
1947 - Dizzy Gillespie presented his 1st Carnegie Hall concert in NY
1947 - Former Yank manager Joe McCarthy signs to manage Red Sox
1947 - Record World Series crowd of 73,365 at Yankee Stadium ($325,828)
1948 - Laurence Olivier's "Hamlet" opens at Park Avenue Cinema
1948 - WBAP (now KXAS) TV channel 5 in Fort Worth-Dallas, TX (NBC) begins
1948 - WSB TV channel 2 in Atlanta, GA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1949 - "Front Page," debuts on CBS-TV
1949 - "Inside USA With Chevrolet," debuts on CBS-TV
1949 - Elia Kazan's "Pinky" starring Ethel Waters opens at Rivoli
1950 - "Tin Pan Alley TV," last airs on ABC-TV
1950 - Telephone Answering Machine created by Bell Laboratories
1950 - Yanks clinch 2nd consecutive pennant under Casey Stengel
1951 - 1st color telecast of football game on network, Phila (CBS)
1951 - Emile Zatopek runs world record 20,000 m & 10 mile
1951 - S B Nicholson discovers 12th satellite of Jupiter
1952 - "Lights Out," last airs on NBC-TV
1952 - Stan Musial makes his only major league pitching appearance
1953 - "Buick-Berle Show," debuts on NBC-TV
1953 - "Make Room for Daddy," starring Danny Thomas, premieres on ABC-TV
1953 - 1st dept store to sell insurance is Carson Pirie Scott in Chicago Ill
1953 - Balt Mayor D'Alesandro buys Veeck's interest in Browns for $2,475,000
1953 - Milton Berle Show premieres
1953 - US government gives France $385 million for combat in Indo-China
1954 - "Barefoot Contessa" starring Ava Gardner premieres at the Capitol
1954 - "Masquerade Party," TV game Show; moves to ABC
1954 - "Star is Born" starring Judy Garland & James Mason premieres
1954 - Bennekom soccer team forms in Bennekom
1954 - KALB TV channel 5 in Alexandria, LA (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1954 - Willie Mays famous over-the-shoulder catch of Vic Wertz' 460' drive
1955 - "Sergeant Preston," debuts on CBS
1955 - Ali Sastroamidjojo's PNI wins elections in Indonesia
1955 - Arthur Millers "View From The Bridge," premieres in NYC
1956 - "I Love Mickey" by Mickey Mantle & Teresa Brewer peaks at #87
1956 - "Oh! Susanna," debuts on CBS-TV
1956 - Yanks Mickey Mantle hits his 52nd HR of season
1957 - "DuPont Show of the Month," debuts on CBS-TV
1957 - "Paul Winchell Show," debuts on ABC-TV
1957 - 300 die as express train hits stalled train (Montgomery W Pakistan)
1957 - Buddy Holly & Crickets released 2nd single "Oh Boy!"/"Not Fade Away"
1957 - NY Giants play & lose their last game at Polo Grounds (9-1 to Pitts)
1957 - Passenger train & oil train crash in Gambar West Pakistan, 300 die
1958 - "Studio One," TV Anthology Drama last airs on CBS-TV
1958 - "Summertime Blues" by Eddie Cochran peaks at #8
1958 - "Texan," debuts on CBS-TV
1958 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1959 - "Many Loves Of Dobie Gillis," debuts on CBS-TV
1959 - "Philip Marlowe," debuts on ABC-TV
1959 - Dodgers win game 2 of playoff, 6-5, & take NL pennant
1959 - Little Anthony & the Imperials record "Shimmy Shimmy Koko Bop"
1959 - Sultan of Brunei promulgates a constitution
1960 - "Johnny Ringo," TV Western Drama; last airs on CBS-TV
1960 - "My Three Sons" starring Fred MacMurray, debuts on ABC-TV
1960 - "Outlaws," TV Western Drama; debuts on NBC-TV
1960 - "Tell Laura I Love Her" by Ricky Valance peaks at #1 in UK
1960 - "lrma La Douce" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 527 performances
1961 - "Detectives," TV Crime Drama; moves to NBC-TV
1961 - Bob Dylan's 1st recording session-backup harmonica for Caroline Hester
1961 - Mamum Kuzbari becomes premier of Syria
1962 - "Alley Cat" by Bent Fabric & His Piano peaks at #7
1962 - "Green Onions" by Booker T & MG's peaks at #3
1962 - "My Fair Lady" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 2,715 perfs
1962 - "Roy Rogers & Dale Evans Show," debuts on ABC-TV
1962 - "You Can't Judge A Book By Cover" by Bo Diddley peaks at #48
1962 - Algerian government of Ben Bella forms
1962 - Indians & Angels set AL record of 40 strikeouts in a doubleheader
1962 - JFK authorized use of federal troops to integrate U of Mississippi
1962 - Launch of Alouette 1, 1st Canadian satellite (on US Delta rocket)
1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 - "Judy Garland Show," debuts on CBS-TV
1963 - "My Favorite Martian," starring Ray Walston, debuts on CBS-TV
1963 - 2nd session of Ecumenical council, `Vatican II,' opens in Rome
1963 - Card's Stan Musial's final game, gets his 3,629th & 3,630th hit
1963 - Houston Colt .45 John Paciorek goes 3 for 3 in his only game
1963 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Invitational
1963 - Pope Paul opens 2nd sitting of 2nd Vatican council
1963 - Rolling Stones 1st tour (opening act for Bo Diddley & Everly Bros)
1963 - Stan Musial Day in St Louis
1964 - Greece & Bulgaria close boundaries
1965 - Ralph Boston of US, sets then long jump record at 27' 4 3/4"
1965 - St L Cards Charlie Johnson passes for 6 touchdowns vs Cleve (49-13)
1965 - WLVT TV channel 39 in Allentown, PA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1965 - Phillies catcher Pat Corrales sets record by reaching base twice on catcher's interference in
           one game & 6 times in one season
1966 - Bechuanaland gains independence from England, becomes Botswana
1966 - Sandy Koufax pitches 3rd 300-strikeout season
1966 - The Chevrolet Camaro, originally named Panther, is introduced.
1967 - -Oct 29] Rome: 1st bishop synod
1967 - Gladys Knight & Pips releases "I Heard it Through the Grapevine"
1967 - Intl Monetary Fund reforms world monetary system
1967 - Mickey Hart joins the Grateful Dead & plays the Straightater
1968 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Invitational
1968 - Carl Yastrzemski .3005 avg wins his 2nd straight batting crown
1968 - Chuck Latourette, sets NFL record 47.7 yd punt return avg (3 punts)
1969 - "Bright Promise," TV Daytime Soap; debuts on NBC-TV
1969 - "Letters To Laugh-In," debuts on NBC-TV
1969 - "Love American Style," premieres on ABC-TV
1969 - "Name Droppers," debuts on NBC-TV
1969 - "Sale Of Century," debuts on NBC-TV
1969 - 7th Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 7-6
1969 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1969 - Jackie DeShannon gets Gold Record for "Put Little Love in Your Heart"
1969 - Red Sox Rico Petrocelli hits shortstop record 40th HR of season
1969 - Steve O'Neal of NY Jets, kicks longest NFL punt; 98 yards vs Denver
1970 - "NET Festival," last aired
1971 - "McMillan & Wife," debuts on NBC-TV
1971 - Cyclone & tidal wave off Bay of Bengal kills as many as 10,000
1971 - Orbiting Solar Observatory VII launched
1971 - Ron Hunt is hit by a pitch for record 50th time in a season
1971 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1972 - Japan & People's Republic of China begin diplomatic relations
1973 - "Jimmy Loves Mary-Anne" by Looking Glass peaks at #33
1973 - "We're An American Band" by Grand Funk peaks at #1
1973 - Balt Orioles pull their 5th triple play (5-4-3 vs Detroit)
1973 - Insurance ind announces auto racers get into more highway accidents
1973 - Soyuz 12 returns to Earth
1974 - 4th NYC Women's Marathon won by Katherine Switzer in 3:07:29
1974 - 5th NYC Marathon won by Norbert Sander in 2:26:30
1974 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Portland Ladies Golf Classic
1975 - "Three For Money," debuts on NBC-TV
1975 - Jackie Wilson, slips into an irreversible coma; he dies in 1984
1975 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1975 - WGPR-TV Detroit, 1st Black-owned station in US, began broadcasting
1975 - Sharon Dahlonega Raiford Bush becomes American television's first African-American
           weathercaster.
1976 - "Alice," debuts on CBS-TV
1976 - 2nd Chamber recognizes Dutch Liberals/social democratic abortion law
1976 - Boy George expelled from school
1976 - SF Giant John Montefusco no-hits Atlanta Braves, 9-0
1976 - Syria drives Palestinian guerrillas out of Lebanon
1976 - Tommy Lasorda replaces Walter Alston as Dodger manager
1976 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1976 - Jerry Lee Lewis, attempting to shoot soda bottles hits his bass player Norman Owens twice in
           the chest
1977 - "Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band," by Meco hits #1
1977 - Eva Shain is 1st woman to referee a heavyweight championship
1977 - James Brown's band walks out claiming they were underpaid & overworked
1977 - Muhammad Ali beats Earnie Shavers in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1977 - Peter Schats circus opera "Houdini," premieres in Amsterdam
1977 - Soviet space station Salyut 6 launched into Earth orbit
1978 - "Flying High," debuts on CBS
1978 - "For Richer, For Poorer," TV Daytime Soap; last airs on NBC-TV
1979 - "Ain't That A Shame" by Cheap Trick peaks at #35
1979 - "Bad Case Of Loving You" by Robert Palmer peaks at #14
1979 - "Boom Boom (Out Go Lights)" by Pat Travers peaks at #56
1979 - "Born To Be Alive" by Patrick Hernandez peaks at #16
1979 - "Cruel To Be Kind" by Nick Lowe peaks at #12
1979 - "Different Worlds" by Maureen McGovern peaks at #18
1979 - "Driver's Seat" by Sniff 'n' the Tears peaks at #15
1979 - "Girls Talk" by Dave Edmunds peaks at #65
1979 - "Lonesome Loser" by Little River Band peaks at #6
1979 - "Message In A Bottle" by Police peaks at #1 in UK
1979 - "What Cha Gonna Do With My Lovin'" by Stephanie Mills peaks at #22
1979 - Astros' J R Richard strikes out NL season righty record of 313
1979 - Gold hits record $400.20 an ounce in Hong Kong
1979 - John Huston's "Wine Blood" premieres at NY Film Festival
1979 - LA Dodger Manny Mota hits record 146th pinch hit
1979 - Pope John Paul II becomes 1st pope to visit Ireland
1980 - Malcolm McDowell wed Mary Steenburgen
1982 - 1st broadcast of "Cheers" on NBC-TV
1982 - Cyanide laced Tylenol capsules kills 7 in Chicago
1982 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1983 - "A Chorus Line" 3,389 performance to become longest running Bdwy show
1983 - 1st time Congress invokes War Powers Act
1983 - Airport of Beirut reopens
1983 - Congress authorized President Reagan to keep 1,600 US Marines in Lebanon
1983 - Oakland A's Mike Warren no-hits Chicago White Sox, 3-0
1984 - "(What) In Name Of Love" by Naked Eyes peaks at #39
1984 - "Cruel Summer" by Bananarama peaks at #9
1984 - "Drive" by Cars peaks at #3
1984 - "Layin' It On Line" by Jefferson Starship peaks at #66
1984 - "Let's Go Crazy" by Prince & Revolution peaks at #1
1984 - "Pretty Mess" by Vanity peaks at #75
1984 - "Torture" by Jacksons peaks at #17
1984 - "When You Close Your Eyes" by Night Ranger peaks at #14
1984 - "Yes Or No" by Go-Go's peak at #84
1984 - Elizabeth Taylor, undergoing rehabilitation at the Betty Ford Clinic
1985 - "Alfred Hitchcock Presents," returns to NBC-TV
1985 - "Amazing Stories," by Steven Spielberg, debuts on NBC-TV
1985 - "MacGyver," starring Richard Dean Anderson, debuts on ABC-TV
1985 - 1st of 5 cyanide-laced Tylenol victims dies
1985 - Deron Cherry, Kansas City vs Seattle, has 4 interceptions!
1985 - Houston QB Warren Moon sacked NFL tying record 12 times (by Cowboys)
1986 - "Airwolf," TV Adventure; moves to USA
1986 - "Designing Women," TV Comedy, debuts on CBS
1986 - Cubs Greg Maddux defeats Phillies Mike Maddux (1st rookie brothers)
1986 - Indians Jay Bell is 10th to hit a HR on 1st major league pitch he sees
1986 - Mary Lou Retton retires as a gymnast
1986 - USSR releases US journalist Nicholas Daniloff confined on spy charges
1987 - "Didn't We Almost Have It All," by Whitney Houston hits #1
1987 - "thirtysomething," debuts on ABC-TV
1987 - 8th Emmy Sports Award presentation
1987 - NY Yankee Don Mattingly hits record 6th grand slam of year
1988 - 26th Space Shuttle mission, Discovery 7 launched
1988 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1988 - Florence Griffith Joyner of USA sets 200m woman's record (21.34)
1988 - UN peacekeeping forces win Nobel Peace prize
1988 - Union Station reopens in Wash DC
1989 - Glenn Frey joins Don Henley on-stage (for 1st time since 1981)
1989 - Zsa Zsa Gabor convicted of slapping a police officer in Beverly Hills
1990 - "Love & Affection" by Nelson peaks at #1 on pop singles chart
1990 - "Street Scene" closes at NY State Theater NYC after 6 perfs
1990 - Reds are 1st NL team to clinch title, staying in 1st place all year
1990 - US Sect of State James Baker meets with Vietnam's foreign minister
1990 - Washington National Cathedral construction is completed after 83 years
1990 - "Millie's Book" written by 1st Lady Barbara Bush for president's dog is a best-selling non-
           fiction book
1990 - The YF-22, which would later become the F-22 Raptor, flies for the first time.
1991 - "My Own Private Idaho" premieres
1991 - 29th Ryder Cup: US beats Europe, 14½-13½ at Ocean Course (South Carolina, US)
1991 - Pat Bradley wins MBS LPGA Golf Classic
1992 - Atlanta Braves wins 2nd straight NL West title
1992 - Magic Johnson announces return to play basketball (he doesn't)
1992 - Parliament suspends president Fernando Collor
1993 - "Grace Under Fire," starring Brett Butler debuts on ABC-TV
1993 - 27th Country Music Association Award: Vince Gill wins
1994 - 1st phase of OJ Simpson murder trial jury selection ends (304 chosen)
1994 - House votes to end lobbyists buying meals & entertainment for Congress
1994 - Pointer Sisters receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
1995 - Indians break 1902 Pirates record for largest lead over 2nd-place team (KC) (27½ games)
1995 - OJ Simpson trial sent to the jury
1995 - Saleem Elahi scores century on ODI debut, Pakistan v Sri Lanka
1995 - US space probe Ulyssus completes 2nd passage behind Sun
1996 - "Delicate Balance" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC
1996 - 34th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats Spain in Atlantic City USA (5-0)
1996 - Alanis Morissette ends her 1st US tour (Houston Texas)
1996 - Balt Orioles end season with record 257 HRs
1996 - Houston Astro's retire Nolan Ryan's #34
1996 - Nintendo 64 video game system debuts in USA (3 months after Japan)
1996 - Orioles Brady Anderson is 14th to hit 50 HRs
1996 - SD Padres sweep LA Dodgers in race for NL West title
1996 - Trish Johnson wins LPGA Fieldcrest Cannon Golf Classic
1996 - US wins Federation Cup over Spain
1997 - Jury selection in Terry Nichols Oklahoma bombing trial begins
2001 - The Syracuse Herald-Journal, a U.S. newspaper dating back to 1839, ceases publication.
2003 - Hurricane Juan makes landfall in Nova Scotia.
2004 - The asteroid 4179 Toutatis passes within four lunar distances of Earth.
2004 - The Burt Rutan Ansari X Prize entry SpaceShipOne performed a successful spaceflight, the
           first of two needed to win the prize.
2005 - Chicago White Sox clinch their first division title since 2000 and become just the 10th team in
           the history of baseball to be in first place on every day of the season
2005 - Amnesty referendum in Algeria.
2006 - US Representative Mark Foley resigns after allegations of inappropriate emails to house pages
           were introduced.
2007 - Calder Hall, the world's first commercial nuclear power station, the magnox reactor and Calder
           hall was demolished in a controlled explosion.
2008 - Following the bankruptcies of Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual, The Dow Jones
           Industrial Average falls 777.68 points, the largest single-day point loss in its history.
2009 - An 8.0 magnitude earthquake near the Samoan Islands causes a tsunami .

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Post by: MysteRy on September 29, 2013, 10:53:15 AM

This Day in History for 29th September


Famous Weddings

1930 - Singer and actor Bing Crosby marries Dixie Lee
1934 - Rondo Hatton weds Mabel Housh
1949 - George Lascelles marries Maria Stein
1990 - Brook Yeaton weds Traci Lords
2001 - Singer-actress Jennifer Lopez (32) weds dancer/choreographer Cris Judd (32) in Calabasas,
           California
2006 - Prince Louis of Luxembourg (20) weds Tessy Antony (26) at a parish church in Gilsdorf,
           Luxembourg
2007 - Olympic downhill skier Lindsey Kildow (23) weds former Olympic skier Thomas Vonn (31) at
           the Silver Lake Lodge in Deer Valley, Utah
2009 - American Idol's first runner-up Justin Guarini (30) weds Reina Capodici (27) in Doylestown,
           Pennsylvania
2012 - Academy Award-winning actress Anne Hathaway (29) weds actor-turned-jewelry designer
           Adam Shulman (31) in Big Sur, California
2012 - "Fall Out Boy" lead singer Patrick Stump (28) weds longtime girlfriend Elisa Yao in Chicago
2012 - "Kings of Leon" bassist Jared Followill (25) weds model Martha Patterson (21) in Charlotte,
           Tennessee
2012 - "The Lovely Bones" actor Stanley Tucci (52) formally weds British literary agent Felicity Blunt
           at Middle Temple Hall in London

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 29, 2013, 10:54:13 AM

This Day in History for 29th September


Famous Divorces

2011 - "House M.D." actress Olivia Wilde (26) divorces Italian prince Tao Ruspoli (35) due to
           irreconcilable differences after 8 years of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 29, 2013, 11:01:48 AM

This Day in History for 29th September


Famous Birthdays

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Author                                                     Country Singer Jerry Lee Lewis (1935)
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547)


106 BC - Pompey the Great [Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus], Roman political and military leader ( 1st Triumvirate and Consul), (d. 48 BC)
1240 - Margaret of England, Queen consort of Scotland, (d. 1275)
1321 - John of Artois, Count of Eu, French soldier (d. 1387)
1328 - Joan of Kent, wife of Edward, the Black Prince (d. 1385)
1388 - Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence, son of Henry IV of England (d. 1421)
1402 - Ferdinand, the Saint, Portuguese slave of Fez/saint
1511 - Michael Servetus, Spain, physician (Christianism Rostituta)
1518 - Tintoretto, Italian painter
1547 - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spanish author and novelist (Don Quixote), (d. 1616)
1548 - William V, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1626)
1561 - Roomen, mathematician
1571 - Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Italian artist (d. 1610)
1583 - Johan VIII, the Younger, count of Nassau-Siegen/field marshall
1620 - John L baron of Elderen, 63rd prince-bishop of Luik (1688-94)
1636 - Thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1715)
1639 - Lord William Russell, English politician (d. 1683)
1640 - Antoine Coyzevox, French sculptor, baptized
1654 - Vincenz Lubeck, composer
1674 - Jacques Hotteterre, composer
1678 - Adrien-Maurice, 3rd duc de Noailles, French soldier (d. 1766)
1691 - Richard Challoner, English Catholic prelate (d. 1781)
1703 - François Boucher, French painter (d. 1770)
1714 - Peter A van de Parra, gov-gen of Neth-Indies (1761-75)
1718 - Nikita I Panin, Russian earl/diplomat (plot against Peter III)
1725 - Robert Clive, English explorer/founder (British empire in India)
1727 - Henry Harington, composer
1746 - Ernst Ludwig Gerber, composer
1753 - Johann Gottfried Schict, composer
1758 - Horatio Nelson, Burnham Thorpe Britain, naval hero (Trafalgar)
1786 - Guadalupe Victoria, 1st President of Mexico (d. 1843)
1794 - William Michael Rooke, composer
1803 - Charles-Francois Sturm, French mathematician (Sturm's Theorem)
1803 - Mercator Cooper, American sea captain (d. 1872)
1810 - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, London, novelist
1812 - Gopel, mathematician
1815 - Andreas Aschenbach, German painter/engraver
1829 - Bradley Tyler Johnson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1903
1829 - Giles Alexander Smith, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1876
1830 - John Parker Hawkins, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1914
1831 - John McAlister Schofield, Major General (Union volunteers)
1838 - Henry Hobson Richardson, St James LA, Romanesque revival architect
1842 - Louis J. Weichmann, chief witness in the trial of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (d.
           1902)
1843 - Mikhail Skobelev, Russian general (d. 1882)
1848 - Caroline Ardelia Yale, US, educated deaf
1849 - Ladislao Joseph Philip Paul Zavrtal, composer
1853 - Princess Thyra, daughter of Christian IX of Denmark (d. 1933)
1854 - Martin Pluddemann, composer
1855 - Michele Esposito, composer
1857 - Conrad T van Deventer, lawyer/2nd-Member of parliament
1858 - Leopoldo Mugnone, composer
1863 - Franz Zorell, German RC exegetist/lexicographer
1863 - Hugo Haase, German SPD-German parliament/revolutionary
1864 - Miguel de Unamuno Jugo, Bilbao Spain, philosopher (Ensayos, Teatro)
1867 - Philip Kleintjes, people's rights leader
1879 - Joaquin Nin y Castellanos, composer
1881 - Ludwig von Mises, Austrian Economist
1884 - Boris Asafiev, composer
1887 - Billy Bevan, Orange Australia, actor (White Sin)
1891 - Gerda Bjorne, Varmland Sweden, actress (Familjen Bjork, Hemsoborna)
1893 - Fabien Sevitzky, Vishny Volotchok Russia, conductor (Phila Orch)
1893 - Phillip Tead, Somerville Mass, actor (Lightnin', Fighting Blade)
1894 - Franco Capuana, composer
1895 - Joseph Banks Rhine, Penn, parapsychologist (Extra-Sensory Perception)
1895 - Louise Granville, Sydney Australia, entertainer
1895 - Roscoe Turner, American aviator and racer (d. 1970)
1897 - Herbert Agar, American journalist and historian (d. 1980)
1898 - Trofim Lysenko, Stalinist biologist (d. 1976)
1899 - Billy Butlin, South Africa, holiday camp promoter
1899 - Jolie Gabor, mother of Magda, Zsa Zsa, & Eva
1900 - Miguel Alemán Valdés, President of Mexico (d. 1983)
1901 - Enrico Fermi, Rome, US physicist, gone fission/fermium (Nobel-1938)
1901 - Lanza del Vasto, Italian philosopher and activist (d. 1981)
1903 - Karl August Andersen, composer
1903 - Ted Decorsia, Brooklyn New York, American actor (Police Chief Hegedorn-Steve Canyon)
1904 - Dorothy Emmet, philosopher
1904 - Greer Garson, British actress (d. 1996)
1905 - Francis Joseph Quinn, academic
1907 - Gene Autry, Tioga Tx, cowpoke/singer/actor/owner (California Angels)
1907 - Michael Shepley, Plymouth England, actor (Dick & the Duchess)
1907 - Richard Harkness, Artesian SD, newscaster (Story of the Week, NBC)
1908 - Greer Garson, North Ireland, actress (Pride & Prejudice, Chips)
1908 - James Norman Dalrymple Anderson, lawyer
1908 - Eddie Tolan, American athlete (d. 1967)
1909 - Andrew Herron, Moderator (General Assembly of Church of Scotland)
1910 - Virginia Bruce, actress (Action in Arabia)
1911 - Reginald Victor Jones, CH, FRS natural philosopher
1912 - Lukas Ammann, Basel, actor (Day of Anger, Class Reunion, Palace Hotel)
1912 - Michelangelo Antonioni, Ferrara Italy, director (Blow-up, Red Desert)
1912 - Viscount Lambert
1913 - Silvio Piola, soccer star
1913 - Stanley E Kramer, NYC, producer/director (Inherit the Wind)
1915 - Ann Nagel, Boston MA, actress (Don Winslow of the Navy)
1915 - Brenda Marshall, Philippines, actress (Sea Hawk, Paris After Dark)
1915 - Vincent DeDomenico, American entrepreneur (d. 2007)
1916 - Carl Ronald Giles, cartoonist
1916 - Minao Shibata, composer
1916 - Trevor Howard, England, actor (Mutiny on Bounty, Ryan's Daughter)
1918 - Don Castle, TX, actor (Born to Speed, Tombstone, Motor Patrol)
1918 - Harold Laurence Walters, composer
1919 - Masao Takemoto, Japan, gymnist (Olympic-gold-1960)
1920 - Sergei F Bondarchuk, director/actor (Boris Godunov, Step, Otello)
1920 - Vaclav Neummann, conductor
1920 - Peter D. Mitchell, English chemist, Nobel laureate
1921 - Miklos Jancso, Vac Hungry, director (Muzsika, Aube, Pacifist)
1922 - Lizabeth Scott, Scranton, Pa, actress (Dark City, Desert Fury)
1923 - Ellen Malcolm, painter
1923 - O A "Bum" Phillips, football coach (Houston Oilers/New Orlean Saints)
1924 - David Atkinson, British air marshal
1925 - Steve Forrest, Huntsville, Texas, American actor (Ben-Dallas, SWAT), (d. 2013)
1925 - John Balcombe, Lord Chief Justice of Appeal
1925 - John Tower, (Sen-R-Tx)
1925 - Trevor Hughes, water engineer
1926 - Phyllis Taylor, educationist
1927 - Adhemar Ferreira da Silva, Brazil, triple jumper (Olympic-gold-52, 56)
1927 - Paul McCloskey, (Sen-R-California)
1928 - Ankie [Johanna A Hoving-]Peypers, Dutch author/poet
1928 - Lord Avebury [Eric Reginald Lubbock], English politician (Liberal MP for Orpington 1962-70)
1929 - Murray McLaggan, British Lord-Lieutenant (Mid Glamorgan)
1930 - Colin Dexter, author
1930 - Morag Timbury, director (Central Public Health Laboratory)
1930 - Peter Miller, CEO (Lloyd's of London)
1930 - Ramnath Kenny, cricketer (batted in 5 Tests for India in 1950's)
1930 - Richard Bonynge, Sydney Australia, conductor (Aust Orch Sydney-1976)
1930 - Billy Strange [William], Long Beach, California, singer-songwriter (A Little Less Conversation),
           (d. 2012)
1931 - Anita Ekberg, Malmö Sweden, actress (La Dolce Vita)/Miss Sweden (1950)
1931 - E S Orr Ewing, Lord-Lieutenant of Wigtown
1931 - Eddie Barth, Phila, actor (Shaft, Simon & Simon)
1931 - James Watson Cronin, nuclear physicist
1931 - Joseph M McDade, (Rep-R-Pennsylvania, 1963- )
1932 - Canon Paul Oestreicher, CEO (British section, Amnesty International
1932 - Jeremy Isaacs, general director (Royal Opera House, Covent Garden)
1932 - Mary Moon, Headmistress (Manchester High School for Girls)
1932 - Peter Stormonth Darling, CEO (Mercury Asset Management Group)
1932 - Robert Benton, Texas, writer/director (Kramer vs Kramer)
1932 - Ronald B Kitaj, US/British painter/graphic artist (pop art)
1932 - Mehmood, Indian actor (d. 2004)
1933 - Samora Machel, president Mozambique (1975-86)
1934 - Lance Gibbs, cricketer (prolific West Indian off-spinner, 309 wickets)
1934 - Lindsay Kline, cricketer (Australian chinaman bowler Hat-trick 1957)
1934 - Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, Psychology professor
1935 - David Hannay, diplomat
1935 - Jerry Lee Lewis, Feriday La, country singer (Whole Lotta Shakin')
1936 - Michael Partridge, British civil servant
1936 - Mylene Demongeot, Nice France, actress (3 Murderesses)
1936 - Silvio Berlusconi, former Prime Minister of Italy
1937 - Alice Mahon, British MP
1937 - R B Heywood, director (British Antarctic Survey)
1938 - Henry Keswick, British businessman (CEO-Jardine Matheson Holdings Ltd)
1938 - Mike McCormick, MLB Pitcher (SF Giants, Cy Young 1967)
1938 - Wim Kok, NVV/FNV-chairman/Dutch soc-dem party-premier (1994- )
1939 - Eberhard Koellner, German DR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 31 backup)
1939 - Larry Linville, Ojai California, actor (Frank Burns-M*A*S*H, Blue Movie)
1939 - Tommy Boyce, songwriter (Boyce & Hart)
1939 - Molly Haskell, American film critic
1939 - Jim Baxter, Scottish footballer (d. 2001)
1940 - Jimmy Knapp, trade unionist
1940 - John Dawes, rugby coach
1940 - Mike Eischeid, NFL punter (Oakland Raiders)
1940 - Nicola Di Bari, Italian singer
1941 - Colin Niven, Headmaster (Alleyn's School)
1941 - David Steele, cricketer (England batsman, courageous v Lillee 1975)
1941 - Don Nix, US saxophonist (Last Night)
1941 - Kermit Zarley, Seattle WA, PGA golfer (1970 Canadian Open)
1942 - Donna Corcoran, Quincy Mass, actress (Man Without a Star)
1942 - Ian McShane, Blackburn England, actor (Roots, Bare Essence)
1942 - Jean-Luc Ponty, France, fusion violinist (Frank Zappa)
1942 - Madeline Kahn, Boston Mass, actress (Young Frankenstein, High Anxiety)
1942 - Rajinder Goel, cricketer (slow lefty who didn't play for India)
1942 - Steve Tesich, screenwriter/playwright
1942 - William Nelson, (Rep-D-Fla, 1979- )/astronaut (STS 61C)
1942 - Felice Gimondi, Italian cyclist
1942 - Bill Nelson, American politician
1943 - Lech Walesa, Popowo Poland, leads Polish Solidarity (Nobel 1983)
1943 - Manuel Fernandez, rocker
1943 - Peter Rigby, CEO (Specialist Computer Holdings)
1943 - Mohammad Khatami, former President of Iran
1943 - Gary Boyd Roberts, American genealogist
1944 - Mike Post, composer (Rockford Files, Hill St Blues, Magnum PI)
1944 - Tommy Boyce, songwriter (Boyce & Hart, Monkees)
1944 - Torben Jensen, Denmark, actor (Taxa, Hayfever, Watch Me Fly, Guldregn)
1945 - Kyriacos Sfetsas, composer
1945 - Nadezhda Chizova, USSR, shot putter (Oly-gold/silv/bronze-68/72/76)
1945 - Sarah Tyacke, Keeper of British Public Records
1945 - Tatiana Tauer, harpist
1946 - Alasdair Fraser, QC/director (Public Prosecutions for N Ireland)
1946 - Nick Taylor, singer/guitarist (Bloodrock)
1946 - Patricia Hodge, actress (Heat of the Day, Shell Seekers, Sunset)
1947 - Altie Taylor, soccer star
1947 - Jon Snow, British TV journalist (Channel 4)
1947 - Lyndon Harrison, MEP
1947 - R J Evans, FBA, historian
1947 - Martin Ferrero, American actor
1948 - Bryant Gumbel, New Orleans La, sportscaster/TV host (Today Show)
1948 - John M McHugh, (Rep-R-NY)
1948 - Mark Farner, Mich, guitar/vocalist (Grand Funk Railroad-Locomotion)
1948 - Mike Pinear, rock guitarist (Iron Butterfly)
1948 - Viktor Krovopouskov, USSR, sabres/fencer (Olympic gold, individual and team, 1976, 1980)
1948 - Theo Jörgensmann, German jazz clarinetist
1949 - Steve Busby, footballer
1949 - Tony Hoty, Cleve OH, actor (Ransom, Paper)
1949 - George Dalaras, Greek singer
1951 - David Murray, cricketer (WI wicket-keeper)
1951 - Michelle Bachelet, President of Chile
1951 - Andrés Caicedo, Colombian writer (d. 1977)
1951 - Maureen Caird, Australian hurdler
1951 - Mike Enriquez, Philippine broadcaster
1952 - Monika Zehrt, German DR, 400m runner (Olympic-gold-1972)
1952 - R A Hodges, archaeologist
1952 - Gabor Csupo, Hungarian-born animator
1952 - Max Sandlin, American politician
1953 - Drake Hogestyn, Ft Wayne Indiana, actor (7 Brides for 7 Brothers)
1953 - Jean-Claude Lauzon, Montreal, director/writer (Leola, Night Zoo)
1953 - Warren Cromartie, baseball player
1954 - Cindy Morgan, [Cichorski], Chicago Ill, actress (Tron)
1954 - Stephen Platt, editor (New Statesman & Society)
1955 - Ken Weatherwax, actor (Pugsley-Addams Family)
1955 - Mark Mitchell, actor (Larger than Life, Lift Off, Ground Zero)
1955 - Vicki Fergon, Palo Alto CA, LPGA golfer (1979 Lady Stroh's)
1955 - Benoît Ferreux, French actor
1956 - James Donald Halsell Jr, Monroe La, astronaut (STS 65, 74, 83, 94)
1956 - Sebastian Coe, Hammersmith, London, British 1500m runner (Olympic-gold-1980, 84)
1956 - Suzzy Roche, rocker (Roches)
1957 - Andrew "Dice" Clay, [Silverstien], comedian (Adv of Ford Fairlane)
1957 - Chris Broad, cricketer (prolific England opening batsman 1984-89)
1957 - Craig Lefferts, MLB Pitcher
1957 - Mari Wilson, British singer
1957 - Tim Flannery, DJ/MLB player (SD Padres)
1957 - Sokratis Malamas, Greek singer and composer
1959 - Leslie Graves, Silver City, New Mexico, American actress (Brenda-Capitol, Death Wish 2)
1960 - John MacBeth Paxson, NBA Guard (Chicago Bulls)
1960 - Rob Deer, MLB Outfielder (Milwaukee Brewers)
1960 - Wendy White, Atlanta Ga, tennis player
1961 - Julia Gillard, Australian politician
1962 - Roger Bart, American actor
1962 - Al Pitrelli, American musician, guitarist
1963 - Les Claypool, US funk metal singer/bassist (Primus-sorry on This)
1964 - Brad Lohaus, NBA forward/center (NY Knicks)
1964 - John Tucker, Windsor, NHL right wing (Tampa Bay Lightning)
1964 - Julie Peterson, Havre de Grace Md, playmate (Feb, 1987)
1965 - Fora van Leijenhorst, Curacaos/Neth dancer (Josephine)
1965 - Trent Yawney, Hudson Bay, NHL defenseman (Calgary Flames)
1966 - Hersey Hawkins, NBA guard (Seattle Supersonics, Olympic-bronze-1988)
1966 - Jason Gould, son of Barbra Striesand & Elliot Gould
1966 - Jill Whelan, Oakland Cal, actress (Vicki-Love Boat, Young & Restless)
1966 - Ken Norton Jr, NFL linebacker (Dallas Cowboys, SF 49ers)
1966 - Rudy Poeschek, Kamloops, NHL right wing (Tampa Bay Lightning)
1967 - Dave Silvestri, St Louis MO, infielder (NY Yankees, Montreal Expos)
1968 - Luke Goss, rocker (Bros-I Owe You Nothing)
1968 - Matt Goss, rocker (Bros-I Owe You Nothing)
1968 - Mika Hakkinen, racing driver
1968 - Patrick Burns, American television presenter
1968 - Samir Soni, Indian film actor
1969 - Erika Eleniak, Glendale Ca, playmate (Jul, 1989)/actress (Baywatch)
1969 - Kelly Robbins, Mt Pleasant MI, LPGA golfer (1995 McDonald's LPGA
1969 - Aleks Syntek, Mexican singer
1969 - Angelo Barretto, Filipino racecar driver
1970 - Chris Mims, NFL defensive end (San Diego Chargers)
1970 - Danny de Supervise, soccer player (FC Volendam)
1970 - Derrick Oden, NFL linebacker (Philadelphia Eagles)
1970 - Emily Lloyd, London England, actress (Wish You Were Here, In Country)
1970 - Joseph Hudson, Philadelphia PA, pitcher (Boston Red Sox)
1970 - Luke Bodensteiner, Iowa City Iowa, cross country skier (Olympics-1994)
1970 - Natasha Gregson Wagner, actress (Dark Horse, SFW)/Robert's daughter
1970 - Nicolas Pereira, Salto Uruguay, tennis pro
1970 - Tina Fischer, Bad Nauheim Germany, golfer (European Amat champ 1994)
1970 - Yoshihiro Tajiri, Japanese professional wrestler
1971 - Adrion Smith, CFL cornerback (Toronto Argonauts)
1971 - Derrick Davis, WLAF cornerback (Amsterdam Admirals)
1971 - Donald Smith, CFL cornerback (Toronto Argonauts)
1971 - Jay Kearney, WLAF receiver (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1971 - Ray Buchanan, NFL center (Indianapolis Colts)
1971 - Sibel Tüzün, Turkish singer
1971 - Mackenzie Crook, British actor and comedian
1972 - Butler By'not'e, NFL running back (Carolina Panthers)
1972 - Jorgen Jonsson, hockey forward (Team Sweden 1998)
1972 - Trent Zenkewicz, NFL defensive tackle (Atlanta Falcons)
1972 - Robert Webb, British actor, comedian, and writer
1972 - Oliver Gavin, British racing car driver
1973 - Joe Hulbig, American ice hockey player
1973 - Athanasios Michalopoulos, Greek volleyball player
1973 - Scout Niblett, British singer/songwriter
1974 - Danielle DuClos, actress (Midnight Run, Zits)
1974 - Brian Ash, American film producer
1975 - Heather Pease, Monterey California, synchronized swimmer (Olympics-gold-96)
1975 - Albert Celades, Spanish football player
1976 - Andriy Shevchenko, Ukrainian football player
1976 - Darren Byfield, English football player
1976 - Oscar Sevilla, Spanish cyclist
1977 - Won Bin, South Korean actor
1977 - Wade Brookbank, Canadian ice hockey player
1977 - Debelah Morgan, American R&B singer
1977 - Jake Westbrook, American baseball player
1978 - Mandy Groff, Miss Nebraska Teen USA (1996)
1978 - Mohini Bhardwaj, Phila, gymnast (alt-Olympics-96)
1978 - Gunner McGrath, American guitarist (Much the Same)
1978 - Kurt Nilsen, Norwegian singer
1979 - Takumi Beppu, Japanese cyclist
1979 - Shelley Duncan, American Baseball Player
1980 - Sarah Sucher, Miss Iowa Teen USA (1997)
1980 - Dallas Green, Canadian musician (Alexisonfire,City and Colour)
1980 - Zachary Levi, American actor
1980 - Patrick Agyemang, English footballer
1981 - Siarhei Rutenka, Belarusian handball player
1982 - Rob Smith, Irish musician and songwriter
1984 - Per Mertesacker, German football player
1985 - Calvin Johnson, American football player
1986 - Benoît Pouliot, Canadian ice hockey player
1986 - Mark Fraser, Canadian ice hockey player
1988 - Emily Evelyn Chase, daughter of Jayni & Chevy
1988 - Kevin Durant, American basketball player
1988 - Justin Nozuka, singer/songwriter
1999 - Juan Valentín Urdangarín y de Borbón, Spanish royal
2008 - Emma Tallulah Behn, member of the extended Norwegian royal family

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 29, 2013, 11:05:53 AM

This Day in History for 29th September


Famous Deaths

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American Politician                                     Vietnamese Politican
Tom Bradley (1998)                                  Nguyen Van Thieu (2001)


855 - Lotharius I, Romanian-French emperor (signed Treaty of Verdun), dies
1364 - Charles, Duke of Brittany
1530 - Andrea del Sato, [d'Agnolo di Franceszo], Italian painter, dies at 44
1560 - Gustaaf I, king of Sweden (1523-60), dies
1575 - Charles de Boisot, water beggar, dies in battle at about 45
1598 - Floris I van Pallandt, earl of Culemborg, dies at about 61
1619 - John Lippershey, inventor of telescope, buried
1637 - Lorenzo Ruiz, Filipino saint
1642 - René Goupil, French Catholic missionary, one of Canadian Martyrs (b. 1608)
1703 - Charles de Saint-Évremond, French soldier (b. 1610)
1800 - William Billings, US composer (Rose of Sharon), dies at 53
1800 - Michael Denis, Austrian poet (b. 1729)
1804 - Michael Hillegas, first Treasurer of the United States (b. 1728)
1833 - Ferdinand VII MF, king of Spain, dies
1862 - William "Bull" Nelson, Union general-major, murdered at 38
1864 - Hiram Burnham, US Union-colonel (Chancellorsville), dies in battle
1887 - Bernhard von Langenbeck, German surgeon (b. 1810)
1889 - Louis Faidherbe, French general (b. 1818)
1900 - Samuel Fenton Cary, congressman, prohibitionist (b. 1814)
1902 - Iosif Ivanovici, composer, dies
1902 - William Topaz McGonagall, British poet (b. 1825)
1904 - Niels Ryberg Finnen, Danish physician (Nobel 1903), dies
1908 - Joaquim M Machado de Assis, Brazil writer (Dom Casmurro), dies at 69
1910 - Winslow Homer, painter (Prout's Neck), dies
1913 - Rudolph C K Diesel, German constructer (Diesel Motor), dies at 55
1914 - Jean Bouin, French marathoner (Olympic-silver-1912), dies in battle
1915 - Luther Orlando Emerson, composer, dies at 95
1915 - Rudi Stephan, composer, dies at 28
1925 - E Runar Schildt, Finnish writer (Galgmannen), dies at 36
1925 - Leon VA Bourgeois, French premier (1895-96, Nobel 1920), dies at 74
1927 - Willem Einthoven, Dutch physiologist (Nobel-1924), dies at 67
1927 - Arthur Achleitner, German writer (b. 1858)
1928 - Arnold Kent, dies
1928 - Lido Manetti, dies
1928 - Steinitz, mathematician, dies
1929 - Giitji Tanaka, Japanese baron/general/premier (1927-29), dies at 66
1930 - Ilya Yefimovich Repin, Russian painter (b. 1844)
1933 - Margaret Talmadge, dies
1937 - Ray Ewry, jumper (Olympics-10 gold-1900, 04, 06, 08), dies at 63
1939 - Dickstein, mathematician, dies
1941 - Friedrich Angel, German mathematician (group theory), dies at 79
1950 - Balthazar H Verhagen, Neth/South African dramatist/writer, dies
1951 - Bradley Barker, dies
1951 - Thomas Cahill, American soccer coach (b. 1864)
1952 - John Cobb, British racing driver (b. 1899)
1958 - Aare Merikanto, composer, dies at 65
1959 - Bruce Bairnsfather, cartoonist, dies
1959 - Harold Huber, actor (I Cover Times Square), dies at 49
1961 - Reinhard Herbig, German archaeologist, dies at 63
1962 - Patrick Corry, developed self-rotating rock drill, dies in the Bronx
1964 - Robert Burton, actor (Dr Gordon-Kings Row), dies at 69
1966 - Maurits H E Uyldert, Dutch poet/writer (Motion), dies at 75
1967 - Carson McCullers, US author (Heart is a Lonely Hunter), dies at 50
1967 - Ludwig Donath, actor (Torn Curtain, Sirocco), dies of leukemia at 67
1970 - Edward Everett Horton, actor/narrator (Bulwinkle Show), dies at 84
1973 - W H Auden, Vienna poet, dies
1974 - John Smallenbroek, Dutch Internal minister, dies at 72
1975 - Casey Stengel, NY Yankee manager (1949-60), dies in Glendale at 85
1977 - Alexander Nikolayevich Tcherepnin, Russian composer, dies at 78
1978 - John Paul I, Pope for 34 days, dies at 65
1981 - Bill Shankly, Scottish football manager (b. 1913)
1982 - H C Slinger Nitschke, cricketer (2 Tests for Australia 1931-32), dies
1982 - Monty Stratton, baseball player (b. 1912)
1984 - Marnix Gijsen, [Jan-Al Goris], writer (Lament for Agnes), dies at 85
1986 - Betty Kean, actress (Amy Tucker-Leave it to Larry), dies at 69
1987 - Henry Ford II, president Ford Motor Co, dies at 70
1988 - Charles Addams, cartoonist (Addams Family), dies of heart attack at 76
1989 - A A Busch Jr, brewer/baseball owner (St Louis Cards), dies at 90
1989 - Gussie Busch, American brewing magnate (b. 1899)
1991 - Gijsbert Perlee, Amsterdam's organ builder/grinder (Arabian), dies
1991 - Sam Ntuli, South African ANC-writer, murdered
1991 - Zapata Jaw, [Nelson Renfrum], Surinamese musician, dies
1992 - Paul Jabara, singer/actor (Last Dance), dies of AIDS at 44
1993 - Ghuslam Wyne, premier of Lahore Pakistan, murdered at 60
1993 - Gordon Douglas, director (Call Me Mr Tibbs, Our Gang), dies at 85
1994 - Cheb Hasni, Algerian singer, murdered at 26
1994 - Don Watson, race car driver, dies in an accident at 46
1994 - John Heddle Nash, singer, dies at 68
1994 - Mehmet Topac, Turkish minister of Justice, murdered
1995 - Francis Frederick Johnson, architect, dies at 84
1995 - George Chesterman Phillips, naval Officer, dies at 90
1995 - Karl Anton Martin Gerhard Gerd Bucerius, publisher, dies at 89
1995 - Seger Pillot Ellis, pianist/vocalist, dies at 91
1995 - Susan Maureen Fleetwood, actress (Krays, Clash of Titans), dies at 51
1996 - Endo Shusaku, Japanese writer (Sea & Poison/Silence), dies at 73
1996 - Ethel Jane Cain, original UK Speaking Clock voice, dies at 87
1996 - Leslie Crowther, entertainer, dies at 63>>
1997 - Milner Connorton Gray, designer, dies at 97
1997 - Robert Arthur Thornbury Campbell, journalist/musician, dies at 55
1997 - Roy Lichtenstein, pop artist, dies of pneumonia at 73
1998 - Tom Bradley, Mayor of Los Angeles, dies at 80
1998 - Jared High, victim of bullying and suicide (b. 1985)
2001 - Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, President of South Vietnam (b. 1923)
2002 - Edmund Trebus, probably best known for his appearance on A Life of Grime (b. 1918)
2004 - Richard Sainct, French motorcycle rally rider (b. 1970)
2005 - Austin Leslie, American chef, the "Godfather of Fried Chicken" (b. 1934)
2006 - Michael A. Monsoor, a United States Navy SEAL killed in Iraq and posthumously awarded the
           Medal of Honor.
2006 - Jan Werner Danielsen, Norwegian singer (b. 1976)
2006 - Khalique Ibrahim Khalique, Pakistani journalist and Urdu poet and critic (b. 1926)
2006 - Louis-Albert Cardinal Vachon, French Canadian Catholic archbishop of Quebec (b. 1912)
2006 - Walter Hadlee, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1915)
2007 - Lois Maxwell, Canadian actress (b. 1927)
2009 - Sperantza Vrana, Greek actress (b. 1926 or 1932)
2009 - Pavel Popovich, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1930)
2010 - Tony Curtis, American Actor (b. 1925)
2010 - Greg Giraldo, American comedian (Comedy Central Roast) (b.1965)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 30, 2013, 09:42:53 AM

This Day in History for 30th September


Historical Events

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Fictional Character                                   Military and Political Leader                 Author and Nobel Laureate 
Robinson Crusoe                                       Simon Bolivar                                             Maurice Maeterlinck

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32nd US President                                   US Admiral Chester Nimitz                   Nazi Politician Hermann Goering
Franklin D. Roosevelt

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US President                                             Farm Labor Leader                            Baseball Player Roberto Clemente
John F. Kennedy                                       Cesar Chavez

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Iraqi President                                      Radio shock jock Howard Stern                  Baseball Player Derek Jeter
Saddam Hussein 


1199 - Rambam (Maimonides) authorizes Samuel Ibn Tibbon to translate Guide of Perplexed from
           Arabic into Hebrew
1399 - King Richard II of England abdicates throne
1452 - 1st book published, Johann Guttenberg's Bible
1520 - Suleiman I succeeds his father Selam I as sultan of Turkey
1544 - King Henry VIII draws his armies out of France
1555 - Oxford Bishop Nicholas Ridley sentenced to death as a heretic
1619 - Remonstrant Society forms in Antwerp
1626 - Battle between king Bethlen Gabor & earl Mansfeld-Wallenstein ends
1649 - Last Swedish troops vacate Prague
1659 - Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked (according to Daniel Defoe)
1659 - Peter Stuyvesant of New Netherlands forbids tennis playing during religious services (1st
           mention of tennis in US)
1681 - Netherlands & Sweden sign treaty
1730 - Duke Victor Amadeus XI of Savoye resigns
1744 - France and Spain defeat the Kingdom of Sardinia at the Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo.
1777 - Congress, flees to York Pa, as British forces advance
1787 - 1st US voyage around the world - Columbia leaves Boston
1791 - Mozart's opera "Magic Flute" premieres in Vienna
1791 - The National Constituent Assembly in Paris is dissolved; Parisians hail Maximilien Robespierre
           and Jérôme Pétion as incorruptible patriots.
1805 - Napoleons army draws into the Rhine
1808 - Covent Garden Theatre Royal destroyed by fire
1813 - Battle of Bárbula: Simón Bolívar defeats Santiago Bobadilla
1818 - Congress of Aken: Russia, Austria, Prussia, France & England
1841 - Samuel Slocum patented the stapler
1846 - Anesthetic ether used for 1st time (Dr Wm Morton extracts a tooth)
1857 - US occupies Sand, Baker, Howland & Jarvis Is south of Hawaii
1862 - First Battle of Newtonia (American Civil War), Newton County, Missouri
1864 - Battle of Preble's Farm VA (Poplar Springs Church)
1864 - Black Soldiers given Medal of Honor
1867 - Midway Islands formally declared a US possession
1868 - Spain's Queen Isabella is deposed, flees to France
1877 - 1st US amateur swim meet (NY Athletic Club)
1878 - 1st Portuguese immigrants arrive in Hawaii
1880 - Henry Draper takes that 1st photograph of Orion Nebula
1885 - Bechuanaland becomes a British protectorate
1887 - Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure "Five Orange Pips" (BG)
1887 - Volunteer (US) beats Thistle (Scotland) in 8th America's Cup
1888 - "Jack the Ripper" butchers 2 more women, Liz Stride & Kate Eddowes
1895 - France proclaims a protectorate over Madagascar
1898 - City of NY established
1903 - New Gresham's School officially opened by Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood.
1904 - White Sox lefty Doc White, pitches his 5th shutout in 18 days
1906 - Real Academia Galega, Galician language biggest linguistic authority starts working in Havana.
1907 - Cards Ed Konetchy steals home twice & Joe Delahanty also steals home for record 3 steals of
           home (vs Boston)
1908 - Maurice Maeterlinck's "L'oiseau Blue," premieres in Moscow
1915 - Red Sox clinch AL pennant by beating Detroit
1916 - Giants lose to Braves 8-3, ends 26 consecutive win streak
1919 - Avery Hopwood's "Gold Diggers," premieres in NYC
1919 - Race riot at Elaine Arkansas
1920 - Time Square Theater opens at 217 W 42nd St NYC
1922 - Government of Alexandros Zaimis forms in Greece
1922 - Yanks clinch pennant #2, beating Boston 3-1
1923 - Canton Bulldogs win 1st on way to 17-0 season
1924 - Allies stop checking on German navy
1925 - General Pangulos disbands Greek parliament
1926 - German/French/Belgian/Luxembourg steel cartel closes
1927 - Babe Ruth hits record setting 60th HR (off Tom Zachary)
1928 - Le Sifflet publishes 1st precursor of Kuifje (Tintin)
1928 - Leon Vanderstuyft of Belgium cycles record 76 mi 604 yds in 1 hr
1929 - 1st manned rocket plane flight (by auto maker Fritz von Opel)
1931 - Start of "Die Voortrekkers" youth movement for Afrikaners in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
1933 - Berlin/Hart/Heyman/Myers ballet "As Thousands Cheer," premieres in NYC
1934 - Babe Ruth's final game as a Yankee, goes 0 for 3
1934 - FDR dedicates Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam)
1934 - St Louis Card clinch pennant as Dizzy Dean wins his 30th of year
1935 - Gershwin's "Porgy & Bess" premieres in Boston
1935 - The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is
           dedicated.
1936 - Intl Commission of Straits (Dardanelles & Bosphorus) ends
1936 - Pinewood Studios opens in Buckinghamshire England
1937 - 6th Ryder Cup: US, 8-4 at Southport & Ainsdale, England
1938 - British premier Chamberlain arrives in Munich
1938 - Munich Agreement-forced Czechoslovakia to give territory to Germany
1939 - 1st televised college football game (Fordham vs Waynesburg at NYC)
1939 - 41 U-boats sunk this month (153,000 ton)
1939 - Germany & Russia agree to partition Poland
1939 - White Sox reliever Clint Brown sets record of 61st relief appearance
1939 - Britain first evacuates citizens in anticipation of war.
1940 - 47 German aircrafts shot down above England
1940 - 59 U-boats sunk this month (295,000 tons)
1941 - 3,721 Jews are buried alive at Babi Yarravine (near Kiev) Ukraine
1941 - 53 U-boats sunk this month (202,000 tons)
1941 - German assault on Moscow: operation-Taifun, begins
1942 - 98 U-boats sunk this month (485,000 tons)
1942 - Admiral Nimitz B-17 finds Guadalcanal using National Geographic map
1942 - SS exterminates 3,500 Jews in Zelov Lodz Poland in 6 week period
1943 - Pope Pius XII encyclical on Divine spirit
1944 - -Oct 1] Failed attack on German officers near Putten Neth
1944 - Calais reoccupied by Allies
1944 - Dutch General Mine Workers Union (ABWM) forms
1945 - Hank Greenberg's final day HR wins pennant for Tigers
1945 - Bourne End rail crash, Hertfordshire, England killed 43
1946 - 22 Nazi leaders found guilty of war crimes at Nuremberg
1946 - Von Ribbentrop & Hermann Goering sentenced to death by Nuremberg trial
1947 - Yanks beat Dodgers 5-3-largest WS crowd 73,365-1st WS televised
1949 - Berlin Airlift ends after 277,000 flights
1949 - Pirates Ralph Kiner hits his 54th HR & NL record 16th in September
1950 - 1st congress of International Astronautical Federation opens in Paris
1950 - Radio's "Grand Ole Opry" is broadcasted on TV for 1st time
1950 - WSM TV channel 4 in Nashville, TN (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 - Auguste/Jacques Piccard dives with bathosphere to 3150 m (record)
1953 - Earl Warren appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
1953 - Robert Anderson's "Tea & Sympathy," premieres in NYC
1953 - WICS TV channel 20 in Springfield, IL (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 - WMT (now KGAN) TV channel 2 in Cedar Rapids-Waterloo, IA (CBS) begins
1954 - "Boy Friend" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 483 performances
1954 - Nautilus, 1st atomic-powered vessel (sub), commissioned by the Navy
1956 - Phillies Robin Roberts gives up a major league record 46th HR
1956 - White Sox Jim Derrington, 16, is youngest to start a game (he loses)
1957 - French government of Mauroy, resigns due to Algeria
1957 - WKYT TV channel 27 in Lexington, KY (CBS) begins broadcasting
1958 - French Guinee becomes independent republic Guinea
1958 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1960 - Flintstones premieres (1st prime time animation show)
1960 - On Howdy Doody's last show Clarabelle finally talks "Goodbye Kids"
1960 - West Germany signs trade agreement with East Germany
1961 - Bill for Boston Tea Party is paid by Mayor Snyder of Oregon who wrote a check for $196, the
           total cost of all tea lost
1962 - A's Bill Fischer ends 84 1/3 consec innings pitched without a walk
1962 - JFK routes 3,000 federal troops to Mississippi
1962 - James Meredith registers for classes at University of Mississippi
1962 - KCRL TV channel 4 in Reno, NV (NBC) begins broadcasting
1962 - KMEX TV channel 34 in Los Angeles, CA (IND) begins broadcasting
1962 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA San Diego Golf Open
1962 - NY Mets lose record 120th game as Cubs turn triple play & beat NY 5-1
1962 - Mexican-American labor leader César Chávez founds the United Farm Workers.
1963 - "Student Gypsy" opens at 84th St Theater NYC for 16 performances
1963 - 56th Postmaster General: John A Gronouski of Wis takes office
1964 - "Oh What a Lovely War" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 125 perfs
1965 - Donovan's 1st US TV appearance (Shindig)
1965 - LA Dodger Don Drysdale (23-12) wins 13th straight game, 7 by shutouts
1966 - Botswana (Bechuanaland) gains independence from Britain (Natl Day)
1966 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1967 - BBC starts their own popular music radio station
1967 - Palace of Fine Arts reopens (1st time during 1915 exposition)
1967 - USSR's Kosmos 186 & 188 complete 1st automatic docking
1968 - 1st Boeing 747 rolls out
1968 - AL & NL umpires form a new Association of Major League Umpires
1968 - Sharon Miller wins LPGA Seven Lakes Golf Invitational
1968 - Supremes release "Love Child"
1969 - Atlanta's 10th straight win, clinches NL West pennant
1970 - New American Bible published
1971 - -11/6] Rome: 3rd bishop synod
1971 - Last Wash Senator home game, Yanks win career 5th forfeit game Yanks trailing 4-2 in 9th
           with 2 outs, fans rush field
1972 - Passenger train derails killing 48 (Rust Stasie South Africa)
1972 - Roberto Clemente, is 11th to get 3,000 hits
1973 - 3rd NYC Women's Marathon won by Nina Kuscsik in 2:57:07
1973 - 4th NYC Marathon won by Tom Fleming in 2:21:54
1973 - Mel Gray begins NFL streak of 121 consecutive game receptions
1973 - Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Cameron Park Golf Open
1973 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1973 - Yanks close 50th year at Yankee Stadium losing 8-5, Ralph Houk
1973 - resigns as manager
1974 - Gen Francesco da Costa Gomez succeeds Gen Spinola as pres of Portugal
1975 - 5 drown in flash flood of sewer & water tunnel (Niagara Falls NY)
1975 - The Hughes (later McDonnell-Douglas, now Boeing) AH-64 Apache makes its first flight.
1977 - Dutch Antillean government-Evertsz resigns
1977 - Ringo releases "Ringo the 4th" album
1977 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1977 - Due to US budget cuts, the Apollo program's ALSEP experiment packages left on the Moon
           are shut down.
1977 - Philippine political prisoners, Eugenio Lopez, Jr. and Sergio Osmeña III successfully escaped
           from Fort Bonifacio Maximum Security Prison in the Philippines
1978 - Major Indoor Soccer League grants 1st 6 franchises to Cincinnati
1978 - Phillies clinch NL East title
1978 - Cleveland, Houston, NY, Philadelphia & Pittsburgh Phillies win 3rd consecutive NL East Division
           title
1979 - Milwaukee Brewers lose 5-0 ending 213 straight games without a shutout
1979 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Mary Kay Golf Classic
1980 - 1,754 turn out to see Phillies play NY Mets at Shea Stadium
1980 - A's Rickey Henderson sets AL stolen base record at 98 en route to 100
1980 - Iran rejects a truce call from Iraqi President Saddam Hussein
1980 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1980 - Ethernet specifications published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment
           Corporation.
1981 - Last game at Minn's Metropolitan Stadium, lose to KC 5-2
1981 - Seoul, South Korea is selected to host 1988 Summer Olympics
1982 - National railroad strike in Belgium
1984 - California Angels Michael Witt is 11th to pitch a perfect baseball game
1984 - Bowie Kuhn ends career as Baseball Commissioner
1984 - Browns set a team record for allowing most sacks (11), KC wins 10-6
1984 - California Angel Mike Witt, pitches a perfect game over Texas Rangers, 1-0
1984 - NY Yankee Don Mattingly wins AL batting crown with .343 avg
1985 - Howard Stern gets fired from WNBC AM (NY)
1986 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1986 - US releases soviet spy Gennadiy Zakharov
1986 - Mordechai Vanunu, who revealed details of Israel covert nuclear program to British media, was
           kidnapped in Rome, Italy.
1987 - Suriname constitution ratified
1988 - Andrei A Gromyko retires
1988 - Dave Stieb, loses 2nd consecutive no hitter bid with 2 outs in 9th
1988 - IBM announces shipment of 3 millionth PS/2 personal computer
1988 - Louise Ritter, US, jumps 6'8" to win Olympic gold medal
1988 - Robin Givens & Mike Tyson appear on Barbara Walter's Show
1988 - LA Dodger Orel Herschiser breaks former Dodger Don Drysdale mark by pitching 59
           consecutive scoreless innings
1989 - NASA closes down tracking stations in Hawaii & Ascension
1989 - Nolan Ryan's perfect game broken in 8th, but gets his 300th strikeout
1989 - Senegambia separates back into Gambia & Senegal
1989 - Toronto Blue Jays wins AL East title
1989 - Foreign Minister of West Germany Hans-Dietrich Genscher's speech from the balcony of the
           German embassy in Prague.
1990 - Chicago White Sox beat Seattle 2-1 in last game at Comiskey Park
1990 - Pittsburgh Pirates wins NL East title
1990 - The Dalai Lama unveils the Canadian Tribute to Human Rights in Canada's capital city of
           Ottawa.
1991 - Rev Jean Betrand Aristide ousted as president of Haiti
1992 - 26th Country Music Association Award: Garth Brooks wins
1992 - KC Royal George Brett gets 4 hits to become 18th to get 3,000 hits
1992 - Mariel Hemmingway appears nude on TV show Civil Wars
1993 - 6.4 earthquake at Latur, India, 28,000 killed
1993 - General Colin Powell retires at 56
1993 - MS Dos 6.2 released
1994 - NHL goes on strike
1994 - Space shuttle STS-68 (Endeavour 7), launches into orbit
1994 - Sylvestre Ntibantunganya elected president of Burundi
1994 - Vladimir Meciars HZDDS wins Slovakia parliamentary election
1995 - Cleve Indian Albert Belle hits his 50th home run of season
1997 - 1st time 3 cons HRs in post season-Raines, Jeter, O'Neill (NY Yankees)
1997 - Hooters agrees to pay $2 million in discrimination suits
1997 - Microsoft Corp releases Internet Explorer 4.0
1997 - Yanks Tim Raines, Derek Jeter & Paul O'Neill are 1st to hit 3 consecutively homers in post
           season (Yanks beat Indians 8-6)
1999 - Japan's worst nuclear accident at a uranium reprocessing facility in Tōkai-mura, northeast of
           Tokyo.
2004 - The first images of a live giant squid in its natural habitat are taken 600 miles south of Tokyo.
2004 - The AIM-54 Phoenix, the primary missile for the F-14 Tomcat, retired from service. Almost
           two years later, the Tomcat retires.
2005 - The Parliament of Catalonia passes with 120 plus votes and 15 against, the Project of New
           Catalan Statute of Autonomy, proclaiming in its article 1, "Catalonia is a nation".
2005 - The controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-
           Posten.
2006 - the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia adopted the Constitutional Act that
           proclaimed the new Constitution of Serbia.
2012 - Two opposition Venezuelan politicians are shot dead a week before the presidential election
2012 - Car bomb blasts kill at least 32 people across Iraq
2012 - Melbourne Storm defeat the Canterbury Bulldogs in the 2012 NRL Grand Final
2012 - Europe defeat the US 14.5-13.5 in the 39th Ryder Cup

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 30, 2013, 09:44:15 AM

This Day in History for 30th September


Famous Weddings

1968 - Jazz musician Miles Davis (42) weds singer Betty Mabry (23)
1977 - "Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom" author John Updike (45) weds Martha Bernhard
1995 - "Judging Amy" actress Amy Brenneman (31) weds TV and film director Brad Silberling (32)
2000 - Tennis star player Pete Sampras (29) weds actress and former Miss Teen USA Bridgette
           Wilson (27) in Los Angeles, California
2006 - Hanson pop rock Isaac Hanson (25) weds Nicole Dufresne (22) at the Philbrook Museum of
           Art in Tulsa
2006 - Actress Amanda Peet (34) weds screenwriter David Benioff (36) at Friends Seminary Quaker
           School in New York City
2011 - Paramore bassist Jeremy Davis (26) weds TV host and actress Kathryn Camsey in Las Vegas

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 30, 2013, 09:45:14 AM

This Day in History for 30th September


Famous Divorces

2010 - "CSI: Miami" actor Eddie Cibrian (36) divorces actress Brandi Glanville (37) due to irreconcilable
           differences after eight years of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 30, 2013, 09:52:53 AM

This Day in History for 30th September


Famous Birthdays

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Fictional Character                                  Jazz Drummer/Band Leader 
Robinson Crusoe (1627)                                 Buddy Rich (1917)


1207 - Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, Persian mystic and poet (d. 1273)
1227 - Pope Nicholas IV (d. 1292)
1530 - Geronimo Mercuriali, Italian philologist and physician (d. 1606)
1550 - Michael Maestlin, German mathematician (d. 1631)
1622 - Johann Sebastiani, composer
1627 - Robinson Crusoe, fictional character, according to Daniel Defoe
1631 - William Stoughton, American judge at the Salem witch trials (d. 1701)
1685 - Gunther Jacob Wenceslaus, composer
1700 - Stanisław Konarski, Polish writer (d. 1773)
1710 - John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford, British statesman (d. 1771)
1715 - Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, French philosopher (d. 1780)
1732 - Jacques Necker, French finance minister of Louis XVI (d. 1804)
1743 - Jeronymo Francisco de Lima, composer
1752 - Justin Heinrich Knecht, composer
1765 - José María Morelos, Mexican revolutionary (d. 1815)
1800 - Decimus Burton, British architect (d. 1881)
1805 - Samuel Peter Heintzelman, Major General (Union volunteers)
1808 - Lambertus GC Ledeboer, Dutch vicar (Folies-old Calvinist communities)
1811 - Augusta of Saxe-Weimar, Queen of Prussia and German Empress (d. 1890)
1824 - Peter Milne, composer
1827 - Carlo A Alfieri, Italian MP (Liberal)
1827 - Kenner Garrard, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1879
1827 - Ellis H. Roberts, American politician (d. 1918)
1832 - Frederick Sleigh "Bobs" Roberts, Brit gov of Natal (Ireland-Boer war)
1833 - Ferdinand von Saar, writer
1840 - Johan Severin Svendsen, composer
1847 - Wilhelmina E Drucker, [Lensing], Dutch feminist
1852 - Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish organist/composer
1856 - Andrejs Jurjans, composer
1857 - Hermann Sudermann, German writer (Honor, That Ehre, Frau Sorge)
1861 - William Wrigley Jr., American industrialist (Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company) (d. 1932)
1862 - Georgy Eduardovich Konyus, composer
1863 - Reinhard Scheer, German admiral (WW I)
1869 - Ernest Jones, cricket pace bowler (marvellous Aust at turn of century)
1870 - Jean Perrin, France, physicist, studied Brownian motion (Nobel 1926)
1870 - Thomas W. Lamont, American banker; father of Corliss Lamont; great-grandfather of Ned
           Lamont (d. 1948)
1871 - John Fabricius, Neth/English stageauthor (Ring of Prophet)
1871 - Ruben Mattias Liljefors, composer
1876 - Katherine Griffith, SF CA, actress (Pollyanna, Fast Company)
1879 - Ernst Isler, composer
1879 - Henri Casadesus, French violist and composer (Viola d'amour)
1882 - George Bancroft, Phila, actor (Underworld)/wife of Octavia Brooke
1883 - Robert H Lightfoot, English theologist/exegetist (St John's Gospel)
1883 - Bernhard Rust, Nazi education minister (d. 1945)
1887 - Lil Dagover [Marta-Maria Lillits], Madiun, Java, Dutch-born German actress (Spiders)
1893 - Lansdale Sasscer, American politician (d. 1964)
1894 - Dirk J Bush, Dutch/US mathematician (Concise History of Mathematics)
1895 - Lewis Milestone, Russian-born film director (d. 1980)
1898 - Felix Kersten, Baltic-German/Finnish masseuse (Heinrich Himmler)
1898 - Johannes Rontgen, composer
1898 - Renée Adorée, French actress (d. 1933)
1898 - Princess Charlotte of Monaco (d. 1977)
1899 - Hendrik Marsman, Dutch poet/writer/critic
1900 - Otto Roesch, paleontologist
1902 - Piet[er J] "Piet" Lieftinck, Dutch minister of Finance (1945-52)
1904 - Frank Lawton, London England, actor (Devil Doll, Invisible Ray)
1905 - Michael Powell, English director/screen writer/producer (Red Shoes)
1905 - Nevill Francis Mott, physicist
1905 - Ralph Forbes, London England, actor (Romeo & Juliet, Daniel Boone)
1906 - Eamonn O Gallagher, composer
1906 - John I M Stewart, British detective writer (Comedy of Terrors)
1906 - Michael John Innes Mackintosh Stewart Innes, writer
1907 - Arnold Elston, composer
1908 - David Oistrakh, Odessa Russia, violinist/prof (Moscow Conservatory)
1908 - Edzard H Schaper, German/Swiss sailor/UP-correspondent/antifascist
1912 - Kenny Baker, radio singer/actor (Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back)
1912 - Oliver Charles Anderson, novelist
1915 - Lester Garfield Maddox, (Gov-D-Ga)/restaurant owner
1915 - Robert Morris, lawyer
1917 - Buddy Rich, New York, American jazz drummer and band leader (Buddy Rich Band-Away We
           Go), (d. 1987)
1917 - Chung Hee Park, general/pres of S Korea (1961-79), assassinated
1917 - Yuri "Petrovich" Lyubimov, USSR, director (Taganka)
1918 - Lewis Nixon, WWII Veteran (d. 1996)
1919 - Patricia Neway, Brooklyn New York, American soprano (Consul, Maria Golovia), (d. 2012)
1919 - Richard Selwyn Francis Schiling, professor of occupational health
1919 - Roberto Bonomi, Argentine racing driver (d. 1992)
1920 - Donald Keech, entrepreneur
1920 - Ghazar Saryan, composer
1920 - Aldo Parisot, Brazilian-American musician and cellist
1921 - Deborah Kerr, Helensburg Scotland, actress (King & I, Night of Iguana)
1921 - Eileen Zhang Ailing Chang, writer
1922 - Allan Rae, cricketer (prolific WI opening batsman 1948-53)
1922 - Alan Stretton, Australian general
1924 - Charles Quinlivan, Jersey City NJ, actor (7 Guns to Mesa)
1924 - Truman Capote, New Orleans LA, author (In Cold Blood)
1925 - Gwyn A Williams, historian/socialist
1926 - Peder Holm, composer
1926 - Robin Roberts, pitcher (Phillies, Won 28 in 1952)
1927 - W. S. Merwin, American poet
1928 - Elie Wiesel, Romania, author (Souls on Fire)/Nazi hunter (Nobel 1986)
1930 - Ben Cooper, Hartford CT, actor (Rose Tattoo, Outcast, Arizona Raiders)
1931 - Angie Dickinson, [Angeline Brown], Kulm ND, actress (Police Woman)
1931 - Ray Willsey, Regina Sask, WLAF def coordinator (Frankfurt, Scotland)
1932 - Shintaro Ishihara, Japanese author and politician (Governor of Tokyo)
1932 - Johnny Podres, American baseball player (d. 2008)
1933 - Mars Zakirovich Rafikov, Russian cosmonaut
1934 - Udo Jürgens, Austrian singer
1934 - Anna Kashfi, Welsh actress
1935 - Jill Corey, Avonmore Pa, singer (Your Hit Parade)
1935 - Johnny Mathis, SF, voclaist (Chances Are, 12th of Never)
1936 - Butler Derrick, (Rep-D-SC, 1974- )
1936 - James R Sasser, (Sen-D-Tenn, 1977- )
1937 - Jurek Becker, writer
1937 - Valentin Vasil'yevich Sil'vestrov, composer
1938 - Salvatore Michael Caruana, Mass, criminal (FBI Most Wanted List)
1939 - Len Cariou, Winnipeg Manitoba, actor (Four Seasons-Sherry)
1939 - Piet M Blauw, Dutch MP (VVD)
1940 - Harry Winston Jerome, Sask Canada, 100m runner (Olympic-bronze-1964)
1942 - Dewey Martin, Canada, rock vocalist/drummer (Buffalo Springfield)
1942 - Frankie Lymon, NYC, rocker (The Teenagers-Why do Fools Fall in Love)
1942 - Gus Dudgeon, British pop producer (Joan Armatrading, David Bowie)
1942 - Sture Pettersson, Sweden, cyclist (Olympic-silver-1968)
1943 - Jody Powell, press mouthpiece (Jimmy Carter)
1943 - Marilyn McCoo, Jersey City NJ, host/singer (Solid Gold, 5th Dimension)
1943 - Johann Deisenhofer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1943 - Ian Ogilvy, British Actor
1944 - Diane Dufresne, French Canadian singer
1945 - Ehud Olmert, twelfth Prime Minister of Israel
1945 - Bob Lassiter, American radio personality
1946 - Paul Sheahan, cricketer (dashing Australian Test batsman 1967-74)
1946 - Sylvia Peterson, US vocalist (Chiffons-He's So Fine)
1946 - Héctor Lavoe, Puerto Rican singer (d. 1993)
1946 - Claude Vorilhon, founder of Raelism, a ufo religion
1946 - William Thurston, Washington, mathematician (Fields Medal, 1982), (d. 2012)
1947 - Marc Bolan, London England, rock vocalist (T-Rex-Bang a Gong)
1947 - Rula Lenska, St Neots England, actress (Friends from Europe are here)
1947 - Dave Arneson, American game designer
1948 - Craig Kusick, former Major League Baseball Player
1949 - Michel Tognini, Vincennes France, astronaut (Soyuz TM-15, sk: STS 93)
1950 - Victoria Tennant, London England (All of Me, Chiefs, Winds of War)
1950 - Renato Zero, Italian musician
1951 - Catie Ball, US, 100 m breast stroke swimmer (Olympic-4X4 gold-1968)
1951 - Nicholas Yermakov, US, sci-fi author (Epiphany, Jehad, Clique)
1951 - Barry Marshall, Australian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1952 - Darrell Hair, cricketer (Australian Test umpire since 1993-94)
1952 - Frank Zincavage, rocker (Romeo Void)
1952 - Jack Wild, British actor (d. 2006)
1953 - Deborah Allen, Memphis Tn, country singer (Jim Stafford Show)
1953 - S.M. Stirling, Canadian-born author
1954 - Barry Williams, Santa Monica California, actor (Greg-Brady Bunch)
1954 - Calvin Levels, Cleveland Ohio, actor (Knightwatch)
1954 - Patrice Rushen, Los Angeles California, rock vocalist
1955 - Frankie Kennedy, flute player
1956 - Maria Esmeralda, Belgian princess/daughter of Leopold III/Lilian Baels
1957 - Fran Drescher, Queens NY, actress (Cadillac Man, Nanny)
1957 - Gladys Portugues, NYC, Mrs Jean-Claude Van Damme/actr (It's Alive 3)
1957 - William Christian, Wash DC, actor (Derek Frye-All My Children)
1958 - Christopher Cass, Cold Spring Harbor NY, actor (Jack Forbes-Loving)
1958 - Marty Stuart, Phila Miss, country singer (Hillbilly Rock)
1958 - Nona Garson, equestrian show jumper (Olympics-96)
1958 - Rodwell Biggie Tembo Marasha, musician
1959 - Basia Trzetrzelevska, Poland, jazz singer (Time & Life)
1959 - Hans Werdekker, Dutch soccer player (Ajax, RKC/Amsterdam Admirals)
1959 - Kim Bauer, New Orleans LA, LPGA golfer (1993 Minn LPGA Classic-30th)
1959 - Ettore Messina, Italian basketball coach
1960 - Mike Herbert, Rogers Ark, kayak (alt-Olympics-96)
1960 - Susan Keith, actress (Shana Vochek-Loving)
1960 - Blanche Lincoln, American politician
1961 - Chandrakant Pandit, Indian cricket wicket-keeper (late 80's)
1961 - Crystal Bernard, Garland TX, actress (Amy-It's a Living, Helen-Wings)
1961 - Eric Stoltz, actor (Anaconda, Pulp Fiction, Mask)
1961 - Eric van de Poele, Belgian racing driver
1961 - Sally Yeh, Hong Kong singer and actress
1962 - Dave Magadan, Tampa FL, 1st baseman (NY Mets, Chicago Cubs)
1962 - Frank Rijkaard, Surinam/Dutch soccer star (Ajax, AC Milan)
1962 - George Jamison, NFL linebacker (KC Chiefs)
1962 - Leon Hutten, soccer player (RKC)
1962 - Shaan, Indian singer
1963 - Cristina Marsillach, Madrid Spain, actress (Barocco)
1963 - Ed Drakich, Windsor Ontario, volleyball player (Olympics-96)
1963 - Reb Beach, rocker (Winger)
1964 - Michael McKay, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1964 - Stephen N Frick, Pitts PA, Lt Cmdr USN/astronaut
1964 - Trey Anastasio, American musician (Phish)
1964 - Monica Bellucci, Citta di Castello Italy, actress (Dracula)
1965 - Kathleen Madigan, American comedian
1966 - Kerry G. Johnson, African American graphic designer and caricaturist
1967 - Nadine Handford, Adelaide Aust, golfer (1993 T77 Alpine Aust Ladies)
1967 - Yorkis Perez, Bajos de Haina Dom Rep, pitcher (Florida Marlins)
1969 - Chris Von Erich, American professional wrestler (d. 1991)
1970 - Eric Piatkowski, NBA guard/forward (LA Clippers)
1971 - Brentson Buckner, NFL defensive end (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1971 - Jenna Elfman, Los Angeles California, actress (Townies, Dharma &amp; Greg)
1971 - Ron Collins, WLAF tackle (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1972 - Cedric Saunders, NFL tight end (Tampa Bay Bucs, Scotland Claymores)
1972 - Jamal Anderson, NFL running back (Atlanta Falcons)
1972 - Troy Dumas, NFL linebacker (KC Chiefs)
1972 - Ari Behn, Norwegian author
1974 - Jeremy Giambi, American baseball player
1975 - Marion Cotillard, French actress
1975 - Carlos Guillén, Venezuelan baseball player
1976 - Adita Linares, Miami Fla, spanish actress (Clueless, Cookie)
1977 - Maia Brewton, Los Angeles California, actress (Margaret-Lime Street)
1977 - Stacey Storey, Eagle River Alaska, Miss America-Alaska (1996)
1977 - Sun Jihai, Chinese footballer
1977 - Roy Carroll, Northern Irish footballer
1978 - Candice Michelle, American female wrestler
1979 - Andy van der Meyde, Dutch footballer
1979 - Clio-Danae Othoneou, Greek actress, musician and pianist
1979 - Vince Chong, Malaysian singer-songwriter
1980 - Martina Hingis, Kosice Slovakia, tennis star (1997 Aust/US/Wimb)
1980 - Camilla D'Errico, Canadian comic book artist and painter
1981 - Dominique Moceanu, California, gymnast (World-silver-95, Olympics-gold-96)
1981 - Brandon Watson, American baseball
1982 - Lacey Chabert, actress (Party of Five)
1982 - Michelle Marsh, British model
1982 - Kieran Culkin, American actor
1982 - Teal Redmann, American actress
1982 - Ryan Stout, American comedian
1983 - Andreea Răducan, Romanian gymnast
1984 - T-Pain, American rapper/singer
1987 - Denise Laurel, Filipine actress and singer
1992 - Marina CAK Windsor, granddaughter of English prince Edward

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on September 30, 2013, 09:54:48 AM

This Day in History for 30th September


Famous Deaths

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Actor James Dean (1955)


420 - Saint Jerome, translator of the Vulgate Bible
653 - Saint Honorius, Archbishop of Canterbury
739 - P'u-chi Ho-shang Tao-chao, Northern Ch'an Line Zen teacher, dies
1101 - Anselm IV, Archbishop of Milan
1246 - Yaroslav II of Russia (b. 1191)
1351 - Muso Soseki, Zen teacher/Rinzai line/head of Nanzenji, dies in Japan
1440 - Reginald Grey, 3rd Baron Grey de Ruthyn, English soldier and politician
1487 - John Sutton, 1st Baron Dudley, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1400)
1551 - Ōuchi Yoshitaka, Japanese warlord (b. 1507)
1560 - Melchior Cano, Spanish theologian (b. 1525)
1572 - Francis Borgia, 4th Duke of Gandía and Jesuit priest, dies at 61
1581 - Hubert Languet, French diplomat and reformer (b. 1518)
1612 - Ercole Bottrigari, composer, dies at 81
1626 - Nurhaci, Manchurian chief (b. 1559)
1628 - Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, English poet (b. 1554)
1630 - John Billington, murderer, 1st American execution, hanged
1712 - Johann Michael Zacher, composer, dies at 61
1716 - Heinrich Georg Neuss, composer, dies at 62
1755 - Francesco Durante, composer, dies at 71
1770 - Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham, English politician and diplomat
1770 - George Whitefield, English-born Methodist leader (b. 1714)
1772 - James Brindley, English engineer (b. 1716)
1803 - Charles Broche, composer, dies at 51
1811 - Thomas Percy, English bishop of Dromore, dies at 82
1819 - Nicolas Roze, composer, dies at 74
1862 - Isaac Peace Rodman, banker/Union brig-gen, dies of injury at about 40
1865 - Samuel David Luzzatto, Italian-Jewish scholar (b. 1800)
1877 - Toohoolhoolzote, prophet of Nez Perce indians, dies in battle
1884 - Louis Lacombe, composer, dies at 65
1885 - Maria J Small-Gartmann, actress, dies at 60
1888 - Catherine Eddowes, English, murdered by Jack the Ripper at 45
1888 - Elizabeth Stride, Long Liz, English, murdered by Jack the Ripper at 45
1891 - Georges Boulanger, French general and politician (b. 1837)
1897 - St Therese of Lisieux, Roman Catholic saint and mystic (b. 1873)
1904 - Sigurd Lie, composer, dies at 33
1910 - Maurice Lévy, French engineer (b. 1838)
1912 - Mary Frances Allitsen, composer, dies at 63
1921 - Oskar Panizza, writer, dies at 77
1922 - Paul Barth, German philosopher/sociologist, dies at 64
1925 - Philip Hutchinson, cricketer (2 Tests for S Afr 1889), dies
1929 - Charles E Bonin, French explorer/diplomat (China), dies
1940 - Walter Kollo, composer, dies at 62
1943 - Franz Oppenheimer, German sociologist (b. 1864)
1952 - Waldorf Astor, House of Lords & Commons/owner of Observer, dies
1954 - Percie Charlton, cricketer (2 Tests for Australia 1890), dies
1955 - James Dean, actor (Rebel Without a Cause), dies in a car crash at age 24
1955 - Michael Chekhov, actor (Rhapsody, Abie's Irish Rose), dies at 64
1958 - Niels Bjerrum, Danish chemist (ph-stipulation), dies at 79
1959 - John H Kliegl, developer of Klieg light, dies at 89
1959 - Taylor Holmes, actor (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes), dies at 81
1960 - Harry St John Philby, [sheik Abdullah], British explorer, dies
1961 - Onésime Gagnon, French Canadian politician, lieutenant-governor of Québec (b. 1888)
1963 - Arnold Foster, composer, dies at 66
1965 - E[dward] E[lmer] "Doc" Smith, sci-fi author (Triplanetary), dies at 75
1970 - Patrick Aherne, actor (Bwana Devil, Botany Bay), dies at 69
1973 - Peter Pitseolak, Inuit photographer and author (b. 1902)
1974 - Carlos Prats, Chilean Constitutionalist General, assassinated in the frame of Operation Condor
1976 - Louis Fourestier, composer, dies at 84
1978 - Edgar Bergen, ventriloquist (Charlie McCarthy), dies at 75
1983 - Freddy Martin, orchestra leader (started Merv Griffin), dies at 76
1983 - William D Elliot, actor (Bernie Loves Bridget, Adam 12), dies at 49
1984 - Ellsworth Bunker, US ambassador (South-Vietnam, dies at 90)
1985 - Charles F Richter, US seismologist (scale of R), dies at 85
1985 - Heleb MacInnes, US spy writer (Affiliate in place), dies at 77
1985 - Simone Signoret, German/French actress (Room at Top, Gina), dies at 64
1987 - Alfred Bester, sci-fi author (Dark Side of Earth), dies at 73
1988 - Joachim Prinz, author/Rabbi of Berlin (1926-37), dies at 86
1989 - Virgil Thomson, US composer/critic (4 saints in 3 acts), dies at 92
1990 - Liesbeth de Uyl-of Vessem, feminist/wife of Joop du, dies
1990 - Michel Levis, French cultural anthropologist/writer, dies
1990 - Patrick White, Australian writer (Nobel 1973), dies
1990 - Alice Parizeau, Quebec writer and journalist (b. 1930)
1991 - Nancy Welford, entertainer, dies at 87
1993 - Alex Lyon, English Labor Lower house leader (1966-83), dies at 61
1993 - Gordon Douglas, actor/director (Tony Rome), dies of cancer at 85
1993 - Paul Nowee, writer (Arendsoog.. premiejager), dies at 57
1993 - Reizl Bozyk, Polish/US actress (Crossing Delancey), dies at 79
1993 - Tony Brafa, actor (Enrico Pallazzo-Naked Gun), dies at 72
1994 - Alex Scott, trainer, Horses, dies at 34
1994 - Andre Michel Lwoff, physiologist, dies at 92
1994 - Lina Basquette, actress (Night for Crime, Hard Hombre), dies at 87
1994 - Roberto Viola, Argentine general/president (1981), dies at 69
1995 - Frederick Archibauld Warner, diplomat, dies at 77
1995 - George Kirby, comedian/impressionist (Pearl Bailey), dies at 71
1996 - Aubrey Brabazon, jockey/trainer, dies at 76
1996 - Elizabeth Gille, writer translator/editor, dies at 59
1996 - Frances Lear, writer, dies at 73
1996 - Kenneth Muir, english scholar, dies at 89
1996 - Udom Patpongsiri, property developer, dies at 79
1997 - Male alligator, largest in Florida (14 feet), killed at about 65
1998 - Dan Quisenberry, American baseball player (b. 1953)
2002 - Hans-Peter Tschudi, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1913)
2002 - Lord Hazlerigg, British peer
2003 - Robert Kardashian, Armenian-American lawyer (b. 1944)
2003 - Yusuf Bey, Black Muslim leader (b. 1935)
2004 - Gamini Fonseka, Sri Lankan actor (b. 1936)
2004 - Michael Relph, British film producer and director (b. 1915)
2008 - Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam, Singapore Opposition Leader & former Secretary-General of
           Singapore's Worker's Party (b. 1926)
2011 - Anwar al-Awlaki, American-born terrorist and islamist militant (b. 1971)
2012 - Barbara Ann Scott, Canadian figure skater, dies at 84
2012 - Turhan Bey, Austrian born actor, dies from Parkinson's disease at 90

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 01, 2013, 01:48:46 PM

This Day in History for 1st October


Historical Events 

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Macedonian King and                              Naturalist Charles Darwin                Communist Philosopher Karl Marx
Conqueror of Persia
Alexander the Great

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Ford Motor Company Founder                    Baseball Great Babe Ruth               Spanish Dictator Francisco Franco
Henry Ford

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Chinese Communist                                 American Baseball Player                        Singer-songwriter & Actress
Revolutionary and Politician                        Roger Maris                                               Barbra Streisand
Mao Tse-Tung

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Baseball Player and Manager                            Singer Elton John                            General Secretary of the
Leo Durocher                                                                                                 Communist Party of the Soviet Union
                                                                                                                                 Mikhail Gorbachev

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US President George H. W. Bush            Russian President Vladimir Putin       


331 BC - Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela.
366 - St Damasus I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
704 - Aengibald gives away bishop Willibrord estate in Waalre
911 - During a siege in Constantinople, the Theotokos appeared at the church in Blachernae holding
         her veil over the praying faithful, among them St. Andrew of Constantinople.
959 - Edgar the Peaceable becomes king of all England.
965 - John XIII Crescentii elected to succeed Pope Leo VIII
1189 - Gerard de Ridefort, grandmaster of the Knights Templar since 1184, is killed in the Siege of
           Acre.
1273 - Earl Rudolf van Habsburg becomes Roman Catholics-German king
1529 - -3] Meeting between Maarten Luther & Huldrych Zwingli
1569 - Duke of Norfolk arrested
1574 - -2] Storm breaks Leiden dike; drowns 20,000 Spanish soldiers
1606 - Spanish troops under Spinola occupies fort Rhine birch
1632 - Battle at Castelnaudary: Duke Henri de Montmorency's rebel army loses
1653 - Russian parliament accepts annexation of Ukraine
1657 - Treaty of Raalte: Willem II no longer viceroy of Overijssel
1661 - Yachting begins in England; King Charles II beats his brother James
1670 - -4] Battle at Simbirsk a/d Wolga: Russian army beats Boers
1688 - Prince Willem III accept invitation of English crown to occupy
1705 - Parliament declares Hungary independently/French Rákóczi becomes king
1746 - Bonnie Prince Charlie flees to France
1768 - English troops under general Gauge lands in Boston
1787 - Russians under Suvorov defeat the Turks at Kinburn.
1791 - 1st session of new French legislative assembly
1795 - France annexes Southern Netherlands
1795 - Belgium is conquered by France.
1800 - Spain cedes Louisiana to France in a secret treaty
1801 - England & France signs Preliminary of London
1814 - Opening of the Congress of Vienna, intended to redraw the Europe's political map after the
           defeat of Napoléon the previous spring.
1827 - The Russian army under Ivan Paskevich storms Yerevan, ending a millennium of Muslim
           domination in Armenia.
1829 - South African College is founded in Cape Town, South Africa; later to separate into the
           University of Cape Town and the South African College Schools.
1830 - General Trade Journal newspaper begins publishing in Amsterdam
1833 - Charles Darwin reaches Rio Tercero Argentina
1837 - "Racer's" Hurricane (Gulf of Mexico)
1837 - Treaty with Winnebago Indians
1838 - Civil Code enforced (- Jan 1, 1992)
1843 - News of the World began publication in London.
1847 - Maria Mitchell discovers a non-naked-eye comet
1847 - German inventor and industrialist Werner von Siemens founds Siemens AG & Halske.
1851 - 1st Hawaiian stamps issued
1854 - The watch company founded in 1850 in Roxbury by Aaron Lufkin Dennison relocates to
           Waltham, Massachusetts, to become the Waltham Watch Company, a pioneer in the
           American System of Watch Manufacturing.
1863 - 5 Russian warships welcomed in NYC
1863 - Dutch Breda-Tilburg railway opens
1864 - Cyclone strikes Calcutta: 70,000 killed
1864 - John S Staples is paid $500 as a substitute for President Lincoln
1866 - Dutch Eindhoven-Venlo railway opens
1867 - Karl Marx' "Das Kapital," published
1868 - 1st edition of Maasbode published
1869 - 1st postcards are issued (Vienna, Austria)
1871 - General Dutch Werkliedenverbond (ANWV), forms in Utrecht
1874 - Rotterdam opens drink water pipes
1879 - Cincinnati Enquirer publishes 1st report on baseball reserve clause
1880 - John Philip Sousa becomes new director of US Marine Corps Band
1885 - Special delivery mail service begins in US
1886 - US mint at Carson City, Nevada closes
1887 - Balochistan conquered by the British Empire.
1888 - National Geographic magazine publishes for 1st time
1889 - Soccer team HFC Haarlem forms
1889 - Washington voters adopt state constitution in referendum
1890 - Congress creates Weather Bureau
1890 - Yosemite National Park forms
1891 - In the U.S. state of California, Stanford University opens its doors.
1892 - University of Chicago opens
1893 - 3rd worst hurricane in US history kills 1,800 (Mississippi)
1894 - Civic organization, Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben founded in Omaha, Nebraska
1894 - First meeting of The Owl Club of Cape Town.
1895 - Romanians in Costantinople massacred
1896 - Sherlock Holmes adventure "Veiled Lodger" takes place (BG)
1898 - Dutch railway Alkmaar-Receiver opens
1898 - Henry Huntington buys LA Railway
1898 - Jews are expelled from Kiev Russia
1898 - Czar Nikolay II expels Jews from major Russian cities.
1898 - The Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration is founded under the name
           k.u.k. Exportakademie.
1903 - 1st baseball World Series, Pittsburgh Pirates vs Boston Pilgrims (Red Sox)
1904 - JB van Heutsz becomes gov-general of Netherland Indies
1904 - Netherlands & Portugal lay down bounderies splitting Timor
1905 - František Pavlík is killed in a demonstration in Prague, inspiring Leoš Janáček to the piano
           composition 1. X. 1905.
1906 - Hugh Jennings resigns as Balt manager to take over at Detroit in 1907
1907 - Plaza Hotel (5th Av & 59th Str, NY) opens
1908 - 1st Dutch electric railway in use (Rotterdam-The Hague)
1908 - Henry Ford introduces Model T car (costs $825)
1908 - Jack Chesbro's final Yankee victory, beats Walter Johnson 2-1
1910 - Berkshire Cattle Fair held in Pittsfield Mass (1st state fair)
1910 - Explosion at LA Times kills 21
1910 - Regina Rugby Club's 1st game, losing to Moose Jaw Tigers, 16-6
1911 - United Dutch Diamond workers get 8-hr day
1912 - Yanks lose game #100 en route to a 50-102 season
1918 - World War I: Arab forces under T. E. Lawrence (a/k/a "Lawrence of Arabia") capture
           Damascus.
1919 - World Series begins as a best of 9 affair, White Sox intentionally throw this series to satisfy
           gamblers (Black Sox Scandal)
1920 - Dutch law provides for an 8 hour working day
1920 - Sir Percy Cox landed in Basra to assume his responsibilities as high commissioner in Iraq.
1921 - WJZ, Newark NJ begins broadcasting
1922 - Former Chicago Staleys play 1st NFL game as Chicago Bears, win 6-0
1922 - Rogers Hornsby's 3-for-5 ups avg to .401
1924 - Fokker F-7 1st flight (Amsterdam to Batavia)
1924 - Paavo Nurmi runs world record 4 mile (19:15.4) & 5 mile (24:06.2)
1924 - Landis bans Giants Jimmy O'Connell & Cozy Dolan from World Series after they admit an
           attempt to bribe Phils shortstop Heinie Sand
1926 - An oil field accident cost aviator Wiley Post his left eye, but he used the settlement money to
           buy his first aircraft.
1927 - Pirates clinch NL pennant with a 9-6 win over Reds
1928 - Leon Vanderstuyft of Belgium bicycled 76 miles 504 yards in 1 hour
1928 - Paavo Nurmi runs world record 15m (46:49.6)
1928 - USSR launches its 1st 5 year plan
1930 - Soccer team WHC forms
1930 - World Series opens at Phila's Shibe Park, Phila A's beat St Louis 5-2
1931 - Spanish Cortes accept general female suffrage
1931 - World Series is a rematch as A's seek 3rd straight title vs Cards
1931 - The second (and current) Waldorf-Astoria Hotel is opened in New York.
1932 - NHL readmits Ottawa & drops Pittsburgh
1932 - Oswald Mosley forms British Union of Fascists
1932 - World Series moves to Chicago, In 5th inning, Babe Ruth waits until he has 2 strikes, points
           & hits next pitch into center field bleachers
1933 - Antwerp Sports arena opens
1933 - Packers make 5 1st downs, Giants make 0, but still win 10-7
1933 - Wash Senator coach Nick Altrock plays in a game at age 57
1934 - Adolf Hitler expands German army & navy & creates an air force, violating Treaty of Versailles
1936 - Generalissimo Francisco Franco establishes state of Spain
1937 - Pullman Co formally recognizes Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
1938 - Cubs clinch NL pennant
1938 - Germany annexes Sudetenland (1/3 of Czechoslovakia)
1939 - Churchill calls Soviets "riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma"
1939 - After a one-month Siege of Warsaw, hostile forces entered the city.
1940 - Pennsylvania Turnpike, pioneer toll thruway, opens
1941 - D Sjostakovitch plane evacuated in Moscow
1941 - H Martin/R Blanes musical "Best Foot Forward," premieres in NYC
1941 - Yankees beat Dodgers 3-2 at Yankee Stadium in opener of World Series
1942 - Bell P-59 Airacomet fighter, 1st US jet, makes maiden flight
1942 - Little Golden Books (children books) begins publishing
1943 - Allied forces captured Naples during WW II
1943 - Averell Harriman named US ambassador to Moscow
1943 - Germans attack Jews in Denmark
1943 - King's Dragon Guards liberates suburbs of Naples
1944 - Newspaper editor Alejandro Córdova assassinated in Guatemala
1944 - St Louis Browns win their only AL pennant
1945 - Heavyweight champ Joe Louis is discharged from army
1945 - US Office of Strategic Serbia (OSS) disbands
1946 - 12 war criminals sentenced to death in Nuremberg
1946 - 1st NL playoffs, Dodgers vs Cards (St Louis wins 2 games to 0)
1946 - Bob Feller 348th strikeout of season
1947 - 1st helicopter air mail & express service, LA, Ca
1947 - NHL Pension Society founded
1947 - US control of Haitian customs & governmental revenue ends
1947 - William Wister Haines' "Command Decision," premieres in NYC
1947 - The F-86 Sabre flies for the first time.
1948 - California Supreme Court voids state statue banning interracial marriages
1948 - Radio Denmark begins transmitting
1949 - People's Rep of China proclaimed by Mao Tse-tung (National Day)
1949 - Republic of China (Taiwan) forms on island of Formosa
1950 - Phillies win NL pennant on last day of season (10th inning HR)
1950 - South Korean troops exceed 38° latitude during Korean War
1950 - Browns lose to Giants, setting club record for fewest points scored by both teams (tied in
           1979), NY 6, Cleveland 0
1950 - South Korean troops cross 38th parallel into North Korea
1951 - 1st Giant-Dodgers playoff game, Giants win 3-1
1951 - 1st treaty signed by woman ambassador-Eugenie Anderson
1951 - 24th Infantry Regiment, last all-black military unit, deactivated
1952 - 1st ultra high frequency (UHF) television station, Portland Or
1952 - Liberal Party wins Japanese elections
1952 - Monte Bello-Island (Great Britain 1st atom bomb explosion)
1953 - Indian state of Andhra Pradesh partitioned from Madras
1953 - KJEO TV channel 47 in Fresno, CA (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting
1953 - KYTV TV channel 3 in Springfield, MO (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 - WATE TV channel 6 in Knoxville, TN (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 - WREX TV channel 13 in Rockford, IL (ABC) begins broadcasting
1954 - British colony of Nigeria becomes a federation
1955 - "Honeymooners" premieres
1955 - Piet Lieftinck becomes director v/h IMF (World bank)
1955 - WORA TV channel 5 in Mayaguez, PR (TCI) begins broadcasting
1956 - Johnny Heckmann rides 7 winners at Chicago Hawthorne Horse track
1956 - Zestienhoven airport at Rotterdam official opens
1957 - B-52 bombers begin full-time flying alert in case of USSR attack
1957 - First appearance of "In God We Trust" on U.S. paper currency.
1958 - Britain transfers Christmas Island (south of Java) to Australia
1958 - Inauguration of NASA
1958 - Vanguard Project transferred from military to NASA
1958 - NASA created to replace NACA.
1959 - 1st World Series since 1948 not to feature a NY team (LA vs Chic)
1960 - 14th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 2-1 at Montreal
1960 - KCBY TV channel 11 in Coos Bay, OR (CBS) begins broadcasting
1960 - Nigeria gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1961 - A believed extinct volcanco erupts in Tristan da Cunha
1961 - East & West Cameroon merge as Federal Republic of Cameroon
1961 - KGIN TV channel 11 in Grand Island, NB (CBS) begins broadcasting
1961 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Open
1961 - Premiere of Dmitri Shostakovitsch' 12nd Symphony
1961 - Roger Maris sets record of 61 HRs (off of Tracy Stallard)
1961 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1961 - WOLO TV channel 25 in Columbia, SC (ABC) begins broadcasting
1961 - WYAH TV channel 27 in Portsmouth, VA (IND) begins broadcasting
1962 - Barbra Streisand signs her 1st recording contract (with Columbia)
1962 - Brian Epstein signs a contract to manage Beatles through 1977
1962 - James Meredith became 1st black at U of Mississippi
1962 - Johnny Carson hosts his 1st Tonight Show, Joan Crawford guests
1962 - Lucy Show premieres
1962 - SF beats Dodgers, 8-0 in 1st of best-of-3 NL playoff
1962 - UN gives Netherlands control of New-Guinea
1962 - US National Radio Astronomy Obs gets a 300' (91m) radio telescope
1962 - WEDH TV channel 24 in Hartford, CT (PBS) begins broadcasting
1963 - 1st time since 1910 no AL player, played in every game
1963 - Nigeria becomes a republic within Commonwealth
1964 - 1st official broadcast of Trans World Radio on Bonaire
1964 - 2nd Dutch televisienet begins broadcastings
1964 - Free Speech Movement launched at University of California , Berkley
1964 - SF cable cars declared a national landmark
1964 - WSJU TV channel 18 in Carolina, PR begins broadcasting
1964 - WTSJ TV channel 18 in San Juan, PR (NBC) begins broadcasting
1964 - WWAY TV channel 3 in Wilmington, NC (ABC) begins broadcasting
1965 - Failed coup under lt col Untung in Indonesia
1965 - France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria
1966 - Newspaper magnate Thomson purchases "The Times"
1966 - WAEO (now WJFW) TV channel 12 in Rhinelander, WI (NBC) begins
1966 - West Coast Airlines Flight 956 crashes with eighteen fatal injuries and no survivors 5.5 miles
           south of Wemme, Oregon. This accident marks the first loss of a DC-9.
1967 - KBFI (now KDAF) TV channel 33 in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX (IND) begins
1967 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Ladies' LA Golf Open
1967 - Pink FLoyd's 1st US tour (arrives in NYC)
1968 - "Night of the Living Dead" premieres in Pittsburgh
1968 - The Guyanese government takes over the British Guiana Broadcasting Service (BGBS).
1969 - Concorde 001 test flight breaks sound barrier
1969 - Guernsey & Jersey begin issuing their own postage stamps
1969 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1970 - 63 arrest in riot to buy Rolling Stone tickets in Milano Italy
1970 - Last game at Philadelphia's Connie Mack Stadium, Phils-2 Expos-1
1971 - Joseph Luns becomes secretary-general of NATO
1971 - Simplified echtscheidingsrecht of force
1971 - Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida opens
1972 - "Don't Play Us Cheap" closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 164 perfs
1972 - 1st games of World Hockey Association
1972 - 2nd NYC Women's Marathon won by Nina Kuscsik in 3:08:41
1972 - 3rd NYC Marathon won by Sheldon Karlin in 2:27:52
1972 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Portland Ladies Golf Classic
1973 - Leo Durocher resigns as Houston Astro manager
1973 - USSR-West Germany gas tunnel opens
1974 - Watergate cover-up trial opens in Wash DC
1975 - Britain grants internal self-government to Seychelles
1975 - Ellice Islands split from Gilbert Islands, take name "Tuvalu"
1975 - Muhammad Ali TKOs Joe Frazier in 15 for heavyweight boxing title in "The Thrilla in Manila"
1975 - Reunion Island stops printing stamps, France takes over production
1976 - 1st Dutch casino opens
1977 - Brazilian soccer great Pele' retires with 1,281 goals in 1,363 games
1977 - Department Of Energy established
1977 - Elton John honored by MSG Hall of Fame
1977 - Yanks win 2nd consecutive AL East title
1978 - Comoros adopts constitution
1978 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Golden Lights Golf Championship
1978 - Tuvalu (formerly Ellice Islands) declares independence from UK
1978 - Yanks lose 9-2 to Indians forcing a playoff game with Red Sox
1978 - The Voltaic Revolutionary Communist Party is founded.
1979 - Nigeria adopts constitution, Alhaji Shagari becomes president
1979 - Pope John Paul II begins visit of US
1979 - RKO radio network begins operation
1979 - US returns Canal Zone to Panama after 75 years (but not the canal)
1980 - Cosmonauts Ryumin & Popov break space endurance record of 176 days
1981 - Iranian plane crash
1981 - J Chodorov/N Panama's "Talent for Murder," premieres in London
1981 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1982 - EPCOT Center opens in Orlando Florida
1982 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1982 - West Germany's Parliament ousts Helmut Schmidt for Helmut Kohl
1982 - The Sony CDP-101, the world's first commercially released Compact Disc player, is released in
           Japan for 168,000 yen ($730)
1983 - Denise Wallace, 18, of Virginia crowned Miss Teen of America
1984 - Gary Trudeau's Doonesbury comic strip resumes after 2-year hiatus
1984 - Peter Ueberroth replaces Bowie Kuhn as 6th commissioner of baseball
1985 - Israeli air raid on PLO-headquarter at Tunis, 68 killed
1986 - President Carter's presidential library/museum dedicated in Atlanta
1987 - "Roza" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 12 performances
1987 - 6 killed by an earthquake measuring 6.1 in LA
1987 - Fiji's constitution is suspended
1987 - The Whittier Narrows earthquake shook the San Gabriel Valley, registering as a magnitude
           5.9.
1988 - Bradley Center in Milwaukee opens
1988 - Lowest batting avg for NL champion (Tony Gwynn .313)
1988 - Mikhail Gorbachev became president of Soviet Union
1989 - Beth Daniel wins LPGA Konica San Jose Golf Classic
1989 - Dallas Cowboy, Ed "Too Tall" Jones records his 1,000th NFL tackle
1989 - Thousands of East Germans flee to West Germany
1989 - US issues a stamp, labeling an apatosaurus as a brontosaurus
1989 - Batting titles decided on final day Puckett goes 2-for-5 edges Carney Lansford .339 to .336,
           Gwynn's 3-for-4 edges Will Clark .336 to .333
1990 - 10,000 Uganda RPF rebels move into Rwanda
1990 - Meteorite explode above Pacific Ocean
1990 - US President Bush at UN, condemns Iraq's takeover of Kuwait
1990 - Serbs in Croatia proclaim autonomy
1991 - Howard Stern adds Baltimore to his radio network (WJFK-AM)
1991 - New Zealand's Resource Management Act 1991 commences.
1992 - "Oba Oba '93" opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 22 performances
1992 - Cartoon Cable Network premieres
1992 - Greater Pittsburgh International Airport opens
1992 - Ross Perot re-enters presidental race
1993 - Lennox Lewis TKOs Frank Bruno in 7 for heavyweight boxing title
1994 - Boon completes his 19th Test century (114 v Pak, Karachi)
1994 - Liselotte Neumann wins LPGA GHP Heartland Golf Classic
1994 - South African President Nelson Mandela visits US
1994 - Stanley Betrian sworn in as leader of Curacao
1995 - Bermuda begins using new area code 441
1995 - Gail Graham wins FieldCrest Cannon/Carolina LPGA Golf Classic
1995 - Indians set record of 30 game lead over 2nd place team
1995 - Mike Mussina tosses Balt's 5th consecutive shutout 4-0 win over Tigers
1995 - NY Yankees win 1st baseball wildcard ever
1995 - Rockies are 1st team to make postseason before 7th year in existence
1997 - Carolina Hurricanes 1st game vs Tampa Bay Lightning
1997 - Spice Hot premieres on cable
1998 - Vladimir Putin became a permanent member of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.
2000 - Juan Antonio Samaranch, the chairman of the IOC declares Sydney the "best Olympic Games
           ever"
2000 - Closing ceremony of the XXVII Olympics in Sydney, Australia
2000 - United States retain Basketball's Olympic gold medal defeating France 85-75
2000 - United States wins the most medals (97), and the most gold medals (40) in Summer
           Olympics held in Sydney, Australia
2004 - Baseball: Seattle Mariners outfielder Ichiro Suzuki gets his 258th hit of the season, breaking
           George Sisler's 84-year-old single-season record.
2005 - Bombing kills 23 people in Bali.
2007 - Most of the Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006 came into force in the United Kingdom.
2012 - California becomes the first US state to ban conversion therapy for minors
2012 - 36 people are killed in a ferry collision in Hong Kong
2012 - 3 NATO soldiers and 16 Afghan police are killed by a suicide bombing in Khost, Afghanistan

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Post by: MysteRy on October 01, 2013, 01:50:47 PM

This Day in History for 1st October


Famous Weddings

1791 - Prince Willem Frederick (later King of Netherlands) marries his cousin princess Frederica Louise
           Wilhelmine of Prussia
1949 - Television host and comedian Johnny Carson (23) weds Joan Morrill Wolcott (23) at the North
           Platte Episcopalian Church
1984 - Actress Sigourney Weaver (34) weds filmmaker Jim Simpson (28)
1988 - Robert Englund, actor who plays Freddie Kruger weds Nancy Booth
2008 - "7th Heaven" actress Beverley Mitchell (27) weds Michael Cameron (27) at the Church of
           Santa Maria a Gradillo in Ravello, Italy
2011 - Rock bassist Gene Simmons (62) weds actress and model Shannon Tweed (55) at the historic
           Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills, California
2012 - "Sugar Ray" singer Mark McGrath (44) weds his longtime love Carin Kingsland (39) at San
           Ysidro Ranch in Santa Barbara, California

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 01, 2013, 01:57:47 PM

This Day in History for 1st October


Famous Birthdays

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American Outlaw                                Actor/Singer Richard Harris (1930)        Actress/Singer Julie Andrews (1935)
Bonnie Parker (1910) 


1207 - Henry III, king of England (1216-72)
1507 - Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, Italian architect (d. 1573)
1540 - Johann Jakob Grynaeus, Swiss Protestant clergyman (d. 1617)
1549 - Anna of H Bartolomaeus, Flemish prioress/founded a nunnery
1577 - Fidelis of Sigmaringen, Swiss friar, martyr, and saint (d. 1622)
1620 - Nicolaes Pietersz Berchem, Dutch landscape painter/etcher
1644 - Alessandro Stradella, Italian violinist/composer
1644 - Jean Rousseau, composer
1671 - Guido Grandi, Italian mathematician (d. 1742)
1685 - Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (1711-40) (d. 1740)
1691 - Arthur Onslow, English politician (d. 1768)
1724 - Giovanni Battista Cirri, composer
1730 - Richard Stockton, US attorney/signer (Decl of Independence)
1735 - Johann Baptist Christoph Toeschi, composer
1760 - William Beckford, British writer (Epsiodes of Vathek)
1770 - Vincenzo Cuoco, Italian historian (Naples Revolution 1799)
1771 - Pierre MF de Sales Baillot, French violinist/composer
1781 - James Lawrence, naval hero (War of 1812-"Don't give up the ship!")
1791 - Sergey Aksakov, Russia, novelist (Chronicles of a Russian Family)
1799 - Rufus Choate, US, lawyer (Hall of Fame)
1800 - Lars Levi Laestadius, Swedish-born botanist and founder of Laestadianism (d. 1861)
1808 - Fryderyk Edward Sobolewski, composer
1820 - Gustav Adolf Heinze, composer
1830 - Jeremiah Cutler Sullivan, Brig Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1890
1831 - Claudius Charles Wilson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1863
1832 - Caroline Lavinia Scott Harrison, 1st wife of Benjamin Harrison
1832 - Henry Clay Work, composer
1834 - Francis Marion Cockrell, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1915
1835 - Robert Houston Anderson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1888
1835 - William Hicks "Red" Jackson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1835 - Ádám Politzer, Austrian physician (d. 1920)
1841 - Anatol' Vakhnyanyn, composer
1842 - Charles Cros, French mathematician/chemist/poet (Le Hareng Saur)
1847 - Annie Besant, [Wood], England, philosopher (Esoteric christianity)
1865 - Paul Dukas, French composer (d. 1935)
1870 - Pieter van Essen, Dutch artillery officer/inventor (grape-shot shells)
1872 - Israel Querido, Dutch writer (Menschenwee)
1878 - Othmar Spann, Austria economist/sociologist (Geschichtsfilosofie)
1881 - Leonid Leonidovich Sabaneyev, composer
1881 - William Edward Boeing, founded aircraft co (Boeing)
1885 - Louis Untermeyer, NYC, poet/critic (Immortal Poems, Story Poems)
1886 - Ahmad Amin, Egyptian historian/author
1890 - Alice Joyce, Kansas City MO, actress (Song O' My Heart)
1890 - Constantin Nottara, composer
1890 - Stanley Holloway, London England, actor (Higgins-Our Man Higgins)
1893 - Faith Baldwin, New Rochelle NY, author/novelist (They Who Love)
1893 - Yip Man, Martial Arts Master d.(1972)
1893 - Cliff Friend, American songwriter (d. 1974)
1894 - Ricardo Castillo, composer
1895 - Liaquat Al Khan, attorney/premier of Pakistan (1947-51)
1896 - Ted Healy, American actor and comedian (d. 1937)
1898 - Karl Ranki, composer
1899 - Lajos Bardos, composer
1899 - Ernest Haycox, American writer (d. 1950)
1900 - Tom Goddard, English cricketer (d. 1966)
1903 - "Slapsie" Maxie Rosenbloom, NYC, light-heavyweight box champ (1932-34)
1903 - George Coulouris, Manchester England, actor (Runaway Bus)
1904 - Vladimir Horowitz, Kiev Ukraine, pianist (Carmen)
1904 - Otto Robert Frisch, Austrian-born physicist (d. 1979)
1904 - A.K. Gopalan, Indian communist leader (d. 1977)
1906 - John Lorne Campbell, folklorist
1907 - Barbara Morrison, Weston-Super-Mare England, actress (Project Moonbase)
1907 - Oedoen Partos, composer
1908 - Herman David Koppel, composer
1909 - Everett Sloane, NYC, actor (Patsy, Citizen Kane, Enforcer)
1909 - Samuel Yorty, Lincoln Neb, (Mayor-LA)
1910 - Fritz Köberle, Austrian-born physician (d. 1983)
1910 - José Enrique Moyal, Australian mathematical physicist (d. 1998)
1910 - Bonnie Parker, Rowena, Texas, outlaw (Bonnie and Clyde), (d. 1934)
1911 - Edward P Boland, (Rep-D-MA, 1953- )
1911 - Irwin Kostal, Chicago Ill, orchestra leader (Garry Moore Show)
1911 - Richard Torriani, Switzerland, took Olympic oath (1948)
1914 - Daniel Joseph Boorstin, author (Empire of Czar, 1974 Pulitzer Prize)
1914 - Michael Goodliffe, Cheshire England, actor (5th Day of Peace)
1916 - Tibor Reich, textile designer
1917 - René A de Rooy, Suriname/Antillian poet (Juancho Picaflor)
1918 - Antonio Iglesias Alvares, composer
1920 - Lonny Chapman, Tulsa Oklahoma, actor (Investigator, For the People)
1920 - Walter Matthau, NYC, actor (Odd Couple, Bad News Bears)
1921 - James Whitmore, White Plains NY, actor (Give 'em Hell Harry)
1922 - Hector Campos-Parsi, composer
1924 - Jimmy Earl Carter, Plains Ga, (D) 39th Pres (1977-1981)
1924 - William Rehnquist, Ws, Supreme Court (1972-86)/chief justice (1987- )
1925 - Bob Boyd, American baseball player (d. 2004)
1926 - Roger Williams, American pianist
1927 - Tom Bosley, Chicago, actor (Howard-Happy Days, Murder She Wrote)
1927 - Sandy Gall, Malaysian-born British journalist and newscaster
1928 - George Peppard, Detroit Mich, actor (Banacek, A-Team, Blue Max)
1928 - Laurence Harvey, [Larushka Skine], actor (Alamo, Romeo & Juliet)
1928 - Willy Mairesse, Belgian racing driver (d. 1969)
1928 - Zhu Rongji, Chinese politician
1929 - Ken Arthurson, Australian rugby league identity
1930 - Philippe Noiret, Lille France, actor (Soleil, Les Milles, Il Postino)
1930 - Richard Harris, Ireland, actor (Man Called Horse)/singer (MacArthur Park)
1930 - Frank Gardner, Australian racing driver
1930 - Naimatullah Khan, Pakistani politician
1931 - Reginald Hall, endocrinologist
1931 - Sylvano Bussotti, Italian composer
1932 - Albert Collins, Leona TX, blues guitarist (Frosty, Showdown)
1933 - Olga Pozzi Escot, composer
1935 - Julie Andrews, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, actress/singer (Sound of Music, Mary Poppins)
1936 - Charles G Fullerton, Rochester, NY, astronaut (STS-3, 51F)
1936 - Edward Villella, Bayside Queens, ballet dancer (NYC Ballet)
1936 - Stella Stevens, Yazoo City Miss, actress (Girls! Girls!, Manitou)
1936 - Duncan Edwards, English footballer (d. 1958)
1937 - Hedy d'Ancona, Dutch minister of WVC (PvdA)
1937 - Saeed Ahmed, cricketer (Pakistani batsman in 41 Tests 1958-73)
1938 - J Bert Sonnier, race horse trainer
1938 - Les Scheinflug, Australian soccer asst coach (Olyroos, Olympics-96)
1939 - George Archer, SF CA, PGA golfer (1969 Masters Bing Crosby)
1939 - Geoffrey Whitehead, English actor
1940 - Richard F Pieternella, Dutch Antilles' minister plenipotentiary
1943 - Jerry Maitini, US saxophonist (Sly & Family Stone-Sex Machine)
1943 - Jim Martini, rocker (Sly & Family Stone-Everyday People)
1943 - Naushad Ali, cricketer (Pakistani wicket-keeper in six Tests 1964-65)
1943 - Jean-Jacques Annaud, Draveil France, director (Bear, Black & White, Name of the Rose)
1944 - Barbara Parritt, US soul singer (Toys-Lover's Concerto)
1944 - Herbert "Tubo" Rhoad, US singer (Persuasions-Spread the Word)
1944 - Scott McKenzie, rock vocalist (If You Come to SF)
1945 - Donny Hathaway, Chicago, singer/songwriter (Where is the Love)
1945 - Rod Carew, baseball slugger (AL Rookie of Year 1967)
1945 - Spider Sabich, American skier (d. 1976)
1946 - Alfred Jones, Grace Miss, middleweight boxer (Olympic-bronze-1968)
1946 - Eva Klobukowska, Poland, relay sprinter (Olympic-gold-1964)
1947 - Mariska Veres, Dutch singer (Shocking Blue)
1947 - Martin Turner, rocker (Wishbone)
1947 - Rob Davis, rocker
1947 - Stephen Collins, Des Moines Iowa, actor (Star Trek I, Tattingers)
1947 - Aaron Ciechanover, Israeli biologist
1947 - Adriano Tilgher, Italian politician
1948 - Cub Koda, rocker (Brownsville Station)
1948 - Ellen McIlwaine, Nashville, blues singer (Honky Tonky Angel)
1949 - Isaac Bonewits, American author
1950 - Boris Vladimirovich Morukov, Russian cosmonaut
1950 - Randy Quaid, Houston Texas, actor (Midnight Express, Vacation, Saturday Night Live)
1950 - Jeane Manson, American singer and actress
1951 - Brian Greenway, Montreal, rock guitarist/vocalist (April Wine)
1952 - Jacques Martin, Canadian ice hockey coach and executive
1953 - Greta Andersen Waitz, Oslo Norway, marathoner (NYC - 1984)
1953 - John Hegley, British poet
1953 - Pete Falcone, American baseball player
1953 - Grete Waitz, Norwegian athlete
1954 - Richard Schlesinger, NYC, news correspondent (CBS, 48 Hours)
1954 - Martin Strel, Slovenian swimmer
1955 - Howard Hewett, Akron Oh, rock vocalist (Shalamar)
1955 - Phillip Oakey, rocker (Human League)
1955 - Duško Tadić, Bosnian Serb
1956 - Leslie Burr-Howard, equestrian show jumper (Olympics-silver-96)
1956 - Theresa May, British politician
1957 - Brad MacDonald, race horse trainer
1957 - Stelios Mainas, Greek actor
1958 - Alton Lister, NBA forward/center (Portland Trailblazers, Celtics)
1958 - Michelle Bauer, [Medvitz], California, actress (One Million Heels BC)
1958 - Masato Nakamura, Japanese musician
1959 - Youssou N'dour, Senegalese singer (Shaking the tree)
1960 - Elizabeth Dennehy, actress (Guiding Light) [or Nov 1]
1961 - Cornelius Johannes Petrus Gerhardus "Corrie" Van Zyl, cricketer (SAf)
1961 - Gary Ablett, Australian rules footballer
1961 - Robert Rey, Brazilian-American plastic surgeon and television personality
1962 - Trevor Baxter, record holder for high jumping with a skateboard
1962 - Paul Walsh, English footballer
1963 - Beth Chamberlin, Danville Vt, actress (Beth Spaulding-Guiding Light)
1963 - Mark McGwire, 1st baseman (AL rookie of year 1988, Oakland A's, Cards)
1964 - Kristi Atkinson, Van Nuys Ca, WP volleyballer (Best of Beach-6th-1994)
1964 - Marcia Pankratz, Wakefield Mass, field hockey forward (Oly-88, 96)
1964 - Roberto Kelly, Panama, outfielder (NY Yanks, Cin Reds, Minnesota Twins)
1964 - Harry Hill, British comedian
1964 - Max Matsuura, Japanese record producer
1964 - Jonathan Sarfati, Australian-born chess player, scientist, and author
1965 - Cliff Ronning, Vancouver, NHL center (Vancouver Canucks)
1965 - Cindy Margolis Model
1965 - Ted King, American Actor
1965 - Chris Reason, Australian journalist
1966 - Christopher Titus, American actor/comedian
1966 - George Weah, Liberian politician and footballer
1966 - Cuco Ziganda, Spanish footballer
1967 - Chuck McElroy, Galeston TX, pitcher (California Angels)
1967 - Geraldine Heaney, ice hockey defenseman (Canada, Oly-98)
1967 - Michael Pringle, CFL running back (Montreal Alouettes)
1967 - Scott Young, Clinton MA, NHL right wing (Colorado Avalanche)
1967 - Mike Pringle, American football player
1968 - Greg Briggs, NFL safety (Dallas Cowboys, Minnesota Vikings)
1968 - Jay Underwood, actor (Boy Who Could Fly)
1968 - Malcolm Showell, WLAF defensive end (London Monarchs)
1968 - Matt Elliott, NFL center/guard (Carolina Panthers)
1968 - Jon Guenther, American author
1969 - Agustin Vasquez-Mendoza, Mexico, murderer (FBI Most Wanted)
1969 - Igor Ulanov, Krasnokamsk Russia, NHL defenseman (Tampa Bay Lightning)
1969 - Ori Kaplan, Israeli jazz musician
1970 - Alexei Zhamnov, Moscow Russia, NHL center (Winnipeg Jets, Oly-S-98)
1970 - Alexei Zhitnik, NHL defenseman (Team Russia Oly-Silver-1998, Buffalo)
1970 - Gaston Taument, soccer player (Feyenoord)
1970 - James Wilson, WLAF defensive end (Rhein Fire)
1970 - Moses Kiptanui, Kenya, steeplechase (Olympics-silver-96)
1970 - Ronnie Bradford, NFL cornerback (Atlanta Falcons, Denver Broncos)
1970 - Gam Wu-seong, South Korean actor
1970 - Simon Davey, Barnsley football manager
1971 - Amp Lee, NFL running back (Minnesota Vikings, St Louis Rams)
1971 - Melinda Gainsford, Australian 100m/200m (Olympics-92, 96)
1971 - Song Il Gook, Korean actor
1971 - Gigi Lai, Hong Kong actress
1972 - Danielle Scott, Baton Rouge LA, volleyball middle blocker (Oly-96)
1973 - Rodney Kite-Powell, historian
1973 - Jana Henke, German swimmer
1973 - Rachid Chékhémani, French runner
1973 - John Thomson, American baseball player
1974 - Keith Duffy, Dublin Ireland, Irish singer (Boyzone)
1974 - Mats Lindgren, NHL forward (Team Sweden Oly-1998, Edmonton)
1974 - Christian Borle, American actor
1975 - Eric Morel, PR, US flyweight boxer (Olympics-96)
1975 - Zoltán Sebescen, German footballer
1975 - Chulpan Khamatova, Russian actress
1975 - Kim Suna, Korean actress
1976 - Kona Cormack, Honolulu HI, playmate (Feb, 1996)
1976 - Antonio Roybal, American painter and sculptor
1977 - Alejandro Hernandez, Tijuana Mexico, tennis pro
1977 - Jeffrey van Hooydonk, Belgian race car driver
1978 - Andrew JC Jackson, Australian surf lifesaver
1978 - Leticia Cline, American model and TV Personality
1979 - Gilberto Martínez, Costa Rican footballer
1979 - Cameron Bruce, Australian rules footballer
1979 - Rudi Johnson, American football player
1979 - Marko Stanojevic, English-born Italian rugby union footballer
1981 - Júlio Baptista, Brazilian footballer
1981 - Arnau Riera, Spanish footballer
1981 - Johnny Oduya, Swedish ice hockey player
1982 - Haruna Babangida, Nigerian footballer
1982 - Harry Lawrence, Bath born Entrepreneur
1982 - Sandra Oxenryd, Swedish singer
1983 - Mirko Vučinić, Montenegrin footballer
1984 - Matt Cain, American baseball player
1984 - Daniel Guillén, Spanish footballer
1985 - Ryo Miyamori, Japanese singer
1985 - Nazimuddin Ahmed, Bangladeshi cricketer
1985 - Revazi Zintiridis, Greek judoka
1985 - Tim Deasy, English footballer
1986 - Ricardo Vaz Té, Portuguese footballer
1986 - Jurnee Smollett, American actress
1986 - Sayaka, Japanese singer
1987 - Hiroki Aiba, Japanese actor, singer
1988 - Cariba Heine, Australian actress
1990 - Charlie McDonnell, British YouTube Personality

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 01, 2013, 02:01:06 PM

This Day in History for 1st October


Famous Deaths

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Archaeologist Louis Leakey (1972)              Writer E. B. White (1985)


290 - [Christian] Bacchus, roman soldier/martyred saint, killed
540 - Vedastus St Vaast, 1st bishop of Atrecht/saint, dies
552 - Teja, king of Ostrogoten, dies in battle
959 - King Edwy of England
976 - Al-Hakam II, Moors kalief of Cordoba, dies
1040 - Alan III, Duke of Brittany (poisoned) (b. 997)
1189 - Gerard de Ridefort, grandmaster of the Knights Templar
1310 - Beatrice of Burgundy, Lady of Bourbon (b. 1257)
1404 - Boniface IX, [Pietro Tomacelli], Pope (1389-1404), dies
1499 - Marsilio Ficino, Italian philosopher (b. 1433)
1500 - John Alcock, English Catholic bishop
1567 - Pietro Carnesecchi, Italian humanist (b. 1508)
1570 - Frans Floris, Flemish painter (b. 1520)
1574 - Maarten van Heemskerck, Dutch painter (Christ), dies at 76
1578 - Don John of Austria, Spanish military leader, dies at 31
1588 - Blessed Edward James, Catholic martyr
1602 - Hernando de Cabezon, composer, dies at 61
1609 - Gianmatteo Asola, Italian composer
1633 - Filaret, [Fjodor N Romanov], patriarch of Moscow, dies
1684 - Pierre Corneille, Fr lawyer/dramatist (El Cid, Polyeucte), dies at 42
1693 - Pedro Abarca, Spanish theologian (b. 1619)
1704 - Cornelis Dusart, painter/engraver, dies at 44
1708 - John Blow, composer (Venus & Adonis), dies at 59
1768 - Robert Simson, Scotland mathematician, dies at 80
1770 - Louis-Gabriel Guillemain, composer, dies at 64
1795 - Robert Bakewell, English cattle breeder, dies at about 70
1814 - Jakob I van Przysucha, Polish hassidic leader, dies
1837 - Robert Clark, American politician (b. 1777)
1838 - Charles Tennant, Scottish chemist and industrialist (b. 1768)
1864 - John Dunovant, US Confederate brig-general, dies in battle
1864 - Rose Greenhow, American Confederate spy (b. 1817)
1868 - Rama IV, [Phra Chomklao Chaoyuhua], king of Thai (1851-68), dies at 63
1876 - Henri-Jerome Bertini, composer, dies at 77
1876 - James Lick, California land baron (b. 1796)
1881 - Frantisek Matej Hilmar, composer, dies at 78
1901 - Abdur Rahman Khan, Emir of Afghanistan
1904 - William GGVV Harcourt, historian/English Sect of State, dies at 76
1911 - Wilhelm Dilthey, Germ philosopher (Das Leben Schleiermans), dies at 77
1913 - Eugene O'Keefe, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1827)
1927 - Wilhelm Harteveld, composer, dies at 68
1929 - Antoine Bourdelle, French sculptor (b. 1861)
1930 - Ricardo Drigo, composer, dies at 84
1936 - Oscar DaCosta, cricketer (WI all-rounder in 5 Tests 30-35), dies at 28
1942 - Ants Piip, Estonian Prime Minister (b. 1884)
1943 - Antoine T Broekman, resistance fighter, executed at 32
1943 - Anton JT Koreman, resistance fighter, executed at 27
1943 - Antoon Pleyte, resistance fighter, executed at 26
1943 - Dionysius Remiens, resistance fighter, executed at 24
1943 - Earnest Klijzing, resistance fighter, executed
1943 - Gideon Boissevain, resistance fighter, executed at 22
1943 - Hans Katan, resistance fighter, executed at 24
1943 - Henri H Geul, resistance fighter, executed at 27
1943 - Johan Kalshoven, resistance fighter, executed at 20
1943 - Johan Roemer, resistance fighter, executed at 22
1943 - Johan van Mierlo, resistance fighter, executed at 35
1943 - John Charles Boissevain, resistance fighter, executed at 23
1943 - Leo Frijda, resistance fighter, executed at 20
1943 - Louis Boissevain, resistance fighter, executed at 21
1943 - Maarten van/of Gilse, resistance fighter, executed at 27
1943 - Olaf T Thomsen, resistance fighter, executed at 23
1943 - Peter "Pam" Pooters, resistance fighter, executed at 32
1943 - Sape Kuiper, resistance fighter, executed at 19
1943 - Victor van Swieten, resistance fighter, executed at 36
1943 - Walter Brandligt, literature/resistance fighter, executed at 42
1945 - Walter B Cannon, US physiologist (Traumatic Shock), dies at 73
1955 - Charles Christie, American film studio owner (b. 1880)
1956 - Stan Ockers, Belgian world champ cyclist (1955), dies at 36
1958 - Robert Falk, Russian painter (b. 1886)
1961 - Donald Cook, actor (Too Young To Go Steady), dies at 60
1964 - Ernst Toch, composer (Melodie Lehre), dies at 76
1965 - Edward E "Doc" Smith, US, sci-fi writer (Subspace encounter), dies
1965 - Gareth Hughes, actor (Midnight Girl), dies at 71
1966 - Albert P A A Besnard, poet/journalist (Doom & Thirst), dies
1970 - Hans Poser, composer, dies at 52
1970 - Petar Konjovic, composer, dies at 87
1970 - Raoul Riganti, Argentine racing driver (b. 1893)
1972 - Kurt Hiller, writer, dies at 87
1972 - Louis Leakey, English anthropologist, dies at 68
1973 - Joe Devlin, actor (Sam-Dick Tracy), dies at 74
1974 - Spyridon Marinatos, Greek archaeologist (b. 1901)
1975 - Al Jackson, rock drummer (Booker T & The MG's), dies at 39
1979 - Roy Harris, US composer, dies at 81
1980 - George Meany, union pres (AFL-CIO), dies at 86
1984 - Walter Alston, Baseball manager (LA Dodgers), dies at 72
1985 - E. B. White, US author (New Yorker, Charlotte&#039;s Web), dies at 86
1988 - Sacheverell Sitwell, English writer (b. 1897)
1990 - Christine Forrest, actress (Martin), dies
1990 - Curtis E LeMay, USAF General/VP candidate, dies at 83
1991 - Jan van Tongeren, painter, dies
1992 - Bruce Vorhauer, inventor (Today contraceptive sponge), suicide at 50
1992 - Harry Milton Ray, singer/actor (Avanti!), dies of stroke at 45
1993 - Janine Darcey, French actress (Priez pour nous), dies at 75
1993 - Joseph Warren, actor (Gift of Love, Urban Warriors), dies at 77
1994 - Brad O'Hare, dies of complications due to AIDS at 43
1994 - Carlos Lleras Restrepo, president of Colombia (1966-70), dies at 86
1994 - Karoli Ruth Needles, painter, dies at 54
1994 - Scott Dunbar, bluse vocalist/guitarist, dies at 90
1994 - Paul Lorenzen, German philosopher (b. 1915)
1995 - Aditya Biria, industrialist, dies at 50
1995 - Margaret Gorman Cahill, 1st Miss America (1921), dies at 90
1995 - Rene Mable Neighbour Cloke, illustrator, dies at 90
1995 - Russ Karel, director, dies at 45
1996 - Joonas Kokkonen, composer, dies at 74
1996 - Patrick McGeown, politician, dies at 40
1997 - Gul Mohammed, world's shortest man (22.1"/56.16 cm), dies at 36
1997 - Jerome H. Lemelson, American inventor (b. 1923)
1998 - Pauline Julien, French Canadian singer (b. 1928)
1999 - Lena Zavaroni, Scottish singer and Child star (b. 1963)
2000 - Robert Allen, American pianist and songwriter (b. 1928)
2000 - Reginald Kray, British gangster (b. 1933)
2001 - Guy Beaulne, French-Canadian actor and theatre director (b. 1921)
2001 - Kathleen Ankers, American scenic designer (b. 1919)
2002 - Walter Annenberg, American publisher and philanthropist (b. 1908)
2004 - Richard Avedon, American photographer (b. 1923)
2004 - Bruce Palmer, Canadian musician (Buffalo Springfield) (b. 1946)
2006 - Jerald Tanner, American religious activist (b. 1938)
2006 - André Viger, French Canadian wheelchair marathoner (b. 1952)
2007 - Chris Mainwaring, Australian rules footballer (b. 1965)
2007 - Harry Lee, Sheriff of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana (b. 1932)
2007 - Al Oerter, American discus thrower (b. 1936) (Olympics-gold-56, 60, 64, 68) dies aged 71
2007 - Ned Sherrin, English broadcaster, author and stage director (b. 1931)
2007 - Ronnie Hazlehurst, English conductor and theme song composer (b. 1928)
2010 - Ian Buxton, English footballer and cricketer (b. 1938)
2011 - Sven Tumba, Swedish ice hockey and golf player (b. 1931)
2012 - Eric J. Hobsbawm, British Marxist historian, dies from pneumonia at 95

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 02, 2013, 09:48:24 AM

This Day in History for 2nd October


Historical Events

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First US President                                  US President Woodrow Wilson               Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini
George Washington   

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32nd US President                              Soviet Union Premier Joseph Stalin            Cartoonist Charles M. Schulz
Franklin D. Roosevelt

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First Black Supreme Court Justice             Baseball Player Hank Aaron                 Heavyweight Boxing Champion
Thurgood Marshall                                                                                                      Muhammad Ali


939 - Battle at Andernach: King Otto & Hermann of Zwaben beat Eberhard of France & Giselbert of
         Lutherans
976 - Hisham II appointed kalief of Cordoba
1134 - Storm flood ravages Zeeland county
1187 - Sultan Saladin captures Jerusalem from Crusaders
1263 - The battle of Largs fought between Norwegians and Scots.
1492 - King Henry VII of England invades France
1518 - English cardinal Thomas Wolsey makes European plan
1535 - Jacques Cartier discovers Mount Royal (Montreal)
1540 - Venice/Turkey signs peace
1552 - Conquest of Kazan by Ivan the Terrible.
1572 - Spanish army occupies/plunders/destroys Mechelen
1586 - Battle at Zutphen: English-Dutch army
1608 - Prototype of modern reflecting telescope completed by Jan Lippershey
1614 - French king Louis XIII (13) declared an adult
1656 - US colony Connecticut passes law against Quakers
1700 - Spanish king Carlos II appoints Philip van Anjou, heir to throne
1760 - Russian/Austrian army evacuates Berlin [NS=10/13]
1787 - Maagden House opens in Amsterdam
1789 - George Washington transmits the proposed Constitutional amendments (The United States
           Bill of Rights) to the States for ratification.
1792 - Baptist Missionary Society forms in London
1795 - Tula (leader slave uprising) sentence to death in Curacao
1799 - Duke of York & Russians capture Alkmaar in Netherlands
1804 - England mobilizes to protect against French invasion
1833 - Charles Darwin rides through Corunda to Santa Fe Argentina
1833 - NY Anti-Slavery Society organized
1836 - Darwin returns to England aboard HMS Beagle (after 5 years)
1851 - The pasilalinic-sympathetic compass is demonstrated but proves to be a fake.
1853 - Austrian law forbids Jews from owning land
1861 - Former VP John C Breckinridge flees Kentucky
1864 - Battle of Saltville, VA
1866 - J Osterhoudt patents tin can with key opener
1870 - Italy annexes Rome & Papal States; Rome made Italian capital
1871 - Brigham Young, mormon leader, arrest for bigamy
1872 - Morgan State University founded
1879 - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Musgrave Ritual" (BG)
1889 - 1st Pan American conference (Washington DC)
1889 - In Colorado, Nicholas Creede strikes it rich in silver during the last great silver boom of the
           American Old West.
1895 - 1st cartoon comic strip is printed in a newspaper
1899 - Orange Free state mobilizes
1901 - 1st Royal Naval submarine launched at Barrow
1906 - Tommy Burns KOs Jim Burns in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1907 - Phillies Eddie Grant goes 7 for 7 in a doubleheader vs Giants
1908 - Addie Joss perfect game stops Ed Walsh 1-0 who won 40 in a row
1909 - 1st rugby match (Twickenham)
1910 - 1st 2 aircraft collision (Milan Italy)
1910 - Henry Wijnmalen flies to 2,800m altitude (world record)
1913 - Phillies beat NY Giants 2 games out of 3 in a tripleheader
1916 - Grover Cleveland Alexander records his 16th shutout of year
1916 - San Diego Zoo founded
1919 - 1st edition "Volkskrant" (People's newspaper) published in Neth
1919 - Pres Woodrow Wilson has a stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed
1920 - Only tripleheader of century (Reds win 13-4, 7-3 then Pirates win 6-0)
1921 - NY Yankee Babe Ruth hits then record 59th HR
1923 - British occuping army leaves Constantinople
1923 - Harry Heilmann goes 2-for-2, sit out rest of season, except for a pinch single on final day,
           hitting .403
1924 - League of Nations approves protocols of Geneva
1926 - Bert Gibb of Hamilton Tigers kicks 9 singles in a game
1928 - The "Prelature of the Holy Cross and the Work of God", commonly known as Opus Dei, was
           founded by Saint Josemaría Escrivá.
1931 - Pope Pius XI encyclical On economic crisis
1932 - NY Yankees sweep Chicago Cubs in 29th World Series
1932 - Washington Redskins (as Boston Braves) play 1st NFL game, lose 14-0
1933 - Eugene O'Neill's comedy "Ah, Wilderness," premieres in NYC
1935 - Mussolini's Italian armys attacks Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
1935 - NY Hayden Planetarium, 4th in US, opens
1936 - 1st alcohol power plant forms, Atchison, Kansas
1936 - Amsterdam's Calvinist Churches reject nazism
1936 - French franc devalued
1936 - NY Yankees score World Series record 18 runs, beating Giants 18-4
1936 - Tony Lazzeri becomes 1st Yank to hit a World Series grand slam
1937 - FDR visits Grand Coulee Dam construction site in Washington State
1938 - Indian Bob Feller strikes out record 18 Tigers (Chester Laabs 5 times)
1939 - Birdbaths installed in Union Square, SF
1940 - 17 German aircrafts shot down above England
1940 - British Council receives British Charter
1940 - British liner Empress loaded with refugees for Canada, sunk
1941 - 6 Paris synagogues are bombed by Gestapo
1941 - Germans launch attack on Moscow
1942 - "Queen Mary" slices cruiser "Curacao" in half, killing 338
1942 - 1st self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction demonstrated, Chicago
1943 - Japanse troops leave Kolombangara, Solomon Island
1943 - Yankees sweep 14th doubleheader of year, beating Browns, 5-1 & 7-6
1944 - Nazis crush Warsaw Uprising killing 250,000 people
1944 - US B-17's drops pamphlets on Walcheren
1946 - 1st network soap opera-Faraway Hill-Dumont
1947 - "Music in My Heart" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 124 performances
1947 - Revised International Telecommunication Convention adopted
1947 - Yankee Yogi Berra becomes 1st to pinch hit a World Series homer
1948 - "Finian's Rainbow" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 725 perfs
1949 - St Louis Browns use 9 pitchers, lose to Whites Sox 4-3
1949 - USSR recognizes People's Republic of China
1949 - Yanks & Red Sox, tied for 1st place, play final game of season. Yanks win 5-3 & clinch
           pennant #16
1950 - 1st strip of Charlie Brown, "Li'l Folks," later "Peanuts" in 9 papers
1950 - Mao Tse Tung proclaims in telegram to Stalin, China intervenes Korea
1950 - Red Sox Dom DiMaggio leads AL with only 15 stolen bases
1950 - Bob Shaw of Chicago Cardinals sets NFL record with 5 TD receptions
1950 - Chic Cards Jim Hardy passes for 6 touchdowns vs Balt Colts (55-13)
1950 - Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz first published
1951 - 1st Netherland TV broadcast (Toverspiegel)
1951 - Dodgers beat Giants 10-0, in 2nd game of play-offs
1953 - "Comedy in Music (Victor Borge)" opens at John Golden NYC for 849 perf
1953 - Dodger Carl Erskine strikes out 14 Yankees in World Series
1954 - 8th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Detroit 2-2 at Detroit
1954 - Former French possession of Chandernagore made part of West Bengal
1954 - NY Giants sweep Cleve Indians, in 51st World Series
1955 - "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" premieres
1955 - 9th NHL All-Star Game: Detroit beat All-Stars 3-1 at Detroit
1955 - Chiva Stoica becomes premier of Romania
1955 - WHTN (now WOWK) TV ch 13 in Huntington-Charleston, WV (CBS) begins
1956 - 1st atomic power clock exhibited-NYC
1957 - NY Yankees appear in their 25th World Series
1957 - New volcanic island appears off Fayal Island Azores
1958 - Guinea (French Guinea) gains independence from France (National Day)
1958 - Musical show "Valmouth," 1st produced in London
1958 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1959 - Rod Serling's "Twilight Zone" premieres on CBS-TV
1960 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA San Antonio Civitan Golf Tournament
1961 - "Ben Casey" premieres on NBC-TV
1961 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1961 - WETA TV channel 26 in Washington, DC (PBS) begins broadcasting
1961 - WHRO TV channel 15 in Hampton-Norfolk, VA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1962 - SF beats LA, 8-7 in 4h18m 9 inning playoff game
1962 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
1963 - Dodgers' Sandy Koufax strikes out World Series record 15 Yankees
1963 - W German Chancellor Adenauer condemns western grain shipments to USSR
1964 - Phillies tie major league record with season's 3rd triple play (Reds)
1965 - Dodgers beat Braves to clinch NL pennant
1965 - Mel Stottlemyre wins game #20
1965 - Phillies' Chris Short strikes-out 18 NY Mets
1965 - Pope Paul VI named MR Perey bishop's helper of New Orleans
1966 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Invitational
1966 - LA Dodgers Sandy Koufax clinches 3rd LA pennant in 4 years
1967 - Grateful Dead members arrested by narcotic agents
1967 - Groundbreaking begins on Veteran Stadium in Philadelphia
1967 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Seven Lakes Golf Invitational
1967 - Thurgood Marshall sworn in as 1st black Supreme Court Justice
1968 - 1st London performance of "Promises Promises" presented
1968 - Bob Gibson sets a World Series record of 17 strikeouts
1968 - Mexico City police fire on protesting students, 300-500 killed
1968 - Republic Guinea forms (day of republic)
1968 - 1st time, 2 soon-to-be-named MVPs oppose each other Cards Bob Gibson beat Tigers Denny
           McLain 4-0
1969 - Seattle Pilots last game in Seattle, lose 3-1 to As in front of 5,473
1969 - US performs underground nuclear test at Amchitka Island Aleutians
1970 - Billy Martin named manager of Det Tigers
1970 - Plane carrying Wichita State U football team crashes killing 30
1971 - Homing pigeon averages 133 KPH (record) in 1100-km Australian race
1972 - "From Israel with Love" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 8 performances
1972 - Aeroflot Il-18 crashes near Black Sea resort of Sochi, kills 105
1972 - Bill Stoneman of Montreal pitches his 2nd no-hitter, beating Mets, 7-0
1972 - Danish population votes for European Common Market membership
1972 - Mont Expos Bill Stoneman 2nd no-hitter beats NY Mets, 7-0
1972 - Ron Johnson becomes 1st NY Giant to score 4 TDs (vs Phila)
1974 - Hank Aaron's 733rd career HR on his last NL at bat
1976 - "Let My People Come" closes at Morosco Theater NYC after 106 perfs
1977 - Pakistan general Zia ul-Haq bans all opposition
1977 - Vivian Brownlee wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
1977 - Dusty Baker 30th HR joins teammates Steve Garvey (33), Reggie Smith (32), & Ron Cey (30)
           in make Dodgers 1st team to boast 4 30-HR hitters
1978 - Syrian & Palestinians shoot in East Beirut, 1,300 killed
1978 - Yanks win 3rd straight AL East beating Red Sox 5-4 in a playoff game. Guidry wins #25 aided
           by Dent's homer & Pinella's fielding
1980 - Larry Holmes TKOs Muhammad Ali in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
1980 - Michael Myers (D-Pa), is 1st rep expelled in over 100 years (ABSCAM)
1981 - Ali Chamenei elected president of Iran
1982 - Bomb attack in Teheran, kills 60, injures 700
1983 - Art Monk begins NFL streak of 136 plus consecutive game receptions
1983 - Carl Yastrezemski's last at bat
1983 - Kathy Postlewait wins LPGA San Jose Golf Classic
1984 - 3 cosmonauts return after a record 237 days in orbit
1984 - In 1st LCS game played with replacement umps, Cubs cbeat Padres 13-0
1984 - Richard Miller, becomes 1st (former) FBI agent, charged with espionage
1985 - Russian party leader Gorbatsjov visits Paris
1985 - Tigers Darrell Evans is 1st to hit 40 HR seasons in both leagues
1986 - Failed assassination attempt on India premier Rajiv Gandhi
1986 - Mike Scott is 3rd NL pitcher to strike out 300 in a season (306)
1986 - NY Met Dwight Gooden is 1st to strike out 200 or more in 1st 3 seasons
1986 - Sikhs attempt to assassinate Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi
1988 - 24th Olympic games close at Seoul, Korea
1988 - Gelindo Bordin wins 21st Olympics marathon (2:10:32)
1988 - Minnesota Twins are 1st AL club ever to break 3 million season attendance
1988 - Pakistan's Supreme Court orders free elections
1988 - Police breakup domestic disturbance between Mike Tyson & Robin Givens
1988 - Mike Tyson wrecks furniture in his Bernardsville NJ Mansion
1990 - "Michael Feinstein in Concert -" opens at Golden NYC for 30 perfs
1990 - Allies cede any remaining rights as occupiers of Germany
1990 - Chinese plane explodes, about 100 die
1990 - US Senate votes 90-9 to confirm David Souter to Supreme Court
1990 - Radio Berlin International's final transmission (links to Deutsche Welles of West Germany);
           final song is "The End" by Doors
1991 - Eric Lindros, refused to sign with Quebec Nordiques
1991 - Steffi Graf becomes the youngest woman to win 500 pro tennis matches
1991 - Toronto Blue Jays clinches AL East title & becomes 1st team to draw 4 million fans
1992 - VP Itamar Franco becomes pres of Brazil
1992 - The Carandiru Massacre takes place after a riot in the Carandiru Penitentiary in São Paulo,
           Brazil.
1994 - "Show Boat," opens at Gershwin Theater NYC
1994 - Pakistan defeat Australia by one wicket in Karachi Test
1995 - "Moon Over Buffalo" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 308 perfs
1995 - Seattle Mariners beat Cal Angels, 9-1 in a playoff game to win AL West
1996 - 30th Country Music Association Award: Brooks & Dunn win
2001 - The NATO backs US military strikes, following 9/11.
2002 - The Beltway sniper attacks begin, extending over three weeks.
2004 - American Samoa joins the North American Numbering Plan.
2005 - Ethan Allen Boating Accident: The Ethan Allen tour boat capsizes on Lake George in Upstate
           New York, killing twenty people.
2005 - NFL plays first regular season game outside United States when the Arizona Cardinals defeat
           the San Francisco 49ers 31-14 in Mexico City, Mexico
2006 - Five school girls are murdered by Charles Carl Roberts in a shooting at an Amish school in
           Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania before Roberts commits suicide.
2007 - President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea walks across the Military Demarcation Line into North
           Korea on his way to the second Inter-Korean Summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.
2009 - Rio de Janeiro is elected the host city of the 2016 Summer Olympics and Paralympics.
2012 - 20 students are gunned down in Mubi, Nigeria
2012 - 10 people are killed after a minibus and truck collide in Ilocos Norte, Philippines

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 02, 2013, 09:51:53 AM

This Day in History for 2nd October


Famous Weddings

1900 - Belgium crown prince Albert von Saksen-Coburg weds Elisabeth of Bayern
1909 - American Playwright Eugene O'Neill (20) marries 1st wife Kathleen Jenkins
1955 - Actress Joyce Randolph marries publisher Richard Charles
1970 - Scottish singer Donovan (24) weds Linda Lawrence at Windsor Registry Office
1993 - Spike Lee weds Tonya Lewis
1999 - "Matchbox Twenty" lead singer Rob Thomas (27) weds model Marisol Maldonado in Santa
           Ynez, California
2004 - "Piano Man" singer-songwriter Billy Joel (55) weds television food critic and chef Katie Lee (23)
           at 15-acre waterfront estate in Centre Island, New York
2004 - "Married ... With Children" actress Katey Sagal (50) weds "The Shield" writer Kurt Sutter (42)
           in Los Feliz, California
2005 - Former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko's daughter Evhenya Tymoshenko weds "Death Valley
           Screamers" musician Sean Carr at 11th century Vydubychi Monastery in Kiev, Ukraine
2011 - Canadian stand-up comedian and actor Seth Rogen (30) weds screenwriter Lauren Miller at
           Kunde Family Estate in Sonoma, California

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 02, 2013, 10:18:34 AM

This Day in History for 2nd October


Famous Birthdays

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Pacifist and Spiritual Leader                   Comedian Groucho Marx (1890)              Writer Graham Greene (1904)
Mahatma Gandhi (1869)

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Developmental biologist                  Photographer Annie Leibovitz (1949)
John B. Gurdon (1933)


1452 - King Richard III, of England (1483-85)
1470 - Isabella of Naples, Duchess of Milan (d. 1524)
1538 - Saint Charles Borromeo, Italian cardinal (d. 1584)
1595 - Jacob Louys, Flemish engraver
1616 - A Gryphius, writer
1644 - François-Timoléon de Choisy, French writer (d. 1724)
1646 - Guillaume Poitevin, composer
1704 - Frantisek Ignac Antonin Tuma, composer
1722 - Leopold Widhalm, Austrian luthier (d. 1776)
1737 - Franz Schneider, composer
1752 - Samuel Story, Dutch admiral (Battle at Kamperduin)
1756 - Jacob van Strij, Dutch cartoonist/graphic artist
1756 - Josef Jawurek, composer
1768 - William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, British general and politician (d. 1854)
1792 - Philip Cipriani Hambley Potter, pianist/composer
1800 - Nat Turner, Virginia, leader of major slave rebellion (1831)
1809 - Anton Emil Titl, composer
1817 - Gunnar Wennerberg, composer
1819 - George Washington Getty, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1901
1821 - Alexander Peter "Old Straight" Stewart, Lt Gen (Confederate Army)
1822 - Joannes Kappeyne van de Coppello, Dutch Internal minister (1877-79)
1827 - Edmund Jackson Davis, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1883
1828 - Charles Floquet, French statesman (d. 1896)
1832 - Edward Burnett Tylor, English anthropologist
1832 - Julius von Sachs, botanist/naturalist
1833 - Rev. William Corby, American Catholic priest (d. 1897)
1835 - Louis A Ranvier, French anatomist/historian
1839 - Hans Thoma, painter
1847 - Paul Ludwig Hans von Beneckendorf und Hindenburg, German president
1851 - Ferdinand Foch, France, Allied military commander and hero during WW I
1852 - William Ramsay, chemist
1857 - Marthinus T Steyn, pres of Orange-Free state (1896-1902)
1866 - Charles de Souzy Ricketts, artist
1869 - Mahatma Gandhi [Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi], Porbandar Kathiawad India, pacifist and
           spiritual leader, (d. 1948)
1871 - Cordell Hull, US Sec of State (1933-44), lowered tariffs (Nobel 1945)
1871 - Martha Brookes Hutcheson, American landscape architect (d. 1959)
1873 - Pelham Warner, cricketer (England 1898-1912, later notable official)
1873 - Stephen Warfield Gambrill, U.S. Congressman for Maryland's 5th District (d. 1924)
1875 - Henry Fevrier, composer
1878 - Francois C Schlumberger, French physicist
1879 - Wallace Stevens, Reading Pa, poet (Ideas of Order)
1880 - George Alexander Russell, composer
1881 - Fred Barlow, composer
1882 - Boris Shaposhnikov, Russian military commander (d. 1945)
1885 - Ruth Bryan Rohde, US, (Rep), minister to Denmark
1886 - Pieter "Pierre" Balledux, stage manager/Dutch resistance fighter
1890 - Groucho Marx, [Julius], NYC, comedian (Marx Bros, You Bet Your Life)
1891 - H V Porter, basketball pioneer, created fan shape backboard
1893 - Leroy B Shield, US pianist/producer/composer (Laurel & Hardy)
1895 - Bud Abbott, Asbury Pk NJ, comedian (Abbott & Costello)
1895 - Louis Lebeer, Dutch art historian
1896 - Fjodor I Panfjorov, Russian author (Volga) [OS=Sep 20]
1896 - Fritz Eberhard, [Hellmut Rauschenplat], W-German lawyer/resistor (Law)
1896 - Liaqat Ali Khan, Pakistan's first Prime Minister (d. 1951)
1901 - Christopher Clarkson, test Pilot
1901 - [Ignatius] Roy [D] Campbell, South African poet (Flowering Rifle)
1902 - Dick Ket, Dutch painter/cartoonist
1902 - Leopold Figl, premier of Austria
1904 - Dermot Boyle, marshal (RAF)
1904 - Godfrey Baseley, radio executive
1904 - Shi Lal Bahadur Shastri, India premier (1964-66)
1904 - [Henry] Graham Greene, England, prolific novelist (Brighton Rock)
1906 - John Humphreys Whitfield, scholar of Italian language & literature
1907 - Alexander Robertus, organic chemist
1907 - Lord Todd, chemist
1907 - William Marshall, producer/director/actor/singer (Blackmail)
1911 - Stuart Rose, designer (British Post Office)
1911 - Jack Finney, American author (d. 1995)
1912 - Eric Wilson, VC/British Lt Col
1913 - Vivian Ridler, printer (Oxford University)
1913 - Karl Miller, German footballer (d. 1967)
1914 - Albe Vidakovic, composer
1914 - Bengt Viktor Johansson, composer
1914 - Charles Drake, Bayside NYC, actor (Air Force, Glenn Miller Story)
1914 - Jack Parsons, American rocket scientist, author, and occultist (d. 1952)
1914 - Bernarr Rainbow, historian of music education, organist, and choir master (d.1998)
1915 - Robert Russell "Chubby" Wise, musician
1917 - Francis Jackson, organist & master of Music/York minister
1917 - William Marshall, Chicago IL, band leader (Pennsylvanians)
1917 - Charles Drake, American actor (d. 1994)
1917 - Christian de Duve, Thames Ditton, Surrey, cytologist and biochemist (Nobel, 1974), (d. 2013)
1919 - Geoffrey Luttrell, Lord-Lt of Somerset
1919 - Shirley Clarke, film director
1920 - William Cramond, psychiatrist/vice-chancellor (Stirling University)
1921 - A Scott Crossfield, US Test pilot (XS-1)
1921 - Robert Runcie, [Kennedy], Liverpool England, Archbishop of Canterbury
1922 - Otmar Macha, composer
1922 - Thomas T Nkobi, S Afr ANC-leader (Alexandra-bus boycott 1957)
1922 - Wolfhart U Pannenberg, German theologist (Gingham Girl)
1923 - Jack Dellal, English immovables-goedbezitter/multi-millionaire, (d. 2012)
1924 - Sam Wainwright, deputy chairman (British Post Office)
1925 - Alois Pinos, composer
1925 - Brian Dilton, British lord justice of appeal
1926 - Jan Morris, travel writer (Among the Cities, Hong Kong, Journeys)
1928 - Anthony Tippett, British chief of Fleet Support
1928 - Clay Felker, St Louis, journalist (NY Herald Tribune, Esquire)
1928 - George Emmett McFarland, Dallas, act (Spanky-Our Gang/Little Rascals)
1928 - James Porter, CEO (Commonwealth Institute)
1928 - Robin Duthie, CEO (Britoil)
1928 - Wolfhart Pannenberg, German theologian
1929 - John Zochonis, British multi-millionaire soap magnate
1929 - Kenneth Leighton, composer
1929 - Moses Gunn, St Louis Mo, actor (Amityville II, Good Times, Shaft)
1930 - Gunter Kochan, composer
1930 - J M Ghorpade, cricketer (8 Tests for India 1952-59 with little impact)
1930 - Dave Barrett, Premier of British Columbia
1932 - Maury Wills, baseball shortstop (LA Dodgers, NL MVP 1962)
1932 - Ruairí Ó Brádaigh, Longford, Ireland, paramilitary and political leader (Sinne Fein), (d. 2013)
1933 - Dimiter Khristov, composer
1933 - Phill Niblock, composer
1933 - John B. Gurdon, Dippenhall, Hampshire, English developmental biologist (Nobel Prize in
           Physiology or Medicine)
1934 - Duncan Thompson, keeper (Scottish National Portrait Gallery)
1934 - Geoff Millman, cricketer (England wicket-keeper in 6 Tests 1961-62)
1934 - Richard Scott, British high court judge
1935 - Peter Frankl, pianist
1935 - Robert H Lawrence, Chicago Ill, USAF/astronaut
1936 - Ian McLachlan, cricketer (Cambridge & S Aust bat, later Liberal MP)
1936 - Johnnie Cochran, attorney (OJ Simpson defense attorney)
1936 - Roger Sainsbury, bishop of Barking
1938 - Lloyd Turner, journalist
1938 - Rex Reed, Fort Worth Tx, movie critic/actor (Myra Breckinridge)
1938 - Waheed Murad, Pakistani film actor and director (d. 1983)
1939 - B K Kunderan, cricketer (Indian keeper-batsman of 60's)
1939 - Yuri Nikolayevich Glazkov, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 24)
1940 - Lord Davies, chairman (Welsh National Opera)
1940 - Gheorghe Gruia, Romanian handball player
1941 - Ron Meagher, rocker
1941 - Zareh Baronian, Armenian theologian
1942 - Steve Sabol, Moorestown, New Jersey, filmmaker (35 Emmy awards), (d. 2012)
1943 - Anna Ford, British broadcaster/actress (Secret Policeman's Ball)
1943 - Henri SZEPS, Lausanne Switzerland, actor (Mother & Son)
1943 - Franklin Rosemont, American artist
1944 - Peter Hobson, headmaster (Giggleswick School)
1944 - Vernor [Steffen] Vinge, US, sci-fi author (Witling, True Names)
1945 - Don McLean, New Rochelle NY, singer/songwriter (American Pie, Vincent)
1945 - Frank Tejeda, (Rep-D-Texas)
1945 - Vladimir Ivanovich Kozlov, cosmonaut
1946 - Jo-el Sonnier, Rayne La, country singer (Louisiana)
1946 - Roger Jett, Cumberland Maryland, actor (Smithereens)
1946 - Eric Peterson, Canadian actor
1948 - Avery Brooks, Evansville Ind, actor (Spenser for Hire, Deep Space 9)
1948 - Chris LeDoux, Biloxi Miss, country singer (Ridin' for a Fall)
1948 - Donna Karan, Forest Hills NY, fashion designer (Coty Award-1977)
1948 - Robert Anderson, cricketer (NZ batsman 1976-78)
1948 - Trevor Brooking, English soccer player
1948 - Persis Khambatta, Bombay, India, actress (Star Trek, Megaforce)
1948 - Leslie Frankenheimer, Los Angeles, set designer (4 Emmy Awards), (d. 2013)
1949 - Annie Leibovitz, Waterbury, Connecticut, photgrapher (Rolling Stones)
1949 - Lorraine Bracco, Bay Ridge Brooklyn New York, American actress (Valentino
1949 - Richard Hell, [Richard Myers], Lexington Ky, rock bassist (Television)
1950 - Michael Rutherford, English pop bassist and rocker (Genesis-Against All Odds, Mike &
           Mechanics)
1950 - Ian McNeice, English actor
1951 - Romina Power, LA CA, daughter of Tyrone Power/actress (Justine)
1951 - Sting, [Gordon Sumner], rock vocalist (Police-Roxanne)/actor (Dune)
1952 - George Meegen, England, walked 19,019 miles from Argentina to Alaska
1952 - John Otway, rocker
1952 - Steve Penrod, race horse trainer
1952 - Wahed Wafa, Afghan singer
1954 - Greg Jennings, Oklahoma City Oklahoma, country singer (Restless Heart-Wheels)
1954 - Lani O'Grady, Walnut Creek California, actress (Mary-8 is Enough)
1954 - Lorraine Bracco, Bkln, actress (Someone to Watch Over Me, Dream Team)
1955 - Gary Streeter, MP
1955 - Kathryn Morrison Long Beach CA, playmate (May, 1978)
1955 - Philip Oakey, Sheffield, rock vocalist (Human Leauge-Only Human)
1956 - Freddie Jackson, US R&B singer/songwriter (Rock Me Tonight)
1956 - Murphy Morobe, South Afr UDF leader (spent 3 yrs in Robbeneiland Jail)
1957 - John Neuman Cook, Toledo OH, PGA golfer (1981 Bing Crosby)
1957 - Kimberly Herrin, Santa Barbara California, playmate (March, 1981)
1959 - Joe Deegan, jockey
1960 - Django Bates, jazz musician
1960 - Glenn Anderson, Vancouver, NHL right wing (Edmonton Oilers)
1960 - Al Connelly, Canadian Musician/Songwriter
1961 - Alan Wells, cricketer (England Test batsman v WI in one Test 1995)
1961 - Pablo Arraya, Argentina, tennis star
1961 - Robbie Nevil, rocker (A Place Like This)
1962 - Esai Morales, Brooklyn NY, actor (Bad Boys, La Bamba)
1962 - Mark Rypien, quarterback (St Louis Rams)
1962 - Sigtryggur Baldursson, Icelandic drummer (The Sugarcubes)
1962 - Aziz M. Osman, Malaysian actor and director
1963 - Libby Wilson, Brisbane Qld, golfer (1988 - Singapore Open)
1964 - Michael Brooks, NFL linebacker (NY Giants)
1964 - Sheila Echols, Memphis Tn, 4x100m runner (Olympic-gold-1988)
1964 - Sherry Arnett, St Louis Mo, playmate (Jan, 1986)
1965 - Darren Cahill, Australia, tennis star
1965 - Francesca Dellera, [Cervellera], Rome Italy, actress (Capriccio)
1965 - Jill Powell, Jacksonville Fla, actress (Marcy-As The World Turns)
1965 - Robert Goff, NFL defensive tackle (NO Saints)
1965 - Roger Dube, hockey forward (Team France 1998)
1965 - Tom Moody, cricket batsman (Australian 1989-92 Ton in 26 mins)
1966 - Yokozuna, [Rodney Anoia], wrestler (WWF/NJPW/AWA, Wild Samoan Kokina)
1967 - Thomas Muster, Leibnitz Austria, tennis star (1995 French Open)
1967 - Gillian Welch, New York, singer-songwriter (Time, Revival)
1967 - Frankie Fredericks, Namibian athlete
1967 - Bud Gaugh, American musician (Sublime)
1968 - Craig Kanada, Portland OR, Nike golfer (1994 NIKE SC Classic-3rd)
1968 - Glen Wesley, Red Deer, NHL defenseman (Hartford Whalers)
1968 - Jana Novotna, Brno Czech, tennis star (1995 Aust/Wimbledon doubles)
1968 - Mark James Crear, SF, 110m hurdler (Olympics-silver-96)
1968 - Victoria Derbyshire, British radio presenter
1968 - Jeff Martin, Canadian singer/songwriter
1969 - Marcus Robertson, NFL safety/cornerback (Houston/Tenn Oilers)
1969 - Matthew Walbeck, Sacramento CA, catcher (Minnesota Twins)
1969 - Mitch English, American actor
1969 - Damon Gough, English singer
1969 - Jun Akiyama, Japanese professional wrestler
1970 - Eddie Guardado, Stockton CA, pitcher (Minnesota Twins)
1970 - Kelly Ripa, actress (Hayley Vaughan-All My Children)
1970 - Colin Rivas, Galician artist
1970 - Maribel Verdú, Spanish actress
1971 - Jair Lynch, Amherst Mass, gymnast (Olympics-silver-96)
1971 - Steve McLaughlin, NFL kicker (Atlanta Falcons)
1971 - Tiffany [Renee Darwich], Norwalk California, rocker (I Think We're Alone Now)
1971 - James Root, American guitarist (Slipknot)
1972 - Aaron McKie, NBA guard (Portland Trail Blazers, Phila 76ers)
1972 - Adrian Van Troost, fast cricket bowler (Somerset & Holland)
1972 - Patricia Gauani, Miss USA-Delaware (1997)
1972 - Rafael Carmona, Rio Piedras Puerto Rico, pitcher (Seattle Mariners)
1972 - Tara Dawn Holland, Overland Park Kansas, Miss America (1997)
1972 - Torey Hunter, CFL defensive back (Montreal Alouettes)
1973 - Bret Hudson, NSW Australia, gymnast (Olympics-96)
1973 - Dalida Chammai, Miss Lebanon Universe (1997)
1973 - Verka Serduchka, Ukrainian entertainer
1973 - Lene, Norwegian singer (Aqua)
1973 - Efren Ramirez, American actor
1973 - Maria Wetterstrand, Swedish politician
1974 - Anthony Johnson, NBA guard (Sacramento Kings)
1974 - Ricky Bell, cornerback (Chicago Bears)
1974 - Simon Gregson, British actor
1974 - Michelle Krusiec, American actress
1974 - Mark Porter, New Zealand racing driver (d. 2006)
1974 - Paul Teutul Jr., co-star of American Chopper
1976 - Jason Dodson, American political consultant and teacher of esotericism
1976 - Mandisa, American singer
1976 - John Thornton, American Football player
1976 - Anita Kulcsár, Hungarian handball player (d. 2005)
1978 - Ayumi Hamasaki, Japanese singer
1979 - Francisco Fonseca, Mexican footballer
1979 - Primož Brezec, Slovenian basketball player
1979 - Maja Ivarsson, lead singer, The Sounds
1980 - Shane Andrus, National Football League kicker
1981 - Luke Wilkshire, Australian footballer
1981 - Toro, Taiwanese singer
1982 - George Pettit, Canadian singer (Alexisonfire)
1985 - Craig Davis, Wide Receiver for the San Diego Chargers
1986 - Camilla Belle, American actress
1987 - Phil Kessel, American ice hockey player
1990 - Dean Bouzanis, Australian soccer player
1991 - Beau Grayson, son of country singer Tanya Tucker
1993 - Tara Lynne Barr, American actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 02, 2013, 11:20:32 AM

This Day in History for 2nd October


Famous Deaths

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US Revolutionary                                      Painter and Sculptor
Samuel Adams (1803)                               Marcel Duchamp (1968)


472 - Olybrius, emperor of Westromeinse republic (472), dies
939 - Gilbert (Giselbert) , Duke of Lorraine drowns trying to cross the Rhine at about 49
1113 - Mawdoed, Selchuk emir/governor of Mosul, dies
1264 - Urbanus IV, [Jacques Pantaleon], French Pope (1261-64), dies
1517 - John Murmelius, humanist/theory/school book writer, dies at about 37
1559 - Jacquet of Mantua, French composer (b. 1483)
1564 - Andreas Vesalius, [Andries of Wesel], Flemish anatomist, dies at 49
1588 - Bernardino Telesio, Italian philosopher (Rerum in Child), dies
1617 - Isaac Oliver, miniature painter, dies
1626 - Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, conde de Gondomar, Spanish diplomat (b. 1567)
1629 - Pierre the Barulle, French cardinal/founder (French Oratorio), dies
1629 - Antonio Cifra, Italian composer (b. 1584)
1656 - Stephan Otto, German composer, dies at 53
1678 - Wu San-kuei, gen, invited Manchus to China, dies trying to expel them
1707 - Anne Jules duke the Noailles, marshal of France (huguenot), dies at 57
1721 - Benott Audran, artist/engraver, dies
1724 - François-Timoléon de Choisy, French writer (b. 1644)
1729 - Arnold Boonen, portrait painter, dies at 60
1746 - Josiah Burchett, English Secretary of the Admiralty
1764 - William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1775 - Chiyo-ni, Japanese poet (b. 1703)
1780 - John Andre, British major, hanged by Americans (spied with B Arnold)
1782 - Charles Lee, British and U.S. general (b. 1732)
1786 - August Keppel, 1st viscount/naval commander/politican, dies
1803 - Samuel Adams, US revolutionary (Boston Massacre-Tea Party) and politican, dies at 81
1804 - Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, French steam vehicle pioneer (b. 1725)
1809 - Wybo Fijnje, politician/patriot/journalist, dies at 59
1817 - Fyodor Fyodorovich Ushakov, Russian naval commander and admiral (b. 1744)
1823 - Daniel Steibelt, composer, dies at 57 [OS=Sept 20]
1842 - Jose Mariano Elizaga, composer, dies at 56
1842 - William Ellery Channing, cleric/writer, dies
1850 - Sarah Biffin/Beffin, limbless miniature painter, dies
1853 - D Francois J Arago, French astronomer/physicist (chromosome), dies
1860 - Louis Hersent, painter, dies
1863 - Justinus van de Brugghen, lawyer/minister of Justice, dies
1872 - Eberhard F Walcker, organ builder (Paulskirche Frankfurt A/M), dies
1873 - Cornelius Varley, water-color painter, dies
1905 - Jose Maria de Heredia, Cuban/French sonnet poet, dies at 62
1915 - Russell Alexander, composer, dies at 38
1916 - Benjamin Kidel, English sociologist (Social Evolution), dies at 58
1919 - Ernest Halliwell, cricketer (South African wicketkeeper 1892-1904), dies
1920 - Max Bruch, composer, dies at 82
1927 - Svante August Arrhenius, chemist, dies
1931 - Thomas Johnstone Lipton, sportsman/merchant, dies
1936 - G H Simpson-Hayward, cricketer (Eng 1910, great lob bowlers), dies
1938 - Alexandru Averescu, Romanian soldier and politician (b. 1859)
1943 - Robert Nathaniel Dett, composer, dies at 60
1944 - Rudolf Schmundt, German gen/Hitlers army adjunct, dies from injuries
1947 - Peter D. Ouspensky, Russian mathematician and philosopher (b. 1878)
1955 - O B Clarence, actor (Penn of Pensnsylvania), dies
1956 - George Bancroft, actor (Texas, Stagecoach, Little Men), dies at 74
1956 - Paul de Backer, Belgian radiologist, dies at 73
1958 - Marie Stopes, birth control pioneer, dies
1960 - Jaroslav Doubrava, composer, dies at 51
1961 - Reggie Spooner, cricketer (England centurion v South Africa 1912), dies
1962 - Frank Lovejoy, actor (Man Against Crime, Meet McGraw), dies at 48
1962 - Boris Y. Bukreev, Russian mathematician (b. 1859)
1965 - [John] Selwyn (Brooke) Lloyd, British statesman, dies
1967 - Albertina Rasch, ballerina/choreographer, dies at 76
1968 - Marcel Duchamp, French painter and sculptor (Nude Descending a Staircase), dies at 81
1969 - Katharine Susannah Prichard, novelist (Black Opal), dies at 85
1970 - Alfred Julius Swan, composer, dies at 79
1970 - Anders Bo Leif Linde, composer, dies at 37
1971 - Bola de Nieve, Cuban singer, pianist, and songwriter (b. 1911)
1973 - Paavo "Flying Finn" Nurmi, who won 6 Olympic gold medals, dies at 76
1973 - Paul Hartman, actor (Bert-Petticoat Junction), dies at 84
1974 - Ina Seidel, writer, dies at 89
1975 - Wade Crosby, actor (Sign of Wolf, Tales of Robin Hood), dies at 70
1975 - Kumaraswami Kamaraj, Indian political leader, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (b. 1903)
1980 - Valentin Stepanovich Varlamov, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 46
1981 - Hazel Scott, Trinidadian singer/pianist, dies at 63
1981 - Harry Golden, American journalist (b. 1902)
1982 - William Bernbach, advertising magnate, dies at 71
1983 - Gerald Strang, Canadian composer, dies at 75
1985 - George Savalas, actor (Kojak), dies at 58
1985 - Rock Hudson, actor (MacMillian & Wife), dies of AIDS at 59
1985 - Sidney Clute, actor (Lou Grant, Cagney & Lacey), dies at 69
1987 - Madeleine Carroll, actress (39 Steps, Secret Agent), dies at 81
1987 - Peter Brian Medawar, medical scientist, dies
1988 - Alec Issigonis, Greek-British car designer, developer of the Mini (b. 1906)
1989 - Liesbeth Ribbius Peletier, Neth's 1st female advisor of State, dies
1991 - Dimitrios I, patriarch/primus interparis orthodox Christians, dies
1991 - Jan H Christianse, political chairman (CDA), dies
1993 - Henry Ringling North, circus owner (Ringling Bros Circus), dies at 83
1994 - Faith Davis, oldest triplets (Charity & Hope survive), dies at 95
1994 - Harriet Nelson, American actress, dies of congestive heart failure at 80
1994 - Ronald James Herron, architect, dies at 64
1995 - Elizabeth Jane Lloyd, artist/teacher, dies at 67
1995 - Norman Ewart Thurston, musician, dies at 74
1996 - Andrey Lukanov, PM of Bulgaria (1990), assassinated at 58
1996 - Frideswide Frances Emma Knight, musician/socialist, dies at 85
1996 - Ivan Mark Waller, mountaineer, dies at 89
1996 - Robert Bourassa, PM of province of Quebec (1970-76, 85-93), dies at 63
1996 - Ronald John Bilsland Colville, businessman, dies at 79
1996 - Sybil Marion Rosenfeld, theatre historian, dies at 93
1998 - Gene Autry, American singer, actor, and entrepreneur (b. 1907)
1998 - Olivier Gendebien, Belgian racing driver (b. 1924)
1999 - Heinz G. Konsalik, German novelist (b. 1921)
2001 - Franz Biebl, German composer (b. 1906)
2002 - Heinz von Foerster, Austrian-born physicist and philosopher (b. 1911)
2003 - John T. Dunlop, U.S. Secretary of Labor (b. 1914)
2005 - Bert Eriksson, Belgian neo-Nazi (b. 1931)
2005 - Nipsey Russell, American comedian (b. 1918)
2005 - August Wilson, American playwright (b. 1945)
2006 - Helen Chenoweth-Hage, American politician (b. 1938)
2006 - Tamara Dobson, American actress (b. 1947)
2006 - Paul Halmos, Hungarian-born American mathematician (b. 1916)
2007 - Dan Keating, Irish politician (b. 1902)
2007 - Tex Coulter, American football player (b. 1924)
2007 - Christopher Derrick, British writer (b. 1921)
2008 - Rob Guest, New Zealand entertainer (b. 1950)
2008 - Choi Jin-sil, South Korean actress (b. 1968)
2010 - Kwa Geok Choo, Mrs Lee Kuan Yew (b. 1920)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 03, 2013, 09:21:36 AM

This Day in History for 3rd October


Historical Events

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Roman Emperor Augustus Caesar               Author Edgar Allan Poe                Russian Revolutionary Leon Trotsky

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Dictator of Nazi Germany                        Singer & Cultural Icon                           Beat Poet Allen Ginsberg
 Adolf Hitler                                            Elvis Presley

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Brazilian Football Legend Pele                Baseball Player Hank Aaron                          264th Pope John Paul II

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Russian President Boris Yeltsin


2333 BC - The state of Gojoseon (Modern-day Korea) founded by Dangun Wanggeom during the
                reign of the Chinese Emperor Yao.
52 BC - Vercingetorix, leader of the Gauls, surrenders to the Romans under Julius Caesar, ending
            the siege and battle of Alesia.
42 BC - First Battle of Philippi: Triumvirs Mark Antony and Octavian fight an indecisive battle with
            Caesar's assassins Brutus and Cassius.
1143 - Cardinal Guido elected Pope Coelestinus II
1247 - Willem II of Holland elected Roman Catholic German emperor
1264 - Comet said to predict death of Pope Urban IV is last seen
1283 - Dafydd ap Gruffydd, prince of Gwynedd in Wales, becomes the first person executed by being
           hanged, drawn and quartered.
1430 - Jews are expelled from Eger Bohemia
1569 - Battle of Montcontour: Duke of Anjou beats Huguenots
1574 - The Siege of Leiden is lifted by the Watergeuzen and the forces of Admiral Boisot
1605 - Chinese uprising on Philippines, Tondo/Quiapo massacre
1657 - French troops occupy Mardyke
1683 - The Qing Dynasty naval commander Shi Lang reaches Taiwan (under the Kingdom of
           Tungning) to receive the formal surrender of Zheng Keshuang and Liu Guoxuan after the
           Battle of Penghu.
1691 - English & Dutch army occupies Limerick Ireland
1712 - The Duke of Montrose issues a warrant for the arrest of Rob Roy MacGregor.
1735 - France & Emperor Karel VI sign peace accord
1739 - The Treaty of Nissa is signed by the Ottoman Empire and Russia at the end of the Russian-
           Turkish War, 1736-1739.
1778 - Capt Cook anchors at Alaska
1789 - Washington proclaims 1st national Thanksgiving Day on Nov 26
1835 - Staedtler Company was founded by J.S. Staedtler in Nuremburg, Germany.
1849 - American author Edgar Allan Poe is found delirious in a gutter in Baltimore, Maryland under
           mysterious circumstances; it is the last time he is seen in public before his death.
1862 - -10] Battle of Corinth, Mississippi
1862 - Skirmish at Bardstown, Kentucky
1863 - Lincoln designates last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day
1872 - Bloomingdale's department store in NY opens
1873 - Captain Jack and companions are hanged for their part in the Modoc War.
1890 - Capt Guillaume of Kerckhoven marches into Boma Congo
1899 - J S Thurman patents motor-driven vacuum cleaner
1900 - Edward Elgar/Cardinal Newmans oratorium premieres in Birmingham
1904 - France & Spain sign treaty for Morocco Independence
1904 - Giants Christy Mathewson strikes out then record 16 Cards
1904 - Mary McLeod Bethune opens Daytona Normal & Industrial School
1906 - SOS adopted as warning signal by 1st conference on wireless telegraphy
1906 - US regime names Charles Magoon, governor of Cuba
1906 - William Vaughan Moody's "Great Divide," premieres in NYC
1908 - The Pravda newspaper founded by Leon Trotsky, Adolph Joffe, Matvey Skobelev and other
           Russian exiles in Vienna.
1913 - Federal Income Tax signed into law (at 1%)
1915 - 7.8 earthquake shakes Pleasant Valley Nevada
1918 - Boris becomes king of Bulgaria
1918 - Czar Ferdinand I of Bulgaria does distance of throne
1918 - Selwyn Theater opens at 229 W 42nd St NYC
1919 - Reds Adolfo Luque is 1st Latin player to appear in a World Series
1919 - Serbian, Croatian & Slavic parliment accord for 8 hr work day
1920 - Browns 1st baseman George Sisler gets his record 257th hit of season
1920 - NFL (then American Pro Football Association) plays 1st games
1922 - 1st facsimile photo send over city telephone lines, Washington, DC
1922 - Rebecca Felton of Georgia becomes 1st woman in Senate
1923 - Germany's Stresemann resigns
1924 - King Hussein of Hedzjaz abdicts throne
1926 - 1st congress of Paneuropabeweging opens in Vienna
1926 - Violet Percy runs female record marathon (3:40:22)
1928 - French sun "Ondine" sinks returning to Toulon, drowning 42
1929 - British Labour government recovers diplomatic relations with USSR
1929 - Julius Curtius succeeds Stresemann as German foreign minister
1929 - Kingdom of Serbs, Croats & Slovenes changes name to Yugoslavia
1932 - Iraq gains full independence from Britain, joins League of Nations
1933 - Gustave "Staf" de Clerq forms Flemish National Covenant
1935 - Italy invades Ethiopia
1936 - Yanks set new attendance record of 64,842 in 3rd game of World Series
1939 - Lemmer-Urk Dike closes
1940 - France Vichy government proclaims end to Jewish status
1940 - Reds beat Tigers ending NL's 10-game World Series losing streak
1940 - US forms parachute troops
1941 - Adolf Hitler says Russia is "broken" & would "never rise again"
1941 - All elderly Jewish men of Kerenchug Ukraine, are killed by SS
1941 - Nazi's blow up 6 synagoges in Paris
1942 - FDR forms Office of Economic Stabilization
1942 - Launch of 1st A-4/V-2 rocket to altitude of 53 miles (85 km)
1942 - NY Yanks Frank Crosetti shoves ump Bill Summers in World Series, he is fined $200 &
           suspended for 1st 30 days of 1943 season
1943 - British 8th army lands at Termoli, East Italy
1943 - Operations begin at PETA Java, defending (Japanese) fatherland
1944 - 1st broadcast of Radio Herrijzend Netherland
1944 - RAF bombs West Kapelse
1945 - Elvis Presley's 1st public appearance, he is 10
1945 - Tigers & Cubs meet in World Series for 4th time
1945 - World Federation of Trade Unions forms; CIO a member
1946 - Cards beat Dodgers 8-4 at Ebbets Field to win NL playoffs 2-0
1947 - "Under the Counter" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 27 performances
1947 - 1st telescope lens 200" (508 cm) in diameter completed
1947 - WMAL (now WJLA) TV channel 7 in Washington, DC (ABC) begins
1947 - With only 1 out to go, Yank Floyd Beven gives up a double breaking his World Series no-hit
           bid, it scored 2 runs & he lost game
1948 - Columbia U reports discovery of uranium in Belgian Congo
1948 - NFL becomes 1st sport televised as sport of week
1949 - WERD, 1st black-owned radio station, opens in Atlanta
1950 - 1st black lead (Ethel Waters) on TV (Beulah)
1950 - Indonesian army opens assault on Ambon, South Moluccas
1950 - Baseball rules Phils lefty Curt Simmons cannot play in World Series despite his being on
           furlough from Army
1951 - Bobby Thomson HR-Giants win pennant defeating Dodgers
1952 - 1st British nuclear test at Monte Bello Is Australia
1952 - 1st video recording on magnetic tape, LA, Ca
1952 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Monte Bello Is Australia
1953 - 10th Ryder Cup: US wins 6½-5½ at Wentworth, England
1953 - 7th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 3-1 at Montreal
1953 - KGGM TV channel 13 in Albuquerque, NM (CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 - "Father Knows Best" premieres
1954 - KFVS TV channel 12 in Cape Girardeau, MO (CBS) begins broadcasting
1955 - "Captain Kangaroo" premieres on CBS-TV, Good Morning, Captain!
1955 - "Mickey Mouse Club" premieres
1955 - Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira becomes pres of Brazil
1955 - Soviet battleship "Novorossiisk" strikes WW II mine in Baltic Sea
1955 - WDBJ TV channel 7 in Roanoke, VA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1955 - WTVS TV channel 56 in Detroit, MI (PBS) begins broadcasting
1956 - Sal Maglie & Dodgers defeat Yanks 6-3 in opening game of World Series
1957 - Willy Brandt elected mayor of West Berlin
1957 - Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems is ruled not obscene.
1959 - 13th NHL All-Star Game: Montreal beat All-Stars 6-1 at Montreal
1960 - "Flair" (CBS' answer to Monitor) premieres on radio with Dick Van Dyke
1960 - Janio Quadros elected president of Brazil
1960 - SF's White House dept store 1st to accept BankAmericard
1960 - Yanks win 8-7, ending season on a 15 game win streak, & record 193 HRs
1961 - "Dick Van Dyke Show" premieres on CBS-TV
1961 - "Mr Ed" premieres
1961 - "Sail Away" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 167 performances
1961 - KMED (now KTVL) TV channel 10 in Medford, OR (CBS) begins broadcasting
1962 - "Stop the World, I Want to Get Off" opens at Shubert NYC for 886 perfs
1962 - Dodgers set major league-record season attendance of 2,755,184
1962 - Wally Schirra in Sigma 7 launched into Earth orbit
1963 - "Here's Love" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 338 performances
1963 - Hurricane hits Haiti; about 5,000 die & 100,000 injured
1964 - Yankees clinch their 5th straight pennant, & 29th in club's history
1965 - Cubs tie major league record of 3 triple plays in a season
1965 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Invitational
1965 - Whitey Ford notches #232 to become Yankees winningest pitcher
1966 - Marshal Arturo da Costa e Silva elected president
1967 - KGSC (now KICU) TV channel 36 in San Jose, CA (IND) begins
1967 - King Boudouin inaugurates world's biggest floodgate (Antwerp)
1967 - William Knight sets X-15 speed rec of 7,297 KPH/4,534 MPH/Mach 6.72
1968 - Howard Sacklers "Great White Hope," premieres in NYC
1968 - Military coup overthrows Pres Fernando Belaúnde Terry in Peru
1968 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1970 - "Coco" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 333 performances
1970 - Baseball umpires call their 1st strike
1970 - WAPT TV channel 16 in Jackson, MS (ABC) begins broadcasting
1971 - Billie Jean King became 1st female athlete to win $100,000
1972 - Indians set a team record for lowest team batting avg .234
1972 - Spaceflight 71-2 launched; 1st flexible substrate photovoltaic flown
1972 - Steve Carlton wins 27th game for Phillies (almost ½ of their 59 wins)
1972 - USSR performs nuclear test
1972 - Balt Roric Harrison is last AL pitcher to homer until interleague play 25 years later
1973 - Willi Stoph succeeds Walter Ulbricht as East German party leader
1974 - Ted Bundy victim Nancy Wilcox disappears in Salt Lake City, Utah
1974 - Pele retires as soccer player
1974 - Watergate trial begins
1975 - George Harrison releases "Extra Texture" album in UK
1975 - Ireland AKZO director Tiede Herrema kidnap
1976 - Hank Aaron singles in his last at bat & drives in his 2,297th run
1976 - Helmuth Kohl's CDU wins German parliament election
1977 - "Comedy with Music (Victor Borge)" opens at Imperial NYC for 66 perfs
1977 - Indira Gandhi arrested
1978 - Gold hits record $223.50 an ounce in London
1980 - 4 dies in attack on synagogue in Paris
1981 - Brewers (since 1970) & Expos (1969) clinch their 1st-ever postseason
1981 - Irish Nationalist at Maze Prison near Belfast end 7-mo hunger strike
1981 - Mike Weaver beats Quick Tillis in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1982 - Cox 4 rowing record set at 12:52 for 99 miles (Geneva, Switzerland)
1982 - Milwaukee whips Baltimore 10-2 to win AL East championship
1982 - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Inamori Golf Classic
1982 - Record 11,763 start a 186 mile cross-country race near Stockholm
1982 - Scott Weiland runs Detroit marathon backwards in less than 5 hours
1983 - Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson release "Say, Say, Say" in UK
1985 - 21st Shuttle Mission (51J)-Atlantis 1-all-military flight launched
1985 - Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) adopts constitution
1985 - Pope John Paul II declares Titus Brandsma divine
1985 - South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands adopts constitution
1986 - Baltimore loses assuring Orioles of their 1st last-place finish
1986 - Soviet Yankee-class sub sinks off NC, 3 die
1986 - TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron at the Chalk River Laboratories, was officially opened.
1987 - Benito Santiago ends longest catcher/rookie hitting streak at 34
1987 - Michael Pruffer of France skis 135.26 MPH at Portillo, Chile
1987 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1988 - 26th Space Shuttle Mission, Discovery 7 returns to Earth after 4-days
1988 - Criterion Center Theater opens at Broadway bet 44th & 45th Sts NYC
1988 - Lebanese kidnappers release Mithileshwar Singh (held for 30 months)
1988 - WBMW-FM, Wash DC changes calls to WJFK & begins airing Howard Stern
1989 - Panamanian Defense Force attempted coup of Manuel Noriega fails
1990 - East Germany & West Germany merge to become Germany
1990 - George Brett becomes 1st to lead league in batting in 3 decades
1990 - Tiger Cecil Fielder becomes 11th, to hit 50 HRs (& 51st)
1990 - Florida record store owner Charles Freeman is found guilty of obsenity, for selling 2 Live Crew
           rap records
1991 - 25th Country Music Association Award:
1992 - Atlanta Braves win franchise record 98th game (old record 95 in 1957)
1992 - Madonna premieres her "Erotica" video on MTV
1992 - Sinead O'Connor rips up a picture of Pope John Paul II on Saturday Night Live
1992 - Toronto Blue Jays win AL East title
1993 - "White Liars/Black Comedy" closes at Criterion NYC after 38 perfs
1993 - Battle at TV station Ostankino/Moscow townhall, about 25 killed
1993 - Boris Yeltsin declares state of emergency in Moscow
1993 - Harry Belafonte performs in Tivoli Copenhagen
1993 - Indians play their last game at Cleve Stadium, Chicago wins 4-0
1993 - Somali General Aidids arm forces kill 18 US Rangers
1993 - Giants need to beat Dodgers to force a playoff game with Braves for NL West title, but
           Dodgers destroy Giants 12-1, Giants end year 103-59
1993 - Battle of Mogadishu: In an attempt to capture officials of warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid's
           organisation in Mogadishu, Somalia, 18 US Soldiers and about 1,000 Somalis are killed in
           heavy fighting.
1994 - Fernando Henrique Cardoso elected president of Brazil
1994 - Gary Larson, announces he is retiring from doing "Far Side" cartoon
1995 - 1st 1st-class match at Hurstville Oval, Sydney (NSW v W Prov)
1995 - OJ Simpson found not guilty in murder of Nicole Simpson & Ron Goldman
1996 - Thunderdome in Tampa Bay renamed Tropicana Field
1997 - Carolina Hurricanes 1st home game vs Pitts Penguins
1997 - Gordie Howie, 69, plays in 7th decade, with IHL'S Detroit Vipers
1997 - Japan's maglev train breaks world speed record at 280.3 mph
1997 - Vancouver Canucks beats Mighty Ducks, 3-2 in Japan
2003 - Roy Horn of Siegfried & Roy is attacked by one of the shows tigers, canceling the show for
           good.
2008 - The $700 billion bailout bill for the US financial system is signed by President George W. Bush.
2012 - 34 people are killed by a series of bombings in Aleppo, Syria

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 03, 2013, 09:23:12 AM

This Day in History for 3rd October


Famous Weddings

1833 - Composer Hector Berlioz marries actress Harriet Smithson
1988 - "Princess of Rock and Roll" Lisa Marie Presley (20) weds musician Danny Keough (23) at the
           Church of Scientology
1992 - LeVar Burton weds Stephanie Cozart
1992 - Future US President Barack Obama (31) weds fellow lawyer Michelle Robinson (28)
1993 - Evangelist Tammy Faye Bakker (52) weds Roe Messner (58)
1998 - Dutch-born model Annette Roque (33) weds The Today show cohost Matt Lauer (41) at
           Presbyterian Church in Bridgehampton, New York
2008 - Radio personality Howard Stern (54) weds actress Beth Ostrosky (36) in Manhattan, New
           York

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 03, 2013, 09:30:48 AM

This Day in History for 3rd October


Famous Birthdays

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Novelist Thomas Wolfe (1900)                 Novelist James Herriot (1916)            Minister and Civil Rights Activist
                                                                                                                                 Al Sharpton (1954)

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Singer Gwen Stefani (1969)


1573 - Entonius Walaeus, Dutch calvinist theologist
1605 - Li Tzu-ch'eng, Chinese revolutionary, dethroned last Ming emperor
1631 - Sebastian Anton Scherer, composer
1647 - Johannes Voet, Dutch lawyer
1647 - John Foot, lawyer
1713 - Antoine Dauvergne, composer
1716 - Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Italian physicist (d. 1781)
1720 - Johann P Uz, German poet (Lyrische Poem)
1728 - Charles G Chevalier d'Eon de Beaumont, French spy/transvestite
1733 - Francois Krafft, composer
1761 - Dirk earl van Hogendorp, general/Dutch minister of War [OS]
1789 - Francis Hoyt Gregory, Rear Admiral (Union Navy), died in 1866
1790 - John Ross, Chief of the Cherokee Nation (d. 1866)
1792 - Cipriani Potter, composer
1792 - Francisco Morazán, Central American statesman
1797 - Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1870)
1800 - George Bancroft, historian (Hall of Fame)
1803 - John Gorrie, inventor (cold-air process of refrigeration)
1804 - Townsend Harris, 1st Western consul to reside in Japan
1804 - Allan Kardec, French founder of Spiritism (d. 1869)
1806 - Oliver Cowdery, American religious leader (d. 1850)
1807 - Heinrich Panofka, composer
1814 - Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov, Russian poet/writer (Demon & other poems)
1828 - Woldemar Bargiel, composer
1834 - Vilem Blodek, composer
1844 - Patrick Manson, "Father of tropical medicine"
1848 - Henry Lerolle, French painter (d. 1929)
1854 - William Crawford Gorgas, US, Surgeon-Gen, help cure yellow fever
1859 - Elenora Duse, Italy, actress (Hedda Gabler)
1860 - Annie EF Horniman, England, theater owner (Abbey Theatre, Dublin)
1862 - John Briggs, cricketer (mighty England all-rounder late 19th century)
1863 - Pyotr Kuzmich Kozlov, Russian explorer (d. 1935)
1865 - Johannes IJWJ Eilerts de Haan, Dutch sea officer (Lucie R, Suriname)
1866 - Learmont Drysdale, composer
1867 - Pierre Bonnard, French painter/illustrator
1869 - Alfred Flatow, German Olympic champion gymnast (d. 1942)
1871 - Stijn Streuvels, [Frank Lateur], Flemish writer (De Valschaard)
1872 - Edward Faber Schneider, composer
1880 - Warner Oland, Umea Sweden, actor (Jazz Singer, Charlie Chan)
1881 - Ludomir Michal Rogowski, composer
1882 - Gunther von Kluge, German fieldmarshal
1882 - A. Y. Jackson, Canadian painter (d. 1974)
1885 - Langley Collyer, hoarder (d. 1947)
1885 - Sophie Treadwell, American playwright and journalist (d. 1970)
1886 - Henri Alain-Fournier, French novelist (Great Adventure)
1888 - Claud Allister, London England, actor (Bulldog Drummond)
1888 - Roy Webb, composer
1889 - Carl von Ossietzky, Germany, journalist/pacifist (Nobel 1935)
1890 - Henry Hull, Louisville KY, actor (Tobacco Rd, Boys Town, High Sierra)
1893 - Frantisek Picha, composer
1894 - Elmer Robinson, American politician (d. 1982)
1894 - Walter Warlimont, German General WWII (d. 1976)
1895 - Kurt Schumacher, co-founder/president West German SDP [OS]
1896 - Gerardo Diego, Spanish poet (d. 1987)
1897 - Josephine "Mama Jo" Riley Matthews, midwife (SC)
1897 - Louis Aragon, French writer (d. 1982)
1898 - Leo McCarey, American film director (d. 1969)
1899 - Gertrude Berg, Harlem NYC, actress (Molly Goldberg-Goldbergs)
1900 - Jay Irving, NYC, cartoonist (Draw Me a Laugh)
1900 - Thomas Wolfe, Asheville, North Carolina, American novelist (Look Homeward Angel)
1901 - Masao Oki, composer
1901 - Jean Grémillon, French film director (d. 1959)
1902 - Arturo da Costa e Silva, marshal/pres of Brazil (1967-69)
1904 - Charles Pedersen, UK, biochemist (Nobel 1987)
1911 - Michael Hordern, Hertfordshire England, actor (Friar Domingo-Shogun)
1912 - Gabriel Julian, original pianist of Bobby Byrne Orchestra, arranger for Glenn Miller and founder
           Alabama Cavaliers Jazz Ens
1914 - Nel Rose, Dutch dance teacher
1915 - Ray Stark, American film producer (d. 2004)
1916 - Angeles Alvarino Deleira, biologist/oceanographer/writer
1916 - James Herriot [Alfred Wight], Sunderland, County Durham, veterinarian/novelist (All Creatures
           Great and Small), (d. 1995)
1916 - Shelby Storck, American television producer (d. 1969)
1919 - Boyd Bradfield Upchurch, [John Boyd], US, sci-fi author (IQ Merchant)
1919 - Walter Gieseler, composer
1919 - James M. Buchanan, Murfreesboro, Tennessee,economist (Nobel Memorial 1986), (d. 2013)
1921 - Ray Lindwall, cricketer (Australian fast bowler & St George full-back)
1922 - Marcel van Thienen, composer
1922 - Jean Lefebvre, French actor (d. 2004)
1923 - Edward Oliver LeBlanc, Dominican politician (d. 2004)
1924 - Arkady Vorobyov, Russian weightlifter, (d. 2012)
1924 - Harvey Kurtzman, U.S. cartoonist and founding editor of Mad magazine (d. 1993)
1925 - Gore Vidal, West Point NY, author (Myra Breckinridge, Lincoln), (d. 2012)
1925 - W Howard Baker, English publisher
1926 - Marques Haynes, NBA player (World's Greatest Dribbler, Globetrotters)
1927 - Kenojuak Asheva, Ikirasaq, Canada, Inuit artist, (d. 2013)
1928 - Christian d'Oriola, France, foils (Olympic-gold-1952, 56)
1928 - Erik Bruhn, Copenhagen Denmark, dancer (Natl Ballet of Canada)
1928 - Shridath Surendranath "Sonny" Ramphal, Guyanese sec-gen (1975- )
1929 - Bert Stern, American photographer
1930 - David Mayer Epstein, composer
1931 - Glenn Hall, National Hockey League goaltender
1933 - Neale A Fraser, tennis champ (US Open-1959)
1934 - Benjamin Boretz, composer
1934 - Harold Ralph Henning, Johannesburg South Africa, PGA golfer (1966 Texas Open)
1934 - Madlyn Rhue, Wash DC, actress (Bracken's World, Executive Suite)
1935 - Abdon Pamich, Italy, 50K walker (Olympic-gold-1964)
1935 - Charles M Duke Jr, Charlotte NC, Brig Gen USAF/astronaut (Apol 16)
1936 - Steve Reich, NYC, composer (My Name is)
1937 - Boldizsar Csiky, composer
1937 - Eli Jacobs, baseball owner (Baltimore Orioles)
1937 - Ton de Kruyf, composer
1938 - David R Obey, (Rep-D-Wisconsin, 1969- )
1938 - Eddie Cochran, Oklahoma City, rock vocalist/guitarist (C'Mon Everybody)
1938 - Tereza Kesovija, Croatian singer
1940 - Alan O'Day, Hollywood Ca, rocker, (d. 2013)
1940 - Jean Ratelle, NHL center (NY Rangers, Boston Bruins)
1940 - Mike Troy, US swimmer (Olympics-2 gold-1960)
1941 - Chubby Checker [Ernest Evans], Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, American singer-songwriter (The
           Twist, Limbo Rock)
1942 - Alan Rachins, American actor
1943 - Jeff Bingaman, (Sen-D-New Mexico, 1983- )
1944 - Roy Horn, Las Vegas entertainer (Siegfried & Roy)
1944 - Pierre Deligne, Belgian mathematician
1944 - Roy Horn, German-American magician
1944 - Bob Riley, American politician, governor of Alabama
1945 - Kay Baxter, Woodsfield Ohio, Best Bodybuilder in World (1983-85)
1945 - Rik Kenton, rocker
1945 - Viktor Saneyev, USSR, triple jumper (Olympic-3 gold/1 silv-1968-80)
1946 - Bob Dotson, St Louis Mo, newscaster (Primetime Sunday)
1946 - Tristan Keuris, composer
1946 - Biff Henderson, American television personality
1947 - 7th earl of Bradford, English large landowner/multi-millionaire
1948 - Michael Medved, American film critic
1949 - Yekaterina Aleksandrowna Ivanova, Russian cosmonaut (Soyuz T-15A)
1949 - Lindsey Buckingham, Palo Alto, California, American guitarist/lead singer (Fleetwood Mac)
1950 - Laureen Ford, Gympie Queensland, golfer (1992 Alpine Aust Ladies)
1950 - Pamela Hensley, Glendale California, actress (Buck Rogers in 25th Century)
1950 - Ronnie Laws, US saxophonist/guitarist (Earth, Wind & Fire)
1951 - Dave Winfield, baseball outfielder (NY Yankees, Blue Jays, Twins)
1951 - Jack Grondin, rock drummer (.38 Special)
1951 - Kathryn D Sullivan, Paterson NJ, PhD/astro (STS 41-G, 28, 31, 45)
1951 - Bernard Cooper, American writer
1951 - Keb' Mo', American singer
1952 - Gary Troup, cricketer (NZ lefty pace bowler in 15 Tests 1976-86)
1954 - Dennis Eckersley, Oakland CA, pitcher (St Louis Cardinals)
1954 - Stevie Ray Vaughan, Dallas TX, guitarist (Sky is Crying, Texas Flood)
1954 - Al Sharpton [Alfred Charles], Brooklyn, New York, minister and civil rights activist (Keepin' It
           Real)
1955 - Angela Molina, Madrid Spain, actress (Streets of Gold, Half of Heaven)
1956 - Hart Bochner, Toronto, actor (Aron-East of Eden, Supergirl, Die Hard)
1956 - Peter Frechette, Warwick RI, actor (Paint it Black, George-Profiler)
1957 - Tim Westwood, Pimp My Ride UK presenter and DJ
1958 - Karen Morton Palmdale CA, playmate (Jul, 1978)
1959 - Carmen Russo, Genoa Italy, Miss Teenage Italy (1972)
1959 - Frederick Stephen Couples, Seattle WA, PGA golfer (1983 Kemper Open)
1959 - Jack Wagner, rocker/actor (General Hospital, Melrose Place)
1959 - Greg Proops, American actor and comedian
1960 - Cinzia De Ponti, [Fiordeponti], Pescara Italy (Miss Italy 1979)
1962 - Rick Todd, Toronto, Canadian Tour golfer (1992 Ben Hogan Dakota)
1962 - Tommy Lee, American musician (Mötley Crüe)
1963 - Dan Goldie, Sioux City IO, tennis star
1963 - Patrick Flatley, Ontario, right winger (NY Islanders, Oly-4 gold-1988)
1963 - Marion Peck, American artist and painter
1964 - Clive Owen, British actor
1966 - Darrin Fletcher, Elmhurst IL, catcher (Montreal Expos)
1966 - Frank Hannon, rock guitarist (Tesla-Psychotic Supper)
1967 - Rob Liefeld, American comic book writer and artist
1968 - Greg Foster, NBA center (Utah Jazz)
1968 - Marco Roelofsen, soccer player (SC Heerenveen)
1968 - Paul Crichton, English footballer
1969 - Carl Thomas, NBA guard (Cleveland Cavaliers)
1969 - Eddie Sutter, NFL linebacker (Cleveland Browns, Atlanta Falcons)
1969 - Mike Saunders, CFL running back (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1969 - Shane Butterworth, actor (Timmy-Bad News Bears)
1969 - Stephen Scahill, Featherston NZ, Australasia golfer
1969 - Travis Hill, NFL linebacker (Carolina Panthers)
1969 - Gwen Stefani, Fullerton, California, singer (No Doubt)
1969 - Tetsu, Japanese bassist (L'Arc~en~Ciel)
1970 - Justine Sowry, Australian field hockey goalie (Olympics-96)
1970 - Manny Martinez, San Pedro DE, outfielder (Seattle Mariners)
1970 - Roger Bailey, Chattahoochee FL, pitcher (Colorado Rockies)
1970 - Tyji Armstrong, NFL tight end (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1971 - Reggie Givens, CFL linebacker (Toronto Argonauts)
1971 - Wil Cordero, baseball player
1971 - Kevin Richardson, American singer (Backstreet Boys)
1972 - Christian Peter, defensive tackle (NY Giants)
1972 - Denny Vaughn, orchestra leader (Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour)
1972 - Michael Nylander, Stockholm Swe, NHL center (Calgary Flames)
1972 - Sandy Martinez, Villa Mella Dom Rep, catcher (Toronto Blue Jays)
1972 - Garrett Dutton, American musician (G. Love and Special Sauce)
1972 - Lajon Witherspoon, American singer (Sevendust)
1973 - Angelica Gavaldon, El Centro California, tennis star (1995 quarter Aust)
1973 - Neve Campbell, actress (Party of 5, Scream)
1973 - Keiko Agena, Japanese-American actress
1973 - Lena Headey, British actress
1974 - Mike Johnson, Canadian ice hockey player
1975 - India.Arie, American singer
1975 - Talib Kweli, American rapper
1976 - Kirsi Haenninen, ice hockey defenseman (Finland, Oly-98)
1976 - Nate Johnson, Seattle Wash, canoe (alt-Olympics-96)
1976 - Seann William Scott, American actor
1978 - Gerald Asamoah, German footballer
1978 - Claudio Pizarro, Peruvian footballer
1978 - Jake Shears, singer (Scissor Sisters)
1978 - Shannyn Sossamon, American actress
1979 - John Hennigan, American professional wrestler
1979 - Daniel Hollie, American professional wrestler
1980 - Sheldon Brookbank, Canadian hockey player
1981 - Zlatan Ibrahimović, Swedish footballer
1981 - Andreas Isaksson, Swedish footballer
1981 - Danny Coid, English Footballer
1981 - Matt Murton, American baseball player
1981 - Amanda Walsh, Canadian actress
1982 - Erik von Detten, American actor
1983 - Frederico Chaves Guedes, Brazilian footballer
1983 - Hiroki Suzuki, Japanese actor
1984 - Yoon Eun Hye, South Korean actress
1984 - Ashlee Simpson, American singer
1987 - Zuleyka Rivera, Puerto Rican Miss Universe
1988 - Tadhg Kelly, American actor
1990 - Rhian Denise Ramos, Filipino actress
1993 - Lindsay Fabes, actor (Charlie Winthrop-Another World)
1996 - Adair Tishler, American child actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 03, 2013, 09:33:00 AM

This Day in History for 3rd October


Famous Deaths

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Actress Janet Leigh (2004)


42 BC - Gaius Cassius Longinus
695 - "Black Ewald", helper of Willibrord, murdered
695 - "White Ewald", helper of Willibrord, murdered
1226 - Saint Francis of Assisi (b. 1181)
1283 - Dafydd ap Gruffyd, last monarch of Gwynnedd (North-Wales), dies
1369 - Margarete Maultasch, Countess of Tyrol (b. 1318)
1564 - Christophorus Fabritius, [Christoffel Smit], calvinist vicar, burned
1568 - Elisabeth van Valois, French queen of Spain, dies at 23
1596 - Florent Chrestien, French writer (b. 1541)
1611 - Charles of Lorraine, Duke of Mayenne, French military leader (b. 1554)
1629 - Giorgi Saakadze, Georgian military leader (b. 1570)
1646 - Virgilio Mazzocchi, composer, dies at 49
1649 - Giovanni Diodati, Swiss Protestant clergyman (b. 1576)
1653 - Mark Zuesius Boxhorn, historian, dies at 41
1656 - Myles Standish, Plymouth Colony leader, dies (birth date unknown)
1685 - Fidel Molitor, composer, dies at 58
1690 - Robert Barclay, Scottish writer (b. 1648)
1701 - Joseph Williamson, English politician (b. 1633)
1703 - Pieter van Wooden, Amersfoorts rebel leader, beheaded
1703 - Richard Saab, Amersfoorts rebel leader, beheaded
1750 - Georg Matthias Monn, composer, dies at 33
1795 - Tula, leader Curacaose slave uprising, executed
1801 - Philippe Henri, marquis de Ségur, Marshal of France (b. 1724)
1820 - Ludwig Wenzel Lachnith, composer, dies at 74
1826 - Jens I Baggesen, Danish writer/linguist (Labyrinth), dies
1828 - Josephus Andreas Fodor, composer, dies at 77
1838 - Black Hawk (chief), Leader of the Sauk Native American tribe (b. 1767)
1853 - Andre Georges Louis Onslow, composer, dies at 69
1862 - Pleasant Adam Hackleman, Union brig-general, dies in battle at 47
1867 - Elias Howe, American sewing machine pioneer (b. 1819)
1873 - Kintpuash, [Captain Jack], fought Modoc indians, Oregon, dies
1877 - James Roosevelt Bayley, first Bishop of Newark, New Jersey, and the eighth Archbishop of
           Baltimore (b. 1814)
1881 - Orson Pratt, American religious leader (b. 1811)
1884 - Hans Makart, Austrian painter (Geur), dies at 44
1889 - Karel Miry, composer, dies at 66
1890 - Andries Andre, actor (Trumpeter-Major), dies at 36
1890 - Joseph Hergenröther, German historian (b. 1824)
1891 - Edouard Lucas, French mathematician (b. 1842)
1896 - William Morris, artist and writer associated with Arts and Crafts movement, dies at 62 London
1903 - Benedetto Junck, composer, dies at 51
1907 - Alfred Reisenauer, composer, dies at 43
1912 - Guido Papini, composer, dies at 65
1919 - Daniel Brink Towner, composer, dies at 69
1929 - Gustav Stresemann, German chancellor (Nobel 1926), dies at 51
1929 - Jeanne Eagels, actress (The Letter), dies at 35
1930 - Charles LP "Philip" Zilcken, painter/etcher/author (Bauer), dies at 73
1931 - Carl August Nielsen, composer, dies at 66
1936 - John Heisman, American football coach (b. 1869)
1941 - Wilhelm Kienzl, Austria composer (Kuhreigen), dies at 84
1952 - Alfred Neumann, German writer, dies at 56
1953 - Arnold Bax, British composer, dies at 69
1953 - Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, Brit composer (Coronation March), dies at 69
1953 - Arnold Bax, English composer (b. 1883)
1954 - Herbert Prior, actor (Pollyanna), dies at 87
1959 - William Bishop, actor (Steve-It's a Great Life), dies at 42
1965 - Zachary Scott, US actor, (Southerner, Flame of Islands), dies at 51
1967 - Woody Guthrie, rocker, dies of Huntington's Chorea at 55
1967 - Malcolm Sargent, English conductor (Last Night of Proms), dies at 72
1967 - Pinto Colvig, animation voice (Goofy, Pluto), dies at 75
1967 - Walter Muller von Kulm, composer, dies at 68
1967 - Woodrow Wilson "Woodie" Guthrie, US folk singer/guitarist, dies at 55
1969 - Skip James, American blues musician (b. 1902)
1971 - Leah Baird, writer (Jungle Bride), dies of anemia at 88
1971 - Sean O Riada, composer, dies at 40
1975 - Bauke Tuinstra, Fries notary/writer (Ealse & I), dies at 75
1975 - Guy Mollet, French premier (1956-57), dies at 69
1979 - Charles White, artist, dies at 61 in Los Angeles
1979 - Claudia Jennings, playmate (Nov, 1969), dies in car crash at 29
1981 - Walter Mehring, writer, dies at 85
1982 - Roger J J Claessen, Belgian soccer star, dies at 41
1982 - Vivien Merchant, actress (Accident, Offense), dies at 53
1983 - John K M McCaffery, TV host (One Minute Please), dies at 69
1983 - Kurt Kusenberg, writer, dies at 79
1985 - Charles Collingwood, newscaster (Chronicles), dies at 68
1985 - Maurice Copeland, actor (Ralph-Those Young Charmings), dies at 74
1986 - Vince DiMaggio, American Baseball Player (b. 1912)
1987 - Jean Anouilh, French playwright (Ball of the Voleurs), dies at 77
1988 - Franz Josef Strauss, German FR min of defense (1956-62), dies at 73
1988 - Generoso Pope Jr, National Enquirer owner, dies at 61
1989 - Joseph Wybran, Belgian physician/Jews foreman, murdered
1990 - Stefano Casiraghi, Princess Caroline of Monaco husband, dies at 30
1990 - Eleanor Steber, eminent American soprano dies in Langhorne, PA
1991 - Max Cantor, journalist, dies
1993 - JH Scheps, Dutch MP (Social Democratic), dies at 93
1993 - Sgt. First Class Randy Shughart, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1958)
1993 - Master Sgt. Gary Gordon, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1960)
1994 - Dennis Wolfberg, comedian (Quantum Leap), dies from cancer at 48
1994 - Dub Taylor, actor (Poor Pretty Eddie), dies of a heart attack at 87
1994 - Harriet Nelson, actress (Ozzie & Harriet), dies at 80
1994 - V, comedian/actor, dies at 48
1994 - Virginia Dale, US actress/dancer (Holiday Inn), dies at about 77
1994 - Walter C "Dub" Taylor II, US actor (You Can't Take it All), dies at 86
1995 - Molly Harris, actress/writer (Immortal), dies at 82
1996 - Denis Frank Owen, Natural historian, dies at 65
1996 - Eustace Wenworth Roskill, law lord, dies at 85
1996 - Tom ap Rees, botanist, dies at 65
1996 - Tony Parker, oral historian, dies at 73
1997 - Alfred Leslie Rowse, historian, dies at 93
1998 - Roddy McDowall, English actor (b. 1928)
1999 - Akio Morita, Japanese businessman (b. 1921)
2000 - Benjamin Orr, American bassist and singer (The Cars) (b. 1947)
2000 - John Grant, British politician (b. 1932)
2002 - Bruce Paltrow, American television and film producer (b. 1943)
2002 - Robert Krausz, Stock market advisor and investor (b. 1936)
2003 - Florence Stanley, American actress (b. 1924)
2003 - William Steig, American cartoonist and children's author (b. 1907)
2004 - John Cerutti, baseball player and announcer (b. 1960)
2004 - Janet Leigh, American actress, dies at 77
2005 - Ronnie Barker, English comic actor (b. 1929)
2006 - Alberto Ramento, Filipina bishop (b. 1937)
2006 - John Crank, British mathematician (b. 1913)
2006 - Peter Norman, Australian track star (b. 1942)
2007 - M.N. Vijayan, Indian writer, orator, and academic
2008 - Karam ud Din, Pakistani Navy officer (b. 1941)
2009 - Queen Fatima, former Libyan queen (b. 1918)
2010 - Ben Mondor, Canadian-born American baseball executive (b. 1925)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 04, 2013, 10:32:46 AM

This Day in History for 4th October


Historical Events

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US President Abraham Lincoln                Playwright George Bernard Shaw            Actress Mae West

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Dictator of Nazi Germany                        Baseball Player Ted Williams             Musician and Beatle John Lennon
Adolf Hitler   

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Formula 1 Racing Driver
Michael Schumacher


1209 - Pope Innocent II crowns German king Otto of Wittelsbach
1227 - Assassination of Caliph al-Adil.
1363 - End of the Battle of Lake Poyang; the Chinese rebel forces of Zhu Yuanzhang defeat that of
           his rival, Chen Youliang, in one of the largest naval battles in history.
1537 - The first complete English-language Bible (the Matthew Bible) is printed, with translations by
           William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale.
1571 - -13] Synod of Emden
1582 - Last Julian calender day in Spain/Portugal/pontifical states
1636 - Battle at Wittstock, Brandenburg: Sweden beat Ferdinand III
1636 - In Massachusetts the Plymouth Colony's 1st law drafted
1648 - Peter Stuyvesant establishes Americas 1st volunteer firemen
1675 - Christian Huygens patents pocket watch
1693 - Battle of Marsaglia: Piedmontese troops are defeated by the French.
1712 - Utrecht banishes poor Jews
1725 - Foundation of Rosario in Argentina.
1777 - Battle of Germantown: Gen George Washington's troops attack and are defeated by the
           British at Germantown, Pennsylvania
1779 - The Fort Wilson Riot takes place.
1824 - Mexico becomes a republic
1830 - Provisional government declares secession of Belgium from Netherlands
1834 - Franz Grillparzer's "Der Traum ein Leben," premieres in Vienna
1854 - Abraham Lincoln made his 1st political speech at Illinois State Fair
1862 - Battle of Corinth ends
1864 - National black convention meets (Syracuse NY)
1864 - New Orleans Tribune, 1st black daily newspaper, forms
1873 - Toronto Argonaut Football Club forms
1880 - University of California founded in Los Angeles
1881 - Edward Leveaux patents automatic player piano
1883 - Orient Express' 1st run, linking Turkey to Europe by rail
1883 - First meeting of the Boys' Brigade in Glasgow, Scotland.
1895 - Horace Rawlins wins 1st US Open golf tournament (Newport RI)
1897 - George Bernard Shaw's "Devil's Disciple," premieres in NYC
1900 - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Problem of Thor Bridge" (BG)
1901 - Columbia (US) beats Shamrock II (England) in 12th America's Cup
1904 - 1st day of NYC subway, 350,000 people ride 9.1 mile tracks
1906 - Chicago Cubs win their 116th game (116-36 .763) of year
1910 - Portugal becomes a republic, King Manuel II flees to England
1910 - Adoption of the Flag of Bermuda.
1911 - 1st public elevator (London's Earl's Court Metro Station)
1913 - Bkln Dodger Jake Daubert earns a new Chalmers auto as NL MVP
1913 - Freddy Wilson of Regina Roughriders kicks 10 singles in a game
1914 - Dardanellen (French & English) fleet bombs Turkish forts
1915 - Dinosaur National Monument in Colorado & Utah is established
1916 - Market Street's "Path of Gold" lit for 1st time
1917 - British assault on Broodseinde, France
1918 - Musical "Sometime" with Mae West premieres in NYC
1921 - League of Nations refuses to assist starving Russians
1921 - Riccardo Zanella becomes first elected president of Free State of Fiume.
1922 - For 1st time, entire World Series broadcast over radio (WJZ & WGY)
1922 - Protocol of Genevia signed: Austria gains independence
1923 - Young Stribling held light-heavyweight boxing championship for shortest amount of time (3
           hrs). Referee overturns decision
1924 - NY Giants become 1st team to appear in 4 consecutive World Series
1925 - Harry Heilmann's 6 hits edges Ty Cobb .393 to .389 as batting champ
1926 - Dahlia is officially designated as SF city flower
1927 - Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mt. Rushmore.
1928 - 25th World Series begins, NY Yankees vs St Louis Cardinals
1928 - KPD begins petition against Germany building a battle fleet
1930 - A's Jack Quinn, 46, pitches 2 inn, is oldest to play in World Series
1931 - Dick Tracy comic strip by Chester Gould debuts
1931 - Juan Esteban Montero becomes president of Chile
1932 - Anti-semite Julius Gombos forms new government in Hungary
1932 - Clark Griffith announces Walter Johnson will be manager of Senators
1933 - Esquire magazine is 1st published
1936 - Italian lire devalued
1936 - Record 66,669 at Yankee Stadium for 4th game of World Series
1939 - Last Polish troops surrender
1940 - 12 German aircrafts shot down above England
1940 - Adolf Hitler & Benito Mussolini confer at Brenner Pass in Alps
1940 - French Vichy-regime proclaims end of "Statut of the Juifs"
1940 - Wrestling returns to Madison Sq Garden after 12 year lay off
1942 - German assault on Tractor factory in Stalingrad
1943 - Corsica freed by Free French
1943 - German occupiers forbid flying of kites (6 month jail sentence)
1944 - British troops land on Greek continent
1944 - 1st All St Louis World Series, all games played at Sportsman's Park
1944 - St Louis Browns win 1st World Series game in their only appearance
1947 - Negro League World Series, NY Cubans beat Cleveland Buckeyes, 6-5
1948 - Indians beat Red Sox, 8-0, in 1st AL playoff game
1948 - World Council of Churches forms under W Fisherman It Hooft)
1949 - American Contract Bridge League votes 58½% to keep blacks out
1949 - United Nations' permanent NYC headquarters is dedicated
1950 - French troops vacate Cla Afraid Vietnam
1951 - In opening World Series game, Giant Monte Irvin steals home in 1st inn
1952 - "Top Banana" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 356 perfs
1953 - Jim Peters runs world record marathon (2:17:39.4)
1953 - Mickey Mantle hits a grand slam in World Series
1955 - Brooklyn Dodgers only World Series victory, beating Yankees in 7
1955 - Rev Sun Young Moon leaves prison in Seoul
1956 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia
1957 - "Leave It to Beaver," debuts on CBS
1957 - USSR launches Sputnik I, 1st artificial Earth satellite
1957 - Avro Arrow roll-out ceremony at Avro Canada plant in Malton, Ontario.
1958 - 12th NHL All-Star Game: Montreal beat All-Stars 6-3 at Montreal
1958 - 5th French republic forms
1958 - Transatlantic coml jet passenger service began (BOAC)
1958 - Fifth Republic of France is established.
1959 - 1st World Series game played west of St Louis (in LA)
1959 - Cleveland Browns' Jim Brown makes club record 37 rushing attempts
1959 - Dmitri Sjostakovitch 1st Cello concert premieres in Leningrad
1959 - LA Dodgers set World Series attendance record at 92,394
1959 - Netherlands beats Belgium 9-1
1959 - USSR Luna 3 sent back 1st photos of Moon's far side
1960 - Courier 1B Launched; 1st active repeater satellite in orbit
1961 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1961 - Whitey Ford's 3rd straight World Series shutout
1962 - USAF Maj Robert A Rushworth takes X-15 to 32,300m
1962 - Whitey Ford's World Series 33 2/3 scoreless inning streak ends
1963 - -8] Hurricane Flora, kills 6,000 in Cuba & Haiti
1963 - Gambia achieves full internal self-government
1964 - -7] Hurricane Hilda, kills 38 in La, Miss & Ga
1964 - 10th LPGA Championship won by Mary Mills
1964 - 3 cars of a commuter train derails in South Africa killing 81
1964 - Italian Autostrada del Sol opens at Milan-Naples
1964 - Patriots' Gino Cappelletti kicks 6-of-6 field goals against Broncos
1964 - Phils bomb Reds 10-0 as both teams finish one game behind St Louis
1965 - "Pickwick" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 56 performances
1965 - Pope Paul VI becomes 1st Pope to visit Western Hemisphere (UN)
1965 - USSR launches Luna 7; crash lands on Moon
1966 - Dutch Cardinal Alfrink presents New Catechism
1966 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1966 - Lesotho (Basutoland) gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1967 - 1st World Series since 1948 not to feature Yanks, Giants or Dodgers
1967 - Omar Ali Saifuddin III of Brunei abdicates in favour of his son, His Majesty Sultan Hassanal
           Bolkiah.
1969 - Last wooden passenger subway cars retired at Bkln Myrtle Beach el
1969 - UN starts issuing postage stamps at Geneva headquarters
1969 - Baseball's 1st divisional playoff games, Mets beat Braves 9-5 & Orioles beat Twins 4-3 in 12
           innings
1970 - KC Chiefs Jan Stenerud kicks 55-yard field goal
1970 - Umps return after 1-day walkout in quest of higher wages
1970 - WFYI TV channel 20 in Indianapolis, IN (PBS) begins broadcasting
1970 - Herbert Schmidtz makes highest parachute jump from a tower by leaping from a 1,984 ft TV
           mast in Tulsa, Oklahoma
1971 - Borden's opens a turn-of-century ice cream parlor at Disney World
1971 - KMPH TV channel 26 in Visalia-Fresno, CA (IND) begins broadcasting
1971 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1972 - Ted Williams manages his final game as Rangers lose to Royals, 4-0
1973 - Hans of Manens ballet "Adagio Hammerklavier" premieres in Amsterdam
1974 - John Lennon releases "Walls & Bridges" album
1975 - A Cessna 310Q airplane crashes over Wilmington, North Carolina, killing the pilot and severely
           injuring several pro wrestlers affiliated with the NWA's Mid-Atlantic promotion. One of the
           survivors is the legendary Ric Flair.
1976 - Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz resigns due to telling a racial joke
1976 - Supreme Court lifts 1972 ban on death penalty for convicted murderers
1976 - Official launch of the Intercity 125 High Speed Train (HST).
1977 - Pier 39 opens in SF
1978 - Funeral services held for Pope John Paul I
1979 - Hugh Leonards "Life," premieres in Dublin
1979 - USSR performs nuclear test
1980 - Mike Schmidt's 2-run HR clinches NL East title for Phillies
1981 - Donna Caponi Young/Kathy Whitworth wins Portland Ping Team Golf Champ
1981 - Meadowlands Arena opens in NJ
1981 - Pasakevi Kouna of Greece (9) is youngest intl gymnastics participant
1982 - Helmut Kohl elected chancellor of German FR
1983 - Richard Noble reaches record 1019 kph in jet-powered car
1984 - US government closes down due to budget problems
1984 - Detroit Tigers clinch AL East
1985 - Henry G Perry completes 157 day, 14,021 mile bicycle tour of Australia
1985 - Shite Moslems claim to have killed hostage William Buckley
1985 - Free Software Foundation is founded in Massachusetts, USA.
1986 - NY Yank Dave Righetti saves doubleheader for then record 46 saves
1986 - Queen Beatrice installs dam at Oosterschelde
1986 - Rachel Oliver (Mass), 20, crowned 19th Miss Black America
1987 - 1st "Scrub Sunday" of NFL football with replacement players
1987 - Blues Jays lose final 7 games allowing Tigers to win AL pennant
1987 - James Jefferson of Winnipeg scores 2 TDs on interception returns without making an
           interception. (He scored on laterals)
1988 - Pillsbury stock soars $18.37 to $57.37 on takeover bid
1989 - Giants Will Clark hits 1st NLCS grand slam since 1977
1989 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1990 - "Stand Up Tragedy" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 13 performances
1990 - Regional elections held, in what is East Germany
1991 - Delta Center in Salt Lake City Utah
1991 - NHL NY Rangers trade Bernie Nichols to Edmonton for Mark Messier
1991 - San Jose Sharks lose 4-3 to Vancouver Canucks in their 1st NHL game
1991 - Whiteland Janice, driven by Mike Lachance, wins Kentucky Futurity
1991 - The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty is opened for signature.
1992 - "Anna Karenina" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 46 perfs
1992 - "Real Inspector Hound" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 61 perfs
1992 - 1st time AL East & West champs have same record (96-66)-Tor & Oak
1992 - 2nd Solheim Cup: Europe beats US, 11½-6½ at Dalmahoy CC Scotland
1992 - El Al cargo plane crashes at Amsterdam Bijlmer, 43 die
1992 - Miami Dolphin Louis Oliver returns record tying interception 103 yards
1992 - The Rome General Peace Accords ends a 16 year civil war in Mozambique.
1993 - Troops of pres Yelsin occupy Russian White House (parliament)
1994 - 7.9 earthquake strikes Koerilen, flood kills 18+
1994 - Keith Moore is charged with stealing $5,000,000 from Sting
1994 - Soyuz TM-20 launches
1995 - 29th Country Music Association Award: Krauss Jackson win
1995 - Jim Leyritz homers with a man on in 15th inning to give Yankees 2-0 Division Series lead over
           Mariners
1996 - BPAA US Bowling Open by Dave Husted
1996 - BPAA US Women's Bowling Open won by Liz Johnson
1996 - Shahid Afridi scores century in 37 balls for Pakistan v Sri Lanka
1997 - Farm Aid 10 concert cancelled due to weak ticket sales
1997 - The second largest cash robbery in U.S. history occurs at the Charlotte, North Carolina office
           of Loomis, Fargo and Company. An FBI investigation eventually results in 24 convictions and
           the recovery of approximately 95% of the $17.3 million in cash which had been taken.
2001 - Siberia Airlines Flight 1812: a Sibir Airlines Tupolev TU-154 crashes into the Black Sea after
           being struck by an errant Ukrainian S-200 missile. 78 people are killed.
2003 - Maxim restaurant suicide bombing in Haifa, Israel: 21 Israelis, Jews and Arabs, are killed, and
           51 others wounded.
2004 - SpaceShipOne wins Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight.
2009 - George Papandreou's Panhellenic Socialist Movement defeats Greece's governing New
           Democracy party in an electoral landslide.
2012 - Turkey’s parliament approves cross-border military operations in Syria
2012 - 19 people are killed after being buried by a landslide in Yunnan, China
2012 - Jordan’s King Abdullah dissolves parliament in preparation for new elections
2012 - Formula One legend, Michael Schumacher, retires

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 04, 2013, 10:34:28 AM

This Day in History for 4th October


Famous Weddings

1539 - King Henry VIII marries Anne of Cleves, his 4th wife
1767 - Prince Willem V marries Prussian princess Wilhelmina
1795 - "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" poet Samuel Coleridge (22) marries Sarah Fricker
1802 - English romantic poet William Wordsworth (32) marries childhood friend Mary Hutchinson
1905 - 30th US President Calvin Coolidge (33) weds Grace Anna Goodhue (26) in Burlington,
           Vermont
1932 - Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov marries Yelena Sergeyevna
1980 - "The Princess Bride" actor Chris Sarandon (38) weds model Lisa Cooper
1996 - Former undisputed boxing heavyweight world champion Evander Holyfield (34) weds Janice
           Itson (34) at Glynn Wedding Chapel in nearby Fayetteville
1997 - MTV news anchor Tabitha Soren (30) weds "Liars Poker" author Michael Lewis (37) in
           Garrison, New York

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 04, 2013, 10:42:39 AM

This Day in History for 4th October


Famous Birthdays

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Journalist and Author                             Actor Charlton Heston (1923)                    Author Anne Rice (1941)
Damon Runyon (1880)


1160 - Alys, Countess of the Vexin, daughter of Louis VII of France (d. 1220)
1276 - Margaret of Brabant, Queen of Germany (d. 1311)
1289 - Louis X, the Stubborn, king of France (1314-16)
1331 - James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormonde (d. 1382)
1379 - King Henry III of Castile (d. 1406)
1515 - Lucas Cranach, the Younger, German painter
1542 - Roberto Bellarmino, Italian saint/theologist (Doctor of the Church)
1550 - Charles IX, King of Sweden
1562 - Christian Sørensen Longomontanus, Danish astronomer (d. 1647)
1570 - Péter Pázmány, Hungarian cardinal (d. 1637)
1585 - Anna of Tyrol, Empress consort of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1618)
1607 - Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla, Span playwright (Del Rey Abajo Ninguno)
1625 - Jacqueline Pascal, French child prodigy (d. 1661)
1626 - Richard Cromwell, lord protector of England (1658-59)
1657 - Francesco Solimena, Italian painter (d. 1747)
1659 - Franz Weichlein, composer
1720 - Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian etcher
1723 - Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus, German entomologist (d. 1798)
1744 - Domenico Corri, composer
1749 - Jean-Louis Duport, composer
1759 - Antoine Arbogast, French mathematician (d. 1803)
1762 - Tommaso Sogner, composer
1772 - Francois-Louis Perne, composer
1787 - Francois P G Guizot, French historian/politician
1796 - John Richardson, Canadian writer (Wacousta, or the prophecy)
1797 - J Gotthelf, writer
1804 - "Felix", cricketer (Nicholas Wanostracht)
1807 - Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, French Canadian politician, prime minister of the Province of
           Canada (d. 1864)
1809 - Albrecht F H, prince of Prussia
1809 - Robert Cumming Schenck, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1890
1810 - Alexander Walewski, French earl/foreign minister/Napoleon I's son
1816 - Egbert Benson Brown, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1902
1818 - Francesco Crispi, Italian minister of War/premier
1822 - Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Delaware Ohio, (R) 19th pres (1877-81)
1832 - William Griggs, inventor (photo chromo lithography)
1836 - Juliette Adam-Lamber, French author (Salon/Nouvelle Revue)
1840 - Charles Ferdinand Lenepveu, composer
1841 - Stephen Albert Emery, composer
1841 - Prudente José de Morais Barros, President of Brazil (d. 1912)
1841 - Maria Sophie of Bavaria, queen of the Two Sicilies (d. 1925)
1850 - John W McGraw, (Gov-R-Wash) (1893-97)
1857 - Henry Schoenfeld, composer
1858 - Michael I. Pupin, Serbian-born telephone pioneer (d. 1935)
1859 - Henryk Pachulski, composer
1860 - Sidney Paget, British illustrator (Sherlock Holmes)
1861 - Frederic Remington, US, artist/sculptor of American West
1861 - Joao Marcellino Arroyo, composer
1862 - Edward Stratemeyer, American author (d. 1930)
1865 - Max Halbe, writer
1868 - Marcelo Torcuato the Alvear, president of Argentina (1922-28)
1875 - Mikolajus Konstantinas Ciurlionis, composer
1876 - Hugh McCrae, Australian writer (d. 1958)
1877 - Razor Smith, English cricketer (d. 1946)
1880 - Damon Runyon, Manhattan, Kansas, journalist/writer (Guys & Dolls-based on his work), (d.
           1946)
1881 - [Heinrich A H] Walther von Brauchitsch, German fieldmarshal
1885 - Henricus Wijdefield, Dutch architect (Peace Palace)
1886 - Luis Alberni, Spain, actor (Topaze)
1887 - Francis Bull, Norway, writer (Norsk literature historian)
1888 - Oscar Mathisen, Norwegian speed skater (d. 1954)
1889 - John B Kelly, Olympic champion rower/father of Grace Kelly
1892 - Engelbert Dollfuss, Austrian Fascist chancellor killed by Nazis
1892 - Luis Trenker, Sankt Ulrich, actor (Berge in Flammen)
1892 - Hermann Glauert, British aerodynamicist (d. 1934)
1894 - Cliff Hall, Brooklyn New York, American actor (Crime Photographer)
1895 - Buster [Joseph F] Keaton, actor (Navigator, Steamboat Bill, Jr)
1895 - Richard Sorge, German spy for USSR in Tokyo (WW II)
1895 - Sergei Jessenin, writer
1901 - Carroll Nye, Canton OH, actress (Lawless Woman)
1903 - Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Austrian nazi (SS/SD)
1903 - Lord Roborough, English large landowner/multi-millionaire
1903 - Bona Arsenault, French Canadian politician, historian and genealogist (d. 1993)
1904 - Harris Rhoad, rocker
1904 - Rene Mable Neighbour Cloke, illustrator
1905 - Leon Orthel, composer
1905 - Rene Defossez, composer
1906 - Johannes Post, Dutch farmer/resistance fighter (passage fight)
1909 - James B Pritchard, US, theologist/archaeologist
1909 - Noel Chiboust, trumpeter/Sax
1910 - Frankie Crosetti, American baseball player (d. 2002)
1912 - Alfonso Letelier-Llonas, composer
1912 - John de Mol, Dutch accordianist/producer (Baantjer, Pril Geluk)
1913 - Stanley Oliphant Stewart, librarian
1914 - Brendan Gill, writer/critic (New Yorker magazine)
1914 - Jim Cairns, Australian politician (d. 2003)
1915 - Koos Schuur, Dutch journalist/poet (7 Curses)
1916 - Owen Tudor Williams, civil engineer
1916 - George Sidney, American film director (d. 2002)
1917 - Albert de Klerk, Dutch composer/conductor
1917 - Jan Murray, Bronx NY, comedian (Treasure Hunt, Who Killed Teddy Bear)
1918 - Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1998)
1920 - George Tribe, cricketer (Australian chinaman bowler, Northants)
1922 - Malcolm Baldrige, Conn, US Secretary of Commerce (1981-87)
1922 - Shin Kyuk-Ho, Japanese businessman
1923 - Charlton Heston, Ill, Manhattan, Kansas, actor (10 Commandments, Ben Hur, Planet of Apes),
           (d. 2008)
1928 - Alvin Toffler, author (Future Shock, Power Shift, The Third Wave)
1928 - Torben Ulrich, Danish musician, writer, filmmaker and tennis player
1929 - Leroy Van Dyke, Spring Fork Mo, country singer (Walk on By)
1929 - Scotty Beckett, Oakland CA, actor (Listen Darling, Battleground)
1930 - Jozsef Soproni, composer
1931 - Basil D'Oliveira, cricketer (England all-rounder of late 60's)
1931 - Dick Tracy, comic strip crimestopper
1932 - Dottie West, country singer
1932 - Felicia Farr, Westchester NY, actress (Charley Varrick, Kotch)
1932 - Milan Chvostek, Canadian television director
1934 - Malva M Basoalto, daughter of Pablo Neruda & Marie Hagenaar Vogelzang
1934 - Sam Huff, NFL linebacker (NY Giants, Washington Redskins)
1935 - Eddie Applegate, Wyncote Pa, actor (Richard-Patty Duke Show)
1936 - David Pithey, cricketer (bro of Tony, S Afr all-rounder in 8 Tests)
1936 - Sally Mary Caroline Belfrage, writer
1937 - Franz Vranitzky, Austria union chancellor (1986- )
1937 - Jackie Collins, London, British author (The Stud, Lucky)
1937 - Jim Sillars, Scottish politician
1938 - Kurt Wüthrich, Swiss chemist, Nobel laureate
1939 - W Henson Moore, (Rep-R-LA, 1975- )
1940 - Silvio Marzolini, Argentine footballer
1940 - Alberto Vilar, Cuban-American investor and philanthropist
1941 - Anne Rice, New Orleans LA, author (Interview with a Vampire)
1941 - Lori Saunders, Kansas City Mo (Petticoat Junction, Dusty Trails)
1941 - Roy Blount, Jr., American writer
1941 - Karl Oppitzhauser, Austrian racing driver
1942 - Christopher Stone, Manchester NH, actor (Dave-Dallas, Interns)
1942 - Jenny Arean, [Joanna Klarenbeek], Dutch actress (Paul Chevrolet)
1942 - Karl W. Richter, American aviator (d. 1967)
1943 - Bonnie Bryant, LPGA golfer
1943 - Buddy Roemer, (Gov/Rep-D-LA, 1981- )
1943 - Owen Keir Davidson, Australia, 4 time Wimbledon mix double champ
1944 - Nona Hendryx, Trenton NJ, singer (LaBelle-Lady Marmalade)
1944 - Rocío Dúrcal, Spanish singer and actress (d. 2006)
1945 - Clifton Davis, Chicago Ill, actor/singer (That's My Mama, Amen)
1945 - Richard Bickell, race horse trainer
1946 - Andre Bolhuis, hockey player (World Cup 1973, European Cup 1978
1946 - Susan Sarandon, [Tomaling], Jackson Hgts NY, actress (Bull Durham)
1946 - Chuck Hagel, American politician
1947 - James Fielder, Denton TX, rocker (Blood Sweat & Tears)
1947 - Ann Widdecombe, British politician
1947 - Julien Clerc, French singer
1948 - Linda McMahon, CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment
1949 - Armand Assante, NYC, actor (Private Benjamin, Unfaithfully Yours)
1949 - Stephen Gyllenhaal, American director
1950 - Meg Bennett, Los Angeles CA, actress (Young & Restless)
1951 - Alan Rosenberg, actor (Civil Wars, LA Law, Cybill)
1951 - Bakhytzhan Kanapyanov, Kazakh poet
1952 - Anita Luceete Defrantz, Phila Pa, rower (Olympic-bronze-1976)
1952 - Jody Stephens, rock drummer (Big Star)
1952 - Nina Carter, London England, vocalist (Blonde on Blonde)
1953 - Tchéky Karyo, Turkish-French actor
1955 - Joe Orseno, race horse trainer
1955 - Jorge Valdano, Argentine footballer
1956 - Hans van Breukelen, Dutch soccer goaltender (PSV)
1956 - Sherri Turner, Greenville SC, LPGA golfer (1988 Mazda LPGA Champ)
1957 - Christina Smith, Miami FL, playmate (Mar, 1978)
1957 - Gregory T Linteris, Demarest NJ, astronaut (sk: STS 83)
1957 - Alexander Tkachyov, Soviet gymnast
1957 - Bill Fagerbakke, American actor
1957 - Kyra Schon, American actress
1958 - Anneka Rice, Dutch TV hostess
1958 - Barbara MacDonald, rocker (Timbuk 3)
1959 - Tony Meo, English billiards champion (snookers)
1960 - Gregg "Hobie" Hubbard, Apopka Fla, country singer (Betty's Bein' Bad)
1960 - Jennifer Anglin, Adrian Mich, actress (Cheryl-General Hospital)
1960 - Joe Boever, American baseball player
1961 - David W Harper, Abilene Tx, actor (Jim Bob-Waltons)
1961 - John Secada, singer
1961 - Mary Ellen Stuart, actress (Frannie Crawford-As the World Turns)
1961 - Kazuki Takahashi, Japanese author
1962 - Aldo Sprenger, Dutch pop guitarist (Kong-Phlegm)
1962 - Dennis Cook, Lamarque TX, pitcher (Texas Rangers)
1963 - A C Green, NBA forward (Phoenix Suns, Dallas Mavericks)
1963 - Bruce Ruffin, Lubbock TX, pitcher (Colorado Rockies)
1963 - Patti Berendt, San Diego CA, LPGA golfer (1995 Star Bank Classic-24th)
1963 - Koji Ishikawa (children's book author and illustrator)Japanese children's author
1964 - David Brain, cricketer (Zimbabwe lefty seamer 1993-)
1964 - Mark McLemore, San Diego CA, infielder (Texas Rangers)
1964 - Matthew Cetlinski, US 400m freestyle swimmer
1964 - Yvonne Murray, athlete
1965 - "Stuttering John" Melendez, interviewer (Howard Stern Show)
1965 - Skip Heller, American musician
1966 - John van de Brom, soccer player (Ajax)
1966 - Mike Walker, Brooksville FL, pitcher (Detroit Tigers)
1967 - Nick Green, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1967 - Roger Pavlik, Houston Texas, pitcher (Texas Rangers)
1967 - Vicky Bullett, WNBA forward/center (Oly-gold-1988/Charlotte Sting)
1967 - Ekin Cheng Yee-Kin, Hong Kong actor and Cantopop singer
1967 - Liev Schreiber, American actor
1968 - Kanavis McGhee, NFL defensive end (Houston Oilers)
1969 - Lucas Parsons, Sydney NSW, Australasia golfer
1970 - Brian Kozlowski, NFL halfback (Atlanta Falcons, NY Giants)
1970 - Hency Charles, CFL defensive back (Montreal Alouettes)
1970 - Lucy Nusrala, St Louis Mo, 5k runner
1970 - Ryan McNeil, NFL cornerback (Detroit Lions, St Louis Rams)
1970 - Richard Hancox, English footballer
1971 - Corey Sawyer, NFL cornerback (Cin Bengals)
1971 - Friderika Bayer, Hungarian singer
1972 - Joanna Stone, Australian javelin thrower (Olympics-96)
1972 - Kurt Thomas, NBA forward (Dallas Mavericks, Miami Heat)
1972 - Norberto Garrido, tackle (Carolina Panthers)
1972 - Rusty Fitzgerald, Minneapolis, NHL center (Pitts Penguins)
1973 - Emy Snook, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1973 - Kantroy Barber, fullback (Carolina Panthers)
1973 - Kerry Joseph, WLAF quarterback (London Monarchs)
1973 - Chris Parks, American wrestler
1974 - Claudia Elena Vasquez, Miss Universe-best costume (Colombia, 1997)
1974 - Paco León, Spanish actor
1975 - Heather Tom, Hinsdale Ill, (Victoria-Y&R, Deadly Whispers)
1975 - Cristiano Lucarelli, Italian football player
1976 - Alicia Silverstone, SF California, actress (Clueless, Batman Forever)
1976 - Mauro Camoranesi, Argentine-Italian footballer
1976 - Cabral Ibacka, Romanian actor and television presenter
1978 - Ko Soo, South Korean television and movie actor
1978 - Kyle Lohse, American baseball player
1979 - Rachael Leigh Cook, American actress
1979 - Stefan Booth, British actor
1979 - Bjorn Phau, German tennis player
1980 - Jimmy Workman, actor (Pugsley-Addams Family)
1980 - Kristina Lenko, Canadian ice skater
1980 - Me'Lisa Barber, American athlete
1980 - Sarah Fisher, American race car driver
1980 - Tim Peper, American actor
1980 - Tomáš Rosický, Czech footballer
1981 - Justin Williams, Canadian ice hockey player
1981 - Scott Hammond, American photographer
1981 - Juka, Japanese singer
1982 - Jered Weaver, American baseball player
1982 - Tony Gwynn Jr., American baseball player
1983 - Risa Kudo, Japanese gravure idol
1983 - Ueda Tatsuya, Japanese idol (member of KAT-TUN)
1983 - Dan Clarke, British racing driver
1983 - Kurt Suzuki, American baseball player
1984 - Lena Katina, Russian singer (t.A.T.u.)
1984 - Álvaro Parente, Portuguese racing driver
1986 - Barbara Jean Jones, fictional character (General Hospital)
1986 - Yuridia, Mexican singer
1987 - Michael Roman, actor (Al-One Life to Live)
1987 - Rawez Lawan, Swedish footballer
1989 - Dakota Johnson, son of Melanie Griffith & Don Johnson
1989 - Lil Mama, American rapper
1989 - Kimmie Meissner, American figure skater
2005 - Prince Emmanuel of Belgium

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 04, 2013, 10:45:29 AM

This Day in History for 4th October


Famous Deaths

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Painter Rembrandt van Rijn (1669)


1052 - Vladimir of Novgorod (b. 1020)
1072 - Sancho II, king of Castile/bro of Alfonso VI, murdered at about 35
1221 - William III Talvas, Count of Ponthieu (b. 1179)
1250 - Herman VI, Margrave of Baden
1305 - Emperor Kameyama of Japan (b. 1249)
1540 - Helius Eobanus Hessus, German humanist/poet (Silvae), dies
1564 - Pietro P Vergerio, Italian theologist/bishop of Croatia, dies
1571 - Claude Togniel d'Espence, French theologist (Sorbonne), dies at 60
1582 - Theresia van Avila, Spanish mystic writer, dies
1590 - Cujacius, [Jacques Cujas], French lawyer, dies at about 68
1597 - Sarsa Dengel, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1550)
1661 - Jacqueline Pascal, French child prodigy (b. 1625)
1669 - Rembrandt van Rijn, Dutch painter, dies at 63
1680 - Pierre-Paul Riquet, French engineer
1713 - Valentin Molitor, composer, dies at 76
1721 - Abraham Alewijn, poet/playwright (Beslikte Swaantje), dies at 36
1743 - John Campbell, 2nd duke of Argyll/fieldmarshal, dies at 64
1749 - Franz Freiherr von der Trenck, Austrian soldier (b. 1711)
1754 - Tanacharison, Catawba Indian chief
1755 - Samuel von Cocceji, German lawyer, dies
1785 - David Brearly, American statesman (b. 1703)
1821 - John Rennie, Scottish engineer (b. 1761)
1830 - Hans DL earl Yorck von Wartenburg, gov-gen of E-Prussia, dies at 71
1838 - Eleanore Sophia Maria Westenholz, composer, dies at 79
1848 - Louis Massonneau, composer, dies at 82
1851 - Manuel de Godoy, Spanish statesman (b. 1767)
1859 - Karl Baedeker, German tour guide (Die Schweiz), dies at 57
1862 - William Duncan Smith, US Confederate brig-general, dies at 36
1863 - Gerrit Schimmelpenninck, earl of Nijenhuis/Peckedam, dies at 69
1864 - Joseph Montferrand, French Canadian logger and strong man (b. 1802)
1867 - Francis Xavier Seelos German-American Roman Catholic priest (b. 1819)
1880 - William Lassell, English astronomer (1st moon of Neptune), dies
1890 - Catherine Booth, the Mother of The Salvation Army (b. 1829)
1892 - Guillaume Van Kerckhoven, Belgian captain, dies at 39
1893 - Pieter J Elout van Soeterwoude, MP (AR), dies at 88
1903 - Otto Weininger, Austrian philosopher (b. 1880)
1904 - Frederic Auguste Bertholdi, French sculptor (Statue of Liberty), dies
1904 - Karl Bayer, Austrian chemist (b. 1847)
1907 - Alfredo Kiel, composer, dies at 57
1910 - Sergey Muromtsev, Russian lawyer and politician, and President of the First Imperial Duma (b.
           1850)
1912 - Gen Zeledon, Nicaraguan opponent of US occupation, is executed
1929 - John Metzelaar, Dutch/US writer (Report on the Fishes), dies at 37
1935 - Jean Béraud, French painter (b. 1849)
1935 - Marie Gutheil-Schoder, German soprano (b. 1874)
1943 - Richard T Ely, US economist (Ground under our feet), dies
1943 - Irena Iłłakowicz, Polish agent of Intelligence (b. 1906)
1944 - Al Smith, American politician (b. 1873)
1947 - Max KEL Planck, German physicist (constantly of P, Nobel 1918), dies
1949 - Edmund Eysler, Austrian composer, dies at 75
1951 - Willie Moretti, American gangster (b. 1894)
1955 - Alexander Papagos, Greek fieldmarshal, dies
1961 - Max Weber, Polish/Russ/US painter, dies
1961 - Metropolitan Benjamin (Fedchenkov), Orthodox missionary and writer, Exarch of Russian
           Church in North America (b. 1880)
1962 - E H Hendren, cricketer (57,611 1st-class runs, 3rd-best ever), dies
1962 - John Lowry, Mount Vernon NY, NYC builder, dies at 79
1966 - Sherman Billingsley, talk show host (Stork Club), dies at 66
1969 - Vibart Wight, cricketer (member of WI 1st Test touring 1928), dies
1969 - Natalino Otto, Italian singer (b. 1912)
1970 - George Frederick McKay, composer, dies at 71
1970 - Janis Joplin, rock singer (Down on Me), dies of a drug overdose at 27
1971 - Edit Angold, actor (Suspense, Molly, Blue Angel), dies at 76
1972 - Colin Gordon, actor (John-Baron), dies at 61
1972 - Louis S B Leakey, archaeologist/anthropologist, dies at 68
1974 - Anne Sexton, US poetess (Pulitzer 1967), dies at 45
1975 - Joan Whitney Payson, owner of New York Mets, dies at 72
1976 - Alexander Gray, singer (This is Music), dies at 74
1979 - Christina Spierenburg, Dutch singer, dies at 56
1981 - Freddie Lindstrom, Major League Baseball Hall of famer (b. 1905)
1982 - Ahmad H al-Bakr, Iraqi fieldmarshal/president/premier, dies
1982 - Glenn H Gould, Canadian pianist, dies at 50
1989 - Graham Chapman, comedian (Monty Python), dies of cancer at 48
1989 - Norman Yardley, cricketer (England captain 1947-50), dies
1989 - Secretariat, American race horse (b. 1970)
1990 - Avis Bunnage, actor (Loneliness of Long Distance Runner), dies at 67
1990 - Jill Bennett, actress (Skull, Hawks), dies of undisclosed causes at 58
1991 - Leonard C Odell, wrote 7,000 Burma Shave poems, dies at 83
1992 - Itzhak Fuks, El Al captain, crashes in Bijlmer Netherlands
1992 - Laurie Anders, singer, dies of cancer
1992 - Ohad Arnon, El Al captain, crashes in Bijlmer Netherlands
1993 - Fran Carlon, dies of cancer at 80
1993 - Jim Holton, Scottish footballer (b. 1951)
1994 - Bill Challis, arranger/Pianist, dies at 90
1994 - Daniel Wood Gatton, guitarist, dies at 49
1994 - Heinz Rohmann, German actor/dir (Brave Soldier Schwejk), dies at 92
1995 - Peter Nicholson Gunn, writer, dies at 81
1996 - Martyn Harris, journalist, dies at 43
1996 - Silvio Piola, footballer, dies at 83
1996 - Tim N Gidal Gidalewitsch, photojournalist, dies at 87
1999 - Erik Brødreskift (aka Grim), Norwegian black metal musician (b. 1969)
1999 - Art Farmer, American jazz trumpet player (b. 1928)
1999 - Bernard Buffet, French painter (b. 1928)
2000 - Michael Smith, Nobel laureate (b. 1932)
2000 - Yu Kuo-hwa, former Premier of Taiwan (b. 1914)
2001 - Blaise Alexander, American race car driver (b. 1976)
2001 - Ahron Soloveichik, Orthodox Jewish rabbi
2002 - Alphonse Chapanis, founder of ergonomics (b. 1917)
2002 - André Delvaux, Belgian film director and screenwriter (b. 1926)
2003 - Sid McMath, American politician (b. 1912)
2004 - Gordon Cooper, American astronaut (b. 1927)
2004 - Rio Diaz, Filipino actress & TV hosts (b. 1959)
2005 - Stanley K. Hathaway, American politician (b. 1924)
2006 - Tom Bell, English actor on stage, television and film (b. 1933)
2009 - Mercedes Sosa, Argentinian singer (b. 1935)
2009 - Günther Rall, German fighter ace (b. 1918)
2010 - Sir Norman Wisdom, English comedian, singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1915)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 05, 2013, 12:02:12 PM

This Day in History for 5th October


Historical Events

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Queen of Scotland Mary Stuart                Naturalist Charles Darwin            Dictator of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler

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Astronomer Edwin Hubble                       Explorer of the New World                 US President George H. W. Bush
                                                                   Christopher Columbus

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264th Pope John Paul II


610 - Heraclius' fleet takes Constantinople
869 - 4th Council of Constantinople (8th ecumenical council) opens
1143 - The king Alfonso VII of Leon recognises Portugal as a Kingdom.
1349 - Paris' theologist Jean de Fayt warns against the Flagellants at Avignon
1430 - Duke Philip the Good of Bourgondy visits Brussels
1450 - Jews are expelled from Lower Bavaria by order of Ludwig IX
1465 - French King Louis XI signs peace with Charles the Stout
1511 - Eedgenootschap signs anti-French Saint League
1511 - Pope Julius II/Germany/Ferdinand of Aragon/Venice/Swiss
1550 - Foundation of Concepción, city in Chile.
1568 - Conference of York begins: trial against Mary Stuart
1568 - William of Oranges army occupies Brabant
1572 - Spanish army under Alva's son Don Frederik plunders Mechelen
1582 - Gregorian calendar introduced in Italy, other Catholic countries
1632 - Henry Casimir I appointed viceroy of Groningen
1665 - The University of Kiel is founded.
1693 - Haarlem people's revolution due to food shortages
1750 - Carlo Goldoni's "Il teatro comica," premieres in Venice
1762 - Opera "Orfeo Ed Euridice" is produced (Vienna)
1789 - French Revolution: Women of Paris march to Versailles in the March on Versailles to confront
           Louis XVI about his refusal to promulgate the decrees on the abolition of feudalism, demand
           bread, and have the King and his court moved to Paris.
1793 - French Revolution: Christianity is disestablished in France.
1796 - Spain declares war on England
1813 - Battle of Thames in Canada; Americans defeat British
1823 - Weber visits Beethoven
1830 - King Willem I mobilizes Dutch army
1833 - Charles Darwin moves with Parana to Santa Fe Bajada Argentina
1857 - The City of Anaheim was founded.
1862 - Battle of Big Hatchie River, MS
1862 - Federal fleet occupies Galveston, Texas
1863 - Confederate sub David damages Union ship Ironsides
1864 - Battle of Allatoona, 1/3 of Union troops die repulsing South
1864 - Most of Calcutta destroyed by cyclone (approx 60,000 die)
1867 - Last day of Julian calendar in Alaska
1869 - A strong hurricane devastates the Bay of Fundy region of Maritime Canada. The storm had
           been predicted over a year before by a British naval officer.
1875 - Palace Hotel on Market Street, SF opens
1877 - Chief Joseph surrenders, ending Nez Perce War
1892 - Dalton Gang ends in shoot-out in Coffeville, Kansas bank holdup
1895 - The first individual time trial for racing cyclists is held on a 50-mile course north of London.
1896 - William Gillette's "Secret Service," premieres in NYC
1897 - Solomon Andrees baloon/polar expedition reaches White Island
1900 - 6th US Golf Open: Harry Vardon shoots a 313 at Chicago GC Ill
1900 - Harry Vardon wins US Open golf tournament
1903 - Sir Samuel Griffith is appointed the first Chief Justice of Australia and Sir Edmund Barton and
           Richard O'Connor are appointed as foundation justices.
1905 - Orville/Wilbur Wright's "Flyer III" flight 38.5 km in 38.3"
1906 - Henry Mathewson (NY Giants, Christy's brother) walks 14 men
1907 - Interprovincial Rugby Football Union plays 1st game (Mtl 17 Tor 8 )
1907 - Phila A's Rube Vickers no-hits Wash Senators, 4-0 in 5 inning game
1908 - Bulgaria declares independence from Turkey, Ferdinand I becomes Tsar
1908 - White Sox Ed Walsh tops Detroit 6-1 for his 40th victory
1910 - Portugal overthrows monarchy, proclaims republic
1911 - Italian troops occupy Tripoli
1912 - Billy Mallett of Hamilton Tigers kicks 9 singles in a game
1912 - Red Sox defeat A's 3-0 for then AL record 105th win
1912 - Yanks win final game at Hilltop stadium
1914 - World War I first aerial combat resulting in a kill.
1915 - Bulgaria enters World War I as one of the Central Powers.
1916 - Soldier Adolf Hitler is injured
1919 - Norwegian population agrees to prohibition
1921 - 1st World Series radio broadcast, Yanks beat Giants 3-0
1921 - Present constitution of Liechtenstein comes into effect
1922 - Yanks & Giants play an infamous 3-3 tie World Series game
1923 - Edwin Hubble identifies Cepheid variable star
1924 - 1st Little Orphan Annie-strip appears in NYC Daily News
1925 - WSM-AM in Nashville Tenn begins radio transmissions
1930 - British airship crashes in storm at Beauvais France, 48 die
1931 - 1st nonstop transpacific flight, Japan to Wash (Herndon & Pangborn)
1931 - Paul Green's "House of Connelly," premieres in NYC
1936 - The Jarrow March sets off for London.
1937 - Minister Romme says unemployment is 25% "quarter of Romme"
1941 - Mickey Owens drops a 3rd strike, Tom Hendrick reaches 1st safely - would have been last out,
           instead Yanks score 4 & win 7-4
1942 - 5,000 Jews of Dubno Russia massacred
1942 - St Louis Cards beat NY Yankees, 4 games to 1, in 39th World Series
1943 - US air raid on Wake
1944 - Harold Arlen/ET Harburgs musical premieres in NYC
1944 - Kerkrade (Neth) liberated
1944 - Suffrage is extended to women in France.
1945 - "Meet the Press" premieres on radio
1945 - Indonesian army forms
1945 - Queen Wilhelmina visits Rotterdam
1945 - Hollywood Black Friday: A six month strike by Hollywood set decorators turns into a bloody
           riot at the gates of Warner Brothers' studios.
1946 - "Yours Is My Heart" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 36 perfs
1947 - 1st Presidential address televised from White House- Harry Truman
1947 - Al Gionfriddo makes a great catch off Joe Dimaggio in World Series
1948 - The 1948 Ashgabat earthquake kills 100,000.
1949 - WBNS TV channel 10 in Columbus, OH (CBS) begins broadcasting
1949 - WOR (now WWOR) TV channel 9 in NY-Secaucus, NY (IND) begins
1950 - "Pardon Our French" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 100 perfs
1952 - 19th congress of Communist Party meets in Moscow
1952 - 6th NHL All-Star Game: 1st Team ties 2nd Team 1-1 at Detroit
1953 - Earl Warren sworn in as 14th chief justice of US
1953 - 50th World Series sees NY Yankees beat Dodgers, 4 games to 2, as NY Billy Martin's 12 hits
           set record; Yanks win record 5th consec WS
1953 - The first documented recovery meeting of Narcotics Anonymous is held.
1954 - Hurricane Hazel hits Eastern US
1956 - Yogi Berra becomes 4th Yank to hit a World Series grand slam
1957 - 11th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 5-3 at Montreal
1957 - 12th Ryder Cup: Britain-Ireland win, 7½-4½ at Lindrick Golf Club (Rotherham, Yorkshire,
           England)
1957 - Yugoslav dissident Milovan Djilos sentenced to 7 years
1958 - KRTV TV channel 3 in Great Falls, MT (CBS) begins broadcasting
1958 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1958 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1960 - British Labour party demands unilateral nuclear disarmament
1960 - Eastern AL Electra turbo-prop crashed in Boston Harbor (61 die)
1960 - KEYC TV channel 12 in Mankato, MN (CBS) begins broadcasting
1961 - China & Nepal sign treaty
1962 - Beatles release their 1st record "Love Me Do"
1963 - 17th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Toronto 3-3 at Toronto
1963 - Hyde St Pier re-opens as State Historical Park
1963 - Little Richard joins Everly Brothers Tour
1964 - KIXE TV channel 9 in Redding, CA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1964 - SF Fire Department Museum is dedicated
1965 - Chuck Linster performs 6,006 consecutive push-ups
1965 - Dick McInnes stays aloft almost 12 hours in a kite
1968 - Battles between Catholic demonstrators & police in Londonderry
1968 - KPLM (now KESQ) TV channel 42 in Palm Springs, CA (ABC) begins
1969 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Invitational
1969 - Monty Python's Flying Circus begins airing on BBC
1969 - Tom Dempsey of New Orleans Saints kicks 55-yard field goal
1970 - John Creach, joins Jefferson Airplane
1970 - PBS becomes a network
1970 - Quebec separatists kidnap British trade commissioner James Cross
1970 - PBS became a television network.
1972 - Herbert Mullin 1st kills, to prevent earthquakes
1973 - Signature of the European Patent Convention.
1974 - Guildford pub bombing by the IRA leaves 5 dead and 65 injured.
1975 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1976 - Seattle & Toronto picks 30 unprotected players on other AL rosters Ruppert Jones (Seattle)
           & Bob Bailor (Toronto) are picked 1st
1977 - "Hair" opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 43 performances
1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer wins Nobel Prize for literature
1978 - Sweden's Fälldin government falls
1978 - Over 30 major nations ratify the Environmental Modification Convention which prohibits
           environmental modification techniques
1980 - Formal opening of meditation hall of Zenshin Temple in Riverdale Bronx
1980 - Kathy Whitworth/Donna Caponi Young win Portland Ping Team Golf Champ
1980 - Yanks set AL attendance mark at 2,627,417
1981 - Dutch guilder/Deutsche mark revalued up 5.5%
1981 - Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg becomes an honarary American
1982 - 1st NJ Devils game, tie the Pitts Penguins 3-3 at the Meadowlands
1982 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1982 - Hernan Siles Zuazo appointed president of Bolivia
1982 - Unmanned rocket sled reaches 9,851 kph at White Sands, NM
1983 - Lech Walesa wins Nobel Peace Prize
1984 - 13th Space Shuttle Mission (41-G)-Challenger 6-launched
1985 - Grambling's Eddie Robinson wins record 324th football game
1986 - London Sunday Times reports Israel is stocking nuclear arms
1988 - Brazil adopts its Constitution
1988 - Chilean population agrees at referendum against Pinochet regime
1988 - Israel bans Meir Kahane's Kach Party on grounds of racism
1990 - Cincinnati jury acquits art gallery of obsentity (Mappelthorpe photos)
1991 - Military transport plane crashes at Djakarta, 133 dies
1991 - NJ Devils begin their 10th Anniversary with a 7-2 win over the Blues
1991 - USSR reduces nuclear weapons arsenal
1991 - Carlos Huerta's NCAA record streak of successful points after a touchdown ends at 157
1991 - Fresno State ties NCAA record with 49 points in a quarter, as they route New Mexico 94-17
1991 - The first official version of the Linux kernel, version 0.02, is released.
1992 - 1st overturn of a George Bush veto (cable bill)
1992 - NY senator Alphonse D'Mato fillerbusters for 15 hours 20 mins
1992 - US Air goes on strike
1993 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1993 - Last honor guard at Lenin's mausoleum
1993 - Pope John Paul II publishes encyclical Veritatis splendor
1994 - 28th Country Music Association Award
1994 - 52 members of Zonnetempel, murdered
1995 - "Company" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 68 performances
1996 - Caroline Pierce wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Golf Classic
1996 - Cleve Indians strike out 23 Balt Orioles in 12 inn playoff game
1996 - NY Yankee Bernie Williams switch hits HRs in a post season game
1997 - 35th Tennis Fed Cup: France beats Netherlands in Den Bosch Neth (4-1)
1997 - Annika Sorenstam wins LPGA CoreStates Betsy King Classic
1997 - Davis Love III wins golf's Buick challenge, shooting a 267
1997 - STS 86 (Atlantis 20) lands
1997 - Vantage Senior Golf Championship
1999 - The Ladbroke Grove rail crash in west London kills 31 people.
2000 - Mass demonstrations in Belgrade lead to resignation of Serbian strongman Slobodan
           Milošević. These demonstrations are often called the Bulldozer Revolution.
2001 - Robert Stevens becomes the first victim in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
2001 - Tom Ridge resigns as Governor of Pennsylvania to become President Bush's Homeland
           Security Advisor.
2012 - Anglo Platinum Limited fires 12,000 striking workers in South Africa

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 05, 2013, 01:19:34 PM

This Day in History for 5th October


Famous Weddings

1937 - Two-time Oscar winner actor Anthony Quinn (22) weds actress Katherine de Mille (26)
1968 - "The Dirty Dozen" actor Charles Bronson (46) weds Jill Ireland
1981 - "The Hollywood Knights" actress Michelle Pfeiffer (23) weds actor Peter Horton (28) in Santa
           Monica
1991 - Actor Ted Shackelford (Knots Landing) weds Annett Wolf
2001 - "The Golden Boy" professional boxer Oscar De La Hoya (28) weds Puerto Rican pop singer
           Millie Corretjer (27) in a secret ceremony held at "El Invernino" in San Juan
2002 - "Angel" actress Charisma Carpenter (32) weds Damian Hardy
2004 - Professional golfer Tiger Woods (28) weds former Swedish model Elin Nordegren (24) at
           Sandy Lane Resort in St. James, Barbados
2008 - American Idol season 6 fourth finalist LaKisha Jones (28) weds financial adviser Larry Davis at
           the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 05, 2013, 01:28:11 PM

This Day in History for 5th October


Famous Divorces

2007 - Actress Reese Witherspoon (30) divorces actor Ryan Phillippe (32) due to irreconcilable
           differences after 7 years of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 05, 2013, 02:07:46 PM

This Day in History for 5th October


Famous Birthdays

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Enlightenment Philosopher                     Rocket Pioneer                                        MacDonalds Entreprenuer                                                 
Denis Diderot (1713)                                Robert H. Goddard (1882)                       Ray Kroc (1902)

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Actress Kate Winslet (1975)


1458 - Kazimierz de Saint, Polish ruler/saint
1609 - Paul Fleming, writer
1626 - Johann Schop, composer
1641 - Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan, French mistress of King Louis XIV of France (d.
           1707)
1658 - Mary of Modena, queen of James II of England (d. 1718)
1684 - Johann Jacob de Neufville, composer
1695 - John Glas, Scottish minister (d. 1773)
1703 - Jonathan Edwards, US, theologian/philosopher (Original Sin)
1712 - Francesco Guardi, Italian painter
1713 - Denis Diderot, Langres, France, enlightenment philosopher (Encyclopédie), (d. 1784)
1715 - Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, French economist (d. 1789)
1717 - Marie-Anne de Mailly-Nesle duchess de Châteauroux, French mistress of King Louis XV of
           France (d. 1744)
1722 - Gregorio Sciroli, composer
1743 - Giuseppi Gazzaniga, composer
1758 - Thomas Greatorex, composer
1781 - Bernard Bolzano, Czech mathematician and philosopher (d. 1848)
1792 - Joseph Crosfield, English soap and alkali manufacturer (d. 1844)
1795 - Alexander Keith, Scottish-born Canadian brewer (d. 1873)
1799 - Anthony G O Ridder Van Rappard, Dutch Min of Reformed Worship
1804 - Robert Parker Parrott, Inventor, died in 1877
1808 - Thomas Algeo Rowley, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1892
1808 - Winand C H Staring, geologist (Geology of Netherlands)
1817 - Eduard Franck, composer
1820 - David Wilber, American politician (d. 1890)
1822 - Hans Hampel, composer
1823 - Feliks Jaronski, composer
1829 - Chester A. Arthur, Fairfield Vt, (Republican) 21st American President (1881-85)
1833 - Cyrus Bussey, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1915
1836 - George Washington Gordon, Brig Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1911
1840 - Fran Gerbic, composer
1840 - John Addington Symonds, Brit historian/writer (Probs in Greek Ethics)
1844 - Francis William Reitz, State President of the Orange Free State (d. 1934)
1848 - Guido von List, German writer (d. 1919)
1850 - Sergey Muromtsev, Russian lawyer and politician, and President of the First Imperial Duma (d.
           1910)
1858 - Heinrich M von Battenberg, German son-in-law of queen Victoria
1863 - Ludwig Borchardt, German Egyptologist
1864 - Louis Lumière, with brother Auguste made 1st motion picture in 1895
1875 - Cyril Rootham, composer
1878 - Louise Dresser, [Kerlin], Evansville IN, actress (Maid of Salem)
1879 - Halfdan Cleve, composer
1879 - John Erskine, US, poet/pianist (Private Life of Helen of Troy)
1881 - Otto V Kuusinen, Fin/Rus communist pres of Karelo-Finnish SR (1940-56)
1882 - Giorgio Abetti, Italian astronomer (Solar physics)
1882 - Robert Hutchings Goddard, Worcester Mass, rocket pioneer
1883 - Charles Maduro, Antillean composer
1884 - Hendrik W Tilanus, Dutch artillery officer/politcian (CHU 1939-63)
1886 - Carter De Haven, IL
1887 - Max Ackermann, German "entartet" painter
1887 - René Cassin, pacifist (Nobel Peace Prize 1968)
1889 - Teresa de la Parra, Venezuelan writer (d. 1936)
1890 - Kasimir Edschmid, [Karl E Schmidt], German writer
1892 - Remington Kellogg, American naturalist (d. 1969)
1894 - Bevil Rudd, South African athlete (d. 1948)
1895 - Walter Bedell Smith, US general (WW II)/head of CIA (1950-52)
1899 - Boleslaw Woytowicz, composer
1899 - Georg, Duke of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1962)
1901 - Johan Fiolet, Dutch actor/director
1901 - John Alton, cinematographer
1901 - Willy Lages, German chief of Sicherheitsdienst in Amsterdam
1902 - Larry Fine, [Laurence Feinberg], PA, comedian (3 Stooges)
1902 - Michael Kondracki, composer
1902 - Ray Kroc, Oak Park, Illinois, fast food entrepreneur (MacDonalds), (d. 1984)
1903 - Jimmy Ritz, US comic (Ritz Brothers-Blazing Stewardesses)
1903 - M. King Hubbert, American geophysicist (d. 1989)
1904 - George Chesterman Phillips, naval officer
1904 - John Hoyt, Bronxville NY, actor (Gimme a Break, Tom Dick & Mary)
1905 - Harriet E. MacGibbon, American actress (d. 1987)
1906 - Leopold Kohr, writer/mentor of Fritz Schumacher
1906 - Louise Brown, dancer/teacher
1907 - Mrs. Miller, American singer (d. 1997)
1908 - Joshua Logan, Broadway producer (South Pacific)
1911 - Flann O'Brien, Irish humorist (d. 1966)
1912 - Fritz Fischer (medical doctor), Nazi war criminal
1913 - William Lehman, (Rep-D-FL, 1973- )
1913 - Eugene Bennett Fluckey American Navy Submariner (d. 2007)
1916 - Douglas Ranger, surgeon
1917 - Robert Adams, English sculptor
1919 - Allen Ludden, Mineral Point Wisc, TV host (Password)
1919 - Donald Pleasence, Worksop England, actor (Fantastic Voyage, Halloween)
1919 - Luis H P Daal, Antillean literary
1919 - Robin Bailey, Hucknall England, actor (See No Evil, Screamtime)
1920 - Robert Feenstra, Dutch law historian
1921 - Bill Willis, AAFC, NFL guard (Cleveland Browns)
1922 - José Froilán González, Argentine race car driver, (d. 2013)
1922 - Bil Keane, American cartoonist
1922 - Jock Stein, Scottish footballer and manager (d. 1985)
1923 - Glynis Johns, Pretoria South Africa, actress (Mary Poppins)
1923 - Philip Berrigan, militant priest (Chicago 7)
1923 - Stig H Dagerman, Swedish writer (Burned Child)
1923 - Albert Guðmundsson, Icelandic footballer (d. 1994)
1923 - Bill Wirtz, longtime Chicago Blackhawks owner (d. 2007)
1924 - Bill Dana, Quincy Mass, comedian/actor (Jose Jimenez)
1924 - Jose Donoso, writer
1924 - Barbara Kelly, Canadian-born actress (d. 2007)
1925 - Gail Davis, Little Rock Ark, actress (Annie Oakley)
1925 - Bob Thaves, American cartoonist (d. 2006)
1926 - Clifton Eugene Bancroft Robinson, public servant
1926 - Gottfried Michael Koenig, composer
1926 - Willi Unsoeld, American climber (d. 1979)
1927 - Al Hansen, artist
1927 - John Downey, composer
1928 - Willem de Kwaadsteniet, lawyer/Dutch MP (CDA)
1928 - Louise Fitzhugh, American author (d. 1974)
1929 - Autherine Lucy, 1st black to enroll in U of Alabama at Tuscaloosa
1929 - Richard F Gordon Jr, Seattle, Capt USN/astronaut (Gemini 11, Apol 12)
1929 - Skip Homeier, Chicago Ill, actor (Beachhead, Dan Raven, Interns)
1930 - Pavel Romanovich Popovich, Ukraine, cosmonaut (Vostok IV, Soyuz 14)
1930 - Reinhard Selten, German economist, Nobel laureate
1932 - Madhav Apte, cricketer (bro of Arvind 7 Tests for India, 1 century)
1932 - Yvonne Braitwaite Burke, lawyer (Rep)
1933 - Diane Cilento, Queensland Aust, actress (Agony & Ecstasy, Wicker Man)
1934 - David Smith, cricketer (England opening bowler v India 1961-62)
1934 - Angelo Buono, Jr., American serial killer (d. 2002)
1935 - Jimmy Binks, cricket wicket-keeper (England twice v India 1964)
1935 - Peter Brown, NYC, actor (Lawman, Laredo, Bold & Beautiful)
1935 - Arlene Saunders, American soprano
1936 - Annerose Schmidt, East German pianist
1936 - Vaclav Havel, writer/pres Czechoslovakia (1989-92)
1937 - Barry Switzer, football coach (Oklahoma)
1938 - Carlo Mastrangelo, Bronx NY, rocker (Dion & The Belmonts)
1938 - Teresa Heinz Kerry, American philanthropist
1939 - Marie Laforêt, French singer and actress
1939 - Marie-Claire Blais, French Canadian author and playwright
1939 - Consuelo Ynares-Santiago, Filipino Supreme Court jurist
1939 - Walter Wolf, Slovenian-born Canadian industrialist
1940 - Bob Cowper, cricketer (Aust LHB, 307 v England MCG 1966 Very rich
1941 - Ricardo Hoffmann, marathon swimmer (299 miles)
1941 - Eduardo Duhalde, President of Argentina
1942 - Richard Street, Detroit Mi, rocker (Temptations)
1943 - Benjamin L Cardin, (Rep-D-Maryland)
1943 - Inna Churikova, Russia, actress (Theme)
1943 - Steve Miller, Milwaukee, rocker (Abracadabra, Space Cowboy)
1944 - Ben Korthals, advocate/Dutch MP (VVD)
1945 - Brian Connolly, Scottish singer (Sweet) (d. 1997)
1945 - Geoff Leigh, English musician (Henry Cow)
1946 - Richard Kermode, rocker
1946 - Zahida Hina, Pakistani columnist
1946 - Jean Perron, Canadian ice hockey coach
1947 - Brian Johnson, Australia, hard rocker (AC/DC-Whole Lotta Rosie)
1948 - Brian Connolly, Scotland, rocker (Sweet)
1948 - Delroy George Wilson, singer
1948 - Lucius Ross, US pop guitarist (Funkadelic-One Nation Under a Groove)
1948 - Sal Viscuso, Brooklyn New York, American actor (Soap, Montefuscos)
1948 - Tawl Ross, American musician (P Funk)
1948 - Zoran Živković, Serbian writer
1949 - Brian McManus Connolly, musician
1949 - Ralph Goodale, Canadian politician
1949 - Bill James, American baseball writer
1949 - B. W. Stevenson, American singer (d. 1988)
1950 - Jeff Conaway, NYC, actor (Bobby-Taxi, Loving)
1950 - Edward P. Jones, American writer
1951 - Karen Allen, Illinois, actress (Cruising, Starman, Wanderers)
1951 - Leah Poulis Mueller, Berwyn Ill, speed skater (Olympic-gold-1980)
1951 - Bob Geldof, Irish singer (The Boomtown Rats) and activist
1952 - Clive Barker, English author and film director (Hellraiser, Lord of Illusions)
1952 - Duncan Regehr, Canadian actor
1952 - Gigi Sabani, Italian TV host (d. 2007)
1953 - James E Lascelles, grandson of English princess Mary
1953 - John Stachniewski, scholar/teacher
1953 - Russell Mael, [Dwight Russel Day], California, rock vocalist (Sparks)
1953 - Sandra "Puma" Jones, Kingston Jamaica, rocker (Black Uhuru)
1954 - Bob Geldof, rocker
1954 - Duncan Regehr, Alberta Canada, actor (Wizards & Warriors)
1955 - Adair Ferguson, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1955 - Leo Barnes, Irish saxophonist (Hothouse Flowers-I'm Sorry, Don't Go)
1957 - Jeanne Evert, tennis player, Chris' sister
1957 - Larry Saumell, jockey
1957 - Lee "Kix" Thompson, saxophonist (Madness-Baggy Trousers)
1957 - Mark Geragos, American attorney
1957 - Bernie Mac, American comedian (d. 2008)
1958 - Brent W Jett Jr, Pontiac Mich, Lt Cmdr USN/astronaut (STS 72, sk:81)
1958 - André Kuipers, Dutch astronaut
1959 - Troy Luccketta, rock drummer (Tesla-Psychotic Supper)
1960 - Daniel Baldwin, American actor
1960 - Careca, Brazilian footballer
1961 - Shell Kepler, actress (Amy Vining-General Hospital)
1961 - Sharon Cheslow, American musician, composer and artist
1961 - Matthew Kauffman, American journalist and George Polk Award winner
1961 - David Kirk, New Zealand rugby union footballer
1962 - J C Estrada, jockey
1962 - John Sala, LA CA
1962 - Johnny Huang, Canton China, table tennis player (Olympics-96)
1962 - Ken Noda, NYC, pianist (Rivalry)
1962 - Michael Alexander Conley, Chic, triple jumper (Olympics-gold-92, 96)
1962 - Michael Andretti, Indy-car racer/Auto Hall of Fame (elected 1986)
1962 - Mike Conley, Chicago Illinois, triple jumper (Olympic-silver-1984)
1962 - Caron Keating, British television personality (d. 2004)
1963 - Hugh Morris, cricketer (England lefty opening batsman 1991)
1963 - Laura Davies, Coventry England, LPGA golfer (1989 Lady Keystone Open)
1963 - Sophie Favier, Lyon France, actress (Sans Interdits)
1963 - Tony Dodemaide, cricketer (Victorian, Sussex & Australian all-rounder)
1964 - Denean Howard, Sherman Tx, 4X400m relayer (Olympic-silver-1988)
1964 - Terry Mathews, Alexandria LA, pitcher (Florida Marlins)
1964 - Malik Saidullaev Chechen businessman
1964 - Warren E. Miller, Maryland politician
1965 - John Keller Jr, Toledo Ohio, team handball back court (Olympics-1996)
1965 - Mario Lemieux, Montreal, NHL high scoring center (Pitts Penguin, #66)
1965 - Patrick Roy, Quebec, NHL goalie (Mont Canadiens, Colorado Avalanche)
1965 - Paul Moloney, Melbourne VIC, Australasia golfer
1965 - Penny Baker, Buffalo NY, playmate (January, 1984)
1965 - Richey Reneberg, Phoenix AZ, tennis star (1995 Australian doubles)
1965 - Theo Bos, Dutch soccer player: Vitesse
1965 - Trace Armstrong, NFL defensive end (Miami Dolphins)
1966 - Fredrik Olausson, Vaxsjo Swe, NHL defenseman (Anaheim Mighty Ducks)
1966 - Inessa Kravets, Ukraine, long/triple jumper (Oly-silv/gold-92, 96)
1966 - Peter Fonseca, Lisbon Portugal, Canadian marathoner (Olympics-96)
1966 - Therese Brisson, ice hockey defenseman (Canada, Oly-98)
1966 - Jan Verhaas, Dutch snooker referee
1967 - Ellie Gibson, Corpus Christi TX, golfer (1994 PING-Cellular One-5th)
1967 - Rex Chapman, NBA guard (Miami Heat, Phoenix Suns)
1967 - Guy Pearce, Anglo-Australian actor
1968 - Omar Berlo, jockey
1968 - Sally Smith, Orange NSW, golfer (1993 T67 Alpine Aust Ladies Masters)
1968 - Wayne Holdsworth, cricketer (NSW fast bowler, Australian tourist 1993)
1969 - Karyn Parsons, actress (Hilary-Fresh Prince of Bel Air) [or Oct 8 66]
1969 - Martin Driever, WLAF tight end (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1970 - Anthony Phillips, NFL cornerback (Atlanta Falcons)
1970 - Josie Bissett, Seattle Wash, actress (Jane Mancini-Melrose Place)
1970 - Mark Luijpers, Dutch soccer player (Roda JC)
1970 - Thomas Randolph, NFL cornerback (NY Giants)
1970 - Tina Poitras, Thompson Manitoba, 10k walker (Olympics-96)
1970 - Audie Pitre, bass guitarist (d. 1996)
1970 - South Park Mexican, American rapper
1971 - Chad Lewis, tight end (Philadelphia Eagles)
1971 - Chris Whitney, NBA guard (Wash Wizards)
1971 - Coni Lyn Hull, Jackson Michigan, Miss America-Michigan (1996)
1971 - Dan Plante, Hayward, NHL right wing (NY Islanders)
1971 - Mauricio Pellegrino, Argentine former footballer
1972 - Derek Sholdice, CFL offensive linebacker (Edmonton Eskimos)
1972 - Grant Hill, Dallas Tx, NBA forward/guard (Det Pistons, Oly-gold-96)
1972 - Thomas Roberts, American news anchor
1974 - Douglas Emerson, Glendale California, actor (Robbie-Herbie the Love Bug)
1974 - Heather Headley, Trinidadian singer
1974 - Rich Franklin, American Mixed Martial Artist
1974 - Colin Meloy, American singer (The Decemberists)
1975 - Kate Winslet, Reading England, actress (Titanic, Jude, Hamlet, Get Back)
1975 - Scott E Weinger, NYC, actor (Steve Taylor-Family Man, Full House)
1975 - Bobo Baldé, Guinean footballer
1975 - Parminder Nagra, English actress
1976 - Song Seung-hun, South Korean actor
1976 - Ramzan Kadyrov, Chechen President
1976 - J. J. Yeley, American race car driver
1977 - Lia Rousset, Alhambra California, sprint kayak (Olympics-96)
1978 - Shane Ryan, Irish Gaelic footballer
1978 - Jesse Palmer, Canadian-born American football player
1978 - Morgan Webb, Canadian-born television presenter
1978 - James Valentine, American musician (Maroon 5)
1979 - Jaime Chambers, American television reporter
1979 - Curtis Sanford, Canadian ice hockey player
1979 - Vincenzo Grella, Australian soccer player
1980 - Paul Thomas, American bassist (Good Charlotte)
1981 - Kelvin Tan Wei Lian, Singaporean singer
1982 - Natalie Vlandis, Northridge California, pairs skater (& Jered Guzman)
1983 - Mashrafe Mortaza, Bangladeshi cricketer
1984 - Kenwyne Jones, Trinidadian footballer
1985 - Nicola Roberts, English singer (Girls Aloud)
1987 - Kevin Mirallas, Belgian footballer
1987 - Javier Villa, Spanish racing driver
1988 - Bahar Kızıl, German Singer (Monrose)
1988 - Bobby Edner, American actor
1988 - Maja Salvador, Filipina Actress
1990 - Myles Jeffrey, American actor
2176 - Winston Matthew Kyle, Perth, Australia (Star Trek)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 05, 2013, 02:20:22 PM

This Day in History for 5th October


Famous Deaths

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Apple Co-founder Steve Jobs (2011)


578 - Justinus II, Byzantine emperor (565-78), dies
1056 - Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1017)
1111 - Robrecht II of Jerusalem, Count of Flanders (1st Crusader), dies
1112 - Sigebert of Gembloux, French chronicler
1285 - King Philip III of France (b. 1245)
1399 - Raymundus of Capua, Italian general, dies
1496 - Ferdinand II, king of Naples, dies
1528 - Richard Foxe, English churchman
1557 - Il Bacchiacca, [Franceso Ubertini], Italian painter, dies at 63
1564 - Pierre de Manchicourt, Flemish composer
1565 - Lodovico Ferrari, Italian mathematician (b. 1522)
1606 - Philippe Desportes, French poet (b. 1546)
1631 - Arabella Holles, wife of English politician Thomas Wentworth, dies
1707 - Daniel Speer, composer, dies at 71
1714 - Kaibara Ekiken, Japanese philosopher (b. 1630)
1740 - Johann Philipp Baratier, German scholar (b. 1721)
1763 - August III, king of Poland, dies at 66
1777 - Ján Andrej Segner, Slovak and German mathematician, physicist, and physician (b. 1704)
1787 - Thomas Stone, US attorney/signer (Dec of Ind), dies at about 44
1791 - Grigori Potemkin, Russian statesman (b. 1739)
1799 - Antonio Dinis da Cruz e Silva, Portuguese poet (O Hissope), dies at 68
1805 - Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, British general (b. 1738)
1813 - Etienne Ozi, composer, dies at 58
1813 - Tecumseh, US Shawnee-chief/English Gen (Battle of Thames), dies
1837 - Hortense de Beauharnais, French queen of Neth (1806-10), dies at 54
1848 - Joseph Hormayr Freiherr zu Hortenburg, Austrian politician (b. 1781)
1861 - Antoni Melchior Fijałkowski, Polish bishop (b. 1778)
1867 - Thomas Taglichsbeck, composer, dies at 67
1880 - Jacques Offenbach, German-born composer (b. 1819)
1892 - Bill Powers, US member of Daltonbende, dies
1892 - Bob Dalton, US leader of Daltonbende, dies
1892 - Dick Broadwell, US member of Daltonbende, dies
1892 - Grat Dalton, US member of Daltonbende, dies
1899 - Johann Nepomuk Fuchs, composer, dies at 57
1911 - Charles-Theodore Malherbe, composer, dies at 58
1913 - Hans von Bartels, German painter (b. 1856)
1915 - Jose Maria Usandizaga, composer, dies at 28
1915 - Otto Valdemar Malling, composer, dies at 67
1918 - Roland Garros, French stunt flyer, dies
1919 - Jean Louis Nicode, composer, dies at 66
1924 - Joseph Vezina, composer, dies at 75
1924 - Tom Campbell, cricketer (5 Tests for South Africa, ct 7 stp 1), dies
1930 - Christopher Birdwood Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson, British military officer (b. 1875)
1933 - Nikolaj N Joedenitsj, Russian general/contra revolutionary, dies at 71
1933 - Renee Adoree, actress (Big Parade), dies at 35
1933 - Nikolai Nikolaevich Yudenich, Russian general (b. 1862)
1934 - Jean Vigo, French filmer, dies
1936 - Jan J Slauerhoff, Dutch ship doc/writer (Seaman's Grave), dies at 38
1938 - Saint Faustina, Polish saint (b. 1905)
1940 - Silvestre Revueltas, Mexican composer: Cuauhnahuac/Planos, dies at 40
1940 - Lincoln Loy McCandless, American cattle rancher (b. 1859)
1940 - Ballington Booth, English Officer in The Salvation Army and co-founder of Volunteers of
           America
1941 - Louis D Brandeis, 1st Jewish Supreme Court Judge (1916-39), dies at 84
1943 - Leon Roppolo, American musician (b. 1902)
1944 - Joseph B "Aristide" Maillol, French sculptor/graphic artist, dies
1950 - Frederic Lewy, German neurologist (b. 1885)
1952 - Joe Jagersberger, Austrian racing driver (b. 1884 or 1885)
1953 - Friedrich Wolf, writer, dies at 64
1954 - Flor Alpaerts, Flem composer (Tyl Uilenspiegel/Pallieter), dies at 78
1965 - Gustaf Adolf Tiburtius Bengtsson, composer, dies at 79
1967 - Clifton C Williams Jr, astronaut, dies at 35, in T-38 jet crash
1976 - Barbara Nichols, actress (Pajama Game, Loved One), dies at 46
1976 - Lars Onsager, Norwegian chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1903)
1979 - Charlie Smith, oldest American (137 year), dies
1981 - Gloria Grahame, actress (Sue-Rich Man Poor Man), dies at 55
1981 - Jud Strunk, singer/comedian (Laugh-In), dies at 48
1983 - Earl Tupper, American inventor (b. 1907)
1984 - Leonard Rossiter, actor (2001, Water), dies of a heart attack at 57
1986 - Hall B Wallis, US movie production (Barefoot in Park), dies at 87
1986 - Hal B. Wallis, American film producer (b. 1898)
1986 - James H. Wilkinson, English mathematician (b. 1919)
1986 - Mike Burgmann, Australian racing driver (b. 1947)
1990 - Meir Kahane, founder of Jewish defense league, assassinated at 58
1992 - Cornelis Berkhouwer, Dutch MP (VVD), dies
1992 - Eddie Kendricks, singer (Temptations), dies of lung cancer at 52
1992 - Paul Acket, organizer (Music Express, North Sea Jazz Festival), dies
1993 - Jane Nigh, actress (Big Town, Blue Blood, Rawhide), dies at about 67
1993 - Karl G Henize, astronaut (STS 51-F), dies of heart failure at 66
1995 - Dick Henry Jurgen, bandleader, dies at 85
1995 - Fred Fehl, photographer, dies at 89
1995 - Peter Crichton Kirkpatrick, oarsman, dies at 79
1995 - Linda Gary, American voice actress (b. 1944)
1996 - Catherine Elizabeth Pennington, personal assistant, dies at 77
1996 - Seymour Cray, computer designer, dies in auto accident at 71
1997 - Andrew Keir, actor (Rob Roy, Absolution, Blood Hunt), dies at 71
1997 - Dave Marr, golfer/commentator, dies at 63
1997 - Brian Pillman, American professional wrestler (b. 1962)
2000 - Cătălin Hîldan, Romanian footballer (b. 1976)
2001 - Mike Mansfield, American politician (b. 1903)
2002 - Chuck Rayner, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1920)
2003 - Denis Quilley, English actor (b. 1927)
2003 - Dan Snyder, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1978)
2003 - Timothy Treadwell, American bear enthusiast featured in Grizzly Man (b. 1957)
2004 - Rodney Dangerfield, American comedian (b. 1921)
2004 - Maurice Wilkins, New Zealand-born physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1916)
2004 - William H. Dobelle, American biomedical engineer, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
           nominee (b. 1941)
2006 - Jennifer Moss, English Actress (b. 1945)
2006 - Antonio Peña, Mexican founder of lucha libre promotion AAA (b. 1953)
2007 - Justin Tuveri, Italian veteran of the First World War (b. 1898)
2010 - Bernard Clavel, French novelist (b. 1923)
2010 - Mary Leona Gage, American beauty pageant winner and actress (b. 1939)
2010 - Steve Lee, Swiss musician and vocalist (Gotthard) (b. 1963)
2011 - Steve Jobs, American Businessman, co-founder and CEO of Apple, dies from respiratory
           arrest at 56
2011 - Bert Jansch, Scottish folk musician (b. 1943)
2011 - Charles Napier, American actor (b. 1936)
2011 - Fred Shuttlesworth, American civil rights activist (b. 1922)
2011 - Derrick Bell, American legal scholar and civil rights advocate (b. 1930)
2012 - Keith H.S. Campbell, British biologist, dies at 58

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 06, 2013, 10:23:47 AM

This Day in History for 6th October


Historical Events

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Inventor Thomas Edison                          Baseball Great Babe Ruth                        Dictator of Nazi Germany
                                                                                                                              Adolf Hitler

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33rd US President Harry Truman              US President John F. Kennedy                 Singer-songwriter & Actress
                                                                                                                               Barbra Streisand

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264th Pope John Paul II                          42nd US President Bill Clinton


105 BC - Battle of Arausio: The Cimbri inflict the heaviest defeat on the Roman army of Gnaeus
              Mallius Maximus.
68 BC - Battle of Artaxata: Lucullus averts the bad omen of this day by defeating Tigranes the Great
            of Armenia.
891 - Formosus begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1111 - Boudouin VII becomes earl of Flanders
1499 - French king Louis XII occupies Milan
1567 - Duke of Alva becomes land guardian of Netherlands
1683 - 13 Mennonite families from Germany found Germantown Pa (Phila)
1689 - Pietro Ottoboni replaces Pope Innocent XI as Alexander VIII
1762 - English troops occupy Manila Philippines
1781 - Americans & French begin siege of Cornwallis at Yorktown; last battle of Revolutionary War
1783 - Benjamin Hanks patents self-winding clock
1789 - French Revolution: Louis XVI returns to Paris from Versailles after being confronted by the
           Parisian women on 5 October
1799 - Battle at Castricum: French & Bataafs army beats English/Russian army
1811 - French emperor Napoleon visits Utrecht
1849 - The execution of the 13 Martyrs of Arad after the Hungarian war of independence.
1854 - The Great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead started shortly after midnight, leading to 53
           deaths and hundreds injured.
1857 - American Chess Association organized; 1st major US chess tournament (NYC)
1861 - Naval Engagement at Charleston, SC USS Flag vs BR Alert
1861 - Revolt of Russian student shuts down university of Petersburg
1863 - Battle at Baxter Springs Kansas
1863 - Dr Charles H Sheppard opens 1st public bath, in Brooklyn
1866 - 1st train robbery in US (Reno Brothers take $13,000)
1869 - John Brahms' "Liebeslieder Walzer," premieres
1871 - Fisk Jubilee Singers begin 1st national tour
1876 - American Library Association organized in Philadelphia
1882 - 1st World Series game, Cincinnati (AA) beats Chicago (NL) 4-0
1884 - Naval War College forms in Newport RI
1886 - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Resident Patient" (BG)
1889 - Moulin Rogue opens in Paris
1889 - Thomas Edison shows his 1st motion picture
1890 - Mormon Church outlaws polygamy
1893 - Nabisco Foods invents Cream of Wheat
1898 - Gustav Mahler conducts 1st Wiener Philharmonic
1898 - Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity founded at the New England Conservatory of Music in
           Boston, Massachusetts.
1900 - Britain annexes Orange Free State (as Orange River Colony)
1903 - The High Court of Australia sits for the first time.
1906 - The Majlis of Iran convened for the first time.
1908 - Austria annexes Bosnia & Herzegovina
1908 - Tigers beat White Sox, 7-0 to win AL pennant
1908 - Yanks lose 100th game of year go 51-103 for season
1910 - Braves beat Phillies 20-7
1911 - Beatrix van Rijk becomes 1st licensed Dutch woman pilot
1911 - Cy Young's farewell appearance in a major league game is a letdown as he loses to Brooklyn
          13-3 in a Braves uniform in his 906th game
1912 - Pirates Owen "Chief" Wilson hits record 36th triple of season
1918 - US ship Otranto sinks between Scotland & Ireland, 425 die
1919 - Stambuliski becomes premier of Bulgaria
1919 - White Sox catcher Ray Schalk is 2nd man ejected from a World Series
1920 - 1st brothers oppose each other in World Series, Cleve's Wheeler Johnston pinch-hits as
           brother Jimmy plays 3rd base for Bkln
1921 - Century Theater opens at 7th Ave & 59th St NYC (demolished 1962)
1921 - Fewest hits in World Series Game, 5, Yanks (3) beat Giants (2), 3-0
1921 - International PEN is founded in London.
1922 - Schwebla replaces Benes government in Czechoslavakia
1922 - The great powers of the first world war withdraw from Istanbul
1923 - 1st NL unassisted triple play (Ernie Padgett, Braves against Phillies)
1923 - 2nd government of Stresemann in Germany forms
1923 - US lt Al Williams fly 392.2 KPH (record)
1923 - USSR adopts experimental calendar
1925 - Greek premier Papanastasiou orders gen Pangulos arrested
1926 - Babe Ruth hits 3 HRs in a World Series game, Yanks beat Cards 10-5
1927 - "Jazz Singer," 1st movie with a sound track, premieres (NYC)
1928 - 11th PGA Championship: Leo Diegel at Five Farms CC Baltimore
1928 - Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek becomes president of China
1928 - Josip Broz (Tito) sentenced to 5 years in jail
1929 - 12th PGA Championship: Leo Diegel at Hillcrest CC Los Angeles
1931 - Js Van Severen forms Verdinaso (Union of Flemish Natl Solidarists)
1935 - Italian army occupies Adua Abyssinia
1935 - Market Street Railway starts using trackless trolley coaches
1936 - NY Yankees beat Giants 4 games to 2 in 33rd World Series
1938 - Yanks Lefty Gomez sets record of 6 World Series wins without a loss
1939 - Adolf Hitler denies he intends to go to war against France & Britain
1939 - Hitler announces plans to regulate Jewish problem
1939 - Last Polish army is defeated in World War II.
1940 - Zoological Gardens opens on Sloat & Skyline in SF
1941 - German army occupies Briansk, USSR
1941 - NY Yankees beat Dodgers 4 games to 1, in 38th World Series
1942 - Allied assault on oil installations of Bula Ceram
1943 - Battle at Vella Lavella, Solomon Island
1943 - Himmler wants acceleration of "Final Solution"
1944 - Allied aircrafts bombard per accident Fishing, Overijssel
1944 - Canadians free Austria
1944 - HM Zwaardvis sinks U168 at Java
1944 - Soviets march into Hungary & Czechoslovakia
1945 - Gen Eisenhower welcomed in Hague (on Hitler's train)
1945 - Memorial for executed unveiled in Terbregge
1945 - Tavern owner "Billy Goat" Sianis buys seat for his goat for Game 4 of World Series & is
           escorted out, he casts goat curse on Cubs
1946 - 90°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in Oct
1946 - Pres Harry Truman questions Great Britain Jews about Palestine
1947 - NY Yankees beat Dodgers 4 games to 3, in 44th World Series
1948 - "Polonaise" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 113 performances
1948 - KHJ TV channel 9 in Los Angeles, CA (IND) begins broadcasting
1949 - Iva Toguri D'Aquino (Tokyo Rose) sentenced to 10 years & $10,000 fine
1949 - Pres Harry Truman signs Mutual Defense Assistance Act (for NATO)
1951 - Stalin proclaims Russia has atom bomb
1952 - Agatha Christie's "Mousetrap" opens in London (still running)
1953 - WTVM TV channel 9 in Columbus, GA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 - LSD made illegal in US
1956 - Dmitri Shostakovitch's 6th Iron quartet premieres in Leningrad
1956 - Dr Albert Sabin discovers oral polio vaccine
1957 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1957 - Wiffi Smith wins LPGA United Voluntary Services Golf Open
1958 - US nuclear sub USS Seawolfe remains record 60 days under pole
1959 - Single game World Series attendence record set (92,706 in LA)
1959 - Soviet Luna 3, 1st successful photographic spacecraft, impacts Moon
1961 - JFK advises Americans to build fallout shelters
1961 - USSR performs nuclear tests at Kapustin Yar & Novaya Zemlya USSR
1962 - 16th NHL All-Star Game: Toronto beat All4-Stars -1 at Toronto
1962 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
1963 - Barbra Streisand appears on "Judy Garland Show"
1963 - LA Dodgers sweep NY Yankees, in 60th World Series
1964 - "Cambridge Circus" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 23 performances
1965 - Supremes release "I Hear a Symphony"
1965 - William Goodhart's "Generation," premieres in NYC
1966 - Oriole Jim Palmer, 20, is youngest to pitch a World Series shutout
1966 - Partial meltdown at Detroits's Fermi 1 nuclear reactor
1966 - LSD is declared illegal in the United States.
1967 - Haight-Ashbury hippies throw a funneral to mark end of hippies
1967 - USSR performs nuclear test
1969 - WMPB TV channel 67 in Baltimore, MD (PBS) begins broadcasting
1972 - 22-car train carrying 2,000 pilgrims derails, kills 208 in Mexico
1973 - Yom Kippur War begins as Syria & Egypt attack Israel
1974 - "Mack & Mabel," opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 66 performances
1974 - Carole Jo Skala wins LPGA Sacramento Union Ladies Golf Classic
1976 - "Gang of Four" arrested in Beijing
1976 - Cubans DC-8 crashes after bomb attack
1976 - John Hathaway completes 50,600 mile bicycle tour of every continent
1976 - Pres Ford says there is "no Soviet domination in Eastern Europe"
1976 - Cubana Flight 455 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean after two bombs, placed by terrorists with
           connections to the CIA, exploded onboard shortly after taking off from Bridgetown,
           Barbados. All 73 people on-board were killed.
1977 - DL Coburns "Gin Game," premieres in NYC
1977 - Yankees win AL pennant by rallying for 3 runs in 9th to beat KC Royals 5-3 in 5th & deciding
           playoff game
1977 - In Alicante, Spain, fascists attack a group of MCPV militants and sympathizers, and one MCPV
           sympathizer is killed.
1978 - Hannah H Gray inaugurated as 1st female head of US university (Chic)
1978 - Iraq declares Ayatollah Khomeini an undesirable person
1978 - Mick Jagger apologizes for racist lyrics in "Some Girls"
1978 - Royals' George Brett hits 3 HRs, Yanks win championship game 3, 6-5
1979 - Harry Drake set long distance footbow shot record of 2,006 yds 1'9"
1979 - Pope John Paul II is 1st Pope to visit White House
1980 - Guyana adopts constitution
1980 - John Lydon sentenced to 3 months on assault charges
1982 - Auburn's Al Del Greco kicks 6 field goals
1982 - Fokker's Fellowship crashes at Moerdijk Neth, 17-22 die
1983 - Buffalo Bill QB Joe Ferguson passes 419 yards with 5 TDs
1983 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1983 - Islander's Mike Bossy's 25th career hat trick
1983 - NY Jets announce they are leaving Shea for Meadowlands
1983 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1984 - Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Hitachi Ladies British Golf Open
1985 - Marita Koch of Germany sets 400m woman's record (47.6) in Australia
1985 - Yankee Phil Niekro becomes 18th pitcher to win 300 games & also at 46 becomes oldest to
           pitch a shut-out beating Toronto 8-0
1985 - PC Keith Blakelock is murdered as riots erupt in the Broadwater Farm suburb of London.
1986 - Russian nuclear sub sinks in Atlantic Ocean
1987 - Milt coup leader Maj-Gen Sitiveni Rabuka declares Fiji a republic
1988 - Oakland A's sweep Boston Red Sox in 4 games for AL pennant
1990 - Spacecraft Ulysses launched towards pole of Sun
1990 - US 67th manned space mission STS 41 (Discovery 11) launches into orbit
1990 - Ulysses launched (Solar Polar Orbiter)
1991 - Meg Mallon wins LPGA Daikyo World Golf Championship
1991 - NY Met David Cone ties NL record by striking out 19 Phillies
1991 - Orioles last game at Baltimore's Memorial Stadium (vs Det Tigers)
1993 - Sydney Australia Stock Market index above 2000, for 1st time
1994 - -9] European Campaign against Racism confers in Austria
1994 - Ben Mokoena becomes 1st black mayor of Middelburg South Africa
1995 - BPAA US Women's Open won by Cheryl Daniels
1995 - Colorodo Avalanche (former Que Nordiques) 1st NHL game, beat Detroit
1995 - 51 Pegasi was discovered to be the first major star apart from the Sun to have a planet (and
           extrasolar planet) orbiting around it.
1996 - Bob Dole & President Bill Clinton meet in their 1st debate
1996 - Caroline Pierce wins JAL Big Apple Golf Classic
1996 - Lois & Clark (fictional characters) wed
1996 - NY Jet Nick Lowrey ties Jan Stenerud with 373 NFL field goals
2000 - Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević resigns.
2002 - The French oil tanker Limburg is bombed off Yemen.
2002 - Opus Dei founder Josemaría Escrivá is canonized.
2007 - Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered circumnavigation of the globe.
2010 - Roy Halladay pitches the second no-hitter in MLB Postseason History during Game 1 of the
           NLDS versus the Cincinnati Reds
2012 - Paolo Gabriele, Pope Benedict XVI's butler, is found guilty of leaking confidential documents
           and is sentenced to 18 months imprisonment
2012 - The Leeds Rhinos defeat the Warrington Wolves 26-18 to win the 2012 Super League grand
           final

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 06, 2013, 11:06:21 AM

This Day in History for 6th October


Famous Weddings

1956 - South African politician "Kobie" Coetsee marries Helena E Malan
1978 - ABBA member Anni-Frid Lyngstad (32) weds fellow musician Benny Andersson (31)
1991 - Elizabeth Taylor weds for 8th time (Larry Fortensky)
1996 - American country singer Faith Hill (44) weds singer and actor Tim McGraw (45) in Rayville,
           Louisiana
2007 - "Baywatch" actress Pamela Anderson (40) weds Rick Salomon (39) at the Mirage Hotel in Las
           Vegas
2007 - "The Montel Williams Show" talk show host Montel Williams (51) weds American Airlines flight
           attendant Tara Fowler on a beach in Bermuda
2008 - Steven Curtis Chapman's oldest daughter Emily Chapman (45) weds longtime boyfriend
           Tanner Richards
2012 - Former "Private Practice" actress Audra McDonald (42) weds Broadway star Will Swenson (38)
           in Croton-on-Hudson, New York

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 06, 2013, 11:07:49 AM

This Day in History for 6th October


Famous Divorces

2006 - "Friends" actor Matt LeBlanc (39) divorces former model Melissa McKnight (41) due to
           irreconcilable differences after 3 years of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 06, 2013, 11:24:31 AM

This Day in History for 6th October


Famous Birthdays

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Entrepreneur and Engineer                         Architect/ City Planner                       Actress Elisabeth Shue (1963)
George Westinghouse (1846)                        Le Corbusier (1887)


1289 - King Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (d. 1306)
1459 - Martin Behaim, German navigator and geographer (d. 1507)
1510 - Rowland Taylor, English clergyman (d. 1555)
1510 - John Caius, English physician (d. 1573)
1552 - Matteo Ricci, Italian missionary (China)
1573 - Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, English patron of the theater (d. 1624)
1610 - Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, French soldier (d. 1690)
1618 - Miguel Gomez Camargo, composer
1706 - Pieter Steyn, Dutch grand pensionary (1749- )
1716 - George Montague-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, English statesman (d. 1771)
1738 - Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (d. 1789)
1744 - James McGill, Scottish-Canadian businessman and philanthropist (d. 1813)
1767 - Henri Christophe, king of Haiti (d. 1820)
1773 - King Louis-Philippe of France (d. 1850)
1777 - William Russell, composer
1801 - Hippolyte Carnot, French statesman (d. 1888)
1803 - Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, German physicist (d. 1879)
1806 - Andreas Randel, composer
1808 - Frederik VII, 1st constitutional king of Denmark (1848-63)
1816 - William Batchelder Bradbury, composer
1818 - Joseph Rummel, composer
1819 - Willem A Scholten, Dutch potato-flour manufacturer
1820 - Jenny Lind, Swedish soprano (d. 1887)
1824 - Henry Chadwick, baseball pioneer, developed 1st rule book
1827 - Cark Reidel, composer
1831 - J W Richard Dedekind, Ger mathematician (Nature & Meaning of Numbers)
1838 - Giuseppe Cesare Abba, Italian patriot and writer (d. 1910)
1846 - George Westinghouse, Central Bridge, New York, entrepreneur and engineer (alternated US
           currency), (d. 1914)
1847 - Adolf von Hildebrand, German sculptor
1849 - Basil Zaharoff, arms dealer, "merchant of death"
1860 - Oscar L Helfrich, Dutch governor (Curacao)
1860 - Reneke de Marees van Swinderen, Dutch foreign minister (1908-13)
1862 - Albert Jeremiah Beveridge, US, politician/author (Progressive)
1866 - Reginald Aubrey Fessenden, broadcast 1st program of voice & music
1872 - Mikhail Kuzmin, Russian writer (d. 1936)
1873 - Oscar George Theodore Sonneck, composer
1874 - Frank G. Allen, 51st Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1950)
1876 - Ernest Lapointe, French-Canadian politician (d. 1941)
1880 - Julia Culp, mezzo-soprano
1882 - Karol Maciej Szymanowski, Timoshovka Ukraine, composer (Stabatmater)
1884 - Lloyd Spooner, US, marksman (Olympic-4 gold/1 silver/2 bronze-1920)
1886 - Edwin Fischer, Swiss pianist and conductor (d. 1960)
1887 - George Brown, cricketer (legendary England batsman/keeper of 20's)
1887 - Le Corbusier [Charles Jeanneret], La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, architect/city
           planner/artist (Urbanisme), (d. 1965)
1887 - Maria Jeritza, [Jedlicka], Austria, singer (Vienna Opera)
1887 - MartinLuis Guzman, Mexico, novelist (Eagle & the Serpent)
1888 - Li Ta-chao, co-founder with Mao Tse-tung (Chinese Communist Party)
1888 - Max Butting, composer
1888 - Roland Garros, French pilot (d. 1918)
1889 - Maria Dabrowska, Polish writer (Noce I Dnie)
1895 - Caroline Gordon, Kentucky, writer (Green Centuries)
1896 - Otto Siegl, composer
1897 - Jerome Cowan, NYC, actor (Mr Dithers-Blondie, Tab Hunter Show)
1900 - Stan Nichols, English cricketer (d. 1961)
1902 - Mihovil Logar, composer
1903 - Ernest Walton, Irish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
1904 - Horst Lange, writer
1905 - Helen Wills Moody, Centerville, California, American tennis player (8 Wimbledon titles 1927-
           1938)
1906 - Janet Gaynor, Philadelphia, actress (Sunrise, A Star Is Born)
1906 - Louis Borell, Amsterdam Neth, actor (Over the Moon, Queer Cargo)
1908 - Carol Lombard [Jane Alice Peters], Fort Wayne, Indiana, American actress (My Man Godfrey,
           In Name Only)
1908 - Sergei Lvovich Sobolev, Russian mathematician (d. 1989)
1910 - Barbara Castle, British politician (d. 2002)
1912 - Anthony Cuthbert Baines, writer/curator
1913 - Meret Oppenheim, writer
1914 - Thor Heyerdahl, Norway, anthropologist/explorer (Kon Tiki, Aku-Aku)
1915 - Edgardo Martin, composer
1915 - Harry van Doorn, [Henri W], CRM minister/Dutch politician (KVP/PPR)
1915 - Alice Timander, Swedish dentist (d. 2007)
1916 - Tommy Lawton, footballer
1918 - André Pilette, Belgian racing driver (d. 1993)
1920 - Pietro Consagra, Italian sculptor (d. 2005)
1920 - Lord Donaldson of Lymington, British judge (d. 2005)
1921 - Yevgeniy Landis, Russian mathematician (d. 1997)
1922 - Joe Frazier, American baseball player
1925 - Shana Alexander, NYC, journalist (60 Minutes)
1926 - Alan Copeland, Los Angeles California, orchestra leader/singer (Your Hit Parade)
1926 - Cyril Reuben, violinist
1927 - Alice Bauer, LPGA golfer
1927 - Paul Badura-Skoda, Vienna Austria, pianist (Mozart Interpretation)
1929 - Les Favell, cricketer (stoic Australian batsman late 50's)
1930 - Hafez al Assad, president (Syria)
1930 - Richie Benaud, cricket captain (great Aussie leg-spinner, commentator)
1931 - Fred Graham, newscaster/journalist (CBS News, Court TV)
1932 - Gloria Lane, educator/author/founder (Women's International Center)
1933 - Horst Bingle, writer
1935 - Bruno Sammartino, Italian strongman and professional wrestler
1935 - Charito Solis, Filipino actress (d. 1998)
1936 - Anna Quayle, actress (Mistress Pamela)
1936 - Glenn Hild, race horse trainer
1936 - Rob Touber, [Robert J Noordervliet], cabaret director (Capers)
1938 - Serge Nubret, French bodybuilder
1939 - Douglas K Bereuter, (Rep-R-Nebraska, 1979- )
1939 - John J LaFalce, (Rep-D-NY, 1975- )
1940 - Boris Dmitriyevich Andreyev, Russia, cosmonaut
1940 - Ellen Travolta, Englewood NJ, actress (Grease, Charles in Charge)
1940 - Wyche Fowler Jr, (Rep-D-GA, 1977-87)
1942 - Britt Ekland, Stockholm Sweden, actress (Wicker Man, Asylum)
1942 - Fred Travalena, NYC, comedian/impressionist (Buy & Cell)
1942 - Millie Small, Jamaican singer
1943 - Cees Veerman, pop guitarist/singer (Cats-Sure He's a Cat)
1943 - Michael Durrell, Brooklyn New York, American actor (Shannon, V, Alice, Chiefs)
1943 - Udo Zimmermann, composer
1943 - Alexander Maxovich Shilov, Russian painter
1944 - Merzak Allouache, director (Salut Cousin, Amour a Paris)
1944 - José Carlos Pace, Brazilian racing driver (d. 1977)
1945 - Domonic Barber, attorney (Howard Stern, Jessica Hahn, Joe Buttafucco)
1946 - Gary Gentry, baseball player (NY Mets)
1946 - Tony Greig, South Africa, cricketer (English all-rounder 1972-77), (d. 2012)
1946 - Eddie Villanueva, JIL Spiritual Director, Owner of ZOE Broadcasting Network
1946 - Lloyd Doggett, American politician
1946 - Vinod Khanna, Indian actor
1947 - Aleksandr Stepanovich Andryushkov, Russian colonel/cosmonaut
1947 - Klaus Dibiasi, Italy, platform diver (Olympic-gold-1968, 72, 76)
1948 - Dan Hamburg, (Rep-D-California)
1948 - Gerry Adams, Northern Irish politician
1948 - Glenn Branca, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, avant-garde composer and guitarist
1949 - Bobby Farrell, Jamaica, rock vocalist
1950 - David Brin, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Nebula, Sundiver, Postman)
1950 - Thomas McClary, US soul guitarist (Commodores-Still)
1951 - Kevin Cronin, Champaign Ill, rock vocalist (REO Speedwagon)
1952 - Ayten Mutlu, Turkish poet and writer
1953 - Klaas Bruinsma, Dutch drug lord (d. 1991)
1954 - David Hidalgo, American musician (Los Lobos, Latin Playboys)
1955 - Tony Dungy, American football coach
1956 - Stephanie Zimbalist, NYC, actress (Remington Steele, Centennial)
1956 - Kathleen Webb, American comic book writer and artist
1957 - Dom Galluscio, race horse trainer
1957 - Shahzad Altaf, cricketer (UAE off-spinner 1996 World Cup)
1958 - Joseph Finder, American novelist
1959 - John Mackin, programmer
1959 - Robyn Maher, Australian basketball guard (Olympics-bronze-96)
1959 - Walter Ray Williams Jr, bowler (twice Player of the Year)
1959 - [Dennis Ray] "Oil Can" Boyd, baseball pitcher (Boston Red Sox)
1959 - Brian Higgins, American politician, Member of US House of Representatives
1960 - Albert Lewis, NFL cornerback (Oakland Raiders)
1960 - Jeffrey Trachta, Staten Island NY, actor (Thorne-Bold & Beautiful)
1960 - Richard Jobson, British TV person/rocker (Skids-Scared to Dance)
1960 - Scott Stevens, jockey
1961 - Kathrin Dörre, East German marathoner (Olympic-bronze-1988)
1961 - Tim Burgess, rocker
1962 - Rich Yett, baseball player
1963 - Elisabeth Shue, Wilmington, Delaware, actress (Cocktail, Adv in Babysitting)
1963 - Jsu Garcia, American actor
1964 - Pam Kometani, Honolulu HI, LPGA golfer (1992 Welch's Classic-27th)
1964 - Thomas "Tom" Hunter, US 50M FREESTYLE swimmer (world record)
1965 - Cynthia Meyer, NY, Canadian trap shooter (Olympics-96)
1965 - David Spaulding, Newport Beach California, canoe (alt-Olympics-96)
1965 - Jim Sharp, US rodeo rider (Las Vegas 1988)
1965 - Ruben Sierra, Rio Piedras Puerto Rico, outfielder (NY Yankees)
1966 - Archi Cianfrocco, Rome NY, infielder (San Diego Padres)
1966 - Jimmie Johnson, NFL tight end (Philadelphia Eagles)
1966 - Julianne McNamara, Flushing NY, gymnist (Olympic-gold-1984)
1966 - Oscar Caballos, jockey
1966 - Niall Quinn, Irish footballer
1966 - Jacqueline Obradors, American actress
1967 - Kennet Andersson, former Swedish footballer
1967 - Svend Karlsen, Norwegian strongman
1969 - Byron Black, Zimbabwe, tennis star
1969 - Jeff Lay, Ottawa Ontario, rower (Olympics-96)
1969 - Martha Richards, Hudson WI, LPGA golfer (1995 Safeco Classic-21st)
1969 - Robert Person, St Louis MO, pitcher (NY Mets)
1969 - Troy Shaw, English snooker player
1970 - Darren Oliver, Kansas city MO, pitcher (Texas Rangers)
1970 - Amy Jo Johnson, American actress and singer
1971 - Chris Hudson, NFL strong safety (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1971 - Phil Bennett, British racing driver
1971 - Lola Dueñas, Spanish actress
1971 - Alan Stubbs, English footballer
1972 - J J Stokes, NFL wide receiver (SF 49ers)
1972 - Ryu Shi-won, Korean actor and singer
1973 - Rebecca Lobo, Mass, WNBA center (Olympics-gold-96)/(NY Liberty)
1973 - Sylvain Legwinski, French footballer
1973 - Jeff Davis, American comedian
1973 - Ioan Gruffudd, Welsh actor
1974 - Brian Kelly, Mission Viejo California, soccer midfielder (Olympics-gold-96)
1974 - Geert Jelle de Vries, Dutch soccer player (SC Heerenveen)
1974 - Kenny Jonsson, Angelholm SW, NHL defenseman (Team Sweden, NY Islander)
1974 - Jeremy Sisto, American actor
1974 - Walter Centeno, Costa Rican footballer
1975 - Ines Sainz, Miss Spain Universe (1997)
1975 - Jan Harm Schippers, Dutch soccer player (SC Heerenveen, Veendam)
1975 - Reon King, West Indian cricketer from Guyana
1976 - Barbie Hsu, Taiwanese actress and singer
1977 - Shimon Gershon, Israeli footballer
1977 - Vladimir Manchev, Bulgarian footballer
1977 - Daniel Brière, Canadian ice hockey player
1978 - Ricky Hatton, English boxer
1979 - David Di Tommaso, French footballer (d. 2005)
1979 - Richard Seymour, American football player
1979 - Lex Shrapnel, English actor
1980 - Abdoulaye Méïté, French footballer
1981 - Zurab Khizanishvili, Georgian footballer
1981 - José Luis Perlaza, Ecuadorian footballer
1982 - MC Lars, American hip-hop artist
1982 - William Butler, Musician and member of Arcade Fire
1984 - Joanna Pacitti, American actress and singer
1986 - Mohammad Shukri, Malaysian cricketer
1986 - Olivia Thirlby, American actress
1988 - Maki Horikita, Japanese model and actress
1988 - Kayky Brito , Brazilian actor.
1992 - Rhyon Nicole Brown, American actress
1995 - Jessica Lunsford, American kidnapping victim (d. 2005)
1998 - Mia-Sophie Wellenbrink, German actress and singer

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 06, 2013, 11:35:53 AM

This Day in History for 6th October


Famous Deaths

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Poet Alfred Tennyson (1892)                       Actress Bette Davis (1989)


404 - Eudoxia Aelia, empress of Austria, dies
877 - Charles II the Bald, King of France/ Holy Roman emperor (875-77), dies at 54
1014 - Samuel (Samuil), ruler of Bulgaria, dies (b. 958)
1072 - Sancho II, king of Castile (1065-72), murdered
1101 - Bruno of Cologne, German founder of the Carthusian order
1214 - Alfonso VIII de Edele, king of Castile, dies
1413 - Dawit I, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1382)
1542 - Thomas Wyatt, English poet (b. 1503)
1585 - Luca Cambiaso, Italian painter/sculptor, dies
1641 - Matthijs H Quast, fleet guardian (Gold Islands), dies in battle
1644 - Elisabeth (In Spanish Isabel) of Bourbon, wife of Philip IV of Spain (b. 1602)
1651 - Heinrich Albert, German composer (Arien oder Melodien), dies at 47
1661 - Guru Har Rai, seventh Sikh Guru
1688 - Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle, English statesman (b. 1652)
1762 - Francesco Onofrio Manfredini, composer, dies at 78
1786 - Antonio Maria Gasparo Giaccino Sacchini, composer, dies at 56
1819 - Charles Emanuel II, King of Sardinia (1796-1802)/Jesuit, dies
1829 - Pierre Derbigny, Governor of Louisiana (b. 1769)
1837 - Jean-Francois Le Sueur, composer, dies at 77
1855 - August L Crelle, inventor/mathematician (Rechentafeln), dies at 75
1860 - Stephen Elvey, composer, dies at 55
1861 - Elias Canneman, liberal minister of Finance (1813-14), dies at 84
1868 - Leon Charles Francois Kreutzer, composer, dies at 51
1873 - Sir Paweł Edmund Strzelecki, Polish explorer and geologist (b. 1797)
1874 - Thomas Dyke Acland Tellefsen, composer, dies at 50
1880 - Benjamin Pierce, US mathematician/astronomer, dies
1891 - Charles S Parnell, English/Irish Home Rule Party leader, dies at 45
1892 - Alfred Lord Tennyson, writer and British Poet Laureate, dies at 83
1905 - Ferdinand von Richthofen, German geographer/explorer, dies
1909 - Dudley Buck, US organist/composer, dies at 70
1912 - August Beernaert, Belgian premier (1884-94, Nobel 1909), dies at 83
1920 - Alberto Nepomuceno, Brazilian composer/conductor (Artemis), dies at 56
1924 - Jacques Oppenheim, lawyer, dies at 75
1926 - Charles Van de Banks, Flemish writer/poet (Red Horse), dies
1933 - Zakhary Petrovich Paliashvili, composer, dies at 62
1935 - Frederic Hymen Cowen, composer, dies at 83
1940 - Ferdinando Liuzzi, composer, dies at 55
1942 - Erich Kuttner, German journalist/historian (Vorwarts), dies
1943 - Robert Cooper, father of Card pitcher Mort & catcher Walker, dies
1945 - Leonardo Conti, Nazi physician (b. 1900)
1947 - Leevi Antti Madetoya, composer, dies at 60
1949 - Robert Lynd [YY], Irish writer/critic (News Chronicle), dies at 70
1951 - Henry Gurney, British high commissioner to Malaya, assassinated
1951 - Otto Fritz Meyerhof, German-born physician and biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in
           Physiology or Medicine (b. 1884)
1951 - Will Keith Kellogg, American food manufacturer (b. 1860)
1953 - Porter Hall, actor (Half-Breed, Double Indenity), dies at 64
1954 - Hakon Borresen, composer, dies at 78
1956 - Walter Herlihy, announcer (Music at Meadowbrook), dies at 42
1959 - Bernard Berenson, American art historian (b. 1865)
1960 - Douglas Spencer, actor (The Thing), dies at 50
1962 - Tod Browning, American film director (b. 1880)
1964 - F T Mann, cricketer (father of F G, 281 runs in 5 Tests 1922-23), dies
1964 - Richard Scheibe, German sculptor (Adler mit Hakenkreuz), dies at 85
1965 - Georges Vandertongerloo, Flemish sculptor/painter, dies at 78
1966 - Sydney Chatton, dies of heart attack at 48
1968 - Phyllis Nicolson, British mathematician (b. 1917)
1969 - Walter Hagen, US PGA golfer (US Open 1914, 19), dies at 76
1973 - Arnold Maria Walter, composer, dies at 71
1973 - Dennis Price, actor (VIPs, Pulp, Canterbury Tales), dies at 58
1973 - Sidney Blackmer, actor (Love Crazy), dies of cancer at 58
1974 - Helmuth Koinigg, Austrian Formula One driver (b. 1948)
1975 - Henry Calvin, actor (Sgt Garcia-Zorro), dies at 57
1976 - Gilbert Ryle, British philosopher (b. 1900)
1979 - Elizabeth Bishop, poetess (North & South, Pulitzer 1956), dies at 68
1980 - Hattie Jacques, actress (Make Mine Mink), dies at 56
1980 - Ray Walker, actor (Baby Take a Bow), dies
1980 - Jean Robic, French cyclist (b. 1921)
1981 - [Mohammed] Anwar al-Sadat, pres Egypt (1970-81), assassinated at 62
1983 - Terence Cooke, cardinal/archbishop of NY, dies at 62
1984 - George S Simpson, US paleontologist, dies at 82
1985 - Nelson Riddle, American bandleader (b. 1921)
1986 - Alexander Kronrod, Russian mathematician (b. 1921)
1989 - Bette Davis, US actress (All About Eve, White Mama), dies at 81
1991 - Lincoln Demyan, dies at 66
1991 - Wendell Phillips, dies at 83 [or 10/13]
1992 - Bill O'Reilly, cricketer (great leggie, 774 wickets at 16 60), dies
1992 - Denholm Elliott, English actor (Raiders of Lost Ark), dies at 70
1993 - Agnes de Mille, US dancer/choreographer (Oklahoma!), dies at 88
1993 - Larry Walters, American "lawn chair" pilot (b. 1949)
1995 - Hugh Charles, songwriter/impressario, dies at 88
1995 - Oswald Moxley Gibbs, diplomat, dies at 67
1995 - Walter "Crash" Morgan, drummer, dies at 35
1996 - Martyn Taylor, teacher/campaigner, dies at 57
1996 - Ted Bessell, director/actor (That Girl), dies of an aneurism at 61
1997 - Johnny Vander Meer, pitched consecutive no-hitters, dies at 82
1998 - Mark Belanger, American baseball player (b. 1944)
1999 - Amalia Rodrigues, Portuguese singer and actress (b. 1920)
1999 - Gorilla Monsoon, American professional wrestler/commentator (b. 1937)
2000 - Richard Farnsworth, American actor (b. 1930)
2001 - Arne Harris, American television sports director (b. 1934)
2002 - Claus von Amsberg, husband of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands (b. 1926)
2003 - Timothy Treadwell, American environmentalist (b. 1957)
2006 - Puck Brouwer, Dutch athlete (b. 1930)
2006 - Eduardo Mignogna, Argentinian film director (b. 1940)
2006 - Buck O'Neil, American baseball player (b. 1911)
2006 - Wilson Tucker, American writer (b. 1914)
2007 - Bud Ekins, American stuntman (b. 1930)
2008 - Kim Ji-hoo, South Korean actor and model (b. 1985)
2009 - Douglas Campbell, Scottish born Canadian actor (b. 1922)
2010 - Antonie Kamerling, Dutch actor and singer (b. 1966)
2010 - Colette Renard, French actress and singer (b. 1924)
2012 - Chadli Bendjedid, Algerian president, dies from cancer at 83

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 07, 2013, 08:53:03 AM

This Day in History for 7th October


Historical Events

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The Warrior Pope Julius II                       Ford Motor Company Founder               German WWII Field Marshal
                                                                Henry Ford                                            Erwin Rommel

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First Israeli Prime Minister                       Beat Poet Allen Ginsberg                      US President John F. Kennedy
David Ben-Gurion

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Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak       NFL Running Back Walter Payton            Radio shock jock Howard Stern


3761 BC - The epoch (origin) of the modern Hebrew calendar (Proleptic Julian calendar).
336 - Pope Saint Mark's death ends his reign as Catholic Pope leaving the papacy vacant
1492 - Columbus misses Florida when he changes course
1506 - Pope Julius II & France occupy Bologna
1513 - Battle of La Motta: Spanish troops under Ramón de Cardona defeat the Venetians.
1520 - 1st public burning of books in Netherlands, in Louvain
1542 - Explorer Cabrillo discovered Catalina Island off California coast
1571 - Battle at Lepanto: Saint League (Spain & Italy) destroys Turkish fleet
1637 - Prince Frederik Henry occupies Breda
1690 - English attack Quebec under Louis de Buade
1702 - English/Dutch troops under Marlborough occupy Roermond
1714 - People riot due to beer tax in Alkmaar Neth
1737 - 40 foot waves sink 20,000 small craft & kill 300,000 (Bengal, India)
1763 - George III of Great Britain issues Proclamation of 1763, closing lands in North America north
           & west of Alleghenies to white settlement
1765 - Stamp Act Congress convenes in NY
1777 - Americans beat British in 2nd Battle of Saratoga & Battle of Bemis Heights
1780 - British defeated by American militia near Kings Mountain, SC
1806 - Carbon paper patented in London by inventor Ralph Wedgewood
1816 - 1st double decked steamboat, Washington, arrives in New Orleans
1825 - Miramichi Fire, disaster in New Brunswick
1826 - Granite Railway (1st chartered railway in US) begins operations
1828 - The city of Patras, Greece is liberated by the French expeditionary force in Peloponnese under
           General Maison.
1840 - Willem I resigns as king of Netherlands
1856 - Cyrus Chambers Jr patents folding machine that folds book & newspapers
1864 - -Oct 13th) Battle of Darbytown Road, VA
1864 - Naval Engagement at Bahia Harbor Brazil-CSS Florida vs USS Wachusett
1868 - Cornell University (Ithaca NY) opens
1870 - Leon Gambetta flees Paris in balloon
1871 - 16-hour fire injures 30 of Chicago's 185 firefighters
1879 - Germany & Austrian-Hungary sign Twofold Covenant
1882 - 1st World Series (game 2), Chicago (NL) beats Cincinnati (AA) 2-0
1886 - Spain abolishes slavery in Cuba
1900 - The term "orienteering" is 1st used for an event
1904 - NY Highlander Jack Chesbro wins record 41st game of season (41-12)
1907 - France's Henry Farman flies 30m in a double decker plane
1908 - Crete revolts against Turkey & aligns with Greece
1908 - Serbia & Montenegro sign anti-Austria-Hungarian pact
1912 - The Helsinki Stock Exchange sees its first transaction.
1913 - Henry Ford institutes moving assembly line
1915 - Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland College 222-0 in football (record)
1916 - 222 points are scored in a football game between Georgia Tech & Cumberland University of
           Lebanon, Tennessee
1919 - 1st London-Amsterdam airline service (British Aerial Transport & KLM)
1919 - Fritz Kreisler & F Jacobi's "Apple Blossoms," premieres in NYC
1919 - KLM, Netherlands Airlines, established (oldest existing airline)
1922 - 1st radio link, WNJ (Newark) & WGY (Senectady) link for World Series
1922 - Landis insists Game 4 of World Series be played despite heavy rain
1922 - Oud-burgem of Rotterdam Zimmerman becomes High Comm's of Austria
1923 - Yankees Everett Scott runs his consecutive-game streak to 1,138
1924 - Greek government of Dikalekopoulis, forms
1926 - Actress Theo Mann-Master resigns from stage
1926 - Italian Great Fascist Council forms
1927 - Yank Herb Pennock retires 1st 22 Pirates in World Series game
1928 - Paavo Nurmi runs world record 10 miles (50:15.0)
1928 - Race Tafari Makonnen crowned king of Abyssinia
1929 - Ramsay MacDonald is 1st British premier to address US Congress
1931 - 1st infra-red photograph, Rochester, NY
1933 - NY Giants beat Washington Senators, 4 games to 1 in 30th World Series
1935 - Detroit Tigers beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 2 in 32nd World Series
1935 - Himmler/Hess/Heydrich bezichtigen concentration camp Dachau
1936 - 7th-place Brooklyn Dodgers fire manager Casey Stengel
1937 - Johan Wagenaar's "Feestmars" premieres in Amsterdam
1938 - Germany requires all Jewish passports be stamped with letter J
1940 - Reds Bucky Walters is 1st pitcher in 14 years to homer in World Series
1940 - World War II: the McCollum memo proposes bringing the U.S. into the war in Europe by
           provoking the Japanese to attack the United States.
1941 - German army occupies Viarma, USSR
1942 - 1 salvo Katjoesja-rocket destroys nazi battalion in Stalingrad
1942 - Last camouflaged German raider Komet leaves Flushing harbor (Neth)
1942 - Maxwell Andersons "Eve of St Mark," premieres in NYC
1942 - US & British government announce establishment of United Nations
1942 - Yvon Robert beats Bill Longson in Montreal, to become wrestling champ
1943 - Weill/Perelman/Nash' musical "One Touch of Venus," premieres in NYC
1944 - Allies bombs sea dikes at Vlissingen
1944 - Field Marshal Erwin Rommel ordered to return to Berlin
1944 - Riots in Amersfoort/Utrecht/Strugle
1944 - Uprising at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, Jews burn down crematoriums
1945 - Dutch author A M de Jong's murderer Ton van Gog escapes
1946 - Charles Ives' 2nd string quartet, premieres
1947 - Larry MacPhail resigns as Yank GM after final game of World Series
1949 - German Democratic Republic formed from Russian occupation zone (National Day). Wilhelm
           Pieck becomes 1st president, Otto Greatwohl becomes 1st premier
1950 - NY Yankees sweep Philadelphia Phillies in 47th World Series
1950 - US forces invade Korea by crossing 38th parallel
1950 - Walter Bedell Smith replaces Roscoe H Hillenkoetter as 4th CIA head
1950 - Whitey Ford wins his 1st World Series game, 5-2
1950 - William H Jackson, becomes deputy director of CIA
1950 - Yanks win 13th world championship sweeping Phillies
1951 - David Ben-Gurion forms Israeli government
1952 - NY Yankees beat Dodgers 4 games to 3 in 49th World Series
1952 - 1st "Bandstand" broadcast in Philadelphia on WFIL-TV (Dick Clark joins in 1955 as a
           substitute-host)
1952 - Yankees tie their own record of 4 consecutive World Series wins
1953 - Bill Veeck tells Browns stockholders he faces bankruptcy unless they drop their suit to block
           his move to Baltimore, they comply
1954 - Hassan el Hodeiby, leader of Moslem brothership, arrested in Egypt
1954 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Ad Sinarum gentem
1955 - Aircraft carrier USS Saratoga launched at Brooklyn
1955 - Beat poet Allen Ginsberg reads his poem "Howl" for the first time at a poetry reading in San
           Francisco.
1956 - Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Heart of America Golf Open
1957 - "American Bandstand" premieres
1957 - KOAC TV channel 7 in Corvallis, OR (PBS) begins broadcasting
1957 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Heart of America Golf Invitational
1958 - Potter Stewart appointed to US Supreme Court
1958 - US manned space-flight project renamed Project Mercury
1959 - "Happy Town" opens at 84th St Theater NYC for 5 performances
1959 - Far side of Moon seen for 1st time, compliments of USSR's Luna 3
1960 - "Route 66" premieres
1960 - 2nd JFK & Richard Nixon debate
1961 - "Bye Bye Birdie" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 607 perfs
1961 - 15th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Chicago 3-1 at Chicago
1962 - 8th LPGA Championship won by Judy Kimball
1962 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1963 - Bobby Baker resigns as Senate Democratic secretary
1963 - Hurricane Flora hits Haiti & Dominican Republic, kills 7,190
1963 - JFK signs ratification for nuclear test ban treaty
1964 - NY Yankees make 14th appearance in last 16 & 29th in 61 World Series
1965 - Charles Linster does 6,006 consecutive push-ups
1965 - 50 mph gust helps Robert Mitera ace 447-yd 10th hole at Miracle Hills, Omaha, Nebr to score
           world's longest straight hole-in-one
1967 - Beatles turn down $1 million NY concert offer by Sid Berstein
1967 - Rolf Hochhuth's "Soldaten," premieres in West Berlin
1968 - Motion Picture Association of America adopts film rating system
1969 - WJMN TV channel 3 in Escanaba, MI (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
1971 - Disney World opens in Orlando, Florida
1971 - T McNally's "Where has Tommy Flowers gone?," premieres in NYC
1972 - 1st season game at Nassau Coliseum, Flames-3, Islanders-2
1973 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Lincoln-Mercury Golf Open
1974 - German Democratic Republic amends constitution
1975 - Players' Association, files a suit on behalf of Dodgers Andy Messersmith
1975 - US decides John Lennon won't be deported due to UK pot conviction
1977 - Guitarist Steve Hackett quits Genesis
1977 - USSR adoption of the Fourth Soviet Constitution.
1978 - LA Dodgers win the pennant
1978 - USSR performs nuclear test
1979 - "1940's Radio Hour" opens at St James Theater NYC for 105 performances
1979 - "Eubie!" closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 439 performances
1979 - Cleveland Browns' Dino Hall sets club records with 9 kickoff returns
1979 - Debbie Massey wins LPGA Wheeling Golf Classic
1979 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1980 - Belgium 3rd government of Martens resigns
1981 - Hosni Mubarak becomes acting-president of Egypt
1981 - In 1st Eastern Division championship Yanks beat Brewers 5-3
1982 - "Cats" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 5000+ performances
1982 - Olof Palme forms Swedish government
1982 - Cats opens on Broadway and runs for nearly 18 years before closing on September 10, 2000.
1984 - Striking umps return for Game 5 of NLCS, SD Padres win pennant
1984 - Walter Payton passes Jim Brown as NFL's career rushing leader
1985 - 21st Space Shuttle Mission (51-J)-Atlantis 1 lands at Edwards AFB
1985 - KHQ-AM in Spokane Wash's final transmission
1985 - Lynette Woodward, chosen as 1st woman on Harlem Globetrotters
1985 - PLO terrorists sieze Italian cruise liner Achille Lauro
1986 - 1st edition British newspaper "Independent" published
1988 - Jim Fregosi is fired as manager of White Sox
1988 - Latvian flag raised in Riga for 1st time since annexation by USSR
1988 - Lou Piniella is fired as manager of Yankees for 2nd time
1988 - WNBC 660 final transmission, WFAN moves from 1050 to 660 & WUKQ begins on 1050 at
           5:30 PM (NYC radio)
1989 - Howard Stern's US Open Sores Tennis match
1989 - Rickey Henderson steals a record 8 bases in a play off (5 games)
1990 - Beth Daniel wins LPGA Centel Golf Classic
1990 - Israel begins handing out gas masks to its citizens
1991 - Child star Adam Rich arrested for stealing hypodermics
1991 - Scorecard Harry, Space Appeal & Cafe Lex in 9th race at Belmont, creating 2nd triple dead
           heat in NY thoroughbred racing history
1991 - Law Professor Anita Hill accuses Supreme nominee Clarence Thomas of making sexually
           inappropriat comments to her
1992 - Tampa Bay Lightning become 1st NHL expansion team to win opener (7-2)
1993 - "Les Miserables," opens at Meralco Theatre, Philippines
1993 - "She Loves Me" opens at Atkinson Theater NYC for 294 performances
1993 - Massive Moslem demonstrate in Xining China PR, 12 killed
1993 - Nobel prize for literature awarded to Toni Morrison
1994 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1994 - Faud Guliyev appointed premier of Azerbijan
1994 - Ingvar Carlsson forms Swedish government
1994 - Lu Bin swims female 200m medley world record (2:11.57)
1995 - Boston's Fleet Center opens, NY Islanders & Boston Bruins tie at 4-4
1995 - Mariners rally from 5-0 to force Game 5 of Division Series vs Yankees
1998 - Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, is found tied to a fence after
           being savagely beaten by two young adults in Laramie, Wyoming.
2000 - The last ever competitive soccer match at Wembley Stadium is a 1-0 defeat of England by
           Germany and the last goal was scored by Liverpool's Dietmar Hammann. The match was Tony
           Adams' 60th at Wembley setting the record for most appearances at the stadium.
2001 - The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan starts with an air assault and covert operations on the
           ground.
2003 - Gray Davis is recalled as Governor of California, three years before the official end of his office
           term. Film star Arnold Schwarzenegger is elected Governor.
2004 - King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia abdicates.
2012 - 13 people are killed after a Sudanese military aeroplane crashes near Khartoum
2012 - Sébastien Loeb wins the World Rally Championship for the ninth consecutive year

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 07, 2013, 08:54:25 AM

This Day in History for 7th October


Famous Weddings

1776 - Crown Prince Paul of Russia marries Sophie Marie Dorothea of Württemberg.
1914 - 44th US Ambassador to the United Kingdom Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. (26) weds John F.
           Fitzgerald's daughter Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald (24)
1989 - Radio talk show host Larry King weds Julie Alexander
1995 - "Cheers" actor Ted Danson (47) weds Academy Award-winning actress Mary Steenbergen
           (42)
2006 - Comedian-actor Tim Allen (53) weds actress Jane Hajduk (39) at an outdoor ceremony in
           Grand Lake, Colorado
2012 - Media personality Jack Osbourne (26) weds Lisa Stelly on the Big Island of Hawaii

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 07, 2013, 08:55:49 AM

This Day in History for 7th October


Famous Divorces

1988 - Robin Givens files for divorce after 8-month marriage to Mike Tyson
2004 - Actress Andie MacDowell (46) divorces businessman Rhett Hartzog (45) after nearly three years
           of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 07, 2013, 09:03:25 AM

This Day in History for 7th October


Famous Birthdays

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Nobel Prize Winning Physicist                 Russian President                                  Recording Executive
Niels Bohr (1885)                                     Vladimir Putin (1952)                             Simon Cowell (1959)


1573 - William Laud, English archbishop of Canterbury (1633-45)
1576 - John Marston, English writer (d. 1634)
1577 - Ferdinand, of Bayern, prince-bishop of Liege/archbishop
1589 - Maria Magdalena of Austria, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (d. 1631)
1698 - Henri Madin, composer
1713 - Granville Elliott, British military officer (d. 1759)
1728 - Caesar Rodney, Delaware, judge/signer (Declaration of Independence)
1734 - Ralph Abercromby, English army commander (Dutch Guyana)
1744 - Sergey Vyazmitinov, Russian general and statesman (d. 1819)
1746 - William Billings, Boston Mass, hymn composer (Rose of Sharon)
1748 - Charles XIII, King of Sweden (1809-18)/Norway (1814-18)
1758 - Paul Anton Wineberger, composer
1769 - Solomon Sibley, American politician (d. 1846)
1774 - Ferdinando Orlandi, composer
1786 - Louis-Joseph Papineau, Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 1871)
1798 - Jean B Vuillaume, French violin maker (octobas)
1801 - Adolf Muller, composer
1802 - Bernhard Molique, German violinist and composer
1817 - Bushrod Rust Johnson, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1880
1821 - Richard Heron Anderson, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1879
1821 - William Sill, with The Underground Railroad
1826 - William Brimage Bate, US Confederate brig-gen/(Gov-D-Tenn, 1882-86)
1835 - Felix Draeseke, composer
1841 - Nicolaas Petrovic Njegos, king of Montenegro (1910-18)
1849 - James Whitcomb Riley, US, poet (Raggedy Man)
1854 - Christiaan R de Wet, South African rebel leader, politician and general in the Boer War
1866 - Martha McChesney Berry, US, founded Berry School for Children
1866 - Wlodimir Ledochowski, Polish-Austrian director of the Society of Jesus (d. 1942)
1868 - Fred H Hovey, tennis champ (US Open-1895)
1870 - Uncle Dave Macon, entertainer
1879 - Joe Hill, Jevla Sweden, organizer (IWW)/songwriter (Union Scab)/martyr
1879 - Joseph Bovet, composer
1880 - Jaime Pahissa, composer
1881 - Mikhail Drozdovsky, Russian general (d. 1918)
1885 - Niels Bohr, Denmark, physicist, expanded quantum physics (Nobel 1922)
1886 - Johannes B Tielrooy, Dutch literary (Chateaubriand)
1887 - A C "Jack" Russell, cricketer (prolific England batsman post-WW I)
1887 - Jack Mulhall, Wappinger Falls NY, actor (Ken Murray Show)
1888 - Henry A Wallace, (D/P) 33rd VP (1941-45)/founder Progressive Party
1889 - Clarence Muse, Balt MD, actor (Sam-Casablanca, Black Stallion)
1892 - Dwain Esper, director (d. 1982)
1894 - Herman Dooyeweerd, Dutch philosopher/lawyer
1894 - Del Lord, American director (d. 1970)
1896 - Cyril Allcott, cricketer (NZ all-rounder in their early Tests)
1896 - Elijah Muhammad, US, leader of Nation of Islam
1898 - Alfred Wallenstein, Chicago Illinois, conductor (Chic Symph 1922-29)
1900 - Heinrich Himmler, a leading Nazi and head of the Gestapo
1901 - Frank X Boucher, Ottawa, All-star NHL center (Ottawa, NY Rangers)
1901 - Ralph Rainger, composer
1901 - Suvanna Phuma, premier of Laos
1902 - Willemina J H "Mascha" ter Weene, dancer/ballerina
1903 - Louis S B Leakey, archaeologist/anthropologist
1904 - Chuck Klein, Indianapolis In, Philadelphia Phillies (43 HRs in 1929)
1905 - Andy Devine, [Jeremiah Schwartz], Flagstaff Az, actor (Andy's Gang)
1906 - James E Webb, head of NASA (1961-68)
1907 - Tutta Rolf, Norway, actress (Whalers)
1907 - Víctor Paz Estenssoro, Bolivian politician (d. 2001)
1908 - Richard Caldicot, London England, actor (Horse's Mouth)
1909 - Shura Cherkassky, pianist
1909 - Anni Blomqvist, Finnish novelist (d. 1990)
1909 - Erastus Corning 2nd, American politician, 72nd Mayor of Albany, New York (d. 1983)
1910 - Henry P. McIlhenny, American philanthropist (d. 1986)
1911 - Joe Jones, Chicago IL, drummer
1911 - Vaughn Monroe, Akron Oh, singer/orchestra leader (Vaughn Monroe Show)
1911 - Shura Cherkassky, Ukrainian classical pianist (d. 1995)
1912 - Fernando Belaúnde Terry, President of Peru (d. 2002)
1913 - Irina Nijinska, Russian/US dancer
1913 - Simon Carmiggelt, Dutch journalist (Het Parool, Kinks)
1914 - Alfred Drake, [Capurro], Brooklyn NY, singer/actor (Kiss Me Kate)
1914 - Sarah Churchill, London, actress (All Over Town, Royal Wedding)
1915 - Margarita J Aliger, Russian poet (Zoja) [NS]
1915 - Roman Padlewski, composer
1916 - Walt W Rostow, NYC, economist (Politics & Stages of Growth)
1917 - Helmut Dantine, Vienna Austria, actor (Shadow of the Cloak)
1917 - June Allyson, Bronx, actress (Till the Clouds Roll By, Vegas)
1918 - Guido Aristarco, film critic
1919 - Gabriel Dell, Barbados, actor (Steve Allen Show)
1919 - George Duby, historian
1919 - Sir Zelman Cowen, Australian politician
1920 - Georg Leber, German politician (SPD), (d. 2012)
1921 - John Arthur Giles Gere, English art historian (Pre-Raphaelite painter)
1922 - Martha Stewart, Bardwell Ky, singer/actress (Daisy Kenyon, Doll Face)
1922 - Reina Prinsen Geerligs, [Leentje Vandendriesch], Dutch antifascist
1922 - Grady Hatton, American baseball player, (d. 2013)
1923 - Irma Grese, Supervisor at Nazi concentration camps
1923 - Jean-Paul Riopelle, Québécois member of Les Automatistes (d. 2002)
1926 - Diana Lynn, LA CA, actress (Annapolis Story, Easy Come Easy Go)
1926 - Ivan Jirko, composer
1926 - Marcello Abbado, composer
1927 - Al Martino, Phila, singer (Here in My Heart)/actor (Godfather)
1927 - R. D. Laing, Govanhill, Glasgow, Scottish psychiatrist
1928 - Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet and painter (d. 1980)
1929 - Robert Westall, British author (d. 1993)
1929 - Graeme Ferguson, Canadian filmmaker and executive
1929 - Harold Zirin, Boston, Massachusetts, astronomer, (d. 2012)
1931 - Desmond Tutu, Anglican Archbishop of S Afr (Nobel Peace Prize 1982)
1932 - Joannes M Gijsen, Bishop of Roermond
1933 - Paul B Price, Cataret NJ, actor (Busting Loose)
1934 - Imamu Amiri Baraka, [Everett Leroi Jones], US, poet/writer
1934 - Ulrike Meinhof, German Red Army member
1934 - Willie Naulls, NBA star (NY Knicks)
1934 - [Everett] LeRoi Jones, [Amiri Baraka], US writer (Black Music)
1935 - Thomas M Keneally, Australian writer (Schindler's List)
1936 - Gennadi Mikhailovich Kolesnikov, Russia, cosmonaut
1936 - Charles Dutoit, Swiss conductor
1937 - Col Guest, cricketer (Test Aust v England 1963, scored 11 took 0-59)
1937 - Maria Szyszkowska, Polish politician
1938 - Robert Drivas, Chi, actor (Cool Hand Luke, Illustrated Man) [or 11/21]
1939 - Colin Cooper, rocker (Climax Blues Band)
1939 - John Hopcroft, American computer scientist
1939 - Clive James, Australian television presenter and writer
1939 - Harold Kroto, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1940 - Bruce F Vento, (Rep-D-Minnesota, 1977- )
1940 - Dino Valenti, rock guitarist/vocalist (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
1940 - Richard H Stallings, (Rep-D-ID, 1985- )
1941 - Martin Murray, London England, rocker (Honeycombs)
1941 - Tony Sylvester, rocker (Main Ingredient)
1943 - Oliver L North, US colonel (Irangate)
1943 - Joy Behar, American television personality
1943 - José Cardenal, Cuban baseball player
1944 - Judee Sill, American musician (d. 1979)
1944 - Donald Tsang, current Chief executive of Hong Kong
1945 - Kevin Godley, Manchester England, rock vocalist (10cc)
1946 - Bernard Lavilliers, French singer
1946 - Pengiran Anak Saleha, Queen of Brunei
1948 - Diane Ackerman, American poet and essayist
1949 - Catherine Duggan, LPGA golfer
1949 - Dave Hope, rock bassist (Kansas)
1949 - Kieran Kane, Queens NY, singer (O'Kanes-Daddies Need to Grow Up Too)
1950 - Maartje van Weegen, [Walet], Dutch TV hostess
1950 - Jakaya Kikwete, Tanzanian politician
1951 - Carmen R "Tata" Vega, US soul singer (Color Purple soundtrack)
1951 - John Cougar Mellencamp, Seymour Indiana, rocker (Jack & Diane)
1951 - David J. Halberstam, American radio executive
1952 - Graham Yallop, cricketer (Australian capt in 7 Tests, won 1 lost 6)
1952 - Ludmila Tourischeva, USSR, gymnist (Olympic-gold-1972)
1952 - Martyn Harris, journalist
1952 - Mary Badham, American actress
1952 - Vladimir Putin, Russian politician
1953 - Christopher Norris, NYC, actress (Summer of '42, Eat My Dust)
1953 - Tico Torres, rock drummer (Bon Jovi-Always)
1954 - Victor Manuel Mar, wrestler (AAA/NJPW, Black Cat)
1954 - Kenneth Atchley, American composer
1955 - Yo-Yo Ma, Paris, France, world famous cellist (2001 National Medal of Arts, 2011 Presidential
           Medal of Freedom)
1955 - Ralph Johnson, American computer scientist
1956 - James Van Patten, Brooklyn New York, American actor (Bo-Chisholms)
1956 - Julio Pezua, jockey
1957 - Jayne Torvill, England, ice skater (Torvill & Dean, Oly-gold-84)
1957 - Judy Sams, Toronto Ontario, golfer (1994 du Maurier Ltd Classic-38th)
1958 - Kim Morris, San Diego Ca, playmate (Mar, 1986)
1958 - Judy Landers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, American actress (BJ & the Bear, Madame's Place)
1959 - Penny Graeber, Sydney Australia, golfer (1990 6th Vic Open)
1959 - Dylan Baker, American character actor
1959 - Simon Cowell, Lambeth, London, recording executive and television producer (X-Factor,
           American Idol)
1959 - Lourdes Flores, Peruvian politician
1959 - Jean-Marc Fournier, French-Canadian politician
1960 - Kyosuke Himuro, Japanese singer
1960 - Viktor Lazlo, Belgian singer
1961 - Matthew Roloff, American reality star
1961 - Brian Mannix, Australian singer and actor
1962 - Dave Bronconnier, Canadian politician
1964 - Rich Delucia, Reading PA, pitcher (SF Giants)
1964 - Sam Brown, English singer/songwriter (Stop!)
1964 - Stuart Hendley, Houston Texas, Canadian Tour golfer (1989 Manitoba Open)
1964 - Dan Savage, American sex-columnist and author
1964 - Paul Stewart, English footballer
1965 - Juul Ellerman, soccer player (PSV, FC Twente)
1966 - Trent Brown, CFL defensive back (Edmonton Eskimos)
1966 - Marco Beltrami, Italian-American film composer
1967 - Mariana Perez-Roldan, Argentina, tennis star
1967 - Toni Braxton, American singer
1967 - Luke Haines, English musician (The Auteurs, Black Box Recorder)
1968 - Erick Anderson, NFL linebacker (Washington Redskins)
1968 - Randy Bartz, Roseville Minn, short track skater (Olympics-1994)
1968 - Thom Yorke, British pop musician and lead singer of Radiohead ('Creep', 'Paranoid Android'
           and 'Pyramid Song')
1969 - Brent Dorman, Ocala Florida, Canadian Tour golfer
1969 - Martin Haywood, cricketer (NSW opening batsman)
1969 - Javier Álvarez, Spanish singer-songwriter
1969 - Malia Hosaka, Hawaiian professional wrestler
1969 - Maria Whittaker, English model
1970 - Daniel Collins, Sydney NSW Australia, canoeist (Olympics-96)
1970 - Dwayne Provo, cornerback (New England Patriots)
1970 - Harold Ellis, NBA forward (Denver Nuggets)
1970 - Le'Shai Maston, NFL running back (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1970 - Vaughn Hebron, NFL running back (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1971 - Dexter Dawson, CFL receiver (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1971 - Johnnie Morton, NFL wide receiver (Detroit Lions)
1971 - Paul Hannam, Vancouver BC, 470 yachter (Olympics-96)
1971 - Daniel Boucher, Québécois musician
1972 - John Hyden, Tustin California, volleyball outside hitter (alt-Olympics-96)
1972 - Rahsaan Giddings, CFL linebacker (Montreal Alouettes)
1972 - Ben Younger, American screenwriter and film director
1973 - Gerald McBurrows, safety (St Louis Rams)
1973 - Priest Holmes, running back (Baltimore Ravens)
1973 - Dida, Brazilian footballer
1974 - Alexander Polinsky, SF California, actor (Adam-Charles in Charge)
1974 - Benjamin Oberman, Denver Colorado, pairs skater (&amp; Naomi Grabow)
1974 - Shannon MacMillan, Syosset NY, soccer forward (Olympics-96)
1974 - Allison Munn, American actress
1974 - Charlotte Nilsson, Swedish singer
1975 - Billy Walsh, Summit NJ, soccer midfielder (Olympics-gold-96)
1975 - Terry Gerin, American professional wrestler
1975 - Damian Kulash, American musician (OK Go)
1975 - Tim Minchin, Australian comedian and musician
1976 - Taylor Hicks, American musician
1976 - Rachel McAdams, Canadian actress
1976 - Santiago Solari, Argentinian footballer
1976 - Gilberto Silva, Brazilian footballer
1976 - Charles Woodson, American football player
1976 - Marc Coma, Spanish motorcycle racer
1977 - Clayton Miller, Toronto Ontario, trap shooter (Olympics-96)
1977 - Brandon Quinn, American actor
1977 - Meighan Desmond, New Zealand actress
1978 - Alesha Dixon, British pop singer (Mis-Teeq)
1978 - Zaheer Khan, Indian cricketer
1979 - Simona Amânar, Romanian gymnast
1979 - Aaron Ashmore, Canadian actor
1979 - Shawn Ashmore, Canadian actor
1979 - Tang Wei, Chinese actress
1980 - Edison Chen, Canadian-born actor
1982 - Madjid Bougherra, Algerian footballer
1982 - Li Yundi, Chinese classical pianist
1982 - Jermain Defoe, English footballer
1982 - Robby Ginepri, American tennis player
1984 - Ikuta Toma, Japanese Singer/Actor
1984 - Salman Butt, Pakistani cricketer
1985 - Evan Longoria, American baseball player
1986 - Lee Nguyen, American soccer player
1986 - Gunnar Nielsen, Faroese footballer
1987 - Jeremy Brockie, Australian footballer
1988 - Stacy DuPree, American musician (Eisley)
2001 - Princess Senate Seeiso, daughter of King Letsie III of Lesotho

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 07, 2013, 09:08:12 AM

This Day in History for 7th October


Famous Deaths

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American Statesman                              Author Edgar Allan Poe (1849)                 Baseball Player and Manager
George Mason (1792)                                                                                             Leo Durocher (1991)


290 - [Christian] Sergius, roman soldier/martyred saint, decapitated
336 - Pope Saint Mark, bishop of Rome (336), dies of natural causes
929 - Charles III, the Plain, King of France (893-929), dies
1368 - Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence, son of Edward III of England (b. 1338)
1488 - Andrea del Verrochio, sculptor/painter/goldsmith, dies at about 52
1553 - Cristóbal de Morales, Spanish composer (bc. 1500)
1555 - Louis of Praet, Habsburg diplomat (b. 1488)
1571 - Ali Pasha, Turkish fleet commander, dies in battle
1577 - George Gascoigne, English poet
1612 - Menso Alting, Dutch reformed vicar/theologist, dies at 70
1620 - Stanisław Żółkiewski, Polish military leader (b. 1547)
1637 - Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy (b. 1587)
1639 - John I Pontanus, physicist/historian (Amsterdam), dies at 68
1651 - Jacques Sirmond, French Jesuit scholar (b. 1559)
1653 - Fausto Poli, Italian Catholic priest (b. 1581)
1660 - Paul Scarron, French, stagewriter (Le Roman Comique), dies at 50
1681 - Nicolaas Heinsius, Dutch philological/diplomat, dies at 61
1708 - Guru Gobind Singh, tenth Sikh Guru (b. 1666)
1766 - Andre Cheron, composer, dies at 71
1772 - John Woolman, American Quaker preacher and abolitionist (b. 1720)
1777 - Simon Fraser, English general, dies in battle
1780 - Patrick Ferguson, English major in SC, dies in battle at 36
1787 - Henry Muhlenberg, German-born founder of the U.S. Lutheran Church (b. 1711)
1792 - George Mason, American statesman, advocated for "The Bill of Rights" (b. 1725)
1793 - Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire, English politician (b. 1718)
1796 - Thomas Reid, Scottish philosopher (b. 1710)
1800 - Gabriel, slave revolt leader (Virginia), hanged
1811 - August R van Hekeren van Suideras, Dutch orangist, dies at 68
1849 - Edgar Allan Poe, American writer, poet and critic, dies in Baltimore at 40
1864 - Alexander Gardiner, US Union brig-general, dies in battle
1864 - John Gregg, US judge/Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 36
1887 - George James Webb, composer, dies at 84
1890 - John Hill Hewitt, composer, dies at 89
1894 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., American writer (b. 1809)
1903 - Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician (b. 1832)
1906 - Honoré Beaugrand, Canadian journalist and politician, mayor of Montreal (b. 1848)
1911 - John Hughlings Jackson, English neurologist (b. 1835)
1915 - Samuel Prowse Warren, composer, dies at 74
1918 - C Hubert H Parry, Engl musicologist/composer (Jerusalem), dies at 70
1919 - Alfred Deakin, second Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1856)
1924 - Clemens Baeumker, German historian (Christian Philosophy), dies at 71
1925 - Hubert Platt Main, composer, dies at 86
1925 - Christy Mathewson, American baseball player (b. 1880)
1926 - Emil Kraepelin, German psychologist (b. 1856)
1939 - Harvey (William) Cushing, US neurologist, dies at 70
1943 - Eugeniusz Bodo, Polish actor (b. 1899)
1943 - Radclyffe Hall, British author (b. 1880)
1951 - Anton F Philips, CEO (Philips), dies at 77
1956 - Clarence Birdseye, American inventor (b. 1886)
1959 - Mario Lanza, opera singer, dies at 38 of a heart attack
1959 - PM Kassem of Iraq, assassinated
1962 - Mauritius Dekker, [Boris Robazki], writer (Boots in Jail), dies at 66
1963 - Grace Darmond, silent screen actress (Below the Surface), dies at 69
1963 - Gustaf Gründgens, German actor and director (M), dies of internal hemorrhage at 63
1964 - Eugen Varga, Hungarian/Russian economist/politician, dies at 84
1966 - Johnny Kidd, rocker (Johnny Kidd & Pirates), dies at 26 in a car crash
1966 - Smiley Lewis, [Overton Amos Lemons], rocker, dies at 46
1967 - Norman Angell (Lane), English journalist/pacifist (Nobel 1933), dies
1969 - Léon Scieur, Belgian cyclist (b. 1888)
1976 - Nikolai Lopatnikoff, composer, dies at 73
1981 - Wouter Paap, composer, dies at 73
1981 - Albert Cohen, Greek-born Swiss novelist (b. 1895)
1988 - Billy Daniels, singer, dies of cancer at 73
1990 - J Teengs Gerritsen, resistance fighter, dies
1990 - John "Cat" Thompson, basketball hall of famer, dies at 84
1990 - Juan Jose Arevalo, president of Guatemala (1945-51), dies
1991 - Leo Durocher, baseball player and manager (Dodgers, Giants), dies at 86
1992 - Allan Bloom, author (Closing of the American Mind), dies at 62
1992 - Ed Blackwell, US jazz drummer (Quartet), dies
1992 - Tevfik Esenç, last known speaker of Ubykh (b. 1904)
1993 - Agnes de Mille, choreographer (Oklahoma!, Rodeo), dies at 88
1993 - Cyril Cusack, actor (Fahrenheit 451), dies of neuron disease at 82
1993 - Kenneth Nelson, US/English actor (Boys in the Band), dies at 63
1994 - James Hill, director, dies at 75
1994 - Niels Kaj Jerne, Danish immunologist (Nobel prize 1984), dies at 82
1994 - Paul Swift, US actor (Egg Man in Pink Flamingo), dies of AIDS at 60
1995 - Ariston Muguranayanga Chambati, politician/businessman, dies at 59
1995 - Louis Meyer, Indie 500 racer (3 wins), dies at 91
1996 - Charles Wegg Solicitor-Prosser, dies at 86
1998 - Arnold Jacobs, American tuba player a.k.a. Song and Wind (b. 1915)
2001 - Christopher Adams, British-born pro wrestler and judoka (b. 1955)
2001 - Herblock, American cartoonist (b. 1909)
2001 - Roger Gaudry, French Canadian chemist, businessman and corporate director (b. 1913)
2003 - Izzy Asper, Canadian tax lawyer (b. 1932)
2003 - Arthur Berger, American composer (b. 1912)
2003 - Wally George, American conservative TV commentator (b. 1931)
2004 - Ken Bigley, British civil engineer, kidnapped and murdered in Iraq (b. 1942)
2005 - Charles Rocket, American actor (b. 1949)
2006 - Anna Politkovskaya, Russian journalist (b. 1958)
2007 - Norifumi Abe, Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1975)
2007 - George E. Sangmeister, American politician (b. 1931)
2008 - Leslie Hardman, Jewish Orthodox rabbi (b. 1913)
2009 - Irving Penn, American photographer (b. 1917)
2010 - Antonie Kamerling, Dutch actor (b. 1966)
2010 - Milka Planinc, former PM of Yugoslavia (b. 1924)
2010 - T Lavitz, American musician (b. 1956)
2011 - Ramiz Alia, the former communist leader and first president of the Albanian pluralist (b. 1925)
2012 - John Martin Tchicai, Danish saxophonist, dies at 76

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 08, 2013, 09:35:09 AM

This Day in History for 8th October


Historical Events

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Captain/Explorer James Cook                  Politician Otto Von Bismarck                  Playwright Moss Hart

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33rd US President Harry Truman            Baseball Player Jackie Robinson              Beatles Drummer Ringo Starr

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Musician and Beatle John Lennon           Reggae Musician Bob Marley                  38th US President Gerald Ford

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43rd US President George W. Bush


314 - Battle at Cibalae: emperor Constantine beats emperor Licinius
451 - Council of Chalcedon (4th ecumenical council) opens
876 - Battle at Andernach: Louis the Young beats Charles the Bare
1075 - Dmitar Zvonimir is crowned king of Croatia.
1085 - San Marcos minstery in Venice initiated
1480 - Great standing on the Ugra river, a standoff between the forces of Akhmat Khan, Khan of the
           Great Horde, and the Grand Duke Ivan III of Russia, which resulted in the retreat of the
           Tataro-Mongols and eventual disintegration of the Horde.
1492 - Columbus' fleet about 400 sea miles from Puerto Rico
1600 - San Marino adopts constitution
1604 - Supernova "Kepler's nova" 1st sighted
1625 - Admiral George Villiers' fleet sails from Plymouth to Cadiz
1633 - Massachusetts Bay Colony forms its 1st government
1690 - Turkish troops occupy Belgrade
1712 - French hijacker Jacques Cassard seen on Suriname coast
1740 - Chinese assault on Diestpoort Batavia
1769 - Captain James Cook is the first European to land in New Zealand (Poverty bay)
1775 - Officers decide to bar slaves & free blacks from Continental Army
1806 - British forces lay siege to French port of Boulogne using Congreve rockets, invented by Sir
           William Congreve
1813 - Treaty of Ried between Bayern & Austria
1815 - Joachim Murats forces lands at Pizzo Italy
1818 - 2 English boxers are 1st to use padded gloves
1821 - The government of General José de San Martín establishes the Peruvian Navy.
1822 - 1st eruption of Galunggung (Java) sends boiling sludge into valley
1835 - Charles Darwin reaches James Island, Galapagos archipelago, on HMS Beagle
1840 - 1st Hawaiian constitution proclaimed
1856 - The Second Opium War or 2nd Anglo-Chinese War: begins with the Arrow Incident on the
           Pearl River.
1860 - Telegraph line between LA & SF opens
1862 - Battle of Perryville, KY-Confederate invasion halted
1862 - Otto von Bismarck becomes chancellor of the German Empire
1865 - Earthquake in Santa Cruz Mountains
1871 - Gas explosion destroys Peshtigo, Wisconsin
1871 - Great Fire kills 200, destroys over 4 square miles (10 square km) of Chicago buildings, &
           original Emancipation Proclamation
1873 - 1st women's prison run by women opens at Indiana Reformatory Institute
1879 - War of the Pacific: the Chilean Navy defeats the Peruvian Navy in the Battle of Angamos,
           Peruvian Admiral Miguel Grau is killed in the encounter.
1886 - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Noble Bachelor" (BG)
1887 - Phillies set club record 16th straight victory
1892 - Sergei Rachmaninoff 1st performs "Prelude in C-sharp-Minor" in Moscow
1895 - Ohio Valley Improvement Association forms
1896 - Dow Jones starts reporting an average of selected industrial stocks
1897 - Emperor Karl Joseph I named Gustav Mahler director of Opera
1898 - 1st Canadian Intercollegiate football game: McGill beats Queen's, 3-2
1903 - J M Synge's "In the Shadow of the Glen," premieres in Dublin
1904 - 1st Vanderbilt Cup auto race (Hicksville, Long Island, NY)
1906 - Karl Nessler demonstrates 1st 'permanent wave' for hair, in London
1908 - NY Giants set season attendance record at 910,000 (broken in 1920)
1909 - Chicago Cubs beat NY Giants 4-2 in a playoff to win NL pennant
1912 - Montenegro declares war on Turkey, beginning 1st Balkan War
1915 - Battle of Loos, almost 430,000 French, British & Germans killed
1915 - Phillies win their 1st & only World Series game before 1980, beating
1915 - Red Sox, 3-1, with an 8th inning 2 run rally
1917 - Trotski named chairman of Petrograd Soviet
1918 - Sgt Alvin York single-handedly kills 25, captures 132 Germans
1922 - NY Giants beat Yankees, 4 games to 0, with a tie in 19th World Series
1924 - British Labour government of Ramsay MacDonald falls to Conservatives
1927 - NY Yankees sweep Pirates in 24th World Series
1927 - Sea battle at Navarino (Greece freed of Ottoman occupation)
1928 - Cole Porter & E Ray Goetz' musical "Paris," premieres in NYC
1928 - Eastern Soccer League forms in US
1928 - Joseph Szigeti debuted Alfredo Casella's Violin Concerto.
1929 - A's Howard Ehmke (7-2) sets World Series record striking out 13 Cubs
1929 - Mohammed Nadir Khan occupies Kabul Afghanistan/drives out H Ghazi
1930 - Phila A's beat St Louis Cards, 4 games to 2 in 27th World Series
1932 - The Indian Air Force is established.
1933 - Coit Tower dedicated in SF, a monument to firefighters
1933 - Martinez Barrios forms new Spanish government
1934 - Bruno Hauptmann is indicted for murder of Lindbergh's son
1938 - G Kaufman & Moss Hart's "Fabulous Invalid," premieres in NYC
1939 - Germany annexes Western Poland
1939 - NY Yankees sweep Reds in 36th World Series, 4th straight WS win
1940 - Cin Reds beat Detroit Tigers, 4 games to 3, in 37th World Series
1940 - German troops occupies Romania
1941 - Concentration camp Birkenau begins being built
1942 - Fight at Matanikau, Guadalcanal (John Hersey-Into the Valley)
1943 - Great Britain establishes bases on Azores
1944 - "Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet" debut on CBS radio
1944 - Samuel Barber's "Capricorn Concerto," premieres
1945 - Harry Truman announced atomic bomb secret shared with Britain and Canada
1946 - Kwo-less-shrew selects Gen Chiang Kai-shek as president of China
1946 - Milt plane crashes at Christian HBS, 24 die
1950 - 4th NHL All-Star Game: Detroit beat All-Stars 7-1 at Detroit
1950 - Cleveland Browns play Pittsburgh for 1st time, beat Steelers 30-17
1951 - "Music in the Air" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 56 performances
1951 - Ford C Frick replaces Happy Chandler as 3rd commissioner of baseball Warren C Giles
           becomes president of baseball's National League
1952 - Chinese offensive in Korea
1952 - Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash kills 112 people.
1953 - Birmingham Alabama, bars Jackie Robinson's Negro-White All-Stars from playing there
           Robinson gives in & drops white players from his group
1953 - WTAP TV channel 15 in Parkersburg-Marietta, WV (NBC) begins
1955 - World's most powerful aircraft carrier, USS Saratoga, launched
1956 - Don Larsen, NY, pitches only perfect World Series game, vs Brooklyn
1957 - Brooklyn Dodgers announce move to Los Angeles
1957 - Procter & Gamble-director N McElroy becomes US Min of Defense
1957 - Soviet spy Jack Sobel sentenced to 7 years (NYC)
1957 - Turkish & Syrian border guards exchange fire
1958 - Braves Eddie Mathews strikes out for World Series record 11th time
1958 - Dr Ake Senning installs 1st pacemaker (Stockholm)
1958 - KCMT TV channel 7 in Alexandria, MN (CBS/NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1958 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1959 - "At the Drop of a Hat" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 216 perfs
1959 - Conservatives win British general election
1959 - LA Dodgers beat Chicago White Sox, 4 games to 2 in 56th World Series
1960 - Bobby Richarson hits a World Series grand slammer
1961 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Bill Brannin's Swing Parade Golf Tournament
1961 - US Constellation crashes at Richmond Virginia, 74 die
1961 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1961 - Whitey Ford breaks Babe Ruth's World Series record of 29 2/3 consecutive scoreless innings,
           running his streak to 32
1962 - Algeria admitted as 109th member of UN
1962 - N Korea reports 100% election turnout, 100% vote for Workers' Party
1962 - Spiegel scandal: Der Spiegel publishes the article "Bedingt abwehrbereit" ("Conditionally
           prepared for defense") about a NATO manoeuver called "Fallex 62", which uncovered the
           sorry state of the Bundeswehr (Germany's army) facing the communist threat from the east
           at the time. The magazine was soon accused of treason.
1963 - Sultan of Zanzibar cedes his mainland possessions to Kenya
1964 - Gilroy Roberts becomes 1st US chief engraver to retire (than die)
1964 - Ringo Starr takes & passes his driving test
1965 - Djakarta Moslems set fire to PKI-headquarter
1965 - Post Office Tower opens in London, tallest building in England
1965 - Once-Hertogenbosch soccer team FC de Bosch forms
1965 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1966 - Wyoming's Jerry DePoyster kicks 3 field goals over 50 yds (54, 54, 52)
1967 - Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia.
1968 - Dutch aircraft carrier Karel Doorman (formerly Britsh HMS Venerable) sold to Argentina
1969 - The opening rally of the Days of Rage occurs, organized by the Weather Underground in
           Chicago, Illinois.
1970 - Soviet author Alexander I Solzhenitsyn wins Nobel Prize for Literature
1971 - John Lennon releases his megahit "Imagine"
1971 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1972 - "From Israel with Love" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 8 perfs
1972 - Harold Carmichael begins NFL streak of 127 consecutive game receptions
1972 - In Game 2 of ALCS, A's Bert Campaneris fires his bat at Det pitcher
1972 - Lerrin LaGrow Campy, who had been hit by a pitch, is fined & suspended
1973 - NLCS game 3 brawl between Cins' Pete Rose & NY Met Bud Harrelson
1973 - Spyris Markezinis forms government in Greece
1974 - Franklin National Bank collapses due to fraud and mismanagement; at the time it was the
           largest bank failure in the history of the United States.
1976 - Sex Pistols sign with EMI
1977 - Largest baseball crowd in Penns, 64,924 see Dodgers beat Phillies 4-1 in 4th NL championship
           game (Dodgers win pennant)
1978 - Ken Warby set world water speed record at 319.627 mph (514 kph)
1978 - Yanks win 3rd straight AL Championship, all against Kansas City
1979 - "Sugar Babies" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 1208 perfs
1979 - 13th Country Music Association Award:[Approx]
1979 - J McHugh & A Malvin's musical "Sugar Babies," premieres in NYC
1980 - After playing two shows at the Madison Square Garden, Bob Marley collapsed in Central Park
           while jogging, brought to Sloan-Kettering Hospital
1980 - British Leyland starts selling Mini Metro
1980 - USSR & Syria sign peace treaty
1980 - USSR performs nuclear test
1981 - 1st broadcast of "Cagney & Lacey" on ABC-TV
1981 - USAC appeals panel restores disputed Indy 500 victory to Bobby Unser
1981 - President Reagan greeted predecessors Jimmy Carter, Gerald R Ford & Richard Nixon before
           sending them to Egypt for Anwar Sadat's funeral
1982 - NJ Devils 1st victory, beating NY Rangers 3-2 at Meadowlands
1982 - Poland bans Solidarity & all labor unions
1983 - 1st regular season Islander OT game beat Caps 8-7
1983 - Washington Capitals 1st NHL overtime game losing to NY Islanders 8-7
1984 - 18th Country Music Association Award: Alabama wins
1985 - "Rembrandt & Hitler or Me" premieres in Amsterdam
1985 - Alain Boubil/Herbert Kretzner's "Les Miserables," premieres in London
1985 - Little Richard seriously injured in a car accident
1986 - Mike Scott ties playoff record of 14 strikeouts, beats Mets 1-0
1986 - RUN DMC calls for a day of peace among LA street gangs
1988 - Fire in Seattle's Space Needle causes evacuation, $2,000 damage
1988 - Jay Howell ejected in NLCS game 3 for having pine tar on his glove
1989 - Oakland beats Toronto, 4-3 in Game 5, to advance to the World Series
1990 - 24th Country Music Association Award: George Strait wins
1990 - Israeli police kill 17 Palestinian rioters
1990 - US doctors Joseph E Murray & E Donnall Thomas win Nobel Prize
1991 - The Croatian Parliament cuts all remaining ties with Yugoslavia
1992 - Nobel Prize for literature is given to West Indies poet Derek Walcott
1992 - Ottawa Sentors 1st NHL game
1992 - Pioneer Venus Orbiter (1st Venus orbiter-1978), crashes into Venus
1993 - Howard Stern releases his 1st book "Private Parts"
1993 - UN lifts remaining economic sanctions against South Africa
1994 - BPAA US Women's Bowling Open won by Aleta Sill
1995 - Dolphin's Dan Marino breaks Tarkenton's NFL career completions record
1995 - Edgar Martinez drives home tying & winning runs to rally Mariners to 6-5 win in bottom of
           11th to beat Yankees & win AL Division Series
1998 - Oslo Gardermoen airport opening after the close down of Fornebu.
1999 - New Coligny Calendar, NCC, The beginning of a new era of the Coligny calendar, the oldest       
           material Celtic calendar.
2001 - U.S. President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland
           Security.
2001 - A twin engine Cessna and Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) jetliner collide in heavy fog
           during takeoff from Milan, Italy killing 118.
2005 - The Kashmir earthquake hits parts of northern South Asia at 03:50 UTC.
2012 - 35 people are killed by a Nigerian military bomb struck a convoy in Maiduguri
2012 - Hugo Chávez is re-elected as president of Venezuela for a fourth term
2012 - Mustafa A.G. Abushagur, the first elected Libyan Prime Minister, is voted out of office by the
           Libyan parliament
2012 - John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka win the 2012 Nobel Prize for Medicine for their work on
           reprogramming end stage cells to become pluripotent

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 08, 2013, 09:36:33 AM

This Day in History for 8th October


Famous Weddings

1842 - Princess Sophia weds her cousin duke Charles Saksen-Weimar-Eisenach
1935 - Ozzie Nelson marries Harriet Hilliard (Ozzie & Harriet)
1993 - Queen Elizabeth's nephew Viscount Linley (32) weds Serena Stanhope (24)
1994 - "Growing Pains" actress Tracey Gold (25) weds Roby Marshall (29) at St. Charles Catholic
           Church
2005 - Gilmore Girls" actress Melissa McCarthy (34) weds "Joey" actor Ben Falcone (32) at the Oviatt
           Penthouse in Los Angeles

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 08, 2013, 09:37:30 AM

This Day in History for 8th October


Famous Divorces

2010 - Musician Ben Harper (40) divorces actress Laura Dern (43) due to irreconcilable differences after
           5 years of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 08, 2013, 09:44:25 AM

This Day in History for 8th October


Famous Birthdays

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Children's Book Writer                         Guitarist Johnny Ramone (1948)              Actress Sigourney Weaver (1949)
R. L. Stine (1943)

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Actor Matt Damon (1970)


1515 - Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox (d. 1578)
1585 - Heinrich Schutz, composer
1619 - Philipp von Zesen, German poet/historian (Amsterdam)
1621 - Maximilian H of Bayern, prince-bishop of Liege/bishop of Hildesheim
1676 - Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro, Spanish scholar (d. 1764)
1690 - Jaime de Casellas, composer
1692 - Antonio Palella, composer
1697 - Cornelis Consolation, Dutch portrait painter (Unseemly Love)
1713 - Yechezkel Landau, Polish rabbi and Talmudist (d. 1793)
1715 - Michel Benoist, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1774)
1720 - Jonathan Mayhew, American minister (d. 1766)
1740 - Michel-Julien Mathieu, composer
1747 - Johann Wilhelm Stadler, composer
1747 - Jean-François Rewbell, French politician (d. 1807)
1748 - Franz Seydelmann, composer
1765 - Harman Blennerhassett, Irish lawyer (d. 1831)
1789 - John Ruggles, American politician (d. 1874)
1789 - William John Swainson, English naturalist and artist (d. 1855)
1790 - Waldemar Thrane, composer
1802 - Peter Hofstede, the Great, Dutch reformed theologist
1813 - Carl Ludwig Amand Mangold, composer
1818 - John Henninger Reagan, Atty Gen (Confederacy)
1820 - Stanislaw Katski, composer
1826 - Matt Whitaker Ransom, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1904
1828 - Francisque Sarcey, French writer/critic
1831 - Michal Jelski, composer
1834 - Walter Kittredge, American musician (d. 1905)
1837 - Otto Winter-Hjelm, composer
1838 - John Milton Hay, politician (Union), died in 1905
1850 - Henri Louis le Chatelier, French chemist (d. 1936)
1855 - Gustav Ehrismann, German germanist
1860 - Felix Woyrsch, composer
1861 - Theodore Roberts, SF CA, actor (Roaring Road, 10 Commandments)
1863 - Edythe Chapman, American actress (d. 1948)
1864 - Ozias Leduc, Québécois painter (d. 1955)
1868 - Max Slevogt, German painter
1869 - J Frank Duryea, inventor (1st auto built & operated in US)
1870 - Louis Vierne, composer
1872 - John Cowper Powys, British writer (Wood & Stone)
1873 - Ejnar Hertzsprung, Denmark, astronomer (Hertzsprung-Russell diagram)
1874 - Nance O'Neil, Oakland CA, actor (Cimarron)
1875 - Hugh L Doherty, tennis champ (US Open-1903)
1877 - Hans Heysen, German-born landscape artist (d. 1968)
1880 - Ernest F E Douwes Dekker, Dutch founder (National-India Party)
1883 - Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1970)
1883 - Dick Burnett, American musician (d. 1977)
1884 - Walther von Reichenau, German military officer (d. 1942)
1885 - William Henry Bennett Vodery, composer
1887 - Huntley Gordon, Canadian actor (d. 1956)
1888 - Clifford Heatherley, Preston England, actress (For Love or Money)
1889 - C. E. Woolman, American airline founder (d. 1966)
1890 - Cyril Rutherford "Snuffy" Browne, cricketer (pioneer WI Test player)
1890 - Eddie Rickenbacker, aviator "Ace of Aces" (WW I)
1890 - Philippe Thys, Belgian cyclist (d. 1971)
1893 - Orovida Camille Pissarro, Epping England, British painter and etcher
1895 - Jeanne G van Schaik-Willing, Dutch author (Sinner & the Girl)
1895 - Juan Peron, Argentine Pres (1946-55, 1973-74)
1895 - King Zog I, of Albania (1928-1939)
1896 - Julien Duvivier, French film director (d. 1967)
1897 - Rouben Mamoulian, movie director/author (Mark of Zorro, Applause)
1898 - Clarence Williams, composer
1899 - Milner Connorton Gray, designer
1899 - Pandit Rambharos Gangaram Panday, Suriname relig leader/co-found (VHP)
1900 - Geoffrey Alan Jellicoe, landscape architect
1900 - Serge Chermayeff, architect/designer
1900 - Zeno Octavian Vancea, composer
1901 - Eivind Groven, composer
1903 - Lina Radke, Germany, 800m runner (Olympic-gold-1928)
1907 - Howard Joslin, GA, actor (Quebec, Detective Story)
1908 - Paul Van Buskirk Yoder, composer
1909 - Bill Hewitt, NFL end (Chicago Bears, Philadelphia Eagles)
1910 - Raymod Gray Lewis, Ontario Canada, 4X400 relayer (Olympic-bronze-1932)
1910 - Kirk Alyn, American actor (d. 1999)
1910 - Gus Hall, American union organizer and head of the U.S. Communist Party (d. 2000)
1913 - Walter Schumann, NYC, choral director (Ford Show)/composer (Rhenish)
1916 - Spark Matsunaga, (D-Ha-Sen)
1917 - Danny Murtaugh, baseball manager (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1917 - Hans Poser, composer
1917 - Billy Conn, American boxer (d. 1993)
1917 - Walter Lord, American author (d. 2002)
1918 - Ron Randell, Sydney Australia, actor (Loves of Carmen, I am a Camera)
1919 - Bill Anderson, cricketer (played in 1st NZ-Aust Test 1946)
1919 - Kiichi Miyazawa, premier Japan (1991-93)
1920 - Frank [Patrick] Herbert, US, sci-fi author (Dune)
1920 - Maxie Herber, Germany, figure skater pairs (Olympic-gold-1936)
1921 - Abraham Sarmiento, Filipino Supreme Court jurist
1922 - Douglas Gray, archivist
1922 - Svend Westergaard, composer
1924 - Arkady Vorobyev, Middle heavyweight (Olympic-gold-1956, 60)
1924 - Alphons Egli, member of the Swiss Federal Council
1925 - Andrei Donatovich Sinyavsky, writer/critic
1927 - Al Duncan, drummer
1927 - Gigi Durston, Balt Md, singer (Sonny Kendis Show)
1927 - Raaj Kumar, film star
1927 - Torbjorn Falkanger, Norway, took Olympic oath (1952)
1927 - Jim Elliot, American missionary (d. 1956)
1927 - César Milstein, Argentine scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 2002)
1928 - Neil Harvey, cricketer (prolific Australian lefty bat of 50's)
1928 - M. Russell Ballard, LDS apostle
1928 - Bill Maynard, British actor
1929 - Valdir Pereira, Brazilian footballer (d. 2001)
1930 - James Olsen, Evanston IL, actor (Andromeda Strain, Spell)
1930 - Toru Takemitsu, Tokyo Japan, composer (Ki No Kyoko)
1932 - Ray Reardon, Welsh snooker player
1934 - Doc Green, rocker (Drifters)
1934 - J Carter Brown, Providence RI, art director (Wash National Gallery)
1936 - Carman Moore, composer
1936 - Rona Barrett, NYC, gossip columnist (Tomorrow Show)
1938 - David Willis, British journalist (BBC World Service)
1938 - Frederick S Stolle, tennis champ (US Open-1966)
1938 - Penny Pitou, US, skier (Olympic-2 silvers-1960)
1938 - Walter Gretzky, father of Wayne Gretzky
1939 - Paul Hogan, Australia, actor (Crocodile Dundee, Lightning Jack)
1939 - Armando Gentilucci, composer
1939 - Elvira Ozolina, USSR, javelin thrower (Olympic-gold-1960)
1939 - Paul Hogan, Australian actor
1939 - Harvey Pekar, American author
1939 - Lynne Stewart, American civil liberties lawyer
1940 - Fred Cash, Chattanooga Tn, rocker (Impressions)
1941 - George Bellamy, rocker (Tornados)
1941 - Jesse Jackson, Greenville SC, clergyman/presidential candidate (D)
1943 - Chevy Chase, NYC, comedian/actor (SNL, Vacation, Fletch, Caddyshack)
1943 - James Edward Sellars, composer
1943 - R. L. Stine, Columbus, Ohio, children&#039;s book writer (Goosebumps)
1944 - Bruce A Morrison, (Rep-D-CT, 1983- )
1944 - Susan Raye, American singer
1945 - Roy Royer, rock guitarist (Procol Harum)
1945 - Vanburn Holder, cricketer (West Indian pace bowler of 70's)
1946 - Aleksandr Gorshlov, ice dancer (holds 6 titles)
1946 - Jean-Jacques Beineix, director (Betty Blue, Diva)
1946 - Dennis Kucinich, American politician
1947 - Emiel Puttemans, Flemish athlete
1947 - Tony Wilson, Trinidad, rock vocalist (Hot Chocolate)
1947 - Yelena Ivanovna Dobrokvashina, Russian cosmonaut (Soyuz T-15a)
1948 - Johnny Ramone [Cummings], Long Island, New York, American rock guitarist (Ramones)
1948 - Sarah Purcell, Richmond Ind, actress/TV hostess (Real People)
1948 - Stefanie Marrian, Paris France, comedienne (Benny Hill Show)
1948 - Benjamin Cheever, American novelist and editor
1948 - Pedro López, Colombian serial killer
1948 - Claude Jade, French actress (d. 2006)
1949 - Hamish Stuart, Scotland, guitarist/singer (Average White Band)
1949 - Michael Rose, rocker (Average White Band)
1949 - Sigourney Weaver [Susan Alexandra] , LA, actress (Alien, Working Girl)
1950 - Robert "Kool" Bell, Youngstown Oh, rocker (Kool & the Gang-Joanna)
1951 - Jack O'Connell, American politician
1952 - Cliff Adams, rocker
1952 - Jan Marijnissen, Dutch politician
1952 - Edward Zwick, American film director
1953 - Ricky Lee Phelps, Paragould Ar, singer (Ky Headhunters-Davy Crockett)
1954 - Michael Dudikoff, Redondo Beach, California, American actor (American Ninja, TRON)
1954 - Ben Amonette, Radford VA, free pistol (Olympics-92, 96)
1955 - Bill Elliott, auto racer (Daytona-1978)
1955 - Lonnie Pitchford, American blues musician
1956 - Janice E Voss Ford, South Bend Ind, PhD/Astronaut (STS 57, 63, 83, 94)
1956 - Scott Michael Pellaton, barefoot water ski champ
1956 - Jeff Lahti, American baseball player
1956 - Janice Voss, South Bend, Indiana, astronaut (shuttle radar topography mission), (d. 2012)
1957 - Doug Cox, Guelph Ontario, 90 kg Greco Roman wrestler (Olympics-96)
1957 - James De Paiva, Hayward California, actor (Max Holden-One Life to Live)
1957 - Antonio Cabrini, Italian footballer
1957 - Joe Castiglione, American college athletic director
1958 - Steve Coll, American journalist
1959 - Carlos I Noriega, Lima Peru, astronaut (STS 84, sk 97)
1959 - Gavin Friday, [Fionan Hanvey], Irish singer (Virgin Prunes)
1959 - Mike Morgan, Tulare CA, pitcher (St Louis Cardinals)
1959 - Tony Eason, football quarterback (New England Patriots)
1959 - Nick Bakay, American actor
1960 - Lorenzo Milá, Spanish newscaster
1960 - François Pérusse, Quebec humorist
1960 - Reed Hastings, American businessman and entrepreneur
1961 - Ted Kooshian, American jazz pianist
1962 - Bruno Thiry, Belgian rally driver
1964 - CeCe Winans, American singer
1965 - Martin Mayhew, NFL cornerback (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1965 - Matt Biondi, US 100m swimmer (Olympics-3 gold-84, 88, 92)
1965 - Ross Flemer, Newport Beach California, rower (Olympics-1996)
1965 - Ardal O'Hanlon, Irish comedian and actor
1965 - C-Jay Ramone, American musician (The Ramones)
1966 - Art Barr, American wrestler (d. 1994)
1967 - Yvonne Reyes, Venezuelan actress
1968 - Frankie Smith, NFL cornerback (Miami Dolphins, SF 49ers)
1968 - Ali Benarbia, former Algerian footballer
1968 - Zvonimir Boban, Croatian football player
1969 - Dylan Neal, US actor (Dylan Shaw-Bold & the Beautiful)
1969 - Jeremy Davies, American actor
1970 - Carlos Etheredge, WLAF tight end (Amsterdam Admirals)
1970 - David Doster, Fort Wayne IN, infielder (Philadelphia Phillies)
1970 - DeWayne Knight, CFL linebacker (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1970 - James Williams, WLAF cornerback (Scottish Claymores)
1970 - Matt Damon, Cambridge, Massachusetts, American actor (Good Will Hunting, Ocean's trilogy,
           Bourne trilogy)
1970 - Tetsuya Nomura, Japanese video-game designer
1970 - Soon-Yi Previn, Korean American actress
1971 - Boomer [Norman] Ellison, NFL wide receiver (San Diego Chargers)
1971 - Jim Hanna, WLAF defensive tackle (Amsterdam Admirals)
1971 - Monty Williams, NBA forward/guard (San Antonio Spurs)
1971 - Nate Miller, NFL/WLAF guard (Frankfurt Galaxy, Atlanta Falcons)
1971 - Terry Richardson, WLAF running back (Rhein Fire)
1971 - Val St germain, CFL tackle (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1972 - Dede Demet, Milwaukee Wisc, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1972 - Jared Kaaiohelo, WLAF running back (Scottish Claymores)
1972 - Stanislav Varga, Slovakian footballer
1973 - Donnie Abraham, cornerback (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1973 - Toby Haenen, Hobart Tasmania Aus, backstroke swimmer (Olympics-96)
1973 - Tracy Bonner, Webster Texas, diver (Olympics-96)
1974 - Rashaan Salaam, NFL running back (Chic Bears)
1974 - Rod Manuel, defensive end (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1974 - Fredrik Modin, Swedish hockey player
1974 - DJ Q-Ball, American musician (Bloodhound Gang)
1974 - Koji Murofushi, Japanese hammer thrower
1976 - Galo Blanco, Spanish tennis player
1977 - Erna Siikavirta, Finnish musician (Deathlike Silence)
1977 - Anne-Caroline Chausson, French mountain-bike rider
1978 - Mick O'Driscoll, Irish rugby player
1978 - Antonino D'Agostino, Italian football player
1979 - [Gregory] Chad Petree, Shawne Oklahoma, rocker (PC Quest-Can You See)
1979 - Kristanna Loken, American actress
1979 - Paul Burchill, English professional wrestler
1980 - Andria Gayle Mullins, Miss Texas Teen USA (Teen with Style-1997)
1980 - Mike Mizanin, American wrestler
1980 - Nick Cannon, American actor
1981 - Princess Juliana Edenia Antonia, of Netherlands
1981 - Raffi Torres, Canadian ice hockey player
1981 - Ruby (Egyptian Singer), Egyptian singer
1983 - Michael Fraser, Scottish football goalkeeper
1983 - Travis Pastrana, American motorsports competitor
1985 - Eiji Wentz, German-Japanese entertainer
1987 - Aya Hirano, Japanese Seiyuu
1993 - Angus T. Jones, American actor (Two and a Half Men)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 08, 2013, 09:46:11 AM

This Day in History for 8th October


Famous Deaths

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Statesman John Hancock (1793)


705 - Abd al-Malik, kalief of Damascus, dies
976 - Jelena of Zadar, Croatian queen
1094 - St Mark, the Evangelist, buried in San Marcos minstery in Venice
1253 - Robert Grosseteste, English Bishop/expert (optica), dies
1286 - John I of Dreux, Duke of Brittany (b. 1217)
1317 - Fushimi, Emperor of Japan (b. 1265)
1604 - Janus Dousa, [Johan van de Does], literature/politician, dies at 58
1606 - John VI the Elder, Count of Nassau, father of 24, dies aged 69
1613 - Sebastian de Covarrubias bon Horozco, lexicographer, dies at 74
1621 - Antoine de Montchrétien, French dramatist
1647 - Christian Sørensen Longomontanus, Danish astronomer (b. 1562)
1651 - Isaac Elsevier, book publisher, dies at 55
1652 - John Greaves, English mathematician (b. 1602)
1656 - Johann Georg I, ruler of Saxon (1611-56, Peace of Prague), dies at 71
1659 - Jean de Quen, French Jesuit missionary
1680 - Elisabeth, abbess, dies at 61
1683 - Philipp Friedrich Boddecker, composer, dies at 76
1686 - Adriaen Paets, Rotterdams regent/diplomat, dies at about 55
1722 - Gerard Callenbach, Dutch admiral, dies at 80
1728 - Anne Danican Philidor, French composer, dies at 47
1735 - Yongzheng Emperor of China (b. 1678)
1754 - Henry Fielding, English lawyer/author (Tom Jones), dies at 47
1771 - John E Loovens, lawyer, dies at 76
1772 - Jean-Joseph Cassenea de Mondonville, composer, dies at 60
1793 - John Hancock, US merchant/statesman (Decl of Independence), dies at 56
1795 - Andrew Kippis, English non-conformist clergyman (b. 1725)
1803 - Vittoria A Alfieri, Italian earl/writer (Filippo), dies at 54
1809 - James Elphinston, Scottish philologist (b. 1721)
1834 - Francois-Adrien Boieldieu, composer, dies at 58
1842 - Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse, composer, dies at 68
1847 - Rose Scott, Social Reformer
1862 - James Streshley Jackson, attorney/Union-brig-gen, dies in battle at 39
1862 - William Rufus Terrill, Union brig-general, dies in battle at 28
1864 - Thomas Jonathan Coffin Amory, US Union-brig-general, dies at about 34
1865 - Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, composer, dies at 51
1869 - Franklin Peirce, 14th president (1853-1857), dies in Concord NH at 64
1879 - Miguel Grau Seminario, Peruvian Admiral (b. 1834)
1886 - Austin F. Pike, American politician from New Hampshire (b. 1819)
1888 - Jules J baron d'Anethan, Belgian Minister of Justice, dies
1895 - Charles Oberthur, composer, dies at 76
1897 - Martin Pluddemann, composer, dies at 43
1897 - Alexei Savrasov, Russian painter (b. 1830)
1904 - Gustav Ratzenhofer, Austria sociologist/philosopher, dies at 62
1907 - Alfred, Liechtensteins noble of Austrian Herrenhaus, dies at 65
1912 - Wilhelm Kuhe, composer, dies at 88
1919 - Eugene Demolder, Belgian writer (Sous la Robe), dies
1925 - Abraham PC of Karnebeek, liberal foreign minister (1918-27), dies
1928 - Larry Semon, comedian (b. 1889)
1931 - Sir John Monash, Australian soldier general (b. 1865)
1936 - William Henry Stark, American business leader (b. 1851)
1936 - Red Ames, American baseball player (b. 1882)
1940 - Robert Emden, Swiss geo/astro physics (Gaskugeln), dies at 78
1942 - Sergei Chaplygin, Soviet engineer
1944 - Wendell Lewis Wilkie, Republican politician, dies at 52
1945 - Herman T Colenbrander, historian, dies at 73
1945 - Felix Salten, Austrian author (b. 1869)
1947 - Felix Salten, [Siegmund Salzmann], Austria writer (Bambi), dies at 78
1952 - Joe Adams, American baseball player (b. 1877)
1953 - Kathleen Ferrier, English alto singer, dies at 41
1953 - Nigel Bruce, actor (Son of Lassie, Spider Woman), dies at 58
1956 - Dirk Koster, literary (New noises), dies at 69
1958 - Ran Bosilek, Bulgarian author (b. 1886)
1962 - Solomon Linda, South African singer and composer
1963 - Remedios Varo, Spanish-Mexican surrealist artist dies of a heart attack aged 54
1964 - Charles Hodge, NYU professor (Answers for Americans), dies at 69
1967 - Clement R Attlee, premier pf Great Britain (1945-51), dies at 84
1969 - Eduardo Ciannelli, actor (Waldo-Johnny Staccato), dies at 81
1970 - Jean Giono, French writer (Hussard Sur le Toit), dies at 75
1970 - Lucien Goldmann, Romanian/French sociologist/philosopher, dies
1970 - Mitr Chaibancha, Thai film actor (b. 1934)
1971 - Christopher Dark, actor (Man Behind the Badge), dies at 51
1971 - Johanna Bordewijk-Roepman, composer, dies at 79
1973 - Gabriel Marcel, writer, dies
1975 - Alberto Hemsi, composer, dies at 78
1977 - Giorgos Papasideris, Greek country singer , composer , lyricist (b. 1902 )
1978 - Jim Gilliam, coach (LA Dodgers), dies at 49
1978 - Karl Swenson, actor (Lara-Little House on the Prairie), dies at 70
1978 - Tibor Serly, Hungarian violist/composer (American Elegy), dies at 76
1979 - June Nash, actress (Strange Cargo, Dynamite), dies at 68
1982 - Fernando Lamas, actor/director (Lost World), dies of cancer at 67
1982 - Philip J Noel-Baker, English minister (Nobel 1959), dies at 92
1983 - Joan Hackett, actress (Group, Flicks, Rivals), dies of cancer at 49
1984 - Frederick Brisson, producer, dies at 71 after a stroke
1985 - Leon Klinghoffer, hijackers of Achille Lauro, threw him off boat
1985 - Ricardo Bacchelli, playwright/poet (Il malino del Po), dies at 94
1988 - Ernst Hermann Meyer, composer, dies at 82
1990 - B.J. Wilson, English musician (Procol Harum) (b. 1947)
1991 - Natalia Ginzburg, Italian writer (Sounds of the Night), dies at 75
1992 - Willy Brandt, chancellor of West Germany (1969-74), dies of cancer at 78
1993 - Manke Nelis, [Cornelis Pieters], singer (Aunt Saar), dies at 73
1994 - Brian Hartley, mathematician, dies at 55
1994 - Diana Churchill, actress (Spider, Sally Bishop), dies at 81
1994 - John the King, CDA-minister of Social Businesses, dies at 68
1994 - Manual Pina, fashion Designer, dies at 50
1995 - Christopher Keene, musician, dies at 48
1995 - Frederick Harry Baines, painter, dies at 85
1995 - John Cairncross, linguist (5th Man), dies at 82
1995 - Terry Hawkins, theatre administrator, dies at 45
1996 - Geoffrey Finsberg, politician, dies at 70
1996 - Harold Watkins Shaw, musicologist, dies at 85
1996 - Joseph Roy George Ralston, pilot, dies at 81
1996 - Susan Gautier TV producer-Smith, dies at 33
1996 - William Prince, actor (Ken Baxter-Another World), dies at 83
1997 - Brown Meggs, CEO (Capitol Records), dies of a brain hemorrhage at 66
1997 - Bertrand Goldberg, American architect (b. 1913)
1999 - John McLendon, American basketball coach (b. 1915)
2002 - Jacques Richard, French Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1952)
2004 - Jacques Derrida, French philosopher (b. 1930)
2004 - James Chace, American historian (b. 1931)
2006 - Mark Porter, New Zealand racing driver (b. 1975)
2008 - George Emil Palade, Romanian cell biologist (b. 1912)
2008 - Eileen Herlie, American actress (b. 1918)
2008 - Bob Friend (newscaster), British newscaster (b. 1938)
2010 - Frank Bourgholtzer, American television correspondent (b. 1919)
2011 - Al Davis, American football executive (b. 1929)
2011 - Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist (b. 1941)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 09, 2013, 10:43:06 AM

This Day in History for 9th October


Historical Events

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Holy Roman Emperor                              US Cavalry Commander                         US President Woodrow Wilson
Charlemagne                                           George Armstrong Custer

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Baseball Great Babe Ruth                  Soldier, author,journalist,politician     Ex-soldier, drifter Lee Harvey Oswald
                                                              Winston Churchill


680 - Husain ibn 'Ali, Shi'i religious leader, enters martyrdom
768 - Charlemagne and his brother Carloman I are crowned Kings of The Franks.
869 - Charles the Bare crowned king of Lotharingen
1000 - Leif Ericson discovers "Vinland" (possibly New England)
1003 - Leif Erikson lands in L'Anse aux Meadows, Canada, becoming the first European to reach
           America.
1192 - Richard I of England, the Lion Heart, leaves Jerusalem in disguise
1238 - James I of Aragon conquers Valencia and founds the Kingdom of Valencia.
1290 - Last of 16,000 English Jews expelled by King Edward I, leaves
1446 - The Hangul alphabet is published in Korea.
1558 - Mérida is founded in Venezuela.
1573 - Don Frederik disbands siege of Alkmaar
1595 - The Spanish army captures Cambrai.
1597 - Earl Mauritius occupies Breevoort
1617 - Peace of Pavia (Spain & Savoye)
1621 - Turkey & Poland signs Peace of Chotin
1635 - Religious dissident Roger Williams banished from Mass Bay Colony
1651 - English parliament proclaims Navigation Act off
1655 - Swedish king Karel X Gustaaf occupies Krakow
1668 - Mass society storms palace of "heretics" Spanish gov Jose de Paternina
1701 - Collegiate School of Ct (Yale U), chartered in New Haven
1708 - Battle at Lesnaya: Russian army captures Swedish convoy
1716 - England & France sign treaty
1740 - Neth gov-general Adriaen Valckenier allows murder of 8000 Chinese inhabitants of Batavia
1760 - 7 Year's War: Russian and Austrian forces occupy Berlin [OS=Sep 28].
1771 - The Dutch merchant ship Vrouw Maria sinks near the coast of Finland.
1776 - Mission Dolores founded by SF Bay
1794 - French troops occupy Hertogenbosch
1799 - Sinking of British frigate HMS Lutine, with the loss of 240 men and a cargo worth £1,200,000
           off Dutch coast.
1804 - Hobart Tasmania founded
1806 - Prussia declares war on France.
1817 - University of Gent officially opens
1818 - Congress of Aken returns to France from Libya
1820 - Guayaquil, Ecuador declares its freedom from Ecuador
1824 - Slavery is abolished in Costa Rica.
1831 - Ioannis Kapodistrias, Ist Head of State of modern Greece, assassinated in Nafplion.
1835 - The Royal College, Colombo established with the name Hillstreet Academy in Sri Lanka.
1837 - Steamboat "Home" sinks off Okracoke NC killing 100
1837 - Meeting at the U.S. Naval Academy establishes the U.S. Naval Institute.
1845 - The eminent and controversial Anglican, John Henry Newman, is received into the Roman
           Catholic Church.
1854 - The siege of Sebastopol begins (Crime war)
1855 - Isaac Singer patents sewing machine motor
1855 - Joshua Stoddard of Worcester, Mass patents 1st calliope
1863 - Battle of Brady Station, VA (Culpeper Court House, Bristoe Station)
1864 - Battle of Tom's Brook; Confederate cavalry that harassed Sheridan's campaign is beaten by
           Custer & Merrit's cavalry divisions
1865 - 1st US underground pipeline for carrying oil is laid in Pennsylvania
1870 - Rome is incorporated into Italy by royal decree
1872 - Aaron Montgomery started his mail-order business
1874 - World Postal Union forms in Bern Switzerland
1876 - 1st 2-way telephone conversation, 1st over outdoor wires
1877 - American Humane Association organizes (Cleveland)
1888 - Washington Monument opens for public admittance
1890 - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Red-Headed League"
1899 - 1st British troops reaches Durban, South Africa
1899 - South Africa President Kruger routes British authorities ultimatum
1900 - 8.3 earthquake shakes Cape Yakataga, Alaska
1903 - 11" (28.4 cm) rainfall in 24 hrs (NYC)
1905 - Phila A's meet Giants in World Series, Giants win 3-0
1909 - Ty Cobb steals home in World Series game
1910 - Nap Lajorie challenges Ty Cobb batting avg with 8 hits, 6 were bunts as Brown's 3rd
           baseman Red Corriden played deep, Cobb still won
1914 - German troops take Antwerp in World War I
1915 - Belgrade Serbia, surrenders to Central leaders
1915 - Gil Anderson races auto (165.1 km record) in Sheepshead Bay, NY
1915 - Louis Kaufmans "Unchastened Woman," premieres in NYC
1915 - Woodrow Wilson becomes 1st pres to attend a World Series game
1916 - Babe Ruth begins 29 2/3 scoreless World Series innings
1916 - Babe Ruth pitches & wins longest WS game (14 innings) 2-1
1920 - 1st World Series game in Cleveland, Indians win 2-1
1921 - Babe Ruth's 1st WS homer; only Sunday game ever pitched by Carl Mays
1926 - Dutch Queen Wilhelmina opens Royal Colonial Institution
1926 - NBC (National Broadcasting Corporation) forms
1928 - Marcel Pagnol's "Topaz," premieres in Paris
1928 - NY Yankees sweep Cards in 25th World Series, Ruth hits 3 HR in game
1928 - NY Yankees become 1st to sweep consecutive World Series
1929 - G Kaufman & R Lardner's musical "June Moon," premieres in NYC
1930 - 1st transcontinental flight by a woman completed, Laura Ingalls
1934 - St Louis Cards beat Detroit Tigers, 4 games to 3 in 31st World Series
1934 - Regicide at Marseille: The assassination of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou,
           Foreign Minister of France.
1936 - Hoover Dam begins transmitting electricity to Los Angeles
1938 - A Copland & E Lorings ballet "Billy the Kid," premieres in Chicago
1938 - Cleveland Browns & Chicago Bears play a penalty free NFL game
1938 - NY Yankees sweep Cubs in 35th World Series, 3rd straight WS win
1941 - A coup in Panama declares Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango the new president.
1942 - Statute of Westminster 1931 formalises Australian autonomy.
1944 - British Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives in Russia for talks with Stalin
1944 - Canadian offensive in West-Zeeuws-Flanders
1944 - German occupier turn off electricity in Amsterdam
1944 - St Louis Cards beat St Louis Browns, 4 games to 2 in 41st World Series
1945 - British troops occupy Andamanen in Gulf of Bengal
1946 - 1st electric blanket manufactured; sold for $39.50
1946 - Eugene O'Neill's "Iceman Cometh," premieres in NYC
1947 - 1st telephone conversation between a moving car & a plane
1947 - Julie Styne & Sam Cohn's musical "High Button Shoes," premieres in NYC for 727
           performances
1948 - WXYZ TV channel 7 in Detroit, MI (ABC) begins broadcasting
1949 - NY Yankees beat Dodgers 4 games to 1 in 46th World Series
1951 - 5th NHL All-Star Game: 1st Team ties 2nd Team 2-2 at Toronto
1951 - Gil McDougald's World Series grand slam helps Yanks beat Giants 13-1
1953 - British Prime Minister Winston Churchill aproves Guyanese Constitution
1953 - Conrad Adenauer elected West German chancellor
1954 - KTIV TV channel 4 in Sioux City, IA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1955 - Betty Jameson wins LPGA Richmond Golf Open
1956 - 10th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 1-1 at Montreal
1957 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia
1958 - Israeli navy inaugrates its 1st submarine
1958 - NY Yankees beat Braves 4 games to 3 in 55th World Series
1958 - NY Yankees appear in 9 & win 7 of last 10 World Series
1959 - Lee Harvey Oswald arrives in Southampton
1960 - Cowboy QB Eddie LeBaron throws shortest touchdown pass (2")
1961 - NY Yankees beat Cin Reds, 4 games to 1 in 58th World Series
1961 - Tanganyika becomes independent within British Commonwealth
1961 - US members of communist party obliged to report themselves to Police
1961 - Volcano eruptions on Tristan de Cunha (South Atlantic)
1961 - Yank Whitey Ford breaks Ruth record of 29 2/3 consecutive inning
1961 - World Series scoreless pitching streak Yanks beat Reds 4 games to 1
1962 - Battles to decide Algeria-Morocco boundary kills 130
1962 - NASA civilian test pilot John B McKay takes X-15 to 39,200 m
1962 - Uganda becomes independent from the United Kingdom
1963 - Landslide into Vaiont Dam empties lake, kills 3-4,000 (Italy)
1963 - British premier Harold MacMillan resigns
1963 - Dam in Piave valley Italy, breaks' about 2,000 die
1963 - French air force gets 1st nuclear weapons
1963 - Hurricane Flora ravages Cuba & Haiti, kills 6,000
1965 - 16th Ryder Cup: US wins 19½-12½ at Royal Birkdale, England
1965 - Beatles' "Yesterday," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 4 weeks
1966 - Balt Orioles sweep LA Dodgers, in 63rd World Series
1966 - Rolling Stones 1st LP recorded "Got Live if you Want It"
1968 - Government seizes oil fields in Peru
1968 - WKMU TV channel 21 in Murray, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1969 - Supremes release "Someday We'll Be Together"
1970 - Khmer Republic (Cambodia) declares independence
1971 - Japanese emperor Hirohito visits Netherlands
1971 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1972 - "Dude" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 16 performances
1973 - 1st general striking in Luxembourg since 1942
1973 - Elvis & Priscilla Presley divorce after 6 years
1973 - Israel announces loss of Bar-Lev defense line in Suez Canal
1973 - Warriors-Cavalier game in Cleveland postponed because of wet floors
1974 - Frank Robinson became 1st Black baseball manager (Cleve Indians)
1974 - Race riot in Boston due to "bussing"
1974 - Washington Capitals 1st NHL game, losing 6-3 to NY Rangers at Madison Square Garden
           Wash Caps begin a 37 game road losing streak
1975 - Emperor Hirohito of Japan visits SF
1975 - Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov wins Nobel Peace Prize
1976 - "Robber Bridegroom" opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 145 performances
1976 - Peter Petherick takes hat-trick on debut NZ v Pak Javed 1st wkt
1976 - Test Cricket debut of Javed Miandad (Pakistan), scores 163 on 1st day
1976 - Yanks 1st AL Championship game, beat Royals 4-1
1977 - Amy Alcott wins LPGA Houston Exchange Clubs Golf Classic
1977 - Soyuz 25 launched to Saluyt 6, but returned after failing to dock
1977 - Yanks rally for 3 in 9th & beat Royals 5-3 for pennant #31
1978 - 12th Country Music Association Award
1978 - John Kander & Fred Ebb's musical "Ballroom," premieres in NYC
1979 - Howard Stern begins broadcasting on WCCC in Hartford Conn
1980 - 1st consumer use of home banking by computer (Knoxville Tn)
1980 - Nobel prize for literature awarded to Czeslaw Milosz
1980 - Princess Caroline of Monaco divorces Philippe Junot
1981 - Abolition of capital punishment in France.
1982 - Attack on synagouge in Rome, 1 dead
1983 - 4 South Korean government ministers assassinated in Rangoon Burma
1984 - Kathy Sullivan becomes 1st US woman to walk in space
1985 - "Tango Argentino" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 198 perfs
1985 - Central Park's Strawberry Fields, dedicated
1985 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1986 - "Phantom of the Opera" premeires in London
1986 - Gilbert Perreault, Buffalo, became 12th NHLer to score 500 goals
1986 - Senate convicted US District Judge Harry E Claiborne making him 5th federal official to be
           removed from office through impeachment
1987 - Japanese bank buys "Lady McGill" stamp for $1,100,000
1988 - 17% vote extremely-right Flemish Block in Belgium
1988 - Dennis Eckersley, 1st to save all 4 games in a championship series
1989 - 23rd Country Music Association Award: George Strait, Kathy Mattea wins
1989 - 27th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats Spain in Tokyo Japan (3-0)
1989 - Penthouse Magazine's Hebrew edition hits newstands
1989 - 1st NFL game coached by a black man (Art Shell), his LA Raiders beat NY Jets 14-7 on
           Monday Night Football
1990 - David Hackett Souter, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice
1990 - Radio stations around world play "Imagine" honoring John Lennon
1990 - Saddam Hussein threatens to hit Israel with a new missile
1991 - "On Borrowed Time" opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 99 perfs
1991 - Bush declares "total confidence" in nominee Clarence Thomas
1991 - San Jose Sharks beat Calgary for their 1st NHL win, 4-3
1991 - Ecuador becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1992 - Great meteorite seen from Kentucky to NY
1992 - A 13 kilogram (est.) meteorite lands in the driveway of the Knapp residence in Peekskill, New
           York, destroying the family's 1980 Chevrolet Malibu
1994 - Austrian parliamentary election (23% extreme-right)
1994 - Darmstadtium (element 110) created in Darmstadt, Germany
1996 - Howard Stern's book "Miss America" released in paperback
1997 - ABL players allowed to own stock in the league
1997 - Hurricane kills 123 in Acapulco Mexico
1997 - NC's Dean Smith winningest college basetball coach retires
1997 - NY Rangers are 1st NHL team to open with 4 straight ties
1997 - Nobel prize for literature awarded to Dario Fo
1999 - The last flight of the SR-71.
2001 - Second mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attack.
2006 - North Korea allegedly tests its first nuclear device.
2007 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at an all-time high.
2009 - First lunar impact of the Centaur and LCROSS spacecrafts as part of NASA's Lunar Precursor
           Robotic Program.
2012 - 25,000 people in Athens protest German Chancellor Angela Merkel
2012 - Serge Haroche and David Wineland win the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics for work on quantum
           optics

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 09, 2013, 10:44:39 AM

This Day in History for 9th October


Famous Weddings

1514 - King Louis XII of France marries Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VII (sister of Henry VIII)
1999 - "Pretty in Pink" actor Andrew McCarthy (36) weds Carol Schneider
2005 - "The O.C." writer and talk show host Regis Philbin's daughter Jennifer Joy Philbin (31) weds
           NBC comedy series "The Office" writer Michael Schur (32) at St. Ignatius Loyola Church in
           New York City
2005 - Savage Garden musician Daniel Jones (32) weds "Hi-5" member Kathleen De Leon at Avica
           Weddings and Resort on the Gold Coast in Queensland
2005 - Italian pop singer Alexia (38) weds Giorgio Armani's nephew Andrea Camerana at Church of
           San Martino in Piacenza, Italy
2011 - Musician Paul McCartney (69) weds New Yorker Nancy Shevell (51) in a civil ceremony at Old
           Marylebone Town Hall, London
2011 - TV personality Layla Kayleigh (22) weds Radio Talk Show Host/DJ Steve Covino (36) in Las
           Vegas, Nevada

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 09, 2013, 10:45:41 AM

This Day in History for 9th October


Famous Divorces

1973 - Elvis & Priscilla Presley divorce after 6 years
1980 - Princess Caroline of Monaco divorces Philippe Junot

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 09, 2013, 10:51:59 AM

This Day in History for 9th October


Famous Birthdays

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Chemist and Nobel Laureate                   Music Manager/TV Personality
Hermann Emil Fischer (1852)                      Sharon Osbourne (1952)


1201 - Robert de Sorbon, founded Sorbonne University, Paris
1221 - Salimbene di Adam, Italian chronicler
1261 - Dionysius, the Justified, king of Portugal (1279-1325)
1328 - King Peter I of Cyprus (d. 1369)
1581 - Claude G Bachet de Meziriac, French mathematician/theologist
1586 - Jan III van Foreest, lawyer/poet/mayor of Hoorn
1586 - Archduke Leopold V of Austria (d. 1632)
1626 - John Ferrabosco, composer
1663 - Gian M Crescimbeni, Italian literary/critic (Arcadia)
1704 - Ján Andrej Segner, Slovak and German mathematician, physicist, and physician (d. 1777)
1727 - Johann Wilhelm Hertel, composer
1757 - Charles X, reactionary king of France (1824-30); deposed
1760 - Pierre Gaveaux, composer
1766 - Bedrich Divis Weber, composer
1771 - Frederik Willem, duke of Brunswick (1813-15)
1782 - Lewis Cass, (Gov-Mich)
1796 - Joseph Bonomi the Younger, English Egyptologist (d. 1878)
1813 - John Jones Pettus, Confederate governor (D-Miss, 1859-63)
1819 - Samuel McGowan, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1897
1822 - George Sykes, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1880
1823 - Mary Ann Shadd Cary, 1st black US newspaper publishers
1830 - Harriet Hosmer, sculptor
1835 - Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer (d. 1921)
1840 - Simeon Solomon, British artist (d. 1905)
1847 - Andre Dumont, Belgian mine engineer (Limburg's coal basin)
1847 - Stephanus J du Toit, South Africa theologist/journalist (Afr Bond)
1852 - Hermann Emil Fischer, Euskirchen, Rhine Province, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate, (d. 1919)
1858 - Gerard L F Philips, Dutch engineer/manufacturer (Philips)
1859 - Alfred Dreyfus, accused Jewish French officer (Dreyfus Affair)
1863 - Alexander Siloti, Kharkov Russia, pianist/prof (Moscow Cons 1888-91)
1869 - Harry Lawrence Freeman, composer
1871 - Gerrit Bolkestein, minister of Education (1939-4-)
1871 - George Gauthier, Bishop of Montreal and rector of the Université de Montréal (d. 1940)
1871 - Didak Buntić, Croatian monk and scholar.
1873 - Karl Schwarzschild, German astronomer (Schwarzschild effect)
1873 - Carl Flesch, Hungarian violinist (d. 1944)
1874 - Nicholas Roerich, Russian painter (d. 1947)
1878 - Robert Warwick, [Bien], Sacramento CA, actor (Falcon's Adventure)
1884 - Helene Deutsch, [Rosenbach], psychoanalyst (Boston)
1884 - Martin Elmer Johnson, explorer/photographer
1886 - Frank Newburg, actor (Homemaker)
1886 - Rube Marquard, American baseball player (d. 1980)
1888 - Hank Patterson, Alabama, actor (Gunsmoke, Fred Ziffel-Green Acres)
1888 - Irving Cummings Sr, NYC, silent screen star/director (Curly Top)
1888 - Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, Russian politician (d. 1938)
1890 - Aimee Semple McPherson, evangelist (Pentecostal)/radio preacher
1890 - Alfred Julius Swan, composer
1890 - Janis Medins, composer
1892 - Ivo Andric, Yugoslavia, novelist (Bridge on Drina, Nobel Prize for Literature 1961)
1892 - Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet (d. 1941)
1893 - Heinrich George, (Schulz), German actor (Hitlerjunge Quex)
1893 - M de Andrade, writer
1899 - Bruce Catton, US, historian/writer (Civil War)
1900 - Alastair Sim, Edinburgh Scot, actor (Christmas Carol, Stage Fright)
1900 - Silvio Cator, Haiti, long jumper (Olympic-silver-1928)
1902 - Freddie Young, British cinematographer (d. 1998)
1903 - Walter O'Malley, baseball team owner (Dodgers)
1904 - Carl Parrish, composer
1904 - J Dito, Dutch dominican/broadcast chairman (KRO, 1938-45)
1904 - Wally Brown, Malden MA, actor (Zombies on Broadway, Girl Rush)
1905 - Euphemia MacDonald, dance producer
1905 - Howard St John, Chicago IL, actor (Born Yesterday, Li'l Abner)
1906 - 13th earl of Stair, English lt-colonel/large landowner
1906 - Janis Ivanovs, composer
1906 - Léopold Sédar Senghor, Senegalese poet and politician (d. 2001)
1907 - Klaes Karppinen, Findland, 4 X 10K relay (Olympic-gold-1936)
1907 - Quintin Hogg, British politician (d. 2001)
1908 - Jacques Tati[scheff], La Pecq France, director (Traffic, Playtime)
1908 - James E Folsom, (Alabama-Gov, 1947-51, 1955-59)
1908 - Harry Hooton, Australian poet (d. 1961)
1908 - Lee Wiley, American jazz singer (d. 1975)
1910 - Donald Coggan, English archbishop of York/Canterbury (Glory of God)
1910 - Phil Hanna, River Forest Ill, singer (Once Upon a Tune)
1911 - Joe Rosenthal, American photographer (d. 2006)
1914 - Edward Andrews, Griffin GA, actor (Tea & Sympathy, Glass Bottom Boat)
1914 - Roger Goeb, composer
1915 - Clifford M. Hardin, United States Secretary of Agriculture
1917 - Kusuo Kitamura, Japan, 1500m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-gold-1932)
1918 - E Howard Hunt, Hamburg NY, involved in Watergate break-in
1918 - Lila Kedrova, Russian-born actress (d. 2000)
1919 - Rezso Sugar, composer
1920 - Jens Bjorneboe, Norway, poet/writer (Dikt, Jonas)
1920 - Vivienne Della Chiesa, US, actress (?)
1920 - Yusef Lateef, composer
1920 - Jens Bjørneboe, Norwegian author (d. 1976)
1921 - Michel Boisrond, French film director (d. 2002)
1922 - Fyvush Finkel, actor (Middle Ages, Picket Fences)
1922 - Raymond Wilding-White, composer
1923 - Donald Sinden, England, actor (Doctor at Large, Mogambo, Simba)
1923 - Ronald Tremain, composer
1924 - Robert A Rushworth, Madison Maine, test pilot (X-15)
1925 - Robert Finch, actor (Academy Theater)
1925 - Johnny Stompanato, American organized crime figure (d. 1958)
1926 - Daniele Delorme, [Gabrielle Girard], Paris, actress (Pardon My Affair)
1927 - Ivan Metropolitan Ioann Snychev, Russion Orthodox Priest
1928 - Einojuhani Rautavaara, Helsinki Finland, composer (Kaivos)
1930 - David Rounds, Bronxville NY, actor (Terence-Beacon Hill)
1930 - Fjolnir Stefansson, composer
1931 - Tony Booth, British actor and father of Cherie Blair
1933 - Bill Tidy, English cartoonist (Fosdyke Saga)
1934 - Jacobo Majluta Azar, politician
1934 - Jill Ker Conway, Australian-American author
1935 - Don[ald] McCullin, British photographer
1935 - Edward GNPP, English prince/duke of Kent
1935 - Jules Croiset, Dutch actor (Help, Doctor Verzuipt!)
1935 - Paul Barton, cricketer (NZ batsman in early 1960's, century v South Africa)
1935 - Paul J M Beers, Dutch actor (Mother Courage & Her Children)
1936 - Brian Blessed, Mexborough, Yorkshire, English actor (King Arthur, High Road to China)
1937 - Pat Burke, rocker (Foundations)
1938 - Heinz Fischer, Austrian politician
1939 - O V Wright, rocker
1939 - Pierre Mertens, French/Belgian writer (Lettres Clandestines)
1940 - Gordon J Humphrey, (Sen-R-NH, 1979- )
1940 - Hans Ulrich Humpert, composer
1940 - Joe Pepitone, baseball 1st baseman (NY Yankee)
1940 - John Winston Ono Lennon, Liverpool UK, musician and member of The Beatles (Imagine), (d.
           1980)
1941 - Trent Lott, (Rep-R-MS, 1973- )
1941 - Brian Lamb, Founder of c-span
1941 - Chucho Valdés, Cuban musician
1942 - Shukri Ghanem, Vienna Austria, Libyan Prime Minister (2003-2006), (d. 2012)
1943 - Mike Peters, American cartoonist
1944 - John Entwistle, London, rock guitarist/vocalist (Who-Baba O'Riley)
1944 - Nona Hendrix, R & B singer (Patti LaBelle & Blue Belles)
1945 - Jeannie C Riley, Texas, singer (Harper Valley PTA, Hee Haw)
1945 - Naftali Bon, Kapsabet Kenya, 4x400m runner (Olympic-silver-1968)
1945 - Taiguara, Brazilian musician (d. 1996)
1947 - France Gall, French singer
1947 - William E. McAnulty, Jr., American lawyer (d. 2007)
1947 - Tony Zappone, American broadcaster, journalist, author, photographer
1948 - Dave Samuels, vibraphonist (Spyro Gyra-Morning Dance)
1948 - Jackson Browne, US Base in Germany, rock voclaist (Lawyers in Love)
1949 - Shep Messing, Israel, soccer goal tender (NY Cosmos)
1950 - Gary Frank, Spokane WA, actor (Enemy Territory, Deadly Weapon)
1950 - Mick Malone, cricketer (WA seamer, Test 1977, made 46 took 5-63, 1-14)
1950 - Jody Williams, American teacher and aid worker, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1950 - Brian Downing, former baseball player
1951 - Richard Chaves, Jacksonville FL, actor (Cease Fire, Predator)
1951 - Robert Wuhl, Union NJ, actor (Bull Durham, Good Morning Vietnam)
1952 - Sharon Osbourne, Brixton, South London, music manager, TV personality and wife of Ozzy
           Osbourne (X-Factor, America's Got Talent)
1953 - Hank Pfister, Bakersfield Cat, tennis star
1953 - Tony Shalhoub, actor (Antonio Scarpacci-Wings, Big Night)
1954 - Scott Bakula, St Louis MO, actor (Quantum Leap, Gung Ho, Murphy Brown)
1955 - Linwood Boomer, Vancouver, actor (Adam-Little House on the Prairie)
1955 - Steve Ovett, England, runner (Olympics-800m gold, 1500m bronze-1980)
1957 - Yuri Vladimirovich Usachyov, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-18, TM-23)
1957 - Don Garber, American sports commissioner
1958 - Michael Pare, American actor
1958 - Al Jourgensen, American musician (Ministry)
1959 - Mike Singletary, NFL middle linebacker (Chicago Bears)
1961 - Arlene Boxhall, Zimbabwe, field hockey (Olympic-gold-1980)
1961 - Jean Sagal, Los Angeles California, actress (Kate-Double Trouble, Grease 2)
1961 - Liz Sagal, Los Angeles California, actress (Allison-Double Trouble, Grease 2)
1961 - Trevor Matich, NFL center/guard (Washington Redskins)
1961 - Julian Bailey, British racing driver
1962 - Jorge Burruchaga, Argentinian footballer
1964 - Martin Jaite, Argentina, tennis star
1964 - Guillermo del Toro, Mexican film director
1966 - Mike Williams, NFL wide receiver (Miami Dolphins)
1966 - Christopher Östlund, Swedish publisher and entrepreneur
1966 - David Cameron, British politician
1967 - Carling Bassett-Seguso, Canada, tennis player/actress (Spring Fever)
1967 - Gheorge Popescu, Romania, soccer player (Barcelona)
1967 - Gica Popescu, Romania, soccer player (PSV)
1967 - Eddie Guerrero, American professional wrestler (d. 2005)
1969 - Charles Jordan, wide receiver (Miami Dolphins)
1969 - Dwayne Sabb, NFL outside linebacker (NE Patriots)
1969 - P.J. Harvey, English musician
1970 - Annika Sorenstam, Stockholm Sweden, LPGA golfer (1995 US Women's Open)
1970 - Kenny Anderson, NBA guard (Charlotte Hornets, Portland Trailblazers)
1970 - Oleg Kryazhev, hockey forward (Team Kazakhstan Oly-1998)
1970 - Park Sang-min, South Korean actor
1971 - Pete Mitchell, NFL tight end (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1971 - Simon Atlee, British photographer (d. 2004)
1972 - Maurice Kelly, CFL linebacker (BC Lions)
1972 - Roman Oben, tackle (NY Giants)
1972 - Sarah Vandenbergh, Australian actor
1973 - A J Ofodile, NFL tight end (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1973 - Alexey Trochshinskiy, hockey defenseman (Team Kazakhstan Oly-1998)
1973 - Brandon Pollard, Richmond VA, soccer defender (Olympics-gold-96)
1973 - Dexter McCleon, cornerback (St Louis Rams)
1973 - Terry Balsamo, American guitarist
1973 - Erin Daniels, American actress
1973 - Fabio Lione, Italian musician (Rhapsody)
1973 - Carlos Pavón, Honduran footballer
1974 - Kavika Pittman, defensive end (Dallas Cowboys)
1974 - Keith Booth, NBA forward (Chicago Bulls)
1974 - Kieren Hutchison, New Zealand actor
1975 - Mahendra Nagamootoo, cricketer (Guyanese leg-spinner)
1975 - Mark Viduka, Australian soccer striker (Olyroos, Olympics-96)
1975 - Sean Ono Lennon, New York USA, John & Yoko's Son
1976 - Rebecca Darrington, Gillette Wyoming, Miss America-Wyoming (1997)
1976 - Nick Swardson American actor
1977 - Lee San San, Miss Hong Kong Universe (1997)
1977 - Brian Roberts, American baseball player
1978 - Randy Spelling, Los Angeles California, actor (Sean Richards-Sunset Beach)
1978 - Nicky Byrne, Irish musician (Westlife)
1978 - Juan Dixon, American basketball player
1979 - Ashley Anderson, Miss Delaware Teen USA (1996)
1979 - Lydia Jane Lipscombe, Christchurch NZ, breastroker (Olympics-96)
1979 - Gonzalo Sorondo, Uruguayan footballer
1979 - Brandon Routh, American actor
1979 - Alex Greenwald, American musician(Phantom Planet), actor, model
1979 - Todd Kelly, Australian racing driver
1980 - Ibrahim Fazeel, Maldivian Ffotballer
1980 - Henrik Zetterberg, Swedish ice hockey player
1981 - Zachery Ty Bryan, Denver CO, actor (Brad-Home Improvement)
1981 - Peter Hill, British Music Photographer
1981 - Darius Miles, American basketball player
1982 - António Mendonça, Angolan footballer
1982 - Shi Jun, Chinese footballer
1983 - Jang Mi-Ran, South Korean weightlifter
1983 - Andreas Zuber, Austrian racing driver
1983 - Stephen Gionta, American ice hockey player
1984 - Ghetto, British musician
1986 - Laure Manaudou, French swimmer
1992 - Tyler James Williams, American actor
1994 - Jodelle Ferland, Canadian actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 09, 2013, 10:56:55 AM

This Day in History for 9th October


Famous Deaths

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Argentine Revolutionary                      Industrialist Oskar Schindler (1974)
Che Guevara (1967)


1047 - Clemens II, [Suitger], Pope (1046-47), dies (b. 1005)
1253 - Grosseteste, an English scholar, dies at 78
1273 - Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Germany
1326 - Reinald I, earl of Gelre/monarch, went insane, dies
1390 - Johan I, king of Castile (1379-90), dies
1423 - Frederik III of Blankenheim, bishop of Straatsburg/Utrecht, dies
1436 - Jacoba van Bavarian, countess of Holland/Zealand, dies at 35
1555 - Justus Jonas, German Protestant reformer (b. 1493)
1562 - Gabriel Fallopius, Modena Italy, anatomist, dies
1562 - Gabriele Falloppio/Gabriel Fallopius, Modena Italy, anatomist and early advocate for the use of
           condoms. (b. 1523)
1569 - Vladimir of Staritsa, Russian prince (b. 1533)
1597 - Ashikaga Yoshiaki, Japanese shogun (b. 1537)
1646 - Baltasar Carlos, son of Spanish king Philip IV, dies
1691 - William Sacheverell, English statesman (b. 1638)
1709 - Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, English mistress of Charles II of England (b. 1640)
1729 - Richard Blackmore, English physician and writer (b. 1654)
1769 - Marianus Konigsperger, composer, dies at 60
1781 - Thomas Alexander Erskine Kelly, composer, dies at 49
1793 - Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, French missionary (b. 1718)
1797 - Elijah B Solomon Zalman, rabbi/Gaon of Vilna Latvia, dies at 77
1806 - Benjamin Banneker, astronomer/mathematician, dies at 74
1821 - Georg-Friederich Fuchs, composer, dies at 68
1831 - Ioannis Kapodistrias, President (1829-31) and founding father of modern Greece.
1837 - Charles Fourier, French utopian socialist (Harmony universal), dies
1841 - Karl F Schinkel, German painter/writer (Neue Wache), dies at 60
1873 - George Ormerod, English historian and antiquarian (b. 1785)
1891 - Johannes Tideman, theologist, dies at 83
1897 - John Heemskerk Azn, Dutch Internal minister (1866..88), dies at 79
1900 - Heinrich von Herzogenberg, composer, dies at 57
1906 - Joseph F Glidden, inventor (barbed wire), dies
1907 - Romualdo Marenco, composer, dies at 66
1912 - Millie & Christine, Siamese twins, dies at 61
1915 - Constant A M Cap, Flemish poet/etcher, dies at 73
1917 - Hussain Kamil, sultan of Egypt (1914-17), dies at 63
1918 - Michail V Alekseyev, Russian general (WW I), murdered at 60
1924 - Valery Bryusov, Russian writer and critic (b. 1873)
1934 - J-Louis-F Barthou, French writer/premier/foreign minister, murdered
1934 - King Alexander, of Yugoslavia, killed by Georgief (Croatian terrorist)
1937 - August de Boeck, composer, dies at 72
1937 - George AA Alting van Geusau, Dutch min of war (1918-20), dies at 73
1940 - Wilfred Grenfell, English medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador (b. 1865).
1941 - Helen Morgan, American singer/actress, dies of liver ailment at 41
1943 - Gerard W Kerncamp, historian/editor-in-chief (Green Amsterdam), dies
1943 - Jan Dieters, leader of illegal Dutch political party (CPN), executed
1943 - Lou Jansen, leader of illegal Dutch political party (CPN), executed
1943 - Pieter Zeeman, naturalist (Nobel 1902), dies
1949 - Viktor Alexandrovich Uspensky, composer, dies at 70
1950 - George Hainsworth, National Hockey League goaltender (b. 1895)
1955 - Alice Joyce, actress (Song O' My Heart), dies at 65
1956 - Marie Doro, American actress (b. 1882)
1958 - Pius XII, [Eugenio Pacelli], Pope (1939-58), dies at 82
1960 - Howard Glenn, NY Titan, dies of injuries sustain in this day's game
1962 - Lulu McConnell, comediene (It Pays to be Ignorant), dies at 80
1963 - Thurlow Weed Lieurance, composer, dies at 85
1967 - Andre Maurois, [Emile Herzog], French writer (Balzac), dies
1967 - Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Argentine Marxist revolutionary and physician, executed in Bolivia at
           39
1968 - Pierre Mulele, Congolese rebel leader, executed
1970 - Jean Giono, writer, dies
1972 - Giuseppe Capogrossi, Italian painter, dies at 72
1972 - Miriam Hopkins, actress (Carrie, Barbary Coast), dies at 69
1974 - Oskar Schindler, German businessman (b. 1908)
1976 - Walter Warlimont, German General WWII (b. 1894)
1978 - Jacques Brel, Belgian chansonnier, buried on Atuama, dies at 49
1982 - Anna Freud, Austria/Engl psychoanalyst/daughter of Sigmund, dies at 86
1983 - Sun Suk Joon, South Korean vice premier, murdered
1985 - Emílio Garrastazu Médici, president of Brazil (b. 1905)
1987 - Clare A Booth Luce, US diplomat/journalist, dies at 84
1987 - Guru Gopinath, Indian classical dancer (b. 1908)
1988 - Edward Chodorov, playwright/director (Louis Pasteur), dies at 84
1988 - Felix Wankel, developer of Wankel rotary engine, dies
1989 - Penny Lernoux, American journalist and author (b. 1940)
1990 - Richard Murdoch, actor (Lilli Marlene), dies of heart attack at 83
1991 - Roy Black, German singer/actor (Kinderarzt Dr Froehlich), dies
1991 - Thalmus Rasulala, actor (Blacula), dies of heart attack at 51
1993 - C R Rangachari, cricketer (4 Tests for India), dies
1993 - Geert de Vlaeminck, Belgian champion cyclist, dies at 26
1994 - Fred Lebow, US founder of New York Marathon, dies of cancer
1994 - James Hill, English director/screenwriter (Born Free), dies at 75
1994 - Joan Dickson, cellist, dies at 72
1994 - Raich Carter, footballer, dies at 80
1995 - Alec Douglas-Home, PM of Britain (1963-64), dies
1995 - John Alfred Scali, journalist/diplomat, dies at 77
1995 - Kukrit Pramoj, PM of Thailand (1975-76), dies at 84
1995 - Lord Home of Hirsel, cricket (Middlesex player later British PM), dies
1995 - Patric William Billy Walker, astrologer, dies at 64
1995 - Phillip Jack Oppenheimer, diamond trader, dies at 83
1996 - Alan Charles Downes, cameraman, dies at 58
1996 - Harvey Vernon, actor (Jasper-Carter Country), dies at 69
1996 - Nigel Thomas Loveridge Fisher, politician, dies at 83
1996 - Richard Clarkson, aerodynamicist, dies at 94
1997 - Arthur Tracy, radio personality (Street Singer), dies at 98
1999 - Milt Jackson, American jazz vibraphonist (b. 1923)
1999 - Akhtar Hameed Khan, pioneer of Microcredit in developing countries (b. 1914)
2000 - David Dukes, American actor (b. 1945)
2000 - Patrick Anthony Porteous, Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1918)
2001 - Dagmar, American television personality (b. 1921)
2001 - Herbert Ross, American film director and producer (b. 1927)
2002 - Charles Guggenheim, American film director/producer (b. 1924)
2002 - Aileen Wournos, American serial killer sentenced to death (b. 1956)
2005 - Louis Nye, American comedian and actor (b. 1913)
2006 - Paul Hunter, English professional snooker player (b. 1978)
2006 - Raymond Noorda, American co-founder and long time CEO of Novell (b. 1924)
2007 - Enrico Banducci, American nightclub owner (b. 1922)
2008 - Gidget Gein, American musician (b. 1969)
2011 - Pavel Karelin, Russian skijumper (b. 1989)
2012 - Harris Savides, American cinematographer., dies from brain cancer at 55

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Post by: MysteRy on October 10, 2013, 10:08:14 AM

This Day in History for 10th October


Historical Events

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Vietnamese Communist                           Ex-soldier, drifter                                   Irish Poet and Playwright
Revolutionary                                           Lee Harvey Oswald                                        Brendan Behan
Ho Chi Minh

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264th Pope John Paul II                    Physician-scientist Robert Lefkowitz


680 - Al-Hussein and his followers killed at Karbala by army of Yazid, the Umayyad caliph, on the way
         to Kufa
1375 - Westfriese sea wall breaks flooding northern Netherlands
1471 - Battle of Brunkeberg Stockholm (Sten Sture beats Christian I)
1549 - Duke of Somerset fired as Lord Protector & imprisoned
1575 - Battle of Dormans: Roman Catholic forces under Duke Henry of Guise defeated the
           Protestants, capturing Philippe de Mornay among others.
1578 - Count Johan Casimir occupies Ghent with 500 horsemen
1631 - Saxon army occupies Prague
1695 - King Willem III escapes South Netherlands, back to England
1720 - French government proclaims strike on banknotes
1733 - France declares war on emperor Charles VI
1760 - Suriname Colonial Regime signs treaty with Aukaners (ex-slaves)
1780 - Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000 to 30,000 in Caribbean
1787 - Amsterdam surrenders to Prussian invasion army
1799 - Convention of Alkmaar: British/Russian invasion army departs
1802 - 1st non-Indian settlement in Oklahoma
1839 - British troops under Gen Charles Napier occupy Beirut
1845 - Naval School (now called US Naval Academy) opens at Annapolis
1846 - Alexis de Tocqueville writes about "Algerian problem"
1846 - Neptune's moon Triton discovered by William Lassell
1854 - US Assay Office in NY City, NY opens
1857 - American Chess Association formed (NYC)
1863 - Skirmish at Blue Springs, Tennessee (166 casualties)
1865 - John Hyatts patents billard ball
1868 - 1st written account of a Canadian football game
1868 - Cuba revolts for independence against Spain
1874 - Fiji becomes a British possession
1886 - 1st dinner jacket (tuxedo) worn to autumn ball at Tuxedo Park, NY
1888 - Teatotalers excursion train crushed, killing 64 (Mud Run Pa)
1889 - Barnard College is founded.
1892 - Entire Hong Kong national cricket team dies in shipwreck off Taiwan
1899 - IR Johnson patents bicycle frame
1902 - S Afr's president Paul Kruger visits Utrecht
1904 - Liberty Theater opens at 234 W 42nd St NYC
1904 - Yanks 2 games out play 1st place Red Sox on final day doubleheader 41 game winner
           Chesbro loses 1st game & chance at pennant
1904 - Boston pitchers achieve 148 complete games-an AL record, also record for total complete
           games AL 1,098, NL 1,089
1911 - Sun Yat-sen's revolutionaries overthrow Manchus (Taiwan Natl Day)
1911 - The KCR East Rail commences service between Kowloon and Canton.
1913 - British passenger ship Volturno catches fire in Atlantic (136 killed)
1913 - Gamboa Dam in Panama blown up; Atlantic & Pacific waters mix
1913 - Yuan Shikai installed as 1st president of China
1914 - German forces route Belgians in Antwerp Belgium (WW I)
1916 - In Game 3, Charlie Ebbets becomes the 1st owner to raise the price of World Series
           grandstand seats to $5-up from $3
1917 - Giants Rube Benton is 1st lefty to pitch a World Series no hitter
1917 - Plymouth Theater opens at 236 W 45th St NYC
1918 - Baden's Geisz forms government
1919 - Richard Strauss & Hugo van Hofmannsthals premieres in Vienna
1920 - 1st Grandslam in WS (Smith) & 1st unassisted triple play (Wambsganss)
1920 - Indians' Elmer Smith hits baseball's 1st post-season grand slam
1920 - Italy annexes South Tirol (Alto Adige)
1920 - Phoenix Cardinals (then in Chicago) play 1st NFL game, a 0-0 tie
1920 - Indian Bill Wambsganns makes 1st unassisted World Series triple play
1920 - Indian's Elmer Smith hits 1st World Series grand slam
1921 - NFL Decatur Staleys become Chicago Staleys, win 14-10
1923 - Saxony gets Social Democratic & Communist coalition government
1923 - NY Giants & NY Yankees become 1st teams to play each other for 3 consecutive World Series,
           also 1st played at Yankee Stadium
1924 - Ibn Saud of Nedzhed captures Mecca
1924 - Washington Senators win their 1st World Series beat Giants in 7
1926 - St Louis Cards beat NY Yankees, 4 games to 3 in 23rd World Series
1930 - AP votes Joe Cronin unofficial AL MVP & BWA names Hack Wilson NL MVP
1930 - Yankees announce signing Joe McCarthy to manage for 4 years
1931 - A J Bennett hits H Garbarino for 1st scoring pass in Canada's Big 4
1931 - St Louis Cards beat Phila A's, 4 games to 3 in 28th World Series
1931 - William Waltons "Belshazzar's Feast," premieres in Leeds
1932 - "Betty & Bob" premieres on radio
1932 - Dnjepr Dam in USSR put into operation (world's biggest)
1933 - 1st synthetic detergent, "Dreft" by Procter & Gamble, goes on sale
1935 - "Porgy & Bess," by George Gershwin, NY premiere
1935 - Coup under Gen Giorgios Kondylis in favor of Greek monarchy
1935 - George Gershwin's "Porgy & Bess" opens on Broadway
1935 - League of Nations denounces Italian invasion of Abyssinia
1936 - Bradman scores 212 in 202 mins in a cricket testimonial game
1937 - NY Yankees beat Giants 4 games to 1 in 34th World Series
1938 - Germany completed annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland
1938 - Premier of Dmitri Shostakovitch's 1st String Quartet
1941 - German U-boat torpedoes US destroyer Kearney
1941 - RAF bombard Piraeus and prevent German heavy armor advancement
1942 - 1,300 Austrian Jews transported to Theresienstadt concentration camp
1943 - Chiang Kai-shek takes oath of office as president of China
1943 - US bombers accidentally strike Enschede Neth, causing 151 deaths
1944 - Adm Halsey's Task Force 30 bombs Okinawa, 700 die
1944 - US takes Okinawa
1945 - Detroit Tigers beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 3 in 42nd World Series
1946 - Max Frisch' "Die Chinesische Mauer," premieres in Zurich
1947 - "Allegro" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 318 performances
1947 - Rodgers & Hammerstein's musical "Allegro," premieres in NYC
1948 - Then record 86,288 see game 5 of World Series in Cleveland
1949 - 3rd NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Toronto 3-1 at Toronto
1951 - Yanks beat Giants 4 games to 2 in World Series, DiMaggio's final game
1954 - Ho Chi Minh enters Hanoi after withdrawal of French troops
1956 - Fazal Mahmood takes 13-114 for match v Aus, Karachi
1956 - On Skowron's grand slammer NY Yanks beat Dodgers 9-0 in series game 7
1957 - Braves' Lew Burdette beats Yankees for 3rd time in 1 World Series
1957 - Milwaukee Braves beat NY Yankees, 4 games to 3 in 54th World Series
1957 - Pres Eisenhower apologizes to finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he is
           refused service in a Dover, Del, restaurant
1957 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1957 - A fire at the Windscale nuclear plant in Cumbria, UK becomes the world's first major nuclear
           accident.
1958 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1958 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1959 - "Happy Town" closes at 84th St Theater NYC after 5 performances
1959 - Lee Harvey Oswald signs guestbook in hotel Helsinki
1959 - Pan Am begins regular flights around World
1960 - "Laughs & Other Events" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 8 perfs
1960 - 16 California Poly football team members die in plane crash in Toledo
1960 - Cyclone hits coast of Gulf of Bengal; about 4000 die
1960 - Ron Stewart of Ottawa rushes for CFL-record 287 yards
1960 - WGTE TV channel 30 in Toledo, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
1961 - "Milk & Honey" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 543 performances
1961 - Expansion draft to stock Houston Astros & NY Mets
1961 - Otis M Smith appointed to Michigan Supreme Court
1961 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1962 - Indies assault up Chinese positions in North-India attack
1963 - Dam bursts in Italy, 3,000+ die
1963 - Netherland population hits 12,000,000
1963 - Treaty banning atmospheric nuclear tests signed by US, UK and USSR
1963 - France cedes control of the Bizerte naval base to Tunisia.
1964 - 18th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Toronto 3-2 at Toronto
1964 - 18th modern Olympic games opens in Tokyo
1965 - "Drat! - The Cat!" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 8 performances
1965 - The Supremes appear on Ed Sullivan Show
1965 - "Vinland Map" is introduced by Yale University as being the 1st known map of America, drawn
           about 1440 by Norse explorer Lief Eriksson
1967 - Brendan Behans "Norstal Boy," premieres in Dublin
1968 - Detroit Tigers beat St Louis Cards, 4 games to 3 in 65th World Series
1968 - George Harrison forms Singsong Ltd
1968 - Lee Evans of US sets 400 meter record at 43.86
1968 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1970 - Fiji gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1971 - 1st game played at Philadelphia's Veteran Stadium, Phils win 4-1
1971 - 5th Country Music Association Award: Charlie Pride wins
1971 - Fenholt & Webber's musical "Jesus Christ Superstar," premieres in NYC
1971 - Rain washes out Game 2, 1st World Series postponement since 1962
1972 - Judy Rankin wins LPGA Heritage Village Golf Open
1973 - NY Mets beat Cin Reds in Game 5 of the NLCS
1973 - VP Spiro T Agnew pleads no contest to tax evasion & resigns
1974 - A's Mike Andrews files $25 million lawsuit against Charlie Finley
1974 - Canadian John Hathaway begins 2-yr ride of 50,600 miles
1974 - Labour Party wins British parliamentary election
1974 - US Gen George Brown's speech deplores Jewish influence in US over his treatment during the 1973 World Series
1975 - Israel formally signs Sinai accord with Egypt
1976 - Beijing reports arrest of Mao Tse Tung's widow
1976 - NJ Meadowlands' Giant's Stadium opens
1976 - Greece's 98 year-old Dimitrion Yordanidis, is oldest man to compete in a marathon; he
           finishes in 7:33
1977 - 11th Country Music Association Award: Ronnie Milsap wins
1978 - Aerosmith's Steve Tyler & Joe Perry injured by a cherry bomb
1978 - British pop magazine "Smash Hits," 1st published
1978 - Congress approves Susan B Anthony Dollar
1978 - Daniel Arap Moi succeeds Kenyatta as president of Kenya
1978 - Steve Perry joins Journey
1978 - Yanks & Dodgers play in World Series # 75
1979 - Fleetwood Mac gets a star in Hollywood
1979 - Nordiques' Real Cloutier sets NHL record of a hat trick in 1st game
1979 - Panama assumes sovereignty over Canal Area (ie Canal Zone)
1979 - Recorded trace of snow in Central Park NYC
1980 - 4,500 die when a pair of earthquakes strikes NW Algeria
1980 - Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope network dedicated
1980 - Yanks lose 4-2 & are swept by Royals in AL Championship series
1981 - Anwar Sadat's funeral service is held in Cairo
1982 - Brewers beat Angels in ALCS
1982 - Hernan Siles Zuazo installed as president of Bolivia
1982 - Pope John Paul II canonizes Rev M Kolbe, who volunteered to die in place of another inmate at
           Auschwitz concentration camp, a saint
1982 - US imposes sanctions against Poland for banning Solidarity trade union
1983 - 17th Country Music Association Award: Alabama wins
1983 - Israel's Knesset votes 60-53 to endorse Yitzhak Shamir as PM
1983 - Tom Monaghan becomes CEO of Detroit Tigers
1985 - Sudan adopts interim constitution
1985 - US fighter jets force Egyptian plane carrying hijackers of Italian ship Achille Lauro to land in
           Italy, gunmen are placed in custody
1986 - 7.5 Earthquake strikes San Salvador, El Salvador
1986 - Israel Prime Minister Shimon Peres resigns
1987 - Bruce Springsteen releases his 9th album "Tunnel of Love"
1987 - Garfield Park Nature Center opens, latest in Cleveland Metroparks
1987 - Giant's Jeffrey Leonard hits playoff record HR in his 4th cons game
1988 - 22nd Country Music Association Award: Highway 101, K T Oslin win
1988 - Royals announce that Dick Howser, who underwent surgery for a brain tumor in July, will
           return to manage the club in 1989
1990 - Oakland A's sweep Red Sox in 4 games to win ALCS
1990 - US 67th manned space mission STS 41 (Discovery 11) returns from space
1991 - Ex-postal worker Joseph Harris kills 4 postal workers
1991 - Greyhound Bus ends bankruptcy
1991 - US cuts all foreign aid to Haiti
1992 - Floriade (Flower Show) closes at Hague, Netherlands
1993 - Browns Najee Mustafaa sets club rec for longest interception (97 yds)
1993 - Ferry boat leaves for west coast of South Korea, 120 killed
1994 - Lt-general Raoul Cedras resigns as dictator of Haiti
1994 - MPAA chief Jack Valenti holds meeting to determine new movie ratings
1994 - NY Giants retire Lawrence Taylor's #56
1994 - Nobel prize for physiology awarded to Alfred Gilman & Martin Rodbell
1994 - Value of Russian ruble decreases, 3081 rubles per dollar
1995 - "Garden District" opens at Circle in the Sq Theater NYC
1995 - Israel begins W Bank pullback, frees hundreds of Palestinian prisoners
1995 - Most Dutch telephone numbers increase to 10 digits
1995 - Robert E Lucas awarded Nobel Prize in economics
1996 - "Sex & Longing" opens at Cort Theater NYC
1996 - Cornerstone dedication for Holocaust Museum in NYC
1997 - An Austral Airlines DC-9-32 crashes and explodes near Nuevo Berlin, Uruguay, killing 74.
2005 - Negotiations between the CDU/CSU and SPD in Germany had concluded that both parties
           would form a grand coaltion with Angela Merkel of the CDU as chancellor after both parties
           lost seats in the 2005 German federal election. She was subsequently elected in the
           Bundestag as chancellor on November 22 of the same year.
2009 - After having closed borders for about two hundred years, Armenia and Turkey sign protocols
           in Zurich, Switzerland to open their borders.
2010 - The Netherlands Antilles are dissolved.
2012 - Robert Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka win the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on G
           protein-coupled receptors

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Post by: MysteRy on October 10, 2013, 10:09:29 AM

This Day in History for 10th October


Famous Weddings

1975 - Liz Taylor's 6th marriage (re-marries Richard Burton)
1992 - Actress Ally Sheedy weds actor David Lansbury
1992 - Actress Heather Thomas weds entertainment lawyer Skip Brittenham
1993 - Ted Kennedy Jr (32) weds psychiatrist Katherine Gershman (34)
2010 - Actress and singer Alexa Vega (22) weds film producer Sean Covel (34) at the historical
           Homestake Opera House in South Dakota
2010 - Actor Dave Annable (31) weds actress Odette Yustman (25) at Twin Peaks Ranch in Ojai,
           California
2010 - American Idol Season 9 runner-up Crystal Bowersox (25) weds musician Brian Walker at the
           Uncommon Ground Cafe in Chicago
2010 - "Blossom" actress Jenna von Oy (33) weds Dell computer data consultant Brad Bratcher (39)
           in Newtown, Connecticut

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 10, 2013, 10:10:26 AM

This Day in History for 10th October


Famous Divorces

2008 - Actor and comedian Chris Kattan (37) divorces model Sunshine Tutt (32) due to irreconcilable
          differences after 2 months of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 10, 2013, 10:17:23 AM

This Day in History for 10th October


Famous Birthdays

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Composer Giuseppe Verdi (1813)           Arctic explorer/Nobel Laureate                       Van Halen Rocker
                                                               Fridtjof Nansen (1861)                                   David Lee Roth (1954)


1344 - Mary Plantagenet,English princess (d. 1362)
1486 - Charles III, Duke of Savoy
1567 - Infanta Caterina Micaela of Spain (d. 1597)
1599 - Jacob Aertsz Colom, Dutch publisher (Consolation of the Sea)
1678 - John Campbell, 2nd duke of Argyll/fieldmarshal (Union of 1707)
1684 - Jean Antoine Watteau, French rococo painter (Onverschillige)
1700 - Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor (d. 1759)
1713 - Johann Ludwig Krebs, composer
1731 - Henry Cavendish, England, physicist/chemist (discovered hydrogen)
1738 - Benjamin West, painter (Death of General Wolfe)
1757 - Erik Acharius, Swedish botanist (lichens)
1779 - Antoine PFGdV Celles, Belgium/Dutch/French MP
1780 - John Abercrombie, Scottish physician (d. 1844)
1790 - George Gerson, composer
1794 - William Whiting Boardman, American politician (d. 1871)
1804 - Albin Masek, composer
1813 - Giuseppe Verdi, Busseto, First French Empire, Italian composer (La donna è mobile -
           Rigoletto), (d. 1901)
1817 - Christophorus H D Buys Ballot, Dutch meteorologist/founder KNMI
1819 - Zebulon York, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1900
1823 - Theodore Furchtegott Kirchner, composer
1825 - Paulus Kruger, Pres of South African Republic (1883), Boer leader
1828 - Samuel J. Randall, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1890)
1829 - Dandridge McRae, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1899
1830 - Isabella II, Queen of Spain (1833-68)
1832 - Theodore Shelton Bowers, Bvt Brigadier General (Union Army), died in 1866
1834 - Aleksis Kivi, [Stenvall], Finland, writer/poet (Nummisuutarit)
1847 - Gheorghe Dima, composer
1854 - Jeronimo Gimenez y Bellido, composer
1861 - Fridtjof Nansen, Store Frøen, Christiania, Norway, Arctic explorer/humanitarian (Nobel 1922),
           (d. 1930)
1862 - Arthur De Greef, composer
1863 - Louis Cyr, French Canadian strongman (d. 1912)
1863 - Helen Dunbar, American actress (d. 1933)
1864 - T. Frank Appleby, United States Congressman from New Jersey (d. 1924)
1865 - Raffaele Merry del Val, Spanish cardinal
1868 - Guillermo M Tomas, composer
1870 - Louise Mack, Australian writer (d. 1935)
1876 - Walter Niemann, composer
1884 - C "Ormy" C Pearse, cricketer (3 Tests for S Afr in Australia 1910-11)
1884 - Ferdinand Bordewijk, Dutch lawyer/writer (Bint)
1885 - Walter Anderson, German folklorist (d. 1962)
1887 - Rie Cramer, [Marie Holman], Dutch cartoonist/author
1889 - Han [Henricus A] Van Meegeren, Dutch painter/art forger (Vermeer)
1893 - August Balthazar, Belgian politician
1895 - Johnny Taylor, cricketer (stalwart Aussie batsman of post-WW I days)
1895 - Fridolf Rhudin Swedish actor and comedian (d. 1935)
1895 - Wolfram von Richthofen, German field marshal (d. 1945)
1897 - Lamar Stringfield, composer
1897 - Pricilla L Williams, social activist/humanitarian
1898 - Lilly Daché, French-born milliner (d. 1989)
1900 - Helen Hayes, Wash DC, actress (Caesar & Cleopatra, Happy Birthday)
1901 - Albert Giacometti, Swiss/French painter/sculptor
1903 - Charles T von Saksen-Coburg-Gotha, Count of Flanders/prince
1903 - Vernon Duke, composer
1905 - Jane Winton, Phila, actress (Hell's Angel, Patsy, Don Juan)
1906 - Paul Creston, [Giuseppe Guttoveggio], NY, composer (Creative Harmony)
1906 - R.K. Narayan, Indian novelist (d. 2001)
1908 - David Alexander Reginald Herbert, writer
1908 - John Waldo Green, NYC, composer (Body & Soul, Guy Lombardo's arranger)
1908 - Mercè Rodoreda, Catalan novelist (d. 1983)
1909 - Florida Friebus, actress (Dobie Gillis' mom, Bob Newhart Show)
1909 - Luc van Brabant, Flemish writer/erotic poet
1909 - Robert F. Boyle, American production designer and art director
1910 - Alan Frank, music publisher
1910 - Milton "Tippy" Larkin, band leader
1910 - Price Daniel, (Gov/Sen-D-Texas)
1912 - Charles Henry Madge, poet writer/sociologist
1913 - Claude Simon, writer
1913 - Johnny Downs, Brooklyn New York, American actor (Manhattan Showcase)
1914 - Dorothy Lamour, [Kaumeyer], NO LA, actress (Road to Bali, Road to Rio)
1914 - Ivory Joe Hunter, rocker
1914 - Tommy Fine, American baseball player (d. 2005)
1916 - Benson Fong, Sacramento CA, actress (Charlie Chan, Purple Heart)
1916 - Scott Huston, composer
1917 - Ilona Ference, actress (Quatermass II, Star of My Night)
1917 - Thelonious Monk, Rocky Mount North Carolina, American jazz pianist and composer
1918 - Bobby Byrne, Columbus Ohio, orchestra leader (Club Seven)
1918 - Jean Gimpel, author/iconoclast
1918 - Jigal Allon, Israeli politician
1919 - Gerald Etheridge Gomez, cricketer (post-war WI all-rounder)
1921 - "Boy" [FHP] Trip, Dutch minister
1922 - Boeli [Willem C] van Leeuwen, Antillian writer (Vreemdeling Op Aarde)
1922 - Harry Cave, cricketer (NZ bowler & Test captain in the 1950's)
1922 - Merv Pregulman, Lansing, Michigan, NFL Line backer (Green Bay Packers), (d. 2012)
1923 - Louis Gottlieb, musician
1923 - Nicholas Parsons, English actor
1924 - Edward D Wood Jr, Poughkeepsie NY, director (Plan 9 from Outer Space)
1924 - Huey "Piano" Smith, rocker (Rockin' Pneumonia & Boogie Woogie Flu)
1924 - James Clavell, England, author (Tai Pan, Shogun) [or 1920, 22, 26)
1924 - Ludmilla Tcherina, French actress/ballet dancer (Sins of Rome)
1924 - Ed Wood, American filmmaker (d. 1978)
1925 - Ivan Svitak, philosopher
1925 - Great Antonio, Croatian-Canadian strongman (d. 2001)
1926 - Oscar Brown Jr, US songwriter (Brown Baby, Forbidden Fruit)
1926 - Richard Jaeckel, NY, actor (3:10 to Yuma, Sands of Iwo Jima)
1927 - Clairmonte Depeiaza, cricketer (world record partnership v Aust 1955)
1927 - John Eric Tieman, production manager (The Guardian)
1927 - Thomas Brendon Wilson, composer
1927 - Dana Elcar, American actor (d. 2005)
1930 - Adlai Stevenson III, (D-Sen-Ill)
1930 - Harold Pinter, London England, playwright (Homecoming, Servant)
1930 - Mustafa Zaidi, Pakistani poet (d. 1970)
1930 - Konstantin Vyrupayev, Soviet wrestler (Greco-Roman Bantamweight Olympic Gold 1956), (d.
           2012)
1932 - Charles Dnaiels, archaeologist
1932 - Harry Smith, English footballer
1933 - Daniel Massey, London, actress (Vault of Horror)
1933 - Gerald Masters, South African/British author (Pan Book of Dates)
1933 - Jay Sebring, American hair stylist and Manson murder victim (d. 1969)
1934 - Sadashiv Patil, cricketer (pace bowler in Test India v NZ 1955-56)
1935 - Paolo Renosto, composer
1935 - André Bureau, French Canadian communications executive
1935 - Abu Jihad, Founder of the Palestinian group Fatah (d. 1988)
1935 - Dave Charnley, Dartford England, lightweight boxer (Dartford Destroyer), (d. 2012)
1936 - Art Dick, cricket wicket-keeper (NZ of 60's)
1936 - Judith Chalmers, English TV hostess (Wish You Were Here)
1936 - Gerhard Ertl, German surface chemist, Nobel laureate, 2007.
1937 - Bruce Devlin, Armidale Australia, PGA golfer (1964 St Petersburg Open)
1938 - Marcus Jan Adriani, biologist/director (Weevers' Duin)
1938 - Tobias A Roth, (Rep-R-Wisconsin, 1979- )
1938 - Moriyama Daido, Japanese photographer
1939 - Joseph Pitts, American politician
1941 - Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa, writer/environmentalist
1941 - Laurence Henry Tribe, Shanghai China, Harvard Law professor
1941 - Peter Coyote [Rachmil Pinchus Ben Mosha Cohon], New York City, New York, American actor
           (ET, Raiders of the Lost Ark)
1942 - Radu Vasile, Romanian Prime Minister
1943 - Denis D'Ell, [Dennis Dalziel], rocker
1943 - Earl of Stockton, English publisher/grandson of premier Macmillan
1943 - Frederick Barthelme, American author
1944 - Christopher N Dlamini, South African union/SACP-leader
1944 - Renier S Schoeman, S Afr MP (NP)/journalist
1944 - Stephen Scott, composer
1945 - Alan Cartwright, rocker (Procul Harum)
1946 - Ben Vereen, Miami Fla, actor/dancer (Pippin, Roots, Webster)
1946 - Charles Dance, Redditch, Worcestershire, English actor/director (Alien 3, Jewel in the Crown)
1946 - Franco Malerba, Genoa Italy, astronaut (STS 46)
1946 - John Prine, Maywood Ill, country singer (Hello in There)
1946 - Peter Mahvolich, NHL star (Mont Canadiens)
1946 - Mildred Grieveson (aka: Anne Mather, Caroline Fleming, Cardine Fleming), English writer
1946 - Naoto Kan, Japanese politician
1946 - Chris Tarrant, English TV presenter
1947 - Alan Rachins, Cambridge Massachusetts, actor (Douglas-LA Law)
1947 - Martin Ruane, English professional wrestler (d. 1998)
1948 - Greg Lake, rocker
1948 - Rosemary Casals, SF California, tennis doubles (5X Wimbledon) [or Sep 16]
1948 - Séverine, French singer
1948 - Ed Volker, American musician
1949 - Jessica Harper, Chicago IL, actress (Inserts, Stardust Memories)
1949 - Lance Cairns, cricketer (big-hitting NZ medium-pace bowler)
1950 - Dennis Holmes, actor (Mike-Laramie)
1950 - Peter Jan Rens, Dutch actor/director (Mister Cactus, Passion)
1950 - Nora Roberts, American novelist
1951 - Epeli Ganilau, Fijian statesman
1953 - Gus Williams, NBA guard (Golden State, Seattle, Washington)
1953 - Midge Ure, Glasgow Scot, rocker (Dear God, Ultravox-We Came to Dance)
1954 - "Maestro" Jimmy Fearnley, English accordionist (The Pogues)
1954 - David Lee Roth, Bloomington Indiana, rock singer (Van Halen-Jump)
1954 - Rekha, Bollywood actress
1954 - Mohamed Mounir, Egyptian singer and actor
1956 - Melissa Belote, 100m/200m swimmer (Olympics-3 gold-1972)
1956 - Mark Gordon, American film producer
1957 - Craig Marseilles, Toronto, Canadian Tour golfer (1995 Gold Coast)
1957 - Rumiko Takahashi, Japanese artist
1958 - J Eddie Peck, Joplin Missouri, actor (Bold & Beautiful-Cole Howard)
1958 - John M Grunsfeld, Chicago Ill, PhD/astronaut (STS 67, 81)
1958 - Tanya Tucker, Seminole Tx, country singer/actress (Follow that Car)
1959 - Chris Lowe, English rock keyboardist (Pet Shop Boys-It's a Sin)
1959 - Kirsty MacColl, English singer (d. 2000)
1959 - Bradley Whitford, American actor
1960 - Eric Martin, rocker (Mr Big)
1961 - Brian Lee Diemer, Grand Rapids Mich, steeplechase (Olymp-bronze-1984)
1961 - Martin Kemp, London, rock bassist (Spandau Ballet)
1961 - Jodi Benson, American voice actress
1961 - Henrik Jørgensen, Danish marathon runner
1962 - Rex J Walheim, Redwood City California, Capt USAF/astronaut
1963 - Mike Donnelly, Detroit, NHL left wing (Dallas Stars)
1963 - Daniel Pearl, American journalist (d. 2002)
1963 - Jolanda de Rover, Dutch swimmer
1964 - Maxi Gnauck, German DR, uneven parallel bars (Olympic-gold-1980)
1964 - Neneh Cherry, Stockholm Sweden, rock vocalist
1964 - Quinton Flynn, American voice actor
1965 - Brett Perriman, NFL wide receiver (Detroit Lions, Miami Dolphins)
1965 - Clive Jones, British engineer
1965 - Chris Penn, American actor (d. 2006)
1965 - Rebecca Pidgeon, American actress
1965 - Toshi, Japanese singer (X Japan)
1965 - Steve Scalise, American politician
1966 - Darren Carrington, NFL safety (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1966 - Derrick McKey, NBA forward (Indiana Pacers)
1966 - Elana Meyer, [van Zyl], South Africa, runner (Olympics-silver-92)
1966 - Kevin Paige, vocalist (Don't Shut Me Out)
1966 - Tony Adams, English footballer
1966 - Bai Ling, Chinese-born American actress (The Crow, Red Corner)
1967 - Frank Wainright, tight end (Miami Dolphins)
1967 - Willie Davis, NFL wide receiver (KC Chiefs, Tennessee Oilers)
1967 - Jonathan Littell, French-American writer
1968 - James Williams, NFL linebacker (Atlanta Falcons, SF 49ers)
1968 - L B Williams, NFLer (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1968 - Nancy Brookhart, Elmhurst Ill, WPVA volleyballer (Hermosa-17th-1994)
1968 - Bart Brentjens, Dutch mountain biker
1969 - Brett Favre, NFL quarterback (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1969 - Scott Anthony Murray Nelson, Geelong Australia, NZ 20k walker (Oly-96)
1970 - Glenn Foley, NFL quarterback (NY Jets)
1970 - Helen Louise Goldsby, Brooklyn NY, Miss America (NY-Top 10-1996)
1970 - Dean Kiely, Irish footballer
1970 - Silke Kraushaar-Pielach, German luger
1970 - Corinna May, German singer
1970 - Mohammed Mourhit, Belgian athlete
1970 - Sir Matthew Pinsent, English rower
1971 - Bryn Parry, Vancouver BC, Canadian Tour golfer (1994 BC Amateur-2nd)
1971 - Claus Dalpiaz, hockey goaltender (Team Austria 1998)
1971 - Corey Louchiey, NFL offensive tackle (Buffalo Bills)
1971 - Ian Bennett, English footballer
1971 - Evgeny Kissin, Russian pianist
1972 - Alexei Zhitnik, Kiev Ukraine, NHL defenseman (Buffalo Sabres)
1972 - Hunter Goodwin, tight end (Minnesota Vikings)
1972 - Marianne Limpert, Matagami Quebec, 200m relay swimmer (Oly-silver-96)
1972 - Trent McCleary, Swift Current, NHL right wing (Ottawa Senators)
1972 - Yinka Dare, NBA center (NJ Nets)
1972 - Jun Lana, Filipino playwright and screenwriter
1973 - A J Ofodile, tight end (Baltimore Ravens)
1973 - Jeff Shantz, Duchess, NHL center (Chicago Blackhawks)
1973 - Jessica Shahriari, Miss USA-Arizona (1997)
1973 - John Mobley, NFL linebacker (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1973 - Mario Lopez, San Diego California, actor (A C Slater-Saved by the Bell)
1973 - Zach Thornton, Balt Md, soccer goalkeeper (Olympics-gold-96)
1974 - Chris Pronger, NHL defenseman (Team Canada Oly-1998, St. Louis)
1974 - Naike Rivelli, Germany, model/daughter of Ornella Muti
1974 - Assi Cohen, Israeli comedian and actor
1974 - Julio Ricardo Cruz, Argentinian footballer
1974 - Dale Earnhardt Jr, American NASCAR Sprint Cup series driver
1975 - Ramón Morales, Mexican footballer
1976 - Shane Doan, Eston, NHL right wing (Winnipeg Jets)
1976 - Bob Burnquist, Brazilian-born skateboarder
1976 - Pat Burrell, American baseball player
1978 - Autumn Waterbury, Miss Illinois Teen USA (2nd-1997)
1978 - Brandi Watkins, Miss Arkansas Teen USA (1997)
1978 - Jodi Lynn O'Keefe, Cliffwood Beach NJ, actress (Cassidy-Nash Bridges)
1979 - Mya Harrison, American singer
1979 - Nicolás Massú, Chilean tennis player
1979 - Wu Chun, Brunei born Taiwanese actor
1979 - Ahn Chil Hyun (Kangta), lead singer of the former South Korean group H.O.T.
1980 - Elvis Hammond, Ghanaian footballer
1980 - Tim Maurer, American singer (Suburban Legends)
1980 - Sherine, Egyptian singer
1981 - Michael Oliver, American actor
1982 - Eddie J Peck, Lynchburg Pa, actor (Sutton-Wildside)
1982 - Amon Buchanan, Australian rules footballer
1982 - Hideki Mutoh, Japanese racing driver
1983 - Vusimuzi Sibanda, Zimbabwean cricketer
1984 - Stephanie Cheng, Hong Kong singer
1984 - Chiaki Kuriyama, Japanese actress
1984 - Paul Posluszny, American football player
1984 - Troy Tulowitzki, American baseball player
1984 - Rod Benson, American basketball player
1985 - Dominique Cornu, Belgian professional cyclist
1985 - Aaron Himelstein, American actor
1986 - Nathan Jawai, Australian basketball player
1991 - Gabriella Cilmi, Australian singer
1991 - Mariana Espósito, Argentine actress, singer and model

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 10, 2013, 10:20:31 AM

This Day in History for 10th October


Famous Deaths

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Actor Ralph Richardson (1983)                   Actor Orson Welles (1985)


413 BC - Nicias, Athens politician (Peace of Nicias), killed at about 57
19 - Julius Caesar Germanicus, Roman commandant of Rijnleger, dies at 33
680 - 10 Muharram 61 AH - Hussein ibn Ali (AS) , Shi'a Imam, Muhammad's grandson (b. 626)
          beheaded
732 - Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi, Moorish Governor of Andalusia
833 - al-Ma'mun, Abbasid caliph of Baghdad (b. 786)
1359 - King Hugh IV of Cyprus (b. 1295)
1616 - Maria van Nassau, countess of Buren, dies at 60
1651 - Philippus Rovenius, [Rouveen], apostole, dies at 77
1659 - Able J Tasmania, navigator/discovered (Tasmania, NZ), dies at about 56
1676 - Sebastian Knupfer, composer, dies at 43
1691 - Isaac de Benserade, French poet (b. 1613)
1708 - David Gregory, Scottish astronomer (b. 1659)
1714 - Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert, French economist (b. 1646)
1720 - Antoine Coysevox, French sculptor (b. 1640)
1723 - William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1665)
1725 - Philippe de Rigaud Vaudreuil, Governor-General of New France (b. 1643)
1727 - Alphonse d' Eve, composer, dies at 61
1745 - Jacobus Nozeman, Dutch composer/organist, dies at 52
1747 - John Potter, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1674)
1759 - Granville Elliott, British military officer (b. 1713)
1765 - Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1688)
1789 - Pierre-Louis Couperin, composer, dies at 34
1791 - C F D Schubart, writer, dies
1795 - Francesco Antonio Zaccaria, Italian theologian and historian (b. 1714)
1797 - Carter Braxton, US boer/signer (Decl of Independence), dies at 61
1827 - Ugo Foscolo, Italian poet, dies at 49
1836 - Jacob-Joseph-Balthasar Martinn, composer, dies at 61
1843 - Karl Theodor Toeschi, composer, dies at 75
1856 - Michal Wielhorski, composer, dies at 67
1858 - Karl A Varnhagen von Ense, German author/poet/diplomat, dies at 73
1864 - David Bullock Harris, US Confederate colonel, dies of yellow fever
1867 - Ignacy Feliks Dobrzynski, composer, dies at 60
1872 - William H. Seward, United States Secretary of State (b. 1801)
1875 - Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian novelist, poet and dramatist (b. 1817)
1876 - Charles Joseph Sainte-Claire Deville, French geologist (b. 1814)
1886 - David L Yule, 1st Jewish US senator, dies
1889 - Adolph von Henselt, composer, dies at 75
1893 - Lip Pike, American baseball player (b. 1845)
1901 - Lorenzo Snow, fifth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1814)
1910 - Willem Maris, painter (Hague School), dies at 66
1913 - Katsura Taro, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1848)
1913 - Adolphus Busch, American brewer (Anheuser-Busch) (b. 1839)
1914 - Gijsbert van Tienhoven, mayor (Amsterdam)/foreign minister, dies at 73
1914 - Karol I, Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, King of Romania (1881-1914), dies
1927 - Gustave Whitehead, German-born inventor (b. 1874)
1930 - Adolf Engler, German botanist (b. 1844)
1931 - Karl von Bach, German engineer (Maschinenelemente), dies at 84
1935 - Arthur Henderson, British Labour minister (Nobel 1934), dies at 72
1938 - Martin Bladen, cricketer (the 7th Lord Hawke), dies
1939 - Eleanor Rigby, a real person whose name may have suggested the title to The Beatles song
           (b. 1895)
1940 - Berton Churchill, Canadian actor (b. 1876)
1942 - Richard von Schaukal, Austria poet/writer (Schlemihle), dies at 68
1943 - Charlotte Salomon, German-Jewish artist gassed at Auschwitz aged 26
1957 - Karl Genzken, Nazi physician (b. 1885)
1959 - Friedrich, Prince of Liechtenstein, dies
1963 - Roy Cazaly, Australian rules footballer (b. 1893)
1964 - Eddie Cantor, comedian (Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater), dies at 72
1964 - Frantisek Picha, composer, dies at 71
1964 - Konrad Bayer, writer, dies
1964 - Russ Case, orchestra leader (Julius La Rosa Show), dies at 52
1964 - Heinrich Neuhaus, Soviet pianist (b. 1888)
1965 - Georgy Mikhaylovich Rimsky-Korsakov, composer, dies at 63
1967 - Ervin Major, composer, dies at 66
1968 - Wilhelmina J "Willy" Haak, Dutch actress (Abandoned Child), dies at 71
1970 - Adam Rapacki, Polish minister of Maritime (1956-68), dies at 60
1970 - Edouard Daladier, premier of France (1933..40), dies at 86
1971 - John Cawte Beaglehole, New Zealand historian (b. 1901)
1973 - Albe, [Renaut A Joostens], Flemish writer (Paradise Bird), dies at 71
1974 - Marie Luise Kaschnitz, writer, dies at 73
1975 - Lillian Walker, dies at 88
1976 - Connee Boswell, singer (Pete Kelly's Blue), dies at 68
1976 - Silvana Armenulic, Yugoslavian folk singer (b. 1939)
1977 - Angelo Muscat, Maltese actor (b. 1930)
1978 - Gesina Van der Molen, Dutch WWII resistance fighter/lawyer, dies at 86
1978 - Ralph H Metcalfe, (Rep-D-Ill), dies at 68
1978 - Ralph Marterie, American big band leader (b. 1914)
1979 - Paul Paray, French composer, dies at 93
1979 - Christopher Evans, British psychologist and computer scientist (b. 1931)
1980 - Bill Thomas, actor (Buckwheat), dies
1980 - Walter Keeton, cricketer (opening bat in 2 Test for Eng 1934-39), dies
1980 - William "Buckwheat" Thomas, actor (Little Rascal), dies at 49
1982 - Jean Effel, French painter and journalist (b. 1908)
1983 - Sir Ralph Richardson, English actor (Richard III), dies at 80
1985 - Orson Welles, actor/dir (Citizen Kane), dies of heart attack at 70
1985 - Yul Brynner, [Taidje Khan], actor (King & I), dies of cancer at 65
1986 - Gleb Wataghin, Ukrainian-Italian physicist (b. 1899)
1990 - Carlos Thompson, actor (Mistress of the World), dies at 67
1990 - Dick Jorgensen, NFL referee, dies at 56
1990 - Michael A Salcido, dies at 39
1990 - Tom Murton, American penologist (b. 1928)
1991 - Redd Foxx, comedian (Sanford & Sons), dies of heart attack at 68
1991 - Stephen J Falat, dies after long illness at 34
1992 - James Seay, actor (Amazing Colossal Man), dies at 78
1993 - Catherine Collard, French pianist (Debussy, Haydn), dies at 46
1993 - Djillali Belkhenchir, Algerian doctor, murdered at 52
1994 - Anna Hauptmann, wife of Lindbergh baby kidnapper Bruno, dies at 95
1994 - Chaim Raphael, writer, dies at 86
1994 - Danny Gatton, US guitarist, commits suicide at 48
1994 - Nikolai Karetnikov, composer, dies at 64
1994 - Richard John Copeland Atkinson, archaeologist, dies at 74
1995 - Edward Gill, baseball player, dies at 100
1995 - Jimmy Nash, record company owner, dies at 47
1995 - John Rodolph, wheelchair-race world record holder, hit by truck at 31
1995 - Michelle Francis Bird, campaigner, dies at 30
1995 - Paolo Gucci, entrepreneur/accessories designer, dies at 64
1996 - Dick Pickering, trade unionist, dies at 54
1996 - Hugh Stirling Mackenzie, submariner, dies at 83
1996 - John Hillaby, writer/traveller, dies at 79
1996 - Peter Aldersley, actor/disc jockey, dies at 72
1996 - Siddig El Nigoumi, ceramicist, dies at 65
1997 - Brian Connolly, lead singer (Sweet), dies of heart failure at 52
1998 - Clark Clifford, United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1906)
1998 - Tommy Quaid, Irish hurler (b. 1957)
2000 - Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (b. 1916)
2001 - Eddie Futch, American boxing trainer (b. 1911)
2001 - Vasily Mishin, Soviet rocket designer (b. 1917)
2002 - Teresa Graves, American actress and singer (b. 1948)
2003 - Eugene Istomin, American pianist (b. 1925)
2004 - Ken Caminiti, American baseball player (b. 1963)
2004 - Christopher Reeve, American actor (b. 1952)
2004 - Arthur H. Robinson, American cartographer (b. 1915)
2004 - Maurice Shadbolt, New Zealand writer (b. 1932)
2005 - Wayne Booth, American literary critic (b. 1921)
2005 - Milton Obote, President of Uganda (b. 1925)
2006 - Michael John Rogers, English ornithologist (b. 1932)
2006 - Ian Scott, Canadian politician (b. 1934)
2007 - Mehmed Uzun, Contemporary Kurdish writer and novelist. (b. 1953)
2008 - Kazuyoshi Miura, Japanese businessman (b. 1947)
2009 - Stephen Gately, Irish singer (Boyzone) (b. 1976)
2010 - Solomon Burke, American singer (b. 1940)
2010 - Dame Joan Sutherland, Australian operatic soprano (b. 1926)
2011 - Jagjit Singh, Indian Musician, Ghazal Maestro, Padma Bhusan awardee (b. 1941)
2012 - Alex Karras, American NFL player, dies from kidney failure at 77
2012 - Kyaw Zaw, Burmese politician and soldier, dies at 92

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 11, 2013, 09:31:31 AM

This Day in History for 11th October


Historical Events

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Soldier/Public Administrator                    Inventor Thomas Edison                           Baseball Great Babe Ruth
Meriwether Lewis

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Theoretical Physicist                                  Chinese Communist                                262nd Pope John XXIII
Albert Einstein                                         Revolutionary and Politician
                                                                        Mao Tse-Tung

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Country Singer Willie Nelson                  US President & Actor                         Basketball Player Dennis Rodman
                                                               Ronald Reagan


732 - Battle at Tours: France under Karel Martel beat Moors
1138 - A massive earthquake struck Aleppo, Syria.
1521 - Pope Leo X titles King Henry VIII of England "Defender of the Faith"
1531 - Battle at Kappel: Swiss Roman Catholic kantons beat protestant forces of Zurich
1531 - Huldrych Zwingli Swiss reformation leader is killed at the Battle at Kappel
1540 - Emperor Karel names his son Philip, Duke of Milan
1573 - Battle of South Seas - Dutch rebels beat Spanish navy
1614 - Adriaen Block and 12 Amsterdam merchants petition the States General for exclusive trading
           rights in the New Netherland colony.
1634 - the Burchardi flood — "the second Grote Mandrenke" killed around 15,000 men in North
           Friesland, Denmark and Germany.
1643 - Battle at Wincebt: English New Model-army beats royalists
1674 - Pierre Corneille's "Surena," premieres in Paris
1687 - Hungary accepts Habsburgse sovereignty
1689 - Peter the Great becomes tsar of Russia
1698 - France, England & Netherlands signs 1st Extermination treaty
1726 - Benjamin Franklin returns to Philadelphia from England
1737 - Earthquake kills 300,000 and destroys half of Calcutta India
1746 - Battle at Rocourt: French drive out English/Austria/Neth armies
1776 - Brig Gen Arnold's Lake Champlain fleet defeated by British
1797 - Battle of Camperdown (Kamperduin): English navy defeats Dutch fleet
1809 - Along the Natchez Trace in Tennessee, explorer Meriwether Lewis dies under mysterious
           circumstances at an inn called Grinder's Stand.
1811 - The Juliana, 1st steam-powered ferryboat, begins operation
1852 - The University of Sydney, Australia's oldest university, is inaugurated in Sydney.
1861 - Battle of Dumfries, VA (Quantico Creek)
1863 - Skirmish at Rheatown/Henderson's Mill, Tennessee
1864 - Slavery abolished in Maryland
1864 - Campina Grande, Brazil was established as a city.
1865 - Pres Johnson paroles Confederate States VP Alexander H. Stephens
1865 - Paul Bogle led hundreds of black men and women in a march in Jamaica, starting the Morant
           Bay rebellion.
1868 - Thomas Edison patents his 1st invention: electric voice machine
1871 - Great Chicago Fire is finally extinguished after 3 days, 300 killed
1873 - Toronto Argonaut Football Club 1st game losing to U of Toronto
1881 - David Houston patents roll film for cameras
1887 - A Miles patents elevator
1890 - 1st 100 yard dash under 10 seconds (John Owens 9-4/5 secs, Wash DC)
1890 - Daughters of American Revolution founded
1895 - Emperor Menelik II of Addis Ababa draws against Italians
1899 - South African Boers declare war on Great Britain
1902 - 8th US Golf Open: Laurie Auchterlonie shoots a 307 at Garden City NY
1902 - Commencement of 1st Test Cricket between South Africa & Australia
1902 - Lawrence Auchterlonie wins US Open golf tournament
1906 - SF begins school for "Asians"
1906 - White Sox Ed Walsh strikes out then record 12 in a World Series game
1906 - San Francisco public school board sparks United States diplomatic crisis with Japan by
           ordering Japanese students to be taught in racially segregated schools.
1911 - Ty Cobb (AL) & Frank Schulte (NL) are 1st MVPs, each gets an auto
1913 - Phila A's beat NY Giants, 4 games to 1 in 10th World Series
1914 - German troops occupy Gent
1915 - Bulgarian anti Serbian offensive begins
1918 - Major Tsumani shakes Caribbean
1919 - 1st transcontinental air race ends
1922 - 1st woman FBI "special investigator" appointed (Alaska Davidson)
1922 - Turkey & Greece sign cease fire
1923 - Babe Ruth hits 2 HRs in a World Series game
1923 - German mark falls to 10 billion per £, 4 billion per $
1925 - Belgian episcopelian sspeaks against Flemish activism
1925 - NY Giants play 1st NFL game, lose to Providence 14-0
1927 - Lou Gehrig named AL MVP (Babe Ruth (former winner) not eligible)
1929 - Sean O'Casey's "Silver Tassle," premieres in London
1929 - JC Penney opens store #1252 in Milford, Delaware, making it a nationwide company with
           stores in all 48 U.S. states.
1930 - Collingwood Football Club in Melbourne, Australia, won the VFL premiership for the fourth
           consecutive year.
1931 - 100,000 extreme-right Germans form "Harzburger Front"
1932 - 1st political telecast (Democratic National Committee) at CBS, NYC
1932 - Stalin forces Zinoviev & Kamenev out of Communist Party
1936 - "Professor Quiz," 1st radio quiz show premieres
1939 - Albert Einstein informs FDR of possibilities of atomic bomb
1939 - Bucky Harris signs to manage Washington again
1939 - Gertrude Lawrence's "Skylark," premieres in NYC
1939 - NAACP organized Legal Defense & Education Fund
1941 - 1st NSB-battalion departures to Eastern front
1942 - -Oct 12] Sea battle at Cape Esperance Guadalcanal
1943 - NY Yankees beat Cards 4 games to 1, in 40th World Series, to become 1st team to win 10
           World Series
1944 - Allies bomb sea wall at Veere
1944 - Tuvinian People's Republic or formerly Tannu Tuva was annexed by the U.S.S.R
1945 - Chinese civil war begins, Chiang Kai-Shek vs Mao Tse-Tung
1945 - JPL WAC Corporal Launch (1st Man-Made Object to escape Atmosphere)
1947 - Brazil & Chile break diplomatic relations with USSR
1948 - "Love Life" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 252 performances
1948 - "Where's Chartev?" opens at St James Theater NYC for 792 performances
1948 - Cleve Indians beat Boston Braves, 4 games to 2 in 45th World Series
1950 - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission issues the first license to broadcast television
           in color, to CBS
1954 - "On Your Toes" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 64 performances
1954 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Ad caeli Reginam
1955 - All Peron feast days disposed of in Argentina
1955 - Persia signs Pact of Baghdad
1956 - 1st Pakistan v Australia Test 95 runs scored on 1st day
1956 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia
1956 - AL Pres Will Harridge bars Wash Senators move to West Coast, unless unanimously approved
           by the other AL owners
1958 - "Goldilocks" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 161 performances
1958 - 2nd US Moon probe, Pioneer 1, reaches 113,810 km, falls back
1959 - KTHI TV channel 11 in Fargo-Grand Forks, ND (NBC) begins broadcasting
1960 - Hurricane ravages East-Pakistan (6,000 die)
1960 - Radio-TV exec John Fetzer buys a controlling interest of Det Tigers
1961 - USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 66,100m
1961 - USSR performs nuclear test
1962 - 1st appearance of a Gabor sister on Merv Griffin Show
1962 - 2nd Vatican Council (21st ecumenical) convened by Pope John XXIII
1964 - Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Hillside House Ladies' Golf Open
1967 - World Series record 3 consecutive HRs (Carl Yastremski, Reggie Smith, & Rico Petrocelli) by
           Red Sox
1967 - Yoko Plus Me art exhibit opens in London (the me is John Lennon)
1968 - Apollo 7 (Schirra, Eisele & Cunningham) made 163 orbits in 260 hours
1968 - Billy Martin named manager of Twins
1968 - Panama revolts
1969 - -28] Rome: 2nd bishop synod
1969 - Blues artist Muddy Waters involved in a car crash that kills 3
1969 - Soyuz 6 launched; Soyuz 7 & 8 follow in next 2 days
1971 - 60th Davis Cup: USA beats Romania in Charlotte (3-2)
1971 - Brooks Robinson ties Series record, reaches base 5 straight times
1971 - Frank McGee becomes news anchor of Today Show
1971 - Switzerland recognizes North Vietnam
1972 - Panama adopts constitution
1972 - Prison uprising at Washington DC jail
1972 - Reads beat Pirates in NLCS
1973 - Oakland beats Baltimore 3 games to 2 to win AL pennant
1974 - A's Catfish Hunter charge owner Charlie Finley with breach of contract
1975 - "Saturday Night Live" premieres with guest host George Carlin
1975 - Islander's Bryan Trottier's 1st career hat trick
1975 - Saturday Night Live premieres with George Carlin as host
1976 - 10th Country Music Association Award: Mel Tillis wins
1976 - Mao Tse-Tung's widow Jiang Qing & "Gang of Four," arrested & charged with plotting a coup
1977 - Soyuz 25 returns to Earth
1978 - Aristides Royo elected president of Panama
1978 - Belgium government of Tindemans resigns
1978 - Dodgers Bob Welch dramatically strikes out Reggie Jackson in 9th
1979 - "Most Happy Fella" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 53 performances
1979 - German DR frees dissidents Rudolf Bahro & Nico Hubner
1979 - Allan McLeod Cormack & Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield win Nobel Prize for medicine for
           developing CAT scan
1980 - Cosmonauts Popov & Ryumin set space endurance record of 184 days
1980 - Dallas Mavericks 1st game at Reunion Arena beat San Antonio 103-92
1980 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1981 - Expos beat Phillies, 3 games to 2, in NLCS
1981 - Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Inamori Golf Classic
1981 - LeRoy Irvin sets yards gained on punt returns record (207 yds)
1981 - Unknown rocker Prince opens for Rolling Stones at LA Coliseum
1981 - Yanks beat Brewers 7-3 & win only Eastern Championship Series
1982 - 16th Country Music Association Award: Willie Nelson & Ricky Skagg
1982 - English ship Mary Rose, which sank during an engagement with France in 1545, raised at
           Portsmouth, England
1982 - Riot in Amsterdam as tram catches fire
1983 - Last hand-cranked telephones US went out of service as 440 telephone customers in Bryant
           Pond, Maine, were switched over to direct-dial
1984 - 1st space walk by US woman (Dr Kathryn D Sullivan)
1984 - August Wilson's "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," premieres in NYC
1984 - NASA launches space vehicle S-208
1984 - VP candidate debate-Graldine Ferraro (D) & George H W Bush (R)
1985 - Atlantis returns to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB
1985 - President Reagan bans importation of South African Krugerrands
1985 - US intercepts Egyptian Boeing with Achille Lauro terrorists
1986 - Reagan & Gorbachev open talks at a summit in Reykjavik, Iceland
1987 - 200,000 gays march for civil rights in Washington
1990 - "Miser" opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 93 performances
1990 - Center for Urban archaeology opens in NYC South Street Seaport Museum
1990 - Octavio Paz wins Nobel Prize for literature
1990 - Oil hits a record $40.42 per barrel
1991 - Anita Hill testifies Clarence Thomas sexually harrased her
1991 - Chip Beck ties PGA lowest 18 hole score of 59
1991 - Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart seen soliciting a prostitute
1992 - 1st 3-way US presidential debate (Bush-Clinton-Perot)
1992 - Deion Sanders, plays for Atlanta Falcons (NFL) & Braves (Baseball)
1992 - Toronto down 6-1 in 7th beats A's 7-6 in 11th in AL playoff
1993 - Norwegian Rushdie publisher William Nygaard injured in attack
1993 - US warship Harlan County anchors off Port-au-Prince Haiti
1994 - Russian ruble decreases to 3,926 rubles per dollar
1994 - Space shuttle STS-68 (Endeavour 7), lands
1995 - John Bobbitt has plastic surgery to increase his penis 3 inches
1995 - O J Simpson cancels a TV appearance on Dateline
1996 - Ford buys rights to named Detroit domed stadium for $40 million
1997 - Dennis Rodman returns from 2nd longest NBA suspension (11 games)
1998 - A Congo Airlines Boeing 727 is shot down by rebels in Kindu, Democratic Republic of the
           Congo, killing 40 people.
2000 - The 100th Space Shuttle mission (STS-92) is flown.
2001 - The Polaroid Corporation files for federal bankruptcy protection.
2002 - A bomb attack in a shopping mall in Vantaa, Finland kills seven.
2012 - A further 83 people are killed throughout Syria by the Syrian army
2012 - A US appeal court overturns a district court ruling banning the sale of Samsung
2012 - Mo Yan, a hallucinatory realist writer, wins the 2012 Nobel Prize for Literature

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 11, 2013, 09:33:08 AM

This Day in History for 11th October


Famous Weddings

1948 - Fellow students Fidel Castro and Mirta Diaz-Balart marry (divorced 1955)
1975 - future US President Bill Clinton weds later Secretary of State Hillary Rodham
1997 - "Charlie's Angels" actress Jaclyn Smith (52) weds Chicago heart surgeon Bradley Allen (43) at
           United Westwood Methodist Church
2003 - American Pie star Alyson Hannigan (29) weds Angel's Alexis Denisof (37) at the Two Bunch
           Palms Resort & Spa in Palm Springs, California
2003 - "The West Wing" actress Annabeth Gish (32) weds former "The X-Files" stunt man Wade
           Allen at The Sea Ranch Lodge
2009 - "Mad Men" vixen Christina Hendricks (37) weds actor Geoffrey Arend (34) at the couple's
           favorite Il Buco restaurant in New York City

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 11, 2013, 09:39:01 AM

This Day in History for 11th October


Famous Birthdays

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Founder of Heinz                                                  US First Lady                             Actor Luke Perry (1966)
Henry John Heinz (1844)                            Eleanor Roosevelt (1884)


1335 - Taejo of Joseon, ruler of Korea (d. 1408)
1573 - Jacob Boonen, South Netherlands clergyman/lawyer
1593 - Claes P "Nicolaas" Tulip, anatomy/mayor of Amsterdam (1654..71)
1611 - Hugues de Lionne, Marquess de Berry, French ambassador to Rome
1616 - Andreas Gryphius, German writer (d. 1664)
1661 - Melchior de Polignac, French diplomat/elect (Anti-Lucretius)
1671 - Frederik IV, king of Denmark/Norway (1699-1730)
1671 - Richard Moungler (d. 1730)
1672 - Pylyp Orlyk, Ukrainian Zaporozhian Cossack starshina, diplomat (d. 1742)
1675 - Samuel Clarke, English philosopher (d. 1729)
1738 - Arthur Phillip, admiral/1st governor New-South Wales
1747 - Marian Paradeiser, composer
1758 - Wilhelm Olbers, discovered asteroids (Pallas & Vesta)
1768 - Adriaan van den Ende, Dutch vicar/educationalist
1782 - Steen Steensen Blicher, Denmk, poet/short-story writer (E Binddstouw)
1786 - Stevenson Archer, American Congressman (d. 1848)
1788 - Simon Sechter, composer
1803 - Albartus Telting, Frisian poet (Frisianch Jierboeckjen)
1806 - Aleksandar I Karadjordjevic, monarch of Serbia (1842-58)
1809 - Orson Squire Fowler, American phrenologist (d. 1887)
1814 - Jean Baptiste Lamy, first Archbishop of Santa Fe (d. 1888)
1815 - Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte, Corsican representative of the people
1820 - Alfred Washington Ellet, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1895
1821 - Angelo Maurizio Gaspare Mariani, composer
1821 - George Williams, England, founder YMCA
1825 - C F Meyer, writer
1825 - Elkanah Brackin Greer, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1877
1835 - Hunter Holmes McGuire, Med Director (Confederate Army), died in 1900
1841 - Freidrich Hegar, composer
1844 - Henry John Heinz, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, founded prepared-foods company (Heinz-57
           varieties), (d. 1919)
1863 - Xavier Henry Napoleon Leroux, composer
1865 - Hans E Kinck, Norwegian philological/writer (Mot Karnaval)
1869 - Gordon Frederic Norton, composer
1871 - Johan Oscar Smith, Norweigian religious leader (d. 1943)
1872 - Harlan Fiske Stone, NH, Supreme Court (1925-41) Chief Justice (41-46)
1875 - Stefan O Iosif, Romania, poet (Beautiful Irine)
1876 - G von Le Fort, writer
1877 - John Parsons Beach, composer
1881 - Stark Young, US critic/writer (So Red the Rose)
1881 - Hans Kelsen, Austrian legal theorist (d. 1973)
1882 - Robert Nathaniel Dett, composer
1882 - Will Vesper, German author (Vom grossen Krieg)
1883 - Archibald T Davison, composer
1884 - Eleanor Roosevelt, [Anna], New York, 1st lady (1933-1945)/crusader (Nobel 1931), (d. 1962)
1884 - Friedrich C R Bergius, German chemist (benzine from brown coal, Nobel)
1884 - Robert Muller-Hartmann, composer
1884 - Sig Ruman, [Siegfried Rumann], Hamburg Germany
1885 - Alfred Haar, Hungary, mathematician
1885 - Francois Mauriac, France, novelist/poet/playwright (Nobel 1952)
1888 - Piero Coppola, composer
1891 - Antonius [Jacob LT] van der Veen Zeppenfeldt, Antillian Bishop
1894 - Albert Stoessel, composer
1895 - H Schiebelhuth, writer
1896 - Roman Jakobson, linguist/Slavic scholar (Fundamentals of Language)
1897 - Arvo Hannikainen, composer
1897 - George Preston Marshall, NFL team owner (Washington Redskins)
1897 - Nathan F Twining, USAF general (Neither Liberty nor Safety)
1897 - Russell Collins, New Orleans LA
1899 - A L "Oosh" Ochse, cricketer (no relation to A E South African fast bowler)
1899 - Eddie Dyer, American baseball player (d. 1964)
1900 - Cal Hubbard, NFL tackle (Giants, Packers, Pittsburgh Pirates)
1901 - Emil Hlobil, composer
1902 - Leon Belasco, Odessa Russia, actor (Lucky Partners, My Sister Eileen)
1902 - Jayaprakash Narayan, Indian freedom fighter and political leader (d. 1979)
1905 - Fred Trump, American real estate developer, father of Donald Trump (d. 1999)
1906 - Earl "Dutch" Clark, Colo, NFL hall of fame QB (Spartans, Detroit)
1908 - Armen Carapetyan, composer
1910 - Eugene John Weigel, composer
1910 - Francis James Claude Piggott, soldier
1910 - Joseph Alsop, political newspaper columnist (Men Around the President)
1913 - J J Pickle, (Rep-D-TX, 1963- )
1914 - Edward J Day, US Postmaster General (1961)
1917 - Franz Alphons Wolpert, composer
1918 - Jerome Robbins, [Rabinowitz], NY, choreographer (Tony-West Side Story)
1919 - Art Blakey, Pitts PA, drummer (Billy Eckstine Band, Jazz Messengers)
1919 - Jean Vander Pyl, American voice actress (d. 1999)
1924 - Mal Whitfield, American athlete
1925 - Elmore Leonard, US writer (Glitz, Mr Majestyk, Touch, 52 Pick-Up)
1926 - Earle Hyman, NC, actor (Russell-Cosby, Coriolanus)
1926 - John Dewes, cricketer (England opener late 40's early 50's)
1926 - Nhất Hạnh, Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk
1927 - Princess Joséphine-Charlotte of Belgium (d. 2005)
1929 - Liselotte Pulver, Swiss actress
1930 - Bill Fischer, baseball player
1930 - Harry Glass, German DR, 1st E German Olympic medalist (bronze-1956)
1930 - Sam Johnson, San Antonio, Texas, American politician (Rep-R-Texas)
1931 - Dorothy Woolfolk, American comic book editor (d. 2000)
1932 - Dottie West, Nashville Tenn, country singer (Here Comes My Baby)
1935 - Jan van Vlijmen, composer
1936 - Billy Higgins, American jazz drummer (d. 2001)
1937 - Bobby Charlton, English soccer player
1937 - Georgi Vladimirovich Machinski, cosmonaut
1937 - R. H. W. Dillard, American poet
1939 - Franklin A Sonn, union leader (South African workers)
1939 - Maria Bueno, Sao Paulo Brazil, tennis player (Wimbledon 1959)
1939 - Woiciech Wiesidlowski Lowski, dancer
1941 - Lester Bowie, American jazz trumpeter (d. 1999)
1941 - Charles Shyer, American film director
1942 - Amitabh Bachan, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, Indian actor and film producer (Deewar)
1942 - Malvin Whitfield, Bay City Tx, track star (Oly-3 gold/silv/br-48, 52)
1942 - Victor H Fazio, (Rep-D-California, 1979- )
1943 - Frank Muyser, Dutch guitarist/saxophonist (Les Baroques)
1943 - Gene Watson, Palestine Tx, country singer (Heartaches, Love & Stuff)
1943 - Keith Boyce, St Peter, Barbados, cricketer (big-hitting WI all-rounder of 70's)
1943 - Per-Gunnar Alldahl, composer
1944 - Rodney Marsh, athlete
1944 - Mike Fiore, American baseball player
1946 - Felton Perry, actor (Magnum Force, Sudden Death)
1946 - Gary Mallaber, Buffalo NY, rocker (Steve Miller Band-Abracadbra)
1946 - Sawao Kato, Japan, gymnist (Olympic-gold-1968, 72, 76)
1946 - Oba Chandler, American convicted murderer
1947 - Lucas Papademos, Greek economist
1947 - Thomas Boswell, American sports columnist
1948 - Daryl Hall, [Hohl], Penn, rocker/songwriter (Hall & Oates-Sara Smile)
1949 - Bobby Jones, baseball player
1949 - Greg Douglas, Oakland California, American rock guitarist/vocalist (Steve Miller Band-
           Abracadabra)
1950 - Amos Gitai, actor (Neo-Fascist Trilogy, Golem, Arena of Murder)
1950 - Andrew Woolfolk, US pop musician (Earth, Wind & Fire-Shining Star)
1950 - Catlin Adams, Los Angeles California, actress (Ms Loomis-Square Pegs)
1950 - Patty Murry, (Sen-D Washington)
1950 - Thomas J Tauke, (Rep-R-IA, 1979- )
1951 - Wesley Magoogan, rocker
1953 - David Morse, Beverly Mass, actor (St Elsewhere, House, Inside Moves)
1956 - Nicanor Duarte Frutos, President of Paraguay
1957 - Dawn French, Welsh comedian and TV actress (Supergrass, French & Saunders, The Vicar of
           Dibley)
1957 - Blair Cunningham, Memphis Tn, rock drummer (Haircut 100)
1957 - Jon Moss, rock drummer (Culture Club)
1957 - Paul Bown, English actor
1957 - Paul Sereno, American paleontologist
1959 - Bob Inglis, (Rep-R-South Carolina)
1959 - Michiel Schapers, Netherlands, tennis star
1960 - Curt Ford, baseball player
1960 - Joe Nash, NFL defensive tackle (Seattle Seahawks)
1961 - Steve Young, NFL quarterback (SF 49ers, NFL Player of Year '92)
1961 - Neil Buchanan, English television presenter
1961 - Amr Diab, Egyptian singer
1962 - Eric Johnson, Seaside OR, Nike golfer (1993 NIKE Louisiana Open-3rd)
1962 - Joan Cusack, Evanston Illinois, actress (SNL, Addams Family Values)
1962 - Leslie Landon, Los Angeles California, actress (Etta Plum-Little House on Prairie)
1962 - Martin Bayless, NFL safety (KC Chiefs)
1962 - Philip Newport, cricketer (England pace bowler in 3 Tests 1988-91)
1962 - Nicola Bryant, English actress
1963 - Ronny Rosenthal, Israeli footballer
1963 - Prince Faisal bin Al Hussein of Jordan
1964 - Michael J. Nelson, American actor
1965 - Chris Spielman, NFL linebacker (Detroit Lions, Buffalo Bills)
1965 - Sean Patrick Flanery, actor (Young Indiana Jones, Powder)
1965 - Alexander Hacke, German musician (Einstürzende Neubauten)
1966 - Gregg Olson, Omaha NE, pitcher (Balt Orioles, Detroit Tigers)
1966 - Luke Perry, Mansfield Ohio, actor (Dillon-Beverly Hill 90210)
1966 - Shawn Chambers, Royal Oaks MI, NHL defenseman (Team USA, NJ Devils)
1966 - Solofa Fatu, aka Rikishi, American professional wrestler
1967 - Bruce Dickson, CFL linebacker (Edmonton Eskimos)
1967 - Charles Ogletree, Greenville NC, tornado yachter (Olympics-8th-1996)
1967 - Dennis Vaske, Rockford, NHL defenseman (NY Islanders)
1967 - John Lovell, Baton Rouge LA, tornado yachter (Olympics-8th-1996)
1967 - Rob Selby, NFL guard (Arizona Cardinals)
1967 - Sean Moynihan, Burlington Vt, actor (Powell-One Life to Live)
1967 - Tony Chimel, American professional wrestling announcer
1967 - Artie Lange, American actor and comedian
1967 - David Starr, American race car driver
1967 - Tazz, American professional wrestler and commentator
1968 - Amy Louise Taylor, [Kallested], actress (Silent Night Deadly Night 5)
1968 - Claude Lapointe, Lachine, NHL center (Calgary Flames)
1968 - Cynthia Johnston, Calgary Alberta, basketball forward (Olympics-96)
1968 - Jane Krakowski, American actress
1969 - Cal Dixon, NFL center/guard (NY Jets)
1969 - Mike Kerr, WLAF defensive end (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1969 - Prince Constantijn, CF Aschwin, of Netherlands
1969 - Ty Murray, rodeo cowboy(5-time all-around world champion)
1970 - Chidi Ahanotu, NFL defensive end/defensive tackle (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1970 - Kelly Sims, WLAF cornerback (Amsterdam Admirals)
1970 - Nicole Jeray, Cook County IL, LPGA golfer (1995 Sprint Champ-22nd)
1970 - Andy Marriott, English footballer
1970 - Constance Zimmer, American actress
1971 - Chann McRae, Albany Ga, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1971 - Natalie Jay, Hendon England, actress (Baywatch)
1971 - Petra Haden, American musician (The Rentals)
1972 - Brigitte Soucy, Moncton New Brunswick,volleyballer (Olympics-96)
1972 - Cherokee Parks, NBA center (Dallas Mavericks, Minn Timberwolves)
1972 - Kyoko Ina, Tokyo Japan, figure skater (1993 North Atlantic Sr champ)
1972 - Troy Corbett, cricket pace bowler (Victorian lefty since 1994-95)
1972 - Claudia Black, Australian actress
1973 - Sharon Dominguez, Miss Belize Universe (1997)
1973 - Takeshi Kaneshiro, actor/model
1973 - Steven Pressley, Scottish footballer
1973 - Mike Smith, American guitarist (Snot, Limp Bizkit)
1974 - Jason Arnott, Collingwood Ontario, NHL center (Edmonton Oilers)
1974 - Terje Haakonsen, Norwegian snowboarder
1975 - Zach Conrad, Ft Collins Colo, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1976 - Emily Deschanel, American actress
1976 - Brent Bennett, American mercenary
1977 - Matthew Bomer, American actor
1977 - Desmond Mason, American basketball player
1977 - Claudia Palacios, Colombian television journalist
1977 - Ty Wigginton, American baseball player
1978 - Kali, Angolan footballer
1979 - Bae Doona, South Korean model and actress
1979 - Andy Douglas, American professional wrestler
1979 - Gabe Saporta, Uruguayan-born American musician (Cobra Starship, Midtown)
1980 - Nyron Nosworthy, English footballer
1981 - Beau Brady, Australian Actor
1983 - William Sledd, American internet personality
1983 - Ruslan Ponomariov, Ukrainian chess player
1984 - Sergio Hellings, Dutch footballer
1984 - Martha MacIsaac, Canadian actress
1985 - Michelle Trachtenberg, American actress
1987 - Mike Conley, Jr., American basketball player
1989 - Henry Lau, member of Korean Boy Band Super Junior M
1989 - Michelle Wie, American golfer
1991 - Chauncey Matthews, American Juniors singer
1992 - Sarah Cannon, daughter of singer Amy Grant

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 11, 2013, 09:42:39 AM

This Day in History for 11th October


Famous Deaths

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Soldier/Public Administrator                    Singer Edith Piaf (1963) 
Meriwether Lewis (1809)


732 - Abd ar-Rahman, Yemenite general strategist (Bordeaux occupier), dies
965 - Bruno I, archbishop of Cologne/duke of Lutheran, dies at about 40
1188 - Robert I of Dreux, son of Louis VI of France
1303 - Boniface VIII, [Benedetto Gaetani], lawyer/pope (1294-1303), dies
1347 - Louis IV, Duke of Bayern/Romania-Germany King/emperor, dies
1424 - Jan Zizka, Czech (army)leader (Hussieten), dies of plague at 46
1531 - Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss church reformer (Zwinglianen), dies
1598 - Joachim Camerarius, German botanist (horticulture catalog), dies
1617 - Franchois Vranck, economist/writer (Deduction), dies at about 62
1666 - Henry de Fleury dee Coulan, mister of Buat/ritmeester, dies
1705 - Guillaume Amontons, French physicist, dies at 42
1708 - Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, German mathematician (b. 1651)
1721 - Edward Colston, English merchant and philanthropist (b. 1636)
1725 - Hans Herr, Swiss-born Mennonite bishop (b. 1639)
1779 - Casimir Pułaski, Polish born fighter for American independence (b. 1745) dies in Battle of
           Savannah
1809 - Meriwether Lewis, (Lewis & Clark Expedition), commits suicide at 35
1811 - Johann Conrad Ammann, Swiss physician and naturalist (b. 1724)
1812 - Jurriaan F de Frederici, Dutch governor-gen (Suriname), dies at 60
1821 - John Ross Key, American judge and lawyer (b. 1754)
1837 - Samuel Wesley, composer (Exultate Deo), dies at 71
1839 - Leonor de Almeida marquesa de Alorna, Portuguese poet, dies at 88
1850 - Louisa Maria, queen of Belgium (1832-50)/wife of Leopold I, dies at 38
1852 - Ferdinand Eisenstein, German mathematician (b. 1823)
1889 - James Prescott Joule, English physicist (b. 1818)
1891 - Charles Stewart Parnells remains buried in Ireland
1896 - Anton Bruckner, Austr composer (Te Deum, Wagner Symphony), dies at 72
1896 - Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1829)
1897 - Leon Boelmann, French organist/composer (Suite Gothique), dies at 35
1917 - Harry Trott, cricketer (Aust capt played 24 Tests 1888-1898), dies
1925 - Karl M Lybeck, Fin/Swedish language poet (Samlade Arbeten), dies at 71
1933 - Josef Hofmiller, writer, dies
1935 - Frank Mitchell, cricketer (2 Tests for Eng then 3 for South Africa), dies
1935 - Steele Rudd, Australian author (b. 1868)
1940 - Lluís Companys, President of Generalitat of Catalonia (shot) (b. 1882)
1940 - Vito Volterra, Italian mathematician and physicist (b. 1860)
1942 - Leonid Vladimirovich Nikolayev, composer, dies at 64
1958 - J R Becher, writer, dies at 67
1959 - Bert Bell, NFL hall of famer, dies at 64
1960 - Richard Cromwell, actor (Jezebel, Riot Squad), dies of cancer at 50
1961 - Leonard "Chico" Marx, comedian (Marx Brothers), dies at 74
1963 - Edith Piaf, French singer (No, I don't regret anything), dies at 47
1963 - Jean Cocteau, French author (La Voie Humaine), dies at 73
1965 - Dorothea Lange, American photographer (b. 1895)
1965 - Walther Stampfli, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1884)
1970 - Anis Fuleihan, composer, dies at 69
1971 - Chester Conklin, actor (Greed, Modern Times), dies at 83
1971 - Chesty Puller, the most decorated Marine in history (b. 1898)
1976 - Connie Boswell, actress (Artists & Models), dies at 68
1976 - Alfredo Bracchi, Italian author (b. 1897)
1977 - Mason Gross, professor (Think Fast, 2 for the Money), dies at 66
1977 - MacKinlay Kantor, American author (b. 1904)
1978 - Nancy Spungen, killed by boyfriend Six Vicious in NYC
1984 - Khanderao M Rangnekar, cricketer (33 runs at 5 50 for India), dies
1984 - Sid Carroll, cricketer (prolific NSW opener 1945-59 avg 39 59), dies
1985 - Tex Williams, country-western singer, dies at 68 of cancer
1986 - Norm Cash, 1st baseman (Detroit Tigers), dies at 51
1988 - Bonita Granville, actress (Lone Ranger, Hitler's Children), dies at 55
1988 - Morgan Farley, actor (Open Secret), dies of natural causes at 90
1988 - Wayland Flowers, ventriloquist (Madame), dies of AIDS at 48
1989 - Paul Shenar, actor (Deadly Force, Dream Lover), dies at 53
1989 - M. King Hubbert, American geophysicist (b. 1904)
1990 - Douglas Edwards, WW II correspondent, dies of cancer at 73
1990 - Robert Tessier, actor (Nightwish, Future Force), dies at 56
1991 - Steven Jesse Bernstein, American underground poet (suicide) (b. 1950)
1992 - Theo Wolvencamp, painter (Cobra), dies
1992 - Willem RJ Wittkampf, journalist/writer (Liner, Cannon), dies
1993 - Jess Thomas, American tenor (b. 1927)
1994 - Maja Bulgakova, Ukranian actress (Krylja), dies in auto-accident at 62
1994 - Nic Jonk, sculptor/painter (Nereus on Zeepaard), dies at 66
1996 - Arthur Walter Lucas, picture restorer, dies at 80
1996 - Edith Tilton Penrose, economist, dies at 81
1996 - Johnny Costa, jazz pianist (Mr Rogers), dies at 74
1996 - Keith Boyce, cricketer (West Indies all-rounder 1969-76), dies of chronic cirrhosis of the liver
           at 53
1996 - Terry Patchett, politician, dies at 56
1996 - William Vickrey, economist, dies at 82
1996 - Lars Ahlfors, Finnish mathematician (b. 1907)
1998 - Richard Denning, American actor (b. 1914)
2000 - Donald Dewar, First Minister of Scotland (b. 1937)
2002 - Dina Pathak, Indian Actress (b. 1922)
2004 - Keith Miller, Australian sportsman (b. 1919)
2005 - Edward Szczepanik, Polish economist and Prime Minister in exile (b. 1915)
2005 - Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee, Linguist, and writer of Pakistan (b. 1917)
2006 - Cory Lidle, American baseball pitcher (b. 1972)
2006 - Howard Kerzner, Chief Executive Officer of Kerzner International (b. 1964)
2006 - Benito Martínez, Cuban who claimed to be the oldest person, died mildly ironically. Family
           didn't mourn - mostly dead also. (b. ?1880)
2007 - Werner von Trapp, member of the Trapp Family Singers (b. 1915)
2007 - David Lee "Tex" Hill, World War Two fighter pilot, flying ace, 1st American Volunteer Group (b.
           1915)
2008 - Jörg Haider, Austrian far-right politician (b. 1950)
2009 - Veronika Neugebauer, German actress and voice actress (b. 1969)
2012 - John Junior "Champ" Summers, American MLB player, dies from kidney cancer at 66

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 12, 2013, 09:50:26 AM

This Day in History for 12th October


Historical Events

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Founder of Protestanism                         Naturalist Charles Darwin                             26th US President
Martin Luther                                                                                                              Theodore Roosevelt

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37th US President                                        First Secretary of the                        38th US President Gerald Ford
Richard Nixon                                       Communist Party of the Soviet
                                                                   Union Nikita Khrushchev

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Musician Sid Vicious                              Queen of the United Kingdom
                                                                         Elizabeth II


539 BC - The army of Cyrus the Great of Persia takes Babylon.
638 - Honorius I ends his reign as Catholic Pope; Pope Severinus elected
642 - John IV ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1165 - Rambam reaches Jerusalem
1216 - King John of England loses his crown jewels in The Wash, probably near Fosdyke, perhaps
           near Sutton Bridge
1279 - Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk founder of Nichiren Buddhism, inscribes the Dai-
           Gohonzon
1285 - 180 Jews refuse baptism in Munich Germany, they are set on fire
1366 - King Frederick III of Siciliy forbids decorations on synagogues
1398 - the Treaty of Salynas is signed between Grand Duke of Lithuania Vytautas the Great and the
           Teutonic Knights, who received Samogitia.
1459 - Battle at Ludford Bridge: Richard of York defeated
1492 - Flemish rebel leader Philip van Kleef surrenders
1492 - Christopher Columbus's expedition makes landfall on Caribbean island he names San Salvador
           (likely Watling Island, Bahamas). The explorer believes he has reached East Asia (OS 21 Oct)
1504 - Queen Isabella I of Spain signs her testament
1509 - Emperor Maximilian leaves Italy
1518 - Pontifical ambassador interrogates Martin Luther
1549 - John Dudley earl of Warwick becomes English premier
1576 - Rudolf II succeeds Maximilian II as Holy Roman Emperor
1609 - Children's rhyme "Three Blind Mice," published in London
1654 - The Delft Explosion (gunpowder) devastates the city in the Netherlands, killing more than
           100.
1659 - English Rump-government fires John Lambert & other generals
1692 - Massachusetts Bay discontinues witch trials
1702 - Battle of Bay of Vigo: Dutch & English fleet destroy & occupy Spanish silver fleet & French
           squadron
1711 - Karel VI Habsburg crowned Roman Catholic emperor
1729 - Willem KH Friso installed as viceroy of Gelderland
1730 - Christian VI succeeds Frederik IV as king of Denmark
1773 - America's first insane asylum opens for 'Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds' in Virginia
1775 - US Navy forms
1776 - British Brigade begins guarding Throgg Necks Road in Bronx
1792 - First celebration of Columbus Day in the USA held in New York
1798 - Flemish uprising against French occupied Boerenkrijg
1798 - Friedrich von Schillers "Wallensteins Lager," premieres in Weimar
1815 - Ex-king Joachim Murat van Naples sentenced to death
1822 - 2nd eruption of Galunggung (Java) destroys summit of mountain
1823 - Charles Macintosh of Scotland begins selling raincoats (Macs)
1833 - Charles Darwin begins return trip to Buenos Aires
1836 - 18" of snow falls in Bridgewater NY
1850 - 1st women's medical school (Women's Medical College of Penns), opens
1853 - John Morrissey wins boxing title, when Yankee Sullivan leaves ring after 36th round to slug
           Morrissey's fans
1854 - Lincoln University founded as Ashmun Institute
1860 - British & French troops capture Beijing
1861 - Confederate ironclad Manassas attack Union's Richmond on Mississippi
1862 - JEB Stuart completes his "2nd ride around McClellan"
1862 - Maj Gen Earl Van Dorn assumes command of Conf troops in Missisippi
1862 - Skirmish at Monocacy, Maryland
1871 - Pres Grant condemns Ku Klux Klan
1872 - Montreal Foot Ball Club 1st game playing Quebec City to 0-0 tie
1879 - British troops occupy Kabul Afghanistan
1881 - Henry M Stanley signs contract with Congo monarch
1886 - Hurricane & sea surge kills 250 at Indianola Texas
1886 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of 2nd Stain" (BG)
1891 - Astronomical Society of France is inaugurated
1892 - US Pledge of Allegiance 1st recited in public schools during Columbus Day
1898 - Establishment of the first town council in Mateur.
1899 - South Africa Boer Republic declares war on England
1901 - Theodore Roosevelt renames "Executive Mansion," "The White House"
1903 - Lyric Theater opens at 213 W 42nd St NYC
1907 - Cubs beat Tigers 4 games to 0 with 1 tie in 4th World Series
1913 - John McGraw, after drinking, blames Wilbert Robinson's coaching mistakes for World Series
           lose, Robertson blames McGraw & is fired
1914 - 1st battle at Ypres, begins
1915 - Ford Motor Company manufactures its 1 millionth Model T automobile
1915 - Theodore Roosevelt criticizes US citzens who identify themselves, with dual nationalities
1916 - Boston Red Sox beat Bkln Dodgers, 4 games to 1 in 13th World Series
1917 - The First Battle of Passchendaele, now Passendale
1918 - Cloquet fire kills 453 and injures or displaces 52,000 people
1920 - Cleve Indians beat Bkln Dodgers, 5 games to 2 in 17th World Series
1920 - Construction begins on Holland Tunnel connecting NJ & NYC
1920 - Man O'War's last race & win
1920 - Soccer team Quick '20 forms
1923 - NY Giant's Casey Stengel HR beats Yanks 1-0 in World Series
1924 - Sokolnicheskaya Radio begins broadcasting from Moscow
1925 - Albert Michelsen runs world record marathon (2:19:01.8 )
1925 - German-Russian trade agreement signed
1927 - Hermann Goerner of Germany raises 24 men weighing 4,123 lbs on a plank with soles of his
           feet
1928 - 1st use of iron lung (Boston's Children Hospital)
1929 - Cubs blow 8-0 World Series lead, A's score 10 in 1 inning
1931 - 1st International Conference on Calendar Reform
1933 - Alcatraz becomes a federal prison (unofficially)
1933 - John Dillinger escapes from Allen County, OH, jail
1935 - Cole Porters musical "Jubilee," premieres in NYC
1941 - Russian government moves from Moscow to Volga as Nazis close in on Moscow
1942 - Successful Russian counter attack through 37th Guard division
1942 - US navy defeats Japanese in WW II Battle of Cape Esperance
1943 - US bombs Rabaul, New Britain
1944 - German army retreats from Athens
1948 - Casey Stengel takes over as Yankee manager
1950 - "Call Me Madam" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 644 performances
1952 - Hanif Mohammad scores twin 100s v N Zone (Ind) his 1st fc cricket tons
1952 - KBTV (now KUSA) TV channel 9 in Denver, CO (ABC) begins broadcasting
1953 - US & Greece signs peace treaty (US bases)
1955 - -13] Hurricane Hazel, kills 68 in Haiti
1956 - Marga Klompe becomes 1st Dutch women elected minister
1957 - "Mask & Gown" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 39 performances
1957 - "Simply Heavenly" closes at Playhouse Theater NYC after 62 perfs
1957 - 1st coml flight between California & Antartica
1957 - Canadian Prime Minister Lester Bowles Pearson wins Nobel Peace Prize
1958 - CVP wins municipal elections in Belgium
1958 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1958 - WJRT TV channel 12 in Flint, MI (ABC) begins broadcasting
1959 - At the national congress of APRA in Peru a group of leftist radicals are expelled from the
           party. They will later form APRA Rebelde.
1960 - JFK & Richard Nixon's 3rd presidential debate
1960 - Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe at UN General Assembly session
1960 - Inejiro Asanuma is assassinated in Japan by Otoya Yamaguchi, a 17-year-old. The camera
           was rolling at that time.
1961 - "Let It Ride" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 68 performances
1961 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1962 - US/USSR sign joint space effort in telecommunications & meteorology
1962 - Infamous Columbus Day Storm strikes the U.S. Pacific Northwest with record wind velocities;
           46 dead and at least U.S. $230 million in damages
1963 - "Student Gypsy" closes at 84th St Theater NYC after 16 performances
1963 - Archaeological digs begin at Masada, Israel
1963 - At 4 AM, traffic on Bay Bridge is 1-way on each deck
1964 - 1st time 3 people in space
1964 - KCSM TV channel 60 in San Mateo-SF, CA (PBS) begins
1964 - Launch of Voskhod 1, 1st 3 man crew (Komarov, Feokistov, Yegorov)
1964 - Voskhod 1 launched: 1st flight with 3 cosmonauts
1964 - WSBK TV channel 38 in Boston, MA (IND/ABC/CBS/NBC) begin
1964 - WUCM TV channel 19 in University Center, MI (PBS) begins broadcasting
1966 - Jimi Henrix Experience fors with Noel Redding & Mitch Mitchell
1967 - St Louis Cards beat Boston Red Sox, 4 games to 3 in 64th World Series as Lou Brock steals
           a record 7 bases in 1 World Series
1968 - "Noel Coward's Sweet Potato" closes at Barrymore NYC after 17 perfs
1968 - 19th Olympic games open at Mexico City, Mexico
1968 - Equatorial Guinea (Spanish Guinea) declares independence from Spain
1968 - Norma Enriqueta Basilio Satelo is 1st woman to light Olympic flame
1969 - 1st time 5 people in space
1969 - KDB-AM in Santa Barbara CA changes call letters to KAPN
1969 - KHOF (now KAGL) TV ch 30 in San Bernardino/Glenda, CA (IND) begins
1969 - Soyuz 7 is launched
1970 - Rock Memorabilia Auction at Filmore East
1971 - "Jesus Christ Superstar" opens at Mark Hellinger NYC for 711 perfs
1972 - "Hurry, Harry" opens at Ritz Theater NYC for 2 performances
1972 - 46 sailors injured in race riot on aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk
1972 - Billy Harris failed in 1st Islander penalty shot
1972 - Mariner 9 takes pictures of Martian north pole
1973 - Israeli counter offensive in southern Syria
1973 - Juan Peron elected president of Argentina
1973 - Nixon nominates Gerald Ford to replace Spiro Agnew as VP
1974 - 1st time Wash Caps are shutout as they are beat 6-0 by Minnesota
1975 - Archbishop Oliver Plunkett became 1st Irish-born saint in 7 centuries
1975 - Jacqueline Hansen runs women's world record marathon (2:38:19)
1975 - NASA launches space vehicle S-195
1976 - 4th Space Shuttle Enterprise, approach & land test (ALT) flight
1976 - Hua Guo-feng succeeds Mao Tse-tung as chairman of Communist Party
1977 - "Throwaway Game" Catfish Hunter loses WS 6-1 resting Yank pitchers
1977 - 4th test of space shuttle Enterprise
1977 - Psychic Romark attempts to drive blindfolded, smashed into cop van
1977 - US Supreme Court heard arguments in "reverse discrimination" case of
1977 - Allan Bakke, white student denied admission to University of California Med School
1978 - Representatives of Israel & Egypt open talks in Washington
1978 - Sid Vicious charged in murder of girlfriend Nancyh Spungen
1979 - Pressure in nucleus of tropical cyclone at Guam hits record 870 hpa
1979 - The lowest recorded non-tornadic atmospheric pressure, 87.0 kPa (870 mbar or 25.69 inHg),
           occurred in the Western Pacific during Typhoon Tip.
1980 - "Your Arm's Too Short to Box" closes at Ambassador NYC after 149 perfs
1980 - 7 stabbed at Blood, Sweat & Tears concert in LA
1980 - Amy Alcott wins LPGA Inamori Golf Classic
1981 - "Marlowe" opens at Rialto Theater NYC for 48 performances
1981 - 15th Country Music Association Award:
1982 - 38.6 cm (15.2") of rainfall, Angoon Alaska (state record)
1982 - Milwaukee Brewer Paul Molitor getrs world sereis record 5 hits
1983 - 5225 Loral & 5424 Covington
1984 - IRA bombs hotel where British PM Margaret Thatcher is staying, 5 die
1985 - Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 61A mission
1985 - Intl Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War receives Nobel Prize
1985 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1986 - California Angels within 1 pitch of pennant victory lose to Red Sox
1986 - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh visit the People's
           Republic of China
1987 - 21st Country Music Association Award: Hank William Jr wins
1987 - George Harrison releases "Got My Mind Set On You"
1987 - Minnesota Twins beat Detroit Tigers for AL pennant
1987 - Oscar Arias (Costa Rican Pres) wins Nobel Peace Prize
1988 - George W H Bush & Michael Dukakis meet in 2nd debate
1988 - Israel & China sign trade deal, plan diplomatic relations
1989 - Herschel Walker is traded from Cowboys to Vikings for 12 players
1989 - Musical "Buddy" with Paul Hipp premieres in London
1990 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1991 - Boxer Hector Comacho arrested for driving while getting oral sex
1991 - Mike Lerch of Princeton ties NCAA record with 370 receiving yards
1991 - Statler Brothers Show premieres on TNN
1991 - Wrestler Rip Oliver forced to retire after being injured by Crush
1991 - Doug Flutie of BC Lions sets CFL passing record of 582 yards despite losing to Edmonton 45-
           38 in overtime
1992 - 5.8 earthquake at Cairo (at least 510 die)
1992 - Arecibo radio telescope begins Microwave search for occupied planets
1992 - Brett "Hitman" Hart beats Ric Flair for WWF Heavyweight title
1992 - Expo '92 closes in Seville Spain
1992 - Howard Stern radio show premieres in Albany NY (WQBK 103.5 & 103.9 FM)
1992 - Microwave Observing Project begins (seeking alien life)
1992 - Wash Redskin Art Monk sets NFL record with 820th reception
1993 - "Mixed Emotions" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 48 performances
1994 - Contact with Venus orbitter Magellan broken
1994 - Iranian Fokker's F28 explode between Isfahan & Teheran: 66 killed
1995 - "Patti LuPone on Broadway" opens at Walter Kerr NYC for 46 perfs
1997 - David Duval wins Michelob Championship at Kingsmill Golf Club
1997 - Juli Inkster wins LPGA Samsung World Championship
1997 - Transamerica Senior Golf
1997 - Sidi Daoud massacre in Algeria; 43 killed at a fake roadblock.
1999 - Pervez Musharraf takes power in Pakistan from Nawaz Sharif through a bloodless coup.
1999 - The Day of Six Billion: The proclaimed 6 billionth living human in the world is born.
2000 - The USS Cole is badly damaged in Aden, Yemen, by two suicide bombers, killing 17 crew
           members and wounding at least 39
2002 - Terrorists explode two bombs in Bali's nightclub district killing 202 and injuring 209 mostly
           foreign tourists
2005 - The second Chinese human spaceflight Shenzhou 6 launched carrying Fèi Jùnlóng and Niè
           Hǎishèng for five days in orbit.
2012 - The United Nations Security Council unanimously approves of an African-led force to oust
           Islamist militants in northern Mali
2012 - The European Union wins the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize, sparking a series of critical commentary

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 12, 2013, 10:36:49 AM

This Day in History for 12th October


Famous Weddings

1810 - First Oktoberfest: The Bavarian royalty invites the citizens of Munich to join the celebration of
           the marriage of Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria to Princess Therese von Sachsen-         
           Hildburghausen.
1822 - "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" author Victor Hugo (20) weds Adele Fourcher
1991 - Steven Spielberg weds Kate Capshaw
1997 - "Malcom X" actress Angela Bassett (39) weds actor Courtney B. Vance (38) in Los Angeles
2003 - Actor Danny Nucci (35) weds actress Paula Marshall (39) in Los Angeles
2012 - Comedian and ventriloquist Jeff Dunham (50) weds fitness model Audrey Murdick (32) at the
           Sunstone Vineyards in Santa Ynez, California

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 12, 2013, 10:48:31 AM

This Day in History for 12th October


Famous Birthdays

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Operatic Tenor                                        Actor Hugh Jackman (1968)               Track and Field Athlete/Drug Cheat
Luciano Pavarotti (1935)                                                                                                Marion Jones (1975)


1008 - Emperor Go-Ichijō of Japan (d. 1036)
1350 - Dmitry Donskoy, Grand Prince of Moscovy (d. 1389)
1490 - Bernardo Pisano, composer
1537 - Edward VI, Tudor, King of England (1547-53)
1558 - Archduke Maximilian III of Austria (d. 1618)
1558 - Jacques Sirmond, French scholar and Jesuit (d. 1651)
1576 - Thomas Dudley, English-born American colonial magistrate (d. 1653)
1602 - William Chillingworth, English religious leader (d. 1644)
1686 - Silvius Leopold Weiss, composer
1710 - Jonathan Trumbull, American politician and statesman (d. 1785)
1712 - William Shippen, American physician and statesman (d. 1801)
1725 - Etienne Louis Geoffroy, French pharmacist and entomologist (d. 1810)
1742 - Johan Peter Melchior, German sculptor
1759 - Frantisek Vaclav Tomes, composer
1762 - John W Janssens, gov-gen of Cape colony/Dutch-Indies 1811
1763 - John Ross, composer
1792 - Christian Gmelin, German chemist (d. 1860)
1798 - A J Pedro I van Alcantara, Kaiser of Brazil (1822-31)/king of Portugal
1798 - Charles Albert, King of Sardinia (1831-49)
1801 - Friedrich Frey-Herosé, Swiss statesman (d. 1873)
1807 - John Tideman, Dutch Remonstrant theologist
1808 - John Liptrot Hatton, composer
1813 - Lyman Trumbull, MC (Union) died in 1896
1815 - William Joseph Hardee, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1873
1822 - Joseph Haydn Potter, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1892
1832 - Walter T Watts-Dunton, England, lawyer/poet/writer (Aylwin)
1840 - Helena Modjeska, Poland, Shakespearian actress (Juliet)/anti-Russian
1844 - George W Cable, American writer (Northampton Years)
1845 - Amintore Galli, composer
1855 - Arthur Nikisch, Szent-Miklos Hungary, conductor (Berlin Philharmonic)
1855 - August Sauer, Austria literature historian (Euphorion)
1855 - Jacobus of Looy, Dutch writer/painter (Death of My Cat) [or 9/12]
1860 - Elmer A Sperry, inventor (gyrocompass)
1865 - Arthur Harden, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1940)
1866 - Antonie Waldrop, painter/lithographer
1866 - James Ramsay MacDonald, (L) British PM (1924, 1929-35)
1872 - Ralph Vaughan Williams, Down Amp England, composer (Hugh the Drover)
1874 - Jimmy Burke, American baseball player (d. 1942)
1875 - Aleister [Edward S] Crowley, (75 pseudonames), British occultist
1878 - Karl Buresch, Austria politician
1880 - Healey Willan, composer
1880 - Louis Hémon, French novelist (d. 1913)
1881 - Carlos Lopez Buchardo, composer
1881 - William Nigh, Berlin Wisconsin, director (Ape, Doomed to Die, Mr Wong)
1882 - Hermann Wolfgang Sartorius Waltershausen, German musicologist/composer
1884 - Godfrey Tearle, English/US actor (39 Steps)
1886 - Karl Dane, Copenhagen Denmark, actor (Son of the Sheik)
1887 - Paula von Preradović, Croatian-Austrian poet (d. 1951)
1890 - Luis de Freitas Branco, composer
1891 - Edith Stein, German philosopher
1892 - Gilda dalla Rizza, Italian soprano (d. 1975)
1893 - Pall Isolfsson, composer
1893 - Velvalee Dickinson, American spy (d. 1980)
1894 - Charles Hodge, California, NYU professor (Answers for Americans)
1894 - Elisabeth A de Vreugd, chambermaid of Dutch queen
1896 - Eugenio Montale, Italy, poet/translator (Xenia-Nobel 1975)
1902 - Dirk A M Binnendijk, critic (Authoritarian Regimes in Transistion)
1903 - Grayson Kirk, Jeffersonville Ohio, educator
1904 - Ding Ling, Chinese writer (d. 1986)
1904 - Lester Dent, American writer (d. 1959)
1905 - Rick Ferrell, baseball Hall of Fame catcher
1906 - Edmund Charles Wolf Myers, soldier/engineer
1906 - Joe Cronin, baseball (Pirates, Red Sox, Senators, MVP 1930, AL Pres)
1906 - Willy Hess, Swiss musicologist, composer and famous Beethoven scholar
1907 - Wolfgang Fortner, composer
1908 - Ann Lane Petry, US journalist/author (Street)
1908 - Paul Engle, American writer (d. 1991)
1909 - Josephine Hutchinson, Seattle WA, actress (Story of Louis Pasteur)
1909 - Zellig S Harris, US linguist
1910 - Robert Fitzgerald, American poet and translator (d. 1985)
1910 - Bob Sheppard, American baseball announcer
1911 - Louis M de Guiringaud, French foreign minister (1976-78)
1911 - Vijay Merchant, cricketer (all-time great Indian batsman)
1913 - William James Moyce, armaments scientist
1916 - Alice Childress, American actress and playwright (d. 1994)
1917 - Hans Bentz van den Berg, Dutch actor (Last Train)
1918 - Emil Cossetto, composer
1919 - Andre Casanova, composer
1919 - Gilles Beaudoin, Quebec politician (d. 2007)
1920 - Alice Childress, US playwright/actress (Wedding Band)
1920 - Christy Ring, Irish hurler (d. 1979)
1921 - Jaroslav Drobny, Czech, hockey (Oly-gold-1948), tennis (Wimb-1954)
1923 - Jean Nidetch, Brooklyn, nutritionist founder (Weight Watchers)
1923 - Goody Petronelli, American boxing trainer and manager
1924 - Doris Grau, American actress (d. 1995)
1925 - Bill Parkhouse, cricketer (England batsman in 7 Tests 1950-59)
1925 - Fons Jansen, news reader/Dutch cabaretier (court jester of beliefs)
1925 - Guitar Gabriel Robert Lewis Jones, singer/guitarist
1925 - William Steinkraus, equestrian (Oly-gold/2 sil/br-52/56/60/64/68/72)
1925 - Denis Lazure, Quebec politician (d. 2008)
1926 - Hans Liebold, Germany, auto racer (Nardo, Italy)
1927 - Antonia Rey, Havana Cuba, actress (True Colors, Wise Guys)
1928 - Thomas Burnett Swann, US, sci-fi author (Day of Minotaur)
1928 - Al Held, US, painter/sculptor (hard edge-style)
1929 - Robert Coles, Milton Mass, author (Anna Freud, Pulitzer 1973)
1929 - Magnús Magnússon, Icelandic television presenter (d. 2007)
1930 - Jack S Gottlieb, composer
1931 - Raoul Pleskow, composer
1932 - Dick Gregory, comedian/political activist/dietician (Bahamian Diet)
1932 - Dusan Makavejev, Belgrade Yugoslavia, director (Man is Not a Bird)
1932 - Jake Edwin Garn, (Sen-R-Utah, 1974- )/astronaut (STS 51D)
1932 - Mayer Joel Mandelbaum, composer
1932 - Ned Jarrett, Conover, North Carolina, American race car driver and announcer (50 Grand
           National victories)
1933 - Broos van Erp, Dutch MP (VVD)
1933 - Guido Molinari, Canadian painter (d. 2004)
1934 - Richard Meier, American architect
1934 - Albert Shiryaev, Russian mathematician
1935 - Luciano Pavarotti, Modena Italy, operatic tenor (Oh Giorgio, 3 Tenors), (d. 2007)
1935 - Sam Moore, Miami Fl, rock vocalist (Sam & Dave-Soul Sister)
1935 - William Raspberry, Okolona, Mississippi, columnist (Pulitzer 1994), (d. 2012)
1936 - Tony Kubek, shortstop (NY Yankees)/sportscaster (NBC-TV, Madison Square Garden)
1937 - Robert Mangold, American artist
1938 - Bob Miller, American NHL broadcaster
1939 - Carolee Schneemann, Fox Chase Pennsylvania, American performance artist
1941 - Craig A Washington, (Rep-D-Texas)
1941 - Michael Mansfield, English barrister
1942 - Daliah Lavi, Shavel Zion Israel, actress (Casino Royalle, Lord Jim)
1942 - Melvin Franklin, Montgomery Alabama, rocker (Temptations)
1944 - Angela Rippon, British television personality
1945 - Aurore Clément, French actress
1946 - Ashok Mankad, cricketer (son of Vinoo, batted for India 1969-78)
1947 - Chris Wallace, Chicago Illinois, newscaster (NBC Weekend News)
1947 - George Lam, Hong Kong singer
1948 - Rick Parfitt, Surrey England, pop guitarist/singer (Status Quo-Wanderer)
1949 - Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, Venezuelan international terrorist
1949 - Stan Hansen, American professional wrestler
1950 - Susan Anton, Oak Glen California, actress (Golden Girl, Spring Fever)
1950 - Robin Askwith, English actor
1950 - Dave Freudenthal, American politician
1950 - Kaga Takeshi, Japanese actor
1951 - Bernie Ruoff, West Germany, CFL kicker (Winnipeg, Hamilton)
1951 - Ed Royce, American politician (Rep-R-California)
1951 - Sally Little, Cape Town South Africa, LPGA golfer (1982 Dinah Shore)
1952 - Danielle Proulx, Quebec actress
1953 - Serge Lepeltier, French politician
1954 - Tom Blomberg, Dutch radio host/producer (Evening Rush Hour)
1955 - Pat Dinizio, rock vocalist (Smithereens)
1955 - Ante Gotovina, Croatian general
1955 - Jane Siberry, Canadian musician
1956 - David Vanian, British singer, (The Damned)
1957 - Kristen Bjorn, British film director
1958 - Jeff Keith, rock vocalist (Tesla-Psychotic Supper)
1958 - Bryn Merrick, British musician, (The Damned)
1959 - Abigail Kingsley Alling, NYC, executive (Biosphere 2)
1959 - Anna Escobedo Cabral, 42nd Treasurer of the United States
1960 - Lionel Washington, cornerback (Oakland Raiders)
1960 - Stephen Brent Lowery, Birmingham AL, PGA golfer (1994 Sprint)
1962 - Dhammika Ranatunga, cricketer (bro of Arjuna Sri Lankan batsman 1990)
1962 - Sid Fernandez, Honolulu Hawaii, pitcher (NY Mets, Philadelphia Phillies)
1962 - Carlos Bernard, American actor
1962 - Chris Botti, American jazz musician
1962 - Branko Crvenkovski, Macedonian President
1963 - Michael Zordich, NFL strong safety (Philadelphia Eagles)
1963 - Randy Wood, Princeton, NHL left wing (Dallas Stars)
1963 - Lane Frost, American professional bull rider, (d. 1989)
1963 - Satoshi Kon, Japanese anime director
1963 - Alan McDonald, Northern Irish footballer, (d. 2012)
1964 - Darrick Heath, Hempstead NY, team handball left back (Olympics-1996)
1964 - Fanie De Villers, cricketer (great South African pace bowler 1993- )
1964 - Jo Ann Willette, actress (Constance-Just 10 of Us, Real Genius)
1965 - Chris Chandler, NFL quarterback (Houston Oilers, Atlanta Falcons)
1965 - J Daigneault, Montreal, NHL defenseman (Pitts Penguins)
1965 - Larry Silveira, Walnut Creek CA, Nike golfer (NIKE Knoxville Open-2nd)
1965 - Todd Krygier, Chicago Heights, NHL left wing (Anaheim, Washington)
1965 - Scott O'Grady, American military officer
1966 - Mel Rojas, Haina Dom Rep, pitcher (Montreal Expos)
1966 - Wim Jonk, Dutch soccer star (Ajax)
1966 - Brian Kennedy, Northern Irish musician and author
1967 - Becky Iverson, Escanaba MI, LPGA golfer (1995 Friendly's Classic)
1968 - Adam Rich, NYC, actor (Nicholas-8 is Enough, Code Red, Gun Shy)
1968 - Charles Anthony, CFL defensive back (Toronto Argonauts)
1968 - Leon Lett, NFL defensive tackle (Dallas Cowboys)
1968 - Mike Trombley, Springfield MA, pitcher (Minnesota Twins)
1968 - Bill Auberlen, American race car driver
1968 - Hugh Jackman, Australian actor and singer (X-men, Real Steel)
1969 - Alison Peek, Australia, field hockey halfback/midfielder (Olympics-96)
1969 - Dave Chaytors, CFL defensive tackle (BC Lions)
1969 - David Collins, Bethpage NY, rower (Olympics-bronze-1996)
1969 - Jose Valentin, Manati Puerto Rico, infielder (Milwaukee Brewers)
1969 - Kimberly Ann Grimm, Mt Lake Park Md, Miss Maryland-America (1991)
1969 - Nancy Ann Kerrigan, Woburn Mass, figure skater (Olympics-silver-1994)
1969 - Terry Ray, NFL strong safety (NE Patriots)
1969 - Martie Maguire, American musician (Dixie Chicks)
1970 - Amy Beth Keller, Great Bend Kansas, Miss America (Kansas-Top 10-1996)
1970 - Charlie Ward, NBA guard (NY Knicks)/Heisman Trophy winner (1993)
1970 - Herman Arvie, NFL tackle (Cleveland Browns)
1970 - Karen Courtland, Orange NJ, pairs skaters (Olympics-1994)
1970 - Kimberly Hoskins, Yuma Arizona, Miss Arizona-America (1991)
1970 - Kirk Cameron, Panorama City California, actor (Mike-Growing Pains)
1970 - Tanyon Sturtze, American baseball player
1971 - Bronzel Miller, WLAF linebacker (Amsterdam Admirals)
1971 - Pavol Rybar, hockey goaltender (Team Slovakia 1998)
1971 - Ahn Jae Wook, South Korean actor, composer and singer
1971 - Tony Fiore, American baseball player
1972 - Jeroen Egge, WLAF offensive linesman (Amsterdam Admirals)
1972 - Neriah Davis, Los Angeles CA, playmate (Mar, 1994)
1972 - Singor Mobley, safety (Dallas Cowboys)
1972 - Tom van Mol, soccer player (PSV)
1972 - Irina Pantaeva, Russian supermodel and actress
1972 - Juan Manuel Silva, Argentine racing driver
1972 - Tom Van Mol, Belgian football player
1973 - Rodney Mack, professional wrestler
1974 - Karmyn Tyler, Shreveport Louisiana, Miss America-Louisiana (1996)
1974 - Miroslav Satan, Topolcany CZE, NHL forward (Team Slovakia, Edmonton)
1974 - Rachyl Hoskins, Miss USA-Kentucky (1997)
1974 - Stephen Lee, English snooker player
1974 - Marie Wilson, Canadian actress
1975 - Scott Von Der Ahe, linebacker (Indianapolis Colts)
1975 - Marion Jones, Los Angeles, California, track and field athlete/drug cheat (5 forfeited Olympic
           medals)
1976 - Sarah Lane, American television personality
1977 - Carmen Carrillo Vilanova, Miss El Salvador Universe (1997)
1977 - Bode Miller, American alpine ski-racer
1977 - Javier Toyo, Venezuelan footballer
1977 - Jay Jenkins, American rapper also known as "Young Jeezy"
1978 - Baden Cooke, Australian cyclist
1979 - Jordan Pundik, American singer (New Found Glory)
1981 - Shola Ameobi, English footballer
1981 - Tom Guiry, American actor
1981 - Brian Kerr, Scottish footballer
1981 - Sneha, Indian actress
1982 - Molly Bennett, Irish singer
1983 - Alex Brosque, Australian footballer
1985 - Mike Green, Canadian ice hockey player
1986 - Marcus T. Paulk, American actor
1986 - Sergio Peter, German footballer
1990 - Henri Lansbury, English footballer
1992 - Taylor Horn, American singer and actress
1992 - Josh Hutcherson, American actor
1997 - Prince Boris of Bulgaria

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 12, 2013, 10:51:58 AM

This Day in History for 12th October


Famous Deaths

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English Social Reformer                    Confederate General Robert E. Lee (1870)
Elizabeth Fry (1845)


632 - Edwin of Deira, King of Northumbria and Bretwalda
638 - Honorius I, [dux plebis], Italian Pope, dies
642 - John IV, Dalmatian born Pope (640-42), dies
642 - Pope John IV
1093 - Robrecht de Fries, earl of Flanders (1071-93), dies at about 62
1095 - Margrave Leopold II of Austria (b. 1050)
1176 - William d'Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel, English politician
1320 - Michael IX Paleologi, emperor of Byzantine (1295-1320), dies
1343 - Reinald II, duke of Gelre, dies
1491 - Fritz Herlen, German artist
1492 - Piero della Francesca, Italian painter
1565 - Jean Ribault, French explorer and colonizer (b. 1520)
1576 - Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor (1564-76), dies
1590 - Kano Eitoku, Japanese painter (b. 1543)
1600 - Luis Molina, Spanish Jesuit (b. 1535)
1632 - Kutsuki Mototsuna, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1549)
1646 - Francois De Bassompierre, marshal of France, dies
1654 - Dirck Graswinckel, Dutch copurt clerk of States-General, dies at 66
1654 - Rembrandt Carel Fabritius, painter, is injured in the Delft Explosion and later dies of his
           injuries
1672 - Frederik of Nassau, count of Buren, slain in battle
1678 - Edmund Berry Godfrey, English magistrate (b. 1621)
1679 - William Gurnall, English writer (b. 1617)
1685 - Geeraerdt Burns, theologist/poet/historian, dies at 59
1685 - Christoph Ignaz Abele, Austrian jurist (b. 1628)
1692 - Giovanni Battista Vitali, composer, dies at 60
1694 - Matsuo Basho, greatest Japanese haiku poet, dies
1730 - Frederik IV, king of Denmark/Norway (1699-1730), dies
1758 - Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth, British field marshal (b. 1680)
1791 - A L Karschin, writer, dies at 68
1794 - James Lyon, composer, dies at 59
1797 - Pierre de Jelyotte, composer, dies at 84
1817 - Johann Franz Xaver Sterkel, composer, dies at 66
1820 - Elias Annes Borger, theologist/poet (Ode on the Rhine), dies at 36
1829 - Jacobus Blue, Dutch regent/patriot, dies at about 73
1837 - Frederica Louisa Wilhelmina, Queen of Netherlands, dies at 62
1844 - Claude Tillier, French journalist/writer (My Uncle Benjamin), dies
1845 - Elizabeth Fry, British social reformer and philanthropist (b. 1780)
1858 - Ando Hiroshige, Japanese painter, dies at 61
1860 - Henry G W Smith, leader of British-Indian forces, dies at 73
1864 - Roger Taney, 5th Supreme Court Chief Justice (1836-64), dies at 87
1865 - William Vincent Wallace, composer, dies at 53
1870 - Robert E. Lee, General of Confederate Army, dies at 63
1875 - Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French sculptor and painter (b. 1827)
1896 - Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs, Danish nobleman and politician (b. 1817)
1898 - Calvin Fairbank, American abolitionist minister (b. 1816)
1915 - Edith L Cavell, British nurse, executed by Germans in Belgium (WW II)
1922 - Daisy M C Baers, Flemish philosophy/theory, dies at 33
1923 - A P "Bunny" Lucas, cricketer (five Tests for England 1879-82), dies
1924 - Anatole France, writer, dies at 80
1924 - Monroe A Althouse, composer, dies at 71
1929 - Max Ettlinger, German philosopher/theorist, dies at 52
1934 - Gertrude Käsebier, American photographer dies aged 82
1936 - B L T Bosanquet, cricketer (1st great googly bowler, England), dies
1938 - Hugh Massie, cricketer (9 Tests for Australia 1881-85, capt), dies
1940 - Tom Mix, US actor (Texan, Hidden Gold), dies at 60
1940 - Tom Mix, American actor (b. 1880)
1945 - Jesse James Payne, lynched in Madison County Florida
1946 - Joseph W Stilwell, US general (China), dies
1947 - Nelson Betancourt, cricket wicketkeeper (WI Test 1930), dies at 42
1948 - Alfred Kerr, writer, dies at 80
1948 - Susan Sutherland Isaacs, educational psychologist and psychoanalyst (b. 1885).
1951 - Simon Kimbangu/Kibangu, Congo prophet, dies in captivity at 62
1954 - George Welch, American pilot (b. 1918)
1958 - Ed Hinton, actor (Henderson-I Lived 3 Lives), dies at 30
1958 - Gerard Hordijk, Dutch architect/painter, dies at 59
1958 - Gordon Griffith, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1907)
1959 - Arnoldt Bronnen, writer, dies at 63
1960 - Inejiro Asanuma, leader Japanese Socialist Party, murdered at 61
1964 - J Howard Frazer, USTA pres, dies in office
1966 - Arthur Vincent Lourie, composer, dies at 74
1967 - Nat Pendleton, Olympic wrestler/actor (Reckless), dies at 72
1967 - Ram Manohar Lohia, Indian Socialist politician leader
1969 - Serge Poliakoff, Russ/French painter, dies
1969 - Sonja Henie, figure skater (Olympic-gold-1928, 32, 36), dies at 57
1970 - Mustafa Zaidi, Pakistani poet (b. 1930)
1971 - Dean G Acheson, US foreign minister (1949-53), dies at 78
1971 - Gene Vincent, rocker, dies of bleeding ulcers at 36
1974 - Joseph Frederick Wagner, composer, dies at 74
1977 - Doris Davenport, actress (Behind the News, Westerner), dies at 81
1979 - Celia Lovsky, Austrian-American actress (Man of a Thousand Faces), dies from natural causes
           at 82
1982 - Chris[tiaan R] Reumer, Dutch opera singer, dies at 73
1983 - Jiri Lederer, Czechoslovakia journalist/dissident, dies at 61
1983 - The Grand Wizard of Wrestling, Wrestling manager
1984 - Sir Anthony Berry, British politician (bombing victim) (b. 1925)
1985 - Johnny Olsen, TV announcer (Price is Right), dies at 75
1985 - Ricky Wilson, rock guitarist (B-52's), dies of AIDS at 32
1987 - Alfred M Landon, former Kansas Gov, dies at his Topeka home at 100
1987 - Philleo Nash, US Bureau of Indian Affairs (1961-67), dies at 77
1988 - Ken Murray, actor (Bill & Coo, Crooner, Half-Marriage), dies at 85
1988 - Ruth Manning-Sanders, author of children's books (b. 1895)
1989 - Franco, [Francis Luambo/"Makiadi"], Zaire composer/music, dies at 51
1989 - Jay Ward, American cartoonist (Rocky & His Friends), dies at 69 of kidney cancer
1990 - Max Tailleur, adjunct prince Bernhard/Jewish humorist, dies
1990 - Rifaat Maghub, president Egyptian MP, murdered
1991 - Aline MacMahon, US actress (Backdoor to Heaven), dies at 92
1991 - Regis Toomey, actor (Dive Bomber, Cry Danger, Magic Town), dies at 89
1991 - Sheila Florance, Australian actress (Cactus), dies of cancer at 75
1991 - Arkady Strugatsky, Russian novelist (b. 1925)
1992 - Alexander Pola, [Abraham Polak], actor/writer (Farce Major), dies
1992 - John Hancock, actor (LA Law, Love & War), dies of a heart attack at 51
1992 - Ulysses Guimaraes, Brazilian MP (chairman), dies in accident
1993 - Leon Ames, actor (Father of the Bride), dies at 91 of stroke
1993 - Tofik Bakhramov, Russian footballer (b. 1926)
1994 - Gérald Godin, Québécois poet and politician (b. 1938)
1995 - Eleanor Aller, cellist, dies at 78
1995 - Gary Bond, actor (Outback, Zulu, Anne of Thousand Days), dies at 55
1996 - David Gilroy Bevan, politician, dies at 86
1996 - Jack Robertson, cricketer (Midsex & Eng open bat 11 Tests), dies at 79
1996 - Pavel Alexandrovich Solovyov, aero-engine designer, dies at 79
1996 - Trevor Illtyd williams, scientific writer, dies at 75
1996 - Vernon Elliott, musician/composer, dies at 84
1997 - John Denver, country star (Country Boy), dies in plain crash at 53
1997 - John Denver, American singer (b. 1943)
1998 - Mario Beaulieu, French Canadian politician (b. 1930)
1998 - Matthew Shepard, American murder victim (b. 1976)
1999 - Wilt Chamberlain, American basketball player (b. 1936)
1999 - Robert Marsden Hope, Australian Justice and Royal Commissioner (b. 1919)
2001 - Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, British politician (b. 1907)
2002 - Ray Conniff, American bandleader and musician (b. 1916)
2002 - Audrey Mestre, French diver (b. 1974)
2003 - Jim Cairns, Australian politician (b. 1914)
2003 - Joan Kroc, American philanthropist (b. 1928)
2003 - Willie Shoemaker, American jockey (b. 1931)
2005 - C. Delores Tucker, American politician and civil rights activist (b. 1927)
2006 - Gillo Pontecorvo, Italian film director (b. 1919)
2007 - Kisho Kurokawa, Japanese architect (b. 1934)
2008 - Karl Chircop, Maltese politician (b. 1965)
2009 - Frank Vandenbroucke, Belgian cyclist (b. 1974)
2009 - Dickie Peterson American musician (b. 1948)
2010 - Woody Peoples, American football player (b. 1943)
2010 - Belva Plain, American novelist (b. 1919)
2011 - Heinz Bennent, German actor (b. 1921)
2011 - Patricia Breslin, American actress (b. 1931)
2011 - Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist (b. 1941)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 13, 2013, 11:35:14 AM

This Day in History for 13th October


Historical Events

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Satirist Jonathan Swift                                     The Gray Ghost                                  First Secretary of the
                                                                  John Singleton Mosby                       Communist Party of the Soviet
                                                                                                                               Union Nikita Khrushchev

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Cuban President Fidel Castro                Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak          Versatile Athlete Jim Thorpe


54 - Nero ascends to the Roman throne
409 - Vandals and Alans crossed the Pyrenees and appeared in Hispania.
1213 - Battle at Steppes-Bishop Pierrepont & Louis II beat Henry I of Brabant
1282 - Nichiren Daishonin, founder of the Nichiren School of Buddhism, dies. His ashes are interred
           at Taisekiji Temple.
1307 - French king Philip IV convicts templars because of heresy
1483 - Rabbi Issac Abarbanel starts his exegesis on Bible
1492 - English admiral Poynings fleet occupies Lock
1501 - Maximilian of Austria & Louis XII sign Treaty of Trente
1534 - Alessandro Farnese elected as Pope Paul III
1629 - Dutch West Indies Co grants religious freedom in West Indies
1652 - Prince of Condé flees Paris
1659 - Gen-major John Lambert drives out English Rump-government
1660 - Denmark king Frederik III makes coup
1702 - Dutch/English troops occupy Luik
1710 - English troops occupy Acadia (Nova Scotia)
1716 - Hungarian Emperor Karel VI's troops occupy Temesvar
1724 - Jonathan Swift publishes last of Drapier's letters
1760 - Russian/Austrian army evacuates Berlin
1773 - The Whirlpool Galaxy was discovered by Charles Messier
1775 - Continental Congress orders construction of a naval fleet
1792 - "Old Farmer's Almanac" is 1st published
1792 - Washington lays cornerstone of Executive Mansion (White House)
1812 - Battle of Queenstown Heights, Brit beats US attempt to invade Canada
1843 - B'nai B'rith founded (NY)
1845 - Texas ratifies a state constitution
1860 - 1st aerial photo taken in US (from a balloon), Boston
1862 - Bismarck's "Blood & Iron" speech
1863 - Skirmish at Blountsville, Tennessee (50 casualties)
1864 - Battle at Darbytown Road Virginia (337 casualties)
1864 - Battle of Dalton, GA - surrendered
1864 - Battle of Harpers Ferry, WV (Mosby's Raid)
1864 - Maryland voters adopt new constitution, including abolition of slavery
1870 - Gustav Mahler (10) gives his 1st public piano concert
1871 - The Delphic Fraternity is founded as the Delphic Society at the State Normal School in
           Geneseo, New York.
1881 - Revival of Hebrew language as Eliezer Ben-Yehuda & friends agree to use Hebrew exclusively
           in their conversations
1884 - Greenwich established as universal time meridian of longitude
1885 - The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is founded in Atlanta, Georgia.
1890 - The Delta Chi fraternity is founded by 11 law students at Cornell University in Ithaca, New
           York.
1893 - Vigilant (US) beats Valkyrie II (England) in 9th America's Cup
1899 - 7000 lay-offs black mine workers of South Africa reach Natal
1903 - Pilgrims beat Pirates 5 games to 3 in 1st World Series
1903 - Victor Herbert's "Babes in Toyland," premieres in NYC
1913 - Explosion & fire in Universal Coal Mine, South Wales
1914 - Belgian regime forms at St Adresse at Le Havre
1914 - Boston Braves sweep Phila A's, 1st sweep in World Series history
1914 - Garrett Morgan invents & patents gas mask
1914 - Pro-German Boers begin opposition of British authority in South Africa
1915 - Boston Red Sox beat Philadelphia Phillies, 4 games to 1 in 12th World Series
1917 - Soviet accept establishment of Petrograd Military
1920 - World Series celebration in Wade Park brings out 50,000+ Clevelanders
1921 - NY Giants beat NY Yankees, 5 games to 3 in 18th World Series
1923 - Angora (Ankara) becomes Turkey's capital
1924 - Wahhabietes under Ibn Saudi take Mecca
1930 - New German Reichstag opens with 107 NSDAP'ers in uniform
1931 - Musical "Everybody's Welcome" with T/J Dorsey premieres in NYC
1931 - Noel Cowards "Cavalcade," premieres in London
1933 - JDJ Boularan's "Tovarich," premieres in Paris
1933 - Soccer team STEVO forms in Geesteren
1936 - Explosion caused by leaking gas rips out section 12 of Cleve Stadium
1937 - A recorded trace of snow in Central Park NYC
1941 - Nazi's kill 11,000 Jewish children/old people
1943 - Italy declares war on former Axis partner Germany
1944 - Riga Latvia freed
1944 - US 1st army begins battle of Aachen
1947 - "Kukla, Fran & Ollie" premieres
1947 - 1st NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Toronto 4-3 at Toronto
1949 - "Touch & Go" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 176 performances
1953 - Burglar alarm-ultrasonic or radio waves-patented-Samuel Bagno
1954 - RP Smith/M Shulman's "Tender Trap," premieres in NYC
1955 - 1st edition of L'express publishes in Paris
1956 - WAGM TV channel 8 in Presque Isle, ME (CBS/NBC/ABC) begins
1957 - German Dem Rep recalls East Mark & issues new currency
1958 - Burial of Eugenio Pacelli, Pope Pius XII on the 41st anniversary of the "Miracle of the Sun".
1960 - 3rd presidential debate with Nixon in Hollywood & Kennedy in NY
1960 - Nikita Khrushchev (PM USSR) bangs his shoe on table at UN
1960 - Opponents of Fidel Castro executed in Cuba
1960 - Pirate's Mazeroski's bottom of 9th lead off HR beats NY Yankees 10-9 in game 7 of 57th
           World Series
1962 - "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" opens on Broadway, with Uta Hagen
1963 - "Beatlemania" is coined after Beatles appear at Palladium
1963 - 15th Ryder Cup: US beats 23-9 at East Lake Country Club (Atlanta, Georgia, US)
1963 - 9th LPGA Championship won by Mickey Wright
1964 - At Plesman airport, Curacao, 125.5 mm rainfalls (record)
1964 - Voskhod 1 crew returns
1966 - 173 US airplanes bomb North-Vietnam
1966 - Vice Admiral Rufus L Taylor, USN, becomes deputy director of CIA
1967 - CBS radio cancels "House Party"
1968 - Tinker Creek Gorge of Cleveland Metroparks is dedicated
1969 - 1st time 7 people in space
1969 - Billy Martin (97-65) is fired as manager of AL West-winning Twins
1969 - Soyuz 8 is launched
1970 - Angela Davis arrested in NYC
1970 - USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR
1971 - 1st World Series night game (Pittsburgh 4-Baltimore 3)
1971 - WTZH TV channel 24 in Meridian, MS (CBS) suspends broadcasting
1972 - "Hurry, Harry" closes at Ritz Theater NYC after 2 performances
1972 - Aeroflot Il-62 crashes in large pond outside Moscow, 176 die
1972 - Commish Bowie Kuhn allows Bert Campaneris to play in World Series
1972 - Uruguay to Chile plane crashes in Andes Mountain, (12 of 23 rescue)
1972 - Argentine Fairchild crashes in Andesgebergte (rugby team eats crash victims to survive)
1973 - Jordan enters Yom Kippur war
1973 - Teri Garr appears on Bob Newhart Show in "Emily in for Carol"
1975 - 9th Country Music Association Award: John Denver wins
1975 - Rock vocal Neil Young undergoes throat surgery
1976 - A Bolivian Boeing 707 cargo jet crashes in Santa Cruz, Bolivia killing 100 (97, mostly children,
           killed on the ground).
1976 - The first electron micrograph of an Ebola viral particle was obtained by Dr. F.A. Murphy, now
           at U.C. Davis, who was then working at the C.D.C..
1978 - Pres Carter answers caller questions on National Public Radio
1978 - Swaziland's new constitution promulgated bans political parties
1978 - Tiros N, US's 1st 3rd generation weather satellite, is launched
1978 - Graig Nettles at 3rd makes many spectactular plays in WS game 3 as Guidry beats Dodgers,
           after trailing 2 games to 0 Yanks win next 4
1980 - 14th Country Music Association Award:[approx]
1980 - Unprovoked slayings of 6 blacks in Buffalo, NY
1981 - Vice President Hosni Mubarak elected president of Egypt
1982 - IOC Executive Committee approves the reinstatement of Jim Thorpe's s gold medals from the
          1912 Olympics
1982 - NJ Devils 1st short handed goal-Don Lever
1983 - Ameritech Mobile Communications (now Cingular) launched the first US cellular network in
           Chicago, Illinois.
1984 - Blackhawk Bill Gardner scores on 10th penalty shot against Islanders
1984 - John Henry becomes 1st thoroughbred to win $6 million
1984 - STS 41-G mission; lands at Kennedy Space Center
1985 - "Sunday in the Park with George" closes at Booth NYC after 604 perfs
1985 - Belgium premier Martens CVP wins parliamentary election
1985 - During NLCS, Cards rookie Vince Coleman is injured stretching before game as his left leg is
           caught in Busch Stadium's automated tarpaulin
1986 - 20th Country Music Association Award:
1986 - 25th NY, NL appearance in World Series (Mets vs A's)
1986 - IOC announces baseball will become a medal sport in 1992
1987 - 1st military use of trained dolphins (US Navy in Persian Gulf)
1987 - Costa Rican Pres Oscar Arias wins Nobel Peace Prize
1987 - West Indies score 4-360 in 50 overs in Cricket World Cup v Sri Lanka
1988 - Concert at Masada ends Israel's 40th-anniversary fest
1988 - Nobel prize for literature awarded to Naguib Mahfouz
1988 - Shroud of Turin, revered by many Christians as Christ's burial cloth, is shown by carbon-
           dating tests to be a fake from the Middle Ages
1988 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1989 - Bob Quinn resigns as NY Yankee VP/GM & replaced by Harding Peterson
1989 - Dow Jones down 190.58 points
1990 - 1st Russian Orthodox service in 70 yrs held in St Basil's Cathedral
1990 - Target Center in Minneapolis opens
1991 - Blue Jay Cito Gaston is 1st manager ejected in a playoff game
1991 - Minnesota Twins win AL pennant beating Toronto in 5 games
1993 - Greek government of Papandreou forms
1993 - Mighty Ducks win their 1st NHL game
1993 - Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Kary Mullis & Michael Smith
1993 - Nobel prize for physics awarded to Russel Hulse & Joseph Taylor
1993 - Phillies beat Atlanta in NLCS
1993 - Captured American Pilot Mike Durant is filmed in an interview in captivity by a CNN camera
           crew.
1994 - Earliest start of Sheffield Shield season (Queensland v Tasmania)
1994 - Nobel prize for literature awarded to Kenzaburo Oe
1995 - Joseph Rotblat awarded Nobel Peace Prize
1995 - Pamela Anderson Lee, rush to hospital with flu like symptoms
1996 - "Big," closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 193 performances
1996 - Annika Sorenstam wins Betsy King LPGA Golf Classic
1996 - NY Jet Nick Lowrey breaks Jan Stenerud NFL field goal record at 374
1996 - Yanks (3) & Orioles (3) combine to tie play off record of 6 HRs
1997 - Andy Green's Jet-powered car reaches record 749.69 MPH
1999 - The United States Senate rejects ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).
2008 - HM Treasury infused £37 billion ($64 billion, 47 billion euros) of new capital-bailout into Royal
           Bank of Scotland Group Plc, Lloyds TSB and HBOS Plc, to avert a financial sector collapse.
2010 - The 2010 Copiapó mining accident in Copiapó, Chile comes to an end as all 33 miners arrive at
           the surface after surviving a record 69 days underground awaiting rescue.
2012 - 15 people are killed by a market suicide bombing in Darra Adam Khel, Pakistan
2012 - Gerhard Richter's Abstraktes Bild sells for $34 million, the highest sold artwork by a living
           artist

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 13, 2013, 11:38:18 AM

This Day in History for 13th October


Famous Weddings

1978 - James Earl Ray, assassin of Martin Luther King weds Anna Sandhu
2011 - Queen consort of Bhutan Jetsun Pema (21) weds Dragon King of Bhutan Jigme Khesar
           Namgyal Wangchuck (31) at Punakha Dzong in Punakha, Bhutan
2012 - "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" actor Alfonso Ribeiro (41) weds Angela Unkrich (31) in California

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 13, 2013, 01:35:35 PM

This Day in History for 13th October


Famous Birthdays

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Anthropologist/Pathologist                     Poet Arna Bontemps (1902)                         British Prime Minister
Rudolf Virchow (1821)                                                                                              Margaret Thatcher (1925)

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Comedian/Actor
Sacha Baron Cohen (1971)


1162 - Leonora of England, Queen of Castile (d. 1214)
1244 - Jaques de Molay, Grand Master of the Knights Templars (d. 1314)
1474 - Mariotto di Bigio di Bindo Albertinelli, Italian painter
1537 - Jane Grey, Queen of England for 9 days
1563 - Francesco Caracciolo, Italian religious founder/saint (Caracciolini)
1566 - Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork, Irish politician (d. 1643)
1613 - Luisa of Medina-Sidonia, queen of Portugal (d. 1666)
1652 - Johann Heinrich Kittel, composer
1696 - John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey, English statesman and writer (d. 1743)
1713 - Allan Ramsay, Scottish painter (d. 1784)
1714 - Pieter Burmann the Younger, Dutch philologist (d. 1778)
1759 - Ecco Epkema, Dutch linguist (Frisian, old-Frisian)
1761 - Dirk van Hogendorp, Dutch earl/general/minister of War [NS]
1768 - Jacques Félix Emmanuel Hamelin, French explorer (d. 1839)
1769 - Horace H Hayden, cofounded 1st dental college
1783 - Frantiszek Soltyk, composer
1792 - Moritz Hauptmann, composer
1794 - Anselm Huttenbrenner, composer
1797 - William Motherwell, Scottish civil servant/poet
1808 - Henry Haywood Bell, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1868
1810 - James Shedden Palmer, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1867
1815 - Jules Quicherat, French historian/archaeologist
1820 - John William Dawson, Canadian geologist (d. 1899)
1821 - Rudolf Virchow, Schivelbein, Pomerania, Prussia, German politician/anthropologist/pathologist
           (cell pathology), (d. 1902)
1822 - Karl Reinthaler, composer
1823 - Immanuel Faisst, composer
1824 - Henry Stephen Cutler, composer
1826 - Lafayette Curry Baker, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1868
1853 - Lillie Langtry, [Jersey Lily], vaudevillian actress (Lillie)
1853 - Maria E "Beppie" Bakker, Dutch actress/wife of Piet Vink Sr
1862 - Mary Kingsley, English writer and explorer (d. 1900)
1863 - C-E Auguste Rateau, French mining engineer (Rateau steam turbine)
1876 - Rube Waddell, American baseball player (d. 1914)
1877 - Bernard Bosanquet, cricketer (pioneer of googly)
1878 - Patrick Joseph Hartigan, Australian Roman Catholic priest (d. 1952)
1879 - Peter Van Anrooy, Dutch conductor/composer (Piet Hein Rhapsodie)
1880 - Sasha Cherny, Russian poet (d. 1932)
1881 - George Bacovia, [Vasiliu], Romanian poet/composer/painter
1887 - Jozef Tiso, Slovak politician (d. 1947)
1889 - Douglass Dumbrille, Hamilton Ont, actor (Mr Deed Goes to Town)
1890 - Conrad Richter, writer (Light in the Forest)
1890 - Gosta Nystroem, composer
1891 - Irene Rich, [Luther], Buffalo NY, actress (Beau Brummell, Champ)
1891 - Ludwig Weber, composer
1895 - Kurt Schumacher, German politicial chairman (SPD) [NS]
1895 - Vera [A Veronica] Bondam, actress
1895 - Mike Gazella, American baseball player (d. 1978)
1899 - Marcelle de Manziarly, composer
1900 - Marius-Francois Gaillard, composer
1900 - Gerald Marks, American songwriter (All of Me) (d. 1997)
1901 - Benjamin Merkelbach, architect/city builder of Amsterdam
1901 - Edward Chapman, Harrogate England, actor (Promoter, Rembrandt)
1902 - Arna Bontemps, Louisiana, American poet (100 years of negro freedom)
1902 - Franco Giorgetti, Italy, cyclist (Olympic-gold-1920)
1903 - Jens Bjerre, composer
1903 - Patsy Moran, PA, actress (Children of the Wild)
1904 - Jutta Hecker, writer
1904 - Wilfred Pickles, Halifax England, actor (Billy Liar, Gay Dog)
1907 - Yves Allégret, French film director (d. 1987)
1908 - John Grant, British rear-admiral
1908 - Werner Reinowski, writer
1909 - Herblock, [Herbert L Block], Roosevelt, Utah, political cartoonist
1910 - Art[hur] Tatum, US jazz pianist/composer
1910 - Otto Joachim, composer
1911 - Ticker Freeman, Paterson NJ, pianist (Dinah Shore Show)
1911 - Ashok Kumar, Indian actor (d. 2001)
1912 - Hugo David Weisgall, Ivancice Moravia, composer (4 Impressions)
1913 - Frances Tustin, child psychologist
1915 - Cornel Wilde, NYC, actor (High Sierra, 5th Musketeer)
1915 - Terry Frost, English artist (d. 2003)
1916 - David Hollestelle, Dutch baritone (Great-Broadcast chorus)
1917 - Burr Tillstrom, Chicago Illinois, puppeteer (Kukla, Fran & Ollie)
1917 - Laraine Day, Roosevelt Utah, actress (Dr Kildaire, I've Got a Secret)
1918 - Jack MacGowran, Dublin Ireland, actor (King Lear, Exorcist)
1918 - Robert Walker, Salt Lake City Utah, actor/writer (Bataan, Mme Curie)
1920 - Albert Hague, Berlin Germany, actor (Mr Shorofsky-Fame)
1920 - Nipsey Russell, Atlanta Ga, comedian (Car 54, Barefoot in the Park)
1920 - Laraine Day, American actress (d. 2007)
1921 - Harper MacKay, Boston Mass, orchestra leader (NBC Follies)
1921 - Yves Montand, France, actor/singer (Z, Napoleon, Grand Prix)
1922 - Alan Scott, Haddonfield NJ, TV host/songwriter (Spin the Picture)
1922 - Gilberto Mendes, composer
1923 - Servaas "Faas" Wilkes, Dutch soccer star (Xerxes/Fortuna/Inter Milan)
1923 - Cyril Shaps, English actor (d. 2003)
1924 - Terry Gibbs, Brooklyn New York, American orchestra leader (Steve Allen Comedy Hour)
1925 - Frank D Gilroy, American writer (Subject Was Roses)
1925 - Lenny Bruce, [Leonard Schneider], comedian, arrested on obsenity
1925 - Margaret Thatcher, Grantham England, (Tory) British PM (1979-90)
1925 - Gustav Winckler, Danish singer (d. 1979)
1926 - Ray Brown, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, American jazz double bassist
1926 - Walter "Killer" Kowalski (wrestler) Canadian Wrestler (d. 2008)
1927 - Anita Kerr, Memphis TN, singer (Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour)
1930 - Peter J Clase, South African minister of Education/Culture (1985- )
1931 - Ed Matthews, Hall of Famer/Milwaukee Brave/HR hitter (512)
1931 - Janice Elliott, novelist
1931 - Eddie Mathews, American baseball player (d. 2001)
1931 - Raymond Kopa, French footballer
1932 - Jack Colvin, American actor (d. 2005)
1933 - Adam Kaczynski, composer
1933 - Raynald Frechette, Quebec politician and judge (d. 2007)
1934 - Nana Mouskouri, Crete Greece, singer (Try to Remember) [or 10/10/36]
1935 - Philippine J Aeckerlin, Dutch actress (Oh Venus, Daddy Longlegs)
1936 - Cliff Gorman, Jamacia NY, actor (Boys in the Band, Angel)
1936 - Elizabeth Furse, (Rep-D-Oregon)
1936 - John Menzies, Scottish publisher/banker/multi-millionaire
1938 - Jim McMullan, Long Beach NY, actor (Dr McDaniel-Ben Casey)
1938 - Mahboob Shah, cricketer (Pakistani Test umpire on intl panel)
1938 - Hugo Young, English journalist (d. 2003)
1939 - Melinda Dillon, Hope Ark, actress (Close Encounters, Slap Shot)
1939 - T. J. Cloutier, American poker player
1940 - Chris Farlowe, rocker
1940 - Pharoah Sanders, American saxophonist
1941 - John Snow, cricketer (fiery England quickie Unpopular with Aussies)
1941 - Paul Simon, Newark NJ, singer/actor (Kodachrome, 1 Trick Pony)
1942 - Jerry Jones, owner/GM (Dallas Cowboys)
1942 - Pamela Tiffin, [Pamela Wonso], Oklahoma City OK, actress (Viva Max!)
1942 - Bob Bailey, American baseball player
1943 - Mike Barnicle, American newspaper columnist
1944 - Buddy Allin, Bremerton WA, PGA golfer (1980 NZ Open)
1944 - Robert Lamm, NYC, rocker (Chicago-If You Leave Me Now)
1945 - Karen Akers, NYC, singer (On Stage at Wolf Trap)
1945 - Christophe, French singer
1945 - Dési Bouterse, Surinam politician
1946 - Bram Vermeulen, Dutch singer (Neerlands Hoop)
1946 - Demond Wilson, Valdosta GA, actor (Sanford & Son, Baby I'm Back)
1946 - Edwina Currie, British politician
1947 - Sammy Hagar, Monterey CA, rock vocalist (Van Halen-Jump)
1947 - Jerry Trupiano, American sports broadcaster
1948 - Lacy J Dalton, Bloomsburg Pa, country singer (Crazy Blue Eyes)
1948 - John Ford Coley, American musician
1948 - Ted Poe, American politician
1949 - Craig McGregor, rocker (Foghat)
1949 - Tom Mees, American sports broadcaster (d. 1996)
1949 - Patrick Nève, Belgian racing driver
1949 - Marisol Malaret,Miss Universe 1970
1950 - Annegret Richter-Irrang, German FR, sprinter (Olympic-gold-1972)
1950 - Ellen Brusse, [Elizabeth Wenmakers], Dutch TV hostess
1951 - John Ford Coley, rocker (England Dan & John Ford Coley)
1951 - Olympia-Ann Sylvers, rocker
1952 - Beverly Johnson, model/actress (Ashanti Land of No Mercy)
1952 - Michael "Rich"ard Clifford, Cal, Army/Astronaut (STS 53, 59, 76)
1953 - Bill Schuette, (Rep-R-MI, 1985- )
1953 - Pat Day, American jockey
1954 - Mordechai Vanunu, Israeli nuclear technician
1954 - George Frazier, American baseball player
1954 - Claude Ribbe, French historian
1956 - Anura Ranasinghe, cricketer (Sri Lankan batsman in 3 Tests 1982)
1956 - Chris Carter, American television producer
1958 - Barb Bunkowsky-Scherbak, Toronto ON, LPGA golfer (1984 Chrysler)
1958 - Dwayne Evans, Phoenix Az, 200m runner (Olympic-bronze-1976)
1958 - Joseph Richard Sylvers, rocker
1958 - Maria Cantwell, (Rep-D-Washington)
1958 - Jair-Rohm Parker Wells, American musician and composer
1959 - Marie Osmond, Ogden Ut, singer/actress (Paper Roses, Goin' Coconuts)
1960 - Greg Derr, Marshfield Mass, free pistol (Olympics-1996)
1960 - Joey Belladonna, Oswego NY, heavy metal vocalist (Anthrax-Protest)
1960 - Tim Brewster, American football coach
1960 - Ari Fleischer, former White House press secretary
1960 - Peter Keisler, acting United States attorney general
1961 - Derek Harper, NBA guard (NY Knicks, Orlando Magic)
1962 - Jerry Rice, NFL wide receiver (SF 49ers)
1962 - Kelly Preston, Honolulu HI, actress (Mischief, Twins, A Tigers Tale)
1963 - Colin Channer, Jamaican writer
1964 - Chris Gwynn, LA CA, outfielder (San Diego Padres)
1964 - Niè Hǎishèng, Chinese astronaut
1964 - Christopher Judge, American actor
1965 - Cherelle, rocker (Affair-First Bite)
1965 - Linda Brenneman, Wheat Ridge Colo, cyclist (Olympics-11th-96)
1965 - Rob Schneider, actor (Saturday Night Live, Men Behaving Badly)
1965 - Johan Museeuw, Belgian cyclist
1967 - Derrick Moore, NFL running back (Az Cardinals, Carolina Panthers)
1967 - Javier Sotomayor, Cuban jumper (world record 1989)
1967 - Trevor Hoffman, Anaheim CA, pitcher (San Diego Padres)
1967 - Steve Vickers, English footballer
1967 - Kate Walsh, American actress
1968 - David Alcoriza, Lodi California, double trap (Olympics-1996)
1968 - Julio Valera, San Sebastian Puerto Rico, pitcher (KC Royals)
1968 - Tisha Campbell, Newark NJ, actress (Gina-Martin, House Party)
1968 - Carlos Marin, Spanish baritone (Il Divo)
1969 - Cady McClain, Burbank California, actress (Dixie Martin-All My Children)
1969 - Rhonda Mapp, WNBA center/forward (Charlotte Sting)
1969 - Tim Crabtree, Jackson MI, pitcher (Toronto Blue Jays)
1970 - Ann Grossman, Grove City Ohio, tennis star (1994 LA finalist)
1970 - Eric Gant, WLAF running back (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1970 - Steve Matthews, NFL/WLAF quarterback (KC Chiefs, Scottish Claymores)
1970 - Serena Altschul, American reporter
1970 - Mel Jackson, American actor and R&B musician
1970 - Paul Potts, British Opera singer and winner of Britain's Got Talent
1971 - Hitesh Modi, cricketer (Kenyan left-handed batsman 1996 World Cup)
1971 - Irv Smith, NFL tight end (NO Saints)
1971 - Jay Williams, defensive end (St Louis Rams)
1971 - Sean O'Donnell, Ottawa, NHL defenseman (LA Kings)
1971 - Sacha Baron Cohen, Hammersmith, London, comedian/actor (Ali G, Borat)
1971 - Billy Bush, American TV host
1972 - Jaime Bernardo, prince of Netherlands
1972 - Jean Foster, Columbus GA, 3x20 rifle (Olympics-1996)
1972 - Margarita Maria Beatriz, princess of Netherlands
1972 - Summer Sanders, California, butterfly swimmer (Olympics-gold-1992, 96)
1973 - Brian Dawkins, safety (Philadelphia Eagles)
1973 - Peter Dumbreck, Scottish race car driver
1973 - Matt Hughes, American mixed martial artist
1973 - Nanako Matsushima, Japanese actress
1974 - Anthony Carbone, Australian soccer midfielder (Olyroos, Olympics-96)
1974 - Hawick Lau, Chinese actor and singer
1974 - Joseph Utsler, American rapper (Insane Clown Posse)
1975 - Arafath Hill, soccer player (FC Groningen)
1975 - Leo Koswal, soccer player (Dordrecht '90)
1975 - David Kennedy, American musician (Box Car Racer, Angels & Airwaves)
1976 - Edward Ellis, tackle (New England Patriots)
1977 - Gareth Batty, English cricketer
1977 - Paul Pierce, American basketball player
1977 - Kiele Sanchez, American actress
1978 - Jermaine O'Neal, NBA forward (Portland Trailblazers)
1979 - Wes Brown, English footballer
1980 - Magne Hoseth, Norwegian footballer
1980 - Ashanti, American singer
1980 - Scott Parker, English footballer
1980 - Jon Micah Sumrall, American singer (Kutless)
1981 - Ryan Ashford, English footballer
1981 - Kele Okereke, lead singer of Bloc Party
1982 - Ian Thorpe, Australian swimmer
1984 - Frank Simek, American soccer player
1984 - Misono, Japanese singer (formerly Day After Tomorrow)
1993 - Tiffany Trump, daughter of Donald Trump & Marla Maples
2324 - Beverly Crusher, fictional doctor on Star Trek Next Generation

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 13, 2013, 01:39:26 PM

This Day in History for 13th October


Famous Deaths

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Chocolate Tycoon                              Physicist Walter Houser Brattain (1987)
Milton S. Hershey (1945)


54 - Claudius, Roman Emperor, dies of poison mushrooms at 63
1093 - Robrecht I, the Fries, Count of Flanders, dies
1282 - Nichiren Japanese founder of Nichiren Buddhism (b. 1222)
1311 - Gwijde van Names, Flemish marshal (Golden Track), dies at 35
1415 - Thomas FitzAlan, 12th Earl of Arundel, English military leader (b. 1381)
1508 - Edmund de Ros, 11th Baron de Ros, English politician (b. 1446)
1601 - Tycho Brahe, greatest naked-eye observer, dies in Prague
1605 - Theodore Beza, French theologian (b. 1519)
1643 - Sweder van Haersolte, mister of Swaluwenborch/diplomat, dies at 61
1652 - Abraham Verhoeven, Flemish printer/newspaper publisher, dies
1673 - Kristoffer Gabel, Danish statesman (b. 1617)
1680 - Daniel Elsevier, book publisher/publisher, dies at 54
1680 - Francois Roberday, composer, dies at 56
1687 - Geminiano Montanari, Italian astronomer (b. 1633)
1701 - Andreas Anton Schmelzer, composer, dies at 47
1706 - Iyasus the Great, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1682)
1708 - Henry van Nassau, mister of Ouwerkerk/fieldmarshal, dies at 67
1715 - Nicolas Malebranche, French philosopher (b. 1638)
1759 - John Henley, English minister (b. 1692)
1774 - Willem Bentinck, mister of Rhoon/Pendrecht/Orangist, dies at 69
1777 - Dismas Hatas, composer, dies at 52
1788 - Robert Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent, Irish politician and poet (b. 1702)
1795 - William Prescott, American Revolutionary soldier, dies
1805 - Johann Christoph Kuhnau, composer, dies at 70
1812 - Isaac Brock, English general (conquered Detroit), dies in battle
1815 - Joachim Murat, marshal of France/King of Naples (1808-15), executed
1819 - Giovanni Battista Gaiani, composer, dies at 61
1822 - Antonio Canova, Italian sculptor, dies at 64
1825 - Maximilian I of Bavaria (b. 1756)
1855 - Gottfried Rieger, composer, dies at 91
1869 - Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Fren writer (Tableau Historique), dies
1882 - Arthur de Gobineau, French philosopher (b. 1816)
1890 - Samuel Freeman Miller, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1816)
1904 - Pavlos Melas, Greek officer who organized and participated in the Greek Struggle for
           Macedonia (b. 1870)
1905 - Henry Irving, [John H Brodribb], English actor (Hamlet), dies at 67
1909 - Francisco Ferrer, Spanish anarchist, executed
1917 - Florence La Badie, American actress
1918 - Gerrit Engelke, German writer (Briefer der Liebe), dies
1919 - Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Danish writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1857)
1920 - Isaac Capadose, lawyer/evangelist, dies at 86
1924 - Anatole France, [Jacques Thibault], writer (Ecrivain Francais), dies
1926 - Hans E Kinck, Norwegian philological/writer (Driftekaren), dies at 61
1931 - Ernst Didring, Swedish author (b. 1868)
1938 - E.C. Segar, American cartoonist (Popeye) (b. 1894)
1941 - GJ Berenschot, general/supreme commander Dutch East Indies army, dies
1945 - Milton S. Hershey, American chocolate tycoon (The Hershey Chocolate Company), dies at 86
1947 - Sydney Webb, England, writer/husband of Beatrice Potter, dies
1948 - Samuel S Hinds, actor (Raven, Test Pilot), dies at 73
1950 - Ernest Haycox, American writer (b. 1899)
1951 - W G (Billy) Quaife, cricketer (7 Tests for England, 228 runs), dies
1953 - Millard Mitchell, actor (12 O'Clock High, Gunfighter), dies at 50
1955 - Manuel Ávila Camacho, President of Mexico (b. 1897)
1958 - Alexander Moiseyevich Veprik, composer, dies at 59
1959 - K Rudolf Mengelberg, Dutch composer (Concert Amsterdam), dies at 67
1961 - Maya Deren (born Eleanora Derenkowskaia) American filmmaker dies of a brain hemorrhage
           aged 44
1963 - Henry Daniell, English actor (Woman in Green, Body Snatchers), dies
1965 - Paul H Muller, Swiss chemist (DDT-Nobel 1948), dies at 66
1966 - Clifton Webb, American actor (Razor's Edge), dies of a heart attack at 76
1966 - Father Marriott, cricketer (one Test for England, 11 wickets), dies
1968 - Bea Benaderet, actress (Petticoat Junction), dies of lung cancer at 62
1970 - Julia Culp, mezzo-soprano, dies at 90
1971 - Stafford Smythe, Canadian NHL executive (b. 1921)
1974 - Ed Sullivan, TV host (Ed Sullivan Show, Toast of the Town), dies at 73
1979 - Clarence Muse, actor (Sam-Casablanca), dies at 90
1979 - Rebecca Clarke, composer, dies at 93
1981 - Nils Asther, actor (Son of Lassie, Wild Orchids), dies at 84
1984 - Alice Neel, American painter dies ages 84
1985 - Jack Wilson, cricketer (Test for Australia, 0-39 & 1-25, DNB), dies
1987 - Walter Houser Brattain, American physicist (transistors, Nobel 1956), dies at 85
1987 - Kishore Kumar, Indian Singer (b.1929)
1988 - Mike Venezia, jockey, dies in 5th-race fall at Belmont Race Track, NY
1990 - Hans Freudenthal, mathematician/director OW&OC (F Institution), dies
1990 - Le Duc Tho, North Vietnamese negotiator in Paris (1975), dies at 78
1990 - Lê Ðức Thọ, Vietnamese general and politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1911)
1991 - Daniel Oduber Quiros, president of Costa Rica (1974-1978), dies
1991 - Donald Houston, actor (Battle Hell, Study in Terror), dies at 67
1992 - Hughes Rudd, news anchor (CBS Morning News), dies of aneurysm at 71
1992 - James Marshall, illustrator/author (The Stupids), dies at 50
1993 - Gwen Wells, actress (Nashville), dies of cancer at 42
1993 - Leon Ames, US actor (Mr Ed, Peggy Sue got Married), dies at 90
1995 - Golfredo Corradetti, conductor, dies at 79
1995 - Henry Roth, novelist (Call it Sleep), dies at 89
1995 - Ali Faik Zaghloul, Egyptian radio presenter
1996 - Albert Hughes Williams, teacher/historian, dies at 89
1996 - Beryl Reid, actress (Yellowbeard, Psychomania), dies at 76
1996 - Henri Nannen, journalist, dies at 82
1996 - Rene Lacoste, tennis player, dies at 92
1997 - Adil Carcani, prime minister of Albania (1982-91), dies
2000 - Jean Peters, American actress (b. 1926)
2001 - Peter Doyle, Australian pop singer (The New Seekers) (b. 1949)
2002 - Stephen Ambrose, American historian and biographer (b. 1936)
2003 - Bertram Brockhouse, Canadian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1918)
2004 - Enrique Fernando, Chief Justice of the Philippine Supreme Court (b. 1915)
2005 - Vivian Malone Jones, American civil rights activist (b. 1942)
2006 - Wang Guangmei, Chinese first lady (b. 1921)
2007 - Bob Denard, French mercenary (b. 1929)
2008 - Alexei Cherepanov, Russian hockey player (b. 1989)
2009 - Stephen Barnett, American legal scholar who opposed the Newspaper Preservation Act of
           1970 (b. 1935)
2010 - Vernon Biever, American photographer (b. 1923)
2011 - Barbara Kent, Canadian born - U.S. silent film actress and WAMPAS Baby Stars (b.1907)
2012 - Gary Ennis Collins, American film and television actor, dies from natural causes at 74
2012 - Helmut Haller, German footballer, dies from Parkinson's disease and dementia at 73

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 14, 2013, 09:09:12 AM

This Day in History for 14th October


Historical Events

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Explorer of the New World               Soldier, author, journalist, politician             Queen of the United Kingdom
Christopher Columbus                                Winston Churchill                                           Elizabeth II

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US President                                                First Secretary of the                           Economist Milton Friedman
John F. Kennedy                                   Communist Party of the Soviet
                                                                   Union Nikita Khrushchev

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US President & Actor                               Author Elie Wiesel                                 Politician Aung San Suu Kyi
Ronald Reagan


530 - Discorus ends his reign as Catholic anti-Pope
1066 - Battle of Hastings, William the Conqueror and Nornan-French army defeat English forces of
           Harold II
1322 - Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England at Byland, forcing Edward to
           accept Scotland's independence
1468 - Treaty of Peronne: Duke Charles the Stoute & French king Louis XI
1492 - Columbus leaves San Salvador; arrives in Santa Maria of Concepcion (Bahamas)
1529 - Sultan Suleiman II ceases Vienna
1586 - Mary Queen of Scots goes on trial for conspiracy against Elizabeth
1700 - Rabbi Judah Hasid & Chayim Molocho arrive in Jerusalem
1745 - French help convoy reaches Montrose Scotland
1758 - Battle at Hochkirk, Saksen: Austrian army beats Prussia
1773 - The first recorded Ministry of Education, the Komisja Edukacji Narodowej (Polish for
           Commission of National Education), is formed in Poland.
1773 - American Revolutionary War: The United Kingdom's East India Company tea ships' cargo are
           burned at Annapolis, Maryland.
1774 - 1st Continental Congress makes Declaration of Colonial Rights in Philadelphia
1805 - Battle of Elchingen, France defeats Austria
1806 - Battle of Auerstadt-French beat Prussians
1812 - Work on London's Regent's Canal starts.
1834 - 1st black to obtain a US patent, Henry Blair, for a corn planter
1834 - In Philadelphia, Whigs and Democrats stage a gun, stone and brick battle for control of a
           Moyamensing Township election, resulting in one death, several injuries, and the burning
           down of a block of buildings.
1840 - Maronite leader Bashir II surrenders to the British forces and goes into exile in Malta.
1843 - British arrest Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell for conspiracy
1862 - Baseballer James Creighton ruptures bladder hitting HR, dies 10/18
1862 - Excelsiors defeat Unions of Morrisania 13-9
1863 - Battle at Bristoe Station Virginia (about 2000 casualties)
1863 - Skirmish at Catlett's Station, Virginia (Bristoe Campaign)
1865 - Cheyennes & Arapaho's sign "peaces treaty" then chased out Colorado
1867 - 15th & last Tokugawa Shogun resigns in Japan
1882 - University of the Punjab is founded in present day Pakistan.
1884 - George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film
1893 - George Edwardes "Gaiety Girl" premieres in London
1893 - Harry Wright suggests umps keep ball-strike count a secret
1899 - Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill departs to South Africa
1901 - Justin Huntly McCarthy's "If I were King," premieres in NYC
1905 - NY Giants beats Phila A's, 4 games to 1 in 2nd World Series
1905 - Giant's Christy Mathewson's 3rd straight World Series shutout
1906 - All Chicago World Series, 1st AL victory, White Sox win 4 games to 2 Cubs losers share of
           $439.50 is lowest for World Series
1908 - Baseball Writers Association of America, forms
1908 - Cubs beat Tigers 4 games to 1 in 5th World Series, 1st rematch
1908 - Smallest crowd at World Series, 6,210 fans see Cubs beat Tigers
1909 - Pirates beat Tigers, 5-4, forces 1st full 7 game world series
1911 - Largest baseball crowd ever 38,281 (Polo Grounds) see Giants beat A's, 2-1 (gate is record
           $77,379)
1912 - Bull Moose Teddy Roosevelt shot while campaigning in Milwaukee
1913 - Explosion in coal mine at Cardiff kills 439
1913 - Senghenydd Colliery Disaster, the United Kingdom's worst coal mining accident, which claimed
           439 lives.
1914 - German troops occupy Brug
1916 - Sophomore tackle and guard Paul Robeson is excluded from the Rutgers football team when 
           Washington and Lee University refused to play against a black person.
1916 - The Perm State University was founded in Russia.
1920 - Part of Petsamo province ceded by Soviet Union to Finland
1922 - 1st Thom McAn shoe store opens, on Third Avenue NYC
1922 - 1st automated telephones-Pennsylvania exchange in NYC
1924 - Arnold Schoebergs opera "Die Gluckliche Hand," premieres in Vienna
1925 - Anti-French uprising in Damascus (French inhabitants flee)
1926 - Alan Alexander Milne's book "Winnie-the-Pooh" released
1926 - Walter Johnson retires, signs 2-year contract to manage Newark
1929 - Phila A's beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 1 in 26th World Series
1929 - Philadelphia A's set World Series record of 10 runs in an inning
1930 - Ethel Mermans debuts on Broadway in "Girl Crazy"
1930 - George Gershwin/Walter Donaldsons musical premieres in NYC
1931 - 1st broadcast of Dutch Radio Peoples University
1931 - Spanish Cortes agrees to separation of Church & State
1933 - Nazi Germany announces withdrawal from League of Nations
1934 - "Lux Radio Theatre" premieres
1938 - Nazis plan Jewish ghettos for all major cities
1939 - BMI (Broadcast Music Incorporated) formed
1939 - German U-47 sinks British battleship HMS Royal Oak, 833 killed
1939 - Sugar rationed in Netherlands
1940 - Balham tube disaster during the Blitz.
1941 - 1st mass deportation of Kowno, Lodz, Minsk & Riga
1942 - Dobbe resistances group overthrows Bonkarten distribution
1942 - German assault on Tractor factory, 1000s killed
1942 - Japanese battleship strikes Henderson Field, Guadalcanal
1943 - 400 Jews escape in uprising at Sobibor extermination Camp in Poland
1943 - Japan declares Philippine Independence (premier/pres Jose Laurel)
1943 - Outbreak attempt in Sobibor Concentration Camp
1943 - US 8th Air Force loses 60 B-17 during assault on Schweinfurt
1944 - Allied troops land in Corfu
1944 - British troops march into Athens
1945 - Chicago Cardinals end a record 29-game losing streak, beat Bears
1946 - Netherland & Indonesia sign cease fire
1947 - Chuck Yeager in Bell XS-1 makes 1st supersonic flight (Mach 1.015)
1947 - Dutch Queen Wilhelmina gives golden award to general Eisenhower
1948 - Batavia lt-governor-general Of Mook dismissed
1948 - Large scale fighting between Israel & Egypt
1949 - 14 US Communist Party leaders convicted of sedition
1949 - Chinese Red army occupies Canton
1949 - Ezzard Charles TKOs Pat Valentino in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
1950 - Rev Sun Young Moon liberated from Hung Nam prison
1951 - Det Lion Jack Christiansen returns 2 punts for touchdowns vs LA Rams
1951 - Organization of Central American States forms
1952 - "Buttrio Square" opens at New Century Theater NYC for 7 performances
1953 - 1st 3 Dutch female police officers go into service
1953 - Belgian Convair crashes at Frankfurt, 44 die
1953 - Charley Dressen resigns rather than take 1 year contract as Dodger mgr
1953 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Emu Field Australia
1953 - Ike promises to fire as Red any federal worker taking 5th amendment
1953 - WTEN TV channel 10 in Albany, NY (ABC) begins broadcasting
1954 - Israeli act of revenge in Qibiya Jordan, kills 53
1956 - Charles Ives' overture "Robert Browning," premieres in NYC
1956 - Patty Berg wins LPGA Arkansas Golf Open
1957 - Everly Brothers' "Wake Up Little Susie" reaches #1
1957 - Queen Elizabeth II becomes the first Canadian monarch to open the Parliament of Canada with
           the Speech from the Throne.
1958 - Brendan Behan's "Hostage," premieres in London
1958 - Malagasy Republic becomes autonomous republic in French Community
1958 - Paul Osborn's "World of Suzie Wong," premieres in NYC
1958 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1958 - The District of Columbia Bar Association votes to accept black Americans as members.
1959 - WMUB (now WPTO) TV channel 14 in Oxford, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
1960 - Belgian sen Victor Leemans reveals huge gas field in Groningen
1960 - Peace Corps 1st suggested by JFK
1961 - "How to Succeed in Business" opens at 46th St NYC for 1415 perfs
1961 - 14th Ryder Cup: US wins, 14½-9½ at Royal Lytham & St Annes, England
1962 - Houston Oiler George Blanda throws for 6 TD passes vs NY Titans 56-17
1962 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Thunderbird Tourney Golf Tournament
1962 - US U-2 espionage planes locate missile launchers in Cuba
1962 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1963 - Algeria & Morocco border conflict
1963 - WGHP TV channel 8 in Greensboro-High Point, NC (ABC) begins
1964 - Martin Luther King Jr wins Nobel Peace Prize
1964 - Martin Walser's "Der Schwarze Schwan," premieres in Stuttgart
1964 - Philips begins experimenting with color TV
1964 - Roger Maris & Mickey Mantle hit HRs runs on back-to-back pitches
1964 - Leonid Brezhnev & Alexei Kosygin replace Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev
1965 - Joe Engle in X-15 reaches 80 km
1965 - Sandy Koufax hurls his 2nd shutout of World Series beating Twins 2-0
1966 - 175 US airplanes bomb North Vietnam
1966 - Dutch government of Cals falls by motion of Schmelzer
1968 - 1st live telecast from a manned US spacecraft (Apollo 7)
1968 - Beatles "White Album" completed
1968 - Gruener & Watson (US) set scuba depth record (133 m) in Bahamas
1968 - In NL expansion draft, Expos & Padres choose 30 players each
1968 - J R Hines of US runs 100m in world record 9.95 sec
1968 - A 6.8 earthquake wrecked the Australian town of Meckering, and also ruptured all major roads
           and railways nearby.
1968 - The rebuilt Euston railway station in London is opened.
1969 - Palme government forms in Sweden
1969 - Race riots in Springfield Mass
1969 - T Agee & Ed Kranepool HR, Tommie Agee makes 2 great catches, Mets win Baseball World
           Series 5-0
1969 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1969 - The United Kingdom introduces the 50p (fifty-pence) coin, replacing the ten-shilling note, in
           anticipation of the decimalisation of the currency in 1971.
1970 - 4th Country Music Association Award: Merle Haggard wins
1970 - Cleveland Cavaliers lose to Buffalo Braves in their 1st game 107-92
1970 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1970 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1971 - 2 killed in Memphis racial disturbances
1971 - John & Yoko appear on "Dick Cavett Show"
1972 - Oakland A Gene Tenace is 1st to homer in 1st 2 World Series at bats
1973 - Egyptian tanks move further into Israel
1973 - Judy Rankin wins LPGA GNA Golf Classic
1973 - Willie Mays last hit, as Mets beat A's in World Series game 2 A's Mike Andrews makes 2
           errors, prompting owner Finley to remove him
1974 - 8th Country Music Association Award: Charlie Rich
1975 - Pres Ford escapes injury when his limousine is struck broadside
1976 - Chris Chambliss' 9th inning lead off homer gives NY Yanks pennant #30
1976 - Nobel prize for economy awarded to Milton Friedman
1976 - Soyuz 23 carries 2 to Salyut 6, but returns without docking
1977 - Linda Ronstadt sings national anthem at World Series
1977 - Princess Beatrice opens Amsterdam metro
1978 - 1st TV movie from a TV series-"Rescue from Gilligan's Island"
1978 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1978 - NY Yank Reggie Jackson causes World Series controversy by getting in the way of a throw to
           1st & deflects the ball away
1978 - Despite Denis Potvin hat trick in 3:21 Islanders lose 7-10 making Islander record when
           scoring a hat trick-22-2-1
1979 - 100,000 demonstrate in Bonn against nuclear energy
1979 - Amy Alcott wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic
1979 - Flyers start 35 game unbeaten streak beating Toronto 4-3
1979 - NHL's greatest scorer Wayne Gretzky scores his 1st NHL goal
1980 - Bob Marley's last concert
1980 - Phils rally from 4-0 deficit to beat the Royals, 7-6 to take WS opener
1980 - Presidential nominee Ronald Reagan promises to name a woman to Supreme Court
1981 - Yank Graig Nettles is 1st to get 2 hits in same inning of an ALSC game
1981 - Citing official misconduct in the investigation and trial, Amnesty International charges the U.S.
           government with holding Richard Marshall of the American Indian Movement as a political
           prisoner.
1982 - 6,000 Unification church couples wed in Korea
1982 - Islanders assessed 108 penality minutes Penguins 125 (233 total)
1982 - NY Islanders greatest shutout margin (9-0) vs Pittsburgh Penguins
1982 - President Reagan proclaims war against drugs
1983 - Grenada leftist coup under vice-premier Coard
1983 - US Marine peacekeeper Sgt Allen Soifert killed by sniper in Beirut
1984 - "Quilters" closes at Jack Lawrence Theater NYC after 24 performances
1984 - Browns' Ozzie Newsome sets club records with 14 receptions for 191 yds
1984 - Detroit Tigers beat SD Padres, 4 games to 1 in 81st World Series
1984 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Smirnoff Ladies Irish Golf Open
1985 - 19th Country Music Association Award: Ricky Skaggs wins
1985 - On Mon Night football, Jets retire Joe Namath's #12, beat Miami 23-7
1986 - Concentration camp survivor Elie Wiesel wins Nobel Peace Prize
1986 - IOC decides to stagger Winter & Summer Olympic schedule
1986 - Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Elie Wiesel (against violence/racism)
1986 - Tim Kides of West NY, NJ performs 25,000 leg raises in 11:57:15
1987 - In Midland, Tx 1½-year-old Jessica McClure falls 22' (7m) down a well
1987 - St Louis Cards beat SF Giants, 4 games to 3 in NLCS
1988 - Mike Tyson countersues Robin Givens for divorce & annulment
1988 - NJ Devils raise their 1st pennant (Patrick Div Playoff Champs)
1988 - Naguib Mahfouz is 1st Arabic writer to win Nobel literature prize
1989 - Dave Stewart is 1st since 1976 to start consec World Series openers
1989 - Texas A&I, Johnny Bailey sets NCAA season rush record at 6,085 yards
1990 - Cathy Gerring wins LPGA Trophee Urban World Golf Championship
1990 - Jeff Goldblum & wife Geena Davis file for divorce
1990 - SF 49er Joe Montana passes for 6 touchdowns vs Atlanta (45-35)
1991 - Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi wins Nobel Peace Prize
1991 - NY Rangers right wing Mike Gartner scores his 500th NHL goal
1992 - Atlanta Braves beat Pittsburgh Pirates in 7 games for NL pennant
1992 - Toronto Blue Jays beats Oakland A's to win their 1st AL pennant
1994 - Nobel Prize awarded to Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin & Shimon Peres
1994 - Space probe Magellan burns up in atmosphere of Venus
1995 - Atlanta Braves become 1st team to sweep in NL playoff (beat Reds)
1996 - Braves blow out St Louis, 14-0 in an NLCS game
1996 - Dow Jones closes over 6,000 for 1st time (6,010)
1996 - Packer Chris Jacke kicks longest field goal to end overtime (53 yds)
1997 - Florida Marlins beat Atlanta Braves 4 games to 1 in NLCS
1998 - NY Islanders beat Tampa Bay, 7-1, to end 11 game winless streak
1998 - Eric Robert Rudolph is charged with 6 bombings including the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park
           bombing in Atlanta, Georgia.
2012 - 20 people are gunned down in a mosque in Dogo Dawa, Nigeria

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 14, 2013, 09:10:57 AM

This Day in History for 14th October


Famous Weddings

1806 - German writer, artist and politician Johann Wolfgang von Goethe marries mistress Christiane
           Vulpius in Weimar
1914 - Baseball legend Babe Ruth (19) weds Helen Woodford
1923 - "All Quiet on the Western Front" author Erich Maria Remarque (25) weds Ilse Jutta Zambona
1961 - Howard Allen Frances (Anne) O'Brien (20) best-selling author (The Vampire Chronicles)
           marries poet and painter Stan Rice (21)
1964 - Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts weds Shirley Shepherd
1995 - "Sleep with Me" actress Meg Tilly (35) weds United Artists studio president John Calley (65) in
           Los Angeles
2000 - Asylum recording artist Bryan White (26) weds actress Erika Page at Royal Lane Baptist
           Church in Dallas, Texas
2001 - Inspirational speaker Anthony Robbins (41) weds Sage Bonnie Humphrey
2001 - Actor Breckin Meyer (27) weds "Can't Hardly Wait" director Deborah Kaplan in Malibu
2006 - Merengue singer Melina Leon (33) weds Ruy Fernando Delgado at La Iglesia Metodista
           Universitaria in San Juan, Puerto Rico
2006 - "Celtic Tiger" choreographer Michael Flatley (48) weds fellow dancer Niamh O'Brien at St.
           Patrick's Church in Fermoy, Ireland

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 14, 2013, 09:11:39 AM

This Day in History for 14th October


Famous Divorces

1988 - Mike Tyson countersues Robin Givens for divorce & annulment
1990 - Jeff Goldblum & wife Geena Davis file for divorce

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 14, 2013, 09:23:09 AM

This Day in History for 14th October


Famous Birthdays

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English Philosopher and                          Short story writer                                   Political Theorist
Founder of Pennsylvania                         Katherine Mansfield (1888)                    Hannah Arendt (1906)
William Penn (1644)

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President of Zaire                                   Fashion Designer                                    Singer-songwriter
Mobutu Sese Seko (1930)                        Ralph Lauren (1939)                                Natalie Maines (1974)


1257 - King Przemysl II of Poland (d. 1296)
1404 - Marie of Anjou, queen of France (d. 1463)
1493 - Shimazu Tadayoshi, Japanese warlord (d. 1568)
1499 - Claude of France, wife of Louis XII of France (d. 1524)
1542 - Abul-Fath Djalal-ud-Din, 3rd Mogol emperor of India (1556-1605)
1606 - Johan Maetsuyker, Dutch governor-general of Ceylon (1653-78)
1630 - Sophia of Hanover, Princess Palatine and Electress of Saxony (d. 1714)
1633 - James II Stuart, king of England/Scotland (James VII) (1685-88)
1639 - Simon van der Stel, Dutch governor of Cape colony (1679-99)
1643 - Bahadur Shah I, Mughal Emperor of India (d. 1712)
1644 - William Penn, English Philosopher, Quaker and founder of Pennsylvania (d. 1718)
1687 - Robert Simson, Scotland, mathematician
1712 - George Grenville, British PM (1763-65)
1726 - Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham, English sailor and politician (d. 1813)
1730 - Jean Joseph Rodolphe, composer
1733 - François Sebastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, Austrian field marshal (d.
          1798)
1734 - Francis Lightfoot Lee, US farmer/signer (Decl of Independence)
1738 - Giovanni Calisto Andrea Zanotti, composer
1740 - Joannes Siberg, Dutch governor-general of Neth Indies (1801-05)
1753 - Franz Anton Dimmler, composer
1764 - Charles-Henri Plantade, composer
1774 - Hubert MAJ van Asch van Wijck, Dutch politician
1784 - Ferdinand VII MF, king of Spain
1789 - Constant van Crombrugghe, Flemish monastery founder
1790 - Thursday October Christian (d. 1831)
1796 - Adolf Ganz, composer
1801 - Joseph AF Plateau, Belgium, physicist (blinded-stared at Sun 25 secs)
1806 - Preston King, U.S. Senator from New York (d. 1865)
1827 - James Sidney Robinson, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1892
1827 - William GGVV Harcourt, English lawyer/Min of Finance
1837 - Ellison Capers, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1908
1842 - Joe Start, American baseball player (d. 1927)
1853 - Ciprian Porumbescu, composer
1855 - George Edwardes, British composer (Gaiety Girl)
1857 - Elwood Haynes, auto pioneer, built one of 1st US autos
1859 - Camille Chevillard, composer
1861 - Bjarni Thorsteinsson, composer
1861 - Artur Gavazzi, Croatian geographer (d. 1944)
1864 - Maurice de Plessys, French poet (Palace Occidental)
1867 - Masaoka Shiki, Japan, haiku & tanka poet/diarist (Salt Water Ballads)
1869 - Joseph Duveen, England, art connoisseur (Elgin marbles)
1871 - Alexander von Zemlinsky, Vienna Austria, composer (Schneeman)
1873 - Jose Serrano Simeon, composer
1873 - Ray Ewry, Lafayette Ind, jumper (Olympics-10 gold-1900, 04, 06, 08)
1873 - Jules Rimet, president of FIFA (d. 1954)
1874 - Margarete Susman, writer
1880 - Otto V Ekelund, Swedish poet/writer (Sak och sken)
1882 - Charlie Parker, cricketer (legend Gloucs SLA, but 2-32 in only Test)
1882 - Éamon de Valera, NY, Irish politician and patriot, President of Ireland (1937-48, 51-54, 57-
           59). Died 1975
1883 - Adrianus PHA de Kleyn, throat/nose/otologist (ear doctor)
1884 - Jimmy Conlin, Camden NJ, actor (Sin of Harold Diddlebock)
1888 - Ernest Pingoud, composer
1888 - Katherine Mansfield (Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry ), Wellington New Zealand, short
           story writer (Aloe, Garden Party)
1889 - Jean Canneel, Flemish sculptor
1890 - Dwight D Eisenhower, Denison Tx, (R) 34th Pres (1953-1961)/Gen (WW 2)
1890 - Frank Conroy, Derby England, actor (Call of the Wild)
1891 - Paul de Keyser, Flemish story teller/philologist/folklorist
1892 - Sumner Welles, US undersecretary/diplomat (Good neighbor policy)
1893 - Lillian Gish, American silent film/stage actress (Birth of a Nation). Died 1993.
1894 - Sutan Ibrahim gelor Datuk Tan Malaka, founder (Indonesian Communist)
1894 - e. e. cummings, Cambridge Massachusetts, poet (Tulips & Chimneys)
1898 - Cruys Voorbergh, Dutch actor/director (Flying Dutchman)
1899 - Alan Washbond, US, 2-man bobsled (Olympic-gold-1932)
1900 - Edwin McLeod, cricketer (played in NZ's 2nd-ever Test 1930)
1901 - Willem A Wagenaar, journalist/writer (Shanghai)
1902 - Stanley Coen, cricketer (South African batsman in two Tests 1927-28)
1902 - Learco Guerra, Italian cyclist (d. 1963)
1904 - Karel Srom, composer
1906 - Benita Hume, London England, actress (Vicky-Halls of Ivy)
1906 - Hannah Arendt, Hanover Germany, political theorist and historian (Origins of Totalitarianism)
1906 - Imam Hassan al Banna, Egyptian founder of the Muslim Brotherhood (d. 1949)
1907 - "Red" McKenzie, jazz singer (played comb-with-tissue-paper) [or 1899]
1907 - Allan Jones, Scranton PA, actor/singer (A Day at the Races, Showboat)
1907 - Barend Barendse, Dutch sports reporter
1907 - Pert Kelton, Great Falls Mont, actress (Cavalcade of Stars)
1908 - Ruth Hale, American playwright and actress (d. 2003)
1909 - Bernd Rosemeyer, German auto racer (Indy 500)
1909 - Kalervo Tuukkanen, composer
1909 - Dorothy Kingsley, American screenwriter (d. 1996)
1910 - Jef Keuleers, Belgian worker's union leader
1910 - John Wooden, basketball coach (UCLA-10 national championships)
1911 - Le Duc Tho, North Vietnamese representive at Paris peace talk
1912 - Helmut Schelsky, German sociologist (Sociology of Sex)
1912 - Jack Crapp, cricketer (England batsman 1948-49)
1912 - Jack Young, cricketer (Middlesex & England slow left-armer post-WW2)
1913 - Ginty Lush, cricketer (NSW quick of the 30's who didn't play for Aust)
1913 - Victor Trumper Jr, cricketer (son of Mr & Mrs Trumper NSW 1940-41)
1914 - Brendan Gill, critic
1914 - Dick Durrance, American skier (d. 2004)
1916 - C Everett Koop, surgeon general (1981-89)
1918 - Doug Ring, cricketer (Australian leggie of the late 40's early 50's)
1918 - Marcel Chaput, French Canadian politician (d. 1991)
1919 - Edward L Feightner, US rear-admiral (WW II-Santa Cruz Islands)
1924 - Robert Webber, Santa Ana California, actor (79 Park Avenue)
1925 - Louis Cohen, physicist
1925 - Phillip Tobias, Durban, Natal, South Africa, palaeoanthropologist and 3 x Nobel Prize
           nominee(hominid fossil sites), (d. 2012)
1926 - Bill Justis, rocker
1926 - Willy Alberti, [Carel Verbrugge], singer/actor (Riffin in Amsterdam)
1927 - Roger Moore, London England, actor (Alaskans, Maverick, Saint)
1928 - Gary Graffman, NYC, pianist (Leventritt Award)
1928 - Frank E. Resnik, American business executive (d. 1995)
1929 - Alfredo Santos Buenaventura, composer
1929 - Yvon Durelle, Canadian boxer (d. 2007)
1930 - Joseph-Desire Kuku NWZA Mobutu Sese Seko, President Zaire (1965-97)
1930 - Robert Parker, US saxophonist/soul singer (Barefootin')
1931 - Rafael Puyana, Bogota Colombia, baroque harpsichordist (NY debut 1957)
1931 - Nikhil Banerjee, Indian classical musician (d. 1986)
1932 - Anatoly Larkin, Russian-American physicist (d. 2005)
1932 - Enrico di Giuseppe, American tenor (d. 2005)
1935 - La Monte Young, Bern Idaho, composer (Composition in 1990)
1938 - John Dean III, former White House counsel (Watergate figure)
1938 - Empress Farah Diba of Iran
1939 - Hugh Delane Thompson, Shreveport LA, PGA golfer (1991 MONY Syracuse)
1939 - Ralph Lauren, Bronx, New York, fashion designer (Chaps, Polo Ralph Lauren)
1940 - Christopher Timothy, English actor (All Creatures Great & Small)
1940 - Cliff Richard, [Harry Webb], Lucknow India, rock voclist (Suddenly)
1940 - Jesse Carlyle Snead, Hot Springs VA, PGA golfer (1972 Phila Classic)
1940 - Pat Finley, Asheville NC, actress (Ellen Hartley-Bob Newhart Show)
1941 - Jim Courter, (Rep-R-NJ, 1979- )
1941 - Art Shamsky, American baseball player
1942 - Billy Harrison, Belfast Ireland, rock guitarist (Them)
1943 - Anthony Iannaccone, composer
1943 - Lance Rentzel, NFL receiver (Minn, LA)/ex-husband of Joey Heatherton
1943 - Noreen Corcoran, Quincy Mass, actress (Kelly-Bachelor Father)
1944 - Udo Kier, Germany, actress (Warhol Dracula, Warhol Frankenstein)
1945 - Colin Hodgkinson, English musician (Whitesnake)
1946 - Justin Hayward, England, vocalist (Moody Blues-Nights in White Satin)
1946 - James Robert "Radio" Kennedy, American football coach
1946 - Craig Venter, American biologist
1946 - Al Oliver, American baseball player
1946 - Dan McCafferty, Scottish musician (Nazareth)
1947 - Charlie Joiner, Many La, NFL receiver (Houston, Cincinnati, San Diego)
1947 - Al Atkins, English musician (Judas Priest)
1947 - Lukas Resetarits, Austrian cabaret artist
1948 - Harry Anderson, American actor
1948 - David Ruprecht, American game show host
1948 - Engin Arık, Turkish nuclear physicist (d. 2007)
1949 - Katy Manning, English/Australian actress
1949 - Katha Pollitt, American writer
1950 - Sheila Young Ochowicz, Birmingham Mich, speed skater (Oly-gold/sil-76)
1951 - Marcia Barrett, St Catherine's Jamaica, rock vocalist (Boney M)
1952 - Daisy Eshuijs, singer/pianist/composer (Eye to Eye)
1952 - Harry Anderson, Newport RI, actor (Judge Harry Stone-Night Court)
1952 - Margriet Eshuijs, Dutch singer/pianist
1952 - Nikolai Adrianov, USSR, gymnast (Olympic-4 gold/2 silver/bronze-1976)
1953 - Greg Evigan, South Amboy NJ, actor (BJ-BJ & the Bear, Melrose Place)
1953 - Marcel R Zeeuw, Suriname lt-colonel (coup 1982)
1953 - Olga Nikolayevna Klyushnikova, Russia, cosmonaut
1953 - Roland Butcher, cricketer (1st black to play for England 1981)
1953 - Shelley Ackerman, American astrologer, writer, singer
1954 - Carole Malone, English newspaper columnist
1956 - Beth Daniel, Charleston SC, LPGA golfer (1990 Kemper Open)
1957 - Gregory T Linteris, Demarest NJ, PhD/astronaut (STS 83, 94)
1957 - Karen Permezel, LPGA golfer
1957 - Michel Després, Quebec politician
1958 - Thomas Dolby, Cairo Egypt, rock vocalist (She Blinded Me With Science)
1959 - A J Pero, Staten Is, drummer (Twisted Sister-Not Gonna Take It)
1960 - John Aalberg, Orland Norway, US cross country skier (Olympics-1994)
1960 - Steve Cram, English runner (world record mile/2 km)
1961 - Melanie Wilson, actress (Jennifer-Perfect Strangers)
1961 - Mike Tramp, Denmark, heavy metal rocker (White Lion-Mane Attraction)
1961 - Isaac Mizrahi American fashion designer
1962 - Shahar Perkiss, Israel, tennis star
1962 - Jaan Ehlvest, Estonian chess player
1963 - Keith Byars, NFL running back (Miami Dolphins, New England Patriots)
1963 - Yim Jae-beom, South Korean singer
1964 - Joe Girardi, Peoria IL, catcher (NY Yankees)
1964 - Pieter Axe, soccer player (FC Utrecht/SC Heerenveen)
1964 - Olu Oguibe, American artist
1965 - Karyn White, singer
1965 - Jüri Jaanson, Estonian rower
1965 - Constantine Koukias, Australian composer
1967 - Arleen Sorkin, actress (Days of Our Lives, America's Funniest Videos)
1967 - Dave Hajek, Roseville CA, infielder (Houston Astros)
1967 - Sylvain Lefebvre, Richmond, NHL defenseman (Colorado Avalanche)
1967 - Pat Kelly, American baseball player
1967 - Stephen A. Smith, American sports journalist
1968 - Dwayne Schintzius, NBA center (Indiana Pacers)
1968 - Gene Williams, NFL guard/tackle (Atlanta Falcons)
1968 - Rashid Latif, cricketer (Pakistani wicket-keeper)
1968 - Wanda Guyton, WNBA forward (Houston Comets)
1968 - Matthew Le Tissier, English footballer
1968 - Johnny Goudie, American musician
1969 - Mark Verhoeven, Dutch soccer player (MVV/NEC)
1969 - P J Brown, NBA center/forward (NJ Nets, Miami Heat)
1969 - David Strickland, American actor (d. 1999)
1970 - Daniela Pestova, [Chameleon], Prague Czech, model (1995 SI/L'Oreal)
1970 - Jim Jackson, NBA guard (Dallas Mavericks, Phila 76ers)
1970 - Nina Kemppel, Anchorage Alaska, cross country skier (Olympics-1994)
1970 - Jon Seda, Puerto Rican actor
1970 - Pär Zetterberg, Swedish football player
1971 - Derrick Rodgers, linebacker (Miami Dolphins)
1971 - Frank Wycheck, NFL tight end (Houston/Tennessee Oilers)
1971 - Jorge Costa, Portuguese footballer
1972 - Erika de Lone, Boston Mass, tennis star (1996 Futures-Wilmington DE)
1972 - J J Smith, NFL running back (KC Chiefs)
1972 - Mike Archie, running back (Tennessee Oilers)
1972 - Nelson Van waes, CFL defensive linebacker (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1972 - Shawn Banks, WLAF LB (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1973 - DeJuan Wheat, NBA guard (Minn Timberwolves)
1973 - Lasha Zhvania, Georgian politician
1974 - Kim Williams, WNBA guard (Utah Starzz)
1974 - Natalie Maines, Lubbock, Texas, musician (Dixie Chicks)
1974 - Joseph Utsler, American musician
1975 - Floyd Landis, American cyclist
1975 - Shaznay Lewis, English singer (All Saints)
1976 - Nataša Kejžar, Slovenian swimmer
1976 - Henry Mateo, Dominican baseball player
1976 - Ben Pridmore, World Memory Champion
1977 - Kelly Schumacher, Canadian basketball player
1977 - Jonathan Kerrigan, English actor
1977 - Tina Dico, Danish singer-songwriter
1978 - Justin Brannan, American musician, writer
1978 - Ryan Church, American baseball player
1978 - Paul Hunter, English snooker player (d. 2006)
1978 - Steven Thompson, Scottish footballer
1978 - Usher, American singer and actor
1978 - Javon Walker, American football player
1979 - Coty Strickler, Miss Montana Teen USA (1997)
1979 - Stacy Keibler, American actress / ex-professional wrestler
1980 - Paul Ambrosi, Ecuadorian footballer
1980 - Niels Lodberg, Danish footballer
1980 - Terrence McGee, American football player
1981 - Boof Bonser, American baseball player
1983 - Lin Dan, Chinese badminton player
1984 - LaRon Landry, American football player
1985 - Digão, Brazilian footballer
1985 - Daniel Clark, Canadian actor
1985 - Sherlyn González, Mexican actress
1985 - Alexandre Sarnes Negrão, Brazilian racing driver
1986 - Tom Craddock, English footballer
1986 - Skyler Shaye, American actress
1988 - MacKenzie Mauzy, American actress
1988 - Max Thieriot, American actor
1992 - Savannah Outen, American singer/songwriter
1996 - Lourdes Marie Ciccone Leon, daughter of singer Madonna

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 14, 2013, 09:26:17 AM

This Day in History for 14th October


Famous Deaths

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German WWII Field Marshal                 Singer and Actor Bing Crosby (1977)
 Erwin Rommel (1944)


530 - Discorus, anti-Pope (530), dies
1066 - Harold II, King of England (1066), dies at the Battle of Hastings
1092 - Aboe Ali Hasan ibn Nizam al-Moelk, writer (Sijasetname), assassinated
1256 - Kujo Yoritsugu, Japanese shogun (b. 1239)
1318 - Edward Bruce, High King of Ireland
1536 - Garcilaso de la Vega, Spanish poet/diplomat, dies in battle
1552 - Oswald Myconius, Swiss Protestant reformer (b. 1488)
1565 - Thomas Chaloner, English statesman and poet (b. 1521)
1568 - Jacques Arcadelt, Flemish composer
1570 - Floris van Montmorency, baron of Montigny, dies at 43
1610 - Amago Yoshihisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1540)
1619 - Samuel Daniel, English poet (b. 1562)
1637 - Gabriello Chiabrera, Italian poet (b. 1552)
1660 - Francesco Albana, Italian painter (Hemelopneming of Maria), dies at 72
1660 - Thomas Harrison, English Puritan soldier (b. 1606)
1669 - Antonio Cesti, composer, dies at 46
1703 - Thomas Hansen Kingo, Danish poet (b. 1634)
1711 - Tewoflos, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1708)
1719 - Arnold Houbraken, painter/writer), dies at 59
1746 - Francois Fagel, lawyer/statesman, dies at 86
1758 - Francis Edward James Keith, Scottish soldier and Prussian field marshal (b. 1696)
1771 - Franz Xaver Brixi, composer, dies at 39
1775 - Johann Jacob Rowalt, composer, dies at 57
1790 - William Hooper, US attorney/signer (Decl of Ind), dies at 48
1831 - Jean-Louis Pons, French astronomer (b. 1761)
1847 - William Michael Rooke, composer, dies at 53
1857 - Ignacy Marceli Komorowski, composer, dies at 33
1872 - Albrecht FH, prince of Prussia, dies at 63
1877 - Antoine-Amable-Elie Elwart, composer, dies at 68
1879 - F Kornberger, writer, dies at 58
1880 - Victorio, Apache chief/murderer, killed by Mexican army
1893 - Conradus Leemans, Dutch archaeologist, dies at 84
1900 - Albert de Vriendt, Flemish historical painter/etcher, dies
1900 - Sandor Erkel, composer, dies at 54
1909 - Johann Gottfred Matthison-Hansen, composer, dies at 76
1911 - John Marshall Harlan, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1833)
1919 - Wilhelm von Siemens, German industrial/son of Werner, dies
1923 - George Elbridge Whiting, composer, dies at 83
1923 - Marcellus Emants, writer/poet (Refrained from Confession), dies
1930 - Sam[uel] van Houten, lib minister (Child labor laws), dies
1943 - Jackie Matthews, cricketer (8 Tests 1911-12, 16 wickets), dies
1944 - Erwin Rommel, German Field Marshal (WW II-Africa), suicide at 52
1957 - Carl Natanael Berg, composer, dies at 78
1958 - Jean Poveigh, composer, dies at 82
1958 - Douglas Mawson, Australian Antarctic explorer (b. 1882)
1959 - Errol Flynn, Australian-born US actor (Captain Blood), dies of a heart attack at 50
1960 - Abram F Joffe, Russian physicist (crystal), dies
1961 - Paul Ramadier, French politician (b. 1888)
1961 - Harriet Shaw Weaver, English political activist (b. 1876)
1966 - Arcady Dubensky, composer, dies at 75
1967 - Marcel Aymé, French novelist and playwright (b. 1902)
1972 - Joseph Kaminski, composer, dies at 68
1973 - Edmund A. Chester, American broadcaster and journalist (b. 1897)
1976 - Edith Evans, actress (Tom Jones, Scrooge, Chalk Garden), dies at 88
1977 - Bing Crosby, US singer/actor (Going My Way), dies of a heart attack at 74
1980 - S N Banerjee, cricketer (one Test for India), dies
1981 - Ingemar Liljefors, composer, dies at 74
1983 - Paul Fix, actor (Rifleman), dies at 82 of kidney failure
1983 - Willard Price, Canadian author and naturalist
1984 - Martin Ryle, English radio astronomer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (b. 1918)
1985 - Emil Gilels, Ukrainian pianist (b. 1916)
1986 - [Francis XA] Keenan Wynn, US actor (Dr Strangelove), dies at 70
1987 - Rodolfo Halffter, composer, dies at 86
1988 - Mary Morris, actress (Agitator, Double Door), dies
1989 - Michael Carmine, actor (Batteries Not Included), dies at 30
1990 - Leonard Bernstein, composer, dies of heart attack at 72
1993 - Bertie Clarke, cricketer (6 wkts for WI in 1939), dies
1993 - Guy Malary, Haitian lawyer/minister of Justice, murdered at 50
1993 - Mustafa Abada, Algerian TV director, murdered
1993 - Walter Brown Newman, US screenwriter (Cat Ballou), dies at 77
1994 - Gioconda de Vito, violinist, dies at 87
1995 - Edith Pargeter, author (Brother Cadfael), dies of a stroke at 82
1995 - Helen Vlachos, journalist, dies at 83
1996 - Laura La Plante, screen actress (Show Boat, Scandal), dies at 91
1996 - William John Raff Hooper, cartoonist, dies at 80
1997 - Harold Robbins, salacious novelist, dies at 81
1998 - Cleveland Amory, American writer and animal rights activist (b. 1917)
1998 - Frankie Yankovic, American musician (b. 1916)
1999 - Julius Nyerere, Tanzanian politician (b. 1922)
2002 - Norbert Schultze, American composer and songwriter (b. 1911)
2003 - Patrick Dalzel-Job, English soldier and inspiration for James Bond (b. 1913)
2004 - Vlassis Bonatsos, Greek singer, actor and entertainer (b. 1949)
2005 - Jody Dobrowski, English murder victim (b. 1981)
2006 - Jared Anderson, American bassist (b. 1975)
2006 - Freddy Fender, American musician (b. 1937)
2006 - Maurice Grosse, British paranormal investigator (b. 1919)
2006 - Nancy Lynn, American aviator (b. 1956)
2006 - Gerry Studds, American politician (b. 1937)
2007 - Big Moe, American rapper (b. 1974)
2008 - Martin Peake, 2nd Viscount Ingleby, British peer and business man
2008 - Richard Cooey, American murderer and rapist (executed) (b. 1967)
2009 - Captain Lou Albano. American Professional Wrestler and Manager. (b. 1933)
2010 - Simon MacCorkindale, British actor (b. 1952)
2010 - Benoît Mandelbrot, Polish-born American mathematician (b. 1924)
2011 - Reg Alcock, Canadian politician (b. 1948)
2012 - Kyle Bennett, American BMX racer, dies in a traffic collision at 33

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 15, 2013, 10:14:19 AM

This Day in History for 15th October


Historical Events

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French Emperor                                       Communist Philosopher                          Exotic dancer, courtesan and
Napoleon Bonaparte                                Karl Marx                                                convicted German spy
                                                                                                                              Mata Hari

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Nobel Laureate Author                             Dictator of Nazi Germany                Clergyman and Civil Rights Activist
Ernest Hemingway                                   Adolf Hitler                                            Martin Luther King Jr.

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36th US President                                   Beatles Drummer Ringo Starr                 NHL all-time top scorer
Lyndon B. Johnson                                                                                               Wayne Gretzky

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Anti-apartheid activist/
South African President
 Nelson Mandela


533 - Byzantine general Belisarius makes his formal entry into Carthage, having conquered it from
         the Vandals.
1520 - King Henry VIII of England orders bowling lanes at Whitehall
1522 - Emperor Karel I names Hernan Cortes governor of Mexico
1552 - Khanate of Kazan is conquered by troops of Ivan Grozny.
1581 - Commissioned by Catherine De Medici, the 1st ballet "Ballet Comique de la Reine," is staged in
           Paris
1582 - Many Catholic countries switch to Gregorian calendar, skip 10 days
1598 - Spanish general strategist Bernardino de Mendoza occupies fort Rhine
1641 - Paul de Chomedy de Maisonneuve claims Montreal
1654 - Prince Willem III appointed viceroy of Overijssel
1655 - Jews of Lublin are massacred
1660 - Asser Levy granted butchers license (kosher meat) in New Amsterdam
1705 - English fleet under Lord Peterborough occupies Barcelona
1724 - Cornelis Steenoven is 1st archbishop of Old-Catholic church
1756 - Saxon army surrenders to Prussia
1764 - Edward Gibbon observes a group of friars singing in the ruined Temple of Jupiter in Rome,
           which inspires him to begin work on The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
1777 - Mjr James Graves Simcoe appointed commandant of Queen's Rangers (Penn)
1783 - Jean Pilstre de Rozier makes captive-balloon ascent
1786 - Earliest 32°F (0°C) recorded temp in NYC
1789 - 1st presidental tour-George Washington in New England
1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte exiled on Island of St Helena at 51
1827 - Charles Darwin reaches Christ's Counsel, Cambridge
1842 - Karl Marx becomes editor-in-chief of Rheinische Zeitung
1846 - Dr William Thomas Green Morton 1st public use of ether
1860 - 11-year-old Grace Bedell writes to Lincoln, tells him to grow a beard
1863 - Cliff House opens in SF (1st of many on site)
1864 - Confederate troops occupy Glasgow, Missouri
1866 - Great fire in Quebec destroys 2,500 houses
1874 - Child labor law takes 12 year olds out of work force
1877 - 45th Congress (1877-79) convenes
1878 - Edison Electric Light Company incorporated
1880 - Koln cathedral completed, 633 years after it begun
1880 - Mexican soldiers kill Victorio, one of the greatest Apache military strategists.
1881 - 1st American fishing magazine, American Angler published
1883 - Supreme Court declares Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional
1885 - Hoss Radbourne pitches his 60th win of season
1889 - Amsterdam Central Station officially opens
1890 - Alabama Penny Savings Bank organizes in Birmingham
1894 - Capt Alfred Dreyfus arrested accused of espionage in France
1897 - Aaron/Samuel Bloch carry 1st Mail Pouch
1897 - King Leopold II takes Belgian crown
1899 - Cincinnati closes season with 16-1 & 19-3 victories over Cleve Spiders
1905 - Claude Debussy's "La Mer," premieres
1905 - Union workers at NVV rejects safety demands
1912 - Red Sox Tris Speaker's makes only world series unassisted double play, from the outfield
1913 - Train crash in Liverpool during "Black Week"
1914 - ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers) founded
1914 - Battle of Warsaw, begins (ends Oct 21)
1914 - Clayton Anti-trust Act passed (union & strike rights)
1917 - Chicago White Sox beat NY Giants, 4 games to 2 in 14th World Series
1917 - World War I: At Vincennes outside of Paris, Dutch dancer Mata Hari is executed by firing
           squad for spying for Germany.
1918 - British Q-ship Cymric sinks British submarine J6
1919 - 14 horses begin 300-mile race from Vt to Mass for $1000 prize money
1923 - NY Yankees 1st World Series win beating NY Giants, 4 games to 2
1924 - Pres Calvin Coolidge declares Statue of Liberty a national monument
1925 - Pittsburgh Pirates beat Wash Senators, 4 games to 3 in 22nd World Series
1925 - Willem Landre's opera "Beatrice" premiers in The Hague
1926 - Austria government of Seipel, forms
1926 - Philip Barry's "White Wings!," premieres in NYC
1928 - German dirigible "Graf Zeppelin" lands in Lakehurst, NJ
1928 - Walter Johnson signs a 3-year contract to manage the Senators
1932 - Tata Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its first flight.
1933 - Philadelphia Eagles play 1st NFL game, lose to NY Giants 56-0
1935 - NHL's St Louis Eagles fold
1937 - Ernest Hemingway novel "To Have & Have Not" published
1937 - Rather than accept any trade offers, the Yanks release Tony Lazzeri
1938 - Robert Sherwoods "Abe Lincoln in Illinois," premieres in NYC
1939 - LaGuardia Airport opens in NYC
1939 - Yeshiva of Mir closes after 124 years
1940 - -16] Heavy German air raid on London, 400 killed
1940 - London's Waterloo Station bombed by Germans
1940 - "The Great Dictator", a satiric social commentary film by and starring Charlie Chaplin, is
           released.
1941 - 1st mass deportation of German Jews to Eastern Europe
1941 - Japan Tojo regime forms
1941 - Jews caught outside Polish Ghetto walls could be put to death
1942 - German 6th Army occupies Tractorenfabriek, 3,000 German's die
1944 - The Arrow Cross Party (very similar to Hitler's NSDAP (Nazi party)) takes over the power in
           Hungary.
1945 - Baseball Attendance hits record 10.28 million (Tigers 1.28 is highest)
1946 - Smallest World Series share since 1918 (Cards $3,748, Red Sox $2,140)
1946 - St Louis Cards beat Boston Red Sox, 4 games to 3 in 43rd World Series
1946 - Enos Slaughter scores from 1st on a single in World Series
1948 - China's Red army occupies Chinchov
1949 - Administration of territory of Manipur taken over by Indian government
1949 - Billy Graham begins his ministry
1949 - Tripura accedes to Indian union
1951 - "I Love Lucy" debuts on CBS TV
1951 - Egyptian parliament accept denounces Suez Canal Treaty
1951 - Mexican chemist Luis E. Miramontes synthesized the first oral contraceptive
1952 - Arthur Laurent's "Time of the Cuckoo," premieres in NYC
1953 - John Patrick's "Teahouse of the Red Moon," premieres in NYC
1953 - KOIN TV channel 6 in Portland, OR (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 - WJNL (now WFAT) TV channel 19 in Johnstown, PA (IND) begins
1954 - Hurricane Hazel strikes US & Canada, 348 die
1954 - KLTV TV channel 7 in Tyler-Longview, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
1956 - Pyotr Bolotnikov runs world record 10k (28:42.8 )
1956 - William J Brennan Jr appointed to Supreme Court
1956 - Yankees Enos Slaughter scores from 1st on a single in World Series
1957 - Giants trade Minneapolis franchise to Red Sox for SF Seals-franchises only, not the players
1958 - Tunisia drops diplomatic relations with Egypt
1958 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1959 - "Untouchables" premieres
1959 - KNDO TV channel 23 in Yakima, WA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1960 - "Laughs & Other Events" closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 8 perfs
1962 - Byron R White appointed to Supreme Court
1962 - WLOX TV channel 13 in Biloxi-Gulfport, MS (ABC) begins broadcasting
1963 - Ludwig Erhard follows Conrad Adenauer as West German Chancellor
1964 - Craig Breedlove sets auto speed record of 846.97 kph
1964 - Dr Martin Luther King Jr awarded Nobel Peace Prize
1964 - St Louis Cardinals beat NY Yankees, 4 games to 3 in 61st World Series
1964 - NY Yankees appears in 14 & win 9 of last 16 World Series
1965 - Dodgers & Sandy Koufax win 7th game of 62nd World Series vs Twins
1965 - WEMT (now WVII) TV channel 7 in Bangor, ME (ABC) begins broadcasting
1966 - Australia bans Troggs' "I Can't Control Myself," as "terribly obscene"
1966 - LBJ signs a bill creating Dept of Transportation (DOT)
1966 - Black Panther Party was created by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale.
1968 - AL expansion draft, KC pick Roger Nelson & Pilots pick Don Mincher 1st
1969 - Bank of America World Headquarters (555 California) dedicated
1969 - Madison Square Garden TV Network begins (Rangers vs North Stars)
1969 - NY Met Ron Swoboda's spectacular diving catch of sinking liner with runners at 1st & 3rd in
           9th, Mets win in 10th in World Series game
1969 - Oriole Earl Weaver becomes 1st manager ejected in a World Series
1969 - Vietnam Moratorium Day; millions nationwide protest the war
1970 - Anwar Sadat elected president of Egypt
1970 - Baltimore Orioles beat Cin Reds, 4 games to 1 in 67th World Series
1970 - Bridge over Yarra River in Melbourne crashes; killing 35
1970 - Russian passenger flight hijacked to Turkey
1971 - The start of the 2500-year celebration of Iran, celebrating the birth of Persia.
1972 - 61st Davis Cup: USA beats Romania in Bucharest (3-2)
1972 - Omni in Atlanta opens - Hawks beat NY Knicks 109-101
1973 - 7th Country Music Association Award: Roy Clark wins
1973 - Tanks attack Thailand demonstrating students, 300 killed
1974 - National Guard mobilizes to restore order in Boston school busing
1974 - Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Paul J Flory (macro molecules)
1974 - Washington Capitals 1st NHL tie, playing LA Kings to 1-1 tie
1975 - Iceland moves intl boundary from 50 to 200 miles
1976 - 1st debate of major-ticket VP nominees Mondale (D) vs Dole (R)
1976 - Ringo Starr releases "A Dose of Rock 'n' Roll"
1977 - Arkansas' Steve Little kicks a record tying 67 yard field goal
1977 - Debbie Boone's "You Light Up My Life," goes #1 & stays #1 for 10 weeks
1977 - Don Ritchie runs world record 100 mile (11:30:51)
1978 - Silvia Bertolaccini wins LPGA Civitan Golf Open
1978 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1979 - 1st Monday night game from NYC, Jets beat Vikings 14-7 (Shea Stad)
1979 - Chinese premier Hwa Kwofeng visits Paris
1979 - Military coup in El Salvador: president/general Carlos Romero flees
1979 - NY Knicks retire 2nd number, # 10, Walt Frazier
1980 - George Brett is forced out of World Series with hemorrhoids
1980 - Nobel prize for economy awarded to Lawrence R Klein
1981 - NY Yankees capture 33rd AL pennant, sweeping 3 games from Oakland A's
1981 - Professional cheerleader Krazy George Henderson leads what is thought to be the first
           audience wave in Oakland, California.
1983 - Black Hawks & Maple Leafs combine for fastest 5 goals (84 seconds)
1983 - Columbia beats Yale 21-18 in football, will lose next 44 games
1983 - US Marine sharpshooters kill 5 snipers at Beirut Intl Airport
1984 - Central Intelligence Agency Information Act passes
1984 - Centrum party expels 2nd Member of parliament Janmaat due to fraud
1985 - Nobel prize for economics awarded to Franco Modigliani
1985 - Shuttle Columbia carries Spacelab into orbit
1985 - Shelley Taylor of Australia makes fastest swim ever around Manhattan Island, doing it in 6
           hours 12 minutes 29 seconds
1986 - Longest post season game, Mets beat Astros 7-6 in 16 & win NL pennant
1987 - "Late Nite Comic" opens at Ritz Theater NYC for 4 performances
1987 - 6th Belgium government of Martens falls
1987 - Coup in Burkina Faso, president Sankara dies
1987 - Lanford Wilson's "Burn This," premieres in NYC
1987 - NFL Players Association orders an end to 24 day strike
1987 - The Great Storm of 1987 hits France and England.
1988 - Amnesty International's Global Concert Tour ends in Buenos Aires
1988 - NCAA record rushing yardage (768 yards-Oklahoma)
1988 - With 2 outs in bottom of 9th, an injured Kirk Gibson hits dramatic 2 run HR to gives Dodgers
           a 5-4 win in 1st game of World Series
1989 - Billy Graham is given 1,900th star on Hollywood Blvd
1989 - South Africa president FW de Klerk frees Sisulu & 4 other political prisoners
1989 - South african ANC-founder/leader Walter Sisulu freed
1989 - Wayne Gretzky passes Gordie Howes as NHL's all time top scorer
1990 - Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev wins Nobel Peace Prize
1991 - Clarence Thomas is confirmed as Supreme Court Justice (52-48)
1992 - Charles Taylor launches an offensive against Monrovia Liberia
1992 - Howard Stern radio show begins broadcasting on WLUP-AM, Chicago
1992 - NYC Subway motorman Robert Ray convicted of manslaughter in death of 5 riders, when he
           fell asleep drunk while in control of train
1993 - Amstel brewery on Curacao produces 1,000,000,000th bottle
1993 - Guardian Angel Lisa Evers Sliwa files for divorce from Curtis Sliwa
1993 - Nelson Mandela & South Africa president F W de Klerk awarded Nobel Peace Prize
1994 - Botswana Pres Ketumile Masires BDP wins parliamentary election
1994 - Pres Jean-Baptiste Aristide returns to Haiti
1995 - Annika Sorenstam wins LPGA World Championship of Women's Golf
1995 - Carolina Panthers win 1st game ever beating NY Jets 26-15
1997 - Britain's Andy Green sets jet-powered car record (763.035 mph)
1997 - Cleve Indians beat Balt Orioles 4 games to 2 in ALCS
1997 - Former rep Dan Rostenkowski released from custody for mail fraud
1997 - NY jury awards boxer Mitch Green $45,000 in civil lawsuit against Mike Tyson, for street brawl
           in 1988
1997 - US launches nuclear powered Cassini to Saturn
2001 - NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles of Jupiter's moon Io.
2003 - China launches Shenzhou 5, its first manned space mission.
2003 - The Staten Island Ferry boat Andrew J. Barberi collides with a pier at the St. George Ferry
           Terminal in Staten Island, killing 11 people and injuring 43.
2005 - Iraqi constitution ratification vote
2005 - Riot in Toledo, Ohio breaks out during a National Socialist/Neo-Nazi protest; over 100 are
           arrested.
2007 - 17 Activists in Aotearoa New Zealand arrested in the country's first post 9/11 anti-terrorism
           raids across the country.
2011 - Global protests break out in 951 cities in 82 countries.
2011 - Legoland Florida (the world's largest Legoland theme park) opens in Winter Haven, Florida.
2012 - Hilary Mantel wins the 2012 Man Booker Prize for her novel Bring Up the Bodies

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 15, 2013, 10:15:45 AM

This Day in History for 15th October


Famous Weddings

1501 - Heir to the English Prince Arthur marries Catherine of Aragon
1927 - Writer Graham Greene (23) weds Vivien Dayrell-Browning at St. Mary's Church in Hampstead,
           North London
1948 - 38th US President Gerald R. Ford (35) weds department store fashion consultant Betty Ford
           (30) at Grace Episcopal Church in Grand Rapids, Ford
2011 - "Charmed" TV actress Shannen Doherty (40) weds photographer Kurt Iswarienko (37) in
           Malibu

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 15, 2013, 10:16:39 AM

This Day in History for 15th October


Famous Divorces

1993 - Guardian Angel Lisa Evers Sliwa files for divorce from Curtis Sliwa
2002 - Comedian Tom Green (30) divorces actress Drew Barrymore (26) due to irreconcilable
           differences after less than a year of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 15, 2013, 10:24:58 AM

This Day in History for 15th October


Famous Birthdays

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Mughal Emperor Akbar (1542)            Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844)               Economist and Author
                                                                                                                              John Kenneth Galbraith (1908)

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Novelist Mario Puzo (1920)


70 BC - Virgil, (Publius Vergilius Maro) Andes, Cisalpine Gaul, Roman Republican poet (Aeneid), (d. 19
            BC)
1471 - Konrad Mutian, German humanist (d. 1526)
1542 - Djalalud-Din Mohammed Akbar, Mughal Emperor in India (1556-1605)
1550 - Henry, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg/brother of William of Orange
1608 - Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist (d. 1647)
1674 - Robert Herrick, Mass, British poet (Together)
1686 - Allan Ramsay, Scottish poet (d. 1758)
1701 - Marie-Marguerite d'Youville, first native Canadian canonized (d. 1771)
1711 - Elisabeth Teresa of Lorraine, queen of Sardinia (d. 1741)
1761 - Peter Gronland, composer
1762 - Samuel Adams Holyoke, composer
1775 - Bernhard Henrik Crusell, composer
1784 - Thomas Hastings, composer
1784 - Thomas Robert Bugeaud, Marshal of France and duke of Isly (d. 1849)
1785 - Jose Miguel Carrera, president of Chile (1811-14)
1795 - Frederik Willem IV, king of Prussia (1840-61)/Germany (1849-61)
1799 - August Ferdinand Haeser, composer
1816 - Amiel Weeks Whipple, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
1818 - Irvin McDowell, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1885
1819 - Marinus FAG Campbell, bibliography/literary
1822 - Alfred Meissner, Austrian physician/writer
1825 - Queen Marie of Prussia (d. 1889)
1829 - Asaph Hall, discovered satellites of Mars (Phobos & Deimos)
1831 - Helen Maria Hunt Jackson, author (Ramona)
1832 - Henry Harrison Walker, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1912
1833 - Klaas Kater, Dutch Christian Worker's Union Leader
1836 - Thomas Lafayette Rosser, Mjr General (Confederate Army), died in 1910
1836 - James Tissot, French artist (d. 1902)
1840 - Honoré Mercier, politician and premier of Quebec (d. 1894)
1844 - Friedrich Nietzsche, Röcken bei Lützen, Prussia, German philosopher (Beyond Good and Evil),
           (d. 1900)
1851 - George F Moore, US theologist (Hebrews, Old Testament)
1852 - Wilhelm Posse, composer
1856 - R G Nivelle, French military man
1858 - Frank Valentine Van der Stucken, composer
1858 - John L Sullivan, Mass, heavyweight boxing champ (1882-92)
1859 - Jaime de Magalhes Lima, Portuguese author/poet (Salmos do Prisoneiro)
1865 - Walther Amelung, German archaeologist
1872 - Wilhelm Miklas, Austrian president (d. 1956)
1874 - Otallo Morales, composer
1874 - Prince Alfred of Edinburgh (d. 1899)
1878 - Paul Reynaud, premier France (May-June 1940)
1879 - Jane Darwell, [Patti Woodward], Palmyra MO, actress (Huckleberry Finn)
1879 - Sara Allgood, Dublin Ireland, actress (Blackmail, Storm in a Teacup)
1881 - P G Wodehouse, British-American writer (Stiff Upper Lip Jeeves)
1882 - Charley O'Leary, American baseball player (d. 1941)
1884 - Arch Hoxsey, pioneer aviator (d. 1910)
1890 - Arcady Dubensky, composer
1892 - Ina Claire, [Fagan], Washington DC, actress (Ninotchika)
1893 - Charles II, King of Romania (1930-40)
1894 - Moshe Sharett, second Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1965)
1895 - Alfred Neumann, German playwright (Devil)
1896 - Melville Cooper, Birmingham England, TV panelist (I Got a Secret)
1898 - Gunther Ramin, composer
1898 - Boughera El Ouafi, Algerian athlete (d. 1951)
1900 - Fritz Feld, Berlin Germany, actor (Jack Benny Show, At the Circus)
1900 - Mervyn LeRoy, movie producer (Devil at 4 O'Clock)
1901 - Bernard von Brentano, German writer (Big Cats)
1901 - Hermann Abs, director (Deutsche Bank)/Hitler's advisor
1901 - Robert Bromston Thesiger Daniell, soldier
1902 - Andrey Yakolevich Shtogarenko, composer
1902 - William Edmundson, Spokane Wash, vocalist (Southernaires)
1904 - Julian Hodge, British financier/multi-millionaire (Hodge Group)
1905 - Alexey Kozlovsky, composer
1905 - Charles P Snow, England, novelist/scientist (Death Under Sail)
1905 - Dag Ivar Wiren, composer
1905 - Edna Deanne Fuelling, dancer choreographer/drama teacher
1905 - C. P. Snow, British writer (d. 1980)
1906 - Hiram Fong, Honolulu U.S. (Sen-R-Hawaii)
1907 - John "Cardinal" Dearden, US cardinal (1969-88)/archbishop of Detroit
1907 - Varian Fry, American journalist (d. 1967)
1908 - John Kenneth Galbraith, economist (Affluent Society-58 Hillman Award)
1909 - Robert Trout, Wake County NC, newscaster (ABC)
1910 - Xenophon Balaskas, cricketer (South African leg-spinner of 30's)
1911 - James H[enry] Schmitz, Germany, sci-fi author (Lion Game)
1915 - W Weyrauch, writer
1915 - Yitzhak Shamir, Israeli politician (Prime Minister 1983–84, 1986–1992, (d. 2012)
1917 - Arthur Schlesinger Jr, Ohio, historian (1946 Pulitzer-Age of Jackson)
1917 - Jan Miner, Boston Mass, actress (Crime Photographer)
1919 - Edwin C Tubb, Brits sci-fi writer (Earth is Heaven, Earthfall)
1919 - Howard Frank Trayton Smith, diplomat/head (MI5)
1919 - Malcolm Ross, American balloonist and atmospheric physicist (d. 1985)
1920 - Mario Puzo, NYC, novelist (Godfather, Cotton Club, Earthquake), (d. 1999)
1920 - Henri Verneuil, French film director (d. 2002)
1921 - Angelica Rozeanu, Romanian table tennis player (World Champ 1950-55)
1921 - Gul Mahomed, cricketer (Indian & Pakistani batsman)
1922 - Agustina Bessa-Luís, Portuguese writer
1923 - Italo Calvino, Cuba, author (Winter's Night a Traveler)
1924 - Colin Romoff, NYC, orchestra leader (Andy Williams Show)
1924 - Lee A Iacocca, CEO (Chrysler Corp)
1924 - Nigel Green, South Africa, actor (Skull, Tobruk, Ipcress File)
1924 - Mark Lenard, Chicago, Illinois, American actor (Mr Spock's dad Sarek-Star Trek)
1924 - Marguerite Andersen, German writer
1925 - Mickey Baker, rocker
1926 - Evan Hunter, [Ed McBain], American writer (Blackboard Jungle)
1926 - Jean Peters, Canton OH, actress (Viva Zapata!, Apache, Deep Waters)
1926 - Karl Richter, composer
1926 - Michel Foucault, French philosopher (History of Sexuality)
1926 - Paul-Michel Foucault, French philosopher (Les Mots et les Choses)
1927 - Mary Perot Nichols, journalist
1927 - Oswald Moxley Gibbs, diplomat
1930 - Fela Ransome/Anikulapo Kuti, Nigerian singer/saxophonist
1930 - Phillipe Leroy, Paris France, actor (Night Porter, Leonardo da Vinci)
1930 - Fereydun M. Esfandiary, Iranian philosopher (d. 2000)
1931 - Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, Eleventh President of India
1932 - Jaan Raats, composer
1932 - Riekus Waskowsky, poet
1934 - Peter Haskell, Boston Mass, actor (Bracken's World, Rituals)
1934 - N. Ramani, Indian flutist
1935 - Bobby Joe Morrow, Brownsville TX, sprinter (Olympic-3 gold-1956)
1935 - Hans Croiset, Dutch theatre director/actor (Witte Waan)
1935 - Murdo Alexander MacLeod, minister
1935 - Barry McGuire, American singer
1936 - Kari Rydman, composer
1937 - Anthony Hopkins, clinical neurologist
1937 - Barry McGuire, Oklahoma City, singer (Eve of Destruction)
1937 - Linda Lavin, Portland Maine, actress (Alice, Barney Miller)
1938 - Marvin E "Marv" Johnson, US gospel/R&B singer (Move 2 mountains)
1938 - Rafael Aponte-Ledee, composer
1938 - Fela Kuti, Nigerian musician (d. 1997)
1939 - Carmelo Bossi, Italy, light middleweight boxer (Olympic-silver-1960)
1940 - Peter Doherty, Australian immunologist, Nobel laureate
1942 - Don Stevenson, Seattle Wash, rock drummer (Moby Grape)
1942 - James A Leach, (Rep-R-Iowa, 1977- )
1943 - Penny Marshall, The Bronx, New York, American actress (Odd Couple, Laverne & Shirley)
1944 - Mac Collins, (Rep-R-Georgia)
1944 - Sali Berisha, President of Albania
1944 - Haim Saban, Egyptian-born American media proprietor
1945 - Jim Palmer, New York City, New York, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles 1965-1984)
1945 - Steven Camacho, cricketer (WI batsman early seventies)
1945 - Jere Burns, American actor
1946 - Richard Carpenter, New Haven Ct, vocalist (Carpenters-Close to You)
1946 - Victor Banerjee, Calcutta India, actor (A Passage to India)
1946 - Stewart Stevenson, Scottish politician
1947 - Lynn Lowry, E St Louis Ill, actress (Cat People, Crazies)
1948 - Aleksandr S Puchkov, Russian colonel/cosmonaut
1950 - Chris De Burgh, [Davidson], Argent/Irish rock vocalist (Lady in Red)
1950 - Koos van der Vaart, Dutch MP (PvdA)
1951 - Frank Dimino, Wash DC, rock vocalist (Angel)
1951 - Roscoe Tanner, tennis player (Wimbledon Finals 1979)
1953 - Larry Miller, NYC, comedian/actor (Larry-Pursuit Of Happiness)
1953 - [Toriano] Tito Jackson, singer (Jackson 5-ABC, Never Can Say Goodbye)
1953 - Betsy Clifford, Canadian alpine skier
1954 - Jere Burns, Cambridge MS, actor (Something So Right, Kirk-Dear John)
1954 - Kip Byrne, Detroit Mich, Canadian Tour golfer (Mich State Jr-1970-71)
1955 - Cathy Ladman, comedienne (Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead)
1955 - Kristine Winder, Vancouver BC, playmate (Oct, 1977)
1955 - Tanya Roberts, [Leigh], Bronx NY, actress (Charlie's Angels, Sheena)
1955 - Victor Pecci, Paraguay, tennis star
1955 - Kulbir Bhaura, British field hockey player
1957 - Mira Nair, Indian director
1957 - Stacy Peralta, American director
1958 - Jayne Modean, Hartford Ct, actress (Nurse Hooter-Trauma Center)
1959 - Sarah Magaret Fergusson, [Fergie], London England, Duchess of York
1959 - Emeril Lagasse, American chef
1959 - Todd Solondz, American film director
1962 - Susan DeMattei, SF California, cyclist (Olympics-bronze-96)
1963 - Angela Rock, Lakewood CA, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-1992)
1963 - Stanley Menzo, Suriname/Dutch soccer goaltender (Ajax/PSV)
1964 - Roberto Vittori, Italian astronaut
1965 - Daniel Held, Milwaukee Wisc, 10k runner
1966 - Douglas Vipond, British pop drummer (Deacon Blue-Raintown)
1966 - Jeffrey Jacquet, Bay City Texas, actor (Mork & Mindy, Whiz Kids)
1966 - Jorge Campos, Mexican footballer
1967 - Carlos Garcia, Venezuela, infielder (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1968 - George Koonce, NFL linebacker (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1968 - Meredith Rainey, Brooklyn NY, 800m runner
1968 - Jyrki 69, Finnish musician The 69 Eyes
1968 - Didier Deschamps, French footballer
1969 - Curtis Cotton, NFL/WLAF cornerback (Oak Raiders, Frankfurt Galaxy)
1969 - Vítor Baía, Portuguese footballer
1969 - Dominic West, British actor
1970 - Cooper Harris, CFL linebacker (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1970 - Lonnie Palelei, guard (NY Jets)
1970 - Eric Benét, American singer
1971 - Angelia Savage, Miss USA-Florida (1997, top 6)
1971 - Bernardo Harris, NFL linebacker (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1971 - Roland McGhee, Flint Michigan, long jumper
1971 - Andy Cole, British footballer
1972 - Fred Hoiberg, NBA guard (Indiana Pacers)
1972 - Matt Keeslar, American actor
1973 - Susannah Kate Pryde, Auckland NZ, road race cyclist (Olympics-96)
1973 - Dax Riggs, American musician
1975 - Ginuwine, American singer
1975 - Glen Little, English footballer
1976 - Yoon Son-ha, South Korean actress and singer
1977 - Masato Kawabata, Japanese racing driver
1977 - Erin McKeown, American musician
1977 - Patricio Urrutia, Ecuadorian footballer
1977 - David Trezeguet, French football player
1978 - Cheryl Crowe, Miss Delaware Teen USA (1997)
1978 - Devon Gummersall, Colo, actor (Relativity, Brian-My So Called Life)
1978 - Takeshi Morishima Japanese professional wrestler
1979 - Mahana Ka'ahumanu Walters, Miss Hawaii Teen USA (3rd-1997)
1979 - Paul Robinson, English football player
1979 - Māris Verpakovskis, Latvian football player
1979 - Blue Adams, American Football Player
1980 - Tom Boonen, Belgian cyclist
1980 - Siiri Nordin, Finnish singer (Killer)
1981 - Guo Jingjing, Chinese diver
1981 - Radoslav Židek, Slovak snowboarder
1981 - Keyshia Cole, African American R&B singer
1981 - Elena Dementieva, Russian tennis player
1982 - Paulini Curuenavuli, Fijian singer
1982 - Charline Labonté, French Canadian ice hockey goaltender
1983 - Stephy Tang, Hong Kong singer and actress
1985 - Walter López, Uruguayan footballer
1985 - Marcos Martinez Ucha, Spanish racing driver
1986 - Lee Donghae, Korean singer (a member of super junior)
1987 - Jesse Levine, American tennis player
1991 - Owen Joseph Kline, son of Phoebe Cates & Kevin Kline
1992 - Vincent Martella, American actor
2005 - Prince Christian of Denmark

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 15, 2013, 10:29:02 AM

This Day in History for 15th October


Famous Deaths

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Exotic dancer, courtesan and             Nazi Politician Hermann Goering (1946)               King of Cambodia
convicted German spy                                                                                              Norodom Sihanouk (2012)
Mata Hari (1917)


412 - Theophilus, Patriarch of Alexandria
892 - Al-Mutamid, kalief of Abbasiden, dies
898 - Lambert, Holy Roman Emperor
912 - Abdullah ibn Muhammad, Emir of Córdoba
1002 - Otto-Henry, Duke of Burgundy (b. 946)
1080 - Rudolf of Rheinfeld, Duke of Swabia and German anti-King
1268 - Dirk II, mister of Valkenburg, dies
1271 - Hostiensis, [Henricus the Segusia], cardinal/bishop of Ostia, dies
1326 - Walter de Stapledon, English bishop (b. 1261)
1389 - Urban VI, [Bartolomeo Prignano], Italian pope (1378-89), dies
1512 - Antoon Keldermans, Flem builder (Middelburg town hall), dies at 72
1524 - Joachim Patinir, Flemish landscape painter, dies at about 45
1539 - Reynier Brunt, procureur-general of Court of Holland, dies
1595 - Abu al-Faiz ibn Mubarak Faizi, Persian-Dutch E indies poet, dies at 48
1605 - Abul-Fath Djalal-ud-Din, Mogol keizer of India (1556-1605), dies at 63
1682 - John Ferrabosco, composer, dies at 56
1715 - Humphry Ditton, English mathematician (b. 1675)
1730 - Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, French explorer (b. 1658)
1788 - Samuel Greig, Scottish-Russian admiral (b. 1735)
1810 - Alfred Moore, American judge (b. 1755)
1811 - Nathaniel Dance-Holland, English painter (b. 1735)
1817 - Tadeusz AB Kosciusko, Polish lt-general/freedom fighter, dies
1819 - F Louise W, daughter of viceroy Willem V, dies at 48
1819 - Sergey Vyazmitinov, Russian general and statesman (b. 1744)
1820 - Karl Philipp Fürst zu Schwarzenberg, Austrian field marshal (b. 1771)
1837 - Ivan Dmitriev, Russian statesman and poet (b. 1760)
1883 - Francesco Schira, composer, dies at 74
1891 - Gilbert Arthur a Beckett, English writer (b. 1837)
1900 - Zdenek Fibich, composer, dies at 49
1910 - Stanley "Midnight Assassin" Ketchel, heavy weight boxing champ, shot & killed
1914 - Aleksander Rozycki, composer, dies at 69
1917 - Mata Hari, Dutch dancer/German spy, executed by firing squad in Paris
1918 - Sai Baba of Shirdi, Indian saint (b. circa 1838)
1930 - Herbert Henry Dow, American chemical industrialist (b. 1866)
1934 - Raymond Poincaré, premier/president France (1913-20), dies at 74
1937 - James Marcus, American actor (The Eagle, The Lonely Trail) dies at 70
1942 - Dirk Bannink, nurse/local counciller Deventer, executed
1944 - Philip Mechanicus, journalist, executed in Auschwitz-Birkenau
1945 - Pierre Laval, former premier of Vichy France, executed at 62
1946 - Hermann Goering, Nazi Reichmarshal, poisons himself in prison at 53
1948 - Edythe Chapman, American actress (b. 1863)
1955 - Fumio Hayasaka, composer, dies at 41
1958 - Jack Mason, cricketer (England all-rounder v Australia 1897-98), dies
1958 - John C Poortenaar, painter/etcher/cartoonist, dies at 72
1958 - John Hamilton, actor (Perry White-Superman), dies at 61
1959 - Lipót Fejér, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1880)
1960 - Clara Kimball Young, actress (Return of Chandu), dies of stroke at 70
1960 - Henny Porten, silent screen actress (Mother Love), dies at 70
1960 - Maude Eburne, actress (Ladies They Talk About, Guardsman), dies at 84
1963 - Edmond Fleg[enheimer], Swiss/French writer (Ecoute Israel), dies
1963 - Horton Smith. American golfer (b. 1908)
1964 - Cole Porter, composer (Still of the Night), dies at 73
1965 - Carl Hoff, orchestra leader (Music Hall), dies at 60
1968 - Bea Benaderet, NYC, actress (Kate-Petticoat Junction), dies at 62
1968 - Franz Reizenstein, composer, dies at 57
1969 - Rod[erique] La Rocque, US western actor (Mystery Woman), dies
1969 - Shermake, president of (Somalia), murdered
1971 - Sylvester Magee, last living American slave and oldest person who ever lived, dies at 130
1976 - Carlo Gambino, US gangster, dies at 74
1977 - Ralph Truman, actor (Henry V, Treasure Island), dies at 77
1980 - Mikhail Lavrentyev, Russian physicist and mathematician (b. 1900)
1980 - Apostolos Nikolaidis, Greek footballer and volleyball player (b. 1896)
1981 - Frank DeKova, actor (Chief Wild Eagle-F Troop), dies
1981 - Justin Jud Strunk Jr, comedian (Laugh In), dies at 48
1981 - Philip Fotheringham-Parker, British racing driver (b. 1907)
1982 - Elsie Randolph, actress (That'll Make You Whistle), dies
1983 - Pat O'Brien, actor (Some like it hot), dies of heart attack at 83
1985 - Meret Oppenheim, writer, dies at 72
1987 - Thomas Sankara, president of Burkina Faso, dies
1990 - Delphine Seyrig, dies of lung disease at 58
1990 - Leonard Bernstein, composer (West Side Story), dies at 72
1991 - Hotze de Roos, carpenter/kid book writer (Chameleon series), dies
1992 - Dorothy Helen Baker, mother of Diane Baker, dies at 78
1993 - Ken E Jones, musician (New Amsterdam Symph Orch), dies of AIDS at 34
1994 - Hannes Wustinger, Austrian race car driver, dies at 29
1994 - Karl Edward Wagner, writer, dies at 48
1994 - Sarah Kofman, philosopher, dies at 60
1994 - Wilhelmus HL "Willem" Tollenaar, actor/director (Elkerlyc), dies at 82
1995 - Arthur Carleton Hetherington, public servant, dies at 82
1995 - Phil Sidey, broadcaster, dies at 69
1996 - Bernard Frank, oriental scholar/writer, dies at 69
2000 - Konrad Emil Bloch, German-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or
           Medicine (b. 1912)
2001 - Zhang Xueliang, Chinese ruler of Manchuria (b. 1901)
2003 - Ben Metcalfe, Canadian environmental activist (b. 1919)
2003 - Bertram N. Brockhouse, Canadian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
2005 - Jason Collier, American basketball player (b. 1977)
2005 - Matti Wuori, Finnish politician (b. 1945)
2008 - Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca, Turkish poet (b. 1914)
2008 - Edie Adams, American singer and Broadway actress (b. 1927)
2008 - Jack Narz, American game show host (b. 1922)
2010 - Richard C. Miller, American photographer (b. 1912)
2010 - Mildred Fay Jefferson, American physician and pro-life activist (b. 1926)
2010 - Johnny Sheffield, American actor (b. 1931)
2011 - Betty Driver, British Actress (b. 1920)
2012 - Norodom Sihanouk, King of Cambodia, dies from a heart attack at 89

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 16, 2013, 09:12:13 AM

This Day in History for 16th October


Historical Events

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Explorer of the New World                      Abolitionist John Brown                         Nurse Margaret Sanger
Christopher Columbus

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Chinese Communist                                Cuban President Fidel Castro                 US President John F. Kennedy
Revolutionary and Politician
Mao Tse-Tung

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264th Pope John Paul II                          Heavyweight Boxing Champion                Comedian David Letterman
                                                                          Mike Tyson


456 - Magister militum Ricimer defeats the Emperor Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the
         western Roman Empire.
1311 - Council of Vienne (15th ecumenical council) opens
1384 - Jadwiga is crowned King of Poland, although a woman.
1492 - Columbus' fleet anchors at "Fernandina" (Long Island, Bahamas)
1502 - Storm ravages Friese coast
1551 - English Edward Seymour duke of Somerset re-arrested
1600 - Olivier van Noorts ships reach Philippines
1674 - Emperor Leopold I fires chancellor Furst Wenzel Lobkowitz
1710 - British troops occupies Port Royal, Nova Scotia
1757 - Austrian troops occupy Berlin
1775 - Portland, Maine burned by British
1780 - Royalton, Vermont and Tunbridge, Vermont last major raid of the American Revolutionary
           War.
1781 - Washington takes Yorktown
1793 - Battle of Wattignies.
1795 - M von Böhms "Oorlogscantate" premieres
1813 - Battle at Leipzig (Napoleon vs Prussia, Austria & Russia)
1829 - Tremont Hotel, 1st US modern hotel opens (Boston)
1834 - Much of the ancient structures of the Palace of Westminster (parliament) in London is burnt
           down.
1841 - Queens University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, is chartered
1843 - Sir William Rowan Hamilton comes up with the idea of quaternions, a non-commutative
           extension of complex numbers.
1846 - Dentist William T Morton demonstrates effectiveness of ether
1847 - Charlotte Bronte's book "Jane Eyre" published
1848 - 1st US homeopathic medical college opens in Pennsylvania
1849 - Avery College establishes in Allegheny, Pennsylvania
1849 - British seize Tigre Island in Gulf of Fonseca from Honduras
1852 - Dutch government recognize Catholics right to organize
1859 - John Brown leads 21 in raid on federal arsenal, Harper's Ferry, Va
1861 - Confederacy starts selling postage stamps
1863 - Grant is given command of Union forces in West
1867 - Alaska adopts Gregorian calendar, crosses intl date line
1869 - Hotel in Boston becomes 1st to have indoor plumbing
1875 - 1st Quebec vs Ontario football game, Ontario wins
1875 - Brigham Young University is founded in Provo, Utah.
1876 - Race riot at Cainhoy SC (5 whites & 1 black killed)
1882 - The Nickel Plate Railroad opens for business.
1900 - Queen Wilhelmina leaves duke Heinrich "Henry" von Mecklenburg-Schwerin
1903 - Homel, 1st Jewish self defense organization founded in Russia
1904 - Russian Baltic fleet departs to Port Arthur
1905 - The Partition of Bengal (India) occurred.
1907 - Belasco Theater opens at 111 W 44th St NYC
1907 - David Belasco's "Grand Army Man," premieres in NYC
1908 - Edmonton Rugby Foot-ball Club re-organizes as Esquimoux
1909 - Jack Johnson KOs Stanley Ketchel in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1909 - Pirates beat Tigers 4 games to 3 in 6th World Series
1912 - Arnold Schoenberg's "Pierrot Lunaire," premieres
1912 - Boston beats NY Giants, 4 games to 3 with a tie in 9th World Series
1913 - Booth Theater opens at 222 W 44th St NYC
1915 - Great Britain declares war on Bulgaria
1916 - Dodger manager Wilbert Robinson given $5,000 bonus
1916 - Margaret Sanger opens 1st birth control clinic (46 Amboy St, Bkln)
1916 - T E Lawrence (of Arabia) meets with Fasal Hoessein
1921 - Babe Ruth, Bob Meusel, & Bill Piercy defy Landis ban on World Series
1921 - Jim Conzelman takes over as coach of Rock Island Independents from Frank Coughlin-only
           mid-game coaching change in NFL history
1923 - Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio founded
1923 - John Harwood patents self-winding watch (Switzerland)
1925 - Peace accord of Locarno signed (Rhine Pact)
1925 - Texas School Board prohibits teaching of evolution
1926 - Mohammed Nadir Khan begins coup in Afghanistan, 1200 killed
1926 - Troop ship sinks in Yangtze River, killing 1,200
1928 - Mickey Cochrane wins AL MVP honors, edging Heinie Manush by 2 points
1931 - Trunk murderess Winnie Ruth Judd chops 1st
1934 - Mao Tse-tung & 25,000 troops begin 6,000 mile Long March
1936 - Lou Gehrig, is voted AL MVP by BBWAA
1939 - Sugar rationing begins in Netherlands
1940 - Benjamin Oliver Davis Sr named 1st black general in regular army
1940 - Lottery for 1st US WW II draftees held; #158 drawn 1st
1940 - Warsaw Ghetto forms
1941 - "Gordo" comic strip (by Gus Arriola) 1st appears in newspapers
1941 - Germany advances within 60 miles (96 K) of Moscow
1941 - Romanian Legionnaires enter Odessa, Russia
1942 - Aaron Copland/de Milles ballet "Rodeo," premieres in NYC
1942 - Cyclone in Bay of Bengal kills some 40,000 south of Calcutta India
1942 - Natl Boxing Association freezes titles of those serving in armed services
1943 - Anti Jewish riot in Rome
1943 - Chicago Mayor Ed Kelly opens city's new subway system
1943 - Jewish quarter of Rome surrounded by Nazis, they are sent to Auschwitz
1943 - US 1st Army establishes headquarter in Bristol
1944 - Hungary: Horthy government falls/nazi count Szalasi becomes premier
1945 - UN's Food & Agriculture Organization comes into existence
1946 - 10 Nazi leaders hanged as war criminals after Nuremberg trials
1948 - "Red Mill" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 831 performances
1948 - Demonstration by Moscow Jews honoring Israeli ambassador Golda Meir
1949 - WDAF TV channel 4 in Kansas City, MO (NBC) begins broadcasting
1951 - The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassinated in Rawalpindi.
1952 - Pakistan's 1st Test starts, v India at Delhi
1952 - Woolworth's at Powell & Market (SF) opens
1953 - Fidel Castro sentenced to 15 years (Havana)
1956 - "Love Me Tender" with Elvis Presley premieres
1956 - William J Brennan Jr becomes a Supreme Court Justice
1957 - Queen Elizabeth & Prince Philip visits Williamsburg Virginia
1957 - USAF sends 2 aluminium bullets into space
1958 - Benjamin Britten's "Nocturne," premieres
1958 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1960 - NL votes to admit Houston & NY to league
1962 - Byron R White becomes a Supreme Court Justice
1962 - Cuban missile crisis began as JFK becomes aware of missiles in Cuba
1962 - KTXT TV channel 5 in Lubbock, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting
1962 - Yanks (20th championship) beat SF Giants 4 games to 3 in World Series
1962 - NY Yankees appear in 12 & win 9 of last 14 World Series
1963 - 2 secret US military satellites launched from Cape Canaveral
1963 - NY newspaper "Mirror" last edition
1964 - China becomes world's 5th nuclear power
1964 - Harold Wilson's Labour party wins British election
1964 - Indians' directors vote to keep franchise in Cleveland, rejecting bids by Seattle, Oakland &
           Dallas
1965 - "Drat! - The Cat!" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 8 perfs
1966 - Joean Baez & 123 other anti-draft protestors arrested in Oakland
1967 - WETK TV channel 33 in Burlington, VT (PBS) begins broadcasting
1967 - WGNO TV channel 26 in New Orleans, LA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1968 - China reports removal of president Li Sjao-tji
1968 - Czechoslovakia & Russian "accord" rules allies Soviet forces
1968 - During Olympics Tommie Smith & John Carlos give black power salute
1968 - Milwaukee Bucks play their 1st game losing 89-84 to Chicago Bulls
1968 - Jim Dorey sets Toronto Maple Leaf penalty records (48 mins on 9 penalties in a game & 44
           minutes on 7 penalties in a period)
1969 - 100-1 shot NY Mets beat Orioles 5-3 & win 66th World Series in 5
1969 - Soyuz 6 returns to Earth
1969 - Met Cleon Jones awarded 1st base when shoe polish on ball proves he is hit by a pitch, he
           scores on a HR in World Series
1970 - Anwar Sadat elected president of Egypt, succeeding Gamal Abdel Nasser
1971 - Amphitheater in McLaren Park is dedicated in SF
1972 - "Pacific Paradise" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 5 performances
1972 - Creedence Clearwater Revival breaks up
1973 - Israeli tanks under Gen Sharon move through Suez Canal
1973 - Kissinger & Le Duc Tho jointly awarded Nobel peace prize
1973 - Maynard Jackson elected 1st black mayor of Atlanta
1973 - Monks Heng Yo & Heng Ju, start 1000 mile SF to Seattle pilgrimage
1974 - As' Ken Holtzman, who hasn't batted all season, belts 3rd inning home run in Game 4 & gets
           the win, 5-2
1976 - Soyuz 23 returns to Earth
1976 - Toronto Maple Leaf Lanny McDonald scores a hat trick in 2 min 54 sec
1978 - Nobel prize for economy awarded to Herbert A Simon
1978 - Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla elected Pope John Paul II
1978 - Test debut of Kapil Dev, India v Pakistan at Faisalabad
1980 - "Brigadoon" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 133 performances
1980 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1981 - 2nd Dutch government of Van Agt resigns
1981 - Harvey Fierstein's "Torch Song Trilogy," premieres in NYC
1982 - Devils 1st road victory 6-5 over Penguins
1982 - Mt Palomar Observatory 1st to detect Halley's comet on 13th return
1982 - Shultz warns US will withdraw from UN if they vote to exclude Israel
1982 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1983 - "Zorba" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 362 performances
1983 - 25th Ryder Cup: US, 14½-13½ at PGA National Golf Club (Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, US)
1983 - Balt Orioles beat Philadelphia Phillies, 4 games to 3 in 80th World Series
1984 - Baboon heart transplanted into a 15-day-old baby girl
1984 - Desmond Tutu, black Anglican Bishop, wins Nobel Peace Prize
1985 - Challenger vehicle moves to launch pad for STS 61A mission
1985 - Intel introduces 32-bit 80386 microcomputer chip
1985 - KC Royals & St Louis Cardinals win their league championships
1985 - Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Herbert Hauptman & Jerome Karle
1986 - "Raggedy Ann" opens at Nederlander Theater NYC for 5 performances
1986 - Armand Hammer returns to US with Jewish refusenik David Goldfarb
1986 - US government closes down due to budget problems
1986 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1987 - 175-kph winds cause blackout in London, much of southern England
1987 - 338,500,000 shares traded on NY stock exchange (record)
1987 - Dow Jones for 1st time falls more than 100 pts (108.35)
1987 - Jessica McClure rescued 58 hrs after falling 22' into a well shaft
1987 - Mike Tyson TKOs Tyrell Biggs in 7 for heavyweight boxing title
1987 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1987 - Great Storm of 1987: hurricane force winds to hit much of the South of England killing 23
           people.
1988 - "Smile Jamaica" concert for Hurricane Gilbert victims held in London
1988 - Orel Hirsheiser, 1st to pitch shutout in playoff & World Series
1989 - Bikenibau Paeniu installed as premier of Tuvalu
1989 - Jan Syse becomes premier of Norway
1990 - "Stand Up Tragedy" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 13 perfs
1990 - Reds Eric Davis is 22nd player to homer in his 1st World Series at bat
1990 - Reds beat A's 7-0, ending Oakland's 10-game post-season winning streak
1990 - US forces reach 200,000 in Persian Gulf
1991 - George Jo Hennard, 35, kills 23 & himself & wounds 20 in Texas
1991 - US Supreme Court begins to hear Joseph Doherty case
1991 - Dallas Mavericks Roy Tarpley becomes 7th to be banned from NBA for life under the league's
           anti-drug agreement
1991 - Jharkhand Chhatra Yuva Morcha is founded at a conference in Ranchi, India.
1992 - 1,700th David Letterman Show
1992 - 1964 "Gilligan's Island" TV pilot 1st shown on TV (TBS)
1993 - General Omar al-Bashir appointed Sudan president
1993 - IRA bomb attack on fish & chips restaurant in Belfast, 10 killed
1993 - Anti-Nazi riot breaks out in Welling in Kent, after police stop protesters approaching British
           National Party headquarters
1994 - Raul Julia, actor (Addams Family), suffers a stroke
1995 - Allan Donald takes 8-71 as South Africa defeat Zimbabwe
1995 - Brian Lara scores 169 in Sharjah ODI versus Sri Lanka
1995 - Million Man March held in Wash DC (over 800,000 black men attend)
1995 - ODI in Sharjah WI 7-333 in 50 overs beat Sri Lanka 329 all out
1996 - Eighty-four people are killed and more than 180 injured as 47,000 football fans attempt to
           squeeze into the 36,000-seat Estadio Mateo Flores in Guatemala City.
1997 - "Side Show," opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC for 91 performances
1998 - Former Chilean dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet is arrested in London on a warrant from Spain
           requesting his extradition on murder charges.
2002 - Bibliotheca Alexandrina in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, a commemoration of the Library of
           Alexandria that was lost in antiquity, is officially inaugurated.
2012 - Conflict in Maiduguri, Nigeria, leads to 24 militant deaths and several structures set ablaze

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 16, 2013, 09:13:50 AM

This Day in History for 16th October


Famous Weddings

1965 - Singer Leslie Uggams marries Grahame Pratt in NYC
1986 - Marie Osmond marries Brian Blosil
1992 - Author J. K. Rowling (27) weds Portuguese television journalist Jorge Arantes
2004 - Actor Marlon Brando's son Christian Brando (46) weds Deborah Presley at The Little White
           Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas
2011 - Actress, screenwriter and model Nikki Reed (24) weds singer-songwriter Paul McDonald (27)
           at a private ranch in Malibu, California

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 16, 2013, 09:14:41 AM

This Day in History for 16th October


Famous Divorces

1924 - American writer ("Gone with the Wind") Margaret Mitchell divorces 1st husband Berrien (Red)
           Upshaw

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 16, 2013, 09:24:44 AM

This Day in History for 16th October


Famous Birthdays

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Lexicographer Noah Webster (1758)      Writer/Poet Oscar Wilde (1854)                 First Israeli Prime Minister
                                                                                                                              David Ben-Gurion (1886)

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Irish Nationalist Leader                          Actress Angela Lansbury (1925)
Michael Collins (1890)


1396 - William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English soldier (d. 1450)
1430 - King James II of Scotland (d. 1460)
1483 - Gasparo Contarini, Italian diplomat and cardinal (d. 1542)
1535 - Niwa Nagahide, Japanese warlord (d. 1585)
1605 - Charles C Dassoucy, French writer/singer
1663 - Prince Eugene of Savoy, French-born Austrian general (d. 1736)
1679 - Jan Dismas Zelenka, composer
1708 - Albrecht von Haller, Switz, experimental physiology (Acad of Science)
1710 - Andreas Hadik, Austro-Hungarian general (d. 1790)
1714 - Giovanni Arduino, Italian geologist (d. 1795)
1723 - Johann Andreas Joseph Giulini, composer
1726 - Daniel Chodowiecki, Polish painter (d. 1801)
1729 - Pierre van Maldere, composer
1751 - Frederika Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt, Queen of Prussia (d. 1805)
1754 - Morgan Lewis, Governor of New York (1804-07) (d. 1844)
1758 - Noah Webster, West Hartford, Connecticut,lexicographer (Webster's Dictionary), (d. 1843)
1762 - Paul Hamilton, Governor of South Carolina (1804-06) and U.S. Secretary of Navy (1809-12)
           (d. 1816)
1765 - Frederic Nicolas Duvernoy, composer
1789 - William Burton, Governor of Delaware (1859-63) (d. 1866)
1795 - William Buell Sprague, American clergyman and author (d. 1876)
1802 - Isaac Murphy, Governor of Arkansas (1864-68) (d. 1882)
1806 - William Pitt Fessenden, Secy Treas (Union), died in 1869
1811 - Gaetano Capocci, composer
1815 - Francis Lubbock, Governor of Texas (d. 1905)
1816 - William Preston, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1887
1819 - Austin F. Pike, American politician from New Hampshire (d. 1886)
1821 - Albert Franz Doppler, composer
1825 - Thomas Turpin Crittenden, Brig Genl (Union volunteers), died in 1905
1826 - Piotr Studzinski, composer
1830 - Ferdinand van der Haeghen, Flemish librarian/bibliography
1832 - George Crockett Strong, Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
1832 - Vicente Riva Palacio, Mexico, writer/diplomat
1837 - John Francis Barnett, composer
1840 - Kuroda Kiyotaka, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1900)
1841 - Prince Hirobumi Ito, Japanese governor of Korea (d. 1909)
1849 - Arnold Krug, composer
1849 - Charles Harford Lloyd, composer
1851 - James Ten Eyck, champion rower/coach (Ten Eyck Trophy namesake)
1854 - Karl J Kautsky, Austrian marxist/socialist
1854 - Oscar Wilde, [Fingal O'Flahertie Wills], Dublin, (Pic of Dorian Gray), (d. 1900)
1855 - Camille Looten, Belgian priest/literature historian
1855 - Samedbey Mehmandarov, Russian general (d. 1931)
1861 - J. B. Bury, Irish historian (d. 1927)
1863 - Austen Chamberlain, British Foreign Secretary (Nobel 1925)
1866 - Pieter J Kromsigt, theologist/publicist (Troffel & Sword)
1868 - Franz X Ritter von Epp, German general (China)
1870 - Helge Rode, Danish poet/essayist
1878 - Carlos Pedrell, composer
1878 - Maxey Long, American athlete (d. 1959)
1883 - Vasiliki Maliaros, Greek actress (d. 1973)
1884 - Rembrandt Bugatti, Italian sculptor (d. 1916)
1885 - Dorando di Desiderio Pietri, Italian marathoner (Olympic-DQ gold-1908)
1886 - Armin T Wegner, writer
1886 - David Ben-Gurion, Plonsk Poland, 1st Prime Minister of Israel (1948-53, 55)
1888 - Eugene O'Neill, NYC, dramatist (Desire Under the Elms-Nobel 1936)
1888 - Paul Popenoe, American activist (d. 1979)
1890 - Paul Strand, NYC, photographer (Native Land-1942)
1890 - Maria Goretti, Italian saint (d. 1902)
1890 - Michael Collins, Sam's Cross County Cork, Irish revolutionary leader
1896 - Edmond van Dooren, Flemish painter
1897 - Harrison Kerr, composer
1897 - Louis de Cazenave, France's oldest living man
1898 - Arthur H Dean, lawyer/advisor to FDR
1898 - William O Douglas, Maine, 81st Supreme Court justice (1939-75)
1900 - Lloyd Corrigan, SF, actor (Papa Dodger-Willy, Prof McKillup-Hank)
1900 - [Leon] Goose Goslin, baseball hall of famer (AL bat champ 1928)
1900 - Edward Ardizzone, artist and illustrator (d. 1979)
1900 - Primo Conti, Italian painter (d. 1988)
1903 - Mario Pilati, composer
1903 - Cecile de Brunhoff, French storyteller (d. 2003)
1904 - Reginald Dixon, Sheffield, Britain, theatre organist, (d. 1985)
1905 - Rex Bell, Chicago, cowboy actor (Cowboys & Injuns)/lt-gov (Nevada)
1905 - Wild Bill Elliott, Pattonsburg MO, actor (Beyond the Sacramento)
1906 - Dino Buzzati, writer
1906 - George Martin Lott Jr, tennis champ (1931 US Open runner-up)
1907 - Roger Vailland, French author (La Novice, Et Mourir de Plasir)
1908 - Enver Hoxha, post-war leader of Albania (1944-85)
1910 - William Leonard Reed, composer
1913 - Alice Pearce, NYC, comedienne/actress (Gladys Kravitz-Bewitched)
1913 - Cesar Bresgen, Austrian composer/organist
1914 - Christian J Modeste, gypsey king
1916 - George Turner, Australian author (d. 1997)
1917 - Alice Pearce, American actress (d. 1966)
1918 - Bill Nichols, (Rep-D-AL, 1967- )
1919 - Kathleen Winsor, American writer (d. 2003)
1921 - Michael Conrad, Washington Hgts NY, actor (Delvecchio, Hill St Blues)
1921 - Matt Batts, San Anttonio, TX, MLB catcher (Red Sox), (d. 2013)
1922 - Max Bygraves, London, actor (Tom Brown's School Days)
1922 - Robert Urquhart, actor (Dunkirk, Bulldog Breed, Dark Avenger)
1923 - Linda Darnell, Dallas, Texas, American actress (Unfaithfully Yours, A Letter to Three Wives)
1923 - Bert Kaempfert, rocker
1925 - Angela Lansbury, London England, actress (Jessica-Murder She Wrote)
1925 - Daniel J Evans, (Sen-R-WA, 1983- )
1925 - Lorraine Sweeny, communications specialist
1927 - Gus Yatron, (Rep-D-PA, 1969- )
1927 - Lee Montague, London England, actor (Uncle Sasha-Holocaust)
1927 - Peter Brinson, dance educationalist
1927 - Günter Grass, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate
1928 - Mary Daly, American feminist
1928 - Ann Morgan Guilbert, American actress
1929 - Bill Green, (Rep-R-NY, 1978- )
1929 - Fernanda Montenegro, Brazilian actress
1930 - Carmen Sevilla, Spanish actress
1931 - Charles W Colson, Boston Massachusetts, presidential adviser (Watergate figure), (d. 2012)
1931 - Rosa Rosal, Filipino actress and humanitarian
1932 - Henry Jay Lewis, Los Angeles California, conductor/bass (LA Philharmonic 1955-59)
1932 - John Grant, British politician (d. 2000)
1935 - Sugar Pie DeSanto, US singer (Soulful dress)
1936 - Gerardo Gandini, composer
1936 - Andrei Chikatilo, Russian serial killer (d. 1994)
1936 - Akira Machida, Japanese judge
1936 - Peter Bowles, English actor
1937 - Emile Ford, rocker
1937 - Tony Anthony, Clarksburg WV, actor (Treasure of 4 Crowns)
1937 - Tom Monaghan, founder of Dominos pizza
1938 - Nico (born Christa Päffgen; singer-songwriter, fashion model, actress) (d. 1988)
1938 - Carl Gunter Jr, Louisiana State Representative (d. 1999)
1940 - Barry Corbin, actor (Maurice-Northern Exposure)
1940 - Dave DeBusschere, Detroit, NBA foward (NY Knick)/last ABA commissioner
1941 - Derek David Bourgeois, composer
1941 - Erkki Jokinen, composer
1941 - Tim McCarver, baseball catcher (Phils, Mets)/sportscaster (ABC, CBS)
1942 - Dave Lovelady, rocker
1943 - C Fred Turner, rock bassist/vocalist (Bachman-Turner Overdrive)
1944 - Bob Cottam, cricketer (England fast-medium on 2 India/Pakistan tours)
1944 - Johnny Washbrook, Toronto, actor (Ken-My Friend Flicka)
1945 - Paul Monette, writer
1946 - Suzanne Somers, San Bruno California, actress (3's Company, Step by Step)
1947 - Bob Weir, SF California, guitarist (Grateful Dead-Uncle Joe's Band)
1947 - David Zucker, Milwaukee WI, director (Airplane, Naked Gun, Top Secret)
1948 - Michael Tylo, Detroit, actor (Guiding Light, Blade-Young & Restless)
1948 - Leo Mazzone, American baseball coach
1948 - Hema Malini, Indian Actress
1951 - Alan Wheat, (Rep-D-Missouri, 1983- )
1951 - Daniel Gerroll, London, actor (Big Business)
1952 - Christopher Cox, (Rep-R-California)
1952 - Boogie Mosson, American musician (P Funk)
1952 - Ron Taylor, American actor (d. 2002)
1953 - Martha Smith, Cleve Ohio, actress (Animal House)/playmate (July 1973)
1953 - Susan Pedersen, US, 4 X 100m medley swimmer (Olympic-gold-1968)
1953 - Tony Carey, Fresno Ca, rocker
1953 - Paulo Roberto Falcão, Brazilian footballer
1954 - Stephen Mellor, American actor
1955 - Ellen Dolan, Monticello IO, actress (Guiding Light, Margo Hughes-ATWT)
1956 - James H Newman, Trust Territory of Pacific, PhD/Astronaut (STS 51, 69)
1956 - Johnny Chavis, American football coach
1958 - Tim Robbins, West Covina CA, actor (Bull Durham, Shawshank Redemption)
1958 - Eleftheria Arvanitaki, Greek singer
1959 - Gary Kemp, London, rock guitarist (Spandau Ballet-True)
1959 - Erkki-Sven Tüür, Estonian composer
1960 - Val Skinner, Hamilton MT, LPGA golfer (1995 Sprint Championship)
1960 - Bob Mould, American musician
1961 - Billy Taylor, Monticello FL, pitcher (Oakland A's)
1961 - Chris Doleman, defensive end (San Francisco 49ers)
1961 - Wilfried Brookhuis, soccer player (NEC)
1961 - Randy Vasquez, American actor
1961 - Marc Levy, French novelist
1962 - Flea, [Michael Balzary], bassist (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
1962 - Laura Coenen, Neenah Wisc, team handball goalie (Olymp-1988, 92, 96)
1962 - Manute Bol, NBA center (Golden State Warriors)
1962 - Tamara McKinney, Lexington KY, slalom skier (Olympic-4th-1984)
1962 - Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Russian baritone
1963 - Missy Hyatt, Atlanta Ga, wrestling manager (WCW, ECW)
1964 - Kay Cockerill, San Jose CA, LPGA golfer (1995 Friendly's Classic-32nd)
1965 - German Titov, Moscow Russia, NHL center (Calgary Flames, Oly-Silver-1998)
1965 - Lisa Bonder, Columbus Ohio, tennis star
1966 - Donovan Right, CFL linebacker (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1966 - Gerhard Puschnik, hockey forward (Team Austria 1998)
1967 - Joe Murphy, London, NHL right wing (Chicago Blackhawks)
1967 - Michael York, Australian field hockey fullback (Oly-silver-92, 96)
1967 - Davina McCall, British television presenter
1968 - Randall Batinkoff, actor (For Keeps)
1968 - Robert van Oosterom, cricket opening batsman (Holland 1996 World Cup)
1968 - Scott Donie, Vicenza Italy, diver (Olympics-4th-96)
1968 - Elsa Zylberstein, French actress
1969 - Darren McKenzie-Potter, Auckland NZ, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1969 - Doug Hocking, CFL linebacker (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1969 - Gregory Metcalf, Ellensburg Wash, 3k steeplechase
1969 - Spencer McLennan, CFL safety (Montreal Alouettes)
1969 - Wendy Wilson, Los Angeles Ca, rock vocalist (Wilson Phillips-Hold On)
1969 - Roy Hargrove, American jazz trumpeter
1969 - Terri J. Vaughn, American actress
1969 - Takao Ōmori, Japanese professional wrestler
1970 - Adrian Murrell, NFL running back/kick returner (NY Jets)
1970 - Mehmet Scholl, German footballer
1970 - Kazuyuki Fujita, Japanese professional wrestler and mixed martial arts fighter
1971 - David Johnson, cricketer (Karnataka fast bowler, India 1996-)
1971 - Greg Jeffries, NFL cornerback (Detroit Lions)
1971 - Kathryn J Taylor, Miss USA-Kansas (1997)
1971 - Simon Shanks, NFL inside linebacker (Arizona Cardinals)
1971 - Toni Foster, WNBA forward/center (Phoenix Mercury)
1971 - Chad Gray, American singer
1972 - Darius Kasparaitis, Elektrenai Lit, NHL defenseman (Islanders, Pitts)
1972 - Darren Balmforth, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1972 - Kordell Stewart, NFL quarterback/wide receiver (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1972 - Stephen O'Connor, Irish amateur snooker champ (1990)
1973 - Peter Polaco, American professional wrestler
1973 - David Unsworth, English professional footballer
1974 - Jermaine Lewis, wide receiver (Baltimore Ravens)
1974 - Paul Kariya, Vancouver, NHL left wing (Anaheim Mighty Ducks, Oly-98)
1974 - Deo Grech, Maltese television presenter, songwriter
1975 - Jacques Kallis, cricketer (South African Test all-rounder v England 1995)
1975 - Jamila Wideman, WNBA guard (LA Sparks)
1975 - Kellie Martin, Riverside CA, actress (Life Goes On, Cristy)
1975 - Brynjar Gunnarsson, Icelandic footballer
1976 - Ryan Fitzgerald, Australian football (AFL) player and media personality
1977 - John Mayer, American musician
1978 - Abel Talamantez, Texas, singer (Menudo-Cannonball)
1978 - Whitni Zimmerman, Miss New Mexico Teen USA (1996)
1978 - Ethan Luck, American musician (The O.C. Supertones, Demon Hunter, Relient K)
1980 - Jeremy Jackson, Newport Beach California, actor (Shout, Baywatch)
1980 - Sue Bird, American basketball player
1980 - Timana Tahu, Australian Rugby League player
1981 - Anthony Reyes, starting pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals
1981 - Martin Halle, Danish footballer
1981 - Caterina Scorsone, Canadian actress
1982 - Frédéric Michalak, French rugby player
1982 - Vincy Chan, Hong Kong singer
1984 - Trevor Blumas, Canadian actor
1984 - Shayne Ward, UK singer, winner of The X Factor, series 2005
1985 - Casey Stoner, Australian motorcycle racer and 2007 MotoGP World Champion
1986 - Craig Pickering, British sprinter
1988 - Zoltán Stieber, Hungarian footballer

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 16, 2013, 09:29:13 AM

This Day in History for 16th October


Famous Deaths

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Queen of France                                 Military Leader George Marshall (1959)
Marie Antoinette (1793)


775 - Mansur, kalief of Abbasiden, dies
1323 - Amadeus V the Great, count of Flanders/Savoy, dies at 74
1333 - Nicolaas V, [Pietro Rainalducci], Italian anti-Pope (1328-30), dies
1355 - Louis, King of Sicily, felled by the Black Death
1473 - Reinoud II van Brederode, viscount of Utrecht, dies
1553 - Lucas Cranach Sr, German painter, dies at 81
1555 - Hugh Latimer, English bishop and royal chaplain, burned at the stake as one of the Oxford
           Martyrs at 80
1555 - Nicholas Ridley, English theologist/bishop of Rochester, burned at the stake as an Oxford
           martyr
1570 - Baron van Montigny, Dutch earl of Horne, murdered
1591 - Gregory XIV, [Niccolo Sfondrati], Italian Pope, dies at 56
1594 - William Allen, English cardinal/founder seminary of Douai, dies at 62
1621 - Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, organist/composer, dies at about 59
1628 - François de Malherbe, French poet and critic (b. 1555)
1649 - Isaac van Ostade, painter, buried
1655 - Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, Italian physician, mathematician, and music theorist (b. 1591)
1680 - Raimondo Montecuccoli, Italian-Austrian general (b. 1608 or 1609)
1688 - Philips Koninck, painter/etcher, buried at 68
1690 - Margaretha M Alacoque, French mystic/saint, dies at 43
1694 - Samuel Freiherr von Pufendorf, German lawyer, dies at 62
1726 - Giovanni Maria Capelli, composer, dies at 77
1750 - Silvius Leopold Weiss, composer, dies at 64
1755 - Saint Gerard Majella, Catholic saint (b. 1725)
1774 - Robert Fergusson, Scottish songwriter (Scottish Poems), dies
1781 - Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, British naval officer (b. 1705)
1791 - Grigorij A Potemkin, Monarch of Tauris, dies
1793 - Marie Antoinette, queen of France, beheaded at 37
1793 - John Hunter, eminent doctor and philosopher (b. 1728
1796 - Victor Amadeus III of Savoy (b. 1726)
1799 - Antoine-Frederic Gresnick, composer, dies at 44
1810 - Nachman of Breslov, founder of Breslov Hasidut (b. 1772)
1814 - Juan Jose Landaeta, composer, dies at 34
1817 - Manuel C Piar, Curacaos/Venezulian freedom writer, dies
1822 - Eva Marie Veigel, Austrian ballet dancer (b. 1724)
1836 - Friedrich Theodor Frohlich, composer, dies at 33
1849 - George Washington Williams, 1st major black historian, dies
1862 - George Burgwyn Anderson, US Confederate brig-general, dies at 31
1865 - Andrés Bello, Venezuelan poet, lawmaker, philosopher, and sociologist (b. 1781)
1867 - Salomon J Rappoport, Czech rabbi (Ereg miliem), dies
1877 - John Zwijsen, archbishop of Utrecht, dies at 83
1877 - Theodore Barrière, French dramatist (b. 1823)
1880 - Edward Wolff, composer, dies at 64
1888 - John Wentworth, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1815)
1891 - Sarah Winnemucca, indian scout, dies
1893 - Carlo Pedrotti, composer, dies at 75
1893 - Patrice MacMahon, duc de Magenta, President of France (b. 1808)
1909 - Jakub Bart-Ćišinski, Sorbian writer (b. 1856)
1916 - Klaas/old stick Kater, christian worker's union leader, dies at 73
1918 - Felix Arndt, composer, dies at 29
1919 - Charles Harford Lloyd, composer, dies on 70th birthday
1920 - Alberto Nepomuceno, Brazilian composer/conductor (Artemis), dies at 56
1928 - Septimus Kinneir, cricketer (Test for Eng), dies
1937 - Jean de Brunhoff, French writer (b. 1899)
1939 - Carl Henrik Ludolf Nielsen, composer, dies at 63
1942 - 12, Dutch Communist Party-resistance fighter/3 NVV-hostages, executed
1944 - Eric Westberg, composer, dies at 52
1944 - John Eigenhuis, writer (The Dike), dies at 78
1946 - Alfred G Jodl, Col-Gen/German staff chief weather authority, hanged
1946 - Alfred Rosenberg, German war criminal, hanged
1946 - Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Austrian chancellor (1930s), hanged at 54
1946 - Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Austrian Nazi (SS), hanged
1946 - Fritz Sauckel, German war criminal, hanged
1946 - Granville Ransome Bantock, English composer/conductor, dies at 78
1946 - Hans Franc, German war criminal, hanged
1946 - Joachim von Ribbentrop, German war criminal, hanged
1946 - Wilhelm Frick, German war criminal, hanged
1946 - Wilhelm Keitel, German fieldmarshal, hanged
1946 - Nuremberg trial execut
1948 - Henry Foley, cricketer (one Test for NZ, scored 2 & 2), dies
1949 - Hale Ascher VanderCook, composer, dies at 85
1951 - Liaquat Ali Khan, PM of Pakistan (1947-51), assassinated by Said Akbar
1956 - Jules Rimet, president of FIFA (b. 1873)
1959 - George Marshall, US army general, dies at 78
1962 - Gaston Bachelard, French philosopher (Water & Dreams), dies at 78
1966 - George O'Hara, American actor (b. 1899)
1968 - Ellis Kinder, baseball player (b. 1914)
1972 - Leo G Carroll, actor (Topper, Man From Uncle), dies at 80
1972 - Hale Boggs, U.S. Congressman from Louisiana (b. 1914)
1973 - Gene Krupa, US swing drummer (Sing Sing Sing), dies at 64
1974 - Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar, noted Carnatic musician (b. 1895)
1977 - Michael Balcon, producer, dies at 81
1978 - Dan Dailey, American dancer and actor (Governor & JJ), dies of anemia at 62
1979 - Johan Borgen, Norwegian author (b. 1903)
1980 - Carl PM Romme, Dutch minister of Social Affairs (KVP), dies at 83
1981 - Moshe Dayan, Israel's general/minister of Defense, dies at 66
1981 - Stanley Clements, actor (Boys' Prison, Army Bound, Hot News), dies
1981 - William Holden, actor (Casino Royale), dies at 63
1982 - Jacov Gotovac, composer, dies at 86
1982 - Mario del Monaco, Italian opera singer (Verdi/Puccini), dies at 67
1983 - George Liberace, violinist (Liberace Show), dies at 72
1983 - Kelso, American racehorse (b. 1957)
1984 - Ken Carpenter, TV announcer (Lux Video Theater), dies at 84
1984 - Peggy Ann Garner, actress (Ford Theater), dies at 53 of cancer
1985 - Claude Stroud, actor (Hobart-Ted Knight Show, Duke), dies at 78
1986 - Arthur Grumiaux, Belgian violinist, dies at 65
1986 - C Wttewaall van Stoetwegen, CHU Member of Dutch parliament, dies at 85
1987 - Dana Suesse, songwriter (You Ought to be in Pictures), dies at 75
1989 - Cornel Wilde, actor (Saadia, Comic, Beach Red, Gargoyles), dies at 74
1990 - Art Blakey, jazz drummer (Jazz Messengers), dies of cancer at 71
1990 - Jorge Bolet, Cuban-American classical pianist (b. 1914)
1991 - Tennessee Ernie Ford, country singer (16 Tons), dies at 72
1991 - Tonny Huurdeman, singer/actress (Frills), dies
1992 - Shirley Booth, actress (Hazel), dies of natural causes at 94
1993 - John Bowles, president (Rexall Drugs), dies at 76
1994 - William Henry Swinburne, music teacher, dies at 87
1995 - John Walker, museum director, dies at 88
1995 - Murdo Alexander MacLeod, minister, dies at 60
1995 - Thomas Augustine Martin, academic, dies at 59
1996 - Anthony Griffin, sailor, dies at 75
1996 - Eric Lawson Malpass, writer, dies at 85
1996 - Ismond Rosen, psychoanalyst/artist, dies at 82
1996 - James Wild, music teacher, dies at 68
1996 - Jason Bernard, actor (judge-Liar Liar), dies of heart attack at 58
1997 - Audra Lindley, actress (Helen Roper-3's Company, Ropers), dies at 79
1997 - James Mitchner, author (Hawaii), dies of kidney failure at 90
1997 - James Michener, American writer (b. 1907)
1998 - Jon Postel, American Internet pioneer (b. 1943)
1999 - Jean Shepherd, American writer and actor (b. 1921)
2000 - Mel Carnahan, American politician (b. 1934)
2002 - Angela Dawson, American murder victim
2003 - Avni Arbas, Turkish artist (b. 1919)
2003 - Stu Hart, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1915)
2003 - László Papp, Hungarian boxer (b. 1926)
2004 - Pierre Salinger, John F. Kennedy's White House Press Secretary (b. 1925)
2005 - "Len" Dresslar, American singer and voice actor (b. 1925)
2005 - Eugene "Porky" Lee, American child actor (b. 1933)
2005 - David Reilly, American singer (God Lives Underwater) (b. 1971)
2006 - Valentín Paniagua Corazao, Ex President of Peru (b. 1936)
2006 - Ross Davidson, British actor (b. 1949)
2006 - Tommy Johnson, American tubist (b. 1935)
2006 - Lister Sinclair, Canadian broadcaster and playwright (b. 1921)
2007 - Deborah Kerr, Scottish actress (b. 1921)
2007 - Toše Proeski, Macedonian music star (b. 1981)
2007 - Barbara West, Second to last living Titanic survivor.
2010 - Barbara Billingsley, American actress (b. 1915)
2010 - Eyedea, American rapper (Eyedea & Abilities) (b. 1981)
2011 - Dan Wheldon, English auto racer (b. 1978)
2012 - Eddie Yost, American MLB player, dies from cardiovascular disease at 86

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 17, 2013, 09:03:12 AM

This Day in History for 17th October


Historical Events

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King of England Edward III                        Inventor Thomas Edison                      Inventor and Nobel Laureate
                                                                                                                                  Guglielmo Marconi

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Theoretical Physicist Albert Einstein        Impressionist Painter Henri Matisse       Singer-songwriter & Actress
                                                                                                                              Barbra Streisand

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Catholic Missionary Mother Teresa             The Pianoman Billy Joel


539 BC - King Cyrus The Great of Persia marches into the city of Babylon, releasing the Jews from
              almost 70 years of exile and making the first Human Rights Declaration.
532 - Boniface II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
733 - Battle at Poitiers: Charles Martel beats Abd al-Rachmans Omajjaden
1346 - Battle of Neville's Cross: King David II of Scotland is captured by Edward III of England at
           Calais, and imprisoned in the Tower of London for eleven years.
1387 - Swells convent Windesheim initiated
1404 - Cosma de' Migliorati elected Pope Innocentius VII
1415 - Jewish autonomy in Palestine ends, as Raban Gamliel leaves office
1448 - Second Battle of Kosovo, where the mainly Hungarian army led by John Hunyadi were
           defeated by an Ottoman army led by Sultan Murad II.
1456 - The University of Greifswald is established, making it the second oldest university in northern
           continental Europe (also for a period the oldest in Sweden, and Prussia)
1483 - Tomas de Torquemada appointed inquisitor-general of Spain
1556 - Ex-emperor Karel departs Netherland for Spain
1651 - Future King Charles II flees from England
1660 - Nine Regicides, the men who signed the death warrant of Charles I, are hanged, drawn and
           quartered, another is hanged.
1691 - New royal charter for Massachusetts, now including Maine, Plymouth
1720 - Pierre de Marivaux' "Arlequin Poli Par l'Amour," premieres in Paris
1740 - Ivan VI becomes Czar of Russia
1777 - British General John Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga NY
1781 - Cornwallis defeated at Yorktown
1787 - Boston blacks, petition legislature for equal school facilities
1797 - Peace of Campo Formio: Austrian Dutch possessions & France
1800 - Dutch colony Curacao transfered to England
1806 - Former leader of the Haitian Revolution, Emperor Jacques I of Haiti was assassinated after an
           oppressive rule.
1808 - Political rights of Jews suspended in Duchy of Warsaw
1814 - London Beer Flood occurs in London killing nine.
1815 - Napoleon arrives in St Helena
1825 - 1st French Liszts operette Don Sanche premieres in Paris
1829 - Delaware River & Chesapeake Bay Canal formally opens
1829 - 1st supposed attack on abandoned German teenager Kaspar Hauser
1831 - Felix Mendelssohn's 1st Piano concert in G, premieres
1850 - Knickerbocker Engine Co Number 5 organized
1855 - Bessemer steelmaking process patented
1860 - 1st British Golf Open: Willie Park Snr shoots a 164 at Prestwick Club, Scotland
1862 - Battle of Leetown & Thoroughfare Gap, VA
1868 - Constitution of Grand Duchy of Luxembourg comes into effect
1871 - Great Britain annexes Griqualand South Africa
1871 - President Grant suspends writ of habeas corpus
1876 - Henry Morton Stanley's reaches Lualaba River
1877 - Henry Morton Stanley reaches Boma during trip cross Africa
1885 - Baseball sets all players salaries at $1,000-$2,000 for 1885 season
1888 - Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie).
1894 - Ohio national guard kills 3 lynchers while rescuing a black man
1896 - Anton Tsjechovs "Chayka," premieres in St Petersburg
1899 - Sutro railroad sold to Robert F Morrow for $215,000
1904 - Bank of Italy (Bank of America) opens its doors
1907 - Guglielmo Marconi's company begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service
           between Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada and Clifden, Ireland.
1912 - Bulgaria, Greece & Serbia declares war on Turkey
1916 - Dutch women demonstrate for female suffrage
1917 - 1st British bombing of Germany
1918 - De Kooy airport in Netherlands opens
1918 - Yugoslavia proclaims itself a republic
1919 - Radio Corporation of America (RCA) created
1920 - Chicago Bears (as Decatur Staleys) play 1st NFL game, win 7-0
1921 - Belgium's public library law goes into force
1922 - Scottish worker begins hunger march from Glasgow on London
1923 - Catholic University of Nijmegen Neth opens
1927 - Ban Johnson, in failing health, retires as AL president
1931 - Al Capone convicted of tax evasion, sentenced to 11 years in prison
1933 - Albert Einstein arrives in US, a refugee from Nazi Germany
1934 - "The Aldrich Family" premieres on radio
1935 - Pacific Association of AAU votes not to participate in Berlin Olympics
1940 - German occupiers issue identity cards
1941 - 1st US destroyer (Kearney) torpedoed in WW II, off Iceland
1943 - Liberators sink U-540 & U-631
1945 - Juan Peron becomes dictator of Argentina
1951 - Egyptian army fires on British troops
1954 - Phila Eagle Adrian Burk passes for 7 touchdowns vs Wash (49-21)
1955 - Lee Merriwether joins Today Show panel
1956 - England's 1st large scale nuclear power station opens
1956 - Pakistan defeat Australia by nine wickets at 1st attempt
1957 - "Copper & Brass" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 36 performances
1957 - Britain's Queen Elizabeth & Prince Philip visit the White House
1957 - Dike Marken-Dutch mainland closed
1957 - French author Albert Camus awarded Nobel Prize in Literature
1957 - II Tsjoendrigar becomes premier of Pakistan
1959 - "Billy Barnes Revue" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 87 perfs
1959 - Queen Elizabeth is fined $140 for withdrawing her race horse
1959 - Stinchcomb Memorial in Cleveland Metroparks' dedicated
1960 - "Tenderloin" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 216 performances
1960 - US & Britain sign accord for nuclear sub bases
1961 - 22nd congress of CPSU opens in Moscow
1961 - Battle of Paris-police kill 210 Algerians
1961 - NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 33,100 m
1961 - NY Museum of Modern Art hangs Henri Matisse's "Le Bateau" upside-down It wasn't corrected
           until December 3rd
1962 - Yanks beat Giants for 20th world championship
1963 - "Jennie" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 82 performances
1964 - Yanks fire Manager Yogi Berra
1965 - "On A Clear Day You Can See Forever" opens in NYC for 280 perfs
1965 - WBMG TV channel 42 in Birmingham, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting
1967 - "Hair" premieres on Broadway
1967 - Barbra Streisand stars on "Belle of 14th Street" special on CBS
1967 - Memorial service for Brian Epstein at New London Synagogue
1967 - Pete Knight in X-15 reaches 85 km
1967 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1969 - NY Nets move from Comack to Island Garden, Hempstead NY
1969 - Plastic Ono Band's "Cold Turkey" is released in UK
1969 - Soyuz 7 returns to Earth
1970 - Anwar Sadat sworn in as president of Egypt
1971 - Cleveland Metroparks' Rocky River Nature Center opens
1971 - Judy Rankin wins LPGA Quality-First Golf Classic
1971 - Pittsburgh Pirates beat Balt Orioles, 4 games to 3 in 68th World Series
1972 - 1st time Islanders shut-out-5-0 vs Penguins
1972 - Bob Randall's "6 Rooms Riv Vu," premieres in NYC
1972 - Chuck Berry's "My Ding-a-ling," is #1
1973 - 5-mo oil embargo by Arab states against US & Netherlands begins
1973 - Arabs decrease oil production
1974 - "Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope" closes at Playhouse NYC after 1065 per
1974 - NBA New Orleans Jazz begin a 28 game road losing streak
1974 - Washington Capitals 1st NHL home victory, beating Chicago 4-3
1974 - Oakland A's beat LA Dodgers, 4 games to 1 in 71st World Series makes A's only team other
           than Yanks to win 3 straight series
1975 - 1st Space Shuttle main engine test at Natl Space Tech Labs, Miss
1975 - UN passes resolution saying "Zionism is a form of racism"
1976 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1976 - Coldest World Series game Yankees vs Cincinnati, 39 degrees F (until 1997)
1977 - Canada begins regular live TV coverage of Parliament
1977 - West German commandos storm hijacked Lufthansa in Mogadishu, Somalia freeing all 86
           hostages & killing 3 of 4 hijackers
1978 - NY Islanders start a streak of 23 undefeated games at home (15-0-8)
1978 - NY Yankees beat Dodgers, 4 games to 2 in 75th World Series
1978 - Pres Carter signs bill restoring Jefferson Davis citizenship
1978 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1978 - Yanks win 22nd World Championship capping their great comeback year
1979 - "Beatlemania" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 920 perfs
1979 - D Bautista of Mexico completes 20,000 m walk in record 1:20:06.8
1979 - Mother Teresa of India, awarded Nobel Peace Prize
1979 - Pittsburgh Pirates beat Balt Orioles, 4 games to 3 in 76th World Series
1979 - Pres Carter signs legislation creating Dept of Education
1980 - 1st-class debut of Mike Whitney, NSW v Qld (2-52 & 1-39)
1982 - 1st live orch on commerical network since 1954 (National Symphony)
1982 - Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation
1982 - Robin Yount is 1st to have 2 4-hit games in a World Series
1982 - Sam Shepard's "True West" premieres in NYC
1982 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1983 - Nobel prize for economy awarded to Gerard Debreu
1983 - STS-9 vehicle moves to Vandenberg AFB due to SRB nozzle problem
1984 - Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Bruce Merrifield
1985 - French author Claude Simon won the Nobel Prize in literature
1985 - Lou Piniella named NY Yankee manager
1986 - US Senate approved immigration bill prohibiting hiring of illegal aliens & offered amnesty to
           illegals who entered prior to 1982
1986 - Yitzak Rabin forms Israeli government
1987 - "Late Nite Comic" closes at Ritz Theater NYC after 4 performances
1987 - 1st indoor World Series game (Minnesota Metrodome)
1987 - 1st Lady Nancy Reagan undergoes a modified radical mastectomy
1988 - 31 reported dead as Ugandan jetliner crashes in fog near Rome
1988 - Dallas Green replaces Lou Pinella as manager of NY Yankees
1988 - Lyndon LaRouche pleads innocent to fraud, conspiracy indictment
1988 - Phillip Morris announces $11 Billion tender offer for Kraft
1988 - Rockin Robin beats "Sensational" Sherri Martel for WWF woman's title
1988 - Traveling Wilbury's 1st release "Handle With Care"
1989 - Earthquake in SF (6.9) cancels 3rd game of World Series, kills 67
1990 - "Jackie Mason - Brand New" opens at Neil Simon NYC for 216 perfs
1990 - "Les Miserables," opens at Imperial Theatre, NY & His Majesty's Theatre, Perth
1991 - Angel Cordero is 3rd jockey to win 7,000 horse races
1991 - Atlanta Braves beat Pittsburgh Pirates for NL pennant in 7 games
1991 - News anchor Bree Walker Lampley files an FCC complaint that LA radio KFI-AM personally
           attacked her by discuss her having a disformed baby
1991 - Pitts Penguin Paul Coffey sets NHL defenseman scoring record with 1,053 career points (309
           goals & 744 assists)
1992 - 1st World Series with non-US team, Toronto loses 3-1 to Braves
1993 - Dottie Mochrie wins LPGA World Championship of Women's Golf
1994 - Beth Daniel wins LPGA World Championships of Women's Golf
1994 - Billy Joel performs opening concert at Cleveland's Gund Arena
1994 - Kapil Dev's final one-day international (v West Indies)
1995 - Keith Moore sentenced to 6 years for robbing Sting of $9,000,000
1996 - "Taking Sides," opens at Atkinson Theater NYC
1998 - At Jesse, in the Niger Delta, Nigeria, a petroleum pipeline explodes killing about 1200 villagers,
           some of whom are scavenging gasoline.
2000 - Train crash at Hatfield, north of London, leading to collapse of Railtrack.
2003 - The pinnacle was fitted on the roof of Taipei 101, a 101-floor skyscraper in Taipei, allowing it
           to surpass the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur by 50 meters (165 feet) and become
           the World's tallest highrise.
2003 - Eunuchs in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh float the political party Jiti Jitayi Politics.
2005 - The Colbert Report first airs.
2006 - The United States population reaches 300 million.
2007 - The Dalai Lama receives the United States Congressional Gold Medal.
2012 - The exoplanet Alpha Centauri Bb is discovered orbiting Alpha Centauri
2012 - Lance Armstrong loses a host of endorsements in the wake of his doping scandal
2012 - Tens of thousands protest austerity measures in Greece

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 17, 2013, 09:04:40 AM

This Day in History for 17th October


Famous Weddings

1469 - Crown prince Fernando of Aragon marries princess Isabella of Castile
1707 - German composer Johann S Bach marries for the 1st time his cousin Maria Barbara Bach
1915 - American born poet (The Waste Land) T. S (Thomas Sterns) Eliot (27) marries 1st wife
           Vivienne Haigh-Wood (27)
1945 - Actress Ava Gardner (22) weds band leader Artie Shaw (35) in Hollywood
1952 - Country music legend Hank Williams (29) weds Billie Jean Jones in Minden, Louisiana
1975 - Bee Gees Maurice Gibb weds Yvonne Spencely

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 17, 2013, 09:10:40 AM

This Day in History for 17th October


Famous Birthdays

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Playwright Arthur Miller (1915)        Motorcycle Daredevil Evel Knievel (1938)               Rapper Eminem (1972)


1253 - Ivo of Kermartin, ]])
1563 - Jodocus Hondius, Flemish mathematician/cartographer
1577 - Cristofano Allori, Italian painter (Judith)
1582 - Johann Gerhard, German Lutheran leader (d. 1637)
1623 - Francis Turretin, Swiss theologian (d. 1687)
1626 - Simon van Leeuwen, lawyer/historian (Roman-Holland regt)
1688 - Domenico Zipoli, composer
1696 - August III, king of Poland/monarch Frederik August II of Saksen
1704 - Willem Bentinck, orangist
1711 - Jupiter Hammon, 1st black American to publish poetry (Complete Works)
1719 - Jacques Cazotte, French writer (d. 1792)
1720 - Maria Teresa Agnesi, composer
1725 - John Wilkes, English journalist/MP (N Briton)
1729 - Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, composer
1730 - Ernestus Weinrauch, composer
1734 - Grigori G Orlov, Russ guard officer/favorite of Catharina II
1806 - Alphonse LPP de Candolle, Swiss botanist
1811 - Albertus C van Raalte, Dutch/US vicar (owned land in Mich)
1813 - Georg Büchner, German playwright (d. 1837)
1815 - Emanuel Geibel, writer
1817 - Sajjid Ahmad Chan, Indian moslem leader/co-founder (Pakistan)
1817 - Samuel Ringgold Ward, Maryland, minister/abolitionist (Fugitive Negro)
1844 - Miguel Nieto, composer
1845 - Franz Ehrle, German prefect of Vatican library
1848 - William "Candy" Cummings, created curve ball
1853 - Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (d. 1920)
1859 - William "Buck" Ewing, hall of fame catcher (NY Giants, Cin Reds)
1860 - Dionyssios Lavrangas, composer
1864 - Elinor Glyn, British novelist (3 Weeks)
1865 - James Rudolph Garfield, American politician (d. 1950)
1875 - Alfred Polgar, Austrian writer (Yes & No!)
1878 - Andrei N Rimski-Korssakov, Russian musicologist/son of Nikolai
1878 - Henri Mulet, composer
1883 - A S Neill, British headmaster (Summerhill)
1885 - Aaf Bouber-ten Hoope, Dutch actress (Jantjes)/wife of Herman Bouber
1886 - Spring Byington, Colo Springs, actress (Lily Ruskin-December Bride)
1890 - Roy Kilner, English cricketer (d. 1928)
1892 - Herbert Norman Howells, composer
1892 - Otakar Jeremias, composer
1892 - Theodor Eicke, Nazi official (d. 1943)
1893 - Jean Binet, composer
1893 - Fritz Ascher, Berlin Germany, German Expressionist artist
1895 - Doris Humphrey, Oak Park Ill, dancer (Dances of Women)
1898 - Mildred Knopf, cookbook writer
1898 - Shinichi Suzuki, Nagoya, Japanese music teacher (Suzuki Method)
1898 - Simon Vestdijk, Dutch writer/poet (5th Seal)
1900 - Jean Arthur, New York, American actress (Shane, Mr Smith Goes to Washington) (d. 1991)
1903 - Irene Ryan, El Paso Texas, actress (Granny-Beverly Hillbillies)
1903 - Jerry Colona, Boston Mass, comedian (Jerry Colona Show)
1903 - Nathanael West, American novelist (Day of the Locusts)
1905 - Franco Albini, Italian architect
1906 - Paul Derringer, American baseball player (d. 1987)
1908 - Red Rolfe, American baseball player (d. 1969)
1909 - Crozy [William] Cole, US jazz drummer
1912 - John Paul I, [Albino Luciano], 263rd Roman Catholic pope (1978)
1914 - Albert Markos, composer
1914 - Jerry Siegel, comic book writer (Superman)
1914 - John Mosely, recording expert/entrepreneur
1915 - Arthur Miller, NYC, playwright (Death of a Salesman, Crucible), (d. 2005)
1916 - Robert Lowery, Kansas City MO, actor (Murder Over NY)
1916 - Tadeusz Paciorkiewicz, composer
1917 - Marsha Hunt, Chicago Ill, actress (Jennifer-Peck's Bad Girl, Jigsaw)
1917 - Martin Donnelly, cricketer (brilliant lefty bat for NZ post-war)
1917 - Sumner Locke Elliott, Australian-born American novelist (d. 1991)
1918 - Rita Hayworth, NY, [Marguerita C Casino], actress (Gilda, Pal Joey)
1919 - John Moroney, cricketer (Australian opener 1949-51)
1919 - Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov, Russian physicist
1920 - Montgomery Clift, Omaha NE, actor (From Here to Eternity)
1920 - Rudolf Hrusinsky, Czech actor (Short Cut, Golden Eels)
1920 - Miguel Delibes, Spanish writer
1921 - George Mackey Brown, poet
1921 - Maria Gorokhovskaya, USSR, gymnist (Olympic-gold-1952)
1921 - Pricilla Lanford Buckly, editor/columnist (National Review)
1921 - Tom Poston, Columbus Ohio, actor (Steve Allen Show, Newhart)
1922 - Louis Benjamin, showman
1922 - Pierre Juneau, Montreal, Canada, film and broadcast executive, (d. 2012)
1922 - Luiz Bonfá, Brazilian composer (d. 2001)
1923 - Barney Kessel, American musician (d. 2004)
1926 - Beverly Garland, Santa Cruz California, actress (My 3 Sons)
1926 - Julie Adams, Waterloo Iowa, actress (Yancy Derringer, Code Red)
1926 - Karl Gordon Henize, Cincinnati Ohio, astronaut (STS 51-F)
1928 - Ivan Marinov, composer
1928 - James "Junior" Gilliam, Dodgers (NL rookie of year 1953)
1928 - Zacharias J de Beer, South African physician/MP (DP)
1929 - Ram Da-Oz, composer
1930 - Angelo Paccignini, composer
1930 - Jimmy Breslin, Queens NYC, columnist (NY Post, News, Newsday)
1930 - Robert Atkins, American nutritionist (d. 2003)
1931 - Ernst Hinterberger, Austrian writer
1932 - Gundaris Pone, composer
1932 - Paul Anderson, US, light super heavyweight lifter (Olympic-gold-1956)
1932 - William J Hughes, (Rep-D-New Jersey, 1975- )
1933 - William A Anders, Hong Kong, Maj Gen, USAF/astronaut (Apollo 8 )
1933 - Jeanine Deckers, Belgian nun (d. 1985)
1934 - Barend P Tammeling, Dutch journalist (Trouw, Groninger Gezinsbode)
1934 - Johnny Haynes, English footballer (d. 2005)
1935 - Alan Brown, cricketer (England opening attack Brown & White vs Pak 1961)
1936 - David Hobson, (Rep-R-Ohio)
1936 - Hiroo Kanamori, Japanese seismologist
1937 - Paxton Whitehead, English actor
1938 - Robert "Evel" Knievel, motorcycle daredevil (Snake River Canyon), (d. 2007)
1940 - Peter Stringfellow, British nightclub owner
1940 - Jim Smith, English footballer and manager
1941 - Alan Howard, rock bassist (Brian Poole & The Tremeloes)
1941 - Earl Thomas Conley, Portsmouth Oh, country singer (Too Many Times)
1941 - James Seals, Sidney Tx, singer (Seals & Crofts-Summer Breeze)
1942 - Gary Puckett, vocalist (& Union Gap-Woman Woman, Young Girl)
1943 - Susan Davenny Wyner, New Haven Ct, soprano (Walter Naumberg Prize)
1944 - Carol Cole, West Medford Mass, actress (Ellie-Grady)
1945 - Dave Cutler, CFL place kicker (Edmonton Eskimos)
1946 - Bob Seagren, Pomona California, actor (Soap)/pole vaulter (Olympic-gold-68)
1946 - James Ray Tucker, Los Angeles California, rock guitarist (Turtles-Eleanor)
1946 - Vicki Hodge, London England, actress (Confessions of a Sex Maniac)
1946 - Sir Cameron Mackintosh, British stage producer
1946 - Adam Michnik, Polish activist
1946 - Drusilla Modjeska, Australian writer and editor
1947 - Charles A Ingene, macromarketing researcher
1947 - Gene Green, (Rep-D-Texas)
1947 - Lesley Sunderland, decorative artist
1947 - Michael McKean, NYC, actor (Laverne & Shirley, Saturday Night Live, Spinal Tap)
1948 - George Wendt, Chicago Ill, actor (Norm-Cheers)
1948 - Margot Kidder, Yellowknife, actress (Lois Lane, Amityville Horror)
1949 - Bill Hudson, Portland Ore, comedian (Bonkers, Hudson Brothers Show)
1949 - Maurice Willis Wright, composer
1949 - Timothy Bottoms, Santa Barbara California, actor (Adam-East of Eden)
1950 - Howard E Rollins Jr, Balt Md, actor (Bannister-Wildside,Another World)
1950 - Michael Lynn Synar, (Rep-D-Oklahoma, 1979- )
1950 - Sandra Reemer, Dutch singer (As Love Goes)
1955 - Sam Bottoms, Santa Barbara CA, actor (Prime Risk, Savages)
1955 - Georgios Alogoskoufis, Greek politician
1956 - Mae C Jemison, Decatur Alabama, MD/astronaut (STS 47)
1956 - Robin LO Linschoten, Dutch ass. secretary of Social Affairs (VVD)
1957 - Vincent Van Patten, Belrose NY, actor (Apple's Way, 3 for the Road)
1957 - Lawrence Bender, American film producer
1958 - Alan Jackson, Newnan Ga, country singer (Here in the Real World)
1958 - Blaine McCallister, Ft Stockton TX, PGA golfer (1989 Honda Classic)
1958 - France St Louis, ice hockey forward (Canada, Oly-98)
1958 - Gig Gangel Harlingen TX, playmate (Jan, 1980)
1959 - Dolph Lundgren, actor (Rocky 4, Masters of Universe) [or Nov 3]
1959 - Ron Drummond, American writer
1959 - Mark Peel, Australian historian and academic
1959 - Richard Roeper, American film critic
1959 - Russell Gilbert, Australian comedian
1960 - James Patrick Delsing, St Louis MO, PGA golfer (1993 New England-2nd)
1960 - Mandy Yachad, cricketer (South African ODI opening batsman 1991)
1960 - Rob Marshall, American director
1960 - Guy Henry, English actor
1962 - John Dorge, Australian basketball center (Olympics-96)
1962 - Mike Judge, Ecuadoran-born cartoonist
1963 - Vijay Mehra, cricketer (United Arab Emirates batsman 1996 World Cup)
1963 - Sergio Goycochea, Argentine footballer
1963 - Norm MacDonald, Canadian comedian
1965 - Connie Ann Hearn, Anchorage Alaska, actress (New Kind of Family)
1965 - Pinnaduwage Aravinda De Silva, cricket (Sri Lanka's greatest batsman)
1966 - Danny Ferry, NBA forward (Cleveland Cavaliers)
1966 - Mark Gatiss, English actor and writer
1966 - Tommy Kendall, American race car driver and television personality
1967 - Adrianne Werdel Witmeyer, Los Angeles California, tennis star (1990 Futures-Chiba)
1967 - Allen West, US metal guitarist (Obituary, Cause of Death)
1967 - Marianne Werdel Witmeyer, Los Angeles California, tennis star
1967 - Mark Johnson, Worcester MA, infielder (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1967 - Nathalie Tauziat, Bangui Cent Afr Rep, tennis star (1993 Quebec City)
1967 - Reggie Clark, NFL linebacker (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1967 - René Dif, Danish musician (Aqua)
1968 - Heather McDermid, Calgary Alberta, rower (Olympics-96)
1968 - Ziggy Marley, reggae performer
1969 - Alfred Pupunu, NFL tight end (San Diego Chargers)
1969 - Joe Courtney, NBA forward (Cleveland Cavaliers)
1969 - Theodore Ernest Els, Johannesburg South Africa, PGA golfer (1994 US Open)
1969 - Wood Harris, American actor
1969 - Rick Mercer, Canadian comedian
1970 - Anil Kumble, cricketer (great Indian leg-spinner since 1990)
1970 - Jean-Paul de Young, soccer player (FC Utrecht)
1970 - John Mabry, Wilmington DE, outfielder (St Louis Cardinals)
1970 - Marciano Vink, soccer player (Genoa/PSV)
1970 - Shauna O'Brien, Pasco Wash, actress (Showgirls)
1970 - Tasha Tsang, Saskatoon Saskatchwan, rower (Olympics-96)
1971 - Byron Chamberlain, NFL/WLAF tight end Denver Broncos, Rhein Fire)
1971 - Ernest Dixon, NFL linebacker (NO Saints)
1971 - Henry McMillian, NFL defensive tackle (Seattle Seahawks)
1971 - Chris Kirkpatrick, American singer ('N Sync)
1972 - Vicki Goetze, Michicot WI, LPGA golfer (1995 British Open-12th)
1972 - Eminem [Marshall Bruce Mathers III], Saint Joseph Missouri, rapper and movie star
           (&#039;The Real Slim Shady&#039;, &#039;Stan&#039; and &#039;8 Mile&#039;)
1972 - Tarkan, Turkish singer
1972 - Wyclef Jean, Haitian-born singer
1972 - Joe McEwing, American baseball player
1973 - Keith McKenzie, NFL defensive end (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1973 - Lorie Bennett West, Miss Kentucky USA (1996)
1974 - Janne Puurtinen, Finnish keyboarder (HIM)
1974 - Matthew Macfadyen, British actor
1974 - Ariel Levy, American feminist writer
1974 - John Rocker, American baseball player
1975 - Francis Bouillon, American hockey player
1976 - Sebastián Abreu, Uruguayan footballer
1977 - Dudu Aouate, Israeli footballer
1977 - Bryan Bertino, American film director and screenwriter
1979 - Kimi Räikkönen, Finnish race car driver
1979 - Marcela Bovio, Mexican singer and violinist (Stream of Passion)
1979 - Kostas Tsartsaris, Greek basketball player
1980 - Alessandro Piccolo, Italian racing driver
1980 - Ekaterina Gamova, Russian volleyball player
1982 - Nick Riewoldt, Australian rules footballer
1983 - Daniel Booko, American actor
1983 - Ivan Saenko, Russian football player
1984 - Jelle Klaasen, Dutch darts player
1984 - Chris Lowell, American actor
1984 - Randall Munroe, American webcomic author
1987 - Jarosław Fojut, Polish footballer
1987 - Bea Alonzo, Filipina actress
1989 - Phoebe Tonkin, Australian actress
1992 - Sam Concepcion, Filipino performer and actor

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 17, 2013, 09:13:02 AM

This Day in History for 17th October


Famous Deaths

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Composer Frederic Chopin (1849)


532 - Boniface II, 1st "German" Pope, dies
1174 - Queen Petronila of Aragon (b. 1135)
1312 - Jan II, duke of Brabant/Limburg (charter of Kortenberg), dies
1552 - Andreas Osiander, Protestant Reformation theologist, dies at 53
1586 - Philip Sidney, English poet/diplomat, dies in battle at 32
1616 - John Pitts, Catholic scholar and writer. (b. 1560)
1638 - Gilles Claesz de Hondecoeter, Flemish (?) painter, buried at about 63
1660 - Adrian Scrope, English regicide (b. 1601)
1673 - Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English statesman (b. 1630)
1702 - Walraad the Old, count/soverign of Nassau-Usingen, dies
1757 - René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French scientist (b. 1683)
1763 - Arnold Hoogvliet, poet (Abraham the patriarch), dies at 76
1776 - Pierre François le Courayer, French theologian (b. 1681)
1780 - William Cookworthy, English chemist (b. 1705)
1786 - Johann Ludwig Aberli, Swiss artist (b. 1723)
1806 - Jean Jacques Dessalines, Emperor of Haiti, dies
1825 - Peter Winter, composer, dies at 71
1836 - Orest Kiprensky, Russian painter (b. 1782)
1837 - Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Austrian composer, dies at 58
1849 - Frederic Chopin, Polish/French pianist/composer, dies at 39
1868 - Laura Secord, Canadian heroine of the war of 1812 (b. 1775)
1887 - Gustav R Kirchhoff, German physicist (spectroscopy), dies at 63
1889 - Nikolai Chernyshevsky, Russian philosopher (b. 1828)
1890 - Prosper Philippe Catherine Sainton, composer, dies at 77
1897 - Isidor Dannstrom, composer, dies at 84
1904 - Nikolai Amani, composer, dies at 32
1909 - Nicola Spinelli, composer, dies at 44
1910 - Julia Ward Howe, composer (Battle Hymn of Republic), dies at 91
1910 - William V Moody, US poet (Sabine Woman, Great Divide), dies
1917 - Maria J "Marie" Bakker, actress/wife of Maarten Stranger, dies at 59
1918 - Gordon White, cricketer (WW I Superb South African batsman 1905-12), dies
1921 - Katherine Griffith, actress (Pollyanna), dies at 45
1931 - Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist (b. 1884)
1934 - Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish histologist and neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in
           Physiology or Medicine (b. 1852)
1941 - John S Plaskett, Canadian astronomer (Plaskett's twins), dies
1943 - Stefan Starzyński, Polish politician (b. 1893)
1944 - Pavel Haas, composer, dies at 45
1956 - Anne Crawford, British film actor (b. 1920)
1957 - John HA Eman, founder of Aruban Peoples Party, dies at 70
1958 - C L Townsend, cricketer (2 Tests for England 1899), dies
1958 - Paul Outerbridge, American photographer (b. 1896)
1962 - Natalia Goncharova, Russian painter (b. 1882)
1963 - Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician (Prime Numbers), dies at 97
1965 - Barton King, cricketer (America's greatest cricket all-rounder), dies
1966 - Soledad Jiminez, Spanish actor (Phantom ofthe Range), dies at 91
1966 - Wieland Wagner, German opera director, dies
1967 - Henry Pu Yi, last emperor of China, dies at 61
1970 - Pierre Laporte, Vice-Premier of Quebec (assassinated) (b. 1921)
1970 - Vola Vale, American actress (b. 1897)
1972 - Turk Broda, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1914)
1972 - Prince George of Yugoslavia (b. 1887)
1972 - Billy Williams, American singer (b. 1910)
1973 - Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian poet (Gott von Manhattan), dies at 47
1974 - René A de Rooy, Suriname/Antillean poet, dies at 57
1975 - Vittorio Gui, Italian composer (Batture d'aspetto), dies at 90
1977 - Robert C "Cal" Hubbard, US baseball player/umpire, dies at 77
1979 - John Stuart, actor (Number 17), dies at 81
1979 - Karel Reiner, composer, dies at 69
1979 - S J Perelman, US humorist (Around the World in 80 Days), dies at 75
1981 - David Guion, composer, dies at 88
1981 - Albert Cohen, Swiss author (b. 1895)
1982 - Peterus van Doorne, Dutch industrialist, dies at 47
1983 - Raymond Aron, French sociologist/political scientist, dies at 78
1984 - Alberta Hunter, US blues singer/composer, dies at 89
1987 - Abdul Malek Ukil,Bangladeshi politician (b. 1925)
1990 - Ralph Abernathy, civil rights activist, dies at 64
1991 - J[ames] G Devlin, actor (No Surrender), dies at 84
1991 - Piet van Est, The Vuurbal, bicylist (7x Tour de France), dies
1991 - Tennessee Ernie Ford, country singer, dies of liver disease at 72
1992 - Ton Hasebos, cameraman/TV director (Gnome Hasebos), dies
1992 - Herman Johannes, Indonesian professor, scientist and politician (b. 1912)
1993 - Frank J Del Giudice, US industrial designer (Boeing 747), dies at 77
1993 - Helmut Gollwitzer, German theologist/antifascist, dies at 84
1993 - Wim van Dooren, theologist/humanist/philosopher, dies
1993 - Criss Oliva, American musician (Savatage) (b. 1963)
1994 - Augustus John "Gus" Risman, rugby League Player, dies at 83
1994 - Bernard Caulfield, judge, dies at 80
1994 - Dmitri Cholodov, Russian journalist, murdered at 27
1994 - Joan Barbara Grigor, artist, dies at 50
1994 - Rik van Bentum, painter/art director of Paradiso, dies at 57
1995 - Peter Hinchcliff, historian, dies at 66
1996 - Berthold Goldschmidt, composer/conductor, dies at 93
1996 - Christopher Acland, musician, dies at 30
1997 - Paul Edwin Zimmer, sci-fi writer, dies of heart attack at 54
1998 - Joan Hickson, British actress (b. 1906)
1998 - Hakim Mohammed Said, Pakistani scholar and philanthropist
1999 - Nicholas Metropolis, Greek-American mathematician, physicist and computer scientist (b.
           1915)
2000 - Leo Nomellini, wrestler (b. 1924)
2001 - Jay Livingston, American songwriter (b. 1915)
2001 - Rehavam Zeevi, Israeli politician (b. 1926)
2002 - Derek Bell, Irish harpist (The Chieftans) (b. 1935)
2002 - Aileen Riggin, American swimmer (b. 1906)
2004 - Uzi Hitman, Israeli singer (b. 1952)
2005 - Ba Jin, Chinese writer (b. 1904)
2005 - Franky Gee, European techno artist (b. 1962)
2006 - Daniel Emilfork, French actor (b. 1924)
2006 - Christopher Glenn, American newscaster (b. 1938)
2007 - Joey Bishop, American entertainer, member of the Rat Pack (b. 1918)
2007 - Teresa Brewer, American pop and jazz singer (b. 1931)
2008 - Levi Stubbs, American baritone singer (Four Tops) (b. 1936)
2009 - Vic Mizzy, American composer (themes to Green Acres and The Addams Family) (b. 1916)
2011 - Carl Lindner, Jr., Cincinnati businessman and one of the world's richest people (b. 1919)
2012 - Stanford Robert Ovshinsky, American inventor and scientist, dies from prostate cancer at 89
2012 - Sylvia Maria Kristel, Dutch actress, dies from throat and liver cancer at 60

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 18, 2013, 09:19:43 AM

This Day in History for 18th October


Historical Events

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The Sun King Louis XIV                           Composer/Pianist Franz Liszt         Marxist Revolutionary Vladimir Lenin

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Dictator of Nazi Germany                        Baseball Legend Connie Mack           Singer-songwriter Tony Sheridan
 Adolf Hitler

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Singer Rod Stewart                                Pakistani Politican Benazir Bhutto


707 - John VII ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1009 - The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a Christian church in Jerusalem, is completely destroyed by
           the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, who hacks the Church's foundations down to
           bedrock.
1016 - Danes defeat Saxons at Battle of Assandun (Ashingdon)
1081 - Battle at Durazzo/Durres: Normans under Robert Guiscard beat Byzantine
1267 - Battle at Marienholz: Henry III, Otto II van Gelre beat Keuls archbishop Engelbert III
1356 - Basel earthquake, the most significant historic seismological event north of the Alps,
           destroyed the town of Basel, Switzerland.
1386 - Opening of the University of Heidelberg
1534 - New pursuit of French protestants
1561 - Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima -- Takeda Shingen defeats Uesugi Kenshin in the climax of
           their ongoing conflicts.
1564 - John Hawkins begins 2nd trip to America
1572 - Spanish troops attack Maastricht
1622 - French King Louis XIII & Huguenots sign treaty of Montpellier
1648 - 1st US labor organization forms (Boston Shoemakers)
1667 - English fleet plunders Suriname plantations
1672 - Poland & Turkey sign Peace of Buczacz
1685 - French King Louis XIV revokes Edict of Nantes cancelling rights of French Protestants
1685 - Louis XIV revokes Edict of Nantes, outlaws Protestantism
1748 - Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, ends War of Austrian Succession
1752 - Premiere of Rousseau's opera "Le Devin du Village"
1767 - Boundary between MD & PA, Mason Dixon line, agreed upon
1775 - African-American poet Phillis Wheatley freed from slavery.
1776 - In a NY bar decorated with bird tail, customer orders "cock tail"
1776 - Battle of Pelham: Col John Glover & Marblehead regiment meet British Forces in Bronx
1855 - Franz Liszt's "Prometheus," premieres
1860 - The Second Opium War finally ends at the Convention of Peking with the ratification of the
           Treaty of Tientsin, an unequal treaty.
1862 - Morgan's raiders capture federal garrison at Lexington, KY
1863 - Battle of Charlestown, WV
1867 - US takes formal possession of Alaska from Russia ($7.2 million)
1869 - Henrik Ibsen's "De Unges Forbund," premieres in Christiania (Oslo)
1873 - 1st football game between Toronto Argonauts & Hamilton Tigers
1873 - Columbia Princeton Rutgers & Yale set rules for collegiate football
1878 - Edison makes electricity available for household usage
1887 - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "A Case of Identity" (BG)
1889 - 1st all NYC World Series NY Giants (NL) play Bkln (AA)
1890 - John Owen is 1st man to run 100 yd dash in under 10 seconds
1891 - 1st international 6-day bicycle race in US (Madison Square Garden, NYC) begins
1892 - 1st commercial long-distance phone line opens (Chicago-NY)
1898 - American flag raised in Puerto Rico
1901 - Belgium's Louise of den Plas begins activities towards women rights
1904 - Gustav Mahler's 5th symphony premieres in Cologne
1908 - Belgium annexes Congo Free State
1909 - Comte de Lambert of France sets airplane altitude record of 300 m
1910 - Edward Forster publishes "Howards End"
1912 - Beginning of 1st Balkan War
1912 - Italo-Turkish war ends
1913 - Austrian-Hungary demands that Serbia & Albania leave
1914 - The Schoenstatt Movement is founded in Germany.
1915 - 3rd Italians offensive at Isonzo
1918 - Czechoslovakia declares Independence from Austro-Hungarian Empire
1918 - NHL's Quebec Bulldogs sold to a Toronto businessman P J Quinn
1918 - Russian 10th Army drives out White armies of Tsaritsyn (Stalingrad)
1922 - British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) forms
1924 - Harold "Red" Grange, finest collegiate football game (4 long TD runs)
1924 - Notre Dame beats Army 13-7, NY Hearld Tribune dubs them (4 Horsemen)
1925 - -20] French Gen Sarrail bombs Damascus
1925 - Salt Lake City (PCL) Tony Lazzeri hits his 60th HR of the season
1926 - Frankfurter Zeitung publishes Lenins political testament
1929 - Women are considered "Persons" under Canadian law.
1930 - Joseph Sylvester becomes 1st jockey to win 7 races in 1 day
1932 - Belgium government of Renkin falls
1934 - Chinese Red leader under Mao Tse Tung begins Long March
1939 - R Rodgers & Lorenz Harts "Too Many Girls," premieres in NYC
1940 - Kaufman & Harts "George Washington Slept Here," premieres in NYC
1941 - Spy Richard Sorge arrested in Tokyo
1942 - Hitler orders allied commandos to be killed
1943 - US bombing of Bougainville, Solomon Island
1944 - Eisenhower, Bradley & Montgomery confer in Brussel
1944 - Soviet troops invade Czechoslovakia during WW II
1945 - Nazi war crime trial opens in Nuremberg
1945 - Paul Robeson wins Spingarn Medal for singing & acting achievements
1946 - Aaron Copland's 3rd Symphony, premieres
1948 - Operation 10 Plagues - Israeli offensive against Egyptian army
1950 - Connie Mack retires as manager of A's after 50 years
1951 - USSR performs nuclear test
1952 - "Buttrio Square" closes at New Century Theater NYC after 7 perfs
1952 - Vinoo Mankad takes 13 Pakistan wkts to win 1st India-Pak clash
1953 - WLJT TV channel 11 in Lexington, TN (PBS) begins broadcasting
1953 - WTVK TV channel 26 in Knoxville, TN (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 - Willie Thrower becomes 1st black NFL quarterback in modern times
1954 - Hurricane Hazel (3rd of 1954) becomes most severe to hit US
1954 - WBTW TV channel 13 in Florence, SC (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting
1954 - WNBC radio changes call letters to WRCA (NYC)
1954 - Texas Instruments announces the first Transistor radio.
1955 - Track & Field names Jesse Owens all-time track athelete
1955 - University of California discovers anti-proton
1960 - Casey Stengel retired by NY Yankees (won 10 pennants in 12 years)
1960 - In Britain, News Chronicle & Daily Mail merge, & London Evening Star merges with Evening
           News
1961 - Emergency crisis proclaimed in South Vietnam due to commun attack
1962 - JFK meets Russian minister of Foreign affairs Andrei Gromyko
1962 - Tony Sheridan & Beat Brothers record "Let's Dance"
1962 - US launches Ranger 5 for lunar impact; misses Moon
1962 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
1962 - Dr Watson (US) & Drs Crick & Wilkins (Britain) win Nobel Prize for Medicine for work in
           determining structure of DNA
1963 - IOC votes Mexico City to host 1968 Olympics
1964 - Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Invitational
1966 - "Apple Tree" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 463 performances
1967 - Nobel prize for physics awarded to Hans A Bethe
1967 - Soviet Venera 4 becomes 1st probe to send data back from Venus
1967 - Walt Disney's "Jungle Book" is released
1967 - AL votes to allow Athletics to move from KC to Oakland & expand league to 12 teams in 1971
           with KC & Seattle teams
1968 - Bob Beamon of USA sets long jump record (29 ft. 2½ in.) in Mexico City
1968 - Circus Circus opens in Las Vegas
1968 - John Lennon & Yoko One fined £150 for marijuana possession
1968 - Lee Evans sets world record of 43.8 seconds in 400 meter dash
1968 - Police find 219 grains of cannabis resin in John & Yoko's apt
1968 - US Olympic Committee suspends Tommie Smith & John Carlos for giving "black power" salute
           as a protest during victory ceremony
1969 - Federal government bans use of cyclamates artificial sweeteners
1969 - Jefferson Airplanes Paul Kanter, arrested for marijuana possession
1969 - Rod Stewart joins Small Faces
1969 - Soyuz 8 returns to Earth
1970 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Quality Chekd Golf Classic
1970 - Sachio Kinugasa begins 2,215 cons game streak for Hiroshima Carp
1973 - "Raisin" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 847 performances
1973 - Congress authorizes bi-centennial quarter, half-dollar & dollar coin
1973 - Judd Woldon & Robert Brittens musical "Raisin," premieres in NYC
1973 - Nobel prize for economy awarded to Wassily Leontief
1974 - 1st NBA game at Market Square Arena - Pacers beat Spurs 129-121
1974 - Andre van de Louw appointed mayor of Rotterdam
1974 - Wings (Country Hams) release "Walking in the Park with Eloise"
1974 - Chicago Bull Nate Thurmond becomes 1st in NBA to complete a quadruple double-22 pts, 14
           rebounds, 13 assists & 12 blocks
1975 - Simon & Garfunkel reunite on Saturday Night Live, sing "My Little Town"
1975 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1976 - Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to William N Lipscomb Jr
1977 - 1st Islander 0-0 tie-Kings at Nassau-25th time shutout-Resch's 15th
1977 - NY Yankees win their 21st World Championship, 4 games
1977 - W German commandos liberate Boeing 737, 86 hostages at Mogadishu
1977 - Reggie Jackson hits 3 consecutive homers tying Ruth's series record
1977 - Yanks beat Dodgers 8-4 for 21st world championship, 1st in 15 years
1978 - 1st daughter Susan Ford announces engagement to Charles F Vance
1978 - NY Islanders 1st scoreless tie, vs LA Kings
1979 - "Beatlemania" opens in London
1979 - Iranian Ayatollah Khomeini orders mass executions to stop
1979 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1979 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1980 - Brooke Alexander, 18, of Hawaii, crowned Miss World USA
1980 - Detroit blocks 21 Atlanta shots setting NBA record (double OT)
1981 - Andreas Papandreous' PASOK wins Greek elections
1981 - NY Giant Joe Danelo ties NFL record of 6 field goals in a game
1981 - Poland General Jaruzelski elected party leader
1984 - Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51A mission
1984 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1988 - Israel's supreme court uphold's ban on Kahane`s Kach Party as racist
1988 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1989 - East German state/party leader Erich Honecker, resigns
1989 - Hungary revises constitution
1989 - US 62nd manned space mission STS 34 (Atlantis 5) launches into orbit
1990 - "Once on this Island" opens at Booth Theater NYC for 469 performances
1991 - "Most Happy Fella" closes at NY State Theater NYC
1991 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1992 - "Oba Oba '93" closes at Marquis Theater NYC after 22 performances
1992 - 1st non-US team to win a World Series Game; Toronto 5, Atlanta 4
1992 - 6.6 earthquake hits Colombia with no fatalities
1992 - Phila Eagle Randall Cunningham sets NFL QB scramble record of 3,683
1992 - Start of Zimbabwe's 1st Test match, v India at Harare
1993 - STS-58 (Columbia) launches into orbit
1995 - NHL Winnipeg Jets sold to Americans who plan to move them to Phoenix
1998 - Samsung World Championship of Women's Golf
2003 - Bolivian Gas War: President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, is forced to resign and leave Bolivia.
2007 - After 8 years in exile, Benazir Bhutto returns to her homeland Pakistan. The same night,
           suicide attackers blow themselves up near Bhutto's convoy, killing over 100 in the cheering 
           crowd, including 20 police officers. Bhutto escaped uninjured.
2011 - Gilad Shalit is released.
2012 - Syrian military airstrikes kill 40 people in Maaret al-Numan
2012 - Google stock trading is suspended after a premature release of a quarterly report indicating a
           20% drop in profits and a 9% fall in share price

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 18, 2013, 09:20:40 AM

This Day in History for 18th October


Famous Weddings

1952 - Latin actress Maria Felix (38) weds actor and singer Jorge Negreta (40) in Mexico
1986 - "Fleetwood Mac" member Christine McVie (43) weds keyboardist Eduardo Quintela
2011 - Actress, model and singer Bijou Phillips (32) weds actor and disc jockey Danny Masterson
          (36) at a private castle in Ireland

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 18, 2013, 09:21:39 AM

This Day in History for 18th October


Famous Divorces

2000 - Actress Demi Moore (37) divorces actor Bruce Willis (45) due to irreconcilable differences after
           13 years of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 18, 2013, 09:27:19 AM

This Day in History for 18th October


Famous Birthdays

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Ex-soldier, drifter                         Tennis Player Martina Navratilova (1956)     Actor Jean-Claude Van Damme (1960)
Lee Harvey Oswald (1939)


1127 - Emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan (d. 1192)
1239 - Stefanus V, prince of Transylvania/king of Hungary (1270-72)
1405 - Pius II, [Aenea S Piccolomini], Italian pope (1458-64) (Cynthia)
1517 - Manoel da Nóbrega, Portuguese Jesuit in Brazil (d. 1570)
1547 - Justus Lipsius, [Joost Lips], Dutch classic philologist/historian
1569 - Giambattista Marini, Italian poet (d. 1625)
1595 - Edward Winslow, Plymouth Colony founder (d. 1655)
1611 - Valentin Strobel, composer
1634 - Luca Giordano, Italian artist (d. 1705)
1638 - Lars Johnstown, [Lasse Lucidor], Swedish poet
1653 - Abraham van Riebeeck, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (d. 1713)
1662 - Matthew Henry, English non-conformist minister (d. 1714)
1663 - Frans Eugenius, duke/prince of Savoye/land guardian of Austria-Neth
1668 - Johan Georg IV, elector of Saxony (1691-94)
1668 - Wierich PL earl von Daun, Austrian prince of Thiano/fieldmarshall
1679 - Ann Putnam, Jr., American accuser in the Salem Witch Trials (d. 1716)
1697 - Giovanni Canaletto, Venetian painter (Venicei Regatta on Grand Canal)
1701 - Charles le Beau, French historian (d. 1778)
1706 - Baldassare Galuppi, Italian composer (opera's buffa)
1712 - Jeremias van Riemsdijk, gov-general of Dutch Indies (1775-77)
1741 - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French general and author (d. 1803)
1774 - Adolfs Muller, writer
1777 - Heinrich von Kleist, Germany, dramatist/poet (Penthesilea)
1785 - Thomas Love Peacock, English author (Headlong Hall)
1789 - Giovanni Tadolini, composer
1794 - Ferdinand Lukas Schubert, composer
1804 - Rama IV, [Phra Chomklao Chaoyuhua], king of Thailand (1851-68)
1806 - John Breckinridge Grayson, Brig Genl (Confederate Army), died in 1861
1811 - Hugh Thompson Reid, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1874
1818 - Edward Otho Cresap Ord, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1883
1829 - Charles Sidney Winder, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1862
1829 - Lucius Marshall Walker, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1863
1831 - Frederik III NK of Hohenzollern, German Kaiser/king of Prussia
1833 - Johannes Habert, composer
1837 - Friedrich W Mengelberg, German sculptor/painter
1844 - Emille-Louis-Victor Mathieu, composer
1850 - Francis Thome, composer
1854 - Bill Murdoch, cricketer (great pioneer of Australian Test cricket)
1854 - Solomon A Andree, Swedish engineer/balloonist/Artic explorer
1859 - Henri Bergson, France, philosopher (Creative Evolution-Nobel 1927)
1865 - Arie de Jong, Dutch linguist (d. 1957)
1865 - Logan Pearsall Smith, American essayist and critic (d. 1946)
1868 - Ernst Didring, Swedish author (d. 1931)
1870 - D T Suzuki, Kanazawa Japan, Zen Buddhist scholar
1871 - Louis de Vries, Dutch actor (Ghetto)
1872 - Josephine CMA, princess of Belgium/nun
1873 - Ivanoe Bonomi, Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1951)
1875 - James E K Aggrey, Ghana, US theologian/educationalist
1875 - Len Braund, cricketer (great England all-rounder in 23 Tests 1901-08)
1877 - Florence Dahl Walrath, humanitarian, founded Cradle society
1878 - James Truslow Adams, historian (Pul-1921, Founding of New England)
1879 - Grzegorz Fitelberg, Polish composer
1882 - Lucien Petit-Breton, Argentine-French cyclist (d. 1917)
1889 - Fannie Hurst, novelist (Anatomy of Me)
1890 - [Agathe] Henriette [M de Beaufort], Dutch author (Rembrandt)
1891 - Vaclav Kalik, composer
1892 - Leo G Carroll, Weedon England, actor (Topper, Man From Uncle)
1893 - Roy Del Ruth, DE, director (About Face, Babe Ruth Story, Star Show)
1893 - Sidney Holland, NZ, PM of NZ (1949-57)
1893 - Georges Ohsawa, Japanese founder of Macrobiotics (d. 1966)
1894 - H. L. Davis, American author (d. 1960)
1895 - Raymond Brulez, Flemish author (Appearance at Kallista)
1897 - Isabel Briggs Myers, American psychological theorist (d. 1980)
1898 - George Cuzon, Amersham England, actor (Hooded Terror)
1898 - Lotte Lenya [Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blamauer], Austrian singer and actress (The
           Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, From Russia with Love)
1898 - Raymond Glenn, Frankfort KY, actor (Raisin in the Sun, Carmen Jones)
1901 - Vladimir Grigor'yevich Zakharov, composer
1902 - Miriam Hopkins, Bainbridge GA, actress (Becky Sharp, These Three)
1902 - Pascual Jordan, German physicist (d. 1980)
1903 - Ambrose Thibodeaux, cajun accordionist
1903 - Emile Enthoven, composer
1904 - A. J. Liebling, American journalist (d. 1963)
1905 - Felix Houphouet-Boigny, pres of Ivory coast (1960-93)
1906 - James Brooks, US mural painter (Acquisition of Long Island)
1907 - Alexander Hardie Williamson, artist
1909 - Norberto Bobbio, Italian philosopher and legal theorist (d. 2004)
1910 - Albertus "Bert" Botterman, actor (Bridge Too Far)
1910 - Vojislav Vuckovic, composer
1913 - Robert Gilruth, American aviation and space pioneer (d. 2000)
1915 - Victor Sen Yung, SF California, actor (Hop Sing-Bonanza, Bachelor Family)
1916 - Peter Shepherd, English contractor/multi-millionaire
1918 - Bobby Troup, Harrisburg Pa, pianist/actor (Emergency, Acapulco)
1918 - James Cameron Tudor, politician
1918 - Konstantinos Mitsottakis, premier of Greece (1990- )
1918 - Willem J "Molly" Geertsema, Dutch liberal/interior minister)
1919 - Pierre Elliott Trudeau, (L) 15th Canadian PM (1968-79, 1980-84)
1919 - Anita O'Day (born Anita Belle Colton), Chicago, jazz singer
1919 - Ric Nordman, Canadian politician (d. 1996)
1919 - Camilla Williams, Danville, Virginia, operatic soprano, (d. 2012)
1920 - Melina Mercouri, Greek actress and political activist (d. 1994)
1921 - Jesse Helms, (Sen-D/R-North Carolina, 1973- )
1922 - Camillo Togni, composer
1922 - Little Orphan Annie, comic strip character
1922 - Richard Stankiewicz, US sculptor (1974 Akston Award, 1966 Brandeis)
1923 - Suzanne Perlman, Hungarian/Dutch Antilian painter
1924 - Allyn Ferguson, San Jose California, orchestra leader (Andy Williams Show)
1924 - Egil Hovland, composer
1924 - Frank Liedel, [Leo van Assche], Flemish writer (Kaperbrief)
1924 - Hugh Allan "Buddy" MacMaster, Canadian musician
1925 - Wim van Gennep, Dutch singer/keyboardist (Heikrekels)
1925 - Ramiz Alia, political leader of Albania
1926 - Chuck Berry, St Louis, rocker (Roll over Beethoven)
1926 - Klaus Kinski, [Nikolas Naksynski], Poland, actor (Little Drummer Girl)
1926 - Thomas Millar, historian
1927 - George C. Scott, Wise, Virginia, American actor/director (Patton, Dr. Strangelove)
1927 - Ramesh Divecha, cricketer (eleven wickets for India in early 50's)
1928 - Keith Jackson, Carrolton Ga, sportscaster (ABC Monday Night Football)
1928 - R H "Deepak" Shodhan, cricketer (century on Test debut for India)
1929 - Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, president of Nicaragua (1990- )
1930 - Frank Carlucci, National Security Adviser/Sec of Defense (1987-89)
1931 - Catharina I "Ien" Dales, Dutch Internal minister (1989-94)
1932 - Vytautas Landsbergis, Lithuanian politician
1933 - Forrest Gregg, NFL tackle (Green Bay Packers, Dallas Cowboys)
1934 - Inger Stevens, Stockholm Sweden, actress (Katy-Farmer's Daughter)
1934 - Calvin Lockhart, Bahamian actor (d. 2007)
1934 - Chuck Swindoll, American evangelist
1935 - John B Coleman, Boston, hotel magnate (Ritz Carlton)
1935 - Jorge Cervello, composer
1935 - Peter Boyle, Phila, actor (Joe, Candidate, Everybody Loves Raymond)
1937 - Cynthia Weil, American songwriter
1938 - Ronnie Bright, rocker (Coasters)
1938 - Dawn Wells, American actress
1939 - Lee Harvey Oswald, New Orleans, Louisiana, assassin (JFK), (d. 1963)
1939 - Mike Ditka, coach/tight-end (Bears, Cowboys, NFL rookie year 1961)
1939 - Flavio Cotti, member of the Swiss Federal Council
1942 - Willie Horton, baseball slugger (Detroit Tigers)
1942 - Larry Pickering, Australian newspaper cartoonist
1943 - Russ Giguere, Portsmouth NH, rock guitarist/vocalist (Association)
1943 - Birthe Rønn Hornbech, Danish politician
1944 - Katherine Kurtz, UK, sci-fi author (Deryni Rising, Saint Camber)
1945 - Christopher Shays, (Rep-R-Connecticut)
1945 - Huell Howser, American TV host
1945 - Yıldo, Turkish famous showman and football player
1946 - James Robert Baker, American novelist, screenwriter
1946 - Howard Shore, Canadian film composer
1947 - Joe Morton, NYC, actor (Hal-Grady, Abel Marsh-Another World)
1947 - John Johnson, NBA (Seattle SuperSonic)
1947 - Laura Nyro, Bronx, singer/songwriter (Eli's Coming, Stoney End)
1947 - Luc Journet, Belgian physician (Order of Zonnetempel)
1947 - Job Cohen, Dutch politician, mayor of Amsterdam
1947 - Paul Chuckle, British comedian
1948 - Isabel E Allen, biostatician
1948 - Ntozake Shange, American author
1949 - Gary Richrath, Peoria IL, rock guitarist (REO Speedwagon)
1949 - Joe Egan, British musician (Stealers Wheel)
1949 - George Hendrick, baseball player
1950 - Merry Martin, Camden Mich, actress (Leslie-Peter Loves Mary)
1950 - Patrick L Swindall, (Rep-R-GA, 1985- )
1950 - Sheila White, London England, actress (I Claudius)
1950 - Om Puri, Indian actor
1950 - Wendy Wasserstein, American playwright (d. 2006)
1951 - Pam Dawber, Detroit, actress (Mindy-Mork & Mindy, My Sister Sam)
1951 - Terry McMillan, American author
1952 - Roy Dias, cricketer (pioneering Sri Lankan Test batsman)
1952 - Bảo Ninh, Vietnamese novelist
1952 - Jerry Royster, American baseball player
1954 - Liz Burch, Australian actress
1955 - Timmy Mallett, British TV presenter
1955 - David Twohy, American movie director and screenwriter
1955 - Rita Verdonk, Dutch politician
1956 - Martina Navratilova, Revnice Czech, tennis (Wimbledon 1989,79,82-87)
1956 - Craig Bartlett, American animator
1956 - Jim Talent, Des Peres, Missouri, American politician (Rep-R-Missouri)
1957 - Jon Lindstrom, Medford Ore, actor (Kevin Collins-General Hospital)
1957 - Doug Isaacson, Alaskan politician
1958 - Hal Haenel, St Louis Mo, star yachter (Olympics-8th-1988, 92, 96)
1958 - Kjell Samuelsson, Tyngsryd Swe, NHL defenseman (Phila Flyers)
1958 - Corinne Bohrer, American actress
1958 - Thomas Hearns, American boxer
1959 - Kirby Chambliss, Aerobatic pilot and Red Bull Air Racer
1959 - Milčo Mančevski, Macedonian film director and screenwriter
1959 - John Nord, former American pro wrestler
1959 - Steve Swayne, Dartmouth Professor
1960 - Doug Lidster, Kamloops, NHL defenseman (NY Rangers)
1960 - Emily Arth, Evanston Ill, playmate (Jun, 1988)
1960 - Erin Moran, Burbank, California, American actress (Happy Days, Joanie Loves Chachi)
1960 - Jean-Claude Van Damme, Brussels Belgian, actor (Kickboxer, No Retreat)
1961 - Eric Jespersen, Port Alberni BC, star yachter (Olympics-bronze-92, 96)
1961 - Gladstone Small, cricketer (in Barbados England quickie with no neck)
1961 - Wynton Marsalis, New Orleans La, jazz trumpeter (Grammy 1983)
1962 - Jody Anschutz, Minneapolis, LPGA golfer (1987 du Maurier Ltd Classic)
1962 - Vincent Spano, Brooklyn NY, actor (Alphabet City, Maria's Lovers)
1964 - Etsuko Inoue, Japan, tennis star
1964 - George Ferris, cricketer (Leewards fast bowler)
1965 - Fayette Purser, Sydney Australia, golfer (NSW State Rep 1987-88)
1965 - Curtis Stigers, American jazz vocalist and saxophonist
1966 - Alan Mills, Lakeland Florida, pitcher (Baltimore Orioles)
1966 - Angela Visser, Neth, Miss Universe (1989)
1966 - Denise Philbrick, LPGA golfer
1966 - Jerod Swallow, Ann Arbor Mich, American ice skater (1997 Nationals)
1966 - Kristine Middeler, Felicity Oh, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-13th-1994)
1967 - Gary John Anderson, Wanganui NZ, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1968 - Denisa Szabova, Bratislava Czech, tennis star (1987 Futures-GER)
1968 - Michael Stich, Germany, tennis star
1968 - Narendra Hirwani, cricketer (Ind leggie 16 wickets v WI on debut 1988)
1968 - Stuart Law, cricketer (prolific Queensland batsman, Australia 1995)
1969 - Anthony Avent, NBA forward (Vancouver Grizzlies)
1969 - Nelson Vivas, Argentine former footballer
1970 - Bob Kennedy, Bloomington Indiana, 5k runner
1970 - Camille Spitaleri, Mountain View Ca, female infielder (Silver Bullets)
1970 - Mark Schenning, Dutch soccer player (Go Ahead Eagles)
1970 - Shane Bonham, NFL defensive linesman (Detroit Lions)
1970 - José Padilla, American former gang member and alleged supporter of terrorism
1971 - Bob Whitfield, NFL tackle (Atlanta Falcons)
1971 - Emmett Waldron, WLAF linebacker (Scottish Claymores)
1971 - Karen J McNenny, Missoula Montana, Miss Montana-America (1991)
1971 - Tammy Harris, Williamstown NY, Miss America-New York State (1997)
1972 - Angie Marzetta, Norfolk Virginia, female outfielder (Silver Bullets)
1972 - James Stream Thurmond Jr, son of US senator Strom Thurmond
1972 - Alex Tagliani, Quebec racing driver
1972 - Jake Farrow, actor
1973 - Demetrious Maxie, CFL defensive end (Toronto Argonauts)
1973 - John Baldwin Jr, Dallas TX, figure skater (1996 SW Pacific Sr champ)
1973 - Michalis Kapsis, Greek footballer
1974 - Robbie Savage, Welsh footballer
1974 - Peter Svensson, Swedish musician (The Cardigans)
1974 - Zhou Xun, Quzhou, Zhejiang, Chinese actress and singer (Suzhou River, Balzac and the Little
           Chinese Seamstress)
1975 - Rebeca Tamez, Miss Mexico Universe (1997)
1975 - Alex Cora, Puerto Rican baseball player
1977 - Chris McKenna, Queens NY, actor (Joey-One Live to Live)
1977 - Ryan Nelsen, New Zealand footballer
1977 - David Vuillemin, Pro Motocross Rider
1978 - Wesley Jonathan, American actor
1978 - Mike Tindall, English rugby union player
1979 - Ne-Yo [Shaffer Chimere Smith, Jr], Camden, Arkansas, American pop and R&B singer and
           songwriter
1981 - Richard Vuu, actor (Last Emperor)
1984 - Lindsey Vonn, American alpine skier
1987 - Zac Efron, TV actor, born in San Luis Obispo, California, USA (CSI: Miami, ER)
1987 - Freja Beha Erichsen, Danish model
1990 - Carly Schroeder, American actress
1991 - Tyler Posey, American actor
1998 - Julia Wróblewska, Polish actress
2001 - Annelise Manojlovic, English actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 18, 2013, 09:30:11 AM

This Day in History for 18th October


Famous Deaths

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Inventor Thomas Edison (1931)              US First Lady Elizabeth Truman (1982)


707 - John VII, Catholic Pope (705-07), of Greek ancestry, dies
1035 - Sancho III of Navarre
1101 - Hugh of Vermandois, son of Henry I of France (b. 1053)
1141 - Margrave Leopold IV of Austria
1340 - Henry Henricus of Friemar, Augustine philosopher, dies
1382 - James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormonde (b. 1331)
1417 - Pope Gregory XII [Angelo Correr], Pope (1406-15), dies
1459 - Jan of Heinsberg, bishop of Luik (1419-56), dies
1503 - Pius III, [Francesco Todeschini], Pope (9/22-10/18/1503), dies
1541 - Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scotland (b. 1489)
1545 - John Taverner, English composer (Western Wynde), dies at about 55
1558 - Maria, queen of Hungary/guardian of Neth (1531-55), dies at 53
1564 - Johannes Acronius Frisius, German physician and mathematician (b. 1520)
1570 - Manoel da Nóbrega, Portuguese Jesuit in Brazil (b. 1517)
1589 - Adolf van Nieuwenaar & Meurs, viceroy of Utrecht, dies in battle
1604 - Igram van Achelen, Dutch statesman (b. 1528)
1634 - Pierre De La Barre, composer, dies at 42
1646 - Isaac Jogues, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1607)
1667 - Fasilides, Emperor of Ethiopia
1669 - Abraham Willaerts, painter (Brazil), dies
1676 - Nathaniel Bacon, rallied against Virginian government, killed at 29
1678 - Cornelis Galle II, Flemish engraver/illustrator, dies at 63
1678 - Jacob Jordaens, Flemish barok painter, dies at 85
1708 - Henry Van Nassau, stable master/fieldmarshal, dies at 67
1739 - Antônio José da Silva, Brazilian-born dramatist (b. 1705)
1744 - Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, close friend of Queen Anne of Great Britain (b.
           1660)
1767 - Joseph Paul Ziegler, composer, dies at 45
1770 - John Manners, Marquess of Granby, British soldier (b. 1721)
1771 - Robert Praelisauer, composer, dies at 62
1775 - Christian August Crusius, German philosopher and theologian (b. 1715)
1788 - Jean-Guillain Cardon, composer, dies at 56
1817 - Etienne-Nicolas Méhul, French composer (b. 1763)
1830 - Peter I Petrovic Njegos, bishop (Montenegro), dies
1832 - Othon Joseph Vandenbroek, composer, dies at 73
1839 - French Jozef Kinsoen, Flemish portrait painter, dies at 68
1862 - James Creighton, amateur American baseball player, dies of ruptured bladder from hitting
           home run on Oct 14th
1864 - David Bell Birney, US lawyer/Union general-major, dies at 39
1864 - Jacques Francois Gallay, composer, dies at 68
1865 - Lord Henry JT Palmerston, English Minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 80
1876 - Francis Preston Blair, newspaper editor (Washington Globe), dies at 85
1886 - Philipp Franz von Siebold, German physician (b. 1796)
1889 - Antonio Meucci, Italian inventor (b. 1808)
1893 - Charles F Gounod, French composer (La reine the Saba), dies at 75
1893 - Lucy [Blackwell-]Stone, US abolitionist/feminist, dies
1909 - Alfredo Oriani, Italian writer (La rivolta ideal), dies
1921 - King Ludwig III of Bavaria (b. 1845)
1931 - Thomas Alva Edison, inventor, dies in West Orange, NJ, at 84
1932 - Ioannis Chrysafis, Greek gymnast (b. 1873)
1938 - Karl J Kautsky, Austrian marxist/socialist, dies
1940 - Suze Groeneweg, 1st woman in Dutch 2nd Chamber (1918-37), dies at 65
1941 - Dirk Fock, governor-general van/of Neth-Indies 1921-6, dies at 83
1941 - Manuel Teixeira Gomes, 7th President of Portugal (b. 1860)
1942 - Mikhail Nesterov, Russian painter (b. 1862)
1943 - Adrianus M de Young, writer (Merijntje Gijzen's Youth), dies at 55
1943 - Benedictus H Dancer, botanist, dies at 52
1948 - [Heinrich A H] Walther von Brauchitsch, German fieldmarshal, dies
1953 - Douwe Kalma, Fries literature/christian-socialist, dies at 57
1953 - Federico Gerdes, composer, dies at 80
1955 - Jose Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher, dies at 72
1959 - Boughera El Ouafi, Algerian athlete (b. 1898)
1961 - Tsuru Aoki, Japanese-born American actress (b. 1892)
1963 - Claudio Carneyro, composer, dies at 68
1965 - Frank Hutchens, composer, dies at 73
1965 - Henry Travers, actor (Bells of St Mary, High Sierra), dies at 91
1966 - Bill Nestell, US actor (Dangerous Venture), dies of heart attack at 73
1966 - Sebastian S. Kresge, American merchant (Kmart) (b. 1867)
1968 - Lee Tracy, actor (Doctor X, Bombshell, Best Man), dies of cancer at 70
1972 - Ken Wishart, cricketer (WI opening batsman in one Test 1935), dies
1973 - Crane Wilbur, dir/writer (Bat, Canon City, Yellow Cargo), dies at 86
1973 - Frank Knight, TV announcer (Chronoscope), dies at 79
1973 - Walt Kelly, US comic strip artist (Pogo), dies at 60
1973 - Margaret Caroline Anderson, American magazine publisher (b. 1886)
1975 - Al Lettieri, actor (Beautiful but Deadly, Don is Dead), dies at 47
1976 - Kavi Samrat Viswanatha Satyanarayana, Telugu writer (b. 1895)
1977 - Rolph Grant, cricketer (West Indian capt on 1939 England tour), dies
1977 - Andreas Baader (b. 1943)
1977 - Gudrun Ensslin (b. 1940)
1977 - Jan-Carl Raspe (b. 1944)
1978 - Frank Woolley, cricketer (58,969 1st-class runs), dies
1978 - Jacques Mornard, [Ramon Mercader], murderer of Trotsky, dies at 64
1982 - Bess Truman, 1st lady (1945-53), dies in Independence, Mo at 97
1982 - Maurice Gilliams, Flemish literary (Sources of Insomnia), dies at 82
1982 - Pierre Mendès-France, French Premier (1954-55), dies at 75
1982 - Dwain Esper, American film director (b. 1892)
1982 - John Robarts, Canadian politician, Premier of Ontario (b. 1917)
1983 - Vijay Manjrekar, cricketer (55 Tests for India), dies
1983 - Diego Abad de Santillán, Spanish anarchist (b. 1897)
1984 - Florence Rinard, TV panelist (20 Questions), dies at 82
1984 - Jon-Erik Hexum, actor (Bear), dies by a gun loaded with blanks at 26
1985 - Benjamin Moloisi, South African poet/Anc'er, hanged at 30
1987 - Theodore Brameld, author (Use of Explosive Ideas), dies at 83
1988 - Dimitri Frenkel Frank, writer/director (Hadimassa), dies at 60
1993 - Dionisio Herrero, Spanish air force general, murdered at 63
1993 - Lois Kibbee, actress (Edge of Night), dies of brain tumor at 71
1993 - Smail Yefsah, Algerian TV journalist, murdered at 31
1994 - Lee Allen, saxophonist, dies at 68
1994 - Richard A Garland, artist photographer, dies at 60
1994 - WIlliam Faure, producer, dies at 45
1995 - Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher, lawyer, dies at 67
1995 - Bryan Johnson, singer/actor, dies at 69
1995 - Iri Maruki, artist, dies at 94
1995 - John Gardener, boatbuilder/writer, dies at 90
1995 - Thomas Lyttle, paramilitary, dies at 56
1996 - Guiseppe Panini, industrialist, dies at 71
1996 - Hugh Willatt, solicitor/public servant, dies at 91
1997 - Bill Rotsler, cartoonist/writer, dies of cancer at 62
1997 - Nancy Dickerson, 1st female news correspondent (CBS), dies at 70
1997 - Roberto C Goizueta, CEO (Coca-Cola), dies of lung cancer at 65
2000 - Julie London, American singer and actress (b. 1926)
2000 - Gwen Verdon, American dancer and actress (b. 1925)
2001 - Micheline Ostermeyer, French athlete and musician (b. 1922)
2002 - Nikolai Rukavishnikov, cosmonaut (b. 1932)
2002 - Roman Tam, Hong Kong singer (b. 1950)
2003 - Preston Smith, Governor of Texas (b. 1912)
2003 - Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Spanish writer (b. 1939)
2004 - Veerappan, Indian bandit and smuggler (b. 1945)
2005 - John Hollis, British actor (b. 1931)
2005 - Bill King, American sports broadcaster (b. 1927)
2005 - Johnny Haynes, English footballer (b. 1934)
2006 - Mario Francesco Cardinal Pompedda (b. 1929)
2006 - Anna Russell, English music satirist (b. 1911)
2007 - Alan Coren, English writer and satirist (b. 1938)
2007 - William J. Crowe, American admiral and ambassador (b. 1925)
2007 - Vincent DeDomenico, American entrepreneur (b. 1915)
2007 - Lucky Dube, South African musician (b. 1964)
2008 - Dee Dee Warwick, American soul singer (b. 1945)
2009 - Nancy Spero, American feminist artist dies aged 83
2010 - Marion Brown, American jazz musician (b. 1931)
2012 - David Spencer Ware, American free jazz saxophonist, dies at 62

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 19, 2013, 09:17:54 AM

This Day in History for 19th October


Historical Events

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Founder of Protestanism                         Inventor Thomas Edison                 Russian Revolutionary Leon Trotsky
Martin Luther

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Soldier, author, journalist, politician      Nazi Politician Hermann Goering        Clergyman and Civil Rights Activist
Winston Churchill                                                                                                     Martin Luther King Jr.

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Catholic Missionary Mother Teresa


202 BC - Battle of Zama: Hannibal Barca, leader of the invading Carthaginian army, defeated by
              Roman legions under Scipio Africanus.
439 - The Vandals, led by King Gaiseric, take Carthage in North Africa.
615 - St Deusdedit I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1031 - Abbot Humbertus van Echternach opens grave of Saint Willibrord
1216 - King John of England dies at Newark-on-Trent and is succeeded by his nine-year-old son
           Henry.
1298 - Rindfleisch-140 Jews of Heilbron Germany are murdered
1453 - 2nd Battle at Castillon: French beats English, end of hundred year war
1466 - The Thirteen Years' War ends with the Second Peace of Thorn, Germany
1492 - Columbus sites "Isabela" (Fortune Island, Bahamas)
1512 - Martin Luther becomes a doctor of theology (Doctor in Biblia).
1576 - Dutch provinces begin consultation about Spanish existence
1630 - In Boston the 1st general court is held
1634 - Beach Island in North Sea destroyed by a heavy storm flood
1682 - English Lord Shaftesbury flees to Holland
1722 - Frenchman C Hopffer patents fire extinguisher
1739 - England declares war on Spain [OS=Oct 30]
1765 - Stamp Act Congress met in NY, wrote decl of rights & liberties
1781 - British General Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown at 2 pm; Revolutionary War ends
1812 - Napoleon begins his retreat from Moscow
1818 - US Government & Chicasaw Indians sign a treaty
1822 - In Parnaíba; Simplício Dias da Silva, João Cândido de Deus e Silva and Domingos Dias declare
           the independent state of Piauí.
1845 - Richard Wagner's opera "Tannhäuser," premieres in Dresden
1853 - 1st flour mill in Hawaii begins operations
1856 - James Kelly & Jack Smith fight bareknuckle for 6h15m in Melbourne
1859 - Wilhelm Tempel discovers diffuse nebula around Pleid star Merope
1863 - Battle of Buckland Mills, VA
1864 - Approx 25 Confederates make surprise attack on St Albans, Vermont
1864 - Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, Union beats back Conf attackers
1864 - US Brigadier General Emory Upton (25) promoted to Major General
1870 - 1st (4) blacks elected to House of Reps
1870 - British steamship SS Cambria wrecked off the north-west of Ireland with the loss of 178 lives
1872 - World's largest gold nugget (215 kg) found in New South Wales
1879 - Afghan's emir Mohammed Yakub forced to resign
1879 - Thomas Edison demonstrates electric light
1882 - Pierre de Brazza meets Henry Morton Stanley
1888 - Moshav Gederah is attacked by Arabs
1900 - Henry O Tanner, painter, wins Medal of Honor at Paris Exposition
1900 - South African President Paul Kruger departs for Europe
1901 - Edward Elgar's "Pomp & Circumstance March," premieres in Liverpool
1901 - Santos-Dumont proves airship maneuverable by circling Eiffel Tower
1904 - Polytechnic University of the Philippines founded as Manila Business School through the
           superintendence of the American C.A. O'Reilley.
1907 - 1st printing of Dutch Tribune (Wijnkoop/Van Ravesteyn/Ceton)
1911 - Royal Mint in London sends dies for $1 coin to Ottawa Branch
1912 - Tripoli (Libya) passes from Turkish to Italian control
1914 - US post office 1st used an automobile to collect & deliver mail
1915 - Russia/Italy declares war on Bulgaria
1917 - Love Field in Dallas, Texas is opened.
1919 - 1st Distinguished Service Medal awarded to a woman
1919 - Reds beat White Sox, 5 games to 3 in 16th World Series. This series is known as black sox
           scandal as 8 White Sox throw series
1921 - Portuguese Prime Minister António Granjo and other politicians are murdered in a Lisbon
           coup.
1923 - Ban Johnson persuades AL owners to prohibit boxing in their parks
1923 - Beierse government refuses to prohibit NSDAP newspaper Völkischer Beobachter
1924 - General Christian Worker's union demands 8 hr work day in Belgium
1925 - Italian army takes Somalia
1926 - John C Garand patents semi-automatic rifle
1926 - Russian Politburo throws out Leo Trotsky & followers
1930 - Jules Ladoumègue runs world record 1 km (2:23.6)
1932 - Austria forbids demonstration by nazi's & anti fascists
1932 - British government signs trade agreement with Soviet Union
1932 - Henry Ford gives his 1st radio speech
1932 - Jimmie Foxx wins AL MVP & Chuck Klein wins NL MVP
1933 - Berlin Olympic Committee vote to introduce basketball in 1936
1935 - Mao Tse Tung's army reaches Shanxi
1936 - HR Ekins of "NY World-Telegram" beats 2 other reporters in a race around the world on
           commercial flights, by 18½ days
1939 - Hermann Goering begins plunder through Nazi's occupied areas
1941 - 1st woman jockey in North America, Anna Lee Wiley in Mexico
1943 - Conference of foreign ministers in Moscow
1943 - Theater Guild presentation of "Othello" opens at Shubert
1943 - Yankee 2nd baseman Joe Gordon announces retirement (hates NY)
1943 - Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at
           Rutgers University.
1944 - British Prime Minister Winston Churchill flies back to London from Moscow
1944 - Canadian troops liberate Aardensburg
1944 - John Van Druten's "I Remember Mama," premieres in NYC
1944 - US Navy says black women can join WAVES
1944 - US forces land in Philippines
1947 - De Gaulles RPF wins French municipal elections
1948 - "My Romance" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 95 performances
1949 - A's trade 2nd baseman Nellie Fox to White Sox for Joe Tipton
1949 - Yanks trade Joe Gordon to Cleveland for Allie Reynolds
1950 - Bird Building at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo is dedicated
1950 - UN forces entered Pyongyang, capital of North Korea
1951 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Texas Women's Golf Open
1951 - Pres Harry Truman formally ends state of war with Germany
1952 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Betty Jameson Golf Tournament
1953 - 1st jet transcontinental nonstop scheduled service
1953 - Singer Julius LaRosa is fired on TV by Arthur Godfrey
1954 - Egypt & Great Britain sign treaty; British troops departs
1954 - KAKE TV channel 10 in Wichita, KS (ABC) begins broadcasting
1954 - First ascent of Cho Oyu, sixth highest mountain in the world at 8,201 metres
1957 - "Damn Yankees" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 1,022 performances
1957 - Maurice "Rocket" Richard, Mont, became 1st NHLer to score 500 goals
1958 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1959 - Florence Henderson joins Today Show panel
1959 - William Gibson's "Miracle Worker," premieres in NYC
1960 - France grants Mauritania independence
1960 - KWCS (now KOOG) TV channel 30 in Ogden, UT (IND) begins broadcasting
1960 - Martin Luther King Jr arrested in Atlanta sit-in
1960 - US imposes embargo on exports to Cuba
1962 - Stalin monument removed in Prague
1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 - Beatles record "I Want to Hold Your Hand"
1966 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1966 - Yardbird 1st US tour (NYC)
1967 - Igor Ter-Ovanesyan of USSR, sets then long jump record at 27' 4 3/4"
1967 - Mariner 5 makes fly-by of Venus
1968 - Golden Gate Bridge charges tolls only for southbound cars
1969 - J Bock & S Harnicks musical "Rothschilds," premieres in NYC
1969 - Mary Mills wins LPGA Quality Chekd Golf Classic
1969 - Oakland Darryle Lamonica passes for 6 touchdowns vs Buffalo (50-21)
1970 - "Rothschilds" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 505 performances
1970 - Amdahl Corp forms at Sunnyvale Calif
1970 - John Frazier kills Ohta's declares WW 3 has begun
1971 - Last issue of "Look" magazine is published
1972 - "Mother Earth" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 12 performances
1973 - Ringo releases "Photograph"
1974 - Det Red Wing Mickey Redmond scores 1st hat trick against Wash Caps
1974 - Detroit Pistons beat Trailblazers in Portland (next win 6-1-90)
1974 - Niue becomes self-govering, in association with New Zealand
1975 - "Chorus Line" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 6137 performances
1975 - Cleveland Browns' Don Cockroft kicks club record 5 field goals
1975 - Hamlisch & Klebans musical "Chorus Line" premieres in NYC
1975 - Shelley Hamlin wins LPGA Japan Golf Classic
1976 - Battle of Aishiya in Lebanon. The same day, the Chimpanzee (Pan Troglodytes) is placed on
           the List of Endangered Species.
1977 - Corpse of kidnapped West German, H M Schleyer, found
1977 - Supersonic Concorde jet's 1st landing in NYC
1980 - Steve McPeak rides 101'9" unicycle
1981 - LA Dodgers beat Montreal Expos for NL pennant
1981 - Nicolaas Bloembergen & Arthur Schawlow win Nobel for physics (laser)
1982 - Automaker John DeLorean arrested on cocaine charges (Not guilty)
1983 - Columbia moves to Orbiter Processing Facility
1983 - Grenada general Hudson Austin forms "revolutionary council"
1983 - Phila Flyers begin 13 NHL game win streak
1983 - Senate establishes Martin Luther King Jr federal holiday
1986 - "Flamenco Puro" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 40 perfs
1986 - "Raggedy Ann" closes at Nederlander Theater NYC after 5 performances
1986 - Allan Border scores the 1,000,000th run in Tests (v India, Bombay)
1986 - USSR expels five US diplomats
1987 - "Anything Goes" opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 804 performances
1987 - "Black Monday" Dow Jones down 508.32 points, 4½ times previous record
1987 - Dow Jones Index drops 508.32 points (22%) (record)
1987 - US warships destroy 2 Iranian oil platforms in Persian Gulf
1987 - Woody Woodward resigns as NY Yankee GM, Lou Piniella is named GM & Billy Martin is named
           NY Yankee manager for 5th & final time
1988 - 3 Americans win Nobel in physics; 3 W Germans win chemistry Nobel
1988 - Britain bans broadcast interviews with IRA members
1988 - Car bomb kills 7 Israelis, wounds 11 near Lebanon border
1988 - Roxette releases "Roxette Look Sharp!" album
1988 - South African anti-apartheid leader Sisulu wins $100,000 Human Rights prize
1988 - Senate passes bill curbing ads during children`s TV shows
1989 - "Dangerous Games" opens at Nederlander Theater NYC for 4 performances
1989 - Astor Piazzolla & Wm Finn's musical "Dangerous Games" premieres in NYC
1989 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1990 - HCA, Helsinki Citizens Assembly, forms in Prague
1991 - Longest NCAA football game (3:52) as RI beats Maine 52-30 (6 OTs)
1991 - Lonnie Glieberman purchased Ottawa Rough Riders from CFL
1993 - UN authorizes arms, military & police supply embargo against Haiti
1994 - 160 killed in fighting in Tsjetsjenie (Chechnya)
1994 - Palestinian bomb attack on bus in Tel Aviv, kills 22
1995 - "Hello Dolly!" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 118 performances
1996 - Braves beat NY Yanks by record tying 11 runs, 12-1 in a World Series
1997 - "Annie," closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC
1997 - 700th World Series home run (Sandy Alomar, Cleve Indians)
1997 - David Duval wins Walt Disney World/Oldsmobile Golf Classic
1997 - Hyatt Regency Maui Kaanapali Senior Golf Classic
1998 - The Earth Liberation Front sets fire to the Vail Mountain ski resort in Vail, Colorado, causing
           $12 million in damage.
2001 - SIEV-X, an Indonesian fishing boat en-route to Christmas Island, carrying over 400 asylum
           seekers, sank in international waters with the loss of 353 people.
2003 - Mother Teresa of Calcutta is beatified by Pope John Paul II.
2004 - Myanmar prime minister Khin Nyunt is ousted and placed under house arrest by the SPDC on
           charges of corruption.
2004 - Care International aid worker Margaret Hassan is kidnapped in Iraq.
2005 - Saddam Hussein goes on trial in Baghdad for crimes against humanity.
2005 - Hurricane Wilma becomes the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record with a minimum
           pressure of 882 mb.
2007 - Philippines. Amidst corruption controversies hounding the Arroyo administration, a bomb
          explosion rocked Glorietta 2, a shopping mall in Makati, which killed 11 and injured more than
          100 people.
2012 - 8 people are killed and 78 injured by a car bomb in Beirut, Lebanon

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 19, 2013, 09:19:22 AM

This Day in History for 19th October


Famous Weddings

1996 - "Rescue Me" actor-comedian Lenny Clarke (43) weds former TV producer Jennifer Miller (31)
           at Martha's Vineyard in Cambridge, Massachusetts
2012 - Grammy Award winning singer Justin Timberlake (31) weds "Total Recall" actress Jessica Biel
           (30) at the Borgo Egnazia resort in Fasano, Italy
2012 - Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg Prince Guillaume (30) weds Countess of Belgium
           Stephanie de Lannoy (28) on a civil ceremony at the Hotel De Ville in Luxembourg

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 19, 2013, 09:26:01 AM

This Day in History for 19th October


Famous Birthdays

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Writer/Nobel Laureate                       Psychedelic Artist Peter Max (1937)                       Champion Boxer
Miguel Asturias (1899)                                                                                               Evander Holyfield (1962)


1276 - Prince Hisaaki, Japanese shogun (d. 1328)
1433 - Marsilio Ficino, Italian philosopher (d. 1499)
1507 - Viglius ab Aytta Zuichemus, [Aytta van Zwichem], Dutch priest
1545 - Giovanale Ancina, composer
1582 - Dmitry Ivanovich [Dmitry of Uglich], Russian Tsarevich and son of Ivan IV "the Terrible" (d.
           1591)
1605 - Thomas Browne, British writer (Garden of Cyrus)
1610 - James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, English statesman and soldier (d. 1688)
1652 - Louis Le Quointe, composer
1658 - Adolf Friedrich II of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1704)
1680 - John Abernethy, Irish Protestant minister (d. 1740)
1684 - Johann Christoph Fravenholtz, composer
1688 - William Cheselden, English surgeon and anatomist (d. 1752)
1690 - Giuseppi Maria Carretti, composer
1718 - Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie, Marshal of France (d. 1804)
1720 - John Woolman, American Quaker preacher and abolitionist (d. 1772)
1721 - Joseph de Guignes, French orientalist (d. 1800)
1784 - John McLoughlin, Hudson's Bay Co pioneer in Oregon Country
1784 - Leigh Hunt, British writer (Lord Byron)
1792 - Dirk Donker Curtius, Dutch attorney/minister of Justice (liberal)
1810 - Cassius Marcellus Clay, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1903
1819 - Joseph C Juglar, French physician/economist (Crises Commercial)
1824 - Frantisek Pivoda, composer
1824 - Rufus Saxton, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1908
1828 - Adolfo Fumagalli, composer
1834 - Francis Channing Barlow, US lawyer/gen-major/co-founder (ABA)
1850 - Annie S Peck, mountain climber/explorer/diplomat
1851 - Empress Myeongseong, Empress of Korea (d. 1895)
1858 - George Albert Boulenger, Belgian naturalist (d. 1937)
1860 - Affie Jarvis, cricketer (Australian WK of the late 19th century)
1862 - Auguste Lumière, made 1st movie (Workers Leaving Lumière Factory)
1863 - John Huston Finley, Ill, editor (NY Times (1937-38)
1865 - Godfrey Cripps, cricketer (one Test South Africa v England 1892, 18 & 3)
1866 - Clarence Lucas, composer
1868 - Bertha Landes, 1st woman elected mayor of a major US city (Seattle)
1871 - Walter B Cannon, US physiologist (Wisdom of the Body)
1873 - Barton King, cricketer (North America's greatest all-rounder)
1873 - Jaap Eden, Dutch World Champion cycling & speed skating
1876 - Mordecai (3 finger) Brown, hall of fame pitcher
1882 - Vincas Kreve-Mickievicius, Lithuania, poet/philologist/playwright
1885 - Charles Merrill, American investment banker (d. 1956)
1889 - Uncle Art Satherly, entertainer (1968 Acad of Country Music Award)
1892 - Alexander A Alekhine, Russian/French chess champ (1927-35, 37-46)
1892 - Ilmari Hannikainen, composer
1895 - Louis Mumford, cultural historian/city planner/writer
1895 - Frank Durbin, last American veteran of the Battle of Verdun (d.1999)
1896 - Bob O'Farrell, American baseball player (d. 1988)
1897 - Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, Pakistani scientist and scholar (d. 1994)
1899 - Miguel Asturias, Guatemala, poet/diplomat (Hombres de Maiz, Nobel 67), (d. 1974)
1900 - Bill Ponsford, cricketer (great Australian batsman, HS 437 Vic v NSW)
1900 - Theodoro Valcarcel, composer
1900 - Roy Worters, Canadian ice hockey goaltender (d. 1957)
1900 - Erna Berger, German soprano (d. 1990)
1901 - Arleigh A Burke, Colo, admiral (WW II, Solomon Islands, Navy Cross)
1903 - Vittorio Giannini, composer
1903 - Tor Johnson, Swedish wrestler and actor (d. 1971)
1907 - Roger Wolfe Kahn, American bandleader (d. 1962)
1908 - Nils Geirr Tveitt, composer
1908 - Patrick Cairns "Spike" Hughes, British jazz musician/composer (Elegy)
1909 - Robert Beatty, Ontario, actor (Amorous Mr Pawn, Where Eagles Dare)
1909 - Marguerite Perey, French physicist (d. 1975)
1910 - Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, India, astrophysicist (Nobel 1983)
1911 - George Cates, NYC, orchestra leader (Lawrence Welk Show)
1911 - Hilde Spiel, writer
1913 - Jean Urruty, France, Jai-Alai champion
1913 - Vasco Pratolini, Italian writer (Le ragazze di San Frediano)
1913 - Vinicius de Moraes, Brazilian poet and songwriter (d. 1980)
1914 - Harold Gimblett, cricketer (legendary Somerset & England batsman)
1915 - Farid al-Atrash, Syrian composer, musician, and actor (d. 1974)
1916 - David Lewis, Pitts Pa, actor (Edward Quartermaine-General Hospital)
1916 - Emil Gilels, Odessa Russia, pianist (Brussels Competition-1938)
1916 - Karl-Birger Blomdahl, Sweden, opera composer (Herr von Hancken)
1916 - Toby Rowland, theatrical manager
1918 - Louis Althusser, French philosopher (For Marx, Strangled His Wife)
1918 - Robert Charles Evans, mountaineer/doctor
1920 - LaWanda Page, Cleve Ohio, actress (Aunt Esther-Sanford & Sons)
1920 - Pandurang Shastri Athavale, Indian philosopher (d. 2003)
1921 - George Nader, Pasadena California, actor (Robot Monster, Away All Boats)
1921 - Gunnar Nordahl, Sweden, soccer player (Olympic-gold-1948)
1922 - Jack Anderson, Long Beach, California, journalist (Wash Post)
1925 - Bernard Hepton, Bradford England, actor (6 Wives of Henry VIII)
1925 - Victor Zorza, journalist/Russian specialist
1926 - Joel Feinberg, American moral philosopher (d. 2004)
1926 - Arne Bendiksen, Norwegian singer and songwriter
1927 - Pierre Alechinsky, Belgian painter/director (Cobra)
1928 - Buff Cobb, Florence Italy, actress (Masquerade Party)
1929 - Balbir Singh, India, field hockey player (Olympic-gold-1948-56)
1929 - Dumitru Capoianu, composer
1930 - Tom ap Rees, botanist
1931 - Laszlo Kalmar, composer
1931 - John le Carré, English novelist
1932 - Lloyd Haynes, South Bend Indiana, actor (Pete Dixon-Room 222)
1932 - Robert Reed, Highland Park Ill, actor (Mike-Brady Bunch, Nurse)
1933 - Brian Booth, cricketer (dual Australian cricket/hockey international)
1933 - Wilfried Dietrich, German FR, super-heavyweight (Olympic-gold-1960)
1934 - David Guard, rocker (Kingston Trio)
1934 - Des Hoare, cricketer (Australian quickie in Test in 1961 v W Indies)
1934 - Jakubu Gowon, army staff chief/president of Nigeria (1966-75)
1935 - Jim Reeves, rocker
1936 - Johnetta Betsch Cole, educator/president (Spellman College)/(Sen-D-KY)
1936 - Tony Lo Bianco, Brooklyn NY, actor (Ann Jillian Story, Hizzoner!)
1936 - James Bevel, American activist
1937 - Nicholas Palmer, television writer/producer
1937 - Peter Max, Berlin, American psychadelic artist (Dynamite Chicken)
1937 - Sean Garrison, NYC, actor (Up Periscope, Splendor in the Grass)
1937 - Marilyn Bell, Canadian swimmer
1938 - Ton Regtien, Dutch student leader
1940 - Jerzy Kulej, Poland, light welterweight boxer (Olympic-gold-1964, 68), (d. 2012)
1940 - Michael Gambon, English actor (Singing Detective, Paris at Night)
1941 - Simon Ward, London England, actor (4 Musketeers, 4 Feathers), (d. 2012)
1942 - Andrew Vachss, American author and attorney
1943 - Michael Findlay, cricket wicket-keeper (WI early 70's)
1943 - Robert Morris, composer
1943 - Robin Greville Holloway, composer
1943 - Takis Ikonomopoulos, Greek footballer
1944 - George McCrae, US singer (Lead Me On, Rock Your Baby)
1944 - Keith Adrian, [Johnson], Indies/Dutch actor (Intrepid Mr Twist)
1944 - Peter Tosh [Winston Hubert McIntosh], Jamaica, reggae musician (Mystic Man, Mama Africa)
1945 - Ahmed Abel-Wadoud Karadawi, academic/activist
1945 - Divine, [Harris Glenn Milstead], Balt MD, actress (Pink Flamingo)
1945 - Harris Glenn Divine, Baltimore MD
1945 - John Lithgow, Rochester NY, actor (Harry & Hendersons, Pelican Brief)
1945 - Keith Reid, rocker (Procol Harum) [or 10/10/46]
1945 - Patricia Ireland, feminist/president (National Organization of Women)
1945 - Divine, American actor (d. 1988)
1946 - Bob Holland, cricketer (Australian leg-spinner at age 38)
1946 - Philip Pullman, English writer
1947 - Wilbert Hart, US singer (Four Gents, Delfonics-Didn't I)
1947 - Giorgio Cavazzano, Italian comic strip artist
1948 - Chester Biscardi, composer
1948 - Patrick Simmons, guitarist/vocal (Doobie Brothers-Minute by Minute)
1949 - Lynn Dickey, American football player
1949 - Jamie McGrigor, British politician
1951 - Annie Golden, Brooklyn NY, actress (Forever Lulu, Hair)
1951 - Demetrios Christodoulou, Greek mathematical physicist, recipient of the Bôcher Memorial Prize
1952 - Alexander Leibkind, Germany, judo (Oly-76)/WLAF GM (Rhein Fire)
1952 - Veronica Judith Sainz Castro, Mexico, spanish singer/actress (Nana)
1954 - Joe Bryant, American basketball player
1954 - Sam Allardyce, English football manager
1954 - Deborah Blum, American writer
1955 - Lonnie Shelton, NBA forward (NY Knick, Seattle Supersonics)
1955 - Pat Klous, Hutchinson Ks, actress (Marcy-Flying High, Judy-Love Boat)
1955 - Melpo Kosti, Greek actress
1956 - Nino DeFranco, rocker (DeFranco Family)
1956 - Sue Barker, tennis pro (French Open 1976)
1956 - Bruce Weber, American Basketball Coach
1956 - Sunny Deol, Indian actor
1956 - Didier Theys, Belgian racing driver
1957 - Karl Wallingher, Prestatyn Wales, rocker (World Party)
1957 - Ray Richmond, American columnist and critic
1957 - Doug Kirby, American author and travel guide
1958 - Antoine Trousers, rock drummer/singer (Dike-Bleeding Heart)
1958 - John Bloom, [Joe Bob Briggs], drive-in movie critic
1958 - Tiriel Mora, Australian actor
1958 - Lou Briel, Puerto Rican singer and actor
1960 - Dan Woodgate, London, England, rock drummer (Madness, Voice of Beehive)
1960 - Dawn Coe-Jones, Campbell River BC, LPGA golfer (1992 Kemper Open)
1960 - Jennifer Holliday, Houston Texas, singer/actress (Dream Girls)
1960 - Jonathan FeBland, English musician and artist
1961 - Tim Belcher, Sparta Ohio, baseball pitcher (Detroit Tigers, KC Royals)
1962 - Evander Holyfield, Atmore Ala, boxer (Oly-bronze-1988)/champ (1990-92)
1962 - Ruud Bread, soccer player (NAC)
1962 - Tracy Chevalier, American author
1963 - Brian H Henniger, Sacramento CA, PGA golfer (1994 Deposit Guaranty)
1963 - Jim Dombrowski, NFL guard (NO Saints)
1963 - Laurens BBM, Belgian prince/son of Albert II & Paola
1963 - Prince Laurent of Belgium, Château de Belvédère, Laeken, son of King Albert II and Queen
           Paola
1964 - Webster Slaughter, NFL wide receiver (KC Chiefs)
1964 - Jorge Luis Gonzales, Cuban-born American boxer
1964 - Ty Pennington [Gary Tygert Burton], Atlanta, Georgia, American television host (Extreme
           Makeover: Home Edition)
1965 - Brad Daugherty, NBA center (Cleveland Cavaliers)
1965 - Lucio Topatigh, hockey forward (Team Italy 1998)
1965 - Maria Lee Ostapiej, La Mess California, Miss Calif-America (1991)
1966 - Amy Linker, Brooklyn New York, American actress (Lewis & Clark, Lauren-Square Pegs)
1966 - Anna Clark, San Francisco Ca, playmate (Apr, 1987)
1966 - Dave Veres, Montgomery AL, pitcher (Montreal Expos)
1966 - Jon Favreau, actor/writer (Swingers)
1966 - Roger R. Cross, Jamaican-born actor
1967 - Amy Carter, Pres Carter's daughter/peace activist
1967 - Yoko Shimomura, Japanese composer
1968 - Sinitta, Seattle, Washington, British-American singer (So Macho, Toy Boy)
1969 - Zdeno Ciger, Martin Slo, NHL left wing (Edmonton Oilers)
1969 - Erwin Sánchez, Bolivian footballer
1969 - DJ Sammy, Spanish DJ
1969 - John Edward, American TV Psychic
1970 - Benita Brooks, Miss Alabama USA (1996)
1970 - Chamara Dunusinghe, cricket wicketkeeper (Sri Lanka 1995)
1970 - Chris Kattan, American comedian and actor
1972 - Glen Anthony Mitchell, Hamilton NZ, road race cyclist (Olympics-96)
1972 - Marc Newfield, Sacramento CA, outfielder (San Diego Padres)
1972 - Megan Still, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1972 - Otto Steffers, Louisville KY, field hockey defender (Olympics-96)
1972 - Reggie Rusk, cornerback (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1972 - Pras, American musician
1973 - Robert Tate, wide receiver (Minnesota Vikings)
1973 - Shi Ting Wang, Tainan Taiwan, tennis star (1994 Taipei)
1974 - Percy Ellsworth, safety (NY Giants)
1974 - Joy Bryant, The Bronx, New York, American actress (Parenthood, Antwone Fisher)
1976 - Amber Hamilton, Auburn Washington, Miss America-Washington (1996)
1976 - Omar Gooding, American actor
1976 - Desmond Harrington, American actor
1976 - Michael Young, baseball player
1977 - Louis-José Houde, Canadian stand-up comic
1977 - Jason Reitman, Canadian filmmaker
1977 - Raúl Tamudo, Spanish footballer
1978 - Chris Sellers, Cleve Ohio, rapper (Another Bad Creation)
1978 - Enrique Bernoldi, Brazilian race car driver
1978 - Zakhar Dubenskiy, Russian footballer
1978 - Henri Sorvali, Finnish musician
1978 - James Roberts, British Ice Hockey Player
1979 - Randy Spelling, Los Angeles California, (Sean Richards-Sunset Beach)
1979 - Brian Robertson, American trombonist
1979 - José Luis "Parejita" López, Mexican footballer
1980 - Benjamin Salisbury, Minneapolis, actor (Brighton Sheffield-Nanny)
1981 - Heikki Kovalainen, Finnish race car driver
1982 - Gonzalo Pineda, Mexican footballer

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 19, 2013, 09:28:52 AM

This Day in History for 19th October


Famous Deaths

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Satirist Jonathan Swift (1745)               Scientist Ernest Rutherford (1937)


727 - Saint Frideswide
1187 - Pope Urban III
1216 - King John of England (1199-1216), agreed to the Magna Carta, dies at 49
1268 - Konradin von Hohenstaufen, duke of Zwaben, beheaded
1432 - John de Mowbray, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, English politician (b. 1392)
1547 - Pierino del Vaga, Italian painter, dies at about 46
1553 - Bonifazio Veronese/Veneziano, [de' Pitati], Italian painter, dies
1587 - Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1541)
1608 - Martin Delrio, Flemish theologian and occultist (b. 1551)
1609 - Jacobus Arminius, [Jacob Hermans], theologist, dies at about 49
1636 - Marcin Kazanowski, Polish politician
1682 - Thomas Browne, English writer (b. 1605)
1745 - Jonathan Swift, English writer (Gulliver's Travels), dies at 77
1758 - Johan H Roman, Finnish/Swedish composer/conductor/violinist, dies
1786 - Pietro Alessandro Pavona, composer, dies at 58
1790 - Lyman Hall, US physician/signer (Decl of Ind), dies at 66
1793 - Francisco Morera, composer, dies at 62
1810 - Jean-Georges Noverre, French choreographer (ballet d'action), dies
1813 - Josef Poniatovski, Polish gen/marshal of France, dies in battle
1834 - Cornelis Loots, accountant/poet (Volkswoede), dies at 69
1835 - Henry Doeff, translator (Dutch-Japanese dictionary), dies at 57
1838 - Henry Fagel, baron/court clerk of States-General/diplomat, dies at 73
1842 - Aleksey Koltsov, Russian poet (b. 1808)
1851 - Marie Thérèse Charlotte (b. 1778)
1856 - William Sprague III, American politician from Rhode Island (b. 1799)
1864 - Daniel Davidson Bidwell, magistrate/brig-general, dies in battle at 45
1888 - Amaat Vyncke, Flemish missionary/founder (Flemish Wind), dies at 38
1889 - King Louis of Portugal (b. 1838)
1897 - George Pullman, American inventor and industrialist (b. 1831)
1901 - Carl Frederik Tietgen, Danish financier and industrialist (b. 1829)
1909 - Cesare Lombroso, Italian psychiatrist/criminologist, dies
1912 - J E B B P Q C Dwyer, cricketer (Aus-born Sussex bowler 1906-09), dies
1918 - Joseph Lesage, French painter/etcher (WW I), dies at 34
1918 - Harold Lockwood, American actor (b. 1887)
1921 - Antonio Granjo, premier (Portugal), murdered
1932 - Arthur Friedheim, composer, dies at 72
1934 - Johan J Arch, graphic artist (houtgravures), dies at 63
1936 - Lu Xun, Chinese writer (b. 1881)
1937 - Betty Carver, wife of English fieldmarshal Bernard Montgomery, dies
1937 - Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand physicist (Nobel 1908), dies at 66
1943 - Adrianus M de Young, writer (Merijntje Gijzen's youth), murdered
1950 - Edna St Vincent Millay, poet/dramatist/feminist (Harp Weaver-Pulitzer Prize)
1955 - John Hodiak, actress (Lifeboat, Battleground), dies at 41
1956 - Isham Jones, American musician (b. 1894)
1957 - Vere G Childe, British archaeologist/prehistorian, dies at 65
1959 - Boughera El Quafi, marathoner (Olympic-gold-1928), shot to death at 60
1959 - Stanley Bate, composer, dies at 45
1960 - Gunther AR Raphael, German composer (Busskantate), dies at 57
1961 - Benjamin Merkelbach, architect/city builder of Amsterdam, dies at 60
1961 - John Axel Fernstrom, composer, dies at 63
1964 - Maurice Gosfield, actor (Doberman-Phil Silvers Show), dies at 51
1964 - Nettie Palmer, Australian poet and essayist (b. 1885)
1966 - Elizabeth Arden, US cosmetic manufacturer, dies
1970 - Unica Zorn, writer, dies at 54
1971 - Alberto Pirelli, Italian industrial, dies at 89
1971 - Betty Bronson, actress (Naked Kiss), dies after brief illness at 64
1978 - Gig Young, American actor, kills his bride of 3 weeks and commits suicide at 64
1981 - Frank DeKova, actor (F Troop), dies
1981 - Paul Snoek, [Edm Schietekat], Belgian poet, dies at 48
1982 - Jock Ewing, dies in an aircrash on TV show "Dallas"
1983 - Albert Carel Willink, painter (surrealism), dies at 83
1983 - Maurice Bishop, premier of Grenada (1979-83), murdered in coup
1984 - Henri Michaux, writer, dies
1984 - Jerzy Popieluszko, Polish priest/dissident, kidnapped & murdered
1984 - Jon-Erik Hexum, accidentally shoots himself on set of "Cover Up" at 27
1985 - Alfred Rouleau, French Canadian businessman (b. 1915)
1986 - Moses Asch, record founder (Folkways), dies at 81
1986 - Dele Giwa, Nigerian journalist
1987 - Jacqueline du Pre, British cellist, dies at 42
1987 - Hermann Lang, German race car driver (b. 1909)
1988 - Friedrich Weinreb, Polish/Neth theologist/economist, dies at 77
1988 - Son House, American musician (b. 1902)
1992 - Cleavon Little, actor (Blazing Saddles), dies at 53
1992 - Gert Nastian, general & companion of Petra Kelly, found dead at 69
1992 - Maurice le Roux, French conductor/composer (Contes immoraux), dies
1992 - Petra Kelly, founder (German Green Party), found dead at 44
1993 - Bert Schoofs, table tennis star, dies at 48
1993 - Dionisio Herrero, Spanish air force general, murdered
1993 - Lois Kibbee, actress (Edge of Night), dies of brain tumor at 71
1993 - Roy Armstrong, English historian (Traditional buildings), dies at 91
1994 - Martha Raye, actress (Pin Up Girl), dies after illness at 78
1994 - Munavarsjo Nazrijev, vice-president of Tadzjikistan, dies
1994 - Oldrich Cernik, Czechoslovakia premier (1968-70), dies at 72
1994 - Stanislaw Brunstein, artist, dies at 79
1995 - Don E Cherry, jazz Musician, dies at 58
1995 - Vicki Stangroome, campaigner, dies at 53
1996 - Frank Neville Hosband Robinson, physicist, dies at 71
1996 - Oliver Charles Anderson, novelist, dies at 84
1997 - Glen Buxton, guitarist (Alice Cooper), dies of pneumonia at 49
1999 - Nathalie Sarraute, Russian-born French writer, dies at 99
1999 - James C. Murray, American politician (b. 1917)
2000 - Hortense Ellis, Jamaican reggae singer (b. 1941)
2003 - Alija Izetbegović, President of Bosnia-Herzegovina (b. 1925)
2003 - Margaret Murie, American conservationist (b. 1902)
2003 - Michael Hegstrand, American professional wrestler (b. 1960)
2004 - Elliott Smith, American Singer Songwriter(b. 1969)
2005 - Dallas Cook, American musician (Suburban Legends) (b. 1982)
2005 - Corinne Lévesque, wife of Quebec premier René Lévesque (b. 1943)
2006 - James Glennon, American cinematographer (b. 1942)
2007 - Dr. Randall Forsberg, American nuclear freeze advocate (b. 1943)
2007 - Michael Maidens, English footballer with Hartlepool United (b. 1987)
2007 - Jan Wolkers, Dutch writer (b. 1925)
2007 - LaLa Brown, American singer (b. 1986)
2008 - Mr. Blackwell, American fashion critic (b. 1922)
2008 - Rudy Ray Moore, American comedian and actor (Dolemite) (b. 1937)
2009 - Howard Unruh, American spree killer (b. 1921)
2009 - Joseph Wiseman, Canadian actor (b. 1918)
2010 - Tom Bosley, American actor (b. 1927)
2012 - Fiorenzo Magni, Italian professional road racing cyclist, dies from an aneurysm at 91

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 20, 2013, 10:51:22 AM

This Day in History for 20th October


Historical Events

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King George I                                           Composer Franz Schubert                       Author and Nobel Laureate
                                                                                                                                 Gerhart Hauptmann

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Baseball Great Babe Ruth                        Baseball Player Hank Greenberg         WW2 General Douglas MacArthur

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Broadcast Journalist Walter Cronkite          Anti-apartheid activist/                      Queen of the United Kingdom
                                                                  South African President                                    Elizabeth II
                                                                      Nelson Mandela

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Singer-Songwriter Bob Dylan


1097 - 1st Crusaders arrive in Antioch
1528 - Treaty of Gorinchem (Emperor & church)
1536 - Danish/Norw king Christian III leads reform in Catholic possessions
1576 - Spanish troops occupies & plunder Maastricht
1587 - Battle at Coultras: Henri van Navarra beats Catholic League
1600 - Battle of Sekigahara sets Tokugawa clan as Japan's rulers (shoguns)
1603 - Chinese uprising in Philippines fails after 23,000 killed
1634 - English King Charles I disbands new "Ship Money" tax
1714 - Georg Ludwig von Hannover crowned as English King George I
1740 - Maria Theresa became ruler of Austria, Hungary & Bohemia
1751 - Royal ship Duc de Bourgogne launched at Rochefort
1774 - Continental Congress orders discouragment of entertainment
1781 - Patent of Toleration, providing limited freedom of worship, was approved in Habsburg
           Monarchy.
1786 - Harvard University organizes 1st astronomical expedition in US
1803 - US Senate ratifies Louisiana Purchase
1813 - German Kingdom of Westphalia abolished
1817 - 1st Mississippi "Showboat," leaves Nashville on maiden voyage
1818 - 49th parallel forms as border between US & Canada
1818 - US & Britain agree to joint control of Oregon country
1820 - Spain sells part of Florida to US for $5 million
1822 - 1st edition of London Sunday Times
1827 - Battle at Navarino: Engl/Russ/French fleet beat Turk/Egyptian fleet
1833 - Charles Darwin reaches river mouth of Parana
1835 - HMS Beagle leaves Galapagos Archipelago/sails to Tahiti
1843 - 1st Chinese immigrant arrives in Suriname
1847 - Little William Nelman poisons his grandpa
1856 - Arnhem-Oberhausen railway in Netherlands opens
1862 - Amnesty proclaimed for escaped slaves of Suriname
1864 - US President Lincoln formally establishes Thanksgiving as a national holiday
1873 - P T Barnum Hippodrome featuring "Greatest Show on Earth," opens (NYC)
1877 - Franz Schubert's 2nd Symphony in B, premieres
1880 - Amsterdam Free University opens
1883 - Max Bruch's "Kol Nidre," 1st performed
1883 - Treaty of Ancon, Peru cedes Tarapaca to Chile
1888 - Chicago & All America baseball teams play exhibition in Auckland, NZ
1889 - Gerhart Hauptmann's "Vor Sonnenaufgang," premieres in Berlin
1891 - 1st International 6 day bike race (NY Madison Square Garden) begins
1898 - NC Mutual & Provident Insurance Company forms
1899 - Battle at Talana Hill, Natal: British army vs Boers
1899 - Columbia (US) beats Shamrock (England) in 11th America's Cup
1903 - US wins disputed boundary between District of Alaska & Canada
1905 - Great General Strike in Russia begins; lasts 11 days
1905 - Russian Tsar allows Polish people to speak Polish
1906 - Dr Lee DeForest demonstrated his electrical vacuum tube (radio tube)
1908 - King Leopold II sells Congo to Belgium
1910 - 1st appearance of cork centered baseball in World Series
1910 - Soccer team KFC forms in Alkmaar
1910 - The hull of the RMS Olympic, sister-ship to the ill-fated RMS Titanic, is launched from the
           Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Ireland.
1911 - Helen Hayes Theater (Folies Bergere) opens at 210 W 46th St NYC
1911 - Roald Amundsen sets out on race to South Pole
1912 - Cort Theater opens at 148 W 48th St NYC
1912 - Hannes Kolehmainen runs world record marathon (2:29:39.2)
1918 - Germans, aimed at an armistice, Germans agree to further concessions
1920 - "1st Year" with Frank Craven premieres in NYC
1922 - Kennelworth in Bronx renamed Dwight Place
1924 - 1st Negro League World Series: KC Monarchs shuts out Hilldales, 5-0
1926 - Hurricane in Cuba, kills 600
1929 - Bayshore Highway opens (SF)
1930 - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, premiers on NBC radio
1930 - British White Paper restricts Jews from buying Arab land
1931 - Frankie Frisch of the Cards named MVP
1932 - Journalist, Robert Trout, joins CBS
1934 - All-Star team led by Babe Ruth & Connie Mack sails to Hawaii & Japan
1934 - Richard Strauss completes his opera "Die Schweigsame Frau"
1935 - 400,000 demonstrators against fascism in Madrid
1935 - Anti-fascist People front forms in Brussels
1935 - Hank Greenberg is named AL MVP by the BBWAA, Wes Ferrell is runner-up
1935 - Mao Tse Tung & his Communist forces ended their "Long March" at Yan'an, in Shaanxi China
1936 - Carl Hubbell, 26-6, edges out Dizzy Dean, 24-13, for MVP honors in NL
1936 - Spanish government moves to Barcelona
1939 - "All the Things You Are" recorded by Tommy Dorsey Orch
1939 - Pope Pius XII publishes his 1st encyclical Summi pontificatus
1940 - Cheese rationed in Netherlands
1940 - Greenhouse rationing begins in Netherlands
1941 - Nazi occupiers murder 500 inhabitants of Kragujevac Serbia
1942 - "Durham Manifesto" calls for fundamental changes in race relations
1944 - Liquid-gas tanks in Cleveland, Ohio explode, 135 die, 3,600 homeless
1944 - Revolution by workers & students in Guatemala
1944 - Russian/Yugoslavian troops free Belgrade
1944 - US 1st army wins battle of Aachen
1944 - US 6th army lands on Leyte, Philippines
1944 - US forces under Gen Douglas MacArthur return to Philippines
1945 - Supreme Court Justice Geoffrey Lawrence opens trial of Neurenberg
1946 - Frank Seno returns kickoff 105 yd, Chicago Cards vs NY Giants
1947 - HUAC opens hearings into alleged Communist influence in Hollywood
1947 - Radio rights for the World Series sell for $475,000 for 3 years
1947 - Robinson Jeffer's "Medea," premieres in NYC
1949 - Eugenie Anderson becomes 1st woman US ambassador (to Denmark)
1951 - The "Johnny Bright Incident" occurred in Stillwater, Oklahoma
1952 - Emergency crisis proclaimed in Kenya
1953 - WRAU (now WHOI) TV channel 19 in Peoria, IL (ABC) begins broadcasting
1954 - "Peter Pan" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 149 performances
1955 - "No Time for Sergeants" opens on Broadway, starring Andy Griffith
1955 - Harry Belafonte records "Day-O" (Banana Boat Song)
1955 - Yanks begin 16-game exhibition in Japan
1955 - Publication of The Return of the King, being the last part of The Lord of the Rings.
1956 - 58°F (15°C), Esperanza Station, Antarctica (Antarctic record high)
1956 - Hannes Lindemann begins journey across Atlantic in a 17' craft
1957 - Karachi A (277-0d) beat Sind A by an innings w/o losing a wkt
1957 - Walter Cronkite begins hosting weekly documentary
1959 - Clark Griffith of Senators says team will not move the franchise
1959 - WABG TV channel 6 in Greenwood-Greenville, MS (ABC) 1st broadcast
1960 - 1st fully mechanized post office opened, Providence, RI
1960 - Ralph Houk, 41, replaces Casey Stengel as Yankee manager
1962 - Musical "Mr President" opens at St James Theater New York for 265 performances
1962 - Chinese army lands in India
1962 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
1963 - Alec Douglas-Home forms British government
1963 - France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria
1963 - Jim Brown sets NFL single-season rushing record, 1,863 yds
1963 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Hillside Golf Open
1963 - South Africa begins trial of Nelson Mandela & 8 others on conspiracy
1963 - WITV TV channel 7 in Charleston, SC (PBS) begins broadcasting
1964 - "Golden Boy" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 569 performances
1964 - Mad Dog Vachon beats Verne Gagne in Minneapolis, to become NWA champ
1964 - Riot at Rolling Stones show in Paris (150 arrested)
1965 - 19th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 5-2 at Montreal
1965 - Beatles receive a gold record for "Yesterday"
1965 - Mass arrests of communists in Indonesia
1967 - All white federal jury convicts 7 in murder of 3 civil rights workers in Meridan Mississippi
1967 - Charlie Finley names Bob Kennedy 1st manager of Oakland A's
1967 - KMXN (now KJTV) TV channel 34 in Lubbock, TX (IND) begins broadcasting
1967 - A purported bigfoot is filmed by Patterson and Gimlin.
1968 - "Her 1st Roman" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 17 perfs
1968 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Quality Chekd Golf Classic
1968 - Mamo Wolde wins 16th Olympic marathon (2:20:26.4)
1969 - WKYH (now WYMT) TV channel 57 in Hazard, KY (NBC) begins broadcasting
1970 - American Norman Borlaug awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
1970 - Zond 8 Launch (Moon Orbit & Return)
1971 - "Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death" opens at Barrymore for 325 per
1971 - West German Chancellor Willy Brandt is awarded Nobel Peace Prize
1971 - The Nepal stock exchange collapses.
1972 - Queen Juliana visits Yugoslavia
1973 - Mariette Hartley appears on Bob Newhart in "Have You Met Miss Dietz"
1973 - OPEC oil embargo begins
1973 - President Nixon proclaims Jim Thorpe greatest athlete of 1st ½ century
1973 - Queen Elizabeth II opens Sydney Opera House
1973 - US president Nixon fires Watergate accuser Archibald Cox
1973 - Solicitor Gen Bork, AG Richardson & Deputy AG Ruckelshaus resigned
1973 - The Family Station Inc buys shortwave Radio Station WNYW, changes calls to WYFR & moves
           station from NYC to Scituate Mass
1974 - 1st broadcast of "Derrick" on ZDF
1974 - Bard's presentation of "Richard III" opens at Lincoln Center NYC
1975 - Supreme Court rules teachers could spank their pupils after warning
1976 - 70 die as Norwegian tanker Frosta collides with George Prince
1976 - NY Nets Julius "Dr J" Erving sold to Phila 76ers
1977 - David Mamet's "Life in the Theater," premieres in NYC
1977 - Hamilton Deane & John Balderstons "Dracula," premieres in NYC
1977 - Six killed in Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash in McComb, Mississippi including band members
           Ronnie Vanzant, Steve Gains, Cassie Gaines and Dean kilpatrick
1978 - Paul Vanden Boeynants forms Belgium government
1978 - Police's 1st US concert (NY's CBGBs)
1978 - US dollar devalued below Dutch Ÿ2
1979 - Bob Dylan appears on Saturday Night Live
1979 - John F Kennedy Library dedicated in Boston
1979 - John Tate beats Gerrie Coetze in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1981 - 1st NBA game at Meadowlands Arena, NJ Nets lose to NY Knicks 103-99
1981 - 3 members of Weather underground arrested for armored truck robbery
1981 - Bomb attack on Antwerp Belgium synagogue, 1 dead, 80 injured
1982 - Billy Martin fired as manager of Oakland A's
1982 - Nobel prize for economy awarded to George Stigler
1982 - Sri Lanka President Jayewardene re-elected
1982 - St Louis Cards beat Milwaukee Brewers, 4 games to 3 in 79th World Series
1982 - During the UEFA Cup match between FC Spartak Moscow and HFC Haarlem, 66 people are
           crushed to death in the Luzhniki disaster.
1983 - IBM-PC DOS Version 2.1 released
1984 - Cleveland Metroparks' Valley Parkway All Purpose Trails are completed
1984 - Islander's Mike Bossy's 30th career hat trick-4 goals
1984 - The Monterey Bay Aquarium opens in Monterey Bay, California.
1986 - Tupolev-134 crashes in Southern Africa
1987 - 10 die as US Air Force jet crashed into a Ramada Inn near Indianapolis
1987 - Dow-Jones increases 102.27 pts/608,120,000 shares traded (record)
1987 - Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz sentenced to 6 months in jail
1988 - "Les Miserables," opens at Forrest Theatre, Phila
1988 - Britain ends suspects' right to remain silent in crackdown on IRA
1988 - Gastineau sacks Jets, retires from football "for personal reasons"
1988 - LA Dodgers beat Oakland A's in baseball's 85th World Series 4 games to 1
1988 - Man armed with explosives blows himself up in 125 St subway station (NYC)
1988 - Reggie Rogers, Det Lion's # 1 pick, kills 3 by driving intoxicated
1989 - Pakistan win Sharjah Trophy over India & WI on round-robin
1989 - US Senate impeaches US District Judge Alcee L Hastings
1990 - 3 members of 2 Live Crew acquitted on obsenity charges in Florida
1990 - Antiwar protest marches begin in 20 US cities (US-Iraq)
1990 - Cincinnati Reds sweep Oakland A's in 86th World Series
1991 - "Andre Heller's Wonderhouse" opens at Broadhurst NYC for 9 perfs
1991 - 6.1-7.1 earthquake in Uttar Kashi, India, about 670 die
1991 - Formal opening ceremony of Intl One Mind Zen center in Crestone, Colo
1992 - 1st World Series game outside of US - Toronto beats Atlanta
1992 - David Houghton scores Zimbabwe's 1st Test hundred (121 v India, debut)
1992 - Mr Johnson surrenders Monrovia, Liberia & is exiled to Nigeria
1993 - Highest scoring World Series game Blue Jays 15, Phillies 14 in 4h14m
1995 - STS 73 (Columbia 18), launches into orbit
1995 - Sri Lanka beat West Indies to win Sharjah Champions Trophy final
1996 - "Summer & Smoke" closes at Criterion Theater NYC
1996 - Annika Sorenstam wins LPGA Samsung World Championship of Women's Golf
1996 - Braves Andruw Jones is youngest player to homer in World Series
1996 - Wasim Akram & Saqlain Mushtaq gets cricket Test record 313 for 8th wkt
1996 - Wasim Akram scores cricket 257 v Zimbabwe at Sheikhupura, 12 sixes
1997 - Richard Gnida, Limo driver in Detroit Red Wings crash, pleads guilty
1997 - US accuses Microsoft of violating pact forcing IE browser on computers
2004 - Boston Red Sox come back from 0-3 to defeat the New York Yankees 4-3 to win baseball's
           American League
2011 - The former leader of Libya, Muammar Gaddafi, and his son Moatassem Gaddafi are killed
           shortly after the battle of Sirte (2011) while in the custody of NTC fighters.

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 20, 2013, 11:42:57 AM

This Day in History for 20th October


Famous Weddings

1943 - British Children's writer Enid Blyton marries 2nd husband surgeon Kenneth Fraser Darrell
           Waters at City of Westminster registry office, London
1968 - Jacqueline Kennedy marries Aristotle Onassis on the island of Scorpios
1973 - Canadian actor William Shatner (Star Trek) marries Marcy Lafferty
1991 - Actress Lisa Hartman weds country singer Clint Black
2001 - Actor Johnathon Schaech (32) weds actress Christina Applegate (29) at the three-acre Cree
           Estate in Palm Springs, California
2005 - Prince Floris of Orange-Nassau, van Vollenhoven (30) weds Aimee Sohngen (28) on a civil
           ceremony at the Stadhuis in Naarden
2006 - "Liberty X" member Michelle Heaton (27) weds Pop Idol's Andy Scott-Lee (26) in
           Hertfordshire, England
2012 - "Clueless" actress Elisa Donovan (41) weds Charlie Bigelow (36) on a outdoor ceremony on
           the Vineyard Lawn at The Carmel Valley Ranch in Carmel, California

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 20, 2013, 11:51:25 AM

This Day in History for 20th October


Famous Birthdays

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Architect Christopher Wren (1632)           Poet Arthur Rimbaud (1854)              Physicist James Chadwick (1891)

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Kenyan Prime Minister and President        Rapper Snoop Dogg (1971)
Jomo Kenyatta (1891)


1435 - Andrea Della Robbia, Florence, sculptor, nephew of Luca
1475 - Giovanni Rucellai, Italian poet (Le Api)
1496 - Claude de Lutherans, duke of Guise
1616 - Thomas Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and theologian (d. 1680)
1620 - Aelbert Cuyp, Dutch painter (d. 1691)
1632 - Christopher Wren, East Knoyle, Wiltshire, England, astronomer/great architect (St. Paul's
           Cathedral), (d. 1723)
1637 - Nicolaas van der Veken, Flemish sculptor (confessional chairs)
1656 - Nicolas de Largillière, French painter (d. 1746)
1660 - Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (d. 1723)
1677 - Stanislaus I Leszczyński, King of Poland (d. 1766)
1679 - Samuel von Cocceji, German lawyer
1700 - Charlotte Aglaé of Orléans, Duchess of Modena (d. 1761)
1711 - Timothy Ruggles, American-born Tory politician (d. 1795)
1719 - Gottfried Achenwall, German lawyer/statistician/economist
1740 - Belle van Zuylen, Neth/Swiss writer (Three Women)
1751 - Hendrik van Stralen, Dutch MP/secretary of Interior
1759 - Chauncey Goodrich, U.S. Senator from Connecticut (d. 1815)
1780 - M Pauline Bonaparte, Corsican duchess of Parma/Guastalla
1784 - Lord Henry JT Palmerston, English minister of Foreign affairs
1785 - George Ormerod, English historian and antiquarian (d. 1873)
1788 - Philip Knapton, composer
1792 - Anton Bernhard Furstenau, composer
1792 - Colin Campbell/Lord Clyde, British officer (Sepoy-uprising)
1808 - Karl [Theodor] Andree, German geographer/journalist (Globus)
1812 - Austin Flint, 19th century heart research pioneer
1819 - Daniel Edgar Sickles, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1914
1819 - Karol Mikuli, composer
1819 - The Báb, Persian founder of the Bábí Faith (d. 1850)
1820 - Benjamin Franklin Cheatham, Major General (Confederate Army)
1820 - George Jerrison Stannard, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1822 - Mansfield Lovell, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1884
1823 - Thomas Hughes, England, author (Tom Brown's School Days)
1832 - Constantin Lipsius, German architect (d. 1894)
1843 - Victor de Stuers, Dutch art connoisseur
1854 - Alphonse Allais, French author/humorist (Pass the Bile)
1854 - Arthur Rimbaud, Charleville, France, poet/adventurer (Illuminations)
1858 - John Burns, English politician (d. 1943)
1859 - G B Studd, cricketer (brother of C T, 4 Tests for England)
1859 - John Dewey, philosopher, educational theorist/writer (Learn by doing)
1864 - James F. Hinkle, American politician, sixth Governor of New Mexico (d. 1951)
1871 - Frederick Burton, IN, actor (One Way Passage)
1874 - Charles Edward Ives, Danbury Ct, composer (Holiday Quick Step)
1874 - Viscount Palmerston, (Whig) British PM (1855-65)
1877 - Josephine McGill, composer
1882 - Bela Lugosi, Lugos, Austria-Hungary, actor (Dracula, Plan 9 From Outer Space), (d. 1956)
1884 - Thomas Chalmers, NYC, actor (Blind Alleys, Outrage)
1887 - Addison Richards, Zanesville OH, actor (Pentagon, Fighting Seabees)
1887 - John Warburton, Huddersfield England, actor (Saratoga Trunk)
1889 - Margaret Dumont, actress-Marx Brothers' foil (Day at the Races)
1890 - Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton, New Orleans, jazz pianist/composer
1891 - James Chadwick, English physicist (discovered neutron)
1891 - Jomo Kenyatta, Gatundu Kenya, Kenyan leader and 1st Premier (1963-78)
1893 - Charley Chase, American comedian, actor and director (d. 1940)
1894 - Olive Thomas, American actress (d. 1920)
1895 - Rex Ingram, US actor (Tarzan of the Apes, 10 Commandments)
1896 - Nat Holman, basketball coach (CCNY)
1897 - Jevsei G Liberman, Ukrainian economist (Plan, profit, bonuses)
1897 - Crown Prince Eun of Korea (d. 1970)
1899 - Evelyn Brent, Tampa FL, actress (Panama Lady, Last Coomand)
1899 - Marnix Gijsen, [baron Jan-Albert Goris], Flemish writer (Grote God Pan)
1900 - Rodolfo Halffter, composer
1900 - Wayne Morse, (Sen-R/D-Ore)
1901 - Hans-Otto Borgmann, composer
1903 - John Lodge, Washington DC, actor (Witchmaker)
1904 - Anna Neagle, London England, actress (London Melody, Nurse Edith Cavell)
1904 - Tommy Clement Douglas, Canadian politician (d. 1986)
1907 - Arlene Francis, American television personality (d. 2001)
1909 - Monique Hare, French pianist
1909 - Sugiyama Yasushi, Japanese painter (d. 1993)
1911 - Will Rogers Jr, NY, actor (Down to Earth)
1913 - Angelo Ephrikian, composer
1913 - Bao Dai, emperor of Annam/Indochina/head of South Vietnam (1949-55)
1913 - Barney Phillips, St Louis Mo, actor (Dragnet, Felony Squad)
1913 - Grandpa [Louis M] Jones, Niagra KY, country musician (Hee-Haw)
1914 - Fayard Nicholas, US, actor (Big Broadcast of 1936)
1915 - Giora Schuster, composer
1917 - Efrain Jonckheer, premier Dutch Antilles
1917 - Jean-Pierre Melville, Paris France, director (A Cop)
1917 - Ken Cranston, cricketer (England all-rounder captained once in 1948)
1918 - Anton Diffring, Koblenz Germany, actor (Assignment Vienna)
1918 - Robert Lochner, German journalist (d. 2003)
1919 - Tracy Hall, American inventor (d. 2008)
1921 - Hans Warren, Dutch writer/poet/critic (Secret Diary)
1921 - Pierre Laporte, Canada, journalist/statesman (Revolution Script)
1922 - John Anderson, Clayton Ill, actor (Virgil-Legend of Wyatt Earp)
1923 - Herschel Bernardi, actor (Arnie, Voice of Charlie the Tuna, Front)
1923 - Joe Minogue, journalist
1923 - Robert Craft, Kingston, NY, conductor, Stravinsky-follower
1924 - Kenneth WIlliam Gatland, aerospace scientist
1924 - Stanley Eric Francis Booth-Clibborn, bishop (Manchester)
1925 - Art Buchwald, Mt Vernon NY, columnist/author (Have I Ever Lied to You)
1925 - Herman Roelstraete, composer
1925 - Tom Dowd, American recording engineer (d. 2002)
1925 - Roger Hanin, French actor
1926 - Ursula Happe, Germany, 200m backstroke swimmer (Olympic-gold-1956)
1927 - Oskar Pastior, writer
1927 - Joyce Brothers, NYC, pop psychologist ($64,000 Question, Naked Gun), (d. 2013)
1931 - Ken Morrison, English supermarket maginate/multi-millionaire
1931 - Mickey Mantle, NY Yankee, home run slugger (1956 Triple Crown)
1932 - Roosevelt Brown, Virginia, NFL hall of fame tackle (NY Giants)
1932 - William Christopher, Evanstown Ill, actor (Father Mulcahy-M*A*S*H)
1932 - Rosey Brown, American football player (d. 2004)
1934 - Eddie Harris, saxophonist/composer
1934 - Martin Landau, actor (Mission Impossible, Space 1999, Ed Wood)
1934 - Michael Dunn, Shattuck OK, actor (House of the Damned, Ship of Fools)
1934 - Michiko, empress of Japan
1934 - Timothy West, Yorkshire England, actor (Masada)
1935 - Jerry Ohrbach, Bronx NY, actor (Law & Order, Dirty Dancing)
1936 - Larry Mowry, San Diego CA, PGA golfer (1987 Crestar Pepsi Senior)
1937 - Juan Marichal, Hall of Fame baseball pitcher (SF Giants)
1937 - Wanda Jackson, Maud Oklahoma, country singer (Let's Have a Party)
1938 - Iain Macmillan, Abbey Road photographer (d. 2006)
1939 - Jay Siegel, Bkln, rock bassist (Tokens-Lion Sleeps Tonight)
1939 - Raymond Jones, rocker
1940 - Kathy Kirby, British singer
1940 - Robert Pinsky, American poet and Poet Laureate of the United States
1941 - Bob Panasik, Windsor Ont, Canadian Tour golfer (1986 Canadian TPC)
1942 - Earl Hindman, Bisbee AZ, actor (Wilson-Home Improvement)
1943 - Dunja Vejzovic, Croatian soprano
1944 - William Hugh Albright, composer
1945 - Ric Lee, rock drummer (Ten Years After-Cannock, Staffs)
1945 - Thomas Pasatieri, composer
1946 - Connie Chung, Washington DC, news ancher (NBC, CBS)
1946 - Elfriede Jelinek, writer
1946 - Lucien Van Impe, Belgian cyclist
1948 - Andrei Suraikin, USSR, pairs figure skater (Olympic-silver-1972)
1948 - Robert A Borski, (Rep-D-PA, 1983- )
1949 - Valery Borzov, USSR, 100m/200m dash (Olympic-gold-1972)
1949 - Wayne Collett, US, 400m runner (Olympic-silver-1972)
1950 - Isaac Curtis, NFL wide receiver (Cincinnati Bengals)
1950 - Tom Petty, Gainesville Florida, American classic rock singer (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers)
1951 - Al Greenwood, keyboardist (Foreigner-Feels Like the First Time)
1951 - Patrick Hall, British politician
1951 - Leif Pagrotsky, Swedish politician
1952 - Dave Collins, baseball player
1952 - Dave McLelland, NHLer
1952 - Melanie Mayron, Phila, actress (30 Something, Car Wash, Missing)
1952 - Mikhail Georgiyevich Potapov, Russian cosmonaut
1953 - Keith Hernandez, SF California, 1st baseman (St Louis Cards, NY Mets)
1953 - Bill Nunn, American actor
1954 - Suru Nayak, cricketer (two Tests for India v England 1982)
1954 - Steve Orich, orchestrator
1954 - Günter Müller, German sound artist, improvisor and percussionist
1955 - Robert ten Brink, Dutch TV host/cabaret artist
1955 - Thomas Newman, American composer
1955 - David Profumo, English novelist
1955 - Aaron Pryor, American boxer
1956 - Danny Boyle, English film director
1957 - Chris Cowdrey, cricketer (son of Colin, captain of England 1988)
1957 - Susanna Haavisto, Finnish actress and singer
1958 - Dave Krieg, NFL quarterback (Arizona Cardinals, Tennessee Oilers)
1958 - Eric Scott, Hollywood California, actor (Ben-Waltons)
1958 - Ivo Pogorelich, Belgrade Yugoslavia, pianist (1978 Casagrande winner)
1958 - Mark King, bass/vocalist (Level 42-Standing in the Light, Love Games)
1958 - Ricky Byrd, rocker (Joan Jett & Blackhearts)
1958 - Valerie Faris, American film director
1958 - Lynn Flewelling, American fantasy author
1958 - Ivo Pogorelic, Croatian pianist
1959 - Janice McCaffrey, Etobicoke Ontario, 10k walker (Olympics-25-92, 96)
1959 - Razor Ramon, [Scott Hall], wrestler (WWF/WCW/NWA/Florida/AWA/KC)
1960 - Konstantin Aseev, Russian chess player (d. 2004)
1960 - Lepa Brena, famous Yugoslav singer
1961 - Ian Rush, Welsh footballer
1961 - Michie Tomizawa, Japanese voice actress
1962 - Ray Childress, NFL defensive tackle/defensive end (Houston Oilers)
1962 - Steven R "Randy" Jackson, US percussionist/singer (Enjoy Yourself)
1963 - Julie Payette, Montreal Quebec, astronaut
1963 - Navjot Singh Sidhu, cricketer (Indian opening batsman)
1963 - Nikos Tsiantakis, Greek footballer
1965 - Amos Mansdorf, lsrael, tennis star
1965 - Chad Hennings, NFL defensive tackle (Dallas Cowboys)
1965 - M Shtalenkov, Moscow Russia, NHL goalie (Anaheim Mighty Ducks)
1965 - Mikhail Shtalenkov, Moscow Russia, NHL goalie (Team Russia, Anaheim)
1965 - Norman Blake, Scottish musician
1965 - William Zabka, American actor
1966 - Allan Donald, cricketer (great South African fast bowler)
1966 - Erin Deiters, Green Bay Wis, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-9th-1994)
1966 - Fred Coury, Johnston NY, rocker (Cinderella-Heartbreak Station)
1966 - Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Al-Qaeda leader (d. 2006)
1966 - Stefan Raab, German entertainer
1966 - Patrick J. Volkerding, Founder and maintainer of the Slackware Linux distribution
1967 - Harvey Pulliam, SF CA, outfielder (Colorado Rockies)
1967 - Susan Tulley, British actress (Michelle-EastEnders)
1967 - Luigi Lo Cascio, Italian actor
1967 - Luck Mervil, Québécois actor and singer
1967 - Marco Ngai, Hong Kong actor
1968 - Raymond Biggs, CFL linebacker (Calgary Stampeders)
1969 - Chantel Tremitiere, WNBA guard (Sacramento Monarchs)
1969 - Guillermo Perez-Roldan, Argentina, tennis star
1969 - Herman Moore, NFL wide receiver (Detroit Lions)
1969 - Juan Gonzalez, Vega Baja Puerto Rico, outfielder (Texas Rangers)
1969 - Laurie Daley, Australian rugby league footballer
1970 - Greg Primus, NFL wide receiver (Chic Bears)
1970 - Ralph Dawkins, WLAF running back (Amsterdam Admirals)
1970 - Sander Boschke, soccer player (FC Twente)
1970 - Shane George, cricketer (S Australian fast bowler, Shield debut at 17)
1970 - Chavo Guerrero, Jr., American professional wrestler
1970 - Michelle Malkin, American political commentator and author
1971 - Dannii Minogue, Melbourne Australia, singer, sister of Kylie Minogue
1971 - Eddie Jones, NBA guard/forward (LA Lakers)
1971 - Kimberly Po, Los Angeles California, tennis star (1991 Futures-Evansville IN)
1971 - Snoop Dogg [Calvin Broadus], Long Beach, California, rapper (What&#039;s My Name, Gin
           &amp; Juice)
1972 - Dexter Coakley, linebacker (Dallas Cowboys)
1972 - Oleg Fediukov, Moscow Russia, dance skater (& Debbie Koegel)
1973 - Scott Goodman, Hobart Tasmania Aus, 200m butterfly swimmer (Oly-br-96)
1974 - Ayelet Ohayon, Israel, Women's foil fencer (Oly-1996)
1974 - Jerald Honeycutt, NBA forward (Milwaukee Bucks)
1976 - Reidel Anthony, wide receiver (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1976 - Tom Wisniewski, American guitarist (MxPx)
1977 - Matt Jansen, English footballer
1977 - Leila Josefowicz, Canadian classical violinist
1978 - Virender Sehwag, Indian cricketer
1978 - Paul Wilson, Irish bass player (Snow Patrol)
1978 - Michael Johns, American Idol (season 7) finalist
1979 - Paul Ifill, Barbadian footballer
1979 - John Krasinski, American actor
1979 - Paul O'Connell, Irish rugby player
1980 - Gary Jarman, English musician
1980 - Jose Veras, Dominican baseball player
1981 - Dimitrios Papadopoulos, Greek footballer
1981 - Francisco Javier Rodríguez, Mexican footballer
1981 - Willis McGahee, American football player
1982 - Yasser Al-Qahtani, Saudi footballer
1982 - Becky Brewerton, Welsh golfer
1983 - Alex Nackman, musician
1983 - Luis Saritama, Ecuadorian footballer
1983 - Takayuki Yamada, Japanese actor
1984 - Florent Sinama-Pongolle, French footballer
1984 - Andrew Trimble, Northern Irish rugby player for Irish rugby team
1985 - Jennifer Nicole Freeman, American actress
1985 - Dominic McGuire, American basketball player
1985 - James Sutton, British racing driver
1986 - Priyanka Sharma, Indian actress
1988 - Risa Niigaki, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
1994 - Morgan Featherstone, Australian model

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 20, 2013, 12:00:02 PM

This Day in History for 20th October


Famous Deaths

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Inventor Charles Babbage (1871)           Geographer, Explorer & Translator                31st US President
                                                               Richard Francis Burton (1890)                 Herbert Hoover (1964)

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Theoretical Physicist                              Actress Jane Wyatt (2006)
and Nobel Laureat
Paul Dirac (1984)


460 - Eudocia Aelia Athenais, empress Oostromeinse Rich/poetess, dies
1139 - Henry X the Trotse, duke of Bayern (1126-38), dies
1187 - Urban III, [Umberto Crivelli], Italian Pope (1185-87), dies
1268 - Conrad Hohenstaufen/Conradin, last Duke of Swabia, beheaded in Naples aged 16
1274 - Engelbert II of Falkenburg, archbishop of Cologne, dies
1438 - Jacopo di Piero della Quercia, Italian sculptor, dies at about 64
1525 - Joannes Custos, S Neth humanist, dies at about 50
1570 - João de Barros, Portuguese historian (b. 1496)
1631 - Michael Maestlin, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1550)
1640 - John Ball, English Puritan clergyman (b. 1585)
1652 - Antonio Coello, Spanish writer (b. 1611)
1676 - Christopher Gibbons, composer, dies at 61
1713 - Archibald Pitcairne, Scottish physician (b. 1652)
1740 - Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1685)
1765 - William August duke of Cumberland, Engl supreme commander, dies at 44
1794 - James Adam, System architect (essays on agriculture), dies at about 64
1819 - Lambert-Francois Godecharle, composer, dies at 66
1842 - Grace Darling, English heroine (b. 1815)
1864 - Stephen Dodson Ramseur, Confederate gen-major, dies at 27
1865 - Champ Ferguson, Confederate guerrilla (b. 1821)
1870 - Michael William Balfe, composer (Bohemian Girl), dies at 62
1871 - Charles Babbage, English mathematician/inventor (calculator), dies at 78
1876 - Jeronimo de Bosch Kemper, Dutch sociologist/historian, dies at 68
1882 - Olegario Victor Andrade, Argentina poet (El arpa perdida), dies at 41
1890 - Sir Richard Burton, British explorer and writer (b. 1821)
1899 - Robert H "Bobby" Gunning, Brit colonel (60th Rifles), dies in battle
1900 - Charles Dudley Warner, US writer (As We Go), dies at 70
1900 - Naim Frashëri, Albanian poet (b. 1846)
1904 - Henry Hiles, composer, dies at 77
1906 - William "Buck" Ewing, hall of fame catcher (NY Giants), dies at 67
1907 - Said Pasha Kurd, Kurdish statesman (b.1834)
1910 - David B. Hill, Governor of New York (b. 1843)
1913 - Leander Schlegel, composer, dies at 69
1920 - Max Bruch, German composer (Kol Nidre), dies at 82
1926 - Eugene Debs, American labor leader and Socialist presidential candidate (b. 1855)
1927 - Mikhail Mikhaylovich Ivanov, composer, dies at 78
1929 - Rudolf Kittel, German theologist, dies at 76
1931 - Emanuel Moor, composer, dies at 68
1936 - Anne Sullivan, American teacher (b. 1866)
1940 - Gunnar Asplund, Swedish architect (b. 1885)
1941 - Ken Farnes (WWII) 15 Tests for England, cricketer (60 wickets), dies
1942 - May Robson, actress (Star is Born, Reckless), dies at 84
1944 - Gabriel Groulez, composer, dies at 65
1950 - Henry Lewsis Stimson, US minister of War/gov-gen, dies
1952 - Basil Radford, actor (Whisky Galore, Dead of Night), dies at 55
1953 - Werner Baumbach, German bomber pilot (b. 1916)
1954 - Willie Shaw, race car driver (Indy 500-1937, 39, 40), dies at 51
1955 - Eino Roiha, composer, dies at 51
1959 - Werner Krauss, actor (Joyless Street), dies at 75
1964 - Herbert Hoover, 31st president of US (1929-33), dies in NY at 90
1964 - Miles WL Killearn of Killearn, baron/diplomat (Egypt), dies at 84
1967 - Yoshida Shigeru, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1878)
1968 - Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux, TV preacher, dies at 84
1970 - Patrick Wymark, actor (Skull, Tomb of Ligeia), dies at 44
1972 - Harlow Shapley, astronomer (Sun's position in galaxy), dies at 86
1977 - Cassie Gaines, rocker (Lynyrd Skynyrd), dies in a plane crash at 28
1977 - Ronnie Van Zant, rocker (Lynyrd Skynyrd), dies in a plane crash at 29
1977 - Steve Gaines, rock guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd), dies in air crash at 28
1983 - Merle Travis, country singer, dies at 75
1983 - Yves Thériault, French Canadian author (b. 1915)
1984 - Carl Ferdinand Cori, Austrian-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or
           Medicine (b. 1896)
1984 - Paul Dirac, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate, dies at 82
1986 - Samora Machel, president of Mozambique, dies in air crash at 53
1987 - Andrey Kolmogorov, Russian mathematician (b. 1903)
1988 - Sheila Scott, English aviatrix (b. 1922)
1989 - Anthony Quayle, actor (Moses, Operation Crossbow), dies at 76
1990 - Joel McCrea, actor (Ramrod), dies of pulmonary complications at 84
1990 - Bridget Bate Tichenor (born Bridget Pamela Arkwright Bate), Mexican surrealist painter dies
           aged 72
1992 - Orton Chirwa, Malawi's lawyer/Justice minister, dies in captivity
1993 - James Leo Herlihy, novelist (Midnight Cowboy), dies at 66
1993 - Maurice Dolbier, US actor/writer (Nowhere near Everest), dies at 81
1993 - Sugiyama Yasushi, Japanese painter (b. 1909)
1994 - Burt Lancaster, actor (Elmer Gantry), dies of heart attack at 80
1994 - Charles Robert Owen Medley, dancer/Choreographer, dies at 88
1994 - Eberhard Feik, German actor (Tatort), dies at 50
1994 - Ivan Svitak, philosopher, dies at 69
1994 - Sergei F Bondartsjoek, actor/director (Waterloo), dies at 74
1995 - Bernadette Hingley, priest, dies at 47
1995 - Christopher Stone, actor (Dave-Dallas, Interns), dies at 53
1995 - Jack Rose, screenwriter, dies at 83
1995 - Raymond Rasberry, pianist/singer, dies at 65
1996 - Alfred William Bill Bedford, test Pilot, dies at 75
1996 - Mary Tuck, social researcher/civil servant, dies at 68
1999 - Calvin Griffith, Former owner of Washington Senators (b. 1911)
2001 - Ted Ammon, American financier (b. 1949)
2002 - Barbara Berjer, American actress (b. 1920)
2002 - Bernard Fresson, French actor (b. 1931)
2003 - Jack Elam, American actor (b. 1918)
2003 - Miodrag Petrović, Serbian actor (b. 1924)
2004 - Anthony Hecht, American poet (b. 1923)
2004 - Chuck Hiller, American baseball player (b. 1934)
2005 - Shirley Horn, American singer (b. 1934)
2005 - Endon Mahmood, First Lady of Malaysia (breast cancer) (b. 1941)
2005 - Eva Svankmajerova, Czech artist (b. 1940)
2006 - Jane Wyatt, American actress, dies at 96
2007 - Max McGee, American football player (b. 1932)
2007 - Paul Raven, British bass-player (Killing Joke, Ministry) (b. 1961)
2008 - Gene Hickerson, American football Hall of Famer (b. 1935)
2010 - Bob Guccione, American publisher (Penthouse magazine), dies at 79
2010 - Parthasarathy Sharma, Indian cricketer (b. 1948)
2011 - Muammar Gaddafi, Ruler of Libya (b. 1942)
2011 - Moatassem Gaddafi, Son of Moammar Gaddafi and National Security Adviser of Libya (b.
          1977)
2011 - Tone Pavček, Slovenian poet and translator (b. 1928)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 21, 2013, 09:26:55 AM

This Day in History for 21st October


Historical Events

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Founder of Protestanism                          Inventor Thomas Edison                    Baseball Player Hank Greenberg
Martin Luther

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Short Story Writer Dorothy Parker          US President John F. Kennedy                    Singer Elton John

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264th Pope John Paul II                         Pop Star Madonna


310 - St Eusebius ends his reign as Catholic Pope
335 - Roman Emperor Constantine the Great rules laws against Jews
686 - Conon begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1096 - Sultan Kilidj Arslan of Nicea defeats 1st Crusaders
1187 - Alberto de Morra elected as Pope Gregorius VIII (12/17/1187)
1512 - Martin Luther joins the theological faculty of the University of Wittenberg.
1520 - Ferdinand Magellen arrives at Tierra Del Fuego (Pacific Ocean)
1553 - Volumes of Talmud are burned
1555 - Emperor Charles V makes Erard of Pallandt earl of Culemborg
1555 - English parliament refuses to recognize Philip of Spain as king
1568 - 2nd Altenburger sermon: Philippisten/Gnesiolutheranen
1591 - Nijmegen surrenders to Earl Mauritius van Nassau
1601 - Memorial service for Daitokuji's Shinju held for Ikkyu Sojun in Kyoto
1639 - Sea battle at Dunes, Lt Admiral Maarten Tromp defeats Spanish armada under De Oquendo
1652 - King Louis XIV returns to Paris
1708 - Dutch & English troops occupy Lille (Rijsel)
1727 - Russian & Chinese accord to correct boundaries
1774 - First display of the word "Liberty" on a flag, raised by colonists in Taunton, Massachusetts
           and which was in defiance of British rule in Colonial America.
1797 - US Navy frigate Constitution, Old Ironsides, launched in Boston
1805 - Battle of Trafalgar, British Admiral Nelson defeats French & Spanish fleet but shot and killed
1816 - The Penang Free School is founded in George Town, Penang, Malaysia, by the Rev Hutchings.
           It is the oldest English-language school in Southeast Asia.
1824 - Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement (Yorkshire England)
1854 - Florence Nightingale and a staff of 38 nurses were sent to the Crimean War.
1858 - In Paris, the Can-Can is 1st performed
1858 - Jacques Offenbach's opera "Orphée aux Enfers," premieres in Paris
1861 - Battle of Balls Bluff, VA (Leesburg, Harrison's Island)
1864 - Battle of Westport, MO (Kansas City)
1868 - Severe earthquake at 7:53 AM, centered in Hayward, Calif
1869 - 1st shipment of fresh oysters comes overland from Baltimore
1871 - 1st US amateur outdoor athletic games (NY)
1878 - German republic chancellor Bismarck delegates end of "Socialism"
1879 - Thomas Edison perfects carbonized cotton filament light bulb
1887 - Detroit clinches best-of-15 touring World Championship with its 8th victory in Game 11 this
           afternoon in Baltimore, 13-3
1895 - The Republic of Formosa collapses as Japanese forces invade.
1897 - Yerkes Observatory of University of Chicago is dedicated
1899 - Battle at Elandslaagte Natal: (Boers vs British army)
1902 - In the United States, a five month strike by United Mine Workers ends.
1905 - England Pilgrim Association beats All NY 11, 7-1 in soccer at Polo Grounds
1911 - RS Hichens & M Hudsons "Garden of Allah," premieres in NYC
1911 - Manitoba, Saskatchewan & Alberta Unions form Western Canada Rugby Football Union
1914 - Battle of Warsaw ends with German defeat
1915 - 1st transatlantic radiotelephone message, Arlington, Va to Paris
1917 - 1st Americans to see action on front lines of WW I
1917 - Petrograds garrison accepts Revolutionary Military Committee
1918 - Margaret Owen sets world typing speed record of 170 wpm for 1 min
1921 - Tuschinski Theater opens in Amsterdam
1923 - 1st planetarium opens at Deutsche Museum in Munich
1924 - KLM Fokker's F7 H-NACC departs to Dutch East Indies
1925 - Sidney Howards "Lucky Sam McGarver," premieres in NYC
1935 - Hank Greenberg selected AL MVP unanimously
1937 - Dmitri Shostakovitch's 5th Symphony premieres
1937 - Franco-troops occupies Gijon
1938 - Japanese troops occupies Canton
1940 - RAF drops 1st anti-nazi pamphlets on Netherlands
1944 - Canadian troops occupy Breskens
1944 - During WW II, US troops capture Aachen, 1st large German city to fall
1944 - Walter Piston's "Fugue for a Victory Tune," premieres in NYC
1945 - Women in France allowed to vote for 1st time
1947 - Dutch Dakota explodes near Coopenhagen, 16 die
1948 - Beersheba liberated by Israeli army
1948 - Dutch Constellation crashes at Prestwick Scotland (40 murder)
1948 - Facsimile high-speed radio transmission demonstrated (Washington DC)
1948 - UN reject Russian proposal to destroy atomic weapons
1950 - Chinese forces occupy Tibet
1950 - Death penalty abolished in Belgium
1950 - Patty Berg wins LPGA Hardscrabble Women's Golf Invitation
1950 - Tom Powers of Duke scores 6 touchdowns
1952 - Dutch government refuses New-Guinea (West-Irian)
1954 - Dorothy Parker/Arnaud d'Usseau's "Ladies of the Corridor," premieres
1954 - Indonesian troops land in New-Guinea
1956 - Betty Dodd wins LPGA Lawton Golf Open
1957 - Giants purchase Class-A Phoenix team
1957 - Jailhouse Rock starring Elvis Presley opens
1957 - Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Lawton Golf Open
1958 - 1st women in British House of Lords
1959 - Contra revolutionaries bomb Havana
1959 - Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, opens (NYC)
1959 - Players Association approves 2 All-Star Games in 1960, to be held in KC & NY
1960 - 1st British nuclear sub HMS Dreadnought launched
1960 - JFK & Nixon clashed in 4th & final presidential debate (NYC)
1961 - Barbra Striesand opens in "Another Evening with Harry Stones"
1961 - USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR
1962 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Carlsbad Cavern Golf Open
1964 - Abebe Bikila runs Olympic/World record marathon (2:12:11.2)
1964 - Braves ask NL to allow them to leave Milwaukee for Atlanta
1965 - KTWU TV channel 11 in Topeka, KS (PBS) begins broadcasting
1965 - Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Robert B Woodward
1965 - Vivian Beaumont Theater (NYC) opens
1965 - Comet Ikeya-Seki approaches perihelion, passing 450,000 kilometers from the sun.
1966 - 144 die as a coal waste landslide engulfed a school in Aberfan, South Wales
1967 - Egypt sinks Israeli torpedo boat
1967 - Thousands opposing Vietnam War try to storm Pentagon
1969 - Bloodless coup in Somalia (National Day)
1969 - Leonard Gersh' "Butterflies are Free," premieres in NYC
1969 - Willy Brandt elected chancellor of West Germany
1969 - Maj Gen Mohamed Siad Barre becomes President of Somali
1970 - 777 Unification church couples wed in Korea
1970 - Caledonian Airways takes over British United Airways
1970 - Nobel prize of peace awarded to Norman E Borlaugh
1971 - "To Live Another Summer" opens at Helen Hayes NYC for 173 perfs
1971 - Nobel prize for literature awarded to Pablo Neruda
1971 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1971 - William H Rehnquist & Lewis F Powell nominated to US Supreme Court by Nixon, following
           resignations of Justices Hugo Black & John Harlan
1972 - "Dude" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 16 performances
1972 - "Man of La Mancha" closes at Beaumont Theater NYC after 140 perfs
1972 - "Pacific Paradise" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 5 performances
1973 - A's manager Dick Williams quits after A's beat Mets in World Series
1973 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Waco Tribune Herald Ladies Golf Classic
1973 - Fred Dryer of the then Los Angeles Rams becomes the first player in NFL history to score two
           safeties in the same game.
1974 - 1st Islander shut-out opponent-Billy Smith 5-0 vs Caps
1974 - Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Cubic Corp Golf Classic
1975 - "Treemonisha" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 64 performances
1975 - Coast Guard Academy 1st allows women to enroll
1975 - Elton John given a star in Hollywood
1975 - Mexico City's 1st major subway accident takes 26 lives
1975 - Red Sox Carlton Fisk's 12th inning HR beats Reds 7-6 in game 6 of WS
1975 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1975 - Venera 9, 1st craft to orbit planet Venus launched
1976 - 55th weaapon accord signed
1976 - American Saul Bellow wins Nobel Prize for Literature
1976 - Cin Reds sweep NY Yankees, in 73rd World Series
1976 - NY Knicks retire 1st number, # 19, Willis Reed
1976 - NY Yankee Thurman Munson ties World Series mark of 6 straight singles
1976 - Nobel prize for literature awarded to Saul Bellow
1977 - US recalls William Bowdler, ambassador to South Africa
1977 - The European Patent Institute is founded.
1978 - Australian civilian pilot Frederick Valentich vanishes in a Cessna 182 over the Bass Strait
           south of Melbourne, after reporting contact with an unidentified aircraft.
1979 - 10th NYC Marathon won by Bill Rodgers in 2:11:42
1979 - 9th NYC Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:27:33
1979 - Greta Weitz wins woman participation in NYC marathon (02:27:33)
1979 - Israeli minister of Foreign affairs Moshe Dayan resigns
1979 - Ozzie Newsome begins NFL streak of 150 consecutive game receptions
1980 - "Banjo Dancing" opens at Century Theater NYC for 38 performances
1980 - 1st (& only) time Phillies win World Series (in 98 years)
1980 - Mikhail Gorbachev elected member of Politburo
1980 - Phillies win their 1st World Championship in their 98-year history
1983 - Pope John Paul II names 3 new Dutch bishops
1984 - Cleveland Browns' Steve Cox sets club record with a 60-yd field goal
1984 - Niki Lauda becomes 3rd time motor racing world champ
1984 - Steve Jones runs Chicago Marathon in world record 2:08:05
1985 - Qasim Omar (206) & Javed Miandad (203*) make 397 stand v SL
1986 - 1st-class cricket debut of Andy Flower, ZCU Presidents XI v Young WI
1986 - Hugh Whitemore's "Breaking the Code," premieres in London
1986 - IBM re-forms in South Africa
1986 - Republic of Marshall Islands signs Compact of Free Association with US
1986 - US writer Edward A Tracy kidnap in Beirut
1987 - 7th Belgium government of Martens forms
1987 - Nobel prize for economy awarded to Robert M Solow
1987 - Senate debate begins rejecting Robert Bork's Supreme Ct nomination
1988 - Boston Celtics beat Yugoslavia 113-85 in Madrid
1988 - Ferdinand & Imelda Marcos indicted on racketeering charges
1989 - "Dangerous Games" closes at Nederlander Theater NYC after 4 perfs
1989 - Buck Helm found alive after being buried 4 days, in SF earthquake
1989 - Houston becomes 1st major college team to gain 1000 yards in a game
1989 - 1st black owners (Betram Lee & Peter Bynoe) to own a major sports team, purchasing
           Denver Nuggets for $65m
1990 - Esther Canseco calls Oakland A's manager Tony La Russa a "punk" for not starting husband
           Jose in the World Series
1990 - The first Apple Day, is held in Covent Garden, London.
1991 - 24 die in a fire in Oakland Calif
1991 - Former California gov Jerry Brown announce run for presidency
1991 - US hostage Jesse Turner released from 5 years in captivity in Beirut
1992 - Madonna's book "Sex" goes on sale
1993 - "Twilight of the Golds" opens at Booth Theater NYC for 29 performances
1993 - Gary Kasparov defeats Nigel Short for chess championship
1993 - Military coup by Burundi Pres Ndadaye; 525,000 Hutus flee
1994 - Hana bridge is Seoul Korea crashes, 32+ die
1994 - North Korea signs pact to end their nuclear projects
1995 - Addison Vance, 18, of Hickory NC, crowned 7th Ms Venus Swimwear
1995 - Mario Tremblay, selected 22nd NHL coach of Montreal Canadians
1997 - Elton John's tribute to Diana, Princess of wales, breaks world record, 318 million dist
1997 - Cleve Marquis Grissom hit in his 15th straight World Series game (streak ends at 15, he is
           2nd to Hank Baur with 17)
2001 - "United We Stand" benefit concert for September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks victims, held at
           RFK Stadium in Washington, DC. Event organized and headlined by Michael Jackson, also
           featuring pop stars Aerosmith, Mariah Carey, The Backstreet Boys, and others.
2003 - Images of the dwarf planet Eris are taken and subsequently used in its discovery by the team
           of Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz.

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 21, 2013, 09:28:06 AM

This Day in History for 21st October


Famous Weddings

1917 - Irish poet and playwright William Butler Yeats (52) weds Georgie Hyde-Lees (25)
1948 - Science fiction pioneering author "Stranger in a Strange Land" Robert A. Heinlein marries 3rd
           wife Virginia "Ginny" Gerstenfeld
1995 - "Family Ties" actress Meredith Baxter (48) weds screenwriter Michael Blodgett (56) in Los
           Angeles

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 21, 2013, 09:36:09 AM

This Day in History for 21st October


Famous Birthdays

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Poet, critic, and philosopher                   Inventor/Nobel Prize founder                     Jurist/TV Personality
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772)               Alfred Bernhard Nobel (1833)                    Judith Sheindlin (1942)

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US President & Actor
Ronald Reagan (1952)


1449 - George, Duke of Clarence, brother of Edward IV and Richard III (d. 1478)
1527 - Louis I, Cardinal of Guise, French cardinal (d. 1578)
1570 - Wolfgang Schonsleder, composer
1574 - Nicolo Rubini, composer
1581 - Domenico Zampieri, Italian painter (d. 1641)
1582 - Johan Ernst earl of Nassau-Siegen, military/son of Johan VII
1650 - Jean Bart, French captain/sea hero (Escape from Plymouth)
1660 - Georg Ernst Stahl, German scientist (d. 1734)
1675 - Emperor Higashiyama of Japan (d. 1710)
1680 - Francisco Jose Coutinho, composer
1687 - Nicolaus I Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d. 1759)
1712 - Sir James Steuart, British economist (d. 1780)
1725 - Franz Moritz Graf von Lacy, Austrian field marshal (d. 1801)
1751 - David Moritz Michael, composer
1757 - Pierre Augereau, Marshal of France and duc de Castiglione (d. 1816)
1761 - Louis AG baron de Bacler d'Albe, French cartographer/brigadier general
1762 - Herman W Daendels, brig-gen/gov-gen of Dutch-Indies (1807-11)
1767 - Francesco Ruggi, composer
1772 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Ottery St. Mary, Devon, England, poet (Rime of Ancient Mariner), (d.
          1834)
1775 - Guiseppi Baini, composer
1790 - Alphonse-Marie Louis de Lamartine, Macon France, writer (René)
1803 - George Wright, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1865
1807 - Hanri Reber, composer
1807 - Miguel Hilarion Eslava y Elizondo, composer
1822 - Levinus Keuchenius, Dutch minister of Colonies (1888-90)
1823 - Pasqual Juan Emilio Arrieta y Corera, composer
1827 - Petrus PM Alberdingk Thijm, Dutch historian/writer
1833 - Alfred Bernhard Nobel, Stockholm, created dynamite & Peace Prizes, (d. 1896)
1839 - Georg von Siemens, founder (Deutsche Bank)
1843 - Mark M Antokolski, Russian/French sculptor (Peter the Great)
1846 - Edmondo de Amicis, Italian writer (Cuore)
1847 - Guiseppe Giacosa, Italian songwriter (libretti opera Puccini)
1851 - George Ulyett, cricketer (great Yorkshire all-rounder 1873-93)
1858 - Ramabai Dongre' Medhavi, India, social reformer
1873 - George P Gooch, English historian/MP
1874 - Albert Aftalion, Bulgaria/French economist
1879 - Marie Joseph Canteloube de Malaret, composer
1885 - Egon Joseph Wellesz, Austria, composer/musicologist
1885 - Jan Altink, Dutch painter/co-founder (Ploeg)
1890 - Gerrit Engelke, German writer/poet (Love Letters)
1891 - John Metzelaar, Dutch/US (About Tropical Atl Visschen)
1891 - Ted Shawn, US dancer/choreographer (Dance We Must)
1894 - Rampo Edogawa, Japanese author and critic (d. 1965)
1895 - Alexander d'Arbeloff, entrepreneur
1895 - Shukichi Mitsukuri, composer
1895 - Edna Purviance, Paradise Valley NV, silent film actress worked with Charlie Chaplin ( The Kid)
1898 - Amedeo duke of Aosta, viceroy of Ethiopia/gov-gen of Ital East-Africa
1898 - Eduard Pütsep, Estonian wresler and Olympic medalist (d. 1960)
1901 - Gerhard von Rad, German old testament scholar (Deuteronomium)
1902 - Hilarion Rubio, composer
1902 - Lillian Bronson, Lockport NY, actress (Next Voice you Hear)
1904 - Edmond [Moore] Hamilton, US, sci-fi author (Danger Planet)
1904 - Patrick Kavanagh, Irish poet (d. 1967)
1906 - Lillian Asplund, last American Titanic survivor (d. 2006)
1907 - Nikos Engonopoulos, Greek painter and poet (d. 1985)
1907 - Jules Chevalier, French priest (b. 1824)
1908 - Alexander Schneider, Vilna Lith, violinist (Budapest String Quartet)
1908 - Howard Ferguson, composer
1911 - Peter Graves, London England, actor (Mission Impossible, Stalag 17)
1911 - Vladimir Ussachevsky, Manchurian/US composer (Creation) [NS=Nov 3]
1912 - Carlos Don Byas, US jazz saxophonist
1912 - Georg Solti, Budapest Hungary, conductor (Fidelio)
1914 - Martin Gardner, Scientific American math & puzzles columnist
1916 - Andrea Checchi, Firenze Italy, actress (Attack & Retreat)
1916 - Tomojiro Ikenouchi, composer
1917 - Dizzy Gillespie, [John B], jazz trumpeter, a creator of modern jazz
1919 - Claire Sterling, journalist
1919 - Daniel John Chapman Cunningham, physiologist
1921 - Jarmil Burghauser, composer
1921 - Malcolm Arnold, Northampton England, composer (Bridge over River Kwai)
1922 - Liliane de Bettencourt, heir to L'Oreal
1924 - Celia Cruz, Cuban singer, Queen of Salsa. (d. 2003)
1925 - Joyce Randolph, Detroit Mich, actress (Trixie-Honeymooners)
1925 - Louis J. Robichaud, Canadian premier of New Brunswick (d. 2005)
1926 - Leonard Rossiter, Liverpool England, actor (Britannia Hospital)
1926 - Marga Richter, composer
1927 - Nadine Judd, [Nadia Moore/Nerina], South African/British ballerina
1928 - Edward "Whitey" Ford, hall of fame pitcher (NY Yankees)
1928 - Mario Pinto, the Andrade, writer/president MPLA (Angola)
1929 - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin, US, sci-fi author (Tombs of Atuan)
1930 - Doreen Cannon, teacher of acting (London)
1931 - Jim Parks, cricketer (England batsman-keeper in 46 Tests 1954-68)
1933 - Georgia Brown, [Lillian Getel], actress (Study in Terror, Fixer)
1934 - Jerry Lewis, (Rep-R-California, 1979- )
1936 - James H "Simon" Gray, English playwright (Butley)
1937 - Norman Wright, rocker (Del-Vikings)
1940 - Don Ritter, (Rep-R-PA, 1979- )
1940 - Frances FitzGerald, NYC, journalist/author (Fire in the Lake)
1940 - Geoffrey Boycott, cricketer (stoic England opener 1964-82)
1940 - Julie Parrish, Middlesboro Ky, actress (Good Morning World, Capitol)
1940 - Manfred Mann, [Michael Lubowitz], South Africa, rocker (Mighty Quinn)
1940 - Osamu Watanabe, Japan, featherweight (Olympic-gold-1964)
1941 - Marina Ripa, Rome Italy, countess/writer (My First 40 Years)
1941 - Steve Cropper, TN, guitarist/songwriter (Booker T & MGs)
1942 - Elvin Bishop, Tulsa OK, rock guitarist (Fooled Around & Fell in Love)
1942 - Les AuCoin, (Rep-D-OR, 1975- )
1942 - Allan Grice, Australian racing driver
1942 - Judith Sheindlin, Brooklyn, New York, Jurist and Television personality (Judge Judy)
1943 - Frans LAJ Wolters, economist/Dutch MP (PvdA)
1943 - Paula Kelly, Jacksonville Fla, dancer/actress (Liz-Night Court)
1943 - Ron Elliott, rocker
1943 - Tariq Ali, Pakistani author and historian
1944 - Janet Ahlberg, illustrator
1945 - Everett McGill, Miami Beach FL, actor (Jezebel's Kiss, Silver Bullet)
1945 - Kathy Young, rocker (Thousand Stars in the Sky)
1945 - Nikita Mikhalkov, director (Dark Eyes, Slave of Love)
1946 - Lee Loughnane, rocker (Chicago)
1946 - Jim Hill, American sportscaster
1946 - Lux Interior, American singer (The Cramps)
1947 - Younis Ahmed, cricketer (batted for Pakistan in 1969 & again in 1987)
1948 - Moses J "Moss" Mayekiso, South African union/SACP-leader
1948 - Shaye Cohen, Historian and Professor at Harvard University
1948 - Tom Everett, American actor
1949 - Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli prime minister
1949 - Jonathon Silver, entrepreneur/arts patron
1949 - Shulamit Ran, composer
1949 - Michel Brière, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1971)
1950 - David H G viscount Lascelles, grandson of English princess Mary
1950 - Ronald E McNair, Lake City SC, astr (STS 41B, 51L-Challenger disaster)
1952 - Brent Mydland, Munich Germany, rock keyboardist/vocalist (Grass Roots)
1952 - Patti Davis [Patricia Ann Reagan], singer/actress/writer, Ronald and Nancy's daughter
1952 - Trevor Chappell, cricketer (bro of several Aussie underarm bowler)
1952 - Allen Hoey, American poet and novelist
1953 - Charlotte Caffey, rock guitarist/keyboardist/vocalist (Go-Go's)
1953 - Eleonora Giorgi, Rome Italy, actress (Nu de Femme, To Forget Venice)
1953 - Keith Green, American musician (d. 1982)
1953 - Peter Mandelson, British politician
1954 - Brian Tobin, Canadian premier of Newfoundland
1955 - Eric Faulkner, Edinburgh Scotland, rock guitarist (Bay City Rollers)
1955 - Rich Mullins, American musician (d. 1997)
1956 - Carrie Fisher, Beverly Hills, actress (Princess Lelia-Star Wars)
1957 - Julian Cope, [Kevin Stapleton], Welsh pop musician (Eve's Volcano)
1957 - Steve Lukather, US rock singer/guitarist (Toto-Africa)
1957 - Wolfgang Ketterle, German physicist, Nobel laureate
1959 - George Bell, Dom Rep, outfielder (Blue Jays, 1987 AL MVP)
1959 - Tony Ganios, American Actor
1959 - Ken Watanabe, Japanese actor
1960 - Lionel Washington, NFL cornerback (Denver Broncos)
1961 - Mark Finch, film festival organiser
1962 - Don Fardon, Toowoomba QLD, Australasia golfer
1962 - David Campese, Australian rugby union footballer
1964 - Jon Carin, American musician (Pink Floyd, The Who)
1965 - Alison Munt, Cairns Australia, LPGA golfer (1992 Jamie Farr-21st)
1965 - Chima McLean, Vancouver BC, Canadian Tour golfer (1991 Conestoga)
1965 - Chris Duplanty, Palo Alto California, water polo goalkeeper (Olympics-96)
1965 - Ion Andoni Goikoetxea, Spanish footballer
1966 - Jonas B, Svensson Sweden, tennis star
1966 - Thomas Louis Tolles Jr, Ft Myers FL, PGA golfer (1995 Bob Hope-3rd)
1967 - Bill Berg, St Catharines, NHL left wing (NY Rangers)
1967 - Gavin Brian Lovegrove, Auckland NZ, javelin (Olympics-96)
1967 - John Flaherty, NYC, catcher (San Diego Padres)
1967 - Stanley Richard, NFL safety (Washington Redskins)
1967 - Paul Ince, English footballer
1968 - Francois Gravel, hockey goaltender (Team France 1998)
1969 - John McMullen, Santa Rosa California, Canadian Tour golfer (1992 NCAA-15th)
1969 - Mo Lewis, NFL linebacker (NY Jets)
1969 - Tracy Yarbrough, Miss Idaho USA (1996)
1969 - Mo Lewis, American football player
1970 - Lance Teichelmann, WLAF defensive tackle (Rhein Fire)
1970 - Marc Wilkins, Mansfield OH, pitcher (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1971 - Astrella Leitch, Celeste rocker, Donovan's daughter
1971 - Damien Martyn, cricketer (WA & Australian middle-order batsman)
1971 - Jade Jagger, Paris France, daughter of Mick & Bianca Jagger
1971 - Rebecca Lynn Gray, Indianapolis Indiana, Miss America-Indiana (1996)
1971 - René Ponk, soccer player (FC Utrecht)
1971 - Shane Hannah, NFL guard (Dallas Cowboys)
1971 - Nick Oliveri, American musician
1971 - Paul Norman Telfer, Scottish footballer
1972 - Orlando Thomas, NFL safety (Minnesota Vikings)
1972 - Felicity Andersen, Australian actress
1972 - Saffron Burrows, English actress
1972 - Masakazu Morita, seiyu and actor
1972 - Matthew Friedberger, American musician (The Fiery Furnaces)
1972 - Evhen Tsybulenko, Ukrainian professor of international law
1973 - Dan Neil, NFL guard (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1973 - Derrick Beatty, CFL defensive back (Edmonton Eskimos)
1973 - Lera Auerbach, Russian composer
1973 - Charlie Lowell, American Musician
1975 - Henrique Hilário, Portuguese footballer
1975 - Toby Hall, American baseball player
1976 - Jeremy Miller, West Covina California, actor (Ben-Growing Pains)
1976 - Nirachala Kumya, Miss Universe-Thailand (1996)
1976 - Lavinia Miloşovici, Romanian gymnast
1976 - Josh Ritter, American musician
1976 - Mélanie Turgeon, French Canadian alpine skier
1977 - Christie Lee Woods, Texas, Miss Teen USA (1996)
1978 - Will Estes, American actor
1978 - Joey Harrington, American football player
1979 - Khalil Greene, American baseball player
1979 - Gabe Gross, American baseball player
1980 - Kim Kardashian, American socialite
1980 - Brian Pittman, American musician (Relient K)
1981 - Nemanja Vidić, Serbian footballer
1982 - James White, American basketball player
1982 - Matt Dallas, American Actor
1983 - Zack Greinke, American baseball player
1983 - Ninette Tayeb, Israeli singer
1983 - Andy Marté, Dominican baseball player
1984 - Anouk Leblanc-Boucher, French Canadian short track speed skater
1984 - Kenny Cooper, American soccer player
1984 - Marvin Mitchell, American football player
1984 - Kieran Richardson, English footballer
1986 - Chibuzor Chilaka, English footballer
1986 - Alex Kew, British actor
1986 - Natalee Holloway,U.S teen,disappeared in Aruba
1986 - Christopher Uckermann, Actor, and singer in the Latin pop group RBD
1990 - Ricky Rubio, Spanish basketball player

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 21, 2013, 09:39:32 AM

This Day in History for 21st October


Famous Deaths

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British Naval Officer                                 Writer Jack Kerouac (1969)
Horatio Nelson (1805)


1125 - Cosmas of Prague, Bohemian writer
1204 - Robert de Beaumont, 4th Earl of Leicester, English nobleman
1221 - Alix of Thouars, Duchess of Brittany (b. 1201)
1266 - Birger jarl, Swedish statesman (b. 1210)
1422 - Charles VI, King of France (1380-1422), dies at 54
1439 - Traversari Ambrosius, Italian humanist/leader, dies at 53
1500 - Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado of Japan (b. 1442)
1505 - Paul Scriptoris, German mathematician
1558 - Julius Caesar Scaliger, Italian physician (Poetice), dies at 74
1561 - Johannes Vasaeus, Flemish humanist/historian, dies at about 49
1600 - Toda Katsushige, Japanese warlord (b. 1557)
1623 - William Wade, English statesman and diplomat (b. 1546)
1627 - Frederik de Houtman, navigator/governor of Ambon, dies at about 56
1629 - Tumengung Buraksa, Matarams/Javanese general, dies in battle
1637 - Laurens Reael, vice-governor of Ambon/poet/admiral, dies at 54
1650 - Pedro de Espinosa, Spanish poet/writer, dies
1662 - Henry Lawes, composer, dies at 66
1687 - Edmund Waller, English poet/plotter (Waller's plot), dies
1765 - Giovanni Paolo Pannini/Panini, Italian painter/architect, dies at 73
1773 - Johann Conrad Schlaun, German barok architect, dies at 78
1775 - Peyton Randolph, American president of the Continental Congress (b. 1721)
1777 - Samuel Foote, English dramatist and actor (b. 1720)
1793 - Johann Ernst Hartmann, composer, dies at 66
1798 - Johann Christoph Schmugel, composer, dies at 71
1805 - Admiral Horatio Nelson, dies in Battle of Trafalgar
1805 - Johann Baptist Lasser, composer, dies at 54
1810 - Franz Teyber, composer, dies at 52
1861 - Edward Dickinson Baker, US attorney/senator, dies in battle at 50
1861 - John Breckinridge Grayson, Confederate brig-general, dies
1863 - Lambertus GC Ledeboer, Dutch old-reformed vicar, dies at 55
1872 - Jacques Babinet, French physicist/mathematician/astronomer, dies at 78
1873 - Johann Sebastian Welhaven, Norwegian poet (b. 1807)
1886 - Jose Hernandez, Argentine poet (La vuelta the MartinFierro), dies
1896 - James Henry Greathead, British engineer (b. 1844)
1897 - Paul Kuczynski, composer, dies at 50
1904 - Isabelle Eberhardt, Swiss explorer and writer (b. 1877)
1905 - Jose Teodor Vilar, composer, dies at 69
1906 - [Georgette A] Helena Amelung, actress (Small Lord), dies at 55
1916 - Karl von Storgkh, premier Austria, assassinated
1919 - Sven August Korling, composer, dies at 77
1924 - Martin Pierre Joseph Marsick, composer, dies at 76
1929 - Owen Dunell, cricketer (two Tests for South Africa in 1889), dies
1931 - A Schnitzler, writer, dies at 69
1937 - Betty Carver, wife of Bernard Montgomery, buried
1939 - Nummy Deane, cricketer (628 runs in 17 Tests for South Africa), dies
1940 - William G. Conley, Governor of West Virginia (b. 1866)
1943 - Alfred DPR Pound, British admiral/1st Sealord (Jutland, WW II), dies
1944 - Alois Kayser, German missionary to Nauru (b. 1877)
1955 - Roy Minnett, cricketer (Australian all-rounder prior to WW I), dies
1961 - Nils J E Ferlin, Swedish songwriter (Goggles), dies
1963 - George B Cressey, US geographer (Crossroads), dies at 66
1963 - Józef Franczak, last cursed soldier - anticommunist underground in Poland(b. 1918)
1965 - Bill Black, rocker, dies at 39
1965 - Marie McDonald, singer/actress (Promises Promises), dies of OD at 42
1966 - Gertrude Hoffman, actress (Mrs Odetts-My Little Margie), dies at 95
1967 - Ejnar Hertzsprung, Danish astrophysicist, dies at 94
1969 - Jack Kerouac, US writer (Doctor Sax, On the Road), dies at 47
1969 - Waclaw Sierpinski, Polish mathematician (b. 1882)
1970 - John T Scopes, US teacher (Scopes "monkey trial" 1925), dies at 70
1971 - Etienne Gailly, Belgian marathoner (Oly-bronze-48), dies at 48
1971 - Raymond Hatton, actor (Girls in Prison), dies of heart attack at 84
1973 - Arabi El Goni, VP/Chad parliament, murdered
1973 - Nasif Estéfano, Argentine racing driver (b. 1932)
1975 - Charles Reidpath, American athlete (b. 1887)
1977 - Ferit Tuzun, composer, dies at 48
1978 - Anastas I Mikojan, Russian politician, dies at 83
1980 - Hans Asperger, Austrian psychologist (b. 1906)
1983 - Theodorus H J Zwartkruis, Bishop (Haarlem), dies
1984 - Dalibor Cyril Vackar, composer, dies at 78
1984 - Francois Truffaut, dir (Fahrenheit 451), dies of brain cancer at 52
1986 - Lionel Murphy, Australian politician and judge (b. 1922)
1987 - Ying-Chin Ho, Taiwan government official, dies at 88
1989 - Jean Image, Hungarian-born French animator (b. 1910)
1992 - Jackson Weaver, voice of Smokey the Bear, dies of diabetes
1992 - Jim Garrison, Louisiana DA (investigate JFK assassination), dies at 70
1992 - Jim Garrison, American attorney (b. 1921)
1993 - Assad Saftawi, Palestinian co-founder of al-Fatah, murdered at 58
1993 - Irving Torgoff, US baseball player (Detroit Tigers), dies at 75
1993 - Melchior Ndadaye, banker/1st Hutu pres of Burundi (1993), murder at 40
1993 - Sam Zolotow, US theater critic (NY Times), dies at 94
1993 - Scott Heiser, US photographer (Interview), dies at 44
1994 - Edward Moss Hutchinson, educationalist, dies at 85
1994 - Jerome Bert Weisner, military Scientist/Disarmer, dies at 79
1995 - Linda Goodman, Morgantown, West Virginia, American astrologer and poet, dies from
           complications of diabetes at 70
1995 - Jose Ignacio Cabrujas, writer, dies at 58
1995 - Maxene Andrews, vocalist (Andrews Sister), dies of heart attack at 79
1995 - Shannon Hoon, vocalist (Blind Melon), dies of drug overdose at 28
1996 - Abdelhamid Benhadugah, novelist, dies at 71
1996 - Eric Halsall, sheepdog trial commentator, dies at 76
1996 - George Houston, land economist, dies at 74
1996 - Georgios Zoitakis, leader of Greece (1967-72), dies
1996 - Robert O'Neill Crossman, politician, dies at 49
1996 - Wang Li, politician, dies at 78
1997 - Dolph Camilli, Bkln Dodger/MVP (1941), dies at 90
1998 - Francis W. Sargent, 64th Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1915)
2003 - Fred Berry, American actor (b. 1951)
2003 - Luis A. Ferré, Governor of Puerto Rico (b. 1940)
2003 - Louise Day Hicks, American politician (b. 1916)
2003 - Elliott Smith, American musician (b. 1969)
2005 - Tara Correa-McMullen, American actress (b. 1989)
2007 - Paul Fox, English musician and singer (The Ruts) (b. 1951)
2012 - George McGovern, US Politician, dies at 90
2012 - Yash Chopra, Indian director, dies from dengue fever and multiple organ failure at 80
2012 - Dann Cahn, American film editor, dies of natural causes at 89

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Post by: MysteRy on October 22, 2013, 09:16:00 AM

This Day in History for 22nd October


Historical Events

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Russian Tsar Peter the Great             Magician & Escape Artist Harry Houdini      US President John F. Kennedy

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Writer Jean-Paul Sartre                           264th Pope John Paul II                      Musician & member of the Beatles   
                                                                                                                                          Paul McCartney

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Singer Elton John                                  Magazine Publisher Larry Flynt


362 - The temple of Apollo at Daphne, outside of Antioch, is destroyed in a mysterious fire.
794 - Emperor Kanmu relocates Japanese capital to Heiankyo (now Kyoto).
1335 - Ex-emperor Hanazono became a Zen priest
1383 - The 1383-1385 Crisis in Portugal: A period of civil war and disorder began when King
           Fernando died without a male heir to the Portuguese throne.
1575 - Foundation of Aguascalientes.
1633 - Ming dynasty fight with Dutch East India Company that Battle of southern Fujian sea (1633),
           Ming dynasty won great victory.
1708 - Great Alliance occupies Rijsel
1721 - Czar Peter the Great becomes "All-Russian Imperator"
1746 - Princeton University (NJ) received its charter
1797 - Andre-Jacques Garnerin makes 1st parachute descent from a balloon (Paris)
1799 - Russia leaves second anti-French Coalition
1812 - Duke of Wellington seizes Burgos Spain
1819 - 1st ship sails by Erie-channel (Rome-Utica)
1836 - Sam Houston inaugurated as 1st elected pres of Republic of Texas
1844 - Millerite Adventists wait for appearance of Jesus
1861 - 1st telegraph line linking West & East coasts completed
1862 - Battle at Old Fort Wayne, Indian Territory
1862 - Confederate troops reconquer Cumperland Gap, Tennessee
1866 - Paraguay: Battle of Curupaytí against Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay.
1867 - Foundation of the National University of Colombia.
1868 - Jacques Offenbach's opera "Genevieve de Brabant," premieres in NYC
1875 - Sons of American Revolution organizes
1875 - First telegraphic connection in Argentina.
1877 - The Blantyre mining disaster in Scotland kills 207 miners. Those widows and orphans who
           were unable to support themselves were evicted by the mine owners and likely sent to the
           Poor House.
1878 - The first rugby match under floodlights takes place in Salford, between Broughton and
           Swinton.
1881 - Boston Symphony Orchestra gives its 1st concert
1883 - 1st NY Horse Show held (Madison Sq Garden)
1883 - Original Metropolitan Opera House (NYC) grand opening (Faust)
1884 - General Gordon receives letter of Mahdi
1884 - Sporting Life announces that both pennant winners will meet in 3 game series Oct 23-25 at
           Polo Grounds NYC to determine baseball champion
1885 - John Ward & several teammates secretly form Brotherhood of Prof Base Ball Players, 1st
           baseball union
1895 - David Belasco's "Heart of Maryland," premieres in NYC
1895 - In Paris an express train overruns a buffer stop and crosses more than 30 metres of
           concourse before plummeting through a window at Gare Montparnasse.
1897 - World's 1st car dealer opens in London
1899 - British troops flee Dundee, Natal South Africa
1904 - Russian fleet shoots at British fishing ship
1906 - 3000 blacks demonstrate & riot in Phila
1907 - Ringling Brothers Greatest Show on Earth buys Barnum & Bailey circus
1907 - Panic of 1907: A run on Knickerbocker Trust Company stock sets events in motion that will
           lead to a depression.
1910 - Dr. Crippen is convicted at the Old Bailey of poisoning his wife and was subsequently hanged
           at Pentonville Prison in London.
1913 - Explosion at Dawson NM coal mine kills 263 mine workers
1922 - Lucerne Street in Bronx named
1922 - Parsifal Place laid out in Bronx, named for knight in Wagner's Opera
1924 - Toastmasters International is founded.
1926 - J. Gordon Whitehead sorryer punches magician Harry Houdini in the stomach in Montreal.
1928 - China expels all Russian instructors & civil servants
1928 - ESL Robinson's "Far-Off Hills," premieres in Dublin
1928 - Pres Hoover speaks of "American system of rugged individualism"
1928 - Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity is founded at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus.
1929 - French government of Briand falls
1929 - James H Scullin forms Australia government
1930 - 1st concerto of BBC Symphony Orchestra, under Adrian Boult
1930 - Blake & Razaf's "Lew Leslie's Blackbirds of 1930," premieres in NYC
1930 - SC Genemuiden soccer team forms
1932 - Charles de Broqueville becomes premier of Belgium
1932 - George Kaufman & Edna Ferbers "Dinner at 8," premieres in NYC
1933 - Primo Carnera beats Paulin in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1934 - In East Liverpool, Ohio, notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd is shot and killed by Federal
           Bureau of Investigation agents.
1935 - 18th PGA Championship: Johnny Revolta at Twin Hills CC Oklahoma City
1935 - Establishment of the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union.
1936 - 1st commercial flight from mainland to Hawaii
1938 - Chester Carlson demonstrates 1st Xerox copying machine
1939 - 1st TV NFL game-Eagles vs Dodgers
1941 - Maxwell Anderson's "Candle in the Wind," premieres in NYC
1942 - 1st ships of invasion fleet for Oran (Algeria) leave Scotland
1942 - US gens Clark & Lemnitzer & French gen Mast meet secretly in Algeria
1944 - Kurita's vice-admiral fleet leaves North-Borneo
1946 - 2 British ships sink near Albania
1948 - Egyptian flagship King Farouk sunk by Israel
1949 - 200 killed in train derailment near Nowy Dwor Poland
1949 - Emile Zatopek runs world record 10,000m (29:21.2)
1950 - LA Rams beat Baltimore Colts 70-27
1951 - Earthquake hits Formosa, 100 killed
1951 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1953 - Laos gains full independence from France
1954 - West Germany joins North Atlantic Treaty Organization
1955 - WWNY TV channel 7 in Carthage-Watertown, NY (CBS) begins broadcasting
1956 - France intercept Moroccan plane, arrest Ben Bella
1956 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia
1956 - A concrete girder weighing 200 tons kills 48 in Karachi, Pakistan.
1957 - Conrad Adenauer re-elected chancellor of West-Germany
1957 - KJAC TV channel 4 in Port Arthur-Beaumont, TX (NBC) 1st broadcast
1959 - "Take Me Along" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 448 performances
1959 - Bob Merrill's musical "Take me Along," premieres in NYC
1961 - 75,000 Flemings demand equal rights & Flemish language in Belgium
1961 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA San Antonio Golf Civitan
1962 - JFK addresses TV about Russian missile bases in Cuba
1962 - JFK imposes naval blockade on Cuba, beginning missile crisis
1962 - JFK receives Ugandan premier Milton Obote
1962 - Pacific Science Center opens at Seattle Center
1962 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1963 - 225,000 students boycot Chicago schools in Freedom Day protest
1963 - BAC One-Eleven prototype airliner crashes on October 22 in UK with the loss of all on board.
1964 - EMI rejects audition by "High Numbers," they go on to become The Who
1964 - French philosopher/author Jean-Paul Sartre refuses Nobel prize
1964 - US performs underground nuclear test at Hattiesburg Miss
1966 - USSR launches Luna 12 for orbit around Moon
1967 - 17th Ryder Cup: US wins 23½-8½ at Champions Golf Club (Houston, Texas, US)
1967 - Ian Brayshaw (W Aus v Vic, Perth) takes all 10 cricket wkts
1967 - Joe DiMaggio is hired as executive VP of A's by Charlie Finley
1967 - Murle Lindstrom wins LPGA Carlsbad Jaycee Golf Open
1968 - Apollo 7 returns to Earth
1969 - KAPN-AM in Santa Barbara CA changes call letters to KDB-AM
1969 - Paul McCartney denies rumors of his death
1971 - USSR performs nuclear test
1972 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA GAC Golf Classic
1972 - Oakland A's 1st championship; beat Reds, 4 games to 3 in World Series
1973 - Israeli troops reconquer mountain Hermon
1973 - Security Council Resolution 338-cease fire to Yom Kippur War
1974 - Yanks trade Bobby Murcer to Giants for Bobby Bonds
1975 - "Me & Bessie" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 453 performances
1975 - Cin Reds beat Boston Red Sox, 4 games to 3 in 72nd World Series
1975 - Soviet spacecraft Venera 9 soft-lands on Venus
1975 - Turkish diplomat shot to death in Vienna
1975 - World Football League disbands
1975 - World Football League disbands after the Week 12 of their second season
1976 - Rick Barry (SF), begins then longest NBA free throw streak of 60
1976 - Red Dye No. 4 is banned by the US Food and Drug Administration after it is discovered that it
           causes tumors in the bladders of dogs. The dye is still used in Canada.
1977 - International Sun-Earth Explorers 1 & 2 launched into Earth orbit
1978 - "King of Hearts" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 48 performances
1978 - 8th NYC Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:32:30
1978 - 9th NYC Marathon won by Bill Rodgers in 2:12:12
1978 - Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Houston Exchange Golf Classic Clubs
1978 - Grete Weitz runs female world record marathon (2:32:29.8 )
1978 - Laugh-in's Judy Carne arrested at Gatwick Airport for drug possession
1978 - Pope John Paul II installed
1979 - "One Mo' Time" with Vernel Bagners premieres in NYC
1979 - Deposed Shah of Iran arrives in NY for medical treatment
1979 - Walt Disney World's 100-millionth guest
1980 - 4th government of Martens forms in Belgium
1980 - New South Korean constitution comes into effect
1981 - Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization decertified
1981 - Start of 1st-class game at Newcastle, NSW v Queensland
1981 - US national debt tops $1 trillion
1981 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1981 - The founding congress of the Nepal Workers and Peasants Organisation faction led by
           Hareram Sharma and D.P. Singh begins.
1981 - The TGV railway service Paris-Lyon is inaugurated.
1982 - Gene Mauch resigns as manager of Angels
1983 - Two correctional officers are killed by inmates in Marion, Illinois. The incident inspired the
           Supermax model of prisons.
1984 - NFL quarterback Ken Stabler retires
1984 - Paul McCartney releases "Give My Regards to Broad Street" soundtrack
1985 - Bret Saberhagen gives KC Royals their 1st World Series win
1986 - "Into the Light" opens at Neil Simon Theater NYC for 6 performances
1987 - "Cabaret" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 262 performances
1987 - Nobel prize for literature awarded to Joseph Brodsky
1988 - Elton John sells out Madison Square Garden for a record 26th time
1988 - Supreme Ct Justice Sandra Day O'Connor OK after breast cancer surgery
1989 - Denver Nuggets beat Jugoplastika Split 135-129 in 3rd McDonald Open
1989 - Red Khmer occupies Pailin in Cambodia
1991 - General Motors announces 9 month loss of $US2.2 billion
1992 - Atlanta, becomes 1st US team to win a World Series game out of US
1992 - Space Shuttle STS 52 (Columbia 13) launches into space
1992 - Wendy Wasserstein's "Sisters Rosensweig," premieres in NYC
1993 - Cosmonaut Aleksandr Serebrov makes record 9th space walk
1994 - "Philadelphia, Here I Come" closes at Criterion NYC after 52 perfs
1994 - Statue of Sam Houston unveiled in Texas
1994 - Tony Rominger bicycles world record time (53,832 km)
1995 - "Swinging On a Star" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 97 perfs
1996 - NY Yankee Bernie Williams hits record tying 7th post season HR, as Yanks tie record of 6th
           straight post season road win (en route to 8 )
1997 - Cleve Marquis Grissom World Series hitting streak ends after 15 games
1997 - Coldest World Series game Marlins vs Cleveland (38°F)
1997 - Larry Flynt sells Hustler in a non-zoned area of Cincinnati
1997 - Yahoo completes purchase of Four11
1997 - NY Ranger Wayne Gretsky wife Janet is knocked unconcious & gets 2 stitches while watching
           the game as a plexiglass falls on her
1997 - 2nd longest 9 inning World Series game (4:12) as Marlins & Indians were tied 7-7 going into
           the 9th, Mariners win 14-11
1997 - Compaq testifies Microsoft threaten to break Windows 95 agreement if they showcased a
           Netscape icon
1999 - Maurice Papon, an official in the Vichy France government during World War II, is jailed for
           crimes against humanity.
2005 - Tropical Storm Alpha forms in the Atlantic Basin, making the 2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season
           the most active Atlantic hurricane season on record with 22 named storms.
2006 - A Panama Canal expansion proposal is approved by 77.8% of voters in a National referendum
           held in Panama.
2008 - India launches its first unmanned lunar mission Chandrayaan-1.
2012 - 6 Italian scientists are convicted of manslaughter for their failure to predict the 2009 L'Aquila
           earthquake
2012 - Hurricane Sandy forms in the Western Caribbean Sea

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 22, 2013, 09:18:01 AM

This Day in History for 22nd October


Famous Weddings

1945 - Argentine military officer and politician Juan Peron (50) weds Eva Peron (26) on a civil
           ceremony in Junin
1967 - Actor Morgan Freeman (30) weds Jeanette Adair Bradshaw
1993 - Actor James Coburn (65) weds Paula Murad (37)
2001 - Tennis champion Andre Agassi (31) weds former World's No. 1 German tennis player Steffi
           Graf (32) in Las Vegas, Nevada
2005 - "Extra" reporter Carlos Diaz weds Adrienne Allen at Union Station's Grand Hall in Indianapolis,
           Indiana
2005 - German film and television actress Uschi Glas (61) weds Dieter Hermann in Munich Palace
2005 - Austria's finance minister Karl-Heinz Grasser (36) weds Fiona Swarovski in Weissenkirchen,
           Austria
2011 - Actor and comedian Robin Williams (60) weds graphic designer Susan Schneider at the
           luxurious Meadow Wood Resort in the Napa Valley town of St. Helena, California
2011 - "The Bachelorette" TV personality DeAnna Pappas (29) weds Stephen Stagliano (27) in
           Georgia
2011 - Former US Senator John Edwards's daughter Cate Edwards (29) weds Trevor Upham (30) in
           Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 22, 2013, 09:18:50 AM

This Day in History for 22nd October


Famous Divorces

2007 - Black Crowes frontman Chris Robinson (40) divorces actress Kate Hudson (28) due to
           irreconcilable differences after nearly six years of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 22, 2013, 09:26:27 AM

This Day in History for 22nd October


Famous Birthdays

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Composer/Pianist                               Photojournalist Robert Capa (1913)              Actress Joan Fontaine (1917)
Franz Liszt (1811)

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38th US President                             Pop Singer and Rapper Shaggy (1968)
Gerald Ford (1948)


1071 - William IX, Duke of Aquitaine and poet (d. 1126)
1197 - Emperor Juntoku of Japan (d. 1242)
1592 - Gustaf Horn, Swedish soldier and politician (d. 1657)
1686 - Georg Balthasar Schott, composer
1688 - Nadir Shah of Persia (d. 1747)
1689 - King John V of Portugal (d. 1750)
1698 - Nicola Bonifacio Logroscino, composer
1701 - Maria Amalia of Austria, Holy Roman Empire Empress (d. 1756)
1729 - Johann Reinhold Forster, German botanist (d. 1798)
1737 - Vincenzo Manfredini, composer
1752 - Ambrogio Minoja, composer
1761 - Johann Christian Gottlob Eidenbenz, composer
1765 - Daniel Steibelt, composer
1766 - Hans CE Freiherr von Gagern, German advisor to Dutch king
1770 - Thomas Seebeck, Baltic German physicist (d. 1831)
1790 - Jan Ackersdijk, Dutch political economist
1809 - Federico Ricci, composer
1809 - Volney E. Howard, American politician (d. 1889)
1810 - Henry Bohlen, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
1811 - Franz Liszt, Raiding Hungary, romantic composer/virtuoso pianist ( Faust Symphony), (d.
           1886)
1818 - Leconte de Lisle, writer
1821 - Collis Potter Huntington, American railroad executive (d. 1900)
1826 - Guglielmo Quarenghi, composer
1832 - August Labitzky, composer
1832 - Leopold Damrosch, composer
1838 - Carl Fuchs, composer
1845 - Sarah Bernhardt, France, actress (Camille, Queen Elizabeth)
1847 - Jacobus Herculas [Uncle Koos] de la Rey, South African politician
1865 - Kristjan Raud, Estonian painter (d. 1943)
1870 - Ivan Bunin, Russia, poet/novelist (Gentleman from SF-Nobel 1933)
1870 - Alfred Douglas, English partner of Oscar Wilde (d. 1945)
1873 - Gustaf John Ramstedt, Finland-Swedish linguist and diplomat (d. 1950)
1876 - Karl B Adam, German theologist (Christ our Brother)
1880 - Joe Carr, Ohio, NFL hall of famer/NFL president (1921-39)
1881 - Clinton Davisson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
1883 - Adolf A Joffe, Russian revolutionary/writer (Brest-Litovsk)
1883 - Viktor Jacobi, composer
1885 - Giovanni Martinelli, Montagnana Italy, opera singer (NY Met)
1885 - Lothar Windsperger, composer
1886 - Erik Bergman, Lutheran pastor (d. 1970)
1887 - John Reed, journalist who reported on Mexican, Russian revolutions
1891 - Fidelio Friedrich Finke, composer
1891 - Parker Fennelly, American comedian and actor (d.1988)
1894 - Méi Lánfāng, Chinese opera performer (d. 1961)
1896 - Charles Glenn King, biochemist (discovered vitamin C)
1898 - Damaso Alonso, Spanish poet (Hijos de la ira)
1898 - Marcel Mihalovici, composer
1900 - Edward R Stettinius, US, foreign minister (1944-45)/diplomat
1900 - James Hall, Dallas TX, actor (Hell's Angels)
1901 - Charles Huggins, Canada, US physician
1903 - George Beadle, US biologist (Nobel 1958)
1904 - Paul Arma, composer
1905 - Constance Bennett, NYC, actress (Easiest Way, Ladies in Love)
1905 - Joseph Kosma, composer
1905 - Karl Jansky, Czech, discoverer (cosmic radio emissions in 1932)
1906 - Cornelis L "Kees" van Baaren, Dutch composer (Willem Pijper)
1906 - Sidney Kingsley, US playwright (One in White, Darkness at Noon)
1907 - Henriette Wyeth, 1st lady of american art
1907 - Jimmy Foxx, baseball HR hitter (534, Detroit Tigers)
1908 - Helmut Gollwitzer, German theologist/antifascist
1908 - John Sutton, Rawalpindi India, actor (Tower of London, Return of Fly)
1908 - John Gould, American humorist, essayist, and columnist (d. 2003)
1909 - Litz Pisk, movement teacher
1912 - Frances Drake, American actress (d. 2000)
1913 - Annette Rogers, US sprinter (Olympic-gold-1932, 36)
1913 - Bo Dai, last emporer of Vietnam
1913 - Patricia "Boots" Mallory, US dancer/actress (Handle With Care)
1913 - Robert Capa, Hungarian war photographer and photojournalist
1913 - Tamara Desni, German-born British actress (d. 2008)
1913 - Hans-Peter Tschudi, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 2002)
1915 - Harry Hickox, Big Springs Tx, (Herb-Please Don't Eat the Daisies)
1916 - Michael F Howard, British Major-General (Gold Stick to the Queen)
1916 - Sid Miller, Shenandoah Pa, actor (Donald O'Connor Texaco Show)
1917 - Joan Fontaine, Tokyo Japan, actress (Gunga Din, Ivanhoe, Rebecca)
1918 - Lou Klein, American baseball player (d. 1976)
1919 - Doris Lessing, Kermanshah Iran, novelist (Golden Notebook)
1919 - Kathleen Ankers, American scenic designer (d. 2001)
1920 - Harry Potts, soccer star/manager
1920 - Mitzi Green, Bronx NY, actress (Little Orphan Annie)
1920 - Timothy Leary, Harvard prof (LSD taker)
1921 - Georges Brassens, French poet/cabaret singer
1921 - Alexander Kronrod, Russian mathematician (d. 1986)
1922 - John H Chafee, (Sen-R-Rhode Island, 1976- )
1922 - John Weidner, Brussels, Belgium, war hero
1922 - Ton Lensink, Dutch actor (Rituelen)
1922 - Juan Carlos Lorenzo, Argentine footballer (d. 2001)
1923 - Pete Pihos, NFL end (Phil Eagles)
1923 - Bert Trautmann, German footballer, (d. 2013)
1925 - Robert Rauschenberg, Port Arthur Tex, painter (Gloria)
1925 - Dory Previn [Dorothy Veronica Langan], Rahway, New Jersey, singer-songwriter (Mythical
           Kings, Iguanas), (d. 2012)
1926 - Jan A de Jonge, Dutch historian
1927 - Helenard J "Allan" Hendrickse, leader of S Afr Labour Party
1927 - Ray Stern, mother of radio personality Howard Stern
1928 - Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Brazilian movie director
1929 - Dory Previn, Rahway NJ, pop singer (Love Be My Cover)
1929 - Giorgio Gaslini, composer
1929 - Lev Yashin, Soviet-Russian football goalkeeper (Soviet Union 1954-1967)
1931 - Hikaru Hayashi, composer
1933 - Donald Herod Peterson, Winona Mississippi, Col USAF/astronaut (STS 6)
1933 - Helmut Senekowitsch, Austrian footballer (d. 2007)
1934 - Donald McIntyre, Auckland NZ, Bass-Baritone (Wotan-Das Rheingold)
1935 - Judy Devlin Hashman, 10 time badminton champ (1957-67)
1936 - Neville E Alexander, South african (10 years in Robbeneiland Jail)
1937 - Tadeas Salva, composer
1937 - Manos Loïzos, Greek composer (d. 1982)
1938 - Christopher Lloyd, Stamford Ct, actor (Taxi, Back to the Future)
1938 - Derek Jacobi, London, actor (Lanner-Strauss Family, Dead Again)
1939 - Joaquim Chissano, president of Mozambique (1986- )
1939 - Ray Jones, rock bassist (Billy J Kramer & The Dakotas)
1939 - Tony Roberts, NYC, actor (Annie Hall, Edge of Night, Lucie Arnaz Show)
1939 - George Cohen, English footballer
1941 - Charles Keating, London England, actor (Carl Hutchins-Another World)
1942 - Annette Funicello, Utica NY, actress (Mickey Mouse Club)
1942 - Robin John Maconie, composer
1942 - Bobby Fuller, Baytown, Texas, American rock vocalist/guitarist (Bobby Fuller Four)
1943 - Allen James Coage, NYC, HW judo (Olympic-bronze-1976)
1943 - Catherine Deneuve, [Dorleac], Paris, actress (Repulsion, Hunger)
1943 - Paul Zukofsky, Brooklyn NY, violinist (Cappricio)
1943 - Robert Long, [Leverman], Dutch singer/actor (Vroeger Kon je Lachen)
1943 - Jan de Bont, Dutch film director
1945 - Leslie West, [Weinstein] rocker (Mountain-Mississippi Queen)
1945 - Yvan Ponton, Canadian actor and television host
1946 - Eddie Brigati, Garfield NJ, rock vocalist (Rascals)
1946 - Richard Loncraine, director (Missionary, Deep Cover, Bellman & True)
1946 - Kelvin MacKenzie, British media tycoon
1946 - Claude Charron, French-Canadian politician and TV personality
1947 - Edward F Feighan, (Rep-D-OH, 1983- )
1947 - Lee Meredith, [Judith Lee Sauls], River Edge NJ, actress (Producers)
1947 - Neil Burton Rolnick, composer
1947 - Raymond Bachand, French-Canadian politician and businessman
1947 - Haley Barbour, American politician, governor of Mississippi
1948 - John Peterson, US, Middleweight (Olympic-gold-1976)
1948 - Mike Hendrick, cricketer (England seam bowler in 30 Tests 1974-81)
1948 - Lynette Fromme, American attempted assassin of Gerald Ford
1949 - Manfred Burgsmuller, WLAF kicker (Rhein Fire)
1949 - Stiv Bators, American musician (The Dead Boys) (d. 1990)
1949 - Vasilios Magginas, Greek politician
1949 - Arsène Wenger, French football manager
1952 - Jeff Goldblum, Pitts Pa, actor (Fly, Jurassic Park, Independence Day)
1953 - Roy Ristie, Suriname/Neth radio host (Apintie, Kankantrie)
1954 - Carla Dunlap, Newark NJ, bodybuilder (Pumping Iron 2)
1956 - Frank DiPino, American baseball player
1958 - Bobby Blotzner, rock drummer (Ratt-Round & Round)
1959 - Todd Graff, NYC, actor (Five Corners, Dominic & Eugene)
1959 - Arto Salminen, Finnish writer (d. 2005)
1959 - Marc Shaiman, American composer
1960 - Darryl Jenifer, American bassist (Bad Brains)
1961 - Barbara Potter, Ct, tennis player (changed shirt on Wimbledon Court)
1961 - Donna Wynd, Auckland NZ, 1k sprint cyclist (Olympics-96)
1961 - Leonard Marshall, NFL defensive end (NY Giants, NY Jets)
1961 - Sanath Kaluperuma, cricketer (four Tests for Sri Lanka 1984-88)
1961 - Robert Torti, American actor
1962 - Derrick Waldroup, Chicago Ill, 198 lbs greco-roman wrestler (Oly-96)
1962 - Gayle Stammer, Livermore California, beach volleyballer (Olympics-96)
1963 - Brian Boitano, Mountainview California, figure skater (Olympic-gold-1988)
1963 - Cherie Witter, Everett Wash, playmate (February, 1985)
1964 - Toby Mac, American singer and songwriter
1965 - Marvin Washington, NFL defensive end (NY Jets, SF 49ers)
1965 - Otis Smith, NFL cornerback (NY Jets)
1965 - John Wesley Harding, American musician
1966 - Blair Hartland, cricketer (NZ opener)
1966 - Valeria Golino, Naples Italy, actress (Rain Man, Little Flames)
1967 - Rita Guerra, Portuguese singer
1967 - Ron Tugnutt, Canadian ice hockey player
1967 - Carlos Mencia, Honduras-born American comedian
1968 - Keith Osik, Port Jefferson NY, catcher (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1968 - Shelby Lynne, Quantico Va, country singer (If I Could Bottle This Up)
1968 - Stephane Quintal, Boucherville, NHL defenseman (Montreal Canadiens)
1968 - Warry van Wattum, Dutch soccer player (Dordrecht '90, FC Groningen)
1968 - Shaggy [Orville Richard Burrell], Kingston, Jamaica, reggae rapper (Boombastic)
1968 - Jay Johnston, American actor and comedian (Mr. Show)
1969 - Cuty [Yumi] Suzuki, Kawaguchi Japan, wrestler (Japan)
1969 - Kevin Carrasco, S P de Macoris Dom Rep, pitcher (Cin Reds)
1969 - Spike Jonze, American director and film producer
1969 - Helmut Lotti, Belgian singer
1970 - Coleman Rudolph, NFL defensive end (NY Giants)
1970 - Steve Campbell, Buffalo NY, tennis star
1970 - Winston Bogarde, soccer player (Sparta/Ajax)
1971 - Amanda Coetzer, Hoopstad South Africa, tennis star (1996 Aust semi)
1971 - Anthony "Pig" Miller, NBA forward (LA Lakers, Atlanta Hawks)
1971 - Mitchel van der Gaag, Dutch soccer player (PSV, Motherwell)
1971 - Timothy Christopher Carswell, Christchurch NZ, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1972 - Scott Lachance, Charlottesville, NHL defenseman (NY Islanders)
1972 - Tyrone Williams, WLAF/NFL defensive tackle (Chicago Bears, Rhein Fire)
1972 - Victoria Lagerstrom, Miss Sweden Universe (1997)
1972 - D'Lo Brown, American professional wrestler
1973 - Kathy Butler, Edinburgh Scotld, Canad 3k/5k runner (Olympic-8-92, 96)
1973 - Andrés Palop, Spanish footballer
1973 - Ichiro Suzuki, Japanese baseball player
1974 - Layla Harvest Roberts, Kealakekua HI, playmate (Oct, 1997)
1974 - Miroslav Satan, Topolcany Slo, NHL left wing (Edmonton Oilers, Sabres)
1974 - Tim Kinsella, American musician
1975 - Melchior Schoenmakers, soccer player (SC Heerenveen)
1975 - Martín Cardetti, Argentine footballer
1975 - Míchel Salgado, Spanish footballer
1976 - Jon Foreman, American musician (Switchfoot)
1976 - Helen Svedin, Swedish model
1977 - Katrina Bergstrom, Miss North Dakota Teen USA (1996)
1978 - Chaswe Nsofwa, Zambian footballer (d. 2007)
1978 - Owais Shah, English cricketer
1978 - Dion Glover, American basketball player
1979 - Eve Chalom, Detroit Mich, dance skater (& Gates--1995 Nat Jr champ)
1980 - Garrett Tierney, American musician (Brand New)
1981 - Michael Fishman, Long Beach California, actor (DJ-Roseanne)
1981 - Olivier Pla, French racing driver
1982 - Robinson Canó, Dominican baseball player
1982 - Heath Miller, American football player
1982 - Daniel M. Johnson "The Untouchable DJ Drastic", American DJ, music industry professional,
           and radio presenter
1983 - Glenn Loovens, Dutch footballer
1985 - Zac Hanson, Tulsa OK, singer (Hansons-MMMMbop)
1986 - Kara Lang, Canadian soccer player
1987 - Jake Richardson, English footballer
1990 - Jonathan William Lipnicki, actor (Jeff Foxworthy Show, Jerry McGuirre)
1992 - Sofia Vassilieva, American actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 22, 2013, 09:30:02 AM

This Day in History for 22nd October


Famous Deaths

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French Painter Paul Cézanne (1906)         Gangster Charles Floyd (1934)             Historian Arnold Toynbee (1975)


741 - Charles Martel, ruler of the Franks, dies at 63
1383 - Ferdinand I, the wise, king of Portugal, dies
1494 - Gian Galeazzo, Italian duke of Milan (1476-94), dies
1565 - Jean, Vicomte d'Aguisy Grolier de Servieres, French bibliophile (b. 1479)
1613 - Pomponio Nenna, Italian composer
1625 - Kikkawa Hiroie, Japanese politician (b. 1561)
1651 - Jacob Praetorius, composer, dies at 65
1674 - Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Dutch painter (b. 1621)
1707 - Cloudesley Shovell, Admiral, drowns at Scilly
1708 - Herman Witsius, [Wits], reformed theologist, dies at 72
1725 - Alessandro Scarlatti, Italian baroque composer, dies at 65
1751 - Willem IV KH Friso, prince of Orange-Nassau, dies at 40
1755 - Elisha Williams, American rector of Yale College (b. 1694)
1763 - French van Mieris "the Young", painter/historian, dies at 73
1764 - Jean Marie I'aine Leclair, composer, dies at 67
1792 - Guillaume Le Gentil, French astronomer (b. 1725)
1802 - Samuel Arnold, English composer, dies at 62
1813 - August Harder, composer, dies at 38
1818 - Joachim H Campe, German theory/author, dies at 72
1835 - Willem G F Bentinck, earl/politician/organist, dies at 73
1847 - Sahle Selassie, Negus of Shewa
1852 - Hans C E Freiherr von Gagern, German advisor to Dutch king, dies at 86
1854 - J Gotthelf, writer, dies at 57
1859 - Louis (Ludwig) Spohr, composer (Faust), dies at 75
1869 - Michael Sars, Norwegian zoologist, dies at 64
1881 - Janis Cimze, composer, dies at 67
1882 - Janos Arany, Hungarians poet (Toldi Szerelme), dies at 65
1883 - George Coulthard, cricketer (Test for Australia 1882), dies
1883 - Thomas Mayne Reid, Irish-American novelist (b. 1818)
1889 - Olivier Metra, composer, dies at 59
1891 - Ernst von Fleischl-Marxow, Austrian physiologist (b. 1846)
1906 - Paul Cézanne, French Post-Impressionist painter (b. 1839)
1917 - Bob Fitzsimmons, English boxer (b. 1863)
1918 - Myrtle Gonzalez, American film and stage actress (b. 1891)
1919 - Bruce F Cummings, English author (Enjoying Life), dies at 30
1926 - Jules Van de Hill, Belgian lawyer/politician, dies
1927 - Ross Youngs, Hall of Fame baseballer, dies of Bright's disease at 30
1927 - Borisav "Bora" Stanković, Serbian writer (b. 1876)
1928 - Andrew Fisher, fifth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1862)
1932 - Anna Dickinson, dies just a week shy of her 90th birthday
1934 - Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd, gangster, shot dead at 30 by FBI in Ohio
1935 - Komitas, Armenian composer (b. 1869)
1942 - Gustave "Staff" de Clercq, leader Flemish Nationally Covenant, dies
1942 - Sybren Tulip, NSBer/supt of police in Amsterdam (1941-42), dies
1943 - Josef Venantius von Woss, composer, dies at 80
1948 - Augustyn Hlond, Polish cardinal, dies
1954 - Prosper Cocquyt, Belgian brewer/pilot, dies at 54
1954 - Jibanananda Das, Bengali poet (b. 1899)
1960 - Edgar Scauflaire, Belgian, painter/decorator, dies at 67
1965 - Dipa Nusantara Aidit, Indonesian leader (PKI 1951-65), murdered at 42
1965 - Paul Tillich, German/US Theologist (Courage To Be), dies
1966 - Hewlett Johnson, Red Deacon of Canterbury, dies
1969 - Giovanni Martinelli, Ital opera singer (NY Met), dies on 84th birthday
1970 - René Schneider, Chilean general/supreme commander, murdered
1972 - Kurt Edzard, German sculptor (nudist/portraits), dies
1973 - Pablo Casals, Spanish violin cellist/conductor/composer, dies at 96
1975 - Arnold Toynbee, English historian/cultural sociologist, dies at 86
1978 - John Riley, English poet (murdered) (b. 1937)
1979 - Jesse Bishop, murderer, dies in Nevada gas chamber
1979 - Nadia Boulanger, French composer and composition teacher (b. 1887)
1981 - Michael Granger, actor (Creature with Atom Brain, Pier 5 Havana), dies
1984 - Harold Laurence Walters, composer, dies at 66
1984 - Napoleon Whiting, actor (Silas-Big Valley), dies at 75
1985 - Viorica Ursuleac, Romanian soprano (b. 1894)
1986 - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, bio-chemist (Vitamin C, Nobel 1937), dies at 93
1986 - Ivor Francis, actor (Dusty's Trail), dies at 68
1986 - Jane Dornnacker, WNBC-AM NYC helicopter traffic reporter, dies doing a live traffic report as
           her copter crashes
1986 - Ye Jianying, Chinese general and politician
1987 - Lino Ventura, Italian/French actor (Medusa touch), dies at 68
1989 - Roland Winters, actor (Jet Pilot, Meet Millie), dies at 84
1991 - Peter Willes, British actor/producer (Way We Live), dies
1992 - Cleavon Little, actor (Blazing Saddles), dies of colon cancer at 53
1992 - Red Barber, sportscaster (Dodgers, Yankees), dies at 84
1993 - Elie A Cohen, physician (held in Auschwitz), dies at 84
1993 - Fred C Shapiro, US journalist (Tiananmen-square 1989), dies at 62
1993 - Jiri Hajek, Czech lawyer/minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 80
1994 - Chester WIlliams, painter, dies at 73
1994 - David Buchan, ethno-Musicologist, dies at 55
1994 - Fabio Grobart, founder (Cuban Communist Party), dies
1994 - Harold Horace Hopkins, inventor (Endoscope), dies at 75
1994 - Rollo May, founder (Humanistic Psychology Movement), dies at 85
1994 - Sandy Horn, lesbian Activist, dies at 59
1995 - Edward Totah, art Dealer, dies at 46
1995 - K B Wilson, methodist principal (Westminster College), dies at 50
1995 - Kingsley Amis, author, dies of injuries from a fall at 73
1995 - Mary Wickes, actress (Sister Act), dies at 79
1995 - Ralph Whitlock, writer, dies at 81
1995 - Simone Gallimard, publisher, dies at 77
1996 - Charles Edward Pevensey Tennant, aristocrat, dies at 39
1996 - John Bauldie, music journalist/Dylanologist, dies at 47
1996 - Matthew Harding, businessman/football supporter, dies at 42
1997 - Leonid Amalrik, Russian animator (b. 1905)
1998 - Eric Ambler, English novelist (b. 1909)
2001 - Prof. Dr. Dkfm. Helmut Krackowizer, journalist and motorcycle racer (b. 1922)
2002 - Queen Geraldina of the Albanians (b. 1915)
2005 - Arman, French-born artist (b. 1928)
2005 - Tony Adams, Irish film producer (b. 1953)
2005 - Franky Gee, American singer (Captain Jack) (b. 1962)
2006 - Arthur Hill, Canadian actor (b. 1922)
2007 - Ève Curie French writer (b. 1904)
2009 - Don Lane, American-born Australian television personality (b. 1933)
2009 - Soupy Sales, American comedian and television personality (b. 1926)
2011 - Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, Saudi Crown Prince (b. 1924 or 1930)
2012 - Russell Means, Native American activist,dies from esophageal cancer at 72
2012 - Wilson Whineray, New Zealand rugby player, dies at 77
2012 - Arthur Jensen, American psychologist,dies at 89

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 23, 2013, 11:54:24 AM

This Day in History for 23rd October


Historical Events

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The Sun King of France Louis XIV         Marxist Revolutionary Vladimir Lenin            Baseball Great Babe Ruth

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Baseball Player Jackie Robinson              Novelist & Poet Boris Pasternak             Musician Sid Vicious

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Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat


4004 BC - Creation of the world begins according to the calculations of Archbishop James Ussher
42 BC - Roman Republican civil wars: Second Battle of Philippi - Brutus's army is decisively defeated
            by Mark Antony and Octavian. Brutus commits suicide.
425 - Valentinian III is elevated to Roman Emperor, at the age of 6.
502 - The Synodus Palmaris, called by Gothic king Theodoric the Great, discharges Pope Symmachus
         of all charges, thus ending the schism of Antipope Laurentius.
585 - Burgundy king Guntram opens synod of Mâcon (Mastico)
787 - Byzantine empress Irene recovers Iconclastic cult at Nicaea
1086 - Battle of az-Zallaqah: Army of Yusuf ibn Tashfin defeats the forces of Castilian King Alfonso
           VI
1091 - Tornado (possible T8/F4) strikes the heart of London killing 2 and demolishing the then
           wooden London Bridge
1157 - The Battle of Grathe Heath ends the civil war in Denmark. King Sweyn III is killed and
           Valdemar I restores the country.
1229 - Otto II becomes earl of Gelre
1520 - King Carlos I crowned, German emperor Charles V
1588 - Medina Sidonia's Spanish Armada returns to Santander
1641 - Outbreak of the Irish Rebellion of 1641 - Catholic uprising in Ulster
1642 - Battle at Edgeville (Warwick): King Charles I vs English parliament
1644 - Sea battle of Fehmarn Sont: Adm Thijssen beats Denen
1668 - Jews of Barbados forbidden to engage in retail trade
1679 - Meal Tub Plot against James II of England
1681 - French troops under King Louis XIV occupy Staatsburg
1684 - Colony Massachusetts under authority of English crown mounted
1690 - Revolt in Haarlem after public ban on smoking
1694 - American colonial forces, led by Sir William Phipps, fail to seize Quebec.
1702 - -24] Battle in Bay of Vigo: Neth/Engl fleet destroy Span/French fleet
1739 - War of Jenkins' Ear starts: British Prime Minister, Robert Walpole, reluctantly declares war on
           Spain.
1760 - 1st Jewish prayer books printed in US
1775 - Continental Congress approves resolution barring blacks from army
1790 - Slaves revolt in Haiti (later suppressed)
1805 - Sailing ship "Aeneus" sinks off Newfoundland killing 340
1812 - Failed coup against emperor Napoleon
1813 - The Pacific Fur Company trading post in Astoria, Oregon is turned over to the rival British
           North West Company (the fur trade in the Pacific Northwest was dominated for the next
           three decades by the United Kingdom).
1814 - 1st plastic surgery is performed (England)
1824 - 1st steam locomotive is introduced
1853 - Maastricht-Aken railway in Neth opens
1854 - The Times give precise British positions in Krim
1864 - Battle of Westport, Missouri: Union General Samuel R Curtis defeats Confederate General
           Stirling Price
1867 - 72 Senators are summoned by Royal Proclamation to serve as the first members of the
           Canadian Senate.
1871 - Columbia & Sappho (US) beat Livonia (UK) in 3rd America's Cup
1876 - New Orleans Mint reopens as an assay office
1884 - 1st World Series OKed by AA, Providence (NL) beats NY Mets (AA) 6-0
1886 - St Louis Browns win World Championship by beating Chicago 4-3 in 10
1888 - Pelham Bay Park in Bronx, vested
1890 - Opera "Prince Igor" is produced (St Petersburg)
1893 - C Dazey's "In Old Kentucky" premieres in NYC (27 seasons)
1905 - Edward Milton Royle's "Squaw Man," premieres in NYC
1910 - Blanche Scott became 1st woman solo a public airplane flight
1910 - Phila A's beat Chicago Cubs 4 games to 1 in 7th World Series
1910 - Ritz Hotel in Madrid opens: 200 chambers/100 bathtubs
1915 - 1st national horseshoe throwing championship (Kellerton, Iowa)
1915 - 25,000 women march in NYC, demanding right to vote
1917 - 1st Infantry division "Big Red One" shoots 1st US shot in WW I
1917 - Lenin speaks against Kamenev, Kollontai, Stalin & Trotsky
1919 - Romberg & Atteridge's musical "Passing Show," premieres in NYC
1920 - Chicago grand jury indicts Abe Attell, Hal Chase, & Bill Burns as go-betweens in Black Sox
           World Series scandal
1921 - Green Bay Packers play 1st NFL game, 7-6 win over Minneapolis
1921 - Leos Janacek's opera "Kat'a Kabanova," premieres in Brno
1922 - Channing Pollock's "Fool," premieres in NYC
1922 - Conservative A Bonar forms new government in England
1923 - Babe Ruth makes a postseason exhibition appearance in a Giants uniform
1923 - Giants defeat Balt Orioles 9-0 to benefit former Giants owner John Day
1927 - Town of Netanya Israel founded by Nathan Strauss
1932 - "Fred Allen Show" premieres on radio
1932 - Pieter G Marais, S Afr minister of Education/Development aid
1934 - Jean Piccard & Jeanette Ridlen attain balloon height of 17.341 m (rec)
1935 - Gabby Hartnett selected NL MVP
1935 - Johnny Revolta wins PGA golf tournament
1935 - Dutch Schultz, Abe Landau, Otto Berman, and Bernard "Lulu" Rosencrantz are fatally shot at
           a saloon in Newark, New Jersey in what will become known as The Chophouse Massacre.
1941 - Walt Disney's "Dumbo" released
1942 - 1st ships of invasion fleet to Morocco leave Norfolk
1942 - During WW II, Britain launches major offensive at El Alamein, Egypt
1942 - German units go through Red October-factory in Stalingrad
1942 - All 12 passengers and crewmen aboard an American Airlines DC-3 airliner are killed when it is
           struck by a U.S. Army Air Forces bomber near Palm Springs, California. Amongst the victims
           is award-winning composer and songwriter Ralph Rainger ("Thanks for the Memory", "Love in
           Bloom", "Blue Hawaii").
1943 - 1st Jewish transport out of Rome reaches camp Birkenau
1943 - Burma railway opens
1944 - 1st Central Kitchen opens in Amsterdam
1944 - Gulf of Leyte battle begin
1944 - Soviet army invades Hungary
1944 - Vice-adm Kurita's sailboat Atago sinks
1945 - Jackie Robinson signs Montreal Royal contract
1946 - UN General Assembly 2nd session convenes (1st NYC-Flushing Meadows)
1947 - NAACP petition on racism, "An Appeal to the World" presented to UN
1947 - Husband & wife Dr Carl Cori & Dr Gerty Cori are 1st spouses to be awarded joint Nobel Prizes
1953 - France grants Laos' sovereignty
1953 - German FR applies to NATO
1953 - WTRF TV channel 7 in Wheeling-Steubenville, WV (CBS) 1st broadcast
1954 - Britain, England, France & USSR agree to end occupation of Germany
1954 - German FR joins NATO
1954 - Pakistan governor-general Ghoelan Mohammed disbands parliament
1954 - WSAU TV channel 7 in Wausau, WI (CBS) begins broadcasting
1955 - Dominican League moves to winter baseball for 1st time
1956 - 1st video recording on magnetic tape televised coast-to-coast
1956 - Revolt against Stalinist policies begins in Hungary
1956 - Thousands of Hungarians protest against the government and Soviet occupation. (The
           Hungarian Revolution is crushed on November 4).
1957 - 1st test firing of Vanguard satellite launch vehicle, TV-3
1958 - De Gaulle offers Algerians defiance "peace of the brave"
1958 - Soviet novelist Boris Pasternak, wins Nobel Prize for Literature
1958 - USSR lends money to UAR to build Aswan High Dam
1958 - The Springhill Mine Bump - An underground earthquake traps 174 miners in the No. 2 colliery
           at Springhill, Nova Scotia, the deepest coal mine in North America at the time. By November
           1, rescuers from around the world had dug out 100 of the victims, marking the death toll at         
           74.
1959 - Chinese troops move into India, 17 die
1961 - "Kwamina" opens at 54th St Theater NYC for 32 performances
1961 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1962 - Adlai Stevenson speaks at UN about Cuba crisis
1962 - USAF Major Robert A Rushworth takes X-15 to 40,800m
1962 - WCIV TV channel 4 in Charleston, SC (NBC) begins broadcasting
1963 - Neil Simon's "Barefoot in the Park," premieres in NYC
1964 - Japanese beat Russian for 1st Olympic Gold in woman's volleyball
1964 - Time Magazine uses term "op art" for 1st time
1966 - Sandra Spuzich/Jack Rule wins Haig & Haig Scotch Mixed Foursome Golf
1967 - "Henry, Sweet Henry" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 80 performances
1967 - NJ Americans (later NY/NJ Nets) play 1st ABA game
1968 - "Maggie Flynn" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 82 performances
1968 - Kip Keino (Kenya) wins gold medal for 1,500m (3 min 34.9 sec)
1969 - "Jimmy" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 84 performances
1970 - Gary Gabelich sets auto speed record 622.4 mph (1,001 kph)
1971 - WXLT (now WWSB) TV channel 40 in Sarasota-Bradenton, FL (ABC) begins
1972 - "Pippin" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 1944 performances
1972 - Access credit cards introduced in Great Britain
1972 - WNJS TV channel 23 in Camden, NJ (PBS) begins broadcasting
1973 - Nixon agrees to turn over White House tape recordings to Judge Sirica
1973 - UN's revised International Telecommunication Convention adopted
1973 - Yankee GM & pres Lee MacPhail named AL president
1974 - Cubs trade Billy Williams to A's for Manny Trillo, Knowles & Locker
1974 - Lake Isaac in Cleveland Metroparks' Big Creek Reservation dedicated
1975 - Battle between Cuba & South Africa troops in Angola
1975 - Islander Glenn Resch's 5th shut-out opponent-Flyers 3-0
1977 - 7th NYC Women's Marathon won by Miki Gorman in 2:43:10
1977 - 8th NYC Marathon won by Bill Rodgers in 2:11:38
1977 - Panamanians vote 2:1 to approve new Canal treaties
1977 - Paleontologist Elso Barghoorn announces that 34-billion-year-old one-celled fossils, the
           earliest life forms, had been discovered
1978 - CBS raises LP prices to $8.98
1978 - China & Japan formally ends 4 decades of dissension
1978 - Sid Vicious attempts suicide while at Riker's Detention Center in NYC
1979 - Billy Martin is involved in a barroom altercation with Joseph Cooper, a Minn marshmallow
           salesman. Cooper requires 15 stitches
1980 - "Tintypes" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 93 performances
1980 - McCosker (168) & Dyson (152) make 319 opening stand cricket, NSW v WA
1980 - Soviet PM Nikolai Tichonov succeeds Alexei Kosygin, due to illness
1981 - US national debt hits $1 trillion
1983 - 13th NYC Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:27:00
1983 - 14th NYC Marathon won by Rod Dixon in 2:08:59
1983 - 400,000 demonstrate in Brussels, against cruise missile
1983 - Suicide terrorist truck bomb kills 243 US personnel in Beirut
1984 - Cubs Rick Sutcliffe, selected as a unanimous choice as NL Cy Young
1984 - NBC airs BBC footage of Ethiopian famine
1984 - STS 51-A launch vehicle moves to launch pad
1987 - Dutch government gives Fokker&#039;s Aircraft Ÿ212 million credit
1987 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1987 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1988 - Boston Celtics play Spain in Madrid
1988 - Robert Bork's supreme court nomination rejected by US Senate
1989 - Browns' Bernie Kosar sets club record with a 97-yard TD pass
1989 - George Harrison releases "Best of Dark Horse 1976-89" album
1989 - Hungary proclaims itself a republic & declares communist rule ended
1989 - US 62nd manned space mission STS 34 (Atlantis 5) returns from space
1989 - William Nicholson's "Shadowlands," premieres in London
1990 - Iraq announces release of 330 French hostages
1991 - "Les Miserables," opens at Mogador Theatre, Paris
1991 - Clarence Thomas, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice
1991 - Dr Jack Kevorkian's suicide machine kills 2 women
1992 - Emperor Akihito becomes the first Emperor of Japan to stand on Chinese soil.
1993 - 7 killed by IRA-bomb attack in Belfast
1993 - Paramilitia kills 22 demonstrators at Bijbihara Kashmir
1993 - Tor Blue Jays beat Philadelphia Phillies, 4 games to 2, in 89th World Series
1994 - 3rd Solheim Cup: US beats Europe, 13-7 at Greenbrier WV
1996 - NY Yankees set record by coming back from 6-0 in World Series game to beat Atlanta Braves
           8-6, also set record of 7th straight road win
1997 - "Triumph of Love," opens at Royale Theater NYC
1997 - At 6:11 AM San Francisco experiences a black out
1997 - Dow Jones drops 186.88 pts
1997 - Les Alexander, owner of Houston Rockets buys NHL's Edmonton Oilers
1998 - Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Chairman
           Yasser Arafat reach a "land for peace" agreement.
2001 - The Provisional Irish Republican Army of Northern Ireland commences disarmament after
           peace talks.
2001 - Apple releases the iPod.
2002 - Moscow Theatre Siege begins: Chechen rebels seize the House of Culture theater in Moscow
           and take approximately 700 theater-goers hostage.
2004 - A powerful earthquake and its aftershocks hit Niigata prefecture, northern Japan, killing 35
           people, injuring 2,200, and leaving 85,000 homeless or evacuated.
2009 - The United Nations "Rotterdam Rules" convention regulating international maritime carriage of
           goods is ratified with its twentieth signature.
2011 - A powerful 7.2 magnitude earthquake strikes Van Province, Turkey, killing 582 people and
           injuring thousands.
2012 - 12 people are killed and 40 are injured in a hospital fire in Tainan, Taiwan

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 23, 2013, 11:55:49 AM

This Day in History for 23rd October


Famous Weddings

1918 - Actor Charlie Chaplin (29) weds Mildred Harris (17)
1996 - American caricaturist Al Hirshfeld (93) weds Louise Kerz
2010 - Singer-songwriter Katy Perry (25) weds actor-comedian Russell Brand (35) at luxury resort
          Aman-i-Khas in Northern India

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 23, 2013, 12:03:09 PM

This Day in History for 23rd October


Famous Birthdays

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Brazilian Football Legend                     Novelist Michael Crichton (1942)          Parody Singer and Comedian Weird
Pele (1940)                                                                                                               Al Yankovic (1959)


1503 - Isabella of Portugal, queen of Spain and empress of Germany (d. 1539)
1516 - Charlotte de Valois, princess of France (d. 1524)
1543 - Juan de la Cueva, Spain, dramatist
1634 - Hedvig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp, Queen of Sweden (d. 1715)
1654 - Johann Bernhard Staudt, composer
1698 - Ange-Jacques Gabriel, French court architect (Palace de la Concorde)
1705 - Maximilian Ulysses Count Browne, Austrian field marshal (d. 1757)
1713 - Peter Burmannus Secundus, [Pieter Burman], Dutch classicist
1715 - Peter II Aleksejevitsj, Saint Petersburg, tsar of Russia (1727-30)
1752 - Nicolas Appert, inventor (food canning, bouillon tablet)
1762 - Samuel Morey, American inventor (d. 1843)
1766 - Emmanuel, marquis de Grouchy, French marshal (d. 1847)
1767 - H Benjamin Constant, [de Rebeque], French politician/writer
1771 - Jean-Andoche Junot, French general (d. 1813)
1773 - Pietro Generali, composer
1788 - Sarah Hale, founder (Seaman's Aid Society of Boston)
1790 - Chauncey Allen Goodrich, American clergyman (d. 1860)
1794 - Joseph Panny, composer
1796 - Stefano Franscini, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1857)
1797 - John J Rochussen, governor-general of Dutch-Indies (1845-51)
1801 - Gustav Albert Lortzing, composer
1805 - Adalbert Stifter, Austrian author (Nachsommer)
1805 - John Russell Bartlett, American linguist (d. 1886)
1810 - [Sarah] Margaret Fuller Ossoli, US feminist/revolutionary (NY Tribune)
1813 - Ludwig Leichhardt, German explorer (d. 1848)
1815 - João Maurício Wanderley, Brazilian magistrate and politician (d. 1889)
1817 - Pierre Athanase Larousse, French lexicographer (d. 1875)
1819 - Isac Baker Woodbury, composer
1820 - James Monroe Goggin, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1889
1824 - Thomas Gamble Pitcher, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1895
1828 - Turner Ashby, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1862
1835 - Adlai Stevenson, (D) 23rd VP (1893-97)
1844 - Louis Riel, Manitoba, leader of insurrection of Metis
1844 - Robert S Bridges, England, poet laureate (Eros & Psyche)
1846 - Alexander Andreyevich Archangel'sky, composer
1851 - Guillaume Couture, composer
1852 - Jean-Louis Forain, French etcher/lithographer
1865 - Neltje Blanchan, American writer (d. 1918)
1868 - Rama V, [Chulalongkorn], leader of Thailand (-1910)
1869 - Jacobus H "Koos" Speenhoff, Dutch singer
1870 - Francis Kelley, Catholic Bishop of Oklahoma (d. 1948)
1873 - William D. Coolidge, American physicist and inventor (d. 1975)
1875 - Gilbert N. Lewis, American chemist (d. 1946)
1876 - Franz Schlegelberger, German judge and politician (d. 1970)
1880 - Una O'Connor, Belfast Ireland, actress (David Copperfield)
1885 - Lawren Harris, Canadian painter (d. 1970)
1888 - Onésime Gagnon, Canadian politician (d. 1961)
1893 - Jean Absil, Belgian composer (Peau d'Ane)
1893 - Gummo Marx, American actor (d. 1977)
1894 - Rube Bressler, baseball player (d. 1966)
1896 - André Lévêque, French engineer (d. 1930)
1899 - Lilyan Tashman, Brooklyn NY, actor (Bulldog Drummond)
1900 - Douglas Jardine, cricketer (England's Bodyline captain)
1902 - Otmar Nussio, composer
1902 - Otto J Gombosi, Hungarian/US musicologist
1903 - Milford Dolliole, pioneer jazz drummer
1904 - Harvey Penick, American golfer (d. 1995)
1905 - Alexander Shamil'yevich Melik-Pashayev, composer
1905 - Felix Bloch, Swiss/US nuclear physicist (Nobel 1952)
1906 - Gertrude Ederle, NYC, swimmer (Olympic-gold-1924)
1906 - Miriam Gideon, composer
1910 - Hayden Rorke, Brooklyn New York, American actor (Dr Bellows-I Dream of Jeannie)
1910 - Sally O'Neil, Bayonne NJ, actress (Beggar's Holiday, Moth)
1914 - Frank (Bruiser) Kinard, NFL, AAFC tackle (Bkln, NY Yankees)
1917 - Robert Bray, Kalispell Mont, actor (Corey-Lassie, Stagecoach West)
1918 - James Daly, Wisc, actor (Medical Center)
1918 - Peggy Moran, actress (Double Date, Horror Island)
1920 - Ted Fujita, Japanese meteorologist (d. 1998)
1921 - Tom Manders, Dutch cabaret artist (Dorus)
1922 - Coleen Gray, Staplehurst Nebraska, actress (Apache Drums)
1922 - Stuart Sloan, war hero/test pilot
1923 - Frank Sutton, Clarksville Tenn, actor (Sgt Carter-Gomer Pyle USMC)
1923 - Ned Rorem, Richmond Indiana, composer/author (Sky Music)
1925 - Johnny Carson, Corning Iowa, comedian (Tonight Show, Who Do You Trust)
1925 - Manos Hadjidakis, Greek composer/conductor (Never on Sunday)
1925 - Nanni Loy, film director
1927 - Edward Kienholz, US sculptor (Roxy)
1927 - Leszek Kolakowski, Polish philosopher (Conversations with the Devil)
1928 - Alexander Tanev, composer
1928 - Bella Darvi, [Bayla Wegier], Sosnowiec Poland, actress (Racers)
1928 - Patrick Peter Sacco, composer
1930 - Gerard Blain, Paris France, actor (Hatari)
1931 - Diana Dors, [Fluck], Swindon England, actress (Berserk!, Steaming)
1931 - Jim Bunning, Southgate, Kentucky, American baseball player and politician (perfect Game vs
           Mets 1965)/(Rep-R-Ky)
1932 - Dimitra Arliss, actress (Rich Man Poor Man II)
1932 - Vasily Belov, Northern Krai,USSR, author (Business as Usual, Everything's Ahead), (d. 2012)
1933 - Tom Dewdney, cricket pace bowler (WI of 50's)
1935 - Chi Chi Rodriguez, Rio Piedras PR, PGA golfer (1972 Byron Nelson)
1935 - Zbigniew Rudzinski, composer
1936 - Barry Sinclair, cricketer (21 Tests for NZ in the 60's, 3 centuries)
1936 - Philip Kaufman, director (Right Stuff, Henry & June)
1938 - John Heinz, (Sen-R-PA, 1977- )
1938 - Jordan Christopher, Youngstown Ohio, actor (Secrets of Midland Heights)
1939 - Charlie Foxx, US songwriter/soul singer (Mockingbird)
1939 - Ellie Greenwich, rocker
1940 - Freddie Marsden, Liverpool, rock drummer (Gerry & The Pacemakers)
1940 - Pelé [Edson Arantes do Nascimento], Três Corações, Minas Gerais, Brazil, Brazilian footballer
           (Player of the Century - 1281 goals in 1363 games)
1941 - Colin Milburn, cricketer (England bat whose career was cut short)
1941 - Igor Smirnov, Moldovan politician
1941 - Mel Winkler, American actor
1942 - Anita Roddick, English cosmetic manufacturer (Body Shop)
1942 - Michael Crichton, Chicago, novelist (Andromeda Strain, Congo, Looker), (d. 2008)
1944 - Warren Burton, Chicago IL, actor (Jason Dunlap-Another World
1945 - Kim Larsen, Danish singer
1946 - Gerda Lenten-Havertong, Surinam, Dutch singer/actress (Sesame St)
1946 - Miklos Nemeth, Hungary, javelin thrower (Olympic-gold-1976)
1946 - Mel Martinez, American politician
1947 - Greg Ridley, rocker
1948 - Hermann Hauser, Austrian-born entrepreneur
1948 - Brian Ross, American journalist
1948 - Tony Anselmo, American animator and cartoon voice actor
1949 - Michael 'Wurzel' Burston, British musician (Motörhead)
1949 - Nick Tosches, American writer
1950 - Harry Sacksioni, Dutch guitarist (Around the Corner)
1951 - Michael Rupert, Denver Colorado, actor (Pasadena Playhouse)
1951 - Charly García, Argentine singer
1951 - Fatmir Sejdiu, President of Kosovo
1952 - Pierre Moerlen, French drummer and percussionist (d. 2005)
1954 - Ang Lee, Taiwanese-born American director (The Wedding Banquet, Brokeback Mountain)
1956 - Betsy Nagelsen, St Petersburg FL, tennis star
1956 - Darrell Pace, Cin Ohio, archer (Oly-2 gold/silver-1976, 84, 88)
1956 - Dwight Yoakam, Pikeville Ky, country singer (Honky Tonk Man)
1957 - Louann Fernald San Antonio TX, playmate (Jun, 1979)
1957 - Sue Ertl, LPGA golfer
1958 - Michael Eric Dyson, American activist, professor, author
1959 - Weird Al Yankovic [Alfred Matthew], California, parody singer (Eat It, UHF, Naked Gun)
1959 - Sam Raimi, actor (Indian Summer, Thou Shalt Not Kill Except)
1960 - Wayne Rainey, American motorcyclist
1960 - Randy Pausch, American computer science professor, author
1961 - Laurie Halse Anderson, American writer
1961 - Don and Ron Harris, American professional wrestlers
1961 - Andoni Zubizarreta, Spanish footballer
1962 - Beatie Edney, London England, actress (Diary of a Mad Old Man)
1962 - Christo van Rensburg, South Africa, tennis star
1962 - Daria Scagliola, Italian/Dutch photographer (vuurtorenpostzegels)
1962 - Doug Flutie, CFL/NFL quarterback (Argonauts, Generals, Bears, Pats)
1962 - Jaime Yzaga, Peru, tennis star
1962 - Mike Tomczak, NFL quarterback (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1963 - David Bedard, Montreal QUE, 3m springboard diver (Oly-84, 88, 92, 96)
1963 - Katherine Hushaw, Anaheim Ca, playmate (Oct, 1986)
1965 - Al Leiter, Toms River NJ, pitcher (Florida Marlins, NY Mets)
1965 - Augusten Burroughs, American writer
1966 - Alex Zanardi, Italian race car driver
1967 - Jaime Yzaga, Lima Peru, tennis star
1967 - Michael Philbrick, CFL defensive tackle (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1967 - Dale Crover, American musician (Melvins, The Men of Porn, Altamont)
1968 - Bettina Fulco Villella, Mar Del Plata Arg, tennis star (1993 Futures)
1968 - Kendall Gammon, NFL center (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1968 - Kevin Henry, NFL defensive end (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1968 - Maggie Philgence, St Lucia Castries VI, WPVA (Oly Fest-gold-91)
1969 - Brooke Theiss, California, actress (Wendy-Just the 10 of Us, Good & Evil)
1969 - Kristine Bailey, Livonia Mich, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-13th-1995)
1970 - Grant Imahara, American TV Mythbuster
1971 - Alai Kalaniuvalu, NFL guard (Philadelphia Eagles)
1972 - Daryl Price, defensive end (San Francisco 49ers)
1972 - Patrise Alexander, linebacker (Washington Redskins)
1972 - Tiffeny Milbrett, Portland Oregon, soccer forward (Olympics-96)
1973 - Blaine McElmurry, NFL defensive back (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1973 - Mac Cozier, soccer forward (Olympics-gold-96)
1973 - Shawn Wooden, free safety (Miami Dolphins)
1973 - Sjoerd Sanders, soccer player (PSV/MVV)
1974 - Derek Landy, Lusk, Ireland, author ( Skulduggery Pleasant series)
1974 - Beatrice Roini Liua Faumuina, NZ, discus thrower (Olympics-96)
1974 - Dani Tyler, Denver Colorado, softball infielder (Olympics-gold-96)
1974 - Kaleena Kiff, Santa Monica California, actress (Patti-Love Sidney)
1974 - Sander Westerveld, soccer player (FC Twente)
1975 - Keith Van Horn, NBA forward (NJ Nets)
1975 - Odalys García, Cuban actress
1975 - Jessicka, American artist
1976 - Julie Howard, Brantford ON, 100m/200m backstroker (Olympics-27-92, 96)
1976 - Cat Deeley, English model and television personality
1976 - Ryan Reynolds, Canadian actor and comedian
1978 - Steve Harmison, English cricketer
1978 - Jimmy Bullard, English footballer
1978 - Archie Thompson, Australian footballer
1979 - Simon Davies, Welsh footballer
1979 - Jorge Solís, Mexican professional boxer
1980 - Jade Davidson, Australia, gymnast (Olympics-96)
1980 - Pedro Liriano, Dominican baseball player
1981 - Jeroen Bleekemolen, Dutch racing driver
1981 - Ben Francisco, American baseball player
1982 - Valentin Badea, Romanian footballer
1983 - Filipos Darlas, Greek footballer
1983 - Josh Strickland, American entertainer
1984 - Izabel Goulart, Brazilian model
1985 - James Kotecki, American political blogger
1986 - Briana Evigan, American actress
1986 - Jake Robinson, English footballer
1986 - Jessica Stroup, American Actress
1987 - Faye Hamlin, Swedish singer (Play)
1988 - Nicolaj Agger, Danish football player
1990 - Stevie Brock, American singer
1991 - Princess Mako of Akishino of Japan

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 23, 2013, 12:06:47 PM

This Day in History for 23rd October


Famous Deaths

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Fashion Designer                              Country Singer Maybelle Carter (1978)
Christian Dior (1957)


42 BC - Marcus Junius Brutus, Roman senator (b. 85 BC)
930 - Daigo, Emperor of Japan (b. 885)
1260 - Koetoez, Turkish sultan of Egypt, murdered
1450 - Johannes van Capestrano, Italian saint, dies at 70
1456 - Giovanni da Capistrano, Italian saint (b. 1386)
1550 - Tiedemann Giese, Polish Catholic bishop (b. 1480)
1581 - Michael Neander, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1529)
1602 - Franciscus Junius, French/Neth calvinist theologist/vicar, dies at 57
1616 - Leonhard Hutter, German theologian (b. 1563)
1688 - Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange, French philologist (b. 1610)
1730 - Anne Oldfield, English actress (b. 1683)
1753 - Columban Praelisauer, composer, dies at 50
1764 - Emmanuel-Auguste de Cahideuc, Comte Dubois de la Motte, French naval officer (b. 1683)
1774 - Michel Benoist, French Jesuit missionary and scientist (b. 1715)
1782 - Joseph Reipel, composer, dies at 73
1799 - William Paca, US judge/signer (Decl of Independence), dies at 58
1801 - Johann Gottlieb Naumann, German composer, dies at 60
1806 - Franz Seydelmann, composer, dies at 58
1869 - Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Tolbecque, Belgian composer, dies at 72
1872 - Theophile Gautier, French poet/writer/historian/critic, dies at 61
1885 - Charles S. West, Texas jurist and politician (b. 1829)
1886 - Johann Nepomuk Kafka, composer, dies at 67
1890 - Karel M M Verlat, Flemish painter/graphic artist, dies
1892 - Mehemed Emin Pasja, German explorer, murdered at 52
1899 - W Penn Symons, British gen-maj, dies in battle
1901 - Georg von Siemens, founder (Deutsche Bank), dies
1903 - Francis Ellingwood Abbot, theologian (Scientific Theism), dies at 66
1910 - Chulalongkorn, King of Thailand (b. 1853)
1915 - W G Grace, British cricketer, dies
1921 - John B Dunlop, Scottish inventor air tire (Dunlop Rubber), dies at 81
1925 - Vyacheslav Gavrilovich Karatigin, composer, dies at 50
1928 - F A Alphonse Aulard, French historian, dies
1929 - Thomas F Tout, historian (Manch school of historiography), dies at 74
1935 - Abe Landau, US gangster, murdered
1935 - Dutch Schultz [Arthur Flegenheimer], US gangster, murdered at 33
1935 - Otto "Aba Daba" Berman, US gangster, murdered
1936 - (Marie) Louise Hens, Flemish actress (Bitter Pill), dies at 80
1939 - Zane Grey, US western writer (Spirit of the Border), dies at 67
1942 - Georg Stumme, German general/commandant of African corps, dies
1942 - Ralph Rainger, composer, dies at 41
1944 - Hana Brady, Holocaust victim
1944 - Charles Glover Barkla, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)
1948 - Eugeniusz Morawsky-Dabrowa, composer, dies at 71
1950 - Al Jolson, [Asa Yoelson], singer/actor (Jazz Singer), dies at 64
1952 - Susan Peters, actress (Random Harvest), dies at 31
1953 - Maurice Lugeon, Swiss geologist (nappism), dies at 83
1954 - Henri Zagwijn, composer, dies at 76
1957 - Frederick Burton, actor (One Way Passage), dies at 86
1957 - Christian Dior, French designer (New Look), dies at 52 of a heart attack
1959 - Gerda Lundequist, Swedish actress (b. 1871)
1963 - Raphael HLAJM Verwilghen, architect/urban developer, dies at 78
1966 - Claire McDowell, actress (Big Parade), dies after long illness at 88
1969 - Tommy Edwards, rocker, dies at 47
1975 - Barboura Morris, actor (Wasp Woman, Machine-Gun Kelly), dies at 43
1975 - Charles Brokaw, actor (Outer Gate, I Cover the War), dies at 77
1976 - Leonard Lee, US R&B-singer (Shirley & Lee-I'm Gone), dies at 40
1978 - Maybelle Carter, country singer (Johnny Cash Show), dies at 69
1982 - Jacques Klein, Brazilian pianist, dies at 52
1983 - Jessica Savage, Margate NJ, newscaster (NBC Weekend), dies at 36
1983 - Tamara Shayne (Jolson Story), actress, dies at 80 of a heart attack
1984 - David Gorcey, actor (Angel's Alley), dies at 63 in a diabetic coma
1984 - Oskar Werner, actor (Farenehit 451), dies of a heart attack at 61
1986 - Edward A Doisy Sr, discoverer of vitamin K (Nobel 1943), dies at 92
1986 - Lino Ventura, actor (French Detective, Slap, Jig-Saw), dies at 67
1989 - Armida, Mexican-American stage, vaudeville and film actress (b. 1911)
1990 - Louis Althusser, French philosopher, dies
1991 - Lance Baker, dies at 31
1992 - Kees Spermon, Dutch painter/graphic artist, dies
1994 - Robert Lansing, actor (Blade Runner, Equalizer), dies of cancer at 66
1994 - William Leonard, head (CBS News), dies of a stroke at 78
1996 - Alexander Kelly, pianist/teacher, dies at 67
1996 - Diana Trilling, writer, dies at 91
1996 - Lin Onus, artist, dies at 47
1996 - Ronald Alfred Gardyne "Rags" Butler, sailor, dies at 68
1997 - Bert Haanstra, Dutch filmmaker (b. 1916)
1998 - Barnett Slepian, American physician (b. 1946)
2000 - Rodney Anoa'i aka Yokozuna, Samoan-American professional wrestler (b. 1966)
2001 - Ronald William Kirby, British artist (b. 1928)
2001 - Daniel Wildenstein, French art dealer and racehorse owner (b. 1917)
2002 - Adolph Green, American lyricist and playwright (b. 1915)
2003 - Soong May-ling, wife of the President of the Republic of China Chiang Kai-shek (b. 1897)
2003 - Tony Capstick, English actor, comedian, and musician (b. 1944)
2004 - Robert Merrill, American baritone (b. 1919)
2005 - Stella Obasanjo, Nigerian first lady (b. 1945)
2005 - William Hootkins, American actor (b. 1948)
2005 - John Muth, American economist (b. 1930)
2006 - Lebo Mathosa, South African entertainer (b. 1977)
2007 - John Ilhan, Australian entrepreneur, Crazy John's mobile phones (b. 1965)
2007 - Lim Goh Tong, Founder of Genting Group (b. 1918)
2008 - Kevin Finnegan, British Middleweight Boxing Champion (b. 1948)
2010 - Francis Crippen, American long-distance swimmer (b. 1984)
2010 - Leo Cullum, American cartoonist (d. 1942)
2011 - Marco Simoncelli, Italian motorcycle racer (b. 1987)
2011 - John McCarthy, American computer scientist and pioneer in the field of Artificial Intelligence,
           inventor of the Lisp programming language.(b. 1927)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 24, 2013, 09:27:55 AM

This Day in History for 24th October


Historical Events

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Microbiologist Robert Koch                     Aviator Orville Wright                               Gangster Al Capone

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Dictator of Nazi Germany                  Musician & member of the Beatles                   Tennis Player Steffi Graf
Adolf Hitler                                                      Paul McCartney


1260 - Saif ad-Din Qutuz, Mamluk sultan of Egypt, is assassinated by Baibars, who seizes power for
           himself.
1260 - The spectacular Cathedral of Chartres is dedicated in the presence of King Louis IX of France;
           the cathedral is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
1360 - The Treaty of Brétigny is ratified at Calais, marking the end of the first phase of the Hundred
           Years' War.
1492 - 24 Jews are burned at stake in Mecklenburg Germany
1531 - Bavaria joins Schmalkaldische Union
1593 - Alleged teleportation of Gil Perez.
1596 - -26] Battle at Kerestes: Ottoman beat Austria-Hungary & Germany
1648 - Treaty of Westphalia ends The Thirty Year's War in the Holy Roman Empire
1648 - Switzerland's independence recognized in the Treaty of Westphalia
1656 - Treaty of Vilnius: Russia & Poland sign anti-Swedish covenant
1681 - Earl of Shaftesbury accused of high treason in London
1795 - 3rd partition of Poland, between Austria, Prussia & Russia
1812 - Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Maloyaroslavets takes place near Moscow.
1818 - Felix Mendelssohn, 9, performs his 1st public concert (Berlin)
1836 - A Phillips patents match
1851 - William Lassell discovers Ariel & Umbriel, satellites of Uranus
1856 - Constitution of South Australia adopted
1857 - World's 1st soccer club, Sheffield F C, founded in England
1861 - 1st US transcontinental telegram is sent (from SF to Wash DC)
1861 - West Virginia seceded from Virginia
1871 - Mob in LA hangs 18 Chinese
1881 - Levi P Morton, US ambas to France drives 1st rivet in Stat of Liberty
1882 - Robert Koch discovers germ that causes tuberculosis
1885 - Johann Strauss' opera "Zigeunerbaron," premieres in Vienna
1889 - Softball rules adopted by Mid Winter Indoor Baseball League
1899 - Battle at Rietfontein, South Africa: Boers vs British army
1900 - General Redvers Buller returns to England
1901 - 1st woman to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel (Anna Taylor)
1903 - 1st trotter to run a mile under 2 minutes (Lou Dillon 1:58.1)
1903 - George Sutton becomes billard champ
1904 - 1st NY subway opens
1908 - Billy Murray hits the charts with "Take Me Outto the Ball Game"
1911 - Robert Scott's expedition leaves Cape Evans for South Pole
1911 - Orville Wright remained in the air 9 minutes and 45 seconds in a glider at Kill Devil Hills, North
           Carolina setting a new world record that stood for 10 years.
1913 - Joe Tinker fired as Cin Reds manager
1916 - Moroccan troops capture Ft Douaumont
1917 - Battle at Caporetto: German & Austria smash Italian army
1922 - German parliament mandates Ebert president until July 1925
1922 - Irish Parliament adopts a constitution for an Irish Free State
1923 - Gen Otto von Lossow calls Reichswehr to Berlin to form a dictatorship
1924 - Christian Gen Feng Joe Siang occupies Beijing
1924 - Nobel prize for fysiologie/medicine awarded to W Einthoven
1926 - Harry Houdini's last performance, which was at the Garrick Theatre in Detroit, Michigan.
1929 - "Black Thursday," start of stock market crash, Dow Jones down 12.8%
1929 - Ruby Vallee's Fleishmann Hour begins broadcasting on NBC radio
1929 - Belgium princess Marie-Jose & Italian crown prince Umberto gets engaged, assassination
           attempt on Umberto fails
1930 - A bloodless coup d'état in Brazil ousts Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa, the last President
           of the First Republic. Getúlio Vargas then installed as "provisional president."
1931 - George Washington Bridge linking NYC & NJ dedicated, opens the next day
1931 - Gangster Al Capone is sentenced to 11 years for tax evasion
1931 - George Washington Bridge connecting NY to NJ opens
1932 - British government signs trade treaty with USSR
1933 - Langston Hughes' "Mulatto," premieres in NYC
1935 - Italy invades Ethiopia [10/2]
1935 - Judge Landis fines ump George Moriarty, Cubs mgr Charlie Grimm & Chic players W English, B
           Jurges & B Herman for actions in World Series
1938 - US forbids child labor in factories
1939 - Benny Goodman records "Let's Dance"
1939 - Joe DiMaggio wins AL MVP, Jimmie Foxx is runner-up
1939 - Nazi require wearing of star of David
1939 - Nylon stockings go on sale for 1st time (Wilmington Delaware)
1940 - 40 hour work week goes into effect (Fair Labor Standards of 1938)
1940 - Hitler meets Marshal Pétain
1940 - Japan eliminates US terms (strike, play ball) from baseball
1940 - Protestant churches protest against dismissal of Jew civil servants
1942 - 2nd day of battle at El Alamein: British infantry
1943 - Anti-nazi Clandestine Radio Soldatsender Calais begins transmitting
1944 - Rotterdam Passage fight frees 46 prisoners
1944 - US air raid on Jap battleships/cruisers in Sibuya Sea: Musashi sinks
1944 - US aircraft carrier Princeton sinks at Philippines
1944 - US capt David Mccampbell shoots down 9-11 Jap planes in Gulf of Leyte
1945 - Charter of United Nations of force became
1945 - France (PC/PS/MRP win parliamentary election (25/24/23%)
1945 - UN charter comes into effect
1946 - Netherlands & Indonesia sign cease fire
1946 - A camera on board the V-2 No. 13 rocket takes the first photograph of earth from outer
           space.
1947 - Series of forest fires $30 million of timber (New England States)
1948 - Bernard M Baruch introduces term "Cold War"
1948 - Francis Poulenc's "Sinfonietta," premieres
1948 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical In Multiplicibus Curis
1948 - WJBK TV channel 2 in Detroit, MI (CBS) begins broadcasting
1951 - Jan de Hartog's "4 Poster," premieres in NYC
1951 - United Nation publishes its 1st postage stamps
1952 - Arab Liberation Movement becomes only party of Syria
1953 - KOOL (now KTSP) TV channel 10 in Phoenix, AZ (CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 - Dwight D. Eisenhower pledges United States support to South Vietnam
1956 - Margaret Towner becomes first woman to be ordained into the Presbyterian Church in the
           United States of America (PCUSA)
1956 - AP names Cin manager Birdie Tebbets as NL Manager of the Year
1956 - Soviet troops invade Hungary, Imre Nagy becomes PM of Hungary
1957 - Cin Redlegs decline to move to Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City
1957 - The USAF starts the X-20 Dyna-Soar program.
1958 - USSR lends Egypt 400 million rubles to build Aswan Dam
1959 - US premier of D Sjostakovitch's 1st Cello concert
1960 - Disaster on USSR (Baikonoer) launch pad, kills missile expert Nedelin & team (165 die-
           unconfirmed); USSR claims killed in plane crash
1961 - "Evening with Yves Montand" opens at John Golden NYC for 55 perfs
1962 - In Cuban missile crisis, the US blockade of Cuba begins
1963 - "110 in the Shade" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 330 perfs
1963 - KRO shows 1st Bonanza
1963 - Sandy Koufax is unanimous winner of Cy Young Award
1964 - "Cambridge Circus" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 23 perfs
1964 - 18th Olympic games close at Tokyo, Japan
1964 - Belgian para's liberate 1,000 white hostages in Stanleyville
1964 - Dr Kenneth David Kaunda becomes president of Zambia
1964 - Zambia (N Rhodesia) gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1964 - Khalid "Billy" Ibadulla scores 166 on Cricket debut v Australia
1964 - Test Cricket debut of Asif Iqbal, Majid Khan & Khalid Ibadulla v Aust
1965 - Benjamin Britten's "Voices for Today," premieres
1965 - Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Phoenix Thunderbirds Golf Tournament
1968 - Mick Jagger & Marianne Faithful busted for pot, released on £50 bail
1969 - Hanif, Mushtaq & Sadiq Mohammad start their only Test Cricket together
1970 - Nancy Walker creates Ida Morgenstein role on Mary Tyler Moore Show
1970 - Salvador Allende Gossens elected president of Chile
1971 - Harry Drake sets longest arrow flight by a footbow (1 mile 268 yds)
1971 - Texas Stadium opens-Cowboys beat Patriots 44-21
1973 - Heavy fog causes 65 car collision killing 9 on NJ Turnpike
1973 - John Lennon sues US government to admit FBI is tapping his phone
1973 - Yom Kippur War ends, Israel 65 miles from Cairo, 26 from Damascus
1974 - Billy Martin named AL Manager of Year (Texas Rangers)
1975 - Turkish diplomat shot dead in Paris
1976 - 1st Jewish film & TV festival
1976 - 6th NYC Women's Marathon won by Miki Gorman in 2:39:11
1976 - 7th NYC Marathon won by Bill Rodgers in 2:10:10
1976 - Hua Guofeng succeeds Mao as China's party leader
1976 - Sadiq & Mushtaq Mohammad score tons in same Test Cricket innings v NZ
1978 - Keith Richards convicted of heroin possession in Toronto
1978 - NHL Toronto Maple Leafs set own team record of 28 pts vs NY Islanders
1979 - Billy Martin punches a marshmallow salesman, puts job in jeopardy
1979 - Guinness Book of Records presents Paul McCartney with a rhodium disc
1980 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1980 - Iraqi troops occupies Khorramshar
1980 - John Lennon releases "(Just Like) Starting Over" in UK
1980 - Polish government legalizes independent labor union Solidarity
1981 - Pablo Picasso's 1937 painting Guernica goes on display in Madrid Spain to celebrate the
           centenary of the artist's birth
1982 - "Rock 'n Roll!: The 1st..." opens at St James Theater NYC for 9 perfs
1982 - 12th NYC Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:27:14
1982 - 13th NYC Marathon won by Alberto Salazar in 2:09:29
1984 - 11 members of Colombo crime family arrested
1984 - Intelsat 5 re-enters Earth's atmosphere 5 months after it failed
1984 - Steffi Graf plays her 1st pro tennis match
1986 - Dodgers' Bill Russell, 38, announces his retirement
1986 - Great Britain drops diplomatic relations with Syria
1987 - Bork's supreme court nomination rejected by senate
1987 - NBC technicians accept pact, end 118 day strike
1988 - NY Islander's & NHL high scorer, Mike Bossy retires
1988 - Traveling Wilburys Volume One is released
1988 - Typhoon Ruby sinks Philippine ferry; hundreds drown
1989 - After a weeks delay due to earthquake, World Series game 3 is played
1989 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1989 - Rev Jim Bakker is sentenced to 50 years for fraud
1990 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1991 - "Dancing at Lughnasa" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 421 perfs
1991 - Larry Ryckman purchases CFL Calgary Stampeders
1992 - Toronto Blue Jays beat Atl Braves, 4 games to 2, in 88th World Series
1993 - "Wonderful Tennessee" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 9 performances
1994 - Bomb attack on opposition in Sri Lanka, 55+ killed
1995 - Total solar eclipse in SW/S Asia (2m09s)
1996 - Hasan Raza makes Test Cricket debut for Pakistan age 14 yrs 238 days
1996 - Last game at Atlanta County Fulton Stadium. Yanks win record 8th straight road post season
           win (with no loses)
1997 - Marv Albert sentenced in assault case
1998 - Launch of Deep Space 1 comet/asteroid mission
2002 - Police arrest spree killers John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, ending the Beltway
           sniper attacks in the area around Washington, DC.
2003 - Concorde makes its last commercial flight.
2004 - 10 people, including 4 family members of Rick Hendrick, are killed in a plane crash near
           Martinsville Speedway. The plane was owned by NASCAR team Hendrick Motorsports.
2006 - Justice Rutherford of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice struck down the "motive clause",
           an important part of the Canadian Anti-Terrorism Act.
2008 - "Bloody Friday" saw many of the world's stock exchanges experienced the worst declines in
           their history, with drops of around 10% in most indices.
2009 - First International Day of Climate Action, organized with 350.org, a global campaign to
           address a claimed global warming crisis.
2012 - Libyan militias capture Bani Walid resulting in 130 civilian deaths
2012 - 3 people are shot dead and two critically wounded after being shot by an unknown gunman in
           Downey, California
2012 - Hurricane Sandy makes landfall in Jamaica killing 1 person and causing over $50 million in
           damage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 24, 2013, 09:28:43 AM

This Day in History for 24th October


Famous Weddings

1969 - "Love Story" actress Ali MacGraw (30) weds film producer Robert Evans (39)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 24, 2013, 09:40:35 AM

This Day in History for 24th October


Famous Birthdays

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Playwright Moss Hart (1904)                    Economist/Nobel Laureate                          Actor Kevin Kline (1947)
                                                                 Robert Mundell (1932)


51 - Domitian, Roman Emperor (d. 96)
1378 - David Stewart, Duke of Rothesay, heir to the throne of Scotland (d. 1402)
1607 - John Lievensz, painter/etcher/wood carver
1632 - Antony van Leeuwenhoek, Hol, naturalist (Philosophical Transactions)
1675 - Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, English soldier and politician (d. 1749)
1710 - Alban Butler, English Catholic priest and writer (d. 1773)
1763 - Dorothea von Schlegel, German novelist (d. 1839)
1788 - Sarah Josepha Hale, author (Mary Had a Little Lamb)
1789 - Jean C Baud, gov-gen of Dutch-Indies (1834-6)
1789 - Ramon Carnicer y Batlle, composer
1794 - Friedrich B Freiherr von Gagern, German/Dutch army commandant
1796 - August v Platen, writer
1804 - Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist (d. 1891)
1808 - Ernst Friedrich Richter, composer
1811 - Ferdinand Hiller, German pianist/composer/conductor
1815 - John Edwards, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1894
1830 - Belva Bennett Lockwood, attorney (1st lady to argue in Supreme Court)
1842 - Josef Nesvera, composer
1844 - Karl Lueger, anti semitic mayor of Vienna
1854 - Hendrik W Bakhuis Roozeboom, chemist (Heterogenen Gleichgewichte)
1855 - James S. Sherman, Vice President of the United States (d. 1912)
1857 - Ned Williamson, American baseball player (d. 1894)
1863 - Manuel Manrique de Lara y Berry, composer
1867 - Franco Leoni, composer
1868 - Alexandra David-Néel, French explorer and writer (d. 1969)
1872 - Peter O'Connor, Irish athlete (d. 1957)
1875 - Konstantin Yuon, Russian painter (d. 1958)
1877 - Pavel Grigor'yevich, composer
1877 - Rika H E Hopper, Dutch actress (Anastasia)
1878 - Hermann Claudius, German folk poet (Meister Bertram)
1881 - Paulus B Barth, Swiss painter/lithographer
1882 - Sybil Thorndike, England, actress (Saint Joan)
1885 - Ernest Claes, Belgian author (Saints from Zichem)
1886 - Delmira Augustini, Uruguayan poet (El Libro Blanco)
1887 - Victoria von Battenberg, wife of Spanish king Alfonso
1887 - Octave Lapize, French cyclist (d. 1917)
1890 - Chicago Mainbocher, uniform designer (Red Cross, Girl Scouts, Waves)
1890 - Kathleen Lockhart Manning, composer
1891 - Geertruida M W "Truus" Bakker, Dutch actress (The Two Orphans)
1891 - Rafael L Trujillo Molina, president/dictator of Dom Rep (1930-61)
1892 - Kurt Huber, German philosopher/resistance fighter
1894 - Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay, Bengali author (d. 1987)
1896 - Jack Warner, [Waters], London England, actor (Christmas Carol)
1897 - Lazar Weiner, composer
1899 - Ferhat Abbas, Algerian pharmacist/MP chairman (1962-63)
1900 - Elizabeth Hill, teacher of Salvonic languages
1900 - Karl Otto Runolfsson, composer
1901 - Gilda Gray, Polish-born American actress and dancer (d. 1959)
1903 - Melvin Purvis, American FBI agent (d. 1960)
1904 - Moss Hart, Bronx NY, playwright (You Can't Take it With You, Act 1)
1905 - Elizabeth Poston, composer
1906 - Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, painter
1906 - Alexander Gelfond, Russian mathematician (d. 1968)
1908 - John Alwyne Kitching, zoologist
1909 - Bill Carr, American athlete (d. 1966)
1911 - Clarence M Kelley, FBI head
1911 - Sonny Terry, rocker
1911 - Paul Grégoire, French Canadian archbishop of Montreal (d. 1993)
1913 - Molly Mary Hyde, cricketer
1913 - Tito Gobbi, Italian baritone (d. 1984)
1915 - Jean Vallerand, composer
1915 - Tito Gobbi, Italian baritone (Figaro-Barber of Seville)
1915 - Bob Kane, American cartoonist (d. 1998)
1915 - Roger Milliken, American millionaire
1915 - Marghanita Laski, British Journalist and Novelist(d. 1988)
1917 - Marshall Goldberg, NFL halfback (Chicago Cardinals)
1919 - Frank Piasecki, American aeronautical engineer (d. 2008)
1920 - Louise H "Lous" Hensen, actress (Medea, Uncle Wanja)
1920 - Marcel-Paul Schützenberger, French mathematician (d. 1996)
1923 - Denise Levertov, American poet/essayist (Joy Beneath the Skin)
1923 - Reed van Delft, [Hendrika M Schwartz], actress (Golden draagkoets)
1924 - Jose Casanovas, composer
1924 - Piet Roozenburg, World champ checker player (1948 . . 55)
1925 - Jayaaram N Reddy, South African politician/banker
1925 - Ken "Slasher" Mackay, cricketer (exciting Aussie all-rounder)
1925 - Luciano Berio, Oneglia Italy, composer (Chemins)
1926 - Y A Tittle, AAFC/NFL QB (Baltimore, SF, NY Giants, MVP 1963)
1927 - Renato de Grandis, composer
1927 - Gilbert Bécaud, French composer and actor (d. 2001)
1928 - Gabriel Laub, Polish writer
1928 - Ken Hough, cricketer (NZ pace bowler in two Tests v England 1959)
1929 - George H Crumb, Charleston WV, composer (Pulitzer 1968-Echoes of Time)
1929 - James Brosnan, baseball player/writer (Long Season)
1929 - Yordan Radichkov, Bulgarian writer (d. 2004)
1929 - Hubert Aquin, French-Canadian novelist and activist (d. 1977)
1930 - Big Bopper, [JP Richardson], Sabine Pass Tx, vocalist (Chantiily Lace)
1930 - Johan Galtung, Norway, polemologist (Meaning of Nonviolence)
1930 - Raj Bagri, Indies/British merchant in metal
1930 - Sultan Ahmad Shah, King of Malaysia
1931 - Sofia Gubaidulina, Russian composer (Stimmen Verstummen)
1932 - Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007)
1932 - Robert Mundell, Kingston, Ontario, economist and Nobel laureate (1999)
1933 - Norman Rush, American writer
1934 - Arvind Apte, cricketer (brother of Madhav Scored 8 & 7 in one Test)
1934 - Margie Masters, LPGA golfer
1936 - Annelien Kappeyne van de Coppello, Dutch politican (VVD)
1936 - Bill Wyman, England, rocker (Rolling Stones-Under My Thumb)
1936 - David Nelson, NYC, actor (Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet)
1936 - Rainer Kunad, composer
1937 - Miguel Angel Coria, composer
1938 - Fred E Finn, SF California, pianist (Mickie Finn's)
1939 - Uri Sharvit, composer
1940 - David Sainsbury, English billionaire/founder (Dutch Soc-Dem)
1940 - F Murray Abraham, Pittsburgh PA, actor (Amadeus, Mad Man)
1941 - Frank AM Aendenboom, Flemish actor (Lion of Flanders)
1941 - William H. Dobelle, American biomedical engineer
1943 - Jose Serrano, (Rep-D-New York)
1944 - Ted Templeman, rocker
1944 - Viktor Prokopenko, Ukranian footballer and coach (d. 2007)
1945 - Anthony Christian, English artist
1945 - Gérald Larose, Quebec labour union executive
1946 - Jerry Edmonton, Canada, rock drummer (Steppenwolf)
1947 - Edgar Broughton, rocker
1947 - Kevin Kline, St Louis, actor (Sophie's Choice, Big Chill)
1948 - Dale "Buffin" Griffin, rock drummer (Mott The Hoople)
1948 - Kweisi Mfume, (Rep-D-Maryland)/CEO (NAACP)
1948 - Paul and Barry Ryan, British composers-singers
1949 - Robert Pickton, Canadian charged with the first degree murder of twenty-six women
1950 - Terry Buffin, rock drummer (British Lions)
1950 - Steven Greenberg, American composer
1950 - Rawly Eastwick, American baseball player
1951 - Todd Crespi, Frankfurt Germany, actor (Magician)
1953 - Billy Thomas, Ft Meyers Fla, singer (McBride & Ride-I Count on You)
1953 - James di Donato, twin who swam the butterfly 406 miles
1953 - Jonathan di Donato, twin who swam the butterfly 406 miles
1954 - Doug Davidson, Glendale CA, actor (Paul Williams-Young & Restless)
1954 - Jaap J Feenstra, Dutch MP (PvdA)
1954 - Perry Lee "Tiny" Tavares, rocker
1954 - Brad Sherman, American politician
1954 - Thomas J. Mulcair, Quebec politician
1954 - Mike Rounds, American politician
1954 - Jozef Ráž, Slovak musician
1955 - Ghulam Parkar, cricketer (Indian batsman v England 1982)
1956 - Dale Maharidge, American author
1957 - Ron Gardenhire, German-born American baseball manager
1957 - John Kassir, American actor and comedian
1958 - Mathilde Santing, Dutch rock singer (Breast & Brow)
1958 - Pam Gietzen, LPGA golfer
1960 - Carolien de Windt, Suriname/Dutch singer (Mai Tai)
1960 - Ian Baker-Finch, Nambour Queensland, PGA golfer (1991 British Open)
1960 - B.D. Wong, American actor
1960 - Jaime Garzón, Colombian journalist and comedian (d. 1999)
1960 - Joachim "Jo" Winkelhock, German race car driver
1961 - Rafael Belliard, Pueblo Nuevo Dom Rep, infielder (Atlanta Braves)
1961 - Russell Swanson, Sydney NSW, Australasia golfer
1961 - Susan Leigh Still, Augusta Ga, lt cmdr USN/astronaut (STS 83, 94)
1961 - Mary Bono, American politician
1961 - Dave Meltzer, American wrestling journalist
1962 - B D Wong, SF CA, actor (Freshman, Mystery Date)
1962 - Jay Novacek, NFL tight end (Dallas Cowboys)
1963 - John Hendrie, Scottish footballer
1964 - Griffin O'Neal, actor (April Fools Day, Wraith)
1964 - Patrick Hunter, NFL cornerback (Arizona Cardinals)
1965 - Donald Frank, NFL cornerback (Minnesota Vikings)
1965 - Vernice Smith, NFL guard (Washington Redskins, St Louis Rams)
1965 - Kyriakos Velopoulos, Greek politician
1966 - F P Santangelo, Livonia MI, outfielder (Montreal Expos)
1966 - Shawn Lee, NFL defensive tackle (San Diego Chargers)
1966 - Roman Abramovich, Russian oil magnate
1967 - Ian Bishop, cricketer (West Indian fast bowler)
1968 - Adrian Dale, cricketer (prolific Glamorgan & England A batsman)
1968 - Francisco Claver, Spain, tennis star
1968 - Ken Ryan, Pawtucket RI, pitcher (Philadelphia Phillies)
1968 - Robert Wilonsky, American journalist
1969 - Arthur Rhodes, Waco Texas, pitcher (Baltimore Orioles)
1969 - Kelvin Pritchett, NFL defensive tackle (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1969 - Morena Corwin, Seoul, Korea, playmate (Sep, 1992)
1969 - Adela Noriega, Mexican actress
1970 - Alonza Bevan, London, bassist/tabla (Kula Shaker)
1970 - Lamont Hollinquest, NFL linebacker (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1970 - Todd Riech, Polson Montana, javelin thrower
1970 - Walter Dunson, NFL running back/kick returner (Arizona Cardinals)
1970 - Rob Leslie-Carter, British Engineer and Project Manager
1971 - Aaron Bailey, NFL wide receiver (Indianapolis Colts)
1971 - Mike Verstegen, NFL guard (NO Saints)
1971 - Dervla Kirwan, Irish actress
1972 - Eric Sutton, CFL cornerback (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1972 - Louis Michael Anthony Sassin, Boston, rocker (4 Fun-Unbelievable Fun)
1972 - Natasha Ann Courter, Davenport Iowa, Miss America-Iowa (1997)
1972 - Pat Williams, defensive tackle (Buffalo Bills)
1972 - Ruxandra Dragomir, Pitesti Rom, tennis star (1996 Bournemouth doubles)
1972 - Susan Barnett, Miss Pennsylvania USA (1996)
1972 - T J Cunningham, NFL safety (Seattle Seahawks)
1972 - Tom Fletcher, NFL defensive safety (Seattle Seahawks)
1972 - Kim Ji-soo, South Korean actress
1972 - Scott Peterson, American murderer
1972 - Pat Williams, American football player
1973 - Kenny Holmes, defensive end (Tennessee Oilers)
1973 - Levi Leipheimer, American cyclist
1973 - Mike Matthews, American baseball player
1973 - Jackie McNamara, Scottish footballer
1974 - Alexander PGR duke of Ulster, son of English prince Richard
1974 - Nathan Parks, tackle (KC Chiefs)
1974 - Jamal Mayers, Professional Hockey Player
1975 - Corey Dillon, HB (Cincinnati Bengals)
1975 - Juan Pablo Ángel, Colombian footballer
1976 - Yanda Nossiter, Sydney NSW Australia, canoeist (Olympics-96)
1976 - Petar Stoychev, Bulgarian swimmer
1977 - Iván Kaviedes, Ecuadoran footballer
1978 - Carlos Edwards, Trinidadian footballer
1978 - Justin Lee Brannan, American musician
1979 - Amanda Aardsma, Miss Colorado Teen USA (1997)
1979 - Ben Gillies, Australian musician (Silverchair)
1980 - James Killian, American football player
1980 - Monica, American singer
1980 - Matthew Amoah, Ghanaian footballer
1980 - Zac Posen, American fashion designer
1981 - Mallika Sherawat, Indian actress
1981 - Tila Tequila, American model
1982 - Mohamed Fairuz Fauzy, Malaysian racing driver
1982 - Macay McBride, American baseball player
1983 - Brian Vickers, American race car driver
1983 - Adrienne Bailon, American actress and singer
1984 - Kaela Kimura, Japanese model and singer
1985 - Wayne Rooney, English footballer
1986 - Aubrey Graham, Canadian actor and rapper
1986 - John Ruddy, English footballer
1987 - Charlie White, American ice dancer
1987 - Anthony Vanden Borre, Belgian footballer
1987 - Lincoln Lewis, Australian actor
1988 - Daniel Shalikar, actor (Honey I Blew Up the Kids)
1988 - Joshua Shalikar, actor (Honey I Blew Up the Kids)
1989 - Eliza Taylor-Cotter, Australian actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 24, 2013, 11:06:16 AM

This Day in History for 24th October


Famous Deaths

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Astronomer Tycho Brahe (1601)               American Statesman                  Baseball Player Jackie Robinson (1972)
                                                                Daniel Webster (1852)

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Civil Rights Activist Rosa Lee Parks (2005)


996 - Hugo Capet, king of France (987-96), dies at 58
1375 - King Valdemar IV of Denmark (bc. 1320)
1521 - Robert Fayrfax, composer, dies at 57
1537 - Jane Seymour, 3rd wife of Henry VIII, dies
1572 - Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby, English politician (bc. 1508)
1579 - Albrecht V von Wittelsbach, duke of Bavaria, dies at 51
1601 - Tycho Brahe, astronomer, dies in Prague at 54
1649 - Ferdinand van Boisschot, South Neth diplomat, dies at about 89
1655 - Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher, dies at 63
1667 - Gabriel Metsu, Dutch painter, buried
1669 - William Prynne, English Puritan leader (b. 1600)
1672 - John Webb, English architect (b. 1611)
1679 - Barent Avercamp, Dutch landscape painter, dies at about 66
1708 - Kowa Seki, Japanese mathematician
1785 - Jean-Jacques Robson, composer, dies at 64
1789 - Joaquin de Oxinaga, composer, dies at 69
1789 - Lucretia W van Winter-van Merken, Dutch poet, dies at 68
1799 - Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Austrian composer, dies at 59
1821 - Elias Boudinot, American President of the Continental Congress (b. 1740)
1842 - Bernardo O'Higgins, Chilean independence leader who freed Chile from Spanish rule, dies at
           64
1852 - Daniel Webster, lawyer/speaker/minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 70
1860 - Elie Decazes, French Bourbon Restoration politician, dies at 80
1864 - James Jay Archer, US Confederate brigadier general, dies in battle at 46
1875 - Raffaello Carboni, Italian writer
1897 - Francis Turner Palgrave, poet/editor (Golden Treasury), dies at 73
1898 - Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter (b. 1824)
1901 - Paul Henrion, composer, dies at 82
1902 - Vladislav Ivanovich Zaremba, composer, dies at 69
1912 - Louis van Haecke, Flemish chaplain/author (Zeesterre), dies at 83
1915 - Désiré Charnay, French archaeologist (b. 1828)
1918 - Alexander Charles Lecocq, composer, dies at 86
1922 - George Cadbury, British chocolate and cocoa manufacturer (b. 1839)
1925 - Jindrich S Baar, Czech pastor/writer (Lusy), dies at 56
1929 - Peter J Blok, Dutch historian, dies at 74
1930 - Renaat Verheijen, Flemish actor/director (Dr Faustus), dies at 26
1931 - Murray Bisset, cricketer (S Afr)/Chief Justice of Rhodesia, dies
1938 - Ernst Barlach, writer, dies at 68
1940 - Victor Hollaender, composer, dies at 74
1942 - Arthur Dolphin, cricketer (1 Test England 1921, 1 run, 1 catch), dies
1943 - Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, French Canadian poet (b. 1912)
1944 - Lauri S A Haarla, Finnish writer (Juudas, Sukeltaja), dies at 54
1944 - Louis Renault, French automobile manufacturer (b. 1877)
1945 - Robert Ley, German nazi, commits suicide
1945 - Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian Min of Defense/PM (1942-45), executed at 58
1948 - Franz Lehar, Austrian/Hungarian composer (Wiener Frauen), dies at 78
1949 - Joaquin Nin y Castellanos, composer, dies at 70
1952 - Frederick Jacobi, composer, dies at 61
1953 - Ernest Irving, composer, dies at 74
1958 - Esther Delterne, Flemish actress/revue-artists, dies at 81
1958 - Martin Fallas Shaw, composer, dies at 83
1963 - Beverly Wills, actress (Beverly-I Married Joan), dies at 29
1966 - Sofya Yanovskaya, Russian mathematician (b. 1896)
1967 - Lyle Latell, actor (Not of the Earth, Sky Dragon), dies at 63
1969 - Otto Jochum, composer, dies at 71
1970 - Richard Hofstadter, US historian, dies at 54
1971 - Carl Ruggles, US composer (Evocations), dies at 95
1971 - Chuck Hughes, Detroit Lion collapses during game & later, dies
1971 - Fernand Quinet, Belgian composer/conductor (Guerre), dies at 73
1972 - Jackie Robinson, 1st black baseball player (Bkln Dodgers), dies at 53
1973 - Jack Iverson, cricketer (5 Tests 21 wickets S1024 15 23), dies
1974 - David Oistrach, Russian violinist, dies at 65
1975 - Ismail Erez, Turkish ambassador, killed by car bomb in Paris
1975 - Zdzisław Żygulski, Sr., Polish literary historian (b. 1888)
1976 - Richard Sturzenegger, composer, dies at 70
1980 - Leonid Georiyevich Ivanov, Russia, cosmonaut (Soyuz 33), dies at 30
1981 - Deborah Baltzell, actress (Karen-I'm a Big Girl Now), dies at 25
1982 - James Philbrook, actor (Islanders, Investigators), dies at 58
1983 - Jessica Savitch, news anchor (NBC-TV), dies at 35
1984 - Edith Massey, actress (Polyester, Pink Flamingos), dies at 66
1984 - Walter Woolf King, actor/TV host (Lights Cameras Action), dies at 85
1985 - Richie Evans, American NASCAR driver (b. 1941)
1985 - Maurice Roy, Archbishop of Quebec, (b. 1905)
1987 - Constantin Alajalov, Russian artist, dies at 86
1991 - Gene Roddenberry, creator (Star Trek), dies of cardiac arrest at 70
1991 - Leon Clements, journalist (Interlijnen), dies at 43
1992 - Alexander V Van de Wall Bake, staff leader/gov KMA Breda, dies
1992 - Laurie Colwin, novelist (Happy All the Time), dies at 48
1993 - Ben Scholtens, historian (Gaama Duumi), murdered at 39
1993 - Desmond Nuttall, English theorist, dies at 49
1993 - Tonino Nardi, Italian cinematographer (Porte Manifest), dies at 54
1994 - Alexandr Nikolaievich Shelepin, dir of KGB (1958-61), dies
1994 - Gamini Dissanayake, Sri Lankain presidential candidate, murdered
1994 - Raul Julia, actor (Addams Family), dies of stroke at 54
1995 - Emile Jonassaint, president of Haiti (1994), dies at 82
1995 - Ronald Selby Wright, minister, dies at 87
1996 - Arthur Axmann, head of Hitler Youths in (1940-45), dies at 83
1996 - Bruce Matthews, newspaper executive, dies at 71
1996 - Hubert Miles Gladwyn Jebb, diplomat, dies at 96
1996 - Roderick Barclay, diplomat, dies at 87
1996 - Sid Pye, drummer, dies at 55
1997 - Don Messick, cartoon voice (Astro-Jetsons, Bamm Bamm), dies at 62
2001 - Wolf Rüdiger Hess, German neo-Nazi (b. 1937)
2002 - Herman Gaviria, Colombian football player (b. 1969)
2002 - Winton M. Blount, United States Postmaster General (b. 1921)
2002 - Harry Hay, American activist (b. 1912)
2003 - Rosie Nix Adams, Stepdaughter of Johnny Cash (b. 1958)
2004 - Randy Dorton, American race car crew member (b. 1954)
2004 - Ricky Hendrick, American race car team owner (b. 1980)
2004 - James Cardinal Hickey, American Catholic archbishop (b. 1920)
2005 - José Azcona del Hoyo, President of Honduras (b. 1926)
2005 - Robert Sloman, writer (b. 1926)
2005 - Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist (b. 1913)
2005 - Immanuel C.Y. Hsu, scholar of modern Chinese intellectual and diplomatic history (b. 1923)
2005 - Mokarrameh Ghanbari, Iranian painter (b. 1928)
2006 - Enolia McMillan, American civil rights activist (b. 1904)
2006 - William Montgomery Watt, Islamic studies scholar, orientalist and historian (b. 1909)
2007 - Petr Eben, Czech organ composer (b. 1929)
2007 - Alisher Saipov, Kyrgyz journalist
2007 - Ian Middleton, New Zealand novelist (b. 1928)
2008 - Moshe Cotel, American composer and pianist (b. 1943)
2010 - Lamont Johnson, American television director (b. 1922)
2010 - Joseph Stein, American playwright (b. 1912)
2012 - Margaret Osborne DuPont, American tennis player, dies at 94

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 25, 2013, 09:30:27 AM

This Day in History for 25th October


Historical Events

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Explorer of the New World                Composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky            Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini
Christopher Columbus

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Soldier, author, journalist, politician       German WWII Field Marshal                   Author John Steinbeck
Winston Churchill                                       Erwin Rommel   

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Artist & Musician Yoko Ono                  Singer-songwriter & Actress                    New York Yankees Owner
                                                              Barbra Streisand                                      George Steinbrenner

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Champion Boxer Evander Holyfield


625 - Boniface V ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1131 - Crowning of Louis VII the Young, King of France
1147 - King Afonso I of Portugal occupiers Lisbon
1147 - Seljuk Turks defeat German crusaders under Conrad III at the Battle of Dorylaeum.
1241 - Goffredo Castiglioni elected as Pope Coelestinus IV (-Nov 10 1241)
1315 - Adam Banastre, Henry de Lea and William Bradshaw, led an attack on Liverpool Castle.
1415 - Battle of Agincourt, Welsh longbow defeats the armored knight
1415 - John IV van Bourgondy becomes duke of Brabant/Limburg
1492 - Columbus' fleet sites "Zandislands" (Ragged Island Range, Bahamas)
1492 - Christopher Columbus' ship Santa Maria lands at Dominican Republic
1521 - Emperor Charles V bans wooden buildings in Amsterdam
1555 - Emperor Karel puts son Philip II in charge of Netherlands/Naples/Milan
1577 - Pope Gregory XIII asks renewal of ecclesiastical hymns
1596 - Spanish fleet sails from Lisbon to Ireland
1616 - VOC-ship "The Eendracht" discovers Dirk-Hartogeiland, Australia
1621 - Gov Bradford of US colony Plymouth disallows sport on Christmas Day
1666 - Brandenburg/Brunswick/Denmark/Neth form anti-French Quadruple Alliance
1671 - Giovanni Cassini discovers Iapetus, satellite of Saturn
1747 - British fleet under Admiral Sir Edward Hawke defeats the French at the second battle of Cape
           Finisterre.
1760 - George III becomes King of Great Britain.
1812 - US frigate United States captures British vessel Macedonian
1825 - Erie Canal opens, linking Great Lakes & Atlantic Ocean
1828 - The St Katharine Docks opened in London.
1854 - Charge of Light Brigade (Battle of Balaklava, Crimean War), 409 die
1854 - Prince Menshikov of Krim occupies British base at Balaclava
1859 - Merchant vessel Royal Charter runs aground at Liverpool, 459 die
1861 - Battle of Wilson's Creek, MI (Springfield)
1861 - Telegraph message sent from St Louis to SF
1861 - The Toronto Stock Exchange created.
1864 - Battle of Marais Des Cygnes River, Kansas (Mine Creek)
1864 - Skirmish at Mine Creek, KS & Turkeytown, AL
1870 - Pimlico Race Course opens in Baltimore
1870 - Postcards 1st used in US
1875 - The first performance of the Piano Concerto No. 1 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is given in
           Boston, Massachusetts with Hans von Bülow as soloist.
1884 - 1st World Series OK by AA, Providence (NL) sweeps NY Mets (AA) in 3
1885 - John Brahms' 4th Symphony in E, premieres
1891 - 1st International 6 day bike race (NY Madison Square Garden) ends
1893 - Battle of Shangani, Matabeleland: Dr Jameson beats Ndebeles
1900 - England annexes Transvaal
1902 - Maksin Gorki's "Na dne," premieres in Moscow
1902 - Santa Maria Guatemala hit by Earthquake; about 6,000 die
1906 - Georges Clemenceau succeeds Ferdinand Sarien premier of France
1906 - US inventor Lee de Forest patents "Audion," a 3-diode amplification valve which proved a
           pioneering development in radio & broadcasting
1907 - Frederik of Oaths disbands mental home colony Walden
1915 - Atty James L Curtis named minister of Liberia
1917 - Pan-Russian Congress opens in Petrograd
1918 - Canadian steamship "Princess Sophia" hit a reef off Alaska, 398 die
1923 - Senate committee publishes 1st report on Teapot Dome scandal
1924 - "Little Orphan Annie" comic strip 1st published
1925 - Lester Patrick takes over NY Rangers
1925 - Rightist German ministers disavows Treaty of Locarno
1926 - Lester Patrick becomes 1st coach & gm of NY Rangers
1929 - Former Interior Sec Albert Fall convicted of accepting $100,000 bribe
1930 - 1st football game in Atlantic City Convention Center
1930 - 1st scheduled transcontinental air service began
1932 - Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts Company consultant
1932 - Benito Mussolini promises to remain dictator for 30 years
1935 - Hurricane-produced floods kill 2,000 in Jeremie & Jacmel Haiti
1937 - Belgian government of Zealand falls due to black money
1937 - Casey Stengel signs to manage Boston Bees
1938 - Japanese troops occupies Hankou & Wuhan
1938 - The Archbishop of Dubuque, Francis J. L. Beckman, denounces Swing music as "a
           degenerated musical system... turned loose to gnaw away at the moral fiber of young
           people", warning that it leads down a "primrose path to hell".
1939 - George Kaufman/Moss Hart's "Man Who Came to Dinner," premieres in NYC
1939 - William Saroyan's "Time of Your Life," premieres in NYC
1940 - Benjamin O Davis Dr became 1st Black general in US Army
1940 - Col Bo Davis attains rank of Brigadier General
1940 - Duke, Latouche & Felter's musical premieres in NYC
1940 - US Army Gen Benjamin Davis becomes 1st black general
1941 - 16,000 Jews massacred in Odessa Ukraine
1941 - Germany attacks Moscow
1941 - Winston Churchill routes "Forces South" to SE Asia
1942 - 3rd day of battle at El Alamein: British offensive
1942 - Battle of Henderson Field Guadalcanal begins
1942 - Field Marshal Rommel back in North-Africa
1943 - Burma railroad completed & opens
1944 - Battle at Cape Engano: 4 Japanese ships sink
1944 - Battle at Samar-island
1944 - Battle in Straits of Surigao: Japanese fleet destroyed
1944 - Gas output stopped in Amsterdam
1945 - Japanese surrender Taiwan to Gen Chiang Kai-shek
1946 - 1st trial against nazi war criminals (Neurenberg)
1947 - "Under the Counter" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 27 perfs
1947 - Bradman scores 156 for SA v the Indians, 152 mins, 22 fours
1947 - Sam Breadon sells Cards to Robert Hannegan & Fred Saigh for $4M
1948 - Special Council of Annulment convicts F Weinreb for collaboration
1950 - Dutch NSB leader C van Gelderen sentenced to life
1950 - Jean Anouilh's "La Repetition, ou L'Amour Pani," premieres in Paris
1950 - Sukarno appointed president of Republic Indonesia
1951 - Peace talks aimed at ending Korean War resumed in Panmunjom
1952 - 1st Dutch edition of youth magazine "Donald Duck"
1952 - French president inaugurates Donzère-Mondragonstuw Dam
1952 - Nazar Mohammad scores Pakistan's 1st Test century 124* v India
1953 - Cleveland Browns' QB Otto Graham sets club record with 4 fumbles
1953 - Coal mine in Seraing Belgium explodes, 26 die
1953 - Dmitri Sjostakovitch completes his 10th Symphony
1953 - KIEM TV channel 3 in Eureka, CA (NBC/CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 - Austria resumed its sovereignty after departure of last Allied occupation forces, for 1st time
           since German occupation of 1938
1955 - Branch Rickey steps down as GM of the Pirates
1955 - Tappan sells 1st microwave oven
1956 - White Sox manager Marty Marion resigns. AL Lopez replaces him
1957 - Russian minister of Defense Zjoekov deposed
1960 - 1st electronic wrist watch placed on sale, NYC
1960 - Cuba nationalizes all remaining US businesses
1961 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1962 - 110th member of UN admitted (Uganda)
1962 - 1st Belgian nuclear reactor begins operation
1962 - American author John Steinbeck awarded Nobel Prize in literature
1962 - Stevenson demands USSR amb Zorin answer regarding Cuban missle bases saying "I am
           prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over"
1963 - Anti-Kennedy "WANTED FOR TREASON" pamphlets scattered in Dallas
1963 - Beatles begin their 1st full foreign tour in Sweden
1964 - Anton Geesink is 1st non-Japanese Olympic judo gold medal winner
1964 - Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Phoenix Thunderbirds Ladies' Golf Open
1964 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1964 - Viking Jim Marshall runs 66 yards in wrong direction for a safety
1965 - Rolling Stones release "Get Off of My Cloud"
1966 - 6 youths sentenced in "Johnson murderer!" in Amsterdam
1968 - Chicago recognizes Jean Baptiste Pointe de Sable as its 1st settler
1968 - Longest Oly field hockey game, Hol beats Spain 1-0 in 2h25m (6 OT)
1968 - Yoko Ono announces she is having John Lennon's baby
1970 - Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Women's Golf Charities Open
1971 - Belgium & China PR establish diplomatic relations
1971 - General Meeting of UN agrees to admit China PR
1971 - Roy Disney dedicates Walt Disney World
1971 - UN votes to expel Chinese Nationalist-ruled Taiwan & admit Red China
1972 - Eddy Merckx (Belgium) covers 30 miles, 1,258 yards in 1 hr
1972 - Nobel prize for economy awarded to Kenneth J Arrow & John R Hicks
1973 - Chris Wills wins 1st National hang-gliding championship
1973 - Cubs trade Ferguson Jenkins to Rangers for Bill Madlock & Vic Harris
1973 - SF Giants trade Willie McCovey to SD Padres for pitcher Mike Caldwell
1974 - Air Force fires 1st ICBM
1974 - Dmitri Shostakovitch' 15th String Quartet premieres in Leningrad
1974 - Wings release "Junior's Farm"
1975 - Denver Nuggets 1st game at McNichols Sports Arena beat St Louis Spirits
1975 - USSR's Venera 10 makes day-side Venus landing
1976 - 5th Enterprise, approach & lands test (ALT) flight
1976 - Gov Wallace grants full pardon to Clarence Norris, last known survivor of 9 Scottsboro Boys
           who were convicted in 1931 rape
1977 - Digital Equipment Corporation releases OpenVMS V1.0.
1978 - Israeli government approves &quot;in principle,&quot; a draft compromise peace
1978 - Padres Gaylord Perry is 1st to win Cy Young in both leagues (NL)
1979 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1980 - Mike Weaver KOs Gerrie Coetzee in 13 for heavyweight boxing title
1980 - Barbra Streisand's "Guilty," album goes #1 for 3 weeks & her single "Woman In Love," goes
           #1 for 3 weeks
1981 - 11th NYC Women's Marathon won by Allison Roe in 2:25:29
1981 - 12th NYC Marathon won by Alberto Salazar in 2:08:13
1981 - 200,000 demonstrate in Brussel against cruise missile
1981 - Allison Roe (2:25:29) & Alberto Salazar (2:08:13) win NYC marathon
1981 - George Steinbrenner scuffles with 2 fans in a hotel elevator
1982 - David Hookes scores Cricket century in 34 balls 43 mins, SA v Victoria
1983 - US invades Grenada, a country 1/2,000 its population (US Wins!)
1984 - "Give My Regards to Broad Street" premieres (Gotham Theater-NYC)
1984 - Hepatitis virus is discovered
1984 - King Boudouin opens Museum for Modern Art in Brussels
1984 - Rangers beat Devils 11-2
1984 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1984 - West German Chancellor Rainer Barzel resigns due to corruption
1985 - Angels announce that they will not offer Rod Carew a new contract
1985 - Kosmos 1700 communications satellite placed in geostationary orbit
1986 - International Red Cross ousted from South Africa
1986 - Michael Sergio Parachutes into Shea Stadium during game 6 of WS
1986 - Trailing 5-3 with 2 out & no one on in bottom of 10th, NY rallies to win Game 6 of the World
           Series, 6-5, Bill Buckner misplays a ball
1987 - Minnesota Twins win their 1st World Series championship beating St Louis Cards, 4 games to
           3 in 84th World Series
1988 - ABC News reports on potbellied pygmy porkers' popularity as pets
1988 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1990 - Evander Holyfield KOs Buster Douglas in 3 for heavyweight boxing title
1990 - NY Daily News goes on strike (lasts through March, 1991)
1991 - Aaqib Javed takes 7-37 in 10 overs v India in cric 1-dayer at Sharjah
1992 - "Dancing at Lughnasa" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 421 perfs
1992 - "Jake's Women" closes at Neil Simon Theater NYC after 245 performances
1992 - Rene Lachemann hired as Fla Marlins 1st manager
1992 - Lithuania holds a referendum on its first post-Soviet constitution.
1993 - Airbus A310 of Air Nigeria hijacked, 1 dead
1993 - Canada Liberal Party/Bloc Québécois wins parliamentary election
1993 - Daryll Cullinan hits 337* for Transvaal, SAf 1st-class cricket record
1994 - Susan Smith claims her 2 kids were carjack (she actually killed them)
1995 - "Victor/Victoria," opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 738 performances
1996 - Frank, brother of Yank manager Joe Torre, receives a heart transplant
1997 - After a brief civil war which has driven President Pascal Lissouba out of Brazzaville, Denis
           Sassou-Nguesso proclaims himself the President of the Republic of the Congo.
2001 - Windows XP first became available.
2004 - Fidel Castro, Cuba's President, announces that transactions using the American Dollar will be
           banned by November 8.
2007 - The first Airbus A380 passenger flight, operating for Singapore Airlines, with flight number SQ
           380, flying scheduled service between Singapore and Sydney, Australia.
2009 - The 25 October 2009 Baghdad bombings kills 155 and wounds at least 721.
2012 - Hurricane Sandy makes landfall in Cuba and Haiti killing 65 people and causing over $80 million
           in damage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 25, 2013, 09:31:56 AM

This Day in History for 25th October


Famous Weddings

1764 - 2nd American President John Adams marries Abigail Smith (marriage lasts 54 years)
1973 - American playwright and screenwriter Neil Simon (46) weds actress Marsha Mason (31)
1996 - Singer-dancer Paula Abdul (33) weds sportswear designer Brad Beckerman (30) at Beverly
           Hills Four Seasons Hotel
1998 - "Punky Brewster" actress Soleil Moon Frye (22) weds television producer and actor Jason
           Goldberg (26) at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles, California
2008 - Olympic gold medal-winning skier Picabo Street (37) weds John Reeser (31) on top of
           Alabama's Prospect Mountain in Hanceville
2009 - Socialite Ivanka Trump (27) weds New York Observer owner Jared Kushner (28) at Trump
           National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 25, 2013, 09:37:36 AM

This Day in History for 25th October


Famous Birthdays

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Composer Georges Bizet (1838)             Composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky            Pop Star Katy Perry (1984)


1102 - William Clito, Count of Flanders (d. 1128)
1330 - Louis II of Flanders (d. 1384)
1360 - Louis, founder of house of Anjou
1510 - Renée of France, French princess and Duchess of Ferrara (d. 1574)
1528 - Seerp Galama, Dutch nobleman/soldier/politician
1576 - Thomas Weelkes, composer
1683 - Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton, British politician (d. 1757)
1692 - Elisabeth Farnese, princess of Parma/queen of Spain
1709 - Georg Gebel, composer
1709 - John Wagenaar, Amsterdam merchant/historian, baptised
1716 - Petronio Maria Pio Sgabazzi, composer
1721 - Pierre Talon, composer
1735 - James Beattie, Scotland, poet/philosopher (Essay on Truth)
1759 - Baron Grenville, (Whig) British PM (1806-07)
1759 - Maria Fyodorovna of Russia, wife of Tsar Paul I of Russia (d. 1828)
1772 - Corneille Vander Planken, composer
1782 - Levi Lincoln, Jr., 13th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1868)
1800 - Thomas Babington Macaulay, England, poet/historian (Ivry, Naaseby)
1802 - Joseph Montferrand, Canadian logger and strong man (d. 1864)
1803 - Maria van Ackere-Doolaeghe, Flemish poetess (Daisies)
1806 - Max Stirner, [Johann C Schmidt], German philosopher (Der Einzige)
1811 - Évariste Galois, French mathematician (d. 1832)
1814 - Louis CPR van Orleans, French duke of Nemours
1815 - Ernesto Camillo Sivori, composer
1815 - Philipp Fahrbach, composer
1818 - Pavel Melnikov, Russian historian/author (V Lesach) [NS=Nov 6]
1819 - Zachariah Cantey Deas, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1882
1825 - Johann Baptist Strauss, (the younger), Austria, composer (Waltz King)
1838 - Georges Alexandre-Cesar-Leopold Bizet, France, composer (Carmen)
1843 - Gleb Uspensky, Russia, author (Power of the Soil)
1856 - Dragutin Gorjanovic-Kramberger, Croatian paleontologist (d. 1936)
1859 - Stephanie H [Lapidoth-]Swarth, Dutch author (Lonely Flowers)
1864 - Alexander Gretchaninov, Russian composer (d. 1956)
1864 - John Francis Dodge, American automobile pioneer (d. 1920)
1866 - Georg Alfred Schumann, composer
1867 - Józef Dowbór-Muśnicki, Polish general (d.1937)
1869 - August Otto Halm, composer
1869 - John Heisman, pioneering football coach/trophy namesake
1877 - Henry Norris Russell, astronomer (Hertzsprung-Russell diagram)
1878 - Nico van Suchtelen, Dutch publisher
1879 - Jean Rogister, composer
1879 - Mayhew Lake, composer
1881 - Pablo Picasso, Malaga Spain, artist (3 Dancers, Guernica), (d. 1973)
1882 - Heinrich Max Ludwig, composer
1884 - Eduardo Barrios, Chile, novelist (The Love-Crazed Boy)
1887 - Willem CN Andriessen, Dutch composer/pianist (Beethoven)
1888 - Francois Pauwels, Dutch writer/attorney
1888 - Richard E Byrd, Virginia, admiral/polar explorer (1926)
1888 - Nils von Dardel, Swedish painter (d. 1943)
1889 - Abel Gance, French film director (d. 1981)
1889 - Smoky Joe Wood, American baseball pitcher (d. 1985)
1891 - Father Coughlin, Roman Catholic priest and pro-Fascist radio broadcaster (d. 1979)
1892 - Leo G. Carroll, English actor (d. 1972)
1895 - Levi Eshkol, [Sjkolnik], Israeli PM (MWP) (1963-69)
1898 - Sidney van den Bergh, Dutch businessman/politician
1902 - Henry Steele Commager, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, American historian (Atlas of Civil War)
1902 - Eddie Lang, American jazz guitarist (d. 1933)
1903 - Katharine Byron, U.S. Congresswoman (d. 1976)
1903 - Harry Shoulberg, American painter (d. 1995)
1908 - Edmond Pidoux, Swiss writer (d. 2004)
1909 - Philleo Nash, US Bureau of Indian Affairs (1961-67)
1909 - Whit Bissel, NYC, actor (Time Machine, General Kirk-Time Tunnel)
1910 - William Higinbotham, American physicist (d. 1994)
1912 - Jack Kent Cooke, NFL team owner (Washington Redskins)
1912 - Minnie Pearl, [Sarah Ophelia Colley], Tenn, (Grand Old Opry, Hee-Haw)
1913 - Klaus Barbie, gestapo chief (Lyon)
1913 - Horace Grant Fletcher, composer
1914 - John Berryman, American poet (Friends & Associates)
1915 - Ivan M. Niven, Canadian mathematician (d. 1999)
1917 - Lee MacPhail, American baseball manager and league executive
1921 - Brian Malzard Foss, psychologist
1921 - Michael I, King of Romania (1927-30, 40-47)
1923 - Bobby Thomson, HR hitter (Giants win the pennant)
1923 - Jean Duceppe, Quebec actor (d. 1990)
1924 - Billy Barty, Millsboro Pa, 3'9" actor (Under the Rainbow, Foul Play)
1925 - Yakov Rylskly, USSR, sabre team (Olympic-bronze-1956)
1926 - Biff McGuire, New Haven Ct, actor (Serpico, Heart is Lonely Hunter)
1926 - Galina Vishnevskaya, Leningrad, USSR, soprano opera singer, (d. 2012)
1926 - Ismail Gulgee, Pakistani painter
1927 - Barbara Cook, Atlanta Ga, stage singer/actress (Music Man)
1927 - Franklin "Bud" Held, javelin world champ (1949, 51, 53-55)
1927 - Hedley Keith, cricketer (solid left-handed for South Africa in the 1950's)
1927 - Jorge Batlle Ibáñez, President of Uruguay
1928 - Anthony Franciosa, [Papaleo], NYC, actor (Jeff-Name of the Game)
1928 - Jeanne Cooper, Minneapolis, actress (Kay-Young & Restless), (d. 2013)
1928 - Marion Ross, Albert Lea Mn, actress (Marion-Happy Days, Bkln Bridge)
1929 - Peter Loader, cricketer (England quick in 13 Tests 1954-59, later WA)
1929 - Peter Rohmkorf, writer
1929 - Roger John Tayler, astrophysicist
1931 - Annie Giradot, Paris France, actress (Gypsy, Jacko & Lise)
1931 - Jimmy McIlroy, Irish footballer and football manager
1932 - Lev Nikolayevich Smirenny, cosmonaut
1932 - Harry Gregg, Irish footballer and football manager
1933 - Larry J Hopkins, (Rep-R-KY, 1979- )
1933 - Ron Archer, cricketer (Aussie all-rounder mid-50's)
1933 - Roy Swetman, cricketer (England wicket-keeper late 50's)
1933 - Eugene "Porky" Lee, American child actor (d. 2005)
1935 - Russell Luis Schweickart, Neptune NJ, astronaut (Apollo 9)
1935 - Zdenek Pololanik, composer
1936 - Alan Smith, cricket wicket-keeper (England1962-63 Aust-NZ tour)
1936 - Sir Martin Gilbert, British historian
1938 - Robert Webster, Berkeley Cal, diver (Oly-gold-1960, 64)
1939 - Robin Spry, Canadian filmmaker and producer (d. 2005)
1939 - Zelmo Beaty, Hillister, TX, basketball player (St Louis Hawks, Utah Stars), (d. 2013)
1940 - Bobby Knight, college basketball coach (Indiana, Olympic-gold-1984)
1941 - Anne Tyler, American writer (Accidental Tourist)
1941 - Bobby Keetch, soccer player/entrepreneur
1941 - Helen Reddy, Melbourne Australia, rock vocalist (I Am Woman)
1943 - Roy Lynes, England, rock organist (Status Quo)
1943 - Selly Fernandes, Curacao poetess (Winking with Selly)
1944 - Jon Anderson, English rock singer for Yes
1944 - Kathy "Taffy" Danoff, Wash DC, vocalist (Starland Vocal Band)
1944 - James Carville, American political stategist and commentator
1945 - David Norman Schramm, physicist
1946 - Peter Lieberson, composer
1947 - Glenn Tipton, rock guitarist (Judas Priest-Breakin' the Law)
1947 - John Hall, rocker
1948 - Dan Gable, Waterloo Iowa, 68kg freestyle wrestler (Oly-gold-72)
1948 - Dan Issel, NBA coach/player (27,482 points, Denver Nuggets)
1948 - Dave Cowens, NBA forward (Boston Celtics, Milwaukee Bucks)
1948 - Rob Halford, Engl metal singer (Judas Priest-Sin After Sin) [or 8/25]
1948 - Daniel Mark Epstein, American poet and biographer
1949 - Brian Kerwin, Chicago Ill, actor (Chisholms, King Kong Lives, Lobo)
1949 - Walter Hyatt, Musician
1949 - Réjean Houle, Canadian ice hockey player
1950 - John Matuszak, Milwaukee Wisc, NFLer (Raiders)/actor (Hollywood Beat)
1951 - Ransom Wilson, Tuscaloosa Alabama, flutist (Soliste NY)
1951 - Richard Lloyd, American guitarist (Television)
1952 - Ioannis Kyrastas, Greek footballer and manager (d. 2004)
1953 - Mark Will McNulty, Bindwa Zimbabwe, PGA golfer (1982 Danny Thomas-4th)
1953 - Muffin Spencer-Devlin, Piqua OH, LPGA golfer (1985 MasterCard Pro-Am)
1954 - Mike Eruzione, Winthrop Mass, jockey player (Olympics-gold-1980)
1955 - Danny Darwin, Bonham Texas, pitcher (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1955 - Robin Eubanks, American jazz trombonist
1955 - Glynis Barber, English actress
1956 - Matthias Jabs, rock guitarist (Scorpions-Wind of Change)
1957 - Robbie Macintosh, rock guitarist/vocalist (Pretenders)
1958 - Dipak Patel, cricketer (in Kenya New Zealand off-spin all-rounder)
1958 - Kornelia Ender, Halle GDR, swimmer (Olympic-4 gold-1972, 76)
1958 - Mark Miller, Dayton Ohio, actor (Search for Grace, Love Field)
1960 - Kelli McMullen-Temple, Columbus OH, Canadian equestrian (Olympics-96)
1960 - Scott Anthony Haneline, Indianapolis, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
1960 - Tom Eplin, Hayward California, actor (Jake McKinnon-Another World)
1962 - Nick Hancock, British television presenter
1962 - Darlene Vogel, American actress
1963 - Tracy Nelson, California, American actress (Glitter, Square Pegs, Father Dowling)
1964 - Barb Broen-Ouellette, Edmonton Alberta, volleyballer (Olympics-96)
1964 - Johan de Kock, Dutch soccer player (Roda JC)
1964 - Melinda McGraw, Nicosa Cyprus, actress (Macenzie-Pursuit Of Happiness)
1964 - Michael Boatman, Colo Springs Colo, actor (Carter-Spin City)
1964 - Nick Thorp, rocker
1964 - Pat Swilling, NFL defensive end/linebacker (Oakland Raiders)
1964 - Nicole, German singer
1964 - Kevin Michael Richardson, American actor
1965 - Derrick Rostagno, Los Angeles California, tennis star
1965 - Leigh Ann Mills, Melbourne FL, LPGA golfer (1985 Mazda Champions)
1965 - Nick Thorpe, rocker (Curiosity Killed the Cat-Keep Your Distance)
1965 - Steve Decker, Rock Island IL, catcher (SF Giants)
1965 - Warren Ayres, cricketer (Victorian right-handed batsman since 1987-88)
1965 - Þorsteinn Bachmann, Icelandic actor
1965 - 2 Cold Scorpio, American professional wrestler
1966 - Wendel Clark, Kelvington, NHL left wing (Toronto, NY Islanders)
1966 - Perry Satullo, American professional wrestler
1967 - Anthony Johnson, NFL fullback (Chic Bears, Carolina Panthers)
1967 - Kelly Chase, Porcupine Plain Ca, NHL right wing (Hartford Whalers)
1967 - Mazhar Hussein, cricketer (UAE batsman World Cup 1996)
1968 - Corey Miller, NFL linebacker (NY Giants)
1968 - Lisa Trusel, Cal, actress (Lizette-Father Murphy, Days of our Lives)
1969 - Corey Harris, NFL cornerback (Seattle Seahawks, Miami Dolphins)
1969 - Eric Guliford, NFL wide receiver (Carolina Panthers, NO Saints)
1969 - Josef Beranek, Litvinov Cze, NHL center (Vancouver Canucks, Oly-G-98)
1969 - Larry Thomas, Miami FL, pitcher (Chicago White Sox)
1969 - Oleg Salenko, Russian former footballer
1970 - Audra Wilks, Miss USA-Virginia (1997, Miss Photogenic)
1970 - Kelvin Ingram, NFL guard (Seattle Seahawks)
1970 - J.A. Adande, American sports columnist
1970 - Peter Aerts, Dutch kickboxer and martial artist
1970 - Adam Goldberg, American actor
1970 - Adam Pascal, American actor
1970 - Ed Robertson, Canadian musician (Barenaked Ladies)
1971 - Jeffrey Prommayon, soccer player (PSV)
1971 - Laura Chapot, equestrian show jumper (Olympics-96)
1971 - Lee Gissendaner, NFL/WLAF receiver (Minnesota Vikings, Scottish Claymores)
1971 - Midori, violinist
1971 - Stephanie Martin-Cobb, LPGA golfer
1971 - Simon Charlton, English footballer
1971 - Athena Chu, Hong Kong actress and singer
1972 - Leland Taylor, defensive tackle (Baltimore Ravens)
1972 - Jonathan Torrens, Canadian actor
1973 - Joe Angel Acosta Jr, SD CA, PGA golfer (1995 Greater Milwaukee-3rd)
1973 - Steve White, defensive end (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1974 - Chris Murray, Port Hardy, NHL right wing (Montreal Canadiens)
1974 - Frank Middleton, guard (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1974 - Joanne Black, Miss Universe-Ireland (1996)
1974 - Lee Byung-Kyu, Korean baseball player
1975 - Eirik Glambek Bøe, Norwegian musician
1975 - Ryan Clement, former XFL quarterback
1976 - Steve Jones, Irish footballer
1977 - Birgit Prinz, German footballer
1978 - Riley Mants, Winnipeg Manitoba, 200m breaststroker (Olympics-96)
1978 - Russell Anderson, Scottish footballer
1979 - Milena Roucka, Canadian former model current professional wrestler of Czech and Costa Rican
           descent.
1979 - Rob Hulse, English footballer
1979 - Sarah Thompson, American actress
1979 - Tony Torcato, American baseball player
1980 - Ilana Goldfogel, Denver Colorado, pairs skater (&amp; Erik Schulz)
1980 - Mehcad Brooks, American actor and former model
1981 - Shaun Wright-Phillips, English footballer
1981 - Jerome Isaac Jones, American singer
1981 - Austin Winkler, American lead vocalist (Hinder)
1982 - Jerome Carter, American football player
1982 - Eman Lam, Hong Kong singer
1983 - Han Yeo-reum, South Korean actress
1984 - Danny .S., English record producer
1984 - Sara Helena Lumholdt, Swedish musician (A-Teens)
1984 - Katy Perry [Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson], pop singer (I Kissed A Girl, Waking Up In Vegas)
1985 - Maximillian Roeg, actor (Aria)
1985 - Ciara Harris, American singer
1986 - DJ Webstar, American disc jockey
           Pop Star Katy PerryPop Star Katy Perry (1984) 1986 - Eddie Gaven, American footballer
1987 - Darron Gibson, Irish football player
1987 - Fabian Hambüchen, German gymnast and Olympic medallist
1989 - Seth Mumy, actor (3 Wishes)
1995 - Conchita Campbell, Canadian actress
2001 - Princess Elisabeth of Belgium

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 25, 2013, 09:40:08 AM

This Day in History for 25th October


Famous Deaths

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Country Singer Roger Miller (1992)


304 - Marcellinus, bishop of Rome, dies
625 - Boniface V, Italian Pope (619-25), dies
1047 - Magnus I Godhi, king of Norway/Denmark (1035-47), dies
1154 - Stefanus van Blois, king of England (1135-54), dies
1400 - Geofrey Chaucer, author (Canterbury Tales), dies in London
1415 - Anton van Bourgondie, French son of Philip the Stout/duke, dies at 31
1415 - Eduard, duke of York, dies at 45
1415 - Philip of Nevers, French earl, dies in battle
1415 - Robert of Bar, French knight, dies in battle
1495 - John II, the Perfect/Consummate, King of Portugal (1481-95), dies
1510 - Il Giorgione, [Giorgio del Castelfranco], Italian painter, dies at 32
1604 - Claude de la Tremoille, French duke of Thouars/huguenot, dies
1676 - Justus G Schottel [Schottelius], German linguistic/poet, dies at 64
1760 - George II (August), king of Great Britain (1727-60), dies at 76
1833 - Abbas Mirza, Persian governor/heir to the throne, dies at 44
1845 - Carel H Verhuell, Dutch/French vice-admiral, dies at 81
1855 - Willem F earl van Bylandt, military, dies at 84
1861 - Friedrich C von Savigny, German lawyer, dies at 82
1878 - Ludwig Wilhelm Maurer, composer, dies at 89
1892 - Caroline Lavinia Scott Harrison, 1st lady (1889-1892), dies at 60
1895 - Charles Halle, British pianist, dies
1902 - Frank Norris, writer, dies at 32
1902 - Frank[lin] Norris, US writer (Pit), dies at 32
1904 - Teresa Milanollo, composer, dies at 77
1907 - Edmund Hart Turpin, composer, dies at 72
1920 - Alexander, king of Greece (1917-20), dies after ape bite at 27
1926 - Frederick Jr Zech, composer, dies at 68
1929 - James Lillywhite Jr, cricketer (two Tests for England 1877), dies
1933 - Lillian Hall-Davies actress (Farmer's Wife, Ring), dies at 36
1936 - Jaime de Magalhes Lima, Portuguese author/poet, dies at 76
1939 - Cornelis JK van Aalst, president Dutch Business Society, dies at 73
1942 - Ted Arnold, cricketer (160 runs & 31 wkts in 10 Tests for Eng), dies
1943 - H van Zanten, guerrilla leader on North Sumatra, executed
1944 - Fake Krist, nazi collaborator, killed
1952 - Sergei Bortkiewicz, composer, dies at 75
1956 - Risto Ryti, Finnish minister/premier/president, dies at 67
1957 - Henry C van de Velde, Flemish painter/architect, dies at 94
1957 - Lord Dunsany, [Edward J M D Plunkett], author (Jorkens), dies at 79
1957 - Maria "Mary" Beekman, actress (Modern Landhaaien), dies at 73
1957 - Umberto "Albert" Anastasia, US gangster (Murder Inc), dies at 55
1959 - Bob Murphy, TV host (RFD America), dies at 42
1960 - José Padilla, Spanish composer and pianist (La Violetera - City Lights, Ça c'est Paris - Moulin
           Rouge), dies at 71
1961 - Peter Jensen, co-inventer (loud speaker), dies at 75
1963 - Abu-Bakr Khairat, composer, dies at 53
1964 - Belle Montrose, actress (Mrs Harrison-Hathaways), dies at 78
1968 - Jean Schlumberger, French writer (Passions), dies
1969 - Rudolf Forster, actor (Threepenny Opera, Tonio Kroeger), dies at 84
1971 - Albertus W "Albert" van Dalsum, actor/director (King Lear), dies at 82
1972 - Norman Norell [Levinson], US fashion designer, dies at 72
1973 - Abebe Bikila, Ethiopian marathon runner (Olympic-gold 1960, 64), dies at 41
1973 - G Paul H Schuitema, graphically designer/photographer, dies
1975 - Frank Puglia actor (Black Orchid, Jungle Book), dies at 83
1976 - Raymond Queneau, [M Presle], French writer (Last Days), dies at 73
1981 - Ariel Durant, US author (Story of Civilization), dies at 83
1983 - Hermann Ambrosius, composer, dies at 86
1984 - Pascale Ogier, actress (Ghost Dance), dies of heart attack at 24
1985 - Elsa Moranet, writer, dies at 67
1985 - Morton Downey, singer (Star of the Family), dies at 83
1986 - Forrest Tucker, actor (O'Rourke-F Troop, Dusty Trail), dies at 67
1987 - Cecil Brown, news correspondent (CBS), dies at 80
1988 - Bill Cody, actor (Blazing Justice, Ghost City), dies at 75
1989 - Gerard Walschap, Flemish writer (Men of Goods), dies
1989 - Mary McCarthy, author (Group), dies, at 77
1991 - Bill Graham, rock concert promoter (Filmore, Dylan), dies at 60
1991 - Khigh Dhiegh, actor (Forbidden Nights), dies of heat failure at 75
1992 - Adelino Da Palma Carlos, PM of Portugal (1974), dies
1992 - Roger Miller, country singer (King of the Road), dies at 56
1993 - Francisco Velis, El Salvador guerilla leader (FMLN), murdered
1993 - Mary C Lawton, jurist (CIA's Agency Seal Medallion), dies at 58
1993 - Philip P Cohen, Doctor (Nobel), dies at 85
1993 - Vincent Price, actor (Raven, Fly), dies of lung cancer at 82
1993 - Vladimir Yevgenyevich Preobrazhensky, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 54
1994 - Anthony David Machell Cox, medievalist, dies at 81
1994 - Mildred Natwick, US actress (Barefoot in Park), dies at 89
1995 - Bobby Riggs, tennis star, dies of prostate cancer at 77
1995 - David Healy, actor (Supergirl, Doomsday Gun, Patton), dies at 64
1995 - Kenneth Kweku Sinaman Dadzie, diplomat, dies at 65
1995 - Robert Grieve, civil Servant, dies at 84
1995 - Robert Lorimer Riggs, tennis Player, dies at 77
1995 - Viveca Lindfors, actress (Stargate, Luba, Misplaced), dies at 74
1996 - Eugene Polyakov, dancer, dies at 95
2008 - Anne Pressly, American news anchor (b. 1982)
2010 - Gregory Isaacs, Jamaican musician (b. 1951)
2010 - Vesna Parun, Croatian poet (b. 1922)
2010 - Lisa Blount, American actress and producer (b. 1957)
2012 - Jacques Barzun, French author, dies at 104
2012 - John Connelly, English footballer, dies from cancer at 74

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 26, 2013, 09:06:58 AM

This Day in History for 26th October


Historical Events

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United States founding father                 OK Corral Sheriff Wyatt Earp                          Nurse Margaret Sanger
Benjamin Franklin

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Jazz-orchestra leader,                         Catholic Missionary Mother Teresa       Soldier, author, journalist, politician                       
Composer, Pianist                                                                                                     Winston Churchill
Duke Ellington

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First Secretary of the Communist               Politician, statesman                              Israeli Prime Minister
Party of the Soviet Union                              Henry Kissinger                                      Menachem Begin         
Nikita Khrushchev

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Businessman & T.V. Personality              Baseball Player Derek Jeter
Donald Trump


740 - An earthquake strikes Constantinople, causing much damage and death.
1366 - Comet 55P/1366 U1 (Tempel-Tuttle) approaches 0.0229 AUs of Earth
1387 - Amsterdam buccaneer Herman of Kuinre sign peace
1407 - Mobs attack Jewish community of Cracow
1492 - Columbus' fleet anchors on Ragged Island Range, Bahamas
1492 - Lead pencils 1st used
1524 - Spanish troops give Milan to France
1529 - Thomas More appointed English Lord Chancellor
1534 - Charles V names Joris of Egmont, bishop of Utrecht
1662 - Charles II of England sold Dunkirk to France
1667 - Aru Palakka's occupies Makassar (Goa)
1674 - Prince Willem III occupies Grave
1682 - William Penn accepts area around Delaware River from Duke of York
1749 - Georgia Colony reverses itself & rules slavery is legal
1774 - 1st Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia
1774 - Minute Men organized in colonies
1776 - Benjamin Franklin departed from America for France on a mission to seek French support for
           the American Revolution.
1787 - "Federalist Papers" published, calls for ratification of Constitution
1795 - Pinckney's Treaty between Spain & US is signed, establishing southern boundary of US &
           giving Americans right to send goods down Mississippi
1795 - The French Directory, a five-man revolutionary government, is created.
1810 - US annexes western Florida
1822 - King Willem I obligates inhabitants of Brussels to use Dutch language
1825 - Erie Canal between Hudson River & Lake Erie opened
1830 - Belgian rebels occupy Antwerp
1858 - Hamilton Smith patents rotary washing machine
1859 - The Royal Charter is wrecked on the coast of Anglesey, north Wales with 459 dead.
1861 - Pony Express ends
1863 - Worldwide Red Cross organized in Geneva
1863 - Football Association forms in England, standardizing soccer, splitting with rugby
1864 - Union troops ambush & kill 'Bloody' Bill Anderson in Richmond MI
1868 - White terrorists kill several blacks in St Bernard Parish La
1869 - 1st American steeplechase horserace (Westchester, NY)
1876 - President sends federal troops to SC
1881 - Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday & Clanton involved in gunfight at OK Corral, in Tombstone, Az
1886 - Modest Mussorgsky's "A Night on Bald Mountain," premieres in Russia
1887 - Detroit (NL) beats St Louis (AA) 10 games to 5 in World Series
1894 - German emperor Wilhelm II fires Chancellor Leo von Caprivi & premier Botho zu Eulenburg
1896 - Abyssinia & Italy sign peace treaty
1900 - After 4 years of work, 1st section of NY subway opens
1901 - 1st use of "getaway car" occurs after holding up a shop in Paris
1903 - Yerba Buena is 1st Key System ferry to cross SF Bay
1905 - 1st Soviet (workers' council) formed, St Petersburg, Russia
1905 - Union of Sweden & Norway ends
1911 - Phila A's beat NY Giants, 4 games to 2 in 8th World Series
1912 - Serbian troops over run Skopje (Uskup)
1912 - Woolwich Tunnel under Thames opens
1913 - Huerta elected president of Mexico
1916 - Margaret Sanger arrested for obscenity (advocating birth control)
1917 - Petrograd Soviet accepts establishment of Military
1917 - World War I:Brazil declared in state of war with Central Powers.
1918 - Soldier revolt at Harskamp Veluwe
1919 - B C Hilliams musical "Buddies," premieres in NYC
1919 - Elgars "Cello concerto on 85" premieres in Queen's Hall London
1919 - President Wilson's veto of Prohibition Enforcement Bill is overridden
1921 - Solomon Porter Hood named minister to Liberia
1922 - Italian government resigns under pressure from fascists & Benito Mussolini
1923 - Dutch 2nd Chamber rejects Fleet laws (50-49 vote)
1923 - Government-Ruijs de Beerenbrouck resigns
1926 - Arthur Goodrich's "Caponsacchi," premieres in NYC
1926 - Belgium stabilizes current value of franc (5 franc becomes 1 "Belga")
1927 - Duke Ellington sings "Creole Love Song"
1930 - Dmitri Sjostakovitch' ballet "Zolotoy Vyek," premieres in Leningrad
1931 - Eugene O'Neill's "Mourning Becomes Electra," premieres in NYC
1933 - French government of Serraut forms
1934 - While Wash player-mgr Joe Cronin honeymoons with Mildred Robertson owner Clark Griffith's
           niece & adopted daughter, he is sold to Red Sox
1939 - Polish Jewish forced into obligatory work service
1940 - The P-51 Mustang makes its maiden flight.
1941 - 2nd meeting partisans Tito & Draza Mihailovic in Yugoslavia
1941 - US savings bonds go on sale
1942 - 2nd day of Battle of Henderson Field, Guadalcanal
1942 - 4th day in battle at El Alamein: Australian breakthrough
1942 - Battle of Santa Cruz: USS SD shoots down a record 32 enemy planes
1943 - World War II: First flight of the Dornier Do 335 "Pfeil".
1947 - Maharajah of Jammu & Kashmir accedes to India
1947 - The British Military Occupation ends in Iraq.
1949 - President Harry Truman increases minimum wage from 40 cents to 75 cents
1950 - 630 Dutch volunteers depart (on)to Korea
1950 - Branch Rickey resigns as Brooklyn Dodger president
1950 - Mother Teresa founds Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, India
1950 - South Korean troops reach Chosan at Chinese boundary
1951 - Emile Zatopek runs world record 30,000m, 25,000m & 15 miles
1951 - Rocky Marciano defeats Joe Louis at Madison Square Garden
1951 - Winston Churchill re-elected British Prime Minister
1952 - Pakistan's 1st Test Cricket win Fazal Mahmood 12 wkts v India
1953 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Emu Field Australia
1954 - Chevrolet unveils V-8 engine
1954 - Walt Disney's 1st television program, "Disneyland," premieres on ABC
1954 - Trieste return to Italy.
1955 - 1st edition of "Village Voice" (NYC) published
1955 - British troops occupy Saudi-Arabic oil field at Boeraimi
1955 - Ngo Dinh Diem proclaims Vietnam a republic with himself as pres
1956 - UN's International Atomic Energy Agency statute approved
1956 - Vietnam promulgates its constitution
1957 - USSR fires defense minister, Marshal Georgi Zhukov
1958 - PanAm flies 1st transatlantic jet trip-NY to Paris
1958 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1960 - AL approves Washington Senators move to become Minnesota Twins & announces franchises
           in LA & Wash DC for 1961
1961 - 1st Saturn launch vehicle made a flight test
1962 - Beatles tape "Please Please Me" & "Ask Me Why"
1962 - JFK warns Russia US will not allow Soviet missiles to remain in Cuba
1962 - Nikita Khrushchev sends note to JFK offering to withdraw his missiles from Cuba if US closed
           its bases in Turkey offer is rejected
1962 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
1963 - US performs underground nuclear test at Fallon Nevada
1964 - Rolling Stones appear on Ed Sullivan Show
1964 - Eric Edgar Cooke becomes last person in Western Australia to be executed.
1965 - Beatles receive MBEs at Buckingham Palace
1965 - Sylvia Likens tortured by teen girl gang
1966 - 1st Pacific communications satellite launched, Intelsat 2
1966 - US aircraft carrier Oriskany catches fire at Gulf on Tonken, 43 die
1967 - Shah of Iran crowns himself after 26 years on Peacock Throne
1968 - 1st European satellite launched, Esro 1, at Cape Kennedy
1968 - KMIR TV channel 36 in Palm Springs, CA (NBC) begins broadcastng
1968 - Soyuz 3 launched
1969 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Corpus Christi Civitan Golf Open
1969 - WHMA (now WJSU) TV channel 40 in Anniston, AL (CBS) 1st broadcast
1970 - "Doonesbury" comic strip debuts in 28 newspapers
1970 - Tanzania begins building railway Lusaka-Drone ash Salaam
1971 - UN votes to replace Taiwan with China
1972 - Guided tours of Alcatraz (by Park Service) begin
1972 - Henry Kissinger declares "Peace is at hand" in Vietnam
1973 - Israeli forces reach Suez, trapping Egyptian army
1973 - President Nixon released 1st White House tapes on Watergate scandal
1973 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1973 - Wings release "Helen Wheels"
1974 - Cleveland Coliseum opens for NBA's Cavaliers & MISL's Crunch
1975 - Anwar Sadat became 1st Egyptian president to officially visit US
1975 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1975 - Cuba beats Mexico for its 4th Pan Am Games Gold Medal in baseball
1975 - Mary Bea Porter wins LPGA Golf Inns of America
1976 - Transkei gains independence, not recognized outside of South Africa
1976 - Trinidad & Tobago becomes a republic
1977 - 5th & final test of space shuttle Enterprise
1977 - Dr Clifford R Wharton Jr named chancellor of State University of NY
1977 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1977 - The last natural case of smallpox was discovered in Merca district, Somalia. The WHO and the
           CDC consider this date the anniversary of the eradication of smallpox, the most spectacular
           success of vaccination.
1978 - Menachem Begin & Anwar Sadat named winners of 1978 Nobel Peace Prize
1978 - Independent Counsel Act is signed into law.
1979 - Park Chung-hee, President of South Korea is assassinated by KCIA head Kim Jae-kyu. Choi
           Kyu-ha becomes the acting President; Kim is executed the following May.
1980 - 10th NYC Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:25:41.3
1980 - 11th NYC Marathon won by Alberto Salazar in 2:09:41
1980 - St Louis Cards sack Balt Colt QBs an NFL record tying 12 times
1981 - LA Dodgers beat NY Yankees, 4 games to 2 in 78th World Series
1982 - Steve Carlton became 1st pitcher to win 4 Cy Young awards
1982 - US budget deficit reaches more than $110 trillion for fiscal year 1982
1983 - Hugh Williams' "Pack of Lies," premieres in London
1983 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1984 - "Baby Fae" gets baboon heart transplant, lives 21 days
1985 - -Nov 6] Hurricane Juan, kills 97 in US
1985 - On a poor call in 6th game, umpire Don Deckinger starts a string of events costing Cardinals
           the World Series
1986 - "Into the Light" closes at Neil Simon Theater NYC after 6 performances
1987 - Dow Jones down 156.83 points
1987 - Head of Salvadoran Human Rights Comm assassinated by death squads
1988 - Donald Trump bills Mike Tyson $2,000,000 for 4 month advisory service
1988 - US-Soviet effort free 2 grey whales from frozen Arctic, Barrow, AK
1992 - The command and control system of the London Ambulance Service fails catastrophically.
1992 - The Charlottetown Accord fails to win majority support in a Canada wide referendum.
1992 - The London Ambulance Service was thrown into chaos after the implementation of a new
           CAD, or Computer Aided Despatch, system which failed.
1993 - NFL announces new expansion team, Carolina Panthers in Charlotte
1993 - NJ Devils lose 2-0 to Montreal, after winning 1st 7 games of 1993
1994 - Jordan & Israel sign peace accord
1995 - Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Mossad agents assassinate Islamic Jihad leader Fathi Shikaki in his
           hotel in Malta.
1996 - Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Lit de Justice, Storm Song, Jewel Princess, Da Hass,
           Boston Harbor, Pilsudski, Alphabet Soup at Woodbine
1997 - Bill Glasson wins Las Vegas Golf Invitational
1997 - Nichirei LPGA International
1997 - Raley's Gold Rush Senior Golf Classic
1997 - World Series: Fla Marlins beat Cleve Indians, 4 games to 3
1999 - Britain's House of Lords votes to end the right of hereditary peers to vote in Britain's upper
           chamber of Parliament.
2000 - NY Yankees defeat NY Mets 4-1 to win their 3rd straight World Series championship, MVP:
           Derek Jeter, NY Yankees
2000 - Laurent Gbagbo takes over as president of Côte d'Ivoire following a popular uprising against
           President Robert Guéï. Bret Hart retires.
2001 - The United States passes the USA PATRIOT Act into law.
2002 - Moscow Theatre Siege: Approximately 50 Chechen rebels and 150 hostages die when Russian
           Spetsnaz storm a theater building in Moscow, which had been occupied by the rebels during a
           musical performance three days before.
2003 - The Cedar Fire, the second-largest fire in California history, kills 15 people, consumes 250,000
           acres (1,000 km²), and destroys 2,200 homes around San Diego.
2005 - Chicago White Sox defeat Houston Astros 4-0 in baseball's World Series championship, MVP:
           Jermaine Dye, Chicago
2012 - 64 people are killed in West Burma after continued sectarian clashes
2012 - 41 people are killed and 50 injured by a suicide bombing of a mosque in Maymana,
           Afghanistan
2012 - China blocks the New York Times from searches and social media in response to an
           investigation into Premier Wen Jiabao
2012 - Hurricane Sandy makes landfall in the Bahamas killing 2 people and causing over $300 million
           in damage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 26, 2013, 09:09:51 AM

This Day in History for 26th October


Famous Weddings

2002 - American singer-songwriter and TV personality Jessica Simpson (22) weds singer-songwriter
           Nick Lachey (28) at Riverbend Church in Austin, Texas
2008 - World's fattest man Manuel Uribe (43) weds Claudia Solis (38) in Monterrey, Mexico

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 26, 2013, 09:45:42 AM

This Day in History for 26th October


Famous Birthdays

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Gospel Singer                                           Last Shah of Iran(1919)                        US First Lady and Politician 
Mahalia Jackson (1911)                           Mohammad Reza Pahlavi                      Hillary Clinton (1947)


1427 - Archduke Sigismund of Austria (d. 1496)
1473 - Friedrich of Saxony (d. 1510)
1483 - Hans Buchner, composer
1491 - Zhengde, Emperor of China (d. 1521)
1609 - William Sprague, English co-founder of Charlestown, Massachusetts (d. 1675)
1645 - Aert de Gelder, Dutch painter (King David)
1673 - Dimitrie Cantemir, Romanians historian/monarch of Moldova (1710-11)
1684 - Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin, Prussian field marshal (d. 1757)
1685 - Domenico Scarlatti, Naples Italy, composer/harpsichordist
1694 - Johan Helmich Roman, Finnish/Swedish composer/conductor/violinist
1719 - Joaquin de Oxinaga, composer
1740 - Ernest Louis Muller, composer
1757 - Karl Leonhard Reinhold, Austrian philosopher (d. 1823)
1758 - Louis-Charles-Joseph Rey, composer
1759 - Georges Danton, France, revolutionary leader/min of Justice
1768 - Eustachy Erazm Sanguszko, Polish general and politician (d. 1844)
1789 - Joseph Mayseder, composer
1791 - Charles Sprague, Boston, banker/poet (Curiosity)
1794 - Konstantin Thon, Russian architect (d. 1881)
1795 - Nicolaos Mantzaros, composer
1800 - Helmuth K B von Moltke, Prussian general-fieldmarshal
1802 - King Miguel of Portugal (d. 1866)
1804 - Lorenzo Thomas, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1875
1813 - Henry Thomas Smart, composer
1818 - Stefano Golinelli, composer
1823 - Karl Weinhold, German sociologist
1824 - Arthur Middleton Manigault, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1830 - Polibo Fumagalli, composer
1830 - Stephen Elliott Jr, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1866
1837 - James Lawlor Kiernan, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1869
1843 - Vasili V Vereshchagin, Russian painter (War & Peace)
1845 - Hendrick Waelput, Flemish composer/conductor (Forest, Stella)
1849 - Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician (d. 1917)
1854 - August T C Kiehl, Dutch actor (Pearl of Zaandam)
1854 - C. W. Post, American entrepreneur (d. 1914)
1855 - Charles Post, who had a way with breakfast cereals (Post Cereals)
1859 - Arthur Friedheim, composer
1861 - Richard D Sears, Boston, tennis champ, US Open (1881)
1864 - Joseph Moorat, composer
1865 - Benjamin Guggenheim, American businessman (d. 1912)
1869 - Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa, President of Brazil (d. 1957)
1871 - Hermann Lohr, composer
1871 - Guillermo Kahlo, father of Frida Kahlo (d. 1941)
1873 - Thorvald Stauning, Denmark, PM (1924-26, 1929-42)
1874 - Martin Lowry, British chemist (d. 1936)
1875 - H[arry] B[yron] Warner, London England, actor (King of Kings)
1880 - Andrei Bely, Russian writer (d. 1934)
1881 - Margaret Wycherly, London England, actress (Keeper of the Flame)
1883 - Napoleon Hill, American Writer and Philosopher (Think and Grow Rich)(d. 1970)
1883 - Paul Pilgrim, American athlete (d. 1958)
1886 - Gustav Hermann Unger, composer
1886 - Mark Aldanov, [Landau], Russian/French chemist (Myslitel) [OS]
1888 - E Runar Schildt, Finnish writer (Segrande Eros)
1888 - Nestor Ivanovich Makhno, Ukrainian anarchist Insurrectionary leader (d. 1934)
1894 - John S Knight, WV, publisher (Knight-Rider)
1898 - Beryl Rubinstein, composer
1900 - Ibrahim Abbud, general/premier Sudan (1958-64)
1900 - Karin Boye, writer
1902 - Hugh Chilvers, cricketer (great leggie of 30's for NSW but not Aust)
1902 - Joseph Paul Sharkey Zukauskas, boxer
1905 - George Flahiff, Canadian Cardinal (d. 1989)
1907 - Giovanni Salviucci, composer
1907 - Johannes A Apon, Dutch actor (Kaukasische Krijtkring)
1910 - John "Cardinal" Krol, former archbishop (Philadelphia)
1911 - Mahalia Jackson, New Orleans, gospel singer (Whole World in his Hands)
1911 - Sid Gillman, Minneapolis, Minnesota, NFL hall of fame coach/player (LA, San Diego, Houston)
1911 - Sorley MacLean Somhairle MacChaluim, poet
1912 - Don[ald] Siegel, Chicago IL, director (Escape from Alcatraz, Shootist)
1913 - Stuart J[ames] Byrne, US, sci-fi author (Star Man, God Man)
1914 - Jackie Coogan, Los Angeles California, actor (Uncle Fester-Addams Family), (d. 1984)
1915 - Golfredo Corradetti, conductor
1915 - Joe Fry, British racing driver (d. 1950)
1916 - Francois Mitterand, Jarnac France, President of France (1981-95)
1917 - Felix the Cat, cartoon character
1917 - Mario Biaggi, (Rep-D-NY, 1969-90)
1919 - Edward W Brooke, 1st black senator in over 80 yrs (Sen-R-Mass)
1919 - Mohammad Reza Pahlavi Aryamehr, Shah of Iran (1941-79)
1920 - T C Jones, PA, female impersonator
1921 - George Houston, land economist
1921 - George Forrest, Northern Irish MP (d. 1968)
1924 - Tom F Lewis, (Rep-R-Florida, 1983- )
1925 - Jan Wolkers, Dutch sculptor/novelist (Brief American)
1926 - Yuri Aleksandrovich Letunov, Russia, cosmonaut
1928 - Francisco Solano López, Argentine comics artists
1929 - Georgette Amowitz, choreographer/educator
1929 - Hans Peter Haller, composer
1929 - Neal Matthews, Jr., American singer (The Jordanaires) (d. 2000)
1930 - John Arden, England, novelist/playwright (Left Handed Liberty), (d. 2012)
1931 - Hank Garrett, Monticello NY, actor (Car 54 Where Are You)
1932 - Anthony C Beilenson, (Rep-D-California, 1977- )
1932 - Chinadorai Deshmutu, India, field hockey player (1952)
1933 - Suzy Parker, San Antonio Tx, model/actress (Chamber of Horrors)
1934 - Ulrich Plentzdorf, writer
1934 - Hans-Joachim Rödelius, German composer and musician (Cluster, Harmonia)
1936 - Bruce Belland, Chicago, singer (Tim Conway Hour)
1936 - Shelley Morrison, American actress
1937 - Dave Gavitt, formed Basketball's Big East Conference (1979)
1938 - Bernadette Lafont, Nimes France, actress (Perils of Gwendoline), (d. 2013)
1938 - Charles W Stenholm, (Rep-D-Texas, 1979- )
1938 - Ralph Bakshi, animator (Lord of Rings, Fritz the Cat, Mighty Mouse)
1939 - Vladimir Mikhailovich Beloborodov, cosmonaut
1940 - Mario Orosco, 1st victim of NYC's Zodiac killer (survives)
1941 - Harald Nielsen, Denmark, soccer player (Olympic-silver-1960)
1942 - Dietmar Polaczek, composer
1942 - John P "Jannie" Roux, South African sect to pres (Botha/De Klerk)
1942 - Bob Hoskins, British actor
1944 - Mike Piano, rocker (Sandpipers)
1944 - Ries [M] Smits, economist/Dutch MP (CDA)
1945 - Pat Conroy, American writer (Great Santini, Prince of Tides)
1945 - Jaclyn Smith, Houston, Texas, American actress (Charlie's Angels, The Bourne Identity)
1945 - Demetris Th. Gotsis, Greek poet and author
1946 - Ivan Reitman, director/producer (Private Parts, Ghostbusters, Dave)
1946 - Keith Hopwood, rock guitarist (Herman's Hermits)
1946 - Maureen Anderman, actress (Once Upon a Family, Rupture Fatale)
1946 - Pat Sajak, Chicago, TV host (Wheel of Fortune, Pat Sajak Show)
1946 - Holly Woodlawn, Puerto Rican actress
1947 - Trevor Joyce, Irish poet
1947 - Ian Ashley, British racing driver
1947 - Hillary Rodham Clinton, Chicago, Illinois, First Lady (1993-2001), Senator (New York, 2001-
           2009), Secretary of State (2009-2013)
1948 - Marshall Colt, New Orleans La, actor (Eric-Lottery)
1949 - Kevin Sullivan, wrestler (WCW/ECW/SMW/NWA/Georgia/CWFI)
1950 - Chuck Foreman, NFL running back (Minnesota Vikings)
1950 - T E Srinivasan, cricketer (Indian opening batsman 1981)
1951 - Bootsy Collins, Cin, rocker (Parliaments-We Got the Funk)
1951 - Maggie Roche, rocker (Roches)
1951 - William "Bootsy" Collins, US bassist (Psychotic bump school)
1952 - Andrew Motion, English poet and Poet Laureate
1953 - Jennifer Roberson, US, sci-fi author (Shapechangers, Sword-Maker)
1953 - Julian Keith Strickland, Athens Ga, drummer (B-52's-Rock Lobster)
1953 - Lauren Tewes, Trafford Pa, actress (Julie McCoy-Love Boat)
1953 - Rosa Monckton, notable charity fundraiser
1954 - D W Moffett, Highland Park IL, actor (Fine Things, Lisa, Chicago Sons)
1954 - Vassilis Hatzipanagis, Greek footballer
1955 - Stephen K Robinson, Sacramento California, PhD/astronaut (STS 85, sk:95)
1956 - Stephen Gumley, Australian businessman
1956 - Rita Wilson, American actress
1957 - Bob Golic, American football player
1959 - Evo Morales, President of Bolivia
1959 - François Chau, Cambodian actor
1959 - Brian Bovell, British actor
1960 - Brian Hansen, NFL punter (NY Jets)
1960 - June Brigman, American comic book artist
1961 - Mark Bucek, Winter Pak FL, Nike golfer (1994 Gary Player Tour)
1961 - Dylan McDermott, Waterbury, Connecticut, American actor (The Practice, American Horror
           Story)
1962 - Carey Elwes, London England, actor (Glory, Princess Bride)
1962 - Roger Kingdom, Vienna Ga, 110m hurdler (Olympic-gold-1984, 88)
1963 - Kerri Lynne Rosenberg, Burlington Ia, Miss Iowa-America (1991-top 10)
1963 - Natalie Merchant, US singer/songwriter (10,000 Maniacs)
1963 - Tony Casillas, NFL defensive tackle (NY Jets, Dallas Cowboys)
1963 - Ted Demme, American film and television director (d. 2002)
1963 - Tom Cavanagh, Ottawa, Ontario, Canadian actor/producer (Ed, Scrubs)
1964 - Lawson Duncan, Asheville NC, tennis star
1964 - Vencie Glenn, NFL safety (NY Giants)
1965 - Gil Heredia, Nogales AZ, pitcher (Texas Rangers)
1965 - Ken Rutherford, cricketer (NZ Test batsman & latterly capt)
1965 - Kim Cooper, Australian softball 3rd baseman/shortstop (Olym-bronze-96)
1965 - Mark McLoughlin, CFL kicker (Calgary Stampeders)
1965 - Wayne Martin, NFL defensive tackle (NO Saints)
1965 - Aaron Kwok Fu-Shing, Hong Kong singer
1965 - Kelly Rowan, Canadian actress and producer.
1966 - Alex Pastoor, Dutch soccer player (FC Volendam)
1966 - David Miley, Milwaukee WI, Nike golfer (1992 Cleveland Open)
1966 - Olga Bicherova, gymnastics (won title at 15 yrs 33 days)
1966 - Jeanne Zelasko, American sportcaster
1966 - Steve Valentine, British actor
1966 - Masaharu Iwata, Japanese composer
1967 - Bobby Houston, NFL linebacker (NY Jets)
1967 - Shelly Stokes, Sacramento California, softball catcher (Olympics-gold-96)
1967 - Keith Urban, New Zealand singer
1968 - Chris Oldham, NFL cornerback (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1968 - Nico John Hoogma, soccer player (FC Twente)
1969 - Mark Sweeney, Framington Mass, outfielder (St Louis Cardinals)
1969 - Mike Pritchard, Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina, NFL wide receiver (Denver Broncos,
           Seattle Seahawks)
1970 - Bert Emanuel, NFL wide receiver (Atlanta Falcons)
1970 - Jessie Armstead, NFL linebacker (NY Giants)
1970 - Randall Evans, Franklin Virginia, 100m/200m runner
1970 - Tom Vano, Plainfield NJ, field hockey goalkeeper (Olympics-96)
1970 - Dian Bachar, American actor
1970 - Raveena Tandon, Indian actress
1971 - Cinnamon Woods, Anderson Ind, diver (Olympics-96)
1971 - Ronnie Irani, cricketer (Essex all-rounder, England 1996)
1971 - Anthony Rapp, American singer and actor
1973 - Brian Smith, Cedar Rapids Iowa, speed skater (Olympics-1994)
1973 - Robert Petrovicky, Kosice CZE, NHL forward (Team Slovakia, Dallas)
1973 - Taka Michinoku , Japanese professional wrestle
1973 - Seth MacFarlane, American animator
1974 - LISA, Japanese musician
1975 - Katja Riipi, ice hockey left wing (Finland, Oly-98)
1975 - Tammy Cleland, Sanford FL, synchronized swimmer (Olympics-gold-96)
1976 - Miikka Kiprusoff, Finnish hockey player
1977 - Jon Heder, American actor
1978 - CM Punk, American professional wrestler
1978 - Eva Kaili, Greek TV presenter and politician
1978 - Jimmy Aggrey, English footballer
1978 - Mark Barry, English musician (BBMak)
1979 - Movsar Barayev, Chechen militant (d. 2002)
1980 - Cristian Chivu, Romanian footballer
1981 - Guy Sebastian, Australian singer
1981 - Sam Brown, American comedian
1982 - Adam Carroll, British racing driver
1983 - Dmitri Sychev, Russian football player
1983 - Francisco Liriano, Major League Baseball pitcher
1983 - Luke Watson, South African rugby player
1984 - Sasha Cohen, American figure skater
1984 - Jefferson Farfán, Peruvian footballer
1984 - Adriano Correia Claro, Brazilian footballer
1984 - Amanda Overmyer, American Singer, American Idol (season 7)
1985 - Andrea Bargnani, Italian basketball player
1985 - Monta Ellis, American basketball player
1985 - Asin Thottumkal, Indian actress
1996 - Pasaye, Palatine Ill, twin born 92 days before his brother (Jan 26)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 26, 2013, 10:20:55 AM

This Day in History for 26th October


Famous Deaths

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Women's Rights Activist                            Aviator Igor Sikorsky (1972)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1902)


899 - Alfred the Great, writer/king of Wessex (871-99), dies
1132 - Floris the Black, brother of earl Dirk VI of Holland, murdered
1235 - Andres II Arpad, King of Hungary (1205-35), dies
1440 - Gilles de Rais, French marshal, killer of 140 children, hanged
1576 - Frederick II the Vrome, ruler of Palts, dies
1607 - Philipp Nicolai, German Lutherian theologist/poet/composer, dies at 52
1608 - Juan Pantoja de la Cruz, Spanish royal painter, dies
1633 - Horio Tadaharu, Japanese warlord (b. 1596)
1640 - Pietro Tacca, Italian sculptor/architect, dies at 63
1658 - Francisco de Borja y Aragon Esquilache, Spanish poet, dies
1661 - Johann B Schup, [Schuppius], German poet/historian/vicar, dies
1671 - Sir John Gell, 1st Baronet, English politician (b. 1593)
1675 - William Sprague, English co-founder of Charlestown, Massachusetts (b. 1609)
1678 - John Jenkins, composer, dies
1679 - Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, British soldier, statesman, and dramatist (b. 1621)
1686 - John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, English politician (b. 1623)
1693 - Coenraad van Beuningen, mayor of Amsterdam/diplomat, dies at 71
1706 - Andreas Werkmeister, composer, dies at 60
1717 - Catherine Sedley, English mistress of James II of England (b. 1657)
1733 - Antonio Veracini, composer, dies at 74
1749 - Louis-Nicholas Clerambault, French composer/organist, dies at 72
1751 - Philip Doddridge, English religious leader (b. 1702)
1756 - Johann Theodor Romhild, composer, dies at 72
1764 - William Hogarth, British painter (b. 1697)
1773 - Amédée-François Frézier, French military engineer and explorer (b. 1682)
1803 - Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford, English politician (b. 1721)
1806 - John Graves Simcoe, first lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada (b. 1752)
1817 - Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, Austrian scientist (b. 1727)
1823 - Josef Preindl, composer, dies at 67
1848 - Vissarion G Belinski, Russian literature critic, dies
1858 - Isac Baker Woodbury, composer, dies at 39
1864 - "Bloody Bill" Anderson, American Civil War rebel guerrilla leader (b. 1839)
1866 - John Kinder Labatt, Irish-Canadian brewer (Labatt Brewing Company) (b. 1803)
1867 - John Fawcett, composer, dies at 77
1868 - B F Randolph, SC state senator, assassinated
1874 - Peter Cornelius, German composer, dies at 49
1881 - Billy Clanton, brother of Ike, dies
1890 - Collodi, [Carlo Lorenzini], Italian writer (Pinocchio), dies
1896 - Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour, French statesman (b. 1827)
1902 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American women's rights activist (b. 1815)
1903 - Herbert Stanley Oakeley, composer, dies at 73
1903 - Victorin de Joncieres, composer, dies at 64
1909 - Horiboemi Ito, Prince of Japan, assassinated by a Korean
1929 - Arno Holz, writer, dies at 66
1930 - Harry Payne Whitney, American businessman (b. 1872)
1931 - Charles Comiskey, baseball team owner (b. 1859)
1935 - Akos Buttykai, composer, dies at 64
1936 - Bob Dellemijn, Lourdes-ganger/Franco-volunteer, dies in battle at 18
1937 - Józef Dowbór-Muśnicki, Polish general (b. 1867)
1941 - Arkady Gaidar, Russian children's writer (b. 1904)
1943 - Marc Aurel Stein, Hungarian-born archaeologist (b. 1862)
1944 - Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, daughter of Queen Victoria (b. 1857)
1944 - William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1881)
1945 - Paul Pelliot, French explorer (b. 1878)
1945 - Alexei Krylov, Russian engineer and mathematician (b. 1863)
1947 - Canon Edwin Sidney Savage, English rector (b. 1862)
1952 - Hattie McDaniel, American singer and actress (b. 1895)
1954 - Floris HL Prims, Flemish priest/historian/archivist of Antwerp, dies
1955 - Arne Eggen, composer, dies at 74
1956 - Walter Gieseking, German pianist/composer, dies at 60
1957 - N Kazantzakis, writer, dies
1961 - Edgar Mayne, cricketer (4 Tests for Australia around WWI), dies
1961 - Milan Stojadinović, Premier of Yugoslavia (1935-39), dies at 73
1962 - Hattie McDaniel actress (Gone With the Wind), dies at 57
1962 - Louise Beavers, actress (Beulah-Beulah), dies at 64
1964 - Agnes Miegel, writer, dies
1965 - Sylvia Likens, American torture victim (b. 1949)
1966 - Alma Cogan, English singer (b. 1932)
1968 - Erich Von Stroheim, actor/director (Napoleon), dies of cancer at 52
1971 - Robert Gordon director/writer (Loveless), dies at 76
1971 - Vincent Coleman, American actor (b. 1901)
1972 - Igor Sikorsky, Russian-American aviation pioneer and helicopter builder, dies at 83
1976 - Deryck Victor Cooke, composer, dies at 57
1978 - George Grant, cricketer (WI Test captain through early 1930's), dies
1979 - Jackie Grant, cricketer (West Indian captain 1930-35), dies
1979 - Park Chung-hee, South Korean President, assassinated
1980 - Marcello J tie Neves Alves Caetano, premier of Portugal, dies at 74
1982 - Giovanni Benelli, archbishop of Florence/Pope candidate, dies
1984 - John Woods Duke, composer, dies at 85
1984 - Laurie Langenbach, author, dies at 37
1984 - Sue Randall, actress (Miss Landers-Leave it to Beaver), dies at 49
1986 - Jackson Scholz, American runner (b. 1897)
1989 - Andrew Roberts, cricketer (7 Tests for New Zealand 1976), dies
1989 - Charles J. Pedersen, American Nobel laureate (b. 1904)
1990 - William Paley, CEO (CBS), dies of a heart attack at 89
1991 - Lori Rae Matthews, crushed to death by an artist's 485 lb umbrella
1992 - Dottie Green, female baseball player (Peaches), dies of cancer at 71
1992 - Jerome Andrews, US/French dancer/choreographer, dies
1992 - Laurel Cronin, actor (Beethoven, Housesitter), dies of cancer at 53
1993 - Absolutely Nobody, [David Powers], Wash lt-gov candidate, dies at 37
1993 - H Hardenberg, writer, dies
1994 - Rudi van Vlaenderen, Flemish actor/dir/poet (Thyestes), dies at 64
1994 - Tutta Rolf, actress (Whalers), dies at 87
1994 - Wilbert Harrison, singer, dies at 65
1995 - Agha Saadat Ali, cricketer (8 not out in 1 inn for Pak 1956), dies
1995 - Bernhard Heiliger, sculptor, dies at 79
1995 - Georgia Neese Gray, 1st Woman Treasurer of USA, dies at 95
1996 - Gordon Scarrott, engineer, dies at 80
1996 - Hans Walter Kosterliz, biochemist, dies at 93
1996 - Sylvia Mary Paget Chancellor, philanthropist, dies at 95
1999 - Hoyt Axton, American actor and country music singer-songwriter (b. 1938)
2002 - Jacques Massu, French general (b. 1908)
2002 - Movsar Barayev, Chechen militant (b. 1979)
2004 - Bobby Avila, Major League Baseball player (b. 1924)
2005 - Keith Parkinson, fantasy artist (b. 1958)
2006 - Pontus Hultén, Swedish art collector and museum director (b. 1924)
2007 - Nicolae Dobrin, Romanian footballer (b. 1947)
2007 - Friedman Paul Erhardt (Chef Tell), German-born American TV chef (b. 1943)
2007 - Dr. Arthur Kornberg, American Nobel Prize laureate in 1959 for the discovery of DNA
           polymerase (b. 1918)
2007 - Khun Sa, Burmese warlord (b. 1934)
2008 - Tony Hillerman, American writer (b. 1925)
2008 - Delmar Watson, American child actor (b. 1926)
2009 - Teel Bivins, American politician (b. 1947)
2009 - George Na'ope, American musician (b. 1928)
2010 - Glen "Frosty" Little, American circus clown (b. 1925)
2010 - Mbah Maridjan, Mount Merapi gatekeeper (b. 1927)
2010 - Romeu Tuma, Brazilian politician (b. 1931)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 27, 2013, 09:12:47 AM

This Day in History for 27th October


Historical Events

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King of England King Charles I                    Comedian Groucho Marx                    Animator Walt Disney

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Musician & member of the Beatles         Magazine Publisher Larry Flynt
Paul McCartney 


312 - Constantine the Great is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross.
625 - Honorius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
710 - Saracen invasion of Sardinia.
939 - Edmund I succeeds Athelstan as King of England.
1275 - Traditional founding of the city of Amsterdam.
1523 - English troops occupy Montalidier France
1553 - Condemned as a heretic, Michael Servetus is burned at the stake just outside Geneva.
1605 - Spanish army under General Spinola occupies Wachtendonk
1627 - English assault on French Il de Ré
1644 - 2nd Battle at Newbury: King Charles I beats parliamentary armies
1651 - English troops occupy Limerick Ireland
1662 - England sells Duinkerken to France for 2.5 million livres
1676 - Poland & Turkey sign Peace of Warsaw
1682 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is founded.
1688 - King James II fires premier Robert Spencer
1702 - English troops plunder St Augustine Florida
1775 - US Navy forms
1787 - Federalist letters start appearing in NY newspapers
1795 - Treaty of San Lorenzo, provides free navigation of Mississippi
1806 - The French Army enters in Berlin.
1810 - US annexes West Florida from Spain
1830 - Major-General Baron D Chasse bombs Antwerp (Belgium revolution)
1838 - Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order, which orders all Mormons to
           leave the state or be exterminated.
1858 - RH Macy & Co opens 1st store, (6th Ave-NYC) Gross receipts $1106
1863 - Dutch railway to Harlingen opens
1864 - Battle of Boydton Plank Road, VA (Burgess' Mill, Southside Railroad)
1864 - 2nd Battle of Fair Oaks, Va near Richmond
1864 - Confederate ship Albemarle torpedoed/sinks
1864 - Siege of Petersburg, VA
1867 - Garibaldi marches on Rome
1871 - Boss Tweed (William Macy Tweed), Democratic leader of Tammany Hall, arrested after NY
           Times exposed his corruption
1884 - Architect Henry Hardenberghs Dakota-complex opens in NYC
1886 - Musical fantasy "Night on Bald Mountain," performed in Russia
1893 - Hurricane hits coast between Savannah Ga & Charleston SC
1896 - 1st Pali Road completed in Hawaii (winds so strong streams flow UP!)
1901 - 1st complete performance of Debussy's "Nocturnes"
1904 - IRT (Interborough Rapid Transit), opens in NYC, subway/bus fare is set at one nickel (Bkln
           bridge-145 & Bdwy)
1913 - Pres Wilson says US will never attack another country
1914 - British battleship Audacious sunk by mine
1916 - 1st published reference to "jazz" appears (Variety)
1916 - Battle of Segale: Negus Mikael, marching on the Ethiopian capital in support of his son
           Emperor Iyasus V, is defeated by Fitawrari abte Giyorgis, securing the throne for Empress
           Zauditu.
1919 - Axeman of New Orleans claims last victim
1919 - US Congress sign Volstead Act
1920 - League of Nations moves headquarters in Geneva
1920 - Westinghouse radio station in East Pittsburgh, KDKA begins
1922 - 1st commemoration of Navy Day
1922 - Dutch 2nd Chamber votes for child labor laws
1924 - Uzbek SSR forms
1924 - The Uzbek SSR is founded in the Soviet Union.
1925 - Water skis patented by Fred Waller
1927 - Queen Wilhelmina opens Meuse-Waal Canal in Nijmegen
1931 - Chuhei Numbu of Japan, sets then long jump record at 26' 2½"
1933 - Valentin Boreyko, Russia, rower (Oly Gld 1960), (d. 2012)
1935 - SDAP & NVV launchs "Plan for Work" in Utrect Netherlands
1938 - DuPont announces its new synthetic fiber will be called "nylon"
1941 - Chicago Daily Tribune editorialize there will not be war with Japan
1941 - Nazi's directs gypsy ghetto in Belgrade
1942 - 5th day of battle at El Alamein: heavy battles/Australian advance
1942 - US aircraft carrier Hornet sinks off Santa Cruz
1944 - Hertogenbosch & Tilburg freed from nazi occupation
1944 - Tito reaches free Belgrade
1945 - "Carib Song" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 36 performances
1945 - 1st edition of Elseviers Weekly newspaper (Elseviers Magazine)
1946 - Georgi Domitrovs National Front wins Bulgaria elections (78%)
1947 - "You Bet Your Life," with Groucho Marx, premieres on ABC radio
1947 - WMAR TV channel 2 in Baltimore, MD (NBC) begins broadcasting
1948 - Albert Camus' "L'etat de Siege," premieres in Paris
1948 - Israel recaptures Nizzanim in Negev
1948 - Léopold Sédar Senghor founds the Senegalese Democratic Bloc (BDS).
1950 - Paul Creston's 3rd Symphony "Triumph of St Joan," premieres
1952 - "My Darlin' Aida" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 89 perfs
1954 - B O Davis Jr becomes 1st black general in USAF
1954 - Pres Eisenhower offers aid to S Vietnam pres Ngo Dinh Diem
1954 - WISN TV channel 12 in Milwaukee, WI (ABC) begins broadcasting
1954 - Walt Disney's 1st TV show, "Disneyland," premieres on ABC
1954 - Benjamin O. Davis Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air
           Force.
1955 - Argentine peso devalued
1955 - Satomi Myodo, renews Zen nun vows & takes Buddhist name of Daien Myodo
1957 - Celal Bayar re-elected president of Turkey
1957 - WOWL TV channel 15 in Florence, AL (NBC/CBS) begins broadcasting
1957 - WPTA TV channel 21 in Fort Wayne, IN (ABC) begins broadcasting
1958 - Gen Ayub Khan succeeds Iskander Mirza as president of Pakistan
1958 - WEDU TV channel 3 in Tampa-St Petersburg, FL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1959 - Rare Pacific hurricane kills 2,000 in Western Mexico
1960 - AL admits LA & Washington to the league
1960 - Singer Ben E King records "Spanish Harlem" & "Stand By Me"
1961 - 1st Saturn launch vehicle makes an unmanned flight test
1961 - American Basketball League starts play
1961 - Outer Mongolia & Mauritania become 102nd & 103rd members of UN
1961 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya & Sary Shagan USSR
1962 - "Beyond the Fringe" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 673 perfs
1962 - Black Saturday - Russian nuclear missile crisis in Cuba
1962 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1962 - The plane of Enrico Mattei, Italian industry's most relevant figure, crashes in mysterious
           circumstances.
1963 - Bob Simpson completes 359 for NSW v Qld at Gabba
1963 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Phoenix Thunderbirds Golf Tournament
1964 - "Ben Franklin in Paris" opens at Lunt Fontanne NYC for 215 perfs
1964 - Congo rebel leader Christopher Gbenye holds 60 Americans/800 Belgians
1965 - WCFT TV channel 33 in Tuscaloosa, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting
1966 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1966 - UN deprives South Africa of Namibia
1966 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1967 - 4 people from Baltimore pour blood on selective service records
1967 - Expo '67 closes in Montreal, Canada
1967 - NLF leaves People's Republic of South-Yemen
1968 - 19th Olympic games close at Mexico City, Mexico
1968 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA River Plantation Golf Invitational
1969 - Nobel prize for economy awarded to John Tinbergen
1969 - Ralph Nader sets up a consumer organization knowns as Nader's Raiders
1969 - St Vincent & Grenadines gains associated status with Britain
1970 - "Light, Lively & Yiddish" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 87 perfs
1971 - Republic of Congo-Kinshasa becomes Republic of Zaire
1972 - Golden Gate National Recreation Area created
1973 - 1st time Islanders beat Rangers-3-2
1973 - Alabama sets offensive record (828 yds), beats Virginia Tech 77-6
1974 - Chantal Langlace runs female world record marathon (2:46:24)
1975 - Covers of both Time & Newsweek picture rock singer Bruce Springsteen
1977 - Amsterdam businessman M Caransa kidnapped
1977 - NASA launches space vehicle S-200
1978 - Begin & Sadat win Nobel Peace prize
1978 - President Carter signs Hawkins-Humphrey full employment bill
1979 - Islanders score 2 goals within 6 seconds 3 goals within 44 seconds
1979 - St Vincent & Grenadines becomes independent of UK (Natl Day)
1979 - Voluntary Euthanasia Society publishes how-to-do-it suicide guide
1980 - Astros owner John McMullen replaces GM Tal Smith with Al Rosen
1980 - Dave Gryllis sets world bicycle speed record of 94.37 kph
1981 - Andrew Young, former UN Ambassador, elected mayor of Atlanta, Georgia
1981 - The Soviet submarine U 137 runs aground on the east coast of Sweden.
1982 - China announces its population at 1 billion people plus
1982 - IBM ROM is capable of EGA graphics
1984 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1984 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1984 - Wash State's Rueben Mayes sets col football rec of 357 yards rushing
1985 - 15th NYC Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:28:34
1985 - 16th NYC Marathon won by Orlando Pizzolato in 2:11:34
1985 - Anthony Carter begins NFL streak of 100+ consecutive game receptions
1985 - Billy Martin is fired by Yankees for 4th time
1985 - Hurricane Juan ravages US Gulf states & east coast, 49 die
1985 - KC Royals beat St Louis Cards, 4 games to 3 in 82nd World Series
1985 - Thieves steal 9 paintings, including 5 Monet's & 2 Renoir's
1986 - NY Mets beat Boston Red Sox, 4 games to 3 in 83rd World Series
1986 - Paul McCartney release "Pretty Little Head"
1986 - The United Kingdom government suddenly deregulates financial markets, leading to a total
           restructuring of the way in which they operate in the country, in an event now referred to as
           the Big Bang.
1987 - Lucas Mangopes Democratic Party wins Bophuthatswana elections
1987 - Peter Shaffer's "Lettice & Lovage," premieres in London
1987 - South Korean voters overwhelmingly approved a new constitution
1988 - "ET" released to home video (14 million presold)
1988 - Larry Flynt paid hitman $1M to kill Hefner, Guccione & Sinatra
1990 - "Michael Feinstein in Concert" closes at Golden NYC after 30 perfs
1990 - Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Bayakoa, Fly So Free, In The Wings, Meadow Star,
           Royal Academy, Safely Kept, Unbridled
1990 - Supreme Soviet of Kirghiz SSR chooses Askar Akayev as republic's first president.
1991 - "Andre Heller's Wonderhouse" closes at Broadhurst NYC after 9 perfs
1991 - "Homecoming" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 49 performances
1991 - John Brodie wins Security Pacific Senior Golf Classic
1991 - Minnesota Twins beat Altanta Braves 1-0 in 10 to win World Series in 7
1992 - Don Baylor appointed 1st manager of Colorado Rockies
1992 - Fox is to launch Tuesday night network TV, rescheduled to Decemeber
1992 - Great Britain issues postage stamp on 100th anniversary of Tolkien
1992 - Tipper Gore (wife of future VP) admits to covering clock on her VCR with black tape so she
           wouldn't have to watch it blink
1993 - Howard Stern's radio show begins broadcasting in El Paso Texas
1995 - Contract finalizing Cleveland Browns' move to Balt is signed
1995 - Meyrick Pringle takes cricket hat-trick in England tour game at Soweto
1995 - Latvia applies for membership in the European Union.
1996 - US beats Japan, 21½-14½, at Nichirei International Golf Tournament
1997 - Dow Jones crashes record 554 pts to 7161
1997 - Intel Corp buys Digital Equipment for $700 million
1997 - Microsoft argues it should be "free from government interference"
1997 - US releases a redesigned $50 bill
1999 - Gunmen open fire in the Armenian Parliament, killing Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsyan,
           Parliament Chairman Karen Demirchyan, and 6 other members.
2002 - Anaheim Angels defeat San Francisco Giants 4-3 in baseball's World Series championship,
           MVP: Troy Glaus, Anaheim
2002 - The ITV Network aired a constant regional service for the last time in England and Wales, but
           LWT lost its identity completely. All companies (except UTV, Channel, Scottish TV & Grampian
           TV) formed the national ITV1 with regional references only before regional programmes.
2004 - The Boston Red Sox win the World Series for the first time in 86 years
2005 - Riots begin in Paris after the deaths of two Muslim teenagers.
2011 - The Royal Australian Navy announces that they discovered the wreck of a World War II
           submarine in Simpson Harbour, Papua New Guinea during Operation RENDER SAFE - it is
           likely to be Japanese.
2012 - 46 people are killed and 123 injured in Iraq after a series of attacks and bombs
2012 - Thousands demonstrate in Madrid against proposed budget cuts

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 27, 2013, 09:14:10 AM

This Day in History for 27th October


Famous Weddings

1880 - Theodore Roosevelt, later 26th US President marries Alice Hathaway Lee, on his 22nd
           birthday
1964 - Singers Sonny & Cher wed, Cher wore bell-bottoms
1971 - Steve Garvey weds Cynthia Truhan
1984 - "Jessie's Girl" singer Rick Springfield (35) weds Barbara Porter in Australia
1991 - "Thompson Twins" singer Tom Bailey weds Alannah Currie at Graceland Wedding Chapel in
           Las Vegas
2005 - Grand Prix motorcycle road racer Fonsi Nieto (27) weds model Ariadne Artiles at Iglesia de
           San Miguel in Ibiza

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 27, 2013, 09:19:44 AM

This Day in History for 27th October


Famous Birthdays

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Captain/Explorer                                          26th US President
James Cook (1728)                                   Theodore Roosevelt (1858)


1156 - Count Raymond VI of Toulouse (d. 1222)
1401 - Catherine of Valois, queen of Henry V of England (d. 1437)
1728 - James Cook, Yorkshire, England, captain/explorer, discovered Sandwich Islands
1739 - Franz Ignaz Kaa, composer
1744 - Mary Moser, English painter (d. 1819)
1746 - Georg Anton Kreusser, composer
1760 - August W A Grave von Gneisenau, Prussian fieldmarshal
1762 - Gijsbert K van Hogendorp, Dutch count/minister of Foreign affairs
1775 - Traugott Maximilian Eberwein, composer
1782 - Niccolo Paganini, Genoa It, composer/violin virtuoso (Princess Lucca)
1800 - Benjamin Franklin Wade, MC (Union), died in 1878
1809 - Peter "Peerke" Donders, Dutch RC missionary to Suriname
1811 - Issac Merrit Singer, inventor (1st practical home sewing machine)
1811 - Stevens Thomson Mason, first Governor of Michigan (d. 1843)
1814 - Daniel H. Wells, Mormon leader and politician (d. 1891)
1817 - Antoni Katski, composer
1828 - Jacob Dolson Cox, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1900
1829 - Christopher Columbus Andres, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1838 - John Davis Long, 32nd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1915)
1842 - Giovanni Giolitti, 5x premier of Italy (1892..1921)
1844 - Klas Arnoldson, Sweden, politician/pacifist (Nobel 1908)
1854 - Sir William Smith, Scottish founder of the Boys' Brigade (d. 1914)
1858 - Theodore Roosevelt, NYC, (R) 26th Pres (1901-09; Nobel 1906), (d. 1919)
1865 - Charles Spencelayh, English painter (d. 1958)
1872 - Emily Post, authority on social behavior/writer (Etiquette)
1873 - Henry Tate, composer
1876 - Jacqueline Royaards-Sandberg, actress (Un Soir Un Train)
1877 - George Thompson, English cricketer (d. 1943)
1885 - Sigrid Hjertén, Swedish modernist painter (d. 1948)
1889 - Enid Bagnold, novelist (Chalk Garden, 1956 Award of Merit)
1892 - Graciliano Ramos, Brazilian author/mayor of Palmeira
1892 - Victor E van Vriesland, Dutch poet/critic (Mirror of Dutch Poetry)
1893 - Johan G Dancer, Dutch poet (Meetings)
1894 - Antonius "Toon" Verhey, violin cellist/conductor (Residence-orch)
1894 - Fritz Sauckel, German Nazi General of Labor
1894 - Oliver Leese, British general (d. 1978)
1895 - John Boles, Greenville TX, singer/actor (Babes in Baghdad)
1896 - Edith Haisman, Titanic survivor
1904 - Erno Schwarz, Hungarian American soccer player (d. 1974)
1906 - Anton AM Struyken, minister of justice/governor Dutch Antilles
1906 - Earle Cabell, American politician (d. 1975)
1907 - Helmut Walcha, German organist (church music)
1907 - Moises F da Costa Gomez, premier Dutch Antilles
1908 - Lee Krasner, American painter (d. 1984)
1910 - Fred de Cordova, film/TV producer (Tonight Show)
1910 - Jack Carson, Manitoba Canada, actor (Star is Born, Mildred Pierce)
1911 - Leif Erickson, California, actor (Invaders from Mars, On the Waterfront)
1912 - Conlon Nancarrow, Texarkana Arkansas, composer (Soundings 4)
1914 - Dylan Thomas, Swansea Wales, poet (Child's Christmas in Wales)
1914 - Stanislaw Brunstein, artist
1915 - Harry Saltzman, St Johns NB Canada, producer (Goldfinger)
1916 - Bob de Lange, [Jacob Bernard], Dutch actor/director (Daniel)
1916 - Kazimierz Brandys, writer
1917 - Jack Plimsoll, cricketer (S Afr lefty quick, 3-143 in only Test 1947)
1917 - Oliver Tambo, co-founder (African National Congress)
1917 - Augustine Harris, British Bishop of Middlesbrough (d. 2007)
1918 - Paul Dixon, Earling Iowa, Ohio talk show host (Paul Dixon Show)
1918 - Teresa Wright, NYC, actress (Eleanor Gehrig-Pride of the Yankees)
1920 - Nanette Fabray, San Diego California, actress (Katherine-One Day at a Time)
1920 - K. R. Narayanan, 10th President of India
1921 - Anestis Logothetis, composer
1921 - Warren Allen Smith, American encyclopedist
1922 - Carlos Andres Perez, president of Venezuela (1974-79/89-94)
1922 - George Young, soccer star
1922 - Ralph Kiner, HR hitter (Pittsburgh Pirates)/sportscaster (NY Mets)
1923 - Roy Lichtenstein, NYC, Pop art painter (painted comic book panels)
1923 - Roy Lichtenstein, American artist (d. 1997)
1923 - Ned Wertimer, Los Angeles, California, actor (The Jeffersons), (d. 2013)
1924 - Ruby Dee, Cleveland, Ohio, American actress (A Raisin in the Sun, American Gangster)
1924 - Michel Galabru, Safi Morocco, actor (Judge & the Assassin)
1925 - Jane Connell, Oakland California, actress (Jane-Stanley, Bridget-Dumpling)
1925 - Mary Kay Steans, Glendale California, actress (Mary Kay & Johnny)
1925 - Warren M Christopher, US, lawyer/minister of Foreign affairs (1993- )
1925 - Albert Medwin, American inventor
1926 - H R Haldeman, former White House Chief of Staff (Watergate figure)
1926 - P G "Nana" Joshi, cricket wicketkeeper (Indian during 1950's)
1926 - H.R. Haldeman, American political personality (d. 1993)
1927 - Dominick Argento, York Penn, composer (Colonel Jonathan the Saint)
1927 - Edward Ralph Keinholz, sculptor
1928 - Datta Gaekwad, cricketer (father of Anshuman, batted in 11 Tests 50's)
1928 - Kyle Rote, NFL halfback (NY Giants 1951-61)
1928 - Stefan Wewerka, German architect/sculptor
1929 - Marino Iandioro, canned Tomato Pioneer
1930 - Bill George, NFL linebacker (Chicago Bears, LA Rams)
1931 - David Bryant, English world champion bowler/tv-host
1931 - Nawal el-Saadawi, Egyptian writer
1932 - Jean-Pierre Cassel, Paris France, actor (Trout)
1932 - Kathy Cornelius, LPGA golfer
1932 - Sylvia Plath, [Victoria Lucas], US, poet (Colossus, 3 Women, Bell Jar)
1933 - Floyd Cramer, La, hall of fame pianist (Last Date, On the Rebound)
1933 - John Sturdy, scholar
1934 - David Barclay, British hotel magnate/multi-millionaire
1934 - Frederick Barclay, British hotel magnate/multi-millionaire
1934 - Giorgos Konstadinou, Greek actor and director
1937 - Lara Parker, American actress
1938 - Maurice Hinchey, (Rep-D-New York)
1939 - John Cleese, Weston-Super-Mare England, comedian (Monty Python)
1940 - Anthea Joseph, music producer
1940 - Maxine Hong Kingston, US, author
1940 - John Gotti, Bronx NY, mafia head of the Gambino family
1941 - Dick Trickle, American auto racer, (d. 2013)
1942 - Lee Greenwood, Los Angeles, California, American country singer (God Bless the USA)
1942 - Phillip Catherine, rocker
1945 - Carrie Snodgress, Park Ridge Ill, actress (Diary of Mad Housewife)
1945 - Peter Martins, Copenhagen, dancer-choreographer
1945 - Luis Inácio Lula da Silva, President of Brazil
1945 - John Kane, actor/writer
1946 - Leslie Byrne, (Rep-D-Virginia)
1946 - Peter Martins, Danish actor(?)
1946 - Steven R Nail, Canton Ill, USAF/astr (STS 51-G, 61-A, 37, 55)
1946 - Terry J Hart, Pittsburgh Penn, astronaut (STS 41C)
1947 - Terry Anderson, AP correspondent/US hostage held in Lebanon (1985-91)
1948 - Byron Allred, Logan Ut, rocker (Steve Miller Band)
1949 - Garry W Tallent, rocker (E Street Band)
1949 - Jack Daniels, Choctaw Oklahoma, country singer (Highway 101-Cry Cry Cry)
1949 - Jose J P Hageman, Dutch MP (PvdA)
1949 - Mike Kopetski, (Rep-D-Oregon)
1949 - Clifford Antone, American businessman (d. 2006)
1950 - Fran Lebowitz, author/actress (Resident Alien)
1951 - Jayne Kennedy-Overton, Wash DC, actress (Penitentary)
1951 - K K Downing, rock guitarist (Judas Priest-Breakin' the Law)
1951 - Carlos Frenk, Mexican/British cosmologist
1951 - Nancy Jacobs, American politician
1952 - Roberto Benigni, Italian director and actor
1953 - Michael Baker, Memphis Tn, Lt Cmdr USN/astronaut (STS 43, 52, 68, 81)
1953 - Peter Firth, Bradford England, actor (Equus, Lifeforce, Tess)
1953 - Robert Picardo, Phila, actor (Frame Up, Gremlins 2)
1954 - Chris Tavare, cricketer (England opener & occasional scorer of runs)
1954 - Jan Duursema, American comic book artist
1955 - Debra Bowen, American politician
1956 - Patty Sheehan, Middlebury VT, LPGA golfer (1994 US Women's Open)
1956 - Jaq D. Hawkins, British author, occultist and lecturer
1957 - Glen Hoddle, English soccer ball player (Tottenham)
1957 - Jeff East, Kansas City, Missouri, American actor (Huckleberry Finn, Superman)
1958 - Hazell Dean, rocker (Always Doesn't Mean Forever)
1958 - Simon Le Bon, rock vocalist (Duran, Duran-Hungry Like the Wolf)
1958 - Lee Carter, Alabama Judge of the 25th Judicial Circuit
1960 - Tom Nieto, American baseball player
1961 - Rick Gibson, Calgary Alta, Canadian Tour golfer (1990 CPGA)
1963 - Deborah Moore, London England, actress (Danielle-Day of Our Lives)
1963 - Marla Maples, [Trump], Dalton Ga, actress (Will Rogers Follies)
1964 - Jill Hetherington, Brampton Ontario, tennis player (Olympics-96)
1964 - Mark Taylor, cricketer (genius Australian captain since 1994)
1964 - Mary Meagher-Plant, 100m butterfly swimmer (Oly-3 gold/silv/br-84, 88)
1965 - Krista Blomquist, New Haven Conn, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-7th-1995)
1966 - Brad Lauer, Humboldt, NHL right wing (Pitts Penguins)
1966 - Grant Kenny, Norfolk Island NSW, Australasia golfer
1966 - Timm Rosenbach, NFL quarterback (NO Saints)
1966 - Matt Drudge, American blogger
1967 - Jaren Jackson, NBA guard/forward (Houston Rockets, San Antonio Spurs)
1967 - Scott Weiland, American singer (Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver)
1968 - Antoinette Lucas, Crozier VA, field hockey midfielder (Oly-96)
1968 - Kata Karkkainen, Helsinki Finland, playmate (Dec, 1988)
1968 - Vinny Samways, English footballer
1969 - Annie Patterson, composer
1969 - Corey Foster, Ottawa, NHL defenseman (Pitts Penguins)
1969 - John Kasay, NFL kicker (Carolina Panthers)
1970 - Bert Emanuel, wide receiver (Atlanta Falcons)
1970 - Vernon Lewis, NFL cornerback (NE Patriots)
1970 - Felix Bwalya, Zambian boxer
1970 - Adrian Erlandsson, Swedish drummer (Cradle of Filth)
1971 - Liz Pagano, Seattle Wash, WPVA volleyballer (National-13th-1994)
1971 - Matt Brown, WLAF guard (Amsterdam Admirals)
1971 - Mike Ricci, Scarborough, NHL center (Colorado Avalanche)
1971 - Zaddick X Longenbach, Greenwalds Pa, fencer-foil (Olympics-96)
1971 - Theodoros Zagorakis, Greek footballer
1971 - Jade Arcade, American comics artist and writer
1971 - Jorge Soto, Peruvian footballer
1972 - Brad Radke, Eau Claire WI, pitcher (Minnesota Twins)
1972 - John Steel, Auckland NZ, 100m/200m swimmer (Olympics-96)
1972 - Maria Mutola, Maputo Mozambique, 800m runner (Olympics-bronze-96)
1972 - Lee Clark, English footballer
1972 - Elissa (singer), Lebanese singer
1972 - Marika Krook, Finnish singer (Edea)
1973 - Alison "Ali" Malyn Shumate, Union City Tenn, Miss America-Tenn (1996)
1973 - Monica Louwerens, Greenville Miss, Miss America (Miss-Top 10-1996)
1974 - Juan Viedna Schenkhuizen, soccer player (Ajax, NEC)
1975 - Emily John Orton, Creswell Oregon, Miss America (Oregon-2nd-1996)
1975 - Zadie Smith, British novelist
1977 - Jiří Jarosík, Czech footballer
1977 - Kumar Sangakkara, Sri Lankan cricketer
1978 - Vanessa-Mae, Singapore musician
1978 - Sergei Samsonov, Russian ice hockey player
1979 - Melanie Vallejo, Australian TV actress
1980 - Tanel Padar, Estonian singer
1980 - Cassia Riley, American model
1981 - Han Hye-jin, South Korean actress
1981 - Kristi Richards, Canadian freestyle skier
1982 - Patrick Fugit, American actor
1982 - Dennis Moran, American computer hacker
1982 - Takashi Tsukamoto, Japanese actor
1982 - Keri Hilson, American singer, songwriter
1983 - Brent Clevlen, American baseball player
1984 - Kelly Osbourne, English television personality
1984 - Brady Quinn, American football player
1984 - Irfan Pathan, Indian cricketer
1986 - Matty Pattison, English footballer
1987 - Andrew Bynum, American basketball player
1987 - Yi Jianlian, Chinese basketball player (Disputed)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 27, 2013, 09:22:13 AM

This Day in History for 27th October


Famous Deaths

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Mughal Emperor Akbar (1605)


925 - Rhazes, [Abu Bakr Mohammed ibn Zakarijja al-Razi], Persian, dies
939 - King Athelstan I of England (b. 895)
1271 - Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy, French crusader (b. 1213)
1312 - John II, Duke of Brabant (b. 1275)
1327 - Elizabeth de Burgh, queen of Robert I of Scotland (b. 1289)
1331 - Aboe al-Fida, [Aboelfeda], Arabic writer/sultan of Hama, dies
1430 - Vytautas the Great, Grand Duke of Lithuania (b. 1350)
1439 - Albert II of Germany, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1397)
1449 - Ulugh Beg, a USSR astronomer, dies at 56
1485 - Rudolph Agricola, [Roelof Huysman], humanist/organist, dies
1505 - Ivan III, [Ivan the Great], Grand Prince of Moscow and Russia (1462-1505), dies at 65
1542 - Abraham ben Avigdor, rabbi/author (commentary on Tur), dies
1553 - Michael Servetus, Spanish physician, burns at stake for heresy
1561 - Lope de Aguirre, Spanish conquistador (b. 1510)
1573 - Laurentius Petri, first Lutheran Archbishop of Sweden (b. 1499)
1580 - John Bonga, beggar, dies
1605 - Akbar, Jellaladin Mahommed, Indian Mughal Emperor (born 1542)
1617 - Ralph Winwood, English politician (b. 1563)
1651 - Jan III van Foreest, Dutch lawyer/poet/mayor of Hoorn, dies
1652 - Henry, count of Nassau-Siegen, colonel/gov of Hulst, dies
1659 - Marmaduke Stevenson, Quaker in Boston, hanged
1670 - Vavasor Powell, Welsh non-conformist leader (b. 1617)
1674 - Hallgrímur Pétursson, Icelandic poet (b. 1614)
1675 - Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician (b. 1602)
1725 - Jacob Hop, politician/diplomat, dies at 71
1771 - Johann Gottlieb Graun, composer, dies
1781 - Herman-Francois Delange, composer, dies at 66
1789 - John Cook, American farmer and Governor of Delaware (b. 1730)
1796 - Anton Thadaus Johann Nepomuk Stamitz, composer, dies at 45
1822 - Christian Frederich Gottlieb Schwencke, composer, dies at 55
1833 - Ferdinand Franzl, composer, dies at 66
1848 - Alexander Egorovich Varlamov, composer, dies at 46
1864 - Andreas Randel, composer, dies at 58
1917 - Arthur Rhys Davids, English pilot (b. 1897)
1919 - John Harry, cricket wicketkeeper (Aust one Test 1895, one catch), dies
1919 - Theodoor H de Meester, premier (1905-08), dies
1925 - Wilhelm Gericke, composer, dies at 80
1933 - Julius Klengel, composer, dies at 74
1933 - Meir Shapira, rabbi/organizer (Daf Yomi), dies
1935 - E. A. D. Eldridge, British racing driver (b. 1897)
1938 - Lascelles Abercrombie, English poet/critic, dies at 57
1940 - Fini Valdemar Henriques, composer, dies at 72
1942 - Helmuth Hubener, Youth Political Activist against the Hitler regime (b. 1925)
1943 - Bela Reinitz, composer, dies at 64
1944 - Iman J Van de Bosch, Belgian resistance fighter, dies
1949 - Marcel Cerdan, French boxer (b. 1916)
1949 - Ginette Neveu, French violinist (b. 1919)
1953 - Zdzislaw Jachimecki, composer, dies at 71
1953 - Thomas Wass, English cricketer (b. 1873)
1954 - Franco Alfano, Ital (opera)composer (Puccini's Turandot), dies at 78
1954 - Frank Druce, cricketer (252 runs in 5 Tests for England), dies
1955 - Clark Griffith, baseball player/manager (NY Yankees), dies at 85
1955 - Vladimir Mikhaylovich Deshevov, composer, dies at 66
1958 - Frederik Gerretson [Geerten Gossaert], historian/poet/politician, dies at 74
1958 - Joseph Klausner, Polish/Israeli new testament expert, dies at 84
1962 - Enrico Mattei, Italian oil magnate, dies at 58
1962 - Fatso Marco, comedian (Milton Berle Show), dies at 56
1962 - Rudolph Anderson, U-2 pilot, shot down over Cuba
1964 - Sammee Tong, actor (Bachelor Father, Mickey), dies at 63
1964 - Willi Bredel, writer, dies at 63
1965 - French Luitjes, Dutch athlete, dies at 21
1966 - Nigel Haig, cricketer (England pace bowler in 5 Tests 1921-30), dies
1968 - Lise Meitner, Austria/Swedish physics (protactinium), dies at 89
1969 - Jaime Pahissa, composer, dies at 89
1972 - Lew Parker, actor (Lou Marie-That Girl), dies a day before turning 65
1973 - Allan "Rocky" Lane, western actor (Mister Ed, Red Ryder), dies at 64
1975 - Rex Stout, US detective writer (Nero Wolfe), dies at 88
1975 - Rex Stout, American mystery writer (b. 1886)
1977 - James M Cain, US writer (Postman Always Rings Twice), dies at 85
1980 - Steven Peregrine Took, rocker, dies at 31
1980 - Judy LaMarsh, Canadian politician, author and broadcaster (b. 1924)
1981 - John Warburton, actor (King Rat, Cavalcade), dies at 94
1987 - Vijay Merchant, cricketer (Test average 47 72, 1st-class avg 71), dies
1988 - Charles Hawtrey, English actor (Carry On), dies near London at 73
1988 - S B Fuller, founder (Fuller products), dies at 83
1990 - Elliott Roosevelt, son of FDR, dies at 80
1990 - Ugo Tognazzi actor/director (La Cage Aux Folles), dies at 68
1990 - Xavier Cugart, bandlander, dies of heart failure at 90
1990 - Xavier Cugat, Spanish-born musician (b. 1900)
1990 - Princess Sophie von Hohenberg, daughter of assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of
           Austria (b. 1901)
1991 - Andrzei Panufkin, Pol/Brit conductor/composer (Sinfonia Sacra), dies
1991 - Pyke F C Koch, realistic painter, dies
1991 - George Barker, English poet (b. 1913)
1992 - Roy Marshall, cricketer (143 runs for WI, 35725 runs overall), dies
1992 - David Bohm, American-born physicist, philosopher, and neuropsychologist (b. 1917)
1994 - Robert White, guitarist, dies at 57
1995 - Mike Dutfield, documentary Prodcuer, dies at 48
1995 - Susi Hush, tYelevision producer, dies at 49
1996 - Belinda Quirey, dance historian/teacher, dies at 84
1996 - James Aubrey Turner, scientist, dies at 57
1996 - John Gregory, dancer, dies at 82
1999 - Robert Mills, American physicist (b. 1927)
1999 - Charlotte Perriand, French architect and designer (b. 1903)
2000 - Walter Berry, Austrian bass-baritone (b. 1929)
2002 - Tom Dowd, American recording engineer (b. 1925)
2003 - Rod Roddy, American television announcer (b. 1937)
2004 - Serginho, Brazilian footballer (b. 1974)
2006 - Joe Niekro, American baseball player (b. 1944)
2006 - Brad Will, American anarchist and independent journalist (b. 1970)
2009 - David Shepherd, English cricket umpire (b. 1940)
2010 - Néstor Kirchner, Argentine politician (b. 1950)
2010 - Denise Borino, American actress (b. 1964)
2010 - James Wall, American actor and stage manager (b. 1917)
2011 - James Hillman, founder of Archetypal Psychology (b. 1926)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 28, 2013, 09:59:25 AM

This Day in History for 28th October


Historical Events

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Explorer of the New World                    US President Grover Cleveland               Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini
Christopher Columbus

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Dictator of Nazi Germany                         Nobel Laureate Author                               First Secretary of the
Adolf Hitler                                                  Ernest Hemingway                     Communist Party of the Soviet Union
                                                                                                                                   Nikita Khrushchev


306 - Mark Aurelius Valerius Maxentius proclaimed emperor of Rome
312 - Emperor Constantine the Great beats rival Maxentius
969 - Byzantines troops occupy Antioch Syria
1061 - Emperor disposes of bishop Cadalus & Pope Honorius II
1422 - Charles V's son succeeds him as king Charles VII of France
1467 - Battle at Brustem: Charles the Stoute beats the Luikenaars
1492 - Christopher Columbus discovers Cuba and claims it for Spain
1516 - Battle of Yaunis Khan: Turkish forces under the Grand Vizier Sinan Pasha defeat the
           Mameluks near Gaza.
1531 - Battle of Amba Sel: Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi again defeats the army of Lebna
           Dengel, Emperor of Ethiopia. The southern part of Ethiopia falls under Imam Ahmad's control.
1538 - The first university in the New World, the Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino, is established.
1574 - Prince Willem van Orange installs university
1595 - Battle at Giurgevo: Zsigmond Bathory of Transylvania beats Turks
1612 - Robert Dowland appointed court luitist of King James I
1628 - Hugenot bulwark La Rochelle surrenders to Cardinal Richelieu
1636 - Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts) founded
1646 - 1st Protestant church assembly for indians (Massachusetts)
1664 - The Duke of York and Albany's Maritime Regiment of Foot, later to be known as the Royal
           Marines, is established.
1740 - Ivan VI becomes czar of Russia [OS=Oct 17]
1746 - Peruvian cities of Lima & Callao demolished by earthquake, 18,000 die
1776 - Battle of White Plains; Washington retreats to NJ
1790 - NY gives up claims to Vermont for $30,000
1793 - Eli Whitney applies for a patent on cotton gin
1834 - The Battle of Pinjarra occurs in the Swan River Colony in present-day Pinjarra, Western
           Australia. Between 14 and 40 Aborigines are killed by British colonists.
1846 - Pioneers suffer blizzard in Sierra Nevada; 42 die
1848 - The first railroad in Spain - between Barcelona and Mataró - is opened.
1858 - Macy's Dept store opens in NYC
1863 - Battle at Wauhatchie Georgia: 865 killed or injured
1864 - Second Battle of Newtonia (American Civil War), Newton County, Missouri
1864 - 2nd Battle at Fair Oaks, Virginia, ends with 1554 casualties
1864 - Battle of Wauhatchie, TN
1867 - Maimonides College in Penns is 1st Jewish college in the US
1882 - Athletics reveal $22,000 profit in their 1st season in the American Association
1886 - Statue of Liberty dedicated by Pres Grover Cleveland, it is celebrated by 1st confetti (ticker
           tape) parade in NYC
1890 - Last NL-AA World Series game Bkln ties Louisville 3 games & 1 tie
1891 - Quake strikes Mino-Owari, Japan kills 7,300
1893 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky conducted 1st performance of "Symphony Number Six in B minor,
           "Pathetique"
1894 - German emperor Wilhelm II fires chancellor Leo von Caprivi & premier Botho zu Eulenburg
1900 - After over 5 months 2nd Olympic games in Paris France, close
1904 - St Louis police try a new investigation method-fingerprints
1906 - Belgian-British "Union Minière du Haut Katanga" mining company created in what is now the
           Democratic Republic of Congo
1911 - Bill Dobbie of Calgary Tigers kicks 10 singles in a game
1914 - German battle cruiser Goeben enters Black Sea
1914 - Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, founded at Howard University, incorporates
1915 - Richard Strauss' Alpensymfonie, premieres in Berlin
1918 - Czechoslovakia gains independence as Austria-Hungary breaks up
1919 - Volstead Act passed by Congress, start prohibition over Wilson's veto
1921 - Amsterdam's Tuschinski movie theater opens
1922 - 1st US coast-to-coast radio broadcast of a football game
1922 - Benito Mussolini takes control of Italy's government
1924 - French-Russian trade agreement signed
1924 - White Sox beat NY Giants 8-4 in Dublin, less than 20 fans attend
1927 - Josip Broz (Tito) begins 7 months jail sentence in Croatia
1927 - KLM-plane "Homing Pigeon" leaves Neth-Indies after 1st regular flight
1928 - Bradman scores 131 NSW v Queensland, 212 mins, 14 fours
1928 - Indonesian child laws enfoced in Bahasa Indonesia
1929 - Dow Jones plummets 38.33 pts (13%) to 260.64
1934 - Brooklyn & Pittsburgh play a penalty free NFL game
1935 - Sidney Kingsley's "Dead End," premieres in NYC
1936 - FDR rededicates Statue of Liberty on its 50th anniversary
1938 - Farewell parade of International Brigade (Barcelona)
1939 - Anti-German demonstrations/strikes in Czechoslovakia
1939 - Spitfire shoots German Heinkel-111 down above Scotland
1940 - Greece successfully resists Italy's attack
1940 - Meeting between Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini in Florence
1942 - 6th day battle at El Alamein: British offensive under Montgomery
1942 - Train crashes into bus, killing 16 & injuring 20 (Detroit Michigan)
1943 - U-220 sinks
1944 - Russia & Bulgaria sign weapons pact
1946 - German rocket engineers begin work in USSR
1948 - Flag of Israel is adopted
1949 - Georges Bidault elected president of France
1951 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1952 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Women's Texas Golf Open
1953 - Bud Grant of Winnipeg Blue Bombers intercepts 5 passes (record)
1953 - Red Barber, resigns as Dodger sportscaster to join Yankees
1954 - Major league owners vote down sale of A's to a Phila syndicate
1954 - N Richard Nash' "Rainmaker," premieres in NYC
1954 - Nobel prize for literature awarded to Ernest Hemingway
1955 - Egypt & Saudi-Arabia sign defense treaty
1956 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Luctuosissimi eventus
1957 - WMVS TV channel 10 in Milwaukee, WI (PBS) begins broadcasting
1958 - Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, elected Pope, taking name John XXIII
1958 - Pete Runnels wins Comeback Player of Year (avg went from .230 to .322)
1959 - Buffalo Bills enter AFL
1959 - Jean Genet's "Les Negres," premieres in Paris
1961 - "Fiorello!" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 796 performances
1961 - Ground broken for Municipal (Shea) Stadium for NY Mets
1962 - Nikita Khrushchev orders withdrawal of missiles from Cuba, ending crisis
1962 - NY Giant YA Tittle passes for 7 touchdowns vs Wash Redskins (49-34)
1962 - Radio Moscow reports nuclear missiles in Cuba deactivated
1962 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1962 - Cuban missile crisis ends after JFK and Khrushchev make a public and secret agreement
1965 - Gateway Arch (630' (190m) high) completed in St Louis, Missouri
1965 - Pope Paul VI proclaims Jews not collectively guilty for crucifixion
1966 - Belgium's Gaston Roelants runs 12-4/5 miles in 1 hour
1970 - NBA Cleveland Cavaliers 1st home game, lose to San Diego 110-99
1970 - US/USSR sign an agreement to discuss joint space efforts
1971 - Great Britain becomes 6th nation to have a satellite (Prospero) in orbit
1971 - John & Yoko record "Happy Xmas (War is Over)" in NYC
1972 - "Mother Earth" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 12 performances
1973 - Elmore Smith of Lakers blocks 17 shots in a game (NBA record)
1973 - Sharon Miller wins LPGA Corpus Christi Civitan Golf Open
1974 - 1st time 2 Islanders hat trick in same game-MacMillian & Westfall
1974 - Luna 23 launched (landing on Moon)
1974 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1975 - Calvin Murphy (Houston) begins NBA free throw streak of 58 games
1975 - Cleveland Metroparks assume operating responsibilities for Zoo
1976 - Billy Martin named AL Manager of Year (NY Yankees)
1976 - Train collision at Goes Neth, 7 die
1978 - Don Ritchie runs world record 100k (6:10:20)
1979 - Dick Howser (best Yank mngr win-lost pct .636) replaces Billy Martin
1979 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1981 - Edward M McIntrye elected 1st black mayor of Augusta Georgia
1981 - NY Yankee George Frazier loses 3 World Series games
1982 - NASA launches RCA-E
1982 - Spain's socialists win/communists lose elections
1984 - 14th NYC Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:29:30
1984 - 15th NYC Marathon won by Orlando Pizzolato in 2:14:53
1984 - Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Nichirei Cup Team Match Golf Tournament
1985 - Ravi Ratnayeke takes 8-83 for Sri Lanka v Pakistan
1986 - KOB-AM in Albuquerque NM changes call letters to KKOB
1986 - KOB-TV in Albuquerque NM's final transmission
1986 - The centennial of the Statue of Liberty's dedication is celebrated in New York Harbor.
1988 - Jurors award $147,000 to Tacoma parishioner seduced by her minister
1988 - Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen gives $10 million to University of Washington library
1989 - Oakland A's sweep SF Giants in earthquake/BART series
1992 - Lee Jang Rim predicts that today would be the end of the world!
1993 - Cleveland Metroparks lease Brookside Park from Cleveland for 99-years
1993 - Dutch Antilles government of Liberia-Peters resigns
1994 - Japanese space probe Sakigake passes Earth for 3rd time
1995 - Atlanta Braves beat Cleveland Indians in 6 games in World Series
1995 - Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Cigar, Desert Stormer, Inside Information, My Flag,
           Northern Spur, Ridgewood Pearl, Unbridled's Song
1996 - Goa upset Karnataka to win their 1st Ranji Cricket Trophy game ever
1997 - NBA announces hiring of Dee Kantner & Violet Palmer as 1st women to officiate a major-
           league all-male sports league
1998 - An Air China (Mainland China) jetliner is hijacked by disgruntled pilot Yuan Bin and flown to
           Taiwan.
2005 - Plame affair: Lewis Libby, Vice-president Dick Cheney's chief of staff, is indicted in the Valerie
           Plame case. Libby resigns later that day.
2006 - Funeral service for the peace of the executed at Bykivnia forest, outside of Kiev, Ukraine, with
           reburial of 817 Ukrainian civilians (out of some 100,000) executed by Bolsheviks at Bykivnia in     
           1930s - early 1940s.
2009 - The 28 October 2009 Peshawar bombing kills 117 and wounds 213.
2009 - NASA successfully launches the Ares I-X mission, the only rocket launch for its later-cancelled
           Constellation program.
2012 - Syrian ceasefire collapses and 128 people are killed in ongoing civil war violence
2012 - 15 people are killed and 33 injured by a series of Baghdad car bombings
2012 - Sebastian Vettel wins the 2012 Formula One Indian Grand Prix
2012 - San Francisco Giants defeat the Detroit Tigers in game four to take the 2012 MLB World
           Series
2012 - Pablo Sandoval is named MLB 2012 World Series MVP.

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 28, 2013, 10:00:39 AM

This Day in History for 28th October


Famous Weddings

1533 - Prince Henry of France (later Henry II) (14) marries Florentine noblewoman Catherine de'
           Medici (14)
2012 - Bristol Palin's former fiance Levi Johnston (21) weds Sunny Oglesby (20) at Settlers Bay
           Lodge in Wasilla, Alaska

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 28, 2013, 11:15:00 AM

This Day in History for 28th October


Famous Birthdays

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Humanist/Theologian                           Microsoft Founder Bill Gates (1955)              Iran President
Erasmus (1466)                                                                                                      Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (1956)

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Actress Julia Roberts (1967)


1017 - Henry III, Roman Catholic German emperor (1046-56)
1466 - Desiderius Erasmus, Holland, humanist and theologian (The Praise of Folly), (d. 1536)
1510 - Francis Borgia, Spanish duke and Jesuit priest (d. 1572)
1585 - Cornelius Otto Jansen, France, Roman Catholic reform leader
1667 - Maria Anna of Neuburg, second wife of Charles II of Spain (d. 1740)
1689 - Michel Mathieu, composer
1691 - Peder Tordenskjold, Norwegian naval hero (d. 1720)
1697 - Canaletto, Italian artist (d. 1768)
1703 - Antoine Deparcieux, French mathematician (d. 1768)
1718 - Ignacije Szentmartony, Croatian Jesuit missionary (d. 1793)
1733 - Ignaz Franz von Beecke, composer
1767 - Marie Sophie of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel), queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1852)
1789 - Johann Schneider, composer
1793 - Eliphalet Remington, US gun maker
1795 - Leonardus A Lightenvelt, minister of RC Worship (1848 . .53)
1798 - Henri-Jerome Bertini, composer
1801 - Karl Georg Lickl, composer
1804 - Pierre F Verhulst, Belgium, mathematician (logistic curve)
1805 - John Thomson, composer
1810 - Adley Hogan Gladden, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1862
1818 - Ivan Turgenev, Russia, novelist/poet/playwright (Fathers & Sons) [OS]
1834 - Dudley McIver DuBose, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1883
1837 - Tokugawa Yoshinobu, Japan's last shogun (d. 1913)
1842 - Anna Elizabeth Dickinson, orator (Joan of Arc of the Civil War)
1842 - Charles Boissevain, editor Dutch Algemeen Handelsblad (1885-1908)
1845 - Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, Polish physicist (d. 1888)
1846 - Auguste Escoffier, king of chefs & chef of kings
1855 - Ivan V Mitshurin, Russian botanist (new types of fruit)
1856 - Franz Xavier Arens, composer
1864 - Adolfo Camarillo, prominent land owner, horse breeder, and rancher (d. 1958
1875 - Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor, American geographer and editor (d. 1966)
1876 - Albert E Michotte van den Berck, Belgian psychologist
1877 - Joe Adams, American baseball player (d. 1952)
1879 - Conrado del Campo y Zabaleta, composer
1879 - Channing H. Cox, 49th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1968)
1881 - Bruno Söderström, Swedish athlete (d. 1969)
1881 - Vin Coutie, Australian footballer
1884 - Miloje Milojevic, composer
1885 - Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian poet and playwright (d. 1922)
1886 - Grigory K Ordzhonikidze, [Sergo], Russian revolutionary politician
1889 - Juliette Béliveau, Quebec comedian (d. 1975)
1890 - Andres Isasi, composer
1891 - Ormer Locklear, American movie stunt pilot (d. 1920)
1892 - Eduard J Dijksterhuis, Dutch mathematician/historian (Fall & Throw)
1892 - Ludwig Strauss, German/Israeli writer (Night Watch)
1892 - Dink Johnson, American musician (d. 1954)
1893 - Christopher K Ingold, English chemist
1893 - Otto E Huiswoud, [Frank Billings], editor-in-chief (Negro Worker)
1896 - Howard Hanson, Wahoo Nebraska, composer/conductor (Nordic)
1897 - Hans Speidel, nazi chief-staff/NATO-supreme commander
1901 - Eileen Shanahan, Irish Poet (d. 1979)
1902 - Elsa Lanchester, Lewisham London, actress (Bride of Frankenstien)
1903 - Evelyn A Waugh, London, author (Brideshead Revisited, Scoop)
1904 - Louis de Meester, composer
1905 - Harry Broadhurst, airman
1907 - Edith Head, fashion designer (MGM)
1907 - Lew Parker, actor (Lou Marie-That Girl)
1907 - John Harold Hewitt, Northern Irish poet (d. 1987)
1909 - Adolfs Skulte, composer
1909 - Claude Bourdet, human rights activist/journalist
1909 - Francis Bacon, Ireland, painter (Study for a Pope)
1910 - Arthur Altman, songwriter
1910 - Marie Dollinger, Germany, dropped bataan in 1936 Olympic sprint
1912 - Richard Doll, English epidemiologist (d. 2005)
1913 - Peter Glenville, actor stage/screen director (Hotel Paradiso, Becket)
1914 - Jonas Salk, NYC, medical reseacher (polio vaccine)
1914 - Richard Lawrence Millington Synge, British bio-chemist (Nobel 1952)
1914 - Glenn Robert Davis, U.S. Congressman (d. 1988)
1915 - Dody Goodman, Columbus Ohio, comedienne (Mary Hartman!, Max Duggan)
1915 - Richard Michael Fraser, political Administrator
1916 - Jessie Kesson, author
1917 - Jack Soo, American actor (d. 1979)
1918 - Harold Sheperdson, soccer trainer
1919 - Bernhard Wicki, St Polten Austria, director/actor (Crime & Passion)
1921 - Peggy Kirk Bell, LPGA golfer
1922 - Gershon Kingsley, German composer
1922 - Butch van Breda Kolff, American basketball coach (d. 2007)
1922 - Simon Muzenda, Zimbabwe politician (d. 2003)
1924 - Alfonso Montalva Montecino, composer
1924 - Antonio Creus, Spanish racecar driver (d. 1996)
1925 - Leonard Starr, comic strip cartoonist (Little Orphan Annie)
1925 - Wim Keja, Dutch MP (VVD)
1925 - Ian Hamilton Finlay, Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener (d. 2006)
1926 - Bowie Kuhn, baseball commissioner (1969-1984)
1927 - Cleo Laine, Middlesex England, actress/singer (Flesh to a Tiger)
1928 - Wim van Heumen, coach of Dutch field hockey team
1928 - Ion Mihai Pacepa, Romanian general
1928 - Lawrie Reilly, Edinburgh, Scotland, footballer (Hibernian, 28 caps), (d. 2013)
1929 - 1st child born in aircraft, Miami, Florida
1929 - Joan Plowright, Brigg England, actress (Brimstone & Treacle)
1929 - Narotam Puna, cricketer (Bombay NZ off-spinner v England 1966)
1929 - Marcel Bozzuffi, French actor (d. 1988)
1929 - John Hollander, American poet
1930 - Harry Gilbert Trythall, composer
1930 - John Henry Mayer, composer
1930 - Bernie Ecclestone, English motorsports impresario (F1)
1933 - Garrincha, Brazilian footballer (d. 1983)
1934 - Jim Beatty, track runner (1st sub 4 minute indoor mile)
1935 - Folke Rabe, composer
1936 - Charlie Daniels, Wilmington NC, singer (Devil Went Down to Georgia)
1936 - Horst Antes, German painter
1936 - Ted Hawkins, singer/guitarist
1936 - Carl Davis, American-born musical conductor and composer
1937 - Lenny Wilkins, NBA player/coach (Seattle, Cleveland, Atlanta)
1938 - Peter Carlstein, cricketer (South African Test batsman 1958-64)
1938 - David Dimbleby, English television commentator
1938 - Anne Perry, English-born novelist
1939 - Jane Alexander, [Quigley], Boston, actress (Betsy, Kramer vs Kramer)
1939 - Miroslav Cerar, Yugoslav gymnast
1940 - Gennadi Mikhailovich Strekalov, cosmo (Soyuz T-3, T-8, T-11, TM-21)
1940 - Susan Harris, American television writer and producer
1941 - Curtis Lee, rocker
1941 - Glenn Moore, rocker
1941 - Hank Marvin, England, [Brian Rankin], rocker
1941 - John Hallam, Irish actor
1942 - Kees Verkerk, skater World Champion (1967)/(Olympics-gold-68)
1942 - Sharron Moran, LPGA golfer
1943 - Conny Froboess, German singer
1943 - Charo López, Spanish actress
1944 - Coluche, [Michel Colucci] France, comedian (My Best Friend's Girl)
1944 - Dennis Franz, Maywood Ill, actor (Buntz-Hill Street Blues, NYPD Blue)
1944 - Anton Schlecker, German billionaire
1945 - Dennis Lillie [sic], cricketer (Queensland leg-spinner 1965-66/80-82)
1945 - Wayne Fontana, Manchester England, rocker (Groovy Kind of Love)
1946 - Wim Jansen, Dutch footballer and coach
1946 - John Hewson, Australian politician
1947 - Tom Fitzsimmons, SF California, actor (Franklin-Paper Chase)
1948 - Ricki Lee Reynolds, country singer (Black Oak Arkansas)
1948 - Telma Hopkins, Louisville, singer (Tony Orlando, Family Matters)
1948 - Valeri Viktorovich Baberdin, Russian colonel/cosmonaut
1949 - Bruce Jenner, Mt Kisco NY, decathalete (Olympic-gold-1976)
1949 - Robert Mellors, gay activist
1950 - Sihem Bensedrine, Tunisian human rights activist
1950 - Ludo Delcroix, Belgian cyclist
1951 - Ron & Don Gaylon, midwest US, siamese twins (Jerry Springer Show)
1952 - Annie Potts, Nashville TN, actress (Mary Jo-Designing Women)
1952 - Flavian Aponso, cricketer (rebel Sri Lankan 1982, Neth World Cup 1996)
1952 - Tommy Dobeck, rock drummer (Michael Stanley Band)
1953 - Pierre Boivin, Canadian businessman and hockey executive
1955 - Bill Gates [William Henry], Seattle Wash, billionaire founder/CEO (Microsoft)
1956 - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Aradan, Iran, President of Iran (2005-)
1956 - Dave Wyndorf, American singer (Monster Magnet)
1957 - Stephen Morris, English pop drummer (Joy Division-Atmosphere)
1958 - Jay Don Blake, St George UT, PGA golfer (1991 Shearson Lehman Open)
1959 - Neville Henry, rocker (Blow Monkeys-Wicked Ways)
1960 - Mark Derwin, Park Forest Ill, actor (AC Mallet-Guiding Light)
1960 - Robert Pukalovic, hockey defenseman (Team Slovakia 1998)
1960 - Landon Curt Noll, Astronomer, Cryptographer and Mathematician: youngest to hold the world
           record for the largest known prime 3 times
1962 - Bobby Tate, fictional character on Soap
1962 - Daphne Zuniga, SF CA, actress (Jo Reynolds-Melrose Place, Spaceballs)
1962 - Peter Cantrell, cricketer (Queensland opening bat, Neth WC 1996)
1962 - Erik Thorstvedt, Norwegian footballer
1962 - Scotty Nguyen, professional poker player
1963 - Eros Ramazotti, Italian pop musician/songwriter (Adesso Te)
1963 - Kevin Dineen, Quebec City, NHL right wing (Hartford Whalers)
1963 - Lauren Holly, Bristol PA, actress (Picket Fences)
1963 - Lisa Bettio, Cleveland, WPVA volleyballer (Ft Myers Beach-17th-1992)
1963 - Robert Bailey, cricketer (England batsman in four Tests 1988-90)
1963 - Veronica Gamba, Buenos Aires Arg, playmate (November, 1983)
1963 - James Miller, the "Fan Man" (d. 2002)
1964 - Lenny Harris, Miami FL, infielder (Cin Reds)
1964 - Paul Wylie, figure skater (Olympic-silver)
1965 - Eric Floyd, NFL guard (Arizona Cardinals)
1965 - Jami Gertz, Chicago, actress (Less the Zero, Crossroads, Solarbabies)
1965 - Mark Carrier, NFL wide receiver (Carolina Panthers)
1965 - Luigi Miraglia, Italian Latinist
1966 - Andy Richter, Yorkville IL, writer/sidekick (Conan O'Brien)
1966 - Benoit Hogue, Repentigny, NHL center (Dallas Stars)
1966 - Juan Guzman, Santo Domingo Dom Rep, pitcher (Toronto Blue Jays)
1966 - Kaylynn Hick, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1966 - Lauren Holly, actress (All My Children, Maxine-Picket Febces)
1966 - Steve Atwater, NFL safety (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1966 - Tim Bogar, Indianapolis IN, infielder (NY Mets)
1966 - Aris Spiliotopoulos, Greek politician
1967 - James Joseph, NFL running back (Cin Bengals)
1967 - Julia Roberts, Smyrna Georgia, actress (Mystic Pizza, Pretty Woman)
1967 - Sophie, Hereditary Princess of Liechtenstein
1967 - Kevin Macdonald, Scottish film director
1968 - Aleksandr Koreshkov, hockey forward (Team Kazakhstan Oly-1998)
1968 - Chris Oldham, cornerback (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1968 - Ernie Mills, NFL wide receiver (Pittsburgh Steelers, Carolina Panthers)
1968 - Glenn Clear, soccer player (Vitesse)
1968 - Rodney Thomas, NFL running back (Houston Oilers)
1968 - Shawna Molcak, Cardston Alberta, basketball guard (Olympics-96)
1968 - Stan Thomas, NFL tackle (Houston Oilers)
1968 - Marc Lièvremont, French rugby union footballer and coach
1969 - Denny Fercho, Ventura California, team handball circle (Olympics-1996)
1969 - Pete Shufelt , WLAF linebacker (Rhein Fire)
1969 - Troy Ridgley, WLAF defensive tackle (Amsterdam Admirals)
1969 - Ben Harper, American musician
1970 - Bracey Walker, NFL safety (Cin Bengals, Miami Dolphins)
1970 - Rob Hitchcock, CFL defensive back (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1971 - John Coker, NBA center (Phoenix Suns)
1971 - Nicole Green, Springfield Ohio, 400m runner
1971 - Tracy Hanson, Coeur D'Alene ID, LPGA golfer (1995 GHP Heartland-4th)
1972 - Calvin Jackson, NFL cornerback (Miami Dolphins)
1972 - Chad Folk, CFL cornerback (Toronto Argonauts)
1972 - Terrell Davis, NFL running back (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1972 - Brad Paisley, American musician
1973 - Frank Juric, Australian soccer goalie (Olyroos, Olympics-96)
1973 - Alvin Burke, Jr., American professional wrestler
1974 - Braden Looper, Weatherford OK, baseball pitcher (Olympics-bronze-96)
1974 - Henri Crockett, NFL linebacker (Atlanta Falcons)
1974 - Joaquin Leaf Phoenix, PR, actor (Russkies, Space Camp)
1974 - Dejan Stefanović, Serbian footballer
1974 - Vicente Moreno, Spanish footballer
1976 - Karl Tremblay, Canadian singer (Les Cowboys Fringants)
1977 - Lara Antunes, Miss Portugal Universe (1997)
1978 - Marta Etura, Spanish actress
1978 - Justin Guarini, American singer
1979 - Aki Hakala, Finnish drummer (The Rasmus)
1979 - Martin Škoula, Czech ice hockey player
1980 - Kanzi, Most Literate Non-Human
1980 - Alan Smith, English footballer
1980 - Christy Hemme, American professional wrestler
1980 - Dimitri Liakopoulos, Greek actor
1981 - Milan Baroš, Czech footballer
1981 - Solomon Andargachew, Ethiopian footballer
1982 - Jeremy Bonderman, American baseball player
1982 - Mai Kuraki, Japanese singer
1982 - Anthony Lerew, American baseball player
1983 - Jarrett Jack, American basketball player
1984 - Obafemi Martins, Nigerian footballer
1984 - Amanda Paige, American model
1985 - Richard Smith, American entrepreneur
1996 - Naelee Rae, American actress
1996 - Jasmine Jessica Anthony, American actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 28, 2013, 11:18:59 AM

This Day in History for 28th October


Famous Deaths

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Philosopher John Locke (1704)                Poet Ted Hughes (1998)


312 - Maxentius, Roman emperor (b. c. 278)
900 - Alfred the Great, English monarch, dies
1138 - Boleslaw III Kryzwousty, [scheefmond], duke of Poland, dies
1225 - Jien, Japanese poet and historian (b. 1155)
1312 - Elisabeth of Tirol, German queen
1412 - Margaret I of Denmark, wife of Haakon VI of Norway (b. 1353)
1520 - Pier Gerlofs Donia, Frisian pirate and freedom fighter
1568 - Ashikaga Yoshihide, Japanese shogun (b. 1539)
1627 - Djehangir/Jahangir, great mogol of India, dies
1637 - Foppe van Aitzema, diplomat, dies at about 57
1639 - Stefano Landi, Italian composer (b. 1587)
1646 - William Dobson, English painter (b. 1610)
1661 - Agustín Moreto y Cavana, Spanish playwright (b. 1518)
1676 - Jean Desmarets, French writer (b. 1595)
1703 - John Wallis, English mathematician/cryptographer (wig of W), dies
1704 - John Locke, English philosopher (2 treatises of government), dies at 72
1708 - Prince George of Denmark, Consort of Queen Anne of England (b. 1653)
1716 - Stephen Fox, British politician (b. 1627)
1740 - Anna Ivanova Romanova, empress of Russia (1730-40), dies at 47
1754 - Friedrich von Hagedorn, German poet (b. 1708)
1755 - Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, composer, dies at 65
1763 - Heinrich, count von Brühl, German statesman (b. 1700)
1768 - Michel Blavet, French court flautist/composer, dies at 68
1779 - Raphael Weiss, composer, dies at 66
1792 - Paul Möhring, German physician and scientist (b. 1710)
1792 - John Smeaton, British civil engineer (b. 1724)
1800 - Artemas Ward, American politician and soldier (b. 1727)
1806 - Charlotte Turner Smith, British poet and novelist (b. 1749)
1818 - Abigail Adams, 2nd first lady (1797-1801), dies at 73
1841 - Johan August Arfwedson, Swedish chemist (b. 1792)
1852 - Gerhard M Roentgen, founder Fijenoord dockyard, dies at 57
1854 - James P Carrell, composer, dies at 67
1857 - Louis Eugène Cavaignac, French soldier and politician (b. 1802)
1875 - William Howard Glover, composer, dies at 56
1877 - Johann Herbeck, composer, dies at 45
1877 - Robert Swinhoe, British naturalist (b. 1835)
1879 - Marie Roch Louis Reybaud, French writer (b. 1799)
1897 - Hercules Robinson, South Africa Commissioner (1880-89,1895-97), dies at 72
1899 - C Grant B Allen, Canada, British writer (Woman Who Did), dies
1899 - Ottmar Mergenthaler, German-born inventor (tuberculosis) (b. 1854)
1900 - Max Müller, German-born orientalist (b. 1823)
1905 - Alphonse Allais, French humorist/writer (Le chat noir), dies
1914 - Richard Heuberger, composer, dies at 64
1916 - Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist (b. 1838)
1916 - Oswald Boelcke, German pilot (b. 1891)
1917 - Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (b. 1831)
1918 - Ulisse Dini, Italian mathematician (b. 1845)
1919 - Ted Wainwright, cricketer (Yorks stalwart, 5 Tests 1893-98), dies
1922 - Hugo Verriest, Flemish writer/poet (Flemish Motion), dies
1927 - Eaton Faning, composer, dies at 77
1929 - Hermann Ungar, writer, dies at 36
1929 - Bernhard von Bülow, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1849)
1936 - E G Winkler, writer, dies
1939 - Alice Brady, actress (My Man Godfrey, Gay Divorcee), dies at 46
1940 - Andrea d' Angeli, composer, dies at 71
1952 - Billy Hughes, seventh Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1862)
1957 - Anthony J Morabito, co-owner of SF '49ers, dies while watching a game
1959 - Abe Waddington, cricketer (Yorks left-arm quick, Test avg 119), dies
1959 - Egon Kornauth, composer, dies at 68
1959 - Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban revolutionary (b. 1932)
1962 - Pierre Froidebise, composer, dies at 48
1963 - Mart Saar, composer, dies at 81
1964 - Reginald Horace Blyth, Zen teacher/scholar, dies in Japan at 66
1965 - Ben Barka, Moroccan opposition leader, kidnapped & murdered in Paris
1965 - Earl Bostic, American saxophonist (b. 1913)
1968 - Henricus WJM Keuls, lawyer/poet, dies at 85
1969 - Constance Dowling, actress (Blind Spot), dies of cardiac arrest at 49
1970 - Baby Huey, [James Ramey], vocalist (Baby Huey & Babysitters), dies
1970 - Eduardo Lopez-Chavarri y Marco, composer, dies at 99
1971 - Yves de La Casiniere, composer, dies at 74
1973 - Taha Hussein, Egyptian writer (b. 1889)
1973 - Sergio Tofano, Italian actor (b. 1883)
1975 - Georges Carpentier, French boxer (b. 1894)
1975 - Oliver Nelson, American jazz composer and arranger (b. 1932)
1980 - Leon Janney, actor (Jim Matthews-Another World, Hawk), dies at 63
1986 - Margaretha "Marga" Klompe, Dutch 1st female minister (CRM), dies at 74
1986 - John Braine, British novelist (b. 1922)
1987 - Andre Masson, France, surrealist artist (Labyrinth), dies at 91
1987 - Woody Herman, US jazz clarinetist/composer, dies at 74
1991 - Dudley McConnell, headed NASA's Earth Science Division, dies
1991 - G L Vitto entertainer, dies at 69
1991 - John Korbal, film historian (Marlene Dietrich), dies at 51
1991 - Lydia Hodson Copeland, America's Jr Miss (1972), dies at 37
1991 - Sylvia Fine Kaye, US lyricist/composer, dies at 78
1992 - Joan Maloney Rio, dancer, dies of cancer at 57
1993 - Carmino Baelen, Belgian sleder, dies at 22
1993 - Doris Duke, heiress (American Tobacco Co), dies at 80
1994 - Sjlomo Goren, Polish/Israeli supreme rabbi, dies
1995 - Allan Leslie Merson, historian, dies at 79
1995 - Katsumasu Roy Sakioka, propery owner, dies at 96
1996 - Jack Tinker, drama critic, dies at 58
1996 - Morey Amsterdam, comedian (Dick Van Dyke Show), dies at 87
1996 - William Downie Forrest, journalist, dies at 94
1997 - Toni Carabillo, writer (Feminist Chronicles), dies of lymphoma at 71
1997 - Paul Jarrico, American screenwriter (b. 1915)
1998 - James Goldman, American screenwriter/playwright (The Lion in Winter) dies of a heart attack
           at 71
1998 - Ted Hughes, British Poet Laureate dies aged 68
2000 - Lída Baarová, Czech actress (b. 1914)
2000 - Andujar Cedeno, Dominican baseball player for the Houston Astros (b. 1969)
2000 - Carlos Guastavino, Argentine composer (b. 1912)
2001 - Gerard Hengeveld, Dutch composer (b. 1910)
2002 - Margaret Booth, American film editor (b. 1898)
2002 - Erling Persson, Swedish entrepreneur (b. 1917)
2004 - Jimmy McLarnin, Northern Irish-born boxer (b. 1907)
2005 - Eugene K. Bird, German prison director (b. 1926)
2005 - Bob Broeg, American sports writer (b. 1918)
2005 - Raymond Hains, French artist (b. 1926)
2005 - Tony Jackson, American basketball player (b. 1942)
2005 - Fernando Quejas, Cape Verdean singer and musician (b. 1922)
2005 - Ljuba Tadić, Serbian actor (b. 1929)
2005 - Richard Smalley, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1943)
2006 - Red Auerbach, American basketball coach and executive (b. 1917)
2006 - Trevor Berbick, Jamaican boxer (b. 1955)
2006 - Marijohn Wilkin, American songwriter (b. 1920)
2007 - Porter Wagoner, American country singer (b. 1927)
2010 - James MacArthur, American actor (b. 1937)
2010 - Gerard Kelly, Scottish actor (b. 1959)
2010 - Jonathan Motzfeldt, Greenlander statesman (b. 1938)
2010 - Ehud Netzer, Israeli archaeologist (b. 1934)
2010 - Liang Congjie, Chinese environmentalist (b. 1932)
2012 - Jack Dellal, British property investor/multi-millionaire, dies from natural causes at 83

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Post by: MysteRy on October 29, 2013, 09:17:47 AM

This Day in History for 29th October


Historical Events

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English Philosopher and                        President and Dictator of Brazil              Novelist & Poet Boris Pasternak
Founder of Pennsylvania                               Getulio Vargas 
William Penn

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Heavyweight Boxing Champion             King of Pop Michael Jackson                    Islamic Militant & Terrorist
Muhammad Ali                                                                                                               Osama bin Laden


529 BC - The international day of Cyrus the Great, king of Persia, who declared the first charter of
              human rights in the world also known as Cyrus Cylinder.
439 - Vandalen under Genseric occupy Carthago
1268 - Conradin, the last legitimate male heir of the Hohenstaufen dynasty of Kings of Germany and
           Holy Roman Emperors, is executed along with his companion Frederick I, Margrave of Baden
           by Charles I of Sicily, a political rival and ally to the hostile Roman Catholic church.
1390 - First trial for witchcraft in Paris.
1467 - Battle of Brusthem: Charles the Bold defeats Liege
1508 - Gelderse troops occupies Kuinre
1552 - Czar Ivan IV escapes back to Moscow after battle
1591 - Giovanni A Facchinetti elected as Pope Innocentius IX
1618 - English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring
           against James I of England.
1658 - Action of 29 October 1658 (Naval battle)
1665 - Battle of Ambuila, where Portuguese forces defeated the forces of the Kingdom of Kongo and
           decapitated king Antonio I of Kongo, also called Nvita a Nkanga..
1675 - Leibniz makes the first use of the long s, ∫, for integral.
1682 - William Penn lands at what is now Chester Pennsylvania
1709 - England/Netherlands sign anti-French "Barrieretraktaat"
1727 - Severe earthquake in New England
1787 - Opera "Don Giovanni" is produced (Prague)
1792 - Mount Hood (Oregon) is named after the British naval officer Alexander Arthur Hood by Lt.
           William E. Broughton who spotted the mountain near the mouth of the Willamette River.
1794 - French troops occupies Venlo
1811 - 1st Ohio River steamboat leaves Pittsburgh for New Orleans
1814 - "Demologos," 1st steam-powered warship, is launched
1833 - 1st US college fraternity to have a fraternity house founded
1859 - Spain declares war on Morocco.
1863 - Intl Comm of Red Cross forms (Nobel 1917, 1944, 1963)
1864 - Greek parliament accept new Constitution
1867 - Mail packets "Rhone" & "Wye" capsizes off St Thomas Virgin Islands
1872 - J S Risdon patents metal windmill
1881 - Judge (U.S. magazine) first published.
1888 - Lord Salisbury grants Cecil Rhodes charter for BSA Company
1889 - NY Giants (NL) beat Bkln (AA) in world series 6 games to 3
1889 - Queen Victoria grants Cecil Rhodes rights to Zambezia
1889 - Stanley Park dedicated in Vancouver, BC
1894 - 1st election of Hawaiian Republic
1901 - In Amherst, Massachusetts, nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of
           Boston with an overdose of morphine.
1904 - 1st intercity trucking service (Colorado City & Snyder, Texas)
1904 - IRT (Interborough Rapid Transit) subway (NYC) opens
1905 - Hottentot chief Hendrik Witbooi fataly injured
1910 - Bob Simpson of Hamilton Tigers kicks record 11 singles in a game
1913 - Floods in El Salvador kill thousands.
1914 - Russia declares war on Turkey
1914 - Turkish warships storm Black Sea
1915 - Aristide Briand becomes premier of France
1915 - Thomas Masaryk claims independence for Czechoslovakia
1920 - Ed Barrow appointed GM of NY Yankees
1921 - The Link River Dam, a part of the Klamath Reclamation Project, is completed.
1923 - "Runnin' Wild" (introducing Charleston) opens on Broadway
1923 - Army move SPD/KPD-government to German part of Saxon
1923 - Gibbs/Grey/Wood's revue "Runnin' Wild," premieres in NYC
1923 - Textile strike in Enschede Neth, against lower wages, begins
1923 - Turkey declares independence (successor state to Ottoman Empire)
1924 - "Dixie to Broadway," opens at Broadhurst Theater
1924 - Labour loses British parliamentary election
1929 - "Black Tuesday," Stock Market crashes triggers "Great Depression"
1930 - 1st Eastern Canada night CF game: Oshawa vs Toronto Balmy Beach
1931 - Lefty Grove, A's pitcher who won 31 games, is named the AL's MVP
1932 - French liner Normandie is launched
1939 - Golden Gate International Exposition closes (1st closure)
1939 - NHL Babe Seibert Memorial Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 5-3
1940 - Secretary of War Henry L Stimson drew 1st number-158-in 1st peacetime military draft in US
           history
1941 - Cole Porters musical "Let's Face It," premieres in NYC
1942 - 16,000 Jews killed in Pinsk Russia
1942 - 7th day of battle at El Alamein: Montgomery assault
1942 - Alaska highway completed
1942 - Branch Rickey named president/GM of Brooklyn Dodgers
1942 - Nazis murder 16,000 Jewish in Pinsk, Soviet Union
1943 - 3 allied officers escape out camp Stalag Luft 3
1944 - 1st Polish Armoured Division liberates Breda, Netherlands
1944 - Cabadese 2nd Infantry division frees Goes South-Beveland
1945 - 1st ball point pen goes on sale, 57 years after it is patented
1945 - Happy Chandler resigns as US Senator, remains as baseball commish
1945 - Getulio Vargas, President of Brazil, resigns.
1947 - Belgium, Luxembourg & Netherland form Benelux Union
1947 - Trial of art forger Han of Meegeren begins in Amsterdam
1948 - Israeli forces liberate Meron & Gush-Halev
1948 - Safsaf massacre
1949 - White Sox trade Joe Tipton to A's for Nellie Fox
1950 - British Chancellor of the Exchequer (Minister of Finance) Stafford Cripps resigns
1950 - Wally Triplett avgs 735 yards on 3 kickoff returns
1950 - Cleveland Browns' Marion Motley sets record for highest avg gain in a game with 17.1 (10
           attempts), Cleveland 45, Pittsburgh 7
1953 - A Baltimore group purchases St Louis Browns
1954 - Colonel Nasser disbands Moslem Brothership
1954 - Sweden begins experimental TV
1955 - Belgium signs accord for 5 day work week (45 hours)
1955 - Emile Zatopek runs world record 15 mile (1:14:01) & 25,000m (1:16:36)
1956 - Chet Huntley & David Brinkley, NBC News, team up
1956 - International zone of Tangier returns to Morocco
1956 - Israeli paratroopers drop into Sinai to open Straits of Tiran
1957 - Hand grenade explodes in Israel's Knesset (Parliament)
1958 - Boris Pasternak refuses Nobel prize for literature
1958 - Dr F Mason Sones is 1st doctor to perform a coronary angiogram
1958 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1959 - 10 nation soccer league to play all games on NY Randalls Is, announced
1960 - Chartered C46 carrying Cal State's football team crashes, kills 16
1960 - Muhammad Ali's (Cassius Clay) 1st professional fight, beats Tunney Hunsaker in 6
1961 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 - "Meet the Beatles" booklet is published
1964 - Bobby Simpson completes cricket century in each innings v Pakistan
1964 - Karmi'el founded in Galilee
1964 - Star of India & other jewels are stolen in NY
1964 - Town of Karmiel founded in Galilee
1964 - United Rep of Tanganyika & Zanzibar renamed United Rep of Tanzania
1965 - US performs underground nuclear test at Amchitka Island Aleutians
1966 - Lunar Orbiter 1 crashes on moon: 6.7°N 162°E
1966 - National Organization of Women founded
1967 - Danny Abramowicz begins NFL streak of 105 consecutive game receptions
1967 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Alamo Ladies' Golf Open
1967 - MacDermot, Ragni & Rado's musical "Hair," premieres in NYC
1967 - London criminal Jack McVitie is murdered by the Kray twins, leading to their eventual
           imprisonment and downfall.
1968 - USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR
1969 - Supreme Court orders end to all school desegregation "at once"
1969 - Tom Seaver voted NL Cy Young Award
1969 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1969 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1970 - WYEA (now WLTZ) TV channel 38 in Columbus, GA (NBC) 1st broadcast
1972 - Don Cockroft of Cleveland Browns kicks 57-yard field goal
1972 - Jo Ann Prentice wins LPGA Corpus Christi Civitan Golf Open
1974 - Law bans discrimination of sex or marital status in credit application
1975 - Boston's Fred Lynn is the overwhelming choice as AL Rookie of Year
1975 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1975 - 'Yorkshire Ripper' Peter Sutcliffe kills 1st victim, Wilma McCann
1977 - "Act" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 233 performances
1977 - Texas' Russell Erideben kicks his 3rd 60 yard field goal of the season
1977 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1979 - Billy Martin fired as Yankee manager (2nd time)
1979 - Silvia Bertolaccini wins LPGA Colgate Far East Golf Open
1981 - Bill Giles becomes CEO of Philadelphia Phillies
1982 - Car maker John DeLorean indicted for drug trafficking, later acquitted
1982 - Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson release "Girl is Mine"
1983 - 550,000 Dutch demonstrate against cruise missile
1983 - Notre Dame's Gil Fenerty rushes for 337 yards & 6 touchdowns
1984 - Orlando Pizzolato (2:14:53) & Greta Weitz (2:29:30) win NY Marathon
1985 - Cards' Joaquin Andujar suspended for 10 games for bumping an ump
1985 - Major General Samuel K. Doe is announced the winner of the first multiparty election in
           Liberia.
1986 - Kirk Muller scores NJ Devil record 6 point, beat Penguins, 8-6
1986 - Padres pitcher LaMarr Hoyt is arrested at US-Mexico border for drugs
1986 - West Indies all out for 53 v Pakistan (Abdul Qadir 6-16)
1987 - "Don't Get God Started" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 86 perfs
1987 - Thomas Hearns wins unprecidented 4th different weight boxing title
1988 - 2,000 US anti-abortion protesters arrested for blocking clinics
1988 - China announces a herbal male contraceptive
1988 - Jim Elliott (US) begins 24-hr paced outdoor race for 548.9 mi
1988 - First scheduled Soviet shuttle launch (postponed)
1989 - Colleen Walker wins LPGA Nichirei Golf International
1989 - NYC MTA opens 63rd street extension to subway
1989 - Ozzie Newsome ends NFL streak of 150 consecutive game receptions
1990 - 30 die in a (5.7) earthquake in Algeria
1991 - Buck Showalter replaces Stump Merrill as NY Yankee manager
1993 - Dow Jones index reaches record 3687.86
1994 - Antonov AN-12 having an accident at Ust-Ilimsk Kaluga, 21 killed
1994 - NY Lotto pays $60 million+
1994 - National Museum of American Indian opens (NYC)
1995 - "Fool Moon" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC
1995 - Sunday NY News increases price from $1.00 to $1.25
1995 - US beats Japan, 19-17, at Nichirei International LPGA Golf Tournament
1998 - Apartheid: In South Africa, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission presents its report,
           which condemns both sides for committing atrocities.
1998 - While en route from Adana to Ankara, a Turkish Airlines flight with a crew of 6 and 33
           passengers is hijacked by a Kurdish militant who orders the pilot to fly to Switzerland. The
           plane instead lands in Ankara after the pilot tricked the hijacker into thinking that he was
           landing in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia to refuel.
1998 - Hurricane Mitch, the second deadliest Atlantic hurricane in history, made landfall in Honduras.
1998 - Space Shuttle Discovery blasts off on STS-95 with 77-year old John Glenn on board, making
           him the oldest person to go into space.
1998 - ATSC HDTV broadcasting in the United States is inaugurated with the launch of STS-95 space
           shuttle mission.
1999 - Deadliest Indian Ocean tropical cyclone hits Orissa, India. This event was known as 1999
           Orissa cyclone ever since.
2002 - Ho Chi Minh City ITC Inferno, a fire destroys a luxurious department store with 1500 people
           shopping. Over 60 people died and over 100 are missing. It is the deadliest disaster in
           Vietnam during peacetime.
2004 - In Rome, European heads of state sign the Treaty and Final Act establishing the first
           European Constitution.
2004 - The Arabic news network Al Jazeera broadcasts an excerpt from a video of Osama bin Laden
           in which the terrorist leader first admits direct responsibility for the September 11, 2001
           attacks and references the 2004 U.S. presidential election.
2005 - 29 October 2005 Delhi bombings kill more than 60.
2007 - Argentina elects its first female president, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.
2008 - Delta Air Lines merges with Northwest Airlines, creating the world's largest airline and
           reducing the number of US legacy carriers to 5.
2008 - The Philadelphia Phillies defeat the Tampa Bay Rays in Game 5 of the 2008 World Series to
           become champions of Major League Baseball.
2011 - Record-breaking snowstorm in the northeastern United States leaves nearly 2 million
           residents without power for more than 36 hours.
2012 - Hurricane Sandy makes landfall in New Jersey resulting in 110 deaths and $50 billion in
           damage and forces the New York stock exchange to close
2012 - Publishing companies Penguin and Random House merge to form the world's largest publisher

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 29, 2013, 09:19:15 AM

This Day in History for 29th October


Famous Weddings

437 - Valentinian III, Western Roman Emperor, marries Licinia Eudoxia, daughter of his cousin
         Theodosius II, Eastern Roman Emperor in Constantinople. This unifies the two branches of the
         House of Theodosius
1994 - Impressionist Rich Little (55) weds comedian Jeannette Markey (28) at the MGM Grand Hotel
           in Las Vegas
2004 - "Jackass" member Chris Pontius (30) weds Claire Nolan in Malibu
2011 - Actress Eva Amurri (26) weds former Major League Soccer player Kyle Martino (31) in
           Charleston, South Carolina

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 29, 2013, 09:20:11 AM

This Day in History for 29th October


Famous Divorces

1951 - Singer/actor Frank Sinatra and 1st wife Nancy (Barbato) divorce due to infidelity after 12
           years of marriage
2010 - Country singer Randy Travis (51) divorces manager Lib Hatcher due to state of incompatibility
           exists between the two parties after 19 long years of marriage. One of country music's
           longest-lasting couples

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 29, 2013, 09:28:08 AM

This Day in History for 29th October


Famous Birthdays

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Nazi Minister of                                      President of Liberia                                 Actress Kate Jackson (1948)
Propaganda and Information                  Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf (1938)
Joseph Goebbels (1897)

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Actress Winona Ryder (1971)


1463 - Alessandro Achillini, Italian physician/philosopher
1507 - Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, Spanish viceroy of Neth (1566-73)
1513 - Jacques Amyot, French humanist/translator/abbot of Bellozanne
1562 - George Abbott, English theologist/archbishop of Canterbury
1656 - Edmund Halley, astronomer (Halley's Comet) [NS=Nov 8]
1682 - Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix, French historian (d. 1761)
1690 - Martin Folkes, English antiquarian (d. 1754)
1704 - John Byng, British admiral (d. 1757)
1740 - James Boswell, Scotland, Samuel Johnson's biographer
1815 - Daniel Emmett, American composer (d. 1904)
1815 - Ľudovít Štúr, Slovak politician, author of Slovak language (d. 1856)
1816 - Ferdinand II AFA, king of Portugal
1822 - Joost G Kist, Dutch lawyer/president of High Council (1885-97)
1822 - Mieczysław Halka Ledóchowski, Polish Catholic Cardinal (d. 1902)
1824 - Joseph Horace Lewis, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1904
1827 - Marcellin Berthelot, French chemist (d. 1907)
1837 - Abraham Kuyper, clergyman/Dutch premier (AR, 1908-12)
1837 - Harriet Powers, US, slave/writer (Creation of Animals)
1844 - Albert von Rothschild, Austrian banker
1853 - Josephine B Willson Bruce, US theorist (NACW)
1855 - Paul Bruchési, archbishop of Montreal (d. 1939)
1857 - Conrad Haebler, German historian (Early printers of Spain/Portugal)
1859 - Charles Ebbets, (namesake of Ebbets Field, Brooklyn)
1861 - Andrei Ryabushkin, Russian painter (d. 1904)
1871 - Narziss Ach, German psychologist (Analyse des Willens)
1873 - Guillermo Valencia, Colombia, poet/translator/statesman
1875 - Marie, queen consort of Ferdinand I of Romania (1914-27)
1877 - Wilfred Rhodes, cricketer (Yorks & Eng SLA, played Tests 1899-1930)
1877 - Narcisa de Leon, Filipino film mogul (d. 1966)
1878 - Alex E von Falkenhausen, German general (China, WW II)
1879 - Franz JHMM von Papen, German diplomat/chancellor (1932)
1879 - Alva B. Adams, American politician (d. 1941)
1882 - Jean Giraudoux, French writer (d. 1944)
1883 - Dirk Verbeek, Dutch actor/director (Hofstad Stage)
1884 - Bela Lugosi, Lugos Hungary, horror actor (Dracula, Body Snatcher)
1890 - Claire Goll, writer
1891 - Fanny Brice, NYC, singing comedienne (Ziegeld Follies, Baby Snooks)
1893 - Johannes F "Johan" Bakker Jr, Dutch actor
1897 - Hope Emerson, Hawarden Iowa, actress (I Married Joan, Peter Gunn)
1897 - [Paul] Joseph Goebbels, Rheydt, Germany, Nazi Reich Minister of Information and Propaganda
1898 - Emmanuel Bondeville, composer
1899 - Akim Tamiroff, Tiflis Russia, actor (For Whom the Bell Tolls)
1901 - Daniele Amfiteatrov, composer
1903 - Vivian Ellis, composer
1905 - Laurence Dowdall, lawyer
1906 - Fredric [William] Brown, US, sci-fi author (Martians Go Home)
1907 - Edwige Feuillère, French film actress (d. 1998)
1908 - Stewart Myles MacPherson, broadcaster
1909 - Douglass Montgomery, LA CA, actor (Forbidden, Harmony Lane)
1910 - Alfred J Ayer, England, Neopositivist philosopher/logician
1911 - Phillip Jack Oppenheimer, diamond trader
1915 - Dennis Brookes, cricketer (one Test England v WI 1948, scored 10 & 7)
1917 - Eddie Constantine, US/French actor (Lucky Jo, It Lives Again)
1917 - Henry Carlsson, Sweden, soccer (Olympic-gold-1948)
1918 - Bernard Gordon, American writer and producer (d. 2007)
1920 - Baruj Benacerraf, Venezuelan-born immunologist, Nobel laureate
1920 - Catholicos Baselios Mar Thoma Didymos I, Indian Catholic
1921 - Bill Mauldin, cartoonist (WW II Army grunts)
1921 - Ed Kemmer, Reading Pa, actor (Buzz Corey-Space Patrol)
1921 - William Henry Mauldin, NM, political cartoonist (Pulitzer-1945, 59)
1922 - Francois H L Henrichs, sportscaster/actor (Spider)
1922 - Neal Hefti, Hastings Neb, orchestra leader (Kate Smith Show)
1922 - Neil Blaney, politician
1923 - Dietrich Manicke, composer
1923 - Carl Djerassi, Austrian chemist
1924 - Zbigniew Herbert, writer
1925 - Betty Evans Grayson, Portland Or, softball pitcher (Hall of Fame 1959)
1925 - Geraldine Brooks, NYC, actr (Faraday & Co, Dumplings, Act of Murder)
1925 - Zoot Sims, rocker
1925 - Dominick Dunne, American author
1925 - Robert Hardy, English actor
1926 - Jon[athan Stewart] Vickers, Prince Albert, Canada, tenor
1927 - Frank A Sedgman, tennis champ (US Open-1951)
1927 - Hugo Schiltz, Flemish politician
1930 - Peter Stampfel, rocker
1930 - Niki de Saint Phalle, French sculptor (d. 2002)
1930 - Natalie Sleeth, American composer (d. 1992)
1930 - Omara Portuondo, Cuban singer
1931 - Franco Interlenghi, Italian actor
1934 - Karl Francis Hettinger, Onion Field survivor
1934 - Pim Jacobs, jazz pianist/Dutch TV host/actor (Gilas)
1934 - Ramon Sender, composer
1934 - Robert E Hughes, NYC, orchestra leader (Rich Little Show)
1935 - David Allen, cricketer (England off-spinner of 60's)
1936 - Akiko Kojima, Japanese model
1937 - Michael Ponti, Freiburg Germany, pianist (Boston Competition 1964)
1938 - Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, President of Liberia
1940 - Connie Mack, (Rep-R-FL, 1983- /Sen-R-FL)
1940 - Galen Weston, English/Canadian industrial/multi-millionaire
1940 - Frida Boccara, French singer (d. 1996)
1940 - José Ulises Macías Salcedo, Catholic bishop
1941 - Brian Yuile, cricketer (NZ slow left-armer took 34 wkts in 17 Tests)
1942 - Johan Fleming Ramsland, British broadcaster
1942 - Bob Ross, American artist and television host (d. 1995)
1943 - Donald Simpson, film producer
1944 - Denny Laine, [Brian Hines], rock guitarist (Moody Blues, Wings)
1944 - Fausto Leali, Italian entertainer
1944 - Robbie van Leeuwen, Dutch guitarist (Shocking Blue)
1944 - Otto Wiesheu, German minister
1944 - Claude Brochu, Major League Baseball executive (Montreal Expos)
1945 - Melba Moore, [Beatrice], NYC, singer/actress (Ellis Island)
1946 - Anura Tennekoon, cricketer (Sri Lankan World Cup captain 1975-79)
1946 - Peter Green, [Peter Greenbaum], London, rocker (Fleetwood Mac)
1946 - Strinivasa Moodley, South African anti-apartheid activist
1947 - Richard Dreyfuss, Brooklyn New York, American actor (Jaws, Nuts, Mr Holland's Opus)
1947 - Helen Coonan, Australian politician
1948 - Kate Jackson, Birmingham Ala, actress (Rookies, Charlie's Angels)
1948 - Ricky Reynolds, rocker
1949 - Paul Orndorff, wrestler (WCW/SMW/NWA/WWF, Mr Wonderful)
1949 - James Williamson, American guitarist
1951 - Dirk Kempthorne, (Sen-R Idaho)
1951 - Guy Gelso, rock drummer (Zebra)
1951 - Rick Bordia, rock guitarist (Mink Deville)
1952 - Arnell Carmichael, rock keyboardist (Raydio)
1952 - Beth Solomon, LPGA golfer
1952 - Valeri I Tokarev, Russian colonel/cosmonaut
1953 - Denis Potvin, Ottawa Ontario, NY Islander defenseman (Norris trophy)
1954 - Anita Meijer, Dutch singer (Just a Disillusion)
1954 - Herman Ronald Frazier, Phila, 400m/4x400m runner (Olympic-gold-1976)
1955 - Kevin DuBrow, rocker
1955 - Roger O'Donnell, English musician (The Cure)
1955 - Boy Abunda, Filipino journalist and television personality
1956 - Wilfredo Gómez, Puerto Rican boxer
1957 - Dan Castellaneta, American voice actor, Best known as the voice of Homer Simpson
1958 - David Remnick, American writer and editor of The New Yorker
1959 - Finola Hughes, London, actress (Anna-General Hospital, Staying Alive)
1959 - Jesse Barfield, Ill, outfielder (Blue Jays, Yankees, 1986 HR leader)
1959 - Mike Gartner, Ottawa, NHL right wing (Toronto Maple Leafs)
1959 - Tamar Baruch, actress (Small Truth, Q & Q)
1960 - Michael Carter, Dallas Tx, shot putter (Olympic-silver-1984)
1961 - Cornelia Oschkenat, German DR, hurdler (50m indoor)
1961 - Joel Otto, Elk River MN, NHL center (Phila Flyers, Team USA Oly-1998)
1961 - Randy Jackson, Gary In, rocker (Jackson 5-ABC)
1964 - Greg Montgomery, punter (Baltimore Ravens)
1964 - Jackie Pereira, Perth Australia, field hockey center/forward (Oly-96)
1964 - May Allison, Toronto Ontario, marathoner (Olympics-96)
1965 - Andy Beal, Germany, Canadian Tour golfer (1989 West of England Pro)
1965 - Greg Davis, NFL kicker (Arizona Cardinals)
1965 - Steven Sweet, Wadsworth Ohio, heavy metal artist (Warrant-Cherry Pie)
1967 - Greg Gohr, Santa Clara California, pitcher (Detroit Tigers)
1967 - Joely Fisher, Los Angeles California, actress (Paige-Ellen)
1967 - Beth Chapman, Star of Dog the Bounty Hunter
1967 - Rufus Sewell, English actor
1968 - Grayson McCouch, NYC, actor (Morgan Winthrop-Another World)
1968 - Johann Olav Koss, speed skater (Olympics-3 gold-1994)
1968 - Tsunku, Japanese music producer
1969 - Peter Breen, Brockton Mass, dance skater
1969 - Giorgos Donis, Greek footballer
1969 - Eleni Menegaki, Greek TV presenter
1970 - Charles Swann, WLAF cornerback (Scotland Claymores)
1970 - Chris Thorpe, Waukegan Ill, doubles luger (Olympics-1994)
1970 - Dan Ratushny, Nepean, NHL defenseman (Florida Panthers)
1970 - Edwin van der Sar, Dutch soccer goalkeeper (Ajax)
1970 - Marquez Pope, NFL cornerback (SF 49ers)
1970 - Phillip Cocu, Dutch soccer player (Vitesse, PSV)
1971 - Greg Blewett, cricketer (Aust batsman, century on Test debut 1995)
1971 - Matthew Hayden, cricketer (heavy scorer for Queensland, Aust 1994-96)
1971 - Winona Ryder, [Horowitz], Mn, actress (Heathers, Edward Scissorhand)
1971 - Daniel J. Bernstein, American professor
1972 - Rhonda Blades, WNBA guard (NY Liberty)
1972 - Takafumi Horie, Japanese entrepreneur
1972 - Gabrielle Union, American actress
1972 - Tracee Ellis Ross, American actress
1973 - Adam Bacher, cricketer (nephew of Ali S Afr Test batsman 1996- )
1973 - Robert Pirès, French footballer
1974 - Mike Crawford, linebacker (Miami Dolphins)
1974 - R A Dickey, Nashville Tenn, baseball pitcher (Olympics-bronze-96)
1974 - Renata Hornofova, Miss Universe-Czech Republic (1996)
1974 - Michael Vaughan, English cricketer
1975 - Kelly Lin, Chinese actress
1976 - Claudia Dopf, Miss Peru Universe (1997)
1976 - Mohsen Emadi, Iranian Poet
1977 - Brendan Fehr, Canadian actor
1978 - Travis Henry, American football player
1979 - Ignasi Giménez Renom, Catalan politician
1980 - Ben Foster, American actor
1980 - B.J. Sams, American football player
1981 - Amanda Beard, Newport Beach CA, 100m/200m breaststroke (Oly-2 silv-96)
1981 - Jonathan Brown, Australian rules footballer
1981 - Reema Sen, Indian actress
1982 - Chelan Simmons, Canadian actress
1982 - Ariel Lin, Taiwanese actress and singer
1983 - Maurice Clarett, American football player
1983 - Dana Eveland, American baseball player
1983 - Jason Tahincioglu, Turkish racing driver
1983 - Richard Brancatisano, Australian actor
1983 - Johnny Lewis, Los Angeles, California, actor ( Sons of Anarchy, Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem),
           (d. 2012)
1984 - Eric Staal, Canadian ice hockey player
1985 - Severino Jefferson, Brazilian football player
1987 - Makoto Ogawa, Japanese singer
1990 - Carlson Young,American actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 29, 2013, 09:31:45 AM

This Day in History for 29th October


Famous Deaths

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Enlightenment Philosopher                                  Confederate General/KKK Grand Wizard
Jean-Baptiste Le Rond d'Alembert (1783)             Nathan Bedford Forrest (1877)


490 - Petrus Mongus, patriarch of Alexandria, dies
1038 - Aethelnoth, Archbishop of Canterbury
1138 - Bolesław III Krzywousty, Duke of Poland (b. 1086)
1268 - Conradin, Duke of Swabia (executed) (b. 1252)
1268 - Frederick I, Margrave of Baden (beheaded) (b. 1249)
1321 - Stefanus VI Uros II Milutin, king of Serbia (1282-1321), dies
1590 - Dirck Volkertsz Coornhert, theologist/philosopher, dies at about 68
1618 - Walter Raleigh, English scholar/poet/historian, beheaded for treason
1650 - David Calderwood, Scottish historian (b. 1575)
1666 - Edmund Calamy the Elder, English Presbyterian leader (b. 1600)
1666 - James Shirley, English dramatist (b. 1596)
1783 - Jean-Baptiste Le Rond d'Alembert, French philosophe/mathematician, dies at 66
1790 - Pieter van/of Bleiswijk, pension advisor 1771-87, dies at about 66
1802 - Jacques-Philippe Lamoninary, composer, dies at 95
1822 - Dirk van Hogendorp, Dutch earl/general/minister of War, dies at 61
1829 - Maria A [Nannerl] Mozart, Austrian pianist, dies
1846 - Jean Louis van Aelbroeck, Flemish agronoom, dies at 90
1853 - Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmermann, composer, dies at 68
1853 - William Richard Bexfield, composer, dies at 29
1856 - Carel SW van Hogendorp, colonial director, dies at 68
1873 - Ernest Feydeau, French author, dies at 52
1873 - Johan N M J, king of Saxon (1854-73), dies
1873 - Leonardus Lightenvelt, minister of RC Worship, dies at 78
1876 - Jacques Gregoir, composer, dies at 59
1877 - Nathan Bedford Forrest, American Confederate general, dies at 56
1882 - Martin Gustav Nottebohm, composer, dies at 64
1883 - Friedrich Robert Volkmann, composer, dies at 68
1885 - George B McClellan, Union army general, dies at 58
1885 - James Hannington, English missionary, murdered in Uganda
1892 - William M Harnett, US painter (Old Cupboard Door), dies
1901 - Leon Czolcosz, assassin of President McKinley, is electrocuted
1905 - Etienne Desmarteau, Canadian athlete (b. 1873)
1911 - Joseph Pulitzer, American newspaperman, dies in Charleston, SC
1919 - Soen Shaku, Zen abbot of Engakuji monastery in Kamakura, dies at 60\
1919 - A. B. Simpson, Canadian preacher (b. 1843)
1920 - Johann Ernst Perabo, composer, dies at 74
1922 - George August Lumbye, composer, dies at 79
1927 - Leonard Nelson, Ger philosopher (Nelson-Friessche Schule), dies at 45
1931 - Luciano Gallet, composer, dies at 38
1932 - Joseph F F Babinski, Polish/French neurologist (B-Reflex), dies
1933 - Paul, [Prudent] Painlevé, French mathematician/minister/premier, dies
1934 - Gustavo Emilio Campa, composer, dies at 71
1939 - Dwight B. Waldo, American educator and historian (b. 1864)
1941 - Harvey Hendrick, American baseball player (b. 1897)
1943 - Adrianus M de Young, writer (Merijntje Gijzen's youth), murdered at 55
1946 - John S Curry, US painter (Baptism in Kansas), dies
1947 - Frances Cleveland Preston, former 1st lady (1885-89 93-97), dies at 83
1947 - Theodore Samuel Holland, composer, dies at 69
1949 - G. I. Gurdjieff, Armenian mystic (b. 1872)
1950 - Gustav V, king of Sweden, dies at 92
1951 - De Raymond, French High Director of Cambodia, murdered
1951 - Robert G Aitken, US astronomer (New General Catalogue), dies at 86
1953 - William Kapell, American pianist (b. 1922)
1957 - Louis B Mayer, MGM producer, dies at 71
1957 - Rosemarie Nitribitt, German call girl (b. 1933)
1958 - Zoe Akins, American playwright (b. 1886)
1962 - Naphtali Siegfried Salomon, composer, dies at 77
1963 - Adolphe Menjou, actor (Front Page, Star is Born), dies at 73
1965 - Mehdi Am Barka, Moroccan socialist leader, murdered in Paris
1966 - [Louis C] Marcel Berckmans, painter/actor (Manner Kater), dies at 83
1968 - Marius Moaritz Ulfrstad, composer, dies at 78
1969 - Vic Richardson, cricketer (Aussie capt 1935-36), dies
1971 - Duane Allman, rock guitarist, dies in a motorcycle accident at 24
1973 - Heathcote Dicken Statham, composer, dies at 83
1974 - Victor E van Vriesland, poet (Mirror of Dutch Poetry), dies at 82
1975 - John Scott Trotter, orchestra leader (George Gobel Show), dies at 67
1981 - William O Walker, publisher of Cleveland Call Post, dies at 85
1983 - Sten Broman, composer, dies at 81
1985 - John Lodge, actor (Sensation, In Like Flint)/(gov-R-CT), dies at 82
1986 - Sem Presser, Dutch press photographer, dies at 68
1986 - Mimis Fotopoulos, Greek actor (b. 1913)
1987 - Kamal El Mallakh, dies at 57
1987 - Woody Herman, bandleader/composer (Thundering Herds), dies at 74
1990 - William French Smith, attorney general (1980), dies at 73 of cancer
1991 - Donald Churchill, playwright, dies of heart attack at 60
1991 - Harry Thomas, founder (Flower Festival, Dutch Homofielen Party), dies
1991 - Maria Monica, silent film actress, dies
1991 - Mario Scelba, PM of Italia (1954-55), dies
1992 - Adrienne Canivez, wife of Victor of Vriesland, dies
1992 - Kenneth MacMillan, British choreographer (Manon, Judas Tree), dies
1993 - George Pope, cricketer (one Test for England, 8 runs not out), dies
1993 - Raymond Lockhart, TV director (Huntley Brinkley Report), dies at 65
1994 - Andrew Miller-Jones TV pioneer, dies at 84
1994 - Evelyn Anderson, dancer, dies at 87
1994 - Pearl Primus, dancer, dies at 44
1996 - James Leo Herlihy, author (Midnight Cowboy), commits suicide at 66
1996 - Patricia Ticia Anne Ingrams, broadcaster, dies at 50
1996 - Patrick Johnson, physicist, dies at 92
1997 - Anton LaVey, American founder of the Church of Satan (b. 1930)
1998 - Paul Misraki, French songwriter (b. 1908)
1999 - Michel Regnier (Greg), Belgian comic-book writer and artist (Achille Talon) (b. 1931)
2002 - Glenn McQueen, American animator (b. 1960)
2003 - Hal Clement, American writer (b. 1922)
2003 - Franco Corelli, Italian tenor, dies after suffering on stroke at 82
2004 - Edward Oliver LeBlanc, Dominican politician (b. 1923)
2004 - Vaughn Meader, American comedian (b. 1936)
2004 - Peter Twinn, English mathematician (b. 1916)
2006 - Mohammadu Maccido, 18th Sultan of Sokoto (b. 1928)
2008 - Mike Baker, American singer Shadow Gallery (b. 1963)
2011 - Jimmy Savile, British media personality (b. 1926)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 30, 2013, 09:34:28 AM

This Day in History for 30th October


Historical Events

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King of England King Charles I                 Outlaw Jesse James                             Absolute monarch Nicholas II

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Dictator of Nazi Germany                      Baseball Player Jackie Robinson          Soviet Union Premier Joseph Stalin
Adolf Hitler

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Heavyweight Boxing Champion
Muhammad Ali


637 - Antioch surrenders to the Muslim forces under Rashidun Caliphate after the Battle of Iron
         bridge.
701 - John VI of Greece begins his reign as Catholic Pope
942 - Alberic nominates Pope Marinus II (Martinus III)
1077 - German king Henry IV gives away bisdom Utrecht county Staveren
1137 - Battle of Rignano between Ranulf of Apulia and Roger II of Sicily.
1270 - The Eighth Crusade and siege of Tunis ends by agreement between Charles I of Sicily
           (brother to King Louis IX of France, who had died months earlier) and the sultan of Tunis.
1340 - Battle of Rio Salado.
1389 - French king Charles VI visits pope Clemens VII
1468 - Charles the Stout occupies & plunders Luik
1470 - Henry VI of England returns to the English throne after Earl of Warwick defeats Yorkists in
           battle.
1485 - Henry VII of England crowned at Westminster Abbey, London
1489 - Peace of Tours, between emperor Maximilian I & Flemings
1502 - Vasco da Gama returns to Calicut for the second time.
1503 - Queen Isabella of Spain bans violence against indians
1534 - English Parliament passes Act of Supremacy, making King Henry VIII head of the English
           church - a role formerly held by the Pope
1611 - Gustaaf II Adolf (17) becomes king of Sweden
1629 - King Charles I gives Bahamas to Sir Robert Heath
1697 - Germany signs French/English/Spanish/Neth/Brandenburgs peace treaty ending 9 year War
1739 - England declares war on Spain: War of Jenkin's Ear [NS=Oct 19]
1768 - 1st Methodist church in US initiated (Wesley Chapel, NYC)
1772 - Capt Cook arrives with ship Resolution in Capetown
1775 - 1st navy in US forms
1851 - Alfred de Mussets "Bettine," premieres in Paris
1864 - Helena, Montana's capital, founded
1866 - Jesse James gang robs bank in Lexington Missouri ($2000)
1868 - John Menard of Louisiana is 1st black elected to Congress
1871 - Phila Athletics beat Chicago for 1st Natl Association baseball pennant
1873 - P T Barnum's circus, "Greatest Show on Earth," debuts (NYC)
1883 - Austria-Hungary/Germany/Romania signs military treaty
1886 - Great-Britain/Germany divide boundaries in East Africa
1888 - John J Loud patents ballpoint pen
1888 - Ndebele-king Lobengula grants Cecil Rhodes, Mashonaland £100 per month
1893 - Senate approves repealing Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890
1894 - Daniel Cooper patents time clock
1894 - Domenico Melegatti obtains a patent for a procedure to be applied in producing pandoro
           industrially.
1896 - Martha Hughes Cannon of Utah becomes 1st female senator
1899 - Battle at Ladysmith Natal: Boers beat lt-general Whites army
1899 - British Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill reaches Capetown
1900 - 1st-ever US auto show opens in Madison Square Garden in NYC
1901 - Battle at Bakenlaagte: lt-col Bensons unit vs Boers
1905 - "October Manifesto" Russian Tsar Nicholas II grants civil liberties
1905 - GB Shaw's "Mrs Warren's Profession," premieres in NYC
1905 - Tsar of Russia accepts 1st Duma (Parliament)
1911 - Clark Griffith is named manager of Wash Senators
1914 - Allied offensive at Ypres (Belgium) begins
1917 - British government gives final approval to Balfour Declaration
1918 - Slovakia asks for creation of Czechoslovakian state
1919 - Baseball league presidents call for abolishment of spitball
1920 - The Communist Party of Australia is founded in Sydney.
1922 - Anxious to compete with the Yankees, the NY Giants pay $65,000 & 3 players for Jack
           Bentley (hits .349 & is 13-1 as pitcher in 1922)
1922 - Benito Mussolini forms government in Italy
1925 - KUT-AM in Austin TX begins radio transmissions
1929 - The Stuttgart Cable Car is constructed in Stuttgart, Germany.
1930 - Turkey & Greece sign a treaty of friendship
1931 - W2XB TV channel 1 in NYC, NY (NBC) begins broadcasting
1938 - Orson Welles panics a nation with broadcast of "War of the Worlds"
1939 - USSR & Germany agree on partitioning Poland, Hitler deports Jews
1939 - German U boat fails on attack of English battleship Nelson with Winston Churchill, Dudley
           Pound & Charles Forbes aboard
1940 - Cole Porters musical "Panama hattie," premieres in NYC
1941 - USS Reuben James torpedoed by Germans, even though US is not in war
1942 - 8th day of battle at El Alamein: new Australian assault
1942 - US aircraft carrier Enterprise reaches Noumea
1943 - Molotov-Eden-Cordell Hull accord over operations at UN
1943 - Soviet forces under Tolbuchin stick Sivash-bay about
1944 - Aaron Copland's "Appalachian Spring," premieres in Wash DC
1944 - Anne Frank (of Diary fame) is deported from Auschwitz to Belsen
1944 - Last transport for Auschwitz arrives in Birkenau
1944 - Scottish Highlanders liberate Waalwijk
1944 - Sweden announces intention to stay neutral & refuse sanctuary in WW II
1944 - Tholen Island freed
1945 - Branch Rickey signs Jackie Robinson to a Montreal Royals
1945 - US government announces end of shoe rationing
1947 - 23 countries sign GATT agreement in Geneva
1947 - Darius Milhauds 3rd Symphony "Hymnus Ambrosianus," premieres in Paris
1948 - 20 die & 6,000 made ill by smog in Donora Pennsylvania
1948 - Operation Hiram: Israelis take control of Galilee
1949 - "Lost in the Stars" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 281 perfs
1949 - Kurt Weill & Maxwell Anderson's musical premieres in NYC
1950 - David Diamond's 3rd Symphony, premieres
1950 - Pope Pius XII witnesses "The Miracle of the Sun" while at the Vatican.
1951 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1952 - Clarence Birdseye sells 1st frozen peas
1953 - Dr Albert Schweitzer & Gen George C Marshall win Nobel Peace Prize
1954 - Defense Department announces elimination of all segregated regiments
1954 - US Armed Forces end segregation of races
1954 - 1st use of 24-sec shot clock in pro basketball (Rochester vs Boston)
1955 - Imtiaz Ahmed scores 209 v NZ, the record for a no 8 batsman
1956 - Israel captures Egyptian militay post at El-Thamad
1956 - Dodgers sell Ebbets Field to a real estate group They agree to stay until 1959, with an option
           to stay until 1961
1957 - Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 11th Symphony premieres in Moscow
1957 - Soviet Union launches, Sputnik II, carrying a dog named Laika
1957 - WLWI (now WTHR) TV channel 13 in Indianapolis, IN (ABC) 1st broadcast
1957 - WYTV TV channel 33 in Youngstown, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
1960 - Guatemala's "La Hora" reports plan for invasion on Cuba
1960 - Michael Woodruff performs the first successful kidney transplant in the United Kingdom at the
           Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
1961 - Soviet Union tests a 58 megaton hydrogen bomb
1961 - UN unanimously elects U Thant acting secretary general of the UN
1961 - Soviet Party Congress unanimously approves a resolution removing Stalin's body from Lenin's
           tomb in Red Square
1962 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
1963 - Morocco & Algeria signs cease fire
1963 - Sandy Koufax wins NL MVP award
1964 - Tran Van Huong appointed premier of South Vietnam
1965 - Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Las Cruces Golf Open
1965 - Fireworks explosions kill 50 in Cartagena, Colombia
1966 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Las Cruces Ladies Golf Open
1967 - Arthur Allyn says White Sox will play 9 games in Milwaukee in 1968
1967 - Ferdinand Bracke bicycles world record time (48,093 km)
1967 - USSR Kosmos 186 & 188 make 1st automatic docking & Venmera 13 launch
1968 - Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Lars Onsager (thermodynamics)
1968 - Nobel prize for physics awarded to Luis Alvarez (bubble chamber)
1968 - Queen Juliana opens IJ tunnel in Amsterdam
1969 - WXPO (now WNDS) TV channel 50 in Manchester, NH (IND) 1st broadcast
1970 - KVEW TV channel 42 in Kennewick, WA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1972 - 45 die in a train crash in Chicago Ill
1972 - Worst US rail accident in 14 years; 45 die in Chicago
1973 - Tom Seaver becomes 1st non-20-game winner to win Cy Young award
1973 - The Bosporus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, connecting the continents of Europe
           and Asia over the Bosporus for the first time.
1974 - California Angel Nolan Ryan throws fastest recorded pitch (100.9 MPH)
1974 - Catfish Hunter is named AL Cy Young Award
1974 - Muhammad Ali KOs George Foreman in 8th round in Kinshasa Zaire ('The Rumble in the
           Jungle')
1975 - Giants pitcher John "the Count of" Montefusco wins NL Rookie of Year
1975 - John Bucyk, Boston, became 7th NHLer to score 500 goals
1975 - Juan Carlos assumes power in Spain
1975 - NY Daily News runs headline "Ford to City: Drop Dead"
1976 - "Going Up" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 49 performances
1976 - Jane Pauley becomes news co-anchor of Today Show
1976 - Rev Joseph Evans elected president of United Church of Christ
1977 - Panama 747SP lands after polar flight around Earth in record 54:07
1978 - Laura Nickel & Curt Noll find 25th Mersenne prime, 2 ^ 21701-1
1978 - Uganda troops attack Tanzania
1979 - NASA launches space vehicle S-203
1979 - Richard Arrington elected mayor of Birmingham
1980 - Honduras & El Salvador settle their boundary dispute
1980 - NASA launches Flt Satcom-4
1982 - Portugal revises constitution
1983 - The first democratic elections in Argentina after seven years of military rule are held.
1984 - Tigers reliever Willie Hernandez wins AL Cy Young Award
1985 - 22nd Space Shuttle Mission (61-A)-Challenger 9-launched
1986 - Discovery moves to OPF where more than 200 modification are made
1987 - In Japan, NEC releases the first 16-bit home entertainment system, the TurboGrafx-16,
           known as PC Engine.
1988 - 2 gambling clubs & 1 player share 61.38 M California lotto jackpot
1988 - Beth Daniel wins Nichirei Ladies Cup US-Japan Team Golf Championship
1988 - Jim Elliott (US) completes 24-hr paced outdoor race for 548.9 mi
1988 - NY Jets finally beat Pittsburgh Steelers for 1st time
1989 - August A Busch III becomes CEO of St Louis Cards
1989 - Smith Dairy at Orrville Ohio, makes largest milk shake (1,575.2 gal)
1990 - England-France complete "Chunnel"
1991 - Colombian government negotiate with M-19-guerrilla
1991 - Mark Sauer becomes CEO of Pittsburgh Pirates
1991 - Mid East peace conference begins in Madrid Spain
1992 - MTA begins installing automated fare collection turnstiles
1993 - Toronto Maple Leafs lose 1st game of season after going 10-0-0
1994 - Leftist coalition wins Marcedonia parliamentary election
1994 - Thomas Nicely reports bug in Intel's Pentium-processor on Internet
1994 - US wins Nichirei LPGA Golf International
1995 - Quebec Referendum votes to remain part of Canada
1997 - "Cherry Orchard," opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC
1997 - Shirley Allen, 51, held Illinois police off for 39 days captured
2002 - British Digital terrestrial television (DTT) Service Freeview begins transmitting in parts of the
           United Kingdom.
2005 - The rebuilt Dresden Frauenkirche (destroyed in the firebombing of Dresden during World War
           II) is reconsecrated after a thirteen-year rebuilding project.
2012 - Walt Disney purchases Lucasfilm Ltd and its rights for Star Wars and Indiana Jones for $4.05
           billion

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 30, 2013, 09:35:51 AM

This Day in History for 30th October


Famous Weddings

1943 - Italian director Federico Fellini marries actress Giulietta Masina
1991 - Singer Clint Black (34) weds actress Lisa Hartman (29)
2004 - Blink-182 pop punk band drummer Travis Barker (28) weds actress and First Runner Up Miss
           USA 1995 Shanna Moakler (29) at the Bacara Resort & Spa in Santa Barbara, California
2012 - Actress Evan Rachel Wood (25) weds "Billy Elliott" actor Jamie Bell (26) in California

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 30, 2013, 09:42:46 AM

This Day in History for 30th October


Famous Birthdays

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Explorer of the New World                      Poet Ezra Pound (1885)                Soccer Legend Diego Maradona (1960)
Christopher Columbus (1451)


1218 - Emperor Chukyo of Japan (d. 1234)
1391 - Eduard, [Dom Duarte], King of Portugal (1433-38)/author
1451 - Christopher Columbus, Genoa Italy on or just before this date. Explorer for Spain of the New
           World (D. 1506)
1576 - Enrico C Davila, Padua Italy, writer (Storia delguerre civili Francia)
1620 - Michael de Ronghe, composer
1624 - Paul Pellisson, French writer (d. 1693)
1632 - Richard Brinsley Sheridan, playwright (School for Scandal) (or 1751)
1668 - Sophia Charlotte of Hanover, queen in Prussia (d. 1705)
1683 - George II [August], King of Great-Britain (1727-60)
1712 - Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich, German painter
1735 - Edward Miller, composer
1735 - John Adams, Braintree (Quincy) Mass, 2nd president USA (1797-1801)
1741 - Angelica Kauffmann, Swiss painter
1751 - Richard Sheridan, Irish playwright (d. 1816)
1762 - André Chénier, French writer (d. 1794)
1786 - Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé, French Canadian writer (d. 1871)
1787 - Karl Guhr, composer
1790 - Karol Joseph Lipinski, composer
1790 - Rinse Posthumus, Frisian writer
1799 - Ignace Bourget, bishop of Montreal (d. 1885)
1807 - James Samuel Wadsworth, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1817 - Hermann Kopp, German chemist (Jahresbericht of Chemistry)
1821 - Cenobio Paniagua y Vasques, composer
1821 - Fjodor Mikhailovich Dostoevski, Russian novelist (Idiot) [NS=11/11]
1829 - Roscoe Conkling, MC (Union), died in 1888
1830 - John Stevens Bowen, Major General (Confederate Army) died in 1863
1839 - Alfred Sisley, French impressionist painter
1840 - Carlotta Patti, Italian soprano
1840 - William G Sumner, US sociologist/political analyst
1843 - A G Henri Regnault, French water colors painter
1844 - Harvey W. Wiley, American chemist (d. 1930)
1845 - Gustav Weber, composer
1848 - Zinovi P Rozhestvensky, Russian vice-admiral
1849 - Johan Willem, son of Dutch princess Marianne & coachman
1857 - John H Aberson, 1st chancellor (Dutch Agricultural University)
1861 - Antoine Bourdelle, French sculptor (d. 1929)
1864 - Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, composer
1869 - Lawrence Grant, Bournemouth England, actor (Bulldog Drummond)
1871 - Buck Freeman, American baseball player (d. 1949)
1873 - Francisco Madero, Mexico, revolutionary, president (1911-13)
1879 - Eily Malyon, London, actress (Jane Eyre, I Married a Witch, Devotion)
1880 - Abram F Joffe, Russian physicist (crystal)
1881 - Lena Christ, writer
1881 - Elizabeth Madox Roberts, American poet and author (d. 1941)
1882 - William "Bull" F Halsey, US vice-admiral (WW II Pacific)
1884 - Rudolf Forster, Grobming Austria, actor (Threepenny Opera)
1885 - Ezra Loomis Pound, Hailey Idaho, poet (Cantos), (d. 1972)
1886 - Zoe Akins, American playwright (d. 1958)
1887 - Eduardo Ciannelli, Italy, actor (Waldo-Johnny Staccato)
1887 - Georg Heym, writer
1888 - Konstantinos Tsiklitiras, Greek Olympic champion (d. 1913)
1893 - Charles Atlas, [Angelo Siciliano], US, bodybuilder
1893 - Jan M Romein, Dutch historian (Low Countries at Sea)
1893 - Willi Apel, German/US musicologist (Harvard dictionary of music)
1893 - Roland Freisler, German Nazi politician (d. 1945)
1894 - Peter Warlock, composer
1894 - Jean Rostand, French biologist (d. 1977)
1895 - Gerhard Domagk, German bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
           (declined) (d. 1964)
1895 - Dickinson W. Richards, American physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1973)
1896 - Anatoly Grigor'yevich Novikov, composer
1896 - Ruth Gordon, Mass, actress (Rosemary's Baby, Harold & Maude)
1896 - Kostas Karyotakis, Greek poet (d. 1928)
1897 - Rex Cherryman, American actor (d. 1928)
1898 - Bill Terry, baseball player (d. 1989)
1899 - Ernst H Ridder van Rappard, Dutch SS officer/founder (NSNAP)
1900 - Augustin Lara, composer
1900 - Ragnar Granit Finnish neuroscientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1991)
1902 - Armin Kaufmann, composer
1903 - Konrad Friedrich Noetel, composer
1904 - Alfred Gradstein, composer
1904 - Paul D Stoop, US vice-admiral (WW II-Coral Sea)
1905 - Christian Darnton, composer
1906 - Alexander Gode, German-American linguist (d. 1970)
1906 - Giuseppe Farina, Italian race car driver and one-time F1 world champion (d. 1966)
1907 - Albert Rice Leventhal, publisher (Little Golden Books)
1907 - Renzo Cesana, Rome Italy, TV host (First Date, Continental)
1907 - Sol Tax, American anthropologist (d. 1995)
1908 - Franco Margola, composer
1908 - Stuart Hamblen, Texas, singer/composer (This Old House)
1909 - Homi J. Bhabha, Indian physicist (d. 1966)
1910 - Miguel Hernadez Gilabert, Spain, poet (Viento del Pueblo)
1911 - Ruth Hussey, American actress (d. 2005)
1912 - Preston Lockwood, actor (House of Windsor, Black Candle)
1914 - Marion Ladewig, Mich, bowler (9 time woman bowler of year 1950-63)
1914 - Marius Hendrikus Flothuis, Dutch composer/author (Mozart biography)
1914 - Patsy Montana Ruby Blevins, singer
1914 - Richard E Holz, American composer
1915 - Pierre Wissmer, Swiss composer (Capitaine Bruno)
1915 - Fred Friendly, American journalist (d. 1998)
1916 - Leon Day, American baseball player (d. 1995)
1917 - Ruth Hussey, Providence RI, actress (Another Thin Man, Phila Story)
1917 - Bobby Bragan, American baseball player
1917 - Nikolai Vasilievich Ogarkov, Soviet field marshal (d. 1994)
1918 - Robert Feller, MLB pitcher (Red Sox, led AL in strikeouts 7 times)
1919 - Jane Randolph, actress (Railroaded!)
1922 - Jane White, American actress and singer
1924 - Hannelore Weygrand, German FR, equestrian dressage (Oly-silver-1956)
1924 - Serge Golovine, French ballet choreographer (Death of Narcissus)
1925 - Gus Savage, (Rep-D-IL, 1981- )
1925 - Teo Macero, composer
1926 - Jacques Swaters, Belgian racing driver
1927 - Joseph Wilbur Adcock, manager/player (Braves)
1928 - Ernest Flatt, choreographer (Carol Burnett Show)
1928 - Michael Andrews, painter
1928 - William Campbell, Newark NJ, actor (Jerry-Cannonball, Luke-Dynasty)
1928 - Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1999)
1929 - Joan Ganz Cooney, founder (Children's Television Workshop)
1930 - Clifford Brown, [Brownie], US jazz trumpeter/composer
1930 - Marilyn Alex, Hollywood California, actress (Molly-Young & Restless)
1930 - Nestor Almendros, Spanish cinematographer (d. 1992)
1931 - David Wilson, director of British Museum (1977-92)
1931 - Dick Gautier, Los Angeles California, actor (Hymie-Get Smart, Mr Terrific)
1931 - John Macchia, CA, actor (Beach Blanket Bingo, Beach Party)
1932 - Louis Malle, France, director (Atlantic City, Black Moon, Viva Maria)
1932 - Barun De, Indian historian
1933 - Ken Berry, actor (Sam-Mayberry RFD, Vinton-Mama's Family)
1933 - Michael S Dukakis, (Gov-D-Mass)/presidential candidate (D-1988)
1934 - Hamilton Camp, London, actor (Andrew-He & She, Meatballs 2)
1934 - Frans Brüggen, Dutch musician
1935 - Michael Winner, producer/director (Big Sleep, Death Wish)
1935 - Agota Kristof, Hungarian writer
1935 - Jim Perry, American baseball player
1935 - Robert Caro, American biographer
1936 - Roy Emerson, tennis player (won 12 Majors in singles from 1961-67)
1936 - Polina Astakhova, Ukrainian gymnast (d. 2005)
1937 - Claude Lelouch, movie director (A Man & A Woman, Cat & Mouse, Bolero)
1937 - Pat Williams, (Rep-D-Montana, 1979- )
1938 - Ed Lauter, Long Beach, New York, American actor (The Artist, The Number 23)
1939 - Eddie Holland, US singer/songwriter (Jamie, Leaving Here)
1939 - Grace Slick, Chicago, rock vocalist (Jefferson Airplane-White Rabbit)
1939 - Norman West, US singer (Soul Children, Hearsay, Give 'em Love)
1939 - Leland H. Hartwell, American scientist, Nobel laureate
1940 - Miguel Calderon-Gomez, Havana, basketball player (Olympic-bronze-1972)
1941 - Otis Williams, rocker (Temptations)
1942 - Sven-David Sandstrom, composer
1943 - Joanna Shimkus, Halifax NS, actress (Marriage of a Young Stockbroker)
1945 - Glenn Poshard, (Rep-D-Illinois)
1945 - Henry Winkler, NYC, actor (Fonz-Happy Days, Night Shift)
1946 - Andrea Mitchell, NYC, newscaster (NBC-TV, Summer Sunday USA)
1946 - Chris Slade, rocker (AC/DC)
1946 - Ian McGeechan, Scottish rugby player
1946 - Lynne Marta, Phila Pa, actress (Love American Style)
1946 - Robert L "Hoot" Gibson, Cooperstown NY, USN/ast (STS 41B,61C,27,47,71)
1947 - Chris Komar, dancer
1947 - Timothy B Schmidt, Oakland CA, rocker (Eagles)
1949 - David Green, Melbourne Australia, rock bassist (Air Supply)
1949 - Otis Williams, [Otis Miles], TX, rock vocalist (Temptations)
1950 - John T Doolittle, (Rep-R-California)
1950 - Louise Duart, Quincy MA, comedienne (Paramount Comedy Theater # 5)
1950 - Phil Chenier, NBA guard (Wash Bullets)
1951 - Frank Pallone Jr, (Rep-D-New Jersey)
1951 - Harry Hamlin, Pasadena California, actor (Michael Kuzak-LA Law)
1953 - Alexander Fedorovich Poleshchuk, Moscow, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-16)
1953 - Charles Martin Smith, Van Nuys CA, actor (American Graffiti)
1953 - Kathleen Cody, Bronx NY, actress (Charley & the Angel)
1953 - Peter Hoekstra, (Rep-R-Michigan)
1954 - JoAnne Russell, Miami Fla, tennis player (Wibeldon Double 1977)
1954 - T Graham Brown, Arabi Ga, country singer (Come as you Were)
1954 - Mario Testino, Peruvian-born English fashion photographer
1955 - Shanna Reed, KC Kansas, actress (Major Dad, Mirrors)
1956 - Juliet Stevenson, Essex England, actress (Secret Rapture, Life Story)
1956 - Leslie Webb, equestrian dressage (Olympics-96)
1956 - Tim Roemer, (Rep-D-Indiana)
1957 - Aleksandr Ivanovich Lazutkin, Russian cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-25)
1957 - Andy Archer, Scottish dramatist
1958 - Kevin Pollak, SF, comedian (Usual Suspects, Grumpy Old Men)
1958 - Stefan Dennis, Australian actor
1958 - Ramona d'Viola, American cyclist
1960 - David Valle, Bayside NY, catcher (Texas Rangers)
1960 - Diego Maradona, Buenos Aires, soccer player (World Cup-hand of god)
1960 - Kim Thompson, Bath England, actress (Stealing Heaven)
1961 - Hans Segers, soccer goaltender (PSV, Nottingham Forest, Wimbledon)
1961 - Scott Garrelts, American baseball player
1962 - Courtney Walsh, cricketer (WI pace bowler, hat-trick v Aust 1988)
1962 - Danny Tartabull, Miami FL, outfielder (NY Yankees, Chicago White Sox)
1962 - Mark Portugal, Los Angeles California, pitcher (Cin Reds)
1963 - Jerry de Borg, English pop guitarist (Jesus Jones-Real, Real, Real)
1963 - Kristina Malandro Wagner, actress (Felicia Jones-General Hospital)
1963 - Mike Veletta, cricketer (West Aussie opening bat, 8 Tests for Aust)
1963 - Todd Sand, Burbank California, pairs skaters (Olympics-1994)
1963 - Michael Beach, American actor
1964 - Sandra H Magnus, Belleville Il, PhD/astronaut
1964 - Howard Lederer, American poker player
1965 - Charnele Brown, East Hampton NY, actress (Kim-A Different World)
1965 - Kevin Edwards, NBA guard (NJ Nets)
1965 - Gavin Rossdale, Kilburn, London, English heavy metal vocalist and actor (Bush)
1966 - Scott Innes, American voice actor
1967 - Brenda Catherine Lawson, Wanganui NZ, double scull rower (Olympics-96)
1967 - Pat Elynuik, Foam Lake, NHL right wing (Ottawa Senators)
1967 - Ty Detmer, quarterback (Philadelphia Eagles)
1968 - Jack Plotnick, American actor
1969 - Brittany Gae Thompson, Portland Oregon, Miss Oregon-America (1991)
1969 - Mayumi Hirase, Kumamoto Japan, LPGA golfer (Japan Jr-1985, 86, 87)
1969 - Masanori Hikichi, Japanese composer
1970 - Dino Philyaw, NFL running back (NE Patriots)
1970 - James Pedro, Danvers Mass, lightweight judoka (Olympics-bronze-92, 96)
1970 - Kevin Johnson, NFL defensive tackle (Philadelphia Eagles, Oakland Raiders)
1970 - Nia Long, Brooklyn New York, American actress (Guiding Light, Made in America, Soul Food)
1970 - Patrice Tardif, Thetford Mines, NHL center (LA Kings)
1970 - Stefan Gamlin, WLAF offensive linebacker (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1970 - Suvat Karadag, soccer player (FC Utrecht)
1970 - Wim Bubberman, soccer player (Sparta)
1970 - Maja Tatic, Bosnia singer
1970 - Tory Belleci, American TV Mythbuster
1970 - Nia Long, American actress
1970 - Ekaterini Voggoli, Greek discus thrower
1970 - Ben Bailey, American host of the game show Cash Cab
1971 - Edward "Ted" Murphy, Boston Mass, rower (Olympics-5th-1996)
1971 - Henry Ford, NFL defensive end (Houston/Tennessee Oilers)
1971 - Ahn Jae Wook, South Korean actor and singer
1972 - Georgina Douglas, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1972 - Patrice Denis, CFL linebacker (Edmonton Eskimos)
1972 - Trevor Wilmot, NFL linebacker (Indianapolis Colts, Amsterdam Admirals)
1973 - Ellis Johnson, NFL defensive back (Indianapolis Colts)
1973 - Melissa Deanne Holiday, Greenwood SC, playmate (Jan, 1995)
1973 - Adam "Edge" Copeland, Canadian wrestler
1973 - Silvia Corzo, Colombian newscaster
1973 - Michael Oakes, English footballer
1975 - Joanne Malar, Hamilton Ontario, swimmer (Olympics-11-92, 96)
1975 - Stephanie Camp, Rapid City SD, Miss America-SD (1997)
1975 - Ian D'Sa, Guitarist/Vocalist for Canadian rock band Billy Talent
1975 - Maria Thayer, American actress
1976 - Maurice Taylor, NBA forward (LA Clippers)
1976 - Stern John, Trinidadian footballer
1977 - Jason Adelman, American actor
1977 - Charmian Faulkner, Australian crime victim
1978 - Martin Dossett, American football player
1978 - Amanda Swafford, American model
1979 - Jason Bartlett, American baseball player
1979 - Yukie Nakama, Japanese actress
1980 - Sarah Carter, Canadian actress
1980 - Choi Hong-man, South Korean kickboxer
1981 - Ivanka Trump, American model
1981 - Jun Ji-hyun, South Korean actress
1981 - Ian Snell, American baseball player
1982 - Andy Greene, American ice hockey player
1982 - Manny Parra, American baseball player
1983 - Iain Hume, Canadian footballer
1983 - Trent Edwards, American Football Player
1984 - Eva Pigford, American model
1986 - Thomas Morgenstern, Austrian ski jumper
1987 - Junaid Siddique, Bangladeshi cricketer
1988 - Janel Parrish, American actress
1989 - Nastia Liukin, American gymnast

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 30, 2013, 09:46:50 AM

This Day in History for 30th October


Famous Deaths

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Spanish Writer Pio Baroja (1956)              TV Personality, Comedian and Composer
                                                                Steve Allen (2000)


1459 - Gianfrancesco Poggio Bracciolini, chancellor of Florence, dies
1522 - Jean Mouton, French composer
1553 - Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck, German statesman and reformer (b. 1489)
1583 - Pirro Ligorio, Italian architect/painter/archaeologist, dies at 83
1602 - Jean-Jacques Boissard, French poet (b. 1528)
1611 - Karl IX, King of Sweden (1604-11), dies
1626 - Willebrord Snellius (also Snell and Snel van Royen), Dutch astronomer/mathematician, dies at
           about 46
1632 - Henri de Montmorency, French duke/plotter, beheaded
1654 - Emperor Go-Komyo of Japan (b. 1633)
1661 - Alexander Adriaenssen, Flemish painter, dies at 74
1667 - Johann Jakob Wolleb, composer, dies at 54
1676 - Ahmed Koprulu, Turkish great vizer (siege of Candia, Kreta), dies
1680 - Antoinette Bourignon, Flemish mystic (b. 1616)
1685 - Michel le Tellier, French statesman (b. 1603)
1690 - Hieronymus van Beverningk, Duitch general, dies at 76
1757 - Osman III, sultan of Turkey (1754-57), dies
1785 - Gustaf P Creutz, Swedish diplomat/poet (Daphne), dies at 54
1787 - Ferdinando Galiani, Italian economist/philosopher/diplomat, dies at 58
1809 - William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b.
           1738)
1816 - Frederick I of Württemberg (b. 1754)
1833 - Pieter G Witsen Geysbeek, historian/literary, dies at 58
1842 - Allan Cunningham, Scottish poet and author (b. 1784)
1853 - Pietro Raimondi, Italian composer (Potifar, Giacobbe), dies at 66
1862 - Ormsby Mcknight Mitchel, US astronomer/Union-general-major, dies at 53
1883 - Johann Vesque von Puttlingen, composer, dies at 80
1885 - Gustav Adolf Merkel, composer, dies at 57
1893 - John Abbott, PM of Canada (C) (1891-92), dies at 72
1894 - Honoré Mercier, politician, Premier of Quebec (b. 1840)
1896 - Charles Tupper, PM of Canada (C) (1896), dies
1898 - Yakov Petrovich Polonsky Russian poet (Stichotvorenija), dies at 78
1899 - William Henry Webb, American industrialist and philanthropist (b. 1816)
1901 - ... Opperman, South African Boer general (Spy), killed in battle
1901 - U Benson, British lt-col (Magers' fountain), killed in battle
1910 - J Henri Dunant, Swiss writer/founder (Red Cross, YMCA), dies
1912 - Jan Karol Gali, composer, dies at 56
1912 - Preston Lockwood, British(?) actor/writer, dies
1912 - James S. Sherman, Vice President of the United States (b. 1855)
1914 - Ernst Stadler, writer, dies at 31
1915 - Gervys Rignold Hazlitt, cricketer (9 Tests for Aust 1907-12), dies
1915 - Charles Tupper, sixth Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1821)
1916 - Silas Gamaliel Pratt, composer, dies at 70
1923 - Andrew Bonar Law, English PM (C), dies at 64
1928 - Oscar George Theodore Sonneck, composer, dies at 55
1932 - Paul S Methuen, English baron/fieldmarshal/gov of Natal, dies at 87
1936 - Teddy Wynyard, cricketer (three Tests for England 1896-1906), dies
1944 - Paul Emile Ladmirault, composer, dies at 66
1956 - Pío Baroja y Nessi, Spanish Basque writer, author of over 100 novels (The Struggle for Life,
           Zalacain the Adventurer), dies at 83
1957 - Fred Beebe, baseball player (b. 1880)
1958 - Rose Macaulay, writer, dies at 77
1959 - Blonde Dolly, [Sybille A J Niemans], society prostitute, dies at 33
1960 - Alfred Hill, composer, dies at 89
1961 - Luigi Einaudi, economist/1st president Italy, dies
1966 - Yórgos Theotokás, Greek novelist (b. 1906)
1967 - Charles Trowbridge, actor (Mummy's Hand), dies at 85
1968 - Conrad Richter, US writer (Light in the Forest), dies at 78
1968 - Pert Kelton, actress (Cavalcade of Stars), dies at 61
1969 - Pops Foster, American musician (b. 1892)
1971 - Osvald Chlubna, composer, dies at 78
1972 - Alan Roth, orchestra leader (Milton Berle Show), dies at 68
1973 - Ernst-Lothar von Knorr, composer, dies at 77
1975 - Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
1979 - Sir Barnes Wallis, British scientist, engineer and inventor (b. 1887)
1979 - Donna Rachele Mussolini, Italian, wife of Benito Mussolini (b. 1890)
1981 - Georges Brassens, French screenwriter, dies
1984 - June Duprez, actress (Calcutta, Tiger Fang), dies at 66
1984 - Mario Gallo, actor (Delvecchio), dies at 61
1985 - Kirby Grant, actor/singer (Sky King), dies in an auto accident at 74
1986 - Andrzej Markowski, composer, dies at 62
1988 - John Houseman, actor (Paper Chase), dies at 86
1988 - Sugar Geise, actress (Rhythm Parade), dies after brief illness at 71
1988 - T. Hee, American animator (b. 1911)
1990 - Craig Russell, female impersonator, dies of an AIDS-stroke at 42
1990 - Henry Lauter, actor (Tarzan's Fight), dies
1991 - Johan Mekkink, painter, dies
1991 - Ken Hardin, producer, dies at 62
1991 - William Shea, (Shea Stadium namesake), dies at 84
1992 - Joan Mitchell, American painter and printmaker dies of cancer aged 67
1993 - Hernan Heleno Castro, El Salvadorian guerilla leader, murdered
1993 - Paul Grégoire, Archbishop of Montreal (b. 1911)
1994 - Martyn Wiley, writer/broadcaster, dies at 40
1994 - Nyanaponika, [Siegmund Feniger), German scholar/author, dies at 93
1995 - Brian Easdale, composer, dies at 86
1995 - Terry Southern, writer, dies at 71
1996 - Alexander d'Arbeloff, entrepreneur, dies at 101
1996 - Leon Lewis, US radio talk show host (WMCA, 1970-80), dies at 81
1996 - Rohan Butler, historian, dies at 79
1997 - Sam Fuller, director/writer (Big Red One), dies at 86
2000 - Steve Allen, American comedian, author, and composer (b. 1921)
2002 - Jam Master Jay, American rapper and musician (Run DMC) (b. 1965)
2002 - Juan Antonio Bardem, Spanish director and screenwriter (b. 1922)
2004 - Peggy Ryan, American actress (b. 1924)
2005 - Al Lopez, American baseball player and manager (b. 1908)
2005 - Shamsher Singh Sheri, Indian communist leader (b. 1942)
2006 - Junji Kinoshita, Japanese playwright (b. 1914)
2006 - Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist (b. 1926)
2007 - Robert Goulet, American entertainer (b. 1933)
2007 - Linda Stein, Ramones manager and real estate broker (b. 1945)
2007 - Washoe, chimpanzee trained in American Sign Language (b. 1965)
2007 - John Woodruff, American athlete (b. 1915)
2008 - Pedro Pompilio Argentinian businessman (b. 1950)
2009 - Claude Lévi-Strauss, French anthropologist and ethnologist (b.1908)
2010 - Harry Mulisch, Dutch writer (b. 1927)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 31, 2013, 09:38:11 AM

This Day in History for 31st October


Historical Events

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Painter Michelangelo                           Playwright George Bernard Shaw            Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini

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Ex-soldier, drifter                         Vietnamese Politican Nguyen Van Thieu           264th Pope John Paul II
Lee Harvey Oswald

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Musician & member of the Beatles            Rapper Tupac Shakur
Paul McCartney


445 BC - Ezra reads the Book of the Law to the Israelites in Jerusalem (see Nehemiah 9:1, NLTse).
802 - Empress Irene of Byzantium driven out
834 - 1st All Hallows Eve (Halloween) observed to honor the saints
1517 - Luther posts 95 theses on Wittenberg church - Protestant Reformation
1541 - Michelangelo Buonarroti finishes painting The Last Judgement in the Sistine Chapel, Vatican
1552 - Emperor Karel & Markgraaf Albecht strike siege for Metz
1587 - Leiden University Library opens its doors after its founding in 1575.
1596 - English/French/Dutch delegates sign anti-Spanish "Drievoudig Covenant"
1617 - Laurens Reael resigns as governor-general of East-Indies
1759 - Earthquake in Safed Palestine kills hundred
1793 - Execution of Girondins at Paris, during Reign of Terror
1794 - John Dalton 1st lecture to Manchester Literary/Philosophical Society
1808 - Holland Brigade battle at Durango, Spain
1815 - Sir Humphrey Davy of London patents miner's safety lamp
1837 - Collision of river boat Monmouth & Trement on Miss; 300 die
1846 - Donner party, unable to cross the Donner Pass, construct a winter camp
1863 - The Maori Wars resumed as British forces in New Zealand led by General Duncan Cameron
           began their Invasion of the Waikato.
1864 - Nevada admitted as 36th state of the Union
1868 - Standard uniform approved for US postal carriers
1871 - Founding of Netherland Protestant Union in Dokkum
1876 - Cyclone hits Bengal, about 200,000 die
1876 - A monster cyclone ravages India, resulting in over 200,000 human deaths.
1881 - Metropolitan club plays its last game of its non-league season They win 80 of 151 games (18-
           43 versus NL teams)
1887 - Rimski-Korsakov's "Capricio Espagñol," premieres in St Petersburg
1888 - John Boyd Dunlop patents pneumatic bicycle tyre
1892 - Arthur Conan Doyle publishes The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
1900 - AL pres Ban Johnson writes to NL pres Nick Young seeking peace
1905 - Great revolutionary demonstration for amnesty in St Petersburg
1906 - George Bernard Shaw's "Caesar & Cleopatra," premieres in NYC
1907 - Calgary City Rugby Foot-ball Club's 1st game defeating Strathcona Rugby Foot-ball Club 15-0
           at Calgary
1908 - 4th Olympic games ends in London
1913 - 1st US paved coast-to-coast highway, the Lincoln Highway is dedicated
1914 - Great Britain & France declare war on Turkey
1916 - Clare Kummer's "Good Gracious Annabelle," premieres in NYC
1917 - Eugene O'Neill's "In the Zone," premieres in NYC
1917 - World War I: Battle of Beersheba - "last successful cavalry charge in history"
1918 - Spanish flu-virus kills 21,000 in US in 1 week
1918 - Banat Republic founded
1920 - Romania annexes Bessarabia
1921 - Federation Sportive Feminine Intl forms (1st woman track & field association)
1922 - Benito Mussolini (Il Duce) becomes premier of Italy
1922 - Karel & Josef Capék's "World We Live In," premieres in NYC
1923 - 160 consecutive days of 100 degrees at Marble Bar, Australia begins
1924 - World Savings Day was announced in Milano/Italy by the Members of the Association at the
           1st International Savings Bank Congress (World Society of Savings Banks).
1925 - Cossack officer Reza Chan replaces sultan Ahmad Shah in Persia
1932 - Greek government of Venizelos falls
1936 - The Boy Scouts of the Philippines was formed.
1937 - Spanish government moves from Valencia to Barcelona
1938 - Great Depression: In an effort to try restore investor confidence, the New York Stock
           Exchange unveils a fifteen-point program aimed to upgrade protection for the investing
           public.
1939 - 27 U boats sunk this month (135,000 ton)
1940 - 63 U boats sunk this month (325,000 ton)
1940 - Battle of Britain, fought between the RAF and Luftwaffe over the English Channel and
           southern England, ends
1940 - Deadline for Warsaw Jews to move into Warsaw Ghetto
1941 - 13 U boats sunk this month (62,000 ton)
1941 - Mount Rushmore Monument is completed
1941 - Prior to US in WW II, Germany torpedoes US destroyer Reuben James
1941 - Clothing factory fire in Huddersfield, England kills 49
1942 - 94 U boats sunk this month (619,000 ton)
1942 - 9th day of the Battle of El Alamein
1943 - Wash Redskin Sammy Baugh passes for 6 touchdowns vs Bkln (48-10)
1943 - World War II: F4U Corsair accomplishes the first successful radar-guided interception.
1944 - Chief of staff Kruls names De Quay chairman of Universal Commission
1949 - "Regina" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 86 performances
1949 - Amsterdam Telegraph-director/SS'er Henri Holdert sentenced to 12 years
1949 - WOC (now KWQC) TV channel 6 in Davenport, IA (NBC) 1st broadcast
1950 - Collazo & Torresola attempt to kill Harry Truman in Washington, DC
1951 - Second Chamber accept plan-Schuman
1952 - 1st thermonuclear bomb detonated at Marshall Islands
1953 - TV broadcasting begins in Belgium
1954 - Algerian Revolution against French begins
1954 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Texas Golf Open
1954 - KREM TV channel 2 in Spokane, WA (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 - Mgr Alfrink appointed archbishop of Utrecht
1956 - Rear Adm GJ Dufek becomes 1st American to land an airplane at South Pole
1956 - Britain & France begin to bomb Egypt to reopen Suez Canal
1956 - Brooklyn, NY ends streetcar service
1957 - "Jamaica" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 558 performances
1959 - Lee Harvey Oswald announces in Moscow he will never return to US
1959 - USSR & Egypt sign contracts for building Aswan Dam
1960 - Cyclone hits coast of Gulf of Bengal; about 10,000 die
1961 - Hurricane Hattie, kills 400 in British Honduras
1961 - Federal judge rules that Birmingham, Alabama, laws against integrated playing fields are illegal
1963 - Ed Sullivan witnesses Beatles & their fans at London Airport
1963 - J. Edgar Hoover's last meeting with president John F Kennedy
1963 - Leaking propane gas explodes kills 64 at "Holiday on Ice" (Indiana)
1964 - Barbra Streisand's "People," album goes #1 for 5 weeks
1967 - KIMO TV channel 13 in Anchorage, AK (ABC) begins broadcasting
1967 - Nguyen Van Thieu took oath of office as 1st President of South Vietnam 2nd Rep
1967 - SF's Mike McCormick wins NL Cy Young Award
1968 - Linda Eastman moves to UK permanently
1968 - Milwaukee Bucks win their 1st game beating Detroit 138-118 (6th game)
1968 - President Johnson orders a halt to all bombing of North Vietnam
1968 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1969 - George Harrison's "Something" is released in UK
1969 - Race riot in Jacksonville Florida
1971 - "On the Town" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 65 performances
1972 - Gaylord Perry wins AL Cy Young award
1973 - Tom Seaver wins NL Cy Young Award
1974 - Ted Bundy victim Laura Aime disappears in Utah
1974 - Durch Marines end hostage crisis in Scheveningen prison
1975 - Bob Geldof's 1st appearance with Boomtown Rats
1976 - Javed Miandad, 206 v NZ, age 19 yrs 141 days (29 fours 1 six)
1978 - Iranian oil workers go on strike
1978 - People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (South) adopts constitution
1979 - Mike Flanagan, wins AL Cy Young Award
1979 - US DC-10 crashes at Mexico-City, 74 killed
1980 - Julian Nott sets world hot-air balloon altitude record (16,806 m)
1980 - Polish government recognizes Solidarity trade union
1980 - Senegal routes troops to Gambia due to Libyan threat
1981 - 1st live radio drama in 25 years (Halloween Story on NBC)
1982 - "Rock 'n Roll!: The 1st..." closes at St James NYC after 9 perfs
1982 - Pope John Paul II becomes 1st pontiff to visit Spain
1983 - Paul McCartney releases "Pipes of Peace" album
1983 - Ron Grant completes a 217 day, 8,316 mile run around Australia
1984 - Howard Goodall/Melvyn Bragg's musical "Hired Man," premieres in London
1984 - Puerto Rican tanker, San Francisco explodes spilling 2 million gallons of oil as ship caught fire
1984 - Indian PM Indira Gandhi is assassinated by her bodyguards Satwant Singh and Beant Singh at
           her home in New Delhi
1985 - Last day in Test cricket for Zaheer Abbas
1987 - 1st jockey to win 9 races in 1 day (Chris Antley at Belmont)
1987 - A pair in Coventry, England ties world record for longest singles tennis match at 80 hrs 21
           minutes
1988 - 19°F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in Oct
1988 - 1st Monday Night NFL game in Indianapolis, Colts beat Denver 55-23
1988 - Journalists demand greater press freedom in Yugoslavia
1989 - AR Gurney's "Love Letters," premieres in NYC
1989 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1989 - Turgat Ozal elected president of Turkey
1989 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1990 - Pakistan make 3-0 drubbing of NZ, Waqar Younis 29 series wkts
1991 - Palestinians attend US mideast peace talks in Madrid
1992 - Don Keller makes his 18,000th sky diver
1992 - Roman Catholic church reinstates Galileo Galilei after 359 years
1992 - Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: A P Indy, Fraise, Gilded Time, Liza, Lure, Paseana,
           Thirty Slews at Gulfstream Park
1993 - "Wonderful Tennessee" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 9 perfs
1993 - 25 people killed during Ghana-Ivory Coast soccer match
1993 - Germany unemployment hits country record of 3.5 million
1993 - Rapper Tupac Shakur charged with aggravated assault
1993 - US wins Nichirei International LPGA Golf Tournament
1994 - American Eagle ATR-72 crash down at Gary, Indiana: 68 killed
1995 - NHL NJ Devils agree to stay in NJ
1996 - The Fokker F100 on TAM Transportes Aéreos Regionais Flight 402 crashes into several
           houses in São Paulo, Brazil killing 98 including 2 on the ground.
1997 - British au pair Louise Woodward, 19, sentenced to life in death of Matthew Eappen 8½
           months (judge changes to time served)
1998 - Iraq disarmament crisis begins: Iraq announces it would no longer cooperate with United
           Nations weapons inspectors.
1999 - Roman Catholic Church and Lutheran Church leaders sign the Joint Declaration on the
           Doctrine of Justification, ending a centuries-old doctrinal dispute over the nature of faith and
           salvation.
1999 - Yachtsman Jesse Martin returns to Melbourne after 11 months of circumnavigating the world,
           solo, non-stop and unassisted.
1999 - EgyptAir Flight 990 traveling from New York City to Cairo crashes off the coast of Nantucket,
           Massachusetts, killing all 217 on-board.
2000 - The last Multics machine was shut down.
2000 - A chartered Antonov An-26 explodes after takeoff in Northern Angola killing 50
2000 - A Singapore Airlines Boeing 747-400 operating as Flight 006 collides with construction
           equipment upon takeoff in Taipei, Taiwan killing 79 passengers and four crew members
2002 - A federal grand jury in Houston, Texas formally indicted former Enron Corp. chief financial
           officer Andrew Fastow on 78 counts of wire fraud, money laundering, conspiracy and
           obstruction of justice related to the collapse of his ex-employer.
2003 - A bankruptcy court approves MCI's reorganization plans, essentially clearing the
           telecommunications company to exit bankruptcy.
2003 - Mahathir bin Mohamad resigns as Prime Minister of Malaysia and is replaced by Deputy Prime
           Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, marking an end to Mahathir's 22 years in power.
2011 - The world population reaches 7 billion inhabitants according to the United Nations
2012 - The New York stock exchange opens after being closed for two days after Hurricane

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 31, 2013, 09:39:06 AM

This Day in History for 31st October


Famous Weddings

1970 - "Easy Rider" director and actor Dennis Hopper (34) weds singer Michelle Phillips (26) in Mexico

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 31, 2013, 09:40:07 AM

This Day in History for 31st October


Famous Divorces

2011 - Socialite and model Kim Kardashian (31) divorces basketball player Kris Humphries (26) due to
           irreconcilable differences only 72 days after getting married

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 31, 2013, 10:47:07 AM

This Day in History for 31st October


Famous Birthdays

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Painter Jan Vermeer (1632)                     Romantic Poet John Keats (1795)           King of Cambodia
                                                                                                                             Norodom Sihanouk (1922)

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Film Director Peter Jackson (1961)


1291 - Philippe de Vitry, French composer/poet
1345 - Ferdinand I, the wise one, king of Portugal (built navy)
1424 - Wladyslaw III Warnenczyk, king of Poland/Hungary
1538 - Caesar Baronius, Italian cardinal and historian (d. 1607)
1541 - Hendrik van Kinschot, Dutch lawyer
1599 - Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles, English statesman and writer (d. 1680)
1620 - John Evelyn, British diarist (Life of Mrs Godolphin)
1622 - Pierre Paul Puget, French artist (d. 1694)
1632 - Jan Vermeer, Holland, painter (Procuress, Astronomer), (d. 1675)
1636 - Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria (d. 1679)
1638 - Meindert Hobbema, Amsterdams landscape painter, baptised
1692 - Comte de Caylus, French archaeologist (d. 1765)
1705 - Pope Clement XIV [Giovanni Ganganelli], Pope (1769-74)
1711 - Laura Bassi, Italian scholar (d. 1778)
1724 - Christopher Anstey, English writer (d. 1805)
1737 - James Lovell, American educator (d. 1789)
1740 - William Paca, US judge/signer (Declaration of Independence)
1750 - Leonor de Almeida marquesa de Alorna, Portuguese poet
1755 - Jean Louis van Aelbroeck, Flemish agronomist
1757 - Ignaz Spangler, composer
1761 - Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck, Dutch patriot/earl/Grand Pensionary
1785 - George F Kersting, German painter
1791 - Ferdinand Huber, composer
1795 - John Keats, London, England, romantic poet (Ode to a Grecian Urn), (d. 1821)
1815 - Karl Weierstrass, Germany, mathematician (theory of functions)
1825 - Raleigh Edward Colston, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1896
1825 - Charles Lavigerie, French cardinal (d. 1892)
1826 - Hugh Boyle Ewing, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1905
1827 - Richard Morris Hunt, American educator (d. 1895)
1831 - Daniel Butterfield, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1901
1831 - Paolo Mantegazza, Italian neurologist (d. 1910)
1835 - Adelbert Ames, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1933
1835 - J F W Adolf Ritter von Baeyer, German chemist (Nobel 1905)
1835 - Krišjānis Barons, Latvian writer (d. 1923)
1838 - King Louis of Portugal (d. 1889)
1847 - Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist (2-fasenmotor)
1848 - Boston Custer, brother of George Armstrong Custer (d. 1876)
1851 - Lovisa of Sweden, queen of Denmark (d. 1926)
1852 - Mary E W Freeman, US writer (Revolt of Mother)
1854 - Georg A Erman, German Egyptologist (Grammar of Ancient Egypt)
1860 - Juliette Gordon Low, activist/founder (Girl Scouts of America)
1875 - Seerp Anema, poet/writer (Dutch Coasts)
1875 - Vallabhbhai Patel, Indian freedom fighter and statesman (d. 1950)
1876 - Eduard van Oort, zoologist (Ornithology of Netherlands)
1883 - Marie Laurencin, French painter (d. 1956)
1887 - Chiang Kai-shek, Chekiang Province China, pres of Nationalist China
1887 - Edouard Lalonde, Canada, NHLer (Mont Canadiens)/lacrosse player
1888 - George Hubert Wilkins, Aust, polar explorer (Flying the Arctic)
1888 - Harold Vincent Milligan, composer
1888 - Napoleon Lapathiotis, Greek poet (d. 1944)
1891 - Charlotte "Lotte" Bartschart, German/Dutch operetta singer
1892 - Ruth Fuller Sasaki, US, Zen teacher (1st Zen Institute of America)
1893 - Sara Allgood, Dublin Ireland, actress (Jane Eyre, Spiral Staircase)
1895 - Basil H Liddell Heart, English military historian/publicist
1895 - C K Nayudu, cricketer (brother of C S, India's 1st Test capt)
1896 - Ethel Waters, Chester Pa, actress (Beulah)/singer (Stormy Weather)
1897 - Wilbur (Pete) Henry, NFL tackle (Canton, NY Giants, Pottsville)
1898 - Alfred Sauvy, French statistician (Affluence & Population)
1900 - Carl Hubbard, Missouri, baseball & football Hall of Famer
1902 - Charles Drummond de Andrade, Brazilian poet (Claro Enigma)
1902 - Eduard Franz, Milwaukee Wisc, actor (Zorro)
1902 - Willie Shaw, race car driver (Indy 500-1937, 39, 40)
1902 - Abraham Wald, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1950)
1906 - Jo Vis, resistance fighter (Yad Vashem-distinction)
1906 - Louise Talma, Arcachon France, composer (Summer Sounds)
1907 - Helen Lessore, artist
1912 - Dale Evans, [Frances Butts], Uvalde Tx, cowgirl (Roy Rogers Show)
1912 - Ollie Johnston, American animator (d. 2008)
1914 - Joe Carcione, American consumer advocate (d. 1988)
1914 - John Hugenholtz, Dutch race track designer (d. 1995)
1916 - Carl Johan Bernadotte, formerly Prince of Sweden
1917 - Erik Routley, composer
1917 - William Hardy McNeill, historian (Rise of the West)
1917 - Thomas Hill, Canadian actor
1918 - Ian Stevenson, American parapsychologist (d. 2007)
1919 - Magnus Wenninger, American priest, author of Polyhedron models
1920 - Dick Francis, Wales, jockey/detective writer (Whip Hand, High Stakes)
1920 - Joseph Gelineau French composer (d. 2008)
1920 - Dedan Kimathi, Kenyan rebel leader (d. 1957)
1920 - Helmut Newton, German photographer (d. 2004)
1920 - Fritz Walter, German footballer (d. 2002)
1922 - Barbara Bel Geddes, NYC, actress (Vertigo, Miss Ellie-Dallas, Caught)
1922 - Norodom Sihanouk, King/President/Premier of Cambodia (My War with the CIA), (d. 2012)
1922 - Anatoli Papanov, Soviet actor (d. 1987)
1922 - Illinois Jacquet, American saxophonist (d. 2004)
1923 - Hicks B Waldron, Amsterdam NY, CEO (Avon)
1925 - Lee Grant [Lyova Haskell Rosenthal], New York City, New York, American actress (Shampoo,
           Mulholland Drive)
1925 - John Pople, English chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2004)
1926 - Shirley Dinsdale, SF California, ventriloquist (Judy Splinters)
1926 - Jimmy Savile, English entertainer
1927 - Anita Kerr, Memphis TN, singer composer and producer (The Anita Kerr Singers)
1928 - Andrew Sarris, movie critic (Village Voice)
1929 - Bud Spencer, Italian actor (Aladdin, Extralarge, Go For It)
1929 - Eddie Charlton, Australian snooker player (d. 2004)
1930 - Michael Collins, Rome, Mjr Gen USAF/astronaut (Gemini 10, Apollo 11)
1930 - Ray Crane, trumpeter
1931 - Dan Rather, Wharton, Texas, American journalist and news anchor (CBS Evening News, 60
           Minutes)
1931 - David Lumsdaine, composer
1933 - Phil Goyette, Canadian ice hockey player
1934 - Norman Beaton, actor (Eureka, Black Joy, Mighty Quinn)
1934 - Walter Steffens, composer
1936 - Sergei Nikolayevich Gaidukov, Russia, cosmonaut
1936 - Michael Landon, Forest Hills NY, actor (Bonanza, Highway to Heaven)
1937 - Tom Paxton, Chicago, folk singer/songwriter (Forest Lawn)
1938 - Rives McBee, Denton TX, PGA golfer (1989 RJR Bank One Classic)
1939 - Ron Rifkin, American actor
1939 - Tom O'Connor, British comedian
1939 - Alui Farka Touré, Malian musician
1941 - Lucas Brown Jackson, San Marcos Tx, basketballer (Olympic-gold-1964)
1941 - Derek Bell, British racing driver
1941 - Dan Alderson, American scientist
1942 - Ben M J Hennekam, Dutch MP (CDA)
1942 - David Ogden Stiers, Peoria Ill, actor (Winchester-M*A*S*H, Doc)
1942 - Dave McNally, American baseball player (d. 2002)
1944 - Deidre Hall, Milwaukee, actress (Days of our Lives, Our House)
1944 - Kinky Friedman, Palestine Tx, country rocker (Ride 'em Jewboy)
1944 - Sally Kirkland, NYC, actress (Anna, Sting, Pvt Benjamin, Big Bad Mama)
1945 - Brian Doyle-Murray, American comedian and actor
1946 - Stephen Rea, Belfast, Northern Ireland, film and stage actor (Crying Game, Michael Collins)
1946 - Ramnath Parkar, cricket batsman (Indian in 2 Tests v England 1972-73)
1946 - Norman Lovett, British actor
1947 - Frank Shorter, Munich Germany, US marathoner (Oly-gold/silver-72, 76)
1947 - Russ Ballard, rocker (Argent)
1949 - Bob Selbenberg, rocker (Supertramp)
1949 - Dumisa B Ntsebeza, South African attorney/anti-apartheid activist
1949 - Mike Parker, (Rep-D-Mississippi)
1949 - Odaline de la Martinez, composer
1949 - Terrence W Wilcutt, Russellville Ky, Major USMC/astronaut (STS 68, 79)
1950 - Jane Pauley, Indianapolis Indiana, newscaster (Today, NBC Weekend)
1950 - John Candy, Ontario Canada, comedian (SCTV, Uncle Buck)
1950 - Jozef Stolorz, polish art painter
1950 - Zaha Hadid, British architect
1950 - Antonio Taguba, US Army Major General
1951 - Nick Saban, American college football coach
1952 - Bernard Edwards, Greenville NC, bassist (Chicago-Addicted to Love)
1953 - John Lucas, Durham NC, NBA guard (Houston, Golden State, Milwaukee)
1953 - Michael J. Anderson, American actor
1956 - Anders Lago, Swedish Social Democratic politician
1957 - Robert Pollard, American rocker
1957 - Brian Stokes Mitchell, American singer and actor
1958 - Russell Earl Cochran, Paducah KY, PGA golfer (1991 Centel Western)
1958 - Jeannie Longo, French cyclist
1959 - Ann Henricksson, St Paul MN, tennis star
1959 - Neal Stephenson, American author
1960 - Janice Harrer, Torrance Ca, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-1989, Oly-96)
1960 - Reza Pahlavi, Iran, son of Shah of Iran
1960 - Luis Fortuño, Puerto Rican delegate to Congress
1960 - Arnaud Desplechin, French film director
1961 - Alonzo Babers, Montgomery Ala, 400m/4X400m relay (Olympic-gold-1984)
1961 - Christine Bridged, Australian European class yachter (Olympics-96)
1961 - Glenn "Doc" Rivers, NBA guard (San Antonio Spurs)
1961 - Larry Mullen Jr, Dublin Ireland, rock drummer (U2-I Will Follow)
1961 - Sterling Hinds, Toronto, 4X100m relayer (Olympic-bronze-1984)
1961 - Peter Jackson, Pukerua Bay, New Zealand, film director (Lord of the Rings - Academy Award,
           Best Director, 2003)
1961 - Kate Campbell, American musician
1963 - Dermot Mulroney, Alexandria VA, actor (Samantha, Sunset, Long Gone)
1963 - Fred McGriff, Tampa FL, infielder (Atlanta Braves)
1963 - Johnny Marr, rocker (Smiths-Ask, Girl Afraid)
1963 - Rob Schneider, actor (SNL, Jamie Coleman-Men Behaving Badly)
1963 - Dunga, Brazilian footballer
1963 - Mikkey Dee, Swedish musician, drummer for Motörhead
1964 - Amanda Sandrelli, Rome Italy, actress (The Key)
1964 - Marco van Basten, Dutch soccer star (Ajax, AC Milan)
1964 - Colm Ó Cíosóig, Irish drummer (My Bloody Valentine, Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions)
1964 - Marty Wright, American professional wrestler
1964 - Darryl Worley, American country singer
1965 - Annabella Lwin, [Myant Aye], Rangoon Burma, singer (I Want Candy)
1965 - Blue Edwards, NBA guard (Vancouver Grizzlies)
1965 - Ruud Hesp, soccer player (Roda JC)
1965 - Rob Rackstraw, voice actor
1966 - Ad-Rock, [Adam Horowitz], rocker (Beastie Boys-You Gotta Fight)
1966 - Brian Keyser, Castro Valley CA, pitcher (Chicago White Sox)
1966 - Koji Kanemoto, wrestler (NJPW/AAA/UWA, Tiger Mask, King Lee)
1966 - Joseph Boyden, Canadian novelist
1966 - Mike O'Malley, American actor
1967 - Vanilla Ice, American rapper (Ice Ice Baby) and actor (Cool as Ice)
1968 - Antonio Davis, NBA forward/center (Indiana Pacers)
1968 - Eddie Taubensee, Beeville TX, catcher (Cin Reds)
1968 - Russ McCullough, WLAF offensive linebacker (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1969 - Damon Mashore, Ponce Puerto Rico, outfielder (Oakland A's)
1969 - Henry John Mills, NFL tight end (Houston Oilers)
1969 - Lee Woodall, NFL linebacker (SF 49ers)
1970 - Steve Trachsel, Oxnard California, pitcher (Chicago Cubs)
1970 - Nicky Wu, Taiwanese actor and martial arts expert
1970 - Linn Berggren, Swedish singer (Ace of Base)
1970 - Rogers Stevens, American guitarist (Blind Melon)
1970 - Mitch Harris, American guitarist (Napalm Death, among others)
1970 - Johnny Moeller, American blues guitarist
1971 - Phillip Tataurangi, Auckland NZ, Australasia golfer
1971 - Alphonso Ford, American basketball player (d. 2004)
1971 - Ian Walker, English footballer
1971 - Toby Anstis, British radio presenter
1972 - Clifford Rozier, NBA center/forward (Golden State Warriors)
1972 - Jamie Asher, NFL tight end (Washington Redskins)
1972 - Matt Dawson, English rugby union footballer
1973 - Fiona Smith, ice hockey defenseman (Canada, Oly-98)
1973 - Ross Verba, NFL tackle (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1973 - Grigorios Georgatos, Greek footballer
1973 - Tim Byrdak, American baseball player
1973 - David Dellucci, American baseball player
1974 - Jeff Gooch, linebacker (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1974 - Julie Minta Gleneck, Miss New Hampshire USA (1996)
1974 - Serge Heuveling, soccer player (NEC)
1974 - Muzzy Izzet, Turkish footballer
1974 - Natasja Saad, Danish hip hop and reggae artist (d. 2007)
1975 - Carla Boyd, Wynyard Tasmania, basketball player (Olympics-bronze-96)
1975 - Jagan Hames, Australian decathlete (Olympics-96)
1975 - Fabio Celestini, Swiss footballer
1976 - Guti, Spanish footballer
1976 - Piper Perabo, American actress
1977 - Sylviane Félix, French athlete
1977 - Séverine Ferrer, French singer
1978 - Joselina Garcia, Miss Honduras Universe (1997)
1978 - Emmanuel Izonritei, Nigerian boxer
1978 - Zachary Knighton, American actor
1978 - Martin Verkerk, Dutch tennis player
1979 - Simão Sabrosa, Portuguese footballer
1979 - Ricardo Fuller, Jamaican Footballer
1979 - Saaphyri Windsor, American reality tv figure
1980 - Eddie Kaye Thomas, American actor,
1980 - Samaire Armstrong, American actress
1980 - Alondra de la Parra, Mexican founder and artistic director of the New York-based Philharmonic
           Orchestra of the Americas
1981 - Irina Denezhkina, Russian writer
1981 - Frank Iero, American musician (My Chemical Romance, Leathermouth, Pencey Prep; founder of
           Skeleton Crew)
1981 - Selina (Jiaxuan) Ren, member of Taiwanese girl-group S.H.E
1981 - Jon Crocker, American songwriter
1982 - Tomáš Plekanec, Czech ice hockey player
1982 - The Cheeky Girls, British-Romanian singers
1982 - Justin Chatwin, Canadian actor
1983 - Katy French, Irish model (d. 2007)
1986 - Chris Alajajian, Australian racing driver
1986 - Christie Hayes, Australian actress
1988 - Sébastien Buemi, Swiss racing driver
1990 - James Charles Lewis aka Lil' JJ, American actor/singer
1991 - Jordan-Claire Green, American actress
2000 - Willow Smith, American actress
2005 - Infanta Leonor of Spain, daughter of Felipe, Prince of Asturias and Letizia, Princess of Asturias

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 31, 2013, 10:51:25 AM

This Day in History for 31st October


Famous Deaths

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Magician & Escape Artist                         Film director, Scriptwriter                      Actor River Phoenix (1993)
Harry Houdini (1926)                               Federico Fellini (1993)


1147 - Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester, English politician (bc. 1090)
1448 - Johannes VIII Palaeologus, Emperor of Byzantine, dies
1517 - Fra Bartolommeo, Italian artist (b. 1472)
1556 - John Sleidanus, German humanist/historian (Commentary), dies at 50
1634 - Erasmus Widmann, composer, dies at 62
1641 - Cornelis Jol, Dutch admiral and privateer, dies at about 41
1654 - Francisco Correa de Arauxo, composer, dies
1659 - John Bradshaw, English judge (b. 1602)
1661 - Mehmed Koprulu, Albanian great vizier of Turkey, dies
1664 - Willem Frederik of Nassau-Dietz, viceroy of Friesland, dies at 51
1723 - Cosimo III de' Medici, monarch of Florence (1670-1723), dies at 81
1732 - Victor Amadeus II of Savoy (b. 1666)
1733 - Eberhard IV Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1676)
1744 - Leonardo Ortensio Salvatore de Leo, composer, dies at 50
1765 - Duke of Cumberland, English politician/uncle of George III, dies
1768 - Francesco Maria Veracini, Italian opera composer, dies at 78
1793 - Pierre V Vergniaud, French politician/police leader, guillotined at 40
1806 - Sophie Mereau, writer, dies at 36
1815 - Daniel Belknap, composer, dies at 44
1851 - Peter II Petrovic Njegos, bishop of Montenegro (1830-51), dies at 37
1860 - Johan Nathan, murderer, hanged
1860 - Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, British admiral (b. 1775)
1863 - Louis Ludwig Blenker, German/US brig-general (Union), dies at 51
1865 - William Parson, 3rd Earl of Rosse & maker of large telescopes, dies
1870 - Mihaly Mosonyi, composer, dies at 55
1879 - Big Snake, brother of Ponca chief Standing Bear, dies
1879 - Jacob Abbott, American author (b. 1803)
1879 - Joseph Hooker, American General (b. 1814)
1883 - Swami Dayananda Saraswati, founder of Arya Samaj
1884 - Marie Bashkirtseff, Russian painter (b. 1858)
1887 - George Alexander Macfarren, composer, dies at 74
1895 - Franz Hedrich, Austria writer, dies at about 62
1902 - Jean-Baptist Colyns, composer, dies at 67
1913 - William Evans-Gordon, British politician (b. 1857)
1916 - Charles Taze Russell, American founder of the Jehovah's Witnesses (b. 1852)
1917 - Tibby Cotter, cricketer (at Beersheba 49 wickets for Australia), dies
1918 - Egon Schiele, Austria painter/graphic artist, dies at 28
1918 - Stephen Tisza, Hungarian PM (-1917), assassinated by soldiers
1920 - Alphonse Desjardins, founder of the Caisses populaires Desjardins (b. 1854)
1925 - Max Linder, actor (Man in the Silk Hat), dies at 41
1926 - Harry Houdini, [Erich Weisz], magician, dies in Detroit of gangrene and peritonitis that
           developed after his appendix ruptured
1929 - António José de Almeida, Portuguese politician and 6th President of Portugal (b. 1866)
1939 - Otto Rank, [Rosenfeld], Austria psychoanalyst (Trauma of Geburt), dies
1941 - Herwarth Walden, writer, dies at 63
1943 - Max Reinhardt, Austrian stage manager (Turandot), dies
1943 - Max Reinhardt, German film director (b. 1873)
1945 - Henry Ainley, actor (As You Like It), dies at 66
1948 - Cissy van Marxfield, [Setske Beek-de Han], writer, dies
1949 - Edward R Stettinius, US foreign minister (1944-45)/diplomat, dies
1950 - Carel T Scharten, Dutch poet/writer (Lost Paradise), dies at 72
1950 - Jozef C Bittremieux, Flemish theologist, dies at 72
1952 - U Chit Hlaing, Burmese politician (b. 1879)
1959 - Jean Cabannes, French physicist (b. 1885)
1960 - H L Davis, US writer (Honey in the Horn, Pulitzer prize), dies at 64
1963 - Henry Daniell, actor (Camille, Body Snatchers), dies at 69
1964 - Theodore C Freeman, astronaut, dies at 34 in a T-38 jet air crash
1965 - Rita Johnson, actress (All Mine to Give), dies at 53
1967 - Jan Mens, Dutch writer (Honor to God Alone), dies at 70
1968 - Ramon Novarro, [Jose RG Samaniegos], actor (Ben Hur), dies at 69
1969 - Hugo Pfister, composer, dies at 55
1971 - Gerhard von Rad, German old testament expert, dies at 70
1972 - Bill Durnan, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1916)
1975 - Joseph Calleia, actor (Jungle Book, Gilda), dies at 78
1975 - SD Burman, Indian musician (b. 1906)
1976 - Linda Watkins, actress (From Hell it Came, Harpy), dies at 68
1977 - Joan Tetzel, actress (Hell Below Zero), dies at 56
1983 - George S Halas, NFL coach (Chicago Bears), dies at 88
1984 - Eduardo De Filippo, director (7 Deadly Sins, Shoot Loud), dies at 84
1984 - Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, assassinated by two of her bodyguards at 66
1985 - Poul Reichhardt, Danish actor (b. 1913)
1985 - Nikos Engonopoulos, Greek painter and poet (b. 1907)
1985 - Anton Christoforidis, Greek boxer (b. 1918)
1986 - Robert S Mulliken, US physicist (Nobel 1966), dies at 90
1987 - Joseph Campbell, mythologist (Mythic Image), dies at 83
1988 - John Houseman, actor (Paper Chase, Fog), dies of spinal cancer at 86
1988 - Alfred Pellan, Québécois painter (b. 1906)
1989 - Conrad Beck, composer, dies at 88
1990 - Graig Russel, Canadian travel expert/transvestite, dies
1990 - Hugh McPhillips, dies at 70
1991 - Bert Bertram, actor (How to Steal a Million), dies of cancer at 97
1991 - James Marshall, US children's book writer/illustrator, dies at 50
1991 - Johan Schmitz, actor (Gysbregt van Aemstel/Soldat van Orange), dies
1991 - Joseph Papp, Broadway producer (Chorus Line), dies of cancer at 70
1991 - Gene Anderson, American professional wrestler (b. 1933)
1993 - Adriaan Venema, Dutch journalist/art dealer, commits suicide at 52
1993 - Edwin A Walker, US Maj-Gen, dies of lung cancer at 84
1993 - Federico Fellini, director (La Dolce Vita), dies of stroke at 73
1993 - River Phoenix, actor (Stand By Me), dies of drug overdose at 23
1994 - John Wyndham Pope-Hennessy, English art historian, dies at 80
1994 - Jole Silvani, [Niobe Quaiatti], Ital actress (La citta' Delle), dies
1994 - Lester Sill, pioneer music publisher/record producer, dies at 76
1994 - William John Readings, literary theorist, dies at 34
1995 - Alan Dudley Bush, composer pianist/teacher, dies at 94
1995 - Derek Anthony Enright, politician, dies at 60
1995 - Henry A Walter Richard Percy, 11th Duke of Northumberland, dies at 42
1995 - Lavad "Dr Hepcat" Durst, vocal/piano, dies at 82
1995 - Leonard Ernest John Chant, social Worker, dies at 57
1995 - Lloyd Lambert, bassist, dies at 67
1995 - Louis Levy Jr, music publisher, dies at 84
1995 - Rosalind Cash, actress (Emma-Go Tell It on the Mountain), dies at 56
1995 - Wallace Edward Rowling, PM of NZ (1974-1975), dies at 68
1996 - Andrew Hutchings, teachers' leader, dies at 88
1996 - Granville James Leveson Gower, land owner, dies at 77
1996 - John Gorman, printer/socialist historian, dies at 66
1996 - Peter Muir Doig, politician, dies at 85
1997 - Wilfrid Ewart Oulton, airman, dies at 86
1998 - Elmer Vasko, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1935)
1999 - Greg Moore, Canadian race car driver (b. 1975)
2000 - Watanabe Kazuki Japanese musician (Raphael) (b. 1981)
2000 - Ring Lardner, Jr., American screenwriter (b. 1915)
2001 - Régine Cavagnoud, French skier (b. 1970)
2002 - Lionel Poilâne, French baker and entrepreneur (b. 1945)
2002 - Michail Stasinopoulos, Greek politician, former president of Greece (b. 1903)
2002 - Raf Vallone, Italian actor (b. 1916)
2003 - Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, Indian singer (b. 1908)
2003 - Richard Neustadt, American political historian (b. 1919)
2005 - Mary Wimbush, English actress (b. 1924)
2005 - John "Beatz" Holohan, American drummer (Bayside) (b. 1974)
2005 - Hal Anger, American biophysicist (b. 1920)
2006 - Pieter Willem Botha, President of South Africa (b. 1916)
2007 - Ray Gravell, Welsh rugby union footballer (b. 1951)
2009 - Qian Xuesen, Chinese scientist (b. 1911)
2009 - Tom Wheatcroft, English businessman (b. 1922)
2010 - Maurice Lucas, American basketball player (b. 1952)
2010 - Theodore Sorensen, American lawyer and special counsel to John F. Kennedy (b. 1928)
2011 - Flórián Albert, Hungarian footballer (b. 1941)
2012 - Konstantin Vyrupayev, Soviet wrestler, dies at 82

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 01, 2013, 11:14:33 AM

This Day in History for 1st November


Historical Events

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First US President                                   Absolute monarch Nicholas II                  Baseball Legend Connie Mack
 George Washington 

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Rocket Scientist                                 Soviet Union Premier Joseph Stalin                  33rd US President
Werner von Braun                                                                                                     Harry Truman

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Cuban President and Dictator                 US Senator Joseph McCarthy                    British Prime Minister
Fulgencio Batista                                                                                                    Margaret Thatcher
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Heavyweight Boxing Champion
Mike Tyson


996 - First recorded use of modern name for Austria in the 'Ostarrîchi Document'
1210 - King John of England begins imprisoning Jews
1248 - Earl Willem II of Holland crowned as RC German emperor
1349 - Duke of Brabant orders execution of all Jews in Brussels, accusing them of poisoning the
           wells
1462 - Archduke Albrecht VI van Habsburg occupies Vienna
1512 - Michelangelo's paintings on ceiling of Sistine Chapel in Vatican, Italy 1st exhibited
1570 - All Saints Flood, tidal wave in the North Sea devastates the coast from Holland to Jutland;
           killing more than 1,000 people.
1604 - William Shakespeare's tragedy "Othello" 1st presented
1611 - Shakespeare's romantic comedy "Tempest" 1st presented
1612 - (22 October O.S.) Time of Troubles in Russia: Moscow, Kitai-gorod, is captured by Russian
           troops under command of Dmitry Pozharsky
1623 - Fire at Plymouth, Massachusetts destroys several buildings
1628 - French king Louis XIII occupies La Rochelle
1671 - French King Louis XIV & RC German emperor Leopold I sign secret anti-Dutch treaty
1683 - The British crown colony of New York is subdivided into 12 counties.
1721 - Prince Eugenius of Savoye unveals statue of himself
1755 - Lisbon earthquake kills more than 50,000
1765 - Stamp Act goes into effect in British colonies
1776 - Mission San Juan Capistrano founded in California
1783 - Continental Army dissolved; George Washington's "Farewell Address"
1784 - Maryland grants citizenship to Lafayette & his descendents
1787 - 1st free school in NYC (African Free School) opens
1800 - John Adams becomes the first US president to live in White House
1802 - Delegates meet at Chillicothe, Ohio to form a state constitutional convention.
1814 - Congress of Vienna opens to re-draw the European political map after the defeat of France, in
           the Napoleonic Wars.
1834 - 1st published reference to poker (as Mississippi riverboat game)
1848 - 1st US woman's medical school opens (Boston)
1849 - Dutch government of Thorbecke forms
1859 - The current Cape Lookout, North Carolina, lighthouse was lit for the first time. Its first-order
           Fresnel lens can be seen for about 19 miles (30 kilometers), in good conditions.
1861 - Gen George B McClellan made general in chief of Union armies
1863 - -8] Averell's Raid (on)to Lewisburg, West Virginia
1863 - Fortifications built on Angel Island (SF Bay) by troops
1865 - Zutphen-Fishing Dutch railway opens
1866 - 1st Civil Rights Bill passes
1867 - "Harpers Bazaar" publishes
1869 - Deli Me forms T B V tobacco in Sumatra
1870 - US Weather Bureau begins operations (24 locations)
1876 - King Willem III opens North Sea Canal (Amsterdam-IJmuiden)
1876 - New Zealand's provincial government system is dissolved.
1877 - Dutch government of Heemskerk-Van Lynden resigns
1878 - Edward Scripps & John Sweeney found Penny Press (Cleveland Press)
1884 - The Gaelic Athletic Association is set up in Hayes's Hotel in Thurles, County Tipperary.
1885 - Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Immortale Dei
1886 - Ananda College, a leading Buddhist school in Sri Lanka was established with 37 students.
1889 - North and South Dakota entered the Union as the 39th and 40th states
1894 - Vaccine for diphtheria announced by Dr Roux of Paris
1894 - Nicholas II becomes the new Tsar of Russia after his father, Alexander III, dies.
1896 - 1st bare-breasted women (Zulu) to appear in National Geographic Magazine
1901 - Sigma Phi Epsilon, the largest national male collegiate fraternity is established at Richmond
           College, in Richmond, VA.
1904 - George Bernard Shaw's "John Bull's Other Island," premieres in London
1910 - 1st issue of "Crisis" published by editor W E B Du Bois
1913 - Notre Dame upsets Army 35-13, 1st to use forward pass effectively
1914 - Connie Mack asks waivers on Jack Coombs, Eddie Plank & Chief Colby
1914 - German-British naval battle at Coronel, Chile
1914 - Pope Benedictus Xv's encyclical Ad beatissimi, against integrity
1914 - Von Hindenburg named marshal of Eastern front
1915 - Parris Island is officially designated a Marine Corps Recruit Depot.
1916 - Paul Miliukov delivers in the State Duma the famous "stupidity or treason" speech,
           precipitating the downfall of the Boris Stürmer government.
1917 - In WW I, the 1st US soldiers are killed in combat
1918 - 102 die in a NYC BMT subway derailment at Malbone Street Brooklyn
1918 - Yugoslav battleship Viribus Unitis sunk by Italians
1920 - Eugene O'Neill's "Emperor Jones," premieres in NYC
1920 - American Fishing Schooner Esperanto defeats the Canadian Fishing Schooner Delawana in the
           First International Fishing Schooner Championship Races in Halifax.
1921 - National Birth Control League & Voluntary Parenthood League merge as American Birth
           Control League
1922 - Ottoman Empire abolished
1922 - Queen Wilhelmina opens Dutch Historical Maritime museum in Amsterdam
1923 - Bruno E Lucander forms Aero E/Y (Finnair)
1924 - 1st US NHL franchise, Boston Bruins founded
1924 - Forest Peters of Montana State U hits 17 of 22 attempted field goals
1925 - VARA, Vereniging van Workers Radio Amateurs forms in Amsterdam
1926 - US Air Commerce Act passes
1928 - 1st celebration of Author's Day
1928 - Bradman scores a century each innings (131 & 133*), NSW v Qld
1928 - Graf Zeppelin sets airship distance record of 6384 km
1929 - Lundy, part of British Isles, issue its own stamps
1931 - Dupont introduces synthetic rubber
1932 - Wernher von Braun named head of German liquid-fuel rocket program
1935 - TS Eliot's "Murder in the Cathedral," premieres in London
1936 - Benito Mussolini describes alliance between Italy and Germany as an &quot;axis&quot;
1936 - Rodeo Cowboy's Association founded
1937 - Stalinists executed by shooting Pastor Paul Hamberg and seven members of Azerbaijan's
           Lutheran community (including three women).
1938 - German colonel-general Gerd von Runstedt retires
1938 - NL batting champ Ernie Lombardi is named MVP
1938 - Seabiscuit beats War Admiral in a match race at Pimlico
1939 - 1st animal conceived by artificial insemination (rabbit) displayed
1939 - 1st jet plane, Heinkel He 178, demonstrated to German Air Ministry
1939 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Sertum laetitiae
1940 - 1st US air raid shelter, Fleetwood, Pa
1940 - Dutch "Curfew" forms (12 AM - 4 AM)
1941 - Chetniks attacks Tito's partizans in Uzice Yugoslavia
1941 - Japanese marine staff officiers Suzuki/Maejima arrive in Pearl Harbor
1942 - 10th day of battle at El Alamein
1942 - John H Johnson publishes 1st issue of Negro Digest
1943 - Dim-out ban lifted in SF Bay area
1943 - US troops land on Bougainville Island on Solomon Island
1944 - Mary Coyle Chase' "Harvey," premieres in NYC
1944 - Zeeuws & Flanders freed
1944 - World War II: Units of the British Army land at Walcheren in the Netherlands.
1945 - 1st issue of Ebony magazine published by John H Johnson
1946 - Charles S Johnson becomes 1st black president of Fisk University
1946 - Cleveland Indians owner Bill Veeck's right foot is amputated
1946 - Marken soccer team forms
1946 - NY Knicks 1st basketball game beat Toronto Huskies 68-66
1946 - Right foot of Cleve Indian's owner Bill Veeck is amputated
1946 - WABC becomes WCBS radio in NYC
1946 - WEAF radio changes call letters to WNBC (NYC)
1946 - West German state of Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony) created
1947 - "Medium & The Telephone" closes at Barrymore NYC after 211 perfs
1947 - 1st Aloha Week Parade held in Hawaii
1947 - Howard Hughes flies "Spruce Goose," a large wooden airplane
1947 - UN trusteeship for Nauru granted to Australia, NZ & UK
1948 - Mao's Red army conquerors Mukden, Manchuria
1950 - 1st negro player in NBA, (Celtic's Charles Cooper) Ft Wayne Ind
1950 - 82°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in Nov
1950 - Puerto Rican nationalists try to kill Pres Harry Truman at Blair House
1950 - Pope Pius XII witnesses "The Miracle of the Sun" while at the Vatican.
1950 - Pope Pius XII claims Papal Infallibility when he formally defines the dogma of the Assumption
           of Mary.
1951 - Johnny Mercers "Top Banana" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 356 performances
1951 - 1st atomic explosion witnessed by troops, NM
1951 - Brooklyn Dodger catcher Roy Campanella wins 1st of his 3 NL MVP
1951 - Brooklyn catcher Roy Campanella wins NL MVP
1951 - Jet magazine founded by John H Johnson
1951 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1952 - 1st hydrogen device exploded at Eniwetok Atoll in Pacific Fusion occurs for 1st time on Earth
1953 - Emile Zatopek runs world record 10K (29:01.6) & 6 mile (28:08.4)
1953 - KCEN TV channel 6 in Temple-Waco, TX (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1953 - KMGH TV channel 7 in Denver, CO (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 - WHEC TV channel 10 in Rochester, NY (CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 - Algeria begins rebellion against French rule
1954 - General Fulgencio Batista elected President of Cuba
1954 - India takes over administration of 4 French Indian settlements
1954 - KUON TV channel 12 in Lincoln, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting
1954 - US Senate admonishes Joseph Mccarthy because of slander campaign
1954 - The Front de Libération Nationale fires the first shots of the Algerian War of Independence.
1955 - Time bomb aboard United DC-6 kills 44 above Longmont Colorado
1956 - Delhi becomes a territory of Indian union
1956 - Indian state of Madhya Pradesh forms
1956 - Indian states of Punjab, Patiala & PEPSU merge as Punjab protection
1956 - Nagy government of Hungary withdraws from Warsaw Pact
1956 - Nobel for physics awarded to Shockley, Brattain & Bardeen
1956 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Laetamur admodum
1956 - Formation of Kerala state in India.
1957 - KVII TV channel 7 in Amarillo, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
1957 - KXGN TV channel 5 in Glendive, MT (CBS/NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1957 - WICZ TV channel 40 in Binghamton, NY (NBC) begins broadcasting
1957 - World longest suspension bridge opens (Mackinac Straits Mich)
1958 - USSR performs nuclear test
1959 - 1st NHL goalie to wear a hockey mask (Jacques Plante)
1959 - Jim Brown scores 5 TDs in Cleveland Browns 38-31 win over Balt
1959 - Patrice Lumumba arrested in Belgian Congo
1959 - WOV-AM in NYC changes call letters to WADO
1960 - Balitmore Oriole shortstop Ron Hansen voted AL Rookie of Year
1960 - Benelux treaty goes into effect
1962 - Greece enters European Common Market
1962 - KYVE TV channel 47 in Yakima, WA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1962 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
1962 - USSR launches Mars 1; radio contact lost before arrival at Mars
1962 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1962 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1962 - WNYC TV channel 31 in New York, NY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1962 - WZZM TV channel 13 in Grand Rapids, MI (ABC) begins broadcasting
1964 - George Blanda of Houston throws NFL-record 37 passes in 68 attempts
1964 - KC Chief Len Dawson passes for 6 touchdowns vs Denver (49-39)
1964 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Las Cruces Ladies' Golf Open
1964 - Vietcong-assault on airport Bien Hoa at Saigon
1965 - 1st concert at Fillmore Auditorium, SF
1965 - Ernie Terrel beats George Chuvalo in 15 for heavyweight boxing
1965 - Trackless trolley plunged into Nile River drowning 74 (Cairo Egypt)
1966 - Indian Haryana state created from Punjab; Chandigarh terr created
1966 - NFL awards New Orleans its 16th franchise (All Saints Day)
1966 - Sandy Koufax becomes 1st 3-time Cy Young Award winner
1966 - William Dana in X-15 reaches 93 km
1968 - Noel Coward's "Sweet Potato" opens at Booth Theater NYC for 36 perfs
1968 - Detroit Tiger Denny McLain unanimously wins AL Cy Young Award
1968 - Motion Picture Association of America introduces rating system (G, M, R, X)
1968 - US pro soccer 14 teams merged into 1 all star team
1968 - University of Suriname opens
1969 - Beatles' "Abbey Road," album goes #1 in US & stays #1 for 11 weeks
1970 - 1st regular season Giants-Jets game, Giants win 22-10 at Shea
1970 - Discotheque in Grenoble France burns, all exits padlocked & 142 die
1970 - Fire on Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, France, 144 die
1970 - KGTF TV channel 12 in Agana, GU (PBS) begins broadcasting
1971 - Eisenhower dollar put into circulation
1972 - 1st gay theme TV movie - "That Certain Summer"
1972 - Germaoin Gagnon scores 1st Islander hat trick
1973 - "Molly" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 68 performances
1973 - The Indian state of Mysore was renamed as Karnataka to represent all the regions within
           Karunadu .
1974 - Fire kills 189 in less than 25 min (Sao Paulo Brazil)
1974 - UN affirms independence of Cyprus
1976 - "Don't Step on My Olive Branch" opens at Playhouse NYC for 16 perfs
1976 - Britain gives Gilbert Island (Kiribati) self rule
1976 - W German Generals Krupinski and Franke admit to having been Nazis
1977 - Islander Goran Hogosta's only shut-out Flames 9-0-Trottier 4 goals
1977 - Pres Carter raises minimum wages of $2.30 to $3.35 from Jan 1 1981
1977 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1978 - NY Yankee Ron Guidry unanimously wins AL Cy Young Award
1979 - A L Webber musical "Joseph & Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat," premieres
1979 - Bolivia military coup under Gen Busch, pres Guevara flees
1979 - Edward Bennett Williams buys Orioles from Hoffberger for $12.3 million
1979 - Federal government made $1.5 billion loan to Chrysler
1979 - Tanker Burmah Agate off Galveston Bay, Texas, spills 10.7 m gallons of oil, in US's worst oil
           spill disaster
1980 - USSR performs nuclear test
1981 - 1st Class US Mail raised from 18 cents to 20 cents
1981 - 3rd meeting of Giants-Jets, Jets up 2-1 with 26-7 win
1981 - Antigua & Barbuda gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1981 - Chako Higuchi wins LPGA Pioneer Cup Golf Tournament
1982 - Andrew "Dice" Clay & George Wendt appear in "Trick or Treatment"
1982 - Major leagues vote not to renew Commissioner Bowie Kuhn's contract
1982 - Honda becomes the first Asian automobile company to produce cars in the United States with
           the opening of their factory in Marysville, Ohio. The Honda Accord is the first car produced
           there.
1984 - 1st NBA game at LA Memorial Sports Arena - Clipper beat Knick, 107-105
1984 - Larry Shues "Foreigner," premieres in NYC
1984 - Willem de Kooning's "Two Women" sells for $1,980,000
1984 - Despite Mike Bossy 4 goals Islanders lose 5-6 to Canadians making Islander record when
           scoring a hat trick-77-3-4
1985 - Netherlands decides definitive sites for cruise missiles
1985 - Nostalgia Television begins on cable
1986 - Fire in Sandoz factory in Basel, 30 tons of chemicals in the Rhine
1986 - Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Brave Raj, Capote, Lady's Secret, Last Tycoon, Manila,
           Skywalker, Smile at Santa Anita
1987 - 17th NYC Women's Marathon won by Priscilla Welch in 2:30:17
1987 - 18th NYC Marathon won by Ibrahim Hussein in 2:11:01
1987 - 22,000 run in NYC Marathon (won by Ibrahim Hussein of Kenya 2:11:01)
1987 - Fukumi Tani wins Nichirei Ladies Cup US-Japan Team Golf Championship
1987 - NY Jets retire Don Maynards #13
1987 - New Orleans Saints shutout Atlanta Falcons 38-0
1988 - Actor Jeff Goldblum & actress Gena Davis wed in Las Vegas
1988 - Chris Sabo, wins National League Rookie of Year award
1988 - Staten Island ferry gets 1st pay phones
1989 - "Les Miserables" opens at Curran Theatre, SF
1989 - Pakistan beat West Indies by 4 wickets to win Cricket's Nehru Cup
1989 - Scandinavian Airlines System bans smoking on many flights
1990 - "Oh, Kay!" opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC for 77 performances
1990 - Last of Margaret Thatcher's original government resigns, Deputy PM Howe
1990 - Rhetoric escalates as Bush likens Saddam to Hitler
1990 - Sandra Miller awarded $100 for Mike Tyson fondling her breasts
1991 - New Dutch Regulations Traffic rules & Traffic signs enforced
1991 - Three faculty, and one staff member of the department of physics and astronomy, were killed,
           along with one administrator, when physics graduate student Gang Lu went on a shooting
           rampage at the University of Iowa.
1992 - 22nd NYC Women's Marathon won by Lisa Ondieki in 2:24:40
1992 - 23rd NYC Marathon won by Willie Mtolo in 2:09:29
1992 - NY Jet Al Toon becomes 10th NFL to catch a pass in 100 straight games
1992 - Space Shuttle STS 52 (Columbia 13) lands (scheduled)
1993 - Atlantic Radio (20 radio stations) becomes American Radio Systems
1993 - Last day in 1st-class cricket for Mike Whitney, NSW v NZ
1993 - STS-58 (Columbia) lands
1994 - Muslim fundamentalists in Mostaganem Algeria murder 5 children
1995 - "Tempest" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 71 performances
1998 - Nichirei Golf International
1998 - The European Court of Human Rights is instituted.
2003 - Panajot Pano is selected as the Golden Player of Albania by the Football Association of Albania
           as their most outstanding player of the past 50 years to celebrate UEFA's Jubilee
2005 - First part of the Gomery Report, which discusses allegations of political money manipulation,
           is released in Canada.
2009 - The inaugural Abu Dhabi Grand Prix is held at the Yas Marina Circuit.
2012 - Google's Gmail becomes the world's most popular email service
2012 - 22 people are killed and 111 injured after a fuel tanker explodes in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
2012 - Yellow fever kills 32 people and sickens 50 more in Darfur, Sudan
2012 - Acid is poured over a 15 year old girl by her parents after being seen talking to a young man
           in an honour killing in Azad Kashmir, Pakistan
2012 - Scientists detect evidence of light from the universe's first stars, predicted to have formed
           500 million years after the big bang

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 01, 2013, 11:15:44 AM

This Day in History for 1st November


Famous Weddings

2003 - "Showgirls" actress Elizabeth Berkley (31) weds artist Greg Lauren (33) at Esperanza Resort in
            Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
2008 - Actress Marisa Coughlan (34) weds Stephen Wallack at a private estate in Pasadena, California

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 01, 2013, 11:16:47 AM

This Day in History for 1st November


Famous Divorces

2010 - Film actor Charlie Sheen (45) divorces socialite Brooke Mueller (33) due to irreconcilable
           differences after two-and-a-half years of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 01, 2013, 11:23:30 AM

This Day in History for 1st November


Famous Birthdays

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Novelist Stephen Crane (1871)                     Nobel Peace Laureate                        Magazine Publisher
                                                             Carlos Saavedra Lamas (1878)                         Larry Flynt (1942)


846 - Louis the Stammerer, King of West Francia (877-79) (d. 879)
1339 - Duke Rudolf IV of Austria (d. 1365)
1351 - Duke Leopold III of Austria (d. 1386)
1500 - Benvenuto Cellini, sculptor/goldsmith/author (Perseus)
1526 - Catherine Jagellonica of Poland, queen of Sweden and duchess of Finland (d. 1583)
1530 - Étienne de La Boétie, French judge and writer (d. 1563)
1539 - Pierre Pithou, French lawyer and scholar (d. 1596)
1549 - Anna of Austria, fourth wife of Philip II of Spain (d. 1580)
1567 - Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, conde de Gondomar, Spanish diplomat (d. 1626)
1578 - Dmitry Pozharsky, Russian prince (d. 1642)
1585 - Jan Brożek, Polish mathematician, physician, and astronomer (d. 1652)
1607 - Georg Philipp Harsdorffer, German poet (d. 1658)
1611 - François-Marie, comte de Broglie, Italian-born French commander (d. 1656)
1618 - Johannes Flittner, composer
1629 - St. Oliver Plunkett, last Catholic martyr to die in England. (d. 1681)
1636 - Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, French poet and critic (d. 1711)
1643 - John Strype, English historian and biographer (d. 1737)
1661 - Florent Carton Dancourt, French dramatist and actor (d. 1725)
1666 - James Sherard, composer
1704 - Paul Daniel Longolius, German encylopedist (d. 1779)
1720 - Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte, French admiral (d. 1791)
1727 - Ivan Ivanovich Shuvalov, founder of the Moscow University (d. 1797)
1731 - Theodore-Jean Tarade, composer
1748 - Christoph Rheineck, composer
1757 - Antonio Canova, Italian sculptor
1761 - Antonin Josef Alois Volanek, composer
1762 - Spencer Perceval, (Tory), British PM (1809-12)
1778 - Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (d. 1837)
1782 - Viscount Goderich, (Tory), British PM (1827-28)
1798 - Benjamin Lee, Baronet Guinness, Irish brewer/Dublin mayor
1805 - Alessandro Nini, composer
1808 - John Taylor, American religious leader (d. 1887)
1815 - Crawford Williamson Long, surgeon/pioneer (use of ether)
1815 - Douglas Hancock Cooper, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1879
1825 - Joseph Benjamin Palmer, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1890
1832 - Johann Gottfred Matthison-Hansen, composer
1835 - Godfrey Weitzel, (Union volunteers Major general, died in 1884)
1847 - Emma Albani, Canadian soprano (d. 1930)
1853 - Jose Santos Zelaya, (L), ruler of Nicaragua (1893-1910)
1855 - Guido Adler, Austria, musicologist (Still in the Music)
1859 - Charles Brantley Aycock, (Gov-NC)
1859 - William Henry Grattan Flood, composer
1860 - Boies Penrose, United States Senator from Pennsylvania (d. 1921)
1862 - Johan Wagenaar, Dutch composer/conductor/organist (Cyrano)
1863 - Alfred Reisenauer, composer
1865 - Monty Bowden, cricketer (England Test capt v South Africa at 23)
1871 - Alexander Afanasii Spendiaryan, composer
1871 - Stephen Crane, Newark, New Jersey, novelist/poet (Red Badge of Courage), (d. 1900)
1877 - Roger Quilter, British composer
1878 - Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Buenos Aires, jurist (Nobel Peace Prize 1936), (d. 1959)
1878 - Konrad Mägi, Estonian painter (d. 1925)
1879 - Pal Teleki-von Szek, geographer/premier Hungary (1920-21, 39-41)
1880 - Alfred L Wegener, German meteorologist (continental shift)
1880 - Grantland Rice, sportswriter (NY Her Trib 1914-30, Colliers 1925-37)
1880 - Karel Paul van der Mandele, financier/director (Rotterdamsche Bank)
1880 - Sholem Asch, Poland, Yiddish novelist/playwright (Three Cities)
1881 - Edward Van Sloan, American actor (d. 1964)
1886 - Hermann Broch, Austria, novelist (Sleepwalkers, Bewitchment)
1887 - Max Trapp, composer
1887 - L. S. Lowry, British painter of industrial scenes (d. 1976)
1889 - Philip John Noel-Baker, statesman/disarmament advocate (Nobel 1959)
1890 - James Barton, NJ, Broadway actor (Tobacco Road, Iceman Cometh)
1891 - Dirk Vollenhoven, Dutch composer/philosopher
1892 - Alexander Alekhine, Russia, world chess champion (1927-35, 37-46)
1896 - Edmund Blunden, English poet/critic (Undertones of War)
1897 - Naomi Mitchison, author (African Heroes, Return to Fairy Hill)
1898 - Arthur Legat, Belgian racing driver (d. 1960)
1902 - Eugen Jochum, Babenhausen Bavaria, German conductor (Hamburg Orch)
1902 - Nordahl Grieg, Norwegian poet/dramatist/novelist (The Defeat)
1903 - Don Robey, US gospel singer
1903 - Gerard "Ge" Nabrink, Dutch anarchist/co-founder (NVSH)
1903 - Jean Tardieu, author
1903 - Max Adrian, Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Irish actor (Devils, Music Lover)
1903 - Edward "Carji" Greeves, Australian rules footballer (d. 1963)
1904 - Laura Laplante, St Louis MO, actress (Cat & Canary)
1905 - Paul-Émile Borduas, Quebec painter (d. 1960)
1906 - Johnny Indrisano, American boxer and actor (d. 1968)
1907 - Rio Gebhardt, composer
1907 - Terence Tenison Cuneo, artist
1909 - Bruno Bjelinski, composer
1911 - Henri Troyat, French author and historian (d. 2007)
1914 - William "Sabby" Lewis, jazz pianist/arranger
1915 - Carlos A Nicolaas, Bonaire, teacher/poet
1915 - Michael Denison, York England, actor (Importance of Being Ernest)
1917 - Clarence E Miller, (Rep-R-OH, 1967- )
1917 - Margaret Taylor Burroughs, US author/house painter (Black Queen)
1917 - Zenna [Chlarson] Henderson, US, sci-fi author (Anything Box)
1919 - John Secondari, Rome Italy, newscaster (Open Hearing)
1920 - James J Kilpatrick, Oklahoma City Oklahoma, columnist (60 Minutes)
1920 - Ted Lowe, English former snooker commentator
1921 - Ilse Aichinger, Austria, author
1921 - Jan Tausinger, composer
1921 - John Willard Peterson, composer
1922 - George S Irving, Springfield Mass, singer/actor (Dumplings)
1922 - Jeff Richards, Portland Oregon, actor (Don't Go Near the Water)
1923 - Bruce Dooland, cricketer (Australian leg-spinner, 3 Tests mid-forties)
1923 - Edward A de Jongh, Antillian author (The Arch)
1923 - Gordon R[upert] Dickson, Canada, sci-fi author (Genetic General)
1923 - Victoria de los Angeles, Spanish soprano (d. 2005)
1924 - Robert N Rapoport, social anthropologist
1924 - Süleyman Demirel, 9th President of Turkey
1928 - James Edward Bradford, DC, HW weightlifer (Olympic-silver-1952, 56)
1928 - Leon Hart, NFLer (Heisman Trophy)
1929 - Betsy Palmer, E Chicago Ind, actress (Mr Roberts, Friday the 13th)
1929 - Nicholas Mavroules, (Rep-D-MA, 1979- )
1929 - Rudy [Herman R] Kousbroek, literary (Leopold the Buch)
1930 - A. R. Gurney, American playwright
1932 - John Clark, English-born actor/director
1932 - Al Arbour, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1934 - Aat Veldhoen, Dutch artist
1934 - Hugh Bidwell, mayor (London)
1934 - Umberto Agnelli, VP (Fiat)
1934 - William James Matthias, composer
1934 - William Mathias, British composer (d. 1992)
1935 - Gary J Player, Johannesburg South Africa, PGA golfer (Brit Open-1959, 68, 74)
1935 - Edward Said, Palestinian-born literary critic (d. 2003)
1936 - Eddie Colman, English footballer (d. 1958)
1937 - Bill Anderson, country singer (Still, From This Pen)
1938 - Patrick Buchanan, commentator/politician (Crossfire)
1939 - Barbara Bosson, Belle Vernon Pa, actr (Fay-Hill St Blues, Hooperman)
1940 - Ramesh Chandra Lahoti, Chief Justice of India
1940 - Barry Sadler, American singer (d. 1989)
1941 - Joe Louis Caldwell, Texas City, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1964)
1941 - Johnny Kendall, [Johan Donkerkaat], Dutch blues singer
1941 - Robert Foxworth, Houston Texas, actor (Chase-Falcon Crest, Frankenstein)
1941 - Alfio Basile, Argentine football coach
1942 - John M Spratt Jr, (Rep-D-SC, 1983- )
1942 - Larry Flynt, Lakeville, Kentucky, magazine publisher (Hustler)
1942 - Marcia Wallace, Creston Iowa, actress (Carol-Bob Newhart Show)
1942 - Shere Hite, author/sex therapist
1943 - Salvatore Adamo, popular singer
1943 - John McEnery, English actor
1944 - Oscar Temaru, President of French Polynesia
1945 - Rick Grech, Bordeaux France, rock bassist (Blind Faith, Traffic)
1946 - Dennis Muren, American special effects artist
1947 - Rolando Garbey, Oriente Cuba, light MW boxer (Olympic-silver-1968)
1947 - Jim Steinman, American songwriter
1947 - Bob Weston, Devon, England, guitarist and songwriter (Fleetwood Mac)(d. 2012)
1948 - Anna Stuart, American Actress (Another World, All My Children)
1948 - Phil Myre, Canadian ice hockey player
1949 - Jeannie Berlin, LA Cal, actress (Heartbreak Kid, Portnoy's Complaint)
1949 - Michael D. Griffin, NASA chief administrator
1950 - Dan Peck, Panama City Fla, rock vocalist/guitarist (America)
1950 - Tony Hymphris, political activist
1951 - Craig Serjeant, cricketer (Australian batsman late seventies)
1951 - Ronald Bell, Youngstown Oh, rock sax (Kool & The Gang)
1951 - Fabrice Luchini, French actor
1953 - Michael Zaslow, Inglewood CA, actor (One Life to Live, Guiding Light)
1953 - N Jan Davis, Cocoa Beach Florida, PhD/astronaut (STS 47, 60, 85)
1954 - Ruben Guerrero, Mexico, relay swimmer (Olympic-1968)
1955 - Beth Leavel, American musical theatre actress
1956 - Charles Moore, British editor-in-chief (Sunday Telegraph)
1957 - Lyle Lovett, Klein Tx, country singer (God Will, Joshua Judges Ruth)
1957 - Carlos Paião, Portuguese singer (d. 1988)
1958 - Rachel Ticotin, NYC, actress (Grace-For Love & Honor, Total Recall)
1958 - Jim Steinmeyer, Illusion creator
1958 - Charlie Kaufman, American screenwriter
1959 - Eddie MacDonald, rocker (The Alarm-Knocking on Heaven's Door)
1960 - Damon Green, Pensacola FL, Nike golfer (1990 Pensacola Open-49th)
1960 - Elizabeth Dennehy, actress (Guiding Light) [or Oct 1]
1960 - Fernando Valenzuela, Navajua Mexico, pitcher (LA Dodgers, SD Padres)
1960 - Said Aquita, runner (Oly-gold/bronze-1984)
1961 - Anne Donovan, Ridgewood NJ, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1984)
1961 - Kim Krizan, California, writer/actress (Slacker, Dazed & Confused)
1961 - Magne Furuholmen, Oslo Norway, keyboardist/vocalist (Aha-Take on Me)
1961 - Paul Jackson, cricketer (slow lefty bowler for Victoria & Queensland)
1961 - Louise Boije af Gennäs, Swedish writer and novelist
1961 - Calvin Johnson, American musician (Beat Happening, The Halo Benders, Dub Narcotic Sound
           System)
1962 - Anthony Kiedis, rock vocalist (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
1962 - Kelly Kelland, London Ontario, softball 1st baseman (Olympics-96)
1962 - Maga Furuholmen, rocker
1962 - Michelle Estill, Scottsdale AZ, LPGA golfer (1991 PING-Cellular One)
1962 - Robert Willis, Sydney NSW, Australasia golfer
1963 - Antonella Ella, Italian entertainer
1963 - Brian Forde, WLAF linebacker (Amsterdam Admirals)
1963 - Rick Allen, rock drummer (Def Leppard-Hysteria, Rock of Ages)
1963 - Kenny Alphin, American guitarist (Big & Rich)
1963 - Monty Sopp, American professional wrestler
1963 - Mark Hughes, Welsh footballer
1964 - Eddie Williams, Sheveport LA, infielder (Detroit Tigers)
1964 - Kosala Kuruppuarachchi, cricketer (bowls 2 Tests for Sri Lanka 86-87)
1964 - Richard Cooper, NFL tackle (NO Saints, Philadelphia Eagles)
1964 - Daran Norris, American actor
1965 - Richard Stephens, NFL guard/tackle (Oakland Raiders)
1966 - Bob Wells, Yakima WA, pitcher (Seattle Mariners)
1966 - Danny Everett, 4x400m runner (Olympic-gold-1988)
1966 - Paul Lewis, Australian field hockey forward (Olympics-silver-92, 96)
1966 - Ruud Cabbage, soccer player (FC Twente)
1966 - Willie D, American hip hop artist, famous for being a member of The Geto Boys
1966 - Mary Hansen, Australian guitarist and singer (Stereolab) (d. 2002)
1967 - Steve Fritz, Salina Kansas, decathlete
1967 - Sophie B. Hawkins, American musician
1967 - Tina Arena, Australian singer
1967 - Carla van de Puttelaar, Dutch photographer
1968 - Bernard Dafney, NFL tackle (Arizona Cardinals, Baltimore Ravens)
1968 - Kent Graham, NFL quarterback (Detroit Lions, Arizona Cardinals)
1968 - Park Shin-yang, South Korean actor
1969 - Barron Wortham, NFL linebacker (Houston/Tennessee Oilers)
1969 - Darryl Ashmore, NFL tackle (Washington Redskins)
1969 - Jill Reeve, Hoosick Falls NY, field hockey defender (Olympics-96)
1969 - Tie Domi, Windsor, NHL right wing (Toronto Maple Leafs)
1970 - Alla Korot, Odessa USSR, actress (Jenna Norris-Another World)
1970 - Dawn Marple, Salem Ohio, team handball wing/back (Olympics-1996)
1970 - Sherwin Campbell, cricketer (WI opening batsman 1995)
1971 - Keith Whitecotton, Camrose Alberta, golfer (Alberta Jr-1989, 90)
1971 - Laura Moss, Kings Mt Ohio, actress (Amanda Cory-Another World)
1971 - Rob Waldrop, CFL defensive tackle (Toronto Argonauts)
1971 - Terry Dean, WLAF quarterback (Rhein Fire)
1971 - Vikram Chatwal, Indian hotelier
1972 - Glen Murray, Halifax, NHL right wing (Pitts Penguins)
1972 - Jenny McCarthy, Chicago IL, playmate (Oct, 1993)/host (Singled Out)
1972 - Toni Collette, Australian actress
1972 - Paul Dickov, Scottish footballer
1973 - Aishwarya Rai, Indian actress
1973 - Geoff Horsfield, English footballer
1974 - V V S Laxman, cricketer (Indian Test batsman v South Africa 1996- )
1975 - Van Hiles, NFL safety (Chicago Bears)
1975 - Bo Bice, American singer
1975 - Scott "Skippy" Chapman, American musician
1976 - Matt Chapman, American cartoonist and voice actor
1976 - Logan Marshall-Green, American actor
1978 - Manju Warrier, Indian actress
1978 - Mary Kate Schellhardt, American actress
1979 - Delgado, Angolan footballer
1979 - Milan Dudić, Serbian footballer
1979 - Henry Shefflin, Irish hurler
1979 - Coco Crisp, American baseball player
1982 - Michael Copon, American actor
1983 - Yuko Ogura, Japanese model
1983 - Josh Wicks, American soccer player
1983 - Jon Wilkin, English rugby league footballer
1984 - Natalia Tena, English actress
1985 - Dizzee Rascal, English rapper
1986 - Penn Badgley, American actor
1987 - Caitlin McCarthy, Victoria's Secret model
1988 - Ross Montague, English footballer

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 01, 2013, 11:26:31 AM

This Day in History for 1st November


Famous Deaths

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Poet Ezra Pound (1972)                 NFL Running Back Walter Payton (1999)


921 - Richard, Duke of Burgundy
955 - Henry I, Duke of Bavaria
1296 - Guillaume Durand, French writer (b. 1230)
1391 - Amadeus VII of Savoy (b. 1360)
1399 - John V, Duke of Brittany (b. 1339)
1535 - Francesco Sforza, Italian ruler (Milan), dies
1546 - Giulio Romano, Italian painter/architect (Ondergang der Titanen), dies
1588 - Jean Daurat, French poet (b. 1508)
1596 - Pierre Pithou, French lawyer and scholar (b. 1539)
1642 - Jean Nicolet, French explorer (b. 1598)
1672 - Heinrich Schutz, composer, dies at 87
1676 - Gisbertus Voetius, Dutch theologian (b. 1589)
1678 - William Coddington, first Governor of Rhode Island (b. 1601)
1700 - Carlos II, King of Spain (reigns 1665-1700), dies at 39
1711 - Christian Demelius, composer, dies at 68
1750 - Giuseppe Sammartini, composer, dies at 55
1750 - Gustaaf W van Imhoff, Dutch governor of Ceylon (1736-40), dies at 45
1768 - Pierre van Maldere, composer, dies at 39
1788 - Johann Samuel Schroeter, composer, dies
1810 - Georg Anton Kreusser, composer, dies at 64
1814 - Alexander Samoylov, Russian general and statesman (b. 1744)
1817 - Giovanni Calisto Andrea Zanotti, composer, dies at 79
1825 - Rodrigo Ferreira da Costa, composer, dies at 49
1841 - Antoine PFGdV Celles, Belgium/Dutch/French MP, dies
1844 - August Ferdinand Haeser, composer, dies at 45
1881 - Jacques F H Perk, Dutch poet (Iris), dies at 22
1888 - Nikolai Przhevalsky, Russian explorer (b. 1838)
1891 - John A Neuhuys, painter, dies at 59
1894 - Tsar Alexander III of Russia (b. 1845) Reigned from 1881
1895 - Aleksander Zarzycki, composer, dies at 61
1903 - [Christian M] Theodor Mommsen, German historian (Nobel 1902), dies
1907 - Alfred Jarry, writer, dies at 33
1914 - Christopher "Kit" Cradock, English admiral, dies in battle
1926 - Louis H Chrispijn, Dutch actor/director (Krates), dies at 72
1926 - Wilfred Flowers, cricketer (England spinner in 8 Tests 1884-93), dies
1927 - Florence Mills, dancer/singer, dies in NYC at 32
1941 - Camille Melloy, [the Paepe], Belgian priest/poet (Requiem), dies at 50
1942 - Hugo Distler, composer, dies at 34
1947 - Man o' War, American thoroughbred racehorse (b. 1917)
1949 - Leslie Gay, cricket wicket-keeper/goalkeeper (England in 1890's), dies
1955 - W H van Eemlandt, [Haasse], author (Treasure Hunter of Amstel), dies
1955 - Dale Carnegie, American writer (b. 1888)
1956 - Lajos Asztalos, International Chess Master (1950), dies at 67
1956 - Pietro Badoglio, 41st Prime Minister of Italy (1943-44) and Italian General (1922-43), dies at
           85
1959 - Gershon Agron, mayor of Jerusalem, dies at 66
1961 - Alexander Cohen, Dutch anarchist/author, dies at 97
1961 - Joan McCracken, actress (Claudie The Story of a Marriage), dies at 38
1962 - Winter Haynes Watts, composer, dies at 78
1962 - Ricardo Rodríguez, Mexican racing driver (b. 1942)
1963 - Elsa Maxwell, author (Jack Paar Show), dies at 80
1963 - Ngo Dinh Diem, South Vietnamese PM, assassinated in a coup at 62
1967 - Benita Hume, actress (Vicky-Thew Halls of Ivy), dies at 61
1968 - Georgios Papandreou, Greek minister/premier, dies at 80
1971 - G von Le Fort, writer, dies at 95
1972 - Ezra Loomis Pound, US poet (Throne), dies at 87
1974 - Ralf Harolde, actor (Safe, Framed, Stolen Harmony), dies at 75
1975 - Doro Merande, actress (That Was The Week That Was), dies at 77
1975 - Jacki Ray, actor (In Like Flint), dies at 58
1975 - Norbert Rosseau, composer, dies at 67
1975 - Philip James, composer, dies at 85
1975 - Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet/author/director, murdered at 53
1976 - Oscar Beregi Jr, actor (Young Frankenstein, Panic in City), dies at 58
1979 - Mamie Eisenhower, First Lady of the United States (b. 1896)
1982 - James Broderick, actor (Doug-Family), dies of cancer at 55
1982 - King Vidor, director (War & Peace), dies at 88 of a heart ailment
1982 - Leighton Lucas, composer, dies at 79
1983 - Anthony van Hoboken, Dutch musicologist (Haydn Catalog), dies at 96
1984 - Norman Krasna, author (Dear Ruth), dies of a heart attack at 74
1985 - Phil Silvers, comedic actor (Sgt Bilko), dies in his sleep at 73
1986 - Paul Frees, animation voice (Bullwinkle), dies at 66
1986 - Sippie Wallace, blues singer, dies at 88
1987 - René Lévesque, Premier of Quebec (b. 1922)
1991 - Joseph Papp, US theater producer (Chorus Line, Hair), dies at 70
1992 - Jeremias Chitunda, vice-chairman (Angolese Unita-rebellion), dies
1993 - Anatoli Fyodorovich Voronov, cosmonaut (Soyuz 12a backup), dies at 63
1993 - George Sheehan, cardiologist/marathoner, dies of prostate cancer at 74
1993 - A. N. Sherwin-White, English historian (b. 1911)
1994 - Richard Krautheimer, art historian, dies at 97
1994 - Syd Dernley, hangman, dies at 73
1995 - Brian Joseph Lenihan, politician, dies at 64
1995 - Desmond Shawe-Taylor, critic, dies at 88
1995 - James Ralph Darling, teacher, dies at 96
1995 - Lex Hixon, religious teacher/author, dies at 53
1996 - Junius Richard Jayawardene, PM of Sri Lanka (1977-78), dies at 90
1996 - Maati Bouabid, PM of Morroco (1979-83), dies
1999 - Walter Payton, American Football Hall of Fame Running Back, dies at 45
1999 - Theodore Alvin Hall, Atomic Spy (b. 1925)
1999 - Jean Coutu, Canadian actor (b. 1925)
2000 - Bernard Erhard, American voice actor (b. 1934)
2004 - Mac Dre, American rapper (b. 1970)
2004 - Terry Knight, American music promoter (b. 1943)
2005 - Skitch Henderson, English-born bandleader (b. 1918)
2005 - Michael Piller, American screenwriter (b. 1948)
2006 - William Styron, American author (b. 1925)
2006 - Adrienne Shelly, American actress (b. 1966)
2007 - Paul Tibbets, US Air Force retired Brigadier General (b. 1915)
2007 - S. Ali Raza, Bollywood Screenwriter (b. 1922)
2008 - Nathaniel Mayer, American soul musician (b. 1944)
2008 - Jacques Piccard, Swiss ocean explorer (b. 1922)
2008 - Yma Sumac, Peruvian singer (b. 1922)
2008 - Shakir Stewart, American music producer (b. 1974)
2010 - Ernesto Presas, Filipino martial artist (b. 1945)
2010 - Charlie O'Donnell, American television announcer (b. 1932)
2011 - Dorothy Howell Rodham, Mother of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. (b. 1919)
2012 - Pascual Perez, Dominican baseball player, bludgeoned to death at 55

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 02, 2013, 09:33:07 AM

This Day in History for 2nd November


Historical Events

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US President & General                           US President James Garfield                   Baseball Great Babe Ruth
Andrew Jackson

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33rd US President                                     First Israeli Prime Minister                     American Baseball Player
Harry Truman                                           David Ben-Gurion                                            Roger Maris

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Baseball Player Hank Aaron                    Clergyman and Civil Rights Activist       
                                                                Martin Luther King Jr. 


676 - Donus begins his reign as Catholic Pope replacing Pope Adeodatus II
1327 - King Alfonso IV of Aragon crowned
1355 - English invasion army under king Edward lands at Calais
1418 - Utrecht conquerors Ijsselstein
1642 - 2nd battle at Breitenfeld Saksen: Sweden beat Ferdinand III
1648 - 12,000 Jews massacred by Chmielnicki hordes in Narol Podlia
1675 - A combined attack by the Plymouth, Rhode Island, Massachusetts Bay and Connecticut
           colonies attacks the Great Swamp Fort, owned by the Narragansetts during King Philip's War.
1712 - Suriname government gives French hijacker Jacques Cassard, ƒ682,800
1722 - Willem KH Friso (11) appointed viceroy of Gelderland
1749 - English Ohio Trade Company forms 1st trade post
1772 - Boston: anti-English Committee of Correspondence forms
1783 - General George Washington, later 1st American President, bids farewell to his army after the
           American Revolutionary War
1813 - Treaty of Fulda
1824 - Popular presidential vote 1st recorded; Andrew Jackson beats J Q Adams
1835 - 2nd Seminole War begins in Osceola
1841 - Akbar Khan successfully revolts against Shah Shuja in Afghanistan
1851 - Louis Napoleon takes power in France
1852 - Franklin Pierce elected as president of US
1854 - Cobblestone paving of Washington St between Dupont & Kearny starts
1861 - American Civil War: Western Department Union General John C. Fremont is relieved of
           command and replaced by David Hunter.
1868 - Time zone: New Zealand officially adopts a standard time to be observed nationally
1875 - Verney Cameroon reaches Benguela Angola, from Africa's east coast
1879 - In a 6-day footrace a Mr Weston loses to a horse, 900 to 885 km
1880 - James A Garfield (R) elected 20th American President
1881 - Dutch New-Malthusiaanse Union forms
1889 - North Dakota becomes 39th & South Dakota becomes 40th state
1892 - French poet Paul Verlaine visits Netherlands
1895 - 29th Belmont: Fred Taral aboard Belmar wins in 2:11½
1898 - French government-Dupuy forms
1898 - Theodor Herzl arrives in Jerusalem
1898 - Cheerleading is started at the University of Minnesota with Johnny Campbell leading the crowd
           in cheering on the football team.
1899 - Boers begin siege of Ladysmith, Natal
1903 - Lyceum Theater (New Lyceum) opens at 149 W 45th St NYC
1903 - New Amsterdam Theater opens at 214 W 42nd St NYC
1904 - British newspaper, "Daily Mirror," begins publishing
1907 - Ottawa Mint Proclamation is published
1913 - St Louis Browns mgr George Stovall is 1st to jump to Federal League
1914 - Great Britain annexes Cyprus
1914 - Russia declares war on Turkey
1914 - V Herbert & H Blossoms "Only Girl," premieres in NYC
1914 - Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
1915 - 1st US election by proportional representation, Ashtabula, Ohio
1916 - Ft Vaux, Verdun, reconquered by France
1917 - 1st US soldiers killed in combat in WW I
1917 - Balfour Declaration proclaims support for a Jewish state in Palestine
1917 - Lansing-Ishii Agreement; US recognizes Japan's privileges in China
1920 - KDKA (Pittsburgh) goes on air as 1st commercial radio station
1920 - Warren G Harding elected 29th president
1921 - Eugene O'Neill's "Anna Christie," premieres in NYC
1922 - Allies deliberate over German mark
1923 - Bloody street fights in Aken (pro-French separatists driven)
1923 - Stresemann's SPD-ministers in Germany, step down
1924 - Sunday Express publishes 1st British crossword puzzle
1928 - Dmitri Shostakovitch's 1st Symphony, L Stokovski premieres in Phila
1930 - Ras (euqiv. Duke) Tafari Makonnen is crowned Haile Selassie I, 225th emperor of Solmonic
           Dynasty
1931 - Warren, Dixon & Young's musical "Laugh Parade," premieres in NYC
1934 - Babe Ruth tours Tokyo, Japan
1936 - 1st high-definition TV broadcast service, by BBC in London
1936 - The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is established.
1937 - AL batting champ Charlie Gehringer wins MVP
1938 - Babe Ruth applies for job of St Louis Browns' manager
1938 - Jimmie Foxx wins his 3rd AL MVP
1941 - German troops occupy Rostov
1942 - 11th day of battle at El Alamein: British assault on Tel el Aqqaqir
1942 - Britian under Montgomery defeats German forces under Rommel in battle of Alamein Egypt
           (WW II)
1943 - Jewish ghetto of Riga Latvia is destroyed
1944 - Auschwitz begins gassing inmates
1944 - Canadian troops occupy Knokke
1944 - US 28th Infantry division opens assault on Schmidt Hurtgenwald
1947 - 7th Ryder Cup: US wins 11-1 at Portland Golf Club (Portland, Oregon, US)
1947 - Howard Hughes' "Spruce Goose" flies for 1st (& last) time
1948 - Pres Harry Truman re-elected in an upset over Republican Thomas Dewey
1948 - WJZ TV channel 13 in Baltimore, MD (ABC) begins broadcasting
1949 - Netherland recognizes Indonesia as a sovereign state
1949 - NL scheme for national distribution of textiles, meat and cheese disbands
1950 - "Barrier" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 4 performances
1950 - Phillies reliever Jim Konstanty wins NL MVP
1953 - Pakistan becomes islamic republic
1954 - Charles C Diggs Jr elected Michigan's 1st black congressman
1954 - JS Thurmond is 1st senator elected by write-in vote (SC)
1954 - Taiwan & US sign military pact
1955 - Clarton-Schwerdt & Schaffer discover polio virus
1955 - David Ben-Gurion forms Israeli government
1956 - Hungary appeals for UN assistance against Soviet invasion
1956 - Israel captures Gaza & Sheham
1957 - 1st titanium mill opened, Toronto Ohio
1957 - The Levelland UFO Case in Levelland, Texas, generates national publicity, and remains one of
           the most impressive UFO cases in American history.
1959 - "Girls against the Boys" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 16 perfs
1959 - Charles Van Doren confesses, TV quiz show-"21," was fixed
1959 - The first section of the M1 motorway, the first inter-urban motorway in the United Kingdom,
           is opened between the present junctions 5 and 18, along with the M10 motorway and M45
           motorway
1960 - Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 8th String quartet, premieres in Leningrad
1960 - George Weiss, at 66, resigns as GM of NY Yankees
1960 - Penguin Books publishes "Lady Chatterley's Lover"
1960 - Roger Maris nips Mickey Mantle as AL MVP, 225-222
1961 - "Kean" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 92 performances
1961 - Max Frisch' "Andorra," premieres in Zurich
1963 - "Tambourines to Glory" opens at Little Theater NYC for 24 performances
1963 - Only 1st-class cricket game played in Uganda, MCC v E African XI
1964 - CBS purchases 80% of Yanks for $11,200,000, later buys remaining 20%
1964 - Faisal succeeds Saud as king of Saudi Arabia
1966 - KHSD TV channel 11 in Lead, SD (ABC) begins broadcasting
1966 - The Cuban Adjustment Act enters force, allowing 123,000 Cubans the opportunity to apply
           for permanent residence in the United States.
1968 - "Her First Roman" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 17 perfs
1969 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA River Plantation Women's Golf Open
1969 - NFL record of 12 passing touchdowns, New Orleans Billy Kramer & St L Charlie Johnson pass
           for 6 touchdowns each
1970 - Cleveland Cavaliers lose by biggest margin-54 pts (Phila 141-87)
1971 - "Great Harp" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 7 performances
1971 - Orioles Pat Dobson no-hits Yomiuri Giants, 2-0
1972 - Construction begins on Kingdome, Seattle
1972 - Phillies' Steve Carlton wins unanimous NL Cy Young Award
1972 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1973 - "Barbra Streisand ...and Other Musical Instruments" airs on CBS TV
1973 - OLADE (Latin American Energy Organization) forms
1974 - Art Modell gets snowed in & misses his 1st Cleve Brown game in 33 yrs
1974 - Braves trade Hank Aaron to Milwaukee Brewers for OF Dave May
1974 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1974 - 78 die when the Time Go-Go Club in Seoul, South Korea burns down. Six of the victims
           jumped to their deaths from the seventh floor after a club official barred the doors after the
           fire started.
1975 - Ed Giacomin as a Red Wing returns to Mad Sq Garden beats Rangers 6-4
1975 - Summit in Houston opens - Rockets beat Milwaukee Bucks, 104-89
1976 - Jimmy Carter (D) defeats Gerald Ford (R) for president
1976 - NJ voters approve gambling for Atlantic City
1976 - SD Padre Randy Jones wins NL Cy Young
1977 - Phillies' Steve Carlton wins 2nd Cy Young Award
1978 - Crew of Soyuz 29 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 31
1978 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1978 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1979 - Peter Shaffer's musical "Amadeus," premieres in London
1982 - Fire in Salung tunnel, Afghanistan, 1,000+ Russians die
1982 - Nayoko Yoshikawa wins LPGA Pioneer Cup Golf Tournament
1983 - President Reagan signs bill establishing Dr Martin Luther King Jr holiday
1983 - Abp Hickey conducts papal investigation of Abp Hunthausen, Seattle
1984 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1984 - Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States
           since 1962.
1985 - Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Cozzene, Life's Magic, Pebbles, Precisionist, Proud
           Truth, Tasso, Twilight Ridge
1986 - 16th NYC Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:28:06
1986 - 17th NYC Marathon won by Gianni Poli in 2:11:06
1986 - Ayako Okamoto wins Nichirei Ladies Cup US-Japan Team Golf Championship
1987 - Entertainer Lola Falona is diagnosed with multiple schlerosis
1987 - George Harrison releases "Cloud 9" & McCartney releases "All the Best"
1988 - Computers virus strikes Pentagon, SDI research lab & 6 universities
1988 - Mexican radio station erronously reports Mike Tyson dies in car crash
1988 - Walt Weiss wins AL rookie of year (3rd straight for Oakland A's)
1988 - The Morris worm, the first internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream
           media attention, is launched from MIT.
1989 - "Meet Me in St Louis" opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 253 perfs
1990 - 1st NBA game at Target Center, Minn Timberwolves beat Mavericks 98-85
1991 - Jermaine Jackson releases "Word to the Badd!!" anti Michael song
1991 - Nevada makes biggest comeback in NCAA football history, overcoming a 35-pt deficit in the
           3rd quarter & rallying to beat Weber State 55-49
1991 - Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Arazi, Black Tie Affair, Dance Smartly, Miss Alleged,
           Opening Verse, Pleasant Stage, Sheikh Albadou
1991 - Bartholomew I becomes the Patriarch of Constantinople.
1992 - 1st test flight of Airbus A330
1993 - 1st commemorative bricks are laid at Bob Feller Memorial
1993 - Actor Roger Moore (James Bond) has his enlarge prostate removed
1993 - Christie Todd Whitman (R) elected 1st woman governor of NJ
1993 - Dow Jones hits record 3697.64
1993 - Ehud Olmert elected mayor of Jerusalem
1993 - Rudolph Guliani (R) elected 107th mayor of NYC
1994 - Benzine explosion in Dronka Egypt, 400+ killed
1995 - "Busker Alley," premieres at St James Theatre, NY
1995 - "Sacrilege" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 21 performances
1995 - Spanish Broadcasting System buys NY radio station WPAT-FM for $83.5M
1996 - "Hughie," closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC
1997 - "Barrymore," closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 240 performances
1997 - 27th NYC Women Marathon won by Franziska Rochat-Moser of Switz 2:28:43
1997 - 28th NYC Marathon won by John Kagwe of Kenya in 2:08:12
1997 - Ralphs Senior Golf Classic
1997 - Toray Japan Queens LPGA Cup
1997 - Typhoon Linda kills at least 208 in southern Vietnam
1997 - USA beats Japan 23-13 at LPGA Nichirei International
2000 - The first crew arrives at the International Space Station.

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 02, 2013, 09:35:09 AM

This Day in History for 2nd November


Famous Weddings

2005 - Irish TV and radio presenter Sile Seoige (26) weds Glen Mulcahy at St. Brendan's Church in
           County Offaly
2009 - "Sex and the City" actor Ron Livingston (41) weds actress Rosemarie DeWitt (34) in San
           Francisco
2012 - BMX icon TJ Lavin weds longtime fiancee Roxanne Siordia (32) in Las Vegas

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 02, 2013, 09:35:56 AM

This Day in History for 2nd November


Famous Divorces

2006 - Rocker Rod Stewart (58) divorces model Rachel Hunter (33) due to irreconcilable differences

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 02, 2013, 09:49:14 AM

This Day in History for 2nd November


Famous Birthdays

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Queen of France                                  48th Shia Iman Aga Khan III (1877)
Marie Antoinette (1755)


1082 - Emperor Huizong of China (d. 1135)
1475 - Princess Anne of York (d. 1511)
1528 - Peter S Lotichius, [Peter Lotz], Neo latin poet (Collected Works)
1636 - Edward Colston, English merchant and philanthropist (d. 1721)
1667 - James Sobieski, Crown Prince of Poland (d. 1737)
1692 - Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, Dutch composer (d. 1766)
1696 - Conrad Weiser, Pennsylvania's ambassador to the Native Americans (d. 1760)
1699 - Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter (d. 1779)
1709 - Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (d. 1759)
1734 - Daniel Boone, Oley Valley, Pennsylvania, frontiersman/explorer (US Hall of Fame-1915), (d.
           182)
1739 - Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf, composer
1741 - Joan Derk van Capellen, leader of Neth Democratic Patriots
1755 - Marie Antoinette, Vienna, Queen of France(1774-1792), "let them eat cake", (d. 1793)
1766 - Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Austrian field marshal (d. 1858)
1777 - Fortunat Alojzy Gonzaga Żółkowski, Polish actor (d. 1822)
1777 - Princess Sophia of the United Kingdom (d. 1848)
1785 - Frederic Kalkbrenner, composer
1785 - Johann Leopold Fuchs, composer
1795 - James Knox Polk, NC, 11th American President (D) (1845-1849)
1808 - Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, French writer (d. 1889)
1810 - Andrew Atkinson Humphreys, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1883
1812 - Abraham I van Lier, theater director (Gran Theatre-van Lier)
1815 - George Boole, mathematician (Boolean algebra)
1821 - Sir George Bowen, British provincial governor (d. 1899)
1822 - James Byron Gordon, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
1826 - Robert Hopkins Hatton, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1862
1826 - William Haines Lytle, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
1828 - Byron Grimes, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1880
1833 - Mahendralal Sarkar, Indian doctor (d. 1904)
1837 - Émile Bayard, French artist, illustrator (d. (1891)
1842 - Otto Reubke, composer
1843 - Caryl Florio, composer, Pen-name of William James Rob John
1843 - Elek Erkel, composer
1846 - Antonio Pena y Goni, composer
1847 - George Sorel, French Socialist thinker/author (violent revolutions)
1857 - Joseph F F Babinski, Polish/French neurologist (Babinski reflex)
1865 - Warren Gamaliel Harding, Ohio, (R) 29th pres (1921-23)
1876 - Eugeniusz Morawsky-Dabrowa, composer
1877 - Claire McDowell, NYC, actress (Big Parade)
1877 - Victor Trumper, cricketer (Australia batsman 1899-1912)
1877 - Aga Khan III, Karachi, Shia Imam (1885-1932), (d. 1957)
1877 - Joseph De Piro, Maltese founder of the Missionary Society of St. Paul (d. 1933)
1879 - Jean Gilbert, [Max Winterfield], German composer (Prince Regent)
1880 - John Foulds, composer
1882 - Leo Perutz, writer
1883 - Frico Kafenda, composer
1883 - Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve, cardinal and archbishop of Quebec (d. 1947)
1885 - Harlow Shapley, US, astronomer (studied the galaxies)
1886 - Philip Merivale, Rehutia India, actor (Nothing But Trouble)
1886 - Dhirendranath Datta, Bangladeshi politician (d. 1971)
1890 - Henry Borginon, Flemish nationalist/senator
1892 - Alice Brady, NYC, actress (My Man Godfrey, Gay Divorcee, Zenobia)
1892 - Paul Abraham, Hungarian composer (Viktoria und ihr Huzar)
1893 - Battista Farina, founder of Pininfarina company (d. 1966)
1894 - William Johnston, tennis champ (US Open-1915)
1894 - Alexander Lippisch, German scientist (d. 1976)
1897 - Dennis King, Coventry England, comedian (Devil's Brother)
1897 - Jacob A B "Jack" Bjerknes, Norwegian/US meteorologist (USAF in London)
1899 - Eddy [Charles E] du Perron, Dutch author/poet
1901 - James Dunn, NYC, actor (Tree Grows in Brooklyn, It's a Great Life)
1901 - Paul Ford, Balt Md, actor (Phil Silvers Show)
1902 - Gyula Illyes, Hungarian author/poet (Az Ismertlen Illyes)
1902 - Marius W Holtrop, economist/president (Netherlands Bank)
1903 - Travis Jackson, American baseball player (d. 1987)
1905 - Fred Lipmann, watchmaker
1905 - James Dunn, American actor (d. 1967)
1906 - Luchino Visconti, Milan Italy, director (Damned, Death in Venice)
1906 - Daniil Andreev, Russian poet (d. 1959)
1908 - Reginald Beckwith, York England, actor (Genevieve, Doctor in Love)
1910 - Fouad Serageddin, Egyptian politician (d. 1999)
1911 - Odysseus Elytis Alepoudellis, Greece, poet (Nobel 1979)
1911 - Raphael Robinson, US mathematician (d. 1995)
1912 - Jouko Paavo Kalervo Tolonen, composer
1913 - Burt Lancaster, NYC, actor (From Here to Eternity, Elmer Gantry)
1913 - Ivor Roberts-Jones, sculptor
1914 - Johnny Vander Meer, baseball player (d. 1997)
1915 - Douglas Gordon Lilburn, composer
1915 - Beryl McBurnie, Trinidadian dancer (d. 2000)
1915 - Sidney Luft, American movie director (d. 2005)
1917 - Durward Knowles, England, yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1968-Bahamas)
1919 - Jorge de Sena, Portuguese engineer/poet (Reino da Estupidez)
1919 - Warren Stevens, Clark's Summit Pa, actor (Richard Boone Show), (d. 2012)
1920 - Fabio Gonzalez-Zuleta, composer
1920 - Lewis Charles, NYC, actor (Feather & Father Gang)
1920 - Ann Rutherford, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, actress, (d. 2012)
1921 - Fernando Correia de Oliveira, composer
1921 - Willaim D Schaefer, Maryland, (Gov-D-Md)
1921 - Shepard Menken, American voice actor (d. 1999)
1921 - Bill Mosienko, National Hockey League player (d. 1994)
1922 - John Pinsent, classical scholar
1924 - Father David Bauer, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1988)
1924 - Rudy Van Gelder, American recording engineer
1927 - John Sainsbury, English billionaire
1927 - Steve Ditko, American artist
1928 - Geoffrey Pardoe, engineer
1928 - Paul Johnson, British historian
1929 - Harold Farberman, NYC, conductor/composer (Medea)
1929 - Milan Stibilj, composer
1929 - Rachel Ames, Portland Oregon, actress (Line Up, Audrey-Gen Hospital)
1930 - Denis Gerald Barrington, artist
1932 - Henri Namphy, Cap Hatien Haiti, President of Haiti (1986-88)
1932 - Romano L Mazzoli, (Rep-D-KY, 1971- )
1934 - Ken Rosewall, Sydney Australia, tennis star (US Open 1956)
1934 - Bill Gothard, American speaker
1935 - Mohammad Munaf, cricketer (Pakistani pace bowler in 4 Tests 1959-62)
1936 - Rose Elizabeth Bird, California Supreme Court Justice
1936 - Abdullah the Butcher, wrestler
1937 - Earl "Speedoo" Carroll, NYC, rocker (Cadillacs, Coasters)
1938 - Jay Traynor, rocker (Jay & The Americans)
1938 - Patrick Buchanan, conservative political columnist
1938 - Ria Beckers-de Bruijn, Dutch MP (PPR)
1938 - Jay Black, American singer (Jay and the Americans)
1938 - Queen Sofia of Spain
1939 - Howard Wolpe, (Rep-D-MI, 1979- )
1939 - Pauline Neville-Jones, English diplomat
1939 - Richard Serra, American sculptor and video artist
1940 - Gigi Proletti, Italian entertainer
1941 - Bruce Welch, [Cripps], rocker (Shadows Bognor Regis)
1941 - David Knapp Stockton, San Bernardino CA, PGA golfer (1970 PGA)
1942 - Shere Hite, St Joseph Missouri, sex therapist (Hite Report)
1942 - Stefanie Powers, Hollywood Ca, actress (Girl From UNCLE, Hart to Hart)
1943 - Oldrich Pelcak, Czechoslovakia, cosmonaut
1944 - Keith Emerson, England (Emerson, Lake & Palmer-Brain Salad Surgery)
1944 - Jeffrey Alan Hoffman, Bkln, PhD/astronaut (STS 51-D, 35, 46, 61, 75)
1944 - Liesel Westermann, German FR, discus thrower (Olympic-silver-1968)
1944 - Patrice Chereau, actress (Danton)
1946 - Alan Jones, Australia, auto racer (1980 World Champion)
1946 - Giuseppe Sinopoli, Venice Italy, conductor/composer (Sunnyata)
1947 - Dave Pegg, British pop bassist (Jethro Tull-Crest of a Wave)
1947 - David Anthony Ahern, composer
1948 - Rich Gooch, rock bassist (Quarterflash)
1949 - Simon Augustini, Albanian politician
1951 - Kathy Hammond, US, 400m runner (Olympics-bronze-1972)
1951 - Thomas Mallon, American novelist and critic
1951 - Lindy Morrison, Australian musician (The Go-Betweens)
1952 - Kate Linder, Pasadena Ca, actress (Esther Valentine--Young & Restless)
1952 - Maxine Nightingale, English soul singer
1954 - Pat Croce, American entrepreneur
1955 - Frank Gilligan, Queens NY, singer (Mason Dixon-Karen Comes Around)
1955 - Mark Reynolds, San Diego California, star yachter (Olymp-8th-1988, 92, 96)
1955 - Chris Burnett, American musician
1957 - Rita Crockett, San Antonio Tx, volleyball player (Olympic-silver-1984)
1957 - Carter Beauford, American drummer (Dave Matthews Band)
1958 - Willie McGee, SF CA, outfielder (St Louis Cardinals, NL MVP-1985)
1959 - Peter Mullan, Scottish actor and film maker
1960 - Adam Lingner, NFL center (Buffalo Bills)
1960 - Bruce Baumgartner, Haledon NJ, wrestler (Oly-gold/br-84, 88, 92, 96)
1960 - Mardi Jacquet, Chateauroux California, playmate (October, 1980)
1960 - Robert Harold Lohr, Cincinnati OH, PGA golfer (1988 Walt Disney)
1960 - Rosalyn Nideffer, Durban South Africa, tennis star (1993 Futures-Midland MI)
1960 - Saïd Aquita, Morocco, 5K runner (Olympic-gold-1984)
1960 - Tihomir Blaškić, Croatian war criminal
1961 - K.D. Lang [Kathy Dawn], Consort Alberta, Canadian country singer
1962 - Andrew Elt, singer (Sleeze Beez)
1962 - Donna Spangler, Los Angeles California, wrestler (Coal Miner&#039;s Daughter-GLOW)
1962 - David Brock, American political commentator, pundit
1962 - Mireille Delunsch, French soprano
1962 - Simon Hill, English-Australian Football commentator
1963 - Ines Diers, German DR, 400m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-gold-1980)
1963 - Susie Scott, San Diego Ca, playmate (May, 1983)
1963 - Bobby Dall American rocker (Poison-Every Rose Has a Thorn)
1963 - Craig Saavedra, American filmmaker
1964 - Kevin Gogan, NFL guard (Oakland Raiders, SF 49ers)
1964 - Michael D'Asaro II, Brooklyn New York, American fencer-sabre
1964 - Britta Lejon, Swedish politician
1965 - Chuck Klingbeil, NFL nose tackle (Miami Dolphins)
1965 - Shahrukh Khan, Indian actor
1966 - Orlando Merced, Hato Rey Puerto Rico, outfielder (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1966 - Rosalyn Fairbank, South Africa, tennis player
1966 - Sean Kanan, actor (AJ-Gen Hospital, Rich Girl, Karate Kid Part 3)
1966 - Tim Kirkman, American filmmaker
1966 - Khaled Abol Naga, Egyptian actor
1967 - Chris Port, NFL guard/tackle (NO Saints)
1967 - Darla Michele Pruett, Canton Georgia, Miss Georgia-America (1991)
1967 - Derek Porter, Belfast Ireland, Canadian rower (Oly-gold/silver-92/96)
1967 - Marc van Roon, Dutch improvising musician
1968 - Brandi Brandt, Santa Clara California, playmate (October, 1987)
1968 - Helle Michaelsen, Alborg Denmark, playmate (Aug, 1988)
1968 - Melissa Evridge, Lexington Ky, playmate (Aug, 1990)
1968 - Ultra Naté, American musician
1969 - Dwayne Gordon, NFL linebacker (San Diego Chargers, NY Jets)
1969 - Reginald Arvizu, American bassist (KoЯn)
1970 - Corbin Lacina, NFL guard (Buffalo Bills)
1970 - Sharmell Sullivan, American professional wrestling valet
1971 - Pete Vordenberg, Rota Spain, US cross country skier (Olympics-1994)
1972 - Alfred Schreuders, soccer player (RKC)
1972 - Jeni Stephens, Memphis Tennessee, Miss America-Tennessee (1997)
1972 - Marie Josee Gibeau, Lachine Quebec, kayaker (Olympics-96)
1972 - Samantha Janus, British entertainer
1972 - Darío Silva, Uruguayan footballer
1973 - Jason Smith, Calgary, NHL defenseman (NJ Devils)
1973 - Marisol Nichols, American actress
1974 - Alex Tanaka, actor (Saja-Swan's Crossing)
1974 - Jaroslav Spacek, NHL defenseman (Team Czech Oly-Gold-1998, (Sweden)
1974 - Ruslan Salei, NHL defenseman (Belarus, Oly-98, Anaheim)
1974 - Orlando Cabrera, Colombian baseball player
1974 - Nelly, American rapper
1974 - Prodigy, American rapper (Mobb Deep)
1975 - Danny Cooksey, Moore Oklahoma, actor (Sam-Diff'rent Strokes)
1975 - Stéphane Sarrazin, French rally driver
1975 - Chris Walla, American musician (Death Cab for Cutie)
1976 - Sidney Ponson, Aruban baseball player
1977 - Jason Cerbone, American actor (The Sopranos)
1977 - Randy Harrison, American actor
1978 - Vitor "Shaolin" Ribeiro, Brazilian mixed-martial artist and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu world champion
1979 - Julie Lund, Danish actress
1980 - Kim So-yeon, South Korean actress
1981 - Wilson Betemit, Dominican baseball player
1981 - Avy Scott, American actress
1982 - Kyoko Fukada, Japanese actress, model and singer
1982 - Charles Itandje, French footballer
1984 - Tamara Hope, Canadian actress
1984 - Julia Stegner, German supermodel
1986 - Erika Jo, American musician
1986 - Lara Sacher, Australian actress
1987 - Danny Cipriani English rugby union player.
1988 - Lindze Letherman, American actress (General Hospital)
1989 - Katelyn Tarver, American singer
1990 - Natasha Smirnoff, daughter of Yakov Smirnov

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 02, 2013, 09:51:49 AM

This Day in History for 2nd November


Famous Deaths

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Playwright George Bernard Shaw (1950)


943 - Queen Emma of France, (b. 894)
1083 - Matilda of Flanders, Queen consort (b. 1031)
1171 - Baudouin IV, count of Henegouwen (1120-71), dies
1171 - Dionysius bar Salibi, author (Diarbekir), dies
1285 - King Peter III of Aragon (b. 1239)
1327 - King James II of Aragon (b. 1267)
1483 - Henry Stafford, earl of Buckingham/constable of Engl, beheaded at 49
1588 - Wilhelmus Damasi, theologist/1st bishop of Roermond, dies at 63
1610 - Richard Bancroft, archbishop of Canterbury (1604-10), dies at 66
1618 - Archduke Maximilian III of Austria (b. 1568)
1635 - Aurelio Signoretti, composer, dies at 68
1697 - Constantine Huygens Jr, Poet/painter/cartoonist, buried
1716 - Engelbert Kaempfer, German physician and traveler (b. 1651)
1717 - Johann Jacob Walther, composer, dies
1731 - Johann Matthias Leffloth, composer, dies at 26
1781 - Jose F de Isla, Spanish Jesuit/author, dies at 78
1804 - Armand-Gaston Camus, French chairman of Council of 500, dies at 64
1807 - Baron de Breteuil, French statesman (b. 1730)
1845 - Chretien Urhan, composer, dies at 55
1852 - Pyotr Kotlyarevsky, Russian general (b. 1782)
1863 - Theodore Judah, American railroad engineer (b. 1826)
1875 - JWW Birch, 1st British resident of Perak Malakka, murdered
1877 - Friedrich Graf von Wrangel, Prussian field marshal (b. 1784)
1882 - Cenobio Paniagua y Vasques, composer, dies at 61
1884 - Auguste Emmanuel Vaucorbeil, composer, dies at 62
1887 - Jenny Lind, [Swedish Nightingale], soprano, dies at 67
1898 - George Goyder, English-born surveyor-general of South Australia (b. 1826)
1905 - Albert von Kölliker, Swiss anatomist (b. 1817)
1909 - Theodor W Ahlwardt, German orientalist, dies at 81
1920 - Andre Dumont, Belgian mine engineer (Limburgs coal basin), dies at 73
1925 - Antonius J Derkinderen, Dutch painter/etcher, dies at 65
1931 - Arthur James Cook, union leader (coal miners), dies at 47
1931 - Harry Musgrove, cricketer (Test for Australia 1885), dies
1935 - H B &amp;quot;Jock&amp;quot; Cameron, South African cricket captain (v England 1935, age
           30), dies
1937 - Maude Valerie White, composer, dies at 82
1944 - Thomas Midgley, American chemist and inventor (b. 1889)
1945 - Princess Thyra, daughter of Frederick VIII of Denmark (b. 1880)
1949 - Jerome F. Donovan, American politician (b. 1872)
1950 - George Bernard Shaw, Irish author (Pygmalion), dies at 94
1952 - Maire O'Neill, actress (Juno & the Paycock, Glamorous Night), dies
1956 - Jacob Weinberg, composer, dies at 77
1956 - Leo Baeck, Pres of World Union for Progressive Judaism, dies at 83
1958 - Adam von Ahn Carse, composer, dies at 80
1960 - Dimitri Mitropoulos, Greek/US conductor/composer, dies at 64
1961 - James Thurber, humorist (The Male Animal), dies at 66
1962 - Felice Lattuada, composer, dies at 80
1963 - Ngo Dinh Diem, president of South Vietnam (1955-63), murdered at 62
1966 - Mississippi John Hurt, rocker, dies at 73
1966 - Sadao Araki, Japanese general/minister of War (1931-34), dies at 89
1968 - Ernst Hess, composer, dies at 56
1969 - Marion Lloyd Vince, fencer (National champ 1928, 31), dies at 63
1970 - Richard Cushing, US cardinal to Boston, dies at 75
1971 - Martha Vickers, actress (Alimony), dies after long illness at 46
1977 - H E Nossak, writer, dies at 76
1979 - Jacques Mesrine, French "enemy of the state", shot to death
1980 - Edith Bunker, character on "All in the Family", dies
1980 - Willie Sutton, US bank robber, dies at 79
1982 - Lester Roloff, Man of God, preacher.
1984 - Margie V Barfield, US murderer, 1st woman electricuted in 22 years
1986 - Paul Frees, cartoon voice (Boris Badenov), dies at 66
1991 - Fran Stevens, singer, dies of cancer in Bronx NY at 72
1991 - Irwin Allen, dir (Land of the Giants, Poseidon Adventure), dies at 75
1992 - Hal Roach, producer (Keystone Kops), dies of pneumonia at 100
1993 - P A Jacob Mees, Dutch banker (Mees & Hope), dies at about 86
1994 - David Feinberg, AIDS activist/author, dies at 37
1994 - Egbert George "Pete" Pitterson, trumpeter, dies at 73
1994 - Noah Beery Jr, US actor (Gung Ho!, Heaven With a Gun), dies at 81
1995 - Alun Edward Islwyn Pask, rugby International, dies at 58
1995 - Alvaro Gomez Hurtado, VP of Columbia (1982-84), assassinated
1995 - Florence Greenberg, record company founder, dies at 82
1995 - Ivan Metropolitan Ioann Snychev, russion Orthodox Priest, dies at 68
1995 - Oliver Wendell Harrington, cartoonist, dies at 83
1995 - Rosalind Cash, actress (General Hospital), dies of cancer at 56
1995 - Sal Gliatto, baseball player, dies at 93
1996 - Alvaro Gomez Hurtado, Colombian politician, dies
1996 - Christopher Prater, screen printer, dies at 72
1996 - Eva Cassidy, American singer (b. 1963)
1997 - G Harry Stine, writer, dies at 69
1997 - Roy McMillan, baseball player (Reds), dies of heart failure at 68
1998 - Vincent Winter, British actor (b. 1957)
2002 - Tonio Selwart, German actor (b. 1896)
2002 - Charles Sheffield, American author and physicist (b. 1935)
2003 - Frank McCloskey, American politician (b. 1939)
2004 - Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates (b. 1918)
2004 - Theo van Gogh, Dutch filmmaker (b. 1957)
2004 - Gerrie Knetemann, Dutch cyclist (b. 1951)
2005 - Ferruccio Valcareggi, Italian football player and coach.
2007 - Charmaine Dragun, Australian journalist (b. 1978)
2007 - Witold Kiełtyka, Polish metal drummer (Decapitated) (b. 1984)
2007 - Igor Moiseyev, Russian choreographer (b. 1906)
2007 - Lillian Ellison, American professional wrestler (b. 1923)
2007 - Henry Cele, South African Actor; best known for his onscreen portrayal of the legendary
           Shaka Zulu
2010 - Andy Irons, American professional surfer (b. 1978)
2010 - Clyde King, American baseball player and manager (b. 1924)
2011 - Sickan Carlsson, Swedish actress and singer (b. 1915)
2012 - Milt Campbell, American hurdler/decathlete, dies from prostate cancer and diabetes at 78

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 03, 2013, 09:14:56 AM

This Day in History for 3rd November


Historical Events

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Composer                                               US President Ulysses S. Grant                  25th US President
George Friedrich Handel                                                                                        William McKinley

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Absolute monarch Nicholas II                  32nd US President                                  Baseball Player Ted Williams
                                                                Franklin D. Roosevelt 

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36th US President                                     US President & Actor                            42nd US President Bill Clinton
Lyndon B. Johnson                                     Ronald Reagan


644 - Umar ibn al-Khattab, the second Muslim caliph, is killed by a Persian slave in Medina.
1394 - Jews are expelled from France by Charles VI
1468 - Liège is sacked by Charles I of Burgundy's troops.
1493 - Christopher Columbus discovers island of Dominica
1527 - Ferdinand of Austria/Bohemia chosen as king of Hungary
1529 - London - 1st sitting of the Reformation Parliament
1534 - English parliament accepts Act of Supremacy: Henry VIII church leader
1620 - Great Patent granted to Plymouth Colony
1629 - Prince Frederik Hendrik festival in The Hague
1640 - English Long Parliament forms
1655 - England & France sign miltary & economic treaties
1656 - Treaty of Vilnius Russia/Poland sign anti-Swedish covenant [NS]
1676 - Kara Mustafa succeeds Ahmed Kiprulu as Turkish grand vizier
1679 - Great panic occurs in Europe over close approach of a comet
1716 - Pacification Treaty of Warsaw: Czar Peter the Great guarantees Saxon monarch August I's
           Polish kingdom
1752 - Georg Friedrich Handel undergoes (failed) eye operation
1760 - Battle at Torgau, Saxony: Prussia beats Austria
1762 - Britain & Spain sign Treaty of Paris
1762 - Spain acquires Louisiana
1783 - Washington orders Continental Army disbanded
1783 - John Austin, a highwayman, is the last to be publicly hanged at London's Tyburn gallows.
1791 - Battle at Wabash: indians assault general St Clair/killed 637 soldiers
1793 - French playwright, journalist and feminist Olympe de Gouges is guillotined.
1794 - French troops conquer Maastricht
1796 - John Adams elected president of the United States of America
1812 - Napoleonic armies defeated at Vyazma
1813 - US troops under General Coffee destroy Indian village at Talladega Ala
1820 - Cuenca Ecuador declares independence
1838 - The Times of India, the world's largest circulated English language daily broadsheet
           newspaper is founded as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce.
1839 - 1st opium war - 2 British frigates engage several Chinese junks
1839 - Palace of Gulhane Turkey, freedom of religion proclaimed
1848 - Johan Thorbeckes revises Great Force
1856 - A British fleet bombards Canton.
1862 - Battle until the 5th November between gunboats at Bayou Teche, a waterway in Louisiana
1863 - Battle of Grand Coteau in Southwestern Louisiana in the American Civil War
1867 - Battle at Mentana: French/pontifical troops beat Garibaldi
1868 - 1st black Congressman elected (John W Menard, Louisiana)
1868 - Ulysses Grant (R) wins presidential election over Horatio Seymour (D)
1869 - Canada's Hamilton Foot Ball Club forms
1874 - James Theodore Holly, elected bishop of Haiti
1883 - Race riots in Danville Virginia (4 blacks killed)
1883 - US Supreme Court decides Native Americans can't be Americans
1883 - American Old West: Self-described "Black Bart the poet" gets away with his last stagecoach
           robbery, but leaves an incriminating clue that eventually leads to his capture.
1885 - Tacoma vigilantes drive out Chinese, burn their homes & businesses
1886 - Friars of Tilburg arrives on Curacao
1888 - Amsterdam: 1st concerto of Concert worker, under Willem Kes
1889 - Chaplain Ariëns founds 1st roman catholic workers group
1896 - J H Hunter patents portable weighing scales
1896 - Martha Hughes Cannon of Utah elected 1st female senator
1896 - William McKinley (R) defeats William Jennings Bryan (D) for president
1899 - James J Jeffries beats Tom Sharkey in 25 for heavyweight boxing title
1900 - 1st US automobile show opens at Madison Square Garden (NYC)
1903 - Colombia grants independence to Panama
1905 - Csar Nicholas II of Russia signs a document of amnesty for the political prisoners.
1908 - William Howard Taft (R) elected 27th pres over William Jennings Bryan
1911 - Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T.
1913 - The USA introduces an income tax.
1916 - Treaty establishes British suzerainity over Qatar
1917 - 1st class US mail now costs 3 cents per ounce
1918 - Austro-Hungarian Empire disolves
1918 - Poland proclaims independence from Russia after WW I
1920 - "Emperor Jones" opens at Provincetown Theater
1922 - Greek parliament bans prince Andreas for life
1926 - 15th party congress CPSU ends/5 year plan begins
1926 - Ty Cobb resigns as Detroit Tigers manager
1927 - 22.3 cm rainfall at Somerset, Vermont (state record)
1927 - Rodgers & Hart's musical "Connecticut Yankee," premieres in NYC
1927 - Tropical storm flooding kills 84 in Winooski River Valley (Vt)
1928 - Turkey switches from Arabic to Roman alphabet
1930 - 1st vehicular tunnel to a foreign country (Detroit-Windsor) opens
1930 - Bank of Italy becomes Bank of America
1930 - Getúlio Dornelles Vargas became Head of the Provisional Government in Brazil after a
           bloodless coup on October 24.
1931 - 1st commercially produced synthetic rubber manufactured
1934 - Although Lou Gehrig wins Triple Crown, Mickey Cochrane wins AL MVP
1934 - Dizzy Dean chosen as NL MVP
1935 - George II returns to Greece & regains monarchy
1935 - Kitei Son runs world record marathon (2:26:42)
1936 - President FDR (D) wins landslide victory over Alfred M Landon (R)
1937 - Maurice Archambaud bicycles world record for distance in one hour (45.796 km)
1937 - NHL Howie Morenz Memorial Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 6-5 in Mont
1939 - Clare Booth's "Margin for Error," premieres in NYC
1941 - Hirohiti's accord on Yamamoto's attack plan on Pearl Harbor fails
1942 - 12th day of battle at El Alamein: Scottish assault
1942 - Despite Ted Williams winning Triple Crown, Yanks Joe Gordon wins AL MVP
1942 - Mort Cooper wins NL MVP
1942 - William L Dawson elected to Congress from Chicago
1943 - Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 8th Symphony premieres in Moscow
1943 - P-47D Thunderbolt shot down above North-Holland
1944 - Allied commandos lands at Westkapelle Walcheren
1944 - German troops in Vlissingen surrenders
1944 - Pro-German government of Hungary flees
1944 - US 28th Infantry division occupies Schmidt Hurtgenwald
1945 - Lindsay Hassett scores 187 & 124* for Aust Services at Delhi
1946 - Emperor Hirohito proclaims new Japanese constitution
1948 - 2nd NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Toronto 3-1 at Chicago
1952 - Clarence Birdseye markets frozen peas
1952 - Egypt protests German retribution payments to Israel
1953 - 1939 sacrifice fly rule restored: no time at bat for sac fly
1953 - 1st live color coast-to-coast telecast (NYC)
1954 - Nobel for physics awarded to Max Born & Walter Bothe
1955 - 1st virus crystallized (announced)
1955 - Alabama woman bruised by a meteor
1955 - Argentine ex-president Peron arrives in Nicaragua
1955 - Australia takes control of Cocos Islands
1955 - Bernardus J Alfrink installed as archbishop of Utrecht
1956 - "Wizard of Oz" 1st televised (CBS-TV)
1957 - USSR launches Sputnik 2 with a dog (Laika), 1st animal in orbit
1958 - USSR performs nuclear test
1959 - David Ben-Gurion's Mapai party wins Israeli parliamentary election)
1960 - "Unsinkable Molly Brown" opens at Winter Garden NYC for 532 perfs
1960 - Ivory Coast adopts constitution
1960 - Pittsburgh Pirates' Vern Law wins Cy Young Award
1960 - Tammy Grimes' "Unsinkable Molly Brown" premieres in NYC
1961 - General Assembly unanimously elects U Thant acting secretary general
1962 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1962 - Wilt Chamberlain of NBA SF Warriors scores 72 points vs LA Lakers
1963 - Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Cavern City Golf Open
1964 - LBJ (D) soundly defeats Barry Goldwater (R) for pres
1964 - Phila voters approve $25 million to build a new sports stadium
1965 - Sandy Koufax wins NL Cy Young Award unanimously
1967 - Boston's Jim Lonborg wins AL Cy Young
1967 - Vietnam War: The Battle of Dak To begins.
1968 - Bob Packwood is elected senator of Oregon
1968 - Ex-premier Papandreou buried. 300,000 demonstrate against fascist junta
1968 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Canyon Ladies Golf Classic
1968 - NY Jet Jim Turner kicks 6 field goals to beat Buffalo 25-21
1969 - Congo president Mobutu visits Belgium
1970 - "President's Daughter" opens at Billy Rose Theater NYC for 72 perfs
1970 - Bob Gibson wins NL Cy Young Award
1970 - Pres Nixon promises gradual troop removal of Vietnam
1970 - Salvador Allende inaugurated as president of Chile
1971 - "Play Misty For Me" premieres
1973 - Mariner 10 launched-1st Venus pics, 1st mission to Mercury
1974 - "Lorelei" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 320 performances
1974 - Chako Higuchi wins Japan LPGA Golf Classic
1975 - Good Morning America premieres on ABC (David Hartman & Nancy Dussault)
1976 - Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA/Japan Mizuno Golf
1977 - Debbie Massey wins LPGA Mizuno-Japan Golf Classic
1978 - 1st broadcast of "Diff'rent strokes" on NBC TV
1978 - Dominica gains independence from UK & adopts constitution
1978 - Michiko Okada wins LPGA Mizuno-Japan Golf Classic
1978 - USSR & Vietnam sign peace & friendship treaty
1979 - 5 mortally wounded during anti-Ku Klux Klan demonstration in NC
1979 - Amy Alcott wins LPGA Mizuno Japan Golf Classic
1979 - Marocco offensive against Polisario
1980 - Ianford Wilsons "5th of July," premieres in NYC
1980 - Walter Hass Jr becomes CEO of Oakland A's
1981 - Brewers reliever Rollie Fingers wins AL Cy Young Award
1982 - Detroit blocks 20 Cleve Cav shots tying NBA regulation game record
1982 - Pete Vuckovich becomes Milwaukee's 2nd consecutive AL Cy Young
1983 - Jesse Jackson launches his 1st campaign for presidency (D)
1983 - Nashville Network begins on cable TV
1984 - 3,000 die in 3 day anti-Sikh riot in India
1984 - Body of assassinated Indian PM Indira Gandhi cremated
1985 - Argentine pres Alfonsíns Radical Burgerunie wins elections
1985 - Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Nichirei Cup Team Match Golf Tournament
1986 - Federated States of Micronesia signs Compact of Free Association with US
1986 - Joaquim Chissano elected president Mozambique
1986 - John Lennon "Menlove Avenue" album released posthumously
1986 - Lebanese magazine Ash Shirra reveals secret US arms sales to Iran
1986 - Northern Mariana Islands becomes a Commonwealth associated with US
1987 - Oakland 1st baseman Mark McGwire wins AL Rookie of Year
1987 - On Wall Street, after 5 consecutive gains, Dow Jones down 50.56
1988 - Pakistan claims it downed Afghan warplane
1988 - President Reagan signs credit-card disclosure-bill
1988 - Soviet Union agrees to allow teaching of Hebrew
1988 - Talk-show host Geraldo Rivera's nose is broken as Roy Innis brawls with skinheads at TV
           taping
1989 - 100s of Bulgarian demonstrate in Sofia for democratic rights
1989 - Lou Piniella is named manager of the Reds, replacing banned Pete Rose
1989 - Minn Timberwolves' 1st NBA game, loses to Seattle, 106-94
1990 - Gro Harlem Brundtland installed as premier of Norway
1991 - 21st NYC Women's Marathon won by Liz McColgan of Scotland in 2:27
1991 - 22nd NYC Marathon won by Salvador Garcia of Mexico in 2:09:28
1991 - Ayrton Senna wins shortest Formula One race ever run (17 laps)
1992 - Bill Clinton (D) wins US presidential election over President Bush (R)
1992 - Carol Moseley Brown elected 1st black female in US Senate
1993 - Ken Daneyko sets NJ Devil 'Ironman' record by playing 322nd cons game
1994 - Dutch & British astronomers find spiral nebula Dwingeloo 1
1994 - Space shuttle STS-66 (Atlantis 13), launches
1994 - Susan Smith who claimed her two children were carjacked arrested for murder
1994 - Total solar eclipse in South America (4m23s)
1995 - 1st NBA game at FleetCenter, Boston Celtics lose to Mil Bucks, 101-100
1995 - 1st NBA game at Rose Garden, Port Trailblazers lose to Grizzlies 92-80
1995 - 1st NBA game at Skydome, Toronto Raptors beat NJ Nets 94-79
1996 - "It's a Slippery Slope," opens at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC
1996 - 26th NYC Women's Marathon won by Anuta Catuna of Romania in 2:28:18
1996 - 27th NYC Marathon won by Giacomo Leone of Italy in 2:09:54
1996 - Mayumi Hirase wins LPGA Toray Japan Queens Cup
1996 - Toray Japan Queens Cup
1997 - Boston shortstop Nomar Garciaparra is 6th unanimous AL Rookie of Year
1997 - California law ends affirmative-action
1997 - David Duval wins Championship at the Champions Golf Club
1997 - Phillies 3rd baseman Scott Rolen selected unanimous Rookie of Year
2007 - Pervez Musharraf declared emergency rule across Pakistan. He suspended the Constitution,
           imposed State of Emergency, and fired the chief justice of the Supreme Court.
2012 - Syrian rebels launch a major assault on Taftanaz airbase

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 03, 2013, 09:16:13 AM

This Day in History for 3rd November


Famous Weddings

2012 - Professional bull rider Luke Snyder (30) weds Jennifer Manna (34) at Big Cedar Lodge outside
           of Branson, Missouri
2012 - Olympic gymnast Carly Patterson (24) weds Mark Caldwell (27) at the Main Street Garden Park
           in Dallas, Texas

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 03, 2013, 09:26:35 AM

This Day in History for 3rd November


Famous Birthdays

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Founder of Texas                                    Novelist André Malraux (1901)                Actor Charles Bronson (1921)
Stephen F. Austin (1793)

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Economist/Nobel Laureate                       Comedienne and Actress
 Amartya Sen (1933)                                 Roseanne Barr (1952)


39 - Lucan, Cordova Spain, Latin poet (Bellum Civile)
1470 - Edward V, King of England (Apr 9-Jun 25 1483)
1560 - Annibale Carracci, Italian painter (d. 1609)
1587 - Samuel Scheidt, composer
1604 - Osman II, sultan of Turkey (1618-22)
1611 - Henry Ireton, English general/MP (Edgehill)
1618 - Aurangzeb, [Alamgir], Emperor of India (1658-1707)
1619 - Willem Kalf, Rotterdam Neth, painter (still lifes)
1621 - Renatus Rapinus, [René Rapin], French jesuit/poet (Hortorum libri IV)
1633 - Bernardino Ramazzini, Italian physician (d. 1714)
1656 - Georg Reuter, composer
1689 - Johann Joseph Ignaz Brentner, composer
1718 - John Montague, 4th Earl of Sandwich, inventor (sandwich)
1736 - Christian Brunings, Dutch hydraulic engineer
1749 - Daniel Rutherford, Scottish chemist and physician (d. 1819)
1753 - August G Meissner, German author
1753 - Friedrich Christoph Gebtewitz, composer
1780 - Victor-Charles-Paul Dourlen, composer
1781 - Johann Ernst Friedrich Wollank, composer
1793 - Stephen Fuller Austin, Virginia USA, colonized Texas
1794 - William Cullen Bryant, poet (Thanatopsis)
1798 - Mason James Murray, (Confederacy), died in 1871
1799 - William Sprague III, American politician from Rhode Island (d. 1856)
1801 - Karl Baedeker, Germany, published travel books
1801 - Vincenzo Bellini, Italian opera composer (La Sonnambula, Norma)
1815 - Adrien Louis Victor Boieldieu, composer
1815 - John Mitchel, Fenian
1816 - Jubal Anderson Early, Lt General (Confederate Army), died in 1894
1818 - Gustavus Adolphus DeRussy, Brig Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1891
1826 - Jasper Adalmorn Maltby, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1867
1830 - Esten Cooke, John (Confederate Army), died in 1886
1830 - Jacob M van Bemmelen, Dutch physicist/chemist
1833 - Edward Dorr Tracy, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1863
1844 - Mehmed V Reshad, sultan of Turkey (1909-18)
1845 - Edward Douglass White, 9th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1921)
1852 - Mutsuhito, 122nd emperor of Japan (1867-1912)
1856 - Jim McCormick, baseball player (d. 1918)
1857 - Michail V Alekseyev, Imperial Russian general and WW I Chief of Staff (d. 1918)
1861 - Johann Peter Kirsch, Luxembourg church historian/archaeologist
1863 - Eugene Samuel-Holeman, composer
1867 - Siegfried Garibaldi Kallenberg, composer
1871 - Albert Goldthorpe, English rugby league footballer
1872 - Paul Panzer, actor (Cat's Paw, Mildred Pierce, Hotel Berlin)
1875 - Emils Darzins, composer
1876 - Stephen Peter Alencastre, Roman Catholic prelate (d. 1940)
1877 - Carlos Ibáñez del Campo, Chilean president. (d. 1960)
1879 - Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Canada, Arctic explorer/ethnologist
1880 - Edmond Barrett, heavyweight wrestler (Olympic-bronze-1908)
1880 - Raffaele Casimiro Casimiri, composer
1883 - Enny Vrede, [Maria M Muller], Dutch actress/wife of Eduard Verkade
1884 - Apie [Adrian P] Prince, Dutch author (Me Own Way)
1887 - Samuil Marshak, Russian writer, translator and children's poet (d. 1964)
1888 - William Charles Denis Browne, composer
1889 - Heinrich Campendonk, German painter/wood carver/glazer
1890 - Eustaquio van Lieshout, Dutch priest (d. 1943)
1893 - R Lindley Murray, tennis champ (US Open-1918)
1896 - Gustaf Tenggren, Swedish illustrator (d. 1970)
1897 - Karel Salmon, composer
1899 - Gleb Wataghin, Ukrainian-Italian physicist (d. 1986)
1900 - Roger Blunt, cricketer (NZ all-rounder in 9 Tests 1930-32)
1900 - Adolf Dassler, founder of Adidas (d. 1978)
1901 - Andre Malraux, [Berger], Paris, France, novelist/art historian (La Condition Humaine)
1901 - Leopold III, [Filip von Saksen-Coburg], King of the Belgians (from 1934, abdicated 1951), d.
           1983
1903 - Walker Evans, US, photographer (Fortune Magazine)
1904 - Gideon Fagan, composer
1904 - Janis Kalnins, composer
1905 - Lois Mailou Jones, US painter (Peasants on Parade)
1905 - William Donald Campbell, diarist/ornithologist
1907 - James Geoffrey Cutcliffe Hepburn, tap-dancer/socialist
1907 - Joe Turner, US jazz pianist
1908 - Bronko Nagurski, NFL fullback (Chicago Bears)
1909 - James "Scotty" Barrett Reston, Clydebank Scotld, journalist (NY Times)
1910 - Richard Hurndall, British actor (d. 1984)
1911 - Vladimir Ussachevsky, Hailar Manchuria, composer (Creation)
1912 - Alfredo Stroessner, dictator of Paraguay (1954-89)
1914 - Hallgrimur Helgason, composer
1918 - Bob Feller, Van Meter, Iowa, American baseball pitcher (Cleveland Indian, 3 no-hitters)
1918 - Russell B Long, (Sen-D-LA, 1948-86)
1918 - Elizabeth P. Hoisington, American Brigadier General (d. 2007)
1918 - Dean Riesner, film and television screenwriter (d. 2002)
1919 - Bert Freed, NYC, actor (Rufe-Shane)
1919 - Jesús Blasco, Spanish comic book author (d. 1995)
1920 - Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Australian writer (d. 1993)
1921 - Charles Bronson, Ehrenfeld, Pennsylvania, actor (Magnificent Seven, Death Wish, Dirty
           Dozen), (d. 2003)
1922 - Earl of Lonsdale, English large landowner/multi-millionaire
1923 - Tomás Cardinal Ó Fiaich, Northern Irish clergyman (d. 1990)
1925 - Dieter Wellershoff, German author (Minotaur)
1926 - Valdas Adamkus, President of the Republic of Lithuania
1927 - Zbigniew Cybulski, Pniarz Poland, actor (See You Tommorrow)
1927 - Andy Williams, Wall Lake, Iowa, singer/actor (Andy Williams Show, "Butterfly"), (d. 2012)
1928 - Osamu Tezuka, Japanese manga artist (d. 1989)
1930 - Ken Berry, Moline Ill, actor (F Troop, Mayberry RFD, Mama's Family)
1930 - Lois Smith, Topeka Ks, actress (Reckless, Reuben Reuben)
1930 - Philip M Crane, (Rep-R-IL, 1969- )
1930 - William H Dana, pilot (X-15)
1930 - D. James Kennedy, American theologian (d. 2007)
1930 - Brian Robinson, British cyclist
1931 - Monica Vitti, [Ceciarelli], Rome Italy, actress (Tigers in Lipstick)
1931 - Yon Hyong-muk, North Korean politician (d. 2005)
1932 - Thomas J Manton, (Rep-D-NY, 1985- )
1933 - Aneta Corsaut, Jutchinson Ks, actress (Helen Crump-Andy Griffith)
1933 - Jeremy Brett, Berkswell England, actor (Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Freddie-My Fair Lady)
1933 - Louis W Sullivan, US Sec of Health & Human Services (1989- )
1933 - Michael S Dukakis, (Gov-D-Mass, 1988 Pres Candidate)
1933 - John Barry, English composer
1933 - Amartya Sen, Santiniketan, Bengal, economist and Nobel Prize laureate (welfare economics
           and social choice theory)
1934 - Derek Richardson, cricketer (played one innings for England 1957)
1934 - Hans Janmaat, Dutch MP (CD)/(fascist)
1934 - Ruma Guha Thakurta, Singer, Actress, Dancer, Founder of Calcutta Youth Choir
1936 - Roy Emerson, Australia, tennis player (Wimbledon-1964, 65, US Open-61)
1937 - Lynn Woolsey, (Rep-D-California)
1937 - Paula Wayne, Hobart Oklahoma, vocalist (Everything's Great)
1938 - Pupi Avati, Bologna Italy, director (Festival, Bix, Impiegati)
1938 - Martin Dunwoody, British mathematician
1938 - Jean Rollin, French director and screenwriter
1939 - Terrence McNally, St Petersburg Fla, playwright (Bad Habits)
1940 - Dieter Acker, composer
1941 - Brian Poole, Essex England, vocalist (Brian Poole & The Tremeloes)
1943 - Bert Jansch, rocker
1945 - Ken Holtzman, American baseball pitcher and manager
1945 - Gerd Müller, German footballer
1946 - Nick Simper, rocker (Deep Purple)
1946 - Tommy Dee, rocker
1946 - Tom Savini, American actor
1947 - Mazie Hirono, American politician
1948 - Lulu, Glasgow Scotland, singer/actress (To Sir With Love)
1948 - Tom Shales, TV critic (Washington Post)
1948 - Helmut Koinigg, Austrian racing driver (d. 1974)
1949 - Larry Holmes, heavyweight boxing champ (1978-85)
1949 - Michael Evans, Salisbury NC, actor (Lionel-All in the Family)
1949 - Roswitha Krause, USSR, 4 X 100m swimmer (Olympic-silver-1968)
1949 - Anna Wintour, English-American editor
1949 - Mike Evans, American actor (d. 2006)
1950 - Joe Queenan, American writer
1950 - Massimo Mongai, Italian writer
1951 - Azmat Rana, cricketer (one Test for Pakistan against Australia 1980)
1951 - Ed Murawinski, American cartoonist, New York Daily News
1952 - Felix R de Rooy, Curacaos poet/sculptor
1952 - Roseanne, [Barr Arnold], Salt Lake City, comedienne/TV star (Roseanne)
1952 - Jim Cummings, American voice actor
1952 - David Ho, Taiwanese-American AIDS researcher
1953 - Kate Capshaw [Nail], Fort Worth, Texas, American actress (Indiana Jones and the Temple of
           Doom)
1953 - Dennis Miller, Pitts Pa, comedian/TV host (SNL, Dennis Miller Show)
1953 - Kathy Kinney, actress (Mimi-Drew Carey Show)
1953 - Helios Creed, American musician (Chrome)
1953 - Larry Herndon, baseball player
1954 - Adam Ant, [Stuart Goddard], London, English punk rocker (If I Strip For You)
1954 - Godzilla, Japanese monster (Godzilla)
1954 - Kevin P Chilton, Los Angeles California, Lt Col USAF/Astronaut (STS 49, 59, 76)
1955 - Phil Simms, NFL quarterback (NY Giants, Superbowl 1986)
1956 - Kevin Murphy, American actor and puppeteer
1956 - Gary Ross, American film director
1957 - Dolph Lundgren, Stockholm, Sweden, actor (Rocky IV, The Expendables 2)
1958 - Andrew Mapple, US water skier
1958 - Sue Daniels, Adelaide Australia, golfer (1983 Victorian Amateur Champ)
1959 - Timothy Patrick Murphy, Hartford Conn, actor (Dallas, Glitter)
1959 - Hal Hartley, American film director and writer
1960 - James Prime, British rock keyboardist (Deacon Blue-Pay Day)
1960 - Marcel "Baaf" Stavenuiter, Dutch drummer (Bob Color)
1960 - Sharon Monplaisir, NYC, fencer-epee (Olympics-96)
1960 - [Charles] Karch Kiraly, Jackson, Michigan, American volleyball player (Oly-3 g-84, 88, 96)
1961 - David AC viscount Linley, son of English princess Margaret/mystic
1961 - Kari Michaelsen, NYC, actress (Katie-Gimme a Break)
1962 - Kimberly Evenson, Bremerhaven Germany, playmate (September, 1984)
1962 - Kym Hampton, WNBA forward (NY Liberty)
1962 - Marilyn, rocker (You Don't Love Me)
1962 - Jacqui Smith UK Home Secretary
1963 - Howard Ballard, NFL tackle (Seattle Seahawks)
1963 - Stephen Corkin, Auckland NZ, judoka (Olympics-96)
1963 - Ian Wright, English footballer
1963 - Shigeaki Hattori, Japanese racing driver
1964 - Brian Young, cricketer (NZ Test opening batsman)
1965 - John Feskens, Dutch soccer player (Willem II)
1965 - Maty Monforth, TV host (Mike & Maty)
1965 - Michael Paul Springer, SF CA, PGA golfer (1994 Greater Milwaukee)
1966 - Todd Reynolds, Norwalk Conn, pairs skaters (Olympics-1994)
1966 - Tracey Fuchs, Centereach NY, field hockey midfielder (Olympics-88, 96)
1966 - Joe Hachem, Lebanese-born Australian poker player
1967 - Rob Cowie, Toronto, NHL defenseman (LA Kings)
1968 - Antonio Pettigrew, Macon Ga, 400m (Olympics-96)
1968 - Debbie Rochon, Vancouver BC, actress (Tromeo & Juliet)
1968 - Lee Germon, cricketer (NZ keeper & captain 1995- )
1968 - Paul Quantrill, London Ontario, pitcher (Toronto Blue Jays)
1969 - Jim Mckenzie, Gull Lake, NHL left wing (Winnipeg Jets)
1969 - Leslie Shepherd, NFL wide receiver (Washington Redskins)
1969 - Robert Miles, Swiss record producer, composer and musician in trance and ambient music.
1970 - Doug Zmolek, Rochester, NHL defenseman (LA Kings)
1971 - Bob Kronenberg, WLAF center (Rhein Fire)
1971 - Colbie Bell, Edmonton Alberta, 100kg Greco Roman wrestler (Oly-96)
1971 - Darrin Hancock, NBA guard/forward (Charlotte Hornets)
1971 - Joan Kenmore, actress (Wizard of Oz)
1971 - Matthew Lawton, Gulfport MS, outfielder (Minnesota Twins)
1971 - Tricia Carolyn Nosko, Miss USA-Indiana (1997)
1971 - William Strong, NFL cornerback (NO Saints)
1971 - Dylan Moran, Irish comedian
1971 - Diego Alessi, Italian race car driver
1972 - Chris Shelling, NFL cornerback (Cin Bengals)
1972 - Verl Mitchell, NFL guard (Atlanta Falcons)
1973 - Derrick Alexander, NFL defensive end (Minnesota Vikings)
1973 - Nemone, athlete and broadcaster
1973 - Kirk Jones (Sticky Fingaz), American musician
1973 - Mick Thomson, American guitarist (Slipknot)
1974 - Tariq Abdul Wahad, NBA forward (Sacramento Kings)
1975 - Darren Sharper, NFL defensive back (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1976 - Guillermo Franco, Argentine-Mexican footballer
1977 - Aria Giovanni, American model
1979 - Jamie Duffney, Miss Minnesota Teen USA (1997)
1979 - Pablo Aimar, Argentine footballer
1979 - Tim McIlrath, American musician (Rise Against)
1979 - Beau McDonald, Australian Rules Footballer
1981 - Sten Pentus, Estonian racing car driver
1982 - Evgeny Plushenko, Russian figure skater
1983 - Suzane von Richthofen, Brazilian murderess
1984 - Ryo Nishikido, Japanese Idol (member of NEWS (band) and Kanjani8)
1984 - Christian Bakkerud, Danish racing driver
1987 - Felix Schütz, German ice hockey player
1987 - Gemma Ward, Australian model
1987 - Colin Kaepernick, American football player
1987 - Elizabeth A. Smart, American abductee and activist
1988 - Angus McLaren, Australian Actor
1989 - Paula DeAnda, American singer
1990 - Ellyse Perry, Australian soccer player/cricket player

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 03, 2013, 09:31:53 AM

This Day in History for 3rd November


Famous Deaths

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Sharp Shooter Annie Oakley (1926)               Impressionist Painter                         Actress Mary Martin (1990)
                                                                     Henri Matisse (1954)


361 - Flavius Julius Constantius II, 1st Byzantine Emperor, dies at 44
753 - Pirminius, German saint (b. 753)
1254 - Johannes III Doukas Vatatzes, Byzantine Emperor (1222-54)/saint, dies
1344 - Adolf van der Mark, prince-bishop of Liege (1313-44), dies at 56
1378 - Jan II, ruler of Polanen/Leck/Breda, dies
1428 - Thomas Montacute, 4th Earl of Salisbury, English military leader (mortally wounded in battle)
           (b. 1388)
1456 - Edmund Turdor, earl of Richmond, dies
1580 - Jeronimo Zurita y Castro, Spanish historian (b. 1512)
1584 - Charles Borromeo, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1538)
1600 - Richard Hooker, English theologian (b. 1554)
1639 - Martinus de Porres, Peruvian saint (patron of social justice), dies at 69
1643 - Paul Guldin, Swiss astronomer and mathematician (b. 1577)
1643 - John Bainbridge, English astronomer (b. 1582)
1708 - Henriette Catharina van Nassau, daughter of Frederik Henry, dies at 71
1711 - Ferdinand Tobias Richter, composer, dies at 60
1711 - John Ernest Grabe, German-born Anglican theologian (b. 1666)
1787 - Robert Lowth, British bishop and grammarian (b. 1710)
1793 - Olympe de Gouges, French feminist and revolutionary (b. 1748)
1794 - François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, French cardinal and statesman (b. 1715)
1803 - Henri Moreau, composer, dies at 75
1832 - Pietro Generali, composer, dies at 59
1845 - Johan G Verstolk van Soelen, Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs, dies at 69
1864 - Antonio Goncalves Dias, Brazilian national poet, dies at sea
1867 - Pieter J Jong, Dutch Zouave, dies in battle
1869 - Andreas Kalvos, Greek poet (b. 1792)
1873 - Kintpuash, "Captain Jack", chief of Modoc-indians, dies
1890 - Ulrich Ochsenbein, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1811)
1904 - Gaston Henri Charles Antoine Serpette, composer, dies at 57
1911 - Salvador Giner y Vidal, composer, dies at 79
1913 - Hans Bronsart von Schellendorf, composer, dies at 83
1914 - Georg Trakl, Austria poet (Totentag, Cocaine Overdose), dies at 27
1917 - Léon Bloy, French novelist and essayist (b. 1846)
1918 - Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov, Russian scientist (b. 1857)
1926 - Annie Oakley, US sharp shooting star, dies at 66
1927 - Karel Matěj Čapek-Chod, Czech journalist (b. 1860)
1929 - Olav Aukrust, Norwegian poet (b. 1883)
1931 - Rudolf W Canne, Fries playwright (Peaske), dies at 60
1933 - Emile Roux, French scientist (b. 1853)
1936 - Filip Lazar, composer, dies at 42
1942 - Carl Sternheim, German playwright (Trousers, Snob), dies at 64
1945 - Alessandro Longo, composer, dies at 80
1949 - Solomon R Guggenheim, US art collector, dies at 88
1954 - Henri E B Matisse, French painter/sculptor (Dance II), dies at 84
1957 - Wilhelm Reich, Austria/US psycho analyst (sexual), dies at 60
1958 - Harry Revel, movie composer (Sitting Pretty, Gay Divorcee), dies
1959 - Friedrich Niggli, composer, dies at 83
1960 - Paul Willis, American actor (b. 1901)
1962 - Harlow H Curtice, pres of General Motors (1953-8), dies at 69
1964 - John Henry Barbee, American guitarist and singer (b. 1905)
1966 - Eric Spear, British composer for film and TV (Coronation Street theme)
1970 - Peter II Karadjordjevic, last king of Yugoslavia (1934-45), dies at 57
1971 - Etienne Gailly, Belgium marathoner (Oly-bron-48), dies in accident at 48
1973 - Arturo De Cordova, actor (This Strange Passion), dies at 65
1973 - Marc Allégret, French director and screenwriter (b. 1900)
1977 - Florence Vidor, actress (Jack Knife Man), dies at 82
1980 - Ludwig Hohl, writer, dies
1982 - Edward H Carr, British historian, dies at 90
1983 - Alfredo Antonini, conductor (Jane Froman Canteen), dies at 82
1986 - Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, jazz saxophonist, dies at 65
1988 - Henri van Praag, Dutch para-psychologist, dies
1990 - Mary Martin, actress (Peter Pan), dies of cancer at 76
1990 - Valerie French, actress (Jubal), dies of leukemia
1992 - Jean Daskalides, Belgian chocolate factory, dies at 70
1992 - John H Davis, actor (Our Gang), dies of respiratory failure at 78
1993 - Duncan Gibbins, director (Fire With Fire), dies in California fire at 41
1993 - Leon Theremin, electronic musical instruments inventor, dies at 97
1993 - William Lanteau, actor (On Golden Pond), dies at 70
1994 - Dennis C Ott, US actor (Star Trek 3/4), dies of AIDs
1994 - Richard Krautheimer, US art historian, dies at 97
1995 - Arthur George Bottomley, politician, dies at 88
1995 - Gordon S. Fahrni, physician and president of the Canadian Medical Association (b. 1887)
1996 - Barry George Barrington Porter, politician, dies at 57
1996 - Heather Swift, local councellor, dies at 79
1996 - Jean-Bedel Bokassa, dictator of Cent Africa Rep (1967-79), dies at 75
1996 - Michael Burchill, actor, dies at 65
1996 - Abdullah Çatlı, a Turkish nationalist and neofascist activist (b. 1956)
1998 - Bob Kane, comic artist and Batman co-creator (b. 1915)
1999 - Ian Bannen, Scottish actor (b. 1928)
2001 - Ernst Gombrich, Austrian art historian (b. 1909)
2002 - Lonnie Donegan, Scottish musician (b. 1931)
2002 - Jonathan Harris, American actor (b. 1914)
2003 - Rasul Gamzatov, Russian poet (b. 1923)
2004 - Sergei Zholtok, Latvian hockey player (b. 1972)
2006 - Paul Mauriat, French musician (b. 1925)
2006 - Marie Rudisill, American author and "Fruitcake Lady" (b. 1911)
2006 - Alberto Spencer, Ecuadorean footballer (b. 1937)
2007 - Martin Meehan, Irish republican (b. 1945)
2009 - Francisco Ayala, Spanish novelist (b. 1906)
2010 - Viktor Chernomyrdin, Russian politician (b. 1938)
2010 - Jerry Bock, American musical theatre composer (b. 1928)
2010 - Jim Clench, Canadian bassist (April Wine and Bachman-Turner Overdrive) (b. 1949)
2012 - Tommy Goodwin, British track cyclist, dies at 91

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 04, 2013, 10:46:23 AM

This Day in History for 4th November


Historical Events

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US President                                           US President Grover Cleveland                 Dictator of Nazi Germany
 James Buchanan                                                                                                    Adolf Hitler

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Nazi Politician Hermann Goering                 262nd Pope John XXIII                       Musician and Beatle
                                                                                                                              John Lennon

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US President & Actor                                     Singer Elton John                         44th US President Barack Obama
Ronald Reagan


922 - Richarius becomes bishop of Luik
1333 - Flood of the Arno River, causing massive damage in Florence as recorded by the Florentine
           chronicler Giovanni Villani.
1501 - Philip de Blank & Juana "la Loca" depart to Spain
1519 - Flood ravages Dutch/Friese coast
1520 - Danish/Norwegian king Christian II crowned king of Sweden
1529 - English cardinal Thomas Wolsey arrested
1576 - Eighty Years' War: In Flanders, Spanish defeat Walloon and captures Antwerp (after three
           days the city was nearly destroyed).
1619 - Frederik V crowned king of Bohemia
1631 - Ferdinand of Austria installed as land guardian of S Netherlands
1645 - Prince Frederik Henry conquerors Holly
1646 - Massachusetts uses death penalty for denying that Holy Bible is God's word
1675 - Storm hits Western Europe: flood in Amsterdam
1737 - The Teatro di San Carlo is inaugurated.
1771 - Carlo Goldoni's "Le Bourru Bienfaisant," premieres in Paris
1783 - W.A. Mozart's Symphony No. 36 is premiered in Linz, Austria.
1839 - The Newport Rising is the last large-scale armed rebellion against authority in mainland
           Britain.
1841 - 1st wagon train arrives in California
1845 - 1st nationally observed uniform election day in US
1846 - Benjamin Palmer patents artificial leg
1852 - Count Camillo Benso di Cavour becomes the prime minister of Piedmont-Sardinia, which soon
           expands to become Italy.
1854 - Lighthouse built on Alcatraz Island
1856 - James Buchanan elected 15th US president
1861 - University of Washington founded in Seattle
1862 - Dr Richard Gatling patents Gatling machine gun (Indianapolis)
1864 - Confederate assault on Johnsonville, Tennessee
1864 - Naval Engagement at Reynoldsburg Island
1866 - Kingdom of Italy annexes Venetia
1867 - 90 kegs of powder used to get rock from Telegraph Hill for seawall
1873 - Dentist John Beers of SF patents gold crown
1874 - Samuel J Tilden elected governor of NY
1875 - Passenger Steamship "Pacific" collides with sailing vessel "Orpheus" off Cape Flattery Wash,
           236 die
1875 - Tonga adopts constitution
1876 - John Brahms' 1st Symphony in C, premieres
1879 - Elkins patents refrigerating apparatus
1879 - James Ritty patents 1st cash register, to combat stealing by bartenders in his Dayton, Ohio
           saloon
1884 - Grover Cleveland (D) beats James G Blaine (R) for his 1st presidential term. The only
           American president to serve 2 non-consecutive terms
1886 - Edward MacDowell's "Ophelia," premieres
1889 - Players League begins, declaring independence from baseball's NL
1890 - Great Britain proclaims Zanzibar as a protectorate
1890 - Prince of Wales opens 1st underground station (Stockwell, London)
1890 - St Aleksandr Borodons opera "Prins Igor," premieres in Petersburg
1893 - Dr Jamesons Legertje occupies Bulawayo Matabeleland
1901 - Clyde Fitch' "Way of the World," premieres in NYC
1904 - 1st stadium built specifically for football (Harvard Stadium)
1905 - Dock strike against importing grain elevators in Rotterdam
1908 - Brooklyn Academy of Music, opens in NYC
1909 - Opera "Il Segreto di Susanna" is produced (Munich)
1910 - Start of South Africa's 1st F-C game in Aust (v S Aust). It rained
1911 - France & Germany signs treaty about Morocco & Congo
1914 - Soviet Union declares war on Turkey
1914 - Vogue holds 1st model show ("Fashion Fete," NYC)
1918 - Kiel in hands of revolutionary sailors
1921 - The Sturmabteilung or SA is formally formed by Adolf Hitler
1921 - Japanese Prime Minister Hara Takashi is assassinated in Tokyo.
1922 - Howard Carter discovers tomb of Tutankhamen in Egypt
1924 - British Labour government of Ramsay MacDonald resigns
1924 - California legalizes professional boxing (illegal since 1914)
1924 - Nellie Tayloe Ross elected 1st US female gov (Wyoming)
1924 - US president Calvin Coolidge re-elected
1928 - Jose Moncada elected president of Nicaragua
1929 - John Baldridge' "Berkeley Square," premieres in NYC
1931 - Jean Genet's "Judith," premieres in Paris
1933 - Bradman scores 200 NSW v Queensland, 184 mins, 26 fours
1933 - Hermann Goering & Georgi Dimitrov duel
1933 - Young Park (1) in the Bronx named in honor of James Young
1934 - Pitts ends Detroit Lions' shutout streak at 7 games but loses 40-7
1939 - 1940 Olympics awarded to Helsinki, Finland
1939 - 1st air conditioned automobile (Packard) exhibited, Chicago, Ill
1939 - US allows "cash & carry" arms sales during WW II
1940 - Eggs & cake rationed in Netherlands
1942 - 13th day of battle at El Alamein: Afrika Korps draws back out Fuka-posing
1943 - France arrests government of Lebanon
1944 - German troops reconquer Schmidt Hurtgenwald
1944 - RAF bombs Dinteloord, 54 killed
1946 - "Park Avenue" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 72 performances
1946 - UN Educational, Scientific, & Cultural Organization formed
1948 - TS Eliot wins Nobel Prize for literature
1949 - "One Man's Family" premieres on TV
1950 - "Barrier" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 4 performances
1950 - "Consul" closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 269 performances
1950 - Indonesian troops reconquer Ambonese capital Ambon
1950 - US troops vacate Pyongyang North Korea
1951 - 9th Ryder Cup: US wins 9½-2½ at Pinehurst Resort (Pinehurst, North Carolina, US)
1951 - NY Giants & NY Yanks score back-to-back TDs on kickoff returns
1951 - Vijay Merchant scores 154 v England in his last Test Cricket innings
1952 - Earthquake & flood strike Kamshatka-South America
1952 - General Dwight Eisenhower (R) elected 34th pres beating Adlai Stevenson (D)
1953 - Eddie Joost succeeds Jimmy Dykes as the manager of Phila A's
1953 - New balk rule gives the batter option; of accepting the outcome of the pitch or the balk
1954 - "Fanny" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 888 performances
1954 - Philadelphia A's move to Kansas City
1955 - The rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens with Ludwig van Beethoven's Fidelio after it was
           totally destroyed in World War II.
1956 - 200,000 Russian troops attack anti-Stalinist revolt in Budapest
1956 - Israel captures Straits of Tiran & reach Suez Canal Egypt
1956 - USSR sends tanks into Hungary & threatens to bomb Budapest
1957 - 2nd Soviet Earth-satellite launched
1958 - Angelo G Roncalli crowned as pope John XXIII
1958 - Belgian government of Eyskens, resigns
1958 - Democrats win US congressional election
1959 - Ernie Banks, Cubs shortstop, wins 2nd consecutive NL MVP
1960 - "Misfits" premieres, final movie for Clark Gable & Marilyn Monroe
1961 - Karamanlis becomes premier of Greece
1962 - Murle Lindstrom wins LPGA San Antonio Civitan Golf Tournament
1962 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
1963 - John Lennon utters his infamous "Rattle your jewellery" line
1965 - Lee Breedlove sets female land speed record (308.56 MPH) in Utah
1966 - Flooding of Arno River (Italy) destroys countless art works, kills 113
1968 - Battles between Jordan army & Al Fatah-arm forces
1968 - WRDU (now WPTF) TV chan 28 in Raleigh-Durham, NC (NBC) 1st broadcast
1968 - WTOG TV channel 44 in St Petersburg-Tampa, FL (IND) 1st broadcast
1970 - Russian nuclear physicist Sacharov forms Human Rights Comittee1958 - Angelo G Roncalli
           crowned as pope John XXIII
1958 - Belgian government of Eyskens, resigns
1958 - Democrats win US congressional election
1959 - Ernie Banks, Cubs shortstop, wins 2nd consecutive NL MVP
1960 - "Misfits" premieres, final movie for Clark Gable & Marilyn Monroe
1961 - Karamanlis becomes premier of Greece
1962 - Murle Lindstrom wins LPGA San Antonio Civitan Golf Tournament
1962 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
1963 - John Lennon utters his infamous "Rattle your jewellery" line
1965 - Lee Breedlove sets female land speed record (308.56 MPH) in Utah
1966 - Flooding of Arno River (Italy) destroys countless art works, kills 113
1968 - Battles between Jordan army & Al Fatah-arm forces
1968 - WRDU (now WPTF) TV chan 28 in Raleigh-Durham, NC (NBC) 1st broadcast
1968 - WTOG TV channel 44 in St Petersburg-Tampa, FL (IND) 1st broadcast
1970 - Russian nuclear physicist Sacharov forms Human Rights Comittee
1970 - Genie, a 13 year old feral child was found in Los Angeles, California having been locked in her
           bedroom for most of her life.
1972 - Bangladesh adopts constitution
1972 - Kings score 3 goals within 45 seconds against Islanders
1973 - 1000s commemorates former premier Georgios Papandreou
1973 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Errol Golf Classic
1973 - M Medoff's "When you Comin' Back, Red Ryder?," premieres in NYC
1973 - New Orleans Saints 1st shutout victory, 13-0 vs Buffalo Bills
1973 - The Netherlands experiences the first Car Free Sunday caused by the 1973 oil crisis.
           Highways are deserted and are solely used by cyclists and roller skaters.
1975 - Orioles Jim Palmer wins his 2nd Cy Young Award
1976 - 1st mass-market free-agent reentry draft, Reggie Jackson, Joe Rudi, Gullett, Tenace, Fingers,
           Baylor, Grich & McCovey, available
1977 - UN Security council proclaims weapon embargo against South Africa
1978 - Iranian troops fire on anti-Shah student protesters by Tehran U
1978 - Islanders start 15 game undefeated streak (12-0-3)
1978 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1978 - 3rd annual reentry free-agent draft, Pete Rose, Tommy John, & Darrell Evans, available
1979 - 63 Americans taken hostage at US Embassy (Teheran, Iran)
1979 - 500 Iranian "students" seize US embassy, take 90 hostages (444 days)
1980 - Islanders start 15 game undefeated streak (13-0-2)
1980 - Libyan invasion in Chad
1980 - Ronald Reagan (R) defeats President Jimmy Carter (D) by a landslide
1980 - Sadaharu Oh, 40, pro baseball's all-time HR run king with 868, retires
1980 - Steve Carlton wins 3rd NL Cy Young Awards
1981 - Beth Henley's "Crimes of the Heart," premieres in NYC
1981 - Columbia shuttle launch scrubbed with 31 secs remaining
1981 - Dr George Nichopoulas is acquitted of overprescribing addictive drugs for Elvis Presley
1982 - Ruud Lubbers becomes Dutch premier
1983 - Bomb attack on Israeli headquarter in Tyrus Lebanon, 60 killed
1983 - Washington Capitals 1st NHL overtime victory beating Vancouver 5-4
1984 - Nayoko Yoshikawa wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic
1984 - Nicaragua holds 1st free elections in 56 years; Sandinistas win 63%
1987 - Benito Santiago, Padres catcher, wins NL Rookie of Year
1987 - Lisa Steinberg, battered into coma by her adoptive father Joel
1987 - NBA announces 4 new franchises; Charlotte & Miami for 1988 & Minneapolis & Orlando for
           1989
1988 - 1st NBA game at Charlotte Coliseum - Hornets lose to Cavs, 133-93
1989 - 1st NBA game at Orlando Arena, Orlando Magic loses to NJ Nets, 111-106
1989 - Rene Muawad elected president of Lebanon
1989 - Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Bayakoa, Dancing Spree, Go for Wand, Prized, Rhythm,
           Steinlen, Sunday Silence
1989 - The congress of the Solidarity Party is inaugurated in Sweden. The congress decides, contrary
           to the proposal of the central committee, not to disband the party.
1990 - "Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story" opens at Shubert NYC for 225 perfs
1990 - 20th NYC Women's Marathon won by Wanda Panfil in 2:30:45
1990 - 21st NYC Marathon won by Douglas Wakiihuri in 2:12:39
1990 - Debbie Massey wins LPGA Mazda Japan 133 Golf Classic
1990 - Iraq says it is preparing for a "dangerous war"
1990 - US Secretary of State James Baker visits American troops in Saudi Arabia
1991 - Mid East peace conference ends in Madrid Spain
1992 - NY Giants announce they will quit WNEW Radio after 32 years for WOR
1992 - NY Jets announce they are moving from WABC to WFAN radio
1993 - "Timon of Athens" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 37 performances
1993 - Elton John awarded $518,700 from Sunday Mirror for a false report on his diet
1993 - Nia Peeples files for divorce from Howard Hewett
1993 - Bolivia becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1994 - Soyuz TM-20 lands in Kazahkstan
1994 - United Center in Chicago opens - Bulls beat Charlotte Hornets, 89-83
1994 - San Francisco: First conference that focusses exclusively on the subject of the commercial
           potential of the World Wide Web.
1995 - "Indiscretions" closes at Ethel Barrymore Theater NYC after 221 perfs
1995 - 1st-class Cricket debut of Paul Adams, W Province v N Transvaal
1995 - Key Arena opens, Seattle Supersonics beat LA Lakers 103-89
2002 - Chinese authorities arrest cyber-dissident He Depu for signing pro-democracy letter to the
           16th Communist Party Congress
2003 - The most powerful solar flare as observed by satellite instrumentation is recorded.
2003 - Former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy becomes the first person indicted under the
           Sarbanes-Oxley Act. He was eventually acquitted.
2004 - 12 French soldiers, 3 UN personnel and hundreds of civilians die during the Côte d'Ivoire civil
           war.
2008 - Barack Obama becomes the first African-American to be elected President of the United
           States
2012 - Bishop Tawadros appointed as the 118th Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church
2012 - Kimi Raikkonen wins Formula 1 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix 2012
2012 - Syrian rebels capture a major oil field in Deir ez-Zor Governorate

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 04, 2013, 10:47:55 AM

This Day in History for 4th November


Famous Weddings

1842 - Abraham Lincoln (later 16th US President) marries Mary Todd in Springfield
1911 - Charles I of Austria marries Princess Zita of Bourbon-Parma
1978 - "The Nanny" actress Fran Drescher (20) weds writer and director Peter Marc Jacobson (20)
2006 - Radio and television journalist Alison Stewart (40) weds MSNBC vice-president of prime-time
           programming Bill Wolff (40) at the stylish New York restaurant Cipriani 23rd Street
2006 - Croatian princess Paola Doimi de Frankopan (37) weds son of the Duke and Duchess of Kent
           Lord Nicholas Windsor (37) at St. Stephen of Abyssina in Vatican City
2006 - 1996 summer Olympics gold medalist gymnast Dominique Moceanu (25) weds podiatrist Dr.
           Michael Canales (29) in Houston, Texas

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 04, 2013, 10:49:02 AM

This Day in History for 4th November


Famous Divorces

1940 - American author and journalist "The Old Man and the Sea" Ernest Hemingway divorces 2nd
           wife Pauline Pfeiffer
1993 - Nia Peeples files for divorce from Howard Hewett
2009 - R&B singer Usher (30) divorces hair stylist and wardrobe stylist Tameka Foster (38) due to
           irretrievably broken marriage after 2 years of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 04, 2013, 04:09:36 PM

This Day in History for 4th November


Famous Birthdays

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Humorist Will Rogers (1879)                      Broadcast Journalist                              Actress Doris Roberts (1930)
                                                               Walter Cronkite (1916)

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Rapper Puff Daddy (1969)


1448 - King Alphonso II of Naples (d. 1495)
1575 - Guido Reni, Italian painter (d. 1642)
1587 - Samuel Scheidt, German organist/composer, baptised
1590 - Gerard van Honthorst, Dutch painter
1640 - Carlo Mannelli, composer
1650 - William III of Orange, king of England (1689-1702)
1656 - Leonard Sailer, composer
1661 - Karl III Philip, Elector Palatine (d. 1742)
1674 - Anton Englert, composer
1708 - Robert Praelisauer, composer
1740 - Augustus Montague Toplady, English author of hymn "Rock of Ages" (d. 1778)
1756 - Anthony van Hoboken, Rotterdam merchant/ship owner
1765 - Pierre Girard, French mathematician (d. 1836)
1779 - John W Pieneman, historical painter (Battle at Waterloo)
1787 - Edmund Kean, England, actor (Edmund Kean's Masonic Career)
1790 - Carlos A Lopez, president of Paraguay (1844-62)
1797 - Aleksander A Bestuzhev-Marlinsky, Russian author
1800 - Eduard Brendler, composer
1809 - Benjamin Robbins Curtis, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1874)
1812 - Aleardo [Gaetano] Aleardi, Italian/East poet (Lettere a Maria)
1816 - William Polk Hardeman, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1898
1816 - Stephen Johnson Field, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1899)
1818 - Alexander Robert Lawton, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1896
1820 - Robert Vinkler Richardson, Brig Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1870
1823 - Karel Komzak, composer
1835 - Lunsford Lindsay Lomax, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1913
1836 - Henry J. Lutcher, American businessman and sawmill partner (d. 1912)
1841 - Carl Tausig, composer
1842 - William Barker Cushing, Lt Cmdr (Union Navy), died in 1874
1845 - Vasudeo Balwant Phadke, The First Indian Revolutionary (d. 1883)
1846 - Gaston Henri Charles Antoine Serpette, composer
1859 - Stanislaw Niewiadomski, composer
1862 - Eden Phillpotts, England, novelist/poet/playwright (Red Madymaynes)
1867 - Tomasz Arciszewski, Polish PM (1944-47)
1868 - Carolina Otero, a.k.a La Belle Otero, Spanish actress, singer and courtesan (d. 1965)
1872 - Herman Finck, composer
1873 - G E Moore, English philosopher (Ethics)
1874 - Aleksandr Vasilevich Kolchak, Russian military commander (d. 1920)
1876 - James Fraser, designed buffalo nickel
1879 - Will Rogers, Oologah Indian Territory (Okla), humorist and actor (Judge Priest), (d. 1935)
1881 - Gena Branscombe, composer
1881 - Milton Rosmer, Southport England, director (Murder in the Red Barn)
1884 - Harry Ferguson, Northern Irish aviator and inventor (d. 1960)
1886 - Ian Wolfe, Canton Ill, actor (Diary of a Madman, Wizards & Warriors)
1887 - Knut Algot Hakanson, composer
1889 - Alton Augustus Adams, composer
1890 - Klabund, [Alfred Henschke], German writer (Bracke, Borgia)
1891 - Miroslav Krejci, Czech composer
1896 - Carlos P. Garcia, 8th President of the Philippines (d. 1971)
1897 - Oscar Lorenzo Fernandez, Brazilian conductor/composer (Imbapara)
1899 - Carlos Pellicer, Mexican museum director/poet (Teotihuacan)
1899 - Mimi Boesnach, Dutch actress (Wedding of Kloris & Roosje)
1899 - Nicolas Frantz, Luxembourgish cyclist (d. 1985)
1900 - Luigi Lucioni, Italian, landscape painter (opera stars)
1900 - Lucreţiu Pătrăşcanu, Romanian communist activist and sociologist (d. 1954)
1901 - Princess Bang-ja of Korea (d. 1989)
1901 - Spyridon Marinatos, Greek archaeologist (d. 1974)
1902 - Frank Jenks, Des Moines IA, actor (Zombies on Broadway)
1903 - Ion Vasilescu, composer
1904 - Don Alvarado, [Jose Page], Albuquerque NM, actor (Captain Thunder)
1904 - Walter Bauer, writer
1904 - Tadeusz Żyliński, Polish technician and textilist (d. 1967)
1905 - Martin Raschke, German author/publisher/war correspondent
1906 - Arnold Atkinson Cooke, composer
1906 - Bob Considine, sports columnist (Bob Feller Story)
1906 - Roswell Leavitt Gilpatric, lawyer/diplomat
1906 - Siegfried Borris, composer
1908 - Anthony Warde, PA, actor (Black Widow)
1908 - Stanley Cortez, New York City, American cinematographer
1909 - Skeeter Webb, American baseball player (d. 1986)
1909 - Bert Patenaude, American soccer player (d. 1974)
1909 - Evelyn Johnson, Corbin Kentucky, female pilot (most flying hours - 57,685), (d. 2012)
1911 - Jack Rose, screenwriter
1911 - Ssamu Shimizu, composer
1912 - H "Giff" Vivian, cricketer (father of Graham 1st Test for NZ at 18)
1912 - Pauline Trigere, fashion designer (Bell Bottoms)
1912 - Vadim Nikolayevich Salmanov, composer
1913 - Gig Young, St. Cloud Minnesota, American actor (They Shoot Horses Don't They)
1915 - Alistair Cameron Crombie, historian of science
1915 - Courtenay E Benson, broadcaster
1915 - Lloyd James Austin, French Scholar
1916 - Walter Cronkite, St Joseph Mo, news anchor (CBS Evening News 1962-81)
1917 - Leonardo Cimino, Manhattan, New York, actor (V, Dune), (d. 2012)
1918 - Art Carney, Mount Vernon NY, actor (Ed Norton-Honeymooners)
1918 - Cameron Mitchell, Dallastown Pa, actor (Buck-High Chaparral)
1919 - Martin Balsam, NYC, actor (Murray-Archie Bunker's Place, Catch 22)
1920 - Georges Papy, Belgian mathematician (Numbers Game)
1921 - Antonio Ruiz Soler, spanish dancer
1922 - Poul Rovsing Olsen, composer
1922 - Benno Besson, Swiss actor (d. 2006)
1923 - Alfred Heineken, beer brewer (Heineken)
1924 - Howie Meeker, Canadian ice hockey player and politician
1927 - Vittorio Fellegara, composer
1928 - Hannah Weiner American experimental poet
1929 - Jimmy Piersall, baseball player (Red Sox, Senators, Indians)
1929 - Shaike Ophir, Israeli actor (d. 1987)
1930 - Dick Groat, shortstop (NL MVP 1960)
1930 - Doris Roberts, St Louis Mo, actress (Angie, Maggie, Emmy 1983)
1930 - Kate Reid, London England, actress (Heaven Help US)
1931 - Darla Hood, Leedey Oklahoma, singer/actress (Little Rascals)
1932 - David Shipman, film historian
1932 - Noam Pitlik, Phila Pa, actor/director (Sanford & Son, Bob Newhart)
1932 - Thomas Klestil, President of Austria (d. 2004)
1933 - Mildred McDaniel, US high jumper (Olympic-gold-1956)
1933 - Tito Francona, American baseball player
1934 - Judith Herzberg, Dutch poetess/author (Charlotte Life or Theater)
1935 - Elgar Howarth, composer
1936 - Didier Ratsiraka, president of Madagascar
1936 - C. K. Williams, American poet
1937 - Loretta Swit, Passaic NJ, actress (Hotlips Houlihan-M*A*S*H)
1938 - Alan Jones, cricketer (England v ROW 1970 his only intl honour)
1938 - Harry Elston, rocker
1940 - Delbert McClinton, Lubbock Tx, singer (Gonna Find a Good Woman)
1941 - Martin Brozius, Dutch actor (Goede Tijden Slechte Tijden)
1943 - Marlene Jobert, novelist (Adventures of John Difool)
1943 - Clark Graebner, American tennis player
1944 - Willem Breuker, Dutch saxophonist/conductor (WB Collective)
1946 - Robert Mapplethorpe, US photographer
1946 - Laura Bush, U.S. First Lady 2001-09
1946 - Frederick Elmes, American cinematographer
1947 - Aleksandr Tkachev, USSR, parallel bars gymnist (Olympic-gold-1980)
1947 - Alexei Ulanov, USSR, pairs figure skater (Olympic-gold-1972, 76)
1947 - Edward Matt Dougherty, Chester PA, PGA golfer (1995 Deposit Guaranty)
1947 - Rodney Marsh, cricketer (AKA "Iron Gloves" AKA "Bacchus" Kept wickets)
1949 - Berlinda Tolbert, Charlotte NC, actor (Jenny-Jeffersons)
1949 - Kathy McMullen, LPGA golfer
1950 - Markie Post, [Marjorie], Palo Alto Cal, actr (Christine-Night Court)
1950 - Charles Frazier, American author
1951 - Dan Hartman, US singer/songwriter/producer (Instant Replay)
1951 - Traian Băsescu, President of Romania
1953 - Carlos Gutierrez, American politician
1953 - Jacques Villeneuve (elder), Canadian racing driver
1953 - Dr. Marvel Williamson, American educator
1954 - Chris Difford, guitarist/vocalist (Squeeze-Tempted)
1955 - Peter Boynton, Danaiscotta Maine, actor (Tonio-As the World Turns)
1955 - Matti Vanhanen, Prime Minister of Finland
1956 - James Honeyman-Scott, rock guitarist/vocalist (Pretenders)
1956 - Jeff Watson, rock guitarist (Night Ranger)
1956 - Jordan Rudess, American musician (Dream Theater)
1957 - Najee, rocker
1958 - Anne Sweeney, American television executive
1960 - Kim Forester, Lookout Mt Ga, country singer (Forester Sister-Men)
1960 - Kathy Griffin, Chicago, Illinois, American comedienne (Suddenly Susan, Kathy Griffin: My Life
           on the D-List)
1960 - Marc Awodey, American artist and writer
1960 - Frl. Menke, German pop singer of the Neue Deutsche Welle
1961 - Edward Knight, Ann Arbor, Michigan, composer
1961 - Carlos Espinosa, Mexico, Canadian Tour golfer (1995 Philippine Open)
1961 - Ralph Macchio, Huntington NY, actor (Karate Kid, 8 is Enough)
1961 - Daron Hagen, American composer
1961 - Edward Knight, American composer
1961 - Les Sampou, American musician
1961 - Nigel Worthington, Northern Irish footballer
1962 - Jeff Probst, American television host
1963 - David Williams, WI cricket wicket-keeper (3 Tests 1992)
1963 - Michael Heidt, hockey defenseman (Team Germany 1998)
1963 - Marc Déry, Canadian singer and guitarist (Zébulon)
1963 - Rosario Flores, Spanish singer and actress
1963 - Michel Therrien, Canadian ice hockey coach
1964 - Fiona Pike, Adelaide Australia, golfer (S Aust State champ 1993/94)
1964 - Kurt Krakowian, Berwyn, Illinios, child actor
1965 - Erik Norgard, NFL center/guard (Houston/Tennessee Oilers)
1965 - Gregory Scott [Koenig], Dearborn Mich, guitarist (Signs of Life)
1965 - Malandra Burrows, English actress and singer
1965 - Tomoaki Ishizuka "Pata", Japanese musician
1965 - Wayne Static, American musician (Static-X)
1966 - Bubba McDowell, NFL safety (Carolina Panthers)
1966 - Kool Rock, [Damon Wimbley], rapper (Fat Boys-Jail House Rock)
1966 - Petra Verkaik, Los Angeles Ca, playmate (Dec, 1989)
1966 - H. John Heinz IV, American medieval armor craftsman; son of Teresa Heinz
1967 - Alex Rousseau, Paris France, US water polo 2m Offense (Oly-4th-92, 96)
1967 - Asif Mujtaba, cricketer (Pakistani lefty batsman)
1967 - Eric Karros, Hackansack NJ, infielder (LA Dodgers)
1968 - Carlos Baerga, Puerto Rico, infielder (Cleveland Indians)
1968 - Domingo Cedeno, La Ramona Dom Rep, infielder (Toronto Blue Jays)
1968 - Osvaldo Fernandez, Holguin Cuba, pitcher (SF Giants)
1969 - Jan Apell, Sweden, tennis star
1969 - Katrin Borchert, Germany, Australian canoeist (Olympics-96)
1969 - Matthew McConaughey, actor (Contact, A Time to Kill)
1969 - Tommy Henry, CFL defensive back (Edmonton Eskimos)
1969 - Sean Combs [Puff Daddy], New York City, rapper/record producer (Come to Me, I'll be Missing
           You)
1970 - Corey Schwab, North Battleford Canada, NHL goalie (NJ Devils)
1970 - Tim DeBoom, American triathlete
1971 - Russell Copeland, NFL wide receiver (Buffalo Bills)
1972 - Luís Figo, Portuguese footballer
1972 - Tabassum Hashmi, Indian actress
1974 - Cedric Bixler-Zavala, American musician (At the Drive-In, The Mars Volta)
1975 - Eric Fichaud, Anjou Canada, NHL goalie (NY Islanders)
1975 - Heather Tom, Hinsdale Ill, actress (Victoria Howard-Young & Restless)
1975 - Lorenzen Wright, NBA forward (LA Clippers)
1975 - Michael Osmond, Utah, singer (Osmond Boys)
1975 - Orlando Pace, tackle (St Louis Rams)
1975 - Eduard Kokcharov, Russian handball player
1975 - Curtis Stone, Australian chef and television personality
1976 - Bruno Junqueira, Brazilian racing driver
1976 - Mario Melchiot, Dutch footballer
1977 - Roseanne Farrugia, Miss Universe-Malta (1996)
1977 - Larry Bigbie, American baseball player
1977 - So Ji-sub, South Korean swimmer, model and actor
1977 - Tonicha Jeronimo, British actress
1978 - Carmen Cali, American baseball player
1978 - John Grabow, American baseball player
1979 - Daisy Eagan, Brooklyn New York, American actresss (Secret Graden)
1979 - Jesse Camp, former MTV veejay
1979 - Trishelle Cannatella, American reality tv castmember and model
1980 - Sabrina Colie, Jamaican actress
1980 - Jerry Collins, New Zealand rugby union footballer
1980 - Richard Owens, American football player
1980 - Marcy Rylan, American actress
1981 - Vince Wilfork, American football player
1982 - Devin Hester, American football player
1985 - Marcell Jansen, German footballer
1986 - Alexz Johnson, Canadian singer and actress
1986 - Adrian Zaugg, South African racing driver
1993 - Jonathan Ric Ocasek, son of rocker Ric & model Paulina Porizkova

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 04, 2013, 04:14:39 PM

This Day in History for 4th November


Famous Deaths

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Novelist Michael Crichton (2008)


1203 - Dirk VII, Count of Holland (1190-1203), dies
1411 - Khalil Sultan, ruler of Transoxonia (b. 1384)
1652 - Jean-Charles de la Faille, Flemish mathematician (b. 1597)
1658 - Antoine Le Maistre, French Jansenist (b. 1608)
1669 - Johannes Cocceius, Dutch theologian (b. 1603)
1674 - Kano Tanjoe, Japanese painter (palaces, portraits), dies at 72
1698 - Rasmus Bartholin, Danish physician and mathematician (b. 1625)
1702 - John Benbow, English vice-admiral (Santa Marta), dies
1702 - Thomas Eisenhut, composer, dies at 58
1704 - Andreas Acoluthus, German orientalist (b. 1654)
1708 - Henriette Catharina van Nassau, daughter of Frederik Henry, dies at 71
1768 - Johan Lulofs, Dutch physicist/philosopher/astronomer, dies at 57
1781 - Johann Nikolaus Götz, German poet (b. 1721)
1801 - William Shippen, American physician and delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1712)
1830 - Frederic LG de Merode, Belgian revolutionary, dies in battle at 37
1837 - Jean-Louis M Alibert, French dermatologist, dies at 69
1847 - Jacob L Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, German pianist/composer, dies at 38
1853 - Alexander Stadtfeld, composer, dies at 27
1856 - Hippolyte Delaroche, French painter (b. 1797)
1869 - George Peabody, American-British entrepreneur and philanthropist who founded the Peabody
           Trust and the Peabody Institute, dies at 74
1890 - Jacob PP baron van Zuylen, Dutch foreign minister (1852-3), dies at 74
1890 - Kazamierz Julian Kratzer, composer, dies at 46
1893 - Cornelis E van Koetsveld, Dutch vicar/literature, dies at 86
1893 - Pierre Tirard, French politician (b. 1827)
1898 - Jerome Hopkins, composer, dies at 62
1904 - Jack Brown, cricketer (8 Tests for England 1894-99), dies
1906 - John H. Ketcham, American politician (b. 1832)
1908 - Tomés Estrada Palma, 1st president Cuba (1902-06), dies
1914 - Georg Trakl, writer, dies at 27
1918 - Wilfred Owens, anti-war poet (Anthem for doomed youth), dies at 25
1921 - Takasji Hara, premier of Japan, murdered
1924 - Gabriel Urbain Faure, French composer (Requiem), dies at 79
1924 - Richard Conner, American Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient (b. 1843)
1928 - Arnold Rothstein, [A R], US businessman/gambler, shot to death at 46
1931 - Charles Buddy Bolden, US jazz musician, dies
1932 - Belle Bennett, actress (Iron Mask), dies at 41
1935 - Miklos Radnai, composer, dies at 43
1937 - Rogelio del Villar, composer, dies at 61
1939 - Charles Arnold Tournemire, composer, dies at 69
1940 - Manuel Azaña y Diez, Spanish PM (1932..4)/pres (1936-39), dies at 60
1942 - Marcel Barger, [Streliskie], cabaret performer, killed in Auschwitz
1950 - Grover Cleveland Alexander, American baseball player (b. 1887)
1953 - Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, composer, dies at 89
1954 - Stig H Dagerman, Swedish author (Burned Child), dies at 31
1955 - Cy Young, American baseball player (b. 1867)
1956 - Art[hur] Tatum, US jazz pianist/composer, dies at 46
1957 - Marie Joseph Canteloube de Malaret, composer, dies at 78
1957 - Shoghi Effendi, Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith (b. 1897)
1965 - Krsto Odak, composer, dies at 77
1967 - June Thorburn, actress (Tom Thumb), dies in plane crash at 36
1968 - Paul JM Lindemans, Flemish agricultural engineer/author, dies at 78
1968 - Michel Kikoine, Belarusian painter (b. 1892)
1969 - Carlos Marighela, Brazilian guerilla, dies in battle
1969 - Ferenc Szabo, composer, dies at 66
1973 - Karl H Waggerl, Austria author (Green Friends), dies at 75
1974 - Edgar Fernhout, Dutch painter/son of Charley Toorop, dies at 62
1975 - Sheila Ryan, actress(Song of Texas, Great Guns), dies at 54
1980 - Elsie MacGill, Canadian aeronautical engineer (b. 1905)
1982 - Dominique Dunne, actress (Poltergeist), murdered by boyfriend at 23
1982 - Jacques Tati[scheff], French mime/director, dies at 74
1984 - Merie Earle, actress (Maude-Waltons), dies of uremic poisoning at 95
1986 - Kurt Hirsch, German mathematician (b. 1906)
1987 - Raphael Soyer, artist (Depression scenes in NYC), dies at 87
1992 - Regina Carrol, actress (Jessi's Girl), dies of cancer at 49
1993 - Basuki Abdullah, Indonesian painter, murdered at 78
1993 - Cliff Young, pitcher (Cleveland Indians), dies in car accident at 29
1993 - Cornelis T "Cor" van de Molen, Dutch journalist (Beehive), dies at 62
1993 - Ely A Landau, producer (Long Day's Journey), dies of stroke at 73
1993 - Jose L Guarner, Spanish movie reviewer, dies at 56
1994 - Alexander Hardie Williamson, artist, dies at 87
1994 - Fred "Sonic" Smith, guitarist, dies at 46
1994 - Jan Wegter, actor (Pastorale 1943), dies at 64
1994 - Sam Francis, US painter (Basel Mural), dies at about 71
1994 - Samuel Lewis Francis, painter, dies at 71
1995 - Gilles Deleuze, philosopher, dies at 70
1995 - Jerome Berger, lawyer/Film producer, dies at 64
1995 - Marti Lynne Stringer Caine, singer/comedienne, dies at 50
1995 - Paul Eddington, actor (Jim Hacker), dies at 68
1995 - Yitzhak Rabin, PM of Israel, assassinated at 73
1996 - Robert Rapoport, social anthropologist, dies at 72
1997 - George Chambers, PM of Trinidad & Tobago (1981-86), dies
1997 - H Richard Hornberger, surgeon (inspired M*A*S*H), dies at 73
1997 - Wally Bruner, journalist (ABC, What's My Line), dies at 66
1999 - Malcolm Marshall, Barbadian West Indies cricketer (b. 1958)
2003 - Richard Wollheim, British philosopher (b. 1923)
2003 - Ken Gampu, South African actor (b. 1929)
2003 - Charles Causley, Cornish writer and poet (b. 1917)
2005 - Nadia Anjuman, Afghan poet and journalist (b. 1980)
2005 - Sheree North, American actress and singer (b. 1932)
2006 - Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, American memoirist (Cheaper by the Dozen) (b. 1908)
2006 - Frank Arthur Calder, Canadian politician (b. 1915)
2007 - Peter Viertel, German-American author and screenwriter (b. 1920)
2008 - Michael Crichton, American author, dies at 66
2008 - Juan Camilo Mouriño, Mexican Secretary of the Interior (b. 1971)
2009 - Hubertus Brandenburg, Roman Catholic Bishop of Stockholm (b. 1923)
2010 - Sparky Anderson, American baseball manager (b. 1934)
2010 - Eugénie Blanchard, French supercentenarian (b. 1896)
2010 - Michelle Nicastro, American actress and singer (b. 1960)
2011 - Andy Rooney, American radio and television writer (b. 1919)
2012 - Ted Curson, American jazz trumpeter, dies from a heart attack at 77

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 05, 2013, 10:41:48 AM

This Day in History for 5th November


Historical Events

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English Catholic Conspirator                   US President Ulysses S. Grant                US President Woodrow Wilson
 Guy Fawkes 

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Dictator of Nazi Germany                         32nd US President                                36th US President
Adolf Hitler                                              Franklin D. Roosevelt                           Lyndon B. Johnson

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Singer-songwriter Robin Gibb               Boxing Champ George Foreman


1228 - Wu MeKuan, a collection of 48 Zen koans, compiled in China
1414 - Council of Constance (16th ecumenical council) opens
1492 - Christopher Columbus learns of maize (corn) from Indians of Cuba
1499 - Publication of the Catholicon in Treguier (Brittany). This Breton-French-Latin dictionary was
           written in 1464 by Jehan Lagadeuc. It is the first Breton dictionary as well as the first French
          dictionary.
1530 - St Felix Flood ravages Dutch coast and destroys the city of Reimerswaal in the Netherlands
1556 - Akbar (14) succeeds his father Humajun as Sultan of Delhi
1556 - Battle at Panipat: Mogollegers beat hindu leader Hemu
1605 - Gunpowder Plot; attempt to blow up English Parliament. Plot uncovered and leader Guy
           Fawkes tortured and later executed
1630 - Spain & England sign peace treaty
1639 - 1st post office in the colonies is set up in Massachusetts
1678 - Brandenburgse troops occupy Greifswald in Sweden
1725 - Spain & Austria sign secret treaty
1743 - Coordinated scientific observations of the transit of Mercury were organized by Joseph-Nicolas
           Delisle.
1757 - Battle at Rossbach (7 year war/French & Indian War)
1780 - French-American force under Colonel LaBalme is defeated by Miami Chief Little Turtle.
1781 - John Hanson elected 1st "President of US in Congress assembled"
1789 - Fleeing slaves under Bonni attack military post on Suriname
1789 - French National Meeting declares all citizens equal under law
1811 - El Salvador's 1st battle against Spain for independence
1838 - Honduras declares independence of Central American Federation
1846 - Robert Schumann's 2nd Symphony in C, premieres
1854 - Crimean War: British & French defeat Russian force of 50,000
1862 - Ambrose Burnside replaces McClellen as head of Army of Potomac
1862 - Battle at Barbee's Crossroads, Virginia: 51 casualties
1872 - American women's right to vote advocate Susan B Anthony votes for Ulysses S. Grant
1872 - Ulysses S. Grant re-elected US president
1876 - Henry Morton Stanley's expedition leaves Nyangwe
1881 - French government-Ferry resigns
1882 - Bedrich Smetana's "Ma Vlast," premieres
1883 - Battle at El Obeid Sudan: Mahdi's army destroys Egyptian army
1883 - Musical "Cordelia's Aspirations" premieres in NYC
1887 - Ottawa College (ORFU) defeats Montreal Football Club (QRFU) 10-5 to win the Dominion
           championship
1889 - Louisa Woosley first women to be ordained as a minister in any Presbyterian denomination
           (US Cumberland Presbyterian Church).
1894 - Frederick Lugards expedition reaches Nikki
1895 - 1st US patent granted for auto (George B Selden) for gasoline driven car
1895 - Edward, Prince of Wakes, says "We are all Socialists nowadays"
1895 - US state Utah accepts female suffrage
1898 - Gerhart Hauptmanns "Fuhrmann Henschel," premieres in Berlin
1911 - Italy attacks Turkish North-Africa (Libya), takes Tipoli & Cyrenaica
1911 - Calbraith Rodgers arrives in Pasadena completing 1st transcontinental airplane flight (49 days)
           (left Sheepshead Bay, NY, Sept 17)
1912 - Arizona, Kansas & Wisconsin vote for female suffrage
1912 - Bulgarian troops in Constantinople blockade drinking water
1912 - Woodrow Wilson (D) defeats Theodore Roosevelt (Prog) & Pres Taft (R)
1913 - Ludwig III crowned king of Bavaria
1914 - Britain annexes Cyprus
1914 - Great Britain & France & Russia declares war on Turkey
1916 - Emperor Wilhelm II & Franz Jozef I establish the kingdom of Poland
1916 - Second Chamber accept initial impetus to general males/female suffrage
1916 - The Everett Massacre takes place in Everett, Washington as political differences lead to a
           shoot-out between IWW organizers and local police.
1917 - Gen Pershing & US troops see action on Western Front for 1st time
1917 - Supreme Court decision (Buchanan v Warley) strikes down Lousiville Ky ordiance requiring
           blacks & whites to live in separate areas
1919 - Ir à Steringa Idzerda begins hosting "soirée-musical" on Dutch radio
1922 - Demonstration for a Dutch University in Ghent
1925 - Mussolini disbands Italian socialist parties
1927 - 10th PGA Championship: Water Hagen at Cedar Crest CC Dallas
1927 - Walter Hagen beats Joe Turnesa for 4th consecutive PGA title
1930 - Nobel for literature awarded to Sinclair Lewis for "Babbitt"
1932 - Benito Mussolini frees 16,000 criminals
1933 - Chicago Bears 30 game unbeaten streak ends to Patriots (10-0)
1933 - Spanish Basques vote for autonomy
1935 - Maryland Court of Appeals orders U of M to admit (black) Donald Murray
1935 - Parker Brothers launches game of Monopoly
1936 - French writer Andre Gide criticizes Soviet regime
1937 - Hitler informs his military leaders in a secret meeting of his intentions of going to war
1938 - Ottawa Roughriders score on 5-man, 4-lateral, 65-yard punt return
1938 - Rugers beats Princeton 1st time in 60 yrs as Rutgers Stad dedicated
1940 - Dutch submarine departs Dundee
1940 - Pres FDR (D) wins unprecedented 3rd term beating Wendell Willkie (R)
1940 - Walter Johnson, won 416 games for Wash Senators, loses Maryland congressional race (R)
1941 - Japanese marine staff officiers Suzuki/Maejima leave Pearl Harbor
1942 - Nazi raid on Greek Jews in Paris
1942 - Pro-British Clandestine Radio Diego Suarez's final transmission
1943 - -6] Vatican bombed
1944 - Allied troops reach Zoutelande Walcheren
1944 - Canadian & British troops liberate Dinteloord
1944 - German troops blow-up Heusden North Brabant city hall, 134 die
1945 - Colombia joins the United Nations.
1946 - John F Kennedy (D-Mass) elected to House of Representatives
1950 - Cleveland Browns' Tommy James intercepts 3 passes, club record
1950 - Philippines president Quirino ends emergency crisis
1951 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1953 - Nobel prize for physics awarded/appended on Frederik Zernicke
1953 - Paul Searls saws a 32" log in 86.4 seconds
1953 - Terence Rattigans' "Sleeping Prince," premieres in London
1955 - Mont Canadien Jean Beliveau scores 2nd fastest hat trick (44 seconds)
1955 - New Vienna Opera house opens (Austria)
1955 - Date returned to in "Back to the Future" by Marty McFly
1956 - Britain & France land forces in Egypt
1956 - Dutch Communist Party office of Felix Meritis seized
1956 - Israel liberates Sharm-el-Sheikh, reopening Gulf of Aqaba
1956 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Datis nuperrime
1957 - Mrs Nellie McGrail wins $574,658 on a 2½ cent soccer pool ticket
1958 - "Maria Golovin" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 5 performances
1958 - KGLD (now KSNG) TV channel 11 in Garden City, KS (NBC) 1st broadcast
1959 - AFL announced with 8 teams
1961 - India's premier Nehru arrives in NY
1961 - St Louis Cards Bill Stacy, returns 2 interceptions for TDs vs Dallas
1963 - US VP Lyndon B Johnson visits Netherlands
1964 - US launches Mariner 3 toward Mars; no data returned
1966 - Brigham Young QB Virgil Carter sets NCAA record of 599 yards gained
1966 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967 - ATS-3 launched by US to take 1st pictures of full Earth disk
1967 - Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Corpus Christi Civitan Golf Open
1967 - New Orleans Saints 1st NFL victory, beat Philadelphia Eagles 31-24
1967 - US troops conquer Loc Ninh South Vietnam
1967 - Yemen president Sallal flees
1967 - The Hither Green rail crash in the United Kingdom kills 49 people. The survivors include Bee
           Gee Robin Gibb.
1968 - 1st AL pitcher to win MVP, Denny McLain (wins unanimously)
1968 - Nixon (R) beats VP Humphrey (D) & George C Wallace for presidency
1971 - Bolivia passes death penalty for political kidnapping
1971 - NBA's LA Lakers starts a 33 game consecutive victory streak
1972 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Lady Errol Golf Classic
1973 - BART starts SF-Daly City train shuttle service
1974 - Dmitri Sjotakovitch completes Michelangelo-liederen
1974 - Ella Grasso (Ct) elected 1st woman US gov not related to previous gov
1974 - Walter E Washington, becomes 1st elected mayor of Wash DC
1975 - British government sends troops to Belize
1975 - Sao Tome & Principe adopts constitution
1976 - Balt Jim Palmer wins AL Cy Young Award
1976 - New AL franchises in Seattle & Toronto fill up their rosters
1976 - Pirates trade Manny Sanguillen & $100,000 to A's for mgr Chuck Tanner
1976 - USSR performs nuclear test
1977 - NCAA passing record set at 571 yards (Marc Wilson, Brigham Young)
1978 - Iranian PM Jaafar Sharif-Emami resigns to Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
1978 - Khomeini followers attack British embassy/El Al office in Iran
1978 - Oakland Raider's John Madden becomes 13th coach to win 100 NFL games
1979 - Iran government of Bazargan resigns
1979 - Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini declares US "The Great Satan"
1981 - Charles Fuller's "Soldier's Play," premieres in NYC
1981 - Former Dolphin, Mercury Morris, is sentenced to 20 years for drug trafficing, conspiracy, &
           possession of cocaine
1982 - Cleveland Cavaliers lose 24th consecutive game (NBA record)
1982 - George Harrison releases "Gone Troppo" album
1983 - NY Rangers & Quebec Nordiques both score in 1st 14 secs of 3rd period
1983 - Orbiter Discovery (OV-103) moves overland to Dryden
1985 - "News" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 4 performances
1987 - "Into the Woods" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 764 performances
1987 - France performs nuclear test
1987 - Iceberg twice size of Rhode Island sighted in Antarctic
1987 - South Africa ANC-leader Govan Mbeki freed
1987 - Stephen Sondheim/James Lapine's musical "Into the Stars," premieres
1987 - Supreme Court nominee Douglas H Ginsburg admitted using marijuana
1988 - 1st NBA game at Bradley Center, Milw Bucks lose to LA Clippers 111-91
1988 - 1st NBA game at Miami Arena, Miami Heat loss to LA Clippers, 111-91
1988 - 1st NBA game at Palace of Auburn Hills, Pistons beat Hornets 94-85
1988 - Cornell confirms grad student source of worst computer sabotage
1988 - France performs nuclear test
1988 - Gulch wins Breeder's Cup
1988 - Japan beats MLB all stars 2-1 in Tokyo (Game 1 of 7)
1988 - Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Alysheba, Gt Communicator, Gulch, Is It True, Miesque,
           Open Mind, Personal Ensign at Churchill Downs
1989 - "Threepenny Opera" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 65 perfs
1989 - 19th NYC Women's Marathon won by Ingrid Kristiansen in 2:25:30
1989 - 20th NYC Marathon won by Juma Ikangaa in 2:08:01
1989 - Browns' Bernie Kosar sets club record of 16 cons pass completions
1989 - Elaine Crosby wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic
1989 - US plays El Salvador, in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup
1991 - Kiichi Miyazawa elected premier of Japan
1991 - Richard J Kerr, ends term as acting director of CIA
1992 - "Show Off" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 45 performances
1992 - Bobby Fisher beats Boris Spassky to with Chess title in Belgrade
1993 - 1st NBA game in Alamodome, San Antonio Spurs beat Warriors 91-85
1994 - Space probe Ulyssus completes 1st passage behind the Sun
1994 - Tony Rominger bicycles world record time (55,291 km)
1994 - Yak-40 accident in north of Peru, 8 killed
1994 - Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Barathea, Cherokee Run, Concern, Flanders, One
           Dreamer, Tikkanen, Timber Country
1994 - George Foreman (45) KOs Michael Moorer to win boxing HW championship
1995 - STS 73 (Columbia 18), lands
1995 - Woo-Soon Ko wins LPGA Toray Japan Queens Cup Golf Tournament
1995 - 1st NBA game at General Motors Place, Vancouver Grizzlies beat Minn Timberwolves 100-98 in
           OT
1995 - André Dallaire attempts to assassinate Jean Chrétien; he is thwarted when the Prime
           Minister's wife locks the door.
1996 - Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter is the unanimous choice as AL Rookie of
1997 - 2 hours after Davey Johnson resigns, he is named AL Manager of Year
1997 - French court orders producer Jacques Charrier, ex-husband of Brigitte Bardot, to pay the
           former screen star $8,300 in damages
2000 - Emperor Haile Selassie I is given an Imperial funeral by the Ethiopian Orthodox church
2006 - Saddam Hussein, former president of Iraq, and his co-defendants Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti
           and Awad Hamed al-Bandar are sentenced to death in the al-Dujail trial for the role in the         
           massacre of the 148 Shi'as in 1982.
2007 - China's first lunar satellite, Chang'e 1 goes into orbit around the Moon.
2009 - US Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan allegedly killed 13 and wounded 43 at Fort Hood, Texas in
           the largest mass shooting ever at a US military installation.
2012 - 50 Syrian military personnel are killed by a suicide car bomb in Hama
2012 - Widespread flooding in Nigeria kills 363 people and displaces 2.1 million

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 05, 2013, 12:02:57 PM

This Day in History for 5th November


Historical Events

1940 - American author and journalist "The Old Man and the Sea" Ernest Hemingway marries
           journalist Martha Gellhorn
1977 - 43rd US President George W. Bush (31) weds Laura Welch (31) at The First United Methodist
           Church in Midland, Texas
2005 - 2004 Indianapolis 500 racecar driver winner Buddy Rice (29) weds Michelle Noonan in Arizona

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 05, 2013, 12:35:39 PM

This Day in History for 5th November


Famous Birthdays

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Olympic Runner                                Singer Bryan Adams (1959)                   Actress Tilda Swinton (1960)
Teddy Flack (1873)


1271 - Mahmud Ghazan, Mongol ruler (d. 1304)
1494 - Hans Sachs, German composer, playwright and shoemaker
1534 - Joachim Camerarius, German botanist/physician (horticulture catalog)
1549 - Philippe de Mornay (or Philippe Du-Plessis-Mornay), French writer (d. 1623)
1563 - Anna van Nassau, daughter of prince Willem I/Anna of Saksen
1592 - Charles Chauncy, English-born president of Harvard College (d. 1672)
1613 - Isaac de Benserade, French poet (d. 1691)
1615 - Ibrahim I, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1648)
1654 - Christian Liebe, German composer
1666 - Attilio Ariosti, Italian composer born in Bologna
1667 - Christoph Ludwig Agricola, German painter (d. 1719)
1701 - Pietro Longhi, Venetian painter (d. 1785)
1715 - John Brown, English writer (d. 1766)
1722 - William Byron, 5th Baron Byron, English duelist (d. 1798)
1742 - Richard Cosway, English artist (d. 1821)
1764 - Pieter Nieuwland, Dutch scientist (Newton)
1770 - Etienne P de Senancour, French author (Obermann)
1779 - Washington Allston, US painter/author
1798 - Carolina F L duchess of Berry, daughter of crown prince of Naples
1818 - Benjamin Franklin Butler, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1893
1819 - Josef Rudolf Zavrtal, composer
1825 - Julius H [Szamvald] Stahel, Major General (Union volunteers)
1832 - William Woods Averell, Major General (Union Army), died in 1900
1835 - Moritz Szeps, Austrian journalist (d. 1902)
1841 - Alexander Sergeyevich Famintsin, composer
1846 - Duncan Gordon Boyes, English recipient of the Victoria Cross (d. 1869)
1849 - Rui Barbosa, Brazil, statesman/jurist/essayist/civil liberties
1850 - Ella Wheeler Wilcox, American author and poet (d. 1919)
1851 - Charles Dupuy, French prime minister (d. 1923)
1854 - Paul Sabatier, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1941)
1854 - Alphonse Desjardins, founder of the Caisses populaires Desjardins (d. 1920)
1855 - Eugene V Debs, labor organizer, Socialist presidential candidate
1855 - Leon P Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist (stratosphere)
1857 - Ida Tarbell, muckraker (Standard Oil was very unhappy)
1866 - Daniel Protheroe, composer
1873 - Teddy Flack [Edwin], London, Australian athlete, double Olympic gold medallist in 1896, (d.
           1935)
1876 - Raymond Duchamp-Villon, cubist sculptor (Head of Baudeaire)
1881 - George A. Malcolm, American jurist & educator (d. 1961)
1884 - James Elroy Flecker, English poet/dramatist (Hassan)
1885 - Will Durant, US, author/historian (Story of Civilization)
1887 - Oscar Bossaert, Belgium, chocolate manufacturer/min of Middenstand
1887 - Paul Wittgenstein, Vienna Austria, left hand specialist pianist
1890 - Jan Zrzavý, Czech painter (d. 1977)
1891 - Bert McGirr, cricketer (played in NZ's 1st Test series)
1891 - Earle "Greasy" Neale, NFL coach (Philadelphia Eagles)
1891 - Mary Dorna, Dutch author
1892 - J. B. S. Haldane, Scottish geneticist (d. 1964)
1893 - Raymond Loewy, US industrial designer
1894 - Henri E J A de Page, Belgian private law scholar
1895 - Walter Gieseking, German pianist/composer
1895 - Charles MacArthur, American author (d. 1956)
1899 - Forrest Lewis, actor (Monster of Piedras Blancas)
1900 - Martin Dies, Jr., American politician (d. 1972)
1901 - Eddie Paynter, cricketer (England batting hero in Bodyline series)
1902 - Strom Thurmond, (Sen-R-SC, 1955- )
1904 - Cooney Weiland, Canadian hockey player (d. 1985)
1905 - George Bissett, cricketer (successful South African quick in 1927-28)
1905 - Joel McCrea, South Pasadena California, actor (Marshal-Wichita Town)
1906 - George Lowthian Trevelyan, designer/visionary
1906 - Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer (d. 2004)
1911 - Roy Rogers, Cincinnati Ohio, cowboy (Happy Trails, Roy Rogers Show)
1912 - Natalie Schaeffer, Rumson NJ, actress (Lovey Howell-Gilligan's Island)
1913 - John McGiver, NYC, actor (Patty Duke Show, Jimmy Stewart Show)
1913 - Vivien Leigh, (Gone With Wind) Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn
1914 - Henri J de Koster, Dutch Min of Defense (1971-73)
1914 - Alton Tobey, American artist (d. 2005)
1915 - Moe Biller, NYC, labor union officer (AFL-CIO, Postal Workers)
1916 - Len Wilkinson, cricketer (England leg-spinner just before WW II)
1917 - Claus Adam, composer
1917 - Jacob Everaers, office clerk/resistance fighter
1917 - Jacqueline Auriol, French aviatrix (d. 2000)
1917 - Banarsi Das Gupta, Indian former Chief Minister of Haryana (d. 2007)
1919 - Myron Floren, Webster SD, accordionist (Lawrence Welk Show)
1919 - Hasan Askari, Pakistani philosopher (d. 1978)
1920 - Douglass North, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
1920 - Tommy Goodwin [Thomas],Connecticut, British Track Cyclist (2 X Olympic Bronze 1948), (d.
           2012)
1921 - Gyorgy Cziffra, Hungarian/French pianist (Chopin/Liszt)
1921 - Fawzia of Egypt, Queen of Iran
1922 - Violet Barclay, American illustrator
1923 - Ian Arthur Hoyle Munro, medical journalist
1924 - Ivan Rezak, composer
1926 - Leo Derksen, Dutch journalist (Telegraph/Sunday Newspaper)
1927 - Robert Abernethy, Geneva Switz, Newscaster (NBC News Encore)
1929 - Ottmar MA Fraai, Curacaos/Dutch tenor
1930 - Herb Edelman, Brooklyn New York, American actor (Good Guys, Strike Force, 9 to 5)
1931 - Ike Turner, Miss, AKA Mr Tina Turner!, guitarist (A Fool in Love)
1932 - Arthur L Liman, NYC, trial lawyer (Oliver North)
1934 - Nick Smith, (Rep-R-Michigan)
1934 - Victor Argo, American actor (d. 2004)
1935 - Dick Davalos, Bronx, actor (Jeff-The Americans)
1935 - Jerry Amper Dadap, composer
1935 - John Nicholas Maw, composer
1935 - Lester Piggott, British jockey (11 time champ)
1935 - Christopher Wood, English screenwriter and novellist
1936 - Michael Dertouzos, Greek internet pioneer, Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of
           Technology and Director of the M.I.T. Laboratory for Computer Science (d. 2001)
1937 - Harris Yulin, American actor
1938 - Chris Robinson, Fla, actor (Stanley, General Hospital, Another World)
1938 - Joe Dassin, French-speaking American singer (d. 1980)
1938 - César Luis Menotti, Argentine footballer
1939 - Ken Walter, South African cricket pace bowler (1961-62 series v NZ)
1940 - Elke Sommer, [Elke Schletz], Berlin Germany, actress (A Shot in the Dark, The Oscar)
1941 - Patricia Harty, Wash DC, actress (Occasional Wife, Blondie)
1941 - Art Garfunkel, New York, American singer/actor (Sounds of Silence, Carnal Knowledge)
1943 - Pablo Gomez, rocker
1943 - Sam Shepard, Ill, actor/playwright (Frances, Crimes of the Heart)
1943 - Friedman Paul Erhardt (Chef Tell), German-born American TV chef (d. 2007)
1945 - Peter Pace, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
1945 - Aleka Papariga, Greek politician
1946 - Gram Paarson, [Cecil Connor], Winter Haven Fl, rocker (Byrds)
1946 - Herman Brood, Dutch painter/singer/pianist (Sleepin' Bird)
1946 - Patricia K Kuhl, speech & hearing scientist
1947 - Oleg Antropov, USSR, volleyball player (Olympic-gold-1968)
1947 - Peter Noone, rocker (Herman-Herman's Hermits-Silhouttes)
1948 - Peter Hammill, English singer/songwriter (Patient)
1948 - Rick Cobb, rocker
1948 - Mel Ab-Owain, Welsh politician
1948 - Hridayananda dasa Goswami, ISKCON guru
1948 - Bernard-Henri Lévy, French public intellectual
1949 - Armin Shimerman, American actor
1949 - Jimmie Spheeris, American singer-songwriter (d. 1984)
1950 - Debbie Massey, Grosse Pointe MI, LPGA golfer (1979 Wheeling Classic)
1951 - Cindy Brooks, Gettysburg Pa, playmate (April, 1985)
1951 - Stuart Havelock Hollingdale, anthropologist
1952 - Bill Walton, NBA center (Portland Trailblazers, Boston Celtics)
1952 - Oleg Blokhin, Ukrainian footballer
1952 - Vandana Shiva, Indian physicist
1953 - Florentino V. Floro, Filipino dwarf judge
1953 - Joyce Maynard, American writer
1955 - Sylvester Louis Adams, murderer
1955 - Karan Thapar, Foremost Indian Journalist, Political Analyst & Commentator
1955 - Nestor Serrano, American actor
1956 - Mike Score, Liverpool England, rock guitarist (Flock Of Seagulls)
1956 - Rob Fisher, Bath England, rock keyboardist (Naked Eyes)
1957 - David Moyse, Adelaide Australia, rock vocalist (Air Supply)
1957 - Jon-Erik Hexum, Tenafly NJ, actor (Voyager, Cover-up)
1958 - Don Falcone, American musician and producer
1958 - Robert Patrick, American actor
1959 - Bryan Adams, Vancouver BC Canada, singer (Heaven)
1960 - Mark West, NBA center (Detroit Pistons)
1960 - René Froger, Dutch singer (Everything Can Make a Man Happy)
1960 - Tilda Swinton, London England, actress (Orlando)
1961 - Charles O Hobaugh, Bar Harbor ME, Capt USMC/astronaut
1961 - Gina Mastrogiacomo, American actress (d. 2001)
1962 - Brian Wheat, rock bassist (Tesla-Psychotic Supper)
1962 - Abédi Pelé, Ghanaian footballer
1962 - Marcus J. Ranum, American computer/network security innovator
1963 - Andrea McArdle, Phila, actress (Annie)
1963 - Hans Gilhaus, soccer player (Vitesse)
1963 - Tatum O'Neal, LA Cal, Mrs John McEnroe (Paper Moon, Little Darlings)
1965 - Famke Janssen, Dutch model and actress
1965 - Kubrat, Prince of Panagiurishte, titular Bulgarian royal family
1966 - Georgia Apostolou, Greek actress
1966 - Nayim, Spanish footballer
1967 - Frank Pollack, NFL tackle (SF 49ers)
1967 - Grant Leury, Melbourne VIC Australia, canoeist (Olympics-96)
1967 - Percy Snow, WLAF linebacker (Rhein Fire)
1967 - Steve Wagner, Phila, field hockey goalkeeper (Olympics-96)
1967 - Judy Reyes, New York City, New York, Dominican American actress (Scrubs)
1968 - Bob Dahl, NFL guard/tackle (Cleveland Browns)
1968 - Cary Blanchard, NFL kicker (Indianapolis Colts)
1968 - Chris Gray, Perth WA, Australasia golfer
1968 - Malcolm Frank, CFL cornerback (Edmonton Eskimos)
1968 - Sam Rockwell, American film actor
1968 - Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Spanish actress
1969 - Jennifer Guthrie, Willimantic Conn, actress (Dawn-General Hospital)
1970 - Javier Lopez, Ponce Puerto Rico, catcher (Atlanta Braves)
1970 - Ryan Wetnight, NFL tight end (Chic Bears)
1970 - Javy López, baseball player
1970 - Tamzin Outhwaite, English actress
1971 - Corin "Corky" Nemec, Little Rock, actor (Tucker, Parker Lewis)
1971 - Erick Walder, Mobile Alabama, triple jumper
1971 - Sergei Berezin, Voskrensensk Russia, NHL forward (Team Russia, Oly-Si-98)
1971 - Todd Collins, NFL quarterback (Buffalo Bills)
1971 - Dana Jacobson, ESPN's First Take hostess
1971 - Rob Jones, English footballer
1971 - Jonny Greenwood, guitarist (Radiohead)
1971 - Edmond Leung, Hong Kong singer
1972 - Tracy Greene, NFL tight end (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1973 - Alexei Yashin, Sverdlovsk Russia, NHL center (Team Russia Olympics-Silver-1998, Ottawa
           Senators)
1973 - James Collins, NBA guard (LA Clippers)
1973 - Johnny Damon, Ft. Riley Kansas, baseball outfielder (Kansas City Royals)
1973 - Kate Anderson, Australian 1.5k/3k/5k runner (Olympics-96)
1973 - Rupert Grant, NFL fullback (NE Patriots)
1973 - Daniella Westbrook, English actress
1974 - Conrad Hamilton, cornerback (NY Giants)
1974 - Jerry Stackhouse, NBA guard/forward (Detroit Pistons, Phila 76ers)
1974 - Dado Pršo, Croatian footballer
1974 - Angela Gossow, German vocalist (Arch Enemy)
1974 - Ryan Adams, American musician
1977 - Jodi Webb, Miss Utah Teen USA (1996)
1977 - Tuula Puputti, ice hockey goalie (Finland, Oly-98)
1977 - Richard Wright, English footballer
1979 - Mihalis Hatzigiannis, Greek-Cypriot songwriter and singer
1980 - Christoph Metzelder, German footballer
1980 - Jaime Camara, Brazilian racing driver
1980 - Eva González, Spanish model and beauty queen
1983 - Mike Hanke, German footballer
1983 - Andrew Hayden-Smith, TV presenter and actor
1984 - Nick Folk, American football player
1984 - Tobias Enstrom, Swedish hockey player
1985 - Tanaka Koki, Japanese idol (member of KAT-TUN)
1985 - Kate DeAraugo, Australian Idol 2005
1986 - BoA, Korean singer
1986 - Kasper Schmeichel, Danish footballer
1987 - Kevin Jonas, American guitarist, member of the Jonas Brothers

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 05, 2013, 12:39:12 PM

This Day in History for 5th November


Famous Deaths

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Physician and Nobel Laureate
Christiaan Eijkman (1930)


1370 - Kazimierz III, the Great, King of Poland (1333-70), dies at 61
1515 - Mariotto di Bigio di Bindo Albertinelli, Italian painter, dies at 41
1559 - Kano Motonobu, Zen co-founder (Kano school of painting), dies at 83
1603 - Irini Fedorovna, Russian daughter of Boris Godunov, dies
1660 - Lucy Hay, Countess of Carlisle, English socialite (b. 1599)
1660 - Alexandre de Rhodes, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1591)
1669 - John Coccejus, German/Neth reformed theologist, dies at about 66
1675 - Kurt S Adeler, Danish admiral/ship designer, dies at 52
1680 - Gillis Valckenier, mayor of Amsterdam (1665..80), dies at about 57
1701 - Charles Gerard, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, French-born English politician (bc. 1659)
1714 - Bernardino Ramazzini, Italian physician (b. 1633)
1737 - Johan W van Ripperda, Dutch diplomat/baron/duke, dies at 55
1743 - Andreas Benedikt Praelisauer, composer, dies at 44
1752 - Carl Andreas Duker, German classical scholar (b. 1670)
1758 - Hans Egede, Norwegian Lutheran missionary (b. 1686)
1772 - Johannes Schmidlin, composer, dies at 50
1772 - Pieter Steyn, Dutch grand pensionary (1749-72), dies at 66
1801 - Norinaga Moto'ori, Japanese scientist, dies
1803 - Ch de Laclos, writer, dies
1804 - Elizabeth "Betje" Wolff-Bekker, poetess (Sara Burgerhart), dies at 66
1819 - Dirk van den Boetzelaer, regent of Holland, dies at 55
1828 - Maria Fyodorovna of Russia, second wife of Tsar Paul I of Russia (b. 1759)
1834 - Aernout Drost, Dutch literary/founder (The Guide), dies at 24
1836 - Karel Hynek Mácha, Czech poet (b. 1810)
1850 - Ferdinand KJ, archduke of Austria, dies at 69
1854 - Soimonov, Russian general, dies in battle of Inkermann
1860 - Carl Binder, composer, dies at 43
1879 - James Clerk Maxwell, Scotish physicist (speed of light), dies at 48
1883 - William Hicks, British col/commander (Egyptian army), dies in battle
1923 - Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen, French novelist (b. 1880)
1930 - Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician and pathologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology
           or Medicine (b. 1858)
1933 - Texas Guinan, American saloon keeper, actress, and musician (b. 1884)
1935 - Mina Dilis-Beersmans, Flemish actress/wife of John Dilis, dies at 71
1941 - Arndt Pekurinen, Finnish pacifist (b. 1905)
1942 - George M Cohan, composer, dies at 64
1943 - Louis Schelfhout, Dutch painter/graphic artist, dies at 62
1944 - Alexis Carrel, French surgeon and biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or
           Medicine (b. 1873)
1946 - Sigismond Stojowski, composer, dies at 77
1950 - Jacobus J E Hondius, Dutch classicist/graphic artist, dies at 53
1951 - Agrippina J Vaganova, Russian ballet dancers/pegagoge, dies at 72
1951 - Bedrich Antonin Wiedermann, composer, dies at 67
1955 - Maurice Utrillo, French artist (b. 1883)
1956 - Art Tatum, black pianist, dies at 46 in Los Angeles
1956 - Art Tatum, American musician (b. 1909)
1960 - August Gailit, Estonian writer (Ekke Moor), dies at 69
1960 - Johnny Horton, country singer, dies at 33
1960 - Mack Sennett, director/producer (Keystone Cops), dies
1960 - Ward Bond, actor (Wagon Train), dies of heart attack at 57
1964 - Alexander Uriah Boskovich, composer, dies at 57
1964 - Lansdale Sasscer, U.S. Congressman for Maryland's 5th District (b. 1893)
1968 - Estelle Hemsley, actress (Leech Woman, Take aGiant Step), dies at 81
1968 - Robert Ayres, actor (Battle Beneath the Earth), dies at 54
1969 - Itih Walracen, Sudanese widow of author William Walraven, dies
1969 - Lloyd Corrigan, actor (Prof McKillup-Hank), dies at 69
1971 - Sam Jones, baseball player (b. 1925)
1972 - Reginald Owen, actor (Above Suspicion, Love on the Run), dies at 85
1974 - Stafford Repp, actor (Chief O'Hara-Batman), dies at 56
1975 - Annette Kellerman, swimmer (Million Dollar Mermaid), dies at 87
1975 - Edward Lawrie Tatum, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or
           Medicine (b. 1909)
1975 - Lionel Trilling, American critic and writer (b. 1905)
1977 - Aleksei G Stachanov, Russian model miner, dies at 72
1977 - Guy Lombardo, orchestra leader (Auld Lang Syne), dies in Houston at 75
1977 - René Goscinny, French writer (Asterix), dies at 51
1978 - Denis O'Dea, actor (Capt Horatio Hornblower), dies at 73
1979 - Al Capp, US cartoonist (Li'l Abner), dies at 70
1982 - Gerda Brautigam, journalist/Dutch MP (PvdA), dies
1982 - Jacques Tati[scheff], French actor/director (Parade), dies at 74
1985 - Arnold Chikobava, Georgian linguist (b. 1898)
1986 - Claude Jutra, Québécois actor and film director (b. 1930)
1986 - Bobby Nunn, American singer (The Coasters) (b. 1925)
1987 - Eamonn Andrews, Television Presenter (b. 1922)
1989 - Barry Sadler, singer (Green Berets), murdered at 49 in Murfreesboro Tn
1989 - Vladimir Horovitz, Ukrainian/US pianist, dies at 85
1990 - Bobby Nunn, US bassist (Coasters-Down in Mexico), dies at about 65
1990 - Herbert Berghof, actor (Belarus File), dies of heart failure at 81
1991 - Fred MacMurray, American actor (My Three Sons), dies of pneumonia at 83
1991 - Robert Maxwell, Billionaire publisher (NY Daily News), dies at 68
1992 - Arpad E Elo, Hungarian physicist (chess classification system), dies
1992 - Jan Hendrik Oort, Dutch astronomer (Oort Cloud), dies at 92
1994 - McHenry Boatwright, signer, dies at 66
1995 - Laura Weber, TV Host, dies at 70
1996 - Eddie Harris, saxophonist/composer, dies at 62
1996 - Lars-Ake Nilsson, diplomat, dies at 53
1996 - Paula Hinton, dancer, dies at 72
1996 - Ronald Ogden, engineer, dies at 81
1997 - James Robert Baker, American novelist, screenwriter (b. 1946)
1997 - Isaiah Berlin, Latvian-born historian of ideas (b. 1909)
1997 - Epic Soundtracks, English musician (Swell Maps, Crime and the City Solution, These Immortal
           Souls) (b. 1959)
2000 - Victor Grinich, American businessman (b. 1924)
2000 - Bibi Titi Mohammed, Tanzanian politician (b.1926)
2000 - Jimmie Davis, singer and politician (b. 1899)
2001 - Roy Boulting, English film director and producer (b. 1913)
2001 - Barry Horne, a British animal liberation activist.
2002 - Billy Guy, American singer (The Coasters) (b. 1936)
2003 - Bobby Hatfield, American singer (Righteous Brothers) (b. 1940)
2005 - Rod Donald, New Zealand environmentalist (b. 1957)
2005 - John Fowles, English writer (b. 1926)
2005 - Virginia MacWatters, American soprano (b. 1912)
2006 - Bülent Ecevit, four term Turkish Prime Minister (b. 1925)
2007 - Nils Liedholm, Swedish football midfielder and coach (b. 1922)
2009 - Félix Luna, Argentine historian (b. 1925)
2010 - Adrian Păunescu, Romanian poet and politician (b. 1943)
2010 - Jill Clayburgh, American actress (b. 1944)
2010 - Shirley Verrett, American operatic mezzo-soprano (b. 1931)
2011 - Bhupen Hazarika, Indian singer, composer, lyricist, music director, and filmmaker from Assam
          (b. 1926)
2012 - Charles V Bush, African-American pioneer, dies from colon cancer at 72
2012 - Elliott Carter, American composer, dies from natural causes at 103
2012 - Stalking Cat [Dennis Avner], American body modifier, dies at 54

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 06, 2013, 10:41:33 AM

This Day in History for 6th November


Historical Events

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US President                                     25th US President William McKinley             Pacifist and Spiritual Leader
Abraham Lincoln                                                                                                   Mahatma Gandhi

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32nd US President                               Soviet Union Premier Joseph Stalin             US President & Actor
Franklin D. Roosevelt                                                                                             Ronald Reagan

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Champion Boxer                                  44th US President Barack Obama
Evander Holyfield


355 - Emperor Constantine II crowns cousin Julianus keizer of Britain
1153 - Treaty of Wallingford (Oxfordshire) signed between King Stephen and the Empress Maude
1528 - Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca becomes the first known
           European to set foot in Texas.
1534 - Zealand hit by heavy storm
1572 - Supernova is observed in constellation known as Cassiopeia
1632 - Battle at Lutzen: Swedish/Saxon army beats imperial armies
1657 - Brandenburg & Poland sign unity of Bromberg
1676 - King Carlos II of Spain comes of age (at 15)
1789 - Pope Pius VI appoints Father John Carroll as the first Catholic bishop in the United States.
1792 - Battle of Jemappes: French army beats Holy Roman Empire
1813 - Chilpancingo congress declares Mexico independent of Spain
1844 - Spain grants Dominican Rep independence
1850 - 1st Hawaiian fire engine
1850 - Yerba Buena & Angel Islands (SF Bay) reserved for military use
1860 - Abraham Lincoln (Rep-R-Ill) elected 16th American President
1861 - Jefferson Davis elected to 6 year term as Confederate president
1862 - NY-SF direct telegraphic link forms
1863 - Battle of Rogersville TN
1864 - Battle of Cane Hill, AK
1864 - Battle of Droop Mountain, WV (Averell's Raid)
1865 - Maastricht-Venlo railway opens in Netherlands
1865 - American Civil War: CSS Shenandoah is the last Confederate combat unit to surrender after
           circumnavigating the globe on its cruise that sank or captured 37 vessels.
1869 - 1st intercollegiate football (soccer) game (Rutgers 6, Princeton 4)
1871 - Cameroon reaches coast of Angola after trip through Africa
1878 - Henrik Ibsen's "Samfundets Stotter," premieres in Oslo
1879 - Canada celebrates 1st Thanksgiving Day
1883 - NYAC organizes 1st American cross-country championship race
1884 - British protectorate proclaimed over southeast New Guinea
1884 - Montreal Foot Ball Club (QFRU) defeats Toronto Argonauts (ORFU) 30-0 in 1st CRFU
           Championship game
1885 - US mint at Carson City, Nevada directed to close
1888 - Benjamin Harrison (R-Sen-Ind) beats Pres Grover Cleveland (D), 233 electoral votes to 168,
           Cleveland received slightly more votes
1897 - 'Peter Pan' opens in NY at Empire Theater
1900 - Battle at Bothaville: gen-mjr Charles Knox beats Boers
1900 - Pres William McKinley (R) 25th American President re-elected, beating William Jennings Bryan.
           Assassinated 1901
1903 - USA recognizes independence of Panama
1906 - Charles Evans Hughes (R) elected NY Gov beats William Randolph Hearst
1908 - Leonid Andreyevs "Dui Nashey Zhizni," premieres in St Petersburg
1910 - SDAP/NVV initiate campaign for general males/female suffrage
1911 - Francisco Madeiro inaugurated president of Mexico
1913 - Mohandas K Gandhi arrested for leading Indian miners march in South Africa
1915 - 1st military flight in Neth East Indies (Tandjong Priok)
1915 - Sophokles Skouloudis forms Greek government
1917 - Bolshevik revolution begins with capture of Winter Palace
1917 - NY allows women to vote
1918 - Republic of Poland proclaimed
1918 - Supreme commander of the army Gen Cutters resigns
1919 - 1st Dutch radio program: Soirée Musicale with "Turf in you(r) ransel"
1923 - USSR adopts experimental calendar, with 5-day "weeks"
1924 - Stanley Baldwin becomes PM of UK
1925 - British secret agent Sidney Reilly ('Ace of Spies') is executed by the OGPU, the secret police of
           the Soviet Union.
1928 - Clevelanders vote to build a stadium with city bonds
1928 - Herbert Hoover (R) beats Alfred E Smith (D) for pres
1928 - Colonel Jacob Schick patents 1st electric razor
1928 - Swedes start a tradition of eating Gustavus Adolphus pastries to commemorate the king.
1932 - German election - KPD defeats NSDAP
1934 - NFL Philadelphia Eagles beat Cincinnati Reds 64-0
1935 - 1st test flight of Hawker Hurricane fighter aircraft
1936 - RCA displays TV for press
1936 - Terence Rattigan's "French Without Tears" premieres in London
1938 - 3 DiMaggio brothers play together for 1st time, charity all star game
1939 - WGY-TV (Schenectady, NY), 1st coml TV station, begins service
1939 - WRGB TV channel 6 in Schenectady-Alby-Troy, NY (CBS) 1st broadcast
1939 - World War II: Sonderaktion Krakau
1940 - Franklin Roosevelt re-elected US President
1941 - Einsatz Gruppe kills 15,000 Jews of Rovno Ukraine
1941 - Japanese fleet readies assault on Pearl Harbor
1941 - USA lends Soviet Union $1 million
1942 - Nazis execute 12,000 Minsk ghetto Jews
1942 - Sukarno & Mohammed Hatta found Ampat Serangkai
1943 - Russian troops land on Kertsj peninsula
1943 - Soviet forces reconquer Kiev
1943 - Stalin says: "The issue of German fascism is lost"
1945 - HUAC begins investigation of 7 radio commentators
1949 - Greek civil war ends
1950 - Branch Rickey signs 5-yr contract as VP/GM of Pittsburgh Pirates
1950 - Chinese offensive halts at Chongchon River, North Korea
1950 - King Tribhuvana of Nepal flees to India
1952 - Dmitri Sjostakovitch's cantata "About our Fatherland," premieres
1953 - French National Meeting grants Saarland more autonomy
1953 - Jimmy Dykes succeeds Marty Marion as manager of Balt Orioles
1953 - Masao Oki's symphony "Atomic Bomb," premieres
1955 - 11th Ryder Cup: US, 8-4 at Thunderbird Ranch & CC Calif
1955 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1956 - Holland & Spain withdraw from Olympics in protest against Soviets in Hungary
1956 - Pres Eisenhower (R) re-elected defeating Adlai E Stevenson (D)
1957 - "Rumple" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 45 performances
1957 - Felix Gaillard becomes premier of France
1958 - AL announces that KC will play AL record 52 night games in 1959
1958 - Belgium government of Eyskens & Lilar forms
1958 - Wilber Snyder beats V Gagne in Omaha, to become NWA wrestling champ
1961 - US government issues a stamp honoring 100th birthday of James Naismith
1962 - BART bond issue just gets by with a 66.9% favorable vote
1962 - Edward M Kennedy 1st elected (Sen-D-Mass)
1962 - Edward W Brooke (R) elected attorney general of Massachusetts
1962 - Saudi Arabia proclaims abolition of slavery
1962 - UN General Assembly adopts resolution condemning South Africa
1964 - WEIQ TV channel 42 in Mobile, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1966 - 1st entire lineup televised in color (NBC)
1966 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Amarillo Ladies' Golf Open
1966 - Lunar Orbiter 2 launched
1967 - Bridge at Annabaai crashes on Willemstad, Curacao, kills 15
1967 - US launches Surveyor 6; makes soft landing on Moon Nov 9
1968 - Nixon elected 37th pres of US, defeating Hubert Humphrey
1968 - Students of SF State Counsel go on strike
1969 - 1st Cy Young Award tie (Mike Cuellar, Balt & Denny McLain, Det)
1970 - Boog Powell wins AL MVP
1970 - Twins Jim Perry wins AL Cy Young Award
1971 - "Great Harp" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 7 performances
1971 - US performs underground nuclear test at Amchitka Island Aleutians
1973 - "Man With the Golden Girl" begins shooting
1973 - Abe Beame eleceted 1st Jewish mayor on NYC
1973 - Coleman Young elected mayor of Detroit
1974 - Dodger Mike Marshall is 1st relief pitcher to win Cy Young Award
1975 - "Hello, Dolly" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 51 performances
1975 - 1st appearance of Sex Pistols
1976 - Benjamin Hooks, succeeds Roy Wilkins as executive director of NAACP
1976 - Former Twins relief ace Bill Campbell is 1st free-agent to sign with a new team, joining the
           Red Sox for $1 million over 4 years
1977 - "Hair" closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 43 performances
1977 - 1st Emmy Sports Award presentation
1977 - 39 killed in an earthen dam burst at Toccoa Falls Bible College, Ga
1978 - Iranian general Gholan Reza Azhari forms government
1978 - Shah of Iran places Iran under military rule
1979 - Ayatolla Khomeini takes over in Iran
1981 - Fernando Valenzuela is 1st rookie to win a Cy Young Award
1981 - Larry Holmes TKOs Renaldo Snipes in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
1982 - Joe Altobelli succeeds Earl Weaver as Oriole manager
1983 - Chako Higuchi wins LPGA Sports Nippon Team Match Golf Tournament
1983 - Discovery transported to Vandenberg AFB, Calif
1983 - Tor Bay Buccaneers' James Wilder rushes for 219 yards vs Minnesota Vikings
1983 - Turkey Turgut Özals Moederland party wins elections
1984 - President Reagan (R) landslide (won 49 states) re-election over Mondale (D)
1984 - Willie Hernandez wins AL MVP Award
1985 - 22nd Space Shuttle Mission (61A) -Challenger 9- lands at Edwards AFB
1985 - Exploratory well at Ranger, Tx, explodes spilling 6.3 m gallons of oil
1985 - M-19 guerrilla's occupies Palace of Justice Bogota Colombia
1985 - Space shuttle Challenger lands at Edwards Calif
1986 - Houston's Mike Scott (18-10) wins NL Cy Young
1986 - President Reagan signs landmark immigration reform bill
1986 - Rev Donald Wildmon begins a campaign against Howard Stern
1987 - Roger Clemens wins consecutive Cy Young Awards
1988 - 18th NYC Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:28:07
1988 - 19th NYC Marathon won by Steve Jones in 2:08:20
1988 - Japan & MLB all stars played to a 6-6 draw (Game 2 of 7)
1988 - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic
1988 - Steve Jones wins NY men's marathon; Grete Waitz 9th women's title
1989 - US marshals & FCC sieze pirate radio station WJPL in Brooklyn
1990 - Arsenio Hall gets a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame
1990 - Braves' Dave Justice wins NL Rookie of Year
1990 - Fire destroys some of Universal Studio's stages
1990 - Guam Republican governor Joseph Ada re-elected
1991 - "Moscow Circus Cirk Valentin" opens at Gershwin NYC for 32 perfs
1991 - Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovitsj returns to St Petersburg
1991 - Keck II, biggest telescope in use at Mauna Kea Hawaii
1991 - Maximus 2.0 BBS released
1991 - Robert M Gates, becomes 15th director of CIA
1991 - Russian president Boris Yeltsin outlaws Communist Party
1993 - Actor Howard Rollins arrested for drunk driving
1993 - Evander Holyfield beats Riddick Bowe in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1993 - Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Arcangues, Brocco, Cardmania, Hollywood Wildcat,
           Kotashaan, Lure, Phone Chatter at Belmont
1994 - 24th NYC Women's Marathon won by Tegla Loroupe in 2:27:37
1994 - 25th NYC Marathon won by German Silva in 2:11:21
1994 - Emomali Rachmonov recognized as president of Tadzjikistan
1994 - Woo-Soon Ko wins LPGA Toray Japan Queens Golf Cup
1995 - Art Modell officially announces Cleveland Browns are moving to Balt
1995 - Israel buries Yitzhak Rabin, assassinated by a fellow Jew who opposed peace with Palestinians
1996 - LA Dodger Todd Hollandsworth wins NL Rookie of Year
1997 - "Proposals," opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 76 performances
1997 - SF Giants manager Dusty Baker named NL Manager of the Year
1999 - Australians vote to keep the British monarch as their head of state in the Australian republic
           referendum.
2002 - 12 people are killed in a fire on board a train headed for Vienna from Paris.
2004 - An express train collides with a stationary car near the village of Ufton Nervet, England, killing
           6 and injuring 150.
2005 - The Evansville Tornado of November 2005 kills 25 in Northwestern Kentucky and
           Southwestern Indiana.
2005 - The military junta of Myanmar (Burma) begins moving its government ministries from Yangon
           to Pyinmana.
2012 - 5 people are shot at a poultry processing plant in Fresno, California
2012 - Voters go to the polls for the US Presidential election with Barack Obama projected to claim
           an Electoral College victory
2012 - US territory Puerto Rico votes to become a US State
2012 - Green Moon wins the Melbourne Cup race at Flemington

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 06, 2013, 11:00:11 AM

This Day in History for 6th November


Famous Weddings

1935 - Engl prince Henry (under George V) weds Alice Montagu-Douglas-Scott
1993 - Actress Allison Angrim (32) weds Robert Schoonover (44)
1998 - "Some Like It Hot" actor Tony Curtis (73) weds horse trainer Jill Vanden Berg at the MGM
           Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada
2010 - "Girls Gone Wild" creator Joe Francis (37) weds CBS News Entertainment Reporter Christina
           McLarty on a civil wedding in Mexico
2010 - Professional golfer Greg Norman (51) weds Australian interior decorator Kirsten Kutner (41)
           on Necker Island in the British Virgin Islands

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 06, 2013, 11:11:05 AM

This Day in History for 6th November


Famous Birthdays

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Composer John Philip Sousa (1854)       Inventor James Naismith (1861)              Rock Vocalist Glenn Frey (1948)

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Actor/Body Builder/Politician
 Arnold Schwarzenegger (1955)


1391 - Edmund de Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, English politician (d. 1425)
1479 - Johanna, the Insane, Queen of Castile (1504-20)
1494 - Suleiman I (the Magnificent), Ottoman Sultan (d. 1566). Longest reigning Sultan from 1520
           till death in 1566.
1550 - Karin Månsdotter, Queen of Sweden (d. 1612)
1558 - Thomas Kyd, English dramatist (Spanish Tragedy)
1566 - Julien Perrichon, composer
1607 - Sigmund Theophil Staden, composer
1613 - Luis de Garay, composer
1659 - Theodor Schwartzkopff, composer
1661 - Charles II, last Habsburg king of Spain (reigns 1665-1700)
1671 - Colley Cibber, England, dramatist/poet laureate (Love's Last Shift)
1692 - Louis Racine, French poet (d. 1763)
1746 - African-American abolitionist and clergyman Absalom Jones born into slavery in Delaware
1753 - Jean-Baptiste Sebastien Breval, composer
1753 - Mikhail Kozlovsky, Russian sculptor (d. 1802)
1757 - Louis-Abet Deffroy de Reigny, composer
1771 - Alois Senefelder, inventor (lithography)
1779 - Michal Bogdanowicz, composer
1796 - George Back, English sea officer/explorer (North Canada)
1800 - Eduard Grell, composer
1814 - Adolphe Sax, Belgium musician/inventor (saxophone)
1818 - Pavel Melnikov, Russian historian/author (V Lesach) [OS=Oct 25]
1822 - Gordon Granger, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1876
1833 - Jonas Lie, Norwegian author (d. 1908)
1836 - Francis Ellingwood Abbot, Boston, theologian (Scientific Theism)
1838 - John Grant Mitchell, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1894
1841 - Nelson W. Aldrich, U.S. Senator from Rhode Island (d. 1915)
1841 - Armand Fallières, French president (d. 1931)
1851 - Charles Dow, American journalist and economist (co-founded Dow Jones/1st editor of Wall St
           Journal) (d.1902)
1854 - John Philip Sousa, Wash DC, march king (Stars & Stripes Forever), (d. 1932)
1855 - Eduard Yosif Kotek, composer
1855 - Ezra Seymour Gosney, American philanthropist and eugenicist (d. 1942)
1856 - Nicholas Nikolajevitsj, ruler of Russia
1861 - James Naismith, Almonte, Canada, inventor (basketball, football helmet), (d.1939)
1867 - Marie Bregendahl, Danish author (Holger Hauge og hans Hustru)
1875 - Pompeo Aloisi, Italian baron/diplomat/senator
1878 - Ernest Irving, English composer
1879 - Eugen Varga, Hungarian/Russian economist/politician
1880 - Robert Musil, Austrian novelist (d. 1942)
1880 - Chris van Abkoude, Dutch-American writer and novelist (d. 1959)
1883 - Hubert Bath, British film composer and music director
1884 - Ludomir Rozycki, Polish composer/conductor (Meduza, Eros i Psyche)
1885 - Emiel Poetou, Flemish sculptor
1887 - Walter Johnson, Kansas, Wash Senator pitcher (1907-27) (414-218)
1892 - John Alcock, English pilot (1st non-stop flight across Atlantic Ocean)
1892 - John Sigvard "Ole" Olsen, Wabash Ind, comedian (Olsen & Johnson)
1892 - Harold Ross, American editor (d. 1951)
1893 - August Defresne, Dutch playwright/director (Uninhabited Island)
1896 - Jim Jordan, Peoria IL, radio comedian (Fibber McGee)
1901 - Juanita Hall, Keyport NJ, actress (Capt Billy)
1903 - June Marlowe, American actress (d. 1984)
1904 - Selena Royale, NYC, actress (Date With Judy, Misleading Lady)
1906 - Francis Lederer, Prague Czech, actor (Diary of a Chambermaid)
1906 - James D. Norris, sportsman and businessman (Chicago Black Hawks) (d. 1966)
1908 - Fanny Leys, Flemish author (Ontwijding)
1909 - Heinz Rottger, composer
1909 - Henk Bijvanck, composer
1910 - Arthur Cohn, composer
1914 - Jonathan Harris, actor (Dr Zachary Smith-Lost in Space)
1916 - Ray Conniff, Attleboro Mass, chorus director (Ray Conniff Singers)
1918 - Ronnie Brody, England, actor (Superman 3, What's Up Nurse, Ritz)
1919 - Alan Lisette, cricketer (NZ slow left-armer vs West Indies 1956)
1920 - John Smith, CEO (Liverpool FC)
1921 - Geoff Rabone, cricketer (gifted all-rounder for NZ in 1950's)
1921 - James Jones, Robinson Ill, novelist (From Here to Eternity)
1922 - Lars Edlund, composer
1923 - Aleksandra Chudina, USSR, track jumper (Olympic-2 silver-1952)
1923 - Clay Jones, gardener
1923 - Renato Capecchi, Italian violinist/baritone
1924 - Jeanette Schmid, Austrian professional whistler, AKA Baroness Lips von Lipstrill (d. 2005)
1925 - Dirk de Vroome, [Red Giant], SS'er
1926 - Brian Abel-Smith, professor of Social Adminstration
1928 - Peter Matz, Pitts Pa, orchestra leader (Hullabaloo, Carol Burnette Show)
1930 - Raymond Baervoets, Belgian composer (Metamorphoses)
1931 - Mike Nichols, [Peschowsky], director (Catch 22, Biloxi Blues)
1931 - Tsvetan Tsvetanov, composer
1931 - Peter Collins, English race car driver (d. 1958)
1932 - Stonewall Jackson, rocker
1933 - Joseph Pope, US singer (Hey Girl Don't Bother Me)
1933 - Knut Johannesen, Norway, 5K/10K speed skater (Olympic-gold-1964)
1936 - David Ward-Steinman, composer
1936 - K Schippers, [Gerard Stigter], Dutch author
1936 - Mikhail Vladimirovich Sologub, Russian cosmonaut
1937 - Bas de Gaay Fortman, Dutch MP (PPR)
1937 - Edwin Roxburgh, composer
1937 - Joe Warfield, American actor
1938 - P J Proby, [James Marcus Smith], Houston Texas, American rocker
1938 - Mack Jones, American baseball player (d. 2004)
1938 - Jim Pike, American singer (The Lettermen)
1938 - Dumitru Rusu, Romanian painter
1939 - Leonardo Quisumbing, Filipino Supreme Court jurist
1940 - Ruth Messinger, Manhattan Borough President and President of the American Jewish World
           Service
1940 - Dieter F. Uchtdorf, LDS apostle
1941 - Doug Sahm, San Antonio Texas, country singer (Texas Tornadoes-Dinero)
1941 - Guy Clark, Rockport Tx, country singer (Heartbroke)
1941 - James Bowman, English contratenor
1943 - Michael Schwerner, civil rights worker, murdered in 1964
1944 - Bill Henderson, Vancouver BC, rock vocalist/guitarist (Chilliwack)
1945 - Robert J Mrazek, (Rep-D-NY, 1983- )
1946 - Sally Field, Pasadena California, we really like her (Gidget, Flying Nun)
1946 - Fred Penner, Canadian children's entertainer
1947 - Doug Young, rocker (Flash In The Pan)
1947 - Edward Yang, director (Tewrrorizers)
1947 - George Lawrence James, NJ, 4X400m relayer (Olympic-gold-1968)
1947 - George Young, Glasgow, Scotland, rock guitarist (Easybeats, AC/DC)
1947 - Jack Arnold, character on Wonder Years
1947 - John Wilson, rock drummer (Them)
1947 - Jim Rosenthal, English sports presenter
1948 - Glenn Frey, Detroit Mich, rock vocalist (Eagles-Take it Easy)
1949 - Brad Davis, Tallahassee Fla, actor (Roots, Chiefs, Midnight Express)
1949 - Nigel Havers, English actor (Dr Latimer-Don't Wait Up)
1949 - Arturo Sandoval, Cuban-born trumpeter
1949 - Joseph C. Wilson, Vice Chairman of Jarch Capital, LLC
1950 - Ernest Thompson, Bellows Fall Vt, actor (Sierra, Westside Medical)
1951 - Peter Althin, Swedish politician and attorney
1951 - John Falsey, American television writer and producer
1952 - Michael Cunningham, American writer
1954 - Catherine Crier, Dallas, Texas, American journalist and author (The Case Against Lawyers, A
           Deadly Game)
1955 - Maria Shriver, Chicago, newscaster (Sunday Today) and wife of Arnold Schwarzenegger
1956 - Graeme Wood, cricketer (Australian lefty opening batsman 1978-88)
1957 - Klaus Kleinfeld, German industrialist
1957 - Siobhán McCarthy, Irish singer and actress
1957 - Lori Singer, Corpus Christi Texas, actress (Fame, V, Footloose)
1958 - Trace Beaulieu, American actor
1959 - Teri Peterson, Santa Monica Cal, playmate (July, 1980)
1960 - Lance Kerwin, Newport Beach Ca, (James at 15, The Loneliest Runner)
1960 - Michael Cerveris, American actor
1961 - Florent Pagny, French songwriter and singer
1961 - Kazuhiko Aoki, Japanese game creator
1961 - Craig Goldy, guitarist for the band Dio
1962 - Aznil Nawawi, Malaysian host, actor and singer
1963 - Jean-Marc Chouinard, Montreal Quebec, epee (Olympics-96)
1963 - Rozz Williams, American musician (Christian Death) (d. 1998)
1964 - Erik Kramer, NFL quarterback (Chic Bears)
1964 - Kerry Conran, American filmmaker
1964 - Corey Glover, American musician (Living Color)
1964 - Greg Graffin, American singer (Bad Religion)
1965 - Brian Givens, Lompoc CA, pitcher (Milwaukee Brewers)
1965 - Robert Oberrrauch, hockey defenseman (Team Italy 1998)
1966 - Lisa Fuller, Los Angeles California, actress (Dawn-General Hospital)
1966 - Peter DeLuise, Hollywood CA, actor (21 Jump Street, seaQuest DSV)
1966 - Paul Gilbert, American guitarist and singer
1966 - Christian Lorenz, German keyboardist (Rammstein)
1967 - Dennis Brown, NFL defensive end (SF 49ers)
1967 - Jackie Auzias de Turenne, Seattle, WPVA volleyballer (Natl-17th-1995)
1967 - Jana McCoy, Portales NM, Miss NM-America (1991)
1967 - Rebecca Schaeffer, Eugene Oregon, actress (Patti-My Sister Sam)
1967 - Shuzo Matsuoka, Tokyo Japan, tennis star (1995 USTA/Binghampton)
1968 - Alfred Williams, NFL defensive end (SF 49ers, Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1968 - Chad Curtis, Marion IN, outfielder (NY Yankees, Detroit Tigers)
1968 - Edward Linskens, soccer player (PSV)
1968 - Kelly Rutherford, Elizabethtown Kentucky, actress (Generations)
1968 - Vlast Plavucha, hockey forward (Team Slovakia 1998)
1968 - Jerry Yang, Chinese American entrepreneur (Yahoo!, Inc.)
1969 - Bryan Abrams, Oklahoma City, singer (Color Me Badd-I Want to Sex You Up)
1969 - Don Wengert, Sioux City IA, pitcher (Oakland A's)
1970 - Eric Mueller, KC MO, rower (Olympics-silver-1996)
1970 - Ethan Hawke, Austin Texas, actor (Dad, Dead Poets Society, Explorers)
1970 - Maa Tanuvasa, NFL defensive tackle (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1970 - Patrick Burke, CFL cornerback (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1970 - Rich Braham, tackle (Cincinnati Bengals)
1971 - Derrick Alexander, NFL wide receiver (Cleveland Browns, Baltimore Ravens)
1972 - Anthony Brown, NFL tackle (Cin Bengals)
1972 - Vicki Movessian, ice hockey defenseman (USA, Oly-98)
1972 - Garry Flitcroft, English footballer
1972 - Thandie Newton, English actress
1972 - Deivi Cruz, American baseball player
1973 - Taje Allen, kicker (St Louis Rams)
1973 - Nell McAndrew, British model
1974 - Frank Vandenbroucke, Belgian cyclist
1975 - Mike Maurer, CFL fullback (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1976 - Laurie Baker, ice hockey forward (USA, Oly-gold-98)
1976 - Mike Herrera, American singer and bassist (MxPx)
1976 - Jodi Martin, Australian singer-songwriter
1976 - Pat Tillman, American football player (d. 2004)
1976 - Catherine Clark, Canadian journalist; daughter of Joe Clark
1977 - Patrícia Tavares, Portuguese actress
1978 - Nicole Dubuc, actress (Robin-Major Dad)
1978 - Zak Morioka, Brazilian racing driver
1978 - Sandrine Blancke, Belgian actress
1978 - Daniella Cicarelli, Brazilian model and television host
1978 - Jolina Magdangal, Filipina singer, actress and television host
1978 - Taryn Manning, American actress
1979 - Lamar Odom, American basketball player
1981 - Cassie Bernall, American murder victim (d. 1999)
1981 - Lee Dong Wook, South Korean actor
1982 - Sowelu, Japanese pop singer
1983 - Janette McBride, Filipino actress
1983 - Jon Hume, Australian singer (Evermore)
1987 - Ana Ivanović, Serbian tennis player
1988 - Erik Lund, Swedish footballer
1988 - Emma Stone, American actress
1989 - Jozy Altidore, American footballer

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 06, 2013, 11:15:35 AM

This Day in History for 6th November


Famous Deaths

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Composer                                                Actress Gene Tierney (1991)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1893)


1231 - Emperor Tsuchimikado of Japan (b. 1196)
1406 - Innocent VII, [Cosma de' Migliorati], Italian Pope (1404-06), dies
1492 - Antoine Busnois, French composer
1550 - Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1487)
1632 - Gustavus II Adolphus, King of Sweden, dies at battle of Lutzen at 37
1650 - Willem II, earl of Nassau/prince of Orange, dies at 24
1656 - Johan IV, duke of Braganca/king of Portugal (1640-56), dies at 52
1656 - Jean-Baptiste Morin, French scientist (b. 1583)
1669 - Laurentius Erhard, composer, dies at 71
1692 - Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux, French writer (b. 1619)
1712 - Johann Bernhard Staudt, composer, dies at 58
1730 - Hans Hermann von Katte, Prussian lieutenant, beheaded
1752 - Ralph Erskine, Scottish minister (b. 1685)
1771 - Hermanus Noordkerk, Dutch jurist, dies at 69
1771 - John Bevis, English physician and astronomer (b. 1695)
1790 - James Bowdoin, American Revolutionary leader and politician (b. 1726)
1795 - Jiri Antonin Benda, composer, dies at 73
1801 - Christian Friedrich Gregor, composer, dies at 78
1816 - Gouverneur Morris, American lawmaker and diplomat (b. 1752)
1822 - Hendrik van Stralen, Secretary of Interior, dies at 71
1822 - Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist (b. 1748)
1835 - Ignaz Schuster, composer, dies at 56
1836 - Charles X, King of France (1824-30), dies at 79
1839 - Hayim Rapoport, Rabbi of Ostrowiec/author (Maxim Chayyim), dies
1846 - Karol Marcinkowski, Polish physician and activist (b. 1800)
1846 - Alexander Chavchavadze, Georgian poet and general
1862 - Charles Davis Jameson, US Union brig-gen (Fair Oaks), dies at 35
1865 - Atale Therese Annette Wartel, composer, dies at 51
1875 - John Baptist van Son, Dutch Catholic politician, dies at 71
1876 - Giacomo Antonelli, secretary of state of Pius IX, dies at 70
1893 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (Swan Lake), dies at 53
1897 - Edouard Deldevez, composer, dies at 80
1900 - PWJ Le Gallais, British lt-colonel, dies in battle at Bothaville
1901 - Bohdan Borkowski, composer, dies at 48
1901 - Kate Greenaway, English children book illustrater, dies at 55
1912 - Mykola Vytal'yevich Lysenko, composer, dies at 70
1914 - Allessandro d'Ancona, Italian philologist (Dante), dies at 79
1922 - William Baines, composer, dies at 23
1925 - Khải Định, Emperor of Vietnam
1929 - Max von Bathe, German prince/Chancellor (1910-11, 18), dies at 62
1936 - Henry Bourne Joy, American automobile executive (b. 1864)
1939 - Adolphe Max, Belgian liberal MP, dies at 69
1941 - Maurice Leblanc, French novelist (b. 1864)
1944 - Hannah Senesh, Jewish poetess, executed by Nazis in Budapest
1944 - Lord Moyne, British prefect (Middle-East), murdered
1944 - Segundo "Boy" Ecury, Aruba, WW II resistance fighter, executed at 22
1946 - Zygmunt Denis Antoni Stojowski, composer, dies at 76
1947 - Kristian Elster, Norwegian author (Paradisets Have), dies at 66
1953 - John Parsons Beach, composer, dies at 76
1955 - Charley Toorop, [Annie CP Fernhout-Toorop], Dutch painter, dies at 64
1955 - Cornelis GN de Vooys, translator, dies at 82
1958 - Francis George Scott, composer, dies at 78
1960 - Erich Raeder, German grand admiral (b. 1876)
1963 - Djuanda Kartawidjaja, premier (Indonesia), dies at 52
1964 - Hans von Euler-Chelpin, German-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1863)
1964 - Hugo Koblet, Swiss cyclist (b. 1925)
1965 - Clarence Williams, composer, dies at 67
1965 - Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varese, composer, dies at 81
1968 - Guillaume Landre, composer, dies at 63
1968 - Charles Munch, French conductor and violinist (b. 1891)
1968 - Charles B. McVay III, Ex-U.S. Navy Captain (b. 1898)
1969 - Augustin Lara, composer, dies at 69
1970 - Agustín Lara, Mexican composer and poet (b. 1900)
1972 - Billy Murcia, rocker (New York Dolls), chokes to death at 21
1972 - Tod Andrews, actor (Gray Ghost, Counterthrust), dies at 52
1978 - Flora Campbell, actress (Faraway Hill, Date With Judy), dies at 67
1978 - Heiri Suter, Swiss cyclist (b. 1899)
1980 - Mary Michael, actress (Biridie-Wonderful John Acton), dies at 77
1983 - Robert Gross, composer, dies at 69
1984 - Gastón Suárez, Bolivian novelist and dramatist (b. 1929)
1985 - Joel Crothers, actor (Edge of Night), dies of a heart attack at 44
1986 - Elisabeth Grümmer, Alsatian soprano (b. 1911)
1987 - Ross R Barnett, lawyer/(Gov-D-Miss), dies at 89
1987 - William C Pahlmann, interior decorator (4 Seasons NYC), dies at 80
1987 - Zohar Argov, Israeli singer (b. 1955)
1989 - Yusaku Matsuda, Japanese actor (b. 1949)
1989 - Dickie Goodman, creator of "break-in" records (b. 1934)
1990 - Will Kuluva, actor (To Trap a Spy, Go Naked in World), dies at 73
1991 - Andre Vandernoot, Flemish fluitist/conductor, dies at 64
1991 - Gene Tierney, American actress (Laura, Whirlpool), dies of emphysema at 70
1995 - Norman Waterhouse Lees, jazz fan, dies at 90
1995 - Philip Rawson, artist/teacher, dies at 71
1995 - Stanley Oliphant Stewart, librarian, dies at 82
1995 - Aneta Corsaut, American actress (b. 1933)
1996 - Mario Savio, activist, dies of heart attack at 53
1996 - Patience Edney, nurse/communist, dies at 85
1996 - Tommy Lawton, footballer, dies at 80
1997 - Phillipo Seed, social work academic, dies at 67
1998 - Marcel Gauthier, Canadian wrestler (b. 1928)
2000 - David R. Brower, American environmentalist (b. 1912)
2000 - L. Sprague de Camp, American writer (b. 1907)
2001 - Anthony Shaffer, English dramatist (b. 1926)
2002 - Sid Sackson, American board game designer (b. 1920)
2003 - Crash Holly, American professional wrestler (b. 1971)
2003 - Rie Mastenbroek, Dutch swimmer (b. 1919)
2003 - Eduardo Palomo, Mexican actor (b. 1962)
2004 - Fred Dibnah, English television personality (b. 1938)
2004 - Johnny Warren, Australian soccer player (b. 1943)
2005 - Minako Honda, Japanese singer and musical actress (b. 1967)
2005 - Rod Donald, New Zealand Politician, Green Party Co-leader (b. 1957)
2005 - Miguel Aceves Mejía, Mexican actor, composer and singer (b. 1915)
2006 - Federico (Fico) López, Puerto Rican basketball player (b. 1962)
2006 - Francisco Fernández Ochoa, Spanish alpine skier (b. 1950)
2007 - Enzo Biagi, Italian journalist (b. 1920)
2007 - Hilda Braid, English actress (b. 1929)
2007 - George Grljusich, Australian sports broadcaster (b. c1939)
2007 - Sayed Mustafa Kazemi, Afghan politician (b. c1962)
2007 - George Osmond, Osmond family patriarch (b. 1917)
2007 - Hank Thompson, American singer (b. 1925)
2009 - Ron Sproat, American TV writer and playwright (b. 1932)
2010 - Jo Myong-Rok, North Korean military official (b. 1928)
2010 - Robert Lipshutz, American attorney and counsel to the Carter Adminisrtation (b. 1921)
2012 - Clive Dunn, British actor, dies from complications following an operation at 92
2012 - M-16 [Ernest Mateen], American cruiserweight boxing champion, dies at 46

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 07, 2013, 04:45:17 PM

This Day in History for 7th November


Historical Events

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The Sun King of France                           Political Cartoonist Thomas Nast           1st Woman Elected to Congress
 Louis XIV                                                                                                            Jeannette Rankin

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31st US President                                     32nd US President                                  36th US President
Herbert Hoover                                        Franklin D. Roosevelt                             Lyndon B. Johnson

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Radio shock jock
Howard Stern


680 - 3rd Council of Constantinople (6th ecumenical council) opens
921 - Treaty of Bonn: East France & West France recognize each other
1492 - The Ensisheim Meteorite, the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, strikes the earth
           around noon in a wheat field outside the village of Ensisheim, Alsace, France.
1512 - Medici's discharge Niccolo Machiavelli from Florence
1519 - University of Leuven convicts teaching of Luther
1558 - French king Henri II occupies Calais
1631 - Pierre Gassendi observes transit of Mercury predicted by Kepler
1637 - Anne Hutchinson banished from Massachusetts Bay colony as a heretic
1651 - King Louis XIV of France (13) declared of full age
1659 - Peace of Pyreneeen: French king Louis XIV & Spanish king Philip IV
1665 - 1st edition of "London Gazette"
1667 - Jean Racines "Andromaque," premieres in Paris
1722 - Richard Steele's "Conscious Lovers," premieres in London
1733 - France & Spain sign the Treaty of the Escorial (the first 'Pacte de Famille' between the
           Bourbon kings of France and Spain)
1747 - Organgist in Netherlands revolt under Daniel Raap
1775 - Lord Dunmore promises freedom to male slaves who join British army
1786 - The oldest musical organization in the United States is founded as the Stoughton Musical
           Society.
1794 - French troops conquer Nijmegen
1805 - Lewis and Clark sight Pacific Ocean
1811 - Battle of Tippecanoe: Gen. William Henry Harrison defeated the Native Americans of the
           Tecumesh Confederation
1814 - 1st sitting of States-general in Hague
1820 - James Monroe elected 5th US president
1824 - St Petersburg flood
1831 - State of Gran Colombia disbands
1837 - In Alton, Illinois, abolitionist printer Elijah P. Lovejoy shot dead (age 34) by pro-slavery mob
           while attempting to protect his printing shop from being destroyed a third time.
1848 - General Zachary Taylor elected as 12th President of US
1861 - Battle of Belmont, MO
1861 - Battle of Port Royal Bay, SC (Ft Walker, Ft Beauregard)
1863 - Battle of Rappahannock Station & Kelly's Ford, VA
1864 - 2nd session of congress of Confederate States of America reconvenes
1872 - Cargo ship Mary Celeste sails from NY to Genoa; mysteriously found abandoned 4 weeks later
1874 - 1st cartoon depicting elephant as Republican Party symbol, by Thomas Nast
1875 - Verney Cameron is 1st European to cross equitorial Africa
1876 - Edward Bouchet, is 1st black to receive a PhD from a US college (Yale)
1876 - Meharry Medical College forms at Central Tennesse College
1876 - Pres Rutherford B Hayes & Samuel J Tilden claim presidential victory Tilden (D) wins election
           but Electoral college selects Hayes (R)
1885 - Canadian Pacific Railway completed at Craigellachie
1893 - US State Colorado accepts female suffrage
1900 - Battle of Leliefontein, a battle during which the Royal Canadian Dragoons win three Victoria
           Crosses.
1907 - Dynamite explodes on locomotive kills engineer Jesus Garcia in Mexico
1907 - Test tokens are struck in 1st production of Canadian coins
1907 - Delta Sigma Pi is founded at New York University.
1908 - Dutch capture Venezuelan navy
1909 - Knights of St Peter Claver founded in Mobile, Alabama; Ladies Auxiliary formed in 1922
1910 - The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the
           Wright Brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.
1912 - The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of
           Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven's Fidelio.
1914 - Japanese attack German concession on Chinese peninsula of Shanghai
1914 - The first issue of The New Republic magazine is published.
1914 - The German colony of Kiaochow Bay and its centre at Tsingtao are captured by Japanese
           forces.
1915 - Austrian submarine torpedoes Italian passenger ship (272 kill)
1916 - Grand duke Nikolai Nikolayevich warns czar of uprising
1916 - Jeannette Rankin (Rep-R-Mont) elected to Congress as its 1st woman Representative
1916 - Woodrow Wilson (D) re-elected president
1917 - British capture Gaza Palestine from Turks
1917 - October Revolution (Oct 26 OS) in Russia, Lenin seizes power
1918 - Robert Goddard demonstrates tube-launched solid propellant rockets
1918 - United Press erroneously reports WW I armistice had been signed
1918 - Vladimir Mayakovsky's "Misteriya Buff," premieres in Petrograd
1918 - The 1918 influenza epidemic spreads to Western Samoa, killing 7,542 (about 20% of the
           population) by the end of the year.
1918 - Kurt Eisner overthrows the Wittelsbach dynasty in the Kingdom of Bavaria.
1919 - US police raid offices of Union of Russian Workers
1921 - Ed Wynn's musical "Perfect Fool," premieres in NYC
1925 - Italians liberal-national party joins fascist
1928 - Herbert Hoover (R) elected president
1929 - Museum of Modern Art opens (NYC)
1931 - Chinese People's Republic proclaimed by Mao Tse Tung
1932 - 1st broadcast of "Buck Rogers in the 25th century" on CBS-radio
1932 - Bradman scores 238 NSW v Victoria, 200 mins, 32 fours
1933 - Pennsylvania voters overturn blue law, by permitting Sunday sports
1933 - Fiorello H. La Guardia is elected the 99th mayor of New York City.
1934 - Arthur L Mitchell, becomes 1st black Democratic congressman (Ill)
1935 - 23rd CFL Grey Cup: Winnipeg Winnipegs defeats Hamilton Tigers, 18-12
1936 - Battle of Madrid begins
1940 - Stravinsky's Symfonie in C premieres in Chicago
1940 - Tacoma Narrows (Galloping Gertie) Bridge collapses, Wash
1941 - British air attack on Berlin, Mannheim & Ruhrgebied
1942 - 1st US president to broadcast in a foreign language-FDR in French
1942 - Bicyclist Fausto Coppi establishes world record (45,848 km)
1943 - Detroit Lions 0, NY Giants 0; last scoreless tie in NFL
1944 - FDR wins 4th term in office, defeating Thomas E Dewey (R)
1944 - Train crashes in tunnel of Aguadilla Spain; about 500 die
1946 - "Bal Negre" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 54 performances
1949 - King Faruk disbands Egyptian parliament
1950 - Carlo Terron's "Processo Agli Innocenti," premieres in Milan
1950 - French women & children leaves Hanoi/Tonkin-delta
1951 - Constitution of Jordan passes
1953 - WIS TV channel 10 in Columbia, SC (NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 - US spy plane shot down North of Japan
1954 - Cleveland Browns' Chet Hanulak sets club record with 7 punt returns & win by their largest
           margin of victory (59) beating Wash 62-3
1955 - Supreme Court of Baltimore bans segregation in public recreational areas
1957 - Phillies pitcher Jack Sanford wins NL Rookie of Year
1957 - WEEQ (now WWTO) TV channel 35 in La Salle, IL (IND) 1st broadcast
1957 - Cold War: The Gaither Report calls for more American missiles and fallout shelters.
1959 - 13th Ryder Cup: US wins 8½-3½ at Eldorado Golf Club (Indian Wells, California)
1960 - KNRR TV channel 12 in Pembina, ND (IND) begins broadcsting
1961 - France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria
1962 - Nixon tells press he won't be available to kick around any more after losing election for
           Governor of California
1962 - Glenn Hall set NHL record of 503 consecutive games as goalie
1963 - Carole Joan Crawford, 20, wins Miss World
1963 - NY Yankee Elston Howard is 1st black ever voted AL MVP
1963 - Wunder von Lengede: In Germany, eleven miners are rescued from a collapsed mine after 14
           days.
1964 - NL keeps Braves in Milwaukee in 1965, may move to Atlanta in 1966
1965 - Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Tall City Golf Open
1966 - Jean-Claude van Itallie's "America Hurrah," premieres in NYC
1966 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1966 - Lunar Orbiter 2 launched by US
1967 - Carl B Stokes elected 1st black mayor of a major city-Cleveland, Ohio
1967 - LBJ signs a bill establishing Corporation for Public Broadcasting
1967 - Richard G Hatcher elected mayor of Gary Indiana
1967 - St Louis Cards Orlando Cepeda is 1st unanimous NL MVP
1967 - Surveyor 6 launched for soft landing on Moon
1968 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1969 - John & Yoko release their 2nd album "Wedding Album" in UK
1970 - "Purlie" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 689 performances
1970 - Race riots in Daytona Beach Florida
1972 - Pres Nixon (R) re-elected defeating George McGovern (D)
1973 - NJ becomes 1st state to allow girls into little league
1973 - US & Egypt announce restoration of full diplomatic links
1974 - 63rd Davis Cup: South Africa beats India in (w/o)
1975 - Kidnapped AKZO director Herrema freed in Ireland
1976 - "Gone With the Wind" televised
1978 - Boston Red Sox Jim Rice wins AL MVP
1978 - CDA-chairman W Aantjes resigns due to his war past
1979 - Cub reliever Bruce Sutter wins NL Cy Young Award
1981 - France performs nuclear test
1982 - "Your Arms are Too Short to Box" closes at Alvin NYC after 69 perfs
1982 - Liz Taylor's 7th divorce (John Warner)
1982 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic
1982 - Turkey adopts constitution
1983 - Ali Haji-Sheikh kicks his 2nd NY Giant record 56 yard field goal
1983 - Bomb explodes in US Capitol, causing heavy damage but no injuries
1984 - STS 51-A launch scrubbed because of high shear winds
1985 - Colombian troops end 27-hr siege of Bogota's Palace of Justice
1987 - Tunisian premier Zine al-Abidine fires president Habib Bourguiba
1988 - MLB all stars beats Japan 16-8 (Game 3 of 7)
1988 - Sugar Ray Leonard KO's Donnie LaLonde
1989 - Balt's Gregg Olson is 1st relief pitcher to win AL Rookie of Year
1989 - Douglas Wilder elected 1st US black governor (D-Va)
1989 - NYC elects it's 1st black mayor (Dinkins) & female comp (Holtzman)
1990 - "Little Night Music" closes at New York State NYC after 11 perfs
1990 - "Those Were The Days" opens at Edison Theater NYC for 126 performances
1990 - Cleve Indian Sandy Alomar Jr wins AL Rookie of Year, unanimously
1990 - Mary Robinson elected as 1st female president of Ireland
1991 - "Brigadoon" opens at New York State Theater NYC for 12 performances
1991 - "Park Your Car in Harvard Yard" opens at Music Box NYC
1991 - 1st NBA game in Delta City, Utah Jazz beats Seattle 103-95
1991 - Magic Johnson announces he has HIV virus & retires from LA Lakers
1992 - 1st NBA game at America West Arena, Phoenix Suns beat Clippers 111-105
1993 - Betsy King wins LPGA Toray Japan Queens Cup Golf Tournament
1995 - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Pittsburgh PA on WXDX 105.9 FM
1995 - Howard Stern's 2nd book "Miss America" released (fastest selling ever)
1996 - "3 Sisters" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC
1996 - NFL/Heisman Trophy Winner Mike Rozier, is shot several times
1996 - Wasim Jaffer gets 314* in 2nd cricket FC game for Mumbai v Saurashtra
1997 - "Bean" opens in US
2000 - Controversial US presidential election that was later resolved in the Bush v. Gore Supreme
           Court Case.
2000 - The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovers one of the country's largest LSD labs
           inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas.
2000 - Hillary Rodham Clinton is elected to the United States Senate, becoming the first former First
           Lady to win public office in the United States, although actually she still was the First Lady.
2001 - The supersonic commercial aircraft Concorde resumes flying after a 15-month hiatus.
2002 - Iran bans advertising of United States products.
2004 - War in Iraq: The interim government of Iraq calls for a 60-day "state of emergency" as U.S.
           forces storm the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.
2007 - Jokela school shooting in Tuusula, Finland, resulting in the death of nine people.
2012 - 48 people are killed by a magnitude 7.3 earthquake in Guatemala
2012 - Voters in Maine, Maryland and Washington approve measures for same-sex marriage

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Post by: MysteRy on November 07, 2013, 04:46:43 PM

This Day in History for 7th November


Famous Weddings

1597 - Emilia of Nassau weds Dom Emanuel of Portugal
1951 - Entertainer Frank Sinatra (34) marries 2nd wife film star Ava Gardner (26)
2006 - NASCAR racer Jeff Gordon (38) weds Belgian model and actress Ingrid Vandebosch (36) at
           the Hacienda de San Antonio Resort in Colima, Mexico
2010 - Supermodel and who's also the face of L'Oreal Paris Doutzen Kroes (25) weds DJ Sunnery
           James in Amsterdam, Netherlands

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 07, 2013, 04:47:44 PM

This Day in History for 7th November


Famous Divorces

1982 - Liz Taylor's 7th divorce (John Warner)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 07, 2013, 04:55:49 PM

This Day in History for 7th November


Famous Birthdays

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Discoverer of Radium                              Russian Revolutionary                           Author Albert Camus (1913)
 Marie Curie (1867)                                  Leon Trotsky (1879)

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Economist Michael Spence (1943)


630 - Constans II, Byzantine emperor (d. 668)
994 - Muhammad ibn Hazm, historian/jurist/author of Islamic Spain
1598 - Francisco Zurbarán, Spanish painter (d. 1664)
1619 - Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux, French writer (d. 1692)
1650 - John Robinson, English diplomat (d. 1723)
1656 - Walraad the Younger, earl of Nassau-Ottweiler/gov of Nimegen
1687 - William Stukeley, English archaeologist (d. 1765)
1692 - Johannes G Schnabel, German author/surgeon (Insel Felsenburg)
1706 - Carlo Cecere, Italian composer
1750 - Friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg, German poet (d. 1819)
1758 - Edouard viscount de Walckiers, South Netherland banker/politician
1786 - Francisco Andrevi y Castellar, Spanish choirmaster and composer of Italian parentage
1797 - Silas Horton Stringham, Rear Admiral (Union Navy), died in 1876
1805 - Thomas Brassey, English civil engineering contractor (d. 1870)
1810 - Fritz Reuter, German novelist
1811 - Karel J Erben, Czech poet (Bouquet)
1818 - Emil du Bois-Reymond, German physician (d. 1896)
1822 - Edouard Gregoir, Belgian composer
1828 - Ludwig Deppe, composer
1832 - Andrew Dickson White, educator/1st president of Cornell
1838 - Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, French writer (d. 1889)
1839 - Henry Holmes, composer
1846 - Ignaz Brull, composer
1851 - Chris von der Ahe, German born entrepreneur (d. 1913)
1852 - Bohdan Borkowski, composer
1855 - Edwin H Hall, US physicist (Hall effect)
1856 - Semyon Zonovyevich Alapin, Vilna, tied for chess 1st place (1878)
1858 - Bipin Chandra Pal, Indian freedom fighter, (d. 1932)
1860 - Jean-Baptiste Eugène Estienne, French general (d. 1936)
1861 - Jeff Milton, American lawman (d. 1947)
1866 - Carl Emil Paul Lincke, composer
1866 - Paul Lincke, German composer/conductor/publisher (Frau Luna)
1867 - Marie Curie, Warsaw, discovered radium (Nobel 1903, 1911), (d. 1934)
1874 - Joseph Willoughby, cricketer (2 Tests for South Africa 1895-96)
1875 - Mikhail Kalinin, Soviet politician (d. 1946)
1876 - Culbert Olson, Fillmore Utah, (Gov-D-Cal)
1876 - Ted Arnold, cricketer (England all-rounder in 10 Tests 1903-05)
1876 - Charlie Townsend, English cricketer (d. 1958)
1877 - Henry Balfour Gardiner, composer
1878 - Lise Meitner, Austrian/Swedish physicist (Protactinium)
1879 - Eugeen Yoors, Flemish etcher/glass painter
1879 - Leon Trotsky[Leib Bronstein], Bronshtein, Russian Empire, Russian revolutionary and
           Theorist [OS 26-10-1879], (d. 1940)
1883 - Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux, Newport New Va, TV preacher
1886 - Aaron Nimzowitsch, Latvian chess player (openings theorist)
1886 - Mark Aldanov, [Landau], Russian/French chemist/writer [OS=Oct 26]
1888 - Chandrasekhara Raman, India, physicist (Nobel 1930)
1889 - George Davis, Netherlands, actor (Devil May Care)
1889 - Lord Tennyson III, cricketer (England batsman & captain)
1893 - Leatrice Joy, American actress (d. 1985)
1895 - Jakob Kaplan, French head rabbi (1955-81)
1896 - Herbert R O'Connor, Balt Md, (Sen-Md)/TV narrator (Crime Syndicate)
1896 - Esdras Minville, Quebec writer, economist and sociologist (d. 1975)
1897 - Ruth Pitter, British poet and 1st woman to receive the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1955
1898 - Raphaël Salem, Greek mathematician (d. 1963)
1900 - Efrem Kurtz, St Petersburg Russia, conductor (Houston Symph 1948-54)
1902 - Rob van der de Bas, [Barend Robberts], troubadour (Klucht of the Cow)
1903 - Albert Helman, [Lou Lichtveld], Suriname politician/novelist
1903 - Dean Jagger, Lima Ohio, actor (Albert Vane-Mr Novak, Elmer Gantry)
1903 - Konrad Lorenz, zoologist/ethologist (Man & His Ideas, Nobel 1973)
1903 - Lodewijk AM "Lou" Lichtveld, [Albert Helman], Suriname author
1903 - Grace Stafford, American actress (d. 1992)
1905 - William Alwyn, composer
1906 - Eugene Carson Blake, US sec-gen of World council of Churches (1966-72)
1906 - Jan Vercammen, Flemish author/chief inspector LO (Primary Education)
1906 - Margaret Barbara Lambert, British historian (Saar)
1907 - Maurits Mok, Dutch author/poet (Cheese & Bread Game)
1911 - Walter Shlomo Gross, journalist
1913 - Albert Camus, Algeria, author (The Just-Nobel 1957), (d. 1960)
1914 - R[aphael] A[loysius] Lafferty, US, sci-fi author (Devil is Dead)
1915 - Philip Morrison, American scientist (d. 2005)
1916 - Joe Bushkin, NYC, jazz pianist (A Couple of Joes)
1917 - Andras Mihaly, composer
1918 - Billy Graham, Charlotte NC, Baptist evangelist (Crusades)
1918 - Maria Teresa de Noronha, Portuguese Fado singer (d. 1993)
1918 - Paul Aussaresses, French general
1922 - Al Hirt, New Orleans LA, jazz trumpeter (Greatest Horn in the World)
1923 - Matthew Coady, journalist
1924 - Wolf Mankowitz, British(?) playwright
1926 - Joan Sutherland, Sydney Australia, operatic soprano (Met Opera)
1927 - Hiroshi Yamauchi, Kyoto Japan, owner (Seattle Mariners)
1927 - Ivor Emmanuel, Welsh singer and actor (d. 2007)
1928 - Richard G. Scott, LDS apostle
1928 - Norton Zinder, New York City, NY, biologist (genetic transduction), (d. 2012)
1929 - Ruggero Mastroianni, film editor
1930 - Peter Woods, newsreader
1930 - Rudy Boschwitz, (Sen-R-Mn, 1978- )
1931 - Gerald Humel, composer
1932 - Harry Lammertink, [Yrrah], Dutch cartoonist (Vrij Netherland)
1933 - George Tibbits, composer
1934 - Stephen L Neal, (Rep-D-NC, 1975- )
1935 - Willibrordus S Rendra, Indonesia, poet (Ballad orang-orang tertjina)
1936 - Barry Newman, Boston Mass, actor (Amy, Deadline, Petrocelli)
1936 - Jaap Stobbe, Dutch actor (Dageraad)
1938 - Dee Clark, Arkansas, singer (Hambone, Nobody But You)
1938 - James Katt, pitcher/sportscaster (NY Yankees, Minnesota Twins)
1938 - Jim Kaat, American baseball player
1939 - Daniel Manneke, composer
1940 - Guido Provoost, Belgian historian
1942 - Jean Shrimpton, British model/actress (Privilege)
1942 - Johnny Rivers, [Ramistella], NYC, singer (Secret Agent Man)
1943 - Joni Mitchell, [Roberta J Anderson], Alberta Canada, singer (Clouds)
1943 - Judith Frost, British Columbia, artist (To Red, Dust Drawings)
1943 - Wensley Haydon-Baillie, English pharmaceutical manufacturer
1943 - Michael Byrne, English actor
1943 - Stephen Greenblatt, American literary critic
1943 - Boris Gromov, Russian general
1943 - Michael Spence, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
1944 - James Dashow, Chicago, American/Italian composer
1944 - Jim Watkins, Phila, actor (Jerry-Magician)
1944 - Joe Niekro, baseball knuckler (NY Yankees)
1944 - Luigi Riva, Italian footballer
1944 - Ken Patera, American professional wrestler
1947 - Bob Anderson, English darts player
1947 - Yutaka Fukumoto, Japanese professional baseball player
1948 - Alex Ribeiro, Brazilian racing driver
1949 - Steven Stucky, American composer
1950 - Alexa Canady, 1st black woman neuro-surgeon/educator
1950 - Augusto Gen'un Alcalde, Buenos Aires, 1st South American Zen teacher
1951 - Dan Duva, boxing promoter/producer (Howard Stern New Years Party)
1951 - Nick Gilder, London England, singer (Hot Child in the City)
1952 - David Petraeus, Commanding General of Multinational Force Iraq
1953 - Lucinda Green, English equestrian
1954 - Kamal Haasan, Indian actor
1955 - Detlef Ultsch, German judoka
1956 - Denise Jannah, [Zeefuik], Suriname jazz singer (Farmer's Market)
1956 - Judy Tenuta, Chicago, Illinois, American comedian
1957 - Christopher Knight, NYC, actor (Peter-Brady Bunch)
1957 - Jonathan Palmer, formula-1 racer
1957 - Kathy McMillan, long jumper (Olympic-silver-1976)
1958 - Jack Wyngaard, dancer
1958 - Lori Saldaña, American politician
1959 - Billy Gillispie, American basketball coach
1959 - Alexandre Guimarães, Costa Rican football manager
1960 - Tommy Thayer, American guitarist (Kiss)
1961 - Mintcho Pachov, Bulgaria, 67.5kg weightlifer (Olympic-bronze-1980)
1962 - Arend Bouwmeester, Dutch saxophonist (Bob Color)
1962 - Wayne Norman Phillips, Vic opener cricketer (Test for Aust v Ind 1992)
1963 - John Barnes, British soccer player
1963 - Michael Heidt, Calgary Alberta, hockey defenseman (Team Germany)
1963 - Shelly Miller, Youngstown Oh, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-25th-1994)
1963 - Todd McKee, actor (Ted-Santa Barbara, Bold & Beautiful)
1964 - Dana Plato, Maywood California, actress (Kimberly-Diff'rent Strokes)
1964 - Liam O'Maonlai, Irish vocalist/pianist (Hothouse Flowers-I'm Sorry)
1964 - Gill Holland, American producer
1965 - Sigrun Wodars, German athlete
1966 - Andy Tomberlin, Monroe NC, outfielder (NY Mets)
1966 - Lisa Canning, Virgin Islands, hostess (Entertainment Tonight)
1966 - Murphy Logo Su'a, cricket pace bowler (NZ left-arm of Samoan parents)
1967 - Sharleen Spiteri Scottish singer and songwriter (Texas)
1968 - Russ Springer, Alexandria VA, pitcher (Philadelphia Phillies)
1968 - Greg Tribbett, American musician (Mudvayne)
1968 - Mark Preston, Australian engineer
1969 - Michelle Morse, Ft Rucker Ala, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-13th-1995)
1969 - Tanya Dubnicoff, Winnipeg Manitoba, cyclist (Olympics-6th-92, 96)
1969 - Hélène Grimaud, French pianist
1969 - Michelle Clunie, American actress
1970 - Andre Hastings, NFL wide receiver (Pittsburgh Steelers, NO Saints)
1970 - Kris[ten] Fillat, San Diego California, field hockey forward (Olympics-96)
1970 - Marc Rosset, Geneva Switz, tennis star (1992 French Doubles)
1970 - Neil Hannon, Northern Irish musician (The Divine Comedy)
1970 - Andy Houston, American NASCAR driver
1970 - Morgan Spurlock, American director and producer
1971 - Jamie Drummond, Scottish/Canadian Sommelier
1971 - Robin Finck, American musician
1972 - Christopher Daniel Barnes, ME, actor (Ross-Day by Day, As World Turns)
1972 - Clive B Barnes, Portland Me, actor (Scott Hayden-Starman)
1972 - Emily Porter Lesueur, Glendale California, synchro swimmer (Oly-gold-96)
1972 - Jane Taylor, Maitland NSW Aust, tennis star (1995 Futures-Wagga Waga)
1972 - Jeremy London, actor (I'll Fly Away, Party of Five)
1972 - Jimmy Gary, NFL running back (Seattle Seahawks)
1972 - Mike Goldman, Australian media personality
1972 - Marcus Stewart, English football player
1973 - Yunjin Kim, South Korean actress
1973 - Martín Palermo, Argentine footballer
1974 - Kris Benson, Konnesaw TX, baseball pitcher (Olympics-bronze-96)
1974 - Tarek Saleh, linebacker (Carolina Panthers)
1974 - Chris Summers, Norwegian drummer (Turbonegro)
1975 - Suesan Rajabi, Miss Colorado USA (1996)
1976 - Mark Philippoussis, Australia, tennis star (140 MPH serve)
1976 - Zahir Raheem, Phila, bantamweight boxer (Olympics-96)
1976 - One Be Lo, hip-hop artist
1978 - Rio Ferdinand, English footballer
1978 - Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink, Dutch footballer
1978 - Tomoya Nagase, Japanese actor and singer (TOKIO)
1979 - Danny Fonseca, Costa Rican footballer
1979 - Barney Harwood, CBBC presenter
1979 - Will Demps, American football player
1979 - Joey Ryan, American professional wrestler
1979 - Jon Peter Lewis, American singer
1979 - Mike Commodore, American professional hockey player
1980 - Gervasio Deferr, Spanish gymnast
1980 - James Franklin, New Zealand Cricket player
1980 - Luciana Salazar, Argentine model and actress
1981 - Muhammad Hassan, professional wrestler
1981 - Anthony Moffat, Scottish musician, writer and film-maker
1981 - Anushka Shetty, Tollywood Film Actress
1986 - Sol Aranza, Mexican voice actress
1990 - Matt Corby, Australian singer

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 07, 2013, 05:00:03 PM

This Day in History for 7th November


Famous Deaths

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Outlaw Butch Cassidy (1908)             US First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt (1962)


644 - Umar ibn al-Khattāb, Second caliph of Islam dies of injuries after assassination attempt 4 days
         earlier
739 - Willibrord, [Clemens], 1st bishop of Utrecht/saint 695-739, dies at 81
1225 - Engelbert I, the Saint, archbishop of Cologne, murdered at 40
1550 - Jon Arason, the last Roman Catholic bishop of Iceland prior to the reformation, beheaded in
           Skalholt with his two sons Are and Bjorn. (b. 1484)
1560 - Peter S Lotichius, [Peter Lotz], German poet (Opera omnia), dies
1573 - Solomon Luria (Maharshal), talmudic author (Yam Shel Shelomo), dies
1581 - Richard Davies, Welsh bishop and scholar
1599 - Gasparo Tagliacozzi, Italian surgeon (b. 1546)
1608 - Adolf, earl of Nassau-Siegen/cavalry commander, dies in battle
1620 - Hetman Stanisław Żólkiewski polish commander in the Battle of Ţuţora (1620) (b. 1547)
1633 - Cornelis Drebbel, physicist/chemist/inventor (submarine), dies
1639 - William Cobbold, composer, dies at 79
1639 - Thomas Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Wardour, English politician
1642 - Henry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester, English politician
1678 - Erasmus Quellinus II [Quellien], Flemish painter/etcher, dies at 70
1708 - Ludolf Backhuysen, Dutch seascape painter/cartoonist, dies at 76
1713 - Elizabeth Barry, English actress (b. 1658)
1723 - Godfrey Kneller, English painter (74-77), dies
1802 - Johann Georg Joseph Spangler, composer, dies at 50
1817 - Francesco Pasquale Ricci, composer, dies at 85
1827 - Bartolomeo Campagnoli, Ital violinist/composer/conductor, dies at 76
1857 - Charles Heinrich Christoph Zeuner, composer, dies at 62
1859 - Carl Gottlieb Reissiger, composer, dies at 61
1872 - Alfred Clebsch, German mathematician (b. 1833)
1876 - Albertus C van Raalte, Dutch/US vicar (Michigan), dies at 65
1880 - Carl Friedrich Weitzmann, composer, dies at 72
1881 - John MacHale, Irish Archbishop (Tuam) and writer (b. 1791)
1893 - Constantly Lievens, Flemish missionary in India, dies at 37
1901 - Li Hung-Tshang, Chinese rebel leader/viceroy of Tsheli, dies
1908 - Butch Cassidy [Robert LeRoy Parker], American train and bank robber, shot by Bolivian
           soldiers at 42
1913 - Alfred Russel Wallace, British naturalist and biologist (b. 1823)
1919 - Hugo Haase, German MP (SPD), murdered at 56
1922 - Sam Thompson, baseball player (b. 1860)
1935 - Lidj Jasu, emperor of Ethiopia, dies at 39
1938 - Earnest von Rath, German antifascist/diplomat, murdered
1941 - Albin Zollinger, Swiss poet/author (Das Gewitter), dies at 46
1943 - Dwight Frye, actor (Vampire Bat, Dracula), dies at 44
1944 - Richard Sorge & Ozaki, spies, hanged in Tokyo
1945 - Alfred Dipper, cricketer (England batsman scored in only Test), dies
1956 - Una Mae Carlisle, US pianist/singer, dies at 40
1959 - Victor McLaglen, actor (Gunga Din), dies of heart attack at 72
1960 - Alvin Carter, vocalist (Carter Family), dies at 69
1961 - Antonius F "Anton" Coolen, author (Peelwerkers), dies at 64
1962 - Eleanor Roosevelt, 1st Lady (1933-1945), dies at 78 in NYC
1965 - Friedrich Wildgans, composer, dies at 52
1966 - Rube Bressler, Baseball player (b. 1894)
1967 - John Nance Garner, (VP-D, 1933-41), dies at 98
1967 - Juan Tomas Perez, composer, dies at 71
1967 - Larry Kent, director (High Stakes), dies at 67
1968 - Willem A Wagenaar, Dutch journalist/author (3,000 meter), dies
1968 - Alexander Gelfond, Russian mathematician (b. 1906)
1972 - Tod Andrews, actor (From Hell it Came, Outrage), dies at 51
1974 - Rodolfo Acosta, actor (Passion, Littlest Outlaw), dies at 54
1974 - Eric Linklater, British author (b. 1899)
1978 - Gene Tunney, former heavyweight boxing champ (1926-28), dies at 80
1978 - Janet Flanner, writer, dies at 86
1979 - Amedeo Nazzari, actor (Lure of Sila, Night of Cabiria), dies at 71
1979 - Paolo Carlini, Italian actor (It Started in Naples), dies at 53
1980 - Steve McQueen, actor (Tom Horn, Bullitt), dies at 50
1981 - Will Durant, US author (story of civilization), dies at 96
1983 - David Alexandrovich Toradze, composer, dies at 61
1983 - Germaine Tailleferre, Fren composer (Le Marin du Bolivar), dies at 91
1984 - George Matthews, actor (Chick-Glynis), dies at 73 of heart disease
1986 - Tracy Pew, Australian musician (The Birthday Party) (b. 1957)
1990 - Josephine Wilson, actress (We Dive at Dawn), dies at 86
1990 - Lawrence Durrell, Indian/English author (Alexandria Quartet, Mount Olive), dies at 78
1991 - Tom of Finland, Finnish fetish artist (b. 1920)
1992 - Alexander Dubcek, premier Czechoslovakia (1968-69), dies at 70
1992 - Jack Kelly, US actor (Maverick, Vega$), dies following a stroke at 65
1993 - Adelaide Hall, US jazz singer (Cotton Club), dies at 92
1993 - Charles Aidman, actor (Kotch, Zoot Suit), dies of cancer at 68
1994 - Michael O'Donoghue, comedian (SNL), dies at about 54
1994 - Milton "Shorty" Rogers [Rajonsky], US jazz trumpeter, dies at 70
1995 - Jerry Daniels, singer/guitarist, dies at 79
1995 - John Patrick, screenwriter, dies at 90
1995 - Melvin "Slappy" White, comedian, dies of heart attack at 74
1996 - Brian Keith-Lucas, political scientist, dies at 84
1996 - Claude Ake, political scientist, dies at 57
1996 - Michael Fenton Haddon, mining engineer, dies at 81
1996 - Jaja Wachuku, Nigerian Lawyer and First Foreign Affairs Minister (b. 1918)
2000 - Chidambaram Subramaniam, Indian politician (b. 1910)
2000 - Queen Ingrid, Queen Dowager of Denmark (b. 1910)
2001 - Nida Blanca, Filipino actress (b. 1936)
2002 - Rudolf Augstein, German publisher (b. 1923)
2004 - Howard Keel, American actor (b. 1919)
2005 - Anthony Sawoniuk, Belarusian-born Nazi war criminal (b. 1921)
2005 - Harry Thompson, English-born comedian and novelist (b. 1960)
2006 - Bryan Pata, American football defensive tackle (University of Miami) (murdered) (b. 1981)
2006 - Johnny Sain, American baseball pitcher (b. 1917)
2006 - Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, French journalist (b. 1924)
2007 - Earl Dodge, American politician (Prohibition Party) (b. 1932)
2011 - Joe Frazier, Olympic Heavyweight Boxer (b. 1944)
2012 - Carmen Basilio [Carmine], American world welter and middleweight boxing champion, dies
           from pneumonia at 85

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Post by: MysteRy on November 08, 2013, 11:00:42 AM

This Day in History for 8th November


Historical Events

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United States Founding Father                Physicist and Nobel Laureate                 Dictator of Nazi Germany
Benjamin Franklin                                    Wilhelm Röntgen                                  Adolf Hitler 

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32nd US President                                   Writer Jean-Paul Sartre                            US President & Actor
Franklin D. Roosevelt                                                                                             Ronald Reagan

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Playwright Tom Stoppard                   Baseball Player Darryl Strawberry              Iraqi President Saddam Hussein


392 - Emperor Theodosius declares Christian religion, state religion
911 - Duke Koenraad I chosen German king
1322 - Pope John XXII names John van Diest, bishop of Utrecht
1494 - Uprising against Piero de' Medici in Florence Italy
1519 - 1st meeting of Montezuma & Hernán Cortés in Mexico
1520 - Stockholm Bloodbath begins: A successful invasion of Sweden by Danish forces results in the
           execution of around 100 people.
1575 - French Roman Catholics & Huguenots signs treaty
1576 - Eighty Years' War: Pacification of Ghent - 17 Dutch provinces sign anti-Spanish covenant
1598 - Spanish troops under Bernardino de Mendoza conquer Doetinchem
1602 - The Bodleian Library at Oxford University is opened
1620 - Battle of White Mountain, Prague
1627 - English fleet under George Villiers leaves Île de Ré
1638 - Anne Hutchinson banished from Massachusetts
1658 - Battle of Sont: Swedish fleet beats Dutch
1701 - William Penn presents Charter of Priviliges
1731 - In Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin opens 1st US library
1734 - Vincent la Chapelle, master cook to various nobility and royalty, forms Free Masons Lodge in
           Netherlands
1789 - Bourbon Whiskey, 1st distilled from corn (by Elijah Craig, Bourbon Ky)
1793 - Louvre in Paris opens
1833 - Train derails at Hightstown NJ; 2 die
1837 - Mount Holyoke Seminary in Mass-1st US college founded for women
1838 - Victor Hugo's "Ruy Blas" premieres in Paris
1842 - Belgium King Leopold I proclaims child labor laws (for 1889)
1861 - Battle of Mount Ivy, KY
1861 - US removes Confederate officials from British steamer Trent
1864 - Abraham Lincoln (R) elected to his 2nd term as American President
1870 - Democratic governor elected in Tennessee
1880 - Sarah Bernhardt, French actress, made US debut at NY's Booth Theater
1883 - English freighter Nisero stranded at Atjeh (crew taken hostage)
1884 - German government recognizes King Leopold II's Congo Free State
1889 - Montana admitted as 41st state of the Union
1892 - Grover Cleveland (D) elected president
1895 - German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen produces and detects electromagnetic radiation in a
           wavelength range today known as X-rays or Röntgen rays
1900 - Theodore Dreiser's novel "Sister Carrie" is published
1901 - Bloody clashes take place in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into demotic
           Greek.
1904 - American President Theodore Roosevelt (R) defeats Alton B Parker (D)
1910 - 1st Washington State election in which women could vote
1917 - People's Commissars gives authority to Lenin, Trotsky & Stalin
1917 - Telephone Co runs 1st ad for Army operators, gets 7,000 applicants
1918 - Pro-German supreme commander general Cutters lay-offs
1920 - Actress Edna Lewis Thomas debuts at Putnam Theatre Brooklyn
1920 - Baseball meeting to depose Ban Johnson is set for Nov 12th
1923 - Hitler stages unsuccessful "Beer Hall Putsch" in Muenchen (Munich)
1924 - Austria chancellor Ignaz Seipel, resigns after assassination attempt
1924 - Fortune Theatre opens in London
1926 - George Gershwin's musical "Oh, Kay" premieres in NYC
1928 - George & Ira Gershwin's musical "Treasure Girl" premieres in NYC
1929 - Jean Giraudoux' "Amphitryon '38" premieres in Paris
1929 - NYC Museum of Modern Art opens in Hecksher Building
1930 - Friedrich Wolf's "Die Matrosen von Cattaro" premieres in Berlin
1932 - "Make Mine Music" debuts
1932 - Franklin Roosevelt (D) elected 32nd President for 1st time
1933 - FDR creates Civil Works Administration
1934 - Ford Frick, NL publicity director, is named league president
1937 - The Nazi exhibition Der ewige Jude ("The Eternal Jew") opens in Munich.
1938 - 1st black woman legislator, Crystal Bird Fauset of Phila
1938 - A pogrom against the Jews of Germany and Austria takes place in response to the
           assassination of a German diplomat in Paris.
1939 - Failed assassination attempt on Hitler in Burgerbraukeller, Munich
1939 - H Lindsay & R Crouse' "Life with Father" premieres in NYC
1940 - RAF bombs Munich
1941 - The Albanian Communist Party is founded.
1942 - 1st WW II American expeditionary force lands in Africa (Gold Coast)
1942 - Hitler proclaims fall of Stalingrad from Munich beer hall
1942 - Operation Torch; began as US and British forces under Eisenhower land in French North Africa
1942 - Vichy-France drops diplomatic relations with US
1944 - 25,000 Hungarian Jews are loaned to Nazis for forced labor
1944 - Last German troops at Walcheren surrenders
1945 - "Girl from Nantucket" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 12 performances
1945 - Riverboat sinks off Hong Kong; kills 1,550
1946 - Jean-Paul Sartre's "La Putain Respecteuse" premieres in Paris
1947 - Bradman scores his 99th 1st-class cricket century, 100 SA v Victoria
1950 - 1st jet-plane battle ever, in Korean War
1950 - Boston Red Sox 1B Walt Dropo wins AL Rookie of Year
1950 - Walt Dropo of Boston Red Sox selected AL Rookie of Year
1951 - NY Yankee Catcher Yogi Berra wins 1st of his 3 MVP awards
1953 - Salazar's party wins all parliamentary seats in Portugal
1954 - AL approves Philadelphia A's move to Kansas City
1956 - UN demands USSR leave Hungary
1957 - Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1958 - "Maria Golovin" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 5 performances
1959 - KJTV (now KGET) TV channel 17 in Bakersfield, CA (NBC) 1st broadcast
1959 - Tunisian president Habib Bourguiba's Nes Destour party wins every seat
1960 - JFK (Sen-D-Mass) beats VP Richard Nixon (R) to become 35th US president
1961 - Whitey Ford is voted Cy Young Award winner over Warren Spahn
1962 - Canada government orders changing nickel back to round shape
1964 - IMF grants Great Britain credit of $1 billion
1964 - KUPK TV channel 13 in Garden City, KS (ABC) begins broadcasting
1964 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Tall City Golf Open
1964 - Orioles Frank Robinson unanimous choice as AL MVP
1965 - "Days of Our Lives" premieres on TV
1965 - British Indian Ocean Territory formed
1966 - Edward W Brooke (Rep-R-Mass) becomes 1st black elected to Senate
1966 - Frank Robinson selected AL MVP
1966 - Movie actor Ronald Reagan elected Governor of California
1966 - Pres Johnson signs anti-trust immunity to AFL-NFL merger
1967 - 1st local British radio station begins broadcasting (Radio Leicester)
1967 - Silver hits record $1.951 an ounce in London
1967 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1968 - Cynthia Lennon is granted a divorce from John
1970 - Tom Dempsey of New Orleans Saints kicks NFL record 63 yard field goal
1973 - Nevada approves pari-mutuel betting on Jai Alai
1974 - British Lord ('Lucky') Lucan disappears
1974 - Ted Bundy victim Debi Kent disappears in Salt Lake City, Utah
1975 - Nick Bockwinkle beats Verne Gagne in St Paul, to become NWA champ
1976 - A series of earthquakes spreads panic in the city of Thessaloniki, which is evacuated.
1977 - Manolis Andronikos, a Greek Archaeologist and professor at the Aristotle University of
           Thessaloniki, discovers the tomb of Philip II of Macedon at Vergina.
1978 - Tom Stoppard's "Night & Day" premieres in London
1979 - Bernard Slade's "Romantic Comedy" premieres in NYC
1979 - ABC broadcasts "Iran Crisis: American Held Hostage" with Frank Reynolds (forerunner to
           "Nightline")
1979 - The Chilean Communist Party (Proletarian Action) is formed.
1980 - Voyager 1 space probe discovers 15th moon of Saturn
1981 - Christian Democrats looses Belgium parliamentary election
1981 - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic
1983 - Martha Layne Collins (D) elected 1st female governor of Kentucky
1983 - STS-9 vehicle again moves to launch pad
1983 - W Wilson Goode (D) elected 1st black mayor of Philadelphia
1984 - 1st-class cricket debut of Wasim Akram, 2 months before his 1st Test
1984 - Anna Fisher becomes 1st "mom" to go into orbit
1984 - STS 51-A mission launches
1985 - Atlantis moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 61-B mission
1986 - "Song & Dance" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 474 performances
1987 - Australia beat England by 7 runs to win cricket World Cup
1987 - IRA bomb attack in Enniskillen, North Ireland, 11 killed
1987 - Yuko Moriguchi wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic
1988 - 900 die as earthquake hits China
1988 - Arco Arena in Sacramento CA opens, Sac Kings lose to Seattle, 97-75
1988 - George W H Bush (R) beats Mike Dukakis (D) for presidency
1988 - Rafael Fernandez Colón elected as president of Puerto Rico
1989 - Cubs Jerome Walton wins the NL Rookie of Year
1989 - David Dinkins elected 1st black mayor of NYC
1989 - Douglas Wilder elected 1st US black governor (Virginia)
1989 - Hong Kong's MTR Lam Tin Station comes into service.
1990 - "6 Degrees of Separation" opens at Vivian Beaumont NYC for 496 perfs
1990 - 100,000 additional US troops are sent to Persian gulf
1990 - Darryl Strawberry signs 5-year contract with LA Dodgers
1990 - Gina Marie Tolleson of USA, 21, crowned 40th Miss World
1990 - Saddam fires his army chief & threatens to destroy Arabian peninsula
1991 - Carol Burnette Show premieres on CBS-TV
1991 - Paul Coffey sets NHL defensman soring mark with 311th goal
1992 - "Solitary Confinement" opens at Nederlander Theater NYC for 25 perfs
1992 - 300,000 demonstrate against racism in Berlin
1992 - Betsy King wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic
1994 - Cleveland Cavaliers 1st game at Gund Arena, lose to Hous Rockets, 100-98
1994 - Haitian government of Smarck Michel forms
1997 - Tampa Bay Devil Rays name their 1st manager Larry Rothschild
1997 - Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Countess Diana, Elmhurst, Ajina, Spinning World,
           Favorite Trick, Chief Bearhart, Skip Away
1998 - Japan Golf Classic
2002 - Iraq disarmament crisis: UN Security Council Resolution 1441 - The United Nations Security
           Council unanimously approves a resolution on Iraq, forcing Saddam Hussein to disarm or face
           "serious consequences".
2004 - War in Iraq: More than 10,000 U.S. troops and a small number of Iraqi army units participate
           in a siege on the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.
2011 - The potentially hazardous asteroid 2005 YU55 passed 0.85 lunar distances from Earth (about
           324,600 kilometres or 201,700 miles), the closest known approach by an asteroid of its
           brightness since 2010 XC15 in 1976.

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 08, 2013, 11:02:06 AM

This Day in History for 8th November


Famous Weddings

2006 - Malaysian actress Sazzy Falak (25) weds co-founder of LVG Consultants and LVG MoneySkool
           Nazril Idrus
2009 - "The Practice" actress Marla Sokoloff (29) weds composer Alec Puro (34) at Il Cielo restaurant

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 08, 2013, 11:03:03 AM

This Day in History for 8th November


Famous Divorces

1968 - Cynthia Lennon is granted a divorce from Beatle member John
1970 - "Easy Rider" director and actor Dennis Hopper (34) divorces singer Michelle Phillips (26) only 8
           days after getting married

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Post by: MysteRy on November 08, 2013, 11:09:19 AM

This Day in History for 8th November


Famous Birthdays

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Novelist Bram Stoker (1847)                 Author Margaret Mitchell (1900)                Engineer Jack Kilby (1923)

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Singer Patti Page (1927)


35 - Nerva, Roman Emperor (d. 98)
1342 - Julian of Norwich, English saint (d. 1416)
1431 - Vlad III the Impaler, Wallachian prince (d. 1476)
1491 - Teofilo Folengo, Italian poet (d. 1544)
1572 - Johan Sigismund, elector of Brandenburg/duke of Prussia
1590 - Francesco Gonzaga, composer
1592 - Domenico Mazzocchi, composer
1622 - Galenus Abrahamsz de Haen, Dutch baptist pastor (Lambs' War)
1622 - Karl X Gustaf, King of Sweden (1654-60)
1647 - Pierre Bayle, French/Neth theologist/philosopher/writer
1656 - Edmund Halley, English astronomer (comet of Halley) [OS=Oct 29]
1657 - Thomas Bullis, composer
1693 - Leonhard Trautsch, composer
1706 - Johann Ulrich von Cramer, German judge and philosopher (d. 1772)
1710 - Sarah Fielding, English writer (d. 1768)
1715 - Elisabeth C van Brunswick-Bevern, wife of Frederik II "the Great"
1723 - John Byron, British naval officer (d. 1786)
1760 - Jean-Baptiste Dumonceau de Bergendael, South Neth earl/general
1768 - Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom, (d. 1840)
1770 - Friedrich Witt, composer
1777 - Désirée Clary, queen of Sweden (d. 1860)
1785 - Friedrich Wilhelm Michael Kalkbrenner, composer
1814 - Girolamo/Jeromin de Rada, Albanian poet (Skanderbeku)
1817 - Claudius Wistar Sears, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1891
1817 - Theodoor J Canneel, Flemish painter
1829 - Samuel Wylie Crawford, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1892
1830 - Oliver Otis Howard, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1909
1831 - Edward R L Bulwer-Lytton, English statesman and Viceroy of India (1876-1880)
1836 - Milton Bradley, American game manufacturer (d. 1911)
1847 - Bram Stoker, Irish theater manager/author (Dracula)
1847 - Jean Casimir-Perier, French politician (d. 1907)
1848 - Gottlob Frege, Germany, mathematician/logician (Begriffsschrift)
1849 - Edward Julius Biedermann, composer
1850 - Karel Komzak, composer
1854 - Johannes Rydberg, Swedish physicist (d. 1919)
1863 - René [Raphael] Viviani, French historian/social premier (1914-15)
1866 - Herbert Austin, English automobile pioneer (d. 1941)
1867 - Ilmari Henrik Reinhold Krohn, composer
1868 - Felix Hausdorff, German mathematician (d. 1942)
1876 - Frank L Gillespie, Ark, founded Supreme Life Insurance Company
1878 - Marshall Walter "Major" Taylor, world champion cyclist (1899)
1879 - King Baggot I, St Louis MO, director (Tumbleweeds)
1882 - Lazare Saminsky, composer
1883 - Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, London England, composer (Farewell My Youth) (d. 1953)
1883 - Ethel Clayton, MO, actress (Hotel Continental)
1884 - Hermann Rorschach, Swiss psychiatrist (d. 1922)
1885 - Hans Cloos, German geologist (d. 1951)
1885 - Tomoyuki Yamashita, Japanese general (d. 1946)
1885 - Emil Fahrenkamp, German architect (d. 1966)
1887 - Yury Alexandrovich Shaporin, composer
1888 - David Monrad Johansen, composer
1893 - John Miljan, Lead City SD, actor (Possessed, Final Extra, Susan Lenox)
1893 - Clarence Williams, American composer (d. 1965)
1893 - Prajadhipok, Rama VII, king of Thailand (d. 1941)
1895 - Hermann Schey, German/Neth singer
1895 - Photios Kontoglou, Greek writer, painter and iconographer (d. 1965)
1896 - Bucky Harris, baseball manager (Phillies, Yankees)
1897 - Dorothy Day, New York, American journalist, social activist, and devout Catholic convert
1898 - Marie Prevost, Canadian actress (d. 1937)
1900 - Georges Lonque, composer
1900 - Margaret Mitchell, Atlanta, Georgia, author (Gone With the Wind), (d. 1949)
1900 - Mihailo Vukdragovic, composer
1901 - Gheorge Gheorghiu Dej, Romania party leader/president
1901 - Szymon Laks, composer
1902 - Mihail A Suslov, Soviet-party ideologist [NS=Nov 22]
1902 - Walerian Josef Gniot, composer
1904 - Cedric Belfrage English-born writer (d. 1990)
1905 - Richard Nicholson, musician
1907 - Otto Brenner, German worker's union leader
1908 - Martha Gellhorn, American writer (d. 1998)
1909 - Alberto Erede, Italian conductor
1912 - Jean-Louis Martinet, composer
1912 - Joseph Fattorini, businessman
1913 - Robert Strauss, NYC, actor (Sgt Gruzewsky-Mona McCluskey)
1913 - June Havoc, American actress
1914 - Lute T de Cock, student/resistance fighter
1914 - Norman Lloyd, Jersey City NJ, actor (Auschlander-St Elsewhere)
1916 - Frank McGuire, basketball coach (won 550 games in 30 college seasons)
1916 - June Havoc, Seattle Wash, actress (Willy, Panic, GE Theater)
1916 - Peter Weiss, Germany, Swedish author/dramatist/novelist (Marat/Sade)
1918 - Hermann Zapf, German designer
1919 - P. L. Deshpande, Indian author (d. 2000)
1920 - Esther Rolle, American actress (d. 1998)
1920 - Eugênio de Araújo Sales, Brazilian cardinal
1921 - Douglas Townsend, composer
1921 - Gene Saks, NY, actor/director (One & Only, Prisoner of 2nd Ave)
1921 - Jerome Hines, [Heinz], Hollywood California, basso (I am The Way)
1922 - Christiaan Barnard, South African surgeon (perform 1st heart transplant)
1922 - Esther Rolle, Pompano Beach Fla, actress (Florida-Good Times, Maude)
1922 - Ademir Marques de Menezes, Brazilian footballer (d. 1996)
1923 - Dmitri T Jazov, Russian minister of defense (1991 coup)
1923 - Jack Kilby, Jefferson City, Missouri, electrical engineer and Nobel laureate (handheld calculator,
           integrated circuit), (d. 2005)
1924 - Joe Flynn, Youngstown Ohio, actor (McHale's Navy)
1927 - Patti Page, [Clara Ann Fowler], Claremont Ok, singer (Tennessee Waltz), (d. 2012)
1927 - Ken Dodd, English comedian
1929 - Trevor McMahon, NZ cricket wicketkeeper (v India & Pak 1955-56)
1929 - António Castanheira Neves, Portuguese philosopher
1929 - Bobby Bowden, American football coach
1930 - Bob Harris, Long Beach California, actor (Jim-Troubleshooters)
1930 - Edmund Happold, engineer
1931 - Morley Safer, Toronto California, TV newscaster (60 Minutes)
1932 - Richard E Lawyer, Los Angeles California, astronaut
1932 - Stephane Audran, Versailles France, actress (Just Before Nightfall)
1932 - Ben[jamin William] Bova, US, sci-fi author (Exiled from Earth)
1934 - Roberta Hazard, USN Admiral
1935 - Alain Delon, France, actor (Honor Among Thieves, Return of Zorro)
1935 - Alfonso López Trujillo, Colombian Cardinal Bishop
1936 - Edward George Gibson, Buffalo NY, astronaut (Skylab 4)
1936 - Viscount Mountgarret, [Butler], English large landowner
1938 - John Asprey, British jeweler/multi-millionaire
1938 - Pleuni Touw, Dutch actress (Black Rider)
1938 - Pleuntje "Pleuni" Cordon, actress (Dear Guys)
1938 - Richard Stoker, composer
1938 - Driss Basri, Moroccan Interior Minister (d. 2007)
1942 - Aleksandr Yakovlevich Kramarenko, Russia, cosmonaut
1942 - Angel Cordero Jr, jockey (won over 6,000 races) [or May 8]
1942 - Gerald Alston, US singer (Manhattans-Crazy)
1943 - Martin Peters, British soccer player
1944 - Bonnie Bramlett, rock vocalist (Delandy & Bonnie)
1944 - Rodney Desborough Slater, rocker (Bonzo Dog Band)
1945 - Arnold Rosner, composer
1945 - David Jessel, British TV-reporter
1945 - Judith Lang Zaimont, composer
1945 - Tony Mann, Aust cricket leggie (1977 century as nightwatchman v India)
1946 - Roy Wood, Birmingham England, rock vocalist/cellist (ELO)
1947 - Margaret Rhea Seddon, Murfreesboro Tenn, MD/astro (STS 51D, 40, SK:58)
1947 - Minnie Ripperton, Chicago, singer (Loving You)
1948 - Dale A Gardner, Fairmont Minn, Cmdr USN/astronaut (STS 8, STS 51A)
1949 - Al Berger, rocker
1949 - Bonnie Raitt, Burbank CA, country singer (Green Light, The Glow)
1949 - Wayne LaPierre, Executive Vice Presidenf of the National Rifle Association.
1951 - Larry Burnette, rocker (Firefall)
1951 - Mary Hart, Sioux Falls SD, TV hostess (Entertainment Tonight)
1951 - Alfredo Astiz, Argentine general
1952 - Alfre Woodard, Tulsa,Oklahoma, American actress (Primal Fear, Cross Creek)
1952 - Christie Ann Hefner, daughter of Hugh Hefner, CEO (Playboy)
1952 - Jan Raas, Dutch bicyclist
1952 - Jerry Remy, American baseball player, color commentator
1952 - John Denny, American baseball player
1953 - John Musker, American animation director
1954 - Rickie Lee Jones, Chicago, singer (Chuck E's in Love)
1954 - David Bret, Anglo-French biographer and broadcaster
1954 - Michael D. Brown, U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency director
1954 - Kazuo Ishiguro, British author
1954 - Jeanette McGruder, American musician (P Funk)
1956 - Beverly Klass, LPGA golfer
1956 - Randi Brooks, NYC, actress (Man With 2 Brains, Tightrope)
1956 - Steven Miller, American record producer
1956 - Richard Curtis, British screenwriter
1957 - Yohan Gunasekera, cricketer (2 Tests for Sri Lanka 1983)
1957 - Porl Thompson, British musician (The Cure)
1957 - Alan Curbishley, English football manager
1958 - Terry Lee Miall, England, rock drummer (Adam & The Ants)
1958 - Don Byron, American clarinetist
1959 - Simon Davis, Victorian cricket pace bowler (Test v NZ 1986, no wkts)
1960 - Oleg Menshikov, Russian actor
1960 - Michael Nyqvist, Swedish actor
1961 - Leif Garrett, Hollywood Cal, singer/actor (Devil x 5, 3 for the Road)
1962 - Ron Johnson, Australian baseball hitting coach (Olympics-1996)
1963 - Dwight Smith, Tallahassee FL, outfielder (Atlanta Braves)
1963 - Paul Butcher, NFL linebacker (Carolina Panthers)
1964 - Chuck Cecil, NFL safety (Houston Oilers)
1965 - Bart Latuheru, soccer player (Vitesse)
1965 - Jeff Blauser, Los gatos CA, infielder (Atlanta Braves)
1965 - Mike Peluso, Pengilly Canada, NHL left wing (NJ Devils)
1965 - Craig Chester, American actor and screenwriter
1966 - Michael Soles, CFL fullback (Montreal Alouettes)
1966 - Ulrich Cruden, soccer player (NEC)
1966 - Gordon Ramsay, British chef and reality television personality
1967 - Courtney Thorne-Smith, actress (Day by Day, Lucas, Summer School)
1967 - Henry Rodriguez, Santo Domingo Dom Rep, outfielder (Montreal Expos)
1967 - Jay Taylor, NFL cornerback (KC Chiefs)
1967 - Kim Dugger, Wichita Kansas, Miss Kansas-America (1991)
1967 - Mark Zollitsch, Orono Maine, kayak (alt-Olympics-96)
1967 - Rhonda Kottke, Minneapolis Minn, WPVA volleyballer
1968 - Jose Offerman, San Pedro de Macoris, infielder (KC Royals)
1968 - Keith Jones, Brantford, NHL right wing (Washington Capitals)
1968 - Michelle Kline, Circle Pines Minn, speed skater (Olympics-1994)
1968 - Parker Posey, Balt Md, actress (Tess Shelby-As the World Turns)
1968 - Zara Whites, Dutch actress
1968 - Sergio Porrini, Italian footballer
1969 - Devon McDonald, NFL linebacker (Indianapolis Colts)
1969 - Ricardo McDonald, NFL linebacker (Cincinnati Bengals)
1969 - Roxana Zal, American actress
1970 - Qadry Ismail, NFL wide receiver (Minnesota Vikings, Miami Dolphins)
1970 - Tom Anderson, co-founder of MySpace
1970 - José Francisco Porras, Costa Rican footballer
1970 - Diana King, Jamaican singer
1971 - Anna Katrina Simcic, Christchurch NZ, backstroker (Olympics-96)
1971 - Twan Scheepers, soccer player (MVV)
1971 - Carlos Atanes, Spanish film director
1972 - Chris Fydler, Sydney NSW NSW Australia, swimmer (Olympics-96)
1972 - Ken Blackman, NFL guard (Cincinnati Bengals)
1972 - Gretchen Mol, American actress
1973 - Frantisek Kaberle, hockey defenseman (Team Czech Oly-gold-1998)
1973 - Nicole Teter, San Diego California, 800m runner
1973 - Tara Johnson, Miss USA-Wisconsin (1997)
1973 - Vanesa Littlecrow, Puerto Rican cartoonist, dancer, writer and model
1974 - Masashi Kishimoto, Japanese manga author
1974 - Seishi Kishimoto, Japanese manga author
1975 - Brevin Knight, NBA guard (Cleveland Cavaliers)
1975 - Stephen Saber, drummer/songwriter
1975 - Tara Reid, American actress
1975 - José Pinto, Spanish footballer
1976 - Brett Lee, cricketer (brother of Shane, AIS representative)
1976 - Colin Strause, American director
1977 - Bucky Covington, American entertainer
1977 - Jully Black, Canadian R&B singer
1977 - Nick Punto, American baseball player
1978 - Ali Karimi, Iranian footballer
1978 - Júlio Sérgio Bertagnoli, Brazilian footballer
1978 - Spyros Gogolos, Greek footballer
1978 - Tim de Cler, Dutch footballer
1978 - Maurice Evans, American basketball player
1979 - Aaron Hughes, Northern Irish footballer
1979 - Dania Ramírez, Dominican actress
1980 - Ana Vidovic, classical guitarist
1980 - Luis Fabiano, Brazilian footballer
1981 - Joe Cole, English footballer
1982 - Lynndie England, former U.S. Army reservist, associated with Abu Ghraib
1982 - Mika Kallio, Finnish Grand Prix motorcycle racer
1982 - Sam Sparro, Australian producer, songwriter, performer, former child actor
1983 - Blanka Vlašić, Croatian high jumper
1983 - Remko Pasveer, Dutch footballer
1983 - Kat Shoob, British television presenter
1985 - Jack Osbourne, English television star
1986 - Aaron H. Swartz, Chicago, Illinois, computer programmer and internet activist (Demand
           Progress), (d. 2013)
1987 - Samantha Droke, American actress
2003 - Lady Louise Windsor, British royal

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Post by: MysteRy on November 08, 2013, 11:11:23 AM

This Day in History for 8th November


Famous Deaths

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Poet John Milton (1674)


397 - Martin of Tours, [St Martin], bishop of Tours, dies
618 - St Deusdedit/Adeodatus I, Italian Pope (615-18), dies
955 - Pope Agapetus II
1171 - Baldwin IV, Count of Hainaut (b. 1108)
1195 - Conrad of Hohenstaufen
1226 - Louis VIII, the Lion, King of France (1223-26), dies at 39
1228 - Dirk I, ruler of Heinsberg/Valkenburg, dies
1246 - Berenguela of Castile, wife of Alfonso IX of Castile (b. 1180)
1308 - Duns Scotus, Scottish philosopher (coined the word dunce), dies at 42
1494 - Melozzo da Forli, Italian painter, dies at about 56
1517 - Francisco Jimenez de Cisneros, cardinal/Chancellor of Castilia, dies
1527 - Jerome Emser, German theologian (b. 1477)
1578 - Johann Walter, composer, dies at 51
1590 - Joost Jansz Bilhamer, master builder/cartographer, dies at about 49
1595 - Peter Opmeer, church historian/humanist, dies at 69
1599 - Francisco Guerrero, Spanish composer (b. 1528)
1600 - Natsuka Masaie, Japanese warlord (b. 1562)
1605 - Robert Catesby, English conspirator (b. 1573)
1638 - Johann H Alsted, German theologist/philosopher, dies at 50
1658 - Pieter Floriszoon, Dutch admiral, dies in naval Battle of the Sound at about 50
1658 - Witte de With, Dutch vice-admiral, dies in naval Battle of the Sound, at age 59
1674 - John Milton, English poet (Paradise Lost), dies at 65
1694 - Ulrik Huber, Frisian lawyer/law historian/polemist, dies at 58
1719 - Michel Rolle, French mathematician (b. 1652)
1757 - Pierre Prowo, composer, dies at 60
1805 - Francois-Thomas de Baculard d'Arnaud, French writer, dies at 87
1811 - Charles F Bentinck, Dutch minister of Colonies, dies at 47
1817 - Andrea Appiana, Italian royal painter of Napoleon, dies at 63
1830 - King Francis I of the Two Sicilies (b. 1777)
1833 - Maximilian Stadler, composer, dies at 85
1873 - Manuel Breton de los Herreros, Span poet/comic playwright, dies at 76
1880 - Jacob Edvard Gille, composer, dies at 66
1885 - Johannes Kneppelhout, [Klikspaan], Dutch humorist/author, dies at 71
1886 - Frederick J "Fred" Archer, English jockey, commits suicide at 29
1887 - Doc Holliday, American gambler and gunfighter (b. 1851)
1890 - Caesar-Auguste Franck, Belgian organist/composer, dies at 67
1905 - Victor Borisov-Musatov, Russian painter (b. 1870)
1908 - Victorien Sardou, French opera author (Madame Sans-Gene), dies at 77
1909 - Charles Bordes, composer, dies at 46
1909 - Eduard de Hartog, composer, dies at 80
1917 - Colyn Blythe, cricketer (2509 F-C wickets), dies during WW I
1920 - Abraham Kuyper, clergyman/Dutch premier (AR 1908-12), dies at 83
1920 - Salomon Anski, Russian/Polish yiddish author (Dibboek), dies at 57
1921 - Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, Slovak poet (b. 1849)
1924 - Sergey Mikhaylovich Lyapunov, composer, dies at 64
1928 - Mauritz Stiller, Swedish actor/director (Streets of sin), dies at 45
1933 - Mohammed Nadir Shah, king of Afghanistan, assassin by Abdul Khallig
1934 - Carlos Chagas, Brazilian physician (b. 1879)
1937 - James Ramsay MacDonald, British PM (Lab, 1924, 29-35), dies at 71
1941 - Gaetano Mosca, Italian sociologist (Elite Circle), dies at 83
1944 - Walter Nowotny, German combat/jet fighter pilot, dies
1949 - Cyriel Verschaeve, Belgian clergyman (b. 1874)
1952 - Claude Carter, cricketer (took 28 wkts 10 Tests for South Africa), dies
1953 - Iwan Bunin, writer, dies at 83
1953 - John van Melle, South African writer (Bart Nel), dies at 66
1959 - Frank Sherman Land, founder of DeMolay International (b. 1890)
1963 - Simon Jurovsky, composer, dies at 51
1965 - Dorothy Kilgallen, American newspaper columnist (b. 1913)
1966 - Bernhard Zondek, German/Israeli gynaecologist, dies at 75
1968 - Wendell Corey, actor (11th Hour, Peck's Bad Girl), dies at 54
1969 - Kam Tong, actor (Have Gun Will Travel, Mr Garlund), dies at 62
1970 - Huw Thomas Edwards, Welsh trade unionist and politician (b. 1892)
1974 - Ivory Joe Hunter, rocker, dies at 60
1977 - Bucky Harris, American baseball player (b. 1896)
1978 - Norman Rockwell, artist (Saturday Evening Post covers), dies at 84
1979 - Sydney Tafler, actor (Too Many Crooks), dies at 63
1979 - Yvonne de Gaulle, wife of Charles de Gaulle (b. 1900)
1983 - Robert Agnew, director, dies at 84 of kidney failure
1983 - Mordecai Kaplan, Rabbi, founded Reconstructionist Judaism (b. 1881)
1984 - Carl Gustav Sparre Olsen, composer, dies at 81
1985 - Nicolas Frantz, Luxembourgish cyclist (b. 1899)
1986 - Beatrice Kay, singer/actress (Sister Sue-Calvin & the Col), dies at 78
1986 - Vyacheslav Molotov, Russian politician (b. 1890)
1989 - Andre Kloos, Dut trade union leader (NVV)/chairman (VARA), dies at 67
1990 - Anya Seton, US author, dies
1990 - Grampy Davis, dies of heart attack at 87
1991 - Christine Felsmann, dies
1991 - Frances Faye, singer/actress (Pretty Baby), dies after strokes
1991 - John Kirckpatrick, US musicologist (Charles Ives Archives), dies
1991 - Patrick Hamilton, author (Gaslight, Rope, Angel Street), dies at 45
1992 - Alexander Dubcek, pres of Czechoslovakia (1968-69), dies
1992 - Kees [Cornelis] Broekman, speed skater (Olympic-silver-1952), dies
1992 - Keith "Red" Mitchell, US/Swedish jazz bassist, dies
1993 - Andrey Nikolayevich Tychonoff, Russian mathematician (b. 1906)
1994 - Marianne Straub, weaver, dies at 85
1994 - Michael O'Donoghue, American comedy writer (SNL), dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at 54
1995 - Country Dan Dick Montana McLain, singer, dies at 40
1995 - Neil Blaney, politician, dies at 73
1996 - Edward Albert Radice, economist, dies at 89
1996 - Peter Fowler, physicist, dies at 73
1998 - Jean Marais, French actor (b. 1913)
1999 - Lester Bowie, American jazz trumpet player (b. 1941)
1999 - Leon Štukelj, Slovenian gymnast (b. 1898)
2002 - Jon Elia, Pakistani scholar, poet and philosopher (b. 1931)
2003 - Bob Grant, English actor (b. 1932)
2003 - C. Z. Guest, American socialite (b. 1920)
2003 - Guy Speranza, American singer, original Riot frontman (b. 1956)
2004 - Peter Mathers, English-born Australian novelist (b. 1931)
2005 - David Westheimer, American novelist (b. 1917)
2005 - Alekos Alexandrakis, Greek actor (b. 1928)
2006 - Basil Poledouris, American film score composer (b. 1945)
2006 - Hannspeter Winter, Austrian plasma physicist
2007 - Dulce Saguisag, Filipino politician and former DSWD Secretary. (b. 1943)
2007 - Chad Varah, English founder of charity The Samaritans (b. 1911)
2009 - Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian physicist (b. 1916)
2010 - Emilio Eduardo Massera, Argentine naval officer and National Reorganization Process figure (b.
           1925)
2010 - Jack Levine, American painter (b. 1915)
2010 - Quintin Dailey, American basketball player (b. 1961)
2010 - Alex Fagan, American law enforcement official (b. 1950)
2011 - Heavy D, American hip-hop artist. (b. 1967)
2011 - Bil Keane, American cartoonist (b. 1922)
2012 - Lucille Bliss, American voice artist, dies from natural causes at 96

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 09, 2013, 11:38:07 AM

This Day in History for 9th November


Historical Events

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Composer/Pianist Franz Liszt                 Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini                Dictator of Nazi Germany
                                                                                                                                 Adolf Hitler

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33rd US President Harry Truman              Artist & Musician Yoko Ono                Iraqi President Saddam Hussein


694 - Spanish King Egica accuses Jews of aiding Moslems/sentenced to slavery
1282 - Pope Martinus IV excommunicates king Pedro III of Aragonorth
1313 - Louis the Bavarian defeats his cousin Frederick I of Austria at the Battle of Gamelsdorf.
1330 - Battle of Posada, Wallachian Voievode Basarab I defeats the Hungarian army in an ambush
1492 - Peace of Etaples (Henry VII of England & Charles VIII of France)
1494 - Family de' Medici become rulers of Florence
1520 - Swedish King Christian II executes 600 nobles
1526 - Jews are expelled from Pressburg (Bratislava), Hungary, by Maria of Hapsburg
1541 - Queen Catharine Howard confined in Tower of London
1569 - Catholic uprising under Northumberland & Westmoreland
1580 - Spanish troops lands in Ireland
1673 - British king Charles II dismisses Earl of Shaftesbury
1681 - Hungarian parliament promises protestants freedom of religion
1697 - Pope Innocent XII founds the city of Cervia.
1720 - Rabbi Yehuda Hasid synagogue set afire
1729 - Spain, France & Britain sign Treaty of Seville
1764 - Mary Campbell, a captive of the Lenape during the French and Indian War, is turned over to
           forces commanded by Colonel Henry Bouquet.
1794 - Russian troops occupy Warsaw
1799 - Napoleon becomes dictator (1st consul) of France
1821 - 1st US pharmacy college holds 1st classes, Philadelphia
1848 - Post office at Clay & Pike opens
1848 - Robert Blum, a German revolutionary and MP (Liberal), is executed in Vienna.
1851 - Kentucky marshals abduct abolitionist minister Calvin Fairbank from Jeffersonville, Indiana,
           and take him to Kentucky to stand trial for helping a slave escape.
1853 - Origin of Carrington rotation numbers for rotation of Sun
1854 - Franz Liszt's "Fest-Long," premieres
1857 - Atlantic Monthly magazine 1st published
1858 - 1st performance of NY Symphony Orchestra
1861 - 1st documented Canadian football game (at U of Toronto)
1861 - Battle of Piketon, Ky
1862 - US Grant issues orders to bar Jews from serving under him
1864 - 1st export of goods from Burrard Inlet, BC to a foreign country
1864 - Sherman issues preliminary plans for his "March to the Sea"
1872 - The Great Boston Fire of 1872. Close to 1,000 buildings destroyed
1877 - American Chemical Society chartered in NY
1885 - Opera "Ermine," premieres in London
1888 - Jack Ripper's 5th and probably last victim, Mary Jane Kelly, found on her bed
1904 - 1st airplane flight to last more than 5 minutes
1905 - Swedish mine workers win 5 month strike for minimum wages
1906 - Theodore Roosevelt is 1st US President to visit other countries (P Rico and Panama)
1907 - Edmonton Rugby Foot-ball Club 1st game, loses to Calgary City Rugby Foot-ball Club 26-5 at
           Edmonton Exhibition Grounds
1907 - The Cullinan Diamond is presented to King Edward VII on his birthday.
1912 - Ferenc Molnàrs "Farkas," premieres in Budapest
1913 - Storm "Freshwater Fury" sinks 8 ore-carriers on Great Lakes
1915 - Italian liner Ancona sinks by German torpedos, killing 272
1918 - Bavaria proclaims itself a republic
1918 - Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates after German defeat in WW I
1918 - Republic Germany proclaimed
1921 - Partito Nazionalista Fascista, forms in Italy by Mussolini
1923 - Beer Hall Putsch-Nazis fail to overthrow government, 16 die/Hitler flees
1924 - Miriam (Ma) Ferguson becomes 1st elected woman governor (of Texas)
1925 - German NSDAP form Schutzstaffel (SS)
1927 - Giant Panda discovered, China
1927 - Pastor of Have begins blessing of motorcars/motors
1930 - 1st nonstop airplane flight from NY to Panama
1932 - Hurricane storm wave sweeps over Santa Cruz del Sur Cuba kills 2,500
1932 - Riots between conservative and socialist supporters in Switzerland kill 12 and injure 60.
1935 - Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) labor union forms
1935 - Japan invades Shanghai, China
1936 - Albanian government of Frasheri falls
1937 - Japanese army conquers Shanghai
1937 - St Louis Cards Triple Crown winner Joe Medwick is named NL MVP
1938 - Al Capp, cartoonist of Lil' Abner creates Sadie Hawkins Day
1938 - Kristallnacht, Nazi Germany's first large-scale physical act of anti-Jewish violence, begins.
1939 - "Ninotchka," with Greta Garbo premieres
1939 - Nobel for physics awarded to Ernest O Lawrence (cyclotron)
1939 - Venlo-incident: German Abwehr kills 2 English agents
1941 - Hitler threatens Clemens August, Graf von Galen, Bishop of Münster
1942 - German occupiers put Erik Scavenius as Danish premier
1942 - Transport number 44 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1944 - Red Cross wins Nobel peace prize
1944 - Walcheren purged of nazi troops
1946 - Pres Harry Truman ends wage/price freeze
1949 - Costa Rica adopts Constitution
1950 - Boston Brave Sam Jethroe wins NL Rookie of Year
1950 - Phillies skipper Eddie Sawyer selected as Manager of Year
1950 - White Sox release Luke Appling, who had been a Sox since 1930
1953 - Cambodia (aka Kampuchea) gains independence from Fance, within the French Union
1953 - KTVQ TV channel 2 in Billings, MT (CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 - Supreme Court rules Major League baseball exempt from anti-trust laws
1955 - Michael Gazzo's "Hatful of Rain," premieres in NYC
1955 - NZ all out for 70 v Pakistan at Dacca
1955 - UN disapproves of South Africa's apartheid politics
1956 - Lou Thesz beats Whipper Billy Watson in St Louis, to become NWA champ
1961 - PGA eliminates caucasians only rule
1961 - Paddy Chayefsky's "Gideon," premieres in NYC
1961 - USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 30,970m
1962 - Catharina Lodders of the Netherlands elected Miss World
1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 - "Tovarich" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 264 performances
1963 - 450 die in a coal-dust explosion & 160 die in train crash (Japan)
1964 - "Comedy in Music-Opus 2" opens at John Golden NYC for 192 perfs
1964 - Eisaku Sato becomes premier of Japan
1965 - 1st NY Knick game postponed (black-out) vs St Louis
1965 - Hurricane hits north east US/Canada
1965 - Willie Mays named NL MVP
1965 - Several U.S. states and parts of Canada are hit by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13
           hours in the Northeast Blackout of 1965.
1966 - John Lennon meets Yoko Ono at an avante-garde art exposition at Indica Gallery in London
1966 - "Let's Sing Yiddish" opens at Brooks Atkinson NYC for 107 perfs
1966 - Oakland Coliseum Arena opens
1967 - 1st unmanned Saturn V flight to test Apollo 4 reentry module
1967 - Surveyor 6 soft lands on Moon
1968 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1970 - Trial of Seattle 8 anti-war protesters begins
1971 - David Storey's "Changing Room," premieres in London
1971 - John List kills family & moves to Colorado
1972 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1973 - Fire at Taiyo dept store, kills 101 & injures 84 (Kumamoto Japan)
1973 - Government De Uyl decides Palestijnse fugitives to support
1973 - Ringo Starr releases "Ringo" album
1976 - Oakland releases Billy Williams, ending his Hall of Fame career
1976 - UN General Assembly condemns apartheid in South Africa
1977 - Reds' George Foster wins NL MVP
1978 - NASL realligns its 24 teams into 6 divisions
1980 - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein declares holy war against Iran
1980 - Tatsuko Ohsako wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic
1982 - Brewers' Robin Yount wins AL MVP, unanimously
1982 - Sugar Ray Leonard retires for 1st time
1983 - Amsterdam brewer Freddie Heineken kidnapped
1983 - Discovery flies from Vandenberg AFB to Kennedy Space Center
1984 - 1st-class cricket debut for Brian McMillan, Transvaal B v N Tvl B
1984 - Larry Holmes TKOs Bonecrusher Smith in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1984 - Most shots in an Islander game-88-Isles 45, Rangers 43
1984 - Vietnam Veterans Memorial ("3 Servicemen") completed
1985 - "News" closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 4 performances
1985 - Gary Kasparov becomes world chess champion
1985 - Richard Hadlee takes 9-52 v Australia at the Gabba
1985 - Surprise attack on Belgium supermarket in Aalst, 8 killed
1986 - Ai-Yu Tu wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic
1986 - Pakistan all out for 77 v West Indies at Lahore
1988 - "Prince of Central Park" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 4 perfs
1988 - MLB All-Star team beat Japan 8-2 in Nishinomya, (Game 4 of 7)
1989 - East Berlin opens its borders
1990 - Tanzania government of Malecela forms
1990 - New democratic constitution is issued in Nepal.
1991 - Houston's Roman Anderson is 1st NCAA to kick 400 pts
1992 - Howard Stern's radio show begins broadcast in Las Vegas Nevada (KFBI)
1992 - Prix Goncourt awarded to Patrick Chamoiseau for "Texaco"
1993 - "Cinderella" opens at New York State Theater NYC for 14 performances
1993 - Serbian army fires on school in Sarajevo, 9 children died
1993 - Stari Most (the "old bridge", built in 1566) in Mostar, Bosnia, collapses after several days of
           bombing.
1994 - Chandrika Kumaratunga chosen 1st female president of Sri Lanka
1994 - The chemical element Darmstadtium is discovered.
1995 - "Danny Gans on Broadway" opens at Neil Simon Theater NYC
1997 - "Cherry Orchard," closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC
1997 - "Scarlet Pimpernel," opens at Minskoff Theater NYC
1997 - Energizer Senior Golf Tour Championship
1997 - Liselotte Neumann wins LPGA Toray Japan Queens Cup
1997 - Toray Japan Queens Cup
1998 - Brokerage houses are ordered to pay 1.03 billion USD to cheated NASDAQ investors to
           compensate for their price-fixing. This is the largest civil settlement in United States history.
1998 - Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, already abolished for murder, is completely
           abolished for all remaining capital offences.
1999 - TAESA Flight 725, crashes a few minutes after leaving the Uruapan airport en-route to Mexico
           City. 18 people were killed in the accident.
2003 - A suicide-terrorist attack in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, kills 17 people.
2004 - Video game Halo 2 a first person shooter first released on Xbox by Bungie Studios
2005 - Suicide bombers attacked three hotels in Amman, Jordan, killing at least 60 people.
2005 - The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur
           Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
2009 - Joe Cada becomes the youngest champion of the World Series of Poker's main event.
2012 - 2 Iranian fighter jets fire on a US General Atomics MQ-1 Predator drone in international air
           space
2012 - 25 people are killed and 62 injured after a train carrying liquid fuel bursts into flames in Burma
2012 - An Algerian C-295 military transport plane crashes near Avignon, France, killing 6 people

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 09, 2013, 11:39:38 AM

This Day in History for 9th November


Famous Weddings

1935 - "Magnificent Obsession" actress Jane Wyatt (24) weds investment broker Edgar Bethune
           Ward in Santa Fe, New Mexico
1968 - Former "Led Zepellin" lead singer Robert Plant (19) weds Maureen Wilson
2002 - Eighties pop princess Sheena Easton (43) weds Beverly Hills plastic surgeon John Minoli (44)
           at Las Vegas City Hall
2007 - "Grey's Anatomy" actress Ellen Pompeo (38) weds music producer Chris Ivery (38) in New
           York, New York
2012 - Tennis player James Blake (32) weds publicist Emily Snider (37) Del Mar, California

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 09, 2013, 11:40:34 AM

This Day in History for 9th November


Famous Divorces

2004 - Hotel heiress and fashion model Nicky Hilton (21) divorces businessman Todd Andrew Meister
           (33) due to bi-coastal relationship after nearly 3 months of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 09, 2013, 11:47:16 AM

This Day in History for 9th November


Famous Birthdays

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Actress and Inventor                                Author/Nobel Laureate                        Folk Singer Mary Travers (1936)
Hedy Lamarr (1913)                                 Imre Kertész (1929)

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Rocker Tom Fogerty (1941)


1389 - Isabella of Valois, queen consort of England (d. 1409)
1414 - Albrecht III Achilles, elector of Brandenburg (d. 1486)
1467 - Charles of Egmond, duke of Gelre/earl of Zutphen [or Nov 10]
1522 - Martin Chemnitz, German theologian (d. 1586)
1541 - Menso Alting, Dutch reformed vicar/theologist
1656 - Paul Aler, French jesuit/poet (Gradus ad Parnassum)
1664 - Johannes Speth, composer
1697 - Claudio Casciolini, composer
1710 - Reynier de Klerk, governor-general of Dutch-Indies, baptized
1721 - Mark Akenside, English poet and physician (d. 1770)
1731 - Benjamin Banneker, Ellicott Md, black mathematician/surveyor (Wash DC)
1732 - Julie de Lespinasse, French aristocrat, hostess and writer (d. 1776)
1760 - Henri-Philippe Gerard, composer
1795 - Walter Geikie, Scottish painter
1799 - Gustavus, Crown Prince of Sweden (d. 1877)
1802 - Elijah P Lovejoy, American newspaper publisher/abolitionist
1809 - Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Asst Secy War (Confederacy), died in 1877
1810 - Thomas Bragg, Atty Gen (Confederacy), died in 1872
1810 - Bernhard von Langenbeck, German surgeon (d. 1887)
1812 - Paul Abadie, French master builder (renovated Notre Dame)
1817 - Edward Richard Sprigg Canby, Major General (Union volunteers)
1818 - Ivan Turgenev, Russia, novelist/poet/playwright (Fathers & Sons) [NS]
1820 - Matthias de Vries, Dutch linguist (spelling)
1821 - Jean-Baptiste Theodore Weckerlin, composer
1823 - William Henry Forney, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1894
1825 - Ambrose Powell Hill, Lt Gen (Confederate 3rd Army Corp), died in 1865
1832 - Émile Gaboriau, French writer (d. 1873)
1835 - Davorin Jenko, composer
1835 - Emile Gaboriau, author (father of French detective novels)
1835 - Jean-Theodore Radoux, composer
1837 - Alfred Holmes, composer
1837 - Gerrit Jan van Heek, textile factory/politician
1840 - Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, French Canadian lawyer (d. 1898)
1841 - [Albert] Edward VII, king of England (1901-10)
1850 - Lewis Lewin, Germany, toxicologist/father of psychopharmacologist
1853 - Stanford White, American architect (d. 1906)
1854 - Joseph Miroslav Weber, composer
1868 - Andrea d' Angeli, composer
1868 - Emmanuel K de Bom, Flemish author (Wrakken)
1869 - Marie Dressler, [Leila M Koerber], Ontario, actress (Caught Short)
1871 - Florence Sabin, scientist/1st woman to graduate from Johns Hopkins
1872 - Bohdan Lepky, Ukrainian writer and poet (d. 1941)
1873 - Otfrid Foerster, German neurologist (d. 1941)
1877 - Allama Iqbal, Pakistani poet/philosopher
1877 - Jesus Castillo, composer
1877 - Sergei US Aleksi, patriarch of Russian-orthodox church
1877 - Enrico De Nicola, Italian politician (d. 1959)
1879 - Milan Šufflay, Croatian politician (d. 1931)
1880 - Rudolph Karel, composer
1882 - Joe Hardstaff Sr, cricketer ("Hotstuff" in 1907-08 MCC tour of Aust)
1883 - Edna May Oliver, [Nutter], Malden MA, actress (Little Women)
1884 - Hector Abbas, actor/director (Rosa Lynd Company)
1885 - Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian writer (d. 1922)
1885 - Hermann Weyl, German mathematician (d. 1955)
1885 - Theodor Kaluza, German scientist (d. 1954)
1885 - Aureliano Pertile, Italian tenor (d. 1952)
1886 - Ed Wynn, [Isaiah Edwin Leopold], Phila Pa, comedian (Ed Wynn Show)
1886 - S. O. Davies, Welsh politician (d. 1972)
1887 - Gertrude Astor, Lakewood OH, actress (Carnival Lady)
1887 - Muriel Aked, Bingley England actress (Happiest Days of Your Life)
1888 - Jean Monnet, French economist/EG-pioneer/chairman (EGKS)
1889 - Snub Pollard, Melbourne Australia, actor (Don't Shove, Arizona Days)
1890 - George Regas, Greek actor (d. 1940)
1895 - Mae Marsh, Madrid NM, silent film actress (Birth of a Nation)
1897 - Ronald G W Norrish, British chemist (Nobel 1967)
1898 - Owen Barfield, philosopher of language
1901 - John Norrie McArthur, malariologist/microscopist
1902 - Anthony Asquith, British director (Carrington V C (Court martial))
1903 - Gregory Pincus, inventor (birth control pill) [or Apr 9]
1903 - Leon-Etienne Duval, archbishop/Cardinal
1904 - Viktor Brack, Nazi physician (d. 1948)
1905 - Erika Mann, German/US author (Other Germany)/daughter of Thomas Mann
1905 - James William Fulbright, (Sen-D-Mo)
1906 - Arthur Rudolph, rocket engineer
1907 - Burrill Phillips, Omaha Nebraska, composer (Play Ball)
1907 - Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, prince
1909 - Hendrik van Randwijk, Dutch author/founder (Vrij Netherland)
1909 - Robert Douglas, [Finlayson], Bletchley England, actor (Adv of Don Juan)
1911 - Tabish Dehlvi, Pakistani poet (d. 2004)
1913 - Hedy Lamarr, Vienna Austria, actress (Ecstacy, Samson & Delilah)
1913 - Thelma Hulbert, English painter (Le Sacre du Printemps)
1914 - Colin Gray, New Zealand fighter ace of the Second World War
1915 - Sargent Shriver, MD, Dem VP candidate (1972)/directed Peace Corp
1915 - André François, French cartoonist (d. 2005)
1918 - Howard Shanet, Brooklyn NY, conductor (Night of the Tropics)
1918 - Spiro Theodore Agnew, (R) 39th VP (1968-75), resigns on tax evasion charges
1918 - Choi Hong Hi, Founder of Taekwon-Do (d. 2002)
1918 - Thomas Ferebee, Enola Gay bombardier over Hiroshima (d. 2000)
1920 - Byron de la Beckwith, American assassin, white supremacist (d. 2001)
1921 - Ivo Rudolph Jarosy, film scholar/exhibitor
1921 - Silvio O Conte, (Rep-R-MA, 1959- )
1921 - Viktor Chukarin, USSR, gymnist (Olympic-gold-1952, 56)
1921 - Pierrette Alarie, Canadian soprano
1922 - Dorothy Dandridge, Cleveland, Ohio, American actress/singer/dancer (Porgy & Bess)
1922 - Raymond Devos, French humorist (d. 2006)
1922 - Imre Lakatos, Hungarian philosopher (d. 1974)
1923 - Alice [Davis] Coachman, Albany Ga, high jumper (Olympic-gold-1948)
1924 - Robert Frank, Swiss Photographer
1925 - Sir Alistair Horne, British historian
1926 - Dominguín, Spanish bullfighter (d. 1996)
1927 - Carel W H Boshoff, South African head (Broederbond/Volkswag)
1928 - Anne Sexton, Newton Mass, poet (Live or Die; Pulitzer 1967)
1928 - Wim Bosboom, Dutch radio/TV host
1929 - Alexandra Nikolayevna Pakhmutova, composer
1929 - Severn Darden, actor (Luv, President's Analyst, Saturday the 14th)
1929 - Marc Favreau, French Canadian humourist (d. 2005)
1929 - Imre Kertész, Budapest, concentration camp survivor, writer, Nobel laureate (2002)
1930 - Charlie Jones, Ft Smith Ark, sportscaster (Almost Anything Goes)
1931 - Tommy Greenhough, cricketer (English leg-spinner in 4 Tests 1959-60)
1931 - Whitey Herzog, baseball manager (St Louis Cardinals)
1932 - Marian Christy, Ridgefield Ct, author (Invasions of Privacy)
1934 - Carl Sagan, Bkln, astronomer/author/professor (Cosmos, Broca's Brain)
1934 - Ingvar Carlsson, PM of Sweden (1986-91, 94- )
1934 - Ronald Harwood, [Horwitz], South African playwright (Dresser)
1935 - Bob Gibson, Cardinal pitcher (Cy Young/NL MVP 1968)
1936 - Mary Travers, Louisville Ky, folk singer (Peter Paul & Mary)
1936 - Daniel Robert Graham, American politician
1936 - Teddy Infuhr, American former child actor (d. 2007)
1937 - Roger McCough, British poet
1937 - Clyde Wells, Canadian politician
1938 - Ti-Grace Atkinson, American feminist author
1939 - Paul Cameron, American psychologist
1940 - Sergio Cervetti, composer
1941 - Tom Fogerty, Berkeley Cal, rocker (Creedence Clearwater Revival), (d. 1990)
1942 - Stuart Lipton, English real estate developer/multi-millionaire
1942 - Thomas Daniel Weiskopf, Massillon OH, PGA golfer (British Open 1973)
1943 - John Shepherd, cricketer (WI all-rounder 1969-71, later in South Africa)
1943 - Lee Graziano, Chicago Ill, rock drummer (American Breed)
1944 - Bill Hendon, (Rep-R-NC, 1981-83, 85-87)
1944 - Phil May, rocker (Pretty Things)
1945 - Roger Lee Jones, WV, child molester (FBI Most Wanted List)
1947 - Robert David Hall, American actor
1948 - Alan Gratzer, Syracuse NY, rock drummer (Reo Speedwagon)
1948 - Bille August, director (Best Intentions, Twist & Shout)
1948 - Sharon Stouder, US, 100m butterfly swimmer (Olympic-gold-1964), (d. 2013)
1948 - Michel Pagliaro, Quebec singer
1948 - Henrik S. Järrel, Swedish politician
1951 - Hetty de Boer-Jongkind, founder (Vakvereniging Medical Astrology)
1951 - Lou Ferrigno, Brooklyn New York, American body builder/actor (Incredible Hulk)
1951 - Bill Mantlo, American comic book writer
1952 - Sherrod Brown, (Rep-D-Ohio)
1953 - Gaétan Hart, Canadian boxer
1954 - Dennis Stratton, London England, rock guitarist (Iron Maiden)
1954 - Sue Upton, English actress and dancer
1955 - Bob Nault, French Canadian politician
1955 - Karen Dotrice, British actress
1955 - Fernando Meirelles, Brazilian film director
1959 - Karin Mundinger, Toronto Canada, LPGA golfer (1985 Singapore Open-2nd)
1959 - Tony Phillips, Atlanta GA, outfielder (Chicago White Sox)
1959 - Thomas Quasthoff, German singer
1959 - Tony Slattery, British actor
1959 - Nick Hamilton, American wrestling referee
1959 - Sito Pons, Spanish motorbike racer
1960 - Joëlle Ursull, a Guadeloupean singer
1961 - Jill Dando, British television presenter (d. 1999)
1962 - Teryl Rothery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canadian actress (Stargate SG-1)
1963 - Anthony Bowie, NBA guard (NY Knicks, Orlando Magic)
1963 - Fulvio Fantoni, Italian bridge player
1964 - John Joseph Thomas, Arcadia California, actor (Young Dan'l Boone)
1964 - Leah Pells, Vancouver BC, 1.5k runner (Olympics-96)
1964 - Robert Duncan McNeill, American actor
1965 - Todd Gill, Cardinal, NHL defenseman (Toronto Maple Leafs)
1965 - Bryn Terfel, Welsh baritone
1966 - Stefen Edberg, Sweden, tennis star
1966 - Virgil Robertson, CFL defensive end (BC Lions)
1967 - Scott Bianco, Kamloops BC, 90 kg freestyle wrestler (Olympics-96)
1967 - Ricky Otto, English footballer
1968 - David Jones, WLAF tight end (Amsterdam Admirals)
1968 - Jeff Brady, NFL linebacker (Minnesota Vikings)
1968 - Nazzareno Carusi, Italian pianist
1969 - Angel Miranda, Arecieo Puerto Rico, pitcher (Milwaukee Brewers)
1969 - Pepa, rocker (Salt 'n' Pepa-Shake Ya Thang)
1969 - Allison Wolfe, American musician (Bratmobile, Cold Cold Hearts, Partyline)
1970 - Bill Guerin, Wilbraham MA, NHL right wing (NJ Devils, Oilers)
1970 - Chad Ogea, Lake Charles LA, pitcher (Cleveland Indians)
1970 - Chantal Brunner, Wellington NZ, long jumper (Olympics-96)
1970 - Melanie Roche, Australian softball pitcher (Olympics-bronze-96)
1970 - Susan Tedeschi, American musician
1970 - Scarface, American rapper
1970 - Domino (Hip Hop Producer), American Hip Hop Producer
1971 - David Robert Duval, Jacksonville FL, PGA golfer (1995 Bob Hope)
1971 - Jimmy Hitchcock, NFL cornerback (NE Patriots)
1971 - Michael Barber, NFL linebacker (Seattle Seahawks)
1971 - Steve Rhem, NFL wide receiver (NO Saints)
1971 - Melinda Kinnaman, Swedish actress
1972 - Laxmi Poruri, Guntur India, tennis star (1994 Futures-College Park)
1972 - Mark Fields, NFL linebacker (NO Saints)
1972 - Ron Rice, NFL cornerback/safety (Detroit Lions)
1972 - Victoria Keil, Miss Universe-Cook Islands (1996)
1972 - Eric Dane, American actor
1972 - Doug Russell, American radio personality
1973 - Fred Lindberg, Australian baseball pitcher (Olympics-1996)
1973 - Zisis Vryzas, Greek footballer
1973 - Nick Lachey, American singer
1973 - Gabrielle Miller, Canadian actress
1974 - Dah-ve Chodan, actress (Tia-Uncle Buck)
1974 - Traci Toguchi, Honolulu Hawaii, Miss America-Hawaii (1996)
1974 - Alessandro Del Piero, Italian footballer
1974 - Joe C., American rapper (d. 2000)
1974 - Uncle Kracker, American singer and rapper
1976 - Laura Csortan, Miss Universe-Congeniality (Australia, 1997)
1977 - Patricia Campbell, Pennsylvania, Miss Teen USA (1996-2nd place)
1978 - Steven Lopez, American taekwondo martial artist
1978 - Todd Self, American baseball player
1978 - Sisqó, American singer (Dru Hill)
1979 - Adam Dunn, American baseball player
1979 - Caroline Flack, British television presenter
1979 - Martin Taylor, English footballer
1980 - Vanessa Minillo, Filipino television personality
1980 - James Harper, English footballer
1980 - Dominique Maltais, Quebec snowboarder
1981 - Scottie Thompson, American actress
1984 - Delta Goodrem, Australian singer
1984 - Joel Zumaya, American baseball player
1988 - Nikki Blonsky, American actress
1996 - Cheyenne Pyle, California, youngest heart transplant patient (90 mins old)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 09, 2013, 11:50:32 AM

This Day in History for 9th November


Famous Deaths

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Soviet Union Premier                    French President Charles de Gaulle (1970)
Joseph Stalin (1932)


959 - Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus, Byzantine Emperor (913-59), dies
1068 - Agnes of Poitou, duchess of Aquitania/mother of German Empress, dies
1187 - Emperor Gaozong of China (b. 1107)
1208 - Sancha of Castile, wife of Alfonso II of Aragon (b. 1155)
1504 - King Ferdinand II of Aragon (b. 1452)
1580 - Gaspar Schetz, South Neth, minster of chief treasurer, dies at 67
1620 - Louise de Coligny, 4th wife of Willem of Orange, dies at 65
1623 - William Camden, English historian: Brittania/Annales, dies at 72
1641 - Ferdinand, of Austria, cardinal of Spain, dies at 32
1677 - Aert van der Neer, Dutch landscape painter, dies at about 73
1699 - Hortense Mancini, mistress of Charles II, King of England (b. 1646)
1754 - Johann Christoph Fravenholtz, composer, dies at 70
1766 - Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, Dutch composer (b. 1692)
1770 - John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll, Scottish politician
1778 - Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian etcher, dies at 58
1801 - Carl Philipp Stamitz, composer, dies at 56
1809 - Paul Sandby, English cartographer (b. 1725)
1829 - Jean Xavier Lefevre, composer, dies at 66
1862 - John Bordenave Villepigue, US Confederate brig-gen, dies at 32
1874 - Israel Bak, created 1st Hebrew printing press, dies
1881 - Edwin Drake, Father of the oil industry, drilled the first oil well.
1897 - Moritz Heuzenroeder, composer, dies at 48
1906 - Leon Vanderkindere, Belgian historian/mayor of Ukkel, dies at 64
1911 - Edmund Schuecker, composer, dies at 50
1911 - Howard Pyle, American author (b. 1853)
1918 - Guillaume Apollinaire, [Kostrowitsky], Fr poet (Alcools), dies at 38
1919 - Eduard Müller, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1848)
1924 - Henry Cabot Lodge, American Senator (b. 1850)
1925 - Daniel Josephus Jitta, lawyer/Dutch state advisor, dies at 71
1927 - Ole Olsen, composer, dies at 77
1929 - Nicolaas Theunissen, South African cricket break bowler (2nd Test 1889), dies
1932 - Nadya Aliluieva, wife of Joseph Stalin, dies at 30
1938 - Vasily Blyukher, Soviet military commander (b.1889)
1939 - Dirk Klop, Dutch intelligence lt, shot by German Abwehr
1940 - Stephen Peter Alencastre, Portuguese Catholic prelate (b. 1876)
1942 - Edna May Oliver, dies on 59th birthday
1943 - Bernhard Lichtenberg, German clergyman/antifascist, dies at 67
1944 - Frank Marshall, American chess player (b. 1877)
1948 - Edgar Kennedy, actor (Little Orphan Annie), dies at 58
1951 - Resurreccion Maria de Azkue, composer, dies at 87
1951 - Sigmund Romberg, Hungarian/US composer (Blossom Time), dies at 64
1952 - Chaim Weizmann, bio-chemist/1st president Israel, dies at 77
1952 - Philip Murray, 1st president of the United Steelworkers and longest-serving president of the
           Congress of Industrial Organizations (b. 1886)
1953 - Abdul-Aziz ibn Sa'ud, founder of Saudi Arabia, dies at about 73
1953 - Dylan Thomas, author-poet (Adv in skin trade), dies in NY at 39
1955 - Tom Powers, actor (Station West, Destination Moon), dies at 65
1957 - Peter O'Connor, Irish athlete (b. 1872)
1959 - Frederick Preston Search, composer, dies at 70
1967 - Charles Bickford, actor (Johnny Belinda, Virginian), dies at 78
1968 - Jan Johansson, composer, dies at 37
1968 - Wally Grout, cricketer (successful Australian WK before Marsh), dies
1970 - William L Dawson, (Rep-D-Ill), dies at 84
1970 - Charles de Gaulle, President of France (1958-69), dies at 79
1971 - Maude Fealy, drama coach, dies at 90
1974 - Egon Joseph Wellesz, Austria, composer/musicologist, dies at 89
1976 - Billy Halop, actor (Bert Munson-All in the Family), dies at 56
1977 - Gertrude Astor, actress (Ship of Wanted Men), dies on 90th birthday
1978 - Joe Wong, actor (Ken Murray Show), dies at 75
1978 - Otto Siegl, composer, dies at 82
1979 - Lewis Charles, actor (Feather & Father Gang), dies at 59
1980 - Carmel Myers, actress (Carmel Myers Show), dies at 79
1980 - Victor Sen Yung, actor (Hop Sing-Bonanza, Bachelor Family), dies at 65
1985 - Helen Rose, costume designer, dies at 81
1985 - Mary MacLaren, actress (Black Swan), dies at 85 of respiratory probs
1988 - Billy Curtis, 4'2" actor (Terror of Tiny Town), dies at 79
1988 - John Mitchell, former Atny Gen, dies of heart attack in Washington
1988 - Father David Bauer, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1924)
1991 - Guido Claus, Belgian actor (Sacrament), dies
1991 - Yves Montand, actor (Idol, Grand Prix), dies of a heart attack at 70
1992 - Charles Fraser-Smith, English inventor (man who never was), dies
1992 - William Hillcourt, author (Boy Scout Handbook), dies at 92
1993 - Gerald Thomas, director (Carry on), dies at 72
1993 - Stanley Myers, English movie composer (Deer Hunter), dies at 63
1994 - Milton M Shorty Rajonsky Rogers, trumpeter, dies at 70
1994 - Priscilla Morrill, actress (Edie Grant-Mary Tyler Moore), dies at 67
1994 - Ralph Champion Shotter Michael, actor, dies at 87
1995 - Derick Frederick George Emmison, archivist/historian, dies at 88
1995 - Thelma Hulbert, English house painter, dies at 81
1996 - Fred Lipmann, watchmaker, dies at 91
1996 - Roger Makins, diplomat, dies at 92
1997 - Helenio Herrera, French football player and coach (b. 1910)
1998 - Ursula Reit, German actress (b. 1914)
2000 - Hugh Paddick, British actor (b. 1915)
2001 - Niels Jannasch, Canadian historian and museum curator (b. 1924)
2002 - William Schutz, American psychologist (b. 1925)
2002 - Merlin Santana, American actor (b. 1976)
2003 - Art Carney, American actor (b. 1918)
2003 - Gordon Onslow Ford, English painter (b. 1912)
2003 - Binod Bihari Verma, Indian Maithili literateur (b.1937)
2004 - Iris Chang, Asian author (b. 1968)
2005 - K. R. Narayanan, President of India (b. 1921)
2006 - Ed Bradley, American journalist (b. 1941)
2006 - Markus Wolf, East German Intelligence Director (b. 1923)
2011 - Joel J. Tyler, judge who pronounced 'Deep Throat' obscene, dies of a heart attack at 90
2012 - Bill Tarmey, English actor, dies at 71

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 10, 2013, 01:51:37 PM

This Day in History for 10th November


Historical Events

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Naturalist Charles Darwin                  Playwright George Bernard Shaw                       Animator Walt Disney

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Author and Nobel Laureate                Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat            Tennis Player Martina Navratilova
 William Faulkner

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44th US President Barack Obama


911 - Conrad I elecect German King
1444 - Battle at Varna, Black Sea: Sultan Murad II beats crusaders
1526 - John I Zapolyai of Transsylvania chosen as king of Hungary
1544 - Antwerps painter John Matsys banished
1567 - Battle at St-Denis: French government army vs Huguenots
1584 - Willem Louis of Nassau appointed viceroy of Friesland
1619 - René Descartes has the dreams that inspire his Meditations on First Philosophy.
1630 - Failed palace revolution in France against Richelieu
1674 - Dutch formally cede New Netherlands (NY) to English
1687 - Pope Innocent XI publishes decree Coelestis pastor
1697 - English parliament accept army reduction
1766 - The last Colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen's
           College (later renamed Rutgers University).
1775 - Congress forms US Marine Corps
1785 - Netherlands & France sign treaty
1793 - France ends forced worship of God
1801 - Kentucky outlaws dueling
1808 - Osage Treaty signed
1834 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin sails from Valparaiso
1836 - Louis Napoleon banished to America
1847 - The passenger ship Stephen Whitney is wrecked in thick fog off the southern coast of
           Ireland, killing 92 of the 110 on board. The disaster results in the construction the Fastnet
           Rock lighthouse.
1864 - Kingston, GA burned during Sherman's March to the Sea
1866 - Gold coins from the Sydney Mint become legal tender in Canada
1871 - Henry Morton Stanley in Ujiji, Central Africa, encounters David Livingstone with the immortal
           words 'Dr Livingstone, I presume?'
1878 - Aleksandr Ostrovsky's "Bespridannitsa," premieres in Moscow
1883 - Toronto Argonauts defeat Ottawa FC 9-7, for 1st ORFU Championship
1885 - Gottlieb Daimler's motorcycle, world's 1st, unveiled
1891 - 1st Women's Christian Temperance Union meeting held (in Boston)
1891 - Granville T Woods patents electric railway
1892 - 1st CRU championship game: Osgoode Hall defeats Montreal, 45-5
1894 - Fred Lugard signs accord with king Lafia "Absalamu" of Nikki
1898 - Race riot in Wilmington NC (8 blacks killed)
1905 - Sailors revolt in Kronstadt, Russia
1908 - 1st Gideon Bible put in a hotel room
1910 - The date of Thomas A. Davis' opening of the San Diego Army and Navy Academy, though the
           official founding date is November 23, 1910.
1911 - Andrew Carnegie forms Carnegie Corp (for scholarly & charitable works)
1911 - Chinese Imperial army recaptures Nanking (blood bath)
1917 - 41 suffragists are arrested in front of White House
1917 - Faure's 2nd Violo Sonate, premieres
1917 - New soviet government suspends freedom of press (temporary)
1918 - German emperor Wilhelm II flees to Netherland
1918 - Independence of Poland proclaimed by Józef Pilsudski
1918 - The Western Union Cable Office in North Sydney, NS received a top-secret coded message
           from Europe (that would be sent to Ottawa, ON and Washington, DC) that said on November
           11, 1918 all fighting would cease on land, sea and in the air.
1919 - 1st observance of National Book Week
1919 - American Legion's 1st national convention (Minneapolis)
1920 - George Bernard Shaw's "Heartbreak House," premieres in NYC
1923 - German ex-crown prince flees Netherlands for Germany
1924 - Dion O'Banion, leader of the North Side Gang is assassinated in his flower shop by members
           of Johnny Torrio's gang, sparking the bloody gang war of the 1920s in Chicago.
1926 - Bradman plays his 1st State selection trial He only made 37
1926 - Guomindang-regring deallocates seat of Kanton to Wuhan (Hankou)
1926 - Vincent Massey becomes 1st Canadian minister to USA
1928 - Hirohito ascended throne as Emperor of Japan
1933 - Black Blizzard snowstorm-duststorm rages from SD to Atlantic
1937 - Brazilian dictator Getulio Vargas proclaims "Estado novo"
1938 - 8.3 earthquake shakes East of Shumagin Islands, Alaska
1938 - Nobel for literature awarded to Pearl Buck (Good Earth)
1940 - Pittsburgh & Philadelphia play a penalty free NFL game
1940 - Walt Disney begins serving as an informer for the Los Angeles office of the FBI; his job is to
           report back information on Hollywood subversives.
1942 - Philip Barry's "Without Love," premieres in NYC
1942 - US troops occupy airport of Port-Lyautey, Morocco
1942 - US-British troops occupies Oran, Algeria
1944 - German riots in Rotterdam/Schiedam 52,000 men sent to Germany
1944 - US 9th Army takes Margraten cemetery
1944 - Ammunition ship USS Mount Hood (AE-11) exploded at Seeadler Harbour, Manus, Admiralty
           Islands
1945 - "Are You with It?" opens at Century Theater NYC for 264 performances
1945 - College football's #1 Army beats #2 Notre Dame 48-0
1945 - General Enver Hoxha becomes leader of Albania
1945 - Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald liberated by US
1945 - Heavy battle in Surabaya between Indonesian nationalists and returning colonialists after
           World War II, celebrated as Heroes' Day (Hari Pahlawan).
1946 - Communists win many seats at French parliamentary election
1950 - After 9 years, Cleve Indians fire manager Lou Boudreau
1950 - Clifford Odet's "Country Girl," premieres in NYC
1950 - Jacobo Arbenz Guzman elected president of Guatemala
1950 - Nobel for literature awarded to William Faulkner
1951 - 1st long distance telephone call without operator assistance
1952 - Trygve Halvdan Lie resigns as 1st secretary-genraal of UN
1953 - Giants end their tour of Japan (players got $331 of $3,000 promised)
1954 - Iwo Jima Memorial (servicemen raising US flag) dedicated in Arlington
1954 - Lt Col John Strapp travels 632 mph in a rocket sled
1955 - "Vamp" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 60 performances
1956 - Gene de Paul/John Meyer's musical "Li'l Abner," premieres in NYC
1957 - NFL record crowd (102,368), '49ers vs Rams in LA
1957 - Cleveland Browns' Don Paul sets club record for longest fumble return with a 89-yard run
           (and TD), beating Pittsburgh 24-0
1958 - Bertolt Brecht's "Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo o Ui," premieres
1958 - WUFT TV channel 5 in Gainesville, FL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1959 - Corinne Rottschaeffer of the Netherlands elected Miss World
1960 - US Senate passes landmark Civil Rights Bill
1962 - "Nowhere to Go, But Up" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 9 perfs
1963 - Gordie Howe takes over NHL career goal lead at 545
1963 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA San Antonio Civitan Golf Open
1964 - "Something More!" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 15 perfs
1964 - Braves sign a 25-year lease to play in the new Atlanta stadium
1965 - Manneke Piss statue stolen in Brussels
1965 - Willie Mays wins NL MVP
1966 - Jack Lynch becomes Irish premier (Taoiseach)
1966 - Lunar Orbiter 2 reaches 196-1871 km around Moon
1967 - KXNE TV channel 19 in Norfolk, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 - Judy Rankin wins LPGA Corpus Christi Civitan Golf Open
1968 - Launch of Zond 6, 2nd unmanned circumlunar & return flight
1968 - Portuguese socialist Mario Soares freed
1969 - "Sesame Street" premieres on PBS TV
1970 - "2 by 2" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 343 performances
1970 - Luna 17, with unmanned self-propelled Lunokhod 1, is launched
1970 - R Rodgers/M Charnins musical "Two by Two" premieres in NYC
1971 - Joe Torre wins NL MVP, Vida Blue wins AL MVP
1971 - US table tennis team arrived in China
1974 - 2nd meeting of Giants-Jets, Jets even series at 1 with 26-20 OT win
1974 - Montreal Canadiens shutout Washington Capitals 11-0
1975 - Ore ship Edmund Fitzgerald & crew of 29 lost in storm on Lake Superior
1975 - PLO leader Yasser Arafat addresses UN in NYC
1975 - Royals release slugger Harmon Killebrew, ending his 22-year career
1975 - UN General Assembly approves resolution equating Zionism with racism
1976 - Utah Supreme Court approves execution of convicted murderer Gary Gilmore
1977 - Amsterdam: Red Army Faction terrorists Gert Schneider/Christof Wackernagel arrested
1977 - Major Indoor Soccer League officially organized (NYC)
1978 - Israel's top negotiators broke away from Middle East peace talks
1978 - Larry Holmes KOs Alfredo Evangelist in 7 for heavyweight boxing title
1978 - Yanks trade Lyle, Rajsich, McCall, Heath & Ramos to Texas for Righetti, Mirabella, Beniquez,
           Jemison & Griffin
1980 - Dan Rather refuses to pay his cabbie, CBS pays $12.55 fare
1980 - Poland acknowledges Solidarity union
1981 - "Oh, Brother!" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 3 performances
1981 - Ernest Thompson's "West Side Waltz," premieres in NYC
1982 - IMF lends Mexico $3.8 billion due to threatened bankrupcy
1982 - Susan Cooper/Hume Cronyns "Foxfire," premieres in NYC
1982 - Vietnam Veterans Memorial opened
1983 - "Amen Corner" opens at Nederlander Theater NYC for 83 performances
1983 - Federal government shut down
1984 - Australia all out for 76 v West Indies at cricket WACA, Holding 6-21
1984 - Miami Hurricanes blows 31-0 lead in 3rd quarter lose to Md 42-40
1984 - Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Chief's Crown, Eillo, Lashkari, Outstandingly, Princess
           Rooney, Royal Heroine, Wild Again at Hollywood
1985 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic
1986 - Bangladeshi Constitution restored
1987 - Steve Bedrosian edges Rick Sutcliffe 57-55 to win NL Cy Young Award
1988 - China confirms earthquake death toll will rise above current 938
1988 - MLB All-Star team beats Japan 3-1 in Tokyo (Game 5 of 7)
1988 - NY's MTA announces it may replace tokens with credit card type passes
1988 - Orel Hershiser (23-8) is a unanimous choice as NL Cy Young Award
1989 - Bulgarian party president Todor Zjikov resigns
1989 - Germans begin demolishing Berlin Wall
1989 - Word Perfect 5.1 is shipped
1990 - Lebanon releases 2 French hostages (Camille Sontag & Marcel Coudari)
1991 - Bernie Kosar ends NFL record of 308 passes without an interception
1991 - Browns set club record for largest lead blown (led 23-0), Phila 32-30
1991 - Liselotte Neumann wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic
1991 - Martina Navratilova ties Chris Evert, 157 pro tennis tournament wins
1991 - Marty Glickman broadcasts his 1,000th football game
1991 - South Africa's 1st cricket international since 1970 - one-day v India
1993 - "Joseph & the Amazing" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 223 perfs
1993 - Slovakian government of Vladimír Mečiar forms
1995 - In Nigeria, playwright and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa along with eight others from
           the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (Mosop) are hanged by government
           forces.
1997 - "Jackie - An American Life," opens at Belasco Theater NYC
1997 - Artist Peter Max pleads guilty to tax fraud & time served
1997 - Nanny Louise Woodward murder conviction downgraded to manslaughter
2006 - Sri Lankan Tamil Parliamentarian Nadarajah Raviraj assassinated in Colombo.
2007 - ¿Por qué no te callas? incident between King Juan Carlos of Spain and Venezuela's president
           Hugo Chávez.
2012 - 20 Syrian troops are killed by suicide bombings in Daara
2012 - 27 people are killed and dozens injured in a prison conflict in Colombo, Sri Lanka
2012 - Israeli counter strike on Palestinian militants in Gaza kills 5 and injure 30
2012 - 17 people are killed in a helicopter crash as a result of bad weather in Turkey
2012 - The final US presidential election results are declared after Barack Obama wins Florida to
           defeate Mitt Romney 332-206 in Electoral College votes
2084 - Transit of Earth as seen from Mars

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 10, 2013, 01:53:05 PM

This Day in History for 10th November


Famous Weddings

1926 - Belgium crown prince Leopold weds princess Astrid Bernadotte of Sweden
1965 - Neth 2nd Chamber accept marriage of Princess Beatrice & Claus von Amsberg
2001 - "Four Weddings and A Funeral" actress Andie MacDowell (43) weds businessman Rhett
           Hartzog (42) at Central United Methodist Church in Asheville, North Carolina
2006 - "The Grudge" actor Jason Behr (32) weds actress KaDee Strickland (30) in Ojai, California
2007 - Former "E.R." actress Julianna Margulies (41) weds lawyer Keith Lieberthal in Lenox,
           Massachusetts
2012 - Actor Ben Hollingsworth (28) weds lingerie designer Nila Myers in Malibu

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 10, 2013, 02:01:04 PM

This Day in History for 10th November


Famous Birthdays

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Founder of Protestanism                         Singer Jane Froman (1907)                  Economist Robert F. Engle (1942)
Martin Luther (1483)

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Lyricist Tim Rice (1944)


745 - Musa al-Kazim, Shia Imam (d. 799)
1341 - Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, English statesman (d. 1408)
1433 - Charles of Charolais, the Bold, Duke of Burgundy/polyglot
1467 - Charles of Egmond, duke of Gelre/earl of Zutphen [or Nov 9]
1480 - Bridget of York, English princess and nun (d. 1517)
1483 - Martin Luther, Eisleben Germany, founded Protestantism, (d.1546)
1565 - Robert Devereux 2nd Earl of Essex/cousin/lover of Elizabeth I
1565 - Laurentius Paulinus Gothus, Swedish theologian and astronomer (d. 1646)
1577 - Jacob Cats, [Father Cats], Dutch grand pensionary/poet (Houwelyck)
1620 - Ninon de l'Enclos, French courtesan and writer (d. 1705)
1636 - Francesco Passarini, composer
1668 - Francois Couperin, Paris France, composer/organist (Concerts Royaux)
1668 - Louis III, Prince of Condé (d. 1710)
1679 - Johann Christian Schieferdecker, composer
1683 - George II [August], king of England (1727-60)
1694 - Jean-Laurent Krafft, composer
1695 - John Bevis, English physician and astronomer (d. 1771)
1697 - William Hogarth, England, satiric painter/engraver (Rake's Progress)
1704 - Carlo Zuccari, composer
1710 - Adam Gottlob Moltke, Danish statesman (d. 1792)
1719 - Georg Philipp Kress, composer
1730 - Oliver Goldsmith, Ireland, novelist/dramatist (She Stoops to Conquer) (d. 1774)
1735 - Granville Sharp, English abolishionist (d. 1813)
1759 - Frederich von Schiller, Germany, poet/lyricist (Ode to Joy) (d. 1805)
1772 - Jan Nepomuk Kanka, composer
1786 - Carl Eberwein, composer
1793 - Jared Kirtland, US, physician/naturalist/reformed penitentiaries
1801 - Vladimir Dal, Russian lexicographer (d. 1872)
1810 - George Jennings English sanitary engineer (d. 1882)
1811 - Louis Kufferath, composer
1819 - Cyrus West Field, financier/success of 1st transatlantic cable
1827 - Alfred Howe Terry, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1890
1830 - Albert Gallatin Jenkins, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
1833 - Dobri Voynikov, composer
1834 - Jose Hernandez, Argentina poet (MartinFierro)
1834 - Wager Swayne, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1902
1844 - John S D Thompson, (C), 4th PM of Canada (1892-94)
1844 - Henry Eyster Jacobs, American theologian (d. 1932)
1846 - Martin Wegelius, Finnish musicologist/composer
1846 - Paul Kuczynski, composer
1855 - Josiah Royce, US, philosopher (conception of God)
1861 - Robert T A Innes, Edinburgh Scotland, astronomer (Proxima Centauri)
1864 - Alexandre Levy, composer
1868 - Gichin Funakoshi, Japanese martial artist (d. 1957)
1871 - Winston Churchill, US, author (Crisis, Crossing)
1873 - Henri Rabnaud, Paris France, composer (Le Premer Glaire)
1875 - Maude Eburne, Canada, actress (Ladies They Talk About, Guardsman)
1879 - Nicholas Vachel Lindsay, US, poet (Gen William Booth enters Heaven)
1879 - Patrick Pearse, Irish political activist (d. 1916)
1880 - Aart A van Schelven, Dutch church historian (Willem of Orange)
1880 - Jacob Epstein, sculptor (Adam, Jacob & the Angel)
1882 - Max Mell, Austria officer/literary (Donauweibchen)
1883 - Bedrich Antonin Wiedermann, composer
1884 - Jan van Nijlen, Flemish poet/author (Bird Phoenix)
1885 - Esther Dale, Beaufort SC, actress (Unfinished Business)
1887 - Arnold Zweig, German antifascist/author (Erziehung vor Verdun)
1888 - Andrej N Tupolev, Russian aircraft builder
1888 - Hugh Wakefield, Wanstead England, actress (Blithe Spirit)
1889 - Claude Rains, London, actor (Invisible Man, Casablanca)
1891 - Carl Stalling, American film composer (d. 1972)
1893 - John P. Marquand, American writer (d. 1960)
1895 - John Knudsen Northrop, aircraft designer (Northrop Air)
1896 - Jimmie Dykes, American baseball player and manager (d. 1976)
1902 - Antonio Maria Valencia, composer
1902 - Murk Ozinga, Dutch building historian (Monuments of Curacao)
1904 - Steven Geray, Uzhored Czechoslovakia, actor (French Line)
1906 - Josef Kramer, German concentration camp commandant (d. 1945)
1907 - Jane Froman, St Louis Mo, singer (Jane Froman's USA Canteen), (d. 1980)
1907 - John Moore, English author (d. 1967)
1908 - Charles Merritt, Canadian Army officer and Victoria Cross recipient (d. 2000)
1909 - Paweł Jasienica, Polish historian (d. 1970)
1911 - Harry Andrews, Kent England, actor (Equus, Man of La Mancha)
1912 - Salvador Contreras, composer
1913 - Alvaro Cunhal, Portuguese communist
1913 - Arthur Mullard, comedian
1913 - Thelma Hulbert, painter
1916 - Billy May, Pitts Pa, orchestra leader (Milton Berle Show)
1916 - Guido Turchi, Rome Italy, composer (Invettiva)
1918 - Ernst Fischer, German chemist (Nobel 1973)
1918 - Jack McCoy, Akron Ohio, TV host (Live Like a Millionaire)
1918 - Martin Hanley, cricketer (took 1-88 with off-spin in Test for S Afr)
1918 - Oda Blinder, [Yolanda Corsen], Antillean poetess (Doorstep)
1919 - Clyde "Bulldog" Turner, NFL center (Chicago Bears)
1919 - Moise Tshombe, pres of Katanga, then premier of the Congo (Zaire)
1919 - Mikhail Timofeevich Kalashnikov, Russian inventor
1919 - François Périer, French actor (d. 2002)
1920 - Tod Andrews, NYC, actor (From Hell it Came, Outrage)
1920 - Rafael del Pino, Spanish entrepreneur
1924 - Russell Johnson, actor, (professor-Gilligan's Island)
1925 - Richard Burton, South Wales, actor (Cleopatra, Virginia Woolf)
1927 - Jacob Pleydell-Bouvery 8th earl of Radnor/art collector
1928 - Ennio Morricone, Rome Italy, composer/musician
1928 - Norma Crane, NY, actress (Tea & Sympathy, Fiddler on the Roof)
1928 - William Staveley, British admiral
1929 - Marilyn Bergman, American composer and songwriter
1930 - Clarence M Pendleton Jr, chairman of US comm on Civil Rights (1981-88)
1930 - Gene Conley, MLB player/NBA player
1930 - Toma Prosev, composer
1932 - Roy Scheider, actor (Jaws, French Connection, Marathon Man, Paper Lion) (d. 2008)
1932 - Don Henderson, English actor (d. 1997)
1933 - Seymour Nurse, cricketer (prolific WI batsman, 258 v NZ 1969)
1933 - Ronald Evans, American astronaut (d. 1990)
1934 - Lucien Bianchi, Belgian auto racer
1934 - Norm Cash, Eldorado Texas, 1st baseman (Detroit Tigers)
1935 - Pippa Scott, Los Angeles California, actress (Virginian, Mr Lucky)
1935 - Ronald Ellwin Evans, St Francis Ks, Captain USN/astronaut (Apollo 17)
1935 - Igor Dmitrievich Novikov, Russian astrophysicist
1935 - Bernard Babior, American biochemist
1937 - Albert Hall, Boothton Alabama, actor (Trouble in Mind, Ryan's 4)
1938 - H J de Royen, director (Dutch Concertgebouw Orchestra)
1939 - Tommy "Bubba" Facenda, rocker
1939 - Russell Means, Native American activist, (d. 2012)
1940 - Screaming Lord Sutch, rocker
1941 - John Geoghegan, Silver Star recipient (d. 1965)
1941 - Kyu Sakamoto, Japanese singer and actor (d. 1985)
1942 - Michel Tabachnik, Swiss composer/conductor
1942 - Robert F. Engle, American economist, Nobel laureate
1942 - Hans-Rudolf Merz, Swiss Federal Councilor
1943 - Saxby Chambliss, American politician
1943 - George Sauer, Jr., Sheboygan, Wisconsin, AFL player (New York Jets), (d. 2013)
1944 - Dave Loggins, singer (Please come to Boston)
1944 - Tim Rice, Amersham, England, lyricist (Chess Moves, 1 Night in Bangkok)
1944 - Silvestre Reyes, American politician
1945 - Donna Fargo, NC, country singer (Happiest Girl in Whole USA)
1946 - Alaina Reed, Springfield Ohio, actress (Rose Lee Holloway-227)
1946 - Bill Bryson, Evanston Ill, singer (Desert Rose Band-Love Reunited)
1946 - David Stockman, Reagan's ex-budget director
1947 - Bechir Gemayel, pres Lebanon (8/23-9/14, 1982)
1947 - Greg Lake, rock vocalist/bassist (King Crimson, ELP)
1948 - Mario Viegas, actor (The Jew, Divine Comedy, Funeral of Patrao)
1948 - Aaron Brown, American broadcast journalist
1948 - Hugh Moffatt, American songwriter
1949 - Ann Reinking, Seattle, dancer/actress (All the Jazz, Micki & Maude)
1950 - Jack Scalia, Brooklyn New York, American actor (Berrengers, Hollywood Beat)
1950 - Debra Hill, American screenwriter and film producer (d. 2005)
1951 - Morris Hatalsky, San Diego CA, Nike golfer (1993 NIKE White Rose-2nd)
1952 - Pat Severs, Camden SC, country singer (Pirates of Miss-Fred Jake)
1952 - Gerry DiNardo, American football coach
1954 - Mario Cipollina, California, rock bassist (Huey Lewis & The News)
1955 - Jack Clark, Penns, all star outfielder (Giants, Cards, Yanks, Padres)
1955 - James Chapman, American novelist
1955 - Roland Emmerich, German film producer and director
1956 - Matt Craven, Port Colborne Ontario, actor (Juror, Killer, K2)
1956 - Sinbad, comedian/actor (Different World, At the Apollo)
1956 - Mohsen Badawi, Egyptian entrepreneur and activist
1957 - Chris Joyce, rocker (Simply Red)
1957 - Jodi Anderson, Chicago Ill, US long jump champ (1978-81)
1958 - George Lowe, American voice actor
1958 - Massimo Morsello, Italian singer
1958 - Brooks Williams, American musician
1958 - Stephen Herek, American film director
1959 - Frank Maudsley, rock bassist/vocalist (Flock Of Seagulls)
1959 - MacKenzie Phillips, Alexandria Va, actress (Julie-1 Day at a Time)
1959 - Linda Cohn, American sports reporter
1960 - Lee Cross Rinker, Stuart FL, PGA golfer (1995 Greater Milwaukee-6th)
1960 - Neil Gaiman, English writer
1960 - Dan Hawkins, American college football coach
1961 - Junior, [Norman Giscombe], R&B singer (Mama used to Say)
1961 - Ramona Pagel, Los Angeles California, shot putter
1961 - Rudolf Grimm, Austrian physics professor
1961 - John Walton, English darts player
1962 - Cathy Boswell, Joliet Ill, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1984)
1963 - Michael Anthony Powell, Philadelphia, long jumper (world record 1991, Olympic-silver-88, 92)
1963 - Hugh Bonneville, English actor
1964 - Jushin Liger, [Keiichi Yamada], wrestler (WCW/NJPW)
1964 - Keith Lockhart, Whittier CA, infielder (KC Royals)
1964 - Kenny Rogers, Savannah GA, pitcher (Texas Rangers, NY Yankees)
1964 - Tish Certo, Niagara Falls NY, LPGA golfer (1981 Erie County (NY Champ)
1964 - Magnús Scheving, Icelandic athlete
1965 - Eddie Irvine, Northern Irish race car driver
1965 - Jamie Dixon, American basketball coach
1966 - Vanessa Angel, London, England, actress (Weird Science, Kingpin)
1966 - Kyle Kopp, San Bernardino Ca, water polo 2m offense (Olympics-96)
1966 - Bill DeMott, American professional wrestler
1967 - Donya Fiorentino, US model
1967 - Jed Roberts, CFL defensive tackle (Edmonton Eskimos)
1967 - Michael Jai White, American actor
1968 - Calvin Tiggle, CFL linebacker (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1968 - Jeffrey Kooistra, soccer player (SC Heerenveen/NEC)
1968 - Lissa Maria Sneck, ice hockey goalie (Finland, Oly-98)
1968 - Lonnie Marts, NFL linebacker (Tampa Bay Bucs, Tennessee Oilers)
1968 - Steve Brookstein, English X Factor winner
1969 - Arjan van der Laan, Dutch soccer player (Sparta)
1969 - Dan Farthing, CFL slot back (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1969 - Ed Ward, Edmonton, NHL right wing (Calgary Flames)
1969 - Rod Milstead, NFL guard (SF 49ers)
1969 - Faustino Asprilla, Colombian footballer
1969 - Ellen Pompeo, American actress
1969 - Jens Lehmann, German footballer
1970 - Trent Dimas, NM, gymnast (Olympics-gold-92, 96)
1970 - Warren G, American rapper
1970 - Freddy Loix, Belgian rally driver
1971 - Butch Huskey, Anadarko OK, infielder (NY Mets)
1971 - Heather Williams, Miss USA-Oregon (1997)
1971 - Jennifer McFalls, US softball infielder (Olympics-gold-96)
1971 - Kate Slatter, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1972 - Carol Anne Becker, Miss Universe-South Africa (1996)
1972 - Dick Kooijman, Dutch soccer player (Heracles, FC Groningen, Az)
1972 - Isaac Bruce, NFL wide receiver (St Louis Rams)
1972 - Shawn Green, Des Plaines IL, outfielder (Toronto Blue Jays)
1972 - Virag Csurgo, Siofok Hungary, tennis star (1993 Futures-Freeport)
1973 - Cale Hulse, Edmonton, NHL defenseman (Calgary Flames)
1973 - Darius Holland, NFL defensive tackle (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1973 - John Solomon, NFL defensive end (Seattle Seahawks)
1973 - Khiry Abdul Samad, Los Angeles California, rocker (Boys-Dial My Heart, Lucky Charm)
1973 - Zahid Fazal, Pakistani cricket batsman (occasional Tests since 1992)
1973 - Patrik Berger, Czech footballer
1974 - Niko Hurme, Finnish musician
1975 - Jim Adkins, American musician
1976 - Steffen Iversen, Norwegian footballer
1976 - Shefki Kuqi, Finnish footballer
1977 - Stephanie Berger, Miss Universe-Switzerland (1996)
1977 - Brittany Murphy, American actress
1977 - Matt Cepicky, American baseball player
1977 - Josh Barnett, American Mixed Martial Artist
1978 - Eve, American rapper
1979 - Chris Joannou, Australian musician
1980 - Calvin Chen, One of the four members of the Taiwanese boy band, Fei Lun Hai/Fahrenhiet
1980 - Troy Bell, American basketball player
1980 - Donté Stallworth, American football player
1981 - Tony Blanco, American baseball player
1981 - Jason L. Dunham, American Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2004)
1981 - Alison Waite, American model and Playboy Playmate
1982 - Clayton Fortune, English footballer
1982 - Heather Matarazzo, American actress
1983 - Miranda Lambert, American singer
1983 - Craig Smith, American basketball player
1984 - Kendrick Perkins, American basketball player
1985 - David Lee Rohr Jr, transplant donor
1985 - Giovonnie Samuels, American television actress
1985 - Ricki-Lee Coulter, Australian singer
1986 - Josh Peck, American actor
1987 - Jessica Tovey, Australian actress
1988 - Chisaki Hama, former Japanese actress and model
1991 - Inseong Cho, South Korean actor

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 10, 2013, 02:05:43 PM

This Day in History for 10th November


Famous Deaths

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Poet Arthur Rimbaud (1891)             Politician Neville Chamberlain (1940)          Novelist Norman Mailer (2007)


461 - St. Leo I, the Great, Italian Pope (440-61), dies in office
627 - Justus, Archbishop of Canterbury
901 - Adelaide of Paris, Queen of Western Francia
1241 - Celestine IV, [Goffredo Castiglioni], Pope (1241, 16 days), dies
1285 - Pedro III, king of Aragon, dies
1299 - Jan I, count of Holland/Zeeland (1295-99), dies at 15
1444 - Wladyslaw III Warnenczyk, king of Poland/Hungary, dies in battle at 20
1549 - Paul III, [Alessandro Farnese], Italian Pope (1534-49), dies at 81
1556 - Richard Chancellor, English explorer, dies in shipwreck off Scotland
1596 - Peter Wentworth, English Puritan politician (b. 1530)
1617 - Barnabe Rich, English soldier and writer
1624 - Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, English patron of the theater (b. 1573)
1644 - Luís Vélez de Guevara, Spanish writer (b. 1579)
1665 - Samuel Friedrich Capricornus, composer, dies at 36
1670 - Geory Horn, [Hornius], theologist/historian, dies at about 50
1673 - Michael Korybut Wisniowiecki, king of Poland (16..-73), dies
1727 - Alphonse de Tonty, French explorer and American settler (b. 1659)
1728 - Fyodor Apraksin, Russian admirals (b. 1661)
1772 - Pedro Antonio Joaquim Correa da Serra Garção, Portuguese poet (b. 1724)
1777 - Cornstalk, Shawnee chief
1779 - Joseph Hewes, US merchant/signer (Decl of Independence), dies at 49
1808 - Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, British soldier and Governor of Quebec (b. 1724)
1821 - Andreas J Romberg, German violinist/composer (Der Rabe), dies at 54
1848 - Christian VIII of Denmark, King of Denmark (b. 1786)
1865 - Henry Wards, Confederate prison supt, executed for excessive cruelty
1891 - Arthur Rimbaud, French poet/arms merchant (Saison en Enfer), dies of a bone cancer at 37
1909 - Ludvig Schytte, composer, dies at 61
1909 - Renee Vivien, American poet (b. 1877)
1909 - George Essex Evans, Australian poet (b. 1863)
1912 - Louis Cyr, Canadian strongman (b. 1863)
1936 - Louis Gustave Binger, French officer and explorer (b. 1856)
1937 - Nikolai Batalov, actor (Mother), dies at 37
1938 - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder and the first President of Turkey (b. 1881)
1940 - Arthur Neville Chamberlain, British premier (1937-40), dies at 71
1948 - Julius Curtius, German foreign minister (1929- ), dies at 71
1954 - Hussein Fatemi, Iran Foreign minister, executed
1959 - Lupino Lane, actress (Deputy Drummer), dies at 67
1960 - Isadore Freed, composer, dies at 60
1963 - Otto Flake, writer, dies
1964 - Jimmie Dodd, American actor (b. 1910)
1968 - Gerald Mohr, actor (Christopher-Foreign Intrigue), dies at 54
1970 - Charles DeGaulle, general/president France (Free French), dies at 79
1971 - Walter Van Tilburg Clark, US author (Ox-Bow Incident), dies at 62
1972 - Charlie Hallows, cricketer (1000 runs-May 1928, 2 Tests for Eng), dies
1973 - Stringbean, country singer/comedian/banjoist (Hee Haw), dies at 58
1975 - Ernest M. McSorley, American ship captain (b. 1912)
1978 - Linda Scott, actress (Escape from Hell Island), dies at 28
1978 - Theo Lingen, actor (Grosse Gluck), dies at 75
1979 - Friedrich Thorberg, writer, dies at 71
1981 - Abel Gance, french movie director (J'accuse), dies at 92
1982 - Elio Petri, Italian director (Workers Class), dies at 53
1982 - Leonid Ilich Brezhnev, Soviet 1st sect, dies of a heart attack at 77
1984 - Sudie Bond, actress (Tomorrow), dies at 56 of a respiratory ailment
1984 - Xavier Herbert, Australian author (b. 1901)
1985 - Pelle Lindbergh, goalie (Phila Flyers), dies in drunk driving accident
1986 - King Clancy, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and referee (b. 1903)
1986 - Rogelio de la Rosa, Filipino actor and politician (b. 1916)
1990 - Lisa Kirk, US Broadway-singer, dies
1990 - Ronnie Dyson, US singer (Salvation-I Don't Wanna Cry), dies at 40
1990 - Mário Schenberg, Brazilian physicist (b. 1914)
1991 - Alessandro Lessona, Minister of Ital Colonies (1931-38), dies
1991 - Franco Malfatti, president of Commission of Europe (1970-1972), dies
1991 - Tutte Lemkow, dancer/dir (Capt Paradise, I am a Camera), dies at 73
1991 - William Afflis, American professional wrestler (b. 1929)
1992 - Antoine C J Rottier, Dutch CEO (DSM), dies
1992 - Chuck Connors, US NBA/baseballer/actor (Boston Celtics), dies at 71
1993 - Wensley Pithey, actor (Oh What a Lovely War), dies at 79
1994 - Carmen McRae [Clark], US jazz singer/pianist, dies at about 73
1994 - Louis Nizer, lawyer, dies at 92
1995 - Boty Goodwin, artist, dies at 29
1995 - Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa, writer/environmentalist, dies at 54
1995 - Margaret Annie Nan Macdonald, broadcaster, dies at 87
1996 - Beecher Moore, sailor, dies at 88
1996 - Hugo Buchthal, art historian, dies at 87
1996 - Marjorie Proops, problem page editor, dies at 85
1997 - William Alland, actor (Citizen Kane), dies at 81
1997 - Tommy Tedesco, American musician (b. 1930)
1998 - Mary Millar, English actress (b. 1936)
2000 - Jacques Chaban-Delmas, Prime Minister of France (b. 1915)
2001 - Ken Kesey, American author (b. 1935)
2002 - Michel Boisrond, French film director (b. 1921)
2003 - Canaan Banana, first President of Zimbabwe (b. 1936)
2003 - Irv "Kup" Kupcinet, American columnist and television personality (b. 1912)
2004 - Katy de la Cruz, Filipino singer (b. 1907)
2006 - Diana Coupland, British comedy actress (b. 1932)
2006 - Gerald Levert, American singer (b. 1966)
2006 - Jack Palance, American actor (b. 1919)
2006 - Nadarajah Raviraj, Sri Lankan politician (b. 1962)
2006 - Fokko du Cloux, mathematician (b. 1954)
2007 - Laraine Day, American actress (b. 1920)
2007 - Augustus F. Hawkins, American politician and civil rights lawmaker (b. 1907)
2007 - Norman Mailer, American novelist, dies at 84
2008 - Miriam Makeba, South African singer and anti-apartheid activist (b. 1932)
2009 - Gheorghe Dinica, Romanian actor (b. 1934)
2009 - Robert Enke, German football goalkeeper (b. 1977)
2009 - John Allen Muhammad, American spree killer (b. 1960)
2010 - Dino De Laurentiis, Italian film producer (b. 1919)
2010 - Dave Niehaus, American sportscaster (b. 1935)
2010 - Nicolo Rizzuto, Sicilian-born Canadian organized crime figure (b. 1924)
2011 - Ivan Martin Jirous, Czech poet (b. 1944)
2011 - Peter J. Biondi, American state legislator (New Jersey) and former mayor (b. 1942)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 11, 2013, 04:37:57 PM

This Day in History for 11th November


Historical Events

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The Warrior Pope Julius II                  Composer George Friedrich Handel           Jazz Musician Louis Armstrong

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Theoretical Physicist                         Composer and Lyricist Irving Berlin         Musician and Beatle John Lennon
Albert Einstein

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US President & Actor                               264th Pope John Paul II
Ronald Reagan


308 - The Congress of Carnuntum: Attempting to keep peace within the Roman Empire, the leaders
         of the Tetrarchy declare Maxentius and Licinius to be Augusti, while rival contender Constantine
         I is declared Caesar of Britain and Gaul.
887 - Parliament in Tribur: King Charles III resigns
1158 - Emperor Frederik I Barbarossa declares himself ruler of North Italy
1208 - Otto van Wittelsbach chosen German king
1215 - 4th Lateran Council (12th ecumenical council) opens in Rome
1417 - Oddo Colonna elected as Pope Martinus V
1493 - Explorer Christopher Columbus discovers Saba
1500 - Treaty of Granada: France & Aragon divide Naples
1503 - Pope Julius II elected
1572 - Duke of Alva's son Don Fredrik begins siege for Haarlem
1606 - Turkey & Austria sign Treaty of Zsitva-Torok
1634 - Following pressure from Anglican bishop John Atherton, the Irish House of Commons passes
           "An Act for the Punishment for the Vice of Buggery".
1640 - Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, impeached by the House of Lords on the evidence of
           John Pym, and imprisoned in the Tower of London; he was later executed.
1647 - Massachusetts passes 1st US compulsory school attendance law
1648 - Dutch & French agree to divide St Maarten, Leeward Islands
1671 - Dutch States-General forbids importation of French wine
1673 - Second Battle of Khotyn in the Ukraine, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth forces under the
           command of Jan Sobieski. defeat the Ottoman army. In this battle, rockets of Kazimierz
           Siemienowicz were successfully used.
1675 - Gottfried Leibniz demonstrated integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the
           graph of y = f(x) function.
1688 - Prince Willem III's invasion fleet sails to England
1714 - A highway in Bronx is laid out, later renamed East 233rd Street
1724 - Joseph Blake, alias Blueskin, a highwayman known for attacking "Thief-Taker General" (and
           thief) Jonathan Wild at the Old Bailey, is hanged in London. (b. c. 1700)
1725 - Georg F Handel's opera "Tamerlano," premieres in London
1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlie's army enters England
1750 - The F.H.C. Society, also known as the Flat Hat Club, was formed at Raleigh Tavern,
           Williamsburg, Virginia. It was the first college fraternity.
1752 - Theresianische Military Academy opens in Vienna
1778 - Iroquois Indians in NY kill 40 in Cherry Valley Massacre
1790 - Chrysanthemums are introduced to England from China
1805 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Dürenstein - 8000 French troops attempted to slow the retreat of
           a vastly superior Russian and Austrian force.
1811 - Cartagena Colombia declares independence from Spain
1813 - Dresden surrenders to allied armies
1836 - Chile declares war on Bolivia & Peru
1839 - The Virginia Military Institute is founded in Lexington, Virginia.
1851 - Alvan Clark patents telescope
1862 - Opera "La Forza Del Destino" is produced (St Petersburg Russia)
1864 - Sherman's troops destroy Rome, Georgia
1864 - Skirmish at Shoal Creek, AL
1865 - Mary Edward Walker, 1st Army female surgeon, awarded Medal of Honor
1865 - Thomas Robertsons "Society," premieres in London
1865 - Treaty of Sinchula is signed in which Bhutan ceded the areas east of the Teesta River to the
           British East India Company.
1868 - 1st American amateur track & field meet (NYC)
1880 - Australian Bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged at Melbourne Gaol
1887 - Anarchist Haymarket Martyrs August Spies (b. 1855), Albert Parsons (b. 1848), Adolph
           Fischer (b. 1858) and George Engel (b. 1836) are executed.
1887 - Construction of the Manchester Ship Canal starts at Eastham.
1889 - Washington admitted as 42nd state of USA
1890 - D McCree patents portable fire escape
1895 - Bechuanaland becomes part of Cape Colony
1896 - Jules Vandenpeereboom becomes Belgium's minister of War
1899 - Stuart/Rubens/Boyd-Jones' "Floradora," premieres in London
1901 - Maurice Ravel composition "Jeux d'eau" premieres
1906 - Ethel Smyth's "Standrecht" premieres in Leipzig
1909 - Construction of US navy base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, begins
1909 - J M Synge's "Tinker's Wedding," premieres in London
1911 - Many cities in the U.S. Midwest broke their record highs and lows on the same day as a
           strong cold front rolls through. (see The 11/11/11 cold wave).
1918 - Dutch SDAP leader Troelstra announces revolution
1918 - Emperor Charles I of Austria abdicates
1918 - Poland declares independence
1918 - Armistice signed by the Allies and Germany comes into effect, WW I hostilities end at 11.00
           am
1919 - Pope Benedictus XV states Roman Catholics political/business views
1921 - President Harding dedicates Tomb of Unknown Soldier at Arlington Cemetery
1922 - Largest US flag displayed (150' X 90') expanded in 1939 (270' X 90')
1923 - Eternal flame lit for tomb of unknown solder, Arc de Triumph
1924 - Martin Beck Theater opens at 302 W 45th St NYC
1924 - Palace of Legion of Honor dedicated (SF)
1925 - Earnest Thalmann becomes chairman of German KPD
1925 - Louis Armstrong records 1st of Hot Five & Hot Seven recordings
1925 - Night of Kersten - Colijn Dutch government falls by SGP-amendement
1925 - Robert A. Millikan announces discovery of cosmic rays
1926 - Eddie Collins is released as White Sox manager
1926 - U.S. Route 66 is established.
1928 - France's 5th government of Poincaré forms
1928 - KXO-AM in El Centro CA begins radio transmissions
1928 - WGL-AM in Ft Wayne IN begins radio transmissions
1928 - WMT-AM in Cedar Rapids IA begins radio transmissions
1928 - WOL-AM in Washington DC begins radio transmissions
1930 - Patent number US1781541 was awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their invention,
           the Einstein refrigerator.
1931 - Cornerstones laid for Opera House & Veteran's Building
1933 - "Great Black Blizzard" 1st great dust storm in Great Plains
1934 - 1st penalty shot vs Toronto Maple Leafs, Mondou (Mont) unsuccessful
1934 - WOC-AM in Davenport Iowa splits from WHO-WOC & becomes KICK-AM
1935 - Explorer 2 balloon sets altitude record of 72,000 feet over SD
1937 - Messerschmidt ME-109V13 flies world record 610.4 kph
1937 - Nobel prize for physics awarded to C J Davisson & GP Thomson
1938 - German & Austrian Jewish suffer 1 billion Mark damage in nazi
1938 - Kristallnacht; Jews forced to wear Star of David
1939 - Kate Smith 1st sings Irving Berlin's "God Bless America"
1940 - Thousands of Paris students lay a wreath at the Grave of the Unknown Soldier
1940 - Blizzard strikes midwestern US killing over 100
1940 - British air attack destroys half of Italian fleet
1940 - Willys unveiled its General Purpose vehicle ("Jeep")
1941 - Czech premier general Eliasjarrested by nazis
1942 - -12] last German offensive in Stalingrad
1942 - 745 French Jews deported to Auschwitz
1942 - During WW II Germany completes their occupation of France
1942 - Jews in Free Zone of France ordered to wear yellow star of David
1942 - Lt-general Kumakashi Harada becomes Japanese commander on Java
1942 - Transport nr 45 departs with French Jews to Nazi-Germany
1943 - Spud Chandler wins AL MVP; Stan Musial wins NL MVP
1943 - US air raid on Rabaul
1944 - NY Rangers set NHL record of 25 games without a win (0-21-4)
1946 - NY Knicks' 1st game at Madison Sq Garden loses 78-68 to Chic Stags
1949 - WTTV TV channel 4 in Bloomington-Indianapol, IN (IND) 1st broadcast
1953 - Jimmy Dykes succeeds Marty Marion as Baltimore Orioles manager
1957 - Demolition begins on cable car barn at California & Hyde (SF)
1958 - "La Plume de Ma Tante" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 835 perfs
1958 - AL announces Kansas City will play AL record 52 night games in 1959
1959 - 1st episode of "Rocky & His Friends" airs
1959 - Seals Stadium in San Francisco, demolished
1960 - Largest NY Knick 49th St Madison Square Garden crowd-18,499
1961 - Adulterous couple up mestkar through Staphorst riding
1961 - Congolese soldiers murder 13 Italian UN pilots
1961 - Molotov, Malenkov & Kaganovitsj expelled from USSR's communist party
1961 - Stalingrad renamed Volgograd
1962 - Kuwait's National Assembly ratifies the Constitution of Kuwait.
1963 - Brian Epstein & Ed Sullivan sign a 3 show contract for Beatles
1963 - Gordie Howe ties Rocket Richard's lifetime 544 goal record
1964 - Murray Schisgal's "Luv," premieres in NYC
1965 - Heavyweight Cassius Clay KOs Floyd Patterson in Las Vegas
1965 - Rhodesia proclaimed independence from Britain by PM Ian Smith
1965 - William Alfred's "Hogan's Goat," premieres in NYC
1966 - Gemini 12 (Lovell & Aldrin) launched on 4-day flight
1966 - Methodist Church & Evangelical United Brethren Church unite as United Methodist Church
           (USA)
1966 - NASA launches spaceship Gemini 12.
1968 - John Lennon & Yoko Ono appear nude on cover of "2 Virgins" album
1968 - Maldives (in Indian Ocean) becomes a republic
1968 - Ron Hill sets record 10-mile run (46:44) at Leicester England
1969 - Beatles with Billy Preston release "Get Back" in UK
1969 - Jim Morrison arrested on an airplane by FBI for drunkeness
1970 - Balt Oriole Boog Powell wins AL MVP
1971 - Man-made earthslide at Kawasaki Japan, kills 15
1971 - Neil Simon's "Prisoner of Second Avenue" premieres in NYC
1972 - Dow Jones Index moves above 1,000 for 1st time
1972 - US Army turns over Long Bihn base to South Vietnamese army
1975 - Angola gains independence from Portugal (National Day)
1975 - Australian PM Gough Whitlam removed from office by Governor General Sir John Kerr (1st
           elected PM removed in 200 yrs)
1977 - Wings release "Mull of Kintyre" & "Girl's School"
1978 - Maumoon Abdul Gayoom becomes president of Maldives
1979 - Boston Court issues occupancy permit for Cambridge Buddhist Center
1980 - Crew of Soyuz 35 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 37
1980 - Islanders' Mike Bossy scores 4 goals against North Stars
1981 - "Oh, Brother!" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 3 performances
1981 - Fernando Valenzuela is 1st rookie ever to win a Cy Young Award
1982 - 30th time Islanders shut-out-2-0 vs North Stars
1982 - 5th space shuttle mission-Columbia 5-launched 1st coml flight
1982 - Gas explosion in Israeli army headquarters near Tyre; kills 60
1982 - Joe Altobelli succeeds retiring Earl Weaver as Oriole manager
1983 - 1st US cruise missiles arrive in Great Britain
1983 - President Reagan became 1st US president to address Japanese legislature
1983 - Wayne Phillips scores 159 on Test Cricket debut, v Pakistan at WACA
1984 - "Three Musketeers" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 9 performances
1985 - 1st AIDS theme TV movie - "An Early Frost"
1985 - Challenger flies back to Kennedy Space Center via Davis-Monthan AFB
1985 - Yonkers is found guilty of segregating schools & housing
1986 - Houston's Astro Mike Scott (18-10) wins NL Cy Young Award
1986 - Suriname government proclaims gold purification
1987 - "Roza" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 12 performances
1987 - Judge Anthony M Kennedy nominated to Supreme Court
1987 - Moscow party secretary Boris Jerusalem resigns
1987 - Roger Clemens wins consecutive Cy Young Awards
1987 - Van Gogh's "Irises" sells for record $53.6 M at auction
1988 - Oldest known insect fossils (390 million yrs) reported in Science
1989 - "Prince of Central Park" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 4 perfs
1989 - Sam's Town Bowling Invitational won by Tish Johnson
1990 - "Shadowlands" opens at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC for 169 perfs
1990 - Calif's Chuck Finley & Seattle's Randy Johnson combine to pitch a no-hitter in exhibition game
           between US & Japanese all-star teams
1992 - Anglican Church & Church of England OK female priests
1993 - Pope John Paul II hospitalized for 2 days for fractured shoulder
1994 - Bill Gates buys Leonardo da Vinci's "Codex" for $30,800,000
1994 - Progress M-25 launched to space station Mir
1996 - Braves' John Smoltz wins NL Cy Young Award
1997 - CBS News anchor Dan Rather renews his contract to 2002
1997 - Roger Clemens wins his 4th AL Cy Young Award
1997 - WNBA expands to Detroit & Washington DC
1999 - Last upside down date until January 1, 6000
2000 - In Kaprun, Austria, 155 skiers and snowboarders die when a cable car catches fire in an alpine
           tunnel.
2001 - Journalists Pierre Billaud, Johanne Sutton and Volker Handloik are killed in Afghanistan during
           an attack on the convoy they were traveling on top off.
2004 - New Zealand Tomb of the Unknown Warrior dedicated at the National War Memorial,
           Wellington.
2004 - Yasser Arafat is confirmed dead by the Palestine Liberation Organization, of unidentified
           causes. Mahmoud Abbas is elected chairman of the PLO minutes later.
2006 - The New Zealand war memorial monument was unveiled by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in
           London, United Kingdom, commemorating the loss of soldiers from the New Zealand Army
           and the British Army.
2008 - The RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2) set sail on her final voyage to Dubai.
2012 - 12 people are killed by a magnitude 6.8 earthquake in Burma

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 11, 2013, 04:39:55 PM

This Day in History for 11th November


Famous Weddings

1100 - Anglo Norman King Henry I marries Princess Matilda of Scotland at Westminster Abbey
1838 - Emma Wedgwood accepts Charles Darwin's marriage proposal (English Naturalist later author
           of Origin of the Species)
1860 - 1st Jewish wedding in Buenos Aires Argentina
1971 - Swedish director and writer Ingmar Bergman (53) weds actress Ingrid von Rosen (41)
1977 - "Three's Company" actress Suzanne Somers (30) weds host Alan Hamel (40)
2005 - Millionaire Nasir Khan weds "Footballers' Wives" actress Laila Rouass (34) in London
2006 - Dutch Formula One racer Christijan Albers (27) weds Liselore Kooijman at The Grand in
           Amsterdam
2011 - Actor and comedian Kenan Thompson (33) weds model Christina Evangeline at George
           Aquarium in Atlanta, Georgia
2011 - TV personality Kim Zolciak (33) weds Atlanta Falcons football player Kroy Biermann (26) in
           Roswell, Georgia
2011 - Sixteen-time Grammy Award-winning hit producer and songwriter David Foster (62) weds
           model Yolanda Hadid in Beverly Hills

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 11, 2013, 05:15:30 PM

This Day in History for 11th November


Famous Birthdays

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Physician/Alchemist                          Novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821)      US General George S. Patton (1885)
Paracelsus (1493)   

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Writer Kurt Vonnegut Jr (1922)              Actress Demi Moore (1962)


995 - Gisela of Swabia, Holy Roman Empire Empress (d. 1041)
1050 - Henry IV, Goslar, Kaiserpfalz, Holy Roman Emperor (1084–1105)
1154 - Sancho I, King of Portugal (1185-1212)
1155 - Alfonso VIII, the Noble One, king of Castilia
1220 - Alphonse of Toulouse, son of Louis VIII of France (d. 1271)
1493 - Bernardo Tasso, Italian poet (d. 1569)
1493 - Paracelsus, Switzerland, physician/alchemist (Zinc, laudanum), (d. 1541)
1523 - Joachim Hopperus, [Hoppers], Frisian lawyer/politician
1569 - Martin Ruland the Younger, German physician and alchemist (d. 1611)
1579 - Frans Snyders, Flemish animal painter
1599 - Ottavio Piccolomini, Italian/Spanish marshal
1633 - George Savile, 1st marquis of Halifax/author (Character of a Trimmer)
1636 - Yen Jo-chu, Chinese scholar of Ch'ing dynasty
1657 - Guido Starhemberg, Austria earl/fieldmarshal (Turkish Wars)
1668 - Johann Albert Fabricius, German scholar and bibliographer (d. 1736)
1675 - Guru Teg Bahadur Ji, 9th sikh guru
1679 - Firmin Abauzit, French huguenot/scientist
1688 - Lorenzo Somis, composer
1690 - Gerhard Hoffmann, composer
1696 - Andrea Zani, composer
1722 - Johann Philipp Sack, composer
1724 - Willem A Alting, governor-general of Neth-Indies (1780-97)
1731 - Carl Joseph Toeschi, composer
1736 - Johann H Schepp, German/Neth engraver
1743 - Carl Peter Thunberg, Swedish naturalist (d. 1828)
1744 - Abigail Smith Adams, 2nd 1st lady (1797-1801)
1748 - King Charles IV of Spain (d. 1819) Reigned 1788-1808
1767 - Bernhard Romberg, German cellist/composer/royal chaplain bandmaster
1771 - Ephraim McDowell, surgeon (pioneered abdominal surgery)
1788 - Michal Wielhorski, composer
1791 - Josef Munzinger, Swiss Federal Councillor (d. 1855)
1792 - Mary Anne Evans, English wife of Benjamin Disraeli (d. 1872)
1811 - Ben McCulloch, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1862
1821 - Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky, Russia, novelist (Crime & Punishment), (d. 1881)
1832 - Paolo Giorza, composer
1836 - Thomas Bailey Aldrich, US, author/editor (Story of a Bad Boy)
1852 - Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Austro-Hungarian field marshal (d. 1925)
1858 - Marie Bashkirtseff, Russian painter (d. 1884)
1863 - Paul Signac, French painter (d. 1935)
1864 - Alfred Hermann Fried, Germany, pacifist (Nobel 1911)
1868 - Edouard Vuillard, French painter/graphic artist
1869 - Victor Emmanuel III, King of Italy (1900-46)/Ethiopia
1869 - Gaetano Bresci, Italian-American anarchist (d. 1901)
1870 - Nils Kjaer, Norwegian playwright (Det evige Savn)
1872 - Maude K Adams, US, actress (Baldwin's Theatre)
1872 - David I. Walsh, 46th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1947)
1882 - King Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden (d. 1973)
1883 - Ernest Ansermet, Vevey Switzerland, conductor (Ruilles de Printemps)
1885 - George S Patton, San Gabriel, California, US general (Sicily/Italy/Normandy) "Old Blood &
           Guts", (d. 1945)
1887 - Roland Young, London England
1888 - Maulana Azad, 1st minister of education in independent India
1891 - Rabbit Maranville, American baseball player (d. 1954)
1893 - Alceu Amoroso Lima, Brazilian author
1894 - Aaron Avshalomov, composer
1894 - Winifred Kingston, England, silent screen actress (David Garrick)
1895 - Beulah Ecton Woodard, US sculptor
1895 - Jacov Gotovac, composer
1897 - Gordon W Allport, US, psychologist (personalities)
1898 - Father Hugo Enomiya-Lassalle, Germany, Jesuit priest/Zen teacher
1898 - Rene Clair, director (I Married a Witch, It Happened Tomorrow)
1899 - Harold "Pie" Traynor, baseball hall of fame 3rd baseman (Pirates)
1899 - Pat O'Brien, Milwaukee, actor (Knute Rockne, Angels with Dirty Faces)
1900 - Helena Konopacka, Poland, discus thrower (Olympic-gold-1928)
1900 - Hugh Scott, (Sen-R-Penn), minority whip
1900 - John Longden, West Indies, actor (Man From Interpol)
1901 - Sam Spiegel, producer (On the Waterfront, Bridge over River Kwai)
1901 - F. Van Wyck Mason, American author (d. 1978)
1903 - Charles Bruce Perry, professor of medicine
1904 - Alger Hiss, State Department official hid papers in a pumpkin
1904 - J. H. C. Whitehead, British mathematician (d. 1960)
1905 - Israel Aaron Maisels, lawyer
1909 - Robert Ryan, Chicago, actor (Billy Budd, Dirty Dozen, Longest Day)
1910 - Arnold D W Tilanus, Dutch MP (CHU)
1910 - Franz Kemser, Germany, 4 man bobsled (Olympic-gold-1952)
1910 - Frideswide Frances Emma Knight, musician/socialist
1910 - Yisrael Eldad, British extremist politician
1911 - Patric Knowles [Reginald Lawrence Knowles], Horsforth, Yorkshire, English actor (Chisum,
           Arnold, Mutiny)
1912 - Cissie Elizabeth Charlton, football matriarch
1912 - Thomas C. Mann, American diplomat (d. 1999)
1913 - German Leont'yevich Zhukovsky, composer
1913 - Peter Black, TV critic
1914 - Daisy Bates, publisher/head (Arkansas NAACP)
1914 - Hansje Toussaint, [Hermina A Schenk], singer (Sing of the Cross)
1914 - Howard Fast, NYC, screenwriter (Rachel & the Stranger, Spartacus)
1914 - Perry Bass, Texas billionaire
1914 - Henry Wade, American lawyer (d. 2001)
1915 - Bernhard Heiliger, sculptor
1915 - William Proxmire, (Sen-D-WI, 1957-88) (Golden Fleece Awards)
1916 - Eladio Rusconi, writer/publisher/businessman
1917 - Julien-Francois Zbinden, composer
1917 - [Dallas] Mack/McCord Reynolds, US, sci-fi author (Earth War)
1918 - Jurg Baur, composer
1918 - Stubby Kaye, NYC, actor (Guys & Dolls, Lil' Abner, Cat Ballou)
1919 - Kalle Päätalo, Finnish novelist (d. 2000)
1920 - Roy Jenkins, British MP (Labour)
1921 - Terrell Bell, American politician (d. 1996)
1922 - Kurt Vonnegut Jr, Ind, author (Slaughterhouse Five, Sirens of Titan)
1924 - Piet J A van der Sanden, Dutch MP (CDA)
1924 - Rusi Modi, cricketer (strong Indian batsman in post-War years)
1925 - Jonathan Winters, Dayton OH, comedian (J Winters Show, Mork & Mindy), (d. 2013)
1925 - June Whitfield, British comedian
1926 - Harry Lumley, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1998)
1926 - Richard Tufeld, Los Angeles, California, voice actor (Lost in Space), (d. 2012)
1927 - Lord Wolfson, English multi-millionaire
1927 - Mose Allison, Tippo Mississippi, jazz artist (Black Country Suite)
1928 - Arthur Cunningham, composer
1928 - Edward Zorinsky, (Sen-D-NB, 1976-88)
1928 - Ernestine Anderson, jazz vocalist
1928 - Trevor Meale, cricketer (batted in 2 Tests NZ v England 1958)
1928 - Carlos Fuentes, Panama City, Panama, author (The Death of Artemio Cruz), (d. 2012)
1928 - Gracita Morales, Spanish actress (d. 1995)
1929 - H M Enzensberger, writer
1929 - LaVern Baker, Chicago, R&B vocalist (I Cried a Tear)
1930 - Kenneth Fleetwood, fashion designer
1930 - Hank Garland, American guitar virtuoso (d. 2004)
1930 - Hugh Everett, American physicist (d. 1982)
1930 - Vernon Handley, English conductor
1931 - Fortney H [Pete] Stark, (Rep-D-CA, 1973- )
1932 - Al Levitt, drummer
1934 - Bibi Andersson, Sweden, actress (Scenes From a Marriage)
1934 - Elzbieta Krzesinska, Poland, long jumper (Olympic-gold-1956)
1934 - Paula Myers-Pope, US, platform diver, 2 silver, 1 bronze (Oly 1952-60)
1934 - Jim Perry, American and Canadian television host
1936 - Susan Kohner, LA CA, actress (Imitation of Life, Gene Krupa Story)
1937 - Buddy Jimmy Lee Land Ace, singer
1937 - Warner Wolf, Wash DC, sportscaster (WABC-TV, WCBS-TV)
1937 - Stephen Lewis, Canadian politician and diplomat
1938 - Narvel Felts, country singer
1938 - John Reilly, Chicago, actor (Sean-General Hospital, Dallas, Hamptons)
1938 - Josef Odozil, Czech, 1500m (Olympic-silver-1964)
1938 - Roger Laver, [Jackson], rock keyboardist (Tornados)
1938 - Haruhiro Yamashita, Japanese gymnast
1939 - Claudia Boyarskikh, USSR, 5K/10K cross country (Olympic-gold-1964)
1939 - Denise Alexander, actress (Mary McKinnon-Another World)
1940 - Barbara Boxer, (Rep-D-CA, 1983-92/Sen-D-CA, 1993- )
1942 - Roy Fredericks, cricketer (brilliant WI lefty opener 169 v Aust 1975)
1943 - Chas Hodges, rocker
1943 - Jan Adamski, Poland, International Chess Master (1976)
1943 - Karin Kent, [Janneke Kanteman], Dutch singer
1944 - Kemal Sunal,Turkish actor
1945 - Chris Dreja, London, rocker (Yardbirds)
1945 - Daniel Ortega Saavedra, president of Nicaragua (1984-90)
1945 - Denise Alexander, NYC, actress (General Hospital, Another World)
1945 - Niaz Ahmed, cricketer (1st & last East Pakistani to play Test cricket)
1945 - Vince Martell, NYC, rock guitarist (Vanilla Fudge)
1946 - Chip Hawkes, rocker
1946 - Corrine Brown, (Rep-D-Florida)
1946 - Vladimir Alekseyevich Soloviyov, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-10, T-15, TM-10)
1947 - Brad Lee Sexton, bass guitarist
1947 - Callum Alexander MacDonald, historian
1947 - Pat "Dirty" Daugherty, rocker (Black Oak Arkansas)
1948 - Vincent Schiavelli, actor (Playroom, Waiting for the Light)
1949 - Kathy Postlewait, Norfolk VA, LPGA golfer (1989 Sara Lee)
1950 - Jim Peterik, rocker (Survivor)
1950 - Otis Armstrong, NFL running back (Denver Broncos)
1950 - Rex Samuel Sellers, Auckland NZ, Tornado class yachter (Olympics-96)
1950 - Mircea Dinescu, Romanian poet
1950 - Ed Ordynski, Australian rally driver
1950 - Rudy Sarzo, Cuban bass guitarist
1951 - Fuzzy [Frank] Zoeller, New Albany IN, PGA golfer (Masters 1981)
1951 - Kim Peek, American megasavant
1952 - Paul Cowsill, Newport RI, rock keyboardist (Cowsills-We Can Fly)
1953 - Andy Partridge, English rock vocalist/guitarist (XTC-Oranges & Lemons)
1953 - Kostas Skandalidis, Greek politician
1954 - Gail Marquis, WBL forward (NY Stars, Olympic-silver-1976)
1954 - Mary Gaitskill, American novelist
1955 - Jigme Singye Wangchuk, king of Bhutan (1972- )
1956 - Billy Smith, Reidsville NC, country singer (Billy & Terry Smith)
1956 - Ian Craig Marsh, England, rocker (Heaven 17-Electric Dreams)
1958 - Luz Casal, Spanish singer
1958 - Carlos Lacamara, Cuban-born American Actor
1959 - Vincent Irizarry, Queens NY, actor (Guiding Light, Santa Barbara)
1959 - Lee Haney, American bodybuilder
1960 - Lisa Welch Semler, Aberdeen Md, playmate (Sep, 1980)
1960 - Peter Parros, American actor
1960 - Stanley Tucci, American actor and director
1961 - Matt Ghaffari, Tehran Iran, US greco-roman wrestler (Oly-sil-92, 96)
1961 - Steve Young, NFL quarterback (SF 49ers)
1962 - Demi Moore, [Guynes], Roswell NM, actress (Ghost, Striptease, GI Jane)
1962 - Mic Michaeli, Swedish keyboardist
1962 - James Morrison, Australian musician
1963 - Vinnie Testaverde, NFL quarterback (Tampa Bay Buckineers)
1964 - Jon Hough, Royal Oak MI, Nike golfer (1986 NAIA Individual Natl Champ)
1964 - Philip McKeon, Westbury NY, actor (Tommy-Alice, Return to Horror High)
1964 - Robert Haynes, cricketer (Jamaica & WI leggie, one-dayer but no Tests)
1964 - Roberto Hernandez, Santurce Puerto Rico, pitcher (Chicago White Sox)
1964 - Calista Flockhart, American actress
1964 - Anabel Alonso, Spanish actress
1965 - Brian Wilson, NYC, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
1965 - Ruthie Matthes, Sun Valley Idaho, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1965 - Max Mutchnick, American TV writer and producer
1966 - Benedicta Boccoli, Milan Italy
1966 - Gina Pillitiere, Akron Oh, WPVA volleyballer (National-25th-1994)
1967 - Bill Musgrave, NFL quarterback (Denver Broncos)
1967 - Gil de Ferran, Brazilian race car driver
1968 - Jo Kittsee, Germany, rocker (Fuzzbox-Into Rescue)
1968 - John Jett, NFL punter (Dallas Cowboys, Detroit Lions)
1968 - Lin Elliott, NFL kicker (KC Chiefs)
1968 - Wyatt Pauley, Ecuador, rocker (Linear-I Never Felt This Way, Lies)
1968 - David L Cook, American singer and comedian
1969 - Damion Easley, NYC, infielder (California Angels)
1969 - Dave Moore, NFL tight end/fullback (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1969 - Jeff Sydner, NFL wide receiver/punt returner (NY Jets)
1969 - LaRee Pearl Sugg, Petersburg VA, LPGA golfer (1995 Hawaiian-15th)
1969 - Michael Owens, cricket pace bowler (NZ Test)
1969 - Carson Kressley, American television personality
1970 - Derry Brownson, rock keyboardist (EMF-Unbelievable)
1970 - Jeff Ware, Norfolk VA, pitcher (Toronto Blue Jays)
1970 - Lee Parkin Starsky, daughter of Ringo
1970 - Lee Battersby, Australian author
1971 - Melvin Tuten, NFL tackle (Cin Bengals)
1971 - Ryan Hancock, Santa Clara CA, pitcher (California Angels)
1971 - Jennifer Celotta, American TV producer and writer
1971 - Paul Chaloner, English TV e-sports commentator
1972 - Cornell Thomas, WLAF DE (Scotland Claymores)
1972 - Jack Jackson, NFL/CFL wide receiver (Chic Bears, Toronto Argonauts)
1972 - Steve Konowalchuk, Salt Lake City, NHL center (Washington Capitals)
1972 - Adam Beach, Canadian actor
1972 - Leslie Mann, American actress
1973 - Jason Bowen, Port Alice, NHL defenseman (Phila Flyers)
1973 - Stacy Perrone, Wolcott Conn, Meet Miss America-Connecticut (1997)
1973 - Terrance Shaw, NFL cornerback (San Diego Chargers)
1974 - Leonardo DiCaprio, LA, actor (Luke-Growing Pains, Romeo & Juliet)
1974 - Phillip Ward, linebacker (Indianapolis Colts)
1974 - Static Major, American singer (d. 2008)
1976 - Lisa Gleave, American actress and model
1976 - Jason Grilli, American baseball player
1976 - Jesse Keeler, Canadian musician
1977 - Maniche, Portuguese footballer
1977 - Ben Hollioake, English cricketer (d. 2002)
1978 - Lou Vincent, New Zealand cricketer
1980 - Willie Parker, American football player
1981 - Natalie Glebova, Miss Universe 2005
1981 - Guillaume, Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg
1982 - Lil' Dave, [Davis Shelton], Boston Mass, rapper (Another Bad Creation)
1982 - Brittny Gastineau, American socialite
1983 - Philipp Lahm, German footballer
1983 - Matt Garza, American baseball player
1985 - Jessica Sierra, American Idol season 4 finalist
1985 - Robin Uthappa, Indian cricket player
1986 - François Trinh-Duc, French rugby player
1987 - Yuya Tegoshi, Japanese Idol (member of NEWS and Tegomass)
1988 - Alexandra Kyle, American actress
1989 - Reina Tanaka, Japanese pop singer
1991 - Christa B. Allen, American actress
1992 - Trey Smith, American actor

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 11, 2013, 05:18:03 PM

This Day in History for 11th November


Famous Deaths

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Palestinian Leader
Yasser Arafat (2004)


307 - Flavius Valerius Severus, compassionate emperor of Rome (306-07), dies
397 - Martinus, (St Maarten), Roman bishop of Tours, dies at about 81
405 - Arsacius, intruding archbishop of Constantinople
511 - Clovis, king of Salische France/founder of Merovingische, dies at 45
826 - Theodore the Studite, Byzantine theologist/poet/saint, dies
865 - Petronas the Patrician, Byzantine General
1150 - Hartbert, bishop of Utrecht (1140-50), dies
1331 - Stefanus VIII Uros III Decanski, king of Serbia (1322-31), dies
1528 - Lucas van Prague, Czech leader of Bohemian Brothers, dies at about 68
1623 - Philippe de Mornay, French writer (b. 1549)
1638 - Cornelis Cornelisz, "of Haarlem", painter, dies at about 76
1641 - Ferdinand van Austrian, cardinal of Spain, dies
1686 - Otto von Guericke, German scientist, inventor, and politician (b. 1602)
1755 - Johan van de Bergh, Leids regent, dies at 91
1772 - John Mauritius Quinkhard, portrait painter, dies at 84
1810 - Johann/John Zoffany, German painter (Tribuna degl' Uffizi), dies at 77
1812 - Platon Levshin, Metropoitan of Moscow (b. 1737)
1831 - Nat Turner, former slave, led a violent insurrection, hanged with 19 associates in VA
1855 - Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher (b. 1813)
1861 - Pedro V van Alcantara, King of Portugal (1853-61), dies at 24
1862 - James Madison Porter, American politician (b. 1793)
1880 - Lucretia Mott, US quaker (1st Woman's Rights Convention), dies
1884 - Alfred Brehm German zoologist (b. 1827)
1887 - Haymarket defenda
1895 - Julius Tausch, composer, dies at 68
1901 - Antonio Zamara, composer, dies at 72
1907 - Henry Gadsby, composer, dies at 64
1912 - Joseph Wieniawski, composer, dies at 75
1912 - Jose Canalejas Y Mendez, premier Spain, murdered
1917 - Liliuokalani, last queen of Hawaii (1891-93), dies from a stroke at 79
1918 - Victor Adler, Austrian neurologist/foreign minister, dies
1918 - George Lawrence Price, Canadian soldier, last person to be killed in W.W.I. (b. 1892)
1929 - Mieczyslaw Soltys, composer, dies at 66
1930 - W W Whysall, cricketer (4 Tests for England 1924-30), dies
1931 - Shibusawa Eiichi, Japanese industrialist (b. 1840)
1936 - Edward German, composer, dies at 74
1938 - Typhoid Mary, carrier of the typhoid disease (b. 1869)
1939 - Jan Opletal, Czech student, victim of Nazi violence in Prague
1942 - Anton H Blaauw, botanist (Perception of the Lichtes), dies at 60
1942 - Hector Abbas, actor/director (Rosa Lynd Company), dies at 58
1945 - Jerome Kern, US composer (Sally, Leave it to Jane), dies at 60
1947 - Martin Dibelius, German theologist (That Drawer Jahwes), dies at 64
1954 - John Rosamund Johnson, composer, dies at 81
1955 - John Loudon, Dutch minister of Foreign affairs (1913-18), dies at 87
1956 - Victor Young, orchestra leader (Milton Berle Show), dies at 56
1962 - Joseph Allen Jr, actor (All Women Have Secrets), dies at 44
1962 - René Coty, pres of France, dies at 80
1964 - Edward Steuermann, composer, dies at 72
1964 - H[enry] Beam Piper, US, sci-fi author (4 Day Planet), dies at 60
1965 - Gaston Glass, actor (Opening Your Eyes), dies after long illness at 65
1967 - Harry Seymour, composer/actor (Tenderfoot), dies of heart attack at 76
1967 - Jordan Whitfield, actor (Swamp Fox), dies of heart attack at 50
1968 - Jeanne Demessieux, composer, dies at 47
1969 - Frank Newburg, actor (Homemaker), dies at 83
1972 - Berry Oakley, US rock bassist (Allman Bro), dies in car crash at 24
1973 - Stringbean, [David Akeman], banjoist/comedian (Hee Haw), dies at 58
1974 - Alfonso Leng, composer, dies at 80
1974 - Jane Ace, comedian (Easy Aces), dies at 74
1975 - Marty May, (Fireball Fun For All), dies at 79
1976 - Alexander Calder, US sculptor, dies at 78
1976 - E Q Davies, cricketer (9 runs & 7 wickets in 5 Tests for S Afr), dies
1977 - Greta Keller, Vienna-born cabaret singer and actress (b. 1903)
1977 - Abraham Sarmiento, Jr., Filipino journalist & political activist (b. 1950)
1979 - Dimitri Tiomkin, Ukrainian-born composer (b. 1894)
1984 - Martin Luther King Sr, US vicar/father of MLK Jr, dies at 84
1984 - Jan Novak, composer, dies at 63
1986 - Roger C Carmel, actor (Mudd-Star Trek, Mothers-in-Law), dies at 54
1987 - L T Coggeshall, medical scientist (Sec of HEW 1956-58), dies at 86
1987 - Nico Slothouwer, poet (Liefdesstratenplan), commits suicide at 30
1988 - William Ifor Jones, Welsh conductor & organist (b. 1900)
1990 - Attilio Demaría, Argentinian footballer (b. 1909)
1990 - Alexis Minotis, Greek actor (b. 1898)
1992 - Aleksandr Yakovlevich Petrushenko, cosmonaut, dies at 50
1992 - Giulio C Argan, Italian art critic/mayor of Rome, dies
1993 - Erskine Hawkins, US trumpeter/composer (After Hours), dies at 79
1993 - Harry R "Rob" Haldeman, White House chief of staff (Nixon), dies at 67
1994 - Elizabeth Lefanu Maconchy, Engl composer (My Dark Heart), dies at 87
1994 - Ernest Clark, actor (Pope Must Die, Gandhi), dies at 82
1994 - Frances Tustin, child Psychologist, dies at 81
1994 - Pedro Zamora, aIDS Activist, dies at 22
1994 - John A. Volpe, 61st and 63rd Governor of Massachusetts, 2nd United States Secretary of
           Transportation (b. 1908)
1995 - Charles Scribner Jr, publisher, dies at 74
1995 - Cornelie Coposu, politician, dies at 79
1995 - Kenneth Goldstein, folklorist/enthomusicologist, dies at 68
1996 - Helen Rosenthal, Teacher/health administrator, dies at 47
1997 - Rodney Milburn, American athlete (b. 1950)
1998 - Frank Brimsek, American ice hockey player (b. 1913)
1999 - Jacobo Timmerman, Argentine writer and journalist (b. 1923)
1999 - Mary Kay Bergman, American voice actress (b. 1961)
2004 - Yasser Arafat, co-founder and Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization,
           revolutionary and nobel prize winner dies in Paris at 75
2004 - Richard Dembo, French director and screenwriter (b. 1948)
2005 - Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield, British photographer (b. 1939)
2005 - Peter Drucker, American management theorist (b. 1909)
2005 - Moustapha Akkad, Syrian-American film producer and director (b. 1930)
2006 - Belinda Emmett, Australian actress (b. 1974)
2006 - Harry Lehotsky, pastor and activist (b. 1957)
2008 - Herb Score, American baseball player (b. 1933)
2009 - Dhanpat Rai Nahar, Indian labour leader (b. 1919)
2010 - Baby Marie Osborne, American actress (b. 1911)
2010 - William Edwin Self, American actor and television producer (b. 1921)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 12, 2013, 04:53:37 PM

This Day in History for 12th November


Historical Events

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Naval Officer and Explorer          Russian Revolutionary Leon Trotsky (1821)     Nazi Politician Hermann Goering
Robert Scott 

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First Israeli Prime Minister                    Musician & member of the Beatles    Computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee
 David Ben-Gurion                                              Paul McCartney


295 - Origin of Era of Ascension
764 - Tibetan troops occupy Chang'an, the capital of the Chinese Tang Dynasty, for fifteen days.
954 - Lotharius becomes king of France
1439 - Plymouth, England, becomes the first town incorporated by the English Parliament.
1555 - The English Parliament re-establishes Catholicism.
1591 - Castiliaans army occupies Zaragoza
1614 - Treaty of Xanten: Guliks-Kleefse War victory ends
1673 - Dutch troops under Willem III occupy Bonn
1682 - Swedish king Karel XI establishes absolute monarchy
1727 - France & Bavaria renew secret treaty
1775 - General Washington forbids recruiting officers enlisting blacks
1793 - Jean Sylvain Bailly, the first Mayor of Paris, is guillotined.
1813 - Allied troops occupy Zwolle Neth
1823 - Great North Holland Canal (Amsterdam) opens
1847 - Sir James Young Simpson, a British physician, is the first to use chloroform as an anaesthetic.
1859 - Jules Leotard performs 1st Flying Trapeze circus act (Paris) He also designed garment that
           bears his name
1873 - Bay District Race Track opens
1885 - Montreal & Britannia Football Clubs (QRFU) defeat Ontario Combined Team (ORFU) 3-0 in
           CRFU Championship game
1892 - Pudge Heffelfinger receives $500, becomes 1st pro football player
1892 - Allegheny Athletic Association beats Pitts Athletic CLub, 4-0 in football
1893 - The treaty of the Durand Line is signed between present day Pakistan and Afghanistan - the
           Durand Line has gained international recognition as an international border between the two
           sister nations.
1899 - British troops reach Durban Natal
1900 - World's Fair in Paris opens (50 million visitors)
1905 - (November 12 & November 13) Norway holds a referendum in favor of monarchy over
           republic.
1906 - C W Gregory (NSW v Qld) starts day at 48*, is 366* at stumps
1910 - 1st Movie stunt: man jumps into Hudson river from a burning balloon
1912 - Robert Scott's diary & dead body found in Antarctica
1914 - Turks sultan Jamal Pasja declares a German holy war
1915 - Britain annexes Gilbert & Ellice archipelago
1915 - Theodore W Richards is 1st American to win Nobel Prize in chemistry
1918 - Emperor Karl of Austria-Hungary abdicates, Austria becomes a republic
1919 - Ross & Keith Smith start a 1 month flight from London to Australia
1920 - Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis elected 1st baseball commissioner
1921 - Washington Conference for Limitation of Armaments
1922 - The Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority is founded on the campus of Butler University in Indianapolis,
           Indiana.
1923 - In Germany, Adolf Hitler is arrested for attempt to sieze power Nov 8
1924 - Yeshivah Slobodka opens a branch in Chevron
1925 - US & Italy sign peace accord about war debts
1927 - 1st underwater tunnel, Holland Tunnel connecting NY to NJ opens
1927 - Notre Dame's Fighting Irish changes blue jerseys for green
1927 - Trotsky expelled from Soviet CP; Stalin becomes undisputed dictator
1928 - British steamer "Vestris" capsizes & sinks off Virginia, kills 110
1931 - Maple Leaf Gardens opens in Toronto - Chic Blackhawks beat Leafs, 2-1
1931 - Sibelius/Ashton's ballet "Lady of Shalott," premieres in London
1932 - 24 killed at Lancashire mine explosion
1933 - 1st Sunday football game in Philadelphia (previously illegal)
1933 - 1st game at NFL Pitts Pirate's Forbes Field, lose to Bkln Dodgers 32-0
1933 - 1st known photo of Loch Ness monster (or whatever) is taken
1933 - Nazis receive 92% of vote in Germany
1936 - 1st TV Gardening show
1936 - Nobel for literature awarded to Eugene O'Neill
1936 - Oakland Bay Bridge opens
1936 - St Louis Browns sold to Donald L Barnes & William O DeWitt
1938 - Hermann Goering announces he wants Madagascar as a Jewish homeland
1939 - Jews in Lodz Poland ordered to wear yellow star of David
1940 - Blizzard strikes midwest, 154 die (69 on boat on Great Lakes)
1941 - Germany's drive to take Moscow halted
1941 - WOV-AM & WNEW-AM in NYC swaps call letters
1942 - In World War II, battle of Guadalcanal began
1943 - Landwacht (NSB-political party) forms in Netherlands
1944 - RAF sink German battleship "Tirpitz" at Tromso Fjord Norway
1945 - Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Cordell Hull (establishing UN)
1946 - 1st "autobank" (banking by car) forms (Chicago)
1946 - Walt Disney's "Song Of South" released
1946 - A branch of the Exchange National Bank in Chicago, Illinois opens the first ten drive-up teller
           windows.
1947 - KPO-AM in San Francisco CA changes call letters to KNBC (now KNBR)
1947 - Schilderijenvervalser Han of Meegeren to 1 years jail sentenced
1948 - Japanese premier Hideki Tojo sentenced to death by war crimes tribunal
1950 - Gene Roberts sets NFL NY Giant rushing record (218 yds) vs Chic Cards
1951 - "Paint Your Wagon" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 289 performances
1952 - Phila A's pitcher Bobby Shantz wins AL MVP
1952 - White Sox place Jim Rivera on 1 year probation after cleared of rape
1953 - David Ben-Gurion, resigns as Prime Minister of Israel
1953 - US district Judge Grim, rules NFL can black out TV home games
1954 - Ellis Island, immigration station in NY Harbor, closed
1955 - 1st West German officers sworn in
1955 - E Arcaro, E Sande & G Woolf 1st inductees in Jockey hall of fame
1956 - Largest observed iceberg, 208 by 60 miles, 1st sighted
1958 - Bob Turley of Yankees wins Cy Young Award
1959 - White Sox 2B Nellie Fox wins AL's MVP
1960 - Coup against South Vietnam pres Ngo Dinh Diem fails
1960 - Mercury-Redstone 1 test launch fails at 10 cm altitude
1963 - Train crash in Japan, kills 164
1964 - Jean becomes Grand Duke of Luxembourg
1964 - Paula Murphy sets female land speed record 226.37 MPH
1965 - Ferdinand Marcos elected president of Philippines
1965 - General strike in Morocco against disappearance of Ben Barka
1965 - Mad Dog Vachon beats Crusher in Denver, to become NWA champ
1965 - Venera 2 launched by Soviet Union toward Venus
1966 - Dick The Bruiser beats Mad Dog Vachon in Omaha, to become NWA champ
1966 - Dodgers complete an 18-game tour of Japan with a 9-8-1 record
1966 - High schooler Robert Smith kills 7 for fame
1967 - Margie Masters wins LPGA Quality Chekd Golf Classic
1967 - Packers' Travis Williams returns 2 kickoffs for TDs against Browns, setting largest margin of
           Browns defeat (48), winning 55-7
1968 - KSEL (now KAMC) TV channel 28 in Lubbock, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
1968 - Supreme Court declares Arkansas law banning teaching evolution in public schools
           unconstitutional
1969 - Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from Soviet Writers Union
1969 - Minnesota's Harmon Killebrew is voted AL MVP
1969 - US army announces investigating William Calley for alleged massacre of civilians at Vietnamese
           village of My Lai in March, 19
1969 - WJJY (now WJPT) TV channel 14 in Jacksonville, IL (ABC) 1st broadcast
1970 - 240 KPH cyclone hits East Pakistan (Bangladesh); 3-500,000 die
1970 - Cleveland Cavaliers 1st NBA victory (11th game), beating Portland 105-103
1970 - Scientists perform 1st artificial synthesis of a live cell
1973 - Dmitri Shostakovitch' 14th String Quartet premieres
1974 - South Africa suspended from UN General Assembly over racial policies
1975 - NY Mets Tom Seaver wins his 3rd Cy Young Award
1975 - Supreme Court Justice William O Douglas retired after 36 years
1977 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1977 - New Orleans elects 1st black mayor, Ernest "Dutch" Morial
1978 - "Platinum" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 33 performances
1978 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Colgate Far East Golf Open
1979 - Pres Carter announces immediate halt to all imports of Iranian oil
1979 - Tony Franklin of Philadelphia Eagles kicks 59-yard field goal
1979 - US halts Iranian oil imports & freezes Iranian assets
1980 - Baltimore's Steve Stone wins AL Cy Young Award
1980 - NYC Mayor Ed Koch admits to trying marijuana
1980 - US space probe Voyager I approaches 77,000-mi (124,000 km) of Saturn
1981 - 1st balloon crossing of Pacific is completed (Double Eagle V)
1981 - 2nd shuttle mission-1st time spacecraft launched twice (Columbia 2)
1981 - Bill C Davis' "Mass Appeal," premieres in NYC
1981 - Billy Martin named AL Manager of Year (Oakland A's)
1981 - Great Britain performs nuclear test
1981 - Pilin Leon of Venezuela, crowned 31st Miss World
1982 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1982 - USSR KGB-chief Yuri V Andropov succeeds Leonid Brezhnev as USSR leader
1982 - Zaheer Abbas gets his 100th 100 in Test Cricket v India, goes to 215
1983 - 4 die in a train crash in Marshall Texas
1983 - NJ Devils 1st overtime game, lose to Calgary Flames 4-3
1984 - Paul McCartney releases "We All Stand Together"
1984 - Space shuttle astronauts snared a satellite 1st space salvage
1985 - R Hadlee takes 15-123 for Cricket match v Australia at Brisbane
1985 - STS 61-B vehicle moves to launch pad
1985 - Secretary in Ann Arbor Mich wounded by package bomb
1985 - Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Cozzene, Life's Magic, Pebbles, Precisionist, Proud
           Truth, Tasso, Twilight Ridge at Aqueduct
1986 - France performs nuclear test
1986 - Roger Clemens wins AL Cy Young Award unanimously
1987 - "Teddy & Alice" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 77 performances
1987 - Heavy snow closes schools from DC to Maine
1987 - Ulla Weigerstorfer of Austria, 20, crowned 37th Miss World
1988 - Japan beats MLB All-Star team 5-4 in Tokyo (Game 6 of 7)
1988 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1989 - "Grand Hotel" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 1018 performances
1989 - Brazil holds 1st free presidential election in 29 years
1989 - George Forest's musical "Grand Hotel," premieres in NYC
1990 - Crown Prince Akihito is formally installed as Emperor Akihito of Japan, becoming the 125th
           Japanese monarch.
1990 - Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.
1991 - "Full House" 100th episode-twins are born
1991 - Atlanta Brave Tom Glavine wins NL Cy Young Award
1991 - Indonesian army shoots on funeral possession: 270-520 die
1991 - Dili Massacre, Indonesian forces open fire on a crowd of student protesters in Dili, East Timor.
1992 - NY Yankee pitcher Steve Howe is reinstated for 8th time
1995 - 25th NYC Women's Marathon won by Tegla Loroupe in 2:28:06
1995 - 26th NYC Marathon won by German Silva in 2:10:00
1995 - Last day of Test cricket for Martin Crowe
1995 - Marino breaks Tarkenton's NFL all-time passing yardage mark of 47,003
1995 - NY MTA raises subway & bus fares from $1.25 to $1.50
1995 - STS 74 (Atlantis 15), launches into orbit
1996 - Toronto's Pat Hentgen wins AL Cy Young Award
1997 - Dick Vitale signs with ESPN through year 2004
1997 - Pedro Martinez wins NL Cy Young Award
1998 - NY Islanders tie Detroit Red Wings 1-1, to end 10 game losing streak
1998 - Then Vice President of the United States Al Gore symbolically signs the Kyoto Protocol.
1999 - The Düzce earthquake strikes Turkey with a magnitude of 7.2 on the Richter scale.
2001 - 2001 Attack on Afghanistan: Taliban forces abandon Kabul, Afghanistan, ahead of advancing
           Afghan Northern Alliance troops.
2001 - In New York City, American Airlines Flight 587, an Airbus A300 on its way to the Dominican
           Republic, crashes minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all
           260 on board and five on the ground.
2003 - With 501 km/h (311 mph) Shanghai Transrapid sets up a new world record for commercial
           railway systems.
2003 - Iraq war: In Nasiriya, Iraq, at least 23 people, among them the first Italian casualties of the
           2003 Iraq war are killed in a suicide bomb attack on an Italian police base.
2006 - The former Soviet republic of South Ossetia holds a referendum on independence from
           Georgia.
2011 - Silvio Berlusconi resigns as Prime Minister of Italy due, in large part, to the European
           sovereign debt crisis.
2012 - Into the Silence by Wade Davis wins the 2012 Samuel Johnson Prize

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 12, 2013, 04:55:17 PM

This Day in History for 12th November


Famous Weddings

1028 - Future Byzantine empress Zoe marries Romanus Argyrus according to the wishes of the
           dying Constantine VIII.
1656 - English Poet and author of epic "Paradise Lost" John Milton (47) marries 2nd wife Katherine
           Woodcock
1969 - Director Blake Edwards (47) weds "The Sound of Music" actress Julie Andrews (34) in Beverly
           Hills
2005 - Businessman Donald Trump Jr. (27) weds model Vanessa Haydon at the Mar-A-Lago estate in
           Palm Beach, Florida
2011 - Actress Tiffany Thornton (26) weds Christopher Carney at Anthony Chapel in Hot Springs,
           Arkansas

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 12, 2013, 05:03:28 PM

This Day in History for 12th November


Famous Birthdays

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Sculptor Auguste Rodin (1840)                Physicist and Nobel Laureate                     Actress Grace Kelly (1929)
                                                               John W Rayleigh (1841)


1493 - Bartolomeo Bandinelli, Italian sculptor (d. 1560)
1528 - Qi Jiguang, Chinese general (d. 1588)
1547 - Claude of Valois, French princess (d. 1575). 2nd daughter of King Henry II of France and
           Catherine de' Medici.
1606 - Jeanne Mance, French Canadian settler (d. 1673)
1615 - Richard Baxter, English clergyman (d. 1691)
1651 - Juana Ines de La Cruz, Mexico, poet/nun/feminist (Primero Sueno)
1676 - Giovanni Antonio Pollarolo, composer
1729 - Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French explorer (d. 1811)
1748 - Carlos IV, King of Spain (1788-1808)
1755 - Gerhard JD von Scharnhorst, Prussia milt/minister of War (1807-10)
1757 - Jacobus Bellamy, [Zelandus], Zealand poet
1790 - Letitia Christian Tyler, 1st wife of President Tyler
1815 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Johnstown NY, women's rights activist
1817 - Carlo Pedrotti, composer
1817 - Martin Gustav Nottebohm, composer
1817 - Bahá'u'lláh, Prophet Founder of the Bahá'í Faith (d. 1892)
1827 - Gustav Adolf Merkel, composer
1831 - Anton Kerner Ritter von Marilaun, Austria botanist
1833 - Aleksandr Porfirievich Borodin, Russia, composer (Robert LeDiable)
1840 - Auguste Rodin, Meudon, France, sculptor (Kiss, Thinker), (d. 1917)
1841 - John W Rayleigh, Malden, England, physicist (discovery of argon - Nobel 1904), (d. 1919)
1844 - Octave Fouque, composer
1848 - Eduard Müller, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1919)
1850 - Mikhail Chigorin, Russian chess player (d. 1908)
1853 - Oskar Panizza, writer
1858 - Alexis Contant, composer
1865 - Frans L M "Sas" van Aerschot, Flemish operetta actor (Paljas)
1866 - Sun Yat-sen, father of modern China (ROC & PRC) (traditional)
1881 - Olev Siinmaa, Estonian architect (d. 1948)
1881 - Maximilian von Weichs, German field marshal (d. 1954)
1886 - Leonardus G Kortenhorst, Dutch MP (KVP)
1886 - Ben Travers, British playwright (d. 1980)
1889 - DeWitt Wallace, St Paul Minn, publisher, founded Readers Digest (1921)
1890 - Lily Kronberger, Hungarian figure skater (d. 1974)
1896 - Salim Ali, Indian ornithologist (d. 1987)
1897 - Karl Marx, Germany, composer/conductor
1898 - Abraham J D van Oosten, Dutch poet/author (His Master's Voice)
1898 - Leon Štukelj, Slovene gymnast (d. 1999)
1903 - Jack Oakie, Sedalia Mo, actor (Great Dictator, 1974 Photoplay Award)
1905 - Evgeny Grigor'yevich Bruslovsky, composer
1905 - Solon Michaelides, composer
1908 - Hans Werner Richter, German author (Socially Responsible Cinema)
1908 - Harry A Blackmun, Ill, 100th Supreme Court justice (1970-94)
1908 - Shamus Culhane, animator
1908 - Amon Göth, commandant of Nazi concentration camp (d. 1946)
1910 - A "Dudley" Nourse, cricketer (son of Dave, brilliant South African bat)
1911 - Luc Estang, [Lucien Bastard], French writer (Stigmates)
1911 - William Thomas Pennar Davies, poet author/theologian
1911 - Buck Clayton, American jazz trumpet player (d. 1991)
1912 - Alphonse [Tuffy] Leemans, NFL fullback (NY Giants)
1914 - Edward "Henricus" Schillebeeckx, Dutch theologist
1914 - Roberto Cavanagh, Argentina, polo (Olympic-gold-1936)
1914 - Sylvi Saimo, Finland, 500m kayak (Olympic-gold-1952)
1915 - Roland Barthes, French literary critic (L'Empire des Signer)
1916 - Jean Papineau-Couture, composer
1916 - Liam Dunn, NJ, actor (Koska & his Family)
1916 - Paul Emery, British racing driver (d. 1993)
1916 - Rogelio de la Rosa, Filipino actor and politician (d. 1986)
1917 - Joseph Coors, CEO (Adolph Coors Co Brewery)
1917 - Jo Stafford, Coalinga California, singer (You Belong to me, Never Smile Again)
1920 - Richard Quine, Detroit MI, actor/director (Clay Pigeon)
1921 - Robert Fleming, composer
1922 - Kim Hunter, [Janet Cole], Det MI, actress (Planet of the Apes, Lilith)
1923 - Vicco von Bülow, German film director
1924 - Sam Jones, jazz bassist (d. 1981)
1927 - Sunset Carson, [Michael Harrison] Plainview TX, actor (Cat of Rockies)
1927 - Yutaka Taniyama, Japanese mathematician (d. 1958)
1927 - Jack Butler, Pittsburgh, PA, NFL hall of famer (Pittsburgh Pirates), (d. 2013)
1928 - Johan B W Polak, Dutch publisher/publicist (Bloom of Decadence)
1928 - Robert Holness, Natal, South Africa, English radio and television presenter (BBC), (d. 2012)
1929 - Grace Kelly, Philadelphia Pa, actress (Rear Window)/Princess (Monaco), (d. 1982)
1929 - Michael Ende, writer
1930 - Tonke Dragt, Dutch children book author (Towers of February)
1931 - Bob Crewe, rocker
1931 - Norman Y Mineta, (Rep-R-CA, 1975- )
1933 - Peter Post, Dutch bicyclist (8x European Champion at Derny-drive)
1934 - Ann Flood, Jamaica, New York, American actress (Edge of Night)
1934 - Bukka White, rocker
1934 - Charles Manson, [No Name Maddox], Cin Oh, criminal (Tate-Labianco)
1935 - Jerry Douglas, Chelsea Mass, actor (John Abbott-Young & Restless)
1935 - Terry Johnson, US R&B singer (Flamingos-I Know Better)
1936 - Mort Shuman, rocker
1936 - Robert White, guitarist
1936 - Ruth Jessen, LPGA golfer
1936 - Mills Lane, American judge and boxing referee
1937 - Ina Balin, Brooklyn NY, actress (Danger in Paradise)
1937 - Peter Lloyd, British MP
1937 - Richard H Truly, Fayette Miss, Rear Adm USN/astro (STS T-2, T-4, 2, 8 )
1939 - Ruby Nash Curtis, US singer (Romantics-Our Day Will Come)
1939 - Lucia Popp, Slovakian soprano (d. 1993)
1940 - Ria Lubbers, wife of Dutch premier Ruud Lubbers
1940 - Michel Audet, Quebec economist and politician
1940 - Jürgen Todenhöfer, German politician
1941 - Frank Rosenthal, rocker
1941 - Jennifer Helen McLeod, composer
1943 - Brian Hyland, Queens NY, rocker (She Wore an Itsy Bitsy ... Bikini)
1943 - Jimmy "Bro" Hayes, US singer (Persuasions-Under the Boardwalk)
1943 - John Maus, NYC, rock vocalist (Walker Brothers)
1943 - Wallace Shawn, NYC, actor (My Dinner with Andre, Princess Bride)
1943 - Bjorn Waldegard, Swedish rally driver
1944 - Booker T Jones, organist [or Dec 11]
1944 - Johan van Doorn, [Johnny the Selfkicker], Dutch poet (War & Porridge)
1945 - Al Michaels, Bkln, sportscaster (ABC Monday Night Baseball/Football)
1945 - Michael Bishop, US, sci-fi author (Nebula, Stolen Faces)
1945 - Neil Young, Toronto, singer/songwriter (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
1945 - Valerie Leon, London England, actress (Blood from Mummy's Tomb)
1945 - Tracy Kidder, American journalist and author
1947 - Donald Roeser, rock guitarist/vocalist (Blue Oyster Cult)
1947 - J C Crowley, rocker
1947 - Patrice Leconte, director (Monsieur Hire, Hairdresser's Husband)
1947 - Ron Bryant, American baseball player
1948 - Errol Brown, Kingston Jamaica, rock vocalist (Hot Chocolate)
1949 - Arthur "Pooch" Tavares, rocker
1949 - Jack Reed, (Rep-D-Rhode Island)
1952 - Ronald Burkle, American entrepreneur
1953 - Vasilis Karras, Greek singer
1954 - Bharat Reddy, cricket wicket-keeper (India 1979)
1954 - Paul McNamee, Australia, tennis star
1955 - Leslie McKeown, rock vocalist (Bay City Rollers-Saturday Night)
1956 - Rhonda Shear, New Orleans LA, comedian (Up All Night)
1957 - Gail Castro, Glendale California, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-1991, Oly-96)
1957 - Marta Figueras-Dotti, Madrid Spain, LPGA golfer (1994 Hawaiian Open)
1957 - Tim Samaras, Lakewood, Col., tornado chaser (Storm Chasers), (d. 2013)
1958 - Nick Stellino, Italian-American television chef
1960 - Bertice Berry, talk show host (Bertice)
1960 - Maurane, Belgian singer
1961 - Chela Quintana, Venezuela, LPGA golfer (8 time Venezuelan Amat Champ)
1961 - Greg Gagne, Fall River MA, infielder (LA Dodgers)
1961 - Nadia Comaneci, [Gheorghe], Romania, gymnist (1st 10/Olymp-gold-1976)
1961 - Enzo Francescoli, Uruguayan footballer
1961 - Jonathan Nossiter, American film director
1961 - Michaela Paetsch, American violinist
1962 - Jeff Reed, Joliet IL, catcher (Colorado Rockies)
1962 - Wim Kieft, Dutch soccer star (Ajax/Gir de Bordeaux/PSV)
1962 - Naomi Wolf, American author and feminist
1962 - Neal Shusterman, American author
1962 - Mariella Frostrup, Norwegian born journalist and television presenter
1963 - Laurie Brower, Long Beach CA, LPGA golfer (1994 Lady Keystone-9th)
1963 - Susumu Terajima, Japanese actor
1964 - Erik Howard, NFL defensive tackle/end (NY Jets)
1964 - Gerald Perry, NFL tackle (Oakland Raiders)
1964 - Jakob Hlasek, Czech, tennis star
1964 - Dave Ellefson, Jackson, Minnesota, American heavy metal bassist (Megadeth)
1965 - Mike Keim, NFL tackle (Seattle Seahawks)
1965 - Lex Lang, American voice actor
1966 - David Schwimmer, Queens NY, actor (Ross-Friends)
1967 - Charlie Pennaelino, Queens NY, rocker (Linear-I Never Felt This Way)
1967 - Michael Moorer, boxing heavyweight champ (defeated Holyfield-1994)
1968 - Derek Bell, Tampa Florida, outfielder (Houston Astros)
1968 - Irina Privalova, Russian runner (indoor world record 50/60m)
1968 - Randy Knorr, San Gabriel CA, catcher (Houston Astros)
1968 - Sammy Sosa, San Pedro de Macorís, Dominican Republic, baseball outfielder (Chicago Cubs)
1968 - Glenn Gilberti, American professional wrestler
1968 - Aya Hisakawa, Japanese voice actress/singer
1968 - Aaron Stainthorpe, British singer (My Dying Bride)
1969 - Iain Sydie, North York Ontario, badminton player (Olympics-96)
1969 - Trevor Shaw, CFL slot back (BC Lions)
1969 - Ian Bremmer, American political scientist
1969 - Jason Cundy, English footballer and broadcaster
1969 - Johnny Gosch, American kidnap victim
1969 - Kathleen Hanna, American singer and songwriter
1970 - Tonya Harding, Portland Or, figure skater (Oly-8th-1994/US Champ 1994)
1970 - Donna Adamo, American female professional wrestler
1970 - Harvey Stephens, British child actor
1971 - Heidi Burge, WNBA forward (LA Sparks)
1971 - Shakeel Ahmed, Pakistani cricket wicket-keeper (v West Indies 1993)
1972 - Vassilis Tsiartas, Greek footballer
1973 - Colin Morgan, Calgary Alberta, 78 kg judoka (Olympics-96)
1973 - Keith Morgan, Calgary Alberta, 95 kg judoka (Olympics-96)
1973 - Melanie Gaffin, Santa Monica California, actress (Cheryl-Whiz Kids)
1973 - Zahir Shah, cricketer (attention-grabbing Rawalpindi leg-spinner)
1973 - Mayte Garcia, American dancer
1973 - Radha Mitchell, Australian actress
1973 - Tara Strong, Canadian voice actress
1974 - Tamala Jones, American actress
1975 - Angela Watson, actress (Karen Foster-Step by Step)
1975 - Chris Wells, Calgary, NHL center (Pitts Penguins)
1975 - Gretchen Durgin, Miss USA-New Hampshire (1997)
1975 - Nina Brosh, Afula Israel, model (Drakkar)
1975 - Tevin Jermod Campbell, Dallas Tx, rapper
1975 - Jason Lezak, American swimmer
1976 - Scott Mark Cameron, Dunedin NZ, 4x200m relay swimmer (Olympics-96)
1976 - Mirosław Szymkowiak, Polish footballer
1976 - Judith Holofernes, German singer (Wir sind Helden)
1977 - Jennifer Smith, Miss Maryland Teen USA (1996)
1977 - Dalene Kurtis, American Playboy model
1977 - Benni McCarthy, South African footballer
1978 - Andrew Kinlochan, English singer and musician
1978 - Alexandra Maria Lara, German Romanian actress
1978 - Ashley Williams, American actress
1978 - Lena Yada, American actress, model, surfer ,and WWE Diva
1979 - Matt Cappotelli, American professional wrestler
1979 - Corey Maggette, American professional basketball player
1979 - Cote de Pablo, Chilean actress
1980 - Trent Acid, American professional wrestler
1980 - Ryan Gosling, Canadian actor
1981 - DJ Campbell, English football player
1982 - Anne Hathaway, American actress
1982 - Mikele Leigertwood, English footballer
1983 - Carlton Cole, English football player
1984 - Sepp De Roover, Belgian footballer
1984 - Omarion, American R&B musician
1984 - Sandara Park, South Korean actor
1984 - Conrad Rautenbach, Zimbabwean rally driver
1986 - Evan Yo, Taiwanese pop singer
1987 - Bryan Little, Canadian ice hockey player
1989 - Paul Jessup, actor (Mikie-Baby Talk)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 12, 2013, 05:07:05 PM

This Day in History for 12th November


Famous Deaths

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Astronomer Percival Lowell (1916)          Actor Jonathan Brandis (2003)


607 - Pope Boniface III, dies after less than a year in office
1035 - Cnut (Canute) "The Great", King of Denmark. England, Norway and parts of Sweden. Reigned
           1016-1035.
1094 - King Duncan II of Scotland (b. 1060)
1202 - Knut VI, king of the Denen/Turn (1182-1202), dies at about 39
1434 - King Louis III of Naples
1555 - Stephen Gardiner, English bishop of Winchester, dies at about 65
1558 - Shalom Shakna ben Joseph, Rabbi (founder of 1st Polish Yeshiva), dies
1567 - Anne Pierre Adrien duke of Montmorency, Marshal of France, dies at 74
1595 - John Hawkins, English navigator/treasurer of the Navy, dies at 63
1600 - Andreas of Austrian, Land Guardian of Neth (1598-1600), dies at 42
1606 - Matthaus Ludecus, composer, dies at 79
1606 - St. Nicholas Owen (martyr), one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales
1667 - Hans Nansen, Danish statesman (b. 1598)
1671 - Thomas, 3rd baron Fairfax of Cameron, English general, dies at 59
1722 - Adriaen van der Werff, Dutch painter/engraver/architect, dies at 63
1739 - Ludwig Ernst, composer, dies at 71
1742 - Friedrich Hoffmann, German physician and chemist (b. 1660)
1754 - Jacob de Wit, Amsterdam painter/decorater, dies at 58
1757 - Colley Cibber, English poet (b. 1671)
1802 - Charles van Poucke, Flemish sculptor, dies at 62
1823 - Emmanuel Aloys Forster, composer, dies at 75
1836 - Juan Ramón Balcarce, Argentine military leader and politician (b. 1773)
1852 - Georg Hellmesberger, composer, dies at 22
1865 - Elizabeth Gaskell, English novelist (b. 1810)
1869 - Gheorghe Asachi, author/humanist (1st newspaper in Moldavia), dies
1893 - Alexander Freiherr von Bach, premier of Austria (1852-59), dies at 80
1896 - Spyridon Xyndas, composer, dies at 84
1912 - Jose Canalejas bon Mendez, premier of Spain (1910-12), murdered at 58
1916 - Percival Lowell, American amateur astronomer, founder of Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff,
           Arizona (b. 1855)
1921 - Fernand Khnopff, Belgian painter/sculptor, dies at 63
1925 - Roman Statkowski, composer, dies at 65
1937 - Harry Smith, England cricket wicket-keeper (v WI 1928), dies
1939 - (Ernest YY) Oscar Tourniaire, actor (Bluejackets), dies at 59
1939 - Norman Bethune, Canadian doctor and humanitarian (b. 1890)
1940 - Alejandro Garcia Caturla, composer, dies at 34
1941 - Abe "Kid Twist" Reles, NY gangster/police informer, killed
1944 - Edgar Stillman Kelley, US composer (Gulliver), dies at 87
1944 - George D Birkhoff, US mathematician (Aesthetic measure), dies at 60
1944 - Roy Agnew, composer, dies at 51
1947 - Emmuska Orczy, British author (Scarlet Pimpernel), dies at 82
1948 - Umberto Giordano, composer, dies at 81
1949 - Hendrik A de Fish, [Henri Pauwels], Flemish philological, dies at 64
1955 - Alfréd Hajós, Hungarian swimmer (b. 1878)
1956 - Gerhard Alexander, actor (One Zomerzotheid), dies at 49
1957 - Fritz Schulz, German law historian (Classical Roman Law), dies at 78
1960 - John Trim, cricketer (occasional WI quick 1948-52, 18 wkts), dies
1962 - Alexander Spitzmuller-Harmersbach, composer, dies at 68
1962 - Sid Tomack, actor (Gillis-Life of Riley, My Friend Irma), dies at 55
1965 - Syedna Taher Saifuddin, Bohra Spiritual Leader (b. 1888)
1966 - Quincy Porter, US composer, dies at 69
1967 - Herman Uyttersprot, Flemish literature historian, dies at 58
1969 - Louis van Tulder, tenor (Kantoorkruk to high C), dies at 77
1972 - Rudolf Friml, Czech/US composer (Bohemian suite), dies at 92
1974 - Charles Quinlivan, actor (7 Guns to Mesa), dies at 50
1975 - Anthony Ross, TV host (Telltale Clue), dies at 69
1976 - Walter Hamor Piston, US composer, dies at 82
1976 - Mikhail Iosifovich Gurevich, Russian aircraft designer (b. 1893)
1978 - Howard Swanson, composer, dies at 71
1979 - Dimitri Tiompkin, composer, dies at 85
1980 - Alexander Nicolaas Voormolen, Dutch composer, dies at 85
1980 - Andrei Amalrik, Russian writer/dissident, dies at 42
1980 - Haya van Someren-Downer, Dutch MP, dies at 54
1984 - Chester Himes, American author (b. 1909)
1987 - Roger Lewis, aviation exec (Lockheed, C Wright, Pan Am), dies at 75
1990 - Dave Willock, actor (Queen of Outer Space), dies at 81
1990 - Eve Arden, actress (Our Miss Brooks), dies at 82
1990 - Nico Haak, Dutch singer (Foxy Foxtrot), dies
1990 - Rifaat El-Maghub, Egyptian MP leader, murdered
1990 - Yannis Ritsos, Greek poet, dies at 81
1991 - Christopher Hayes, dies of heart attack
1991 - Diane Brewster, actress (Courage of Black Beauty), dies at 60
1991 - Howard Brunner, dies of AIDS at 51
1991 - Paul E "Cardinal" Leger, cardinal/archbishop of Montreal, dies at 87
1992 - Charles "Honi" Coles, tap dancer, dies of cancer at 81
1992 - David Oliver, actor (Perry Hutchins-Another World), dies of AIDS at 30
1993 - Anna Stein, actress (Wedding Night), dies of heart attack at 88
1993 - Bill Dickey, HOF baseball catcher (NY Yankees, 1928-46), dies at 86
1993 - Harry Haldeman, Nixon's cabinet member (1968-73), dies
1994 - Charles "Honi" Coles, dancer (1983 Tony award), dies at 81
1994 - Katherine Elliots, doctor, dies at 75
1994 - Michael John Innes Mackintosh Stewart Innes, writer, dies at 88
1994 - Wilma Glodean Rudolph, US sprinter (Olympics-3 gold-60), dies at 54
1995 - Curley Fox, fiddler, dies at 85
1995 - Jack Mann, pilot/hostage, dies at 81
1995 - Marion Pitt, social worker/writer, dies at 56
1996 - Don Kenyon, cricketer, dies at 72
1996 - Gwen Catley, soprano, dies at 90
1996 - John Qace Hardbattle, political activist, dies at 51
1997 - William Matthews, poet, dies at 55
1997 - Carlos Surinach, Spanish composer (b. 1915)
2000 - Leah Rabin, wife of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, (b. 1928)
2000 - Franck Pourcel, French popular orchestra leader (b. 1913)
2001 - Tony Miles, English chess player (b. 1955)
2003 - Cameron Duncan, New Zealand director (b. 1986)
2003 - Kay E. Kuter, American actor (b. 1925)
2003 - Penny Singleton, American actress (b. 1908)
2003 - Tony Thompson, American drummer (Chic, Power Station) (b. 1954)
2003 - Jonathan Brandis, American actor (b. 1976)
2004 - John Peel, English DJ and Broadcaster (b. 1939)
2005 - William G. Adams, former mayor of St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada (b. 1923)
2006 - General Jacob E. Smart, US Air Force leader World War II (b. 1909)
2007 - Khanmohammed Ibrahim, Indian cricketer (b. 1919)
2007 - Ira Levin, American novelist (b. 1929)
2008 - Catherine Baker Knoll, 30th Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania, (b. 1930)
2008 - Mitch Mitchell, English musician (b. 1947)
2010 - Henryk Górecki, Polish composer (b. 1933)
2010 - Karl Plutus, Estonian jurist and centenarian (b. 1904)
2012 - Sergio Oliva, American body builder, dies at 71

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 13, 2013, 11:15:06 AM

This Day in History for 13th November


Historical Events

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King of England King Charles I          Silent Film Star Rudolph Valentino                    Animator Walt Disney

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US President & Actor                           Musician & member of the Beatles      Champion Boxer Evander Holyfield
Ronald Reagan                                                   Paul McCartney


866 - Pope Nicholas I answers the envoys of Boris (Ad consulta vestra)
1002 - English king Ethelred II launches massacre of Danish settlers
1511 - England signs on to the Saint League
1553 - English Lady Jane Grey/Bishop Cranmer accused of high treason
1565 - King Philip II's "Letters out Segovia" reaches Brussels
1565 - Pope Pius IV publishes degree Professi fidei
1642 - Battle at Turnham Green, London: King Charles I vs English parliament
1673 - Prince Willem III/Raimundo earl Montecuccoli conquer Bonn
1715 - Significicant battle at Sheriffmuir during Jacobite rebellion. Battle inconclusive but Government
           forces able halt advance of Jacobite army lead by Scottish Earl of Mar
1775 - American Revolutionary forces capture Montreal
1781 - English troops occupy Negapatam Ceylon
1789 - Ben Franklin writes "Nothing . . . certain but death & taxes"
1839 - 1st US anti-slavery party, Liberty Party, convenes in NY
1841 - James Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism, which leads to his study of the
           subject he eventually calls hypnosis.
1843 - Mt Rainier in Washington State erupts
1849 - Peter Burnett elected 1st governor of California
1851 - 1st meeting of anti-revolutionary "Netherlands & Orange"
1851 - Telegraph connection between London-Paris linked
1851 - The Denny Party lands at Alki Point, the first settlers of what would become Seattle,
           Washington.
1854 - "New Era" sinks off NJ coast with loss of 300
1862 - Battle of Holly Spring, MS
1864 - The new Constitution of Greece is adopted.
1865 - PT Barnum's New American museum opens in Bridgeport
1865 - US issues 1st gold certificates
1868 - American Philological Association organized in NY
1875 - Harvard-Yale game is 1st college football contest with uniforms
1875 - National Bowling Association organized in NYC
1885 - Serbian army occupies Bulgaria
1887 - Bloody Sunday clashes in central London.
1895 - 1st shipment of canned pineapple from Hawaii
1900 - Baltimore Orioles (now NY Yankees) enter baseball's American League
1901 - The 1901 Caister Lifeboat Disaster.
1906 - C W Gregory out for 383 as NSW make 763 v Queensland
1907 - French cyclist Paul Cornu flies 1st helicopter (twin rotor)
1909 - 259 miners die in a fire at St Paul Mine at Cherry Ill
1909 - Ben Simpson of Hamilton Tigers kicks 9 singles in a game
1909 - Collier's magazine accuses U.S. Secretary of the Interior Richard Ballinger of questionable
           dealings in Alaskan coal fields.
1913 - 1st modern elastic brassiere patented by Mary Phelps Jacob
1916 - British offensive at Ancre Belgium
1916 - Prime Minister of Australia Billy Hughes is expelled from the Labor Party over his support for
           conscription.
1918 - Monarch Friedrich of Waldeck & Pyrmont abdicates throne
1918 - Russia cancels Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
1918 - Stahlhelm forms (anti communist/Polish/French) in Magdenburg
1920 - Hudson River frozen at Albany
1921 - "Sheik," silent film starring Rudolph Valentino, is released
1921 - US, France, Japan & British Empire sign a Pacific Treaty
1922 - Black Renaissance begins Harlem NY
1922 - George Cohan's musical "Little Nellie Kelly," premieres in NYC
1922 - Marc Connelly/George Kaufman's "'49ers," premieres in NYC
1926 - Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) uprising in Bantam West Java
1927 - NY-NJ Holland Tunnel, 1st twin-tube underwater auto tunnel, opens
1928 - Bradman scores 132* for NSW against MCC
1930 - WA Drake's "Grand Hotel," premieres in NYC
1931 - Hattie Caraway (D-AK) appointed 1st US woman senator
1933 - 1st modern sit-down strike, Hormel meat packers, Austin, Minn
1935 - Anti-British riots in Egypt
1937 - NBC forms 1st full-sized symphony orchestra exclusively for radio
1938 - America's 1st saint, Mother Frances Cabrini, beatified
1940 - Walt Disney's "Fantasia" released
1941 - German Abweht consults with Chetnikleider Draza Mihailovic
1942 - Chaotic "sea battle of Friday the 13th" at Guadalcanal
1942 - Minimum draft age lowered from 21 to 18
1945 - Australian Services draw 1st Victory Test against India
1946 - 1st artificial snow produced from a natural cloud, Mt Greylock, MA
1946 - Bradman scores 106 for an Australian XI v the MCC
1948 - "As the Girls Go" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 420 perfs
1950 - US win 1st world championship bridge contest
1950 - General Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, President of Venezuela, is assassinated in Caracas.
1951 - Lefty O'Doul's all-stars, including Joe DiMaggio & Billy Martin, lose 3-1 to Pacific League all-star
           team (Japan)
1952 - False fingernails 1st sold
1952 - KLBK TV channel 13 in Lubbock, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 - Dmitri Shostakovitch' 4th String Quartet, premieres
1955 - 1st live telecast from non-contiguous foreign country-Havana Cuba
1955 - Argentine gen Pedro Aramburu succeeds E Lonardi as president
1956 - Supreme Court strikes down segregation of races on public buses in Alabama
1958 - NYC Mayor Robert Wagner announces plans to begin a new baseball called the Continental
           League
1960 - Fire in movie theater kills 152 children (Amude Spain)
1961 - WCBB TV channel 10 in Augusta, ME (PBS) begins broadcasting
1961 - Vladimir Yefimovich Semichastny succeeds Aleksandr Nikolayevich Shelepin as head of the
           KGB.
1964 - Bob Petit (St Louis Hawks) becomes 1st NBAer to score 20,000 points
1964 - Pope Paul VI gives tiara to poor
1965 - "Skyscraper" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 248 performances
1965 - "Yarmouth Castle" burns & sinks off Bahamas, killing 89
1965 - Director Kenneth Tynan says the word "Sorry" on BBC
1966 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Alamo Ladies' Golf Open
1967 - Carl B Stokes sworn-in as 1st major city black mayor (Cleveland Oh)
1967 - NL owners OK AL expansion to Seattle & Kansas City
1968 - Bob Gibson edges Pete Rose to win NL MVP
1969 - VP Spiro T Agnew accused network TV news depts of bias & distortion
1970 - Cyclone kills estimated 300,000 in Chittagong Bangladesh
1970 - Flooding ravages Ganges delta, 200,000-1 million killed
1970 - Lt Gen Hafez al-Assad becomes PM of Syria following military coup
1970 - VP Spiro Agnew calls TV executives "impudent snobs"
1971 - Mariner 9, 1st to orbit another planet (Mars)
1973 - "Gigi" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 103 performances
1973 - Oakland A's Reggie Jackson wins AL MVP unanimously
1974 - Dodgers Steve Garvey wins NL MVP
1975 - "Musical Jubilee" opens at St James Theater NYC for 92 performances
1977 - 25th Islander shut-out Resch 6-0 Gilles scores on 5th penalty shot
1977 - Final Al Capp comic strip of "Li'l Abner" (1934-77)
1977 - Silvia Bertolaccini wins LPGA Colgate Far East Golf Open
1978 - NASA launches HEAO
1979 - British newspaper "Times" resumes publishing after 1 year
1979 - Ronald Reagan in NY announces his candidacy for US President
1979 - Willie Stargell & Keith Hernandez share NL MVP Award NL
1980 - US spacecraft Voyager I sent back 1st close-up pictures of Saturn
1980 - Gabriella Brum, 18, of West Germany crowned 30th Miss World, she resigns the next day,
           because she wants to marry her 52 year old boyfriend
1981 - Ringo releases "Wrack My Brains"
1982 - Vietnam War Memorial dedicated in Washington DC
1982 - A boxing match held in Las Vegas, Nevada ends when Ray Mancini defeats Duk Koo Kim.
           Kim's death on November 17 led to significant changes in the sport.
1983 - Pat Bradley wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic
1984 - David Levy finds his 1st comet
1984 - Ryne Sandberg wins the NL MVP Award
1985 - Dwight Gooden, youngest 20 game winner, wins Cy Young award
1985 - Nevado del Ruiz volcano erupts in Colombia, kills 25,000
1986 - Giselle Jeanne-Marie LaRonde of Trinidad, 23, crowned 36th Miss World
1986 - NASA launches space vehicle S-199
1986 - US President Reagan confesses weapon sales to Iran
1987 - 1st condom commercial on BBC TV
1989 - Paul McCartney releases "Figure of 8" & "Ou Est Le Soleil"
1990 - Oakland's Bob Welch wins AL Cy Young Award
1990 - The World Wide Web first began.
1990 - In Aramoana, New Zealand, Resident David Gray shot dead 13 people, in what became known
           as the Aramoana Massacre.
1991 - Bomb attack on Aad Kosto, Dutch social dem party-asst sec of state
1991 - Boston Red Sox Roger Clemens wins AL Cy Young Award
1992 - Riddick Bowe beats Evander Holyfield in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1993 - 7.1 seaquake east of Kamchatka
1993 - Chinese MD82 makes crash landing at Urumqi, 12 killed
1993 - Pakistan minister of Foreign affairs Faruk Leghari elected president
1994 - Sweden agrees to join European Union
1996 - "Three Sisters," closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC
1996 - Joel Armengaud discovers 2^1398269 - 1 (35th known Mersenne prime)
1996 - Padres third baseman Ken Caminiti is 4th unanimous winner of NL MVP
1997 - "Lion King," opens at New Amersterdam Theater NYC
1997 - Ken Griffey Jr unanimously wins AL MVP
1997 - UN pulls out arms inspection teams from Iraq
2000 - Philippine House Speaker Manuel B. Villar, Jr. passes the articles of impeachment against
           Philippine President Joseph Estrada.
2001 - Doha Round: The World Trade Organization ends a four-day ministerial conference in Doha,
           Qatar.
2001 - War on Terrorism: In the first such act since World War II, US President George W. Bush
           signs an executive order allowing military tribunals against foreigners suspected of
           connections to terrorist acts or planned acts on the United States.
2002 - The oil tanker Prestige sinks off the Galician coast and causes a huge oil spill.
2002 - Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq agrees to the terms of the UN Security Council Resolution 1441.
2002 - Eminem releases single 'Lose Yourself' from soundtrack of 8 Mile, 1st rap song to win
           Academy Award Best Original Song
2007 - An explosion hits the south wing of the House of Representatives of the Philippines in Quezon
          City, killing four people, including Congressman Wahab Akbar, and wounding six.
2010 - Australian rock band Powderfinger, perform their last concert at the Brisbane River Stage
2012 - 3 Syrian tanks enter the demilitarized zone of Golan Heights

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 13, 2013, 11:17:51 AM

This Day in History for 13th November


Famous Weddings

1160 - Marriage of Louis VII of France with Adele of Champagne.
1934 - Actress and dancer Ginger Rogers (23) weds "All Quiet on the Western Front" actor Lew
           Ayres (25)
1960 - Sammy Davis Jr marries Swedish actress May Britt
1993 - "Ladyhawke" actress Michelle Pfeiffer (35) weds television writer and producer David E. Kelley
           (37) in Santa Barbara, California
1996 - "A Room With A View" actor Daniel Day-Lewis (39) weds "Personal Velocity: Three Portraits"
           screenwriter Rebecca Miller (34) in Vermont
2004 - "The View" co-host Star Jones (42) weds banker Al Reynolds at St. Bartholomew's Church in
           New York City
2010 - Major League Baseball pitcher Kyle Kendrick (26) married three-time "Survivor" contestant
           Stephanie LaGrossa (30) at Silverado Resort and Spa in Napa, California
2012 - Soccer goalkeeper and a double Olympic gold medalist Hope Solo (31) weds former NFL tight
           end Jerramy Stevens (33) in Washington

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 13, 2013, 11:35:37 AM

This Day in History for 13th November


Famous Birthdays

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King of England                              Novelist Robert Louis Stevenson (1850)        Actress Whoopi Goldberg (1955)
Edward III (1312)


354 - [Christian] Aurelius Augustine, bp of Hippo in Roman Africa
1312 - Edward III, Windsor Castle, England, king of England (1327-77, raped countess of Salisbury),
           (d. 1377)
1486 - Johann Eck, German theologian (d. 1543)
1504 - Philip I (the Generous), Landgrave of Hesse and important early protestant ruler. (d. 1567)
1559 - Albrecht/Albertus, archduke of Austria/cardinal/viceroy of Portugal
1572 - Cyril Lucaris, Greek theologian (d. 1638)
1663 - Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow, composer
1679 - Thomas-Philippe d'alsace et de Boussu, South Netherland cardinal
1699 - Jan Zach, composer
1710 - Charles Simon Favart, French dramatist (d. 1792)
1714 - William Shenstone, English poet (d. 1763)
1715 - Dorothea Erxleben, German, first female medical doctor (d.1762)
1718 - Anton Laube, composer
1732 - John Dickinson, American lawyer and Governor of Delaware and Pennsylvania (d. 1808)
1759 - Timothy Olmstead, composer
1760 - Jiaqing, Emperor of China (d. 1820)
1768 - Bertel Thorvaldsen, Danish sculptor (d. 1844)
1782 - Esaias Tegnér, Swedish writer (d. 1846)
1789 - Martin de Ron, composer
1792 - Edward John Trelawney, England, traveler/author (Adv of Younger Son)
1801 - Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria, queen of Prussia (d. 1873)
1801 - Amalie Auguste of Bavaria, queen of Saxony (d. 1877)
1804 - Theophilus Hunter Holmes, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1880
1809 - John AB Dahlgren, US Union lt adm/inventor (Civil war Dahlgren-cannon)
1811 - Yuri Arnold, composer
1813 - John Wolcott Phelps, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1885
1813 - Peter II Petrovic Njegos, poet/ruler of Montenegro (1830-51)
1814 - Joseph Hooker, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1879
1826 - Charles Frederick Worth, English-born couturier (d. 1895)
1833 - Edwin Thomas Booth, US, US Hall of Fame/actor (Hamlet)
1834 - Ignacio M Altamirano, Mexican author (El Zarco)
1837 - James T. Rapier, American politician (d. 1883)
1838 - Joseph F Smith, 6th pres of Mormon church
1841 - Edward Burd Grubb, American Civil War Brevet Brigadier General (d. 1913)
1848 - Albert HK, monarch of Monaco (1889-1922)
1850 - Robert Louis Stevenson, Edinburgh, Scotland, author (Treasure Island), (d. 1894)
1853 - John Drew Jr., American actor (d. 1927)
1854 - George Whitfield Chadwick, Lowell Mass, composer (Judi Van Winke)
1855 - Daniel F Scheurleer, Dutch musicologist/banker
1856 - Louis D Brandeis, Mass, 68th Supreme Court Justice (1916-39)
1856 - Sigwart Aspestrand, composer
1858 - Percy McDonnell, cricketer (Australian batsman of the 1880's)
1859 - Georg Knorr, German engineer (brake system trains)
1866 - Abraham Flexner, American educator (d. 1959)
1868 - Pierre Maurice, composer
1869 - Helene Stöcker, German feminist, pacifist and publicist (d. 1943)
1869 - Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams, Russian feminist (d. 1962)
1870 - Henry Kolker, Quincy IL, actor (Real Glory, Thoroughbreds Don't Cry)
1875 - Rogelio del Villar, composer
1878 - John C Kielstra, Dutch economist/governor of Suriname (1933-44)
1878 - Max Dehn, German mathematician (d. 1952)
1879 - Maurice Delage, composer
1882 - John Lowry, Mount Vernon NY, NYC builder (Radio City Music Hall)
1885 - Montague Fawcett Phillips, composer
1886 - Mary Wigman, German dancer and choreographer (d. 1973)
1893 - Edward A Doisy Sr, US bio-chemist (Vitamin K1, Nobel 1943)
1894 - Artur Nebe, German SS officer {d. 1945)
1896 - Nobusuke Kishi, premier of Japan (1957-60)
1897 - Gertrude Olmstead, American actress (d. 1975)
1898 - Earl Sande, jockey (Hall of Famer)
1900 - Edward Buzzell, American film director (d. 1985)
1902 - Gustav von Koenigswald, paleontologist (found Pithecanthropus erectus)
1904 - Gertrude Olmsted, Chicago IL, actress (The Monster)
1906 - Conrad Thibault, Northbridge Mass, singer (Jacques Fray Music Room)
1906 - Hermione Baddeley, England, actress (Camp Runamuck, Maude, Good Life)
1906 - Eva Zeisel, Budapest, Hungary, American industrial designer
1907 - Josef B Kjellgren, Swedish writer (Guldkedjan)
1907 - Lewis Boddington, aerospace engineer
1907 - Giovanna of Italy, tsaritsa of Bulgaria (d. 2000)
1908 - C. Vann Woodward, American historian (d. 1999)
1909 - Gunnar Bjornstrand, Stockholm Sweden, actor (Shame, Dreams)
1909 - Paul de Vree, Flemish author (Between Doubt & Tears)
1910 - William Bradford Huie, American writer and publisher (d. 1986)
1911 - Buck O'Neil, American baseball player (d. 2006)
1913 - Alexander Scourby, Brooklyn, actor (Jesus, Shaggy Dog, Giant)
1913 - Lon Nol, Cambodian politician (d. 1985)
1913 - Helen Mack, American actress (d. 1986)
1915 - Howard Cooke, Jamaica, (1991 Mico Gold Medal Award)
1915 - Robert Sutton, electronics engineer
1917 - Robert Sterling, Newcastle PA, actor (George Kirby-Adv of Topper)
1918 - Janine Andrade, French violinist
1920 - Jack Elam, Miami, Arizona, American actor (The Dakotas, East Street, Rio Lobo)
1921 - Eddie Calhoun, jazz bassist
1921 - Joonas Kokkonen, composer
1921 - Yoshiro Irino, composer
1922 - Jack Narz, Louisville Ky, TV gameshow host (Dotto, Video Village)
1922 - Madeleine Sherwood, Montreal, actress (Mother Superior-Flying Nun)
1922 - Oskar Werner, film actor/director (Shoes of the Fisherman, Das Ekel)
1923 - Linda Christian, Tampico, Mexico, actress (Athena, VIPs, Battle Zone)
1924 - Motoo Kimura, Japanese geneticist (d. 1994)
1925 - Inez van Dullemen, Dutch author
1926 - Max Vernon Mathews, composer
1926 - Harry Hughes, 57th Governor of Maryland
1927 - Billy Klüver, American scientist (d. 2004)
1928 - Steve Bilko, American baseball player (d. 1978)
1929 - Steef C Weijers, Dutch MP (CDA)
1929 - Fred Phelps, American pastor
1930 - Fred Harris, (Sen-D-Okla)
1930 - Nico Scheepmaker, Dutch columnist/poet
1931 - Anthony Jacobs, English industrialist (BSM)
1931 - Joan Lestor, British MP
1931 - John A Manke, US test pilot (HL-10)
1931 - Andrée Lachapelle, French Canadian actress
1932 - Olga Connolly-Fikotova, Czech, US discus thrower (Olympic-gold-1956)
1932 - Richard Mulligan, Bronx NY, actor (Soap, Empty's Nest, Big Bus)
1933 - Adrienne Corri, Glasgow Scotland, actress (River, Dr Zhivago)
1933 - Clyde McPhatter, rocker
1934 - Garry Marshall, NYC, producer (Laverne & Shirley)
1934 - Peter Arnett, New Zealand-born American journalist
1935 - Thomas Augustine Martin, academic
1935 - Tom Atkins, American actor
1935 - George Carey, Archbishop of Canterbury
1937 - Kamahl, [Kamalesvaran], Australian singer (Elephant Song)
1938 - Jean Seberg, Marshaltown Iowa, actress (Breathless, Paint Your Wagon)
1938 - Gérald Godin, French Canadian poet and politician (d. 1994)
1939 - Karel Brückner, Czech football manager
1939 - Idris Muhammad, American jazz drummer
1940 - Jack Birkenshaw, cricketer (England off-spinner 1973-74)
1940 - Joan Haanappel, figure skater/sports reporter
1940 - Justine "Baby" Washington, US singer (Only Those in Love)
1940 - Daniel Pilon, Canadian actor
1941 - Dack Rambo, Delano California, actor (Guns of Will Sonnett, Dallas)
1941 - Mel Stottlemyre, Wash, pitcher (NY Yankee)/pitching coach (NY Met)
1941 - Eberhard Diepgen, German politician
1942 - Beth Brickell, Camden Arkansas, actress (Gentle Ben)
1943 - John Paul Hammond, NYC, blues singer (So Many Roads)
1943 - Robert Jay Sigel, Narberth PA, PGA golfer (1994 GTE West Classic)
1943 - André-Gilles Fortin, Canadian politician (d. 1977)
1943 - Roberto Boninsegna, Italian footballer
1944 - Ken Shuttleworth, cricketpaceman (England on 1970-71 Ashes tour)
1944 - Timmy Thomas, US singer/songwriter (Why Can't We Live Together)
1944 - Wouter R van Romondt, Dutch/Dutch Antillean cartoonist
1945 - John B. Craig, American diplomat
1945 - Masahiro Hasemi, Japanese racing driver
1946 - Al Luginbill, Pomona California, WLAF head coach (Amsterdam Admirals)
1946 - Martin Bresnick, composer
1947 - Joe Mantegna, Chicago Ill, actor (House of Games, Weeds)
1947 - Gene Garber, American baseball player
1948 - Sheila Frazier, NYC, actress (Gloria-Lazarus Syndrome)
1949 - Roger Steen, rock guitarist/vocalist (Tubes)
1949 - Terry Reid, rock guitarist (River, Bang Bang You're Terry Reid)
1949 - Yoshimi Ishibashi, Japanese racing driver
1950 - Gilbert Perreault, NHL center (over 500 goals)
1951 - Beth Anders, Norristown Penn, field hockey sweeper (Oly-bronze-1984)
1951 - Bill Gibson, California, rock drummer (Huey Lewis & The News)
1951 - Janet Collins, ballerina, 1st Black dancer with Opera Co (Aida)
1952 - Art Malik, Pakistani-born English actor
1953 - Andy "the Clobberer" Ranken, English pop drummer (The Pogues)
1953 - Larry Miller, comedian (Dream On, Favor, Dream Lover)
1953 - Tracy Scoggins, Galveston Tx, actress (Colbys, Gumshoe Kid)
1953 - Frances Conroy, American actress
1953 - Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Mexican politician
1953 - Waswo_X._Waswo, American Photographer
1954 - Scott McNealy, American CEO of Sun Microsystems
1954 - Chris Noth, American actor
1955 - Whoopi Goldberg [Caryn Johnson], New York, actress, comedian, and singer (Color Purple,
           Burglar)
1956 - Aldo Nova, rocker (Blood on the Bricks)
1956 - Christopher Noth, actor (Jakarta)
1956 - Ginger Alden, American actress
1957 - Ronald Shusett, Hamburg Germany, author (Project Mankind)
1958 - Linda Jackson, Montreal Quebec, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1959 - Anne Manning, Australian walker (Olympics-96)
1959 - Rosie Jones, Santa Ana CA, LPGA golfer (1988 USX Golf Classic)
1960 - Neil Flynn, American actor
1961 - Edwin "Rick" Bakker, Dutch author: Rick's Report, AIDS Diary
1962 - Blair Rasmussen, NBA center (Atlanta Hawks)
1962 - Gaetano Orlando, hockey forward (Team Italy 1998)
1963 - Thilo Timothy Newman, Hamburg Germany, writer (Freejack, Alien)
1963 - Vinny Testaverde, NFL quarterback (Cleveland Browns, Baltimore Ravens)
1964 - Ronald Agenor, Rabat Morocco, tennis player (1989 French quarters)
1965 - Kevin Gamble, NBA guard (Sacramento Kings)
1965 - Rob Natal, Long Beach CA, catcher (Florida Marlins)
1965 - Sheryl Boyle, Renfrew Ontario, kayaker (Olympics-96)
1965 - Zeljko Petrovic, soccer player (FC The Bosch/RKC)
1966 - Rumeal Robinson, NBA guard (Portland Trail Blazers, Detroit Pistons)
1967 - Randi Ingerman, Phila Pa, actress (Trade Winds)
1967 - Steve Christie, NFL kicker (Buffalo Bills)
1967 - Juhi Chawla, Indian actress
1967 - Steve Zahn, American actor
1968 - Mark Fitzpatrick, Toronto, NHL goalie (Florida Panthers)
1968 - Pat Hentgen, Detroit MI, pitcher (Toronto Blue Jays)
1968 - Tami Whitlinger-Jones, Neenah Wisc, tennis star (1995 Futures-Sedona)
1969 - Lori Berenson, American criminal
1969 - Gerard Butler, Scottish actor
1969 - Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Dutch author
1971 - Anthony Whiteman, England, 800m/1500m runner
1971 - Craig Powell, NFL linebacker (Cleveland Browns)
1971 - John Francis Zingg, Boston Mass, rocker (4 Fun-Unbelievable Fun Boys)
1971 - Matthew Minagall, cricketer (S Australian lefty wrist-spinner 1991-95)
1971 - Noah Hathaway, actor (Troll, Neverending Story)
1971 - Ron Rivers, NFL running back (Detroit Lions)
1972 - Kimberlee Ann McKay, Belle Fourche SD, Miss America-SD (1996)
1972 - Shom-Rock, rocker (Young Nation)
1972 - T-Haxx, rocker (DYC)
1972 - Takuya Kimura, Japanese singer and actor
1973 - George Harris, WLAF cornerback (London Monarchs)
1973 - Samantha Riley, Brisbane Australia, breastroker (Oly-2 bronze-92, 96)
1973 - Ari Hoenig, American jazz drummer
1975 - Sarah Pitkowski, Seclin France, tennis star (1995 Futures-Koksijde)
1975 - Ivica Dragutinović, Serbian footballer
1975 - Quim, Portuguese footballer
1975 - Tom Compernolle, Belgian athlete (d. 2008)
1976 - Hiroshi Tanahashi, Japanese professional wrestler
1976 - Kelly Sotherton, English heptathlete
1977 - Tammy Leigh Ashton, Miss North Carolina Teen USA (1996)
1977 - Chanel Cole, Australian singer
1977 - Huang Xiaoming, Chinese actor and singer
1978 - Nikolai Fraiture, American bassist (The Strokes)
1979 - Ron Artest, American basketball player
1979 - Subliminal, Israeli rapper and producer
1980 - Monique Coleman, American actress
1980 - François-Louis Tremblay, Canadian short track speed skater
1981 - Kirsty-Leigh Brown, Australia, gymnast (Olympics-96)
1981 - Mark Cardona, Filipino basketball player
1981 - Rivkah, American comic book writer and artist
1982 - Samkon Gado, American football player
1982 - Koda Kumi, Japanese singer
1982 - Michael Copon, American actor and singer
1985 - Asdrúbal Cabrera, Venezuelan baseball player
1990 - Jibbs, American rapper
1995 - Stella Hudgens, American actress
1997 - Brent Kinsman, American actor
1997 - Shane Kinsman, American actor

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 13, 2013, 12:01:13 PM

This Day in History for 13th November


Famous Deaths

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Painter Camille Pissarro (1903)


867 - Nicholas I, (the Great), pope (858-67), dies at 67
1004 - Abbo van Fleury, [Floriacensis], French abbott/saint, dies
1093 - Malcolm III (Canmore, &quot;Big Head&quot;) King of Scots , dies in battle at Alnwick,
           Northumberland. Historical figure Shakespeare&#039;s character based on.
1143 - King Fulk of Jerusalem
1170 - Albert I of Brandenburg
1314 - Albert II, Margrave of Meissen
1319 - Erik VI Menved, king of Denmark (1286-1319), dies
1345 - Constance of Penafiel, wife of Pedro I of Portugal (b. 1323)
1359 - Ivan II, great ruler of Moscow & Vladimir, dies
1460 - Henry the Navigator, prince of Portugal, dies at 66
1606 - Geronimo Mercuriali, Italian philologist and physician (b. 1530)
1619 - Ludovico Carracci, Italian painter (b. 1555)
1620 - Louise de Coligny, French 4th wife of Willem of Orange, dies at 65
1650 - Thomas May, English poet and historian (b. 1595)
1687 - Nell [Eleanor] Gwyn, mistress of Charles II of England, dies at 37
1689 - Philipp von Zesen, German poet (Bescheibung of Amsterdam), dies at 70
1706 - Godfried Schalcken, painter/etcher/engraver, dies
1770 - George Grenville, British premier (1763-65)/Stamp Act, dies at 58
1771 - Conrad E Ackermann, German actor/theater director, dies at 61
1779 - Thomas Chippendale, English furniture maker, dies at 61
1829 - Sam Patch, loses his live in a 125' dive into Genesse Falls
1849 - William Etty, English painter best known for paintings of nudes, dies at 62
1862 - Ludwig Uhland, writer, dies at 75
1863 - Carnot Posey, Confederate brig-generaal, dies at 50
1867 - Adolphe Napoleon Didron, French archaeologist (b. 1806)
1868 - Gioachino (Antonio) Rossini, composer (Barber of Seville), dies at 76
1877 - Pietro Coppola, composer, dies at 83
1893 - Antoine T d'abbadie, French explorer: Ethiopia, dies at 78
1896 - Antonio Pena y Goni, composer, dies at 50
1903 - Wilhelm von Polenz, German author (Country of Zukunft), dies
1903 - Camille Pissarro, French Impressionist painter (b. 1830)
1909 - Aeneas Mackay, Dutch Internal minister (ARP)/Colonization, dies at 70
1916 - Frederik Septimus Kelly, composer, dies at 35
1917 - Emile Durkheim, French sociologist (Le suicide), dies
1918 - Marten Baersma, [MH Bottema], Fries author, dies at 28
1928 - Abraham M "Mark" Lidzbarski, Polish/German orientalist, dies at 60
1939 - George Nicholls Jr, actor (Finishing School), dies at 42
1942 - Daniel J Callaghan, US spy (at Guadalcanal), dies
1942 - Douglas H Fox, US captain of destroyer Barton, dies in battle
1942 - Norman Scott, US admiral (at Guadalcanal), dies
1944 - Paul Graener, composer, dies at 72
1944 - Wang Tjing-Wei, premier China (1932-35), dies
1951 - Hugo Leichtentritt, composer, dies at 77
1951 - Nikolai Karlovich Metner, composer, dies at 71
1954 - Fay Baker, actress (Sorority Girl), dies at 60
1958 - Bart A van der Leck, Dutch painter (Style), dies at 81
1961 - Fredrik J "Frits" Bakker Jr, Dutch actor (Unknown Woman), dies at 63
1961 - Wally Brown, actor (Jed Fame-Cimarron City), dies at 57
1961 - Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Jr., American diplomat (b. 1897)
1963 - Margaret Murray, English anthropologist and Egyptologist (b. 1863)
1967 - Pierre Moulaert, composer, dies at 60
1967 - Harriet Cohen, English pianist (b. 1895)
1973 - Bruno Maderna, Italian composer/conductor (Satyricon), dies at 53
1973 - Elsa Schiaparelli, French fashion designer, dies at 77
1973 - Lila Lee, actress (Blood & Sand), dies of stroke at 68
1974 - Karen Silkwood, killed in a car crash under suspicious circumstances
1974 - Vittorio de Sica, Italian actor/director (Boccacio 70), dies
1975 - Olga Berggolts, Russian poet (b. 1910)
1977 - Ingrid Schubert, German terrorist (b. 1944)
1978 - George Hearne, South African cricketer (open bat in 3 Tests 1922-24), dies
1979 - Rebecca Clarke, composer, dies at 93
1979 - Dimitris Psathas, Greek playwright (b. 1907)
1982 - Babette Deutsch, US poet (Honey out of the Rock), dies at 87
1982 - Chesney Allen, actress (Okay for Sound, Frozen Limits), dies at 88
1982 - Dorothy [Little-]Round, England, tennis star (Never on Sunday), dies
1982 - Hugues Lapointe, Canadian politician, lieutenant governor of Quebec (b. 1911)
1983 - "Alvin" Junior Samples, country singer (Hee Haw), dies at 56
1984 - Dorothy Arnold, actress (House of Fear, Phantom Creeps), dies at 66
1984 - ML de Braauw, esquire/DS'70-minister of Wetenschapsbeleid, dies at 59
1985 - George Robert Vincent, American sound recording pioneer (b. 1898)
1986 - Rolando Olalia, Philippines worker's union leader, murdered
1986 - Rudolf Schock, German opera/operetta singer, dies at 71
1986 - Thierry Le Luron, French humourist (b. 1952)
1988 - Antal Dorati, Hungarian/US conductor/composer, dies at 82
1988 - Jaromír Vejvoda, Czech composer (b. 1902)
1989 - Victor Davis, Canadian swimmer (b. 1964)
1990 - Charlie Carpenter, dies at 77
1991 - Ad Kosto, Dutch state secretary (PvdA), assassinated by bomb
1991 - Cyril Poitier, actor (Uptown Saturday Night), dies of cancer at 80
1991 - Hanson Baldwin, US military historian, dies at 88
1992 - Alan Balsam, US movie editor (Divine Madness), dies
1992 - Bobby Mcclure, US singer (Don't mess up a good thing), dies at 50)
1992 - Gregory Markopoulos, German/US director (Iliac Passion, Bliss), dies
1992 - Lucrecia Perez, Dominicans in Spain (Racist Murder), dies at 33
1992 - Maurice Ohana, pianist/composer, dies
1993 - Jose Toirkens, journalist (Slogan, NRC), dies at 48
1993 - Carey Lloyd (Rufus R. Jones), American professional wrestler (b. 1933)
1994 - Frank Singleton, librarian, dies at 67
1994 - Joseph H Hazen, US producer/VP (Warner Bros), dies at 96
1994 - Lewis Bingham Keeble, town Planner, dies at 79
1994 - Motoo Kimura, Japanese geneticist (b. 1924)
1995 - Ralph Hunsecker Blane, songwriter, dies at 81
1995 - Robert Stephens, actor (Chaplin, QB VII, Cleopatra), dies at 64
1996 - Kenneth Watkins, woodland conservationist, dies at 86
1996 - William Ballard Doggett, jazz musician, dies at 80
1996 - Swami Rama, Himalayan yoga master (b. 1925)
1997 - William John Elwyn Davies, painter, dies at 80
1997 - André Boucourechliev, French composer (b. 1925)
1997 - Dawud M. Mu'Min, American murderer (b. 1953)
1998 - Edwige Feuillère, French actress (b. 1907)
1998 - Valerie Hobson, British actress (b. 1917)
1998 - Red Holzman, American basketball coach (b. 1920)
1998 - Michel Trudeau, Canadian outdoorsman, son of Pierre Trudeau (b. 1975)
1999 - Donald Mills, American singer (Mills Brothers) (b. 1915)
2001 - Peggy Mount, English actress (b. 1915)
2002 - Rishikesh Shaha, Nepalese politician and writer (b. 1925)
2003 - Kellie Waymire, American actress (b. 1967)
2004 - John Balance, English musician and artist (b. 1962)
2004 - Thomas Foglietta, American politician (b. 1928)
2004 - Ol' Dirty Bastard, American rapper (Wu-Tang Clan) (b. 1968)
2005 - Eddie Guerrero, American/Mexican professional wrestler (b. 1967)
2005 - Vine Deloria, Jr., Native American author, theologian, historian, and activist (b. 1933)
2007 - Wahab Akbar, Filipino politician and Congressman (b. 1960)
2007 - John Doherty, English footballer (b. 1935)
2007 - Kazuhisa Inao, Japanese baseball player (b. 1937)
2007 - Monty Westmore, American make-up artist. (b. 1923)
2010 - Luis García Berlanga, Spanish filmmaker (b. 1921)
2010 - Ken Iman, American football player (b. 1939)
2010 - Allan Sandage, American astronomer (b. 1926)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 14, 2013, 11:42:57 AM

This Day in History for 14th November


Historical Events

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Confederate General/                         Theoretical Physicist Albert Einstein            32nd US President
KKK Grand Wizard                                                                                                 Franklin D. Roosevelt
Nathan Bedford Forrest

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Musician Ray Charles                              King of Pop Michael Jackson        King of Cambodia Norodom Sihanouk


1380 - King Charles VI of France crowned at age 12
1524 - Francisco Pizarro begins his 1st great expedition, near Colombia
1550 - Pope Julius III proclaims new seat on Council of Trente
1666 - Samuel Pepys reports on 1st blood transfusion (between dogs)
1675 - Pope Clemens X declares Gorcumse martyrs divine
1680 - Gottfried Kirch discovers the Great Comet of 1680 (Kirch's Comet/Newton's Comet)
1698 - Spanish king Carlos appoints grandson prince Jozef Ferdinand as heir
1732 - 1st US professional librarian, Louis Timothee, hired in Phila
1755 - Henry Fox appointed British 'Secretary of State for the Southern Department'
1775 - -15] Floods ravage Dutch coast provinces
1792 - Capt George Vancouver is first Englishman to enter San Francisco Bay
1832 - 1st streetcar (horse-drawn) (John Mason) debuts in NYC; fare 12 cents rode on 4th Avenue
           between Prince and 14th Sts
1833 - Charles Darwin departs by horse to Montevideo
1834 - William Thomson enters Glasgow University at 10 yrs 4 months
1851 - "Moby Dick," by Herman Melville, published
1863 - Nathan Bedford Forrest is assigned to command of West Tennessee
1863 - Skirmish at Danville, Mississippi
1881 - Charles J Guiteau went on trial for assassination of President Garfield
1881 - Leon Gambetta forms French government
1888 - St Andrews Golf Club, Yonkers NY, opens with just 6 holes
1888 - USC Trojans (then Methodists) play their 1st football game
1889 - New York World reporter Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) began her attempt to surpass
           fictitious journey of Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg by traveling around world in less than 80 days
           She succeeded, finishing the trip in January in 72 days and 6 hours
1893 - Gerhart Hauptmanns "Hanneles Himmelfahrt" premieres in Berlin
1894 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Golden Pince-Nez" (BG)
1896 - Power plant at Niagara Falls begins operation
1905 - David Belasco's "Girl of Golden West" premieres in NYC
1906 - President Theodore Roosevelt visits Panama
1908 - Albert Einstein presents his quantum theory of light
1908 - Oscar Strauss' musical "Der tapfere Soldat" premieres in Vienna
1910 - 1st airplane flight from deck of a ship, Norfolk, Va
1914 - Billy Mallett of Hamilton Tigers kicks 10 singles in a game
1915 - Thomas Masaryk demands independence for Czechoslovakia
1918 - Republic of Czechoslovakia created with T.G. Masaryk as president
1919 - Red Army captures Omsk, Siberia
1920 - American Pro Football League's Chic Tiger Joe Guyon punts 95 yards
1921 - The Communist Party of Spain is founded.
1922 - BBC begins domestic radio service from 2LO at Marconi House
1922 - German Reichs Chancellor Joseph Wirth term ends
1923 - Kentaro Suzuki completes his ascent of Mount Iizuna.
1927 - Worlds largest gas tank in Pittsburgh Penn explodes; 28 die
1931 - Ottawa Mint Act is proclaimed in Britain
1935 - FDR proclaims Philippine Islands a free commonwealth
1935 - Nazis deprive German Jews of their citizenship
1936 - Bradman scores 192 for S A v Vic before a MCG crowd of 21000
1938 - Dutch DC3 crashes at Schiphol, 6 die
1939 - Oil refinery fire kills 500 & destroys Lagunillas, Venezuela
1940 - During WW II, German planes destroy most of Coventry, England
1941 - British aircraft carrier Ark Royal sank in Mediterranean, having been torpedoed by a German
           submarine the day before
1941 - Gov-Gen Wouters of Dutch Antilles refuses Jews refuge
1942 - -Nov 15th) Japanese/US sea battle at Savo-Island in Guadalcanal)
1942 - Last Vichy-French troops in Algeria surrender
1943 - Chic Bear Sid Luckman passes for 7 touchdowns vs NY Giants (56-7)
1943 - J Postma, C Schalker, D Goulooze arrested for leading illegal CPN
1945 - H Lindsay & R Crouse's "State of the Union," premieres in NYC
1945 - Java: Sutan Sjahrir appointed as forming government
1946 - Dutch Dakota flight to Schiphol crashes, kills 11
1952 - Greek general Papagos wins elections
1952 - First regular UK singles chart published by the New Musical Express.
1953 - WCIA TV channel 3 in Champaign, IL (CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 - Egyptian pres Naguib fire, state of emergency declared
1956 - Hungarian revolt put down by Soviet invasion
1957 - Dick Hutton beats Lou Thesz in Toronto, to become NWA wrestling champ
1957 - Henry Aaron wins NL MVP
1957 - The Apalachin Meeting outside Binghamton, New York is raided by law enforcement, and many
           high level Mafia figures are arrested.
1959 - "Girls against the Boys" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 16 perfs
1959 - Kilauea's most spectacular eruption (in Hawaii)
1960 - 2 passenger trains collided at high-speed killing 110 (Czech)
1960 - Belgium threatens to leave UN due to criticism on its policy on Congo
1960 - OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries), forms
1960 - Ray Charles' "Georgia On My Mind" reaches #1
1960 - Riot due to school integration in New Orleans
1964 - "Fade Out-Fade In" closes at Mark Hellinger NYC after 199 perfs
1964 - "Follies Bergere" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 191 perfs
1964 - "Oliver!" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 774 performances
1964 - Detroit Red Wings Gordie Howe sets NHL record 627th career goal
1965 - "Baker Street" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 313 performances
1965 - George Abbott Theater (Adelphi, 54 St) at 152 W 54th NYC, demolished
1965 - KCST TV channel 39 in San Diego, CA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1965 - Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Alamo Golf Open
1965 - US government sends 90,000 soldiers to Vietnam
1966 - Muhammad Ali TKOs Cleveland Williams in 3 for heavyweight title
1967 - The Congress of Colombia in commemoration of the 150 years of the death of Policarpa
           Salavarrieta, declares this day as "Day of the Colombian Woman".
1968 - "National Turn in Your Draft Card Day" features draft card burning
1968 - 1st European lung transplant
1968 - Yale University announces it is going co-educational
1969 - 2nd Vietnam Moratorium Day in US
1969 - Apollo 12 (Conrad/Gordon/Bean) launched for 2nd manned Moon landing
1970 - DC-9 crashes in West Virginia, 75 killed
1970 - Marshall U football team wiped out in air crash at Kenova WV
1971 - Enthronment of Pope Shenouda III as Pope of Alexandria
1972 - Dow Jones closes above 1,000 for 1st time (1003.16)
1973 - "Good Evening" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 438 performances
1973 - Canada begins production of Olympic coins
1973 - Jim Palmer is named AL Cy Young winner
1973 - Reggie Jackson wins AL MVP Award unanimously
1975 - Spain, Morocco & Mauretania sign accord about Spanish Sahara
1976 - "Don't Step on My Olive Branch" closes at Playhouse NYC after 16 perfs
1976 - Cleveland Browns' Jerry Sherk sets club record with 4 sacks
1976 - War criminal Pieter Menten captured 1 day after fleeing
1977 - Egypt Pres Sadat repeats willingness to visit Israel to Cronkite
1979 - California's Don Baylor, wins AL MVP
1980 - Guinee-Bissau premier Vieira fires president Luis Cabral
1980 - Kimberley Santos, 19 of Guam, crowned 30th Miss World
1980 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1981 - 2nd Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 2-returns to Earth
1981 - Old Dutch Windmill in Golden Gate Park repaired & working again
1981 - Pakistan all out 62 v Australia at WACA, Lillee 5-18
1981 - Paul 'Bear' Bryant ties Amos Alonzo Stagg with 314 football wins
1982 - Polish Solidarity chairman Lech Walesa freed
1983 - 1st cruise missile placed at Greenham Common England
1984 - Astronauts aboard "Discovery" pluck a 2nd satellite from orbit
1984 - NASA launches NATO-3D
1984 - Zamboanga City mayor Cesar Climaco, a prominent critic of the government of Philippine
           President Ferdinand Marcos, is assassinated in his home city.
1985 - Brewers release 39-year-old pitcher Rollie Fingers
1985 - Holmfriour Karlsottir of Iceland, 22, crowned 35th Miss World
1985 - Volcano Nevado del Ruiz Colombia erupts, 1000s killed
1986 - Doubleday Publishing sells NY Mets to Nelson Doubleday & Fred Wilpon
1986 - FCC issues Notice Of Apparent Liability to WYSP Phila
1986 - SEC imposes a record $100 million penalty against Ivan Boesky
1987 - "La Cage aux Folles" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 1761 perfs
1987 - Sam's Town National Bowling Pro-Am won by Debbie Bennett
1989 - Padres reliever Mark Davis wins NL Cy Young Award
1990 - Doug Drabek (22-6) wins NL Cy Young Award
1990 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1990 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1990 - Michael Heseltine contests Margaret Thatcher's leadership of party
1990 - Philippines hit by typhoon, 110 die
1991 - Michael Jackson's "Black or White" video premieres on FOX TV
1991 - Pittsburgh Steelers guard Terry Long loses his steroids appeal & is suspended without pay by
           NFL for 4 weeks
1991 - American and British authorities announce indictments against two Libyan intelligence officials
           in connection with the downing of the Pan Am Flight 103.
1991 - Cambodian Prince Norodom Sihanouk returns to Phnom Penh after thirteen years of exile.
1992 - Actress Peg Phillips (Northern Exposure), falls & breaks 3 fingers
1993 - "Kentucky Cycle" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 34 performances
1993 - "Twilight of the Golds" closes at Booth Theater NYC after 29 perfs
1993 - 23rd NYC Women's Marathon won by Uta Pippig in 2:26:24
1993 - 24th NYC Marathon won by Andres Espinosa in 2:10:04
1993 - Don Shula becomes winningest coach in NFL history
1993 - Puerto Rico votes against becoming the 51st US state
1994 - 1st trains for public run in Channel Tunnel under English Channel
1994 - Space shuttle STS-66 (Atlantis 13), lands
1996 - "Chicago" opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC
1996 - Texas Ranger Juan Gonzalez wins AL MVP
1997 - Colo Rockie Larry Walker wins NL MVP
1997 - Disney's "Lion King" sets Broadway record of $2,700,000 daily sale
2001 - War in Afghanistan: Afghan Northern Alliance fighters takeover the capital Kabul.
2002 - Argentina defaults on an $805 million World Bank payment.
2002 - The United States House of Representatives votes not to create an independent commission
           to investigate the September 11 attacks.
2007 - the last direct-current distribution by Con Edison was shut down.
2012 - A series of protests against austerity measures occur across Europe including Spain,
           Portugal, and Greece
2012 - CFBDSIR 2149-0403 is discovered, the closest rogue planet to earth (100 light-years away)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 14, 2013, 11:45:29 AM

This Day in History for 14th November


Famous Weddings

1677 - Prince Willem III Henry (14) marries English princess Mary Stuart (9)
1973 - Britain&#039;s Princess Anne marries commoner, Captain Mark Phillips at Westminster Abbey
1996 - King of Pop Michael Jackson (38) weds Debbie Rowe (38) in Sydney, Australia
1998 - Chicago Bulls NBA player Dennis Rodman (37) weds "Baywatch" actress Carmen Electra (26)
           at Little Chapel of the Flowers in Las Vegas, Nevada
1998 - "Can't Hardly Wait" actor Ethan Embry (20) weds Amelinda Smith
2009 - "Kings of Leon" drummer Nate Followill (33) weds singer Jessie Baylin (25) at the Wolf Den
           Farm in Brentwood, Tennessee

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 14, 2013, 12:06:06 PM

This Day in History for 14th November


Famous Birthdays

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Anatomist and Physiologist                        Impressionist Painter                     Physician Frederick Banting (1891)                         
Marie Francois Xavier Bichat (1771)              Claude Monet (1840)

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US Senator Joseph McCarthy (1909)

1511 - Janus Secundus, neo latin poet (Basia)
1567 - Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange (d. 1625)
1601 - Jean Eudes, French missionary (d. 1680)
1650 - Willem III Henry, [Dutch William], king of England (1689-1702)
1663 - Friederich Wilhelm Zachow, composer
1679 - Omobono Stradivari, Italian violin maker/son of Antonius
1719 - Johann Georg Leopold Mozart, composer
1740 - Johann van Beethoven, Ludwig van Beethoven's father and first teacher (d. 1792)
1746 - Giulio Gabrielli the Younger, Italian Cardinal
1765 - Robert Fulton, Little Britain, Pen., inventor and engineer (1st commercial steamboat), (d.
          1815)
1771 - Marie François Xavier Bichat, Paris, anatomist and physiologist (tissue theory), (d. 1802)
1774 - Gaspare Luigi Pacifico Spontini, composer
1776 - Henri Dutrochet, discovered & named process of osmosis
1778 - Johann Nepomuk Hummel, composer
1779 - Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger, Danish poet (d. 1850)
1796 - Carlo Conti, composer
1797 - Charles Lyell, Scotland, geologist (Principles of Geology)
1800 - Heinrich Ludwig Egmont Dorn, composer
1802 - August F Pott, German philologist (Etymology Forschungen)
1803 - Jacob Abbott, American writer (d. 1879)
1805 - Fanny Cacilia Mendelssohn Hensel, composer
1812 - Maria Christina of Savoy, queen of the Two Sicilies (d. 1836)
1814 - Michael Kelly Lawler, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), dies in 1882
1816 - John Curwen, composer
1822 - William Harrow, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1872
1823 - Robert J Fruin, historian (80 year war)
1825 - August Reissmann, composer
1827 - Isaac Wistar, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1905
1828 - James Birdseye MacPherson, Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1864
1829 - Giulio Roberti, composer
1833 - Antonius von der Linde, Neth/German librarian/chess player
1838 - August Senoa, Croatian author (Zlatarevo zlato)
1840 - Claude Monet, Paris, impressionist (Water Lilies), (d. 1926)
1842 - Walter Williams, claimed to be last survivor of Civil War (d 1959)
1845 - Allen Hill, cricketer (took the 1st wicket in Test cricket)
1845 - Johann Ernst Perabo, composer
1861 - Frederick Jackson Turner, Wisc, historian/educator (Harvard U)
1863 - Leo H A Baekeland, Belgian/US chemist (bakelite)
1875 - Jakob Schaffner, Swiss writer: Conrad Pilater
1875 - Gregorio del Pilar, Filipino general (d. 1899)
1877 - René de Clerq, Flemish poet/author (Emergency Horn)
1878 - Leopold Staff, Polish poet (d. 1957)
1878 - Julie Manet, French painter, daughter of Berthe Morisot (d. 1966)
1879 - Geoffrey Turton Shaw, composer
1880 - Eugene O'Brien, Boulder OH, actor (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm)
1883 - Nikolaos Plastiras, Greek premier (1945, 50, 51-52)
1885 - Sonia Delaunay, Russian born French artist
1887 - Bernhard Paumgartner, Austria, musicologist/conductor/composer
1887 - Louis A van Gasteren, Dutch actor/director (Willem van Oranje)
1889 - Jawaharlal Nehru, 1st Indian PM (1947-64)
1891 - Frederick Banting, Canadian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
           (d. 1941)
1892 - James Meredith, 800m runner (Olympic-gold-1912)
1893 - Carlo E Gadda, Italian engineer/writer (Madonna dei filosofi)
1893 - Evert S J Kruythoff, Ned Antillean author (conservation flora)
1893 - Piet Moeskops, Dutch world champ cyclist (1921-24, 26)
1894 - Harold Collett Dent, journalist/educationist
1894 - Seena Owen, Spokane WA, silent screen actress (Queen Kelly)
1895 - Walter Freeman, American physician (d. 1972)
1895 - Louise Huff, American actress (d. 1973)
1896 - Mamie G Doud Eisenhower, 1st lady (1953-61)
1897 - John Steuart Curry, US painter/lithographer (Baptism in Kansas)
1898 - Benjamin Fondane, Romanian-French writer and filmmaker (d. 1944)
1900 - Clara Fasano, sculptor
1900 - Aaron Copland, American composer (Billy the Kid, Appalachian Spring) (d. 1990)
1901 - Morton Downey, Wallingford Ct, singer (Star of the Family)
1904 - Alexey Semyonovich Zhivotov, composer
1904 - Dick Powell, Mt View Ark, actor (Cry Danger, Dick Powell Theater)
1904 - Harold Larwood, cricketer (England bodyline bowler)
1904 - Marya Mannes, NYC, author (The Reporter)
1905 - L H Ruitenberg, vicar/editor in chief (Reformed of Netherlands)
1905 - Sanoesi Pane, Indonesian author
1905 - John Henry Barbee, American guitarist and singer (d. 1964)
1906 - Louise Brooks, silent screen star (American Venus, Pandora's Box)
1907 - Astrid Lindgren, Swedish children book author (Pipi Longstocking)
1907 - Howard William Hunter, Mormon Church Leader
1907 - Pedro Arrupe, Spanish priest/Jesuit
1908 - Harrison E Salisbury, journalist/author (50th Anniv of Soviet Union)
1909 - Joseph McCarthy, US Senator and anti-communist lunatic, (Wisconsin)
1910 - Eric Lawson Malpass, writer
1910 - Norman MacCaig, poet
1910 - Rosemary DeCamp, Prescott Az, actress (Love That Bob, That Girl)
1912 - Barbara Hutton, heiress (Woolworth)
1914 - Eric John Crozier, producer/librettist
1914 - Florentine Rost van Tonningen-Heubel, Dutch black widow/Nazi
1914 - Ken Carson, Coalgate Oklahoma, singer (Garry Moore Show)
1915 - Edward Digby Baltzell, Ivy League sociologist
1916 - Sherwood Schwartz, Passaic NJ, TV creator (Brady Bunch, Gilligan Is)
1919 - Lisa Otto, German soprano
1920 - Johnny Desmond, Detroit Mich, singer (Your Hit Parade)
1921 - Brian Keith, Bayonne NJ, actor (Bill-Family Affair, Loneliest Runner)
1922 - Veronica Lake, [Constance Ockleman], actress (I Married a Witch) (d. 1973)
1922 - Boutros Boutros Ghali, Egyptian secretary-general of UN (1992- )
1922 - Marina Candael, Flemish dancer/choreography (Rhapsody in Blue)
1923 - Margaret Courtenay, actress (Royal Flash, Duet for One)
1924 - Arthur Frank "Peter" Shore, egyptologist
1924 - Billy Jim Layton, composer
1924 - Kenneth J Gray, (Rep-D-IL, 1955-75, 85- )
1924 - Leonid B Kogan, Dnepropetrovsk Russia, violinist (Lenin Prize-1952)
1924 - Phyllis Avery, NYC, actress (Alice-George Gobel Show, Ruth-Mr Novak)
1927 - Narciso Yepes, Lorca Spain, guitarist (Orquesta Nacionale 1947)
1927 - McLean Stevenson, American actor (d. 1996)
1928 - Kathleen Hughes, Hollywood California, actress (It Came From Outer Space)
1928 - Leonie Rysanek, dramatic soprano (Vienna Munich State Opera 1952-54)
1929 - Horst Janssen, graphic Artist
1929 - McLean Stevenson, Normal Ill, actor (M*A*S*H, Hello Larry)
1930 - Alan Moss, cricket pace bowler (England during 50's)
1930 - Edward H White II, San Antonio Texas, Lt Col USAF/astronaut (Gemini 4)
1930 - Ornelio Martina, Antillian author/governor of Curacao
1930 - Shirley Crabtree, professional wrestler (d. 1997)
1930 - Charles De Sorgher, Belgian bobsledder
1930 - Monique Mercure, French Canadian actress
1930 - Michael Robbins, British actor (d. 1992)
1930 - Dame Elisabeth Frink, Thurlow, Suffolk, English sculptor and printmaker
1931 - Claudia Jane Archibald, parapsychologist
1932 - Henk Mochel, Dutch TV host (Rondom tien)
1932 - Ramon Zupko, composer
1933 - Fred W Haise Jr, Biloxi Miss, astronaut (Apollo 13 STS T-1, T-3, T-5)
1934 - Ellis Marsalis, jazz musician
1934 - Roman A Gulyayev, cosmonaut
1934 - Kurt Hamrin, Swedish soccer player
1935 - Don Stewart, actor (Guiding Light)
1935 - Donald Edwin White, advertising copywriter/opera administrator
1935 - Gennadi Aleksandrovich Dolgopolov, cosmonaut
1935 - Hussein ibn Talal I, king of Jordan (1953- )
1935 - Jakusho Kwong, Santa Rosa California, head of Sonoma Mountain Zen Center
1936 - Cornell Gunther, Los Angeles California, musician (Coasters-Poison Ivy)
1939 - Wendy (Walter) Carlos, Pawtucket RI, composer (Switched on Bach)
1940 - Freddie Garrity, rocker (Freddie & the Dreamers-I'm Telling You Now)
1941 - Hermanus J Kriel, South African minister of Planning (1989- )
1942 - John Du Preez, cricketer (S Afr leg-spin all-rounder v Aust 1966-67)
1943 - Peter Norton, American software engineer
1944 - Aditya Biria, industrialist
1944 - Scherrie Payne, US singer (Supremes-Incredible)
1945 - Paul Hirsch, American film editor
1945 - Stella Obasanjo, Nigerian First Lady (d. 2005)
1947 - P J O'Rourke, writer (Easy Money)
1947 - Syanley "Buckwheat" Dural Jr, US accordionist (On Track)
1948 - Charles Philip Arthur George (Prince Charles), Prince of Wales/Duke of Cornwall
1948 - Jacob Kohnstamm, Dutch undersecretary of the Interior (D66, 1994-)
1948 - James Young, Chicago IL, rock guitarist (Styx)
1948 - Robert Ginty, Brooklyn New York, American actor (Paper Chase, White Fire)
1949 - Terry Lee Johnson, Alabama, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
1951 - Barry Brandt, Wash DC, rock drummer (Angel)
1951 - Sandahl Bergman, KC Missouri, actress (Conan, All that Jazz)
1951 - Stephen Bishop, rocker vocalist
1951 - Zhang Yimou, Chinese film director
1952 - Alec John Such, rocker
1952 - Ray Sharkey, Brooklyn NY, actor (Wise Guys, Wired, Caged Fear)
1953 - Phil Baron, American voice actor
1953 - Dominique de Villepin, Prime Minister of France
1954 - Bernard Hinault, French bicylist (Tour de France)
1954 - Yanni, new age musician (Live at the Acropolis, Sand Dance)
1954 - Condoleezza Rice, United States Secretary of State
1955 - Jack Sikma, NBA center (Seattle Supersonics, Milwaukee Bucks)
1955 - Willie Hernandez, pitcher (Cy Young Award)
1956 - Alec John Such, US pop bassist (Bon Jovi-Wanted Dead or Alive)
1956 - Kenneth D Bowersox, Portsmouth Va, USN/astro (STS 50, 61, 73, 82)
1957 - Frank Affolter, pianist/writer/composer (If Nobody Does)
1957 - Michael J Fitzgerald, American writer
1958 - Lynda Lehmann, Karoonda Australia, canoeist (Olympics-96)
1959 - Annie Schilder, Dutch singer (BZN)
1960 - Tom Judson, American actor and composer
1961 - D B Sweeney, actor (Cutting Edge, Fire in the Sky, Day in October)
1961 - Gordon Jennison Noice, American actor
1962 - Laura San Giacoma, Danville NJ, actress (Pretty Woman, Vital Signs)
1962 - Morgan Reeser, Fort Lauderdale Fla, 470 yachter (Olymp-8th-1992, 96)
1962 - Harland Williams, Canadian-born actor
1963 - Mike Prior, NFL defensive back (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1964 - Andrew, rocker (The Pasadenas-Riding on a Train)
1964 - Joseph "Run" Simmons, New York, American rapper (Run DMC)
1964 - Silken Laumann, Mississauga Ontario, rower (Oly-bronze, silver-92, 96)
1964 - Bill Hemmer, American television news reporter
1964 - Patrick Warburton, American actor
1964 - Rev Run, American rapper
1966 - Carl Coulter, CFL corner (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1966 - Curt Schilling, Anchorage AK, pitcher (Philadelphia Phillies)
1966 - Eric Hill, NFL middle linebacker (Arizona Cardinals)
1966 - Rod Harris, CFL slot back (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1966 - Petra Roßner, German cyclist
1967 - Letitia Dean, actress (Sharon Watts-EastEnders)
1967 - Matthew King, Brisbane QLD, Australasia golfer
1967 - Nina Gordon, American singer
1968 - Bob Christian, NFL running back (Carolina Panthers, Atlanta Falcons)
1968 - Claudia Porwik, Coburg Ger, tennis star (1995 Futures-Valladolid)
1968 - Kent Bottenfield, Portland Oregon, pitcher (Chicago Cubs)
1968 - Lionel Simmons, NBA forward (Sacramento Kings)
1968 - Serge Postigo, Canadian actor
1969 - Butch Walker, Rome Ga, heavy metal guitarist (Southgang-Tainted Angel)
1969 - David Webb, WLAF defensive end (Scottish Claymores)
1969 - Mark Henderson, US, 4X100m butterfly (Olympics-gold-96)
1969 - Sue Stewart, Toronto Ontario, basketball guard (Olympics-96)
1970 - Dana Stubblefield, NFL defensive tackle (SF 49ers)
1970 - Darrien Gordon, NFL cornerback (San Diego Chargers, Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1970 - David Wesley, NBA guard (Charlotte Hornets, Boston Celtics)
1970 - Derrick Hoskins, NFL safety (Oakland Raiders)
1970 - Dexter Nottage, NFL defensive end (Wash Redskins, KC Chiefs)
1971 - Adam Gilchrist, cricket wicket-keeper (hard-hit Australian ODI 1996)
1971 - Marco Leonardi, Italian-Australian actor
1972 - Aaron Taylor, NFL guard (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1972 - Ed Patterson, Delta, NHL right wing (Pitts Penguins)
1972 - Lori Dupuis, ice hockey forward (Canada, Oly-98)
1972 - Matthew Bloom, American professional wrestler
1972 - Edyta Górniak, Polish singer
1972 - Martin Pike, Australian rules footballer
1973 - Caroline Hall, Bristol England, golfer (Curtis Cup 1992)
1973 - DeRon Jenkins, cornerback (Baltimore Ravens)
1973 - Lawyer Milloy, strong safety (New England Patriots)
1973 - Dana Snyder, American voice actor
1973 - Moka Only, Canadian musician
1974 - David Moscow, actor (Big)
1974 - Adam Walsh, American murder victim (d. 1981)
1975 - Travis Barker, American musician (Blink-182, +44)
1975 - Faye Tozer, British musician (Steps)
1976 - Chris Demetral, Royal Oaks MI, actor (Dolly Dearest)
1977 - Heather Gray, Miss West Virginia Teen USA (1996)
1977 - Obie Trice, American rapper
1978 - Xavier Nady, American baseball player
1978 - Bobby Allen, American ice hockey player
1979 - Jean-Alain Boumsong, French footballer
1979 - Tobin Esperance, American musician (Papa Roach)
1979 - Mavie Hörbiger, German actress
1980 - Margot Contois, Marquette Mich, dance skater (& Robert Peal)
1980 - Brock Pierce, American actor
1981 - Tom Ferrier, British racing driver
1982 - Kyle Orton, American football player (Chicago Bears)
1983 - C E Gadda, writer
1983 - Lil Boosie, American rapper
1984 - Marija Šerifović, Serbian singer
1984 - Lisa De Vanna, Australian female footballer
1985 - Thomas Vermaelen, Belgian footballer
1989 - Jake Livermore, English footballer
1990 - Jessie Jacobs, Australian actress and singer (d. 2008)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 14, 2013, 12:14:27 PM

This Day in History for 14th November


Famous Deaths

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Key Figure of Medieval                              Education Pioneer Booker                 
Rus Alexander Nevsky (1263)                      T. Washington (1915)

563 - Justinian I (The Great), Byzantinian Emperor (527-563), dies at 82. Corpus Juris Civilis, civil law
         code, written during reign.
784 - Alberik I, bishop of Utrecht, dies
976 - T'ai tsu, emperor of China/founder of Sung-dynasty, dies
1226 - Frederick of Isenberg, German politician (executed) (b. 1193)
1263 - Alexander Nevsky, [Aleksandr], Grand Prince of Novgorod and Vladimir dies at 43
1359 - Gregorius Palamas, Byzantine mystic/archbishop/saint, dies
1391 - Nikola Tavelić, First Croatian saint (b. 1340)
1522 - Anne of France, daughter of French king Louis XI, Princess and French Regent (for her
           brother King Charles VIII during his minority). Born 1461
1556 - Giovanni della Casa, Italian poet (b. 1504)
1589 - Philipp Apianus [Bennewitz/Bienewitz], German geographer, dies at 58
1625 - Giulio C Procaccini, Italian sculptor/painter, dies
1633 - William Ames, English philosopher (b. 1576)
1673 - Michael Wisniowieki, King of Poland, dies
1687 - Eleanor "Nell" Gwyn, English mistress of King Charles II, dies at 37
1691 - Tosa Mitsuoki, Japanese painter (b. 1617)
1692 - Christoph Bernhard, German composer, dies at 64
1716 - Gottfried W Leibniz, German philosopher/theologist, dies at 70
1734 - Louise de Keroualle, English duchess/mistress of king Charles II, dies
1746 - Georg Steller, German naturalist (b. 1709)
1780 - Jacobus Houbraken, engraver/illustrator, dies at 81
1794 - Pieter Nieuwland, prodigy/"Dutch Newton", dies at 30
1804 - Agatha "Aagje" Blanket, literary (Sara Burgerhart), dies at 62
1817 - Policarpa Salavarrieta, Colombian revolutionary (b. 1795)
1825 - Jean Paul, writer, dies at 62
1829 - Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, French pharmacist (b. 1763)
1831 - Ignaz Joseph Pleyel, Austrian composer/piano builder, dies at 74
1832 - Charles Carroll, large landowner/signed Decl of Ind, dies at 95
1832 - Rasmus Rask, Danish language scholar, dies at 44
1841 - Thomas Bruce, Count of Elgin & Kincardine, British diplomat, dies
1842 - Henry de Cock, reform vicar, dies at 41
1844 - Flora Tristan, writer, dies at 41
1844 - John Abercrombie, British physician (b. 1780)
1860 - Feliks Ostrowski, composer, dies at 58
1866 - King Miguel of Portugal (b. 1802)
1902 - Paulus T van der Maesen the Sombreff, foreign minister, dies
1906 - Hendrik J Schimmel, author/dramatist, dies
1907 - Andrew Inglis Clark, Australian politician (b. 1848)
1908 - Kwang-siu, emperor of China, dies
1914 - Frederick Sleigh "Bobs" Roberts, governor of Natal, dies at 82
1914 - Vengayil Kunhiraman Nayanar, Malayalin journalist (b. 1861)
1915 - Booker T. Washington, educator/organizier, dies at 59 in Tuskegee Ala
1915 - Theodor Leschetizky, composer, dies at 85
1916 - Henry George, Jr., American politician (b. 1862)
1916 - Saki, British writer (b. 1870)
1917 - William Smith, British deserter in France, executed at 20
1922 - Carl Michael Ziehrer, composer, dies at 79
1925 - Agnes Marie Jacobina Zimmermann, composer, dies at 78
1929 - Joseph McGinnity, baseball pitcher (NY Giants), dies at 58
1935 - J Wouter[us] van Dieren, biologist (Terschelling), dies
1937 - Jack O'Connor, American baseball player (b. 1869)
1944 - Carl Flesch, Hungarian violinist (b. 1873)
1946 - Herman de Man, [Salomon H Hamburger], author/Radio Orange, dies
1946 - Manuel de Falla, Spanish composer (b. 1876)
1947 - Joseph Allard, French Canadian fiddler (b. 1873)
1955 - Robert E Sherwood, dramatist (Abe Lincoln in Illinois), dies at 59
1959 - Thomas Ross, actor (Without Limit), dies at 84
1960 - Walter Catlett, actor (Climax), dies of a stroke at 71
1962 - Manuel Galvez, Argentina writer/poet (Hombres & Soledad), dies at 80
1964 - Hendrik G Cannegieter, meteorology/director KNMI, dies at 85
1965 - George Bissett, cricketer (25 wickets in 4 Tests for South Africa), dies
1965 - Russell Collins, actor (Niagara, Close Up, Shockproof), dies at 68
1967 - Colonel C K Nayudu, cricketer (7 Tests for India in 30's), dies
1971 - William Bendeck, Bolivian rally driver (b. 1934)
1972 - Martin Dies, (Rep)/1st chairman of House Un-American, dies
1974 - Johnny Mack Brown, actor (Lawman is Born, Back Trail), dies at 70
1975 - Max Ackermann, German "entartet" painter, dies at 88
1977 - Richard Addinsell, English composer (Alice in Wonderland), dies at 73
1977 - A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Founder-Acarya of ISKCON (b. 1896)
1979 - Bill Farrimond, England cricket wicketkeeper (4 Tests 1930-35), dies
1981 - Robert Bradford, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1941)
1982 - Joachim Stutschewsky, composer, dies at 91
1984 - George Matthews, Brooklyn New York, American actor (Chick-Glynis), dies at 73
1984 - Cesar Climaco, Filipino politician (b. 1916)
1987 - Pieter Menten, Dutch war criminal, dies at 88
1990 - K L Poll, journalist/author, dies
1990 - Malcolm Muggeridge, WW II spy for Britain, dies at 87
1990 - Robert Mariano, entertainer, dies at 21
1991 - Tony Richardson, British director (Tom Jones), dies of AIDs at 63
1992 - Clem Beauchamp, US stuntman/director (Tarzan, Superman), dies
1992 - Earnest FH Happel, East German soccer/trainer/coach, dies
1992 - George Adams, US tenor saxophonist/flautist (Changes One), dies
1992 - Joop Van Nellen, soccer/trainer (DHC/"We go to Rome!"), dies
1992 - Robert Reese, producer, dies of natural causes at 66
1993 - Sanzo Nosaka, co-founder of Japanese Communist Party (1922), dies
1994 - Ferdinand J Kranenburg, director of queen (North Holland), dies at 83
1994 - Jake Dengel, US actor (Ragtime, Ironweed), dies at 61
1994 - John F Hampe, pathologist (Fabric & Stoflongen), dies at 83
1994 - John I M Stewart, detective writer (A Comedy of Terrors), dies at 88
1994 - Michael Grierson Jarrett, archaeologist, dies at 60
1994 - Tom Villard, American actor (b. 1953)
1995 - Jack Finney, author (Body Snatchers), dies of pneumonia at 84
1995 - Jack Walter Braden Finney, writer, dies at 84
1995 - John Lapworth Holt, boat Designer, dies at 83
1995 - John Lee Admiral-Barber, , dies at 90
1996 - Havelock Henry Trevor Hudson, lloyd's underwriter, dies at 77
1996 - Joseph Bernardin, cardinal Archbishop of Chicago, dies at 68
1996 - Liz Knights, publisher, dies at 41
1996 - Vera von der Heydt, psychoanalyst, dies at 96
1996 - Virginia Cherrill, actress (Lake Extra, Brat, City Lights), dies at 88
1997 - Eddie Arcaro, jockey (won 2 Triple Crowns), dies at 81
1997 - Stefan Lorant, writer/actor, dies at 96
2000 - Robert Trout, American journalist (b. 1908)
2001 - Charlotte Coleman, British actress (b. 1968)
2001 - Juan Carlos Lorenzo, Argentine footballer (b. 1922)
2002 - Eddie Bracken, American film actor (b. 1915)
2003 - Gene Anthony Ray, American actor (b. 1962)
2004 - Michel Colombier, French composer (b. 1939)
2010 - Wes Santee, American middle distance runner (b. 1932)
2012 - Brian Davies, Australia Rugby League player, dies at 82
2012 - Ahmed Jabari, Palestinian political activist, killed by an airstrike at 53

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 15, 2013, 02:13:19 PM

This Day in History for 15th November


Historical Events

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Spanish Conquistador                               Naturalist Charles Darwin             Soldier, author, journalist, politician
Francisco Pizarro                                                                                                         Winston Churchill

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32nd US President                                   Baseball Player Ted Williams             Singer & Cultural Icon Elvis Presley
Franklin D. Roosevelt

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American Baseball Player                           264th Pope John Paul II                    US President George H. W. Bush
Roger Maris


655 - Battle of Winwaed: Penda of Mercia is defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria.
1315 - Battle of Morgarten: Swiss beat duke Leopold I of Austria
1348 - Rudolph of Oron claims Jews have confessed to poisoning wells
1491 - Anne of Brittany becomes devoted to end "la guerre folle"
1492 - Christopher Columbus notes 1st recorded reference to tobacco
1492 - In La Guardia, Spain, 6 Jews & 5 Conversos are accused of ritual murder
1515 - Thomas Cardinal Wolsey is invested as a Cardinal
1527 - Treaty of Beautiful garden (emperor-ecclesiastical goods)
1532 - Pope Clemens VII tells Henry VIII to end relationship with Anna Boleyn
1533 - Francisco Pizarro arrives at Cuzco
1577 - Sir Francis Drake aboard Pelican travels from Chile to Washington
1583 - Gelders Earl Willem of the Bergh flees
1660 - 1st kosher butcher (Asser Levy) licensed in NYC (New Amsterdam)
1679 - English house of Commons accept Exclusion Bill
1688 - Prince Willem III's army lands at Torbay, England; the 'Glorious Revolution' commences
1715 - Barrier Treaty, Austria cedes area to Netherlands
1727 - NY General assembly permits Jews to omit phrase "upon the faith of a Christian" from
           abjuration oath
1763 - Charles Mason & Jeremiah Dixon begin surveying Mason-Dixon Line between Pennsylvania &
           Maryland
1777 - Articles of Confederation adopted by Continental Congress
1791 - 1st Catholic college in US, Georgetown, opens
1806 - 1st US college magazine, Yale Literary Government, publishes 1st issue
1806 - Explorer Zebulon Pike sights Pikes Peak (Colorado)
1813 - Allied troops occupies Groningen
1813 - Tax revolt in Amsterdam
1824 - Series of fires kills 10 in Edinburgh, Scotland
1826 - Dutch Business Me gets monopoly on opium trade in Java/Madura
1827 - Creek-indians lose all their property in US
1832 - Felix Mendelssohn's "Reformation," premieres
1835 - Charles Darwin reaches Tahiti on board HMS Beagle
1837 - Isaac Pitman introduces his shorthand system
1845 - Opera "Maritana" is produced (London)
1849 - 1st US poultry show opens in Boston
1854 - In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is given the
           necessary royal concession.
1864 - 1st US mines school opens in basement of Columbia University, NY
1864 - Union Major General Sherman leaves Atlanta on the "March to the Sea"
1869 - Free postal delivery formally inaugurated
1870 - Bathe becomes member of Noordduitse Union
1881 - American Federation of Labor (AFL) founded (Pittsburgh)
1882 - British HMS Flirt destroys village of Asaba Niger
1884 - Colonization of Africa orgainized at Intl conference in Berlin
1887 - British SS Wah Yeung catches fire on Canton River off Hong Kong
1889 - Dom Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil, deposed; republic proclaimed
1899 - Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill captured by Boers in Natal
1901 - James J Jeffries TKOs Gus Ruhlin in 6 for heavyweight boxing title in San Francisco
1902 - Leopold II, King of Belgium almost assassinated by Italian anarchist
1903 - Eugen d'Alberts opera "Tiefland" premieres in Prague
1904 - King C Gillette patents Gillette razor blade
1911 - Proclamation sets designs for Canadian $5 & $10 gold coins
1914 - Ital socialist Benito Mussolini founds newspaper Il populo d'italia
1919 - Senate 1st invokes cloture to end a filibuster (Versailles Treaty)
1920 - Ernst Toller's "Massen und Menschen" premieres in Neurenberg
1920 - Free City of Danzig forms under League of Nations protection
1920 - League of Nations holds 1st meeting, in Geneva
1921 - KYW-AM in Philadelphia PA begins radio transmissions
1922 - British Conservative Party wins election; /Labour Party comes second
1924 - Dutch Christian Radio Society (NCRV) forms
1926 - 1st formal radio network, RCA takes over AT&T 25 station Network (NBC)
1926 - AT&T sells WEAF radio to RCA (NYC)
1932 - Walt Disney Art School created
1934 - Nobel for chemistry awarded to Harold C Urey (deuterium)
1935 - Commonwealth of Philippines inaugurated
1936 - Nazi-Germany & Japan sign Anti-Komintern pact
1937 - 1st congressional session in air-conditioned chambers
1938 - 1st telecast of an unscheduled event (fire), W2XBT, NY
1938 - Farewell Parade of International Brigades in Barcelona
1939 - Anti-German demonstrations in Czechoslovakia
1939 - FDR lays cornerstone of Jefferson Memorial in Wash DC
1939 - Nazis begin mass murder of Warsaw Jews
1939 - Social Security Administration approves 1st unemployment check
1940 - 1st 75,000 men called to armed forces duty during peacetime
1940 - 1st black to sign hockey contract-Arthur Dorrington & AC Seagulls
1940 - NY Midtown tunnel linking Manhattan and Queens opens to traffic
1941 - Cow Palace opens in San Francisco
1941 - Yugoslav government in exile names Draza Mihailovic premier
1942 - World War II: First flight of the Heinkel He 219.
1944 - Surprise attack on office of Nethche Bank
1945 - The rules are revised for election of modern players to the Hall of Fame
1946 - House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) interrogates astronomer Harlow Shapley
1946 - Ted Williams is picked as AL MVP
1947 - Bradman scores his 100th 100, 172 v Indians at the SCG
1947 - Soccer team GVVV forms in Veenendaal
1948 - William Lyon Mackenzie King retires as PM of Canada
1949 - KRON TV channel 4 in San Francisco, CA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1949 - WSAZ TV channel 3 in Huntington-Charleston, NV (NBC) 1st broadcast
1950 - Arthur Dorrington, 1st black man in organized hockey is signed (Atl City Seagulls of Eastern
           Amateur Hockey League)
1951 - Cricket 1st-class debut of Hanif Mohammad, Pak XI v MCC, Lahore
1951 - NY Yankee Gil McDougald wins AL Rookie of Year
1953 - WIBW TV channel 13 in Topeka, KS (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting
1953 - WRBL TV channel 3 in Columbus, GA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 - 1st regularly scheduled commercial flights over North Pole begins
1955 - Poland & Yugoslavia sign trade agreement
1956 - "Li'l Abner" opens at St James Theater NYC for 693 performances
1956 - Elvis Presley's 1st film "Love Me Tender" premieres in NYC
1957 - US sentences Soviet spy Rudolf Ivanovich Abel to 30 years & $3,000
1959 - Robert White & Perry Smith murder four members of the Herbert Clutter Family at their farm
           outside Holcomb, Kansas.
1959 - Cleveland Browns' halfback Bobby Mitchell sets club record for longest run from scrimmage
           (90-yards), beat Wash 31-17
1960 - Elgin Baylor of NBA LA Lakers scores 71 points vs NY Knicks
1960 - USS G Washington, 1st sub with nuclear ballistic missiles, launched
1961 - Comet C/1961 T1 (Seki) approaches within 0.1019 AUs of Earth
1961 - Roger Maris is voted AL MVP
1961 - UN bans nuclear arms
1962 - Don Drysdale wins Cy Young Award
1964 - Ajax soccer star Johan Cruijff debuts against GVAV
1964 - KBYU TV channel 11 in Provo, UT (PBS) begins broadcasting
1964 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA San Antonio Civitan Golf Open
1964 - Mickey Wright shoots a 62, lowest golf score for a woman pro
1964 - Sudan Premier Ibrahim Abbud resigns
1965 - Craig Breedlove sets land speed record (600.601 mph-966.57 kph)
1966 - Gemini XII (Lovell & Aldrin) returns to Earth
1967 - Boston's Carl Yastrzemski wins AL MVP
1967 - Michael Adams in X-15 reaches 80 km
1967 - WLTV TV channel 23 in Miami, FL (IND) begins broadcasting
1967 - The only fatality of the X-15 program occurs during the 191st flight when Air Force test pilot
           Michael J. Adams loses control of his aircraft which is destroyed mid-air over the Mojave
           Desert.
1968 - 1st date in controversial Jim Bouton baseball diary "Ball Four"
1969 - 1st Jackson Five record to enter top 100 (I Want You Back)
1969 - 1st commercial ad on English TV: Birds-Eye Peas on ATV (Midland)
1969 - 250,000 peacefully demonstrate in Wash DC against Vietnam War
1969 - Janis Joplin, accused of vulgar & indicent language in Tampa, Fla
1969 - Wendy's Hamburgers opens
1971 - Intel advertises 4004-processor
1972 - Circle-in the-Square Theater opens at 1633 Broadway NYC
1972 - Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 48 launched to study gamma rays
1972 - White Sox Dick Allen wins AL MVP
1973 - Egypt & Israel exchange prisoners of war
1974 - Ringo Starr releases "Goodnight Vienna" & "Only You" in UK
1975 - Miss Teenage America Pageant
1976 - Syrian army conquerors Beirut
1977 - Pres Jimmy Carter welcomes Shah of Iran
1978 - 183 die as Icelandic Airlines DC-8 crashes in Colombo, Sri Lanka
1978 - Harold Pinter's "Betrayal," premieres in London
1978 - Pirates outfielder Dave Parker wins NL MVP
1979 - ABC-TV announces it would broadcast nightly specials on Iran hostage
1979 - British government identifies Sir Anthony Blunt, art advisor to the Queen, as 4th man in
           Soviet spy ring
1979 - A package from the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a flight
           from Chicago to Washington, forcing the plane to make an emergency landing.
1980 - Pope John Paul II began 5 day visit to West Germany
1981 - "Camelot" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 48 performances
1982 - Funeral service held in Moscow's Red Square for Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev
1983 - 75th hat trick in Islander history-Mike Bossy
1983 - Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus proclaimed
1985 - A research assistant is injured when a package from the Unabomber addressed to a
           University of Michigan professor explodes.
1986 - 2nd time Saturday Night Live uses a time delay (Sam Knison hosts)
1987 - 28 of 82 aboard Continental Airlines DC-9, die in crash at Denver
1987 - Carla Beurskens runs Dutch female record marathon (2:26:34)
1987 - Leile McBridge (Denver), crowned Miss Black America
1987 - NY Giant Raul Allegre kicks 2, 50 or more yard field goals in a game
1987 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1988 - 91 m radio telescope dish at Green Bank, WV, collapses
1988 - Dodgers outfielder Kirk Gibson wins NL MVP Award
1988 - PLO proclaims State of Palestine, recognizes Israeli existence
1988 - Soviet space shuttle makes unmanned maiden flight (2 orbits)
1988 - The first Fairtrade label, Max Havelaar, is launched in the Netherlands.
1989 - "Batman" is released on video tape
1989 - "Few Good Men" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 497 performances
1989 - Bret Saberhagen wins AL Cy Young Award
1989 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1989 - Test Cricket debut of Waqar Younis & Sachin Tendulkar at Karachi
1989 - Walter Davis (Denver) begins NBA free throw streak of 53 games
1990 - US President Bush signs Clear Air Act of 1990
1990 - Producers confirm that Milli Vanilli didn't sing on their album
1990 - US 68th manned space mission STS 38 (Atlantis 7) launches into orbit
1991 - Dow Jones avg drops 120.31 points (5th largest dive)
1991 - Ricky Pierce (Seattle) begins NBA free throw streak of 75 game
1992 - Cuban Ilyushin IL-18 flight to Puerto Plata crashes, 34 die
1992 - Praveen Amre scores century on Test Cricket debut (103 v SA, Durban)
1993 - Howard Stern radio show premieres in Myrtle Beach SC on WYAV 104.1 FM
1993 - Joe Buttafuoco sentence to 6 months for statutory rape of Amy Fisher
1993 - 13 Cuban refugees land in Florida after stealing a crop-duster in Cuba.
1994 - "Glass Menagerie" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 57 performances
1994 - 6.7-8.1 earthquake strikes Philippines, killing 45
1994 - Helmut Kohl elected German chancellor (341-340 votes)
1994 - Nepal Communist party Dutch Communist Party-UML wins election
1995 - "Master Class" opens at Golden Theater NYC for 601 performances
1995 - Space shuttle Atlantis docks with orbiting Russian space station Mir
1996 - "Into the Whirlwind" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 2 perfs
1997 - 19th ACE Cable Awards: HBO wins 32 awards
1999 - Next transit of Mercury visible in North America
2000 - A chartered Antonov AN-24 crashes after takeoff from Luanda, Angola killing more than 40
           people
2000 - New state of Jharkhand comes into existence in India
2002 - Hu Jintao becomes general secretary of the Communist Party of China.
2003 - The first day of the 2003 Istanbul Bombings takes place, to be followed by additional
           bombings on November 20.
2005 - Boeing formally launches the stretched Boeing 747-8 variant with orders from Cargolux and
           Nippon Cargo Airlines.
2007 - A devastating Cyclone named Sidr hit Bangladesh, killing an estimated 5000 people and
           destroyed the world's largest mangrove forest, Sundarbans.
2012 - At least 95 people are killed in Syrian conflicts
2012 - Deep Horizon Oil Spill: BP settles for $4.5 Billion

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Post by: MysteRy on November 15, 2013, 02:17:18 PM

This Day in History for 15th November


Famous Weddings

1997 - "Rescue 911" TV host and actor William Shatner (66) weds former Ford model Norine Kidd
           (37) in Pasadena, California
2005 - Emperor Akihito's daughter Princess Sayako (36) weds Yoshiki Kuroda (40) at the Imperial
           Hotel in Tokyo, Japan

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Post by: MysteRy on November 15, 2013, 02:21:35 PM

This Day in History for 15th November


Famous Divorces

2010 - "Single White Female" actress Jennifer Jason Leigh (48) divorces writer Noah Baumbach (41) due
           to irreconcilable differences after 5 years of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 15, 2013, 02:46:18 PM

This Day in History for 15th November


Famous Birthdays

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British Prime Minister                             Author and Nobel Laureate                    German WWII Field Marshal
(The Great Commoner)                            Gerhart Hauptmann (1862)                    Erwin Rommel (1891)
 William Pitt the Elder (1708)

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Zoophysiologist and Nobel Laureate
August Krogh (1874)


1316 - Jean I, King of France (Nov 15-19, 1316) (he lived only 5 days)
1397 - Nicholas V, [Tommaso Parentucelli], Italy, Pope (1447-55)
1498 - Eleonore of Austria, Queen of Portugal and France (d. 1558)
1556 - Jacques-Davy Duperron, French cardinal (d. 1618)
1559 - Albrecht, arch duke of Austrian/cardinal-archbishop of Toledo
1604 - Davis Mell, composer
1607 - Madeleine de Scudéry, French writer (d. 1701)
1619 - Philips Koninck, Amsterdams painter/etcher
1640 - Nicolaus Adam Strungk, composer
1660 - Hermann von der Hardt, German historian (d. 1746)
1661 - Christoph von Graffenried, Swiss settler in Americas (d. 1743)
1688 - Louis Bertrand Castel, French mathematician (d. 1757)
1692 - Eusebius Amort, German Catholic theologian (d. 1775)
1696 - Gerhardus Havingha, composer
1705 - Louis-Gabriel Guillemain, composer
1708 - William Pitt the Elder, London, British Prime Minister (Whig, 1756-61, 66-68), `Great
           Commoner', (d. 1778)
1731 - William Cowper, English lawyer/poet (John Gilpin) [OS]
1738 - F William Herschel, German/English astronomer (discovered Uranus)
1741 - Johann C Lavater, Swiss vicar/philosopher
1746 - Joseph Quesnel, French Canadian composer and playwright (d. 1809)
1755 - Jan Blanken, Dutch hydraulic engineer
1757 - Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher, Danish surgeon (d. 1830)
1774 - William Horsley, composer
1775 - Georges-Julien Sieber, composer
1784 - Jerome Bonaparte, King of Westphalia (d. 1860)
1793 - Michel Chasles, French mathematician (geometry)
1800 - George Rodwell, composer
1814 - Pleasant Adam Hackleman, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
1815 - John Banvard, NYC, painted worlds largest painting (3 mile canvas)
1816 - Joseph Bennett Plummer, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
1829 - Petrus A S van Limburg Brouwer, MP/critic (Akbar)
1836 - Pierce Manning Butler Young, Mjr Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1896
1840 - Aleksei N Apuchtin, Russian poet/friend of Tsjaikovski [NS=11/27]
1859 - Christopher Hornsrud, Prime Minister of Norway (d. 1960)
1862 - Adolf Bartels, German folk art writer
1862 - Gerhart Hauptmann, Obersalzbrunn, Germany, author (Before Dawn-Nobel 1912), (d. 1946)
1872 - Robert marquess of Flers, French author (Habit Vert)
1874 - August Krogh [Schack], Denmark, zoophysiologist (arterioles and capillaries, Nobel-1920), (d.
          1949)
1874 - Dimitrios Golemis, Greek athlete (d. 1941)
1878 - Bela Reinitz, composer
1879 - Lewis Stone, Worcester Mass, actor (Prisoner of Zenda)
1881 - Franklin P Adams, Chicago Ill, columnist (Information Please)
1882 - Felix Frankfurter, Vienna Aust, 80th Supreme Court Justice (1939-62)
1886 - René Guénon, French-Egyptian author (d. 1951)
1887 - Georgia O'Keefe, Sun Prairie Wisc, sculptor/painter (Cow's Skull)
1887 - Hitoshi Asida, Japanese politician
1887 - Marianne Moore, St Louis, poet (Pulitzer 1951, Collected Poems)
1887 - René Maran, Martinique, author (Batouala, Prix Goncourt)
1888 - James Morrison, Mattoon IL, actor (Little Detectives)
1890 - Richmal Crompton, British author (d. 1969)
1891 - Erwin Rommel, German Field Marshal (WW II-African campaign)
1891 - W Averell Harriman, US, (Gov-D-NY)/ambassador to USSR (1943-46)
1895 - Ina Claire, actress (Claudia, Ninotchka, Rebound)
1895 - Antoni Słonimski, Polish writer (d. 1976)
1897 - Sacheverell Sitwell, English poet/author (People's Palace)
1897 - Aneurin Bevan, British politician (d. 1960)
1898 - Willy Alfredo, [Willem Jue], Dutch entertainer/poet (Fish-Trap)
1899 - Avdy Andresson, Estonian statesman (d. 1990)
1899 - Iskander Mirza, first President of Pakistan (d. 1969)
1902 - Frederico Freitas, composer
1903 - Stewie Dempster, cricketer (1st great NZ Test batsman)
1904 - Tilly Losch, Vienna Austria, actress (Garden of Allah)
1906 - Curtis E Le May, air force general/VP candidate
1907 - Count Claus Schenck von Stauffenberg, German anti fascist colonel
1909 - Don Large, Canada, choral director (Wayne King)
1913 - Rick Schagen, Dutch actress (Saartje-Swiebertje)
1913 - Arthur Haulot, Belgian journalist (d. 2005)
1914 - Gheorghe Dumitrescu, composer
1914 - Jorge Bolet, Havana Cuba, pianist (C'eurties Instituka)
1916 - Dame Ruth Nita Barrow, governor-general of Barbados
1917 - Gerardus H de Bold, bishop of Breda (1962-67)
1919 - Carol Bruce, [Shirley Levy], Great Neck NY, actress (Lillian-WKRP)
1919 - Joseph Albert Wapner, La, judge (People's Court)
1922 - Francesco Rosi, Naples Italy, director (Lucky Luciano)
1922 - Giorgio Manganelli, writer
1922 - Paul Acket, Dutch publisher/organizer (Music Express, North Sea Jazz)
1923 - Peter Hammond, London England, actor (Buccaneers)
1925 - Howard Baker, (Sen-R-Tenn), presidential chief of staff
1925 - Jurriaan Andriessen, [Leslie Cool], Dutch pianist/composer
1925 - Yuli Daniel, Russian writer (d. 1988)
1927 - Gregor Mackenzie, British politician (d. 1992)
1928 - C. W. McCall, American singer
1928 - John Orchard, British actor (d. 1995)
1928 - William Heirens, Evanston, Illinois, serial killer (Lipstick Killer), (d. 2012)
1929 - Edward Asner, KC Kansas, actor (Mary Tyler Moore Show, Lou Grant)
1930 - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard, China, sci-fi author (Drowned World)
1930 - Whitman Mayo, NYC, actor (Grady-Sanford & Son)
1931 - Jan Terlouw, Dutch MP (D-66)/author (Winters in Wartime)
1931 - John Kerr, NYC, actor (South Pacific, Peyton Place, Pit & Pendulum)
1931 - Mwai Kibaki, President of Kenya
1931 - Pascal Lissouba, Congo politician
1932 - Clyde L McPhatter, Durham NC, singer (Drifters-Treasure My Love)
1932 - Petula Clark, Surrey England, rock vocalist (Downtown, My Love)
1933 - Barbara Carson, Memphis Tn, actress (Comedy Tonight, Carter Country)
1933 - Jack Burns, Boston Mass, comedian (Burns & Schreiber)
1934 - Joanna Barnes, Boston, actr (Parent Trap, Spartacus, Goodbye Charlie)
1934 - Peter Dickinson, composer
1935 - Ariston Muguranayanga Chambati, politician/businessman
1935 - Peter John Welding, record producer
1936 - Wolf Biermann, writer
1937 - William E "Little Willie" John, [Woods], US R&B singer (Fever)
1937 - Jimmy Ellis, RockHill, South Carolina, soul singer (The Trammps - Disco Inferno), (d. 2012)
1939 - Yaphet Kotto, New York City, New York, African-American actor (Alien, Homicide: Life on the
           Street)
1939 - Erik Hansen, Denmark, 1K kayak (Olympic-gold-1960)
1939 - Thalmus Rasulala, [Jack Crowder], Miami Fla, actor (Blacula, Roots)
1940 - Sam Waterson, Cambridge Massachusetts, American actor (Capricorn One, Heaven's Gate)
1940 - Ulf Pilgaard, Danish actor
1941 - Daniel Manus Pinkwater, US, sci-fi author (Magic Moscow)
1942 - Daniel Barenboim, Buenos Aires Argentinia, pianist/conductor
1943 - Roger Donaldson, director (Cocktail, Cadillac Man, White Sands)
1945 - Anni-Frid Lyngsdtad, [Fryeda Anderson], Sweden, rocker (ABBA)
1945 - Bob Gunton, American actor
1946 - Janet Lennon, Culver City California, singer (Lennon Sisters)
1947 - William B Richardson, (Rep-D-New Mexico, 1983- )
1948 - Roy P Dyson, (Rep-D-MD, 1981- )
1950 - Mac Maurice Wilkins, discus thrower (1st to break 70m)
1951 - Dave Zelmon, rocker
1951 - Beverly D'Angelo, Columbus, Ohio, American actress (National Lampoon's Vacation)
1952 - "Macho Man" Randy Savage, [Poffo], Sarasota FL, wrestler (WWF/SMW/ICW)
1952 - Zoltán Buday, Hungarian born actor
1953 - Alexander O'Neal, Minneapolis, rocker (James Hearsky Harris III)
1953 - Yuri Viktorovich Prikhodko, Russian cosmonaut
1954 - Ab Bryant, rock bassist/vocalist (Chilliwack)
1954 - Aleksander Kwaśniewski, former President of Poland
1955 - Oliver Conant, NYC, actor (Summer of '42)
1955 - Georgie Born, English academic, anthropologist and musician (Henry Cow)
1955 - Henry Corra, American documentarian
1956 - Ashley Cox, Dallas Texas, playmate (December, 1977)
1956 - Brian Douglas Wells, American criminal (d. 2003)
1957 - Joe Leeway, rocker (Thompson Twins)
1957 - Kevin Eubanks, bandleader (Tonight Show)
1957 - Ray McKinnon, American film actor/director
1958 - Marty Davis, San Jose Cat, tennis star
1961 - Ian Reid, Australian educator
1963 - Gideon Joe Ng, Toronto Ontario, table tennis player (Olympics-96)
1963 - Michele McAnany, Los Angeles California, female infielder (Colo Silver Bullets)
1965 - Stefan Pfeiffer, German swimmer
1966 - Petra Huber, Austria, tennis star
1966 - Rachel True, American actress
1967 - Greg Anthony, NBA guard (Vancouver Grizzlies, Seattle Supersonics)
1967 - Harvey Franklin, WLAF WR (Amsterdam Admirals)
1967 - Laura Garrone, Italy, tennis star
1967 - Michiyoshi Ohara, wrestler (WAR/NJPW)
1967 - Pedro Borbon, Mao Dom Rep, pitcher (Atlanta Braves)
1967 - Scott Schrader, California, Canadian Tour golfer (1992 Golden State)
1967 - Gustavo Poyet, Uruguayan footballer
1967 - E-40, American rapper
1967 - François Ozon, French film director
1968 - Brenda Alyce Bassett, Kokomo Indiana, Miss Indiana-America (1991)
1968 - James Brady, Brooklyn NY, columnist (NY Post)
1968 - Jennifer Charles, American singer/songwriter
1968 - Ol' Dirty Bastard, American rapper (d. 2004)
1969 - Helen Kelesi, Canada, tennis star
1969 - Peter Martin, cricketer (Lancashire & England pace bowler 1995)
1969 - Shane Mack, American politician
1970 - Cecil Doggette, WLAF cornerback (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1970 - Karin van Breeschoten, Rotterdam Holland, playmate (Sept, 1989)
1970 - Lesley Reddon, ice hockey goalie (Canada, Oly-98)
1970 - Mirjam van Breeschoten, Rotterdam Holland, playmate (Sept, 1989)
1970 - Jack Ingram, American singer and songwriter
1970 - Patrick Mboma, Cameroonian footballer
1971 - Natalia Medvedeva, Kiev Ukraine, tennis star (1993 Prague Essen)
1971 - Rohan Robinson, Australian hurdler (Olympics-96)
1971 - Sandra Kim, [Caldarone], French singer (J'aime la Vie)
1971 - Jay Harrington, American actor
1972 - Christian van der Weerden, Dutch soccer player (NEC, Vitesse)
1972 - Greg Bloedorn, NFL center (Seattle Seahawks)
1972 - Jonny Lee Miller, English actor
1973 - Jason Dunn, tight end (Philadelphia Eagles)
1973 - Jorge Diaz, guard (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1973 - Rachel Kathleen English, Thomaston Ga, Miss America-Georgia (1996)
1973 - Sydney Tamiia Poitier, American actress
1974 - Fred Brock, wide receiver (Arizona Cardinals)
1974 - Chad Kroeger, Canadian singer
1975 - Scott Henshall, British fashion designer
1975 - Yannick Tremblay, Canadian ice hockey player
1976 - Jessica Amey, Montreal Quebec, 100m butterfly/4 x 100 (Olympics-96)
1976 - Brandon DiCamillo, American comedian
1976 - Virginie Ledoyen, French actress
1977 - Peter Mark Andrew Phillips, 9th in succession to British throne
1977 - Logan Whitehurst, American musician (d. 2006)
1979 - Josemi, Spanish footballer
1979 - Brett Lancaster, Australian cyclist
1980 - Ace Young, American singer
1981 - Natalie Lacuesta, Chicago Ill, rhythmic gymnast (Olympics-96)
1981 - Lorena Ochoa, Mexican golfer
1981 - Drew Hodgdon, American football player
1982 - D. J. Fitzpatrick, National Football League kicker
1982 - Lofa Tatupu, National Football League
1982 - Joe Kowalewski, American football player
1983 - DJ Skee, American DJ/Personality
1983 - Laura Smet, French actress
1983 - Fernando Verdasco, Spanish tennis player
1986 - Sania Mirza, Indian tennis player
1986 - Jeffree Star, American model, fashion designer, make-up artist and singer-songwriter
1987 - Isaiah Osbourne, English footballer
1987 - Ian Hecox, Member of Smosh
1988 - Zena Grey, American actress
1990 - Kanata Hongō, Japanese actor
1991 - Shailene Woodley, American Actress
1993 - Saaya Irie, Japanese Actress, singer

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Post by: MysteRy on November 15, 2013, 02:49:00 PM

This Day in History for 15th November


Famous Deaths

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Astronomer Johannes Kepler (1630)


655 - Penda, King of Mercia
1028 - Constantine VIII Byzantine Emperor (b. 960)
1136 - Margrave Leopold III of Austria (b. 1073)
1194 - Margaretha van Elzas, wife of count Boudouin V of Henegouwen, dies
1280 - Albertus Magnus the Great, German leader/bishop Regensburg, dies at 87
1463 - Giovanni Antonio del Balzo Orsini, Prince of Taranto and Constable of Naples
1544 - King Jungjong of Joseon (b. 1506)
1579 - Ferenc Dávid, Hungarian religious reformer (b. 1510)
1628 - Roque Gonzales, Paraguayan missionary (b. 1576)
1629 - Bethlen Gabor, King of Hungary (1620-29), dies at 49
1630 - Johannes Kepler, German astronomer, dies at 58
1634 - Johann Staden, composer, dies at 53
1658 - Jacobus Revius, [Reefsen], theologist/writer/poet, dies at about 72
1670 - Jan Amos Komensky [Comenius], Czech-speaking Moravian teacher, educator and writer, dies
           at 78
1691 - Albert Cuyp, landscape painter, buried at 71
1706 - Tsangyang Gyatso, 6th Dalai Lama (b. 1683)
1712 - Charles Mohun, 4th Baron Mohun, English politician (b. 1675)
1712 - James Douglas, 4th Duke of Hamilton, Scottish nationalist (b. 1658)
1787 - Christoph W Ritter von Gluck, composer (Iphigénie Tauride), dies at 73
1788 - Peregrinus Pogl, composer, dies at 77
1795 - Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo, French painter (b. 1719)
1812 - Eagle Fokke Simonsz, writer (Year 3000), dies at about 57
1815 - Johann Lukas Schubaur, composer, dies at 65
1819 - Daniel Rutherford, Scottish chemist and physician (b. 1749)
1831 - Vincenc Masek, composer, dies at 76
1832 - Jean Baptiste Say, French economist, dies at 63
1842 - Joseph Rastrelli, composer, dies at 43
1848 - P Rossi, Italian, murdered
1853 - Queen Maria II of Portugal (b. 1819)
1863 - Frederik VII, 1st constitutional king of Denmark (childless), dies
1892 - Thomas Neill Cream, Scottish serial killer, is executed at 42
1897 - John Mercer Langston, US black jurist, dies at 67
1907 - Horatio Richmond Palmer, composer, dies at 73
1908 - Cixi [the old Buddha], empress-widow of China, dies
1908 - Tz'u-hsi (Cixi), empress of China, dies at 73
1910 - Wilhelm Raabe, [Jakob Corvinus], German author, dies at 79
1916 - Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish author, Nobel laureate (b. 1846)
1918 - Georges Antoine, composer, dies at 26
1919 - Alfred Werner, Swiss chemist (Nobel 1913), dies
1919 - Mohammad Farid, an influential Egyptian political figure.
1931 - Cornelis A J van Dishoeck, publisher, dies
1933 - Affie Jarvis, cricketer (11 Tests for Australia, 9 catches), dies
1934 - Anton CR Dreesmann, German/Neth's manufacturer (Devout & D), dies
1938 - George Glover, cricketer (Test for South Africa 1895-96), dies
1944 - Maarten Reuchlin, resistance fighter, executed
1954 - Lionel Barrymore, [Blythe], actor (Dr Kildare, Key Largo), dies at 76
1955 - Lloyd Bacon, director (Fuller Brush Girl, 42nd Street), dies at 65
1958 - Tyrone Power, actor (Mark of Zorro), dies of a heart attack at 44
1959 - Alex Kennedy, cricketer (31 wkts in 5 Tests for England 1922-23), dies
1961 - Douglas Walton, actor (Bad Lands), dies of heart attack at 51
1961 - Elsie Ferguson, American actress (Footlights, Scarlet Pages), dies at 78
1963 - Fritz Reiner, Hung/US conductor (Chicago Symphony Orch), dies at 74
1966 - Dimitrios Tofalos, Greek weightlifter (b. 1877)
1967 - Alice Lake, silent screen actress (Frisco Kid, Wicked), dies at 72
1967 - Michael James Adams, USAF pilot (X-15), dies in X-15 crash at 37
1969 - Roy D'Arcy, actor (Lovers, Actress), dies at 75
1971 - Rudolf Abel, Soviet spy (b. 1903)
1971 - Edie Sedgwick, American actress and model (b. 1943)
1974 - James Morrison, actor (Don't, Black Beauty), dies on his 86th birthday
1975 - Willem Scheps, Dutch journalist, dies at 77
1976 - Jean Gabin, French actor (Quai des Brumes), dies at 72
1978 - Margaret Mead, anthropologist (Thoughts & Female), dies in NY at 76
1980 - Annunzio Mantovani, Italian orchestra leader (Mantovani), dies at 75
1981 - Enid Markey, actress (Foolish Mothers, Civilization), dies at 85
1982 - Martin De Alzaga, Argentine racing driver (b. 1901)
1983 - John Le Mesurier, British actor (Jabberwocky, Dad's Army), dies at 71
1984 - Baby Fae, who received a baboon's heart, dies at 3 weeks
1985 - Spencer W Kimball, US head of mormon church, dies at 90
1986 - Alexandre Tansman, Polish composer (Dyptique), dies at 89
1988 - Mona Washbourne, actress (Blue Bird, Games), dies at 84
1990 - Bill E Herndon, actor (Rivals), dies at 54
1990 - Alydar, American racehorse (b. 1975)
1993 - Luciano Liggio, Italian mafia leader/painter, dies
1993 - Mouin Shabaita, Palestinian al-Fatah commandant, murdered
1993 - Theo Huizenaar, Dutch boxing trainer (Bep van Klaveren), dies at 93
1994 - Anthony Ward, writer, dies at 57
1994 - James Winston Watts, developer of the Frontal Lobotomy, dies at 90
1994 - Janet Ahlberg, illustrator, dies at 50
1994 - Volodymyr Ivashko, Pres of Ukraine (1990-91), dies
1994 - Elizabeth George Speare, American author (b. 1908)
1995 - Eve Perrick, journalist, dies at 78
1995 - Herbert Delauney Bill Hughes, educationist, dies at 81
1995 - Kristian Lundin, record producer, dies at 22
1996 - Alger Hiss, former alleged spy/lawyer, dies at 92
1997 - Saul Chaplin, director (West Side Story), dies at 85
1997 - William Perrie, prison governor, dies at 79
1998 - Ludvik Danek, Czechoslovak discus thrower (b. 1937)
1998 - Stokely Carmichael, American civil rights activist (b. 1941)
2002 - Myra Hindley, English murderess (b. 1942)
2003 - Speedy West, Country Music Hall of Fame Steel Guitarist (b. 1924)
2003 - Ray Lewis, Canadian athlete (b. 1910)
2003 - Dorothy Loudon, American actress and singer (Annie), dies of cancer at 78
2003 - Laurence Tisch, American businessman (b. 1923)
2004 - Elmer L. Andersen, Governor of Minnesota (b. 1909)
2004 - John Morgan, Canadian comedian (b. 1930)
2005 - Dr. Adrian Rogers, American Southern Baptist Minister and leader (b. 1931)
2005 - Arto Salminen, Finnish writer (b. 1959)
2006 - Ana Carolina Reston, Brazilian model (b. 1985)
2006 - David K. Wyatt, American historian (b. 1937)
2007 - Joe Nuxhall, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1928)
2009 - Patriarch Pavle of Serbia, 44th Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church (b. 1914)
2010 - Ed Kirkpatrick, American baseball player (b. 1944)
2010 - Larry Evans, American chess grandmaster and journalist (b. 1932)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 16, 2013, 01:47:01 PM

This Day in History for 16th November


Historical Events

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Naturalist Charles Darwin                             Spanish Conquistador                     President and Dictator of Brazil
                                                                         Francisco Pizarro                                 Getulio Vargas

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Gangster Al Capone                                 Basketball Player Bill Russell             Musician and Beatle John Lennon

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Musician & member of the Beatles         Heavyweight Boxing Champion
Paul McCartney                                       Mike Tyson


13 - General Tiberius' (later Emperor) triumphant procession through Rome after siege of Germany
534 - A second and final revision of the Codex Justinianus is published.
1380 - French King Charles VI declares no taxes for ever
1491 - An auto de fe, held in the Brasero de la Dehesa outside of Ávila, concludes the case of the
           Holy Child of La Guardia with the public execution of several Jewish and converso suspects.
1532 - Francisco Pizarro captures Incan emperor Atahualpa after victory at Cajamarca
1572 - Troops under Don Frederik (the Spanish General Fadrique Alvarez de Toledo) occupy and
           plunder Zutphen, Nmetherlands
1632 - Battle at Lutzen: Sweden beats imperial armies under Von Wallenstein
1676 - 1st colonial prision organized, Nantucket Mass
1677 - French troops occupy Freiburg
1700 - Monarch of Brandenburg becomes king of Prussia
1763 - English journalist John Wilkes injured in a duel
1764 - Native Americans surrender to British in Indian War of Chief Pontiac
1771 - West Indian Company & Amsterdam divide up Suriname
1776 - 1st gun salute for an American warship in a foreign port - US Andrew Doria at Ft St Eustatius
1776 - British troops captured Fort Washington during American Revolution
1798 - Kentucky becomes 1st state to nullify an act of Congress
1801 - 1st edition of New York Evening Post
1805 - Battle at Schongrabern: Russian army stop French
1824 - NY City's Fifth Avenue opens for business
1835 - Charles Darwin's voyage published in Cambridge Philosophical Society
1841 - Life preservers made of cork are patented by Napoleon Guerin (NYC)
1849 - A Russian court sentences Fyodor Dostoevsky to death for anti-government activities linked
           to a radical intellectual group; his sentence is later commuted to hard labor.
1856 - Amsterdam post office at Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal opens
1859 - Aleksandr Ostrovsky's "Groza," premieres in Moscow
1863 - Battle of Campbell's Station TN, 492 casualities
1864 - Confederate retreat at Lovejoy, Georgia
1864 - Union General William T Sherman begins march to sea during Civil War
1870 - Spanish Cortes selects King Amadeus I
1875 - Battle of Gundet: Ethiopian emperor Yohannes beats Egyptians
1875 - William Bonwill, patents dental mallet to impact gold into cavities
1882 - British HMS Flirt fires at & destroys Abari village in Niger
1885 - Canadian rebel leader of the Métis and "Father of Manitoba", Louis Riel is executed for treason
           aged 41.
1894 - 6,000 Armenians massacred by Turks in Kurdistan
1894 - French capt Henri Decoeurs troops reach Nikki West Africa
1901 - 3 autos race on Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn, fastest speed achieved by Henry Fournier who
           drives a mile in 51 4/5 seconds
1903 - V Herbert & H Smith' musical "Babette" premieres in NYC
1905 - Neth/Russ Count Witte becomes premier of Russia
1907 - Oklahoma becomes the United States 46th state
1908 - Arturo Tuscanini begins conducting NY's Metropolitan Opera
1909 - EVV Eindhoven soccer team forms
1914 - Federal Reserve System formally opens
1914 - Pope Benedict XV calls for peace
1916 - Eugene O'Neill's "Bound East for Cardiff" premieres in NYC
1916 - I Berlin/V Herbert/H Blossoms musical premieres in NYC
1916 - Russian La Satannaya ammunitions factory explodes, killing 1,000
1917 - British occupy Tel Aviv and Jaffa
1918 - Hungarian People's Republic declared
1919 - Admiral Horthy conquerors Budapest from Béla Kuns Soviet Republic
1920 - Australia's Qantas airways founded in Winton, Queensland as Queensland and Northern
           Territory Aerial Services Limited
1920 - 1st postage stamp meter is set in Stamford Conn
1922 - Pope Pius XI calls on Belgian people to unite
1922 - Turkish kalief/sultan Mehmed VI asks British army for help
1924 - Cleveland Bulldogs lose to Frankford Yellowjackets, ends 31-game undefeated streak (NFL &
           major-league football record)
1925 - American Association for Advancement of Atheism forms (NY)
1925 - Philip Barry's "In a Garden," premieres in NYC
1926 - NY Rangers 1st game, beat Montreal Maroons 1-0
1933 - Brazilians President Getulio Vargas names himself dictator
1933 - Roosevelt establishes diplomatic relations with USSR
1935 - Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart's musical "Jumbo," premieres in NYC
1936 - German air force begins bombing of Madrid
1938 - K B Regiment refuses round-table conference in East-India
1938 - LSD is first synthesized by Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann at the Sandoz Laboratories in
           Basel, Switzerland.
1939 - Al Capone freed from Alcatraz jail
1939 - German U-boat torpedoes tanker Sliedrecht near Ireland
1940 - World War II: In response to Germany's leveling of Coventry, England two days before, the
           Royal Air Force bombs Hamburg.
1941 - German troops conquer Kertsh (probably)
1942 - Assault of US B-17 Flying Fortresses on airport at Sidi Ahmed
1943 - World War II: American bombers strike a hydro-electric power facility and heavy water factory
           in German-controlled Vemork, Norway.
1944 - US 9th division & 1st Army attacks at Geilenkirchen
1945 - Yeshiva College (Univesity), chartered in NY, 1st US Jewish College
1945 - UNESCO is founded.
1947 - 15,000 demonstrate in Brussels against mild sentence of nazis
1948 - Operation Magic Carpet - 1st plane from Yemen carrying Jews to Israel
1950 - Egyptian king Faruk demands departure of all British troops
1950 - UN gets US government approval to issue postage stamps
1950 - US pres Harry Truman proclaims emergency crisis caused by communist threat
1952 - Papagos' Greek Concentratie wins Greeks parliamentary election
1955 - 1st speed-boat to exceed 200 mph (322 kph) (Donald Campbell)
1955 - Johnny Cash made his 1st chart appearance with "Cry Cry Cry"
1955 - KLM orders 8 DC-8's
1955 - Sultan Sidi Mohammed Ben Yussuph V returns to Morocco
1957 - "Copper & Brass" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 36 perfs
1957 - Celtic Bill Russell sets NBA record of 49 rebounds beat Phila 111-89
1957 - Ed Gein butchers last victim
1957 - Okla's NCAA win streak ends at 47 after losing to Notre Dame 7-0
1959 - "Sound of Music" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 1443 perfs
1960 - NL batting champion Dick Groat wins MVP
1961 - Great Britain limits immigration from Commonwealth countries
1962 - Kuwait adopts constitution (1st, Islamitic)
1962 - Wilt Chamberlain of NBA SF Warriors scores 73 points vs NY Knicks
1963 - Toledo, OH newspaper strike began
1963 - Touch-tone telephone introduced
1964 - Radio CJCX Sydney Nova Scotia (Canada) starts shortwave transmission
1964 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1965 - Venera 3 launched, 1st to land on another planet (crashes into Venus)
1965 - Walt Disney launches Epcot Center: Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow
1966 - Dr Sam Sheppard freed after 9 years in jail, by a jury
1966 - Pirates outfielder Roberto Clemente is named NL MVP
1969 - 1968 massacre of civilians at Mylai S Vietnam, by US is 1st reported
1972 - "Dear Oscar" opens at Playhouse Theater NYC for 5 performances
1973 - John Lennon releases "Mind Games" album
1973 - Pres Nixon authorizes construction of Alaskan pipeline
1973 - Skylab 4 launched into Earth orbit
1974 - 1st intentional interstellar radio message sent, Arecibo telescope towards M 41, a cluster of
           stars some 25,000 light years away
1974 - John Lennon's only solo #1 "Whatever Gets You Through the Night"
1974 - Milwaukee Bucks lose their 11th straight NBA game (team record)
1975 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Jacksonville Ladies Golf Open
1976 - René Levesque's "Parti Québécois" wins elections in Quebec
1976 - Rick Barry (SF), ends then longest NBA free throw streak of 60
1977 - Rod Carew wins AL MVP award
1978 - Major Indoor Soccer League holds its 1st draft
1979 - Paul McCartney releases "Wonderful Christmas"
1980 - Tampa Bay Buccaneer QB Doug Williams throws for 486 yards
1981 - "Merrily We Roll Along" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 16 performances
1981 - Dennis Lillee kicked Javed Miandad, who waved his bat at Dennis
1982 - 5th Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 5-lands at Edwards AFB
1982 - Aggrement reached ending 57 day football strike
1982 - Space Shuttle Columbia completes its 1st operational flight
1982 - Tom Stoppard's "Real Thing" premieres in London
1983 - Kapil Dev takes 9-83 v WI at Ahmedabad, but India still lose
1984 - 14th Shuttle Mission (51A) -Discovery 2- lands at Kennedy Center
1984 - Houston blocks 20 Denver shots tying NBA regulation game record
1984 - Imran Khan makes his 1st appearance for NSW Cricket
1984 - John Lennon releases 'Every Man has a Woman Who Loves Him'
1987 - Paul McCartney releases "Once Upon a Long Ago"
1988 - Estonia declares sovereignty in internal affairs
1988 - Jose Canseco is 1st unanimous AL MVP since Reggie Jackson
1988 - Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto's PPP wins 1st free Pakistani elections in 11 years
1988 - Robin Givens sues Mike Tyson for $125 million for libel
1989 - "Gypsy" opens at St James Theater NYC for 477 performances
1989 - 6 Jesuit priests are killed by El Salvadorian troops
1989 - South Africa president FW de Klerk announces scrapping of Separate Amenities Act
1989 - UNESCO adopts the Seville Statement on Violence at the twenty-fifth session of its General
           Conference.
1990 - Manuel Noriega claims US denied him a fair trial
1993 - "Any Given Day" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 32 performances
1993 - Jim Carrey files for divorce from Melissa
1993 - Russian President Yeltsin shuts Lenin museum
1995 - US Attorney General Janet Reno announces she has Parkinson's disease
1995 - Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother undergoes hip surgery
1996 - "Into the Whirlwind" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 2 perfs
1996 - 18th ACE Cable Awards: HBO wins 28 awards
1997 - "1776" closes at Criterion Theater NYC
1997 - CFL Grey Cup: Toronto beats Saskatchawan, 47-23
1997 - After nearly 18 years of incarceration, the People's Republic of China releases Wei Jingsheng,
           a pro-democracy dissident, from jail for medical reasons.
2000 - Bill Clinton becomes the first U.S. President to visit Vietnam since the end of the Vietnam
           War.
2012 - 'Call of Duty: Black Ops 2' grosses $500 million in 24 hours to become the biggest
            entertainment launch of all time

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 16, 2013, 01:48:31 PM

This Day in History for 16th November


Famous Weddings

1683 - Hendrik Casimir II of Nassau-Dietz marries Henriette Amalia
1981 - Luke marries Laura on TV soap "General Hospital" (16 million watch)
1987 - Actress Lisa Bonet marries singer Lenny Kravitz
1996 - "What Part of No" country singer Lorrie Morgan (37) weds singer Jon Randall (29) in Nashville

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 16, 2013, 01:49:50 PM

This Day in History for 16th November


Famous Divorces

1973 - Sci-fi author Isaac Asimov (53) divorces Gertrude Blugerman after 31 years of marriage
1993 - James Carrey files for divorce from Melissa
2010 - Singer-songwriter Avril Lavigne (24) divorces "Sum 41" lead singer and guitarist Deryck
           Whibley (29) due to irreconcilable differences after 3 years of marriage
2011 - Second season American Idol winner Rubben Studdard (33) divorces Surata Zuri McCants due
           to irreconcilable differences after 3 years of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 16, 2013, 01:59:53 PM

This Day in History for 16th November


Famous Birthdays

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Enlightenment Philosopher                     Actor Burgess Meredith (1907)                Novelist and Poet
Jean-Baptiste                                                                                                         Chinua Achebe (1930)
Le Rond d'Alembert (1717)

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Actress Maggie Gyllenhaal (1977)


42 BC - Tiberius, Roman Emperor (d. 37 AD)
1436 - Leonardo Loredan, Doge of the Republic of Venice (d. 1521)
1569 - Paul Sartorius, composer
1587 - Joost van den Vondel, Cologne Germany, Dutch poet/dramatist (Jephtha)
1603 - Augustyn Kordecki, Polish prior (d. 1673)
1609 - Henrietta Maria, French-born, Queen Consort of England (d. 1669)
1615 - Guillaume Dumanoir, composer
1642 - Cornelis Evertsen the Younger, Dutch buccaneer/lt admiral of Zeeland
1643 - Jean Chardin, French explorer (d. 1703)
1653 - Joan van Hoorn, gov-gen of Neth Indies (1707-09)
1684 - Abraham Alewijn, Dutch poet/playwright (Puiterveense Helleveeg)
1715 - Girolamo Abos, composer
1717 - Jean-Baptiste Le Rond d'Alembert, French Enlightenment philosophe/mathematician
           (Encyclopédie), (d. 1783)
1720 - Carlo Antonio Campioni, composer
1730 - Gualtherius "Wouter" van Doeveren, Zealand-Flanders physician
1757 - Daniel Read, composer
1758 - Peter Andreas Heiberg, Danish author and philologist (d. 1841)
1762 - Petronella Moens, Frisian author/poetess
1766 - Rodolphe Kreitzer, France, composer/virtuoso violinist (Paris Conserv)
1780 - Robert Archibald Smith, composer
1793 - Francis Danby, Irish painter
1807 - Francois Hainl, composer
1810 - Friedrich Wilhelm Kucken, composer
1822 - Charles Smith Hamilton, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1891
1827 - James Southerton, cricketer (Test debut in the 1st ever Test at 49)
1829 - Anton G Rubinstein, Russian pianist/conductor/composer [OS]
1835 - Elliott Warren Rice, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1887
1836 - David Kalakaua of Hawaii, Hawaiian king (d. 1891)
1839 - Louis-Honoré Fréchette, French Canadian poet (d. 1908)
1840 - Frederick Scotson Clark, composer
1841 - Jules Violle, French physicist (d. 1923)
1847 - Edmund James Flynn, Canadian politician (d. 1927)
1854 - Jules van de Heuvel, Belgian lawyer/politician
1860 - Edmund Schuecker, composer
1861 - Vaclav Suk, composer
1862 - Charles Thomas Biass Turner, cricketer (the "Terror")
1870 - Alfred Hill, composer
1873 - William Christopher Handy, Alabama, jazz star (St Louis Blues) (d. 1958)
1874 - Johanna HC Albregt, Dutch actress (Dumb August)/wife of Henri Dons
1880 - Alexander A Block, Russian poet (Dvenatsat) [NS=11/28]
1883 - Eugeen Van de Velde, Flemish musicologist/composer (In Tempore Belli)
1885 - Michael Gonzi, Maltese archbishop (d. 1984)
1887 - Philip Frohman, US architect
1888 - Burnet Corwin Tuthill, NYC, composer (Laurentia)
1888 - Clinton Golden, Penn, founder (United Steelworkers of America)
1888 - Henri [Ferdinand M J] Bosco, French author/poet (Gogol)
1889 - August Croegaert, Flemish liturgist
1889 - George S Kaufman, Pittsburgh Pa, playwright (This is Show Business)
1889 - Luis Cluzeau-Mortet, composer
1890 - Aloys-Henri-Gerard Fornerod, composer
1890 - Elpidio Quirino, president of Philippines (1949-53)
1890 - George Seldes, journalist
1892 - Guo Moruo, Chinese writer (d. 1978)
1892 - Tazio Nuvolari, Italian racing driver (d. 1953)
1893 - Cornelis J van der Klauw, Dutch biologist/zoologist
1894 - Count Richard Coudenhove Kalergi, Austrian politician
1894 - Mabel Normand, [Muriel Fortescue], Boston MA, comedienne (Mickey)
1895 - Eduard Bagritsky, [Dzhubin], Russ poet/journalist (South-West)
1895 - Michael Arlen, Armenia, English author (An American Verdict)
1895 - Paul Hindemith, German composer (d. 1963)
1896 - Lawrence Tibbett, Bakersfield California, baritone (Metropolitan 1923-50)
1896 - Oswald Mosley, baron/British nazi
1896 - Joan Lindsay, Australian author (d. 1984)
1897 - Halliwell Hobbes, Stratford-on-Avon England, actor (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde)
1897 - Choudhary Rehmat Ali, Pakistani nationalist (d. 1951)
1899 - Mary Margaret McBride, Paris Mo, radio personality (WOR-AM, NYC)
1902 - Marcel Boereboom, Belgian musicologist
1904 - Eddie Condon, Goodland Ind, jazz guitarist (Eddie Condon's Floor Show)
1904 - Frederik van der Meer, Dutch archaeologist/art historian
1904 - Nnamdi Benjamin "Zik" Azikiwe, politician
1905 - Astrid SLT Bernadotte, Queen of Belgium/Princess of Sweden
1907 - Burgess Meredith, Cleveland Ohio, actor (Mr Novak, The Penguin in Batman, Rocky), (d. 1997)
1912 - Anton [Tom] Koolhaas, author (Weird White)
1912 - George Petrie, actor (Honeymooners)
1916 - Daws Butler, Toledo OH, animation voice (Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound)
1917 - John Whiting, British dramatist/actor (Saint's Day)
1919 - Udo Kasemets, composer
1920 - Betty Hicks, LPGA golfer
1922 - Royal Dano, NYC, actor (Red Badge of Courage, Cocaine Wars, House II)
1922 - Gene Amdahl, American computer scientist
1922 - José Saramago, Portuguese writer, Nobel laureate
1924 - Joep J P de Boer, Dutch MP (CDA)
1924 - Mel Patton, American athlete
1926 - Ton de Leeuw, Dutch composer
1927 - Barbara Payton, Cloquet MN, actress (Dallas, Trapped, Bad Blonde)
1928 - Clu Gulager, Holdenville Oklahoma, actor (Virginian, Survivors, Tall Man)
1929 - Renate Rubinstein, [Tamar], German/Ned's author/columnist (Tamar)
1930 - Alice Adams, sculptor
1930 - Chinua Achebe, Nigerian author (Christmas in Biafra), (d. 2013)
1930 - Salvatore Riina, Sicilian mafioso
1931 - Bob Gibson, rocker
1931 - Luciano Bottaro, Italian comic book artist (d. 2006)
1931 - Hubert Sumlin, American blues musician
1932 - Barbara Romack, LPGA golfer
1933 - Guy Stockwell, NYC, actor (Chris-Adventures in Paradise)
1935 - Elizabeth Drew, journalist (Politics & Money: The Road to Corruption)
1935 - France-Albert Rene, president of Seychelles (1977- )
1936 - Shirvani Chalayev, composer
1936 - John Moore, Australian politician
1938 - Richard Landry, composer
1938 - Toni Brown, US guitarist/singer/keyboardist (Joy of Cooking)
1938 - Robert Nozick, American philosopher (d. 2002)
1940 - Chris Balderstone, cricket batsman (England, belated faced WI in 1976)
1941 - Ann Dore McLaughlin, US Secretary of Labor (1987- )
1941 - Dan Penn, US songwriter/producer/gospel singer (Out in Left Field)
1942 - Donna McKechnie, Pontiac Michigan, actress/dancer (Company)
1942 - Willie Carson, Scottish jockey
1943 - Winfred "Blue" Lovett, US singer (Manhattans-One Life to Live)
1944 - Charles Jay Hammer, actor (Fletcher Reade-Guiding Light)
1944 - David O'Sullivan, NZ cricket left-arm spinner (in 11 Tests 1973-76)
1944 - Hugo Dittberner, writer
1944 - Joanna Pettit, London, actress (Knots Landing, Cry of the Innocent)
1944 - Oliver Braddick, British psychologist
1945 - Martine van Hamel, Brussels Belgium, ballerina (NYC Ballet Co)
1945 - Steve Railsback, Dallas, Texas, American actor (The Stunt Man, Escape 2000)
1946 - Barbara Leigh, Ringgold Ga, actress (Vampirella)
1947 - Ebby Thust, German boxing promoter and writer
1948 - Aline Issermann, director (Amant Magnifiquew)
1948 - Chi Coltrane, US pianist/singer
1948 - Bonnie Greer, American playwright and critic
1949 - Pattie Santos, rocker
1949 - William Ackerman, composer
1950 - Carl J Meade, Illinos, Major USAF/astronaut (STS 38, STS 50, 64)
1950 - David Leisure, actor (Joe Isuzu, Airplane, Charley-Empty Nest)
1950 - John Swartzwelder, American television writer and novelist
1951 - Miguel Sandoval, American actor
1952 - Robin McKinley, American writer
1952 - Piero Falchetta, Italian archivist, Biblioteca Marciana
1952 - Shigeru Miyamoto, Japanese video game designer
1953 - Griff Rhys Jones, British humorist/actor (Morons From Outer Space)
1954 - Andrea Barrett, American author
1954 - Bruce Edwards, American golf caddy (d. 2004)
1954 - Dick Gross, Australian politician
1955 - Pierre Larouche, Canadian National Hockey League player
1956 - Terry Labonte, American NASCAR driver
1957 - Frank Milton "Pete" Higgins II, VP (Microsoft Desktop)
1957 - Jacques Gamblin, French actor
1958 - Harry Rushakoff, rocker (Concrete Blonde)
1958 - Marg Helgenberger, North Bend Nebraska, actress (China Beach)
1958 - Roberto Guerrero, Medelin Colombia, Indy racer (Rookie of Year 1984)
1958 - Boris Krivokapić, Serbian academic
1959 - Bert Cameron, Spanish Town Jamaica, 4X400m relayer (Olympic-silv-1988)
1959 - Corey Allen Pavin, Oxnard CA, PGA golfer (1995 US Open)
1961 - Frank Bruno, British boxer (European champ)
1961 - Corinne Hermès, French singer
1961 - Bruno Amato American actor
1962 - Chuck Finley, pitcher (Angels)
1962 - Josh Silver, American musician (Type O Negative)
1963 - Gay "Mani" Mournfield, English pop bassist (Stone Roses)
1963 - Zina Garrison Jackson, Houston Texas, tennis star (1988/90 Wimbledon)
1964 - Dwight Gooden, Tampa FL, pitcher (NY Yankees, NY Mets)
1964 - Diana Krall, Canadian Jazz pianist and singer
1964 - Harry J. Lennix, American actor
1964 - Maeve Quinlan, American actress
1965 - Glen Edward Day, Mobile AL, PGA golfer (1994 Anheuser-Busch-2nd)
1965 - Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Turin Italy, actress (Normal People)
1966 - Dan Nowosielski, Montreal Quebec, fencing epee (Olympics-96)
1966 - Lisa Brown Miller, ice hockey forward (USA, Oly-98)
1966 - Tammy Lauren, SD California, actress (Angie, Out of the Blue)
1966 - Tim Scott, Hanford California, pitcher (Montreal Expos)
1966 - Tricia Cast, Medford NY, actr (Amanda-Bad News Bear, Young & Restless)
1966 - Christian Lorenz, German keyboardist (Rammstein)
1966 - Dean McDermott, Canadian actor
1966 - Tahir Shah, British travel writer and explorer
1967 - Lawrence Dawsey, NFL wide receiver (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1967 - Lisa Bonet, SF, actress (Cosby Show, Different World, Angel Heart)
1967 - Craig Arnold, American poet
1968 - Chris Haney, Baltimore MD, pitcher (KC Royals)
1968 - Ebrahim Essop-Adam, cricketer (one ODI for Zimbabwe 1992)
1968 - Melvin Stewart, US butterfly swimmer (200m record)
1968 - Suzi Simpson, Athens Greece, playmate (Jan, 1992)
1968 - Vlado Šola, Croatian handball goalkeeper
1969 - Mike Devlin, NFL guard/center (Buffalo Bills, Cardinals)
1969 - Thomas Ingalsbe, 238+ lbs (108+ kg) US weightlifter (Olympics-1996)
1970 - Jason Carthen, WLAF linebacker (Rhein Fire)
1970 - Martha Plimpton, NYC, actress (Goonies, Mosquito Coast)
1971 - Donald Wolf, computer game creator
1971 - Waqar Younis, cricketer (brilliant Pakistani fast/swing bowler)
1971 - Mustapha Hadji, Moroccan footballer
1971 - Koshi Rikdo, Japanese mangaka
1971 - Alexander Popov, Russian swimmer
1972 - Missi Pyle, American actress
1973 - Howard Smothers, NFL guard (Philadelphia Eagles)
1973 - Joe Hudepohl, US, 800m freestyle relay (Olympics-gold-96)
1973 - Sedrick Shaw, running back (New England Patriots)
1973 - Christian Horner, British Formula One team owner
1973 - Brendan Laney, Scottish rugby player
1974 - Eric Judy, American Musician
1974 - Maurizio Margaglio, Italian ice dancer
1974 - Paul Scholes, British footballer
1976 - Juha Pasoja, Finnish footballer
1976 - Danny Wallace, British author
1977 - Oksana Baiul, Ukraine, figure skater (Olympic-gold-1994)
1977 - Mauricio Ochmann, Mexican actor
1977 - Maggie Gyllenhaal, New York, actress (Donnie Darko, The Dark Knight)
1978 - Gary Naysmith, Scottish footballer
1978 - Kip Bouknight, American baseball player
1978 - Carolina Parra, Brazilian musician (CSS)
1979 - Michael Faustino, actor (brother of David)
1979 - Salli Wills, Australia, gymnast (Olympics-96)
1979 - Tony Frias, American footballer
1979 - Bruce Irons, American surfer
1980 - Kayte Christensen, American basketball player
1980 - Nicole Gius, Italian alpine skier
1980 - Carol Huynh, 2008 Canadian Gold Medalist,48 kg. wrestling
1981 - Allison Crowe, Canadian singer
1981 - Caitlin Glass, American voice actress
1981 - Osi Umenyiora, English-born NFL football player
1982 - Jannie du Plessis, South African rugby player
1982 - Ronald Pognon, French athlete
1982 - Amare Stoudemire, American basketball player
1983 - Kari Lehtonen, Finnish ice hockey goaltender
1983 - Britta Steffen, German swimmer
1983 - K, South Korean singer
1984 - Gemma Atkinson, British actress and model
1984 - Kimberly J. Brown, American actress
1986 - Saeko, Japanese actress
1992 - Adam Robert Worton, Newark DE, twin actor (Baby's Day Out)
1992 - Jacob Joseph Worton, Newark DE, twin actor (Baby's Day Out)
1995 - Noah Gray-Cabey, American child actor

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 16, 2013, 02:03:52 PM

This Day in History for 16th November


Famous Deaths

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Actor Clark Gable (1960)                       Economist Milton Friedman (2006)


1271 - Henry III, King of England (1216-71, Provisions of Oxford), dies
1328 - Prince Hisaaki, Japanese shogun (b. 1276)
1512 - Gerbrand Mockema, Fries rebel, beheaded
1512 - Jemme Herjuwsma, Fries rebel, beheaded
1548 - Caspar Cruciger, German church reformer, dies at 44
1603 - Pierre Charron, French philosopher/theologian, dies
1613 - Trajano Boccalini, Italian satirist (b. 1556)
1628 - Paolo Quagliati, Italian composer
1667 - Nathaniel Schnittelbach, composer, dies at 34
1668 - Antoon Anselmo, South Netherlands lawyer, dies at about 79
1695 - Pierre Nicole, French philosopher (b. 1625)
1706 - Cornelis Evertsen, mutineer/ltalian-admiral of Zeeland, dies at 64
1706 - Godfried Schalcken, painter/etcher/engraver, dies
1724 - Jack Sheppard, English robber, hanged
1745 - James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde, Irish statesman and soldier (b. 1665)
1766 - Dominikus Zimmermann, German architect/painter, dies at 81
1773 - John Hawkesworth, English writer
1775 - Marian Paradeiser, composer, dies at 28
1779 - Pehr Kalm, Finnish explorer and naturalist (b. 1716)
1790 - Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, American Continental Congressman (b. 1723)
1797 - King Frederick William II of Prussia (b. 1744) Reigns 1786-97
1802 - André Michaux, French botanist (b. 1746)
1806 - Moses Cleaveland, founder of Cleveland, Ohio (b. 1754)
1808 - Mustapha IV, sultan of Turkey (1807-08), dies at 29
1831 - Karl von Clausewitz, Prussian strategist (Campaign 1813), dies at 51
1835 - Louis Angely, German comedic poet (Paris in Pommern), dies at 48
1836 - Christian Hendrik Persoon, Dutch mycologist (b. 1761)
1884 - František Chvostek, Moravian physician (b. 1835)
1890 - Johann A H Scheler, Belgian man of letters/librarian, dies at 71
1893 - George Alexander Osborne, composer, dies at 87
1907 - Robert I, Duke of Parma, last ruling Duke of Parma (b. 1848)
1908 - Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, French-born Canadian politician (b. 1829)
1909 - Francis Thome, composer, dies at 59
1911 - Albert Alonzo Ames, Mayor of Minneapolis (b. 1842)
1922 - Max Abraham, German physicist (b. 1875)
1924 - Alexander Andreyevich Archangel'sky, composer, dies at 78
1924 - Edward Everett Rice, composer, dies at 75
1932 - Carry van Bruggen, [de Haan], Dutch author (Eva), dies at 51
1934 - Joachim Ringelantz, writer, dies
1935 - Kurt Schindler, composer, dies at 53
1939 - Pierce Butler, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1866)
1943 - Marcel Verhamme, Belgian resistance fighter, executed
1944 - Charles Kellaway, cricketer (26 Tests 1910-1928), dies
1945 - Kaarlo Sarkia, Finnish poet (Kohtalon Vaaka), dies at 43
1950 - Bob Smith, American doctor, co-founder of the Alcoholics Anonymous (b. 1879)
1955 - Tomasz Arciszewski, Polish premier (1944-47), dies at 88
1957 - Cora Witherspoon, actress (Quality Street, Bank Dick), dies at 67
1958 - Warner Fabian, [S Adams], US author (Great American Fraud), dies at 87
1960 - Clark Gable, actor (Gone With the Wind), dies at 59
1961 - Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the House for 17 years, dies at 79
1964 - Albert Hay Malotte, composer, dies at 69
1964 - John Emery, actor (Ship Ahoy, Kronos, Mademoiselle Fifi), dies at 59
1964 - Piet Moeskops, Dutch world champion cyclist (1921-24, 26), dies at 71
1965 - Alexander King, author (Jack Paar Show), dies at 66
1968 - Greet Hofmans, faith healer of Dutch queen Juliana, dies at 74
1971 - Charlie Dell, comedian, dies at 90
1971 - Edward Sedgwick, director, dies of barbiturate overdose at 28
1971 - Edie Sedgwick, American socialite and heiress (b. 1940)
1972 - Andrey Filippovich Pashchenko, composer, dies at 87
1973 - Alan Watts, writer/popularizer of Zen, dies in Calif
1974 - Walther Meissner, German physicist (Meissner Effect), dies at 91
1975 - Ernst van Raalte, lawyer/minister-president, dies at 83
1978 - Claude Dauphin, French actor (Les Miserables, Mado), dies at 75
1980 - Imogen Hassall, Countess of Cleavage (Carry on Lovng), suicide at 37
1981 - Enid Markey, actress (Aunt Violet-Bringing Up Buddy), dies at 85
1981 - Morgan Conway, actor (Dick Tracy Detective), dies
1981 - William Holden, actor (Network, Wild Bunch, Breezy), dies at 63
1982 - Arthur Askey, British comedian, dies at 82
1982 - Lenny Murphy, Leader of Belfast's notorious Shankill Butchers (b. 1952)
1984 - Vic Dickenson, American trombonist (b. 1906)
1985 - John J Sparkmann, (Sen-D-Ala), dies at 85
1986 - Siobhan McKenna, actress (Dr Zhivago, Hungry Hill), dies at 63
1987 - Jim Brewer, Major League Baseball relief pitcher (b. 1937)
1987 - Zubir Said, Singaporean composer who composed Singapore's national anthem (b. 1907)
1988 - Lotte Stam-Beese, German/Neth architect, dies at about 85
1989 - Jean-Claude Malépart, Quebec politician (b. 1938)
1991 - Ralph Marrero, actor (Babe, Johnny Suede), dies in car accident at 33
1993 - Evelyn Venable, model (Columbia Pictures logo), dies of cancer at 80
1993 - Lucia Popp, Czech/Austria soprano (Vienna Opera), dies at 54
1993 - Achille Zavatta, French clown (b. 1915)
1994 - Chester Dino Powers Valenti, singer/Songwriter, dies at 57
1994 - Dan Smith, harmonica/gospel singer, dies at 83
1994 - David Rayner, cyclist, dies
1994 - Doris Speed, actress (Annie-Coronation Street), dies at 95
1994 - Harvey Watkins, gospel Singer, dies at 64
1994 - John Boylan, US actor (Twin Peaks, Sleepless in Seattle), dies at 82
1994 - Dino Valente, American musician (Quicksilver Messenger Service) (b.1943)
1995 - Gwyn A Williams, historian/socialist, dies at 70
1995 - Jack Finney, author (Body Snatchers), dies at 84
1996 - George Byatt, playwright, dies at 73
1996 - Jack Popplewell, composer/playwright, dies at 87
1996 - John Reginald Bevins, politician, dies at 88
1997 - George Petrie, actor (Honeymooners), dies on 85th birthday
1997 - Georges Marchais, Sec Gen of French Communist Party (1972-94), dies
1997 - Russ "Mad Monk" Meyer, pitcher (Philadelphia Phillies), dies at 74
1999 - Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
           (b. 1928)
2000 - DJ Screw, American hiphop DJ (b. 1971)
2000 - Joe C., American rapper (b. 1974)
2001 - Tommy Flanagan, American jazz pianist (b. 1930)
2003 - Bettina Goislard, French relief worker (b. 1974)
2004 - Margaret Hassan, Irish-born aid worker (b. 1945)
2005 - Robert Tisch, American football team owner (b. 1926)
2005 - Donald Watson, English founder of the Vegan Society (b. 1910)
2005 - Henry Taube, Canadian-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
2006 - Milton Friedman, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate, dies at 94
2006 - Yuri Levada, Russian sociologist (b. 1930)
2007 - Harold Alfond, American businessman (b. 1914)
2007 - Grethe Kausland, Norwegian actress and singer (b. 1947)
2007 - Trond Kirkvaag, Norwegian comedian and author (b. 1946)
2008 - Reg Varney, British actor (On The Buses) (b. 1916)
2009 - Edward Woodward, British actor (The Equalizer) (b. 1930)
2009 - Antonio de Nigris, Mexican footballer (b. 1978)
2010 - Wyngard Tracy, Filipino talent manager (b. 1952)
2010 - Donald Nyrop, American airline executive (b. 1912)
2010 - Ronni Chasen, American film publicist (b. 1946)
2010 - Britton Chance, American molecular biologist and yachtsman (b. 1913)
2012 - Bob Scott, New Zealand Rugby player, dies at 91

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 17, 2013, 04:11:44 PM

This Day in History for 17th November


Historical Events

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Composer Giuseppe Verdi                   Composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky                Marxist Revolutionary
                                                                                                                         and Russian Leader Vladimir Lenin

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Soviet Union Premier Joseph Stalin         Musician and Beatle John Lennon


473 - The future Zeno I is named associate emperor by Emperor Leo I.
1183 - Battle of Mizushima.
1278 - 680 Jews arrested (293 hanged) in England for counterfeiting coins
1292 - (O.S.) John Balliol becomes King of Scots.
1511 - England, Spain and the Holy Roman Empire sign anti-French covenant The Treaty of
           Westminster
1555 - William of Orange becomes member of Council of State
1558 - Elizabeth I ascends English throne upon death of her half sister Mary "Bloody Mary", Queen of
           England (1553-58), aged 42
1603 - English explorer, writer and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh goes on trial for treason.
1659 - Peace of the Pyrenees is signed between France and Spain.
1734 - John Zenger, arrested for libel against NY col gov; later acquitted
1785 - Church of England organizes in New England
1796 - Battle of Arcole-Napolean I's French forces beat Austrians in Italy
1798 - -21) Snow storms in New England, hundreds die
1800 - Congress held 1st session in Wash DC in incompleted Capitol building
1812 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Krasnoi during Napoleon's retreat from Moscow
1827 - The Delta Phi fraternity, America's oldest continuous social fraternity, was founded at Union
           College in Schenectady, New York.
1831 - Ecuador and Venezuela were separated from Greater Colombia.
1839 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Oberte Conti Di" premieres in Milan
1842 - Fugitive slave George Latimer captured in Boston
1842 - Opera "Linda di Chamounix" is produced (London)
1853 - Street signs authorized at San Francisco intersections
1855 - David Livingstone becomes the first European to see Victoria Falls in what is now present-day
           Zambia-Zimbabwe.
1856 - On the Sonoita River in present-day southern Arizona, the United States Army establishes
           Fort Buchanan in order to help control new land acquired in the Gadsden Purchase.
1858 - Origin of Modified Julian Period
1862 - Confederate Sec of War George B Randolph resigns
1863 - -Dec 4th) Battle of Knoxville, TN
1863 - Lincoln begins 1st draft of his Gettysburg Address
1866 - Opera "Mignon" is produced (Paris)
1869 - Englishman James Moore wins 1st bicycle race (13K Paris-Rouen)
1869 - Suez Canal (Egypt) opens, links Mediterranean & Red seas
1874 - Emigrant ship Cospatrick catches fire & sinks off Auckland, NZ
1875 - Amer Theosophical Society founded by Mme Blavatsky & Col Olcott
1876 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's patriotic Slavonic March made its premiere in Moscow to a warm
           reception by the Russian people.
1877 - Gilbert and Sullivan's operette "Sorcerer" premieres in London
1878 - First assassination attempt against Umberto I of Italy.
1884 - Cops arrest John L Sullivan in 2nd round for being "cruel"
1888 - Tchaikovsky's 5th Symphony premieres in St Petersburg
1889 - Union Pacific begins daily through service, Chicago-Portland & SF
1894 - Daily Racing Form founded
1903 - Dahomey (Benin) becomes a French protectorate.
1904 - George Cohans musical "Little Johnny Jones," premieres in NYC
1905 - The Eulsa Treaty is signed between Japan and Korea.
1913 - 1st US dental hygienists course forms, Bridgeport, Ct
1914 - US declares Panama Canal Zone neutral
1917 - Lenin defended "temporary" removal of freedom of the press
1918 - Social Democratic Party becomes Communistc Party Holland: CPH
1922 - Turkish sultan Mehmed VI flees to Malta on British warship
1926 - NHL's Chicago Black Hawks play their 1st game, beat Tor St Pats 4-1
1927 - Tornado hits Washington DC
1928 - Boston Garden officially opens
1928 - Notre Dame finally lost a football game after nearly 25 years
1929 - Pascual Ortiz Rubio elected president of Mexico
1929 - Stalin throws Nicolai Bucharin out of Politburo
1930 - Musical "Sweet & Low" with Fanny Brice premieres in NYC
1931 - Bradman scores 135 NSW v South Africa, 128 mins, 15 fours
1932 - German government of von Papen, resigns
1933 - United States recognizes Soviet Union, opens trade
1936 - Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy become overnight success on radio
1937 - Britain's Lord Halifax visits Germany, beginning of appeasement
1938 - Italy passes its own version of anti-Jewish Nuremberg laws
1939 - German U-boat torpedoes passenger ship
1939 - Jerome Kern/Hammerstein II's "Very Warm for May," premieres in NYC
1939 - The Rome-Rio de Janeiro air connection is created.
1940 - Green Bay Packers become 1st NFL team to travel by plane
1941 - Virgil Thomson's 2nd Symphony, premieres
1944 - -Nov 19] Nazi raids in Dutch NE Polder
1945 - "Girl from Nantucket" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 12 perfs
1945 - New world air speed record 606 mph (975 kph) set by HJ Wilson of RAF
1947 - The U.S. Screen Actors Guild implements an anti-Communist loyalty oath.
1948 - Britain's House of Commons votes to nationalize steel industry
1953 - St Louis Browns officially become the Baltimore Baseball Club Inc
1953 - The remaining human inhabitants of the Blasket Islands, Kerry, Ireland are evacuated to the
           mainland.
1956 - Syracuse fullback Jim Brown, scores NCAA record of 43 pts (vs Colgate)
1956 - USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
1957 - WBOY TV channel 12 in Clarksburg, WV (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1958 - KAII TV channel 7 in Wailuku, HI (NBC) begins broadcasting
1959 - De Beers firm of South Africa announces synthetic diamond
1959 - Giants slugger Willie McCovey wins NL Rookie of Year
1959 - William Shea shows proposed NYC stadium with transparent roof
1960 - New Washington franchise is awarded to Elwood Quesada
1962 - "Nowhere to Go, But Up" closes at Winter Garden NYC after 9 perfs
1962 - President Kennedy dedicates Dulles Intl Airport outside Wash DC
1962 - Simon/Coleman/Leigh's musical "Little Me" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 257
           performances
1962 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1963 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Mary Mills Miss Gulf Coast Golf Invitational
1964 - British Labour Party installs weapon embargo against South Africa
1965 - General Meeting of UN refuses admittance of China PR
1965 - William Eckert is unanimously elected commissioner of baseball
1966 - Leonids meteor shower peaks (150,000+ per hour)
1967 - Beatles Ltd & Apple Music Ltd swap names
1967 - French author Régis Debray sentenced to 30 years in Bolivia
1967 - Surveyor 6 becomes 1st man-made object to lift off Moon
1968 - "Zorba" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 305 performances
1968 - John Kander/Fred Ebbs musical "Zorba," premieres in NYC
1968 - KHNE TV channel 29 in Hastings, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Pensacola Ladies' Golf Invitational
1968 - NBC cuts to show "Heidi" and misses Raider's rally to beat Jets, 43-32
1968 - Alexandros Panagoulis is condemned to death for attempting to assassinate Greek dictator
           George Papadopoulos.
1969 - SALT-discussions open in Helsinki Finland
1970 - British newspaper Sun puts 1st pinup girl on pg 3 (Stephanie Rahn)
1970 - Russia lands Lunokhod 1 unmanned remote-controlled vehicle on Moon
1970 - Douglas Engelbart receives the patent for the first computer mouse.
1972 - Juan Peron returns to Argentina
1973 - Greek regime attacks students with tanks, 100s killed
1973 - Teri Garr plays role of a stripper on "The Nurse"
1973 - Pres Nixon tells AP "...people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook.
           Well, I'm not a crook"
1974 - Bonnie Bryant wins Bill Branch LPGA Golf Classic
1974 - Union of Banana Exporting Countries (UPEB) forms
1974 - Aliança Operário-Camponesa (Worker-Peasant Alliance) founded in Portugal as a front of
           PCP(m-l).
1976 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1977 - Bernard Pomerance's "Elephant Man" premieres in London
1977 - Egyptian Pres Sadat formally accepts invitation to visit Israel
1977 - Miss World Contest - Miss UK wears $9,500 platinum bikini
1979 - Daniel Okrent sketches out 1st draft rules for Rotisserie Baseball
1979 - Khomeini frees most black & female US hostages
1979 - NY Stars (WBL) home opener at Madison Square Garden in NYC
1979 - On a flight to Austin, TX, Daniel Okrent sketches out the first
1980 - John Lennon releases "Double Fantasy" album in UK
1981 - "1st" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 37 performances
1981 - NBA NY Knick Bill Cartwright, ties record of 19 of 19 free throws
1982 - Dale Murphy wins NL MVP
1983 - "La Tragedie de Carmen" opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 187 perfs
1983 - Harm Wiersma retains checkers world championship
1983 - Phila Flyers win 13th straight NHL game
1984 - Golden State Warrior scores 59 points losing to NJ Nets 124-110
1984 - Islanders score 20 assists against Rangers
1985 - Howard Stern begins broadcasting on 92.3 WXRK FM NY
1985 - NY Jets best offensive production beating Tampa Bay 62-28
1986 - "Oh Coward!" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 56 performances
1987 - George Bell is 1st Blue Jay ever to win the AL MVP
1988 - Linda Petursdottir of Iceland, 18, crowned 38th Miss World
1988 - Neil Simon's "Rumors" premieres in NYC
1989 - Bret Saberhagen signs record $2,966,667 per year KC Royal contract
1991 - "Brigadoon" closes at New York State Theater NYC after 12 performances
1991 - 1st TV condom ad aired (FOX- TV)
1991 - Detroit Lion Mike Utley is paralized in a game vs LA Rams
1992 - "Gypsy Passion" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 55 performances
1992 - Blue Jay Nigel Wilson is 1st pick of Marlins in expansion draft
1992 - Dateline NBC airs a demonstration show General Motors trucks, blowing up on impact, later
           revealed NBC rigged test
1992 - Erling Kagge begins successful exploration at South pole
1993 - "Grand Night For Singing" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 52 perfs
1993 - Antonov AN-124 flies in South Iran against mountain: 17 killed
1993 - US House of Representatives approve Nafta
1994 - "Sunset Boulevard" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 977 performances
1994 - 3rd Germany government of Kohl forms
1994 - Irish government of Reynolds resigns
1996 - "Present Laughter" opens at Walter Kerr Theater NYC
1996 - Sam's Town Bowling Invitational
1997 - Mario Lemieux enters NHL Hall of Fame
1997 - In Luxor, Egypt, 62 people are killed by 6 Islamic militants outside the Temple of Hatshepsut,
           known as Luxor massacre (The police then kill the assailants).
2000 - A catastrophic landslide in Log pod Mangartom, Slovenia, kills 7, and causes millions of SIT of
           damage. It is one of the worst catastrophes in Slovenia in the past 100 years.
2000 - Alberto Fujimori is removed from office as president of Peru.
2004 - Kmart Corp. announces it is buying Sears, Roebuck and Co. for $11 billion USD and naming
           the newly merged company Sears Holdings Corporation.
2005 - Italy's choice of national anthem, Il Canto degli Italiani, becomes official in law for the first
           time, almost 60 years after it was provisionally chosen following the birth of the republic.
2006 - Official naming of element 111, Roentgenium (Rg).
2012 - 50 schoolchildren and a bus driver are killed after a train collides with a school bus in Manfalut,
           Egypt

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 17, 2013, 04:13:23 PM

This Day in History for 17th November


Famous Weddings

1934 - Lyndon B Johnson marries Claudia Alta Taylor
1978 - Gerald Lascelles (under English princess Mary) weds Elizabeth Colvin
2003 - Singer Blake Shelton (27) weds Kaynette Williams in Gatlinburg, Tennessee
2008 - Heartthrob finalist from Top Chef's second season Sam Talbot (30) weds Colombian model
           and t-shirt designer Paola Guerrero in a secret wedding ceremony at City Hall in New York City
2012 - Award-winning Chinese actress Chen Yao (33) weds cinematographer Yu Cao in Queenstown,
           New Zealand

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 17, 2013, 04:22:29 PM

This Day in History for 17th November


Famous Birthdays

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Roman Emperor Vespasian (9)                  Director Martin Scorsese (1942)               Actor Danny Devito (1944)


9 - Vespasian, Falacrina, Italy, Roman Emperor (AD 69-79), (d. AD 79)
331 - Flavius Claudius Julianus, [Julian the Apostate], Emperor
1502 - Atahualpa, last emperor of the Inca (d. 1533)
1503 - Il Bronzino, Florentine painter (Eleanor de Toledo & her Son)
1576 - Roque Gonzales, Paraguayan missionary (d. 1628)
1594 - Johan van Beverwijck, Dutch physician/writer (Treasure of Health)
1612 - Dorgon, Manchu prince (d. 1650)
1681 - Pierre François le Courayer, French theologian (d. 1776)
1685 - Pierre Gaultier, French-Canadian trader and explorer (d. 1749)
1690 - Noel-Nicolas Coypel, French painter/cartoonist
1704 - Salomeja Neris, [S Bacinskaite-Buciene], Latvian poet
1729 - Maria Antonietta of Spain, queen of Sardinia (d. 1785)
1755 - Louis XVIII, 1st post-revolutionary king of France (1814-24)
1765 - Étienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre MacDonald, French marshal (d. 1840)
1771 - Jonathan Huntington, composer
1787 - Michele Carafa, composer
1790 - August Ferdinand Möbius, German mathematician (d. 1868)
1794 - John Barrien Montgomery, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1873
1799 - Titian Ramsey Peale, US, artist/naturalist (American Ornithology)
1808 - Alberich Zwyssig, composer
1814 - Joseph Finegan, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1885
1816 - August W Ambros, Austria musicologist (History of Music)
1826 - John McArthur, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1906
1827 - Petko Slavejkov, Bulgarian writer (d. 1895)
1834 - Stephen Hinsdale Weed, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
1835 - Andrew L. Harris, governor of Ohio (d. 1915)
1837 - David Capriles, director of psychiatry of Monte Christo, Curacao
1837 - Derk J A Haspels, Dutch actor
1837 - Willem Coenen, composer
1854 - Louis HG Lyautey, French minister of Defense (1916-17)
1859 - Gerhard Rusenkrone Schjelderup, composer
1865 - John S Plaskett, Canadian astronomer (Plaskett's twins)
1866 - Voltairine de Cleyre, American anarchist (d. 1912)
1876 - Baron Joseph van de Meulebroeck, mayor (Brussels, Belgium)
1877 - Frank Calder, the first NHL President (d. 1943)
1878 - Grace Abbott, Grand Island Neb, social worker (US Children Bureau)
1879 - Gerardus H de Haas, socialist vicar
1881 - Thomas Fermor-Hesketh, English 1st baron of Hesketh Dutch/MP
1883 - Harold Baumgartner, cricketer (one Test South Africa v England 1913)
1885 - Henry de Man, Belgium, sociologist/chairman (Belgian Workers Party)
1886 - Crane Wilbur, Athens NY, dir/writer (Bat, Canon City, Yellow Cargo)
1887 - Bernard L Montgomery, British field marshall (WW II-African campaign)
1888 - Ariantje "Jeanne" Leg, actress (It Vijgeblaadje, It Hippie)
1890 - Jack Cusack, pro football pioneer (Canton Bulldogs)
1891 - Guido Pannain, composer
1891 - Jean Del Val, [Gautier], France, actor (Sainted Devil, Flying Deuces)
1892 - Max Deutsch, composer
1894 - Eelco van Kleffens, minister of Foreign affairs (1939-46)/diplomat
1894 - Sophocles Venizelos, premier of Greece (1944, 50-51)
1895 - Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher (d. 1975)
1895 - Gregorio López y Fuentes, Mexican author (d. 1966)
1896 - Lev Vygotsky, Russian psychologist (d. 1934)
1897 - Ed Baker, Davis WV, actor (Keystone Kops)
1897 - Frank Fay, San Francisco, California, American actor (God's Gift to Women, Love Nest)
1897 - Sara Haden, Galveston Tx, actress (A Family Affair)
1899 - Roger Vitrac, French poet/dramatist (Coup of Trafalgar)
1899 - Douglas Shearer, Canadian film sound engineer (d. 1971)
1900 - Marcel Dalio, Paris, actor (Casablanca)
1901 - Joyce Wethered, Surrey England, golfer (4 time British Amateur champ)
1901 - Lee Strasberg, Austria, acting coach/actor (Somewhere in the Night)
1901 - Max Zehnder, composer
1901 - Raymond Chevreuille, Belgian composer
1901 - Walter Hallstein, West German politician (CDU) (Hallstein doctrine)
1902 - Eugene Paul Wigner, mathematician/physicist (A Bomb, Nobel 1963)
1902 - Lee Strasberg, Austria, acting coach/actor (And Justice for All)
1903 - Joseph Kaminski, composer
1904 - Isamu Noguchi, sculptor (1963 Fine Arts Medal)
1905 - Arthur Chipperfield, cricketer (Aus batsman & leggie 99 on Test debut)
1905 - Astrid Bernadotte, Princess of Sweden
1905 - Mischa Auer, [Ounskowsky], St Petersburg Russia, actor (My Man Godfrey)
1905 - Wazyk, [Adam Wagman], Polish poet/author (Eyes & Mouth)
1906 - Betty Bronson, Trenton NJ, actress (Evel Knievel, One Stolen Night)
1906 - Soichiro Honda, Japan, founder/CEO (Honda Motor Co)
1906 - Rollie Stiles, American baseball player (d. 2007)
1907 - Israel Regardie, Aleister Crowley's secretary (d. 1985)
1909 - Gerald Savory, actor playwright/TV producer (Heart of the Matter)
1911 - Charles Walters, US, actor/choreographer/director (Easter parade)
1911 - Nobutaka Shikanai, Japans media CEO (Fujisankei Com Group)
1911 - William Tannen, NYC, actor (Jailhouse Rock, Sitting Bull)
1911 - Christian Fouchet, French diplomat (d. 1974)
1914 - Archie Campbell, Bullsgap Tenn, comedian (Hee Haw)
1916 - Winson Hudson, community activist (rural Mississippi)
1917 - Jack Lescoulie, Sacramento California, TV host (Jackie Gleason Show)
1919 - Hershy Kay, Philadelphia Penn, composer/arranger (Olympic Hymn)
1919 - Ludwig Freiherr von Hammerstein-Equord, journalist
1920 - Camillo Felgen, Luxembourgish singer (d. 2005)
1921 - Albert Bertelsen, Danish painter
1922 - Emile Noel, international civil servant
1923 - Bert Sutcliffe, cricketer (all-time great NZ left-handed bat)
1923 - Robert Francis Vere Heuston, British professor of law
1923 - Mike Garcia, American baseball player (d. 1986)
1924 - Lucas J "Luc" Lutz, Dutch actor/director (Hague Comedy)
1925 - Charles Mackerras, Schenectady NY, Australian conductor
1925 - Colin Campbell Mitchell, soldier
1925 - Libby Newman, painter/printmaker/curator
1925 - Rock Hudson, Winnetka, Ill, actor (Pillow Talk, A Farewell to Arms)
1927 - Ellis Hillman, politician
1928 - Colin McDonald, cricketer (stalwart Australian opening bat for 1950's)
1928 - Rance Howard, American actor
1929 - Edgar White, US, yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1952)
1929 - Pieter A H Bos, Dutch lawyer/attorney general on Aruba
1929 - Sumner White, US, yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1952)
1929 - Norm Zauchin, baseball player (d. 1999)
1930 - Bob Mathias, Tulare, California, American decathlete (Olympic-gold-1948, 52)
1930 - Brian Joseph Lenihan, politician
1930 - David Werner Amram, Philadelphia Pa, composer (Splendor in the Grass)
1933 - Orlando Peña, Cuban baseball player
1934 - James M Inhofe, (Rep-R-Oklahoma)
1934 - Fenella Fielding, English actress
1935 - Anton Sailer, Austria, skier (Olympic-3 golds-1956)
1936 - Leni van Rijn-Vellekoop, Dutch MP (PvdA)
1936 - Dahlia Ravikovitch, Israeli poet (d. 2005)
1937 - Peter Edward Cook, Torquay England, actor/comedian (Bedazzled)
1938 - Alvaro Leon Cassuto, composer
1938 - Gordon Lightfoot, Ontario Canada, folksinger (Sundown)
1938 - Peter Snell, NZ, 800m/1500m runner (Olympic-gold-1960, 64)
1938 - Thomas Black, English industrial/auto collector
1939 - Auberon Waugh, British author (d. 2001)
1940 - Luke Kelly, Irish folk music singer and banjo player
1941 - Gene Clark, Los Angeles California, rock vocalist/guitarist (Byrds)
1941 - Peter Hoagland, (Rep-D-Nebraska)
1942 - Annemarie Oster, Dutch actress (Goede Tijden Slechte Tijden)
1942 - Bob Gaudio, Bronx NY, rocker (Four Seasons-Sherry)
1942 - Martin Scorsese, Queens, New York, director (Raging Bull, The Departed)
1942 - Khang Khek Leu, Cambodian politician
1943 - Lauren Hutton, [Mary], Charleston SC, model/actress (American Gigolo)
1944 - Danny DeVito, Neptune NJ, actor (Taxi, Ruthless People, Twins)
1944 - Eugene Clarke, Tipton Missouri, rock guitarist
1944 - Lorne Michaels, [Lipowitz], Toronto Ontario, comedian (SNL)
1944 - Tom Seaver, Fresno, California, American MLB pitcher (NY Met, 300 game winner, Cy Young
           '69 '73 '75)
1944 - Jim Boeheim, Hall of Fame Coach
1944 - Rem Koolhaas, Dutch architect
1945 - Elvin Hayes, NBA star (San Diego, Houston, Baltimore)
1945 - Jeremy Hanley, British Lower house member
1945 - Roland Joffe, director (City of Joy, Mission, Killing Fields)
1946 - Martin Barre, British pop guitarist (Jethro Tull)
1946 - Terry E. Branstad, Governor of Iowa
1947 - Rod Clements, rocker
1947 - Stewkey, [Robert Antoni], rocker
1947 - Steven E. de Souza, American scriptwriter
1947 - Inky Mark, Canadian politician
1948 - Jaime Huelamo, Spain, cyclist (Olympic-bronze-1972) drug disqualified
1948 - Howard Dean, American politician
1949 - John Boehner, (Rep-R-Ohio)
1949 - Thomas Lionel Hill, New Orleans, 110m hurdler (Olympic-bronze-1972)
1950 - Roland Matthes, German DR, 100m/200m backstroke (Oly-gold-1968, 72)
1950 - Tom Walkinshaw, Scottish race car driver and race team owner
1951 - Dean Paul Martin, Santa Monica California, actor (Billy-Misfits of Science)
1951 - Jack Vettriano, Methil Scotland, Scottish painter ( The Singing Butler)
1951 - Stephen Root, American actor
1951 - Butch Davis, American football coach
1952 - M Cyril Ramaphosa, sec-gen of South African Mine Workers' Union
1952 - Roman Codreanu, Romania, wrestler (Olympic-1980)
1953 - Dino Martin Jr, rocker
1953 - Jilly Johnson, England, vocalist (Blonde on Blonde)
1954 - Mark Brandon Read, Australian criminal
1955 - Bill McCreary, Ontario, NHL referee
1955 - Peter Cox, rocker (Go West-Call Me, Don't Look Down)
1955 - Yolanda King, actress (Fluke, Ghosts of Mississippi)
1955 - Dennis Maruk, Canadian hockey player
1957 - Debbie Thrower, BBC News Reader
1958 - Allison Finney, Winnetka IL, LPGA golfer (1989 Standard Register)
1958 - Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Oak Park Ill, actress (Color of Money)
1959 - William R Moses, Los Angeles California, actor (Cole-Falcon Crest)
1959 - Terry Fenwick, English footballer
1960 - Jonathan Ross, British talk show host (Tall Guy)
1960 - RuPaul, drag queen/model/actor (RuPaul Show)
1960 - Kirk Fogg, host of Legends of the Hidden Temple
1961 - Merete Van Kemp, Denmark, actress (Grace-Dallas, Princess Daisy)
1961 - Robert Stethem, U.S. Navy Seabee diver murdered by terrorists on TWA Flight 847 (d. 1985)
1962 - Eric Olson, Santa Monica California, actress (Apple's Way)
1962 - Dédé Fortin, Quebec singer (Les Colocs) (d. 2000)
1963 - Marco T Dawson, Freising Germany, PGA golfer (1995 Greater Milw-2nd)
1963 - Pedro Luis Estrada, Brooklyn New York, American murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
1964 - Marina Tcherkasova, US, pairs figure skater (Olympic-silver-1980)
1964 - Michelle Knox-Zaloom, Annapolis MD, rower (Olympics-96)
1964 - Ralph Garman, American actor and radio personality
1965 - Grant Connell, Regina Saskatchawan, tennis player (Olympics-96)
1965 - Paul Sorrento, Somerville MA, infielder (Seattle Mariners)
1965 - Raffaella Reggi, Italy, tennis star
1965 - Rob Koll, Bellefonte PA, 163 lbs/74 kg freestyle wrestler (Olymp-96)
1965 - Winthrop Graham, Jamaica, 4x400m runner (Olympic-silver-1988)
1965 - Amanda Brown, Australian musician (The Go-Betweens) and composer
1966 - Jeff Buckley, musician
1966 - Daisy Fuentes, model/MTV veejay (America's Funniest Videos)
1966 - Jeff Nelson, Baltimore MD, pitcher (NY Yankees)
1966 - Sophie Marceau, Paris France, actress (Braveheart, L'Amour Braque)
1966 - Kate Ceberano, Australian singer
1967 - Howard Griffith, NFL running back (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1967 - Ronnie Devoe, Boston, vocals (New Edition, Bell Div Devoe-Candy Girl)
1967 - Sheila Lussier, La Mesa California, actress (Reform School, My Chauffeur)
1968 - Cacho Conde, WLAF tight end/running back (Barcelona Dragons)
1968 - Sean Miller, American basketball coach
1969 - Takako Inque, Toride Japan, wrestler (Japan)
1969 - Ryotaro Okiayu, Japanese voice actor
1970 - Chris Tamer, Dearborn, NHL defenseman (Pitts Penguins)
1970 - Max Huiberts, soccer player (Roda JC)
1970 - Paul Allender, British guitarist (Cradle of Filth)
1971 - Audra Keller, Macon Georgia, tennis star (1993 Futures-Evansville IN)
1972 - Ron Lewis, WLAF OL (Amsterdam Admirals)
1972 - Leonard Roberts, American actor
1972 - Kimya Dawson, American singer
1973 - Scott Rehberg, tackle (New England Patriots)
1973 - Eli Marrero, American baseball player
1973 - Bernd Schneider, German footballer
1974 - Abbygale Williamson Arenas, Miss Universe-Photogenic (Phil, 1997)
1974 - Brandon Call, actor (Baywatch, Blind Fury, Step by Step)
1974 - Marc Edwards, NFL fullback (SF 49ers)
1974 - Leslie Bibb, American actress
1974 - Berto Romero, Spanish humorist
1975 - Lord Infamous, Rapper
1976 - Dafne Zeledon, Miss Universe-Costa Rica (1996)
1976 - Diane Neal, American actress
1976 - Brandon Call, American actor
1977 - Ryk Neethling, South African swimmer
1978 - Zoë Bell, New Zealand actress
1978 - Reggie Wayne, American football player
1979 - Matthew Spring, English footballer
1980 - Isaac Hanson, vocalist (Hansons-Do Wah)
1980 - [Clarke] Isaac Hanson, Tulsa OK, singer (Hansons-MMMMbop)
1980 - Brad Bradley, American professional wrestler
1980 - Mercedes Martinez, professional wrestler
1981 - Sarah Harding, English singer (Girls Aloud)
1982 - Katie Feenstra, American basketball player
1982 - Yusuf Pathan, Indian cricketer
1983 - Christopher Paolini, American novelist
1983 - Yiannis Bourousis, Greek basketball player
1983 - Ryan Braun, Los Angeles, California, American baseball player (Milwaukee Brewers)
1983 - Scott Moore, American baseball player
1983 - Nick Markakis, American baseball player
1983 - Harry Lloyd, English actor
1984 - Park Han-byul, South Korean actress
1985 - Patrick Quinn, Personal Trainer
1986 - Nani, Portuguese football player
1987 - Darren McKillion, Northern Irish sportsman
1988 - Justin Cooper, Los Angeles, California, American actor (Liar, Liar, General Hospital)
1990 - Shanica Knowles, American actress
1992 - Darian Weiss, American actor
1994 - Raquel Castro, American actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 17, 2013, 04:29:14 PM

This Day in History for 17th November


Famous Deaths

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Chronicler/Bishop                                    Empress of Russia                                Sculptor Auguste Rodin (1917)
 Gregory of Tours (594)                            Catherine the Great (1796)

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Physicist Robert Hofstadter (1990)


375 - Valentinian I "The Great", Roman Co-Emperor and Ruler of Western Roman Empire (336-75),
         dies at 54
474 - Leo II, Byzantine Emperor (474), dies
594 - St Gregory of Tours, Frankisch bishop of Tours, dies at 55
641 - Emperor Jomei of Japan (b. 593)
680 - Hilda of Whitby (b. 614)
885 - Queen Liutgard
1093 - Margaret, widow of Scottish king Malcolm III, dies
1231 - Elisabeth of Hungary, daughter of Andrew II of Hungary (b. 1207)
1302 - St. Gertrude the Great (b. 1256)
1326 - Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, English politician (b. 1285)
1494 - Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italian philosopher (b. 1463)
1512 - Kempo Roeper, Frisian rebel, quartered
1558 - Reginald Pole, English cardinal/scholar/"heretic", dies at 58
1562 - Antoine de Bourbon, father of Henry IV of France (b. 1518)
1592 - John III of Sweden (b. 1537)
1600 - Kuki Yoshitaka, Japanese naval commander (b. 1542)
1608 - Adolf, count of Nassau-Siegen, dies in battle at 22
1632 - Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, Bavarian field marshal (b. 1594)
1643 - Jean-Baptiste Budes, Comte de Guébriant, Marshal of France (b. 1602)
1648 - Thomas Ford, composer, dies
1665 - John Earle, English bishop
1668 - Joseph Alleine, English preacher (b. 1634)
1690 - Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, French soldier (b. 1610)
1713 - Abraham van Riebeeck, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1653)
1720 - Calico Jack, English pirate (b. 1682)
1747 - Alain R Lesage, French author (Le diable boiteux), dies at 79
1768 - Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st duke of Newcastle, dies at 75
1770 - Gian Francesco de Majo, composer, dies at 38
1776 - James Ferguson, British astronomer (b. 1710)
1780 - Bernardo Bellotto, Italian painter (b. 1720)
1794 - Jacques François Dugommier, French general (b. 1738)
1796 - Catherine the Great [Catherine II], Empress of Russia (1762-96), dies of a stroke at 67
1808 - David Zeisberger, Moravian missionary (b. 1721)
1818 - Charlotte Sophia von Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen of England, dies
1826 - Louise Reichardt, composer, dies at 47
1848 - Jozef B "Olim" Cannaert, Flemish lawyer, dies
1849 - Prince Alexander of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst, German priest and miracle-worker
           (b. 1794)
1856 - William Knyvett, composer, dies at 77
1858 - Robert Owen, British father of the cooperative movement (b. 1771)
1862 - Alexey Nikolayevich Verstovsky, composer, dies at 63
1865 - James McCune Smith, African-American doctor and abolitionist (b. 1813)
1875 - Hilario Ascasubi, Argentina author (pampa, gauchos & indians), dies
1893 - Alexander-Jozef von Battenberg, king of Bulgaria (1879-86), dies at 36
1897 - George Hendric Houghton, American Protestant Episcopal clergyman (b. 1820)
1902 - Hugh Price Hughes, Methodist Social Reformer (b. 1847)
1905 - Adolf WAKF, duke of Nassau/grand duke of Luxembourg, dies at 88
1905 - Philip EFMCBLG, earl of Flanders, dies
1905 - Adolphe of Luxembourg, (b. 1817)
1917 - Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (Baiser, Thinker), dies at 77
1921 - John McLaren, cricketer (one Test Aust v Eng 1912), dies
1921 - Pa Chay Vue, Hmong Nationalist
1922 - Robert Comtesse, Swiss Federal Councillor (b. 1847)
1927 - Adolf A Joffe, Russian author/diplomat, commits suicide at 44
1928 - Lala Lajpat Rai, Indian author, politician, & freedom fighter (b. 1865)
1929 - A F A Lilley, cricketer (92 dismissals in 35 Tests 1896-1909), dies
1929 - Herman Hollerith, German/US statistician (punch card), dies at 69
1931 - Georgi Atanasov, composer, dies at 50
1931 - John P Lotsy, botanist/geneticist (Resumptio Genetics), dies at 64
1936 - Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Austrian contralto (b. 1861)
1937 - Jack Worrall, cricketer (Australian batsman 1885-99, 11 Tests), dies
1938 - Ante Trumbić, Croatian politician (b. 1864)
1940 - Eric Gill, British sculptor (b. 1882)
1940 - Raymond Pearl, American biologist (b. 1879)
1941 - Earnest Udet, German general/head air pioneer, commits suicide
1942 - Ben Reitman, American anarchist, physician (b. 1879)
1943 - Paul Charles Rene Landormy, composer, dies at 74
1944 - A C MacLaren, cricketer (England batsman from turn of century), dies
1947 - Ricarda Huch, writer, dies at 83
1947 - Victor Serge, Russian anarchist, novelist, and historian (b. 1890)
1955 - James Price Johnson, composer, dies at 64
1958 - Mort Cooper, baseball player (b. 1913)
1959 - Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer/pianist/conductor, dies at 72
1962 - Arthur Vining Davis, CEO (Alcoa-1910-57), dies at 95 in Miami
1968 - Wilhelm Lehmann, writer, dies at 86
1968 - Mervyn Peake, British writer (b. 1911)
1970 - Naunton Wayne, actor (Dead of Night), dies at 69
1971 - Gladys Cooper, actress (Margaret-The Rogues), dies at 83
1971 - Jackie Cooper, actor (People's Choice), dies at 49
1971 - Melville Cooper, actor (Diane, Bundle of Joy), dies of cancer at 75
1973 - The Mother, Sri Aurobindo Ashram (b. 1878)
1974 - Clive Brook, actor/director (On Approval), dies at 87
1975 - Kay Johnson, actress (Real Glory, Of Human Bondage), dies at 70
1976 - Victor Alessandro, composer, dies at 60
1978 - Claude Dauphin, actor (Paris Precinct), dies at 75
1978 - James J "Gene" Tunney, heavyweight boxing champ (1926-8), dies at 80
1979 - John Glassock, bass (Jethro Tull), dies at 27 following heart surgery
1981 - Bob Eberly, singer (Jimmy Dorsey Band), dies at 65
1982 - Bill Baldwin, announcer (Mayor of Hollywood), dies at 69
1982 - Duk Koo Kim, S Korean boxer, legally declared dead
1982 - Eduard Tubin, composer, dies at 77
1982 - Ruth Donnelly, comedienne, dies at 86 in NYC
1985 - Jimmy Ritz, actor (Ritz Brothers), dies of heart failure at 81
1986 - Alan Hewitt, actor (Det Brennan-My Favorite Martian), dies at 71
1986 - Georges Besse, French president-director of Renault, murdered
1987 - Irene Wicker, singer/actress (Singing Lady), dies at 81
1988 - Sheilah Graham, gossip columnist, dies of heart failure at 84
1989 - Billy Lee, actor (Sons of Legion, Biscuit Eater), dies
1989 - Emerson Buckley, composer, dies at 73
1989 - Gus Farace, American gangster (b. 1960)
1990 - Robert Hofstadter, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
1991 - John Blatnik, (Rep-Minn, 1947-75), dies at 80
1991 - Kelly Jean Van Dyke-Nance, (Jerry Van Dyke's daughter), suicide at 33
1991 - Paul Reid Roman, actor (Aviator, Blue Knight), dies of cancer at 55
1992 - Audre Lorde, St Croix' feminist author (Black Unicorn), dies
1993 - Jthm de Vreeze, Dutch MP (KVP, 1956..77), dies at 80
1993 - Gérard D. Lévesque, Canadian politician (b. 1926)
1994 - G Waller, German/Swiss movie journalist (NRC/Variety), dies at 82
1995 - Alan Hull, singer/composer, dies at 50
1995 - Edward LeBone Molotlegi, chief of the Bafokeng, dies at 66
1995 - John Prickett, teacher/ecumenist, dies at 88
1995 - Marguerite Young, writer, dies at 87
1995 - Peter John Welding, record producer, dies at 60
1996 - Andrew John Fairclough, trade union educator, dies at 45
1996 - Johan Fleming Ramsland, broadcaster, dies at 54
1998 - Esther Rolle, American actress (b. 1920)
2000 - Louis Eugène Félix Néel, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
2001 - Michael Karoli, German guitarist (b. 1948)
2002 - Abba Eban, Israeli diplomat (b. 1915)
2003 - Arthur Conley, American singer (b. 1946)
2003 - Don Gibson, American singer (b. 1928)
2004 - Mikael Ljungberg, Swedish wrestler (b. 1970)
2004 - Alexander Ragulin, Russian hockey player (b. 1941)
2005 - Marek Perepeczko, Polish actor (b. 1942)
2006 - Bo Schembechler, American football coach (b. 1929)
2006 - Flo Sandon's, Italian singer (b. 1924)
2006 - Ruth Brown, American blues singer (b. 1928)
2006 - Ferenc Puskás, Hungarian footballer (b. 1927)
2008 - Pete Newell, American basketball coach (b. 1915)
2008 - George Stephen Morrison, American admiral and father of The Doors' lead singer Jim Morrison
2011 - Kurt Budke, American basketball coach (b. 1961)
2011 - Olin Branstetter, American businessman and politician (b. 1929)
2012 - Margaret Yorke, English crime fiction writer, dies at 88

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 18, 2013, 04:31:06 PM

This Day in History for 18th November


Historical Events

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French Enlightenment Philosopher          Naturalist Charles Darwin                   Playwright George Bernard Shaw
 Voltaire

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Entertainer Bob Hope                            Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini             First President of South Korea
                                                                                                                                      Syngman Rhee

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First Director of the FBI                            Chemist & Peace Activist                 Musician & member of the Beatles
J. Edgar Hoover                                           Linus Pauling                                             Paul McCartney

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Actor Denzel Washington


326 - Old St. Peter's Basilica is consecrated. Stood 4th - 16th century. Replaced by current St
          Peter's Basilica in Rome.
794 - Japanese emperor Kammu deallocates residence of Nara to Kioto
1105 - Maginulf elected anti-Pope Silvester I
1210 - Pope Innocent III excommunicates Roman Catholic Emperor Otto IV
1307 - William Tell shoots apple off his son's head
1421 - Southern sea floods 72 villages, killing estimated 10,000 in Netherlands
1424 - Storm flood ravages Dutch coast
1477 - 1st English printed book "Dictes & Sayengis of the Phylosophers"
1494 - French king Charles VIII occupies Florence
1497 - Vasco da Gama reached the Cape of Good Hope
1626 - St. Peter's Basilica is consecrated. Replaced an earlier basilica. Largest Christian basilica
1667 - Treaty of Bongaja: King Hassan-Udin of Makasar & VOC
1686 - Charles Francois Felix operates on King Louis XIV of France's anal fistula after practising the
           surgery on several peasants.
1718 - Voltaire's "Oedipe" premieres in Paris
1738 - France & Austria sign peace
1742 - Prussia & Brtain sign anti-French military covenant
1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlie's troops occupy Carlisle
1755 - Worst quake in Mass Bay area strikes Boston; no deaths report
1776 - Hessians capture Ft Lee, NJ
1787 - 1st Unitarian minister in US ordained, Boston
1793 - Louvre officially opens in Paris
1803 - Battle of Vertieres, in which Haitians defeat French
1804 - Palver Purim 1st celebrated to commemorate miraculous escape
1805 - 30 women meet at Mrs Silas Lee&#039;s home in Wiscasset, Maine, organizes Female
           Charitable Society, first woman&#039;s club in America
1820 - Antarctica discovered by US Navy Capt Nathaniel B Palmer
1833 - Netherlands & Belgium sign Treaty of Zonhoven
1835 - -20] Charles Darwin travels to Tahiti
1852 - State funeral of Duke of Wellington (St Paul's Cathedral, London)
1852 - Rose Philippine Duchesne dies in St. Charles, Missouri. She would be canonized on July 3, 1988 by Pope John Paul II.
1865 - Mark Twain publishes "Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"
1871 - American suffragette Susan B Anthony arrested after voting on the 5th November in
           Rochester NY
1874 - National Woman's Christian Temperance Union organizes in Cleveland
1883 - Antonin Dvorák's "Husitska" premieres
1883 - Standard time zones forms by railroads in US & Canada
1889 - Oahu Railway begins public service in Hawaii
1893 - Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Providentissimus Deus
1894 - 1st newspaper Sunday color comic section published (NY World)
1894 - 1st comic strip "Origin of a New Species" by Richard Outcault
1899 - Trumper scores 208 in 185 mins (1 five 25 fours) NSW v Qld
1902 - Bkln toymaker Morris Michton names teddy bear after Teddy Roosevelt
1903 - Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty gives US exclusive canal rights in Panama
1904 - General Esteban Huertas steps down after the government of Panama fears he wants to
           stage a coup.
1905 - George Bernard Shaw's &quot;Major Barbara&quot; premieres in London
1905 - Prince Carl of Denmark becomes King Haakon VII of Norway
1906 - Langdon Mitchells "New York Idea" premieres in NYC
1909 - US invades Nicaragua, later overthrows Pres Zelaya
1911 - Britain's 1st seaplane flies
1911 - Opera "Lobetanz" 1st American performance
1912 - Albania declares independence from Turkey
1913 - Lincoln Deachey performs 1st airplane loop-the-loop (San Diego)
1916 - Gen Douglas Haig finally calls off 1st Battle of the Somme in Europe
1917 - Sigma Alpha Rho, a Jewish high school fraternity, is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1918 - Brussels free Stofnar
1918 - Latvia declares independence from Russia
1919 - H Tierney & J McCarthy's musical "Irene," premieres in NYC
1920 - Apollo Theater (Academy, Bryant) opens at 221 W 42nd St NYC
1922 - Turkish National Assembly nominates Abdul Medjid kalief
1926 - Pope Pius XI encyclical On persecution of Church in Mexico
1928 - Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse appears in NY in "Steamboat Willie"
1929 - Dr Vladimir K Zworykin demonstrates "kinescope"
1929 - Large earthquake in Atlantic breaks transatlantic cable in 28 places
1929 - Stalin routes troops to Manchuria
1930 - Musical "Smiles" with Bob Hope and Fred Astaire premieres in NYC
1930 - Sjostakovitch' opera "The Nose" premiers in Lenningrad
1930 - Sōka Kyōiku Gakkai, a Buddhist association later renamed Soka Gakkai, is founded by
           Japanese educators Tsunesaburo Makiguchi and Josei Toda.
1932 - "Flowers & Trees" receives 1st Academy Award for a cartoon
1932 - 1st tie for Best Actor Academy Award Wallace Beery & Fredric March
1936 - Germany & Italy recognized Spanish government of Francisco Franco
1936 - Main span of Golden Gate Bridge joined
1938 - Trade union members elect John L. Lewis as the first president of the Congress of Industrial
           Organizations.
1939 - Neth KNSM passenger ship Simon Bolivar hits German mine, 86 die
1940 - George Matesky, New York City's Mad Bomber places his first bomb at a Manhattan office
           building used by Consolidated Edison.
1941 - British troops open attack on Tobruk, North Africa
1941 - Jerome Chodorov/Joseph Fields' "Junior Miss," premieres in NYC
1941 - Mussolini's forces leave Abyssinia/Ethiopia
1942 - Thornton Wilders "Skin of our Teeth," premieres in NYC
1943 - 1st US ambassador to Canada, Ray Atherton, nominated
1943 - 444 British bombers attack Berlin
1943 - U-211 sinks in Atlantic Ocean
1945 - Arnold Schoenberg's Prelude for orchestra & mixed choir, premieres
1949 - NL batting leader (.342) Jackie Robinson wins NL MVP
1950 - South Korea President Syngman Rhee forced to end mass executions
1951 - "See it Now" premieres on TV
1951 - British troops occupy Ismailiya Egypt
1951 - Former Cubs 1st baseman & future TV star of Rifleman Chuck Connors is 1st player to oppose the major league draft
1953 - Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP) accept female suffrage
1954 - Yanks trade Woodling, Byrd, McDonald, Triandos, Miranada & Smith to Orioles for Turley,
           Larsen & Hunter as part of an 18 player deal
1955 - Bell X-2 rocket plane taken up for 1st powered flight
1956 - Morocco gains independence
1957 - Tunisia refuses Russian weapons
1958 - 1st true reservoir in Jerusalem opens
1958 - Indians minority stockholders sell their stock to William Delay
1959 - Wash Senator Bob Allison wins AL Rookie of Year
1960 - Charlie Finley makes a bid to purchase expansion LA Angels
1960 - Copyright office issues its 10 millionth registration
1961 - "Gay Life" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 113 performances
1961 - "Kwamina" closes at 54th St Theater NYC after 32 performances
1961 - JFK sends 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam
1961 - US Ranger 2 launched to Moon; failed
1963 - Bell Telephone introduces push button telephone
1963 - England's Dartford-Purfleet tunnel under RiverThames opens
1963 - King Hassan II opens 1st parliament in Morocco
1964 - Baltimore Oriole Brooks Robinson wins AL MVP
1964 - J. Edgar Hoover describes Martin Luther King as "most notorious liar"
1965 - Twins SS Zoilo Versalles is named AL MVP
1966 - Sandy Koufax announces his retirement due to arthritic left elbow
1966 - US RC bishops ends rules against eating meat on Fridays
1966 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967 - British government devalues pound from US equivalent of $2.80 to $2.40
1970 - Joe Frazier KOs Bob Foster in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
1970 - Johnny Bench wins NL MVP
1970 - Linus Pauling declares large doses of Vitamin C could ward off colds
1970 - Netherlands & Albania form diplomatic relations
1970 - Russia lands self propelled rover on Moon
1971 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1973 - Greek regime calls emergency crisis due to mass protests
1975 - Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver returns to US
1975 - Calvin Murphy (Houston) ends NBA free throw streak of 58 games
1976 - Spain's parliament establishes democracy after 37 yrs of dictatorship
1976 - Yanks sign free agent Don Gullett
1978 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1978 - In Jonestown Guyana 918 members of Peoples Temple are murdered/commit suicide under
           leadership of cult leader Jim Jones
1979 - Ayatollah Khomeini charges US ambassador/embassy espionage
1980 - "Heaven's Gate" premieres
1980 - Despite missing 45 games, George Brett wins AL MVP
1980 - Honduras & El Salvador signs peace (after "soccer war" 1969)
1981 - Phillies 3rd baseman Mike Schmidt wins his 2nd consecutive NL MVP
1982 - Mariasela Alvarez of Dominican Republic, crowned 32nd Miss World
1982 - Duk Koo Kim dies unexpectedly from injuries sustained during a 14-round match against Ray
           Mancini in Las Vegas, Nevada, prompting reforms in the sport of boxing.
1984 - "3 Musketeers" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 9 performances
1984 - 72nd CFL Grey Cup: Win Blue Bombers defeats Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 47-17
1984 - Browns set team records for most sacks (11)
1984 - Flyers' Ron Sutter fails on 11th penalty shot against Islanders
1984 - NJ Devils shutout NY Rangers 6-0
1985 - Dwight Gooden (NL) & Bret Saberhagen (AL) win Cy Young
1985 - Enterprise (OV-101) flies from Kennedy Space Center to Dulles Airport
1985 - Howard Stern radio show returns to NYC (WXRK 92.3 FM-afternoons)
1985 - Paul McCartney releases "Spies Like Us"
1986 - Roger Clemens wins AL MVP
1987 - 31 die in a fire at King's Cross, London's busiest tube station
1987 - Congressional committee reports on Iran-Contra affair
1987 - Cubs Andre Dawson is 1st from last-place club ever to win an MVP
1989 - Penn is 1st to restrict abortions after Supreme Court gave states the right to do so
1990 - "Fiddler on the Roof" opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 241 perfs
1990 - 1st Solheim Cup: US beats Europe 11½-4½ at Lake Nona CC FLA
1990 - NFL NY Giants beat Det Lions 20-0, to run 1990 record to 10-0
1990 - Saddam offers to free an estimated 2,000 men held in Kuwait
1991 - France deports Marlon's daughter Cheyenne Brando to Tahiti
1991 - Moslem Shites release hostages Terry Waite & Thomas Sutherland
1991 - Auburn men's basketball team was placed on 2 yr probation for recruiting violations & is not
           eligble for post-season play in 1991-92
1992 - "Malcolm X" with Denzel Washington premieres in US
1992 - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Las Vegas NV on KXTE 107.5 FM
1993 - 27 killed at prison in Morazan, El Salvador
1993 - Black & white leaders in South Africa approve new democratic constitution
1993 - NAFTA passes House
1993 - North-Siberia record cold for November (-55°C)
1993 - Pearl Jam lead singer Eddie Vedder arrested for public drunkiness
1993 - WWF boss Vince McMahon charged with steroid distribution
1994 - "Star Trek VII - Generations" premieres
1995 - Jacqueline Aguilera Marcano, 19, of Venezuela, crowned 45th Miss World
1995 - Sam's Town Bowling Invitational won by Michelle Mullen
1996 - Eappens hire Louise Woodward as nanny, later she's charged with murder
1997 - Arizona Diamondbacks & Tampa Bay Devil Rays expansion draft
1997 - FBI says no evidence of foul play in 1996 TWA 800 crash
1997 - 70s glam-rock star Gary Glitter (real name Paul Gadd) arrested by British police in child porn
           probe
1997 - Mavericks' A C Green ties Randy Smith's NBA record of 906 cons games
1997 - Rare black pearl necklace auctioned for record $902,000
1997 - Willem de Kooning painting "Two Standing Women" sold for $4,182,500
1999 - In College Station, Texas, 12 are killed and 27 injured at Texas A&M University when a
           massive bonfire under construction collapses.
2002 - Iraq disarmament crisis: United Nations weapons inspectors led by Hans Blix arrive in Iraq.
2003 - The congress of the Communist Party of Indian Union (Marxist-Leninist) decides to merge the
           party into Kanu Sanyal's CPI(ML).
2003 - In tEngland, the Local Government Act 2003, repealing controversial anti-gay amendment
           Section 28, becomes effective.
2004 - Russia officially ratifies the Kyoto Protocol.
2012 - Lewis Hamilton wins the 2012 US Formula One Grand Prix
2012 - Israeli Gaza rocket strikes kill 80 alleged terrorist targets
2012 - Brad Keselowski wins the 2012 Nascar Sprint Cup

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 18, 2013, 04:32:46 PM

This Day in History for 18th November


Famous Weddings

1952 - "Rock Around The Clock" rock and roll pioneer Bill Haley (27) weds Barbara Cupchak
2000 - Actor and producer Michael Douglas (67) weds Academy Award- and Tony Award-winning
           Welsh actress Catherine Zeta-Jones (42) at The Plaza Hotel in New York City
2000 - "Queen" guitarist Brian May (53) weds "EastEnders" actress Anita Dobson (51) in a civil
           ceremony at Richmond Register Office
2006 - American film actor and producer Tom Cruise (44) weds actress Katie Holmes (27) at
           Odescalchi Castle in Bracciano, Italy

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 18, 2013, 04:57:45 PM

This Day in History for 18th November


Famous Birthdays

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Photographer and Inventor                              English Dramatist                         Scientist George Wald (1906)
Louis-Jacques Daguerre (1787)              William Schwenck Gilbert (1836)

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Lyricist and Songwriter                            Actor Owen Wilson (1968)
Johnny Mercer (1909)


1522 - Lamoral, Count of Egmont, Flemish general and statesman (d. 1568)
1527 - Luca Cambiaso, Italian painter/sculptor
1630 - Eleanor Gonzaga, Empress of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1686)
1680 - Jean-Baptiste Loeillet, composer
1727 - Philibert Commerçon, French naturalist (d. 1773)
1736 - Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch, composer
1742 - Felix Maximo Lopez, composer
1772 - Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia Christian, composer
1774 - Wilhelmine of Prussia, Queen of the Netherlands (d. 1837)
1781 - Felice Blangini, composer
1785 - David Wilkie, British artist (d. 1841)
1786 - Henry Rowley Bishop, British composer/conductor
1786 - Carl Maria von Weber, Germany, romantic composer (Der Freischutz), [or 19]
1787 - Sojourner Truth [Isabella Baumfree], Swartekill, New York, US abolitionist/feminist
1787 - Louis-Jacques Daguerre, Cormeilles-en-Parisis France, inventor and photographer (d. 1851)
1803 - Cornelius Broere, Dutch priest/poet
1804 - Alfonso Ferrero la Marmora, Italian general and statesman (d. 1878)
1808 - Antoine-Amable-Elie Elwart, composer
1810 - Asa Gray, Sauquoit NY, botanist (Flora of North America)
1810 - Benjamin Stone Roberts, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1875
1812 - Jesse Johnson Finley, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1904
1824 - Franz Sigel, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1902
1824 - Isham Nicholas Hayne, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1868
1832 - Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Swedish explorer (d. 1901)
1835 - Americus Vespucius Rice, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1904
1835 - Cesare Lombroso, Italian psychiatrist/criminologist
1836 - William Schwenck Gilbert, London, English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator (Gilbert &
           Sullivan)
1839 - August A Kundt, German physicist (sound vibration, test of Kundt)
1845 - John F Mellaerts, Flemish social worker (1st Belgian farm gilde)
1846 - Aloys, Liechtenstein nobleman/politician
1856 - Nikolai Nikolaevich Romanov, Grand Duke of Russia (d. 1929)
1860 - Ignacy Jan Paderewski, composer/1st premier of Poland (1919-20)
1861 - Dorothy Dix, pseudonym of US journalist Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer (d. 1951)
1863 - Richard Dehmel, writer
1869 - James E Sullivan, founder (Amateur Athletic Union)
1871 - Amadeo Vives, composer
1874 - Carrie White, oldest US woman (dies Nov 1990 at 116)
1874 - Clarence Shepard Day, NYC, author (Life with Father)
1874 - Riccardo Martin, composer
1877 - Arthur C Pigou, English economist (Wealth & welfare)
1881 - Percy Lesueur, hockey player/inventor (large goalie glove)
1882 - Amelita Galli-Curci, Italy, operatic soprano (Cave of the Winds)
1882 - Jacques Maritain, France, Catholic philosopher (exponent of St Thomas)
1882 - Wyndham Lewis, English author/painter (Tarr, Apes of God)
1883 - Carl Vinson, U.S. Congressman (d. 1981)
1888 - Frances Marion, SF CA, screenwriter/actress (Pollyanna)
1889 - Maria Realino, [Frederikus Janssen], teacher (Botany of Curacao)
1895 - Ernst Levy, composer
1897 - Jules Buffano, St Louis Mo, pianist (Jimmy Durante Show)
1897 - Patrick M S Blackett, British physicist (nuclear reaction, Nobel 1948)
1898 - Joris Ivens, Nijmegen Netherlands, director (Rain)
1898 - Oswald Erich Sehlbach, composer
1899 - Eugene Ormandy, [Blau], Budapest Hungary, conductor (Phila Orch)
1900 - Constantin Alajalov, Russia, artist (Ditters & Jitters)
1900 - Howard Thurman, theologian/author (Deep River, Deep in the Hunger)
1901 - George Gallup, Jefferson Iowa, public opinion pollster (Gallup Poll)
1902 - Barbara Giuranna, composer
1902 - Jorgen Nielsen, Danish author (regional novels)
1903 - Lillian Fuchs, composer
1904 - Guido Santorsola, composer
1904 - Theodore DN Besterman, British bibliographer
1904 - Jean Paul Lemieux, Quebec painter (d. 1990)
1906 - George Wald, US, physiologist/biologist (eye, Nobel 1967)
1906 - Klaus Mann, German/US author (Mephisto)/son of Thomas Mann
1906 - Alec Issigonis, Greek-British car designer (d. 1988)
1907 - Halldis Vesaas-Moren, Norwegian author/poetess
1907 - Compay Segundo, Cuban musician (Buena Vista Social Club) (d. 2003)
1908 - Imogene Coca, Phila, comedienne (Your Show of Shows, Grindl)
1909 - Johnny Mercer, Savannah Ga, lyricist (Moon River, Old Black Magic)
1910 - Friedrich Weinreb, Polish/Neth theologist/economist
1911 - Attilio Bertolucci, Italian poet and writer (d. 2000)
1912 - Arthur Peterson, Mandan ND, actor (Major-Soap, Crisis)
1912 - Jaap Meijer, [Saul van Messel], Dutch historian/rabbi in Paramaribo
1915 - Ken Burkhart, American baseball player and umpire (d. 2004)
1916 - James L Lyons, jazz promoter
1918 - Tasker Watkins, Welsh World War II hero (d. 2007)
1919 - Jocelyn Brando, San Francisco, actress (Ugly American)
1920 - Alfred William Bedford, test pilot
1920 - Louis Alfred Mennini, composer
1920 - Mustafa Khalil, Prime Minister of Egypt (d. 2008)
1921 - Peter Pocklington, NHL team owner (Edmonton Oiler)
1922 - Luis Somoza Debayle, president of Nicaragua (1956-63)
1922 - Marjorie Gestring, US, springboard diver (Olympic-gold-1936)
1922 - Viktor Afanasiev, editor (Pravda)
1922 - Al Dvorin, American Elvis Presley concert announcer (d. 2004)
1923 - Alan B Shepard Jr, East Derry NH, Rear Adm USN/astro (Merc 3, Ap 14)
1923 - Ted Stevens, American politician
1924 - Alexander Mackenzie Stuart, Scottish jurist (d. 2000)
1925 - Alex Macintosh, broadcaster/actor (Hell Fight)
1925 - William Robert Mayer, composer
1926 - Dorothy Collins, Windsor Ontario, singer (Your Hit Parade)
1926 - Kim Besly, activist
1926 - Estanislao Basora, Catalonia, Spain, footballer (The Monster of Colombes, 22 caps for Spain,
           301 matches for Barcelona), (d. 2012)
1927 - Lawrence Kenneth Moss, composer
1927 - Hank Ballard, American musician (d. 2003)
1928 - Mickey Mouse, cartoon strip
1928 - Otar Gordeli, Georgian composer
1929 - William Joseph "Pete" Knight, astronaut/test pilot (X-15)
1932 - Nasif Estéfano, Argentine racing driver {d. 1973)
1933 - Jacques Charpentier, composer
1934 - Vassilis Vassilikos, Greek writer and ambassador
1935 - Frank Joseph Kofsky, teacher/writer
1935 - Rudolf Bahro, German dissident (d. 1997)
1935 - Rodney Hall, Australian author
1936 - Don E Cherry, US jazz trumpeter
1936 - Hank Ballard, Detroit, rocker (The Twist (pre Chubby Checker)
1937 - Rajinder Pal, cricketer (pace bowler in one Test India v England, 0-22)
1938 - Karl Schranz, Austria, slalom (Olympic-1968)
1939 - Brenda Vaccaro, Brooklyn New York, American actress (Cactus Flower, Sara, Paper Dolls)
1939 - John Cheek, Falkland Islands advocate
1939 - Margaret E Atwood, author/poet
1939 - Tom Johnson, composer
1940 - Qaboos bin Sa'id, Sultan of Oman
1941 - David Hemmings, Guilford England, actor (Blow-up, Barbarella)
1942 - Jeffrey Siegel, Chicago Ill, pianist (Chicago Symph)
1942 - Linda Evans, Hartford, actr (Dynasty, Big Valley, Beach Blanket Bingo)
1942 - Susan Sullivan, NYC, actress (Dharma & Greg, Falcon Crest)
1945 - Glen Walken, Astoria Queens, actor (Leave it to Larry)
1946 - Alan Dean Foster, US, sci-fi author (Midworld, Flinx in Flux)
1946 - Amanda Lear, French singer
1947 - Jameson Parker, Balt Md, actor (American Justice, Simon & Simon)
1948 - Andrea Marcovicci, NYC, actress (Gloria-Berrengers, Fran-Trapper John)
1948 - Jack Tatum, Cherryville NC, NFL defensive back (Raiders)
1948 - Ural Nazibovich Sultanov, Russian cosmonaut
1949 - Bonnie St Claire, [Cornelia Swart], Dutch singer (Tame me Tiger)
1949 - Ted Sator, Utica NY, NHL coach (NY Rangers, Buffalo Sabres)
1950 - Graham Parker, musician (Live Sparks, Mercury Poisoning)
1950 - Eric Pierpoint, American actor
1951 - Marga Stubblefield, LPGA golfer
1951 - Mark N Brown, Valparaiso In, Major USAF/astronaut (STS 28, 48, 66)
1951 - Justin Raimondo, American author
1952 - Delroy Lindo, actor (Get Shorty, Ransom)
1952 - Peter Beattie, Australian politician
1953 - John McFee, rock guitarist (Doobie Brothers, Clover)
1953 - Kevin Nealon, Bridgeport Conn, actor (SNL, Hot Shot, Coneheads)
1953 - Alan Moore, British comic book writer and novelist
1954 - Guy Innes-Ker duke of Roxburghe, English large landowner
1954 - John Parr, British pop singer
1954 - Evan Gray, New Zealand cricketer
1955 - Carter Burwell, American composer
1956 - Sinbad, [David Adkins], Benton Harbor MI, actor (1st Kid, Vibe)
1956 - Tony Franklin, NFL kicker (Philadelphia Eagles, New England Patriots)
1956 - Warren Moon, NFL quarterback (Houston Oilers, Seahawks, Vikings)
1956 - Noel Brotherston, Northern Irish footballer (d. 1995)
1957 - Jenny Burton, NYC, rocker (Nobody Loves Me Like You Do)
1957 - Seán Mac Falls, Irish-born poet
1957 - J.C. Watts (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Oklahoma's 4th district, in
           office Jan 3, 1995 - Jan 3, 2003
1958 - Oscar Nunez, Cuban American actor
1959 - Jimmy Quinn, Northern Irish footballer and football manager
1960 - Elizabeth Perkins, Queens NY, actress (About Last Night, Big)
1960 - Kim Wilde, [Smith], England, rock vocalist (You Keep Me Hanging On)
1961 - Janice Lynn Kuehnemund, St Paul Minn, rocker (Vixen-Rev It Up)
1962 - Jamie Moyer, Sellersville PA, pitcher (Boston Red Sox)
1962 - Jill Briles-Hinton, Elmhurst IL, LPGA golfer (1995 Women's Open-16th)
1962 - Kirk Hammett, US heavy-metal guitarist (Metallica-Master of Puppets)
1962 - Vladimir Vladimirovich Karashtin, Russian cosmonaut
1963 - Dante Bichette, W Palm Beach FLA, outfielder (Colorado Rockies)
1963 - Peter Schmeichel, Danish footballer
1964 - Mike Withycombe, CFL corner (BC Lions)
1964 - Seth Joyner, NFL linebacker (Ariz, Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1965 - Mark Petkovsek, Beaumont TX, pitcher (St Louis Cardinals)
1965 - Matt Kabayama, hockey forward (Team Japan 1998)
1966 - Darren Flutie, CFL slot back (Edmonton Eskimos)
1966 - Gwendolyn Hajek, Shreveport La, playmate (September, 1987)
1966 - Ron Coomer, Crest Hill IL, infielder (Minnesota Twins)
1966 - Tommie Stowers, WLAF tight end (Rhein Fire)
1966 - Jorge Camacho, Spanish poet
1967 - Jocelyn Lemieux, Mont Laurier, NHL right wing (Calgary Flames)
1967 - Tom Gordon, Sebring FL, pitcher (Boston Red Sox)
1968 - Gary Sheffield, Tampa FL, outfielder (Florida Marlins)
1968 - Lubomir Sekeras, Liptovsky CZE, hockey defenseman (Team Slovakia)
1968 - Mel Stewart, NC, 200m butterfly swimmer (Olympics-gold-92)
1968 - Milica Vukadinovic, WNBA guard (Charlotte Sting)
1968 - Barry Hunter, Northern Irish footballer and manager
1968 - Romany Malco, American actor and music producer
1968 - Owen Wilson, Dallas, Texas, American actor (Meet the Parents, Zoolander)
1969 - Cheryl Bachman, Jacksonville Fla, playmate (October, 1991)
1969 - Lee Anne Ketcham, Tallahassee Fla, female pitcher (Silver Bullets)
1969 - Raghib Ismail, NFL wide receiver/kick returner (Oakland Raiders)
1969 - Sam Cassell, NBA guard (NJ Nets, Houston Rockets)
1969 - Duncan Sheik, American singer
1969 - Ahmed Helmi, Egyptian actor
1970 - Allen Watson, Brooklyn NY, pitcher (SF Giants)
1970 - Phil Buckman, Queens NY, actor (Slash-Drexell's Class)
1970 - Toby Wright, safety (St Louis Rams)
1970 - Elizabeth Anne Allen, American actress
1970 - Mike Epps, American actor
1970 - Megyn Kelly, American television news anchor
1970 - Johan Liiva, Sweden vocalist (Arch Enemy)
1971 - Kylie Hanigan, Australian 200m/400m runner (Olympics-96)
1972 - Jason Arnberger, cricketer (NSW opening batsman 1994-95 -)
1972 - Jessi Alexander, American country music singer/songwriter
1972 - Robert Shapiro, American politician/humorist
1973 - Steve Christopher Petree, Oklahoma, rocker (PC Quest-Can You See)
1974 - Autumn Smith, Miss USA-Alabama (1997, top 10)
1974 - Christian Schmidt, actor (Mullers Baro)
1974 - Chloë Sevigny, American actress
1975 - Jason Williams, American basketball player
1975 - Anthony McPartlin, British actor and television presenter
1975 - Shawn Camp, American baseball player
1976 - Sandy Zubrin, Tamuning Guam, US diver (Olympics-96)
1976 - Shagrath, Norwegian singer (Dimmu Borgir)
1976 - Mona Zaki, Egyptian Actress
1977 - Trent Barrett, Australian rugby league footballer
1977 - Fabolous, American rapper
1978 - Damien Johnson, Northern Irish footballer
1980 - François Duval, Belgian rally driver
1980 - Junichi Okada, Japanese singer (V6)
1980 - Dustin Kensrue, American Singer/Songwriter (Thrice)
1980 - Luke Chadwick, English footballer
1981 - Christina Vidal, American actress
1981 - Gian Magdangal, Filipino singer and actor
1983 - Jon Johansen, Norwegian software developer
1983 - Travis Buck, American baseball player
1984 - Johnny Christ, American musician (Avenged Sevenfold)
1984 - Ryohei Chiba, Japanese singer w-inds.
1985 - Christian Siriano, American fashion designer
1986 - Nic Sampson, New Zealand actor
1988 - Jeffrey Jordan, American college basketball player; son of Michael Jordan
1988 - Montanna Thompson, English actress
1992 - Nathan Kress, American actor

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 18, 2013, 05:00:58 PM

This Day in History for 18th November


Famous Deaths

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Nobel Prize Winning Physicist
Niels Bohr (1962)


942 - Odo van Cluny, 2nd abbott of Cluny (924-42), dies
1154 - Adélaide de Maurienne, wife of Louis VI of France (b. 1092)
1170 - Albrecht I "Bear", 1st margrave of Brandenburg (1150-70), dies at 70
1305 - John II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1239)
1559 - Cuthbert Tunstall, English churchman (b. 1474)
1590 - George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, English statesman (b. 1528)
1603 - Elisabeth van Nassau, daughter of Juliana, dies at 61
1630 - Esaias van der Velde, Dutch painter, buried
1678 - Giovanni Maria Bononcini, composer, dies at 36
1724 - Bartolomeu de Gusmão, Portuguese naturalist (b. 1685)
1771 - Giuseppe de Majo, composer, dies at 73
1785 - Louis Philip I, Duke of Orléans, French soldier and writer (b. 1725)
1797 - Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder and merchant (b. 1719)
1814 - William Jessop, British civil engineer (b. 1745)
1822 - Anton Teyber, composer, dies at 66
1822 - George Knowil Jackson, composer, dies at 65
1827 - Wilhelm Hauff, writer, dies at 24
1841 - Georg Chistoph Grosheim, composer, dies at 77
1851 - Ernst August, duke of Cumberland/king of Hanover (1837-51), dies at 80
1852 - Anton Bernhard Furstenau, composer, dies at 60
1883 - Wilhelm Siemens, German/British physicist (steam engine), dies
1886 - Chester A Arthur, 21st pres (1881-85), dies in NY at 56
1887 - Eduard Marxsen, composer, dies at 81
1887 - Gustav T Fechner, German psychologist/physicist, dies at 86
1887 - Heinrich Panofka, German violist/composer, dies at 80
1889 - William Allingham, Irish poet (Day & Night Songs), dies at 68
1904 - Justus van Maurik, cigar manufacturer/author/head of Red Guard, dies
1911 - Alfred Binet, French child psychologist, dies
1917 - Henry Spiekman, social-democratic politician, dies at 43
1918 - Reggie Schwartz, cricketer (55 wickets for South Africa), dies
1919 - Ferdinand Domela Newenhouse, anarchist (free socialist), dies
1922 - Marcel Proust, French author (Recherche du Temps Perdu), dies at 51
1929 - Henricus Van de Wetering, archbishop Utrecht (1895-1929), dies at 78
1941 - Walter H Nernst, German chemist (Nobel Prize 1920), dies at 77
1941 - Chris Watson, third Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1867)
1941 - Émile Nelligan, Quebec poet (b. 1879)
1946 - Donald Meek, Scotland, actor (Stage Fair, Stagecoach), dies at 86
1946 - John King, cricketer (scored 60 & 4 in only Test Eng v Aus 1909), dies
1950 - Gerardus van de Lion, Dutch minister of Education, dies at 60
1951 - John H Van Maarseveen, Dutch minister of Justice, dies at 57
1951 - Vaclav Kalik, composer, dies at 60
1951 - William Henry Bennett Vodery, composer, dies at 66
1952 - Paul Eluard, French communist/poet, dies at 56
1958 - Sivert Samuelson, cricketer (one Test South Africa v England 1910), dies
1962 - Luc Haesaerts, Flemish art critic (Flandre), dies at 63
1962 - Niels Bohr, Danish physicist (atom, Nobel 1922), dies at 77
1965 - Henry A Wallace, VP (1941-45)/founder (Progressive Party), dies at 77
1966 - Bela Tardos, composer, dies at 56
1966 - Jean Peugeot, French auto manufacturer, dies
1968 - Walter Wanger, US producer (Cleopatra), dies at 74
1969 - Joseph P Kennedy, JFK/RFK/TMK father, dies in Hyannis Port Mass, at 81
1969 - Leon Jongen, composer, dies at 85
1969 - Ted Heath, British musician and bandleader (b. 1902)
1970 - Hal Dickinson, singer (Modernaires), dies at 56
1971 - Junior Parker, rocker, dies during brain operation at 44
1972 - Danny Whitten, rocker, dies of a drug overdose
1972 - Segundo Luis Moreno Andrade, composer, dies at 90
1976 - Man Ray, US artist (Dada), dies at 86
1977 - Victor Francen, actor (J'Acusse, San Antonio), dies at 89
1977 - Kurt Schuschnigg, Austrian politician (b. 1897)
1978 - Jim Jones, US pastor, leader of Jonestown Cult, commits suicide
1978 - Leo J Ryan, (Rep-Cal) & 4 killed in Jonestown, Guyana by members of Peoples Temple,
           followed by ritual mass suicide of 914 members
1979 - Freddie Fitzsimmons, baseball player (b. 1901)
1980 - Conn Smythe, NHL coach 1927-1931 (b. 1895)
1982 - Donald Dillaway, actor (Min & Bill, Platinum Blonde), dies at 78
1982 - H Kipphardt, writer, dies at 60
1984 - Mary Hamman, American writer and editor (b. 1907)
1986 - Gia Carangi, American model (AIDS) (b. 1960)
1987 - Jacques Anquetil, French cyclist (5x Tour de France), dies at 53
1989 - Henry de Vries, painter/poet (Toovertuin), dies
1990 - Peter Schilperoort, saxophonist/clarinetist, dies
1991 - Gustav Husak, president of Czechoslovakia (1975-89), dies at 78
1992 - Dorothy Kirsten, US soprano, dies from stroke at 82
1992 - Herman Musaph, psychiatrist/sexologist/co-founder (NVSH), dies
1992 - Superman, fictional character, killed by Doomsday at 54
1993 - Fritz Feld, actor (Errand Boy, Promises Promises), dies at 93
1994 - Cab[ell] Calloway, US band leader/actor (Missourians), dies at 86
1994 - Chris Joyce, photographer, dies at 51
1994 - Michael [George] Somes, English dancer (Royal Ballet), dies at 77
1995 - Miron Grindea, literary editor, dies at 86
1995 - Ted Sannella, square dance caller, dies of cancer
1996 - David Herbert, publisher, dies at 69
1996 - John Vassall, spy/civil servant, dies at 72
1999 - Paul Bowles, American novelist (b. 1910)
1999 - Doug Sahm, American musician (b. 1941)
2002 - James Coburn, American actor (b. 1928)
2003 - Michael Kamen, American composer (b. 1948)
2004 - Cy Coleman, American composer, songwriter and pianist (b. 1929)
2005 - Harold J. Stone, American actor (b. 1911)
2009 - Red Robbins, American basketball player (b. 1944)
2010 - Brian G. Marsden, British astronomer (b. 1937)
2012 - Elena Donaldson-Akhmilovskaya, Russian Woman Grandmaster of chess, dies from brain
           cancer at 55

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 19, 2013, 01:58:30 PM

This Day in History for 19th November


Historical Events

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Poet Alfred Tennyson                             Explorer of the New World                      Nazi Minister of Propaganda
                                                                  Christopher Columbus                                     and Information
                                                                                                                                         Joseph Goebbels                   

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37th US President                                    Cuban President Fidel Castro         Supermodel & Actress Brooke Shields
Richard Nixon

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General Secretary of the Communist     42nd US President Bill Clinton
Party of the Soviet Union
Mikhail Gorbachev


461 - St Hilary begins his reign as Catholic Pope
615 - Pope Deusdedit/Adeodatus I elected to succeed Boniface IV
1302 - Pope Boniface VIII delegates degree "Unam sanctam"
1367 - League of Cologne goes against Danish king Waldemar IV
1493 - Christopher Columbus discovers Puerto Rico, on his 2nd voyage
1521 - Battle at Milan: Emperor Karel V's/pontifical/Spanish/German troops beat France & occupy
           Milan
1523 - Giulio de' Medici chosen as Pope Clemens VII
1530 - Augsburg] Emperor Karel I enables Edict of Worms
1544 - Pope Paul III opens council of Trente
1620 - Mayflower reaches Cape Cod & explores the coast
1621 - Rabbi Isaiah b Abraham aha-Levi Horowitz arrives in Israel
1644 - 1st protestant ministry society in New England
1700 - Battle at Narva: Swedish King Karel XII defeats Russians
1794 - Jakobin Club forms in Paris
1794 - Jay Treaty, 1st US extradition treaty, signed with Great Britain
1805 - Lewis & Clark reach Pacific Ocean, 1st European Americans to cross continent
1816 - Warsaw University is established.
1824 - Storm causes St Petersburg flood, killing 10,000
1837 - Floridsdorf-Deutsch Wagram railway in Austria opens
1850 - Alfred Tennyson becomes British Poet Laureate, succeeding William Wordsworth
1861 - Julia Ward Howe committed "Battle Hymn of the Republic" to paper
1863 - Lincoln delivers his address in Gettysburg; "4 score & 7 years..."
1873 - William Marcy "Boss" Tweed, of Tammany Hall (NYC) convicted of defrauding city of $6M,
           sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment
1879 - Natl Association of Trotting Horse Breeders determines what "is" a trotter
1881 - A meteorite lands near the village of Großliebenthal, southwest of Odessa, Ukraine.
1887 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Dying Detective" (BG)
1893 - 1st newspaper color supplement (NY World)
1894 - 1st mushroom on a stamp (China 1 & 5 Ap)
1894 - Dutch troops occupy & plunders palace of Tjakra Negara, Lombok
1895 - Frederick E Blaisdell patents the pencil
1896 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Sussex Vampire" (BG)
1903 - Carrie Nation attempts to address Senate
1906 - London selected to host 1908 Olympics
1909 - Former Dutch premier Abraham Kuyper denies corruption
1910 - Ferenc Molnàrs "Tester," premieres in Budapest
1911 - NY receives 1st Marconi wireless transmission from Italy
1916 - Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Pictures (the company later became one
           of the most successful independent filmmakers).
1919 - US Senate rejects (55-39) Treaty of Versailles & League of Nations
1922 - Demonstration for a French Language University in Ghent
1923 - Béla Bartòk's "Tancsuite," premieres
1926 - British mine strikes after 28 weeks ends
1928 - 1st issue of Time magazine, Japanese Emperor Hirohito on cover
1932 - Joe Kershalla scores 71 points in a college football game
1932 - Shaft & Thyssen demand Hitler become German chancellor
1933 - Women allowed to vote in Spain (helps right wing)
1939 - Don Lash wins 6th straight AAU cross-country 10K championship
1940 - Belgian King Leopold III visits Adolf Hitler
1940 - German air raid on Birmingham fails
1942 - Joseph Goebbels visits "German Theatre in the Niederlanden"
1942 - Russia launches winter offensive against Germans along Don front
1943 - U-536 sinks in Atlantic Ocean
1944 - World War II: U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt announces the 6th War Loan Drive, aimed at
           selling $14 billion USD in war bonds to help pay for the war effort.
1946 - Bradman scores 119 South Australia v Victoria, 183 mins, 8 fours
1947 - 200" mirror arrives at Mt Palomar
1948 - Belgian government of Spaak, forms
1949 - Prince Rainier III coronation as 30th ruling Prince of Monaco
1950 - US General Eisenhower becomes supreme commander of NATO-Europe
1951 - Roy Campanella named NL MVP on his 30th birthday
1951 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1952 - North American F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speed record, 1124 KPH
1952 - Spain joins UNESCO
1953 - US Supreme Court rules (7-2) baseball is a sport not a business
1953 - US VP Richard Nixon visits Hanoi
1955 - KXMB TV channel 12 in Bismarck, ND (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 - National Review publishes its first issue.
1957 - Antonin Novotny appointed president of Czechoslovakia
1958 - First 2 F-27 Fokker's Friendships delivered on Aer Lingus
1959 - "Rocky & His Friends" debuts on ABC
1959 - Ford cancels Edsel
1960 - Mickey Vernon is hired as 1st manager of new Washington team
1961 - Houston George Blanda passes for 7 touchdowns vs NY Titans (49-13)
1962 - Fidel Castro accepts removal of Soviet weapons
1962 - KOET (now KULC) TV channel 9 in Ogden, UT (PBS) begins broadcasting
1962 - SN Behrman's "Lord Pengo," premieres in NYC
1962 - Todor Zjivkov becomes premier of Bulgaria
1965 - ABC radio begins weekly "Vietnam Update" report
1965 - Kellogg's Pop Tarts pastries created
1966 - Mad Dog Vachon beats Dick The Bruiser in Omaha, to become NWA champ
1967 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Pensacola Ladies' Golf Invitational
1967 - The establishment of TVB, the first wireless commercial television station in Hong Kong.
1968 - Mali military coup, president Modibo Keita flees
1968 - Yankees pitcher Stan Bahnsen wins AL Rookie of Year
1969 - Apollo 12's Conrad & Bean become 3rd & 4th humans on Moon
1969 - WENY TV channel 36 in Elmira, NY (ABC) begins broadcasting
1970 - Golden Gate Park Conservatory becomes a Cal state historical landmark
1970 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1971 - Ft Wilderness opens
1972 - "Ambassador" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 9 performances
1972 - "Dear Oscar" closes at Playhouse Theater NYC after 5 performances
1972 - Gershwin Theater (Uris) opens at 1633 Broadway NYC
1972 - KFIZ TV channel 34 in Fond du Lac, WI suspends broadcasting
1972 - Willy Brandts SPD wins West German election
1973 - Elections in Suriname, premier Sedney's PNP doesn't win a chair
1975 - Reds 2nd baseman Joe Morgan is named NL MVP
1976 - George Harrison releases "This Song"
1976 - Patty Hearst is freed on $15 million bail
1976 - Jaime Ornelas Camacho takes office as the first President of the Regional Government of
           Madeira, Portugal.
1977 - -21] Egyptian president Sadat visits Israel
1977 - Canuck's Ron Sedlbauer fails on 3rd penalty shot against Islanders
1977 - Egyptian Pres Anwar Sadat arrives in Israel
1977 - Libya drops diplomatic relations with Egypt
1978 - Gavaskar gets twin cricket tons for India for 2nd time
1979 - Astros sign Nolan Ryan, to record 4 year, $4.5 million contract
1979 - Chuck Berry released from prison on income tax evasion
1980 - CBS TV bans Calvin Klein's jean ad featuring Brooke Shields
1983 - Edmonton Oilers beat NJ Devils, 13-4, Wayne Gretzky calls the Devils "a Mickey Mouse
           organization"
1984 - Liquid gas tank in Mexico City explodes; 334 die
1984 - NY Met Dwight Gooden, 20, is youngest to be named NL Rookie of Year
1985 - Herb Gardner's "I'm Not Rappaport," premieres in NYC
1985 - US President Reagan & Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for 1st time
1986 - Phillies 3rd baseman Mike Schmidt wins NL MVP
1986 - Tina Howe's "Coastal Disturbances," premieres in NYC
1987 - France performs nuclear test
1989 - US beats Trinidad, 1-0 qualifing for 1990 world soccer cup finals it was US' 1st qualification
           since 1950
1990 - Greyhound files reoganization plan so they can be traded publically
1990 - Iraq announces it will free all German hostages
1990 - Pittsburgh's Barry Bonds wins NL MVP
1991 - Balt Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken wins his 2nd AL MVP
1992 - "3 From Brooklyn" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 45 performances
1993 - Algerian Moslem fundamentalists uprising, 27 killed
1993 - Curacaose vote to remain part of Dutch Antilles
1994 - Aishwarya Rai, 21, of India, crowned 44th Miss World
1994 - Sam's Town Bowling Invitational won by Tish Johnson
1995 - "Beatle Anthology" premieres on ABC-TV
1995 - "Sacrilege" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 21 performances
1995 - "School for Scandal" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 23 performances
1995 - 83rd CFL Grey Cup: Balt Stallions defeats Calgary Stampeders, 37-20
1995 - CNET lauches www.shareware.com (http://www.shareware.com)
1995 - Keelin Curnuck, 23, Ms Venus Swimwear 1994, crowned Miss NY USA
1995 - Suicide bomber blasts into Egyptian embassy in Islamabad, kills 16
1996 - "God Said, Ha!," opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 22 performances
1996 - "Sex & Longing" closes at Cort Theater NYC
1996 - Albert Belle, signs record five-year, $55 million with White Sox
1996 - Space Shuttle STS 80 (Columbia 21), launches into space
1996 - The case of the Port Arthur massacre comes to trial.
1996 - Lt. Gen. Maurice Baril of Canada arrives in Africa to lead a multi-national policing force in Zaire.
1997 - "Eugene Onegin," opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC
1997 - "Old Neighborhood," opens at Booth Theater NYC
1997 - STS 87 (Columbia 24) launches into orbit
1997 - In Des Moines, Iowa, Bobbi McCaughey gives birth to septuplets in the second known case
           where all seven babies were born alive. They would go on to become the first set of
           septuplets to survive infancy, with all seven alive in 2007.
1998 - Vincent van Gogh's Portrait of the Artist Without Beard sells at auction for $71.5 million USD.
1998 - Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins
           impeachment hearings against U.S. President Bill Clinton.
1999 - Shenzhou 1: The People's Republic of China launches its first Shenzhou spacecraft.
1999 - In Istanbul, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe ends a two-day summit
           by calling for a political settlement in Chechnya and adopting a Charter for European Security.

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 19, 2013, 02:04:24 PM

This Day in History for 19th November


Famous Weddings

1939 - Baseball legend Joe DiMaggio (24) weds "Freshies" actress Dorothy Arnold at St. Peter and
           Paul Church in San Francisco
1986 - Hall of Famer boxing champ Muhammad Ali (44) weds Yolanda Williams
1988 - LA Law's Corbin Bernsen marries actress Amanda Pays
2005 - Singer and actress Christina Aguilera (28) weds music executive Jordan Bratman (32) under a
           mountainside tent at the Staglin Family Vineyards in Rutherford, California
2005 - "Corner Gas" actor Brent Butt (39) weds actress Nancy Robertson (34) at Vancouver's Cin
            Cin Ristorante
2005 - "KISS" lead singer Paul Stanley (53) weds Erin Sutton at The Ritz-Carlton, Huntington Hotel
           and Spa in Pasadena, California
2005 - Indianapolis 500 racer Danica Patrick (23) weds physical therapist Paul Hospenthal in
           Scottsdale, Arizona

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 19, 2013, 02:06:40 PM

This Day in History for 19th November


Famous Divorces

2004 - Singer Jermaine Jackson (49) divorces Alejandra Genevieve Oaziaza (35) after 9 years of
           marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 19, 2013, 02:29:19 PM

This Day in History for 19th November


Famous Birthdays

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King of England                                          US President                                Fashion Designer Calvin Klein (1942)
King Charles I (1600)                                 James Garfield (1831)

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Actress Meg Ryan (1961)


1464 - Emperor Go-Kashiwabara of Japan (d. 1526)
1563 - Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, English statesman (d. 1626)
1597 - Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate, Electress of Bavaria (d. 1660)
1600 - Charles I, King of England (1625-49); executed by Parliament
1600 - Lieuwe van Aitzema, Dutch historian (Matters of State & War)
1607 - Erasmus Quellinus II, [Quellien], Flemish painter/etcher
1616 - Eustache Le Sueur, French painter
1700 - Jean-Antoine Nollet, French abbot and physicist (d. 1770)
1709 - Pierre Leclair, composer
1711 - Michail V Lomonosov, Russian scholar/poet
1722 - Leopold Auenbrugger, Austrian physician (d. 1809)
1722 - Benjamin Chew, Chief Justice of colonial Pennsylvania (d. 1810)
1752 - George Rogers Clark, frontier military leader in Revolutionary War
1753 - Stanislas Champein, composer
1761 - Joseph Supries, composer
1770 - Albert Bertel Thorvaldsen, Copenhagen Denmark, sculptor (Dying Lion)
1770 - Bertel Thowwaldsen, Danish sculptor
1796 - Johann Wilhelm Mangold, composer
1802 - Solomon Foot, American politician (d. 1866)
1805 - Ferdinand de Lesseps, France, diplomat (built Suez Canal)
1810 - August Willich, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1878
1811 - John Ancrum Winslow, Comm (Union Navy), died in 1873
1812 - Karl Schwarz, German theologian (d. 1885)
1827 - Isaac Munroe St John, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1880
1831 - James A Garfield, Ohio, gen/(R) 20th Pres (March 4-Sept 19, 1881)
1833 - Wilhelm Dilthey, German philosopher (Das Leben Schleiermans)
1834 - Georg H Quincke, German physicist (test of Quincke)
1835 - Fitzhugh Lee, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1905
1835 - Rani Lakshmi Bai, Indian Queen (d. 1858)
1843 - Richard Avenarius, German philosopher (d. 1896)
1846 - Emile C Wauters, Belgium, painter (Van der Goes in the Red Monastery)
1855 - Billy Bates, cricketer (England all-rounder 1882-87, hat-trick 1883)
1859 - Mikhail Mikhayl Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russia, musician (Armenian Rhapsody)
1862 - Billy Sunday, American evangelist (d. 1935)
1864 - George Barbier, Phila, actor (Tarzan's Revenge, Wife vs Secretary)
1870 - Vicente Lleo, composer
1874 - Karl Adrian Wohlfart, composer
1875 - Michael I Kalinin, Russian metal worker/head of state
1876 - Tatyana Alexeyevna Afanasyeva, Russian/Dutch mathematician (d. 1964)
1879 - Karel van den Oever, Flemish author/poet (Geuzenstad)
1883 - Ned Sparks, Canadian actor (d. 1957)
1885 - Erskine Sanford, Trinidad CO, actor (Angel on My Shoulder)
1886 - Fernand Crommelynck, Belgian playwright (Le Cocu Magnificent)
1887 - James B. Sumner, American chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (d. 1955)
1888 - Jose RaulCapablanca, Cuba, world chess champion (1921-27)
1889 - Clifton Webb [Webb Parmelee Hollenbeck], Indianapolis, Indiana, American actor (Laura)
1892 - Huw Thomas Edwards, Welsh trade unionist and politician (d. 1970)
1893 - René Voisin, French classical trumpet player (d. 1952)
1894 - Américo Tomás, Portuguese admiral and politician, 14th President of Portugal (d. 1987)
1895 - Louise Dahl-Wolfe, American photographer (d. 1989)
1896 - Georgy Zhukov, Russian general (d. 1974)
1897 - Quentin Roosevelt, son of United States President Theodore Roosevelt (d. 1918)
1898 - Arthur R. von Hippel, German-born physicist (d. 2003)
1899 - Allen Tate, US, poet (Mr Pope & Other Poems)
1899 - Grand Ayatollah Abul-Qassim Khoei, influential Shia Islamic scholar (d. 1992)
1900 - Anna Seghers, [Netty Radvanyi-Reiling], German author (7th Cross)
1900 - Anton Walbrook, [Adolf Wohlbrook], Vienna Austria, actor (Laura)
1900 - Mikhail Lavrentyev, Russian scientist (d. 1980)
1900 - Bunny Ahearne, Irish ice hockey promoter (d. 1985)
1902 - Trevor Bardette, Nashville AR, actor (Refugee, None Shall Escape)
1903 - Fritz Schmidt, German street photographer
1904 - Jacob "Jaap" Nanninga, Dutch painter
1904 - Nancy Carroll, [Ann V LaHiff], NYC, actress (Alice-Aldrich Family)
1905 - Tommy Dorsey, Mahanoy Plane Pa, orchestra leader (Stage Show, Mahogany)
1906 - Henri Temianka, composer
1906 - Jacques Leguerney, composer
1907 - Christian J H English, [Luc Tournier], Neth/Curacaos painter/composer
1907 - Jack Schaefer, American author (d. 1991)
1908 - Alan Baxter, East Cleveland OH, actor (Big Town Girl, Rags to Riches)
1908 - Mikhail Ivanovich Chulaki, composer
1909 - Rose Isabel Williams, sister of Tennessee Williams
1909 - Peter Drucker, American management theorist (d. 2005)
1910 - Adrian Conan Doyle, son of Arthur Conan Doyle (d. 1970)
1912 - George E Palade, Romanian/US cell biologist (ribosomen, Nobel 1974)
1917 - Indira Gandhi, Allahabad India, Indian PM (1966-77, 1980-84)
1918 - Catherine Elizabeth Pennington, personal assistant
1919 - Alan Young, England, actor (Time Machine, Wilbur Post-Mr Ed)
1919 - George Fenneman, Peking China, TV announcer (You Bet Your Life)
1920 - Ursula Heathcote Nicholls, campaigner
1921 - Roy Campanella, Brooklyn Dodger catcher (NL MVP 1951/53/55) (d. 1993)
1921 - Peter Ruckman, American Baptist minister
1922 - Stanley K Runcorn, British geophysicist (Doctor of Utrecht)
1922 - Yuri Knorozov, Russian epigrapher (d. 1999)
1924 - William Russell, British actor
1925 - Zygmunt Bauman, Polish Sociologist
1926 - Jeane J Kirkpatrick, Duncan Oklahoma, US ambassador to UN (R)
1929 - Slavko Avsenik, Slovenian musician
1930 - Bob Mathias, Tulare California, decathelete (Olympics-gold-48)
1933 - Larry King, NYC, radio/TV host "143 Arivadechi" (Larry King Show, CNN)
1933 - Jerry Sheindlin, American jurist; husband of Judith Sheindlin
1934 - Dave Guard, rocker
1934 - David Lloyd-Jones, conductor
1935 - John F Welch Jr, Salem Mass, CEO (GE)
1935 - Rashad Khalifa, Egyptian imam (d. 1990)
1935 - Jack Welch, American businessman
1936 - Dick Cavett, Kearney Neb, talk show host (Dick Cavett Show)
1936 - Emin Aristakesian, composer
1936 - Michel Decoust, composer
1936 - Yuan T. Lee, Taiwanese-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1937 - Ray Collins, rocker (Mothers of Invention)
1938 - Frank Misson, cricketer (Australian pace bowler 1960-61)
1938 - Hank Medress, Brooklyn NY, rocker (Tokens-Lion Sleeps Tonight)
1938 - Richard Dumbrill, cricketer (South African all-rounder in 5 Tests 1965-67)
1938 - Ted Turner, American broadcasting mogul/owns (Atlanta Braves)/won America's Cup
1939 - Garrick Utley, Chicago Illinois, newscaster (1st Tuesday, NBC Weekend)
1939 - Pete Moore, Detroit MI, rocker (Miracles)
1939 - Thomas Harkin, (Sen-D-Iowa, 1985- )
1939 - Warren "Pete" Moore, US singer (Miracles-Tears of a Clown)
1940 - Alberto Villalpando, composer
1941 - Dan Haggerty, Hollywood California, actor (Grizzly Adams)
1941 - Ivanka Khristova, Bulgaria, shot putter (Olympic-gold-1976)
1941 - Tommy Thompson, former U.S. Governor of Wisconsin
1942 - Calvin Klein, Bronx, NY, fashion designer (Calvin Klein Jeans, CK)
1942 - Gary L Ackerman, (Rep-D-NY, 1983- )
1942 - Lawrence Allen Gilbert, Fort Knox KY, PGA golfer (1994 Dallas Reunion)
1942 - Sharon Olds, American poet
1943 - Fred Lipsius, NYC, rock pianist/sax (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
1943 - Sharon Wilder, LPGA golfer
1944 - Charlie Coe, rock bassist (Paul Revers & The Raiders)
1944 - Dennis Hull, Canadian ice hockey player
1946 - Joe Correro, Greenwood Ms, rock drummer (Paul Revers & The Raiders)
1947 - Bob Boone, San Diego, baseball player and manager (Phillies, Angels)
1947 - Julian Graham Theodore Hough, actor (Deathwatch, Jabberwocky)
1947 - Lamar Smith, (Rep-R-Texas)
1949 - Ahmad Rashad, [Bobby Moore], NFL receiver (Minnesota Vikings)/sportscaster
1949 - Dennis Taylor, British snooker champion
1949 - Mickey Lee Davis Jr, Tenn, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
1951 - Timothy J Penny, (Rep-D-MN, 1983- )
1951 - Zeenat Aman, Indian actress
1951 - Lord Falconer of Thoroton, British lawyer and politician
1953 - Robert Beltran, American actor
1953 - Tom Villard, American actor (d. 1994)
1954 - Annette Guest, US singer (First Choice)
1954 - Gail Stanton Memphis TN, playmate (Jun, 1978)
1954 - Kathleen Quinlan, California, actress (Never Promised You a Rose Garden)
1954 - Tom Scheckel, Chicago IL, rock drummer (Buckinghams)
1955 - Bill Buttner, Plymouth MA, Nike golfer (1989 Centel Classic-4th)
1955 - Gloria Guida, Merano Italy, Miss Teenage Italy (1974)
1955 - Sam Hamm, American screenwriter
1956 - Eileen Marie Collins, Elmira NY, Mjr USAF/Astronaut (STS 63, 84)
1956 - Glynnis O'Connor, NYC, actress (California Dreaming, Ode to Billy Joe)
1956 - Scott Jacoby, Chicago Ill, actor (Bad Ronald, Return to Horror High)
1956 - Ann Curry, American journalist
1957 - George Leary, Newmarket Ontario, trap shooter (Olympics-16-92, 96)
1957 - Kathy Sanborn, WBL guard (NY Stars)
1957 - Otis J Anderson, NFL running back (NY Giants, 1990 Superbowl MVP)
1957 - Robert Beltran, actor (Star Trek Voyager)
1957 - Sharon Farrah, WBL guard (NY Stars)
1957 - Ofra Haza, Israeli singer (d. 2000)
1958 - Michael Wilbon, sports analyst
1958 - Terrence "T.C." Carson, American actor
1959 - Jean-Francois Clervoy, Longeville France, astronaut (STS 66, 84)
1959 - Allison Janney, American actress
1960 - "Lovely" Elizabeth, Frankfurt Ky, WWF's 1st lady of wrestling
1960 - Matt Sorum, US pop drummer (Guns n' Roses, Like a Suicide) [or Nov 2]
1961 - Grant Ledyard, Winnipeg, NHL defenseman (Dallas Stars)
1961 - Meg Ryan, Bethel Ct, actress (When Harry Met Sally, As the World Turns)
1962 - Jodie Foster, Bronx NYC, actress (Taxi Driver, Accused)
1962 - Salim Jaffer, cricketer (Pakistani pace bowler in 14 Tests 1986-91)
1962 - Dodie Boy Peñalosa, Philippine boxer
1963 - Justine Greiner, Boston Mass, playmate (February, 1984)
1963 - Terry Farrell, Cedar Rapids, actress (Paper Dolls, Jadzia Dax-STDS9)
1963 - Zsuzsanna Jánosi, Hungarian fencer
1964 - Jeni Lidgett, Australian 470 class yachter (Olympics-96)
1965 - Erik Wilhelm, NFL quarterback (NY Jets)
1965 - Laurent Blanc, French footballer
1965 - Sean Hughes, Irish comedian
1966 - Brian Wilsterman, soccer player (Dordreecht '90)
1966 - Gail Devers, Seattle Wash, 60m/100m hurdler (Olympics-2 gold-92, 96)
1966 - Rocco DiSpirito, American chef
1967 - Gary Disarcina, Maiden MA, infielder (California Angels)
1968 - Gord Fraser, Ottawa Ontario, road race cyclist (Olympics-96)
1968 - Matt Darby, NFL safety (Buffalo Bills, Arizona Cardinals)
1968 - Steven Penn, Brevard NC, team handball center back (Olympics-1996)
1969 - Rod Mapstone, Australian long jumper (Olympics-96)
1970 - Berthil de Avest, soccer player (Roda JC/FC Twente)
1970 - Bhupinder Singh Jr, cricketer (Punjab & Indian ODI batsman)
1970 - Jenni Meno, Pompton Plains NJ, pairs skaters (Olympics-1994)
1970 - Larry Tharpe, NFL tackle (Arizona Cardinals, Detroit Lions)
1970 - Rickey Brady, NFL tight end (Philadelphia Eagles)
1970 - Justin Chancellor, English bassist (Tool)
1971 - Adrian Griffith, cricketer (West Indian Test opening batsman 1997)
1971 - Andy Sheets, Baton Rouge LA, infielder (Seattle Mariners)
1971 - Dimitri Yushkevich, Yaroslavl Russia, NHL defenseman (Toronto Maple Leaf)
1971 - Michelle Andrews, Newcastle NSW Aust, field hockey striker (Oly-96)
1971 - Rickey Brady, WLAF TE (Scotland Claymores)
1971 - Alice Peacock, American folk singer
1971 - Jeremy McGrath, American motorcycle racer
1972 - David Palmer, NFL wide receiver (Minnesota Vikings)
1973 - Daniel Meech, Hastings NZ, equestrian showjumper (Olympics-96)
1973 - Jamir Miller, NFL outside linebacker (Arizona Cardinals)
1973 - Savion Glover, dancer/choreographer (Bring in 'da Noise)
1973 - Ryukishi07, Japanese mystery writer
1973 - Takashi Matsumoto, Japanese photographer and business person
1974 - Orlando Fuentes, Ellsworth AFB SD, half-lightweight judoka (Oly-96)
1975 - Ju-Yeon Choi, Pusan Korea, tennis star (1995 Futures-Seoul-KOR II)
1976 - Petr Sykora, Pizen CZE, NHL forward (Team Czech Rep, NJ Devils)
1976 - Jun Shibata, Japanese singer and songwriter
1976 - Benny Vansteelant, Belgian duathlete (d. 2007)
1976 - Stylianos Venetidis, Greek soccer player
1977 - Kerri Strug, Tucson Ariz, gymnast (Olympics-gold-96)
1977 - Lady Davina EAB Windsor, daughter of English prince Richard
1978 - Věra Pospíšilová-Cechlová, Czech athlete
1978 - Matt Dusk, Canadian jazz musician / vocalist
1979 - Ryan Howard, American baseball player
1979 - Larry Johnson, American football player
1979 - Leam Richardson, English soccer player
1979 - John-Ford Griffin, American baseball player
1979 - Keith Buckley - American singer (Every Time I Die)
1980 - Courtney Anderson, American football player
1980 - Adele Silva, English actress
1983 - Daria Werbowy, Ukranian-Canadian Supermodel
1983 - Chandra Crawford, Canadian cross-country skier
1985 - Chris Eagles, English footballer
1988 - Patrick Kane, American ice hockey player
1997 - Alexis May McCaughey, Iowa, septuplets (2)
1997 - Brandon James McCaughey, Iowa, septuplets (5)
1997 - Joel Steven McCaughey, Iowa, septuplets (7)
1997 - Kelsey Ann McCaughey, Iowa, septuplets (4)
1997 - Kenneth Robert McCaughey, Iowa, septuplets (1)
1997 - Natalie Sue McCaughey, Iowa, septuplets (3)
1997 - Nathaniel Roy McCaughey, Iowa, septuplets (6)
2009 - Prince Gaston d'Orléans

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 19, 2013, 02:36:12 PM

This Day in History for 19th November


Famous Deaths

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Composer Franz Schubert (1828)               Poet Emma Lazarus (1887)


498 - Anastasius II, Pope (496-8) dies. Referred to by Dante in his Inferno XI, 8-9
1272 - David of Augsburg, Franciscan minister/author, dies
1316 - Jan I, king of France (Nov 15-19 1316), dies
1389 - Dimitri Ivanovitch "Donskoi", monarch of Vladimir-Soezdal, dies at 39
1472 - Joannes/Basilius Bessarion, archbishop of Nicaea, dies
1478 - Emperor Baeda Maryam of Ethiopia (b. 1448)
1492 - Jami, Persian poet (b. 1414)
1495 - Alfonso II, king of Naples (1494-95), dies
1557 - Bona Sforza, Queen of Sigismund I of Poland (b. 1494)
1577 - Matsunaga Hisahide, Japanese warlord (b. 1510)
1630 - Johann Hermann Schein, German composer (Opella Nova), dies at 44
1649 - Caspar Schoppe, German scholar (b. 1576)
1665 - Nicholas Poussin, French painter, dies
1672 - John Wilkins, English Bishop of Chester (b. 1614)
1682 - Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Royalist commander in the English Civil War (b. 1619)
1692 - Georg F von Waldeck, German commander-in-chief (Colors), dies
1692 - Thomas Shadwell, English poet and playwright
1703 - Man in the Iron Mask, prisoner in Bastille prison in Paris, dies
1719 - Jean Deutz, minster of Heemskerk/merchant/Amsterdam regent, dies at 64
1723 - Antoine Nompar de Caumont, French courtier and soldier (b. 1632)
1772 - William Nelson, American colonial governor of Virginia (b. 1711)
1773 - James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster, Irish politician (b. 1722)
1785 - Bernard de Bury, composer, dies at 65
1795 - Thomas Linley, composer, dies at 62
1798 - Theobald W Tone, Irish nationalist, dies
1804 - Pietro Alessandro Guglieli, Italian opera composer, dies at 75
1822 - Johann Georg Tralles, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1763)
1825 - Jan Vaclav Hugo Vorisek, composer, dies at 34
1828 - Franz Schubert, Austrian composer (Die schöne Müllerin), dies at 31 from typhoid fever
1850 - Richard Mentor Johnson, American politician (b. 1780)
1854 - Alberich Zwyssig, composer, dies at 46
1868 - Ivane Andronikashvili, Georgian general (b. 1798)
1880 - Bernard de Hair, vicar/poet/church historian, dies at 74
1887 - Emma Lazarus, US poet ("Give us your tired & poor"), dies in New York at 38
1897 - William Seymour Tyler, American educator and historian (b. 1810).
1899 - [Maria] Catharina Beersmans, Belgian actress (Medea), dies at 55
1908 - Albert Dietrich, composer, dies at 79
1911 - Ramon Caceres, President (Dominican Republic), murdered
1915 - Joe Hill, Labor leader/songwriter, executed for murder
1915 - Solomon Schechter, theologist, dies at about 64
1917 - Basil Grieve, cricketer (batted in 2 Tests England v South Africa 1889), dies
1923 - French Netscher, author/journalist (In 3rd Chamber), dies at 59
1924 - Lee Stack, British sirdar in Egypt/gov-gen of Sudan, murdered
1924 - Thomas Ince, American film director (b. 1882)
1928 - Achille Simonetti, composer, dies at 71
1929 - Arthur H Mann, English composer (Church of England Hymnal), dies
1931 - Frederic Cliffe, composer, dies at 74
1931 - Xu Zhimo, Chinese poet (b. 1897)
1932 - Marie MJ Poupelet, French sculptor/poster artist, dies
1933 - Enrique Jose Varona, Cuban sociologist/vice-president, dies at 84
1935 - F S Gough-Calthorpe, cricketer (England captain v WI 1930), dies
1936 - Buenaventura Durruti, Spanish anarchists army leader, dies in battle
1938 - Lev Shestov, Russian philosopher (b. 1866)
1942 - Edouard Combe, composer, dies at 76
1942 - Bruno Schulz, Polish writer and painter (shot) (b. 1892)
1943 - Andre Antoine, French stage manager (Theatre Antoine), dies at 85
1949 - James Ensor, Flemish painter/etcher (Oestereetster), dies at 89
1950 - Thomas Wood, composer, dies at 57
1954 - Walter Bartley Wilson, founding member of Cardiff City F.C. (b. 1870)
1956 - Francis L Sullivan, actor (Joan of Arc, Winslow Boy), dies at 53
1959 - Edward C Tolman, US psychologist (behaviorism), dies
1959 - Gerard J Arbous, actor/publicist (Bohemian Amsterdam), dies at 83
1959 - Joseph Charbonneau, archbishop of Montreal (b. 1892)
1960 - Phyllis Haver, actress (Don Juan), commits suicide at 61
1963 - Carmen Amaya, Spanish flamenco dancer, dies at about 50
1967 - Charles J. Watters, US Army chaplain, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1927)
1971 - Bill Stern, sportscaster (Saturday Night Fights), dies at 64
1973 - Cyril Allcott, cricketer (6 Tests for NZ, 113 runs & 6 wickets), dies
1974 - George Brunies, American musician (b. 1902)
1975 - Roger D. Branigin, American politician (b. 1902)
1976 - Sir Basil Spence, British architect (b. 1907)
1981 - Griffiths Mxenge, South Afr's anti-apartheid advocate, murdered
1982 - Erving Goffman, US, sociologist (Asylums), dies at 60
1983 - Peter Coffield, Ill, actor (Kevin-W E B), dies at 37
1983 - Tom Evans, English bass guitarist (Badfinger) (b. 1947)
1984 - George D Aiken, (Sen-R-Vt, 1941-75), dies at 92
1985 - Lall Singh, cricketer (Test for India 1932), dies
1985 - Stepin Fetchit, [Lincoln Penny], 1st black star, dies of pneumonia 83
1987 - Américo Tomás, Portuguese admiral and politician, 14th President of Portugal (b. 1894)
1988 - Christine Onassis, heiress, dies of heart failure at 37
1990 - Sun Li-jen, Chinese general (b. 1900)
1991 - Reggie Nalder, actor (Mark of Devil), dies of bone cancer at 80
1992 - Bobby Russell, song writer (Honey, Little Green Apples), dies at 52
1992 - Diane Varsi, actress (Allison-Peyton Place, Bloody Mama), dies at 54
1992 - Dorothy Walker Bush, mother of President George Bush, dies at 91
1993 - Dorothy Revier, actress (Sally on the Subway), dies at 89
1994 - Dedrick Gobert, US actor (Boyz 'n the Hood), shot to death at 22
1994 - Julian Gustave Symons, writer, dies at 82
1994 - Julian Symons, Br detective writer (Death's Darkest Face), dies at 82
1994 - Li Yuan Artist-chia, , dies at 65
1995 - Bruce Trent, singer, dies at 83
1995 - Gwen Swire, socila worker, dies at 61
1995 - Martha Hill, modern dancer/teacher, dies at 94
1995 - Shirley Bergeron, singer/guitarist, dies at 62
1996 - Denis Jenkinson, journalist, dies at 74
1996 - Edward Kassner, music publisher, dies at 76
1996 - Ian Powell Bancroft, civil servant, dies at 73
1996 - Krishnarao Shiva Shelvankar, journalist/diplomat, dies at 90
1997 - Christina Corrigan, obese girl (680 lbs), dies at 13
1997 - Durlyn Eddmonds, murderer, executed at 45
1997 - Frank Joseph Kofsky, teacher/writer, dies at 62
1997 - Walter Stewart, murderer, executed at 42
1998 - Ted Fujita, Japanese-born American meteorologist (b. 1920)
2001 - Marcelle Ferron, Quebec painter and stained glass artist (b. 1924)
2003 - Ian Geoghegan, Australian racing driver (b. 1940)
2004 - Piet Esser, Dutch sculptor (b. 1914)
2004 - Helmut Griem, German actor (b. 1932)
2004 - Terry Melcher, American musician and record producer (b. 1942)
2004 - John Robert Vane, British pharmacologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1927)
2005 - Erik Balling, Danish TV and film director (b. 1924)
2007 - Kevin DuBrow, American singer (Quiet Riot) (b. 1955)
2007 - Mike Gregory, English rugby league footballer (b. 1964)
2007 - Dick Wilson, American actor (b. 1916)
2010 - Pat Burns, Canadian hockey coach (b. 1952)
2011 - Michael Hastings, British playwright, dies at 74

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 20, 2013, 04:41:59 PM

This Day in History for 20th November


Historical Events

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British Prime Minister                              Naturalist Charles Darwin                  Playwright George Bernard Shaw
(The Great Commoner)
William Pitt the Elder

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Painter Salvador Dali                           Soviet Union Premier Joseph Stalin           Brazilian Football Legend Pele

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NFL Running Back Walter Payton               Actress Drew Barrymore                        Islamic Militant & Terrorist
                                                                                                                                  Osama bin Laden


284 - Diocletian is proclaimed Roman Emperor by his soldiers in the army of the east
762 - Bögü, Khan of the Uyghurs, conquers Lo-Yang, capital of the Chinese Empire.
1168 - Giovanni di Struma elected anti-Pope
1194 - Palermo is conquered by Emperor Henry VI.
1272 - Edward I proclaimed King of England
1342 - Pope Clemens VI names John IV of Arkel as bishop of Utrecht
1347 - Coke di Rienzo, later Roman Tribunal, addressess a meeting of on the Capitol during people's
           revolt in Rome
1407 - A truce between John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy and Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans is
           agreed under the auspices of John, Duke of Berry. Orléans would be assassinated three days
           later by Burgundy.
1431 - 1st meeting of Order of Guilder Flies
1520 - Friesland hit by heavy hail storm
1521 - Arabs attribute shortage of water in Jerusalem to Jews making wine
1583 - Duke of Parma conquerors Aalst
1616 - Bishop Richelieu becomes French minister of Foreign affairs/War
1637 - Peter Minuit & 1st Swedish immigrants to Delaware sail from Sweden
1695 - Zumbi, the last of the leaders of Quilombo dos Palmares in early Brazil and ex-slave, is
           executed.
1719 - Sweden & Hannover sign peace Treaty of Stockholm
1755 - English minister William Pitt Sr resigns
1759 - -22] Battle in Bay of Quiberon, British beat French
1789 - New Jersey is 1st state to ratify Bill of Rights
1795 - Curacao government forbids slave work on Sunday
1805 - Beethoven's "Fidelio," premieres in Vienna
1815 - 2nd Peace of Paris: France & allies after 2nd defeat and abdication of Napoleon Bonaparte.
1815 - Russia, Prussia, Austria & England signs Alliance "for the maintenance of peace in Europe"
           same day as Treaty of Paris
1817 - 1st Seminole War begins in Florida
1829 - Jews expelled from Nikolayev & Sevastopol Russia
1833 - Charles Darwin reaches Punta Gorda, sees Rio Uruguay
1852 - Charles Reade/Tom Taylor's "Masks & Faces," premieres in London
1861 - Secession ordinance is filed by Kentucky's Confederate government.
1862 - Confederate armies of Mississippi and Kentucky merge as Army of Tennessee, under General
           Braxton Bragg
1866 - 1st natl convention of Grand Army of Republic (veterans' org)
1866 - Howard University founded (Washington DC)
1866 - Pierre Lalemont patents rotary crank bicycle
1873 - Rival cities of Buda & Pest unite to form the capital of Hungary
1888 - William Bundy patents timecard clock
1889 - Gustav Mahler's 1st Symphony
1890 - Pope Leo XIII encyclical "On Slavery in the Missions"
1894 - US intervenes in Bluefields, Nicaragua
1901 - Opera "Grisélidis" is produced (Paris)
1902 - Geo Lefevre & Henri Desgrange create Tour de France bicycle race
1906 - George Bernard Shaws "Doctor's Dilemma," premieres in London
1909 - Jack Williams of Ottawa Rough Riders kicks 9 singles in a game
1910 - Revolution broke out in Mexico, led by Francisco I Madero
1911 - Gustav Mahler's &amp;quot;Das Lied von der Erde&amp;quot; (Song of the Earth) premieres
           in Munich
1914 - US State Department starts requiring photographs for passports
1915 - 7th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tigers defeats Toronto Rowing, 13-7
1917 - 1st tank battle (Britain breaks through German lines)
1917 - Ukrainian Republic declared
1919 - 1st municipally owned airport in US opens (Tucson Az)
1920 - Nobel Peace Prize awarded to US president W Wilson
1922 - Zoe Akins' "Texas Nightingale," premieres in NYC
1923 - Garrett Morgan invents & patents traffic signal
1923 - Rentenmark replaces the Papiermark as the official currency of Germany at the exchange rate
           of one Rentenmark to One Trillion (One Billion on the long scale) Papiermark
1928 - Boston Gardens opens, Mont Canadiens beat Boston Bruins, 1-0
1928 - WGH-AM in Newport News VA begins radio transmissions
1929 - 1st broadcast of "Goldbergs" on US radio
1929 - Salvador Dali's 1st one-man show
1931 - Commercial teletype service begins (AT&T)
1932 - Earthquake at Uden Netherlands
1934 - Eiji Sawamura, 17, gives up 1 hit, Lou Gehrig's HR, US beats Japan 1-0
1934 - Lillian Hellman's "Children's Hour," premieres in NYC
1934 - New Belgian government of Theunis, Francqui & Gutt (3 bankers)
1934 - Tornoto Maple Leaf Harvey Jackson is 1st to score 4 goals in 1 period
1936 - Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder of the Falange is killed by a republican execution
           squad.
1938 - 1st documented anti-semitic remarks over US radio (by Father Coughlin)
1940 - German air raid on Birmingham fails
1940 - Hungary joins 3 Power pact
1940 - World War II: Hungary, Romania and Slovakia join the Axis Powers.
1941 - Adm Nomura & Kurusu hands over Japanese last diplomatic note
1941 - German Q/pirate ship Kormoran sinks near Australia
1942 - 26th Russian Armoured Corps recaptures Perelazovski
1942 - British 8th Army recaptures Benghazi, Libya
1942 - NHL abolishes regular season OT until WW II is over
1942 - Soviet army offensive, 1 million Russians breach German lines
1943 - U-538 sinks in Atlantic Ocean
1943 - US forces land on Tarawa & Makin Atoll in Gilbert Island
1944 - 1st Japanse suicide submarine attack (Ulithi Atol, Carolines)
1944 - Amsterdam: Vondelpark closed because of kappen of trees
1944 - Prince Bernhard establishes staff in Breda
1945 - 24 Nazi leaders put on trial at Nuremberg, Germany
1945 - Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 9th Symphony under J Mravinski premieres
1945 - Queen Wilhelmina opens parliament in Hague
1946 - Lillian Hellman's "Another Part of the Forest," premieres in NYC
1947 - "Meet the Press" makes network TV debut on NBC
1947 - 1st permanent TV installed on seagoing vessel (New Jersey)
1947 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Mediator Dei
1947 - UN General assembly begins debate on printing their own stamps
1948 - US balloon reaches height of 42.7 km (record)
1949 - Jewish population of Israel reaches 1,000,000
1951 - Snowdonia becomes a National Park
1952 - Cubs slugger Hank Sauer wins NL MVP
1952 - George Axelrods "7 Year Itch," premieres in NYC
1952 - Slánský trials begin - a series of Stalinist and anti-Semitic show trials in Czechoslovakia.
1953 - Scott Crossfield in Douglas Skyrocket, 1st to break Mach 2 (1,300 MPH)
1954 - KTRK TV channel 13 in Houston, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 - Kripal Singh scores 100 on Test Cricket debut, India v NZ
1955 - Polly Umrigar scores India's 1st Test Cricket double century, 223 v NZ
1957 - Morton Wishengrad's "Rope Dancers," premieres in NYC
1959 - UN adopts Universal Declaration of Children's Rights
1959 - WABC fires Alan Freed over payola scandal
1961 - WPLG TV channel 10 in Miami, FL (ABC) begins broadcasting
1962 - Mickey Mantle wins AL MVP
1962 - USSR agrees to remove bombers from Cuba, & US lifts blockade
1964 - Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 9th/10th String Quartet premiers in Moscow
1965 - "Pickwick" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 56 performances
1965 - UN Security council calls for boycott of Rhodesia
1965 - WCNY TV channel 24 in Syracuse, NY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1966 - "Cabaret" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 1166 performances
1966 - Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Success Golf Open
1966 - Dallas sacks Pittsburgh QBs an NFL record 12 times
1966 - Men in Zurich vote against female suffrage
1967 - At 11 AM, Census Clock at Dept of Commerce ticks past 200 million
1967 - Mets pitcher Tom Seaver (16-12) is named NL Rookie of Year
1968 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1969 - Alcatraz Island off SF, is seized by militant Native Americans
1969 - Gundappa Viswanath scores 137 on Test Cricket debut v Australia Kanpur
1969 - Pele scores his 1,000th soccer goal
1969 - SF Giant Willie McCovey edges Tom Seaver as NL MVP
1970 - UN General Assembly accepts membership of China PR
1971 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1974 - Rangers' Jeff Burroughs wins AL MVP
1974 - The US files antitrust suit to break-up AT&T
1975 - Ronald Reagan announces candidacy for Republican nomination for US President
1976 - George Harrison appears on Saturday Night Live
1976 - Judy Rankin wins LPGA Colgate-Hong Kong Golf Open
1977 - Egyptian Pres Sadat became 1st Arab leader to address Israeli Knesset
1977 - Steve Largent begins NFL streak of 177 consecutive game receptions
1977 - Walter Payton (Bears) rushes for NFL-record 275 yards
1979 - Sji'ieten occupies great mosque of Mecca, 100s killed
1979 - US's 1st artificial blood transfusion occurs at U of Minn Hospital
1980 - Billy Martin named AL Manager of Year (Oakland A's)
1980 - Steve Ptacek in Solar Challenger makes 1st solar-powered flight
1980 - UA withdraws $44 million movie "Heaven's Gate" for reediting
1981 - Anatoly Karpov, USSR retains world chess championship
1981 - Burundia adopts its constitution
1981 - El Salvador guerrilla group FMLN opens "limited offensive"
1981 - Ringo releases "Stop & Smell Roses" album
1982 - Drew Barrymore at age 7 hosts Saturday Night Live
1983 - "Marilyn: An American Fable" opens at Minskoff NYC for 16 perfs
1983 - 100 million watch ABC-TV movie "Day After," about nuclear war
1983 - Cleveland Browns shutout Patriots 30-0
1983 - NY Giants Butch Woolfolk ties NFL record of 43 attempts rushing
1984 - McDonald's made its 50 billionth hamburger
1984 - Mets pitcher Dwight Gooden wins NL Rookie of Year
1984 - SETI is founded.
1985 - NY Yankee Don Mattingly easily wins AL MVP
1985 - Microsoft Windows 1.0 is released.
1986 - Afghanistan President Babrak Karmal flees
1986 - UN's WHO announces 1st global effort to combat AIDS
1988 - "Les Miserables," opens a Bus & Truck tour in Tampa
1989 - Milwaukee Brewers center fielder Robin Yount wins AL MVP
1990 - Oakland's Rickey Henderson wins AL MVP
1990 - Sacramento Kings last NBA win on the road for over a year
1990 - Thatcher fails to defeat Heseltine's bid for party leadership
1990 - US 68th manned space mission STS 38 (Atlantis 7) returns from space
1991 - Atlanta Braves Terry Pendleton wins NL MVP
1992 - Queen Elizabeth's home Windsor Castle catches fire
1993 - Jakovlev-42 crashes into mountain at Ohrid Macedonia, 116 killed
1993 - Sam's Town Bowling Invitational won by Robin Romeo
1993 - Winnie Mandela's driver/bodyguard murdered in Johannesburg
1993 - Savings and Loan scandal: The United States Senate Ethics Committee issues a stern censure
           of California senator Alan Cranston for his "dealings" with savings-and-loan executive Charles
           Keating.
1994 - "Flying Karamzov Brothers..." opens at Helen Hayes NYC for 50 perfs
1994 - "Shadow Box" opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 49 performances
1994 - Kosmos 2294/2295/2296 launches
1994 - The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign the Lusaka Protocol in Zambia, ending 19
           years of civil war (localized fighting resumed the next year).
1995 - "Beatles' Anthology, Vol 1" released
1995 - "Racing Demon" opens at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC for 48 perfs
1995 - FDA approves new therapy for use as an initial AIDS treatment, 3TC
1995 - Princess Di admits she cheated on Prince Charles in a TV interview
1995 - STS 74 (Atlantis 15), lands
1997 - "Ivanov," opens at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC for 51 performances
1997 - Flyers Eric Lindros tries to bite San Jose defenseman Marty McSorley
1997 - Last original Florida Marlin, Jeff Conine, traded to KC Royals
1997 - Mavericks' A C Green sets NBA record of 907 consecutive games played
1997 - NY Islanders lose, beginning a 10 game losing streak
1998 - A court in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan declares accused terrorist Osama bin Laden "a man
           without a sin" in regard to the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.
1998 - The first module of the International Space Station, Zarya, is launched.
2001 - In Washington, D.C., U.S. President George W. Bush dedicates the United States Department
           of Justice headquarters building as the Robert F. Kennedy Justice Building, honoring the late
           Robert F. Kennedy on what would have been his 76th birthday.
2003 - After the November 15 bombings, a second day of the 2003 Istanbul Bombings occurs in
           Istanbul, Turkey, destroying the Turkish head office of HSBC Bank AS and the British
           consulate.
2008 - After critical failures in the US financial system began to build up after mid-September, the
           Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level since 1997.
2012 - Toshiba unveils a robot designed to help in nuclear disasters

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 20, 2013, 04:44:02 PM

This Day in History for 20th November


Famous Weddings

1947 - Future British Queen, Princess Elizabeth marries Lt Philip Mountbatten in Westminster Abbey
           London
1986 - Comedian and actor Steve Martin (41) weds actress Victoria Tennant (36)
1994 - Patti Davis weds Paul Hayeland
2001 - ABC News political analyst George Stephanopoulos (40) weds actress Alexandra Wentworth
           (36) at Greek Orthodox Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in Manhattan
2005 - Bollywood actor Zayed Khan (25) weds Malaika Parekh at the Grand Maratha Sheraton in
           Mumbai, India

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 20, 2013, 04:45:03 PM

This Day in History for 20th November


Famous Weddings

2007 - Linda Bollea (46) divorces professional wrestler Hulk Hogan (53) after 23 years of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 20, 2013, 04:54:57 PM

This Day in History for 20th November


Famous Birthdays

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Author/Nobel Laureate                        Astronomer Edwin Hubble (1889)              Actress Gene Tierney (1920)
Selma Lagerlof (1858)

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US Attorney General
Robert Francis Kennedy (1925)


270 - Maximinus, Roman Emperor (d. 313)
1327 - Bassui Tokusho, Zen founder (Kogakuji monastery in Nakamura Japan)
1602 - Otto von Guericke, inventor (air pump)
1606 - Abraham de Wicquefort, Dutch diplomat/historian
1620 - Peregrine White, son of Wm & Susanna White, born aboard Mayflower
1621 - Avvakum, Russian priest and writer (d. 1682)
1625 - Artus II Quellinus "the Young", Flemish sculptor, baptised
1625 - Paulus Potter, Dutch painter (d. 1654)
1652 - Romanus Weichlein, composer
1660 - Daniel Ernst Jablonski, German theologian (d. 1741)
1726 - Oliver Wolcott, (Ct-Gov)/signed Decl of Independence [NS=Dec 1]
1750 - Tipu Sultan, Indian ruler (d. 1799)
1752 - Thomas Chatterton, English poet (Christabel)
1757 - Giovanni Battista Gaiani, composer
1759 - Nikolaus Paul Zmeskall, composer
1761 - Pius VIII, [Francesco S Castiglioni], Italy, 253rd Pope (1829-30)
1762 - Pierre André Latreille, French entomologist (d. 1833)
1765 - Friedrich Heinrich Himmel, composer
1765 - Sir Thomas Fremantle, British naval captain (d. 1819)
1766 - John Wall Calcott, composer
1781 - Karl F Eichhorn, German law historian
1802 - James Lawrence Lardner, Comm (Union Navy), died in 1881
1830 - Patrick Henry Jones, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1900
1834 - Franjo Zaver Kuhac, composer
1836 - John Thomas Croxton, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1874
1839 - Christian Wilberg, German painter (d. 1882)
1841 - Wilfrid Laurier, (L) 7th Canadian PM (1896-1911)
1841 - Victor D'Hondt, Belgian mathematician (d. 1901)
1850 - Arthor Goring Thomas, composer
1851 - Queen Margherita of Italy (d. 1926)
1858 - Selma Lagerlöf, Mårbacka, Värmland, author and Nobel laureate (The Wonderful Adventures
           of Nils), (d. 1940)
1862 - Willem H Vliegen, Dutch typographer/co-founder/chairman (SDAP)
1863 - Maria H "Mina" Beersmans, Flemish actress (Black Griet)
1864 - Gerard W Kernkamp, Dutch historian/editor (Groene Amsterdammer)
1866 - Kenesaw Mountain Landis, judge/1st commissioner of baseball
1867 - Vicente Ripolles, composer
1869 - Clark Griffith, Mo, baseball player/manager (NY Yankees)
1871 - William H Kilpatrick, US mathematician/philosopher/educator
1873 - Daniel Gregory Mason, Brookline Mass, composer (Chanticker)
1874 - James Michael Curley, 53rd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1958)
1879 - Franz Pfemfert, writer
1880 - George McBride, baseball player (d. 1973)
1882 - Andy Coakley, baseball player and long-time coach at Columbia University (d. 1963)
1884 - Norman Thomas, Marion Ohio, socialist (Pres Candidate 1928-48)
1886 - Karl von Frisch, zoologist/bee expert (Nobel 1973)
1889 - Edwin Hubble, astronomer (discoverer of galaxies, red shift)
1890 - Jean-Jacques Gailliard, Belgian painter
1890 - Robert Armstrong, Saginaw MI, actor (Mighty Joe Young, King Kong)
1891 - Leon Cadore, pitcher (pitched all of 26 inning game)
1891 - Reginald Denny Richmond England, actor (Rebecca, Cat Ballou, Batman)
1892 - James B Collip, Canadian biochemist/physiologist (insulin)
1894 - Carl Mayer, Graz, actor (Dreaming Lips, Ariane, Sunrise)
1896 - Mykhaylo Verikivsky, composer
1896 - Yevgenia Ginzburg, Russian writer (d. 1977)
1897 - Lores Bonney, aviator
1897 - Margaret Sutherland, composer
1899 - Juan Vicente Lecuna, composer
1900 - Chester Gould, cartoonist (Dick Tracy)
1902 - Wolfgang Kunkel, German law historian
1903 - Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani historian and educationist (d. 1981)
1904 - Alexandra Danilova, ballet great
1907 - Fran Allison, LaPorte City Iowa, actress (Kukla, Fran & Ollie)
1907 - Henri-Georges Clouzot, France, director (Le salaire de la peur)
1908 - Alistair Cooke, Manchester England, TV host (Masterpiece Theatre)
1909 - Alan Bible, (Sen-D-Nev, 1954-74)
1910 - Pauli Murray, famous African
1910 - Willem Jacob van Stockum, Dutch physicist (d. 1944)
1911 - Jean Shiley, US, high jumper (Olympic-gold-1932)
1912 - Otto von Habsburg, Austrian-German nobleman, head of the Habsburg house
1913 - Judy Canova, American actress (d. 1983)
1914 - Emilio Pucci, Naples, fashion designer (Neiman-Marcus Award-1954)
1915 - Kon Ichikawa, Japan, director (Matatabi, Money Talks)
1916 - Ferdinand AM van der Ham, Dutch WW II resistance fighter
1916 - Judy Canova, Jacksonville Fla, comedienne/actress (Cannonball)
1916 - Robert A Bruce, MD, pioneer (exercise cardiology)
1916 - William John Elwyn Davies, painter
1916 - Evelyn Keyes, American actress
1917 - Max Georg Baumann, composer
1917 - Pam Henningen, [Cornelia CP Ingenegeren], Indonesian/Dutch dancer
1917 - Ram Gopal, Indies/English dancer (Blue Peter, Purple Plain)
1917 - Robert C Byrd, (Sen-D-WV, 1959- )/majority leader
1917 - Bobby Locke, South African golfer (d. 1987)
1918 - Dora Ratjen, Germany, man possing as woman high jumper (Oly-4th-1936)
1919 - Dulcie Gray, Kuala Lampur, Malaysia, actress (Mine Own Executioner)
1919 - Evelyn Keyes, Port Arthur TX, actress (Adventure of Martin Eden)
1919 - Halka Grossman, resistance fighter/politician
1919 - John McCarthy, composer
1920 - Armin Schibler, composer
1920 - Douglas Dick, Charlestown WV, actor (Carl-Waterfront)
1920 - Gene Tierney, Brooklyn, New York, American actress (Laura, Razor's Edge, Ghost & Mrs Muir)
1921 - Phyllis Thaxter, Portland Maine, actress (Nora, Fort Worth), (d. 2012)
1921 - Jim Garrison, American district attorney and judge (d. 1992)
1923 - Beryl Sprinkel, Missouri, economist (Council of Economic Advisers)
1923 - Nadine Gordimer, South African author (July's people, Nobel 1991)
1924 - Benoit Mandelbrot, Warsaw Poland, mathematician (proved Zipf's law)
1925 - Judy Woodruff, news analyst & commentator
1925 - June [Shirley L] Christy, US, jazz singer (Tampico)
1925 - Maya Plisetskaya, prima ballerina (Bolshoi Ballet)
1925 - Robert Francis Kennedy, Brookline, Mass (D-Sen-NY, US Attorney General), (d. 1968)
1926 - Kaye Ballard, Cleve Ohio, actress/comedienne (Kaye-Mothers-in-Law)
1926 - Terry Hall, English ventriloquist (d. 2007)
1926 - Andrzej W. Schally, Polish-born endocrinologist, Nobel laureate
1927 - Estelle Parsons, Lynn Mass, actress (Rachel Rachel, Bonnie & Clyde)
1928 - Franklin Cover, Cleve, actor (Tom-The Jeffersons)
1928 - Rex Reason, Berlin Germany, actor (Man Without a Gun, Roaring 20s)
1928 - Aleksey Batalov, Russian actor
1928 - John Disley, Welsh athlete
1929 - Dick Clark, Mt Vernon NY, TV host (American Bandstand), (d. 2012)
1929 - Donald Ray January, Plainview TX, PGA golfer (1960 Tucson Open)
1929 - Kenneth DeWitt Schermerhorn, Schenectady NY, conductor (Amer Ballet)
1932 - John Barnes Chance, composer
1932 - Richard Dawson, Hampshire England, actor (Hogan's Heroes, Family Feud), (d. 2012)
1934 - Valentine J Peter, Omaha Neb, priest (Boy's Town 1985- )
1936 - Don DeLillo, American author
1937 - Jack Linkletter, SF California, TV host (Haggis Baggis, Hootenanny)
1937 - René Kollo, German tenor
1937 - Viktoriya Tokareva, Russian playwright
1938 - Tony White, cricketer (2 Tests WI v Australia 1965)
1939 - Dick Smothers, NYC, comedian (Smother Brothers' Show)
1940 - Helma Sanders-Brahms, Emden Germany, director (Apple Trees, Manoever)
1941 - Gary Karr, Los Angeles California, double-bassist (Oslo Philharmonic)
1941 - Haseena Moin, Pakistani television drama writer and Urdu playwright
1942 - Bob Einstein, Los Angeles, California, American comedian (Officer Judy, Super Dave Osborne)
1942 - Joseph R Biden Jr, (Sen-D-DE, 1973- )
1942 - Meredith Monk, Lima, Peru, choreographer-composer-performing artist
1942 - Norman Greenbaum, Mass, folk singer (Spirit in the Sky)
1942 - Paulos Faraj Rahho, Iraqi Chaldean Catholic bishop (d. 2008)
1943 - Lindsay Thomas, (Rep-D-GA, 1983- )
1943 - Veronica Hamel, Phila, actress (Joyce-Hill St Blues, 79 Park Ave)
1944 - Anthea Stewart, Zimbabwe, field hockey coach/player (Olympic-1980)
1945 - Dan McBride, rocker (Sha Na Na)
1945 - Rachid Mimouni, author
1945 - Nanette Workman, American-born Canadian singer and actress
1946 - Duane Allman, Nashville Tn, rock guitarist (Allman Brothers)
1946 - John "Blackfoot" Colbert, US singer (Soul Children, Taxi)
1946 - Judy Woodruff, newscaster (McNeil Lehrer Report)
1946 - Ray Stiles, rocker
1946 - Greg Cook, American football player
1947 - George Grantham, OK, rock drummer/vocalist (Poco)
1947 - Joe Walsh, Wichita Ks, guitarist/rocker (Eagles-Take it Easy)
1947 - Mardell Wilkins, LPGA golfer
1948 - Richard Masur, NYC, actor (David-One Day at a Time)
1948 - Samuel E Wright, Camden SC, actor (Enos, Ball Four)
1948 - John R. Bolton, American ambassador
1949 - Juha Mieto, Finland, 15KM skier (Olympic-silver-1980)
1949 - Ray Vitte, NYC, actor (Doc, Cody-Quest)
1949 - Thelma Drake, American politician
1950 - Gary Green, rocker (Gentle Giant)
1951 - David Walters, American politician
1952 - John Van Boxmeer, National Hockey League player
1953 - Greg Gibson, Stafford Va, Greco-Roman wrestler (Olympic-silver-1984)
1954 - Frank Marino, Montreal Canada, rock guitarist (Mahogany Rush)
1954 - Steve Dahl, California, Chicago's anti-disco DJ (WLS-FM)
1954 - Berit Andnor, Swedish politician
1955 - Thea Vidale, actress (Family Matters)
1955 - Timothy Kristian Charles Mace, Great Britain, cosmonaut
1956 - Bo Derek, [Mary Collins], Long Beach Caliaforia, actress (10, Tarzan the Ape Man)
1956 - Dan Powers, rock guitarist (Michael Stanley Band)
1956 - Mark Gastineau, NFL end (NY Jets, Pro Bowl 1981-85)
1956 - Sergei Gayevich Severin, Russian cosmonaut
1957 - James Brown, British reggae singer/drummer (UB40-Red Red Wine)
1957 - Mike Craven, former English professional footballer
1958 - Rickson Gracie, Brazilian Mixed Martial Artist
1959 - Sean Young, Louisville Ky, actress (Dune, Young Doctor in Love)
1959 - James P. McGovern, American politician
1960 - Marc Labrèche, Canadian actor and television host
1961 - Tim Harvey, British racing driver
1961 - Larry Karaszewski, American screenwriter
1961 - Dave Watson, English footballer
1962 - Steve Alexander, rocker (Brother Beyond-Can You Keep a Secret)
1963 - Timothy Gowers, British mathematician
1963 - Ming-Na Wen, Macau-born actress
1964 - John Maclean, Oshawa, NHL right wing (NJ Devils)
1964 - Ned Vaughn, actor (The Rescuer)
1965 - Andrew Stewart, CFL defensive tackle (Toronto Argonauts)
1965 - Mike D[iamond], NYC, rap vocalist (Beastie Boys-You Gotta Fight)
1965 - Sen Dog, Cuban rapper (Cypress Hill)
1965 - Yoshiki Hayashi, Japanese musician (X Japan)
1966 - Kevin Gilbert, American musician (d. 1996)
1966 - Jill Thompson, American comic book writer and artist
1967 - Alex Arias, NYC, infielder (Florida Marlins)
1967 - Chris Childs, NBA guard (NJ Nets, NY Knicks)
1967 - Chris Patton, Fountain Inn SC, Nike golfer (1993 NM Charity Classic)
1967 - Jeff Cotler, Long Beach California, actor (Brian-Struck by Lightning)
1967 - Teoman, Turkish rock singer
1968 - Jeff Tarango, California, tennis star (defaulted 1995 Wimbledon)
1968 - Keith Rucker, NFL defensive tackle (Cin Bengals)
1968 - Ming Na-Wen, actress (ER, One Night Stand, Lien-As the World Turns)
1968 - Richard Clarke, Toronto Ontario, Yachter Finn (Olympics-96)
1969 - Chris Harris, cricketer (son of Zin NZ all-rounder in ODI's)
1969 - Konstantin Semyonov, Israel, Men's pole vaulter (Oly-11th-1996)
1969 - Malvin Hunter, CFL defensive end (Edmonton Eskimos)
1969 - Richard Dickson Reid, NZ, road race cyclist (Olympics-96)
1969 - Silvia Sommaggio, Italian 5k runner
1969 - Callie Thorne, American actor
1970 - Sabrina Lloyd, actress (Sliders)
1970 - Trevor Cobb, WLAF running back (Amsterdam Admirals)
1970 - Matt Blunt, American politician
1970 - Delia Gonzalez, American boxer
1970 - Geoffrey Keezer, American jazz pianist
1970 - Joe Zaso, American actor
1971 - Dion Nash, cricketer (NZ right-arm medium-pacer 1992- )
1971 - Joey Galloway, NFL wide receiver (Seattle Seahawks)
1971 - Robert Wijnands, Dutch soccer player (FC Utrecht)
1971 - Joel McHale, American actor and comedian
1972 - Riddick Parker, WLAF defensive tackle (Rhein Fire, Seattle Seahawks)
1972 - Trent Pollard, NFL guard (Cin Bengals)
1972 - Yanick Dupre, Montreal, NHL left wing (Phila Flyers)
1972 - Sheema Kalbasi, Iranian born poet
1973 - Brad Keeney, WLAF defensive tackle (Scotland Claymores)
1973 - Matthew Smith, Australian field hockey forward (Olympics-96)
1974 - Brad Williams, cricketer (Victoria & Young Australia fast bowler)
1974 - Drew Ginn, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1974 - Jerald Moore, running back (St Louis Rams)
1974 - Kirk Reynolds, Outlook Saskatchwan, trap shooter (Olympics-96)
1974 - Marissa Ryan, actress (Elizabeth MacGillis-Major Dad)
1975 - Dierks Bentley, American singer
1975 - J. D. Drew, American baseball player
1975 - Davey Havok, singer (AFI)
1976 - Dominique Dawes, Silver Spring Md, gymnast (Olympics-gold/brz-92, 96)
1976 - Elisa Blair, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1976 - Jason Thompson, Canadian actor
1976 - Theodoros Velkos, badminton player
1977 - Rudy Charles, American professional wrestling referee
1977 - Josh Turner, American singer
1978 - Ryan Leslie, American singer/songwriter
1978 - Freya Lin, Taiwanese singer
1978 - Nadine Velazquez, American actress and model
1979 - Ericson Alexander Molano, Colombian gospel singer
1979 - Maree Bowden, New Zealand netball player (Silver Ferns)
1980 - James Chambers, English footballer
1981 - Jilen Siroky, 200m breaststroke (Olympics-96)
1981 - Carlos Boozer, American basketball player
1981 - Kimberley Walsh, English singer (Girls Aloud)
1982 - Margo Stilley, American actress
1984 - Ferdinando Monfardini, Italian racing driver
1985 - Juan Cruz Álvarez, Argentine racing driver
1985 - Dan Byrd, American actor
1986 - Aaron Yan, Taiwanese singer and actor
1986 - Oli Sykes, English musician
1989 - Tyga, American rapper
1989 - Cody Linley, American actor
1990 - Sam Burton, English footballer
1992 - Ishimura Maiha, graduated Berryz Kobo member
1999 - Princess Sofia of Bulgaria, titular Bulgarian royal family
1999 - Prince Umberto of Bulgaria, titular Bulgarian royal family
2000 - Connie Talbot, English singer

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 20, 2013, 04:57:41 PM

This Day in History for 20th November


Famous Deaths

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Spanish Dictator Francisco Franco (1975)


869 - King Edmund of East Anglia
967 - Aboe al-Faradj al-Isfahani, Arabic author (Book of Liederen), dies
1348 - Stefano Colonna, Roman senator, dies in battle against Roman revolutionaries by Porta
           Tiburtina
1437 - Thomas Langley, bishop of Durham, cardinal and lord chancellor (b. 1363)
1480 - Eleonora van Austrian, translator, dies
1518 - Pierre de la Rue/Peter van Straten, Flemish composer, dies
1518 - Marmaduke Constable, English soldier
1527 - Wendelmoet "Weyntjen" Claesdochter, 1st Dutch woman burned as heretic
1529 - Karl von Miltitz, papal nuncio
1591 - Christopher Hatton, English politician (b. 1540)
1612 - John Harington, English writer (b. 1561)
1651 - Mikołaj Potocki, Polish soldier (b. 1595)
1662 - Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands (b. 1614)
1669 - Arnold Geulincx, South Neth philosopher (Cholera), dies at 45
1675 - Francisco de Moura y Cortereal, Span land guardian of Neth (1664-68)
1678 - Charles Dujardin, painter/etcher (Learned Dog), dies at about 56
1704 - Charles Plumier, French botanist (b. 1646)
1713 - Thomas Tompion, English clock maker (cylinder tunnel), dies
1737 - Caroline of Ansbach, queen of Great-Britain, dies
1741 - Melchior de Polignac, French diplomat/clergyman, dies
1750 - Wilhelmus Schortinghuis, theologist (Christian religion), dies at 50
1758 - Johan Helmich Roman, Finnish composer/violist, dies at 64
1764 - Christian Goldbach, German mathematician, dies
1778 - Francesco Cetti, Italian Jesuit scientist (b. 1726)
1827 - Alexey Nikolayevich Titov, composer, dies at 58
1851 - Wenzel Sedlak, composer, dies at 75
1856 - Farkas/Wolfgang Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician, dies at 81
1863 - James Bruce, Count of Elgin & Kincardine, governor Jamaica, dies at 52
1882 - Bela Albrecht Pal Keler, composer, dies at 62
1887 - Louis Gallait, Belgian painter (Egmont & Receiver), dies at 77
1894 - Anton Rubinstein, Russian composer (Dmitri Donskoi), dies at 64
1898 - John Fowler, English engineer (London Metropolitan Railway), dies
1899 - Carl A E Ahlqvist, [A Oksanen], Finnish translator, dies at 63
1908 - Georgy Voronoy, Russian mathematician (b. 1868)
1910 - Leo Tolstoi, Russian earl/writer (War & Peace), dies at 82 [OS]
1910 - Leo Tolstoy, Russian author (Anna Karenina), dies at 82 [NS]
1925 - Alexandra, Danish princess/Queen of Great Britain, dies at 80
1927 - Karl Wilhelm Eugen Stenhammer, composer, dies at 56
1934 - Willem de Sitter, Dutch scientist (b. 1872)
1936 - Jose A Primo de Rivera y Saenz de Heredia, Spanish Falange, executed
1938 - Enzo Matsunaga, Japanese writer (b. 1895)
1939 - Marie Joseph Leon Desire Paque, composer, dies at 72
1944 - Sekio Nishina, Japanese inventor (kaiten-suicide submarine), dies at 21
1945 - Francis William Aston, British chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1877)
1950 - Francesco Cilea, composer, dies at 84
1951 - Thomas Quinlan (impresario) (b. 1881)
1952 - Benedetto Croce, Italian philosopher (La Critica), dies at 86
1957 - Weldon Hart, composer, dies at 46
1957 - Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Russian-Lithuanian artist (d. 1875)
1960 - Jacob Cohen, Hebrew poet/writer, dies
1962 - Jasper McLevy, socialist mayor of Bridgeport Ct, dies
1964 - John Tasker Howard, composer, dies at 73
1968 - Cathy Lewis, actress (Deidre-Hazel), dies of cancer at 50
1968 - Helen Gardner, silent film actress (Sandra), dies
1973 - Allan Sherman, parodist (Camp Granada, Harvey & Sheila), dies at 48
1975 - Francisco Franco, Spanish dictator (1936-75), dies at 82
1976 - Trofim Lysenko, Stalinist biologist (b. 1898)
1977 - Maxie Wander, writer, dies
1978 - Vasilisk Gnedov, Russian poet (b. 1890)
1983 - Marcel Dalio, actor (Casablanca), dies at 83
1983 - Richard Loo, actor, (China Sky), dies of cardio-pulmonary arrest
1984 - Alexander Moyzes, composer, dies at 78
1985 - Bill Scott, cartoon voice (Mr Peabody, Bullwinkle), dies at 65
1989 - Lynn Bari, actress (Shock, Nocturne, 6 Gun Law), dies at 71
1991 - Gina Petrushka, actress (Exorcist, Sybil), dies
1992 - John Foreman, producer (Prizzi's Honor), dies at 67 of heart attack
1993 - Christopher Frank, French writer, dies at 51
1993 - Emile Ardolino, director (Dirty Dancing), dies at 50 of AIDs
1993 - Heather Farr, golfer, dies of cancer at 28
1994 - John Lucarotti, scriptwriter, dies at 68
1994 - Saeedi Sirjani, poet, dies at 64
1995 - Ahmed Abel-Wadoud Karadawi, academic/activist, dies at 50
1995 - Sergei Grinkov, figure skater (Oly-gold), dies of heart attack at 28
1996 - Bert Geoffrey Achong, electron microscopist, dies at 67
1997 - Gary Burris, murderer (Kenneth Chambers), executed in Indiana
1997 - Robert Palmer, rock critic, dies at 52
1997 - Dick Littlefield, baseball player (b. 1926)
1998 - Galina Starovoitova, Russian politician (b. 1946)
1999 - Amintore Fanfani, Italian politician and prime minister (b. 1908)
2000 - Mike Muuss, American computer programmer (b. 1958)
2000 - Kalle Päätalo, Finnish writer (b. 1919)
2003 - Robert Addie, British actor (cancer) (b. 1960)
2003 - Loris Azzaro, French fashion designer (b. 1933)
2003 - David Dacko, first President of the Central African Republic (b. 1930)
2003 - Eugene Kleiner, American entrepreneur (b. 1923)
2003 - Roger Short, British Consulate General (b. 1944)
2003 - Jim Siedow, American actor (b. 1920)
2003 - Kerem Yilmazer, Turkish actor (b. 1945)
2004 - David Grierson, Canadian radio host (b. 1955)
2004 - Jenny Ross, English musician (Section 25) (b. 1962)
2005 - Manouchehr Atashi, Iranian poet (b. 1931)
2005 - Sheldon Gardner, American psychologist (b. 1934)
2005 - Chris Whitley, American musician (b. 1960)
2005 - James King, American singer (b. 1925)
2006 - Robert Altman, American film director (b. 1925)
2006 - Zoia Ceauşescu, Romanian mathematician (b. 1950)
2006 - Andre Waters, American football player (b. 1962)
2007 - Ian Smith, Prime Minister of Rhodesia (b. 1919)
2008 - Sven Inge, Swedish painter and modern artist (b. 1935)
2009 - Lino Lacedelli, Italian mountaineer (b. 1925)
2009 - Max Robertson, British sports commentator, radio and television presenter and author (b.
           1915)
2010 - Rob Lytle, American football player (b. 1954)
2010 - Laurie Bembenek, American convicted murderer and fugitive (b. 1958)
2010 - Danny McDevitt, American baseball player (b. 1932)
2010 - Chalmers Johnson, American political scholar and author (b. 1931)
2012 - William Grut, Swedish pentathlete, dies at 98

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 21, 2013, 04:38:26 PM

This Day in History for 21st November


Historical Events

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French Emperor                                             Marxist Revolutionary                      Baseball Player Joe DiMaggio
Napoleon Bonaparte                               Russian Leader Vladimir Lenin

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Dictator of Nazi Germany                       US President John F. Kennedy                  Singer Olivia Newton-John
Adolf Hitler

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US President George H. W. Bush


164 BC - Judas Maccabaeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family, restores the Temple in
              Jerusalem. This event is commemorated each year by the festival of Hanukkah.
235 - St Anterus begins his reign as Catholic Pope
695 - Pope Sergius names Willibrord as Archbishop Clemens of Friezen
1272 - Following Henry III of England's death on November 16, his son Prince Edward becomes King
           of England.
1317 - Frederik of Sierck/Zyrick becomes bishop of Utrecht
1620 - Pilgrim Fathers reach America: Provincetown Harbor, Mass
1620 - Mayflower Compact signed by Pilgrims in Cape Cod, [O.S. Nov 11]
1654 - Richard Johnson, a free black, granted 550 acres in Virginia
1696 - J Vanbrughes "Relapse or Virtue in Danger," premieres in London
1729 - Netherlands signs Treaty of Seville
1759 - Battle at Maxen: Prussian army surrenders to Austrians
1783 - Pilstre de Rozier & Marquis d'Arlandes make 1st free balloon flight
1787 - Andrew Jackson admitted to bar
1789 - North Carolina ratifies constitution, becomes 12th US state
1791 - Colonel Napoléon Bonaparte is promoted to full general and appointed Commander-in-Chief of
           the Armies of the French Republic.
1794 - Honolulu Harbor discovered
1806 - Decree of Berlin: Emperor Napoleon I bans all trade with England
1813 - Stettin surrenders to allied armies
1818 - Russia's Czar Alexander I petitions for a Jewish state in Palestine
1824 - 1st Jewish Reform congregation forms, Charleston, SC
1834 - HMS Beagle anchors at Bay of San Carlos, Chile
1837 - Thomas Morris of Australia skips rope 22,806 times
1847 - Steamer "Phoenix" is lost on Lake Michigan, kills 200
1848 - Alfred de Musset's "Andre del Sarto," premieres in Paris
1848 - Cincinnati Turngemeinde founded
1849 - Friedrich Hebbel's "Der Rubin," premieres in Vienna
1852 - Duke U, founded in 1838 as Union Institute chartered as Normal College
1864 - -22] Battle at Griswoldville, Georgia
1865 - Shaw University forms in Raleigh NC
1871 - Moses F Gale patents a cigar lighter (NYC)
1871 - The 1st human cannonball, Emilio Onra, is shot
1876 - Skirmish between HM Stanley's expedition & natives
1877 - Tom Edison announces his "talking machine" invention (phonograph)
1880 - Henry Stanley & Pierre de Brazza quarrel about possession of Congo
1895 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Bruce Partington Plans" (BG)
1901 - Richard Strauss' opera "Feuersnot," premieres in Dresden
1902 - 1st night football game, Phila Athletics beats Kanaweola AC, 39-0
1902 - Baseball's Phila Athletics & Phillies form pro football teams, joining Pitts Stars in 1st attempt
           at a National Football League
1905 - 1st game ever played in the Australian Tennis Open
1906 - China prohibits opium trade
1914 - Billy Mallett of Hamilton Tigers kicks 9 singles in a game
1914 - British army conquerors Bazra
1916 - HMHS Britannic sinks in the Aegean Sea after a mine explodes, killing 30 people.
1917 - M Gorki calls Lenin a blind fanatic/unthinking adventurer
1918 - 2 German ammunition trains explode in Hamont Belgium, 1,750 die
1918 - Polish soldiers organize a pogrom against Jews of Galicia Poland
1920 - Karel Capék's "Vec Makropulos," premieres in Prague
1920 - Mussolini's squad begins terror, 11 die in Bologna Italy
1922 - Rebecca L Felton (Ga) sworn in as 1st female US Senator
1924 - British premier Baldwin cancels Labor contract with USSR
1925 - Red Grange plays final Univ of Illinois game, signs with Chicago Bears
1933 - 1st US ambassador to USSR, W.C. Bullitt, begins service
1934 - "Uiver" returns from Schiphol in London-Melbourne air race
1934 - NY Yankees buy Joe DiMaggio from SF Seals (Pacific Coast League)
1935 - 1st commercial crossing of Pacific by plane (China Clipper)
1935 - Jean Giraudoux' "La Guerre de Troie n'Aura," premieres in Paris
1937 - Dmitri Shostakovitch's 5th Symphony premieres in Lenningrad
1938 - -24] Belgian king Leopold III visits Netherlands
1938 - Nazi forces occupy western Czech & declared them German citizens
1940 - Nazi occupiers forbid building schools in Netherlands
1942 - Hitler names fieldmarshal Erich von Manstein commander of the newly-created Army Group
           Don (Heeresgruppe Don)
1942 - Tweety Bird, aka Tweety Pie, debuts in "Tale of Two Kitties"
1943 - 7 Belgian ministers in London sentence King Leopold III
1944 - Personnel & executive staff of Philips demonstrate for more food
1945 - Benjamin Britten's 2nd String quartet in C, premieres
1945 - General Motors workers go on strike
1946 - Georgi Dimitrov elected premier of Bulgaria
1946 - Harry Truman becomes 1st US president to travel in a submerged sub
1947 - Bill Longson beats Lou Thesz in St Louis, to become wrestling champ
1949 - Bill Veeck sells Indians for $22 million
1952 - 1st US postage stamp in 2 colors (rotary process) introduced
1952 - Dodgers pitcher Joe Black wins NL Rookie of Year
1953 - "Pitdown Man," discovered in 1912 proved to be a hoax
1953 - WKJG TV channel 33 in Ft Wayne, IN (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 - Authorities at the British Natural History Museum announce that the "Piltdown Man" skull, held
           to be one of the most famous fossil skulls in the world, was a hoax.
1955 - Argentina asks Panama for return of ex-president Peron
1955 - KTVO TV channel 3 in Ottumwa-Kirksville, IA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1956 - Don Newcombe, wins NL MVP & 1st-ever Cy Young Award
1959 - Jack Benny (violin) & Richard Nixon (piano) play their famed duet
1960 - Bob Scheffing signs to manage Tigers after Casey Stengel turns it down
1962 - The Chinese People's Liberation Army declares a unilateral cease-fire in the Sino-Indian War.
1963 - JFK flies to Texas
1964 - "Something More!" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 15 perfs
1964 - "Zizi" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 49 performances
1964 - Pope Paul VI signs 3rd sitting of 2nd Vatican council
1964 - World's longest suspension bridge "Verrazano Narrows" opens (NYC)
1965 - 1st freighter arrives in Ashdod Port Israel
1965 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1966 - Dutch government of Zijlstra forms
1967 - Phillip & Jay Kunz fly a kite a record 28,000 feet
1967 - Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland tells news reporters: "I am absolutely
           certain that whereas in 1965 the enemy was winning, today he is certainly losing."
1968 - Cin trades shortstop Leo Cardenas to Twins for pitcher Jim Merritt
1968 - Supremes & Temptations release "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me"
1969 - KXIX (now KVCT) TV channel 19 in Victoria, TX (ABC) 1st broadcast
1969 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1970 - NY Knicks 1st game against Cleve Cavalier, Knicks win 102-94 at Madison Square Garden
1971 - NY Rangers scores a NHL record 8 goals in 1 period
1971 - Richard Baker becomes teacher of SF Zen Center
1971 - Indian troops partly aided by Mukti Bahini (Bengali guerrillas) defeat the Pakistan army in the
           Battle of Garibpur.
1972 - Red Sox Carlton Fisk wins AL Rookie of Year, Mets Jon Matlack wins NL
1973 - Pete Rose wins NL MVP
1973 - Pres Nixon's attorney, J Fred Buzhardt, reveals presence of 18½ minute gap in a White House
           tape recording related to Watergate
1974 - Freedom of Information Act passed by Congress over Pres Ford's veto
1975 - Linda McCartney drug charges in US are dropped
1977 - 1st flight of Concorde (London to New York)
1977 - Orioles 1st baseman Eddie Murray wins AL Rookie of Year
1978 - Bob Horner of Braves wins NL Rookie of Year Award
1979 - Crowd at Islamabad, Pakistan attack US embassy, 1 dies
1980 - Dallas' "Who Shot JR?" episode (Kristen) gets a 53.3 rating (83 mill)
1980 - Fire at MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas kills 84
1980 - Gene Michael named 25th Yank mgr, replacing Dick Howser, who resigns
1980 - It is revealed Kristen shot J.R. Ewing on "Dallas"
1980 - John & Yoko pose nude for photographer Allan Tannenbaum
1980 - MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas in fire; 84 die
1981 - 400,000 demonstrate in Amsterdam against cruise missiles
1981 - Olivia Newton-John's "Physical," single goes #1 & stays for 10 weeks
1983 - "Doonesbury" opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 104 performances
1986 - Central African Republic adopts constitution
1986 - Suriname army leader Desi Bouterse massacres Moiwana village
1987 - Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Epitome, Ferdinand, Miesque, Sacahuista, Success
           Express, Theatrica, Very Subtle at Hollywood
1989 - Law banning smoking on most domestic flights signed by President Bush
1989 - TV cameras permitted in British House of Commons
1990 - Michael Milken is sentenced to 10 years for security law violations
1991 - Poetess Maria Elene Cruz Varela arrested in Cuba
1992 - Jan Karlsson swims world record 50m butterfly (23.80 sec)
1992 - Jani Sievinen swims world record 100m medley (53.78 sec)
1992 - Louise Karlsson swims world record 50m freestyle (31.19 sec)
1992 - Oregon Sen Bob Packwood issues apology for unwelcome sexual advances
1992 - Sam's Town Bowling Invitational won by Tish Johnson
1993 - "Cinderella" closes at New York State Theater NYC after 14 perfs
1993 - "Cyrano - The Musical" opens at Neil Simon Theater NYC for 137 perfs
1993 - Neo-fascists MSI win 36% of municipal elections in Rome
1994 - 1st-class cricket debut of Andrew Symonds (Queensland v NSW, SCG)
1995 - Dow Jones closes above 5,000 for 1st time
1995 - Israel grants jailed US spy Jason Pollard, citizenship
1995 - New double Beatle CD released with new song "Free as a Bird"
1996 - "Rehearsal" opens at Criterion Theater NYC
1996 - A propane explosion at the Humberto Vidal shoe store and office building in San Juan, Puerto
           Rico kills 33.
2002 - NATO invites Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia to become
           members.
2004 - The second round of the Ukrainian presidential election is held, unleashing massive protests
           and controversy over the election's integrity.
2004 - The island of Dominica is hit by the most destructive earthquake in its history. The northern
           half of the island receives the most damage, especially the town of Portsmouth. It is also felt
           in neighboring Guadeloupe, where one person is killed as a result.
2004 - The Paris Club agrees to write off 80% (up to $100 billion) of Iraq's external debt.
2006 - Anti-Syrian Lebanese Minister and MP Pierre Gemayel is assassinated in suburban Beirut.
2012 - An Israel and Hamas ceasefire is negotiated
2012 - Chelsea Manager Roberto Di Matteo is sacked and replaced by Rafael Ben

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 21, 2013, 04:40:47 PM

This Day in History for 21st November


Famous Weddings

1983 - NY Ranger Ron Greschner marries model Carol Alt
1987 - Actress Demi Moore weds actor Bruce Willis at The Little White Chapel in Las Vegas

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 21, 2013, 04:51:39 PM

This Day in History for 21st November


Famous Birthdays

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Surgeon William Beaumont (1785)          The Witch of Wall Street Hetty Green (1834)


1495 - John Bale, England, bishop/anti-catholic playwright (Kynge Johan)
1561 - Carolus Scribani, Italian/Flemish jesuit/author
1567 - Anne de Xainctonge, French saint (d. 1621)
1637 - Catharina Questiers, Dutch poetess (Friend of Abandoned Child)
1645 - Johann Lohner, composer
1683 - Johann Michael Muller, composer
1692 - Carlo Fragoni, Italy, poet
1694 - Voltaire, [Francois-Marie Arouet], France, writer, essayist, philosopher and playwright
           (Candide) (d. 1778)
1724 - John Ekels, the Old, Amsterdam painter/cartoonist
1729 - Josiah Bartlett, US physician/judge/signer (Decl of Independence)
1742 - Alessandro Felici, composer
1761 - Dorothy Jordan, British actress (d. 1816)
1768 - Friedrich Schleiermacher, German theologist/philosopher
1785 - William Beaumont, Lebanon, Connecticut, surgeon (Father of gastric physiology), (d. 1853)
1787 - Samuel Cunard, founder (1st regular Atlantic steamship line)
1811 - Zeng Guofan, Chinese military (d. 1872)
1817 - Richard Brooke Garnett, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1863
1828 - William McComb, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1918
1829 - Peter A de Genestet, Dutch vicar/poet
1831 - John Franklin Miller, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1886
1834 - Henrietta (Hetty) Green,New Bedford, Massachusetts, financier (Witch of Wall Street), (d.
           1916)
1834 - Joseph Jackson Bartlett, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1893
1840 - Victoria, Empress of Germany/Queen of Prussia
1851 - Desire J Mercier, Belgian philosopher/cardinal
1852 - Francisco Tarrega y Eixea, composer
1853 - Hussain Kamil, sultan of Egypt (1914-17)
1854 - Benedict XV, [Giacomo PGB marques della Chiessa], 258th Pope (1914-22)
1860 - Tom Horn, American gunman (d. 1903)
1861 - Joao da Cruz, Brazilian poet
1863 - Arthur Quiller-Couch, [Q], editor (Oxford Book of English Verse)
1863 - Mina Dilis-Beersmans, Flemish actress/wife of John Dilis (Poppenhuis)
1867 - Vladimir N Ipatiev, Russian chemist
1870 - Joe Darling, cricketer (Australian lefty batsman at turn of century)
1870 - Stanley Jackson, cricketer (captain of England, governor of Bengal)
1870 - Sigfrid Edström, Swedish sports official (d. 1964)
1871 - Panayot Pipkov, composer
1877 - Louis Campbell-Tipton, composer
1877 - Sigfrid Karg-Elert, composer
1878 - Gustav Radbruch, German lawyer/minister of Justice
1880 - Franz Hessel, writer
1886 - Harold G Nicolson, English diplomat/author (Good Behaviour)
1894 - Corinne Griffith, Texarkana TX, actress (3 Hours, Lilies of Field)
1897 - Mollie Steimer anarchist agitator (d. 1980)
1898 - René Magritte, Belgian surrealistic painter (This is Not a Pipe)
1900 - Alice Calhoun, Cleveland OH, Silent film actress (Flowing Gold)
1900 - Jobyna Ralston, South Pittsburgh TN, actress (For Heaven's Sake)
1902 - Michail A Suslov, Russian party ideologist [OS=Nov 8]
1902 - Foster Hewitt, Canadian radio pioneer (d. 1985)
1904 - Coleman Hawkins, virtually created tenor saxophone for jazz
1905 - David Moule-Evans, composer
1907 - Charles Korvin, Czechoslovakia, actor (Berlin Express, Ship of Fools)
1907 - Jim Bishop, author (The Day Lincoln was Shot)
1907 - M Eleonore Lippits, 1st Dutch female missionary doctor
1908 - Elizabeth George Speare, American author (d. 1994)
1912 - Anne Bolt, photo-journalist/trade unionist
1912 - Eleanor Powell, Springfield Mass, actress/tap dancer (Bdwy Melody)
1913 - Roy Boulting, British film director (d. 2001)
1916 - Cecilia P J "Cilly" Bach, Dutch/US/Spanish actress (In Pyama)
1916 - Esmond Kentish, cricketer (WI fast bowler in 2 Tests 1948 & 1954)
1916 - Sid Luckman, NFL QB (Chicago Bears)
1917 - Sem Presser, Dutch press photographer
1919 - Steve Brodie, El Dorado Kansas, actor (Life & Legend of Wyatt Earp)
1920 - Ralph Meeker, Minneapolis MN, actor (Anderson Tapes, Night Stalker)
1920 - Stan Musial, outfielder (St Louis Cardinal, 7 times NL bat champ), (d. 2013)
1921 - Geza Anda, Hungarian/Swiss pianist (Mozart/Bartok)
1921 - Vivian Blaine, Newark NJ, actress (Guys & Dolls, Skirts Ahoy)
1922 - Maria Casares, La Coruna Spain, French actress (Orpheus, Lectrice)
1922 - Abe Lemons, American basketball coach
1924 - Christopher Tolkien, British author
1925 - Johan "Poncke" Princen, KNIL-defector/civil rights in Djakarta
1927 - Joseph Campanella, NYC, actor (Dr Steffen-The Nurses, Lou-Mannix)
1927 - Georgia Frontiere, co-owner of the St. Louis Rams (d. 2008)
1929 - Marilyn French, US author (The Women's Room)
1929 - Laurier LaPierre, Canadian journalist, broadcaster and senator
1931 - Malcolm Williamson, composer
1931 - Revaz Dogonadze, Georgian scientist (d. 1985)
1932 - Jim Ringo, NFL center (Green Bay, Philadelphia)
1932 - Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen, composer
1933 - Frank Brake, English multi-millionaire
1933 - Henry Hartsfield Jr, Birmingham Ala, astro (STS-4, STS 41-D, STS 61A)
1933 - Jean Shepard, Pauls Valley Oklahoma, country singer (Ozark Jubilee)
1933 - Joseph Campanella, American actor
1934 - Laurence Luckinbill, Ft Smith Ark, actor (Delphi Bureau, Ike)
1934 - Peter Philpott, cricketer (NSW & Australian leg spinner 1965-66)
1935 - Fairuz, Lebanese singer
1936 - James De Preist, Philadelphia Penn, conductor (Mitropolos 1964)
1936 - Victor Chang, Australian physician (d. 1986)
1937 - Marlo Thomas, [Mrs Phil Donahue], Detroit Mich (That Girl!, Jenny)
1938 - Robert Drivas, [Choromokos], Chicago, actor (Our Private World)
1939 - Rick Lenz, Springfield Ill, actor (Hec Ramsey, Scandalous John)
1939 - Budd Dwyer, American politician (d. 1987)
1939 - Mulayam Singh Yadav, Indian politician
1940 - Dr. John [Rebennack], New Orleans, Louisiana, American vocalist (I Was in Right Place)
1940 - Javed Akhtar, cricketer (Pakistani off-spinner took 0-52 in 1962 Test)
1940 - Natalia Makarova, Leningrad, ballerina (Kirov)/defected 1970
1940 - Richard Marcinko, American author
1941 - David Porter, US songwriter (Soul Man)
1941 - George Morren, Flemish painter/sculptor
1941 - Juliet Mills, London England, actress (Nanny & the Professor, QB VII)
1941 - İdil Biret, Turkish pianist
1942 - Tweety Bird, cartoon character
1942 - Afa Anoa'i, Samoan/American wrestler
1942 - Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul, German politician
1943 - Larry Mahan, Oregon, rodeo champ (1967-70)
1943 - Phil Bredesen, American politician
1943 - Viktor Sidjak, Russian fencer
1943 - Jacques Laffite, French former racing driver
1944 - Earl "the Pearl" Monroe, Phila Pa, NBA Guard (NY Knicks, Balt Bullets)
1944 - Harold Ramis, Chicago IL, actor/director (SCTV, Stripes)
1944 - Marcia "Marcy" Carsey, TV executive/producer
1944 - Richard J Durbin, (Rep-D-IL, 1983- )
1945 - Goldie Hawn, Takoma Park Md, actress (Laugh-in, Private Benjamin)
1946 - Jonas Tomasson, composer
1946 - Jacky Lafon, Belgian actress
1947 - Dick W de Cloe, Dutch MP (PvdA)
1948 - Alphonse Mouson, rocker
1948 - Lonnie Jordan, San Diego Ca, rock keyboardist/vocalist (War)
1948 - George Zimmer, American entrepreneur
1948 - Alphonse Mouzon, American jazzist
1949 - Basil Williams, cricketer (century on debut for West Indies 1978)
1949 - Nickolas Grace, Cheshire England, actor (Diamond's Edge)
1950 - Alberto Juantorena, Cuba, 400m dash (Olympic-gold-1976)
1950 - Bruce Laird, cricketer (tough Australian opener 1979-82)
1950 - Livingston Taylor, Boston, rocker (I Will be in Love With You)
1950 - Stephen Geyer, American film & television songwriter
1952 - Deborah Shelton, Wash DC, actress (Dallas, Ocean Kill, Body Double)
1952 - Eamonn Coghlan, Ireland, 1500m runner (Oly-4th-76)
1952 - Lorna Luft, Scarsdale NY, singer/actress (Where the Boys Are-1980)
1953 - Tina Brown, journalist publisher (New Yorker, Tattler)
1954 - Thomas Rothman, American film executive
1955 - Cedric Maxwell, American basketball player
1956 - Mariana Simionescu, Tirgu Neamt Romania, 1st wife of Bjorn Borg
1956 - Terri Welles, [Knepper], California, playmate of the year (Dec, 1980)
1957 - Jim Brown, rocker (UB40-Red Red Wine)
1958 - Evert van Benthem, Dutch skater (11 Cities Skating Race, 1985, 86)
1958 - Frank Edmonds, Thunder Bay Ont, Canadian Tour golfer (1989 Alberta)
1958 - Tim Robinson, cricketer (solid England opener in 29 Tests 1984-89)
1959 - Colin Beashel, Australian star yachter (Olympics-96)
1959 - Tim Wilkison, Shelby NC, tennis player (WCT Atlanta finals-1986)
1962 - Steven Curtis Chapman, American musician
1962 - Sabine Busch, German athlete
1963 - Nicollette Sheridan, Worthing England, actress (Paige-Knots Landing)
1963 - Peter Bosz, Dutch soccer star (Toulon/Feyenoord)
1964 - Marjorie Judith Vincent, Oak Park Ill, Miss America (1991)
1964 - Olden Polynice, NBA forward/center (Sacramento Kings)
1964 - Thomas Everett, NFL safety (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1964 - Liza Tarbuck, British entertainer
1965 - Bjork, Iceland, singer (Like Someone in Love)
1965 - Alexander Siddig, British actor
1966 - Jerry Fontenot, NFL center/guard (Chic Bears, New Orleans Saints)
1966 - Troy Aikman, NFL quarterback (Dallas Cowboys - Superbowl 1992)
1967 - Dominic Lavoie, hockey defenseman (Team Austria 1998)
1967 - Kelly Gallagher, Myrtle Beach SC, playmate (Sep, 1994)
1967 - Tripp Cromer, American baseball player
1967 - Toshihiko Koga, Japanese Judoka
1968 - Andy Caddick, English cricket pace bowler (NZ 1993)
1968 - Antonio Tarver, Orlando Fla, light heavyweight boxer (Olympics-br-96)
1968 - Alex James, English bassist
1968 - Christopher Noxon, American journalist
1969 - Dahlia Salem, Boston Mass, actress (Sofia Carlino-Another World)
1969 - Ken Griffey, Jr., Donora, Pennsylvania, American baseball center fielder (Seattle Mariners, MVP
           1997)
1970 - Dahlia Salem, actress (Sofia Carlino-Another World) [approx 1970]
1970 - Jorgen Gustafsson, WLAF guard (Amsterdam Admirals)
1970 - Justin Langer, cricketer (gutsy Australian lefty bat 1993- )
1970 - Keith Crawford, wide receiver (St Louis Rams)
1971 - Michael Strahan, NFL defensive end (NY Giants)
1971 - Ramondo Stallings, NFL defensive end (Cin Bengals)
1971 - Robert Flickinger, WLAF defensive end (Scottish Claymores)
1972 - Rain Phoenix, American singer/actress
1972 - David Tua, Samoan boxer
1973 - Brent Smith, tackle (Miami Dolphins)
1973 - Danny Kanell, quarterback (NY Giants)
1973 - Brook Kerr, American actress
1973 - Inés Sastre, Spanish model and actress
1974 - Casey Patton, London Ontario, boxer (Olympics-96)
1974 - Tremain Mack, strong safety (Cincinnati Bengals)
1975 - Chad Levitt, running back (Oakland Raiders)
1975 - Cherie Johnson, Pitts Pa, actress (Cherie-Punky Brewster)
1975 - Chris Moneymaker, American poker player
1976 - Saleem Elahi, cricketer (bro of Manzoor Pak, Test opener v Aust 1995)
1976 - Martin Meichelbeck, German footballer
1976 - Daniel Whiston, British ice skater
1977 - Bruno Berner, Swiss footballer
1977 - Myles Heskett, Australian musician (Wolfmother)
1977 - Jonas Jennings, American football player
1977 - Tobias Sammet, German singer (Edguy)
1977 - Yolande James, Quebec politician
1978 - Lucía Jiménez, Spanish actress
1978 - Sara Tanaka, American actress
1979 - Vincenzo Iaquinta, Italian footballer
1979 - Stromile Swift, American basketball player
1979 - Alex Tanguay, Canadian hockey player
1979 - Kim Dong Wan, Korean singer (Shinhwa)
1980 - Danielle Hartsell, Ann Arbor Mich, pairs skater (& Steve Hartsell)
1980 - Leonardo González, Costa Rican footballer
1980 - Hank Blalock, American baseball player
1980 - Alec Brownstein, American author, director
1980 - Elaine Yiu, Hong Kong Actress
1981 - Wesley Britt, American football player
1981 - Piet Rinke, Zimbabwean cricketer
1981 - Jonny Magallón, Mexican footballer
1982 - Georgios Kalogiannidis, Greek archer
1982 - Ryan Starr, American singer
1983 - Jamie Langley, English rugby player
1984 - Álvaro Bautista, Spanish motorcycle racer
1984 - Jena Malone, American Actress
1985 - Jesús Navas, Spanish footballer
1987 - Brian Douwes, Dutch kickboxer and martial artist

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 21, 2013, 04:56:28 PM

This Day in History for 21st November


Famous Deaths

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South African Premier J. B. M. Hertzog (1942)


496 - Pope Gelasius I, Catholic Pope, of Berber extraction
1361 - Philip I, Duke of Burgundy (plague) (b. 1346)
1481 - Ikkyu Sojun, Zen head of Daitokuji temple, dies in Kyoto, Japan at 87
1555 - Georg Agricola, [Bauer], German mineralogist (zinc), dies at 61
1566 - Annibale Caro, Italian poet (b. 1507)
1579 - Thomas Gresham, English merchant and financier
1580 - Willem Van Hoorn, baron of Heze, governor of Brussels, executed
1610 - Benedict van Canfield, [William Fish], English missionary, dies
1652 - Jan Brożek, Polish mathematician, physician, and astronomer (b. 1585)
1695 - Henry Purcell, English composer (Indian Queen), dies at 36
1710 - Barnardo Pasquini, composer, dies at 72
1728 - Fjodor M graaf Apraksin, Russian gen-admiral, dies at about 57
1730 - François de Troy, French portrait artist
1775 - John Hill, British writer
1811 - Heinrich W von Kleist, German playwright, dies at 34
1813 - William Russell, composer, dies at 36
1817 - Richard B Garnett, killed during Pickett's Charge, Brig Gen
1844 - Ivan Krylov, Russian fabulist (b. 1769)
1863 - Joseph Mayseder, composer, dies at 74
1870 - Karel J Erben, Czech poet (Ruiker), dies at 69
1875 - Friedrich A Lange, philosopher/socialist (Neo-Kantianism), dies at 67
1881 - Ami Boué, Austrian geologist (b. 1794)
1882 - Sergei G Netsjajev, Russian nihilist, dies at 35
1899 - Garret Augustus Hobart, 24th VP, dies
1900 - J J Ferris, cricketer (48 wickets for Aust in 8 Tests in 1880's), dies
1907 - Gaetano Braga, composer, dies at 78
1907 - Harry Boyle, round-arm cricket bowler (12 of Aust's early Tests), dies
1916 - Franz Jozef I, King of Austria/Hungary, dies
1920 - Caryl Florio, composer, dies at 77
1920 - William James Robjohn, composer, dies at 77
1922 - Ricardo Flores Magón, Mexican anarchist (b. 1874).
1924 - Florence Harding, American First Lady (b. 1860)
1928 - Hermann Sudermann, German author (Frau Sorge), dies
1932 - Vito Pardo, Italian sculptor (Columbus monument Argentina), dies
1938 - Leopold Godowsky, pianist/composer, dies at 68
1940 - Geoffrey Legge, cricketer (WWII 196 Eng v NZ Auckland 1930), dies
1941 - Juanita Spellini, first women executed in Calif
1941 - Henrietta Vinton Davis American elocutionist, dramatist, impersonator, public speaker (b.
           1860)
1942 - J. B. M. Hertzog [Barry Hertzog], South African Premier (1914-39), dies at 76
1945 - Robert Benchley, US humorist (My 10 years in a quandary), dies at 56
1952 - Henriette Roland Holst-de Schalk, marxist author, dies at 82
1952 - William Green, union chairman (AFL 1924-52), dies at 79
1953 - Larry Shields, American jazz clarinetist (b. 1893)
1954 - Karol Rathaus, composer, dies at 59
1954 - Prof Werner Elert, German Lutheran theologist, dies at 69
1957 - Francis Burton Harrison, American political figure (b. 1873)
1958 - Mel Ott, NY Giant baseball star (1926-1947), dies at 49
1959 - Max Baer, US, heavyweight boxing champ (1934), dies at 49
1959 - Max Baer, American boxer (b. 1909)
1963 - Luis Cernuda, Spanish poet (Perfil del Aire), dies at 61
1963 - Pierre Blanchar, actor (Man From Nowhere), dies at 71
1963 - Robert Stroud, "bird man of Alcatraz", dies
1967 - Florence Reed, actress (Black Panther Club), dies after illness at 84
1967 - C. M. Eddy, Jr., American writer (b. 1896)
1969 - Mutesa II of Buganda, President of Uganda (1924)
1970 - Newsy Lalonde, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1887)
1970 - Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, Indian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1888)
1973 - Thomas Pelly, American politician (b. 1902)
1974 - Frank Martin, Swiss composer (In Terra Fax), dies at 84
1975 - G Gunnarsson, writer, dies at 86
1976 - Niles Welch, actor (Cornered), dies at 88
1980 - Jim Parks Sr, Kent cricket all-rounder (only Test for England), dies
1981 - Harry Von Zell, TV announcer (Burns & Allen), dies at 75
1982 - Lee Patrick, actress (Henrietta-Topper, Maltese Falcon), dies at 75
1982 - John Hargrave, British Social Credit advocate (b. 1894)
1985 - Ramnath Kenny, cricketer (5 Tests for India 1958-60), dies
1986 - Jerry Colonna, actor (Jerry Colonna Show), dies at 82
1986 - Marcelino Sanchez, American actor (b. 1957)
1986 - Dar Robinson, American film stuntman (b. 1947)
1987 - James E Folsom, (Alabama-Gov, 1947-51, 1955-59), dies at 79
1988 - Carl Hubbell, American baseball player (b. 1903)
1990 - Dean Hart, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1954)
1991 - Daniel Mann, US director (Rose tattoo), dies of heart failure at 79
1991 - David "Sonny" Werblin, AFL owner (NY Jets), dies at 81
1991 - Prior Jones, West Indian cricket pace bowler (9 Tests 1948-52), dies
1991 - Sonny Werblin, NY sports impresario, dies at 81
1992 - Kaysone Phomvihane, PM of Laos (1975-91), dies
1992 - Severino Gazzelloni, Italian flautist, dies
1993 - Christopher Frank, director/actor (Annee Des Meduses), dies at 50
1993 - Emile Ardolino, director (Sister Act), dies of AIDS at 50
1993 - Jim McLaughlin, Buffalo radio newsman (WKBW), dies at 59
1994 - Manfred Longer, Austrian/Dutch gay disco owner, dies at 42
1995 - Dorothy Jeakins, costume designer, dies at 81
1995 - George Ivan Smith, diplomat, dies at 80
1995 - Peter Grant, rock band manager, dies at 60
1995 - Smilin' Jim Eames, singer/songwriter, dies at 71
1995 - Noel Jones, British diplomat (b. 1940)
1996 - Bernard William George Rose, organist, dies at 80
1996 - Edward George Edwards, chenist, dies at 82
1996 - Virginia Downing, actress (Gig, Butterfield 8 ), dies at 92
1997 - Ismail Fahmi, external minister of Egypt in (1973-77), dies
1999 - Quentin Crisp, British writer, raconteur and actor (b. 1908)
2001 - Salahuddin of Malaysia, King of Malaysia (b. 1926)
2002 - Hadda Brooks, American jazz singer, pianist, and composer (b. 1916)
2005 - Alfred Anderson, last Scottish World War I (and Christmas Truce) veteran (b. 1896)
2005 - Hugh Sidey, American journalist (b. 1927)
2006 - Pierre Amine Gemayel, Lebanese Cabinet minister (assassinated) (b. 1972)
2006 - Robert Lockwood Jr., American blues guitarist (b. 1915)
2007 - Fernando Fernán Gómez, Spanish actor, director, academic and playwright (b. 1921)
2007 - Tom Johnson, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1928)
2007 - Noel McGregor, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1931)
2009 - Konstantin Feoktistov, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1926)
2010 - Norris Church Mailer, American model and widow of Norman Mailer (b. 1949)
2010 - Margaret Taylor-Burroughs, American artist and writer (b. 1917)
2010 - David Nolan, American politicial activist (b. 1943)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 22, 2013, 04:39:04 PM

This Day in History for 22nd November


Historical Events

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Explorer of the New World                                30th US President                         German WWII Field Marshal
Christopher Columbus                                        Calvin Coolidge                                          Erwin Rommel   

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Singer & Cultural Icon                             US President John F. Kennedy              Heavyweight Boxing Champion
Elvis Presley                                                                                                              Muhammad Ali

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TV Host Fred Rogers                               British Prime Minister
                                                               Margaret Thatcher


498 - St Symmachus begins his reign as Pope replacing Anastasius II
845 - 845 : the first King of all Brittany, Nominoe defeats the Frankish king Charles the Bald at the
         Battle of Ballon near Redon.
1221 - Frederik II Hohenstaufen crowned Roman-German Emperor
1346 - Street fights in Utrecht, Hollandsgezinde Gunterlingen statements
1492 - Pinta under Martín Alonso Pinzón separates from Columbus's fleet
1497 - Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama rounds Cape of Good Hope
1542 - Spain delegates "New Laws" against slavery in America
1573 - The Brazilian city of Niterói is founded.
1574 - Discovery of the Juan Fernández Islands off Chile.
1675 - English king Charles II adjourns parliament
1683 - Purcell's "Welcome to All the Pleasures" premieres in London
1699 - Treaty of Preobrasjensku Denmark/Russia/Saksen/Poland divide Sweden
1707 - Prince Johan Willem Friso sworn in as viceroy of Friesland
1714 - King Karel XII leaves Turkish captivity to return to Sweden
1718 - Off the coast of North Carolina, British pirate Edward Teach ("Blackbeard") is killed in battle
           with a boarding party led by Lieutenant Robert Maynard.
1794 - Strasbourg Alsace-Lorraine, prohibits circumcision & wearing of beards
1809 - Peregrine Williamson of Baltimore patents a steel pen
1830 - Charles Grey, (2nd Earl Grey), became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1831 - Opera "Robert Le Diable" is produced (Paris)
1842 - Mount St Helens in Washington erupts
1851 - Opera "La Perle Du Brésil" is produced (Paris)
1861 - Battle of Ft McRee, FL
1864 - American Civil War Battle at Griswoldville, Georgia, ends after 650 casualties
1864 - Union General O Howard orders plunderers be shot to death
1872 - Franz Grillparzer's "Die Judin von Toledo" premieres in Prague
1884 - T Thomas Fortune starts NY Freeman (NY Age) newspaper
1886 - Victoria Street Cable Tram route begins in Melbourne, Australia
1898 - Opera "Iris" premieres (Rome)
1899 - -23] Battle at Willow Grange, Natal (British vs Boer army)
1905 - British, Italian, Russian, French & Austro-Hungarian fleet attacks Lesbos
1906 - International Radio Telecommunications Com adopts "SOS" as new call for help
1908 - 1st US-Japanese baseball game Reach All-Americans defeat Waseda U, 5-0
1910 - Arthur Knight patents steel shaft golf clubs
1914 - Ypres, Belgium, burned by German bombing
1917 - NHL forms with Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Maroons, Toronto Arenas, Ottawa Senators &
           Quebec Bulldogs; National Hockey Association disbands
1918 - Grand Duke Frederik II, the last Grand Duke of Baden, resigns
1918 - King Albert I's triumphant procession through Brussels
1918 - Marshal J Pilsudski becomes 1st president (dictator) of Poland
1918 - Polish forces attack Jewish community of Lemberg (Lvov)
1919 - 15,000 men are cremated at Domela Newenhouse, Amsterdam
1919 - Labor conference committee in US urges 8-hour work day & 48-hour week
1922 - British Labour party selects Ramsay MacDonald as leader
1922 - Library Ave in Bronx named
1922 - Wilhelm Cuno forms new German government
1923 - Calvin Coolidge pardons WW I German spy Lothar Witzke, sentenced to death
1924 - Britain orders Egyptians out of Sudan
1925 - Red Grange signs with Chicago Bears directly out of college
1926 - Imperial Conference ends, giving autonomy inside British Commonwealth
1927 - 1st snowmobile patent granted to Carl Eliason (Sayner Wisc)
1927 - George Gershwin's "Funny Face," premieres in NYC
1927 - Neil Simon Theater (Alvin) opens at 250 W 52nd St NYC
1928 - "Bolero" by Maurice Ravel, 1st performed publicly (Paris)
1929 - Bradman scores 157 for NSW against the MCC at cricket SCG
1930 - 1st Irish Sweepstake run
1930 - 1st US football game broadcast to England (Harvard 13, Yale 0)
1930 - Elijah Muhammad forms Nation of Islam in Detroit
1931 - Ferde Grofe's "Grand Canyon Suite," premieres
1932 - Pump patented that computes quantity & price delivered
1934 - "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town" 1st heard on Eddie Cantor's show
1935 - China Clipper (flying boat) took off from Alameda, California, carrying 100,000 pieces of mail
           on 1st trans-Pacific airmail flight
1936 - 19th PGA Championship: Denny Shute at Pinehurst CC Pinehurst NC
1940 - 500 students in Delft demonstrate against nazis
1941 - British cruiser Devonshire sinks German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis
1941 - NZ troops conquer Ft Capuzzo Libya
1942 - Gen-major Rodins 26th Pantser corp recaptures Ostrov
1942 - Hitler orders Rommel's Africa Korps to fight to last man
1943 - FDR, Churchill & Chiang Kai-shek meet to discuss ways to defeat Japan
1943 - Lebanon declares independence from French administration
1943 - RAF begins air bombing of Berlin
1943 - US troops land on Abemada, Gilbert Island
1944 - Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry occupies Hoven at Geilenkirchen
1945 - "Day before Spring" opens at National Theater NYC for 167 performances
1945 - Jim Benton, Cleveland end, gains 303 yards (NFL record)
1950 - 7,021 see lowest NBA score, Ft Wayne Pistons 19, Minneapolis Lakers 18
1950 - 79 die in a train crash in Richmond Hills NY
1952 - As' Harry Byrd selected AL Rookie of Year
1954 - Humane Society forms
1955 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1955 - RCA Victor's best investment paying $25,000 to Sun Records & Sam Philips for rights to Elvis
           Presley, a truck driver from Tupelo Miss
1956 - 16th modern Olympic games opens in Melbourne
1956 - Bill Sharman (Boston) begins NBA free throw streak of 55 games
1957 - Mickey Mantle wins AL MVP
1957 - Miles Davis Quintet debuts a jazz concert at Carnegie Hall in NY
1957 - Simon & Garfunkel appear on "American Bandstand" as "Tom & Jerry"
1959 - AFL's 1st draft - NY Titans choice George Izo, QB, Notre Dame
1959 - Boston Patriots enters AFL
1960 - French National Meeting decide to build own nuclear weapons
1961 - Frank Robinson is 1st to win MVPs in both major leagues
1961 - St Louis Hawk Bob Pettit sets NBA record, hitting 19 of 19 free throws
1961 - Producers Albert Broccoli & Harry Saltzman announce expensive publicity campaign to make
           Sean Connery (James Bond) a star
1963 - The Beatles release their second album "With the Beatles" in UK
1963 - Lyndon Baines Johnson sworn in as the 36th US president after assassination of President
           Kennedy
1963 - American President John F. Kennedy assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas
1964 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Mary Mills Miss Gulf Coast Golf Invitational
1964 - WITF TV channel 33 in Harrisburg-Hershey, PA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1965 - "Man of La Mancha" opens at ANTA Wash Sq Theater NYC for 2329 perfs
1965 - Muhammad Ali TKOs Floyd Patterson in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1966 - 32nd Heisman Trophy Award: Steve Spurrier, Florida (QB)
1967 - BBC unofficially bans "I Am the Walrus" by Beatles
1967 - Silver hits record $2.17 an ounce in New York
1967 - UN Sec council passes resolut 242-Israel must give back occupied land
1967 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1968 - 1st interracial TV kiss (Star Trek-Kirk & Uhura)
1968 - Beatles release "Beatles," (White Album) their only double album
1968 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1969 - Isolation of single gene announced by scientists at Harvard University
1971 - "Only Fools Are Sad" opens at Edison Theater NYC for 144 performances
1972 - Belgium government of Eyskens resigns
1972 - Flyers start Islanders on 15 game winless streak
1972 - Pitts Penguins set NHL record for scoring fastest 5 goals (2:07)
1972 - US ends 22 year travel ban to China
1973 - The Italian Fascist organization Ordine Nuovo is disbanded.
1974 - Lake Buena Vista Club opens
1974 - Test Cricket debut of Gordon Greenidge & Viv Richards, at Bangalore
1974 - UN General Assembly recognizes Palestine right to sovereignty
1975 - Juan Carlos proclaimed king of Spain
1976 - Algeria Constitution goes into effect
1976 - Comic strip "Cathy" by Cathy Guisewhite debuts
1977 - Regular Concorde passenger service between NY & Europe begins
1977 - First three nodes of the ARPAnet are connected, in what would eventually become the
           Internet.
1980 - Georgia tanker at Pilottown La, spills 1.3 million gallons of oil after an anchor chain caused a
           ship to leak
1981 - "Marlowe" closes at Rialto Theater NYC after 48 performances
1981 - 69th CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Ottawa Rough Riders, 26-23
1981 - Browns' QB Brian Sipe sets club record by being intercepted 6 times
1981 - SD Charger Dan Fouts passes for 6 touchdowns vs Oakland (55-21)
1981 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1982 - Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB, Texas
1984 - Fred Rogers of PBS "Mr Rogers Neighborhood" presents a sweater to Smithsonian Institution
1985 - Columbia moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 61-C
1985 - Largest swearing-in ceremony, 38,648 immigrants become US citizens
1985 - PNP/MAN win Antilian parliamentary election
1986 - Mike Tyson KOs Trevor Berbick in 2 for heavyweight WBC boxing title
1986 - Wayne Gretzky, Edmonton, became 13th NHLer to score 500 goals
1987 - Patriots shutout Indianapolis 24-0
1987 - Two Chicago television stations are hijacked by an unknown pirate dressed as Max Headroom.
1989 - Aneta Kreglicka of Poland, 24, crowned 39th Miss World
1989 - Conjunction of Venus, Mars, Uranus, Neptune, Saturn & Moon
1989 - Kirby Pucket signs record $3,000,000 per year Minnesota Twins contract
1989 - US 63rd manned space mission STS 33 (Discovery 9) launches into orbit
1989 - Eastern Airlines pilots & flight attendants end their strike, but most are not rehired
1990 - George Bush visits US troops in Saudi Arabia
1990 - Margaret Thatcher announces her resignation as British Prime Minister
1990 - Prof Amos Sawyer installed as interim pres of Liberia
1991 - NY Knicks pay Patrick Ewing a record $18.8 million for 2 yr extension
1992 - Sandra Volker swims world record 50m backstroke (28.57 sec)
1992 - Wash Post reports Ore Senator Bob Packwood sexually harassed 10 women
1993 - "Laughter on the 23rd Floor" opens at Richard Rodgers NYC for 320 perf
1995 - Rosemary West found guilty in England of killing 10 women
1995 - Toy Story is released as the first feature-length film created completely using computer-
           generated imagery.
1996 - OJ Simpson takes stand as hostile witness in the wrongful death lawsuit filed against him,
           saying it is "absolutely not true"
2002 - In Nigeria, more than 100 people are killed at an attack aimed at the contestants of the Miss
           World contest.
2003 - In Tbilisi, Georgia, opponents of President Eduard Shevardnadze seize the parliament building
           and demand the president's resignation.
2004 - The Orange Revolution begins in Ukraine, resulting from the presidential elections.
2005 - Angela Merkel becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany.
2008 - YouTube hosts the largest ever live broadcast, YouTube Live.
2012 - 2 people are killed and 120 injured after a 100-vehicle pile-up in dense fog in Texas
2012 - 6 attacks across Pakistan kill 37 people and injure 92

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 22, 2013, 04:40:42 PM

This Day in History for 22nd November


Famous Weddings

1965 - Bob Dylan weds Sara Lowndes
1997 - "The Lord of The Rings" actor Sean Bean (38) weds actress Abigail Cruttenden (29)
1998 - "Titanic" actress Kate Winslet (23) weds assistant film director Jim Threapleton (25) at All
           Saints Church in Reading, England
2003 - Actress Carmen Electra (31) weds rocker Dave Navarro (36) at the St. Regis Hotel in Los
           Angeles, California
2003 - Singer Wynonna Judd (39) weds D. R. Roach (39) in Leiper's Fork, Tennessee
2010 - Radio and TV personality Danny Bonaduce (51) weds his manager Amy Railsback (28) at the
           Four Seasons on Maui, Hawaii

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 22, 2013, 04:41:46 PM

This Day in History for 22nd November


Famous Divorces

2011 - Singer-songwriter and actress Ashlee Simpson (27) divorces rock band Fall Out Boy bassist
           Pete Wentz (33) due to irreconcilable differences after two and a half year of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 22, 2013, 04:50:41 PM

This Day in History for 22nd November


Famous Birthdays 

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Writer André Gide (1869)                               French President                             Actress Jamie Lee Curtis (1958)
                                                                  Charles de Gaulle (1890)

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Actress Scarlett Johansson (1984)


1458 - Jacob Obrecht, Dutch composer (d. 1505)
1511 - Erasmus Reinhold, Germany, mathematician (calculated planetary table)
1515 - Marie Guise, French wife of king James V of Scotland
1535 - John, the Old, earl of Nassau/tribal father Neth royal family
1564 - Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham, English conspirator (d. 1610)
1579 - Jan Baptist Stalpart van der Wiele, Dutch lawyer/pastor/lyricist
1602 - Elisabeth of Bourbon, Queen of Philip IV of Spain (d. 1644)
1606 - Pieter II de Jode, Flemish engraver/publisher
1635 - Francis Willughby, English biologist (d. 1672)
1643 - René R Cavelier sieur de La Salle, French explorer
1690 - Francois Collin de Blamont, composer
1698 - Pierre de Rigaud, Canadian-born French Governor (d. 1778)
1709 - Frantisek Benda, composer
1710 - Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, composer, son of J.S. Bach (Sinfonias 64)
1721 - Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres, Swiss-born Canadian statesman (d. 1824)
1722 - Hryhorii Skovoroda, Ukrainian poet (d. 1794)
1767 - Andreas Hofer, Tirol nationalist
1771 - Paul R Cantzlaar, gov of Saba/St-Eustatius/Curacao/Dutch-West Indies
1780 - Conradin Kreutzer, composer
1780 - Jose Cecilio del Valle, Honduran Politician (d. 1834)
1805 - Benjamin Hugur, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1877
1808 - Thomas Cook, founder (Cook travel bureau)
1814 - Serranus Clinton Hastings, American politician (d. 1893)
1818 - Samuel Gibbs French, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1910
1819 - George Eliot, [Mary A Evans], England, author (Silas Marner)
1823 - Nathan Kimball, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1898
1832 - George Henry Chapman, Bvt Maj Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1882
1835 - Frank Crawford Armstrong, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1838 - Jose Augusto da Ferreira Veiga, Viscount d' Arneiro, composer
1842 - Anna S Barbiers, actress (Uncle Tom)
1849 - Friedrich von Bernhardi, German historian (Germany & the Next War)
1849 - Christian Rohlfs, German artist (d. 1938)
1852 - Paul H B d'Estornelles de Constant, French diplomat/pacifist
1856 - Heber J Grant, Salt Lake City, 7th pres of Mormon church
1857 - George Gissing, English author (Thyrza, Crown of Life)
1868 - John Nance Garner, (D) 32nd VP (1933-41)
1869 - Andre Gide, Paris, France, writer (Lafcadio's Adventures-Nobel 1947)
1870 - Howard Brockway, composer
1873 - Johnny Tyldesley, cricketer (brother of Ernest, 31 Tests for England)
1873 - Leopold CMS Amery, British minister of Colonies (India)
1875 - Elizabeth Patterson, Savannah TN, actress (Climax, Tall Story)
1875 - Georges Rency, Belgian poet
1877 - Joan Gamper, Swiss-born businessman and founder of FC Barcelona (d. 1930)
1884 - Syed Sulaiman Nadvi, Pakistani biographer of Muhammad (d. 1953)
1888 - Tarzan, of the Apes, according to Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel
1890 - Charles de Gaulle, Lille, France, President of France (1958-69), (d. 1970)
1891 - Bengt Axel von Torne, composer
1891 - Edward Bernays, PR expert
1891 - Erik Lindahl, Swedish economist (Theory of Money & Capital)
1893 - M Kaganovitsj Kogan, people's commissioner for Stalin
1893 - Harley J. Earl, American automobile designer (d. 1969)
1896 - Mario La Broca, composer
1896 - Nikolai S Tichonov, Russian writer (against Pasternak) [OS]
1897 - Paul Oswald Ahnert, German astronomer (d. 1989)
1898 - Wiley Post, Grand Plain Tx, aviator/parachutist (crashed in Alaska)
1899 - Hoagy Carmichael, Bloomington Ind, actor/songwriter (Stardust)
1900 - Hugo Godron, composer
1900 - Tom Macdonald, Welsh journalist and novelist (d. 1980)
1901 - Joaquin Rodrigo, Sagunto Spain, composer
1902 - Emanuel Feuermann, Kolomea Galicia, cellist (Chicago Symph Orch)
1902 - Sir Humphrey Gibbs, Rhodesian politician (d. 1990)
1902 - Albert Leduc, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1990)
1903 - Herbert Sally Frankel, economist
1904 - Roland Winters, Boston Mass, actor (Mama, Smothers Brothers)
1905 - James Burnham, philosopher (Coming Defeat of Communism)
1906 - Howard Petrie, Beverly MA, actor (Border River, Bounty Hunter)
1906 - Lee Patrick, NYC, actress (Henrietta-Topper, Maltese Falcon)
1907 - Bernard Naylor, composer
1907 - Dick Bartell, baseball player
1907 - Dora Maar, Tours France, French painter and photographer and lover of Picasso
1908 - Michael Balfour, historian
1909 - Theodorus H J Zwartkruis, Bishop of Haarlem Netherlands (1966-83)
1909 - Mikhail Mil, Russian aviation designer (d. 1970)
1912 - Doris Duke, NYC, multi-millionaire (American Tobacco heiress)
1912 - Eric Stuart Woord, archaeologist
1913 - Benjamin Britten, Lowestoft Suffolk England, composer (Beggar's Opera)
1913 - Cecilia Muñoz-Palma, first female Philippine Supreme Court Justice (d. 2006)
1914 - Peter Woolridge Townsend, war hero courtier writer
1917 - Jean-Etienne Marie, composer
1917 - Bridget Bate Tichenor (born Bridget Pamela Arkwright Bate), Paris France, Mexican surrealist
           painter
1918 - Claiborne Pell, (Sen-D-RI, 1961- )
1919 - Wilfred Norman Aldridge, biochemist/toxicologist
1920 - Anne Crawford, British film actor (d. 1956)
1921 - Rodney Dangerfield, [John Cohen], Babylon NY, comedian (Caddyshack)
1921 - Brian Cleeve, Irish broadcaster (d. 2003)
1922 - Fikret Dzhamil Amirov, Kirovabad Russia, Azerbaijani composer (Shur)
1923 - Arthur Hiller, director (Love Story)
1923 - Dika Newlin, composer
1924 - Axel Borup-Jorgensen, composer
1924 - Geraldine Page, Kirksville Mo (Interiors, Trip to Bountiful)
1925 - Gunther Schuller, NYC, hornist/composer (Visitation)
1926 - Lew Burdette, baseball player
1926 - Zulfiqar Ahmed, Pakistani cricket pace bowler (9 Tests 1952-56)
1927 - Grady "Fats" Jackson, tenor sax player
1928 - Juno Stover-Irwin, US, diver (Olympic-silver-1956)
1928 - Pat Smythe, England, equestrian jumper (Olympic-bronze-1956)
1928 - Timothy Beaumont, Baron Beaumont of Whitley (d. 2008)
1929 - Aleksandar Popović, Serbian dramatist (d. 1996)
1930 - John Paul Schiffer
1930 - Owen Kay Garriott, Enid Oklahoma, astronaut (Skylab 3, STS 9)
1930 - Peter Hall, British stage/film/opera director (Pedestrian)
1932 - Robert Vaughn, NYC, actor (Napolean Solo-Man from UNCLE, I Spy)
1932 - Keith Wickenden, British politician (d. 1983)
1935 - Ludmila Belousova Protopopov, USSR, pairs skater (Oly-gold-1964, 68)
1935 - Michael Callan, [Calinieff], Phila, actor (Peter-Occasional Wife)
1936 - Hans Zender, composer
1936 - Joachim Bißmeier, German actor
1937 - Zenon Jankowski, Poland cosmonaut (Soyuz 30 backup)
1938 - Henry C. Lee, Chinese-born American criminologist
1939 - Allen Garfield, Newark NJ, actor (Candidate, Beverly Hills Cop II)
1939 - Tom West, American astrophysicist
1939 - Mulayam Singh Yadav, Indian politician
1940 - Terry Gilliam, Minneapolis, comedy author-animator (Monty Python)
1941 - Jacques LaPerriere, NHL defensive Hall of Famer
1941 - Ron McClure, rocker (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
1941 - Tom Conti, Paisley Scotland, actor (Reuben Reuben, American Dreamer)
1941 - Jesse Colin Young, American musician
1942 - Guion Steward Bluford Jr, Phila, Col USAF/astr (STS 8, 61A, 39, 53)
1942 - Steve Caldwell, rocker (Orleans)
1943 - Billie Jean King, Long Beach California, American tennis pro (Wimbledon 1968, 72, 73, 75)
1943 - Floyd Sneed, Calgary, rock drummer (Three Dog Night-Joy to the World)
1943 - George W [Buddy] Darden, (Rep-D-GA, 1983- )
1943 - Mushtaq Mohammad, cricketer (Pakistan leg-spin all-rounder 1959-79)
1943 - Peter Adair, American filmmaker
1943 - Yvan Cournoyer, Canadian ice hockey player
1944 - Robert Iliffe, English publisher (Coventry Evening Telegraph)
1946 - Aston Barrett, Jamaican reggae bassist (I Shot the Sheriff)
1946 - Hans Kombrink, sociologist/Dutch undersecretary of Finance (PvdA)
1947 - Alfredo Cristiani, president of El Salvador (1989-94)
1947 - Rod Price, rocker (Foghat)
1947 - Valerie Wilson Wesley, American author
1948 - Radomir Antić, Serbian football manager
1949 - Richard Carmona, Surgeon General of the United States
1949 - David Pietrusza, American baseball historian
1950 - Greg Luzinski, baseball player (Phillies, White Sox)
1950 - Little Steven, [Van Zandt], Asbury Park NJ, rocker (Born to Run)
1950 - Lyman Bostock, baseball player
1950 - [Ma]Tina Weymouth, Coronado CA, rock bassist (Talking Heads-& She Was)
1950 - Art Sullivan, Belgian singer
1951 - Kent Nagano, American conductor
1953 - Wayne Larkins, cricketer (England opening batsman of 80's)
1953 - Urmas Alender, Estonian singer (d. 1994)
1953 - Billy M. Sprague, American rocket scientist
1955 - James Edwards, NBA center (Chicago Bulls)
1955 - Sue Novara-Reber, Flint Mich, cyclist (1975 World sprint champ)
1955 - Wayne Tolleson, baseball player
1956 - Lawrence Gowan, Canadian singer (Styx)
1956 - Richard Kind, American actor
1957 - Sharon Bailey, rocker (Amazulu-Excitable)
1958 - Jamie Lee Curtis, Los Angeles California, actress (Anything But Love, Halloween)
1958 - Lee Guetterman, Chattanooga TN, pitcher (NY Yankees, Seattle Mariners)
1959 - Frank McAvennie, Scottish footballer
1959 - Fabio Parra, Colombian cyclist
1960 - Eg White, rocker (Brother Beyond-Can You Keep a Secret)
1960 - Tommy Masters, Framingham MA, Nike golfer (1994 NIKE Carolina-50th)
1960 - Léos Carax, French film director
1961 - Joel Ashley Edwards, Dallas TX, PGA golfer (1992 BC Open-2nd)
1961 - Mariel Hemingway, Ketchum Id, actress (Personal Best, Civil Wars)
1961 - Randal L. Schwartz, American computer programmer
1961 - Stephen Hough, British concert pianist
1962 - Cleo Fields, (Rep-D-Louisiana)
1962 - Steve DeOssie, NFL inside linebacker (NE Patriots)
1962 - Victor Pelevin, Russian writer
1963 - Corinne Russell, Birmingham England, comedienne (Benny Hill Show)
1963 - Helen Reale, NYC, WPVA volleyballer (Manhattan Beach-7th-1994)
1963 - Hugh Millen, NFL quarterback (Denver Broncos)
1964 - Akram Raza, cricketer (Pakistani off-spin all-rounder)
1964 - Benoit Benjamin, NBA center (Milwaukee Bucks)
1964 - David Tate, NFL defensive back (Indianapolis Colts)
1964 - Gene Atkins, NFL safety (Miami Dolphins)
1964 - Maggie Will, Whiteville NC, LPGA golfer (1992 Sara Lee Classic)
1964 - Pierre Vercheval, CFL guard (Toronto Argonauts)
1964 - Stephen Geoffreys, Cincinnati Oh, actor (Faternity Vacation)
1964 - Robbie Slater, Australian former footballer
1965 - Eric Allen, NFL cornerback (NO Saints)
1965 - Mike Benjamin, Euclid Ohio, infielder (Philadelphia Phillies)
1965 - R Duncan Douglas, NYC, biathelete (Olympics-1994)
1965 - Mads Mikkelsen, Danish actor
1965 - Peter Safran, British-born American film producer and talent agent
1966 - Brian Robbins, Brooklyn New York, American actor (Eric-Head of the Class)
1966 - Nicholas Rowe, London England, actor (Young Sherlock Holmes)
1967 - Boris Becker, West Germany, tennis player (Wimbledon 1985, 86, 89)
1967 - Donald Hollas, quarterback (Oakland Raiders)
1967 - Mark Ruffalo, American actor
1968 - Daedra Charles, WNBA forward/center (LA Sparks)
1968 - Darryl Hardy, NFL linebacker (Dallas Cowboys)
1968 - Irina Privalova, Russia, 100m/200m/400m runner
1968 - Jonathan Moss, Tenafly NJ, rower (Olympics-1996)
1968 - Rasmus Lerdorf, Greenlandic computer programmer
1969 - Byron Houston, NBA forward (Sacramento Kings)
1969 - John Parrella, NFL defensive tackle (San Diego Chargers)
1969 - Katrin Krabbe, Neubrandenburg German DR, 100m/200m (World Champ 1991)
1969 - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian graphic novelist
1970 - Alison Korn, Ottawa Ontario, rower (Olympics-96)
1970 - Marvan Atapattu, Sri Lankan cricketeer
1970 - Stel Pavlou, British novelist
1971 - Lloyd Kammeron, soccer player (Feyenoord, Go Ahead Eagles)
1971 - Tyoka Jackson, defensive end (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1971 - Yone Kamio, Yokohama Japan, tennis star (1995 semi-finalist Hobart)
1972 - Mavan Atapattu, cricketer (Sri Lankan Test batsman)
1972 - Tricia Tan, Miss Singapore Universe (1997)
1972 - Jay Payton, American baseball player
1973 - Alexandra Fusai, St Cloud France, tennis star (1995 Futures-Szczecin)
1973 - Brandon Paulsen, Coon Rapids Minn, greco-roman wrestler (Oly-silv-96)
1973 - Cassie Campbell, ice hockey defenseman (Canada, Oly-98)
1973 - Michael Murphy, Brisbane QLD Queensland Australia, diver (Olympics-96)
1974 - Meike Babel, Langen Germany, tennis star (1991 Futures-Paderborn-GER)
1974 - Joe Nathan, American baseball player
1975 - Aiko, Japanese singer
1976 - Taryn Mansell, Aruba, Miss Universe-2nd place (1996)
1976 - Torsten Frings, German footballer
1976 - Adrian Bakalli, Belgian footballer
1976 - Regina Halmich, German female boxer
1976 - Ville Valo, Finnish singer (HIM)
1977 - Devyn Puett, actress (Kids Incorporated)
1977 - Michael Preston, English footballer
1978 - Magdalena Grzybowska, Poznan Pol, tennis star (1995 Futures Slovakia)
1978 - Karen O, American singer (Yeah Yeah Yeahs)
1979 - Chris Doran, Irish singer
1980 - Yaroslav Rybakov, Russian athlete
1980 - Shawn Fanning, American Internet entrepreneur (Napster)
1981 - Seweryn Gancarczyk, Polish footballer
1981 - Pape Sow, Senegalese basketball player
1981 - Ben Adams, English singer
1982 - Yakubu Aiyegbeni, Nigerian footballer
1982 - Alasdair Duncan, Australian novelist
1982 - Charlene Choi Cheuk Yin, Hong Kong singer (Twins)
1983 - Corey Beaulieu, American guitarist (Trivium)
1983 - Tyler Hilton, American singer and actor
1983 - Peter Ramage, English footballer
1984 - Scarlett Johansson, New York City, New York, American actress (The Prestige)
1985 - Asamoah Gyan, Ghanaian footballer
1986 - Oscar Pistorius, South African paralympic athlete
1987 - Marouane Fellaini, Belgian footballer
1988 - Suresh Guptara and Jyoti Guptara, British-Indian novelists

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 22, 2013, 04:57:19 PM

This Day in History for 22nd November


Famous Deaths

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Author Aldous Huxley (1963)            US President John F. Kennedy (1963)             Actress Mae West (1980)

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Actor Bill Bixby (1993)                       INXS rocker Michael Hutchence (1997)


365 - Felix II, Italian anti-pope, dies after failing to regain position as Pope from Liberius
950 - Lotharius, King of Italy (947-50), dies
1247 - Robin Hood, dies (from "A Lytell Geste of Robyn Hood")
1286 - Eric V of Denmark, Danish King (b. 1249)
1318 - Mikhail Yaroslavich, Russian prince (b. 1271)
1594 - Martin Frobisher, English vice-admiral/explorer, dies
1617 - Ahmed I, 14th sultan of Turkey (1603-17), dies
1694 - John Tillotson, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1630)
1697 - Libéral Bruant, French architect (b. 1635)
1751 - Anton Englert, composer, dies at 77
1758 - Richard Edgcumbe, 1st Baron Edgcumbe, British politician (b. 1680)
1773 - Robert Clive, English occupier (India), dies at about 48
1776 - Johann Caspar Simon, composer, dies at 75
1781 - John Ekels, the Old, Amsterdam painter/cartoonist, dies at 57
1782 - John Barueth, vicar/pamphleter, dies
1782 - John de Mol, porcelein manufacturer, dies
1783 - John Hanson, American Continental Congressman (b. 1715)
1794 - John Alsop, American Continental Congressman (b. 1724)
1799 - Baroness van Dorth, orangist, executed
1803 - Bernardus Bosch, Dutch vicar/patriot, dies at 57
1813 - Johann Gottfried Vierling, composer, dies at 63
1825 - Ann Bailey, pioneer, dies
1826 - Pavel Lambert Masek, composer, dies at 65
1852 - August Alexander Klengel, composer, dies at 69
1859 - Ludwig "Louis" Spohr, German violinist/composer (Faust), dies at 75
1871 - Oscar J Dunn, (Lt Gov-La), dies suddenly, charges he was poisoned
1875 - Henry Wilson, Vice President of the United States (b. 1812)
1886 - William Bliss Baker, American painter (b. 1859)
1890 - Johanne Luise Heiberg, Danish actress, dies at 77
1893 - James Calder, 5th President of the Pennsylvania State University (b. 1826)
1896 - George Washington Gale Ferris, inventor (Ferris wheel), dies
1896 - Leon Leopold Lewandoski, composer, dies at 65
1900 - Arthur S Sullivan, England, composer (Mikado, Ivanhoe), dies at 58
1902 - Friedrich A Krupp, cannon manufacturer, commits suicide
1902 - Septimus Winner, composer, dies at 75
1904 - Theophile E A de Bock, painter/etcher, dies
1906 - Earnest Josephson, Swedish painter, dies
1916 - Jack London, author, dies at 40
1917 - Teoberto Maler, German-born explorer (b. 1842)
1919 - Francisco Moreno, Argentine explorer (b. 1852)
1920 - Manuel Pérez y Curis, Uruguayan poet (b. 1884)
1924 - Herman Heijermans Jr, author (On Hope, Heap of Blessing), dies
1926 - Darvish Khan, Iranian musician (b. 1872)
1932 - William Walker Atkinson, American author (b. 1862)
1936 - Louis F H Apol, painter/etcher/literary, dies at 86
1940 - Waclaw Berent, Polish novelist, dies at 67
1941 - Werner Mölders, German ace fighter pilot (b. 1915)
1943 - Lorenz Hart, lyricist, dies in NY
1943 - Pietro Alessandro Yon, composer, dies at 57
1944 - Arthur Stanley Eddington, dies
1946 - Bertie Rose-Innes, cricketer (South Africa's Test), dies
1946 - Otto Georg Thierack, German jurist (b. 1889)
1953 - Syed Sulaiman Nadvi, Pakistani religious scholar and biographer of Muhammad (b. 1884)
1954 - Andrej J Vysjinski, Russian UN ambassador, dies at 70
1954 - Moroni Olsen, actor (Possessed), dies at 65
1954 - Roderick McMahon, Professional Wrestling/Boxing Booker (b. 1882)
1955 - Joseph Guy Marie Ropartz, composer, dies at 91
1955 - Shemp Howard, actor (3 Stooges), dies at 60
1956 - Vincent (Moro-)Giafferi, French criminal (Caillaux/Landru), dies
1956 - Theodore Kosloff, Russian-born choreographer (b. 1882)
1963 - Aldous Huxley, English author (Devils of Loudon), dies at 69
1963 - Bikram Singh, Indies Lt-General (Kashmir), dies
1963 - C. S. Lewis [Clive Staples], Irish author (Silver Chair), dies at 64
1963 - Claude Floquet, cricketer (Test for South Africa), dies
1963 - Daulet Singh, Indies Lt-General, dies
1963 - John F. Kennedy, 35th president of the United States (1961-63), assassinated by Lee Harvey
           Oswald in Dallas, Texas at 46
1963 - NKD Nanavati, Indies general-major (WW II), dies
1963 - William R Titterton, English author (Candle of the Stars), dies at 87
1963 - Wilhelm Beiglböck, Nazi physician (b. 1905)
1963 - J. D. Tippit, Dallas Police Officer (b. 1924)
1966 - Moises F da Costa Gomez, premier Dutch Antilles, dies
1967 - Edvin Kallstenius, composer, dies at 86
1967 - Pavel Korin, Russian painter (b. 1892)
1969 - Acario Cotapos, composer, dies at 80
1971 - Walter Sande, actor (Red Planet Mars), dies of heart attack at 65
1976 - Rupert Davies, actor (Zeppelin, Oblong Box), dies at 59
1977 - Reg Perks, England cricket pace bowler (1938-39), dies
1979 - Anne Vondeling, Male Dutch soc democratic party-minister, dies at 63
1980 - Herbert Wade, cricketer (South African batsman & captain 1935-36), dies
1980 - Leonard Barr, comedian (Dean Martin Show, Szysznyk), dies at 77
1980 - Mae West, actress (She Done Him Wrong), dies in Hollywood at 87
1980 - Norah McGuinness, Northern Irish painter (b. 1901)
1981 - Andreina Pagnani, actress (Il Commandante), dies at 74
1981 - Jack Fingleton, cricketer (18 Tests for Australia, 1189 runs), dies
1982 - Burton Turkus, lawyer/author/TV host (Mr Arsenic), dies at 80
1982 - Enny, [Engelina] de Leeuwe, actress (Anatevka), dies at 84
1982 - Max Deutsch, composer, dies at 90
1983 - Michael Conrad, actor (Hill Street Blues), dies of cancer at 58
1986 - Fred Bertrand, Belgian politician, dies at 73
1986 - Robert Sutton Whitney, composer, dies at 82
1986 - Scatman Crothers, actor (Shining, Zapped), dies at 76
1986 - William Bradford Huie, American writer (b. 1910)
1987 - Ted Taylor, rock vocalist, dies
1988 - Erich Fried, writer, dies at 67
1988 - Janet Ertel, crooner, dies
1988 - Luis Barragán, Mexican architect (b. 1908)
1988 - Paul Vario, U.S. Italian Mafia of the Lucchese Family (b. 1914)
1989 - Rajindernath, Indian cricketer wicketkeeper (1 Test), dies
1989 - Rene Muawad, assassinated 17 days after elected president of Lebanon
1989 - C. C. Beck, American cartoonist (b. 1910)
1991 - Jac de Jong, Dutch MP/composer/businessman (Nedac-Sorbo), dies
1992 - Gene O'Donnell, actor (Ape, Miracle Kid), dies of lung cancer at 81
1992 - Sterling Holloway, US actor (Golddiggers of 1933, Batman), dies at 87
1993 - Bill Bixby, US actor (My Favorite Martian), dies from cancer at 59
1994 - Charles Fortune, South African cricket commentator, dies
1994 - John Michael Grimes, set Designer, dies at 70
1994 - L V Johnson Singer, dies
1994 - Norma Donaldson, US singer/actress (Staying Alive), dies at 68
1995 - Ambrose Sam, creole accordionist, dies at 76
1995 - Edna Deanne Fuelling, dancer choreographer/drama teacher, dies at 90
1995 - Francis Joan Frances Will, actress, dies at 75
1995 - John Putz, journalist, dies at 89
1995 - Norman Potter, cabinetmaker designer/writer, dies at 72
1996 - Maria Casares, actress (Orpheus, Rebel Nun), dies at 73
1996 - Mark Lenard, American actor (Sarek-Star Trek), dies of cancer at 72
1996 - Terence Daniel Donovan, photographer, dies at 60
1997 - Joanna Moore, actress (Bronx, Hindenburg), dies at 63
1997 - Michael Hutchence, Australian rocker (INXS), commits suicide at 37
1997 - Tom Blackburn, writer, dies at 71
1998 - Stu Unger, American poker player (b. 1953)
2000 - Christian Marquand, French actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1927)
2000 - Emil Zátopek, Czech athlete (b. 1922)
2001 - Mary Kay Ash, American businesswoman, founded Mary Kay Cosmetics (b. 1915)
2001 - Norman Granz, American jazz impresario and producer (b. 1918)
2005 - Bruce Hobbs, American jockey (b. 1920)
2006 - Pat Dobson, American baseball player (b. 1942)
2007 - Maurice Béjart, Father of the Ballet Renewal(b. 1929)
2007 - Verity Lambert, first producer of British SF series Doctor Who (b. 1935)
2008 - MC Breed, American hip hop artist (b. 1971)
2010 - Frank Fenner, Australian microbiologist (b. 1914)
2010 - Jean Cione, American All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player (b. 1928)
2011 - Lynn Margulis, American biologist (b. 1938)
2011 - Lana Peters [Svetlana Stalina], Stalin's daughter, dies at 85
2011 - Paul Motian, American jazz drummer, percussionist and composer, dies at 80
2012 - Bryce Courtenay, South African-born Australian novelist, dies from stomach cancer at 79

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 23, 2013, 02:40:46 PM

This Day in History for 23rd November


Historical Events

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Poet John Milton                                     Author John Steinbeck                          Dictator of Nazi Germany
                                                                                                                             Adolf Hitler

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US President John F. Kennedy                 36th US President                              Champion Boxer Evander Holyfield
                                                                Lyndon B. Johnson

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President of Liberia
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf


800 - Charlemagne arrives at Rome to investigate the alleged crimes of Pope Leo III.
1165 - Pope Alexander III returns from exile to Rome
1227 - Polish Prince Leszek I the White is assassinated at an assembly of Piast dukes at Gąsawa.
1248 - Conquest of Seville by the Christian troops under King Ferdinand III of Castile.
1334 - St Clemens Flood: Dike breaks at Flemish/Zeeuwse/Dutch coast
1499 - Flemish pretender to the English throne Perkin Warbeck hanged for reportedly attempting to
           escape from Tower of London. Invaded England in 1497, claiming to be the lost son of King
           Edward IV
1556 - King Philip II confers with Dutch financial experts
1577 - Water Geuzen under capt Slope enter Amsterdam
1584 - English parliament expels Jesuits
1644 - Areopagitica, a pamphlet decrying censorship, written by John Milton is published.
1654 - French mathematician, scientist, and religious philosopher Blaise Pascal experiences an
           intense, mystical vision that marks him for life.
1700 - Cardinal Francesco Albani elected Pope Clemens XI
1705 - Nicholas Rowe's "Ulysses" premieres in London
1744 - English premier John Carteret resigns
1765 - People of Frederick County Md refuse to pay England's Stamp tax
1783 - Annapolis Maryland, becomes US capital (until June 1784)
1832 - French take Antwerp in liberation of Belgium
1834 - Hector Berlioz's "Harold in Italy" premieres
1835 - Henry Burden patents Horseshoe manufacturing machine (Troy NY)
1844 - Independence of the Duke of Schleswig-Holstein from Denmark.
1848 - Female Medical Educational Society forms in Boston
1852 - Just past midnight, a sharp jolt causes Lake Merced to drop 30' (9m)
1863 - Battle of Chattanooga & Orchard Knob, TN begins
1863 - Patent granted for a process of making color photographs
1864 - -25] Battle at Ball's Ferry Georgia (30 casualties)
1867 - The Manchester Martyrs were hanged in Manchester, England for rescuing two Irish men from
           jail.
1868 - Louis Ducos du Hauron patents trichrome color photo process
1869 - In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty Sark is launched - one of the last clippers ever to
           be built, and the only one still surviving to this day.
1871 - Railway bridge over Dutch Deep opens
1876 - Columbia, Harvard & Princeton form Intercollegiate Football Association
1885 - Amsterdam police attack meeting of social-democrats united
1887 - Notre Dame loses its 1st football game 8-0 to Michigan
1887 - Opera "Trumpeter of Säckingen" 1st American production (NYC)
1889 - Debut of 1st jukebox (Palais Royale Saloon, San Francisco)
1890 - King William III of the Netherlands dies (b. 1817) without a male heir and a special law passed
           to allow his daughter Princess Wilhelmina to become his heir.
1890 - General elections in Italy.
1892 - Battle of Lomani Congo: Belgian unit beats Arabs, 1000-3000 killed
1892 - P de Coubertin launches plan for Modern Olympic Games
1897 - Andrew J Beard invents "jerry coupler," to connect railroad cars
1897 - Pencil sharpener patented by J L Love
1899 - Battle at Belmont, Cape colony: general Methuen beats Farmers
1903 - Enrico Caruso US debut (Metropolitan Opera House, NY) in "Rigoletto"
1903 - Colorado Governor James Peabody sends the state militia into the town of Cripple Creek to
           break up a miners' strike.
1904 - 3rd Olympic games close in St Louis
1905 - Henry Watson Furness, an Indiana physican, named minister of Haiti
1906 - Joseph Smith, leader of the Mormon Church, convicted of polygamy
1909 - 7.17" (18.2 cm) of rainfall, Rattlesnake Creek, Idaho (state rec)
1909 - Wright Brothers forms million dollar corp to manufacture airplanes
1911 - Post Hospital at Presidio, SF renamed Letterman General Hospital
1912 - Hamilton Alerts suspended by ORFU for refusing to field a full team in a replay of a protested
           game
1914 - The US Army retreats from Mexico.
1921 - Pres Harding signs Willis Campell Act (anti-beer bill) forbidding doctors prescribing beer or
           liquor for medicinal purposes
1923 - German army commander Gen Von Seeckt bans NSDAP & KPD
1923 - Germany's Stresemann government falls to SPD
1926 - Noel Coward's "This Was a Man" premieres in NYC
1930 - NY Giant Hap Moran runs 91 yards for a TD from a scrimmage
1931 - Nationally Crisis Committee forms in Hague
1934 - An Anglo-Ethiopian boundary commission in the Ogaden discovers an Italian garrison at
           Walwal, which lay well within Ethiopian territory. This leads to the Abyssinia Crisis.
1936 - 1st issue of Life, picture magazine created by Henry R Luce
1936 - Life magazine hit newsstands
1936 - The first edition of Life is published.
1937 - Clifford Odets' "Golden Boy," premieres in NYC
1937 - Emile Janson becomes Belgian premier
1937 - John Steinbeck's "Of Mice & Men" premieres in NYC
1939 - Nazi Gov of Poland Hans Frank requires Jews to wear a blue star
1940 - 1st edition of illegal "The Truth" publishes
1940 - Romania signs Driemogendheden pact
1940 - SD arrested resistance fighter Bernard Iron wire
1941 - German troops conquer Klin, at NW of Moscow
1942 - 3rd & 5th Romanian army corp surrenders
1942 - Coast Guard Woman's Auxiliary (SPARS) authorized
1942 - Col-gen Von Paul asks Hitler to surrender
1942 - German 4th & 6th Army surrounded at Stalingrad
1942 - Japans bombing of Port Darwin, Australia
1942 - Poon Lim set adrift for 133 days after his boat is torpedoed
1942 - Russian 21st Army recaptures Kalatsj at Don
1942 - Steward Poon Lim begins floating in a raft 133 days
1943 - 1st printing of illegal "Warheid"
1943 - British Forces Broadcasting Service begins operation
1943 - US forces take control of Tarawa, Gilbert Island & Makin from Japanese
1943 - Phils owner William D Cox is permanently banned from baseball for having bet on his own
           team
1944 - US 7th army under Gen Patch conquers Straatsburg
1945 - Most US wartime rationing of foods, including meat & butter, ends
1946 - "Gypsy Lady" closes at Century Theater NYC after 79 performances
1946 - 34th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Winn Blue Bombers, 28-6
1946 - French Navy fire in Haiphong Vietnam, kills 6,000
1946 - The Workers Party of South Korea is founded.
1947 - French government of Schumann forms
1947 - Wash Redskin Sammy Baugh passes for 6 touchdowns vs Chi Cards (45-21)
1948 - Dr Frank G Back (NYC) patents lens to provide zoom effects
1950 - Howard Swanson's "Short Symphony" premieres
1953 - KVFD (now KTIN) TV channel 21 in Ft Dodge, IA (NBC) 1st broadcast
1953 - WJBF TV channel 6 in Augusta, GA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1954 - For the first time, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the peak it reached just
           before the 1929 crash.
1955 - British transfer Cocos (Keeling) Is in Indian Ocean to Australia
1959 - "Fiorello!" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 796 performances
1960 - Dodgers outfielder Frank Howard is voted NL Rookie of Year
1960 - Tinseltown dedicated its Walk of Fame at Hollywood Blvd & Vine St
1960 - Tiros 2, a weather satellite is launched
1962 - Dodgers shortstop Maury Wills is named NL's MVP
1963 - "Doctor Who" the long-running British sci-fi series debuts in England
1963 - "Tambourines to Glory" closes at Little Theater NYC after 24 perfs
1963 - Horatio Alger Society founded
1963 - JFK's body lay in repose in East Room of White House
1963 - LBJ proclaims Nov 25 a day of national mourning (for JFK)
1964 - "Bajour" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 232 performances
1964 - Beatles release "I Feel Fine" & "She's a Woman"
1964 - Vatican abolished Latin as official language of Roman Catholic liturgy
1965 - 31st Heisman Trophy Award: Mike Garrett, Southern Cal (RB)
1965 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1966 - Chicago outfielder Tommie Agee is voted AL Rookie of Year
1968 - "Noel Coward's Sweet Potato" closes at Booth NYC after 36 perfs
1968 - Milwaukee Bucks make their 1st NBA trade, giving Bob Love & Bob Weiss to Chicago Bulls for
           Flynn Robinson
1970 - KNCT TV channel 46 in Belton/Killeen, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting
1971 - China People's Republic seated in UN Security Council
1971 - Danny Murtaugh, manager of world champ Pirates, announces retirement
1974 - 60 Ethiopia government officials executed
1975 - 63rd CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Montreal Alouettes, 9-8
1975 - Bob Thomas of Chicago Bears kicks 55-yard field goal
1975 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Greater Ft Myers Golf Classic
1976 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1976 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1976 - Apneist Jacques Mayol is the first man to reach a depth of 100 m undersea without breathing
           equipment.
1977 - "Jesus Christ Superstar" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 96 perfs
1977 - European weather satellite Meteosat 1 launched from Cape Canaveral
1979 - Pink Floyd's "The Wall" released, sells 6 million copies in 2 weeks
1980 - 4,800 die in series of earthquakes that devastated southern Italy
1980 - 68th CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 48-10
1980 - National Black Independent Party forms
1982 - Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB & mated for STS-6
1982 - FCC drops limits on duration & frequency of TV ads
1982 - NY Islanders & Minn North Stars play to an 8-8 tie
1983 - Soyuz T-9 lands
1983 - USSR leave weapon disarmament talks
1984 - Limited-over intl cricket debut for Wasim Akram, v NZ
1984 - Test Cricket debut of David Boon age 23 & Bob Holland age 38 (v WI)
1984 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1984 - Boston College QB Doug Flutie passes (472 yards), including game ending 48 yard TD (Hail
           Mary Pass) to end game & beat Miami 47-45
1985 - 58 die as Egyptian commandos storm hijack Egyptair jet in Malta
1985 - Retired CIA analyst Larry Wu-tai Chin, arrested of spying for China
1988 - France performs nuclear test
1988 - Wayne Gretzky scores his 600th NHL goal
1988 - Yankees sign free agent 2nd-baseman Steve Sax to 3-year contract
1989 - Pilots Union give up sympathy strike against Eastern Airlines
1989 - Xenophobia Zolotas sworn in as premier of Greece
1990 - Test Cricket debut of Saeed Anwar (Pak v WI), scores 0 & 0
1991 - Freddie Mercury, 45, confirms he has AIDS the day before he dies
1991 - Evander Holyfield TKOs Bert Cooper in 7 for heavyweight boxing title
1991 - Martin Lopez-Zubero swims world record 200m backstroke (1:56.57)
1991 - Sacramento Kings ends NBA's longest road losing streak at 43 games
1991 - Sam's Town Bowling Invitational won by Lorrie Nichols
1991 - Brigham Young Ty Detmer finishes NCAA career with record 4,031 yards passed in a season
           & 15,031 for career
1992 - "Someone Who'll Watch Over Me" opens at Booth NYC for 232 perfs
1992 - 10,000,000 cellular telephone sold
1993 - "Angels in America-Perestroika" opens at Walter Kerr NYC for 216 perfs
1996 - Irene Skliva, 18, of Greece, crowned 46th Miss World
1996 - The Republic of Angola officially joins the World Trade Organization.
1997 - Annika Sorenstam wins ITT LPGA Tour Championship
1997 - Jana Novotna (Czech) beats Mary Pierce (France) in Chase Tennis Champ
1998 - Agreement between Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen and his rival, prince Norodom
           Ranariddh.
2001 - Convention on Cybercrime is signed in Budapest, Hungary.
2003 - Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze resigns following weeks of mass protests over
           flawed elections.
2005 - Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, elected president of Liberia, is the first woman to lead an African
           country.
2007 - MS Explorer, a cruise liner carrying 154 people, sank in the Antarctic Ocean south of
           Argentina after hitting an iceberg near the South Shetland Islands.
2009 - The Maguindanao massacre occurs in Ampatuan, Maguindanao, Mindanao, Philippines
2010 - The Bombardment of Yeonpyeong occurs on Yeonpyeong Island, South Korea. The North
           Korean artillery attack kills 2 civilians and 2 South Korean marines.
2011 - Arab Spring: After 11 months of protests in Yemen, The Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh
           Signs a deal to transfer power to the vice president, in exchange for legal immunity.
2012 - JR Tokai unveil a maglev LO train prototype capable of travelling up to 500km per hour

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 23, 2013, 04:47:47 PM

This Day in History for 23rd November


Famous Weddings

1963 - "12 Angry Men" director Sidney Lumet (39) weds Lena Horne's daughter Gail Jones
1983 - "Ordinary People" actress Mary Tyler Moore (46) weds Dr. Robert Levine at the Pierre Hotel in
           New York City
1990 - Model Cheryl Tiegs marries actor Tony Peck
1996 - Actor and comedian Chris Rock (31) weds founder and executive director of StyleWorks
           Malaak Compton
2004 - "Penn and Teller" magician Penn Jillette (49) weds TV producer Emily Zolten at Viva Las Vegas
          Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas, Nevada
2007 - Actress and model Jaime King (28) weds director Kyle Newman (31) at Greystone Park and
           Manor in Los Angeles

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 23, 2013, 05:03:03 PM

This Day in History for 23rd November


Famous Birthdays

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Physicist/Nobel Laureate                    Frontier Outlaw Billy the Kid (1859)         Actress/Singer Miley Cyrus (1992)
Johannes van der Waals (1837)


912 - Otto I, the Great, German king, Holy Roman emperor (962-73)
1221 - Alfonso X (the Wise), king of Castile & Leon (1252-84)
1402 - Jean de Dunois, French soldier (d. 1468)
1417 - William FitzAlan, 16th Earl of Arundel, English politician (d. 1487)
1553 - Prospero Alpini, Italy, botanist/physician (De Medocoma Aegyptorum)
1616 - John Wallis, English mathematician/cryptographer (product of Wallis)
1632 - Jean Mabillon, French palaeographer and diplomat (d. 1707)
1641 - Anthonie Heinsius, Dutch statesman (d. 1720)
1669 - Johann K Amman, Swiss/Dutch deaf-mute teacher (Surdus Loquens)
1690 - Ernst J earl van Biron, Russian duke of Koerland/regent of Ivan VI
1705 - Thomas Birch, English historian (d. 1766)
1715 - Pierre Charles Le Monnier, French astronomer (d. 1799)
1719 - Spranger Barry, Irish actor (d. 1777)
1748 - Etienne Joseph Floquet, composer
1749 - Edward Rutledge, (Gov-SC)/attorney/signer (Decl of Independence)
1760 - Gracchus Babeuf, French utopian socialist (Tribun du Peuple)
1765 - Thomas Attwood, composer
1785 - Joannes P Roothaan, 1st Dutch general of the Jesuits (1829-53)
1794 - Joan F Van Oordt, vicar (Groninger direction)
1797 - Gabor Matray, composer
1800 - Michail P Pogodin, Russian historian/author (Povesti)
1804 - Franklin Pierce, Hillsboro NH, (D) 14th Pres (1853-1857)
1809 - Horatio Phillips Van Cleve, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1815 - William Dennison, postmaster/general (Union), died in 1882
1819 - Benjamin Mayberry Prentiss, Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1901
1820 - John Willis Ellis, Governor (Confederacy) died in 1861
1820 - Isaac Todhunter, British mathematician (d. 1884)
1821 - Charles Meryon, British/French etcher
1826 - Agustin Bethencourt, Venezuela publisher on Curacao
1830 - Kaspar CE Ritter von Zumbusch, German/Austria sculptor
1837 - Johannes van der Waals, Leiden, Netherlands, physicist (Nobel 1910, Liquid & Gas States),
           (d. 1923)
1842 - James Lillywhite Jr, cricketer (1st England Test captain)
1843 - Josef Sucher, composer
1858 - Frank Hearne, cricketer (bro of George & Alec, Eng & S Afr)
1859 - Billy the Kid, [William H Bonney], NYC, frontier outlaw, (d. 1881)
1860 - Karl Branting, Sweden, statesman/diplomat (Nobel Peace Prize 1921)
1861 - Konstantin Korovin, Russian painter (d. 1939)
1862 - Alberto Williams, Buenos Aires Argentina, composer (Etrerno Reposo)
1862 - Theo van Rysselberghe, Belgian painter (pointillism)
1864 - Henry Bourne Joy, American automobile executive (d. 1936)
1869 - Valdemar Poulsen, Danish engineer (d. 1942)
1875 - Anatoly Lunacharsky, Russian literary critic and politician (d. 1933)
1876 - Manuel de Falla, Spanish composer (d. 1946)
1878 - Andre Caplet, composer
1878 - Ernest J King, US fleet admiral/Chief of Naval Operations (WW II)
1878 - Holcombe Ward, tennis champ (US Open-1904)
1879 - Andre Caplet, French composer/conductor (Conte Fantastic)
1882 - Johan C T Kikkert, Dutch painter/etcher/critic
1883 - Herman Baccaert, Flemish philological/writer (Along the water front)
1883 - Jose Clemente Orozco, Mexico, painter (Epic of Culture in New World)
1887 - Boris Karloff, [William H Pratt], Dulwich England, actor (Frankenstein)
1887 - Paul Malengreau, composer
1887 - Eduardo Corrochio, Spanish-born dancer (d. 1943)
1887 - Henry Moseley, English physicist (d. 1915)
1888 - Harpo Marx, [Adolph] NYC, actor/comedian (Marx brothers)
1888 - Nana Bryant, Cincinnati OH, actress (Ladies of the Chorus)
1889 - Harry Sunderland, Australian rugby league identity (d. 1964)
1890 - El Lissitzky, Russian artist and architect (d. 1941)
1892 - Erté, French artist (d. 1990)
1893 - Jimmy Blanckenberg, cricket pace bowler (took 60 wickets for South Africa)
1894 - Ture Persson, Sweden, sprinter (Olympic-silver-1912)
1896 - Joris Vriamont, Flemish author/music publisher
1896 - Klement Gottwald, premier/president of Czechoslovakia (1946-53)
1896 - Ruth Etting, US dancer/singer/actress (Roman scandals)
1897 - Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Indian writer (d. 1999)
1897 - Karl Gebhardt, Nazi doctor (d. 1948)
1899 - Norman Hunter, writer
1902 - Aaron Bank, American OSS officer and founder of the US Army Special Forces (d. 2004)
1906 - Mervyn Roberts, composer
1907 - Lars Leksell, Swedish physician (d. 1986)
1908 - Leendert P J Braat, Dutch sculptor/screenwriter
1908 - Nelson S. Bond, American science fiction writer (d. 2006)
1909 - Nigel Tranter, author/historian (River Realm, Robert the Bruce)
1910 - Hal Schumacher, baseball player
1911 - Peter Saunders, English theater producer (Legend of the Werewolf)
1912 - Det Glynn, teacher/anti-apartheid activist
1912 - George O'Hanlon, American actor (d. 1989)
1914 - [Arthur] Wilson "Bob" Tucker, US, sci-fi author (Time Masters)
1914 - Roger Avon, Durham actor (d. 1998)
1915 - Ellen Drew, [Terry Ray], Kansas City Mo, actress (Isle of Dead)
1915 - John Dehner, [Forkum], Staten Is NY, actor (Big Hawaii, Bare Essence)
1915 - Julio Cesar Mendez Montenegro, politician
1916 - Michael Gough, Kuala Lumpur, British Malaya, English actor (Search for the Nile)
1917 - George O'Hanlon, Brooklyn New York, American actor (Calvin-Life of Riley, George Jetson)
1917 - Hugh Joseph Charles James L'Etang, medical writer
1919 - Claudio Santoro, composer
1919 - Peter Strawson, English philosopher
1920 - Chalmers P Wylie, (Rep-R-OH, 1967- )
1920 - Herman Nieland, Dutch organist/pianist/composer (Te Deum Laudamus)
1920 - Paul Celan, [Antschell], German/Romanian poet (Collected Prose)
1920 - Wayne Thiebaud, American painter
1921 - Hein J Roethof, lawyer/Dutch MP (PvdA)
1921 - Fred Buscaglione, Italian singer and actor (d. 1960)
1922 - Manuel Fraga Iribarne, president of Spanish Galicia
1923 - Angelo John Novarese, record company founder
1923 - Guy Molinari, (Rep-R-NY, 1981- )
1923 - Nadia Gray, actress (Naked Runner, Maniac, Candide)
1923 - R. L. Burnside, American musician (d. 2005)
1923 - Daniel Brewster, American democrat (d. 2007)
1923 - Billy Haughton, American harness driver and trainer (d. 1986)
1924 - Colin Turnbull, anthropologist
1924 - Paul Richards, CA, actor (Kiss Daddy Goodnight)
1924 - Paula Raymond, American actress (d. 2003)
1925 - Johnny Mandel, American songwriter
1926 - Christopher Logue, British poet/stage writer (Trials)
1926 - Don Gordon, Los Angeles California, actor (Prentiss-Lucan)
1926 - Sathya Sai Baba, Indian guru and philosopher
1927 - Guy Davenport, American author, artist, and scholar (d. 2005)
1928 - Jakob Jez, composer
1928 - Jerry Bock, New Haven CT, Broadway composer (Fiddler on the Roof)
1929 - Hal Lindsey, American evangelist and Christian writer
1930 - Jack McKeon, baseball player
1930 - Robert Easton, Milwaukee, actor (Someone Up There Likes Me)
1930 - William E Brock, (Sen-D)/US Secretary of Labor (1985-87)
1931 - Yevgeni Grischin, USSR, 500m/1500m speed skater (Oly-gold-1956, 60)
1931 - Gloria Lynne, American singer
1932 - Michael Knight, air chief marshall/British leader (NATO)
1932 - Michel David-Weill, French investment banker
1933 - Hayes Jenkins, US, figure skater (Olympic-gold-1956)
1933 - Krzysztof Penderecki, Debica Poland, composer (Hiroshima Threnody)
1933 - Ali Shariati, Iranian sociologist and revolutionary
1934 - Lewis Alan "Lew" Hoad, Australia, tennis star (Wimbledon 1953, 56)
1934 - Michael Wayne, producer (McQ, Chisum, Green Berets, McLintock)
1934 - Rita Rossi Colwell, oceanographer
1934 - Robert Towne, producer/screenwriter (Chinatown)
1935 - Dean A Gallo, (Rep-R-NJ, 1985- )
1935 - Ken Eastwood, cricketer (opened for Aust v Eng SCG 1971)
1935 - Vladislav Nikolayevich Volkov, Moscow Russia, cosmonaut (Soyuz 7, 11)
1936 - Robert Barnard, British mystery writer
1938 - Herbert Achternbusch, Munich Germany, actor (Hedes, Mix Wix, Wohin)
1938 - Esko Nikkari, Finnish actor
1939 - Betty Everett, US singer (Getting Mighty Crowded)
1939 - Susan Anspach, NYC, actress (Grace-Yellow Rose, Blume in Love)
1940 - Luis Tiant, Cuba, baseball pitcher (Boston Red Sox, NY Yankees)
1941 - Alan Mullery, English soccer player
1941 - Franco Nero, Italian actor
1942 - Susan Anspach, American actress
1943 - Andrew Goodman, civil rights worker, murdered in 1964
1943 - Sue Nicholls, British actress
1944 - Joe Eszterhas, screenwriter (Basic Instinct, Showgirls)
1944 - Jose Torikens, Dutch journalist (Parool, NRC)
1945 - Assaf Dayan, Israel, actor (Operation Thunderbolt)
1945 - Steve Landesberg, Bronx NY, comedian/actor (Barney Miller)
1945 - Dennis Nilsen, Scottish serial killer
1945 - Jerry Harris, American sculptor
1946 - Bobby L Rush, (Rep-D-Illinois)
1946 - Diana Quick, London England, actress (Brideshead, Big Sleep, Odd Job)
1946 - Hans Hoekman, Dutch radio play actor
1946 - Giorgos Koudas, Greek footballer
1947 - Geoffery Michael Roberts, vintner
1948 - Bruce Vilanch, American comedy writer
1949 - Gayl Jones, US author/poet (Corregidora, Song for Anninho)
1950 - Cecil Hooker, rocker (Snuff)
1950 - Charles E Schumer, (Rep-D-NY, 1981-1999, Sen-D-NY, 1999 -)
1951 - Bernd Landvoigt, German DR, coxless pairs (Olympics-gold-1976)
1951 - David Rappaport, London England, 3'11" actor (Wizard, Time Bandits)
1951 - Jorg Landvoigt, German DR, coxless pairs (Olympics-gold-1976)
1952 - Francie Larrieu Smith, US, 1.5/3/10K track runner (AAU 1 mile-1979)
1952 - Bill Troiano, musician
1953 - Martin Kent, cricketer (Queensland batsman played for Australia 1981)
1953 - Francis Cabrel, French singer
1954 - Bruce Hornsby, Williamsburg Va, rock vocalist
1954 - Ferry Hoogendijk, Dutch editor in chief (Elsevier Magazine)
1954 - Ken Schrom, baseball player
1954 - Glenn Brummer, American baseball player
1955 - Steven Brust, [Karl Zoltan], US, sci-fi author (Yendi, Jhereg)
1955 - Ludovico Einaudi, Italian composer and pianist
1955 - Mary Landrieu, American politician, senior senator of Louisiana
1956 - Bruce Edgar, cricketer (NZ opener through the 80')
1956 - Shane Gould, Brisbane Queensland, swimmer (Olympic-3 gold-1972)
1957 - John "Jellybean" Benitez, music producer
1958 - David Wallace, Miami, actor (General Hospital, Babysitter, Humongus)
1958 - Martin Snedden, cricketer (NZ medium-pacer of 80's)
1959 - Brook Jacoby, baseball player
1959 - Maxwell Caulfield, Derbyshire England, actor (Miles-The Colbys)
1959 - Dominique Dunne, American actress (d. 1982)
1960 - Jayananda Warnaweera, cricketer (Sri Lankan fastish off-spin bowler)
1960 - Robin Roberts, American television reporter
1961 - Merv Hughes, cricketer (Australian pace bowler 1985-94 Extrovert)
1961 - Keith Ablow, American psychiatrist and author
1962 - Andrea Blackwell, Calgary Alberta, basketball forward (Olympics-96)
1962 - Gary Rusnak, Orangeburg SC, Nike golfer (1994 NIKE Permian Basin-2nd)
1962 - Mike Nocito, rocker
1963 - Dale Sveum, baseball player
1963 - Joe Ahearne, British television director
1963 - Mamoru Takuma, Japanese mass murderer and rapist (d. 2004)
1964 - Boyd Kestner, actor (Outsiders)
1964 - John Williams, NFL linebacker/FB (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1964 - Jose Gonzales, baseball player
1964 - Kapila Wijegunewardene, cricketer (Sri Lankan fast-medium bowler)
1964 - Frank Rutherford, Bahamian athlete
1965 - Michael Brainard, Hollywood, California, American actor (All My Children, Santa Barbara)
1965 - Rodion Gataullin, Uzbekistan, pole vaulter (Olympics-silver-88)
1965 - Jennifer Michael Hecht, American poet and historian
1966 - Charlie Grover, musician (Sponge)
1966 - Jerry Kelly, Madison WI, PGA golfer (1993 Nike Cleveland Open-2nd)
1966 - Vincent Cassel, French actor
1967 - Brian Glynn, Iserlohn Ger, NHL defenseman (Hartford Whalers)
1967 - Diane O'Grady, North Bay Ontario, rower (Olympics-96)
1967 - Gary Kirsten, cricketer (South African lefty opening batsman 1993-)
1967 - Patrick Mameli, Dutch rock vocalist/guitarist (Pestilence)
1967 - Salli Richardson, actress (Posse)
1968 - John O'Neill, Detroit, US field hockey midfielder (Olympics-96)
1968 - Hamid Hassani, Iranian scholar and lexicographer
1968 - Kirsty Young, Scottish television journalist
1969 - Jonathan Seet, Canadian singer
1970 - Glenn Murray, Manning SC, outfielder (Philadelphia Phillies)
1970 - Zoë Ball, British television and radio presenter
1970 - Oded Fehr, Israeli actor
1971 - Ashraf Amaya, NBA forward (Vancouver Grizzlies)
1971 - Jim Pyne, NFL guard/corner (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1971 - Vin Baker, NBA forward (Seattle Supersonics, Milwaukee Bucks)
1971 - Lisa Arch, American actress
1972 - Kurupt, rapper (Tha Dogg Pound)
1972 - Paul Penny, Victoria BC, golfer (Edmonton City Amat-1993, 94)
1973 - Reggie Green, NFL guard (Seattle Seahawks)
1974 - Jamie Sharper, linebacker (Baltimore Ravens)
1974 - Malik Rose, NBA forward (San Antonio Spurs)
1974 - Regina Fisher, Miss West Virginia USA (1996)
1974 - Saku Koivu, Turku Fin, NHL left wing (Montreal Canadiens, Oly-B-98)
1974 - Tora Suber, WNBA guard (Charlotte Sting)
1974 - Tyrus McCloud, linebacker (Baltimore Ravens)
1975 - Arno Schreuders, Dutch soccer player (RKC)
1976 - Adriana Cano Garcia, Miss Uruguay Universe (1997)
1976 - Page Kennedy, American actor
1977 - Myriam Boileau, Canadian diver
1977 - Adam Eaton, American baseball player
1978 - Aliane Baquerot, NYC, rhythmic gymnast (US team-96)
1978 - Kayvan Novak, English actor
1979 - Kelly Brook, English actress/model
1980 - David Britz, American nano-technologist
1980 - Jonathan Papelbon, American baseball player
1982 - Asafa Powell, Jamaican sprinter
1982 - Colby Armstrong, Canadian ice-hockey player
1984 - Lucas Grabeel, American actor and singer
1985 - Ahn Hyun-Soo, South Korean short track skater
1987 - Nicklas Backstrom, Swedish ice hockey player
1991 - Anurag Kashyap, 2005 Scripps National Spelling Bee champion
1992 - Miley Cyrus, Nashville, Tennessee, actress and singer (Hannah Montana, The Climb)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 23, 2013, 05:06:26 PM

This Day in History for 23rd November


Famous Deaths

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Novelist André Malraux (1976)                   Author Roald Dahl (1990)


615 - Columbanus, Irish monastery founder/poet/saint (Poenitentiale), dies
947 - Berthold, Duke of Bavaria
955 - Edred, King of England (b. c. 923)
1249 - Ajjoeb, sultan of Egypt, dies
1407 - Louis, duke of Orleans, murdered
1457 - Ladislaus V Posthumus, king of Hungary/Bohemia, dies at 17
1503 - Bona of Savoy, Italian noblewoman (b. 1449)
1503 - Margaret of York, wife of Charles I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1446)
1558 - Charles, earl of Lalaing/land guardian of the Neth, dies at 52
1572 - Agnolo di Cosimo, Italian artist and poet (b. 1503)
1585 - Thomas Tallis, composer, dies
1613 - Charles Philip of Croij, marquis of Havre/earl of Fontenoy, dies at 64
1616 - Richard Hakluyt, English writer (b. 1552)
1682 - Claude Lorrain, French painter (b. 1604)
1709 - Hans Willem baron Bentinck, Dutch/English earl of Portland, dies at 60
1752 - Conrad Michael Schneider, composer, dies at 79
1763 - Friedrich Graf von Seckendorf, German soldier (b. 1673)
1769 - Constantine Mavrocordatos, Prince of Wallachia and Prince of Moldavia (b. 1711)
1783 - Yoriyuki Arima, Japanese mathematician (b. 1714)
1787 - Anton Schweitzer, composer, dies at 52
1803 - Roger Newdigate, British politician (b. 1719)
1804 - Richard Graves, British writer (b. 1715)
1807 - Jean-François Rewbell, French politician (b. 1747)
1814 - Elbridge Gerry, US merchant/signer (Decl of Independence), dies at 70
1848 - Alfred Julius Becher, composer, dies at 45
1853 - Francisco Andrevi y Castellar, composer, dies at 67
1853 - Johann Christian Friedrich Schneider, composer, dies at 67
1865 - Josef Leopold Zvonar, composer, dies at 41
1865 - René E de Russy, West Indian/US brig-general, dies at about 75
1872 - Ten Bears (Parra-Wa-Samen), US poet/Comanche chief, dies
1890 - Willem III, King of Netherland (1849-1890), dies at 73
1902 - Walter Reed, US bacteriologist (Yellow Fever), dies
1910 - Hawley H Crippen, doctor/murderer, executed
1911 - Bernard Tancred, cricketer (87 runs in 1888-89 South Africa v England), dies
1914 - Elbrige Gerry, VP (of Gerrymander fame), dies at 70
1916 - Eduard Napravnik, composer, dies at 77
1916 - Leonard Moon, cricketer (WW I 4 Tests for England 1905-06), dies
1920 - Mohammed ibn Addoellah, Somalian resistances leader "Mad Molla", dies
1923 - Urmuz, Romanian writer (b. 1883)
1926 - Frederic Ayers, composer, dies at 50
1927 - S Przybyszewski, writer, dies
1931 - Evert Cornelis, Dutch conductor/pianist, dies
1932 - Percy Pitt, composer, dies at 63
1934 - Giovanni Brunero, Italian cyclist (b. 1895)
1937 - Louis Victor Saar, composer, dies at 68
1937 - Jagdish Chandra Bose, Indian physicist (b. 1858)
1937 - George Albert Boulenger, Belgian naturalist (b. 1858)
1938 - August TC Kiehl, actor (Hope of Blessing), dies at 84
1940 - Catherina van Rennes, composer, dies at 82
1943 - Ernest Jones, cricketer ("Jonah" Gave WG's beard a close shave), dies
1946 - Fawzi Husseini, Arabic High Director for Palestine, murdered
1948 - Stanner E V Taylor, US director/writer (Lucky Jim, Ramona), dies at 71
1948 - Uzeir Abdul Huseyn Hajibeyov, composer, dies at 63
1948 - Hack Wilson, American baseball player (b. 1900)
1949 - Gustav Radbruch, German Min of Justice, dies
1952 - Aaro A Hellaakoski, Finnish geographer/poet, dies at 59
1952 - Albert van Raalte, conductor (Radio Philharmonic Orch), dies at 62
1956 - Jeanne Cappe, Belgian author (Tres Grand Cardinal), dies at about 61
1962 - Gloria Gordon, actress (My Friend Irma), dies at 81
1962 - Herman J Friedericy, Dutch author (Last General), dies at 62
1965 - Franc Debenham, Australian geographer/geologer, dies at 81
1966 - Seán T. O'Kelly, President of Ireland (b. 1882)
1967 - Freddie Martin, cricket WI batsman, (9 Tests 486 runs 1 century), dies
1970 - Yusuf Bin Ishak, president of Singapore 1965-70, dies at about 60
1971 - Lisle Nagel, Australian cricket opening bowler (1932), dies
1972 - Marie Wilson, actress (My Friend Irma), dies at 56
1973 - Claire Dodd, actress (Ex-Lady, In the Navy), dies after illness at 64
1973 - Constance Talmadge, US comedienne (Her Primitive Lover), dies at 75
1973 - Paul Newlan, actor (Capt Grey-M Squad), dies
1973 - Robert Ellis, actor (Curse of King Tut's Tomb), dies at 40
1973 - Sessue Hayakawa, actor (Tokyo Joe), dies of cerebral thrombosis at 83
1974 - Cornelius Ryan, war reporter/historian (Bridge too Far), dies at 54
1974 - Pall Isolfsson, composer, dies at 81
1976 - Andre Malraux, [Berger], author (Conquerors)/min of Culture, dies at 75
1979 - Merle Oberon, actress (Assignment Foreign Legion), dies at 68
1979 - Judee Sill, American musician and songwriter (b. 1944)
1980 - Herby Wade, cricketer (South African capt 10 Tests 1935-36), dies
1980 - Thien-an Thich, Zen teacher/Vietnamese Rinzai line, dies in LA at 54
1982 - "Reverend" Grady Nutt, actor (Hee Haw), dies at 47
1983 - Juhan Muks, Estonian artist (b. 1899)
1990 - Bo Diaz, catcher, crushed to death by a satellite dish at 37
1990 - Nguyen Van Tam, PM of Vietnam (1952-53), dies
1990 - Renate Rubinstein, author/columnist (Tamar), dies
1990 - Roald Dahl, British short story author (Sweet Mystery of Life), dies at 74
1991 - Ken Uehara, actor (Honolulu-Tokyo), dies of heart failure at 82
1991 - Klaus Kinski, actor (Android, Little Drummer Girl), dies at 65
1992 - Ray Acuff, country singer (Wahbash Cannonball), dies
1992 - Rita Corday, actress (Dick Tracy vs Cueball), dies at 68
1992 - Thelma Orloff, entertainer, dies of kidney failure at 76
1993 - Gerarda "Meik" Rueter, sculptor, dies at 89
1993 - Tatiana Nikolajeva, Russian pianist (Bach), dies at 69
1994 - Eldero L D Williams, tenor saxophonist, dies at 70
1994 - Erick Frederick Hawkins, US dancer/wed to Martha Graham, dies at 85
1994 - Tommy Boyce, US songwriter (Be My Guest), commits suicide at 55
1994 - William Donald Campbell, diarist/Ornithologist, dies at 89
1994 - Art Barr, American professional wrestler (b. 1966)
1995 - Frank Hammond, tennis umpire, dies of ALS at 66
1995 - Junior Walker, tenor saxophonist, dies of cancer at 64
1995 - Louis Malle, film director (Pretty Baby), dies at 63
1995 - Jr. Walker, American musician (b. 1931)
1996 - Art Porter, saxophonist, dies at 35
1996 - George Nicholas, cartoon animator, dies at 85
1996 - Mohamed Amin, cameraman, dies at 53
1996 - Ralph Tubbs, architect, dies at 84
1996 - Sayed Idries Shah, thinker, dies at 72
2001 - O.C. Smith, American singer (b. 1932)
2001 - Mary Whitehouse,'Clean up TV' campaigner
2001 - Bo Belinsky, American baseball player (b. 1936)
2002 - Roberto Matta, Chilean painter (b. 1911)
2004 - Pete Franklin, American talk radio host (b. 1928)
2005 - Frank Gatski, American football player (b. 1919)
2005 - Constance Cummings, American-born British actress (b. 1910)
2006 - Nick Clarke, English radio presenter (b. 1948)
2006 - Betty Comden, American lyricist (b. 1917)
2006 - Alexander Litvinenko, Russian spy (b. 1962)
2006 - Philippe Noiret, French actor (b. 1930)
2006 - Anita O'Day, American singer (b. 1919)
2006 - Willie Pep, American boxer (b. 1922)
2007 - Joe Kennedy, American baseball player (b. 1979)
2007 - Óscar Carmelo Sánchez, Bolivian footballer (b. 1971)
2007 - Pat Walsh, New Zealand rugby union footballer (b. 1936)
2010 - Ingrid Pitt, Polish-born British actress (b. 1937)
2010 - Joyce Howard, British film actress (b. 1922)
2010 - James Tyler, American musicologist and author (b. 1940)
2011 - Oscar Griffin Jr, American journalist and 1963 Pulitzer Prize winner, dies at 78
2011 - Jim Rathmann, 1960 Indianapolis 500 winner, dies at 83
2012 - Larry Hagman, American actor, dies from complications from throat cancer at 81

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 24, 2013, 11:31:58 AM

This Day in History for 24th November


Historical Events

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Naturalist Charles Darwin                      Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini              Author John Steinbeck

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Night club operator Jack Ruby          President of Zaire Mobutu Sese Seko          38th US President Gerald Ford

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Prime Minister of Canada
Stephen Harper


380 - Theodosius I makes his adventus, or formal entry, into Constantinople.
496 - Anastasius II succeeds Gelasius I as Catholic Pope
642 - Theodore I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1105 - Rabbi Nathan ben Yehiel of Rome completes Talmudic dictionary
1434 - River Thames freezes
1542 - Battle of Solway Moss: English beat Scottish King James V
1587 - Battle at Auneau: Henri de Guise wins
1601 - Earl Mauritius ceases siege of De Bosch due to strict monarchy
1628 - John Ford's "Lover's Melancholy," premieres in London
1639 - 1st observation of transit of Venus occured (only 2, record event)
1642 - Abel Janzoon Tasman discovers Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania)
1643 - Battle of Tuttlingen: Beiers army under Gen Mercy beats France
1655 - English Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell bans Anglicans
1688 - General strategist John Churchill meets Willem III
1703 - 1st Lutheran pastor ordained in America, Justus Falckner at Phila
1715 - River Thames freezes
1759 - Destructive eruption of Vesuvius
1800 - Weber's opera "Das Waldmadchen" premieres in Freiburg
1832 - South Carolina passes Ordinance of Nullification
1835 - Texas Rangers, mounted police force authorized by Texas Provisional Government
1859 - Charles Darwin publishes "On the Origin of Species"
1861 - Luik-Visé-Maastricht railway opens
1862 - M Levy publishes Gustave Flauberts "Salammbo"
1863 - Battle of Chattanooga, Columbia & Lookout Mt begins in Tennessee
1869 - American Woman's Suffrage Association forms (Cleveland)
1871 - National Rifle Association organized (NYC)
1874 - Joseph F Glidden patents barbed wire
1880 - Southern University forms
1887 - Victorien Sardou's "La Tosca" premieres in Paris
1896 - 1st US absentee voting law enacted by Vermont
1897 - Canadian Intercollegiate Rugby Football Union forms in Kingston
1898 - The International Conference of Rome for the Social Defense Against Anarchists opens.
1903 - Clyde Coleman of NYC patents automobile electric starter
1903 - George Ade's "County Chairman," premieres in NYC
1905 - Moshav Hertzlia forms in Israel
1914 - Benito Mussolini leaves Italy's socialist party
1914 - Dutch Overseas Trustmaatschappij (NOT) forms
1915 - Serbian leader flees to Albania
1917 - Nine police officers and one civilian are killed when a bomb explodes at the Milwaukee,
           Wisconsin police headquarters building.
1918 - Béla Can forms Hungarian Communist Party
1922 - Italian parliament gives Benito Mussolini dictatorial powers "for 1 year"
1923 - Radio Belgium's 1st transmission
1924 - 1st Dutch airplane (Fokker's F-7) reaches Batavia (Java)
1925 - 1st radio-broadcast of Dutch KRO (Catholic Radio Broadcast)
1925 - Eugene O'Neill Theater (Coronet, Forrest) opens at 230 W 49th St NYC
1926 - KVI-AM in Seattle WA begins radio transmissions
1930 - 1st woman pilot on a transcontinental air flight Miss Ruth Nichols (Mineola, NY to California), in
           a Lockheed-Vega, took 7 days
1932 - In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI
           Crime Lab) officially opens.
1934 - CFL Grey Cup: Sarnia beats Regina, 20-12 at Toronto
1934 - SN Behrman's "Rain from Heaven" premieres in NYC
1935 - King George II returns to Greece after 12 years
1935 - The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its second congress.
1936 - Noel Coward's "Tonight at 8:30" premieres in NYC
1936 - Pacifist/anti fascist writer Carl Von Ossietzky sent to concentration camp, award Nobel Peace
           Prize
1938 - Clifford Odets' "Rocket to the Moon" premieres in NYC
1938 - National Semi-Pro Basketball Congress authorizes yellow basketball
1941 - "Life Certificates" issued to some Jews of Vilna, rest exterminated
1941 - Indian infantry attacks German tanks at Sidi Omar
1941 - US troops land on Suriname to protect bauxite mine
1942 - Fieldmarshal Erich von Manstein arrives in Starobelsk
1942 - French collaborator earl De Brinon establishes "African Falanx"
1944 - US bombers based on Saipan, begin 1st attack on Tokyo
1947 - John Steinbeck's novel "Pearl" published
1947 - Un-American Activities Committee finds "Hollywood 10" in contempt because of their refusal
           to reveal whether they were communists
1948 - Ireland votes for independence from UK
1948 - WAVE TV channel 3 in Louisville, KY (NBC) begins broadcasting
1949 - Britain nationalizes its steel & iron industry
1949 - Syracuse Nationals beat Anderson Packers, 125-123 in 5 OTs
1950 - "Guys & Dolls" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 1200 performances
1950 - UN troops begin an assault intending to end Korean War by Christmas
1950 - US infantry division conquerors Chonju Korea
1951 - "17" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 180 performances
1951 - "Music in the Air" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 56 perfs
1951 - 39th CFL Grey Cup: Ottawa Rough Riders defeats Saskatchewan, 21-14
1951 - British auto manufacturers Austin/Moris Motors merge
1953 - Dodgers sign Walter Alston to a 1-year pact as manager for 1954
1954 - Air Force One, 1st US Presidential airplane, christened
1954 - France sends 20,000 soldiers to Algeria
1955 - 1st test flight of Fokker's F-27 Friendship
1956 - "Pajama Game" closes at St James Theater NYC after 1063 performances
1956 - 44th CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Montreal Alouettes, 50-27
1957 - Cleveland Browns' fullback Jim Brown sets club record of 237 yds rushing
1958 - Mali becomes an autonomous state within French Community
1960 - Wilt Chamberlain pulls down 55 rebounds in a game (NBA record)
1962 - Last of Dutch militia leave New-Guinea
1963 - 1st live murder on TV-Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey Oswald
1964 - 30th Heisman Trophy Award: John Huarte, Notre Dame (QB)
1964 - Cards' 3rd baseman Ken Boyer is voted NL MVP
1964 - For 1st time since 1800, residents of Wash DC permitted to vote
1964 - Rebellion ends in Zaire
1965 - Marshal Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu becomes President of Zaire
1966 - 1st TV station in Congo, Kinshasa (Zaire)
1966 - 400 die of respiratory failure & heart attack in killer NYC smog
1966 - The Beatles began recording sessions for "Sgt Pepper"
1966 - A Bulgarian plane with 82 people on board crashes near Bratislava, Slovakia.
1966 - New York City experiences the smoggiest day in the city's history.
1968 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Louise Suggs Golf Invitational
1969 - Apollo 12 returns to Earth
1969 - West German pres Heinemann visits Netherlands
1969 - Lt William L Calley charged with massacre of over 100 civilians in My Lai Vietnam in March
           1968, ordered to stand trial by court martial
1970 - 36th Heisman Trophy Award: Jim Plunkett, Stanford (QB)
1971 - Braves catcher-infielder Earl Williams, wins NL Rookie of Year
1971 - Dan "DB" Cooper parachutes from a Northwest AL 727 with $200,000
1971 - Prison rebellion at Rahway State Prison NJ
1972 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1973 - Miss Teenage America Pageant
1974 - 2 truck hijackers freed (3/3/1974)
1974 - 62nd CFL Grey Cup: Montreal Alouettes defeats Edmonton Eskimos, 20-7
1974 - Gerald Ford & Leonid Brezhnev signs SALT-2-treaty
1974 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Lady Errol Golf Classic
1975 - "Boccaccio" opens at Edison Theater NYC for 7 performances
1976 - NBA Atlanta Hawks end a 28 game road losing streak
1976 - Reds Joe Morgan wins his 2nd straight NL MVP Award
1977 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1977 - Miami Bob Greise passes for 6 touchdowns vs St Louis (55-14)
1979 - Kings' Charley Simmer fails on 8th penalty shot against Islanders
1979 - US admits troops in Vietnam were exposed to the toxic Agent Orange
1981 - 1st air-launched cruise missile tested
1982 - Orioles Cal Ripken is named AL Rookie of Year
1982 - Yasuhiro Nakasone succeeds Zenko Suzuki as premier of Japan
1983 - PLO exchanges 6 Israeli prisoners for 4,500 Palestinians & Lebanese
1983 - Test Cricket debut of Richie Richardson, WI v India Bombay
1985 - 73rd CFL Grey Cup: BC Lions defeats Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 37-24
1985 - Egyptian commandos storm captured Boeing in Malta, 60 killed
1986 - "Smile" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 48 performances
1986 - Cards reliever Todd Worrell wins NL Rookie of Year
1986 - Wrestler John Tatum charged with possession of marijuana
1987 - Li Peng succeeds premier Zhao Ziyang in China PR
1989 - Communist Party resigns in Czechoslovakia
1989 - Elias Hrawi elected president of Lebanon
1989 - Tendulkar scores a Test Cricket fifty age 16 years 214 days, a record
1991 - 1st intl flight from Long Island's MacArthur Airport (to Mexico)
1991 - 79th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Calgary Stampeders, 36-21
1991 - After going 12-0, Washington Redskins lose to Dallas 24-21
1991 - Monica Seles, sets female tennis record winning $2,457,758 in a year
1991 - Rachmon Nabijev elected pres of Tadzjikistan
1991 - US 75th manned space mission "STS 44" Atlantis 10 launched
1992 - Boeing 734 crashes into mountain in China, kills 141
1993 - Brady bill passes establishing 5-day waiting period for handgun sales
1993 - End of world, according to Ukrainian sect White Brotherhood
1993 - In Liverpool, 11-year-olds Robert Thompson and Jon Venables are convicted of the murder of
           2-year-old James Bulger.
1995 - Ireland votes to end 70-year-old ban on divorce (50.28% to 49.72%)
1996 - "Juan Darien - A Carnival Mass," opens at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC
1996 - CFL Grey Cup: Toronto beats Edmonton, 43-37 at Hamilton
1996 - Karrie Webb wins ITT LPGA Tour Championship
1996 - Mashonaland defeat Matabeleland to win the Logan Cricket Cup
1996 - Mohammad Wasim scores 109 on Test Cricket debut, Pakistan v NZ Lahore
1996 - Rookie Karrie Webb wins LPGA Tour Championship
1997 - "Street Corner Symphony," opens at Brooks Atkinson NYC for 79 perfs
2005 - Leader of the Opposition in the Canadian Parliament Stephen Harper, introduces a motion of
           no confidence. The motion is passed on November 28 leading to the dissolution of the 38th
           Canadian Parliament.
2006 - Israeli rapist Benny Sela escapes from police custody while being transferred to a court
           hearing.
2007 - Australians elect the Kevin Rudd-led centre-left Australian Labor Party at the federal election,
           ending the eleven-year tenure of the John Howard-led centre-right Liberal/National coalition
           government.
2012 - Gangnam Style becomes the most viewed youtube video surpassing 808 million views
2012 - Ernest Bai Koroma is re-elected President of Sierra Leone
2012 - The continued NHL lockout results in all games to December 14 being cancelled

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 24, 2013, 11:53:39 AM

This Day in History for 24th November


Famous Weddings

1190 - Isabella of Jerusalem marries Conrad of Montferrat at Acre, making him de jure King.
1979 - Author Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (57) weds photographer Jill Krementz (39)
1980 - Ronald Reagan Jr marries Doria Palmieri
2000 - Actor, screenwriter and director Jon Favreau (34) weds physician Joya Tillem (30) in Sonoma,
           California
2001 - "Angel" actor David Boreanaz (32) weds actress Jaime Bergman (26) at Ingleside Inn in Palm
           Springs, California
2007 - "Superman Returns" actor Brandon Routh (28) weds actress Courtney Ford (29) at the
           beautiful El Capitan Ranch in Santa Barbara, California

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 24, 2013, 02:21:09 PM

This Day in History for 24th November


Famous Birthdays

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Ragtime Composer                            NYC Gangster Charles Luciano (1896)      NBA Player Oscar Robertson (1938)
 Scott Joplin (1868)

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Actress Katherine Heigl (1978)


1273 - Alphonso, Earl of Chester, son of Edward I of England (d. 1284)
1394 - Charles, Duke of Orléans, French poet (d. 1465)
1420 - John Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, English politician (d. 1473)
1583 - Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar, Spanish poet (d. 1641)
1615 - Philipp Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (d. 1690)
1630 - Etienne Baluze, French scholar (d. 1718)
1632 - Baruch "Benedict" de Spinoza, Amsterdam, rationalist philosopher
1642 - Anne Hilarion de Cotentin, earl of Tourville/knight/admiral/marshal
1655 - Charles XI, King of Sweden (1660-97)
1690 - Charles Theodore Pachelbel, composer
1712 - Willem Bachiene, theologist/geographer/astronomer (Ecclesiastical)
1713 - Junipero Serra, priest had a mission in California
1713 - Laurence Sterne, Ireland, novelist/satirist (Tristram Shandy)
1724 - Maria Amalia of Saxony, queen of Spain (d. 1760)
1729 - Alexander Suvorov, Russian general (d. 1800)
1740 - John Bacon, English sculptor
1745 - Maria Louisa of Spain, Empress consort of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1792)
1747 - Felice Alessandri, composer
1766 - J J Friedrich Weinbrenner, German architect/archaeologist
1768 - Jean-Engelbert Pauwels, composer
1774 - Thomas Dick, Scottish scientific teacher and writer (d. 1857)
1784 - Zachary Taylor, (Whig) 12th Pres (Mar 5, 1849-July 9, 1850)
1795 - Josif Josifovich Genishta, composer
1801 - Ludwig Bechstein, German poet (d. 1860)
1806 - Omar Pasha, [Michael Lats], Croatian governor/viceroy of Bosnia/Iraq
1806 - William Webb Ellis, credited with the invention of Rugby (d. 1872)
1811 - Ditler G Monrad, Danish theologist/bishop/premier (1863- )
1811 - Ulrich Ochsenbein, Swiss Federal Councillor (d. 1890)
1815 - James Trapier, N Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1865
1815 - Grace Darling, English heroine (d. 1842)
1817 - Juan de la Cruz Moreno Maisonave, Guatemala
1824 - Karel M M Verlat, Flemish painter/graphic artist
1826 - Collodi, [Carlo Lorenzini], Italian author (Pinocchio)
1829 - William Passmore Carlin, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1903
1833 - Antoine Labelle, Quebec catholic priest (d. 1891)
1848 - Lilli Lehmann, opera singer
1849 - Frances Hodgson Burnett, author of childrens book (My Secret Garden)
1853 - Bat Masterson, American gunfighter (d. 1921)
1859 - Cass Gilbert, American architect (d. 1934)
1864 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, France, painter (At the Moulin Rouge)
1868 - Scott Joplin, Texas, US ragtime entertainer and composer (The Entertainer)
1869 - António Óscar Carmona, 97th Prime Minister of Portugal and 11th President of Portugal (d.
           1951)
1873 - L Martov, [Yuly O Tsederbaum], Russian revolutionary
1874 - Charles William Miller, Brazilian footballer (d. 1953)
1876 - Walter Griffin, US architect, city planner; designed Canberra, Aust
1877 - Alben W Barkley, Graves County Ky, (35th Vice Pres-D-1949-53)
1877 - Kavasji Jamshedji Petigara, Indian CID Commissioner of Police (d. 1941)
1878 - Mark N Tod, English classicist/historian
1881 - Al Christie, Canadian-born film director and producer (d. 1951)
1884 - Michel de Klerk, architect (Amsterdam School)
1884 - Itzhak Ben-Zvi, President of Israel (d. 1963)
1886 - Georges Vandertongerloo, Flemish artist (L'art et Son Avenir)
1886 - Margaret Caroline Anderson, American publisher (d. 1973)
1887 - Erich von Manstein, German military commander (d. 1973)
1888 - Cathleen Nesbitt, Belfast Ireland, actress (Agatha-Farmer's Daughter)
1888 - Dale Carnegie, author (How to Win Friends & Influence People)
1888 - Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Cologne Germany, actor (Metropolis, Spies)
1888 - Fredrick Willius, American cardiologist (d. 1972)
1889 - Albert J Sylvester, England, ballroom dancer (Alex Moor Award-1977)
1889 - Cissy van Marxfield, [Setske Beek-de Haan], Dutch author
1892 - Isidor Achron, composer
1893 - Fern Andra, Watseka IL, actress (Eyes of the World)
1893 - Charles F. Hurley, 54th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1946)
1894 - Herbert Sutcliffe, cricketer (all-time great opening batsman for Engl)
1896 - Charles "Lucky" Luciano, Sicily, NYC Mafia gangster, (d. 1962)
1899 - Jan Adam Maklakiewicz, composer
1899 - Ward Morehouse, American theater critic and newspaper columnist (d. 1966)
1900 - Cornelius Kee, composer
1900 - Jerzy Bonawentura Toeplitz, film maker/teacher
1901 - Andre Victor Tchelistcheff, winemaker
1902 - Fernand Braudel, French historian
1905 - Irene Wicker, singer/actress (Singing Lady)
1906 - Andreina Pagnani, Rome Italy, actress (Il Commandante)
1906 - Eduard Ludwig, German architect (Air Bridge monument Berlin)
1908 - Harry Kemelman, US detective author (rabbi-omnibus)
1908 - Libertad Lamaraque, Agentina, actress (Madreselva, Puerta Cerrada)
1908 - Ray Carter, Chicago Ill, orchestra leader (Arthur Murray Dance Party)
1909 - Hans Melchior Brugk, composer
1909 - Hotze de Roos, Dutch youth book author (Chameleon)
1910 - Lennox Brown, cricketer (S Afr leg-spinner on 1931-32 Aust/NZ tour)
1911 - Kirby Grant, Butte Mont, actor (Sky King)
1911 - Walter Goetz, illustrator cartoonist/painter
1911 - Joe Medwick, baseball player (d. 1975)
1912 - Bernard Delfgaauw, Dutch philosopher (Johnson murderer!)
1912 - Garson Kanin, Rochester NY, playwright/producer (Double Life)
1912 - Geraldine Fitzgerald, Dublin Ireland, actress (Pawnbroker, Easy Money)
1912 - Theodore "Teddy" Wilson, US jazz pianist/arranger
1913 - Gisela Mauermeyer, Germany, discus thrower (Olympic-gold-1936)
1913 - Howard Duff, Bremerton Washington, actor (Flamingo Road, Knots Landing)
1914 - Elise Hoomans, Dutch director/actress (Jane Eyre)
1916 - Forrest J Ackerman, invented the term "sci-fi"
1917 - Richard Bilderback Hervig, composer
1917 - Rita Corita, [Hendrika Sturm], Dutch singer
1918 - Roley Jenkins, cricketer (English leg-spinner 1948-52)
1918 - Tom "Stubby" Fouts, Carroll County Ind, actor (Polka-go-round)
1918 - William Strethan "Wild Bill" Davis, musician
1919 - John Silverlight, journalist
1919 - David Kossoff, British actor (d. 2005)
1920 - Anthony Griffin, sailor
1920 - Joseph Olutola Olu Odutola Oguntala, soho club owner
1921 - Joe "Ducky" Medwick, baseball player
1921 - John V Lindsay, (Mayor-R/D-NY, 1965-73)
1924 - Victor Grinich, Croatian-American businessman (d. 2000)
1925 - Alun Owen, North Wales, writer (Hard Days Night)/actor (Servant)
1925 - William F. Buckley Jr, New York, American conservative author and commentator (National
           Review, Firing Line)
1925 - Simon van der Meer, Nobel Prize laureate
1926 - Alan Owen, English author (Maggie May, Ronnie Barker Show)
1926 - Alfred "Fred" Benavente, director/actor (Farce Majeur)
1926 - Tsung-Dao Lee, Nobel Prize laureate
1927 - Alfred Kraus, Las Palmas Canary Islands, tenor (La Scala)
1927 - Emma Lou Diemer, composer
1927 - Ahmadou Kourouma, Ivorian writer (d. 2003)
1929 - Eileen Barton, Bkln, singer (Broadway Open House)
1930 - C T Patankar, cricketer (kept wicket in one Test India v NZ 1955-56)
1930 - Ken Barrington, cricketer (tough England batsman)
1930 - Bob Friend, baseball player
1932 - Fred Titmus, cricketer (long-running England off-spinner)
1934 - Alfred Schnittke, Russia, composer (St Florian)
1934 - Claudio Prieto, composer
1934 - Martin Charnin, Broadway lyricist (Annie, West Side Story)
1935 - Ronald V Dellums, Oakland California, (Rep-D-California, 1971- )
1938 - Oscar Robertson [The Big O], NBA guard (Cin, Milwaukee, Olympic-gold-1960)
1938 - Wynne Bradburn, cricketer (father of Grant NZ batsman v South Africa 1964)
1938 - Charles Starkweather, American Spree Killer (d. 1959)
1938 - Willy Claes, Belgian politician
1939 - Jim Northrup, baseball player
1939 - Jim Yester, Birmingham Alabama, rock vocalist/guitarist (Association)
1939 - Yoshinobu Miyake, Japan, featherweight (Olympic-gold-1964, 68)
1940 - Paul Tagliabue, commissioner (NFL)
1940 - Wendell Morris Logan, composer
1940 - Don Metz, American architect
1940 - Eric Wilson, Canadian children's author.
1941 - Donald "Duck" Dunn, TN, bassist (Booker T-Mar-Keys, Walkin' the Dog), (d, 2012)
1941 - Gary Boyle, rocker (Isotope)
1941 - John de Andrea, US sculptor
1941 - Pete Best, British drummer (Beatles)
1942 - Bayani Mendoza de Leon, composer
1942 - Billy Connolly, Scotland, comedian/actor (Blue Money)
1942 - Marlin Fitzwater, press secretary (George Bush)
1943 - Barry Milburn, cricketer (NZ wicket-keeper in three Tests 1969)
1943 - Lee Michaels, rocker
1943 - Richard Tee, US pianist (Stuff, Strokin')
1943 - Robin Williamson, rocker (Incredible String Band)
1944 - Claudia Dreifus, interviewer/author (7 Stories)
1944 - Dan Glickman, (Rep-D-KS, 1977- )
1944 - Jules Deelder, Dutch poet (T of Vondel)
1944 - Ibrahim Gambari, Nigerian scholar
1945 - Bev[erley] Bevan, Birmingham England, rock drummer (ELO)
1946 - Ted Bundy, Burlington VT, serial murderer
1946 - Penelope Jones Halsall (aka: Caroline Courtney, Melinda Wright, Lydia Hitchcock, Penny Jordan, Annie Groves)
1947 - Dwight Schultz, Balt Md, actor (A-Team)
1947 - Dave Sinclair, English musician (Caravan, Hatfield and the North)
1948 - Ashok Gandotra, cricketer (in Rio de Janiero Two Tests for India 1969)
1948 - Spider Robinson, Canada, sci-fi author (3 Hugo, Callahan's Secret)
1948 - Steve Yeager, catcher (LA Dodger)
1949 - Anita Louis, US singer (Soul Children, I'll Be the Other Woman)
1949 - Martin Duiser, pop producer (Vanessa, Lee Towers)
1949 - Shane Bourne, Australian comedian and actor
1950 - Damon Evans, Balt Md, actor (Lionel-The Jeffersons)
1950 - Stanley Livingston, actor (Chip-My 3 Sons)
1951 - Chet Edwards, (Rep-D-Texas)
1951 - Gaby Landhage, Goteborg Sweden, model (Model of the Rear)
1951 - Graham Price, British rugby player
1952 - Brijesh Patel, cricketer (Indian batsman 1974-77)
1952 - Norbert Haug, German motorsport executive (Mercedes Benz)
1952 - Thierry Lhermitte, French comedian and actor
1953 - Tod Machover, composer
1953 - Glenn Withrow, American actor
1954 - Emir Kusturica, Serbian filmmaker
1955 - Clement Burke, rock drummer (Blondie)
1955 - Ian Botham, cricketer (all time great all-rounder Extrovert)
1955 - Scott Mabon Hoch, Raleigh NC, PGA golfer (1982 USF&G Classic)
1955 - Elvis Ramone, American drummer (The Ramones)
1955 - Takashi Yuasa, Japanese lawyer
1955 - Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth, Swedish politician
1956 - Doug Davidson, actor (Young & Restless)
1957 - Chris Hayes, California, rock guitarist (Huey Lewis & The News)
1957 - Denise Crosby, Hollywood California, actress (Tasha-Star Trek: Next Gen)
1958 - Alain Chabat, actor (French Twist, Six Days Six Night)
1958 - Carmel, [McCourt], England, rocker (Storm, More More More)
1958 - Roy Aitken, Scottish former footballer
1960 - Amanda Wyss, American actress
1960 - Edgar Meyer, American bassist and composer
1961 - Carl Sundquist, Indianapolis Ind, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1961 - Carlos Carnero, Spanish member of parliament
1961 - Arundhati Roy, Indian writer
1962 - John Squire, English pop guitarist (Stone Roses, She Bangs the Drums)
1962 - Lesa Ann Pedriana, Milwaukee Wisc, playmate (April, 1984)
1962 - Randy Velarde, Midland TX, infielder (NY Yankees, California Angels)
1963 - Lisa Howard, actress (Days of Our Life, Rolling Vengeance)
1964 - Garret Dillahunt, American actor
1964 - Brad Sherwood, American comedian
1964 - Tony Rombola, American guitarist (Godsmack)
1965 - Nyla Jane Carroll, New Plymouth NZ, 5k/10k/marathoner (Olympics-96)
1965 - Kim Roe-ha, South Korean actor
1965 - Shirley Henderson, Scottish actress
1966 - Ledell Eackles, NBA guard (Wash Wizards/Bullets)
1966 - Paul Robinett, American internet personality
1966 - Russell Watson, British singer
1967 - Al Martin, Covina CA, outfielder (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1967 - Ben McDonald, Baton Rouge LA, pitcher (Milwaukee Brewers)
1967 - Cal Eldred, baseball player
1968 - Dave Hansen, Long Beach CA, infielder (LA Dodgers)
1968 - Dave Jukes, Toronto Ont, Canadian Tour golfer (1991 Kawartha Lakes)
1968 - Ken Johnson, Quincy Mass, 3x40 rifle (Olympics-1996)
1968 - Bülent Korkmaz, Turkish footballer
1969 - Romesh Kaluwitharana, cricket (big-hit SL batsman, ton on Test debut)
1969 - Rob Nicholson, American musician
1970 - Brett Wallerstedt, NFL linebacker (Cin Bengals)
1970 - Chad Taylor, musician (Live)
1970 - Chris Hall, WLAF safety (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1970 - Doug Brien, kicker (New Orleans Saints)
1970 - Jason Jacome, Tulsa OK, pitcher (KC Royals)
1970 - Kelly Blair, Prosser Wash, heptathlete
1970 - Lemanski Hall, NFL linebacker (Houston/Tennessee Oilers)
1970 - Nancy Mason, Belleville Ill, WPVA volleyballer (Nationals-17th-1995)
1970 - Julieta Venegas, Mexican singer
1971 - Keith Primeau, Toronto, NHL forward (Carolina, Detroit)
1971 - Tony Cline, NFL tight end (Buffalo Bills)
1971 - Cosmas Ndeti, three-time Boston Marathon winner
1972 - Barry Potomski, Windsor, NHL left wing (LA Kings)
1972 - Fred Brathwaite, Ottawa, NHL goalie (Edmonton Oilers)
1973 - Donny Brady, defensive back (Baltimore Ravens)
1973 - Kendel Shello, DL (Indianapolis Colts)
1974 - Stephen Merchant, British comedian
1974 - Taro Yamamoto, Japanese actor
1975 - Carly Jarmon, Mesquite Texas, Miss America-Texas (1996)
1975 - Thomas Kohnstamm, American writer
1976 - Chen Lu, China, figure skater (Olympics-Bronze-94)
1976 - Dave Aizer, American television host
1977 - Kimi Fairchild, Miss Louisiana Teen USA (1996)
1977 - Colin Hanks, American actor
1978 - Katherine Heigl, Washington, D.C., actress (Grey's Anatomy)
1980 - Beth Phoenix, American professional wrestler
1982 - Sean O'Loughlin, English rugby league footballer
1983 - Dean Ashton, English footballer
1983 - Meredith Henderson, Canadian actress
1983 - Karine Vanasse, Quebec actress
1985 - Julia Alexandratou, Greek fashion model and singer
1985 - Tony Hunt, National Football League player
1987 - Megan Mullins, American singer
1989 - Johnny Exantus, Hatian soccer player
1998 - Bridger Palmer, American child actor
1998 - Brecken Palmer, American child actor

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 24, 2013, 02:32:21 PM

This Day in History for 24th November


Famous Deaths

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Painter Diego Rivera (1957)          Ex-soldier, drifter Lee Harvey Oswald (1963)


654 - Emperor Kōtoku of Japan (b. 596)
1115 - Mathilde, markgravin of Toscane, dies
1192 - Albert I van Leuven/Luik, Belgian bishop of Luik/saint, dies at 27
1468 - Jean de Dunois, French soldier (b. 1402)
1531 - Johannes Oecolampadius, German religious reformer (b. 1482)
1541 - Margaret Tudor, wife of James IV of Scotland (b. 1489)
1555 - French Vervoort, Flemish mystic (Bruylocht Cleedt), dies at about 65
1571 - Jan Blahoslav, Czech bishop, dies at 48
1572 - John Knox, Scottish preacher, dies at about 67
1583 - René de Birague, French cardinal and chancellor (b. 1506)
1615 - Sethus Calvisius, composer, dies at 59
1650 - Manuel Cardoso, composer, dies at 83
1674 - Franciscus van Enden, Flemish jesuit/free thinker, executed at 72
1722 - Johann Adam Reincken, German organist/composer, dies at 99
1741 - Queen Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden (b. 1688)
1770 - Charles-Jean-François Hénault, French historian (b. 1685)
1775 - Lorenzo Ricci, Italian Jesuit leader (b. 1703)
1781 - James Caldwell, American revolutionary (b. 1734)
1793 - Clément Charles François de Laverdy, French statesman (b. 1723)
1801 - Franz Moritz Graf von Lacy, Austrian field marshal (b. 1725)
1807 - Joseph Brant, Mohawk leader (b. 1742)
1822 - Karl Jacob Wagner, composer, dies at 50
1827 - Harman W Muntinghe, lawyer/colonial director, dies at 54
1838 - Karl Ludwig Hellwig, composer, dies at 65
1840 - Cornelis RT Krayenhoff, fortress architect/cartographer, dies at 82
1842 - Pehr Frigel, composer, dies at 92
1848 - William Lamb 2nd viscount Melbourne, British PM (1834..41), dies at 69
1863 - Claudius Charles Wilson, Confederate brig-gen during American Civil War, dies of fever at
           camp in Ringgold, Georgia
1870 - Comte de Lautréamont, French writer (b. 1846)
1880 - Hanri Reber, composer, dies at 73
1885 - Alfonso XII, king of Spain (1875-85), dies at 27
1890 - August Belmont, Sr., Prussian-born financier (b. 1816)
1899 - Abdullah ibn Mohammed al-Ta'a'ishi, mahdi of Sudan (1883-99), dies
1903 - Charles Dupee Blake, composer, dies at 56
1914 - Louis de Raet, Belgian economist/Flemish People Party, dies
1916 - John Francis Barnett, composer, dies at 79
1916 - Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim, American-born gunsmith (b. 1840)
1923 - Michel de Klerk, architect (Amsterdam School), dies at 39
1929 - Georges Clemenceau, French journalist/premier (1917-20), dies at 88
1943 - Martin Raschke, German author/war correspondent, dies at 38
1943 - Reina Prince Geerligs, [Leentjes Vandendriesch], anti-fascist, dies
1943 - Doris Miller, American navy cook (b. 1919)
1944 - EMHCH Houtappel, resistance fighter: in Neuengamme, dies
1944 - Vaclav Stepan, composer, dies at 54
1946 - Alfonso Broqua, composer, dies at 70
1948 - Raoul Armand Georg Koczalski, composer, dies at 64
1953 - George Alexander Russell, composer, dies at 73
1953 - Robert H Lightfoot, English theologist/exegetist, dies at 70
1956 - Guido Cantelli, Italian conductor (b. 1920)
1957 - Diego Rivera, Mexican painter, dies at 70
1958 - Edgar A Robert Cecil viscount of Chelwood, (Nobel 1937), dies at 94
1959 - Lyman Bryson, educator (UN Casebook), dies at 71
1959 - Yuri N Libedinski, Ukrainen writer (Commissioners), dies at 60
1959 - Dally Messenger, Australian rugby player (b. 1883)
1960 - Salomon "Sam" de Wolff, zionist/socialist theorist, dies at 82
1960 - Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia (b. 1882)
1961 - Ruth Chatterton, actress (Female, Dodsworth), dies after illness at 67
1962 - James J Kilroy, tank inspector (Kilroy was here), dies at 60
1963 - Lee Harvey Oswald, JFK's assassinator, shot dead by Jack Ruby
1964 - John Fabricius, playwright, dies at 55
1965 - Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1895)
1967 - Arnold J d'ailly, mayor of Amsterdam (1946-56), dies at 65
1967 - Louis Fratto, American gangster (b. 1908)
1970 - Evgeny Karlovich Tikotsky, composer, dies at 76
1972 - Hall Overton, US composer (Enchanted Pear Tree), dies at 52
1973 - John Neihardt, American writer (b. 1881)
1977 - Richard Carlson, actor/director (Little Foxes, Hunted), dies at 65
1980 - George Raft, actor (Scarface, Johnny Angel, Mr Ace), dies at 85
1980 - Herbert Agar, American journalist and historian (b. 1897)
1985 - Cees Buddingh', Dutch poet/writer/interpreter/translator, dies at 67
1985 - Big Joe Turner, American singer (b. 1911)
1987 - Jehane Benoît, French Canadian culinary author (b. 1904)
1989 - Guus Weitzel, Dutch radio host, dies at 85
1990 - Bulent Arel, composer, dies at 72
1990 - Nistani Keiji, philosopher, dies in Kyoto Japan
1990 - Dodie Smith, English novelist and playwright (b. 1896)
1990 - Juan Manuel Bordeu, Argentine racing driver (b. 1934)
1990 - Marion Post Wolcott, American photographer of the depression, dies aged 80
1991 - Anton Furst, production designer (Batman), dies at 47
1991 - Eric Carr, drummer (Kiss-Beth), dies of cancer at 41
1991 - Freddie Mercury, British singer (Queen), dies of AIDS at 45
1992 - Henri J de Koster, Dutch Min of Defense (1971-73), dies at 78
1992 - Mary Smithuysen, Dutch dancer/actress (Bridge Too Far), dies
1992 - Theo Edison, son of Thomas Edison, dies at 94
1993 - Albert Collins, blues guitarist (Don't Lose Your Cool), dies at 61
1993 - Germaine Emilie Madame Gres Krebs, haute Couturist, dies at 89
1993 - Imad Aqal, Palestinian Hamas leader, dies at 24
1993 - Jan Schrauwen, Dutch sculptor, dies at 36
1993 - Wu Yi Shen, mayor of Shen Yang China, dies in helicopter
1994 - Ivo Perilli, Italian screenplay/director (Ragazzo), dies at 92
1994 - Jo Vis, Dutch resistance fighter (Yad Vashem), dies at 88
1994 - Tommy Boyce, songwriter (Boyce & Hart), dies at 55
1995 - Jeffrey Lynn, American actor (Tony Rome, Butterfield 8, Up Front), dies from natural causes
           at 86
1995 - Stuart Henry, disc jockey, dies at 53
1995 - Woiciech Woytek Wiesidlowski Lowski, dancer, dies at 56
1996 - Edison Vasalievich Denisov, composer, dies at 67
1996 - Michael James O'Hehir, commentator/journalist, dies at 76
1996 - Sorley MacLean Somhairle MacChaluim, poet, dies at 85
2001 - Melanie Thornton, American dance/pop singer (b. 1967)
2002 - John Rawls, political philosopher (b. 1921)
2003 - Floquet de Neu, Ecuato Guinean albino gorilla (b. 1964)
2003 - Warren Spahn, Major League Baseball player (b. 1921)
2004 - Wong Jim, Hong Kong songwriter (b. 1940)
2004 - Arthur Hailey, British-born author (b. 1920)
2005 - Pat Morita, American actor (Happy Days, Karate Kid) dies aged 73
2006 - Juice Leskinen, Finnish rock singer (b. 1950)
2006 - George W. S. Trow, American writer (b. 1943)
2006 - Zdeněk Veselovský, Czech zoologist (b. 1938)
2008 - Cecil H. Underwood, Governor of West Virginia (b. 1922)
2008 - Kenny MacLean, Scottish musician (Platinum Blonde) (b. 1956)
2009 - Abe Pollin, owner of the Washington Wizards (b. 1923)
2009 - Samak Sundaravej, Thai politician, Prime Minister 2008 (b. 1935)
2009 - Chan Hung Lit, Hong Kong actor (b. 1943)
2010 - Huang Hua, Chinese statesman (b. 1913)
2012 - Héctor Camacho, Puerto Rican professional boxer, dies from gunshot injuries at 50

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 25, 2013, 02:07:29 PM

This Day in History for 25th November


Historical Events

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Explorer of the New World                       Inventor/Nobel Prize founder               Archaeologist and 
Christopher Columbus                              Alfred Bernhard Nobel                          Discoverer of Tutankhamun
                                                                                                                              Howard Carter

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Baseball Player Ted Williams                  US President John F. Kennedy            Musician and Beatle John Lennon

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NFL Running Back                            US President & Actor Ronald Reagan
and Convicted Criminal
OJ Simpson   


1034 - King Malcolm II of Scotland (Máel Coluim mac Cináeda), King of Scots dies (b. 980).
           Donnchad, the son of his second daughter Bethóc and Crínán of Dunkeld, inherits the
           throne.
1165 - RC German emperor Frederik I Barbarossa visits Utrecht
1177 - Baldwin IV of Jerusalem and Raynald of Chatillon defeat Saladin at the Battle of Montgisard.
1185 - Pope Lucius III (Ubaldo Allucingoli) reigned 1181-85, dies and is replaced by Umberto Crivelli
           (Pope Urban III)
1277 - Giovanni Gaetano Orsini elected as Pope Nicolas III
1357 - Charles IV issues letter of protection of Jews of Strasbourg Alsace
1491 - The siege of Granada, last Moorish stronghold in Spain, begins.
1500 - Governor De Bobadilla of Santo Domingo captures Columbus
1659 - Michiel de Ruyter conquerors Danish city Nyborg
1667 - A deadly earthquake rocks Shemakha, in the Caucasus, killing 80,000 people.
1703 - The Great Storm of 1703, the greatest windstorm ever recorded in the southern part of
           Great Britain, reaches its peak intensity which it maintains through November 27. Winds gust
           up to 120 mph, and 9,000 people perish in the mighty gale.
1715 - 1st English patent granted to an American, for processing corn
1744 - Austrian forces pillage & kill Jews of Prague
1755 - King Ferdinand IV of Spain granted the Beaterio dela Compania de Jesus or now known as the
           Congregation of the Religious of the Virgin Mary(RVM) a royal protection.
1758 - Britain capture Ft Duquesne (later Fort Pitt/Pittsburgh) from French
1766 - Pope Clement XIII warns On dangers of anti-Christian writings
1783 - Britain evacuates NYC, their last military position in US
1792 - Farmer's Almanac 1st published
1805 - Opera "Thaïs" 1st American performance
1817 - 1st sword swallower in US performs (NYC)
1826 - The Greek frigate Hellas arrives in Nafplion to become the first flagship of the Hellenic Navy.
1834 - Delmonico's, one of NY's finest restaurants, provides a meal of soup, steak, coffee & half a
           pie for 12 cents
1839 - A cyclone slams India with high winds and a 40 foot storm surge, destroying the port city of
           Coringa (never to be entirely rebuilt again). The storm wave sweeps inland, taking with it
           20,000 ships and thousands of people. An estimated 300,000 deaths result from the
           disaster.
1841 - 35 Amistad survivors return to Africa
1847 - Opera "Marta" is produced (Vienna)
1863 - Battle of Missionary Ridge, Tennessee
1864 - Confederate plot to burn NYC, fails
1864 - Confederate retreat at Sandersville, Georgia
1867 - Alfred Nobel patents dynamite
1867 - US Congress commission looks into "impeachment" of President Andrew Johnson
1874 - The United States Greenback Party is established as a political party consisting primarily of
           farmers affected by the Panic of 1873.
1876 - Indian Wars: In retaliation for the American defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, United
           States Army troops sack Chief Dull Knife's sleeping Cheyenne village at the headwaters of the
           Powder River.
1884 - John B Meyenberg of St Louis patents evaporated milk
1894 - Greenback (Independent) Party organizes in Indianapolis
1897 - Spain grants Puerto Rico autonomy
1899 - Battle at Graspan, Cape colony: General Methuen beats Farmers
1902 - Franz Lehars opera "Wiener Fraueen" premieres in Vienna
1908 - Dorando Pietri (It) beats Johnny Hayes (US) in Madison Square Garden marathon by 60 yds
1911 - 3rd CFL Grey Cup: U of Toronto defeats Toronto Argonauts, 14-7
1912 - American College of Surgeons incorporates in Springield, Ill
1912 - Socialist International rejects that world war is coming
1920 - 1st Thanksgiving Parade (Phila)
1920 - WTAW of College Station, Tx, broadcast 1st football play-by-play
1922 - Archaeologist Howard Carter enters King Tut's tomb
1922 - Japanese crown prince Hirohito appointed prince-regent
1925 - KPD proposes German Parliament expropriate possession of monarchy
1929 - Belgium government Jaspar falls
1930 - 690 earthquake shocks recorded in 1 day (Ito Japan)
1930 - Sporting News picks Bill Terry as NL MVP & Joe Cronin as AL MVP
1933 - 1st Soviet liquid fuel rocket attains altitude of 261' (80m)
1935 - Resident Institution for Social History (IISG) forms in Amsterdam
1936 - Germany & Japan sign anti-Komintern pact
1937 - World's fair of Paris closes (31.2 million visitors)
1940 - Patria, carrying illegal immigrants, sinks in port of Haifa, 200 die
1940 - U of Mich retires Tom Harmon's #98
1940 - Woody Woodpecker debuts with release of Walter Lantz's "Knock Knock"
1940 - First flight of the deHavilland Mosquito and Martin B-26 Marauder.
1941 - German Jews in Netherlands declared stateless (lose of nationality)
1941 - Lou Boudreau, 24, becomes Cleveland Indians player/manager
1941 - Finland joined the Anti-Comintern Pact.
1942 - National Organization for Aid to Underground, LO, forms
1943 - U-600 sinks in Atlantic Ocean
1944 - 32nd CFL Grey Cup: Montreal HMCS defeat Hamilton Flying Wildcats, 7-6
1944 - World War II: A German V-2 rocket hits a Woolworth's store in Deptford, United Kingdom,
           killing 160 shoppers.
1947 - New Zealand accedes to Statute of Westminster, becomes a dominion
1948 - Ft Funston's 16-inch coastal guns removed
1948 - KING TV channel 5 in Seattle, WA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1949 - "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer" appears on music charts
1949 - Ted Williams, wins AL MVP
1950 - "Tickets, Please" closes at Coronet Theater NYC after 245 performances
1950 - 38th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Winn Blue Bombers, 13-0
1950 - UN gives Eritrea to Ethiopia
1951 - 17 die in a train crash in Woodstock Alabama, America
1951 - Cleveland Browns penalized a record 209 yards against Chicago Bears
1951 - Commemoration of Dutch resistance fighter Hannie Schaft forbidden
1952 - George Meany appointed as chairman of AFL
1952 - Only win ever for NFL's Dallas Texans (11-1) beats Bears 27-23
1953 - "Guys & Dolls" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 1200 performances
1953 - Earthquake/tsnunami strike Honshu Japan
1953 - Hungary beats England in soccer match, 6-3
1955 - Race segregation forbidden on trains & buses between US states
1955 - Walter Piston's 6th Symphony, premieres
1957 - Pres Eisenhower suffers a mild stroke, impairing his speech
1958 - Senegal becomes an autonomous state in French Community
1959 - "Once Upon a Mattress" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 460 performances
1960 - "Amos 'n' Andy" made its last broadcast on CBS radio
1960 - 1st atomic reactor for research & development, Richland Wa
1960 - CBS ends last 4 radio soap operas (Ma Perkins, Right to Happiness, Young Dr Malone & 2nd
           Mrs Burton) & cancels 4 other series
1960 - The Mirabal sisters of the Dominican Republic are assassinated.
1961 - NBA's Bob Cousy becomes 2nd player to score 15,000 points
1962 - WBJA (now WMGC) TV channel 34 in Binghamton, NY (ABC) 1st broadcast
1963 - JFK laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery
1965 - Congo milt coup under Gen Mobutu, Pres Kasavubu overthrown
1966 - Cincinnati infielder Tommy Helms is voted NL Rookie of Year
1966 - Jimi Hendrix Experience makes its London debut at Bag O' Nails Club
1966 - Pirate Radio Station 390 (Radio Invicta) closes down (reopen 12/31)
1967 - "Apple Tree" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 463 performances
1967 - Puerto Rico placed on Atlantic Standard Time
1969 - John Lennon returns OBE to protest UK's support for Vietnam War
1969 - KC outfielder Lou Piniella is voted AL Rookie of Year
1970 - Yankees catcher Thurman Munson wins AL Rookie of Year
1970 - In Japan, author Yukio Mishima and two compatriots commit ritualistic suicide after an
           unsuccessful coup attempt.
1971 - "Dan Cooper" jumps with $200,000 out of plane over Washington
1971 - 37th Heisman Trophy Award: Pat Sullivan, Auburn (QB)
1972 - "Ambassador" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC after 9 performances
1973 - 3 Palestinians hijack KLM B747 above Iraq, to Dubai
1973 - 61st CFL Grey Cup: Ottawa Rough Riders defeats Edmonton Eskimos, 22-18
1973 - Bloodless military coup ousts Greek Pres George Papadopoulos
1973 - Maximum speed limit cut to 55 MPH as an energy conservation measure
1974 - Irish Republican Army is outlawed in Britain following deaths of 21
1974 - Rangers' Mike Hargrove wins AL Rookie of Year
1975 - Netherlands grants Suriname independence (Natl Day)
1975 - Portuguese leftist officers occupy 4 airbases
1976 - OJ Simpson gains 273 yards for Buffalo vs Detroit
1976 - The Band's farewell concert at SF's Winterland Ballroom
1976 - Viking 1 radio signal from Mars help prove genl theory of relativity
1977 - David Steed balanced stationary on a bike for 9 hrs 15 mins
1977 - Miss Teenage America Pageant
1977 - Thomas Hearns KOs Jerome Hill in 2 rounds in his 1st pro fight
1979 - "Most Happy Fella" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 53 perfs
1979 - 67th CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Montreal Alouettes, 17-9
1979 - Israel returns Alma oilfields in Gulf of Suez to Egypt
1979 - Pittsburgh gains 606 net yards against Cleveland, winning 33-30
1980 - Coup in Burkina abolishes constitution
1980 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1980 - Imran Khan scores his 1st Test Cricket ton, 123 v WI Lahore
1980 - Sugar Ray Leonard defeats Duran regains WBC welterweight championship
1980 - Upper-Volta milt coup under Col Saye Zerbo, president Lamizana flees
1981 - Failed coup by South African mercenaries in Seychelles
1981 - Rollie Fingers is 1st relief pitcher to win AL MVP
1982 - The Minneapolis Thanksgiving Day Fire destroys an entire city block, including the
           Northwestern National Bank building and the recently closed Donaldson's Department Store.
1983 - Larry Holmes TKOs Marvis Frazier in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
1983 - Soyuz T-9 returns to Earth, 149 days after take-off
1983 - Syria & Saudi Arabia announce cease-fire in PLO civil war in Tripoli
1983 - World's greatest robbery 25,000,000 pounds of gold, Heathrow, England
1984 - Julio M Sanguinetti wins Uruguay presidential election
1984 - William Schroeder, is 2nd to receive Jarvik-7 artificial heart
1985 - White Sox shortstop Ozzie Guillen, is named AL Rookie of Year
1986 - A's Jose Canseco wins AL Rookie of Year
1986 - Iran-Contra affair erupts, President Reagan reveals secret arm deal
1986 - Oliver North's sect, Fawn Hill, smuggles documents out of his office
1987 - Abdul Qadir takes 9-56 against England at Lahore
1987 - India all out for 75 v West Indies at Delhi, Patterson 5-24
1987 - Supertyphoon Nina pummels the Philippines with category 5 winds of 165 mph and a surge
           that swallows entire villages. at least 1,036 deaths attributed to the storm.
1988 - Chuck Berry pays $250 fine to resolve NYC assault charges
1988 - Convention on exploitation of Antarctic mineral resources signed
1988 - US & Soviet chess grand masters Donaldson & Akhmilovskaya wed
1988 - Widespread earthquake hits North East US, Canada, no damage reported
1988 - German politician Rita Süssmuth becomes president of the Bundestag.
1989 - David Boon scores 200 v NZ at cricket WACA
1990 - 78th CFL Grey Cup: Winn Blue Bombers defeat Edmonton Eskimos, 50-11
1990 - Lech Walesa wins in Poland's 1st popular election
1990 - NFL's NY Giants & SF 49ers after winning their 1st 10 games both
1990 - Sri Lanka all out 82, Venkatapathy Raju (I) 6-12 off 17 lose, Phil Eagles beat Giants 31-13 &
           L.A. Rams beat 49ers 28-17
1993 - Dutch Antilles government of Liberia-Peters falls
1993 - Failed bomb attack on Egyptian premier Atef Sedki, 1 dead
1994 - Sony founder Akio Morita announces he will be stepping down as CEO of the company.
1995 - "Patti LuPone on Broadway" closes at Walter Kerr NYC after 46 perfs
1996 - After 24 years, Disneyland Main Street Electrical Parade, ends
1997 - US telephone tech Richard Bliss, arrested for spying in Russia
2000 - 2000 Baku earthquake took place.
2005 - Polish Minister of National Defence Radek Sikorski opens Warsaw Pact archives to historians.
           Maps of possible nuclear strikes against Western Europe, as well as the possible nuclear
           annihilation of 43 Polish cities and 2 million of its citizens by Soviet-controlled forces, are
           released.
2007 - The first European Parliament election and a referendum on changing the voting system
           (called by the President and declared invalid because of insufficient turnout) were held in
           Romania.
2008 - A car bomb in St. Petersburg, Russia, kills three people and injures one.
2009 - Powerful storm brings 3 years worth of rain in 4 hours to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, sparking
           terrible floods known as the 2009 Jeddah Floods, which kill over 150 people and sweep
           thousands of cars away right in the middle of Hajj in the second largest city of Saudi Arabia,
           Jeddah.
2011 - Sudden violent storms strike southern Sri Lanka, killing 27 people and drowning many
           fishermen caught by surprise. Thousands of homes lose their roofs and several more sustain
           damage. Landslides along with flooding was reported on the mainland.
2012 - 11 people are killed and 30 are wounded by twin car bombs hitting a Protestant church in
           Nigeria
2012 - 16 people are killed and 44 injured after a wedding party bus plunges 300 ft down a gorge in
           India
2012 - Sebastian Vettel wins the 2012 Formula One championship for the third consecutive year

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Post by: MysteRy on November 25, 2013, 02:09:52 PM

This Day in History for 25th November


Famous Weddings

1913 - 28th US president Woodrow Wilson's daughter Jessie marries in The White House

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Post by: MysteRy on November 25, 2013, 02:11:08 PM

This Day in History for 25th November


Famous Divorces

2002 - Academy Award-winning actor Nicolas Cage (38) divorces "Princess of Rock and Roll" Lisa Marie
           Presley (34) due to irreconcilable differences after 3 months of marriage

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Post by: MysteRy on November 25, 2013, 02:27:34 PM

This Day in History for 25th November


Famous Birthdays

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262nd Pope John XXIII (1881)            Baseball Player Joe DiMaggio (1914)               Publisher and Lawyer
                                                                                                                              John F. Kennedy Jr. (1960)

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Actress Christina Applegate (1971)         Twin daughter of US President
                                                              George W. Bush Barbara Pierce


1454 - Catherine Cornaro, queen of Cyprus (d. 1510)
1501 - Yi Hwang, Confucian scholar (d. 1570)
1507 - Joost de Damhoudere, Flemish lawyer (Praxis rerum criminalium)
1562 - Lope Felix de Vega, Madrid Spain, dramatist/poet (Angelica, Arcadia)
1577 - Piet Hein, Dutch naval commander and folk hero (d. 1629)
1638 - Catherine of Braganza, Queen of Charles II of England (d. 1705)
1697 - Gerhard Tersteegen, German evangelist/poet (wrote in blood)
1703 - Jean-François Séguier, French astronomer and botanist (d. 1784)
1712 - Charles-Michel de l'Épée, French philanthropist and developer of 'Signed French' (d. 1789)
1714 - Yoriyuki Arima, Japanese mathematician (d. 1783)
1721 - Willem Crul, admiral (West-Indies)
1734 - Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Wenkel, composer
1737 - Christian Friedrich Penzel, composer
1741 - Johann Christian Frischmuth, composer
1752 - Johann Friedrich Reichardt, composer
1753 - Otto Carl Erdmann Kospoth, composer
1778 - Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, British Christian writer (d. 1856)
1787 - Franz Xavier Gruber, Austria, organist/composer (Silent Night)
1814 - Julius Robert von Mayer, German physician and physicist (d. 1878)
1817 - John Bigelow, American statesman and author (d. 1911)
1823 - Joseph Alexander Cooper, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1910
1825 - Edward Augustus Wild, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1891
1828 - Franjo Racki, Croatian historian/politician
1834 - Jean-Baptist Colyns, composer
1835 - Andrew Carnegie, Scottish/US industrialist/philanthropist
1839 - Stanislaw Duniecki, composer
1840 - Hugo Verriest, Flemish author/poet (Flemish Movement)
1841 - Ernst Schröder, German mathematician (d. 1902)
1843 - Henry Ware Eliot American industrialist, philanthropist and the father of T. S. Eliot (d. 1919)
1844 - Karl F Benz, German designer/auto manufacturer (4-taktmotor)
1845 - José Maria de Eça de Queiroz, Portuguese novelist (d. 1900)
1846 - Carrie Nation, American temperance advocate (d. 1911)
1852 - Johan N Salvator, [Johann Orth], archduke of Austria
1856 - Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev, Russia, composer (Oresteia)
1858 - Alfred Capus, French author (d. 1922)
1862 - Ethelbert Woodbridge Nevin, composer
1869 - Ben Lindsey, American judge and social reformer (d. 1934)
1870 - Winthrop Ames, American theatrical director (d. 1937)
1871 - Cornelis J "Cor" van Ast, actor/director (Ghost Hotel)
1874 - Joe Gans, American boxer (d. 1910)
1876 - Princess Victoria Melita of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Grand Duchess of Hesse
           (d. 1936)
1877 - Harley Granville-Barker, London, dramatist/producer/critic
1878 - Georg Kaiser, writer
1880 - Leonard S Woolf, English author/husband of Virginia Woolf
1880 - Elsie J. Oxenham, British children's author (d. 1960)
1881 - Pope John XXIII [Angelo Roncalli], Bergamo Italy, 261st pope (1958-63)
1881 - Peder Gram, composer
1883 - Percy Marmont, London England, actor (Capt Apache)
1883 - Harvey Spencer Lewis, American mystic (d. 1939)
1886 - Percy Holmes, cricketer (Engl, 555 partners with Sutcliffe for Yorks)
1886 - Rex Maupin, St Joseph Mo, orchestra leader (Tin Pan Alley TV)
1887 - Nikolai Vavilov, Russian geneticist (d. 1943)
1890 - Isaac Rosenberg, English war poet and artist (d. 1918)
1895 - Anastas I Mikoyan, Armenia, member of Supreme Soviet
1895 - Ludvik Svoboda, Czech general/politician
1895 - Wilhelm Kempff, Juterbog Germany, pianist (Unter dem Zimbelstern)
1895 - Helen Hooven Santmyer, American writer (d. 1986)
1896 - Virgil Thomson, KC Mo, composer/music critic (4 Saints in 3 Acts)
1899 - Vera Reynolds, Richmond VA, silent screen actress (Lawless Woman)
1899 - William R Burnett, US, author (Little Caesar)
1900 - Arthur Schwartz, composer (Girl from Paris, Excuse my Dust)
1900 - Helen Gahagan Douglas, Nixon's 1st opponent/(Rep-D-Ca)
1900 - Rudolf Höß, commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp (d. 1947)
1901 - Tibor Serly, Losonc Hungary, violinist/composer (American Elegy)
1901 - Arthur Liebehenschel, Commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp (d. 1948)
1902 - Eddie Shore, Boston Bruins (#2), hall of famer
1903 - Martin Soames, traveller
1903 - William Dehart Hubbard, Cin Ohio, long jumper (Olympic-gold-1924)
1904 - Herbert Reynolds Inch, composer
1904 - Jessie Royce Landis, [Medbury], Chicago, actress (North by Northwest)
1904 - Lillian Copeland, US discus thrower (Olympic-gold-1932)
1904 - Ba Jin, Chinese novelist (d. 2005)
1904 - Toni Ortelli, Italian composer and alpinist (d. 2000)
1907 - John Stuart Hindmarsh, British racing driver and aviator (d. 1938)
1909 - Hugh Davson, physiologist/writer
1909 - Manny Martindale, cricketer (fiery WI pace bowler of 30's)
1910 - Leon Poliakov, historian
1911 - Roelof Frankot, Dutch painter (d. 1984)
1913 - Jack Davies, screenwriter
1913 - Lewis Thomas, American physician and essayist (d. 1993)
1914 - "Joltin'" Joe DiMaggio, Yankee Clipper (56 game hitting streak), (d. 1999)
1914 - Eddie Boyd, blues vocal/pianist (Mississippi)
1914 - Léon Zitrone, Russian-born French journalist and television host (d. 1995)
1915 - Augusto Pinochet, general/president (Chile)
1915 - George Mudie, cricketer (WI all-rounder in one Test 1935, 5 & 3-40)
1915 - Ron Hamence, cricketer (Australian batsman post-WWII)
1919 - Chaim Pearl, rabbi
1920 - Ricardo Montalban, Mexican actor (Fantasy Island, Star Trek II, Naked Gun)
1920 - Tuanku Syed Putra ibni Almarhum Syed Hassan Jamalullail, King of Malaysia (d. 2000)
1920 - Noel Neill, American actress
1922 - Ilja Hurnik, composer
1922 - Gloria Lasso, French-Spanish singer (d. 2005)
1923 - Jaap van Meekren, Dutch TV host (AVRO/RTL4)
1923 - Mauno Koivisto, president of Finland (1982-94)
1924 - Paul Desmond, US jazz saxophonist
1924 - Tui St George Tucker, composer
1924 - Takaaki Yoshimoto, Japanese poet, critic, and philosopher.
1925 - Jose Napoleon Duarte, president El Salvador
1926 - Jeffrey Hunter, New Orleans, Louisiana, American actor (Star Trek Cage, The Searchers)
1926 - Murray Schisgal, playwright (Luv)
1926 - Poul [William] Anderson, US, sci-fi author (7 Hugos, Mirkheim)
1928 - James "Jimmy" Johnson, US gospel/blues singer/guitarist
1929 - Jack Hogan, Chapel Hill NC, ator (Combat, Adam 12, Sierra)
1929 - Theo Bruins, Dutch pianist/composer (Sei Studii)
1931 - Dickie Jeeps, English rugby international/chairman Sports Council
1933 - Kathryn Grant Crosby, Houston Texas, actress (Mr Cory, Big Circus)
1933 - Krzysztof Penderecki, Polish composer (Die Teufel von Loudon)
1933 - Lenny Moore, NFL back (Baltimore Colts)
1933 - Ramiro Cortes, composer
1933 - Rene Enriquez, SF California, actor (Ray Calletano-Hill Street Blues)
1936 - Matt Clark, Washington DC, actor/director (Return to Oz, Horror Show)
1936 - Trisha Brown, American choreographer and dancer
1938 - John "Jack" Baines, mountaineering publisher
1939 - Martin Feldstein, economist (1977 John Bates Clark Medal)
1939 - Rosanna Schiaffino, Genoa Italy, actress (Minotaur, Mazzabubu)
1940 - Percy Sledge, soul singer (When A Man Loves A Woman)
1940 - Richard Furrer, Worgl Germany, astronaut (STS 22)
1940 - Joe Gibbs, American football coach
1941 - Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi, Indian Muslim Sufi, author, spiritual leader (d. 2001)
1942 - Rosa Von Praunheim, [Holger Mischwitzky], Riga Latvia, dir (Affengeil)
1942 - Tracey Walter, Jersey City NJ, actor (Best of the West)
1943 - Roy Lynes, rocker (Status Quo)
1944 - Ben Stein, American actor
1945 - George Webster, American football player (d. 2007)
1945 - Patrick Nagel, American artist (d. 1984)
1947 - John Larroquette, New Orleans LA, actor (Dan Fielding-Night Court)
1947 - Jonathan Kaplan, Paris France, director (Heart Like a Wheel)
1947 - Linda Laflamme, rocker
1947 - Val Fuentes, rocker (It's A Beautiful Day)
1947 - Tracey Walter, American actor
1948 - Storm Field, [Elliot], NY, weatherman (WABC TV, WCBS TV)
1948 - Jacques P. Dupuis, French Canadian politician
1949 - Kerry O'Keeffe, cricketer (Australian leg-spinner 1971-77)
1949 - Rita Jenrette, San Antonio Tx, wife of Rep John Jenrette (D-SC)
1949 - [Boris] Alexander Godunov, Sakhalin USSR, dancer/actor (Die Hard)
1950 - Alexis Wright, Australian author
1951 - Bucky Dent, all star shortstop (Chicago White Sox, NY Yankees)
1951 - Johnny Rep, Dutch soccer player
1951 - Bill Morrissey, American musician
1951 - Arturo Pérez Reverte, Spanish novelist and war reporter
1952 - Amelia Rorer, LPGA golfer
1952 - Ernest Harden Jr, Detroit Mich, actor (Marcus-Jeffersons)
1952 - Imran Khan Niazi, cricketer (Pakistan's greatest all-rounder) and politician
1952 - John Lynch, American politician current governor of New Hampshire
1953 - Monique St Pierre, Weisbaden Germany, playmate of year (Nov, 1978)
1953 - Jeffrey Skilling, American former CEO of Enron
1955 - Bruno Tonioli, Italian born British dancer
1956 - Ena Heese, South African costume designer (Willem of Orange)
1956 - Liana Vicens, Puerto Rico, 100m breaststroke (Olympics 1968)
1956 - Hélène Goudin, Swedish politician
1957 - Chico Walker, baseball player
1957 - Bob Ehrlich, Jr., former Maryland governor
1958 - Gary Coveyou, rocker
1959 - Steve Rothery, Brampton, guitarist, (Marillion-Clutching at Straws)
1959 - Charles Kennedy, British politician
1960 - Amy Grant, Augusta, Georgia, American gospel/rock singer (Glory of Love, Baby Baby)
1960 - John F Kennedy Jr, NYC, lawyer, magazine publisher (George) and son of JFK
1960 - Kasey Smith, Queens NY, heavy metal artist (Danger Danger-Screw It)
1960 - Mary Ostergren, St Paul Minn, biathelete (Olympics-1994)
1961 - Amy Gibson, actress (General Hospital)
1961 - Kenny Monday, Tulsa Oklahoma, 163 lbs freestyles wrestler (Oly-88, 92, 96)
1962 - Gilbert Delorme, Canadian ice hockey player
1963 - Bernie Kosar, NFL quarterback (Miami Dolphins, Cleveland Browns)
1963 - Steve Ave, St Germain Enlay France, US 1500m runner
1963 - Kevin Chamberlin, American actor
1963 - Holly Cole, Canadian jazz singer
1964 - Dan Saleaumua, NFL defensive tackle (KC Chiefs, Seattle Seahawks)
1964 - Nolan Jay Henke, Battle Creek MI, PGA golfer (1990 BC Open)
1964 - Wendy Wyland, Jackson Mich, platform diver (Olympic-bronze-1984)
1964 - Mark Lanegan, American musician (Screaming Trees)
1965 - Anthony Newman, NFL safety (New Orleans Saints)
1965 - Cris Carter, NFL wide receiver (Minnesota Vikings)
1965 - Jeff Norton, Acton, NHL defenseman (Edmonton Oilers)
1965 - Mike Gebhardt, Columbus Ohio, mistral yachter (Olympics-6th-1996)
1965 - Yasmin "Yaz" Farooq, Waupun Wisc, rower (Olympics-4th-92, 96)
1965 - Dougray Scott, Scottish television and film actor
1966 - Mark Whiten, Pensacola FL, outfielder (Atlanta Braves, NY Yankees)
1966 - Stacy Lattisaw, Wash DC, disco singer (Million Dollar Baby)
1966 - Tim Armstrong, American musician (Rancid and The Transplants)
1967 - Andrea Stinson, WNBA guard (Charlotte Sting)
1967 - Anthony Nesty, swimmer (won Suriname's 1st gold olympic medal)
1967 - Curtis Baldwin, Los Angeles California, actor (Calvin-227)
1967 - Kazuya Nakai, Japanese voice actor
1967 - Gregg Turkington, American comedian (as Neil Hamburger) and musician
1968 - John Johnstone, Liverpool NY, pitcher (Houston Astros)
1968 - Jory Husain, Milwaukee Wisc, actor (Jawaharial-Head of the Class)
1968 - Erick Sermon, American rap music artist
1969 - Anthony Peeler, NBA guard (LA Lakers, Vancouver Grizzlies)
1969 - Donald Reynolds, WLAF defensive tackle (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1969 - Jacqueline Hennessy, Edmonton, actress (Dead Ringers)
1969 - Jillian Hennessy, Edmonton, twin actress (Claire-Law & Order, Paper)
1970 - Purvis Hunt, NFL/WLAF guard (Houston Oilers, Scottish Claymores)
1970 - Saskia Sibilo, Miss Suriname (1990)
1970 - Shane Pahukoa, NFL safety (NO Saints)
1971 - Christina Applegate, Hollywood, actress (Kelly-Married With Children)
1972 - Kevin Han, Shanghai China, US badminton player (Olympics-96)
1972 - Petteri Nummelin, Turku FIN, hockey defenseman (Team Finland)
1973 - Erick Strickland, NBA guard (Dallas Mavericks)
1973 - Yatil Green, wide receiver (Miami Dolphins)
1974 - Cynthia Geyn Brown, San Jose CA, playmate (May, 1995)
1976 - Donovan McNabb, American football player
1976 - Clint Mathis, American soccer player
1977 - Guillermo Cañas, Argentine tennis player
1977 - Marcus Marshall, Australian racing driver
1978 - Lauren Hewitt, Australian 100m/200m runner (Olympics-96)
1978 - Laurie Miller, Miss Alaska Teen USA (1997)
1978 - Ringo Shiina, Japanese musician
1979 - Thea Gilmore, British songwriter
1979 - Michael Lehan, American National Football League player
1980 - Kushan Liyanarachchi, Sri Lankan, prominent Live Buddhism Practitioner
1980 - Josh Lomberger, American professional wrestling backstage interviewer
1980 - Aaron Mokoena, South African soccer player
1981 - Barbara and Jenna Bush, twin daughters of U.S. President George W. Bush
1981 - Xabi Alonso, Spanish international footballer
1981 - Mauricio Rua, Brazilian Mixed Martial Artist
1981 - Jared Jeffries, American basketball player
1983 - Joey Chestnut, American champion competitive eater
1983 - Kirsty Crawford, Scottish singer/songwriter
1984 - Gaspard Ulliel, French actor
1986 - Craig Gardner, English footballer
1986 - Amber Hagerman, American kidnapping and murder victim, basis of the Amber Alert system
          (d. 1996)
1986 - Katie Cassidy, American singer and actress
1990 - Yasmin van der Meer, 15 millionth Netherlander

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Post by: MysteRy on November 25, 2013, 02:31:33 PM

This Day in History for 25th November


Famous Deaths

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Author Upton Beall Sinclair (1968)        Novelist Anthony Burgess (1993)


311 - Peter of Alexandria, Christian martyr
992 - Mieszko I, Polish advisor to Pope John XV, dies
1120 - William Adelin, son and hier of Henry I of England (b. 1104) dies in White Ship tragedy trying
           to save his illegitimate half-sister Countess of Perche while crossing the English Channel
1326 - Prince Koreyasu, Japanese shogun (b. 1264)
1374 - Philip II of Taranto, Titular emperor of Costantinople (b. 1329)
1456 - Jacques Coeur, French merchant/banker, dies in battle
1560 - Andrea Doria, Italian naval leader (b. 1466)
1626 - Edward Alleyn, English actor (b. 1566)
1640 - Giles Farnaby, composer, dies
1686 - Nicolas Steno, Danish geologist (b. 1638)
1694 - Ismael Bullialdus, French astronomer (b. 1605)
1700 - Stephanus Van Cortlandt, American politician (b. 1643)
1748 - Isaac Watts, British hymnwriter (b. 1674)
1750 - Francesco Feroci, composer, dies at 77
1755 - Johann Georg Pisendel, German violist/composer, dies at 76
1773 - Carl Hockh, composer, dies at 66
1785 - Richard Glover, British poet (b. 1712)
1815 - Johann Peter Saloman, composer, dies at 70
1830 - Pierre Rode, composer, dies at 56
1854 - John G Lockhart, [scorpion], English biographer, dies at 60
1865 - Heinrich Barth, German historian/geographer (Central Africa), dies
1881 - Theobald Boehm, German inventor of the modern flute (b. 1794)
1883 - Ludwig Erk, composer, dies at 76
1885 - Alfonso XII, king of Spain (1874-85), dies at 27
1885 - Thomas A Hendricks, 21st VP, dies at 66, 8 months after taking office
1887 - Johann J Bachofen, Swiss historic rights, dies at 71
1895 - Edmond van der Straeten, Belgian lawyer/musicologist, dies at 68
1899 - Robert Lowry, composer, dies at 73
1901 - Josef Gabriel Rheinberger, German composer/music theorist, dies at 62
1913 - Robert S Ball, Irish mathematician/astronomer (Ball Screw), dies
1914 - Davorin Jenko, composer, dies at 79
1920 - Gaston Chevrolet, French-born American race car driver and automobile pioneer (b. 1892)
1923 - Ernst Debes, German cartographer (Moon Atlas), dies at 83
1923 - Syd Callaway, cricket all-round (3 Tests for Australia 1891-95), dies
1935 - Maria H "Mina" Beersmans, Flemish actress (After 30 Years), dies at 72
1941 - Pedro Aguirre Cerda, president Chili (People's Front), dies
1944 - Kenesaw Mountain Landis, judge/baseball commisioner, dies at 78
1947 - Léon-Paul Fargue, French poet (b. 1876)
1948 - Charles D Brown, actor (Eve Knew Her Apples), dies at 61
1948 - Kanbun Uechi, karate master (b. 1877)
1949 - Luther "Bill" Robinson, "Bojangles" famed tap dancer, dies at 71
1950 - Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1873)
1950 - Gustaf John Ramstedt, Finland-Swedish linguist and diplomat (b. 1873)
1951 - Raden Mas Noto Suroto, Indonesian poet (Wayang Songs), dies at 63
1952 - Antonio Guarnieri, composer, dies at 72
1952 - Jean-Fernand Vaubourgoin, composer, dies at 71
1958 - Charles F Kettering, invented auto self-starter, dies at 82
1961 - Hubert Van Innis, Belgian archer (b. 1866)
1964 - Clarence Kolb, actor (Mr Honeywell-My Little Margie), dies at 90
1965 - Dame Myra Hess, British pianist (b. 1890)
1967 - Ossip Zadkine, [Zadkin], Russ sculptor (Destroyed City), dies at 77
1968 - Marcel Labey, composer, dies at 93
1968 - Phil Lord, actor (Stud's Place), dies at 89
1968 - Upton Beall Sinclair, US author (Jungle), dies at 90
1968 - Paul Siple, American explorer of the Antarctic. (b. 1908)
1970 - Yukio Mishima, Japanese author/nationalist (Harakiri), dies at 45
1971 - Hank Mann, actor (Keystone Kops), dies at 84
1972 - Hans H B Scharoun, German architect (Berlin Philharmonic), dies at 79
1972 - Henri Coandă, Romanian aerodynamics pioneer (b. 1886)
1973 - Laurence Harvey, actor (Of Human Bondage), dies of cancer at 45
1973 - Albert DeSalvo, Boston strangler, stabbed to death in prison
1974 - Nick Drake, rocker, dies of a drug overdose at 26
1974 - Rosemary Lane, actress (Chatterbox, 4 Wives), dies at 61
1974 - [Sithu] U Thant, UN Sec-General (1961-72), dies in NY of cancer at 65
1975 - Moyna MacGill, actress (Strange Affair of Uncle Harry), dies
1977 - Richard Carlson, actor (Col MacKenzie-MacKenzie's Raiders), dies at 65
1978 - Elaine Esposito, American woman who hold the record for longest coma (b. 1934)
1980 - George Raft, NYC, actor (Scarface), dies at 85
1981 - Jack Albertson, actor (Chico & the Man), dies at 74
1982 - Robert Coote, actor (MacBeth), dies in NYC of a heart attack at 73
1985 - Ray Jablonski, American baseball player (b. 1926)
1985 - Franz Hildebrandt, German Theologian(b. 1909)
1987 - Anton F Pieck, illustrator (1001 Nights), dies at 92
1987 - Harold Washington, 1st black mayor of Chicago (D, 1983-87), dies at 65
1989 - Frank M Thomas, actor (Behind the Headlines, M'Liss), dies
1989 - Ratu Sir George Cakobau, Fiji cricketer/Gov-General, dies
1989 - Alva R. Fitch, American World War II and Korean soldier (b. 1907)
1990 - Bill Vukovich, Indie 500 driver, dies in crash at 27
1991 - Eleanor Audley, voice (Wicked Stepmother-Cinderella), dies at 86
1993 - Anthony Burgess, novelist (Clockwork Orange), dies of cancer at 76
1993 - Claudia McNeil, actress (Raisin in the Sun), dies of diabetes at 77
1994 - Arthur Ballard, artist, dies at 79
1994 - Gerard John Toorenaar, Amsterdam police commissar, dies at 69
1995 - Ambrose Thibodeaux, cajun accordionist, dies at 92
1996 - Hugh Joseph Charles James L'Etang, medical writer, dies at 79
1996 - Michael Economides, restaurateur, dies at 86
1996 - Richard Stubbs, publicity adviser, dies at 87
1997 - Charles Hallahan, actor (Hunter), dies of heart attack at 54
1997 - Fenton Robinson, US blues guitarist (Tennessee Woman), dies at 62
1997 - Hastings Kamuzu Band, PM/Pres of Malawi (1964-66/66-94), dies
1997 - Barbara, French singer (b. 1930)
1998 - Nelson Goodman, American philosopher (b. 1906)
1998 - Flip Wilson, American actor and comedian (b. 1933)
2000 - Hugh Alexander, American baseball player (b. 1917)
2001 - Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi, Muslim Sufi, author, spiritual leader (b. 1941)
2002 - Karel Reisz, Czech theater director (b. 1926)
2005 - George Best, former footballer dies at age 59 after suffering multiple organ failures
           (Manchester United, Northern Ireland)
2005 - Richard Burns, English WRC champion (b. 1971)
2006 - Sean Bell, American shooting victim (b. 1983)
2006 - Luciano Bottaro, Italian comic book artist (b. 1931)
2006 - Leo Chiosso, Italian lyricist (b. 1920)
2006 - Valentin Elizalde, Mexican singer (b. 1979)
2006 - Kenneth M. Taylor, American pilot (b. 1919)
2006 - Phyllis Fraser, American actress and children's book publisher (b. 1916)
2010 - Bernard Matthews, British poultry industry figure (b. 1930)
2010 - Peter Christopherson English musician and video director/designer (b. 1955)
2010 - Alfred Balk, American magazine editor and journalist (b. 1930)
2010 - C. Scott Littleton, American anthropologist and academic (b. 1933)
2011 - Tom Wicker, American journalist and author, dies at 85
2012 - Lars Hörmander, Swedish mathematician, dies at 81
2012 - Dinah Sheridan, English actress, dies at 92

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 26, 2013, 04:55:03 PM

This Day in History for 26th November


Historical Events

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The Sun King of France Louis XIV            Author and Mathematician                     Archaeologist and
                                                                Lewis Carroll                                           Discoverer of Tutankhamun   
                                                                                                                              Howard Carter

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Country Singer Johnny Cash                37th US President Richard Nixon                Hall of Fame NFL Quarterback
                                                                                                                               Dan Marino


43 BC - The Second Triumvirate alliance of Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus ("Octavian", later "Caesar
             Augustus"), Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, and Mark Antony is formed.
579 - Pelagius II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
783 - Asturian queen Adosinda was put in the monastery of San Juan de Pravia, where she lived out
         the rest of her life, to prevent her kin from retaking the throne from Mauregatus.
1476 - Vlad III Dracula defeats Basarab Laiota with the help of Stephen the Great and Stephen V
           Bathory and becomes the ruler of Wallachia for the third time.
1527 - Pope Clemens VII signs treaty with emperor Karel I
1580 - French Huguenots & Roman Catholics sign peace treaty
1598 - Jacob of Neck's merchant fleet reaches Bantam West-Java
1648 - Pope Innocent X condemns Peace of Westphalia
1688 - Duke of Savoye signs on to League of Augsburg
1688 - French King Louis XIV declares war on Netherlands
1688 - King James II escapes back to London
1702 - Premiere of Colley Cibber's "King Imposter"
1703 - Great storm hits Southern England thousands killed, Royal Navy losses 13 ships and around
           1,500 seamen
1716 - 1st lion exhibited in America (Boston)
1741 - French & Beiers army occupies Prague
1764 - France bans Jesuit enorde
1778 - Captain Cook discovers Maui in the Sandwich Islands (now Hawaii)
1784 - Catholic Apostolic Prefecture of the United States established.
1789 - 1st national Thanksgiving in USA
1793 - Republican calendar replaces Gregorian calendar in France
1805 - Official opening of Thomas Telford's Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, carrying the Llangollen canal 126
           feet above the River Dee
1825 - 1st college fraternity founded (Kappa Alpha (Union College, NY))
1832 - 1st streetcar railway in America starts operating (NYC) (12 cent fare)
1835 - HMS Beagle leaves Tahiti for NZ
1841 - 1st date in James Clavell's novel Tai-Pan
1842 - The University of Notre Dame is founded.
1847 - Alfred de Mussets "Un Caprice" premieres in Paris
1859 - Last weekly installment of Charles Dickens' "A Tale Of Two Cities" is published in literary
           periodical All the Year Round
1861 - West Virginia created as a result of dispute over slavery with Virginia
1863 - -Dec 2] Mine Run campaign, VA
1864 - Confederate troops vacate Sandersville Georgia
1864 - Skirmish at Sylvan Brutal/Waynesboro, Georgia
1865 - "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll published in USA
1865 - Battle of Papudo: The Spanish navy engages a combined Peruvian-Chilean fleet north of
           Valparaiso, Chile.
1867 - Refrigerated railroad car patented by JB Sutherland of Detroit
1868 - 1st baseball game played in enclosed field in SF, at 25th & Folsom
1885 - 1st meteor photograph
1894 - King Lafia "Absalamu" of Nikki signs accord with France
1895 - Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association forms
1896 - 1st large indoor football game, U of Chic beats U of Mich 7-6
1896 - A A Stagg of U Chicago creates American football huddle
1898 - -27) Snow/ice storm over US; 455 die
1898 - SS Portland “The Titanic of New England” leaves for Cape Cod, shipwrecked off Cape Ann, all
           192 on board killed
1909 - Sigma Alpha Mu is founded in the City College of New York by 8 Jewish young men.
1910 - 2nd CFL Grey Cup: University of Toronto defeats Hamilton Tigers, 16-7
1913 - Russian kingdom forbids Polish congregation of speakers
1913 - Phi Sigma Sigma is founded at Hunter College in New York City.
1914 - Battleship HMS Bulwark explodes at Sheerness Harbour, England, 788 die
1916 - Greece declares war on Germany
1918 - The Podgorica Assembly votes for "union of the people", declaring assimilation into the
           Kingdom of Serbia.
1922 - English archaeologist Howard Carter opens Toetanchamon's (Tut) tomb
1924 - Mongolian People's Republic proclaimed
1925 - Netherlands & Germany sign trade agreement
1927 - 15th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Balmy Beach defeats Hamilton Tigers, 9-6
1928 - Paul Claudel's "Lepdrehumily" premieres in Dresden
1928 - Philip Barry's "Holiday" premieres in NYC
1932 - Bradman completes 10,000 runs in first-class cricket, 126 innings
1933 - Camille Chautemps becomes French premier
1934 - German theologist Karl Barth surrenders to Nazis
1934 - Turkish regiment decrees importing family names
1939 - 4 soviet soldiers killed on Finnish-Russian border
1940 - Leidse students strike
1940 - Nazi Germany began walling off the Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw
1941 - Amateur tennis champ Bobby Riggs turns pro
1941 - British North African commandant General Cunningham lay-offs
1941 - British troops conquer Belhamed, Sidi Rezegh & El Duda
1941 - Japanese naval carrier force left its base & moves east toward Pearl Harbor
1941 - Lebanon gains independence from France
1942 - "Casablanca" premieres at Hollywood Theatre, NYC
1942 - Anti-fascist Council for National Liberation (AVNOJ) forms
1944 - 1st allied marines move onto Antwerp harbor
1944 - Himmler orders destruction of Auschwitz & Birkenau crematoriums
1945 - During snow storm, school bus crashes, kills 15 (Washington)
1948 - Belgian government of Spaak resigns
1949 - 37th CFL Grey Cup: Montreal Alouettes defeat Calgary Stampeders, 28-15
1949 - India adopts a constitution as a British Commonwealth Republic
1950 - China enters Korean conflict, sends troops across Yalu River
1952 - 1st modern 3-D movie "Bwana Devil" premieres in Hollywood
1953 - KBOI (now KBCI) TV channel 2 in Boise, ID (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 - WJHL TV channel 11 in Johnson City, TN (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 - Yamada Koun, leader of Sanbo Kyodan line of Zen, found 1st awakening
1954 - Test Cricket debut of Colin Cowdrey v Australia at Gabba
1955 - "Boy Friend" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 483 performances
1955 - 43rd CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Montreal Alouettes, 34-19
1955 - Emergency crisis proclaimed in Cyprus
1955 - Johnny Cash debuts Top 10 country song "Cry! Cry! Cry!"
1956 - "The Price Is Right" debuts on NBC
1956 - USSR single sculls winner Vyacheslav Ivanov wins Olympic gold medal in his excitement he
           jumps for joy, & loses his medal, it sinks
1957 - WCVB TV channel 5 in Boston, MA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1960 - 48th CFL Grey Cup: Ottawa Rough Riders defeats Edmonton Eskimos, 16-6
1960 - Minneapolis-St Paul baseball club takes the name Twins
1961 - For 2nd time in his career, St Louis' Jerry Norton has 4 interceptions
1961 - Pro Baseball Rules Committee votes 8-1 against legalizing the spitball
1962 - 1st recording session under name "Beatles"
1962 - Caribbean Air Transport Me NV (CLTM Airlines) forms
1962 - Fab Four have their 1st recording session under name Beatles
1963 - 29th Heisman Trophy Award: Roger Staubach, Navy (QB)
1963 - Cincinnati 2nd baseman Pete Rose wins NL Rookie of Year
1963 - Explorer 18 launched
1965 - Dodgers 2nd baseman Jim Lefebvre is voted NL Rookie of Year
1965 - France launches 1st satellite, 92 lb (42 kg) A1-capsule (Asterix)
1966 - "Walking Happy" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 161 perfs
1966 - 1st major tidal power plant opens at Rance estuary, France
1966 - 54th CFL Grey Cup: Saskatchewan Roughriders defeats Ottawa, 29-14
1967 - Browns' Carl Ward sets club record with a 104-yd kickoff return
1967 - Cloud burst over Lisbon kills about 450
1968 - 34th Heisman Trophy Award: O J Simpson, Southern Cal (RB)
1969 - 35th Heisman Trophy Award: Steve Owens, Oklahoma (RB)
1969 - Cream's final concert (Royal Albert Hall)
1969 - Lottery for Selective Service draftees bill signed by President Nixon
1970 - In Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, 1.5 inches (38.1mm) of rain fall in a minute, the heaviest rainfall
           ever on record.
1972 - Pete Gogolak scores NY Giant record 8 pts after a touchdown
1973 - Nixon's personal sec, Rose Mary Woods, tells a federal court she accidentally caused part of
           18½ minute gap in a key Watergate tape
1974 - Approximately 140 die when suspension bridge collapses (Nepal)
1974 - Catfish Hunter & Charlie Finley meet in arbitration
1974 - Greenidge scores 107 in 2nd innings of Test Cricket debut v India
1975 - Fed jury finds Lynette Fromme guilty of attempted assassination
1975 - France performs nuclear test at Fangataufa Island
1975 - Fred Lynn becomes the 1st rookie to win MVP
1975 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1976 - German DR deprives singer/poet Wolf Biermann citizenship
1976 - Ringo releases "Hey Baby" single
1976 - Sex Pistols release their debut single "Anarchy In The UK"
1976 - Willy Brandt elected chairman of Social International
1977 - 'Vrillon', claiming to be the representative of the 'Ashtar Galactic Command', takes over
           Britain's Southern Television for six minutes at 5:12 PM.
1978 - 10 die as fire erupts at Holiday Inn in Rochester, NY
1978 - 1st lesbian theme TV movie - "Question of Love"
1978 - 66th CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Montreal Alouettes, 20-13
1979 - Intl Olympic Committee votes to readmit China after 21 years
1979 - Twins John Castino & Jays Alfredo Griffin tie for AL Rookie of Year
1980 - Columbia mated to SRBs & external tank at Vehicle Assembly Building
1980 - Mike Schmidt is unanimous choice as NL MVP
1982 - Clyde King named Yankee manager
1982 - Yasuhiro Nakasone elected PM of Japan succeeding Zenko Suzuki
1982 - Howard Cossell calls his last fight after being disgusted by Larry Holmes-Tex Cobb mismatch
1983 - Heathrow Airport, robbed of 6,800 gold bars worth $38.7 million
1984 - After 518 goals & 14 years with Mont Canadiens, Guy LaFleur retires
1984 - John W Mercom Jr announces NO Saints are up for sale for $75 million
1984 - Kim Hughes tearfully resigns as Australian cricket captain
1984 - US & Iraq regain diplomatic relations
1985 - 23rd Space Shuttle Mission (61-B)-Atlantis 2-is launched
1985 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1985 - Random House buys Richard Nixons memoires for $3,000,000
1988 - Alexander Volkov, Sergei Krikalev & Jean-Loup Chretien launch
1988 - Pioneer 6's closest approach to Earth since 1965 launch (1.87 M km)
1989 - 77th CFL Grey Cup: Saskatchewan defeats Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 43-40
1989 - Comores coup under Bob Benard
1989 - Luis Alberto Lacalle becomes pres of Uruguay
1989 - Rafael Callejas installed as president of Honduras
1990 - 1st Billboard Music Awards: Janet Jackson & Phil Collins win
1990 - Buffalo Bills become 6th 1st place NFL team to lose on same weekend
1990 - Matsushita purchases MCA for $6.6 billion
1990 - Mikhail Gorbachev tells Iraq to get out of Kuwait
1990 - Premier Mazowiecki of Poland, resigns
1991 - Condoms are handed out to thousands of NY High School students
1993 - Political campaigners James Carville (49) & Mary Matalin wed
1995 - 33rd Tennis Fed Cup: Spain beats USA in Valencia Spain (3-2)
1995 - Dolphins QB Dan Marino sets NFL record with 343rd touchdown pass
1995 - New Zealand score 8-348 in 49 overs v India in Nagpur ODI
1996 - Baseball owners approve interleague play, 26-4
1996 - Colbert, Floyd & Irwin win Wendy's Senior 3 Tour Golf Challenge
1996 - Couples, Davies, Sheehan & Sorenstam win Wendy's Lady's 3 Tour Golf
1996 - Couples, Love & Stewart win Wendy's Men's 3 Tour Golf Challenge
1997 - Wash Capitals final game at USAir Arena, retire Rod Langway's #5
1998 - Tony Blair becomes the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to address the Republic of
           Ireland's parliament.
2003 - Concorde makes its last ever flight over Bristol, England.
2004 - Ruzhou School massacre: a man stabs and kills eight people and seriously wounds another
           four in a school dormitory in Ruzhou, China.
2008 - Terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India: Ten coordinated attacks by Pakistan-based terrorists kill
           164 and injure more than 250 people in Mumbai, India.
2011 - 2011 NATO attack in Pakistan: NATO forces in Afghanistan attack a Pakistani checkpost in a
           friendly fire incident, killing 24 soldiers and wounding 13 others.
2012 - 10 children are killed and 15 people are injured after a Syrian government Jet drops a cluster
            bomb on a playground
2012 - The cost of Hurricane Sandy to New York is announced to be $32 Billion

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 26, 2013, 04:58:41 PM

This Day in History for 26th November


Famous Weddings

1924 - Comic actor Charlie Chaplin (35) weds "The Kid" actress Lita Grey (16) in Mexico
1981 - Legendary jazz trumpeter Miles Davis (55) weds "Sounder" actress Cicely Tyson (47) at the
           home of actor Bill Cosby
1993 - The chief political strategist for President Clinton's campaign and political commentator James
           Carville (49) weds Republican political pundit Mary Matalin (40) in New Orleans, Louisiana
2011 - "The Sugarland" singer Jennifer Nettles (37) weds entrepreneur Justin Miller at a chapel
           nestled in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 26, 2013, 06:10:51 PM

This Day in History for 26th November


Famous Birthdays

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Chemist/Nobel Laureate                    Cartoonist Charles M. Schulz (1922)              American Singer and Actor
Karl Ziegler (1898)                                                                                                  Robert Goulet (1933)

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Singer Tina Turner (1939)


1288 - Emperor Go-Daigo of Japan (d. 1339)
1436 - Princess Catherine of Portugal, writer (d. 1463)
1607 - John Harvard, England, clergyman/scholar, founded Harvard Univ
1609 - Henry Dunster, English president of Harvard College (d. 1659)
1640 - Carl Rosier, composer
1653 - Andreas Anton Schmelzer, composer
1657 - William Derham, English minister and writer (d. 1735)
1663 - Pedro de Peralta y Barnuevo, Peruvian poet (Obras Dramaticas)
1678 - Jean Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan, French geophysicist (d. 1771)
1703 - Theophilus Cibber, English actor and writer (d. 1758)
1731 - William Cowper, England, pre-romantic poet (His Task) [NS]
1736 - Charles-Joseph Panckoucke, French publisher (Mercure de France)
1744 - Karl Siegmund von Seckendorff, composer
1754 - Georg Forster, writer
1795 - Carl P Fohr, German painter
1795 - Cornelis P J Elout, Dutch military/resident of West Sumatra
1809 - Mariano Obiols, composer
1810 - William G Armstrong, of Cragside, Baron/British industralist (hydraulic crane)
1816 - William Henry Talkbot Walker, Major General (Confederate Army)
1818 - Louis Lacombe, composer
1823 - Thomas Dyke Acland Tellefsen, composer
1827 - Alfred Moore Scales, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1892
1827 - Ellen G. White, American religious leader (d. 1915)
1828 - René Goblet, French politician (d. 1905)
1832 - Mary Edwards Walker, US, doctor/women's rights leader
1832 - Karl Rudolf König, German physicist (d. 1901)
1847 - Maria Fyodorovna, Princess of Denmark and Empress of Russia (d. 1928)
1850 - Henricus Van de Wetering, archbishop of Utrecht (1895-1929)
1857 - Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss linguist (d. 1913)
1858 - Katharine Drexel, Roman Catholic Saint (d. 1955)
1862 - Mark A Stein, archaeologist
1864 - Herman Gorter, Dutch socialist/poet (May, Tiny Hero's Poem)
1865 - Earl Ross Drake, composer
1869 - Maud, Queen of Norway (d. 1938)
1874 - Edmond Fleg[enheimer], Swiss/French author (Ecoute Israel)
1876 - Bart A van der Leck, Dutch painter (Style)
1876 - Willis Haviland Carrier, developed air-conditioning equipment
1885 - Heinrich Brüning, German politician (d. 1970)
1888 - Franz Jung, writer
1889 - Albert Dieudonné, French actor and novelist (d. 1976)
1892 - Joe Guyon, NFL halfback (Canton, Cleveland, Oorang, Rock I, etc)
1894 - Norbert Wiener, US, mathematician/discovered cybernetics
1894 - James Charles McGuigan, Catholic cardinal archbishop of Toronto (d. 1974)
1895 - Bertil Lindblad, Swedish astronomer (Milky Way system)
1895 - William Wilson (Bill), East Dorset, Vermont, co-founder (alcoholics anonymous), (d. 1971)
1898 - Karl Ziegler, Helsa, German Empire, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (polymers), (d. 1973)
1899 - Bruno Hauptmann, German kidnapper of Charles Augustus Lindbergh III (d. 1936)
1901 - Philippus J Idenburg, Dutch statistician
1902 - Alberto Morin, PR, actor (Armando-Dallas)
1902 - Gerrit Jan van der Veen, [Wolffensperger], Dutch resistance fighter
1904 - Armand Frappier, French-Canadian physician and microbiologist (d. 1991)
1905 - George Emlyn Williams, Wales, actor/playwright (David Copperfield)
1905 - Bob Johnson, American baseball player (d. 1982)
1906 - Sandro Fuga, composer
1907 - Frances Dee, Los Angeles California, actress (Of Human Bondage)
1907 - Ruth Patrick, American botanist
1908 - Charles Forte, Italian/British hotel magnate (Savoy)
1908 - Lefty Gomez, baseball pitcher
1908 - Philipp Mohler, composer
1909 - Eugene Ionesco, playwright
1909 - Frances Dee, American actress (d. 2004)
1910 - Cyril Cusack, Durban Natal South Africa, actor (Day of the Jackal)
1911 - Raymond Scheyven, Belgian minister of Economic Affairs
1911 - Ronald Diggens, English fabric manufacturer/multi-millionaire
1911 - Samuel H Reshevsky, Polish/US chess grandmaster/prodigy
1912 - Eric Sevareid, Velva ND, newscaster (CBS Weekend News)
1912 - Eugene Ionesco, Slatina Romania, dramatist (Rhinoceros)
1912 - Gunnar Johannes Sonstevold, composer
1913 - Foy Draper, US, relay runner (Olympic-gold-1936)
1913 - Joshua William Steward, polymath
1915 - Earl Wild, Pitts Pa, composer/pianist (Caesar's Hour, NBC Symph 1942)
1915 - Herbert Joeks, [Herbert J van Hugten], Dutch actor (Snip & Snap, Pipo)
1916 - Bob Elliot, baseball player
1916 - Mareo Ishiketa, composer
1918 - Patricio Aylwin, president of Chile (1990-94)
1919 - Frederik Pohl, US, sci-fi author (3 Hugo, Gateway, Bipohl)
1920 - Istvan Sarkozy, composer
1920 - Paul T B Rodenko, poet/author (Stolen Lover)
1920 - Daniel Petrie, Canadian-born television and movie director (d. 2004)
1921 - Francoise Gilot, painter, designer, author living legacy award, 1984
1921 - Verghese Kurien, Calicut, British India, engineer (billion-litre idea), (d.2012)
1922 - Adele Jergens, Brooklyn NY, actress (Dark Past, Fuller Brush Man)
1922 - Charles M. Schulz, Minneapolis MN, cartoonist (Peanuts), (d. 2000)
1923 - Patricia Phoenix, County Galway Ireland, actress (L Shaped Room)
1924 - George Segal, New York, American painter and sculptor of lifelike mixed-media figures (Bus
           Driver)
1924 - Jasu Patel, cricketer (Indian off-spinner, 9-69 v Aust 1959)
1925 - Eugene Istomin, NYC, pianist (Leventritt Award-1943)
1925 - Linda Hunt, Morriston NJ, actress (Bostonians, Eleni, Silverado)
1926 - Joyce McCartan, peace campaigner
1926 - Mauro Bortolotti, composer
1927 - John Carter, Center Ridge Ark, actor (Max-Falcon Crest)
1927 - Ernie Coombs, American children's entertainer (d. 2001)
1929 - Betta St John, Hawthorne California, actress (Corridors of Blood)
1929 - Lorraine Macleod, dancer (Girls Just Want to Have Fun)
1930 - Berthold Leibinger, German Entrepreneur and Philanthropist
1931 - Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Buenos Argentina, (1980 Nobel Peace Prize)
1931 - Adrianus J "Cardinal" Simonis, archbishop of Utrecht
1931 - Giuliana Chenal-Minuzzo, Italy, downhill skier (Olympic-bronze-1952)
1932 - Alan Stout, composer
1932 - Marten Beinema, Dutch MP (CDA)
1933 - Garrett "Garnet" Mimms, US singer (Enchanters-Cry Baby)
1933 - Robert Goulet, Lawrence, Massachusetts, American singer and actor (d. 2007)
1934 - Ludmila Shevtsova, USSR, 800m runner (Olympic-gold-1960)
1935 - Marian Mercer, Akron Ohio, actress/singer (Dean Martin Show)
1936 - Margaret Boden, philosopher
1937 - Boris Borisovich Yegorov, USSR, doctor/cosmonaut (Voskhod I)
1937 - Garnett Mimms, rocker
1938 - Elizabeth E Bailey, university dean (Carnegie Mellon)
1938 - Jeremy Boorda, admiral
1938 - Porter J Goss, (Rep-R-Florida)
1938 - Rich Little, Ottawa Canada, impressionist/actor (Love on a Rooftop)
1938 - Rodney Jory, Australian physicist
1939 - Tina Turner, [Anna Mae Bullock], Brownsville Tx, singer (Proud Mary)
1939 - Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Malaysian politician
1941 - Jeff Torborg, baseball player
1941 - Susanne Marsee, American mezzo-soprano
1942 - Olivia Cole, Memphis Tenn, actress (Roots, Szysznyk)
1942 - Michael Devlin, American bass-baritone
1943 - Gerald D Kleczka, (Rep-D-WI, 1984- )
1943 - Jan Stenerud, Norway, NFL place kicker (Kansas City Chiefs)
1943 - Paul Burnett, English disc-jockey
1943 - Marilynne Robinson, American writer
1944 - Alan Henderson, Belfast, rock bassist (Them)
1944 - Jean Terrell, Texas, rocker (Supremes)
1945 - Daniel Davis, Gurdun Ark, actor (Niles-Nanny)
1945 - John McVie, British rock bassist (Fleetwood Mac-Rumours, Tusk)
1945 - Mikhail Woronin, USSR, gymnist (Olympic-2 gold/4 silver/bronze-1968)
1945 - Tandy Cronyn, actress (Twisted, Guardian, Age Old Friends)
1945 - Björn von Sydow, Swedish politician
1946 - Angus Suttie, English potter
1946 - Bert Bouquet, bassist (Earth & Fire, Focus)
1946 - Burt Reiter, rocker (Focus)
1947 - Larry Gura, baseball player
1947 - Richie Hebner, baseball player
1947 - Susanne Zenor, American actress
1948 - Galina Prozumenschikova, USSR, 200m backstroke (Olympic-gold-1964)
1948 - Krešimir Ćosić, Croatian basketball player (d. 1995)
1948 - Claes Elfsberg, Swedish television presenter
1949 - Maggie Donnelly, bag lady
1949 - Shlomo Artzi, Israeli singer
1949 - Juanin Clay, American actress (d. 1995)
1949 - Vincent A. Mahler, American educator
1950 - Jorge Orta, baseball player
1951 - La Cicciolina, [Ilona Staller], Budapest Hungary, Italian MP
1952 - Wendy Turnbell, Australia, tennis player (1979,82 US Opens Double)
1953 - Louise Parks, LPGA golfer
1953 - Hilary Benn, British politician
1953 - Harry Carson, American football player
1954 - Roz Chast, American cartoonist
1954 - Velupillai Prabhakaran, Sri Lankan militant leader
1955 - Bob Walk, baseball player
1955 - Jay Howell, baseball pitcher (NY Yankees, Oakland A's)
1955 - Tracy [Raye] Hickman, US, sci-fi author (Dragons of Spring Dawning)
1956 - Nico Slothouwer, Dutch poet (Man & his Bag)
1956 - Dale Jarrett, American race car driver
1956 - Don Lake, Canadian television writer
1958 - Steve Buyer, (Rep-R-Indiana)
1959 - Jamie Rose, NYC, actress (Susan Birch-St Elsewhere, Falcon Crest)
1959 - Mike Moore, baseball player
1960 - Harold Reynolds, baseball player
1961 - Dave Hannan, Sudbury, NHL center (Buffalo Sabres, Colorado Avalanche)
1961 - Marcy Walker, Paducah KY, actress (Liza-All My Child, Santa Barbara)
1961 - Lisa Moretti, American professional wrestler
1962 - Chuck Finley, Monroe LA, pitcher (California Angels)
1962 - John Samuel Inman, Greensboro NC, PGA golfer (1993 Buick South Open)
1962 - Mike Johnson, NFL inside linebacker (Detroit Lions)
1963 - Allyson Rice-Taylor, Huntington WV, actress (As the World Turns)
1963 - Mario Elie, NBA forward/guard (Houston Rockets)
1963 - Adam Gaynor, American musician (Matchbox Twenty)
1964 - Al Smith, NFL linebacker (Houston Oilers)
1964 - Jeff Jaeger, NFL kicker (Oakland Raiders, Chicago Bears)
1964 - Vreni Schneider, Swiss alpine skier (Olympics-Gold-1988)
1966 - Jay Berger, Fort Dix NJ, tennis star
1966 - Sue Wicks, WNBA forward (NY Liberty)
1966 - Garcelle Beauvais, Haitian actress and model
1967 - Karol Rusznyak, hockey forward (Team Slovakia 1998)
1967 - Ridley Jacobs, cricket wicket-keeper (West Indian ODI 1996)
1968 - Steve Lofton, NFL cornerback (Carolina Panthers, NE Patriots)
1969 - Sam Militello, baseball player
1969 - Shawn Kemp, NBA forward (Cleveland Cavaliers, Seattle Supersonics)
1969 - Kara Walker, American artist
1970 - Greg Graham, NBA guard (NJ Nets)
1970 - John Amaechi, NBA center/forward (Cleveland Cavaliers)
1970 - Lorissa McComas, Columbus Ohio, actress (Lap Dancing, Vamp)
1970 - Mark Dixon, CFL offensive linebacker (Montreal Alouettes)
1970 - Dave Hughes, Australian comedian
1971 - Emma Robinson, Montreal Quebec, rower (Olympics-96)
1971 - Vince Danielsen, CFL slot back (Calgary Stampeders)
1971 - Ronald "Winky" Wright, American boxer
1972 - Nicole Beach, Phoenix AZ, model (Wonderbra)
1972 - Arjun Rampal, Indian actor
1973 - John Zimmerman, Birmingham Ala, pairs skater (& Steigler)
1973 - Peter Facinelli, American actor
1974 - David Barnard, WLAF defensive tackle (Scotland Claymores)
1974 - Jamie Jones, singer (All 4 One)
1974 - Richard Ikeda, Kamloops BC, gymnist (Olympics-96)
1974 - Tammy Lynn Michaels, American actress
1976 - Maven Huffman, American professional wrestler
1976 - Brian Schneider, American baseball player
1977 - Ivan Basso, Italian bicyclist
1977 - Forrest Griffin, American MMA-fighter
1977 - John Parrish, American baseball player
1977 - Paris Lenon, American football player
1978 - Sarah Cahill, Miss Minnesota Teen USA (1996)
1978 - Matthew Taylor, American bassist (Motion City Soundtrack)
1979 - B.J. Averell, American online tutor and reality television contestant
1980 - Jessica Bowman, Walnut Creek California, actress (Colleen Cooper-Dr Quinn)
1980 - Delilah Cotto, Puerto Rican actress, dancer and model
1980 - Satoshi Ohno, Japanese singer and actor
1981 - Jamie Fiske, liver transplant recipient
1981 - Stephan Andersen, Danish international footballer
1981 - Natasha Bedingfield, British singer
1981 - Gina Kingsbury, Canadian hockey player
1981 - Natalie Gauci, Australian Idol 2007 winner
1983 - Chris Hughes, American businessman, co-founder of Facebook
1984 - Antonio Puerta, Spanish footballer (d. 2007)
1985 - Lil' Fizz, American singer
1986 - Trevor Morgan, American actor
1986 - Konstadinos Filippidis, Greek pole vaulter
1988 - Yumi Kobayashi, Japanese fashion model
1992 - Louis Ducrut, prince/son of Princess Stephanie & Daniel Ducrut

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 26, 2013, 06:17:05 PM

This Day in History for 26th November


Famous Deaths

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Abolitionist and                               Film Director Philippe de Broca (2004)
Women's Rights Advocate
Sojourner Truth (1883)


399 - Pope Staint Siricius, reigned 384-99
666 - Yeon Gaesomun dictator of Goguryeo (other sources indicate death date as 664 or 665)
1126 - Al-Borsoki, emir of Aleppo-Mosoel, assassinated
1240 - Edmund Van Abingdon, archbishop of Canterbury/saint, dies
1252 - Blanche of Castile, Queen of Louis VIII of France (b. 1188)
1267 - Gozzolini Silvester, Italian hermit/saint, dies
1326 - Hugh the younger Despenser, English knight (b. 1286)
1504 - Queen Isabella I of Castile (b. 1451)
1621 - Radulph Agas, English surveyor (C. 1540)
1639 - John Spottiswoode, Scottish historian (b. 1565)
1651 - Henry Ireton, English gen/parliament leader (Marston Moor), dies at 40
1653 - Maximilian Teellinck, vicar, dies at about 51
1688 - Philippe Quinault, French playwright (L'amant Indiscreet), dies at 53
1689 - Marquard Gude, German archaeologist (b. February 1, 1635)
1717 - Daniel Purcell, British composer (b. 1664)
1719 - John Hudson, British classical scholar (b. 1662)
1776 - Dov Baer of Mezhirech, hassidic rabbi, dies
1778 - Jean-Noel Hamal, composer, dies at 68
1780 - James Denham Steuart, 4th Baronet, British economist (b. 1712)
1809 - Nicolas-Marie Dalayrac, composer, dies at 56
1810 - Nicolas Etienne Framery, composer, dies at 65
1821 - Friedrich Heine, composer, dies at 57
1822 - Johann Baptist Henneberg, composer, dies at 53
1836 - John MacAdam, British road builder (b. 1756)
1851 - Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult, French marshal (b. 1769)
1854 - Matthijs Siegenbeek, literature (Defeated German Spelling), dies
1855 - Adam B Mickiewicz, Polish poet (Polish Legion), dies at 56
1857 - Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, German poet (That Freier), dies at 69
1866 - Adrien Francois Servais, composer, dies at 59
1866 - Carl Jonas Love Almquist, composer, dies at 72
1880 - Guilherme Antonio Cossoul, composer, dies at 52
1882 - Otto T Freiherr von Manteuffel, premier of Prussia, dies
1883 - Sojourner Truth, US abolitionist/women's rights advocate, dies at 96
1885 - Thomas Andrews, Irish physicist/chemist (ozone), dies at 71
1892 - Charles Lavigerie, French Catholic cardinal (b. 1825)
1896 - Emil du Bois-Reymond, German physician (b. 1818)
1896 - Coventry Patmore, British poet (b. 1823)
1918 - Charlie McLeod, cricketer (all-rounder for Australia 1894-1905), dies
1923 - Alexander V Amfiteatrov, Russian/French/Italian writer, dies at 60
1925 - Johannes Haarklou, composer, dies at 78
1926 - John M Brown, US weapons constructer, dies
1927 - Jean-Louis Pisuisse, Dutch performer (governess), assassinated at 47
1928 - Reinhard Scheer, German admiral (WW I), dies at 65
1929 - Michele Esposito, composer, dies at 74
1933 - Edward Julius Biedermann, composer, dies at 84
1934 - Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Ukrainian historian and statesman (b.1866)
1938 - Henry Schultz, US farm commune, dies
1941 - Niels Hansen Jacobsen, Danish sculptor and ceramist (b. 1861)
1941 - Ernest Lapointe, French-Canadian politician (b. 1876)
1943 - Edward H "Butch" O'hare, US pilot/lt-comdr, dies in battle
1950 - Hedwig Courts-Mahler, German author, dies at 83
1952 - Sven Hedin, Swedish explorer (b. 1865)
1954 - Bill Doak, former Major League Baseball pitcher (b. 1891)
1956 - Tommy Dorsey, big bandleader, dies at 51
1957 - Aleksei M Remizov, Russian author (Iveren), dies
1957 - Billy Bevan, actor (White Sin), dies at 70
1959 - Albert William Ketelby, composer, dies at 84
1959 - Albert Ketèlbey, British composer (b. 1875)
1961 - Alexander Borisovich Goldenweiser, composer, dies at 86
1962 - Albert P Sarraut, Indo-China premier (1933, 36), dies at 90
1963 - Amelita Galli-Curci, Italian soprano, dies
1965 - Wild Bill Elliott, cowboy actor (49'ers), dies of cancer at 60
1966 - Harold Burrage, US singer/pianist (Got to Find a Way), dies at 35
1966 - Siegfried Kracauer, writer, dies at 77
1968 - Arnold Zweig, German antifascist/author (Junge frau 1914), dies at 81
1970 - B O Davis Sr, 1st black general, dies at 93 in Chicago
1971 - Joe Adonis, US crime-syndicate boss in NY & NJ, dies at 68
1973 - John Rostill, rocker, dies at 31
1974 - Cyril Connolly, English intellectual (b. September 10, 1903)
1980 - Rachael Roberts, actress (This Sporting Life), dies at age 53
1981 - Machgielis "Max" Euwe, world chess champion (1935-37), dies at 80
1982 - Dan Tobin, actor (I Married Joan, My Favorite Martian), dies at 73
1982 - Juhan Aavic, composer, dies at 98
1982 - Robert Coote, actor (Timmy-Rogues, Theodore-Nero Wolfe), dies at 73
1985 - Ransom Sherman, comedian (Father of Bride), dies at 87
1986 - Betico Croes, Arubian politician, dies in an accident at 48
1986 - Scatman Crothers, singer/actor (Shining, Chico & The Man), dies at 76
1987 - Emmanuel Bondeville, composer, dies at 89
1987 - Thomas G Lanphier Jr, US WW II pilot, dies at 71
1989 - Ahmed Abdallah, president of Comores, dies
1990 - David White, actor (Bewitched), dies of heart attack at 74
1991 - Bob Johnson, US hockey coach (Pittsburgh Penguins), dies at 60
1991 - Dehl Berti, actor (Bullies), dies of heart attack at 70
1991 - Francois Billetdoux, French author (Word Awake), dies in Phila
1991 - Ed Heinemann, American aircraft designer (Douglas Aircraft; b. 1908)
1992 - Stephen Burks, actor (Kiss of a Killer), dies at 36
1993 - Imad Aqal, Palestinian Izz-Danish al-Qassem-leader, shot to death
1993 - Mart Kempers, sculptor, dies at 69
1994 - Arturo Rivera Damas, archbishop of El Salvador (1980-94), dies at 71
1994 - David Bache, designer, dies at 69
1994 - Nimrod Workman, folksinger, dies at 99
1994 - Joey Stefano, American actor (b. 1968)
1995 - Charles Warrell, big Chief I-Spy writer/teacher, dies at 106
1995 - David Briggs, record producer, dies at 51
1995 - Max Fernandez, businessman/politician, dies at 52
1995 - Sydney Dawson Bailey, pacifist/campaigner, dies at 79
1995 - Terri Jewell, writer, dies at 40
1996 - Euphemia MacDonald May Moxon, dance producer, dies at 91
1996 - Hans Klein, politician, dies at 65
1996 - Joan Hammond, singer, dies at 84
1996 - Michael Bentine, Brit author/comedian (Reluctant Jester), dies at 74
1996 - Paul Rand, graphic designer, dies at 82
1997 - Francis Paudras, designer/jazz fan, dies at 62
1998 - Jonathan Kwitny, American reporter (b. 1941)
2001 - Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, Finnish writer (b. 1943)
2002 - Verne Winchell, American doughnut entrepreneur (b. 1915)
2002 - Polo Montañez, Cuban singer and songwriter (b. 1955)
2003 - Stefan Wul, French writer (b. 1922)
2003 - Soulja Slim, American rapper (b. 1978)
2004 - Philippe de Broca, French film director (Le Bossu) dies aged 71
2005 - Stan Berenstain, children's author, (d. 2005)
2006 - Mário Cesariny, Portuguese painter and writer (b. 1923)
2006 - Raúl Velasco, Mexican television host (b. 1933)
2006 - Dave Cockrum, American comic book artist (b. 1943)
2006 - Stephen Heywood, American builder (b. 1969)
2006 - Isaac Gálvez, Spanish procyclist (b. 1975)
2007 - Silvestre Herrera, Mexican-born American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient. (b. 1917)
2007 - Mel Tolkin, television comedy writer (b. 1913)
2007 - Steve Fossett, American Aviator (b. 1944)
2007 - Sean Taylor, American Football Player (b. 1983)
2008 - Edna Parker, American supercentenarian (b. 1893)
2008 - De'Angelo Wilson, American actor (b. 1979)
2010 - Palle Huld, Danish actor (b. 1912)
2012 - Joseph Murray, English plastic surgeon, dies from a hemorrhagic stroke at 93

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 27, 2013, 07:26:20 PM

This Day in History for 27th November


Historical Events

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US Cavalry Commander                            Author and Nobel Laureate                    Baseball Player Joe DiMaggio
George Armstrong Custer                         Gerhart Hauptmann

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Soviet Union Premier Joseph Stalin         38th US President Gerald Ford               British Prime Minister
                                                                                                                             Margaret Thatcher

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WWF Wrestler Hulk Hogan


399 - St Anastasius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1095 - Pope Urban II preaches 1st Crusade
1237 - Battle of Cortenuova: Holy Roman Emperor Frederik II defeated the Second Lombardian
           League
1295 - The first elected representatives from Lancashire were called to Westminster by King Edward I
           to attend what later became known as "The Model Parliament".
1382 - Battle of Westrozebeke/Roosebeke. French army defeats the Flemish army. Flemish leader
           Philip Van Artevelde killed and corpse displayed
1495 - Scottish king James IV receives Perkin Warbeck, pretender to the English trone
1587 - Dutch County Groningen flood by failure of dyke
1703 - The first Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed in the Great Storm of 1703.
1798 - Rabbi Shneur Zalman, author (Tanya), released from St Petersburg jail
1807 - The Portuguese Royal Family leaves Lisbon to escape from Napoleonic troops
1815 - City of Kraków (Poland) declared a free republic state by the Congress of Vienna
1815 - Adoption of the Constitution of the Kingdom of Poland
1817 - US soldiers attack Florida Indian village, beginning Seminole War
1826 - John Walker invents friction match in England
1839 - American Statistical Association organizes in Boston
1843 - Opera "Bohemian Girl" is produced (London)
1863 - -29] Battle at Fort Esperanza Texas
1863 - Battle of Payne's Farm, VA
1864 - 2nd day of Battles at Waynesboro, Georgia
1868 - Battle at Washita River, Oklahoma. General Custer attacks group of Native American Indians,
           their chief Black Kettle dies in the attack
1870 - NY Times dubs baseball "The National Game"
1885 - Earliest photograph of a meteor shower taken
1889 - 1st permit issued to drive a car through Central Park (Curtis P Brady)
1889 - Hermann Sudermann's "Ehre" premieres in Berlin
1890 - 1st signal box for SF Police Department goes into operation
1895 - Alfred Nobel's will establishes Nobel Prizes
1896 - "Also Sprach Zarathustra" (Thus Spake Zarathustra) debuts in Frankfurt
1901 - Army War College forms in Washington DC
1901 - Gerhart Hauptmanns "Der rote Hahn" premieres in Berlin
1901 - U.S. Army War College is established.
1903 - Opera "Die Heugierigen Frauen" is produced (Munich)
1910 - NY's Penn Station opens as world's largest railway terminal
1911 - Audience throws vegetables at actors for 1st recorded time in US
1912 - Albanian National Flag adopted
1912 - Spanish protectorate in Morocco forms
1914 - 1st British woman elected political agent (Grantham, Linconshire)
1919 - Peace of Neuilly-sur-Seine: Allies & Bulgaria
1924 - 57,000 watch a High School football game (LA & Polytechnic tie 7-7)
1924 - In New York City, the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.
1925 - German Parliament ratifies treaty of Locarno
1926 - 110,000 watch US Army & Navy play a 21-all tie
1926 - Béla Bartok's ballet &quot;Miraculous Mandarin&quot; premieres in Keulen
1926 - Italian & Albania sign peace treaty
1926 - KXL-AM in Portland OR begins radio transmissions
1926 - Restoration of Williamsburg, Virginia, begins
1931 - 1st Test Cricket match at the Gabba Bradman scores 200 on 1st day
1932 - Poland & USSR sign non-aggression treaty
1934 - Bank robber Baby Face Nelson dies in a shoot-out with the FBI.
1937 - Pro-labor musical revue "Pins & Needles" opens, produced by ILGWU
1939 - Maxwell Anderson's "Key Largo" premieres in NYC
1940 - 6th Heisman Trophy Award: Tom Harmon, Michigan (HB)
1941 - British 13th Army Corps reaches Tobruk
1941 - Joe DiMaggio is named AL MVP
1941 - USSR begins a counter offensive, causes Germany to retreat
1942 - Bobby Managoff beats Yvon Robert in Houston, to become wrestling champ
1942 - French navy at Toulon scuttles ships & subs so Nazis cannot seize them
1942 - Tito appoints Anti-fascist Liberation board in Yugoslavia
1943 - 31st CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Flying Wildcats defeat Winn Bombers, 23-14
1943 - Conference of Teheran (Churchill-Roosevelt-Stalin)
1944 - 4,000 shells detonate in RAF arms depot at Fauld, near Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire; village
           of Hanbury destroyed, at least 70 people killed
1944 - US 121st Infantry regiment opens assault on Hurtgen
1945 - Gen George C Marshall named special US envoy to China
1945 - Trial against NSB-leader Mussert begins
1945 - Dutch resistance fighter Hannie Schaft re-buried in presence of Queen Wilhelmina
1946 - English soccer team beats Netherlands, 8-2
1947 - Joe DiMaggio wins his 3rd MVP, beating Ted Williams by 1 vote
1948 - 36th CFL Grey Cup: Calgary Stampeders defeat Ottawa Rough Riders, 12-7
1948 - Honda 1st opens in America
1950 - Red Sox sign shortstop Lou Boudreau as a player to 2-year contract
1950 - Trial against RC clergy "imperialistic conspiracy" begins in Prague
1951 - 1st rocket to intercept an airplane, White Sands, NM
1951 - Cease-fire & demarcation zone accord signed in Panmunjon Korea
1952 - KTBC TV channel 7 in Austin, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 - Indians 3rd baseman Al Rosen is unanimously named AL's MVP
1954 - "By the Beautiful Sea" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 270 perfs
1954 - 42nd CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Montreal Alouettes, 26-25
1954 - Alger Hiss is released from prison after serving 44 months for perjury.
1956 - F Goodrich &amp; A Hackett&#039;s &quot;Diary of Anne Frank&quot; premieres in
           Netherlands
1957 - Army withdraws for Little Rock Ark, after Central HS integration
1958 - USSR abrogates Allied war-time agreements on control of Germany
1960 - CBS radio cancels "Have Gun Will Travel"
1960 - Dr Felix Houphouet-Boigny becomes president of Ivory Coast
1960 - Gordie Howe becomes 1st NHLer to score 1,000 points
1960 - Patrice Lumumba flees Leopoldville Congo
1960 - Trailing 38-7 late in 3rd quarter, Buffalo Bills tie Broncos at 38-38
1961 - Gordie Howe becomes 1st to play in 1,000 NHL games
1961 - KHAW TV channel 11 in Hilo, HI (NBC) begins broadcasting
1962 - 1st test flight of the Boeing 727 takes place
1962 - Sumner Arthur Long's "Never Too Late" premieres in NYC
1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 - The Convention on the Unification of Certain Points of Substantive Law on Patents for
           Invention is signed at Strasbourg.
1965 - 15-25,000 demonstrate against war in Vietnam in Washington, DC
1965 - 1st French satellite launched; France becomes 3rd nation in space
1965 - 53rd CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeat Winn Blue Bombers, 22-16
1966 - In highest-scoring NFL game, Wash Redskins defeat NY Giants 72-41
1966 - Uruguay adopts constitution
1967 - Beatles release "Magical Mystery Tour"
1967 - Gold pool nations pledge support of $35 per ounce gold price
1970 - Carl Morton (18-11 for last-place Expos), receives NL Rookie of Year
1970 - George Harrison releases 3 album set "All Things Must Pass"
1970 - Pope Paul VI wounded in chest during a visit to Philippines by a dagger-wielding Bolivian
           painter disguised as a priest
1970 - Test Cricket debut of Rodney "Iron Gloves" Marsh v England, Brisbane
1971 - Soviet Mars 2 becomes 1st spacecraft to crash land on Mars
1972 - Pierre Trudeau forms Canadian government
1972 - Yanks trade Ellis, Torres & Spikes to Indians for Nettles & Moses
1973 - Gary Matthews wins NL Rookie of Year
1973 - Neil Simon's "Good Doctor" premieres in NYC
1973 - Senate votes 92-3 to confirm Gerald R Ford as VP
1974 - Cardinals outfielder Bake McBride wins NL Rookie of Year
1975 - Red Sox's Fred Lynn is 1st rookie to win MVP (AL)
1975 - The Provisional IRA assassinates Ross McWhirter, after a press conference in which McWhirter
           announced a reward for the capture of those responsible for multiple bombings and
           shootings across England.
1976 - Amy Alcott wins LPGA Colgate-Far East Golf Championship
1976 - Miss Teenage America Pageant
1977 - "Comedy with Music (Victor Borge)" closes at Imperial NY after 66 perf
1977 - 65th CFL Grey Cup: Montreal Alouettes defeats Edmonton Eskimos, 41-6
1979 - 1st day-night one-day cricket international, Australia v WI at SCG
1980 - Soyuz T-3 carries 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station, launched
1982 - 5th time Rangers shut-out Islanders 3-0
1982 - Kepler Wessels scores century in 1st Test Cricket (162 v England)
1983 - 71st CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats BC Lions, 18-17
1983 - Colombian jetliner Boeing 747 crashes in Madrid killing 181
1983 - Desmond Haynes out handled the ball v India
1985 - Cards Vince Coleman wins NL Rookie of Year
1985 - Republic of Ireland gains consultative role in Northern Ireland
1987 - "Les Miserables" opens at Theatre Royal, Sydney
1987 - Young man survives 7 attempts at suicide in Somerset, England
1988 - 76th CFL Grey Cup: Winnipeg Blue Bombers defeats BC Lions, 22-21
1989 - Colombian jetliner bombed killing 107
1989 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1989 - George Harrison releases "Cheer Down" & "Poor Little Girl"
1989 - Luis Alberto Lacelle elected president of Uruguay
1989 - US 63rd manned space mission STS 33 (Discovery 9) returns from space
1990 - Britain's conservatives chose John Major to succeed Margaret Thatcher
1991 - "Peter Pan" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 48 performances
1991 - Poetess Maria Elene Cruz Varela sentenced to 2 years (Cuba)
1991 - Undertaker beats Hulk Hogan to become new WWF champ
1992 - Howard Stern Interview premieres on E! Network
1992 - Part of Vienna Hofburg destroyed by fire
1993 - Boon completes his 18th Test Cricket century (106 v NZ, Hobart)
1993 - India defeat West Indies in Bengal Jubilee Cricket Final, Kumble 6-12
1993 - Lisa Hanna, 18, of Jamaica, crowned 43rd Miss World
1994 - 82nd CFL Grey Cup: British Columbia Lions defeat Balt Stallions, 26-23
1994 - Fire in disco in Fuxin, North-China, 233 killed
1994 - Julio Maria Sanguinetti elected president of Uruguay
1997 - Lions' Barry Sanders becomes NFL's 2nd all-time rusher
1997 - Twenty-five are killed in the second Souhane massacre in Algeria.
1999 - The left-wing Labour Party takes control of the New Zealand government with leader Helen
           Clark becoming the first elected female Prime Minister in New Zealand's history.
2001 - A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space
          Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.
2004 - New Zealand's All Blacks thump Six Nations Rugby Union Champions France 45-6 in Paris
2004 - Pope John Paul II returns the relics of Saint John Chrysostom to the Eastern Orthodox
           Church.
2005 - The first partial human face transplant is completed in Amiens, France.
2005 - President El Hadj Omar Bongo Ondimba of Gabon, in power since 1967 and the longest-
           serving head of state in the world, was re-elected to his third consecutive seven-year term.
2006 - The Canadian House of Commons endorses Prime Minister Stephen Harper's motion to
           declare Québécois a nation within a unified Canada.
2006 - Francesco Cossiga, Italian politician and former President of the Italian Republic, resigned from
           his position as lifetime senator.
2012 - 29 people are killed and 126 are wounded by 8 car bombings across Iraq
2012 - The Eurozone announces that it will make loans of 43.7 billion euros to Greece
2013 - Tiger Woods is named PGA Tour's player of the year for the 11th time

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 27, 2013, 07:31:22 PM

This Day in History for 27th November


Famous Weddings

1980 - British playwright (Nobel prize for literature 2005) Harold Pinter (50) marries 2nd wife British
           writer and historian Antonia Frazer (48)
1993 - Actress Teri Garr (44) weds building contractor John O'Neil (42) at the Twin Dolphins Hotel in
           Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 27, 2013, 07:36:03 PM

This Day in History for 27th November


Famous Divorces

2006 - "Baywatch" actress Pamela Anderson (39) divorces singer Kid Rock (36) due to irreconcilable
           differences only 4 months after getting married
2006 - Actress Selma Blair (34) divorces actor-rocker Ahmet Zappa (32) due to irreconcilable
           differences after more than 2 years of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 27, 2013, 07:58:06 PM

This Day in History for 27th November


Famous Birthdays

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American Founding Father                   Karate Star/Actor Bruce Lee (1940)         Rock Guitarist Jimi Hendrix (1942)
Robert R. Livingston (1746)

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Director Kathryn Bigelow (1951)


1127 - Emperor Xiaozong of China (d. 1194)
1544 - Ascanio Trombeti, composer
1563 - Robbert Robbertsz, (le Canu), nautical expert
1569 - Ottavio Vernizzi, composer
1576 - Shimazu Tadatsune, Ruler of Satsuma (d. 1638)
1582 - Pierre Dupuy, French scholar (d. 1651)
1588 - Valerius Andreas, [Walter Driessens], Flemish historian
1595 - Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor/architect
1627 - Louise Henriette, [Mlle d'Orange], daughter of Frederik Henry
1630 - Archduke Sigismund Francis of Austria (d. 1665)
1635 - Françoise d'Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon, wife of Louis XIV of France (d. 1719)
1648 - Peter Codde, RC apostole vicar (1688-1704)
1668 - Henri F d'Aguesseau, chancellor of France (1717..50)
1691 - Josef Antonin Planicky, composer
1701 - Anders Celsius, Sweden, scientist/inventor (centigrade temp scale)
1710 - Robert Lowth, British bishop (d. 1787)
1731 - Gaetano Pugnani, composer
1732 - Johann Joseph Emmert, composer
1741 - Jean-Pierre Duport, composer
1745 - Boniface Stoecki, composer
1746 - Robert R. Livingston, US Founding Father, delivered oath of office to George Washington
1746 - Increase Sumner, 5th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1799)
1750 - Anton Thadaus Johann Nepomuk Stamitz, composer
1756 - Paul van Hemert, Dutch theologist/philosopher (Kant)
1759 - Franz Vinzenz Krommer, composer
1775 - Joachim G le Sage ten Broek, Dutch notary/catholic foreman/publicist
1778 - John Murray, publisher
1779 - Aimé, duc de Clermont-Tonnerre, French general (d. 1865)
1787 - Christian Rummel, composer
1787 - Jacob earl van Rechteren van Appeltern, governor of Gelderland
1801 - Alexander Egorovich Varlamov, composer
1804 - Julius Benedict, Stuttgart Germany, opera composer (Protoghesi)
1808 - Hugh Weedon Mercer, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1877
1809 - Frances Anne "Fanny" Kemble, England, Shakespearian actress (Juliet)
1813 - Michele Puccini, composer
1830 - Harrison Millard, composer
1833 - Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge (d. 1897)
1840 - Aleksei N Apuchtin, Russian poet/friend of Tsjaikovski [OS=11/15]
1843 - Cornelius Vanderbilt II, American businessman (d. 1899)
1843 - Elizabeth Stride, victim of Jack the Ripper (d. 1888)
1854 - Aloys L earl von Aehrenthal, Austrian minister of Foreign affairs
1857 - Charles Scott Sherrington, British physiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1952)
1865 - Jose Asunción Silva, Colombia, poet (Nocturno III)
1867 - Margaret Ruthven Lang, composer
1867 - Charles Koechlin, French composer (d. 1950)
1870 - Juho Kusti Paasikivi, president Finland
1871 - Giovanni Giorgi, Italian physicist (d. 1950)
1874 - Chaim Weizmann, Israeli statesman (1st President)
1874 - Charles A Beard, American historian (American Continentalism)
1875 - Wladyslaw Orkan, [Szmaciarz-Smreczynsky], Pol author (Nowele Zebrane)
1878 - Mabel Wheeler Daniels, composer
1878 - Jatindramohan Bagchi, Indian (Bengali) poet (d.1948).
1879 - Adam Tadeusz Wieniawski, composer
1885 - Rudolph Reti, composer
1886 - Tsugouharu T Foujita, Japans/French painter
1892 - Pedro Salinas, writer
1893 - Stanislaw Wiechowicz, composer
1894 - Forrest Shaklee, founder (Shaklee Products)
1894 - Amphilochius of Pochayiv, Ukrainian Orthodox saint (d. 1971)
1894 - Konosuke Matsushita, Japanese industrialist (d. 1989)
1896 - Giovanni B Angioletti, Italian author (Il giorno del giudizio)
1897 - Vito Genovese, American mafioso (d. 1969)
1898 - Nelly Steuer-Wagenaar, Dutch pianist
1898 - Fredric Warburg, publisher and author (d. 1981)
1900 - Leon Barzin, Brussels Belgium, conductor (NY City Ballet 1948-58)
1900 - Robert Blum, composer
1901 - Ted Husing, NYC, sportscaster (Monday Night Fights)
1902 - Giuseppe Savagnone, composer
1903 - Johnny Blood, aka John McNally, early NFL halfback (Green Bay)
1903 - Mona Washbourne, England, actress (Stevie, Billie Liar, Driver's Seat)
1905 - Daniel Sternefeld, Belgian conductor/composer (Mater Dolorosa)
1907 - L[yon] Sprague de Camp, US, sci-fi author (Goblin Tower, Hand of Zei)
1909 - Astrid Allwyn, Manchester CT, actress (Charlie Chan's Secret)
1909 - Donald John Urquhart, librarian
1909 - James Agee, American author (African Queen, Death in Family)
1909 - Anatoly Maltsev, Russian mathematician (d. 1967)
1910 - Rudolf Holzmann, composer
1911 - Georges Dargaud, French publisher (Asterix/Kuifje)
1911 - Fe del Mundo, Filipino pediatrician and National Scientist
1912 - David Merrick, [Margulois], Hong Kong, Broadway producer (Hello Dolly)
1912 - Howard de Walden, English landowner/multi-millionaire
1913 - Frances Swem Anderson, technologist (nuclear medicine)
1913 - Robert Dougall, English TV host
1914 - Evangeline Bruce, hostess
1915 - Caro van Eyck, [Gerarda JE Taytelbaum], Dutch actress (Medea)
1915 - Victor Alessandro, composer
1916 - Chick Hearn, American sportscaster (d. 2002)
1917 - "Buffalo" Bob Smith, Buffalo NY, TV host (Howdy Doody)
1917 - Tiny Rowland, [Roland Fuhrop], German/British owner (Observer)
1918 - Zeev Wolfgang Steinberg, composer
1919 - Siegfried Naumann, composer
1920 - Abe Lenstra, Dutch soccer star
1920 - David Waller, actor (Shadowlands, Work is a 4 Letter Word)
1920 - Elaine Greene, literary Agent
1920 - John Richard Ravensdale, historian
1920 - Max Tripels, attorney/Dutch MP
1921 - Alexander Dubcek, headed Czech Communist Party (1968-69)
1921 - Ole Sarvig, Danish writer/critic (Limbo, Glem Ikke)
1923 - Robert A Young, (Rep-D-MO, 1977-86)
1924 - Theresa R van der Pant, sculptor
1925 - Ernie Wise, England, comedian (Morecambe & Wise)
1925 - Marshall Thompson, Peoria Ill, actor (Bog, To Hell & Back, Daktari)
1925 - Michael Tolan, Detroit Mich, actor (Nurses, Senator)
1925 - John Maddox, British science writer and editor
1926 - Barbara Anderson, New Zealand author
1927 - William Simon, US sect of Treasury
1927 - Carlos José Castilho, Brazilian footballer (d. 1987)
1928 - Edward Greenall, businessman/sportsman
1928 - Walter Klien, pianist
1928 - Alekos Alexandrakis, Greek actor (d. 2005)
1929 - Billy Nair, S Afr union/SACP leader (20 yrs in Robbeneiland Prison)
1930 - James M Taylor, Stamps ARK, USAF/astronaut
1930 - Vladimir Emel Yanovich Lev Alekseevich Samsonov Maksimov, educator
1930 - Joe DeNardo, Pittsburgh Meteorologist
1931 - Juan Guinjoan, composer
1932 - Benigno Aquino Jr, Philippine opposition leader; assassinated
1934 - Lawrence Martin Jenco, priest
1934 - Ammo Baba, Iraqi-Assyrian footballer
1935 - Al Jackson Jr, Memphis Tn, drummer (Booker T & MGs-Chinese Checkers)
1935 - Helmut Friedrich Lachenmann, composer
1935 - Prakash Bhandari, cricketer (3 Tests for India in mid-50's, 77 runs)
1935 - Verity A Lambert, film producer (Clockwise, Link, Sweeney)
1935 - Les Blank, American documentary filmmaker
1937 - Gail Sheehy, author (Hustling)
1938 - Jose Tartabull, baseball player
1939 - Dave Giusti, American baseball player
1940 - Bruce Lee, [Lee Yuen Kam], SF California, karate star/actor (Green Hornet), (d. 1973)
1940 - John Alderton, Gainsborough England, actor (Zardoz)
1941 - Eddie Rabbitt, American singer (d. 1998)
1941 - Aimé Jacquet, French football manager
1942 - Henry Carr, Det Mich, 200m/4x400m runner (Olympic-gold-1964)
1942 - Jimi Hendrix, Seattle Wash, rock guitarist (Purple Haze), (d. 1970)
1942 - Manolo Blahnik, Spanish shoe designer
1943 - Nicole Brossard, French Canadian poet
1944 - Dozy, rocker
1944 - Eddie Rabbitt, Brooklyn, country singer (I Love a Rainy Night)
1944 - Martin Corbett, gay activist
1944 - Mickey Leland, (Rep-D-TX, 1979- )
1945 - Barbara Anderson, Bkln, actress (Eve-Ironside, Mission Impossible)
1945 - Randy Brecker, Phila, rocker (Blood Sweat & Tears)
1945 - Alain de Cadenet, SPEED Channel personality
1948 - Dave Winthrop, rock saxophonist (Supertramp)
1949 - Masanori Sekiya, Japanese racing driver
1950 - Gran Hamada, Japanese professional wrestler
1951 - Jayne Kennedy, Wash DC, sportscaster (CBS)/actress (Body & Soul)
1951 - Kevin Kavanaugh, rocker (Asbury Jukes) [or 8/27]
1951 - Kathryn Bigelow, San Carlos, California, American director, producer and writer (The Hurt
           Locker, Zero Dark Thirty)
1952 - James D Wetherbee, Flushing NY, Lt Cmdr USN/astr (STS 32, 52, 63, 86)
1952 - Sheila Copps, Canadian politician
1952 - Daryl Stuermer, American guitarist (Genesis)
1953 - Curtis Armstrong, Detroit, Michigan, American actor (Moonlighting, Revenge of the Nerds)
1953 - Boris Grebenshchikov, Russian singer (Aquarium)
1954 - Patricia McPherson, Oak Harbor Wash, actress (Bonnie-Knight Rider)
1954 - Kimmy Robertson, American actress best known for her role as Lucy Moran in the TV series
           Twin Peaks
1955 - Bill Nye, the Science Guy, TV Host
1955 - Pierre Mondou, Canadian ice hockey player
1956 - William Fichtner, American actor
1957 - Caroline Kennedy-Schlossberg, attorney, JFK & Jackie's daughter
1957 - Terri R Adams, educator (teacher in space)
1957 - Kenny Acheson, Northern Irish racecar driver
1957 - Kevin O'Connell, American sound re-recording mixer
1958 - Julia Celotto, LA CA, WPVA volleyballer (Santa Cruz/Pismo-9th-1994)
1958 - Mike Scioscia, baseball player (LA Dodgers)
1959 - Charlie Burchill, Scottish pop guitarist (Simple Minds-Breakfast Club)
1960 - Ashley Ingram, English singer (Fizzz-Just an Illusion)
1960 - Martin van Yellow, soccer player (Willem II)
1960 - Ken O'Brien, Rockville Centre, New York, American football quarterback (NY Jets)
1960 - Kevin Henkes, American children's book writer/illustrator
1960 - Tim Pawlenty, American politician
1960 - Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukrainian prime minister
1961 - Lee Johnson, NFL punter/kicker (Cin Bengals)
1961 - Princess, rocker (Desirez Heslop, All For Love)
1961 - Randy Milligan, baseball player
1961 - Steve Oedekerk, American film director, actor and comedian
1962 - Arlene Baxter, Oceanside CA, playmate (Dec, 1993)
1962 - Calvin Hayes, rocker (Johnny Hates Jazz-Turn Back the Clock)
1962 - Charlie Benante, Bronx NY, rock drummer (Anthrax-Armed & Dangerous)
1962 - Mike "Puffy" Bordin, SF, rock drummer (Faith No More)
1963 - Fisher Stevens, Chicago, actor (My Science Project, Short Circuit)
1964 - David Giles, Australian star yachter (Olympics-84, 88, 92, 96)
1964 - Rebecca Michelle Ferratti, Helena MT, playmate (Jun, 1986)
1964 - Robin Simone Givens, [Mrs Mike Tyson] NYC, (Darlene-Head of the Class)
1965 - Danielle Ammaccapane, Babylon NY, LPGA golfer (1991 Register PING)
1965 - Fiachna O'Braonain, Irish pop guitarist (Hothouse Flowers-Don't Go)
1965 - Kathleen Heddle, Trail BC, rower (Olympics-gold-92/96)
1965 - Raffaella Ragge, Italy, tennis star
1966 - Carwell Gardner, NFL fullback (Buffalo Bills, San Diego Chargers)
1966 - Chryssandra Hines, Bristol Conn, team handball wing (Olympics-1996)
1966 - Dean Garrett, NBA center (Denver Nuggets)
1966 - Andy Merrill, American voice actor
1967 - Brett MacNeil, CFL guard (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1967 - Garry Valk, Edmonton, NHL left wing (Anaheim Mighty Ducks)
1967 - Laura Golarsa, Milan Italy, tennis star (Oklahoma City doubles)
1967 - Shawn Watson, American librarian
1968 - Michael Vartan, French actor
1970 - Calvin Jones, NFL running back (Oakland Raiders)
1970 - Chris Underwood, Los Angeles California, volleyball opposite hitter (Olympics-96)
1970 - Patrick Bates, NFL safety (Atlanta Falcons)
1970 - Todd Kelly, NFL defensive end (Cin Bengals)
1970 - Patricia Zentilli, Canadian actress
1971 - Eric Menendez, NY, accused of killing his parents (Menendez Brothers)
1971 - Larry Allen, NFL guard/tackle (Dallas Cowboys)
1971 - Linette Mertz, Kutztown Penns, Miss America-Penns (1996)
1971 - Nick Van Exel, NBA guard (LA Lakers)
1971 - Rhonda Adams, Columbus GA, playmate (Jun, 1995)
1971 - Kirk Acevedo, Brooklyn, New York, American actor (Oz, The Thin Red Line)
1972 - Chris Hetherington, running back (Indianapolis Colts)
1972 - Ivan Imbernon, WLAF defensive end (Barcelona Dragons)
1972 - Jason Burns, NFL running back (Cin Bengals)
1972 - Yureck Person, soccer player (NAC)
1973 - Jon Runyan, tackle (Tennessee Oilers)
1973 - Nick Ferguson, CFL defensive back (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1973 - Reginald Lee, WLAF linebacker (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1973 - Samantha Harris, American model and host
1973 - Evan Karagias, American professional wrestler
1974 - Lee Vaughn, cornerback (Dallas Cowboys)
1975 - Martin Gramatica, Argentinian-American football player
1976 - Chad Kilger, Cornwall, NHL center (Winnipeg Jets)
1976 - Jaleel White, Los Angeles California, actor (Steve Urkel-Family Matters)
1976 - Saqlain Mushtaq, cricketer (Pakistan Test off-spinner 1995)
1976 - Tyrone Sutton
1976 - Jean Grae, South African-born rapper
1978 - Joshua Harris, actor (Locked Up: A Mother's Rage)
1978 - Tim Yeung, American drummer (Vital Remains)
1978 - Jimmy Rollins, American baseball player
1978 - Mike Skinner, English musician
1979 - Ricky Carmichael, American motocross racer
1979 - Hilary Hahn, American violinist
1979 - Shin Hyesung, Korean singer (Shinhwa)
1979 - Teemu Tainio, Finnish footballer
1980 - Michael Yardy, English cricketer
1981 - Gary Lucy, Actor
1981 - Matthew Taylor, English footballer
1984 - Domata Peko, American football player
1985 - Alison Pill, Canadian actress
1985 - Klara Ósk Elíasdóttir, Icelandic singer
1986 - Suresh Kumar Raina, Indian cricketer
1991 - Nur Atikah Nabilah, Singaporean Gymnast

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 27, 2013, 08:12:22 PM

This Day in History for 27th November


Famous Deaths

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Roman Poet Horace (8 )


8 - Horace, Roman poet, dies at 56
450 - Galla Placidia, daughter of Byzant emperor Constantius III, dies at 58
511 - Clovis, 1st King of France, dies at about 45
640 - Acharius, bishop of Noyon/saint, dies
835 - Muhammad at-Taqi, Shia Imam (b. 811)
1026 - Adalbert II, bishop of Utrecht (1010-26), dies
1198 - Queen Constance of Sicily, wife of Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1154)
1474 - Guillaume Dufay, French/Flemish composer, dies at about 74
1570 - Jacopo Sansovino, Italian sculptor and architect (b. 1486)
1592 - Nakagawa Hidemasa, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1568)
1592 - King John III of Sweden (b. 1537)
1632 - John Eliot, English parliament leader/author (In Jail), dies at 40
1673 - Anthonie Palamedesz, painter, dies at about 72
1680 - Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit/inventor (lantern), dies
1749 - Balthasar Schmid, composer, dies at 44
1749 - Gottfried Heinrich Stolzel, composer, dies at 59
1754 - Abraham de Moivre, French mathematician (b. 1667)
1811 - Andrew Meikle, British mechanical engineer (b. 1719)
1836 - Carle [Antoine CH] Vernet, French painter/lithographer, dies
1852 - Ada Lovelace, British mathematician (b. 1815)
1884 - Franziska "Fanny" Elssler, Austrian ballerina/choreography, dies at 74
1890 - Emmanuele Muzio, composer, dies at 69
1894 - Johanna von Puttkamer, Prussian noblewoman, wife of Otto von Bismarck (b. 1824)
1895 - French writer and playwright Alexandre Dumas (b. 1824), son of the French author of the same name
1899 - Felipe Gutierrez y Espinoza, composer, dies at 74
1901 - Clement Studebaker, American automobile manufacturer (b. 1831)
1908 - Jean Albert Gaudry, French geologist (b. 1827)
1915 - Sigismund Vladislavovich Zaremba, composer, dies at 54
1916 - James Cutler Dunn Parker, composer, dies at 88
1921 - Douglas Colin Cameron, Canadian politician]] (b. 1854)
1925 - Roger de la Fresnaye, French sculptor/painter, dies
1930 - J T Tyldesley, cricket (1661 runs in 31 Tests for Eng 1898-1909), dies
1931 - Lya De Putti, Hungarian actress (b. 1899)
1932 - Evelyn Preer, American actress and singer (b. 1896)
1934 - "Baby Face" Nelson, [Lester Gillis], gangster, shot by FBI at 26
1934 - Herman Hollis, FBI agent, killed by Baby Face Nelson
1934 - Sam Cowley, FBI agent, killed by Baby Face Nelson
1942 - A B C Langton, cricketer (WWII 15 Tests for South Africa 1935-39), dies
1943 - Ivo Lola Ribar, Croatian communist and partisan (b. 1916)
1944 - Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam, Russian physicist (b. 1879)
1953 - Eugene O'Neill, playwright (Nobel 1936), dies in Boston at 65
1955 - Arthur Honegger, Swiss composer (Cantate Noel), dies of a heart attack at 63
1955 - Luis de Freitas Branco, composer, dies at 65
1955 - William Nigh, director (Ape, Doomed to Die, Mr Wong), dies at 74
1957 - Margot SE Scharten-Antink, author (Catherina/Sprotje), dies at 88
1958 - Artur Rodzinski, Polish conductor/composer, dies at 66
1959 - Gerard Philipe, actor/dir (La Ronde, Gambler), dies of cancer at 36
1960 - Dirk J de Geer, Dutch premier (1926-29, 39-40), dies at 89
1960 - Frederick Fane, cricketer (682 runs in 14 Tests for Eng 1905-10), dies
1965 - Carl Parrish, composer, dies at 61
1965 - Harry Harvey Sr, actor (It's a Man's World), dies at 64
1967 - Cameron Prud'Homme, actor (Rainmaker), dies after long illness at 75
1967 - Ettore Panizza, composer, dies at 92
1968 - Gino Roncaglia, composer, dies at 85
1968 - Hans Redlich, composer, dies at 65
1971 - Jakabs Medins, composer, dies at 86
1971 - Korneel Goossens, Flemish literary/art historian, dies at 70
1973 - Frank Christian, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1887)
1974 - Louis B Russell Jr, longest living heart transplant, dies at 49
1975 - Ross McWhirter, Guinness Book of Records keeper, murdered
1977 - John L McClellan, (Sen-D-Ark), dies at 81
1978 - George Moscone, (SF Mayor), shot by Dan White
1978 - Harvey Milk, (SF City Supervisor), shot by Dan White
1978 - Susan Damante Shaw, actress (Wilderness Family), dies at 58
1980 - F. Burrall Hoffman, American architect (b. 1882)
1981 - Lotte Lenya, Austrian singer/actress (From Russia With Love), dies of cancer at 83
1981 - Max [Machgielis] Euwe, chess champ (1935-37), dies
1982 - Philipp Kutev, composer, dies at 79
1983 - Manuel Scorza, Peruvian writer, dies at about 55
1984 - Percy Norris, deputy high commissioner of India, shot dead
1986 - Steve Tracy, actor (Percival-Little House on Praire), dies at 61
1988 - Angela Aames, actress (Lost Empire, Basic Training), dies
1988 - John Carradine, actor (Ten Commandments), dies of kidney failure at 82
1988 - Karel Horky, composer, dies at 79
1988 - [John] Hein Donner, chess grand master, dies at 61
1990 - David White, actor (Larry Tate-Bewitched), dies at 74
1992 - Ivan Generalić, Croatian painter (b. 1914)
1994 - Arthur Frank "Peter" Shore, egyptologist, dies at 70
1994 - Fernando Lopes-Graça, Portuguese composer and musicologist (b. 1906)
1995 - Giancarlo Baghetti, racing driver/journalist, dies at 60
1995 - Peter Harrison Swan, bomber pilot/stockbroker, dies at 75
1995 - Simon Bailey, priest, dies at 40
1996 - George Ernest Leslie, trade union official, dies at 76
1997 - Buck Leonard, Hall of Famer in Negro League, dies at 90
1997 - Henry Charnock, oceanographer, dies at 76
1998 - Barbara Acklin, American singer and songwriter (b. 1943)
1999 - Yasuhiro Kojima, wrestler (b. 1937)
1999 - Alain Peyrefitte, French politician and author (b. 1925)
2000 - Len Shackleton, English former footballer (b. 1922)
2005 - Jocelyn Brando, American actress (b. 1919)
2005 - Joe Jones, American R&B singer (b. 1926)
2006 - Don Butterfield, American tuba player (b. 1923)
2006 - Alan Freeman, British disc jockey known by his nickname 'Fluff' (b. 1927)
2006 - Bebe Moore Campbell, American author (b. 1950)
2006 - Casey Coleman, American sportscaster (b. 1951)
2007 - Bill Willis, American football player (b. 1921)
2007 - Robert Cade, American doctor and inventor of Gatorade (b. 1927)
2007 - Bernie Banton, Australian asbestos campaigner (b. 1946)
2007 - Sean Taylor, American football player (b. 1983)
2010 - Irvin Kershner, American director (b. 1923)
2011 - Sultan Khan, Indian classical musician, dies at 71
2011 - Gary Speed, Former Welsh international footballer and Wales national football team manager
          (b. 1969)
2012 - Marvin Miller, American union leader, dies at 95

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 28, 2013, 12:35:06 PM

This Day in History for 28th November


Historical Events

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Naturalist Charles Darwin                         Comedian Groucho Marx            32nd US President Franklin D. Roosevelt

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262nd Pope John XXIII                            New York Yankees Owner                   Musician and Beatle John Lennon
                                                               George Steinbrenner

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British Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher


587 - Treaty of Andelot: King Guntram names cousin Childebert II as heir
1291 - Eleanor of Castile, wife of King Edward I of England, dies in Northamptonshire. Crosses are
           erected where her body rests on the way to London.
1340 - Battle of Salado, Spain: last Moorish invasion driven back
1443 - Albanian George Kastriotis Skanderbeg and his forces liberate Kruja in Middle Albania from the
           Ottomans and raise the Albanian flag.
1520 - Ferdinand Magellan begins crossing Pacific Ocean
1569 - Duke of Alva forces bishop Nicolaas van Nieuwland of Haarlem to resign
1660 - The Royal Society forms in London
1670 - Pierre Corneille's "Tite et Berenice" premieres in Paris
1729 - Natchez Indians massacre 138 Frenchmen, 35 French women, and 56 children at Fort Rosalie,
           near the site of modern-day Natchez, Mississippi.
1745 - -29] French troops attack indians of Saratoga, NY
1757 - Britain condemns Convention of Kloster-Zeven
1775 - 2nd Continental Congress formally establishes US Navy
1785 - The Treaty of Hopewell is signed between the Confederation Congress of the United States of
           America and the Cherokee people
1795 - US pays $800,000 & a frigate as tribute to Algiers & Tunis
1813 - Cossacks occupy Utrecht
1814 - The Times of London is for the first time printed by automatic, steam powered presses built
           by the German inventors Friedrich Koenig and Andreas Friedrich Bauer, signaling the
           beginning of the availability of newspapers to a mass audience.
1821 - Panama declares independence from Spain
1833 - Charles Darwin rides through Las Pietras, returning to Montevideo
1843 - Ka Lahui: Hawaiian Independence Day - The Kingdom of Hawaii is officially recognized by the
           United Kingdom and France as an independent nation.
1847 - Bologna: church of San Francisco dei Minori Conventuali initiated with premier of Rossini's
           Tantum ergo
1853 - Olympia forms as capital of Washington Territory
1854 - Dutch army stops Chinese uprising in Borneo
1861 - Confederate congress officially admits Missouri to Confederacy
1862 - Battle at Cane Hill, Arkansas (475 casualties)
1862 - Battle of Hooly Spring, MS
1864 - 3rd day of Battles at Waynesboro/Jones's Plantation, Georgia
1864 - Battle of New Creek, WV (Rosser's Raid, Ft Kelly)
1871 - Ku Klux Klan trials began in Federal District Court in South Carolina
1875 - British explorer Verney Cameron reaches East Africa
1879 - Battle at Lydenburg South Africa: Gen Wolseley beats Sekhukhenes Pedi-Zulu
1893 - Women vote in a national election for the first time: the New Zealand general election.
1895 - America's 1st auto race starts; 6 cars, 55 miles, winner avg 7 MPH
1899 - Battle of Mud River (Boer general Cronjé beats British gen Methuen)
1901 - Gustav Mahler's 4th Symphony in G premieres
1904 - Germany defeats Hottentotten in Warmbad SW-Africa
1905 - Arthur Griffith forms Sinn Fein in Dublin
1906 - Tommy Burns & Jack O'Brien fight to a draw in 20 for hw boxing title
1907 - In Haverhill, Massachusetts, scrap-metal dealer Louis B. Mayer opens his first movie theater.
1908 - 154 men die in coal mine explosion at Marianna Pa
1911 - Zapata proclaims Plan of Ayala Mexico
1912 - Albania declares indepenence from Turkey
1913 - Heavyweight Jack Johnson KOs Andre Spaul in Paris
1914 - World War I: Following a war-induced closure in July, the New York Stock Exchange re-opens
           for bond trading.
1916 - 1st German air attack on London
1917 - Sigmund Rombergs revue "Over the Top" premieres in NYC
1918 - Emperor Wilhelm of Prussia & Germany abdicates
1918 - Bucovina voted for the union with the Kingdom of Romania.
1919 - US-born Lady Astor elected 1st female member of British Parliament
1920 - Kilmichael Ambush, Battle of the Irish War of Independence.
1921 - Ascension of 'Abdu'l-Baha (Baha'i festival-Qawl 6, 78)
1922 - 6 ex-minsters executed in Greece
1922 - Capt Cyril Turner (RAF) gives 1st skywriting exhibition (NYC) Turner spelled out "Hello USA.
           Call Vanderbilt 7200." 47,000 called
1924 - Pieter Jelle Troelstra leaves Dutch 2nd Chamber
1925 - 7th French government of Briand sworn-in
1925 - Grand Ole Opry premieres as WSM Barn Dance on WSM radio Nashville Tn
1925 - NHL goalie Georges Vezina collapses & dies 4 months later of TB
1927 - J McHugh & D Fields' musical "Delmar's Revels" premieres in NYC
1929 - Adm Richard E Byrd makes 1st South Pole flight
1929 - Ernie Nevers scores all 40 pts for Chic Cards vs Bears (NFL record)
1930 - Howard Hanson's 2nd Symphony "Romantic" premieres
1931 - Bradman scores 226, the 1st Test Cricket century at Gabba, v South Africa
1932 - France & USSR sign not-aggression treaty
1932 - Groucho Marx performed on radio for 1st time
1934 - Churchill tells Premier Baldwin not to under estimate German air power
1938 - 4th Heisman Trophy Award: Davey O'Brien, Texas Christian (QB)
1939 - Nazi Gov-Gen of Poland, Hans Frank organizes Judenrat
1939 - Soviet government revokes Russian-Finnish non-aggression treaty
1940 - Dutch law professor Rudolph Cleveringa arrested by nazis
1941 - German troops vacate Rostov
1942 - 492 die in a fire that destroyed Cocoanut Grove nightclub in Boston
1943 - FDR, Churchill & Stalin met at Tehran to map out strategy
1944 - 1st allied ship sails into Schelde Antwerp
1944 - 400 Rotterdammers attack coal warehouse
1944 - Hal Newhouser is named AL MVP
1944 - In reprisal 40 Dutch men are executed by Nazis
1944 - US 121st Infantry regiment occupies Hurtgen
1945 - Australian Services draw second Victory Test Cricket v India at Calcutta
1946 - French government of Bidault resigns
1946 - Dutch Nazi Anton Mussert to death sentenced
1948 - "Hopalong Cassidy" premieres on TV
1948 - 1st Polaroid camera sold
1949 - "Texas, Li'l Darlin'" opens at Mark Hellinger NYC for 293 perfs
1950 - Walter O'Malley fires Burt Shotton as Dodgers manager
1951 - John Van Druten's "I am a Camera" premieres in NYC
1951 - Military coup under Col Adib el-Shishakli in Syria
1953 - "Wish You Were Here" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 597 perfs
1953 - 41st CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeats Winn Blue Bombers, 12-6
1954 - 1st pro football game in Netherlands
1954 - Cleveland Browns' Horace Gillom sets club record with 80-yard punt
1954 - KCKT (now KSNC) TV channel 2 in Great Bend, KS (NBC) 1st broadcast
1955 - KMVI (now WMAU) TV channel 12 in Wailuku, HI (IND) begins broadcasting
1955 - KTHV TV channel 11 in Little Rock, AR (CBS) begins broadcasting
1956 - Photography begins on "... & God Created Women"
1957 - "Look Homeward, Angel" with Anthony Perkins premieres in NYC
1957 - Warren Spahn of the Braves wins Cy Young Award
1958 - AL announces Opening Day in 1959 will be earliest ever, April 9
1958 - Chad becomes an autonomous republic within French community
1958 - Congo & Mauritania become autonomous members of French Community
1958 - George "Punch" Imlach becomes coach of NHL's Toronto Maple Leafs
1958 - KCOO (now KABY) TV channel 9 in Aberdeen, SD (ABC) begins broadcasting
1958 - Test Cricket debut for Wes Hall, v India at Bombay
1958 - US reports 1st full-range firing of an ICBM
1959 - 47th CFL Grey Cup: Winn Blue Bombers defeats Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 21-7
1959 - KOMC (now KSNK) TV channel 8 in McCook - Oberlin, NB (NBC) begins
1959 - Pope John XXIII publishes encyclical Princeps Pastorum
1960 - CBS radio expands hourly news coverage from 5 to 10 minutes
1960 - Mauritania gains independence from France (Natl Day)
1961 - Ernest Davis is 1st black to win Heisman Trophy
1961 - General Meeting of UN debates New-Guinea
1961 - Martin Walser's "Der Abstecher," premieres in Munich
1962 - Telegraph between Netherlands & Indonesia restored
1963 - 1st million copy record prior to release "I Want to Hold Your Hand"
1963 - Beatles "She Loves You" returns to #1 in UK record chart
1963 - Crusher beats Verne Gagne in St Paul, to become NWA champ
1963 - WHNT TV channel 19 in Huntsville, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting
1964 - 52nd CFL Grey Cup: BC Lions defeats Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 34-24
1964 - France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria
1964 - Mariner 4 launched; 1st probe to fly by Mars
1965 - Browns' Leroy Kelly sets club record for most punt return yds (109)
1965 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1966 - Coup in Burundi overthrows monarchy; a republic is declared
1966 - Dominican Republic adopts constitution
1967 - 33rd Heisman Trophy Award: Gary Beban, UCLA (QB)
1967 - The 1st pulsating radio source (pulsar) detected
1968 - John Lennon is fined £150 for unauthorized drug possession
1969 - Ted Sizemore becomes 7th Dodger to win NL Rookie of Year
1970 - 58th CFL Grey Cup: Montreal Alouettes defeat Calgary Stampeders, 23-10
1971 - "Me Nobody Knows" closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 587 perfs
1971 - 59th CFL Grey Cup: Calgary Stampeders defeats Toronto Argonauts, 14-11
1972 - "Via Galactica" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 7 performances
1972 - LA Dodgers trade Frank Robinson to California Angels
1973 - Arab League summit in Algiers recognizes Palestine
1973 - Balt Oriole Al Bumbry wins AL Rookie of Year
1974 - Bowie Kuhn suspends George Steinbrenner for 2 years
1974 - John Lennon's last concert appearance (Elton John concert in Madison Square Garden NYC)
1975 - Democratic Republic of East-Timor proclaimed
1975 - Test Cricket debut of Michael Anthony Holding, WI v Australia Brisbane
1975 - Wings release "Venus & Mars/Rock Show" medley
1975 - As the World Turns and The Edge of Night, the final two American soap operas that had
           resisted going to pre-taped broadcasts, air their last live episodes.
1976 - 64th CFL Grey Cup: Ottawa Rough Riders defeats Saskatchewan, 23-20
1978 - 44th Heisman Trophy Award: Billy Sims, Oklahoma (RB)
1978 - Reds fire manager Sparky Anderson after 9 years
1979 - "King of Schnorrers" opens at Playhouse Theater NYC for 63 perfs
1979 - Air New Zealand DC-10 crashes into Mt Erebus on Antarctica kills 257
1979 - LA Dodger Rick Sutcliffe wins NL Rookie of Year
1981 - "Merrily We Roll Along" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 16 perfs
1981 - Bear Bryant wins his 315th game to out distance Alonzo Stagg & become college football's
           winningest coach
1982 - "Pirates of Penzance" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 772 perfs
1982 - 70th CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Toronto Argonauts, 32-16
1982 - 71st Davis Cup: USA beats France in Grenoble (4-1)
1983 - 9th Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 6-is launched
1984 - Over 250 years after their deaths, William Penn and his wife Hannah Callowhill Penn are made
           Honorary Citizens of the United States.
1985 - 6th Belgium government of Martens forms
1986 - Hilbert van der Duim skates 1 hour world record 39.4928 km
1986 - US Reagan administration exceeds SALT II arms limitations for 1st time
1987 - South African Airways Boeing 747 crashes into Indian Ocean, 159 die
1988 - Picasso's "Acrobat & Harlequin" sells for $38.46 million
1989 - Rickey Henderson signs record $3,000,000 per year Oak A's contract
1989 - Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci flees to Hungary
1990 - Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew resigns, ending his term as Singapore's longest-serving Prime
           Minister
1990 - Margaret Thatcher resigns as Britain's PM, replaced by John Major
1993 - "Gray's Anatomy" opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 13 performances
1993 - "Mixed Emotions" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 48 perfs
1993 - 81st CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Winn Blue Bombers, 33-23
1993 - Carlos Reina wins Honduras presidential election
1994 - Norway votes against joining European Union
1994 - In Portage, Wisconsin, convicted serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is clubbed to death by an inmate
           in the Columbia Correctional Institution gymnasium.
1995 - James Brady, former white house press secretary, suffers a heart attack
1997 - Final episode of "Beavis & Butt-head" on MTV
1997 - First public appearance of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), an ethnic Albanian guerrilla
           group that fought for the independence of Kosovo from Serbia.
1998 - The people of Albania vote for their new Constitution in a referendum.
2000 - Ukrainian politician Oleksander Moroz begins the Cassette Scandal by publicly accusing
           President Leonid Kuchma of involvement in the murder of journalist Georgiy Gongadze.
2004 - Male Poʻo-uli dies of Avian malaria in the Maui Bird Conservation Center in Olinda, Hawaii
           before it could breed, making the species in all probability extinct.
2012 - 54 people are killed and 120 are injured by two car bombs in Damascus, Syria

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 28, 2013, 01:29:41 PM

This Day in History for 28th November


Famous Weddings

1582 - Playwright & poet William Shakespeare marries Anne Hathaway
1962 - Artist and peace activist Yoko Ono (30) weds film producer Anthony Cox
1986 - NBC's Ahmad Rashad marriage proposal is accepted by Phylicia Ayers-Allen during halftime of
           Det Lions-NY Jets football game
1998 - "The Truman Show" actor Noah Emmerich (33) weds "The West Wing" actress Melissa
           Fitzgerald (30) in a tent outside Philadelphia's Memorial Hall
1998 - Actor and martial arts expert Chuck Norris (58) weds former model Gena O'Kelley (30) at The
           North Church in Carrolton, Texas

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 28, 2013, 02:11:04 PM

This Day in History for 28th November


Famous Birthdays

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Poet/Artist William Blake (1757)     Record Company Owner Berry Gordy (1929)          Actor Ed Harris (1950)


1118 - Manuel I Komnenos, Greek Byzantine Emperor (d. 1180)
1489 - Margaret Tudor, wife of James IV of Scotland (d. 1541)
1570 - James Whitelocke, English judge (d. 1632)
1598 - Hans Nansen, Danish statesman (d. 1667)
1607 - Pietro Sforza, Italian theologist: Istoria del Concilio di Trento
1628 - John Bunyan, England, cleric/author (Pilgrim's Progress)
1632 - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Florence Italy, composer
1640 - Willem de Vlamingh, Flemish sea captain (c. 1648)
1650 - John Palfijn, Flemish physician/inventor (forceps) [or Nov 25]
1661 - Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, British Governor of New York and New Jersey (d. 1723)
1681 - Jean Cavalier, French Protestant rebel leader (d. 1740)
1700 - Nathaniel Bliss, Astronomer Royal (d. 1764)
1700 - Sophia Magdalen of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1770)
1704 - Jacob Mossel, governor-general (Dutch East Indies)
1757 - William Blake, London, poet/painter (Songs of Innocence & Experience), (d. 1827)
1763 - Matthaus Fischer, composer
1770 - F Louise W, daughter of viceroy Willem V & Wilhelmina of Prussia
1772 - Luke Howard, British meteorologist (d. 1864)
1777 - Georg A Kestner, German art collector/diplomat
1784 - Ferdinand Reis, composer
1785 - Achille-Charles, duc de Broglie, French PM (1835-36)
1792 - Victor Cousin, French philosopher/minister of Education
1793 - Carl Jonas Love Almquist, Swedish composer (Tornrosens Buck)
1795 - Adolf Bernhard Marx, composer
1805 - John Stephens, US archaeologist; founded study of Central America
1810 - William Froude, England, engineer/naval architect
1811 - Maximilian II Jozef, king of Bayern (1848-64)
1812 - Ludwig Mathias Lindeman, composer
1820 - Friedrich Engels, Germany, social philosopher; Marx's collaborator
1820 - Lawrence O'Bryan Branch, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1862
1829 - Anton Rubinstein, Vykhvatinetz Podolia, composer (Omitri Doskoy) [NS]
1837 - John Wesley Hyatt, inventor (celluloid)
1841 - E M Grace, cricketer (brother of W G)
1843 - Manuel Gregorio Tavarez, composer
1853 - Helen Magill White, first American woman to earn a Ph.D. (d. 1944)
1854 - Gottlieb J Haberlandt, Hungarians/German botanist
1856 - Alexandr Dmitriyevich Kastal'sky, composer
1857 - Alfonso XII, king of Spain (1874-85)
1864 - Carel A Lion Cachet, lithographer/wood carver
1864 - James Allen English writer (d. 1912)
1864 - Lindley M. Garrison, American Secretary of War (d. 1932)
1866 - Arthur Frederick Augustus "Dick" Lilley, cricket keeper (England)
1866 - Henry Bacon, architect (Lincoln Memorial)
1866 - Johannes F "Johan" Bakker Sr, Dutch actor/husband of Truus Soete
1868 - Frantisek Alois Drdla, composer
1876 - Bert Vogler, cricketer (early South African googly bowler)
1878 - Jozef van Mierlo, Belgian Jesuit/literary (Hadewych)
1880 - Alexander A Block, Russian poet (Dvenatsat) [OS=11/16]
1880 - Marinus van Meel, 1st Dutch aviator
1881 - Stefan Zweig, Vienna Austria, poet/essayist/dramatist (Beware of Pity)
1883 - Paul Hastings Allen, composer
1887 - Bobby Watson, [Knucher], Springfield IL, comedian
1887 - Ernst Rohm, German staff member/Bolivian leader/SA
1887 - Jacobo Palm, Curacaos pianist/organist
1891 - Gregorio Perfecto, Filipino jurist & politician (d. 1949)
1892 - Thomas Wood, composer
1894 - Brooks Atkinson, drama critic (Broadway theater namesake)
1895 - José Iturbi, Spanish pianist (d. 1980)
1896 - Lilia Skala, Vienna, actress (House of Games, Flashdance, Charly)
1896 - Dawn Powell, American writer (d. 1965)
1897 - Uno Choyo, writer
1898 - Yuri N Libedinski, Ukrainian writer (Birth of Hero) [OS]
1900 - Lester Vail, actor (Dance Fools Dance, Consolation Marriage)
1902 - Victor Jory, Dawson City Canada, actor (Kings Row, Manhunt)
1904 - James O Eastland, (Sen-D-Miss)
1904 - Nancy Mitford, English author (Love in a cold climate)
1907 - Alberto Moravia, [Pincherle], Italian author (Indifferent Ones)
1908 - Arturo Frondizi, president Argentina (1958-62)
1908 - Roberto Lupi, composer
1908 - Claude Lévi-Strauss, French anthropologist
1909 - Aleksandar Rankovic, Yugoslavic partisan/vice-premier
1911 - Václav Renč, Czech poet (d. 1973)
1912 - Heinz Galinski, President (Central council for Jews in Germany)
1912 - Morris Louis, US painter (post abstract)
1913 - Hugo Pos, Suriname/Neth WW II prosecutor of minor war crimes Tokyo
1915 - Pamela Harrison, composer
1915 - Evald Okas, Estonian painter
1916 - Lilian Baels, English 2nd wife of Belgian king Leopold III
1917 - Kees Schilperoort, Dutch radio/TV host
1919 - Keith Miller, cricketer (one of Australia's best ever all-rounders)
1920 - Cecilia Colledge, England, figure skater (Olympic-silver-1936)
1922 - Helen Kinney Copley, newspaper publisher
1923 - Helen Delich Bentley, (Rep-R-MD, 1985- )
1923 - Phyllis Jenkins, literary & theatrical agent community activist
1923 - Ted Stevens, (Sen-R-AK, 1968- )
1923 - Gloria Grahame, American actress (d. 1981)
1924 - Kees [Gerrit C] Otten, Dutch flutist
1925 - Aurelio de la Vega, composer
1925 - Gloria Grahame, Los Angeles California, actress (Sue-Rich Man Poor Man)
1925 - Virginia Hewitt, Shreveport La, actress (Carol-Space Patrol)
1925 - József Bozsik, Hungarian footballer (d. 1978)
1927 - Chuck Mitchell, American actor (d. 1992)
1928 - Edward LeBone Molotlegi, chief of the Bafokeng
1928 - Arthur Melvin Okun, American economist (d.1980)
1929 - Berry Gordy, Detroit, record company owner (Motown)
1931 - Dervla Murphy, travel author (Full Tilt, In Ethiopia with a Mule)
1931 - Hope Lange, Redding Ridge Ct, actress (Ghost & Mrs Muir)
1931 - Ian Skipper, English businessman/multi-millionaire (Heritage Projects)
1931 - Rinus Ferdinandusse, editor/author (Nude on Fence)
1931 - Thomas Enders, diplomat
1932 - Ethel L Ennis, US orchestra leader/jazz singer (Once Again)
1932 - Terence Frisby, poet/screenwriter (There's a Girl in My Soup)
1933 - Joe Knollenberg, (Rep-R-Michigan)
1934 - Carlos Farinas, composer
1934 - Dick Rhyan, Columbus OH, PGA golfer (1994 GTE-5th)
1935 - Randolph Stow, author/poet (Suburbs of Hell)
1935 - Prince Hitachi, Japanese royalty
1936 - Gary Hart, (Sen-D-Co, 1975-86)
1936 - Celin Romero, Spanish guitarist
1939 - Gary Troxel, rocker
1940 - Bruce Channel, rocker
1940 - Clem Curtis, rocker
1941 - Laura Antonelli, Pola Yugoslavia, actress (Wifemistress, Divine Nymph)
1942 - Paul Warfield, NFL/WFL wide receiver (Cleveland, Miami, Memphis)
1943 - Randy Newman, New Orleans, vocalist (Short People, Love LA, Raindrops)
1944 - Rita Mae Brown, actress (Long Hot Summer, Slumber Party Massacre)
1944 - R.B. Greaves, Guyanan singer, (d. 2012)
1944 - Timothy Krajcir, American serial killer
1946 - Joe Dante, director (Matinee, Twilight Zone, Police Squad, Gremlins)
1946 - Susan Spencer, NY, correspondent (48 Hours) [1946 approx]
1947 - Michel Berger, French songwriter (d. 1992)
1947 - Maria Farantouri, Greek singer
1948 - Agnieszka Holland, Warsaw Poland, actress/director (Europa Europa)
1948 - Beeb Birtles, [Gerard Birtlekamp], rock guitarist (Little River Band)
1949 - Alexander Godunov, Russia, composer/dancer (Bolshoi) defected 1979
1949 - Hugh McKenna, rocker (Alex Harvey Band)
1949 - Paul Shaffer, Thunder Bay Ont, orchestra leader (SNL, David Letterman)
1949 - Victor Ostrovsky, Canadian/Israel, Mossad agent (By Way of Deception)
1950 - Ed Harris, Tenafly NJ, actor (Right Stuff, Swing Shift, Walker, Coma)
1952 - Jeff Fahey, actor (Darkman III, Crossover, Serpent's Lair)
1952 - S Epatha Merkerson, Saginaw MI, actress (Jacob's Ladder, Terminator 2)
1953 - Nadezhda Olizarenko, USSR, 800m/1500m runner (Olympic-gold-1980)
1953 - Sixto Lezcano, baseball player
1955 - Adem Jashari, Albanian freedom fighter
1955 - Alessandro Altobelli, Italian footballer
1955 - Jeffrey Byron, American actor
1956 - Kristine Arnold, Torrance, singer (Sweethearts of Rodeo-Midnight Girl)
1956 - Lucy Gutteridge, actress (Top Secret, Trouble With Spies)
1958 - Dave Righetti, baseball pitcher (Yankees, Giants)
1958 - David Van Day, rocker (Dollar-Loves Gotta Hold on Me)
1958 - Kriss Akabusi, Great Britain, 4X400 runner (Olympic-silver-1984)
1958 - Tim Mullens, Dutch singer/guitarist (Ivy green)
1958 - Georges Rutaganda, Rwandan war criminal
1959 - Judd Nelson, Portland ME, actor (Breakfast Club, Jack-Suddenly Susan)
1959 - R Glynn Holt, Plainveiw Texas, PhD/astronaut (STS 73 alt)
1959 - Stephen Roche, bicylist
1960 - Deneice Lewis, Lynchburg Va, model
1960 - Ken Howell, baseball player
1960 - John Galliano, Gibraltar, British fashion designer
1961 - Jane Sibbett, actress (Teddy Z, Heddy Newman-Herman's Head)
1961 - Patty Zomer, Dutch singer (Dolly Dots)
1961 - Martin Clunes, British actor
1961 - Alfonso Cuarón, Mexican film director
1962 - Karen Marsden, Perth Australia, field hockey goalie (Olympics-96)
1962 - Matt Cameron, musician (Soundgarden)
1962 - Paul Dinello, American comedian and actor
1962 - Jon Stewart, American comedian
1962 - Davey Boy Smith, English professional wrestler (d. 2002)
1963 - Johnny Newman, NBA guard/foward (Denver Nuggets, Milwaukee Bucks)
1963 - Walt Weiss, Tuxedo NY, shortstop (Oakland A's, Colorado Rockies)
1963 - Armando Iannucci, Glasgow, Scotland, comedian and radio producer
1964 - Cornelia Guest, debutante (Debutante's Guide to Life)
1964 - John Burkett, New Brighton PA, pitcher (Florida Marlins)
1965 - David Ecob, Sydney NSW, Australasia golfer
1965 - Matt Williams, infielder (SF Giants)
1965 - Erwin Mortier, Belgian author
1966 - Sam Seder, American comedian
1967 - Anna Nicole "Vickie" Smith, Houston Tex, playmate (May 1992)
1967 - Stephnie Weir, American comedian
1967 - José del Solar, Peruvian footballer
1968 - Dawn Robinson, singer (En Vogue)
1968 - Jonathan Brown, NYC, rower (Olympics-5th-1996)
1969 - Dale Carter, NFL cornerback (KC Chiefs)
1969 - Doug Petersen, CFL defensive end (Montreal Alouettes)
1969 - Marc Spindler, NFL defensive tackle/end (NY Jets, Detroit Lions)
1969 - Nick Knight, cricketer (England opening batsman 1995- )
1969 - Pedro Astacio, Hato Mayor Dom Rep, pitcher (LA Dodgers)
1969 - Pio Sagapolutele, NFL defensive tackle (NO Saints, Cleveland Browns)
1969 - Robb Nen, San Pedro, California, American MLB pitcher (Florida Marlins)
1969 - Sonia O'Sullivan, Ireland, 5k runner (Olympics-4th-92, 96)
1970 - Arshad Laiq, cricket all-rounder (United Arab Emirates World Cup 1996)
1970 - Evan Droop, Yarrawonga VIC, Australasia golfer
1970 - Jason Day, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1970 - Todd Perry, NFL guard (Chic Bears)
1970 - Álex López Morón, Spanish tennis player
1971 - Karin Taylor, Kingston Jamacia, playmate (June, 1996)
1971 - William Simas Jr, Hanford CA, pitcher (Chicago White Sox)
1971 - Rob Conway, American professional wrestler
1971 - Fenriz, Norwegian musician (Darkthrone)
1972 - Paulo Figueiredo, Angolan footballer
1973 - Jade Puget, American musician (AFI)
1974 - Jason Ferguson, defensive tackle (NY Jets)
1974 - Joerg Heckenbach, WLAF receiver (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1974 - apl.de.ap, American rapper (Black Eyed Peas)
1974 - András Tölcséres, Hungarian footballer
1974 - Kristian Schmid, Australian actor
1975 - Sigurd Wongraven, Norwegian musician (Satyricon (band))
1975 - Eka Kurniawan, Indonesian writer
1977 - Fabio Grosso, Italian footballer
1977 - Gavin Rae, Scottish footballer
1977 - DeMya Walker, American basketball player
1977 - Greg Somerville, New Zealand rugby union footballer
1978 - Mehdi Nafti, Tunisian footballer
1978 - Haytham Tambal, Sudanese footballer
1978 - Freddie Mitchell, American football player
1978 - Brent Albright, American professional wrestler
1978 - Ryan Leslie, American producer
1979 - Chamillionaire, American rapper
1979 - Joel Maximo, American professional wrestler
1979 - Daniel Henney, Korean model-actor
1980 - Stuart Taylor, British footballer
1980 - Lisa Middelhauve, German singer (Xandria)
1982 - Leandro Barbosa, Brazilian basketball player
1984 - Joross Gamboa, Filipino actor
1984 - Mary Elizabeth Winstead, American actress
1984 - Trey Songz, American singer
1984 - Andrew Bogut, Australian basketball player
1984 - Marc-Andre Fleury, Canadian ice hockey player
1985 - Caitlin McClatchey, Scottish swimmer
1988 - Christopher Stringini, American singer
1988 - Scarlett Pomers, American actress
1992 - Kianna Underwood, American actress
1994 - Lola Sanchez, American actress
1997 - Thor Salden, Belgian singer

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 28, 2013, 02:17:39 PM

This Day in History for 28th November


Famous Deaths

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Baroque Sculptor                                   Inventor James Naismith (1939)
Giovanni Bernini (1680)


741 - Syrian Catholic Pope Saint Gregory III
1058 - Kazimierz I Restaurator, duke of Poland (1034-58), dies
1170 - Owain Gwynedd, King of Gwynedd (c. 1100)
1262 - Shinran, founder of Japan's True Pure Land Buddhist sect, dies
1290 - Eleanor of Castile, wife of Edward I of England (b. 1241)
1499 - Edward Plantagenet, 18th Count of Warwick, beheaded
1514 - Hartmann Skull, German physician/historian (Skull's Liederbuch), dies
1545 - Jacob van Liesveld, printer/"heretic" (Refeyen), beheaded
1559 - Erasmus Sarcerius, German luthers theologist, dies at about 58
1574 - Georg Major, German Protestant theologian (b. 1502)
1585 - Hernando Franco, Spanish composer (b. 1532)
1590 - Pierre de Loyseleur de Villiers, S Neth theologist, dies at about 60
1641 - Robert Dowland, English luitist/son of John Dowland, dies at about 50
1667 - Jean de Thévenot, French traveller and scientist (b. 1633)
1675 - Leonard Hoar, American President of Harvard University (b. 1630)
1675 - Basil Feilding, 2nd Earl of Denbigh, English Civil War soldier (c. 1608)
1680 - Giovanni Bernini, Italian sculptor/painter, dies at 81
1695 - Giovanni Paulo Colonna, composer, dies at 58
1695 - Anthony Wood, English antiquarian (b. 1632)
1698 - Louis de Buade de Frontenac, Governor of New France (b. 1622)
1785 - William Whipple, merchant/judge/signer (US Declaration of Independence), dies at 55
1788 - Charles C of Nassau-Weilburg, governor of Maastricht, dies at about 53
1794 - Friedrich WLGA von Steuben, Prussian/US inspector-general of Washingtons army, dies at 64
1801 - Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu, French geologist (b. 1750)
1815 - Johann Peter Salomon, composer, dies at 70
1827 - Dov Baer Schneersohn, Lubavitch leader/author (Imirei Binah), dies
1852 - Ludger Duvernay, French printer and newspaper publisher (b. 1799)
1859 - Washington Irving, US author (Geoffrey Crayon, gent), dies
1860 - Heinrich FL Rellstab, German music theorist, dies
1861 - Robert Fuhrer, composer, dies at 54
1870 - Frédéric Bazille, French painter (b. 1841)
1872 - Mary Fairfax Somerville, British scientific writer (b. 1780)
1876 - Karl Earnest Ritter von Baer, Estonian/German embryologist, dies at 84
1878 - Marco Aurelio Zani de Ferranti, composer, dies at 78
1878 - Orson Hyde, American religious leader (b. 1805)
1880 - Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos, (Portuguese) Archbishop of Goa (b. 1837)
1898 - C F Meyer, writer, dies at 73
1899 - Adrian the la Rey, son of South African general, dies in battle at 19
1907 - Ricardo Castro Herrera, composer, dies at 43
1907 - Stanisław Wyspiański, Polish dramatist, poet, painter, and architect (b. 1869)
1912 - Heinz Galinski, chairman (Central Council for Jews in Germany), dies
1912 - Walter Benona Sharp, American oil tycoon (b. 1870)
1915 - Luigi Capuana, Sicilian author/critic (C'era una Volta), dies at 76
1915 - Mubarak Al-Sabah "The Great", Emir of Kuwait (b. 1896)
1916 - Marthinus T Steyn, pres of Orange-Free state (1896-1902), dies at 59
1918 - Alexis Contant, composer, dies at 60
1921 - `Abdu'l-Bahá, Persian leader of the Bahá'í Faith (b. 1844)
1927 - Arthur Wichmann, German/Dutch geologist (New-Guinea), dies
1935 - Erich von Hornbostel, Austrian musicologist (b. 1877)
1939 - James Naismith, creator of basketball, dies at 78
1940 - Nicolae Iorga, author/president of Romania, murdered by fascist
1944 - Bijnen, Dutch opposition leader (LKP), shot to death in Apeldoorn
1944 - Camille Looten, Belgian priest/literature historian, dies
1944 - Joop Brouwer de Koning, youngest Dutch radio operator, executed at 25
1944 - Lode Zielens, Flemish author/journalist, dies at 43
1945 - Dwight Davis, donator of tennis' Davis cup, dies
1947 - Jacques-Philippe Leclerc, WW II hero (liberator of Paris), dies at 44
1954 - Enrico Fermi, Italian/US physicist (Nobel 1938), dies at 53
1959 - Lester Vail, actor (Dance Fools Dance), dies on 59th birthday
1960 - Richard N Wright, US author (Native son), dies at 52 in Paris France
1962 - Wilhelmina HPM, queen of the Netherlands (1898-1948), dies at 82
1963 - Fred Uttal, TV host (QED), dies at 55
1963 - Karyn Kupcinet, actress (Carol-Gertrude Berg Show), murdered at 23
1964 - Charles Meredith, actor (Court of Last Resort), dies at 70
1964 - Jan Fabricius, Dutch/English playwright (Dolle Hans), dies at 93
1966 - Vittorio Giannini, composer, dies at 63
1967 - Leon Mba, 1st president of Gabon (1960-67), dies
1967 - Leon M'ba, Gabonese politician (b. 1902)
1968 - Enid Mary Blyton, author (Before I Go To Sleep), dies at 70
1969 - Roy Barcroft, actor (Eyes of Texas, Son of Zorro), dies at 67
1970 - Fritz v Unruh, writer, dies at 85
1970 - Jan Drda, Czech author (Nema Barikada), dies at 55
1971 - Wasfi Tal, Jordan's PM, assassinated by Black Sept in Cairo
1972 - Gustave Frederic Soderlund, composer, dies at 91
1972 - Havergal Brian, composer, dies at 96
1973 - Marthe Bibesco, Romanian writer (b. 1886)
1976 - Robert Fleming, composer, dies at 55
1976 - Rosalind Russell, actress (Mame), dies of cancer at 68
1977 - Trevor Bardette, actor (Clanton-Legend of Wyatt Earp), dies at 75
1978 - Andre Morell, actor (Hound of the Baskervilles), dies at 69
1978 - Antonio Vespucio Liberti, Argentine football executive (b. 1902)
1983 - Christopher George, actor (Chisum, Heist), dies of heart attack at 54
1984 - Hans Speidel, German gen/NATO-supreme commander (1957-64), dies at 87
1985 - Fernand Braudel, French historian, dies at 83
1986 - Herb Vigran, actor (Ernest-Ed Wynn Show), dies at 76
1986 - Louis van Lint, Belgian painter, dies at 76
1987 - Choh Hao Li, bio-chemist prof (isolated growth hormones), dies at 74
1987 - Paul Arma, composer, dies at 83
1989 - Jo[hanne M Bos-]Vincent, Dutch soprano (Songs for Life), dies at 91
1990 - Tamara De Treaux, actress (ET), dies at 31
1992 - Bill Kearns, US actor (Playtime), dies of lung cancer at 69
1992 - June Joyce Lewis Fraser, entertainer, dies at 75
1992 - Ronald Smeenk, Dutch cabaret performer, dies
1992 - Sidney Nolan, Australian painter (b. 1917)
1993 - Abu Rish, Palestinian PLO-leader, dies at 23
1993 - Garry Moore, TV host (I've Got A Secret), dies of emphysema at 78
1993 - Kenneth Connor, English comic/actor (Carry on Sergeant), dies at 75
1993 - Khaled Moustapha Zir, Palestinian Hamas leader, shot to death at 25
1993 - Jerry Edmonton, Canadian drummer (Steppenwolf) (b. 1946)
1994 - Al Levitt, US/French jazz drummer, dies at 63
1994 - Franfo Fortini, poet, dies at 77
1994 - Jeffrey Dahmer, [Butcher of Milwaukee], killer, killed in prison at 34
1994 - Jerry Rubin, US anti-war activist (Youth Party), dies at 56
1994 - Ronald "Buster" Edwards, Great Train Robber, commits suicide at 62
1994 - Vicente Enrique y Tarancon, Spanish cardinal, dies at 87
1996 - Anna Pollak, mezzo-soprano, dies at 84
1997 - Georges Marchal, actor (Dirty Game, Blondine), dies at 77
1998 - Kerry Wendell Thornley, co-founder of Discordianism (b. 1938)
2000 - Liane Haid, Austrian actress (b. 1895)
2001 - William Kienzle, American author (b. 1928)
2001 - Kal Mann, American lyricist (b. 1917)
2001 - William Reid, British aviator awarded the Victoria Cross (b. 1921)
2002 - Dave "Snaker" Ray, American blues musician (b. 1943)
2003 - Ted Bates, English footballer (b. 1918)
2003 - Antonia Forest, British children's author (b. 1915)
2005 - Marc Lawrence, American actor (b. 1910)
2006 - Lyubov Polishchuk, Russian actress (b. 1949)
2006 - Robert Volpe, Artist ,Art Theft Detective (b.1942)
2007 - Gudrun Wagner, co-director of the Bayreuth Festival (b. 1944)
2009 - Gilles Carle, Canadian screenwriter and film director (b. 1928)
2009 - Takeo Kajiwara, Japanese Go player (b. 1923)
2010 - Leslie Nielsen, Canadian actor (b. 1926)
2010 - Gil McDougald, American baseball player (b. 1928)
2010 - Samuel T. Cohen, American physicist (b. 1921)
2011 - Patrice O'Neal, American stand-up comedian (b. 1969)
2011 - Ante Markovic, last Premier of Yugoslavia, dies at 87
2011 - Andrew Kazdin, classical record producer, dies at 77
2012 - Franco Ventriglia, American opera singer, dies at 90

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 29, 2013, 02:31:59 PM

This Day in History for 29th November


Historical Events

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Inventor Thomas Edison                         Author and Nobel Laureate           36th US President Lyndon B. Johnson
Gerhart Hauptmann


526 - Antioch in modern day Syria struck by Earthquake, about 250,000 die
799 - Pope Leo III, aided by Charles the Great, returns to Rome
1349 - Jews of Augsburg Germany massacred
1516 - Treaty of Freiburg] French/Swiss "eternal" peace treaty
1561 - Lofland subjects himself on Sigismund August II of Poland
1573 - Don Luis de Requesensy Zuniga succeeds duke of Alva as land guardian of Netherlands
1581 - Doornik (Tournai) surrenders to Duke of Parma
1596 - King Philip II devalues Spanish currency
1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlie's army moves into Manchester & occupies Carlisle
1760 - French commandant Beletre surrenders Detroit to Maj R Rogers
1775 - Sir James Jay invents invisible ink
1781 - The crew of the slave ship Zong murders 133 Africans by dumping them into the sea in order
           to claim insurance.
1803 - Dessalines & Christophe declare St Domingue (Haiti) independent
1812 - Napoleon's Grand Army crosses Berezina River in retreat from Russia
1813 - Elias Canneman (Lib) becomes minister of Finance
1825 - 1st Italian opera in US, "Barber of Seville" premieres (NYC)
1830 - November Uprising: An armed rebellion against Russia's rule in Poland begins.
1845 - The Sonderbund is defeated by the joint forces of other Swiss cantons under General
           Guillaume-Henri Dufour.
1847 - Indians kill Washington state pioneers Marcus & Narcissa Whitman, and 12 others in Walla
           Walla Ore
1850 - The treaty, Punctation of Olmütz, signed in Olomouc means diplomatic capitulation of Prussia
           to Austrian Empire, which took over the leadership of German Confederation.
1863 - Battle of Ft Sanders, TN (Ft Loudon), 8-900 casualities
1864 - 4th & last day of skirmishes at Waynesboro, Georgia
1864 - Battle of Spring Hill, TN (Thomason's Station)
1864 - Sand Creek Massacre, Colorado militia kills about 150 peaceful Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians
           including Cheyenne chief One-Eye
1870 - Compulsory education proclaimed in England
1872 - Indian Wars: The Modoc War begins with the Battle of Lost River.
1877 - Thomas Edison demonstrates hand-cranked phonograph
1887 - US receives rights to Pearl Harbor, on Oahu, Hawaii
1890 - 1st Army-Navy football game, Score: Navy 24, Army 0 at West Point
1893 - Ziqiang Institute, today known as Wuhan University, is founded by Zhang Zhidong, governor
           of Hubei and Hunan Provinces in late Qing Dynasty of China after his memorial to the throne
           is approved by the Qing Government.
1897 - 1st motorcycle race (Surrey England)
1900 - Lord Kitchener succeeds lord Roberts up as supreme commander in S Afr
1901 - East 182nd Street in Bronx is paved & opened
1902 - Gerhart Hauptmann's "Der arme Heinrich" premieres in Vienna
1910 - The first US patent for inventing the traffic lights system is issued to Ernest Sirrine.
1913 - 5th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tigers defeats Toronto Parkdale, 44-2
1915 - Fire destroys most of the buildings on Santa Catalina Island, California.
1916 - US declares martial law in Dominican Republic
1918 - Serbia annexes Montenegro
1921 - Coldest day in Nov in Netherlands -14.0°C
1921 - Z Parenteau & Schuyler Green's musical "Kiki" premieres in NYC
1924 - 12th CFL Grey Cup: Queen's University defeat Toronto Balmy Beach, 11-3
1924 - NHL's Montreal Forum opens
1926 - Tris Speaker resigns as Indians manager
1926 - W Somerset Maughams "Constant Wife" premieres in NYC
1929 - Lt Cmdr Richard E Byrd sends "My calculations indicate that we have reached vicinity of South
           Pole" (He was wrong)
1932 - Cole Porters musical "Gay Divorcee" premieres in NYC
1932 - France signs non-agression pact with Soviet Union
1932 - USSR & France sign no attack treaty
1933 - 1st state liquor stores authorized (Pennsylvania)
1933 - Japan begins persecution of communists
1934 - Chic Bears beat Detroit (19-16) in 1st NFL game broadcast nationally
1935 - Michael Savage becomes 1st Labour premier of NZ
1937 - Prince Bernhard injured in auto accident in Netherlands
1938 - Mayor Oud of Rotterdam forbids soccer match between Neth-Germany
1939 - Cor Klint swims world record 200 m backstroke (2:38.8 )
1939 - USSR drops diplomatic relations with Finland
1941 - 29th CFL Grey Cup: Winn Blue Bombers defeat Ottawa Rough Riders, 18-16
1941 - Passenger ship Lurline sends radio signal of sighting Jap war fleet
1942 - US rations coffee
1943 - Partisan Tito forms temporary government in Jajce Bosnia
1943 - U-86 sinks in Atlantic Ocean
1943 - US aircraft carrier Hornet launched
1944 - Albania liberated from Nazi control (Natl Day)
1944 - John Hopkins hospital performs 1st open heart surgery
1944 - The first surgery (on a human) to correct blue baby syndrome is performed by Alfred Blalock
           and Vivien Thomas.
1945 - Yugoslavian Socialist Republic proclaimed
1946 - Minister Drees begins emergency rule of old age facilities
1947 - 35th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Calgary Stampeders, 10-9
1947 - UN Gen Assembly partitions Palestine between Arabs & Jews
1948 - "Kukla, Fran, & Ollie" debuted on NBC
1948 - 1st opera to be televised, "Othello," broadcast from the Met (NYC)
1948 - KOB TV channel 4 in Albuquerque, NM (NBC) begins broadcasting
1949 - Nationalist regime of China leaves for Taiwan/Formosa
1949 - Uranium mine explosions in East Germany kills 3,700
1950 - National Council of Church of Christ in US forms
1951 - 1st underground atomic explosion, Frenchman Flat Nevada
1952 - 40th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Edmonton Eskimos, 21-11
1952 - Pres-elect Eisenhower visits Korea to assess war
1953 - American Airlines begins 1st regular coml NY-LA air service
1953 - WSIX TV channel 8 in Nashville, TN (ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 - Turkish government of Menderes resigns
1956 - "Bells Are Ringing" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 925 performances
1957 - NY Mayor Robert Wagner forms a committee to replace Dodgers & Giants
1958 - 46th CFL Grey Cup: Winn Blue Bombers defeat Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 35-28
1960 - 26th Heisman Trophy Award: Joe Bellino, Navy (HB)
1961 - Freedom Riders attacked by white mob at bus station in Miss
1961 - John A McCone replaces Allen W Dulles as 6th director of CIA
1961 - Mercury-Atlas 5 carries a chimp (Enos) to orbit
1962 - Baseball decides to revert back to 1 all star game per year
1962 - Great-Britain & France decide to jointly build Concorde
1963 - Beatles release "I Want to Hold Your Hand"
1963 - LBJ sets up Warren Comm to investigate assassination of JFK
1963 - Trans-Canada Airlines Flight 831: A Douglas DC-8 carrying 118, crashes after taking-off from
           Dorval Airport near Montreal, Canada
1964 - Roman Catholic Church in US replaces Latin with English
1965 - "Anya" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 16 performances
1965 - Dale Cummings does 14,118 consecutive sit-ups
1966 - SS Daniel J Morrell sinks in a storm on Lake Huron, 28 die, 1 survivor.
1966 - 1st NBA game at Oakland Coliseum Arena - Warriors beat Bulls 108-101
1967 - British troops withdraw from Aden and South Yemen
1967 - Robert McNamara elected president of World bank
1968 - John & Yoko release their 1st album "Two Virgins" in UK
1969 - The Beatles' "Come Together/Something" reaches #1
1970 - Charles Ives' "Yale-Princeton," premieres
1970 - Colin Cowdrey becomes Test Crickets' leading run scorer (7,250)
1971 - 1st pro golf championship at Walt Disney World
1971 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1972 - Nolan Bushnell (co-founder of Atari) releases Pong (the first commercially successful video
           game) in Andy Capp's Tavern in Sunnyvale, California.
1975 - Kilauea Volcano erupts in Hawaii
1975 - Pres Ford requires states to provide free education for handicapped
1976 - Free agent Reggie Jackson signs 5 year pact with NY Yankees
1976 - NY Yankees sign free agent Reggie Jackson to 5-year contract
1978 - UN observes "international day of solidarity with Palestinian people," boycotted by US & about
           20 other countries
1978 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1979 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1981 - "My Fair Lady" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 119 performances
1981 - Greg Chappell scores 201 v Pakistan at The Gabba (Brisbane)
1982 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1983 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1984 - Javed Miandad completes twin Test Cricket tons, v NZ, Hyderabad
1987 - "Dreamgirls" closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 177 performances
1987 - 75th CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Toronto Argonauts, 38-36
1987 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1987 - Joe Montana of 49ers completes NFL record 22 consecutive passes
1987 - New Orleans Saints win, assuring their 1st winning NFL season
1987 - Ranger's Bob Frosse becomes 2nd goalie to score a goal (vs Isles) It is later ruled that he
           should not be credited with goal
1987 - A Korean Air Boeing 707 explodes over the Thai-Burmese border, killing 115
1989 - 8th Largest wrestling crowd (60,000-Tokyo Dome)
1989 - India president Rajiv Gandhi, resigns
1990 - "Shogun - The Musical" opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 72 perfs
1990 - Expos pres Claude Brochu agrees to buy club from Charles Bronfman
1990 - UN Security Council sets Jan 15th military deadline against Iraq
1991 - TV show "Roc" has a gay wedding episode - Can't Help Loving that Man
1991 - Test Cricket debut of Javagal Srinath, v Australia at the Gabba
1992 - "Sea Gull" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 48 performances
1992 - "Solitary Confinement" closes at Nederlander NYC after 25 perfs
1992 - 80th CFL Grey Cup: Calgary Stampeders defeats Winn Blue Bombers, 24-10
1993 - "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 40 perfs
1994 - Seoul, Korea, celebrated the 600th anniversary of its founding
1995 - "Garden District" closes at Circle in the Sq Theater NYC
1995 - CNN/fn, the financial network by Turner Enterprises, launched
1997 - USAir Arena closes, hosting Wash Wizards
2005 - The new Croatian Communist Party (KPH) is founded in Vukovar.
2007 - The Armed Forces of the Philippines lay siege to The Peninsula Manila after soldiers led by
           Senator Antonio Trillanes stage a mutiny.
2007 - A 7.4 magnitude earthquake occurs off the northern coast of Martinique. This affected the
           Eastern Caribbean as far north as Puerto Rico and as south as Trinidad.
2012 - 30 people are killed and 100 are wounded by bombs in Hillah and Karbala, Iraq
2012 - The UN votes to approve Palestine’s status change from an observer to an observer state
2012 - Luiz Felipe Scolari takes over as Brazilian Football coach

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 29, 2013, 02:33:41 PM

This Day in History for 29th November


Famous Weddings

1916 - Erwin Rommel marries Lucie "Lu" Mollin
1934 - Prince George, Duke of Kent weds princess Marina of Greece and Denmark
2003 - Composer and former Oingo Boingo singer Danny Elfman (50) weds actress Bridget Fonda
           (39) at First Congressional Church in Los Angeles
2008 - "Without a Trace" star Roselyn Sanchez (35) weds actor Eric Winter (32) at Fort San
           Cristobal in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 29, 2013, 02:41:49 PM

This Day in History for 29th November


Famous Birthdays

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Physicist Christian Doppler (1803)     Author and theologian C. S. Lewis (1898)     Actress Cathy Moriarty (1960)


1229 - Louis II, the Stern, ruler (upper Baveria)
1338 - Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence, son of Edward III of England (d. 1368)
1427 - Zhengtong, Emperor of China (d. 1464)
1484 - Joachim Vadian, Swiss humanist (d. 1551)
1627 - John Ray, English naturalist (d. 1705)
1690 - Christian Augustus of Anhalt-Zerbst, father of Catherine II of Russia (d. 1747)
1752 - Jemima Wilkinson, American preacher (d. 1819)
1761 - Fridolin Weber, composer
1762 - Pierre André Latreille, French zoologist (d. 1833)
1770 - Peter Hansel, composer
1781 - Andres Bello, Venezuela poet/diplomat/scholar (Silvas Americanas)
1797 - Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti, composer
1798 - Alexander Brullov, Russian painter (d. 1877)
1799 - Amos Bronson Alcott, US educator/poet (Concord Days)
1802 - Wilhelm Hauff, writer
1803 - Christian Doppler, Salzburg, Austria, physicist (Doppler effect), (d. 1853)
1803 - Gottfried Semper, German architect (d. 1879)
1811 - Wendell Phillips, women's suffrage/antislavery/prison reformer
1813 - Franz von Miklosich, Slovenian linguist (d. 1891)
           Physicist Christian DopplerPhysicist Christian Doppler (1803) 1815 - Stephen Augustus
           Hurlbut, Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1882
1816 - Carl Binder, composer
1816 - Morrison Waite, American jurist (d. 1888)
1818 - George Brown, Canada, publisher (Toronto Globe), PM (L) (1858)
1825 - Jean-Martin Charcot, French neurologist (d. 1893)
1832 - Louisa May Alcott, Germantown Pa, author (Little Women)
1833 - Louis Douglass Watkins, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1868
1834 - Thomas Edward Greenfield Ransom, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1835 - Empress Dowager Cixi, Chinese ruler (d. 1908)
1838 - Aeneas Mackay, Baron/Dutch minister of interior/Colonies
1839 - Ludwig Anzengruber, Austrian playwright (Der Schandfleck)
1849 - Ambrose Fleming, inventor (diode)
1852 - Paul Joseph Guillaume Hillemacher, composer
1856 - Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, German Chancellor/premier Prussia
1857 - Theodor Escherich, German pediatrician (d. 1911)
1860 - Hans Haym, composer
1862 - Friedrich Klose, composer
1863 - Spyridon Filiskos Samaras, composer
1866 - Waldemar von Baussnern, composer
1870 - Andre Lichtenberger, French sociologist/writer (Le petit roi)
1870 - Harry Graham, cricketer (107 on Test debut Aust v Eng 1893)
1872 - Anna Bahr-von Mildenburg, Austrian soprano/director
1874 - Antonio Egas Moniz, Portugal, lobotomist (Nobel 1949)
1874 - Francis Dodd, British artist (d. 1949)
1879 - Jacob Gade, Danish composer(d. 1963)
1888 - Joe Slater, Australian Rules footballer (d. 1917)
1891 - Julius Raab, Austrian Chancellor (1953-61)
1891 - Richard Frank Donovan, composer
1894 - Yakima Canutt, [Enos Edward], Colfax WA, actor/dir (Texas Terror)
1894 - Lucille Hegamin, American singer and entertainer (d. 1970)
1895 - Busby Berkeley, Los Angeles CA, choreographer
1895 - Lodovico Rocca, composer
1895 - William V S Tubman, (Whig), 17th Liberian president (1943-70)
1896 - Philip L Carret, Lynn Mass, CEO (Pioneer Fund)
1896 - Rod(erique) La Rocque (La Tour), western actor (Beau Bandit)
1896 - Yakima Canutt, American actor and stuntman (d. 1986)
1897 - Emiel van Hemeldonck, Belgian writer (Little Emperor)
1898 - C. S. Lewis [Clive Staples], Belfast, sci-fi author (Silver Chair), (d. 1963)
1898 - Rod La Rocque, Chicago IL, actor (Our Modern Maidens)
1899 - Gustave Reese, composer
1899 - Andrija Artuković, Croatian war criminal (d. 1988)
1901 - Genevieve Tobin, actress (Zaza, Great Gambini, Uncertain Lady)
1901 - Mildred Harris, Cheyenne WY, actress (No No Nannette)
1902 - Carlo Levi, Italy, painter/novelist (Of Fear & Freedom)
1902 - Georges Poulet, French/Belgian critic (Temps Humain)
1904 - Kay Johnson, Mt Vernon NY, actress (Real Glory, Of Human Bondage)
1904 - Piet Ketting, pianist/conductor/composer (Glorify Kokila)
1904 - Egon Eiermann, German architect (d. 1970)
1905 - Mowbray Henry Gordon Howard, 6th Earl of Effingham
1905 - Marcel Lefebvre, French Roman catholic bishop (d. 1991)
1906 - Luis Van Rooten, Mexico City Mexico, actor (One Man's Family)
1907 - Merle Travis, Muhlenberg County KY, country singer (16 Tons)
1908 - Adam Clayton Powell Jr, (Rep-D-NY)/minister
1908 - N. S. Krishnan, Tamil film comedian (d. 1957)
1909 - Rupert Davies, methodist Scholar
1910 - Louis Levy Jr, music publisher
1911 - Klaus E J Fuchs, Rüsselsheim Germany, German/British atomic physicist/spy
1914 - Edith Tilton Penrose, economist
1914 - Taisen Deshimaru, Saga City Japan, found several Zen centers in France
1915 - Earl W Sutherland, US pharmacologist (Nobel 1971)
1915 - Billy Strayhorn, American musician and composer (d. 1967)
1916 - Valentino Bucchi, composer
1916 - Fran Ryan, American actress (d. 2000)
1917 - Merle Travis, American singer (d. 1983)
1918 - Herb Shriner, Toledo Ohio, host/humorist (Herb Shriner Show)
1918 - Madeleine L'Engle, [Franklin], US, sci-fi author (Ilsa, Love Letters)
1919 - Pearl Primus, dancer
1920 - Yegor Ligachev, Soviet politician
1922 - Benjamin Smit, Curacaos architect (St Elizabeth Hospital)
1922 - Minnie Miñoso, Cuban baseball player
1923 - Frank Reynolds, E Chicago Ind, news anchor (ABC Evening News)
1926 - Dagmar, Huntington, West Virginia, American actress (Broadway's Open House)
1927 - Rubert Crosse, NYC, actor (Det Robinson-The Partners)
1927 - Vin[ce] Scully, sportscaster (NBC Baseball Game of the Week)
1928 - Tahir Salahov, Azerbaijani painter
1928 - Paul Simon, American politician (d. 2003)
1929 - Don January, pro golfer (1976 Vardon Trophy)
1929 - Jackie Stallone, mother of Sylvester Stallone
1930 - Shirley Porter, English politician
1931 - Frank T Mdlalose, KwaZulu minister of Internal minister
1931 - Shintaro Katsu, Japanese actor (d. 1997)
1931 - André Noyelle, Belgian cyclist (d. 2003)
1932 - Antoine Tisne, composer
1932 - Diane Ladd, Meridian Miss, actress (Wild Angels, Wild at Heart)
1932 - John Gary, Watertown, NY, singer
1932 - Jacques Chirac, French politician
1933 - David Reuben, author (Everything You Wanted to Know about Sex)
1933 - John Mayall, MacClesfield England, pop musician (Don't Washed Me Time)
1933 - James Rosenquist, American artist
1936 - Davide Anzagai, composer
1936 - Gerti Tetzner, writer
1937 - Johan J Holst, Norwegian minister of Defense/Foreign affairs
1939 - Gennadiy Volnov, USSR, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1972)
1939 - Meco, rocker
1939 - Peter Bergman, American comedian, (d. 2012)
1939 - Domenico Monardo, American record producer
1940 - Chuck Mangione, Rochester NY, jazz hornist (Chasing the Clouds Away)
1941 - Dennis Doherty, Halifax Canada, rocker (Mamas & The Papas)
1941 - Ronald D Coleman, (Rep-D-TX, 1983- )
1942 - Felix Cavaliere, American musician
1942 - Philippe Huttenlocher, Swiss opera singer
1942 - Maggie Thompson, American magazine editor
1943 - Sue Miller, American author
1944 - Felix Cavaliere, Pelham NY, rock keyboardist (Rascals-Lonely too Long)
1945 - Roger Bambuck, Guadeloupe, French 4X100 runner (Olympic-bronze-1968)
1946 - Suzy Chaffee, US, skier/chapstick user (Olympics-1968)
1946 - Silvio Rodríguez, Cuban poet
1947 - Petra Kelly, Gunzburg, Bavaria, German politician and activist (German Green Party)
1947 - Ronnie Montrose, Denver Colorado, American guitarist, (d. 2012)
1949 - Garry Shandling, AZ, comedian (Garry Shandling, Larry Sanders Show)
1949 - Kenneth D Cameron, Cleve Oh, Lt Col USMC/astronaut (STS 37, 56, 74)
1949 - Stan Rogers, Canadian folk musician and songwriter (d. 1983)
1949 - Wayne Cowan, American wrestler
1949 - Jerry Lawler, American wrestler
1950 - Kevin O'Donnell Jr, US, sci-fi author (Caverns, Reefs, Lava)
1951 - Barry Goudreau, Boston Mass, rock guitarist (Boston)
1951 - Jonathan Zeitlyn, artist
1951 - Roger Troutman, American musician (d. 1999)
1952 - Christine Pascal, actress/director (Smile, Nothing But Lies, Elsa)
1952 - Dusty Hare, English rugby player
1953 - Alex Grey, American artist
1954 - Joel Coen, Minneapolis Mn, actor/dir (Spies Like Us, Barton Fink)
1955 - Howie Mandel, Toronto Canada, comedian (Dr Wayne Fiscus-St Elsewhere)
1956 - Hinton Battle, American dancer
1956 - Leo Laporte, American television personality
1956 - Eric Laakso, American football player
1957 - Charles Grant, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, American actor (Evan Frame-Another World,
           Bold & Beautiful)
1957 - Matthew Rubel, CEO of Collective Brands Licensing
1958 - Pamela Prati, Rome Italy, Million $ Cap (1984)/actress
1958 - Mario Petrucci, Anglo-Italian Poet and Ecologist
1959 - Neal Broten, Roseau Canada, NHL center (NJ Devils)
1959 - Rich Camarillo, NFL punter (Houston Oilers)
1960 - Cathy Moriarty, Bronx NY, actress (Raging Bull, Bless This House)
1960 - Howard Johnson, American baseball player
1961 - Kim Delaney, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, American actress (All My Children, NYPD Blue)
1961 - Masayoshi Yamashita, Japanese musician
1962 - Andrew McCarthy, NYC, actor (St Elmo's Fire, Class)
1962 - Sadanand Viswanath, Indian cricket wicket-keeper (v Sri Lanka 1985-86)
1962 - Andy LaRocque Swedish musician (King Diamond)
1964 - Don Cheadle, actor (Boogie Nights)
1964 - Kris Kamm, Evanston Ill, actor (Stuart Rosebrock-Coach)
1964 - Perry Parker, South Laguna Beach California, golfer (1992 Xerox BC Open)
1964 - Cork Graham, American journalist, actor and author
1965 - Ellen Cleghorne, comedienne (Saturday Night Live)
1965 - Neill Barry, NYC, actor (Old Enough, Heat)
1965 - Yutaka Ozaki, Japanese musician (d. 1992)
1967 - Marcus Muler, WLAF adm asst (Amsterdam Admirals)
1967 - Sean Carlin, Australian hammer thrower (Olympics-8-1992, 96)
1967 - John Layfield, American professional wrestler
1968 - Dee Brown, NBA guard (Boston Celtics)
1968 - Jiri Veber, Kladno CZE, hockey (Team Czech Rep)
1968 - Jonathan Raleigh Knight, Mass, rocker (New Kids-Hangin' Tough)
1968 - Pedro A Martinez, Villa Mella Dom Rep, pitcher (NY Mets)
1968 - Peter Gross-Pass, WLAF defensive linebacker (Rhein Fire)
1968 - T J Rubley, WLAF quarterback (Rhein Fire)
1969 - Ben Iroha, soccer player (Vitesse)
1969 - Craig Evans, cricketer (Zimbabwe batsman 1996 World Cup)
1969 - J-Me Carney, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1969 - John Knight, rocker
1969 - Mariano Rivera, Panama City Panama, pitcher (NY Yankees)
1969 - Pierre van Hooijdonk, Dutch soccer player (NAC, Celtic)
1969 - Kasey Keller, American soccer player
1970 - David Beinhoff, mayor
1970 - Guy Hill, Atlanta Georgia, Canadian Tour golfer (1993 NCAA-3rd)
1970 - Lamar Smith, NFL running back (Seattle Seahawks)
1970 - Tonya Gill, LPGA golfer (1995 Ping/Welch-14th)
1970 - Mark Pembridge, Welsh footballer
1971 - Amy Peterson, Maplewood Minn, short track skater (Olympics-1994)
1971 - Bernadette Przybycien, Miss Illinois USA (1996)
1971 - Brad May, Toronto, NHL left wing (Buffalo Sabres)
1971 - Gena Lee Nolin, actress/model (Baywatch)
1971 - Gregory Byrne, American college administrator
1972 - Artis Houston, WLAF cornerback (Rhein Fire)
1972 - Jamal Mashburn, NBA forward (Miami Heat, Dallas Mavericks)
1972 - Larry Williams, WLAF defensive tackle (Scotland Claymores)
1972 - Brian Baumgartner, American actor
1972 - Larry Joe Campbell, American actor
1972 - Minoru Tanaka, Japanese pro-wrestler
1973 - Craig Glassock, cricketer (NSW wicket-keeper 1994-95)
1973 - Dick van Burik, soccer player (Ajax/NAC)
1973 - Duane Butler, safety (Minnesota Vikings)
1973 - Ryan Giggs, Welsh footballer
1973 - Sarah Jones, American playwright
1974 - Pavol Demitra, Dubnica Slo, NHL right wing (Ottawa Senators, Blues)
1974 - Lin Chi-ling, Taiwanese model
1976 - Anna Faris, American actress
1976 - Michalis Kakiouzis, Greek basketball player
1976 - Ehren McGhehey, American actor
1978 - Dimitrious Konstantopolous, Greek footballer
1978 - Ludwika Paleta, Polish-born actress
1978 - Alessandro Fei, Italian volleyball player
1979 - Simon Amstell, English comedian and television presenter
1979 - Francis Beltrán, Dominican baseball player
1979 - Jayceon "The Game" Taylor, American rapper
1979 - Chamillionaire, American rapper
1981 - Nicholas Teo, Malaysian singer and actor
1982 - Lucas Black, actor (Sling Blade)
1982 - Ashley Force, American race car driver
1983 - Tanner Glass, Canadian ice hockey player
1984 - Sitti Navarro, Philippine bossa nova artist
1985 - Taguchi Junnosuke, Japanese idol (KAT-TUN)
1985 - Shannon Brown, American basketball player
1987 - Stephen O'Halloran, Irish footballer
1990 - Blake Tuomy-Wilhoit, actor (Full House)
1990 - Dylan Tuomy-Wilhoit, actor (Full House)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 29, 2013, 03:54:38 PM

This Day in History for 29th November


Famous Deaths

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Composer Giacomo Puccini (1924)


561 - Chlotarius I, king of the France (558-61), dies at about 61
917 - Radboud, bishop of Utrecht/Deventer (900-17)/saint, dies
1253 - Otto II Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1206)
1268 - Clement IV, [Guido Fulcodi], Pope (1265-68), dies
1314 - Philip IV, the Handsome, King of France (1285-1314), (b. 1268)
1330 - Roger de Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, de facto ruler of England (b. 1287)
1342 - Michael of Cesena, Italian Franciscan leader (b. 1270)
1378 - Charles IV, Roman-German King/German emperor (Univ of Prague), dies
1530 - Thomas Wolsey, Cardinal,adviser and Lord Chancellor, (1514-29) to England's King Henry VIII
           (approx. 60)
1577 - Cuthbert Mayne, English saint (b. 1543)
1590 - Philipp Nikodemus Frischlin, German philologist and poet (b. 1547)
1595 - Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga, Basque soldier and poet (b. 1533)
1626 - Ernst, Graf von Mansfield, German soldier (c. 1580)
1632 - Frederick V, Elector Palatine and King of Bohemia, dies at 36
1643 - Claudio Giovanni Monteverdi, Italian composer (L'arianna), dies at 76
1643 - William Cartwright, English dramatist (b. 1611)
1646 - Laurentius Paulinus Gothus, Swedish theologian and astronomer (b. 1565)
1661 - Brian Walton, English clergyman and scholar (b. 1600)
1682 - Rupert, prince of Palts/adm/chemist/engraver/mathematician, dies at 62
1695 - James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount Stair, Scottish lawyer and statesman (b. 1619)
1699 - Patrick Gordon, Scottish general (b. 1635)
1759 - Nicolaus I Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1687)
1775 - Lorenzo Somis, composer, dies at 87
1780 - Maria Theresia Hapsburg, Queen of Austria, dies at 63
1797 - Samuel Langdon, American President of Harvard University (b. 1723)
1813 - Giambattista Bodoni, Ital stamp cutter/publisher (bodoni), dies at 73
1843 - Marco Santucci, composer, dies at 81
1865 - Herman van Sonsbeeck, Dutch lawyer/statesman, dies at 69
1872 - Cornelius Kreighoff, Canadian, dies
1872 - Giovanni Tadolini, composer, dies at 83
1872 - Horace Greeley, US founder/publisher (NY Tribune), dies at 61
1895 - Eduard count von Taaffe, Austria premier (1868..93), dies at 62
1918 - Harald Kidde, Danish writer (Helten), dies at 40
1921 - Ivan Caryll, composer (Pink Lady), dies at 60
1924 - Giacomo Puccini, Ital composer (Mme Butterfly), dies in Brussels at 65
1925 - Karl Flodin, composer, dies at 67
1927 - George Giffen, cricketer (251 FC games, 11758 runs, 1023 wkts), dies
1939 - Philipp Scheidemann, German MP (SPD)/mayor of Kassel, dies at 74
1952 - Rosa Lewis, English chef/owner (Cavendish Hotel London), dies
1952 - Vladimir N Ipatiev, Russian/US chemist, dies at 85
1953 - Alfons Fryland, Austrian actor (b. 1888)
1953 - Sam De Grasse, American actor (b. 1875)
1953 - Milt Gross, American comic book illustrator and animator (b. 1895)
1954 - Enrico Fermi, Italian/US nuclear physicist, dies
1954 - George Edward Robey, English comic/actor (Henry IV), dies at 85
1954 - Dink Johnson, American musician (b. 1892)
1957 - Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Austria/US composer (Kathrin), dies at 60
1959 - Fritz Brun, composer, dies at 81
1959 - Hans Henny Jahnn, writer, dies at 64
1962 - Rav Aaron Kotler, Orthodox Talmudic scholar, dies in Lakewood NJ
1964 - Anne de Vries, Dutch teacher/author (Bartje), dies at 60
1967 - Theo Marcuse, actor (Mara of Wilderness), dies in auto accident at 47
1970 - Robert Ruthenfranz, composer, dies at 65
1971 - Heinz Tiessen, composer, dies at 84
1972 - Carl Stalling, American composer (b. 1888)
1974 - Haroldson L Hunt, US multi-millionaire, dies at 85
1974 - Ouida Bergere, scriptwriter, dies at 88
1974 - James J. Braddock, American heavyweight boxer (b. 1905)
1976 - Godfrey Cambridge, actor (Watermelon Man), dies at 43
1976 - Judith Lowry, actress (Effect of Gamma Rays ...), dies at 86
1977 - George Hamilton Combs, TV host (Through the Curtain), dies at 78
1978 - Alan Richardson, composer, dies at 74
1980 - Dorothy Day, American journalist, social activist and devout member of the Roman Catholic
           Church, dies at 83
1981 - Natalie Wood, actress (West Side Story), drowns at 43
1981 - Fredric Wertham, German-born psychologist (b. 1895)
1982 - Percy Williams, Canadian athlete (b. 1908)
1984 - Gotthard Günther, German philosopher (b. 1900)
1985 - Rik Jacobs, Flemish stage manager, dies at 71
1986 - Cary Grant, actor (Charades), dies in Davenport Iowa at 82
1986 - Herb Vigran, actor (Vampire, Mark of Vampire), dies
1987 - Howard Pyle, (Gov-R-Az, 1951-55), dies at 81
1987 - Irene Handl, actress (Riding High, Morgan), dies at 85
1989 - Ann Burton, [Anna Rafalowicz], singer, dies at 56
1989 - George Oswald Browning "Gubby" Allen, cricketer, dies
1991 - Frank Yerby, US writer (Health Card, The Dahomean), dies at 75
1991 - Ralph Bellamy, actor (Rosemary's Baby, His Girl Friday), dies at 87
1992 - Cary Scott Lowenstein, dancer/singer, dies of AIDS at 30
1992 - Emilio Pucci, Italian fashion designer (Jackie Kennedy), dies at 78
1992 - Robert F Simon, US actor (Operation Petticoat, M*A*S*H), dies at 83
1992 - Robert Shayne, US actor (Tora! Tora! Tora!), dies of cancer at 92
1992 - Jean Dieudonné, French mathematician (b. 1906)
1993 - JRD Tata, Indies industrialist (Air-India), dies at 89
1994 - Muhammad Ali Araki, ayatollah of Iran, dies
1994 - Ronald "Buster" Edwards, robber, dies at 63
1994 - Sviatoslav S Stravinsky, French/US composer/son of Igor S, dies at 84
1995 - Irene Elizabeth Beatrice Ighodaro, doctor/social reformer, dies at 79
1995 - Stone Cates, fictional character on General Hospital, dies of AIDS
1996 - Dan Flavin, American artist (b. 1933)
1997 - Coleman Young, 1st black mayor of a major city, dies at 79
1998 - Martin Ruane, English professional wrestler (b. 1947)
1998 - Frank Latimore, American actor (b. 1925)
1999 - Gene Rayburn, American game show host (b. 1917)
2001 - Mic Christopher, Irish singer and songwriter (b. 1969)
2001 - George Harrison, English singer, guitarist and songwriter (b. 1943)
2001 - John Knowles, American author (b. 1926)
2002 - Daniel Gélin, French actor (b. 1921)
2002 - George "Two Ton" Harris, American professional wrestler (b. 1927)
2003 - Moondog Spot, American professional wrestler (b. 1952)
2004 - Anne Samson, oldest-ever nun documented (b. 1891)
2004 - Harry Danning, American baseball player (b. 1911)
2004 - John Drew Barrymore, American actor (b. 1929)
2005 - Wendie Jo Sperber, American actress (Back to the Future), dies of breast cancer at 47
2005 - David di Tommaso, French footballer (b. 1979)
2006 - Allen Carr, English anti-smoking campaigner (b. 1934)
2007 - Henry Hyde, American politician (b. 1924)
2007 - James Barber, Canadian chef and writer (b. 1923)
2007 - Ralph Beard, American basketball player (b. 1927)
2007 - Roger Bonham Smith, Former chairman and CEO of General Motors (b. 1925)
2007 - Tom Terrell, musicologist, NPR reviewer, deejay (b. 1950)
2008 - Jørn Utzon, Danish architect (b. 1918)
2009 - Robert Holdstock, English author (b. 1948)
2010 - Bella Akhmadulina, Russian poet (b. 1937)
2010 - Mario Monicelli, Italian film director (b. 1915)
2010 - Stephen J. Solarz, American politician (b. 1940)
2010 - Maurice Wilkes, British computer scientist (b. 1913)
2010 - Alfred Masini, American television producer (b. 1930)
2012 - Merv Pregulman, American NFL player, dies at 90

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 30, 2013, 02:04:06 PM

This Day in History for 30th November


Historical Events

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United States Founding Father                 Dictator of Nazi Germany                    Baseball Player Jackie Robinson
Benjamin Franklin                                    Adolf Hitler

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Boxing Champ Archie Moore                42nd US President Bill Clinton                   US First Lady and Politician
                                                                                                                                 Hillary Clinton


306 - St Marcellus I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
722 - Pope Gregory II names Boniface as missionary bishop
1016 - Cnut (or Canute), king of Denmark, claims the English throne the death of Edmund 'Ironside'.
1215 - Pope Innocent III closes 4th council of Lateranen
1406 - Angelo Correr elected Pope Gregory XII
1523 - Amsterdam bans assembly of heretics
1554 - England reconciles with Pope Julius III
1630 - 16,000 inhabitants of Venice died this month of plague
1648 - English Parliamentary army captures King Charles I
1678 - Roman Catholics banned from English parliament
1700 - King Charles XII of Sweden defeats Russia at Narva [NS]
1700 - Turkey declares war on Russia
1700 - Utrecht/Overijssel/Buren/Leerdam/IJsselstein go on Gregoria calendar
1731 - Beijing hit by Earthquake; about 100,000 die
1735 - States of Holland forbid Free Masonry
1747 - Dutch State of Zealand declare governorship hereditary for women
1753 - Benjamin Franklin receives Godfrey Copley-Penny
1776 - Capt Cook begins 3rd & last trip to Pacific (South Sea)
1782 - Britain signs agreement recognizing US independence
1786 - Peter Leopold Joseph of Habsburg-Lorraine, Grand Duke of Tuscany, promulgates a penal
           reform making his country the first state to abolish the death penalty. November 30 is
            therefore commemorated by 300 cities around the world as Cities for Life Day.
1787 - Spanish governor leaves Philippines
1803 - Spain cedes her claims to Louisiana Territory to France
1804 - Impeachment trial of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase begins
1813 - Prince Willem Frederik returns to Netherlands
1824 - First ground is broken at Allenburg for the building of the original Welland Canal.
1829 - First Welland Canal opens for a trial run, 5 years to the day from the ground breaking.
1838 - Mexico declares war on France
1861 - Harper's Weekly publishes EE Beers' "All quiet along the Potomac"
1863 - Confederate troops vacate Fort Esperanza, Texas
1864 - Battle of Franklin Tennessee: Confederate attack fails, 7,700 casualities
1864 - Battle of Honey Hill SC (Broad River) 96 dead/665 wounded
1866 - Work begins on 1st US underwater highway tunnel, Chicago
1868 - The inauguration of a statue of King Charles XII of Sweden takes place in the King's garden in
           Stockholm.
1872 - 1st intl soccer game, Scotland-England 0-0 (Glasgow)
1885 - Opera "El Cid" premieres (Paris)
1886 - 1st commercially successful AC electric power plant opens, Buffalo
1886 - The Folies Bergère stages its first revue.
1887 - 1st indoor softball game (Chicago)
1891 - Pope Leo XIII's encyclical "Rerum novarum" published
1900 - A German engineer patents front-wheel drive for automobiles
1902 - American Old West: Second-in-command of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch gang, Kid Curry
           Logan, is sentenced to 20 years imprisonment with hard labor.
1907 - Pike Place Market dedicated in Seattle
1912 - 4th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Alerts defeats Toronto Argonauts, 11-4
1915 - St John Ervine's "John Ferguson," premieres in Dublin
1916 - Costa Rica becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1922 - 1st speed test of 1st genuine Japanese aircraft carrier Hosho
1922 - Hitler speaks to 50,000 national-socialists in Munich
1923 - Dutch Catholic minority government of Wilhelm Marx forms
1924 - 1st photo facsimile transmitted across Atlantic by radio (London-NYC)
1924 - Last French/Belgian troops leave Ruhrgebied
1924 - French/Belgium troops completely withdrawn from the Rurh
1928 - Test Cricket debut of Don Bradman, who scored 18 & 1 vs England
1929 - 17th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tigers defeats Regina Roughriders, 14-3
1931 - Crystal Palace in Hyde Park London destroyed by fire
1931 - His Master's Voice & Columbia Records merge into EMI
1933 - CCC Camps are established in Cleveland Park District
1936 - London's Crystal Palace (built 1851), destroyed by fire
1937 - 3rd Heisman Trophy Award: Clint Frank, Yale (HB)
1938 - Fascist coup in Romania, fails
1938 - Germany bans Jews being lawyers
1939 - 21 U boats sunk this month (52,000 ton)
1939 - Paul Osborn's "Mornings at 7," premieres in NYC
1939 - USSR invades Finland, bombs Helsinki
1940 - 28th CFL Grey Cup (Game 1): Toronto Balmy Beach defeats Ottawa, 8-2
1940 - 32 U boats sunk this month (147,000 ton)
1941 - 101 year old Nyack-Tarrytown (NY) ferry makes its last run
1941 - 13 U boats sunk this month (62,000 ton)
1941 - Japanese Emperor Hirohito consults with admirals Shimada & Nagano
1942 - -Dec 1st: Sea battle at Tassafaronga, Guadalcanal
1942 - 109 U boats sunk this month (729,000 ton)
1942 - 30th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Hurricanes defeats Winnipeg Bombers, 8-5
1942 - Bill Terry resigns as supervisor of NY Giants minor league system
1942 - German scout ship Altmark explode & sinks off Yokohama
1944 - Biggest & last British Battleship HMS Vanguard runs aground
1945 - 33rd CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Winn Blue Bombers, 35-0
1946 - Bradman scores 187 in 1st Test Cricket v England at the Gabba
1947 - Arab terrorist campaign opens in Palestine
1947 - Day after UN decree for Israel, Jewish settlements attacked
1948 - Baseball's Negro National League disbands
1948 - Player-manager Lou Boudreau is selected AL MVP
1948 - Soviets set up a separate municipal government in East Berlin
1949 - Chinese Communists captured Chungking
1949 - KOTV TV channel 6 in Tulsa, OK (CBS) begins broadcasting
1950 - US Pres Harry Truman threatens China with atom bomb
1952 - Jackie Robinson charges NY Yankees with racism
1953 - French parachutist under Col De Castries attacks Dien Bien Phu
1953 - Edward Mutesa II, the kabaka (king) of Buganda is deposed and exiled to London by Sir
           Andrew Cohen, Governor of Uganda.
1954 - 1st meteorite known to strike a woman (Liz Hodges-Sylacauga Ala)
1954 - 20th Heisman Trophy Award: Alan Ameche, Wisconsin (FB)
1954 - John Strydom succeeds Malan as premier of South Africa
1955 - "Pipe Dream" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 245 performances
1955 - Argentine government disbands Peronistic party
1956 - 1st use of videotape on TV (Douglas Edwards & the News)
1956 - Floyd Patterson KOs Archie Moore in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
1957 - "Happy Hunting" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 413 performances
1957 - 45th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeats Winn Blue Bombers, 32-7
1957 - Assassination attempt on Indonesian president Sukarno, kills 8
1958 - 1st guided missile destroyer launched, Dewey, Bath, Me
1958 - WKBW TV channel 7 in Buffalo, NY (ABC) begins broadcasting
1959 - Joe Foss named 1st commissioner of AFL
1960 - French Senate condemns building own nuclear weapons
1960 - Tad Mosels "All the Way Home" premieres in NYC
1961 - Billy Williams of the Cubs is voted NL Rookie of Year
1961 - USSR vetoes Kuwaits application for UN membership
1962 - U Thant of Burma elected 3rd Secretary-General of UN unanimously
1963 - 51st CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeats BC Lions, 21-10
1963 - Martin Walser's "Überlebensgross Herr Krott" premieres in Stuttgart
1964 - USSR launches Zond 2 towards Mars; no data returned
1966 - Barbados gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1966 - Radio time signal WWV moves from Greenbelt, Maryland
1966 - Barbados becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
1967 - Democratic People's republic of Yemen gains independence
1967 - Julie Nixon & David Eisenhower announce their engagement
1967 - Kuria Muria Islands ceded by Britain to Oman
1967 - People's Democratic Republic of Yemen declares independence from UK
1967 - People's Rep of South Yemen (Aden) gains independence from Britain
1967 - Senenator Eugene McCarthy begins run for US presidency
1967 - The Pakistan Peoples Party is founded by Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto who becomes its first Chairman
           later as the Head of state and Head of government after the 1971 Civil War.
1968 - 56th CFL Grey Cup: Ottawa Rough Riders defeat Calgary Stampeder, 24-21
1969 - 57th CFL Grey Cup: Ottawa Rough Riders defeats Saskatchewan, 29-11
1969 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1970 - George Harrison releases his triple album set "All Things Must Pass"
1971 - TV movie "Brian's Song," airs for 1st time on ABC-TV
1972 - BBC bans Wings' "Hi, Hi, Hi"
1972 - Illegal fireworks factory explodes killing 15 (Rome Italy)
1973 - M T Ghani scores 104 on FC debut for Commerce Bank (Pak) age 44
1973 - Firestone World Tournament of Champions won by Jim Godman
1974 - "Good Evening" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 438 performances
1974 - "Mack & Mabel" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 66 performances
1974 - 20th time Islanders shut-out (3-0 vs Canucks)
1974 - Miss Teenage America Pageant
1974 - Most complete early human skeleton (Lucy, Australopithecus) is discovered by Donald
           Johanson, Maurice Taieb, Yves Coppens and Tim White in the Middle Awash of Ethiopia's Afar
           Depression.
1975 - Dahomey becomes Benin
1976 - 42nd Heisman Trophy Award: Tony Dorsett, Pittsburgh (RB)
1978 - France performs nuclear test
1979 - Ted Koppel becomes anchor of nightly news on Iranian Hostages (ABC)
1979 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1980 - "Banjo Dancing" closes at Century Theater NYC after 38 performances
1980 - "Perfectly Frank" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 16 performances
1980 - "West Side Story" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 341 perfs
1980 - Uruguay's new constitution rejected by referendum
1981 - NY Yankee Dave Righetti wins AL Rookie of Year Award
1981 - Porn star John Holmes arrested on fugitive charges
1981 - South Africa anti apartheid advocate Bulelani Ngcuka arrested
1981 - Yankees Dave Righetti wins AL Rookie of Year
1981 - Cold War: In Geneva, representatives from the United States and the Soviet Union begin to
           negotiate intermediate-range nuclear weapon reductions in Europe (the meetings ended
           inconclusively on December 17).
1982 - STS-6 vehicle moves to launch pad
1982 - US sub Thomas Edison collides with US Navy destroyer in So China Sea
1982 - USSR performs nuclear test
1983 - 6th Emmy Sports Award presentation
1983 - Police free kidnapped beer magnate Alfred Heineken in Amsterdam
1983 - Radio Shack announces Tandy Model 2000 computer (80186 chip)
1983 - Raúl Alfonsín wins Argentine presidential election
1983 - Sam Shepards "Fool for love," premieres in NYC
1983 - Denver Nugget coach Doug Moe, hoplessly behind, advise team to let Blazers break their
           scoring record
1986 - "Flamenco Puro" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 40 perfs
1986 - 74th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeats Edmonton Eskimos, 39-15
1986 - Ivan Lendl is 1st tennis player to earn over $10 million, lifetime
1987 - Afghanistan Constitution adopted
1988 - Cyclone lashes Bangladesh, Eastern India; 317 killed
1988 - France performs nuclear test at Fangataufa Island
1988 - NYC furrier sues Mike Tyson for $92,000 for non payment of purchase
1988 - Soviets stop jamming Radio Liberty; 1st time in 38 yrs
1988 - UN General Assembly (151-2) censures US for refusing PLO's Arafat visa
1988 - Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. buys RJR Nabisco for $25.07 billion USD.
1989 - Deutsche Bank board member Alfred Herrhausen is killed by a Red Army Faction terrorist
           bomb.
1990 - Actor Burt Lancaster suffers a stroke
1990 - Bush proposes US-Iraq meeting to avoid war
1991 - 1st world championship of women's soccer, US defeats Norway 2-1
1991 - 93 cars & 11 truck accident near SF during a dust storm, 17 die
1991 - Rob Pilatus, 27, of Milli-Vanilli attempts suicide
1991 - San Diego State's Marshall Faulk is 1st freshman to capture national rushing & scoring titles
1992 - David Boon's 14th Test Cricket century, 111 v WI at Brisbane
1992 - Intercity-train derailed at Village chief, 5 die
1993 - NFL announces 30th franchise - Jacksonville Jaguars
1993 - President Clinton signs Brady Gun Control Bill
1994 - Beatles' 1st album in 25 years, "Live at BBC" is released in Britain
1994 - Cruiser Achille Lauro destroyed by fire at Somalia, 4 die
1994 - Man Mohan Adhikary sworn in as 1st communist premier of Nepal
1995 - Official end of Operation Desert Storm.
1997 - "Eugene Onegin" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC
1997 - 86th Davis Cup: Sweden sweeps US in Gothenburg (5-0)
1998 - Deutsche Bank announces a $10 billion USDdeal to buy Bankers Trust, thus creating the
           largest financial institution in the world.
1999 - In Seattle, Washington, United States, protests against the WTO meeting by anti-
           globalization protesters catch police unprepared and force the cancellation of opening 
           ceremonies.
1999 - British Aerospace and Marconi Electronic Systems merge to form BAE Systems, Europe's
           largest defense contractor and the fourth largest aerospace firm in the world.
2004 - Department of Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge resigns.
2004 - Longtime Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings of Salt Lake City, Utah finally loses, leaving him
           with $2,520,700 USD, television's all-time biggest game show haul.
2004 - Lion Air Flight 538 crash lands in Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia, killing 26.
2005 - John Sentamu becomes the first black archbishop in the Church of England with his
           enthronement as the 97th Archbishop of York.
2007 - Hillary Clinton presidential campaign office hostage crisis: Leeland Eisenberg entered the
           campaign office of Hillary Clinton in Rochester, New Hampshire with a device suspected of
           being a bomb and held three people hostage for 5 hours.
2012 - At least 32 people are killed in a Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane crash in the Congo

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Post by: MysteRy on November 30, 2013, 02:07:29 PM

This Day in History for 30th November


Famous Weddings

1940 - "I Love Lucy" actress Lucille Ball (28) weds actor Desi Arnaz (23) in Greenwich, Connecticut
1973 - Science fiction author Issac Asimov marries 2nd wife psychoanalyst and science fiction author
           Janet Jeppson
1973 - Sci-fi author Isaac Asimov (53) weds author Janet Jeppson (47)
1996 - Multimillionaire and top-selling female suspense novelist Mary Higgins Clark (67) weds Merrill
           Lynch Futures retired CEO John Conheeney (67) in Saddle River, New Jersey
1996 - "All My Children" actress-model Eva LaRue (29) weds John Callahan (42) under a 500-year-old
           banyan tree at Koele in Lanai, Hawaii
2005 - "Only Fools and Horses" actor David Jason (65) weds Gill Hinchcliffe at Buckingham Palace in
           London

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Post by: MysteRy on November 30, 2013, 02:25:29 PM

This Day in History for 30th November


Famous Birthdays

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Satirist Jonathan Swift (1667)           Soldier, author, journalist, politician                 Congresswoman
                                                                 Winston Churchill (1874)                         Shirley Chisholm (1924)


538 - St Gregory of Tours, Auvergne, Gaul, chronicler/bishop (Historia Francorum), (d. 594)
1340 - John duke of Berry, captain of Paris/art collector
1364 - John FitzAlan, 2nd Baron Arundel, English soldier (d. 1390)
1373 - Ferdinand I, the Righteous, king of Aragon/Sicily
1427 - Kazimierz IV, king of Poland (1447-92)
1466 - Andrea Doria, Genoese statesman/admiral
1485 - Veronica Gambara, Italian poetess
1498 - Andrés de Urdaneta, Spanish Augustinian friar, sail-captain and explorer (d. 1568)
1508 - Andrea Palladio, [Andrea di Pietro della Gondola], architect
1554 - Philip Sidney, England, poet/statesman/soldier (Arcadia)
1593 - Johann Dilliger, composer
1594 - John Cosin, English clergyman (d. 1672)
1622 - Thomas of Apshoven, Flemish painter, baptized
1625 - Jean Domat, French jurist (d. 1696)
1634 - Andres de Sola, composer
1637 - Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont, French historian (d. 1698)
1645 - Andreas Werkmeister, composer
1667 - Jonathan Swift, Dublin, satirist (Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal), (d. 1745)
1670 - John Toland, Irish philosopher (d. 1722)
1683 - Ludwig Andreas Graf Khevenhüller, Austrian field marshal (d. 1744)
1693 - Christoph Forster, composer
1699 - Christian VI, king of Denmark/Norway
1719 - Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Princess of Wales (d. 1772)
1722 - Theodore Gardelle, Swiss painter and enameler (d. 1761)
1723 - William Livingston, revolutionary Governor of New Jersey (d. 1790)
1726 - Jacques Aliamet, French etcher/engraver
1753 - Johann Baptist Schenk, composer
1756 - Ernst Chladni, German physicist (d. 1827)
1764 - Franz Xaver Gerl, composer
1768 - Jędrzej Śniadecki, Polish writer, physician, chemist and biologist (d. 1838)
1781 - Alexander Berry, British adventurer (d. 1873)
1796 - Johann Carl Gottfried Loewe, composer
1809 - Thomas Molleson Mudie, composer
1810 - Oliver Fisher Winchester, rifle maker (Winchester)
1813 - Charles-Henri Valentin Alkan, composer
1813 - Hermann Kurz, German author/poet
1813 - Louise-Victorine Ackermann, French poet (d. 1890)
1817 - Theodor Mommsen, Germ, historian/author (Imperial Lives, Nobel 1902)
1821 - Gustavus Woodson Smith, Secy War (Confederacy), died in 1896
1821 - Frederick Temple, 95th Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1902)
1826 - George Washington Deitzler, Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
1827 - Constantine P Pobedonostsev, Russian reactionary lawyer/senator
1827 - Ernest H Baillon, French botanist (History of Plants)
1828 - Jedediah Hotchkiss, Engineer (Confederate Army), died in 1899
1835 - Mark Twain, [Samuel L Clemens], author (Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn)
1836 - Lord Frederick Cavendish, British politician (d. 1882)
1840 - Henry Birks, Canadian businessman (d. 1928)
1843 - Jozsef Kiss, Hungarian literary (Zsido Dalok)
1847 - August Friedrich Martin Klughardt, composer
1855 - Marie WF Treub, Dutch economist/minister of Agriculture/Finance
1857 - Robert Abel, cricketer (The Guv'nor Surrey & England batsman)
1858 - Jagdish Chandra Bose, Indian physicist (d. 1937)
1859 - Sergey Mikhaylovich Lyapunov, composer
1861 - French Gailliard, Belgian painter (Zeustempel in Athens)
1861 - Ludwig Thuille, composer
1863 - Andres Bonifacio, leader of 1896 Philippine revolt against Spain
1863 - Gellio Benevenuto Coronaro, composer
1869 - Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1937)
1870 - Cecil Forsyth, composer
1870 - Princess Henriette, Duchess of Vendôme and Alençon (d. 1948)
1872 - Dr. John McCrae, Canadian physician and soldier (d. 1918)
1874 - Winston Churchill, (C) British Prime Minister (1940-45, 1951-55, Nobel 1953)
1874 - Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian author (d. 1942)
1885 - Albrecht (von) Kesselring, German fieldmarshal (Poland/Netherland)
1889 - Edgar D Adrian, English physiologist (Nobel 1932)
1890 - John Tasker Howard, composer
1890 - Oege Bakker, Dutch economist
1895 - Johann Nepomuk David, composer
1897 - Andreas Nezertis, composer
1897 - Quinto Maganini, composer
1898 - Roy "Link" Lyman, NFL tackle (Chicago Bears)
1900 - Korneel Goossens, Flemish literature/art historian
1903 - Germaine Emilie Madame Gres Krebs, haute Couturist
1904 - Clyfford Still, US, abstract painter
1904 - Philip Burton, teacher/writer/dramatist
1904 - Philip H Burton, Welsh director/acting teacher (Richard Burton)
1906 - Marina, princess of Greece/Denmark/husband of English prince George
1907 - Gyorgy Ranki, composer
1907 - Jacques Barzun, France, author (The House of Interlect), (d. 2012)
1909 - Robert Nighthawk, American musician (d. 1967)
1910 - Paul Cerutti, Monaco, trap shooter, disqualified for drugs in 76 oly
1911 - Jorge Negrete, Mexican singer and actor (d. 1953)
1912 - Constant Stotijn, Dutch oboist (Residence Orchestra)
1912 - Gordon Parks, Ft Scott KS, film director/author (Learning Tree)
1913 - John K M McCaffery, Moscow Idaho, TV host (One Minute Please)
1915 - Angier Biddle Duke, NYC, US Ambassador (Spain)
1915 - Henry Taube, chemist (Nobel 1983)
1915 - Walter Brown "Brownie" McGhee, Knoxville Tennessee, American blues singer/guitarist
1916 - Michael Gwynn, Bath England, actor (Village of Damned, Question 7)
1918 - Efren Zimbalist Jr, NYC, actor (77 Sunset Strip, FBI, Scruples)
1919 - Anne S Wadman, Frisian literary (Fioele & faem, Smearlappen)
1919 - Jan Elburg, [Joannes G], Dutch poet (Through the Night)
1920 - Virginia Mayo, St Louis Mo, actress (Out of the Blue, White Heat)
1922 - Robert Evett, composer
1924 - Allan Sherman, parody singer/songwriter (Hello Muddah, Hello Fardah)
1924 - Klaus Huber, composer
1924 - Shirley Chisholm, (Rep-D-NY) 1st black congresswoman/pres candidate
1925 - Maxwell Street Jimmy Charles Davis Thomas, blues musician
1926 - Richard Crenna, LA Cal, actor (Rambo, Summer Rental, Sand Pebbles)
1927 - Robert Guillaume, [Williams], St Louis Mo, actor (Benson, Soap)
1928 - Chic Hecht, (Sen-R-NV, 1983- )
1928 - Joe B. Hall, American basketball coach
1929 - Joan Ganz Cooney, Phoenix Az, TV exec (Children's TV Workshop)
1930 - G[eorge] Gordon Liddy, head CIA/ate a rat/Watergate felon/radio host
1930 - James Felton Boyd, Rocky Mount NC, light HW boxer (Olympic-gold-1956)
1930 - William H Dana, Pasadena California, test pilot (X-15)
1931 - Bill Walsh, NFL coach (SF 49ers)/sportscaster
1931 - Gunther Herbig, Usti-nad-Labem Czech, conductor (East Berlin Orch)
1931 - Jack Ging, Alva Ok, actor (11th Hour, Ripcord, Tales of Wells Fargo)
1931 - Jack Sheldon, Jacksonville Fla, actor (Run Buddy Run, Merv Griffin)
1932 - David Lincoln Lightbown, politician
1932 - Cho Namchul, South Korean professional Go player (d. 2006)
1933 - Linwood C Ivey, NC, (Mayor-Garysburg NC)
1933 - Norman Deeley, English footballer (d. 2007)
1936 - Abbie Hoffman, aka Free, Yippie/activist/author (Steal this Book)
1936 - Michael Jinks, child care pioneer
1937 - Jimmy Bowen, rocker
1937 - Paul Stookey, Balt, singer (Peter, Paul & Mary-Wedding Song)
1937 - Richard Threlkeld, newscaster (ABC-TV)
1937 - Ridley Scott, director (Alien, Blade Runner)
1937 - Adeline Yen Mah, Chinese Writer
1937 - Tom Simpson, British cyclist (d. 1967)
1938 - Jean Eustache, French filmmaker
1940 - Glenn English, (Rep-D-OK, 1975- )
1943 - J[ames] J[ay] Barnes, US gospel/singer (Please Let Me In)
1943 - Jerry Hunt, composer
1943 - Leo Lyons, Standbridge Beds, rock bassist (Ten Years After)
1943 - Oscar Harris, Surinames/Dutch singer (Try a Little Love)
1943 - Terrence Malick, actress (Gail-Baywatch)
1944 - Dian Parkinson, [Dianna Lynn Batts], Camp LeJune NC, Miss USA (1965)
1944 - Luther T Ingram, US singer/songwriter (I'll Be Your Shelter)
1944 - Rob Grill, Los Angeles California, rock bassist/vocalist (Grass Roots)
1945 - Michael Joyce, stage manager
1945 - Radu Lupu, Galati Romania, pianist (Enesco 1st prize-1967)
1945 - Roger Glover, British hard rock bassist (Episode Six-Deep Purple)
1946 - Ken Wadsworth, cricket keeper (NZ dashing batsman)
1946 - Marina Abramović, Belgrade Serbia, US based performance artist
1947 - David Mamet, Chicago, playwright/dir (Speed the Plow, House of Games)
1947 - Sergio Badilla Castillo, Chilean poet
1949 - Arthur Lee Washington Jr, Neptune NJ, murderer (FBI Most Wanted)
1950 - Greg Gordon, rock vocalist (Boys Band)
1950 - Kathryn Witt, Miami Fla, actress (Lenny, Pam-Flying High)
1950 - Margaret Whitton, Balt Md, actress (Good & Evil, Major League)
1950 - Paul Westphal, NBA guard (Boston Celtics, Phoenix Suns)
1951 - Christian Bernard, mystic
1951 - June Chadwick, British actress
1952 - Mandy Patinkin, Chicago Il, actor/singer (Yentl, Alien Nation)
1952 - Keith Giffen, American comic book writer and artist
1953 - Mike Espy, (Rep-D-Mississippi)
1953 - Shuggie Otis, rocker
1954 - George McArdle, rock bassist (Little River Band Melbourne
1954 - June Pointer, singer (Pointer Sisters-I'm So excited)
1954 - Simonetta Stefanelli, Italian Actress (The Godfather)
1955 - Andy Gray, English soccer player
1955 - Billy Idol, [William Broad], rocker (White Wedding)
1955 - Brad Fabel, Louisville KY, Nike golfer (1994 NIKE Gateway Classic)
1955 - Kevin Conroy, Westport CT, actor (Tour of Duty, Another World)
1955 - Richard Burr, American politician
1955 - Gordon Liu, Chinese actor
1957 - John Ashton, English guitarist (Psychedelic Furs)
1957 - Richard Barbieri, British keyboardist (Porcupine Tree)
1957 - Andrew Calhoun, American musician
1957 - Joël Champetier, French Canadian author
1957 - Colin Mochrie, Scottish-born Canadian comedian
1958 - Juliette Bergmann, Dutch bodybuilder
1958 - Stacey Q, American singer
1959 - Sylvia Hanika, Munich West Germany, tennis player (Avon-1982)
1959 - Lorraine Kelly, British presenter and journalist
1960 - Bob Tewksbury, Concord NH, pitcher (San Diego Padres)
1960 - Dan Rashovich, CFL linebacker (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1960 - Danny Briggs, Abilene TX, Nike golfer (1986 Tallahassee Open-6th)
1960 - Gary Lineker, English soccer player (World Cup 1986)
1960 - Rich Fields, American television personality
1961 - Innocent Egbunike, Nigeria, 4x400m runner (Olympic-bronze-1984)
1962 - Bo Jackson, baseball/football player (KC Royals, LA Raiders)
1962 - Daniel Keys Moran, American writer
1964 - David Wood, NBA forward (Dallas Mavericks)
1964 - Michael Cudlitz, American actor
1965 - Ben Stiller, NYC, actor (Ben Stiller Show, Next of Kin, Cable Guy)
1965 - Mike Zandofsky, NFL guard (Atlanta Falcons, Philadelphia Eagles)
1965 - Aldair, Brazilian footballer
1965 - Lee Klein, American Writer
1965 - Prince Akishino of Japan
1966 - Phillipe Bozon, hockey forward (Team France 1998)
1966 - Ed Kemper, American serial killer
1966 - Wil Mara, American author
1966 - David Nicholls, English novelist and screenwriter
1967 - Gary Jones, NFL safety (NY Jets)
1967 - Margaret Platt, New York City NY, golfer (1995 Healthsouth-9th)
1968 - Des'ree [Desirée Annette Weeks], English singer (Feel So High, You Gotta Be, Life)
1968 - Laurent Jalabert, French cyclist
1969 - Carrie Jean Yazel, Huntington Beach California, playmate (May, 1991)
1969 - Larry Brown, NFL cornerback (Dallas Cowboys, Oakland Raiders)
1969 - Mark Lewis, Hamilton OH, infielder (Detroit Tigers)
1970 - Corrina Kennedy, Saskatoon Saskatchawan, kayaker (Olympics-96)
1970 - James Brown, tackle (Miami Dolphins)
1970 - John DeWitt, WLAF defensive end (Scottish Claymores)
1970 - Mario Bailey, WLAF receiver (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1970 - Natalie Williams, Long Beach California, volleyball outside hitter (Oly-96)
1970 - Ricky Powers, WLAF running back (Rhein Fire)
1970 - Robert Griffith, NFL strong safety (Minnesota Vikings)
1970 - Yayuk Basuki, Yogyakarta Indonesia, tennis star (1996 Hobart doubles)
1971 - Bryan Proby, NFL/WLAF defensive tackle (KC Chiefs, Scottish Claymores)
1971 - Heath Te-Ihi-O-Te-Rangy Davis, cricket bowler (NZ open v England 1994)
1971 - Ivan Rodriguez, Vega Baja Puerto Rico, catcher (Texas Rangers)
1971 - John Anderson, WLAF safety (Rhein Fire)
1971 - Ray Durham, Charlotte, North Carolina, American MLB infielder (Chicago White Sox)
1972 - Adeline Ong, Miss Universe-Malaysia (1996)
1972 - Spence Fischer, WLAF quarterback (Scotland Claymores)
1972 - Abel Xavier, Portuguese footballer
1972 - Christopher Fitzgerald, American stage actor
1973 - Jay Hamilton, CFL running back (Edmonton Eskimos)
1973 - Ty Howard, cornerback (Arizona Cardinals)
1973 - John Moyer, American bassist (Disturbed)
1973 - Jason Reso (aka "Christian Cage"), Canadian professional wrestler
1974 - Luther Broughton, HB (Philadelphia Eagles)
1974 - Marcellus Wiley, defensive end (Buffalo Bills)
1975 - Mindy McCready, country/western singer, (d. 2013)
1975 - Ben Thatcher, Welsh footballer
1976 - Shaneika Lightbourne, Miss Universe-Turks & Caicos (1996)
1976 - Josh Lewsey, English rugby union footballer
1976 - Cypher Zero, American circus innovator (New York Circus Arts)
1977 - Iván Guerrero, Honduran footballer
1977 - Kazumi Saitoh, Japanese baseball player
1977 - Olivier Schoenfelder, French ice dancer
1978 - Emil Steiner, American writer
1978 - Clay Aiken, American singer
1978 - Gael García Bernal, Mexican actor
1979 - Chris Atkinson, Australian rally driver
1979 - Andrés Nocioni, Argentine basketball player
1980 - Jamie Ashdown, English footballer
1981 - Rich Harden, Canadian baseball player
1982 - Elisha Cuthbert, Canadian actress
1982 - Tony Giarratano, American baseball player
1982 - Clémence Poésy, French actress
1982 - Jason Pominville, Canadian ice hockey player
1983 - Adrian Cristea, Romanian footballer
1983 - Andy Akinwolere, English television presenter
1984 - Nigel de Jong, Dutch footballer
1984 - Alan Hutton, Scottish footballer
1984 - Omahyra Mota, Dominican model/actress
1984 - Francisco Sandaza, Spanish Footballer
1985 - Kaley Cuoco, American actress and model
1986 - Jordan Farmar, National Basketball Association player
1987 - Dougie Poynter, British singer and bassist (McFly)
1987 - Vasilisa Bardina, Russian tennis player
1987 - Ian Hecox, Part of the America Online comedy duo Smosh
1989 - Chanel Iman, American supermodel
1989 - Margaret Nales Wilson, Filipino model
1990 - Kara Crane, American actress
1990 - Magnus Carlsen, Norwegian chess Grandmaster
1993 - Yuuri Chinen,Japanese singer
1994 - Nyjah Huston, American skateboarder

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on November 30, 2013, 03:27:38 PM

This Day in History for 30th November


Famous Deaths

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Writer/Poet Oscar Wilde (1900)             Author James Baldwin (1987)                   Motorcycle Daredevil
                                                                                                                                Evel Knievel (2007)


1016 - Edmund II, Ironsides, King of the Saxons (1016), dies at 27
1519 - Michael Wolgemut, German painter (Weltchronik), dies at about 85
1528 - Great Wierd, Dutch Gelderland army commander, beheaded
1580 - Richard Farrant, English composer
1626 - Thomas Weelkes, English composer
1631 - Rabbi Samuel Eliezer ben Judah ha-levi Edels, dies
1646 - John C Lichthart, admiral (Cape Augustine), dies at about 45
1654 - John Selden, English jurist and oriental scholar (b. 1584)
1675 - Cæcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, colonial Governor of Maryland (b. 1605)
1678 - Andries de Graeff, mayor of Amsterdam (1657..71), dies at 67
1679 - Pieter van Schooten, Dutch mathematician/fort architect, dies at 45
1694 - Marcello Malpighi, father of microscopic anatomy, dies
1700 - Artus II Quellinus [Quellien/"the Young], Flemish sculptor, dies at 75
1703 - Nicolas de Grigny, composer, dies at 31
1705 - Catherine of Braganza, wife of Charles II of England (b. 1638)
1718 - Charles XII, king of Sweden (1697-1718), dies during a siege of the fortress Fredriksten in
           Norway at 36
1761 - John Dollond, British optician (b. 1706)
1764 - Dieudonne Raick, composer, dies at 61
1765 - George Glas, British merchant and adventurer (b. 1725)
1777 - Jean-Marie Leclair, composer, dies at 74
1792 - Ernst William Wolf, composer, dies at 57
1798 - Friedrich Fleischmann, composer, dies at 32
1813 - Friedrich August Baumbach, composer, dies at 60
1824 - Johann Georg Christoph Schetky, composer, dies at 87
1830 - Pius VIII, [Francesco S Castiglioni], Ital Pope (1829-30), dies at 69
1841 - Charles Louis W J van Keverberg, Dutch government official, dies at 73
1864 - Hiram Bronson Granbury, Confederate brigadier general, dies in the Battle of Franklin at 33
1864 - John Adams, US Confederate brigadier general, dies in the Battle of Franklin at about 39
1864 - Otto French Strahl, US Confederate brigadier general, dies in the Battle of Franklin at 33
1864 - Patrick Ronayne Cleburne, US Confederate brigadier general, dies in the Battle of Franklin at
           33
1893 - Jacobus J Backer, German sea historian, dies at 68
1897 - Abraham C Wertheim, Dutch banker/MP (Lib), dies at 64
1900 - Oscar Wilde, Irish author, dies in Paris at 46
1901 - Edward J Eyre, British explorer/governor (Jamaica), dies at 86
1904 - Aldine Sillman Kieffer, composer, dies at 64
1909 - Innokenti F Annenski, Russian poet/translator, dies at 53 [NS=Dec 13]
1931 - John Hyatt Brewer, composer, dies at 75
1931 - Marc-Jean-Baptiste Delmas, composer, dies at 46
1933 - Sir Arthur Currie, Canadian general (b. 1875)
1934 - Hélène Boucher, French aviatrix (b. 1908)
1935 - Fernando A N Pessoa, Portuguese poet (Book of Disquiet), dies at 47
1938 - Corneliu Codreanu, Romania fascist/putschist (Iron Guard), dies
1940 - Fritz Volbach, German musicologist/conductor/composer, dies at 78
1944 - Max Halbe, writer, dies at 79
1947 - Earnest Lubitsch, actor/director (Anna Boleyn, Ninotchka), dies
1948 - Franco Vittadini, composer, dies at 64
1954 - Wilhelm Furtwängler, German conductor (b. 1886)
1955 - Josip Slavenski, composer, dies at 59
1957 - Beniamino Gigli, Italian tenor (b. 1890)
1958 - Hubert Wilkins, Australian polar explorer (b. 1888)
1961 - Stanislaw Kazuro, composer, dies at 80
1964 - Don Redman, orchestra leader (Sugar Hill Times), dies at 64
1967 - Patrick Kavanagh, Irish screenwriterr (Great Hunger), dies
1972 - Hans-Erich Apostel, Austrian composer (Kubiniana, Requiem), dies at 71
1972 - Neil H McElroy, soap manufacturer/minister of Defense (1957-59), dies
1972 - Valentin Ruiz Azner, composer, dies at 70
1973 - Bruce Yarnell, Los Angeles California, actor (Outlaws), dies at 35
1976 - Fritz Rasp, actor (Diary of a Lost Girl), dies at 85
1977 - Terrence Rattigan, British writer and playwright (b. 1911)
1979 - Joyce Grenfell (Adventure for Two), actress, dies at 69
1979 - Zeppo Marx, [Herbert], US comic (Marx Brothers), dies at 78
1981 - Robert H Harris, actor (Jake-Goldbergs), dies at 72
1983 - George Headley, cricket (10 tons in 22 Tests, 1st black WI capt), dies
1986 - Cary Grant, Brit/US actor (Awful Truth, Charade, Father Goose), dies
1987 - Arthur H Dean, lawyer/advisor to FDR, dies at 89
1987 - James Baldwin, writer (Go Tell it on the Mountain), dies at 63
1987 - Simon Carmiggelt, journalist/literary (Kronkel), dies at 74
1989 - Alfred Herrhausen, German CEO (Deutsche Bank), murdered at 59
1990 - Hilde Spiel, writer, dies at 78
1990 - Horst Bienek, German author, dies
1990 - Norman Cousins, editor (Saturday Review), dies at 75
1991 - P G Z (Zin) Harris, cricketer (9 Tests for NZ 1962-65), dies
1992 - Jorge Donn, dancer, dies after long illness at 45
1993 - Bob Wolf, agent (New Kids on the Block, Larry Bird), dies
1993 - Sebastian Kappen, Indian theologian (b. 1924)
1994 - Connie Conrad Henry Kirnon Kay, jazz Drummer, dies at 67
1994 - Guy Debord, situationist, dies at 63
1994 - Irwin Kostal, US arranger/conductor (Sound of Music), dies at 83
1994 - Lionel Stander, US blacklisted actor (Hart to Hart), dies at 86
1995 - Hopper Levett, Kent cricket wicketkeeper (1930-47, Test 1934), dies
1995 - June Rosemary Fisher, teacher/trade unionist, dies at 66
1995 - William Roerick, actor (Guiding Light), dies in car crash at 83
1995 - Randy Walker (AKA Stretch), American musician (b. 1972)
1996 - Dan Flavin, minimalist sculptor, dies at 63
1996 - Koji Kobayashi, industrialist, dies at 89
1996 - Paul Derrick, co-operator/Christian socialist, dies at 80
1996 - Tiny Tim, [Herbert Khaury], entertainer (Tip Toe), dies at 71
1997 - Clare Lucy Madeleine Evans, historian, dies at 37
1997 - Kathy Acker, writer, dead Cancer Died, dies at 54
1997 - Ron Gulliford, educationalist, dies at 76
1999 - Charlie Byrd, American jazz guitarist (b. 1925)
2002 - Tim Woods, American professional wrestler (b. 1934)
2003 - Gertrude Ederle, American swimmer (b. 1906)
2004 - Pierre Berton, Canadian author (b. 1920)
2005 - Jean Parker, American actress (b. 1915)
2006 - Elhadi Adam, Sudanese poet and lyricist (b. 1927)
2006 - Rafael Buenaventura, Former BSP Governor (b. 1938)
2007 - Evel Knievel, American motorcycle daredevil, at 69
2007 - Engin Arık, Turkish nuclear physicist (b. 1948)
2008 - Munetaka Higuchi, Japanese drummer (Loudness) (b. 1958)
2010 - Peter Hofmann, Czech-born German operatic tenor (b. 1944)
2010 - Rajiv Dixit, Indian scientist and Swadeshi movement figure (b. 1967)
2010 - Faye Wright, American spiritual figure (b. 1914)
2010 - Garry Gross, American photographer (b. 1937)
2011 - William L. Waller, American politician and ex-Governor of Mississippi, dies at 85
2011 - Leka, Crown Prince of Albania, referred to as King Leka I by Albanian monarchists (b. 1939)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 01, 2013, 02:48:21 PM

This Day in History for 1st December


Historical Events

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Composer/Pianist Franz Liszt                    Inventor James Naismith                       Dictator of Nazi Germany
                                                                                                                                 Adolf Hitler

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Spanish Dictator Francisco Franco                   Civil Rights Activist                   Musician & member of the Beatles
                                                                          Rosa Lee Parks                                        Paul McCartney

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First Director of the FBI                            Hall of Fame MLB shortstop                 38th US President Gerald Ford
 J. Edgar Hoover                                               Ernie Banks

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King of Pop Michael Jackson                  264th Pope John Paul II


772 - Pope Adrian I elected
800 - Charlemagne judges the accusations against Pope Leo III in the Vatican.
1167 - Northern Italian towns form Lombardi League
1420 - Henry V of England enters Paris.
1566 - Spanish king Philip II names Fernando Alvarez, duke of Alva
1626 - Pasha Muhammad ibn Farukh tyrannical gov of Jerusalem, driven out
1640 - Portugal regains independence after 60 years of Spanish rule
1641 - Mass becomes 1st colony to give statutory recognition to slavery
1653 - An athlete from Croydon is reported to have run 20 miles from St Albans to London in less
           than 90 minutes
1656 - Germany promises Poland aid against Sweden
1708 - Great Alliance occupies Brussels
1742 - Empress Elisabeth orders expulsion of all Jews from Russia
1750 - 1st American school to offer manual training courses opens, Md
1768 - The slave ship Fredensborg sinks off Tromøy in Norway.
1783 - Jacques Charles & Nicolas Roberts make first untethered ascension with gas hydrogen balloon
           in Paris
1821 - Santo Domingo (Dominican Rep) proclaims independence from Spain
1822 - Dom Pedro crowned emperor of Brazil
1822 - Franz Liszts (11) debut as pianist Isabella Colbran
1824 - House of Reps begins to end election deadlock between JQ Adams
1824 - Jackson, WH Crawford & H Clay Adams eventually declared president
1831 - Erie Canal closes for entire month due to cold weather
1835 - Hans Christian Andersen published his 1st book of fairy tales
1843 - 1st chartered mutual life insurance company opens
1852 - Telegraph company opens throughout Netherlands
1864 - Raid at Stoneman: Knoxville, TN to Saltville, VA
1864 - Skirmish at Millen Brutal, Georgia
1868 - John D Rockefeller begins anti oil war
1878 - 1st White House telephone installed
1884 - American Old West: Near Frisco, New Mexico, deputy sheriff Elfego Baca holds off a gang of
           80 Texan cowboys who want to kill him for arresting Charles McCarthy.
1887 - Sherlock Holmes 1st appears in print: "Study in Scarlet"
1887 - Sino-Portuguese treaty recognizes Portugal's control of Macao
1891 - James Naismith creates the game of basketball
1896 - 1st certified public accountants receive certificates (NY)
1900 - South African president Paul Kruger visits Flanders
1903 - "The Great Train Robbery", the 1st Western film, released
1906 - Cinema Omnia Pathe, world's 1st cinema, opens (Paris)
1906 - Shoemaker Wilhelm Voigt (Capt of Köpenick) sentenced to 4 yrs
1909 - 1st Christmas Club payment made, to Carlisle Trust Co, Pa
1909 - 1st Israeli kibbutz founded, Deganya Alef
1913 - 1st drive-up gasoline station opens (Pitts)
1913 - Continuous moving assembly line introduced by Ford (car every 2:38)
1917 - Boys Town founded by Father Edward Flanagan west of Omaha Neb
1918 - Danish parliament passed an act to grant Iceland independence
1918 - Iceland becomes independent state under Danish crown
1918 - Serbian-Croatian-Slovic kingdom proclaimed in Belgrade
1918 - Yugoslavia declares independence; monarchy established
1919 - AA Milne's "Mr Pim Passes By" premieres in Manchester
1919 - Lady Nancy Astor sworn-in as 1st female member of British Parliament
1921 - 1st US helium-filled dirigible makes 1st flight
1921 - US Post Office establishes philatelic agency
1922 - 1st skywriting over US-"Hello USA"-by Capt Turner, RAF
1922 - Polish state chief marshal Jozef Pilsudski resigns
1923 - CFL Grey Cup: Queen's U beats Regina 54-0 at Toronto
1924 - Calles becomes president of Mexico
1924 - George/Ira Gershwin's musical "Lady Be Good" premieres in NYC
1925 - Treaty of Locarno signed
1928 - CFL Grey Cup: Ham Tigers beats Regina 30-0 at Hamilton
1928 - Railroad museum opens in Utrecht Neth
1929 - Game of Bingo invented by Edwin S Lowe
1930 - NHL drops 20 minute slashing-about-the-head penalty
1930 - Ruth Nichols becomes 1st woman pilot to cross continent
1931 - Ottawa branch of Royal Mint begins operation as Royal Canadian Mint
1933 - Rudolf Hess & Earnest Rohm become a minister in Hitler government
1934 - Leningrad mayor Sergey Kirov assassinated, used by Stalin as the excuse to begin the Great
           Purge of 1934-38.
1935 - Austria has world's 1st Day of Postage Stamp
1936 - 2nd Heisman Trophy Award: Larry Kelley, Yale (E)
1936 - Bell Labs tests coaxial cable for TV use
1936 - EW Brundin & FF Lyon obtain patent on soilless culture of plants
1937 - Japan recognizes Franco government
1938 - School bus & train collide in Salt Lake City Utah
1939 - SS-Fuhrer Himmler begins deportation of Polish Jews
1941 - British cruiser Devonshire sinks German sub Python
1941 - Japanese emperor Hirohito signs declaration of war
1941 - Last day of first-class cricket in Australia for 4 years
1941 - US Civil Air Patrol (CAP) organizes
1942 - Gasoline rationed in US
1942 - The Beveridge Report is published by the British government unveiling plans for a post-war
           welfare state
1943 - FDR, Churchill & Stalin agree to Operation Overlord (D-Day)
1944 - Béla Bartòk's Concerto for orchestra, premieres
1944 - Mail routing resumes in free South Netherlands
1944 - Prokofjev's 8th Piano sonata, premieres
1945 - CFL Grey Cup: Toronto beats Winnipeg 35-0 at Toronto
1946 - Australia compile 645 v India at the Gabba (Bradman 187)
1947 - Bradman scores 185 in the 1st Cricket Test v India at the Gabba
1947 - India cricket all out for 58 v Australia at the Gabba, Toshack 5-2
1948 - Arabic Congress names Abdullah of Trans Jordan as King of Palestine
1948 - Piet Roozenburg becomes world champion checker player
1949 - WBNG TV channel 12 in Binghamton, NY (CBS) begins broadcasting
1949 - WKTV TV channel 2 in Utica, NY (NBC) begins broadcasting
1951 - 17th Heisman Trophy Award: Dick Kazmaier, Princeton (HB)
1951 - Benjamin Britten's opera "Billy Budd" premieres in London
1951 - Golden Gate Bridge closes due to high winds
1952 - The New York Daily News reports the first successful sexual reassignment operation.
1953 - Red Sox trade M McDermott & Tom Umphlett for Wash's Jackie Jensen
1953 - WAIM (now WAXA) TV channel 40 in Anderson, SC (IND) 1st broadcast
1953 - WCSH TV channel 6 in Portland, ME (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 - Walter Alston named Dodger manager
1954 - Nationalist China & US sign dike agreement
1954 - Yanks send Miller, Segrist, Leppert & 2 minors to Orioles for Blayzka, Kryhoski, Johnson,
           Fridley & Del Guercio (completing 18 player deal)
1955 - Rosa Parks (black) arrested for refusing to move to the back of bus
1956 - "Candide" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 73 performances
1956 - Alain Mimoun wins 13th Olympics marathon (2:25:00.0)
1956 - Frank Robinson (NL) & Luis Aparicio (AL) voted Rookie of the Year
1956 - Indonesian VP Mohammed Hatta resigns
1957 - Sam Cooke and Buddy Holly and Crickets debut on Ed Sullivan Show
1958 - "Flower Drum Song" opens at St James Theater NYC for 602 performances
1958 - Central African Rep made autonomous member of Fr Comm (Natl Day)
1958 - Our Lady of Angels School burns, killing 92 students & 3 nuns (Chic)
1959 - 12 nations sign treaty for scientific peaceful use of Antarctica
1959 - 1st color photograph of Earth from outer space
1959 - 25th Heisman Trophy Award: Billy Cannon, LSU (HB)
1959 - The 1st color photograph of Earth received from outer space
1960 - Patrice Lumumba caught in the Congo
1960 - Paul McCartney and Pete Best arrested then deported from Hamburg, Germany for accusation
           of attempted arson.
1961 - The independent Republic of West Papua is proclaimed in modern-day Western New Guinea.
1962 - Grey Cup halted by fog, resumed next day (Winnipeg 28, Hamilton 27)
1962 - KGMB TV channel 9 in Honolulu, HI (CBS) begins broadcasting
1963 - NY Jets 1st shutout, beat KC 17-0
1963 - Nagaland becomes a state of Indian union
1964 - Houston Colt .45s change name to Astros
1964 - ML King speaks to J. Edgar Hoover about his slander campaign
1965 - Airlift of refugees from Cuba to US began
1965 - South Africa government says children of white fathers are white
1966 - Georg Kiesinger elected West German chancellor
1966 - Radio time signal WWV moves from Greenbelt, Md to Boulder, Colo
1967 - Pacific Northwest Sports awarded AL expansion franchise (Seattle)
1967 - Queen Elizabeth inaugurates 98-inch (249-cm) Isaac Newton telescope
1967 - Seattle awarded one of the 2 AL expansion franchise teams
1967 - Wilt Chamberlain set NBA record of 22 free throws misses
1968 - "Promises Promises" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 1281 performances
1968 - Burt Bacharach/Hal David's musical premieres in NYC
1968 - Gonzalo Barrios, Venezuelan presidential candidate
1968 - Peggy Wilson wins LPGA Hollywood Lakes Golf Open
1968 - Pirate Radio Modern (259) (England) begins transmitting
1969 - US government holds its 1st draft lottery since WW II
1970 - Luis Echeverria Alvarez sworn in as president of Mexico
1970 - NHL takes control of Pittsburgh Penguins
1970 - Independent People's Republic of South Yemen becomes People Democratic Republic of
           Yemen
1971 - Cubs release Ernie Banks & sign him as a coach
1971 - Galt MacDermot/John Guare's "2 gentlemen of Verona" opens at St James Theater NYC for
           613 perfs
1971 - John & Yoko release "Happy Xmas (War is Over)" in US
1971 - People's Republic of South Yemen renames itself People's Democratic Republic of Yemen
1971 - Cambodian Civil War: Khmer Rouge rebels intensify assaults on Cambodian government
           positions, forcing their retreat from Kompong Thmar and nearby Ba Ray.
1972 - Wings release "Hi, Hi, Hi" in UK
1973 - Australia grants self-government to Papua New Guinea
1973 - Jack Nicklaus becomes 1st golfer to earn $2M in a year
1973 - Jan Ferraris wins LPGA-Japan Golf Classic
1973 - Stan Stasiak beats Pedro Morales in Philadelphia, to become WWF champ
1974 - Boeing 727 crashes in Upperville Virginia, 92 died
1974 - Jacqueline Hansen runs female world record marathon (2:43:54.5)
1974 - LA Skid Row slasher kills 1st of 8
1975 - US president Gerald Ford visits China PR
1976 - Angola admitted to UN
1976 - Bangladesh General Ziaur Rahman declares himself president
1976 - Sex Pistols using profanity on TV, gets them branded as "rotten punks"
1978 - Pres Carter more than doubles national park system size
1978 - Test Cricket debut of Rodney Hogg, v England at the Gabba
1978 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1980 - 46th Heisman Trophy Award: George Rogers, South Carolina (RB)
1980 - Mel Harris appears on M*A*S*H in "Cementing Relationships"
1980 - US Justice Dept sues Yonkers siting racial discrimination
1981 - 180 dies as Yugoslav DC-9 jetliner slams into a mountain
1981 - Yugoslavic DC-9 crashes into mountain at Corsica, 174 killed
1981 - The AIDS virus is officially recognized.
1982 - Dentist Barney B Clark gets 1st artificial heart
1982 - Michael Jackson releases his album "Thriller"
1982 - Miguel de la Madrid inaugurated as pres of Mexico
1983 - Rita Lavelle, former head of EPA, convicted of perjury
1984 - 50th Heisman Trophy Award: Doug Flutie, Boston College (QB)
1984 - France performs nuclear test
1984 - Greg Page KOs Gerrie Coetzee in 8 for WBA heavyweight boxing title
1985 - Noraly Beyer becomes Neth's 1st black TV newscaster
1985 - STS 61-C vehicle moves to launch pad
1985 - South Africa's Cosatu union centre forms
1986 - Muséed'orsay opens in Paris
1986 - Paul McCartney releases "Only Love Remains"
1987 - Digging begins to link England & France under English Channel
1988 - 596 dead after cyclone hits Bangladesh, half a million homeless
1988 - Benazir Bhutto named 1st female Prime Minister of a Moslem country (Pakistan)
1988 - Chinese minister of Foreign affairs Qian Qichen visits Moscow
1988 - NBC bids record $401M to capture rights to 1992 Barcelona Olympics
1988 - NY Islanders greatest shutout lose (8-0) vs St Louis Blues
1989 - "Day Without Art"-Artists demonstrate against AIDS
1989 - East Germany drops communist monopoly from its constitution
1989 - Mark Langston signs record $3.2 million per year Cal Angels contract
1989 - USSR Pres Mikhail S Gorbachev meets Pope John Paul II at the Vatican
1990 - 56th Heisman Trophy Award: Ty Detmer, Brigham Young (QB)
1990 - British & French workers meet in English Channel's tunnel (Chunnel)
1990 - Hissène Habré of Chad flees to Cameroon
1990 - Iraq accepts Bush's offer for talks
1990 - Lithuania, Estonia & Latvia hold their 1st joint session
1990 - NY Knicks Patrick Ewing scores 50 points beating Charlotte 113-96
1991 - "Moscow Circus Cirk Valentin" closes at Gershwin NYC after 32 perfs
1991 - "Once on this Island" closes at Booth Theater NYC after 469 perfs
1991 - 80th Davis Cup: France beats USA in Lyon (3-1)
1991 - AIDS awareness day
1991 - Colorado party wins Paraguay parliamentary election
1991 - Nursultan Nazarbayev sworn in as president of Kazakhstan
1991 - US 75th manned space mission "STS 44" Atlantis 10 lands
1991 - Ukrainian people vote for independence
1992 - 2 C-141B Starlifters collide in Montana & crash, 13 die
1992 - Amy Fisher sentenced 5-15 yrs for shooting Mary Jo Buttafuoco
1993 - Northwest Airlink plane crashes in Minn, killing 18
1994 - 3 Seattle Seahawks injured in a car accident
1994 - Cindy Crawford & Richard Gere announce they are seperating
1994 - Ernesto Zedillo innaugrated as president of Mexico
1994 - PTL leader Jim Bakker released from jail
1994 - Rober Schumanns 2nd Symphony premieres in London
1996 - 85th Davis Cup: France beats Sweden in Malmo (3-2)
1996 - Lance Klusener takes 8-64 in debut Test Cricket to trounce India
1997 - GS Warrior guard Latrell Sprewell, attacks his coach P J Carlesimo
1997 - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Davenport IA on KORB 93.5 FM
1997 - Westinghouse formally changes its name to CBS
1998 - Exxon announces a $73.7 billion USD deal to buy Mobil, thus creating Exxon-Mobil, the
           world's largest company.
2001 - Captain Bill Compton brings Trans World Airlines Flight 220, an MD-83, into St. Louis
           International Airport bringing to an end 76 years of TWA operations following TWA's
           purchase by American Airlines.
2012 - 8 people are killed and 36 injured after a bus overturns in Bolivia
2012 - Enrique Peña Nieto sworn in as President of Mexico
2012 - Ukranian Anna Ushenina wins the Women's World Chess Championship 2012

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Post by: MysteRy on December 01, 2013, 04:00:51 PM

This Day in History for 1st December


Famous Weddings

1996 - Model-actress Angie Everhart (27) weds actor Ashley Hamilton (22) at the Beverly Hills
           Presbyterian Church in Los Angeles
2012 - Congressman Joseph Kennedy III (32) weds Lauren Anne Birchfield (28) at the Community
           Church in Corona del Mar, California
2012 - "The Bachelorette" reality star Ashley Hebert weds J.P. Rosenbaum at the Langham
           Huntington Hotel in Pasadena, California
2012 - "X Factor" and "Extra" host Mario Lopez (39) weds actress Courtney Mazza (31) in an
           outdoor ceremony in Punta Mita, Mexico
2012 - Philadelphia Phillies first baseman Ryan Howard (33) weds Philadelphia Eagles cheerleader
           Krystle Campbell in Maui, Hawaii
2012 - Minnesota Twins baseball catcher Joe Mauer (29) weds Maddie Bisanz at Nativity of Our Lord
          Catholic Church in St. Paul, Minnesota

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Post by: MysteRy on December 01, 2013, 04:02:15 PM

This Day in History for 1st December


Famous Divorces

2008 - "CSI" actress Marg Helgenberger (50) divorces actor Alan Rosenberg (58) due to irreconcilable
           differences after 19 years of marriage

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Post by: MysteRy on December 01, 2013, 04:20:09 PM

This Day in History for 1st December


Famous Birthdays

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Actress Mary Martin (1913)                     Actor, Screenwriter & Director               Actress/Singer Bette Midler (1945)
                                                                                                                            Woody Allen (1935)

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Colombian Drug
Lord Pablo Escobar (1949)


1081 - Louis VI of France (d. 1137)
1083 - Anna Comnena, Byzantine historian (d. 1153)
1521 - Takeda Shingen, Japanese warlord (d. 1573)
1525 - Tadeáš Hájek, Czech physician and astronomer (d. 1600)
1549 - Johan van der Veeken, merchant/co-founder (VOC)
1566 - Philip, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg, gov of Ft Gorinchem/Nijmegen
1573 - Philippus Rovenius, [Rouveen], apostile
1580 - Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer (d. 1637)
1605 - Juan de Padilla, composer
1634 - John-Erasmus Quellinus, [Quellien], Flemish painter
1671 - Keill, mathematician
1671 - Francesco Stradivari, Italian violin maker/son of Antonius
1690 - Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor of England (d. 1764)
1709 - Franz Xaver Richter, composer
1712 - Bernhard Christian Weber, composer
1716 - Etienne-Maurice Falconet, French sculptor (d. 1791)
1722 - A L Karschin, writer
1724 - Charles Theodoor, elector (Palts & Bayern)
1724 - Dismas Hatas, composer
1726 - Eggert Olafsson, Icelandic writer
1726 - Oliver Wolcott, US judge/signer (Declar of Independence)
1729 - Giuseppe Sarti, composer
1743 - Martin H Klaproth, German chemist (uranium)
1766 - Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin, Russian writer (d. 1826)
1779 - Pyotr Ivanovich Turchaninov, composer
1781 - Charles Philippe Lafont, composer
1784 - Francois Henri Joseph Castil-Blaze, composer
1787 - Pavel Ivanovich Dulgorukov, composer
1792 - Lobachevsky, mathematician
1810 - Joseph Gungl, composer
1814 - August Rockel, composer
1823 - Ernest Reyer, composer
1826 - William Mahone, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1895
1832 - Archibald Gracie Jr, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
1835 - Micah Jenkins, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
1844 - Alexandra, Danish princess/Queen of Great Britain/Ireland
1844 - Alfred Cellier, composer
1847 - Agathe Grondahl, composer
1850 - Peter Erasmus Lange-Muller, composer
1869 - Eligiusz Niewiadomski, Polish assassin of Gabriel Narutowicz (d. 1923)
1871 - Archie MacLaren, cricketer (424 Lancashire v Somerset 1895)
1873 - Charles JM Ruys de Beerenbrouck, premier of Neth (1918-25, 29-33)
1873 - Valery Bryusov, Russian poet (d. 1924)
1874 - Dominicus Johner, composer
1876 - Johanna W "Mina" Bakker, Dutch actress (Boefje)
1878 - Arthur B Spingarn, US NAACP-chairman (1940-65)
1883 - Romanos Hovakimi Melik'yan, composer
1884 - Torben Myer, Copenhagen Denmark, actor (Girl Who Came Back)
1884 - Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, German painter (d. 1976)
1885 - Guy de Lioncourt, composer
1886 - Jack Crawford, cricketer (England all-rounder in 12 Tests 1905-08)
1886 - Pierre Kemp, Dutch poet (Fugitives & Constants)
1886 - Rex Stout, Noblesville Indiana, American mystery writer (Nero Wolf novels)
1886 - Willem E Crown, Antillian writer
1891 - Foppe G Scheltema, Dutch lawyer (wreck laws)
1893 - Ernst Toller, writer
1893 - Herman Griffith, cricketer (pioneering WI pace bowler)
1895 - Henry Williamson, English author (d. 1977)
1896 - Petko Staynov, composer
1897 - Manuel A Neat, Curacaos author (Nobleza di Coerazon)
1898 - Cyril Ritchard, Sydney Australia, actor (Peter Pan, Hans Brinker)
1899 - Robert Welch, found John Birch Society
1901 - Dorothy James, composer
1901 - Ilona Feher, Hungarian-Jewish violinist (d. 1988)
1902 - Morris "Red" Badgro, Wash, NFL hall of famer (Yanks, Giants, Dodgers)
1904 - W A "Tony" Boyle, United Mine Workers president
1905 - Charles Finney, US, author (Circus of Dr Lao)
1905 - Ida Carroll, musician
1905 - Alexander Wilson, Canadian and Notre Dame athlete (d. 1994)
1906 - Jean Cartan, composer
1908 - Georgios Kasassoglou, Greek musician (d. 1984)
1909 - Jan Koplowitz, writer
1910 - Dame Markova, [Alicia Lilian Alice Marks], London, ballerina
1910 - Joel Fluellen, LA, actor (Burning Cross, Learning Tree)
1911 - Walter Alston, baseball manager (Dodgers)
1911 - Calvin Griffith, Canadian-born baseball executive (d. 1999)
1912 - Minoru Yamasaki, architect (World Trade Center, NY)
1912 - Terence Beckles, pianist/teacher
1913 - Mary Martin, Weatherford Tx, actress (Peter Pan) Larry Hagman's mom
1914 - Dame Alicia Markova, ballerina (Diaghilev Ballet Russe 1925-32)
1914 - Johnny Johnston, St Louis Mo, singer (Make that Spare)
1917 - Marty Marion, baseball player (NL MVP 1944)
1917 - William Tracy, Pitts, actor (To the Shores of Tripoli)
1918 - Kirby Laing, English contractor/multi-millionaire
1919 - Anne Cox Chambers, Dayton Ohio, US ambassador to Belgium (1977-81)
1919 - Ike Isaacs, guitarist
1921 - Ralph Manza, SF California, actor (Banacek, Mama Malone, Newhart)
1922 - Geraldine McCulloug, Maywood Ill, painter/sculptor (Phoenix)
1922 - Paul Picerni, NYC, actor (Agent Lee Hobson-Untouchables)
1922 - Vsevolod Bobrov, Soviet ice hockey player (d. 1979)
1923 - Stansfield Turner, CIA director
1923 - Morris, Belgian cartoonist (Lucky Luke) (d. 2001)
1925 - Jaime Mendoza-Nava, composer
1925 - Jordan Klein, Miami Fla, cameraman/director (Thunderball)
1925 - Martin Rodbell, American scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1998)
1926 - Allyn Ann McLerie, Quebec, actress (Tony Randall Show, Thorn Birds)
1926 - Keith Michell, Adelaide Australia, actor (6 Wives of Henry VIII)
1926 - Robert Symonds, Bristow Oklahoma, actor (Robert E. Lee-Blue &amp; Gray)
1927 - Grant Beglarian, composer
1929 - David Doyle, Omaha, Nebraska, American actor (Charlie's Angels, Rugrats)
1929 - Alan Mouncer, film director/producer
1929 - Dick Shawn, Buffalo NY, actor (Producers, Maid to Order, Angel)
1929 - Emily McLaughlin, White Plains NY, actress (Jessie-General Hospital)
1929 - Leon Biriotti, composer
1930 - Joachim Hoffmann, German historian (d. 2002)
1931 - Jimmy Lyons, American musician (d. 1986)
1931 - Jim Nesbitt, singer (d. 2007)
1932 - Robert T Herres, Denver Colorado, USAF/astronaut
1932 - Matt Monro, English singer (d. 1985)
1933 - Fujiko F. Fujio, Japanese cartoon artist (d. 1996)
1933 - Lou Rawls, Chicago Illinois, vocalist (Dean Martin&#039;s Golddigers, Natural Man), (d. 2006)
1934 - Billy Paul, Phila, singer (Me & Mrs Jones)
1934 - Hilly Axwijk, Suriname social worker
1935 - Roger Christian, US, ice hockey player (Olympic-gold-1960)
1935 - Woody Allen, [Allen Konigsberg], Bkln, actor (Zelig, Annie Hall)
1937 - Gordon Crosse, Bury Lancashire England, composer (Grace of Todd)
1937 - Chuck Low, American actor
1937 - Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga, 6th President of Latvia
1938 - Bill Playle, cricketer (NZ batsman in 8 Tests without distinction)
1938 - Sandy Nelson, Santa Monica, 50s rocker (Teen Beat, All Night Long)
1939 - Dianne Lennon, Los Angeles California, singer (Lennon Sisters)
1939 - Lee Buck Trevino, Dallas Tx, PGA golfer (US Open 1968, 71)
1940 - Matthias Habich, actor (Straight to the Heart, A Corps Perdu)
1940 - Mike Denness, cricketer (England batsman & captain mid-70s), (d. 2013)
1940 - Richard Pryor, Ill, comedian/actor (Lady Sings the Blues, Stir Crazy)
1940 - Ron Finn, Toronto, NHL linesman
1942 - John Crowley, US, sci-fi author (Deep, Beasts, Novelty)
1942 - Peter Kalikow, Queens NYC, real estate developer/publisher (NY Post)
1943 - Nicholas Peter Negroponte, NYC, founder/director (Media Lab at MIT)
1943 - Orton Enderlein, German FR, luge (Olympic-gold-1964)
1944 - Pierre Arditi, French film and stage actor
1944 - Eric Bloom, American rock vocalist/guitarist (Blue Öyster Cult)
1944 - Tahar Ben Jelloun, French writer of Moroccan origin
1944 - Daniel Pennac, French writer born in Morocco
1944 - Michael W. Hagee, 33rd Commandant of the United States Marine Corps
1945 - John Densmore, LA, drummer (Doors-C'mon Light My Fire)
1945 - Ross Edwards, cricketer (Aussie middle-order bat of the 70's)
1945 - Bette Midler, Honolulu, Hawaii,actress and singer (Beaches, Wind Beneath my Wings)
1946 - Gilbert O'Sullivan, Ireland, singer (Alone Again Naturally)
1946 - Ho-Jun Li, Korea PR, rifle (Olympic-gold-1972)
1947 - Alain Bashung, French singer
1947 - Bob Fulton, English-born Australian rugby league footballer
1948 - Sarfraz Nawaz, cricketer (successful Pakistani pace bowler 1969-84)
1948 - George Foster, American baseball player
1948 - Tom Wright, English bishop and theologian
1949 - Pablo Escobar Gaviria, Colombian drug baron
1949 - Sebastián Piñera, Chilean businessman and presidential candidate
1950 - Richard Keith, Lafayette La, actor (Little Ricky-I Love Lucy)
1950 - Keith Thibodeaux, American actor and drummer
1951 - Alexander Panayotov Aleksandrov, Bulgaria, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-5)
1951 - Jaco Pastorius, US jazz guitarist (Weather Report-Word of Mouth)
1951 - Treat Williams, Rowayton CT, actor (Flashpoint, Hair)
1951 - Jaco Pastorious, jazz bassist and composer (Weather Report)
1954 - Bob Goen, TV host (Wheel of Fortune, Entertainment Tonight)
1955 - Uwe Benter, German FR, coxsman (Olympic-gold-1972)
1955 - Mark Thompson, American disc jockey and actor
1955 - Verónica Forqué, Spanish actress
1956 - Stuart Kimball, rock guitarist (Face To Face)
1956 - Julee Cruise, American singer and actress
1958 - Charlene Tilton, San Diego California, actress (Lucy Ewing-Dallas)
1959 - Billy Childish, English painter, writer and musician
1959 - Rick Leventhal, American broadcast journalist
1959 - Wally Lewis, Australian rugby league footballer
1960 - Carol Alt[man], Queens NY (Mrs Ron Greshner)/actress (Private Parts)
1961 - Barb Mucha, Parma OH, LPGA golfer (1992 Oldsmobile Classic)
1961 - Jeremy Northam, English actor
1961 - Armin Meiwes, German cannibal
1962 - Pamela McGee, WNBA center/forward (Sacramento Monarchs)
1962 - Stan Albers, Pleasant Beach NJ, actor (Curtis-Loving)
1963 - Arjuna Ranatunga, cricketer (Sri Lankan Test batsman since 1982)
1963 - Marco Greco, Brazilian racing driver
1964 - Soren Henriksen, Denmark cricket all-rounder (86-94 ICC, Lancs 85-86)
1964 - Salvatore Schillaci, Italian footballer
1966 - Craig David Parry, Sunshine Victoria, PGA golfer (1994 Honda-2nd)
1966 - Greg McMichael, Knoxville TN, pitcher (Atlanta Braves)
1966 - Matthew Laborteaux, actor (Killing Stone, Deadly Friend)
1966 - Mike Flores, NFL defensive end (Washington Redskins)
1966 - Steve Walsh, St. Paul Minnesota, NFL quarterback (Chic Bears, Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1966 - Katherine LaNasa, American actress
1967 - Nestor Carbonell, NYC, actor (Luis-Suddenly Susan)
1967 - Reggie Sanders, Florence SC, outfielder (Cin Reds)
1968 - Anders Holmertz, Swedish free style swimmer (world record 400m)
1968 - Eddie Britton, wide reciever (Baltimore Ravens)
1968 - Justin Chadwick, British actor and director
1970 - Kirk Rueter, Centralia IL, pitcher (Montreal Expos)
1970 - Takahiro Ikenoue, WLAF LB (Rhein Fire)
1970 - Todd Steussie, NFL guard/tackle (Minnesota Vikings)
1970 - Jouko Ahola, Finnish strongman
1970 - Sarah Silverman, American actress and comedian
1971 - Oscar Sturgis, WLAF DE (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1971 - Rob Zatechka, NFL guard (NY Giants)
1971 - Tom Robsock, NFL/WLAF guard (Raiders, Barcelona Dragons)
1971 - Stephanie Finochio, American professional wrestler
1971 - Dolgorsürengiin Serjbüdee, Mongolian professional wrestler
1971 - Peter Van de Veire, Belgian radio-presenter
1971 - John Schlimm, American author
1972 - Andre Royal, linebacker (Carolina Panthers)
1972 - Charlie Jones, wide reciever (San Diego Chargers)
1972 - Norbert Wójtowicz, Polish historian and theologian
1973 - Eric Thomas, Chartage Texas, 400m hurdler
1973 - Mia Farrance, Melbourne VIC Australia, canoeist (Olympics-96)
1973 - Jon Theodore, American musician
1974 - Richard Jordan, linebacker (Detroit Lions)
1974 - Costinha, Portuguese footballer
1974 - David Ludwig, American composer
1975 - Alya Rohali, Miss Universe-Indonesia (1996)
1975 - Sandra Maidana, Miss Universe-Uruguay (1996)
1975 - Sophia Skou, Danish swimmer
1976 - Konerak Sinthasomphone, Milwaukee Wisc, Jeffrey Dahmer's victim
1976 - Brently Heilbron, American satirist
1976 - Matthew Shepard, American murder victim (d. 1998)
1977 - Jared Fogle, American Subway spokesperson
1977 - Brad Delson, American guitarist (Linkin Park)
1978 - Mat Kearney, American singer and songwriter
1979 - Ryan Malone, American Hockey Player
1979 - Angelique Bates, American Actress
1980 - Mohammad Kaif, Indian cricketer
1988 - Zoe Kravitz, daughter of Lisa Bonet & Lenny Kravitz
2001 - Aiko, Princess Toshi of Japan

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Post by: MysteRy on December 01, 2013, 04:38:34 PM

This Day in History for 1st December


Famous Deaths

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Pope Leo X (1521)                                   First Israeli Prime Minister                    Indian Politician and Diplomat
                                                                  David Ben-Gurion (1973)                       Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (1990)


660 - Eligius/Eloy, French bishop of Tournay-Noyon/saint, dies
1135 - Henry I Beauclerc, King of England (1st English King fluent in the English language), dies
1241 - Isabella of England, wife of Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1214)
1374 - Magnus Eriksson, king of Norway/Sweden, dies
1377 - King Magnus II of Sweden (b. 1316)
1417 - Walraven I van Brederode, viceroy of Holland, dies
1433 - Emperor Go-Komatsu of Japan (b. 1377)
1455 - Lorenzo Ghiberti, Italian sculptor, dies at 77
1521 - Leo X, [Giovanni de' Medici], Italian Pope (1513-21), dies at 45
1530 - Margaretha of Austria, governess of the Netherlands, dies at 51
1580 - Edmund Campion, English jesuit, hanged at 42
1580 - Giovanni Morone, Italian theologian/diplomat/cardinal, dies at 71
1581 - Ralph Sherwin, English Catholic saint (b. 1550)
1581 - Alexander Briant, English saint (b. around 1556)
1602 - Kobayakawa Hideaki, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1582)
1623 - Thomas Weelkes, composer, dies at 47
1633 - Isabella of Austria, infante of Spain/governess in Holland, dies at 67
1635 - Melchior Teschner, composer, dies at 51
1651 - Cristobal de Isla Diego, composer, dies at 65
1660 - Pierre d'Hozier, French historian (b. 1592)
1700 - Willem ten Rhijne, Dutch physician in Batavia, dies at about 53
1707 - Jeremiah Clarke, composer, dies
1709 - Abraham a Sancta Clara, [Johann Megerle], German court preacher and friar, dies at 65
1723 - Susanna Centlivre, English dramatist and actress
1727 - Johann Heinrich Buttstett, composer, dies at 61
1729 - Christian Ludwig Boxberg, composer, dies at 59
1729 - Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer (b. 1665)
1736 - Simon van Slingelandt, Dutch grand pensionary (1727-36), dies at 72
1750 - Doppelmayr, mathematician
1755 - Maurice Greene, composer, dies at 59
1767 - Henry Erskine, 10th Earl of Buchan, British Freemason (b. 1710)
1797 - Oliver Wolcott, US judge/signer (Decl of Independence), dies at 71
1808 - Anton Fischer, composer, dies at 30
1813 - Ferdinando Bertoni, composer, dies at 88
1817 - Justin Heinrich Knechtl, composer, dies at 65
1825 - Tsar Alexander I of Russia (b. 1777). Reigned from 1801
1842 - Philip Spencer, 1st US naval officer condemned for mutiny, hanged
1865 - Constant van Crombrugghe, Flemish monastery founder, dies at 76
1865 - Abraham Emanuel Fröhlich, Swiss poet (b. 1796)
1866 - George Everest, Welsh surveyor and namesake of Mt. Everest (d. 1790)
1884 - William Swainson (lawyer), second, and last, Attorney-General (New Zealand) of the Crown
           Colony of New Zealand (b. 1809)
1887 - Albertus J Duymaer van Twist, gov-gen of Dutch-Indies, dies at 78
1892 - Joseph Lippens, Belgian lieutenant in Congo, murdered
1893 - Eduard Franck, composer, dies at 76
1901 - George Lohmann, cricketer (in South Africa 18 Tests, 112 wickets), dies
1916 - Charles E Vicomte de Foucauld, French explorer, dies at 58
1923 - Virginie Loveling, Belgian writer and poet (b. 1836)
1925 - Vicente Arregui Garay, composer, dies at 54
1926 - Hans Heinrich XIV Hochberg, composer, dies at 83
1928 - José Eustasio Rivera, Colombian writer (b. 1888)
1932 - Amadeo Vives, composer, dies at 61
1934 - Sergei M Kirov, Josef Stalin's collaborator, assassinated in Leningrad
1935 - Bernard Schmidt, inventor (Schmidt camera), dies
1939 - Max Fiedler, composer, dies at 79
1941 - Horace Chapman, cricketer (2 Tests for South Africa, 39 runs, 1 wkt), dies
1943 - Damrong Rajanubhab, Thai prince and historian (b. 1862)
1945 - Harvey Bartlett Gaul, composer, dies at 64
1947 - Aleister Edward S Crowley, British occultist, dies at 72
1947 - Hardy, mathematician, dies
1950 - Ernest John Moeran, British composer, dies at 55
1951 - Felix Petyrek, composer, dies at 59
1952 - Victor E Orlando, Italian premier (1917-19), dies at 92
1954 - Fred Rose, American songwriter and music publishing executive (b. 1897)
1960 - Ion Vasilescu, composer, dies at 57
1964 - J. B. S. Haldane, Scottish geneticist (b. 1892)
1968 - Hugo Haas, actor/director (Bait, Pick Up), dies of asthma at 66
1968 - Dario Moreno, Turkish-Jewish singer (b. 1921)
1969 - Magic Sam, American blues guitarist and singer (b. 1937)
1970 - Frank Smailes, cricketer (England pace bowler Test v India 1946), dies
1971 - Arthur B Springarn, US NAACP chairman (1940-65), dies at 93
1972 - Antonio Segni, Italian PM/pres (1955-57, 59-60, 62-64), dies at 81
1973 - David Ben-Gurion, founding father of Israel, dies in Tel Aviv at 87
1974 - Lajos Zilahy, Hungarian/US author (Angry Angel), dies at 83
1974 - Stephen Gill Spottswood, US bishop/chairman (NAACP), dies at 77
1975 - Nick Kenny, US columnist/songwriter (Nick Kenny Show), dies at 80
1975 - Nellie Fox, American baseball player (b. 1927)
1975 - Anna E. Roosevelt, American radio personality (b. 1906)
1977 - Paul Hardy, Belgian designer (Italian Country, dies at 69
1980 - Sam Levene, actor (Purple Heart, Designing Women), dies at 75
1982 - Dorothy James, composer, dies on 81st birthday
1983 - Mirsky, mathematician, dies
1984 - Roelof Frankot, Dutch painter (b. 1911)
1986 - Horace Heidt, orchestra leader (Swift Show Wagon), dies at 85
1986 - Robert L "Bobby" Layne, football player (Detroit Lions), dies at 59
1986 - [Irving] Lee Dorsey, [Kid Chocolate], US boxer/singer, dies at 59
1987 - Donn Fulton Eisele, Col USAF/astronaut, dies of a heart attack at 57
1987 - James Arthur Baldwin, writer (Another Country), dies at 63
1987 - Punch Imlach, Canadian ice hockey coach and general manager (b. 1918)
1989 - Alvin Ailey, US choreographer (Blues Suite, Revelations), dies at 58
1990 - Jan H de Groot, Dutch co-founder (Vrij Nederland), dies
1990 - Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Indian diplomat and politician, dies at 90
1991 - Byron Webster, actor (That Man Bolt), dies of AIDS at 58
1991 - George Joseph Stigler, US economist (Nobel 1982), dies at 80
1994 - Hugh Chilvers, cricketer (151 wickets leg-spin for NSW 1928-37), dies
1994 - Lionel Stander, actor (Max-Hart to Hart), dies at 86
1996 - Barbak Karmal, politician, dies at 67
1996 - Irving Gordon, songwriter, dies at 81
1997 - Denis Gerald Barrington, artist, dies at 67
1997 - Stephane Grappelli, French jazz violinist, dies at 89
1997 - Michel Bélanger, French Canadian businessman and banker (b. 1929)
1997 - Endicott Peabody, 62nd Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1920)
1998 - Freddie Young, British cinematographer (b. 1902)
2001 - Ellis R Dungan, American born Indian film director (b. 1909)
2002 - Dave McNally, American baseball player (b. 1942)
2003 - Clark Kerr, first Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley (b. 1911)
2003 - Eugenio Monti, Italian bobsledder (b. 1928)
2004 - Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands (b. 1911)
2005 - Gust Avrakotos, American intelligence case officer (b. 1938)
2006 - Claude Jade, French actress (b. 1948)
2006 - Bruce Trigger, Canadian archaeologist (McGill University) (b. 1937)
2007 - Anton Rodgers, British actor (b. 1933)
2008 - Mikel Laboa, Basque singer and songwriter (b. 1934)
2008 - Joseph B. Wirthlin, religious leader, member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, businessman (b. 1917)
2008 - Paul Benedict, American actor (b. 1938)
2009 - Gustavo Adolfo Palma, Guatemalan singer (b. 1920)
2010 - Hillard Elkins, American theatre and film producer (b. 1929)
2011 - Christa Wolf, German writer (b. 1929)
2012 - Jovan Belcher, American football linebacker, commits suicide by gunshot at 25
2012 - Galina Vishnevskaya, Russian soprano opera singer, dies at 85

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 02, 2013, 02:04:44 PM

This Day in History for 2nd December


Historical Events

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4th US President James Madison              Author and Nobel Laureate                   Novelist Charles Dickens
                                                                 Gerhart Hauptmann

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Cuban President Fidel Castro             Politician, statesman Henry Kissinger          Beatles Drummer Ringo Starr

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Singer-songwriter Neil Diamond          Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber


1409 - The University of Leipzig opens.
1620 - English language newspaper "Namloos" begins publishing in Amsterdam
1682 - English Earl of Shaftesbury flees to Amsterdam
1697 - St Paul's Cathedral opens in London
1755 - The second Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed by fire.
1763 - Touro shul of Newport RI dedicated (oldest existing US synagogue)
1777 - British Gen Howe plots attack on Washington's army for Dec 4
1790 - Austrian army occupies Brussels
1802 - Britain sells Suriname to the Netherlands
1804 - Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned emperor of France in Paris
1805 - Napoleon defeats Russians & Austrians at Austerlitz
1812 - James Madison re-elected president of US, E Gerry vice-pres
1813 - Prince Willem Frederik accepts constitutional monarchy
1816 - 1st savings bank in US opens (Philadelphia Savings Fund Society)
1822 - In San Salvador, a congress proposes incorporation into US
1823 - President James Monroe declares his "Monroe Doctrine"
1840 - Gaetano Donizetti's opera "La Favorita," premieres in Paris
1840 - William H Harrison elected 9th President of USA
1845 - Manifest Destiny: US President James K. Polk announces to Congress that the United States
           should aggressively expand into the West.
1848 - Franz Josef I becomes emperor of Austria & King of Hungary
1851 - Louis Napoleon takes power in France in a Coup d'etat
1851 - Newly-elected French President Charles Louis Bonaparte overthrows the Second Republic.
1852 - 2nd French empire established; Louis Napoleon becomes emperor
1864 - Skirmish at Rocky Creek Church, Georgia
1867 - In a New York City theater, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the
           United States.
1868 - 1st British government of Disraeli resigns
1877 - Camille Saint-Saëns' opera "Samson et Dalila," premieres in Weimar
1882 - Amsterdam Artis Zoo opens aquarium
1883 - John Brahms' 3rd Symphony in F, premieres
1885 - Opera "Regina di Saba" premieres in Vienna
1887 - Amsterdam's Oscar Carrés Circus Theater opens
1887 - French president Grevy (80) resigns
1891 - 52nd Congress (1891-93) convenes
1895 - 54th Congress (1895-97) convenes
1896 - Gerhart Hauptmann's "Die versunkene Glocke," premieres in Berlin
1899 - US & Germany agree to divide Samoa between them
1899 - Philippine-American War: The Battle of Tirad Pass, termed "The Filipino Thermopylae", is
           fought.
1900 - South African president Paul Kruger arrives in Germany
1901 - Gillette patents 1st disposable razor
1901 - King Camp Gillette begins selling safety razor blades
1902 - Soccer team Go Ahead forms in Deventer
1907 - English Professional Football Players' Association forms
1907 - Tommy Burns KOs Gunner Moir in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
1908 - Child Emperor Pu Yi ascends the Chinese throne at the age of two
1913 - Archdiocese of Managua created
1913 - Government -Barthou falls due to overtime conscription
1914 - Austria army occupies Belgrade Serbia
1916 - Baseballers who are injured now get full pay for duration of contract
1917 - Han Yong-woon, found Zen awakening at Osean Monastery Korea
1922 - 10th CFL Grey Cup: Queen's University defeats Edmonton Eskimos, 13-1
1924 - British-German trade agreement signed
1927 - 1st Model A Fords sold, for $385
1928 - Cardinals' 1B Jim Bottomley is voted NL MVP
1929 - 1st skull of Peking man found, 50 km out of Peking at Tsjoe Koe Tien
1932 - "Adventures of Charlie Chan" 1st heard on NBC-Blue radio network
1933 - Fred Astaire's 1st film, "Dancing Lady," released
1934 - 5.08-m (200") Mt Palomar Observatory mirror is cast
1939 - British Imperial Airways & British Airways merge to form BOAC
1939 - NY's La Guardia Airport began operations as an airliner from Chicago lands, 1 minute after
           midnight
1941 - Largest roller skating rink (outside of NYC) opens in Peekskill NY
1941 - NY Giants name Mel Ott as player-manager, replacing Bill Terry
1941 - Naval Intelligence ceases bugging Japanese consul
1941 - Yamamoto sends his fleet to Pearl Harbor
1942 - 1st controlled nuclear chain reaction (Enrico Fermi-U of Chicago)
1943 - 1st RSHA transport out of Vienna reaches Birkenau camp
1944 - 10th Heisman Trophy Award: Les Horvath, Ohio State (QB)
1944 - General De Gaulle arrives in Moscow
1944 - German troops seize Betuwse dikes
1944 - US 95th Infantry division occupies bridge at Saar
1947 - 13th Heisman Trophy Award: John Lujack, Notre Dame (QB)
1948 - Stan Musial is picked NL MVP
1950 - Vic Toweel knocks down Danny O'Sullivan 14 times in a title fight
1951 - "Borscht Capades" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 90 performances
1951 - Phila sets NFL record of 25 1st-downs rushing
1952 - 18th Heisman Trophy Award: Billy Vessels, Oklahoma (HB)
1952 - 1st human birth televised to public (KOA-TV Denver, Colo)
1954 - "Hit the Trail" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 4 performances
1954 - Frank Selvy of Milwaukee sets then NBA record of 24 of 26 free throws
1954 - US Senate censures Joe McCarthy (Sen-R-Wisc) for "conduct that tends to bring Senate into
           dishonor & disrepute"
1956 - Fidel Castro lands with "Granma" on coast of Cuba
1957 - 1st US large scale nuclear power plant opens (Shippingport Penn)
1957 - Sam Cooke's "You Send Me" reaches #1
1958 - 24th Heisman Trophy Award: Pete Dawkins, Army (HB)
1958 - Benelux treaty signed by Belgium, Netherlands & Luxembourg
1958 - KNOP TV channel 2 in North Platte, NB (NBC) begins broadcasting
1959 - Malpasset dam collapses destroying French Riviera town of Frejus
1961 - Fidel Castro declares he's a Marxist, & will lead Cuba to Communism
1961 - Wind Bell, journal of SF Zen Center, begins publishing
1962 - 50th CFL Grey Cup: Winnipeg beats Hamilton, 28-27 at Toronto [OT]
1963 - 1st Dutch rocket launched/reaches height of 10 km
1963 - ML Rules Committee bans oversized catcher's mitts, effective in 1965
1964 - Ringo Starr's tonsils are removed
1966 - Love, Moby Grape & Lee Michaels perform at Fillmore East
1967 - 55th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeats Saskatchewan, 24-1
1968 - Pres Nixon names Henry Kissinger security advisor
1969 - "Buck White" opens at George Abbott Theater NYC for 7 performances
1969 - Boeing 747 jumbo jet 1st public preview (Seattle to NYC)
1970 - Environmental Protection Agency begins (Dir: William Ruckelshaus)
1970 - Tippetts Opera "Knot Garden" premieres in London
1971 - Soviet Mars 3 is 1st to soft land on Mars
1971 - United Arab Emirates (Trucial States) declares independence from UK
1971 - Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Fujeira, Sharjah & Umm ak Qiwain form United Arab Emirates
1971 - Zayid bin Sultan Al Nuhayyan of Abu Dhabi becomes pres of UAE
1972 - "December Giant" largest sinkhole in US collapses (Alabama)
1972 - "Via Galactica" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 7 performances
1972 - 60th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeats Saskatchewan, 13-10
1972 - In 1 of their worst trades Yanks get Rich McKinney for Stan Bahnsen
1973 - 62nd Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in Cleveland (5-0)
1973 - Capital Centre (USAir Arena) in Wash DC opens
1973 - US Air Arena opens in Landover Maryland, Bullets beat Seattle, 98-96
1974 - Cowhide, rather than just horsehide, can be used to make baseballs
1974 - Giant Baba beats Jack Brisco in Kagoshimi, to become NWA champ
1974 - Soyuz 16 launched into Earth orbit for 6 days
1975 - 7 South Moluccans hijack train at Wijster Drente, 3 killed
1975 - G S Chappell gets ton in each inn of 1st Test Cricket as capt v WI
1975 - Laos king Sisavang Vatthana resigns, republic forms
1975 - Lao People's Democratic Republic founded (National Day)
1976 - Fidel Castro becomes President of Cuba replacing Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado.
1978 - Chanting "Allah is great," anti-Shah protesters poured through Tehran
1978 - Neil Diamond & Barbra Striesand's "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" hits #1
1978 - Streisand & Diamond's "You Don't Bring Me Flowers," goes #1
1979 - Crowds attack US embassy at Tripoli Libya
1979 - Foots Walker becomes 1st Cleve Cavalier to score a triple-double
1979 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1980 - 4 American Maryknoll nuns killed by death squads in El Salvador
1981 - Fernando Valenzuela (Dodgers) wins NL Rookie of the Year
1981 - Moscone Convention Center, SF opens at 11:30 AM
1981 - Spanish government requests membership in NATO
1982 - 1st permanent artificial heart successfully implanted (U of Utah) in retired dentist Barney
           Clark; lived 112 days with Jarvic-7 heart
1984 - 4th meeting of Giants-Jets, Giants even series at 2 with 20-10 win
1984 - Bob Holland takes 9-83 for NSW against South Australia, SCG
1984 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1985 - "Mystery of Edwin Drood" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 608 perfs
1985 - Philipine Chief staff Gen Fabian speaks of B Aquino's murder
1985 - Rupert Holmes' musical "Mystery of Edwin Drood," premieres in NYC
1986 - Dow-Jones index hits record 1,955.57
1987 - Chicago City Council elects Eugene Sawyer acting mayor
1987 - Jennifer Steele, 17, of Colo becomes Miss Teen of America [Approx]
1987 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1987 - "334" club forms as 334 brave Devil fans journey through 20" of snow to attend NJ Devils 7-
           5 victory over Calgary at Meadowlands
1988 - "Naked Gun" premieres, a movie based on TV's "Police Squad"
1988 - 5 gunmen who hijacked Soviet Aeroflot jet, surrender in Israel
1988 - STS-27 Atlantis launched (Secret military mission)
1988 - UN votes 151-2 (Isr & US) to move PLO debate to Geneva, Brit abstains
1989 - 55th Heisman Trophy Award: Andre Ware, Houston (QB)
1989 - KHJ-TV in Los Angeles CA changes call letters to KCAL-TV
1989 - Vishwanath Pratap Singh sworn in as president of India
1990 - 1st parlimentary election in newly reunified Germany
1990 - 1st time 12 people in space
1990 - 79th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in St Petersburg (3-2)
1990 - Beth Daniel/Davis Love wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
1990 - US 69th manned space mission STS 35 (Columbia 11) launches into orbit
1991 - Bobby Bonilla signs record $29 million-5 year pact with NY Mets
1991 - Muslim Shites release American held in Lebanon hostage Joseph Cicippio
1992 - WQEW-AM radio replaces WQXR on 1560 in NYC
1993 - A Websters musical "Sunset Promenade" premieres in LA
1993 - Dow-Jones hits record 3702.11
1993 - Houston Rockets tie NBA record of 15-0 start
1993 - Space shuttle STS-61 (Endeavour 5), launches
1994 - "Cobb" premieres
1994 - Achille Lauro (Willem Ruys) sinks off the coast of Somalia
1994 - Andrew Lloyd Webber admitted to the hospital for ulcer treatment
1994 - Jury finds Heidi Fleiss guilty of running a call girl ring
1995 - 17th ACE Cable Awards
1997 - MCI Center opens in Wash DC, Wizards vs SuperSonics
1999 - The United Kingdom devolves political power in Northern Ireland to the Northern Ireland
           Executive.
2001 - Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
2005 - Van Tuong Nguyen is executed in Singapore for drug trafficking.
2008 - Thai Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat resigns after the 2008 Thailand political crisis.
2012 - 9 people are killed after 30 cars are trapped in Sasago Tunnel, Japan
2012 - Borut Pahor is elected President of Slovenia
2012 - Pier Luigi Bersani is elected Italian Prime Minister

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 02, 2013, 02:07:19 PM

This Day in History for 2nd December


Famous Weddings

1886 - 26th US President Theodore Roosevelt (28) weds second wife Edith Kermit Carow (25) in
           London
1933 - 1st transatlantic telephone wedding (Bertil Clason-Sigrid Carlson)
2000 - Mexican singer Thalia (29) weds co-owner of Casablanca Records Tommy Mottola (51) at St.
           Patrick
2006 - "Emmerdale" actor Nick Miles (44) weds Stephanie Lumb at the Roundthorn Country House
           Hotel in Penrith, England

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 02, 2013, 02:20:21 PM

This Day in History for 2nd December


Famous Birthdays

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Post-Impressionist Painter            Fashion Designer Gianni Versace (1946)           Pop Star Britney Spears (1981)
Georges Seurat (1859)


1578 - Agostino Agazzari, composer
1678 - Nicolaas S Cruquius, Dutch hydraulic engineer (drained Haarlemmermeer)
1694 - William Shirley, Colonial Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1771)
1703 - Ferdinand Konscak, Croatian explorer (d. 1759)
1710 - Bertinazzi, Italian actor and writer (d. 1783)
1728 - Ferdinando Galiani, Italian economist/philosopher/diplomat
1738 - Richard Montgomery, Irish-born soldier (d. 1775)
1754 - William Cooper, American judge (d. 1809)
1760 - Joseph Graetz, composer
1760 - John Breckinridge, American politician (d. 1806)
1777 - Henry Doeff, colonialist (wrote Dutch-Japanese dictionary)
1802 - Melancthon Smith Wade, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1868
1811 - Jean-Charles Chapais, French Canadian politician, Father of the Canadian Confederation (d.
           1885)
1813 - Jacob Rosenhaim, composer
1817 - Heinrich von Sybel, German historian (d. 1895)
1821 - Rufus Barringer, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1895
1825 - Pedro II van Alcantara, Emperor of Brazil (1831-89)
1837 - Charles Garrison Harker, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1864
1846 - Pierre M Waldeck-Rousseau, French Min of Foreign affairs/premier
1856 - Robert Kajanus, composer
1859 - Georges Seurat, Paris France, post-impressionist painter (Grande Jatte), (d. 1891)
1860 - C T Studd, cricketer (brother of G B, five Tests for England)
1863 - Gustav Wohlgemuth, composer
1863 - Charles Ringling, American circus owner (d. 1926)
1866 - Henry Thacker Burleigh, Erie Pa, black composer (Springarn Medal)
1868 - Francis Jammes, French poet/writer (Jammisme)
1869 - Jonas Cohn, German/English philosopher (Theory of the Dialects)
1870 - Francis Louis Casadesus, French violinist/composer/conductor
1875 - Frank Reicher, Munich Germany, actor (King Kong, Son of Kong)
1884 - Ruth Draper, US, lecture artist [or 1989]
1885 - George Minot, US, physician, worked on anemia (Nobel 1934)
1891 - Charles H. Wesley, author writer and Brother of Alpha Phi Alpha Inc. (d. 1987)
1892 - Leo Ornstein, composer
1893 - Julius Bissier, German painter
1893 - Louis Freeman, band leader
1893 - William Gaxton, SF California, actor (Destry, Convoy)
1894 - Warren William, [Krech], Aitkin MN, actor (Caesar in Cleopatra)
1895 - Klaas Voskuil, journalist
1895 - Harriet Cohen, British pianist (d. 1967)
1896 - Georgi K Zjukov, marshal of Moskow/Stalingrad [NS-Dec 11]
1897 - Rewi Alley, NZ, writer (Americans in China)
1897 - Hovhannes Bagramyan, Marshall of the Soviet Union (d. 1982)
1898 - Indra Lal Roy, Indian pilot (d. 1918)
1899 - John Barbirolli, English conductor (NY Philharmonic Orchestra)
1899 - John Cobb, British racing driver (d. 1952)
1899 - Ray Morehart, American baseball player (d. 1989)
1901 - Staf Gustaf Frans Nees, Belgian composer
1901 - Staff Nees, Flemish organist/composer (Simon Peter)
1901 - Raimundo Orsi, Argentine-born footballer (d. 1986)
1902 - Horace A Hildreth, (Gov-Maine, 1945-49)
1902 - Miroslav Ponc, composer
1904 - Donald Woods, Brandon Manitoba, actor (Tammy)
1905 - Osvaldo Pugliese, musician/composer
1906 - Eric Dalton, cricketer (2 centuries in 15 Tests for South Africa 1929-39)
1906 - John Bentley, England, actor (Hammer the Tuff)
1906 - Peter Carl Goldmark, developed color TV & LP records
1908 - Robert F Simon, Mansfield Oh, actor (Man who shot Liberty Valance)
1908 - Rufe Davis, OK, actor (Cocoanut Grove, Trail Blazers, Gangs of Sonora)
1910 - Robert Paige, Indianapolis Ind, actor (Colgate Comedy Hour)
1910 - Russell Lynes, American art historian, photographer, author and managing editor of Harper's
           Magazine (d. 1991)
1914 - Ray Walston, New Orleans LA, actor (My Favorite Martian, Damn Yankees)
1914 - Eddie Sauter, Bkln, musician (Sauter-Finegan Band, Sat Night Revue)
1915 - Adolph Green, songwriter (married to Phyllis Newman)
1915 - Nico Richter, composer
1915 - Randolph Hearst, newspaper publisher
1916 - John Bentley, Warwickshire England, actor (Chair)
1917 - Ezra Stone, US, actor/producer (Henry Aldrich)
1917 - Sylvia Syms, American jazz singer (Hello Dolly, Dream Girl, Them There Eyes). Died 1992.
1918 - Milton Delugg, Los Angeles California, orchestra leader (Tonight Show)
1919 - Michael Geoffrey Corcos, medical researcher
1920 - Robert Moevs, composer
1922 - Leo V Gordon, Baltimore MD, actor (Circus Boy, Enos, Winds of War)
1923 - Maria M Callas, NYC, soprano (Carmen)
1923 - Meshulam Riklis, husband of Pia Zadora
1924 - Alexander Haig Jr, Bala-Cynwyd Pa, US Sec of State (1981-82)/General
1924 - Jonathan Frid, actor (Barnabas Collins-Dark Shadows)
1925 - Julie Harris, Grosse Pt Mich, actress (Bell Jar, East of Eden), (d. 2013)
1929 - Harvey Phillips, Aurora Missouri, tubist (NYC Ballet Orch)
1929 - Jaap Boersma, Dutch minister for Social Affairs (ARP)
1929 - Lowell North, Springfield Mass, yachtsman (Olympic-Gold-1968)
1930 - Gary Becker, American economist, recipient of the Bank of Sweden Prize
1931 - Edwin Meese III, prude, US attorney General (1985-88)
1931 - Hatsumi Masaaki, Founder and head of the Bujinkan Dojo organization
1933 - Michael Larrabee, American athlete (d. 2003)
1933 - K. Veeramani, Indian anti-caste activist
1934 - Andre Rodgers, baseball player (d. 2004)
1935 - Jurg Wyttenbach, composer
1935 - David Hackett Fischer, American historian
1936 - Peter Michael Braun, composer
1937 - Brian Lumley, England, sci-fi author (Compleat Crow, Psychomech)
1939 - Yael Dayan, Israeli writer and politician
1939 - Harry Reid, American politician
1939 - Francis Fox, Canadian politician, member of the Senate
1940 - Gerry Cheevers, NHL goalie (Bruin, longest undefeated streak-32 games)
1940 - Willie Brown, NFL defensive back (Denver Broncos, Oakland Raiders)
1941 - Paul C W Chu, China, physicist (superconductivity)
1941 - Tom McGuiness, rocker (McGuiness-Flint)
1942 - Bob E Smith, Sacramento CA, PGA golfer (1993 Yanase Cup)
1942 - Ted Bluechel, San Pedro Ca, rock vocalist/drummer (Association)
1943 - David Munden, rocker
1943 - Wayne Allard, American politician
1944 - Cathy Lee Crosby, LA, actress (Coach, That's Incredible)
1944 - Roger Omond, journalist
1944 - Ibrahim Rugova, first President of Kosovo (d. 2006)
1944 - Botho Strauß, German author
1944 - Inger Davidson, Swedish politician
1945 - Alan "Froggy" Thomson, cricketer (Australian quickie 1970-71)
1945 - Penelope Spheeris, American film director
1946 - Gianni Versace, Reggio Calabria, Italy, fashion designer (Versace), (d. 1997)
1947 - Dhiraj Parsana, cricket pace bowler (Indian v WI 1978-79)
1947 - Michael Green, English TV/video producer
1947 - Ivan Atanassov Petrov, Bulgarian neurologist
1947 - Tommy Jenkins, English football player
1948 - T. Coraghessan Boyle, American writer
1949 - Ron Raines, Teax City, Texas, actor (Guiding Light)
1950 - Merrill Ashley, St Paul Minn, ballerina (NYC Ballet)
1950 - Amin Saikal, Afghan-Australian academic
1951 - Adrian Devine, American baseball pitcher
1952 - Keith Szarabajka, Oak Park IL, actor (Nightlife)
1952 - Carol Shea-Porter, American Congresswoman
1953 - Jay Dean Haas, St Louis MO, PGA golfer (1978 Andy Williams-San Diego)
1953 - Meg Griffin, DJ (WNEW-FM, WPLJ-FM, WKRK-FM)/VJ (V-1)
1953 - Myung-Whan Chung, Seoul Korea, pianist (Chung Sisters)
1954 - Dan Butler, actor (Bob "Bulldog" Briscoe-Frasier)
1954 - Danielle Alexander, Fort Worth Tx, country music pianist
1954 - Huub Stapel, Dutch actor (Amsterdamned, Attic: Hiding of Anne Frank)
1954 - Stone Phillips, news host (NBC Dateline)
1955 - Dennis Christopher, Phila, actor (Breaking Away, California Dreaming)
1956 - Steven Bauer, Havana Cuba, actor (Scarface, Thief of Hearts)
1957 - Dagfinn Høybråten, Norwegian politician
1958 - Vladimir Parfenovich, USSR, 500m kayak (Olympic-gold-1980)
1958 - Uladzimir Parfianovich, Belarusian canoer
1958 - George Saunders, American writer
1959 - Greg Barton, kayak (Olympics-2 gold-88)
1959 - Patty Jordan, Buffalo NY, LPGA golfer (1988 Mitsubishi Motors Ocean)
1960 - Rick Savage, bass player (Def Leppard-Hysteria, Rock of Ages)
1960 - Nicholas Dingley alias Razzle, British Drummer (Hanoi Rocks)
1962 - Kardam, Prince of Turnovo, titular Bulgarian royal family
1963 - Ann Patchett, American novelist
1964 - Brian Habib, NFL guard (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1964 - Chip Hale, Santa Clara CA, infielder (Minnesota Twins)
1964 - Yolanda Henry, Houston Texas, high jumper
1965 - Karrie Mitchell, Arvada Colorado, Miss Colorado-America (1991-top 10)
1966 - Anita Jokiel, Poland, gymnist (Olympic-1980)
1966 - Clive Eksteen, cricketer (South African slow left-armer 1993)
1966 - Kelly Buchberger, Langenburg, NHL left wing (Edmonton Oilers)
1966 - Rob Sullivan, Chicago Ill, Canadian Tour golfer (1991 Tri-City Pro-Am)
1966 - Jinsei Shinzaki, Japanese professional wrestler
1967 - Naeem Akhtar, Rawalpindi cricket medium-pacer (10-28 vs Peshawar 1995)
1967 - Sharry Konopski, Longview Wash, playmate (August, 1987)
1968 - Darryl Kile, Garden Grove CA, pitcher (Houston Astros)
1968 - Elna Reinach, Pretoria South Africa, tennis star
1968 - Jiri Dopita, Sumperk CZE, hockey forward (Team Czech Oly-Gold-1998)
1968 - Mark Harding, Bath England, keeper of Internet biographies
1968 - Rena Sofer, actress (Rocky-Loving, Lois Cerullo-General Hospital)
1968 - Lucy Liu, American actress
1968 - Nate Mendel, American bassist (Foo Fighters)
1969 - Lewis Bush, NFL outside linebacker (San Diego Chargers)
1969 - O J McDuffie, NFL wide receiver (Miami Dolphins)
1969 - Paul Francis Stankowski, Oxnard CA, PGA golfer (1994 Las Vegas-5th)
1970 - Rene Pucher, Presov CZE, hockey forward (Team Slovakia)
1971 - Jessie Hicks, WNBA forward/center (Utah Starzz)
1971 - Rachel McQuillan, Merewether NSW Aust, tennis star (1989 Futures ITA)
1971 - Roy van de Hill, soccer player (Roda JC)
1971 - Wilson Jermaine Heredia, American actor
1971 - Francesco Toldo, Italian Football Player (Inter Milan)
1972 - Alan Henderson, NBA forward (Atlanta Hawks)
1972 - Chris Burns, CFL tackle (Calgary Stampeders, Hamilton Tiger-Cats & Ottawa Renegades)
1972 - James Willis, linebacker (Philadelphia Eagles)
1972 - Sunjith Somasunder, cricketer (Karnataka & India ODI opening bat 1996)
1972 - Zack Crockett, NFL running back (Indianapolis Colts)
1973 - Kevin Feighery, NFL/WLAF punter (NY Giants, Panthers, Galaxy)
1973 - Monica Seles, Novi Sad Yugoslavia, tennis star (US Open 1992)
1973 - Jan Ullrich, German cyclist
1975 - Brett Lindros, London, NHL right wing (NY Islanders)
1975 - Mark Kotsay, Whittier CA, baseball outfielder (Olympics-bronze-96)
1976 - Jennifer Robinson, Barrie Ontario, (1996 Canadian Champ)
1976 - Eddy Garabito, professional baseball player
1977 - Siyabonga Nomvethe, South African footballer plays for Aalborg BK
1978 - Nelly Furtado, Canadian singer and songwriter
1978 - Chris Wolstenholme, British bassist (Muse)
1978 - David Rivas, Spanish Footballer plays for Real Betis
1978 - Jason Collins, American basketball player for New Jersey Nets
1978 - Jarron Collins, American basketball player for Utah Jazz
1978 - Peter Moylan, Australian Major League Baseball Pitcher for the Atlanta Braves
1979 - Michael McIndoe, Scottish professional footballer (Wolverhampton Wanderers)
1979 - Yvonne Catterfeld, German singer and actress
1981 - Britney Spears, Kentwood, Louisiana, singer and popstar ("Baby One More Time," "Oops! ...I
           did it again" and "I'm A Slave 4 U")
1981 - Danijel Pranjić, Croatian football player plays for SC Heerenveen
1982 - Michelle Banzer, model/beauty queen
1982 - Hristos Karipidis, Greek footballer
1982 - Matt Ware, American football player
1982 - Pizon, American rapper/producer
1983 - Bibiana Candelas, Mexican volleyball player
1983 - Chris Burke (footballer), Scottish footballer plays for Rangers F.C.
1983 - Aaron Rodgers, American football player for Green Bay Packers
1984 - Péter Máté, Hungarian footballer (Reading F.C.)
1985 - Dorell Wright, American basketball player
1986 - Claudiu Keserü, Romanian football player (FC Nantes Atlantique)
1987 - Teairra Mari, American R&B singer
1988 - Edward EMG baron Downpatrick, grandson of English prince Edward
1988 - Alfred Enoch, British Actor
1988 - Soniya Mehra, Indian Actress
1989 - Cassie Steele, Canadian actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 02, 2013, 02:27:22 PM

This Day in History for 2nd December


Famous Deaths

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Abolitionist John Brown (1859)            Colombian Drug Lord Pablo Escobar (1993)


537 - Sylvester, Italian Pope (536-37), dies
1348 - Emperor Hanazono of Japan (b. 1297)
1381 - John of Ruysbroeck, Flemish mystic
1463 - Archduke Albert VI of Austria (b. 1418)
1515 - Gonzalo de Cordoba, Spanish general/strategist/viceroy of Naples, dies
1552 - Francis Xavier, Spanish Catholic missionary (b. 1506)
1592 - Alexander Farnese, land guardian of Neth (1579-92), dies at 46
1615 - Louis des Balbes de Berton de Crillon, French general
1665 - Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de Rambouillet, French socialite (b. 1588)
1694 - Pierre Paul Puget, French artist (b. 1622)
1719 - Pasquier Quesnel, French theologist (La Foi), dies at 85
1723 - Philip, French duke of Orleans/regent (1715-23)/PM (1723), dies
1726 - Samuel Penhallow, English-born American colonist and historian (b. 1665)
1747 - Vincent Bourne, English classical scholar (b. 1695)
1748 - Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, English politician (b. 1662)
1763 - Carl August Thielo, composer, dies at 56
1774 - Johann Friedrich Agricola, German (court)composer/organist, dies at 54
1814 - Marquis de Sade, writer, dies at 74
1828 - Simon Paap, Dutch 56 cm long dwarf/cabaret artist, dies at 39
1831 - Traugott Maximilian Eberwein, composer, dies at 56
1844 - Eustachy Erazm Sanguszko, Polish general and politician (b. 1768)
1845 - Johannes Simon Mayr, composer, dies at 82
1849 - Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, wife of William IV of the United Kingdom (b. 1792)
1859 - John Brown, US abolitionist (Harpers Ferry), hanged at 59
1860 - Alfred Bunn, British theatrical manager (b. 1796)
1864 - Archibald Gracie III, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at Siege of Petersburg, Virginia
           aged 32
1880 - Josephine Lang, composer, dies at 65
1888 - Franz Xaver Witt, composer, dies at 54
1888 - Mehmed N Kemal Bey, Turkish writer/journalist (Vatan), dies at 47
1892 - Jay Gould, American entrepreneur (b. 1836)
1899 - Gregorio del Pilar, Filipino general (killed at Battle of Tirad Pass) (b. 1875)
1903 - Victor Roger, composer, dies at 50
1915 - Jan Malat, composer, dies at 72
1916 - Francesco Paolo Tosti, composer, dies at 69
1918 - Margit Kaffka, writer, dies at 38
1918 - Edmond Rostand, French poet and dramatist (b. 1868)
1919 - Henry Clay Frick, built largest coke & steel operation, dies at 69
1923 - Tomas Breton y Hernandez, composer, dies at 72
1924 - Kazimieras Būga, Lithuanian philologist (b. 1879)
1925 - Julio Garreta, composer, dies at 50
1931 - Paul-Marie-Theodore-Vincent D'indy, French count/composer, dies at 80
1933 - Josef Gruber, composer, dies at 78
1935 - Albert Kessel, 1st to die in California gas chamber
1936 - John Ringling, American circus owner (b. 1866)
1943 - Nordahl Grieg, writer, dies
1944 - Filippo T Marinetti, Italian writer (father of futurism), dies at 67
1944 - JW Ummels, Dutch resistance fighter (House of Saxon-Nazi), dies
1950 - Dino Lipatti, composer, dies at 33
1953 - Ernest Hayes, cricketer (Surrey bat played 5 Tests for England), dies
1953 - Francis Picabia, French painter/illustrator, dies at 75
1953 - Reginald Baker, Australian athlete and actor (b. 1884)
1957 - Harrison Ford, silent screen actor (Rubber Tires), dies at 73
1957 - Manfred Sakel, Polish psychiatrist (b. 1902)
1963 - Sabu Sabu, actor (Jungle Book, Drums), dies of heart attack at 39
1963 - Thomas J. Hicks, British-born runner (b. 1875)
1965 - The Rajkumar of Vizianagram, cricketer (Indian Test capt 1936), dies
1966 - Luitzen [Bertus] Brouwers, Dutch mathematician, dies at 85
1967 - Francis J "Cardinal" Spellman, archbishop of NY, dies at 78
1969 - Kliment J Voroshilov, president USSR (1953-60), dies
1972 - Friedrich Christian Christiansen, German Luftwaffe general, dies
1972 - Jose Limon, Mexican/US dancer (moor's pavane), dies at 64
1974 - Sofie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatte, composer, dies at 72
1974 - Max Weber, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1897)
1976 - Danny Murtaugh, baseball manager (Pittsburgh Pirates), dies at 59
1976 - William Tannen, actor (Jailhouse Rock, Sitting Bull), dies at 65
1979 - Vasily Pavlovich Solov'yov-Sedoy, composer, dies at 72
1980 - Romain Gary, Lithuanian-born French writer (b. 1914)
1981 - Hershy Kay, composer, dies at 62
1981 - Nicolaas "Cola" Debrot, gov of Dutch Antilles (1962-70), dies at 79
1981 - Wallace K[irkman] Harrison, US architect (UN), dies at 86
1982 - David Blue, rocker, dies while jogging in Greenwich Village at 41
1982 - Marty Feldman, comedian (Young Frankenstein), dies at 49
1983 - Atholl Mckinnon, cricketer (South African lefty spinner in 8 Tests), dies
1983 - Fifi D'Orsay, "French Bombshell" (Dixie Jamboree), dies cancer at 79
1985 - Alex Courtney, actor (Sword of Justice), dies
1985 - Philip Larkin, [hermit of Hull], English poet, dies at 63
1985 - Aniello Dellacroce, American gangster (b. 1914)
1986 - Desi Arnaz, actor (Ricky Ricardo-I Love Lucy), dies at 69 of cancer
1986 - Lee Dorsey, R&B singer, dies at 59
1986 - John Curtis Gowan, American psychologist (b. 1912)
1987 - Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich, Russian physicist (b. 1914)
1988 - Tata Giacobetti, Italian singer and lyricist (Quartetto Cetra)
1990 - Aaron Copeland, composer (Fanfare for Common Man), dies at 90
1990 - Robert Cummings, actor (Love that Bob), dies of kidney failure at 82
1992 - Gary Mascaro, choreographer, dies at 43
1992 - Loek Elfferich, Dutch journalist/historian (Treason in Rotterdam), die
1993 - Pablo Escobar Gaviria, Colombian drug baron, shot to death at 44
1994 - Donald John Urquhart, librarian, dies at 85
1994 - James Norman Dalrymple Anderson, lawyer, dies at 86
1995 - Francis Joseph Quinn, academic, dies at 90
1995 - Roxie Roker, actress (Helen Willis-Jeffersons), dies at 66
1995 - Stanley Devon, photographer, dies at 88
1995 - [William] Robertson Davies, novelist essayist/dramatist, dies
1996 - Penelope Jessel, politcal activist, dies at 76
1997 - Shirley Crabtree, British professional wrestler (b. 1930)
1997 - Michael Hedges, American guitarist known for originality (b. 1953)
2002 - Ivan Illich, Austrian priest and philosopher (b. 1926)
2002 - Arno Peters, German historian (b. 1916)
2003 - Alan Davidson, British author (b. 1924)
2004 - Mona Van Duyn, American poet (b. 1921)
2004 - Alicia Markova, British ballerina (b. 1910)
2005 - Kenneth Lee Boyd, American convicted murderer (executed) (b. 1948)
2005 - Nat Mayer Shapiro, American painter (b. 1919)
2005 - Van Tuong Nguyen, Australian drug smuggler (hanged) (b. 1980)
2006 - Mariska Veres, Dutch singer (b. 1947)
2008 - Edward Samuel Rogers, Canadian entrepreneur (b. 1933)
2008 - Kathleen Baskin-Ball, American United Methodist Pastor
2008 - Odetta, American singer (b. 1930)
2009 - Maggie Jones, English actress (b. 1934)
2009 - Eric Woolfson, Scottish singer and producer (The Alan Parsons Project) (b. 1945)
2009 - Foge Fazio, American college football coach (b. 1938)
2010 - Ron Santo, American baseball player and broadcaster (b. 1940)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 03, 2013, 04:18:59 PM

This Day in History for 3rd December


Historical Events

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Abolitionist Frederick Douglass        Confederate General James Longstreet         Baseball Legend Connie Mack

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Dictator of Nazi Germany                     Playwright Tennessee Williams                 WWF Wrestler Hulk Hogan
 Adolf Hitler


741 - St Zachary begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Gregory III
1347 - Pope Clemens VI declares Roman tribunal Coke di Rienzo as heretics
1557 - 1st Covenant of Scottish protestants form
1586 - Sir Thomas Herriot introduces potatoes to England from Colombia
1621 - Galileo invents telescope
1639 - 1st annulment by court decree passes
1676 - Battle of Lund (Scanian War): Swedish army of 8,000 defeats much larger joint Danish/Dutch
           force of 13,000
1678 - Edmund Halley receives MA from The Queen's College, Oxford
1685 - Charles II bars Jews from settling in Stockholm Sweden
1694 - English parliamentary election set for every 3 years
1699 - Baron Jacob Hop appointed treasurer-general of the Hague
1775 - 1st official US flag raising (aboard naval vessel Alfred)
1818 - Illinois becomes 21st state USA (Admission day)
1828 - Andrew Jackson elected 7th US President
1833 - Oberlin College in Oh, 1st truly coeducational college opens
1834 - 1st US dental society organized (NY)
1835 - 1st US mutual fire insurance company issues 1st policy (RI)
1844 - RC Society Apostole of Prayer forms
1847 - Frederick Douglass publishes 1st issue of his newspaper "North Star"
1854 - Eureka Stockade: In what is claimed by many to be the birth of Australian democracy, more
           than 20 goldminers at Ballarat, Victoria, Australia are killed by state troopers in an uprising
           over mining licences.
1863 - Longstreet abandons his siege at Knoxville, TN
1864 - Skirmish at Thomas' Station, Georgia
1866 - Paid fire dept replaces volunteer companies
1868 - 1st blacks on US trial jury appointed for Jefferson Davis trial
1878 - Settlers arrive at Petach Tikvah, Israel
1881 - Henry Morton Stanley founds Leopoldville/Kinshasa
1883 - 48th US Congress (1883-85) convenes
1901 - Milwaukee is dropped from the AL & replaced by St Louis Browns
1903 - Panglima Polim surrenders to Capt Colijn at Atjeh
1907 - George Cohans musical "Talk of the Town" premieres in NYC
1908 - Edward Elgar's 1st Symphony in A premieres
1910 - Neon lights 1st publically seen (Paris Auto Show)
1912 - Gerrit Brinkman becomes 1st Dutch traffic officer
1912 - Turkey, Serbia, Montenegro, Greece & Bulgaria sign weapons pact
1912 - First Balkan War: The Naval Battle of Elli takes place.
1914 - Dutch army opens fire on interned Belgian soldiers: 8 killed
1917 - After nearly 20 years of planning and construction, the Quebec Bridge opens to traffic.
1920 - Turkey & Armenia agree to peace treaty
1921 - 9th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Edmonton Eskimos, 23-0
1922 - 1st successful technicolor movie (Tall of the Sea), shown in NYC
1923 - 1st Congressional open session broadcast via radio (Wash DC)
1926 - Manchester Guardian (German Reichswehr/Red Army work together)
1929 - Boston Bruins begins then NHL record 14 game winning streak
1930 - Airborn chemicals combine with fog to kill 60 (Meuse Valley Belgium)
1930 - Otto Ender forms Austrian government
1930 - Richard Rodgers/L Hart's musical "Evergreen" premieres in London
1931 - Alka Seltzer goes on sale
1932 - 20th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tigers defeats Regina Roughriders, 25-6
1932 - Gen Kurt von Schleicher becomes chancellor of Germany
1933 - Connie Mack sells Mickey Cochrane to Det Tigers for $100,000
1933 - Joe Lilliard QBs Chic Cardinals; last NFL black until 1946
1934 - Italian colonial Tripoli & Cyrenaica annexed to Libya
1934 - KYW-AM in Chicago Ill moves to Phila Penn
1938 - AAUs decides to continue linear measuring system over metric
1939 - Dmitri Sjostakovitsj's 6th Symphony, premieres
1941 - Hitler views Poltava Ukraine
1943 - 9th Heisman Trophy Award: Angelo Bertelli, Notre Dame (QB)
1943 - Battle of Monte Cassino, Italy begins
1943 - Howard Hanson's 4th Symphony, premieres
1944 - British order to disarm causes general strike in Greece
1944 - Hungarian death march of Jews ends
1944 - Mussert puts Seyss-Inquart plan for small Nazi-Europe
1944 - NFL Cardinals-Pitts merger disolves
1944 - US 5th Armoured division occupies Brandenburg Hurtgenwald
1944 - The Greek Civil War breaks out in a newly-liberated Greece, between communists and
           royalists.
1944 - Britain's Home Guard ('Dad's Army') is officially stood down at a special farewell parade in
           Hyde Park, London.
1946 - 12th Heisman Trophy Award: Glenn Davis, Army (HB)
1946 - US government asks UN to order dictator Franco out of Spain
1947 - Tennessee Williams' "Streetcar Named Desire," premieres in NYC
1948 - "Pumpkin Papers" come to light (claimed to be from Alger Hiss)
1948 - 1st US woman army officer not in medical corps sworn in
1948 - Don Bradman scores his last century, 123 in his own testimonial
1948 - Chinese refugee ship "Kiangya" explodes in E China Sea killing 1,100
1949 - KRLD (now KDFW) TV channel 4 in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX (CBS) begins
1950 - Cleveland Browns last NFL team with no-pass game (beat Phila 13-7)
1950 - Paul Harvey begins his national radio broadcast
1950 - Cleveland Browns' Horace Gillom sets club record with 12 punts
1952 - 1st TV broadcast in Hawaii
1952 - Marcos Perez Jiménez elected president of Venezuela
1953 - "Kismet" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 583 performances
1953 - Eisenhower criticizes McCarthy for saying communists are in Rep party
1953 - Premier of Dmitri Shostakovitch' 5th String Quartet
1954 - Samuel Barber's "Prayers of Kierkegaard," premieres
1954 - William Walton's opera "Troilus & Cressida," premieres in London
1955 - KTVE TV channel 10 in Monroe-El Dorado, LA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1956 - Bitain and France pull troops out of Egypt
1956 - KFSA (now KFSM) TV channel 5 in Ft Smith, AR (CBS) 1st broadcast
1956 - Wilt Chamberlain's 1st collegiate basketball game (scores 52)
1957 - 23rd Heisman Trophy Award: John Crow, Texas A&M (HB)
1958 - Indonesian parliament accepts nationalisation of Dutch businesses
1959 - State of emergency on Cyprus ends
1960 - "Camelot" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 873 performances
1960 - Frederick Loewe/Alan Jay Lerner's "Camelot" premieres in NYC
1961 - Anton Geesink becomes 1st non-Japanese judo world champion
1961 - Beatles meet future manager Brian Epstein
1961 - George Blanda of Houston Oilers kicks 55-yard field goal
1961 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1962 - Edith Spurlock Sampson sworn-in as 1st US black female judge
1962 - Pravda criticizes western art
1964 - KHQL (now KCAN) TV channel 8 in Albion, NB (ABC) begins broadcasting
1964 - Police arrests 800 sit-in students at U of Cal at Berkeley
1965 - Beatles begin final UK concert tour in Glasgow
1965 - USSR launches Luna 8; crashes on Moon
1966 - US performs underground nuclear test at Hattiesburg Miss
1967 - 1st human heart transplant performed (Dr Christian Barnard, South Africa)
1967 - Derek Clayton runs world record marathon (2:09:36.4)
1967 - Ex-president Sukarno under house arrest in Indonesia
1967 - Final run of "20th Century Limited" famed NY-Chicago luxury train
1968 - NBC Elvis comeback special airs
1968 - Pitcher's mound drops from 15" to 10" & strike zone reduced from knees to shoulders to top
           of knees to armpits, to help hitters
1969 - John Lennon is offered role of Jesus Christ in Jesus Christ Superstar
1970 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1971 - Miss Teenage America Pageant
1971 - Pres Nixon commutes Jimmy Hoffa's jail term
1971 - Indo-Pakistani War of 1971: India invades West Pakistan and a full scale war begins claiming
           hundreds of lives.
1972 - Convair 990A charter crashes in Tenerife Canary Island, 155 die
1973 - Pioneer 10 passes Jupiter (1st fly-by of an outer planet) [Dec 4-GMT]
1975 - Laos falls to communist forces; Lao People's Democratic Rep proclaimed
1976 - Dr Patrick J Hillery elected president of Iraq
1978 - "King of Hearts" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 48 performances
1978 - Pat Bradley/Lon Hinkle wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
1979 - 11 trampled to death at Cincinnati Who concert
1979 - 45th Heisman Trophy Award: Charles White, Southern Cal (RB)
1979 - Christies auctions a thimble for a record $18,400
1979 - Iran accepts constitution
1979 - Shadow Traffic begins broadcasting in the New York City metropolitan area.
1980 - NY Federal jury finds Reps Thompson D-NJ & Murphy, D-NY, guilty
1981 - Beth Daniel/Tom Kite win LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
1981 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1982 - 1st NJ Devil hat-trick (Steve Tambellini) defeat Hartford 5-4
1982 - 35.7 cm rainfall at Big Fork, Arkansas (state record)
1982 - 77&deg;F highest December temperature ever recorded in Cleveland, Ohio
1982 - NJ Devils 1st hat trick (Steve Tambellini)
1982 - Tommy Hearns wins WBC Welterweight title in decision over Benitez
1983 - "Marilyn: An American Fable" closes at Minskoff NYC after 16 perfs
1983 - 49th Heisman Trophy Award: Mike Rozier, Nebraska (RB)
1983 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1984 - 2,000 die from Union Carbide poison gas emission in Bhopal, India
1985 - 23rd Shuttle Mission (61-B)-Atlantis 2-lands at Edwards AFB
1986 - Sri Lanka all out 55 v WI in one-dayer Walsh 5-1 in 4 3 overs
1988 - 54th Heisman Trophy Award: Barry Sanders, Oklahoma State (RB)
1988 - NY Lotto pays $45 million to twelve winner (#s are 1-8-13-18-28-48)
1989 - Pat Bradley/Bill Glasson win LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
1989 - Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and US President George Bush, snr, declare the Cold War
           over.
1990 - NL batting champ Willie McGee signs as a free agent with SF Giants
1991 - Hulk Hogan defeats Undertaker to become 4th time WWF champion
1991 - Muslim Shiites release US hostage Alan Steen
1991 - White House Chief of Staff John Sununu resigns
1992 - UN Security Council votes unanimous for US led forces to enter Somalia
1992 - The Greek oil tanker Aegean Sea, carrying 80,000 tonnes of crude oil, runs aground in a
           storm while approaching La Coruña, Spain, and spills much of its cargo.
1995 - "Company" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 68 performances
1995 - "Holiday" opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 49 performances
1995 - 84th Davis Cup: USA beats Russia in Moscow (3-2)
1995 - Beth Daniels/Davis Love III wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
1995 - Jack Russell takes 11 catches in Test Cricket v South Africa, a record
1995 - Naeem Akhtar takes 10-28 for Rawalpindi B against Peshawar
1995 - Northwestern South Carolina begins using new area code 864
1997 - "1776" opens at Gershwin Theater NYC
1997 - Golden State Warrior guard Latrell Sprewell, four-year, $32 million, contract terminated for
           attacking his coach P J Carlesimo
1999 - NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander moments before the spacecraft enters
           the Martian atmosphere.
2005 - XCOR Aerospace makes first manned rocket aircraft delivery of US Mail in Mojave, California.
2007 - Devastating winter storms caused the Chehalis River to flood many cities in Lewis County,
           Washington, also closing a 20-mile portion of Interstate 5 for several days. At least eight 
           deaths and billions of dollars of damaged are blamed on the floods.
2012 - Voyager 1 spacecraft, launched in 1977, reaches the end of our solar system and enters
           interstellar space

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 03, 2013, 04:20:50 PM

This Day in History for 3rd December


Famous Weddings

1931 - Silent film actress Clara Bow (26) weds actor and politician Rex Bell (28) in Las Vegas
1984 - Oldest groom - Harry Stevens, 103, weds Thelma Lucas, 83, in Wisc
2005 - NBC correspondent Hoda Kotb (41) weds New Orleans tennis coach Burzis Kanga in the
            Dominican Republic
2005 - "The Last Samurai" actor Ken Watanabe (46) weds actress Kaho Minami (41) in Tokyo
2005 - French heiress Athina Onassis (20) weds Olympic gold medalist equestrian Alvaro de Miranda
           Neto (32) in Sao Paulo, Brazil
2005 - Marilyn Manson lead singer Brian Warner (36) weds burlesque performer Dita Von Teese (33)
           at Castle Gurteen in County Tipperary, Ireland

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 03, 2013, 04:28:03 PM

This Day in History for 3rd December


Famous Birthdays

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Novelist Joseph Conrad (1857)         Rock Vocalist Ozzy Osbourne (1948)             Actress Julianne Moore (1960)


1368 - Charles VI, [the Well-Beloved], king of France (1380-1422)
1483 - Nicolaus von Amsdorf, German reformation theologist
1560 - Jan Gruter, Dutch critic (d. 1627)
1576 - Marsilio Casentini, composer
1668 - Casimir Schweizelsperg, composer
1684 - Ludvig Baron Holberg, founder (Danish & Norwegian literature)
1729 - Padre Antonio Francisco J Jose Soler, Olot Spain, composer (Fandango)
1750 - Johann Franz Xaver Sterkel, composer
1752 - Georg-Friederich Fuchs, composer
1753 - Samuel Crompton, English inventor (mule-jenny spinning machine)
1755 - Gilbert Stuart, US, portrait painter (painted Washington)
1758 - Josef Gelinek, composer
1776 - Johann Spurzheim, German neuroscientist (d. 1832)
1795 - Rowland Hill, introduced 1st adhesive postage stamp (1840)
1797 - Francis P Kenrick, Irish/US archbishop of Baltimore
1800 - France Preseren, Slovenian poet (Krst pri Savici)
1806 - Henry Alexander Wise, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1876
1809 - Thomas Alfred Davies, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1899
1822 - Charles Adam Heckman, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1896
1826 - Edmond van der Straeten, Belgian lawyer/musicologist
1826 - George Brinton McClellan, Major General (Union Army), died in 1885
1829 - Green Berry Raum, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1909
1838 - Cleveland Abbe, US, meteorologist (Father of Weather Bureau)
1838 - Octavia Hill, British reformer, leader of open-space movement
1842 - Ellen Henrietta Richards, US, chemist (Amer Home Economics Association-1st Pres)
1842 - Phoebe Hearst, American socialite (d. 1919)
1842 - Charles Alfred Pillsbury, American industrialist (d. 1899)
1857 - Joseph Conrad, Berdychiv, Poland, novelist (Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness), (d. 1924)
1862 - Jules Renkin, Belgian jurist/minister/premier (1931-32)
1864 - Herman Heijermans Jr, Dutch writer (Kamertjeszonde, Diamond City)
1875 - Bernhard Lichtenberg, German clergyman/antifascist
1875 - Max Meldrum, Scottish-born Australian painter (d. 1955)
1880 - Fedor von Bock, German field marshal (d. 1945)
1883 - Albert "Tibby" Cotter, cricketer (great Aussie quick of early century)
1883 - Anton (Friedrich Wilhelm) von Webern, Vienna Aust, 12-tone composer
1884 - Rajendra Prasad, first President of India (d. 1963)
1884 - Walther Stampfli, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1965)
1885 - Marchien Zwitsers, farmer in Lutten (died at 109 years old)
1886 - Manne Siegbahn, Nobel laureate (d. 1978)
1887 - Naruhiko, Prince Higashikuni of Japan (d. 1990)
1888 - Ion Nonna Otescu, composer
1895 - Anna Freud, Austrian/English psychoanalytist/daughter of Sigmund F
1896 - Boleslaw Szabelski, composer
1896 - John Urzidil, Austria/US writer (Die erbeuteten Frauen)
1897 - Kate O'Brien, Irish writer (Without My Cloak)
1898 - Lev Konstantinovich Knipper, composer
1899 - Ikeda Hayato, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1965)
1900 - Lester Matthews, Nottingham England, (Sir Dennis-Adv of Fu Manchu)
1900 - Richard Kuhn, Austria, biochemist, worked with vitamins (Nobel 1938)
1900 - Ulrich Inderbinen, Swiss mountain guide (d. 2004)
1902 - Willem Arnold de Vries Robbe, composer
1904 - Juan E Yrausquin, founder (Party of Patriot Arubans)/minister
1905 - Leslie Ames, cricketer (England wicket-keeper of 30's Outstanding bat)
1907 - Andrew Hutchings, teachers' leader
1907 - Connee Boswell, New Orleans La, singer (Pete Kelly's Blue)
1908 - Halsey Stevens, Scott NY, composer (Triskelion)
1908 - Nigel M Balchin, [Mark Spade], English author (Business for Pleasure)
1908 - Edward Underdown, English actor (d. 1989)
1910 - Robert Arthur Hughes, missionary/surgeon
1911 - Dana Suesse, songwriter (You Ought to be in Pictures)
1911 - Nino Rota, Milan Italy, composer (Torquemada)
1913 - Omer Vanaudenhoven, Flemish industrial/resistance fighter
1914 - Irving Fine, Boston Mass, composer (Toccata)
1918 - Abdul Haris Nasution, Indonesian general (d. 2000)
1919 - Charles Craig, opera singer
1921 - Hans G Kresse, Dutch cartoonist (Eric the Viking)
1921 - Phyllis Curtin, American soprano
1922 - Sven Nykvist, Swedish cinematographer (d. 2006)
1923 - Tom Fears, NFL end (LA Rams)
1923 - Trevor Bailey, England, cricket all-rounder (batted & ran)
1924 - John Backus, inventor (FORTRAN computer language)
1924 - Roberto Mières, Argentine racing driver
1924 - Francisco Sionil José, Filipino novelist, Philippine National Artist for Literature
1925 - Ken Funston, South African cricket batsman (18 Tests during 1950's)
1925 - Ferlin Husky, American country singer (Born to Lose, Gone)
1925 - Kim Dae Jung, South Korean President, Nobel laureate
1926 - Hans Otte, German composer/pianist (The Book of Sounds, Book of Hours)
1927 - Isabelle Harriet Lucas, actress/singer (Outland, Comics)
1927 - Andy Williams, Wall Lake Iowa, singer (Moon River, Andy Williams Show) (d. 2012)
1929 - Clarence Ford, sax player
1929 - Paul Harris Turok, composer
1929 - Werner Rackwitz, German musicologist (Handel-Renaissance)
1930 - Jean-Luc Godard, French director (Alphaville, Hail Mary, Breathless)
1930 - Phyllis Curtin, Clarksburg WV, soprano (NYC Opera)
1931 - Ellen Blazer, Dutch TV director (Sonja)
1931 - Jaye P Morgan, Mancos Colo, singer/actress (Gong Show, Night Patrol)
1931 - Franz Josef Degenhardt, German author
1932 - Corry Brokken, Dutch singer
1933 - Paul J. Crutzen, Dutch chemist, Nobel laureate
1934 - Nicolas Coster, actor (Robert Delaney-Another World)
1934 - Viktor Vassilyevich Gorbatko, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 7, 24, 37/36)
1937 - Bobby Allison, auto racer (3 time winner of Daytona 500)
1937 - Stephen Rubin, English attorney/shoe manufacturer (Reebok, Adidas)
1937 - Binod Bihari Verma, Indian linguist
1938 - Jose Serebrier, Montevideo Uruguay, conductor/composer (Star Wagon)
1938 - Martyn Taylor, teacher/campaigner
1940 - Jeffrey R. Holland, American religious leader
1941 - Mary Alice, Indianola MS, newscaster (CBS, Lettie-Different World)
1942 - Alice Schwarzer, German journalist
1943 - Valerie Perrine, Galveston Tx, actress (Slaughterhouse 5)
1945 - Laura Dean, Staten Island NYC, composer/choreographer (Drumming)
1946 - Joop Zoetemelk, Dutch cyclist
1948 - Diane Kurys, [Emir Kusturica], Sarajevo, bass guitarist
1948 - Ozzy Osbourne, Aston, Birmingham,, rock vocalist (Black Sabbath-Bark at the Moon)
1949 - Christopher John Seward, aid worker
1949 - Heather Menzies, Toronto Canada, actress (Jessica-Logan's Run)
1949 - Mickey Thomas, rock vocalist (Jefferson Airplane, Starship)
1950 - John Akii-bua, Uganda, 400m hurdler (Olympic-gold-1972)
1950 - Muntu Myeza, South African anti-apartheid activist
1951 - Danger Alberto Juantorena, Cuba, 800m runner (Olympic-gold-1976)
1951 - James Turner Brewer, Maywood Ill, basketball player (Oly-silver-1972)
1951 - Mike Stock, rocker (Stock, Aitken & Waterman-Road Block)
1951 - Rick Mears, Indy-car racer (over 25 wins)
1951 - Riki Chosyu, [Mitsuo Yoshida], wrestler (NJPW/All-Japan)
1951 - Ray Candy, American professional wrestler (d. 1994)
1951 - John and Greg Rice, American twin actors
1951 - Nicky Stevens, British singer (Brotherhood of Man)
1952 - Don Barnes, rock guitarist (38 Special)
1952 - Duane Roland, rock guitarist (Molly Hatchet)
1952 - Mel Smith, author, actor, and comedian (Morons From Outer Space), (d. 2013)
1952 - Benny Hinn, American televangelist
1953 - Franz Klammer, Austria, downhill skier (Olympic-gold-1976)
1954 - Paul Gregg, country singer (Restless Heart-Wheels)
1954 - Grace Andreacchi, American author
1955 - Melody Anderson, Edmonton, actress (Natalie Dillon-All My Children)
1955 - Warren Jeffs, American convicted polygamist
1956 - Hart Bochner, Los Angeles CA, actor/director (Rich & Famous)
1959 - Kathy Jordan, Bryn Mawr PA, tennis player (US Opens Doubles 1981)
1959 - Eamonn Holmes, Northern Irish TV presenter
1960 - Daryl Hannah, Chicago, Illinois, American actress (Splash, Blade Runner)
1960 - Mike Ramsey, US, ice hockey player (Olympic-gold-1980)
1960 - Julianne Moore, Fayetteville North Carolina, American actress (Magnolia, The Kids are Alright)
1961 - Adal Ramones, Mexican television host
1962 - Tammy Jackson, WNBA forward/center (Houston Comets)
1963 - Ashley De Silva, Sri Lankan Cricket wicketkeeper (1993)
1963 - Steve Hegg, Dana Point California, road cyclist (Olympics-16th-84, 96)
1963 - Joe Lally, American musician (Fugazi)
1963 - Terri Schiavo, American right to die figure (d. 2005)
1964 - Darryl Hamilton, Baton Rouge LA, outfielder (Texas Rangers)
1964 - Toi Cook, cornerback (Carolina Panthers)
1965 - Katarina Witt, Staaken GDR, figure skater (Olympic-Gold-1984, 88)
1965 - Tammy Jacques, Auburn Maine, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1965 - Steve Harris, American actor
1965 - Andrew Stanton, American animator
1966 - Lisa Lightfoot, Australian middle distance runner (Olympics-96)
1966 - Flemming Povlsen, Danish footballer
1967 - David Diaz, Melbourne VIC, Australasia golfer
1967 - Greg Sutton, NBA guard (Phila 76ers)
1967 - Katie Henderson, Santa Monica CA, WPVA volleyball (US Open-25th-1993)
1968 - Brendan Fraser, Indianapolis In, actor (School Ties, 20 Bucks)
1968 - Isabel Cueto, West Germany, tennis star
1968 - Kevin Telles, actor (Party Camp)
1968 - Montell Jordan, American singer and record producer
1969 - Ed King, NFL guard (NO Saints)
1969 - Kwamie Lassiter, NFL defensive back (Arizona Cardinals)
1969 - Bill Steer, British guitarist
1970 - Charles Hope, WLAF guard (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1970 - Jennifer Rothschild, [Rubin], actress (Judas Project)
1970 - Laura Schuler, ice hockey forward (Canada, Oly-98)
1970 - Lindsey Hunter, NBA guard (Detroit Pistons)
1970 - Paul Byrd, Louisville KY, pitcher (NY Mets)
1970 - Christian Karembeu, French footballer
1971 - Frank Sinclair, Jamaican footballer
1971 - Keegan Connor Tracy, Canadian actress
1971 - Vernon White, American mixed martial artist
1972 - Eva Nemcova, WNBA forward/guard (Cleveland Rockers)
1972 - Peter Wright, US, 1500m freestyle (Olympics-96)
1972 - Bucky Lasek, American skateboarder
1973 - Andrew McNally, Australian baseball pitcher (Olympics-1996)
1973 - Brian Loyd, Lynwood CA, baseball catcher (Olympics-bronze-96)
1973 - Holly Marie Combs, American actress
1973 - Super Crazy, Mexican professional wrestler
1973 - Sammy Leung, Hong Kong disc jockey
1974 - Ralph Staten, safety (Baltimore Ravens)
1975 - Lauren E Roman, Wilmington NC, actress (Laura Kirk-All My Children)
1975 - Nadine Neumann, Sydney NSW Australia, swimmer (Olympics-96)
1975 - Mickey Avalon, American rapper
1975 - Csaba Czébely, Hungarian drummer (Pokolgép)
1975 - Malinda Williams, American actress
1976 - Gary Glover, American baseball player
1976 - Byron Kelleher, New Zealand rugby union footballer
1976 - Mark Boucher, South African cricketer
1976 - Cornelius Griffin, American football player
1977 - David Sales, cricketer (Northampton batsman, 210 on fc debut 1996)
1977 - Chad Durbin, American baseball player
1977 - Adam Małysz, Polish ski-jumper
1977 - Troy Evans, American football player
1978 - Trina, American rapper
1978 - Jiří Bicek, Slovak ice hockey player
1979 - Daniel Bedingfield, English singer
1979 - Rainbow Sun Francks, Canadian actor
1979 - Rock Cartwright, American football player
1980 - Anna Chlumsky, Chicago Ill, actress (My Girl)
1980 - Jenna Dewan, American actress
1980 - Jim Sorgi, American football player
1981 - Brian Bonsall, actor (Family Ties, Star Trek Next Generation)
1981 - Ioannis Amanatidis, Greek footballer
1981 - David Villa, Spanish footballer
1981 - Tyjuan Hagler, American football player
1982 - Michael Essien, Ghanaian footballer
1982 - Jaycee Chan, Hong Kong singer and actor
1982 - Manny Corpas, American baseball player
1983 - Sherri DuPree, American vocalist
1984 - Avraam Papadopoulos, Greek footballer
1985 - Mike Randolph, American soccer player
1985 - Amanda Seyfried, American actress
1985 - László Cseh, Hungarian swimmer
1985 - Marcus Darrell Williams, American basketball player
1987 - Alicia Sacramone, American Gymnast
1987 - Michael Angarano, American actor
1992 - Joseph McManners, English actor
1994 - Jake T. Austin, American actor
2005 - Prince Sverre Magnus of Norway

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 03, 2013, 04:34:15 PM

This Day in History for 3rd December


Famous Deaths

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Novelist                                                                 Painter & Sculptor
Robert Louis Stevenson (1894)                   Pierre Auguste Renoir (1919)


450 - Petrus Chrysologus, 1st archbishop of Ravenna, dies
1137 - Lotharius III, of Supplinburg, Roman-Ger emperor (1133-37), dies at 67
1154 - Anastasius IV, Pope (1153-54), dies
1265 - Odofredus, Italian jurist
1463 - Louis Chalon, prince of Orange, dies
1469 - Piero de' Medici, ruler of Florence, dies at about 53
1491 - Thomas Basin, French historian/bishop of Lisieux, dies
1533 - Vasili III, great prince of Moscow (1505-33), dies at 54
1552 - St Francis Xavier, Jesuit missionary to the East (b. 1506)
1610 - Honda Tadakatsu, Japanese general (b. 1548)
1660 - Jacques Sarazin, French sculptor/painter, dies at about 70
1676 - Daniel Stalpaert, Amsterdams master builder, buried
1706 - Emilie Juliane of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, German countess and hymn writer (b. 1637)
1765 - Lord John Philip Sackville, British cricketer (b. 1713)
1789 - Claude-Joseph Vernet, French seascape painter, dies
1807 - Clara Reeve, English author (old English baron), dies
1815 - John Carroll (priest), first Roman Catholic archbishop in the U.S. (b. 1735)
1823 - Joseph Pouteau, composer, dies at 84
1839 - Frederik VI, king of Denmark (1808-39)/Norway (1803-14), dies at 71
1845 - Gregor MacGregor, Scottish con-man (b. 1786)
1857 - Christian D Rauch, German sculptor, dies at 80
1866 - Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda, composer, dies at 65
1876 - Hermann Goetz, composer, dies at 35
1882 - Archibald Campbell Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1811)
1888 - Carl Zeiss, German lens maker (b. 1816)
1889 - Baltasar Saldoni, composer, dies at 82
1890 - Bill Midwinter, cricketer (8 Tests for Australia, 4 for England), dies
1892 - William Bonaparte, grandson of Lucien, dies
1892 - Afanasy Fet, Russian poet (b. 1820)
1894 - HM Jozef Schadde, Flem architect (Antwerp Stock exchange), dies at 76
1894 - Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish novelist, dies at 45
1902 - Robert Lawson, New Zealand architect (b. 1833)
1910 - Mary Baker Eddy, founder (Christian Science (Monitor)), dies at 89
1912 - Prudente José de Morais Barros, President of Brazil (b. 1841)
1919 - Pierre A Renoir, French painter/sculptor, dies at 78
1933 - Richard Henry Warren, composer, dies at 74
1934 - Charles James O'Donnell, Irish politician (b. 1849)
1937 - Prosper Poullet, Belgian mayor, dies
1941 - Johann Christian August Sinding, composer, dies at 85
1941 - Pavel Filonov, Russian painter (b. 1883)
1942 - Wilhelm Peterson-Berger, composer, dies at 75
1944 - Delfien Vanhaute, Flemish pastor/poet (Ark of Noah), dies at 75
1949 - Elin Pelin, writer, dies
1949 - Maria Ouspenskaya, actress (Spookies), dies at 62
1954 - Enrique Soro Barriga, composer, dies at 70
1955 - Cow Cow Davenport, American pianist (b. 1894)
1957 - Frank E Gannett, newspaper publisher, dies at 81
1960 - Hermann Stephani, composer, dies at 83
1961 - Jekabs Graubins, composer, dies at 75
1961 - Mary Charleson, actress (Upstairs & Downstairs), dies at 76
1964 - Ernst Ginsberg, writer, dies
1964 - George Brown, cricketer (7 Tests for England), dies
1967 - Annette Kolb, writer, dies at 92
1967 - Fred Engelen, Flemish actor/director (Kritisch Theater), dies at 54
1967 - Harry Wismer, American original owner of the New York Jets (b. 1913)
1969 - Ruth White, actress (Fugitive), dies of cancer at 55
1969 - Mathias Wieman, German actor (b. 1902)
1972 - Bill Johnson, American musician (b. 1872)
1973 - Michael O'Shea, actor (Denny- It's a Great Life), dies at 67
1973 - Emile Christian, American musician (b. 1895)
1975 - Hugh Thurlow, cricketer (one Test for Australia 1932), dies
1975 - Jacob Kruijt, Dutch sociologist, dies at 76
1976 - Mary Nash, actress (Phila Story, Till the Clouds Roll By), dies at 91
1978 - William Grant Still, composer, dies at 83
1979 - Dhyan Chand, Indian field hockey player (b. 1905)
1980 - Oswald Mosley, British politician (b. 1896)
1981 - Walter Knott, American farmer (b. 1889)
1984 - Virginia Lacy Jones, US librarian/presidents advisor, dies at 72
1984 - Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin, Russian mathematician (b. 1919)
1985 - Sam Gillman, actor (Sam-Shane), dies at 70
1990 - Gavin Reed, actor (Body Beneath), dies at 59
1991 - Alex Graham, British cartoonstrip artist (Fred Basset), dies
1991 - Casey Walters, actor (True Story of Lynn Stuart), after a stroke at 75
1992 - Harry Ellerbe, actor (House of Usher, Magnetic Monster), dies at 91
1992 - Luis Alcoriza, actor/writer/director (Tiburoneros), dies of emphysema
1992 - Nureddin Al-Atassi, president of Syria (1966-70), dies
1993 - Lewis Thomas, biologist, dies of cancer at 80
1993 - Thomas Mogotlane, South African actor (Mapantsula), dies at 40
1994 - Dolf Verspoor, literary/translator (M Nijhoff prize 1958), dies at 77
1994 - Elizabeth Meyer, wife of Paul Michael Glaser, dies of AIDS at 47
1994 - Giorgi Chanturia, Pres of Georgia, assassinated
1994 - Lesley Peacock, jazz photogrpaher/author, dies
1994 - Said Mekbel, Algerian editor in chief (Le Matin), murdered at 57
1995 - Jimmy Jewel, comedian, dies at 82
1995 - Robertson Davies (author), dies at 82
1995 - Roxie Roker, actress (Claudine)/mother of Lenny Kravitz, dies at 66
1996 - Babrak Karmal, PM of Afghanistan (1980-81), dies
1996 - Det Glynn, teacher/anti-apartheid activist, dies at 84
1996 - George Duby, historian, dies at 77
1997 - Marian Kratochwil, artist, dies at 91
1997 - Steve Hamilton, pitcher (NY Yankees), dies of cancer at 63
1998 - Pierre Hétu, Quebec conductor and pianist (b. 1936)
1999 - Madeline Kahn, American actress (b. 1942)
1999 - Jarl Wahlström, 12th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1918)
1999 - Scatman John, American singer (b. 1942)
2000 - Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet (b. 1917)
2000 - Hoyt Curtin, American songwriter (b. 1922)
2002 - Glenn Quinn, Irish actor (b. 1970)
2003 - David Hemmings, English actor (b. 1941)
2004 - Shiing-Shen Chern, Chinese mathematician (b. 1911)
2005 - Herb Moford, American baseball player (b. 1928)
2006 - Logan Whitehurst, American musician (b. 1977)
2007 - James Kemsley, Australian cartoonist and actor (b. 1948)
2008 - Robert Zajonc, Polish-American social psychologist (b. 1923)
2009 - Richard Todd, Irish-born British actor (b. 1919)
2010 - Abdumalik Bahori, Tajik poet and fiction writer (b.1927)
2011 - Dev Anand, Indian actor (b. 1923)
2011 - Philip Burrell, influential Jamaican record producer, dies of a heart attack at 57

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 04, 2013, 01:54:12 PM

This Day in History for 4th December


Historical Events

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Holy Roman Emperor                   Jazz-orchestra leader, Composer, Pianist             32nd US President
Charlemagne                                                 Duke Ellington                                         Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Impressionist Painter                            Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro               Writer Jean-Paul Sartre
Henri Matisse

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US President & Actor                           US President George H. W. Bush
Ronald Reagan


771 - King Carloman joint King of the Franks, dies, leaving his older brother Charlemagne, sole ruler
         of the Frankish Kingdom.
1110 - Syrian harbor city Saida (Sidon) surrenders to Crusaders
1154 - Pope Hadrian IV elected Pope. The only Englishman to become pontiff, Nicholas Breakspear
           was a member of the family which until recent years brewed beer in Henley-on-Thames,
           Oxfordshire.
1197 - Crusaders wound Rabbi Elezar ben Judah
1259 - Treaty of Paris: English king Henry III & French king Louis IX
1489 - Battle of Baza - Spanish army captures Baza from Moors
1534 - Turkish sultan Suleiman occupies Baghdad
1563 - Council of Trent holds last session, after 18 years
1619 - 38 colonists from Berkeley Parish in England disembark in Virginia and give thanks to God.
           Considered by many as the first Thanksgiving in the Americas.
1644 - 1st European peace congress opens in Munster
1655 - Middelburg Neth forbids building of synagogue
1665 - Jean Racine's "Alexandre le Grand" premieres in Paris
1674 - Father Marquette builds 1st dwelling in what is now Chicago
1676 - Battle of Lund: A Danish army under the command of King Christian V of Denmark engages
           the Swedish army commanded by Field Marshal Simon Grundel-Helmfelt.
1680 - Hen in Rome lays an egg imprinted with comet not seen until Dec 16th
1682 - 1st General Assembly in Pennsylvania (Chester)
1688 - General John Churchill (later 1st Duke of Marlborough) changes allegiance from James II to
           William of Orange
1691 - Emperor Leopold I takes control of Transsylvania
1691 - Spanish king Carlos II names Maximilian II viceroy of S Netherlands
1745 - Bonnie Prince Charles reaches Derby
1783 - Gen Washington bids officers farewell at Fraunce's Tavern, NYC
1791 - Britain's Observer, oldest Sunday newspaper in the world, 1st published
1798 - Rebellious Flemish farmers occupy Hasselt
1812 - Peter Gaillard of Lancaster, Pa patents a horse-drawn mower
1816 - James Monroe (VA), elected 5th pres, defeating Federalist Rufus King
1829 - Britain abolished "suttee" in India (widow burning herself to death on her husband's funeral
           pyre
1832 - French army begins bombing citadel of Antwerp
1833 - American Anti-Slavery Society formed by Arthur Tappan in Phila
1836 - Whig party holds its 1st national convention, Harrisburg, Pa
1843 - Manila paper (made from sails, canvas & rope) patented, Mass
1843 - Robert Schumann's "Das Paradies und die Peri" premieres in Leipzig
1844 - James K Polk elected 11th president of USA
1851 - Pres Louis Napolean Boaparte's forces crush an attempted coup d'etat in France
1863 - Storm flood ravages Netherlands coastal provinces
1864 - Battle of Waynesborough (Brier Creek) GA
1864 - Romanian Jews are forbidden to practice law
1867 - Former Minnesota farmer Oliver Hudson Kelley founds the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry
           (better known today as the Grange).
1875 - William Marcy "Boss" Tweed (NYC-Tammany Hall) escapes from jail
1881 - The first edition of the Los Angeles Times is published.
1889 - Stanley's expedition reaches Bagamoyo in Indian Ocean
1899 - 56th Congress (1899-1901) convenes
1899 - Webb Hayes, son of pres Rutherford Hayes, receives medal of honor
1901 - Anne Russell's 'Girl and the judge' premieres in NYC
1905 - British government of Balfour resigns
1906 - Alpha Phi Alpha, 1st Black Greek Letter Fraternity, forms
1908 - Haiti's president General Alexis Nord flees from military coup
1909 - 1st CFL Grey Cup: University of Toronto defeats Toronto Parkdale, 26-6
1914 - Walter Johnson accepts money from Federal League Chicago Whales Clark Griffith threatens
           to take Johnson to court
1915 - F F Fletcher is 1st admiral to receive Congressional Medal of Honor
1915 - Ku Klux Klan receives charter from Fulton County Ga
1915 - Panama Pacific International Exposition opens
1918 - Pres Wilson sails for Versailles Peace Conference in France, 1st chief executive to travel
           outside US while in office
1920 - 1st Pro football playoff game Buffalo-7, Canton-3 at Polo Grounds
1920 - 8th CFL Grey Cup: U of Toronto defeats Toronto Argonauts, 16-3
1921 - The Virginia Rappe manslaughter trial against Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle ends in a hung jury.
1922 - Lucille Atcherson, becomes 1st woman legation sect-US foreign service
1923 - Cecil B DeMille's 1st version of "Ten Commandments" premieres
1923 - WEAF radio begins broadcasting Eveready Hour (variety show)
1926 - 14th CFL Grey Cup: Ottawa Senators defeats U of Toronto, 10-7
1927 - Dmitri Shostakovitch's 2nd Symphony premieres in Moscow
1927 - Duke Ellington opens at Cotton Club in Harlem
1927 - Pirates Paul Waner wins NL MVP
1928 - Walter Donaldson & Gus Kahn's musical "Whoopee" premieres in NYC
1930 - French government of Tardieu falls
1930 - Vatican approves rhythm method for birth control
1931 - "Frankenstein" opens at Mayfair
1933 - FDR creates Federal Alcohol Control Administration
1933 - Jack Kirkland's "Tobacco Road" premieres in NYC
1935 - 1,200 at St Joseph's College (Phila) enroll in anticommunism class
1941 - Nazi ordinances places Jews of Poland outside protection of courts
1942 - 1st US citizenship granted an alien on foreign soil (James Hoey)
1942 - FDR orders dismantling of Works Progress Administration
1942 - US bombers struck Italian mainland for 1st time in WW II
1942 - Works Progress Administration liquidated
1942 - Holocaust: In Warsaw, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka and Wanda Filipowicz set up the Żegota
           organization.
1943 - -Dec 6] 2nd conference of Cairo: FDR, Churchill & Turkish pres Inonu
1943 - Commissioner Landis announces any baseball club may sign Negroes
1943 - Yugoslavian resistance forms provisionary government under Dr Ribar
1944 - Germans destroy Rhine dikes, Betuwe flooded
1945 - 11th Heisman Trophy Award: Doc Blanchard, Army (FB)
1945 - Senate approves US participation in UN
1947 - USSR joins Intl Amateur Athletic Union
1948 - "Magdalena" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 48 performances
1948 - SS Kiangya hits mine in Whangpoo River China, sinks killing 2,750 die
1949 - Bob Gage ties NFL record of a 97 yard touchdown run
1951 - Copland/Robbins' "Pied Piper" premieres in NYC
1951 - Superheated gasses roll down Mount Catarman (Philippines), kills 500
1951 - Mir Waiz Maulvi Muhammad Yusouf is appointed President of Azad Kashmir Government.
1952 - Killer fogs begin in London England, "Smog" becomes a word
1952 - Walter P Reuther chosen chairman of CIO
1954 - "Hit the Trail" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 4 perfs
1954 - "On Your Toes" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 64 performances
1954 - The first Burger King is opened in Miami, Florida, USA
1955 - Mgr Alfrink installed as Archbishop of Utrecht
1956 - 22nd Heisman Trophy Award: Paul Hornung, Notre Dame (QB)
1957 - 1st edition of "Chase's Annual Events" published
1957 - 2 commuter trains collide in heavy fog killing 92 (St John's, England)
1958 - Dahomey (Benin), Ivory Coast become autonomous within French Community
1958 - Finnish government of Fagerholm resigns
1961 - Floyd Patterson KOs Tom McNeeley in 4 for heavyweight boxing title
1961 - Museum of Modern Art hangs Matisse's Le Bateau upside down for 47 days
1961 - Smallest NY Knick, 49th St Madison Square Garden crowd-1,300 (snowstorm)
1961 - Tanganyika becomes 104th member of UN
1961 - WXGA TV channel 8 in Waycross, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1961 - The female contraceptive 'pill' becomes available on the National Health Service in Britain
1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 - Aldo Moro forms Italian government (1963-1968)
1963 - Pope Paul VI closes 2nd session of 2nd Vatican Council
1964 - Baseball approves a free-agent draft
1964 - Beatles release "Beatles For Sale" album
1964 - Commissioner's office given full powers in baseball disputes
1964 - Test Cricket debut of Ian Chappell, v Pakistan MCG, 11, 0-49, 0-31
1965 - "Roar of the Greasepaint" closes at Shubert NYC after 232 perfs
1965 - 2 passenger planes collide above Danbury, Conn, 4 die
1965 - 2nd NY Knick game postponed (due to death of opponent 76ers' owner)
1965 - Gemini 7 (Borman & Lovell) launched
1965 - SF Giant Masanori Murakami, 4-1 this year, does not renew his contract signing instead with
           the Nankai Hawks of Osaka for $40,000
1966 - KETS TV channel 2 in Little Rock, AR (PBS) begins broadcasting
1966 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Pensacola Ladies Golf Invitational
1970 - Unemployment in US increases to 5.8%
1971 - The UN Security Council calls an emergency session to consider the deteriorating situation
           between India and Pakistan.
1971 - The Indian Navy attacks the Pakistan Navy and Karachi.
1973 - Pioneer 10 reaches Jupiter
1974 - Dutch DC-8 charter crashes in Sri Lanka killing 191 Moslem pilgrims
1974 - Jean-Paul Sartre visits Red Army Faction leader Andreas Baader in prison
1975 - 6 South Molukkans occupy Indonesian consulate in The Hague, 1 dead
1977 - Hollis Stacy/Jerry Pate wins Pepsi-Cola Mixed Team Golf Championship
1977 - Jean-Bedel Bokassa crowns himself ruler of Central African Empire
1977 - NFL's 5,000th game, Cincinnati beats KC 27-7
1977 - Neil Simon's "Chapter Two" premieres in NYC
1978 - Dianne Feinstein is named SF 1st female mayor
1978 - Dutch war criminal Pieter Menten freed
1978 - Pioneer Venus 1 goes into orbit around Venus
1979 - Cleveland Cavaliers retire jersey # 7, Bingo Smith
1980 - 2 months after death of drummer John Bonham, Led Zeppelin breaks up
1980 - Islanders end 15 game undefeated streak (13-0-2) (Col Rockies)
1981 - "Falcon Crest" premieres on CBS-TV
1981 - Reagan Executive Order on Intelligence (No 12333) that allows CIA to engage in domestic
           counter-intelligence
1981 - According to South Africa, Ciskei gains independence Not recognized as an independent
           country outside South Africa
1982 - 48th Heisman Trophy Award: Herschel Walker, Georgia (RB)
1982 - China adopts its constitution
1982 - Police & racist demonstrators clash in Antwerp
1983 - "Amen Corner" closes at Nederlander Theater NYC after 83 performances
1983 - "Baby" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 241 performances
1983 - David Shire & R Maltby Jr's musical "Baby" premieres in NYC
1983 - NJ Devils 1st shut-out, beating Minnesota Detroit Red Wings 6-0
1983 - US jet fighters strike Syrian anti-aircraft positions in Lebanon
1984 - Hijackers commandeered a Kuwaiti airliner
1984 - Hezbollah militants hijack a Kuwait Airlines plane, killing four passengers.
1985 - "Les Miserables" opens at Palace Theatre, London
1985 - French President Mitterrand receives Polish leader Jaruzelski
1985 - President Reagan appoints Vice Adm John Poindexter as security adviser
1986 - NASA launches Fltsatcom-7
1986 - Neil Simon's "Broadway Bound" premieres in NYC
1987 - Karlstad skates world record 10 km (13:48.51)
1988 - Actor Gary Busey critically injured in motorcycle crash
1988 - Amy Benz/John Huston wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
1988 - Orioles trade veteran 1B Eddie Murray to the Dodgers
1988 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1990 - Due to Persian Gulf crisis gas hits $1.60 per gallon price in NYC
1990 - Iraq announces it will release all 3,300 Soviet hostages
1991 - Judds final concert (Nashville)
1991 - Muslim Shites release last US hostage Terry Anderson (held 6½ years)
1991 - Pan American World Airways ceased operations
1991 - Patricia Bowman testifies that William Kennedy Smith raped her
1992 - Somali Civil War: President George H. W. Bush orders 28,000 US troops to Somalia in
           Northeast Africa.
1993 - Dan Jansen skates world record 500m (35.92 sec)
1993 - Johann Koss skates world record 5K (6:35.53)
1993 - A truce is concluded between the government of Angola and UNITA rebels.
1994 - "Angels in America-Perestroika" closes at W Kerr NYC after 216 perfs
1994 - "Angels in America-Millennium Approach" closes at Kerr after 367 perfs
1994 - 83rd Davis Cup: Sweden beats Russia in Moscow (4-1)
1994 - Marta Figueras-Dottie/Brad Bryant wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
1995 - Atherton (185*) bats for 643 minutes to save Johannesburg Test
1996 - 7th Billboard Music Awards
1996 - NASA's 1st Mars rover launched from Cape Canaveral
1996 - Orlando Magic tie NBA record of fewest ponts scored since inception of 24 second clock losing
           to Cleveland Cavalier, 84-57
1997 - "Diary of Anne Frank" opens at Music Box Theater NYC
1997 - NBA suspends Latrell Sprewell for 1 year for attacking his coach
1998 - The Unity Module, the second module of the International Space Station, is launched.
2005 - Tens of thousands of people in Hong Kong protest for democracy and call on the Government
           to allow universal and equal suffrage.
2006 - An adult giant squid is caught on video by Kubodera near the Ogasawara Islands, 1,000 km
           (620 miles) south of Tokyo.
2012 - 29 people are killed by a mortar attack in Bteeha, Syria
2012 - Typhoon Bopha makes landfall in the Philippines killing at least 81 people

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 04, 2013, 01:59:51 PM

This Day in History for 4th December


Famous Weddings

1976 - Liz Taylor's 7th marriage (John Warner)
1979 - Liza Minnelli's 3rd marriage (Mark Gero)
1999 - Philippe, Duke of Brabant and heir apparent to Belgium throne marries the honourable
           Mathilde d'Udekem d'Acoz
2005 - 2004 Olympic volleyball team member Kerri Walsh (27) weds fellow volleyball player Casey
           Jennings (30) at the La Quinta Resort in Palm Springs, California
2012 - "Teen Mom 2" star Jenelle Evans (21) weds Courtland Rogers (26) at a courthouse in
           Brunswick County, North Carolina

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 04, 2013, 02:20:12 PM

This Day in History for 4th December


Famous Birthdays

(http://i.historyorb.com/thomas-carlyle.jpg)                  (http://i.historyorb.com/francisco-franco.jpg)                 (http://i.historyorb.com/tyra-banks.jpg)
Historian and Essayist                  Spanish Dictator Francisco Franco (1892)            Supwemodel/Actress
 Thomas Carlyle (1795)                                                                                           Tyra Banks (1973)


1555 - Heinrich Meibom, German historian and poet (d. 1625)
1580 - Samuel Argall, English adventurer and naval officer (d. 1626)
1584 - John Cotton, Puritan clergyman in Mass Bay colony
1595 - Jean Chapelain, French writer (d. 1674)
1646 - Alain Emmanuel de Coëtlogon, Marshal of France (d. 1730)
1660 - Andre Campra, composer
1667 - Michel Pignolet de Monteclair, composer
1670 - John Aislabie, English politician (d. 1742)
1708 - Marianus Konigsperger, composer
1711 - Barbara of Portugal, queen of Spain (d. 1758)
1713 - Gasparo Gozzi, Italian critic and dramatist (d. 1786)
1720 - Jean-Jacques Robson, composer
1777 - Juliette Récamier, French socialite (d. 1849)
1786 - John LA Luyten, Catholic Member of Dutch 2nd parliament [or 12/14]
1791 - Johann Gottlob Topfer, composer
1795 - Thomas Carlyle, Scotland, essayist/historian (French Revolution)
1798 - Jules Armand Dufaure, French statesman (d. 1881)
1800 - Emil Aarestrup, Danish physician/poet (Ritornellen)
1803 - Augustus Zerega diZerega, Martinique, ship owner (Red Z Lane)
1808 - Ernest Panckoucke, French publisher (Horatius)
1812 - Elias Smith Dennis, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died 1894
1818 - William Wing "Old Blizzards" Loring, Mjr Gen (Confederate Army)
1822 - Frances Crabbe, England, feminist founded Anti-Vivisection Society
1825 - Hynek Ignac Frantisek Vojacek, composer
1835 - Samuel Butler, England, author (Erewhom, Way of All Flesh)
1838 - Melesio Morales, composer
1840 - Crazy Horse, Oglala Sioux chief (d. 1877)
1844 - Franz Xavier Wernz, German Superior General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1914)
1852 - Orest Khvolson, Russian physicist (d. 1934)
1858 - Billy Gunn, cricketer (Notts & England batsman in 11 Tests 1886-99)
1861 - Lillian Russell, [Helen Leonard], US, singer/actress (Great Mogul)
1865 - Edith Louisa Cavell, England, nurse (WW I)
1866 - Vassily V Kandinsky, Russ/Ger/Fr abstract painter (Dreamy Inspiration)
1868 - Richard N Roland Holst, Dutch artist/painter
1868 - Jesse Burkett, American baseball player (d. 1953)
1874 - Jean H L Bossard, actor/impresario (Merchant of Venice)
1875 - Rainer Maria Rilke, Austria, poet (Duino Elegies)
1875 - Joe Corbett, American baseball player (d. 1945)
1876 - Dimitur Poljanov, [Popov], Bulgaria, poet (Iron Poems)
1879 - Herbert Hamilton Harty, composer
1881 - Erwin von Witzleben, German fieldmarshal (July 20th plot)
1883 - Katharine Susannah Prichard, Australian author (d. 1969)
1888 - Aleksandar I Karadordjevic, king of Yugoslavia (1921-34)
1889 - Buck Jones, [Charles F Gebhart], US actor (War Horse)
1889 - Isabel Randolph, IL, actress (Fuller Brush Girl, Our Miss Brooks)
1892 - Francisco Franco, Ferrol, Galicia Spanish General/dictator (1936-75), (d. 1975)
1895 - Nils FA Nilsson Piraten, Swedish writer (Bombi Bitt Och Jag)
1895 - Fung Yu-lan, Chinese philosopher (d. 1990)
1896 - Nikolai S Tichonov, Russian writer (against Pasternak) [NS]
1897 - Mari Andriessen, Dutch sculptor (Dock Worker)
1899 - Douwe Hermans Kiestra, [Harm Harmstra], Frisian farmer/writer
1899 - Charles William (Charlie) Spencer Newcastle and England football player (d. 1953)
1903 - Alfred Leslie Rowse, historian
1903 - Cornell Woolrich, US, writer (El Angel Negro)
1905 - Emilio Médici, president Brazil (1969-74)
1907 - Jo Boer, Dutch author (Catharina & the Magnolias)
1908 - A D Hershey, US, biologist, worked with bacteriophages (Nobel 1969)
1909 - Jimmy Jewel, English actor (d. 1995)
1910 - Alex North, Chester Penn, composer (Spartacus, Viva Zapata)
1910 - Amar Singh, cricketer (dashing Indian all-rounder of thirties)
1910 - Ramaswamy Venkataraman, president of India (1987-92)
1912 - Alfons "Alphons" Berckmans, Flemish/British actor (Family Stastok)
1912 - Jack Walsh, NSW/Leicestershire cricket china bowler (didn't rep Aust)
1912 - John W Pritchard, [Ian Wallace], US, sci-fi author (Megalomania)
1912 - Pappy Boyington, American pilot (d. 1988)
1914 - Rudolf Hausner, Austrian artist (d. 1995)
1914 - Claude Renoir, French cinematographer (d. 1993)
1915 - Allan Jackson, Hot Springs Ark, newscaster (Youth Takes a Stand)
1915 - Fred Freer, cricketer (Australian pace bowler played one Test in 1946)
1916 - Ely Jacques Kahn, Jr., American writer (d. 1994)
1920 - Michael Bates, Jhansi India, actor (Clockwork Orange, Patton)
1920 - Jeanne Manford, Flushing, Queens, gay rights activist, (d. 2013)
1921 - Deanna Durbin, Winnipeg Manitoba, actress/vocalist (100 Men & a Girl), (d. 2013)
1922 - Gerard Philipe, Cannes France, actor (Caligula, Le Diable au Corps)
1923 - Charles Keating, district attorney (Los Angeles California)
1924 - John Portman, SC, architect (Ivan Allen Award-1964)
1925 - Maurice Binder, NYC, photographer/film titler (James Bond)
1926 - Lee Doraey, rocker
1928 - Russell L Rogers, USAF/astronaut (X-20)
1928 - Dena Dietrich, American actress
1930 - Harvey Kuenn, baseball player (AL Rookie of the Year-1953)
1930 - Paul-Heinz Dittrich, composer
1930 - Roman Semyonovich Ledenyou, composer
1930 - Ronnie Corbett, England, comedian (2 Ronnies)
1930 - Jim Hall, American jazz guitarist
1931 - Alex Delvecchio, Canadian ice hockey player
1931 - Wally George, American TV commentator (d. 2003)
1932 - Edgar Valcarcel, composer
1932 - Joanne Battiste, artist (heroines)
1932 - Roh Tae Woo, Taegu South Korea, President South Korea (1988-93)
1933 - Horst Buchholz, Berlin Germany, actor (Magnificent 7, Raid on Entebbe)
1934 - Victor French, Santa Barbara California, actor (Highway to Heaven)
1934 - Wink Martindale, Jackson Tn, TV host (Tic-Tac-Dough, Can You Top This)
1935 - Fred Rumsey, England, cricket lefty pace bowler (5 Tests 1964-65)
1935 - Robert Vesco, American financier and fugitive
1936 - Larry Davis, blues singer/guitarist
1937 - Max Baer Jr, Oakland California, actor (Jethro-Beverly Hillbillies)
1938 - Andre Marrou, Libertarian Presidential candidate (1992)
1938 - Liesbeth Struppert, actress (Miep Gies-Anne Frank)
1938 - Lynn Blessing, vibes Player
1938 - Yvonne Minton, Australian soprano
1940 - Freddy Cannon, [Picariello], Lynn Ma, rocker (Palisades Park)
1940 - Gary Gilmore, American murderer (d. 1977)
1941 - Humberto Solas, director/writer (Lucia)
1941 - Raul Blanco, Australian soccer asst coach (Olyroos, Olympics-96)
1942 - Bob Mosley, Paradise Valley CA, rock bassist (Moby Grape)
1942 - Gemma Jones, English actress
1943 - Patti Chandler, California, actress (Bikini Beach)
1944 - Chris Hillman, San Diego Caliafornia, singer (Byrds-Turn Turn Turn)
1944 - Dennis Wilson, Hawthorne CA, drummer/vocalist (Beach Boys-My Room)
1944 - François Migault, French racing driver
1945 - Michael Gerzon, mathematician
1945 - Pam Higgins, LPGA golfer
1945 - Roberta Lynn Bondar, Ontario, astronaut (STS 42)
1947 - Ursula Krechel, writer
1947 - Terry Woods, Irish musician (The Pogues, Steeleye Span)
1948 - Lin Onus, artist
1948 - Southside Johnny Lyon, NJ, rocker (Asbury Jukes-Don't Want Go Home)
1949 - Jeff Bridges, Los Angeles California, actor (Stay Hungry, Against All Odds)
1949 - Mary Bea Porter-King, Everett WA, LPGA golfer (1975 Golf Inns Classic)
1949 - Russ Karel, director
1949 - Pamela Stephenson, New Zealand-born Australian actress (Superman 3, Sat Night Live)
1950 - Jan Rietman, Dutch radio/TV host
1950 - Karel van de Graf, Dutch TV host
1951 - Gary Rossington, rocker (Lynyrd Skynyrd, Rossington-Collins Band)
1951 - Patricia Wettig, Cincinnati Ohio, actress (Nancy Weston-30 Something)
1952 - Ronald Michael Sega, Cleve Ohio, PhD/Astronaut (STS 60, 76)
1953 - Rick Middleton, Canadian ice hockey player
1954 - Tony Todd, American actor and producer
1955 - Brian Prout, Troy NY, singer (Diamond Rio-Meet in the Middle)
1955 - Cassandra Wilson, jazz singer
1955 - Dave Taylor, Canadian ice hockey player
1956 - Bernard King, basketball player (NY Knicks, NJ Nets)
1956 - Blagoi Blagoyev, Bulgaria, 82.5 kg weightlifer (Olympics-silver-1976)
1956 - Herbert Groenemeyer, Germany, rocker (OE, Luxus, Chaos, Spruenge)
1957 - Lee Smith, Jamestown LA, pitcher (Cin Reds)
1957 - Raul Boesel, Brazil, Indy-car racer (CART)
1957 - Eric S. Raymond, American open source advocate
1958 - Bill Roy, Versailles Ill, skeet (Olympics-1996)
1959 - Susan W Krebs, American politician
1959 - Paul McGrath, Irish footballer
1960 - David Green, American baseball player
1960 - Glynis Nunn, Australian athlete
1961 - Frank Reich, Freeport, New York, American NFL quarterback (Buffalo Bills, Detroit Lions)
1962 - Arnold Scholten, soccer player (Feyenoord)
1962 - John Gaasbeek, soccer player (FC Twente/NAC)
1962 - Stan Gelbaugh, NFL quarterback (Seattle Seahawks)
1962 - Kevin Richardson, English footballest
1963 - Johanna Wright, Raleigh NC, WPVA volleyballer (Pismo Beach-4th)
1963 - Mike Snoei, soccer player (Sparta)
1963 - Sergey Bubka, Ukraine, pole vaulter (Olympics-gold-88, 92)
1964 - Bill Peterson, Smithfield NC, WLAF general mgr (Amsterdam Admirals)
1964 - Marisa Tomei, Brooklyn New York, American actress (My Cousin Vinny)
1964 - Sertab Erener, Turkish singer
1964 - Jonathan Goldstein, American actor
1965 - Rob Smits, pop drummer (Kong/Phlegm)
1965 - Álex de la Iglesia, Spanish film director
1966 - Fred Armisen, American actor and musician
1966 - Masta Ace, American rapper
1966 - Suzanne Malveaux, American television news reporter
1966 - Chris Shepherd, English film director
1967 - Klaus Wilmsmeyer, NFL punter (NO Saints)
1967 - Martha O'Kelley, US softball infielder (Olympics-gold-96)
1968 - Mike Barrowman, Costa Mesa CA, kayak/200m breast stroke (Oly-g-92, 96)
1969 - Ferric Collons, NFL defensive end (New England Patriots)
1969 - Jacques Landry, Saskatoon Saskatchawan, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1969 - Marie-Josee Morneau, Longueuil Quebec, 56 kg judoka (Olympics-96)
1969 - Mik Middleton, WLAF safety (Barcelona Dragons)
1969 - Terry Glenn, wide reciever (New England Patriots)
1969 - Jay-Z, Brooklyn, New York City, American rapper (Reasonable Doubt, The Blueprint)
1970 - Jeff Blake, NFL quarterback (Cincinnati Bengals)
1970 - Kevin Sussman, American actor
1970 - Sylvester Terkay, American wrestler
1971 - Terrence Wisdom, NFL/WLAF guard/center (NY Jets, London Monarchs)
1971 - Shannon Briggs, American boxer
1972 - Damien Covington, NFL linebacker (Buffalo Bills)
1972 - Howard Eisley, NBA guard (Utah Jazz)
1972 - Jassen Cullimore, Simcoe, NHL defenseman (Vancouver Canucks)
1972 - Jude St John, CFL offensive linebacker (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1972 - Kerry Anne Guse, Brisbane Queensland, tennis star (1996 final Hobart)
1972 - Ted Johnson, NFL inside linebacker (NE Patriots)
1972 - Nikki Tyler, American actress
1973 - Corliss Williamson, NBA forward (Sacramento Kings)
1973 - Tyra Banks, Inglewood, California, model/actress (Higher Learning, Fresh Prince of Bel Air)
1973 - Racci Shay, American Musician
1973 - Ferry Corsten, Dutch musician and DJ
1973 - Steven Menzies, Australian rugby league footballer
1973 - Kate Rusby, English folk singer
1974 - Anke Huber, Bruchsal Germany, tennis star (1996 finalist Australian)
1974 - Tadahito Iguchi, Japanese baseball player
1976 - John Lee, Chicago Ill, dance skater (& Julia Bikbova)
1976 - Amie Comeaux, American singer (d. 1997)
1977 - Emily Ballard, Miss Washington Teen USA (1996)
1977 - Shahid Nazir, cricketer (Pakistan Test fast bowler v Zimbabwe 1996)
1977 - Big Pokey, American rapper
1978 - Michele Di Piedi, Italian footballer
1978 - Jaclyn Victor, Malaysian singer
1979 - Jay DeMerit, American soccer player
1982 - Ho-Pin Tung, Dutch-Chinese racing driver
1983 - Jimmy Bartel, Australian rules footballer
1984 - Brooke Adams, American model
1984 - Lindsay Felton, American actress
1984 - Lauren London, American actress
1985 - Andrew Brackman, American baseball player
1985 - Carlos Gómez, Dominican baseball player
1986 - Martell Webster, American basketball player
1998 - Olawoyin Olufemi, Nigerian Musician

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 04, 2013, 02:24:11 PM

This Day in History for 4th December


Famous Deaths

(http://i.historyorb.com/thomas-hobbes.jpg)                  (http://i.historyorb.com/hannah-arendt.jpg)
Philosopher                                    Political Theorist Hannah Arendt (1975)
Thomas Hobbes (1679)


765 - Jafar Sadiq, Shia Imam (b. 702)
811 - Charles The Younger, King the of Franks, son of the Emperor Charlemagne, dies at about 39
1075 - Archbishop Anno II of Cologne
1123 - Omar Khayyám, Persian poet, astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher (b. 1048)
1137 - Lotharius III of Supplinburg, emperor (1125, 33-37), dies at 67
1182 - Henry, earl of Gelre/Zutphen (1141/79-82), dies
1214 - William I of Scotland
1270 - Theobald V of Champagne, King of Navarre
1334 - Pope John XXII (b. 1249)
1340 - Henry Burghersh, English bishop and chancellor (b. 1292)
1371 - Reinald III, the Fat Duke, duke of Gelre (1343-61), dies at 38
1371 - Stefanus X Uros V, king of Serbia (1355-71), dies
1459 - Adolf VIII, Duke of Southern Jutland (b. 1401)
1514 - Richard Hunne, English "heretic", commits suicide(?)
1576 - Rheticus, mathematician, dies
1585 - John Willock, Scottish reformer
1603 - Maarten de Vos, Flemish painter, dies at about 71
1609 - Alexander Hume, Scottish poet
1642 - Armand-Jean Duplessis Richelieu, bishop of Lucon, dies at about 57
1649 - Outgert Arisz Akersloot, Dutch silversmith, dies at about 73
1649 - William Drummond of Hawthornden, Scottish poet (b. 1585)
1676 - Johann Georg Ebeling, composer, dies at 39
1679 - Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher (b. 1588)
1680 - Thomas Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and theologian (b. 1616)
1696 - Empress Meishō, Japan (b. 1624)
1732 - John Gay, English poet (Beggar's Opera), dies at 47
1798 - Luigi Galvani, Italian anatomy/physicist, dies at 61
1807 - Prince Hall, activist/Masonic leader, dies in Boston
1828 - Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1770)
1836 - Daniel Read, composer, dies at 79
1884 - Alice Mary Smith, composer, dies at 45
1890 - Willem III, Dutch king, buried
1893 - Allan Wilson, British/Rhodesian Major, dies in battle against the Ndebeles during First Matabele War
1902 - Charles Dow, American journalist (Dow Jones & Company - Wall Street Journal) (b. 1851)
1909 - Paul-Albert Besnard, French painter/graphic artist (Elle), dies at 60
1915 - Gustav Hollaender, composer, dies at 60
1926 - Ivana Kobilca, Slovenian-born painter (b. 1861)
1932 - Gustav Meyrink, writer, dies at 64
1933 - Stefan George, German poet (Das neue Reich), dies at 65
1935 - Hylton Philipson, cricketer (England keeper in 5 Tests 1892-95), dies
1935 - Johan Halvorsen, composer, dies at 71
1938 - Dina Appeldoorn, Dutch pianist/composer, dies at 54
1943 - Carlo Mierendorff, German politician/antifascist, dies at 46
1944 - Roger Bresnahan, American baseball player (b. 1879)
1945 - Thomas Hunt Morgan, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (b. 1866)
1948 - Karl Bonhoeffer, German psychiatrist/neurologist, dies
1952 - Karen Horney, German/US neo freudian psycho analyst, dies at 67
1953 - Daniel Gregory Mason, composer, dies at 80
1954 - Nina Vasar, wife of Russian composer Dmitri Sjostakovitsj, dies
1956 - Alexandr Rodchenko, Russian painter and photographer (b. 1891)
1959 - Rosetta Duncan, (Duncan Sisters), dies in an auto accident at 58
1967 - Bert Lahr, [Irving Lahrheim], US comic (Wizard of Oz), dies at 72
1969 - Alceo Toni, composer, dies at 85
1969 - Fred Hampton, US Black-Panther leader, murdered
1971 - Shunryu Suzuki, Zen teacher, founder of SF Zen Center, dies
1973 - Michael O'Shea, actor (Smart Woman), dies of heart attack at 67
1974 - Lee Kinsolving, actor (Explosive Generation), dies at 36
1975 - Hannah Arendt, German/US political theorist and historian, dies at 69
1976 - Benjamin Britten, British composer (Beggar's Opera), dies at 63
1976 - Tommy Bolin, rock guitarist (Deep Purple), dies of heroin overdose
1976 - W. F. McCoy, Northern Irish politician (b. 1886)
1977 - Leila Hyams, actress (Red Headed Woman, Freaks), dies at 72
1978 - Samuel Abraham Goldsmith, Neth/US phycists, dies at 76
1979 - Robert Karnes, actor (Max-The Lawless Years), dies at 62
1980 - Stella Walsh-S-Walasiewicz, sprinter (Olympic-gold-1932), shot at 69
1983 - Estelle Omens, actress (Effect of Gamma Rays), dies at 55
1984 - John Rock, US co-developer of anti-conceptiepil, dies at 94
1985 - Marcel Boereboom, Belgian musicologist, dies at 83
1986 - Reuben Nakian, US sculptor, dies at 89
1987 - Rouben Mamoulian, dir (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde), dies at 90
1988 - Osman Achmatowicz, Polish chemist (b. 1899)
1990 - Edward Binns, US actor (12 Angry One), dies of heart attack at 74
1993 - Frank Sturgis, watergate burglar, dies at 68
1993 - Frank V Zappa, US music/composer (Mothers of Invention), dies at 52
1993 - Hetty de Boer-Jongkind, Dutch medical astrologist, dies at 42
1993 - Margaret Landon, US author (Anna & the King of Siam), dies at 90
1994 - Geoffery Rudolph Elton, historiographer, dies at 73
1994 - Jakob Kaplan, French head rabbi (1955-81), dies at 99
1994 - Julio Ramon Ribeyro, Peruvian playwright, dies at 66
1994 - Robert Jesse Charleston, museum curator, dies at 78
1994 - Thomas Roy Garrett, museum curator, dies at 63
1995 - Adrianne Jones, killed by David Graham & Diane Zamora, at 16
1995 - Itzhak Rabin, PM of Israel (1968-73), assassinated
1996 - Basil Nield, judge/politician, dies at 83
1996 - Muriel Monkhouse, Red Cross worker, dies at 86
1997 - David Abell Wood, priest, dies at 72
1997 - Richard Vernon, British actor (Gandhi, Hard Days Night), dies at 72
1999 - Rose Bird, American judge (b. 1936)
2003 - Iggy Katona, American race car driver (b. 1916)
2004 - Elena Souliotis, Greek soprano (b. 1943)
2005 - Errol Brathwaite, New Zealand author (b. 1924)
2005 - Gregg Hoffman, American film producer (b.1963)
2005 - Gloria Lasso, French-Spanish singer (b. 1922)
2006 - James Kim, American television personality (b. 1971)
2007 - Norval Morrisseau, Canadian artist (b. 1932)
2007 - Chip Reese, American professional poker player (b. 1951)
2007 - Pimp C, American Rapper (b. 1973)
2009 - Eddie Fatu, Samoan-American professional wrestler (b. 1973)
2011 - Sócrates, Brazilian footballer (b. 1954)
2011 - Hubert Sumlin, American blues guitarist (b. 1931)
2012 - Vasily Belov, Russian author, dies at 80
2012 - Jack Brooks , American politician, dies at 89
2012 - Miguel Calero, Colombia footballer, dies from cerebral thrombosis at 41
2012 - Besse Cooper, American supercentenarian and world

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 05, 2013, 04:12:22 PM

This Day in History for 5th December


Historical Events

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Explorer of the New World                      US President & General                  Theoretical Physicist Albert Einstein
Christopher Columbus                              Andrew Jackson

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33rd US President                             Civil Rights Activist Rosa Lee Parks                Pediatrician Benjamin Spock
Harry Truman

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Musician & member of the Beatles           NFL Running Back and                         Absolute monarch Nicholas II
Paul McCartney                                         Convicted Criminal
                                                                      OJ Simpson


63 BC - Cicero reads the last of his Catiline Orations.
663 - Fourth Council of Toledo takes place.
771 - Charlemagne becomes the sole King of the Franks after the death of his brother Carloman.
1082 - Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona is assassinated.
1301 - Pope Boniface VIII's degree Ausculta fili (only nominee)
1349 - 500 Jews of Nuremberg massacre during Black Death riots
1360 - The French Franc is created.
1408 - Emir Edigu of Golden Horde reaches Moscow.
1448 - Bishop Jona of Moscow chosen as metropolitan of Kiev/Intoxication
1456 - Earthquake strikes Naples; about 35,000 die
1492 - Columbus discovers Hispaniola (El Espanola/Haiti)
1496 - Jews are expelled from Portugal by order of King Manuel I
1590 - Niccolo Sfondrati chosen as Pope Gregory XIV
1602 - Giulio Caccini's "Euridice," premieres in Florence
1741 - -6] Russian princess Elisabeth Petrovna grabs powers
1746 - Revolt in Genoa against Spanish rule.
1757 - Battle of Leuthen: Prussian army beats Austrians
1766 - London auctioneers Christie's hold their first sale
1775 - At Fort Ticonderoga, Henry Knox begins his historic transport of artillery to Cambridge,
           Massachusetts.
1776 - 1st US fraternity, Phi Beta Kappa (William & Mary College), forms
1792 - George Washington re-elected as US president
1798 - Dutch troops occupy Hasselt
1804 - Thomas Jefferson re-elected US pres/George Clinton vice-pres
1813 - Lübeck surrenders to allied armies
1815 - Foundation of Maceió in Brazil.
1830 - Hector Berlioz' "Symphonique Fantastique" premieres in Paris
1831 - Former US President John Q Adams takes his seat as a member of House of Representatives
1832 - Andrew Jackson re-elected President of US
1835 - - 10th: Assault on Mexican-held San Antonio by Texan rebels
1837 - Hector Berlioz' "Requiem" premieres
1837 - Uprising under William Lyon Mackenzie in Canada
1846 - C F Schoenbein obtains patent for cellulose nitrate explosive
1847 - Jefferson Davis is elected to the US senate, his first political post.
1848 - Pres Polk triggers Gold Rush of 1849, confirms California gold discovery
1854 - Aaron Allen of Boston patents folding theater chair
1859 - Dion Boucicault's "Octaroon" premieres in NYC
1862 - Battle of Coffeeville, MS
1865 - Chincha Islands War: Peru allies with Chile against Spain.
1868 - 1st American bicycle college opens (NY)
1876 - Daniel Stillson (Mass) patents 1st practical pipe wrench
1876 - Fire at Brooklyn Theater kills 295, trampled or burned to death
1879 - 1st automatic telephone switching system patented
1881 - 47th Congress (1881-83) convenes
1887 - Stanley's expedition reaches plateau at Lake Albert Congo
1890 - Berlioz' opera "Les Troyens" premieres in Karlsruhe
1892 - Anti-semite Hermann Ahlwardt elected to Germany's Reichstag
1892 - Sir John Thompson becomes the fourth Prime Minister of Canada.
1893 - 1st electric car (built in Toronto) could go 15 miles between charges
1894 - Georges Feydeaus' "L'hôtel du libre échange" premieres in Paris
1896 - Henrik Ibsen's "Kejsor og Galileer" premieres in Leipzig
1905 - Henry Campbell-Bannermam (Lib) becomes UK PM
1906 - British government of Balfour resigns
1908 - 1st US football uniform numerals used (University of Pittsburgh)
1914 - 6th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats U of Toronto, 14-2
1914 - The Italian Parliament proclaims the neutrality of the country.
1918 - Oil refinery on Curacao opens
1920 - Pro football playoff game Akron & Buffalo 0-0 tie, title undecided
1920 - Dimitrios Rallis forms a government in Greece.
1924 - Hamilton Tiger Red Green scores 5 goals to beat Tor Maple Leafs 10-5
1925 - 13th CFL Grey Cup: Ottawa Senators defeats Win Tammany Tigers, 24-1
1925 - German government of Luther falls
1926 - Sergei Eisenstein's "Battleship Potemkin" debuts
1928 - England defeats Australia by record 675 runs at Brisbane
1928 - MW Miklas elected president of Austria
1929 - 1st US nudist organization (American League for Physical Culture, NYC)
1931 - CFL Grey Cup: Mtl AAA beats Regina, 22-0 at Montreal
1932 - German physicist Albert Einstein granted a visa to enter America
1933 - 21st Am ratified, 18th Amendment (Prohibition) repealed (5:32 PM EST)
1935 - 1st coml hydroponics operation established (Montebello California)
1935 - National Council of Negro Women forms by Mary McLeod Bethune (NYC)
1936 - 24th CFL Grey Cup: Sarnia Imperials defeats Ottawa Rough Riders, 26-20
1936 - Armenian SSR, Azerbaijan SSR, Georgian SSR, Kazakh SSR & Kirghiz SSR becomes
           constituent republics of Soviet Union
1941 - Football Writers Association of America organized
1941 - Patrick Hamilton's "Angel Street" premieres in NYC
1941 - Russian anti offensive in Moscow drives out nazi army
1941 - Sister Elizabeth Kenny new treatment for infantile paralysis approved
1941 - US aircraft carrier Lexington and 5 heavy cruisers leave Pearl Harbor
1942 - CFL Grey Cup: Tor beats Win RCAF, 8 -5 at Toronto
1942 - Seyss-Inquart orders students in nazi-Germany to work
1942 - West Indies chocolate/coffee drop above Netherland
1943 - NFL Phila Eagle-Pitts Steeler merger disolves
1944 - German troops steal all the silver coin in Utrecht
1945 - "Lost Squadron" crashes east of Florida (Bermuda Triangle)
1945 - Special Council of Annulment affirms death sentence of Max Blokzijl
1946 - Pres Harry Truman creates Committee on Civil Rights by Exec Order #9808
1947 - Joe Louis beats Jersey Joe Walcott in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1948 - NY Giant Charley Conerly sets NFL record of 36 pass completions
1949 - Ezzard Charles defeats Jersey Joe Walcott for heavyweight boxing title
1950 - Ezzard Charles KOs Nick Barone in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
1950 - Sikkim becomes a protectorate of India
1951 - "Dragnet" premieres
1952 - -8] worst smog in London ever, 4-8,000 die
1954 - KTEW (now KJRH) TV channel 2 in Tulsa, OK (NBC) begins broadcasting
1955 - AFL & CIO merge, with George Meany as president
1955 - Historic bus boycott begins in Montgomery Alabama by Rosa Parks
1955 - The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merge and
           form the AFL-CIO.
1956 - Thornton Wilder's "Matchmaker" premieres in NYC
1957 - William Inge's "Dark at the Top of the Stairs" premieres in NYC
1957 - NYC is 1st city to legislate against racial or religious discrimination in housing market (Fair
           Housing Practices Law)
1957 - Sukarno expels all Dutch people from Indonesia.
1958 - Phils drop plans for NY sportcast as Yanks threat to do same in Phila
1958 - WTOL TV channel 11 in Toledo, OH (CBS) begins broadcasting
1958 - Subscriber Trunk Dialling (STD) is inaugurated in the UK by Queen Elizabeth II when she
           speaks to the Lord Provost in a call from Bristol to Edinburgh.
1958 - The Preston bypass, the UK's first stretch of motorway, opens to traffic for the first time. It
           is now part of the M6 and M55 motorways.
1959 - Intikhab Alam bowls Colin McDonald with 1st ball in Tests
1960 - Ghana drops diplomatic relations with Belgium
1964 - Vietnam War: for his heroism in battle earlier in the year, Captain Roger Donlon is awarded
           the first Medal of Honor of the war.
1966 - "I Do! I Do!" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 561 performances
1967 - Beatles clothing store "Apple" on 94 Baker Street, London, opens
1967 - Benjamin Spock & Allen Ginsberg arrested protesting against Vietnam war
1968 - Rolling Stones release "Beggar's Banquet" LP
1969 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1970 - LA Rams Willie Ellison sets NFL record of 247 yards rushing
1970 - Stanley Cup, Conn Smythe Trophy & Bill Masterson trophy stolen from NHL hall of fame
1970 - Premiere of Dario Fo's Morte accidentale di un anarchico.
1971 - KCBJ (now KMIZ) TV channel 17 in Columbia, MO (ABC) 1st broadcast
1972 - 38th Heisman Trophy Award: Johnny Rodgers, Nebraska (FL)
1972 - Australia Labour party wins parliamentary election
1972 - Joseph A Walker's "River Niger" premieres in NYC
1973 - Cubs' Ron Santo became 1st baseball player to veto his trade
1973 - Dodgers trade Willie Davis to Expos for relief pitcher Mike Marshall
1973 - Paul McCartney releases album "Band on the Run" album
1974 - 1st Wash Cap penalty shot, Tom Williams unsuccessful vs Buff Sabres
1974 - 1st World Football League Bowl, Birmingham Americans beat Florida
1974 - Airport terminal roof collapses killing 17 (Teheran Iran)
1974 - Monty Python's Flying Circus final episode airs on BBC
1974 - NFL's Seattle Seahawks forms
1974 - Oliver Tilden Triangle in the Bronx named
1974 - Tom Williams is unsuccessful on Wash Capitals 1st NHL penalty shot
1974 - Birmingham Americans defeat the Florida Blazers 22-21 in the WFL's World Bowl
1975 - "Me & Bessie" closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 453 performances
1975 - NASA launches space vehicle S-196, it failed
1976 - Buffalo Bill OJ Simpson rushes 203 yards
1977 - Egypt breaks dipl relations with Syria, Libya, Algeria, Iraq & S Yemen
1978 - EG decides establishes EMS, European Monetary System
1978 - Free agent Pete Rose signs 4-year, $32 million contract with Phillies
1978 - Phillies Pete Rose becomes highest paid baseball player
1978 - Pioneer Venus 1 begins orbiting Venus
1978 - Sam Shepard's "Buried Child" premieres in NYC
1978 - Islanders took 28 shots in 1 period vs Penguins Penguins' Ross Lonsberry failed on 7th
           penalty shot against Islanders
1979 - Ireland premier Jack Lynch resigns
1980 - Bank of Canada's Canadian Currency Museum opens
1981 - 47th Heisman Trophy Award: Marcus Allen, Southern Cal (RB)
1981 - 56th Australian Women Tennis: Navratilova beats Chris Evert (67 64 75)
1981 - France performs nuclear test
1982 - Cleveland Browns' Brian Sipe sets club record with 33 pass completions
1982 - Herschel Walker of Georgia wins Heisman Trophy
1982 - Ingrid Berghmans (Neth) retains judo's world championship
1982 - Mel Gray ends NFL streak of 121 consecutive game receptions
1982 - Seattle Univ Baptist Ch declares sanctuary for Cen Am refugees
1982 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1983 - 12 killed by a car bomb shattering 9-story building in west Beirut
1983 - LA Dodger pitcher Steve Howe is suspended for 1 year for cocaine use
1983 - ICIMOD established and inaugurated with its headquarters in Kathmandu, Nepal, and
           legitimised through an Act of Parliament in Nepal in the same year.
1984 - A's trade Rickey Henderson to Yankees for Jay Howell & Jose Rijo
1984 - French colonies killed 10 Kanaken in New Caledonia
1984 - Yankees trade catcher Rick Cerone to Braves for pitcher Brian Fisher
1985 - Dow Jones Industrial Average rose above 1,500 level for 1st time
1985 - Great Britain performs nuclear test
1985 - Sam Shepard's "Lie of the Mind" premieres in NYC
1987 - 53rd Heisman Trophy Award: Tim Brown, Notre Dame (WR)
1987 - David Boon's 5th Test Cricket century, 143 v NZ at Brisbane
1987 - Schonbrunn skates world record 3 km ladies (4:16.76)
1988 - NC federal grand jury indict PTL founder Jim Bakker on fraud & conspiracy
1988 - Shuttle Atlantis launches world's 1st nuclear-war-fighting satellite
1989 - France TGV train reaches world record speed of 482.4 kph
1990 - Blue Jays trade F McGriff & T Fernandez to SD for R Alomar & J Carter
1990 - Former Noriega aide Luis del Cid pleads guilty
1990 - Salman Rushdie, author, ordered to death by Iran for blasphemy, appears in public for 1st
           time in 2 years
1991 - "Catskills on Broadway" opens at Lunt-Fontanne NYC for 452 perfs
1991 - Charles Keating Jr (Lincoln Savings & Loan fraud), found guilty
1991 - NY Daily News files for protection under chapter 11
1993 - "Timon of Athens" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 37 performances
1993 - 82nd Davis Cup: Germany beats Australia in Dusseldorf (4-1)
1993 - Astronauts begin repair of Hubble telescope in space
1993 - Melissa Mcnamara/Mike Sopringer wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
1993 - Rafael Caldera elected president of Venezuela
1993 - The mayor of Wien (Vienna), Helmut Zilk, is wounded by a letter bomb.
1995 - The Sri Lankan government announces the conquest of Tamil stronghold of Jaffna.
1996 - "Dreams & Nightmares," opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC
1996 - Players union approves new collective bargaining agreement
1996 - Portland's Jermaine O'Neal, 18, becomes youngest NBA player
1997 - 1st Game at Wash Capitals' MCI Center vs Fla Panthers
1997 - STS 87 (Columbia 24) lands
2005 - The Lake Tanganyika earthquake causes significant damage, mostly in the Democratic
           Republic of the Congo.
2005 - The Civil Partnership Act comes into effect in the United Kingdom, and the first civil
           artnership is registered there.
2006 - Commodore Frank Bainimarama overthrows the government in Fiji.
2007 - Westroads Mall massacre: A gunman opens fire with a semi-automatic rifle at an Omaha,
           Nebraska mall, killing eight people before taking his own life.
2008 - Human remains previously found in 1991 are finally identified by Russian and American
           scientists as those of Tsar Nicholas II.
2008 - OJ Simpson is sentenced to 33 years in prison for kidnapping and armed robbery
2012 - 8 people are killed and 12 injured by a magnitude 5.6 earthquake in South Korea

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 05, 2013, 04:15:20 PM

This Day in History for 5th December


Famous Weddings

1932 - "East of Eden" director Elia Kazan (23) weds playwright Molly Day Thatcher (25)
1943 - Singer and actress Dinah Shore (27) weds actor George Montgomery (27)
1947 - "Spiderman" creator Stan Lee (24) weds Joan Clayton Boocock
1993 - Newhart actor William Sanderson (47) weds Sharon Wix (39)
2003 - Cold play band lead vocalist Chris Martin (35) weds actress singer Gwyneth Paltrow (39) at
           the San Ysidro Ranch in Montecito, California
2011 - American game show host and executive producer Jeff Probst (50) weds actress/model Lisa
           Ann Russell (40) at a private house in Los Angeles

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 05, 2013, 04:31:06 PM

This Day in History for 5th December


Famous Birthdays

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The Warrior Pope Julius II (1443)                US Cavalry Commander                       Animator Walt Disney (1901)
                                                               George Armstrong Custer (1839)

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Physicist and Nobel Laureate
Cecil Frank Powell (1903)


1377 - Jianwen Emperor of China (d. 1402)
1443 - Pope Julius II, Albisola, Republic of Genoa, Pope (1503-13), patron of Michelangelo, Bramante,
           Raphael, (d. 1513)
1495 - Nicolas Cleynaerts, Flemish grammarian (d. 1542)
1537 - Ashikaga Yoshiaki, Japanese shogun (d. 1597)
1539 - Fausto Paolo Sozzini, Italian theologian (d. 1604)
1545 - Janus Dousa, [Johan van de Does], Dutch politician/poet
1547 - Ubbo Emmius, [van Embden], Dutch-Frisian humanist/historian
1661 - Robert Haley, earl of Oxford/English premier (Whig, 1710-14)
1666 - Francesco Antonio Nicola Scarlotti, composer
1687 - Francesco Xaverio Geminiani, composer
1697 - Carlo Arrigoni, composer
1697 - Giuseppe de Majo, composer
1724 - Joseph Friebert, composer
1782 - Martin Van Buren, Kinderhook NY, (D) 8th pres (1837-41)
1786 - Henry Drummond, English banker/apostole
1803 - Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev, Russian poet (d. 1873)
1820 - Afanasy Fet, Russian poet (d. 1892)
1822 - Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, American college president (d. 1907)
1824 - Titian James Coffey, Atty Gen (Union), died in 1867
1826 - John Benjamin Sanborn, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1904
1829 - Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, French Canadian politician (d. 1908)
1830 - Christina Rossetti, London, poet (Winter Rain, Passing Away)
1839 - George Armstrong Custer, New Rumley, Ohio, Mjr General (Union volunteers), (d. 1876)
1841 - Marcus Daly, American mining tycoon (d. 1900)
1844 - John Frederick Bridge, composer
1852 - Thomas Linnemann Laub, composer
1855 - Clinton Hart Merriam, American ornithologist (d. 1942)
1859 - John Jellicoe, British admiral (d. 1935)
1861 - Armando V Diaz, Italian marshal/minister of War (1922-24)
1863 - Paul P Painlevé, French PM (1917, 1925), mathematician [OS]
1867 - Józef Piłsudski, Polish revolutionary and statesman (d. 1935)
1867 - Antti Aarne, Finnish folklorist (d. February 2, 1925)
1868 - Arnold Sommerfeld, German physicist (d. 1951)
1869 - Ellis Parker Butler, American author (d. 1937)
1870 - Vítězslav Novák, Czech composer (d. 1949)
1871 - Bill Pickett, American rodeo performer (d. 1932)
1872 - Harry N Pillsbury, US chess player
1875 - Sir Arthur Currie, Canadian soldier (d. 1933)
1878 - Arrigo Pedrollo, composer
1879 - Clyde Cessna, American airplane manufacturer (d. 1954)
1880 - Alexander Schmuller, Russian/Neth violinist/conductor
1884 - Evert Cornelis, Dutch conductor/pianist
1885 - Dirk H W Filarski, Dutch painter/lithographer (Bergense School)
1886 - Pieter J Old, lawyer/minister of Finance/mayor of Rotterdam (1945-52)
1888 - Askell Snorrason, composer
1890 - Fritz Lang, Germany, director (M, Metropolis)
1890 - David Bomberg, English painter (d. 1957)
1892 - Cyril Ring, MA, actor (Body & Soul)
1892 - Ferdinand Schörner, German field marshal (d. 1973)
1895 - Henriette H Bosmans, Dutch cellist/pianist/composer
1895 - Elbert Frank Cox, American mathematician (d. 1969)
1896 - (Lady Huxley) Juliette Baillot, author
1896 - Willem F M Lampe, Dutch ambassador of the Dutch Antilles
1897 - Nunnally Johnson, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1977)
1898 - Josh Malihabadi, Urdu poet of India and Pakistan (d. 1982)
1898 - Grace Moore, Slabtown, Tennessee, American soprano (One Night of Love)
1899 - Sonny Boy Williamson, [Aleck Miller], blues player
1901 - Hanns Jelinek, composer
1901 - Walter Elias Disney, Chicago, animator (Mickey Mouse), (d. 1966)
1901 - Werner Heisenberg, German physicist/discovered uncertainty (Nobel 32)
1901 - Milton H. Erickson, American psychiatrist (d. 1980)
1902 - [Steve James] Strom Thurmond, (Sen-D/R-SC)
1903 - Cecil Frank Powell, Tonbridge, Kent, physicist, discovered pion (Nobel 1950), (d.1969)
1905 - Otto Preminger, Austria, director/producer (Laura, Exodus)
1905 - Gus Mancuso, American baseball player (d. 1984)
1907 - Lin Piau, Chinese politician
1907 - Giuseppe Occhialini, Italian physicist (d. 1993)
1910 - Abraham L Polonsky, US writer/director (Tell them Willie Boy is Here)
1911 - Alfred Manessier, French painter (leaded windows)
1911 - Władysław Szpilman, Polish pianist (d. 2000)
1912 - Maisie Fitter, editor/conservationist
1914 - Hans Hellmut Kirst, German author (d. 1989)
1915 - Carl Donnell "Kansas" Fields, drummer
1915 - Margaret Hayes, Balt Md, actress (Robert Montgomery Presents)
1917 - Simone Gallimard, publisher
1917 - Ken Downing, English racing driver (d. 2004)
1919 - Victor Collin Matthews, businessman
1921 - Alvy Moore, actor (Mr Kimball-Green Acres)
1921 - George Henderson, priest/politician
1921 - Peter Hansen, Oakland California, actor (Mr Parkson-Mr Novak, Gen Hospital)
1923 - Tendrjakow, writer
1925 - Anastasio "Tachito" Somoza Debayle, president of Nicaragua (1967..79)
1926 - George Savalas, Bronx NY, actor (Kojak)
1927 - Rama IX, [Bhumibol Adulyadej], Mass, king of Thailand (1946- )
1932 - Little Richard [Wayne Penniman], Macon, Georgia, American singer-songwriter (Tutti Frutti)
1933 - Bernard van Beurden, Dutch composer/music educator
1934 - Joan Didion, US novelist/journalist (Salvador)
1935 - Calvin Trillin, author (New Yorker)
1935 - Yury Vlasov, Soviet weightlifter
1936 - James Lee Burke, American writer
1938 - John J Cale, Oklahoma City, rock guitarist (After Midnight), (d. 2013)
1939 - Frederik van Rossum, composer
1939 - Horst Bastian, writer
1940 - Boris Ignatyev, Russian footballer and manager
1940 - Peter Pohl, Swedish writer
1940 - Adrian Street, Welsh professional wrestler
1941 - David Wilson, English contractor/multi-millionaire
1942 - Randy Kirby, Chicago Ill, actor (Randy-Girl From UNCLE)
1943 - Eva Joly, Norwegian-born French magistrate
1944 - Jeroen Krabbé, Dutch actor
1945 - J W "Corkey" Fornof, New Orleans, stunt coordinator (Octopussy)
1945 - Jocelyn, Italian entertainer
1946 - Andy Kim, [Andrew Joachim], rocker
1946 - Jose Carreras, Barcelona Spain opera tenor (I Lombardi, Three Tenors)
1947 - Jim Messina, rocker (Loggins & Messina-Your Mamma Don't Dance)
1947 - Jim Plunkett, San Jose, CA, NFL quarterback (New England, Oakland)
1947 - Jugderdemidjin Gurragcha, Mongolia, cosmonaut (Soyuz 39)
1947 - Bruce Golding, Jamaican politician
1947 - Tony Gregory, Irish politician
1947 - Jim Plunkett, American football player
1949 - Bruce E Melnick, NYC, Cmdr USCG/astronaut (STS 41, STS 49)
1949 - Lanny [Jerry Lanston] Wadkins Richmond VA, PGA golfer (1972 Sahara)
1949 - Lewis Arlt, Kingston NY, actor (Littlest Victims, Ken-Another World)
1949 - Ray Comfort, New Zealand evangelist
1950 - Camarón de la Isla, Spanish flamenco singer (d. 1992)
1950 - Osvaldo Golijov, Argentine-born composer
1951 - Morgan Brittany, [Suzanne Cupito], LA Cal, actress (Katherine-Dallas)
1951 - Thomas Warren Purtzer, Des Moines IA, PGA golfer (1977 Glen Campbell)
1951 - Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven, Belgian artist
1952 - Bobby Barth, rocker vocalist/guitarist (Axe)
1953 - Jonathan Lewis, trombonist (Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover)
1953 - Larry Zbyszko, [Living Legend, Whistler], wrestler (WCW/AWA/NWA/WWF)
1954 - Kathryn Young, LPGA golfer
1956 - Klaus Allofs, German footballer
1956 - Brian Backer, American actor
1956 - Krystian Zimerman, Polish pianist
1957 - Art Monk, NFL wide receiver (Wash Redskins, Philadelphia Eagles)
1957 - Charlene Morett, Darby Pa, field hockey left wing (Oly-bronze-1984)
1957 - Phil Collen, English heavy-metal guitarist (Def Leppard-Love Bites)
1958 - Dean Erickson, American actor
1959 - Nikki Gianulias, Vallejo California, bowler (LPBT Rookie of Year 1979)
1959 - Shirley Furlong, San Antonio TX, LPGA golfer (1988 Lady Keystone Open)
1960 - Andrzej Chylinski, NYC, 50k walker (Olympics-26th-96)
1960 - Darryl James, Kamloops BC, Canadian Tour golfer (Glenco-1992, 93)
1960 - Jack Russell, rocker (Great White-Twice Shy)
1960 - John Felton, Kyogle Australia, canoeist (Olympics-96)
1960 - Les Nemes, rock bassist (Haircut 100)
1962 - Connie Needham Newton, Anaheim California, actress (Elizabeth-8 is Enough)
1962 - José Cura, Argentine tenor
1963 - Bob Friend, Pittsburgh PA, Nike golfer (1991 Fort Wayne Open)
1963 - Carrie Hamilton, Carol Burnett's daughter/actress (Fame)
1963 - Doctor Dre, American radio personality
1963 - Eddie "the Eagle" Edwards, English ski jumper
1964 - Pablo Morales, Chic, butterfly swimmer (Oly-3 gold/2 silver-1984, 92)
1965 - Johnny Rzeznik, American singer, songwriter and guitarist (Goo Goo Dolls)
1965 - Wayne Smith, Jamaican reggae musician
1966 - Bruce Deacon, Ottawa Ontario, marathoner (Olympics-96)
1966 - Joseph Barbara, New Symrna Fla, actor (Joe Carlino-Another World)
1966 - Linda Hunt, LPGA golfer
1966 - Niege Dias, Brazil, tennis star
1966 - Patricia Kaas, French pop singer (Mademoiselle Chant)
1967 - Ann Schirman, San Diego, WPVA volleyballer (National-17th-1994)
1967 - René Shuman, [Shumans], rockabilly-bandleader/singer
1967 - Gary Allan, American country musician
1967 - Konstantin-Assen, Prince of Vidin, titular Bulgarian royal family
1968 - Lisa Marie [Sliwa], New Brunswick NJ, actress (Mars Attack)
1968 - Margaret Cho, actress/comedienne (Face/Off)
1968 - Rhett Hall, NFL defensive tackle (Philadelphia Eagles)
1969 - Mark Dekker, Zimbabwe cricket opening batsman (1993- )
1969 - Morgan J. Freeman, American film director
1969 - Lewis Gordon Pugh, English swimmer, polar explorer and motivational speaker
1970 - Heather Crickard, Miss Oklahoma USA (1996)
1970 - Kevin Haller, Trochu, NHL defenseman (Phila Flyers)
1970 - Susan Sloane, Lexington KY, tennis star
1970 - Thomas Smith, NFL cornerback (Buffalo Bills)
1971 - Bryan Schwartz, NFL linebacker (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1971 - Joe Fleming, CFL defensive end (BC Lions)
1971 - Marrio Grier, fullback (New England Patriots)
1971 - Kali Rocha, American actress
1972 - Cliff Floyd, Chicago IL, outfielder/1st base (Montreal Expos)
1972 - Kevin Sally, Richmond Hill Ontario, archer (Olympics-96)
1972 - Randolph Ross, Shelby NC, 110m hurdler
1972 - Roderick Mullen, NFL defensive back (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1972 - Stanislav Jasecko, hockey defenseman (Team Slovakia 1998)
1972 - Mike Mahoney, American baseball player
1972 - Angela Shelton, American actress & writer
1973 - Corissa Yasen, WNBA forward/guard (Sacramento Monarchs)
1973 - Shalom Harlow, Toronto Canada, model (House of Style, Harper's Bazaar)
1973 - Luboš Motl, Czech physicist
1974 - Charlie Batch, National Football League quarterback
1975 - Ronnie O'Sullivan, English snooker player
1975 - Paula Patton, American actress
1976 - Xavier Garbajosa, French rugby union footballer
1976 - Amy Acker, American actress
1977 - Michelle Marie Jefferson, Miss Wyoming Teen USA (1996)
1978 - Marcelo Zalayeta, Uruguayan footballer
1978 - Olli Jokinen, Finnish ice hockey player
1979 - Matteo Ferrari, Italian footballer
1979 - Niklas Hagman, Finnish ice hockey player
1979 - Evonne Hsu, Taiwanese singer
1979 - Gareth McAuley, Northern Irish footballer
1979 - Nick Stahl, American actor
1980 - Shizuka Ito, Japanese voice actress (seiyū)
1980 - Ibrahim Maalouf, Lebanese-born French trumpeter
1981 - Leila Tong, Hong Kong actress
1982 - Eddy Curry, American basketball player
1982 - Trai Essex, American football player
1984 - Chris Solinsky, American distance runner
1985 - Frankie Muniz, American actor
1985 - Nico Verdonck, Belgian racing driver
1985 - Josh Smith, American basketball player
1988 - Ross Bagley, Los Angeles, California, American actor (Nicky-Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air)
1992 - Giorgio Cantarini, Italian actor
1994 - Emily Marie Estefan, daughter of Gloria & Emilio

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 05, 2013, 04:39:20 PM

This Day in History for 5th December


Famous Deaths

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Historical Novelist                                    Impressionist Painter                    Physiologist Joseph Erlanger (1965)
Alexandre Dumas (1870)                                 Claude Monet (1926) 


63 BC - Publius Cornelius Lentulus (Sura), Roman statesman
749 - Saint John of Damascus, theologian
1212 - Derek II of Are, Bishop of Utrecht (1197-1212), dies
1244 - Johanna of Constantinople, countess of Flanders (1205-44), dies
1355 - Jan III, duke of Brabant/Limburg, dies
1560 - Francis II, King of France (1559-60), dies at 16
1570 - Johan Friis, Danish statesman (b. 1494)
1594 - Gerardus Mercator, Flemish philosopher/cartographer, dies at 82
1624 - Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist (b. 1560)
1654 - Jean François Sarrazin, French writer
1663 - Severo Bonini, composer, dies at 80
1675 - John Lightfoot, English theologist (Horae Hebraicae), dies at 73
1745 - Christoph Forster, composer, dies at 52
1749 - Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la Vérendrye, New French explorer and trader (b. 1685)
1758 - Johann Friedrich Fasch, composer, dies at 70
1770 - James Stirling, Scot mathematician (Formula of Stirling), dies at 78
1784 - Phillis Wheatley, 1st important black poet in America, dies in Boston
1791 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composer, dies in Vienna Austria at 35
1799 - Robert Kimmerling, composer, dies at 61
1818 - Bruno Daalberg/Anonymus Belga, sect of High Council Adel, dies at 60
1819 - Friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg, German poet (b. 1750)
1835 - August v Platen, writer, dies at 39
1842 - MJ Auguste Vestrius, French ballet dancers, dies at 82
1853 - Johann Peter Heuschkel, composer, dies at 80
1859 - Louis Poinsot, French mathematician/instrument maker, dies at 82
1870 - Alexandre Dumas, French writer, dies at 68
1886 - Peter Hofstede de Groot, Dutch reformed theologist, dies at 84
1887 - Eliza Roxcy Snow, American poet (b. 1804)
1891 - JKLSBFXvPSMGRG Pedro II of Alcantara, emp of Brazil (1831-89), dies
1895 - Chief Gall, Sioux chief (b. 1840)
1902 - Henry Stephen Cutler, composer, dies at 78
1916 - Hans Richter, composer, dies at 73
1922 - Samuel Muller Fzn, Dutch historian/archivist, dies
1925 - Wilhelmina E Drucker, [Lensing], Dutch feminist, dies at 78
1926 - Claude Monet, French impressionist, dies at 86
1928 - Johannes F "Johan" Bakker Sr, actor/husband of Truus Soete, dies at 61
1931 - Vachel Lindsay, American poet (b. 1879)
1935 - Frans, [MJ Francois] Erens, literary (Years Gone By), dies at 78
1938 - Christina "Dina" Koudijs-van Appeldoorn, pianist/composer, dies at 54
1940 - Jan Kubelik, composer, dies at 60
1940 - Mordechai Frizis, Jewish Greek military officer (b. 1893)
1942 - Buck Jones, Hollywood's last cowboy hero actor (Headin' East), buried
1950 - Shri Aurobindo, Indian guru (b. 1872)
1951 - "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, of baseball's black sox scandal, dies
1951 - Abanindranath Tagore, Indian writer (b. 1871)
1953 - Jorge Negrete, Mexican singer and actor (b. 1911)
1955 - Paul Harvey, actor (Calamity Jane, Heldorado, Jamboree), dies at 73
1958 - Ferdinand Bruckner, writer, dies at 67
1959 - K S Duleepsinhji, cricketer (12 Tests for England, 995 runs), dies
1963 - Herbert H Lehman, (Gov-D-NY), dies
1963 - Karl Amadeus Hartmann, composer, dies at 58
1963 - Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1892)
1964 - Remy Angenot, Flemish actor (Tailor Wibbel), dies at 70
1965 - Joseph Erlanger, American physiologist, Nobel laureate for shock therapy (b. 1874)
1966 - Sylveer Maes, Belgian bicylist, dies at 57
1968 - Fred Clark, actor (Zotz, Auntie Mame), dies of liver ailment at 54
1971 - Hugh Wakefield, actress (Blithe Spirit), dies
1972 - Kenny Dorham [McKinley], American jazz trumpeter, dies at 48
1974 - Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, tennis player (US Open 1909-11), dies at 87
1974 - Henry Wadsworth, actor (Applause, Ceiling Zero), dies at 72
1974 - Pietro Germi, actor/director (Serafino, Climax), dies at 60
1975 - Jimmy Nervo, actor (Frozen Limits), dies
1977 - Aleksandr Vasilevsky, Soviet military commander (b. 1895)
1979 - Sonia Delaunay, Russian born French artist, dies aged 94
1980 - Don Taylor, cricketer (3 Tests for NZ 1947-56, 159 runs), dies
1983 - Robert Aldrich, dir/producer (Last Sunset), dies at 65
1984 - Adam Malik, Third Vice President of Indonesia (b. 1917)
1986 - Carmol Taylor, country songwriter, dies at 53 of cancer
1986 - Sir Edward Youde, Governor of Hong Kong (b. 1924)
1987 - "Fat" Larry James, US drummer (Fat Larry's Band-Zoom), dies at 38
1989 - John M Pritchard, British conductor, dies at 68
1990 - Steven Shaw, dies at 25
1991 - Aad Mansfield, soccer player/trainer (ADO/Feyenoord/FC Utrecht), dies
1991 - Jill Browne, dies at 54
1991 - Richard Speck, mass murderer, dies a day before his 50th birthday
1991 - Robert Karvelas, American actor (b. 1921)
1992 - Hilary Tindall, dies of cancer at 54
1992 - Sergei Aleksandrovich Yemelyanov, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 41
1993 - Alexandre Trauber, Hungarian/French set designer (Harem), dies at 87
1993 - Arthur Staal, Dutch architect (Shell Tower Amsterdam), dies at 86
1993 - Douglas Hopkins, guitarist (Gin Blossoms), dies of gun shot at 32
1994 - Harry Horner, Czech/US set designer/director (Our Town), dies at 84
1994 - Richard Brian Waring Barton-Chapple, writer, dies at 69
1994 - Ronald Ridout, school textbook author, dies at 78
1995 - Robert Charles Evans, mountaineer/doctor, dies at 77
1995 - Robert Parrish, film director editor/actor (Casino Royale), dies at 79
1995 - Victor Collin Matthews, businessman, dies on 76th birthday
1995 - Gwen Harwood, Australian poet (b. 1920)
1995 - Lisa McPherson, former Scientologist (b. 1959)
1996 - Peter Hall, folklorist/musician, dies at 60
1996 - Wilf Carter, country singer, dies at 91
1997 - Colin Franklin, doctor, dies at 67
1997 - Daphne Fielding, socialite/writer, dies at 93
1998 - Al Gore, Sr., American politician (b. 1907)
2001 - Franco Rasetti, Italian physicist (b. 1901)
2002 - Roone Arledge, American sports broadcasting pioneer (b. 1931)
2002 - Ne Win, Burmese leader (b. 1911)
2005 - Ed Masry, American lawyer (b. 1932)
2005 - Kevin "Big Kev" McQuay, Australian businessman (b. 1949)
2005 - Frits Philips, Dutch businessman (b. 1905)
2006 - David Bronstein, Ukrainian-born chess grandmaster (b. 1924)
2007 - Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer (b. 1928)
2007 - Andrew Imbrie, American composer (b. 1921)
2008 - Patriarch Alexy II of Russia, head of the Russian Orthodox Church (b. 1929)
2008 - Constantin Ticu Dumitrescu, Romanian politician and president of the Association of Romanian
           Former Political Prisoners. (b. 1928)
2008 - Nina Foch, Dutch-born American actress (b. 1924)
2008 - Anca Parghel, Romanian jazz singer and composer (b. 1957)
2009 - Vimolchatra, Princess of Thailand and cousin of King Bhumibol Adulyadej (b. 1921)
2010 - Don Meredith, American football player and broadcaster (b. 1938)
2010 - Alan Armer, American television producer and director (b. 1922)
2011 - Peter Gethin, British racing driver (b. 1940)
2011 - Gennady Logofet, Russian footballer (b. 1942)
2012 - Dave Brubeck, American jazz pianist, dies from heart failure at 91
2012 - Oscar Niemeyer, Brazilian architect, dies from a respiratory infection at 104

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 06, 2013, 05:54:20 PM

This Day in History for 6th December


Historical Events

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Naturalist Charles Darwin                       Abolitionist Harriet Tubman            26th US President Theodore Roosevelt

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Novelist & Poet James Joyce                    Anti-apartheid activist and                  38th US President Gerald Ford
                                                                   South African President
                                                                         Nelson Mandela

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King of Pop Michael Jackson


963 - Leo VIII elected Pope
1060 - Béla I of Hungary is crowned king of Hungary
1160 - Jean Bodels "Jeu de St Nicholas" premieres in Arras
1196 - Northern Dutch coast flooded, "Saint-Nicolas Flood"
1240 - Mongols under Batu Khan occupy & destroy Kiev
1424 - Don Alfonso V of Aragon grants Barcelona the right to exclude Jews
1527 - Pope Clemens VII fleas to Orvieto
1534 - Quito, Ecuador, founded by Spanish
1631 - 1st predicted transit of Venus (Kepler) is observed
1641 - Don Francisco de Mello appointed land guardian of South Netherlands
1648 - Pride's Purge: Thomas Pride prevents 96 presbyterians from sitting in English parliament
1723 - Emperor Karel VI's Pragmatic Sanctie declares Constitution
1732 - 1st play in American colonies acted by professional players, NYC
1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlies army retreats to Scotland
1756 - British troops under Robert Clive occupy Fulta India
1768 - 1st edition of "Encyclopedia Brittanica" published (Scotland)
1787 - Laurens Pieter van de Speigel appointed Dutch pension advisor
1790 - The U.S. Congress moves from New York City to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1820 - US president James Monroe re-elected
1822 - Veterinary school in Utrecht opens
1825 - Pres John Adams suggests establishment of a US observatory
1833 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin departs Rio de la Plata
1841 - Robert Schumann's 4th Symphony in D premieres
1843 - Amsterdam-Utrecht railway opens
1845 - Alpha Sigma Phi Fraternity is founded at Yale College.
1846 - Opera "La Damnation de Faust" is produced (Paris)
1849 - Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery in Maryland for the 2nd and final time
1862 - Pres Lincoln orders hanging of 39 Santee Sioux indians
1864 - Battle of Deveaux's Neck, SC
1865 - 13th Amendment of the United States Constitution is ratified, abolishing slavery
1866 - Chicago water supply tunnel 3,227 m into Lake Michigan completed
1870 - Joseph H Rainey, 1st black in House of Reps (SC)
1873 - 1st international football game in US: Yale 2, Eton (England) 1
1875 - 44th Congress (1875-77) convenes
1876 - 1st crematorium in US begins operation, Washington, Penn
1876 - City of Anaheim incorporated for 2nd time
1876 - US Electorial College picks Rep Hayes as pres (although Tilden won)
1877 - 1st sound recording made (Thomas Edison)
1877 - Washington Post publishes 1st edition
1882 - Atmosphere of Venus detected during transit
1884 - Aluminum capstone set atop Washington Monument, Wash, DC
1896 - D T Suzuki found the awakening at Engakuji temple, in Kamakura
1897 - London becomes the world's first city to host licenced taxicabs.
1903 - Sumatra Atjehs guerilla leader Panglima Polim surrenders
1904 - Theodore Roosevelt confirms Monroe-doctrine (Roosevelt Corollary)
1907 - Coal mine explosions in Monongah, WV, kills 361
1912 - China votes for universal human rights
1913 - White Sox beat Giants 9-4 in exhibition game in Tokyo
1914 - German troops over run Lodz
1916 - German army under Gen Mackensen occupies Bucharest
1916 - World War I: The Central Powers capture Bucharest.
1917 - Finland declares independence from Russia (National Day)
1917 - French munition ship "Mont Blanc" explodes in Halifax, kills 1,700
1921 - Anglo-Irish Treaty signed; Ireland receives dominion status; partition creates Northern Ireland
1922 - 1st constitution of Irish Free State comes into operation
1922 - 1st electric power line commercial carrier in US, Utica, NY
1923 - 1st US Presidential address broadcast on radio by President Calvin Coolidge
1925 - Italy, Britain & Egypt sign Jaghbub accord (Italy)
1925 - Record 73,000 pay to watch Chic Bears beat NY Giants 19-7
1929 - Turkey introduces female suffrage
1930 - 18th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Balmy Beach defeat Regina Roughriders, 11-6
1933 - Ban on James Joyce' "Ulysses" in US lifted
1938 - 117 Spanish knights under capt Piet Laros return to Netherlands
1938 - French/German non-attack treaty drawn (Ribbentrop-Bonnet Pact)
1939 - 5th Heisman Trophy Award: Nile Kinnick, Iowa (HB)
1939 - Cole Porter's musical "Du Barry was a Lady" premieres in NYC
1940 - Gestapo arrest German resistance fighter/poster artist Helen Ernst
1940 - Pietro Badoglio resigns as viceroy of Ethiopia
1941 - Dutch & British pilots see Japanese invasion fleet at Singapore
1941 - NYC Council agrees to build Idlewild (Kennedy) Airport in Queens
1942 - Queen Wilhelmina announces Dutch Commonwealth
1942 - RAF bombs Philips factory (150 die)
1944 - US 95th Infantry division reaches Westwall
1947 - The Everglades National Park in Florida is dedicated.
1950 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Mirabile illud
1952 - Czech government tells Israeli ambassador, he's persona non grata
1953 - Brown's Lou "Toe" Groza kicks 8 PATs, beating Giants 62-14
1954 - Simone de Beauvoir receives Prix Goncourt
1955 - NY psychologist Joyce Brothers won "$64,000 Question" on boxing
1956 - "Happy Hunting" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 413 performances
1956 - Nelson Mandela & 156 others arrested for political activities in S Africa
1957 - 1st US attempt to launch a satellite fails-Vanguard rocket blows up
1957 - AFL-CIO votes to expel Teamsters (readmitted in October 1987)
1957 - Indonesia begins nationalizing Dutch possessions
1958 - US lunar probe Pioneer 3 reaches 107,269 km, falls back
1960 - AL grants Gene Autry a franchise, LA Angels
1961 - 27th Heisman Trophy Award: Ernie Davis, Syracuse (HB)
1962 - US abandons Skybolt balistic missile program
1963 - Beatles begin a tradition of releasing a Christmas record for fans
1963 - Test Cricket debut of Graeme Pollock at the Gabba
1964 - "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer" 1st airs on TV
1964 - KTVR TV channel 13 in La Grande, OR (PBS) begins broadcasting
1964 - President Segni of Italy resigns
1965 - 2 trucks crashed into a crowd of dancers (Sotouboua Togo) kills 125
1965 - Pakistan's Islamic Ideology Advisory Committee recommends that Islamic Studies be made a
           compulsory subject for Muslim students from primary to graduate level.
1966 - Polio vaccination becomes obligatory in Belgium
1967 - USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR
1968 - Baseball dismisses Commissioner William Eckert after 3 years
1968 - PBA National Championship won by Wayne Zahn
1968 - WKID (WSCV) TV channel 51 in Fort Lauderdale, FL (IND) 1st broadcast
1969 - "Buck White" closes at George Abbott Theater NYC after 7 performances
1969 - 300,000 attend Altamont California, rock concert feature Rolling Stones
1969 - USSR performs nuclear test
1970 - Cleveland Cavaliers 1st NBA home victory, beating Buffalo Braves 108-106
1971 - Lewis Franklin Powell confirmed as Supreme Court justice
1973 - Bahrain's constitution goes into effect
1973 - Gerald Ford sworn-in as 1st unelected VP, succeeds Spiro T Agnew
1973 - NL votes to move San Diego Padres to Washington DC (doesn't happen)
1974 - George Harrison releases "Ding Dong, Ding Dong"
1975 - 41st Heisman Trophy Award: Archie Griffin, Ohio State (RB)
1975 - Balcombe Street Siege: An IRA Active Service Unit takes a couple hostage in Balcombe Street,
           London.
1976 - War criminal Pieter Menten arrested in Zurich
1977 - South Africa grants Bophuthatswana independence
1978 - Spain adopts constitution
1980 - Jim Bakker rapes Jessica Hahn
1980 - NASA launches Intelsat V satellite, no. 502
1981 - Rob de Castella of Australia sets Marathon record at 2:08:18
1982 - Sen Ted & Joan Kennedy divorce
1982 - 11 soldiers & 6 civilians die by bomb planted by Irish National Liberation Army exploded in a
           pub in Ballykelly, Northern Ireland
1983 - A bomb planted on a bus in Jerusalem explodes, kills 6 Israelis
1984 - France performs nuclear test
1984 - Hijackers aboard Kuwaiti jetliner kill 2nd hostage
1986 - 52nd Heisman Trophy Award: Vinny Testaverde, Miami Fla (QB)
1986 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1987 - 3 satanist Missouri teenagers bludgeon comrade to death for "fun"
1987 - Christa Rothenburger skates female world record 500m (39.39 sec)
1987 - Jane Crafter/Steve Jones wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
1988 - Arafat meets prominent American Jews in Stockholm, Sweden
1988 - Carlos Andres Perez re-elected president of Venezuela
1988 - Merv Hughes takes 13 wickets v WI at the WACA but Australia lose
1988 - Milwaukee Bucks win their 1,000th NBA game (2nd fastest)
1988 - Nelson Mandela is transferred to Victor Vester Prison, Capetown
1988 - STS-27 Atlantis lands in California after secret mission
1988 - Agnes Neil Williams purchases Baltimore Orioles for $70 million Eli Jacobs becomes CEO of Balt
           Orioles
1989 - Mafia drug kingpin bombs security force at Bogota, kills 52
1989 - Worst Canadian mass murder: Marc Lepine kills 14 women at U Montreal
1990 - NHL grants conditional membership to Tampa Bay Lightning
1990 - Saddam anounces release of all foriegn hostages
1990 - Shoeless Joe Jackson's signature is sold for $23,100
1991 - "Les Miserables" opens at Circustheater, Scheveningen
1991 - "Star Trek VI-Undiscovered Country" premieres
1992 - 300,000 hindus destroy mosque of Babri India, 4 die
1992 - 81st Davis Cup: USA beats Switzerland in Fort Worth (3-1)
1992 - Dottie Mochrie/Dan Forsmann wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
1992 - SF 49er Jerry Rice catches NFL record 101st touchdown
1992 - SF Giants renig on $43 million pact with Barry Bonds
1993 - Gunda Niemann skates ladies world record 5 km 7:13.29
1994 - Maltese Falcon auctioned for $398,590
1994 - Orange County California files for bankruptcy
1994 - Warner Brothers announces a 5th TV network to begin on Jan 11, 1995
1995 - 6th Billboard Music Awards
1995 - Michael Jackson collapses while rehearsing for an HBO special
1996 - Mashonaland defeat England in first-class tour match
1998 - JC Penney Golf Classic
1998 - Hugo Chávez Frías, Venezuelan military and politician, is elected President of Venezuela.
2001 - The Canadian province of Newfoundland is renamed Newfoundland and Labrador.
2005 - Several villagers are shot dead during protests in Dongzhou, China.
2006 - NASA reveals photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid
           water on Mars.
2012 - 7 people are killed and 770 injured during Egyptian protests
2012 - Typhoon Bopha’s death toll rise to 418 with 318 missing and 179,000 displaced
2012 - A 243 million year old Nyasasaurus fossil is discovered in Tanzania

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 06, 2013, 05:56:35 PM

This Day in History for 6th December


Famous Weddings

1491 - King Charles VIII of France marries Anna of Bretagne
1930 - Pablo Neruda marries Marie A Hagenaar Vogelzang in Batavia
1941 - King Leopold of Belgium marries Lilian Baels
1975 - US Senator Bob Dole (52) weds former senator Elizabeth Hanford (39)
1997 - ABC's World News Tonight news anchor Peter Jennings (59) weds Kayce Freed in
           Bridgehampton, New York
2003 - "The Bachelorette" star Trista Rehn (31) weds Ryan Sutter (29) at The Lodge in Rancho
           Mirage, California
2008 - "Lonestar" bass guitarist John Rich (34) weds former model Joan Bush in Nashville

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 06, 2013, 05:57:36 PM

This Day in History for 6th December


Famous Divorces

1982 - US Senator Ted & Joan Kennedy divorce

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 06, 2013, 06:08:53 PM

This Day in History for 6th December


Famous Birthdays

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The Gray Ghost                                           Poet Joyce Kilmer (1886)                       Occultist and Author
John Singleton Mosby (1833)                                                                                   Dion Fortune (1890)

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Actress Agnes Moorehead (1900)


846 - Hasan al-Askari, Shia Imam (d. 874)
1285 - King Ferdinand IV of Castile (d. 1312)
1421 - Henry VI, king of England (1422-61, 1470-71)
1478 - Baldassare Castiglione, Italian diplomat and author (d. 1529)
1550 - Orazio Tiberio Vecchi, composer
1586 - Niccolò Zucchi, Italian astronomer (d. 1670)
1608 - George Monck/Monk, English general/gov of Scotland
1637 - Sir Edmund Andros, English governor in North America (d. 1714)
1640 - Claude Fleury, French historian (d. 1723)
1642 - Johann Christoph Bach, German composer (d. 1703)
1685 - Marie-Adélaïde of Savoy, mother of Louis XV of France (d. 1712)
1721 - James Elphinston, British philologist (d. 1809)
1721 - Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, French statesman (d. 1794)
1731 - S von Laroche, writer
1732 - Warren Hastings, England, 1st governor-General of India (1773-84)
1743 - Franz Nikolaus Novotny, composer
1752 - Gabriel Duvall, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1844)
1768 - Johann Baptist Henneberg, composer
1775 - Nicolas Isouard, composer
1776 - Paul Friedrich Struck, composer
1778 - Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French physicist and chemist (d. 1850)
1792 - Abraham J van de Aa, lexicographer (Biographic Dictionary)
1792 - King William II of the Netherlands (d. 1849)
1805 - Adolf Reubke, German organ builder (d. 1875)
1805 - Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin, French magician (d. 1861)
1806 - Louis-Gilbert Duprez, composer
1808 - Johan M Dautzenberg, Flemish author (Future)
1808 - Johann Christian Gebauer, composer
1809 - Stephen Thomas, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1903
1812 - Robert Spear Hudson, English businessman (d. 1884)
1816 - Henry Eustace McCulloch, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1895
1822 - John Eberhard, built 1st large-scale pencil factory in US
1823 - Friedrich Max Müller, German orientalist (d. 1900)
1831 - Joshua Woodrow Sill, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
1833 - John Singleton Mosby, Powhatan County, Virginia, lawyer/Col (Confederate Army), (d. 1916)
1841 - Frédéric Bazille, French painter (d. 1870)
1843 - Albert de Vriendt, Flemish historical painter/etcher
1846 - Henryk Jarecki, composer
1849 - August von Mackensen, German field marshal (d. 1945)
1853 - Haraprasad Shastri, Indian academic, Sanskrit scholar, archivist and historian of Bengali
           literature (d. 1931)
1863 - Charles Martin Hall, American chemist (d. 1914)
1864 - William S. Hart, American actor, silent Westerns (Wild Bill Hickok, Tumbleweeds)
1872 - Mikulas Moyzes, composer
1875 - Evelyn Underhill, British poet (d. 1941)
1876 - Fred Duesenberg, German-born automobile pioneer (d. 1932)
1884 - Rose Schneiderman, NY state dept of labor sect (1937-44)
1885 - Albrecht Schaeffer, German writer (The General)
1886 - Joyce Kilmer, New Brunswick, New Jersey, poet (Trees), (d. 1918)
1887 - Joseph Lamb, composer
1887 - Lynn Fontanne, Woodford England, Bdwy actress (Dulcy, Arms & the Man)
1888 - Will Hay, English comedian and actor (d. 1949)
1890 - Dion Fortune, British occultist (d. 1946)
1890 - Yoshio Nishina, Japanese physicist (d. 1951)
1890 - Rudolf Schlichter, German artist and writer (d. 1955)
1892 - F Osbert S Sitwell, London, poet/writer (Out of the Flame)
1892 - Lina Carstens, Wiesbaden Germany, actress (Homeland, Broken Jug)
1893 - Lou Little, college football hall of fame coach (elected 1960)
1896 - Arnold Foster, composer
1896 - George Trafton, NFL center (Chicago Bears)
1896 - Ira Gershwin, lyricist ('S Wonderful, I Got Rhythm)
1897 - John Axel Fernstrom, composer
1897 - O W Cisek, writer
1898 - Alfred Eisenstaedt, photo journalist
1898 - Gunnar Myrdal, Sweden, sociologist/economist (Nobel 1974)
1898 - Herman Shumlin, actor (Watch on the Rhine)
1899 - Harry Buller Siege Willis, son of South Africa boer in Ladysmith
1899 - Nikolai Batalov, Moscow Russia, actor (Mother)
1900 - Agnes Moorehead, Clinton, Massachusetts, American actress (Endora-Bewitched)
1902 - Virgilio Mortari, composer
1903 - Tony Lazzeri, American baseball player (d. 1946)
1904 - Eve Denise Curie, French pianist/author/daughter of Madame Curie
1905 - James J. Braddock, American boxer (d. 1974)
1906 - Antoon Spinoy, Belgian politician
1908 - Pierre Graber, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 2003)
1909 - Alan McGilvray, cricketer (20 games for NSW mid 1930's) and commentator (ABC)
1909 - Kenneth Watkins, woodland conservationist
1911 - Alfred James Broomhall, Methodist missionary
1913 - Eleanor Holm, NYC, 100m backstroke swimmer (Olympic-gold-1932)
1914 - Cyril Washbrook, cricketer (stalwart Lancs & England opener)
1916 - Hugo Peretti, American songwriter and record producer (d. 1986)
1917 - Kamal Jumblatt, leader of the Lebanese Druze (d. 1977)
1917 - Irv Robbins, Canadian-American entrepreneur (d. 2008)
1918 - Granville James Leveson Gower, land owner
1918 - Harold Horace Hopkins, inventor (Endoscope)
1918 - Peter A Juten, office clerk/resistance fighter
1918 - Willem Oosterheers, resistance fighter
1919 - Paul de Man, Belgian-born literary critic (d. 1983)
1919 - Jimmy Bivins [James], Cleveland, Ohio, Hall of Fame heavyweight boxer, (d. 2012)
1920 - Dave Brubeck, Concord CA, jazz pianist/composer (Gates of Justice), (d. 2012)
1920 - George Porter, British chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2002)
1921 - Otto Graham, AAFC/NFL QB (Cleveland Browns)
1921 - Piero Piccioni, Italian musician and composer (d. 2004)
1922 - John Henry Cound Brunt, English soldier, Victoria Cross holder (d. 1944)
1924 - Wally Cox, Detroit, actor (Mr Peepers, Hollywood Squares)
1925 - Andy Robustelli, NFL defensive end (LA Rams, NY Giants)
1926 - Martti Katajisto, Parkano Finland, actor (Mar Oksalla Ylimmaellae)
1927 - Jacques Bondon, composer
1928 - Bert Geoffrey Achong, inventor (electron microscopist)
1928 - Bobby Van, American singer (d. 1980)
1929 - King Moody, NYC, actor (Shtarker-Get Smart)
1929 - Mark Kopytman, composer
1929 - Nikolaus Harnoncourt, German conductor
1929 - Frank Springer, American comics artist
1929 - Alain Tanner, Swiss filmmaker
1931 - Zeki Müren, Turkish actor, singer, and composer (d. 1996)
1933 - Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki, composer
1933 - Jim Pothecary, cricketer (South African pace bowler on 1960 England tour)
1934 - Nick Bockwinkel, wrestler (WCW/AWA)
1935 - Jean Lapointe, Quebec comedian, singer and senator
1936 - Kenneth Copeland, American televangelist
1936 - David Ossman, Santa Monica, California, American writer and comedian (The Firesign Theatre)
1937 - Alberto Spencer, Ecuadorian footballer (d. 2006)
1938 - Patrick Bauchau, Belgian actor
1939 - Tomés Svoboda, Paris France, Czech composer (Etude)
1940 - Steve Alaimo, Rochester NY, rocker (Mashed Potatoes)
1940 - Lawrence Bergman, Quebec politician
1941 - Helen Cornelius, Hannibal Mo, country singer (Nashville on the Road)
1941 - John Nelson, San Jose Costa Rica, conductor (Les Troyens of Berlioz)
1941 - Richard Speck, mass murderer (killed 8 student nurses in 1966)
1942 - Peter Handke, Austrian writer
1943 - Mike Smith, London England, rocker/pianist (Dave Clark 5-Glad All Over)
1944 - Jonathan King, rocker
1945 - James Naughton, Middleton CT, actor (Stranger is Watching)
1945 - Larry Bowa, 2nd baseman (Phillies)
1945 - Dan Harrington, American poker player
1945 - Shekhar Kapur, Indian filmmaker
1946 - Frank Hayes, cricketer (106* England v WI on debut 1973)
1947 - Miroslav Vitous, rocker
1947 - Lawrence Cannon, Canadian politician
1948 - Don Nickles, (Sen-R-Okla)
1948 - JoBeth Williams, Houston Texas, actress (Kramer vs Kramer, Poltergeist)
1948 - Jonathan King, London, singer (Everyone's Gone to the Moon)
1948 - Marius Mueller-Westernhagen, Duesseldorf Germany, rocker (Stinker)
1949 - Peter Willey, cricketer (England batsman late 70's early 80's)
1949 - Linda Creed, American songwriter (d. 1986)
1949 - Doug Marlette, American editorial cartoonist (d. 2007)
1950 - Daniel Sahuleka, Moluks/Dutch singer/guitarist (Viva la Libertad)
1950 - Joe Hisaishi, Japanese composer
1951 - Gerry Francis, English footballer and manager
1952 - Ric Charlesworth, cricketer (WA opener, Aust hockey capt)/MP (Labour)
1952 - Terence Knox, Richland Wash, actor (Peter-St Elsewhere) [or 2/16/50]
1952 - Craig Newmark, American founder of craigslist
1953 - Gina Hecht, Houston Texas, actress (Melanie-Hizzoner, Mork & Mindy)
1953 - Kin Shriner, Indiana, actor (Scott-General Hospital, Rituals)
1953 - Thomas Hulce, Plymouth Mi, actor (Amadeus, Equus, Echo Park)
1953 - Wil Shriner, NYC/Indiana, talk show host (Wil Shriner Show)
1953 - Gary Ward, American baseball player
1954 - Chris Stamey, rocker
1954 - Miles Chapin, NYC, actor (French Postcards, Get Crazy, Funhouse)
1955 - Bill Lloyd, Bowling Green Ky, singer (Foster & Lloyd-Crazy Over You)
1955 - Malcolm Jarvis, cricket lefty paceman (Zimbabwe's 1st Test side)
1955 - Rick Buckler, [Paul Richard Buckler], rock drummer (Jam)
1955 - Steven Wright, droll comedian (Steven Wright Live)
1955 - Tish Hinojosa, San Antonia Tx, country singer (Something in the Rain)
1956 - Peter Buck, US pop guitarist (REM-Murmur)
1956 - Randy Rhoads, rocker
1957 - Luis Mariano Delis Fournier, Cuba, discus thrower (Oly-bronze-1980)
1958 - Nick Park, British filmmaker and animator
1959 - Satoru Iwata, president and CEO of Nintendo
1960 - Jasmina Perazic Gipe, WNBA guard/forward (NY Liberty)
1961 - David Lovering, American drummer (Pixies)
1962 - Ben Watt, rocker (Everything but the Girls-Sir Idlewood)
1962 - Janine Turner, Lincoln Neb, actress (Maggie-Northern Exposure)
1964 - Will Johnson, CFL defensive end (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1965 - Teri Hatcher, Sunnyvale California, actress (Lois & Clark)
1965 - Gordon Durie, Scottish footballer
1966 - Natascha Badmann, Swiss triathlete
1967 - Kevin Appier, Lancaster CA, pitcher (KC Royals)
1967 - Spanky Marcus, Hollywood California, actor (Jimmy Joe-Mary Hartman)
1967 - Hacken Lee, Hong Kong singer
1969 - Elmore Spencer, NBA center (Portland Trail Blazers)
1969 - Greg Knox, CFL safety (Calgary Stampeders)
1969 - Todd Black, Kenton Ohio, 800m runner
1969 - Wayne Smith - Motorcycle racer
1970 - Eric Mahlum, NFL guard (Indianapolis Colts)
1970 - Isabelle Arnould, Belgian swimmer
1970 - Ulf Ekberg, Swedish musician (Ace of Base)
1971 - Ainsley Robinson, Oshawa Ontario, 62 kg Greco Roman wrestler (Oly-96)
1971 - David Defiagbon, Sapele Nigeria, Canadian boxer (Olympics-silver-96)
1971 - Matt Maloney, NBA guard (Houston Rockets)
1971 - Richard Krajicek, Neth, tennis star (Wimbledon-1996)
1971 - Rika Hiraki, Beirut Lebanon, tennis star (1992 Japan doubles)
1971 - Thomas Bailey, NFL wide receiver (Cin Bengals)
1971 - Naozumi Takahashi, Japanese seiyuu
1971 - José Contreras, Cuban baseball player
1972 - Brendan Garard, Australian field hockey halfback (Olympics-96)
1972 - Gary Bandy, NFL defensive end (Atlanta Falcons)
1972 - James Logan, NFL linebacker (Seattle Seahawks)
1972 - Mike Gruttadauri, corner (St Louis Rams)
1973 - Tim Kohn, guard/tackle (Oakland Raiders)
1974 - Arjan Ebbinge, soccer player (FC Groningen)
1975 - Natalie Titcume, Australian softball catcher (Olympics-bronze-96)
1975 - Noel Clarke, English actor and writer
1976 - Alicia Machado, Venezuela, Miss Universe (1996)
1976 - Lindsay Price, Arcadia CA, actress (Bold & Beautiful, All My Children)
1976 - Colleen Haskell, American television personality
1977 - Kevin Cash, American baseball player
1977 - Andrew Flintoff, English cricketer
1977 - Paul McVeigh, Irish footballer
1978 - K. D. Aubert, American actress
1978 - Chris Basak, American baseball player
1978 - Darrell Jackson, American football player
1979 - Tim Cahill, Australian footballer
1980 - Steve Lovell, British footballer
1980 - Ehren Wassermann, American baseball player
1982 - Alberto Contador, Spanish cyclist and 2007 Tour de France winner
1982 - Ryan Carnes, American actor
1982 - Sean Ervine, Zimbabwean cricketer
1982 - Robbie Gould, American football player
1985 - Dulce María, Mexican actress and singer
1985 - Rudra Pratap Singh, Indian Cricketer
1986 - Matt Niskanen, American National Hockey League Player
1995 - Joy Gruttmann, German singer
2000 - Pablo Nicolás Urdangarín y de Borbón, Spanish royal

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 06, 2013, 06:12:21 PM

This Day in History for 6th December


Famous Deaths

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Blues Musician Lead Belly (1949)


343 - Saint Nicholas
1185 - Afonso I, the Conqueror, king of Portugal (1143-85), dies at 76
1352 - Clement VI, [Pierre Roger], Pope (1342-52), dies
1531 - John Volkertsz Trimaker, Dutch anabaptist leader, beheaded
1550 - Pieter Coecke van Aelst, Flemish painter, dies at 48
1562 - Jan van Scorel, Dutch painter/architect, dies
1598 - Elbertus Leoninus, Dutch lawyer/politician, dies at about 78
1618 - Jacques-Davy Duperron, French cardinal (b. 1556)
1640 - Matthijs Elsevier, Flemish/Dutch book publisher/merchant, dies at 75
1651 - Anna Roemers Visscher, Dutch poetess, dies at 68
1658 - Gracian, writer, dies
1716 - Benedictus Buns, Dutch Carmelite and composer (b. 1642)
1718 - Nicholas Rowe, English poet and dramatist (b. 1674)
1746 - Lady Grizel Baillie, Scottish songwriter (b. 1665)
1771 - Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Italian anatomist (b. 1682)
1779 - Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter (b. 1699)
1788 - Jonathan Shipley, British bishop and politician (b. 1714)
1793 - Marie Jeanne Becu comtesse du Barry, mistress of Louis XV, beheaded
1799 - Joseph Black, Scottish medical/chemist/physicist, dies at 71
1834 - Jonas Daniel Meyer, Dutch lawyer, dies at 54
1855 - William John Swainson, English naturalist and artist (b. 1789)
1865 - Sebastian de Iradier, Spanish composer (Arreglito), dies at 56
1867 - Giovanni Pacini, composer, dies at 71
1867 - Jean Pierre Flourens, French physician (b. 1794)
1868 - August Schleicher, German linguist (b. 1821)
1869 - Jan de Liefde II, Dutch vicar/author (People's Welfare), dies at 54
1873 - Manuel Acuna, Mexican poet (Ante un Cadaver), dies at 24
1879 - Erastus Brigham Bigelow, American industrialist (b. 1814)
1882 - A Trollope, writer, dies
1882 - Alfred Escher, Swiss politician and railroad entrepreneur (b. 1819)
1889 - Jefferson Davis, Pres of Confederate States (1861-5), dies at 81
1889 - Joseph H "Jozef" Neuhuys, painter, dies at 48
1892 - E Werner von Siemens, German industrialist (Siemens AG), dies at 75
1903 - Frederick Grant Gleason, composer, dies at 54
1914 - Eduard Jacobs, Dutch cabaret artist, dies at 47
1920 - Karel Kovarovic, composer, dies at 57
1924 - Gene Stratton-Porter, American author, screenwriter and naturalist (b. 1863)
1925 - Dat So la Lee "Dabuda" or Louise Keyser, Native American (Washoe) basket weaver dies aged
           about 96
1926 - Claude [Oscar] Monet, French painter (impressionist), dies at 86
1933 - Auguste Chapuis, composer, dies at 75
1934 - Duke Charles Michael of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1863)
1940 - Charlie Hime, cricketer (one Test for South Africa 1895), dies
1943 - Firmin Baes, Flemish painter, dies at 69
1943 - Hermann Lohr, composer, dies at 72
1946 - Maximilian Oseyevich Shteynberg, composer, dies at 63
1949 - Lead Belly, [Huddie William Ledbetter], blues singer, dies at 64
1951 - J Edward Bromberg, dies at 47
1951 - Harold Ross, American magazine editor (b. 1892)
1953 - Konstanty I Galczynski, Polish poet (Zielona Ges), dies at 48
1955 - Honus Wagner, baseball player (b. 1874)
1956 - Dr. Bhimji Ramji Ambedkar, Indian Minister of Law and architect of The Constitution of India
          (b. 1891)
1958 - Erwin Bodky, composer, dies at 62
1959 - Len Doyle, actor (Harrington-Mr District Attorney), dies at 66
1961 - Frantz Fanon, West Indian psychiatrist and writer (b. 1925)
1963 - Jozef Goossenaerts, Flem philologist (Language Boundary), dies at 81
1964 - Consuelo Vanderbilt (b. 1877)
1965 - Alberto Vaccari, Italian jesuit/old testament scholar, dies at 90
1966 - Hermann Heiss, composer, dies at 68
1970 - Thomas S Power, USAF-gen (Raid on Tokyo-March 1945), dies at 65
1971 - Hugo Godron, composer, dies at 71
1971 - Jan Altink, Dutch painter/co-founder (Plough), dies at 86
1972 - Janet Munro, actress (Crawling Eye, Swiss Family Robinson), dies at 38
1973 - Justus Hermann Wetzel, composer, dies at 94
1973 - Robert A Watson-Watt, England, physicist (radar), dies at 81
1976 - João Goulart, President of Brazil (b. 1918)
1983 - Lucienne Boyer, French singer (b. 1903)
1984 - Ruth Cummings, actress (Daybreak, Dream of Love), dies at 90
1985 - Burleigh Grimes, US baseball pitcher, dies at 92
1985 - Burr Tillstrom, puppeteer (Kukla Fran & Ollie), dies at 68
1986 - Malik Oussekine, Algerian/French student, killed by police at 22
1987 - James Dobson, actor (Impulse, Jet Attack, Okinawa), dies
1988 - Bill Harris, US guitarist (Clovers-Love Potion No 9), dies at 63
1988 - Roy Orbison, singer (Pretty Woman), dies of massive heart attack at 52
1989 - Frances Beauvier, actress (Aunt Bee, Mayberry), dies at 86
1989 - John Paine, actor (Miracle on 34th St), dies at 77
1989 - Sammy Fain, composer, dies at 87
1989 - John Payne, American movie actor (b. 1912)
1990 - Tunku Abdul Rahman, PM of Malaysia (1957-70), dies
1991 - Ann Sorg Coston, actress (Anna-Aldrich Family), dies at 62
1991 - Headman Tshabalala, South Afr singer (Ladysmith Black Mambazo), dies
1992 - Hank Worden, actor (Red River), dies of natural causes at 91
1992 - Percy Herbert, actor (Capt Apache), dies of heart attack at 72
1993 - Don Ameche, actor (Cocoon), dies of prostate cancer at 85
1993 - Prof Wolfgang Paul, German physicist (Nobel 1989), dies at 80
1993 - Rita Macedo, actress (Divinas Palabras), dies of heart attack at 65
1993 - Rouaz Lakhdar, Algerian supreme court justice, murdered
1994 - AJ Bronkhorst, vicar/theologist (Reform The Netherlands), dies at 80
1994 - Alan Owen, English screenplay/actor (Hard Day's Night), dies at 69
1994 - Gian Maria Volonte, actresss (Fistful of Dollars), dies at 61
1995 - Dmitri Antonovitch Volkogonov, soldier/historian, dies at 67
1995 - James "Scotty" Barrett Reston, journalist, dies at 86
1995 - John Trevor Key, photographer, dies at 48
1995 - Kathleen Harrison, actress (Fast Lady, Big Money), dies at 103
1995 - Leslie Wilkinson, journalist, dies at 97
1995 - [Schaff] Claire Polin, composer, dies at 69
1996 - Bryan Clieve Roberts, lawyer/civil servant, dies at 83
1996 - [Alvin] Pete Rozelle, commissioner (NFL), dies at 70
1997 - Alan Mouncer, film director/producer, dies at 68
1997 - Edmund Charles Wolf Myers, soldier/engineer, dies at 91
1997 - Eliot Daniel, composer (I Love Lucy theme), dies at 89
2000 - Werner Klemperer, German-born actor (b. 1920)
2001 - Sir Peter Blake, New Zealand yachtsman & winner of numerous Whitbread and America's Cup
           sailing contests, killed by pirates on the Amazon River at age 53
2001 - Charles McClendon, Hall of Fame college football coach (b. 1923)
2002 - Philip Berrigan, American civil rights activist (b. 1923)
2003 - Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio, President of Guatemala (b. 1918)
2003 - Jerry Tuite, American professional wrestler (b. 1966)
2003 - Hans Hotter, German bass-baritone (b. 1909)
2004 - Raymond Goethals, Belgian football coach (b. 1921)
2005 - Charly Gaul, Luxembourg cyclist (b. 1932)
2005 - Devan Nair, 3rd President of Singapore (b. 1923)
2005 - Danny Williams, South African-born singer (b. 1942)
2006 - John Feeney, Documentary film-director (b. 1922)
2007 - Katy French, Irish Supermodel and Socialite (b. 1983)
2010 - Mark Dailey, Canadian television journalist and announcer (b. 1953)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 07, 2013, 04:08:51 PM

This Day in History for 7th December


Historical Events

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Outlaw Jesse James                                Baseball Player Ted Williams                       General Secretary of the
                                                                                                                   Communist Party of the Soviet Union
                                                                                                                                      Mikhail Gorbachev

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Radio shock jock Howard Stern


43 BC - Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106 BC), Roman orator and politician assassinated.
185 - Emperor Lo-Yang, China sees supernova (MSH15-52)
1354 - Margaretha van Bavarian's son earl Willem V signs peace treaty
1696 - Connecticut Route 108, one of the oldest highways in the U.S. is completed to Trumbull.
1724 - Tumult of Thorn - religious unrest was followed by the execution of nine Protestant citizens
           and the mayor of Thorn (Toruń) by Polish authorities.
1732 - The Royal Opera House opens at Covent Garden, London.
1741 - Elisabeth Petrovna becomes tsarina of Russia
1783 - Theatre Royal opens in Covent Garden, London
1783 - William Pitt Jr (24) becomes British Premier
1787 - Delaware becomes 1st state to ratify constitution
1808 - James Madison elected 4th US President and George Clinton Vice-President
1835 - German railway Neurenberg-Furth opens
1836 - Martin Van Buren elected 8th president
1842 - NY Philharmonic's 1st concert
1862 - Battle of Hartsville, TN
1862 - Battle of Prairie Grove, AR
1864 - Skirmish at Ebenezer Creek/Cypress Swamp, Georgia
1868 - Jesse James gang robs bank in Gallatin Missouri, kills 1
1872 - HMS Challenger sets sail on 3½ year world oceanographic cruise
1875 - Natives Sons of the West organized
1876 - NY Mutuals & Phila A's expelled from NL for not completing sked
1877 - Thomas A Edison demonstrates the gramophone
1885 - 49th Congress (1885-87) convenes
1889 - Gilbert & Sullivans "Gondoliers" premieres in London
1891 - 52nd Congress (1st to appropriate $1 billion) holds 1st session
1895 - Battle at Amba Alagi: Abyssinians beat Italian armies
1900 - Max Planck, in his house at Grunewald, on the outskirts of Berlin, discovers the law of black
           body emission.
1907 - Eugene Corri becomes 1st referee in a boxing ring
1909 - Leo Baekeland, Yonkers, patents 1st thermosetting plastic (Bakelite)
1911 - Leslie J Stuarts musical "Betsy" premieres in NYC
1911 - Natl Hockey Association forms with New Westminster, Vancouver &amp; Victoria
1912 - Bust of Queen Nefertete found in El-Amarna, Egypt
1916 - British government of David Lloyd George forms
1916 - David Lloyd George replaces resigning H H Asquith as British PM
1917 - US becomes 13th country to declare war on Austria during World War I
1920 - NSW make 802 against South Australia, then Mailey takes 8-81
1920 - USPD-KPD parties merge into Vereinigte Communist Party of Germany
1921 - KWG-AM in Stockton CA begins radio transmissions
1924 - German election (Social Democrats win, Nazis & Communists lose)
1925 - Biltmore Theater opens at 261 W 47th St NYC
1925 - Noel Coward's "Easy Virtue" premieres in NYC
1926 - Gas refrigerator patented
1929 - Bradman scores 124 for Woodfull's XI against Ryder's XI 166 mins
1929 - Leo Diegel wins PGA golf tournament
1930 - 13th PGA Championship: Tommy Armour at Fresh Meadows CC Flushing
1931 - Bradman scores 219 NSW v South Africa, 234 mins, 15 fours
1932 - 1st gyro-stabilized vessel to cross Atlantic arrives in NY
1934 - Wiley Post discovers jet stream
1935 - CFL Grey Cup: Winnipeg Blue Bombers beat Ham Tigers, 18-12 at Hamilton
1937 - Dutch Minister Romme proclaims married women are forbidden to work
1937 - Red Sox acquire the contract of 19-year-old Ted Williams
1937 - Russian chess player Alekhine recaptures world title from Max Euwe
1938 - Philip Barry's "Here Come the Clowns" premieres in NYC
1938 - W9XZY broadcasts facsimile of St Louis Post-Dispatch by radio
1939 - Lou Gehrig, 36, is elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame
1939 - William Walton's violinist concert premieres in Cleveland
1940 - 28th CFL Grey Cup (Game 2): Toronto Balmy Beach defeats Ottawa, 12-5
1940 - North Africa: British counter offensive under general O'Connor
1940 - The first prototype Fairey Barracuda flew
1941 - Australian bombers land on Timor/Ambon
1941 - Futshida's air fleet passes coastline of Oahu
1941 - German siege of Tobruk after 8 months ends
1941 - Japanese attack on the US at Pearl Harbour Naval Base, Hawaii
1941 - Nacht & Nebel Erlass, resistance fighter sent to concentration camps
1941 - 1st Japanese midget submarine (No. 20) attacked by a US ship (USS Ward)
1943 - Cairo: president Roosevelt travels back to the US
1944 - Convention on International Civil Aviation drawn up in Chicago
1944 - General Radescu forms Romanian government
1945 - Microwave oven patented
1946 - Fire at Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, kills 119
1949 - 15th Heisman Trophy Award: Leon Hart, Notre Dame (E)
1949 - Chiang Kai-shek flees to Taiwan
1952 - KKTV TV channel 11 in Colorado Spgs-Pueblo, CO (CBS) 1st broadcast
1953 - Israel's PM Ben-Gurion retires
1953 - WCCB TV channel 18 in Charlotte, NC (IND/ABC) begins broadcasting
1954 - Japanese government of Joshida resigns
1954 - KCTS TV channel 9 in Seattle, WA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1956 - Helen O'Connell joins Today Show panel
1957 - Tony Kubek of the Yanks selected as AL Rookie of the Year
1958 - Romulo Betancourt elected pres of Venezuela
1959 - "Saratoga" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 80 performances
1960 - Ivory Coast claims independence from France
1962 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 - Ian Meckiff no-balled for throwing against the South Africans
1963 - Instant replay is used for the first time in a Army-Navy game.
1964 - George Harrison changes his company's name from Mornyork to Harrisongs
1965 - Pope Paul VI & Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras I simultaneously lift mutual excommunications
           that led to split of 2 churches in 1054
1966 - A fire at an army barracks in Erzurum, Turkey kills 68 people.
1967 - "How Now, Dow Jones" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 220 perfs
1967 - Otis Redding records "Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay"
1968 - M Dodd returns a library books his Great grandfather took out in 1923
1968 - Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 launched into Earth orbit
1968 - Richard Dodd returns a library book his great grandad took out in 1823
1970 - Taizan Maezumi Roshi, head of LA Zen Center, receives dharma
1970 - West Germany & Poland normalize relations
1971 - "Wild & Wonderful" opens/closes at Lyceum Theater NYC
1971 - Wings release their 1st album "Wild Life"
1972 - Apollo 17 (US), final manned lunar landing mission, launched
1972 - Philippine's 1st lady Imelda Marcos stabbed & wounded by an assailant
1973 - Orioles sell pitcher Eddie Watt to the Phillies
1973 - Phillies sell infielder-outfielder Cesar Tovar to the Texas Rangers
1973 - Wings release "Band on the Run"
1975 - 10th Islander shut-out opponent-Glenn Resch 3-0 vs Sabres
1975 - Archbishop Makarios returns Cyprus
1975 - Indonesian army occupies East Timor
1975 - Pat Bradley wins Colgate-Far East Ladies Tournament Golf Tournament
1976 - UN Security Council endorses Kurt Waldheim, sec-gen for 2nd 5 yr term
1977 - Islander Billy Smith's 10th shut-out opponent-Black Hawks 4-0
1978 - Islander's Mike Bossy's 1st career hat trick
1981 - Spain becomes a member of the NATO
1982 - Suriname army under Desi Bouterse fires on radio station building
1982 - In Texas, Charles Brooks, Jr. becomes the first person to be executed by lethal injection in
           the US.
1983 - 2 jets collided at Madrid Airport killing 93
1983 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1984 - Allan Border's 1st Test Cricket match as captain (v WI Adelaide)
1985 - 51st Heisman Trophy Award: Bo Jackson, Auburn (RB)
1985 - Atlantis returns to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB
1986 - Juli Inkster/Tom Purtzer wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
1986 - Pres Jean-Claude Duvalier flees Haiti
1987 - 43 die in Pacific Southwest Airline crash in California (man shot pilots)
1987 - Gorbachev arrives in US for a summit meeting
1987 - Palestinian uprising against Israel in West Bank
1988 - 6.9 earthquake in Spitak, Armenia (>25,000 killed, 5,000,000 homeless)
1988 - Gorbachev announces 10% unilateral Soviet troop reductions at UN
1988 - Mikhail Gorbachev cheered by Wall St crowds upon arrival in NYC
1988 - NY Islanders fire Simpson, Arbour new coach
1988 - Rangers sign free-agent pitcher Nolan Ryan to a one-year contract
1989 - C Coleman & D Zippel's musical "City of Angels" premieres in NYC
1990 - Iraqi parliment endorses Saddam Hussein's decision to free hostages
1990 - Ted Turner & Jane Fonda announce their engagement
1991 - A J Kitt, US, wins World Skiing Cup
1992 - Galileo spacecraft passes North Pole of Moon (Peary Crater)
1993 - Henri Konan Bedie names himself President of Ivory coast
1993 - Robert Goulet undergoes prostate cancer surgery
1993 - The Long Island Rail Road massacre: Passenger Colin Ferguson murders six people and
           injures 19 others on the LIRR in Nassau County, New York.
1994 - 5th Billboard Music Awards
1994 - Radio personality Howard Stern talks a man out of attempting suicide
1995 - NBA settles strike of referees, refs to return on Dec 12
1995 - US space probe Galileo begins orbiting Jupiter
1996 - Space Shuttle STS 80 (Columbia 21), lands
1997 - Amy Fruhwirth & Clarence Rose win LPGA J C Penney Classic
1999 - The RIAA files a lawsuit against the Napster file-sharing client, on charges of copyright
           infringement.
2003 - The Conservative Party of Canada is officially recognized after the merger of the Canadian
           Alliance and Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.
2005 - Rigoberto Alpizar, a passenger on American Airlines Flight 924 who allegedly claimed to have a
           bomb, is shot and killed by a team of US federal air marshals at Miami International Airport.
2006 - A tornado struck Kensal Green, North West London, seriously damaging around 150
           properties.
2007 - The Hebei Spirit oil spill began in South Korea after a crane barge being towed by tug collided
           with the very large crude carrier, Hebei Spirit.

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 07, 2013, 04:10:44 PM

This Day in History for 7th December


Famous Weddings

1646 - Princess Louise Henriette (19) of Nassau marries Frederick Henry Elector of Brandenburg
1996 - Former Tennessee Republican Senator Howard Baker (71) weds retired Kansas GOP Senator
           Nancy Kassebaum (64) in Washington, D.C.
2003 - Multi-awarded singer Mary J. Blige (32) weds record producer Kendu Isaacs in Bergen County,
           New Jersey

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 07, 2013, 04:28:10 PM

This Day in History for 7th December


Famous Birthdays

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Wax Museum Creator                                  Linguist & Author                            NBA Legend Larry Bird (1956)
Madame Tussaud (1761)                           Noam Chomsky (1928)


521 - Saint Columba, Irish Christian missionary to Scotland (d. 597)
903 - Abd Al-Rahman Al Sufi, Persian astronomer (d. 986)
967 - Abu Sa'id ibn Aboa al-Chair, Persian mystic
1302 - Azzone Visconti lord of Milan (d. 1339)
1545 - Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, consort of Mary I of Scotland (d. 1567)
1557 - Girolamo Trombeti, composer
1561 - Kikkawa Hiroie, Japanese politician (d. 1625)
1598 - Giovanni Bernini, Naples, Kingdom of Naples, baroque sculptor (St Teresa in Ecstasy), (d.
           1680)
1604 - Ambrosius Reiner, composer
1637 - Barnardo Pasquini, composer
1648 - Giovanni Maria Capelli, composer
1670 - John Aislabie, English director of the South Sea Company (d. 1742)
1731 - Abraham-Hyacinthe Anquetil du Perron, French interpreter
1751 - Jurrian F de Frederici, governor-General (Suriname)
1754 - Jack Jouett, American patriot
1761 - Madame [Marie Grosholtz] Tussaud, Strasbourg, France, created wax museum, (d. 1850)
1764 - Claude Victor-Perrin, duc de Belluno, French marshal (d. 1841)
1772 - Joseph Franz Maximilian Lobkowitz, composer
1784 - Allan Cunningham, British poet (d. 1842)
1801 - Johann Nepomuk Nestroy, Austrian actor (Judith und Holofernes)
1803 - Maria Josepha of Saxony, queen consort of Spain (d. 1829)
1808 - Hugh McCulloch, US Secy of Treasury
1810 - Theodor Schwann, German co-originator of cell theory
1810 - Josef Hyrtl, Austrian anatomist (d. 1894)
1823 - Leopold Kronecker, German mathematician (Tensor of Kronecker)
1830 - Luigi Cremona, Italian mathematician/minister of Education
1835 - Dom Joseph Pothier, French monk/musicologist
1839 - Redvers H Buller, English general/large landowner: Natal
1840 - Hermann Goetz, composer
1842 - Otto Ammon, German anthropologist/sociologist (schedelmetingen)
1847 - James Deacon White, Canton NY, ball player jumped teams in 1876 (Chi)
1847 - Solomon Schechter, US Talmudic scholar/Jewish leader
1857 - Nicola van Westerhout, composer
1860 - Joseph Cook, 6th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1947)
1862 - Paul Adam, French writer (La Bataille d'Uhde)
1863 - John Ebenezer West, composer
1863 - Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer/fascist (Cavalleria Rusticana)
1863 - Svetolik Rankovic, Serbian writer (Forest King)
1863 - Felix Calonder, Scuol, Swiss politician (Free Democratic Party)
1872 - Johan Huizinga, Dutch culture historian (Homo Ludens)
1873 - Willa Cather, US, author (My Antonia)
1876 - Ludwig Schiedermair, German musicologist (Beethoven-Archiv)
1878 - Akiko Yosano, Japan, poet (Tangled Hair)
1879 - Rudolf Friml, Czech/US composer (Bohemian suite)
1882 - Warren Bardsley, cricketer (great NSW & Aussie opening bat 1909-26)
1887 - Ernst Toch, Vienna Austria, composer (Melodie Lehre)
1888 - Hamilton Fish, US congress leader/isolationist
1888 - Joyce Cary, Anglo-Irish (male) writer (House of Children)
1888 - Matthew Heywood Campbell Broun, 1st pres of American Newspaper Guild
1889 - Heathcote Dicken Statham, composer
1891 - Fay Bainter, Los Angeles California, actress (Jezebel, Our Town, State Fair)
1892 - Nora Nicholson, Leamington England, actress (Blue Lagoon, Crow Hollow)
1894 - Stuart Davis, US painter
1895 - Jack Pennick, Portland OR, actor (Lady From Louisiana)
1896 - Juan Maria Thomas Sabater, composer
1901 - A F [Tony] Pugsley, British rear-admiral (Walcheren attack (1944))
1902 - J G Navle, cricketer (India's 1st Test wicket-keeper)
1903 - Danilo Blanuša, Croatian mathematician (d. 1987)
1904 - Konstantin Sokolsky, Russian singer (d. 1991)
1905 - Gerard Kuiper, Dutch/US astronomer (moons of Uranus, Neptune)
1906 - George Richard James, saxophonist
1908 - Jacques Gans, Dutch author/journalist
1908 - John H Doeg, tennis champ (US Open-1930)
1909 - Jacob Kainen, artist/curator
1910 - Edmundo Ros, English orchestra leader
1910 - Richard Franko Goldman, composer
1910 - Rod Cameron, Calgary Alberta, actor (City Detective, State Trooper)
1910 - Louis Prima, New Orleans Luisiana, American musician (That Old Black Magic)
1912 - Daniel Jones, composer
1914 - Winston Place, cricketer (England opener in West Indies 1948)
1915 - Brackett Hamilton Leigh, [Douglass], US, sci-fi author (Ginger Star)
1915 - Eli Wallach, Brooklyn New York, American actor (Magnificent 7, Misfits, People Next Door)
1916 - Jean Carignan, French Canadian fiddler (d. 1988)
1918 - Jorunn Vidar, composer
1919 - Ellen Stewart, actress/founder (La Mama Theatre Group)
1920 - Fiorenzo Magni, Italian cyclist, (d. 2012)
1920 - Tatamkulu Afrika, South African poet and writer (d. 2002)
1921 - Arne Dorumsgaard, composer
1921 - Pramukh Swami Maharaj, Indian spiritual leader
1923 - Ted Knight, Terryville, Connecticut, American actor (Mary Tyler Moore, Too Close for Comfort)
1924 - John Love, Zimbabwean Formula One driver (d. 2005)
1924 - Mário Soares, President of Portugal
1925 - Hernando da Silva Ramos, Brazilian racing driver
1926 - Victor Kermit Kiam II, CEO (Remington shavers)/NFL owner (Patriots)
1926 - Wolfgang Ludewig, composer
1927 - Vlastimir Pericic, composer
1927 - Helen Watts, British contralto
1928 - Noam Chomsky, linguist (founded transformational grammar)
1928 - Raymond Henry Charles Warren, composer
1930 - Richard Felciano, composer
1930 - Hal Smith, American baseball player
1932 - Ellen Burstyn, Detroit, actress (Exorcist, Alice Doesn't Live Here)
1932 - Geoff Lawson, Australian cricket player
1932 - Gerard van den Berg, Dutch TV host (Like Father, Like Son)
1932 - Paul Caponigro, American photographer
1935 - Jean-Claude Casadesus, composer
1936 - Martha Layne Collins, Baghdad Ky, (Gov-D-Ky)
1937 - Thad Cochran, (Sen-R-Miss)
1940 - Kumar Shahani, writer/director (Kasbam Tarang, Maya Darpan)
1940 - Stan Boardman, English comedian
1942 - Harry Chapin, NYC, American rock vocalist (Taxi, Cat's in the Cradle)
1942 - Jonathan D Kramer, composer
1943 - Göran Lennmarker, Swedish politician
1943 - Bernard C. Parks, Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department
1944 - Jamiel Chagra, American drug trafficker
1944 - Daniel Chorzempa, American organist
1945 - Marion Rung, Finnish singer
1947 - Johnny Bench, baseball catcher (Reds)
1947 - Mino Reitano, Italian entertainer
1947 - Peter de Jong, Dutch actor (Maxi-Mini & Maxi)
1947 - Vincent Baggetta, Paterson NJ, actor (Lou-Chicago Story)
1947 - Tony Thomas, American TV and film producer
1948 - Gary Morris, Fort Worth Tx, country singer/actor (Colbys)
1948 - Yoko Morishita, prima ballerina (Baterina No Habataki)
1948 - Mads Vinding, Danish bassist
1949 - Tom Waits, California, rocker/song writer (Blue Valentine)
1951 - Henk Temming, Dutch vocalist/keyboardist (Good Cause)
1952 - Georges Corraface, Greek actor, president of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival
1952 - Susan Collins, American politician, junior senator from Maine
1953 - Bertin Osborne, Italian entertainer
1954 - Gianfranco Jannuzzo, Italian entertainer
1954 - Julie Halston, actress (Juror, Drunks, Addams Family Values)
1954 - Mike Nolan, rocker
1954 - Mark Hofmann, American forger and bomber
1955 - Priscilla Barnes, Ft Dix NJ, actress (License to Kill, 3s Company)
1955 - John Watkins, Australian politician
1956 - Larry Bird, West Baden, Indiana, NBA star (Boston Celtics, 12-time NBA All Star)
1957 - Geoff "Henry" Lawson, cricketer (Australian fast bowler 1980-89)
1957 - Rohan Jayasekera, cricketer (one Test Sri Lanka v Pakistan 1982)
1957 - Tom Winsor, British lawyer and economic regulator
1958 - Edd Hall, TV announcer (Jay Leno's Tonight Show)
1958 - Rick Rude, American professional wrestler (d. 1999)
1959 - Salim Yousuf, cricketer (Pakistani wicket-keeper in 32 Tests 1986-90)
1960 - Craig Scanlon, English guitarist (The Fall)
1961 - Mary Beth Evans, Pasadena CA, actress (Katherine Ashton-Gen Hospital)
1961 - Lisa Fischer, American R&B singer
1962 - Grecia Colmenares, Italian entertainer
1963 - Barbara Weathers, vocalist (Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover)
1963 - Kristi Albers, El Paso TX, LPGA golfer (1993 Sprint Classic)
1963 - Theo Snelders, former Dutch footballer
1964 - Duncan Miller, rocker (Blue Mercedes-Rich & Famous)
1964 - Mike Nolan, rocker (Bucks Fizz-My Camera Never Lies)
1964 - Peter Laviolette, Norwood Mass, US hockey defenseman (Olympics-1994)
1964 - Roberta Close, Brazilian model
1964 - Tadao Uematsu, Japanese racing driver
1965 - Peter Draisaitl, Karvina CZE, hockey forward (Team Germany 1998)
1965 - Colin Hendry, Scottish footballer
1966 - C Thomas Howell, Los Angeles California, actor (Red Dawn, Tank, Soul Man)
1966 - Shinichi Itoh, Japanese motorcycle racer
1967 - Tino Martinez, Tampa FL, 1st baseman (Seattle Mariner, NY Yankees)
1967 - Vaclav Chalupa, Czechoslovakia, rower (Henley Royal Regatta 1989)
1968 - Cammy Myler, Plattsburgh NY, luger (Olympics-1994)
1968 - Keith Goganious, NFL linebacker (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1968 - Melissa Iverson, Anoka Minn, rower (Olympics-96)
1968 - Ricky Ervins, NFL running back (SF 49ers)
1968 - Tom Myslinski, NFL guard (Jacksonville Jaguars, Pittsburgh Steelers)
1968 - Mark Geyer, Australian rugby league footballer
1969 - Sabine Hack, West Germany, tennis star
1970 - Courtney Browne, cricketer (West Indies Test wicket-keeper 1995)
1970 - Ed Robinson, WLAF linebacker (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1970 - Rob Olson, Victoria BC, Canadian Tour golfer (1990 Newlands Open)
1971 - Ben Atkins, NYC, fencer-epee (Olympics-96)
1971 - Mauricio Hadad, Cali Colombia, tennis star (1995 Bermuda)
1971 - Vladimir Akopian, Armenian chess player
1972 - Bobby Schoonens, soccer player (RKC)
1972 - Clay Shiver, corner (Dallas Cowboys)
1972 - Jordi Buritlo, Spain, tennis star
1972 - Kevin Dogins, corner (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1972 - Sunny, [Tamara Fytch], WWF model
1972 - Hermann Maier, Austrian skier
1972 - Tammy Lynn Sytch, American professional wrestler
1973 - Mark Hartsell, WLAF QB (Scotland Claymores)
1973 - Rea Marie Bavilla, Miss USA-Alaska (1997)
1973 - Terrell Owens, wide reciever (San Francisco 49ers)
1974 - Alex Radutescu, Romania, tennis star
1974 - Annette Salmeen, 200m butterfly/800m freestyle relay (Olympics-96)
1974 - Nicole Appleton, Canadian-born singer
1974 - Kang Full, South Korean webcomic artist
1975 - Nikola Wapzarow, writer
1975 - Jamie Clapham, English footballer
1976 - Alan Faneca, American football player
1976 - Brent Johnson, Canadian football player
1976 - Georges Laraque, Canadian ice hockey player
1976 - Vanessa Lorenzo, Spanish fashion model
1977 - Fernando Vargas, Oxnard Ca, welterweight boxer (Olympics-96)
1977 - Francesca Lubiani, Bologna Italy, tennis star (Futures-Amadora-POR)
1977 - Dominic Howard, English drummer (Muse)
1978 - Shiri Appleby, American actress
1978 - Frankie J, Mexican-born American singer
1978 - Chad Dukes, Radio Personality
1979 - Lampros Choutos, Greek footballer
1979 - Ayako Fujitani, Japanese actress
1979 - Derek Ramsay, Filipino actor and model
1979 - Sara Bareilles, American singer
1979 - Jennifer Carpenter, American actress
1980 - John Terry, English footballer
1983 - Fausto Carmona, Dominican baseball player
1984 - Robert Kubica, the first Polish Formula One racing driver
1984 - Luca Rigoni, Italian footballer
1984 - Aaron Gray, American basketball player
1987 - Aaron Carter, American singer and actor
1987 - Baran Kosari, Iranian actress
1988 - Emily Browning, Australian actress
1988 - Asia Ray Smith, American actress
1989 - Nicholas Hoult, English actor
2003 - Princess Catharina-Amalia of the Netherlands

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 07, 2013, 04:46:33 PM

This Day in History for 7th December


Famous Deaths

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Political Cartoonist                              Cartoonist Rube Goldberg (1970)                  Actor Harry Morgan (2011)
 Thomas Nast (1902)


283 - Catholic Pope Saint Eutychian
983 - Otto II the Red, German king/emperor (973-83), dies at about 28
1254 - Innocent IV, [Sinibaldo dei Fieschi], Pope (1243-54), dies
1279 - King Boleslaus V of Poland (b. 1226)
1295 - Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Hertford, English politician (b. 1243)
1383 - Wenceslaus, duke of Brabant, dies
1498 - Alexander Hegius von Heek, German humanist
1649 - Charles Garnier, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1606)
1672 - Richard Bellingham, English-born Massachusetts colonial magistrate (b. 1592)
1683 - John Oldham, English poet (smallpox) (b. 1653)
1723 - Jan Santini Aichel, Bohemian architect (b. 1677)
1725 - Florent Carton Dancourt, French dramatist and actor (b. 1661)
1775 - Charles Saunders, British admiral
1793 - Joseph Bara, French revolutionary (b. 1780)
1811 - Ignaz Spangler, composer, dies at 54
1815 - Michel Ney, French marshal (Waterloo), murdered at 46
1817 - William Bligh, British naval officer of "Bounty" fame, dies at 63
1823 - Johann Gottlieb Schwencke, composer, dies at 79
1826 - John Flaxman, Engl sculptor (tombs at St Paul's Cathedral), dies at 71
1829 - Johann Christoph Kienlen, composer, dies at 45
1834 - Ludwig Schuncke, composer, dies at 23
1839 - Jan Matyas Nepomuk August Vitasek, composer, dies at 69
1841 - Johann Daniel Ferstenberg, composer, dies at 83
1842 - Thomas Hamilton, Scottish writer (b. 1789)
1860 - Constantine S Aksakov, Russian historian/poet, dies at 43
1862 - Sylvester Churchill, US Union brig-general, dies
1867 - Rudolf Viole, composer, dies at 42
1874 - Constantin von Tischendorf, German biblical scholar (b. 1815)
1881 - Julius FA Bahnsen, Ger philosopher (Tragic as Weltgesetz), dies at 51
1894 - Ferdinand de Lesseps, French engineer/diplomat/earl, dies at 89
1899 - Antoni Katski, composer, dies at 82
1902 - Thomas Nast, US political cartoonist, dies aged 62
1906 - Élie Ducommun, Swiss journalist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1833)
1912 - George Darwin, theorized Moon was pulled out of Pacific Ocean, dies
1913 - Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano, Italian Catholic churchman and last surviving cardinal of Pius IX
           (b. 1828)
1917 - Leon Minkus, composer, dies at 91
1938 - Harry Moses, cricketer (6 Tests for Australia 1887-95), dies
1941 - Cecil Forsyth, composer, dies at 71
1941 - Iida, Japanese pilot/lt, dies in battle at 28
1941 - Notable casualties of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
1941 - Mervyn S. Bennion, United States Navy Captain, Medal of Honor recipient, killed in Japanese
           attack on Pearl Harbor (b. 1887)
1941 - Herbert C. Jones, United States Navy, Medal of Honor recipient, killed in Japanese attack on
           Pearl Harbor (b. 1918)
1941 - Thomas J. Reeves, United States Navy, Medal of Honor recipient, killed in Japanese attack on
           Pearl Harbor (b. 1895)
1941 - Franklin Van Valkenburgh, United States Navy, Medal of Honor recipient, killed in Japanese
           attack on Pearl Harbor (b. 1888)
1943 - John Bouber, [Blom], actor/author (Bluejackets), dies at 22
1946 - Sada Yacco, Japanese stage actress (b. 1871)
1947 - Nicholas M. Butler, American university president, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1862)
1947 - Tristan Bernard, French playwright and novelist (b. 1866)
1948 - Godfrey Turner, composer, dies at 35
1956 - Huntley Gordon, Canadian actor (b. 1887)
1960 - Clara Haskil, Swiss pianist (b. 1895)
1962 - Kirsten Flagstad, Norwegian soprano (Wagner), dies at 67
1967 - House Peters, silent film actor (Kansas Territory), dies at 87
1969 - Eric Portman, actor (Naked Edge), dies from heart ailment at 66
1969 - Hugh Williams, actor (Human Monster), dies after surgery at 65
1969 - Lefty O'Doul, American baseball player (b. 1897)
1970 - Rube Goldberg, US cartoonist (Mike & Ike, Pulitzer 1948), dies at 87
1970 - Romaine Brooks (born Beatrice Romaine Goddard), American painter dies aged 96
1971 - Milton Rosmer, director (Murder in the Red Barn), dies at 90
1972 - Adrian J Zoetmulder, author (God's Hour), dies at 91
1975 - Hardie Albright, actress (Silver Streak, Scarlet Letter), dies at 71
1975 - Thornton N Wilder, US writer (Bridge of San Luis Rey), dies at 78
1977 - Paul Gibb, cricketer (England batsman, 8 Tests), dies
1978 - Alexander Wetmore, American ornithologist (b. 1886)
1979 - Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, 1st woman full prof at Harvard U, dies
1979 - Mari Andriessen, sculptor (Docker), Amsterdam, dies at 82
1979 - Nicolas Born, writer, dies at 41
1979 - Prince Chahryar Shafik, Shah of Iran's nephew, murdered in Paris
1980 - Darby Crash, rocker, dies at 22
1982 - Charlie Brooks Jr, convicted murderer became 1st US prisoner to be executed by lethal
           injection, at a prison in Huntsville, Texas
1983 - Edgar Graham, member of N Ireland Assembly, shot dead by IRA
1983 - Fanny Cano, Mexican actress (b. 1944)
1984 - Jeanne Cagney, actress (Quicksand, Kentucky Rifle), dies at 65
1984 - Lee Roy Yarbrough, American race car (Nascar) driver (b. 1938)
1985 - Potter Stewart, 94th Supreme Court Justice (1958-81), dies in NH at 70
1985 - Robert Graves, English writer/poet (King Jesus), dies at 90
1988 - Andrei P Ershov, Russian computer pioneer, dies
1988 - Christopher Connelly, actor (Liar's Moon, Hawmps), dies at 47
1988 - Peter Langan, Irish restaurateur (Langans London), dies in fire
1989 - William Calhoun, professional wrestler (b. 1934)
1990 - Delecta "Dee" Clark, US singer (Raindrops), dies at 52
1990 - Horst Bienek, writer, dies at 60
1990 - Joan Bennett, US actress (House Across the Bay), dies at 80
1990 - Jean Paul Lemieux, Quebec painter (b. 1904)
1991 - Michael Taylor, Male Model (b. 1913)
1992 - Maurice Coutinho, writer/translator (Silent Struggle), dies at 79
1992 - Ruth Corbett Thom, dies after long illness at 78
1992 - Vincent Gardenia, actor (Moonstruck, LA Law), dies at 71
1993 - Félix Houphouet-Boigny, pres of Ivory Coast (1960-93), dies at 88
1993 - Janet Margolin, actress (David & Lisa), dies of ovarian cancer at 50
1994 - Elga Andersen, German/French model/actress (Global Affair), dies at 58
1994 - J.C. Tremblay, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1939)
1995 - Larry Bartlett, photographer, dies at 42
1995 - Tom Burns, editor, dies at 89
1996 - Eugene Izzi, mystery writer, hangs himself at 43
1996 - Jose Donoso, writer, dies at 72
1997 - Billy Bremner, Scottish footballer dies at 54 from a suspected heart attack
1998 - John Addison, British composer (b. 1920)
2000 - Vladimir Gotovac, Croatian poet and politician (b. 1930)
2001 - Charles McClendon, LSU Tigers head football coach (b. 1923)
2003 - Carl F. H. Henry American theologian and publisher (b. 1913)
2003 - Azie Taylor Morton, Treasurer of the United States (b. 1936)
2004 - Frederick Fennell, American conductor (b. 1914)
2004 - Jerry Scoggins, American singer (b. 1913)
2004 - Jay Van Andel, co-founder and former chairman of Amway (b. 1924)
2005 - Bud Carson, American football player and coach (b. 1931)
2005 - Lucy d'Abreu, was the oldest living person in the United Kingdom from April 2004 until her
           death (b. 1892)
2005 - Rigoberto Alpizar, airplane passenger fatally shot by U.S. Air Marshals after allegedly claiming
           he had placed a bomb aboard (b. 1961)
2006 - Jeane Kirkpatrick, American ambassador (b. 1926)
2006 - Jay McShann, American musician (b. 1910)
2008 - Marky Cielo, Filipino and Igorot dancer and actor (b. 1988)
2008 - Dennis Yost, American vocalist, dies at 65
2009 - Mark Ritts, American actor (b. 1946)
2010 - Elizabeth Edwards, American lawyer and wife of John Edwards (b. 1949)
2010 - Gus Mercurio, American-born Australian actor (b. 1928)
2011 - Harry Morgan, American actor (Colonel Potter-M*A*S*H) dies at 96

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 08, 2013, 01:53:43 PM

This Day in History for 8th December


Historical Events

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US President Abraham Lincoln                Baseball Legend Connie Mack                Novelist Agatha Christie

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American Baseball Player               US President & Actor Ronald Reagan           Baseball Player Darryl Strawberry
Roger Maris 


1326 - Daitokuji temple, Rinzai line, established in Kyoto by Daito Kokushi
1609 - Biblioteca Ambrosiana opens its reading room, the second public library of Europe.
1659 - Mexican border town Ciudad Juárez is founded by Fray García de San Francisco.
1710 - Battle of Brihuega in the War of the Spanish Succession: British General James Stanhope
           captured by French & Spanish forces
1710 - Battle at Brihuega: English Gen Stanhope captured
1776 - George Washington's retreating army crosses Delaware River from NJ
1777 - Capt Cook leaves Society Islands
1792 - 1st cremation in US, Henry Laurens
1794 - 1st issue of Herald of Rutland, VT published
1813 - Ludwig von Beethoven's 7th Symphony in A, premieres
1846 - Hector Berlioz's "La Damnation de Faust" premieres
1849 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Luisa Miller" premieres in Naples
1852 - Gustav Freytag's "Die Journalisten" premieres in Breslau
1854 - Pope Pius IX proclaims Immaculate Conception, makes Mary, free of Original Sin
1857 - 1st production of Dion Boucicaults "Poor of NY"
1863 - 2,500 reported killed as result of fire at Jesuit Church of La Compana Santiago Chile
1863 - Abraham Lincoln's Amnesty Proclamation and plan for Reconstruction of South
1864 - Pope Pius IX publishes encyclical Quanta cura ("Syllabus errorum")
1869 - 20th Roman Catholic ecumenical council, Vatican I, opens in Rome
1869 - Timothy Eaton founds T. Eaton Co. Limited in Toronto, Canada.
1874 - Jesse James gang takes train at Muncie Kansas
1875 - Aleksandr Ostrovsky's "Volki i Ovsty" premieres in St Petersburg
1876 - Suriname begins compulsory education for 7-12 years
1880 - 5,000 armed Boers gather in Paardekraal South-Africa
1881 - Vienna's Ring Theater destroyed by fire, kills between 640-850
1886 - American Federation of Labor (AFL) formed by 26 craft unions Samuel Gompers elected AFL
           president
1895 - Battle at Amba Alagi: Ethiopian emperor Menelik II drives Italian general Baratieri's out
1896 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Missing 3 Quarter" (BG)
1899 - Natal: British fall/burst out belegerd Ladysmith
1902 - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr became Associate Justice on Supreme Court
1907 - King Gustaf V of Sweden accedes to the Swedish throne.
1909 - Bird banding society found
1913 - Construction starts on Palace of Fine Arts in SF
1914 - British & German fleets battle at Falkland Island
1914 - Connie Mack sells Eddie Collins to the White Sox
1914 - Irving Berlin's musical "Watch your Step" premieres in NYC
1915 - Jean Sibelius' 5th Symphony in E premieres
1921 - Eamon de Valera publicly repudiates Anglo-Irish Treaty
1923 - German-US friendship treaty signed
1923 - Labour/Liberals win British parliament
1923 - Salary & price freeze in Germany
1926 - Disappearance of Agatha Christie
1930 - Broadway Theater opens at 1681 Broadway NYC
1930 - Cole Porter's musical "NYCers" premieres in NYC
1931 - Coaxial cable patented
1934 - Friedrich Wolf's "Professor Mamlock" premieres in Zurich
1935 - The Japanese military police launches a violent suppression of the religious sect Oomoto,
           beginning with a crackdown on the sect's operational bases of Ayabe and Kameoka in Kyoto
           Prefecture and the arrest of its leader Onisaburo Deguchi.
1936 - Anastasio Somoza elected pres of Nicaragua
1936 - NAACP files suit to equalize salaries of black & white teachers
1938 - Highest temperature for December in US recorded in La Mesa Calif
1938 - LP Beria follows Nikolai Jezjov as head of Russian secret police
1940 - 1st NFL championship on national radio; Bears beat Redskins 73-0
1941 - Destruction Camp Chelmo opens
1941 - London: Dutch government declares war on Japan
1941 - Russian 16th army recaptures Krijukovo
1941 - SF 1st blackout, at 6:15 PM
1941 - US & Britain declare war on Japan, US enters WW II
1941 - President Roosevelt delivers "Day of Infamy" speech to US Congress a day after the bombing
           of Pearl Harbour
1942 - 8th Heisman Trophy Award: Frank Sinkwich, Georgia (HB)
1943 - John Van Druten's "Voice of the Turtle" premieres in NYC
1946 - Army rocket plane XS-1 makes 1st powered flight
1947 - "Caribbean Carnival" opens at International Theater NYC for 11 perfs
1948 - "Marinka" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 168 performances
1948 - 14th Heisman Trophy Award: Doak Walker, SMU (HB)
1948 - Jordan annexs Arabic Palestine
1949 - "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 740 perfs
1949 - Chinese Nationalist government moves from Chinese mainland to Formosa
1949 - Jule Styne's "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" premieres in NYC
1951 - "Tree Grows in Brooklyn" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 267 perfs
1951 - AL alters its restrictions on night games, adopting NL's suspended game rule & lifting its ban
           on lights for Sunday games
1952 - 1st TV acknowledgement of pregnancy (I Love Lucy)
1952 - French troops shoot on demonstrators at Casablanca, 50 die
1952 - Isaak Ben-Zwi elected pres of Israel
1953 - 19th Heisman Trophy Award: John Lattner, Notre Dame (HB)
1953 - Dwight D. Eisenhower gives the Atoms for Peace speech.
1954 - Maxwell Anderson's "Bad Seed," premieres in NYC
1954 - WPTZ TV channel 5 in Plattsburgh, NY (NBC) begins broadcasting
1955 - 21st Heisman Trophy Award: Howard Cassady, Ohio State (HB)
1955 - Brooklyn catcher Roy Campanella wins his 3rd MVP Award
1955 - Turkish government of Menderes forms
1956 - 16th Olympic games close at Melbourne, Australia
1956 - 1st test firing of Vanguard satellite program, TV-0
1956 - Guy Mitchell's "Singing the Blues," single goes #1 for 10 weeks
1959 - Dom Mintoff demands independence for Malta
1959 - President Eisenhower watches Pakistan v Aust Test Cricket at Karachi
1960 - Expansion LA Angels sign a 4 year lease to use Dodger Stadium
1961 - Antwerp Belgium diocese forms
1961 - Larry Costello scores 32 consecutive pts without a miss (NBA rec)
1961 - South Africa v NZ, Durban debuts for Eddie Barlow & Peter Pollock
1961 - Wilt Chamberlain scores the 2nd highest total in the NBA - 78
1962 - "I Can Get It For You Wholesale" closes at Shubert NYC after 300 perfs
1962 - 114-day newspaper strike begins in NYC
1962 - Failed coup in Brunei
1962 - Funeral for Queen Wilhelmina of Holland (New Kerk, Delft)
1963 - "Girl Who Came to Supper" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 112 perfs
1963 - Mickey Wright/Dave Ragan Jr wins LPGA Haig & Haig Scotch Mixed Golf
1963 - 3 fuel tanks explodes when jetliner is struck by lightning crashing near Elkton, Maryland-Only
           case of lightning caused crash, 81 die
1963 - Pan Am Flight 214 crashes outside Elkton, Maryland with a loss of 81 people.
1965 - Abe Burrows' "Cactus Flower" premieres in NYC
1965 - Nikolai Podgorny succeeds Mikojan as president of USSR
1965 - Pope Paul VI signs 2nd Vatican council
1966 - A terrible Yankee trade, Roger Maris for Card's Charlie Smith
1966 - US & USSR sign treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons in outer space
1967 - Beatles' "Magical Mystery Tour" album is released in UK
1967 - NHL California Seals change name to Oakland Seals
1969 - Greek DC-6B crashes in storm at Athens, 93 killed
1969 - Police surprise attack on Black-Panthers in LA
1972 - United Airlines crashes at Chicago's Midway Airport killing 45
1973 - "Seesaw" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 296 performances
1973 - 39th Heisman Trophy Award: John Cappelletti, Penn State (RB)
1974 - Greek monarchy rejected by referendum
1974 - Irish Republican Socialist Party forms
1974 - Sandra Post wins LPGA Colgate Far East Golf Open
1974 - Soyuz 16 returns to Earth
1975 - "Raisin" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 847 performances
1976 - UN General Assembly re-elects Kurt Waldheim secretary-General
1976 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1977 - 43rd Heisman Trophy Award: Earl Campbell, Texas (RB)
1977 - Portugal's premier Soares resigns
1978 - Commencement of the 1st day/night WSC cricket supertest at VFL Park
1980 - "Bravo" network premieres on cable TV
1981 - France performs nuclear test
1982 - "Herman Van Veen: All of Him" opens at Ambassador NYC for 6 perfs
1982 - Clark Gilles fails in 7th Islander penalty shot
1982 - Suriname army leader Bouterse murders 15 opponents
1982 - Norman Mayer holds Washington Monument hostage, demanding an end to nuclear weapons.
           Is killed by police after 10 hrs (he had no explosives)
1983 - 9th Space Shuttle Mission, Columbia 6, lands at Edwards AFB
1983 - Richard Baker, Zen teacher, steps down from abbotship of SF Zen Center
1984 - 73rd Australian Men Tennis: Mats Wilander beats K Curren (67 64 76 62)
1984 - Europe & 64 developing countries sign Lome III treaty
1984 - Ringo Starr appears on Saturday Night Live
1985 - 60th Australian Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats C Evert (62 46 62)
1985 - Ken O'Brien's 96 yard TD pass (NY Jet record) to Wesley Walker
1985 - Laurie Rinker/Larry Rinker wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
1986 - House Dems select majority leader Jim Wright as 48th speaker
1987 - Flyers' Ron Hextall becomes 1st goalie to actually score a goal
1987 - Jack Sikma (Milwaukee) begins NBA free throw streak of 51 games
1987 - Occupied Palestinians start "intefadeh" (uprising) against Israel
1987 - US President Reagan & Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev sign a treaty eliminating medium
           range nuclear missiles
1987 - The Alianza Lima air disaster.
1988 - Knick's set NBA record of 11 3-pointers & sink Bucks, 113-109
1989 - Great Britain performs nuclear test
1990 - Galileo Earth-1 Flyby
1990 - Indians agree to a lease new ballpark in Gateway (Jacobs Field)
1991 - "Homecoming" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 49 performances
1991 - "Nick & Nora" opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 9 performances
1991 - Kris Tschetter/Billy Andrade wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
1991 - Russia, Belorussia & Ukraine form Commonwealth of Ind States
1991 - The Romanian Constitution is adopted in a referendum.
1992 - Galileo's nearest approach to Jupiter (303 km)
1992 - NBC announces that "Cheers" will go off the air in May 1993
1993 - 30 killed at religious rebellion in Algeria
1993 - 4th Billboard Music Awards
1993 - Dow-Jones hits record 3734.53
1993 - Storm hits West Europe, 11 killed in England
1994 - "What's Wrong With this Picture?" opens at Circle in Sq NYC for 12 per
1994 - Darryl Strawberry indicted on tax evasion charges
1994 - Fire in cinema in Karamay China, 310 killed
1996 - "God Said, Ha!" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 22 performances
1996 - Donna Andrews & Mike Hulbert win LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
1997 - 8th Billboard Music Awards: LeAnn Rimes & Spice Girls win
1998 - Tadjena massacre: 81 people are killed by armed groups in Algeria.
2002 - The Caribbean Community Heads of Government meet with the Government of Cuba and
           declare the date to be "CARICOM-Cuba Day" - To celebrate diplomatic ties between the
           Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Cuba.
2004 - The Cuzco Declaration is signed in Cuzco, Peru, establishing the South American Community
           of Nations.
2005 - Ante Gotovina, Croatian army general accused of war crimes, is captured in the Playa de las
           Américas, Tenerife by the Spanish police.
2008 - Kirsty Williams elected as Leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats. The first female leader of a
           political party in Wales.
2009 - Bombings in Baghdad, Iraq kill 127 and injure 448.
2010 - With the second launch of the SpaceX Dragon, SpaceX becomes the first privately held
           company to successfully launch, orbit and recover a spacecraft.
2012 - UN climate conference agrees to extend the Kyoto Protocol to 2020

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 08, 2013, 01:55:48 PM

This Day in History for 8th December


Famous Weddings

2007 - "Happy Days" actor and legendary bachelor Scott Baio (46) weds longtime girlfriend Renee
           Sloan at a luxury high-rise in Los Angeles
2007 - Backstreet Boys member Howie Dorough (34) weds longtime girlfriend Leigh Boniello at St.
           James Cathedral in Orlando, Florida

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 08, 2013, 01:57:01 PM

This Day in History for 8th December


Famous Divorces

2010 - "Heart" rock singer Nancy Wilson (56) divorces "Almost Famous" and "Elizabethtown" director
           Cameron Crowe (53) due to irreconcilable differences after 24 years of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 08, 2013, 02:08:48 PM

This Day in History for 8th December


Famous Birthdays

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Queen of Scotland                                     Painter Diego Rivera (1886)                Comedian Sam Kinison (1953)
Mary Stuart (1542)

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Singer-Songwriter                                   Rapper & Singer Nicki Minaj (1982) 
Sinead O'Connor (1966) 


65 BC - Horace, Venusia, Lucania, Roman Republian poet (Odes), (d. 8 BC)
1508 - Gemma Frisius, [Jemme Reinersz], Frisian geographer/astronomer
1542 - Mary Stuart, Linlithgow Palace, Linlithgow, Queen of Scotland (1560-1587), (d. 1587)
1574 - Maria Anna of Bavaria, Empress consort of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1616)
1626 - Christina, queen of Sweden who abdicated after becoming Catholic
1678 - Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole of Wolterton, English diplomat (d. 1757)
1699 - Maria Josepha of Austria, queen of Poland (d. 1757)
1704 - Anton de Haen, medical expert (Ratio Medendi)
1708 - Francis I, Holy Roman emperor (1745-1765)
1715 - John Althuysen, Frisian vicar/poet (Frisianche rymlery)
1728 - Johann G von Zimmermann, Swiss author
1730 - John Ingen Housz, Dutch/English personal physician of Maria Theresia
1730 - Jan Ingenhousz, Dutch-born British physiologist and botanist (d. 1799)
1731 - Frantisek Xaver Dusek, composer
1737 - Robert Kimmerling, composer
1741 - Maximilian JLP Gardel, French dancer/choreographer (Menuet Reine)
1744 - Pierre Joseph Candielle, composer
1765 - Eli Whitney, inventor (Cotton Gin)
1789 - John Fawcett, composer
1795 - Jacques Francois Gallay, composer
1795 - Peter Andreas Hansen, Danish astronomer (d. 1874)
1811 - Louis Alexander Balthasar Schindelmeisser, composer
1815 - Adolph Menzel, German painter and graphic artist (d. 1905)
1816 - August Belmont, Sr., Prussian-born American financier (d. 1890)
1817 - Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs, Danish nobleman and politician (d. 1896)
1822 - Luther Prentice Bradley, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1910
1826 - Friedrich Siemens, German industrialist
1828 - Clinton Bowen Fisk, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1890
1828 - Robert Bullock, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1905
1832 - Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian author "Pa Guds Veje" and Nobel laureate (d. 1910)
1861 - Aristide Maillol, France, painter/sculptor (Seated Woman)
1861 - William Crapo Durant, founded General Machine
1862 - Georges Feydeau, French playwright (La Dame de Chez Maxim's)
1865 - Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician (Taylor series)
1865 - Jean Sibelius, Tavastehus Finland, composer (Valse Triste, Finlandia)
1872 - J C Powys, writer
1874 - Ernst Moro, Austrian physician (d. 1951)
1877 - Paul Emile Ladmirault, composer
1881 - Padraic Colum, Irish poet/novelist/poet (Collected Poems)
1882 - Manuel Maria Ponce, Fresnillo Mexico, composer (Estrellita)
1886 - Diego Rivera, [Lenin of Mexico], Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico, painter/wife of Frida Kahlo
           (En el Arsenal ), (d. 1957)
1887 - Vicente Emilio Sojo, composer
1888 - Fiske Kimball, US architect/art historian
1888 - Paul Cavanagh, Chislehurst England, actor (Tarzan & his Mate)
1888 - Vesey D'Davoren, character actor
1889 - W Hervey Allen, US writer/poet (Anthony Adverse)
1890 - Bohuslav Jan Martinu, Policka Czechoslovakia, composer (Hry o Marti)
1894 - James (Grover) Thurber, Columbus Ohio, humorist (Men, Women & Dogs)
1894 - E.C. Segar, American cartoonist (Popeye) (d. 1938)
1897 - Leslie Heward, composer
1899 - James "Pigmeat" Jarrett, pianist
1899 - John Qualen, Vancouver BC, actor (Grapes of Wrath, Searchers)
1899 - Sarah Williamson, US missionary in Liberia
1900 - Sun Li-jen, Chinese general (d. 1990)
1902 - Wifredo Lam, Cuban artist (d. 1982)
1903 - Adele Simpson, NYC, fashion designer (Neiman-Marcus Award-1946)
1903 - Cleo Brown, pianist
1903 - Irene Eisinger, singer
1903 - Kathleen (Kitty) Rosalind Muggeridge, author
1903 - Zoltan Szekely, composer
1904 - Wilmer L Allison Jr, tennis champ (US Open-1935)
1905 - Charles Cushing, composer
1905 - Ernst Hermann Meyer, composer
1905 - Frank Faylen, St Louis Mo, actor (Herbert Gillis-Dobie Gillis)
1905 - Julius Silverman, politician
1906 - Richard Llewellyn, Wales, novelist (How Green Was My Valley)
1907 - Tony Aubin, composer
1908 - John Volpe, (Gov-Mass)/US Secretary of Treasury (1969-73)
1911 - Lee J Cobb, NYC, actor (Virginian, 12 Angry Men, On the Waterfront)
1911 - Nikos Gatsos, Greek poet and lyricist (d. 1992)
1912 - Jura Soyfer, writer
1913 - Delmore Schwartz, US, poet/short story writer/critic (Shenandoah)
1913 - Paul Félix, Flemish architect (Sun Song)
1915 - Denis Harding, soldier
1915 - George Scheuer, writer/journalist
1915 - Ernest Lehman, American screenwriter (d. 2005)
1916 - Dorothy Mae Ballard, labor union rep
1916 - Richard Fleischer, American film director (d. 2006)
1917 - Rufo I Wever, Aruban pianist/composer (Ca'i Organ)
1918 - Ian Johnson, cricketer (Australian Test captbetween Hassett & Craig)
1918 - Gérard Souzay, French baritone (d. 2004)
1919 - Hans-Dieter Hosalla, composer
1919 - Moyssey Samuilovich Vaynberg, composer
1919 - Peter Tali Coleman, American politician (d. 1997)
1920 - Emmanuel McDonald Bailey, Trinidad, 100m runner (Olympic-bronze-1952)
1920 - Ron Gulliford, educationalist
1921 - Johnny Otis, California, R&B talent scout (Cold Shot, Cuttin' Up)
1921 - Terence Morgan, London England, actor (Adv of Sir Francis Drake)
1921 - Terence Weil, cellist/teacher
1922 - George Fullerton, cricketer (South African keeper-batsman 1947-51)
1922 - Jean Ritchie, rocker
1922 - John B McKay, US test pilot (X-15)
1922 - Lucian Freud, Berlin German, artist (Boy With a Rat)
1923 - Rudolph Pariser, Chinese-born American chemist
1925 - James E "Jimmy" Smith, US jazz/organist (Walk on the Wild Side)
1925 - Sammy Davis Jr, NYC, singer/dancer/actor (Ocean's 11, Candy Man)
1925 - Carmen Martín Gaite, Spanish author (d. 2000)
1927 - Vladimir Aleksandrovich Shatalov, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 4, 8, 10)
1927 - Ferdie Pacheco, the "Fight Doctor"
1928 - Ulric Neisser, Kiel, Germany, America psychologist (Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns, Bell
           Curve task force head), (d. 2012)
1929 - Goffredo Parise, writer
1930 - Alain Weber, composer
1930 - John Morressy, US, sci-fi author (Starbrat, Greymantle, Kingsbane)
1930 - Maximilian Schell, Austria, actor/director (Odessa File, Julia)
1930 - Julian Critchley, British politician (d. 2000)
1931 - Rudolf Komorous, composer
1933 - Flip Wilson, [Clerow], Jersey City NJ, comedian (Flip Wilson Show)
1935 - Dharmendra, Indian actor
1935 - Tatiana Zatulovskaya, Israeli chess player
1936 - Brad Jurjens, Estonia, director (The Bank Job)
1936 - David Carradine, Hollywood CA, actor (Kung Fu, Mean Streets, Kill Bill V.1 & 2)
1936 - Peter Parfitt, cricketer (fine England batsman of the 1960's)
1936 - W S "Buster" Farrer, cricketer (South African Test batsman 1962-64)
1937 - James MacArthur, Los Angeles California, actor (Danny Williams-Hawaii 5-0)
1937 - Jan van Houwelingen, Dutch undersecretary of Defense (CDA)
1937 - Arne Næss Jr., Norwegian mountain climber and businessman (d. 2004)
1939 - James Galway, Belfast Ireland, flutist (18k gold flute, Royal Phil)
1939 - Jerry Butler, Sunflower Miss, rock vocalist (Never Give You Up)
1939 - Lynn Wilson, contractor/multi-millionaire
1940 - Graham Knight, rocker
1940 - Jenny Linden, English actress (Hedda, Dr Who & the Daleks)
1940 - Nick Nolte, actor (Teachers, 48 Hours, North Dallas 40)
1940 - Brant Alyea, American baseball player
1941 - Albert J Evenhuis, Dutch undersecretary of Economic (VVD)
1941 - Geoff Hurst, cricketer (Essex 1962, better known as soccer immortal)
1941 - Ed Brinkman, American baseball player
1941 - Randall "Duke" Cunningham, US Navy fighter pilot and Congressman
1942 - Bobby Elliot, rock drummer (Hollies)
1942 - Hemant Kanitkar, cricketer (batted in two Tests India v WI 1974)
1942 - Mario Savio, activist
1943 - Mary Woronov, Brooklyn Hgts NY, actress (Eating Raoul, Terror Vision)
1943 - Michael Unger, English editor-in-chief (Evening News, Manchester)
1943 - Jim Morrison, American poet, singer (The Doors) (d. 1971)
1945 - John Banville, Irish novelist and journalist
1946 - Graham Knight, rocker (Marmalade)
1946 - John Rubinstein, Los Angeles California, actor/composer (Family, Boys from Brazil)
1946 - Sharmila Tagore, Indian Actress
1947 - Belinda Balaski, Inglewood CA, actor (Cannonball, Proud Men, Howling)
1947 - Frans Leijnse, Dutch politician (PvdA 2nd Chamber)
1947 - Geoff Daking, rocker
1947 - Gregg Allman, Nashville, guitarist/vocalist (Allman Brothers Band)
1947 - Thomas R. Cech, American chemist, Nobel laureate
1947 - Kati-Claudia Fofonoff, Skolt Sámi writer
1949 - Mary Gordon, US, author
1949 - Ray Shulman, rocker
1949 - Robert Sternberg, Proposed the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence
1950 - Rick Baker, Binghamton NY, special effects makeup artist (Exorcist)
1950 - Tim Foli, American baseball player
1950 - Dan Hartman, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, American musician (Edgar Winter Group)
1951 - Bill Bryson, American author
1951 - Jan Eggum, Norwegian singer-songwriter
1952 - Richie Morales, drummer (Spyro Gyra-Morning Dance)
1952 - Khaw Boon Wan, Singapore Health Minister
1953 - Sam Kinison, Yakima, Washington, screaming comedian and actor (Back to School, Charlie
           Hoover)
1953 - Roy Firestone, Miami Beach, Florida, American sportscaster (Life's Most Embarrassing
           Moments)
1953 - Kim Basinger, American actress
1953 - Norman Finkelstein, American professor, activist
1954 - Harold Hongju Koh, Korean-American Dean of Yale Law School
1955 - Ian Greig, cricketer (brother of Tony Two Tests for England 1982)
1956 - Warren Cuccurullo, rock guitarist (Missing Persons)
1957 - Phll Collen, rocker
1958 - Billy Hufsey, actor (Christopher-Fame, Days of our Life)
1958 - Wayne Dickert, Chattanooga TN, slalom double canoe (Olympics-11th-96)
1958 - Bird McIntyre, Thai pop singer, musician
1959 - Mark Dickson, Tampa Fla, tennis star
1959 - Marty Raybon, Sanford Fla, singer (Shenandoah-Sunday in the South)
1959 - Paul Rutherford, vocalist (Frankie Goes to Hollywood-Relax)
1960 - Lim Guan Eng, Secretary-General of the Malaysian Democratic Action Party (DAP)
1961 - Ann Coulter, American author, political commentator, and attorney
1961 - Mikey Robins, Australian comedian
1962 - Berry van Aerle, Dutch soccer star (PSV)
1962 - Stephen John Elkington, Inverell Australia, PGA golfer (1990 Kmart)
1962 - Marty Friedman, American guitarist
1963 - Toshiaki Kawada, Japanese professional wrestler
1964 - James Martinez, Santa Fe NM, rower (Olympics-1996)
1964 - Teri Hatcher, Sunnyvale CA, actress (Lois Lane-Lois & Clark)
1964 - James Blundell, Australian country singer
1964 - Sandy Burnett, English record producer
1965 - Greg Truitt, NFL safety/linebacker (Cincinnati Bengals)
1965 - Teresa Weatherspoon, WNBA guard (NY Liberty)
1965 - Troy Sadowski, NFL tight end (Cin Bengals)
1965 - Carina Lau, Hong Kong actress
1966 - Douglas Allan Martin, Bluffton OH, PGA golfer (1995 Buick-2nd)
1966 - Joe Staysniak, NFL guard (Indianapolis Colts)
1966 - Matthew Laborteaux, Los Angeles California, actor (Albert-Little House on Prairie)
1966 - Sinéad O'Connor, Irish musician
1966 - Jeff Tremaine, American television and film director
1967 - Jeff George, NFL quarterback (Atlanta Falcons, Oakland Raiders)
1967 - Marina Augusta Baker, Windsor England, playmate (Mar, 1987)
1967 - Ron George, linebacker (Minnesota Vikings)
1967 - Tony Mayberry, NFL center (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1967 - Kotono Mitsuishi, Japanese seiyu (voice actress)
1967 - Darren Sheridan, English footballer and manager
1968 - Bill Johnson, defensive tackle (St Louis Rams)
1968 - Mike Mussina, Williamsport PA, pitcher (Baltimore Orioles)
1968 - Michael Cole, American professional wrestling commentator
1969 - Antoon Kuil, soccer player (Veendam, SC Heerenveen)
1969 - Bobby Phillips, WLAF running back (Minnesota Vikings, Frankfurt Galaxy)
1969 - Darrin Shannon, Barrie, NHL left wing (Winnipeg Jets)
1969 - Lisa Marie Munzert, New Castle Delaware, Miss Delaware-America (1991)
1969 - Victor Green, NFL cornerback/safety (NY Jets)
1969 - Steve Van Wormer, American actor
1971 - Garvin Alston, Mt Vernon NY, pitcher (Colorado Rockies)
1971 - James Stewart, NFL running back (Minnesota Vikings)
1972 - Marco Abreu, Angolan footballer
1972 - Frank Shamrock, American mixed martial artist
1973 - Mitch Jacoby, tight end (St Louis Rams)
1973 - Monty Montgomery, defensiveback (Indianapolis Colts)
1973 - Doron Bell Jr., Canadian actor
1973 - Corey Taylor, American singer (Slipknot, Stone Sour)
1974 - Paul Staight, Victoria Australia, badminton player (Olympics-96)
1974 - Cristian Castro, Mexican singer
1974 - Nick Zinner, American guitarist (Yeah Yeah Yeahs)
1975 - Kevin Harvick, American NASCAR driver
1976 - Naimee Coleman, Irish singer and songwriter
1976 - Reed Johnson, American baseball player
1976 - Dominic Monaghan, English actor
1977 - Elsa Benítez, Mexican supermodel
1977 - Sébastien Chabal, French rugby union footballer
1977 - Ryan Newman, American NASCAR driver
1978 - Kate Robinson, Peoria Ill, dance skater (& Kate Robinson)
1978 - Anwar Siraj, Ethiopian footballer
1978 - John Oster, Welsh footballer
1978 - Ian Somerhalder, American actor
1978 - Vernon Wells, American baseball player
1979 - Johan Forssell, Swedish politician
1979 - Christian Wilhelmsson, Swedish footballer
1979 - Daniel Fitzhenry, Australian rugby league footballer
1981 - Jeremy Accardo, American baseball player
1981 - Philip Rivers, American football player
1982 - Noelle Pikus-Pace, American skeleton racer
1982 - Dee Dee Trotter, American athlete
1982 - Hamit Altintop, German-born Turkish Football player (identical twin brother of Halil Altintop)
1982 - Halil Altintop, Turkish Football player (identical twin brother of Hamit Altintop)
1982 - Nicki Minaj, Saint James, Port of Spain, Trinidadian-born American rapper and singer (Super
           Bass, Starships)
1983 - Neel Jani, Swiss racing driver
1983 - Liu Song, Chinese snooker player
1984 - Greg Halford, English footballer
1984 - Badr Hari, Dutch kickboxer, Niall Brennan, Irish Legend.
1985 - Dwight Howard, American basketball player
1986 - Amir Khan, English boxer
1986 - Kate Voegele, American musician
1989 - Drew Doughty, Canadian hockey player
1993 - AnnaSophia Robb, American actress and singer

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 08, 2013, 02:12:15 PM

This Day in History for 8th December


Famous Deaths

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Musician and Beatle
John Lennon (1980)


644 - Omar I, 2nd kalief of Islam, murdered
899 - Arnulf of Carinthia, last emperor of Austria-France, dies
1292 - John Peckham, English archbishop of Canterbury, dies at 62
1596 - Luis de Carabajal, 1st Jewish author in America, executed in Mexico
1626 - John Davies, English poet (b. 1569)
1632 - Philippe van Lansberge, Flemish astronomer (b. 1561)
1643 - John Pym, English statesman (b. 1583)
1649 - Noël Chabanel, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1613)
1652 - Adriaan W "Joris" van Geel, Flemish missionary, murdered at 35
1680 - Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester, English politician (b. 1606)
1681 - Gerard Terborch, the Younger, Dutch painter/etcher, dies
1691 - Richard Baxter, English clergyman (b. 1615)
1695 - Barthélemy d'Herbelot de Molainville, French orientalist (b. 1625)
1709 - Thomas Corneille, French dramatist, dies at 74
1722 - Elisabeth C "Liselotte" van Palts, German/French duchess, dies at 70
1744 - Marie-Anne de Mailly-Nesle duchess de Châteauroux, mistress of King Louis XV of France (b.
           1717)
1745 - Etienne Fourmont, French orientalist (b. 1683)
1746 - Charles Radclyffe, British politician (b. 1693)
1756 - William Stanhope, 1st Earl of Harrington, British statesman and diplomat
1768 - Jean Denis Attiret, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1702)
1779 - Nathan Alcock, English physician (b. 1707)
1785 - Antonio Maria Mazzoni, composer, dies at 68
1811 - Eliza Poe, English-born American actress and the mother of the American author Edgar Allan
           Poe(b. 1787)
1830 - H Benjamin Constant, French politician/writer, dies at 63
1831 - James Hoban, architect who designed White House, dies
1859 - Thomas de Quincey, English author (b. 1785)
1864 - George Boole, British inventor of Boolean algebra (b. 1815)
1885 - William Henry Vanderbilt, member of the Vanderbilt family (b. 1821)
1894 - Willem JF Nuyens, Dutch physician/RC historian, dies at 71
1894 - Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician (b. 1821)
1896 - Earnest Angel, German statistician (Law of Angel), dies at 75
1900 - Henry Russell, composer, dies at 87
1903 - Herbert Spencer, British engineer/philosopher, dies at 83
1907 - Oscar II Frederick, King of Sweden (-1907)/Norway (-1905), dies
1914 - Maximilian von Spee, German naval officer (b. 1861)
1917 - Mendele Moykher Sforim, Russian writer (b. 1836)
1923 - Dom Joseph Pothier, French Benedictine/musicologist, dies at 88
1924 - Franz X Scharwenka, German pianist/composer (Mataswintha), dies at 74
1926 - Jan Six, Dutch art historian/collector, dies
1934 - Bernhard Seklas, composer, dies at 62
1938 - Friedrich Glauser, German-language Swiss writer (b. 1896)
1939 - Ernest Schelling, composer, dies at 63
1940 - George Exton Lloyd, Anglican Bishop and theologian (b. 1861)
1952 - Charles Lightoller, English second officer on the Titanic (b. 1874)
1954 - Gladys George, actress (Roaring Twenties), dies at 50
1955 - Jacques Handschin, Swiss musicologist, dies at 69
1956 - Edgar Leslie Bainton, composer, dies at 76
1957 - Reginald Sheffield, actor (Second Chance), dies at 55
1958 - Tris Speaker, American baseball player (b. 1888)
1961 - William Beatton Moonie, composer, dies at 78
1963 - Field Marshal Sarit Dhanarajata, Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1908)
1966 - Ward Morehouse, American theater critic and newspaper columnist (b. 1899)
1967 - Robert H Lawrence, USAF/astronaut, dies at 32
1967 - John Mills, Sr., American singer (Mills Brothers) (b. 1889)
1969 - Vincenzo Davico, composer, dies at 80
1970 - Christopher K Ingold, English chemist, dies at 77
1972 - George Collins, (Rep-Ill), dies at 47, in airplane crash
1975 - Gary Thain, New Zealand bassist (Uriah Heep) (b. 1948)
1978 - Golda Meir, Israel's PM (1969-74), dies in Jerusalem at 80
1980 - John Lennon, shot and killed in NY by Mark David Chapman at 40
1981 - Shakey, [Walter Horton], harmonicist (Everybody's Fishin'), dies at 64
1982 - Andre Kamperveen, Suriname minister, murdered
1982 - Bertus de Harder, Dutch soccer star (Bordeaux), dies
1982 - Bram Behr, Suriname revolutionary, murdered
1982 - Cyrill Daal, Suriname worker's union leader, murdered
1982 - Frank Wijngaarde, Suriname journalist, murdered
1982 - Harald Riedewald, Suriname attorney, murdered
1982 - John Baboeram, Suriname lawyer, murdered
1982 - Jozef Slagveer, Suriname journalist, murdered
1982 - Kenneth Goncalves, Deacon of Surinamese order of advocate, murdered
1982 - Leckie, Suriname scholar, murdered
1982 - Leslie Rahman, Suriname journalist, murdered
1982 - Marty Robbins, country singer, dies at 57
1982 - Shakey, [Walter Horton], rocker, dies at 72
1982 - Surendre Rambocus, Suriname army lieutenant, murdered
1983 - Slim Pickins, actor (Blazing Saddles), dies after brain surgery at 64
1984 - Luther Adler, actor (Dr Bernard Altman-The Psychiatrist), dies at 81
1984 - Razzle, English Musician and drummer for Hanoi Rocks (b.1960)
1984 - Robert Jay Mathews, White Nationalist (b. 1953)
1988 - Anne Seymour, actress (Misty, Chevy Mystery Show), dies at 79
1988 - Herbert "Tubo" Rhoad, US singer (Persuasions-Good news), dies at 44
1989 - Hans Hartung, German/French painter, dies
1990 - Martin Ritt, US, director/actor (Norma Rae), dies at 70
1990 - Pony Sherrell Metcalf, NY, singer, dies of heart attack
1991 - Buck Clayton, US jazz trumpeter/orchestra leader, dies
1991 - Kimberly Bergalis, got AIDS from health care worker, dies at 23
1992 - William Shawn, US editor-in-chief (New Yorker, 1952-87), dies at 85
1993 - Andre Cerf, French actor/producer (Nana), dies at 93
1993 - Carlotta Monti, lover of WC Fields, dies at 86
1994 - Antonio Carlos Jobim, Brazil composer (Girl From Ipanema), dies at 67
1994 - Israel Aaron Maisels, lawyer, dies at 89
1995 - Carl Marsden, bodyguard, dies at 36
1995 - Ernest LeRoy Boyer, educator, dies at 67
1995 - John Gillett, film researcher, dies at 70
1995 - Mikki Doyle, journalist, dies at 79
1996 - Howard E Rollins Jr, actor (Ed Harding-Another World), dies at 46
1996 - Marin Sorescu, poet/dramatist, dies at 60
1997 - Bob Bell, clown (WGN's 1st Bozo), dies at 75
1997 - Leon Poliakov, historian, dies at 87
1999 - Péter Kuczka, Hungarian writer (b. 1923)
2001 - Don Tennant, American advertising executive (b. 1922)
2003 - Rubén González, Cuban pianist (Buena Vista Social Club) (b. 1919)
2004 - Dimebag Darrell, heavy metal guitarist in band Pantera is shot & killed while performing
           onstage in Columbus Ohio by crazed fan Nathan Gale
2005 - Georgiy Zhzhonov, Russian actor and author (b. 1915)
2006 - Martha Tilton, American singer (b. 1915)
2006 - José Uribe, Dominican baseball player (b. 1959)
2007 - Gerardo García Pimentel, Mexican journalist
2008 - Kerryn McCann, Australian athlete (b. 1967)
2008 - Oliver Postgate, English animator, puppeteer and writer. (b. 1925)
2008 - Robert Prosky, American actor (b. 1930).
2009 - Luis Días, Dominican Composer (b. 1952).

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Post by: MysteRy on December 09, 2013, 02:15:26 PM

This Day in History for 9th December


Historical Events

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Lexicographer Noah Webster                          Poet Alfred Tennyson                       Dictator of Nazi Germany
                                                                                                                                   Adolf Hitler

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38th US President                                    NBA Legend Larry Bird                        44th US President Barack Obama
 Gerald Ford


536 - Byzantine General Belisarius enters Rome while the Ostrogothic garrison peacefully leaves the
         city, returning the old capital to its empire.
656 - Battle of Kameel: Kalief Al ibn Abu Talib beats rebellion
1212 - Frederik II crowns himself Roman Catholic king
1315 - Swiss Woudsteden renews Eternal Covenant (Oath Society)
1425 - Pope Martinus V forms University of Leuven
1570 - Geuzen under Herman de Ruyter occupies Loevestein
1625 - Netherlands & England sign military treaty
1640 - Settler Hugh Bewitt banished from Mass colony when he declares himself to be free of original
           sin
1658 - Dutch troops occupy harbor city Quilon (Coilan) India
1688 - King James II's wife & son flee England for France
1724 - Colley Cibber's "Caesar in Aegypt" premieres in London
1738 - Jews are expelled from Breslau Silesia
1747 - England & Netherlands sign military treaty
1762 - British parliament accept Treaty of Paris
1783 - 1st execution at English Newgate Jail
1793 - Noah Webster establishes NY's 1st daily newspaper, American Minerva
1805 - Comet 3D/1805 V1 (Biela) approaches within 0.0366 AUs of Earth
1824 - Battle of Ayacucho (Candorcangui), Peru defeats Spain
1842 - St M Glinka's opera "Russlan Ludmilla" premieres in Petersburg
1851 - 1st Young Men's Christian Association in North America (Montreal)
1854 - Alfred Tennyson's poem, "Charge of the Light Brigade," published
1856 - The Iranian city of Bushehr surrenders to occupying British forces.
1861 - Battle of Bird Creek, Indian Terr (High Shoal, Chusto-Talasah)
1861 - American Civil War: The Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War is established by the
           U.S. Congress.
1868 - 1st British government of Gladstone forms
1869 - Noble Order of Knights of Labor founded, Philadelphia
1875 - Massachusetts Rifle Association "America's Oldest Active Gun Club" is founded.
1878 - Joseph Pulitzer buys St Louis Dispatch for $2,500
1883 - New Brunswick adopts Eastern Standard Time (until 1902)
1884 - Levant Richardson patents ball-bearing skate
1889 - President Harrison visits opening of Chicago Auditorium
1894 - Roman Catholics win Parliamentary election in Belgium
1897 - Activist Marguerite Durand founds the feminist daily newspaper, La Fronde in Paris.
1900 - Dutch Pres Paul Kruger & Queen Wilhelmina have a triumphant procession
1902 - AL announces purchase of grounds for a stadium in NY
1903 - Norwegian parliament vote unanimiously for female suffrage
1905 - French Assembly National votes for separation of church & state
1905 - Richard Strauss' opera "Salome" premiers in Dresden
1905 - In France, the law separating church and state is passed.
1906 - NY American reports Belgian King Leopold II bribed US Senate commission on the Congo
1907 - 1st Christmas Seals sold (Wilmington Del post office)
1907 - Gustav Mahler departs Vienna
1909 - 1st US monoplane flown (Henry W Walden, Long Island, NY)
1910 - French troops occupy Morrocan harbor city Agadir
1913 - Heavyweight Jack Johnson-Jim Johnson fight to no decision in Paris
1913 - John K Tener becomes president of baseball's National League
1917 - British forces under General Allenby capture Jerusalem
1918 - French troops occupies Mainz
1922 - Gabriel Narutowicz elected Polish president
1924 - Dutch & Hungary trade treaty signed
1924 - Michael Hainisch re-elected Austrian president
1925 - AL extends Ban Johnson's contract to 1935 & raise to $40,000
1925 - Pro football a hit in NYC; Grange & Bears beat Giants before 73,000
1926 - USGA leagalizes steel shaft golf clubs
1931 - Benn W Levy's "Springtime for Henry" premieres in NYC
1931 - Japanese army attacks Chinese province of Jehol
1931 - Spain becomes a republic
1931 - Baseball cuts squad from 25 to 23 players & NL continues to prohibit uniform numbers
1933 - 21st CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Sarnia Imperials, 4-3
1933 - Romania disallows fascist Iron Guard
1934 - NY Giants defeat Chicago Bears 30-13 for NFL championship
1935 - Walter Liggett American newspaper editor and muckraker killed in gangland murder.
1936 - AL OKs night baseball for St Louis
1936 - Australia all out 58 v England, Bradman out for a duck
1939 - 27th Grey Cup: Winnipeg Blue Bombers defeats Ottawa Rough Riders, 8-7
1939 - Russian air raid on Helsinki
1940 - British assault on Banghazi Libya
1940 - British troops 1st major offensive in No Africa (Libya) during WW II
1940 - Illeagal Jewish immigrants to Haifa are deported to Mauritius
1940 - South Australia all out for 47 v NSW, O'Reilly 5-11
1941 - 1st US WW II bombing mission in Far East, Luzon, Philippines
1941 - 300 Montgomery, SF opens as new Bank of America HQ
1941 - 7th Heisman Trophy Award: Bruce Smith, Minnesota (HB)
1941 - China declares war on Japan, Germany & Italy
1941 - Citizen Register reports "Hostile planes reported nearing Westchester"
1941 - Hitler orders US ships torpedoed
1948 - UN General Assembly unanimously approves Convention on Genocide
1949 - Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts Indonesian sovereignty
1949 - NFL merges Cleveland Browns, SF '49ers & Balt Colts from AAFC
1951 - Voters approve merger of 3 states to form Baden-Wurttemberg, W Germany
1953 - General Electric announces all Communist employees will be fired
1953 - Mont Canadiens (106) & Toronto Maple Leafs (98) get 204 penalty mins
1954 - Dmitri Sjostakovitsj appointed honored guest of Swed Royal Music Acad
1957 - 1st Japanese ambassador to Israel
1958 - Robert H W Welch Jr & 11 other men meet in Indianapolis to form anti-Communist John Birch
           Society
1960 - 1st broadcast of "Coronation Street" on British ITV
1961 - "From the Second City" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 87 perfs
1961 - "Let It Ride" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 68 perfs
1961 - SS Col Adolf Eichmann found guilty of war crimes in Israel
1961 - Tanganyika gains independence from Britain takes name Tanzania
1961 - Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Phila Warriors scores 67 points vs NY
1962 - "I Can Get It For You Wholesale" closes on Broadway
1962 - Tanganyika becomes a republic within British Commonwealth
1963 - Frank Sinatra Jr is kidnapped
1963 - Zanzibar gains independence from Britain
1965 - "A Charlie Brown Christmas" premieres
1965 - Frank Robinson is traded from Cincinnati to the Orioles
1965 - Nikolai Podgorny replaces Anastas Mikoyan as president of Presidium
1967 - Jim Morrison, arrested on stage for disturbing the peace
1967 - Nicolea Ceausescu becomes president (dictator) of Romania
1968 - KRNE TV channel 12 in Merriman, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 - NLS (a system for which hypertext and the computer mouse were developed) is publicly
           demonstrated for the first time in San Francisco.
1970 - Dutch Antilles: government of Petronia falls
1971 - Lewis F Powell Jr appointed to Supreme Court
1973 - "Pajama Game" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 65 performances
1973 - Bruno Sammartino beats Stan Stasiak in NY, to become WWF champ
1973 - St Louis Cardinal Jim Bakken kicks 6 field goals vs Atlanta Falcons
1973 - Sunningdale Agreement in Northern Ireland
1974 - Dow Jones index hits 570.01
1974 - Jack Brisco beats Giant Baba in Tokyo, to become NWA wrestling champ
1974 - Johnson Grigsby freed after 66 years in jail in Indiana
1975 - Jelena Bonner receives Andrei Sacharov's Nobel Prize
1975 - Pres Gerald Ford signs $2.3 Bn loan-authorization for NYC
1978 - Pioneer Venus 2 drops 5 probes into atmosphere of Venus
1978 - 1st game of Women's Pro Basketball League (WBL), Chicago Hustle vs Milwaukee Does
1979 - Murle Breer/Dave Eichelberger wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
1980 - 61°F in Boston at 1 AM
1981 - Porn star John Holmes charged with Laurel Canyon murders
1982 - Mary-Beth & William Hurt divorce
1983 - Att Gen Edwin Meese says people go to soup kitchens "...because food is free & that's easier
           than paying for it"
1983 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1984 - 59th Australian Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats H Sukova (67 61 63)
1984 - 6 day hijack of Kuwaiti jet ends
1984 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1984 - Iranian commandos end capture of Kuwaiti plane
1984 - LA Ram Eric Dickerson rushes 215 yards for season record 2,003 yards
1984 - Vicki Alvarez/Mike McDonald wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
1985 - 74th Australian Mens Tennis: S Edberg beats Mats Wilander (64 63 63)
1985 - Jerry Rice begins NFL streak of 100+ consecutive game receptions
1985 - Phoenix Arizona, gets 3" of snow
1987 - Larry Bird, ends streak of 59 consecutive free throws
1987 - Palestine uprising begin in Israeli-occupied West Bank
1988 - NY Yankees sign 12-year television contract with MSG for $500M
1988 - The Michael Hughes Bridge in Sligo, Ireland is officially opened.
1989 - "Les Miserables" opens at Princess Theatre, Melbourne
1990 - Betsy King wins Itoman LPGA World Match Play Golf Championship
1990 - Gunda Niemann skates ladies world record 3k ladies (4:10.80)
1990 - Houston scores most points against Cleveland, Oilers 58, Browns 14
1990 - Lech Walesa wins presidental election in Poland
1990 - NFL NY Giant Otis Anderson becomes 8th to rush for 10,000th yard
1991 - 2nd Billboard Music Awards
1992 - 3rd Billboard Music Awards
1992 - Cin Red owner Marge Schott apologizes for racist remarks
1992 - Operation Restore Hope - US Marines land in Somalia
1992 - Sri Lanka's third-ever Test Cricket victory (v NZ by 9 wkts)
1992 - NJ Devils organization announces that it will change its colors to black, red, & white for the
           1992-93 season
1993 - "My Fair Lady" opens at Virginia Theater NYC for 165 performances
1993 - Ivory Coast Premier Ouattara resigns
1994 - 5m meteor 1994 XM1 passes within 100,000 km of Earth
1994 - US Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders resigns after comments about masturbation
1995 - 61st Heisman Trophy Award: Eddie George, Ohio State (RB)
2003 - A blast in the center of Moscow kills six people and wounds several more.
2006 - Moscow suffers its worst fire since 1977, killing 45 women in a drug rehabitational center.
2008 - The Governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, is arrested by federal officials for a number of
           alleged crimes including attempting to sell the United States Senate seat being vacated by
           President-elect Barack Obama's election to the Presidency..
2012 - 13 people are killed and 10 are injured after a bus rolls of a cliff and falls 100 meters in Taiwan
2012 - 6 people are killed and 41 are injured after a bus plunges 30 metres down a gorge in
           Guatemala
2012 - Incumbent Ghanaian president John Mahama wins the general election amidst allegations of
           fraud
2012 - The Social Liberal Union Party and Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta win by a landslide in
           the parliamentary elections
2012 - Juan Manuel Márquez knocks out Manny Pacquiao in round six for the WBO light welterweight
           title

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 09, 2013, 02:25:14 PM

This Day in History for 9th December


Famous Weddings

1967 - Lyndon B Johnson&#039;s daughter Lynda marries in the White House
1989 - "Baywatch" actor David Hasselhoff (37) weds actress Pamela Bach (26) at the Little Brown
            Church in Studio City, California
2005 - "Bourne" actor Matt Damon (35) weds Argentine-born Luciana Barrosa (29) at the Manhattan
            Marriage Bureau near New York City Hall
2006 - "The Office" actress Lucy Davis (33) weds actor Owain Yeoman (28) at St. Paul's Cathedral in
           London
2011 - "Nothing Compares 2 U" singer Sinead O'Connor (45) weds Irish therapist Barry Herridge (38)
           at the Little White Chapel in Las Vegas

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 09, 2013, 02:26:50 PM

This Day in History for 9th December


Famous Divorces

1982 - Mary-Beth & William Hurt divorce

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 09, 2013, 04:11:40 PM

This Day in History for 9th December


Famous Birthdays

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Poet John Milton (1608)                          Actor Kirk Douglas (1916)                       Actress Judi Dench (1934)


1392 - Peter, Prince/Regent of Portugal/writer (Virtuosa benfeitoria)
1447 - Chenghua, Emperor of China (d. 1487)
1561 - Edwin Sandys, a founder of Virginia colony
1571 - Adrian A Metius, Dutch mathematician/fort architect
1579 - Martinus de Porres, Peruvian saint (patron of social justice) (d. 1639)
1581 - Emilia Secunda Antwerpiana, daughter of Willem of Orange
1594 - Gustavus II Adolphus, king who made Sweden a major power (1611-32)
1608 - John Milton, London, poet/puritan (Paradise Lost), (d. 1674)
1610 - Baldassare Ferri, Italian castrato (d. 1680)
1652 - Augustus Quirinus Rivinus, German physician (d. 1723)
1667 - William Whiston, English mathematician (d. 1752)
1715 - Georg Gottfried Petri, composer
1717 - Johann J Winckelmann, German archaeologist (History of Ancient Art)
1728 - Pietro Alessandro Guglieli, composer
1742 - Carl W Scheele, Swedish pharmacist/chemist (lemon acid)
1748 - Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist (d. 1822)
1751 - Maria Luisa of Parma, queen of Charles IV of Spain (d. 1819)
1754 - Etienne Ozi, composer
1787 - John Dobson, English architect (d. 1865)
1791 - Peter Joseph von Lindpaintner, composer
1796 - Prudent-Louis Aubery du Boulley, composer
1806 - Jean-Olivier Chénier, French Canadian physician and Patriote (d. 1838)
1837 - Émile Waldteufel, French composer (d. 1915)
1842 - Pjotr A Kopotkin, Russian ruler/anarchist
1847 - George Grossmith, English actor/writer (d. 1912)
1848 - Joel Chandler Harris, US journalist (created Uncle Remus stories)
1850 - Emma Abbott, American soprano (d. 1891)
1853 - Charles "Old Hoss" Radbourn, Rochester NY, pitcher (60-12 in 1884)
1854 - Pekka Hannikainen, composer
1859 - Algernon Ashton, composer
1862 - Karel Kovarovic, composer
1864 - Sidney Homer, composer
1868 - Fritz Haber, German phycist-chemist (Nobel 1919)
1871 - Joe Kelley, American baseball player (d. 1943)
1873 - Antoine Pompe, Belgian architect
1876 - Berton Churchill, American actor (d. 1940)
1882 - Joaquín Turina, Seville Spain, composer (Rima)
1883 - Alexander Papagos, Greek fieldmarshal/supreme commander
1883 - Nikolai Luzin, Russian mathematician (d. 1950)
1886 - Clarence Birdseye, frozen vegatable king (Birdseye)
1887 - Tim Moore, American actor and vaudevillian (d. 1958)
1889 - John P "Hannes" Kolehmainen, Finnish long-distance runner (Olympic gold 1912)
1891 - Maksim Bahdanovič, Belarusian poet (d. 1917)
1894 - Eddie Dowling, Woonsocket RI, actor (Anywhere USA)
1895 - Conchita Supervía, Spanish opera singer (d. 1936)
1897 - Hermione Gingold, London England, actress (Gigi, Music Man)
1898 - Emmett Kelly, Sedan KS, circus clown (Weary Willie)
1899 - Frans van Amelsvoort, Dutch choir conductor
1899 - Howard Freeman, Helena MT, actor (Double Dynamite)
1899 - Jean de Brunhoff, France, children's book author (Babar the Elephant)
1899 - Leonie Fuller Adams, US poetess (Those not elected)
1900 - Albert Weisbord, American labor organizer (d. 1977)
1901 - Carol Dempster, American actress (d. 1991)
1901 - Ödön von Horváth, Hungarian-born writer (d. 1938)
1901 - Jean Mermoz, French pilot (d. 1936)
1902 - Margaret Hamilton, Cleveland Ohio, actress (Wicked Witch-Wizard of Oz)
1902 - Richard A Butler, England, Dutch min of Finance/Foreign affairs
1904 - Roger Wolcott Sperry, physicist
1904 - Robert Livingston, American actor (d. 1988)
1905 - Dalton Trumbo, US, writer/film director (Johnny Got His Gun)
1906 - Freddy Martin, Cleve Oh, orchestra leader (started Merv Griffin)
1906 - Grace Murray Hopper, computer innovator
1906 - Greet Koeman, Dutch singer
1907 - Noel Walton Bott, engineer
1909 - Douglas Fairbanks Jr, NYC, actor (Ghost Story)
1910 - Dick Elffers, Dutch graphic artist/painter (Holland Festival)
1910 - Stephen Jurika Jr, US pilot/capt (WW II, Santa Cruz, Navy Cross)
1911 - Broderick Crawford, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, American actor (All the King's Men, Highway
           Patrol)
1911 - Ryūzō Sejima, Japanese educator (d. 2007)
1912 - Fred Engelen, Flemish actor/director [or Dec 12]
1912 - Thomas P "Tip" O'Neill, (Rep-D-Mass 1977-86)/Speaker of the House
1914 - Frances Reid, American actress
1915 - Colin McCool, cricketer (Australian leg-spin all rounder late 40s)
1915 - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Jarotschin Germ, soprano (Der Rosenkavalier)
1915 - Herbert Huncke, writer
1916 - Wolfgang Hildesheimer, German/Swiss architect/writer (Mozart biog)
1916 - Kirk Douglas, [Issur Danielovitch], Amsterdam, New York, American actor (Gunfight at OK
           Corral)
1917 - James Angleton, head of counterintelligence for the CIA (d. 1987)
1917 - James Rainwater, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1986)
1918 - Jerome Beatty Jr., American author
1919 - William Lipscomb, American chemist, Nobel laureate
1920 - Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, President of the Italian Republic
1922 - Redd Foxx, St Louis Mo, comedian (Sandford & Son, Redd Foxx Show)
1925 - Dina Merrill, NYC, actress (Operation Petticoat, Butterfield 8 )
1926 - Henry Way Kendall, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1999)
1926 - Jan Křesadlo, Czech writer (d. 1995)
1927 - Pierre Henry, composer
1928 - Dick Van Patten, Queens NY, actor (Tom Bradford-8 is Enough)
1928 - André Milhoux, Belgian racing driver
1929 - Bob Hawke, cricketer (no relation to Lord 12th man for Oxford U 1954)
1929 - John Cassavetes, NYC, actor (Dirty Dozen, Rosemary's Baby)
1929 - Michel Fano, composer
1929 - Robert J L Hawke, (Lab), PM Australia (1983-91)
1930 - Buck Henry, NYC, screenwriter/comedian (SNL, Get Smart)
1931 - William Reynolds, American actor
1931 - Ladislav Smoljak, Czech actor
1932 - Jessie "Ooh Poo Pah Doo" Hill, jazz musician
1933 - Milt Campbell, Plainfield NJ, hurdler/decathlete (Olympics-gold-56), (d. 2012)
1933 - Orville Moody, Chickasha OK, PGA golfer (1969 US Open)
1934 - Al Kaline, Baltimore Md, baseball outfielder (Detroit Tigers)
1934 - Alan Ridout, composer
1934 - Judi Dench, York England, actress (Henry V, Wetherby)
1934 - Milton Gray Campbell, Plainfield NJ, decathelete (Olympic-gold-1956)
1934 - [Amos] Junior Wells, Memphis Tn, blues singer (In My Younger Days)
1935 - Dominico Tromp, Aruba, stage leader
1937 - Darwin Joston, American actor (d. 1998)
1938 - David Houston, rocker
1938 - Elizabeth H "Rina" Venter, South African minister of Health care
1938 - William Thomas McKinley, composer
1938 - [David] Deacon Jones, NFL defensive end (LA, SD, Washington), (d. 2013)
1939 - Patrician Stephens Due, Quincy, Florida, African-American civil rights activist (FAMU jail-in), (d.
           2012)
1940 - Sammy Strain, US singer (Imperials-Hurt So Bad)
1941 - Beau Bridges, Los Angeles California, actor (Hotel New Hampshire, 5th Musketeer)
1941 - Dan Hicks, American rocker
1942 - Dick Butkus, Chicago, NFL hall of fame linebacker (Bears)/sportscaster
1942 - Joe McGinniss, Rye NY, author (Selling of President 1968)
1942 - Billy Bremner, Scottish footballer (d. 1997)
1943 - Kenny Vance, rocker
1943 - Rick Danko, Canada, rocker (The Band-Islands, Stage Fright)
1944 - George Baker, [Hans Bouwens], Dutch vocalist (G B Selection)
1944 - Ki Longfellow, American novelist
1944 - Bob O'Connor, American politician
1945 - Michael Nouri, Wash DC, actor (Beacon Hill, Bay City Blues)
1945 - Matti Mäntylä, Finnish actor
1946 - Sonia Gandhi, Italian-born Indian politician
1946 - Shatrughan Sinha, Indian actor
1947 - Tom Daschle, American politician
1947 - Jaak Jõerüüt, Soviet-born Estonian politician
1948 - Dennis Dunaway, rocker
1948 - Marleen Gorris, Dutch director (Mres Dalloway, Antonia, Last Island)
1948 - Ron Vawter, Latham NY, actor (Philadelphia, Empire City, Twister)
1949 - Thomas O Kite Jr, Austin TX, PGA golfer (1978 BC Open, Crosby 1983)
1949 - Nando Parrado, Uruguayan plane crash survivor
1950 - Joan Armatrading, St Kitts, singer (Back to the Night)
1952 - Michael Dorn, actor (Worf-Star Trek Next Generation)
1953 - John Malkovich, Christopher Ill, actor/director (Killing Fields)
1953 - World B Free, NBA guard (Cleveland Cavaliers, Golden State Warriors)
1954 - Herman Finkers, Dutch cabaret performer
1955 - Chamras Saewataporn, Thai composer and musician
1956 - Sylvia, Kokomo Indiana, country singer (Nobody)
1957 - Donny Osmond, Ogden Utah, singer (Osmond Brothers, Donnie & Marie)
1958 - Nancy J Currie, Wilmington DE, Mjr Army/astronaut (STS 57, 70, sk: 88)
1958 - Rikk Agnew, American guitarist (The Adolescents)
1960 - Juan Samuel, San Pedro de Macoris, infielder (NY Yankees, Blue Jays)
1960 - Dobroslav Paraga,Croatian politician and editor
1960 - Terry Moran, American TV reporter
1961 - Christiane Jolissaint, Switzerland, tennis star
1961 - Ian Andrew Wright, Hamilton NZ, rower (Olympics-96)
1961 - Joe Lando, Los Angeles California, actor (Byron Sully-Dr Quinn)
1961 - David Anthony Higgins, American actor
1962 - Felicity Huffman, American actress
1963 - Barry Wilburn, NFL full safety (Philadelphia Eagles)
1963 - Barbara Palacios, Carcas Venz, Miss Universe (1986)
1963 - Dave Hilton, Jr., Canadian boxer
1963 - Masako, Crown Princess of Japan
1964 - Petr Briza, Prague CZE, hockey goalie (Team Czech Rep)
1964 - Paul Landers, German guitarist (Rammstein)
1965 - Brad Savage, Livdnia Mich, actor (Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice)
1965 - Karla Nelson, Pine City Minn, Ms America (1993)
1965 - Joe Ausanio, American baseball player
1965 - Vecepia Towery, American Survivor contestant
1966 - Dana Murzyn, Calgary, NHL defenseman (Vancouver Canucks)
1966 - Kirsten Gillibrand, American politician
1966 - Toby Huss, American actor
1967 - Caryn Kadavy, Erie Pa, figure skater
1967 - Cathy Mockett, Newport Beach CA, LPGA golfer (1995 Youngstown-7th)
1967 - Ray Agnew, NFL nose tackle (Carolina Panthers, NY Giants)
1967 - Jason Dozzell, English footballer
1968 - Bill Johnson, NFL defensive linebacker (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1968 - Brent Price, NBA guard (Houston Rockets, Washington Bullets)
1968 - Kurt Angle, Pittsburgh Pa, 220 lbs freestyle wrestler (Oly-gold-96)
1968 - Michael Foster, Richmond Va, drummer (Firehouse-Love of a Lifetime)
1969 - Allison Smith, Bronx NY, actress (Jennie-Cagney & Lacey, Kate & Allie)
1969 - Greg[ory] Klingsporn, Morristown NJ, rower (Olympics-1996)
1969 - Ramon Garcia, Guanare Venezuela, pitcher (Milwaukee Brewers)
1969 - Bixente Lizarazu, French footballer
1969 - Sebastian Spence, Canadian actor
1970 - Donald Douglas, WLAF safety (Rhein Fire)
1970 - Marlin Cannon, Dallas Texas, 200m/400m runner
1970 - Kara DioGuardi, American songwriter, record producer, and singer
1971 - Chris Boniol, NFL kicker (Dallas Cowboys, Philadelphia Eagles)
1971 - Clifton Abraham, NFL cornerback (Carolina Panthers, Tampa Bay Bucs)
1971 - Petr Nedved, Libercec CZE, NHL center (Team Czech, Pitts Penguins)
1971 - Todd Van Poppel, Hinsdale IL, pitcher (Oakland A's)
1972 - Fabrice Santoro, Tahiti, tennis star
1972 - Paul Greene, Australian 100m/200m/400m (Olympics-96)
1972 - Reiko Aylesworth, American actress
1972 - Tre Cool, German-born American drummer (Green Day)
1973 - Tony Batista, Puerto Plata Dom Rep, infielder (Oakland A's)
1974 - Canibus, American rapper
1974 - Wendy Dillinger, American female soccer player and coach
1975 - Joshua Rudoy, actor (Harry & Hendersons)
1975 - Stuart McRae, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1976 - Chris Booker, American baseball player
1977 - Saskia Garel, Canadian actress
1977 - Shayne Graham, American football player
1977 - Imogen Heap, English singer-songwriter
1978 - Mandy James, Jacksonville Fla, rhythmic gymnast (US team-96)
1978 - Jesse Metcalfe, American actor
1979 - Olivia Lufkin, Japanese singer

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 09, 2013, 04:17:08 PM

This Day in History for 9th December


Famous Deaths

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Diplomat and Nobel Laureate            Boxing Champ Archie Moore (1998) 
Ralph Bunche (1971)


1165 - Malcom IV, King of Scots (1153-65), dies at 24
1292 - Sa'di, great Persian poet (Orchard, Rose Garden), dies
1437 - Sigismund, German Emperor/king of Hungary/Bohemia, dies at 70
1544 - Teofilo Folengo, Italian poet (b. 1491)
1565 - Pius IV, [Gianangelo de' Medici], Italian Pope (1559-65), dies at 66
1603 - William Watson, English conspirator (b. 1559)
1625 - Ubbo Emmius, [van Embden], Frisian humanist/historian, dies at 78
1636 - Giovanni B Aleotti, Ital writer/theater architect, dies at about 90
1636 - Fabian Birkowski, Polish writer (b. 1566)
1640 - Pierre Fourier, Roman Catholic saint and French priest (b.1565)
1641 - Anthonie "Antoon" van Dyck, Flemish painter, dies at 42
1669 - Clement IX, [Giulio Rospigliosi], Ital Pope (1667-69), dies
1674 - Edward Hyde 1st earl of Clarendon, English PM (1660-67), dies at 65
1692 - William Mountfort, English actor and dramatist
1706 - Pedro II, king of Portugal (1683-1706), dies at 58
1718 - Vincenzo Coronelli, Italian cartographer and encylopaedist (b. 1650)
1767 - Benedetto Alfieri, Italian architect (San Giovanni Battista), dies
1770 - Gottlieb Theophil Muffat, composer, dies at 80
1793 - Gabrielle de Polastron, comtesse de Polignac, French aristocrat (b. 1749)
1798 - Johann Reinhold Forster, German botanist (b. 1729)
1814 - Jose Angel Lamas, composer, dies at 39
1819 - Ann C Coleman, fiancee of pres Buchanan, commits suicide
1827 - Francois Leonard Rouwyzer, composer, dies at 90
1830 - Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher, Danish surgeon, botanist and professor of anatomy
           (b. 1757)
1854 - Almeida Garrett, Portuguese writer (b. 1799)
1858 - Robert Baldwin, Canadian politician (b. 1804)
1887 - Mahmadu Lamine, Senegalese marabout and military leader
1893 - George Elvey, composer, dies at 77
1905 - Henry Holmes, composer, dies at 66
1916 - P Paul Leroy-Beaulieu, French economist (Economist France), dies at 73
1916 - Natsume Sōseki, Japanese novelist (b. 1867)
1924 - Bernard Zweers, Dutch composer (Gisbertus of Aemstel), dies at 70
1925 - Eugene Gigout, composer, dies at 81
1929 - Willis Cuttell, cricketer (two Tests England v South Africa 1899), dies
1930 - Jim Slight, cricketer (represented Australia at Oval 1880), dies
1933 - Morice Bird, cricketer (scored 280 runs in 10 Tests for England), dies
1935 - Walter Liggett, American crusading newspaper editor and muckraker (b. 1886)
1937 - Nils Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1869)
1940 - Maletti, Italian general, dies in battle
1941 - Leonard "Leo" Polak, Dutch philosopher, dies in Sachsenhausen at 61
1941 - Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Russian writer and philosopher (b. 1865)
1944 - Laird Cregar, actor (Charley's Aunt, Hangover Square), dies at 28
1948 - Sir Timothy O'Brien, cricketer (Bart 5 Tests England 1884-96), dies
1955 - Hermann Weyl, German mathematician (b. 1885)
1956 - Hans Barth, composer, dies at 59
1957 - Carswell Adams, sportscaster (Your Sports Special), dies
1959 - Walter Compton, news anchor (DuMont Evening News), dies at 47
1964 - Edith L Sitwell, English poet/author (Wheels), dies at 77
1965 - Branch Rickey, American baseball executive (b. 1884)
1966 - Yury Alexandrovich Shaporin, composer, dies at 79
1967 - Charles Léon Hammes, Luxembourgian lawyer and President of the European Court of Justice
           (b. 1898)
1970 - Artem Mikoyan, Russian aircraft designer (MIG), dies at 65
1970 - Sir Feroz Khan Noon, Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1893)
1971 - Ralph Bunche, UN delegate/Nobel Prize winner, dies at 67
1971 - Sergey Konenkov, Russian sculptor (b. 1874)
1972 - Louella Parsons, American gossip columnist (b. 1881)
1974 - George Carew, cricketer (4 Tests for WI between 1935 & 1949), dies
1974 - Jorge Croner de Vasconcelos, composer, dies at 64
1975 - William A Wellman, US director (Ox Bow Incident), dies at 79
1976 - Nino Martini, actor (Here's to Romance), dies at 71
1977 - Clarice Lispector, writer, dies
1979 - Fulton J Sheen, archbishop/religious broadcaster, dies in NYC at 84
1981 - Tonny Til, rocker, dies at 56
1981 - Daniel Faulkner, Philadelphia police officer (b. 1955)
1982 - Fritz Usinger, German writer (Song against Death), dies at 87
1982 - Joey Forman, actor (Sid Caesar Show, Joey Bishop Show), dies at 53
1982 - Leon Jaworski, special prosecutor (Watergate), dies at 77
1982 - Marty Robbins, country singer, dies
1982 - Paul Godwin, [Goldfein], Polish/Dutch violist, dies at 80
1982 - Roger Danneels, Flemish accordionist, dies at 55
1983 - David Rounds, actor (Terence-Beacon Hill), dies at 53
1984 - Razzle, English drummer (Hanoi Rocks) (b. 1960)
1990 - Mike Mazurski, wrestler/actor (Centerfold Girls), dies at 80
1992 - Carl Barger, baseball pres (Pittsburgh Pirates, Fla Marlins), dies at 62
1992 - Vincent Gardenia, actor (All in the Family, LA Law), dies at 71
1993 - Danny Blanchflower, North Ireland soccer/union coach, dies at 67
1993 - Muhammad Reza Golpayegani, ayatollah of Iran, dies
1994 - Garnet Silk, Jamaican raggae-singer, dies at 28
1994 - Kim II Sung, pres of North Korea (1945-94), dies at 82
1994 - Maureen Cox Starkey, ex-wife of Ringo, dies of Leukemia at 48
1994 - Max Bill, Swiss painter/sculptor/politician, dies at 85
1995 - Benny Lee, entertainer, dies at 84
1995 - Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan (aviator), dies
1995 - Hugh Armstrong Clegg, industrial relations academic, dies at 75
1995 - Toni Cade Bambara, filmmaker, dies at 56
1995 - Vitali Viktorovich Savitsky, biologist/politician, dies at 40
1995 - Vivian Blaine, actress (Guys & Dolls), dies of heart failure at 74
1996 - Alain Emile Louis Marie Poher, politician, dies at 87
1996 - Alain Poher, French pres of European Parliament (1966-69), dies
1996 - Anne Bolt, photo-journalist/trade unionist, dies at 84
1996 - Faron Young, country singer, commits suicide at 64
1996 - Ivor Roberts-Jones, sculptor, dies at 83
1996 - Mary Douglas Nichol Leakey, archaeologist/anthropologist, dies at 83
1996 - Raphael Samuel, historian, dies at 32
1996 - Patty Donahue, American singer (The Waitresses) (b. 1956)
1997 - Tamara Geva, dancer, dies at 91
1998 - Shaughnessy Cohen, Canadian politician (b. 1948)
1998 - Archie Moore, American boxer, dies at 81
2001 - Michael Carver, British soldier (b. 1915)
2002 - Mary Hansen, Australian guitarist and singer (Stereolab) (b. 1966)
2002 - Ian Hornak, American Painter, Draughtsman and Sculptor (b. 1944)
2002 - Stan Rice, American painter, educator, and poet (b. 1942)
2003 - Paul Simon, U.S. Senator from Illinois (b. 1928)
2003 - Norm Sloan, American basketball coach (b. 1926)
2004 - David Brudnoy, American radio personality (b. 1940)
2004 - Lea De Mae, Czech actress (b. 1976)
2005 - György Sándor, Hungarian pianist (b. 1912)
2005 - Robert Sheckley, American author (b. 1928)
2007 - Thore Skogman, Swedish entertainer (b. 1931)
2008 - Ibrahim Dossey, Ghanaian football player (b. 1972)
2008 - Yuri Glazkov, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1939)
2009 - Gene Barry, American actor, dies of congestive heart failure at 90
2010 - Dov Shilansky, Israeli politician (b. 1924)
2010 - James Moody, American jazz musician (b. 1925)
2010 - John du Pont, American member of the Du Pont family and convicted murderer (b. 1938)
2012 - Sir Patrick Moore, English amateur astronomer and author, dies from an infection at 89
2012 - Jenni Rivera, American singer-songwriter, dies in a plane crash at 43
2012 - Norman Joseph Woodland, American inventor, dies at 91

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 10, 2013, 01:25:29 PM

This Day in History for 10th December


Historical Events

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Physicist & Mathematician                      Physicist and Nobel Laureate                   Physicist/Nobel Laureate
Isaac Newton                                            Wilhelm Röntgen                                    Johannes van der Waals

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Social Worker and Nobel Laureate        Duchess of Windsor Wallis Simpson            Chemist & Peace Activist
Jane Addams                                                                                                            Linus Pauling

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Clergyman and Civil Rights Activist             Israeli Prime Minister                              Author Elie Wiesel
Martin Luther King Jr.                                  Menachem Begin
                                                                     
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New York Yankees Owner                      Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat
George Steinbrenner


741 - Zacharias becomes Pope
1041 - Michael IV, Paphlagonicus, Byzantium Emperor dies of results of dropsy. His wife Empress Zoe
           elevates her adoptive son to the throne of the Eastern Roman Empire as Michael V.
1294 - Pope Coelestinus V becomes Pope (until Dec 13th)
1508 - League of the kingdom signed (covenant against Venice)
1520 - Martin Luther publicly burned papal edict demands he recant
1582 - France begins use of Gregorian calendar
1652 - Sea battle at Dungeness: lt-admiral Maarten Tromp beats English fleet
1672 - NY Gov Lovelace announces monthly mail service between NY & Boston
1684 - Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper
           De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmund Halley.
1688 - King James II flees London
1690 - Mass Bay becomes 1st American colonial goverment to borrow money
1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlie's army reaches Manchester
1799 - Metric system established in France
1810 - Tom Cribb (GB) beats Tom Molineaus (US-Negro) in 1st interracial boxing championship (40
           rounds)
1816 - Dutch regain Sumatra
1817 - Mississippi admitted as 20th state of the Union
1831 - "Spirit of the Times" begins publishing (weekly horse racing sheet)
1836 - Emory College (now Emory University) is chartered in Oxford, Georgia.
1864 - General Sherman's armies reach Savannah & 12 day siege begins
1868 - The first traffic lights are installed outside the Palace of Westminster in London. Resembling
           railway signals, they use semaphore arms and are illuminated at night by red and green gas
           lamps.
1869 - Women suffrage (right to vote) granted in Wyoming Territory (US 1st)
1869 - The first American chapter of Kappa Sigma is founded at the University of Virginia.
1882 - John Brahms' "Gesang der the Parzen" premieres
1887 - Austria-Hungary, Italy and Great Britain sign Balkan military treaty
1896 - 1st intercollegiate basketball game (Wesleyan beats Yale 4-3)
1896 - Alfred Jarry's "Ubu Roi" premieres in Paris
1898 - Spanish-American War ends; US acquires Philippines, PR & Guam
1898 - The first western pilgrims were welcomed at The House of `Abdu'lláh Páshá
1899 - -15] British "Black Week" due to defeats in South Africa
1899 - Battle at Storm Berge South Africa - Boers vs British army
1899 - Frank Wedekind's "Der Kammersang" premieres in Berlin
1899 - The Delta Sigma Phi fraternity is founded at the City College of New York.
1901 - 1st Nobel Peace Prizes (to Jean Henri Dunant, Frederic Passy)
1901 - First Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Wilhelm Röntgen for his discovery of X-rays
1902 - Women are given the right to vote in Tasmania.
1903 - Nobel for physics awarded to Pierre and Marie Curie
1904 - King Peter I of Serbia named nationalist regime
1904 - Founding of Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity.
1906 - Pres Theodore Roosevelt (1st American) awarded Nobel Peace Prize
1907 - Ruyard Kipling receives Nobel prize for literature
1907 - The worst night of the Brown Dog riots in London, when 1,000 medical students clash with
           400 police officers over the existence of a memorial for animals who have been vivisected.
1910 - Johannes van der Waals wins Nobel Prize for physics
1911 - Calbraith Rogers completes 1st crossing of US by airplane (84 days)
1911 - Tobias Asser given Nobel prize for peace
1913 - Kamerlingh Onnes receives Nobel prize for physics
1914 - French government returns to Paris
1918 - John A Heyder becomes president of baseball's National League
1919 - NL votes to ban the spitball's use by all new pitchers
1919 - NY, Boston, & Chicago, oppose AL resolution accusing Ban Johnson of overstepping his
           duties
1919 - Nobel peace prize awarded to US president Wilson
1922 - Nobel prizes awarded to Fridtjof Nansen, Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein
1922 - Pete Henry makes longest known NFL drop-kicked field goal, 45 yards
1923 - Polish government of Grabski forms
1924 - Aggrement reached on permanent rotation of World Series with each league, getting games 
           1, 2, 6, 7 in alternating years
1924 - Willem Einthoven awarded Nobel for medicine
1925 - George Bernard Shaw awarded Nobel prize
1926 - 1st radio broadcast in the Sprinfield area (WCBS)
1926 - 2nd part of Hitler's Mein Kampf published
1927 - Grand Ole Opry makes its 1st radio broadcast, in Nashville, TN
1929 - Bradman scores 225 in 2nd inn of Test Cricket trial after 124 in 1st
1931 - Jane Addams (1st US woman) named co-recipient of Nobel Peace Prize
1931 - Manuel Azaña becomes premier/Niceto Zamora president of Spain
1932 - King Rama VII (Prajadhipok) grants Thailand a constitution
1934 - Fascist dictator of Latvia Ulmanis begins building concentration camp
1934 - NFL adopts player waiver rule; applies after 6th game of season
1934 - Saint-Adelbert cooperation formed by Catholic elite
1935 - As sell Jimmie Foxx to the Red Sox for $150,000
1935 - White Sox sell Al Simmons to the Tigers for $75,000
1936 - Stockholm: physicist PBJ Debije receives Nobel prize for chemistry
1936 - Britain replaces King Edward VIII stamp series with King George VI
1936 - Edward VIII signs Instrument of Abdication, giving up British throne to marry Wallis Simpson
1938 - 26th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Winn Blue Bombers, 30-7
1938 - Ruth Fuller Sasaki, Zen teacher, Rinzai line, enters Zen priesthood
1939 - Green Bay Packers win NFL championship, beat NY Giants 27-0
1939 - KNVB celebrates 50th anniversary
1940 - British anti-offensive in Libya (Sidi Barrani)
1941 - British battleship Prince of Wales sinks off Singapore
1941 - Japanese troops landed on northern Luzon in the Philippines
1941 - Japanese troops overrun Guam
1942 - Hitler names Mussert "leader of Netherland people"
1942 - North Africa: 5th German panzer army forms under col-gen von Arnim
1943 - British 8th Army (1st Canadian Infantry Division) occupies Orsogna/Ortona Italy
1944 - 9 Dutch citizens hanged by nazis
1944 - German counter attack at Dillingen bridgehead on the Saar
1945 - Aust Services lose 3rd Victory Test Cricket to India by 6 wkts
1945 - Preston Tucker reveals plan to produce the Torpedo, a new 150 MPH car
1947 - USSR & Czechoslovakia sign trade agreement
1948 - UN General Assembly adopts Universal Declaration of Human Rights
1950 - Ralph J Bunche (1st black American) presented Nobel Peace Prize
1952 - Izhak Ben-Zvi elected 2nd president of Israel
1952 - WSLS TV channel 10 in Roanoke, VA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 - "John Murray Anderson's Almanac" opens at Imperial NYC for 229 perfs
1953 - KOMO TV channel 4 in Seattle, WA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1953 - WSTV (now WTOV) TV channel 9 in Steubenville-Wheeling, OH (CBS) begins
1954 - Linus Pauling wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry
1954 - Albert Schweitzer receives Nobel Peace Prize
1954 - Philadelphia Phillies purchase Connie Mack Stadium
1956 - Establishment of MPLA in Angola
1958 - 1st domestic (NY-Miami) passenger jet flight-National 707 flew 111
1958 - U of Pitts agrees to buy Forbes Field from the Pirates
1961 - Houston Oiler Billy Cannon gains record 373 yards against Titans
1961 - US performs nuclear test at Carlsbad New Mexico (underground)
1961 - USSR & Albania break diplomatic relations
1962 - Hunters Point (SF) jitney ends service after 50 years
1963 - 6-year old Donny Osmond's singing debut on Andy Williams Show
1963 - Zanzibar becomes independent within British Commonwealth
1964 - Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Dr Martin Luther King Jr
1965 - "Yearling" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 3 performances
1965 - Dutch ends economic boycott of Rhodesia
1965 - Test Cricket debut of Doug Walters v England at the Gabba
1966 - Israeli Shmuel Yosef Agnon wins Nobel Prize for literature
1966 - Nobel for chemistry awarded to Robert S Mulliken
1968 - Joe Frazier beats Oscar Bonavena in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1968 - Japan's biggest heist, the still-unsolved "300 million yen robbery", occurs in Tokyo.
1970 - North American Soccer League awards NY & Toronto franchises
1971 - West German union chancellor W Burns receives Nobel prize of peace
1971 - William H Rehnquist confirmed as Supreme Court justice
1972 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1973 - 1st time since 1885, tennis has 2 top males (S Smith & J Connors)
1974 - European Economic Community calls for a European Parliament
1974 - Helios 1 launched by US, Germany; later makes closest flyby of Sun
1974 - Space probe Helios 1 launched
1975 - Andrei Sakharov's wife Yelena Bonner, accepts his Nobel Peace Prize
1975 - Terry Funk beats Jack Brisco in Miami Beach, to become NWA champ
1976 - Wings release triple album "Wings Over America"
1977 - Soyuz 26 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
1978 - "Platinum" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 33 performances
1978 - 67th Davis Cup: USA beats Great Britain in Rancho Mirage (4-1)
1978 - In Oslo, Menachem Begin & Anwar Sadat accept 1978 Nobel Peace Prize
1978 - Islanders ends 15 game undefeated streak (12-0-3) to Canadians
1979 - Piet Dankert appointed as chairman of European Parliament
1980 - Soyuz T-3 returns to Earth
1980 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1981 - -13] El Salvador army kills 900
1981 - Jules Feiffer's "Grownups" premieres in NYC
1981 - The United Nations General Assembly approves Pakistan's proposal for establishing nuclear
           free-zone in South Asia.
1982 - Heavyweight Michael Doakes KOs Mike Weaver in 1:03 in Las Vegas
1982 - Soyuz T-5 returns to Earth, 211 days after take-off
1983 - 58th Australian Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats K Jordan (62 76)
1983 - Danuta Walesa, wife of Lech Walesa, accepts his Nobel Peace Prize
1983 - Last NFL game at Shea Stadium; Steelers beat NY Jets 34-7
1983 - Raul Alfonsin inaugurated as Argentina's 1st civilian president
1984 - 1st "planet" outside our solar system discovered
1984 - South African Bishop Desmond Tutu received his Nobel Peace Prize
1984 - WNSY-AM in Newport News VA returns from WGH
1985 - Bill to balance the federal budget passed by Congress
1985 - Junta leaders Videla & Massera sentenced in Buenos Aires
1986 - Atlanta Hawk Dominique Wilkins scores 57 points vs Chicago Bulls
1986 - France performs nuclear test
1986 - Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel accepts 1986 Nobel Peace Prize
1987 - "Nightline" is seen in USSR for 1st time
1988 - Washington Capitals 1st NHL scoreless tie, vs Mont Canadiens
1989 - President Gustav Husak of Czechoslovakia, resigns
1990 - Hindu-Muslim rebellion in Hyderabad-Aligargh India, 140 die
1990 - Soyuz TM-10 lands
1990 - Space Shuttle STS 35 (Columbia 11) lands
1991 - "Crucible" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 32 performances
1991 - IM Pei receives $5 million for design of Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
1991 - Jackie Martling walks off of Howard Stern show for 1 day
1991 - Howard Spira sentenced to 2½ years in prison for trying to extort money from Yankees
           owner George Steinbrenner
1992 - "My Favorite Year" opens at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC for 37 perfs
1992 - NHL awards franchises to Mimai & Anaheim (for 1994-95)
1992 - NY Yankees sign free agent pitcher Jimmy Key
1992 - Orlanda Magic scores 14 3-pointers (2 shy of record)
1993 - Dow Jones hits record 3740.67
1994 - 60th Heisman Trophy Award: Rashaan Salaam, Colorado (RB)
1994 - European Campaign against Racism "All different, All equal" begins
1994 - Nobel prize awarded to Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres & Yasser Arafat
1995 - 1st meeting of NBA expansion teams, Raptors beat Grizzlies 93-81
1995 - Kelly Robbins & Tammie Green wins LPGA Diner's Club Golf Matches
1995 - Michael Slater scores 219 v Sri Lanka at the WACA
1995 - Muralitharan takes 2-224 in Australian innings of 5-617
1995 - Ricky Ponting makes 96 on Test Cricket debut (Aust v Sri Lanka, WACA)
1995 - Worst snowstorm in Buffalo history, 37.9" in 24 hours (Starting Dec 9 at 7 PM, breaks
           previous record of 25.3" in 1982
1996 - Rwandan Genocide: Military advisor to the United Nations Secretary-General and head of the
           Military Division of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations of the United Nations Maurice
           Baril recommends that the UN multi-national forces in Zaire stand down.
2006 - One million Lebanese opposition supporters gather in downtown Beirut, calling for the
           government to resign.
2012 - Google begins selling US$99 laptops
2012 - 11 people are killed and 23 are injured after a bus falls into a roadside pond in Minquan
           County, China
2012 - 9 people are killed and 32 are wounded after a bus falls of a 300 meter cliff in Columbia
2012 - Norwegian Magnus Carlsen breaks Garry Kasparov’s 13-year Elo rating record

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 10, 2013, 01:27:26 PM

This Day in History for 10th December


Famous Weddings

1915 - 28th US President Woodrow Wilson marries 2nd wife Edith Galt, a descendant of native
           American Pocahontas
1961 - Dr Ruth marries Fred Westheimer
1994 - Former Senate Majority Leader Mitchell (61) weds sports marketing executive Heather
           MacLachlan (35) at St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church in New York City
2005 - "Audioslave" drummer Brad Wilk (37) weds "Seven Year Bitch" former lead vocalist Selene Vigil
           near the frozen waters of Emerald Bay in Lake Tahoe
2005 - Victoria's Secret and Sports Illustrated model Isabeli Fontana (22) weds actor-model Henri
           Castelli (27) at Fort Are Joao in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
2005 - Rugby Star Clyde Rathbone (24) weds Carrie-Ann Leeson in South Africa
2005 - Gustavo Rojo's daughter and actress Ana Patricia Rojo (31) weds Andres Puentes Jr at the
           San Jose del Calvario church in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico
2005 - Country music artist Garth Brooks (43) weds singer Trisha Yearwood (41) in Claremore,
           Oklahoma
2005 - Actress Jane Danson (27) weds "Brookside" actor Robert Beck (35) at Gibbon Bridge Hotel in
           Lancashire, England

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 10, 2013, 01:34:13 PM

This Day in History for 10th December


Famous Birthdays

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Abolitionist                                             Poet Emily Dickinson (1830)              Poet Nelly Sachs (1891)
William Lloyd Garrison (1805)


1394 - King James I of Scotland, Dunfermline Palace, Fife, (1406-1437), (d. 1437)
1452 - Johannes Stöffler, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1531)
1538 - Giovanni Battista Guarini, Italian writer (Faithfull Shepherd)
1588 - Isaac Beeckman, Dutch scientist and philosopher (d. 1637)
1679 - Willem Maurits, Dutch count of Nassau/gov of Zeeuws-Flanders
1691 - Cornelis Pronk, Dutch portrait painter/cartoonist
1741 - Agatha "Aagje" Deken, Dutch writer (For the Elderly & Children)
1750 - Tipu Sultan, ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore (d. 1799)
1751 - George Shaw, English botanist and zoologist (d. 1813)
1764 - Louis-Sebastien Lebrun, composer
1765 - [Izaak J] Alexander Gogel, Dutch minister of Finance/patriot
1787 - Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, Phila, pioneer of educating the deaf
1794 - James Wolfe Ripley, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1870
1804 - Carl Gustav Jakob Jacobi, German mathematician (d. 1851)
1805 - John E Feisser, theologist/founder 1st Dutch baptist church
1805 - William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist publisher (The Liberator)
1805 - Josef Skoda, Bohemian physician (d. 1881)
1813 - Errico Petrella, composer
1813 - Zachariah Chandler, US, merchant/politician (found Republican Party)
1815 - Ada Lovelace, English mathematician (d. 1852)
1820 - David Allen Russell, Army Bvt Major General (Union), died in 1864
1820 - Princess Elizabeth of Clarence (d. 1821)
1821 - Nikolai A Nekrasov, Russian poet, writer and publisher (Russkije Zjenjshiny)
1822 - Thomas Casimer Devin, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1878
1822 - César Franck, Belgian composer and organist (d. 1890)
1823 - Theodore Furchtegott Kirchner, Neukirchen, German composer
1823 - Wilhelm Kuhe, composer
1824 - George MacDonald, Scotland, sci-fi author (Princess & Curdie)
1827 - Eugene O'Keefe, Canadian businessman and brewer (d. 1913)
1830 - Emily Dickinson, Amherst Mass, poet (Collected Poems), (d. 1886)
1831 - Alexander Conze, German archaeologist
1851 - Melvil[le Louis K] Dewey, created Dewey Decimal System for libraries
1855 - Marios Varvoglis, Greek Composer (d. 1967)
1868 - Louis Victor Saar, composer
1870 - Adolf Loos, Austria architect (building of houses)
1870 - Pierre Louijs, France, novelist/poet (Aphrodite, Woman & Puppet)
1870 - Rudolf W Canne, Fries playwright (Der de Wier Us)
1870 - T R McKibbin, cricketer (NSW & Aust off-spinner late 19th century)
1870 - Mary Bonaparte, pretender to the French imperial throne (d. 1947)
1872 - Johann Babtist Thaller, composer
1872 - Ludwig Klages, German philosopher (study of graves)
1878 - Rajaji, India's freedom fighter and the first Governor General of independent India (d.1972)
1880 - Fred Immler, German actor (d. 1965)
1882 - Otto Neurath, Aust/Brit philosopher (Foundation of Social Sciences)
1883 - Andrej J Vysjinski, Russian lawyer/foreign min/UN-ambassador
1884 - Zinaida Serebriakova, Russian-born painter (d. 1967)
1885 - Janos Hammerschlag, composer
1885 - Mario Varvoglis, composer
1886 - Victor McLaglen, Tunbridge Wells, England, actor (Informer - Academy Award 1935)
1886 - William Booth, cricketer (Yorks all-rounder, England before WW I)
1889 - Ray Collins, Sacramento CA, actor (Homecoming, Good Sam, Rose Marie)
1890 - George Merritt, London England, actor (I Monster, Q Planes)
1891 - Leonie "Nelly" Sachs, German/Swedish poet (O the Chimneys-Nobel 1966), (d. 1970)
1893 - Walter Rein, composer
1894 - Earnest Haenchen, German new testament expert
1894 - Gertrud Kolmar, writer
1894 - Paul Dessau, composer
1897 - Karl H Waggerl, Austria writer (Power of Love)
1898 - Anton Mauve, Dutch painter
1898 - Yuri N Libedinski, Ukrainian writer (Birth of Hero) [NS]
1901 - F Fischer, German war criminal (Breda 4)
1903 - George J Lewis, Guadalajara Mexico, sacotr (Don-Zorro)
1903 - Una Merkel, Covington Ky, actress (42nd Street, Abraham Lincoln)
1903 - William Plomer, Transvaal, author (Paper Houses, I Speak of Africa)
1907 - Amedeo Nazzari, Cagliari Sardinia Italy, actor (Lure of Sila)
1907 - Michael Blankfort, US, writer/producer/director
1907 - Rumer Godden, England, author (Thursday's Children)
1907 - Lucien Laurent, French footballer (d. 2005)
1908 - Arnold A van Ruler, Dutch theologist
1908 - Olivier Messiaen, Avignon France, composer (L'Ame en Bourgeon)
1910 - Dennis Morgan, Prentice Wisc, actor (Dennis-21 Beacon Street)
1910 - Jill Summers, actress (Agatha Coronation Street)
1911 - Chet Huntley, Cardwell Mont, newscaster (NBC Huntley-Brinkley Report)
1912 - Rien van Nunen, Dutch actor (Spuit Elf)
1912 - Philip A. Hart, U.S. Senator (d. 1976)
1913 - Morton Gould, Richmond Hill NY, prolific composer (Verdun)
1913 - Harry Locke, English actor (d. 1987)
1914 - Dorothy Lamour, [Mary Kaumeyer], New Orleans, actress and singer (Road to Bali)
1917 - Sultan Yahya Petra, King of Malaysia (d. 1979)
1918 - Anne Gwynne, Waco TX, actress (Ride 'em Cowboy, House of Frankenstein)
1918 - Professor Longhair, king of New Orleans music
1918 - Anatoli Tarasov, Russian ice hockey coach (d. 1995)
1919 - Sven-Eric Emanuel Johanson, composer
1919 - Alexander Courage, American composer (d. 2008)
1920 - Ragnhild Hveger, Denmark, 200m swimmer (Olympic-silver-1936)
1920 - Clarice Lispector, Ukrainian-Brazilian writer (d. 1977)
1922 - Allen Dwight Sapp, composer
1923 - Abelardo Quinteros, composer
1923 - Harold Gould, Schenectady NY, actor (He & She, Martin-Rhoda, Big Bus)
1923 - Jorge Semprun, French writer (2nd mort de R Mercader, Z)
1925 - Carolyn Ashley Kizer, US writer (Yin, Pulitzer 1985)
1925 - Jean Byron, American actress (d. 2006)
1926 - Dag Schjelderup-Ebbe, composer
1926 - Eddie Jones, "Guitar Slim" rocker
1926 - Harry Fowler, Lambeth, London, actor (Great: Isambard Kingdom Brunel), (d. 2012)
1928 - John Colicos, Toronto, actor (Battlestar Galactica)
1928 - Dan Blocker, De Kalb Texas, American actor (Tiny-Cimarron City, Hoss-Bonanza)
1930 - Clayton K Yeutter, Nebraska, US trade rep/Republican Natl chairman
1933 - Grenville Alabaster, cricketer (NZ tourist to Aust 1973-74)
1933 - Mako, Japanese-born American actor (d. 2006)
1933 - Larry Morris, Atlanta, Georgia, NFL Linebacker (NFL 1960s All-Decade Team), (d. 2012)
1934 - Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (d. 1994)
1935 - Terry Allcock, English footballer
1937 - Don Bies, Cottonwood ID, PGA golfer (1975 Sammy Davis Jr)
1937 - Don Sebesky, Perth Amboy NJ, orchestra leader (Jimmy Dean Show)
1938 - Yuri Temirkanov, Nalchik Russia, conductor (Kirov)
1939 - Barry Cunliffe, English university professor
1940 - William Fred Dempster, Berkeley California, crew member (Biosphere 2)
1941 - Fionnula Flanagan, Dublin Ireland, actress (Rich Man Poor Man)
1941 - Jeff Jones, cricketer (England left-arm pace bowler in 60's)
1941 - Peter Michael Goetz, actor (Jumping Jack Flash, King Kong Lives)
1941 - Tim Considine, Louisville Ky, actor (Mike-My 3 Sons)
1941 - Tommy Kirk, actor (Old Yeller)
1941 - Tommy Rettig, Jackson Heights NY, actor (Jeff's Collie-Lassie)
1941 - Kyu Sakamoto, Japanese singer and actor
1942 - Bear Bossu, [Berend F Gertenbach], actor/vocalist (Pub Chantant)
1943 - Chad Stuart, rock vocalist/guitarist (Chad & Jeremy)
1943 - Jessica Cleaves, rocker
1943 - Theodore Wilson, NYC, actor (That's My Mama, Sanford Arms)
1944 - Tisha Sterling, Hollywood California, actress (Coogan's Bluff)
1945 - Eric Boom, Dutch guitarist/producer
1946 - Chris Kefford, rocker
1946 - Gloria Loring, NYC, actress/singer (Days of our Life)
1946 - Walter "Clyde" Orange, Florida, rocker (Commodores-Too Hot to Trot)
1946 - Thomas Lux, American poet
1947 - Sinaida Woronin, USSR, gymnist (Olympic-gold/silver/2 bronze-1968)
1947 - Douglas Kenney, American humorist (d. 1980)
1947 - Rəsul Quliyev, Azerbaijani politician
1948 - Brendan Harkin, rocker
1948 - Ralph Tavares, rocker
1948 - Abu Abbas, founder of the Palestine Liberation Front (d. 2004)
1949 - Linda Galloway, LPGA golfer
1950 - Simon Owen, Wanganui NZ, Australasia golfer
1950 - Tom Towles, American actor
1951 - Frank Beard, US country rock drummer (ZZ Topp)
1951 - Johnny Rodriquez, US, actor (Nashville Girl, La Bamba Party)
1951 - Ellen Nikolaysen, Norwegian singer
1952 - Susan Hallock Dey, Ill, actress (1st Love, Partridge Family, LA Law)
1953 - Jack Scalia, actor/director (Amore, Deadly Desire, Donor, T-Force)
1954 - Jack Hues, English musician
1955 - Jacquelyn Mitchard, American novelist
1956 - Michael VerMeulen, journalist
1957 - Michael Clarke Duncan, American actor, (d. 2012)
1957 - Prem Rawat, known also as Guru Maharaj Ji and Maharaji, American Indian spiritual leader and
           speaker
1958 - John J York, Chicago Ill, actor (Mac Scorpio-General Hospital)
1958 - Paul Hardcastle, keyboardist (Don't Waste My Time, Just for Money)
1959 - Burke Moses, NYC, actor (Sean Baxter-As the World Turns)
1959 - Mark Aguirre, NBA forward (Detroit Pistons)
1960 - Kenneth Branagh, Belfast, actor/director (High Season, Dead Again)
1960 - Paul Assenmacher, Detroit MI, pitcher (Cleveland Indians)
1961 - Mark McKoy, Canadian track star (world record 50m indoor)
1961 - Nia Peeples, [Vernia], Hollywood, dancer/host (Fame, Party Machine)
1962 - John de Wolf, soccer player (Feyenoord)
1963 - Doug Henry, Sacramento CA, pitcher (NY Mets)
1963 - Gerald Sandel, soccer player (Sparta)
1963 - Michael Lofton, Montgomery Ala, fencer-sabre (Olympics-96)
1963 - Robin White, San Diego Cal, tennis player (US Open doubles 1988)
1964 - Luis Polonia, Santiago City Dom Rep, outfielder (NY Yanks, Orioles)
1964 - Bobby Flay, American celebrity chef and restaurateur
1965 - Jennifer Wyatt, Vancouver Canada, golfer (1992 Crestar-Farm Fresh)
1965 - J Mascis, American musician
1965 - Stephanie Morgenstern, Canadian actress
1966 - Eric Naposki, WLAF linebacker (Barcelona Dragons)
1966 - Norberto Martin, Santo Domingo Dom Rep, infielder (Chicago White Sox)
1968 - Rob Davis, NFL guard (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1969 - Darren Berry, cricketer (Victorian wicket-keeper since 1989-90)
1969 - Nadim Khan, cricketer (brother of Moin Pakistani lefty spinner 1993)
1969 - Rob Blake, Simcoe Ont, NHL defenseman (Team Canada, LA Kings)
1969 - Todd Furdyk, CFL tackle (BC Lions)
1970 - Bryant Stith, NBA guard (Denver Nuggets)
1971 - Amanda Hardy, Altona Australia, badminton player (Olympics-96)
1971 - Carla Sacramento, Lisbon, 1.5k runner
1971 - Manjula Munasinghe, cricketer (Sri Lankan ODI pace bowler)
1971 - Brian Nichols, American spree killer
1972 - Marcos di Palma, Argentine racing driver
1972 - Brian Molko, Belgian-born singer and songwriter (Placebo)
1972 - Dimitri Tikovoi, French-born record producer
1973 - Bernard Holsey, defensive tackle (NY Giants)
1973 - Marcus Wall, CFL receiver (Montreal Alouettes)
1973 - Rusty LaRue, NBA guard (Chicago Bulls)
1974 - Meg White, American drummer (The White Stripes)
1975 - Josip Skoko, Australian footballer
1977 - Emmanuelle Chriqui, Canadian actress
1978 - Brandon Novak, American skateboarder
1978 - Summer Phoenix, American actress
1978 - Donna Williams, co-founder of Neopets
1979 - Matt Bentley, American professional wrestler
1980 - Sarah Chang, American violinist
1980 - Ledley King, English footballer
1980 - Massari, Lebanese-born Canadian singer
1981 - Fábio Rochemback, Brazilian footballer
1981 - Ryan Pini, Papua New Guinea swimmer
1981 - Taufik Batisah, Singaporean singer
1982 - Tim Deegan, Canadian MuchMusic VJ
1982 - Shilpa Anand, Indian film and television actress
1983 - Patrick Flueger, American actor
1983 - Habib Mohamed, Ghanaian footballer
1983 - Katrin Siska, Estonian singer
1983 - Zé Kalanga, Angolan footballer
1984 - Jayson Paul, American professional wrestler
1985 - T. J. Hensick, American ice hockey player
1985 - Raven-Symoné, American actress and singer
1986 - Matthew Bates, English footballer
1986 - Ryoichi Tsukada, Japanese acrobat
1987 - Gonzalo Higuaín, French-born Argentine footballer
1990 - Giulia Boverio, Italian actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 10, 2013, 01:38:15 PM

This Day in History for 10th December


Famous Deaths

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Inventor/Nobel Prize founder               Journalist and Author Damon Runyon (1946)
Alfred Bernhard Nobel (1896)


949 - Herman I, Duke of Swabia
969 - Nicephorus II Phocas, Byzantine co-Emperor (963-69), murdered
1198 - Averroes, Arab physician and philosopher (b. 1126)
1490 - Antoine Haneron, Bourgundy diplomat, dies at about 90
1508 - René II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1451)
1524 - Henry van Zutphen, Dutch Augustine/Luthern minister, burned to death
1572 - Cornelis Musius, Dutch humanist/poet, murdered at 72
1595 - Reynier Cant, mayor of Amsterdam, dies at about 59
1603 - William Gilbert, Queen Elizabeth's physician, dies at 59
1616 - Diogo do Couto, Portuguese historian/archivist of Goa, dies at 74
1618 - Giulio Caccini, Italian composer
1626 - Edmund Gunter, English mathematician (b. 1581)
1638 - Ivan [Dzivo F] Gundulic, Dalmatian writer (Osman), dies at 49
1665 - Tarquinio Mercula, composer, dies
1736 - António Manoel de Vilhena, Portuguese ruler of Malta (b. 1663)
1749 - Gabrielle Chôtelet, [La belle Emilie], writer (Voltaire), dies at 42
1770 - Theophil "Gottlieb" Muffat, German court organist/composer, dies at 80
1805 - Friedrich Franz Hurka, composer, dies at 43
1826 - Benedikt Emanuel Schack, composer, dies at 68
1831 - Thomas Seebeck, Baltic German physicist (b. 1770)
1833 - Dieudonne-Pascal Pieltain, composer, dies at 79
1850 - François Sulpice Beudant, French mineralogist and geologist (b. 1787)
1865 - King Léopold I of Belgium (b. 1790)
1875 - Otogaki Rengetsu, zen nun/benefactress of Tessai, dies at about 84
1877 - Federico Ricci, composer, dies at 68
1877 - Jared Kirtland, US physician/naturalist, dies
1888 - Mariano Obiols, composer, dies at 79
1889 - Ludwig Anzengruber, Austrian playwright, dies at 50
1890 - Ludolf AJW Sloet van de Beele, gov-gen (Net India 1861-66), dies at 84
1896 - Alfred Nobel, Swedish Nobel Prize ceremony on this date, dies at 63
1904 - James Cranston, cricketer (scored 16 & 15 in Test for England), dies
1909 - Red Cloud, Sioux indian chief, dies
1910 - Pablo Hernandez Salces, composer, dies at 76
1911 - Joseph D Hooker, British botanist, dies at 94
1917 - Sir Mackenzie Bowell, fifth Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1823)
1920 - Horace Elgin Dodge, American automobile manufacturing pioneer (b. 1868)
1921 - Viktor Jacobi, composer, dies at 38
1926 - Nikola Pašić, Kingdom of Serbia and Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes prime
           minister (b. 1845)
1928 - Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish architect, designer, and illustrator (b. 1868)
1931 - Max Elskamp, Belgian author/poet (Six Chansons), dies at 69
1935 - John H Aberson, 1st rector of Landbouw high school, dies at 78
1936 - Luigi Pirandello, Italian writer (Enrico IV, Nobel 1934), dies at 69
1936 - Robert Abel, cricketer (744 runs in 13 Tests for Eng 1888-1902), dies
1938 - Mario Pilati, composer, dies at 35
1939 - Wilhelm Grosz, composer, dies at 45
1941 - Colin Kelly, American pilot (b. 1915)
1945 - Theodor Dannecker, SS officer (b. 1913)
1946 - Damon Runyon, US journalist/writer, dies at 66
1946 - Walter Johnson, great pitcher (Washington Senators), dies at 59
1951 - Algernon Blackwood, English writer (b. 1869)
1953 - Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Indian-born scholar and translator (b. 1872)
1958 - Juliane Gabriels, Flemish physician, dies at 72
1958 - Adolfo Camarillo, American horse breeder (b.1864)
1959 - Charles Jones, cricket batsman (WI in 4 Tests 1930-35, 63 runs), dies
1959 - Henri Vidal, French actor (Fabiola), dies of a heart attack at 40
1964 - Sam Cooke, US, singer (Sad Moon), slain at a motel at 33
1965 - Henry (Dixon) Cowell, US pianist/composer (Aeolian Harp), dies at 68
1966 - Boris Koutzen, composer, dies at 65
1967 - Brazilio da Cunha Luz Itibere, composer, dies at 71
1967 - Carl Cunningham, rocker (Bar-kays), killed in a plane crash
1967 - Jimmy King, rocker (Bar-kays), dies in a plane crash
1967 - Otis Redding, singer (Dock of Bay), dies in plane crash at 26
1967 - Phalin Jones, rocker (Bar-kays), dies in plane crash
1967 - Ron Caldwell, rocker (Bar-kays), dies in a plane crash
1968 - Karl Barth, Swiss theologist/minister (Kirchliche Dogma), dies at 82
1968 - Patsy Moran, actress (Children of the Wild), dies at 65
1968 - Thomas Merton, French/US priest/writer (7 Story Mountain), dies at 53
1968 - George Forrest, Northern Irish MP (b. 1921)
1969 - Franco Capuana, composer, dies at 75
1969 - Leigh Harline, composer, dies at 62
1971 - Jozef MLT Cals, Dutch min of Education/premier (1965-66), dies at 57
1972 - Mark A Van Doren, US literary (Our Lady Peace), dies at 78
1973 - Earle Foxe, actor (Dance Fools Dance), dies at 81
1974 - Paul Richards, actor (Dr Thompson-Breaking Point), dies at 50
1977 - Adolph Rupp, American basketball coach (b. 1901)
1978 - Edward D Wood Jr, director (Plan 9), dies of heart failure at 54
1978 - Miura Isshu, Zen teacher, Hakuin Rinzai line, dies at 75
1979 - Ann Dvorak, actress (G Men, Life of Her Own, Scarface), dies at 67
1979 - Fulton J Sheen, bishop (Life is Worth Living), dies at 84
1981 - John Kieran, TV host (Information Please), dies at 89
1982 - Freeman "Amos" Gosden, US radio actor (Amos 'n' Andy), dies at 83
1982 - Roy Webb, composer, dies at 94
1983 - Dorothy Cummings, actress (Dancing Mothers), dies at 84
1983 - Patrick O'Moore, actor (Jungle Gents), dies at 74
1986 - Kate Wolf, folksinger (Back Roads), dies of leukemia at 44
1986 - Susan Cabot-Roman, actress (Sorority Girl, Carnival Rock), dies
1987 - Jascha Heifetz, Russia, violinist, dies at 86
1988 - Dick Clair, comedian (Clair & McMahon, Facts of Life), dies of AIDS
1988 - Richard Castellano, aqctor (Honor thy Father), dies at 55
1990 - Armand Hammer, CEO (Occidental Petroleum), dies at 92
1991 - Berenice Abbott, US photographer, dies at 93
1991 - Greta Kempton, American artist (b. 1901)
1992 - Carlomagno Andrade, Equadorian general, dies
1992 - Dan Maskell, English tennis commentator (b. 1908)
1993 - Maroun Bagdadi, director/writer (Little Wars, Veiled Man), dies at 42
1994 - Garnett Silk, vocalist, dies at 28
1994 - George G F van Renesse, concert pianist/music director, dies at 85
1994 - Keith Joseph, British MP (C), dies
1994 - Ruth Evelyn Mansfield, doctor, dies at 92
1994 - Alexander Wilson, Canadian athlete (b. 1905)
1995 - Darren Robinson, singer, dies at 28
1995 - Gillian Rose, philosopher/writer, dies at 48
1995 - John Francis Boyd, journalist, dies at 85
1995 - Mary Madge Lascelles, literary critic/poet, dies at 95
1995 - Phillip Piratin, communist, dies at 88
1996 - Faron Young, country singer/actor (Hidden Guns), commits suicide at 34
1996 - John Duffey, bluegrass musician, dies at 62
1997 - Violet Carlson, stage dancer/singer, dies at 97
1999 - Rick Danko, Canadian bassist and singer (The Band) (b. 1942)
1999 - Shirley Hemphill, American actress (b. 1947)
1999 - Franjo Tuđman, President of Croatia (b. 1922)
2000 - Marie Windsor, American film actress (b. 1919)
2001 - Ashok Kumar, Indian actor (b. 1911)
2002 - Andres Küng, Swedish-Estonian politician, journalist (b. 1945)
2005 - Eugene McCarthy, U.S. Senator (b. 1916)
2005 - Richard Pryor, American comedian and actor (b. 1940)
2006 - Augusto Pinochet, Former Chilean dictator (b. 1915)
2007 - Aqsa Parvez, Canadian victim of an honor crime (b. 1991)
2008 - Didith Reyes, Filipino singer (b. 1948)
2010 - John Bennett Fenn, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1917)
2010 - J. Michael Hagopian, Turkish-born American documentarian (b. 1913)
2010 - MacKenzie Miller, American horse trainer and breeder (b. 1921)
2012 - Iajuddin Ahmed, Bangladeshi President, dies from heart surgery complications at 81

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 11, 2013, 01:29:32 PM

This Day in History for 11th December


Historical Events

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French Enlightenment Philosopher      31st US President Herbert Hoover      Duchess of Windsor Wallis Simpson
Voltaire

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Baseball Player Joe DiMaggio                  US President John F. Kennedy           Musician and Beatle John Lennon

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Heavyweight Boxing Champion                 264th Pope John Paul II             Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
 Muhammad Ali


359 - Honoratus, first known Prefect of the City of Constantinople, takes office.
384 - St Damasus I dies and ends his reign as Catholic Pope. Began reign 366
1282 - Llywelyn ab Gruffydd/Llywelyn the Last (b. c.1228), the last native Prince of Wales, is killed at
           Cilmeri, near Builth Wells, south Wales. Reigned from 1259
1419 - Heretic Nicolaas Serrurier exiled from Florence
1477 - Duchess Maria of Burgundy ends the 'Great Privilege'
1572 - Spanish troops begin siege of Haarlem
1602 - A surprise attack by forces under the command of the Duke of Savoy and his brother-in-law,
           Philip III of Spain, is repelled by the citizens of Geneva. Commemorations/celebrations on Fête
           de l'Escalade are usually held on December 11 or the closest weekend.
1618 - Russia & Poland signs Peace treaty of Dailino
1620 - 103 Mayflower pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock (12/21 NS)
1665 - "Messiah" Sjabtai Tswi festival in Smyrna
1688 - King James II captured in Kent.
1710 - Battle of Villa Viciosa (France beat Habsburgers)
1719 - 1st recorded display of Aurora Borealis in north American colonies (New England)
1730 - Voltaire's "Brutus" premieres in Paris
1792 - France's King Louis XVI went on trial, accused of treason
1812 - 1st newspaper on Curacao (Curacao Gazette & Commercial Advertiser)
1816 - Citizens of Geneva thwarted Savoyard invaders
1816 - Indiana becomes 19th state of the Union
1844 - 1st dental use of nitrous oxide, Hartford, Ct
1866 - 1st yacht race across Atlantic Ocean
1872 - 1st black US govenor took office, Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback (La)
1882 - Boston's Bijou Theatre, 1st American playhouse lit exclusively by electricity, 1st performance,
           Gilbert & Sullivan's "Iolanthe"
1882 - Victorien Sardous "Fedora" with Sarah Bernhardt, premieres in Paris
1888 - French Panama Canal Company fails
1893 - 11 fishing ships wash up at Wadden Sea, 22 killed
1903 - British forces under MacDonald & Young march into Tibet
1905 - 120°F (49°C), Rivadavia, Argentina (South American record)
1905 - British government of Campbell-Bannerman forms
1905 - A workers uprising occurs, establishing the Shuliavka Republic in Kiev.
1906 - US president Roosevelt attacks abuses in the Congo
1907 - New Zealand Parliament Buildings almost completely destroyed by fire.
1908 - Frederick Delius' "In a Summer Garden" premieres
1909 - Colored moving pictures demonstrated at Madison Square Garden, NYC
1909 - Canadian Football exhibition game played in Van Cortlandt Park in Bronx, Hamilton Tigers beat
           Ottawa Rough Riders, 11-6 before 15,000
1913 - "Mona Lisa," stolen from Louvre Museum in 1911, recovered
1914 - Stockton Street Tunnel (SF) completed
1916 - David Lloyd George forms British war government
1917 - 13 black soldiers hanged for participation in Houston riot
1917 - German-occupied Lithuania proclaims independence from Russia
1919 - Boll weevil monument dedicated in Enterprise, Ala
1925 - Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Quas Primas
1926 - Josephine Baker goes up in Amsterdam
1926 - Queensland win their 1st Sheffield Shield cricket match, v NSW
1928 - Buenos Aires police thwart an attempt on Pres-elect Herbert Hoover
1928 - NL Pres John Heydler proposes designated hitter for pitchers
1930 - Bank of the United States closes in New York City
1931 - Japan leaves the Gold Standard
1931 - Statute of Westminster gives complete legislative independence to Canada, Australia, NZ,
           South Africa, Ireland, Newfndlnd
1932 - SF's coldest day (27°F) - it snows
1934 - 1935 All-Star Game is assigned to Cleveland
1934 - 1st Toronto Maple Leaf penalty shot, Conacher unsuccessful vs Rangers
1934 - Ford C Frick becomes president of baseball's National League
1934 - NL votes to permit night baseball (up to 7 games per home team)
1936 - Edward VIII announces in a radio broadcast that he is abdicating the British throne to marry
           Wallis Simpson
1937 - 25th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Winn Blue Bombers, 30-7
1937 - Italy withdraws from League of Nations
1938 - NY Giants win NFL championship
1939 - New anti Jewish measurements in Poland, proclaimed
1940 - Russian general Zhukov warns of German assault
1941 - Dutch government in London declares war on Italy
1941 - Germany & Italy declare war on US
1941 - Giants acquire Johnny Mize from Cards for 3 players & $50,000
1941 - Japanese attack Wake Island (only failed WW II-landing)
1941 - Japanese occupy Guam
1942 - Australian/Dutch guerrilla troops evacuated to Timor near Australia
1944 - Surprise attack on House of Keeping Axe, 29 prisoners freed
1945 - Het Parool publishes 1st Captain Rob-strip
1946 - Hank Williams begins to record on Sterling label
1946 - Spain suspended from UN
1946 - UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) established (Nobel 1965)
1947 - Bob Hilliard/Carl Sigman's musical "Angel in the Wings" opens at Coronet Theater NYC for 308
           performances
1947 - Pacific Coast League application for major league status rejected
1948 - WHEN (now WTVH) TV channel 5 in Syracuse, NY (CBS) begins broadcasting
1948 - WMC TV channel 5 in Memphis, TN (NBC) begins broadcasting
1949 - Chic Bear Johnny Lujack passes for 6 touchdowns vs Chic Cards (52-29)
1949 - Cleveland Browns beat SF '49ers 21-7 in final AAFC championship game
1949 - WOAI (now KMOL) TV channel 4 in San Antonio, TX (NBC) 1st broadcast
1950 - Baseball owners vote 9-7 not to renew Commissioner Chandler's contract
1950 - Hindemiths Concerto for clarinet, premieres
1951 - Joe DiMaggio announces his baseball retirement
1953 - KTVA TV channel 11 in Anchorage (CBS) becomes Alaska's 1st TV station
1954 - Phillies purchase Connie Mack Stadium
1954 - USS Forrestal christened in Newport News, Va
1956 - Anti-Russian demonstrates in Stettin & Wroclaw Poland
1958 - 4th (last) Dutch government of Drees falls
1958 - Archibald MacLeish's "JB" premieres in NYC
1958 - Upper Volta (now Bourkina Faso) gains autonomy from France
1959 - Yanks trade Marv Thronberry, Don Larsen, Hank Bauer & Norm Seibern for Roger Maris, Kent
           Hadley & Joe Deaestri
1960 - Black Sunday - Riot in Algiers, 114 die
1960 - Coleman/Leigh's musical "Wildcat" with Lucille Ball premieres in NYC
1960 - Cleveland's Bernie Parrish sets club record for longest interception return with a 92 yard run
1961 - "Please, Mr. Postman" by Marvelettes, released
1961 - Adolf Eichmann is found guilty of war crimes, in Israel
1961 - Elvis Presley's "Blue Hawaii" album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 20 wks
1961 - JFK provides US miltary helicopters & crews to South Vietnam
1964 - Che Guevara speaks at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City. An unknown
           terrorist fires a mortar shell at the building during the speech.
1965 - "Anya" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 16 performances
1965 - "Yearling" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 3 performances
1966 - Al Nelson sets NFL record returning missed field goal, 100 yards
1967 - 6.5 earthquake in West India, 170 killed
1967 - Beatles' Apple Music signs its 1st group-Grapefruit
1967 - People's front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) established
1967 - SST prototype "Concorde" 1st shown (France)
1968 - KECC (now KECY) TV channel 9 in El Centro, CA (CBS) 1st broadcast
1968 - US Soccer Football Association refuses to let NASL disband
1969 - Libya adopts constitution
1970 - John Lennon releases an album that contains songs with word "Sorry"
1970 - Start of the 1st Test match at the WACA, v England
1970 - Test Cricket debut of Gregory Stephen Chappell
1971 - The Libertarian Party of the United States is formed.
1972 - Astronauts Cernan & Harrison become 11th & 12th on Moon
1972 - Jet's Don Maynard becomes all time pro reception leader (632)
1973 - Houston Astro Caesar Cedino jailed in death of 19 year old woman
1973 - NA Soccer League awards LA, SF, Seattle & Vancouver franchises
1973 - Ron Santo becomes 1st to invoke no-trade clause of 10-year-1-club vet
1973 - West German chancellor Willy Brandt normalizes trade with Czech
1975 - 1st class postage rises from 10 cents to 13 cents
1975 - Great Yankee trade getting Willie Randolph, Dock Ellis & Ken Brett from Pirates for George
           "Doc" Medich
1978 - 6 masked men bound 10 employees at Lufthansa cargo area at NY Kennedy Airport & made
           off with $5.8 M in cash & jewelry
1979 - Geoff Boycott scores cricket century in a limited-over international
1979 - Great Britain grants independence to Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)
1980 - Dirk Wellham scores 100 on 1st-class debut, NSW v Victoria
1980 - The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (known as
           either CERCLA or Superfund) is enacted by the U.S. Congress.
1981 - Argentine president/gen Roberto Viola flees
1981 - Muhammad Ali's 61st & last fight, losing to Trevor Berbick
1981 - Peru's Javier Perez de Cuellar becomes sec-gen of UN
1981 - Spacelab I arrives at Kennedy Space Center
1981 - UN Sec Council chose Javier Perez de Cuellar of Peru as 5th Sec Genl
1981 - Wash Capitals biggest margin of victory (9) beating Toronto 11-2
1981 - El Mozote massacre: Salvadoran armed forces kill an estimated 900 civilians in an anti-guerrilla
           campaign during the country's civil war.
1983 - 1st visit to Lutheran church by a pope (John Paul II in Rome)
1983 - 72nd Australian Mens Tennis: Mats Wilander beats Ivan Lendl (61 64 64)
1983 - Jan Stephens/Fred Couples wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
1984 - "Doug Henning & His World..." opens at Lunt-Fontanne NYC for 60 perf
1984 - Mauretania military coup under Col Maawiya Ould Sid'ahmed Taya
1985 - Computer store owner in Sacramento California killed by package bomb
1985 - Dow Jones closes above 1,500 for 1st time (1,511.70)
1985 - General Electric acquires RCA Corp & its subsidiary, NBC
1985 - NHL Record 62 points scored, Edmonton (36) beats Chicago (26) 12-9 & ties record of 21
           goals
1986 - A Bartlett Giamatti becomes president of baseball's National League
1986 - South Africa censors press
1987 - Test debut of Carl Hooper, WI v India at Bombay
1989 - "City of Angels" opens at Virginia Theater NYC for 878 performances
1989 - Mark Davis signs record $3.25 million per year KC Royals contract
1990 - 13 die in 83 vehicle accident in Chattanooga Tn I-75, due to fog
1990 - US 69th manned space mission STS 35 (Columbia 11) returns from space
1991 - William Kennedy Smith found not guilty of rape
1992 - Nor'easter storm hits NY, doing $ Billion worth of damage
1992 - WNEW AM radio on 1130 in NYC ends transmitting after 58 years
1993 - 59th Heisman Trophy Award: Charlie Ward, Florida State (QB)
1993 - Eduardo Frei elected president of Chile
1994 - Kelly Robbins & Tammie Green wins LPGA Diner's Club Golf Matches
1994 - Russian troops enter Chechnya
1995 - Thomas O Hicks buys NHL Dallas Stars for $84 million
1997 - "Sunshine Boys" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC
1997 - Federal judge orders Microsoft not to bundle IE4 in Windows
1997 - The Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change opens
           for signature.
1998 - Thai Airways Airbus A310-200 crashes near Surat Thani Airport, killing 101
2001 - The People's Republic of China joins the World Trade Organization.
2005 - The Buncefield Oil Depot in Hemel Hempstead, England, is rocked by explosions, causing a
           huge oil fire.
2005 - Cronulla riots: Thousands of White Australians demonstrate against ethnic violence resulting
           in a riot against anyone thought to be Lebanese (and many who were not) in Cronulla
           Sydney. These are followed up by ethnic attacks on Cronulla.
2006 - The International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust is opened in
           Tehran, Iran by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
2007 - Two car bombs go off at the Constitutional Court building in Algiers and the United Nations
           office. An estimated 45 people are killed in the bombings.
2008 - Bernard Madoff arrested and charged with securities fraud in $50 billion Ponzi scheme.
2009 - Tiger Woods announced an indefinite leave from professional golf to focus on his marriage.
2010 - Two explosions occur in a busy shopping district of Stockholm, Sweden, killing one and
           injuring two others. Officials say the incident is being treated as a terrorist attack.
2012 - 125 people are killed and 200 are injured by bombings in Aqrab, Syria
2012 - HSBC bank settles with US authorities to pay $1.9 billion for drug cartel money laundering
2012 - British physicist, Stephen Hawking, wins the $3 million Fundamental Physics Prize, the most
           lucrative academic prize in the world

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 11, 2013, 01:30:58 PM

This Day in History for 11th December


Famous Weddings

1946 - "Bill Haley & His Comets" rock and roll musician Bill Haley (21) weds Dorothy Crowe
2010 - "Good Charlotte" lead vocalist Joel Madden (31) weds fashion designer and actress Nicole
           Richie (30) at Beverly Hills, California
2010 - Actress Joanna Garcia (32) weds New York Yankees` Nick Swisher (31) at Breakers Hotel &
           Resort in Palm Beach, Florida

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 11, 2013, 01:40:30 PM

This Day in History for 11th December


Famous Birthdays

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American Statesman                      Astronomer Annie Jump Cannon (1863)          Writer and Nobel Laureate
 George Mason (1725)                                                                                          Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918)

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Singer/Dancer/Actress Rita Moreno (1931)


1465 - Ashikaga Yoshihisa, Japanese shogun (d. 1489)
1475 - Pope Leo X, [Giovanni de&#039; Medici], Florence, Italy (1513-21), (d. 1521)
1566 - Manuel Cardoso, composer
1676 - Johann Georg Weichenberger, composer
1709 - Louise Elisabeth of Orléans, queen consort of Spain (d. 1742)
1712 - Francesco Algarotti, Italian earl/encyclopedic (Viaggio in Russia)
1725 - George Mason, American statesman (d. 1792)
1757 - Charles Wesley, composer
1758 - Carl Friedrich Zelter, composer
1761 - Gian Domenico Romagnosi, Italian physicist (d. 1835)
1781 - David Brewster, Scotland, physicist/inventor (kaleidoscope)
1783 - Max von Schenkendorf, German poet
1793 - Pietro Coppola, composer
1797 - Hiram Paulding, Rear Admiral (Union Navy), died in 1878
1801 - Grabbe, writer
1803 - Hector Berlioz, French composer (d. 1869)
1810 - Alfred de Musset, Paris, writer (Un Caprice, Bettine)
1823 - Yury Nikolayevich Golitsin, composer
1835 - Adolf Stoecker, German anti semite/PM
1836 - Jan Boissevain, Dutch politician/ship owner
1838 - Emil Rathenau, German industrialist (AEG)
1838 - Whitney Eugene Thayer, composer
1840 - Kemal Bey, Turkey, poet/author (Fatherland-1872)
1843 - Robert Koch, German bacteriologist (TB, cholera, Nobel 1905)
1849 - Ellen Key, Swedish theory/author/feminist (Courageous Woman)
1855 - Julian Edwards, composer
1856 - Georgi V Plechanov, Russian revolutionary theorist
1858 - Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, Russian theatre director (d. 1943)
1863 - Annie Jump Cannon, Dover Delware, US stellar spectroscopist (Harvard-classification)
1868 - Ernst Henrik Ellberg, composer
1873 - Josip Plemelj, Slovenian mathematician (d. 1967)
1874 - Paul Wegener, German actor/director (Student of Prag)
1876 - Mieczyslaw Karlowicz, composer
1880 - Frank Tarrant, Australian cricketer (d. 1951)
1882 - Fiorello La Guardia, (Mayor-R-NYC, 1933-45)
1882 - Max Born, Germany, physicist (quantum mechanics, Nobel 1954)
1882 - Subramanya Bharathy, Indian poet (d. 1921)
1889 - Paul Kornfeld, writer
1889 - Walter Knott, American farmer (d. 1981)
1890 - Carlos Gardel, tango singer (d. 1935)
1892 - Leo Ornstein, Kremenchug Russia, composer (Bio in Sonata Form)
1896 - Georgi K Zjukov, Russian minister of Defense (WW II) [OS-Dec 2]
1898 - Nils J E Ferlin, Swedish poet (Barfotabarn)
1899 - Vera von der Heydt, psychoanalyst
1904 - Joe Coral, bookmaker
1904 - Marge, American cartoonist (d 1993)
1905 - Eugen Fink, German philosopher
1905 - Gilbert Roland, [Luis Alonso], Juarez Mex, actor (Juarez, Barbarosa)
1905 - Koos van de Griend, composer
1905 - Robert Henriques, English writer (d. 1967)
1906 - Birago Diop, Senegalees writer/ambassador (Leurres et Lueurs)
1907 - Norbert Rosseau, composer
1908 - Elliott Cook Carter Jr, NYC, composer (Tom & Lily), (d. 2012)
1909 - Ronald McKie, Australian author (d. 1991)
1909 - John Wyer, English sports car racing team manager (d.1989)
1910 - Robert Grieve, civil servant
1910 - Noel Rosa, Brazilian songwriter (d. 1937)
1911 - Nagib Machfus, Egyptian writer (Nobel 1988)
1911 - Vincent Henry Kemp, poet
1912 - Carlo Ponti, Magenta, Lombardy, Italian producer (Marriage Italian Style, Doctor Zhivago)
1913 - Jean Marais, Cherbourgh France, actor (Donkey Skin, Orpheus)
1915 - Anna van Beers, [Graeve], actress (A Woman like Eve)
1916 - Dámaso Pérez Prado, Cuban-born bandleader (d. 1989)
1918 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Kislovodsk, Russia, writer (Cancer Ward, Nobel 1970), (d. 2008)
1919 - Marie Windsor, [Emily Marie Bertelson], Utah, American actress (Double Deal)
1920 - Eddy Firestone, SF California, actor (Eddy-Mixed Doubles)
1921 - Maila Nurmi, Petsamo Finland, actress (Vampira)
1922 - Grace Paley, writer (1970 Arts & Letters Award)
1922 - Peter Birch, Bronx, choreographer (Jane Froman's USA Canteen)
1922 - Grigoris Bithikotsis, Greek singer (d. 2005)
1922 - Dilip Kumar, Indian actor
1923 - Betsy Blair, actress (Marty)
1925 - Paul Greengard, American neuroscientist, Nobel laureate
1926 - Big Mama Thornton, blues singer (Ball & Chain, Stronger than Dirt)
1927 - Stein Eriksen, Norway, giant slalom (Olympic-gold-1952)
1927 - John Buscema, American comics artist (d. 2002)
1928 - Tomas Gutierrez Alea, filmmaker
1929 - S P "Fergie" Gupte, cricketer (brilliant Indian leg-spinner)
1930 - Jean-Louis Trintignant, France, actor/director (Man & a Woman, Z)
1930 - Leonard Friedman, violinist
1930 - Chus Lampreave, Spanish actress
1931 - Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, leader B-sect/guru of rich
1931 - Richard Devon, Glendale CA, actor (Battle of Blood Island)
1931 - Rita Moreno, [Rosita Dolores Alverío], Humacao, Puerto Rico, singer, dancer and actress
           (West Side Story)
1932 - Anne Heywood, [Violet Pretty], Engl, Miss GB (1949)/actress (Brain)
1932 - Wynn Irwin, NYC, actor (Lotsa Luck, Sugar Time)
1933 - Earnest P van Altena, author/interpreter (Chansons van Earnest)
1933 - Aquilino Pimentel, Jr., Filipino politician
1934 - Salim Durani, cricketer (successful Indian batsman of 60's)
1935 - Femke Boersma, Dutch actress (Verjaring, Pastorale 1943)
1935 - Ferdinand A. Porsche, Stuttgart, Germany, car designer (Porsche 911), (d. 2012)
1935 - Ron Carey, American actor (d. 2007)
1935 - Pranab Mukherjee, Indian politician
1936 - Hans van den Broek, Dutch foreign minister (-1992)
1936 - Taku Yamasaki, Japanese politician
1937 - Adrian J Vlok, South African NP-minister of Law & Order (1986- )
1937 - Jim Harrison, American writer
1938 - Enrico Macias, Algerian-born French singer
1938 - McCoy Tyner, American jazz pianist
1939 - David Gates, Tulsa Ok, rock vocalist (Bread-Baby I'm A Want You)
1939 - Thomas McGuane, US, writer (Colf Feet, Tom Horn, Missouri Breaks)
1939 - Tom Hayden, 60's activist/Mr Jane Fonda/(Rep-D-Ca)
1940 - Donna Mills, Chicago, Illinois, American actress (Knots Landing, Incident)
1941 - Max Baucus, (Sen-D-Mont)
1941 - Rogier van Otterloo, Dutch composer/conductor
1942 - Karen Susman, tennis pro (Wimbledon 1962)
1943 - John Kerry, Aurora, Colorado, American politician and 2004 presidential nominee of the
           Democratic Party
1944 - Booker T Jones, US organist (Booker T & MGs-Green Onions) [or Nov 12]
1944 - Brenda Lee, [Brenda Mae Tarpley], Lithonia Ga, singer (I'm Sorry)
1944 - David Ashley White, composer
1944 - Lynda Day George, San Marcos Tx, actress (Casey-Mission Impossible)
1944 - Teri Garr, Lakewood, Ohio, American actress (Mr. Mom, Young Frankenstein)
1944 - Jon Garrison, American tenor
1945 - Robert Pickett, rocker
1946 - Rick McCosker, cricketer (fine Australian opener 1975-80)
1947 - Tom Fuccello, Newark NJ, actor (Dave-Dallas)
1948 - Elizabeth Baur, Los Angeles California, actress (Fran-Ironside, Teresa-Lancer)
1948 - Stamatis Spanoudakis, Greek composer
1950 - Christine Onassis [Andreadis], New York City, New York, American-born Greek heiress
           (Aristotle's daughter)
1951 - Robert Cochran, Claremont Vt, skier (Olympics-1972)
1952 - Susan Seidelman, director (Desperately Seeking Susan)
1953 - Bess Armstrong, Balt Md, actress (Julia-On Our Own, 4 Seasons, Jaws)
1953 - Ken Wahl, actor (Wanderers, Wise Guys)
1953 - Peter Isacksen, Dover NH, actor (CPO Sharkey, Jessie)
1954 - Bradley Dub Bryant, Amarillo TX, PGA golfer (1995 Walt Disney)
1954 - Jermaine Jackson, Gary Indiana, singer (Jackson 5-ABC)
1954 - Sylvester Clarke, cricketer (West Indian fast bowler & brick-thrower)
1954 - Guðlaugur Kristinn Óttarsson, Icelandic engineer
1954 - Santiago Creel, Mexican politician
1955 - Stu Jackson, Reading Pa, NBA coach (NY Knicks (1989-90)
1956 - Lani Brockman, playwright
1958 - Regina Marsikova, Prague, Czechoslovakian tennis player
1958 - Nikki Sixx, American musician (Mötley Crüe)
1959 - David Iwasaki-Smith, Warragul VIC, Australasia golfer
1959 - Jean-Louis Lamarre, La Prairie Que, golfer (Quebec PGA-1982, 85)
1959 - Tina Gayle, Frankfurt GFR, Cowboy cheerleader/actress (Kathy-Chips)
1959 - Lisa Gastineau, American reality show star
1960 - Danny Mijovic, Belgrade Yugo, Canadian Tour golfer (1984 Mexican)
1960 - Mary Beth Zimmerman, Mt Vernon IL, LPGA golfer (1987 Henredon Classic)
1960 - Rachel Portman, English film composer
1961 - Mike Henneman, St Charles MO, pitcher (Texas Rangers)
1961 - Marco Pierre White, English chef and restaurateur
1962 - Curtis Williams, rocker
1962 - Ejo Elburg, Dutch soccer player (Pax, NEC)
1962 - Kim Linehan, swimmer (1979 1500m World record)
1962 - Ben Browder, American actor
1962 - Paul Haslinger, Austrian-born composer
1962 - Nele Karajlić, Bosnian singer
1963 - Claudia Kohde-Kilsch, German FR, tennis star
1963 - John Lammers, Dutch soccer player (NAC)
1963 - Mark Alalmo, actor (Avenging Force)
1963 - Mark Greatbatch, cricketer (big-hitting NZ opener)
1963 - Jon Brion, American musician/record producer
1964 - Dave Gagner, Chatham, NHL center (Toronto Maple Leafs)
1964 - Justin Currie, Scottish rock vocalist/bassist (Del Amitri)
1964 - Thomas Howard, Middletown OH, outfielder (Cin Reds)
1964 - Michel Courtemanche, French Canadian comedian
1964 - John Mark Karr, American who claimed involvement in JonBenét Ramsey case
1964 - David Schools, American musician (Widespread Panic)
1964 - Cosy Sheridan, American singer
1965 - Jay Bell, Eglin AFB FL, infielder (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1965 - Laurie Carr, Dallas Tx, playmate (Dec, 1986)
1966 - Terry Sharpe, rocker (The Adventures, Starjets-Starjets)
1966 - Gary Dourdan, American actor
1966 - Leon Lai, Hong Kong Cantonese singer/actor
1967 - Davidson Matyczuk, Thunder Bay Ont, golfer (Thunder Bay-1986, 87)
1967 - Jackie Gallagher-Smith, LPGA golfer
1967 - Katy Steding, Lake Oswego Oregon, basketball forward (Oly-gold-96)
1967 - Richard Stemp, cricketer (Yorkshire & England A left-arm spinner)
1967 - DJ Yella, American DJ and music producer (N.W.A)
1968 - Derek Bell, Tampa Florida, outfielder (Houston Astros)
1968 - Mark Dailey, Parma Ohio, 1.5k runner
1969 - Stig Inge Bjørnebye, Norwegian footballer
1969 - Vishwanathan Anand, Indian chess grandmaster
1969 - Sean Grande, American sportscaster
1969 - Alessandro Melli, Italian footballer
1970 - Danan Hughes, NFL wide receiver (KC Chiefs)
1970 - Doug Nussmeier, NFL quarterback (NO Saints)
1970 - Errict Rhett, NFL running back (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1970 - Victoria Fuller, Santa Barbara California, playmate (Jan, 1996)
1971 - Cedric Ihalauw, soccer player (Roda JC)
1971 - Willie McGinest, NFL outside linebacker (NE Patriots)
1972 - Daniel Alfredsson, Grums Swe, NHL right wing (Ottawa Senators)
1972 - Francisco Rodriguez, Brooklyn NY, pitcher (Minnesota Twins)
1972 - Robert Robinson, CFL defensive linebacker (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1972 - Dana Macsim, Romanian television news reporter
1973 - Erin Moorad, Chicago Ill, pairs skater (& Richard Gillam)
1973 - Luke Casserly, Australian soccer defender (Olyroos, Olympics-96)
1973 - Ralph Intranuovo, East York, NHL center (Edmonton Oilers)
1974 - Kevin Devine, cornerback/kick returner (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1974 - Rey Mysterio, American professional wrestler
1974 - Ben Shephard, English TV personality
1975 - Gerben de Knegt, Dutch cyclist
1975 - Tomoka Kurotani, Japanese actress
1976 - Shareef AbdurRahim, NBA forward (Vancouver Grizzlies)
1977 - Mark Streit, Swiss ice hockey player
1979 - Rider Strong, San Francisco, California, American actor, writer and director (Boy Meets World)
1980 - Arya, Indian actor
1981 - Javier Saviola, Argentine footballer
1981 - Hamish Blake, Australian comedian
1981 - Paul Medhurst, Australian rules footballer
1981 - Zacky Vengeance, American musician (Avenged Sevenfold)
1982 - Pablo Pérez Companc, Argentine racing driver
1983 - Yoh Miyamori, Japanese musician (Orange Range)
1984 - Leighton Baines, English footballer
1987 - Natalia Gordienko, Moldovan singer and dancer
1988 - Murugan Thiruchelvam, English chess prodigy
1988 - Tim Southee, New Zealand cricketer
1993 - Gina Miele, American singer and actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 11, 2013, 01:42:57 PM

This Day in History for 11th December


Famous Deaths

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Musician Ravi Shankar (2012)


711 - Justitianus II, emperor of Byzantium, dies at about 42
1121 - Al-Afdal Shahanshah, Caliph of Egypt (b. 1066)
1226 - Robert de Ros, English politician (b. 1177)
1282 - Michael VIII, Paleologus, Byzantine emperor (1259-82), dies
1524 - Henry Van Zutphen, Dutch protestant martyr, burned at stake
1532 - Pietro Accolti, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1455)
1573 - Alardus/Eilard de Waterlant, duke of Alva, hanged
1582 - Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, marquis of Soria, dies at about 75
1595 - Philip III van Croij, prince of Chimay/general, dies at 69
1610 - Adam Elsheimer, German painter/cartoonist/etcher, buried at 32
1610 - Forges Dimitri 2, czar of Russia, murdered
1686 - Louis II Condé, duke of Bourbon, dies at 65
1694 - Ranuccio II Farnese, Duke of Parma (b. 1630)
1718 - Charles XII, King of Sweden (1697-1718), shot dead invading Norway at Fortress of
           Fredriksten
1737 - John Strype, English historian (b. 1643)
1747 - Edmund Curll, English bookseller (b. ca. 1675)
1748 - Ewald G von Kleist, German lawyer/inventor of condensator, dies at 55
1756 - Theodor A Freiherr von Neuhoff, German adventurer/king, dies
1797 - Richard Brocklesby, English physician (b. 1722)
1817 - Max von Schenkendorf, German poet, dies at 34
1831 - John George Schetky, composer, dies at 55
1840 - Emperor Kokaku of Japan (b. 1771)
1847 - Moritz Grave von Strachwitz, German poet, dies at 25
1857 - Francois Henri Joseph Castil-Blaze, composer, dies at 73
1872 - Kamehameha V, Hawaiian king (b. 1830)
1880 - Oliver Fisher Winchester, American businessman and politician (b. 1810)
1891 - Johan C J van Schagen, Dutch poet/writer (Narrenwijsheid), dies
1892 - William Milligan, Scottish theologian (b. 1821)
1899 - Andrew Wauchope, British Major-General, dies in Battle of Magersfontein in the Boer war,
           South Africa. Another British Major, The Marquess of Winchester also killed.
1902 - Matthias Hohner, German manufacturer (harmonica), dies at 68
1903 - Patrick McShane, cricket player/ump (1884-85 Ashes series), dies
1909 - Innokenty Annensky, Russian poet (b. 1855)
1911 - Thomas Ball, US sculptor/painter/singer, dies at 92
1918 - Ivan Cankar, Slavic author (Hlapec Jernej), dies at 42
1930 - Friedrich von Bernhardi, German war theorist/historian, dies at 81
1933 - Emile C Wauters, Belgian painter (Van der Goes Klooster), dies at 87
1941 - John Gillespie Magee, Jr., American poet and aviator (b. 1922)
1941 - Charles Émile Picard, French mathematician (b. 1856)
1945 - Charles Fabry, French physicist (b. 1867)
1950 - Leslie Comrie, New Zealand astronomer (b. 1893)
1955 - Franz Adolf Syberg, composer, dies at 51
1955 - Johan C Altorf, sculptor (October 3 Monument), dies at 79
1959 - Jim Bottomley, American baseball player (b. 1900)
1964 - Percy Kilbride, actor (Ma & Pa Kettle), dies at 76
1964 - Sam Cooke, rock vocalist, shot to death at 29
1967 - Howard Freeman, actor (Double Dynamite), dies after illness in NYC
1967 - Richard Stohr, composer, dies at 93
1967 - Victor De Sabata, composer, dies at 75
1968 - Nadine Riga, dies of cerebral hemorrhage at 59
1971 - Maurice "Mac" McDonald, American fast-food pioneer (b. 1902)
1972 - John Mills, cricketer (7 Tests for NZ in early 1930's, 241 runs), dies
1972 - Semjon I Kirsanov, Ukrainian poet (Zolushka), dies at 66
1974 - Reed Hadley, actor (Racket Squad, Public Defender), dies at 63
1975 - Lee Wiley, American jazz singer (b. 1908)
1978 - Vincent du Vigneaud, American chemist and Nobel laureate (b. 1901)
1978 - Paul O'Dea, American baseball player (b. 1920)
1979 - Claire Carleton, NYC, actress (Alice-Cimarron City), dies at 66
1979 - James J. Gibson, American perceptual psychologist (b. 1904)
1983 - Szymon Laks, composer, dies at 82
1983 - Sir Neil Ritchie, British General (b. 1897)
1984 - George Waggner, director/writer, dies at 90
1984 - Oskar Seidlin, German-born American scholar (b. 1911)
1986 - Paul Keenan, actor (Summer Fantasy), dies at 30
1987 - G. A. Kulkarni, Indian (Marathi) writer (b. 1923)
1989 - Louise Dahl-Wolfe, American photographer (b. 1895)
1990 - Fernand J Collin, Belgian economist/banker, dies at 92
1991 - Artur Lundkvist, Swedish writer/Prof (Swedish Academy), dies
1991 - Daniel Simon Scott, dies of Alzheimer's disease at 71
1991 - Headman Tshabala, musician (Ladysmith Black Mambazo), slain at 44
1991 - Robert Q Lewis, US comic/TV panel member (RQL Show), dies at 70
1992 - Michael Robbins, actor (Lunch Hour, On the Buses), dies at 62
1992 - Vilma Banky, silent film actress (Eagle, Rebel), dies at about 90
1993 - Ales Gartner, Slavic ski trainer of Norway, dies at 45
1993 - Eliva "Elvire" Popesco, Romanian/French actress (Le roi), dies at 99
1994 - Stanislaw Maczek, Polish/British general-major (WW II), dies at 102
1994 - Yao Yilin, Vice PM of China (1979), dies
1994 - Philip Phillips, American archaeologist (b. 1900)
1995 - Arthur Mullard, comedian, dies at 82
1995 - John Heawood, actor singer/choreographer (Pleasure Garden), dies at 75
1995 - Robert Shelton (Shapiro), journalist, dies at 69
1996 - Herbert Sally Frankel, economist, dies at 93
1996 - Robert Bromston Thesiger Daniell, soldier, dies at 95
1996 - W G G Duncan-Smith, fighter pilot, dies at 82
1996 - William George Rushton, actor (TW3)/author/cartoonist, dies at 59
1997 - Kenneth WIlliam Gatland, aerospace scientist, dies at 73
1998 - André Lichnerowicz, Polish-French physicist (b. 1915)
1998 - Lynn Strait, American singer (Snot) (b. 1968)
2000 - Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah, Pakistani politician, diplomat and author (b. 1915)
2000 - David Lewis, American actor (b. 1916)
2003 - Ahmadou Kourouma, Ivorian writer (b. 1927)
2004 - Arthur Lydiard, New Zealand running coach (b. 1917)
2004 - M.S. Subbulakshmi, Indian singer (b. 1916)
2004 - José Luis Cuciuffo, Argentinian footballer (b. 1962)
2006 - Elizabeth Bolden, American, oldest verified person in the world at the time of her death (b.
           1890)
2007 - Christie Hennessy, Irish singer (b. 1945)
2007 - Grace Paley, American writer (b. 1922)
2007 - Ashleigh Aston Moore, Canadian Actress (b. 1981)
2008 - Bettie Page, American model (b. 1923)
2008 - Maddie Blaustein, American voice actress (b. 1960)
2010 - Dick Hoerner, American football player (b. 1922)
2012 - Ravi Shankar, Indian musician, dies at 92

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 12, 2013, 04:10:17 PM

This Day in History for 12th December


Historical Events

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Inventor and Nobel Laureate            Clergyman and Civil Rights Activist               38th US President Gerald Ford
Guglielmo Marconi                                    Martin Luther King Jr.

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NHL all-time top scorer                         Heavyweight Boxing Champion               Actor/Comedian Bill Cosby
Wayne Gretzky                                                  Mike Tyson


627 - Battle at Nineveh: Byzantine emperor Heraclius beats Perzen
1098 - 1st Crusaders capture & plunder Mara Syria
1408 - Order of the Dragon: The Order of the Dragon was first created on December 12, 1408 by
           Emperor Sigismund, then King of Hungary, and his wife Queen Barbara of Celje following the
           battle for possession of Bosnia.
1474 - Isabella crowns herself queen of Castile & Aragon
1479 - Jews are expelled from Schlettstadt Alsace by Emperor Frederick III
1524 - Pope Clement VII approves Organization of Jewish Community of Rome
1527 - Composer Adrian Willaert moves from Milan to Venice
1653 - English Barebones Parliament ends
1677 - Brandenburgs army occupies Stettin
1700 - Utrecht/Overijssel/Buren/Leerdam/Ijsselstein adopt Gregorian calendar
1715 - Russian/Prussian troops occupy Stralsund [NS=12/23]
1769 - Pope Clement XIV proclaims a universal jubilee
1787 - Pennsylvania becomes 2nd state to ratify US constitution
1791 - Bank of US opens
1792 - In Vienna, Ludwig Von Beethoven (22) receives 1st lesson in music composition from Franz
           Joseph Haydn
1800 - Washington DC established as capital of US
1812 - French invasion of Russia comes to an end.
1822 - Mexico officially recognized as an independent nation by US
1858 - 1st Canadian coins circulated (1 cent, 5 cent, 10 cent & 20 cent)
1862 - Battle of Dumfries, VA
1862 - Naval Engagement at Yazoo River, MS (USS CAIRO torpedoed)
1870 - Joseph Rainey (SC) became 1st black sworn into House of Reps
1871 - Jules Janssen discovers dark lines in solar corona spectrum
1878 - Joseph Pulitzer begins publishing "St Louis Dispatch"
1884 - 1st Test match played at the Adelaide Oval
1897 - Anti-Jewish violence breaks out in Bucharest Romania
1897 - Rudolph Dirks' 1st Katzenjammer cartoon strip in NY Journal
1897 - Belo Horizonte, the first planned city of Brazil, is founded.
1898 - 1st 1st-class game between NSW & Tasmania
1899 - 1st case of plague on Oahu, Hawaii
1899 - George F Bryant of Boston patents the wooden golf tee
1900 - National Negro Anthem, "Lift Every Voice & Sing", composed
1901 - Gugliemo Marconi sends the first transatlantic radio signal, from Poldhu in Cornwall to
           Newfoundland
1903 - Roger Casement completes report about abuses in Belgian Congo
1904 - CMS McClellans "Leah Kleschna" premieres in NYC
1906 - Oscar Straus, 1st Jewish government member, appointed Sec of Commerce
1911 - Delhi replaces Calcutta as the capital of India.
1912 - R Friml/O Harbachs musical "Firefly" premieres in NYC
1913 - Hebrew language officially used to teach in Palestinian schools
1914 - The largest one-day percentage drop in the history of Dow Jones Industrial Average, down
           24.39%.
1915 - 1st all-metal aircraft (Junkers J-1) test flown at Dessau, Germany
1915 - Aristide Briand forms French war government
1915 - Russian troops overrun Hamadan, Persia
1917 - French troop train derails in French Alps killing 543
1917 - Rev Edward Flanagan forms Boys Town outside Omaha, Nebraska
1920 - Maurice Ravels ballet "La Valse" premieres in Paris
1925 - Arthur Heinman coins term "motel"; opens Motel Inn, San Luis Obispo
1925 - Last Qajar Shah of Iran deposed; Rezā Shāh Pahlavi takes over
1926 - Leningrad: premier of Dmitri Shostakovich's 1st Piano concert
1928 - Nichols/Brownes "Wings over Europe" premieres in NYC
1930 - Baseball Rules Committee greatly revises the rule book
1930 - Baseball changes rule, ball bounces into stands not a HR, now a double
1930 - Start of the 1st Australia v West Indies Test (at Adelaide)
1931 - Japanese government of Imukai forms
1932 - S N Behrman's "Biography" premieres in NYC
1932 - USSR & China resume diplomatic relations
1936 - Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek declares war on Japan
1937 - NBC & RCA sends 1st mobile-TV vans onto the streets of NY
1937 - Washington Redskins win NFL championship
1937 - Japanese aircraft shell & sink US gunboat Panay on Yangtze River in China. (Japan apologized
           & eventually paid US $2.2M in reparations)
1939 - Russ Indigirka capsizes in blizzard off Japanese coast; 750 die
1940 - British troops conquer Sidi el-Barrani
1941 - European reservists on Java mobilize
1941 - German occupying army do a house search in Paris looking for Jews
1941 - Russian 20th army recaptures Soljetsjnogorsk
1942 - German offensive in South Western Stalingrad
1942 - A fire in a hostel in St. John's, Newfoundland, kills 100 people.
1945 - Special Court of justice convicts Dutch Nazi leader Mussert to death
1946 - Ice plant collapses, shearing a tenement building & burying 38
1946 - Tide detergent introduced
1946 - UN accepts 6 Manhattan blocks as a gift from John D Rockefeller Jr
1947 - United Mine Workers union withdrew from AFL
1948 - Malayan Emergency: Batang Kali Massacre - 14 members of the Scots Guards stationed in
           Malaysia allegedly massacre 24 unarmed civilians and set fire to the village.
1949 - AL votes 7-1 rejecting legalizing the spitball
1950 - 16th Heisman Trophy Award: Vic Janowicz, Ohio State (HB)
1950 - Baseball owners vote to drop 4-year old bonus & high school rule
1951 - Joe DiMaggio announces his retirement
1952 - Dallas Texans (former Boston Yanks) play last game, last original team
1953 - Chuck Yeager reaches Mach 2.43 in Bell X-1A rocket plane
1955 - 1st prototype of hovercraft patented by British engineer Christoper Cockerell
1956 - Commencement of the Irish Republican Army's Border Campaign.
1957 - Maj Adrian Drew flies 1,943 kph in F-101 Voodoo
1957 - US announces manufacture of Borazon (harder than diamond)
1958 - Dutch social democratic party-ministers/premier Drees dismissed
1958 - Fergie Gupte takes 9-102 with leggies v W Indies at Kanpur
1959 - UN Committee on Peaceful Use of Outer Space is established
1961 - Ham radio satellite Oscar 1 launched with military Discoverer 36
1961 - Martin Luther King Jr & 700 demonstraters arrested in Albany Ga
1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 - Argentina asks for extradition of ex-president Peron
1963 - Frank Sinatra Jr returned after being kidnapped
1963 - Kenya (formerly British East Africa) declares independence from UK
1964 - Cleveland Browns' Frank Ryan sets club record of 5 TD passes
1964 - Shooting starts for "Star Trek" pilot "The Cage" (Menagerie)
1965 - Beatles' last concert in Great Britain (Capitol Theatre in Cardiff, Wales)
1965 - Doug Walters makes maiden Test ton in 1st Test, goes on to 155
1965 - Gale Sayers of Chicago Bears scores 6 TDs, ties NFL record
1965 - Vivian Beaumont Theater opens at 65th St & Amsterdam Ave NYC
1966 - US Supreme Courts votes 4-3 allowing Braves to move to Atlanta
1967 - US launches Pioneer 8 into solar orbit
1968 - Arthur Ashe becomes 1st black to be ranked #1 in tennis
1968 - Rolling Stones film TV show "Rock 'n Roll Circus"-never aired
1968 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1969 - "Hello Dolly" with Barbra Striesand premieres
1969 - Bill Toomey achieves world record-score (8417 points)
1969 - Bomb attack on bank in Milan, 14 killed
1969 - Strategia della tensione: Piazza Fontana bombing - The offices of Banca Nazionale
           dell'Agricoltura in Piazza Fontana, Milan, are bombed.
1970 - Polish government proclaims price rise
1970 - Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 42 launched to study X-rays
1970 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1973 - Canada begins selling Olympic coins ($5 & $10 silver coins)
1973 - San Diego files anti-trust against NL (stopping Padres move to DC)
1975 - Gas stove explodes & starts fire killing 138 (Mecca Saudi Arabia)
1975 - Sara Jane Moore pled guilty to trying to kill US President Gerald Ford
1976 - QB Joe Namath last game as a NY Jet
1977 - Yanks purchase Andy Messersmith from Braves
1979 - Gold hits record $462.50 an ounce
1979 - Rhodesia becomes independent nation of Zimbabwe
1979 - President of Pakistan, Zia-ul-Haq, confers Nishan-e-Imtiaz on Nobel laureate Dr Abdus Salam.
1980 - US's copyright law amended to include computer programs
1981 - "1st" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 37 performances
1981 - Gambia & Senegal sign agreement to be known as Senegambia in Feb 1982
1981 - Wayne Gretzky scores quickest 50th goal (game 39)
1982 - "Herman Van Veen: All of Him" closes at Ambassador NYC after 6 perf
1982 - $9,800,000 in cash stolen from money transport car in NYC
1982 - 57th Australian Womens Tennis: C Evert beats M Navratilova (63 26 63)
1982 - Joanne Carner/John Mahaffey wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
1983 - A truck bomb explodes at US Embassy in Kuwait
1985 - 248 US soldiers & 8 crew members die in Arrow Air charter crash
1985 - DC-8 crashes near Gander, Newfoundland; 258 die
1985 - NASA launches space vehicle S-207
1986 - David Boon's fourth Test century, 103 v England at Adelaide
1986 - James "Bone Crusher" Smith TKO's WBA champ Tim Witherspoon in Madison Square Garden
1986 - Russian Tupolev-134 crashes in East Berlin, 70 killed
1986 - South African journalist Zwelakhe Sisulu arrested
1987 - Mookie Blaylock sets NBA record of 13 steals in a game
1987 - Okla's sets NCAA record of 33 steals vs Centenary
1987 - Rollermania at Madison Square Garden, Eastern Express beats Midwest Pioneers
1988 - 3 trains collide in London, 40 die
1988 - NYC Subway system adds new stations (Z line)
1988 - PLO leader Yasi Arafat accepts Israel's right to exist
1988 - Sandra Miller of Queens sues Mike Tyson for sexual harassment
1990 - US accuses Iraq of dragging its feet on dates for talks
1990 - US ambassador to Kuwait, Nathaniel Howell leaves Kuwait
1991 - Maastricht Treaty signed to create a European Community
1991 - NJ Nets set NBA record of 22 blocks beating Nuggets 121-81
1991 - Orion Pictures filed Chapter 11 for bankruptcy protection
1991 - Tampa Bay Bucaneer Dexter Manley, retires after failing drug test
1992 - 58th Heisman Trophy Award: Gino Torretta, Miami-Fla (QB)
1992 - 6.8-7.5 earthquake strikes Flores Island (tsunami kills 3,000)
1992 - Japanese crown prince Naruhito announces engagement to Masaka Owada
1992 - Julia Kurotchkina, 18, of Russia, crowned 42nd Miss World
1992 - NY Giants lose 19-0 to Phoenix Cardinals
1993 - "Any Given Day" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 32 performances
1993 - "Kentucky Cycle" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 34 performances
1993 - WAQX 104.3 (Q-104) rock format replaces WNCN classic format in NYC
1995 - CBC announces Radio Canada International service to end on March 31
1995 - Israeli PM Shimon Peres address both house of US congress
1995 - NBA referees return to work after striking
1995 - Amendment to make it illegal to physically desecrate the flag turned down by senate 63-36
           (need 2/3 vote)
1996 - Assassination attempt on Uday (Iraqi's heir to Sadam Hussain)
1996 - Marlins sign their 6th free-agent since Nov 22, Moises Alou
1997 - Carlos the Jackal, "professional revolutionary" goes on trial in Paris
1997 - Florida releases Alex Arias, the last original Marlin
1997 - Japanese train builders (Maglev) claim world speed record at 332 MPH
1997 - Red Sox sign Pedro Martinez to record 6 year $69 million contract
1997 - SWAT team shoots John E Armstrong in Fla, freeing 2 young hostages
1997 - TWA 800 hearings end
1997 - Fed judge sentences Autumn Jackson, who claims to be Bill Cosby's daughter, to 26 months
           for trying to extort $40 million from him
2000 - The United States Supreme Court releases its decision in Bush v. Gore
2006 - Peugeot produces its last car at the Ryton Plant signalling the end of mass car production in
           Coventry, formerly a major centre of the British motor industry.

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 12, 2013, 04:11:59 PM

This Day in History for 12th December


Famous Weddings

1957 - Jerry Lee Lewis weds his cousin Myra Gale Brown, 13, while still married to his 1st wife Jane
           Mitcham
1991 - Actor Richard Gere (42) weds super model Cindy Crawford (25) in Las Vegas
1998 - TV personality Melissa Rivers (30) weds horse breeder John Endicott at The Plaza Hotel in New
           York City
2001 - Actress Ashley Judd (33) weds race car driver Dario Franchetti (28) at Skibo Castle in
           Scotland
2005 - Oscar-winning actress Renee Zellweger (36) weds country-music heartthrob singer Kenny
           Chesney (37) for the reason of fraud after 4 months of marriage
2008 - Fashion mogul Tommy Hilfiger (57) weds former model Dee Ocleppo in Greenwich, Connecticut
2012 - Basketball player Amare Stoudemire (30) weds Alexis Welch in Manhattan

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 12, 2013, 04:20:32 PM

This Day in History for 12th December


Famous Birthdays

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Ist US Chief Justice                       Painter/Print Maker Edvard Munch (1863)      Singer/Actor Frank Sinatra (1915)
John Jay (1745) 


1298 - Albert II of Austria (d. 1358)
1418 - Albert VI of Austria (d. 1463)
1574 - Anne of Denmark, daughter of Danish King Frederik II and Queen Consort of James I of
           England (d. 1619)
1579 - Heinrich Steuccius, composer
1610 - Saint Vasilije (d. 1671)
1630 - Olof Rudbeck, composer
1659 - Francesco Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect/designer (d. 1739)
1660 - Peter Rabus, poet/translator (Liberated Britanje)
1673 - Ahmed III, 23rd sultan (Turkey, 1703-30)
1685 - Lodovico Giustini, composer
1712 - Charles Alexander, Duke of Lotharingen
1715 - Gennaro Manna, composer
1724 - Samuel Hood, Butleigh, 1st Viscount Hood, British admiral, (d. 1816)
1745 - John Jay, New York, NY, American statesman, 1st US Chief Justice
1779 - Madeleine Sophie Barat, French saint (d. 1865)
1783 - Ner Alexander Middleswarth, American politician (d. 1865)
1786 - William L. Marcy, American statesman (d. 1857)
1791 - Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria, second wife of Napoleon (d. 1847)
1792 - Alexandros Ypsilanti, Greek resistance fighter
1799 - Karl Briullov, Russian painter (d. 1852)
1805 - Henry Wells, founder (American Express Co & Wells Fargo & Co)
1806 - Stand Watie, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1871
1818 - Paul Octave Hebert, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1880
1821 - Gustave Flaubert, France, novelist (Madame Bovary)
1830 - Joseph Orville Shelby, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1897
1832 - Abraham C Wertheim, Dutch banker/MP (liberal)
1833 - Matthias Hohner, German manufacturer (harmonica)
1835 - Georges Jean Pfeiffer, composer
1838 - Sherburne W Burnham, US, astronomer (binary stars)
1845 - Bruce Price, American architect (d. 1903)
1848 - William Vanderbilt, yachtsman (donated Vanderbilt Cup)
1859 - Edward Bradley, horse owner (1st to own 4 Kentucky Derby winners)
1859 - Maurice Donnay, French playwright (Lovers)
1863 - Edvard Munch, Løten, Norway, painter/print maker (The Scream), (d. 1944)
1864 - Paul Elmer More, American essayist (d. 1937)
1866 - Alfred Werner, Swiss chemist (Nobel 1913)
1870 - Walter Benona Sharp, American oil baron (d. 1912)
1874 - Volter A Kilpi, Finnish writer (Alastalon salissa)
1875 - Desiderius A Stracke, Flemish jesuit/literature historian
1875 - Karl R G von Rundstedt, German gen-fieldmarshal (Normandy)
1876 - Alvin Kraenzlein, Olympic gold medalist (d. 1928)
1879 - Friedrich Christiansen, nazi commander Wehrmacht Netherland
1879 - Laura Hope Crews, US, actress (Camille, Gone with the Wind)
1879 - Percy Fletcher, composer
1882 - Akiba Rubinstein, Polish chess player (openings theory)
1886 - Owen Moore, County Meath Ireland, actor (She Done Him Wrong)
1887 - Kurt Magnus Atterberg, composer
1889 - Vaclav Stepan, composer
1892 - Herman Potočnik aka Hermann Noordung, Slovenian rocket engineer (d. 1929)
1893 - Edward G Robinson, [Goldenberg], Romania, actor (10 Commandments)
1896 - Eslanda Goode, US anthropology/author under Paul Robeson
1900 - Sammy Davis, Sr., American dancer (d. 1988)
1902 - Howard Koch, screenwriter
1902 - Koloman Sokol, Slovak painter (d. 2003)
1903 - Enid Balint-Edmonds, psychoanalyst
1904 - Jim Christy, righty cricket batter (Transvaal, Queensland & South Africa)
1905 - Manès Sperber, Austrian-born writer (d. 1984)
1906 - William C Pahlmann, interior decorator (4 Season restaurant, NYC)
1907 - F van Heek, Dutch sociologist
1907 - Fred Elizalde, composer
1907 - Roy Douglas, English composer and arranger (Tomorrow We Live-At Dawn We Die)
1909 - Armand H F Boni, the Good One, Flemish poet/writer
1909 - Karen Morley, American actress (d. 2003)
1911 - Anna Russell, composer
1912 - Yusef Bedri, educationist
1913 - Eve Lister, actress/singer (No Limit, Hyde Park)
1913 - Hal Dickinson, singer (Modernaires)
1913 - Stanley Bate, composer
1914 - Denis Begbie, cricketer (South African batsman in five Tests 1948-50)
1915 - Frank Sinatra, Hoboken New Jersey, American singer/actor (old blue eyes), (d. 1998)
1917 - Edward Firth Henderson, arabist
1918 - Joe Williams [Joseph Goreed], Cordele, Georgia, American jazz singer (Everyday I have the
           Blues)
1918 - Nilda Pinto, [NM Geerdink-Jesurun P], Curacao writer (Nanzi)
1919 - Olivia Barclay, English astrologer (d. 2001)
1919 - Dan DeCarlo, American cartoonist (d. 2001)
1920 - Fred Kida, American comics artist
1922 - Arthur R Hawkins, US pilot/capt (WW II, downed 14 jap planes)
1923 - Bob Barker, Darrington Wash, game show emcee (Price is Right)
1923 - Ken Kavanagh, Australian racing driver
1924 - Edward I Koch, NYC, (Mayor-D-NYC, 1977-89)/judge (People's Court), (d. 2013)
1924 - Francis Miroglio, composer
1924 - Nevit Kodali, composer
1924 - Olivier Gendebien, Belgian auto racer
1925 - Cora Lee Johnson, social activist for rural poor
1925 - D G "Dattu" Phadkar, cricketer (pace bowling all-rounder for India)
1925 - Ghulam Guard, cricketer (lefty pace bowler in 2 Tests for India 1959)
1925 - Vladimir Shainsky, Soviet and Russian composer
1925 - Ahmad Shamlou, Iranian poet (d. 2000)
1927 - Robert Noyce, American inventor (d. 1990)
1928 - Helen Frankenthaler, NY, abstract expressionist artist (Arden)
1928 - Lonesome Sundown, blues singer/guitarist
1928 - Chinghiz Aitmatov, Soviet-born Kyrgyz writer (Jamila)
1929 - Doug Ford, cricket wicket-keeper (successful NSW of 50's)
1929 - John Osborne, England, playwright (Look Back in Anger, Luther-TONY 1964)
1929 - Toshiko Akiyoshi, Japanese musician
1930 - Friedrich Voss, composer
1930 - Bill Beutel, American journalist (d. 2006)
1931 - Lionel Blair, Montreal, choreographer (Spotlight)
1932 - Robert Pettit, NBA star (St Louis Bombers/1959 MVP)
1934 - Habib Hassan Touma, composer
1934 - Miguel de la Madrid, Colima Mexico, President of Mexico (1982-1988), (d. 2012)
1936 - Bengt Emil Johnson, composer
1936 - Iolanda Balas, Romania, high jumper (Olympic-gold-1960)
1937 - Buford Pusser, American sheriff (d. 1974)
1938 - Connie Francis, Newark NJ, singer/actress (Where the Boys Are)
1938 - Joel Chadabe, composer
1940 - Dionne Warwick, East Orange NJ, singer (Solid Gold, Way to San Jose)
1940 - Shirley Englehorn, LPGA golfer
1940 - Sharad Pawar, Indian politician
1941 - Liesbeth List, Dutch actress/vocalist (Theodorakis)
1941 - Robert Covington, drummer/singer
1941 - Terry Kirkman, Salina Ks, rock vocalist/keyboardist (Association)
1941 - Tim Hauser, jazz singer (Manhattan Transfer-Tuxedo Junction)
1942 - Mike Heron, rock musician
1942 - Mike Pinder, Birmingham England, rocker (Moody Blues)
1942 - Peter Sarstedt, British musician (Where do you go to my lovely?)
1943 - Dave Munden, rock drummer (Brian Poole & The Tremeloes)
1943 - Dickey Betts, West Palm Beach Fl, guitarist (Allman Bros-Ramblin' Man)
1943 - Grover Washington Jr, jazz artist (Mr Magic)
1943 - Mike Smith, rock musician
1944 - Kenneth Cranham, Scottish actor
1944 - Jean Doré, Canadian politician, mayor of Montreal
1945 - Alan Ward, rock musician
1945 - Karl Edward Wagner, US, sci-fi author (Bloodstone, Night Winds)
1945 - Leslie Holbert, LPGA golfer
1945 - Susi Hush, TV producer
1945 - Tony Williams, jazz musician
1946 - Clive Bunker, rock drummer (Jethro Tull)
1946 - Emerson Fittipaldi, Brazil, Indy-car racer (over 10 wins)
1946 - George Santo Pietro, husband of Vanna White
1946 - Marlous Fluitsma, actress (De Prooi, Apart, Alle Dagen Feest)
1947 - Ralph Scala, rock musician
1948 - Ray Jackson, rock musician
1948 - Tom Wilkinson, English actor
1949 - Ricardo Luis Carreras, NYC, bantamweight boxer (Olympic-bronze-1972)
1949 - Bill Nighy, English actor
1950 - Billy Smith, Ontario, NHL goaltender (NY Islanders)
1950 - Rajnikanth, Indian actor
1951 - Caren Kaye, NYC, actress (My Tutor, Blansky's Beauties)
1951 - Steven Alan Hawley, Ottawa Ks, PhD/ast (STS 41-D, 61-C, 31, 82)
1952 - Ajit De Silva, cricketer (Sri Lankan lefty spinner in four Tests 1982)
1952 - Cathy Rigby McCoy, Los Alamitos California, gymnist (Olympic-4th-1968)
1952 - Sarah Douglas, England, actress (Conan, Superman II, Falcon Crest)
1952 - Herb Dhaliwal, Canadian politician
1953 - Bruce Kulick, rock guitarist/singer (KISS)
1954 - Liz Claman, American television anchor
1955 - Lenore Rittenhouse, Honolulu HI, LPGA golfer (1983 United Va Bank)
1955 - Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki, Greek businesswoman
1955 - Eddy Schepers, Belgian cyclist
1956 - Ana Alicia Ortiz, Mexico City, actress (Melissa-Falcon Crest)
1956 - Sondra Theodore, San Bernadino Cal, playmate (July, 1977)
1956 - Johan van der Velde, Dutch cyclist
1957 - Cy Curnin, Londo, England, rock vocalist (Fixx-Sign of Fire)
1957 - Sheila E.[scovedo], Oakland, California, American singer, drummer and percussionist (Krush
           Grove, Holly Rock)
1957 - Robert Lepage, French Canadian playwright
1958 - Sheree J Wilson, Rochester MN, actress (Our Family Honor, Dallas)
1959 - Belouis Some, rock musician (Neville Keighley-Some People)
1959 - Krishnammachari Srikkanth, cricketer (big-hitting Indian opener)
1959 - Scott D Vangen, Granite Falls MN, astronaut
1960 - Amal Silva, cricketer (Sri Lankan wicket-keeper in 9 Tests 1983-88)
1960 - Jaap van Sweden, Dutch violinist/concert master
1961 - Daniel O'Donnell, Donegal, Ireland, singer/Television presented
1961 - Dale Sanderson, CFL guard (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1962 - Holly Gagnier, LA, actress (One Life to Live)
1962 - Nadeem Ghauri, cricketer (bowled in Test for Pak v Australia 1990)
1962 - Ray Brown, NFL guard (Washington Redskins, SF 49ers)
1962 - Tracy Austin, Rolling Hills California, tennis pro (US Open 1979, 81)
1963 - Teresa Blake, Tuscaloosa Ala, actress (Gloria Marsh-All My Children)
1963 - Ai Orikasa, Japanese voice actress and singer
1964 - Haywood Jeffires, NFL wide receiver (Houston Oilers)
1964 - Rockin' Jeff, rock musician (The Pasadenas-Riding on a Train)
1964 - Sabu, American professional wrestler
1964 - Haywood Jeffries, American football player
1965 - Laurie Grover-Tavares, Newark NJ, biathelete (Olympics-1994)
1966 - Cheryl Dickey, Houston Texas, 100m hurdler
1966 - Jim Sandlak, Kitchener, NHL right wing (Vancouver Canucks)
1966 - Royce Gracie, Brazilian martial artist
1966 - Kouichi Nagano, Japanese voice actor
1967 - David Szott, NFL guard (KC Chiefs)
1967 - John Randle, NFL defensive tackle (Minnesota Vikings)
1967 - Masood Anwar, cricketer (one Test Pakistan v West Indies 1990)
1967 - Yuzo Koshiro, Japanese composer
1967 - Takenobu Mitsuyoshi, Japanese composer
1968 - Chris Walsh, NFL wide receiver (Minnesota Vikings)
1968 - Kurt Schulz, safety (Buffalo Bills)
1968 - Laurie Williams, cricketer (West Indian ODI all-rounder v NZ 1996)
1968 - Ray Ethridge, wide reciever (Baltimore Ravens)
1968 - Tatianna, Phila Pa, spanish singer (Baile Commigo, Chicad de Hoy)
1968 - Kate Humble, English television presenter
1968 - Rory Kennedy, American documentarian
1969 - Carrie Westcott, Mission Hills KS, playmate (Sep, 1993)
1969 - Courtney Hawkins, NFL wide receiver (Tampa Bay Bucs, Pittsburgh Steelers)
1969 - Doug Terry, NFL/WLAF safety (KC Chiefs, Scotland Claymores)
1969 - Frank Dikstaal, soccer player (MVV)
1969 - Jane Robinson, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1969 - Kris Wirtz, Red Deer Alberta, ice pairs (1994 Skate Canada)
1969 - Sebastian Savage, WLAF cornerback (Rhein Fire)
1970 - Ivano Newbill, NBA center (Vancouver Grizzlies)
1970 - Jennifer Connelly, Bkln Heights NY, actress (Labyrinth, Rocketeer)
1970 - Kirk Cameron, actor (Mike-Growing Pains, Teen Wolf II)
1970 - Madchen Amick, Reno NV, actress (Shelly Johnson-Twin Peaks)
1970 - Orlando Brown, NFL tackle (Cleveland Browns, Baltimore Ravens)
1971 - Becky Sunshine, [Rebekah Jayne Hunter], Ark, Miss Nude California (1993)
1971 - John Sacca, WLAF quarterback (Amsterdam Admirals)
1971 - Tito Wooten, NFL safety (NY Giants)
1971 - Toni Hodgkinson, Auckland NZ, 800m (Olympics-96)
1972 - Greg Randolph, Denver Colorado, road cyclist (Olympics-74th-96)
1972 - Jamal Willis, NFL running back (SF 49ers)
1972 - John Walsh, NFL quarterback (Cin Bengals)
1972 - Kara Williams, Miss Texas USA (1996)
1972 - Missy Francis, Los Angeles California, actress (Little House on the Prairie)
1972 - Oliver Quass, WLAF kicker (Amsterdam Admirals)
1972 - Nicky Eaden, English footballer
1972 - Wilson Kipketer, Danish middle-distance runner
1972 - Kevin Parent, French Canadian singer and songwriter
1972 - Brandon Teena, American hate crime victim (d. 1993)
1972 - Yeoryios Theodoridis, Greek sprinter
1973 - Michael DiVenuto, cricketer (exciting Tasmanian batsman)
1973 - Reinard Wilson, linebacker (Cincinnati Bengals)
1973 - Stanley Pritchett, running back (Miami Dolphins)
1973 - William Hutton, American engineer
1973 - Walter Otta, Argentine footballer
1974 - Nolberto Solano, Peruvian footballer
1975 - Mayim Winkelman Bialik, SD, actress (Blossom, Beaches)
1975 - Craig Moore, Australian footballer
1976 - Dan Hawkins, English guitarist (The Darkness)
1976 - Lloyd Owusu, English/Ghanaian football player
1977 - Bridget Hall, Dallas Texas, model (Ford)
1977 - Nicole, Erica and Jaclyn Dahm, American triplet Playboy models
1977 - Orlando Hudson, American baseball player
1978 - Derrick Delmore, Camp Springs Md, fig skater (1996 Grand Prix champ)
1978 - Evren Genis, Turkish composer
1978 - Monica Barladeanu, Romanian actress
1978 - Louis (artist), Korean singer ("Jung Hwa Ban Jum")
1978 - Jennifer Rovero Playboy Playmate
1979 - Garrett Atkins, American baseball player
1979 - Nate Clements, American football player
1979 - Sharin Foo, Danish singer and bassist
1981 - Pedro Ríos, Spanish footballer
1981 - Ronnie Brown, American football player
1981 - Shane Costa, American baseball player
1981 - Jeret Peterson, American aerial skier
1981 - Yuvraj Singh, Indian cricketer
1981 - Stephen Warnock, English footballer
1982 - Dmitry Tursunov, Russian tennis player
1983 - Katrina Elam, American singer
1984 - Daniel Agger, Danish footballer
1986 - Perparim Hetemaj, Finnish footballer
1986 - Thomas Wansey, English actor
1990 - Victor Moses, an English footballer of Nigerian descent
1991 - Daniel Magder, Canadian actor

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 12, 2013, 04:23:13 PM

This Day in History for 12th December


Famous Deaths

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Ottoman Sultan Selim II (1574)


884 - Carloman, co-king of France (879, 882-884), dies
1112 - Tancred, monarch of Galilea/Edessa/Antioch, dies
1204 - Maimonides, [Moses Ben Maimon], Span/Egyptian rabbi, dies at 69
1212 - Geoffrey, Archbishop of York
1263 - Hakon IV, Gamli, King of Norway (1217-63), dies
1574 - Selim II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1524)
1586 - Stefan Batory, King of Poland (b. 1533)
1600 - John Craig, Scottish church reformer/James VI's court vicar, dies
1677 - Jacob Binckes/Benckes, Dutch admiral (Chatham), dies in battle
1685 - John Pell, English mathematician (b. 1610)
1751 - Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, English statesman and philosopher (b. 1678)
1754 - Wu Jingzi, Chinese writer (b. 1701)
1766 - Johann Christoph Gottsched, German writer (b. 1700)
1772 - Johann Gottfried Seyfert, composer, dies at 41
1777 - Albrecht von Haller, Swiss physician/biologist/author, dies at 69
1777 - Reverend Benjamin Russen, executed at Tyburn England for rape
1788 - Joseph Gibbs, composer, dies at 88
1789 - John Ponsonby, Irish politician (b. 1713)
1790 - Mikhail Shcherbatov, Russian philosopher and writer (b. 1733)
1812 - John Malchair, composer, dies at 82
1817 - Emperor Tekle Giyorgis I of Ethiopia, (b. about 1751)
1836 - Giuseppe Farinelli, composer, dies at 67
1843 - Willem I Frederik, King of Netherlands (1814-40), dies at 71
1858 - Jacques Viger, antiquarian and archeologist, first mayor of Montreal (b. 1787)
1872 - Willem A Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, Dutch politician, dies at 72
1877 - Jose M de Alencar, Brazilian writer/minister of Justice, dies at 48
1880 - Michel Chasles, French mathematician (geometry), dies at 83
1889 - Robert Browning, English poet (Ring & Book), dies at 77
1889 - Viktor Bunyakovsky, Russian mathematician (b. 1804)
1894 - Sir John Thompson, fourth Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1845)
1912 - Luitpold von Bayern, prince-regent of Bayern, dies at 91
1913 - Emperor Menelek II of Ethiopia (b. 1844)
1914 - Watkins Lewis, black man, lynched in Shrevport, Louisiana
1920 - Olive Schreiner, South Afr writer (Healing Imagination), dies at 75
1920 - Paul Lacome, composer, dies at 82
1921 - Henrietta Leavitt, cepheid period-luminosity relation discover, dies
1923 - Raymond Radiguet, French journalist/writer (Ball du Comte), dies at 20
1926 - Jean Richepin, French poet/writer (Contes sans morale), dies at 77
1927 - Heinrich Reitsch, composer, dies at 67
1929 - Charles Goodnight, American cattle baron (b. 1836)
1932 - Egon Richter, writer, dies
1933 - Theodore Moses Tobani, composer, dies at 78
1934 - Thorleif Haug, Norwegian Nordic skier (b. 1894)
1937 - Alfred Abel, actor (Dr Mabuse, Metropolis), dies at 57
1939 - Douglas Fairbanks, actor (Zorro, 3 Musketeers, Robin Hood), dies at 56
1941 - Cesar Basa, Philippine Air Force and World War II hero (b. 1915)
1951 - Mildred Bailey, American jazz singer (b. 1907)
1952 - Bedřich Hrozný, Czech orientalist and linguist (b. 1879)
1956 - Lorenzo Perosi, composer, dies at 83
1957 - Robert Frank Kurka, composer, dies at 35
1959 - Russell Simpson, actor (Abraham Lincoln), dies at 79
1961 - Daiun Sogaku Harada, Zen founder of Sanbo Kyodan lineage, dies at 91
1962 - Sid Saylor, actor (Wally-Waterfront), dies at 67
1963 - Yasujiro Ozu, Japanese film director (b. 1903)
1964 - H I "Sailor" Young, cricketer (left-arm bowler Eng v Aust 1899), dies
1965 - Johnny Lee, actor (Calhoun-Amos 'n' Andy), dies at 67
1968 - Tallulah Bankhead, actress (All Star Revue), dies of pneumonia at 65
1968 - Walter Robins, cricketer (19 Tests for England 64 wkts), dies
1970 - Louis Zimmer, Flem clock maker (Jubelklok, Wonder Clock), dies at 82
1970 - Doris Blackburn, Australian politician (b. 1889)
1971 - David Sarnoff, US TV pioneer (RCA), dies at 80
1971 - Frank Wolff, actor (Erotic Illusion, Last Gun), commits suicide at 43
1971 - Jack Barnhill, Northern Ireland senator, assassinated
1971 - John A Emmens, art historian/poet (Dog of Pavlov), dies at 47
1976 - Jack Cassidy, actor (Oscar/Jetman-He & She), dies at 49
1976 - Vinko Zganec, Croatian ethnomusicologist (b. 1890)
1977 - Baroness Clementine Spencer-Churchill (nee Hozier), widow of Sir Winston, dies at 92
1978 - Clifton Chenier, US accordionist (Bayou Blues), dies at 53
1978 - Fay Compton, actress (Othello), dies at 74
1980 - Jean Lesage, politician, premier of Quebec (b. 1912)
1985 - Anne Baxter, actress (Myra-Marcus Welby, Victoria-Hotel), dies at 62
1985 - Ian Stewart, Scottish keyboardist/road mgr (Rolling Stones), dies at 47
1987 - Louis de Meester, composer, dies at 83
1987 - Enrique Jorrín, Cuban musician and composer (b. 1926)
1988 - John Canning, NY Post managing editor, dies at 56
1988 - Anthony "Tony Pro" Provenzano, American Mafia figure (b. 1917)
1991 - Eleanor Boardman, actor (Crowd), dies in at 93
1991 - Ken Keltner, US baseball player (Cleveland Indians), dies at 75
1991 - Lex Karsemeijer, Dutch tenor/choral dir (Sweet 16, Pro Musica), dies
1992 - Bernard CJ Lievegoed, Dutch anthroposopher (Free College), dies at 87
1992 - Jasu Patel, cricketer (29 wkts for India, best 9-69 v Aust), dies
1992 - Suzanne Lilar, Belgian essayist, novelist and playwright (b. 1901)
1993 - Gerard "Ge" Nabrink, Dutch anarchist/NVSH-founder, dies at 90
1993 - Jeremiah Sullivan, actor (Soldier, Double-Stop), dies of AIDS at 58
1993 - Jozsef Antall, historian/premier of Hungary (1990-93), dies at 61
1994 - Antoine Pinay, French PM (1952)/foreign minister, dies at 102
1994 - Donna J. Stone, poet, dies of heart failure at 61
1994 - Herman H Felderhof, radio-announcer/head (NRU/NOS Radio), dies at 83
1994 - John Edward Caulwell Hearne, writer, dies at 68
1994 - Stuart Allen Roosa, astronaut (Apollo 14), dies of pancreatitis at 46
1995 - Andrew Olle, broadcaster, dies at 48
1995 - David Lincoln Lightbown, politician, dies at 63
1995 - David Saul Marshall, diplomat lawyer/politician, dies at 97
1995 - James Altgens, JFK assassination photographer, dies at 76
1995 - Lindsay Oliver John Boynton, furniture historian, dies
1995 - Mary Bruce, dance Teacher, dies at 95
1995 - Mohyedin Alempour, tajik artist/journalist, dies at 50
1996 - Gerald Ian Lacey, architect/town planner, dies at 70
1996 - Jack Perry, businessman, dies at 81
1996 - Jean-Pierre Guerlain, cosmetics pioneer, dies at 91
1996 - Michael Geoffrey Corcos, medical researcher, dies at 77
1996 - Vance Oakley Packard, writer (Hidden Perseuders), dies at 82
1997 - Yevgeniy Landis, Russian mathematician (b. 1921)
1998 - Marco Denevi, Argentine writer (b. 1922)
1998 - Mo Udall, American politician (b. 1922)
1998 - Lawton Chiles, U.S. Senator from Florida and Governor of Florida (b. 1930)
1999 - Paul Cadmus, American artist (b. 1904)
1999 - Joseph Heller, American author (b. 1923)
2000 - George Montgomery, American actor (b. 1916)
2001 - Jean Richard, French actor (b. 1921)
2002 - Dee Brown, American author (b. 1908)
2002 - Brad Dexter, American actor (b. 1917)
2002 - Jay Wesley Neill, American convicted murderer (b. 1965)
2003 - Heydər Əliyev, President of Azerbaijan (b. 1923)
2003 - Joseph Anthony Ferrario, American Catholic prelate (b. 1926)
2003 - Keiko, orca (killer whale), star of Free Willy (b. 1976)
2005 - Gebran Tueni, Lebanese politician (b. 1957)
2005 - Annette Vadim, Danish actress (b. 1936)
2005 - Robert F. Newmyer, American film producer (b. 1946)
2006 - Paul Arizin, American basketball player (b. 1928)
2006 - Peter Boyle, American actor (b. 1935)
2006 - Kenny Davern, American jazz clarinetist (b. 1935)
2006 - Raymond P. Shafer, 38th Governor of Pennsylvania (b. 1917)
2006 - Al Shugart, pioneering American computer engineer and co-founder of Seagate Technology
           (b. 1930)
2007 - Ike Turner, American singer, former husband of Tina Turner (b. 1931)
2008 - Avery Dulles, Roman Catholic Cardinal, heologian (b. 1918)
2008 - Van Johnson, American actor (b. 1916)
2008 - Tassos Papadopoulos, Cypriot former president (b. 1934)
2010 - Peter Pagel, German footballer (b. 1956)
2010 - Tom Walkinshaw, former racing driver and Formula 1 team owner (b. 1946)

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 13, 2013, 01:30:17 PM

This Day in History for 13th December


Historical Events

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Novelist Charles Dickens                          Actor James Dean                            36th US President Lyndon B. Johnson

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Iraqi President Saddam Hussein


1294 - Saint Celestine V abdicates the papacy after only five months; Celestine hoped to return to
           his previous life as an ascetic hermit.
1545 - Council of Trent (19th ecumenical council) opened by Pope Paul III
1570 - Sweden/Denmark signs Peace of Stettin
1572 - Spanish army beats Geuzen fleet (confederacy of Calvinist Dutch nobles) under admiral Lumey
1577 - Sir Francis Drake sets sail from England to go around world
1621 - Emperor Ferdinand II delegates 1st anti-Reformation decree
1636 - The Massachusetts Bay Colony organizes three militia regiments to defend the colony against
           the Pequot Indians. This organization is recognized today as the founding of the United     
           States National Guard.
1642 - New Zealand discovered by Dutch navigator Abel Tasman
1643 - English Civil War: The Battle of Alton takes place in Hampshire.
1668 - Jean Racine's "Britannicus" premieres in Paris
1734 - England & Russia sign trade agreement
1742 - Willem KH Friso tests his mothers potatoes
1759 - 1st music store in America opens (Phila)
1769 - Dartmouth College in New Hampshire received its charter
1774 - 1st incident of American Revolution - 400 attack Ft William and Mary, New Hampshire
1816 - Patent for a dry dock issued to John Adamson, Boston
1823 - Gioacchino Rossini arrives in London
1833 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin arrives in Port Deseado, Patagonia
1843 - "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens published, 6,000 copies sold
1861 - Battle of Alleghany Summit, WV
1862 - Battle of Fredericksburg, VA (Marye's Heights)
1864 - Battle of Ft McAllister, GA
1879 - 1st federal fish hatching steamer lauched (Wilmington Delaware)
1889 - Belgium rules on women/child labor law
1895 - 1st complete execution of Gustav Mahler's 2nd Symphony
1900 - Battle at Nooitgedacht: generals The la Rey/Smuts beat Britten
1901 - Test debut of S F Barnes v Aust SCG, took 5-65 in 1st innings
1903 - Italo Marcioni patents ice cream cone (NJ)
1903 - Wright Bros make 1st flight at Kittyhawk
1906 - German chancellor Bernhard von Bulow disbands the Parliament
1907 - George Gunn scores 119 on Test debut v Australia SCG
1907 - German emperor Wilhelm II visits Amsterdam
1916 - Avalanche kills 10,000 Austrian & Italian troops in 24 hrs in Tyrol
1916 - Esme Stuart Lennox Robinsons premieres in Dublin
1916 - French chief of staff Joffre replaced by Nivelle
1918 - US army of occupation crosses Rhine, enters Germany
1918 - Wilson, becomes 1st to make a foreign visit as president (France)
1919 - Ross & Smith land in Australia from a flight from London
1920 - F Pease's interferometer measures 1st stellar diameter (Betelgeuse)
1920 - League of nations establishes Intl Court of Justice in The Hague
1920 - Netherland breaks contact with kingdom of Serbia, Croatia & Slavia
1922 - Charles Ebbets proposes putting numbers on players' sleeves or caps
1924 - KOA-AM in Denver CO begins radio transmissions
1928 - Clip-on tie designed
1928 - George Gershwin's "An American In Paris" premieres (NYC)
1930 - George Sisler's career ends when Boston Braves release him
1930 - Theodore Steeg forms French government
1934 - Mark Hellinger Theater (Warner Bros) opens at 237 W 51st St NYC
1936 - Final Boston Redskin NFL game, lose to Packers 21-6, move to Wash DC
1936 - Green Bay Packers win NFL championship
1938 - Los Angeles freezes at 28°F
1939 - Battle of the River Plate - 3 British cruisers vs German pocket battleship Graf Spee
1941 - German occupiers forbid National Front & Netherland Union
1941 - Lawine battlers destroy Haaraz, Peru; about 3,000 die
1941 - U-81 torpedoes British aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal
1942 - Seyss-Inquart allows Dutch Nazi Anton Mussert to call himself Leader
1942 - Washington Redskins defeat Chic Bears 14-6, to win NFL title
1943 - 150 US Marauders bomb Schiphol
1944 - Japanese kamikaze crashes into US cruiser Nashville, kills 138
1944 - Norman Krasna's "Dear Ruth" premieres in NYC
1946 - Leon Blum elected French premier
1947 - "Caribbean Carnival" closes at International NYC after 11 perfs
1947 - Maine Turnpike opens to traffic
1949 - AL votes down proposal to revive spitball
1949 - Knesset votes to transfer Israel's capital to Jerusalem
1950 - "Let's Make an Opera" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 5 perfs
1950 - James Dean begins his career with an appearance in a Pepsi commercial
1953 - KOAM TV channel 7 in Pittsburg-Joplin, KS (CBS) begins broadcasting
1956 - Dodgers trade Jackie Robinson to Giants for pitcher Dick Littlefield & $35,000 Robinson
           retires
1959 - Archbishop Makarios elected 1st president of Cyprus
1960 - Italy beats US in Davis cup (1st time in 24 years US not in finals)
1960 - Laos General Fumi Nosavang occupies Vientiane
1961 - Beatles sign a formal agreement to be managed by Brian Epstein
1961 - Gideon Hausner in Jerusalem demands death penalty for Adolf Eichmann
1961 - Jimmy Dean's Big Bad John album is country music 1st million $ seller
1962 - Relay 1 communication satellite launched
1963 - Capital records signs right of 1st refusal agreement with Beatles
1964 - Shirley Englehorn & Sam Snead wins Haig & Haig Mixed Foursome Golf
1964 - In El Paso, Tx, LBJ & Mexican Pres Gustavo Diaz Ordaz set off an explosion diverting Rio
           Grande, to reshape US-Mexico border
1965 - Algerian president Boumedienne visits Moscow
1966 - 1st US bombing of Hanoi
1966 - 1st battle for Bijlmer flats Amsterdam
1966 - Test debut of Clive Lloyd, v India Bombay, 82 & 78
1966 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967 - United Soccer Association & Natl Pro Soccer League merge into NASL
1967 - Unsuccessful coup against Greek King Constantine II
1967 - San Diego, CA records snow at a zero elevation after temperatures plunge 19 degrees (F) in
           eight hours.
1968 - Playland at Beach reopens
1968 - Pres Da Costa e Silva disbands parliament/grabs power
1969 - Arlo Guthrie releases "Alice's Restaurant"
1969 - Billy Martin fired as Twins' manager
1970 - Greg Chappell scores 108 on Test debut v England at the WACA
1970 - Neil Simon's "Gingerbread Lady" premieres in NYC
1971 - John Sinclair (sentence: 10 yrs, sold 2 marijuana joints) is freed
1973 - MPLA/FNLA accord about combat against Portuguese Libya
1973 - World Football League grants 1st franchise (Detroit)
1974 - Jim "Catfish" Hunter wins free agent claim against A's owner Finley
1974 - Malta becomes a republic
1975 - 1st time Saturday Night Live uses a time delay (Richard Pryor hosts)
1975 - Australian Conservatives & Liberals win parliamentary election
1975 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA 14 Colgate Triple Crown Golf Tournament
1975 - Roy Fredericks hits 169 v Aust at WACA, hundred in 71 balls
1975 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1976 - Golden Gate Bridge District starts ferry service to Larkspur
1976 - Longest non-stop passenger airflight (Sydney to SF 13h14m)
1977 - 14 University of Evansville basketball players die in plane crash
1978 - Susan B Anthony dollar, 1st US coin to honor a woman, issued
1979 - "Oklahoma!" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 301 performances
1979 - Strikes against price increases in Gdansk Poland
1980 - "Perfectly Frank" closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 16 perfs
1981 - 70th Davis Cup: USA beats Argentina in Cincinnati (3-1)
1981 - Polish government declares martial law, arrests Solidarity activists
1982 - 71st Australian Mens Tennis: Johan Kriek beats Steve Denton (63 63 62)
1982 - Earthquake hits Northern Yemen; 2,000 die
1983 - 9,655 see highest-scoring NBA game: Detroit 186, Denver 184 (3 OT)
1983 - Islander's Butch Goring scorings 4 goals against Oilers
1983 - KYA-AM in San Francisco CA changes call letters to KOIT
1983 - Martha Layne Collins inaugurated as Kentucky's 1st female governor
1984 - Artificial heart recipient William Schroeder suffers 1st stroke
1985 - David Boon's 1st Test century, 123 v India at Adelaide
1985 - Test debut of Merv Hughes, Geoff Marsh & Bruce Reid (v India)
1987 - Belgium Christian Democrats (CVP) loses parliamentary election
1987 - Browns set club record for most points scored in a quarter, 28
1987 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1988 - 3 men end 29-hr all-466-station subway ride in NYC
1988 - Arafat addresses UN in Geneva
1989 - Walter Davis (Denver) ends NBA free throw streak of 53 games
1989 - The last issue of Gnistan (The Spark), the organ of the Solidaritetspartiet, is published in
           Sweden.
1990 - "Peter Pan" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 45 performances
1990 - Heavy earthquake strikes Sicily, 18 die
1990 - Pres De Klerk of S Afr meets with Mandela to talk of end of apartheid
1991 - Both Koreas sign an accord calling for reconcilliation
1991 - NY assembly speaker Mel Miller is convicted of federal mail fraud
1991 - Ricky Pierce (Seattle) ends NBA free throw streak of 75 games
1992 - "Show Off" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 45 performances
1992 - Dawn Coe-Jone wins Pizza-La LPGA Match Play Golf Championship
1992 - FCC fines Infinity Broadcasting $600,000
1993 - Deadline for Israeli troop withdrawal from Gaza, they don't
1993 - Dow Jones hits record 3764.43
1993 - Fire in textile factory in Fuzjou China, 60 killed
1993 - Space shuttle STS-61 (Endeavour 5), lands
1994 - American Eagle commuter plane crashes in NC, killing 15
1995 - Christopher Reeves released from physical rehab center
1995 - US Federal Court votes that Cable companies must carry local stations
1996 - Free agent Roger Clemens signs with Toronto Blue Jays
1996 - Kofi Annan is elected as Secretary-General of the United Nations.
1997 - 63rd Heisman Trophy Award: Charles Woodson, Michigan (CB)
2000 - The "Texas 7" escape from the John Connally Unit near Kenedy, Texas later going on a crime
           spree and killing police officer Aubrey Hawkins
2000 - American Vice President Al Gore delivers his concession speech effectively ending his hopes of
           becoming the 43rd President of the United States.
2001 - the Indian Parliament Sansad is attacked by terrorists. 15 people are killed, including all the
           terrorists.
2002 - Enlargement of the European Union: The European Union announces that Cyprus, the Czech
           Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia will
           become members from May 1, 2004.
2003 - Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is captured near his home town of Tikrit (see
           Operation Red Dawn).
2004 - Former Chilean dictator, General Augusto Pinochet is put under house arrest, after being
           sued under accusations over 9 kidnapping actions and manslaughter. The house arrest is
           lifted the same day on appeal.
2006 - The Baiji, or Chinese River Dolphin, announced as extinct.
2007 - The Mitchell Report is publicly released listing the names of 89 Major League Baseball players
           that have presumably used anabolic steroids and human growth hormones. Notable players
           to be named include Roger Clemens and Miguel Tejada.
2012 - A car bombing in Qatana, outside Damascus, kills 16 people and injures 12
2012 - Japan scrambles fighter jets in response to a Chinese plane in the Senkaku Islands dispute

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 13, 2013, 01:56:57 PM

This Day in History for 13th December


Famous Weddings

862 - Boudouin Iron Arm & Count of Flanders, elopes with Princess Judith, daughter King Charles of
         West Francia
1951 - Future British PM Margaret Roberts Thatcher marries Denis Thatcher
2003 - Italian operatic tenor Luciano Pavarotti (68) weds Nicoletta Mantovani at Modena Italy's Teatro
          Comunale

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 13, 2013, 01:58:26 PM

This Day in History for 13th December


Famous Divorces

2001 - Oscar winning-actress Kate Winslet (26) divorces assistant film director Jim Threapleton (28)
           due to unreasonable behavior after 3 years of marriage
2010 - "Dexter" actress Jennifer Carpenter (31) divorces actor Michael C. Hall (40) due to
           irreconcilable differences after 2 years of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 13, 2013, 02:08:30 PM

This Day in History for 13th December


Famous Birthdays

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First Lady of the United States          Poet/Novelist Kenneth Patchen (1911)      Boxing Champ Archie Moore (1913)
 Mary Todd Lincoln (1818)

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Singer-songwriter Taylor Swift (1989)


1521 - Sixtus V, [Felice Peretti/"Montalto"], bishop of Fermo/Pope (1585-90)
1533 - Erik XIV Wasa, king of Sweden (1560-69)
1553 - Henry IV, 1st Bourbon-king of Navarre/France (1572/89-1610)
1585 - William Drummond of Hawthornden, Scottish poet (d. 1649)
1640 - Robert Plot, English naturalist (d. 1696)
1662 - Francesco Bianchini, Italian philosopher and scientist (d. 1729)
1678 - Yongzheng Emperor of China (d. 1735)
1720 - Carlo Gozzi, Italian dramatist (d. 1804)
1724 - Aepinus, [Franz UT Hoch], German physician/physicist
1732 - Jean-Claude Trial, composer
1740 - Franz Xaver Schnitzer, composer
1770 - John Clarke-Whitfeld, composer
1784 - Archduke Louis of Austria (d. 1864)
1797 - Heinrich Heine, Germany, poet/lyricist (Schubert, Liszt)
1804 - Joseph Howe, Canadian politician (d. 1873)
1810 - Clark Mills, US, sculptor (Freedom, Armed Liberty)
1816 - Clement Claiborne Clay, MC (Confederacy), died in 1882
1816 - E Werner von Siemens, German artillery officer/inventor
1818 - Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of Abraham Lincoln and First Lady (1861-65)
1819 - Edwin George Monk, composer
1835 - Phillips Brooks, Episcopal bishop/composer (Little Town of Bethlehem)
1836 - Franz von Lenbach, German painter (d. 1904)
1838 - Marie-Alexis Castillon de Saint-Victor, composer
1843 - George Stephanescu, composer
1850 - G F Grace, cricketer (brother of W G )
1850 - Iver Paul Fredrik Holter, composer
1853 - Joseph Sickman Corsen, Curacao, musician/composer/screenwriter
1856 - Svetozar Boroević, Austro-Hungarian field marshal (d. 1920)
1858 - Jakab Gyula Major, composer
1860 - Lucien Guitry, French actor (d. 1925)
1863 - Johannes Weiss, German New Testament scholar
1864 - Emil Seidel, Mayor of Milwaukee (d. 1947)
1865 - Gustav Luders, composer
1867 - Kristian Birkeland, Norwegian explorer and scientist (d. 1917)
1870 - Edward LeSaint, American actor and director (d. 1940)
1871 - Herman T Colenbrander, Dutch historian
1871 - Russell W Porter, Vermont, explorer (Alaska)
1871 - Emily Carr, Canadian artist (d. 1945)
1874 - Ludwig Curtius, German archaeologist (Die antike Kunst)
1877 - Mykola Dmytrovich Leontovych, composer
1883 - Belle da Costa Greene, American librarian, bibliographer and archivist (d. 1950)
1886 - Lambertus J van Apeldoorn, lawyer (martial law)
1887 - George Polya, Hungarian-born mathematician (d. 1985)
1889 - Clarence Loomis, composer
1890 - Marc Connelly, McKeesport Pa, playwright (One Minute Please)
1892 - Brand Dirck Ochse, filmer/co-founder (Polygoon)
1893 - Curt Jurgens, Munich Germany, actor (Enemy Below, Longest Day)
1897 - Drew Pearson, Evanston Ill, newscaster (Drew Pearson)
1898 - Daniel Lazarus, composer
1899 - Harold Guinzburg, publisher (founder of Literary Guild)
1899 - Yusef Greiss, composer
1900 - Jonel Perlea, composer
1900 - Norman Foster, Richmond IN, actor (Skyscraper Souls)
1901 - Georg M Rimski-Korssakov, Russian musicologist/theory [OS]
1901 - John Wijga, painter/illustrator
1902 - Paul Kurzbach, composer
1902 - Talcott Parsons, US sociologist
1903 - Carlos Montoya, Madrid Spain, guitarist (Suite Flamenco 1966)
1903 - Jewgeni Petrow, writer
1903 - John Piper, British writer (US Churches in WW I)/official war painter
1906 - Ingemar Liljefors, composer
1906 - Laurens jan van der Post, soldier/explorer/conservationist
1908 - Victor Babin, composer
1910 - Lillian Roth, [Rutstein], singer/actress (Animal Crackers)
1910 - Van Heflin, Walters Oklahoma, actor (Great Adventure, Madame Bovary)
1911 - Kenneth Patchen, Niles, Ohio, poet/novelist (Cloth of the Tempest), (d. 1972)
1912 - Max Croiset, Dutch actor (Dog of Flanders, Little Ark) [or Aug 13]
1913 - Archie Moore, Benoit, Mississippi, light-heavyweight boxing champ (1952-60), (d. 1998)
1913 - Jimmy Carroll, NYC, pianist (Most Important People)
1913 - John Wyndham Pope-Hennessy, English art historian
1914 - Alan L Bullock, British historian
1914 - George "Tiger" Haynes, guitarist/actor (Land Without Music, Guv'nor)
1914 - Samuel "Larry" K Parks, Olathe KS, actor (Jolson-Jolson Story)
1915 - Balthazar Johannes Vorster, Prime Minister of South Africa (1966-77)
1915 - Mark Stevens, Cleveland Ohio, actor (Big Town, Martin Kane)
1915 - Ross MacDonald, detective novelist (Goodbye Look)
1915 - Curd Jürgens, German-born Austrian actor (d. 1982)
1915 - Yitzhak Zuckerman [Itzhak Zuckerman], Vilnius, Lithuania, Jewish resistance hero in World
           War II and one of the few survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
1917 - Dave Street, Los Angeles California, actor/singer (Broadway Open House)
1917 - John Hart, American actor
1919 - Hans-Joachim Marseille, German flying ace of World War II (d. 1942)
1920 - Don Taylor, Freeport Pa, actor (Father's Little Dividend)
1920 - Frits Noske, Dutch musicologist (Signifier & the Signified
1920 - George P Schultz, US Secretary of State (1982-89)
1920 - Kaysone Phomvihane,/premier/president Laos (Pathet Lao) (1991-92)
1923 - Fred van der Spek, Dutch 2nd chamber member (PSP)
1923 - Antoni Tapies, Barcelona, Spain, painter, sculptor, and theorist (Dau al Set), (d. 2012)
1924 - Larry Doby, 1st black in baseball's AL (Cleve Indians)
1925 - Dick Van Dyke, West Plains Mo, actor (Rob Petrie-Dick Van Dyke Show)
1925 - Henry C Gordon, USAF/astronaut (Dynasoar)
1926 - Carl Erskine, baseball player (Bkln Dodgers)
1926 - George Rhoden, Jamaican athlete
1928 - W Gordon Smith, playwright
1928 - Jack Tramiel, Lodz Poland, American Businessman (Amiga, Commodore 64), (d. 2012)
1929 - Albert Paulsen, Guayaquil Ecuador, actor (Doctors' Hospital)
1929 - Christopher Plummer, Toronto, actor (Sound of Music, Doll's House)
1930 - Genevieve Page, actress (Day & the Hour)
1930 - Robert Prosky, Phila, actor (Christine, Sgt Jablonski-Hill St Blues)
1934 - Richard Darryl Zanuck, film producer/executive, (d. 2012)
1935 - Bonno Spieker, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (PvdA)
1935 - Thomas Wakefield, writer
1935 - Joe Christopher, American baseball player
1935 - Lindy McDaniel, American baseball player
1936 - Karim Aga Khan, leader of the Nizari Ismailis, prince and billionaire
1936 - J. C. Martin, American baseball player
1937 - Rob Houwer, Dutch director/producer/actor (OK, Professor Columbus)
1938 - Alvin Curran, composer
1938 - Tom Shaw, Wichita KS, PGA golfer (1969 Doral Open AVCO Golf Classic)
1938 - Tony Gomez, rocker (Foundations)
1939 - Clive Brain, educationalist
1940 - Edith Clever, Wuppertal Germany, actress (Parsifal, L'Adolescente)
1940 - Steve Harmon, Brooklyn New York, American actor (Ens Pulver-Mr Roberts)
1941 - Anouska Hempel, Forbes NZ, actress (Tiffany Jones)
1941 - John Davidson, Pitts, TV host (Hollywood Squares, That's Incredible)
1942 - Anna Eshoo, American politician
1943 - Arturo Ripstein, director (El Lugar Sin Limites, Foxtrot)
1943 - Ferguson Jenkins, baseball pitcher (Red Sox)
1943 - Gösta Winbergh, Swedish tenor (d. 2002)
1944 - Hwang Jang Lee, Korean martial artist and film actor
1945 - Kathy Garver, American actress
1945 - Brian McGuire, Australian racing driver (d. 1977)
1947 - Les Joslin, cricketer (Test as batsman for Australia 1968, made 7 & 2)
1947 - Darlene Cates, American actress
1948 - Jeff "Skunk" Baxter, guitarist (Steely Dan-Deacon Blues)
1948 - Kathy Garver, Long Beach California, actress (Cissy-Family Affair)
1948 - Lillian Board, England, 400m (Olympic-silver-1968)
1948 - Ted Nugent, Detroit, guitarist (Cat Scratch Fever, Damn Yankees)
1948 - Brian Wilson, Scottish politician
1949 - Nana Alexandria, USSR, International Woman's Chess Grandmaster (1976)
1949 - R[oberta] A[nn] MacAvoy, US, sci-fi author (Damiano's Lute, Raphael)
1949 - Randy Owen, Fort Payne Ala, country music star (Alabama-Mt Music)
1949 - Tom Verlaine, [Miller], Mt Morris NJ, rock vocalist (Television)
1949 - Walter "Clyde" Owen, rocker
1949 - Paula Wilcox, English actress
1950 - Davey O'List, rocker (Roxy Music)
1950 - Heather North, Pasadena California, actress (Barefoot Executive)
1950 - Wendie Malick, actress (Just Shoot Me)
1951 - Robert Lindsay, Ilketson England, actor (Strike it Rich, King Lear)
1952 - John Francome, English jockey
1952 - Sylvester Ritter (Junkyard Dog), American professional wrestler (d. 1998)
1953 - Ray Stewart, Matsqui BC, Canadian Tour golfer (1994 Dunhill Cup)
1953 - Tom Sanders, Jackson Wyoming, aerial cameraman (Living Daylights)
1953 - Zoltan Magyar, Hungary, side horse gymnist (Olympic-gold-1976, 80)
1953 - Ben Bernanke, American economist and current United States Chairman of the Federal
           Reserve
1953 - Bill Castro, Dominican baseball player
1954 - John Anderson, Apopka Fla, country singer/actor (Lone Wolf McQuade)
1954 - Steve Forbert, rocker
1954 - Tamora Pierce, American author
1956 - Dale Berra, baseball infeilder (Pittsburgh Pirates, NY Yankees)
1956 - Phillip Gregory Hubbard, Canton Oh, basketball (Olympic-gold-1976)
1956 - Majida El Roumi, Lebanese singer
1957 - Steve Buscemi, actor (Fargo)
1957 - Morris Day, American singer (The Time)
1957 - Jean-Marie Messier, French businessman
1958 - Clark Brandon, NYC, actor (Fast Food)
1958 - Dana Strum, Wash DC, rock bassist (Slaughter-Stick it Live)
1958 - Lynn-Holly Johnson, Chicago IL, actress (Ice Castles)
1959 - John Whitaker, Van Nuys California, actor (Family Affair, Snowball Expr)
1959 - Marianne Gravatte, Hollywood CA, playmate of year (Oct, 1982)
1959 - Jim Barrell, American professional wrestler
1960 - Randy Stoklos, Pacific Palisades Ca, beach volleyballer (Olympics-96)
1960 - Richard Dent, defensive end (Philadelphia Eagles)
1960 - Daggubati Venkatesh, Indian actor
1961 - Gary Zimmerman, NFL tackle (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1961 - Harry Gregson-Williams, English composer
1961 - Irene Saez, Miss Universe 1981 and Venezuelan politician
1962 - Karen Witter, CA, actress (Tina-One Life to Live)/playmate (Mar, 1982)
1962 - Kendra Slewenski, English netballer
1965 - Stacy Sunny, San Bernadino Ca, female infielder (Colo Silver Bullets)
1965 - Marko Mäetamm, Estonian artist
1966 - Ross Burden, New Zealand celebrity chef
1966 - Don Roff, American writer and filmmaker
1967 - Chris O'Loughlin, Los Angeles, California, fencer (Olympics-96)
1967 - Deborah Driggs, Oakland Ca, playmate (Mar, 1990)
1967 - Jamie Foxx, comedian (In Living Color)
1967 - Jenn Thompson, NYC, actor (Dee-Harper Valley PTA)
1967 - Mike Mordecai, Birmingham AL, infielder (Atlanta Braves)
1967 - Scott Zolak, NFL quarterback (NE Patriots)
1967 - Bo Pelini, American football coach
1968 - Carlos Hasselbaink, Dutch soccer player (VVV/FC Utrecht/Haarlem)
1968 - Shaun Stafford, Ocala Florida, tennis star (1992 Taipei)
1969 - Norm Krumpschmd, hockey forward (Team Austria 1998)
1969 - Sergei Fedorov, Pskov Russia, NHL forward (Detroit, Oly-S-1998)
1969 - Tony Curran, Glasgow, UK, Scottish actor (Gladiator, Underworld: Evolution)
1969 - Murat Nasyrov, Russian singer (d. 2007)
1970 - Basit Ali, cricketer (exciting Pakistani batsman 1993-)
1970 - Elizabeth Patricia Reilly, North Providence RI, Miss America-RI (1996)
1970 - George Van Os Jr, Houston Texas, team handball left back (Oly-1996)
1970 - Tonja Yevette Buford-Bailey, Dayton OH, 400m hurdler (Oly-bronze-96)
1971 - Johnny Dixon, WLAF safety (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1971 - Miguel Angel Martinez Soto, mariachi
1971 - Mike Pelton, NFL defensive tackle (Indianapolis Colts)
1972 - Craig Sauer, NFL linebacker (Atlanta Falcons)
1972 - GiGi Gordon, Butler PA, Miss America-Pennsylvania (1997)
1973 - Christie Clark, LA, actress (Carrie Brady-Days of Our Life)
1973 - Shandon Anderson, NBA forward (Utah Jazz)
1974 - Chris Lewis, CFL safety (Calgary Stampeders)
1974 - Sara Cox, English TV and radio presenter
1974 - Nicholas McCarthy, English guitarist (Franz Ferdinand)
1975 - Matt LeCroy, Anderson SC, baseball catcher (Olympics-bronze-96)
1975 - Sarah Brady, Miss Universe-New Zealand (1996)
1975 - Tom DeLonge, American guitarist,(blink-182, Angels & Airwaves)
1976 - Radosław Sobolewski, Polish footballer
1976 - Søren Friis, Danish footballer
1976 - Josh Fogg, American baseball player
1977 - Sascha Kindred, British Paralympic swimmer
1977 - Peter Stringer, Irish rugby union footballer
1978 - Ryo Kawakita, Japanese guitarist (Maximum the Hormone)
1978 - BJ Penn, American mixed martial artist
1979 - Christina Todd, Miss Ohio Teen USA (Miss Congeniality-1997)
1981 - Chelsea Hertford, actress (Major Dad)
1981 - Amy Lee, American singer/songwriter (Evanescence)
1982 - Anthony Callea, Australian singer/songwriter
1982 - Ricky Nolasco, American baseball player
1982 - Tuka Rocha, Brazilian racing driver
1982 - Freddie Weinke, American football player
1982 - Dominik Werling, German footballer
1983 - Matt Deis, American bassist
1983 - Otylia Jędrzejczak, Polish swimmer
1988 - Darcy Blake, Welsh footballer
1989 - Taylor Swift, Reading, Pennsylvania, American singer/songwriter (Our Song)
1991 - Jay Greenberg, American composer
2005 - Prince Aymeric of Belgium
2005 - Prince Nicolas of Belgium

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 13, 2013, 02:11:07 PM

This Day in History for 13th December


Famous Deaths

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Primitive Painter Grandma Moses (1961)


838 - Pippijn I, King of Aquitania, dies
1048 - Al-Biruni, Arabic royal astrologer, dies at 74
1124 - Callistus/Callixtus II, [Guido di Borgogna], Italian Pope (1119-24), dies
1126 - Henry IX, the Black, Duke of Bavaria (1120-26), dies
1204 - Maimonides, Jewish philosopher/talmudic scholar, dies in Cairo at 69
1250 - Frederick II, German Emperor (1212-1250), dies at 55
1404 - Albert I, Duke of Bavaria, dies at 74
1466 - Donatello, Florentine artist and sculptor (b. 1386)
1516 - Johannes Trithemius, German cryptographer (b. 1462)
1521 - Manoel I "the Great", King of Portugal (1495-1521), dies at 52
1557 - Niccolo Tartaglia, Italian mathematician, dies
1565 - Conrad Gessner, Swiss naturalist (b. 1516)
1574 - Selam II Sari, the blonde, sultan of Turkey (1566-74), dies at 50
1603 - François Viète, French mathematician dies in Paris (b. 1540)
1621 - Katarina Stenbock, Queen of Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1535)
1622 - Jan Campanus, composer, dies at 50
1672 - Jan II Kazimierz, king of Poland (1648-68), dies at 63
1693 - Dodoftei, Romanian metropolitan of Moldavia/writer (Saint Lives), dies
1693 - Willem Van de Velde, Dutch the Old, seascape painter, dies at about 82
1716 - Charles de La Fosse, French painter (b. 1640)
1721 - Alexander Selkirk, Scottish sailor and castaway (b. 1676)
1729 - Anthony Collins, Engl philosopher (On Liberty & Necessity), dies at 53
1738 - Gotthard Wagner, composer, dies at 59
1769 - C F Gellert, writer, dies at 54
1774 - Susanne K von Klettenberg, German friend of Goethes mother, dies at 50
1783 - Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin, Swedish astronomer (b. 1717)
1784 - Samuel Johnson, English writer and lexicographer (b. 1709)
1793 - Johann Joachim Christoph Bode, composer, dies at 63
1812 - Marianne von Martinez, composer, dies at 68
1814 - Charles Joseph Prince of Ligne, Belgium fieldmarshal/author, dies at 79
1835 - John Storm, American Revolutionary soldier (b. 1760)
1837 - Herman of Alaska, Russian Orthodox hermit (b. 1756)
1862 - Conrad Feger Jackson, US Union Brig-General, dies in Battle of Fredericksburg at 49
1862 - Maxcy Gregg, US Confederate Brig-General, dies in Battle of Fredericksburg at 48
1862 - Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb, Confederate Brig-General, dies in Battle of Fredericksburg at 39
1863 - Friedrich Hebbel, writer, dies at 50
1868 - Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, German botanist (b. 1794)
1872 - Helena Beeloo, a maid, murdered by Henry Jut at the Hague, Netherlands
1872 - W T van der Kouwen-ten Cate, murdered by Henry Jut at the Hague, Netherlands
1881 - August Senoa, Croatian writer (Kletva [The Curse]), dies at 43
1883 - Victor de Laprade, French poet and critic (b. 1812)
1894 - Sarah Parker Remond, US/Italian abolitionist, dies at 68
1895 - Ányos Jedlik, Hungarian physicist (b. 1800)
1898 - George Frederick Bristow, composer, dies at 72
1909 - Innokenti Annenski, Russian poet and interpreter, dies of heart attack at 54
1911 - Reg Duff, cricketer (23 Tests for Australia 1902-05, 1317 runs), dies
1919 - Amintore Galli, composer, dies at 74
1919 - Woldemar Voigt, German physicist (b. 1850)
1921 - Frederick Martin, cricketer (14 wkts in 2 Tests for Eng 1890-92), dies
1922 - Hannes Hafstein, Icelandic politician and poet (b. 1861)
1924 - Samuel Gompers, organizer (American Federation of Labor), dies at 74
1929 - Knut Algot Hakanson, composer, dies at 42
1930 - Fritz Pregl, Slovenian/Austrian chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1869)
1931 - Gustave le Bon, French psychologist (b. 1840)
1932 - Georgios Jakobides, Greek painter (b. 1853)
1934 - Thomas A. Watson, American assistant to Alexander Graham Bell (b. 1854)
1935 - John Nicolson, cricketer (South African lefty batsman 1926-27), dies
1940 - Dusty Tapscott, cricket (bro of Doodles, 4&1 in only S Af Test), dies
1940 - George Macaulay, cricketer (took 24 wkts in 8 Tests, Eng 22-33), dies
1940 - Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval, French physicist (b. 1851)
1940 - George Regas, Greek actor (b. 1890)
1942 - Eleanor Everest Freer, composer, dies at 78
1942 - Wlodimir Ledochowski, Polish-Austrian director of the Society of Jesus (b. 1866)
1944 - Lupe Velez, actress (Joe Palooka), overdoses on seconal at 34
1944 - Vassily Kandinsky, abstract artist (Dreamy Inspiration), dies at 78
1945 - Robert van Genechten, Dutch Nazi (NSB), commits suicide
1945 - Vittorio Mario Vanzo, composer, dies at 83
1945 - Elisabeth Volkenrath, supervisor at concentration camps (b. 1919)
1947 - Nicholas Roerich, Russian-born painter (b. 1874)
1950 - Abraham Wald, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1902)
1951 - Selim Palmgren, Finnish pianist/composer (Daniel Hjort), dies at 73
1954 - John Raymond Hubbell, American writer (b. 1879)
1955 - Egas Moniz, Portuguese psychiatrist and neurosurgeon, Nobel laureate (b. 1874)
1958 - Ahmed Mukhtar Baban, premier of Iraq, executed
1958 - Barhanuddin Bashajan, Iraqi minister of Foreign affairs, executed
1958 - Brand Dirck Ochse, film/bioscope pioneer (Polygoon), dies at 66
1958 - Rafiq Aref, Iraqi chief-staff Arabs Statenbond, executed
1958 - Tim Moore, actor (Kingfish-Amos 'n' Andy), dies at 70
1958 - Tim Moore, American actor (b. 1887)
1961 - Grandma Moses [Anna M] , US painter, dies at 101
1962 - Harry Barris, American popular singer (b. 1905)
1963 - Hubert ME Pierlot, Belgian advocate/premier (1939-45), dies at 79
1966 - Charles Watts, actor (Lone Ranger & Lost City of Gold), dies of cancer
1968 - Siegfried Reda, composer, dies at 52
1969 - Raymond A Spruance, US admiral (battle of Midway), dies at 83
1969 - Spencer Williams, Jr., American actor (b. 1893)
1971 - Max Mell, Austria artillery officer/literary, dies at 88
1973 - Henry Green, English author (b. 1905)
1974 - Rufe Davis, actor (Floyd Smoot-Petticoat Junction), dies at 66
1975 - Cyril Delevanti, actor (Lucius-Jefferson Davis), dies at 88
1975 - Hendrik Kruls, Dutch gen/chief milt authority (1944-46), dies at 73
1976 - Eduard Claudius, writer, dies
1979 - Jon Hall, actor (Ramor of the Jungle), dies at 66
1980 - Harm van Riel, Dutch Liberal Party politician, dies at 73
1981 - Cornelius Cardew, composer, dies at 45
1981 - Pigmeat Markham, comedian (Here Comes da Judge-Laugh In), dies at 75
1982 - Jack Badcock, cricketer (7 Tests, 1 century but inconsistent), dies
1983 - Leora Dana, actress (Amityville II, Change of Habit), dies at 60
1983 - Leora Dana, actress (Sylvie Kosloff-Another World), dies
1983 - Mary Renault [Challans], British author (Funeral games), dies at 78
1983 - Alexander Schmemann, Orthodox Christian priest and theologian (b. 1921)
1983 - Nichita Stanescu, Romanian poet (b. 1933
1986 - Heather Angel, actress (Lifeboat, Daniel Boone), dies at 77
1990 - Alice Marble, California, tennis star, dies at 77
1990 - Friedrich Dörrenmatt, Swiss writer (Besuch der alten Dame), dies at 69
1991 - Andre Pieyre de Mandiargues, French writer (La marge), dies at 82
1992 - Bernard Drukker, Dutch pianist/orchestra leader (duivelswiel), dies
1992 - K.C. Irving, Canadian industrialist (b. 1899)
1992 - Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, American businessman and heir (b. 1899)
1993 - Charles JB Jonckheere, Flemish poet/writer: Ogentroost, dies at 87
1994 - Antoine Pinay, PM of France (1952-53), dies
1994 - Herman W "Fritz" Liebert, US librarian/Yale-curator, dies at 83
1994 - Norman Beaton, actor (Eureka, Black Joy, Mighty Quinn), dies at 60
1995 - Evangeline Bruce, hostess, dies at 81
1995 - Nancy LaMott, singer, dies at 43
1996 - Cao Yu, dramatist, dies at 86
1996 - Charles Edwin Molnar, computer pioneer, dies at 61
1996 - Edward Blishen, writer teacher/broadcaster, dies at 76
1996 - Mae Barnes, singer, dies at 89
1997 - Alexander Oppenheim, mathematician, dies at 94
1997 - Martin Carter, poet/critic, dies at 70
1997 - Rafael Jose Fernandez de la Calzada y Ferrer, restaurateur, dies at 83
2001 - Chuck Schuldiner, American musician (Death) (b. 1967)
2002 - Zal Yanovsky, Canadian musician (The Lovin' Spoonful) (b. 1945)
2003 - William V. Roth, Jr., U.S. Senator (b. 1921)
2004 - Andre Rodgers, Bahamian baseball player (b. 1934)
2004 - David Wheeler, English computer scientist (b. 1927)
2005 - Timothy Jordan II, American musician (The All American Rejects, Jonezetta) (b. 1981)
2005 - Stanley Tookie Williams, co-founder of the Crips and convicted murderer (b. 1953)
2006 - Lamar Hunt, American sports executive (b. 1932)
2007 - Floyd Red Crow Westerman, American actor (b. 1936)
2007 - Mark Partridge, Rhodesian politician
2008 - John Drake, New Zealand rugby union footballer (b. 1959)
2010 - Richard Holbrooke, American diplomat (b. 1941)
2010 - Enrique Morente, Spanish flamenco singer (b. 1942)
2011 - Russell Hoban, American author (creator of the 'Frances' series), dies at 86
2011 - Park Tae-joon, South Korean general and founder of steel giant Posco, dies at 84

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 14, 2013, 03:59:17 PM

This Day in History for 14th December


Historical Events

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Queen of Scotland Mary Stuart                Composer Giacomo Puccini                    Heavyweight Boxing Champion
                                                                                                                             Jack Dempsey

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Soldier, author, journalist, politician          Musician Louis Jordan                         Heavyweight Boxing Champion
Winston Churchill                                                                                                  Lennox Lewis


644 - Osman ibn Affan appointed 3rd kalief of islam
867 - Adrian II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
872 - John VIII elected as Catholic Pope
1124 - Theobald Buccapecus elected Pope Coelestinus II (he refuses)
1287 - Zuider Zee seawall collapses with loss of 50,000 lives
1542 - Princess Mary Stuart succeeds her father James V and becomes Queen Mary I of Scotland at 6
           days old
1575 - Polish Parliament selects Istvan Bathory as king of Poland
1582 - Zealand/Brabant Neth adopt Gregorian calendar, tomorrow is 12/25
1600 - Olivier van Noort sinks Spanish galleon San Diego at Bay of Manila, 350 die
1656 - Artificial pearls 1st manufactured by M Jacquin in Paris made of gypsum pellets covered with
           fish scales
1702 - The Forty-seven Ronin, under the command of Ōishi Kuranosuke, avenge the death of their
           master.
1708 - Prosper Jolyot's "Electre" premieres in Paris
1774 - Portsmouth, New Hampshire militiamen successfully attacked arsenal of Ft William & Mary
1782 - Charleston, SC evacuated by British
1793 - 1st state road authorized, Frankfort, Ky to Cincinnati
1798 - David Wilkinson of Rhode Island patents a nut & bolt machine
1819 - Alabama admitted to Union as 22nd state
1825 - Decembrist uprising in Russia against Tsar Nicholas I begins
1836 - The Toledo War unofficially ends.
1849 - 1st chamber music group in US gives their 1st concert (Boston)
1863 - Battle of Bean's Station-Confederacy repulses Union in Tennessee
1882 - Henry Morton Stanley returns to Brussels from the Congo
1889 - American Academy of Political & Social Science organized, Phila
1894 - Day One 1st Test Cricket Aus v Eng Aust 5-346 (Giffen 161, Gregory 85)
1894 - Test Cricket debut of Joe Darling, Ernie Jones, Archie MacLaren
1896 - The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company.
1900 - Quantum Mechanics: Max Planck presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation
           law.
1901 - 1st table tennis tournament is held (London Royal Aquarium)
1903 - Reg Foster completes 287 England v Australia on Test Cricket debut
1907 - The schooner Thomas W. Lawson runs aground and founders near the Hellweather's Reef
           within the Scilly Isles in a gale. The pilot and 15 seamen die.
1911 - South Pole 1st reached, by Norwegian Roald Amundsen
1913 - Greece formally takes possession of Crete
1914 - Lisandro de la Torre and others found the Democratic Progressist Party (Partido Demócrata
           Progresista, PDP) at the Hotel Savoy, Buenos Aires.
1915 - Jack Johnson is 1st black world heavyweight boxing champion
1917 - UFA, Universal Film AG, forms in Germany
1918 - Giacomo Puccini's opera "Il Trittico" premieres in NYC
1920 - Jack Dempsey KOs Bill Brennan in 12 for heavyweight boxing title in NYC
1923 - Gerard K "Simon" van het Reve, Dutch writer (Evenings)
1924 - Chiang Kai-shek occupies Hankou
1924 - Respighi's symphony "Pini di Roma" premieres in Paris
1926 - Danish Madsen government forms
1927 - Iraq gains independence from Britain, but British troops remain
1928 - 2nd Test Cricket Australia v England starts with Bradman 12th man
1929 - Alexander Zaimis elected president of Greece
1930 - NY Giants defeat Notre Dame 22-0 in a charity game
1931 - 1st assembly of Anton Musserts NSB in Utrecht
1932 - French government of Herriot falls
1933 - Josephine Baker performs in Amsterdam
1934 - 1st streamlined steam locomotive introduced (Albany NY)
1935 - Test Cricket debut of "Chuck" Fleetwood-Smith v South Africa, Durban
1937 - Japanese troops conquer/plunder Nanjing
1938 - AL permits Cleveland & Philadelphia to play night games
1938 - Major leagues agrees on standard ball
1938 - Major leagues disagree on increasing rosters from 23 to 25
1938 - Will Harridge is elected to a 10-year-term as AL president
1939 - Soviet Union attacks Finland-League of Nations drops Soviet Union
1941 - 1st NFL division playoff, Bears beat Packers 33-14
1941 - Premier Winston Churchill travels to US on board HMS Duke of York
1941 - U-557 torpedoes British cruiser Galatea
1944 - Begin(ning) Liese-Aktion: werving of labor force for Germany
1944 - Congress establshes rank of General of Army (5-star General)
1944 - German occupiers forbid use of electricity in parts of Holland
1945 - Elmer Rice' "Dream Girl" premieres in NYC
1946 - "Three to Make Ready" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 323 perfs
1946 - Togo made a trusteeship territory of UN
1946 - UN General Assembly votes to establish UN HQs in NYC
1947 - Cleveland Browns beat NY Yankees 14-3 in AAFC championship game
1947 - The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) is founded in Daytona Beach,
           Florida.
1950 - "Bless You All" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 84 perfs
1950 - UN Gen Assembly establishes High Comm for Refugees (Nobel 1954)
1950 - Baseball owners choose Lou Perini (Braves), Phil Wrigley (Cubs), Del Webb (Yankees), & Ellis
           Ryan (Indians) to select new commissioner
1952 - KROD (now KDBC) TV channel 4 in El Paso, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting
1952 - R H Shodhan scores 110 on Test Cricket debut v Pakistan, Calcutta
1952 - Uprising of captives in Pongam South Korea, 82 die
1953 - Brooklyn Dodgers sign pitcher Sandy Koufax
1954 - WOAY TV channel 4 in Oak Hill-Beckley, WV (ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 - Dutch Reformed Church condemns woman/wife as vicar
1955 - Tappan Zee Bridge in NY opens to traffic
1956 - Paul-Henri Spaak appointed secretary-general of NATO
1957 - "Most Happy Fella" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 678 perfs
1957 - "Rumple" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 45 performances
1959 - Archbishop Makarios proclaimed president of Cyprus
1959 - J B Jordan in F-104C sets world altitude record, 31,513m
1960 - Australia v West Indies 1st Test Cricket at the Gabba ends in a tie
1960 - Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD) forms
1960 - Washington Senators joins American League
1961 - Jimmy Dean's "Big Bad John" is 1st country song to get a gold record
1962 - Mariner 2 makes 1st US fly-by of another planet (Venus)
1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 - Verne Gagne beats The Crusher in Minneapolis, to become NWA champ
1964 - Michael Brown meets Rene Fladen, then writes "Walk Away Rene"
1965 - "La Grusse Valise" opens at 54th St Theater NYC for 7 performances
1967 - DNA created in a test tube
1969 - "La Strada" opens/closes at Lunt Fontanne NYC for 1 performance
1969 - Bishen Bedi takes 7-98 (career-best) v Australia at Calcutta
1969 - Jackson Five made their 1st appearance on "Ed Sullivan Show"
1971 - Golden Gate Bridge lights out all night due to power failure
1971 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1972 - Eugene Cernan & Harrison Schmitt leave the Moon
1972 - Willy Brandt re-elected West German chancellor
1974 - Islander Glenn Resch's 1st shut-out opponent-Kings 3-0
1974 - Viv Richards scores 1st Test Cricket ton 192 v India 20 fours 6 sixes
1975 - "Treemonisha" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 64 performances
1975 - 6 So Moluccan terrorists surrender, holding 23 hostages for 12 days
1975 - WCPR (Brooklyn New York pirate radio station) begins broadcasting on 1620 AM
1976 - Dutch 1st Chamber condemns Dutch Liberal/social dem abortion laws
1977 - "Saturday Night Fever" starring John Travolta, premieres in NYC
1977 - Egypt & Israel reps gather in Cairo for 1st formal peace conference
1977 - Red Sox trade Fergie Jenkins to Rangers for John Poloni & cash
1977 - Test Cricket debut of Abdul Qadir, v England at Lahore
1977 - War criminal Pieter Menten sentenced in Amsterdam to 15 years
1978 - "Ballroom" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 116 performances
1978 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1978 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1979 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1980 - "Onward Victoria" opens/closes at Martin Beck NYC for 1 performance
1980 - Anders Kailur scores on 6th Islander penalty shot
1980 - At 2 PM EST there is 10 minutes of silence in memory of John Lennon
1980 - Minnesota Vikings pass for 456 yards against Cleveland Browns, winning 28-24
1980 - Nancy Lopez/Curtis Strange wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
1980 - New Orleans Saints end 14 game losing streak, beat NY Jets 21-20
1980 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1981 - Israel annexes Golan Heights (seized from Syria in war of 1967)
1982 - Marcel Dionne, LA, becomes 9th NHLer to score 500 goals
1983 - "Peg" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 5 performances
1984 - Sportscaster Howard Cosell retires from Monday Night Football
1985 - US Foreign Minister George Shultz arrives in West Berlin
1986 - Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan & Jeana Yeager, took off from Edwards AFB, California on 1st
           non-stop, non-refueled flight around world
1987 - Allan Border scores 205 v NZ to become Australia's top rungetter
1987 - Chrysler pleads no contest to selling driven vehicles as new
1988 - CBS' $1.1 B bid wins exclusive 1990-94 major-league baseball rights
1988 - NBA's Miami Heat wins 1st game ever, 89-88 (Clippers), after 17 loses
1988 - Spanish General strike to protest austerity measures
1988 - US agrees to talk to Palestine Liberation Org (1st time in 13 yrs)
1990 - Louis Jordan's revue "Five Guys Named Moe" premieres in London
1990 - Right to Die case permits Nancy Cruzan to have her feeding tube removed, she dies 12 days
           later
1991 - 57th Heisman Trophy Award: Desmond Howard, Michigan (WR)
1991 - Ferry boat Salem Express sinks in Red Sea, 476 killed
1992 - Lennox Lewis given WBC title, when Riddick Bowe refused to fight him
1993 - Moslem fundamentalists murder 12 Kroates/Bosnians in Algeria
1995 - "Les Miserables" opens at Cable Hall, Helsinki
1995 - AIDS patient Jeff Getty recieves baboon bone marrow transplant
1995 - Yugoslav Wars: The Dayton Agreement is signed in Paris by leaders of various governments.
1996 - 12th Soap Opera Digest Awards
1996 - 62nd Heisman Trophy Award: Danny Wuerffel, Florida (QB)
1997 - "View From the Bridge" opens at Criterion Theater, NYC
1997 - Diners Club Senior Golf Match
1997 - Juli Inkster & Dottie Pepper win LPGA Diners Club Matches
1997 - Phoenix Coyote Mike Gartner is 5th NHLer to score 700 goals
2003 - President of Pakistan Pervez Musharaf narrowly escapes an assassination attempt.
2003 - President George W. Bush announces the capture of Saddam Hussein.
2004 - The Millau viaduct, the highest bridge in the world, near Millau, France is officially opened.
2008 - President George W. Bush made his fourth and final (planned) trip to Iraq as president and
           almost struck by two shoes thrown at him by Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi during a
           farewell conference in Baghdad.
2012 - 28 people, including 20 children, are shot to death at Sandy Hook Elementary School in
           Newtown, Connecticut
2012 - Australian Joel Parkinson wins the 2012 ASP World Tour
2012 - Gene Wolfe wins the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 14, 2013, 04:01:31 PM

This Day in History for 14th December


Famous Weddings

1490 - Anna van Bretagne marries a proxy Maximilian of Austria
1984 - Singer and actress Bette Midler (39) weds Martin Von Hasselberg at Starlight Chapel in Las
           Vegas
1985 - "The Cosby Show" actress Phylicia Rashad (37) weds former NFL wide receiver and
           sportscaster Ahmad Rashad (36)
2005 - Bollywood actor Fardeen Khan (31) weds Mumtaz's daughter Natasha Madhvani at the Grand
           Hyatt in Mumbai, India
2010 - WWF wrestler Hulk Hogan (57) marries 2nd wife Jennifer McDaniel in Clearwater Florida

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 14, 2013, 04:06:35 PM

This Day in History for 14th December


Famous Birthdays

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Astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546)              Writer Shirley Jackson (1916)


1009 - Emperor Go-Suzaku of Japan (d. 1045)
1363 - John Van [Jean C] Gerson, French theologist
1503 - Nostradamus, [Michel de Nostre-Dam], Saint-Rémy-de-Provence,France, astrologist/prophet
           (Les Propheties), (d. 1566)
1546 - Tycho Brahe, Knudstrup Denmark, astronomer (Golden nose), (d. 1601)
1553 - Henri IV the Bourbon, King of Navarra (Henri III)/France
1625 - Barthélemy d'Herbelot de Molainville, French orientalist (d. 1695)
1631 - Anne Conway, Viscountess Conway, English philosopher (d. 1679)
1640 - (baptism date) - Aphra Behn, English playwright and novelist (d. 1689)
1678 - Daniel Neal, English historian (d. 1743)
1720 - Justus Möser, German statesman (d. 1794)
1730 - Capel Bond, composer
1738 - Johann Antonin Kozeluch, composer
1775 - Philander Chase, American founder of Kenyon College (d. 1852)
1775 - Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, British admiral (d. 1860)
1777 - Juan N Gallego, Spanish poet/interpreter (El dos the mayo)
1779 - Mariano Rodriguiz de Ledesma, composer
1780 - Karl Robert von Nesselrode, Germ/Russian minister of Foreign Affairs
1783 - Johann Christoph Kienlen, composer
1784 - Princess Maria Antonia of Naples and Sicily, Princess of Asturias (d. 1806)
1787 - Maria Ludovika of Austria-Este, Empress of Austria and queen of Hungary and Bohemia (d.
           1816)
1789 - Maria Agata Szymanowska, composer
1791 - Charles Wolfe, Irish poet (d. 1823)
1794 - Erastus Corning, American businessman and politician (d. 1872)
1812 - Charles J Canning, English earl/1st viceroy of British-Indies
1824 - Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter (d. 1898)
1829 - John Mercer Langston, 1st black to hold US political office
1830 - Allen Thomas, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1907
1832 - Daniel Harris Reynolds, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1902
1837 - William Wells, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1892
1853 - Salvador Diaz Miron, Mexican poet (Los Cien Mejores Poemas)
1862 - Alexander V Amfiteatrov, Russian/French/Italian writer [OS]
1862 - John M Acket, Dutch literary (Grammatic Conceptions)
1866 - Roger Fry, English artist and art critic (d. 1934)
1868 - Richard Batka, composer
1870 - Dirk J de Geer, Dutch premier (1926-29, 39-40)
1870 - Karl Renner, Austrian Chancellor/president (1918-20, 45-50)
1873 - Marie-Alphonse-Nicolas-Joseph Jongen, composer
1875 - Dobri Khristov, composer
1877 - Lieven Duvosel, Flemish music writer/composer (Leiecyclys)
1881 - Katherine MacDonald, American actress and film producer (d. 1956)
1883 - Manolis Kalomiris, Greek opera composer
1883 - Morihei Ueshiba "the founder" founder of the Japanese martial art of aikido
1884 - Regina Ullmann, writer
1884 - Jane Cowl, American actress and playwright (d. 1950)
1894 - Joaquin Zamacois Soler, composer
1895 - Paul Eluard, French poet (d. 1952)
1895 - King George VI of the United Kingdom (d. 1952) Reigned 1936-52.
1896 - James H Doolittle, USAF General (Raid on Tokyo 1942)
1897 - Margaret Chase Smith, (Rep/Sen-R-Maine)
1897 - Kurt Schuschnigg, Austrian politician (d. 1977)
1898 - Frederick Douglass Hall, composer
1900 - Boyan Georgiev Ikonomov, composer
1901 - Henri Cochet, tennis champ (US Open-1928)
1901 - Paul I, King of Greece (1947-64)
1902 - Frances Beauvier, actress (Aunt Bea-Andy Griffith Show)
1905 - Sydney Lipton, bandleader/violin
1906 - Helmut Bornefeld, composer
1907 - Guy Middleton, Hove England, actor (Gentlemen Marrie Brunettes)
1908 - Laurence Naismith, Surrey England, actor (Judge Fulton-Persuaders)
1908 - Morey Amsterdam, American comedian and actor (d. 1996)
1908 - Claude Davey, Welsh rugby union footballer
1908 - Mária Szepes, Hungarian authoress (d. 2007)
1909 - Edward L Tatum, US, molecular geneticist (Nobel 1958)
1909 - Phia [Sophia R] Berghout, harpist/founder Eduard of Beinumstichting
1911 - Ota Adler, Czech/British fur trader/founder (Federal Trust)
1911 - Spike Jones, Long Beach California, composer (In a Secluded Rendesvous)
1911 - Hans von Ohain, German/American aerospace engineer (d. 1998)
1912 - Morey Amsterdam, Chicago Ill, comedian (Buddy-Dick Van Dyke Show)
1914 - Karl Carstens, German (CDU)/pres Germany (1979-84)
1914 - Rosalyn Tureck, Chicago Illinois, pianist (Bach & Rock)
1914 - Attila Petschauer, Hungarian fencer (d. 1943)
1915 - Dan Dailey, New York City, New York, American dancer and actor (Gov Drinkwater-Governor &
           JJ)
1915 - Clay Warnick, Tacoma Wash, choral director (Jimmie Rodgers Show)
1916 - Shirley Jackson, San Francisco, California, writer (Road Through the Wall), (d. 1965)
1917 - Elyse Knox, Hartford Ct, actress (Hit the Ice, Black Gold)
1917 - Wilf Ferguson, cricket leg-spinner (West Indian of post-WWII years)
1917 - June Taylor, American choreographer (d. 2004)
1918 - James T. Aubrey, American television executive (d. 1994)
1918 - B.K.S. Iyengar, Indian yoga advocate
1920 - Albertus Meintser, office clerk/resistance fighter
1920 - Quinton Hazell, businessman
1920 - Clark Terry, American trumpeter
1922 - Charley Trippi, NFL halfback (Chicago Cardinals)
1922 - Don Hewitt, NYC, CBS news executive producer (60 Minutes)
1923 - Gerard K "Simon" van het Reve, Dutch writer (Evenings, Dear Guys)
1923 - Leonardus S van Egeraat, Dutch travel expert
1923 - Sully Boyar, NYC, actor (Car Wash)
1924 - Marion Morgan, singer (Stop the Music)
1924 - Siiri Rantanen, Finland, cross country skier (Olympic-gold-1956)
1924 - Raj Kapoor, Indian actor (d. 1988)
1925 - Sam Jones, American baseball player (d. 1971)
1926 - Frank King, cricketer (WI fast bowler in 14 Tests in 50's, 29 wkts)
1927 - Jacobus G Rietkerk, Dutch internal minister (VVD) (1982-86)
1927 - Richard Cassilly, American tenor (d.1998)
1929 - Ron Nelson, composer
1931 - Jon Elia, Pakistani scholar, poet and philosopher (d. 2002)
1932 - Abbe Lane, Bkln, aka Mrs Xavier Cugat/singer (Xavier Cugat Show)
1932 - Charlie "Silver Fox" Rich, Colt Ark, vocalist (Behind Closed Doors)
1932 - George Furth, Chicago Ill, actor/dir (Tammy, Good Guys, Dumplings)
1933 - Leo N Wright, US saxophonist (I left my heart in SF)
1934 - Petrus van Doorne, Dutch industrialist
1935 - Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Bath England, actress (Search for the Nile)
1935 - David White, cricketer (England opening attack Brown & White v Pak 1961)
1935 - Lee Remick, Quincy MA, actress (Days of Wine & Rose, Long Hot Summer)
1935 - Lewis Arquette, Chicago IL, actor (Horror Show, Book of Love)
1936 - Robert Alan Ridley Parker, NYC, PhD/astronaut (STS 9, STS 35)
1938 - Hal Williams, Columbus Ohio, actor (Pvt Benjamin, 227, Sanford & Son)
1938 - Janette Scott, actress (Day of the Triffids)
1938 - Leonardo Boff, Italy, Brazilian Catholic theologian
1939 - Ernest Davis, 1st black to win Heisman Trophy (1961)
1939 - Marilyn Cooper, NYC, actress (Broadway Bound, Survivors)
1940 - Lex Gold, Scottish football administrator
1941 - Barry Hadlee, cricketer (bro of Dayle & Richard, NZ World Cup 1975)
1941 - Ellen Willis, American journalist (d. 2006)
1942 - David Band, banker
1942 - Rex Thompson, NYC, actor (Young Bess, King & I, Her 12 Men)
1942 - Zoe Laskari, Greek actress
1943 - Frank Allen, rock vocalist (Searchers-Needles & Pins)
1946 - Anthonius A M "Ton" Kors, Dutch writer (Hannie Schaft)
1946 - Jackie McCauley, North Ireland, rock pianist (Them Coleraine)
1946 - Jane Birkin, London England, actress (Mrs Don Juan, Dark Places, Dust)
1946 - Joyce Vincent Wilson, Detroit Mich, singer (Tony Orlando & Dawn)
1946 - Michael Ovitz, president (Walt Disney Co)
1946 - Patty Duke, [Anna Marie], Elmhurst NY, actress (Miracle Worker)
1946 - Ruth Fuchs, German DR, javelin thrower (Oly-2 gold-72, 76)
1946 - Stan Smith, Pasadena, California, American tennis champ (Wimbledon 1972, US Open-1971)
1947 - Christopher Parkening, Los Angeles California, guitarist (transcribed sacred music)
1947 - Linda Sutton, English artist
1948 - Boudewijn Buch, Dutch writer/TV host
1948 - Dee Wallace Stone, [Deanna Bowers], Kansas City Kansas, actress (Critters, 10, ET)
1948 - Kim Beazley, Australian politician
1949 - Bill Buckner, California, 1st baseman, error cost Red Sox 1986 world series
1949 - Cliff Williams, Sydney Australia, rock bassist (AC/DC-Highway to Hell)
1950 - Vicki Michelle, Essex England, actress (Virgin Witch, Allo Allo)
1951 - Jan Timman, Dutch chess player
1952 - Tamara Danz, singer
1952 - Germain Houde, French Canadian actor
1953 - Joe Toplyn, Boston, comedic writer (Late Night with David Letterman)
1953 - Vijay Amritraj, India, tennis player/actor (Octopussy)
1953 - René Eespere, Soviet-born Estonian composer
1953 - Vangelis Meimarakis, Greek lawyer and politician
1953 - Mikael Odenberg, Swedish politician
1954 - Alan Kulwicki, Greenfield Wisc, NASCAR racer (Winston Cup)
1954 - Eva Mattes, Tegernsee Germany, actress (Celeste, Man Like Eva)
1954 - Hans William Schlegel, Oberlingen Germany, Astronaut (STS 55)
1954 - Ib Anderson, Copenhagen, ballet dancer
1954 - Steven Glenwood MacLean, Ottawa Ontario, astronaut (STS 52)
1954 - James Horan, Louisville, Kentucky, American actor (General Hospital, Transformers Prime)
1955 - Jane Crafter, Perth Australia, golfer (1987 JC Penney Mixed Teams)
1956 - Hanni Wenzel, Liechtenstein, Slalom (Olympic-2 gold-1980)
1956 - T K Carter, Los Angeles California, actor (Mike-Punky Brewster, Just our Luck)
1957 - Gary Ferris, American author
1958 - Jan Dijksma, Dutch bassist (Weekend at Waikiki)
1958 - Mike Scott, Scottish rocker (Blues Inc, Waterboys-Rainbow Warrior)
1958 - Spider Tracy, English rock vocalist (The Pogues)
1958 - Steven Rock-Savage, Mellville Louisiana, (LSU), actor
1959 - Franco Iglesia, Cuba, spanish singer
1959 - Jorge Vaca, Mexican boxer
1960 - Catherine G Coleman, Charleston SC, Phd/Capt USAF/astronaut (STS 73)
1960 - Bob Paris, American bodybuilder and gay rights advocate
1961 - Jeff Robinson, baseball player (Det, Balt)
1962 - Bharat Arun, cricketer (Indian pace bowler late-80's)
1962 - Chris Dahlquist, Fridley, NHL defenseman (Ottawa Senators)
1963 - Cindy Gibb, Bennington Vt, actress (Search for Tomorrow, Youngblood)
1964 - C[arl] J[eff] Snare, Wash DC, vocalist (Firehouse-Love of a Lifetime)
1964 - Chelsea Noble, actress (Kate-Growing Pains)
1965 - Christine Burton, Adelaide Aust, golfer (1990 T25 Victorian Open)
1965 - Craig Biggio, Smithtown NY, infielder (Houston Astros)
1965 - Ken Hill, Lynn, Massachusetts, American MLB pitcher (Montreal Expos)
1965 - Lawrence Clay-Bey, Hartford Ct, super heavyweight boxer (Olympics-96)
1966 - Anthony Mason, NBA forward (NY Knicks, Charlotte Hornets)
1966 - Bill Ranford, Brandon Man, NHL goalie (Team Canada, Boston)
1966 - Carl Herrera, NBA forward (San Antonio Spurs)
1966 - Fabrizio Giovanardi, Italian racecar driver
1966 - Tim Skold, Swedish/American musician
1967 - Ali Wood, Long Beach Ca, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-13th-1995)
1967 - Eldridge Recasner, NBA guard (Atlanta Hawks, Houston Rockets)
1967 - Noelle Beck, Baltimore, actress (Trisha-Loving, Fletch Lives)
1967 - Ewa Białołęcka, Polish writer
1968 - Cees Marbus, soccer player (Go Ahead Eagles)
1968 - Jamie Crysdale, CFL corner (Calgary Stampeders)
1969 - Arthur Numan, soccer player (PSV)
1969 - Craig Jones, Nambour Australia, Canadian Tour golfer (NZ Open-1994)
1969 - Dave Nilsson, Brisbane Australia, catcher (Milwaukee Brewers)
1969 - Rogerick Green, NFL cornerback (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1970 - Bradford Banta, NFL tight end (Indianapolis Colts)
1970 - Nadine Garner, Australian actress
1970 - Anna Maria Jopek, Polish singer
1970 - Beth Orton, English singer-songwriter
1971 - Chris Therien, Ottawa, NHL defenseman (Phila Flyers)
1971 - Lisa-Marie Vizaniari, Australian discus/shot putter (Olympics-96)
1971 - Natascha McElhone, English actress
1972 - Johnny Mcwilliams, tight end (Arizona Cardinals)
1972 - Eric Anderson, American musical theatre actor
1972 - Marcus Jensen, American baseball player
1973 - Eelco Wassenaar, Neth, US field hockey midfielder (Olympics-96)
1973 - Tia Texada, American actress and singer
1973 - Thuy Trang, American actress (d. 2001)
1974 - Billy Koch, Garden City NY, baseball pitcher (Olympics-bronze-96)
1975 - Inga Drozdova, Latvia, playmate (Nov, 1997)
1975 - James Cotton, NBA guard (Seattle Supersonics)
1975 - Tamecka Dixon, WNBA guard (LA Sparks)
1975 - Justin Furstenfeld, American rock singer
1975 - KaDee Strickland, Patterson, Georgia, American actress (Private Practice, The Grudge)
1976 - Leland Chapman, American bounty hunter
1976 - André Couto, Portuguese racing driver
1976 - Santiago Ezquerro, Spanish footballer
1977 - Tisha Dabber, Shelbyville Indiana, actress (New Mickey Mouse Club)
1978 - Kim St-Pierre, Canadian ice hockey player
1978 - Radu Sârbu, Moldovan singer (O-Zone)
1978 - Patty Schnyder, Swiss tennis player
1979 - Sophie Monk, Australian actress, singer, and model
1979 - Michael Owen, English footballer
1980 - Didier Zokora, Ivorian footballer
1980 - Frankie J, American singer
1980 - Tata Young, Thai-American singer
1981 - Emilie Heymans, Canadian diver
1981 - Amber Chia, Malaysian model and actress
1981 - Johnny Jeter, American professional wrestler
1981 - Shaun Marcum, American baseball player
1981 - Liam Lawrence, English footballer
1982 - Josh Fields, American baseball player
1982 - Steve Sidwell, English footballer
1982 - Anthony Way, English singer and actor
1984 - Chris Brunt, Northern Irish footballer
1984 - Edward Rainsford, Zimbabwean cricketer
1985 - Jakub Błaszczykowski, Polish footballer
1985 - Paul Rabil, professional lacrosse player
1985 - Julio Pimentel, Dominican baseball player
1985 - Tom Smith, Welsh rugby union footballer
1985 - Nonami Takizawa, Japanese actress
1985 - Ren Yagami, Japanese actor and singer
1988 - Nicolas Batum, French basketball player
1988 - Vanessa Hudgens, American singer and actress
1989 - Pedro Silva, Brazilian footballer
1992 - Tori Kelly, American singer
1995 - Princess Olimpia Preslavska of Bulgaria

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 14, 2013, 04:12:01 PM

This Day in History for 14th December


Famous Deaths

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First US President                                     American Baseball Player                      Actress Myrna Loy (1993)
George Washington (1799)                           Roger Maris (1985)


872 - Adrian II, Italian Pope (867-72) the last married pope, dies at about 80
1077 - Agnes of Poitou, German empress/wife of emperor Henry III, dies
1136 - Harald IV, "Gylle Krist", king of Norway, murdered
1417 - John Oldcastle, Lord Cobham, English nobleman, hanged & burned
1460 - Guarino da Verona (b. 1370)
1476 - Vlad III the Impaler (b. 1431)
1510 - Friedrich of Saxony (b. 1473)
1542 - James V, King of Scots (1513-42), dies at 30
1553 - Hanibal Lucić, Croatian writer (b. 1485)
1591 - Juan de la Cruz, [de Yepes], Spanish Carmelet/poet/saint, dies
1624 - Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, English statesman (b. 1536)
1651 - Pierre Dupuy, French scholar (b. 1582)
1713 - Thomas Rymer, English historian (b. 1641)
1715 - Thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1636)
1732 - Johann Philipp Fortsch, composer, dies at 80
1734 - Noel-Nicolas Coypel, French painter/cartoonist, dies at 44
1735 - Thomas Tanner, English bishop and antiquarian (b. 1674)
1741 - Charles Rollin, French historian (b. 1661)
1754 - Mahmud I, sultan of Turkey, dies at 58
1760 - Kacic Miosic, Croatian poet (Razgovar Ugodni Naroda Slovinskoga), dies
1788 - Carl Phillip Emanuel Bach, German composer, dies at 74
1788 - Carlos III, King of Naples/Spain (1759-88), dies at 72
1799 - George Washington, 1st president USA (1789-97), dies at 66
1823 - Vincenzo Cuoco, Italian historian (Naple revolution 1799), dies at 53
1829 - Luigi Marchesi, composer, dies at 74
1838 - Jean-Olivier Chénier, French Canadian physician and Patriote (b. 1806)
1849 - Conradin Kreutzer, composer, dies at 69
1861 - Albert, Prince consort of England and husband of Queen Victoria, dies at 42
1861 - George HG earl of Aberdeen, Engl Minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 76
1861 - Heinrich August Marschner, composer, dies at 66
1862 - George Dashiell Bayard, Union Brigadier General, dies at 27
1865 - Johan Georg Forchhammer, Danish geologist (b. 1794)
1873 - J Louis R Agassiz, Swiss geologist/paleo-biologist), dies
1886 - Antoni Wincenty Rutkowski, composer, dies at 27
1893 - Karolina Pawlowa, writer, dies at 86
1900 - Jean B A Kessler, director of oil on Dutch Indies, dies at 46
1903 - William Ennis, 1st cop to die in electric chair
1906 - John A C Oudemans, Dutch geographer/astronomer, dies at 78
1909 - Leopold II, king of Belgium, dies
1912 - Belgrave Edward Sutton Ninnis, British Army lieutenant (b. 1887)
1914 - Giovanni Sgambati, composer, dies at 73
1918 - Sidonio Pais, prince of Portugal, murdered
1920 - George Gipp, American football player (b. 1895)
1923 - Giuseppi Gallignani, composer, dies at 72
1926 - Theo van Rysselberghe, Belgian painter (pointillism), dies at 64
1927 - Yulian Vasilievich Sokhotski, Russian mathematician (b. 1842)
1928 - Theodore Roberts, actor (Roaring Road, 10 Commandments), dies at 77
1935 - Stanley G Weinbaum, US, sci-fi writer (Martian Odyssey), dies
1938 - Marie FM Emmanuel, French composer/musicologist (Salamine), dies at 76
1942 - Eduard C "Edo" Fimmen, Dutch trade union leader, dies at 61
1945 - Constantino Gaito, composer, dies at 67
1945 - Forrester Harvey, actor (Tarzan & Mate, Chump at Oxford), dies at 61
1945 - Henry van Goudoever, Dutch lawyer/judge, dies on his 69th birthday
1945 - Josef Kramer, known as "beast of Belsen," & 10 others, hanged
1947 - Franz Zorell, German RC lexicographer, dies at 84
1947 - Stanley Baldwin, English premier (1923, 24-29, 35-37), dies at 80
1947 - Edward Higgins, General of The Salvation Army (b. 1864)
1948 - Reginald Owen Morris, composer, dies at 62
1950 - Albrecht Schaeffer, German writer (Heroische Fahrt), dies at 65
1956 - Juho Kusti Paasikivi, president of Finland (b. 1870)
1959 - Maria EG "Lizzy" Ansingh, Dutch painter (Cast Off), dies at 84
1960 - Gregory Ratoff, actor (Skyscraper Souls), dies of leukemia at 63
1963 - Dinah Washington, singer, dies of sleeping pill overdose at 39
1963 - Erich Ollenhauer, German politician (SPD), dies at 62
1964 - William Bendix, actor (Life of Riley), dies at 58
1965 - Hermann Sandby, composer, dies at 84
1966 - Emma Dunn, actress (You Can't Fool Your Wife), dies at 91
1966 - Richard Whorf, actor (Chain Lightning), dies of heart attack at 60
1966 - Verna Felton, actress (Hilda-December Bride), dies at 76
1970 - Franz Schlegelberger, German Nazi politician (b. 1876)
1971 - Dick Tiger, Nigerian-born boxer (b. 1929)
1973 - Yitzhak Edel, composer, dies at 77
1974 - Walter Lippmann, US journalist (One of Dynasty), dies at 85
1975 - Arthur Treacher, TV announcer (Merv Griffin Show), dies at 81
1978 - Salvador de Madariaga, Spanish diplomat, writer, historian and pacifist (b. 1886)
1979 - Nirode Ranjan Chowdhury, cricketer (2 Tests for India, avg 205), dies
1980 - Elston Howard, MVP catcher (NY Yankees), dies at 59
1984 - Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish writer and Nobel laureate (b. 1898)
1985 - Roger Maris, HR hitter (61 in 61, NY Yankees), dies of cancer at 51
1985 - Stanley G[rauman] Weinbaum, US, sci-fi author (Red Peri), dies at 85
1985 - Catherine Doherty, social justice activist (b. 1896)
1987 - Paul Clinton Sundberg, actor (Belle of NY, Easter Parade), dies
1989 - Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist/dissident (Nobel 1975), dies at 68
1989 - Jock Mahoney, actor (Dallas, Cow Town, Range Rider), dies at 70
1990 - Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss writer, dies of heart failure at 69
1990 - Hope Sansberry, actress (Rats are Coming), dies at 94
1990 - Johannes von Thurn und Taxis, prince in Germany, dies at 64
1991 - John Arlott, cricketer (the greatest of cricket commentators), dies
1991 - Robert Eddison, British actor (Uncle Silas), dies at 83
1993 - Myrna Loy, [Williams], US actress (Jazz Singer), dies at 88
1994 - Mary Ann McCall, singer, dies at 75
1994 - Petrus HJ van Doorne, bus manufacturer/owner (BOVA), dies at 58
1994 - Orval Faubus, Governor of Arkansas (b. 1910)
1995 - Don Anthony, bandleader/songwriter, dies at 85
1995 - Eric Brown, architect, dies at 84
1995 - Rob Harris, sky surfer, dies while skydiving at 28
1996 - Alan Hargreaves, climber, dies at 92
1996 - Norman Hackforth, broadcaster, dies at 88
1997 - Owen Barfield, philosopher of language, dies at 99
1997 - Robert Sutton, electronics engineer, dies at 82
1997 - Stubby Kaye, actor (Guys & Dolls, Sweet Charity), dies at 79
1997 - Kurt Winter, Canadian musician (The Guess Who) (b. 1946)
1998 - Annette Strauss, American philanthropist (b. 1924)
1998 - Norman Fell, American actor (b. 1924)
1998 - Aloyisus Leon Higginbotham, Jr., American civil rights activist and author (b. 1928)
2001 - W. G. Sebald, German writer (b. 1944)
2003 - Jeanne Crain, American actress (b. 1925)
2003 - Blas Ople, foreign minister of the Philippines (b. 1927)
2004 - Rod Kanehl, American baseball player (b. 1934)
2004 - Fernando Poe, Jr., Filipino actor and presidential candidate (b. 1939)
2005 - Trevanian, American author (b. 1931)
2006 - Anton Balasingham, chief political strategist of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (b. 1938)
2006 - Ahmet Ertegün, co-founder of Atlantic Records (b. 1923)
2006 - Mike Evans, American actor (b. 1949)
2009 - Alan A'Court, English footballer (b. 1934)
2010 - Timothy Davlin, American politician (b. 1957)
2010 - Dale Roberts, English footballer (b. 1986)
2010 - Neva Patterson, American actress (b. 1920)
2011 - Boris Chertok, prominent Soviet and Russian rocket engineer, dies at 99
2012 - Klaus Köste, German gymnast, dies at 69

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 15, 2013, 01:12:16 PM

This Day in History for 15th December


Historical Events

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Inventor Thomas Edison                            Inventor James Naismith                         Author Albert Camus

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Actor/Director Sylvester Stallone            Heavyweight Boxing Champion Mike Tyson


533 - Byzantine general Belisarius defeats the Vandals, commanded by King Gelimer, at the Battle of
         Ticameron.
687 - St Sergius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Conon
1124 - Chancellor Haimeric selects pope (Lamberto becomes Honorius II)
1167 - Sicilian chancellor Stephen du Perche moves the royal court to Messina to prevent a rebellion.
1256 - Hulagu Khan captures and destroys the Hashshashin stronghold at Alamut in present-day
           Iran as part of the Mongol offensive on Islamic southwest Asia.
1467 - Stephen III of Moldavia defeats Matthias Corvinus of Hungary, with the latter being injured
           thrice, at the Battle of Baia.
1488 - Bartholomeus Diaz returns to Portugal after sailing round Cape of Good Hope
1569 - Westmoreland flees to Scotland
1582 - Leidse university names Rembert Dodoens prof of botany/medicine
1582 - Spanish Netherlands/Denmark/Norway adopt Gregorian calendar
1586 - Laevinus Torrentius, becomes bishop of Antwerp
1593 - State of Holland grants patent on windmill with crankshaft
1612 - Simon Marius, is 1st to observe Andromeda galaxy through a telescope
1640 - Duke of Braganca crowned King Johan IV of Portugal
1660 - Philippines: Andres Malongs rebels plunders Bagnotan
1664 - English colonizing Connecticut
1667 - Brandenburg declares himself neutral in Devolutie War
1680 - Tax revolt on Terschelling due to tax on cereal
1688 - Lord Delamere sides with King James II [NS 12/25]
1745 - Battle at Kesseldorf: Prussia beats Saksen & Austria
1791 - 1st US law school established at University of Pennsylvania
1791 - Bill of Rights ratified when Virginia gave its approval
1792 - 1st life insurance policy issued in US (Phila)
1794 - Revolutionary Tribunal abolished in France
1810 - 1st Irish magazine in US, Shamrock, is published
1815 - Rossini gets assignment for Il barbiere di Siviglia
1820 - 1st General pharmacopoeia in US published, Boston
1836 - Patent Office burns in Wash, DC
1854 - 1st street-cleaning machine in US 1st used in Philadelphia
1859 - GR Kirchoff describes chemical composition of Sun
1863 - Skirmish at Bean's Station, Tennessee (Knoxville Campaign)
1863 - Romania is using for the first time a mountain railway (from Anina to Oravita).
1864 - Battle of Nashville, TN
1864 - Raid on Stoneman: Abingdon & Glade Springs, VA
1868 - Shogunate rebels found Ezo Republic in Hokkaidō.
1874 - 1st reigning king to visit US (of Hawaii) received by Pres Grant
1877 - Thomas Edison patents phonograph
1891 - James Naismith invents basketball (Canada)
1893 - Dvoráks "From the New World" premieres at Carnegie Hall NYC
1894 - Cricket day 2 1st T Aus v Eng Aus 586 (Gregory 201) England 3-130
1899 - Battle at Colenso, South Africa (Boers-British army)
1905 - The Pushkin House is established in St. Petersburg to preserve the cultural heritage of
           Alexander Pushkin
1909 - Thomas J Lynch becomes president of baseball's National League
1913 - Nicaragua becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1914 - Battle of Lodz ends; Russians retreat toward Moscow
1914 - British fleet forfeits chance to destroy German fleet in North Sea
1914 - Serbian troops retake Belgrade in Austria-Hungary
1916 - French defeat Germans in WW I Battle of Verdun
1917 - Moldavian Republic declares independence from Russia
1917 - World War I: An armistice is reached between the new Bolshevik government and the Central
           Powers.
1918 - American Jewish Congress holds it's 1st meeting
1919 - Edna St Vincent Millay's "Aria da Capo," premieres in NYC
1919 - Fiume (Rijeka) declares it's Independence
1922 - IVVV (association) peace congress on war forms in Hague
1925 - 1st hockey game at Madison Sq Garden, Mont Candiens 3, NY Americans 1
1925 - 1st road with a depressed trough (Texas) opens to traffic
1926 - Facist national symbol elevated in Italy
1927 - Ed Hickman kidnaps child he later beheads
1929 - Walter Mittelholzer flies as 1st about the Kilimanjaro
1930 - Don Bradman takes his 1st Test Cricket wicket (Ivan Barrow, WI, lbw)
1933 - Baseball owners agree to ban Sunday doubleheaders until after June 15
1934 - Fokker F18 Snip flies to Neth West Indies
1935 - Detroit Lions win NFL championship
1935 - Max Euwe becomes world champ chess beating Alexander Alekhine
1936 - KVL-AM in Seattle Wash changes call letters to KEEN (now KING)
1938 - Groundbreaking begins for Jefferson Memorial in Wash DC
1939 - "Gone With the Wind" premieres in Atlanta
1939 - 1st commercial manufacture of nylon yarn, Seaford, Delaware
1939 - Snip departs for 1st flight to Paramaribo/Curacao
1941 - Gas/electrical use restricted in Holland
1941 - German submarine U-127 sinks
1941 - Nazi's transfers 100 Czech citizens/Heinrich Himmler falls faint
1941 - North Africa: allied assault up Italians Gazala-posing
1941 - USS Swordfish becomes 1st US sub to sink a Japanese ship
1941 - The American Federation of Labor adopts a no-strike policy in war industries.
1942 - Massachusetts issues 1st US vehicular license plate tabs
1944 - Bandleader, Major Glenn Miller, lost over English Channel
1944 - Hizbu'allah (Arm forces for Allah) forms
1944 - US Congress gives General Eisenhower his 5th star
1944 - US troops lands on Mindoro
1945 - John J "Cardinal" O'Connor, ordained as a priest
1946 - Chic Bears beat NY Giants 24-14 in NFL championship game
1946 - Giants Filchock & Hapes suspended by NFL, didn't report bribe attempt
1948 - Former state dept official Alger Hiss indicted in NYC for perjury
1949 - Albert Camus' "Les Justes" premieres in Paris
1950 - Ezzard Charles KOs Nick Barone to retain heavyweight boxing title
1950 - NYC's Port Authority opens
1952 - "Two's Company" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 90 performances
1952 - Christine Jorgenson is 1st person to undergo a sex-change operation
1952 - KHON TV channel 2 in Honolulu, HI (NBC) begins broadcasting
1952 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Orientales Ecclesias
1953 - WJHG TV channel 7 in Panama City, FL (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1954 - Fordham University scraps football team for financial reasons
1954 - Netherlands Antilles becomes co-equal part of Kingdom of Netherlands
1956 - Emergency crisis in North Ireland proclaimed after IRA strikes
1956 - KGW TV channel 8 in Portland, OR (NBC) begins broadcasting
1956 - WRAL TV channel 5 in Raleigh-Durham, NC (CBS) begins broadcasting
1959 - Everly Brothers record "Let It Be Me"
1961 - Adolf Eichmann convicted of crimes against humanity in Israel
1961 - Equal access rule, political parties get TV broadcasting time
1961 - JFK visits Puerto Rico
1961 - L J Suenens appointed archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels
1962 - Vaughn Meader's "1st Family," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 12 wks
1964 - 1st time 4 people in space
1964 - American Radio Relay League (organization for hams) founded
1964 - Canada adopts maple leaf flag
1965 - 3rd cyclone of year kills 15,000 at the mouths of the Ganges River in Bangladesh
1965 - D Heneker & J Taylor's musical "Charlie Girl," premieres in London
1965 - Gemini 6 launched; makes 1st rendezvous in space (with Gemini 7)
1965 - Queen Juliana opens Zeeland Bridge to Oosterschelde
1965 - William Eckert replaces Ford Frick as 4th commissioner of baseball
1966 - "Joyful Noise" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 12 performances
1966 - Audouin Dollfus discovers 10th satellite of Saturn, Janus
1966 - John W Mecom Jr becomes 1st owner of New Orlean Saints
1967 - Beatles release "Christmas Time is Here Again"
1967 - Joe Garagiola joins Today Show panel
1967 - Silver Bay bridge (Oh-WV) collapes during afternoon rush hr, 34 die
1967 - The Silver Bridge collapses, killing 46 people.
1969 - Plastic Ono Band, play their only concert at London's Lyceum Ballroom
1969 - SF Fire Dept replaces leather helmets with plastic ones
1970 - Ferryboat capsized in Korean Strait drowning 261
1970 - S Korean ferry Namyong-Ho sinks in Strait of Korea, 308 killed
1970 - Soviet Venera 7 is 1st spacecraft to land on another planet (Venus)
1970 - Illinois State Constitution is adopted at a special election.
1971 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1973 - American Psychiatric Association declares homosexuality is not mental illness
1973 - Golf Resort (Disney Inn) opens
1973 - Pirates of Caribbean ride opens at Disneyland
1973 - Sandy Hawley becomes 1st jockey to win 500 races in 1 year
1973 - Tennessee beats Temple 11-6 in low scoring NCAA basketball game
1973 - US Psychiatrist say homosexuals are not mentally ill
1974 - A's Catfish Hunter is ruled a free agent (later signs with Yankees)
1976 - Argo Merchant tanker off Massachusetts' SE coast, spills 7.6 m gallons of crude when ship
           ran aground
1976 - Jamaica premier Manley wins elections
1976 - Samoa becomes a member of the UN.
1978 - Saint Maarten Patriotic Movement (SPM) forms under W James
1978 - Test Cricket debut of Malcolm Marshall, v India at Bangalore
1979 - Deposed Shah of Iran leaves US for Panama
1979 - World Court in Hague rules Iran should relase all US hostages
1980 - NY Yankee Dave Winfield becomes highest-paid player, 10 years $15M
1980 - Premier Queddei troops conquers Chad capital N'djamena
1980 - ZBZ Sangha registered after 5 yrs of administrative hassles in Warsaw
1981 - 4th Emmy Sports Award presentation
1981 - NASA launches Intelsat V satellite, no. 503
1982 - Bill Parcells becomes 12th head coach of NY Giants
1982 - Roy Williams, Teamsters pres, & 4 others convicted of bribery
1982 - Sao Tome & Principe constitution approved
1982 - Spain reopens border with Gibraltar
1983 - 3 KC Royals suspended due to cocaine usage
1983 - Columbia flies to Kennedy Space Center via El Paso, Kelly AFB
1983 - Last 80 US combat soldiers in Grenada withdrew
1983 - Wendy Wasserstein's "Isn't It Romantic," premieres in NYC
1984 - USSR launches Vega 1 for rendezvous with Halley's Comet
1985 - Sylvester Stallone & Brigitte Nielson wed
1986 - 150 killed during race riot in Karachi
1986 - CIA director William Casey suffers a cerebral seizure
1986 - Carnegie Hall reopens after a $50 million facelift
1987 - "Les Miserables" opens at Shubert Theatre, Boston
1988 - Lori Davis of Long Island sues Mike Tyson for grabbing her buttocks
1991 - "Nick & Nora" closes at Marquis Theater NYC after 9 performances
1991 - Deb Richard wins JBP Cup LPGA Match Play Golf Championship
1992 - Arthur Ashe is named Sports Illustrated Sportman of Year
1992 - WNew AM (1130) NYC resigns air, replaced by WBBR
1993 - C-130 flies into a Philippines hill & explodes, 16 killed
1993 - Haitian premier Robert Malval resigns
1993 - John Williams final appearance as conductor of Boston Pops
1993 - Lee Aspen resigns as secretary of defense
1993 - Y-12 crashes at Phonesavanh, Laos: 18 killed
1993 - British premier Major/Irish premier Reynolds signs Downing Street Declaration concerning
           Northern Ireland self determination
1994 - "Tuna Christmas" opens at Booth Theater NYC for 20 performances
1994 - John Bruton becomes Ireland's premier
1994 - Liberia militia kills 48 inhabitants of Monrovia
1994 - Palau becomes a member of the UN.
1995 - Playboy goes back on sale after 36 year ban in Ireland
1995 - The European Communities Court of Justice hands down the "Bosman ruling", giving EU
           footballers the right to a free transfer at the end of their contracts, with the provision that
           they are transferring from one UEFA Federation to another.
1996 - Dottie Pepper & Juli Inkster win LPGA Diner's Club Golf Matches
1996 - Jim Colbert & Bob Murphy wins Diner's Club Senior PGA Golf Matches
1996 - Tom Lehman & Duffy Waldoff wins Diner's Club PGA Golf Matches
1997 - SF 49ers retire Joe Montana's #16
2001 - The Leaning Tower of Pisa reopens after 11 years and $27,000,000 to fortify it, without fixing
           its famous lean.
2005 - Latvia amends its constitution to eliminate possibility of same-sex couples being entitled to
           marry.
2005 - Argentina's president Néstor Kirchner announces the early repayment of its external debt to
           the IMF.
2005 - Introduction of the F-22 Raptor into USAF active service.
2005 - The 2005 Atlantic Power Outage began.
2006 - First flight of the F-35 Lightning II.
2009 - Boeing's new 787 Dreamliner makes its maiden flight from Seattle, Washington.
2012 - 18 Asylum seekers drown in the Aegean Sea on the way to Greece from Turkey

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Post by: MysteRy on December 15, 2013, 01:13:48 PM

This Day in History for 15th December


Famous Weddings

1960 - King Boudouin of Belgium marries dona Fabiola de Mora y Aragon
1985 - Action star actor Sylvester Stallone (39) weds "Rocky IV" actress Brigitte Nielsen (22) in
           Beverly Hills, California
1990 - Rocker Rod Stewart marries super model Rachel Hunter
2005 - "Eastenders" actress Elaine Lordan (39) weds BBC manager Peter Manuel at Islington Town
            Hall in London
2007 - "Marchesa" designer Georgina Chapman (31) weds Miramax mogul Harvey Weinstein (55) in
            Connecticut, USA
2012 - "Scrubs" actor Donald Faison (38) weds CaCee Cobb (35) in Los Angeles, California

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Post by: MysteRy on December 15, 2013, 01:14:54 PM

This Day in History for 15th December


Famous Divorces

2008 - Pop singer Madonna (50) divorces film director Guy Ritchie (40) due to unreasonable behavior
           after almost 8 years of marriage
2010 - Nip/Tuck actor Dylan Walsh (47) divorces actress Joana Going (47) due to irreconcilable
           differences after 6 years of marriage

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Post by: MysteRy on December 15, 2013, 01:22:55 PM

This Day in History for 15th December


Famous Birthdays

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French Engineer                                       Physicist/Nobel Laureate                       Industrialist J. Paul Getty (1892)
Gustave Eiffel (1832)                                Henri Becquerel (1852)

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Historian and Author Michael King (1945)


37 - Nero Claudius Augustus Germanicus, 5th emperor of Rome (54-68)
1534 - Lucas Osiander, composer
1567 - Christoph Demantius, composer
1574 - Samuel Besler, composer
1610 - David Teniers II, Flemish courtpainter (Theatrum Pictorium)
1648 - Gregory King, English statistician (Natural & Political Observations)
1657 - Michel-Richard Delalande, composer
1667 - Ludwig Ernst, composer
1720 - J F Beck, writer
1735 - Cesare Beccaria-Bonesana, Italian lawyer
1765 - Philippe-Jacques Pfeffinger, composer
1778 - Godert AGP baron van der Capellen, Dutch gov-gen (Dutch-Indies)
1787 - Charles Cowden Clarke, English editor/Shakespearean critic
1793 - Henry Charles Carey, Phila, economist (Principles of Poli Economy)
1802 - Janos Bolyai, Romania, mathematician (non-Euclidean geometry)
1803 - August Freyer, composer
1812 - Isidor Dannstrom, composer
1821 - Auguste Emmanuel Vaucorbeil, composer
1822 - Edward Stephen, composer
1823 - Friedrich Gottlieb Schwencke, composer
1830 - Francesco D'Arcais, composer
1832 - Gustave Eiffel [Alexandre], French engineer (Eiffel tower), (d. 1923)
1836 - Edmond Picard, French/Belgian lawyer/writer (La forge Roussel)
1842 - Henry Gadsby, composer
1848 - Edwin Howland Blashfield, decorated the dome of Library of Congress
1852 - Henri Becquerel [Antoine ], discovered radioactivity (Nobel 1903), (d. 1908)
1852 - Tewfik Pasja, khedive (viceroy) of Egypt
1853 - Jean B A Kessler, director of oil on Dutch Indies
1857 - Eugeniusz Pankiewicz, composer
1859 - Ludwik L Zamenhof, Russian Poland, physician/linguist (Esperanto)
1860 - Niels Ryberg Finsen, Denmark, physician/phototherapist (Nobel 1903)
1860 - Abner Powell, American baseball player (d. 1953)
1861 - Charles Edgar Duryea, inventor (1st auto built & operated in US)
1863 - Arthur D Little, US, chemist (patented rayon)
1863 - Paul [Prudent] Painlevé, French mathematician/minister/premier [NS]
1870 - Josef Hoffmann, Austrian architect
1873 - Pongrac Kacsoh, composer
1875 - Friedrich Niggli, composer
1875 - Emilio Jacinto, Filipino poet and revolutionary (d. 1899)
1876 - Ferdinand Hardekopf, writer
1878 - Hans Carossa, writer
1879 - Hugo W C Bordewijk, Dutch lawyer
1879 - Rudolf von Laban, Czech/German choreographer (modern dance)
1881 - James Schneider, NY, actor (Keystone Kops)
1887 - Pieter C A Geyl, historian (History of the Dutch Tribe)
1888 - Artturi A Leinonen, Finnish journalist/writer (Kati)/politician
1888 - Maxwell Anderson, US, dramatist (Winter Set, High Tor)
1891 - A. P. (Alvin) Carter, Virginia, American musician (Carter Family)
1892 - David Guion, composer
1892 - J. Paul Getty, Minneapolis Mn, oil magnate (Getty Oil), (d. 1976)
1892 - Jose Maria Castro, composer
1896 - Carl Ferdinand Cori, US bio-chemist
1896 - George B Cressey, US geographer (Asia's Lands & Peoples)
1896 - Margaret Bannerman, Toronto Ontario, actress (Elopement)
1896 - Paul R Citroen, Dutch sculptor
1896 - Betty Smith, American author (d. 1972)
1898 - Fernando Remacha, composer
1899 - Frank Vosper, London England, actor (Man Who Knew Too Much)
1899 - Harold Abrahams, English sprinter (d. 1978)
1900 - Francesco Messina, sculptor
1902 - Robert F. Bradford, 57th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1983)
1904 - Kermit Bloomgarden, producer (Diary of Anne Frank, Music Man)
1904 - William Hitzig, Austria, Maxwell physician
1905 - Ferenc Farkas, composer
1906 - Betty Smith, novelist (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn)
1907 - Oscar Niemeyer, Brazilian architect (Brasilia), (d. 2012)
1910 - John H. Hammond, NYC, American rock/jazz musician (I Can Tell, So Many Roads)
1911 - Nicholas P. Dallis, American psychiatrist and comic strip writer (d. 1991)
1912 - Ray Eames, American designer (d. 1988)
1913 - Muriel Rukeyser, US, poet (1977 Shelley Memorial Award)
1913 - Rik Jacobs, Flemish stage manager
1914 - Ernie Toshack, cricket pace bowler (Aussie left-arm post-WWII)
1915 - Jose Toribio Merino Castro, admiral
1916 - Maurice Wilkins, England, physicist, worked with DNA (Nobel 1962)
1917 - Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee, linguist and writer of Pakistan (d. 2005)
1918 - Jeff Chandler, [Ira Grossel], Bkln, actor (Broken Arrow)
1919 - Ake Seyffarth, 10K speed skater (Olympic-gold-1948)
1920 - Kurt Schaffenberger, American comics artist (d. 2002)
1921 - Bobby Todd, US comic/actor (Original Sin)
1922 - Alan Freed, Penn, DJ, accepted payola/introduced term "rock-n-roll"
1923 - Freeman Dyson, English-born American physicist
1923 - Uziel Gal, Israeli firearm designer (d. 2002)
1923 - Valentin Varennikov, Russian general and statesman
1924 - Ida Haendel, Polish violinist/author (Woman with Violin)
1925 - Sam Pollock, Canadian ice hockey general manager
1925 - Kasey Rogers, American actress (d. 2006)
1928 - Jimmy Nelson, Chicago Illinois, ventriloguist (Nestles, Farfel)
1928 - Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian artist (d. 2000)
1928 - Jerry Wallace, American singer
1929 - Keith Andrew, cricketer (England wicket-keeper in 2 Tests 1954-63)
1930 - Alim-ud-Din, cricketer (Pakistani batsman in 25 Tests 1954-62)
1930 - Edna O'Brien, Irish novelist and short story writer (Girl with Green Eyes, Casualties of Peace)
1931 - Evald Schorm, Prague Czech, director (Courage for Every Day)
1932 - Elaine Barkin, composer
1932 - Igor Stuhec, composer
1933 - Jesse Belvin, Texarkana Arkansas, rock vocalist (Mr Easy)
1933 - Tim Conway, Willoughby Oh, comic (McHale's Navy, Carol Burnett Show)
1937 - John [Thomas] Sladek, US, sci-fi author (Tik-Tok, Bugs)
1937 - Karen Morrow, Chic, actress (Aunt Minerva-Tabitha, Jim Nabors Hour)
1938 - Dennis RB Madide, South African Internal minister of Transkei
1939 - Cindy Birdsong, Camden NJ, rock vocalist (Labelle-Rainbow, Supremes)
1939 - Nicolaus A Huber, composer
1940 - Nick Buoniconti, NFL linebacker (Miami Dolphins)/sportscaster (NBC)
1941 - Austin Savage, Welsh hockey player
1941 - Geoffrey Davies, English actor (Doctor at Sea, Doctor on the Go)
1942 - Dave Clark, London England, rock drummer (Dave Clark 5-Glad All Over)
1943 - Mihaly Hesz, Hungary, 1K kayak (Olympic-gold-1968)
1943 - Kathleen Blanco, American politician
1943 - Lucien den Arend, Dutch artist
1944 - Stan Bahnsen, pitcher (NY Yankee, 1968 AL Rookie-of-year)
1944 - Chico Mendes, Brazilian campaigner (d. 1988)
1945 - Thaao Penghlis, actor (Mission Impossible, Tony-Days of Our Life)
1945 - Michael King, Wellington, New Zealand historian and author (Penguin History of New Zealand)
1946 - Carmine Appice, NYC, musician (Have You Heard, Keep on Rolling)
1946 - Harry Ray, Hackensack NJ, rock vocalist (Ray, Goodman, Brown)
1946 - Art Howe, American baseball player and manager
1947 - Rodney Bingenheimer, Pioneering American radio personality
1948 - David Gwillim, Plymouth England, actor (Island at Top of the World)
1948 - Melanie Chartoff, American actress
1948 - Cassandra Harris, Australian actress (d. 1991)
1949 - Don Johnson, Flatt Creek, Missouri, American actor (Miami Vice, Nash Bridges)
1949 - Ton [Teunis] Sijbrands, Dutch world checkers champion
1951 - Joe Jordan, Scottish soccer star
1951 - Ken Knox, rock vocalist (Chairmen of the Board)
1952 - Allan Simonsen, Danish footballer
1952 - Julie Taymor, American director
1953 - J. M. DeMatteis, American comic book writer
1954 - Alex Cox, director (Repo Man)
1954 - Justin Ross, Brooklyn New York, American actor (Sinatra, Chorus Line, Fan, Quick Change)
1954 - Mike Ratledge, author (2DAY & NEWDAY)/[email protected]
1955 - Melanie Chartoff, West Haven Ct, actress (Fridays, Parker Lewis)
1955 - Paul Simonon, English pop bassist (Clash-Havana 3 AM)
1957 - Tim Reynolds, Wiesbaden, Germany, guitarist (Dave Matthews Band)
1957 - Mario Marois, Canadian ice hockey player
1957 - Mike McAlary, American journalist (d. 1998)
1957 - Yuuichi Nagashima, Japanese voice actor
1958 - Eddy Annys, Belgian high jumper
1959 - Greg Matthews, cricketer (NSW & Aust off-spin all rounder Yeah yeah)
1959 - Heidi Bohay, Somerset NJ, actress (Megan-Hotel)
1959 - Rashid Khan, cricketer (4 Tests for Pakistan 1982-85)
1960 - Don Franklin, actor (Seaquest 2032, Noah Dixon-The Young Riders)
1960 - Doug Phelps, Leachville Ar, singer (Ky Headhunters-Davy Crockett)
1960 - Walter Werzowa, Austrian composer
1961 - Annie Pujol, Perpignan, French TV hostess (Roue de la Fortune)
1961 - Reginald Hudlin, director (House Party)
1961 - Karin Resetarits, Austrian journalist
1963 - Asif Karim, cricketer (slow left-arm bowler for Kenya 1996 World Cup)
1963 - David Wingate, NBA guard/forward (Seattle Supersonics)
1963 - Helen Slater, NYC, actress (Supergirl, Billie Jean, Ruthless People)
1963 - Andrew Luster, Max Factor heir
1964 - Carlton Bailey, NFL linebacker (Green Bay Packers, Carolina Panthers)
1964 - Jerry Ball, NFL defensive tackle (Oakland Raiders, Minnesota Vikings)
1965 - Kimberly Donley, Aurora IL, playmate (Mar, 1993)
1965 - Walter Reeves, NFL tight end (Cleveland Browns)
1966 - Carl Hooper, cricketer (WI off-spin all-rounder)
1966 - Manos Papayiannis, Greek fashion model and actor
1967 - Chris Gioskos, CFL tackle (Toronto Argonauts)
1967 - Christine Larsen, New Westminster BC, synchro swimmer (Oly-silver-96)
1967 - Frank Hartley, NFL tight end (Cleveland Browns, San Diego Chargers)
1967 - Keith Askins, NBA guard/forward (Miami Heat)
1967 - Mo Vaughn, Norwalk, Connecticut, American MLB first baseman (Boston Red Sox, MVP-1995)
1967 - David Howells, English footballer
1968 - Garrett Wang, actor (Star Trek Voyager)
1968 - Javid Hussain, Indian film producer
1968 - Osama Ali Maher, Swedish politician
1969 - Dan Williams, NFL defensive end (Denver Broncos, KC Chiefs)
1969 - Sean Briscombe, Minneapolis Minn, diver (Olympics-96)
1969 - Wayne Simmons, linebacker (KC Chiefs)
1969 - Chantal Petitclerc, Canadian wheelchair athlete
1970 - Damon Thomas, NFL wide receiver (Buffalo Bills)
1970 - Lawrence Funderburke, NBA forward (Sacramento Kings)
1970 - Mitchell Butler, NBA guard (Washington Bullets, Cleveland Cavaliers)
1970 - Frankie Dettori, Italian jockey
1971 - Boudewijk Pahlplatz, soccer player (FC Twente, PSV)
1971 - Chris Maumalanga, NFL defensive tackle (Chicago Bears, Az Cardinals)
1971 - Eric Bjornson, NFL tight end (Dallas Cowboys)
1971 - Ken Alexander, WLAF linebacker (Barcelona Dragons)
1972 - Rodney Harrison, NFL safety (San Diego Chargers)
1972 - Stanislav Jasecko, Spisska Nova Ves, hockey defenseman (Team Slovakia)
1972 - Stuart Townsend, Irish actor
1973 - Geoff Stewart, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1973 - James Stewart, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1973 - Mike Cherry, quarterback (NY Giants)
1973 - Mirko Ludemann, Weiwasser GER, NHL defenseman (Team Germany, Colorado)
1973 - Tammy Melinda Pearman, Brooklyn New York, American soccer forward/defender (Olympics-
           96)
1973 - Ryu Seung-wan, South Korean actor and director
1974 - Jeffrey van der Stone, soccer player (RKC)
1976 - Baichung Bhutia, Indian footballer
1976 - Aaron Miles, American baseball player
1976 - Elix Skipper, American professional wrestler
1977 - Catherine Fox, 400m freestyle relay (Olympics-gold-96)
1977 - Larissa Fontaine, Chicago Ill, gymnast (alt-Olympics-96)
1978 - Henrietta Nagyova, Nove Zamky Slovakia, tennis star (ITF/Cali-COL)
1978 - Mark Jansen, Dutch guitarist (Epica)
1978 - Jerome McDougle, American football player
1979 - Adam Brody, American actor
1979 - Eric Young, Canadian professional wrestler
1980 - Sergio Pizzorno, English guitarist (Kasabian)
1981 - Andy González, Puerto Rican baseball player
1981 - Roman Pavlyuchenko, Russian football player
1981 - Najoua Belyzel, French singer
1981 - Brendan Fletcher, Canadian actor
1981 - Thomas Herrion, American football player (d. 2005)
1981 - Creighton Lovelace, American Baptist minister
1982 - Charlie Cox, English actor
1982 - Borja García, Spanish racing driver
1982 - George O. Gore II, American actor
1983 - René Goguen (René Duprée), Canadian professional wrestler
1983 - Ronnie Radke, American singer (Escape the Fate)
1983 - Wang Hao, Chinese table tennis player
1984 - Joshua Third, British Guitarist in The Horrors.
1984 - Martin Skrtel Slovakian Footballer
1985 - Sheeba Reiter, Fla, illegitimate daughter of Jackie Mason
1986 - Snejana Onopka, Ukrainian supermodel
1991 - Eunice Cho, American actress

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Post by: MysteRy on December 15, 2013, 01:28:30 PM

This Day in History for 15th December


Famous Deaths

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Painter Jan Vermeer (1675)                    Animator Walt Disney (1966)


1025 - Basilius II, the Bulgarendoder, Byzantine emperor (976-1025), dies
1072 - Alp Arslan, Turkish sultan in Persia (b. 1029)
1230 - Ottokar I, king of Bohemia (1197-1230), dies
1263 - King Haakon IV of Norway (b. 1204)
1515 - Alfonso de Albuquerque, viceroy of Portuguese Indies, dies
1576 - Joachim Hopperus, [Hoppers], Frisian lawyer/politician, dies at 53
1598 - Philip van Marnix, Flemish ruler of St Aldegonde/poet, dies at 58
1621 - Charles d'albert duke of Luynes/PM of France, dies at 43
1626 - Adriaen de Vries, Dutch sculptor/painter, dies at about 70
1673 - Margaret Cavendish, English writer (b. 1623)
1675 - Jan Vermeer, Dutch painter (Love Letter), dies at 43
1683 - Izaak Walton, English writer (b. 1593)
1688 - Gaspar Fagel, lawyer/Neth grand pensionary (1672-88), dies at 54
1699 - Henrik A van Reede tot Drakenstein, Dutch botanist, dies at about 63
1712 - Sidney 1st earl of Godolphine, English minister of Finance, dies at 67
1715 - George Hickes, English linguist (Old German Philology), dies at 73
1753 - Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, English architect (b. 1694)
1779 - Manuel Jeronimo Romero de Avila, composer, dies at 62
1792 - Joseph Martin Kraus, composer, dies at 36
1816 - Joseph Franz Maximilian Lobkowitz, composer, dies at 44
1817 - Maria Walewska [Leszczinska], lover of emperor Napoleon I, dies
1822 - Ferenc Verseghy, composer, dies at 65
1826 - William Browser, revolting slave, executed in NYC
1831 - Paul R Cantzlaar, gov of Saba/Curacao/Dutch-West Indies, dies at 60
1839 - Matthijs I van Bree, Flemish court-painter, dies at 66
1855 - Jacques Charles François Sturm, French mathematician (b. 1803)
1861 - Gualtiero Sanelli, composer, dies at 45
1880 - Carlo Boncompagni di Mombello, Ital minister of Justice, dies at 76
1889 - Ferdinand II A F A, King of Portugal, dies at 73
1890 - Sitting Bull, Hunkpapa-Sioux chief (Little Big Horn), killed by US
1892 - Charles Balmer, composer, dies at 75
1896 - John GR Acquoy, Dutch theologist/church historian, dies at 67
1901 - Elias Alvares Lobo, composer, dies at 67
1909 - Francisco Tarrega y Eixea, composer, dies at 57
1934 - Maggis Lena Walker, 1st US (black) woman to head a bank, dies at 69
1939 - Tom McKibbin, cricketer (5 Tests for Aust 1895-1898, 17 wkts), dies
1943 - Thomas W "Fats" Waller, jazz pianist (Hot Chocolate), dies at 39 in KC Missouri
1944 - Glenn Miller, US band leader/jazz composer, dies at 40
1946 - Conrad Haebler, historian (Hundert Kalenderinkunabeln), dies at 89
1946 - Gordon Frederic Norton, composer, dies at 77
1947 - Arthur Machen, Welsh author (b. 1863)
1950 - Robert Muller-Hartmann, composer, dies at 66
1950 - Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Indian political leader, Iron Man of India (b. 1875)
1951 - Eric Drummond, 1st sec-gen League of Nations (1919-33), dies at 75
1953 - Kishio Hirao, composer, dies at 46
1958 - Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, Austrian-born American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1900)
1961 - William "Dummy" Hoy, professional baseball player, dies at 99
1962 - Charles Laughton, English actor (Hunchback of Notre Dame), dies at 63
1966 - Walt Disney, animator, dies at 65, put in suspended animation
1968 - Jess Willard, Heavyweight boxing champ (1915-19), dies at 86
1968 - Antonio Barrette, Canadian politician, premier of Quebec (b. 1899)
1971 - Paul Pierre Lévy, French mathematician (b. 1886)
1972 - Edward Earle, actor (Charlie Chan-Meeting at Midnight), dies at 90
1972 - Herbert Eimert, German composer (Glockenspiel), dies at 75
1973 - Orest Alexandrovich Evlahkov, composer, dies at 61
1974 - Erich Walter Sternberg, composer, dies at 83
1974 - Anatole Litvak, Ukrainian-born screenwriter and film producer (b. 1902)
1975 - Mukhtar Ashrafi, composer, dies at 63
1977 - Wilfred Kitching, the 7th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1893)
1978 - Chill Wills, actor (Frontier Circus, Rounders), dies at 75
1979 - Bern Hoffman, actor (Major Dell Conway), dies at 66
1984 - Avon Long, actor (Roots: Next Generation), dies at 74
1984 - Jan Peerce, [Perelmuth], operatic tenor, dies at 80 following a stroke
1984 - Lennard Pearce, English actor (b. 1915)
1989 - Arnold Moss, actor (Gambit), dies at 79
1989 - Edward Underdown, English actor (b. 1908)
1990 - Betty Warren actress (Passport to Pimlico), dies
1990 - Jean Paige, actress (Capt Blood, Black Beauty), dies
1991 - Horatio Luro, US horse trainer (Northern Dancer), dies at 90
1991 - Ray Smith, British actor (And Then You Die), dies at 55
1993 - Kakuei Tanaka, PM of Japan (1972-74), dies
1994 - Hans de Jong, musician/conductor (Amsterdams Vrouwenkoor), dies at 86
1994 - Harry Tobias, songwriter, dies at 99
1994 - Henry Phelps Brown, historian/economist, dies at 88
1994 - Mollie Doreen Phillips, Brit figure skater (Eur-bronze-33), dies at 87
1995 - James Geoffrey Cutcliffe Hepburn, tap-dancer/socialist, dies at 88
1995 - Manuel Gutierrez Mellado, PM of Defense of Spain (1977-81), dies at 83
1996 - Gerald Moverley, priest, dies at 74
1996 - Guiseppe Dossetti, politician/priest, dies at 83
1996 - Laurens jan van der Post, explorer/conservationist, dies at 90
1997 - Lillian Disney, widow of Walt Disney, dies at 98
1997 - Pananayiotis Taki Vatikiotis, middle east scholar, dies at 69
2001 - Russ Haas, American professional wrestler (b. 1974)
2001 - Rufus Thomas, American musician (b. 1917)
2003 - George Fisher, American political cartoonist (b. 1923)
2003 - Keith Magnuson, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1947)
2004 - Pauline Gore, mother of Al Gore (b. 1912)
2005 - Heinrich Gross, Austrian physician (b. 1914)
2005 - Stan Leonard, Canadian golfer (b. 1915)
2005 - William Proxmire, U.S. Senator from Wisconsin (b. 1915)
2005 - Darrell Russell, American football player (b. 1976)
2006 - Clay Regazzoni, Swiss Formula One driver (b. 1939)
2007 - John Berg (actor), American actor (b. 1949)
2007 - Julia Carson, U.S. Congresswoman from Indiana (b. 1938)
2008 - León Febres Cordero, Ecuador's former President (b. 1931)
2009 - Oral Roberts, American television evangelist and author (b. 1918)
2010 - Blake Edwards, American film director (b. 1922)
2010 - Bob Feller, American baseball player (b. 1918)
2010 - Eugene Victor Wolfenstein, American political scientist (b. 1940)
2011 - Andy Carey, third baseman for 1950s New York Yankees, dies at 80

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 16, 2013, 02:12:36 PM

This Day in History for 16th December


Historical Events

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English Military and Political Leader       Comedian/Actor/Filmaker                     Heavyweight Boxing Champion
Oliver Cromwell                                          Charlie Chaplin                                             Jack Dempsey

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Dictator of Nazi Germany                       33rd US President Harry Truman             Rock Guitarist Jimi Hendrix
Adolf Hitler

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US President & Actor                              Actress Shannen Doherty
Ronald Reagan


755 - An Lushan revolts against Chancellor Yang Guozhong at Fanyang, initiating the An Shi
         Rebellion during the Tang Dynasty of China.
882 - Marinus I begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding John VIII
1392 - Nanboku-chō - Emperor Go-Kameyama abdicates in favor of rival claimant Go-Komatsu.
1431 - King Henry VI of England crowned king of France
1538 - King Francois I orders renewed pursuit of Protestants
1575 - The 1575 Valdivia earthquake takes place.
1577 - Danzig surrenders to troops of Polish king Istvan Bathory
1598 - Seven Year War: Battle of Noryang Point - The final battle of the Seven Year War is fought
           between the Korean and Japanese navies, resulting in a decisive Korean victory.
1617 - Spanish viceroy Hernando Arias de Saavedra founds provinces Rio de la Plata
           (Argentina)/Guaira (Paraguay)
1631 - Mount Vesuvious, Italy erupts, destroys 6 villages & kills 4,000
1653 - Oliver Cromwell sworn in as English Lord Protector
1659 - General Monck demands free parliamentary election in Scotland
1689 - English Parliament adopts Bill of Rights after Glorious Revolution
1707 - Last recorded eruption of Mount Fuji in Japan.
1740 - Prussian Libya falls to Silezie
1761 - Seven Years' War: After four-month siege, Russian army under Pyotr Rumyantsev takes
           Prussian fortress of Kolobrzeg (German: Kolberg).
1767 - Van Ritter von Glucks opera "Alceste" premiers
1773 - Big tea party in Boston harbor-indians welcome (Boston Tea Party)
1811 - Earthquake hits New Madrid, Missouri, causing widespread damage
1817 - Leaders of Molukkas uprising hanged in Ambon
1824 - Great North Holland Canal opens
1826 - Benjamin W. Edwards rides into Mexican controlled Nacogdoches, Texas and declares himself
           ruler of the Republic of Fredonia.
1835 - Fire consumes over 600 buildings in NYC
1838 - Boers beat Zulu chieftain Dingaan in South Africa
1850 - Ships the Charlotte-Jane and the Randolph bring the first of the Canterbury Pilgrims to
           Lyttelton, New Zealand
1857 - Earthquake in Naples, Italy
1858 - Dutch government decides to vacate Schokland Island
1862 - Kingdom of Nepal accepts its constitution
1864 - Battle of Nashville ends after 4400 casualities
1877 - Anton Bruckner's 3rd Symphony in D, premieres
1880 - Republic of South-Africa forms
1884 - Great Britain recognizes King Leopold II's Congo Free State
1886 - Rift at Dutch Reformed Church over "Doleantie"
1890 - Negro Methodist Episcopal Church founded in Jackson, TN
1892 - Commencement of 1st Sheffield Shield cricket game, SA v NSW
1893 - Anton Dvorak's "New World Symphony" premieres
1897 - 1st submarine with an internal combustion engine demonstrated
1900 - Boer army under gen Kritzinger take Cape colony
1901 - Boer general Kritzinger captured
1903 - Majestic Theater, NYC, becomes 1st in US to employ women ushers
1905 - "Variety," covering all phases of show business, 1st published
1907 - Eugene H Farrar is 1st to sing on radio (Bkln Navy Yard NY)
1907 - Great White Fleet sails from Hampton Downs on it's World Cruise
1908 - 1st credit union in US forms (Manchester NH)
1909 - US pressure forces Nicaraguan Pres Jose Santos Zelaya from office
1912 - 1st US postage stamp picturing an airplane, 20 cent parcel post, issued
1912 - Austria-Hungary engage in conflict with Serbia
1913 - Charlie Chaplin began his film career at Keystone for $150 a week
1914 - French offensive in Artois (Pétain)
1914 - World War I: German battleships under Franz Von Hipper bombard the English ports of
           Hartlepool and Scarborough.
1915 - Albert Einstein publishes his "General Theory of Relativity"
1918 - Jack Dempsey KOs Carl Morris in 14 seconds
1920 - 8.5 earthquake rocks the Gansu province in China, killing an estimated 200,000
1922 - Mutual Association of Eastern Colored Baseball Clubs) formally organizes
1922 - NSW all out for 786 against South Australia Cricket
1924 - Noel Coward's "Vortex," premieres in London
1925 - Alpha Phi Omega national service fraternity is founded at Lafayette College.
1926 - Darius Milhauds opera "Le Pauvre Matelot," premieres in Paris
1926 - Kenesaw Mountain Landis renewed 7-years as baseball commissioner
1926 - WOW-AM in Omaha NE begins radio transmissions
1927 - Cricket 1st-class debut of Don Bradman, NSW v South Australia
1929 - Chic Blackhawks 1st game at Chicago Stadium, beat Pittsburgh Pirates, 3-1
1930 - Golfer Bobby Jones wins James E Sullivan Award
1931 - German SPD begins Eiserne Front against fascism
1933 - Abe de Vries & Sipke Castelein win Elfstedentocht
1936 - John Monks/Fred Finklehoff's "Brother Rat," premieres in NYC
1937 - Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe attempt to escape from the American federal prison on Alcatraz
           Island in San Francisco Bay; neither is ever seen again.
1938 - Bradman scores 143 South Aust v NSW, 11 fours 91 singles
1939 - Bradman scores 251* SA v NSW, 271 minutes, 38 fours 2 sixes
1940 - British air raid on Mannheim
1940 - Joe Louis KOs Al McCoy in 6 for heavyweight boxing title in Chicago
1941 - Sarawak occupied by Japanese
1942 - Hitler orders combat against partisans in Russia & Balkan
1943 - "Tamiami Champion" trains collide, kills 73 & injures 200
1944 - Battle of Bulge begins in Belgium
1944 - German V-2 strikes Antwerp bioscope (638 kill)
1944 - US 2nd Inf division occupies "Heartbreak Crossroads" Wahlerscheid
1945 - Cleveland Rams win NFL championship
1948 - "Lend an Ear" opens at National Theater NYC for 460 performances
1949 - Sukarno becomes president Indonesia, Mokammed Hatta premier
1949 - Svenska Aeroplan Aktiebolaget, later knows as SAAB, is founded in Sweden.
1950 - "Let's Make an Opera" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 5 perfs
1950 - Harry Truman proclaims state of emergency against "Communist imperialism"
1953 - 1st White House Press Conference (Pres Eisenhower & 161 reporters)
1953 - Charles E Yeager fly > 2,575 kph in Bell X-1A
1956 - "Fanny" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 888 performances
1957 - Sir Feroz Khan Noon replaces Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigar as Prime Minister of Pakistan.
1958 - Bogota warehouse fire kills 82
1959 - Snow falling in Lowarai Pass West Pakistan kills 48
1960 - "Wildcat" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 172 performances
1960 - TWA 266 & United 826 collide over Staten Island, kills 134
1961 - "Evening with Yves Montand" opens at John Golden NYC after 55 perfs
1962 - David Lean's "Lawrence of Arabia" premieres
1962 - NY Giant YA Title sets NFL season touchdown pass record at 33 with 6 touchdowns vs Dallas
           (41-31)
1962 - Nepal gets constitution/becomes Constitutional Hindu Monarchy
1964 - US performs nuclear test at Pacific Ocean
1965 - Gemini 6 returns to Earth
1965 - Pioneer 6 launched into solar orbit
1965 - Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, becomes King of Tonga
1966 - Beatles release "Everywhere its Christmas" in UK
1966 - Jimi Hendrix Experience releases its 1st single, "Hey Joe," in the UK
1967 - Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Phila 76ers scores 68 points vs Chicago
1968 - KFIZ TV channel 34 in Fond du Lac, WI begins broadcasting
1969 - Brit House of Commons votes 343-185 abolishing the death penalty
1969 - "War is Over! If You Want It, Happy Christmas from John & Yoko" posters begin appearing
1970 - 1st successful landing on Venus (USSR)
1970 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1971 - Bangladesh (East Pakistan) declares independence from Pakistan
1971 - Don McLean's 8+ minute version of "American Pie" released
1971 - India's army occupies Dacca, West Pakistani troops surrenders
1972 - Bangladesh Constitution goes into effect
1972 - Miami Dolphins become 1st undefeated NFL team (14-0-0)
1973 - O J Simpson becomes 1st NFLer to rush 2,000 yard in a season
1973 - US kidnap victem Paul Getty III freed
1974 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1974 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1975 - 1st broadcast of "One Day at a Time" on CBS TV
1975 - Bill Veeck buys 80% of White Sox from John Allyn
1976 - Andrew Young named Ambassador & Chief US Delegate to UN
1976 - Charlie Finley's $10 million damage suit against Bowie Kuhn begins
1976 - Government halts swine flu vaccination prog following reports of paralysis
1976 - Liberian tanker stranded at Nantucket, 180,000 barrels oil in sea
1978 - Ronald Reagan denounces President Jimmy Carter's recognition of China PR
1978 - Cleveland, Ohio becomes the first post-Depression era city to default on its loans, owing
           $14,000,000 to local banks.
1979 - 68th Davis Cup: USA beats Italy in San Francisco (5-0)
1979 - QB Roger Staubach's last regular season game with the Dallas Cowboys
1980 - President-elect Reagan announces Alexander Haig as secretary of state
1981 - Dutch Van Agt's 2nd government falls
1982 - Tom Seaver agrees to new contract with Mets
1982 - The Federal Reserve announces that the operating capacity of factories has gone down to
           67.8%.
1983 - Spokesperson for The Who announces the group is disbanding
1983 - Yogi Berra named Yankee manager for 2nd time
1983 - Riverside, Cal judge denies cerebral palsy victim Elizabeth Bouviato request to starve herself
           to death in a county hospital
1985 - Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-L mission
1986 - Revolt in Kazakhstan against Communist party, known as Zheltoksan, which becomes the
           first sign of ethnic strife during Gorbachev's tenure
1987 - Roh Tae Woo elected president of South Korea
1988 - Political cult leader Lyndon LaRouche convicted of tax, mail fraud
1989 - Commencement of 1st Test Cricket play at Bellerive Oval, Hobart (v SL)
1989 - Geoff Marsh completes 355* for WA against South Australia
1989 - Protest breaks out in Timişoara in response to an attempt by the government to evict
           dissident Hungarian pastor, László Tőkés.
1990 - Jean-Bertrand Aristide elected pres of Haiti
1990 - KUSW, Salt Lake City Utah, final shortwave radio transmissions
1990 - Rev Jean Betrand Aristide elected president of Haiti
1991 - Fla Marlins sign their 1st player, 16 year old pitcher Clemente Nunez
1991 - UN reverses ruling that Zionism is racism by 111-25 (13 abstain) vote
1991 - Independence of The Republic of Kazakhstan.
1993 - "Red Shoes" opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 5 performances
1993 - Shannen Doherty (Brenda) is fired from Beverly Hills 90210
1994 - Davy Jones (Monkees), charged with DWI
1997 - President Clinton names his Labrador retriever, "Buddy"
1998 - Iraq disarmament crisis: Operation Desert Fox - The United States and United Kingdom bomb
           targets in Iraq.
2012 - 4 people are killed after Cyclone Evan strikes Fiji
2012 - Corinthians defeat Chelsea 1-0 to win the 2012 FIFA Club World Cup
2012 - A gang rape of a woman on a bus in India that resulted in her death leads to national and
           international outrage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 16, 2013, 02:14:21 PM

This Day in History for 16th December


Famous Weddings

1944 - Gen Eisenhower's clerk Rickey marries corporal Pearlie

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 16, 2013, 02:16:10 PM

This Day in History for 16th December


Famous Divorces

1809 - Napoleon Bonaparte divorces Empress Josephine by French Senate
2005 - American singer-songwriter and TV personality Jessica Simpson (25) divorces singer-songwriter
           Nick Lachey (31) due to irreconcilable differences

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 16, 2013, 02:22:37 PM

This Day in History for 16th December


Famous Birthdays

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Novelist Jane Austen (1775)                Sci-Fi Author Sir Arthur C. Clarke (1917)


1485 - Catherine of Aragon, Madrid, Spanish princess/1st wife of Henry VIII, (d. 1536)
1584 - John Selden, English jurist and oriental scholar (d. 1654)
1614 - Eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1674)
1622 - Kurt S Adeler, Danish admiral/ship builder
1652 - Giovanni Maria Casini, composer
1714 - George Whitefield, English-born Methodist leader (d. 1770)
1716 - Louis-Jules Mancini-Mazarini, Duc de Nivernais, French diplomat and writer (d. 1798)
1717 - Elizabeth Carter, English writer (d. 1806)
1734 - Georg Peter Weimar, composer
1742 - Gebhard Fürst Blücher von Wahlstatt, German Field Marshal (d. 1819)
1748 - Ferdinand-Philippe-Joseph Staes, composer
1770 - Ludwig van Beethoven, Bonn, Germany, composer (5th Symphony, Ode to Joy), (d. 1827)
1775 - Francois-Adrien Boieldieu, composer
1775 - Jane Austen, Winchester, Hampshire, novelist (Pride and Prejudice), (d. 1817)
1776 - Johann Wilhelm Ritter, German physicist (d. 1810)
1777 - Janos Fusz, composer
1787 - Mary Russell Mitford, English writer (d. 1855)
1790 - King Léopold I of Belgium (d. 1865)
1804 - Viktor Bunyakovsky, Russian mathematician (d. 1889)
1809 - Peter P van Bosse, Dutch attorney/liberal minister of Finance
1812 - William Grose, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1900
1819 - Robert Selden Garnett, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1861
1822 - Charles Edward Horsley, composer
1825 - Henry Heth, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1899
1825 - Robert Prescott Stewart, composer
1827 - John A C Oudemans, Dutch geographer/astronomer
1828 - John Beatty, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1914
1830 - John Frederick Hartranft, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1889
1834 - Leon Walras, French economist (border use theory)
1847 - Augusta Mary Anne Holmes, composer
1850 - Fred Morley, cricketer (legendary Notts & England bowler 1880-83)
1851 - Theodoor H de Meester, Dutch premier (1905-08)
1857 - Edward Emerson Barnard, Tenn, astronomer (Jupiter's 5th satellite)
1861 - Antonio de La Gandara, French painter (d. 1917)
1862 - Eugene Demolder, Belgian writer (Sous la robe)
1863 - George Santayana, Spain, philosopher/poet/humanist (Last Puritan)
1863 - Ralph Adams Cram, US, gothic architect (Cathedral of St Joan NYC)
1865 - Victor Rousseau, Belgian sculptor
1867 - Amy Carmichael, missionary in Dohnavur, India (d. 1951)
1869 - Albert F Pollard, British historian (Dict of natural biography)
1869 - Hristo Tatarchev, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1952)
1872 - Anton Ivanovich Denikin, Russian general (d. 1947)
1879 - William Duncan, Scotland, actor (Thunder Trail)
1882 - Jack Hobbs, cricketer (1st-class runs, the most ever)
1882 - John Berry Hobbs, England, 1st cricket played knighted (1953)
1882 - Walther Meissner, German physicist (Meissner effect)
1882 - Zoltán Kodály, Hungarian composer (d. 1967)
1883 - Max Linder, Caverne France, actor/comic/director (Max Prend un Bain)
1888 - Alphonse Juin, French marshal
1892 - A "Shon Nene" Morales, Antillean/Neth very old lady
1892 - Cameron Prud'Homme, Auburn CA, actor (Rainmaker)
1893 - Vladimir Golschmann, Paris France, conductor with Immortal Downbeat
1895 - Lidj Jasu, emperor of Ethiopia
1897 - Jacobus Petrus Duminy, cricketer (three Tests for South Africa 1927-29)
1897 - Paul Neuhuys, Belgian playwright (Le Canari et le Cerise)
1899 - Harold Walter Bailey, philologist
1899 - Noel Coward, England, playwright (In Which We Serve-1942 Acad Award)
1900 - Victor S Pritchett, literary critic/author (Myth Makers)
1901 - Margaret Mead, Phila, anthropologist (Coming of Age in Samoa)
1903 - Hardie Albright, Pittsburgh, actress (Silver Streak, Scarlet Letter)
1903 - Rafael Alberti, Spanish poet (El hombre deshabitado)
1904 - Edward Morris Bernstein, economist
1905 - Piet Hein, poet/inventor
1906 - John Morrison, politician/landowner
1906 - Lord Margadale, English Conserv parliament leader/large landowner
1906 - Barbara Kent, Canadian actress
1907 - Ray C Bliss, (R) Ohio State Republican Chairman
1907 - Syd Curnow, cricketer (South African batsman in 7 Tests 1930-32)
1908 - Remedios Varo, Anglès Spain, Spain-Mexican Surrealist artist
1909 - Henricus Verbunt, civil servant/resistance fighter
1909 - Lall Singh, cricketer (scored 15 & 29 in India's 1st Test match)
1910 - Freddie Brown, Peru, cricketer ("Lettuces! Hearts as big as ")
1910 - Robert Noehren, composer
1910 - Stanojlo Rajicic, composer
1915 - Georgy Sviridov, Soviet neoromantic composer (The Blizzard, Time, Forward!)
1915 - Turk Murphy, American trombonist (d. 1987)
1916 - Theo Bitter, Dutch painter/set designer
1916 - Udom Patpongsiri, property developer
1917 - Sir Arthur C. Clarke, Minehead England, science fiction author (2001, 2010,
           Childhood&amp;#039;s End)
1917 - Nabi Bux Khan Baloch, Sindhi scholar
1918 - Henry Clarke, fashion photographer
1918 - Pierre Delanoë, French songwriter and lyricist (d. 2006)
1919 - Manke Nelis, [Cornelis Pieters], Dutch folk vocalist (Small Yodel Boy)
1922 - Pierre Chany, writer/cycling journalist
1922 - Cy Leslie, American music and video executive (d. 2008)
1923 - Tip [Silvio A] Marugg, Antillian writer (Weekend pilgrimage)
1923 - Werner Haentjes, composer
1926 - Alfred Koerppen, composer
1926 - James McCracken, American tenor (d. 1988)
1927 - G Randall P D Garrett, US, sci-fi writer (Takeoff (too)!)
1927 - Peter [Malcolm] Dickinson, Zambia, sci-fi author (Heartsease)
1928 - Peter Nailor, civil servant/historian
1928 - Philip K[indred] Dick, US, sci-fi author (Hugo-1963, Blade Runner)
1929 - Ian Board, barkeeper
1929 - Nicholas Courtney, English actor
1932 - Rodion Konstantinovich Schedrin, Moscow, composer (Humpback Horse)
1936 - Morris Dees, founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center
1937 - Jim Glaser, Spalding Neb, singer (Glaser Bros-Getting to Me Again)
1937 - Joe Farrell, rocker
1937 - Joyce Bulifant, Newport News Va, actress (Marie-Mary Tyler Moore Show)
1938 - Michael Greer, Durham NC, actor (Bobby Gentry Show)
1938 - Frank Deford, American sportswriter
1938 - Liv Ullmann, Tokyo, Japan, Norwegian actress and director (The Emigrants, Persona)
1940 - Dimitri van Toren, Dutch vocalist/composer
1941 - Lesley Stahl, newscaster/correspondent (CBS)
1942 - Donald Carcieri, American politician, governor of Rhode Island
1943 - Anthony 'Tony' Hicks, Nelson Lancashire, British rock guitarist (The Hollies)
1943 - Steven Bochco, prod (Hill St Blues, LA Law, St Elsewhere, NYPD Blue)
1944 - John Abercrombie, rocker
1945 - Patti Deutsch, American actress and Match Game panelist
1945 - Bobby George, English professional darts player
1945 - Yukio Hattori, Japanese Iron Chef commentator
1946 - Adriaan van Dis, Dutch TV host/writer (Promised Country)
1946 - Benny Andersson, Stockholm Sweden, singer (ABBA-Money! Money! Money!)
1946 - Fred Borgman, Dutch 2nd chamber member (CDA)
1946 - Trevor Pinnock, English conductor and harpsichordist
1947 - Ben Cross, London, UK, English actor (Chariots of Fire, Star Trek)
1947 - Vincent Matthews, US, 400m dash (Olympic-gold-1972)
1948 - Christopher Biggins, English actor
1949 - Billy Gibbons, Houston Texas, jazz/rock guitarist (Moving Sidewalks, ZZ Top)
1950 - Caroline Munro, Windsor, actress (Golden Voyage of Sinbad) [or 1/16]
1950 - Ieremia Tabai, pres of Kiribati (Gilbert Islands) (1979-91)
1950 - Claudia Cohen, American gossip columnist and socialite (d. 2007)
1950 - Roy Schuiten, Dutch cyclist (d. 2006)
1951 - Robben Ford, American guitarist
1952 - Elayne Boosler, comedienne (Night Court)
1952 - Joel Garner, Christ Church, Barbados, West Indian cricketer (two-metre West Indian pace
           bowler 1977-87)
1952 - Francesco Graziani, Italian footballer
1953 - Filip Bolluyt, Dutch actor (Daybreak)
1954 - Joslyn Y Hoyte-Smith, Barbados, 4X400m hurdler (Olympic-bronze-1980)
1955 - Carol M Browner, US Administrator (EPA)
1955 - Graeme Stevenson, cricketer (England medium pacer 1980-81)
1955 - Xander Berkeley, American actor
1955 - Prince Lorenz of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este
1958 - Bart Oates, NFL center (NY Giants, SF 49ers)
1959 - Alison La Placa, NJ, actress (Duet, Catherine-John Larroquette Show)
1959 - Steven Irvine, rock drummer (Lloyd Cole & The Commotions)
1960 - Pat Van Den Hauwe, Belgian footballer
1961 - William Melvin "Bill" Hicks, Valdosta, Georgia, American stand-up comedian and social critic
1961 - Kelly Tough, Vancouver BC, playmate (Oct, 1981)
1962 - Jon Tenney, actor (Brooklyn South)
1962 - Maruschka Detmers, Schoonebeek Holland, actress (Devil in the Flesh)
1962 - Melanie Smith, Scranton Pa, actress (Emily-As the World Turns)
1962 - William "The Refrigerator" Perry, NFL defensive back (Chicago Bears)
1963 - Benjamin Bratt, California, actor (Det Reynaldo Curtis-Law & Order)
1963 - Brian Clark, Brandon Man, Canadian Tour golfer (1994 Morden Pro-Am)
1963 - Cathy Johnston-Forbes, High Point NC, LPGA golfer (1990 du Maurier)
1963 - Silvio Diliberto, WLAF kicker (Amsterdam Admirals)
1963 - Jeff Carson, American singer
1964 - Billy Ripken, Havre de Grace MD, 2nd baseman (Bal Orioles, Texas Rangers)
1964 - Evelyn Conley, SF California, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-7th-1989)
1964 - Gail Harris, Dewsbury England, actress (Virtual Desire)
1964 - Heike Drechsler, Gera German DR, sprinter (1988 world record)
1965 - Brent Franklin, Barrie Ont, Canadian Tour golfer (1992 Japan Open-2nd)
1965 - Chris Jones, Utica NY, outfielder (NY Mets)
1965 - Cynthia Lynne White, Oklahoma City Oklahoma, Miss Oklahoma-America (1991-top 10)
1965 - Moe Elewonibi, NFL/CFL tackle (Philadelphia Eagles, BC Lions)
1965 - Page Dunlap, Harrisonburg VA, LPGA golfer (1994 Atlanta Women's-8th)
1965 - Romallis Ellis, Wash DC, lightweight boxer (Olympic-bronze-1988)
1965 - Melanie Sloan, American attorney
1966 - Clifford Robinson, NBA center (Phoenix Suns, Portland Trail Blazers)
1966 - Dennis Wise, English footballer
1967 - Donovan Bailey, Manchester Jamaica, Canada 100m runner (Oly-2 gold-96)
1967 - Miranda Otto, Australian actress
1968 - Darryll Lewis, NFL cornerback (Houston/Tennessee Oilers)
1968 - Paul Scherrer, actor (Children of Corn II, Free Spirit)
1968 - Wendy Doolan, Sydney Australia, LPGA golfer (1991 Brit Amat Champ-2nd)
1969 - Charles Mincy, NFL safety (Minnesota Vikings, Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1969 - Craig White, cricketer (England all-rounder 1994-95, AIS graduate)
1969 - Martin Ulrich, hockey defenseman (Team Austria 1998)
1971 - Catherine "Cathy" Symon, Wash DC, rower (Olympics-96)
1971 - Kristen Kane, Jacksonville Fl, diver (Olympics-96)
1971 - Michael S McCary, [Boss], Phila Pa, rapper (Boyz II Men)
1971 - Paul van Dyk, German DJ
1972 - Angela Bloomfield, New Zealand actress
1972 - Charles Gipson, American baseball player
1972 - Željko Kalac, Australian soccer player
1973 - Kristie Boogert, Rotterdam Neth, tennis star (1996 Paris)
1973 - Scott Storch, Canadian-American hip-hop producer
1974 - Frida Hallgren, Swedish actress
1975 - Valentin Bădoi, Romanian footballer
1975 - Nawo Kawakita, Japanese drummer (Maximum the Hormone)
1975 - Benjamin Kowalewicz, Canadian musician (Billy Talent)
1975 - Jonathan Scarfe, Canadian actor
1977 - Sylvain Distin, French footballer
1977 - Éric Bélanger, Canadian ice hockey player
1978 - Gunter Van Handenhoven, Belgian footballer
1978 - Kaine, American rapper (Ying Yang Twins)
1979 - Nicole Werra, Miss Wisconsin Teen USA (1996)
1979 - Mihai Trăistariu, Romanian singer
1979 - Jessie Ward, American professional wrestler
1979 - Trevor Immelman, South African golfer
1981 - Took Leng How, Malaysian criminal (d. 2006)
1981 - Flo Rida, American rapper
1981 - Anna Sedokova, Ukrainian singer
1981 - Gareth Williams, Scottish footballer
1982 - Garnon Davies, Welsh actor
1982 - Antrel Rolle, National Football League defensive back
1983 - Kelenna Azubuike, English basketball player
1983 - Danielle Lloyd, English model
1985 - Keita Tachibana, member of Japanese boy band w-inds.
1987 - Hallee Hirsh, American actress
1988 - Anna Popplewell, English actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 16, 2013, 02:26:27 PM

This Day in History for 16th December


Famous Deaths

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Businessman and restaurateur
Colonel Sanders (1980)


705 - Empress Wu of Zhou (b. 625)
714 - Pepin/Pippin II, of Herstal/Héristal, Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia and Duke and Prince of the Franks, dies
867 - Eberhard of Friuli
875 - Ado of Vienne, French archbishop of Vienne, dies at about 75
882 - John VIII, Italian Pope (872-82), dies
999 - Saint Adelaide, Holy Roman Empress, wife of Emperor Otto I and regent to Otto II, dies at
         about 68
1325 - Charles of Valois, son of Philip III of France (b. 1270)
1378 - Otto III of Montferrat
1379 - John Fitzalan, Marshal of England
1404 - Albrecht of Bavaria, duke of Bavaria, dies at about 74
1470 - John II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1425)
1598 - Yi Sun-sin, Korean Naval Commander, shot at the naval Battle of Noryang. (b. 1545)
1669 - Nathaniel Fiennes, English politician (b. circa 1608)
1670 - Dorothy, 1st English marquis of Halifax, dies
1672 - John II Casimir Vasa, cardinal/king of Poland (1648-68), dies at 63
1673 - Juan de Padilla, composer, dies at 68
1687 - William Petty, English scientist and philosopher (b. 1623)
1719 - Adrian "Aart" van Wijck, Dutch theologist (anti-jansenism), dies at 78
1751 - Leopold II of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian general (b. 1700)
1765 - Peter Frederick Haldimand, Swiss military officer and surveyor
1774 - Francois Quesnay, French personal physician of Louis XIV, dies at 80
1781 - Georg Simon Lohlein, composer, dies at 56
1783 - Johann Adolf Hasse, Dutch operatic composer (Sesostrate), dies at 84
1783 - Sir William James, British naval commander (b. 1720)
1790 - Ludwig August Lebrun, composer, dies at 38
1809 - Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy, French chemist (b. 1755)
1816 - Vincenzo Galeotti, [Tomazelli], Ital dancer/choreographer, dies at 73
1833 - Friedrich August Kanne, composer, dies at 55
1852 - Andries H Potgieter, South African/Transvaal explorer, dies at 59
1852 - Henri-Jean Rigel, composer, dies at 80
1858 - Richard Bright, British Dr (Bright's disease/nephritis), dies at 69
1859 - Wilhelm Grimm, writer, dies at 73
1861 - Karol Joseph Lipinski, composer, dies at 71
1870 - Stanislaw Duniecki, composer, dies at 31
1871 - Willibald Alexis, German writer (Schloss Avalon), dies at 73
1874 - Abraham Capadose, physician/missionary, dies at 79
1897 - Alphonse Daudet, French writer (Tartarin sur les Alpes), dies at 57
1898 - Pavel Tretyakov, Russian businessman and art collector (b. 1832)
1914 - Ivan Zajc, composer, dies at 82
1920 - Ma, the Benovelent, Chinese muslim rebel (holy war), dies
1921 - Charles Camille Saint-Saens, French composer, dies at 86
1922 - Gabriel Narutowicz, 1st pres of Poland (Dec 7-16, 1922), assassinated
1923 - Pongrac Kacsoh, composer, dies at 50
1927 - Hugh Archibald Clarke, composer, dies at 88
1928 - Elinor Wylie, American poet and writer (b. 1885)
1931 - Gustave J Waffelaert, Flemish theologist/bishop of Bruges, dies at 82
1935 - Thelma Todd, actress (Horse Feathers, Bohemian Girl), dies of 30
1940 - M Eugene F T Dubois, geologist/paleontologist (Wadjakmens), dies
1940 - William Wallace, composer, dies at 80
1940 - Billy Hamilton, American baseball player (b. 1866)
1944 - Glenn Miller, US jazz composer/orchestra leader (Danny boy), dies at 40
1944 - Don Meyer Basketball coach Northern State, Lipscomb, and Hamline
1945 - Fumimaro Konu, Japanese prince/PM (1937-39, 40-41), commits harakiri
1949 - Traitsjo Kostov, Bulgarian communist vice-premier, executed
1950 - Otto Vrieslander, composer, dies at 70
1956 - Nina Hamnett, Welsh artist (b. 1890)
1960 - Anna Luther, silent screen actress (Sinners in Silk), dies at 63
1961 - Boris Semyonovich Shekhter, composer, dies at 61
1961 - Cato Engelen-Sewing, Dutch soprano singer/primadonna, dies at 93
1965 - William Somerset Maugham, English author (Razor's Edge), dies at 91
1973 - Syd Barnes, cricketer (13 Tests for Australia 1938-48), dies
1974 - Kostas Varnalis, writer, dies
1976 - George, a goose that lived to 49 years 8 months, dies
1976 - Réal Caouette, French Canadian politician (Social Credit Party of Canada) (b. 1917)
1977 - Risto Jarva, Finnish filmmaker (b. 1934)
1978 - Blanche Calloway, US singer/dancer/radio hostess, dies at 76
1980 - Harland Sanders, founder Kentucky Fried Chicken, dies at 90
1980 - Hellmuth Walter, German engineer and inventor (b. 1900)
1982 - Anthony C B Chapman, England, formula 1 racer, dies at 54
1982 - Colin Chapman, English engineer and automobile manufacturer, founder of Lotus Cars (b.
          1928)
1983 - Kusan Sunim, found Milae Sa temple/Bulsung Sa Zen in Korea, dies at 74
1984 - Debs Garms, American baseball player (b. 1907)
1985 - Dick Pollard, cricketer (England fast-medium bowler 1946-48), dies
1985 - Merv Waite, cricketer (2 Tests for Aust 1938, 1 wkt avg 190), dies
1985 - Paul Castellano, Organized-crime chief, shot dead at a NYC restaurant
1985 - Thomas Bilotti, American mafioso (b. 1940)
1987 - Albert P Morano, (Rep-R-Conn, 1951-59), dies at 79
1988 - H "Stork" Hendry, cricketer (11 Tests for Australia 1921-29), dies
1988 - Sylvester, American singer (b. 1948)
1989 - Aileen Pringle, actress (Age of Consent, Convicted, Night Parade), dies
1989 - Lee Van Cleef, US actor (Good, Bad & Ugly), dies at 64
1989 - Silvana Mangano, Italian actress (Death in Venice), dies at 59
1989 - Oscar Alfredo Gálvez, Argentine racing driver (b. 1913)
1990 - Douglas Campbell, American pilot (b. 1896)
1991 - Fred D Scott, actor (2 Gun Troubador), dies
1992 - Anton [Tom] Koolhaas, Dutch writer (Snow White), dies at 80
1992 - Rinus Terlouw, Dutch soccer player/trainer (Sparta), dies
1993 - Bentri Seddik, Algerian court judge, murdered at 46
1993 - Kakuei Tanaka, premier of Japan (1972-74), dies at 75
1993 - Moses Gunn, actor (Roots), dies of asthma at 64
1993 - Ratu Penaia Ganilau, president of Fiji (1987-93), dies at 75
1993 - Richard AFM Auwerda, Dutch journalist/writer (Volkskrant), dies at 68
1993 - Charizma, American Hip-Hop MC (b. 1973)
1994 - Mary Durack, author dies at 81
1994 - Samuel Lipman, music critic, dies at 60
1995 - Nina Verchinina, dancer choreographer/teacher, dies at 85
1995 - Johnny Moss, American poker player (b. 1907)
1996 - Jean-Pierre Levy, resistance leader, dies at 85
1996 - Joe Coral, bookmaker, dies at 92
1996 - Quentin Bell, artist author/teacher, dies at 86
1997 - Nicolette Larson, singer (Lotta Love), dies from brain seizure at 45
1997 - Richard Warwick, actor (Johnny Dangerously, Sebastine, If), dies at 52
1998 - William Gaddis, American writer (b. 1922)
2001 - Stuart Adamson, English-born Scottish musician (The Skids, Big Country) (b. 1958)
2001 - Stefan Heym, German author (b. 1913)
2003 - Robert Stanfield, Premier of Nova Scotia (b. 1914)
2003 - Gary Stewart, American musician and songwriter (b. 1945)
2004 - Ted Abernathy, American baseball player (b. 1933)
2004 - Agnes Martin, Canadian-American abstract painter dies aged 92
2005 - Kenneth Bulmer, English author (b. 1921)
2005 - Ed Hansen, American film director and editor (b. 1937)
2005 - John Spencer, American actor (b. 1946)
2006 - Don Jardine, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1940)
2006 - Taliep Petersen, South African singer and composer (b. 1950)
2006 - Pnina Salzman, Israeli pianist (b. 1922)
2007 - Dan Fogelberg, American singer/songwriter (b. 1951)
2009 - Roy E. Disney, American businessman (b. 1930)
2009 - Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, controversial South African Health Minister (b. 1940)
2009 - Yegor Gaidar, Russian politician (b. 1956)
2010 - Melvin E. Biddle, American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1923)
2011 - Nicol Williamson, Scottish actor (Excalibur), dies of esophageal cancer at 75

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 17, 2013, 01:50:54 PM

This Day in History for 17th December


Historical Events

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Naturalist Charles Darwin                        Composer Franz Schubert                        Aviator Orville Wright

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German WWII Field Marshal                        Actress Judy Garland
Erwin Rommel


283 - St Gaius begins his reign as Catholic Pope
546 - Gothic War (535-554): The Ostrogoths of King Totila conquer Rome by bribing the Byzantine
         garrison.
920 - Romanos I is crowned as co-emperor of the underage Emperor Constantine VII.
942 - Assassination of William I Longsword, 2nd Duke of Normandy.
1398 - Sultan Nasir-u Din Mehmud's armies in Delhi are defeated by Timur.
1526 - Ferdinand of Austria chosen as King of Bohemia
1526 - Pope Clemens VII publishes degree Cum ad zero - forms Inquisition
1531 - Pope Clement VII establishes a parallel body to the Inquisition in Lisbon, Portugal.
1538 - Pope Paul III excommunicated England's King Henry VIII
1572 - Spanish army begins fires in Haarlem Netherlands
1586 - Emperor Go-Yozei becomes Emperor of Japan.
1587 - The Earl Leicester's army leaves Netherlands
1637 - Shimabara Rebellion: Japanese peasants led by Amakusa Shiro rise against daimyo Matsukura
           Shigeharu.
1638 - French/Swedish troops occupy Breisach on the Rhine
1718 - France, Britain and Austria declare war on Spain.
1728 - Congregation Shearith Israel of NY purchases a lot on Mill Street in lower Manhattan, to build
           NY's 1st synagogue
1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlie's army retreats to Scotland
1777 - France recognizes independence of British colonies in America
1777 - George Washington's army returns to Valley Forge, Pa
1788 - Russian army of Grigorij Potemkin occupies Ocharov
1790 - Aztec calendar stone discovered in Mexico City
1791 - NYC traffic regulation creates 1st 1-way street
1792 - Opening of 1st legislative assembly of Lower Canada in Quebec city
1798 - 1st impeachment trial against a US senator (Wm Blount, TN) begins
1807 - France issues the Milan Decree, which confirms the Continental System.
1819 - Congress of Angostura establishes Colombia's independence from Spain
1821 - Kentucky abolishes debtors' prisons
1832 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin sails in Strait Le Maire
1852 - 1st Hawaiian cavalry organized
1860 - Anaheim Township created in Los Angeles County
1862 - Gen US Grant issues order #11, expelling Jews from Tennessee
1865 - Franz Schubert's "Unfinished Symphony" premieres
1875 - Violent bread riots in Montreal
1885 - France declares Madagascar a protectorate
1887 - Georges Feydeau's "Tailleur Pour Dames" premieres in Paris
1892 - Tchaikovski's ballet "Casse-noisette" premieres in St Petersburg
1893 - Russia ratifies Double Alliance with France
1894 - Cricket day 3 1T Aus v Eng Eng 325 all out, 261 behind on 1st inn
1895 - Anti-Saloon League of America formed, Washington, DC
1895 - George Brownell patents a machine to make paper twine (Mass)
1900 - 1st prize of 100,00 francs offered for communications with extraterrestrials. Martians
           excluded-considered too easy
1900 - New Ellis Island Immigration station completed costing $1.5 million
1902 - Frank Wedekind's "Der Erdgeist" premieres in Berlin
1903 - At 10:35 AM, 1st sustained motorized aircraft flight (Orville Wright)
1907 - Ugyen Wangchuck became 1st hereditary king of Bhutan
1909 - Leopold II, king of Belgium, buried in Brussels
1914 - Austrian troops beat Russians in Limanova Poland
1914 - Great Britain declares Egypt a protectorate
1914 - Jews are expelled from Tel Aviv by Turkish authorities
1919 - Austria parliament approves 8-hour day
1920 - AL votes to let spitball pitchers to continue using it
1920 - British Empire receives League of Nations mandate to Nauru
1920 - Japan receives League of Nations mandate over Pacific islands
1920 - South Africa receives League of Nations mandate over SW Africa
1922 - Last British troops leave Irish Free State
1923 - Greek king George II overthrown by army/republic
1924 - 1st US diesel electric locomotive enters service, Bronx, NY
1925 - Col William "Billy" Mitchell court-martialed for insubordination
1925 - Russia & Turkey sign non-aggresion pact
1926 - German Marx government falls due to cooperation with red army
1926 - KYA-AM in San Francisco CA begins radio transmissions
1926 - Lithuanian military state under gen Augustine Woldemaras
1926 - Antanas Smetona assumes power in Lithuania as the ‎1926 coup d'état‎ is successful.
1927 - Bradman scores 118 on 1st-class cricket debut, 188 mins 8 fours
1927 - US sub 'S-4' sinks after collision kills all 34 aboard
1927 - Victoria score 793 against Queensland, Bill Ponsford 437
1928 - John McGraw backs NL Pres John Heydler's designated hitter idea
1932 - Cards trade Jim Bottomley to Reds for Estel Crabtree & Ownie Carroll
1933 - B H Valentine scores 133 on Test Cricket debut, Eng v India at Bombay
1933 - Lala Amarnath scores century on Test Cricket debut (went on to 118)
1933 - Spain&#039;s 2nd government of Lerroux forms
1933 - NFL starts official stats as Bears beat Giants 23-21 in champ game
1935 - First flight of the Douglas DC-3 airplane.
1936 - Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen & dummy Charlie McCarthy, appear on TV
1938 - Utrecht Central Station destroyed by fire
1939 - German pocket battleship Graf Spee scuttled by its crew off Uruguay
1940 - British troops occupy Sollum, Egypt
1941 - Dutch & Australian troops lands on Portuguese Timor
1941 - German submarine U-31 sunk
1941 - German troops led by Rommel begin retreating in North Africa
1941 - World War II: Beginning of the Siege of Sebastopol.
1942 - Allies in London sentence German war criminals
1943 - Transport 63 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1944 - Green Bay Packers win NFL championship
1944 - M-Ocean View streetcar resumes service & is extended to Market St
1944 - US Army announces end of excluding Japanese-Americans from West Coast, detainees
           released.
1944 - US destroyers sink in storm off Philippines, 790 killed
1946 - Bradman & Barnes complete 405 run 5th wkt stand, score 234 ea
1946 - US V-2 rocket reaches 183 km, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
1947 - NY struck by a blizzard, resulting with 27" of snow
1947 - WEWS TV channel 5 in Cleveland, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
1949 - "Regina" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 86 performances
1949 - Burma recognizes People's Republic of China
1951 - Dutch Communist Party members forbidden to be civil servants
1953 - Dmitri Shostakovitch' 10th Symphony, premieres in Leningrad
1953 - FCC approves RCA's black & white-compatible color TV specifications
1954 - 1st fully automated railroad freight yard (Gary, Indiana)
1954 - WEAU TV channel 13 in Eau Claire, WI (NBC) begins broadcasting
1957 - US successfully test-fires Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile
1959 - "On The Beach" is 1st film to premiere on both sides of Iron Curtain
1959 - 1st movie opening simultaneously in major cities (On The Beach)
1960 - "La Plume de Ma Tante" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 835 perfs
1960 - "Take Me Along" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 448 performances
1960 - Pablo Casals' oratorio "El Pesebrio" premieres
1961 - Disgruntled employee set fire to a circus tent in Niteroi Brazil
1961 - India seizes Goa & 2 other Portuguese colonies
1961 - Niteroi Circus of Rio de Janeiro catches fire; 323 die
1962 - Beatles 1st British TV appearance (People & Places)
1962 - Current constitution of Monaco promulgated
1963 - Tsjoi Doo Sun forms government in South Korea
1963 - West & East Berlin sign accord about travel rules
1965 - Astrodome opens, 1st event is Judy Garland & Supremes concert
1965 - British government proclaims ends oil-embargo against Rhodesia
1965 - David Levy begins his search for comets
1965 - Dutch government shuts Limburgs coal mine
1965 - Largest newspaper-Sunday NY Times at 946 pages (50 cents)
1967 - WEDW TV channel 49 in Bridgeport, CT (PBS) begins broadcasting
1969 - USAF closes Project Blue Book, concluding no evidence of extraterrestrial spaceships behind
           thousands of UFO sightings
1970 - Gdansk, Poland shipworkers strike
1970 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1970 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1970 - Polish 1970 protests: In Gdynia, soldiers fire at workers emerging from trains, killing dozens.
1971 - "Diamonds are Forever" premieres in US
1971 - Cease fire between India & Pakistan in Kashmir
1971 - Radio Bangladesh begins transmitting
1972 - New line of control agreed to in Kashmir between India & Pakistan
1972 - WGVC (now WUCX) TV channel 35 in Grand Rapids, MI (PBS) 1st broadcast
1973 - Arabs terrorists shoot passengers on Boeing 737 to Kuwait
1975 - 1st time NY Islanders shut-out NY Rangers, 3-0-Billy Smith's 5th
1975 - John Paul Stevens appointed to Supreme Court
1975 - Lynette Fromme sentenced to life for attempt on Pres Ford's life
1976 - Superstation WTBS in Atlanta went national
1977 - Bobby Simpson scores 176 Australia v India at the WACA, aged 41
1977 - Elvis Costello & The Attractions 1st US TV appearance (SNL)
1977 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1978 - OPEC raises oil prices 18%
1978 - Referendum approves new constitution of Rwanda
1978 - The Workers Party of Jamaica is founded by Trevor Munroe.
1979 - Budweiser rocket car reaches 1190 kph (record for wheeled vehicle)
1980 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1980 - Mauritania provisional constitution published
1981 - Members of Red Brigades kidnap Brig Gen James L Dozier
1983 - "Peg" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC after 5 performances
1983 - Bomb attack on Harrod's war house in London, 5 killed, 94 injured
1983 - Disco in Madrid catches fire; 83 die
1983 - The IRA bombs Harrods Department Store in London, killing six people.
1984 - NJ Devils 1st penalty shot-Rocky Trottier scores against Edmonton
1984 - NJ Devils 1st shutout, Glenn Resch makes 42 saves beat Minn, 2-0
1986 - US Congress forms "Irangate" committee
1986 - Mrs Davina Thompson makse medical history by having the 1st heart, lung & liver transplant
           (Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, England)
1987 - Czechoslovak party leader Gustav Husak resigns
1988 - 77th Davis Cup: Germany beats Sweden in Gothenburg (4-1)
1988 - Bryan Murray becomes 17th NHL coach to win 300 games (Wash Caps)
1988 - NY Islanders break 12 game losing streak, beat Devils 5-2
1988 - USS Tennessee, 1st sub to carry Trident 2 missiles, commissioned
1988 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1989 - 78th Davis Cup: Germany beats Sweden in Stuttgart (3-2)
1989 - Brazil elects conservative Fernando Collor de Mello as president
1989 - Michael Bevan scores cricket century on 1st-class debut (114 SA v WA)
1989 - Patti Rizzo/Mike Hill win LPGA Mazda Golf Championship
1989 - The longest-running American sitcom The Simpsons had its debut.
1990 - KTBN, Salt Lake City Utah, begins shortwave radio transmissions
1991 - Cleveland Cavaliers beat Miami Heat 148-80, by record 68 pts
1991 - NBA's most lopsided game Cleveland beats Miami 148-80
1991 - Patrick Manning becomes premier of Trinidad & Tobago
1991 - Soap opera "One Life To Live" airs its 6,000th episode
1992 - "Christmas Carol" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 22 performances
1992 - Gen Suwa finds tooth of 4.4 million year old Australopithecus ramidus
1993 - Bangladesh moslem call for murder of feminist Taslima Nasrin
1993 - Kevin Scott skates world record 1000 m (1:12.54)
1993 - Northern Exposure star Barry Corbin falls off his horse
1994 - KLM's last DC-10 goes out of service
1995 - "School after Scandal" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 23 perfs
1999 - The United Nations General Assembly passes resolution 54/134 designating November 25 as
           the annual International Day to Eliminate Violence Against Women.
2002 - Second Congo War: The Congolese parties of the Inter Congolese Dialogue sign a peace
           accord which makes provision for transitional governance and legislative and presidential
           elections within two years.
2003 - The Soham murder trial ends at the Old Bailey in London, with Ian Huntley found guilty of two
           counts of murder. His girlfriend Maxine Carr is found guilty of perverting the course of justice.
2003 - SpaceShipOne flight 11P, piloted by Brian Binnie, makes its first supersonic flight.
2005 - Anti-WTO protesters riot in Wan Chai, Hong Kong
2007 - Republic of Lakotah asserts independence from the United States
2012 - 17 people are killed and 70 are injured by a blast in a market in the Khyber Agency, Pakistan
2012 - 10 girls collecting firewood are killed by a mine blast in east Afghanistan
2012 - 18 people drown after an overloaded boat sinks in Cotonou, Benin
2012 - NASA completes a successful mission to map the Moon’s gravity field

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 17, 2013, 01:53:17 PM

This Day in History for 17th December


Famous Weddings

1600 - Marriage of Henry IV of France and Marie de' Medici.
1915 - Journalist Benito Mussolini marries Rachele Guidi in Treviglio Lombardy
1969 - 50m TV viewers saw singer Tiny Tim marry Miss Vicky, on Tonight Show
1993 - Tennis star Boris Becker (26) weds Barbara Feltus (27)
1994 - Actress Heather Locklear (33) weds Bon Jovi lead guitarist Richie Sambora (35) at The
           American Cathedral in Paris, France
1994 - Queen of Pop Celine Dion (26) weds her manager Rene Angelil (52) at Notre Dame Basilica in
           Montreal, Canada
2005 - Race car driver Gary Paffett (24) weds his lady love Lisa in England
2005 - "Modern Day Drifter" country singer Dierks Bentley (30) weds Cassidy Black in Mexico
2005 - Australian country singer Kasey Chambers (29) weds singer-songwriter Shane Nicholson in
           Avoca, New South Wales
2006 - Contemporary Christian and Latin pop singer Jaci Velasquez (27) weds "Salvador" lead singer
           Nic Gonzalez in Austin, Texas
2011 - Backstreet Boys member A. J. McLean (34) weds model Rochelle Karidis (30) in an outdoor
           wedding at Beverly Hills, California
2011 - "The Descendants" actress Judy Greer (36) weds "Real Time with Bill Mahe"r co-executive
           producer Dean Johnsen at the Los Angeles Athletic Club
2012 - Minnesota Vikings football quarterback Christian Ponder (25) weds ESPN reporter Samantha
           Steele (27) in Hudson, Wisconsin

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 17, 2013, 01:54:43 PM

This Day in History for 17th December


Famous Divorces

2007 - Actor Dermot Mulroney (44) divorces actress Catherine Keener (48) due to irreconcilable
           differences after 17 years of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 17, 2013, 02:03:50 PM

This Day in History for 17th December


Famous Birthdays

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American Political Columnist &               Publisher Bob Guccione (1930)                Actress Milla Jovovich (1975)
Presidential Speechwriter
 William Safire (1929)


1239 - Kujo Yoritsugu, Japanese Shogun (d. 1256)
1267 - Emperor Go-Uda of Japan (d. 1324)
1554 - Ernst of Bayern, prince/bishop of Liege/archbishop of Cologne
1619 - Prince Rupert of the Rhine, soldier/chemist/engraver/mathematician, commander in the
           English Civil War and first Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company, (d. 1682)
1632 - Anthony Wood, English antiqurian (d. 1695)
1638 - Johann Ulrich Sultzberger, composer
1685 - Thomas Tickell, English writer (d. 1740)
1706 - Gabrielle Chôtelet, [La belle Emilie], French writer (Voltaire)
1734 - William Floyd, US soldier/signer (Declaration of Independence)
1734 - Maria I of Portugal, Portuguese queen (d. 1816)
1749 - Domenico Cimarosa, Italian composer (Il Matrimonio Segreto)
1770 - Johann Friedrich Schubert, composer
1778 - Hunphry Davy, English chemist (discovered some elements)
1796 - Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Canadian novelist (d. 1865)
1797 - Joseph Henry, US, scientist/inventor/pioneer of electromagnetism
1800 - Gergely Czuczor, Hung/Czech poet/translator (Great Hung dictionary)
1801 - Johan NMJ, king of Saxon (1854-73) (translated Divina Commedia)
1807 - John Greenleaf Whittier, US, poet (Snow-bound)
1819 - Samuel Jones, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1887
1820 - Frederick Tracy Dent, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1892
1821 - Frederick West Lander, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
1824 - John Kerr, System physicist (electro-visually Kerr-effect)
1824 - Manning Ferguson Force, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1899
1824 - Thomas Starr King, NY, Unitarian clergyman (Christianity & Humanity)
1830 - Jules de Goncourt, France, novelist (Germinie)
1833 - James Thadeus Holtzclaw, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1893
1835 - Alexander E Agassiz, US, businessman/biologist/geology
1838 - Berthold Tours, composer
1840 - Christian Frederik Emil Horneman, composer
1842 - Marius Sophus Lie, Norwegian mathematician (continous groups)
1847 - Émile Faguet, French writer and critic (d. 1916)
1848 - Frederick Grant Gleason, composer
1853 - Herbert Beerbohm Tree, England, actor/theater manager (Trilby)
1853 - Émile Roux, French physician (d. 1933)
1859 - Paul César Helleu, French artist (d. 1927)
1861 - Fritz Volbach, German musicologist/conductor/composer
1863 - Ion Vidu, composer
1864 - John Felix August Korling, composer
1869 - Nikolay Ivanovich Kazanli, composer
1873 - Ford Madox Ford, England, novelist/editor (Inheritors)
1874 - William Lyon Mackenzie King, (L), 10th Canadian PM (1921-30, 1935-48)
1881 - Aubrey Faulkner, cricketer (great S Afr all-rounder early 20th cent)
1881 - Johannes CB "Jan" Sluyters, Dutch painter
1883 - Raimu, French actor (d. 1946)
1887 - Josef Lada, Czech painter (d. 1957)
1887 - Hermine Reuss, Empress of Germany and Duchess of Bohemia (d. 1947)
1888 - King Alexander I of Yugoslavia (d. 1934)
1891 - Robertson Hare, London England, actor (Our Girl Friday, Banana Ridge)
1892 - Sam Barry, American basketball coach (d. 1950)
1893 - Erwin Piscator, German stage director (Der Stellvertreter)
1894 - Arthur Fiedler, Boston Mass, conductor (Boston Pops)
1894 - Hans Henny Jahnn, writer
1894 - Hans [Henry] Kramers, Dutch theoretical physicist (quantum mechanics)
1894 - Willem Schermerhorn, Neth premier (1945-46)
1894 - David Butler, San Francisco California, director (April in Paris, Calamity Jane)
1900 - Lucijan Marija Skerjanc, Yugoslavia, composer/conductor
1900 - Mary Cartwright, English mathematician (d. 1998)
1900 - Katina Paxinou, Greek actress (d. 1973)
1902 - Simon Drach, writer
1903 - Erskine P Caldwell, author (Tobacco Road, God's Little Acre)
1903 - Ray Noble, English bandleader and actor (d. 1978)
1904 - Dmitri B Kabalevsky, St Petersburg Russia, composer (In the Fire) [OS]
1904 - Paul Cadmus, NYC, etcher/painter (Sailors & Floozies)
1905 - Joseph Heifitz, film director
1905 - Simo Häyhä, Finnish sniper (d. 2002)
1905 - Érico Lopes Veríssimo, Brazilian writer (d. 1975)
1906 - Fernando Lopez-Garcia, composer
1908 - Willard Frank Libby, inventor (carbon-14 "atomic clock" (Nobel 1960))
1908 - William Brocklesby Wordsworth, composer
1910 - Keki Khursedji Tarapore, cricketer (0-72 in his only Test for India)
1910 - Sy Oliver, American jazz arranger and bandleader (d. 1988)
1911 - William Roerick, actor (Guiding Light)
1914 - Mushtaq Ali, cricketer (prolific Indian batsman of 30's & 40's)
1915 - André Claveau, French singer (d. 2003)
1916 - Antoine G T "Toon" Hermans, Dutch entertainer/poet (Kolderliedjes)
1916 - Penelope Fitzgerald, English writer (d. 2000)
1917 - Louis Salvador Palange, composer
1920 - Armin Mueller-Stahl, Tilsit East Prussia, actor (Kafka, Music Box)
1920 - Kenneth E. Iverson, Canadian computer scientist (d. 2004)
1922 - Eric Brand, diplomat
1922 - Hubert H A Beckers, Curacaoan opera singer
1922 - Alan Voorhees, American engineer and urban planner (d. 2005)
1923 - Jaroslav Pelikan, American historian (d. 2006)
1925 - Rijk de Gooyer, Dutch actor (Black Rider, Rififi in Amsterdam)
1926 - Jeremy Brooks, writer
1926 - Patrice Wymore, Miltonville KS, actress (The Big Tree)
1926 - Ray Jablonski, American baseball player (d. 1985)
1927 - Richard Long, Chicago Illinois, actor (Prof-Nanny & the Professor)
1928 - Marilyn Beck, newspaper columnist
1929 - William Safire, political columnist (NY Times)/speech writer (Nixon), (d. 2009)
1930 - Bob Guccione, [Robert C J Edwa], US publisher (Penthouse, Omni), (d. 2010)
1930 - Julia Meade, actress/TV hostess (Spotlight Playhouse)
1930 - Makoto Moroi, composer
1930 - Bob Mathias, American decathlete and congressman (d. 2006)
1930 - Armin Mueller-Stahl, German actor
1931 - Yvonne Keuls, [Bamberg], Dutch writer (Jan Rap & Co)
1931 - Dave Madden, Canadian-born American actor
1933 - Bruce Morrison, cricketer (one Test NZ v England 1963)
1933 - Paul Snoek, [Edm Schietekat], Belgian poet
1934 - Ray Wilson, English footballer
1935 - Cal Ripken Sr, baseball manager (Balt Orioles)
1935 - George Lindsey, American actor (The Andy Griffith Show), (d. 2012)
1936 - Frank Martinus Arion, [F Efraim M], Antilles, writer (Double Play)
1936 - Roland Sheldon, pitcher (NY Yankees)
1937 - Art Neville, New Orleans LA, vocalist (Neville Brothers)
1937 - Kerry Packer, Australian businessman (d. 2005)
1937 - John Kennedy Toole, American novelist (d. 1969)
1937 - Calvin Waller, US Army general (d. 1996)
1938 - Carlo Little, English drummer (d. 2005)
1939 - Eddie Kendricks, Alabama, rocker (Temptations-My Girl, Boogie Down)
1939 - James Booker, New Orleans, R & B musician (Gonzo)
1939 - Novella Nelson, Brooklyn New York, American actress (Nellie Cole-Chiefs)
1939 - Charles V Bush, Washington, African-American pioneer (1st African-American US Air Force
           Academy Graduate and US Supreme Court Page), (d. 2012)
1940 - Kåre Valebrokk, Norwegian journalist
1942 - Bernard Hill, Manchester, actor (Bellman & True, New World, Bounty)
1942 - Paul Butterfield, Chicago, blues musician (Better Days)
1943 - Dave Dee, rocker
1943 - William Brooks, composer
1943 - Ron Geesin, Scottish musician and composer
1944 - Ference Bene, Hungary, record 12 soccer goals (Olympic-gold-1964)
1944 - Jack L[aurence] Chalker, US, sci-fi author (Saga of Well World)
1944 - Bernard Hill, English actor
1945 - Christopher Cazenove, England, actor (Ben-Dynasty)
1945 - Ernie Hudson, Benton Harbor MI, actor (Ghostbusters, Weeds)
1945 - Chris Matthews, American journalist
1945 - Jacqueline Wilson, English author
1946 - Albert Padmore, cricketer (WI off-spinner mid-70s)
1946 - Eugene Levy, Hamilton Canada, comedian/writer (SCTV)
1947 - Marilyn Hassett, LA Ca
1947 - Simon Bates, English DJ
1947 - Wes Studi, actor (Last of the Mohicans)
1948 - Jim Alexander, rocker
1948 - Jim Bonfanti, rocker (Raspberries-Go All the Way)
1949 - Paul Rodgers, Engl, rocker (Bad Company-Feel Like Makin Love, Firm)
1949 - Sotiris Kaiafas, Cypriot footballer
1950 - Carlton Barrett, Jamaicans reggae drummer (Bob Marley & Wailers)
1950 - Laurence F. Johnson, American educator
1951 - Tatyana Kazankina, USSR, middle distance runner (Olympics-gold-1976)
1951 - Wanda Hutchison, rocker
1952 - Hans Alders, Dutch minister of environment (PvdA)
1952 - Mickey Jones, Wash DC, rock bassist
1953 - Barry Livingston, Los Angeles California, actor (Ernie-My 3 Sons)
1953 - Ikue Ile Mori, rocker
1953 - Mark Gane, Toronto Canada, rocker (M+M)
1953 - Bill Pullman, Hornell NY, actor (Sommersby, League of their Own, Independence Day)
1953 - Samuel Hadida, film distributor
1956 - Peter Farrelly, American film director
1957 - Bob Ojeda, pitcher (NY Mets)
1958 - Mike Mills, US pop bassist (REM-One I Love)
1959 - Albert King, actor (BB King & Friends, Blues Alive)
1959 - Michelle Mackall, Washington DC, LPGA golfer (1995 Friendly's-32nd)
1959 - Tammie Green, Somerset OH, LPGA golfer (1989 du Maurier Ltd Classic)
1960 - Moreno Argentin, Italian cyclist
1961 - Sarah Dallin, rocker (Bananarama-Venus)
1961 - Venice Kong, St Mary Jamaica, playmate (September, 1985)
1962 - Giulla Boschi, Italian actress (Act of Contrition, Bonus Malus)
1962 - Rocco Anthony Mediate, Greensburg PA, PGA golfer (1991 Doral-Ryder)
1962 - Paul Dobson, English footballer
1964 - Eric Brown, NYC, actor (Buzz-Mama's Family)
1964 - Frank Musil, Pardubice Cze, NHL defenseman (Ottawa Senators)
1964 - Joe Wolf, NBA forward/center (Orlando Magic, Denver Nuggets)
1964 - Tyrone Braxton, NFL safety (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1964 - Ginger, English singer and guitarist (The Wildhearts)
1964 - Michele Tafoya, American sportscaster
1965 - Craig Berube, Calahoo, NHL left wing (Washington Capitals)
1965 - Jeff Grayer, NBA guard (Charlotte Hornets, Olympics-bronze-1988)
1965 - Scott Edward Gump, Rockledge FL, PGA golfer (1991 International-2nd)
1966 - Hans Visser, Dutch soccer player (MVV, FC Utrecht)
1966 - Kristiina Ojuland, Estonian politician
1966 - Valeri Liukin, Soviet gymnast
1967 - Alan Nolet, Toronto Ontario, gymnist (Olympics-96)
1967 - Pauline Maurice, Welland Ontario, softball outfielder (Olympics-96)
1967 - Vincent Damphousse, Montreal, NHL center (Montreal Canadiens)
1967 - Gigi D'Agostino, Italian DJ and musician
1968 - Curtis Pride, Washington DC, outfielder (Detroit Tigers)
1968 - Jeff[rey] Klepacki, Kearny NJ, rower (Olympics-1992, 96)
1968 - Andrey Golovatiuk, Russian politician
1969 - Dean Wilson, Kaneohe Hawaii, golfer (1991 Western Athletic)
1969 - Marc Davis, Oceanside California, 3K steeplechase runner (Goodwill-gold-94)
1969 - Marty Carter, NFL safety (Chic Bears)
1969 - Rob Maas, Dutch soccer player (Feyenoord)
1969 - Scott Player, WLAF punter (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1969 - Chuck Liddell, American mixed martial artist
1970 - Benedictine, [St Bernard]; becomes heaviest known dog (137 kg)
1970 - Earl Dotson, NFL tackle (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1970 - Michael Mols, soccer player (FC Twente)
1971 - Alyson Habetz, Crowley LA, female pitcher (Colo Silver Bullets)
1971 - Carl Reeves, NFL defensive end (Chic Bears)
1971 - Mark Byers, WLAF linebacker (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1971 - Nikki McCray, Collierville Tenn, basketball guard (Olympics-gold-96)
1971 - Sari Kristiina Fisk, ice hockey defenseman (Finland, Oly-98)
1971 - Tony Richardson, NFL fullback (KC Chiefs)
1971 - Antoine Rigaudeau, French basketball player
1972 - Brian Williams, NFL linebacker (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1972 - Dewayne Washington, cornerback (Minnesota Vikings)
1972 - Don Davis, linebacker (New Orleans Saints)
1972 - Ivan Pedroso, Cuba, long jumper (Olympics-4th-92)
1972 - John Abraham, Indian actor
1972 - Laurie Holden, American actress
1973 - Paula Radcliffe, English runner
1974 - Giovonni Ribisi, actor (Cory-My 2 Dads, New Leave it To Beaver)
1974 - Duff Goldman, American chef
1975 - Milla Jovovich, Kiev Ukraine, actress (Return to Blue Lagoon, Chaplin)
1975 - Napiera Danielle Groves, Miss USA-Wash DC (1997, Miss Congeniality)
1975 - Nick Farrell, East York Ontario, boxer (Olympics-96)
1975 - Nick Dinsmore (Eugene), American professional wrestler
1976 - Nir Davidovich, Israeli footballer
1976 - Patrick Müller, Swiss footballer
1976 - Takeo Spikes, American football player
1976 - Andrew Simpson, Chertsey, Surrey, sailor (Oly gld 2008), (d. 2013)
1977 - Arnaud Clement, French tennis player
1978 - Alex Cintrón, Puerto Rican baseball player
1978 - Riteish Deshmukh, Indian actor
1978 - Manny Pacquiao, Filipino boxer
1978 - Neil Sanderson, Canadian drummer (Three Days Grace)
1978 - Chase Utley, American baseball player
1979 - Cheri Vivette Alexander, Miss District of Columbia Teen USA (1997)
1979 - Ryan Key, American musician and songwriter (Yellowcard)
1979 - Jaimee Foxworth, Belleville, Illinois, American actress (Judy Winslow-Family Matters) and porn
           star
1979 - Matt Murley, American ice hockey player
1980 - Ryan Hunter-Reay, American race car driver
1980 - Eli Pariser, American political activist (MoveOn.org)
1981 - Emma Laaksonen, ice hockey defenseman (Finland, Oly-98)
1982 - Josh Barfield, American baseball player
1982 - Craig Kielburger, Canadian labour activist
1982 - Stephane Lasme, Gabonese basketball player
1982 - Ryan Moats, National Football League runningback
1984 - Andrew Davies, English footballer
1985 - Ryuichi Ogata, member of Japanese boy band w-inds.
1992 - Thomas Law, British Actor
1992 - Jordan Garrett, American actor
1994 - Nat Wolff, American actor, and singer-songwriter
2007 - James Windsor, Viscount Severn, son of Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 17, 2013, 02:09:00 PM

This Day in History for 17th December


Famous Deaths

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Military and Political Leader                  Supreme Leader of North Korea
Simon Bolivar (1830)                                    Kim Jong-il (2011)


535 - Emperor Ankan of Japan (b. 466)
695 - Begga, ancestress of the Carolingians/saint, dies [or 693]
1187 - Gregory VIII, [Alberto de Morra], Italian Pope (1187), dies
1195 - Baldwin V, Count of Hainaut (b. 1150)
1213 - Jean de Matha, French saint, dies at 53
1273 - Rumi (b.1207)
1471 - Isabella of Portugal, duchess of Burgundy, dies
1562 - Adrian Willaert, Flemish singer/bandmaster/composer, dies at about 82
1651 - Wolfgang Schonsleder, composer, dies at 81
1663 - Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba (b. 1583)
1679 - Don Juan, ruler of Spain, dies
1711 - Arnold Moonen, vicar/literature (Defeated German Spraekkunst), dies
1721 - Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough, English statesman (b. 1640)
1751 - Kilian I von Dientzenhofer, Czech master builder, dies at 62
1811 - John Antes, composer, dies at 71
1811 - Louis-Abet Deffroy de Reigny, composer, dies at 54
1829 - Bernard Jumentier, composer, dies at 80
1830 - Simón Bolívar, South American revolutionary and president (Colombia), dies at 47 in Santa
           Marta, Colombia
1833 - Kaspar Hauser, German son of grand duke Karel of Bathe, murdered at 21
1847 - Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria, second wife of Napoleon (b. 1791)
1860 - Désirée Clary, Queen of Sweden and Norway (b. 1777)
1870 - Giuseppe Saverio Raffaele Mercadante, composer, dies at 75
1881 - Lewis H Morgan, US ethnologist (Iroquois-indians), dies at 62
1891 - Msiri, ruler of the Garanganze Kingdom, Congo (Katanga), dies in battle against Belgian
           funded expedition
1891 - Omer Bodson, Belgian captain, dies in battle against Msiri, ruler of Garanganze Kingdom in the
           Congo
1893 - Levinus T Keuchenius, Dutch min of Colonies (1888-90), dies at 71
1899 - Frederick "Freddy" Roberts, son of Brit field marshal, dies in battle
1907 - Kelvin of Largs, [William Thomson], Br physicist (Kelvin), dies at 83
1913 - Stefano Gobatti, composer, dies at 61
1917 - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, English physician (b. 1836)
1917 - Frank Gotch, American professional wrestler (b. 1878)
1925 - A N "Monkey" Hornby, cricketer (England capt at Oval 1882), dies
1926 - Alexandr Dmitriyevich Kastal'sky, composer, dies at 70
1930 - Peter Warlock, composer, dies at 36
1933 - Hans Vaihinger, German philosopher (Side-Studies), dies at 81
1933 - Thubten Gyatso, 13th Dalai Lama (b. 1876)
1937 - Gerard Vissering, banker/president of Dutch Bank, dies at 72
1940 - Alicia Boole Stott, Irish mathematician (b. 1860)
1944 - Pieter A Roodenburgh, student/resistance fighter, dies at 26
1944 - Vassily V Kandinsky, Russian/German/French painter, dies
1946 - Constance [Clara] Garnett, Russian-English translator, dies at 84
1948 - Edgar Istel, composer, dies at 68
1949 - David Stanley Smith, composer, dies at 72
1956 - Eddie Acuff, actor (Guns of Pecos), dies at 48
1957 - Dorothy Sayers, [Atherton Fleming], author (Whose body), dies at 64
1961 - Marion Perkins, sculptor (Man of Sorrow), dies at 53
1962 - Thomas Mitchell, US, actor (Outlaw), dies of cancer at 70
1964 - Victor Franz Hess, Austrian-born physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1883)
1965 - Tito [Raffaele A] Schipa, Italian tenor/composer (Rondine), dies at 76
1966 - Gustaf Paulson, composer, dies at 68
1967 - Harold Holt, Australian premier (1966-67), drowns at 59
1967 - [Francis] Barry Byrne, Chicago Ill, architect, dies at 83
1967 - Jack Perrin, American actor (b. 1896)
1969 - Arturo da Costa e Silva, President of Brazil (1967-69), dies at 67
1972 - Erwin Dressel, composer, dies at 63
1973 - Charles G Abbot, US astronomer (Sun Constant), dies at 101
1973 - Patrick Hadley, composer, dies at 74
1975 - Frank Sully, actor (Parachute Nurse, Inside the Law), dies at 67
1975 - Noble Sissle, jazz musician, dies at 86
1978 - Don Ellis, American jazz band leader (b. 1934)
1982 - Leonid B Kogan, Russian violist, dies at 58
1982 - Philipp Jarnach, composer, dies at 90
1982 - Homer S. Ferguson, American politician (b. 1889)
1983 - Erik Christensen, NHL player
1985 - Otto Gotsche, writer, dies
1986 - Ron Kass, record co pres (MGM), dies at 52 of cancer
1987 - Bernard Cardinal Alfrink, archbishop of Utrecht Neth, dies at 87
1987 - Marguerite Yourcenard, author (Memoirs of Hadrien), dies at 84
1987 - Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgian novelist (b. 1903)
1990 - Don Draper, actor (Pepper Agent 00X), dies of AIDS at 61
1990 - Mieke Verstraete, Belgian/Neth actress (Pleasant Settled), dies at 79
1991 - John Blatnik, (Rep-Minnesota, 1947-75), dies at 80
1992 - Dana Andrews, US actor (Laura), dies of pneumonia at 83
1993 - Janet Margolin, US actress (Annie Hall), dies at 50 of ovarian cancer
1994 - Jan Wiegel, director/producer (Uninhabitable Country), dies at 64
1995 - Lila Clark Knapp, publisher, dies at 63
1996 - Elizabeth Hill, teacher of Salvonic languages, dies at 96
1996 - Francesco Siciliani, opera administrator, dies at 85
1996 - Irving Caesar, songwriter, dies at 101
1996 - Michael Saunders, barrister, dies at 22
1996 - Ruby Murray, singer, dies at 61
1996 - Stanko Todorov, PM of Bulgaria (1971-81), dies
1997 - Reginald Victor Jones, scientist, dies at 86
1999 - Grover Washington, Jr., American saxophonist (b. 1943)
1999 - Rex Allen, American actor, singer and songwriter (b. 1920)
2002 - James Hazeldine, English actor (b. 1947)
2003 - Brian Lee, father of Wikipedia user, James Lee (b. 1948)
2003 - Ed Devereaux, Australian actor (b. 1925)
2003 - Otto Graham, American football player (b. 1921)
2004 - Tom Wesselmann, American collage artist (b. 1931)
2005 - Jack Anderson, American journalist (b. 1922)
2005 - Marc Favreau, French Canadian humourist (Sol) (b. 1929)
2006 - Larry Sherry, American baseball player (b. 1935)
2008 - Dave Smith, American baseball player (b. 1955)
2008 - Sammy Baugh, American football player (b. 1914)
2008 - Freddy Breck, German schlager singer, composer, record producer and news anchor (b.
          1942)
2009 - Chris Henry, American football player (b. 1983)
2009 - Jennifer Jones, American actress (b. 1919)
2009 - Dan O'Bannon, Screenwriter, after a short illness (b.1943)
2010 - Captain Beefheart, American musician (b. 1941)
2010 - Walt Dropo, American baseball player (b. 1923)
2011 - Kim Jong-il, supreme leader of North Korea (DPRK) 1994-2011, dies of a suspected heart
           attack at 70
2012 - Daniel K. Inouye, American politician, dies from respiratory complications at 88

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 18, 2013, 01:47:51 PM

This Day in History for 18th December


Historical Events

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Naturalist Charles Darwin                   Composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky              Marxist Revolutionary and
                                                                                                                           Russian Leader Vladimir Lenin

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Children's Author Dr. Seuss                   Baseball Player Darryl Strawberry


218 BC - Second Punic War: Battle of the Trebia - Hannibal's Carthaginian forces defeat those of the
              Roman Republic.
1118 - Alfonso van Aragon occupies Saragossa on Almoraviden
1271 - Kublai Khan renames his empire "Yuan" (元 yuán), officially marking the start of the Yuan
           Dynasty of China.
1352 - Etienne Aubert elected as Pope Innocentius VI
1406 - Anton van Bourgondies becomes duke of Brabant
1603 - Admiral Steven van der Haghens fleet departs to East-Indies
1621 - English parliament accept unanimously, Protestation
1719 - Thomas Fleet publishes "Mother Goose's Melodies For Children"
1774 - Empress Maria Theresa expels Jews from Prague, Bohemia & Moravia
1777 - 1st national Thanksgiving Day, commemorating Burgoyne's surrender
1783 - English king George III fires government of Portland
1787 - New Jersey becomes 3rd state to ratify constitution
1793 - Surrender of the frigate La Lutine by French royalists to Lord Hood; renamed HMS Lutine, she
           later becomes a famous treasure wreck.
1796 - 1st US newspaper to appear on Sunday (Baltimore Monitor)
1799 - George Washington's body interred at Mount Vernon
1813 - British take Ft Niagara in War of 1812
1832 - Charles Darwins visits Vurland
1839 - 1st celestial photograph (of Moon) made in US, John Draper, NYC
1849 - William Bond obtains 1st photograph of Moon through a telescope
1858 - Passy, at Paris: 1st "Samedi soir" i/d villa of lovers Rossini
1859 - South Carolina declared an "independent commonwealth"
1862 - Battle at Lexington, Tennessee (Forrest's Second Raid)
1865 - 1st US cattle importation law passed
1869 - Canada's Hamilton Foot Ball Club plays its 1st game
1878 - French SS Byzantin sinks after collision in Dardanellen, 210 killed
1878 - John Kehoe, the last of the Molly Maguires is executed in Pennsylvania.
1888 - Richard Wetherill and his brother in-law discover the ancient Indian ruins of Mesa Verde.
1890 - Lugards expedition to Mengo/Kampala, Uganda
1892 - Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet "Nutcracker Suite" premieres
1892 - Anton Bruckner's 8th Symphony premieres
1894 - Cricket day 4 1T Aus v Eng England following on 4-268, 7 in front
1898 - Automobile speed record set-63 kph (39 mph)
1899 - Fieldmarshal Lord Roberts appointed Brit supreme commander in South Africa
1900 - The Upper Ferntree Gully to Gembrook Narrow-gauge (2 ft 6 in or 762 mm) Railway (now the
           Puffing Billy Railway) in Victoria, Australia is opened for traffic.
1905 - H V Hordern takes 8-81 in 2nd innings of F-C debut (NSW v Qld)
1912 - Piltdown Man, later discovered to be a hoax, is supposedly found in the Piltdown Gravel Pit, by
           Charles Dawson.
1917 - Soviet regiment (Stalin/Lenin) declares Finland Independent
1920 - 1st US postage stamps printed without the words United States or US
1923 - International zone of Tangier set up in Morocco
1930 - Bradman scores 258 NSW v South Aust, 289 mins, 37 fours
1932 - Chicago Bears beat Portsmouth Spartans 9-0 in 1st NFL playoff game
1935 - Bradman scores 117 in his 1st Shield cricket match for South Australia
1935 - Edward Benes becomes president of Czechoslovakia
1935 - The Lanka Sama Samaja Party is founded in Ceylon.
1936 - 1st giant panda imported into US
1936 - Queensland cricket all out for 49 v Vic, Fleetwood-Smith 7-17
1936 - Su-Lin, 1st giant panda to come to US from China, arrives in SF
1939 - Finnish army recaptures Agläjärvi
1941 - German submarine U-434 sinks
1941 - Japanse troops land on Hong Kong
1944 - US Destroyers Hull, Spence & Monaghan sink in typhoon (Philippines)
1944 - Nazi occupiers of Amsterdam destroy electricity plants
1945 - Uruguay joins UN
1946 - TV's 1st network dramatic serial "Faraway Hill" ends 2 month run
1947 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Optissima Pax
1948 - Indonesia begins its 2nd political election
1948 - WDSU TV channel 6 in New Orleans, LA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1949 - Philadelphia Eagles beat LA Rams 14-0 in NFL championship game
1952 - Ellis W Ryan resigns as Cleve Indians president
1953 - KATV TV channel 7 in Little Rock, AR (ABC) begins broadcasting
1953 - KMID TV channel 2 in Midland & Odessa, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
1956 - "To Tell the Truth" debuts on CBS-TV
1956 - Israeli flag hoisted on Mount Sinai
1956 - Japan admitted to UN
1956 - Phil Rizzuto signs as NY Yankee radio-TV announcer
1957 - Shippingport Atomic Power Stn, 1st nuke plant to generate electricity
1958 - 1st test project of Signal Communications by Orbiting Relay Equip
1958 - 1st voice from space: recorded Christmas message by Eisenhower
1958 - Niger gains autonomy within French Community (National Day)
1959 - Sammy Baugh named 1st coach of NY Titans (AFL)
1960 - General Meeting of UN condemns apartheid
1961 - Britain's EMI Records originally rejects the Beatles
1961 - For 2nd cons year, AP names Wilma Rudolph female athlete of year
1961 - India annexes Portuguese colonies of Goa, Damao & Diu
1961 - KAIL TV channel 53 in Fresno, CA (IND) begins broadcasting
1961 - Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Phila Warriors scores 78 points vs LA
1962 - Dmitri Shostakovitch' 13th Symphony, premieres in Moscow
1962 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1962 - WAIQ TV channel 26 in Montgomery, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1963 - Clarke runs world record 10k (28:15.6)
1963 - Muskegon, Michigan gets 3' of snow
1964 - "I Had a BaIl" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 199 performances
1964 - "The Pink Panther" cartoon series premieres (Pink Phink)
1964 - During services held for Sam Cooke fans caused damage to Funeral Home
1964 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1965 - "La Grusse Valise" closes at 54th St Theater NYC after 7 performances
1965 - Borman & Lovell Splash down in Atlantic ends 2 week Gemini VII mission
1965 - Kenneth LeBel jumps 17 barrels on ice skates
1966 - Dr. Seuss' "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" airs for 1st time on CBS
1966 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1966 - Saturn's moon Epimetheus is discovered by Richard L. Walker.
1968 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1969 - "Coco" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 333 performances
1969 - Britain abolishes death penalty
1969 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1970 - "Me Nobody Knows" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 587 perfs
1970 - Polish uprising fails
1970 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1971 - 1st Candlelight Processional
1971 - CBS radio cancels Saturday morning band concerts
1971 - People United To Save Humanity (PUSH) forms by Jesse Jackson in Chic
1971 - US dollar devalued 7.9% in Holland ($1=Ÿ3,245)
1972 - US begins its heaviest bombing of North Vietnam
1973 - Soyuz 13 launched into Earth orbit for 8 days
1973 - Yanks sign Dick Williams as manager, overturned later by AL Pres
1974 - SF Visitors Center at City Hall opens
1976 - "A Star is Born", with Barbra Striesand, premieres
1976 - "Wonder Woman" debuts on ABC
1976 - Soviet dissident Viktor Bukovskiexchanged for Chile CP-leader Corvalan
1977 - Cleveland Cavaliers retire jersey # 42, Nate Thumond
1977 - Dutch Antilles: premier Boy Rozendal points independence off
1978 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1978 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1979 - Stanley Barrett 1st to exceed land sonic speed (739.666 MPH)
1980 - Bruce Sprinsteen's concert at Madison Sq Garden
1980 - Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts minister Van Agts abortion laws
1980 - IRA's Sean McKenna becomes critically ill, ends hunger strike
1980 - Vietnam adopts constitution
1982 - Flight readiness firing of Challenger's main engines; 20 seconds
1983 - NBA San Diego Clippers ends 29 game road losing streak
1984 - 73rd Davis Cup: Sweden beats USA in Gothenburg (4-1)
1985 - "Jerry's Girls" opens at St James Theater NYC for 139 performances
1985 - UN Security Council unanimously condemns "acts of hostage-taking"
1986 - Mr Gates serves as acting director of CIA
1987 - Ivan F Boesky sentenced to 3 years for insider trading
1988 - 5th meeting of Giants-Jets, Jets win & eliminate Giants from playoffs
1988 - Seattle Seahawks win their 1st ever division title with 9-7 record
1989 - "I Love Lucy" Christmas episode, shown for 1st time in over 30 years
1989 - Athol Fugard's "My Children, My Africa" premieres in NYC
1990 - NL releases short list of teams for 1993 NL expansion
1990 - NL announces Buffalo, Denver, Miami, Orlando, Tampa-St Petersburg, & Wash DC as 6 finalist
           for 1993 expansion (Miami & Denver win)
1991 - DeForest Kelly (Dr McCoy on Star Trek) gets a star in Hollywood
1991 - General Motors announces closing of 21 plants
1992 - FCC vote 4-1 to allow Infinity to purchase Cook Inlet stations
1993 - Kevin Scott skates world record 1K (1:12.54)
1994 - "Comedy Tonight" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 8 performances
1994 - "What's Wrong With this Pic?" closes at Circle in Sq NYC after 12 perf
1994 - Darryl Strawberry pleads not guilty on tax evasion charges
1994 - General Hospital stars Kristina Malandro & Jack Wagner wed
1994 - Norman, Couples & Azinger wins LPGA Wendy's 3-Tour Golf Challenge
1994 - Socialist Party (ex-communist) wins Bulgaria parliamentary election
1996 - Start of 1st Test Cricket match between Zimbabwe & England
1996 - US TV industry execs agree to adopt a ratings system
1996 - The Oakland, California school board passes a resolution officially declaring "Ebonics" a
           language or dialect.
1997 - HTML 4.0 is published by the World Wide Web Consortium.
1999 - NASA launches into orbit the Terra platform carrying five Earth Observation instruments,
           including ASTER, CERES, MISR, MODIS and MOPITT.
2002 - 2003 California recall: Then Governor of California Gray Davis announces that the state would
           face a record budget deficit of $35 billion, roughly double the figure reported during his
           reelection campaign one month earlier.
2012 - 4 people are killed and 11 are injured after an apartment block collapses in Palermo, Italy
2012 - 6 health workers dispensing polio vaccinations are gunned down in Pakistan
2012 - The Seleka rebel coalition kills 15 people during its capture of Bria, the Central African Republic

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 18, 2013, 01:49:27 PM

This Day in History for 18th December


Famous Weddings

1915 - US President Wilson, widowed the year before, marries Edith Bolling Galt
1932 - Civil rights activist Rosa Parks (19) weds Raymond Parks (29) in Montgomery, Alabama
1983 - Wrestler Hulk Hogan (30) weds Linda Claridge
1987 - Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan's future Prime Minister, marries Asif Ali Zardari

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 18, 2013, 01:59:45 PM

This Day in History for 18th December


Famous Birthdays

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Physicist J. J. Thomson (1856)       Soviet Union Premier Joseph Stalin (1878)      Director Steven Spielberg (1946)

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Singer Christina Aguilera (1980)


1507 - Ōuchi Yoshitaka, Japanese warlord (d. 1551)
1562 - Philipp Dulichius, composer
1569 - Jakob Hassler, composer
1602 - Simonds d'Ewes, English antiquarian and politician (d. 1650)
1610 - Charles Du Fresne Du Cange, French scholar/philologist
1620 - Heinrich Roth, German Sanskrit scholar (d. 1668)
1633 - Adriaen Melar, Flemish engraver, baptised
1633 - Willem van de Velde the Young, Dutch seascape painter, baptised
1635 - Antonius Matthaeus, Dutch lawyer/historian
1661 - Christopher Polhem, Swedish scientist and inventor (d. 1751)
1662 - James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry, Scottish politician (d. 1711)
1667 - Wenzel Ludwig von Radolt, composer
1707 - Charles Wesley, co-founder (Methodist movement)
1725 - Johann Salomo Semler, German historian and Bible commentator (d. 1791)
1734 - Jean-Baptiste Rey, composer
1760 - Knud L Rahbek, Danish literary (Om sku skuespillerkunsten)
1779 - Joseph Grimaldi, England, pantomimist ("greatest clown in history")
1788 - Camille Pleyel, Austria, piano builder/composer
1803 - William Allen, (Rep/Gov-Oh)
1811 - Alexander Sandor Asboth, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1868
1812 - Wiktor Kazynski, composer
1816 - Alfred Elzey Jones, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1871
1819 - Yakov Petrovich Polonsky, Russian poet (Stichotvorenija)
1825 - Charles Griffin, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1867
1826 - Charles-A Chatrian, [Erckmann-C], French writer (L'ami Fritz)
1826 - Mercer Brooke John, (Confederate Navy), died in 1906
1835 - George Dashiell Bayard, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
1835 - Lyman Abbott, American author (d. 1922)
1837 - A Adolf Daens, Belgian priest/Dutch party founder (CVP)
1844 - Lujo [Ludwig J von] Brentano, German economist
1848 - Karl Schroder, composer
1851 - Graciano Lopez Jaena, Filipino hero, orator and satirist (d. 1896)
1852 - Gaetano Coronaro, composer
1856 - J. J. Thomson, Manchester, England, physicist discovered electron (Nobel 1906)
1860 - Edward Alexander MacDowell, US, composer (Indian Suite)
1861 - Lionel Monckton, composer
1863 - Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria, Graz Austria, His assassination in 1914 led to
           declarations of war in WWI
1867 - Antoon van Welie, Dutch painter
1870 - Andres Randolf, Denmark, actor (The Kiss)
1870 - Saki, [Hector Hugo Munro], Burma, author (Reginald, When William Came)
1873 - Adolf Vogl, composer
1873 - Francis Burton Harrison, American political figure (d. 1957)
1877 - Max Pallenberg, Austria, actor (Brave Suender)/husb of Fritzi Massary
1878 - Joseph Stalin [Josef], Gori, Russian Empire, Premier of the Soviet Union (1941-1953), (d.
           1953)
1879 - Paul Klee, Münchenbuchsee Switzerland, Swiss/German abstract painter (Twittering Machine)
1884 - Philippe van Isacker, Belgian minister
1886 - Ty Cobb, American baseball player, Colo, batted .367, stole 892 bases (Det Tigers) (d. 1961)
1888 - Gladys Cooper, Lewisham England, actress (My Fair Lady)
1888 - Robert Moses, power broker (built Long Island & NYC parks & roads)
1890 - Edwin Howard Armstrong, NYC, radio pioneer inventor (FM)
1897 - Fernand J Collin, Belgian economist/banker
1897 - Fletcher Henderson, American arranger and composer (d. 1952)
1898 - Jacob Kruijt, Dutch sociologist
1904 - George Stevens, US director (Alice Adams, Penny Serenade)
1904 - Wilf Carter, country singer
1905 - Richard Sturzenegger, composer
1906 - Edwin H "Buddy" Morris, music publisher
1906 - Kam Tong, actor (Across the Pacific, Flower Drum Song)
1907 - Christopher Fry, Bristol England, playwright (Ring Around the Moon)
1907 - Bill Holland, American auto racer (d. 1984)
1908 - Celia Johnson, England, actress (Happy Breed, Brief encounter)
1909 - Mona Barrie, [Smith], London England, actress (Dawn on Great Divide)
1910 - Abe Burrows, Brooklyn New York, American Broadway composer (Guys & Dolls 1951 TONY)
1910 - Eric Tindall, cricketer (All Black rep who kept wicket in 5 Tests)
1911 - Helen Vlachos, journalist
1911 - Jules Dassin, Middletown CT, director (Circle of Two, Never on Sunday)
1912 - Benjamin O. Davis Jr., American General (d. 2002)
1913 - Alfred Bester, US, science fiction author (Decievers, Starlight)
1913 - Donald Phillips, pianist/composer
1913 - Lynn Bari, Roanoke Va, actress (Connie-Detective Wife, Earthbound)
1913 - Saburo Takata, composer
1913 - Willy Brandt, [Herbert Frahm], German chancellor (1969-74, Nobel 1971)
1913 - Ray Meyer, American basketball coach (d. 2006)
1914 - Jerry Zipkin, socialite
1915 - Dario Mangiarotti, Italy, fencing, gold, 2 silver (Olympic-1948, 52)
1916 - Betty Grable, St Louis, great legs/actress (Gay Divorcee)
1917 - Ossie Davis, Cogdell GA, actor/playwright (Hot Stuff, Man Called Adam)
1920 - Rita Streich, German singer
1920 - Willis Conover, broadcaster
1922 - Larry D Mann, Toronto Canada, actor (Marty-Accidental Family)
1923 - Lotti [Charlotte] van der Gaag, Dutch sculptor/painter
1926 - Peggy Cummins, North Wales, actress (Curse of the Demon)
1927 - Ramsey Clark, US attorney General (1967-69)
1927 - Sterling Lanier, US, writer (Hiero's Journey)
1927 - Roméo LeBlanc, 25th Governor General of Canada
1928 - Józef Glemp, Polish cardinal
1929 - Gino Cimoli, American baseball player
1930 - Bill Skowron [Moose], Chicago, Illinois, MLB First baseman (NY Yankees), (d. 2012)
1931 - Gunnel Lindblom, Goeteborg Sweden, actor (Hunger, Virgin Spring)
1931 - Noel McGregor, cricketer (batted in 25 Tests for NZ 1955-65)
1931 - Allen Klein, American rock and roll business manager
1931 - Alison Plowden, English historian (d. 2007)
1932 - Roger Smith, South Gate California, actor (77 Sunset Strip)
1933 - Arthur Leigh Allen, Suspected Zodiac serial killer (d. 1992)
1934 - Boris Valentinovich Volynov, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 5, 21)
1935 - Jacques Pépin, French chef
1936 - Malcolm Kirk, English professional wrestler (d. 1987)
1938 - [Bryan] Chas Chandler, rocker (The Animals-House of the Rising Sun)
1938 - Roger E. Mosley, American actor
1939 - Christoffel "Stoffel" van de Merwe, S Afr minister of Education
1939 - Henrica M L "Wiesje" Backer, Dutch dancer/actress/playwright
1939 - Michael J Moorcock, England, sci-fi author (Alien Heat, Bull & Spear)
1939 - Sandro Lopopolia, Italy, lightweight boxer (Olympic-Silver-1960)
1939 - Harold E. Varmus, American scientist, Nobel laureate
1940 - Arnold Long, cricketer (prolific wicketkeeper for Surrey & Sussex)
1940 - Bramwell Morrison, member of Sharon, Lois & Bram
1941 - Sam Andrew, rocker (Big Brother & Holding Company-Cheap Thrills)
1941 - Wadada Leo Smith, American trumpeter and composer
1942 - William HAF, English prince/grandson of George V
1942 - Harvey Atkin, Canadian actor
1943 - Alan Rudolph, actor (Endangers Species, Love at Large, Made in Heaven)
1943 - Bobby Keyes, rocker
1943 - Keith Richards, England, rock guitarist (Rolling Stones-Brown Sugar)
1945 - Birenda Bir Bikram, King of Nepal (1972- )
1945 - Carolyn Wood, US, 4 X 100m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-gold-1960)
1946 - Hubie Green, Birmingham Ala, PGA golfer (US Open 1977)
1946 - Stephen (Steve) Biko, South African anti-apartheid activist
1946 - Steven Spielberg, Cincinnati, director (ET, Close Encounters, Jaws)
1947 - Eddie Antar, founder/CEO (Crazy Eddie Electronics Store)
1948 - Bryan "Chas" Changler, Newcastle, rock bassist (Animals)
1948 - Bill Nelson, English musician (Be Bop Deluxe)
1948 - Laurent Voulzy, French singer and composer
1949 - Joni Flynn, Assam India, actress (Octopussy)
1950 - Gillian Armstrong, Melbourne Aust, director (High Tide, Mrs Soffel)
1950 - Leonard Maltin, NYC, movie critic (Entertainment Tonight)
1950 - Martha Johnson, Toronto Canada, rocker (M+M)
1950 - Randy Castillo, American drummer (Ozzy Osbourne) (d. 2002)
1951 - Andrew S Thomas, Adelaide Australia, PhD/astronaut (STS 77, STS 89/91)
1951 - Candice Rialson, Santa Monica California, actress (Chatterbox)
1953 - Elliot Easton, [Elliot Shapiro], Brooklyn NY, rock guitarist (Cars)
1953 - Khas-Magomed Hadjimuradov, Chechen bard
1954 - Ray Liotta, Newark NJ, actor (Sacha-Casablanca, Goodfellas)
1956 - Reinhold Ewald, Germany, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-25)
1956 - Ron White, American comedian
1957 - John Webster, rocker (Red Ryder-Light in the Tunnel)
1959 - Barrie Chase, actress (Mardi Gras, Cape Fear)
1960 - Kazuhide Uekusa, Japanese economist
1961 - Brian Orser, Canada, figure skater (Olympics-Silver-88)
1961 - Ken Foreman, rocker (Thrashing Doves-Reprobate's Hymm)
1961 - Lalchand Rajput, cricketer (Indian Test opening batsman 1985-86)
1961 - Thomas Strittmatter, writer
1962 - Renaldo Lapuz, Filipino-American Singer
1963 - Charles Oakley, NBA forward (NY Knicks)
1963 - Lori McNeil, San Diego California, tennis star (1995 Oakland doubles)
1963 - Brad Pitt, Shawnee, Oklahoma, American actor (12 Monkeys, Fight Club)
1963 - Karl Dorrell, American football coach
1963 - Pauline Ester, French singer
1963 - Allan Kayser, American actor
1964 - Don Beebe, NFL wide reciever (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1964 - Robson Green, English actor and singer
1965 - Angeliki Kaneltopoutous, Greece, tennis star
1965 - Brian Walton, Ottawa Ontario, points race cyclist (Olympics-silver-96)
1965 - Fawna Maclaren, Santa Monica Ca, playmate (Jan, 1989)
1965 - Willie Blair, Paintsville KY, pitcher (San Diego Padres)
1965 - Mick Collins, American musician (The Gories, The Dirtbombs)
1965 - Tommy Davidson, American actor
1966 - Aaron Jones, NFL defensive end (NE Patriots)
1966 - Gianluca Pagliuca, Italian actress (Ugly Dirty & Bad)
1966 - Kiefer Sutherland, actor (Young Guns, Stand by Me, Lost Boys)
1966 - Patricia Neder, Wauykesha WI, team handball right wing (Olymp-92, 96)
1966 - Steve Dullaghan, rocker (Primitives-Lovely, Lump of Coal)
1966 - Terry Phelps, Larchmont NY, tennis star
1966 - Tracy Byrd, country singer
1966 - Makiko Esumi, Japanese actress
1966 - Mille Petrozza, German singer (Kreator)
1967 - Bob Corkum, Salisbury, NHL center (Phila Flyers)
1967 - Charles Christopher Rymer, Cleveland TN, PGA golfer (1995 Shell-3rd)
1967 - Dan McGwire, NFL quarterback (Miami Dolphins)
1967 - Tracy Hayworth, NFL linebacker (Detroit Lions, Atlanta Falcons)
1967 - Toine van Peperstraten, Dutch sports journalist
1968 - Aaron Craver, NFL running back (Denver Broncos, San Diego Chargers)
1968 - Casper Van Dien, actor (Starship Troopers)
1968 - Alejandro Sanz, Spanish singer
1969 - Andrew Murphy, Australian long jumper/triple jumper (Olympics-96)
1969 - Chris Dausin, WLAF corner/guard (Scottish Claymores)
1969 - Joanne Mills, Sydney Aust, golfer (T25 Holden 1994 Women's Aust Open)
1969 - Joe Randa, Milwaukee WI, infielder (KC Royals)
1969 - Keith Piper, cricketer (Warwickshire & England A wicketkeeper)
1969 - Marco Coleman, NFL defensive end (Miami Dolphins, San Diego Chargers)
1969 - T C Wright, WLAF running back (Amsterdam Admirals)
1969 - Santiago Cañizares, Spanish footballer
1969 - Justin Edinburgh, English footballer
1970 - Lucious Harris, NBA guard (NJ Nets, Dallas Mavericks)
1970 - Anthony Catanzaro, American fitness model
1970 - Cowboy Troy, American rapper
1970 - DMX, American rapper and actor
1970 - Miles Marshall Lewis, American author
1970 - Rob Van Dam, American professional wrestler
1970 - Johnny Yeo, English artist
1971 - Arantxa Sanchez Vicario, Barcelona, tennis star (Oly-silv/bronze-92)
1971 - Frank Pimiskern, CFL safety (BC Lions)
1971 - Joe Dziedzic, Minneapolis, NHL left wing (Pitts Penguins)
1971 - Markus Finke, WLAF running back (Rhein Fire)
1971 - Neil Little, Medicine Hat, NHL goalie (Phila Flyers)
1971 - Barkha Dutt, Indian journalist
1971 - Noriko Matsueda, Japanese composer
1972 - Eric Unverzagt, NFL/WLAF linebacker (Sea Seahawks, Scotland Claymores)
1972 - Jeff Nelson, Prince Albert, NHL center (Washington Capitals)
1972 - Marcos Ondruska, South Africa, tennis star
1972 - Trevor Chowning, American Pop Artist
1972 - DJ Lethal, Latvian-born American DJ (House of Pain, Limp Bizkit)
1972 - Raymond Herrera, American drummer (Fear Factory) and businessman
1973 - Jason Williams, Gonzales LA, baseball infielder (Olympics-bronze-96)
1973 - Keith Washington, NFL defensive end (Minnesota Vikings, Baltimore Ravens)
1974 - Peter Boulware, linebacker (Baltimore Ravens)
1974 - Euroboy, Norwegian musician (Turbonegro)
1974 - Kari Byron, artist and television personality
1974 - Bill Duggan, American television actor and host
1975 - Michael Barry, Toronto, Ontario, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1975 - Masaki Sumitani, Japanese comedian
1975 - Trish Stratus, Canadian professional wrestler
1976 - Koyuki, Japanese actress and model
1977 - José Acevedo, Dominican baseball player
1978 - Naomi Lang, Arcata California, dance skater (& Peter Tchernyshev)
1978 - Ali Curtis, American soccer player
1978 - Katie Holmes, Toledo, Ohio, American actress (Dawson's Creek, Batman Begins)
1979 - Carlos, Portuguese footballer
1980 - Christina Aguilera, American singer (Genie in a Bottle, What a Girl Wants)
1982 - Dave Luetkenhoelter, American bassist (Kutless)
1983 - Darren Carter, English footballer
1983 - Steph Jones, American R&B singer
1985 - Tara Conner, 2006 Miss USA
1985 - Hana Soukupová, Czech supermodel
1987 - Miki Andō, Japanese figure skater
1987 - Ayaka, Japanese singer
1987 - Fernando Jara, Panamanian-American jockey
1989 - Ashley Benson, American actress
1989 - Ashley Slanina-Davies, Hollyoaks actress

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 18, 2013, 02:04:17 PM

This Day in History for 18th December


Famous Deaths

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French Naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1829)


468 - Huna Mari bar Mar Zutra, rabbi, executed in Pumpedita
821 - Theodulf, Bishop of Orléans
1133 - Hildebert, French writer
1290 - King Magnus I of Sweden (b. 1240)
1442 - Pierre Cauchon, French Catholic bishop (b. 1371)
1495 - King Alphonso II of Naples (b. 1448)
1505 - John IX van Horne, prince-bishop of Lieges, executed
1565 - Benedetto Varchi, Italian humanist/historian (L'Ercolano), dies at 62
1577 - Anna, duchess of Saxon/wife of prince Willem of Orange, dies at 32
1597 - Barbara Blomberg, German mistress of emperor Karel, dies at 67
1633 - Theodoor Galle, Flemish engraver, buried at 62
1638 - Le Pere Joseph, French mystic, dies
1651 - Francisco the Melo, Portuguese/Spanish earl of Assumar, dies at 54
1692 - Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff, German statesman (b. 1626)
1710 - Peter Codde, apostile vicar (1688-1704), dies at 62
1732 - Johann Valentin Eckelt, composer, dies at 59
1737 - Antonio Stradivari, renowned violin-maker, dies in Cremona Italy at 93
1751 - Kilian I von Dientzenhofer, builder (Nepomukkerk, Prague), dies at 62
1779 - Jan Punt, engraver/illustrator/actor (Gideonschool), dies at 68
1787 - Soame Jenyns, English writer (b. 1704)
1799 - Jean-Étienne Montucla, French mathematician (b. 1725)
1803 - Johann G von Herder, German philosopher/theologist/poet, dies at 59
1829 - Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck, French naturalist, dies at 85
1831 - Willem Bilderdijk, Dutch poet/literary (My Relief), dies at 75
1835 - Johann Georg Anton Mederitsch-Gallus, composer, dies at 82
1839 - Charles-Henri Plantade, composer, dies at 75
1841 - Felice Blangini, composer, dies at 60
1843 - Thomas Graham, Lord Lynedoch, British Viceroy of India (b. 1748)
1848 - Bernard Bolzano, Bohemian mathematician and philosopher (b. 1781)
1858 - Joseph-Henri-Ignace Mees, composer, dies at 81
1862 - Johnson Kelly Duncan, architect/Confederate brig-generaal, dies at 35 of malarial fever
1865 - Francisco Manuel da Silva, composer, dies at 70
1869 - Louis Moreau Gottschalk, composer, dies at 40
1892 - Richard Owen, English zoologist (Dinosaurus), dies at 88
1897 - Carlo A Alfieri, Italian Member of parliament, dies at 70
1899 - John William Glover, composer, dies at 84
1911 - Alberto Randegger, composer, dies at 79
1918 - Henryk Jarecki, composer, dies at 72
1919 - Horatio William Parker, composer, dies at 56
1919 - John Alcock, pilot (1st non-stop over Atlantic), dies in crash at 27
1928 - Lucien Capet, composer, dies at 55
1931 - John T "Legs" Diamond, US gangster, murdered at 35
1932 - Eduard "Ede" Bernstein, German marxist/revisionist, dies at 82
1935 - Juan V Gomez, general/dictator of Venezuela (1908-35), dies
1936 - Andrija Mohorovičić, Austro-Hungarian-born Yugoslav seismologist (b. 1857)
1937 - S S Schultz, cricketer (one Test England v Australia 1879), dies
1939 - Matthew Brown, Journalist, dies at 51
1942 - Charlie Walker, cricketer (Aust tourist to England 1930, 1938), dies
1948 - Janet Fay, hammered to death by Honeymoon Killers
1959 - Dorothy L Sayers, writer, dies at 66
1963 - Winifried P I Zillig, German composer/conductor (Opfer), dies at 58
1966 - Gene Gauntier, dies in Cuernavaca Mexico
1971 - Aleksandr T Tvardovski, Russ editor in chief (Novyj Mir), dies at 61
1971 - Bobby Jones Jr, amateur golfer (Grand Slam 1930), dies at 69
1971 - Diana Lynn, actress (Annapolis Story, Easy Come Easy Go), dies at 45
1973 - Giulio Cesare Brero, composer, dies at 64
1973 - Allama Rasheed Turabi, Pakistani scholar, orator and philosopher (b. 1908)
1974 - Harry Hooper, American baseball player (b. 1887)
1975 - Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ukrainian geneticist (b. 1900)
1976 - George Emmett, cricketer (England opener v Aust Old Trafford 1948), dies
1977 - Cyril Ritchard, actor (Peter Pan), dies at 80
1977 - Louis Untermeyer, poet/critic/TV panelist (What's My Line), dies at 92
1980 - Alexei N Kosygin, Soviet PM (1964-80), suffers heart attack at 76
1981 - Mehmet Shehu, PM Albania (1954-81)/"US-Russ spy", commits suicide
1982 - Raymond Emery, cricketer (2 Tests NZ v WI 1952, 46 runs, 2 wkts), dies
1982 - Tibor de Machula, Hungary/Neth cellist, dies at 70
1982 - Hans-Ulrich Rudel, German pilot (b. 1916)
1985 - Xuân Diệu, Vietnamese poet (b. 1916)
1986 - Mamo Clark, actor (1 Million BC, Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island), dies
1987 - Conny Plank, German record producer and musician (b. 1940)
1990 - Anne Revere, actress (National Velvet), dies of pneumonia at 87
1990 - Paul Tortelier, composer, dies at 76
1991 - June Storey, actress (South of the Border), dies of cancer at 73
1991 - George Abecassis, English Formula 1 driver (b. 1913)
1992 - Dana Andrews, actor (Best Years of Our Lifes), dies at 83
1992 - Mark Goodson, TV game show producer (Goodson-Toddman), dies at 77
1992 - Mother Clare Hale, cared for NYC AIDS babies (Hale House), dies at 87
1993 - Sam Wanamaker, actor (Pvt Benjamin), dies of prostate cancer at 74
1993 - Charizma, American rapper (b. 1973)
1994 - Heinz Bernard Lowenstein, actor/director, dies at 71
1994 - Lilia Skala, Austrian/US actress (Ship of Fools, Caprice), dies at 98
1994 - Peter Hebblethwaite, English editor-in-chief (The Month), dies at 64
1994 - Roger Apéry, Greek-French mathematician (b. 1916)
1995 - Chaim Pearl, rabbi, dies at 76
1995 - Georgio Fini, restaurateur, dies at 70
1995 - Ross Thomas, author, dies at 69
1995 - Konrad Zuse, German engineer and computing pioneer (b. 1910)
1995 - Brian Brockless, English organist (b. 1926)
1996 - Arthur Jacobs, musicologist, dies at 74
1997 - Chris Farley, comedian (SNL, Tommy Boy), dies at 33
1998 - Lev Demin, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1926)
1999 - Robert Bresson, French film director (b. 1907)
2000 - Stan Fox, American race car driver (b. 1952)
2000 - Randolph Apperson Hearst, son of W. Randolph Hearst and father of Patty (b. 1915)
2000 - Kirsty MacColl, English singer and songwriter (b. 1959)
2001 - Gilbert Bécaud, French singer (b. 1927)
2001 - Dimitris Dragatakis, Greek composer (b. 1914)
2002 - Ray Hnatyshyn, Governor-General of Canada (b. 1934)
2002 - Wayne Owens, former U.S. Congressman (D-Utah) (b. 1937)
2004 - Anthony Sampson, British journalist and biographer (b. 1926)
2005 - Alan Voorhees, American engineer and urban planner (b. 1922)
2006 - Joseph Barbera, American cartoonist (b. 1911)
2006 - Ruth Bernhard, American photographer (1905)
2006 - Mike Dickin, British radio broadcaster (b. 1943)
2006 - Shaukat Siddiqui, Pakistani author, journalist and political activist (b. 1923)
2007 - Gerald Le Dain, Canadian Supreme Court judge (b. 1924)
2007 - Jack Linkletter, American television host, son of Art Linkletter (b. 1937)
2007 - Bill Strauss, American writer on generations, satirist, and founder of the Capitol Steps (b.
           1947)
2008 - Majel Barrett, American actress and producer of Star Trek, also the widow of Gene
           Roddenberry (b. 1932)
2008 - Mark Felt, the infamous Deep Throat, American FBI official and whistle blower during the
           Watergate Scandal (b. 1932)
2010 - Phil Cavarretta, American baseball player (b. 1916)
2010 - Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, Italian banker and economist (b. 1940)
2010 - Jacqueline de Romilly, French philologist and classical scholar (b. 1913)
2010 - James Pickles, English jurist and columnist (b. 1925)
2012 - Marcus Worsley, British Lord-Lieutenant of North Yorkshire, dies at 87

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 19, 2013, 09:51:23 AM

This Day in History for 19th December


Historical Events

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Novelist Charles Dickens                          Naturalist Charles Darwin           Dictator of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler

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Vietnamese Communist Revolutionary        Singer/Actor Frank Sinatra                 Film Director Stanley Kubrick
Ho Chi Minh

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British Prime Minister                                NHL all-time top scorer                       42nd US President Bill Clinton
Margaret Thatcher                                            Wayne Gretzky


324 - Licinius abdicates his position as Roman Emperor.
401 - St Anastasius I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1055 - Seldjuken under Toghril Beg occupy Baghdad
1154 - King Henry II of England crowned
1551 - Dutch west coast hit by hurricane
1562 - Battle at Dreux: Anne de Montmorency & huguenots under Condé captured
1686 - Robinson Crusoe leaves his island after 28 years (as per Daniel Defoe)
1688 - King James II's wife & son flee to France
1696 - Jean-Francois Regnard's "Le Joueur," premieres in Paris
1732 - Benjamin Franklin under the name Richard Saunders begins publication of "Poor Richard's
           Almanack"
1776 - Thomas Paine published his 1st "American Crisis" essay, in which he wrote, "These are the
           times that try men's souls"
1777 - Washington settles his troops at Valley Forge, Pa for winter
1783 - British government of William Pitt the Younger forms
1788 - Chinese troops occupy capital Thang Long Vietnam
1795 - 1st state appropriation of money for road building, Kentucky
1823 - Georgia passes 1st US state birth registration law in US
1828 - South Carolina declares right of states to nullify federal laws
1835 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin approaches NZ
1842 - US recognizes independence of Hawaii
1843 - Charles Dickens publishes "A Christmas Carol," in England
1854 - Allen Wilson of Conn patents sewing machine to sew curving seams
1859 - Grading started for Market Street RR
1861 - Battle of Black Water
1862 - Skirmish at Jackson/Salem Church, Tenn (80 casualties)
1867 - Victims of "Angola Horror" burned to death (Angola NY)
1871 - Albert L Jones (NYC), patents corrugated paper
1881 - Opera "Hérodiade" is produced (Brussels)
1884 - Italy recognizes King Leopold II's Congo Free State
1887 - Jake Kilrain & Jem Smith fight 106 round bare knuckle draw
1888 - Stanley's expedition reaches Fort Bodo, East-Africa
1889 - Bishop Museum founded in Hawaii
1890 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Beryl Coronet" (BG)
1891 - 1st Negro Catholic priest ordained in US, Charles Uncles, Baltimore
1891 - Canadian Rugby Union forms
1894 - Cricket day 5 1T Aus v Eng Eng 437 all out, Aus need 177 are 2-113
1903 - Williamsburg suspension bridge opens between Brooklyn & Manhattan
1904 - Dawson City hockey team begins 9 day walk to get a boat to Seattle to catch a train to
           Ottawa to play in Stanley Cup on Jan 13 1905
1907 - 239 workers died in a coal mine explosion in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania
1910 - 1st city ordinace requiring white & black residential areas (Balt)
1910 - Rayon 1st commercially produced, Marcus Hook, Penn
1913 - Jack Johnson fights Jim Johnson to a draw in 10 for hw boxing title
1916 - Suriname Bauxite Company forms in Paramaribo
1917 - 1st NHL game played on artificial ice (Toronto)
1917 - Quebec Bulldogs play their 1st professional hockey game
1918 - Robert Ripley began his "Believe It or Not" column (NY Globe)
1919 - American Meteorological Society found
1920 - 1st US indoor curling rink opens (Brookline, Mass)
1920 - King Constantine I is restored as King of the Hellenes after the death of his son Alexander I
           of Greece and a plebiscite.
1922 - Mrs Theres Vaughn, 24, confessed in court to being married 62 times
1924 - Test Cricket debut of Bill Ponsford, who scored 110 in 1st innings
1924 - The last Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost is sold in London, England.
1928 - 1st autogiro (predecessor of helicopter) flight in US
1930 - James Weldon Johnson resigns as executive secretary of NAACP
1931 - Bradman scores 112 Australia v South Africa at cricket SCG
1931 - Joseph A Lyons (C) becomes premier of Australia
1932 - British Broadcasting Corp begins transmitting overseas
1933 - Electric Home & Farm Authority Inc, authorized
1934 - Japan agress to fleet treaty of 1922 & 1930
1939 - Russian air & ground attack against Finnish positions near Summa
1941 - German submarine U-574 sinks
1941 - Hitler takes complete command of German Army
1941 - US Office of Censorship created to control info pertaining to WW II
1943 - Military coup in Bolivia
1945 - Austrian Republic re-establishes
1945 - Jean Giraudoux' "La Folle de Chaillot," premieres in Paris
1946 - Noel Cowards musical "Pacific 1860" premieres in London
1946 - War breaks out in Indochina as Ho Chi Minh attacks French in Hanoi
1948 - 2nd political action of Java/Sumatra
1948 - 8th largest snowfall in NYC history (15.3")
1948 - Cleveland Browns beats Buffalo Bills 49-7 in AAFC championship game
1948 - Philadelphia Eagles shutout Chicago Cards 7-0 in NFL championship game
1949 - Luxury passenger ship Aquitania demolished in Garelock Scotland
1949 - WJW TV channel 8 in Cleveland, OH (CBS) begins broadcasting
1950 - Gen Eisenhower named NATO commander
1950 - Tibet's Dalai Lama flees Chinese invasion
1951 - Nazi General Christiansen leaves Nethe
1952 - Queen Juliana unveals statue "Docker"
1953 - KFYR TV channel 5 in Bismarck, ND (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 - Carl Perkins records "Blue Suede Shoes"
1957 - "Music Man" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 1375 performances
1958 - 1st radio broadcast from space (Pres Eisenhower voice "To all mankind, America's wish for
           Peace on Earth & Good Will to Men Everywhere")
1959 - 1st Liberty Bowl game-Penn State beats Alabama 7-0
1960 - Fire aboard USS Constellation, under construction at Brooklyn (50 die)
1960 - Frank Sinatra's 1st session with Reprise Records (Ring-A-Ding-Ding)
1960 - Mercury-Redstone 1A reaches 210 km in test flight
1961 - UK begins using decimal currency
1961 - Indonesian President Sukarno proclaims general mobilization
1962 - Nyasaland secedes from Rhodesia & Nyasaland
1962 - Street signs in Golden Gate Park approved by Park Commission
1962 - Transit 5A1, 1st operational navigational satellite, launched
1965 - French president De Gaulle re-elected (Mitterrand gets 45%)
1967 - Prime Minister of Australia Harold Holt is officially presumed dead.
1968 - WCWB (now WMGT) TV channel 41 in Macon, GA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1969 - Beatle's 7th Christmas album is released
1971 - "Inner City" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 97 performances
1971 - CBS airs "Homecoming A Christmas Story," (introducing the Waltons)
1971 - NASA launches Intelsat 4 F-3 for COMSAT Corp
1971 - Stanley Kubrick's X-rated "A Clockwork Orange" premieres
1972 - Apollo 17 (last of Apollo Moon landing series) returns to Earth
1973 - "Molly" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 68 performances
1973 - Grenada adopts constitution
1974 - "Man With Golden Gun" premieres in US
1974 - Dave Kryskow scores Washington Capitals 1st NHL shorthanded goal
1974 - Nelson A Rockefeller sworn-in as 41st VP
1975 - John Paul Stevens becomes a US Supreme Court Justice
1975 - Ron Wood joined the Rolling Stones
1976 - Jo Ann Washam/Chi Chi Rodriguez wins Pepsi-Cola Mixed Team Golf Champ
1976 - John Lever takes 7-46 in 1st Test Cricket innings, v India Delhi
1976 - Pres Brezhnev receives his 5th Order of Lenin
1976 - Piper Cherokee crashes into Balt Memorial Stadium upper stands, 10 minutes after Colts lose
           40-14 to Steelers. No one seriously hurt
1977 - Dutch government of Van Agt/Wiegel forms
1978 - France performs nuclear test
1978 - Indira Gandhi ambushed in India
1980 - Anguilla becomes a British dependency separate from St Kitts
1980 - Iran requests $24 billion in US guarantees to free hostages
1980 - Mutual Broadcasting cancels Sears Radio Theater
1981 - Sixteen lives are lost when the Penlee, Cornwall, lifeboat goes to the aid of the stricken
           coaster Union Star in heavy seas.
1983 - The original FIFA World Cup trophy, the Jules Rimet Trophy, is stolen from the headquarters
           of the Brazilian Football Confederation in Rio de Janeiro.
1984 - China PR Premier Zhao Ziyang & British PM Margaret Thatcher sign Hong Kong Treaty
1984 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1984 - Fire at Wilberg Mine in central Utah killed 27 people
1984 - Scotty Bowman becomes NHL's all time winningest coach
1984 - UK signs agreement with China to return Hong Kong to China in 1997
1984 - Wayne Gretzky, 23, is 18th & youngest NHL-er to score 1,000 points
1985 - "Wind in the Willows" opens at Nederlander Theater NYC for 4 perfs
1985 - Mary Lund is 1st woman to receive a Jarvik VII artificial heart
1985 - STS 61-C scrubbed at T -13s because of SRB auxiliary power problem
1986 - USSR frees dissident Andrei Sakharov from internal exile
1986 - Jack Morris agrees to salary arbitration with former team Tigers & accuses owners of collusion
           against free agency
1986 - Michael Sergio, who parachuted into Shea Stadium during game 6 of the World Series,
           sentenced to 100 hrs of community service & fined $500
1987 - Bruins' Linseman & Blues' Doug Gilmore score goals, 2 seconds apart
1987 - Gari Kasparov becomes world chess champ
1988 - NASA unviels plans for lunar colony & manned missions to Mars
1988 - Oklahoma's College football team gets 3 year probation
1988 - Unexploded WW II bomb found in Frankfurt, Germany-5,000 evacuated
1989 - American Airlines purchases Eastern Airline's Latin American route
1989 - Larry Bird (Celtics) begins NBA free throw streak of 71 games
1991 - "Christmas Carol" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 14 perfs
1991 - 6,000th episode of One Life To Live
1991 - Boris Yeltsin takes control of Kremlin
1991 - NY Yankee pitcher Steve Howe arrested for cocaine possession
1993 - "Red Shoes" closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 5 performances
1993 - Guinee general Lansana re-elected president
1994 - Rolls-Royce announces its future cars will feature V12 engine which will be produced by BMW.
1995 - Queen Elizabeth asks Prince Charles & Diana to divorce
1996 - "Once Upon a Matress" opens at Broadhurst NYC for 187 performances
1997 - MTV drops video "Smack My Bitch Up" by Prodigy
1998 - Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives forwards articles I and III of
           impeachment against President Bill Clinton to the Senate.
2000 - The Leninist Guerrilla Units wing of the Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist attack a
           Nationalist Movement Party office in Istanbul, killing one person and injuring three.
2001 - A record high barometric pressure of 1085.6 hPa (32.06 inHg) is recorded at Tosontsengel,
           Khövsgöl Province, Mongolia.
2001 - Argentine economic crisis: December 2001 riots - Riots erupt in Buenos Aires after Domingo
           Cavallo's corralito measures restrict the withdrawal of cash from bank deposits.
2007 - The Lakotah people, a Native American tribe, proclaim independence and withdraw all their
           treaties with the United States. They then proceed to establish the Republic of Lakotah, with
           an ongoing process of international recognition as a separate country.
2012 - UBS bank is fined $1.5 billion for its role in manipulating the Libor rate
2012 - Park Geun-hye wins the South Korean presidential election to become the nation’s first female
           president

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 19, 2013, 09:52:54 AM

This Day in History for 19th December


Famous Weddings

1895 - Poet Robert Frost (21) weds Elinor Miriam White in Lawrence, Massachusetts
1912 - Author Colette (39) weds "Le Matin" newspaper editor Henri de Jouvenel
1919 - Composer and songwriter Cole Porter (28) weds socialite Linda Lee Thomas (36)
1998 - Actress Vivica A. Fox (34) weds singer Christopher Harvest at the Park Plaza in Los Angeles,
           California
2009 - Actor-singer Kevin Jonas (22) weds Danielle Deleasa (23) at Oheka Castle in Huntington, New
           York

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 19, 2013, 09:53:42 AM

This Day in History for 19th December


Famous Divorces

1995 - Queen Elizabeth askes Prince Charles & Diana to divorce

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 19, 2013, 10:01:39 AM

This Day in History for 19th December


Famous Birthdays

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Actor Ralph Richardson (1902)                    Singer Edith Piaf (1915)                      Actor Jake Gyllenhaal (1980)


1036 - Su Tung-p'o, China, poet/essayist/painter/calligrapher
1498 - Andreas Osiander, Germany, Protestant Reformation theologist
1554 - Philip William, Prince of Orange (d. 1618)
1676 - Louis-Nicholas Clerambault, Paris France, composer/organist
1683 - Philip V, Versailles France, King of Spain (1700-24, 24-46)
1699 - William Bowyer, English printer (d. 1777)
1714 - John Winthrop, American astronomer (d. 1779)
1723 - Susanne K von Klettenberg, German friend of Goethes mother
1744 - Jacobus J Cramer, priest of Holland/Zealand/West-Friesland
1753 - John Taylor, Virginia, philosopher (Jeffersonian Democracy)
1778 - Princess Marie-Thérèse-Charlotte, eldest child of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI (d. 1851)
1779 - Auguste-Gaspard-Louis Desnoyers, Paris France, engraver
1783 - Charles-Julien Brianchon, France, mathematician (Brianchon's theorem)
1784 - Marcus Morton, 16th and 18th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1864)
1790 - William Parry, England, Arctic explorer
1792 - [Andries] Hendrik Potgieter, Cape Colony, settled Transvaal
1796 - Manuel Breton de los Herreros, Quel Spain, poet/comic playwright
1797 - Josef Theodor Krov, composer
1809 - Pierre-Joseph van Beneden, Belg, paleont (life cycle of tapeworms)
1813 - Thomas Andrews, Belfast Ireland, chemist/physicist (ozone)
1814 - Edwin M[cMasters] Stanton, Ohio, US Secretary of War (1861-65)
1817 - James Jay Archer, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) died in 1864
1819 - James Clifford Veatch, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1895
1821 - Mary Ashton Livermore, American reformer/women's suffrage leader
1824 - Hercules Robinson, Ireland, South Africa Commissioner (1880-89, 1895-97)
1825 - George Frederick Bristow, composer
1831 - Bernice Pauahi Bishop, Hawaiian philanthropist (d. 1884)
1832 - John Kirk Barry, Scot, Dr/companion to explorer David Livingstone
1836 - Maria L Sanford, pioneer educator (PTA)
1837 - John Carpenter Carter, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
1849 - Henry Clay Frick, Penn, built world's largest coke & steel operation
1852 - A[lbert] A Michelson, Strelno Prussia, US physicist (Nobel 1907)
1853 - Charles Fitzpatrick, Canadian politician, lieutenant-governor of Quebec (d. 1942)\
1861 - Constance [Clara] Garnett, Brighton England, Russian-English translator
1861 - Italo Svevo, Trieste Austria, Italian novelist (La Coscienza di Zeno)
1864 - Adolf Sandberger, composer
1865 - Hermann Hirt, Magdeburg Prussia, linguist (Indo-European Grammar)
1865 - Minnie Maddern Fiske, New Orleans La, actress (Henrik Ibsen's plays)
1865 - Tikhon Toropets, Pskov Russia, patriarch of Russian Orthodox/saint
1869 - Eduard Hermann, Coburg Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, German linguist (Homer)
1875 - Carter G Woodson, New Canton Va, American historian (black studies)
1876 - Carlo Gatti, composer
1878 - Anton Lajovic, composer
1879 - Beals C Wright, tennis champ (US Open-1905)
1879 - Otto Emanuel Olsson, composer
1880 - Nemesio Otano y Eugenio, composer
1882 - Walter Braunfels, composer
1883 - Louis Davids, [Simon David], Dutch cabaret performer/chorus performer
1883 - [Francis] Barry Byrne, Chicago Ill, architect
1884 - Antonin Zapotocky, Czechoslovak president (Ceskoslovensky Spisouatel)
1884 - Ferdinando Liuzzi, composer
1885 - F S Flint, London England, translator/poet (imagist movement)
1885 - Joe "King" Oliver, American jazz musician (d. 1938)
1888 - Fritz Reiner, Budapest Hungary, US conductor (Chicago Symphony Orch)
1890 - Klaas Painter, vicar/antifascist (Occupies possession) [or 1880]
1890 - Klaas Schilder, Dutch theologist/vicar (Occupied Territory)
1891 - Edward Bernard Andre Maria Raczynski, Poland, pres-in-exile (1979-86)
1894 - Ford C Frick, baseball commissioner (1951-65)
1894 - Paul Dessau, Hamburg Germany, composer/conducter (Berlin, 1925-33)
1894 - Yoshida Isoya, Tokyo Japan, architect (modern sukiya style)
1895 - Ingeborg Refling-Hagen, Norwegian author/poet (Loke Saar Havre)
1895 - Maurice Roelants, Belgian author (Jazz Player)
1896 - John Seldon Whale, theologian
1897 - Louis Darquier de Pellepoix, France, anti-Semite/nazi collaborator
1901 - Oliver [Hazard Perry] La Farge, NYC, anthropologist/novelist
1902 - Leonard Hirsch, British violinist/orchestra leader (RAF Symph Orch)
1902 - Ralph Richardson, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, actor (Anna Karenina, Dr Zhivago), (d. 1983)
1903 - Cyril Dean Darlington, England, biologist (hereditary mechanisms)
1903 - George Davis Snell, Bradford, Massachusetts, American geneticist (H-2 gene)
1903 - Theo Harych, writer
1905 - Charles Robert Owen Medley, dancer/choreographer
1906 - H Allen Smith, Ill, humorist/author (Low Man on Totem Pole)
1906 - Leonid I Brezhnev, Ukraine, 1st Secretary of USSR (1964-82)
1907 - Jimmy McLarnin, former Welterweight Champion (d. 2004)
1909 - W.A. Criswell, American (Baptist) preacher (d. 2002)
1910 - Jean Genet, Paris France, criminal/novelist/dramatist (The Blacks)
1910 - Jose Lezama Lima, Havana Cuba, poet/novelist
1913 - William C De Vries, surgeon/inventor (artificial heart)
1915 - Edith Piaf, [E Giovanna Gassion], Paris, chanteuse (Little Sparrow), (d. 1963)
1916 - Adriaan van der Veen, Dutch writer (Sister at Sea)
1916 - Hal Hastings, NYC, orchestra leader (Chevrolet on Broadway)
1916 - Mervyn Wallace, cricketer (13 Tests for NZ, latterly as capt)
1917 - Graham Sharp, ice skater
1919 - Benedict Freedman, New York, NY, novelist and mathematician (Mrs Mike), (d. 2012)
1920 - David Susskind, NYC, TV host (Open End, David Susskind Show)
1920 - Ragnild Hveger, Denmark, 400m swimmer (Olympic-silver-1936) [NS]
1920 - Little Jimmy Dickens, American country singer
1921 - Ludvik Podest, composer
1922 - Eamonn Andrews, Irish-born television presenter (d. 1987)
1923 - Luigi Innocenti, designer
1923 - Gordon Jackson, Scottish actor (d. 1990)
1924 - Edmund Purdom, England, actor (Asissi Underground, Pieces)
1924 - Peter Prowtiny, English real estate developer/multi-millionaire
1924 - Carlo Chiti, Italian race car engineer (d. 1994)
1924 - Doug Harvey, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1989)
1924 - Gary Morton, second husband of Lucille Ball (d. 1999)
1925 - Jimmy Dickens, Bolt WV, country singer (Grand Ole Opry)
1925 - Tankred Torst, writer
1925 - Robert Sherman, New York City, New York, songwriter (Mary Poppins, The Jungle Book), (d.
           2012)
1926 - Bobby Layne, NFL QB (Detroit Lions)
1926 - Jeanne Kirkpatrick, US ambassador to UN
1926 - Herb Stempel, American game show contestant
1927 - James Booth, Croydon, Surrey, English actor and screenwriter (Zulu, Keeping Mum)
1928 - Galt MacDermot, Montreal Canada, composer (Letting Down My Hair)
1928 - Michael Hurd, composer
1928 - Nathan Oliveira, American artist
1929 - Herman T M Lauxtermann, Dutch 2nd chamber member (VVD)
1929 - Howard Sackler, American screenwriter (d. 1982)
1932 - Salvador Elizondo, Mexican writer
1933 - Cicely Tyson, Harlem NYC, actress (Roots, Miss Jane Pittman)
1933 - Kevan Gosper, Australian athlete
1934 - Al Kaline, Baltimore MD, Hall of Fame outfielder (Detroit Tigers)
1934 - Rudi Carrell, [Rudolf W Kesselman], Dutch showmaster
1934 - Casper R. Taylor, Jr., American politician
1935 - Barbara Bostock, American actress
1935 - Bobby Timmons, American jazz pianist (d. 1974)
1936 - Marian McKnight, Miss America 1957
1940 - Phil Ochs, El Paso Tx, anti-war folk singer (Joe Hill, War is Over)
1941 - Maurice White, Memphis TN, rock vocalist (Earth, Wind & Fire-Spirit)
1942 - Jean-Patric Manchette, thriller writer
1942 - Rufus, French actor
1943 - William De Vries, Bkln, surgeon-inventor (Symbion artifical heart)
1943 - Ross M. Lence, American political scientist (d. 2006)
1944 - Alvin Lee, Nottingham England, rock vocals/guitarist (10 Years After), (d. 2013)
1944 - Maurice White, rocker
1944 - Richard Leakey, anthropologist
1944 - Tim Reid, Norfolk VA, American actor and comedian (Venus Flytrap-WKRP, Frank's Place)
1944 - Zal Yanovsky, rock guitarist (Lovin' Spoonful-Do You Believe in Magic)
1944 - William Christie, American-born director of Les Arts Florissants
1944 - Mitchell Feigenbaum, American mathematical physicist
1945 - Elaine Joyce, Cleveland Ohio, actress (City of Angels, Mr Merlin)
1945 - John McEuen, rocker (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
1946 - Marianne Faithfull, Hampstead England, singer (Money, As Tears Go By)
1946 - Robert Urich, Toronto Ohio, actor (SWAT, Spenser for Hire, Vega$)
1946 - Rosemary Conley, English businesswoman, author and broadcaster
1947 - Janie Fricke, South Whitley In, singer (It Ain't Easy Bein' Easy)
1948 - Ken Brown, Canadian ice hockey player
1949 - Claudia A Kolb, US, 200m breast stroke swimmer (Olympic-silver-1964)
1949 - Lenny White, rocker
1949 - Nancy Kyes, American actress
1949 - Sebastian, Danish musician
1951 - Fred W Leslie, Ancon Panama, PhD/astronaut (STS 73)
1953 - Peter McEwan, cricketer (NZ batsman early 80's)
1955 - Susil Fernando, cricketer (5 Tests for Sri Lanka 1983)
1956 - Alice Barrett, NYC, actress (Frankie Frame-Another World)
1956 - Tom Lawless, American baseball player
1957 - Doug Johnson, rock keyboardist (Loverboy-Get Lucky)
1957 - Kevin McHale, NBA forward (Boston Celtics)
1957 - Liz Glazowski, Chicago Ill, playmate (April, 1980)
1957 - Cyril Collard, French film director (d. 1993)
1957 - John Gulager, American film director
1958 - Iqbal Sikander, cricketer (Pakistan leg-spinner 1992 World Cup)
1958 - Limahl, British rocker (Kajagoogoo-Too Shy)
1958 - Rick Pearson, Marianna FL, Nike golfer (1990 Yuma Open)
1959 - Edward Metgod, Dutch soccer goalie (Haarlem, Sparta)
1959 - Kathryn "Furu" Carpenter, Marshall Mich, fencer-epee (Olympics-96)
1960 - Mike Lookinland, Mt Pleasant Utah, actor (Bobby-Brady Bunch)
1960 - Michelangelo Signorile, American writer
1961 - Reggie White, NFL defensive end (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1962 - Bettina Huebers, Hamburg GFR, claims to be the illegitimate daughter of Paul McCartney
1962 - Charith Senanayake, cricketer (played for Sri Lanka v NZ 1991)
1962 - Jill Talley, American actress
1963 - Chris Greatrex, LPGA golfer (1995 Fielcrest Cannon Classic-71st)
1963 - Jennifer Beals, Chicago Ill, actress (Flashdance, Bride)
1963 - Karen Bliss-Livingston, Quakertown PA, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1963 - Til Schweiger, German actor
1964 - Arvydas Sabonis, NBA center (Portland Trailblazers)
1964 - Beatrice Dalle, Breast France, actress (Betty Blue, Sabbath)
1964 - Lorie Kane, PEI Canada, LPGA golfer (du Maurier Ltd-1994, 95)
1964 - Mike Fetters, Van Nuys CA, pitcher (Milwaukee Brewers)
1964 - Randall McDaniel, NFL guard (Minnesota Vikings)
1965 - Chuckii Booker, rocker
1965 - Jessica Steen, Toronto, actress (Earth II, Homefront, Trial & Error)
1965 - Chito Martínez, Belizean baseball player
1966 - Alberto "La Bomba" Tomba, Italian skier (Olympic-gold-1988, 92)
1966 - Courtney Griffin, CFL defensive back (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1966 - Eric Weinrich, Roanoke, NHL defenseman (Chicago Blackhawks)
1966 - Monique Oliver, Malibu Ca, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-4th-1994)
1966 - Rajesh Chauhan, cricketer (Indian off-spinner since 1993)
1966 - Robert MacNaughton, NYC, actor (ET)
1966 - Roberto Beam, soccer player (Vitesse/MVV)
1967 - Doug Johns, South Bend IN, pitcher (Oakland A's)
1967 - Frankie Lam, Hong Kong actor
1967 - Criss Angel, Illusionist,Actor, Musician, etc.
1968 - Jennifer Devine, Portland OR, rower (Olympics-96)
1969 - Kristy Swanson, actress (Knots Landing, Buffy Vampire Slayer)
1969 - Michael Bates, NFL wide receiver (Cleveland Browns, Carolina Panthers)
1969 - Mike Alexander, WLAF corner (Rhein Fire)
1969 - Nayan Mongia, cricketer (Indian Test batsman-wicketkeeper 1994- )
1969 - Santana Dotson, NFL defensive tackle (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1969 - Scott Pearson, Cornwall, NHL left wing (Buffalo Sabres)
1969 - Tom Gugliotta, NBA forward (Minnesota Timberwolves)
1969 - Richard Hammond, English television presenter
1969 - Villano IV, Mexican professional wrestler
1970 - Jon Cleveland, Fresno CA, Canadian 100m/200m swimmer (Oly-br-92, 96)
1970 - Robert Lang, Teplice CZE, NHL forward (Team Czech Rep, Los Angeles)
1970 - Wendy Miles, Australia, golfer (1993 T77 Alpine Aust Ladies Masters)
1970 - Zac Foley, rock bassist (EMF-Unbelievable)
1970 - Tyson Beckford, American model
1971 - Amy Locane, Trenton NJ, actress (Andrea-Spencer, Sandy-Melrose Place)
1971 - Jen[nifer] Dore, Kearny NJ, rower (Olympics-4TH-96)
1971 - Mike Groh, WLAF quarterback (Rhein Fire)
1971 - Liz Cho, American television reporter
1972 - Alyssa Jane Milano, Brooklyn NY, actress (Samantha-Who's the Boss)
1972 - Warren Sapp, NFL defensive tackle (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1972 - Waverly Jackson, DL (Carolina Panthers)
1972 - Rosa Blasi, American actress
1973 - Kebu Stewart, NBA forward (Phila 76ers)
1973 - Takashi Sorimachi, Japanese actor
1973 - Zulfiya Zabirova, Russian cyclist
1974 - Bryant Westbrook, cornerback (Detroit Lions)
1974 - Jake Plummer, quarterback (Arizona Cardinals)
1974 - Ricky Ponting, cricketer (prodigious Tasmania batsman, Australia 1995)
1974 - Mikko Paananen, Finnish bassist (HIM)
1975 - Casual, [Jon Owens], rapper
1975 - Kristin Folkl, St Louis MO, volleyball outside hitter (alt-Oly-96)
1975 - Olivier Tebily, Ivorian footballer
1975 - Jon Smith, British writer
1977 - Maria Joana Parizotto, Miss Universe-Brazil (1996)
1977 - Jorge Garbajosa, Spanish basketball player
1978 - Lauren Petty, Miss New Jersey Teen USA (1997)
1978 - Patrick Casey, American screenwriter and actor
1979 - Kevin Devine, American musician
1979 - Paola Rey, Colombian actress
1980 - Jake Gyllenhaal, Los Angeles, California, actor (Donnie Darko, Jarhead)
1980 - Marla Sokoloff, American actress
1981 - Stevie Ficker, Miss Oregon Teen USA (1997)
1982 - Maurice Williams, American basketball player
1982 - Tero Pitkamaki, Finnish javelin thrower
1982 - Vincent Accardi, American musician
1983 - Matt Stajan, Canadian ice hockey player
1984 - Ian Kennedy, Major League Baseball pitcher
1985 - Gary Cahill, English footballer
1985 - Neil Kilkenny, English-born Australian footballer
1985 - Lady Sovereign, English musician
1986 - Ryan Babel, Dutch Footballer
1987 - Karim Benzema, French footballer
1987 - Alexis Sánchez, Chilean footballer
1988 - Peter Winn, English footballer
1988 - Paulina Gretzky, American-born Canadian actress and model
1991 - Declan Galbraith, English singer
1996 - Paige Speakman, England, born 19 days before her twin sister

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 19, 2013, 10:04:56 AM

This Day in History for 19th December


Famous Deaths

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Novelist Emily Jane Bronte (1848)           Physicist Robert A. Millikan (1953)


401 - Anastasius I, Bishop of Rome (399-401), dies
1075 - Edith of Wessex, wife of Edward the Confessor of England
1327 - Agnes of France, Duchess of Burgundy
1370 - Urban V, [Guillaume de Grimoard], 1st Avignon Pope (1362-70), dies
1614 - Melchior Bischoff, composer, dies at 67
1737 - James Sobieski, Crown Prince of Poland (b. 1667)
1741 - Vitus J Bering, Dutch navigator/explorer, dies
1749 - Francesco Antonio Bonporti, composer, dies at 76
1751 - Louise of Great Britain, wife of Frederick V of Denmark (b. 1724)
1798 - Charles-Joseph Panckoucke, publisher (Moniteur Universel), dies at 62
1800 - Georg Peter Weimar, composer, dies at 66
1804 - Mary Bright, British PM Rockingham, dies
1807 - Friedrich Melchior, baron von Grimm, German writer (b. 1723)
1810 - Johann Heinrich Egli, composer, dies at 68
1813 - James McGill, Scottish-Canadian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1744)
1814 - Joseph Bramah, Inventor and Locksmith, notably invented the beer pump
1815 - Michel Woldemar, composer, dies at 65
1815 - Robert Hudson, composer, dies at 83
1819 - Sir Thomas Fremantle, British naval officer and politician (b. 1765)
1823 - Nicolas-Joseph Hullmandel, composer, dies at 67
1848 - Emily Jane Bronte, English novelist, dies at 30
1848 - Adam FJA van Duyn, governor of South Holland, dies at 77
1851 - J M William Turner, British painter (Rain, Steam & Speed), dies at 76
1867 - Jean-Georges Kastner, composer, dies at 57
1878 - Bayard Taylor, American author and poet (b. 1825)
1914 - Johann F Ritter von Schulte, German catholic lawyer, dies at 87
1915 - Alvis Alzheimer, German neurologist (Alzheimer Disease), dies at 51
1925 - Jose Ignacio Quinton, composer, dies at 44
1930 - Johnny Douglas, cricketer (soccer int, boxing gold medal), drowns
1932 - Yoon Bong-Gil, Korean activist (b. 1908)
1933 - George Jackson Churchward, GWR Chief mechanical engineer. (b. 1857)
1938 - Stephen Warfield Gambrill, U.S. Congressman (b. 1873)
1939 - Eric Fogg, composer, dies at 36
1939 - Karl Wagenfeld, Low German writer (Lucifer, Death & Devil), dies at 70
1939 - Willem Benoy, Flemish actor/director (The White), dies at 57
1941 - L M Dovator, Russian general, dies in battle
1944 - Rudolph Karstadt, German entrepreneur (b. 1856)
1946 - Paul Langevin, French physicist (b. 1872)
1951 - Barton Yarbrough, actor (Dragnet), dies at 51
1952 - Harry Makepeace, cricketer (cricket & soccer intl for England), dies
1953 - Robert A. Millikan, American physicist (Nobel 1923), dies at 85
1953 - Rudolf Leonhard, writer, dies
1957 - John W Van Druten, US stage/screenwriter (I Remember Mama), dies at 56
1959 - Walter Williams, claimed to be last survivor of Civil War, dies at 117
1966 - Ehm Welk, writer, dies at 82
1967 - Alfred Courtens, Belgian sculptor, dies at 78
1968 - Norman Thomas, founder (ACLU)/Socialist Party (1926-55), dies at 84
1977 - Nellie Tayloe Ross, 1st woman governor, dies at 101
1982 - Jean-Jacques Grunenwald, French organist/composer, dies at 71
1982 - Lawrence Collingwood, composer, dies at 95
1982 - Dwight Macdonald, American social critic (b. 1906)
1984 - Michel Magne, composer, dies at 54
1984 - Joy Ridderhof, American missionary (b. 1903)
1986 - V. C. Andrews, American author (b. 1923)
1989 - Dorothea "Stella" Gibbons, English journalist/author, dies at 87
1990 - Basil Henson, actor (Change Partners), dies of stroke at 71
1991 - Ernest K Gann, US adventure novelist, dies at 81
1991 - Paul Maxwell, actor (City of Fear, Freedom to Die), dies at 70
1991 - Joe Cole, American rock music roadie (b. 1961)
1993 - Anthonius AM "Ton" Kors, writer (Time of Anton de Lange), dies at 47
1993 - Antoon Veerman, Dutch ARP asst sect of Education (1973-75), dies at 77
1993 - Michael Clarke, drummer (Byrds), dies of liver failure at 49
1994 - Noel Pointer, jazz violinist, dies at 39
1995 - Dame Ruth Nita Barrow, governor-general of Barbados, dies at 79
1995 - Harold Watkinson, politician/businessman, dies at 85
1995 - Janet Wilder, stuntwoman, dies at 29
1996 - Marcello Mastroiani, actor (8½, Assassin, Family Diary), dies at 72
1996 - Ronald Howard, actor (Hunting Party, Koroshi), dies at 78
1996 - Yuli Borisovich Khariton, scientist, dies at 82
1997 - Jimmy Rogers, American blues musician, dies at 73
1997 - David Norman Schramm, physicist, dies at 52
1997 - Masaru Ibuka, co-founder (Sony Corp), dies at 89
1998 - Antonio Ordóñez, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1932)
1998 - Mel Fisher, American treasure hunter (b. 1922)
1999 - Desmond Llewelyn, Welsh actor (b. 1914)
2000 - Rob Buck, American guitarist (10,000 Maniacs) (b. 1958)
2000 - Milt Hinton, American jazz double bassist (b. 1910)
2000 - John Lindsay, American politician (b. 1921)
2000 - Pops Staples, American singer (The Staple Singers) (b. 1915)
2001 - Marcel Mule, French saxophonist. (b. 1901)
2002 - Arthur Rowley, English footballer. (b. 1926)
2003 - Peter Carter-Ruck, English lawyer (b. 1914)
2003 - Hope Lange, American actress (b. 1933)
2003 - Les Tremayne, English-born American actor (b. 1913)
2004 - Herbert C. Brown, English-born American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1912)
2004 - Renata Tebaldi, Italian soprano (b. 1922)
2005 - Keith Duckworth, English mechanical engineer (Cosworth; b. 1933)
2005 - Vincent Gigante, American mafioso (b. 1927)
2008 - James Bevel, 1960s Civil rights movement leader (b. 1936)
2008 - Kenny Cox, American jazz musician (b. 1940)
2008 - Dock Ellis, American baseball pitcher (b. 1945)
2008 - Carol Chomsky, American linguist and education specialist (b. 1930)
2009 - Hossein-Ali Montazeri, Iranian dissident cleric Grand Ayatollah (b. 1922)
2009 - Kim Peek, American prodigious savant and inspiration for the 1988 film Rain Man (b. 1951)
2010 - Trudy Pitts, American jazz organist, pianist, and vocalist (b. 1932)
2010 - Anthony Howard, English Journalist (b. 1934)
2012 - Robert Bork, American legal scholar/jurist, dies from heart disease at 85
2012 - Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, Israeli military leader, dies from cancer at 68
2012 - Larry Morris, American NFL player, dies at 79

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Post by: MysteRy on December 20, 2013, 11:46:22 AM

This Day in History for 20th December


Historical Events

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Russian Tsar Peter the Great          Confederate General/KKK Grand Wizard             Entertainer Bob Hope
                                                                    Nathan Bedford Forrest

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Dictator of Nazi Germany                      Baseball Legend Connie Mack             Singer & Cultural Icon Elvis Presley
Adolf Hitler

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Actor Dustin Hoffman                            Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat           Queen of the United Kingdom
                                                                                                                                    Elizabeth II


69 - General Vespasian's troops occupy Rome after defeating the Emperor Vitellius
1046 - Synod of Sutri: German King Henry III removes Popes Gregory VI
1046 - Benedictus IX & Silvester III & names Bishop Siutger, Pope Clemens II at the Council of Sutri
1192 - Richard the Lionhearted captured in Vienna
1448 - Pope Nicholas V appoints Rudolf of Diepholt, Bishop of Utrecht, as cardinal
1522 - Suleiman the Magnificent accepts the surrender of the surviving Knights of Rhodes, who are
           allowed to evacuate. They eventually settle on Malta and become known as the Knights of
           Malta.
1585 - English fleet & Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, reach Vlissingen
1600 - Ottario Rinuccini/Giulio Caccini's opera "Euridice" published
1606 - Virginia Company settlers leave London to establish Jamestown, Virginia
1626 - Emperor Ferdinand II/Transylvanian monarch Gabor Betlen signs Peace of Pressburg
1661 - Corporation Act enforced in England
1669 - 1st jury trial in Delaware; Marcus Jacobson condemned for insurrection & sentenced to
           flogging, branding & slavery
1688 - Prince William of Orange's troops arrive in London
1694 - Frederik van Brandenburg flees Schweiben
1699 - Peter the Great ordered Russian New Year changed-Sept 1 to Jan 1
1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlie's army reaches the river Esk
1780 - Britain declares war on Holland
1790 - 1st successful US cotton mill to spin yarn (Pawtucket, RI)
1803 - Louisiana Purchase formally transferred from France to US for $27M
1820 - Missouri imposes a $1 bachelor tax on unmarried men between 21 & 50
1823 - Franz Schubert's "Ballet-Musik aus Rosamunde," premieres in Vienna
1830 - Great Britain, France, Prussia, Austria and Russia recognize Belgium
1850 - Hawaiian post office established
1860 - SC votes 169-0 for Ordinace of Secession, 1st state to secede
1861 - Battle of Dranesville, VA
1862 - -Dec 20th] Battle of Kelly's Ford, VA
1862 - -Jan 3rd] Vicksburg campaign
1862 - Battle of Holly Spring, MS
1862 - Brig-gen Nathan Bedford Forrest occupies Trenton, Kentucky
1864 - -Dec 27th] Battle of Ft Fisher, NC
1865 - De Clear-Alkmaar railway opens
1879 - Tom Edison privately demonstrated incandescent light at Menlo Park
1880 - Battle at Bronker's Spruit, Transvaal: Farmers beat Britten
1880 - NY's Broadway lit by electricity, becomes known as "Great White Way"
1883 - Intl cantilever railway bridge opens at Niagara Falls
1891 - Strongman Louis Cyr withstands pull of 4 horses
1892 - Phileas Fogg completes around world trip, according to Verne
1892 - Pneumatic automobile tire patented, Syracuse, NY
1893 - 1st state anti-lynching statute approved, in Georgia
1894 - England beat Australia by 10 runs in the 1st six-day Test Cricket, Australia needed 177 to
           win, all out at 166 on 6th day
1900 - Giacobini discovers a comet (will be 1st comet visited by spacecraft)
1906 - Venezuela (under vice-pres Gomez) attacks Dutch fleet
1907 - Explosion at Yolande Alabama, coal mine kills 91
1912 - J Hartley Manners' "Peg O' My Heart" premieres in NYC
1912 - Paul Claudels "L'Annonce Faite à Marie" premieres in Paris
1915 - Russian troops overrun Qom, Persia
1917 - Soviet state security force and forerunner to the KGB, the Cheka formed under Felix
           Dzerzhinsky
1918 - Eugene O'Neill's "Moon of the Caribees" premieres in NYC
1919 - Canadian National Railways established (N America's longest, 50,000 KM)
1919 - US House of Representatives restricts immigration
1920 - Bert Collins scores 104 on Test Cricket debut v England SCG
1920 - Bob Hope becomes an American citizen
1921 - AL votes to return to best-of-7 World Series, while NL votes best-of-9 Judge Kenesaw
           Mountain Landis casts deciding vote for best-of-7
1922 - 14 republics form Union of Soviet Socialistic Republics (USSR)
1922 - Polish parliament selects Stanislaw Wojcieckowski as president
1924 - Adolf Hitler freed from jail early
1926 - Cards trade Rogers Hornsby to Giants for Frankie Frisch & Jimmy Ring
1926 - Pope Pius XI convicts fascist pursuit in Italy
1926 - Sidney Howard's "Silver Cord" premieres in NYC
1928 - 1st international dogsled mail leaves Minot, Maine for Montreal, Quebec
1928 - Ethel Barrymore Theater opens at 243 W 47th St NYC
1929 - Heinie Wagner replaces Bill Carrigan as Red Sox manager
1929 - Mount Davidson dedicated as a SF city park
1930 - Learie Constantine cricket 100 in 52 mins WI v Tas (10x4, 1x6, 1x5)
1932 - Queensland all out 74 v Victoria, Ironmonger (age 50) 7-13
1933 - Bolivia & Paraguay sign cease fire
1935 - Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Ad Catholici Sacerdotii
1937 - Bill O'Reilly takes 9-41 for NSW against South Australia
1938 - Vladimir K Zworykin (Penn) receives patent on Iconoscope TV system
1939 - Radio Australia begins overseas shortwave service
1940 - Connie Mack acquires controlling interest in the Athletics for $42,000
1941 - Free France under adm Muselier occupies St-Pierre et Miquelon
1941 - Japanese troops lands on Mindanao
1941 - World War II: First battle of the American Volunteer Group, better known as the "Flying
           Tigers" in Kunming, China.
1942 - 1st Japanese bombing of Calcutta
1943 - "Internationale" is no longer USSR National Anthem
1944 - Archbishop De Young & bishop Huibers condemn black market
1944 - Battle of Bastogne, Nazis surround 101st Airborne (NUTS!)
1944 - Bishop forbids membership of non Catholic unions
1944 - Terence Rattigan's "O Mistress Mine" premieres in London
1945 - Rationing of auto tires ends in US
1946 - Darius Milhaud's 2nd Symphony, premieres
1948 - Second Chamber accept 2nd Police Action in Indonesia
1949 - Maurice Ravel/John Cranko's ballet "Beauty & the Beast" premieres
1950 - "Harvey" starring James Stewart premieres in NY
1952 - KHQ TV channel 6 in Spokane, WA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 - KID (now KIDK) TV channel 3 in Idaho Falls, ID (CBS) 1st broadcasting
1953 - KWTV TV channel 9 in Oklahoma City, OK (CBS) begins broadcasting
1955 - Cardiff is proclaimed the capital city of Wales
1956 - Military coup under colonel Simbolon in Sumatra
1956 - Montgomery, Ala, removed race-based seat assignments on its buses
1957 - Elvis Presley given draft notice to join US Army for National Service
1959 - Jasu Patel takes 9-69, India v Australia at Kanpur
1960 - Auschwitz commandant Richard Bar arrested in German FR
1960 - National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam is formed.
1962 - Dmitri Shostakovitch's opera "Katerina Ismailova" premieres in Moscow
1962 - Osmond brothers debut on Andy Williams Show
1963 - Berlin Wall opens for 1st time to West Berliners
1963 - Massemba-Debate elected pres of Congo-Brazzaville
1963 - Trial against 21 camp guards of Auschwitz begins
1964 - Levi Eshkol forms Israeli government
1966 - NBA awards Seattle Supersonics a franchise for 1967-68 season
1966 - Nuclear Planning Group forms in Brussels
1966 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967 - "The Graduate" starring Dustin Hoffman & Anne Bancroft premieres
1967 - 474,300 US soldiers in Vietnam
1967 - Ian Anderson & Glenn Cornick form rock group Jethro Tull
1968 - The Zodiac Killer kills Betty Lou Jenson and David Faraday in Vallejo, California.
1969 - Peter, Paul & Mary's "Leaving on a Jet Plane" reaches #1
1970 - Edward Gierek succeeds Wladyslaw Gomulka as Poland's communist party leader
1971 - Pakistan president Yahya Khan resigns
1972 - Neil Simons "Sunshine Boys" premieres in NYC
1973 - AL pres Joe Cronin refuses to allow Dick Williams to manage Yankees
1973 - Dutch Antillean government of Evertsz forms
1973 - Montreal Canadien Henri Richard scores his 1,000th NHL point
1974 - Ethiopia becomes socialist one-party state
1974 - George Harrison releases his "Dark Horse" album in UK
1975 - Joe Walsh recruited to join Eagles
1975 - Pope Paul VI named J Willebrands archbishop of Utrecht
1976 - "Music Is" opens at St James Theater NYC for 8 performances
1976 - Israel's PM Yitzhak Rabin resigns
1977 - 1st Space walk made by G Grechko from Salyut
1977 - RAF -terrorist Knut Folkerts sentenced to 20 years
1978 - H R Haldeman, Nixon's White House chief of staff released from jail
1980 - NBC broadcasts NY Jets' 24-17 win over Dolphins without audio
1980 - USSR formally announces death of Alexei Kosygin
1981 - "Dreamgirls" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 1522 performances
1981 - Browns set team records for most fumbles (9) & most turnovers (10)
1981 - Doug Small (Winnipeg Jets) ties NHL record scoring at 5 second mark
1981 - Harry Krieger/Tom Eyen's musical "Dreamgirls" premieres in NYC
1983 - El Salvador adopts constitution
1983 - Guy Lafleur, Montreal, became 10th NHLer to score 500 goals
1983 - NY Islanders score their most goals (11) vs Pitts Penguins
1983 - PLO chairman Yasser Arafat & 4,000 loyalists evacuate Lebanon
1984 - 33 unknown Bach keyboard works found in Yale library
1984 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1985 - Denis Potvin passes Bobby Orr as NHL defenseman scorer (916 points)
1985 - Sportscaster Howard Cosell retires from television sports after 20 years with ABC
1985 - Position of American Poet Laureate established (Robert Warren is 1st)
1986 - White teenagers beat blacks in Howard Beach, NY
1987 - "Nuts" with Barbra Striesand premieres
1987 - 76th Davis Cup: Sweden beats India in Gothenburg (5-0)
1987 - Dona Paz ferry sinks after crash with oil tanker Vector, 4386 die
1987 - Nancy Lopez/Miller Barber wins LPGA Mazda Golf Championship
1988 - Animal rights terrorists fire-bomb Harrod's dept store, London
1988 - NBC signs lease to stay in NYC, 33 more years
1988 - Premier Ranasinghe Premadasa elected pres of Sri Lanka
1989 - Premier Lubbers sees CDA-party leader Elco Brinkman as successor
1989 - US troops invade Panama & oust Manuel Noriega, but don't catch him
1990 - Pentagon warns Saddam that US air power is ready to attack on 1/15
1990 - Robert F X Sillerman purchases WAFL NY-NJ Knights for $11 million
1990 - Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze resigns
1991 - NHL grants permanent membership to Tampa Lightning & Ottawa Senators
1991 - Paul Keating installed as premier of Australia
1991 - A Missouri court sentences the Palestinian militant Zein Isa and his wife Maria to death for the
           honor killing of their daughter Palestina.
1992 - Northwest & KLM introduce a new joint logo "Worldwide Reliability"
1992 - Slobodan Milosevic re-elected president of Serbia
1995 - "Paul Roebson" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 14 performances
1995 - American Flight 965 crashes in Columbia, 159 die, 5 survive
1995 - NATO begins peacekeeping in Bosnia.
1998 - Wendy's Three-Tour Golf Challenge
1999 - Portugal returns Macau to China
2001 - Argentine economic crisis: President of Argentina Fernando de la Rúa is forced out of office.
2001 - 90th Davis Cup: France beats Australia in Melbourne (3-2)
2002 - US Senator Trent Lott resigns as majority leader.
2005 - US District Court Judge John E. Jones III rules against mandating the teaching of "intelligent
           design" in his ruling of Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District.
2005 - The first same sex civil partnerships in Scotland are celebrated.
2005 - 2005 New York City transit strike: New York City's Transport Workers Union Local 100 goes
           on strike, shutting down all New York City Subway and Bus services.
2006 - A judge rules against the death penalty in the case of Naveed Haq, a man convicted in the
           shooting death and injuries at the Jewish Federation in Seattle.
2007 - Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II becomes the oldest ever monarch of the United Kingdom,
           surpassing Queen Victoria, who lived for 81 years, 7 months and 29 days.
2007 - The painting Portrait of Suzanne Bloch (1904), by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, was stolen
           from the São Paulo Museum of Art, along with O Lavrador de Café, by the major Brazilian
           modernist painter Candido Portinari.
2012 - Apple is denied a patent for mobile pinch-to-zoom gestures by the US patent authorities
2012 - Intercontinental Exchange purchases the New York Stock Exchange, the largest in the world,
           for $8 billion

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 20, 2013, 11:48:39 AM

This Day in History for 20th December


Famous Weddings

1949 - "Gone with the Wind" actor Clark Gable (48) weds socialite Sylvia Ashley (45)
1993 - Business magnate Donald Trump (47) weds former model Marla Maples (30) at Trump Plaza
           Hotel
1998 - "Def Jam" business magnate Russell Simmons (41) weds model Kimora Lee (23) on the
           French Caribbean island of Saint Barthelemy
2012 - Actor Facundo Arana (40) weds Maria Susini at the Intercontinental Hotel in Nordelta, Buenos
           Aires, Argentina

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 20, 2013, 11:50:03 AM

This Day in History for 20th December


Famous Divorces

2007 - "Hot in Cleveland" actress Valerie Bertinelli (47) divorces guitarist Eddie Van Halen (52) due to
           irreconcilable differences after 25 years of marriage

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 20, 2013, 11:59:28 AM

This Day in History for 20th December


Famous Birthdays

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Tire Industrialist                            Psychic, illusionist Uri Geller (1946)      Crime Drama Producer Dick Wolf (1946)
Harvey Firestone (1868)


1494 - Oronce Finé, French mathematician (d. 1555)
1537 - King John III of Sweden (d. 1592)
1539 - Paul Melissus [Paul Schede], German poet/composer
1566 - Edward Wightman, English Baptist preacher (d. 1612)
1579 - John Fletcher, Elizabethan dramatist (Phylaster) (baptized)
1594 - Giovanni Battista Gagliano, composer
1606 - Christoph Schultze, composer
1626 - Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff, German statesman (d. 1692)
1629 - Pieter de Hoogh, Dutch painter
1659 - Francois Fagel, Dutch lawyer/statesman
1717 - Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, French statesman and diplomat (d. 1787)
1720 - Charles Edward Stuart, [Bonnie Prince Charlie/Young Pretender]
1729 - Franz Xaver Thomas Pokorny, composer
1758 - Othon Joseph Vandenbroek, composer
1774 - Guillaume-Perre-Antoine Gatayes, composer
1786 - Pietro Raimondi, composer
1792 - Nicolas Charlet, French painter (d. 1845)
1807 - Richard Lucian Page, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1901
1808 - Thomas Tinsley Craven, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1887
1809 - Friedrich Karl Kuhmstedt, composer
1812 - Achille Peri, composer
1813 - Samuel Jordan Kirkwood, (Gov-Iowa)/US Sect of Interior (1881-82)
1819 - John Geary, 1st SF postmaster, 1st mayor (May 1, 1850)
1825 - Romeyn Beck Ayres, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1888
1833 - Samuel A Mudd, doctor, convicted of giving medical aid to JW Booth
1838 - Edwin Abbott Abbott, English schoolmaster, theologian, and author (d. 1926)
1841 - Ferdinand Buisson, French pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1932)
1858 - Jean/Johannes T "Jan" Toorop, Dutch painter/graphic artist (3 Brides)
1859 - Antonius J Derkinderen, Dutch painter/etcher
1860 - Dan Leno, English entertainer (d. 1904)
1861 - Ivana Kobilca, Slovenian painter (d. 1926)
1865 - Maude Gonne, Irish nationalist (Irish Joan of Arc)
1865 - Elsie De Wolfe, American socialite and interior decorator (d. 1950)
1867 - Fini Valdemar Henriques, composer
1868 - Harvey Firestone, Columbia, Ohio, Industrialist, where the rubber meets the road, (d. 1938)
1869 - Charley Grapewin, Xenia OH, actor (Wizard of Oz, Libeled Lady)
1870 - Pieter C Boutens, Dutch poet (Voices, Carmina)
1871 - Henry Kimball Hadley, composer
1872 - Lorenzo Perosi, Italian composer
1873 - Kwan-Ichi Asakawa, Japanese historian(d. 1948)
1875 - T F Powys, Wales, writer (Captain Patch, Goat Green)
1876 - Jan Van Oudshoorn, [Jan K Feylbrief], Dutch writer (Maze of Senses)
1876 - Walter S Adams, US astronomer/director of Mount Wilson (1923-46)
1881 - Branch Rickey, baseball executive (Dodgers)
1884 - Marius HLW "Max" Blokzijl, Dutch nazi collaborator/traitor
1886 - Domingo Julio Gomez Garcia, composer
1886 - Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, California, tennis player (US Open 1909-11)
1888 - Fred Merkle, American baseball figure (d. 1958)
1889 - Bozidar Sirola, composer
1890 - Yvonne Arnaud, French-born actress (d. 1958)
1894 - Robert Menzies, Australian PM (1939-41, 1949-66)
1895 - Susanne Langer, US, philosopher/educator (Philosophy in a New Key)
1898 - Irene [Marie] Dunne, Louisville, actress (Show Boat, I Remember Mama)
1900 - Gabby Harnett, (NL MVP 1935)
1901 - Louis I Kahn, US architect [or Feb 20]
1901 - Robert Van de Graaff, Alabama, physicist (Mobility of Gaseous Ions)
1902 - George EAE, English prince/earl of St Andrews
1902 - Max Lerner, US, columnist (NY Post)
1902 - Sidney Hook, anticommunist philosopher (Paradoxes of Freedom)
1902 - George Edward Alexander Windsor, Duke of Kent (d. 1942)
1904 - Albert Van Dekker, Brooklyn NY, actor (Dr Cyclops, Beau Gesture)
1904 - [Schmidt] Hans Burkhardt, artist
1905 - "Tiger" Bill O'Reilly, cricketer (mighty Australian leg-spinner)
1906 - Dick White, head of British secret service (MI-5/MI-6)
1906 - Irving Krick, meteorologist
1906 - Lowell Gilmore, MN, actor (Living Christ Series)
1907 - Paul Francis Webster, songwriter (d. 1984)
1908 - Giulio Cesare Brero, composer
1908 - Norman Hackforth, broadcaster
1908 - Dennis Morgan, American actor (d. 1994)
1909 - Vagn Holmboe, composer
1909 - Vakkom Majeed, Indian politician (d. 2000)
1911 - Hortense Calisher, NYC, novelist (Arts & Letters 1967)
1915 - Aziz Nesin, writer
1916 - Michel Chartrand, Quebec union leader
1917 - David Bohm, American-born physicist, philosopher, and neuropsychologist (d. 1992)
1918 - Audrey Totter, Joliet Ill, actress (Carpetbaggers, Set-Up)
1922 - Charita Bauer, Newark NJ, actress (Guiding Light, Aldrich Family)
1922 - George Roy Hill, dir (Slap Shot, Little Drummer Girl, Little Romance)
1923 - Nadine Gordimer, Springs South Africa, novelist
1924 - Errol John, Port-of-Spain Trinidad, actor (PT-109, Assault on a Queen)
1924 - Ingeborg E A "Inge" Beekman, actress (Horizon)
1924 - Judy LaMarsh, Canadian politician and broadcaster (d. 1980)
1925 - Bob de Moor, Flemish comic strip artist (Kuifje, Lion of Flanders)
1925 - Datuk Seri Mahathir bin Mahamad, premier of Malaysia (1981- )
1925 - Frederick Edward Nicklin, architect
1925 - Vlastimir Nikolovski, composer
1925 - Benito Lorenzi, Italian footballer (d. 2007)
1926 - David Levine, US painter
1926 - Otto Graf Lambsdorff, German politician
1927 - Jim Simpson, sportscaster
1927 - Kim Young-sam, President of South Korea
1928 - Charles Donald Adams, singer
1928 - Jack Christiansen, Kansas, NFL hall of famer defensive back (Lions)
1929 - Milan Panic, premier of little Yugoslavia
1931 - Mala Powers, American film actress (d. 2007)
1932 - John Hillerman, actor (Magnum PI)
1933 - Gordon Getty
1933 - Rik Van Looy, Belgian cyclist (world champion, 1961)
1933 - Jean Carnahan, U.S. Senator
1935 - Khalid "Billy" Ibadulla, cricketer (166 on debut Pakistan v Aust 1964)
1938 - John Harris Harbison, Orange NJ, composer
1939 - Agatha N "Kim" Weston, US gospel/singer (It Takes Two)
1939 - Dianne Arndt, artist/photographer
1939 - Klaus Schweizer, composer
1939 - Kathryn Joosten, Eustis, Florida, actress (Desperate Housewives), (d. 2012)
1940 - Larry Willis, rock keyboardist (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
1941 - Frank Creton, Suriname/Neth painter
1942 - Robert L Hayes, Jacksonville Fla, 100m/4x100m runner (Oly-2 gold-1964)
1943 - Angel Tompkins, Albany California, actress (Gloria-Search) [or 12/29/49]
1944 - G Wolfgruber, writer
1944 - Robert Colomby, NYC, rock drummer (Blood Sweat & Tears-When I Die)
1944 - Jean Fergusson, English actress
1945 - Peter Criss [George Peter John Criscuola], Brooklyn NY, American drummer and singer (Kiss)
1946 - John Spencer, actor (Tommy Mullanney-LA Law)
1946 - Uri Geller, Tel Aviv, Israel, psychic (bends forks)
1946 - Dick Wolf, New York, American television series creator (Miami Vice, Law & Order)
1947 - Gigliola Cinquetti, Italian singer
1948 - "Little" Stevie Wright, rocker (Easybeats)
1948 - Alan Parsons, London, audio engineer/music producer (The Dark Side of the Moon, Let it Be)
1949 - Claudia Jennings, [Mary Ellen Chestrerton], Minn, playmate (Nov, 1969)
1949 - Soumaïla Cissé, Malian politician
1949 - Cecil Cooper, American baseball player
1950 - Alex Chllton, rocker
1951 - Gilbert Montagné, French musician
1951 - Peter May, Scottish novelist and scriptwriter
1952 - Jenny Agutter, Taunton England, actress (Logan's Run, Equus, Amy)
1952 - Sergio Vastano, Italian actor (Nightclub, Prete Bello)
1954 - Michael Badalucco, American actor
1954 - Sandra Cisneros, American writer
1955 - Ed Kuepper, German/Australian, singer/songwriter (Saints)
1955 - Pierre Bokma, Dutch actor (Avonden, Leedvermaak)
1955 - Sammy Mitchell, US programmer (Qedit/TSE/Semware)
1956 - Blanche Baker, NYC, actress/Carroll Baker's Daughter (French Postcard)
1957 - Anita Baker, [Ward], Detroit Mi, vocalist (Rapture)
1957 - Billy Bragg, singer/songwriter
1957 - Mike Watt, US bassist (Rockband Firehose)
1957 - Joyce Hyser, American actress
1957 - Anna Vissi, Greek-Cypriot singer
1958 - Billy Bragg, British rocker (It Says Here, Ideology)
1958 - Steve Sailer, American political commentator
1959 - David Lutz, NFL guard/tackle (Detroit Lions)
1959 - Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, Prime Minister of Poland
1960 - Carolyn Seaward, Devonshire England, Miss United Kingdom (1979)
1960 - John Fitzgerald, Australia, tennis star
1960 - Piet Keur, Dutch soccer player/trainer, (SC Heerenveen, AZ)
1960 - Nalo Hopkinson, Canadian writer
1961 - Bonnie Marino, Cleveland Oh, playmate (Jun, 1990)
1961 - Gale Gilbert, NFL quarterback (San Diego Chargers)
1961 - Nate Newton, NFL guard (Dallas Cowboys)
1961 - Mohammad Fouad, Arab singer and actor
1962 - Thomas Newberry, NFL guard (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1963 - Karen Moncrieff, Sacramento California, actress (Xtro 3, Days of Our Lives)
1963 - Pam Casale, Camden NJ, tennis player (Marco Island finals 1985)
1963 - Infanta Elena of Spain
1965 - Robert Cavanah, Scottish actor
1966 - Chris Robinson, Atlanta, rocker (Black Crowes-Shake Your Money Maker)
1966 - Ed de Goey, Dutch soccer goalie (Feyenoord)
1966 - Tim Hauck, NFL safety (Denver Broncos, Seattle Seahawks)
1966 - Matt Neal , British Race Driver
1966 - Myrra Malmberg, Swedish singer
1967 - Duncan Kennedy, Burlington California, luger (Olympics-1994)
1967 - Wendy Hamilton, Detroit Mich, playmate (Dec, 1991)
1968 - Joe Cornish, British comedian
1969 - Bobby Phills, NBA guard (Cleveland Cavaliers, Charlotte Hornets)
1970 - Dino Felicetti, hockey forward (Team Italy 1998)
1970 - Grant Flower, cricketer (bro of Andy Zimbabwe Test opening batsman)
1970 - Jason Simmons, CFL/WLAF defensive tackle (Roughriders, Claymores)
1970 - Tony Semple, NFL guard (Detroit Lions)
1970 - Travis Green, Castlegar, NHL center (NY Islanders)
1970 - Nicole DeBoer, Canadian actress
1971 - Jerry Ellison, NFL running back (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1972 - Scott Slutzker, American football tight end (Indianapolis Colts)
1972 - Jan Caloun, hockey forward (Team Czech Oly-Gold-1998)
1972 - Jonathan Wyatt, Lower Hutt NZ, 5000m (Olympics-96)
1972 - Anders Odden, Norwegian musician
1973 - Barry Stokes, WLAF offensive linesman (Rhein Fire)
1973 - Cory Stillman, Peterborough, NHL center (Calgary Flames)
1973 - Jenny Boucek, WNBA guard (Cleveland Rockers)
1973 - Muadianvita Kazadi, linebacker (St Louis Rams)
1974 - Augie Ojeda, Los Angeles California, baseball infielder (Olympics-bronze-96)
1974 - Die, Japanese musician (Dir en grey)
1975 - Bartosz Bosacki, Polish footballer
1975 - Jaydy Michel, Mexican model
1976 - Jang Hyuk, Korean actor
1976 - Aubrey Huff, American baseball player
1976 - Adam Powell, Neopets creator
1976 - Ramon Stoppelenburg, world traveler and Dutch author
1977 - Saukrates, Canadian rapper
1978 - Geremi Njitap, Cameroon footballer
1978 - Andrei Markov, Russian ice hockey player
1979 - David DeJesus, American baseball player
1979 - Michael Rogers, Australian cyclist
1980 - Ashley Cole, English footballer
1980 - Fitz Hall, English footballer
1980 - Tony, French-born Portuguese footballer
1981 - Roy Williams, American football player
1981 - James Shields, American baseball player
1981 - Chris Edwards, British musician (Kasabian)
1982 - Mohammed Asif, Pakistani cricket player
1982 - Kasper Klausen, Danish footballer
1982 - David Wright, American baseball player
1982 - David Cook, American singer, winner of American Idol.
1983 - Jonah Hill, American actor
1983 - Lucy Pinder, British model
1983 - Darren Sammy, St. Lucian West Indies cricketer
1983 - Lara Stone, Dutch model
1983 - Adrián Varela, Mexican singer
1984 - David Tavaré, Spanish singer
1987 - Tariel Zintiridis, Greek judoka
1989 - Virgilio Falco, Italian politician
1990 - JoJo, American singer

Title: Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 20, 2013, 12:03:21 PM

This Day in History for 20th December


Famous Deaths

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Playwright Moss Hart (1961)                    Author John Steinbeck (1968)


217 - Pope Zephyrinus
860 - King Ethelbald of Wessex
910 - Alfonso III the Great, King of Leon, Galicia and Asturias, dies
1022 - Elvira Mendes, wife of Alfonso V of Castile (b. 996)
1073 - Domingo, Spanish monastery founder/abbot/saint, dies
1355 - Stefanus IX Uros IV Dusan, king (1331-46)/Serbia (1346-55), dies
1494 - Matteo Maria Boiardo, Italian poet
1524 - Thomas Linacre, English scholar and physician
1539 - Johannes Lupi, Flemish composer
1590 - Ambroise Paré, French physician (b. 1510)
1632 - Nicolas Antoine, French cath pastor who converted to Judaism, executed
1676 - John Galle, Flemish engraver/printer, dies at 76
1679 - Johan Maurits, count of Nassau-Siegen, dies at 75
1722 - Kangxi Emperor of China (b. 1654)
1723 - Augustus Quirinus Rivinus (b. 1652)
1740 - Richard Boyle, 2nd Viscount Shannon, English military officer and statesman (b. 1675)
1749 - Pakubuwono II, susuhunan of Mataram Java, dies
1768 - Carlo Innocenzio Maria Frugoni, Italian poet (b. 1692)
1783 - Antonio Francisco Jawer Jose Soler, Sp composer (Fandango), dies at 54
1793 - Joseph Legros, composer, dies at 54
1798 - Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Dutch engraver/art collector, dies at 72
1799 - David Traugott Nicolai, composer, dies at 66
1812 - Sacagawea, Shoshone interpreter for Lewis & Clark, dies
1815 - Giovanni Meli, Sicilian poet (Buccolica), dies at 75
1819 - Louis-Luc Loiseau de Persuis, composer, dies at 50
1821 - Gian Francesco Fortunati, composer, dies at 75
1856 - Francesco Bentivegna, Italian revolutionary (b. 1820)
1862 - Robert Knox Scottish surgeon, anatomist and zoologist
1875 - Michail P Pogodin, Russian historian/writer (Povesti), dies at 75
1876 - Hannah Omish, at 12 is youngest ever hanged in US
1903 - Gavriil Musicescu, composer, dies at 56
1909 - Benjamin Ipavec, composer, dies at 79
1916 - Manuel Giro, composer, dies at 68
1916 - William Wallace Gilchrist, composer, dies at 70
1917 - Lucien Petit-Breton, Argentine-French cyclist (b. 1882)
1921 - Hans Hartwig von Beseler, German general (b. 1850)
1929 - Emile Loubet, French premier (1892)/president (1899-1906), dies at 90
1935 - Martin O'Meara, Australian soldier (b. 1882)
1936 - Baron De Borchgrave, Belgian ambassador, murdered in Madrid
1937 - Erich Ludendorff, German general (WW I), dies at 72
1938 - Annie Armstrong, American missionary leader (b. 1850)
1939 - Hans Langsdorff, German capt (Graaf Spee), commits suicide
1941 - Igor Severyanin, Russian poet (b. 1887)
1942 - Jean Gilbert, [Max Winterfield], German composer, dies at 63
1944 - Abbas Hilmi II, viceroy of Egypt (1892-1914), dies at 70
1945 - Charles Eady, cricketer (Tasmanian player for Aust 1896-1901), dies
1948 - C Aubrey Smith, actor (Prisoner of Zenda), dies at 85
1948 - Ladha Ramji, cricketer (bro of Amar Singh, Test Ind 1933-34), dies
1954 - Emilis Melngailis, composer, dies at 80
1954 - James Hilton, English author (Lost Horizon), dies at 54
1956 - Ramon Carrillo, Argentine neuroscientist and Public Health minister (b. 1906)
1961 - Moss Hart, American dramatist (You can't take it with you), dies at 57
1961 - Earle Page, eleventh Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1880)
1962 - Erik William Gustav Leidzen, composer, dies at 68
1962 - Luis Abraham Delgadillo, composer, dies at 75
1963 - Paul Constantinescu, composer, dies at 54
1965 - Egon Freiherr von Eickstedt, German anthropologist, dies at 73
1968 - Bax Brod, composer, dies at 84
1968 - John Steinbeck, author (Grapes of Wrath, Nobel 1940, 62), dies at 66
1968 - Max Brod, writer, dies at 84
1971 - Roy O Disney, Brother of Walt, dies of cerebral hemorrhage at 78
1973 - Bobby Darin, singer (Mack the Knife), dies of heart failure at 37
1973 - Luis Carrero Blanco, PM of Spain (1973), assassinated by ETA
1974 - Andre Jolivet, French composer (L'eunuque), dies at 69
1975 - Vincent Lopez, orchestra leader (Welcome Aboard), dies at 76
1975 - William Lundigan, Syracuse NY, actor (Climax), dies at 61
1976 - Richard J Daley, (Mayor-D-Chicago), dies at 74
1976 - Walter Fitzgerald, actor (Adv of Sadie, Fallen Idol), dies at 80
1981 - Dimitris Rontiris, Greek actor and director (b. 1899)
1982 - Artur Rubinstein, pianist (My Young Years), dies in Geneva at 95
1984 - Gonzalo Márquez, Venezuelan baseball player (b. 1946)
1986 - Joe DeSa, American baseball player (b. 1959)
1988 - Max Robinson, 1st black network (ABC) TV anchor, dies of AIDS at 49
1988 - Alphonse Ouimet, Canadian television pioneer (b. 1908)
1989 - Audrey Christie, actress (Splendor in the Grass), dies at 77
1991 - Andries D Copier, Dutch glass designer (Guild glass), dies
1991 - Fop[pe] I Brouwer, biologist (Everything That Lives & Grows), dies
1991 - Helene Heigh, actress (Undercover Woman, Teen Age Thunder), dies at 86
1991 - Sam Rabin, speaker of house, dies at 88
1991 - Stephen Birnbaum, US tourism writer, dies at 54
1991 - Thomas Newman, actor/composer (Cape Fear), dies of heart attack at 60
1991 - Walter Chiari, actor (Girl Under Sheet), dies of heart attack at 67
1991 - Simone Beck, French chef (b. 1904)
1991 - Albert Van Vlierberghe, Belgian cyclist (b. 1942)
1993 - Moses Gunn, actor (Shaft), dies at 64
1993 - Sam Wanamaker, actor (Pvt Benjamin), dies from cancer at 74
1993 - W Edwards Deming, US economist (helped Japan after WW II), dies at 93
1994 - Dean Rusk, US Sect of State (1961-69), dies at 85
1994 - J C "Jody" Bateman, fiddler, dies at 75
1995 - John Henry Jacques, co-operative retailer, dies at 90
1995 - Madge Sinclair, actress (Star Trek IV, Conrack, Convoy), dies at 55
1996 - Amata Kabua, Pres of Marshall Islands (1979-96), dies
1996 - Carl Sagan, scientist (Contact), dies at 62
1996 - Roger Peacock), writer, dies at 76
1997 - Dawn Steel, film maker (When Harry Met Sally), dies at 51
1997 - Denise Levertov, poet, dies at 74
1997 - Vincent Ciccone, inventor (Blow-Pops candy), dies at 81
1998 - Irene Hervey, American actress (b. 1910)
1998 - Chester P. Lyons, Canadian naturalist and author (b. 1915)
1999 - Hank Snow, Canadian singer (b. 1914)
1999 - Riccardo Freda, Italian film director (b. 1909)
2000 - Mirza Ghulam Hafiz, Bangladesh statesman, politician, and philanthropist (b. 1920)
2001 - Foster Brooks, American actor and comedian (b. 1912)
2001 - Léopold Sédar Senghor, first President of Senegal (b. 1906)
2005 - Maniam Moorthy, Malaysian climber
2006 - Shi Yuejun, Chinese serial killer
2007 - Nataline Sarkisyan, American medical patient (b. 1990)
2009 - Jack Hixon, English football talent scout (b. 1921)
2009 - Brittany Murphy, American actress (b. 1977)
2009 - Arnold Stang, American comic actor (b. 1918)
2009 - Mairoon Ali, Trinidadian comedienne and actress (b. 1954)
2010 - Brian Hanrahan, British journalist (b. 1949)
2010 - Steve Landesberg, American actor and comedian (b. 1945)
2010 - James R. Mann, American attorney and politician (b. 1920)
2012 - Jimmy McCracklin, American pianist, dies from diabetes and hypertension at 91